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Newspaper Page TextSIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfowvvTribunx Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-814 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY, Advertising Manager i, C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AJ-LEN JR.. City Editor HARRY" CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editos RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under At of . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year f 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 Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or jacuson lonmy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST.HOLIJDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De. troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta NATIONAL EDITORIAL AtVnflATlVtM .,Ma.-.j:ij:a PUBlIf HltS 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 11, 1942 (It was Tuesday) District Attorney George W. Neilson reports his office flood ed with "defrauding of innkeep er" complaints as Camp White workers depart. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: J. Jerome had a birthday yesterday, the number of which is nobody's business. 20 YEARS AGO August 11, 1932 (It was Thursday) State police report that mar auders are making night raids stealing vegetables from valley gardens and selling them in wholesale lots to canneries and stores; trucks are used in the raids. Rin Tin Tin, canine movie star for more than 13 years, dies in Hollywood. 30 YEARS AGO August 11, 1922 (It was Friday), "Oregon Bond," owned by Scott Woolf, of Medford, wins the first race of the Northwest racing circuit in Gresham. Southern Pacfiic officials pre dict the biggest Rogue valley pear crop in history. 40 YEARS AGO August 11. 1912 ' (It was Sunday) John Dequer, national orga nizer for the Socialist party, comes to Medford to help the county central committee orga nize a local chapter of the party. Burglar is caught leaving the Perl funeral home; he confesses he has been responsible for wave of burglaries and leads police to his loot hidden in the willows along Bear creek where he has been sleeping. - The Grange Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange met Au gust 7 with Master Eda Torrence presiding. Applications of Mr. and Mrs. Lillywhite and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor were accepted. Sister Torrence brought the proceedings of State Grange to the meeting and suggested that it be read and passed among the members. Brother Carlton suggested that a more convenient wood shed be built and wood provided before fall. Brother Axtell reported the 4-H meeting at Brother Huston's a success. Pomona Master Herb Carlton announced election of officers at next Pomona meeting and asked all who wish to turn in their applications then for the 5th de gree and they would be obli gated, thus saving fifty cents as initiation fee will be raised the first of the year. State Grange meets here next year, a good time to take the sixth degree! Sister Perl Adair was report ed much improved in health. . Sister Torrence stated that Myrna Scott, of Trail, was col lecting old Christmas cards for children in Africa and urged members to turn hi their cards I -rfXNEWSPAPIR I A Fine The Medford fire department's record for 1951 was the best of any in the Southern Oregon area, ac cording to figures recently released by the state fire marshal's office. " Chief Gordon Barker's men answered 547 fire alarms during the year and were able to hold losses to a total of $34,993, for an average of only $62.97 per fire. . CECOND most effective department in this part of of the state was Ashland's which answered 164 alarms and held the flames to total damage of $18,907 for an average of $115.29. On the tail end of the regional list was Klamath Falls where 250 alarms rang up a total of $105,397 damage, the average being $421.59 per call. Grants Pass and Roseburg were in-betweeners in the fire marshal's rating, the former's department an swering 135 calls with total loss of $41,363 and aver age of $306.49 and the latter. 125 calls, $51,852 loss and $414.82 average. ' ' . DROBABLY the best clue to fire department effi- ciency, or lack of it, is the percentage of loss to the value of property involved. In this respect Medford was out in front with $2,617,558 and. only 1.33 per cent loss, as compared with Klamath Falls, $3,571,714 and 2.95 per cent; Ashland, $555,100 and 3.4 per cent; Roseburg $1,530,723 and 3.38 per cent, and Grants Pass, $990,802 and 4.17 per cent. TT MUST be admitted that "lady luck" plays some part in fire losses, but the major role always be longs to the men with the shiny red fire wagons. If they are well trained and adequately equipped they can, in most cases, hold flames to a minimum of de struction. T"HERE is still another factor in the fire picture, one which could be as important as the other two men tioned if more people would give it due consideration -that is prevention through elimination of 'hazards. The fire department and fire marshal inspect as many business places, plants andVesidences as possi ble in the effort to warn owners where firebreeding