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10 TEARS AGO
June 29, 1942
(It wag Monday)
Registration places listed by
incul draft board for all Jackson
county men between the ages oi
18 and 20 to register lor arart.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The public
In its war news wants the
"naked truth," not even wearing
a propaganda smile or fig-leaf.
20 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1932
(It was Wednesday;
Hottest day of the year re
corded as thermometer reaches
96 degrees.
State fire marshal appeals to
citizens of Medford to use ex
treme caution with "big" fire
crackers over Fourth of July
holiday.
SO YEARS AGO
June 29, 1922
(It was Thursday)
State highway commission an
nounces that all advertising
signs along highway right-of-ways
must be removed at once.
Small amount of opium con
fiscated as police raid Medford
Chinese laundry.
40 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1912
(It was Saturday)
Twentieth annual assembly of
Southern Oregon Chautauqua
schedules opening in Ashland.
William Jennings Bryan
"tears the lid" off national
Democratic convention by
switching his vote from Champ
Clark to Woodrow Wilson; de
clares Clark has Tammany Hall
backing.
Buchanan Installed
As Crater Lions Head
Willard E. Buchanan, 1032
Woodlawn drive, recently was
installed as president of the
Crater Lions club. District Gov
ernor Gunner Wohgen of Rogue
River Lions, was the installing
officer.
In an acceptance speech, Bu
chanan pledged that, as director
of Lions club affairs for the com
ing year, "our club will become
recognized in southern Oregon
as a progressive organization."
He added that "community pro
jects will be the club's main
goal."
Other new officers installed
were Dan Dwyer, first vice
president; Dr. Jack Ingram, sec
ond vice-president; Norton
Smith, third vice-president; Tom
Shoup, secretary; Fred Kruggel,
treasurer; Ralph Seeley, tail
twister; Chris Christensen, lion
tamer; and Lloyd Evans, Wyn
Carl, Jerry Vawter and Aubrey
Smith, directors.
: Robert Taylor was appointed
zone chairman for the Central
Point, Eagle Point, Prospect,
Shady Cove, Trail and Crater
Lions clubs.
Guests attending the installa
tion were Archie Fries, recently
installed president of Medford
Lions; Larry Sheehan, president
of Rogue River Lions, and mem
bers of the Crater Lions auxil
iary. . . i
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Editorial Correspondence
New York City, N.Y., June 26 In our last contribution we
said "It IS the climate." Well, it still is only with reverse
English- We can hardly say this record-breaking heat is worse than
Washington's was a week ago, but it certainly is just as bad. (And
three or four days ago "Ye Editor" was raving about the cool rain
and the mercury in the 60's.)
Let this item be broadcast by Jimmy Dunlevy:
"Stop fighting over the climate and get down on your marrow
bones and thank Almighty God you are living in Southern Oregon
and NOT on the Atlantic seaboard. Stay there if you can, and
don't venture east of the Rocky mountains in the summer or
the winter for that matter. Let them seed clouds or NOT seed
clouds; fight hail or help it; but FOR PETES SAKE stop this fault
finding with what the Weather Man provides out there. The worst
there is so much BETTER than the best here, that there is no com
parison. Be thankful for it. AH-Men!"
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We had no intention of taking in the Sugar Ray and Joe
Maxim contest for the light-heavy title until it was postponed be
cause of rain. In that announcement it was also stated some good
tickets were left so we grabbed one.
The show was held last night in the Yankee stadium up around
166th street which is 5 or 6 miles from our hotel, but with the
assistance of several transfers we finally got there around 9:30
the title bout was scheduled for 10 p.m. A fight was going on be
tween a long, lean colored boy and a stocky muscle-bound "white"
but no one was paying any attention to it. They were only paying
attention to the heat, and the occupants of the bleacher seats
dropping over the parapet and hot-footing across the outfield grass
to the so-called ring-side chairs.
It was an amusing sight. The
sleeves there wasn't a coat to be seen in that crowd of nearly
50,000 dropping off rather like seamen from a sinking ship, some
keeping their feet, others failing to do so, but only a few nabbed
by the park police who were trying to prevent the invasion but
had about as much chance as a couple of debilitated cowboys might
have had with a super-cattle stampede.
