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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.
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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.
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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.