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TEN MED FORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, August 6, 1952 MedforivKTribuni Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune Fublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North-Fir St Phone 2-614 R03ERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. 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 Dailv and Sunday one month 1-25 All Terms Cash in Advance Editorial Correspondence Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of jicksop .onmy 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 ASVOCHTIPN r7 kJ f- m nam "tars NEWSPAPEt FUSllSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean age. 10 YEARS AGO August 6. 1942 (It was Thursday) USO receives thousands of coat hangers from local people, but it is reported that the men at Camp White need many more. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Roasting ears are now big enough to be purloined from fields abutting on the river and become the main item of what was socially intended as a weiner roast. 20 YEARS AGO August 6, 1932 (It was Saturday) The sheriff's office estimates there are 6,200 licensed automo biles in Jackson county. Mrs. Sidney Richardson, of the Jackson county humane so ciety, makes calls on several Medford boys, lectures them on the killing of birds and then returns to her office with sling shots relinquished by the con science stricken boys. 30 YEARS AGO August 6, 1922 (It was Sunday) Weather bureau figures for July show the area had a mean temperature of 96; highest tem perature was 108 degrees. Discussion of a proposed Ash land hotel and sanitarium is be gun: Jesse Winburn announces he will invest $20,000 in the project. 40 YEARS AGO August 6, 1912 (It was Tuesday) Sophie Tucker schedules an appearance in Medford tomor row as part of the cast of '"Louisiana Lou." The Frideger orchard on the Medford-Jackscnville highway is sold to a Salt Lake City group headed by Mrs. A. A. Bird. Superfortress Crashes in Japan Tokyo (U.PJ A United Na tions B-29 Superfortress on its way to bomb the Communists in Korea crashed and burned short ly after taking off from Yokota Air Force Base Wednesday night but at least nine of the 12-man crew parachuted to safety. The fate of the other three men w,a s - not immediately known. The plane crashed into a rice field about 200 yards from a house and immediately burst in to flames. Three Japanese fire men were slightly burned trying to put out the fire. Crew members jettisoned all the B-29's bombs before the crash. The bombs were "dis armed" but it was not known whether any exploded through faulty mechanism when they hit. Cause of the crash was not determined. Churchill Summons Cabinet To Session London (U.R) Prime Min ister Winston Churchill has call ed his Cabinet to a special ses sion Thursday to study what in formed sources said' were "alarming reports" from Iran. - Use 'Mail Trroune Want Ad Rockford, HI., Aug. 3 We thought we had pretty well cov ered the sport field in our time with the exception of women wrestlers. But we had overlooked baseball played by the gentler sex, so as Rockford is very proud of its champion "Rockford Peach es" we taxied over to the 15th Avenue stadium, across the river last night for a look-see. . Well, we were greatly surprised. We had expected a lot of fluffy high-jinks and prat-fall comedy, but instead we were treat ed to baseball which, while, not as strenuous or skillful as the male brand, was truly professional'. And the gals took it all very seriously as did the spectators only about 1200 of the latter, however. It was a successful evening from the home-town stand point, for the "Peaches" after being behind 2 to 3 after six innings made five runs in the eighth, and a 260-foot home-run in the sixth which had tied the score. . There were a few purely feminine touches. When the glam orous and muscular (if you can imagine the combination) left fielder hit that 4-sacker over the fence, all the girls gathered at the home plate, like a garden party reception committee, and squealing and jumping with delight kissed and embraced her as she trotted nonchalantly through them to the bench. There was no tobacco-chewing, bat-breaking or profanity, and while some of the umpires' decisions were not accepted with out protest, there was po real rhubarbing, and only once a notice able foot-stamping, by a girl who thought her slide and those gals really SLIDE to third was safe, but the umpire waved her put. . What has happened to the other side of the family anyway? In our youth, girls couldn't play baseball, only one or two in a hundred could throw a ball more than 15 feet and then on