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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforivCWribuni "Everybody In Southern Oregon bmoi xne Man in Dune Published DtJlf Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy lOe. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 9JS0 Dally and Sunday Three mos, 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 12a Sunday Only One year - 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: -Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash to Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NIWSPAPII kptmismts "ASSOCIATION Si IATIONaW IPIT HAL TIN I ASS Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dee. 19, 1944 (It was Tuesday) r. Air raid sirens wail in Ash land when fireman accidentally pushes wrong button. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: So far no citizen wno uses me rneumaiic pain in his back for an almanac! has predicted snow for the Older Girls come Christmas. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1934 (It was , Wednesday) zes construction of sewage dis posal plant. Twenty-two establishments in Medford seek -licenses to sell beer. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 19, 1924 It was Friday) . Dedication ceremonies held at Evans Valley for new school building. Eden precinct residents start movement to tear down shacks along Pacific highway. 40 YEARS AGO " Dee. 19, 1914 (It was Saturday) . The Kenworthy Players, "with Helen Duffy, direct from Folly theater in Eugene, to give per formances of the high - class comedy "Is Marriage a Failure? during Christmas season at Med- ord's It theater. From the Local and Personal column: Court Hall has sold Joshua Patterson, the former county commissioner, the first eight cylinder 1915 Cadillac in Jackson county. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report 1. The Senate voted for or against the charge that Sen. Mc Tarthv had browbeaten Gen. Zwicker, or substituted another charge for it? - 2. Do more serious accidents occur every year in the home, in factories, in mines, or on me . 3. Abraham Lincoln is or isn't buried in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. D. C? 4. The state with the largest number of private motor trucks is California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania or Texas? - 5. Does the Treasury get more from the federal tax on furs or from the one on jewelry? 6. The oDera "Faust" was com posed by Bizet, Goethe, Gounod, Puccini, Verdi or Wagner? , 7. A snickersnee is a raucous laugh, bird, jitterbugging Btep, knife, or jazz ewchestra instru ment? 1 - The Answers: 1 Substi tuted another charge, for ii. 2 In the home. 3 -Isn't (his ; tomb is in Springfiled, 111." 4 . '. California. 5 Much more , from the tax on jewelry. 6 ' Gounod. 7 Knife. Reflective tapes on automobile bumpers shine brightly because they are covered with large quantities of glass Jaeads, plus a dye that gives them color. Each bead sends back a ray of light in the direction from which the light came. m 9 MAIL TRIBUNE Should "Joe" be Ignored? A correspondent from Ashland thinks it is too bad that U.S. editors havenever been able to see the obvious solution of such dangers to our democracy as McCarthy and McCarthyism which is, quote: "Ignore the whole thing.. That licks the McCarthys of this world surely and quickly." ?f)0ES it? We have been in the newspaper business for a considerable time and have never seen the ostrich act work yet. - '- But we will grant this: The idea always springs up in times of local strain and stress, particularly by those who have an exaggerated, and a false view, of the power of publicity. fYUR first experience with this "complex" was when the Ku Klux Klan was revived here after World War I, over 3, decades ago. ; . Several newspapers in Oregon decided it was not only absurd but a f lash-in-the-pan and they would ignore it. It would soon die out, they claimed. .. The old familiar slogan: "just give them enough rope and they will hang themselves'' was brought out and conspicuously displayed as usual. But when the "hanging" was started by the Klan with citizens on the other end of the rope and the shirt-tail parades and flaming crosses got bigger and better these same newspapers most of them dropped the ostrich attitude and decided to do something about it. ' v This decision no doubt saved the day and some lives, as well. ' MO, it's an appealing idea we all get fed up at A times but it just doesn't work. McCarthy and McCarthyism isn't a menace be cause it has been publicized; but it has been publi cized, because it is a menace. It was the same -with the "K.K.K." : : To ignore it is not onlv to suppress legitimate news big news in fact but the destructive movement behind it. , This sort of campaign is seldom a pleasant "Busi ness, but such dangers can't be tolerated or ignored they have to be fought. And it is to the credit of American journalism as a whole that McCarthy and McCarthyism has been fought, as was the Klan 35 years ago. , ' TAKE Senator McCarthy's recent utterly unjusti fied and vicious attack upon President Eisenhow er, for example. . ' t - -Would it have been better for the country and tougher on McCarthy? if the papers had ignored this incident? , Hardly! . , v The publicity in news and editorials gven , this characteristic bit' of treacherous "McCarthyism,'' has probably done moreto discredit the man and his phonev "crusade" than anything that has happened since the "witch hunt" started. 