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4 Thursday, April 17, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. . MEDFORDtWrRISUNE "Everyone in Southern 'yregon Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SPJ2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor tauL a auams. tity taitor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B7 Mail In Advance: Copv 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle .Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rome Riv er Talent, and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CK of Medford urneiai yaper or Jacuson county United Press Fulf Leased Wire MEMBER OT AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices m New York. Chicago. De- troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C. NEWSPAPER PUBUSHEKS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocPatiQn Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 17. 1948 (Sunday) Rural school district elec tions are planned for through out the county Monday on the question of exceeding the 6 per cent levy limitation in the consolidated budget. The Crater Lake National Park service is almost out of stamp money with a large por tion of the year yet to run. 20 YEARS AGO April 17, 1938 (Sunday) Sale of a 320-acre ranch three miles north of Central Point, formerly known as the Willfrey orchard, was an nounced yesterday by L. G. Pickell, realtor. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The wheat is up knee-high in some spots. Tillers have started sowing their whiskered bar ley." 30 YEARS AGO April 17, 1928 (Tuesday) Small gray squirrels have been suggested for the city park. From local and personal column: "Fire of an unde termined origin destroyed the Mountain View inn, two miles south of Wolf Creek, last Thursday." 40 YEARS AGO April 17. 1918 (Wednesday) A whirlwind campaign for recruits for the United States naval reserve ison" in Oregon and a recruiting party of four naval officers and two yeo manettes will be in this city. From local and personal column: "Miss Jane Allen, the public health nurse, accom panied by Miss Martin Gates, spent Tuesday in the neigh borhood of Rogue River visit ing two patients in the moun tains." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What famous frigate was commanded by Isaac Hull? 2. Bible: Is Jerusalem to the North or East of the Mediterranean Sea? 3. Where is the Preakness race run annually? 4. What was the principal difficulty that resulted in the failure of the French com pany that attempted to build the Panama canal? 5. What is the birthstone for June? 6. Socrates was born be fore, or after, Christ? 7. In which state was the fabulous Comstock Lode dis covered? 8. "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise" is attrib uted to Thomas A. Edison or Benjamin Franklin? 9. In what sport, played on ice, are brooms used? 10. "When in the course of human events," is the first phrase in what document? Answers: 1. The - Constitu tion. 2. East. 3. At Pimlico track near Baltimore, Md. 4. Tropical diseases. 5. Agate. 6. Before (469 years earlier). 7. Nevada. 8. Benj. Franklin. 9. Curling. 10. Declaration of Independence. NEWS EDITOR DIES Montreal (IP) Dermot O'Sullivan Baker, 44, news editor of the Montreal Star, died Wednesday. Baker join ed the Star 27 years ago as a reporter. How About the We are always surprised to find there are some people in far-away places, who not only still take the Mail Tribune but much MORE sur prising, read it. There are not many of them. But we seldom take a trip and comment upon places, that par ticularly if the comment is not liked this office doesn't eventually get some reaction. And often from a Mail Tribune subscriber in the area. THIS has been true as 1 recent vacation in Tucson, Arizona. We have at hand, Mesa, Arizona, asking us that the "Friendly Southern Pacific is as unpopu lar in Southern Arizona The note adds: "We have lived here never heard the Southern 1ELL, we don't know T- at the moment, and conversational habits, but m our month s stay in Tucson we did hear the Friendly Southern Pacific spoken of disrespectfully many times, and there were several criticisms printed in the Tucson papers, with certain city orous protests. One SP employee at jeans volunteered, the road was not interested service much less bettering it. In fact in four weeks in Tucson we heard much more criticism of the "S.P." than we ever hear in Medford, except in this say has a higher batting average m this com plaint" direction than either the Tucson "Star' or "Citizen". DUT the real "pay-off" in this direction came from the Arizona Casa Grande Dispatch. The situation there regarding the Southern Pacific is almost identical with that of Medford, Ashland and other towns along the Eugene - Dunsmuir present "FREIGHT line." On the 20th of March the SP announced it would discontinue all passenger service through Casa Grande. As