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Newspaper Page TextfOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) liEDFORIvCwTRIB UNI "Everybody in Southern Oregon rteaas xne man xriDuns Published Daily Except Saturday bi MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North fir St Phone 3-S141 ROBERT W. BUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager . C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor EARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editoi KICHARD jewett. sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor CjERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of uarcn a, xom SUBSCRIPTION RATES ttw Uftll Tn IHrnnnt- Per COOT lufi. Hail C.nHav TknA VMr 11 2.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily ana buna ay inree raw, .u Daily and Sunday One month 135 Sunday Only One year 3.S0 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point jirnniHii fJnM H11L Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 carrier and ueaiers oc per copy Ail Terms Lain in aqvihw Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION IS vrtiflin0 RDrMntative: WEST-HOLLtDAY COMPANY. WC Offices in New York. Chicago, Da- .troit San Francisco. Los Angeies, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver B.C. 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 Nor. 21, 1944 , (It was Tuesday) Article written by Bren H. Starcher, Medford, appears : in National Rifle association maga line. : .- . -. ; : from Arthur PerrVi . Ye Smudge Pot column: Rumors are still rife on the fate of Herr Hitler.' with deeo uncertainty clouding all angles but one. If dead, the world is agreed with great unanimity where ne is. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 21, 1934 j (It was Wednesday) " Official canvass shows win ners in city election are George Porter, mavor: Mose Allord. re corder; Gus Samuels,, -treasurer; and Joe Fliegel, J F, Ericson, Larrv Schade. H. S. Deuel. C. C. Furnas, and W. W. Stewart, city councilmen. Charles C. Chitwood, Jack sonville druggist for 13 years, dies after being in poor health for some time; had been resident of Jackson county since 1871. 80 YEARS AGO Nov. 21. 1924 1 (It was Thursday) Charles Edwin Van Scoyoc, 17, outstanding Medford high school athlete, president of sen ior class, editor of high school yearbook, and leading scholar, dies after brief illness. High school classes dismissed and football game with Roseburg canceled. Boy "Scouts of America ap prove. Jackson county applica tion for First Class council in this area. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 21, 1914 . (It was Friday) . "Roosevelt school Parent Teachers council elects Mrs. Leonard to serve as member, of moving picture board of cen sors. j From the Local and Personal column: Little Frances Jean Fabrick, four months old, gave her first party Wednesday aft ernoon to seven of her little friends of the year. The little- ones enjoyed themselves in their own baby way. Mr. Weston came in the afternoon and ob tained a splendid picture of the little rose buds. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of lh 7?) ' Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1 1. The average passenger car now on the road has gone about 45,000 miles, or much more, or much less? i 2. The "Twin Cities" are San Francisco -Oakland, New York- Brooklyn, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo.-Kansas City, Kan., or Dallas-Ft. Worth? 3. Cornell is or isn't considered one of the Ivy League football teams? . 4. In what is properly called i hurricane, the; wind blows. at least 25,' 50, 75 or 100 miles an hour? .. ; . . , J 5. All out-and-out pro-McCar' thy members of Congress were reelected on Nov. 2? right or wrong? t 6. Less than five years' school ing has been had by about one in every 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 Americans? ' . ? 7. Skouras is a prominent name in U. S. politics, sports, automobiles, motion pictures, or air travel? " The Answers: I. About 45, 000 - miles. 2. Minneapolis-Si. Paul. 3. Is. 4. At least 75 miles an hour. 5. Wrong, several ware defeated. 6. About one in every 10. 7. Motion pictures. v There is . approximately one telephone for each 100 persons in Australia. 