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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. BEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1941 PAGE FIVE $5,952 To Be Expended In Next Year City League Invited To Convene Here. Under a plan to aid cities whose paved streets have been particularly and unexpectedly burdened by heavy commercial traffic, the Oregon state high way commission plans to spend $5,952 on the repair and upkeep of such streets in Medford dur ing 1942, the city council at its meeting last night was informed by a letter from R. H. Baldock, chief engineer. The highway commission's proposal is contingent upon the city entering into an appropriate agreement and it was indicated that this would be done. The matter was referred to the streets and roads committee to work out. The city, it was brought out, would be expected to prepare maps and similarly incidental data on the commercially-used streets needing re pairs. Traffic Heavy The letter from Mr. Baldock said In part: "The Increase in heavy traffic, particularly log truck traffic, has caused a ser ious problem in some of the towns and cities of Oregon. Many pavements built by adja cent property owners fnr light traffic have deteriorated rapid ly under the repeatfJ applica tions of heavy load'. The high way commission believes that in equity and justice some relief CITY TO RECEIVE SurviVe Crash of Bomber STATE ASSISTANCE IN STREET REPAIR I:-"' ' VS' Thre of the nine members of .a four-motored army bomber that fell to pieces in the air near Georgetown, Calif., were warmed by cups of coffee at a ranger station following their rescue. All except one of the other members of the crew also survived. Wreckage of the huge plane was scattered over a 50-acre area. Left to right: Pvt. R. V. Moseley, Pvt. F. E. Pekuri and Pvt. A. H. Stookey. should be afforded to such towns and cities through the ex penditure of funds derived from the gasoline and motor-vehicle taxes." With this in mind, the com- EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE A 1 lit i r mission's engineers made an in vestigatk n of the situation about eight r.onths ago and prepared a report on their studies, the lett. r said. Under the commission's plan, $150,000 will be allocated for expenditure in 1942 among ci ties and towns of Oregon rang ing in population from 250 to 50.000 on the basis of a formula which gives a weight of one third to the variables of popu lation, mileage of general-use city streets not now on state highway routes and ton-miles of traffic using such streets, Mr. Baldock said in his letter. An other $100,000 has been set aside for emergency use in cities where the ordinary sum allo cated is insufficient, the letter added. League's Aim For several years the League of Oregon Cities, of which Med ford is a member, has been en deavoring to procure legislation to allocate a portion of the gaso line and motor-vehicle taxes to cities for the maintenance and construction of streets, contend ing that city residents pay the bulk of the taxes and that mu nicipalities alone no longer can afford the costly job of street maintenance and construction work. Mr. Baldock's letter said that league and commission rep resentatives conferred on the plan now proposed by the commission. Mayor H. S. Deuel stated he had received a letter from the league telling of a tour of the state In the near future. The league, he said, offered to hold its southern Oregon meeting here if the city council so de sired. The council quickly voted to extend the league an Invita tion to meet here on November 26 and Frank P. Farrell, city attorney, and Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent, were ap pointed to make arrangements. Salem. Nov K 3 A liga tion of the state highway com mission's $150,000 snnual fund for repair of city streets not on the state highway system was announced today. Allocations Include: Salem S17.21R Vuomi. tin. 646, Albany $2,751, Ashland $2, 342. Astoria S4 741 R.ikr M . 773, Bend $3,620, Corvallis $3!- 482, Grants Pass $2,997. Hood River $1,657, Klamath Falls S7.029. La r.rnnrto o ni n Marshfield $2,175, Medford $5,- 952, Oregon City $2,834, Pendle ton $3,206, Roseburg $2,206, and rne uanes $3,023. Trailerite Absent-Minded Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo. U.R When ring ers found a vacant house-trailer at a playground they towed it to park headquarters. Two weeks 1 later its absent minded owner remembered and returned for his "home." PLAY TROUPES TO BE FORMED AT ARMY POSTS Cleveland, Ohio U.PJ West ern Reserve university .s pre paring to launch one of the largest single movements in the nation to bolster army morale and provide entertainment for the more than 1,500.000 men under arms by drawing upon talent in the ranks. The program, drawing its funds from the Citizens' Com mittee for the Army and Navy, Inc., with Thomas J. Watson of New York City as its head, is co-operating with the National Theater Conference. Barclay S. Leathern, director of drama at Western Reserve, is executive director of the pro gram and plans to organize the national talent in the army into thousands of stage casts to en tertain nightly the men now in the army. It is a job of dealing profes sionally with the amateur actor in camp," Leathern said. "There prboably never was a more se lect group of young men col lected than we have in the my. "There is enough talent In the army today to furnish the dra matic world with its stars of stage and screen for years to come we're going to organize it for the boys themselves to enjoy." The plan has been tried at Fort Bliss, Tex., and Fort Bragg, N. C. Leathern has received appli cations from 300 persons for the nine directors and advisers who are to be assigned one to each of the nine army corps areas in the nation. , As soon as the nine directors are selected, the war depart ment morale office, which is behind the movement, will no tify camp commanders there is available professional advice and organization abliity to develop talent in the various camps. The dramatic director will