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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforiviTribuni "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reada The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWET1. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Aiarcn j, iqi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dailv and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday" One month 126 Carrier and Dealers 5c pel copy 4 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL" EDITORIAL V" NfWSrAMt PUBUJHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 7, 1944 Bob Steadman, former Med ford high school teacher, in of ficers candidate school at Fort Belvoir, Va. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A lot of good it did the friends of newly weds to refrain from throwing rice at them so the starving Chi nese might have their favorite food. From the dark and mys. terious Orient comes hints they have been selling it to the enemy for American dollars. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 7, 1934 (It was Wednesday) Jackson county election re turns show successful candidates are H. D. Norton, circuit judge; Earl B. Day, county judge; O. L. Caster, county commissioner; Sid I. Brown, sheriff; George W. Dunn, state senator, and A. Moore Hamilton and Glenn O. Taylor, state representatives. Douglas McKay, mayor of Salem, elected to post in Oregon state legislature. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 7. 1924 (It was Friday) James E. Grieve announces plans to enlarge his store, at Pros pect. Medford ranks sixth in Ore gon, behind Portland, Salem, Astoria, Eugene, and Pendleton, in size of bank deposits. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 7. 1914 (It was Saturday) Jacksonville city reservoir cleaned out and 3,000 trout given to residents of the area who gathered for that purpose. From the Local and Personal column: Boyd Ogle's dog and pony show opened a five nights engagement at the Page theater Friday evening to large crowds, featuring "Pharoah," an educat ed horse with wonderful powers. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. New tax bills originate in the Rules or Ways and Means committee of the House, the Finance or Banking committee of The Senate, or the Treasury? 2. Are more babies born in hospitals or in private homes in the U. S. these days? 3. One state has a legislature of only one house. It is Dela ware, Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island or Vermont? 4. Most of our 1,500,000 poor farms providing a mere sub sistence are in New England, the South, the Middle West or the Rocky Mountain states? 5. The first Negro to win a full-time berth in major league baseball was Jackie Robinson, Al Smith or Willie Mays? 6. All three Scandinavian lands have governments com posed largely of Socialists; right or wrong? 7. Dr. Francis E. Townsend is best known for his research in polio, fight on socialized medi cine, old age pensions scheme, or exposure of Reds in Govern ment? , : The Answers: 1. In the House Ways and Means commitlee. 2. More in hospitals. 3. Nebraska. 4. The South. 5. Robinson. 6. Right. 7. Old age pensions scheme. l1 MAIL TRIBUNE Capacity for Growth Someone perhaps it was Woodrow Wilson once observed that when a man goes to Washington, D. C, he either grows or swells. Richard L. Neuberger has almost limitless capa-, 111 All 11 4"Vlf 1 111 city m Dotn 01 tnese particulars, un tne one nana, ne is one of the most intelligent men we ever have known; on the other hand, he is one of the most am bitious and self-centered. IT WILL be a matter of the utmost importance to all of us in his state how he develops. The circum stances certainly could not be more auspicious for him. He not only has achieved the highest office within the gift of the people of Oregon, but this has come under conditions which introduce him to the national political audience in the most dramatic pos sible way. And his own party has every reason for gratitude. Senator Neuberger's ambitions have been more richly rewarded than even he could have conceived. The Oregonian now joins in wishing him well. We know he has the intelligence to grow into a truly great senator. Portland Oregonian Detention Home Wins In the doubts and confusion of a close election race, cine thing is abundantly and emphatically clear the voters of Jackson county want, and will get, a Juvenile Detention home. "No more kids in jail" seems to be the verdict of the election, and the majority was overwhelming almost three to one. THE Mail Tribune supported the Detention home, and will continue to do so. Further work in plan nincr and financinsr will be necessary, and will require close cooperation of police and court authorities, of the county administration, and of the public