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Newspaper Page TextV FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MesfordCwTeibumi '.ver oody in boutcern Oregon Read Th Miiil Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. S ports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. 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 Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.30 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only On 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 On year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance 5m clal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comty 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. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl I Acerrll-ATllOM i: iui3.h,.i -a6 niwspapi 2 PUBLISHERS --ASSOCIATIOH Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 6. 1945 (It was Tuesday) Mrs. C. R. Braley, of Valley View dr., to leave Sunday for one week visit in San Francisco. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Chi nese are now using college-style yell leaders to inspire soldiers to war on the Japanese. Yell leaders can be that aggravating. 20 YEARS AGO March 6, 1935 (It was Wednesday) W. A. Gates discusses archeol ogy at meeting of Medf ord'a Ac tive club. E. H. Hedrick, Medford super intendent of schools; to return to office after lengthy, illness. ". 30 YEARS AGO March 6, 1925 (It was Friday) Ben Harder elected president of local golf club. E. M. Wilson completes audit of Jackson county books and re ports they are "in fine shape." 40 YEARS AGO March 6. 1915 (It was Saturday) Pupils of Miss Sadie Lacy, and of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Root, give recital at home of Dr. R. J. Lockwood. . Mrs. Jap Andrews entertains the Nullo Bridge club at her home on South Orange st. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. "Fall-out" is a term most widely used today, about H- bombs, marital quarrels, sol diers' drills, auto accidents, or fire alarms in schools? 2. Oldest member of Congress Is Sen. Barkley (D-Ky.), Sen. Green (D-R. I.), Rep. Martin (R- Mass.), Speaker Rayburn (D- Tex.) or Rep. Reed (R-N. Y.)? 3. Are there more beauty par lors, shoe repair shops, laun dries, or movie theatres in the U. S.? 4. The Jewisn population is largest in Boston, the Bronx (N. Y.), Brooklyn (N. Y.), Chi cago or Philadelphia? 5. The name of which movie star was originally Frances Gumm? 6. Never in the past did new cars offer so many color com binations as now; right or wrong? 7. Amharic is a tongue spoken in China, Ethiopia, India, Korea, northern .Siberia or Turkey? The Answers: 1. H-bomb after math. 2. Sen. Graen (87). 3. Mora beauty parlors. 4. Brooklyn. 5. Judy Garland. 6. Right. 7. Ethi opia. Educational Television Project To Get Hearing Sale m (U.R) A public hearing on a proposal for educa tional television in Oregon will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday by the Joint Ways and Means commit tee. It? The hearing will be on Senate bill 327 by Sen. Robert D. Holmes (D-Gearhart) and Rep. M a u r i n e Neuberger (D-Port-land). It would set up a state educational TV system operated by the Board of Higher Educa tion. The timber line is the altitud inal boundary of natural tree growth. MAIL TRIBUNE How About A Sales Tax? A subscriber asks why we have changed our view on a sales tax? We haven't . We believe under normal conditions it is a bad tax because it bears down most heavily on those least able to pay. Take the man on a minimum wage for example, with a large family of ctiildren. Under an income-tax those children would decrease his tax under the ex emption clause. ' Under a sales tax they would increase what he must pay as many times as he has children, for there is a 2 or 3 tax added on practically everything he must buy. It isn't fair therefore to the average man in the lower brackets who is raising a family and most of them are. HOWEVER, the situation in Oregon is not "nor mal." As before stated Oregon faces a tax and financial crisis. So if the state legislature after a careful survey of the situation SHOULD decide the only practical solution, and the best one, would be to pass a sales tax, then the Mail Tribune would support it. The only point stressed in this department has been that the responsibility for decision as to a sales tax did not rest on the people but their representa tives, and the latter should assume .it, letting the chips fall where they may. It would then be up to the people to decide, wheth er they wanted such a tax or didn't. MEANWHILE we don't go along with many who seem to think there is something inherently un American and