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TEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads 'Hie Mail Tribune Fublished Daily Except Saturday by 1 MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor ERNEST R- GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager T. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports" Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under AJt of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION zj i O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Augusll, 1942 (It was Saturday) Packers report bartlett pears selling locally for S70 a ton lor No. 1 grade. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It is Aug ust asain and only a month un til small boys will have to put on their shirts and go to school. 20 YEARS AGO August 1, 1932 (It was Monday) Local motorists start rush. to purchase 1932 license plates as law enforcement officers begin check; 100 temporary tags sold here in two hours. Trttol ff 1 R1 norenne e?ffn rnrrlc requesting work here as new employment plan gets under way; bring total of unemployed listed with various offices to more than 2,500. 30 YEARS AGO August 1, 1922 (It was Tuesday) Residents of Eagle Point pur chase $50,000 worth of bonds to 'finance irrigation district. v Ken Williams, Grants Pass man playing baseball with St. Louis Browns, ties major league record set by Rogers Hornsby by hitting 27th home run. 40 YEARS AGO August 1, 1912 (It was Thursday) City of Medford lifts watering hour regulations; property own ers requested not to irrigate with open hoses or to waste water. Deer season open:? and many Medford hunters leave for Elk and Evans creek areas. Missing Harvest Worker Found Safe Portland (U.R) A 72-year-old berry picker, missing nearly 30 hours from his northeast Portland home, was safe Friday but too dazed and exhausted to tell police what happened to him. Olaf T. Olson was found Thursday right by Oswego Po lice Sgt. rVWiam H. Keller sit ting on a log near the Oswego lake public swimming pool. He was in a dazed condition, but otherwise apparently un harmed. The elderly man disap peared at about 3 p.m. Wednes day after leaving home to pick blackberries. Oregon Execution Chamber Completed Salem IU.R5 Warden Virgil O'Malley announced Friday that Oregon state prison's new exe cution chamber is now complet ed. The gas chamber is -northwest of the prison garage outside the main prison walls. First execution in the new chamber is slated for Friday, Aug. 8, when LeRoy Long will go to his death for the slaying of Albert Rucker in Clackamas county. Long was convicted of killing Rucker to obtain his truck for use in a bank holdup in Portland. The Jacksonville Jubilee Tomorrow and Sunday will be Gold Rush Jubiiee days again in Jacksonville, the time of year when residents of the old town invite everyone in southern Oregon to come and join in paying tribute to the pioneers, enjoy parades, ceremonies, pageants, music, dancing, contests and general entertainment. THE annual Jacksonville affair is unique in that it combines so many attractions for young and old. The two-day program is much too long to detail here but there will be events of interest from 9 :15 a.m., Saturday when mass will be held in historic old St. Joseph's Catholic church, to the windup dance Sunday night. - For the older folk and also for those of the younger generation wishing to learn more of the pio neer history of this region the program arranged for 2 p.m., Saturday by the Southern Oregon His torical Society holds special appeal. For this event chairs and benches have been placed on the Jackson ville Museum lawn and the public is invited to gather there, rest in the shade, listen to the speakers and visit among themselves. (")LD Jacksonville, whose rich background of pio- neer history dates back to 1851 when gold was discovered, grew like a mushroom in its early years. The first store was opened in 1852, its stock, so the stories go, consisting mostly of tobacco and whiskey. In that year too, the first log cabin was built and the first move made for law and order with establishment of a miners' court. The following year brought trouble with the In dians, the holding of the first religious service, es tablishment of the first express service for shipping out gold, birth of the first white child and opening of the first school. In 1854 the first Methodist church west of the Rockies was dedicated and the first brick building was erected. By 1855 Jacksonville had a newspaper and a Masonic lodge. In 1860 the fast growing village was incorporated, daily stage service was begun and an Odd Fellows lodge was instituted. The town grew and prospered through the years, until the railroad came and passed it by for a more direct route through the floor of the valley. Then other towns sprang up along the trail of the iron horse and Jacksonville was left behind in the march of progress. OUT to the old mining center with its beautiful f oot hill setting and its early day structures was left an individuality all its own. It is- that individuality which is emphasized in the Gold Rush Jubilee when for a couple of days the townspeople hark back to the days of their forefathers and in dress and other ways revive the colorful past. E.C.F. Humanity Taking To Water Watching the hundreds of children and adults splashing happily in the new Hawthorne Park plunge these hot davs it is hard to realize that such a delight ful pastime is a comparatively recent development, so far as its enjoyment by the general public is con cerned. . TF swimming