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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUTE ' "Xvcrybody In Southern Orasjou - Baa da Tha MaU Tribnn" p,,H.hM r.tly Irf.pt Saturday hT - MSDTOHD PRINTING CO, 17-89 North nr St. Phtma 2-6141 ROBIRT W. BUHL, Idltor KRS GRXY, Advartistn- Manaxar X. C. FERGUSON, Manaflnc Sdttor KUC AIXPT JR City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Xditor RICHARD JEWnT. Sports Editor ; OUVJC 8TARCHXB. Society Editor r JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor .J; GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Nawspaper Entered aa aecond elaai matter at liediard, Oregon. - under Act of Msrcn a, io SUBSCRIPTION RATES - By Mail In Advance: Par copy 10c. Dair and Sunday One JWjW Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moa 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3JW. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, v Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. '. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. ' and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 r Daily and Sunday On month 1.29 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy ' : All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ot the City of Medford Official Paper of Jaehson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Arivortiatn Rmraaentativa: - WEST-HOLLU3AY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, san- rranctseo, ixw .'Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. . B.C. NATIONAL ED I TOIIAl NIWS'AMR rUIHSHIRS SSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson' County History from the files of The Mail' .Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. " 10 YEARS Acfo ,r,', ) : Jan. 26. 1945 Old Dr. J. W. Robinson home on did Stage rd. near Jackson ville heavily damaged by fire. From Arthur- Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A govern ment financial post should be given the San Franciscan who supported five wives on a street car conductor's wages. On sec ond thought, one cabinet post is not enough for such a genius.' 20 YEARS AGO V Jan. 26 1935 St Mary's High school basket ball team plays two games in one night due to ; schedule ?mixup; defeats Phoenix 26 to 16 in first game, and second, game, with Applegate Townies, ends, in 33 all tie when both teams are too tired to continue after second over time. Joe Denman and P. Sakraida star for. St. Mary's. W. W. Allen, of Pierce Allen Motor company, announces that Darwin K. Burgher, Medford High school instructor, has pur chased new car. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 26. 1925 . (It was Monday) ' State mental hospital officials deny report that five inmates are persons who have been driven insane by crossword puzzles. - ' Medford Business and Profes sional Women's club celebrates first ,.- anniversary - of . organiza tion. - 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1915 (It was Tuesday) -' Bin introduced In state legis lature calling for proposed Pa cific highway to run through Gold HilL Medford residents urged to wear a white carnation on Jan. 29 in memory of William Mc Xinley, "the martyred presi dent;.... ' ;. What's the Answer? (Can Yon Get 4 of fit 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial RMrch Rapavt :1. The Church of the New Jer usalem is based on the precepts of v Calvin, 'Mary Baker Eddy, Loyola, Luther, . Swedenborg or Wesley? .'. -t 2. Antibiotics are derived from living or dead organisms, or from neither? ' 3. Average life-time earnings of college graduates are much higher or somewhat lower than those of .high-school graduates, or about the same? 4. Is it longer by car from Boston to New Orleans or from New Orleans to Los Angeles? 5. "Apartheid" is" a hot issue in Cyprus, Egypt, French North Africa, : Indian, Isreal or South Africa?" --f . fl '. . I? spWfii 6. You would find a disc jock ey in a horse race, field events of a track meet, a laboratory, a broadcasting studio, or an obser vatory? - . 7. Luchow's is a famous res taurant in Chicago, Berlin, Mil- waukee, Vienna, New York or Mexico City? The "answers: 1. Swedenboxg. 2. From living organisms (such ax 1 fungus). -3. Much " higher.' 4. From New Orleans to Los "An geles; .5. South Africa. 