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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 27. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Four Central Point boys held
for to wine a buildine 2Yi miles
down a road and abandoning it
on Morrow rd. near Taylor
ranch.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: In the midst
of the excitement, Argentina,
the late "good neighbor," sud
denly discovered she was mad at
Germany and declared war upon
the Axis.
20 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Federal reserve bank starts
dlsbursal of refunds on Medford
Irrigation district bonds.
Frank L. TouVelle, Jackson
ville, former county judge, said
slated for appointment to Ore
gon State Highway commission.
80 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1925
(It was Friday)
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jeld
ness come to Medford after hav
ing been snowbound in their
Blue Ledge area cabin for 40
days.
Special election to be called
to extend Medford city limits
so city water can be furnished
to larger area.
40 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Mrs. Enid Creeley Hamilton
acts as chaperon for annual Med
ford high school freshman class
picnic on Little Butte creek.
From the Local and Personal
column: During the bright sun
shine of the last week it became
the custom of boys to go in swim
ming in Bear creek, although by
so doing they defied the laws of
health and good sense and the
city ordinances covering bath
ing. People could see them from
their homes and complaint was
filed with the police.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Spring begins officially on
March 15. March 21, April 1,
April 15, Palm Sunday, or Easter
Sunday?
2. The President, opposing a
tax cut this year, opposes or
favors one next year, or has said
he hopes one is possible then?
3. In big cities the birth rate
is higher or lower than in small
towns or about the same?
4. Armed forces planes have
flown from California to New
York in less than four hours;
right or wrong?
5. The 1955 world amateur ice
hockey championship was won
by a Canadian. Norwegian, Rus
sian, Swiss or U. S. team? .
6. The Isle of Wight is in the
North Sea, English Channel,
Irish Sea, Strait of Dover, or
Bay of Biscay?
7. Which member of the Eisen
hower Cabinet answers to the
nickname of "Jim?"
The Answers: 1. March 21.
2. Hopes on is possible next
year. 3. Lower. 4. Right. 5.
Canadian. 6. English Channel.
7. Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell.
BAKER WANTS 'B TOURNEY
Baker (U.R) The merchants
committee of the local Chamber
of Commerce today said it was
in favor of bringing the 1955-56
state high school class B basket
ball tournament to Baker.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Independent Chain
The Newhouse chain which has owned the Ore
gonian for 5 years now has added the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, very similar to the Oregonian in age poli
tics and respectability.
In welcoming this addition to the large group of
metropolitan dailies, the Oregonian expresses grati
fication, and calls attention to the fact that while the
Globe-Democrat was offered a higher price, its editor
and publisher chose Newhouse, because of the pro
mise that the present staff would be retained intact,
and that complete independence would be allowed
regarding local AND national policies.
This complete independence, adds the Portland
paper, is not only Newhouse theory but Newhouse
practice, as the 5-year record of the Oregonian shows.
don't doubt the truth of the statement to date.
But we don't welcome the sensational growth of
chain-newspapers in this country, or believe it a
healthful sign or a desirable condition, either for the
country or for journalism. Unless the tide toward
more and more combination is checked, the time is
not far distant when the metropolitan press which
means the major journalistic influence in the country
will be on one strictly conservative, big - business
-line, and democratic liberalism and independence
will be confined to a scattered minority, mostly no
doubt in the small-town and rural areas. That comes
near in fact to being the condition today.
AS for the "independence" of the newspaper chains.
TVtn XT
a ic new iiuuoc iiai.ii
the other chains, led by
orders from one central source, and they could be list
ed as conforming on this basis right down the line
100. This is particularly true when it comes to
what the Oregonian terms "national policies," which
include of course, party politics.
If a chain newspaper has
big boss' dictum in this
independence lasted very
all go one way, and it is
advance what that "way"
THAT sort of regularity
democracy and its press
nate, and wre don't mean for one party as against an
other necessarily but for the country, its enlighten
ment, freedom and advancement as a whole.
AS stated the Newhouse chain may be the excep-
UlJll IU 1 LUC
But just as a friendly
the Oregonian come out for
for President at the next
tnat sort of independence
Or if that is too strong
ing the Democratic candidate for Governor?
Would it still be claimed by the Oregonian there
after that complete independence of the chain-owner
and his views regarding "local and national policies,"
had been and always would
Perhaps so.
It would be interesting, however, to find out.
