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RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor
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Medford and Jackson County His
tory from the files of The Mail
Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years
ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 3, 1342
(It was Monday)
Six recently graduated medi
cal officers assigned to become
first army doctors at Camp
White.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: In the
wheat belt, carelessly backfiring
trucks are causing fires faster
than a cigarette can be tossed
away carelessly.
20 YEARS AGO
August 3, 1932
(It was Wednesday)
City council 'investigates
means of cutting city expenses;
Mayor E. M. Wilson reports 25
per cent cut in salaries of li
brary employees would result in
$200 a month saving to city.
National Guard officials deny
reports that special guards are
to be employed at the Medford
armory.
30 YEARS AGO
August 3, 1922
(It was Thursday)
Special Jackson county grand
jury returns true bills against
six Ku Klux Klan members in
Jacksonville on charges of ex
tortion, assault and riot.
Bill Isaacs, Alex Sparrow and
J. W. Berrian, all of Medford.
announce plan to plant 30,000
silverside salmon in Crater
Lake.
40 YEARS AGO
August 3, 1912
(It was Saturday)
Postmaster Ralph Woodford
inspects new rural route be
tween Medford and Hillcrest.
Plans underway to construct
new fish ladder at Gold Ray
dam; plan expected to end many
protests against obstruction of
salmon runs.
California Waives
Plant Requirements
Salem (U.R) The Califor
nia Department of Agriculture
has waived special requirements
affecting most plants of peach
root borer, the Oregon Agricul
ture Department said Saturday
The waiver means Oregon
nursery stock which could . be
hosts to the pest may now enter
California under the regular
nursery shipping permit issued
by the State Department of Ag
riculture.
The move eliminates the spe
cial certificate that has been re
quired on peach, plum, apricot,
and related nursery stock. It
also means that the Oregon De
partment of Agriculture no long
er needs to supply California
officials with a list of Oregon
nurseries believed free from this
pest. In the past, the list has
contained some 30 firms.
WEATHER
By United Press
. Northern California: Mostly
fair today, tonight and Sunday
but with fog on coast and a few
scattered thunderstorms higher
mountains; not quite so hot in
land Sunday; northwest winds
12-25 mph off coast.
The emerald is the softest of
all precious stones.
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Potpourri
Vacations should be abolished.
Whenever things get to running smoothly around
most business places, along comes vacation time and
out the window goes comfortable routine. That is es
pecially true in the case of a newspaper, off ice.- There
is never too much sameness in newspapering for each
day brings a new set of circumstances and problems,
some of them seemingly impossible to cope with, but
come vacation time and such regularity as does man
age to exist, exits with a
The Mail Tribune's experience in the recent days
is an example of what happens, invariably, during
the absence of some of the staff.
There were the conventions in Chicago to be
covered two of the most interesting events in the
nation's recent history. These alone demanded a great
deal df special effort on the part of all newspapers,
but making things more complicated for the M-T,
little Emie Leffler had to go and get himself lost in
the Fourmile lake wilds, setting off a 30-hour search.
Ernie, luckily, was found unharmed, and the details,
with pictures, were duly published. " : ."
All hands had hardly breathed a sigh of relief,
however, before there came a new major hews break
in the Medford territory, the heartless slaying of A.
N. Jones and C. P. Culhane, United Motors Service
officials. This was one of those happenings which
take a lot of manpower for adequate news coverage.
You can't just pick up. the telephone and get details
when the crime scene is some 80 miles away in a na
tional park where telephones are few and law offi
cers are so busy hunting the perpetrators they have
little time to talk to news men.
We managed to function fairly well, we hope, in
the upsetting breaks mentioned, and also, again in
addition to routine, news hawking, do something
about preliminary coverage for the Ashland Shake
spearean Festival and the Jacksonville Jubilee. Then
we ran head-on into a new emergency when Olive
Starcher, the vacationing society editress, wrote to
ask that during her absence the staff collaborate in
writing her long-standing Sunday feature column,
"Potpourri."
All of us want to be helpful and cooperative, of
course, but what do we know about those little inti
mate incidents in the city's social life which Olive so
interestingly reveals?
The foregoing is by
why "Potpourri" appears
paper and m a different style today, and why the ini
tials of so many different staff contributors: are. ap
pended. It also is intended to explain why we think
vacations should be abolished. E. C. F. '
7ACATI0N season is rough, all right.