6. In broadcasting- x studio. - 7 -". New Jim Edmiston Writes Book , Another name has been added to the consider able list of Medford high school graduates who have, gained recognition through writing. The latest addi tion is James & Edmiston Jr., whose' book "Home Again," just published by Doubleday is expected to become a best seller. Edmiston, who won several tennis championships for his school, was a classmate and close friend of both Dick Applegate and John Reddy and like them developed the writing urge early in life. Applegate found his niche in newspaper work, finally becoming a foreign correspondent for the United Press, and Reddy wrote many magazine stories before devoting his time entirely to radio and television production. Edmiston sr., was prominent in the fruit industry here for a number of years,the family moving to Cali fornia in thei30!s. For some years the younger :Edmis-' ton has been engaged in script writing for the movies his,work including.a. picture concerning Glacier Na tional Park, originally titled "Park Ranger," in which Victor Mature and VirisbnrPrice appeared. In addition he has done considerable writing for television, f IN HIS new book the former Medford man'tells , the. story of a Japanese-American family how the father came to California in 1903, worked hard to build up a flower-growing'enterprise in the San Fran cisco vicinity; the birth and development of the chil-" dren and the trials and injustices experienced as a result of pre judice, discrimination and incarceration in a detention camp during the war. j J The latter part of the narrative concerns their re turn, after tiie war, the hostilities and prejudices eventually overcome, and the new settling-in as good Americans. . : : AS THE author points put, every occurrence in his " book is based on an actual one. It all happened, even if every bit of it did not happen to one specific family. ..''" " Because of this unusual literary technique the vol ume probably should not be, termed a novel. It is more in the nature of a documentary. Though the main story is preserved throughout, there are bits of inf or mation, comment and "underlined moral. In the end the book leaves, plain and written to convey. - - ,? , - -TTHE author, in a letter to the Mail Tribune revealed V that tine first draft of his book was written- here in 1946 but that long before that, an item published in the M-T, around 25 years ago, in fact, had some part in its fashioning for it had remained in his mind ever since. The item, as Edmiston recalls, bore the headline "The Jackson County Madame Butterfly," and read as follows: v. r : : : '::' ) , "A man who- was born and raised in Jackson county: .' went to Japan, met and married a Japanese girl, only to; " . find that the U.S. would not let him bring his" bride home.: "After a great deal of trying; he finally gave up, and v ' decided to remain in Japan with his wife the rest of his years.. ........ . - , ,j -, "All went well until one day he received word that his - ' v;.,. mother was dying, and would he rush home at once. Here a further complication arose: If he left Japan now ,he could not return (some complicated immigration rules here.) "For a day or two the conflict tore at .him, and then sud denly it was settled by his wife, the Japanese girl. She took poison ... so her husband could get to the mother's bed side." ... '"- : - THOUGH he admits the newspaper account had a 1 somewhat operatic ring, it was, he avers, a true account and he adds : "When at last all the discriminatory immigration laws were changed to give Japanese equal rights, as well as repeal of over 500 discriminatory laws in the Ul S. against Japanese Americans, the story I started in 1946 suddenly had an up-beat ehding written not by me, but by democracy. Aiid I got the book finished. Thus, in a way, the book is a sort of 'answer' to the sympathetic story which appeared so long ago in the Mail Tribune." D Y WAY of postscript, Author Edmiston recalls that " the Mail Tribune carried a report; back in 1939 or 1940, that he was killed in action while flying with the RAF. This report, he says, he never bothered to deny, but now he hopes his book .will sell well enough so that his bid friends will learn that he was spared; "Incidentally," he concludes, "I'm moving back to Medford in a few months." E. C.F, Bad Bill Picture Brighter There are a number of things which cause people to accumulate more debts than they can properly take care of , but contrary to general belief unemployment isn't the principal one. According to the ; American Collectors association overbuying is the number one offender. ; . The association's recently released? collection in dex notes, however, that there is a major improve ment in the collectibility of past due accounts, the first such indication since 1952. A LTHOUGH credit is being used .more widely at the present time than at any period in history, the association points out that people are becoming more concerned about holding on to jobs by maintaining good credit than was previously the case. The collectors observe that a noticeable pick-up in" employment, especially in some