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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDF(VRI). OREGON, TUESDAY, .TUNE 7, 1938 New Pioneer From Dust Bowl Finds Life Hard, Rough in Oregon DESTITUTE HORDE Meteorological Report PROVING PROBLE FOR RELIEF AIDES New Farm Units Through Irrigation, Drainage, In sufficient To Care For Thousands Coming West. v p 52n '. - v wts&( Ik (frvvT mvimm m&- a PORTLAND, Ore., une 7. (AP) "New pioneers" the Pacific northwest calls a fugitive horde of weary men and women and their children who, In dilapidated automobiles, are rat tling today out of the nation's dust I bowls, acroes the Rocky mountains and on to Oregon a country they thought was a land of promise. For every farmer resettled with money and land from the govern ment, many others have drifted, the farm security administration said, to the nackroads on the fringe of clvill atlon, scratching out pitiful garden patches In the timber, working for subsistence in the fields and living Jn hovels. The records of the farm security administration are filled with happy interviews from families who qualify I in money, Implements, stock and in telligence. For the majority of others, unheard of and unknown, there Is only desolation. Relief Worker Shocked Deep In Oregon's rich farm,' dairy and orchard region, a middle-aged man with a tubercular wife, two sons and three daughters took precarious refuge in their flight from eastern Colorado. The environment shocked a hard ened relief Investigator. The mother and father, beaten and worn, slept In a trailer more like box-car. It teetered on Its rusty jacks when the wind blew along the face of the hill. ' Chickens wandered In and out (he flapping door, at home I on a soiled, untidy bed or hopping irom broken chair to grubby table.) Two boys of pre-school age slept I on a bursting mattress In a packing vi uui. im cnic&ans naa uoon i niwr 01 iHimiirs irom ine mine howl 4 of the mlflWMt niv nnrf nere, wo. me isas ni a one Trojan wimout ine ueneiits or loans and land from government resettlement woric uinng ine Deaaing tnrougn ngui inr precarious existence in ine northwest a reslon thiv innkpri the tiny door. Dirty socks and shirt I forward to as a "land of promise." rpper Irft: This old car rattled over ware totsea 10 ine noor to ary tne " hoi-kips irom itnnnt ana the fumlly of four, the parents and two children, set up a poor tent-shark homo on a timbered tract In fertile Washington county In northwestern Oregon. Upper right: Dirty faces are as great a bother In green Oreeon as the wm in rimtv Kan sas. A raggedly dressed mother finds it hard to keen children clean and iiuy m none 100 aonnnnnt surroundings. tower lert: a farmer, typical of thn miduMt rfnA rm h. irceiess niains or Kansas scnas his ax Into a mil Oreenn nr. if. new kind of Job for him. Ills labor Is the prlre of tenancy on a scven- imHMiiKimi 1-ouiu.v. un pmns to sell cordwood throueh If there Is e n o ti 2 h nmnev tpft nvtr. tn scratch In a cro among the stumps next spring. Lower right: A little nuiisas gin, who lines Oregon because It rains, shines her sho. in an over-crowded tent shack while little brother looks on. The bright ...... K....W .unir irum muiMi, two, out it hasn't been turned on In Oregon because there Is no electrical wiring and the family can't afford "" nvwiuicu I'lTSS I'llOlO. June 7, 1938. Forecasts. Medford and vicinity: Pair tonight and Wednesday; slightly cooler to night. Oregon: Fair tonight and Wed nesday; altghtly cooler tonight In In terior of west portion; moderate to fresh northwest wind off coast. Local Data. Temperature a year ago today: Highest, 70; lowest, 63. Total monthly precipitation, none. Deficiency for the mouth. .18 Inch. Total precipitation since September 1, 1937, 24.06 Inches. Excess for the season, 8.03 Inches. Relative humidity at 5 p. m. yes terday. 13 percent; 5 a. m. today, 74 percent. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:35. Sunset tomorrow, 7:44. Observations Taken at S a. m., 120 Meridian Time. TfWWT " o "S -i s 3 S to t3 EJ CITY 2 h S r i & VOTES DIVIDEND Boise ..... Boston ... Chicago . Denver ... Eureka arrc Irnt-t wtat In the June heat. The girl one of them went to distant high achool la the eounty bua had hack a few yard, up the .lope. It waa tidier and here and there i child', hand had lightened the ap pearance or mtiery with a magazine picture. (loatl Provide Milk Three goat, provided milk. The tho winter and ucrlinpj only oow waa dry. A flea-bitten collie ' rolled in the duet. When the aun became too warm the dog crawled onto the boys' bed. A