1IHICH brings up a Second count in this interesting T wvmrmTmpatfrvn from Ashlnnrl. niint.P "What odds a dimes worth of criticism in editorials against a million dollars worth of publicity on the front page?" " ' " . V :. But what sort of publicity? , There is no doubt the Senator loves his publicity and tries to get it (and. does get it). But there is great doubt that the publicity received on the front pages the past few months has as the communica tion implies helped his cause so greatly that no edi: torial comment could overcome it. In other words publicity is a great force, but it can't make an evil cause, good; or a good cause bad, and so long as publicity is based on the FACTS, it can only strengthen public opinion against the former, and in favor of the latter. CO it all comes down to. the FACTS the truth circulating the truth that shall prevail and make us free. . It is the job of the press to give the facts about McCarthy or any one else for it is NEWS, anil to interpret these facts, as it views them, in its editorial columns. - . ' And when all is said and done, it is public t opin ion in this democracy as it is in any' other that decides the fate of the nation and the individuals composing it, as well as the causes they oppose or support. R.W.R. , "' ' '.-:. r :u . Safe Driving Day ' The chief promoters of Safe Driving Day hail it fas a success. We fail to see it. According to official reports on "S.D." day, 1954, there were 48 killed and 1505 injured in motor accidents. - : A year ago the number was 60 and 1807. ' This represents some reduction but not enough to be of any consequence. ' The important question is what will be the toll today and tomorrow? N- -- - ' " TNSTEAD of naming another "S.D." day, we would suggest having every day a safe-driving day, and meanwhile keep up the business of publicity and edu cation, especially along the line of self-interest and self-preservation. "That life may be your own," etc etc. ' This is alslow process, but we believe it is the more effective one. The trouble with naming one day in the year for safe driving is that safe driving is not a 24-hour problem, but a 365-day problem.. Unless it becomes habitual, it is of no use. Naming ONE day in the year we fear, hinders rather than helps in this direction. R.W.R. Sunday, December 19, 1954 to stimulate the growth of Matter of Fact DREAM AND REALITY Washington President Eisen hower's legislative program, un veiled in broad outline this week poses again a mys tifying question. Why are so many con servative Repub 1 i c a n s honestly con vinced that the President is - not a "real Re publican," but "Wow Tloalor r Stewart AUop disguise? Anyone who traveled widely during the recent campaign can testify that this is what a great many old line Republicans do really believe. And this convic tion in turn has stimulated the bitter division in the Republican party. And yet, if you examine the Eisenhower program with an open mind, you can only reach one conclusion. The pro gram may, as the President in sists,' represent "progressive moderation." But it is also a basically conservative program, by any reasonable tests. Some anti-Eisenhower Repub licans (who are almost to a man former supporters of the late. Sen. Taft) claim to detect a rank New Dealish smell in the Admin istration's welfare policies. It is true that last Monday the Presi dent told Republican leaders that he still favors his health re insurance plan and "continued public housing." Yet the fact is that Sen. Taft himself pub licly expressed far more New Dealish ideas ' on health and housing than any . the Adminis tration has put forward. - A GAIN, there has been mut tering because the current program calls for postponing a scheduled reduction of some $3, 000,000,000 in corporation and excise taxes. Ye$ the man who insisted on the postponement was Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, a pre-1952 Taft man, and a conservative if there ever was one. Moreover, if the President's program is really hostile to business in any way, the stock market is clearly bliss fully unaware of this fact. All in all, it is difficult to see where Sen. Taft could have dif