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f FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone in Southern Oregon ti i- tha Mail Trttaune ncmmm m TubUshed DaUy Zxcept Sitiinliy by MEDrORD PRINTING CO 17- North lir Si Phone S-S141 ROBERY W. fitjHL. Cditor ERNEST B. GILS TRAP. Manager HXKiJ GKEY, Advertising Manager B. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor -ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Cdtto RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond daaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act eg March. 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RAT12 By Mail In Advancai Daily and Sunday one yes f U-M Daily and Sunday ei months 6.50 Drily and Sunday three moa. MO DaUy and Sunday one month 1-M By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HM, Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: . Daily and Sunday one year SUM Daily and Sunday One month Ui AH ieroa uain in wjyirew Official Patter et the City et Masters Official Paper ef Jackson Co ty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIKCULATMJM Alvvrtisins Rcnreaentative WEST-HOLUDAV COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. Ssn Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, a. Louie, Atlanta. Vancouver, B. C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ItccnrtiiiclM Mm V U O rZ. newspaper PUIllSHKtS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Trillins 10. 20. SO 40 year. ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1943 (It Was Thursday) Rent overcharge in Medford area totals $11,500. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many municipalities are now making post-war plans. In not a single Instance have arrangements been made to transform social centers into soup kitchens. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1933 (It Was Saturday) Mr. and Mrs. A.S.V. Carpenter returns home after visit in Cali v fornia. M. N. Hogan installs ticker service. 80 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1923 (It Was Sunday) Prof. Irving Vining of Ashland named president of Chamber of Commerce. Rattlesnakes reported plenti ful along Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO (It Was Tuesday) Total of 2,761 visitors at Crater Lake park smashes record. Cole auto representatives, driving 1914 model car, visit Medford on testing and good roads observation tour. State Cancer Deaths Total 2092 in Year Portland (U.R) More than two thousand persons died of cancer in Oregon last year. The State Board of Health said today the total of 2092 deaths compared with 2088 in 1951. The over-all rate dropped from 133.2 per 100,000 estimated population tc 130.6- Of the victims, 1150 were men and 942 women. Heaviest loss of life occurred 'among persons 75 years of age and older. There were 501 deaths in this group. There were 55 cancer deaths among children 15 and younger. Cancer follows heart disease as Oregon's worst killer. Gordon Dean Seeks Divorce in Nevada Las Vegas (U.R) Gordon Dean. 47, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, sought a divorce today from his wife of 24 years on charges of mental cruelty. The atomic expert filed suit for divorce in district court here yesterday against Mrs. Adelaide Dean. The suit stated a property set tlement had been reached as well as an agreement regarding custody of the couple's two chil dren, Martha, 20, and Franklin, 14. The Deans were married in Pasadernt, Calif., Aug. 9, 1929. A trainload of coal one mile long contains 8,334 tons. Americans ate three billion pounds of frozen food in 1952. The U.S. produced 55.7 per cent of the free world's oil in 1952. About 21 of 100 rail workers are in train and engine service. The Washington monument rises to a height of 550 feet. About 28 per cent of the na tion's school children are trans ported by bus. MAIL THTSIJsTE A Good Start The Medford city council last night voted to live up to its responsibilities. It was a decision which been stated here before, the job of councilman is a thankless one, and sometimes it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and decide with any cer tainty what is right. THIS THE council did. It acknowledged that ques tions unanswered questions have been raised about the administration of the police department It voted 6 to 2 to obtain as soon as possible an out side, impartial and competent investigator or agency to review the operation of the department It indicated that it will be willing to act decisively on the findings of that investigator or agency. e e RIEANWHLLE, it has assured itself that steps have v been taken to prevent any possible reoccurrence of the situation which more than a month ago per mitted a badly injured man to lie, semi-conscious, miserable and dying, in the jail for 41 hours without comfort or medical assistance. Councilmen are elected to represent the citizens of Medford, to pass ordinances and set policy not to sweep the streets or make arrests themselves. They . 