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Newspaper Page TextrOUH CTOFORD (OREOO) amMD "Xvarybocy in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 pramT w nrrRT. Editor KERB GREY Advertiiinl Manager X c FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC AiXE.N JH, tity tailor -HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD J EWE 11 a porta Luimr OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor Tirtf t a rvn Stinrfjiv Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marco a, iovi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday Ona year $13.00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot 3 JO By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, cagie f oim. Jacksonville. Gold H11L Phoenix. Shady Cove. Roirue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 15 00 uauy ana ounaay uue - Carrier and Dealers 8c per copy. All Terms tasn m wvam. Official Paper of the City of Medford Ofriciaj fapcr oi xhvb '"""v United Press Fuil Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Representative: averaging neprraenu . WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In new xotk. v.ut.iu. eattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. vencoover -i NATIONAL EDITORIAL H lASOCTgN NIWSrAMI rUBUSNIRI ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. t e 10 YEARS AGO Spt. 27. 1945 (It was Thursday) Fuel shortage predicted if tte AFL. lumber strike contin ents. from Arthur Perrey's Ye udge Pot column: Astronom er tstimate there are 200 bil lion stars. This seems like dough stars for the present. Af TEARS AGO fg.pt. 27. 1945 at was Friday) Chicago Cubs trim St Louis Cardinals to take National LMgue pennant to face Detroit fca world series. ' CCC field day planned be Kreen Camp Diamond Lake and Camp Annie Springs at the lat ter place. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1925 (It was Sunday) Half Boy Scout campaign fund under C. E. (Pop) Gates is filled, best results in any com munity campaign so far. From the Local and Personal Column: Apple and pear pickers are needed according to Chris Gottlieb, in charge of the local U. S. free employment bureau, in the valley orchards. This fore noon 25 pickers were needed, with no men available. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1915 (It was Monday) Ashland ice plant making plans to move to Medford in near future. H. O. Nordwick, proprietor of Medford Roller Mills, preaches to Scandinavians in Norwegian t Baptist church, the first ser mon so delivered in the valley. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955. Editorial ReseatcJi Repast 1. About one, two, three, four or five out of ten housewives with TV have been found to watch a morning show regular ly? 2. Orthodox Jews celebrate the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) for one day or two days? 3. Omaha Beach is in Nebras ka, the Far East, Normandy, New Jersey or Long Island, N, Y.? 4. About 50, 65, 80 or 95 per cent of all U. S. business units are classed by the Government as Small Business? 5. What prominent Washing' ton figure has the middle name of lilhous?" 6. About half, much more or much less than half of all U.S. automotive production comes out of Michigan? 7. Wilhelmina is or isn't Queen of The Netherlands? " The Answers: 1. About two out of ten. 2. One (but other holydays for two). 3. Normandy. 4. About 95 per cent. 5. Vice President Richard M. Nixon. 6. About half. 7. Isn't (abdicated for daughter Juliana in 1948). Amateur Detective Released by Police Chicago (U.R) Police report ed they freed Mrs. Kathleen Keefe from the trunk of her husband's car by prying the trunk door open. She told them "I was doing a bit of detective work in my husband's car when the trunk closed." She didn't elaborate, ' police said. . . . ., ; , - r tj , MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence San Francisco, Sept. 24 Something new to us but probably not to Medford pear growers "Piggy pears" from the Highcro'ft Orchards which are as red and blooming as Spitz apples used to be. Price 13 cents each or two for a quarter. Oregon was badly beaten by USC at L.A. 42 to 15 last night. But it was a moral victory for the Webfoots, for they weren't given a chance by the California sports writers. USC is doped to go on the Rosebowl again, whereas Oregon was advertised as fast but green "in the High School rather than the college class." As stated Oregon was badly beaten, but scared the Trojans for the first quarter by scoring the first touchdown, and gaining as much yardage on the ground not so hot in the air for the first half. One of the stars for Oregon was Medford's Morris, who did the kicking and was great on interference and defense. Dick James of Grants Pass was outstanding also two boys