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(OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, January 15, 1950 Crosstown by Roland Coo Portland No Bed of Roses Portland, city of roses, where life rolls serenely by and where the phlegmatic residents never get very excited even when they wake up enough to find they have elected a Mike Elliott for sheriff, is no bed of roses for those engaged in newspapering. NOT so very long ago the city's Journal two were great laid news- flat papers, The Oregonian and on their respective backs by a pressmen's strike. For weeks not a wheel turned and the cash registers gave forth nary a jingle. This was a particularly bad situation coming as it did just after both papers had moved into new and very costly quarters. NOW The Oregonian launched appears to be the target in adver- a cold war by one of its largest tisers, Meier and Frank department store.

The newspaper, whose somewhat attenuated appearance has been noted by readers in recent days, explained the situation Saturday in a front page statement by General Manager M. J. Frey, as follows: So much public discussion has arisen as a result of a combination of events involving The Oregonian and one of its major advertisers some statement on the part of The Oregonian seems advisable. Last week The Oregonian published an adequate and impartial account of the findings of a National Labor Relations Board examiner in a case in which the Frank company was charged with unfair labor practices. Immediately Meier Frank company canceled many pages of advertising already set in type in The Oregonian composing room and has, since then, reduced its advertising space to a fraction of the store's former, use.

Meier Frank not directly informed Oregonian of the company, this sudden and drastic curtailment of advertising space. As a matter of traditional policy, The Oregonian strives to report the news completely, impartially and without fear or favor. The Oregonian will continue to do so. We invite the patronage of those who approve this policy. to former Governor Charles A.

ACCORDING writing in his "It Seems to Me" column in the Salem Oregon Statesman, this is not the first time the wealthy Portland store-owning family has attempted to tell The Oregonian what it should or should not print. Sprague contends that the banishment to Washington of The Oregonian's political writer, Johnny Kelly, was by way of placating Julius Meier after the newspaper had incurred displeasure by staying with Phil Metschan, republican candidate for governor in 1930 while the Journal deserted the democratic candidate to support Meier. MUCH will as the cold war hurt may Meier hurt and The Frank Oregonian, undoubtedly also, and in more places than just the pocketbook. Tough Peckings The robins and other migratory birds, which stayed on here last winter to their sorrow, apparently took no chances this year but went on south long before bad weather set in. People who notice such things say they have seen fewer robins in the Rogue valley this winter than ever before in their memory.

BECAUSE of the usually the mild winters here a fairly percentage of friendly birds stay throughout the year. They are able to eke out a living without too much difficulty on the floor of the valley unless snow covers the ground for a protracted period. It is no wonder the robins gave us the cold shoulder this year, however, for last winter was really rugged for them. Because of the unusual snow, birds were forced down from the higher levels of the valley sides into the towns where they foraged for bits of apple, such berries as still clung to vines and were even reduced to taking a disgusted peck at bread crusts and such grains and seeds as kind-hearted humans tossed out for birds in general. Some managed to keep body and feathers together by eating berries off the postoffice holly, in fact this was one of the most popular sources of sustenance.

The famished birds would perch on the shrubs and gorge away while postoffice patrons passed within arm's length. always PHEASANT, remain quail here and the other around, smaller had birds tougher which year a time. Many died of starvation and only the action of the Izaak Walton league, game wardens, Boy scouts and kind-hearted farmers and ranchers in putting out seed and grain enabled some to survive. Pickings, or maybe we should say peckings, haven't been quite so bad for the birds so far this year but rural residents report that China pheasants and quail will be in a bad way again unless warmer weather comes soon to take away the E.C.F. Acme Telephoto.

HOME--Easy chairs by the fireside mean home to Consul General and Mrs. Angus Ward in his brother's nome at Allegan, Mich. The Wards recently returned from Mukden Man hurla, where they were beld virtual prisoners of the Chinese Communists for 13 months. 1-14-50 by Ni "Any prizes or inducements with kids' haircuts in the joint?" New Oil Recovery Method May Turn Abandoned Fields Into New Bonanzas Chicago, Jan. new recovery method may revolutionize the industry, turning abandoned fields into new bonanzas and dry holes into gushers, a Chicago firm said today.