'Z, . . MAIL TRIBUNE Cheer It was bruited about in the recent campaign that if Senator Cordon were defeated the Talent Irriga tion project would suffer and might never be built. Apparently some of our local citizenry were so aroused at the time they failed to recognize this as "just one of those things" that come out for votes in a political campaign and are forgotten immediately after. T17ELL nothing in this world, particularly in these VV parlous times is CERTAIN. If the Russians for example, should drop a hydrogen bomb in these parts that would probably be the end of the Talent project and all the rest of us. But barring some such unlikely catastrophe, we can assure our communicant that the Talent project should not be affected by the recent election in any material way whatever. fWER $80,000 has already been appropriated for preliminary work and departments of the govern ment seldom spend a sum like that, if there is any REASONABLE doubt of eventual completion. We don't deny that concern over this local ven ture, adding up to around 20 to 30 millions of dollars was a large factor in the strong support Senator Cor don received in this county. Nor is it doubtful that his defeat was a keen disappointment to his supporters, and in some minds, raised a doubt as to the project's ultimate fate. DUT as stated that can all be dismissed now along ..with campaign posters, the page-ads and the motor-car stickers all just a part of the political cam paign whiqfi is over, and won't be played again at least with the same intensity for another 2 years, at least. .'''..' SO CHEER up everybody! That Talent project will undoubtedly be built, and our advice therefore would be to depart from the "Wailing Wall''; forget the disappointments of the election, and get ready to get a share of the wave of prosperity that this election started in Wall Street and promises, even before the Talent project is com pleted, to run over into all parts of the country, includ ing Southern Oregon. That, at least, is what our favorite financial paper claims. R.W.R. History Repeats Itself Those who think McCarthy and McCarthyism are something brand new in around during the revival mediately following the first World War. A very similar situation as now, the sad feature was the number of perfectly respectable and well-meaning but gullible people who fell for the racket And so few realized what easy marks they had been, until it was too late. So now while there are easy marks in this area today and it doesn't cost them anything anyway, there are all too many who have swallowed the McCarthy propaganda "bait-hook-and-sinker." -' ' . '. . - :: " . FOR AREN'T they, like xxx o$ iixjiy v.x uoctixc; tj deadly peril, both foreign their "exalted ruler" or its patriot in the country with the courage and skill to properly do the job? ' And above all aren't those who dare to criticize this so called "crusade" and its properly anointed "Messiah," little better than traitors, and some of them indeed members of hand maidens of the though they may not realize it! -. ' Along the same line the "great menace" over 30 years ago also centered in conspiratorial alien groups, although people with dark skins instead of white, all Catholics and jews were added, and the country had to be saved from them and the leader of the Klan and his followers alone could do it. ' i CO we hear today, that not the only man who can effectively put down the communists, but he really discovered them, and but for his heroic efforts, we would be under the iron rule of Moscow today! or words to that effect, i VES, McCarthy and McCarthyism are nothing new. 1 It all follows the old familiar pattern. Similar emo tional uprisings behind false leaders, followed World War I, and were wide-spread during the dark days of the business depression of the early 30's, as every one living here in Southern Oregon then, will recall THIS truth might well be kept in mind by those 1 good citizens who are still alarmed about Mc Carthy and McCarthyism, and what it may result in as far as our democracy is concerned. ' For such misguided and-misinformed "uprisings" have happened before and will probably happen again. :" 'V?;"-" -.;:-;r . H But they don't last long, and they" all end event ually in defeat and frustration for those who try to profit by them. - : , : v i So let's remember that, and return with confi dence to one of the wisest remarks ever made about this democracy, and by one of its greatest leaders namely and to wit: "You may fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people aU of the time, ; but you can't fool all the people all the time." ' Sunday November 21, 1934 Up! our body politic, were not of the Klu Klux Klan, im existed then... And then, not, we grant, so many the Klu Kluxers engaged save ixxc wuxxiajr xium c and domestic? And isn't equivalent, the only super- the wicked opposition- unholy conspiracy, even only is Senator McCarthy Matter of fMt-.3:''' RE-LEASHING CHIANG Washington The few hours Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent on Formosa, last Sept. 9 must have been among the most un pleasant of his life. For most of Dulles's time on For mosa w a s spent listening to a violent at tack on Amer ican policy in Asia, deliv ered at great length by Chinese N a- Joseph Alsop tionalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. The Americans, Chiang said flatly, were afraid to make a stand anywhere in Asia. He pointed to the Korean truce, to the Indo-Chinese back-down and to the Communist shelling of Quemoy, which had just begun. If the Americans did not very soon taKe a firm stand, Chiang said, Asia would be lost. And if Asia was lost, j xne worm was. lost. Having said this and a