the bias. Once in a blue-moon some chap's sister who prided herself on being a regular tom-boy would be allowed to keep score Sat urday afternoons and perhaps join in a purely informal game of "double-scrub" at the lunch hour or after school. That was very unusual though. Unless the old memory is -at fault girls were about as welcome at baseball as they were on camping trips, or initiation-day at the pirates cave, or at Deerfoots log cabin, made I from the family's discarded piano-box. But these two girl teams the Grand Rapids (Michigan) "Chicks" were the losers could give cards and spades to any neighborhood nine of boys of today and make monkeys out of them. . " They not only threw the ball like men; they slid in profes sional fashion and dusted themselves off afterward, just as Con nie Mack probably did some 50 years ago. And they observed all the "pro' conventions swung two bats before getting into the batter's box then discarding one rubbing their hands in the dust to promote a better grip, knocking the dirt in their cleats off with the bat when awaiting the pitcher's wind-up. And WIND- UP the Grand Rapids gal had as fine and acrobatic a wind-up as any big league twirler we have ever seen and when in Chi cago we saw Phillie s world-beater Shantz win his 18th against the White Sox! We haven't done any extensive research but' the members of this Grand Rapids team stayed at our hotel, and we had a chance to observe their manners table and otherwise at breakfast this morning. If they had been announced as girls from Rockford college and that is a most exemplary institution of learning and Emily Post decorum we would never have quest ioned it. They were all as brown as autumn leaves (not a bad simile for autumn leaves have a color showing through the tan) and most of their legs and arms were perhaps more muscular then photogenic, but they were good looking, did have excellent manners, and except for the fact they all turned to the sport sections first, might have qualified in any casual inspection as col lege girls on a tourist-trip of some sort. They were certainly in sharp contrast with, the women wrest lers we have een. :. But we still can't get over their ball throwing, and especially the pitching not as hard and not as full of razzle-dazzle as the male performers, but nothing of the Auntie-Fancy about it, nor in any other department of the game, either, including the field ing, and pegging the runner at second. There is no soft-ball about this women s league the oaii is slightly larger than the regulation horse-hide, but a 260 foot wallop is nothing to be sneezed at, even though in the big leagues it usually takes at least 50 or 60 feet more to clear any fence. According to the taxi man, this year's season has been very disappointing as far as attendance is concerned. One cause has been the weather nearly 16 inches of rain here in July alone. (That is close to the annual rainfall in Medford). Another is said to be the Rockford Peaches won the title last year but haven't been anywhere near the top thus far this "year. Hard to under stand after seeing last night's performance. Perhaps they have just taken a new lease on life all samee as the St. Louis Card inals. . On the subject of women's sports, see that Alice Bauer is beating her young sister at the Tarn O'Shanter tournament in Chicago. What has happened to Marlene we wonder? Before the lournament ends, however, Marlene may show nothing has. She is often a slow, starter, but makes up usually by a strong finish. But for the fact we are observing a 14-hour work-day we would run into the Big City and greet two of Medford's favorite girl athletes. (Well; change it to "eight hours," we don't wish to offend the union). Just as every poll has placed Joe McCarthy as the worst U.S. Senator, so any discriminating poll should place Senator Dirksen of Illinois as the rjhoniest HAM Senator. As usual the Chicago Tribune plays up his speech before the American Legion in Chi- ratrn vpsterdav on naee 1. column left, but the speech snouia ranK with those delivered by Henry Wallace before he saw the light, and was nearly inaudible, his ostrich head "was so buried in the sand. R.WJS. . Crosstown By Roland Coe "Darling, you're handy at this stuff - will you fix up the baby's formula?" French Miffed Over American Attitude On Armament Money l'hil Newsora Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers en What Goes en at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The French have been pretty miffed at the United States dur ing the last few days. It's all been over a matter of some $625,- 000,000 which the French want for their rearmament ef fort over the next three years, and