areas, and a gen erally improved attitude toward budeet balancine bv family groups have been ning-mever-aiiicuiinij?r.": tl , ; Wednesday, January 26, 19SS clear, the moral it was important factors in bright- Chinese Reds Claimed In Position Disastrous By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The Chinese Reds are in a po sition to make a disastrous, mis take. If they are sensible, they will take the United States at its word that it will not tolerate an: in vasion of. For mosa. If they are not, they will be repeating the mistake that they made when they went into the Korean war. . caaiies Mccaaav- iirremier-jror-eign Minister Chou. En-lai, who seems to be masterminding the Formosa situation, for. the Pel ping . government, - has ' climbed pretty far out on a limb. But he still has time to stop. : ; , -, Chou has been talking tough ever since the Chinese Commu nists started bombarding the Na tionalist held . islands - off ; the China mainland last September. Chou says-the. Reds are deter mined to take Formosa. He says, also ' that , they , will accept no cease fire which, would 'stop "the present 'island fighting between the Reds and the Nationalists.: -Should Know But vChou must Have sense enough to know; since the Ko rean war, .that Red China can hotfake Formosa , against.- .the United. States 7th .Fleet and whatever else the United States might need to throw in. . " President Eisenhower has left Chou and his fellow Red lead ers a clean-cut choice, peace or war. On The Side . (Distributed by King Wee image of my bonnie Betty,: God grant you may inherit Your mother's persom, grace . and -merit, And your poor worthless daddy's - spirit Without hU failings. Robert Burns. .- .In many states a female is not permitted to purchase strong drink at a bar unless she is 21. Those selling alcoholic liquors to minors can be fined, imprisoned and . lose their licenses. How many men can tell the age of a female for certain? It is no trick for a 17 year old girl to make herself appear over 21. There should be drinking licenses, is sued only to those over 21. Then in a case of "drinking without a license" both the drinker and the seller could be. arrested.' , f, Asking " , . Queries from clients. Q. How do you pronounce bacardi as in "bacardi cocktail"? A. Back-ar-dee (J.- Allured haired: women who are celebrities seem to be film actresses or band canaries. Have there been no successful red haired women .writers? A. Elihor Glyn,' author of "Three Weeks" was red-haired. Agatha Christie, one of the greatest mys tery story writers of all time is a redhead. So ft Ellen V. Mc Ijoughlin, editor of "The Book of Knowledge." ; Q.- Who was the star of the film titled "God Gave Me Twenty Cents"? A.- Communications Letters to" the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis jible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not - exceed 400 words. That Wizened Potato To the Editor: Read a very amusing article in ' the Sunday Tribune's "Pot Luck" column! about Mr. E. Hewitt who found a wizened, ; practically petrified potato in a sack of big. plump ones. The ' article - went on to say "How it missed being sort ed out by the grading machine remains a mystery." If that wizened potato could only talk ; it might tell a story similar to my potato story. Several years ago while living where those big plump potatoes come from my husband and; I had our hearts set oh something we wanted, but lacked the mon ey. One evening "after working all day my husband decided he was going to work all that-night on a potato grader and I insist ed on going along although I didn't know one potato from an other. There I stood all night long watching potatoes roll by, try ing to decide which ones to cull out and expecting to get fired any moment. , . . - Could it be that one wizened and practically petrified potato that I might have missed wait ed all this , time to show up in Mr. Hewitt's sack of big plump ones? , , - Mrs. Delbert Casey, f Route 1, Box 358, Central Point, Ore. v: NOT FOR THEM Passiac, N. J. . (U.R) Ben Rabin, , manager of .the State Employment' Service here, re ports "a nice quiet job paying $50 for ' a beginner for office work? .is being. -turned, .down by ladies. The job is inV coffin maker's'olfice. T '""" a it i To Make Mistakes Faced with the President's ac tion, the Reds can- still change their minds. , The difficulty is that dictators are prone to make big mistakes, and Chou, Mao Tse-tung and the othePeiping Reds are dictators. , Adolf ; Hitler blundered into starting World War-H. He had grabbed off Austria and Cze choslovakia and; was' going strong. r But he didn't believe Great Britain and France when they said they; should defend Poland if he attacked it. ' ' Hitter took Poland without difficultyBut he started World War n, in which Germany . fi nally was smashed and he and his fellow Nazi . leaders met shameful death by suicide : or hanging. .'