spots are found. But the inspectors cannot survey each and every piece of property, the owners themselves should carefully scrutinize every heating plant, all wiring, and electrical appliance connections, for possi ble fire hazard. Trash piles should be eliminated and premises cleaned up generally. In that, way the fire demon can be licked before he starts. E.C.F. San Francisco After More San Francisco, already famous for the number of conventions and other large gatherings which it en tertains each year, is making plans to increase its f a- riiities for housing such assemblies. . THE CITY by the Golden Gate' has long been aware proposed that the Fox theater, adjacent to the Civic auditorium, be purchased as an annex and other proposals include construction of another convention buildiner on the now unused Commerce high school athletic field, with a tunnel Civic Auditorium, and expansion of the existing struc ture by excavating and constructing a sub-floor under the present basement floor, which would be used for additional exhibit space. THE CITY by the Golden Gae has long been aware j of the rich returns possible lor tnose wno piay host and has constantly and successfully sought such business. That the "take" from the "visiting firemen" is ap preciated is shown by San viding even more adequate Murder Suspect Gains Place on FBI's List Washington (U.R) The FBI Monday named a murder suspect and ex-convict to its "10 - most- wanted" list to re place Gerhard A. Puff who kill ed an FBI agent when captured recently. Anti-Trumanile Sees Victory in Arkansas Little Rock. Ark. U.R) Frances Cherry, an antf-adminis-tration Democrat seeking the governor's post in Arkansas, predicted Monday he would win out over President Tru man's candidate, Gov. Sid Mc Math, in Tuesday's runoff pri mary. McMath, Cherry said, would meet the same fate as J. E. Tay lor, a Truman-sponsored .candi date for the Democratic senator ial nomination; in last week's Missouri primary. Taylor was defeated by Stuart Symington. either to Mrs. Torrence or. Mrs, Scott. - Next meeting of Upper Rogue Grange, August 21, wiU be the birthday supper at 7 p.m. Georgia Grieve, H.E.C. chair man, asked all H.E.C. members to come prepared to give their favorite household hint This meeting will be .Thursday, August 14, with one o'clock luncheon. - Dead line on Classified Ads: '530 D.m. for foilowin? riv- 1fl am M.in- day; noon Saturday for Sunday ajn. Monday, August 11, 1952 Record connection to the present Francisco's plans for pro meeting places. E.C.F. William Merle Martin, one time "pillow case" burglar, was named to the fugitive list. A warrant has been issued charg ing Martin with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Willard Carver near Olathe, Kan., last June zs. Sought for Robbery Martin fills the vacancy cre ated by the arrest of Puff who was captured in New York aft er he shot and killed agent Jo seph Brock. The FBI was after Puff on a Kansas bank robbery charge. Martin, 42, is believed to te accompanied by an "attractive" young female companion who, according to the FBI, . "drinks intoxicants excessively." He acquired the "pillow case" burglar reputation in Ill inois, Missouri, and Kansas be fore he was arrested on an auto theft charge in 1941. He hab- ituallytook along a pillow case to carry off his housebreaking loot. ' ' Long Police Record Martin s police record, which began in his Joplin, Mo., birth place in 1929, includes arrests for burglarly, carrying conceal ed weapons, and receiving stol en -goods as well as car theft and interstate transportation of firearms. He has served prison terms in Missouri btate penitentiary and in the federal penitentiary at Leyrtsfrworth, Kan. Mafrfn is described by the FBI as fivfc feet, seven inches tall, of medium "- build and weight about 170 pounds. He has red hair, bullet scars on his left arm, left (eg, -d body as well as small srs under his. Hp and Over his right eye, Crosstown 4 'Guess what I caught this your hair dye Matter of Fact BUYING THE NEGRO VOTE Washington The way both major parties are sniffing ner vously at the civil rights issue provides the least edifying spec tacle of this campaign. The can didates have got to decide soon just how badly they need the Negro vote, and just how far they will go to get it. President Truman himself has often said privately that the Ne groes gave him the margin of victory in 1948, by voting for him in- sufficient numbers to provide his slim majorities in Illinois. Ohio and California According to the Negro leaders, Negroes feel even more deeply about the civil rights issue this year than in 1948, and more of them will go to the polls than ever before. There are more than 3,000,000 in the key North ern states which could go either way, including more than half a million in New York, more than a third of a million in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and well over 200,000 each in Ohio, Michigan? California and Maryland. The way Dwight D. Eisenhow er and Adlai E. Stevenson deal with the civil rights issue could obviously; determine the out come of a close election. Eisen hower s pre-convention cam paign manager, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, and his allies