Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 19, 1952, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNs, Medfoi UNI Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St- Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. 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-rt of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Dailv and Sunday one year $12 90 Daily and Sunday six months 8 50 Dailv and Sunday three mos. 3-50 Daily anu 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 125 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 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 AS'sOCI-ATl'dN J L O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o - Time Medfgrd and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 19, 1942 (It was Wednesday) Two Camp White soldiers are held by authorities, accused -of a criminal attack on a 31-year-old Medford woman. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot colmun: It is okay for Young America to call their Paws and Maws by their first names, a metropolitan journal editorially argues. 'The young man, when and if called to the army, better not address his col onel as "Jim." 20 YEARS AGO August 19, 1932 (It was Friday) James Stevens' 40-voice male chorus sings an open-air concert at the Porter Neff home. The Rev. Francis VanClaren beck. former priest at the Catho lic church in Medford, dies while visiting in Holland. 30 YEARS AGO August 19. 1922 (It was Saturday) Southern Pacific railroad an nounces it will provide service at half-price to Jackson county fair grounds during the fair. Bliss Heine and Keith Cole leave for Huckleberry Mountain, where they will play with the orchestra at the new dancing pavilion. 40 YEARS AGO August 19. 1912 (It was Monday) Telephone line between Med ford and Elk creek area is com pleted. Hundreds of Medford people report "wonderful time" on re turn from excursion trip to Weed, Calif., to see baseball game. Portland Among Cities Chosen for Community Pricing Portland (U.R) Portland has been selected with 54 cities in the nation for required posting of grocery ceiling prices in all stores this fall, Director Carl C. Donaugh of the Portland district Office of Price Stabilization said Tuesday. This kind of price posting has been tested in three cities and Donaugh said the extension of it to Portland and other cities in the Pacific Northwest, in cluding Seattle and Boise, Ida., will begin as soon as plans can be worked out and the necessary preparations completed. Conferences Opened OPS officials from the north west region Tuesday opened a series of conferences in Seattle on plans for community pricing. Ellis Amall, the OPS's nation al director, said it was probable that community pricing and post ing would get underway October 1. The program win also con tinue in the three test cities, FargoN.D.; Fresno, Calif., and Jacksonville, Fla. Fresh and processed fruits and vegetables will remain exempt from price control under recent action of Congress, and there fore will ,not be community priced. ' r. . i It's An Honor Bull Some of Oregon's fast are having difficulty in finding men willing to assume the duties of mayor. Possible candidates look with fa vor on the honors attached to the office but back off after considering the work and responsibilities at tached thereto. ' TN BYGONE years population increases, if any, went -- on at slower pace. There was no multiplicity of pressing problems such as pavement installation and repair, traffic regulation, parking, sewer system ex pansion, park maintenance, police and fire protection, getting and keeping trained and competent persons in various city departments, extension of the corpo rate limits, enforcement of building, electrical and plumbing codes and, regulations, airport expansion and expense, bond issues, and the thousand and one other things which now plague city administrations as a result of rapid influx of new people. In addition to the matters mentioned, a mayor, at least in cities of 10,000 or more, must act as a sort of official greeter and front man. He must attend civic and other gatherings not only in his own bailiwick but in neighboring certters as well. COME municipalities have adopted the city manager system, paying a trained man a good salary to act as a sort of, executive officer. The manager carries out the directives and policies as formulated by the council and mayor, thus relieving these officials of much personal supervision under, the managerial plan ings, inspections, interviews and discussions to take the time of the elected officials. Many cities pay their mayors and councilmen nom inal salaries in Klamath mayor gets $175 per month pensate at least m part for personal expenditures in connection with city business and in part for the time spent therein. WHATEVER the prevailing system, the mayor of o m'minn rr fxr lioo orm nf Vi inn- Thnro f Vi o n o ravf C4 glUHlllg 11CVO OUIUVbilillg llivl V- bilUll C jUi b time job. He is, or should be, parliamentarian of parts, a to attend late meeuAgs without yawning, able to lis ten .to the gripes of irate