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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL MEDFOrttvOTRIBUrfl Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRV 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 Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year f 12.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 350 Daily and Sunday one month 125 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 S 15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CaCULAl'"" WTST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los .Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTock-ATidN i O' NiWSPAPfK FUBUSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years age. 10 YEARS AGO August 18, 1942 (It was Tuesday) The Alwyr company, Med ford, is given a war production board contract to construct wood and metal buoys for the marines; this is the first WPB contract to be awarded any Jackson county firm. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Clark Gable of the he-man films, has joined H. Fluhier, the late de mon baker, in the air corps in Florida where both will work for Uncle Sam. 20 YEARS AGO August 18, 1932 (It was Thursda Joseph O. Grey, bus! man and city councilman, announces he will be a candidate for city treasurer's office. Boat loaded witth fresh pears from Medford, Hood River and Yakima leaves Portland for Liv erpool, England. 30 YEARS AGO August 18, 1922 (It was Friday) Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Trowbridge and Mr. and Mrs. Diamond L. Flynn leave for a week's visit in San Francisco. Half-hour street dance on Ivy street follows concert of Elks band at city park on West Main street. 40 YEARS AGO . August 18, 1912 (It was Sunday) Excursion trip to Weed, Calif., Is marred when W. P. Minard steps in front of train, suffers broken arm. Applegate farmers meet with Copco to encourage extension of electric power into their area. As We Live... By DR. ELIZABETH HURLOCK YOU MUST ADJUST TO PHYSICAL HANDICAPS People with physical handi caps are socially handicapped too. But it is possible to over come this and that is what this young woman should learn to do: (Q) "I am an attractive girl of 21. 1 am hard of hearing and have to wear a hearing aid. I have a hard time understand ing when I carry on conversa tions in groups. I stay home all but one night a week when I go dancing and I never hare dates like my friends do.- Is it because of my handicap that the boys don't want me?" , (A) To a certain extent, you are handicapped by your hearing problem. You can't close your r-- '- eyes to this and (r1--1 try to fin tH other ? 5 for von g - iry to una some reason your lack t - r Si V rYri popularity. You must face the problem sauarelv and I I try i o . make S V I adjustments to J it "a i It's hard not Dr. Hurlock to be able to take part in a conversation as your friends do. It is also hard on the people you are with, espe cially the young men. Dating at your age often leads to marriage. It is possible that TRIBUNE The TV Tide As Jimmy Durante would to get in the act." The announcement Friday by Sheldon Sackett, coast newspaper and radio station owner, that he will seek permission for a television station in Medford is in line with the TV craze which has swept the nation since lifting of the S-year-old freeze on station construction a few weeks ago. "1I71TH federal communications commission grant- tion has burgeoned the length and breadth of the land, 36 new stations, on the FCC's preferred list being: ex pected to go on the air before the end of the year or soon thereafter, and another 33, on the "B" list, due for permits in due course of time. To date the commission has approved permits for thirty stations in 19 of the 69 cities, and while this has been going on new applications have been pouring in. A PPLICATION for a permit, or even the granting y of a license doesn't necessarily mean that tele vision will be available soon in any given place. In fact, it may be surmised that a number of those now rushing to sew up available channels will take a cou ple of good long looks at their "hole cards" before lay ing out the large sums necessary to get into actual operation. In metropolitan areas, of course, where the poten tial viewing audience is huge, there is some .justifica tion for haste in seeking to get into the act. But most of such larger stations as have been operating for some time have found TV no royal road to riches. By far the greater majority have a very poor net revenue record. Because television station running; costs are so high, advertising rates must tor, it nas Deen demonstrated, restricts to a certain extent the use of the medium by smaller business concerns. In recent months several wnicn nave Deen buying TV chain time have mate rially reduced their expenditures for this rmvnnse anH in some instances TV has irom advertising budgets. THE RUSH to get into that which prevailed in World War II. Broadcasting stations sprang ud then like dandelions in a lawn. nad one or two stations quickly got more and even most of the- smaller towns their own broadcasting facilities. Although the additional enjoyed by the listening; built stations have found irom tne standpoint of profit and in recent years a number have given up the TT MAY be that television is destined to go through A the