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MEK MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Everyone In Southern Oregon . Reads The Mail Tribune - Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-8141 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 Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Ajt of March 3.-1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: ..... Daily and Sunday one year $12.00 Daily and Sunday six month 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 50 Dailv ami 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 tin motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one month 1-23 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 AS0CjjTM H52 0" NIWSPAPEI PUBlIf HUS ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO August 20,. 1942 . (It was Thursday) Run-away weather baloon ex cites Medford people who think it is some sort of Japanese sab otage device. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: In the re port of hot spots in the state this burg leads all the rest with 105 degrees. But it was a dry heat here. Ten degrees could be added and still be cooler than Salem at 93 F. 20 YEARS AGO August 20, 1932 It was Saturday) City officials are undecided whether or not to move city of fices into old county courthouse,' left empty by the opening of. the new courthouse. .. A man identified as Carl Tal madge, formerly of Medford, is found murdered in a railroad car in Alameda, Calif. 30 YEARS AGO August 20, 1922 (It was Sunday) Klu Klux Klansmen deny truth of charges filed against them by Howard A. Hill, J. F. Hittson, Dr. Jouett P. Bray, Bert L. Moses and Thomas Goodie, who all suffered outrages from nightriders. Medford Postmaster Bill War ner is cited by National Feder ation of Postoffice clerks mag azine as best postmaster in the state. 40 YEARS AGO -August 20, 1912 at was Tuesday) New York stock market re ports advance of 50 cents to $1 a box on bartlett pears; bartletts sell at $2.50 to $2.75. Central Point doctor is arrest ed and fined $150 for practicing medicine without a license. Five Young GOPs Plan To Attend Convention A five-man delegation will represent Medford at the forth coming State Federation of Young Republicans policy con vention in Prineville, it was an nounced today. The convention wiU meet September 13 and 14 to consider problems of agricul ture, education, labor, natural resources, roads and highways, foreign policy and state and fed eral affairs. The Medford group will be headed by Assistant District At torney Robert Dickey, who wjll act as chairman of the commit tee on labor and industries. Oth ers attending will include Dick House, taxation committee; War ren Lesseg, natural resources committee; . Stanley , Jones Jr., roads and highways committee, and Winston Carl, credentials committee. FACE TEST Chestnut Hill, Mass. U.R) America's top tennis team, Gard ner Mulloy, Coral Gables, Fla., and Billy Talbert, New York, faced a crucial testing Wednes day as they met upset-specialists Henri Salaun, Hartford, Conn., and Blair Hawley, Win chester, Mass., in a feature third round match of the 71st national doubles championships. Cattleman Recalls Old Days Harry W. Barneburg, Medford furniture store man, ran across an item in Western Livestock Journal, Los - Angeles publica tion, which brought back days. Back forty-five years ago, before pears and lumber had assumed much of a place in the Rogue valley's economic picture, Mr. Barneburg was en gaged in cattle raising, one those days The Livestock Journal's item, a reprint from the September 13, 1907 edition of the Oakland (Oregon) Owl, reads in part as follows: A. F. Hunt, who has been buying beef cattle for north ern markets in this section, spent a day at his home in this city last week, leaving Friday for the Dead Indian region to interview stockmen of that section. He has been in Klam ath county and on the Applegate and has secured thus far nearly 2000 head of beef cattle, most of which will be de ' livered beginning September 10, for shipment north in special trains, four or five of which wiU probably be .sent. About 1000 head were purchased in the Ft. Klamath country. His purchases also include the Applegate cattle, the Barneburg bunch, and some more wiU likely be added from this section. Mr. Hunt has been paying 2V4 cents gross weight for open cows, 3 cents for spayed cows and ZVz cents for prime steers. The cattle axe weighed at the ranches and delivered at Ashland for shipment. . Mr. Hunt was in Ft. Klamath buying beef during the several days which E. H. Harriman had his headquarters there on the recent trip to the Klamath region, and be came quite well acquainted with the railroad wizard, whom he describes as one of the plainest and most unassuming men he ever met. . , "Mr. Harriman thought Crater Lake a point of won derful