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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 3. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Reginald A Stagg, civil direc
tor of Medford Junior Chamber
of Commerce, named general
chairman of United National
clothing collection drive for
area.
From A r t h u r Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Geese were
heard honking overhead and at
two prominent railroad cross
ings late last evening.
20 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Medford city council passes
ordinance calling for $10 annual
license fees for "marble games"
operated in local business estab
lishments. Boy Scouts receiving merit
badges at Medford court of
honor include Shirrell Doty,
Lorin Croucher, Warlow Purdin,
Bob Nixon, and Irwin Doty,
v .
30 YEARS AGO
April 3, 1925
(It was Friday)
William N. Warner reappoint
ed to serve as postmaster for
Medford.
Joyriders steal Dr. Gitzen's
Maxwell automobile car from in
front of his home.
FORTY YEARS AGO
April 3. 1915
(It was Saturday)
Roger S. Bennett announces
plans for construction of new
apartment house at Main and
Quince sts.
Much local interest reported
in heavyweight championship
fight in Havana between Jack
Johnson and Jess Willard.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copt. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. General Motors so far this
year has put out many more
Pontiacs than Oldsmobiles, or
many more Oldsmobiles, or
about the same number of each?
2. Chairman of the Senate
committee that's been studying
the Stock Market is Sen. Cape
hart, Watkins, Fulbright, Doug
las or Humphrey?
3. The prime minister of Italy
is named Fanfani, Togliatti, Scel
ba, Lasagna, Tito or Luce?
4. Gen. Gruenther, Allied
Commander in Europe, says a
Russian attack there -vould now
succeed, or be repulsed, or have
a 50-50 chance?
5. Live lobsters are or aren't
shipped out of water for consid
erable distances?
6. It has been more or less
than 40 years since a new state
was admitted to the Union?
7. Billingsgate is foul language
or a" fish market in London, or a
former city gate there?
The Answers: 1. About the
same number of each. 2. Ful
bright. 3. Scelba. 4. Would be
repulsed. 5. Are. 6. More than
40 years; last was Arisona in
1912. 7. All three.
TWO NOMINATED
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate had under consideration Sat
urday nominations for two Ore
gon postmasterships made by
President Eisenhower. Jack' R.
Bailey was nominated for Scio
postmaster and John P. Ivers at
Oceanlake.
The spice trade designation for
bark of cassia is 'quflk."
The Knowland Mystery
In his last week's press conference when the mat
ter of Admiral Carney came up, the President was
asked if he considered reprimanding the Admiral for
his unauthorized statement regarding a Chinese at
tack on April 15th or thereafter.
The President said "no" but he added, quote:
"Anyone of my subordinates has a right to hia personal
oonvictions.
"But such a person can not utter them properly if he
if going to create difficulty for his administration, for his
commander-in-chief, or in violation of any announced policy
of the administration, because then he doesn't belong as a
member of the team.".
IITE CAN imagine no more obvious reference and
rebuke to Senator Knowland of California than
this. Knowland has repeatedly made announcements
regarding the administration's foreign policy particu
larly regarding the Far East, which have been clearly
in violation of the President's policies. So clearly
that the latter has had to repudiate them, time after
time.
" Yet the California Senator is not only apparently
still in good standing with the administration but con
tinues as the minority leader in the Upper House and
official spokesman for the White House. It is very
hard to understand. '
"THIS is in fact one of the major mysteries of the
administration. We can understand the President's
strong desire to preserve harmony within his party,
but we can't understand how he can regard opposi
tion to his policies, as rendering a subordinate ineligi
ble to his team and still keep a member so often in
opposition, as one of the important members of that
team.
It just doesn't add up. It doesn't make sense.
There must be something in the official picture
not visible to the naked eye. Or at least not visible
to the bifocals in this department.
A RECENT report from Illinois may throw some
" light on it. As reported in the press a group in
that state who claim to be conservatives of the "Abe
Lincoln type" have joined with that great LINCOLN
ESQUE figure of Wisconsin, Senator Joe McCar
thy) to prepare for the 1956 convention, and their
favorite to lead the drive against the renomination of
President Eisenhower, it is reported" is Senator Know
land of California.
THIS may or may not be correct. But the members
rt fViio inmmi'ffaa V.Ira TWr!irfVitr or a all nrrnaor1 fr
Ul UUO UlilllllllV lints AfAUWUi J A,., Ull UJUUVU
the administration's policies particularly in the for
eign field, and what they like to term "the trend to
ward internationalism and socialism."
One might think this would only render the demo
tion of Knowland .more imperative.
But that doesn't appear to be the Eisenhower
way. "Ike" is a fighter by profession, but when it
comes to politics, he seems to prefer the role of peace
conciliation and compromise.
So it may be Senator Knowland is retained as a
quarterback on the presidential team not because the
President likes his attitude but because the President
thinks he can do less harm there than he could in
opposition.
Time undoubtedly will tell. R.W.R.