few vegetable plants pushed anrougn the aoll around fir .tump. The father muttered something about it "not being much worse back home." A ragged, sturdy Kansas plains family had set up a half-tent, half- shock home on another hillside. From the canvas oovered doorway they looked out upon ferule or chards and clover fields sweeping westward to the cool coastal moun tains. The father, new in this land of trees, tolled on a seven-acre tract felling fir and 'hewing and sawing It Into oordwood. HI. labor was the price of hi. tenancy. The fuel will be sold In town and the slim revenue may provide a crop among the atumps next season. They Like Orrgon "We like Oregon. Its green and cool and there', not so much dust," sld the mother. Two children. boy and a girl, clung to her tottered sxirta. "Our friends In Kansas wrote that It rained this year but we're not going oac. My nusoand has alwavs boen farmer and a. soon a. wo not a little money ahead we'll start buying our own placo." "Ho docs pretty well at cutting wood for a Knnsau, doesn't ho?" she glanced prldefully at the neatly piled wocd. 'This Isn't such a very good place to raise children, but they're healthy." The Kansas mother had spread the sides of cartons on the damp ground. The tent was crowded by beds, cook stove and utensils. There were no pegs. Clothes and bedclliiK were draped on tublcs and chairs. Dishes and pans were strewn In all direc tions. a new radio stood out in sharp contrast against the soiled canvas wall. Along another dusty road at the crest of a hill, more transient fam ilies from afar had taken cover. Thcro was a scarmble when a strong er approached and they disappeared. Matted heads and dirty faces peeked from the windows. Not Knough Farms A young woman about to have a child sunned herself In a doorway. One family the parents, a little boy and a baby had tho Rood for tune to live by a creek. They had callRht an eight-Inch trout In a gunnysack and were cleaning It for dinner. The father had watched It In a tiny pool for scveril days and had dammed the stream to prevent Its escape. The northwest regional planning commlralon estimated that 38.000 families left dust bowl homes in seven years. About 10.000.000 acres, or 150000 new economlo farm units, may ulti mately add to the cultivated area In Oregon, Washington and Idaho through Irrlgotlon. drainage, clearing and flood control. Unless present construction schedules are speeded, only 10.000 new fams will be avail able In the next nve years 2,000 short of the number needed to care for the refugee, arriving in the northwest In the lost 18 months. Dse Mail Tribune Want Ads. 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ETHELWYN B HOFFMANN A dividend at the rate of 4 per cent per annum on both savings and Investment share accounts for the first Btx month, of the year waa voted by the board of directors of the Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan association at a meeting last night. In addition to declaration of divi dends, which will distribute approxi mately 912.760 to 566 saving members of the association, over .2,200 will be added to the surplus and reaem accounts from the earnings of th. six months' period, A. P. Butler, sec retary of the association, said today. During the last six month, th. emaciation made substantial progress In every phase of It. activity. The mortgage loan department reported the granting of 46 loan, on homes during the first five months of the year, showing a disbursement of $54,800 to finance purchase and construction of homes. The appeal to the public of Insur ance of savings share account, by the Federal Savings and Loan Insur ance corporation, an agency of the government, waa credited by the board of directors for the substantial Increase In volume of share account payments over the previous six months' period. This made available a larger sum for new loan.. The new liberalized loan plan adopted by the association 1. attract ing a large number of persona Inter ested In home ownership. Directors of ths Jackson County Federal are: C. M. Kldd, John O. Mann, R. E. Green, Olenn O. Taylor. W. J. Warner, H. J. Field and A. P. Butler. HOUSE ACTION BLOCKED ON MEMORIAL TO BAKER WASHINGTON, June 7. P) Ob jections by Representative. Taber (R. N.Y.) and Rich (R.-Pa.) blocked to day house action on a memorial to Newton D. Baker, wartime secretary of war. The bill, by Representative Ran dolph (D.-W.Va.) would authorize ex penditure of (25,000 to establish th memorial at Marttnsburg, W. Va, boyhood home of Baker. 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