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Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean
90.
10 YEARS AGO
July 30, 7942
(It was Thursday)
The California railroad com
mission approves the request of
California Oregon Power com
pany to reclassify its outstand
ing stock and issue more com
mon stock.
From .Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A school
for the training of the lady pistol
shots has been established in
New York state. They are apt
students, hit what they are sup
posed to, and can see the white
of a blonde hair on a male shoul
der. at 60 paces.
20 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1932
. (It was Saturday)
A transient arrested in Tacoma
admits the theft of nine electric
motors from the Pinnacle Pack
ing company.
A representative of the Ore
gon-Washington pear bureau
speaks in Medford, predicts wid
ening markets for winter pears
in industrial centers when the
depression ends.
30 YEARS AGO
July 30. 1922
(It was Sunday)
Rash of burglaries continues
as Vernon Vawter and Sam
Richardson report their Geneva
street homes were illegally en
tered.
Former Gov. Oswald West and
five other orators schedule a
meaiora stop to urge the un-
merging of the Southern Pacific
and Northern Pacific railroads.
40 YEARS AGO
July 30, 1912
The Spalding buggy company,
which has moved out of Jackson
county to escape a warrant for
illegally selling buggies without
obtaining a license, receives a
temporary injunction to restrain
the prosecuting attorney from
serving the warrant.
Japanese people in the Med
ford area wire the Japanese con
sul at Portland their sorrow over
the death of Emperor Mutsohito
and their loyalty for the new
Mikado.
Masons Plan Annual
Outdoor Meeting
The Crater Lake lodge No
211. AF and AM, will hold its
fourth annual outdoor meeting
this Saturday,- August 2, in
Crater Lake " National park to
confer master mason degrees oh'
candidates, according to Robert
Simmonds, first past master of
the lodge.
; The program, which is set for
daylight time, will include two
sections, one at H a.m. (10 a.m.
standard time) and 2 p.m. (1 p.m.
standard time), followed by a
dinner at 5 p.m. (4 p.m. standard
time).
' All master masons are invited
to attend the meeting. Registra
tion is $1.50 plus the regular
park fee payable at the entrance
station, Simmonds said.
FBI PUZZLED
Pittsburgh (U.PJ FBI agents
were puzzled Wednesday over a
case involving the transporta
tion of a stolen vehicle across
state lines. They were holding
two youths and a teen-aged girl
who have admitted driving the
vehicle from Washington to
Pittsburgh. The stolen vehicle?
A tiny one-seater motor bike.
Editorial Correspondence
Chicago, July 27 (By air mail) For many reasons the Demo
cratic party is the sentimental party.
The wonderful ovation given
penect example.
All over the floor and on the podium, his speech was pro
claimed as one of the great speeches of all time, and he as one of
the greatest Democrats arid most distinguished Americans of this
generation.
It was a fine tribute to good
deserved.
But the speech he delivered
NOT a GREAT speech, and Alben
will NOT rank as one of the great
Aii tnat was not tactual, put purely sentimental.
If anyone in fact listened carefully to that speech and had, by
chance, heard the Kentucky Senator before, he would have realized
Alben needed no notes because he had so often delivered practically
the same speech during the many years preceeding.
It probably is listed as No.
routine and strongly partisan appeals.
In fact the wonderful tribute
of the speech at all but because
It wasn't enthusiasm aroused by what he said, but what he
was and is. For he is a GREAT Democrat (with a capital "D"), a
man of honesty, good will, and complete sincerity. .He not only
always says the Democratic party is the one hope of this country
and the world, but HE BELIEVES IT. Moreover after a very
successful career and a life-time
was his sad fate to be crucified by organized labor he had served
so well, and his active career-ended before the delegates' eyes, in
a very unjust and unfair manner.
It was CRUEL.
There were tears as well as perspiration on the faces of many
delegates, when Alben finished with his "THANK YOU AND
GOODBYE," thus ending the swan song of a great Democrat and
a fine and able citizen, but not "a Demosthenes nor a Thomas
Jefferson.
Poor old Col. McCormick of
sheet the Chicago Tribunel
He doesn't like the Democratic nominee any better than he
did the Republican!
