Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 12, 1952, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medfo: WBUH Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Fublished Daily Except Saturday by MKnPrtHTI PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-8141 ROBERT 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 A-t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: naiiv nd Sunday Lx months 6 50 DaUy and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month lJo 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 115 Dailv and Sunday one month 1-23 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty 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 NEWSPAPER PUBMSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' 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 12, 1942 (It was Wednesday) Doyle Cowles, 1517 West Main street, is severely burned when his house catches lire. " From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Salem worker has returned to his na tive heath after toiling on the cantonment all summer and find ing out what it was like to have dry feet four days' in a row. 20 YEARS AGO August 12. 1932 (It was Friday) Lowell Zundel, Medford, cir culates petitions as an independ ent candidate for sheriff. Civic groups worry about large number of Californians hired in fruit plants and orch ards at the expense of local workmen; also condemn traffic problem created by transient autos. 30 YEARS AGO August 12, 1922 (It was Saturday) The Valley garage is badly damaged by a $15,000 fire; sev en cars are destroyed. Vice-President Calvin Cool- ldge will pass through Medford tomorrow on the way to Port land where he will make an ad dress; he refuses to speak here as he is on vacation. 40 YEARS AGO August 12, 1912 (It was Monday) Contractor begins work on new Main street bridge over Bear creek; old bridge is to be moved to Jackson street. Local barbershops become "tonsorial parlors" by order of of the convention of barbers. Gold Hill Gold Hill Officers ot Gold Hill Home Extension unit who attended the program planning meeting of all county units Wednesday at Roxy Ann Grange hall in Medford included Mrs Cecil Johnson, president; Mrs George Dorman, secretary; and Mrs. Lester Thompson, treas urer. Gold Hill Hobby club met Fri day night at the home of Mrs. Lester Thompson. Visitors were Mrs. M. C. Hancock and Miss Dolores Murray. The evening was spent in textile stencilling and figurine painting. It was planned to start copper-tooling work in the near future. Next meeting, was scheduled to be held Friday, August 15, at 9 a.m., at the home "Of Mrs. Wil liam Hall. Bill Force, son of Mr. and Mrs H. D. Force of Fifth avenue, came down from Salem to spend the week-end with his parents. He met his father and small sis ter, Judy Force, at the Shake spearean Festival in Ashland, where they attended the per- performance of "The Tempest," and came home to Gold Hill with them afterward. Accompanying the group at the Shakespearean play was Mrs. Paul Holderness of Gold Hiil. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lockwood of the Old Stage road went to Redmond last Sunday to visit Mrs. Lockwood's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Dodenhoff, and family. Mr. Dod enhoff came back to Gold Hill with the Lockwoods to have a The Argentine Pot Bubbles The death of Eva Peron could prove a political as well as a personal tragedy for'her husband, president and dictator of Argentina. "Evita" had had a strong hold on the "decamisados," the shirtless. As head of the "charitable" Federacion Eva Peron and as min ister of labor, she had helped mightily to provide a broad base of support for Juan D. Peron. Despite all the U.S. State Department could do to discredit him, he was elected in 1946, and iairly, by a large maior- ity ; and last November 11 six-year term. The 1946 election ushered in a period of political stability and relative prosperity. Today Argentina v . 'ii mT i "i .-i i . . , nas neiiner. mere is mucn evidence tnat wnat tne London Economist calls the "economic surrealism" of Peron is catching up with him. As his hold becomes more shaky, he blames more and more of Argentina's difhculties on this country, be deposed, his successor could hardly be more bit terly anti-U.S. ( TN 1951 Argentina exported some 278,000 metric tons of meat and meat products. This represented only 42 per cent of the average annual exports of meat during World War IT. With the single exception of 1947, when meat exports metric tons, Argentine meat exports have dwindled yearly from 548,000 tons Argentina s cattle herds, estimated at 45 million head in 1949, are now estimated as low as 27 million. Moreover, Argentina in 1951 shifted to an unfavor able balance of payments position in international trade. Electric power is print and the government use of paper have been cur tailed, and Argentine diplomats abroad have been told to lower their standard of living. HTHE Argentine government buys wheat from the farmer at a fixed price, sells it in the export mar ket at three times that price. The government con trols the press and owns much of it. The government operates