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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
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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
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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.