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10 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1942
(It was Wednesday)
Oregon and Washington coast
al areas are ordered by the fed
eral government to dim-out
lights for duration of war; Med
ford falls just outside the pre
scribed dim-out area.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Mohandas
K. Gandhi, the sheet wearing
leader of India, who is making
a nuisance of himself by threats
tr flirt with the Axis powers, is
still unsuccessful in his efforts
to have the British throw him in
a calaboose, where he belongs.
20 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1932
Forty-year-old Russian immi
grant who has frightened local
residents with ."wild antics and
incendiary speeches" is held in
the county jail for observation;
report he was running loose
without clothes proves erron
eous. M. O. Wilkins, Ashland, files
as an independent candidate for
district attorney.
30 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1922
at was Saturday)
The directors of the county
- fair report that they may have
to use huge tents to house the
overflow of exhibits for the fair.
Prof. Albert Einstein is
threatened with assassination
and flees from Germany.
40 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1912
at was Monday)
. Damage of $25,000 results
from a fire which totally de
stroys the Ashland theater.
Passage of a $100,000 federal
appropriation bill for Crater
Lake National park is expected
to pass both houses of Congress.
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It's A Small World
To the Editor: Little did I
think while fishing for salmon
in the Rogue river twelve years
ago that Mrs. Farrell's nephew,
John Dellenback, would now be
a permanent and enthusiastic
resident of Medford, or while
visiting your city this summer,
would have the pleasure of talk
ing to a former nurse of the
Augustana Hospital of Chicago
and now a resident of Medford.
She was having a reunion
with two other graduates of that
hospital and I feel quite sure
that one of them wag my nurse
when, as a young sprout, I had to
have some ankle surgery done at
Augustana by Dr. A. J. Ochsner.
The young interne by the name
of Nelson Percy whom she
thought had passed away is very
much alive and his name is an
nounced on the baseball broad
cast quite often. I believe he is
still the chief of staff. Saw the
picture of these ladies in your
paper but forget their names.
W. F. Farrell,
808 Junior Terrace
Chicago, 111.
"W1
itorial Correspondence
Rockford, HI., Aug. 2 If anyone in Medford is suffering from
insomnia, we advise them to move here. It is one of the greatest
places to sleep we have ever visited far, far better than Portland.
In fact, we have never seen a place where so few of the people are
awake and we 'don't mean at NIGHT only!
The Medford police would like it here. We thought Medford
held the record for disregard of the pedestrian, but it can't hold a
candle to Rockford. Having no car your correspondent has done
considerable walking, for while they have Yellow cabs here, it
takes half an hour to get one. And more often while the booking
office says one will "be there in five minutes," one almost never
comes. We nearly missed our train as a result when we returned
to Chicago for the Democratic convention.
From the hotel, where we are now staying, it is a walk of
only eight or nine blocks to the "old homestead" and the sidewalks
while badly in need of repair, are wonderfully shaded by gigantic
elms which arch over the paved streets, forming a perfect cathe
dral nave of leafy green, keeping out the direct sunlight like a
green canopy specially constructed by benevolent Mother Nature.
They are exceptionally long blocks, however, and as we had to
pack a typewriter and a package of books we called a taxi. We 11
be there in five minutes," was the familiar response.
"Do you mean that?" and we recited some of our experiences.
"Well five or TEN minutes!"
- ,
" We waited 25 minutes after calling a second time with the
same languid pledge by some female "Rip .Van Winkle."
So Grandpappy had to walk!
"But you see it's Saturday," was the Rockford alibil, "no one
works on Saturday."
"Then why don't they say so instead of pretending they do?
And as far as that goes it hasn't been much better any other
day. What's wrong? They are fighting hay fever pollen here now,
have they ever fought the hook-worm?"
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"But you ain't heard nothing yet," as Al Jolson used to say
or did he use the word "seen"?
Those who have ever attempted the job of cleaning out an
"'old homestead" which has been living on borrowed time for near
ly a decade, will appreciate what the undersigned has gone through
during his two weeks residence here. We doubt if anyone else
vould or could for words can hardly describe it. And only the
basement and attic have been attempted.
