4 Thursday, April 17, 1938
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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
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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!
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Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up.
HELP OTHERS!
The
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'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 . . .
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County