evil about the sales-tax. A majority of the states in the country and many cities have adopted such a tax, and we know of none that have abandoned it. So as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the tax can't be as wicked and improper as some of its opponents claim. Moreover the tax is for many a comparatively painless tax. Two or three cents on a dollar purchase isn't much just a "few stray pennies" as the saying goes. And one of the outstanding advantages of such a tax particularly in a state like California with its tremendous tourist and migrant population, is that a considerable proportion of the tax has to be paid by non-residents. That's a good set-up for the RESI DENTS very good. HOWEVER as above stated, under normal condi tions the Mail Tribune would oppose such a tax, because while to those in the upper brackets it would "mean "only a few stray pennies," -it would mean -a considerable sacrifice to those who, with large fam ilies and small incomes have to COUNT the pennies to get by. In other words the tax instead of being desitmed to get money from those best able to part with it, does the exact reverse. Which is our definition of a bad tax. . I N OTHER words the belief the Mail Tribune has changed its views of the sales tax is incorrect. ,: The Mail Tribune hasn't changed, only the tax and financial situation in How About War? The most frequent query directed to this paper is whether or hot there will be war between Red China and the U.S.A. over Formosa. We think there won't be. And the reason is the same given in this column several times before to wit: We don't believe, in spite of all the bellicose talk in Peking and Moscow, that China or Russia really WANTS var not at the present time at least. And we KNOW the Eisenhower administration doesn't So where the principal and probable participants don't want to fight, a way is almost sure to be found, to keep the peace. . . IT WAS different in 1914 under the Kaiser and then Hitler DID want to fight. So did Japan at least those in control of Japan at the time. There was the "will to win" to get a place in the sun bv f orce or else ! There is no such "will"at the present time none that we can see at least. THERE is reason to believe both Russia and Red China (unless convinced if they don't start a war their enemies will) want to flict at this time so they can devote their energies and resources to the solution of pressing, domestic problems. CO AS far as these two comes down to a matter And self-interest, after motivation of all nations, or regardless of the immediate problem before them. THIS is particularly true For the leaders of. Russia and China must real ize as well or almost as well as the leaders of the free nations, that another world war would not be a war of conquest for anyone, but a war of mutual destruction. They don't want to be destroyed or half destroyed anymore than the democracies do or the. natives of South Africa for that matter. So we believe there will be no war, because as Sir Winston Churchill recently indicated, fear of the con- Sunday, March S, 1935 the state, has. R.W.R. . and 1939. Then Germany avoid another world con - - - nations are concerned it of self-interest. all, is the fundamental be they red, white or blue, in this atomic age. Matter of Fact 'OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF " HUMAN CONTROL' . . Washington; "There is an immense gulf between the atomic and the hydrogen bomb. The n atomic ' bomb, 1 with all its terror, did not carry us out side the scope of human con trol ..." The words are Sir " Win ston Church ill's, from his brilliant and moving speech to the House Stewart JLUop of Commons on Tuesday. In these words, Churchill has said in ef fect what almost every informed American official tacitly recog nizes, but hesitates to acknowl edge that the world has passed the point of no return. Even if the will to do so existed on both sides, it is no longer possible to regulate or control the new weapons. While Churchill spoke, Ameri can Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Russia's Andrei Gro- myko, Britain's Anthony Nut ting, and Canada's Norman Rob ertson were in London, engaged in supposedly secret discussions about atomic control. Churchill was too polite to say that these discussions, of which he took due note, were an exercise, in futility." But this is clearly what he thought. And it is the simple truth. The reasons are obvious. The old American-sponsored Baruch plan for international atomic control was based on certain as sumptions: that the bombs had limited power; that very few ex isted; that they were extremely difficult to make; that atomic in stallations could thus