same process of rapid expansion, the later bat tle to make both ends meet and eventual weeding out of non-profitable stations through sheer inability to find sufficient revenue. E.C.F. . Bartlett Sales Drive On A couple of items in a News, New York publication which is widely read in the nation's fruit industry, should be of interest to all m this pear growing center. Quoting a Sacramento source, the Produce News reports that the largest advertising and promotion project in three years has been planned for fresh Cali fornia bartlett pears to back up a big sales push for that delectable fruit. Newspapers, radio and televl sion will be used throughout an effort to increase the demand for the pears. I7HILE the price outlook for fresh and cannery " bartletts from the Medford area has not been too good this season, it may be campaign will help to improve the eastern situation to an extent which will be the local product TIEDFORD'S winter pear growers, like the bartlett men, may find a hint of better prices ahead in another item in The Produce News, which reveals that the . nation's apple crop is now estimated to be the lightest m five years. Eastern states area apple out look is approximately seven million bushels under last year, the central states estimate is off six and one half million and for the west the prediction is off nearly nine million bushels. If the 1952 apple supply has thus been so drastical ly curtailed by spring frosts, rainy weather and later extreme drought m some tion is that fruit-hungry Americans will eat more pears than usual. E.C.F. many of the young . men who might otherwise be interested in you are hesitant about becoming emotionally involved with a per son who is hard of hearing. Not only is it hard for them to talk to you but there is also the ques tion about marrying a person whose hearing is impaired. Accept Fact Accept the fact, with a mini mum of bitterness and resent ment, that you can't expect the same popularity that would be yours, were it not for this handi cap. Then, try to build up close friendships with a few people who understand your handicap and you. This will mean far more as time passes than the fun of dates that you feel you are missing now. There is no reason why one of these friendships Monday, Auguil 18, I9S2 Rum High say: "Everybody's tryin' also be high, and this fac- of the larger corporations been eliminated altogether television is somewhat like radio immediately after Larger cities which already were soon able to boast entertainment has been public, manv of the later the going somewhat rough" ghost. recent issue of The Produce the mid-west and east in that the Sacramento sales reflected in later prices for areas, the natural expecta should not lead to a happy mar riage as time goes on. If you have a personal prob lem, write Elisabeth Hurlock in care of this newspaper. (Copyright 1952, General Features Corp.) WEATHER By UNITED PRESS North California: Fair through Tuesday except local morning fog on coast; little change in temperature; northwest to west winds 10-20 MPH off coast. TRAIN KILLS SIX Binghamton, N.Y. (U.PJ Six persons were killed near here Sunday night when the car in which they were riding was struck by an Erie Railroad pass enger train at a grade crossing Crosstown "It's a collection for Gladys - she's going to Matter of Fact FRIENDS ON THE , TINY SCREEN ... Washington Everybody says knowingly, nowadays, that "this is going to be the first television election," but nobody seems to have thought out the implica tions of this alarming statement. What can happen is suggested by recent news from the headquar ters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower and Gov. Adlai E. Stev enson. In the Eisenhower headquar ters, on the one hand, the New York gubernatorial election of 1950 is being studied with anxi ous attention, uenerai n.isen hower's exceedingly able press secretary, James Hagerty, is bor rowed from the staff of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Hagerty saw Governor Dewey transfdrm the New York contest by the first truly inventive use of television attempted by any of our high level politicos. What Dewey did in his 1950 telecasts was, in effect, to ask the New York voters into his liv ing room for a nice, brisk chat about politics. The show was in formal and varied. Sometimes Dewey answered questions. Sometimes he gave short talks on selected topics. Sometimes members of his staff were pres ent, and sometimes Mrs. Dewey took part. By common consent, these Dewey telecasts were one of the biggest factors in Dewey's comfortable majority when the votes were counted. THE Eisenhower strategists are asking themselves, therefore, whether the general can do the same stunt that Dewey did, with the same success. They have one great problem they long to solve. Thus far, the magic that was ex pected of General Eisenhower before he doffed his uniform has been notably absent from all his formal, set speeches.