1 1i a M ! a A. 1 Dear tne ultimate responsioiuty ior sweeping me streets and for making the arrests, but must depend upon paid employees to see that it is done. In last night's action they reaffirmed their posi tion as a policy and legislative body, and called for the services of an expert or experts to tell them the non-experts what needs to be done. e e e e THERE WAS considerable discussion throughout Vi a ovotiiTirf oKnnt voriAiia rtriQeoo nf frta rttvtHlom bill; 1VlUlig MUVUW 11MUU VA V f AWAS.WM., about clarifying the position of the chief of police, about work needed on the hospital care for indigents Our frank 'Opinion is window dressing, pure and simple. The basic fact is that police services in Medford have been sub-standard. This was acknowledged by virtually every coun cilman, including one who voted against retaining an investigator (but who later stated he favors it as long as the council made the decision) e e e e THE administration responsibility now lies with the rr o trr. nrVir. mncf -fiTil or iviIi io 1 ni a cram rv AAXCwJT VI TTUV AAAVSOU Amu sufficiently impartial and do a real job and present a real report, which will neither "whitewash" anyone nor damn anyone with out reason. LJAVING been critical of the council (or, rather, some of its members) in recent weeks, it is a plea sure for the Mail Tribune to acknowledge that the members have taken an important first step in bring ing to this community competent high-caliber police service for which the citizens are paying and which we believe, they have not been getting. It should be pointed out here that no individual officer has yet been charged publicly with any wrong doing, and it should be remembered that the laws of our nation presume a man innocent until proven guilty. IF THERE is wrongdoing, if there is incompetence, if there is maladministration and fumbling and favoritism, let it be weeded out If there is not, let the citizens of Medford know so, in no uncertain terms. We await future developments with hope and optimism. E.A. 4-H'rs Achieve Ideals Farmers are probably more prone to idealism in their calling than are the men and women in most other lines of endeavor. They strive always for more productive fields, trees and vines; more cattle, swine and poultry with the perfect lines and utilitarian traits which go with careful breeding. e e e THOUGH few, very few, farmers ever achieve any- where near full realization of such dreams, they come the nearest in their younger days through their work in the 4-H. The girls and boys who feed, groom and pamper a calf, a pig, a lamb or other animal or bird for competition in a 4-H fair are idealists of the first water and in their eyes, their pets are per fection, no less. True the young 4-H'rs have learned through their affiliation with the organization how to properly judge the good and bad points of farm animals but that knowledge is for application to someone else's stock. Anyone that has ever visited the annual Jackson County 4-H Fair will understand what we mean for there the youngsters parade their pets with all the pride and satisfaction an adult exhibitor might take in showing off a super-super blue ribbon winner. The animals are escorted into the judging ring only after having undergone a full beauty treatment from hair-do to pedicure, and when it is all over the pet remains the apple of the young owner's eye win, lose or draw. ITS interesting and heartening to watch the young store: nrif Vi tV.ai mnnail Kiii4niitr A .tl.. o naua uicu juucu 11CSIUVA cum tllCl C cue UUld Shases of the fair which likewise gve visitors a lift Ixhibits in the home economics division, for instance. reveal a surprising knowledge of cookery, preserving, canning ana ine otner Kitchen arts and in the sewing displays the eirls prove that they can do almost as well as their mothers. The fair, which opens fairground for a four-day run is well worth visiting. Those who have become somewhat skeptical as to the future of the world what with the increase in delinquency will tret a new and encouratrintr nicture of American youth. E.C.F, i Wednesday, August If, 1U3 demands respect As has jail, about who pays for in custody who need care. that most of them were U1U1TUMU1 VI CfrV'AAV'J sufficiently competent to todav at the Jackson count In the Day's Neva Br FRANK JENXINt If you were to make an off hand guess, who, would you say, was the most distinguished son of the State of Jefferson the state that never was and never wiU be but has lived in men's minds for a hundred years? HOW about John C. Fremont the Great Pathfinder, or, as Historian Allan Nevin terms him, the Great PathMARKER? If you think of Fremont in terms of 1843, you will call him Lieutenant Fremont If you think of him in terms of 1846, you will speak of him as Captain Fremont If your