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C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCMTI0N J J L newspamr PUSIISHEIS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 aod 40 year- ago. 10 TEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1943 (It Was Saturday) Earthquakes rock southern California. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Word now comes to "save the butter," as a shortage thereof looms. In these times slicing butter is a fine art. Many can slice it so thin they piactically miss it altogether- 20 TEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1933 Deer hunting season to start September 20. Increasing cloudiness and cooler. High 89, low 48 degrees. 30 TEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1923 City ordinance passed prohib iting keeping more than two horses in city limits. Brush fires rage near Jackson Hot Springs. 40 TEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1913 Warmest night In history of valley as mercury hovers around 70 degress. Warm wind worries fruitmen. 1 Frederick H. Hopkins, valley orchardist and ex-mayor of Cen tral Point, visits in Portland- Potluck By M-T Staff and Contributor What's Happened to Little Daisy? She has vanished from her ac customed spot on the Mail Tribune's comic page. And her alter ego, John Snider, simply sneers and refuses comment when asked Wha' hoppened?" The news room of the Tribune has received several queries about the amiable columning cow, but has as yet discovered no answer. Is she gone? If so, where? Will she show up in the beef quotations on the market page? We should, perhaps, hire an investigator. a It Finally Happened Hera. Two people went to the blood collection unit at the Elks temple Wednesday. As they stepped in side the receptionist took their names and other information and told them to sit down. They looked puzzled and the receptionist said "Aren't you here to give blood." The two answered, a la Joe Miller's joke book, ?No, we're here to get some." And they were. They were technicians from Community end Sacred Heart hospitals, sent to pick up several pints of blood when it could net be furnished by the Portland regional blood center. a The Impending Start Of The School year is starting to bear - down on Jackson county's prin cipals and teachers. One phoned in the other day to check on a story- A question came up concerning the day of the week. "Wasn't yesterday Tuesday?" he asked. "No, it was Wednesday," we answered. There was a brief silence. Then, -just before he hung up, we could hear him say, almost to himself, "My gosh, I've lost a day." 1 MAIL TMBUHK With a Grain of Salt Our recent reference to bedbugs in Jacksonville's historic old U.S. Hotel has drawn a hpt protest from a reader in the neighboring city. a e a a e ACCORDING to the legend, which we quoted, Presi dent Rutherford B. Hayes stopped overnight in Jacksonville back in 1880 and, the next morning remarked that more than the excessive bill presented by the proprietress, Madam Holt, he objected to having to sleep with the "entire Republican party." Although this unfortunate anecdote has been bandied about for years, it has no basis in historical fact, according to our critic who points out that the hotel was brand spanking new at the time of the President's visit. In fact, says she, no one had occu pied the suite of rooms prior to the arrival of the Hayes party and if he played host to any bedbugs he must have accumulated them in Yreka, Calif., where he stopped the night previous. e e e a a 1IHILE we are without evidence to refute the claim that there were no bedbugs in Madam Holt's fine hotel at the time of the President Hayes incident, we do have evidence that Jacksonville like most other early day communities had its share of the detestable insects- Because their presence brought a degree of stigma, people mostly suffered them in silence. Bed bugs were never mentioned in polite society and the few more fastidious housewives who fought them did so almost furtively. It was probably due to this fear of disgrace that history now has so few references to what must have been an important problem of the contemporary life. are indebted to Ned Harlan who was man ager of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce 27 years ago, for proof that the pestiferous little pests flourished in the pioneer mining community. Some time ago Ned, who is now in business in Boise, Idaho, sent us a clipping from the Boise Statesman's 75- years-ago column. The clipping included the follow ing letter to the Statesman editor: "While I was living in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Ore., in the year 1863, a lady friend, Mrs. Mary A. Sharp, wrote to me from Henly. Siskiyou county, Cal., of an important discov ery that she had made, namely, that salt scattered over the floor of a house, swept into the cracks and aUowed to remain there would exterminate cinches, more commonly known as 'b.b.'s' And that a bedstead once washed with the brine was forever clear of them. "Soon after I had occasion to test the utility of salt for that purpose and found it to be a perfect success. Immediately after purchasing the Willett House I discovered that the bed room was infested. I scattered salt over the floor and all the cinches in the house swarmed to the outside and remained there in rows close to the battens'. I believe there were