We grant there have been compensations, even some amusing
ones, and memories of happy "days, and of that golden era for
which there is no substitute YOUTH. But the dust and dirt, the
cobwebs and the things that look OK but fall into dust as they are
handled! And the sad undertones, the heat and the all around
mussy mess!
The net results to date have been microscopic in volume but
not altogether nil in value, material and spiritual. The problem,
however, has not been the salvage but the disposal of the tailings
weighing around a ton a large portion of it dust and dirt with fur
niture beyond repair and perhaps a dozen old rugs and mattresses,
pictures, etc., etc.
.
This IS Saturday and we have been trying for three days to
get some of the debris hauled off, but with no success.
Plenty of promises, in fact two definite hours set, accompan
ied by our plea we would rather have them refuse than make a
deal and then not keep it.
But they didn't refuse and they failed to keep either one. Nor
did they phone though they had the phone number.
We ran into one of them the following day, down a narrow
alley, and when we inquired POLITELY why he had not kept his
promise, he suddenly leaned over (he's an old, but able-bodied col
ored man) grabbed himself amidships and whined that he had a
terrible headache and cramps been terrible sick too much "kohn
on dee cob," he reckoned, "he was agoin'. home and to baid!"
We learned later he didn't go home and to "baid" but he just
got tired and decided he would do the job some other day.
All of which is explained by one of our few remaining school
mates here as the direct result of the "New Deal, Fair Deal and
FARO Deal, aided and abetted by that renegade So-and-So Tom
Dewey of New York.".
"Those coons," he continued, "get eight bucks a load, they
could easy carry five loads in five hours which would add up to
$40 for a HALF day's work! But do they DO it? No! they get
enough to buy some beans and bread with a couple of jugs of corn,
and then they loaf and shoot craps the rest of the time. Yep, as the
Democrats sing it 'Happy Days Are Here Again,' for the No-Goods,
the spongers, the crooks and the loafers and the Faro Dealers of
course!" -
.
Too bad our old Gad-Fly Pal and Captious Critic Gus N.
couldn't spend a few weeks here. He would thoroughly enjoy he
curbstone conversation, and might wake up some of the natives,
white and black. Only fear is he couldn't get an argument on poli
tics for as before remarked on the banks of the Rock they vote
the GOP ticket straight and have since the second battle of Bull
Run. (We have been wondering of late regarding the 100 per cent
Taft support in this soporific settlement of the catfish belt PER
HAPS they think it was WILLIAM HOWARD Taft they were
working and cheering for two or three weeks back! That might
explain the vehemence and the long period of mourning!
'
We had luncheon with a former Medford boy before leaving
Chicago. He was feeling greatly -stimulated, he had jost called up
the Chicago Tribune, stopped his subscription, and told them what
he thought of their continued unfair and vicious attacks on Gen
eral Eisenhower. Well perhaps there were many others who did the
same thing. At least for the past week in cartoon and editorials
the vicious Old-Man-of-the-Sea (and the Illinois National Guard!)
has said nothing insulting regarding the Republican candidate and
turned all his guns of wrath and
candidate. Governor Stevenson.
That won't please the Democrats, but it will the Republicans.
- As for the Independents (who decide all national elections
anyway) they don't take the Tribune or if they do they never
read its editorial page.
One of them an old-time friend born in Chicago 70 years ago
and a resident of the city all
Tribune in HIS house for ten years.
It is a pity more Chicagoans
do likewise. That would reform
Ts.n -inns n ions Vi writer
i. 1 ASUU fcV, vm. Tv
public with the title of editor, though his duties were practically
- ..... ... . 1. - 1 ' - : A C J nirc ff
confined to eaitoriai wrning wmcn in spue uj. wuu
anguish from the gallery, was undoubtedly fortunate for the
PAPER!
a iot- ttio lata
Tribune McCormicks, bought the
U1C illllg k bUl uttu ""V
them into one evening and one
and the Register-KepuDiic.
c;nn tt -o Mv.fnrminfc'c Hpat.h Vipr surviving husband. Mr.
tUll.C .HAWV. fc " " G
Simms of New Mexico, has had no interest in the papers except
their dividends--which judging by their advertising . must have
been considerable. ; .