The Gas Corporation of Chicago announced it had acquired exclusive patent rights to a process which penetrates oil-bearing strata on a horizontal plane instead of vertically or at an angle, as in conventional methods. To Bring More Oil Frank G. Buffum, president of the corporation, predicted that the new process will bring up millions of barrels of oil which otherwise remain in the earth' forever. It also will make available AFL Farm Labor Union Calls For Aid To Wanderers Fresno, Jan. 16th annual convention of the AFL Farm Labor union today called upon the government to aid "millions wandering farm workers" in their to obtain small tracts of land of their own to solve unemploy, ment and health hardships.

diErnesto Galarza, education rector, charged land was being held in "large tracts for speculation forcing farm to live in "unhealthy dilapidated camps, trailers and He declared federal and state assistance was needed to provide suburban homesteads on undeveloped land, "just as slums are cleared cities." To Undermine Wages International President of the NFLU H. L. Mitchell charged "foreign farm labor has been used deliberately to undermine wages and lower working standards of American agricultural vorkers." The convention unanimously adopted a resolution urging President Truman to issue an executive order abolishing an agreement between the United States and Mexico for the importation of 80,000 Mexican nationals on American farms. Delegates from 24 states unanimously approved resolution urging state and federal legislation making it unlawful to hire "wetbacks" (Mexican nationals) and other "imported foreign labor." Missing Pennsylvania Girl Found Murdered Lancaster, Jan. 14.

(U.P.) The battered body of pretty Marian 21, her head crushed in an iron pipe, was found tonight in a heavily wooded section two miles south of murdered. here. Police said she was The body was buried under a pile of roof sheathing in the rear of a summer cottage near Mill creek, just off heavily-traveled U. S. highway 222.

Detective Capt. John Kirchner said it was not determined immediately whether the darkhaired Franklin and Marshall college secretary, who disappeared last Tuesday, had been raped nor how long she had been dead. He said a blood-stained iron pipe, believed to have been the weapon used by her murderer, was found at the scene. He believed, however, that the girl was killed elsewhere and her body brought to the scene in an automobile. Bloody clothes found by a person walking through the woods led police to the spot where the body was buried.

Kirchner said. Like the deltas of other large rivers, that of the Po in northern Italy has been making land through the centuries. The site of the Greek colony of Atria, established on the Po estuary in the 6th century B. is now 14 miles inland. American Red Cross nurse.

served in 72 disasters in 32 states in the year ending June 30, 1949. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More about the Flying Arrow: It was the other day by 40-odd shells fired by a Chinese Nationalist gunboat. The shells set fires in the hold. Water was poured to put out the fires. The cargo consists largely of jute and baled cotton (along with some caustic soda) and the water is causing the jute and the cotton to swell up.

It looks now like the ship might burst at any moment like an over-ripe melon or a pressure cooker loaded with too many dry beans. The danger is so pressing that her captain has given up trying to get into Shanghai and says he is going to head for Tsingtao. ET'S interject a word here about Tsingtao. It lies up the Yellow Sea from Sea from Korea. Back in the Shanghai and across the Yellow days when we were talking cagily about protecting the liberties of the South Koreans against communist aggressions, our navy built There up a was big a base lot thereik about what our navy might do if the commies stormed Tsingtao some cold raw day.

There was speculation that in such an event we might fight. Well, we didn't fight. We got out. Probably we were wise to get out while the getting was Anyway, the reds hold and that it where the Tsingtao, Arrow is headed for at the moment to discharge her cargo. TWO American in the destroyers Flying are Arhovering row's vicinity, with orders to help if she blows up or sinks or something but to GET OUT OF HER VICINITY as soon as she is seaworthy.

A Nationalist Chinese gunboat is lurking in the offing ready to smack the Flying Arrow with more shells in case she does get seaworthy and doesn't blow up from internal pressure of her wet cargo or some other reason. To add to the general mess, the commander of the U. S. seventh naval task force, which is cruis ing around in the general vicinity of the ruckus, American ships PROTECTED from Nationalist gunboats WHILE ON THE HIGH SEAS. But The 'orders from Washington are for U.

S. naval craft to stay out of Chinese territorial waters -which are the waters inside the three-mile limit. navy, of course, could blow all gunboats and other OUR vessels of the Nationalist Chinese navy out of the water in about seven minutes after the order to do so was given. But That might start a ruckus that would drag the Russians in, and nobody wants that. The idea is to let sleeping dogs lie as long as they are willing to lie.

Meanwhile we mutter in beards about indignities to American ships engaged in commerce on the high seas-just as other nations have been muttering in their beards for centuries under similar circumstances. Muttering in your beard costs nothing and seldom stirs anybody up to the shooting point. WHY are we Flying getting the Arrow news so about the promptly? answer to that is easy. Wayne Richardson, 50-year-old correspondent the Associated aboard her at Hong Kong just to be there in case any news happened. He is still on board, shells, keeping a wary eye on the swelling cotton and jute that might crack the ship open at any moment and in between these activities he is sending out his dispatches for us to read.

That's the way with these respondents. The only rule they know is that the show must go on and the news must be told. Emergency Power Restored At Roseburg Roseburg, Jan. Emergency power was restored to the business district of Roseburg today after all electric supply was cut off for 24 hours. The surge helped to restore a lowering water level in the city's reservoir after electric pumps were rendered useless by the outage.