generally. Countv Judp-e Rodnev Keating: and County Com missioner L. G. fShv) Morthland made no particular secret of their opposition to .... . - a a facility. Morthland's opposition was puzzling, par ticularly in view of the fact that he loudly advocated a juvenile facility in his first successful election cam paign. , . Keatmg's opposition was based largely on factors other ihan political principally the cost involved, and disagreement with juvenile treatment. THE election margin on the measure, however, puts U KnVi nn wnfiVn fVi of on ri-uorwholrninrr mninritw of the voters of the county want and demand that such a building be built and as quickly as circum stances permit. E.A. ' City Management Another issue was resolved by a clear-cut deci sion at the general election that of whether or not Medford will adopt the city-manager plan of civic government. It will. By a majority of better voters decided to abandon organization in favor of a is increasingly popular in This, too, The Mail Tribune supported not be cause it would cure all the ment, but because, properly administered, it gives promise of making the job of running the city more efficient. AS HAS been pointed out, any system of govern "ment is only as good as those administering it. Public opinion and public support are vital also. The mayor-council form has served Medford well most of the time since the 1880s. worked pretty well is no ready tested and proven, will not work better. tTARL MILLER, who will become mayor at the time " the new form of government goes into effect, next January 1st, will find his new job considerably sim pler than it would have been. Much of the administrative detail which previ ously has been placed on mayors has been transferred to the shoulders of the new paid administrator, and the role of mayor has been changed to one which is more ceremonial, in representing the city at various functions, and more that of a presiding officer of the council, rather than an executive. TN THE past the individual councilmen have been 1 burdened with a great deal of administrative de tail, and the job has long required a great deal of time not only at regular meetings, but also at meet ings of council committees, where most of the deci sions, made formally at later council meetings, are actually hammered out. Under the new set-up, the city manager will be responsible for many of these details, making It pos sible for busy and respected men to serve usefully as councilmen, without too great a sacrifice. A NOTHER change embraced in the charter amend "ment approved last Tuesday is that limiting the number of elected officials of the city to the mayor and council. Both recorder and treasurer are appoin tive offices under the new plan. . Here again the fact that these jobs have been held by good, effective and loyal public servants, does not modify the hope that the use of the appointive power will better serve the city. IT is up to the council of course to select the best man 1 available for the city managership. They may well agree .that the best man available is the man who is already on the job as city superintendent. If they do, the transition could be made with a maximum of efficiency, and a minimum of confusion and uncertainty, E. A. Sunday, November 7, I9S4 the construction of such , 1 . . . modern penal tneories 01 than two to one, Medford s the ancient mayor-council type of government which the United States. problems of city govern But simply because it has sign that another form, al Matter of Fact IKE UP. OTHERS DOWN Washington In our politics, the great post-election sport is figuring the new prestige quo tation of the leading personal ities involved in the contest. It is meaningim sport, too, for the whole po litical stock market is revolutionized whenever the votes are counted. In the just c oncluded electoral hustle, the Stewart Alsop biggest gainer, if the Republican party is half way sensible, will be President Dwight D. Eisenhower. . And the biggest losers, if you make a hard-headed assessment of the facts, are a strangely assorted pair indeed, Joseph R. McCarthy and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. To be sure, the Republicans have not passed a miracle under Eisenhower's leadership. They have not gained in an off-year elec tion which the party in power has only done twice in this century. But the shift in the House was trifling, in the Senate, in- finitesimal. Jph Alsop The margin was so narrow in the first instance because the Republican party, in 1952, ran far behind Eisenhower. It is very clear that the Republican party has done much better than most people expected in 1554, because the Republicans had the great asset that is Eisenhower. If anyone doubts it, let him consider the number of Govern orships lost by the Republicans, a good index in itself