Tt i nn, Tcnnrimi riv.thp ffranevinp. a local syndicate will buy
4, w A -ir w J O -T -
the two papers and change their editorial management. Here's a
great opportunity for some YOUNG man to give Rockford the type
of journalism it deserves or -used to at least! R.W.R.
Bar Adversities Drawing Customers
St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) A
St. Louis bar and restaurant op
erator found that his adversities
actually drew more customers.
On the day George Thieme
took over his newly-purchased
bar and grill he was met by a
city food inspector who pointed
out an inferior rating posted on
the door and annunced: "I got
news for you, Bud. Your rest
aurent is closed."
Thieme continued selling beer
but the next day his refrigera
Tuesday, August 5, I9S2
blasphemy on the Democratic
-
that time has not allowed the
and residents of the Midwest don't
the old boy or else!
TirnrlrA nn thft Rockford R&-
Ruth TTanna McCormick of the
Republic and its stronger rivals
T?ppistei-Gazette. consolidating
- 0
morning paper the Morning Star
tion unit broke down. "It am t
worth fixing," a repairman told
him.
Undismayed,Thieme kept ta
tering to a mounting business by,
icing his bottled beer in a doz
en buckets and dispensing
draught beer through picnic cool
ers. "Customers, are just pouring
in," Thieme concluded, "to see
just how messed up I really got."
Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at
noon Saturdays.
Crosstown
uimt r euluui H tv ssssbssssssssssiiissmsss
"I don't know, what .... .a all
be her in this nice, cool office while I'm out dragging
myself around in the hot sun."
Matter of Fact
EISENHOWER McCARTHY
Washington. A great many
voters perhaps enough to de
termine the outcome of the elec
tion are anxiously awaiting the
answer to a simple question
What is Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower going to do about Wiscon
sin's Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy.?
Eisenhower and his chief ad
visers, according to Republican
leaders close to the Eisenhower
high command, have now agreed
on at least a tentative answer.
The Eisenhower plan for dealing
with McCarthy --d McCarthy-
ism starts with a major speech
early in the campaign. In this
speech, Eisenhower will warn
solemnly of the dangers of in
ternal subversion and Commu
nist infiltration into the govern
ment. But at the same time he
will also voice an equally sol
emn warning of the dangers of
indiscriminate hate - mongering
and character assassination.
He will not mention McCarthy
by name, but his meaning will be
clear enough. It will become
clearer as time goes on, in that
Eisenhower does not intend, ac
cording to this present plan, to
appear at all in McCarthy's na
tive Wisconsin. Eisenhower,also
at present does not plan to ap
pear in Indiana, where Sen. Wil
liam Jenner is running for re
election. ' .
The reason Jenner, among sev
eral other cut-rate McCarthys,
has also been chosen to receive
the silent treatment from Eisen
hower, is rather obvious. Mc
Carthy has as much as said that
Gen. George Marshall is a trait
or, while Jenner has said it out
right, calling MarshaU "a living
lie" and "a front man for trait
ors." Marshall is, of crurse, deep
ly admired and respected by
Eisenhower, who perhaps owes
more to Marshall than to any
other man.
-
HPHE silent treatment for Mc-
- Carthy and Jenner is only the
first part of this plan, however,
The second part is to do every
thing possible, from personal ap
peal to public indorsement, to
appease the extreme right wing
of the party. Thus Sen. Everett
Dirksen, the protege of Chicago's
Col. Robert R. McCormick, has
been invited to take his place in
the inner Eisenhower circle.
Dirksen bitterly attacked Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey, and by impli
cation the whole moderate wing
of the Republican party, at the
recent convention. He used an
unpleasant mixture of Mc
Carthyism and phony evangel
ism in his election campaign in
1950. Wisconsin s powerful Tom
Coleman, a chief McCarthy
backer, is also to be appeased.
Wayne J. Hood, a Coleman aide,
and a McCarthy man, has been
made executive director of the
Republican National Committee.
Meanwhile, the Vice-Presiden
tial nominee, Sen. Richard. Nix
on, has been given the special
assignment of binding up the
wounds inflicted on the right
wing of the party at the conven
tion. Nixon set to -vith a will at
the recent convention in Sen,
Robert A. Taft's native Ohio, dis
tributing handsome compliments
wholesale to the Taftites present.
