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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
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.
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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
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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.
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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