And whoever heard of a Shakespearean festival
opening without O. S. on hand?
It managed to, nowever, with other staff mem
bers pinch-hitting for Olive. Phil and Vernetta Brain-
erd were there, snapping pictures for next Sunday's
society page. The news staff, virtually en masse, was
there, too.
But as one of us said,
note what hat Mrs. Blank wore, and who but Olive
will note down and remember the cute remark of the
kid in the row behind?
The season of Shakespeare was well opened
Friday night by Judge James Brand, chief justice of
the Oregon Supreme Court, in a gentle, humorous,
brief and appropriate talk at curtain-time.
The tall, stooped figure of the judge is a fixture
at the Shakespearean festival. He and his charming,
gray-haired wife have' made it a habit to attend.
Weaving whimsy into his heartfelt tribute to Ash
land, to Southern Oregon college, to the players and
to the "real genius" of Gus Bowmer, Judge Brand
set the pace for what looks like not only the most
successful season so far, but also the easiest and friend
nest. "I was in a supermarket this afternoon," the
judge said, "looking for the staff of life.' They must
have had supermarkets in the time of the bard, too,
for did he not say, 'Tell me where is fancy bred?' "
There were other sidelights of the opening: .
Mayor Phil Stansbury, modestly feeling that the
welcome of the people of Ashland is enough,, but
following Rod Keating's orders and saying bluntly,
"You're welcome!!"; Producing Director Gus Bow
mer's neon-like red bow tie; the polished European
bow of acknowledgment by Hans Lampl, the direct
or of the new music program which adds so much to
the festival's flavor; .the uncomfortable new, green
seats which are, however, the undisputed property of
the festival association ; the Tudor : fair selling
mementoes and souvenirs of the festival. V
It was a swell opening. We wish O. S. had been
there, as she had planned before a family tragedy
kept her away. E. A. .
Don't tell Hans Lampl it's1 vacation time. He wron't
believe it!
Seconds before going onto the stage at the open
ing of the Shakespeare festival, Mr. Lampl looked
like a frustrated mother gathering a flock of ten chil
dren together in the middle of a parade crowd.
The last minute orchestra rehearsal didn't . go
well, the YMCA where it was held wras,hot,.and tem
pers were high.
The musicians played to the last four measures
and the director stopped them; they went over the
passage again and he dropped his baton. "It's an
eighth note," he said. They played the measures over.
"It's an eighth note,", he said, a little more loudly.
Again they repeated it and he stopped them.- "That,"
he said, thrusting his baton at one member's stand, "is
Sunday. August 3, 1952
nerve - shattering bang.
way of explanation as to
in a different part of the
who but Olive is going to
Crosstown
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"Maybe I could work off
bouncin the noisy
not a sixteenth note. It is an eighth note."
Down went the stand, the music scattered, the
practice ended.
From then on it was a scramble to gather stands,
instruments, and put cases away. Mr. Lampl w7as in a
sport shirt and changing hurriedly two minutes before
the curtain opened. The orchestra assembled on the
stage, the trumpets sounded, but where was the other
curtain girl? "Sally," Mr. Lampl called. "Sally," the
voices back stage echoed. No answer. Mr. Lampl did
not look distinguished, he merely looked the way any
human would under the circumstances, confused.
Finally Sally appeared.
The curtains opened, and the Shakespeare music
director gave a dignified bow to the audience, smiled
calmly, and raised his baton. The show began. -S.L.
. .....
DICTURES are of vital importance in any section
of a daily newspaper. But due to a number of cir
cumstances unique to a society section it is doubly
important that they be just right in that part of the
paper.
For one thing, many of the society pictures, of
weddings, engagements, announcements, etc., will be
clipped out and treasured for years as momentoes of
a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. For another, O. S. takes
pride in the fact that her section of the paper, day in
and day out and particularly on' Sunday, has as few
errors as human frailties will allow. .
Thus, during her absence the past two weeks, the
assistant society editor, aided by male members of the
staff, has been on the go continually in an effort to
get the right names under the proper pictures.
