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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL, rditor HERB GREY, Advertising Manaaer -E. C. FERGUSON, Managing; Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor - HARRY CBXPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWSTT. Sports Editor . OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second elass matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. . By Mail In Advance: Per coot IOcV Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 5 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 ; Daily and Sunday Three moa 230 . Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 ' Sundav Onlv One Year aS .50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. - Jacksonville. . Gold Hill, phoenix. Shady Cove. Rorue River.. Talent, rand on motor routes: - -' Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 Daily and Sunday On month 1.23 r Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford oineiai Paper of season 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.Cr. - - V NEWS PAP It .SB PUtLISHIlS "ASSOCIATION "national EDITORIAL AsSbcrATrfoN 37 f light o'-TimeJ; r Medford and Jackson County History from Ahe file of The MaQ Tribune10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 30, 1945 - " at was Tuesday) : California Oregon Power com pany announces rate reduction amounting to $323,000; President JC S. Cummins says home own ers will get an average cut of 11 per cent.- - v; ' From Arthur Perry's -Ye Smudge Pot column: The legis lature proposes to do some fancy tinkering with th Knox liquor control law. One bit of proposed fjnkering will enable speakeasies to make hay while the .moon shines, it is claimed. - 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 30. 1835 (It was Wednesday) University of Oregon rletter men's association invites Burd ette Kmdred, Bob Hinman and Bill Bates, former Medford high school f ootballstars, to spend weekend on U. of O. campus. ; Story written by John Snider, Medford high school student, de clares Sam Van Dyke and Bill Luman have been moved up to first string spots on the Medford high basketball team. . . 30 YEARS AGO . " Jan. 30, 1925 : 1 ; Measure giving city of Med ford right to secure water from Big Butte creek introduced into state legislature.- ! - . y - Hot house rubarb, grown by H. F. Chirgwin, WiUow Springs, 'to be placed' on market in Med ford. f 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 30, 1915 (It was Saturday) , Mrs. Edna Isaacs,, who started work with telephone company when there were only 48 phones in Medford, resigns as chief .op erator. - - ' .' - r J. C. Barnes perfects plan for securing irrigation - in Rogu valley. : , ' ' : ' Whaf'c ihA Anmnr? iiiihi iiiv mw if wi a (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Coor. 1955. Editorial Rasurck Raaart The Ford Motor company pre diets more Ford, than Chevrolet sales this year, or about the same numuer, r auiurei as many; ' 2. Sen. McCarthy is now chair man of the Senate government operations . committee, ; or only one of its members, or off the commiiiee cuuxciy; - . ' 4. The World Almanac is so named, because it covers the en tire world; right or wrong? - ',' 4. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is a Norwegian, Swede, Finn, Dane or a natural ized U.Sf citizen? 5. The" order of the Purple Heart is bestowed by- the Roman . xl 1 - 1 . - aa . a, wauiouc cnurcn, ua. Armea Fprces, Britis Crown or Ma sonic Order? ; t: r : . 6. Dred Scott figured 100 years ago in a famous batUe against the ; Indians, ' Supreme Court: decision, prize fight, or gold discovery in California? r 7. A trichologist treats diseases of the eyelids, the hair, pigs, the digestive tract, or muscles? - The answers '1. More frd salts. 2. Only one "of lha mem bers. 3. Wrong; it is so named because started by the old N.Y. World. 4. Swede. 5. U J. Armed Forces, i. Supreme Court v cision. 7. The hair. , , ' ' " . - '. '." - r"' . '. 1 HAIL TRIBUNE No Time for Haste " - ?'