of the pop ularity of the party as a party. Or let him consider what is prob ably the biggest upset of all, the defeat of John Carroll by Lieutenant Governor Gordon Allott in Colorado, the state most continuously exposed in cam paign-time to the Eisenhower personality. Or let him analyze what happened, in this election, to the more or less overtly anti Eisenhower type of Republican. While a convincing Eisenhow er convert, George Bender, car ried Ohio in a close race, an ob vious rice Christian, Joe Meek, was roundly beaten in Illinois. Other Senate races show much the same pattern, with the re markable showing made by Clif ford ..Case in New Jersey con spicuous among them. N the House side, meanwhile, " an even more remarkable clean-out occurred among the President's bitterest Republican enemies, the all-out adherents of Sen. McCarthy. McCarthy and McCarthyism were not active issues in any Senate fight, but McCarthy and McCarthyism were the main issues in three widely distributed House races of great importance, and fig ured. significantly in a fourth race." In New Jersey, a local Joe Jr., Fred Shepard, ignomineously failed to recapture the usually Republican seat now held by Harrison Williams. In Wiscon sin, another Joe Jr., Charles Ker sten, went down before the awk ward but determined onslaught of Henry Reuss. In Michigan, still another Joe Jr., the loud mouthed Kit Clardy, was hand ily licked by a local professor, Don Hayward, who was also the founder one of the Michigan chapters of the horrendous A.D.A. In each of these cases, the Democrat charged his Republi can opponent with McCarthyism and asked the voters to choose between them on that clearly de fined ground. A fourth Joe Jr., Fred Busbey in Illinois was not so directly challenged, by James C. Murray, but Busbey's defeat nonetheless completes the pat tern. Even the famous Communist issue did not pay off as expect ed. Vice-President Nixon, who has a far better right to use this issue than McCarthy ever had, used it to a fair-thee-well in a desperate last minute drive that was supposed to save the Rocky Mountain states. The Nixon drive did not succeed, despite the Vice-President's effective ness as a campaigner. Colorado was the one exception and it must certainly be credited to the President. Among the Democrats, young Roosevelt is the biggest loser be cause of his defeat in New York: and the biggest gainers are Aver eU Harriman, because of his hair's breadth success, and the Dixiecrat, J. Strom Thurmond, because of his unprecedented write-in victory in South Caro lina. Other Democrats whose stock has risen greatly are young Gov. "Soapy" Williams in Mich igan, and the magical vote-getter, Gov. Frank Lausche in Ohio. 1UT for the future, the Repub lican response to this election is really more interesting than the Democratic response. Al though they aU know the off year rules, although they all are pleased and surprised that the party did so well, the Republi cans can easily respond to their set-back by adopting counsels of despair. But if they are venom ous and desperate and destruct- By Joseph and Stewart AUop ive because of this far from de cisive set-back, they will be mis reading the signs. The signs say that the Repub licans can still win in 1956, if they only try to do it the Eisen hower way. Therein lies the big choice they have ahead of them. (Copyright. 1954. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Potluck By M-T Staff and Contributors The city editor found the fol lowing "news item" on his desk one day last week, presumably put there by some low character masquerading as a reporter: POLICE COURT Eric William Allen Jr., city editor of The Mail Tribune, of 48 Winricnr ave'., Medford. maliciously and want only failing to obey traffic signal by willfully running the red light at the intersection ot Mam st. and Central ave. (Highway 99). $5; feloniously mentally swearing at the antecedents of a police officer, $10. Well, it ain't true all of it, anyway. There was no fine levied on the second allegation it was free. Earl Miller, mayor-elect of Medford, operates a garage. Somebody not knowing, asked somebody else. "He's a car dealer," was the reply (which is pretty close, if not strictly accurate.) The person making the in quiry lifted her eyebrows in shocked surprise. "A card dealer?" she in quired in injured tones. "Yes, a car dealer," was the reply again. Took some time for things to get straightened out. A downtown service station attendant is still puzzling over this mid-week happening: A young and attractive woman in levis and sweater went into the station rest room, was gone quite a while and finally emerg ed in skirt, blouse and short coat. Use of a gas station rest room as a place to change clothing is not unheard of, but the attend ant can't figure out where she got the