great deal more, Chiang then croceed- to . say it all Stewart Alsop over again, in even, stronger terms, so that Secretary Dulles was a shaken man when he em planed for Japan that afternoon. It is possible to derive a certain amusement from this spectacle of the man who is supposed by the world to be an American puppet giving the American Sec retary of State a thorough head washing. But the episode has a larger meaning also. The story behind Chiang's anger goes back to his famous "unleashing," early in 1953. Chiang's "unleashing" was, of course, about 90 per cent phoney. Even after he was ostensibly un leashed, military aid to Formosa was continued on the secret un derstanding that the American weapons would not be. used of fensively against the Chinese mainland. The 10 per cent in the new American policy toward the Chi nese Nationalists involved the Nationalist-held islands off the Chinese coast Quemoy and the Tachens. Under the Truman administration, American arms had been supplied to these islands only clandestinely, through the back door. After the "unleashing" policy was adopted, arms were supplied openly and a serious build-up of the defense of the islands began. HHHE Americans on the spot en X couraged this build-up and even took part in it. For ex ample, the American mission on Formosa intervened with Chiang's government to get an incompetent general command ing the Tachen forces dismissed. In Chinese eyes, therefore, the United States has at least a moral commitment to, the de fense of the off-shore islands. Before Dulles visited Formosa, negotiations looking to an Amer ican guaranty to support Chiang, in case of a Communist attack, had already begun. They are stiU going on. But they have struck two major snags. The Nationalists, of course, want a flat guaranty, not only for Formosa and the Pescadores, which the Administration is wil ling to grant, but for the American-armed off-shore islands. This the President himself has vetoed. The second and even more difficult snag derives from the fact that the Administration, be fore giving Chiang a guaranty, wants to be sure that he is thoroughly re-leashed. The American negotiators have asked COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although wMvuMraiauies in use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarif jeation and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must She Likes McCarthy . To the Editor: When I read of. the continued harangue against McCarthy especially by your paper, which wants to em phasize and justify its own stand. I am reminded of a flock of J .1.1-1 - McCarthy was given a job tnat no one else wanted or. would have. Have you thought of the continued frustration - the man faced, day in and day out, to try to get evidence against the Communists when the Commu nists in high offices and with unlimited means were always iignting him on every turn and the ones under investigation were continually harping on tneir "rignts" w American citizens? . We know the entire wealth of. Russia is behind the Commies in this country, and that they have a powerful underground that reaches into every phase of our government. While I do not condone all the methods he used in his investi gation I . can not honestly say that I would not have used the same or perhaps more drastic ones if I were placed in his shoes. And in their hearts the other senators and representatives think the same thing. All organizations know it costs money, and lots of it. to set a bill through congress. Just where does that money go? Our J for a clear understanding that Chiang's forces will not attack the mainland without American consent. . .-. This demand is natural enough from the American viewpoint. Otherwise the Chinese could, by taking the offensive, invite an attack on Formosa which would then automatically involve the United States. Thus the Chi nese tail could wag the Ameri can dog. But the Chinese vio lently oppose any such agree ment. They interpret it as an attempt to interfere with their sovereignty and limit their right to return to the mainland. In view of the fact that the secret agreement with Chiang not to use American arms of fensively never has been sus pended, : the whole issue may seem academic In fact, together with the refusal to promise sup port to the off-shore islands, this issue has made very, bad trouble between Washington and Taipeh, as Chiang's head-washing of Dulles suggests. The Chinese Communists are, of course quite aware of this trouble. According to the Chi nese Nationalist - Intelligence, Chou En-lai made a speech in Peiping some time ago to a group of Communist officials. He cited the split between Formosa and the American government . as proof that in a show-down the "American imperialists" would not support even their own "run ning dogs." VET, while sneering at this X country as a "paper tiger," the Chinese Communists them selves have shown caution. Their operations against the off-shore islands have taken the form of probing moves. According to the intelligence analyses, these op erations are primarily designed to test American intentions. If this interpretation is cor rect, it -would seem to confirm that view of Admiral Radford and the majority on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This view is that an American guaranty to protect the off-shore islands will very probably prevent a Com munist attack on these islands But even without a guaranty, the Communists must think twice, Jhey undoubtedly remember their own intelligence reports in 1850 that the American gov ernment had officially decided under no circumstances to inter vene if South Korea were at tacked. These reports were per iecuy accurate. (Copyright. 