seized German concerns and has taken over other lines, such as the entire brewing industry. North American dislike for Peron is centered largely on his disregard for civil rights. The Peronista press replies that "Capitalist imperialism has declared war on Argentina." American firms have been so sharply discriminated against that at least one Ameri can oil firm recently sold According to the Hispanic American Keport ot Stanford university, the U.S. has done little on its side to improve relations between the two countries: The U.S. has made some good will gestures toward Argen tina recently such as the sale of the cruiser Boise, and the successful negotiations, carried on at the U.b. embassy in Buenos Aires, for the permanent establish ment of a Japanese trade agency in that city. "Yet," continues the report, "the State Department has not yet included Argentina in its talks with other Latin American countries aiming at the conclusion of mili tary aid pacts." E.R.R. Our Allies in Korea The exact numbers of the Allied forces now in Korea, both as a total and by countries, are kept secret as a military security policy. However, the propor tions of the national detachments as of Dec. 31, 1951, are given in a recent report by President Truman to the United Nations, From this report we learn that the U.S.A. had fur nished 64 per cent of the total forces in Korea on that date, all other nations, including the Republic of Ko rea, 36 per cent. But a large forces were non-combat detachments. F GROUND forces, the U.S.A. had contributed 50.3 per cent, the Republic of Korea, 40.1 per cent (many non-combat), the United Kingdom 3.7 per cent. Canada 1.6 per cent. Turkey 1.5 per cent. Con tributions of less than y2 of from: Australia ' France Belgium Greece Colombia Luxemburg Ethiopia Netherlands Of the naval forces, 85.9 per cent had come from the U.S.A., 7.5 per cent from the United Kingdom. Of the air forces, 93.4 per cent were from the U.S.A. Of total deaths 6f 47,138 reported, 27,690 were Koreans, 17,754 (38 per cent) were Americans, 456 Turkish. 437 British. Of total casualties of over 306,- 000 including dead, wounded, missing, captured almost 193,000 were Koreans, almost 104,000 (34 per cent) were Americans. Among the other casualties British, over 3,000: Turkish, 2,200; French almost 900; Australian, more than medical checkup by Medford doctors. Mr. and Mrs. George Turner of Sixth street were surprised Friday by the visit of former neighbors from California, who were just completing -a . 4,000 mile vacation trip. The visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Dan Fen- nell and daughter, Nadine, and Mrs. FenneU's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Miley, aU.of Long Beach, Calif.; and Mrs. FenneU's brother arid sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don Miley, and baby daughter, of Gates, Ore. The group planned to go on to San Francisco for a reunion with other members of the family. Mrs. George Turner's sister, Mrs. Jerry Cato, arrived Monday from Gardena, Calif., to spend a week at the Turner home. Mrs. Tuesday, August 12, 1932 he was "elected" to another and if indeed he should reached a peak of baY.UUU in 1946 to the present low. drastically rationed, news all its Argentine holdings. proportion ot the Jiorean 1 per cent each had come New Zealand Philippines Thailand Korea, 4.2 per cent from - 700; Canadian, 650. Hi.Jtv.K. Cato's son, Dennis, who has been visiting in Gold Hill for several weeks, will return home with his mother. : Mrs. Lee Marsden Jr. and small son, .Skip, who have been visiting at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dun gey of Sixth avenue, since school vacation started, left Sat urday to return to their home in Portland. WEATHER By United Press .North' California: Fair through Wednesday except fog or low overcast on coast with occasion al drizzle; little change in tem-J perature, west to northwest winds reaching 12-25 mph in aft ernoons. Military service stripes came into being about 1782. Crosstown 'If you find a rock that sounds my canteen. I laid It Matter of Fact NEW LOOKS EVERYWHERE Washington Secretary of De fense Robert A. Lovett has just told us that the British and French are doing their best to meet their planned defense goals. So much is no doubt true. But it is also certain that a major crisis in Western defense plan ning is the first great issue which the next President will have to face. And it is far from certain that the crisis can be delayed even until the next Pres ident takes office. Meanwhile, hard new looks at previously approved defense plans are bemg taken both in Europe and in this country, French representatives have been telling our government that they cannot bear their economic and military burdens much long er. They have been- demanding greater aid in Indo-China and elsewhere. Simultaneously rep resentative of the British -gov ernment have been saying that their military and economic bur dens are also unbearable. They have suggested informally that the planned balance between ground, naval, and air strength in the Western alliance be sharp ly altered. The United States Air Force planners, as it happens, have been thinking along precisely the same lines. Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower's plans for Euro pean defense call for. the crea tion of some 97 divisions, in cluding reserves. The Air Force planners do not believe that it is possible to match Soviet ground strength, for a sort of 1914-style defense of the con tinent. THE Air Force believes the Soviets can be out-matched in the air and in the new weap ons, whereas even 97 divisions would not balance the vast So viet and satellite ground forces. Yet the effort to create a great Western ground force could drain so much Western strength that superiority in the air, and in the new weapons, could not be achieved. The Air Force plans therefore call for a reduction in planned ground strength on the continent to between 30 and 40 ready divisions, coupled with a great increase in air strength. Something of the same sort is known to have been discussed by the British Chiefs of Staff. This new thinking undoubtedly lay behind British Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill's recent rather mysterious references in the British parliament to "re shaping" defense concepts. At any rate, the cards are now on the table between this country and its European allies. And there is no doubt at all that Eu ropean defense plans are going to be re-examined from top to bottom. At the same time a new look is also going to be taken at the whole American defense effort, A paper calling for a searching analysis of the American defense effort is being prepared. It will probably be submitted shortly to the National Security Council and the President. This paper recommends the recruitment of a board of civilian experts of real stature, to propose new ways, however revolutionary, to pep up this country s rate of re armament. The need for this new look at our rearmament effort is clear. Take, for example, the case of the Mutual Security Program. More than $17,000,000,000 has been appropriated for this ef fort to arm our allies. Six and a half billion dollars was appro priated back in 19o0 and 1951. Yet hardly more than $3,000,- 000,000 worth of weapons has actually been delivered abroad. lACTS like these caused our officials of the Mutual Secur ity program to suspect that the military were preventing a fair share of our total arms output from going to our allies. They made a careful check, and found out theywere wrong. The real explanation lay in the general failure to turn out weapons and equipment in anything like the planned volume. There are, moreover, no signs of a sudden welcome upsurge jn production in the near future. On the con trary, the effects of the steel By Roland , Coe like it has water in ii. it's probably down here some placel" By Joseph and Stewart Alsop strike are stUl to be fully felt. The plain fact is that this coun try, like Britain and France although for different reasons has not done what it expected to do. The "miracles of American production," so confidently fore cast when the American rearm ament effort began, simply have not occurred. The view is gener ally held that the proposed re examination of our defense ef fort will lead to the conclusion that the whole vast machinery of the Defense Department is in danger of breaking down. In short, the new lock may well lead to a root-and-branch re vision of the unification act, by the next Administration and the next Congress. Thus the next president may find on the White House door step the need for completely re vamping the American defense establishment, as well as a great crisis in Western defense plan ning. And he will have, to deal with both these tremendous problems quickly and effective ly. For the time when the Amer ican atomic lead win be cancel led out by the growing Soviet atomic stockpile is rather rapid ly approaching. Whatever chang es are made in defense plan ning, the Western alliance must be ready for this time, with real strength in being both m Europe and in this country. And this time will almost certainly come before the end of the next Presi dent's term. Copyright, 1951, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Industrial Injury To Minor Workers In Sharp Increase Salem (U.R) A sharp increase in industrial accidents to minor workers under 18 in Oregon has been reported by W. E. Kimsey, state labor commissioner. '. . He said 37 minors were in jured on the job during the first week of August, compared to 47 injured for the full month of July and 28 in June. Kimsey attributed the upswing in the ac cident rate among minors to the summer employment of teen agers, pointing out that in the last two months of the school year only 20 minors were in volved in accidents on the job. Fatality Reported Kimsey, who administers both the state and federal child labor laws in Oregon, reported one fa tality, to an 18-year-old faller and bucker, in June. The logging and sawmill industry has been declared hazardous by federal law and closed to the employ ment of minors under 18. About one-half of the teen agers working under bureau of labor permits are girls but only eight of them were involved in the 132 industrial accidents to minors reported. "He tries