.; y . . - -: ' . ; ..; ' ;-,: ', - . .1; .. .. ; At least one historian has. maintained that war with Japan might have been prevented, had not the Emperor of Japan and his advisers misundertsood a certain "ultimatum" delivered by Secretary of State Hull. , . :- , - There are other, historians who have expressed the opinion that had Hitler ever clearly understood what the American attitude would be in case there was, another world war, he would never, have attack ed Russia. ; t : ,;' -; . y These views may, or may not be, correct. ; But they do emphasize the importance of interna tional UNDERSTANDING and the real dangers of I Misunderstanding, in the maintaining world peace. THERE is no question that in asking the Congress to endorse military action regarding Formosa, if he should think it necessary the Presidents purpose was to prevent war, not cause it. No fair minded per son in.view of the President's record, could doubt his sincere devotion to peace. In fact at least once he not only opposed Senator Knowland, but the advice of his chief-of -staff chairman fb bomb the mainland of China which might well have brought on hostilities in the Far East -perhaps another world war. : But as the senate debate showed, it was not the President's INTENTIONS that were at issue, but what the result of his declaration and request, as PHRAS ED, might be, particularly upon Far East and world opinion. ; ; ;g " -- :. ' ! ' So various , changes and amendments were pro posed but none was passed. . V This demand for clarification was condemned, by some as ''hysterical" and neither. : ' v. The conditions in the there, could be such' devastating and tragic results if i the American : position should be misunderstood, that full -debate, and the greatest care to make the resolution in question crystal clear to friend and foe aiiKe, was in our judgment not omy jusuiiea, put im perative. . , v . - i We would have favored turning the entire mat ter over to the United Nations, but President Eisen hower felt there wasn't timt." ,y .. . v..;-:v-: . ? i But there was time to discuss to discuss the pro posal from every angle, in an effort to clarify not only its declarations, but its implications. , -We feei those members of the Congresswho in sisted upon this and took that time should be com mended not condemned R.W.R. Not Much ' The United States according to' the latest renort wiU join : Great Britain in. asking Red China to the United Nations to discuss a cease-fire in the China sea. -. - , - ' .That's something new,--for the USA , to; invite Red China to the United Nations, even if only for con versation, after all the clamor about never giving her membership. . - - But even if Red China accepts, the;chances are slim that either Red China or Nationalist China will agree to any cease-fire. For such an agreement would recognize that there are two Chinas whereas both Mao and Chiang Kai shek, maintain there is only one, one that is legiti mate af least. - Mao says China is his by revolutionary right, and Chiang says China is his by moral right . -" To stop fighting for what they claim is their right, would be as impossible to one as to the other, for to them it would mean surrender. It is OK to talk it over, but the chances of any success as. we. see it, are practically nil.-R.W.R. Up to the U.N. ; --About all this China business there is a lot of hocus pocus and double-talk. f Cease-fire would not be an answer, only a pal liative. Formosa is the issue that must be settled be fore anything approaching peace in the Pacific can be obtained. . !i-"s. u It is the old question of what happens when an im moveable body is met by an irrestible force. The immoveable body is Chiang Kai-shefe on For mosa, the irresistible force is Mao and his Red army. eJansweris?waJ, ' "; - Why was the United Nations formed anyway? It was formed to prevent war Not after the shooting had started but before. . v. Well, here is a situation in the Far East made to order for UN adjudication. V -;t- -;. As , we see it the only hone of avoiding war in which the United States ia w waru r urraosa neiuie vo niang .nor to Mao but to hand it over to a UN trusteeship, subject to a Fonnosan plebiscite. i - That might or might not be the decision of the United Nations. But this much is as sure any anything in this uncertain world can be. J-TJt thf UN- can't prevent "war over Formosa, such a war, sooner or later is certain; unless there is a radi cal change in the Far East . Sunday. January JQ, XISS all-important matter of - v :- ill - advised. We regard it as - .', . - : .';:; - Far . East are so critical, Chance would have to be involved, situation now existing. Matter of Fact LEGAL LYING Washington The-youthful former Communist, former pro fessional