R.W.R.
A Tough Assignment
We don't envy the historian his job when the his
ory of the World War II and its period must be writ
en. Imagine the research that will have to be done
Premier Churchill's contributions alone would take
months of careful study.
dent Truman's "memoirs." And how about General
MacArthur's papers and claims. And in the latter
field would come the many personal diaries, including
the one of Secretary of Defense Forrestal.
And there would be on
agreement. The historian
tween conflicting judgments, or else leave many of
the facts of the period undetermined, which would,
we presume, be poison to any conscientious historian.
TAKE the historic verdict concerning General Mac-
Arthur as just one of innumerable examples.
General MacArthur undoubtedly one of the great
military geniuses of the United States, says one
thing, Secretary Forrestal another, and General Brad
ley a third. In each case competent witnesses could
undoubtedly be called to support THAT side.
But if one is right, the others can't be and vice
versa. The historian will, we fear, face something
like the predicament of the chameleon on the Scotch
plaid skirt.
"IXELL probably that has always been more or less
the way with historians of a war and its after
math. They have been slanted one way or the other
by the nationalities and personal prejudices of the
writers.
Historians, should of course be entirely judicial
non-partisan and objective. But we fear they are
not only human like the rest of us, but are human be
ings FIRST and historians only thereafter.
So the net result will probably be many historians,
agreeing on most of the vital facts no doubt, but not
agreeing on all the details, and disagreeing bitterly on
some of the most controversial items.
As to General MacArthur, our belief is he was a
great military strategist but like many other geniuses
he had his faults, and made his mistakes, the greatest
in both directions being he never admitted either!
' R.W.R.
Sunday. March 27. I95S
may uc uic cavcuuuii, jltuu
Hearst, certainly take their.
ever gone contrary to the
field, we don't believe the
long. At election time they
seldom difficult to tell in
politically will be.
and strict conformity in a
is as we view it, unfortu
test we would like to have
the democratic candidate
election and see how long
would be maintained.
a dose how about support
be maintained?
Then there will be Presi
so many vital matters no
would have to choose be
Matter of Fact
GEORGE AND YALTA
Washington It is clear by
now that the way the Yalta
paners were released amounts to
PPSTri the biggest bit
fM$?f of Plain boob-
ery committed
in Washington
for a very
long time.
Consider the
results. This
country's best
friend abroad,
S i r Winston
Churchill, has
been angered.
O D i n i n n
Stewart Alsop
throughout the world, especial
ly in Britain, France, and Ger
many, has been alienated at a
most critical moment. The So
viets have been presented with
fine grist for their propaganda
mill.
It might still be argued that
this trouble abroad is not too
high a price to pay for a useful
object lesson from the past. But
the reaction at home is really
more significant than the re
action abroad. Almost to a man
the Democrats in the Senate
deeply resent, not so much the
iact that the papers were re
leased, as the way they were re
leased. And if we are to have
any foreign policy at all, after
all, the State Department has
got to work with the Demo
cratic majority.
Among those who feel most
strongly in the matter is Sen.
Walter George, of Georeia.
chairman of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee. George is the
dominant figure in the present
congress, and the kingpin of the
bipartisan foreign policy. There
is no doubt about the way
George feels.
His own public comments
have been relatively mild. But
he was consulted in detail by
benate Majority Leader Lyndon
Johnson before Johnson made
his brief but anerv sneerh last
Tuesday, attacking the way the
documents were released. John
son was undoubtedly speaking
George's mind, as well as that of
most Democrats, North and
South.
TT IS also significant that
A George made his proposal for
a meeting of the heads of state
without consulting Secretary of
btate John Foster Dulles in ad
vance. George's proposal springs
from genuine conviction. But it
is also his way of serving no-
tice that he is quite capable of
taking a completely independ
ent line on matters of high pol
icy. The Democrats who have
been clamoring for an "inde
pendent, Democratic foreign
policy" are thus now much
more likely to get what they
want, to the discomfiture of
Secretary Dulles and the Admin
istration. This is not to say that George
or the other responsible Demo
cratic leaders are going to act
like spoiled children where for
eign policy is concerned. But the
close, intimate, and mutually
confident relationship which a
bipartisan foreign policy de
mands has been badly eroded.
And it is not hard to see why.
Within the last few weeks,
George has saved the Adminis
trations bacon, on the only two
really important issues to come
before this session of Congress.