The victims were taken to the park bastille and kept for a few
minutes but were soon back again. The same thing on a smaller
scale occurred' outside the stadium, when the "Dead-End kids,"
white, black and yellow, assembled from all over Greater Man
hattan by the thousands, put on a plan of attack which contributed
to their deserved reputation for nerve and resourcefulness.
One group would start to scale the wall, the cops would rush
in a body to frustrate the effort and then the second group would
attack another section far away from a cop as possible and they
would usually make it at least some of them. Our guess is the
casualty list was high but the operation as a whole was a success.
At that the paid admissions with the TV revenues are estimated
at a half a million ($500,000) an all-time record for a light-heavy
contest.
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We knew "Sugar-Ray" to be one of the most popular fighters
New York ever produced he is a pal of practically all the local
notables including Mayor Impelleteri himself but we were hardly
prepared for the shabby treatment the defender, Joey Maxim,
received. The weather was just as hard on him as it was on "Sugar"
but to judge by the cheers of the crowd and even more by the
sports writers reports in the morning papers, there was no com
parison Sugar Ray was beaten by the humidity, and Joey nao no
hand in it. The climate won he didn't!
That is, in this expert's judgment, a lot of hot-air to be added
to the record-breaking amount dished out by the Weather Man.
Of course, on POINTS there was no comparison. Sugar Ray, un
doubtedly the greatest fighting machine per pound the ring has
ever produced, boxed circles around the heavier and slower
Maxim as everyone expected he would do. But if he ever hurt
him, it was not apparent to your correspondent, and he used the
binoculars on both men pretty steadily.
In factt from the start it seemed to us Sugar was preying con
siderably on his nerve. Before the gong he danced around as
usual, but it wasn't the sort of dance he put on in San Francisco in
his fight with "Bobo" some months back. There was no "zip" in it.
In the middle of the fight although we could find no mention
in the morning papers "Sugar" started for Joey's corner instead
of his own and had to be turned around and steered into it. That,
we thought, was a pretty good tip-off. Maxim meanwhile, slow and
deliberate even sluggish never showed the slightest sign of
fatigue or discomfort. He was advancing on Sugar practically all
the time, and while he was hit plenty, he also put on what
seemed to this department, a marvelous defense. At least 60 of
the blows were taken when he was retreating or spent their force
on his shoulders or his gloves.
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It was agreed that regardless of the outcome of this fight, there
would be a return match for the loser. Well, with old Doc Kearns
in the picture, this may be arranged for the money there will be
in it. But if Maxim is again on the short end we advise our old
i!,roi. n t tn talro all th "Suear" he can find.
0.UAJI pCil.Ciua6i;
The truth, as we see it, is that
heavy class and Sugar Ray just isn't.
" .... . ... l I'll 9 -.A 4w. thA
Sugar better be content witn
third.
To return to the weather which is again Topic No. 1 104
-i.Li s u- a., it -arrts
lasi iiigiik ui iuc "
ity should not be overlooked.
high, but there is one little item to question me x..ui-3 ""
There was so much moisture in the air at the Yankee Stadium
that Ye Editor's binoculars had to be wiped carefully every two
or three minutes with a dry cloth in order to see ANYthing. We
soon ran out of dry cloths and had to fall back on pieces of
the evening newspaper. It was actually like trying to see distant
objects under water.
u- ifsm
favorite baseball team the Brooklyn Dodgers shut out the
St. Louis Cardinals over at iiDDetts rieia. omuw -a
hi1i Prpacher Roe shut out the
two numus ouu iiuu6ti, - - .
Cards Musial, Slaughter and Sisler included 7-0. Strange about
Roe, he doesn't seem to nave anytning mulh-bui ayem
and no apparent razzle-dazzle yet he hasn't lost a game all season,
and the better the batters the more effective he seems to be.
i-. i 17-T nnM avn 3 h
hasphall satisfactorily, especially
going to stack up on July ni-itwn.
Authority Granted To Aid
Timber Salvage Speedup
The secretary of the interior
has eranted special authority to
the Pacific Northwest region of
the Bureau of Land Management
to remove marketing area re
strictions on salvage timber sales
for tracts which do not receive
bids at the initial offering, it
was announced Saturday.
