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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDTRIBimX '- Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune F'ublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHLs Editor ERNEST R. GILSTRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor -HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act 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. 350 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford . 1 I I -. I Dnj-4 raffia Dint A5IIK1I1U. ivuih uaa.. ....... Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: ' . i .. vf ci nn Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 All xerms uasa in AovaiKe Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comity : 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. NAT' AL EDITORIAL ASVOCtjTgN NEWSPAME PUI1ISHIKS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 8, 1342 (It was Saturday) "Hood River plan" to over come labor shortage by packing all fresh fruit at one grade is re jected by Rogue valley fruit growers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The 91st infantry division will be acti vated here next Saturday. It will be the greatest military event in the history of this section. Sol diers will march, flags will fly, bands will play and people will shout like they did in World War I. - 20 YEARS AGO August 8, 1932 (It was Monday) Petitions seeking the recall of Circuit Judge' H. D. Norton be gin circulation; the bar associa tion announces it is shocked by action. Mrs. Harry Prentice, Medford, completes two weeks training by swimming across Lake o' Woods in half an hour. 30 YEARS AGO August 8, 1922 (It was Tuesday) Ben Bowers narrowly escapes Injury in tussle with a bear near the head of Neil creek; bear fi nally flees when Bowers puts four shots into him. Jerry Jerome returns from Elks convention at Atlantic City. 40 YEARS AGO ' 1 " August 8, 1912 (It was Thursday) Fred Carritt breaks aU known records for walking to Crater lake from Medford by doing it in .two days. Medford roadhouse is closed for the second time by District Attorney Mulkey and Acting Chief Cingcade. Chicago Police Ordered To Find Hammer Slayer Chicago (U.R) Chicago's 7,000 policemen were - ordered Friday to find and stop a crazed and brazen hammer killer who boasted he would strike again. Precinct stations were inform ed that the department's number 6ne job was to find the murderer, and the painstaking, systematic search was on. Body Found Police found the bloody, bat tered body of Thomas Acton, 35, in a dingy hotel room Wednes day after a man with a "raspy" voice called- headquarters' and said there was "something bloody" in the room. Since then he has driven offi cers into a near-frenzy with tele phone threats to strike again in swank hotels and cheap north side taverns. "Stop me, for God's sake, be fore it's too late," he begged in a. whining voice. Borrowed Claw Hammer The man. the homicide squad was looking for was known only as-Robert Moore. He had regis tered in the cheap hotel with Acton and had borrowed a claw hammer from a maid. The Bir mingham, Ala., victim was beat en to death with a claw ham mer. The manhunt ranged from the bottle-littered alleys of Skid Row MAIL TRIBUNE Still Time To Enter Jackson county. farmers who are thinking of. en tering the "Grassman of the Year" contest need not hesitate because their operation may be on a compar atively small scale. It has Jackson County Stockmen's son County Chamber of Commerce, promoters of the prbgram'here, that size of considered m judging an owner s achievements. De velopment of pasture and range land through the use of grasses better suited to the land, more carefully controlled management and other improvements, are the major considerations in selecting the winners. DEPORTS from many counties in Oregon indicate growing interest in the 1952 "Grass is Gold" program. Four new counties Clatsop, Multnomah, Tillamook and Wasco will participate this year for the first time. Thirty-six counties were represented last year. The winner of the Oregon competition will receive a $500 cash award and will also be eligible to com pete with finalists from Idaho and Washington for the regional title and a $1500 irrigation system and other equipment. Jackson county winners will receive $75 for first and $25 for second place from the local machinery dealers. TT HAS been demonstrated in recent years that the northwest's grasslands can ' carry a much larger number of livestock where proper use is made of new grasses and techniques. Actual application of such methods has proved that production of grass on f arm pastures and ranges can be doubled and trebled. Such increases, when converted by livestock, help to pro vide the needed pounds of meat, wool and milk. In Jackson county the in small herds, is constantly growing, the increase being made possible largely through grassland expan sion and improvement. Much land which had been grained to death year after year- is being converted to meat and seed production grass as alta fescue, sub others. THE "Grass is Gold" program is an effort to gain greater recognition for the farmers who have re claimed worn out or badly depleted acres, who have checked erosion, developed water supplies or other wise brought about profitable production where it didn t exist before. The campaign is also intended to help induce other land owners to take similar steps for their own benefit and the beneiit of all who de pend on their products. Entering the contest is easy. County Agent W B. Tucker at the court house to anyone interested. But is near-and those who feel their grass production record is above the average should see Agent Tucker and tell him their story at THERE should be considerable gratification in being worthy to compete in this contest and the prizes aren't to be sneezed at, either. E.C.F.