1934, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Thanks Expressed For Fund Response Prospect Mrs. George Ring Jr., now at Sacred Heart hospi tal awaiting surgery, has expres sed her appreciation through her friends for the response to the "Encouragement Fund," which has been set up for the Ring fam ily- Many items have been offered the Rings and one $5- donation has been made. The items in clude a mattress, a day bed, a studio couch, a davenport, a high chair, a baby bed and some clothing. Dorcas society mem bers of the Seventh Day Adven- use cnurcn nave given a new quilt, and other bedding. A neighbor is digging a ditch for placing water pipe to bring water to the house. As yet enough pipe and plumbing sup plies have not been arranged tor to put water in the house. The friends making the re port to The Mail Tribune su gested that donations to the fam ily could be made by enclosing contributions in cards or letters mailed to Mrs. Ring at the hos pital. : law-makers know and that Is why they have been so reluctant to pass judgment upon him. -The Bible says "let him with out sin cast the first stone," and tnere is none with clean hands, The Democrats were swept into office by promising, among other uungs, to kick McCarthy out History has shown that we have made many terrible mis takes. Remember Billy MitcheU and Seward's folly? , Mrs. H. W. Morrow, 531 N. Bartlett St., Medford, Ore. Chain Letters To the Editor: There seems to be quite . a bit of controversy over the recent chain letters or charts that have been in circula tion lately. As I understand, there is a law against sending chain let ters through the mail but I don't believe there is any law stating that you cannot send money that is a person's own risk. The post office department has put some items in the paper concerning these letters. But they have been about chain let ters in general and very vague. ' I believe the post office should make, a definite statement per taining to the chain letters or charts now being circulated: what as far as the post 'office is concerned is illegal about them. - (Name on file) Lions Club Member's in me Herbert E. Seitz, a Medford contractor and member of the Medford Lions club, is the au thor of a short story which ap pears in the current issue of The Lion, the monthly magazine of Lions International. Entitled "Christmas Story," it is the brief tale of a boy and his grandfather discussing what Christmas is aU about. . Seitz last year was edlitor of the Medford club's weekly bulle tin.' and wrote the story for it The . magazine picked up the story from the bulletin, held it for a year,, and printed it this month. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This modern world: . ' A scientific , conference in Tokyo offers some advice to those who may accidentally be come exposed to-radioactive dust. The scientists say there .is nothing better in such cases than a bath of soap, water' and corn meal.. , ' . The soap and water removes ordinary contamination, and the corn meal acts as a soft abrasive to loosen, any sticky -material that may cling to the skin, ; TtfUST we expect an atom bomb, or a hydrogen bomb to faU on us at any moment? I wouldn't know. 1 But I HOPE not. I think that if we keep our selves in readiness to . retaliate effectively at the drop of a hat even the crazy, power-mad Com munists wUl HESITATE before starting something that might mean the end of the world as we and our forbears have known it. TTERE is another glimpse at the modern world: Atomic power for peaceful uses is already in the picture. Atomic power for peace, like atom bombs, uses radioactive materials for fuel. SUPPOSE AN ATOMIC POW ER PLANT SHOULD BLOW UP. OR BE SMASHED BY A BOLT OF LIGHTNING. OR SHAKEN APART BY AN EARTHQUAKE? ' In that event, radioactive dust would be scattered around ex actly as if an atom bomb or hydrogen bomb had been drop ped. ALREADY those who think into the future are consider ing the possibilities of such catastrophe. What would the damage be to surrounding' prop erty? Suppose the relatives of every person killed or maimed should sue the owner of the plant that caused the damage? Already these thinkers ' into the future are wondering ANY PRESENT INSURANCE COMPANY would be big enough to pay off in