SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Frida?. July 18. 1952
Truckers Open Public
Relations Campaign
At Meeting Held Here
What is intended to be a con
tinuing campaign of public rela
tions and public information
about the trucking industry was
opened here last night, at a
meeting held under the sponsor
ship of the recently-formed Ore
gon Highway council.
As explained at the meeting,
the council's objectives are
threefold: 1. Safety on the high
way; 2. Obtaining facts and fig
ures on costs and equitable
taxes, and 3. Telling the truck
ers' story to the people.
Bert Trask, assistant manager
of the council, said the industry
"is in trouble, and we admit it."
He was referring to popular dis
like of big trucks, and said, that
the industry "interferes with
people's pleasures." However,
he stated, the industry has con
tributed greatly to benefits of
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I all Oregon citizens in many
ways, principally by bringing
down freight costs by competing
with railroads, and by serving
areas not served by rail.
The council is a new depar
ture for truckers, and Trask
said that its organization has
been difficult because the indus
try is composed of many small
operators, who .are individual
ists and sometimes find it diffi
cult to "get together" on a pro
gram. Each of the industry's 12 divi
sions will be represented on the
board of directors, he said.
Trask emphasized the import
ance of the trucking industry to
Oregon, and pointed out that
there are 82,000 persons direct
ly employed in trucking, not
counting those who are indirect
ly supported by the industry. He
added that estimates place
truckers' tax total in recent
years at some $18,000,000, or
ab'out 39.5 per cent of highway
tax revenues.
Trask touched only briefly on
the matter of truck taxation,
which will be fought out before
the general election this fall.
The council is supporting a con
stitutional amendment which
will be fought out before the
general election this fall. The
council is supporting a constitu
tional amendment which will
ban weight-mile taxes now
charged trucks, and has pro
posed a combination registration
fee and gas tax system. Both
measures will be on the ballot
this fall, one an initiated consti
tutional amendment; the other a
referral of a legislative act.
Proposal Attacked
Trask said the registration fee
and gas tax system is used by
many states. The proposal has
been attacked from other
sources as discriminating in
favor of big, interstate truckers.
Trask admitted that there is dis
agreement even within the in
dustry as to the most equitable
formula.
Ellery Sills, Portland, presi
dent of the council, also spoke
briefly, saying that the council
will not sanction shifting the tax
burden from one segment of the
industry to another, and that the
council is non-political except
"when the truck industry is
threatened with political ac
tion." With the results of a research
program now under way, and a
unification of the industry, Sills
said truckers will be in a posi
tion to tell the true story of
trucking to the people and the
legislature.
"We'll fight against paying
more than our fair share of
taxes," he concluded, "but do
not ask to pay a penny less than
our share."
Jacksonville Sets
Gold Rush Queen's
Banquet July 31st
Jacksonville The annual ban
quet for the queen of the Gold
Rush Jubilee and her court will
be held Thursday, July 31, ac
cording to Dr. Al Griffin, queen
contest chairman.
The queen, who will be chosen
the day before, will reign over
the banquet. Dignitaries from
all over the Rogue River valley
and other parts of the state will
attend.
The Jacksonville Lions club
is sponsoring the dinner, which
will be prepared by the Jackson
ville chapter of the Royal Neigh
bors of America.
Two More Contestants
Two more queen contestants
have joined the contest, making
a total of five. They are Miss
Kay Marie Fisher, 14, of 308
Second street, Phoenix, and Miss
Margie Strader, 15, Talent. The
latter is a sophomore at .Talent
high school, is 5 feet lV inches
tall, weighs 98 pounds, has dark
brown hair, green eyes, and is
sponsored by the Talent Lions
club and Lady Lions.
Miss Fisher is sponsored by
the Phoenix Lions club and has
red hair, brown eyes, is 5 feet
3 inches tall, weighs 110 pounds,
is a sophomore at Phoenix high
school, and enjoys singing, play
ing the piano and swimming.
Other contestants include Miss
Kay Carrara, Miss Anne Weaver
and Miss Donna Schrader, all
of Medford.
Weekly Prizes
A weekly contest with prizes
for the top three candidates is
held. Voting is through the pur
chase of Jubilee, tickets which
each count for 100 votes. Miss
Carrara won the first weekly con
test ending July 11 with 27,500
votes.