Roscoe E. Ball, regional admin
istrator of Region I. said the re
strictions were lifted after a re
cent recommendation by the O
& C Advisory Board to that ef
fect, and Bell's request to Sec
retary Chapman asking that the
speed-up procedure be followed
on tracts of dead or damaged
timber which receives no bids
after the first advertising.
Regular Policy
The regular policy of the BLM
in western Oregon provides that
timber must be advertised for
sale and restricted to its market
ing area, which in most cases
means that it will receive pri
mary manufacture from logs into
rough lumber within the major
river drainage where the tim
ber grew. After being sawed into
Sunday, Jons 29, 1932
bleacher-boys all In their shirt
. . , .
Maxim is at his best m the light-
two uues mm uui ujr iw
in the national caDltol. tne numia-
- .j
Officially it was not reported so
had iho nleasure of seeing our
this hP eXTJiainS mOSl UUUKB JU
how the two big leagues are
rough lumber, it can be trans
ported anywhere for remanu
facture. Under the new authority, if the
timber does not sell to a mill
within the marketing area, it
may be sold within 90 days with
out readvertising to any firm or
company inside or outside the
marketing area in western Ore
gon, and may be removed as saw
logs or any other form of forest
products. It is believed that this
will be an important factor in
utilizing the maximum' amount
of BLM salvage timber, which
may reach more than one bil
lion board feet. This includes the
blowdown of the past two win
ters, the areas burned by the
1951 forest fires or killed in the
Douglas-fir bark beetle epidem
ic, which has been increasing in
the wind-thrown and fire-weakened
privately owned timber, as
well as. in government forest
areas during the last two years.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
5:30 p.m- for following day: 10 ajn.
noon s"tanta'
Crosstown
"May we play through?
Matter of Fact
"TAFT CHOSE IT"
Washington As the Repub
lican Convention comes closer
and closer, one point becomes
clearer and clearer. Sheer fear
of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
drove Sen. Robert A. Taft's stra
tegists to choose the least favor
able battlefield for their finish
fight at Chicago.
Everyone is still counting
noses for the first ballot, the
second ballot, and so on. But in
fact the real Taft-Eisenhower
test will come before either can
didate is even placed in nomina
tion, when the Republican Con
vention passes on the question of
the stolen Southern delegates. If
the Taft forces can seat their
delegates from Texas and Loui
siana, three quarters of the
bandwagon hoppers will hop to
Taft. And if the Taft steamroller
breaks down on. this crucial
question, everyone will know
the steamroller is only a one-
hoss shay after all.
The question of the Southern
delegates is thus the battlefield
chosen by Sen. Taft's own man
agers. By now, moreover, ample
evidence has accumulated to
prove that the Taft people do
not think very well of their own
choice.
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ITEM: The Taft leader in im
portant Dallas county, Joe C.
Thompson, Jr., (a "real Republi
can" who registered to vote in
the 1950 Texas Democratic Pri
mary) made a bold try for a deal
on a local basis. He offered the
Texan Eisenhower leader, Jack
Porter, nineteen of the thirty-
eight Texas delegates, with the
proviso that Taft's henchman,
Henry Zweifel, must not be un
seated as national committee
man.
Item: On at least two occa
sions, similar approaches were
made to Herbert Brownell, who
handles the national delegate
count for the Eisenhower camp.
The second time around, a rep
resentative of Sen. Taft offered
to sweeten the deal for Brown
ell, by seating the pro-Eisen
hower delegates from Georgia as
well as giving half of Texas to
Eisenhower.
Item: The supposedly impar
tial National Republican Chair
man, Guy Gabrielson, was also
sent to feel out Sen. Henry
Cabot Lodge on Sen. Taft's be
half. This scene must have been
rather .comic, since. Gabrielson
approached the problem circuit-
ously, and ended by urging some
kind of arrangement, because
we don't want to wash our
dirty linen in public.
"Whose dirty linen?" Sen
Lodge is reported to have in
quired crisply. "We haven't got
any dirty linen, and if the Taft
people want their dirty linen
washed in public, why that's
their choice."
AFTER these various feelers
had been rejected, Sen. Taft
said angrily, "Lodge would rath
er have the issue than the dele
gates," which in a sense is per
fectly true.
The reason for this can be
seen on the face of the figures.