witness, and former aid to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, is currently writ ing a :' remark able political confession that may cause ma jor explosions. For the author of this confes sion Harvey Matusow calm ly explains how he made a Stewart Alsop business of bearing false witness; and how the American govern ment made his business a profit able one, courtesy of the American- tax-payer. ' An advance draft of Matu sow's book, , each page - signed by the author, has been obtain ed by this reporter. Here is an example of the sort of thing Ma tusow, who was a chief witness against Owen lAttimore, has re vealed: ' iJ . ' " "I .'climaxed my testimony with the dramatic assertion that Owen Lattimore's books were used as the official Communist party guide on Asia. Once again, I told a complete falsehood . I didn't care what happened to Lattimore. I ; cared about what was- going to happen to me. My unfounded attacks on Lattimore just placed me in the role, of expert of experts. I had reached the top of the ladder. Lattimore, was later indicted.'-,. LATTIMORE is stiU, of course, under indictments. Obviously Matusow's remarkable : decision to ten how he lied, - and thus risk going to jail for perjury, is likely to make a lot of extra work for the Justice department. Matusow has already signed one sworn affidavit in which he. ad mits false testimony in a case in which he was a chief govern ment' witness. "No doubt there wiU be more such affidavits. ; H Legal : lying . by . such" profes sional ex-Communist informers as Matusow, which has been tolerated by all three branches of the American government, has done irreparable harm to the individual American citi zens. But it has also done irre parable harm to the whole Am erican political process. Consid er the f oUowing example of the political . uses of the legal lie. Matusow ; was to testify before the McCarthy committee at hear ings in Salt Lake City His tes timony was. of course privileged, or libel-proof: -v''7 - ' "I had also made up my mind how I would place in the record a statement of 'the number of Communists working for the New York Times and Time mag azine.'. X.. had previously discus sed this with Sen. McCarthy and had his- approval, v Once ; the 'facts' were in the record, Mc Carthy knew that he could ac cuse the Times and Time maga zine, Inc., of being pro-Communist." f-- , - . OR consider this example, when McCarthy sent, Matusow into Montana in 1952 to attack Dem ocratic Senatorial ' candidate, Mike -Mansfield: : "As I talked I reached in my brief case, using the same ges tures I had seen Sen. McCarthy so frequently use. 'Now I have here in mybrief case document ed proof . .' . I pulled out a photostatic copy of an old copy of - the Communist party publi cation 'New Masses.' ; The - im pression was that it contained a by-lined story by Mansfield; that he had written the story and had actively, - knowingly supported the Communist party.1 But I knew that the story was merely, a re-print of his remarks in the Congressional Record." - There is no space here to- con vey the full, gamy flavor of Mat usow's revelations. But the ex amples quoted suggest how in credible it - is ; that Matusow should have continued to receive tax-payer's money for his ser vices as an "expert witness." It may be said, of course, that Matusow, having lied before, is lying now when he admits his lies.. It may also . be said that Matusow, having swung com munism, to McCarthyism has completed the circle the fact that his publishers have a de cidedly left-wing coloration will be cited in support . of.:-this charge. CERTAINLY, on the record V : cited by Matusow himself, no one would be likely to claim for Insurance Firm Cub Woman Driver Rates Chicago-flJ.R) An insurance company, acting on the theory that young ' women are safer drivers than young f men has announced it is elminiating its extra premium for women under 25. . - '. , i The Allstate Insurance Co. al ready has discontinued the ex tra premium on automobile in surance: for girls and young women in five states. r It wiU extend the program to 28 more states and the ' District of Columbia Feb. 1 . . . f'St- 'A Jt$r t " ' 1 tr Stewart Alsop him . exceptional trustworthin ess or political .wisdom. .Yet he has documentation for much of his amazing story. And the story is also inherently credible simply because Matusow himself is the chief object