continues to gain in popular favor as a warm weather diversion here, it is reasonable to expect that at least one additional public pool will be necessary before many more years. On one recent day 915 persons crowded the Hawthorne plunge (it was designed to accommodate 350 to 400), and the Y.M.C.A. pool is equally popular. In addition to the public pools, there are nine private pools within the Medford city limits and there are several on private estates in'the contiguous area. IN the Middle Ages it was believed that pestilences were spread through water and it was not until the second half of the 19th centuiy that man overcame this fear. Though the pleasure and benefits of swim ming have been fairly well recognized in more mod pm timps. it has onlv been in recent vears that cities have been able or willing to spend the money required for installation of public pools where for a few cents anyone can find a sure escape from heat discomfort. In addition to the bodily comiorts to De iouna in cooling waters; doctors now prescribe swimming as a beneficial exercise. Swimming is taught almost uni llv :n instirntfrms nf rnVhp.r learniner. soldiers and sailors are given courses in the Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. tirelessly spread tne gos pel of swimming as insurance against beach and boat ing fatalities. V S a result of the fast growing popularity of swim " minor man is learning to nronel himself through water with much more speed and with less tiring ef fort. The thrashing crawl stroke with which all pres ent free style speed records have been set was un known up to 1900 except to natives of the warm South Pacific. Brought to Europe by Australia's Dick Cavill, it was soon adopted by the world's experts. . International speed and distance records still tum ble yearly as champions f urther refine the crawl, given it name by -journalists to wnom cavill appeared to De crawling over the water. If present progress continues, man will eventually ri-iz as fast ns he can nroDel himself afoot and O V 1111 nvwi ij -- he will learn to do so about E.C.F. - SWALLOWS MOVE IN - Brooklyn,: Mich. (U.R) The warm weather drew numerous swallows here to create a minia ture Capistrano. They took ad vantage of a huge cutback in a river bank and lined it with hundreds of nests. Friday, August I, 1952 "survival swimming," and x 1 . ,, as early and as universally. -, ----- - LANT OF APRICOTS Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) California ' apricots accounted for 85 per cent of all those grown in the United States and from 35 to 40 per cent of the world's supply, according to the Univer sity of California college of Agriculture. Crosstown "Make up your mind, will yuh? Either go swimmin' or fishin'I" Three Delegations1 Positions Clouded Prior to Demo Vote (Continued from yesterday1) BY ALICIA RUHL Chicago, July 28 (By Air Mail) The position of the three southern states' delegations which refused to sign the loyalty pledge was about as clear as mud when Thursday's session opened. Had the resolution passed by the convention earlier in the week been strictly interpreted there is no doubt that they should have been deprived of their voting rights, but there was strong sentiment in favor of smoothing the situation over somehow and keeping the dissi dent elements in the fold. The first test case was that of Louisiana, whose name came up in the process of calling the roll. Here the delegation split, two members agreeing to sign the pledge and the eighteen others refusing. Only two members were seated, therefore, with full participating privileges. South Carolina was the next test case, and since it stuck to gether as a body the entire dele gation was refused the right to participate. But when it came to Virginia, oddly enough, the tide began to change; Someone must have been do ing some footwork, for halfway through the roll call Illinois switched hr vote from a major ity against to a majority for seat ing the Virginia delegation. This was interpreted by some as a move to gain southern support for Stevenson at the time when candidate Russell should become convinced that his bid for the nomination was hopeless. As it turned out, this was a "deal" if it was a "deal" which bore no fruit whatsoever, for Russell polled many more votes than was anticipated and stuck to his supporters until the bitter end. It was actually the shift of Harriman, and then Kefauver, which converted the balloting into a landslide for Stevenson. But in any case, Virginia was actually seated, in clear contra diction to the action taken against Louisiana and South Car olina. From there on in the issue turned somewhat grudgingly in to a "love-fest." The governor of Virginia thanked -the convention profusely for the confidence it had placed in them. Virginia had always supported the Democrat ic nominees and would do so this fall. He begged that the conven tion would reconsider their ac tion in regard to Louisiana and South Carolina, whom he was sure would prove equally loyal. Governor- Byrnes of South Carolina then rose to his feet on a point of order. He was not cer tain that he had the privilege of addressing the convention, he said, but he wanted to make one point clear. There seemed to be an impression that South Caro lina had made no resnonsp to the credentials committee in re gard to' the loyalty pledge. This was not the case, and he read a statement which made it clear that it was a matter of law in South Carolina that the Demo cratic nominees must, upon the request of the national commit tee, be placed upon the ballot. One had the impression that this came as a shock to the Lib eral, Anti-Dixiecrat faction for it made the. question of a loyalty pledge seem academic if not a trumped-up issue. They- .