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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
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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?
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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.