Finally, Senator Taft himself has
agreed to take a major part in
the campaign, making a number
of important speeches.
In short, the intention is to try
to isolate McCarthy and Jenner
only; and to unite the rest of the
party firmly behind Eisenhower.
It remains to be seen whether
the plan will work. The Eisen
hower managers are certainly
wise to avoid the mistake made
by Wendell Willkie, who con
spicuously snubbed the regular
leaders and leaned heavily on
his amateur admirers, undoubt
edly losing hundreds of thou
sands of votes in the process
CERTAINLY, if
to win, the rej
Eisenhower is
regular organiza
tion workers, most of whom
were Taft men before the con
vention, must be persuaded to
work hard and enthusiastically
for Eisenhower. The trouble is
that, despite the surface show of
amity, many of these people are
still bitter about what happened
in Chicago. Any deviation by
Eisenhower from the true faith
By Roland Coe
looking so sore about. You'll
By Joseph and
Stewart Alsop
of "anti me-too Republicanism
will increase this bitterness
Sen. McCarthy, moreover, es
pecially since he was invited by
the Taft managers to address the
Republican rally in Chicago, has
been accepted by this factior as a
high priest of the true faith.
Thus there will be much pres
sure on Eisenhower to abandon
his present plan for dealing with
McCarthy, in the name of party
unity.
The outcome really depends
on whether Eisenhower will re
main true to himself. If he does
so, it is downright impossible to
imagine Eisenhower, a warm
hearted man and a sincere ideal
ist who instinctively hates the
mean and second rate, embrac
ing a McCarthy or a Jenner. And
in this situation as in so many
others in this campaign, being
true to himself is undoubtedly
the best politics Eisenhower can
play. The ten million or so in
dependent voters will elect the
next President. A great many of
them certainly very much want
a change in Washington. But a
great many more could not bring
themselves to vote for any can
didate who had embraced Wis
consin's special shame.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Congressional Quiz
Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital
Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features
(Q) How many committees are
there in Congress?
(A) There are 34 standing
(permanent) committees 15
in the Senate and 19 in the
House. Joint committees (with
members from both houses) and
Select committees are also set
up to examine ' special matters.
They may be continued or term
inated according to need.
(Q) What is a ?'runoff" pri
mary? ' (A) Some states have runoffs
whenever there is no candidate
with a majority of votes in the
original primary. In the runoff
the two contestants who get the
most votes in the primary are
the only candidates.
(Q) Do all states nominate
Senate and House of Represent
atives candidates by direct pri
maries? (A) No. Most states do, but
some use the convention sys
tem. The selection of candidates
is governed by state statutes,
while federal statutes control
the general elections. Early in
U.S. history direct primaries
were rare, but the trend in re
cent years has been to that meth
od of nominating with only a
few states Tteeping the conven
tion system.
(Q) I notice that the Demo
cratic and Republican vice-presidential
nominees are Senators.
Is it unusual for a. Senator to
get the vice presidential nomin
ation? (A) No. The Vice-President of
the United States officially
serves as President of the Sen
ate, so the two major parties
often nominate men who are
familiar with Senatorial proce
dure. The last two Vice-Presi
"He's been drinking Jorgensen's Homogenized Multi-Vitamin, Multi
Mineral Milk." .
Earthbound Humans
Devoting Thoughts
To Flying Saucers
By PHIL NEWSOM
United Press Foreign Analyst
What with stories of flying
saucers and rumors that men
from outer space may be poking
their lnter-
planetary
noses into our
affairs, it's
getting almost
old - fashioned
to talk about
the atom
bomb.
N e v e r t he-
less, a lot of
e a rthbound
humans, in
cluding those
Phil Kewsom
in government, still are doing
a lot of thinking about it.
A presumably sophisticated
female got so upset a couple of
years ago about what she. figured
soon was to happen to New
York that, she decided to flee
to Tahiti and live on the beach.
She's still there. A film actor
on the West Coast bought him
self a cave. He stocked it with
edibles and potables and an easy
chair and now knows just where
he is going to sit it out when
the atoms start exploding.
Those are only flimsy side
lights on a grim world story.