One was the $20 tax cut
George's opposition to the com
promise Senate bill killed the
issue. The other was the For
mosa resolution, which George
saved by a single, moving
speech, when the Administration
was heading into really bad
trouble on the issue.
Consider the way George was
rewarded for all this bacon-saving.
He was not consulted before
the Yalta documents, ostensibly
classified, were sent to his com
mittee. George has been around
Washington for a long time, and
he was quite aware that this was
a cute way of making public the
juicier portions of the docu
ments. He therefore curtly re
fused to receive them. After this
setback, the State Department
passed the documents under the
counter to one newspaper, and
this was then used as an excuse
for a general release.
If this was not a sleazy,
sleight-of-hand performance, it
certainly managed to look like
one. Meanwhile, a third import
ant issue is about to come before
the Senate the Administra
tion's reciprocal trade program.
Opposition to this, program is
ferocious, and the Administra
tion's bacon can probably only
be saved this time if George is
willing to fight, bleed, and die
for it. Since the business of the
Yalta papers, he is naturally
much less likely to do so.
"OUT the worst aspect of the in
credible blooper on the
Yalta papers is the timing. One
way or another, the Formosa
crisis, which has the most dan
gerous domestic political impli
cations,' looks like it is coming
to a head very soon. And this is
the moment chosen for the State
Department to nlav what the
Democrats unanimously regard
as a sleazy political trick, thus
inviting them to nlav Dolitics
with foreign policy in their turn.
Finally, it is generally agreed
that the Yalta papers will not
be of any real Dolitical benefit
to the Republicans, even though
they do occasionally show the
late President Roosevelt in an
unlovely light. This is the ironv
of the whole sorry business. But
the mystery remains how Sec
retary Dulles, who has wisely
gone to great lengths to estab
lish good relations with Sen.
1 ?
By Stewart AIsop
George, and who courageously
withstood fierce political pres
sure to release the Yalta papers
for the 1954 campaign, allowed
this messy business to occur.
(Copyright. 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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Park Viaduct Opposed
To the Editor: Members of the
Medford Garden Club feel the
proposal to build an elevated
freeway for Highway 99 along
the east side of Bear creek over
and through Hawthorne Park is
very alarming to all people who
have worked for the park and
who love and enjoy its beauty
and restful facilities.
The park is located along the
east side of Bear Creek which
gives it a natural setting. Bear
Creek will be cleaned up and
improved some day which would
enable it to be utilized to its full
capacity. Unquestionably, the lo
cating of a freeway along the
east side of Bear Creek will to
a large extent destroy this natur
al setting.
Hawthorne Park serves all of
the people in the City of Med
ford and is used by residents
throughout the entire county.
Any belief that may exist that
the park only serves the east
side of Medford is completely
erroneous. One only needs to go
there during the picnicking and
swimming time of the year to
see people who are there.
The pool is used by youngsters
and adults from all over the
city and as it would be immed
iately east and adjacent to the
freeway it would certainly be a
much less attractive place.
Some of the prime attributes
of a park are that it should be
beautiful, quiet and restful.
Much time and money has been
spent by the City, the Medford
Garden Club and other inter
ested groups and persons to land
scape the park and to bring it to
its present condition. It certain
ly would not add to the quietness
and beauty.
It would appear that some
people feel that there is no
chance that a freeway might be
built within the next ten years
but no one can be certain. It
might be in the near future. At
the present time preliminary sur
veys are being made and if the
people of Medford and vicinity
do not want the freeway to be
built in this place, they should
act now and write to the Med
ford City Council and to the
Oregon State Highway Commis
sion, Salem, Oregon, voicing
their objections to the proposal.
Mrs. LeRoy Cline, Pres.
Mrs. C. L. Nordquist, Sec'y.,
Medford Garden Club.
The G.O.P. Is Paleolithic
To the Editor: I see by the
papers Senator Neuberger has
contributed $25.00 to a fund to
keep the squirrels AT the White
House.
I also would like to create a
fund, and as a starter, I will
contribute $25.00. My fund, is
for a different purpose than that
of Senator Neuberger's. My
fund would be for the purpose
of getting the squirrels away
FROM the White House instead
of at.
There are those that will say
I am not being charitable that
really there are no squirrels,
just a bunch of crazy mixed up
executives, who still believe the
science of government could be
learned in the market place.