be detected and controlled. American of ficial policy on control of the atom is still largely based on the Baruch plan but all the plan's underlying assumptions are now demonstrably false. The hydrogen bomb is amaz ingly easy to maice, ana very large numbers of bombs have already been made. But the vital difference is in the bomb's power. Nowadays, because of the special characteristic' of fall out, only a handfull of bombs de livered on target would be suf ficient to destroy the war po tential of even such continental powers as the United States and the Soviet Union. ' . THE number required to par alyze this country, for ex ample, has been authoritatively estimated as low as 28. But call it 50, or even 100. The hydrogen bomb, like the atomic bomb, sends out no detectable radia tion there is no way of de tecting its presence except by uncovering the actual object it self. So the problem of hiding 50 or 100 hydrogen bombs is no more difficult than that of hid ing, say 50 or 100 ten-ton trucks This would be no problem at all in the vast reaches of the Soviet Union, or indeed in the United States. Thus there is no agreement imaginable that could assure one side of the divided world that the other side had not secretly retained the means of total annihilation. no man has given more thought than Churchill to the search for a way out of "this situation both measureless and laden with doom" indeed, he sometimes seems the only . West ern leader with the courage to face up to the meaning of the new weapons. A voluntary agree ment to control the weapons clearly now no longer plays a serious part in his thinking. i There was a time when Churchill had the courage to think soberly about another way out. Soon after the first Soviet bomb, Churchill denounced as "silly" the doctrine that a de mocracy could never strike first; and called for a "resolute ef fort" to obtain a settlement "on the basis of American atomic strength.". This was a caU for a prevent ive showdown, and the Truman administration may have com mitted a mortal error when it failed to respond. But the days of the American atomic mon opoly are long since passed, and for simple geographical reasons, if for no others, there is no hint of showdown in Churchill's Tues day speech. Instead, he brilliant ly elaborates the theme, of a "peace of mutual terror," which he first conceived when his caU for a showdown was ignored. But when Churchill talks of a "stage in this story when safety will be the sturdy child of ter- sequences to winner and loser alike promises to pre vent it .. ' ' " 'i TTHERE may be a continuation' of the cold war for many years, and even some shooting now and then, but we mean by war an all-out war, anything that could be called a Third World War, between the com- Hmunists on one side, and the other. . - MEEDLESS to add we may be mistaken. We claim no prophetic powers, occupy no Delphian temple, havent even one little crystal ball in the entire estab lishment. -. In fact, World War III may start tomorrow for all we KNOW accent on the "know" please. -. But our GUESS is it won't ,' -' So there is our answer to these many inquiries. Only the future can determine what it is worth. - . v y -E.W.R. . By Stewart AIsop ror," he makes it very clear that this stage will be reached, if at all, only on three conditions. r" . THE first condition is that an aggressor must be faced with the certainty of "crushing retal iation." The second condition is "substantial strength in conven tional forces," in order to fight non-nuclear wars "limited wars with limited objectives." The third condition . is the closest possibility "unity . . . between the United Kingdom and the United States." The first condition is being met, if official assurances mean anything the magnif icant American Strategic Air Com mand is stronger than ever. But the Anglo-American alliance has been weakened, while American conventional forces have been sharply cut back. As Churchiu likes to say, "I have not always been wrong." And surely his views deserve a most respectful hearing, even in the august National Security Council, now that the new weap ons are so clearly "outside the scope of human control, and Churchill s peace of mutual ter ror is the very best the world can hope for. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herold Tribune, Inc.) !