Some arresting figures on Rus
sia's vast atomic effort recently
came from Allied sources in Ber
lin and from Yugoslav sources
in Belgrade.
Russia Mining Uranium
These sources estimate that in
three of her satellite states
East Germany, Czechoslovakia
and Bulgaria Russia may be
using up to 500,000 men and
women to mine uranium. Most of
it low grade uranium, at that.
Those areas, in .addition to the
Altai Mountain uranium mines
south of the Siberian city of
Tomsk, apparently are Russia's
chief source of nuclear fuel.
No estimate has been made on
the number of persons working
the Alta mines, but in all areas
the great proportion is slave
labor. Up to 30 per cent of the
workers are said to be women,
handling even the heaviest jobs.
Prisoners Working
The Yugoslav Review' of In
ternational Affairs, a pulication
of the Yugoslav union of Journal
ists, says 150,000 prisoners are
working the mountains of the
Erzgebirge, in the East German
province of Saxony, about 70,000
in the Czech mines of Joahimovo
and more than 4,000 at Goten,
dents Alben W. Barkley and
Harry S. Truman were Sen
ators at the time of nomination.
(Q) Does the Congressional
Record include anything that is
not said on the floor of Con
gress? (A) Yes. Congressmen fre
quently get permission to insert
magazine articles, editorials,
newspaper stories and other ma
terial which is not read from
the floor. About half the Cong
ressional Record for the 82nd
Congress 1951 and 1952
was devoted to a special appen
dix in which Members published
anything they wanted on the
record.
(Copyright- 1952, Congression
al Quarterly).
Salem Girl Killed
In Auto Accident
Salem U.P.) Eighteen-year-old
Ann Louise Woodman
see, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
A. D. Woodmansee of Salem,
was killed Monday night in a
highway accident on the Pacific
highway, seven miles north of
Albany.
Jack R. Wikoff, 18, driver of
the car in which Miss Wood
mansee was a passenger, suffer
ed cuts and bruises but hospital
attendants said 'his condition
was 'good."
State police said Wikoff's car
apparently hit gravel at the side
of the highway, swerved out of
control into a bridge railing and
overturned.
Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at
5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m.
Monday for Monday; noon Saturday
for Sunday a.m.
4
near Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.
Allied intelligence sources in
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Political note from Mos
cow: Izvestia (the Kremlin's heel
dog newspaper) says it's a toss
up between Eisenhower and
Stevenson.
Both strictly NG, it pontifi
cates. Eisenhower is Wall Street's
man, it adds, but SO IS STEV
ENSON picked by the money
men just in case Eisenhower
should fail to make the grade.
VOU KNOW, I think maybe
the Russian propaganda boys
may have been misinformed. I
think BOTH are good men. Ex
ceedingly good. Better, w in fact,
than we had any reason to ex
pect. Incidentally, I think sincere
Democrats and there are
MANY such have the nomin
ation of Ike by the Republican
convention to thank for the nom
ination of Stevenson by the Dem
ocratic convention.
Anyway, it's a good thing for
the country to have two good
candidates for President.
FLATION NOTE:
It looks as if the cost of liv
ing will hit a new high later
this month. That's the forecasts
from the price stabilization
chiefs. It follows a report that
food prices alone reached a rec-
'ord peak during the first two
weeks in July.
WELL, WHAT do you expect
when you throw a match
into a patch of dry grass? With
the sun hot and the humidity
low. You're pretty apt to start a
fire, aren't you? - -
Oru war economy, with
roughly a third of our produc
tion going into planes, tanks,
guns and ammunition (which
you can't eat or wear or use to
shelter yourself with) is the dry
grass. The long steel strike, with
its inflationary settlement, pro
vided the match.
When dry grass and .lighted
matches get together, a fire is al
most sure to follow.
JJERE, OF course, is a thought:
It may be another case of the
boy who cried WOLF. The Wash
ington "hold your hats, boys,
here we go again" dispatch con
tinues: "Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall
says the record - breaking climb
of prices in July answers those
who say there is no longer any
need for controls. Economic
Stabilizer Roger Putnam goes a
step further. He blames Repub
lican congressmen for crippling
xne controls "program."