interest," said Mr. Hunt. "It surpassed all he had heard or read about it, and I think he has in mind to build a spur to it some of these days when he completes and extends the C. & tf. E. road." MR. BARNEBURG remembers the 1907 purchases by cattle buyer Hunt as 300 head of steers and 50 cows were taken from the Deadwood ranch, owned by Barneburg, in the Dead Indian country. George Nichols, Joe Rader and George Owens also disposed nf cattle at the same time, according: to Barneburg. The animals didn't bring very much, according to today's' standards, Barneburg recalling that he got around $35 a head. Even that price was better than some paid at the time, as low as 1 cents being ac cented in 'some instances. It was the custom in those days for cattle raisers tn ride tno-et.her in rouhdiru? ud their animals for shipment, spending many ering countless miles combing the uniencea ranges on which the cattle grazed. TT WAS a great life," Barneburg sighed nostal--1 gically in recalling the round-up. days of over four decades ago, "and I The Versatile Mrs. Luce Clare Boothe Luce, 49, sharp-witted and sharp tongued playwright 'wife of , magazine publisher Henry R. Luce arid U. S. Representative from Con necticut in 1943-47, has announced herself as "avail able" for the G.O.P. nomination for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. McMahon, Democrat. Republican and Democratic state conventions will meet in September to name the four years of the unexpired term. During her, second term as Representative, Mrs. Luce announced that she would not run for re-election "for reasons that will soon become apparent." On Feb. 10, 1946 she was received into the Roman Catholic faith at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. Her only child, a daughter by a previous mar riage, had been killed in an auto accident in Jan uary 1944. .'. ... - Mrs. Luce retired from public office but not from the public eye. As a delegate to the Republican Na tional Convention in Philadelphia in 1948 she de livered a major address in which she described right wing Democrats ' as "lynch-loving Bourbons," left wing Democrats as "economic spoonies and political bubble-heads," and the center (Pendergast) wingers as "the wampum and boodle boys." She was again a delegate to the Republican convention this year in Chicago, where she supported Gen. Eisenhower for the Presidential nomination. Since 1947 Mrs. Luce has written for the films and has lectured often. "WHETHER Mrs. , Luce is tapped for the Senate ' nomination could d e p e n d in large part on whether the Republican State Governor, John D. Lodge, wants the job. It was Lodge who in 1947 suc ceeded Mrs. Luce as Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Connecticut.' The present incumbent, Rep. Morano (R.), now running for re election, had been Mrs. .Luce's secretary. Mrs. Luce won her seat in 1942 by a margin of less than 6,000 votes. In, 1944, when she was one of two Connecticut Republicans elected to the House, she squeaked through with a leeway of fewer than 2,000 votes. . ; For all her ardent Republicanism at the 1944 and 1948 national conventions, Mrs. Luce proved far from a down-the-liner in the House. In' 1943 she differed with a majority of Republican colleagues by voting against extended life for the Dies (Un-American Ac tivities) committee, against the Ruml pay-as-you-go tax plan (on one of three votes), against an anti-strike bill. She was paired against the Hobbs anti-racketeering labor bill and against overriding the Presidential veto of the Smith anti-strike bill. E.R.R. TOO MUCH WATER Franklin, Pa. (U.R) Tom Gracy was fishing in bis favor ite stream when he found him self surrounded by deep water. Unable to swim, . he - stood on a round-topped rock for more than two . hours - until he - was rescued by a passing motorist. .tftdnesday, August 20, 1952 a recent edition of the memories of his younger of the main industries in days in the saddle and cov wish I could live it again. E.C.F. respective candidates for CHILDREN CARED FOR . Greenfield, Mass. (U.R) The Greenfield -Tap and Die Corp. has established a $32,000 scholarship fund for worthy children of employees. It is be lieved to be the first New Eng land manufacturing firm to make such a move. Crosstown "I've never taken a bus from this corner yet. I always manage to catch a convertible!" On The Side (Distributed by King In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves Is love; Which crows a habt she can ne'er get over, And fits her closely like an easy glove. As yon may find when'er you like to prove her, One man alone at first her heart can move; She then prefers him in the plu ral number. Not finding that the additions much encumber. BYRON A Baltimorean says he has in vented a practical "safety cigaret holder" and has a quantity ready to market. However, he is hav ing difficulty in making sales. This cigaret holder permits a person to smoke in bed with no danger of starting a fire. If 1 were in the inventor's place I would try to interest hotels in buying quantities of this holder to present to guests. I would also try to enlist the cooperation of fire insurance companies in pro moting the use of safety cigaret holders. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Who introduced Ernest Ball's song, "Love Me and the World Is Mine"? A. Truly Shattuck. Q. Was your mother born in Ire land? A. My mother was born in New York City. Her father was born in Ireland. Q. What posi tion did you play in baseball? A. First base. Q. How do you pro nounce the name Adlai? A. Ad-la-ee. It's a Biblical name of three syllables. Passing By "Big Bill" Dineen, major lea guer of the yesteryear. He pitch ed in the first world series. That of 1903 between Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . Faith Baldwin. Brilliant and highly prolific novelist. Originated the term "office wife" for which many secretaries have never for A Nichols' Worth of Comment On BY HARMAN United Press Washington (U.R) My wife', like a lot of women, takes a fiendish delight in moving the furniture ev ery few days. One early morning, I sneaked in, shed my shoes unfrocked and made a neat little dive in to my half of the twin bed set. I landed on the floor, Harmon Nichols woke up everybody, and caught you know what. Veronica had moved the bed. I thought I had the situation settled when we moved into a place where most of the light ing is built into the waUs. In short, it didn't make, any sense to move my easy chair away from the light. Likewise the beds with reading lamps built in. The lamp people say that the trend in lighting for 1952 and 1953 and so on is back toward floor lamps that can be picked up and plugged in anyplace in the house, just like old times. Change Explained The National Home Lamp Council explains the change by insisting the modern home must have floor lamps "to lighten up those dark corners." Some wag made up a story about one fellow 'who took a look at a dark corner in his house and found "one jack, two cigarettes, a tennis ball a Christ mas ornament, and the key to the back "door." That fellow's wife must have been, one untidy housekeeper. On the. more serious side, I have a statement from Richard Bennett, formerly head of the Department of Architecture at Yale University. There is a man who knows his lamps. Attuned to Female Mind Said he: "The floor . lamp . is attuned By Roland Coe By E. V. Durling Feature Syndicate, Inc.) given her. Faith is one of the many celebrities bom in New Rochelle, N.Y. . . . These include Robert E. Sherwood, Mrs. Ver non Castle and Charley Foy. She now lives in New Canaan, Conn., where she is president of "The Girls Born Under Libra Club.' She is also a very glamorous grandma. Sidelights Paul Perret, head waiter at Rector's, in the heyday of that celebrated restaurant, usually re ceived around $20,000 in Christ mas tips. That was equal in buy ing power to $60,000 today. And no income tax to pay. . . . Most of the feminine fiction writers for periodicals designed to ap peal to women describe married life, not as it is, but as it ought to be. That is, as bachelorettes see it in their dreams. Almost Confidential Has your dog been noseprint- ed? Dogs can be identified by nose prints as humans are by finger prints. So can cats and cows. But not horses. The nose prints of horses do not differ, Add to the members of "I Was There Club": Ben Beattie, Mon terey, Calif. He was "there" for the Joe Gans-Battlmg Nelson fight at Goldfield, Nev., which went 42 rounds. Please Note Chlorophyll will not eliminate from the breath the odor of onions or alcohol. So some men of science claim. I don't plan to consume any onions in the near future. I only have one highball a day. So I am not qualified to check on this claim. Guess I will have to depend on some Milwau kee checker-upper who likes beef steak smothered with onions washed down with several steins of beer. This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Writer to the female mind. Woman nev er can make up her mind. She'll change the arrangement of fur niture in the rooms of her home dozens of times as fancies strike her. She can move her floor lamps." Bennett also pointed out an other fact. "The human eye," he said, "requires light in order to see. The light must be directed pro perly on the material that is being read. Because people grow up to different heights, haye dif ferent ideas as to how far from the tip of the nose a book ought to be held and hold varying theories on which part of a chair a person should sit, the problem of light direction, or diffusoin as the experts call it, is import ant. "That is why the new floor lamps are light - weight and easily movable. It also is why so many of them have