" ""' - In fajpt -it's tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, to this great Isola
tionist and'museuin. primitive. Governor Stevenson, like General
Eisenhower he says, was-chosen not to represent this country but
England. They are both tools of Wall Street; Stevenson knows little
about foreign policy and less about domestic, but Eisenhower"
knows nothing about either!
Why doesn't the crabbed and comical old cuss start a Third
Party and run HIMSELF?
.
Returning to Democratic sentiment another good example of
this emotional attribute was the enthusiastic ovation given Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt. In the time consumed (as we recall) she held the
record until Alben Barkley delivered his touching and it was
that "Farewell Address."
At the outset Mrs. F. D. R. declared (smiling and bowing) that
she realized this great reception was not for her, but in honor of
her departed and revered husband.
Mrs. Roosevelt is usually right, but in that statement she was
exactly 100 PER CENT WRONG!
The outgiving and affectionate greeting was not for Mrs.
Roosevelt's husband, FRANKLIN, nor for what she was about to
say, but solely and entirely for HERSELF! "She's a grand old gal,"
like Alben a great Democrat, and above all a person of COMPLETE
INTEGRITY.
Right or wrong, Eleanor Roosevelt, has always been true to
herself and the principles in which she believes, and everyone
knows that is what she will be as long as she lives.
In fact, thinking it over, we believe in the case of both Alben
and Eleanor, it was that one outstanding quality more than any
ether, COMPLETE INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER, that the con
vention cheered so loudly, and so long.
If that is correct and we believe it is it is a heartening sign
of these parlous times, not only of the fact there is high integrity
IN public life, but that the rank and file recognize it when they
see it, and insist upon expressing their appreciation of it.
As one reviews these two conventions the outstanding ac
complishment in both was the victory of an enlightened foreign
policy over the reaction and isolationism of the Taft type of policy
and politics. The latter, had it been adopted by EITHER party,
might well have ended in tragedy both for this country and the
world. With men like Eisenhower and Stevenson leading the two
major parties "THE COUNTRY IS SAFE" rto quote a favorite
phrase of the late William Colvig, and that is really SOMETHING
in fact almost everything.
In a few weeks now, the inevitable battle FOR the ballots in
November will begin, and there will be a suspension of rational
and reasonable consideration of either the policies or personalities
involved.
Unless all signs fail General Eisenhower will be pictured as
a blood-thirsty militarist and ignoramus; while Governor Stevenson
will be pictured as a Communist "he didn't turn HIS back on
Alger Hiss!" and as a profiteer in tainted horse-meat- WHAT
COMPLETE AND UTTER NONSENSE!
Yet. iust as "we the people" can't seem to rid ourselves of
party conventions, based upon the well-known phony methods, and
hypothesis of the late P. T. Barnum, so we seem incapable of keep
ing our respective heads on our
during our presidential contests.
A fpw will, but thev will, as
honeless minority, however. In
f ied as political Independents, will
as they have every election since
few people realize it!
A large number of Chicago high school boys and girls will be
sorry the conventions are over. They got nice jobs as pages, and
as volunteer marchers and standard bearers also noise-producers
in the various and sundry candidate parades.
We went down EARLY Thursday morning, and as we walked
nn thp odoriferous alley to the press entrance, trucks loaded with
"Stevenson" banners and slogan-standards were being unloaded
hv hnvs and cirls in their teens: one of the girls a pretty dainty
little Miss too had one arm in a
with the other, in business-like,
When the show ended Friday night, as we staggered, down tne
stairs two of these boy-pages passed us, on the double quick, one
of them yelling to the other, "well,
The "Stockyard Inn," by the
extra dividend.
Tt was next to impossible to
dinins rooms within four hours of
Uhe colored head waiters making
But they weren't the only ones,
circus poster printed one set ot
poor sucker for another and higher price.