who were great rivals as High chool stars. What they could do had they had a few minutes help from Shaw and van Brocklin! at that it looks as though the Webfoots will give a good account of themselves this year, they are not only fast, but clever and full of fight. Of course this baby kidnaping was the story of the week, but as we see it, the police made a mistake in releasing so many of the details to the press. If they had asked the papers to go slow as they , did a couple of years ago on another kidnaping case, the papers would have complied and the woman who snatched the baby might have been less guarded in her movements and thus been apprehended. As it looks now recovery of the newly-born infant, alive, appears unlikely to say the least. . . . Word has just come in that Maryland has beaten UCLA 7-0, which will make several football experts blush a bit if they can blush. If any of them predicted Maryland would beat the team rated No. 1 in the country, we failed to listen in. At that we wouldn't play UCLA short, as far as winning the coast conference is con cerned. It was a rainy day and that UCLA fumble on the 2-yard line, was the pay-off. Just one of those tough breaks that prob ably won't happen again all season. - No upset however in that acquittal of the two men who kid naped and killed a negro boy because he allegedly gave a wolf whistle in the direction of one of the men's attractive wife. We only visited Mississippi once, but that was long enough to- realize that this southern state is not only stili fighting the civil war, but has the view of the colored problem that existed before it. Mur der down there, if a colored man is the victim, comes under the general heading of petty larceny. The news has just come in over the air that President Eisen hower suffered an attack of indigestion last night and is under a doctor's care. That may be correct just an attack of indiges tion. But there have been so many "attacks of indigestion" that have proved, to be heart attacks that most people will be uneasy until they get the low-down. Whatever the final diagnosis the news commentators will have a fine time with this item and its possible results regarding Ikes running for a second term. To do the presidential job in this country satisfactorily takes more than freedom from disease, it demands PERFECT health, of the super robust quality. We have always- been led to believe this is what "Ike" had. . . Well, perhaps he has and this will prove merely a temporary and very minor indisposition1. Everyone at home and abroad hopes so. But even so the political repercussions may be consider able in fact tremendous. That colored cartoon of V. P. Nixon which was ruled out of the San Francisco Art Festival has been sold to the former chair man of the San Mateo county central committee of the Democratic party. The price was $25, and Marcus. Kent that is the buyer's name says he may use it on some post cards during the cam paign. Incidentally the cartoon was titled "Dix McSmear" and there was no other mark to indicate Nixon was intended, except a very slight physical resemblance. One wonders if Mr. Nixon will be as generous and broadminded regarding the right of criticism of anyone in public life next year as he was this? One of the best stories regarding the farm delegation from Russia here appeared in the SF "When that farm delegation was here they visited a fac tory in California. Leader asked a foreman how many hours his men were working per week. "Forty," said the foreman. The Russian shook his head, replying that in his country they worked 70 hours a week. ' "You'd never -get this crew here to work 70 hours," said the foreman. "They're a bunch of Commies." R.W.R. Later: It is now reported the attack of indigestion was a mild cor onary thrombosis, the President ver and is under an oxygen tent. reports are favorable and there is make a prompt and complete recovery. There are probably a dozen men in the congress who have suffered more severe heart attacks but have been able to return to work. Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson is one of them. At such a time it is cheering to note partisanship is entirely forgotten, and the entire country re gardless of politics joins in wishing the chief executive a speedy recovery and a return to his duties at the White House just as soon as conditions permit. - P.S. With OSC defeating Stanford for the first time since the flood, one thing appears certain: Oregon is not going to play the poor relation role THIS year in the N.W. conference. R.W Jt. RUSHING TO PRESIDENT'S ASSISTANCE Presidential Press Secy. James Hagerty (left) arrives it Fitzsimon's Army hospital in Denver with Col. Thomas W. Mattingly, a heart specialist from Walter Reed Army hospital in