which 'we say we can't prom ise them, al though we are willing to help to the tune of $186,000,000 in fiscal 1953. After that it's up to the U.S. Congress and whatever it wants to appropriate for military aid. But the French have been un willing to take "no" for an answer. The fact that under United States law such commitments "must be made on an annual basis has had no effect on the av erage indignant Frenchman who has been whipped up not only by some French government of ficials who should know better but by some of his newspapers as well. Threats Made Threats of the consequences have been dire. They ranged from the closing down of some French war fac tories and the subsequent unem ployment of 25,000 skilled em ployees to complete abandon ment of the French war effort in Indo-China. There were predictions that France would refuse to ratify the peace contract with West Germany and the European Army Plan Later, when the French gov ernment announced it would re view the situation before the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion, some elements of French reaction adopted a smug "I-told-you-so" attitude which indicated the least we could expect for our selfishness was the firing squad at dawn. Unofficial French View It was all more emotional than factual and actually did not represent the official French government position. However, it did represent a line of thought not. designed to endear our European cousins to the AmericElh taxpayer who al ready entertains the thought that he is paying a heavy price for European cooperation in the struggle to build a bulwark against Russian aggression. . Belatedly, French officials have begun to see the danger and to soft-pedal some of the earlier hysterical outbursts Jul y(.- HOLDING GRIMLY to "Old Baldy" Mountain, but paying a bitter price to recapture "and hold it, battle-w?ary Korean litter bearer stumbles but clings to his precious burden-a wounded Allied fighting man u Red shell barrages threaten United Nations troops' grip on the crest. (Internationa!) Leo Bohls Named President of City Council at Phoenix (Q) How big is the Congress ioinal Record for any one Con gress? (A) That depends upon the length of time each session lasts and upon the amount of added material which is inserted by Members. The Record for the 82nd Congress contained 35,999 pages on which" were printed some 28 million words. This is equal to about 280 ordinary-siz ed novels. (Q) Are Congressmen permit ted to write for publication on a paid basis? (A) Yes. In fact, Senator Blair Moody (D-Mich.) and Margaret Chase Smith, (R-Me.), write syn dicated columns which appear regularly in many, newspapers. Other Congressmen from time to time write special newspaper and magazine articles for which they are paid. (Q) Do any Congressmen make a planned effort to' keep the people back home informed about what they are doing?' (A) Yes, all of them do. Dur ing the second session of the 82 Congress in 1952, 166 Congress men published regular newslet ters and 150 made regularly scheduled radio broadcasts. Other methods used are personal letters, news" releases and col umns for hometown papers. (Q) I have head that if Sen ator Nixon of California is elect ed to the Vice-Presidency, Gov, Earl Warren may appoint for mer President Herbert Hoover to succeed Nixon in the Senate. It that true? (A) The appointment of Hoov er to succeed Nixon if the Republicans win the election was suggested. However, Hoov er now lives in New York City and could not serve as a Calif ornia Senator. (Q) I am a newcomer to Ore gon and frankly don't know the names of our Senators. Who are they? (A) The United States Senat ors ftom Oregon are Guy Cordon and Wayne Morse. (Copyright 1952, Congression al Quarterly ) ' Railroad Sues Driver Of Car Hit by Train Littleton, Colo. (U.R) The Union Pacific railroad sought $1,525.72 in damages today in a "man bites dog" lawsuit. The railroad is suing' farmer Edward C. Montgomery, Deer trail, Colo., for driving his truck into the path of - a streamliner train two years ago. The rail road claims the collision damag ed several passenger cars. Phoenix Street surfacing and two - office appointments were the main order of business for the Phoenix city council at this week's meeting, accord ing to Mayor E. R. Claflin. Leo Bohls, councilman, was appointed president of the coun cil and Dan Adams, councilman, was appointed to the police com mission to serve with Council man Frank Lovett. A third po lice commission appointment will be made in the near future from the city at large to serve as an ex officio member of the department governing body. E. J. (Jim) Perry was sworn in as police chief and began active duty Tuesday . morning, Claflin continued. Call for Bids The council also called for bids on three blocks of Church street which is scheduled for a road-piix surfacing job. Work has begun on the hard surfacing of AXA blocks of Rose street from the city's share of the state fund set aside each year for street improvement in small towns where travel has greatly increased. The state is now in the process of putting in tile and drainage along Rose street, and - the - project, when completed, will cost $15,000. : The mayor also reminded Phoenix citizens that there are several elective offices up for election next November and that nominating petitions will now be available in the city hall for candidates until October 4 The offices are mayor, recorder, treasurer and three council posi tions. Both Mayor Claflin and Treasurer Harry Reames have definitely stated they will not run for re-election. Planning Underway For Rogue Valley Crusade for Christ A Rogue Valley Crusade for Christ will be conducted here September 7 through 28 by a corporation of that name, it was announced today. Jim Mercer, dynamic preach er from Minneapolis. Minn., will be the evangelist. He has been called "God's 11th hour preach er, and has conducted meetings in 40 states and in five Canadian provinces. Churches throughout the Rogue River 'valley are cooperating in the crusade. Officials .in charge reported that all churches con tacted so far will cooperate. Others in Jackson and Josephine counties will be contacted. All church choirs of the valley are being invited to participate in a huge crusade choir. The meeting place will be a tent, seating 2,500 persons, . at Jackson street and Biddle road, across from the Foursquare church. The tent measures 160 by 80 feet. The tent is owned by the father of Cliff Barrows, who is song leader for Evangelist Billy Graham. Jim Mills, Medford, is presi dent of the sponsoring corpora tion. Other officers are Clarence Holdridge. Talent, vice - presi dent; Ray Sloniker, Medford, sec retary, and Allen Curry, Med ford, financial secretary. It is hoped to make the Cru sade an annual eyent. Korea Casualties Jump 642 in Week Washington (U.R) The De fense department reported Wed nesday that American casualties in Korea now total 114,310, an increase of 642 over last week's summary. " , The figure . includes those whose next of kin-were notified through last Friday. It normally requires ' from one to three weeks to' notify next of kin af ter a casualty occurs. ' , The summary included 20,087 deaths, 81,874 wounded, 9,469 missing, 1,495 captured, and 1,385 previously missing but re turned to service. ' The deaths include those kill ed in action, . who died of wounds, and those found dead after previously having been re ported missing. Galveston, Texas, was struck by a tidal wave and hurricane September 8, 1900, in which 5,000 persons were killed. Eagle Point Slates Investigation of Garbage Problems Eagle Point No action will be taken on Eagle Point's gar bage problem for at least two months, according to Mayor Fred M. Bruegger. The move followed a discus sion between the city council and several citizens last night when it was found that the dis posal problem of the city's gar bage needed more thorough in vestigation. The council will continue its investigation by contacting the League of Ore gon Cities and other towns as to what methods are desirable. The citizens were also assured by the mayor and council that if it was found that a tax on water meters was the most desirable method after investigation, a public meeting would be called at which everybody would be allowed to voice their opinions on the matter. 'Opposed by- Petition Prior to this conclusion, sev eral reports were made and a petition with 59 signatures on it Was submitted to the council protesting the proposed alterna tive method of increasing water rates' 50 cents, to pay for the collection. Councilman Don Ashpole re ported that the City Sanitary Service in Medford would agree to solicit its own business at $1.25- a month for weekly pick ups, or would work with any local pickup service by offering the use of the Camp White dump. The Medford firm stated that it was, however, handicap ped at the present time by lack of manpower, but would work something out with the city if called upon. Joe Whipple, Eagle Point, who is currently picking up the city's garbage on a temporary basis said he would go on doing so at $1.25 a month until at least wintertime when he felt service on a voluntary basis would not pay for itself. -Would Save Time Mayor Bruegger explained that the city had considered in creasing the meter charge to pay for the service because the collectors in the past had deem ed