taxpayers without explod ing in short, an all-around workhorse. In addition to the above he should be financially independent and not required to rely on his city salary for living expenses or failing this he should have a business or job which he doesn't mind neglecting in favor of city work E.C.F. Best Wishes Go With Them Cities generally do not, like Topsy, "just grow.' They don't without effort become pleasant and attrac tive places in which to make a living. There are such things as payrolls to be cultivated, civic spint to be fostered, information and data to be assembled and made available, visitors and tourists to be attracted and informed. These are, part of the work of a cham ber of commerce, and one would have to search far to find a city enjoying such advantages without the ef forts of an efficient and flourishing chamber. -, CHAMBERS of commerce are largely made up of representative business and professional people of the communities which they represent and in addi tion there is a manager or secretary who coordinates and executes the plans and programs as laid out by the membership and board of directors. On him de volves the "leg work," and much of the office work. A good manager can make or break a chamber of commerce, just as he can make or break most any other type of business. f Medford has been fortunate in its choice of cham ber managers over the years and especially so in hav ing Don Lane on the job since August 1, 1947. Don, a graduate of Oregon State college and navy veteran of World War II, came here from Springfield where he had a splendid record of accomplishment. He has functioned equally well for the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce and has been especially successful in representing this community in railroad, air line and other hearings,' and in tourist fairs and similar promotional efforts. IVflANAGER LANE'S resignation, effective Septem ber 1, when he will leave to become manager of the East Side Commercial club in Portland, has been accepted with regret by the local chamber's board of directors. They are not alone in disliking to see him leave for both Don and Mrs. Lane have made many personal friends here in the past five years. The best wishes, not only of business associates, but the com munity in general as well, will go with the Lanes to their new field of endeavor. E.C.F. Radio Club CD Group Rogue Valley Radio club mem bers belonging to the civil de fense group were tipped off by a Salem amateur radio station bulletin a few hours before northwest defenses were alerted and began a continuous watch at midnight Friday. After radio club members had monitored the headquarters sta tion frequency five hours, the' headquarters operated a chan nel for contacts. Check of charts UNDER ONE ROOF Falmouth, Mass. (U.P.- The Playgoer's Restaurant and the Falmouth Playhouse here offer summer visitors . the combina tion of a restaurant; summer theater and night club all under one roof. . Tuesday, August 19, 1952 growing cities and towns! and detail work. But even there are plenty of meet Falls, for instance, the the aim being to com . . a pretty good diplomat, a fair public speaker, able Hear Defense Alert showed the Rogue river valley "in the clear," members said. Monitoring continued until noon Saturday. . Those participating were Shir ley and Gil Bannister, Dwight Albright and Bob Church, radio and telephone, and Mrs. Gil Bannister and .Mrs. Albright, telephone. The Naval Medical School at Bethesda, Md., in its experi ments with freeze-dried bone, has discovered that such bone does not lose its elasticity or or iginal properties; can ' be kept for several months in bone banks. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at 5:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a.m. Monday -for Monday; soon Saturday tor Sunday a.m. I Crosstown urns scouts ' zgs tyJs U COFFEE I 11 gjt POT .Jt "He says we'd better wait Matter of Fact EISENHOWER. MCCARTHY. JENNER Washington The anguished word comes from Denver that (Jen. Dwight. D. Eisenhowers toughest campaign problem has split the Republican High Com mand right down the middle. The divisive problem is what to do about Sen. Joseph R. Mc Carthy of Wisconsin, Sen. Wil liam Jenner of Indiana and the other Republicans of their pecu liar ilk. u Originally General Eisenhow er planned to solve this problem by a compromise. He would make a major speech, early in the campaign, simultaneously denouncing .softness toward communism in the Administra tion and character assassination and smear tactics anywhere, in cluding his own party. He would then refrain from visiting In diana or Wisconsin, .and would thus avoid sharing a platform with either McCarthy or Jenner, the twin masters of the modern political smear. . This compromise plan has now been upset by heavy pres sure from the Indiana, Wiscon sin, Ohio and Illinois Republican organizations, seconded by Ar thur Summerfield, Chairman of the Republican National Com mittee. General Eisenhower's speaking schedule already calls for a major appearance in Wis for a major appearance in In diana in the