Washington, D.C. Col. Mattingly flew into. Denver to confer with President Eisenhower's personal physician. General Snyder on the President's condition. Tuesday, September 27, 1955 News as follows: has been hospitalized in Den The country is stunned, but all every reason to believe he will Matter of THE NEW YORK PATTERN Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. tells a rather rueful story, these days, about Averell Harriman and himself. R o o s e velt and Harriman, of course, were rivals for the De m o c r a tic nomination -for the Governor ship of New York. Harrim an was the candidate whom no one Joseph . Also took seriously until the last minute,- except the people who really mattered. He was also the nominee whom hardley any one took seriously until the last minute, except the people who had the votes. But although they were hard-fight- king rivals in the final contest fcr the nomination, Harriman and- Roosevelt have remained close friends. - . teAf ter Harriman's '.. inaugura tion, "Roosevelt came to have a meal 'with the new :- Governor at the rambling old executive mansion here. Harriman- dicuss ed the beaming confidence of the Republicans that President Eisenhower can defeat any op ponent on earth if he chooses to run. He also remarked that Adlai Stevenson, whom he fav ors for the Presidency, -.seemed to be the leading contender for the Democ-ractic nomination. But Averell," .put in Roose velt, perhaps a trifle maliciously, the Eisenhower people and the Stevenson people : don't know what I know which - is your knack for coming from behind." The story, which happens for once to be true, is also a use ful illustration of. an important fact concerning the American political stock - market. -. Few stocks -have attracted more sup ercilious bears -than the stock of Averell - Harriman, ': and - in few stocks have the bears been caught, so., painfully short so painfully often. As revealed in" a previous re port in this sport, Gov. Harriman will become an active candidate for, the Democratic Presidential nomination 1 under certain care fully defined conditions. As he has said all along, he ; is , for Adlai Stevenson-rrquije sincerely for Stevenson, in the sense that he would like to vote for Steven son for President of the United States. - But he will not be for Steven son as Democratic Presidential nominee, if there is a pallid, in different national response to the - expected - "November an nouncement of Stevenson's cand idacy, and to Stevenson's en suing active campaign. If Har riman does not think that Stevenson looks like a potential winner against President Eisen hower,' he will become a cand idate himself, although probably an avowed candidate only at the last minute. The pattern, in short, will be the same as in New York, if the pattern develops at .all Throuhout all the earlier stages of the New York govern Indonesia Expected To Deal Bad News To Communist China By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent ' Communist China is likely to get some bad . news within the next few days. , '' The young republic of In donesia, the world's sixth largest nation, is to hold its first parlia mentary ; elec tion Thursday. Premier Harahap's Masjumi party is expected to Charles atccaiui get enough votes to form a strong coalition government. And that would be the bad news for the Peiping Red re gime. The - Masjumi party is based on the Moslem religion. It is ut terly opposed to the anti-religious Chinese Communists and is right wing in politics. ' The Nationalist party, which was in power until Harahap be came Premier on Aug. 12, was strongly left wing. It was friendly toward Red China and depended on the 17 Commun ists in the Provisional parlia ment to stay in office. Predecessor a 'Neutralist' Nationalist Premier Ali Sas troamidjojo, whom Harahap suc ceeded, was a fellow "neutralist" of Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India. - This so-called neutralism ac tually has worked in favor, of the Chinese Reds and against the United States and its allies. ; Harahap has announced that if his party wins the election he will keep Indonesia neutral in the Cold War." . .. But he is on record as being friendly to the United States. It is indicated that even if he remains neutral - and he may not the balance -of Indonesia Fact By Joseph Also) orship race, Harriman said he would be for Franklin Roosevelt if Roosevelt looked like a win ner. In the end, he decided that he had a better chance than Roosevelt. He became a cand idate, and was nominated with the backing of the astute Tam many leader, Carmine DeSapio, whom young Roosevelt had de fied. ' Harriman's claim that, he was standing for the nom ination because he believed he was a stronger candidate than Roosevelt was ridiculed by every