fered seriously with the Eisen hower domestic program. Is it, then, the Eisenhower foreign policy which accounts for the anger of the conservative Re publicans? From all the clamor, one might think so. But again, consider the facts. ' !.' . ; . LL ECONOMIC aid to Europe "is to be eliminated this year, which Sen. Taft would certainly have applauded. The size of the still disputed aid program for Asia is to be determined by for mer . Budget Director Joseph Dodge, another Taft man. And on the other hand, It cannot seriously be maintained that the conservative Republi cans, have reason for anger be cause the President has not gone far enough in Asia. Sen) Knowl and's call for a blockade . of China has been a resounding dud. And after all, it was the conservative Republicans who most vociferously opposed Amer ican intervention in Indo-China. Of course there are some real policy differences, as on the tariff issue. But such differences cannot really account for the angry muttering about the Eis enhower administration in coun try clubs and in the cloak rooms of Capitol HilL "OT EVEN Sen. McCarthy 1 reaUy accounts for the inter nal bitterness in the Republican party. He has been, in fact, more a symptom than a cause of this bitterness. Many conservative Republicans supported McCarthy less because they admired Mc Carthy than because they dis trusted .the Administration. .But if the Administration is demon strably conservative by any ra tional measure, why do so many conservatives distrust it? ' There are all sorts jof answers, of course, from patronage trou ble . to the still raw memories of the 1952 convention. But the basic answer seems to. be that many , of the businessmen and others who make up the back bone ; of the Renublican nartv conceived, during the 20 Demo cratic . years, a sort of ideal dream image of a "Republican administration. The Eisenhower administration does not live-up to this image because it can't. Take one example. -A great many Republicans honestly be lieve that Republican efficiency would make it possible to reduce taxes sharply balance the budget and put the Russians firmly in their place, all at the same time. One suspects that Secretary Humphrey and Secretary of De fense Wilson largely shared .this belief. Yet only a few days ago Secretary; Wilson announced a $5,000,000,000 increase spending, while Secretary Humphrey simultaneously-announced that the budget would have to remain un balanced for yet" another year. JUixi announcements were A dictated by the realities; of the situation, to which Secre taries Wilson and Humphrey have been uncomfortably - ex posed" for two long years. But to Republicans who have not been I VI- LmmsW By Stewart Alio . similarly exposed, it is no doubt natural to suppose that Wilson, have somehow been infected by New Dealism or some kindred disease. , This conflict between dream and reality has been the real cause of much of the trouble in the Republican party. Fortunate ly, there are increasing signs that the dream is wearing off, 'and that the reality is at last being accepted, thanks to time,'. re sponsibility, and. the Party's po litical dependence on the Presii dent 1 ... - . ; ; (Copyright, 1954, ' New. York Herald Tribune' Inc.) SUGGESTED BIBLE READING The American Bible So ciety, the Medford Ministerial Association and the Medford Council of Church Women are cooperating in sponsoring daily Bible reading in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. . The suggested scripture reading for today is: I Corinthians' 13. !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the total of persons who lost their lives in traffic accidents on National Safe Driving Day, which ended at midnight last night, is 48. That compares with an aver age of 97 per day during the first ten months of this year and an average of 104 per day during all of 1952 and 1953. Notbad. LET'S PUT it this way: If the total of 48 stands, it means that is compared with the daily average of traffic deaths for the first ten months of ;this year 49 Americans are alive to day who would not have been alive if the safer driving experi ment had not been tried. ' If you assume that YOU ARE ONE OF THE 49, you can say flatly that so far as you are con cerned the experiment paid off. TiHREE things offer possibili ties of reducing our stagger ing total of traffic fatalities along with injuries and the monetary loss that go with traf fic accidents: 1. Wider (and. much costlier) streets and highways especial ly divided highways. 