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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.
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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
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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.
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