expert as insincere political fokery. Then, when the votes were counted, the electorate rather resoundingly confirmed what . Harriman had said all along. Roosevelt, who was on the ticket with him, was badly beaten while Harriman won by a narrow margin. Furthermore, the Republican leader of the New York legis lature, Oswald Heck, has priv ately admitted that Harriman would have won much more handsomely if the efficient New York Republican organization had not, brilliantly exploited a lastaninute canard about rural school taxes. And Heck is the best possible ' authority bn the subject. ; The New York parallel is by no means intended to forecast Gov. Harriman's final decision. He has said he would like to vote for Adlai Stevenson. He means what he says. If Steven son looks like a promising Dem ocratic candidate, then Harriman will support him for the Dem ocratic nomination. There will be no - Harriman candidacy which will give great pain to Harriman's two political man agers, Carmine DeSapio r and state chairman Michael Premi er gast. - ; Prendergast and DeSapio, meanwhile, are already convinc ed that Harriman will have to be a candidate, for the rather simple reason that they . think Harriman can carry New York state against Eisenhower. The appearances are against them, but they-really believe it. And, without hindrance from' Har riman, but without prejudging Harriman's final decision eith er, Prendergast and DeSapio are acting on their conviction. They are doing what is only "normal and standard in their situation. They are encouraging favorite son candidacies in all the many - states,, particularly where there , are , Democratic governors. At least one of these may become a. real candidate, for it is known that the vote- getting young Michigan govern or, Mennen Williams, has begun to take himself extremely ser iously as a Presidential aspirant. But DeSapio and Prendergast are confident that if Stevenson does not make it, Harriman will. They expect bad trouble in the South. They admit that with peace and prosperity on his side if both are indeed on his side President Eisenhower will be fantastically hard to beat. But then they pomt out that Harriman has repeatedly sur prised everyone before. They are trying, in short, to pull off the surprise of the century. policy will be swung from the Communist bloc to the West. : Indonesia- is a big and import ant country. Its 3,000-odd is lands and countless islets sprawl for 2,000 miles along the equa tor. With 81,000,000 people, it is outranked only by China, India, Russia, the United States, and Japan in population. Wealthy in Resources ' It is the wealthiest country in Southeast Asia in natural re sources. These include rubber, sugar, tea, rice, coffee, spices, oil and tin. ; It is suffering from severe growing pains. There are size able revolts in Java, the main is land, Sumatra, the Moluccas and Celebes. Its army forced Sastro amidjojo's resignation. Since Sa stroamidjojo resigned a number of the country's highest officials, including two of his cabinet min isters, have" been arrested on corruption "charges. . Harahap won the prime min istry by waging a fight against corruption. He never had been a cabinet minister until he was named premier, and he was lit tle known to the public until a few months ago. Studious looking, spectacled, he is 38 years old. He fought in the revolution against Dutch rule and took a law degree be fore he entered politics. From the Western viewpoint, he seems a safe man. Police Inform Man Of Missing Daughter Columbus, O. (U.R) CoL Pe ter Chance retired, of La can da, Calif., was surprised when a suburban Whitehall patrolman stopped him but he soon found cut why. - The ' patrolman informed Chance that his daughter, Cindy, 7, had gotten out of the car un noticed a few miles back. 1912 Senatorial Fight In, County Former M-T (Editor's note: The 'follow ing is an6ther in a series of articles about the early days in Oregon written by George Putnam, now editor emeritus of the Salem Capital-Journal and former editor and publish er of the Medford Mail Trib une. It is reprinted from the Salem paper by permission). By GEORGE PUTNAM In 1907 Jonathan Bourne was the first United States Senator elected to the U.S. senate by a legislature having received 'a majority of votes in the 1906 election through "Statement No. 1." This enabled legislators to pledge themselves to vote for the popular choice for senator if they desired, and enabled sen atorial candidates to get names on the ballot This was a clever device of the "Oregon System" to get around the U.S. constitu tional provision that senators were elected by legislatures and elections degenerated into brib ery contests. Largely through Bourne's pio neer efforts the federal consti tution was amended