shafts that permit immediate elevation or depression of the shaft and also have swivel - type reflect ors." TAKES DIRECT ACTION Fort Worth, Tex. (U.R Sgt. Fred F. Duke swerved his car to avoid a pedestrian and collided with an automobile driven by Samuel A. Clark. While the two motorists discuss ed the accident, the pedestrian walked up, hit both in the eye. and left. Court Records POLICE COURT Margaret E. Walker, violation of basic rule, $10 bail. W. G. Beard Jr., failure to yield right of way, $5. Frank Hamilton, violation of basic rule, $10 ball. James William Grey, violation of basic rule, $10 bail. Thomas Jaq Sloan, violation of basic rule, $10 bail. Elvin Howard Rost, failure to atop at stop sign, $5. DISTRICT COURT William J. Easter, obstructing a county road. $40. Lester William Reynolds, no license plate light. $10. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Overseas note: U.S. warships will avoid wa ters in the Soviet area (specific ally the Baltic Sea) during NATO war practice games next month. OOD common sense, I'd say. Never spit in a rattlesnake's face. HTHE Russians and the Chinese - communists are holding im portant talks in Moscow. Fifteen of the Red China high command headed by Premier Chou En-Lai are in the Soviet capital. At the opening meeting, Chou talked about the "brother ly and unselfish aid" which the Russians are giving the Chinese reds. I F THAT'S the propaganda stnrv olrl Chou is nnttinff out. you can bet your bottom dollar u ami so. u NEASY thought: Chou's last conference in Mos cow, in January, 1950, preceded the Korean war by just six months. gERIOUS thought: If the Russians should SUD DENLY COME IN SHOOTING, which would you rather have as our leader Ike or Adlai? I know that sounds like poli tics, but I don't mean it so. I'm SERIOUS. IJIHIS, of course, IS politics: The Portland Journal an nounced the other day that (as is its unquestioned right and privilege) it will support Steven son. Acknowledging gratefully the proffered assistance, Adlai said (among other things): "I can only give my best, with RUTHLESS objectivity, as I have done here (in Illinois) to the PAIN of the politicians and the business men WHO LIKED IT THE OLD WAY." (Meaning, I presume, the mink coat and deep freeze school of "business" men.) He added: "My job is to persuade the country that it can have a change without changing parties and that the HAZARD OF CHANGING PARTIES may bring bad changes along with the good changes." PERSONALLY, it semed to me that Stevenson was nomi nated in order to STOP KEFAU VER whose crime-busting ac tivities and predilections "the politicians, the gamblers and the busines men who liked it the old way" just COULDN'T tol erate. The drift of events in the convention strongly suggested the thought that Sevenson look ed to them like the best pinch hitter available under the cir cumstances. I think they had the pious idea they could put him over and then HANDLE HIM AFT ERWARDS. TlfAYBE, if elected, he'll sur prise them and twill turn out to be one who can't be handled. Smart schemers some times do get slipped up cv and so far Stevenson seems to be an admirable sort of person. But I still think we need a change, and I'm quite sure Ike will give us a COMPLETER change than Adlai COULD give us no matter how much he might want to. The pressures of party politicians are tremendous and I doubt if Stevenson OR ANY OTHER DEMOCRAT could give us as complete a change in Washington as we need. JNCIDENTALLY Let's not forget WHY we need a complete change in Washing- vy... Are Cordially Invited To Come In And See Our New SERVEL ALL-YEAR GAS AIR CONDITIONER And How It Brings Comfort To Our Office Two of these NEW Servel GAS Air-conditioners have been installed to show YOU the ease and economy of enjoying YEAR ROUND living com fort in YOUR home or office. You can have coolness in summer, comfort able warmth in winter no dust, no pollen, no drafts with a simple flip of your finger. Let us show you. UTILITY W t California - 229 West Main Moscow-Peiping Talks May Not Run Smoothly By PHIL NEWSCM United Press Foreign Analyst All may not be peaches and cream between Moscow and Peiping. Which is not to suggest that iny break is due 'n the Moscow Peiping Axis, nor that the two amay not be 1 about to toss some new ingre dient into the devil's brew now cooking in Moscow. But any rela I'hil Newsora. tionship between a totalitarian and another state must even tually become that of victor and vanquished. Benito Mussolini may have founded the modern European version of Fascism. But soon he was taking orders from the' up start Adolf Hitler. Primarily the talks beginning in Moscow this week are said to be aimed at expanding the col laboration between the two un der the 30-year treaty of friend ship, alliance and mutual aid signed by Russia and Red China Feb. 14, 1950. Censorship Employed Typical