such a case. They think maybe this - hazard will have to be assumed by the fed eral government as is done in the case of war risk insurance Development of atomic power, you see, won't be all beer and skittle.1. HERE" in the West, we get the bulk of our power out of falling water. We listen to talk to the effect that the time may come when power released by splitting the atom will be" so cheap that it will no longer be neccessary even to meter it We can't help wondering if the power we derive from our fall ing water will eventually be out moded because it will be too expensive to compete with atomic power. rpHAT won't happen, I think, in this generation, or the next generation. So let's go ahead developing the power in our rivers. rpHAT brings us back to South- L em Oregon, whose falling waters have been running large ly to waste so far as power to be had from them is concerned. Southern Oregon has been do ing quite well recently. We have seen much growth in our area, But the bulk of this growth has come from the harvesting of our virgin -stands of. timber, which we have been cutting up into roueh boards, thus , getting a minimum of man hours out of them. .; But Our stands of virgin timber won't last forever. We can't go on indefinitely cutting up cen turies-old trees into rough lum ber.. The supply of virgin trees will run out What will we do then? rjiHE answer is plain. We must then begin to use the FIBER in our trees as the raw material for pulp. Paper, wallboard, packing cases all the multifold things that can be made from the fiber of our trees. We must begin to develop our other raw material resources including our minerals, such as strategic metals, clays, pum ice, etc. LL this will require power. Without power of OUR OWN, we will be left behind in the race for industrial development It's high tune for us to be thinking seriously about devel oping FOR OUR OWN USES the power in the falling waters of our rivers. - Is That So? Small animals such as mice, rats, squirrels, rabbits and birds average a life of less than six months. Larger ones, such as raccoon, fox, coyote, sheep and deer less than two years. With the world's total biomass the millions and billions of creatures on this earth averaging a life span of less than a year, one must surely wonder why the world is not foul with the rank odor of decay? Why pestilence and disease, which breed upon decay, do not scourge the earth? The answer , is that wise crea tion has ordained that many in sects, birds, and animals which we in ignorance may despise, fill the important role of scavengers' and their specialized talents, to say the least, are astonishing. Most notorious scavenger among mammals is the hyena although in our land we have wolves, foxes, rats, mice, bears, wolverines which will eat al most anything when hungry. As against these, however, the hyena win not even disdain a skeleton. With one crunch of its powerful jaws, it can break in half even the thigh bone of an ox to obtain the marrow. .Yet, should he swallow a whole knuckle bone, his digestive powers are "ade quate to assure no Ul effects. Insects . serve man well, too. The industrious ant puts a quick finish to the body of a mouse or bird, leaving nothing behind but a cleanly-picked skelteon. That the mice finish. . ; Flies, -however noxious and disease-bearing, make their con tribution, too. Not so much in what the adults consume but their grubs are ravenous feeders and even devour enormous quan tities of dead matter in which they hatch. ; The scarab, prized and wor shipped by Egyptians, takes its booty of dung, rolls it up into a neat ball about the size of walnut and ' then ' trundles along to its underground home where it is consumed at leisure. Vulture Highly Specialised i But of the birds, the vulture is even more highly specialized, Its powerful wings lift it 10,000 feet and it takes up its lookout station, soaring gracefully. More than five miles away, it can de tect the dying actions of a small mammal. Wheeling in its descent it is not unobserved within minutes equally keen-eyed mates from neighboring beats hurry to join it. Perhaps they have not eaten for days. Designed for their task, the beaks are hooked for tearing, heads and necks are bare to pie- vent soiling and clotting; their appetite is un-endine. Quarrel ing in their eagerness, they bolt tneir food in large chunks, Should . the feast be ; adeaute, tney will gorge until unable to fly, or even stand, and as long as anything remains, they will continue (to gorge while lying down on their sides, rather than admit repletion. But in itself, is not this enor- ous capacity for food, combined with the ? power of lone ab stinence, a wonderful provision? it provides a method for the im mediate urgency needed re moval of offensive matter in hot countries. Officiates at Burial The sexton beetle undertaker of the insect world, usually dressed in black with broad red- orange bands, officiates at the burial of many small animals, To him, the