-'"- - Tough Talk" Chou started talking tough in 1950 when the United Nations forces crossed. the 38th. parallel into North rKorea.' He talked tougher and , tougher until ' Red China did get m. ' ; . " :f Chou and' his' .felldw; leaders made 1 several : mistakes then. First, the Korean war " was a United Nations war and hot just, a t Uniteijstates war: . the free world was behind it. : Secondly he woefully underestimated the enormous power of the United States. : Undoubtedly Chou thought the United States ' would be pushed off the Korean peninsula. ' It cost the - Red Chinese well over 1 , 000,000 casualties to realize 'it could not be. '- ' ':';-y''-l ' Chou now has the choice of making another mistake like that, or of ' accepting the facts of life. - , By EVV. Durling Featum Syndicate, Inc.) Lois Moran. Her leading man was Jack MulhalL Passing By June Havoc. Blue-eyed; honey blonde siren from Seattle. One Of the many daughters of newspa nermen to make good as act resses. June has been married three times so far. First time she was a bride she was 13 .:, John Steinberg. ' Distinguished restau rant and night club executive. An outstanding authority on Broadway . history. ,Mr - Stein berg, a charter member of the celebrated "Circle to the Square Society of Bathtub Singers,"! is fond of including old songs in his morning medley. Some of his favorites are: "I Love Ybu in the Same Old Way," "Come Down Ma'; Evenin' Star," "Can't You Hear Me CaHIn Caroline?" "Dearie," Just TeU Them That You Saw Me" and "There's a Tear in My Beer Tonight.' Asides ' When a - woman has a prefer ence for an extra long cigarette holder: it indicates she is suffer ing from a sense of inferiority. Or, so say the psychologists . Am asked if I ever saw a "fat1 vegetarian. Can't, say I thave. However, I am not acquainted with . many ; ; vegetarians. . Inci dentally, -a hippopotamus is "a vegetarian. Average .. "hippo' weighs around four tons. ; - ; ; Bargain . :. What's ; the greatest "bargain you benefited by in a price, cut ting war? I recall a price cutting battle between two rival eating places. They kept cutting break fast prices. Finally ; one , restau rant was offering a ham and egg breakfast for 1-cent! ; ; I ; f Almost Confidential . v : s': It ' was none other than. St. Bernard who first said, "Love me, love my dog." . . . If you want to keep your place in-the affections of a tall girl never refer, to her as "a big girL" ; . A pound of honey represents the life work of a thousand bees. So a keeper of bees tells me I'll think of that : the next time X start putting honey on waffles.; Record Jj:. K-5 . Among the innumerable world records held by Brooklynites is one for speedy weight reduction. The holder is a woman : who, when she began to v reduce, weighed 313 pounds.- She re duced 125 in one year! Her dress size changed from 59 to 36. p v.- ,' mm THI5 LOOWNGOASS S USELESS i IT'S REALLY A PI $6fCE Is TEikf So? ' By Eagana tarns' . ". lUntar-NatMralitt . Speaking of eating . . . The glowworm digests its food before swallowing it. It - likes snail meat although this may be on the tough side: To digest it, the glowworm" gives the unsus pecting ' snail an : anaesthetic which puts it to sleep. Then it gives the snail a .covering of peptonized saliva. This peptive turns the snail's tissues into a rich broth which needs little if any further digestion within the glowworm's body. The common sponge whose skeletal remains we use to wash our automobile goes a step fur- ther it has no stomach at all. Its skeleton, in reality, is a com munity house in which a -great number of little sponges live and each tiny individual is assigned a. specific task. Some, for ex ample,' use their long tails, call ed cilia," to pull water towards them and they absorb the food that is shared with the other an imals in the sponge community who have no part in gathering the food but 'are busy with some other affairs of the community. In doing this community feeding, the juices do not go through a digestive tract simply be cause there is no such thing as a stomach. . ' Takes Empty Shell. - As you perhaps know, the hermit crab has no hard shell of its own to protect its tender body so it appropriates an empty snail's shell for its home, back ing into it. Then, when hunting for food,-it drags its mobile home with it wherever it goes.