the "Dispatch" Eloy, Mariposa, Grande, of all passenger will be no way to ship, quote: "Valuable live stock, personal valuables or corpses to or from any of the valley towns or passengers, express or baggage." HIS the paper goes with the Southern policy as well as its lawless attitude. The same being "only a further defiance of the state cor poration commission and general." Six months ago, it seems, the "SP in defiance of the State Commission's orders, discontinued he main liner train "Argonaut , and so aroused he entire state that the state senate passed a bill appropriating funds to enable the commission to retain expert counsel securing evidence and bring he arrogant and lawless" SP to trial the trial date having been set for I T SEEMS this train called the "goose" and enjoyed a reputation with the travelling public very similar to that enjoyed by the SP "infamous Midnight Rattler" that used to run from Ashland to Portland. Mayor Ray Peterson of Casa Grande, for ex ample, had this to say: ' "Ail of us knew that the 'daily insult the SP called a passenger train could not possibly make any money . . . One wonders why the railroad went to all the trouble of running the 'daily, insult' at all when the ultimate result was so predictable." Mr. Harold Jones, city manager of Eloy, had the following to say: "It would be adviseable to get our shippers throughout the valley together and ask them to short haul the Southern Pacific . . . It would be feasible for shippers of non-perishable freight in the valley to specify that freight originating in the valley be de livered by the S.P. to the Sante Fe at Phoenix, Las Cruces or El Paso." A GAIN according to the Casa Grande Dispatch, the city councils of the towns along the SP line have made special appeals to the Arizona Attorney General, Robert Morrison, to marshal EVERY possible effort to win the May 12th suit against the SP. ' And finally the paper quotes George Senner, a member of the state corporation commission, as follows : - "It is obvious that the 80,000 people along the Southern Pacific's main line (in this area) are en titled to railroad service." OO W about the 250,000 people along the SP line in Southwestern Oregon and northern California? Well if citizens along the Eugene-Dunsmuir route would do what the citizens in Arizona are urged to do, by City Manager Harold Jones of Eloy, you would see some fast foot work in the Upper Brackets of the' "Friendly S.P." and it wouldn't be shadow-boxing. But all appeals in this direction to date, have been met by most Southern Oregon shippers, by a glodmy shake of the head, and a tacit admis sion that with only one rail-line in the valley they just', can't AFFORD to. get tough with the SP "monopolists" regardless of what the benefits of "S.P. " in Arizona a result of the writers' for example, a note from to supply some evidence as in Southern Oregon." several months and have Pacific even mentioned." exactly where Mesa is, we know less about its officials registering vig the SP station in blue information that his rail in increasing its passenger paper, which we would notes, this will deprive Gila-Bend as well as Casa service by rail and there on to say is quite in line Pacific's greedy, selfish the Arizona attorney May 12th. to be discontinued was Dennis the Menace Why don't du guys where people can In the Day's News By FRANK This fantastic world note: A couple of medical re searchers from Ohio an nounce that they have suc cessfully replaced a dog's natural heart with a plastic heart and have kept the ani mal alive for an hour and a half after the operation. Reporting on their experi ments, they tell the American Society for Artificial Organs that replacing a heart is no different- in principle from the replacement of any other part of the body, but add that it may be years before the delicate surgical techniques required are sufficiently per fected to make possible the replacement of a human heart. THAT is to say: The time may come when people can go to the hospital and get a worn-out heart re placed in about the s a m e way they now take their cars to the garage for replacement of a faulty carburetor. IT SOUNDS wonderful. But As always There's a fly in the oint ment. History tells us that despotisms are" apt to DIE WITH THE DESPOTS. Sup pose despots like Stalin and Krushchev (not to mention Hitler and Mussolini) could make out by replacement of parts to live for centuries. That wouldn't Be so good. THAT brings up something else. Van Cliburn, a 23-year-old six-footer and better" from Texas became the musical hero of Moscow when an em inent panel of SOVIET judges awards him first prize in the international Tchaikovsky pi ano competition. He gets a medal and 25,000 rubles ($2500 in bird of freedom money at the rate at which you could spend your dollars if you were a tourist in Rus sia.) But that's a mkior part of it. The Moscow audience, composed almost entirely of Russians, GOES WILD with enthusiasm for the good looking and fabulously tal ented young American. Krushchev himself (who is a smart public relations practi- such action might be to the people of South western Oregon as a whole. CO THERE we are. However, the point make today is that we hope our anonymous cor respondent from Mesa, Arizona, who wished for some evidence to support this department s claim that the SP is as UN-popular in Arizona as it is in Southern Oregon has been amply sup plied ! R.W.R. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- TTTHAT CONSTITUTES a "perfect woman"? Well, here's the VV Hindu recipe: "Take the lightness of the leaf and the glance of the fawn; the gaiety of the sun's rays and the tears of the mist; the inconstancy of the wind and the timidity of the hare; the vanity of the peacock and the softness of the down on the throat of a swallow. Add the harsh ness of a diamond, the sweet flavor of honey, the cruelty of the tiger, the warmth of fire, and the chill of snow, the chatter of the jay and the cooing of the turtledove. Melt and min gle these ingredients and woman is the result" What makes a woman march resolutely into a store to buy something? Margaret Kennedy lists these eight reasons: (1) Because her husband says she can't have it (2) It will make her look thinner. (3) It comes from Paris. (4) Her neighbors can't afford it. (5) Nobody has one. (6) Every body has one. (7) It'k different and (8) (most likely) "Because." 1858. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Klpy Features Syndicate,.. put sinks down reach '&a2' JENKINS tioner, whatever else one may say of him) gives him a bear hug and goes all out in con gratulations. rriHAT isn't all of the story -- On the same night a Rus sian dance company appears at the Metropolitan Opera House the first Soviet dancers to appear in New York in more than 20 years. Like young Cliburn, they take the audience by storm. The New York Times Re viewer calls them stupendous The Daily News says they were high-spirited, superbly rehearsed and "just plain fun." The Mirror says they seemed inspired by desire to please the capitalists "or go back to the salt mines." Following the performance, a thousand American fans clustered around fog s t a g e door and cheered and whis tied and clapped. TJERE'S the point: " The American PEOPLE and the Rusian PEOPLE have nothing against each other. The Russian people have no desire to CONQUER THE WORLD. Neither have we. This world conquest bus- iness is reserved for the DESPOTS who have too much power concentrated in too few hands. If in one way and an other the American PEO PLE and the Russian PEO PLE can be s brought closer together it may be possible to avert- the catastrophe of all-out war in the nuclear age. Justice of Peace Courts Reinstated Pendleton (IP) The Uma tilla county court Wednesday reinstated the justice of peace courts in the cities of Uma tilla and Stanfield. Judge D. R. Cook said an abolition order signed two weeks ago was unconstitu tional because Umatilla and Stanfield candidates were giv en no chance to run for the post of justice of peace at a consolidated court that would have been created at Hermis ton. we particularly wish to Stop Me Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Many Thank si . To the Editor: At the April 8 meeting of the Medford Ministerial Association, space given by Medford Mail Trib une was brought to the atten- tion of the group. As we dis cussed this service to our churches, week-by-week, we became aware of its value in money as compared with like space sold by the advertising department: The Ministerial group felt that such service to all our churches in the area should not be taken for granted. Gratitude was also ex pressed for the fine news cov erage given the churches by the Church News Editor, Miss Peggyann Hutchinson. It was therefore resolved, "that we express our appreciation to Miss Hutchinson, (present at the meeting) and write a let ter bearing like sentiments to Mr. Robert W. Ruhl, edi tor, for the cooperation of the Medford Mail Tribune with our association and for the coverage of church events in the news, and space given in each Friday issue to the Church Directory." Mr. Ruhl, will you please accept this expression of our grateful appreciation to you and your staff? Escil Hiser, Secretary Medford Ministerial Association. Housecleaning The Mind To the Editor: "Food is pre pared for us by animals and plants, before we can assimi late it, so we digest thoughts more easily that have already been digested by other men's minds." The above are profound thoughts of a great philosoph ical mind, we will all have to admit, words that deserve the hall-mark of originality, and thousands more of the same caliber are offered to us free, for merely digesting them. During this precarious period of time, when every day it is being proven to us how necessary it is to expand our power of