Your correspondent discovered tms wnen ne "i""'
bill be itemized. This tne waiter reiusea 10 ao auu t jui
WASN'T done, not enough time, that it--tne total seemeo mgner
than pvnpcted. that was due to recent raise -in food and liquor
prices imposed SINCE the bills
Well, AGAIN SSIKsCj vthjxviv ir xwu ji;
R. WvB.
Charities To Benefit From Olcott Estate
Portland (UJO Nearly half
of the 8100,000 estate of the late
Ben W. Olcott, former governor
of Oregon, will go to various
civic and charitable organiza
tions. Olcott s wiu was aamiuea
to probate Tuesday.
The former governor died
July 21 at the age of 79 follow
ing a long illness.
Under terms of the will two
sons, Richard a. and uoroon vr.
Olcott, . Portland, . will . receive'
Wednesday, July 30, 1952
Vice President Barkley was a
old Alben and in principle well
-
with such fire and vigor was
Barkley of Paducah, Kentucky,
Americans of trlis post-war era.
1 in his long list of rousing but
he was given, was not because
of the MAN.
loyalty devoted to his party, it
that scurrilous and ante-deluvian
shoulders and feet on the ground
always, be in a minority. Not a
fact this minority, generally, classi
decide the election in November
the turn 01 the century, am so
cast, but was pulling things out
rapid - fire style. .
kiddo, no more deez and dozes:
way, should be able to declare an
get a seat m the bar or any 01 me
the luncheon or dinner times
a killing in these jam-sessions.
me menus arjout xne size 01
prices ana tne casmer oiuea uie
of fare were printed. -
$15,000 each, and a third son,
Chester W. Olcott, Yakima Bay,
will inherit the family residence
in Portland and will receive the
remainder of the estate after
other special bequests are
handled.
The first building erected in
San Francisco, an adobe in the
San Francisco Presidio, is now
used as the Officers Club.
- Cse MaU Tribune Want 'Ads'
Crosstown
"Notice how nice
Opinions Varied on
Fate of Argentina
After Eva's Death
Editor'i note: What will hap
pen io the Peron regime in
Argentina now that the Presi
dent's powerful wife is dead?
A survey of opinion in Buenos
Aires and other South Ameri
can capitals turns up a reluct
ance to 'comment, especially
during Argentina's period of
mourning. The following dis
patch by U.P.'s foreign news
editor points up the nature of
Madame Peron's influence in
recent years.
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
Senora Eva Peron's actress'
heart would have loved the
tumultuous demonstrations
which followed
her death in
Buenos Aires.
But as a
shrewd politi
cian she might
also have won
dered what
happens now
to the Argen
tina which,
with her hus-
band, she
I'hil Newsont
fashioned.
In the last 10 of her 33 years.
Evita Peron became one of the
most powerful and most contro
versial women of her time. No
one ever knew how much to
credit to her or to her husband,
President Juan D. Peron, Argen
tina's increasingly intense na
tionalism or its oftentimes an
tagonistic and sometimes con
temptuous attitude toward the
United States.
No one ever really knew
whether she even was a good
actress.
Born of Obscure Parents
But the one-time $35-a-month
radio and stage performer who
was born of obscure parents in a
tiny village of Buenos . Aires
Province, grew up to play on a
tremendous stage.
She drew smiles of chagrin
and embarrassment when she
once offered to send clothing for
600 needy Washington children.
Perhaps it was because Wash
ington had let it be known she
herself would be unwelcome
there.
The beautiful, blonde Evita
never forgave, never forgot.
Once, while on a tour of Switz
erland, a crowd threw tomatoes
at her. It was said they were the
most expensive tomatoes ever
hurled, because that was the end
of the Swiss watch market in
Argentina.
Senora Eva Peron never held
public office.
Powerful Weapons
But, as her husband's right
hand and an expert politician,
she worked' unceasingly to gain
and hold the affections of "the
"descamisados" first the shirt
less, then the shirt-sleeved ones.
She wielded three powerful
weapons. ' "
She controlled the General
Labor Confederation with its
5,000,000 organized workers
grouped in 2,400 trade unions.
She headed the Eva Peron Foun
dation which controls all welfare
and charitable funds. She led
the fight which gained the vote
for Argentine women and she
headed the feminine Peronista
Party.
She was, in effect, one of the
biggest business women in the
world. .
And each of her enterprises
now will need a new leader.