Yet, it is hard to put it down
to just being confused, when you
have, Percentage Nixon sound
ing off, Know-nothing Know
land screaming for war, Massive
retaliation Dulles backing and
filling, Pres. Sect'y Hagerty as
serting everybody agrees with
everybody, altho' they don't, and
in general, the Ike-ites making
noises about the Yalta papers
when even the President himself
has never read them.
The G.O.P. still lives in the
past, paleolithic, that is. Hoover
is set to hacking up the welfare
state. Dexter White is exhumed.
F.D.R. is dead, and of course it
is safe to say he was wrong. The
past is so important, apparently
the future is not, or somebody
around 1600 Penn. Ave. would
note the time, for it is MUCH,
MUCH later than you think,
General.
Lee Wilmeth,
168 Mead St.,
Ashland.
Check Those Flues
To the Editor: Last year, just
24 days before Christmas, our
family experienced something
we had never thought of as being
possible. While I was at work my
wife took our two children to
drive downtown for groceries.
In her absence our house
caught fire due to a defective
flue. Above our insurance we
lost $1,900 but were thankful
no one was hurt or died as a
result.
I am very conscious of fire
now but am more conscious of
how neglectful probably 99 out
of 100 people are regarding pre
venting fire in their homes.
If you could have heard what
I did from the fire chief that
day I wonder what you would
have thought.
I have seen firemen work be
fore and believe me I don't
think our fire department can
be topped anywhere. They actu
ally saved everything they pos
sibly could by piling the articles
OUT ON ARRIVAL -
Memphis, Tenn (U.R) The
fire department Saturday listed,
without comment, this cause for
answering a call: "Child's lip
caught in ironing board, out on
arrival."
away and covering them with a
tarp, avoiding water damage.
Mind you, the house was ablaze
and the fumes were so bad they
still were choking and had tears
in their eyes from the smoke
when they left.
They hold the admiration and
respect of all who saw what they
did for us and certainly deserve
it as they are real firemen, not
just hose holders.
To get to the purpose of this
letter. I wonder why the fire
codes are not applied and en
forced more than at present. I
understand that a large percent
age of fires could be avoided
by eliminating defective flues.
Have you ever noticed how
many items appear in your pa
per about fires caused by defec
tive flues?
My friend who purchased a
house here recently almost lost
his home by fire from a defec
tive flue the first day he moved
in the very day I told him to
check it over and fix it.
People should take advice
from an expert in such matters,
the fire chief, and adopt some
codes and laws in future and
existing dwellings for their own
protection.
Tear out those tomato cans
that are laying on the wood
through the walls or ceilings,
and install proper flues with
proper clearance from combusti
ble materials. It is common sense
that if you can't afford a little
investment for basic protection,
how can you afford to lose every
thing? I learned the tough way as
many have. Better give our fire
chief a call if you have any
doubts about your flues.
A. Napolitano,
225 So. Riverside,
Medford, Ore.
How About a bouble Tax?
To the Editor: I have been
reading the Tribune for the last
6 years and have enjoyed your
editorials and I have agreed with
you on all issues 100.
If the state legislature comes
up with a sales tax or gas tax, or
property tax -to balance the state
books I think what will be best
is a sales tax. Now the one I feel
they should kick out is the double
tax.
I draw royalty from a zinc
mine in Kansas of which I must
pay Kansas from 1 to as much
as 5.
In my case then I must add
this to Oregon gross income then
pay Oregon state tax on my
gross of which Oregon had noth
ing to do with producing. Then
when we get the sales tax that
will take another cut.
I would like to know what you
think of this double tax?
Paul J. Smith,
839 West 13th
Ed. Note: We ODDOse a sales
tax except as a last resort. We
oeiieve the tax program based
on an increase in the income tax,
which the legislature has decided
upon is about as fair and desir
able as anyone could expect
under the circumstance. If one
has income property in one state
and lives in another a double tax
can't be avoided.
Says Christianity Won't Work
To the Editor: Reading Thom
as McCamant's letter in the Mail
Tribune, I feel impelled to ex
press my complete disagreement
with his views. He says we need
to get back to fundamental Chris
tian ethics to save the world
from destruction in the next
atomic war.
My opinion is that such ideal
ism won't work with a deter
mined group of people as we are
now facing in the Kremlin. It
would, on the contrary, bring
about the very opposite, namely
the enslavement of all mankind
because these people recognize
nothing but absolute force.