memory picks out a later period in 1846, he will be Colonel Fremont In 1850, he was Senator Fre mont of California. California's first senator. In 1856, he was the first candidate of the Republican party for President (he was de feated by James Buchanan.) In the war between the States, he was General Fremont At a later period, he was governor of the territory of Arizona. Quite a distinguished citizen, wouldn't you say? IITHERE does Fremont come " into the history of the State of Jefferson? It's a long story and there is space here for only the barest outline of it. Fremont son-in-law of Senator Benton of Missouri, one of the early American ex pansionists who saw the vision of a republic reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, held as one of the chief objectives of his 1843 expedition Klamath lake. He missed it Coming south from The Dalles, he got kissed off by the Klamath marsh, which he termed in considerable disap pointment a "vast savannah, but nothing like the lake he was seeking. He went south through Ne vada and crossed the summit of the Sierra at an elevation of 14,000 feet in mid-winter with horses. Quite a feat TJE RETURNED to the Pacific AA Coast in 1846, with a strong armed party. His instructions were secret and the mystery of them has never been cleared. He is believed to have been sent here to be on the spot when the time came to take over Califor nia from Mexico. It was here that he came most spectacularly into the State of Jefferson. He spent as much time as he thought he dared at and around Sutter'a Fort now Sacramento. When Mexican Gen eral Castro began to get queru lous and threatening, he depart ed suddenly for Klamath lake. stopping en route at Peter Las sen's ranch on the upper Sacra mento. He was camped at Denny creek on Klamath lake when Lieutenant Gillespie of the Ma rines rode into his camp, pre sumably to teU him the hour had struck. He and Gillespie talked far into the night and when they turned in Fremont failed for the first time in 20,- 000 miles of Western explora tion to post sentries. That night the Klamaths attacked and kill ed three of his men. Pausing only to chastise the Klamaths the next day, he and his party departed for Califor nia finding as they crossed Lost river' the traces of a party of white men. The party was that of Jesse Applegate, who was pioneering the Old South Road. Applegate waa another distinguished citizen of ours. He was seeking a route to bring immigrants into the State of Jef ferson, being put out by the fact that most of them were coming into the Willamette valley of Oregon. FtEMONT paused again at Peter Lassen's ranch to refit his party. Leaving there, he plunged into the dramatic series of events that included the Bear Flag War, with the raising of the Bear flag at Sonoma, the capture of Monterey, the Mex ican capital of Alta California, and the eventual taking over of the California country by the United States. SO. YOU see, the State of Jef ferson can lav claim to hav- ins been the birthnlace of the American state of California for it was here between the 41st and the 43rd parallels of north latitude that the decision was marie in Fremont's mind to TAKE OVER from the Spaniards the remainder ol tne lana mat had been Spanish from 1542, when it was claimed for Spain by Bartolomeo Ferrelo. I use the word REMAINDER for the reason that, the once Snanish land IvinB between the 42nd parallel (the present bound ary of Oregon and California) and the 43rd paraUel (just south of Rosebure) was taken over from Spain by the Treaty of Florida, negotiated try rresiaeni Monroe and his secretary of state John Quincy Adams. r' WAS thus it came about that the State of Jefferson, lying roughly (in men s minds) be tween the 41st and the 43rd parallels of. north latitude, be came the meeting and the min gling place of Spanish and American civilizations on the Pacific Coast Monday: ether days 530 previous day, Dead line for Sunday Classified a) at boos Saturdays. Crosstown "You're lucky you hare a private I suppose I'M lucky not COMMUNICATIONS Letters to theEditor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Not Original With Jvilla To the Editor: In the Mail Tribune Sunday, Aug. 16, there was a quarter page paid ad, ad vising Jacksonville taxpayers to thoroughly examine the proposed charter before voting. There was nothing wrong with the ad. I, too, would advise everyone to read the proposed charter before adopting it. How ever, the inference was that there was some "joker" in the charter. There is not It is one recommended by the League of Oregon Cities and has been widely adopted by the cities of Oregon. There is nothing in the pro posed charter prohibiting any thing not now prohibited by ordinance, as the ordinances now in effect are brought for ward in the new charter. As a matter of fact, the old charter prohibits a number of things, such as livestock, not prohibited