Nothing burns a bureaucrat
like CUTTING OFF JOBS in
his department. He always fig
ures that in time, if that trend
continues, HIS job might be cut
off. Arnall and Putnam may
merely be hollering for
more money to spend.
This always . happens when
congress cuts an appropriation.
TUT Washington is a long way
off. Let's get closer home.
The Oregon unemployment
commission and the U.S. bureau
of labor statistics have just com
pleted a cooperative study show
ing that between January 1950
and January 1952 GROSS week
ly earnings of Oregon manufac
turing production workers rose
from an average of $61.82 in
1950 to an average of $76.29 in
1952.
Pretty soft, eh?
We never had it so good.
Don't let 'em take it away!
TUT
(Quoting the cooperative
study):
"The RISE IN THE COST OF
LIVING, as measured by the
U.S. bureau of labor statistics
show consumer price index for
Portland, CUT THE GAIN in
gross weekly earnings to $2.42.
"HIGHER FEDERAL IN
COME TAX and social security
payroll deductions FURTHER
CUT THE INCREASE IN WEEK
LY EARNINGS to 82 cents for a
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Berlin place the nifmber of re
cruits and forced workers in the
East German uranium operation
at more than-300,000.
So frantic is the Soviet search
for atom - producing ore that
whole towns are being blasted
out of the way for low-grade
uranium seams. Miners are now
digging under the town hall in
Bad Oberschlema of East Ger-
many,
News
worker with three dependenets."
"THAT is to say:
They gave you a whopping
up of $14.47 in your weekly pay
check, but they TOOK ALL BUT
82 CENTS OF IT AWAY FROM
YOU in higher prices and higher
taxes.
Looked at in that light, it isn't
so soft.
THAT'S what inflation does.
It BOUNCES PRICES.
When prices bounce, oppor
tunities are created for SPECU
LATORS (the quick buck boys,
the smarties who buy and sell
high and quick) to make a lush
profit. There has been a lot of
that in recent years. The proof
of it is provided by the luxury
hotels that have been springing
up in Florida and elsewhere. And
the race tracks. And the plush
gambling casinos. Such places
are supported by the get-rich-quick
crowd.
SPECULATORS thrive on infla
J tion. They make it quick and
get out quick and" if recent
news means anything a lot of
them manage to escape paying
taxes on a lot of their quick prof
its. People who PRODUCE don't
do so well. They get it in the
neck in the form of higher living
costs and higher taxation.
War Hero Denies
Rescue of Woman
Wasn't Authentic
Washington (U.R) May
nard H. (Snuffy) Smith, who has
had his ups and downs as a hero,
faced arrest Tuesday for a "brave
deed" which made him .the
toast of the capital last week.
False alarm charges were
lodged against the Medal of
Honor-winner after a bereaved
young mother, whom he "res
cued" from a sixth-floor window
ledge Thursday, confessed that
her attempted suicide was just
an elaborate hoax.
Offered Money
Mrs. Ernestine Lucille Whom
ble, 21, said she was offered
$500 to fake the jump because
Smith wanted publicity to pro
mote himself for governor of
Virginia.
Assistant Corporation Coun
sel Clark King promptly issued
a warrant, for arrest of the 41-year-old
former Air Force ser
geant on charges of causing
false reports to the police. Con
viction on the charge carries' a
penalty of $300 fine or 10 days
in jail, or both.
Smith told the Washington
Post Mrs. Whomble may be suf
fering "from hallucinations of
grandeur." He firmly denied the
suicide attempt was a hoax and
said he never had "seen or met"
Mrs. Whomble before attempting
to drag her in off the sixth floor
ledge.
President of EOCE
Submits Resignation
Ashland (U.R) Dr. Rod
erick G. Langston, president of
Eastern Oregon, college of Ed
ucation, resigned Tuesday to
accept a teaching position at Los
.Angeles State college.
The resignation was handed
to the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education meeting on
the campus here of Southern
Oregon college. Langston said
he wanted "to work in my spec
ialized field of elementary edu
cation more directly than an ad
ministrative position permits."
4-H Club News
Sams Valley Club
Sam Valley Tractor Main
tenance 4-H club will meet at
the home of Kit Day on August
7 at 7 p.m.
Lee Sanderson,
Reporter
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