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I'm intrigued by a squib that has just clicked off the teletype. It comes from Washington and reads: "Farm prosperity was pic tured today as a key to the eco nomic health of the whole nation. Economist Carl Wilken, in a statement prepared for the agri culture committee of the house of representatives, said studies show that each dollar of farm income will create six addition al dollars of national income in the form of payrolls, profits, etc FTERESTING, isn't it? And If farm prosperity is PROP ERLY DEFINED . It is probably true enough. This fellow wilken was plugging for support of farm prices at 100 PER CENT OF PARITY, in contrast to the pres ent maximum rate of 90 per cent, That's a horse of another color. Under 90 per cent of parity support of certain basic farm crops, we have piled up sur pluses running into the billions of dollars. These surpluses which have been paid for by the taxpayers hang over the farm er, like, the greenish cloud that in the cyclone belt heralds the probable approach of a tornado. If we throw these surpluses on the domestic market, they'll WRECK farm prices in the United States. If we try to throw them on the world mar ket, we'll be accused of dumping and will have punitive tariffs levied against, us all over the globe. ' I CAN'T see his scheme. . The kind of prosperity he's talk ing about is BOONDOGGLE prosperity. We've had too much of that in the past. AT this point, I'd like to present a picture that is roughly simi lar to the more sensible part of Wilken's proposal. It is a pic ture of what industrial payrolls can do for a community or a state. Competent authorities esti mate that a new factory employ ing 150 people will bring to the area in which it locates 1. 1000 to 1200 new people. 2.300 new homes.- 3. 320 new automobiles. 4. 33 additional retail stores. 5.23 new prof essional people. 6. Local consumption of food from 6,000 acres of land. AND- tt. AN EXPANSION OF TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOL LARS IN THE COMMUNITY'S TAX BASE which means that much MORE taxable property to help carry the tax load. THE state of Oregon, in the past two decades, has had a Considerable industrial growth. growth in Oregon has lagged behind industrial growth in both California and Washington. There are sound reasons for believing that Ore gon's tax climate is less favor able for large new payroU in dustries than the tax climate of our neighbor states to the north the democratic nations,' on Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Help In Floods To the Editor: As a supple ment to my proposal to put the new freeway through Medford along the bed of Bear creek, with the creek itself contained in a concrete culvert, the question has come up regarding an over flow of water, such as the flood of 1927, when the canal might not be adequate to carry such an unusual flow of water. ' One lane of the freeway could be constructed to act as a spill way, or even the second, third and fourth lanes, should there be a real waterspout or cloud burst. Cities and towns have been washed away from such disasters. However, the freeway would offer 100 per cent pro tection in such a case, provided, however, it is constructed for such a purpose, which should cost very little more, and we should have this added pro tection. E. M. Tucker, President Tucker Sno-Cat Corporation, South Pacific Highway, Medford. . - Thanks To PAL Club To the Editor: Thanks to the PAL club the Medford "Prop Nuts" now have a place in which to hold their bi-monthly business meetings. In response to my pre vious letter to the editor, Lyle Perkins, Detective Sergeant of the Medford City Police, made arrangements for the necessary space at the PAL club. He also stated that the PAL club is open to all young men of the commun ity who are ten years or older, and that there was room for new members in the PAL. We of this community are fortunate indeed to have a police department and others who are interested in the welfare of the youth. The Medford "Prop Nuts," a model airplane club, hold their business meetings the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the PAL club at 7 p.m. Anyone interested in free flight, U-control, or radio control model airplanes is invited to attend Weather permitting, we hold Sunday flying sessions Vi mile west of the White City mills. A contest will be held March 20, Prizes will be awarded to Jupior ciass ana upen ciass winners. Thanks again to the PAL club, they are performing a much needed service in our commun ity. . ' Robert Ottoman, ; Rt. 2, Box 358, Medford, Oregon. ... He Is "Resigned" To the Editor: Once more the nation is saved, all's right with the world, and we can all go back to our knitting. Eisenhower and the national commander of the American Legion have come out for God. This somewhat be lated approval of the Deity is reassuring. Year or so ago they were crying for "a return to re ligion;" but since they have got around to giving God a pat on the back, the height of hyocrisy