comprehension, we are inclined to do some introspecting. As it nas always been said "We are either going forward or backward." No chance to prevent deterioration, unless we advance. Even it has taken H bombs and satellites to jolt our mental sluggishness. The pre-digested ideas of great minds given to us incessantly, in translucent form, and in every available way- conceiv able, are bound to change our rigidity of ideas, and trans plant noble, elevated inspira tions for the benefit of hu manity. The crusade for knowledge is becoming so ac celerated, all minds at all able to comprehend will no doubt recognize the rare opportunity that is presented to us daily. The blaze of enthusiasm needs to be fanned, we are told. Also we" are told daily, America needs every good idea that can be produced by human minds, and carried out in every day practice. Some claim coddling our minds, by using the excuse of advanced years to be catered to by oth ers, will finally be outmoded and to shameful for modern times. Father Time will simp ly have to ' copy Rip Van Winkle for keeps. There are those who predict that the obliteration of ignor ance will automatically elim inate all the rubbish that cor rodes the human mind. Wouldn't that really be some thing? To be specific some say we live in our minds. Could be a polite way of tell ing us to spring houseclean- our minds, and exterminate the termites, beetles and hor nets, that play havoc with our peace of mind. A sense of humor, for lubrication s sake, and to. put minds on the right track, might help. Don't you think so too? Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st, Medford. Bob Crosby Named in Internal Revenue Suit Honolulu (IP) The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $40,772 tax lien against band leader Bob Crosby and his wife, June, of Beverly Hills, Calif. The IRS placed the lien on the Crosbys' $100,000 home which they bought in 1956. The government claims the couple owes the money on their '1957 income tax. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 3-7335 'Shadow of De Gaulle' Darkens Over French Government Chaos By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The chief question in the new French ' cabinet crisis seems to be whether a "strong man" cabinet will be form ed now or later. The po litical s i t u a tion, confused since the end of World War II, is drifting toward chaos. TTflliv nail. Mccann lard, who re signed Tuesday after a defeat in the National Assembly on Tunisian policy, was France's 25th premier since the coun try's liberation in 1944. Gaillard had been in office for five months and nine days. The average length of a pre- St Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop ON THE NEVER-NEVER Detroit It is a little hard to believe in people like John and Jeannette; but they real ly exist barely exist at the moment in a grey "little street of grey little houses in East De troit. John is a fine - looking fellow, 11 years an auto worker, who Joseph Alsop waa UU1"6 ac ting up exercises when I rang his doorbell "because it's easy to get out of shape when you are laid off." Jeanette is a sturdy young woman whom John met on the assembly line at one of the Chrysler auto plants. They are not high ly skilled workers, hut they had over $160 a week of take- home pay between them be fore Jeannette lost her job last September. "I wouldn't of believed it until it happened," she said. "Seemed like you'd never be laid off, when you'd worked steady for seven years, like I had." A T that time, John had the car paid for (it was a cash bargain from a fellow work er). But the house, the wash er, the dryer, the television set and the furniture were all on the never-never. Alto gether, the . payments then amounted to $83 a month (al though John and Jeannette had never, addend them up, and Jeannette commented, "Gee, that's awful" when I did the sum for them.) Yet with Jeannette already job less, they went in hock for another $200 to buy Christ mas presents at one of the cheap Detroit stores that will almost sell toilet paper on time. Three weeks later, John too was laid off. "If I'd knew that, I'd never of went so deep at Christ mas," said John ruefully. But the deed was done. Today, Jeanette's u n e m p 1 o yment benefits have run out, and the family has nothing but John's benefits of $43 a week. With time payments swollen to $108 a month by the Christmas splurge, they and their boy live mainly on spa ghetti. Worst of all, John's benefits will also run out in another 13 weeks. But even now they seem to have no sense ot onrusning catas trophe. WHAT makes John and Jeannette hard to believe in, ot course, is me curious combination of mdustnous ness for both have always been hard, steady workers with almost total, lotus-eating improvidence. They are not unusual either. I ran into, one young auto-worker who had lost his job, had got married : THE VERDICT IS YOURS! If you feel it is only