skirt, etc., nor what she did with the levis, etc., as she went in with no package nor bundle, and came out with none. Overheard: No. 1 Do you. know why it's healthy to breathe through the nose? No. 2 No. Why? No. 1 You have to keep your mouth shut. A group of loyal Republicans got together election night in Medford to listen to election returns, and among the refresh ments were a cake and some "brownie" cookies, both furnish ed by the same -woman. In the first place, all she planned to take was a chocolate cake. But, she said, "I was just about to take the cake out of the oven when I heard the elec tion returns from the east, and the cake fell flat." She added, "With typical Re publican resourcefulness, I changed the chocolate cake into 'brownies' and made another cake." It might be added that a lot of hopeful Republicans looked like the first cake flat after the returns were in. Speaking of the election, it's easy to take too much for granted on the basis of early returns. One of Senator Cor don's slaunchest supporters among newspaper edilorsjwas Frank Jenkins. In a column written before the now -famous switch in Multnomah county returns came in, Jenkins stated: "In Oregon, let's say merely that the best men won." He wasn't the only editor who cimbed out on a limb and then sawed :t off, either. Medford Kiwanians have a new director, Chet Hubbard, whose election was decided last week a lot more easily than the election for senator. Hubbard was tied with Dick Hanna, and both offered to with draw an offer which was de nied. Hubbard was elected by the flip of a coin. KYJC Sporlscaster Tom Macleod interrupted his sports cast Wednesday twice first with a bulletin that Guy Cor don was ahead by a slim mar gin in the senate election, and a few moments later with an other bulletin that Dick Neu berger had taken the lead. , "A race that close belongs on a sports program," Tom : declared.. Maybe this . belongs in. the "Fame is Fleeting" department. Bob Lytle, "who has served Jackson 'county as a commis sioner for a number of years, was defeated in the primary election by Chet Wendt. Wednesday, the Ashland Daily Tidings, published in Lytle's home town, referred to Wendt as the "incumbent" commis sioner. One Ashland Republican, quoted in the - Ashland Tid ings, commenting on the elec tion of Richard Neuberger: "Well, at least we got him out of Oregon." Auto spark plugs fire 15,000,- 000 times in 10,000 miles. J In the Day's News By FRANK JERKINS I think it must be said that Senator Cordon's defeat at the polls by a hairline majority is a misfortune for Oregon and for the Pacific Northwest generally. .BUI Nothing could be worse than to think of it as a disaster. That would be admittine that our welfare and our future growth and prosperity depend upon Big government in Washington RATHER THAN UPON OUR OWN RESOURCES AND OUR OWN EFFORTS. I'M SURE that if we go intelli ITOn J Itr an1 AnatrTatitiT1r fiKniit the business of developing our own resources and stick with the job we'll come out all right. That applies particularly to us here in Southern Oregon. We have in our rivers a huge power potential. We have abundant and valuable raw materials. We are situated midway in a rapidly growing Pacific Coast. I think we have the resources and the energy and the LEADER SHIP to go forward successfully with OUR OWN development. x- Personally I refuse to believe that all of our benefits must come from Washington. I am old fashioned enough to believe that what we get WE MUST GET FOR' OUR SELVES. By our own efforts. Let's go! IITITH that out of the way, let's TT talks for a moment about milk. The voters of Oregon, by a decisive majority, repealed the long-controversial Oregon milk law. That leaves the milk indus try oi our state in this rather difficult present position: The sanitation laws, whose standards of quality impose nec essarily high costs upon milk producers, remain effective. The law that provided price protec tion for the dairymen has been repealed. This difficult situation could result in grave damage to Ore gons' dairy industry. T ET'S PUT it this way: If it were wheat, say, or bar ley, or some other standard food crop that was concerned we could shrug our shoulders and say: "WeU, if it is no longer possible to produce it profitably in Oregon, we'll have to go out of the business of producing it at home and get our supply from elsewhere." But milk is different. Pure milk is all bound up with the problem of public health. And milk can't very' well be pro duced in Florida or Wisconsin jind shipped to Oregon. It just doesn't lend itself to that kind of marketing. AS THE situation now stands "milk producers in Oregon have two alternatives: 1. They can adapt themselves to the new conditions imposed by a free competitive market, and hope that in such a market they will not do too badly. 