You may rest assured if they
did not fear the consequences of
massive retaliation they would
have been on the rampage long
ago.
As a matter of fact we must re
alize that religion and idealism
never have prevented wars
among the different groups of
the human race. I could say a
great deal more about this but
let me quote' just a few lines
from Emery Redes book "The
Anatomy of Peace":
"The wholesale murder, tor
ture, persecution and oppression
we are witnessing in the middle
of the twentieth century proves
xne complete bankruptcy of
Christianity as a civilizing force,
its failure as an instrument tn
tame instinctive human passions
and to transform man from an
animal into a rational social
being. History demonstrates in
disputably that there is onlv one
method to make man accept
moral principles and standards
of social conduct. That method is
law. Peace among men and a
civilized society which are one
and the same thin? ari imag
inable only within a legal order
equipped with institutions to give
effect to DrinciDles and worn in
the form of law, with adequate.
In TKe Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Las Vegas about which I've
written before, but can't refrain
from writing again is Amer
ica's most fabulous spot.
Perhaps I'd better pause here
and defend this use of the word
fabulous. No dictionary is avail
able at the spot where I'm writ
ing this, but as I understand it
"fabulous" is an adjective used
to describe something amazing,
something out of this world,
something that couldn't possibly
be, but IS.
Well, that's Las Vegas.
Let me illustrate.
You look at a horse, say, or
a cow. It MAKES SENSE. It
eats. It eats hay and grass and
grain. It drinks water. It
breathes air. You know what
keeps it going. I'm speaking, of
course, of a horse or a cow out
in a pasture, or in a barn, where
hay and grass and water are to
be had. And where there is air to
breathe. You know, without
even stopping to add it up, what
makes the creature tick.
BUT
Let's now imagine a cow or
a horse sealed up tight within a
glass case. No hay is available,
no grass, no grain, no water. Be
cause the glass case is hermeti
cally sealed, there is no air.
And yet
The thing goes right on living,
and growing. Not only that, but
it goes on growing at a fantastic
rate.
That would be against nature.
SO YOU'D look at the thing
flnrf sav "This HAN'T T?F. I
must be asleep and dreaming."
You'd pinch yourself. You'd
shake your head and open and
shut your eyes. You'd stomp
your feet to see if you could feel
the shock.
These tests would convince
you that you were awake and in
full possession of your faculties.
But you still wouldn't be able to
believe the thing your eyes were
seeing. You'd wind up eventual
Astronomy
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division
Oregon Higher Education System
The University of Oregon
community was especially fa
ored recently in hearing an in
formative lecture on Radio As
tronomy by the Australian as
tronomer, Dr. R. N. Bracewell.
This is a comparatively new sub
ject in scientific circles, but one
in which much interest is de
veloping. This subject has to do
with the detection of radio
waves coming from the great
spaces far beyond the earth.
Today practically everyone is
familiar with the reception of
radio signals from the artificial
sources of the various sending
stations. Only 35 years ago most
receiving sets required elaborate
aerials strung from high trees
or along the house tops. Today
television aerials decorate the
roof tops. But the feeble signals
coming from the starry skies.
and discovered only in very re
cent years, require such im
mense receiving apparatus that
only institutions with consid
erable financial means can set
them up. Steerable concerns cost
about 81,000,000 each.
Radio Telescopes
These cosmic aerials are us
ually referred to as radio tele
scopes. They are huge structures
fashioned in the shape of con
cave mirrors but of an open net
work. Some are set so as to be
directed toward the zenith and
thus to receive signals from the
parts of the universe which, due
to the earth's daily rotation, pass
above them during 24 hours. The
better ones can be turned
toward various parts of the sky.
The recent construction at Jod-
rell Bank in England has a mir
ror-shaped receiver which is
250 feet in diameter. The mo
tions around both the horizontal
and vertical axes require 100
horsepower electric motors for
their operation. A picture of this
can be found in Sky and Tele
scope for February 1953. This
magazine can be found in any
good libarry.
It has been well established
that the radio waves from the
skies do not come from all direc
tions but from very definite lo
cations. The sun produces these
at times, especially when solar
flares and sunspots are seen.
These radiations travel with the
speed of light, 186,300 miles per
second.