- But the magic has come through very nicely in most of his press con ferences, in his pre-convention get-togethers with Republican delegates, and in all other sppn taneous, face-to-face meetings. The advocates of an Eisen hower television show on the Dewey model argue that this is just the way to "bring the real Eisenhower" into the houses of the voters. The more conven tional political planners around the general reply that such a show could not be really. spon taneous; that the magic might not work after all; and that the . danger of bad fluffs would be very great. So far as is known, the point has not been decided. Meanwhile, at the strategy meeting to plan Governor Stev enson's campaign in Springfield this week-end, a similar debate is in progress. At least one of the seven members of Stevenson's top campaign staff, Sen. Mike Monroney, Okla., head of 'the Democratic Speakers' Bureau, went out to Springfield with a plan already roughed out. Mon roney's plan called for a weekly Stevenson telecast perhaps a 15-minute show every Monday evening combining a short talk with answers to questions that voters send in. The idea, as in the Dewey show of 1950, is to let the individual voter sit down, so to speak, with Adlai Steven son, to meet him face to face, and hear him talk, informally and man to man. F' POINT of fact, Stevenson has already proven his re markable effectiveness on this sort of show in a televised re port on state affairs which he made each month to the people of Illinois. The Stevenson tele vision personality is considered one of the great Democratic as sets, and not unreasonably, since he was even able to make such topics as safe driving both vivid and lively in Ms Illinois reports. A show which would cover the great national issues in the same manner and would be put on at an easy listening time each week until the . election, certainly seems to promise dividends for Stevenson. Again, however, there are dif ficult questions still to be an swered. The Democrats, for one thing, are much more short of cash than the Republicans. Even By Reand Coe Merkle. If it brings enough get married." By Joseph and Stewart Alsop although the television time could be preempted from the net works, the networks will still have to be paid. Such a show as Senator Monroney has in mind would need to be national in scope; and this one item in the Democratic budget might there fore run as high as $500,000 to ?uu,uuu. Again, so far as is known, the Stevenson strategists have not yet made up their minds what to do. Nonetheless,' the central fact remains. Technology has already drastically altered the relation ship between politician and vot er, and television is sure to change that relationship still more drastically. The old-time rabble-rousers, like Bryan, could drug their audiences with eloquence pre cisely because there was no amp lifying equipment. The listeners had to listen if they wanted to hear it all. By being forced to pay continuous attention, the lis teners lost themselves, and yielded their power of judgment. Radio, which brought in ampli fiers, killed the old style rabble rouser and gave Franklin Roose velt his tremendous opportunity. Now television again offers, to the first politician who uses it wisely, a' national opportunity on a Rooseveltian scale. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers oij What Goes on at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. Q My wife has talked me into buying her a fur coat for this winter and I want to know if Congress ever passed the bill to prohibit false labeling of furs A The Fur Products Label ing Act "to protect consumers and others against misbranding, false advertising and false in voicing" of furs became law Aug. 8, 1951, and took effect Aug. 8, 1952. Under the law a fur label has to give the common name of the animal the fur came from and must include such in formation as whether the fur is dyed or used and where it came from if imported. Q Now that Congress has ad journed, are its Committees in adjournment too? A No. Committee work con tinues. Before adjourning July 7 the Senate, gave three Com mittees special permission to file reports on. investigations into government operations, labor and labor-management hearings, and the internal security probe. House Committee studies still underway are on housing, radio and TV shows, tax collection frauds, "immoral" literature, and campaign spending. Q What do the Democratic and Republican platforms say about ownership of the sub merged lands - offshore coastal states? A The 1952 Democratic plat form does not mention the "tide lands." Republicans called for "restoration to the states of their rights to aU lands and resources beneath navigable inland and offshore "waters within their his toric boundaries." In their 1948 platform, Democrats said only "our national resources are the heritage of all our people." The 1948 Republican plank was prac tically the same as in 1952. A. bill confirming title of the states was vetoed this year. Q Who introduced most of the 594 bills which became law during this Congress? A Committee chairmen. Eighteen Senate and 18 House Committee Chairmen introduced 254 of the 594 bills which be came public law. All of the 594 were sponsored by just 60 Sen ators and 152 Representatives. Of the successful bills, 401 origi nated in the House. Altogether, 12,729 public and private bills were introduced this year and last. Q I notice Sen. Kjenneth Me Kellar, (D-Tenn.), recently de feated in his try for reelection, is 83 years old. Are there many others that old? A Oldest Senator is Theo dore Francis Green, (D-R.I.), who In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From, Korea: On the firing line, two more Chinese communist attacks on Bunker Hill on the western front have been crushed by Am erican marines. It was the SIXTH futile red try to recap ture the hill. v -. HOPE YOU READ in papers the other day the the grim story about the hospital trains that bring back from the fighting on this same Bunker HiU. the bloody and tragic fruit of war the shattered and broken bodies of AMERICAN BOYS. It tells us something we all need to know. TN AN UPPER BERTH, con verted into a stretcher, there was a wounded marine. He kept screaming: "They're all dead! But we've got to get them. We can't leave those guys for the goonies!" IfHO ARE the goonies? They " are the swarming red Chin ese who come on and keep com ing on, endlessly; out of that overflowing reservoir of cannon fodder that is red China, two more springing up to take the place of each one that is shot down. AND WHO are the pitiful THEY the wounded, pain wracked marine in the hospital train was referring to in his agonized screams? They are the dead. Those for whom the fighting is mercifully over, for whom the long, last sleep is beginning. For them the horror and the terror are over. gUT THEIR BODIES! Their bodies mustn't be left for the goons to trample on. And Awful thought Among the dead may be those who SEEM to be dead, but in whose bodies there still glows dully the faint spark of life They mustn't be. left to the hor rors of a communist prison camp. TDATTERED, broken, bloody, it " wasn't the blinding pain of his own wounds that American boy-in the hospital train coming back from the grim struggle in the Korean hills was thinking about. It was the fate of his com rades left behind on the field of battle that was torturing him, even in his delirium. A ND THERE WAS the 19-year- old with the shattered leg. He and his buddy were manning a machine gun. They were jump ed by a BATTALION - of red Chinese. In his weariness and his pain, he was muttering the story. "About 20 goonies ran toward us. We shot down a lot of them. But those goonies . were all around. We knocked them down, and more kept coming right on . . . one goonie sneaked up be hind us and jumped in our trench . . . But he landed on his own grenade ... It blew him to bits . . . Some pieces ofit hit my leg ... I kept on firing, but everywhere you looked goonies were coming down on you . It was AWFUL." (The 19-year-old kept on fight ing all night. In the morning, when the battle lulled, he crawl ed down the hill, dragging his splintered leg behind him, and found a front-line aid station.) "S EMPER FIDELIS.' Faithful to the last. The mot to of the Marine Corps. These American boys who are the in dividual units that make up the Marine Corps LIVE UP TO THEIR MOTTO. WHAT ABOUT US on the 1 home front? Do we do as well? I DOUBT IT. But I think we would do better -if we were as well led. These boys of ours over there in Korea are led by DEDICATED men. Men who govern their lives by this rule What is best for my country? If it is best for their country that they die in their tracks, they die in their tracks. Too often, here on the home front, we are led by men who ask: What is best for ME? What will get me the most votes? THOUGHT in. closing: In this political campaign, in this year of decision, let's never forget that the BIG ISSUE is getting as leaders men who will govern their every act of leader ship by this rule: " What is best for my country? wUl be 85 next Oct. 2? He and McKellar are the only Senate octogenarians. Ten others are in their seventies. Oldest of these is Matthew M. Neely, (D-W.Va.), who will be 78 on Nov. 9. Copyright 1952, Congressional Quarterly) FIREMEN DON'T USE TRUCK Mackinac Island, Mich. (U.PJ Mackinac Island firemen put out a week-end fire in a State Park building without the use of their fire engine. The fire truck was in the building. . ; Stevenson Listens As Minister Blasts Critic of Nominee Springfield, m. (U.PJ Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson was slouched in a rear pew when a Presbyterian minister charged Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-ni., told a "blatant lie" about Stev enson. The Democratic presidential nominee took out time from week-end strategy conferences' to attend the church services Sunday and heard the Rev. Rich ard Paul Graebel blast Dirksen, who has often criticized Steven son. Senator Said Irresponsible Graebel told his congregation the Illinois 'senator told a "bla tant lie" when he made a recent statement saying Stevenson was the worst IUinois governor since the turn of the century. The min ister said Dirksen was "one of the most irresponsible men" in the Senate and the Republican party. Stevenson today deferred a planned holiday at Minocqua, Wis., so he could hold some staff conferences on campaign problems. He wanted to discuss questions which arose during the week-end meetings with his nine- On The Side by e. v. Durimg (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) 0 sorely may I rue the day 1 fancied first the womenklnd; For ever since I ne'er can have A quiet thought or peace of mind They have plafued my heart and pleased my eye And teased and flattered me at will; But, ye, for all their witchery The pawky thinfs! I love them sUlL James Hogg. A drug that makes timid per sons courageous, lhats wnat sixteen British doctors, working