2. More and better traffic reg ulations and more traffic police men per mile. 3. ; TEACHING PEOPLE TO DRIVE MORE SAFELY. v ? Of the three, I'd say that the last is the best. 1TCE TOWN of Fallon, over in Nevada, had its third earth quake of the year last night. The quake waves rolled as far southward as the Mexican bor der, westward to the Pacific and as far north as southern Oregon. In FaUon, it seems to have been pretty rugged. Sheriff George Wilkins says this morn ing: "The ice on the ground was cracking and squeaking and we thought the earth was going to cave in and us with it." , , He adds: v . "The only reason Fallon didn't suffer heavier damage was that everything loose . had begn knocked down in the two pre vious quakes." rjNE TROUBLE .with our mod " ern civilization, in these days when another war will mean al most certain . use of nuclear weapons, is that we have SO MUCH TO BE SHAKEN DOWN. If we still lived in caves, as did our remote ancestors, we could thumb our noses at A bombs and H-bombs. fTHAT stirs another thought: Since we've been smart enough to build modern civiliza tion to its present amazing peak, we ought to be smart enough to find a way to keep war from destroying it all. ' OPEAKING of nuclear weapons, 3 here's an interesting little fragment from the news: ; The foreign ministers of the U.S., Britain and France are holding a meeting this morning in Paris. They have many things to discuss, and high among them is to decide JUST WHO WOULD GIVE THE WORD for the West to use atomic weapons in case of a Russian attack. It has been argued that such a decision should be left to the military commanders in the field that consultation with the home civilian governments after a red attack might; mean a fatal delay. . , . On the other hand, it has been argued that some trigger-happy military man might set. off World War III by using atomic weapons in case of a local border clash which might otherwise be mediated. PUT IT like this: .; ' , In the days of the Old West, when a desperado reached for his gun, would you have wanted to have to ask the city council for permission to pull your gun and shoot? --' ; It you had waited, you'd prob ably have wound up dead in your boots. - POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We witnessed the ultimate in frustration last week: The society editor sitting helpless ly watching from the office window as a police officer leis urely wrote out a parking tick., et and put it on . the wind shield of her car, parked, "for Just a few minutes" across the street. - The Christmas rush is on at the Medford post office. It seems to be having its effects, too. " Assistant Postmaster Otto De Jarnett came to work in his car Friday , morning, parked it, locked it, and went in to work. - Later, another post office em ployee came by and noticed the motor of De Jarnett's car ? was still running.' He tried to open the door to turn the motor off, but of course it was locked. So he notified DeJarnett. - - Otto had to go all the way home to get an extra key. His excuse? It's a brand new car, he said, and the motor runs so quietly he forgot to turn it off. A few people in Rogue River who had appointments to give blood during the visit of the bloodmobile there last week failed to show up, but one of them had a good excuse. His lady pig was engaged in having a multiple blessed event at the time. A tidy and civic-minded Med ford housewife one morning last week drove her youngsters to school. En route, she saw glass scattered aU over the street near her home. Conscious of tires, she drove carefully around it, and, arriving back home, got on coat and gloves, took a broom and dustpan, and went to sweep it up. , . . It turned out to be ice from a frozen puddle, scattered by .an earlier car. - A staff member tells us that Hans and Frits were walking along the dike with their mother. The mother slipped and fell into the canal. Said Frits: "Look Hans, no mother." The same, overparking society editor received a Christmas card last week addressed to "The Rogue' Valley's Leading Mug- Hunter." . She was nonplussed until the slang was explained and she was told a mug-hunter is a x person who seeks out "mugs for pic ture-taking purposes. Starry-eyed young boy drew' the name of hie . third-grade girl friend for his school room's Christmas gift ex ': change. Excited by this romantic turn of events, he told his mother: "I'm going to buy her the best necklace I can for 25 cents." . : A week ago we published some pictures of old school houses. We didn't know what schools they were, so we went around and asked people. .