Signals Often Strong
Certain diffuse nebulae are
constant sources. This is true of
the Crab nebula, where a super
nova flared up in A.D. 1054,
the Orion nebula and the Omega
nebula. In many cases the sig
nals are strong where no star is
visible through optical tele
scopes. Thus we are learning of
the universe through a new
method.
A very strong source is in the
direction of the constellation
power to apply those laws and
to enforce them with equal, vigor
against all who violate them."
I urge everyone interested in
the welfare of mankind to get
hold of this book and spread its
message far and wide so that
perhaps there may still be a
chance to bring finally peace, or
der and a more secure life to this
very troubled old planet, our
earth.
Wm. Krauss,
Rt. 1, Box 373,
Gold Hill .Ore.
News
ly with a shrug of your shoul
ders and a crack to the effect
that they must be doing It with
mirrors.
That's Las Vegas.
WE'VE aU been taught that if
"a city is to grow from a
hamlet into a village, from,a vil
lage into a town and from a town
into a CITY it must have PRO
DUCTIVE resources.
There must be rich soil upon
which crops of food and fiber,
can be grown and upon which
livestock can be grazed. Or there
must be timber in the vicinity.
Or ores. All these things pro
vide raw materials upon which
the labor of human beings can
be expended in order to create
wealth. By expending their labor
upon raw materials, human
beings create wealth and in the
process of creating wealth they
create cities.
AU these things are funda
mental. Even Karl Marx recognized
them and taught them.
BUT here is Las Vegas.
It lies in the middle of a bar
ren desert, where even cactus
has trouble in growing. It has
some water adjacent, but it is in
a deep canyon and hard to get at.
The water s used for the making 4
of power, but the bulk of the
power is shipped to Los Angeles
and elsewhere.
At the miniscule industrial
area of Henderson there is some
metals reduction, but it is on a
relatively microscopic scale. And
yet, in the midst of this eco
nomic vacuum, there is a lusty
and burgeoning city that bur
geons and grows lustier and
lustier by the minute. Every
time you see it, it is about twice
as big as it was when you saw
it the last time.
HOW COME?
It's a strange story, and I'm
running out of space for today.
I'll go into it more fully next
time.
via Radio
Cygnus. Perhaps two galaxies
are colliding somewhere out
yonder. If these sources were 10
times as far away, it could still
be observed by the radio tele
scope but not by optional instru
ments. Through radio means we
are thus learning more of our
own galactic center than ever
before.
Do intelligent signals ever
come from these distant sources?
Dr. Bracewell laughingly said,
"Not in any language we know."
The waves are caused by mighty
cosmic reactions not too well
understood. They produce mere
noise In the receivers.
Woodworkers Back
Autonomous Union
In Lumber Industry
Portland (U.R) The CIO
Woodworkers union Saturday
proposed the establishment of an
"autonomous, international" un
ion in the lumber industry.
The proposal was contained in
a public announcement of the
endorsement by the union's exe
cutive board of the AFL-CIO
merger agreement.
Concurs in Plan
A. F. Hartung, union presi
dent, said "The executive board
of the International Woodwork
ers of America, CIO-CCL con
curs in the merger agreement, as
adopted by the Executive Board
of the CIO.
"In the friendly atmosphere
of the CIO-AFL merger agree
ment, the IWA Executive Board
proposes the establishment of a
new autonomous International
industrial union in the logging,
manufacturing and processing of
all . wood products," Hartung
said.
Would Take in All
The new union would take in
all werkers "from the stump to
the finished product" Hartung
said, but would not invade the
jurisdiction of the Building
Trade Crafts.
Hartung said the statement of
policy was prepared by repre
sentatives of lumber workers in
all parts of the United States and
Canada.
Find Man Innocent
Of Draft Evasion
Portland (U.R) Otiis Rnrrl
Jellison, 22, has been found in
nocent of violating the selective
service act by failing to report
to his Linn county draft board.
it was disclosed in an ODinion
made public Friday.
Jellison is a member of the
Church of God Seventh Day
at Scravel Hill near Albany.
He was tried without a inrv
on Jan. 25 before Federal Judge
Gus Solomon. Jellison had been
classified as 1-AO, or available
for noncombatant military serv
ice. He appealed from this but
was turned down and ordered
to report for induction.
Judge Solomon found Jellison
should be classed as 1-0 because
"the evidence indicated that
both of his young bothers, . as
well as alt the other young men
in the Scravel Hill church, have
been classified 1-0.
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