FAIR for all five mortuaries in Jackson County to share equally in both the responsibilities and the benefits of the Coroner's office, then ' VOTE FOR FRANK PERL and his proposed "Rotation System'7 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse 4 Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS mier's official life has been seven months. The longest pe riod for which a premier has been able to remain in office by holding together an un wieldy coalition of divergent political groups has been a lit tle over 16 months. One cabinet lasted four days. Four Solutions Seen . Four possibilities seem to lie ahead: Another patchwork coali tion, whose leader will have no authority and who will be constantly at the mercy of the chief coalition groups. , Constitutional reform, to limit the power of the Nation al Assembly, the . controlling house of parliament, to over throw a government and to give the premier adequate executive authority. on . his unemployment bene fits two months later, and had gone on the never-never for $850 worth of furniture and appliances with no job pros pect and only 17 weeks of benefits to go. He is on wel fare now. The wife 'is preg nant, and their whole wretch ed little apartment smelled of ruin. There was another brisk, bustling woman who had gone to work at Chrysler against her husband's will "because you don't never get ahead unless the woman works." With a big combined income, they had signed a really big note to a fly-by-night contractor for finishing their attic as an extra bed room. ,Now their time pay ments were $160 a month, or exactly half what the still working husband earns. The woman commented: "Anyway, we still got a little comin' in, so we're better off than a lot of people." . - At first one hardly knows which is more shocking, the rapacity of the never-never traders who prey upon these simple people, or the short sighted folly of the people themselves. Nothing, certain ly, can excuse the dealers selling trash for "nothing down, easy terms," whose "easv terms' are such that the trash is generally paid for at least twice over. x - BUT if you reflect on the matter, vou cannot put the whole blame on these in dustrial workers for their fantastic uses of easy credit They live, after all, in a so ciety that measures achieve ment not by inner standards but by material objects. Day after day, there are the voices sometimes very respectable voices warning them they have achieved nothing if their plumbing merely flushes but is not or chid colored, or if their cars merely get them from "here to there but do not look like dropsical juke boxes. Then too, the really mon strous use of credit they have been making has . been per mitted, and even encouraged, by the society leaders. The auto manufacturers were not the least powerful of those who pressed the Federal Re serve Board to relax install ment buying rules. And if tens of thousands of the Gen eral- Motors workers, . for in stance, have outrageously mortgaged themselves be cause , of over-confidence ' in their job-security, they have judged their job-security by the forecasts of " General Motors' President Harlow Curtice, who so often swept aside every suggestion that the American automobile mar ket might perhaps become saturated. (Copyrighted 19S8 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Formation of a "united front"- by left-wing parties, including the government, with the certainty that the Communists would rule or ruin it. Formation of a "strong man cabinet, under either a formal constitutional reform act or emergency legislation. with a man of dominant per sonality at its head. French Wartime Leader The only "strong man" in sight is Gen. Charles de Gaulle, wartime leader of free France who refused to admit defeat in 1940. De Gaulle, now 67, is wait ing for a call. De Gaulle has been out of politics for six years. He has remained silent in crisis after crisis. But during those years, and especially within the last few months, the "shadow of De Gaulle" as the political writ ers call it, has been lengthen ing and becoming plainer against the background of con fusion. 1 Vote For a Man With EXPERIENCE! Vote For EARL FOR Judge FORMER MAYOR OF MEDFORD Earl Miller if EXPERIENCED in BUSINESS, having operated his own successful motor service busi ness in Medford for the past 27 years, tie has served on rne ciry budget committee and has made a study of municipal and county fi nances. This is IMPORTANT be cause Jackson County is 6IG BUSI NESS and the office of County Judge is primarily BUSINESS MANAGEMENT JOB. Sound EFFICIENCY and real ECONOMY is Jackson County' call for a man of EXPERIENCE in BOTH BUSINESS and GOVERN MENT. Vote for Earl Miller and you choose a man with that vitally important experience. Paid Adv. Earl Miller for. County Judge Committee. Collier Buffing ton, Chairman, Hillcrest Road, Medford. Paid Political Adv. by . . . v - J &f,'i sis! i aum County