Iron Curtain censor ship prevented full outside knowledge of the outcome of the 1950 negotiations, but they were hard and 1-ng drawn-out and in the end were not entirely satisfactory to the Chinese. In addition, they laid the groundwork for unforeseen dif ficulties brought on by the Kor ean war, and the fact that the Western Powers went ahead without Russia and signed a peace treaty with Japan. When Chinese Dictator Mao Tse Tung went to Moscow in the winter of 1949-50, one of his announcel intentions was to ob tain Soviet credits for China and a trade agreement. No Details Disclosed No detailg of the trade agree ment ever were disclosed but success or failure may be judged by the fact that it lasted only a year, was reopened in February, 1951, that the new negotiations lasted four months and that a new agreement was signed two months after the old one hac ex pired. Chinese newspapers and broadcasts, meanwhile, danmed it by their silence. A further source of irritation was Manchuria, one of the rich est areas in the world both in agriculture and minerals. Man churia, with a ' -onulation of around 42,000,000 and about one seventh the size of the United States, has been coveted by the Russians since the days of the czars. . Return Guaranteed The 1950 aereement guaran teed to the Chinese the return of Manchurian Port Arthur and the city of Dairen by 1952 or upon the signing of a peace treaty with Japan, whichever came first. It also promised complete Chi nese ownership of the Chinese Cha? gchun Railway, running from Southern Mijichuria to Vladivostok. There have been unconfirmed report., -'ssia now would like to withdraw all of her promises on Manchuria. At any rate the question of Manchuria, the war in Korea and retetnns with Japan are certain subjects of the present Moscow conference. Russia will be confronted with the fact that she is not dealing ton and in the bureaucratic set up throughout the country. This is the reason: Too much power held in too few hands too long is always dangerous. Pacific) P3 fi fl$ with, a tiny and helpless satel lite but with a dictatorship las ruthless as she, which has moire than twice the manpower and, in the long run, as great a power potential. I COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mnst boa the name and address of the writer although under certain clrcu stances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter-: with view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 a ords Something for Nothing To the Editor: Most men and women, some time during their lives, take a chance. If a person investigates and can see a future in the chance he takes and works hard at it, he is most always suc cessful. All successful men took a chance during their lives, but not one got something for nothing. H. J. Heinz sold on the streets of Pittsburgh pickels and apple butter his mother had made. His 57 varieties are sold everywhere now. George Westinghouse was another man that had nothing to start, with. I worked for both' these men and know. r One can't get something for . nothing unless, of course, he steals it, inherits it or it is given to him. When people seek some thing for nothing by taking a chance in gambling such as horse racing and cards, they nearly always wind up broke. Then they feel sorry for themselves. Men and women who take such chances are mostly failures and seldom happy. They are a lot different from the plowman plodding his weary way home after a hard day's work. Most great men and women worked hard to get what they did and were a success in conse quence. T. A. Culbertson Sr. Route 2, Box 213, Medford, Ore. McLoughlin, Lee Statues Will Be Unveiled in Salem Portlanr? fU.R Renlicac frf bronze statues of Oregon pio neers Dr. John McLoughlin and the Rev. Jason Lee will be. un veiled in Salem during the- first week of the 1953 legislature. Dr. Burt B. Barker, chairman of a committee named by the legislature to carry out the pro ject, made the announcement after statues of the two riea were placed in the nation's cap ital in Washington, D. C. Unveiling Planned Dr. Barker said tentafive plans called for unveiling ,v the McLoughlin statue by his prtat granddaughler, who now Ives in Washington, D. C, and of the Lee statue by his granddauglrer. Both statues, more than six eet high, wi" be placed on the cap ital grounds at Salem at loca tions to be determined by the Capitol Planning Commissroc Statues Assigned In Washington, the Rev. Le' statue was assigned to statuary hall while McLoughlin's M placed in the connecting hoiise corridor. Each state is entitled to have two statues of famous persons in the capitol. Statues of the two men were presented by the state of Oregon. Dr. McLoughlin was the first govern the Oregon country nd the Rev. Lc was noted as ttie first missionary in the Oiefcoa country. SERVICE Utilities Company . Phone 2-5284