twenty thousand of them and of all sizes and descriptions. I im mediately made strong brine and used it profusely on the floor and furniture and not a cinch was ever seen thereafter inside of the house during the three years time that I owned it, "A person who is traveling, if thoughtful enough to dip their underclothes in strong brine and let them dry without wringing them, while they are wearing those salty under clothes, wiU never be accompanied by cinches. "Yours truly, "Elijah Chaney." APPARENTLY the salt treatment although used for a great many years was not altogether de pendable, according to Harlan who accompanied the CfotoamoTi .Hnnincr with a letter in which he stated that as late as 1926 when he arrived in Ashland, MaAfnrA npnnlp were still usine ereat quantities of salt and still suffering from Mr. Harlan claimed tnat wnue ne was wun me Ant,ii Akotnhar ha rover rnntinnprl MpHfnrd's rtre- AoliMUiu uiamuu x dicament though he felt sorry for newcomers settling in this city and was oiten tempted w urge mem w locate instead in Ashland which, he declares, was free of the pests. Those who remember Ned Harlan, however, will be tempted to take not only the latter statement but his whole letter with a grain of salt E.C-F. Destroy the Death Traps The recent series of icebox deaths five in ArVunsao. fnnr in VirrHnia. and two in Massachusetts have prompted safety-minded officials to urge more thoughtfulness and prudence on the part of parents to the end that unused refrigerators, old trunks, snap . . . . t - ii i - i i iock closets ana otner places wmcn cnuuren may enter in play may not become death traps. eeaee CUCH tragedies can be avoided if parents will see to it that handle and hinges are removed from any discarded icebox or refrigerator. Better still, is the advice of the National Safety Council, destroy the discarded receptacle or turn it in on your new one, if you have no further use for it Several states including New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nevada and Pennsylvania have laws requiring that doors or locks be removed from aband oned refrigerators. THHE father of the five Arkansas children who were trapped and suffocated in an old icebox smashed and burned the box afterward. No law should be needed and no further tragic evidence should be re quired to prompt action against any such booby traps which parents may find. E.C.F. Three Cars Involved In Three cars were involved in a rear-end collision on Highway 99 just north of Phoenix last evening, according to state po lice. A car driven by Phillip D Pangrac, 610 South Centrol ave., slowed suddenly and was struck from behind by a car driven by FJwood Gordon Deras, 504 Pennsylvania ave., Medford, and a third car, driven by C. A. M. Stothers, 412 East Main St., also was involved, the officer's report aid. Friday, August St, IMS a "B.B." superfluity. Highway Collision Pangrac told the officer he slowed to avoid hitting a dog. There were no injuries and dam age was relatively minor, police reported. Forgetful motorists are on the decline. The Automobile Club of New York reports that 1,272,000 drivers in the United States ran out of gas on the road last year and 424,000 lost their keys or locked themselves out of their cars. In 1951, 1,393,000 let their gas tanks run dry and 733,000 had key troubles. CrosstowiT II GRANDSTAND IT PreVYce a "We can guarantee plenty of the old chatter that wins baU games if you'll give us seats in she home team's dugout." Babson . . Businessmen By ROGER W. BABSON that father loses a tax exemption Gloucester, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) It's a shame that so many young people have been deprived this past summer of the privi lege of vaca tion employ ment. About the only plen tiful jobs this summer were in sales. Unfor tunately, all Jtega w. aiiaa, young people do not have aptitudes for selling. xoung people ask me how they learn to swim if no one will even let them near the water. So what do they do after a while? They lie about the facts and present themselves as full-time job seekers- On that basis, they get jobs. Then there is hard feeling when they leave for school again after Labor Day. There seem to have been sev eral reasons why more students havn't worked this summer: (1) not many companies have hired young people for summer work; (2) the tax structure penalizes father for letting son work; (3) union pools of unemployed have been given preference over sum mer job seekers; (4) the unreas onable labor laws of some states. Many Young People Don't Know How to Work Many businessmen complain that our young people don't know how to work. Often it is these same businessmen who give the cold shoulder to young summer job seekers eager to learn how to work. Reports from employment agencies, from col lege and high school placement offices indicate that there were fewer summer jobs this year than last Incidentally, business also failed to respond in the spring to a project to give sum mer work experience to college professors. I have been told that euards had instructions to bar summer job hunters from manyl plants. I know that in recent years, with higher costs, mounting tax es, and union contracts, many company work-schedules have been arranged to eliminate sum mer jobs. Perhaps the plant shuts down completely- for the vacation period so that no fill- ins are required. Or maybe the union contract