of his . own accusa tions. ' :A At any rate, Matusow's revel ation simply cannot be ignored, either by Congress or, by : the Justice Department. In this sense, , in writing his astonishing confession, Matusow may. more than compensate for the harm he has done'.. ' ; Obviously some ex-Communist informers have performed a use ful service. But in the years since the trial of Alger Hiss, the cult fit the ex-Communist, as the undisputed arbiter of the .loy alty of other citizens,- has grown like a cancer. - Matusow's con ession is likely to initiate a" ser ious investigation of-this new post-war, profession of the in former, and this could have good results for the political . health of the United States. ; (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Incl In the Day's Hews , - By FRANK JENKINS ' :. George Turnbull, whose sparkling, : gem - like ! editorials make the' Albany Democrat-Herald one of Oregon's most de pendably interesting newspa pers, chose the other day to dis cuss i what he calls the "old Charles A. Dana chestnuts" : "If a dog bites a man, it isn't news; but if a man bites a dog unlimited space!" . And ;. v "Whatever the good Lord al lows to happen I am .- not too proud to print in njy paper." , pEORGE says: . : V "Neither of these, actually rises to the stature of' a journal istic rule. AU Dana, famous NeV York Sun editor, was trying to do, probably, was , to emphasize that the unusual ; is news ' and that Byron had the ' right idea when he wrote:. "With or without consent of friends or foes ' sketch your world exactly as it goes." , - s He goes on: "But at least twice within the last 20 years or so, when the wires have carried the news of a man's biting a dog, the inci dent was not heavily played. One (such incident) we recaU got about a hundred words, and some of the papers ran it is a UtUe i'boxed feature." ' WELL, you know", a man once' .. r bit a dog . in Klamth Falls. He was a very' young man the son of Mr. i and . Mrs. Harlan Bosworth (Harlan, - more - gener- auy.knowft as "Bos," was then Copco .manager in Klamath; be is now a Copco vice-president in MedfprdJ The dog's name was Ring. He was what might be termed a pa triarchal dog, kindly, .tolerant, aiooi 10 au ine pettier reactions such as anger and retaliation. The young man, as I recaU it, hadn't yet learned to walk. He and Ring got into one of those friendly man-and-dog scuffles in the course of which Ring nipped a little harder than he intended the calf of his companion's fat little lower limb. The young man turned and sank his teeth in Ring's right front leg! THE Herald and News tipped ' off to what had happened, lived up to the man-bites-dog journalistic - tradition in a big way, and rushed a reporter and a cameraman to the spot : We hdd to tinker with the news a bit, for Ring's l wound ', wasn't deep ; enough or gory enough ' to be depicted by the camera and we couldn't prevafl on the pair of them to stage a rehearsal for the benefit of the press. So we put a white bandage on Ring's leg, and it showed up beautifully in the ensuing picture of the combatants posing together after the brawl. . It turned out to be big news, all right It tickled the risibiles of everybody in town and the Boswortns - were swamped all evening with calls from kidding friends. That was b&ckv in the days when pictures were . rela tively ew in the smaUer news papers, and we of the Herald and : News' were prouder than Punch of the achievement MAYBE I'd better teU you a litUe about George Turnbull. He was a member of the team of Allen '(Eric) and Turnbull (George) that founded the Uni versity of Oregon ; school of journalism away back when.1 ; iThey were t a "GREAT team. They worked together like a hand in A gjove. They were good newspapermen, - but 1 they were 1 something more, They were great MEN. They were inspired teachers. They turned out a gen eration of. newspaper men -who have made their mark all over the country. x . . - - Eric Allen 1 went over the Great ' Divide many- years ago, but his memory lingers. Georgt TurnbuU is stiU -i with us, for which I am gratefuL He headed, for a' while, the school of journal ism he helped to found. He has taught with distinguished suc cess at Stanford University and at Nebraska. Hevis now a writer of distta guished editoxiaJs. . Communiccfions . Lattan to the Editor must bear th nam and addraai of th writar although under certain circum