are trying to persuade Eisenhower to reverse himself on the issue Although Eisenhower has flat ly said that he opposes compul sory Federal fair employment legislation," the Lodge group is willing to risk a public flipflop by their candidate, because they think it will pay off in Novem ber. T4ODGE and his allies are clear- Li ly much more worried than they were in the pre-convention period, when there was talk of an Eisenhower sweep- which would carry Southern Demo cratic states like Texas. An Eisenhower switch on civil rights would knock out his chance of winning Southern electorai votes. But Lodge now considers it much more import ant for Eisenhower to have a solid chance to carry the key Northern industrial states, where the Negro vote is concen trated, rather than an outside chance of winning a scattering of Southern states. Moreover, the Lodge group is convinced that the Democratic nomination- for Vice-President of Sen.- John Sparkman of Ala bama "gives the Republicans a real opportunity to recapture the bulk of the Negro vote. Since he was visited a few days ago by a Negro delegation, Eisenhower seems to be thinking of taking Lodge's advice. But af ter what he has already said on the subject, it will not be easy for Eisenhower to reverse him self. Eisenhower's running mate, Sen. Richard Nixon, moreover, has repeatedly voted with the Southerners on civil rights is sues. He has opposed cloture, and on the Senate's labor sub committee which was consider ing the Humphrey-Ives fair em ployment bill, Nixon joined Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama in op posing the bill. Thus, the Re publican Vice-Presidential can didate would have to do a public flipflop too. The curious fact is that Ste venson's problem is easier than Eisenhower's, despite the pres ence of Sparkman on the ticket. For the time being, btevenson has played down the civil rights issue. Meanwhile, many Jsoutn prn leaders, like Sen. Richard RusseU of Georgia, Sen. A. Wil lis Robertson of Virginia, Gov Hugh L. White of Mississippi, and the last into the fold, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Caro lina, are declaring for Steven son. Stevenson electors will ap pear on the ballots in these and other Southern states. w TH THE SOUTH thus tidied up, Stevenson will then be 6 Roland Coe little nuisancs doing? Pouring on the cat! By Joseph and Stewart Alsop in a position to make a speech firmly favoring" Federal civil rights legislation, and interpret ing the Democratic civil rights plank as stronger than the 1948 plank. This is the strategy which some of those close to him are urging Stevenson to adopt. It would have been easier for Ste venson tb do so effectively, the "liberals" at the Chicago convention had got a trifle mad. They made a funny issue of the seating of the Virginia and Lou isiana delegations, talked about Stevenson as a "Northern Dixie crat," and pictured Sparkman as a sort of Simon Legree. Since it is no secret that Ste venson encouraged the nomina tion of Sparkman, whom he ad mires for his generally liberal record, this public spasm of the liberals in Chicago certainly complicates his problem. It makes it much easier for the xtepublicans to picture any strong civil rights stand by Ste venson as mere cynical vote hunting. This could hurt Stevenson with the Negro voters, especial ly because there has already been so much stomach-turning political cynicism where their civil rights are concerned. The Southern oligarchs have seized on the civil rights issue to main tain themselves in power. Many of the Northerners have used the issue as a sort of political fly paper, shouting for unenforce able legislation which they know has no chance of passing, in order to catch Negro votes Under these circumstances, it is just possible that the best stra tegy for both Eisenhower and Stevenson is to say what they really think. And being the kind of men they are, it is also pos sible that this is precisely what they will do.. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Bible Teacher To Speak Here The Rev. L. E. Maxwell, Al berta, Canada, Bible teacher, will speak at Medford First Bap tist church Tuesday and Friday evenings this week and in the afternoon and evening of the following Sunday. Mr. Maxwell will also conduct Christian workers conferences at the Community Bible church in Central Point on Thursday, Fri day and Saturday afternoons. He will address a Youth for Christ rally at the Central Point church Saturday evening. Morning meetings will be at 10 o clock, the afternoon meeting at 3 o'clock and the evening ses sions at 8 o'clock. Mr. Maxwell is founder and principal of Prairie Bible insti tute, Three HUls, Alta. He is author of two books, "Crowded to Christ" and "Born Crucified. Madame Chiang To Undergo Treatment Honolulu; T.H. (U.R) Mad ame Chiang fvai-anen maae plans Monday to enter a hospi tal here for "protracted" treat ment of a skin disorder. The wife of the leader of China's Nationalists arrived here early Sunday by air from Formosa. Her face was slightly swollen presumably from the ef fects of the ailment which has Dr. Robert J, Urie OPTOMETRIST .