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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.-
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THI5 LOOWNGOASS
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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.
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me the-: best question on nature
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Sorry, I simply can't answer
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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.
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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
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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
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