second week of Sep tember; while an appearance in Wisconsin is being considered for later in the month. The of ficial word is being passed out that the General will endorse all Republican candidates in these states, including Jenner and Mc Carthy. . n McCarthy and jenner are test cases for a very special reason. A good many oth er Republican Senatorial and Congressional candidates have persistently and venomously at tacked almost everything Gen. Eisenhower stands for. But Mc Carthy and Jenner have an un usual distinction. They have publicly described Gen. George C. Marshall as a traitor to the United States. Jenner has told the Senate that Marshall was "a living lie," "a front man for traitors" and a "co-conspirator of treason." In his famous Sen ate speech against Marshall, Mc Carthy wholly surpassed Jen ner. As everyone knows, General Marshall stood almost in a" father's relationship to General Eisenhower, from the humble beginnings to the splendid cli max of General Eisenhower's military career. The foregoing gems of modern American elo quence, taken together with Eisenhower's relationship to Marshall, explain Eisenhower's reluctance to offer Jenner and McCarthy a ride on his coat tails. The arguments that are be ing used to break down that re luctance amount to a plea that Eisenhower be untrue to him self. In particular, the Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio leaders have been threatening the General with losing their states, unless he campaigns as a "real Republican." To do This, they say, he must embrace all other Republicans, including even McCarthy end Jenner. The General may well be susceptible to this sort of pres sure, but only because of his political inexperience. If he were more experienced, he would know the men who are now pressuring him are the same ones who charged Gov. Thomas E. Dewey with wilfully losing in 1948 because of his "me too" campaign. And Gener al Eisenhower would also know that this story about Dewey is patent stuff and nonsense. - 9 m TAKE THE three states where rmrmarison is nossible. Ohio. Illinois and Indiana. Dewey car ried Indiana. He lost Illinois and Ohio by a little over 33,000 votes and a little over 7,000 By Rolqnd Coe for one that says 'cocoa'I" By Joseph and Stewart Alsop votes respectively. Meanwhile, in these same states, the venom ously partisan, violently reac tionary local Republican candi dates ran hundreds of thousands of votes behind Dewey. The margins ranged from 152,000 votes in Indiana, where the gov ernorship was won by the Democrat, Schricker, who is now challenging Senator Jen ner, to 529,000 votes in Illinois, where the governorship was won by General Eisenhower's present opponent, Adlai Steven son. s - The Indiana, Illinois and Ohio organizations went all out for their local candidates, and they did not lift a finger for Dewey. The inference is plain, that in these states Dewey was dragged down by the unappetizing per sons on the ticket with him. Add the fact that embracing Senators McCarthy and Jenner will cost General Eisenhower just about the whole huge independent vote of the West and East coasts. The course of political wisdom then clearly seems to coincide with General Eisenhower's na tural inclination. Such, at any rate, are the arguments now being made by Sen. James Duff of Pennsylvania and other leading Republicans who want General Eisenhower to "run as Dwight D. Eisen hower and nobody else." This Republican faction does not much care for the original Eisenhower compromise. They would have the General enter such states as Indiana and Wis consin, but conspicuously refuse to endorse McCarthy and Jen ner. They would even risk los ing the Senate this time. They argue that McCarthy, Jenner and Company are much less likely to cooperate with Eisen hower than moderate Demo crats. They say further that Gen eral Eisenhower's 'second rate problem after cleaning up Wash ington, is to clean up his own partyAbove all, they make the highly practical point that the General will imperil his victory by ignoring the moral issue pre sented by Jenner, McCarthy and the others like them. General Eisenhower has evi dently agreed already to make a speech in Indiana. What he will say in that speech how he will treat J enner in short which faction of his advisers he will listen to are probably the biggest choices he has to make in this campaign. Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. crashesTpolice "station : Stamford, Conn.. (U.R) While hurrying to the police station to pay a $6 fine for pass ing a stop sign, Leo Arrecco lost control ' of his automobile and ran into the police building. The cops took the $6 and called' it square. The largest enclosed public park in the world, Phoenix park, Dublin, has an area of 1760 acres and the highest monument, the Welling obelisk, 209 feet in height. "He intended that for a bunt, but I Jergenscn's Homogenized Mutt ? rry?L Jib I In the Days News BY FRANK JENKINS More from Korea: Our marines battled Chinese reds with fists and grenades in the pre-dawn hours this morning on bloody Bunker Hill. The ma rines had to rush ' in reinforce ments to save the height from being taken by the commies. The reinforcements arrived the dispatches teU us, IN THE NICK OF TIME. LET'S switch now to Washing ton: General Lewis Hershey (the draft boss) said that by next sum mer just about EVERYBODY ELIGIBLE FOR MILITARY TRAINING will be in uniform unless there is an excellent rea son to the contrary. He added: "One year from now the num ber of men in the manpower pool will be smaller than at any time in World War 2." fRIM thought: " Suppose that about a year from now the Chinese Reds jump us in Korea with a million men or two million, or four million; they have at their command, you know, any number of men they may choose to employ and at the critical moment when victory or defeat hangs in the balance WE HAVEN'T GOT REIN FORCEMENTS ENOUGH TO SAVE THE DAY. I S THE situation that bad? thrown into us at this particular moment in - order to make us easier to handle for some pur pose or other? I HATE to entertain thoughts like that. But SO OFTEN, in the years that are past, when Washington wants something from congress or from the peo ple it turns on the bad news. What wouldn't I give,-in these critical times, for leadership I can unhesitatingly believe and trust! VORE from Washington: J.TJ. - "How would you like to get a dinner like this for 55 cents: "T-bone steak and gravy, baked potatoes, kale with bacon, corn on the cob, salad, cake, ice cream, hot rolls and butter, milk or iced tea. "Described as a typical dinner at the Anacostia naval receiving station and many military messes, such 55-cent menus are available to OFFICERS and CI VILIANS." (The GI works for so much a month and "found," so he takes what he gets.) pOOH! Pooh! -1 Back in the war, at the big transient officers mess in the Grosvenor hotel- in London, a similar menu was available (to officers and attached civilians) for a sixpence, which was then worth about a dime. At the tran sient messes . in Germany, the cost was about one occupation mark, worth ten cents. In Paris, the cost was HIGH maybe as much as 20 cents. How come? Don't be silly. Then, as now, THE TAXPAY ER FOOTED THE BILL. rpHE more I read about him, the more this man Stevenson puzzles me. Judging by his utter ances, he's AGAINST big gov ernment in Washingtoruand FOR more government in the states, the counties and the cities. He's against extravagance. He's for economy. He doesn't want much truck with Truman. He looks down his nose at the big bosses. He's for lower taxes. And so on. Here's what puzzles me: If he is really as sound and able and clear-thinking and as much opposed to the political evils of the past couple of de cades as he seems to be, the forces that rule the New Deal Fair Deal - Democratic party, which is deeply entrenched in power and wants to stay that way, WOULDN'T HAVE STOOD FOR HIS NOMINATION. Figure it out if vou can. I can't. ICE WITH HONOR Elk Rapids, Mich. (U.R) Resi dents here beat the heat on an honor system. The only ice house in town is a self-service af fair. Prices are posted and a scale is provided. You step' in side, select a block, weigh it and drop the money in a tin can. saw the trainer hand him a glass of - Vitamin, Multi-Mineral Milk" , Trygve Lie Holds Out Hopes for Armistice By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Trygve Lie, the United Na tions determinediy-cneerful sec retary genera, still holds out hope for a Ko rean armistice at any- mo ment." His, indeed, Is a voice in wilderness. On the sur face, there seems no cause f,o r optimism, either for a quick truce in Korea or for a 1'hil Newsore change in the Russian-generated cold war. The Marine whose friend dies in his arms on Korea's Bunker Hill hasn't heard of any armis tice. Nor do more than 2,500 rounds of Communist artillery and mor tar fire pouring into Marine posi tions in a space of 24 hours seem to be tokens of good will. But we are quick to grasp at straws. A few days ago, North Korea's premier and commander-in-chief, Kim II Sung, broadcast that the Korean Communists would be Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. Q I want to get a job with the federal government. Are lhey still hiring? A Civilians employed by the Executive Branch that takes in everything but the relatively small employment by Congress and the federal courts in creased 122,999 during the year ending June 30. That put the June 30 total at 2,596,690. Q What Senator has the greatest seniority? A Kenneth McKellar, (D Tenn.), who is rounding out his sixth six-year term. He lost the primary election Aug. 7 in trying for an unprecedented seventh term. Next in seniority is Walter F. George, (D-Ga.), who went to the Senate Nov. 8, 1922, followed by Carl Hayden, (D-Ariz.), Tom Connally, (D-Tex.) who is re tiring this year and Richard B. Russell, (D-Ga.). Q I notice that very few Con gressmen are present for every roll-call vote. Does the absence of just one lawmaker very often determine the fate of legislation? A Congressional Quarterly found that in the last four years, 41 Senate and two House roll call votes were decided by one vote margins. One of these Sen ate