is almost achieved. But brother, we ain't really safe yet. I'm still shaking in my boots. Ike and his Klan Kom mander are running too true to form. I don't know just what to expect but I do know this: When these exemplars of the political sell-out finally complete the cycle and start sobbing about "home and mother," I shall have to "surrender dear." You gotta have a stout stomach these days, that's true, yet there are some things even the strongest can't take. ; "Indispensable man"? Well, the guy with the world's silliest smirk is a vote-getter, which may make him indispensable to the Republican party and all that. Who else have they got? Likewise the Democrats? But let's be sensible. After all, what is so easily expendable as the pol itician be the office high or low? Anybody can do it. We prove" that at every election. Ho hum. Yours resignedly, ' ' " ' Dan Morison, Siskiyou, Oregon. REACH AGREEMENT ' Walla Walla (U.R) Walla Walla county, Wash., and Uma tilla county, Ore., have reached an agreement on construction of a 20-mile highway between Wal lula, Wash., and Helix, Ore., as an alternate to the Lake Wallula route, officials of the two coun ties said Saturday. and the south. I think everyone who has had experience in try ing to locate new industries in Oregon will agree that this has been true. By failing for whatever reason to locate more new in dustries within its borders, Ore gon has denied itself the very considerable advantages '.that come with a more rapidly ex panding tax base. ':;. AT any rate, I'd like to see the 1955 Oregon legislature name an interim committee to study the ' possibilities of providing Oregon -a tax climate that will be at least as favorable for large new payroll industries as the tax climate of our neighboring states. ' If we could do that, we would ALL benefit from the expansion of our tax base that would result. POT LUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Sid Hollingsworth, The Mail Tribune's Camp White corre spondent, must have set some sort of speed record in report ing Friday. A staff member made a talk at a meeting at the domiciliary that afternoon, then he had a cup of coffee with those in charge of the meeting, chatted for a few moments, and drove back to town. He arrived at the office, and found on his desk a complete story about the meeting, togeth er with quotations of what he'd said. , He still doesn't know how Sid managed it. Wednesday, at about 2 p;m., a fire was reported and the warning siren at the intersection of Main and Front sts. was sounded. As the siren continued to wail, a man rushed out of a Front st. tavern, where he ap parently had been for some time. He listened to the siren a moment, then stopped a passer-by to ask, "My gosh, is it noon ALREADY?" County Agent Glenn Klein last week announced pl.ms for Is That So? Which is more . intelligent, horse or grizzly? Mountain goat or beaver? Red fox or lion? Just for fun, why don't you take out a pencil and . line up these representative animals from bright to dull gorilla, In dian elephant, lion, : domestic dog, beaver, orangutan, rhinoc- erous, tiger, wolverine, chim panzee, giraffe, white -. tailed deer, grizzly bear, coyote, red fox, big-horn sheep, mountain goat, domestic horse, brown bear (European), gray wolf. . Now then, compare your list with one made up by William Temple Hornaday, for many years director of the New York Zoological park and a great outdoorsman. .Attempting to. be objective, Hornaday took into consideration ten factors: heredi tary knowledge of the animal, perceptive , faculties, "original nervous energy, keeness of the senses, use of the voice. . Assigning - luu points maxi mum for each point a possible 1,000 for each animal Horna day gave : the chimpanzee the highest score, 925 points. Further he claimed that it was the most intelligent of mammals, below man. The chimp's greatest shortcoming is the use of his voice. In this the domestic dog excels. Scoring equally below the chimp are the orangutan, Indian elephant, domestic horse and domestic dog, with 850 points.' By purely personal opinion, he assigns the orangutan, the No. 2 spot and adds that the In dian elephant is perhaps the third from man in mental capaci ty. -.