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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.
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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. S. 7th
Fleet, already in Asian waters,
be permitted to blockade the
China coast. -
On the other side of the coini
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this life Is bounded on all sideg
by something. On the north, we
are bounded by the Multiplica
tion Table, to make us exact as
to facts. On the east, we are
bounded by the Ten Command
ments to guide us into paths of
righteousness. On the south, we
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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.
Turner Joy, at that time the
UN's chief negotiator, remarked
bitterly that the Reds understood
nothing but force.
Just this week, from Formosa,
came the statement that Chinese
Nationalists, working with the
7th Fleet, could blockade the
China coast at any time.
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of ous air attacks and institute
a naval blockade, or surrender
on the prisoner issue. But to
surrender now on the prisoner
question would in reality be al
most as great a defeat as if wa
actually had been driven from
Korea by force of arms. To ex
pand the scope of our air and
sea attacks is to risk expansion
of the war.
Obviously, we're between tha
devil and the deep blue sea. But
it seems equally obvious tha
time for. talk is almost past.
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