under the proposed new one. The ordinances now in force cover this phase of the law and wiU probably need some chang ing. The best recommendation is that other cities have already adopted the proposed new. char ter. It it not original with Jack sonville. H. L. Markwith P. O. Box 131 Jacksonville, Ore. Veterans Deserve Help To the Editor. I don't agree with some of your communica tors. Medford had a skid row long before the veterans ever arrived here, and I refuse to be lieve it is maintained and op erated for their benefit now. Why aU this animosity toward the vets? They gave their best years fighting to maintain the home life, and peace you now enjoy quit kicking, and knock ing them around, and branding them as drunks. Let the blame faU where it will, but never on their shoulders. Shifting the blame has always been the use ful way of avoiding the effort of cleaning un one s own back yard. These veterans in their de clining years deserve au the kindness and care one can give them. This is God's world, you are in it to help make it a pleas ant one to be in. So open up your heart and let the glow of a welcome light greet these tired vets, many who are hungry for the clasp of a friendly hand. I know where of I speak, as I came in contact with many of them in a business way. I see them at their best and at their worst; and at their worst they are far better than many of those on the outside looking in. Why knock, knock, knock . . . Throw away your hammers and try giving a kind word and a smile to your fellowman now and then. "God Bless our men who fought for Our America." Alexandria Trimble, 310 E. Main, Do Your Canning in Comfort With m KEROSENE STOVE No Excess Heat 3 Burners CROC and Oven ? Vvy) Dy Roland Cm office. Bowman. And In a way to have any sunburnf Wants City Charter Observed To the Editor: Even . though our mayor and council do ignore our City Charter, I fail to under stand how any grand jury could recommend such a policy on the part of any city administration. Chapter 2, Section 10, of the Medford City Charter says: "No person shall be eligible to any office in said City who Is not a qualified elector there of, and has been a resident of said City for more than six months preceding his election or appointment; and no per son shall be eligible to the of fice of mayor or councilman who, including the above qual ifications. Is not a taxpayer in said City, other than a poU taxpayer." Mr. mayor and council why not teU the people how many are on the city payrolls, who are not even residents of the city of Medford. Perhaps the fact they are not residents of the city, wiU pre vent any other man from being interested in the city welfare enough to want the men hired that are shown on the budget for his department After all the taxpayer cannot complain of his high taxes. If he does not demand that the City Charter be foUowed. Mr. Mayor and Council, have you ever found out the differ ence In our credits for our insur ance rating we will get for the discarded police call boxes we got instead of the fire alarm boxes we were to get when we voted that bond issue? Why not tell the taxpayers? Yours for a better city govern ment Cleo Canoose, 55 Ross Court, Medford, Ore. Guard at Camp Dances To the Editor I am writing you in regard to dances given here at Camp White by different veterans auxiliaries and fratern al organizations. As chairman of the entertain ment committee of Camp White VFW Post 6412, I would like to say we members here appre ciate the ladies coming out and try to show them the utmost respect. In case one of the mem bers does not 'do so he i at once removed from the dance floor as we have a guard on hand at all times. Please place this in your paper. John E. Unger, Camp White, Ore. Kingsport Tenn. (U.R) Restaurant owner CardweU HouncheU told police burglars drank his orangeade and ate his ice cream, then used his tools to break open a safe and steal $1,500. Washington (U.R) Chairman Stephen A. MitcheU has issued a formal call for a meeting of the Democratic National committee in Chicago, Sept 15. 101 South Riverside Matter of Fact THE COMING CRASH Paris A great crisis, capable of shaking the Western Alliance to its roots, seems to be shaping up nere. A head-on clash between France and the United States on two vital issues the Indo-Chinese war and the European army now appears almost inevitable. ft thee twn issues, the P Indo-Chinese .war may well pre sent the most dangerous possi bilities. This is true, paradoxi cally, despite the fact that the French government has commu nicated to Washington the most hopeful program yet put for ward for bringing the war to a successful conclusion. This plan, jointly conceived by Prime Min ister Joseph Laniel and General Henri Navarre, French com mander in Indo-China, can be re liably outlined as follows: First for their part, the French promise to send nine fresh battalions of troops from