2. They can go to the Oregon legislature and ask for a more reasonable milk law. T THINK this should be said: ' The now defunct Oregon milk law has for years met with much opposition from consumers. Many of its provisions involved regi mentation in a rather extreme form. It would have been much better if milk producers had realized this opposition from the consumers of their product and had taken steps to remove the objectionable features of the law. But they didn't. They stood pat. The result is what happened on Tuesday. AT ANY rate, it wiU be several months before anything can be done. In these months, there will be a practical test of what will happen in a free competi tive milk market in Oregon. It may be the free enterprisers who will engage in milk marketing under the new conditions will realize their responsibilities and will handle the marketing of milk in such a manner as to win the approval of both producers and consumers. It will be an interesting test, and I think we will all watch it with thoughtful attention. State Orders Three Cleanups of Sewage Portland (U.R) ' The State Sanitary Authority got reports of progress toward sewage clean up from four communities Fri day and told three others to do the same. Representatives from The Dalles, Hood River, Harrisburg and Drain appeared before the authority to report progress. St Helens, Clatskanie and Rainier were directed to take early ac tion. The authority also reported that three communities authoriz ed bond issues to finance sewer age systems at Tuesday's elec tion. , Canby approved a $165,000 bond issues to pay for a sewage treatment plant and sewer mains. Cornelius voters passed a $135, 000 bond issue and Enterprise approved a $165,000 bond issue for sewage treatment plant. Is That So? Because of the high birthrate among small mammals, most of us have assumed that their life expectancy has been fairly short, but the true inhospitality of the world to our wild life, even in cluding the larger species, is truly astonishing, difficult to be lieves. First, let's look at the birds. Bob white quail have a life po tential of about eight years. Yet of 602 nests studied, an average of only 57 nests out of a 100 came through with even one chick. How many bob white adults resulted? Of every 100 eggs laid, only 8.5 birds survived the first winter. In another game refuge, ring- tailed pheasants were studied. This is a hardy bird, capable of at least 12 years in captivity. Of 100 baby ringtails, only 30 were alive at the end of the first year; nine at the end of the second; three at the end of the third; and at the end of five years, not one solitary bird had survived. Let's jump to waterfowl. Of 125,000 banded wild ducks mind you, these had passed their most hazardous pediod of life and were at the flying stage only 30 per cent reached a life-span of one year. Of the 125,000 there were 87,500 dead at the end of the first year. Yet in captivity the duck may live 15 and even 20 years. What about small mammals squirrels, rats, cottontails? As to be expected, low. The life-expectancy of most newborn small game or fur-bearers is considerably less than one year. On the average, about one in three stands a chance of be ing alive a year. In the study of European squir rels, out of every 200, only 25 were alive at the end of the first year; eight at the end of the sec ond; three at the end of the third and there was only one soli tary survivor out of the 200 at the end of the fourth year. In another study of 1,500 fox squir rels, only two were more than five years old. The maximum potential of these squirrels is around 10 years. Brown Rat Span Short , Although brown rats may at tain a lifespan of two their bearings burn out fast a group of 366 showed that only five per cent reached one year. Breaking down the study, out of every 100 born in early spring, 74 were living in spring; 60 in summer, 15 at the end of autumn, and about five in winter. Of 1,400 cottontails, which may live to be eight, only two were over two years old. Does this same high turn-over apply to bighorn sheep and deer? Bighorns have a life-expectancy of about 16 years. Of 645 skulls studied age can be de termined from rings on the horns only 487 were alive at the end of one year; 436 at the Polio Vaccine Plan Disclosed If the Salk polio vaccine is proven effective, every first grader in the nation will receive three shots of the new vaccine next year, Bob Smith, county March of Dimes cochairman, said he was told recently in Seattle. Smith, who with Van Purdy will head the 1955 campaign in Jackson county, said he learned of the plan at the meeting for campaign directors which Purdy and he attended. Smith said the campaign direc tors were told that results of the 1954 vaccine field trials would be know next year. They are now being evaluated by the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at Michigan University. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will also of fer vaccine to pregnant women and to children who took part in the field trials but did not re ceive the vaccine, Smith said he was told. Foundation spokesmen said it takes three to, four months to manufacture and test each batch of vaccine. It will be available to ; the public through the medical profession before the 1955 polio season, according to plans. Beverage License Renewals Approved 1 Jacksonville Four beverage licenses in Jacksonville were recommended to the Oregon Liquor Control commission for renewal by the city council last week. Renewals approved were for Lulu's cafe, Class A dispensing license; 'J'Ville market, package store license; Ben Anderson's market, package store and J'Ville club, retail malt bever age dispensing license. An official canvass of the vote in the city's two precincts showed that the unofficial first count was correct, according to Recorder B. J. Christianson. ALASKAN STUDY Fairbanks, Alaska' U.R) The University of Alaska's scien tific research information center has published a 100-page book describing studies being made in the territory on subjects rang ing from Bering Sea salmon stocks to air pollution. New Mexico has about 20, 000,000 acres of forest land. ' By Eugana Burns Ranger-Naturalist ft TT SO.' end of five years; 146 at the end of 10, and only one lived to be 14 years. Deer may live to be 15. In' a study of 535 which passed their first year again, the most cru cial period was behind them only 55 of these 535 were alive at the end of five years; at the end of 10 years, only six. Trout Fare Badly ' Trout which may live to at tain 15 years fare badly too the whole life-expectancy pic ture being surprisingly alike. Of 100 fingerlings a year xold again, at the end of their most difficult period 66 reached the second year; 42 the third; and only six reached the ripe old age of four and these six veterans were barely taking-size, seven inches long. Clearly the causes of death in" ft the wild inclement weather, in adequate food, disease, parasites, predators take a heavy toll, with the actual length of life far below the potential. In an ex- ' tremely small number does death come from old age. Small wonder then that na ture places. such a tremendous emphasis on reproduction . . . courtship, mating, giving birth, protecting and training the young so that the individual species does not perish. (Copyright. 1954. by Eugene Burns.) (Distributed by The McClursj Newspaper Syndicate.) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this , world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SOI eo Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Study of Sewage In Phoenix Area Set by Committee Phoenix A special sewage study committee has been named for Phoenix by Mayor Kathryn Stancliffe. The committee is headed by Mayor-Elect Dan Adams as chairman, and includes City At torney Frank Van Dyke, Frank Lovett, Vincent Claflin, G. G. Skinner, A. H. Dudley, Jack Hoifbuhr, A. . H. MacKinlosh, Ray Claflin, Bert Stancliffe and C. C. Peebler. The group will investigate the possibility of a seepage system for Phoenix and connection with the South Bear Creek Sanitary district, south of Medford. Joint meetings with the district and the gathering of data on the pro posed project are planned. Repairs Completed Partial repair of work done last year on surfacing city streets has been completed by T. E. Flerey, the mayor said. A report last week showed that an audit of the city's books found them in good order. In other business, 250 feet of new fire hose was purchased; G. G. Skinner was given a per mit for removal of the tree in front of the post office; four building permits were issued for repair or renovation and one house moving, and an official vote canvass snowed the election results .were the same as the first count. . Mrs. Stancliffe will attend the League of Oregon cities meeting in Portland on Nov. 14 through 17. The regional League meet ing for Jackson and Josephine counties will be held at Phoenix on Nov. 29. Local Engineers On Conclave Program Two Jackson county engineers will appear on the program of the annual state convention of the Professional Engineers of Oregon, to be held in Portland Nov. 12 and 13, it was reported Saturday. County Engineer Paul Ryn ning will moderate a panel dis cussion of the state board of engineering examiners, will ap pear with other members of the beard on a panel on engineering registration. Other members of the associa tion in the county are expected to attend. Sessions will be at the Multnomah hotel, and CoL Ralph Tuder, former undersecretary of interior, and former district en gineer of the corps of engineers, will be the main speaker.