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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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PROSPECT SCOUTS TO
HAVE COURT OF HONOR
PROSPECT, June 7, (Sp!.) Boy
S:out troop 19 of Prospect will hold a
court of honor June 24 at B p. m.,
In the Prospect gymnasium. A social
will follow. Those attending are asked
to bring salad, sandwiches, cake or
pie. All interested are Invited to at
tend.
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MEDFORD 98
New York 81
Omaha ............ 80
Phoenlk 108
Portland .............. 94
Reno 90
Raseburg 96
Salt Lake 84
San Francisco 64
Seattle 83
Spokane 80
Washington, D.C. 80
Yakima .... 88
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SEMI-ANNDAl CLEARANCE
1 Coat. - Dresses Hat.
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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