Liltlt Official .Comment
However, despite her obvious
power in the Argentine govern
ment even her enemies are un
willing to forecast a revolution
which might return Argentina to
the fold of hemispheric and
world solidarity.
There will be little if any offi
cial comment bout the future in
Buenos -Aires and other South!
American capitals during Argen-j
tina's period of mourning, butj
three opinions .seem to be out-
standing.
.6 Roland Coe
B U1XLL
she hugs lhe road"
One is that there will be no
real changes in government, but
that there will be a shift in the
"palace guard."
For example, her brother now
is private secretary to President
Peron. Some opinion expects him
to be kicked upstairs, possibly as
governor of some obscure prov
ince. More Controls Possible
Another is that she actually
was a temporizing influence be
tween her husband and the army
which is credited with blocking
her nomination as vice president.
In that case, the army and Peron
might get together, placing even
more stringent controls upon the
Argentine people.
. A third opinion is that a sort
of "deification" in death will
make her influence stronger than
ever before.
A summing up seems to indi
cate that, in any event, we will
see no outward changes in Ar
gentine policy for .many months
and perhaps not for years.
Congressional Quiz
Questions and Answers on What Goes en at the Capital
Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features
Q Is it safe to put "fluoride"
in drinking water?
A There are enough "unan
swered questions" about water
fluoridation "to call for caution"
before communities start adding
fluoride to water supplies to re
duce dental cavities, the House
Committee on Use of Chemicals
reported July 10, after extended
hearings. A number of cities now
fluoridate their water supplies
and the process is endorsed by
the U.S. Public Health Service
and the American Dental Asso
ciation.
Q Do the Democrats and Re
publicans both use the "bare
majority" vote system of picking
Presidential nominees?
A Since 1936, yes. In the
conventions of either party, the
first candidate to get more than
half of the delegate votes wins
the nomination. Before 1936, a
Democratic Presidential candi
date had to have two-thirds of
the convention vote to be nomi
nated. Q Did the President have
much luck getting Congress to
okay his foreign policy?
A Although that now is one
of the most controversial phases
of his Administration, the Presi
dent had most success in gaining
Congressional acceptance of his
foreign affairs plans. In the last
six years, 61 of the 94 Truman
programs of foreign aid, treaties,
and international cooperation
were carried out by Congress. By
contrast, the average for all
kinds of legislation was - only
42.9.
Q When did the Senate adopt
a "cloture" rule?
A In 1917 the Senate first
put a curb on unlimited debate
r.w a.w,. .ct our . wnoop tor joy wnen he sees Jor9ensn s Homogenized
Multi-Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk an the table." -
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Buenos Aires, milling
thousands gather around the
ministry of labor building,
where her casket lay in state, to
pay their last respects to Eva
Peron.
Eight persons died in the
crush, some from trampling,
some from heart failure. There
were many broken arms and
legs. Thousands had to be giv
en first aid, and troops were
rushed in to control the crowds.
ONE doesn't speak ill of the
dead, but if Eva had to go
perhaps it's just as well. She
had a v dangerous capacity for
gathering power INTO HER
TWO HANDS.
Too much power in too few
hands too long is human lib
erty's greatest menace.
rpHE trouble in Argentina lies
A in the fact that for gener
tions too few people the big in
dustrialists, the great landlords
had held too much power in
too few- hands.
Then came the Perons.
They concentrated power in
Argentina into a STILL SMALL
ER NUMBER OF HANDS.
That isn't the answer.
FOR the second time in a week,
air force radar screens have
picked up flying saucers over
the nation's capital. This time,
jet fighters were sent up to
chtse them. One pilot reported
getting within ten miles of a
mysterious white light which
played tag with him for a while,
then put on speed and vanished.
An air force spokesman says:
"We have no evidence they
are flying saucers. On the other
hand, we have no evidence they
are NOT flying saucers. We
don't know what they are."
A FEW years ago, we'd have
laughted and gone on with
our business with the healthy
conclusion that too many peo
ple are seeing too many things
that aren't there.