odor of death carries far. No sooner has death de scended than a sexton has flown to the corpse. It is joined by an ctner, and another. With dis patch and communal effort,- they settle to their work of interring the body excavating from be neath as, the, undermined .body sinks in ! the earth by its own weight Coyered perhaps under six inches of soil, the female buries her eggs in the ripe car cass lor cer on-coming young. They often bury large-sized rats. As for the waters, they too would soon, become, filled with all sorts of dead matter but for the indefatigable quest, of carp, suckers, 'catfish, eels, hagfish, lobsters, i; crayfish, p r a w n s, shrimp and crabs. : While : over head cruise uncountable ; avian scavengers - among them the shrieking seagulls, who pick up their booty from the sea in their beaks without interrupting their flight- r t (Copyright, 1154,-: by Eugene Burns) ; (Released by MeCIure 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-voIume set of this world-famous refer ty Eufsna Bum Ksisr-Nturslist enee work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, X simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SOI eo Medford Mail Tribune, Box 875, Sausalilo, Calif. Pot-luck Br M-T Staff and Contributes The following cheerful edi torial headline appeared in the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier last week: "Only 403 Days Until Christmas." One of the staff members thinks the following sentence, for some reason, has a nasty sound: "John Doe, an admitted prestidigitator, performed acts of necromancy and legerdemain in full sight of the audienceV ' . Another staff member was : discussing a man-who-married-' the-bois'-d a u g h t e r, and re marked: "He's one of those guys who was marked with a silver spoon in his mouth." . We won't vouch for. the ac curacy of this story, told the ; other day by E. W. Tiedeman of the American Farm Bureau Federation: ; ,-; ,i A young economist, not very used to guns, went duck hunt ing, and his companion told him that because ducks fly so fast, the economist would have to fire ahead of the ducks to hit them. When the first duck flew by the young man was so excited he. forgot to lead the bird, and shot behind it Then a second duck flew, by, and, still excited, he fired ahead of it but too far. Those were his only shots all day, but the economist went home happy. Statistically, and by the law of averages, he killed a duck. Son of staff member was ; .doing homework with father the other evening, and the two ran across the word "attic." ' Since the family lives in a one-; story house, father asked if son knew what it meant. . Sure," said son. "It's oceans. ' You know the Attic and ant Attic oceans." ' Contributor "B.K." comes up with a clipping which reports a sign on a highway near St Louis: " ,.. ' "Room for rent. Must be will ing to travel." When staff members were wracking their brains for a name which eventually turned out to be "Poiluck," we never ; thought of the solution which I Tom Gerber, upstate newspa perman, used when he started :. doing a personal column. He called it "Whachama-, Collum." When Mrs. K. N. Keller losi her wallet last week she was pretty lucky, because: First, the finder was an honest man, and, -. Second, he was something of a detective. . Beside the $61 cash in the wal let there were some identifying papers, but because Mr. Keller is employed by the U.S. Geolog ical Survey and they move about the country quite a bit, none showed their' present address- in Medford. The only clue was a tiny scrap of paper on which was scribbled the phone number of Keller's office. . The' finder tried the number. learned the home ..address, de livered the wallet with contents intact and refused a reward. leaving Mrs. Keller so flabber gasted she forgot his name. She thinks it was a Mr. Al Smith. Outside Water Use Jacksonville The city coun cil at Jacksonlvlle last week heard a report on city water use, and moved to allow up to 400 outside city connections. During the first year of opera tion with' Medford water, the city did not : allow any outside connections until' its own usage was known, upon recommenda tion of a 'consulting engineer. ; The city -ended its first year of Medford water use on Nov. 15, ' according to B. J. Chris tianson, city recorder. Records showed that only about one-fifth of the water available to them had been used.' A total of 600 connections will be reserved for the city, which Is now- using '350 -connects. Several requests from outside the city are now awaiting action the recorder said. At the meeting, - about seven city officials said they will at tend the. regional League of Ore gon cities meeting Nov. 29 at 6 pjn. .'i in. Phoenix. Invitations have been sent to all cities in Jackson and Josephine counties. HOME HAZARDS Hartford, Conn. UJ3 There's no place like home for fatal accidents. The Connecticut Safety Commission reported 897 violent deaths last year, nearly half of which occurred in homes.