this the best method and would not continue private solic iting during the winter months when the total amount of gar bage grew smaller. Whipple pointed out that a 50 cent charge on the meters would save him a third of his time in col lection and do away with a lot of book work, . making winter collections possible. Present collections on the pri vate basis are averaging $20 a week, Whipple reported. The petition , opposing the meter assessment stated that service rendered should be paid for by those enjoying the service. And that the signers "strenuously object" to the peo ple not needing garbage service, having to pay for it." : ' ' .Other Business ' In other council business, Ed gar Dahack appeared before the council concerning a building hazard and agreed to begin im- Pickin' Pears Ne$ZT By SID HOLLINGSWORTH The life of an editor is full of gripes and groans at best. Espe cially is this true of the editor of a magazine devoted to the in terests of veterans. George Eich nor has a letter to the editor which is a little different. The fact that it comes from one of America's leading poets gives it added significance. On his sta tionery with the Detroit Free Press, Edgar A. Guest writes: "A friend of yours has just sent me a copy of Dominews and a letter telling of the good work you are doing. I want to congra tulate you. It seems to me to be a most worthy task that you have assumed and one you have done remarkably well." In a turnabout gesture for the Junior Red Cross, Marvin R. Kahn, Chief of Special Services broadcast Wednesday evening over Station KMED on Mrs. Vera Humphrey's Children's Variety Program. ed out by Clyde Jessup and Paul Olsen. The VAVS dance Monday night drew a large quota of pat rons, despite the warm weather. With Walt Rankin at the drums, Lou Flaherty at the piano and Art Kenton playing his clari net, no one minds the heat. Lucy Ford, Gold Star Moth er, and waitress in the domicil iary dining room, has taken over the rooming house at 330 North Front street. At present she has almost a full house with pear pickers, but says she can accommodate some Camp White vets who are in town for a few days. Personnel Officer Herman J. Heitkemper is in receipt of a bulletin favorably affecting em ployes whose tour of duty has excluded credit for holidays, , which is now allowed. Dimiciliary Officer R. H. Ruf fin has been placed in charge of Hobby Shop activities, relieving Ty Teorey of this phase of the rehabilitation program, while he remains in charge of Arts and Crafts in addition to his post as Director of " Volunteers. A display of hobby shop crea tions and workmanship will fea ture one of the booths of the new VAVS section of recreation. Storage lockers are to be pro vided for the equipment of the volunteers. Quite a number of the hobby shop men will have displays this year as in former year's at the Josephine County Fair at Grants Pass Aug. 19 to 23. The Allen Hendersons of Fi nance are back from their trip to Montana where they joined in a family reunion. Plans are under way for hold ing the "event of the season," the annual Watermelon Bust at TouVelle Park, Sunday, August 17, under sponsorship of the VAVS. The program of addi tional attractions is being work- Saem Youngster Auto Crash Victim Salem (U.R) Fifteen-year-old Kenneth Lent, Salem, was killed Tuesday night in a traf fic collision at Four Corners. The dead youth's brother, Al fred, was driving the car and suffered facial cuts in the crash. Jack Brant, another passenger, suffered minor injuries. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m for following day: 10 a.m. Mon day: noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. provement of the structure im mediately. A special meeting of the council and firemen will be held next Monday to go over new fire truck specifications. . A class A package store liquor .license application by George and Mary Ridgely for Ridgely's Grocery store was tabled for ac tion until the next council meet ing to allow time for further study. MISS V.F.W. OF 1952-Jenna Fae Whatley, 19, of Winnfield, La., exhibits a broad smile after j willing Veterans of Foreign Wars ' beauty pageant at their national encampment in Los Angeles. 1 Dr. Robert J. Urie OPTOMETRIST (Formerly Monahan & Wiggins) NOW PERMANENTLY LOCATED AT 28 South Central (Old Sub Post Office Location Across from Craterian) Funds invested Here By August 11 Will Earn Dividends from August 1st Your savings are insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings . and Loan Ins. Corp., Washing ton, D.C. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 3 Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Growing with Jackson County Since 1909