Probably we haven't gone about it in the most ex
peditious manner, but to date, and to the best of our
knowledge, we've been fairly successful. Of course,
there was that transposition of . lines by which the
president of the Shakespearean festival was referred
to as "Princess," and possibly others.:
Anyway it will be a relief to have OJ S. back on the
job. J.J. v
CRID AY evening the M-T news staff divided be-
tween two events. The majority, of course, was at
the Shakespearean festival opening at Ashland.
While the others were enjoying the light and ex
citement of "opening night," elbowing the celebrities,
making a debut in the Shakespearean orchestra or eat
ing a sumptuous buffet served before the opening,
three others of us too enjoyed good, food and good
companionship. "v"
j We were guests of the Wesley Coff een's with other
Chin-Up club members in the cool, cool shade of the
pear trees on the Coffeens' lawn. There we picnicked
from a table spread with such good things to eat, we
remarked, on the unusually fine assortment.
It made a potluck supper a real adventure instead
of struggling with the problem, "which macaroni salad
shall we dip into and which dish of spaghetti?" Why
can't more potlucks be like that? F. B. ..' . ' '
Safety Group
Way To Die in
Salem U.R) Are you bound
and determined to kill yourself
in a traffic accident?
Then what kind of mishap is
surest to kill? .
The State Traffic Safety Di
vision gave these cold facts. If
you are on the road outside of
a city or town, running off the
Southern Clouds Seeded
By Fliers on Friday
The fliers under contract to
the Rogue Valley Traffic asso
ciation seeded clouds in the Sis-kiyou-Pilot
' Rock area north to
Mt. Ashland Friday afternoon
for about 45 minutes. Total
flight time was 2 hours 39 min
utes. ' The thunderheads built up to
about 25,000 feet, the fliers re
ported, with in extremely, high
hail potential.' One of the pilots,
Gene Kooser, flew through a
fall of hail over the Siskiyou
summit which he estimated to
be three-eighths of an inch in
diameter.
The cloud seeding is done in
an attempt to prevent hail from
hitting growing fruit in valley
orchards.
The wastika symbol originat
ed among" the Hindus.
By Roland Coe
the fine en my book by
guy,t out of here.
Tells Surest
Auto Mishap
roadway is the surest way. to
land in the morgue. Colliding
with another car is almost a
certain death.
In town, the surest way to
final rites . is to run, -walk or
step into the path of an oncoming
car. Last- year, city pedestrian
fatalities in Oregon totaled 42,
compared with 31 victims of two
car collisions.
On the ."open highway" last
year, running off the road
claimed 105 lives.' Two car col
lisions accounted for 100 deaths.
That reversed the pattern of a
year before when vehicular col
lisions led in fatalities. ;
The division said a total of
75,147 accidents were reported
in 1951, a new all time high for
Oregon.
Dr. Robert J. Urie
OPTOMETRIST
(Formerly Monahan' & Wiggins)
NOW PERMANENTLY LOCATED AT
28 South Central
(Old Sub Post Office Location Across from Craterian)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Price Stabilizer EUis Am all
nredicts in Washineton that the
new steel price boost ($5.20 per
ton) will touch on a new rouna
of . inflation that will cost the
average American family about
$100 a year in higher prices.
THE stock market agrees with
him.
When the big New York ex
change opened this morning, the
teletype informs us, ' the mar
ket, maintained - a BUOYANT
tone, with most price changes
on the HIGHER side."
rjiHE big question:
Does anybody gain anything
out of the long and bitter steel
strike?
Yes, I think so.
Smart SPECULATORS will
probably make quite a kiUing.
PRICE BOSS ARNALL. puts
the blame for the inflation
that follows the steel strike on
the steel industry. That, raises
this question:
Which comes first the.hen or
the egg?
. Did prices go up because
wages went up? Or did wages go
up because prices went up?
PERSONALLY, I think what
brought on the steel strike
was too much power in too few
hands.
If we can keep too much pow
er from getting (and STAYING)
in too few hands, we'll have it
pretty good in. this great and
growing country. But if we let
too much power get into too few
hands and stay there we WON'T
have it so good.
rjpHIS changing world note:
Egypt's reform government
has swept, away titles of nobil
ity, but the land of the Nile will
remain a constitutional mon
archy. ????????
It will aU depend on the
MONARCH and the kind of men
he picks to head his various
ministries. .