metropolitan France, to strength en the existing French forces in Indo-China. Gen. Navarre origi nally asked for twelve battalions about 20,000 men in all. But after a good look at the bare French military cupboard, Lan iel countered with an offer of nine battalions, which Navarre accepted as a reasonable mini mum. e QECOND, the French govern- f ment is ready at last to oner genuine, rather than mere paper independence to the associated states of Indo-China. The Laniel- Nayarre plan calls for actually turning over power from French to Indo-Chinese officials, as rap idly as possible, in order to make independence real and visible to the Indo-Chinese. Third, the French promise to make a really serious effort to build a genuinely independent Viet Namese nationalist anti Communist army in Indo-China, modelled on the ROK army in Southern Korea. The theory is that such an army plus the strengthened French army, will be able to defeat decisively the Communist armies in Indo China, short of direct Chinese Communist intervention, within two years or less. Thereafter, the evacuation of the French army from Indo-China can begin. So much for the French part of the bargain which Laniel has proposed to American Ambassa dor Douglas Dillon, and through him to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Eisenhower. The American part involves paying the cost of creat ing the nationalist Viet Nam army, which the French, of course, cannot possibly afford to do. The best guesses on the amount involved range between $300 and $400 million. This is over and above the $400 million recently appropriated for Indo- China by Congress. This sum is considered only sufficient to maintain the status quo there. If the Laniel-Navarre plan is to have a chance of working, more over, this extra sum must be made available as soon as possi ble. On the face of it the Laniel Navarre plan represents, at long last a serious proposal for heal ing the running sore of the Indo Chinese war. But the fact might as well be faced that this plan is a last chance and not a very good chance at that. LANIEL must be given credit for extraordinary political courage for proposing this -'lan to Washington in the first j-Tace. He has the legal power for the time being to send more troops to Indo-China, but such a move will be explosively unpopular. French colonial and economic interests, moreover, have suc cessfully opposed for years a GENE THOMAS YES MANaoer mi ) Past service. Money same day. Loans en signature, car or furniture without endorsers. - Oregon Finance Go. 45 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE Your Home Owned and Managed Company 25 Years in the Loan Business in Medford Gene Thomas, YES MANager Lie. S 21 1 M-217 'Loans over $300.00 made by Medford Industrial Loan Co, Under same management : . .. ' ' . grant of genuine independence to Indo-China. Laniel'a rightwing government is partly dependent on such in terests. And in any event the growing ahakiness of Laniel'a position has been amply demon strated by the crippling strikes here, and by the threatened re call of the Parliament Most ob servers believe that the Laniel government is not long for this world. They also believe that the trend is all in the direction of a government more to the Left, headed by Pierre Mendes France or another like him, and dedicated to liquidating the Indo-Chinese war at almost any cost. The plain fact is that the Laniel-Navarre plan flies straight in the face of the mounting tide of sentiment in France for getting out of Indo-China, on the basis of almost any conceivable face saving device. It is no use pre teding that this tide does not ex ist Its existence was dramatical ly demonstrated when Mendes France, who promises a way out of Indo-China, missed the pre miership by a handful of votes. The tide has risen even higher with the Korean truce. The Americans have liquidated Ko rea," the French say. "Why should we not liquidate Indo China?" They also say: "If Indo China is to be independent and we are to lose it anyvu:y, why fight for it?" s PVEN in Laniel's own cabinet there are those who would be delighted to quit Indo-China, if any face-saving formula could be found, or to dump the Indo Chinese problem In the Ameri can lap, if such a formula ran. not be found. Put against these tacts two further facts. Ameri can leaders, most notably Presi dent Eisenhower himself, are convinced with good reason that Indo-China simply cannot be al lowed to fall. But the American government is also determined not to send American troops to Indo-China. In such circumstances, one does not have to be a Cassandra to foresee the possibility of a head-on clash between France and the Uaited States. The Indo- Chinese problem is not the only issue, moreover, which can bring on such a clash. Copyright 1953 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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