-were; understandably, not willing to take Governor Byrnes statement at face value, and there therefore developed a most extraordinary loyalty probe on the floor of the convention, with one .delegate and then an other addressing a question to the chair, but actually to Gov ernor Byrnes, with Governor Byrnes addressing an answer to the chair, hut actually to the in quisitor. He stood the test. , y Roland Coe The chairman of the creden tials committee then addressed the convention, in what seemed something of a face-saving move, admitting that the committee had received such a statement but unsigned, and recommend ing that since this statement was in all substantial respects simi lar to one received from Vir ginia, the convention take the same action in regard to South Carolina and Louisiana that it had taken in the case of Vir ginia. ihis ended the matter some what ingloriously for the liber als andjt was.once again "one happy family," at least for the duration of the convention, prob ably -until fall, and maybe even a short time after November. The 1952 Democratic conven tion was probably the only con vention to produce in one eve ning a near riot, a walk-out, a reversal on voting privileges, a split in the Party and a fusion, and finally a fire. Bang, went the gavel, and that temporarily was that. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Politics: Senator Dirksen, of Illinois, and Senator Butler, of Neb raska, high brass supporters of Senator Taft in the pre-conven-tion campaign, have come over into the Eisenhower camp . and announce that they are ready to go to work. "TJON'T PAY too much atten . tion to the professionals in this political campaign which is DIFFERENT. You'll be better pleased with yourself if you fol low YOUR OWN hunches. The professionals have to be consistent. They have to CON FORM. The first rule of profes sional politics is that you'll get farther by sticking with your own crowd. The professionals have to fol low that rule. You don't. Be yourself this time and foXow your instincts. BY THE WAY, what is a "hunch?" The dictionary defines it as "a strong, intuitive impression." Many of our better psychologists urge us to PAY ATTENTION to our hunches which, they say, are the mature judgments of our sub-conscious mental processes. As such, they tell us, hunches are apt to be more dependable than the reasoned conclusions of our conscious minds. "TID YOU ever disregard a hunch and wish later you hadn't? I have often. In fact, ad vancing years are leading me to the conclusion that practically every time I reason myself out of a hunch that is, when I go against instinct and act on the reasoned judgments of my CON SCIOUS mind I get into trouble. RE POLITICS this time m the sense of political trends: In Virginia, the Richmond News Leader has just become the first Richmond newspaper since 1896 to support a non Democratic Presidential candi date. It has come out for the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. W ATCH IT. Sooner .or later, the South will come back POLITICALLY into the Union, by which I mean it will voluntarily re-adopt the two-party political system. Pa triotically, of course, the South long ago came back into the United States. Two wars prove Babson and BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 1. (Special to Mail Tribune) The Republican Party in its conven tion at Chicago s e 1 e dt e d .its candidate for President of the United S t alt e s. The D e m o c r atic Party in its convention al so at Chicago has selected its candidate for President-. The candidates of ei ther party will not be acceptable to millions of voters. The na tional election that will be held on November 4, 1952, will select one of the. candidates to be Pres ident of the United States. The President elected will not be the choice of millions of voters but. After the majority of the vot ers have elected the man to be President, the cooperation of every individual in the United States will be necessary to in sure our Democratic way of life and our economic independence. The new President, no matter of which party, is under obligation on account of the present emer gencies, to make use of the best brains in either of the. leading parties. Members of the cabinet and heads of the various agen cies of the government should be selected for their ability to handle the particular position, regardless of party affiliation. The intellect and ability of de feated candidates should not be wasted because they belong to the . other party. A cooperative administration is the best meth od of meeting the international situation, the taxation problem, the national debt, and the employee-employer relationship and the other serious problems that will confront the new President. This is the time for all good peo ple to come to the aid of who ever is elected to insure our eco nomic and political freedom. Foundation of Society For 1953 io 1957 The village, the state, the na tion are all the result of cooper ation. The very term "The United States of America" signi fies the cooperative basis of our national existence. Back in tribal days the right to hold was the right of might. All tribes were natural enemies. Not until men learned to trust each other co operate did estates arise. Not until capital and labor learned to cooperate did the factory sys- that beyond all possibility of doubt. As long as the South stays Democratic THROUGH THICK AND THIN, it will remain the helpless captive of the Northern wing of the Democratic party. It isn't going to like that in these days when it is becoming the most rapidly growing industrial area in the nation. . "Dixiecrat" movements are helpless gestures of resentment. The way for the South to AS SERT ITSELF is to be able to go Republican when it doesn't like what the Democrats do. A GING Albert Einstein, the mathematical wizard whoso theory of relativity has more or less upset all our previous the ories about the universe and what makes it tick, was ques tioned the other day about fly ing saucers. He answered: "What they are I do not know. And I am not curious to know." I can't go quite that far. I'm acutely curious like every body else.