AND
The kind of men the people
the PARLIA
MENT that is an essential part
of a constitutional monarcny.
I
N other words:
VF.vprvthinc deDends on LEAD
ERSHIP. The kind of leaders we
Vio,to itotDrmiriK the kind OI
government we have.
EGYPT'S deposed King Fa
rouk holds his : first news
conference this morning on the
Isle of Capri, where he fled into
exile. He started it off by telling
the more than 100 newsmen and
photographers who showed up
that he's no longer a rich man.
He's learned one fact of life
in his short experience as a com
moner NOBODY buvw a
RTfVFT MAN.
(Except his heirs and they
can hardly wait fr him to cue.)
TfOES sending 100 reporters
-LJ and nhotoes to Capri to in
terview a fat and good-for-nothing
ex-king seem to you to be a
terrible waste of money and
manpower?
Wait a minute:
I'll bet you read about fat Fa-
rouk BEFORE you read the
meatv and IMPORTANT news
of the world and with much
more interest.
So did I.
That's whv we newspapers
print so much of the shallower
and fluffier stuff for which
everybody blames us.
SIX Swedes have been found
, guilty of handing vital Swed
ish military secrets to Russia in
rieturn for cash. They were
charged with giving the Rus
sians comDlete details of - the
Swedish defense system that
euards acainst any Russian at
tack across Finland.
IF YOU should travel to Swe
den,, you would see REAL .de
mocracy in action with great
good accruing to ALL the people
as a result thereof.
You CAN'T travel to Russia
of course but if you could
you'd wonder why any Swede
would try to promote the Rus
sian system in Sweden.
. .Many strange things happen
in this world.
Baker Sets Wagon Train
Centennial Celebration
. Baker, Ore. (U.R) A three
day celebration commemorating
the 100th anniversary of the cov
ered wagon migration to Ore
gon will open here Sunday.
A caravan of the American Pi
oneer Trails Association, which
left Kansas City July 13, is
scheduled to arrive for opening
of the ceremonies. . .
Matter of Faet
UNMENTIONED SUBJECT
Washington The existence
of a Soviet stockpile of atomic
bombs has" now become an al
most unmentionable subject.
There was no serious discussion
of this subject at all at the re
cent conventions, at one of
which the next President of the
United States was nominated.
Yet. Soviet" atomic production
may well overshadow every
other problem which the next
President will have to face.
Consider the facts. In the first
place, previous estimates of Sov
iet atomic stockpiling have now
been upped about 20 per cent.
In the second place, this prob
ably means that the Soviet
stockpile will begin to approach'
the number of bombs required
for an attempted knock-out blow
at the United States, before the
end of the next President's four
year term.
. Previous estimates have as
sumed Soviet production of
about 15 bombs up to the be
ginning of this yearr and there
after, as the result of the com
pletion of a great new atomic
plant in- central Russia, monthly
production of five to seven
bombs. These estimates have
been upped for several reasons,
but especially, because it has
been found that atomic bombs
of . medium power can be pro-
COMMUNICATIONS
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mall Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letter-; with a
view to clarification and conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words.
More Hard-Top
To the Editor: Regarding hard
top races in the Rogue Valley,
we note a communication in the
Mail Tribune of July 30. It im
plies that much has come be
fore, all of which we have
missed. It also seems to call for
a statement from our organiza
tion regarding our attitude to
ward competition, so hee it is:
The Southern Oregon Race
Club was formed by driver-
owners from the Rogue River
Valley to provide them a good
track with adequate stands and
safety precautions, near at home.
Good relations have existed
between the Ashland Rodeo
Grounds group, which is the S.
O. R. C. track, and the Medford
Airport track. We have ex
changed drivers without dis
crimination of any kind.
Regretfully, this is not so be
tween these two tracks and the
Posse track in Medford. The
latter has been operated by an
out-of-state professional racing
organization which, at the outset,
insisted that all drivers who
raced on any of their tracks do
so exclusively, under penalty of
a $100 fine for violation of their
rule.
Although rules of the S. O. R.
C. local club do not forbid mem
bers from racing on other tracks
(on other than Saturday nights),
our members have refused to do
so on the Friday night Posse
track, because they remember
the arbitrary treatment they
have received in the past at the
hands of this same group on
their other tracks.