stance the use of a pan naine -or initial for 1 publication - is pvrmia able. The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit all letter with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400' words. Not Columbus To the Editor: Common usage or belief in a term is no guar antee of its truth. It could be a contributing-cause of the cyni cal attitude of our youth to some of today's 'learning,"' especial ly to those factually minded. : That's the why of this letter, for if iwo certain youngsters chance to read the editorial, ih Sunday's Mail Tribune wherein was stated - v-r) Columbus dis covered America," they'U want to know, how come? For it is plain that Columbus did not dis cover America, in fact never set eyes on North America. He seemed to be more intent in av oiding it for there is evidence that he thumbed bis way up to the land of ; the Norsemen to talk with descendants of Leif Ericson (ref .: . Early Rulers ; of the Sea) , whp tried settlement of Vineland. (North America) some 3 or 400 years earlier like hag been done in Iceland and Green land. '.V . One thing is sure, Christopher steered way south of the course taken by Ericson, .to skirt the great land mass and' find a sea route to "Old Cathay" (China), India . and Asian lands . where the silks and satins, could be had, wonderous carvings' In ivory, ebony and precious - jades and the spices and, other gastronomic delights to tickle the. palates of Europe's nobility and notables. Brigands and robbers had. tak en - such toll . of the . overland camel caravans that it was ho longer profitable, that way And there ,was that little .'matter, of the magic, black powder - the Chinese had i perfected V; t h at when 'touched with fire c would erupt : in ' flame, smoke ' and mighty roar, flinging a round stone : shot to smash .a V ship cr shore building: a mile br more distant. ; iHiM : i , That interested Ferdinand of Spain, then top-dog among lna tions and might' help him tq bring enemy : nations to heeL quite like the Red network na tions ' would do -..today with mightier atom and hydrogen power. So King Ferdinand and Queen IsabeUe pungled up the grubstake for Christopher- to go and get the loot in - his three windjammers. : And Columbus was positive to the day he died that he had reached his goal for he named the islands .where he first landed the West Indies.' v - F. J. Clifford,' -1211 W. Main, - Medford, Ore. . ' - They Have Cattle Trouble - , To the Editors If any of your readers' have fee answer to this problem we surely will be grate ful for the solution. ; 0 We live on Table Rock road, next to-the-Midway Meat bus iness. We bought this 5Va acres because it; had irrigation water and to retire in what we thought would be peace and quiet But no. It's been a headache. Why, because the meat owners never fix the fences properly to keep uieir caiue out grazing. ven an electric fence would be. enough if they twould put it up..J 7 The cattle are always getting out on "the neighbors property. even across the-road. .. '. ., Sunday,, January 23, we were entertaining a business jnan and bis family for'; a' quiet dinner. When the meal was partly serv ed and all ; were seated ai. the table many cattle broke through the. poorly made ience. Both Mr. .Morrison and, I had to leave the table ;and chase the r cattle off our flowerbeds. v ; ? x 1 have been kind enough to go over to the: plant at -6:30 of -a rainy : morning -and tell them their cattle are out , tf , We -. have 1 several expensive plants and flowers: set out,-' and last Sunday those : cattle .trod down several which -cost plenty. But the ..owner of this m e a t house refused to pay for damag es and didn't even apologize to us or to our guests for the din ner interruption. - . We have gone to town and when ' we return - here are the cattle on our place. What can be done' to force these people to use their own land? " . i We. ourselves have nothing to disturb any neighbors and all we want is to use our own prop erty. .. - - Will surely appreciate all comments on same.. Yes, we will sell to anyone having cash for our- property." " ' ' .-The James H. Morrisons," , .'Route 2, Box 240, I, ' . Medford, Ore. DAV Ali Aaa . " " To the Editor: -The Veterans' Rehabilitation Center, sponsored by. Jackson county chapter No. 8, Disabled American Veterans, up to now in preliminary stages of preparation, is now Teady to receive any discard articles from the public. , r We will answer your phone call and pick: o "anything you have that is taking up attic r storage space, but can be recon ditioned and made tutfuL.