TEN MED FORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, August 6, 1952
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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
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