to provide direct election of senators some 10 years later. Twice Defeated in 1912 Bourne lost the Republican nomination in 1912, defeated in the primaries by Ben Selling, Portland merchant and presi dent of the Oregon senate. He ran in the election as independ ent, splitting the Republican vote, and Harry Lane, Democrat, former mayor of Portland, was elected. - - - In discussing his independent candidacy Bourne's hope for el ection, he told the writer, was based on the bitter opposition of the Oregonian, which he fig ured was good for 10,000. votes for him; his championship of the "Oregon bystem " - reforms, m which he claimed responsibility; his popularity with the free sli er Democrats and the Populists; his . senate . record,, parcel post and Oregon . appropriations se cured, Sufficient support failed to materialize at the polls. Carried Jackson County " Bourne,, however, . carried Jackson county by approximate ly 800 votes, mainly, because he nad secured trie passage, of a sizeable appropriation ' for high way development of Crater lake park, the first t made.; Bourne was one of the conferees on the appropriations bill and dead mmmmmmmmm 1 'A mm. ' s.... lilll lis!!? ,w,,aaM -.::.v.: t Give GENEROUSLY To The MM Mfcrf (Orasatte Published in cooperation with the United Medford Crusade by The . . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Recalled by Publisher locked the entire bill until his Crater lake appropriation was approved. . t A practical joke also figured in the Bourne vote in Jackson county. Selling had delivered a campaign speech shortly before election 'in Medford,. and just after the speech a newsman from the Mail Tribune was standing on a Main street sidewalk in front of a saloon, when along strolled the prohibition leader of Jackson county, a fanatical, rabid dry if there ever was one. Under local option, when half of Medford voted wet he had tearfully proclaimed that "Our beautiful little city has gone to hell." Practical Joke Helped The reporter asked the dry chieftain if he had heard Selling speak. "No," he replied, "I got in too late from the country, but I wish I had seen and heard him. I'd like to meet him." Just ,then out of the saloon staggered an orchardist who was of the same height and build and resembled Selling. Seeing him the reporter said: "Here is Sell ing now." Beckoning the orch ardist over he introduced him as Selling and the orchardist was drunk enough to play up the part. - "Please to meet you, senator," he said. "Why, v he's drunk," said the horrified dry boss. "Can't help that, you wanted to meet him," replied ' the reporter. , ;' . ; The prohi leader disappeared in a telephone booth to flash the alarm and. soon the word was spread , all over the county that Selling had been tipsy in Med ford and the drys plumped for Bourne, because Lane was a wet also. For once Bourne had noth ing to do with it. " Little' things like that often swung an election in ..this land of the free and home of the brave, and the wets and the drys. .; ,. ',, '. ; . . , ' SUN LIFE ASSURANCE if"5" AM: 4ntymmm,.k.,m!m..,Sii). . . r. jf-t mm. all those nice people v.y ' . ' ' -v ' who ssmthe i united way'! Motorists Warned In Evacuation Test Portland (U.R) Police Chief Jim Purcell today warned mo torists or pedestrians who vio late rules of tne city s test evacu tion they would be arrested. "Operation Green Light," big gest test evacuation of a large city to be held, was scheduled to come Off today,' tomorrow or Thursday. Civil defense officials indicated it would' come in the afternoon. " A full three minutes of steady tone by the city's seven huge public warning sirens will sig nal the evacuation. Just before the evacuation sirens .will give the conventional test signals of 30 seconds of wailing followed by 30 seconds of steady tone. That means that everyone who hasn't special business or isn't a transient is supposed to clear out, by foot, automobile, of the downtown area. It's illegal to leave cars parked on streets in the evacuation area. The test was expected to last about an hour. , MR. INSURANCE Fred j Brennan My camera and photo equipment about $150 worth, was stolen from my car. My auto theft insur ance doesn't cover, personal prop erty. " Would Camera Insurance costing about $5 have covered my equipment against theft, loss, or damage? - For Information Cad MEDFORD INSURANCE " AGENCY -"Fhone 2-4940 WORRIED ABOUT THE. FUTURE? life Mturars will glint yen m rati rant income which yon cannot outlive, and also provide for your dependents if you die at aa early aga. .,. .-, .i Dont just worry about your family's future or your own. See ma about it today, . .. . - - CHARLES E. JONES, Local Ageni . Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA" :-::S;:::::::-5?'?:'i:: mmmmmm.