If the main test is coming on the
Southern delegations, contested
Southern delegates have got to
participate in this main test in
order to be of any use to Sen.
Taft. One way or another, the
Senator's minority delegates
have got to vote to legitimize
themselves. To be sure they
would be able to do so, was the
Taft purpose in naming Walter
Hallanan as the Republican Con
vention's Temporary Chairman.
One cannot calculate today
just how many of the contested
Southern delegates will partici
pate in the main test vote. There
is the question of Georgia, for
example, where national com
mitteeman Harry Sommers has
a promise from Taft's Southern
pro-consul, . Brazilla .Carroll
Reece, that the pro-Eisenhower
delegation will be recognized.
There is also the question of just
whaf the, , test vote will be
By Roland Co
FSMEdJ' 9jy SUsWtHm 9tfaj ajetaaj
She has a cake in the oven.'
By Jotspb and
Stewart Altop
whtether on a rule, or on a spe
cific delegation, in which cases
the delegates from this one state
may be ruled off the floor. At a
guess, however, Sen. Taft's net
gain from using his steamroller
to seat his minority Southern
delegations should not pass
forty to forty-five votes on the
test roll call.
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"DUT AGAINST this gain of
forty to forty-five votes in
the big test, the Taft people now
have to offset certain intangible
but vitally important losses. In
New York and Maryland, for
one thing, Governors Thomas E.
Dewey and Theodore R. McKel
din can tell their people, "Go for
Taft if you must when the nomi
nations are made, but stay with
us on this Texas-Louisiana
steal." Such an appeal will be
very hard for even ardent Taft
enthusiasts to resist.
By the same token, Gov. Earl
Warren of California should find
it far easier to vote his big dele
gation solidly against Taft A on
the Texas-Louisiana issue, than
to carry the whole delegation
into the Eisenhower camp. And
in the Taft states, the rather
numerous pro-Taft delegates
who have been impressed and
attracted by Gen. Eisenhower
will find it easy to say, "I'm still
for the Senator for the nomina
tion, but I just can't help feel
ing his people have sold him a
sour apple on this Texas thing."
For these reasons, the Eisen
hower people think they will
gain many more votes than they
will lose, by having the main
test on the Southern delegates.
And of course, if the nomination
nonetheless goes to Sen. Taft
by straight steamroller-power,
its value will be -greatly im
paired. (Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribunt Inc.)
Oregon's Foreign
White Population
Shows Decrease
Washington (U.PJ Oregon's
foreign born white population
declined 23,103 in the 20 years
between 1930 and 1950, the Bur
eau of the Census reported Fri
day. The bureau said in 1930 Ore
gon's foreign born whites num
bered 106,175. By 1950 this seg
ment of the state's population
had dropped to 83,612. Of these,
55,831 were located in urban
areas; 17,462 in rural non-farm
areas, and 10,319 on farms.
Canada contributed 17,614 of
the foreign born whites with ad
dition 'of 1,171 from French Can
ada. Next largest group, 7,930,
came from .Germany with 6,904
coming from Sweden. England
and Wales . contributed 6,482;
Russia, 5,645; Norway, 5,318;
Italy, 3,581; Finland, 3,530; Ire
land, 2,179; Denmark, 2,521;
Switzerland, 2,465; Austria,
2,125; Poland, 1,312, and Greece,
1,230.
Teen-Agers Said Most
Dangerous Drivers
Salem (UP) Watch out for
teen-age drivers.
The state traffic safety divi
sion said Friday that Oregon's
most dangerous driver still is a
teenager or driver in his early
twenties.
Drivers 15 to 24 years old
were involved in 28,532 smash
ups last year, 1 25 of which dealt
death to one or more persons.
Drivers between 30 and 39 years
old had more accidents 30,778,
but only 101 mishaps involving
drivers in this group proved fa
tal. The division said:
"High speed, youthful chance-
taking, and driver inexperience
are the big factors in the num
ber of fatal- accidents reported
by younger drivers."
In the Day's News
Pre-convention politics:
Henry Cabot Lodge, J., Ike's
campaign manager, says in
Washington "the jig is up" for
Senator Taft.
Not unexpectedly, that r'iles
David Ingalls, Mr. Taft's cam
paign manager. He retorts blunt
ly: "It just Isn't so!"