hard, but they can't get him to drink JorgenWs Homogenized Multi-Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk!" In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Good news from Korea: U.S. fliers have rounded out six straight days of stepped-up warfare with communist jets Our pilots shot down another red jet this morning, to bring the six-day total to 19. NO American planes were lost in aerial combat during the week. THAT'S GOOD NEWS because it means that our pilots are better than the commie pilots. Don't let all this talk of me chanical warfare fool you. It's still the MAN BEHIND THE MACHINE that counts. WHITE-HAIRED old Syngman Rhee, who has just been re elected president of Korea, gets a flat salary of $2300 a year somewhat less' than janitors earn in the U.S.A. But there are pre requisites. He gets a rent-free home and a RICE ration. And (a sign that the Koreans are rapidly learning American ways) he gets a TAX-FREE ex pense account that approximate ly equals his flat salary. TljORE BIG SHOT personal news: The Duke of Windsor's health became a matter of conjecture early today when a doctor for the British royal family left London by plane to attend the duke in Italy, where he is enjoy ing the season on his yacht. What's the matter with him? Apparently it was "something he et." Anyway, the Italian doc tor who has been treating him says the illness was "no more than a minor stomach disorder," and adds that the duke has just eaten a steak with a hearty ap petite. The royal physician flying down from London will at least get a Mediterranean vacation out of it. QUESTION: Where does the Duke of Windsor get his income? As I recall it, it comes from property inherited from his an cestors. Where did they get it? Oh, shucks! They got it in the way all kings get it. They took it away from somebody else. rpHAT BRINGS up fat King Farouk again. He wasn't just kidding when he told the reporters (at a ses sion in a big luxury hotel in the Isle of Capri the, other day) that he isn't so well off as he used to bei It appears that among other trifles he owned A THIRD OF A TLX, THE FARM LAND IN EGYPT. Land is peculiar. It is bulky and permanent. You can't carry it with you in a suitcase when you have to get out of the coun try between two days. So he had to leave it behind when he de parted in haste. WHERE did he get all that ' land? Why, he got it from his royal ancestors. Where did they get it? Don't be silly. You know well enough they didn't acquire it by the process of working hard at raising crops and gradually buy ing all the land that joined them, Like other kinws, they took it away from somebody else. WHY ALL THIS STUFF about ' kings and dukes and other royalty and what they've got and where they got it? H, I just got to thinking, and it occurred to me that's what happens when too . much power is held in too few hands too long. The taproot, the lifeline, of this king business is keepmg a lot of power in very few hands for a long, long time. THAT'S HOW hereditary suc- A cession got its start Away back in the dawn of history, when the CHIEF died there was a complete new deal and the wisest shrewdest, STRONGEST man in the tribe took over and the old chief's heirs were OUT. Hereditary succession put a stop to that. It kept the power and the pelf in the hands of one family. It was wonderful for the COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit a4l letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication mutt not exceed 400 words. Parent's Responsibility To the Editor: From whence come the "Wayne Long's?" That's the question a friend ask ed as we looked at a newspaper picture of the murderer on his way to the gas chamber. In a more productive role, Long would even have been de scribed as handsome. Perhaps the "hero" outlook of his feUow inmates is a clue to Long him self. After all, by his own rec ord, it's obvious he himself pick ed the wrong heroes from an early age. You've seen it yourself. A lo cal tough gets in trouble with the police, complete with pic tures in the paper and a lurid description. The next logical scene is the neighborhood hot shot who runs around imitating the arrested hoodlum. Right there is where the . "Wayne Long's" come from, and right there is where it should be stop ped preferably by the parents. In this age of radio, movies and television, a parent's re sponsibility cannot end with the necessity of food, clothing and shelter. The responsibility of ev ery parent is to teach their chil dren respect for their elders, which is an old fashioned way of saying respect for the human race, and this you can't do if you allow "elders" to live around you whom you cannot respect yourself. Anytime you think that it's OK as long as the prostitutes, gamblers, etc. aren't living right next door, you're wrong. If you let them live any where in your town, they're too close. Maybe we've lost what the books used to call "righteous in digation," but when the decent people used to demand that the leeches clear out of town, it's just possible that the same tac tics should have been used in all towns and cities. What happens when a certain neighborhood starts a war on