- But often; there is a fellow traveler within the shell, a worm, it comes out only to feed when the hermit crab is feeding and actu ally takes its food directly from between the hermit crab's jaws. - You'd think the exasperated host would eat the free-loader but not at all. It remains quiet while the . worm helps itself. Then when it is fed and retires within the shell to digest the handout, the crab' goes on with his, own eating. , Released by McClure -.Newspaper. Syndicate) -.' i;, FREE: : By special .-..arrange ment with the, editors of the tncyciopeoia - Americana. ., ny panel of judges will award each week to the ' reader who . sends me the-: best question on nature and wildlife a complete' 30-vol- urn set of this world-famous ref erence' work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new questions . will be ' considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to IT THAT SOI care of Medford Mail -Tribune, Box 575, Sausa Uio; Calif. NY Times Writer Tells of Censorship Taipeh, Formosa XU.R) Greg MacGregor of the New York Times complained today officers of the U.S. 7th Fleet delayed or suppressed every dispatch he sent during two weeks at sea. MacGregor told Vice - Adm. Alfred M. Pride he was not even allowed to send a message telling thfe Times where he was or why they were receiving no reports from him. ; - The correspondent said naval officers -were . "very, generous with suggestions for changes in my copy, - which " they hinted would keep me on the good side of the -Navy and get my. dis patches transmitted." v The admiral told me We was very much surprised and dis turbed and would take steps to clarify and correct the situation immediately," MacGregor said. BELLOW PAGES CAN HELP ME SAVEAfACE 1' In TRo Bay's By FRANK JENKINS A series of events is falling into what looks like a signifi cant' pattern. This is about the outline of the pattern, as it has so far developed: ' rPHE Chinese Reds have taken by military force one island in the East China Sea between Formosa and the ' communist held ' mainland. -They are scout ing another island with the pos sible intent to TAKE IT ALSO by military force. rpHE Filipino vice-president has expressed concern over the situation which, he says, threatens the : security , of the Philippines, which are our major outpost in the Orient. y: AMERICAN naval vessels in cludinsr - aircraft ; rnrriprs have left ports in the Far East, APPARENTLY HEADED FOR THE WATERS AROUND FOR MOSA. PRESIDENT EISEN H O W E R sent a special message to congress OUTLINING A POL ICY ON THE SECURITY OF FORMOSA AND ASKING CON GRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR IT. REPUBLICAN leaders in the house and the senate have, as sured the President of their 'sup port for such authority as he seeks in the Formosa situation. DEMOCRATIC Chairman James Richards of the key house foreign affairs committee an nounces that he supports a LINE OF NO RETREAT IN THE FORMOSA AREA. He acknowl edges that this would carry the risk of a shooting war, but adds: Adrie rJonth End . r - v.v.v EG BDffGQCGC . Casuals, Corduroys, Cottons, Rayons, Nylons, Lovely Prints W Suitable for year 'round wear. ;r Also. Includes a few Square Dance - -Dresses and Junipers Values - To $19.98 NOW Hundreds cf G:r Dr::;:3 To Select From Values jro $49.98 H'8 i29tt W3 mm Woojs and Dacrons Plain and Pleated Styles Values to $14.98 BUY Don DONT MISS VALUIS A 1 ane 214 East Main Phone 2-7169 " join march" of dimes " " I Neivs We run a FAR GREATEJt RISK the other way." r- - JTHAT is to say: - i ' - We arc apparently leading up to h flat statement to the Chin ese Communists that if they at tack Formosa - IT WILL MEAN ALL OUT SHOOTING WAR. QRIM? Yes, it's grim. o But in the lives of nations, as in the lives of individuals, there come times ' when one must either fight or. RUN. , ' . .- ' - fTHIS looks like one of those times. We've drawn ; a line around Formosa and have told the Red Chinese that if they cross it well fight We're in the position of the small boy who draws a line in the dust with . his toe and. dares his opponent to - come over it. . - " , If the other boy comes aver with his fists swinging and the boy who drew the line RUNS, he might as well move to anoth er town. . THE Commies cross the For mosa line and we . run, ; we' run, we might as well keep run ning clear to our ' own shores. Our days of world leadership will be over for 1 if we; back down at Formosa the Commies will talrdk' if- oc a im fhaf wa'r. afraid to fight and if they think . we're ; afraid to fight there's nothing they won't do. A SHOWDOWN is always a grim . and serious affair. It looks like the showdown with Communism is approaching at a gallop. 1 nne s (2) end SOTE! -J TKXOUCHCUT HE ;,: ---j.'C".' - 9 :',,rr'; ' s ; :nne s ': '- .' -. ' - - ' ' t:-. ' " FOR MIRRORS AND GLASS . 1T.PAYSTOIDOK IN THE 'CLASSIFIED PART OFWURTELEPIIOraECOOX