(Formerly Monahan & Wiggins) NOW PERMANENTLY LOCATED AT 28 South Central (Old Sub Post Office Location--Acrosi from Craterian) In the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS The Greek -Bulgarian border incident over the "island" of Gamma appears as this is writ ten to have cooled down. A late dispatch from Istanbul (Constan tinople to those of us who went to school quite a while ago) says there is no new activity in the area. At United Nations head quarters in New York, the gun fire that drove off a Bulgarian patrol yesterday is now consid ered just another incident. fN THE surface, of course, it's! a tempest in a teapot. Here is what happened: The river Evrohs has a habit of wandering around at high water- times somewhat like our own erratic Missouri. It is the boundary line between Greece and Bulgaria, and in a recent high water period it carved a new channel ON THE BULGAR IAN SIDE thus appearing to take territory away from Bul garia and giving it to Greece. Anywhere in the Balkans, that is shooting provocation and, true to Balkan tradition, shooting fol lowed. AUR big Missouri has the same v inability to make up its mind as to where it wants to be. It is the boundary between Iowa and Nebraska, and in that area no body ever knows this year what state he is going to be living in next year. Many neighborhoods have changed back and forth as much as a half dozen times. -But In our wonderful country we have succeeded in binding 48 states together in such a close and amiable union that the wan derings of the Mighty Mo cause relatively little boundary trouble and NO shooting. That's America! TJOWEVER, -" Watch this Gamma busi ness. The little Evrohs river is not merely . the boundary between Greece and Bulgaria. It is a fron tier between the slave world and the free world. Bulgaria . is on Russia's side and Greece is on our side. The Evrohs river is a segment of the Iron Curtain. Nobody knows where, along the Iron Curtain, Communist Russia might decide that THIS IS IT. That's why the trifling little Gamma incident got such big headlines. TENNESSEE held the political Knntlifrht fnr a Vjriff mnmpnt the other day because Old Man McKellar, 83 years of age and for the past-41 years a member of the congress,' takes the shel lacking from the voters that comes to all of them who escape the grim reaper and try to stay there. I'm sorry for him, of course, as one is always sorry when an old man, grown hoary in public service, gets his come-uppance. I came darned near shedding tears of sympathy when Old Man Barkley came to his Gethsemane in the Democratic convention. But it has to be. Particularly, it has to be here in merica, where we have no dynasties. 'Where government is not FROZEN. Where our system is FLUID, and therefore capable of change. THE dinosaur, mighiest crea ture that ever existed on earth, became extinct because it couldn't change.' It is the same with political systems. If they are INFLEXIBLE, they are of necessity impermanent. OLD Syngman Rhee, his thatch white, but abundant despite his 77 years, makes the grade in Korea. It will be his second term as president. The first time, he was elected by the national legis lature. This time he is elected by the people. Being old, but still full of zip, he has reason to feel a bit chesty. Being elected by the people is a tougher hurdle than being elected by a legisla- TTE SAYS today he hopes the war will end during his new feur-year term, but doubts if it will. He avers that he never had any Tiope for the truce negotia tions, and has none now. The war will end, he says, only when Russia is convinced it can not defeat the free nations. He's a pretty smart old bird- 77 or no 77. Ho . . . Manville Tells Weddings Plans . . .Hum New Rochelle, - N.Y. (U.R) Ho . . : Tommy Manville, the asbestos heir, announced Monday he 'will be married "soon" to Corinne Daly, a 24-year-old Brooklyn blonde. Miss Daly would be the 10th Mrs. Manville. . . Hum. affected her for the past 10 years. A Nichols' Worth of- Comment On BY HARMAN United Press Washington (U.R) The zany, or Miss America, season is upon us and we won't hear the last of it until the week - end refill after Labor day. There would not be such a season if the pretty girl knew what lies ahead once and if Harmon Nichols they are select ed to represent their state or city at Atlantic City. They go through the tortures of the mis-behaved during that hectic week. The lucky, or un lucky, winner continues to go through the same for the rest of the nextyear. Sure, she may make is much as $50,000 but she won't have much left after tax es. If she makes fewer than 300 personal appearances around the country and often around the world she is considered one who doesn't have her heart in her' work. May Bump Into Reality Next year when the "Queen" returns to hand over her crown to the new winner, she may bump head-on into reality. All of a sudden she becomes a "for mer Miss America." The let down is all too violent. She may even find that the committee for got to reserve her a room. I saw one worn - out "Queen" break out- in a flood of tears when the master of ceremonies forgot to call her on stage for her number. The girls are subjected to a gruelling week that would send most strong men to the bug house. After going through their Longer Skirts Gets