rats? Well, the rats just move on down the street, of course. But if the whole town joins in the campaign, then you don't iust "vacate," you eliminate. Looks like the same theory ought to work on society s hu man leeches that is unless we want to produce some more "Wayne Long s." G. M. (Name on File) Blood Time Near To the editor: Once again the time draws near for a visit from your Red Cross bloodmobile unit. And once again the cry for blood rings across the coun ty. So come on and let's rally round the Elks temple on the thirteenth and make this visit a huge success. Let's go Medford and show them that their work is not in vain. I know there are enough people here to more than fill the quota and I know you will if you will only remember the boys on that blood smeared, blood-splattered place called Heart Break Ridge and remem ber that they gave their arms, feet, legs and even their eyes as well as their lives that we might never have to know . or look upon a Heart Break Ridge or a Chunking reservoir here at home. Let's give those boys the greatest of all gifts, our blood. It makes you feel mighty good down deep inside to know that a part of you is over there with those boys. That pint of blood you are giving may save the life of some one you know or some one you love. . If you are one of those who think, oh well,there are enough others who give, my pint will never be missed, just remember that there are many others who feel the same way. That is one reason why the supply is so dan gerously low. In fact one man told me I had given enough for several men and I thank God I am able to one family, but not so good for everybody else. Down through the centuries, this business of keeping the power in very, verv few hands. with as few changes as possible, has been cushy for the big shots but not so good for the general run of the people. . Every Service Is Complete . . . Every family wants the final tribute to be the finest possible. We desire to be of the greatest service in rendering a truly beautiful memorial service regardless of cost ... A service for every pocketbook - PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Years of Friendly Service give and will continue to give as long as it is needed. So re member everv Dint counts i everyone gives who is able there will be no shortage ana more lives will be saved. John G. Oickson, 1129 W. 9th Street, Medford, Ore. , Leave Weather Alone To the Editor: I see in the Mall Tribune that the Rogue VaUey cloud seeders who are under con tract to the Jackson County Fruit Growers had good reaction from their seeding yesterday. What was the matter with their seeding a few days ago when we had the hail and rain deluge on account of their seed ing, and pushing the clouds back , until they piled up so that ihey finally had to cut loose and make it worse than we have seen for a long time. If the Jackson County Fruit Growers who are made up of a number of our good citizens, will sponsor that kind of thing that is a detriment to our farmers then I think it is time for a change back to normal and let the one who has been running the weather for the last million years keep on. I know He hai my vote. Charlie Shaffer, 208 W. Main St. Medford, Ore. 'Hot' Ragweed To Be Used in Test ; For Hayfever Chicago (U.R) Radioactive rag weed, which may bring new re lief for hayfever suffers, is re ported near bloom at a Univer sity of Chicago laboratory. The radioactive pollen from the "hot" ragweed won't help any hayfever sufferers this sum mer. If some of it entered a vic tim's nostrils, he would sneeze just as hard as ever. But a research team headed by Dr. E. M. K. Geiling hope to use the radioactive pollen to learn more about hayfever and possibly start on the road to an effective cure. To Be Tested On Animals Geiling, chairman of the pharmacology department at Chicago, said the radioactive pol len will be injected into the bodies of animals and then its path will be followed by Geiger counters and other instruments. This will give scientists a clue to the path, and final resting place, ragweed pollen takes la the body of a hayfever sufferer. Geiling indicated that, if the experiment is successful, scien tists will know for the first time what exactly happens to the h ritants taken into the body. Television Channel Sought in Portland Portland (U.R) North Pa cific Television, Inc., has applied to the Federal Communication! Commission for television chan nel 8 in Portland. Previous applications for chan nel 8 were filed by KEX and Portland Television, Inc. North Pacific Monday said if granted permit will locate its station on Mt. Scott and operate with 316,000 watts video power and 158,000 watts audio power. The King Broadcasting Com pany of Seattle is the majority stockholder of the new corpora tion. The Seattle company oper ates KING-TV in the Washington city. Loud Polka Dot Shirt Lands Man Behind Bars Washington (U.R) John McGill was behind bars Tuesday because he likes loud polka dot shirts.. Cab driver George Sullivan, gave police a vivid description of the shirt of a passenger who robbed him of $5 Monday. Min utes later police spotted the shirt on McGill. He was charged with robbery.