- Give Them Time The rest of the world Russia's' explanation of Stalin s athletic nephews ors at the Olympic games. for Pravda and the other figure out an angle but eventually they will, undoubt edly, and when they do it will be announced that their country was the real winner. It took a good many years, you know, for the Com munists to get around to disclosing that most of the important inventions which Americans and others had given to the world in brain children of Russians. B EFORE the Helsinki contests there had been con siderable conjecture brawny men and women from the steppes really were Russian newspapers and radio broadcasts had con veyed the impression that The representatives of decadent capitalistic nations wouldn't have much of a chance, they interred. And the boast seemed in a fair way of being made good during the early tests for the Soviets' sons and daughters who had specialized in minor events piled . - 111.1 1 i up a formidable score and led tne unomciai team competition right down to the very last big day. : Then came disillusionment for the Reds as . the aroused American athletes began pouring on the cOal and reeling in one major victory after another to suc cessfully defend the crown their countrymen had won in 1948 in London. IT should be said for the Russian athletes themselves thatthev disDlaved fine sportsmanship 'and in their marked friendliness with better ambassadors of good eountrv who attend United hope they don't get sent to the salt mines for. this breach of iron curtain discipline E.C.F. Cordon Told Bureau's Washington (U.R) The Bu- . . . . , reau ei iteciamauon aavisea Sen. Guy Cordon, R-Ore., Friday that it will complete this year through the lake shore hotel dis trict to comfortable residential areas. . The Edgewater Beach - and Drake hotels, two of the city's finest and most expensive, were given police guards because the killer had boasted he would in vade them in his quest of blood. ' Friday, August 8, 1952 been pointed out by the association and the Jack the farms is not necessarily number of cattle, especially through planting of such clover, - Talent Alfalfa and will gladly supply details the deadline August 15 once. will wait with interest the failure of Uncle Joe and nieces to cop first hon It may take 'a bit of time Red propaganda organs to years past were actually tne as to just how good the they would be unbeatable. the Americans proved far will than those of their Nations meetings. Let's Plan for Irrigation plans to irrigate 8,700 acres of land near Chief Joseph dam. The bureau was authorized by the recent session of Congress" to study possibility of irrigation in connection with the -dam. The plans must be submitted to the next Congress where approval is needed before appropriations can be made. There is one gasoline station for every 164 vehicles in the United States. - Crosstown UTTLESCOUTS JT "It's a radio-telephone. Keeps me wrilin' a Babson and By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Aug. I (Special to Mail Tribune) The Democratic party has many sup porters who have always been wealthy. The party, neverthe less, aims its appeal primarily a t the "masses who depend for their living on wages. The The Republi can party aims also to help the masses in basic ways; but has noi xnea 10 increase money wages. Labor, therefore, be lieves it must uphold the Demo crats to retain the so-called "la bor gains" achieved since 1932 The importance of the fore going is brought out by some sta tistics recently compiled on the ownership of shares of stock in this country. According to the latest authoritative estimate, there are approximately 6,500,- 000 owners of stock, after elimi nation of duplications. As the civilian labor force of the country, exclusive of agri cultural labor, is around 54,- 000,000 (including 15,000,000 union members) it is obvious that the direct owners ofstocks and bonds are .overwhelmingly outnumbered by wage earners. Victory on November 4 will fall to the candidate who can get a majority of the Wage earners to vote to protect the stocks and bonds owned by the life insur ance companies and banks in which they have their savings. Republicans Must Strike Hard to Win Election The Republicans will have to strike hard indeed between now and Novemher 4 if they are to win. This is because most of the "sins" they ascribe to the Demo crats are not greatly resented by wageworkefs, as these sins are mostly against capital or property, not against "labor." To many voters whose princi pal asset is their weekly wage, charges of corruption are noises from another world. . What do they care if some big shot is ac cused of cheating the govern ment? The apparent effect