Firemen feared a flareup might burn uncontrolled as the city's water supply dwindled. Mount Rainier, third highest mountain in the United States, covers 100 square miles. FRANK MORGAN HAROLD SNODGRASS Funeral Directors Pledged to Give You The QUALITY you expect. the SERVICE you desire at the PRICE you select. Chapel Mortuary PHONE 2-8030 Classical Twins TRIBUNE in Southern Tribune" Reads The Mail Daily Except Saturday Published 27-29 North MEDFORD Fir St.

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E. Wahl, former cashier, elected president of Farmers and Fruitgrowers' bank. Cornelius Collins and Fred Hyde to be initiated into Elks lodge this week. District Attorney, Frank, J. Newman to oppose Circuit Judge H.

D. Norton for judgship in Jackson-Josephine county district. John Wells Johnson, local jeweler for 26 years, dies here. Nearly 700 persons take part in I sports events at Crater Lake park yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY January 15, 1930 (It Was Wednesday) General offices of Standard Oil company to open here soon.

Bill Morgan, Bill Bowerman and Cliff Garnett, former Medford basketball standouts, now playing for University of Oregon Frosh. Assessor J. B. Coleman describes present snow worse than big fall of 1890. Delegations from valley appear mission before to urge state Williams highway creek cut-off road.

34 YEARS AGO TODAY January 15, 1916 (It Was Saturday) Charles F. Young and Seely Hall, distributors for Chevrolet auto, to open sub-agency in Ashland soon. M. L. Alford, W.

I. Vawter and Delroy Getchell elected presidents of local banks. Elevator in Garnett-Corey building moved to West Main street entrance from side entry. "Acme Telephoto, ADMITS LIES Lawrence Ross (above), Memphis, trade newspaper editor, admitted on the witness stand in San Francisco Federal Court at the trial of Harry Bridges that he had lied about his "origin, education, name, father': occupation and his name." Subscribers TO report Improper or delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday. I regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. By J. Hugh Pruett Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education System In the long ago, so we are sometimes told, there lived twin brothers whose mighty deeds became so famous that at last they were changed into bright stars and placed side by side in the of time they there, and blue night heaventin After ages can easily be seen tonight and during the next few months whenever the sky is clear. Around 7 p.

face almost due east and look quite high in the There they are, two prominent stars, almost fairly close together and one above the other. The upper one, the whiter in color, is Castor. His brother Pollux is slightly brighter and to normal eyes is decidedly orange. This indicates a lower temperature than that of Castor. Both are exceedingly far from the earth, Castor being the more distant.

Group of Stars The twins, or Gemini, really constitute a considerable Pollux group of stars, with Castor and marking only the faces of the brothers. At our observing hour at this time of year, they are reclining with their feet toward the south. It is easy to trace their outlines. Starting with Castor, we find an irregular line of fainter stars extending toward right and finally curving gently upward into the foot of this brother. Then tracing in the same direction from Pollux we find a similar line almost parallel to the first.

The foot of Pollux, however, turns sharply downward with his heel at the square corner. When pictured, the twins are shown very close together. Late in the spring, they will be standing upright in the western evening sky. The Gemini, the sons of Jupiter, are often mentioned in classical literature. Many were the exploits ascribed to them in ancient stories.

The were accustomed to decorate the prows a of their ships with images of these great "Twin Brethren," were thought prevent wrecks in violent storms. The sailors often prayed to them for protection. It was said that as soon as they appeared on the tips of the masts-likely the electrical effect known as St. Elmo's violence of the storm abated. St.

Paul sailed on a ship "whose sign was Castor and Pollux." Castor a Double Good telescopes break Castor into two stars, a double. At 1 considerable distance from the double there is a fainter star which seems belong to the same system. The spectroscope indicates that every one of the three is also a double, but too close to be separated visually by any telescope. Whenever the light profanity of "by. Jiminy" escapes your lips, are actually swearing by the sons of the great Jupiter, although your pronunciation may be quite faulty.

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Raymond C. Coulter, Grants Pass attorneys, will conduct a conference on military justice at the regular training meeting of the 6310th logistical division in the upper council room of the city hall, Monday at 7:30 p.m. Captain Coulter, Grants Pass municipal judge and a member of the Oregon state legislature, will cover the changes made in the army courts martial manual by the 80th congress. Major Brown will cover the actual close similarity of the army system of jurisprudence to longestablished standards of civil justice. The meeting is open to any persons interested in the laws governing members of the armed forces.

SWEDEN APPROVES Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 14- (U.P.) Sweden recognized the Chinese communist government today and prepared to take up diplomatic relations immediately. Key West, Florida, originally was called Cayo Hueso, or Bone Key, by the Spaniards because of the large number of Indian skeletons they found there. Early English sailors habitually mispronounced the two Spanish words "Key West" until that name stuck. International education to prevent war was crushed in the Seventeenth Century.

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