- But at least I'm not scared. Whatever it is, I'll take it. - T CAN'T, of course, swallow ALL the tales of saucer sight ing. Every time they get un unusually numerous, I go back in my mind to a day during the war when Klamath Falls saw the. Jap balloon, high up over town and somewhat to the west. It wasn't too plain. You had to look just right to see it. But when you did catch it with your eye, .there it was, round and white, looking just like a Jap balloon ought to look. Excited groups gathered aU over town to gaze. Here on our sidewalk at the Herald and News we had an especially large and excited crowd. By measuring on the cor ner of the adjoining building, we could get a line on the thing and spot it with comparative ease. Every time we'd get it sppt ted, we could feel the liair' turn up on the backs of our necks and the chills begin to chase each other up and down our spines. JlHEN A. B. Epperson, our accepter authority on' things astronomi cal, came along. - He -took a squint. Then he fixed up a crude instrument and took an obser vation, meanwhile checking carefully on his watch. Then he announced: "It's the planet Venus which at this time of the year is rea sonably visible in full daylight.'' A S I recall it, we were all quite chaerinned. But that isn't all. We were TERRIBLY DIS APPOINTED. In these davs I find I f eeL the same way about a flying saucer that is definitely laentmed as weather balloon. : Aren't people funny bnT.Ua Politics tem. arise. Not until capital learned to cooperate with other capital did big business enter prises arise. Men in all walks of life must learn to cooperate with and trust each other" in order that the brotherhood of man may arise. In 1948 John Stuart Mill, the famous economist, announced the principle that "growth in the capacity for and practice in the habit of cooperation, is the surest test of advancing civilization." Newton. D. Baker, when he was Secretary of War under Presi dent Wilson said to me: "Mr. Babson, you are interested in business barometers, let me give you the result of my years .of experience. It is this: the best barometer of a nation's future is the ability of the people to co operate and to have confidence in their .leaders." Need of Religion In World Cooperation Our progress and growth ini Van Fleet's Remarks On Korea Peace Talks May Bring Rebounds BY PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Gen. James A. Van Fleet has put an unpleasant truth into words: At the moment, we aren't getting or go ing any place in Korea. The chances for an armis tice, says the general, are less now than ever before. In otiher words, while GIs hud dle in foxholes il:i x- j rea's summer rains, cold weather supplies are moving up toward the front and we are preparing for our third winter of undeclared war in Asia. Correspondents reporting the armisxice negotiations will live through their second winter at the Munsan "peace" train, re porting the same drearily repe titious mouthmgs of the Com munist negotiators. A half-mile from the peace train in the apple orchard near the Imjin river, the once-tem porary base camp of the UN truce team will assume even more of an air of permanence. Repercussions Seen Van Fleet's blunt statement is certain to have important reper cussions. ' For one thing, it will recall vividly Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's assertion that you only enter wars to win, and with it the corresponding belief that -in order to choke off the Chinese military effort in Korea it is necessary to destroy supply bases inside the Manchurian sanctuary. It wiU lend weight to those who demand that we make use of the Chinese Nationalists' idle army of 600,000 men on For mosa, and that the U. 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But the field of cooperation Is un bounded. If we carry on, obed ient to the laws of God and Man," we will enjoy that freedom which comes with the Brother hood of Man. . What the world needs today is cooperation in every walk of life in religion, government, politics, business, finance, and labor, relations. Co-operation is the basis of the Golden Rule, and similarly it is the basis of pros perity. The President who will be elected, this coming Novem ber will face the most serious problems. It will be up to us to co-operate with him, and up to him to cooperate with us. will be those who say our mili tary objective in Korea already has been achieved, and that the issue of prisoner exchange no longer should be allowed to hold up an armistice. Among "military men there is an obvious similarity of thought. . Van Fleet suggests that one reason the Communists drag on the fruitless negotiations is that they feel sure we will not at tack. Months ago, Vice Admiral C. 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