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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1954)
' . m -..- He ; Mors Evergreen Hit lory ... In 1844 the Manifest Destiny party campaigned on a demand that the U. S. and Canadian boundary line be drawn well north of Prince Rupert, across the southern tip of Prince of "Wales island. On the British side the Hudson's Bay company's policy put the line on the Co lumbia river. The 49tn parallel was therefore a natural line of compromise. At last. Sir George Simpson, governor of the company, bowed however, the British did succeed in persuading President Polk, Secretary of State James Bu chanan and the U. S. Sen ate to bend the line down and around Vancouver island, where Simpson had, with his custom ary foresight, founded Fort Vic toria. . ' Simpson and English official dom knew, of course, that a party of American settlers had been in the Puget Sound region for a year before the two pow erful governments came to an agreement on ; the boundary, From early spring of 1845 there had been comings and goings of United States people north of the Columbia, all against the protests of Hudson's Bay comp any spokesmen. - .... By the winter of 1845-46 U.S. citizens and their children were dwelling in new homes as settled neighbors of establish ments of the Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural comp anies ruled by Sir George Simp son. The Simmons Settlement . . . ' The leader who gave settle ment of United States citizens and their families first root and growth in the region of Puget -Sound was Michael Troutman Simmons often called "Col onel? Simmons because of his command of an overland wagon train in the emigration of 1844, He was then 30 years old, "un lettered, but not unenlightened," as Historian Bancroft described him. Simmons was such a giant as John McLoughlin and he owned nrmness, loyaixy ana spiritual strength remindful of Marclus Whitman. These qualities had been severely tested upon the late fall arrival of the Simmons warm train nn th Tjvoto fnl. urabia. The party found that one of its member families was barred irom the Willamette Valley by the new "provisional govern ment" that American citizens and British fcubjects had formal ly organized in 1843. The new Orgeon government was in ac cord with the Treaty of Joint Occupation but it included some peculiarly Southern United States prejudices. There was a provision that barred persons of Negroid epidermoidal pigment ation from settlement in Ore gon. One family group in the Sim mons party was that of Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Bush and their nine children. Bush descendants maintain that he and his wife, while dark, were of East Indian Caucasoid ances try and that their somber com plexions were not Negroid. - Anthropological distinctions were unknown to the authorities of the Oregon Provisional gov ernment, however. So the Bush family had been exiled to the north bank of the Columbia. Colonel Simmons, a Kentuckian, but an enlightened one stayed with them. So did a dozen other families, and two or three single men.: .: Washington Won . . There was no color , barrier north of the Columbia, for this was something utterly foreign to the rules and customs of the Hudson's Bay company. Col. Shannons took a scouting trip to the fork of the Cowlitz river during the winter. In July, 1845, he reached the Deschutes river at its falls and its mouth in Budd inlet of Puget Sound. Simmons returned to Fort Vancouver for his family in Oc tober. The James McAllister, David Kindred, Gabriel Jones families with the George W. Bush family- also rolled wag ons north, following the great souled Kentuckian. Soon the news of rich soil, green pastures and plenty of wa ter came back from the settlers on Puget Sound, and the Cow litz. More settlers toiled north ward. Soon Puget Sound was ours The Washington country was won. i ARRIVING IN Los Angeles on plane inaugurating service from. Copenhagen, notables leave plane after flying over Arctic region. From bottom: Tore H. Nilert, president, Scandinavian Attunes System; Prince Alex of Denmark; Hans Hedtoft, Denmark's prime minister; Tage Erlander, Sweden's prime minister. Behind Erlander is Oscar Torp, Norway's prime minister. (International). Londoner Turns Misprints Into His Own Good Fortune London (U.R) "Stradivar-any misprint or unwieldy gram- ius violin for sale cheap. Almost new.l Denys Parsons, who knows that one man's misprint can be another's fortune, neatly extract ed that newspaper advertise ment from the collection writ ten for him by the fumbling fingers of writers and printers the world over. A lean and cynical Briton with a sharp eye for the errors that creep into modern publi cations, Parsons had twice be fore made the best seller lists with, his books on "garbles." Parsons considers a "garble" A Nkhol's Worth of .J. . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS -United Prase Feature Writer Alderman Protests Peeping Tom Legislation '- Westhrnnfc. M MP A lieves "the police have plenty of laws, and they can twist the ones they have without new ones," has protested new legisla tion to fine "peeping Toms" $20. Alderman George H. Twomb- Iav ai4 Via -tasva nrt1?A aKnea MVk WMV.v HWUJb the ordinance which prohibits loitering , or . . . lurking on the streets or near dwellings "for malicious or umawrui purposes. "I'm 60 years old, and when I was in grammar school the same thing (peeping Tomism) was going on as it is now," Twomb ley said. - , , " Granca Phoenix Grange When Phoenix Grange meets Tuesday, November 23, a speak er from Medford Social Security office will explain the new So cial Security law's provision for farm operators. The program will precede the regular meeting at 8 p Jn., so any one interested may attend. Dead line for Sunday Classified ll at noon Saturday. MJ Washington U.F9 What's new in Washington: Even before the senate decided W, h