- We have some storage 1 sheds built that will contain what we expect to have ea fcud at rrt txX P-0 T L y EC , (Iy M-T Staff and Contributors) S mm This is the remark we heard a woman make , last. Monday night after : she watched Y the fire which .damaged Eads Trans fer and Storage: "I was hop ing the fire would spread- across the aUey so they'd have a fire sale at the liquor store." . Mrs. Betti Boyla, manager of the Jackson hottL learned during , the same , fire that . playing the Good Samaritan can be costly. ' . When the blase broie out. Mrs. Boyle called every room in .the hotel to warn the oc- ' cupants to get their cars out , ef a parking lot alongside the -Eads building. , When she fire was out. she discovered . ahat ' her brand new; car was the only one ' damaged ia the blase, . A : friendly contributor sent this: one in, - quoting ' a - radio commentator: A certain city in this U.SA. posted the following sign at its city limits: "Our speed limit is 25 miles per hour. -Fine for-exceeding that limit is $3 for every mile in excess of that. Pick out a speed you can afford." ; Staff member watched with interest last week as a ne chant on Sixth street came; out of hU place of business,, walked 'up to his car': parked . nearby,' placed, a . parking iickat on the windshield, 'and went back to his store.1. : .. Well, it -beats feeding nic kels into the: meter, : doesn't lit ' : Restaurant waitresses are ex pected to have all: the answers, but one was stumped the . other day, Vesta Barnard, a Rogue river fishing guide from : Pros pect, reports she went . into ia local eatery with . a friends The friend introduced I her .; to ' the waitress as "the first lady, of angling " The .waitress thought for a . moment and then asked, gling-Where is Angling?' i; (Editorial query: Isn't I that just north of the.Anglish xhan- nel?) ' , . - Paul Smith (of the Groce teria) was smoking a mammoth pipe at a- KiwanU dub meet ing. He was accused by Sam we expect to enlarge our storage capacity as this project gets under way. ' The DAV has been - inspired to, inaugurate this project by the number of stranded non-resi dent? veterans that accuniulavjt in Medford during the ; wintet months, by reason of not being able to gain immediate admit tance to the domiciliary at Camp White, after travelling some dis tance in that hope. i The waiting list is always long in - winter time. . '' ; ; -A i : , . : ; fj ; - v The DAV is anxious to help any veteran in need, but , no matter , how anxious, it cannot be done ' without wherewithalL That is our reason for this at tempt to set up a fund for re lief of these . unfortunates veter ans. We expect to employ partial ly disabled men in. recondition ing ; articles, sell the articles, and . use all : net - proceeds for nothmg - but veterans'.' welfare, and assistance to their widows and dependents. - - ; r ; ' -We do' not -intend to discon tinue what aid we. - have been able to afford resident veterans, and we expect -to continue our usual claims- and welfare work, Thislnew' enterprise is m addi tion to what we have been do ing:- hot a substitute for - any thing of the recent yastiV Wejire endorsed ' by men - who" believe that disabled veteran should be helped to help themselves. " Phone 2-8312. DAV -'head quarters; 2-4192; DAV adjutant's home, or 2-5305,, mile's sioteL if you have something you wish to dispose of. Discarded articles of -clothing, ,; furniture, ; equip ment tools, or even' scrap iron or paper, - We hav; received endorsement for the work from Governor Pat terson, Secretary of State New bry, County Judge Rodney Keat- ing, County Commissioners L. G. (Shy) Mortbland and Chester H. Wendt Sheriff Howard Gault, Mayor of Medford Earl M. Mil ler, Mayor of Ashland,' R. 1. Neill, Mayor of Central Point Donald E. Faber,' Ex-Mayor Dia mond -Flynn, -r; President' 1 City Council of Medford, John Snider and ' City : Manager Robert- A. Duff. Pat Graham, ' ,- Adjutant and Service Officer, 15 ' ' t Jackson County Chapter Na 8, DAV, -. 