choose the talent, study the fa cilities of the camp and advise the plays to produce. FROM NOW ON! I I sequins 4 mm y m mror l h A THEY'RE REALLY yfJOO f iJ.'Ar-""r" EXCEPTIONAL AT LT ttco-colors Doeui't it do something to you Inside when you wear goy colors? Don't sparkling sequins ond glittering nailheads put you in a holiday mood? And watch, It's contagiousl Co all-out for excitement and try a new style, too ... a torso, a side drape or a dress with that Important two-piece look. Wonderful blues, greens, goldsl Wonderful combinations with black or brownl . . . And we've all block, too. Rayon crepes. Sizes from 9 to 15, 12 to 30. VFffJt, Tlon) PoVsiavt PlnM! 117 SOUTH CENTRAL TELEPHONE 3930 PERSONNEL RESEARCH Cleveland, Ohio U.PJ West ern Reserve university has creat ed a personnel research insti tute to serve business firms, institutions and individuals In personnel and vocational guid ance problems. DAY CROWDED Memphis, Tenn. (U.R The Shelby county grand Jury set what it believes is a record when it met for one day, re turned 47 true indictments and three not true bills in 50 cases investigated during the single day's session. The city of New York had a population of less than 400,000 hundred years ago. Communications Blackout Aid Appreciated To the editor: We wish to express our sin cere thanks for the large and very efficient support by your self and your entire staff given to the Jackson County Council of Defense in making a success of our first trial black-out. I assure you that all of the more than four-hundred people who took part in this county wide demonstration feel the same way. Yours very truly, Jackson County Coun cil of Defense, S. M. Tuttle, Chairman. Frank Hull, Coordinator the age of General Von Haes eler, who was 81 and in com mand at that time. You are losing track of the fact that a new element had been injected into this battle which had been stalemated for months. This new element was the introduction of the fresh American army under Pershing. It was this splendid fighting force from our domain rather than the age of the German gen eral, that whipped the Germans and gave victory to the allies. I am also finding that you are quite wrong in Implying that Von Hindenburg, who was in his seventies, was one of the gen erals, who by reason of his age, was responsible for Germany's losing the World war. The fact is that Hindenburg never lost a single battle in that war unless it may have been at the very last when the final debacle swept all over Ger many. Hindenburg was the general whose armies whipped and con quered Russia, in a series of smashing victories that put Rus sia completely out of the war, many months before the World war was over. When Russia sur rendered to Hindenburg's mas tery, she claimed that she was exhausted in furnishing hund reds of thousands of men, just for fertilizer for Germany's for ests and fields. The fact is, Hindenberg had studied this ground for years, realizing that the Russians would some time try to invade Germany from this approach, and despite his age, proved him self the best general Germany had to handle this invasion from Russia. It was in honor of these wonderful feats that Hinden burg was elected as the first president of reorganized Germ any, after the war. Then the editor drifted to our presidents, and called to atten tion, the fact that Teddy Roose velt was only 43 when elected and that he was very successful as president with his strenuous activity and accomplishments. Just why did the editor stop here? We have another Roose velt in as president now and he was some years older than Ted dy, when he went in as presi dent, and was he dropped for overage? No. He has done so much splendid work in this of fice that the people have elected him for the third term and seems to be going stronger with advancing over age, and despite the Isolationists and John L. Lewis, he is still holding more handsomely onto the will of the people, and who knows, with his advancing, popularity may be elected again, and even again to the Presidency, despite the Osier theory. 1 A. r. Shartel.' Hlndenberg's Old Age To the editor: Have observed what you had to say, editorially, in your paper last Sunday, under the heading of "Old Men For Counsel", and must differ with you when you maintain that Germany lost the battle of Verdun, because of E OF 1). S. Former President Points Out Little Nation Outrage ously Attacked By Reds. New York, Nov. S. (.JP) Former President Herbert Hoover Tuesday Issued a pub lic statement protesting the at titude of the United States gov eminent toward Finland in re lation to the conflict with soviet Russia. Following is the text of his statement: I protest at the United States using pressure upon democratic Finland on behalf of communist Russia. The Independence of Finland from Russia, 20 years ago,' was largely an American creation. The name of Wood row Wilst n is cn a score of rinnistt landmarks- We set Finland on her feet. The Finns were the only people in Europe who re paid the money we loaned them. Earlier Conflict Recalled Only two years ago this peace ful little nation was outrageous ly attacked by communist Rus sia. Our whole country herald ed Finland's resistance as tha most heroic stand of democracy since Thermopylae. The Finns, to save something, surrendered a third of their land to Russia. Then the communists drove) 600,000 Finnish men, women and children from the homes they had held for 500 years without even bed-clothes to protect them from the winter. True their ar mies have gone into Karelia, but formerly that was also mostly Finnish. Can America reproach them for taking the first chance to re cover these homes and their former countrymen? Has America lost all sense of human and moral proportions? ELKS ROLL CALL MEETING TONIGHT The local Elka will hold Its annual roll call tomorrow night at the regular lodge session ac cording to an announcement to day by Exalted Ruler Ernest Scott. In addition to the roll call, he stated that the district deputy grand exalted ruler. 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