to recess while Sen. Joseph McCarthy gets over a sore el bow, the sen ators were packed and ready. The lobby at 'ike foot of the' elevator to the Senate floor Harman Nichols looked like ,x . ... Union Station. Hirelings were standing by with bags that had been packed long before. : The exodus out of the. build ing probably was the fastest in history. It was a matter of "money so far as the tipper house law givers were concerned. When they were called a lot of them had sub-leased their Wash ington living quarters and found themselves in expensive hotels on their own. Eating .money and entertainment also ran into dough. - ;' V , " A Washington reporter, who hadn't been briefed, called tele phone number Hudson 3-5500. He got Battle Creek, Mich. A voice answered and said: "Civil Defense." It seems that when officials of the national headquarters of the Civil Defense Administration moved to Battle Creek, a lot of the .wheels gave long distance their Washington office phone number. Calls to that number are switched to Battle Creek without extra charge. - ; " The ' Pentagon says that our soldiers around Keflavik. Ice land,' are coming; to the id of herring fishermen in the North Atlantic. It seems that killer whales, with an appetite for By the cup:or6y.the pot ) Edwards makes : with a 3-way saving! 1 r A SAVING WHIN YOU BUY ITs Costs .ess than otter instant coffees . . . and tutch less than regular coffee. '- A SAVINS WHEN YOU MAKE I7t It's 100 pure coffee, mad frorf. deep toasted beans. ; A SAVING WHEN YOU SWVYITt No waste. Make just what you wr nt, when herring have been raiding the nets of . ' the ; fishermen. The whales, which average from one to four tons and measure 15 to 30 feet, dive through the nets, gobble up a valuable catph and high-tail it away. So the Army assigned a bunch of Army men, bearing Garand rifles to straighten things out. Our boys scored a victory. One bullet in one whale, according to the Army, will get you two killer whaies. A wounded whale gets so mad when he is shot that he attacks and kills his companion before he dies. A total of 94 per cent of money raised through the Christ mas Seal Sale supports tubercu losis cbntrol programs, in the state where the money is. raised: Six per cent goes to the Na tional Tuberculosis Association for medical and social research, for service to state and local af filiates, for national and inter national cooperation against TB. mar which gives a sentence an effect not intended by the writ er. Tailor's Note He finds them even in his own correspondence like this note from a tailor: "You may imagine it is im possible to obtain a serviceable suit at this price. Buy one from us and be convinced." Parsons likes all garbles but he has a few strong favorites. One of them is this letter to a London newspaper: , "Mr. Jones is wrong to sug gest that I support the rich against the poor. To the Chris tian there is no class distinction that idea was largely concoct ed by the working classes." He also treasures: - . "The font so generously pre sented by Mrs. Smith will be set in position at the east end of the church. Babies may now be baptized at both ends." And this testimonial: "My husband took an accident policy with your company and in less than a month he was accidentally drowned. I consid er it a good investment." Risque Winds - And his weather report: "Tomorrow we may expect strong northeast winds reaching a gal in-exposed places." And this news dispatch: "About 3 a.m. fire broke out in the back part of the premises of Messrs. Blank, Sausage and Potted meat makers. Several horses were rescued." And this advertisement: . "Don't kill your wife with work. Let electricity do it." Parsons found this in a prov incial paper while he was tech nically on holiday: . "Miss Lank sang with great feeling: "Oh Relieve Me of All Those Endearing Young Charms.' The last few miles of familiar landscape slio bv. and then the train glides into the station. Eagerly you scan the happy faces on the platform ; : ; and there they are, wait- ? ing to greet you. As you step from the car, your heart is light ; : j the whole happy holiday is before you. You're home ; s : home for Christmas ; j s rested and relaxed "after your comfortable trip on Union Pacific ' There U no need to travel light when you go Union Pacific ; i -. 150 pounds free oo each adult ticket or oa -a FAMILY PLAN group ticket, 300 pounds m mdditkn : to hand baggage required en route. ) . "r , NEXT TRIP AND EVERY TRIP 60 UNION PACIFIC StocomUKen, wcitt of portlakd" Ast about Uuion Pacific's FAMILY TRAVEL PLAN -.si '. . .' .. ... . - ' GENERAL AGENT Suita 21, Cascade BUq., 13 Eart 12rh Avenue . Phena 5-8461 ; . .' Eugene, Oregaa - KA OP 1HI DAlUr trUAMUHItS ;"- feo Skater Turns Down Florida Scholarship Lake Placid, N. Y. When Joyce Durgan turned down a $1,200 music scholarship to a Florida boarding school, no one should have been surprised. It seems natural for a national ly known speed and figure skat ing champion to prefer Adiron ack. winter ice to Florida sun. Miss Durgan is the only girl student at the Northwood School for Boys here and is completing her senior year. Christmas Seals : have been sold at various times in 62 coun tries throughout the world to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. In the United States the Christ mas Seal Sale is carried on by the 3,000 TB associations af filiated with the National Tuber culosis Association. Tuesday, November 23, 1334 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Golfer Gets Revenge On Course Hazard s Concord N. H. (U.R) Some body went out on the municipal golf course here-to practice his swing at night with an axe. And now,, a hazard that plagued golfers for years is gone. Many a hacker had cussed the pine tree to the right of and a few yards in", front of the fifth tec. Thousands of drives had ricocheted off the pine. . 1 .. 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