But now radar, which works
by hitting something TANG
IBLE and bouncing back, says
something IS there. And the
navy admits it has an experi
mental plane that has hit a top
speed of 1238 miles per hour
a little better than 20 miles per
SECOND. Hardly a day passes
without new talk of the immin
ent possibility of interplanetary
travel through space.
So we don't know what to
think. If we can at some not too
by adopting Rule 22 to allow im
position of "cloture" limit de
bate. Originally the rule could
be invoked with the approval of
two-thirds of the Senators pres
ent and voting. But in 1949, the
requirements were tightened, so
cloture could be imposed only
with the vote of two-thirds of
all Senators. That way an ab
sence has the same effect as a
negative vote.
Q What kind of a Senate
cloture rule do civil righlers
want?
A Advocates of civil rights
legislation, which many times
has been blocked by filibusters,
want a change in the Senate
rules so the votes of a simple
majority of the 96 Senators in
stead of two-thirds (64) could
limit debate and let Senators de
cide on the legislation itself.
(Copyright 1952,
Congressional Quarterly)
Candy Truck Driver
Injured in Accident
Clifton Lawrence Green, Box
20, Brownsboro, was taken to
Sacred Heart hospital by Con
ger-Morris ambulance yesterday
afternoon for treatment of in
juries suffered in a traffic ac
cident. State police said the McDon
ald Candy company truck Green
was driving was hit on the left
side by a log truck driven by
George William Moore, of the
McKee bridge area. The acci
dent happened about 3:30 p.m.
at Ruch, and Moore told police
he did not see the candy truck
turning on to the highway.
Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30
p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Mon
day, noon Saturday for Sunday am
COMMUNICATIONS
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under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication
is permissiDie. 1 ne viaii 1 rioune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Disaster Feared
To the Editor: The question
of rights of free men just about
deadlocked the peace negotia
tions in Panmunjom. The Un
ited Nations uphold the rights
of free men in demanding that
prisoners of war held by them,
including those who fled to them
from Communist forces, shall be
granted rights to choose the sanc
tuary where offered.
North Koreans, Chinese Com
munists and Soviet cohorts deny
the rights of free men by de
manding that prisoners of war
held by the United Nations shall
be forced back to them and dealt
with as thsy see fit as was done
in Germany during World War
II when a thousand or more
prisoners of war flung them
selves from trains to drown in
the Rhine rather than go to death
or slave labor camps in Russia.
We look on this with dread
and horror. But the same thing
is creeping on us here in sup
posedly free America, for it was
the rights of free men to exer
cise their will that deadlocked
the steel strike. '
Loss of supplies to our fight
ing forces with impending dis
aster to us as a nation demand
ed action. When brought before
our President, Fairless of the
steel industries appeared to have
the interests of his country more
at heart for he knuckled under
to Murray of the CIO union's
demand that workers in the steel
industry shall not be hired as
free and independent men, but
can be hired only through the
union whose officials prescribe
wages, hours, and conditions of
labor.
For, the union individual has
no opposition voice in a union
meeting. He will be shouted
down and if persistent, will be
taken care of by the shop stew
ard, in various unwanted ways.
Your writer is speaking from
first hand knowledge.
blowly but surely the union
net tightens on our economy,
strangling free enterprise that
made this country great. Gov
ernmental restrictions that also
hamper free enterprise, should
De eased and extended to con
trol of labor unions whose pen
dulum of power is swinging too
far. If not controlled soon, dis
aster surely awaits us.
F. J. Clifford
1211 W. Main St.,
Medford, Oregon.
Why a Monopoly?
To the Editor: About the hard
top races. So some Medford men
went to the expense of building
distant date send a rocket ship
to some other planet, maybe
some other planet is a few years
or a few generations ahead of us
and is sending inter-planetary
ships here to look us over.
WE don't know what to be
lieve. PERSONALLY, I shall do no
worrying on that score. I'll
go back to the comforting line
of reasoning that an atom bomb
can kill me no deader than a
well-directed bullet from a .22
rifle.
The same goes for a possibly
hostile flying saucer.