compels manage ment to fill vacancies from the pool of unemployed union work ers before it can go outside to hire other workers. These are facts we have to face, but I feel that the company who doesn't hire a few carefully screened young people for summer work is both shirking a patriotic re sponsibility and short-changing itself. Any company intent upon fulfilling this obligation will find a way, summer work schedules and unions notwith standing. Can Be Advantage For Small Businesses Actually the summer employ ment of young perjple can work very, much to the advantage of small businesses that seem most hesitant about summer hiring. Summer employment can give management the chance to size up the young person, to see the kind of character stuff he has. how well he works, and how he gets on with fellow workers. In these days when it is so difficult to fire, it is good to know what kind of worker you're hiring. If a worker has what it takes, then the boss has a direct line to a tried and tested fuU-time employee when he graduates from school or college. And if he does not pan out during the summer it costs much less than hiring him as a full-time worker later on. These are the findings of companies that are using summer employment as a trial work period. Father Penalised For Son's Employment - Another distressing problem of summer employment of min ors is the tax situation which penalizes father for his chil dren's job success. , It happens mora often than you'd suspect f?&i fiy Roland Cot because son earns more than the allowed $600 during the year. For example, it would cost a fa ther with a $10,000 net income, after exemptions, $174 in taxes if his son earns over the $600 ex emption limit and the son would then become a taxpayer too. It strikes me there is some thing moraUy and economically unsound about a system that dicourages the industry of youth, whether it be a policy of taxation, summer employment procedure, or clauses in a union contract Part-time jobs, and especially summer jobs, today are important influences in the molding of the leaders of tomor row. Perhaps, too, if we had busier "teen-agers", we might have fewer "teen-age" problems Businessmen ought to begin now to make plans so that in future summers our young people will find valuable work experiences available for them. Americans Seized In Attempt To See Czech Wives Waidhaus, Germany (U.FO West German border police seized two Americans yesterday when they tried to slip through the Iron Curtain to rescue their wives and children from Czecho slovakia. Peter Dudlach, 25, Chicago, and Benjamin Kienzysky, Gary, Ind., were turned over to Ameri can intelligence agents and later released. Tried Everything We tried everything to bring our Czech wives to the West but the Communists wouldn't let them out," Dudlach said. "We decided to take the gamble." Dudlach said he was married in 1948 while living in Czechoslovakia- He has a four year old son. Kienzynsky said he married a "pen pal" in 1949 but the Czechs forced him to leave the country after the honeymoon. He has never seen his three year old son. The two men met in Chicago three years ago and started plotting to free their wives. They came to Germany as tourists. Border guards stopped them a few yards from Czech territory near the frontier station at Waid bsus. After their release, Dudlach and Kienzynsky left Waidhaus for an unknown destination. REMEMBER TONIGHT A FREE LECTURE entitled "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: ITS SECRET PRAYER AND OPEN REWARD" by George Charming, C.S.B. of San Francisco, Calif. ' Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. IN High School Auditorium SOUTH OAKDALE AVENUE 8 o'Clock FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST Medford, Oregon Cordially Invites You COMMUNICATION Lattan to the Utter moat baar the bum and addraaa of the writer although undar oartaia ctreusa atancaa the uaa of a pan nam or Initial for publication la parmia tibia. The Mail Tilbuao laaanraa the riht to edit all letters with aa bto to clarification and eonden- aatton. Letters eubmttted for pub- ucattoa muat not Another Vote for Merkel To the Editor: Due to the res ignation of Dr. Vogel as County Coroner and because the public voiced a choice for a doctor to fUl this position, I feel that Dr. A. Erin Merkel would be the man to fiU this vacancy. His qualifications more than fulfill the requirements as he has serve ed the public so efficiently dur ing the past years. W. D. Steadman 612 W. 11th Medford, Ore He Also Calls it "Rat Poison" To the Editor Your paper re ferred to a certain speaker on fluoridation as an expert We presume you meant an expert on fluoridation. This is interest ing as research scientists say not enough is known about fluorida tion to constitute any one an expert. As to " 'crusaders' trying to hinder progress," is it possible this "expert" has become so ultra-scientific he has lost sight of public right, health, and wel fare, in his scientific maze? The statement relative to "spreading lies and half-truths," seemingly applies well to some proponents; let them tell all the truth; the withholding of perti nent facts is equivalent to "spreading lies and half-truths." Does the author of letter in August 18th issue intend to classify amany research medical scientists, chemists, medical doc tors, and dentists as "ignorant" and "emotional," just because they are opposed to fluoridation, having reached conclusions by research and observation? Those advocating fluoridation have not told you that: many good doctors, dentists, and sci entists oppose fluoridation; as, Dr. Phillip, Canadian Minister of Health; Dr. Smith, University of Arizona; Dr. Robert S. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology; University of New Mex ico Bulletin; W. A. Albrect, Uni versity of Missouri; V. O- Hurme, D.M.D., of Forsythe Dental in firmary for children; A. R. Gould, M.D.; Leo Spira, M.D.; Charles Dillon, D.D S., etc.; Dr. Ginns, securing signatures of 119 dentists, thwarted fluorida tion. The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and the Council on Foods and Nutrition have not un qualifiedly approved fluorida tion, according to the Journal of the American Medical association sodium fluoride has been con sidered a carcinogenic chemical; cooking with fluoridated water may produce concentration of 10 to 15 parts of fluorides per million; mottled teeth have ap peared in Newbury, N.Y., a test city; results upon some children and adults may be quite bad; heart disease and diabetes have greatly increased in some cities having fluoridation. Flourinated city water pro duces pathological teeth; about three tenths of one per cent of expense is for those who may benefit; there is a difference be tween fluoridation and chlorina- tion; fluoridation is mass medi cation, illegal, and beyond Po lice Powers of the state, and un constitutional. Let's not have rat poison and cockroach killing chemicals in our city water. A. R. Hedges. 339 So. Central Ave. Medford, Oregon RAKISH Sydney, Australia U.R) Mol ly Keily, who sells stamps at Sydney's main post office, found a novel gadget to get the coins placed on her counter. She uses a croupier's rake. Dead Una for Sunday nasal fled it at noon Saturdays. British Find Costs Off Malting Come High in Malaya wit ra ft wmm v t i . a By WALTER O. RUNDLE United Press Foreign Analyst In the steaming jungles of Malaya, when Red machine guns spit death from ambush at British and Malayan troops, it's axiomatic that "The only good Communist is a dead Commun ist" Trouble is that it costs so much to make "good Communists." Britain, who's been engaged in that project for five years now, places the cost at 250,000 Straits dollars, or about $80,000, for Air Force Plans Combat Training Near Russia Base Tokyo U.R) The U. S. Air Force today announced a major combat training exercise in the Far East, where some American and Russian air bases are only two minutes flying time-apart. The exercise involves huge B36 Superfortress. Jet fighters and reconnaissance planes also are to take part- ' The announcement, released here in the name of Gen. Nathan F. Twining, new Air Force chief of staff, cleared away some of the mystery surrounding the ar rival of "a number" of the 10 engine B36s on nonstop flights across the Pacific from the United States. The Air Force gave no details of the exercise except to say that it "involves realistic combat type training missions from bases in the Far East theater." The Air Force disclosed Tues day in Washington it has de veloped a system that enables the B38, the world's biggest bomber in active service, to carry an F84 jet fighter plane slung beneath it, release the fighter for fast bombing or re connaissance missions, and pick it up again for the return to the home base. Thus the F84, capable of carry ing an atomic bomb, could strike enemy targets some 500 miles beyond the 4000 mile combat limit of the slower, more vulner able big bomber. HAPPY HUNTING if you are a home-owner in TABLE ROCK ESTATES on the Rogue River! 3500 acres of primitive Oregon for you and your guests. t It's not just a home Need Cash for Get Ready Funds For o Clothes o Tuition o Books ' And Other Expenses from AMERICAN FINANCE! Don't let your pocketbook go flat all at once when school tarts this fall. It's so easy to get a loan to cover ALL school expenses from American Finance. Repayment plan to fit your budget. All loans confidential. Come in tomor- Dial 2-8886 Today! .wa AMERICAU FIHAIICE 85 126 NORTH RARTLfTT STREET 'Good Red each Red eliminated. High Costa Those may sound like abstract figures to Americans. But there's more than a little probability that the high cost of mak ing "good Communists" of Red rebels in Malaya soon may be translated into higher prices for everything from rubber auto mobile tires to sponge rubber falsies. Britain has laid its cards on the table. The shooting war against the Reds in Malaya is being won. But Malaya and Britain are in grave danger of losing the struggle in the final go around at the economic level. Ironically, the threat of eco nomic disaster, i which might wipe out the military gains, has arisen in Malaya as an indirect result of the end of the Korean war. Desperate Situation Rubber and tin prices, the things on which Malay's economy depends, have taken a disastrous slump on the world markets. The speculative boom that ac companied the Korean conflict has collapsed- As a result, the price for tin has skidded from $175perpicul (136 pounds) to $98. Rubber prices have toppled from 57 cents per pound to 21 cents. To Malaya, with a budget tied directly to the price of those two major sources of income, the situation is close to desperate. it's a way of life! Call MARK A. GOLOY 2-2266 er Year Faverite keeker School Expenses?