on their pay is nil. They suspect, moreover, that crookedness is the usual thing among higher-up in politics and business. Payment of Taxes Not .Felt by Wage Earner Republicans will harp on the tax burden; but the wage earn er feeis the impact of taxes too little. They are concealed from him or withheld from his pay His income tax never .gets into his pocketbook. He nexer expe riences the pain of parting with his tax money. The tax situation will not cause many wage earn ers to desert the Democrats. Although the wives of wage earners are becommg increas ingly irked by the rise in the cost-of-living, not even this will cause wageworkers to vote Re publican. Up .to now . wages, in many lines, have kept abreast of rising costs. The wageworker, however, fears unemployment more than a rising cost-of-living. Many can recall that when there was no inflation and the cost-of- living was low, jobs were scarce. Higher prices and a pay check are infinitely preferable to low prices and no pay check. Korea is Democrats Vulnerable Point One Republican charge will find - sympathetic listeners among wage earners. They all share resentment of the humil iating bungle of the Democratic Asian policy. Eisenhower, with his aura of invincibility, will have a strong appeal for wage earners when thinking of Korea. I have intentionally segregat-J cd agricultural from industrial workers. Most farmers and farm workers have been Republicans traditionaUy: , but many were lured into Democratic ranks by crop price "parity." This defeat ed Dewey in 1948. This time the Republicans are promising aftrW.BalMa By RolaTid Coe my mother posted and saves lot of letters." Election gravy to the farmers. With farm ers back in 4he Republican fold, and with wage earners -disgusted over Korea, Eisenhower and Nixon may win; but it will re quire very hard work to beat Stevenson and Sparkman. Spiritual Awakening Needed to Be Saved The real hope of the United States and the world lies with neither the Republican nor the Democratic parties, per se. Not withstanding the appeals of all candidates for the "help of Al mighty God," God's Will is 95 per cent ignored when it con flicts with "practical politics." America must have a spiritual awakening to be saved. Under present conditions, both the political and labor leaders are able to ignore our 60,000,000 church members be cause we are equally divided be tween the two major political parties. Should not confessed followers of Jesus refuse to be tied to any single party? Let us be the silent independent voters for such local, state and national candidates who wiU work hard est for righteousness. This is the great need. In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS Barney Baruch, elder states man and park bench philoso pher, back from a two-months trip to Europe, tells reporters at the dock in New York: "I want to see which . Presi dential candidate has the great er WISDOM AND FORTITUDE to beat inflation before I decide whom to back . . . Words alone won't do it ... It will take for titude." H E ADDED: "inflation, if not beaten, will destroy any economic or foreign policy we make." He might -have added that it will destroy all of us if we don't get it under control. He would have plenty of historical back ing for such a statement. TJECAUSE it is so pat, I'd like AJ to tell here the story of John Law and his Mississippi Bubble. But it's too long. Suffice it to say that he sold to the govern ing powers of France (some two centuries ago) the idea .that-his scheme would help to pay off the huge public debt that Louis XIVs wars and foolish extrav agances had saddled upon the nation. In essence, his scheme was based on- spending mor 1 than was taken in and using printing press money to make up the dif ference. It DIDN'T pay off the French debt. Instead, it ran up an astronomical NEW debt. , THE final result of it was that a very large part of the peo ple of France lost everything they had when the bubble final ly burst. This was the tragedy of it: Those who lost their all were the WORKING, PRODUCING neonle of France. Those who came" out ahead were the specu lators, the sharpies, the fast buck boys, the . smarties who made it quick and salted it away in cold which they buried or shiDDed out. of the country. It will be that way here if we lack the fortitude to stop inflation before jt is too late. YUR mounting inflation has its v tragedies already. Who are they? Do you know any pension erseither, those who have re tired on company pensions or on social security? Do you know any widows whose sole support is bond interest, or some other form of FIXED income? Or any body who retired on fixed in come from savings? - : If so, you know something of the tragedy that is beginning already to stalk our land. : These people thought they were com fortably fixed for life. Instead, they find themselves facing com parative poverty. It will be On The Side " by e. v. dum (Distributed by Kinj Features Syndicate,. Inc.) . . .; What's in a name? It, is quite true 'as Mr. Shakespeare said, that a Tose by any other name would smell as sweet. However, it cannot be said a manufactured product by any other name would sell as much. Take rayon for example. For forty years it was - known as "artificial silk." That name was a handicap. In dicated