All this not withstanding, the
Ashland track holds with the
writer of the above-mentioned
letter. Let the people see the
races they prefer. We feel the
most each track can do is make
its own bid for business by giv
ing the customers the best races
possible with the drivers most
interesting to the audience.
Our capacity crowds for the
past three weeks have indicated
that local people want to see
competition among Oregon driv
ers, and we are very pleased to
have had some 42 cars appear
so far from eight different South
ern Oregon communities. In turn,
the large attendance which these
cars have drawn has provided a
purse which came to $1000 this
last week, and the boys really
put on a good race for prize
money like that.
We sincerely hope there will
be an early end to any hard feel
ings which might have grown
out of what should be merely
competition. "Actually, all three
tracks race on different nights,
so there is little reason for fur
ther ado.
S. O. R. C,
by Win Marks, Public
Relations, Ashland, Ore.
"But it really isn't a picnic We forgot to bring any Jergensen't Homogenizes1 -Murti-Yitamin,
Multi-Mineral Milk." -'.
By Joseph and
Stewart Alio
duced considerably more rapid
ly than had previously been
thought possible.
Given this 20 per cent in
crease in current estimates, the
following table will serve as a
rough guide to the expected
minimum and maximum stock
pile : in the years immediately
ahead.
At the end of this year: 130 to
150 bombs. . ."
At the end of 1953: 200 to
250 bombs.
At the end of 1954: 275 to
370 bombs. -.
At the end of 1955: 350 to
450 bombs.
At the end of 1956: 420 to
550 bombs.
THIS SORT of estimate is, of
course, no more than an in
formed guess. No one can pos
sibly predict what successes or
failures may attend the efforts
of Soviet Secret Police Chief
Lavrenti Beria, who is charged
with the Soviet atomic program,
three or four years from now.
Moreover, the above table
leaves out of account the hydro
gen bomb, on which this coun
try has little head start on the
Soviet Union. But the estimates
above at least serve to suggest
what the planners call "the dir
mensions of the problem."
The dimensions of this prob
lem which will confront the
next President are also suggest
ed by other estimates the ex
perts have made. These esti-,
mates concern the number of
medium bombs on target requir
ed to destroy this country's mili
tary potential. This, again, is
something which even the best
of the experts, poring over their
target analyses and oroduetion
figures, can only guess at. But
lor what they are worth these
guesses range from 450 to 660
medium atomic bombs delivered
on target.
Here it should be pointed out,
ofxourse, that there is a great
difference between bombs hid
den in a stockpile and bombs
delivered on target. For one
thing, the continental United
States does not contain by any
means the only atomic targets
in the world. Second, no country
can afford to expend its whole
atomic stockpile at a single
blow. Third, some targets are
sure to be missed. And finally,
the effectiveness of the defenses
of a country attacked can make
the difference between the suc
cess or failure of an attack.
A S ALREADY reported in this
space, the air defense spe
cialists are beginning to believe
that the' effectiveness of our de
fense against air delivered at
tack can - be increased very
sharply indeed, given an all-out
national effort in this field. For
all these reasons, it would be
all wrong simply to equate the
estimated Soviet stockpiling of
bombs with the etimated num
ber of bombs required for a
knockout blow. Yet when all
this is said, the harsh facts re
main. The Soviet atomic stock
pile is formidable enough even
now. By the end of the next
President's four-year term, a
very bad time may at least be
neart This is the time when the
Soviets will be able to launch a
surprise saturation -attack
against the United States, in the
rational hope of destroying Am
erican military power.
These facts might as well be
faced, unpleasant as they are.
One suspects that they have al
ready been faced by both Presi
dential candidates. They may
well have been in Adlai Steven
son's mind when he described
the c presidency as an office
whose potential for good or evil
''smothers exultation and con
verts vanity to prayer." They
may also have been in Dwight
Eisenhower's mind when he im
pulsively confessed to Sen.' Rob
ert A. Taft that the thought of
the presidency was a "night
mare" to him.
These unpleasant facts should
also be in the minds of all think
ing Americans. The Soviets will
only be able, after all, to visit
terrible punishment on this
country at the cost of even more
terrible punishment visited on
the Soviet Union. This is a situ
ation in which steady nerves are
going to be needed above every
thing else, not only in the White
House but elsewhere in the
country.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)