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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
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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.