Approval Paris (U.R) Longer skirts for American women got ap proval Monday from many U.S. buyers who are convinced the "newest look" in fashions is the right trend. But a lively powder puff bat tle over skirt lengths isn't set tled yet. Christian Dior, the master of Paris high fashion, started it last week when he decreed that skirts should drop to 12 inches this fall. "I think it is time for a new trend," he said then added, "for smart women." Reflected in Showings His "newest look" was the lowest of the low among the Paris collections. The latest line, though not so radical as the droopy "new look" hatch ed by Dior in 1947, was reflect ed in most of the major show ings. Despite reports from the Un ited Stat.es that the longer hem line wasn't getting an enthu siastic reception from women, many buyers here went along with Dior. Betty Green, representing the nationwide American Inde pendent Retailers association, thought the Dior line was all right. The overall chin-to-chin line is the "important thing," she said. "The change in the 1952 win ter proportions will be due Rushmore Likenesses, Carver To Be Honored Keystone, S.D. (U.R) More than 10,000 persons were ex pected to pay honor Monday to four great Americans and the brilliant sculptor who carved their likenesses on the rocky slope of Mt. Rushmore. The faces of George Washing ton, Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roose velt towered over .the crowd gathered for the 25th anniver sary of Mt. Rushmore. The celebration was as much a- tribute to Gutzon Borglum, who carved a national shrine out of a mountain only to die shortly before it was completed, as it was a patriotic celebration. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at 5:30 p.m. for following day: 10 am. Monday for Monday: noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. 7S In Advance of Need our pre-arrangement, without obligation, ' presents three plans covering all situations. Mabe! Carlos CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Writer county, district, and state con tests they arrive at Atlantic City with their luggage and their mothers and face a rude awak ening. Can't Talk to Men They find they can't talk to a man on the telephone not even their own dads. They must have breakfast with a dozen cruel-eyed judges who make notes on whether they butter their bread on both sides or pitch their scramled eggs down with a knife instead of a fork. Most of them learn to their surprise that they don't know how to "walk down a ramp prop erly. They can't balance their hips and their shoulders flip flop. Some of them actually walk like a man trying to fumble his way out of a telephone booth. Stares From 10.000 People And as they go down the long board walk half naked in their bathing suits always there are the stares from 10,000 people, including those eagle-eyed ex perts who judge them for talent, figure, and personality. One third each. The kids are so nervous that many of them start their songs half a tone flat or perhaps a couple of steps behind the orch estra when they try to impress the folks with a jig or a waltz. I helped judge nine of the Washington, D.C., hopefuls in their semi-final contest. We pick ed what we thought were the three best who will compete in the finals soon. The girl who got the most points was a cute brunette nam ed Linda Weisbrod. Her mea surements were just about right for -a tall girl. Going from top to bottom they were: bust 38 in ches, waist 23V, hips 37, and shoe-size 71-i. for Women of Buyers I mostly to the dropped hem," sue saia. ine new sunoueue envelopes rather than flares away from the body as it did in 1947." May Mean New Wardrobes Hubert DeJong of an Evans ville, Ind., store, felt the longer skirt style might encourage wo men to go running out for new vardrobes. "I'm going to encourage my sales people to promote hem lines no shorter than 12 inch es," he said. , This wasn't the. unanimous opinion, of American buyers. But many of them splurged heavilv on the lonser skirts af ter viewing the 2,500 creations presented by .Paris designers. And they were sure it would be a hit in the United States. Representatives of two large New York shops said however, that Dior's impact would be less in the U.S. than in Europe since skirts already were some what longer in America. TRAVELLER WRONG! Geo. N. Taylor "God would not be so cruel as to send me to hell for a little sin." So said the fellow traveller on the U.P. .train West. But Mr. lraveller was wrong, for God is set against every sin, big or little. The wages of sin is death Bible Death eternal separation from God. But "The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all sin." Geo. N.Taylor See 1 John 7. Believe down in your heart that Christ died for your every last and God gives you eternal life. With new days for here and now. "I was saved today and now I'm so glad "But you should have seen the young woman's joyous face and heard her voice. hey told of the sin that was lifted from her heart. A Beaverton family sponsors this space to say that it was for love to you that God gave Christ to die for you. For details as to this Gospel by Newspaper, write Geo. N. Taylor, S W McChesney Rd- Portland 1, Oregon. adv. A w