DY THE WAY, an engineer
has come up with a pocket
size calculator which, the dis
patches say, will tell in a mat
ter of seconds on what day of
the week Christmas, say, will
fall in the year 2,000. Or, for
that matter, in the year 20,000
That also leaves me cold. I
just don't CARE what day of
the week Christmas will fall on
in say the year 20,000. For one
thing, I don't do my Christmas
shopping that far ahead.
ANOTHER outfit is working
on a fancy new calendar
that would start every new year
and every new season on a Sun
day, with every date coming
out on the same day of the week
every year. That would make it
possible for us to have all of our
holidays on week-ends.
.It would be nice, of course,
but what Td like to see right
now is a system that would
keep the clroks on the same
schedule WHEREVER YOU GO
As it is, we get brain fag every
time we leave home trying to
find out what time it really is,
anyhow. - 1
DONT MISS THE
QUEEL1
ball
TIOTE
Community Hall
JACKSONVILLE
QUEEN CANDIDATES WILL BE THERE THE
WINNER ANNOUNCED
ADMISSION 75c
Letters submitted for publication must
a race track. I presume they in
tended to make money, on it, and
since competition is the life of
business, they should see about
putting on the best show.
Their races are held on Sun
day afternoon (when it gets
mighty warm), the others are on
Friday night. Races are also
held in Ashland on Saturday
night, with many Medford, Ash
land, Grants Pass and other
places participating. They have
capacity crowds, the same as the
races on Friday night If the
show is worth the money, people
will pay to see it. What do they
want? A monopoly?
Medford has two drive-in thea
ters, four regular theaters and
they seem to all stay in business
seven nights a week. The Valley
Drive-in theater is locally owned,
yet you cannot expect all people
to patronize it solely.
So they have new drivers.
Nearly all races have one or two
new drivers but the rest have
some experience which makes
for a good show.
The Yreka drivers bring their
own rooting sections from Yreka.
That should be good business for
the city of Medford, since some
of them no doubt spend some
money in our fair city, or is it a
choice few of the Medford busi
ness men that should make all
the money?
I'm for bigger and better races
and I say go where you please.
(Name on file.)
Olympic Petroleum
Firm Buys Signal
Oil Distribution
George Field, manager ot
Olympic Petroleum company 10
50 South Riverside avenue, has
announced the purchase of
southern Oregon distribution
rights for Signal Oil products.
The purchase was made last
month from W. R. Glass and
Sons. An open house is scheduled
for Friday at 11 Signal stations
and at the Olympic main plant.
Three district officials for the
Signal Oil company will attend.
Orchids flown from Hawaii will
be presented to women at the
four downtown stations and at
the main plant by four girls,
Sandra Hubbard, Jackie Pond,
Joy Adams and Linda Lemery.
The stations participating in
the festivities are Dean's Pon
tiac, Fifth and Grape; Jim
Pree's Service, Sixth and Grape;
Ralph Truax, opposite Medford
post office; A. A. Anderson, 1501
North Riverside; R. V. Reutsch
man, intersection -of Highways
99 and 62; W. R. Glass, 2054
North Pacific highway; E. L.
Lowry, Central Point; O. I. Le
wellen, Shady Cove; S. H.
Swartz, Ashland; Delos Walker,
Gold Hill and Jesse L. Richard
son, Crater Lake highway.
Olympic Petroleum is an Ore
gon corporation whose principal
stockholders are Field, Harold
Looper and John Dougherty.
Field has been selling gas to
southern Oregon motorists for
18 years.
Ashland Man Dies
Of Suicide Gunshot
Ashland Charles A. Patton,
about 75, of 396 Helman street,
Ashland, died of self-inflicted
gunshot wounds early today, ac
cording to Ashland city police
and coroner's deputies. .
Patton, who had been in poor
health for some time and whose
wife died in May of this year,
telephoned a friend and neigh
bor, Walter Mauzey, at 5:30
o'clock this morning, asking him
to come over in a "little while."
He told Mauzey he did not feel
well, and that if he was not in
the house, to look in the barn.
Mauzey went over and as Pat
ton was not in the house, went
to the barn. He found Patton
there, dead from the wound of a
.30-.30 caliber weapon.
A note left by Patton told
of where his papers and money
were located.
Litwiller funeral home will
be in charge of funeral ar
rangements .
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