- The first one we asked said "That looks like Jackson school, and that's Lincoln, and maybe that's the old high school, and I think .that's old Washington school." ' x;..' ' We should have : quit there. Everybody we asked after that had different answers. But we were brave. We took the word of the man who sounded least hesi tant and . tacked the names he gave us on to the pictures. Monday a lady called to tell us we were wrong. Tuesday a lady wrote to tell us we were, wrong. Wednesday nothing happened. Thursday a lady called to tell us we were wrong. What was worse for us, they all agreed on the proper identifications. But we learned something. And we -know who to call for correct identifications next time Brother of Local Man Works in Deep Mine - Last Monday the Mail Trib une's feature, "Strange As It Seems," by. Elsie Hix, described the Lakeshore gold mine in On tario, Canada, saying it was 8,075 feet deep, more than Vz miles. Saturday, Lloyd H. Semour, 2590 Willow way, Medford, dropped in to the newspaper of fice to report that his brother, Morris Seymour is underground superintendent of the mine -In a recent letter, he said the mine is now 8,100 feet deep,, and described , the work there. Me told his brother that the deepest mine galleries are being held up by columns of ore which are soon to be dug out, a dangerous pro ceeding. : Carpenters Donate to Hells Canyon Group Portland' (U.R) Jim Marr, president of the National Hells Canyon Association, Saturday announced the association has received a check for $3500 from the AFL carpenters' union. ; - v - Marr said the carpenters' pres ident, M. A. Hutchinson, in a letter, said the donation - was authorized by the "union's exe cutive board after Marr's recent board after Marr's recent - re quest for additional funds. The association is conducting a cam paign opposing the construction of three low dams on the Snake River. - ' we use the pictures. Did you hear the radio an nouncer who called Pope Pius "Pipe Po-us"? . Speaking of radio announcers, there was this exchange the oth er night on a local station, at the end of a broadcast from the Med ford weather bureau: Weatherman: This is Stan Lacy returning you to your an nouncer. Announcer: Thank you, Russ WUliams. ; 1 Study Proposed On Centennial Plan Portland - (U.R) The Ore gon Centennial Committee, met here Friday and recommended that the Stanford Research insti tute be retained to conduct a survey on social and economic feasibility of an aU-state celebra tion of Oregon's 100th birthday anniversary. The 40-member committee was named recently by Gov. Paul L. Patterson to study pos sibilities of a centennial celebra tion on a state-wide basis, pivot ing around ' a . world's fair in Portland, in 1959. James Mount, manager of ra dio station KGW, was elected chairman of the committee. Mount predicted that an all- state observance would double the state's annual tourist income of $125,000,000. , Pending a report from the Stanford Research. institute, the committee ; was divided into three groups financial, legis lative and survey to deter mine interest in the project and possible help from business, civ ic groups and individuals throughout the state. COMMUN .CATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name arid address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with e view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. , : . What Is News? To the Editor: Press and radio build many phony politicos into celebrities and make heroes out of clowns. This may be from out moded assumptions of what con stitutes news. But when all out lets combine to build up a cer tain rabid senator (with head line itch) who never was any thing better than a shyster law yer (and never will be) into a national figure, it would appear that editors are merely suckers for any publicity hound and his agents if they , make enough noise. - . - When the present bad boy of the senate attacks the president it is like one adolescent thumb ing his nose at another. And just about as important. But is 'it news? Certainly it does not jus tify scare headlines, for that is the sole aim of all publicity-mad politicos. They don't mind what you call them so long as you pub lish their names and thus feed their egomania. When it comes to sensation alism for the sake of sensation itself, the Mail-Tribune is among the least offensive. (For example you have the good .taste to rele gate the Sheppard case to inside pages). But along with most oth er outlets, you appear under compulsion to play this dema gogue's, own game, unwittingly perhaps yet effectively. - You think not? ' " What odds a dime's worth of criticism in editorials against a million dollars worth of public ity on the front page? Many other phony men and movements have been built up in this same way: thoughtless, ill-advised pub licity. . . , ., I suggest that your readers are fed up, nauseated with the cur rent senate squabble and its per petrator. Let's at least banish it to inside pages, if you please, or better still , let's - ignore the whole" thing? There is the most powerful weapon in your arse nal: the weapon of no-see-em, no-hear-em, and above all np-name- em. The brushoff . Just ignore the guy. That licks the McCarthies of this world surely and quickly. Too bad our editors have never been able to see this obvious solution. Jim Fuller, P. O. Box 533, - Ashland, Ore. ". She is Grateful ' To the Editor: Would you please print an article in your paper, thanking the fire depart ment, the police department, hospital staff and all the people of Medford, for everything they did for us, and for their kind ness? ,-f ':' J, , , They say a friend in need is a friend in deed. That certainly is the people of Medford. Our son Michael is in the' Doern becher hospital, and will be there for some time. Thanks to the people of Medford, he is doing very well. . . We wish you all a Merry Christmas and sincerely thank you for. making our Christmas much brighter. Thank you. T Mr. and Mrs. William 4 Bergquist and family. ' Editor's note: The Bergauists son. Michael. 