Weekly prizes include such
items as a table lamp, bath soap
set, camera set-and electric heat
er, while the final prizes will
be wardrobes from Mann's de
partment store totalling $300,
and $200 and $100 for the first
three places.
Contest blanks can be obtained
by writing or calling Jubilee
headquarters at Jacksonville.
Valley Residents
lee Large Meteor
A number of residents of
southern Oregon and northern
California have reported seeing
a large meteor over this 'area
Wednesday evening. Reports in
dicated it was seen from as far
south as Red Bluff to as far
north at Eagle Point.
Guests attending an outdoor
party in Jacksonville saw it, and
reported it as a "flying saucer,"
but an airline pilot flying over
Red Bluff reported it to the
Civil Aeronautics administra-
Polio Epidemic
Reported in Local
Areas of 9 States
New York-U.R Polio cases
in epidemic proportions were re
ported Friday in local areas of
Iowa, New Jersey, Illinois, Min
nesota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
West Virginia, Ohio and Florida
by the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Epidemic proportions means
20 or more cases per 100,000
population. Indications were that
1952 will be the heaviest polio
year on record, exceeding even
that of 1949, the record year.
5,352 Cases
At the end of this year's 28th
week. July 12, there were 5,352
cases. The figure for the same
period last year was 3,856 and
for 1949 it was 4,878. The total
cases for 1949 was 42,366 and
the total so far this year is 28,-
668.
For the week ended July 12
L047 new cases were reported.
For the comparable week of
1949 new cases totaled 1,014 and
in 1951 it was 615.
The peak of the "polio year'
is reached in the last week of
August or the first week of Sep
tember. The foundation said it
will not be possible to estimate
the proportion of this year's epi
demic until the peak is reached.
The foundation was receiving
and meeting requests from , va
rious areas. It flew five res
pirators from Boston to Omaha
where 35 new cases were hos
pitalized.
Oregon's Bartlett
Pear Crop Said Up
The Oregon Bartlett pear crop
is expected by the Department
of Agriculture's bureau of agri
cultural economics to be 10 per
cent above average, it was an
nounced today. The pear crop
prospects in the Rogue. valley
are not as bright, however.
The bureau indicated an esti
mated Bartlett crop of ,54,200
tons in the state. This estimate
is about the same as last year's
The 1952 output in the Hood
river valley is expected to be
better than last year, but the
bureau expects a poorer Rogue
valley crop to offset this. Low
temperatures, it was said, re
sulted in moderate damage- to
the pears in the Rogue valley.
Frost hurt the peach prospects
in Oregon too, so an average
crop is anticipated. It will, how
ever, be largef than last year's
skimpy peach crop, the bureau
forecast.
tion as .a meteor, which he
watched for some 20 seconds.
It was also reported from Tal
ent, by H. V. Munson of Eagle
Point, and by other residents of
Medford and the valley.
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CLOSET YIELDS TREASURE
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of papers and boxes that yielded
more than $300,000 in cash and
securities. The treasure was found
in bedroom closet of 76-year-old .
spinster, Miss Emma Schuknecht, '
who died July 8.
Ike Leaves Spotlight
To Democrat Conclave
Denver, Colo. U.R) Dwight
D. Eisenhower left the political
spotlight to the Democrats Fri
day and went into a week of se
clusion at a mountain retreat.
The Republican presidential
candidate seemed to have but
one objective in mind at the mo
ment to catch some trout. If he
had any interest at all in what
was going on in Chicago where
the Democrats are gathering for
their national .convention, he
didn't show it.
He left here Thursday with
plans to spend a week fishing in
the cold, swift waters of St.
Louis creek. The mountain
stream cuts through the 1,900
acre cattle ranch owned by Ak
sel Nielsen; an old friend of
Eisenhower's, near the village of
Fraser, Colo.
Active Club Continues
Scrap Iron Drive
The Medford Active club will
continue a scrap iron drive it
started three weeks ago, with
a second day of activity slated
for Sunday, July 20, President
Ray Husorr stated today.
The club is using the money
derived from the drive for its
child welfare projects. Anyone
having any scrap iron they will
donate to the drive may tele
phone 2-4585 or 2-7141 and it
will be picked up.
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