Continuing the differences of
opinion (which, it is gener
ally agreed, are what make
horse races) Mr. Taft says he
ALREADY has the 604 votes
necessary for nomination on the
first ballot. Mr. Lodge claims
Ike will get more than 500 on
the first ballot.
If we accept that as gospel, we
must conclude that Governor
Warren, Harold Stassen and all
the favorite son hopefuls will
have only 102 delegate votes to
divide among them.
Personally, I'm inclined to
doubt that.
fn the Democratic side, we
v read in the political col
umns, the professionals have al
ready ruled out Kefauver, who
up to now has more delegates in
his bag than anybody else and
who has shown great strength in
the primaries. Kefauver just
"ain't got a chance," the big boys
say.
Neither, they pontificate, has
Russell, or Kerr, or Harriman.
They're just OUT, period. Ste
venson, they insist, is the fair
haired boy. (Stevenson says he
doesn't want it, but carefully re
frains from stating categorical
ly that he won't have it if it
is handed to him on a silver plat
ter.) The professionals prophesy
that if Stevenson backs firmly
out of the picture Veep Barkley
will be IT.
And so on ad infinitum or
ad nauseam, whichever way you
choose to look at it.
T wonder if we aren't seeing at
- least the beginning of the end
of the convention system of
nominating candidates for Presi
dent. We started out by choosing
electors one elector in each
state for each senator and repre
sentative. The electors got to
gether and chose the President.
That didn't work too well. The
states decided on the methods of
choosing the electors. In a lot of
them, the electors were chosen
by the state legislature. In some
of the states, a group of the
"right people" just got together
and picked the electors. You can
imagine, I think, the amount of
finagling that must have gone
on.
Anyway, the system began to
smell, and the odor wasn't too
pleasant in the nostrils of the
public. So we invented the poli
tical party convention system
under which the parties at their
conventions choose their candi
dates and at the general election
the people choose AMONG the
candidates.
That system, it seems to me, is
in its turn beginning to decay
slightly at the edges. Anyway,
as a sniff the political winds, I
seem to detect something faintly
resembling the effluvience of a
dead whale several miles up
wind. It certainly isn't the odor of
violets and roses that floats
downwind these days from the
highly political doings and utter
ances of the highly political pro
fessionals on both sides of the
fence.
Take the case of Pennsylvania,
for example. Pennsylvania
has 70 delegates to the Republi
can convention. Quite a large
number of these delegates are
supposed to be held in the hol
low of the hand of the governor
of Pennsylvania. When the gov
ernor gives the nod and holds up
a. finger, this body of delegates
is supposed to vote however the
governor says.
Experience tells me that un
der such conditions it would be
little less than astonishing if the
governor of Pennsylvania didn't
do quite a little dickering on his
own account before he gave the
final and decisive signal.
The whole party system lends
itself to a whale of a lot of such
dickering. It gives too much
power to the PROFESSIONALS.
It seems to me that any system
that puts that much power in
that few hands isn't too good.
I'm not starry-eyed about the
iHaa nf a national Prpsiripntial
primary, conducted simultan
eously in all the states. I'm not
even positive that such a system
would get better men than the
present system gives us. I just
find myself less and less enthu
siastic about the party conven
tion system of making Presiden
tial nominations.
Anyway, I imagine quite a lot
of people are beginning to feel
the same way and if so we're
likely to try something else be
fore too long.
C. OF C. BLUSHES
Morehead City, N.C. (U.R)
Officials of the Chamber of
Commerce were red faced Fri
day, and not necessarily from
the heat. After the chamber ran
newspaper advertisements de
claring the temperature never
reaches 100 degrees in Morehead
City, the mercury hit 107 Thurs
day. - ,
Confronting of Reds
With Early Precedent
Highlights Good News
By PHIL NEWSOM
.United Press Foreign Analyst
The week's balance sheet be
tween the good and bad news in
the hot and cold wars:
THE GOOD
1. The Reds stubbed their toe
in the Korean truce talks. After
screaming for weeks that the Al
lied plan of voluntary repatria
tion of war prisoners was illegal
and a violation of the Geneva
Convention, the Reds suddenly
were confronted with the fact
that the Russians set the prece
dent in 1943 when they offered
German prisoners repatriation
to "any country" they desired.