1515 North Riverside ave. Medford,' Ore. Thanks I4T For Aid . - . To the Editor: We, the fresh man class at Southern Oregon college, wish to sincerely thank you' for the space you so whole heartedly donated to further the March' of Dunes , through our production "The Walking Stick Rebellion. , We are glad to say that through'your effort we "re ceived, 5UV for the . March ef Dunes. Aesi3 we snk yen tofriv Ing us t&e eartaniy t lydp sup-crt the ccrrent IZzrd cf Dintti cam-palja. - - Freshman Class. l: I Coutlrn Oregon eoHesa .Taylor (of . Elk Lumber tam- pany) of swiping and smoktag the Elk Lumber ; company sawdust burner. Smith kept puffing, unperturbed, while r the woods boss was fined lot advertising. Noted in our favorite weekly. the Roberts Road Record, pub lished by little Gerry and Moni ca Auel: EDITORIAL Everybody; - should make ' : resolutions. You" should, think about ' ways to improve yourself. If you are too busy to make resolutions, you should make a resolution not to be so busy. -S--- y-m RESOLUTIONS Judy Nle sen: I resolve to wash my neck better in 1955. Eileen Niesen: To do every thing my mother wants me ' to do.-'- - '. ' ' 1 Mrs. Archibald: I resolve just to keep on doing - the best I can. " Francis : (Shorty) Kibbard, : 1302 Saling araw gives credit - -where credit is due 4n this, case - to ,: the postman , who promptly delivered a- letter. : two days after it was mailed in Los Angeles, , which bare ..', -the following address: v Mr. R. (Shorty) Hibbaird Medford Oregon j , . POSTMAN: Mr. Hibbard resides on a str,eet (name vn- known),. but. which is located -1 block north of E. Jackson : Street and '- running parallel ; with Jackson Street, His home is located on . the south slde : of said, street: and lies within. the 2 or 3 blocks betwaan -Crater Lake Evenue and Bet- . sie -' .Street The house .ia,;. question . u within the first ? several houses . directly west 4 cf . Bessie ; Street . intersection. . -Thank you. Mr. Hibbard U . . r civil engineer and surveyor. Thanks. . . , ' . 3. Eugene UJ9 A 18-year-i old Eugene high school girt wai " acquitted of mans 1 a ughter charges Friday evening in.con-v hection , with the fatal stabbing of her stepfather last Oct. 1., ; A Lane County Circuit Court ing Ella Louise Starmer about jury returned the verdict favor- 6:10 p.m after deliberating lesai than two hours. The' trial began V Tuesday. ' " : - 'y'.z -' ':" - Ella Louise s testified Jn' her I own" behalf Friday " afternoon.: She told the court she remem: bered nothing' about the stab-f bing of Archie Swanberg, her stepfather with, a 10-inch but-r cher; knifev:-'f- y-'"'y The high school junior and her' mother Mrs. Anne Swanberg; i told substantially the same story than the? stepfather i had been beating Mrs. Swanberg, and the mother had called for help. The defense . contended .that X31a Louise went, to the aid of her ' mother with the; butcher knife..' Tanksloy Sent jneed fa ThrcQ-Ycsr Tcra 'r V,; Portland--UJ3 - Roy Church- 11 1 't m . wuu lash iiiomn pieaaea ; sjuuiy.. . to theft of a aafe from a eost. Eugene Schoolgirl Acq ...1 - 11. - , . J - office" at1 Bly, Ore., was senten ced .to three; years in prison v Fridav. : - 'j ' ::.y -r A ' U. S. Judge Gus J. Solomon ; ignore d ,Tanksleys . plea for : clemency on the grounds that he'A had lost $150,000 in a California', logging venture and wished to , protect timber interests in Mex- ICO. ';lv i- . i ' Tanksley was one of eight pe' sons arrested in connection with ? the theft,; in which 1500 blankr money orders were taken :. . ;v Tanksley was jailed briefly in Medford after being arrested on the charge by Paul Hanlin, depu- . ty United States marshal. : Springfield Man De t ; In Car A' rain tXecidznf . Eugene tUJS A 45-year- old father of four children UedH instantly Friday afternoon when"', his automobile was struck by a- f passenger tram - at a zour-traejc 1 crossing here. -: ,: v. The victim was Clyde William 1 Bowman, Springfield, an em-: I ployee of the Eugene: Water and Electric Board steam plant Lane1! County Coroner rred cua tt: J j Bowman was thrown 15 fac 1 from his car, and died ef a fra j tured skulL , ; . : City safety officials were to S certain whether the man's det'i t would be , recarded as a tj i traffic fatality since: the acti- dent may have occurred on pti.-;:- vate property. - Until Friday, Eugene had ex- ' perienced 493 days without : a traffic death aince - Oct IX, M53. - : powca s::or.TAGS - - , : I!dTIl r:.-A parrzt c; " ar' rcriliT l tul Cxtrriiy I ,.; thU cm t.hen 3 ZZ-rtsx'' , mctiriit skiCJl:! fcita a Xwcr pole. , , . . -s ' Power wu cut DC: : Cr