4, was ' seriously burned on the face, neck and, Judd Plans Protest Over Ouster of U.S. : .. - Attache in Tokyo Washington U.PJ Russian born Wolf Ladejinsky, who plan ned the Japanese land reforms instituted by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur after World War II, has been removed as agricultural at tache of the U. S-Embassy in Tokyo, an - agriculture Depart ment spokesman confirmed Sat urday. -.V: 0 v , Security Involved The spokesman said . security was involved to some extent," but that there also were a "var iety of other considerations" which he did not disclose. Rep. . Walter. Judd Ol-Minn.), promptly challenged thfe depart ment's action. Judd, who. vouch ed for Ladejinsky's loyalty and discretion "100 per cent," said he will call on top department officials Monday to protest the ouster. - , ' . Naturalised Citizen i Judd said he is sure - that Ladejinsky, a naturalized Am erican citizen, received security clearance from the State ; De partment which had jurisdiction over agricultural attaches be fore the Agriculture ; Depart ment took over jurisdiction last year. : ' "' ' Judd said he believes the main reason for the action -was not security, but the Agriculture Department's policy of staffing agricultural attache posts with men who are experts in Ameri can farming rather than in the agriculture of countries where they are stationed. LOGGER KILLED Gold Beach (U.B Warren Mayea, a logger, was killed Fri day when struck by a falling limb while working in the woods near here. . ' arms Dec 8, when gasoline poured on a fire exploded. The youngster's uncle, Charles ;Mil lar, also was burned and both were taken to Portland by Mercy Flights. Millar is at Good Samari tan hospital. His injuries, while serious, were less so than those suffered by MichaeL Air Wells As Fog Remedy . -. To the Editor: There is a pos sibility the cue for the dispersal of the valley's fog would be us ing the same technique that, is applied to "air wells" in the Near East deserts, namely, large dobie buddings containing long hollow tubes to allow -the air to 'pass through thereby precipitating the cool air and condensing the mois ture into running water. ' ; Construction of such undertak ings is not prohibitive in fi nances, or else those poorer re gions such as Southern France could never have had their des erts made into oases through such a method. It should work two ways.' By condensing, all the fog would be "used up," or in other words, evaporated into water. These "wells" would have to be spaced wherever the water would have an outlet to streams or canals. Bert Kissinger, . . 520 Boardman St, Medford, Ore. Too Much Movie Trash , To the Editor: This is the first time I have written to a news paper but my dander is up and I can't sit back any longer. - Medford has always been my home town and usually I'm proud of it I have four small children and I'd like to have them grow up in a town like this. Just the other day 'a friend mentioned how much 'Medford did for the young people. The Y.M.C.A., the PAL dub, Easter egg hunts, the wonderful chil dren's narticiDation shows . on KBES TV and many others. It's too bad that in recent years there has been an increas ing number of sexy trash shown in our theaters. . . ' I know some say "adults only," but I'm willing to bet they're packed with teen-agers, especially the ones shown at the drive-ins. . On one of the circulars it says nothing about adults only It's onniivh that the advertise- ment is in the open without the overloaded mailman naving 10 niNra nnA to each mail box W which is how I got the one Ira enclosing. I t h i n k it's absolutely dis .n.cini Medford doesn't need this kind of entertainment I suppose when the public voted for the detention home they' thnueht the increasing croblem of juvenile delinquency was all taken care of. well tne home was a wonderful idea bu if we continue to allow, these trash v movies we'll sure help fill it up. x xeei very strongly a o o u t this and I, believe there is a connection. At least some strrMt with me as your article : from Tuesday s paper snows. Mavbe this letter won't any results but I intend to write more. . - e : . Mrs. Margaret Rose -' 861 Altest