It probably won't have much in
fluence on the chances for an
early truce, but it was pleasant
to see the Reds squirm.
Ridgway Visits Germany
2. Gen. Metthew B. Ridgway
visited his forces in Germany
as he continued the tour of his
new NATO command. The or
ganizational phase of NATO has
been completed, he said, and
now will go ahead the business
of setting up an army of some
50 divisions by-the end of this
year. As in Italy last week,
Communist attempts to organ
ize demonstrations against Ridg
way fizzled.
3. Jean Letourneau, French
cabinet minister for the Assoc
iated States of Indo-China, could
report in Paris that more U. S.
aid will be forthcoming . next
year in the fight against the
Communist-led rebel forces of
Ho Chi Minh. The aid probably
will be stepped up from $300,
000,000 to $450,000,000 and it
will help the French build up
the native Vietnamese forces.
Eventually, it is hoped, the na
tive troops will relieve the
French of much of their burden
in Indo-China.
THE BAD
1. The British were both fear
ful and resentful over the U. S.
bombing of the Yalu river pow
er plants which feed Red Chin
ese Manchurian industries. The
British did not believe the bomb
ing would hurry the Chinese into
an early Korean truce, but fear
ed the attack might actually ex
tend the war.
They were resentful because
they believed the United States
deliberately concealed from
them plans to bomb the vital
hydro-electric installations.
Acheson Must Explain
2. Explaining the Yalu attack
was not the only job facing Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson
in his London visit. He also had
to explain the U. S. attitude
against an earlv four - nower
conference with Russia, at least
until the Russians gave guaran
tee that any such conference
would not be m-oloneeH Intn
another Panmunjon. Meanwhile,
he would attempt to hurry the
French into a settlement of their
Tunisian problem and the Brit-
lsn oi tneir quarrel with Egypt
over the Sudan and Suez.
3. As' the UN and Communists
continued to seek a truce at
Panmunjom, trouble continued
to brew behind their backs. A
70-year-old Korean confessed to
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a plot to assassinate Korean Pres
ident Syngman Rhee who is ia
a fight with the South Korean
Assembly over an extension of
his time in office. For the plot
ter, Kim Shi Yan, it was the
second time he had missed. He
said he also tried to kill the
emperor of Japan 30 years ago.
Rogue River
Rogue River Last Wednes
day, the fire siren blew at prac
tice time, but for a different
cause. When four-year-old Lee
Johnson was missing late in the
afternoon, firemen were called
out to aid in the search. The boy
was found asleep In the weeds,
near his home.
Because of a typographical
error on one of the posted copies
giving notice of the recent elec
tion, Assessor Meyers declared
the election on the lighting of
the athletic field to be illegal.
New notices were posted Thurs
day and the public will again
vote on the issue. Polls will be
open at the high school from 7
to 9 p.m., July 18.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Frantz
have just received word their
son Ray was made a master ser
geant on June 1.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Atkinson
of Denver, Colo., are visiting the
Howard Millers. The two
couples met and became friends
while spending the winter of
1948 in Florida.
Mrs. Walter Lee of the Red
wood Manufacturing company
and her sister, Otelia Stephen
oon, Glendale, Calif., who is a
guest at the Lee home, spent
Thursday shopping and sight
seeing in Medford.
Ralph Sieger, Duluth, Minn.,
arrived here unexpectedly
Thursday evening. He is visiting
his brother, Rudy Sieger and
family.
Recent guests at the R. S.
Frantz ranch home on Foots
creek were Mr. and Mrs. I. G.
Hoight and daughter from Tale
quah, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Roberts, Vancouver, Wash.; Mrs.
H. C. Chapman and Victor Vir
onda of Los Angeles, Calif.
At the special council meeting
held Wednesday evening, Harry
Nelson was appointed council
man to fill the vacancy left by
resignation of Lloyd Smith who
is helping build the new city
hall.
Bills for the fiscal year were
paid and funds were set aside
for city improvement which
will include fencing the reser
voir and some work on the city
hall. It was stated one room, the
city office, will be completed
now, and the remainder of the
building will be finished when
funds are available.
Mayor Dengler stated a city
building code will be taken up
at the next meeting of the coun
cil, July 1. Regular meetings are
held on the first Tuesday of each
month.
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