it was a substitute. Then some genius suggested it be caljed "rayon." A few years af ter that the sales of the product were over a hundred times more than had been the case when it was known as "artificial silk!" Sidelights Fashion historian and style checker-upper James Laver says: "After a war, women cut their hair short, take off most of their clothes and ape the male." . . . Know any mother who is taller than her adult son? I note it claimed that "eventual ly every, son grows taller than his mother." ... A souvenir item now enjoying large sales is a miniature Statue of. Liberty. Sells very well to visitors to the Statue. This miniature is made in Japan. Asking Queries from clients. Q. My claimis that Nazimova starred in the stage version of "The Garden of Allah." Right? A. Wrong, Sir. Mary Mannering was the star of that piece. Lewis Waller played opposite. Q. Who originated the saying: "Every knock is a boost"? A. Bob Dun bar, Boston sportscribe. Q. Al Jolson left over four million Doesn't this break the record for theatrical wills? A. Believe it does. It tops Lotta Crabtre.e who left about three and a half mil lion. Also - Lotta made most of her money in real estate. Jol- son's came entirely from his en tertainment career. Passing By Mercedes McCambridge. En ergetic and effervescent cinema performer. Miss McCambridge is said to be the originator of the "croodle hair-do." This is a cross between a crew cut and a poodle cut . . . Ford Frick, com missioner of basebaU. As a sport participant Mr. Frick's favorite pastime is curling. He is one of the stars of the Bronxville (N.Y.) Curling Club. . . . Gary Cooper. Elongated cinema lumi nary. Originally from Helena, Mont. Still very loyal to his na tive State he never puts mustard on a hot dog or ham sandwich News REAL poverty as the buying power of. their dollars shrinks still . further under growing in flation. Cruel things like that shouldn't happen to a dog. But that's what inflation does. IIE'VE forgotten John Law " and his Mississippi Bubble But a similar character is closer to us in time. He was Lord Maynard Keynes. He sold to our governing powers the idea that we could spend ourselves rich and pay off our debts by de ficit financing. He sold the same idea - in Britain. He has been gathered to his fathers, but we are beginning to pay the bill for the goods he sold us The bill is being paid by the same kind of people who paid it in France a couple of centuries ago. Payment -is being DODGED by the same kind-of people who dodged payment in France two hundred years and more ago. 'THAT is what Bernard Baruch moane nrhon Via caw infliTi rf will DESTROY us if we lack the wisdom and the fortitude to beat it while there is still time. PERSONALLY, I'll t a k e . a A chance on Ike as the Presi dential candidate most likely to possess-the fortitude to beat in flation-before it destroys us. He knows the hard way is often the best way. That's how he won the war in Europe. The way he did it wasn t easy. -But it work ed. I'm afraid that Stevenson, with all his charm and his tol erance, and his decency and his seeming middle-of-the-road phil osophy, has fallen too much un der the influence of our leaders who bought . the Keynes some-thing-for-nothing scheme. Promotion Purchases To Be Investigated Chicago U.R)U. S. District Attorneyf Otto Kerner Jr. said Friday he would turn over to a federal grand jury a report by investigators that 38 Chicago Post Office supervisors paid for their promotions. The report, made by postal in spectors after a six-month in vestigation, was understood to in volve five top officials of the Chicago Post Office, the nation's second largest. The report disclosed that some supervisors paid up to $500 for their jobs, it was learned. Detroit (U.R) Four-year- old Raymond Sumlin found a nickel near 1118 home and it spell ed his death. He ran toward the candy store to spend it, and dash ed into the path of an oncoming automobile. without first' asking: "Is this Montana mustard?" Mr. Cooper proudly claims that 95 per cent of the mustard produced in the U.S.A. is from Montana. Retiring Young As for an activity in which it is possible to retire on a pen sion at a very early age, the United States armed forces are hard to top. A man can enlist in either the Army or Navy at 17 and retire on a pension nineteen years and six months later at the age of ZQVi years. If at retire ment he is a chief petty officer or a master sergeant he can re tire on a pension of $138 a month. He is entitled to free hos pitalization for himself and fam. ily and can shop- at a post ex change and commissary. There is nothing to stop him taking a civilian job. Briefly There is to be a film based on the life of Melba, star of the opera. Whom do you suggest for the title role? How about Rise Stevens? ... It was Helen. Bell who said: "A lady is one who never shows her underwear un To Disprove Claim About East and West BY PHIL NEWSOM - United Press Foreign Analyst Rudyard Kipling once wrote about East and West that "never the twain shall meet." Ever since Dec. 7, 1941, the United States has been trying to prove him a liar, and the strain has been consider able. During World War II our en e r g i e s were sapped because I'hil Newsom we could not devote full attention to either East or West. Since World War II, as we have tried to develop our global strategy against Com munist aggression, we have con- Texas Leads in Polio Case Load New York-XU.R) Texas led the nation Friday in the number of polio cases reported this year as the country's overall figure fell only 21 cases short of the record high set in 1949. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said 10,697 persons ajready had been strick en in -1952. Approximately 25 per cent of the victims have been paralyzed by bulbar polio. A foundation analysis showed Texas was hit hardest with 30.8 per 100,000 persons infected. Other states showed: Iowa, 23.1; Nebraska, 22.8; Kansas, 12.1, and South Dakota, 11.3. ft American Girls Will Sport Average Look New York 4U.P.) The Amer ican girl has such an all-Ameri can look these days that it's con sidered downright - ominous by some experts. "It must be the lull before the storm," muttered the head of one model agency, Starting from the top, there's the matter of hair. No poodle cuts are being pushed for fall. On the other hand, no page boy cuts either. "Models are letting their hair grow a little longer, but there is nothing definitive in the way of a new hair style," said Gerald Ford, a partner with his wife in a high fashion model agency, "The poodle is dead." A girl can just wear her hair in a sort of casual, windblown fashion and be in style unless you want to count the face-fring ing hamlet hair cut one Fifth Avenue stylist is featuring. Then there are the eyes no doe eyes, sloe eyes, baby, doll eyes or half moon eyebrows to keep the girls busy. . We're back to more natural 'Dead' Man Stops Own Funeral Plans La Crosse, Wis. (U.R) Fred Seimund turned up just in time to stop plans for his own- fu neral. . He returned to his home short ly after his relatives had identi fied the body of a man killed at a railroad crossing as his. Vacuum Cleaners SERVICE & REPAIR ALL MAKES . e Dust Bags, Filters etc. Phone 2-499P intentionally." " " . Horses !c Women n Some of the outfits worn by Gerte Lawrence in the play "The King and I" weigh thirty five pounds. She dresses as a cultured Englishwoman of the period of the 1860's. In those days women wore six petticoats which weighed about twelve pounds. What would be your guess, sir, as to the weight of the outfit of the average woman of fashion today? I would say around six ounces in the winter and three ounces in the summer. I may be a little off on this but not much. Among the Married . A feminine subscriber recent ly reported that her husband, a traveling salesman, saw Joan Bennett in Chicago in the stage play "Bell, Book and Candle" and had been raving about her figure ever since. So she wanted to know Miss Bennett's measure ments. Didn't have them at the time . but have since checked. They are: bust 34, hips 32, waist 21. She wears a size nine dress. As you know, Miss Bennett is the mother of four daughters and also a grandma. Her age is not 45 as has been reported. She is 42. .' States Trying tinued in the unenviable posi tion of the man in the middle straining to bring together, at least to link, East and West in a coordinated defense effort. The meeting of the Anzus foreign ministers Australia, New' Zealand and the United States in Honolulu represents our latest effort. Key Paragraph We signed our Mutual De fense Treaty with Australia and New Zealand in San Francisco Sept. 1, 1951, just a week before -the United States and 48 other nations signed the treaty ending the state of war with Japan. The key paragraph says that each signatory nation recognizes that an attack on either of the others "would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and de clares that it would act to meet the common danger in accord ance with its constitutional pro cesses." From the first, the treaty has been recognized as a stop-gap, "pending the development of a more comprehensive system of regional security in the Pacific area. No Common Army Thus, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his opposite num bers from "down under" will make no far reaching decisions at their Honolulu meeting. They alone cannot organize any de fense of the Pacific. There will be no common Army or Navy of the Pacific such as now is being set up under NATO in Europe. There will be no common ef fort, nor a common commander such as we have in Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. eyes, and slightly heavier eye-. brows, said makeup expert Bar bara Brigham. The cupid's bow mouth, which was revived to go with the doe eyed look, is back on the shelf with the flapper hair cut again. Girls can outline their mouths to suit their face' and fancy. . Even the bra builders go for natural, rounded curves this sea son. No talk about exaggerated points. "We've been looking around for a trend toward a new type of girl, but the nearest we've come is a trend back to the col lege type," said Candy Jones, former model and wife of model agency head Harry Conover. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 EAST 6TH Just Off Central For Complete Prescription Service 9 A M. - 10 30 P.M. NIGHT Call 2-6253 If No Answer Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery - Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals Gordon Hudson Medford's Own Modern Ph- -ey and WjJ 7T