together on the experiment. claim to have discovered. Only trouble with this prepartion is: It has a tendency to make a msm too courageous. That is, a five footer, after taking a dose is in clined to kick some six footer in the shins. It makes husbands talk back to their wives and in spires show bettors to wager and win. And so on. Loyal Fans The claim that Brooklyn is the country's best basebaU town and the Dodgers fans the most loyal is erroneous. Brooklynites will not patronize a loser. Nor do they always give a winner the deserved patronage. The best basebaU town is Detroit. Look at the record. -For the league leading Brooklyn Dodgers the total attendance at the first 41 home games this year was 563,- 935. .For the first thirty-seven home games of the last place De troit Tigers attendance was 566,- 148. Detroit fans patronized a tail-ender better than the Dodger fans did a first place club. Asking . Queries from clients. Q. Would you describe the Haymarket, that notorious and gay estab lishment of the yesteryear, as a saloon, night club or dance hall? What was its exact loction? A. The Haymarket was a dance haU located on the southeast corner of Sixth avenue and Thirtieth street, Manhattan. Q. What is the busiest traffic intersection in the United States? A. That question seems undecided. Some say it is Fifth avenue and Forty second street, Manhattan. Oth ers claim it to be Wilshire Boule vard and Western avenue, Los Angeles. Horses and Women It is continuously being ob served by many females that men are to blame for "the mess the world is in." That certainly is an outstanding example of passing the buck. Women are just as much to blame for the present situation as men. Many examples could be cited to prove this. Take the case of Hitler, whose strange actions had much to do with tossing the world into its present state of turmoil. His greatest admirers .were women. The German females went wild about Der Fuehrer. They were the most enthusiastic Nazis. That is, until Adolf's ideas brought his country to disgrace and jnin. Then the women said the men were to blame. AT THE FAIR GROUNDS CONGER-MORRIS Funeral. Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation member campaign strategy board. . The governor took time out to deplore the size of the stay-at-home vote, and at the same time, urged that servicemen be encouraged to vote by abenstee ballot. The governor had intended to leave this morning, stop at Chi cago for a dental appointment and fly to Minocqua late Mon day. His statement Monday ex pressed hope that everything will be done to encourage reg istration and voting between now and Nov. 4. He said barely half of the registered voters cast ballots in 1948, that 21,000,000 did not register in 1948 and that an estimated 25,000,000 have not registered this year. ' , "It is a sad commentary on representative government when more than 40 per cent of the na tion's potential voting power -is dormant," Stevenson said. Graebel, who said later he was unaware that Stevenson was in the congregation, did not name Dirksen but later confirmed to reporters that it was the senator he was talking about. Asides Research as to life among the married reveals that when the wife is about four years older than the husband the taarriage is usually a happy one . . . When will the visual telephone be put in operation in this country? Ov er fifteen years ago visual tele phone service was available in Germany. You could pltone from Berlin to Hamburg and see the person you were talking to. So They Say Gemini (May 21-June 30) fe males are not content "to keep up with the Joneses." They want to outdistance them. This puts a terrific strain on the family bankroll. Gemini women are wild spenders. Not safe to trust with a charge account. They crave social supremacy. Their chief aim in life is to be in their set the "hostess with the mostest on the ball." They are flirtatious. Always giving their male appeal a work out. At parties they like to be surrounded by at least five men. Being of a changeable na ture, they usually marry more than once- They rarely have more than two children. And their youngsters spend much time being cared for by baby sitters. Or so say the stargazers. CIDER DOUSES BLAZE Arzanc, France --(U.P.) Fire men called to fight a blaze in a barn near here Monday found no water. They put out the fire with 1,000 gallons of cider. No Middle Ground Geo. N. Taylor Man's religion tells you to help others and God will give you eternal life. But the Bible says that to be saved, you must be lieve in Christ as your own Lord and Saviour. No m i d dl e ground. God's holy law says you sinned and the wages of sin is death. But Christ kept the law you broke and then died for your sin. You as, dying for Geo. N. Taylor you. No middle ground. Also the Bible says you will either be raised to glory Resurrection Morn or you will go lost to etern al woe. No middle ground. CHRIST'S OFFER Says He, John 10:10 "I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly." So it is either eternal life or eternal woe. Which for you? No middle ground. For details as to reaching out with the Gospel through the newspapers, write Geo. N. Taylor, S-W McCesney Rd., Port land 1, Ore. This space spon sored by a dairyman and family. BE SURE TO ATTEND THE 4-H, F.F.A. FAIR AUGUST 20-21-22-23 'Hp