-v Due To Association As for the domestic horse and dog, their high rating is due to their age-long association with man and education by him. To prove his point j Hornaday says the wild horse is a very differ ent animal from the domestic horse ranking perhaps with the deer. A high-class dog, he adds, is mentally in closest touch with man's mind, feelings, and im pulses. In fact, the dog is the only animal that can read a man's feelings from his facial expression says Hornaday. That takes care of 2, 3, 4 and 5. Just below these Hornaday scores the lion, grizzly bear tnd beaver with 725. In explanation he adds: in managing his domes tic economy the beaver mani fests more intelligence, mechani cal skill and reasoning power than any other wild animal. As for the lion, he is endowed with keen perceptive faculties, rea soning ability, and judgment of a high order and his mind is surprisingly receptive. The griz ly he claims is ; very keen of nose, eye, ear and brain. . The wolverine bane of the northland trapper rates 9th, with 700. It is the most cunning of North mammals, states Horna day a large order, surpassing both gray wolf ariU;, grizzly, ilts skill in avoiding the jaws of a trap while destroying a trapline is legendary. ' The European ; brown bear and the red fox, with 650, come 10th and 11th; the brown bear scoring low in memory and use of voice; the red fox scoring nil in receptivity in training and efficiency in execution. Wonderful Minds - The mountain goat and gray wolf, 12. and, 13, are a standoff at 625 although these animals have "wonderful mind," for a""4-H Club Rabbit School, to be held at Grants Pass. To which County Agent Eula Wintermote replied, "Why send them to school? They already know how to multiply." Oh. Editorial from the Roberts Road Weekly, which is -fast growing to be the favorite weekly newspaper of the M-T staff: . "Birds help in many. ways. They help get harmful bugs out of gardens. You can attract birds by putting out food and not let ting the cat out to eat the birds.' Editor & Publisher, the trade magazine of the newspaper busi ness, sometimes speculates and ponders on problems common to all newspapers. In a recent issue there was a tongue-in-check dis cussion of headline writing. One problem was to shorten a headline to the effect that President Eisenhower and mem bers of the Republican party had been reelected. The agile-minded writer proposed this one: Ike nk In. ' Well, it would fit, anyway. By Eugene Burnt RingotrNahiraliit eluding original thought and reasoning but their memory is none too good and their use of voice poor. . The white-tailed deer, which Hornaday rates much brighter than the mule deer, and the tiger are 14 and 15, paired at 575. Comes now the big horn sheep 16th with 525; the gorilla, 17th with 500, and paired with the coyote (although I would place the coyote higher than the gray wolf in the No. 13 spot). The giraffe follows at 300; and the prize dunce, coming in 20th, is the rhinoceros, woefully de ficient in all departments, and scoring a possible 175. Any resemblance to your list? (Copyright, 1955 by Eugene Burns) -(Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply" !an't '. answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO!, co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausali to, Calif. . - Labor Council Here For Legislators The Medford Central Labor council, at a regular meeting last week, adopted a resolution ask ing members of the legislature to do aU in their power to seek the repeal of last session's Bill 663, and to prevent "the enact ment of any other type of anti labor bills which may come be fore the legislature," it was re ported by Pauline La Plane, sec retary to the council. The council also voted to make a donation to the Oregon State Federation of Labor for 1955 scholarship awards. Three scholarships of $500 each, and three of $100 each for runners up, are awarded to students mak ing the highest scores in a com petitive examination on labor and industrial problems, and who also have good scholastic records. Ask Program Support It was reported that the coun cil also resolved to write to. the Standard Oil company in San Francisco, asking that it continue' sponsorship of the Standard Hour, which has been broadcast on the west coast for the past 28 years. Members said the loss of the Standard Hour would re move one of the most important of the fine music programs. ; The council urged that all lov ers of the fine program also write the Standard Oil company, 225. Bush st., San Francisco, ask- ing mat we juuji"" tinued. ! Southern Pacific Man Named Chief Clerk Gordon H. Klope, who was transferred from the Southern Pacific's general freight office, in Portland to a clerical posi tion in the district office in Med ford last August, was promoted to chief clerk in the Medford office effective March 1. it was announced last week. Klope is a graduate of the uni versity -of Oregon and majored in industrial traffic management, commerce and interstate trans portation laws. He is married, and he and his wife Ellen live at 1040- Court st, Klope is an. active member of the Junior Chamber or com merce.