votes killed the Alaska State hood bill. Seventeen of the Sen ate hairline decisions were ties, eight broken by Vice President Barkley. One of . these Barkley votes established the now fa mous Crime Probe. One of the touch-and-go House votes was the 191-192 rejection of Korea aid in 1950. Q When the Senators of a state both belong to the same party, do they usually vole alike? A Yes. All-Democratic Sen ate teams stuck together on 85.6 per cent of the issues where both of a state's Senators voted, ac cording to a Congressional Quar terly analysis. The average for all-Republican Senate teams was 79 per cent. On the other hand, politically split Senatorial teams agreed 'on only 50.6 per cent of the votes on which both team mates were counted. The avenge Senate team, including both "sol id" and "split" delegations, agreed 74.4 per cent. Q Which same-party Senator-, ial team stuck together most often? A The Democratic Alabama team Sens. John J. Sparkman, Vice Presidential nominee, and Lister C. Hill. They agreed 97 per cent of the time on roll calls when both voted. The best har mony record of any GOP team was that of Idaho's Herman Welker and Henry C. Dworshak, 92 per cent. Most disagreeing were Arkansas Democrats J. William Fulbright and John L. McClellan, in accord 70 per cent, and Oregon Republicans Wayne Morse and Guy Cordon, 51 per, cent. (Copyright 1952, Congressional Quarterly) Perfection... It is only fitting that the fnial tribute be one of beauty, dignity, reverance and simplicity. . Our experience assures you flawless expression of your wishes. The family is relieved of burdensome details in their time of sorrow. ' PERL FUNERAL HOME 44 Years of Friendly Service willing to sign a truce ending the two-year-old war. . The momentary uplift over looked past experience. Many Suggestions We have been getting various Communist "good will" sugges tions since 1945, until now they are up to here. One of the last real meaty ones came 'in June, 1951, when Russia's Jacob Malik suggested on a UN -sponsored broadcast that we and the North Koreans should get into an armi stice discussion. 1 - However, two points made Kim's latest broadcast appeal for an armistice academic. " One was that he continued to demand return of all war prison ers, despite the fact that more than 30,000 war prisoners held by the UN have said they don't want to go back to Communism. The second was a message to the Korean people in the Red Chi nese government organ. Peoples Daily. The message, which also was broadcast by the govern ment radio, said the Chinese and North Koreans had built up suf ficient strength to lick the UN forces in Korea and added that they had full Russian "sym pathy." Adds Up To Warning It seemed to add up to a warn ing to the North Koreans that they could not pull out now, and a pointed reminder that the North Koreans were not running the war at least their end of it. The last few days seem to have seen volume added to the hymn of hate sung by Commu nism's world missionaries. In Europe, Moscow lurried down an Allied suggestion for a new attack at a peace treaty for Austria. In the UN, the Russians ac cused the United States of "gangster" methods in attempts to reduce world armament. In India, a Communist leader promised to shoot . landowners and "black marketeers" pre sumably meaning those who don't agree with the Reds. In summary, the Reds have changed neither their stripes nor their spots. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail- Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter: with a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub licatlon must not exceed 400 words Cats Have Rights To The Editor: On August 16 between 6 and 6:30 p.m., on Beall lane, near the Old Stage road, I picked up a cat that had been hit by a car and left to suf fer. I took the cat to the Hu mane society where it was hu manely put out of its misery. For the benefit and informa tion of the party committing this cruel act, intentional or other wise, and for the general public, I want to cite the 6tate law. . House bill 261, passed and signed by the governor of the State of Oregon at the '51 legis lature: "Section Any person operating a motor vehicle or motorcycle which shall strike and injure any horse, dog, cat or animal classified as cattle, shall stop and endeavor to locate the owner or custodian of such ani mal, or a peace or judicial offic er in the immediate vicinity and take any other reasonable and appropriate action so that the animal may have necessary at tention, and shall also promptly report the matter to such owner or custodian or officer, exhibit ing his license and giving his name and address, including street- and street number and license number. Any person vio lating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemean or. Mrs. Sid Richardson, P.O. Box 984, Medford, Ore. WEATHER By UNITED PRESS North California: Fair through Wednesday; little change in tem perature; north to northwest winds 10-20 MPH off coast, oc casionally 28 MPH around head lands north of San Francisco. Dead line Sunday Classifieds la at noon Saturdays.