Pulitzer and McCormick
It would be hard to name two more dissimilar
f igures in the realm of American journalism than the
two prominent editors who departed this life over the
week-end Colonel Robert McCormick of the Chi
cago Tribune, and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. -
As the two men were direct opposites in character
and temperament so were
patch, one of the most progressive, public-spirited
and truly liberal journals in the country; and the Chi
cago Tribune, one of the most autocratic, mercenary,
and reactionary newspapers in the land.
a
POLITICALLY Joseph
father, was always devoted to the public welfare,
always lighting tor a square deal tor the average
citizen, always on the hunt for crime and wrong and
corruption, and when he
he had whether it hurt the
or the Republicans under
his father, a born crusader
OLONEL McCormick was never a great editor. He
was rather a great individualist, a man of force
and courage running a newspaper. He was eccentric
and original, with a political and personal philosophy
resembling that of Louis the XVI, but probably slight
ly to the right of it.
He, even more than
journalistic experts who claimed personal journalism
ended with Colonel Watterson of the Louisville Cour
ier Journal. (Some even
Dana.) But there was never
nalism than that of the Chicago Tribune so long as the
Colonel was in charge of it.
and determined its policies, he WAS the paper.
He claimed with characteristic egotism it was the
greatest newspaper in the
tures and news coverage it always did rank high, but
in what might be termed its spirit and viewpoint, it
was great like the dinosaur
ed in the realm of cerebration, to a similar era of the
distant journalistic past.
11HAT of the future of
"T Our prediction would be the Post-Dispatch
will go. on along much the same line for the present
and probably for many years to come in the estab
lished Pulitzer tradition.
But' somehow we can't
Sunday, April S. 1935
their papers. The Post-Dis
Pulitzer, like his famous
found them hitting with all
Democrats under lruman,
Harding. He was again like
a great editor.
.
Pulitzer, confounded those
wentNback to Greeley and
a more PERSONAL jour
He not only ran the paper
world, and in its many fea
only in size and belong
these two papers?
see the Chicago Tribune
Matter of Fact
THE ROOTED AND ROOTLESS
Saigon, Indochina The weak
ness of Coueism as an instrument
of foreign policy is currently be
ing proven
here in Indo
china. Every
thing has not
"got better
and better"
just because
the American
policy makers
kept saying it
was getting
better and bet
ter. It has in
stead -got
Joseph AJaop
worse. ;
The Droof is the crisis of the
sects, which have now erupted
into armed rebellion. Even be
fore open fighting broKe out,
and despite his strong American
backing, President Ngo Dinh
Diem proved virtuaUy impotent
in the face of determined pres
sure from the local political-re
ligious war lords who are the
leaders of the southern Indo-
Chinese sects.
As these words are written,
it is still barely possible that
some sort of compromise settle
ment might be patched up. If
so, the life of the Diem govern
ment may be prolonged. But
meanwhile a government which
has far too little authority al
ready will have lost a good deal
of the authority it possesses.
President Diem, who has never
yet been able to govern in the
true sense of the word, will be
still less able to govern in the
future.
IN these unhappy circumstances,
curiously enough, it is hard
not to feel a sneaking sympathy
for these sect leaders who are
substantially increasing the al
ready considerable probability
of an eventual Viet Minh victory
here in Southern Indochina.
What they are doing, in an
absolute sense, is of course un
pardonable folly. Equally of
course, their primary motives
are the very opposite of disin
terested. President Diem's pro
gram has threatened their feudal
domains and interests. The pay
for their private armies, form
erly provided by the French, has
just been cut off. After years
of fighting among themselves,
they have therefore united to
save their money and their skins
Yet consider the difference
between these men and Presi
dent Diem. Diem has one im
portant negative virtue. He is
conspicuously not a French pup
pet (although he is now danger
ously close to being regarded
as an American puppet). He also
has two positive virtues rare in
Vietnamese public life. He is
wholly honest and an undoubted
patriot.
"N the other hand, this descend-
ant of a great Mandarin fam
ily is narrow, obstinate and
petty. He is so unwilling to
delegate authority that in Indo
china's death agony he deals per
sonally with the issuance of pass
port visas. Above all he is com
pletely out of contact with the
broad mass of his people and the
political realities of his country.
The positive virtues of Diem
may be lacking in- such sect
leaders as Gen. Bai Vien of the
Binh Xuyen gang that controls
Saigon; the "Pope" and generals
of the Cao Dai sect; and old Tran
Van Soai and war-drunken Ba
Cut of the Hoa'Hao. But in their
different ways, these are all ex
ceedingly able, tough, and astute
men who have risen out of the
peasant mass by their own ef
forts. . Brothel keeper and gam
bling racketeer though he may
be, Bai Vien is probably the
most capable single politician in
Southern Indo-China.
The roots of Diem, moreover,
are in the dead and done court
of Hue. In modern- Indo-China,
except for his connection with
the small Catholic minority,
Diem is effectively rootless.
The sect leaders, on the other
hand, are strongly rooted in their
native earth. For good or ill
and alas mostly for ill they are
able to do what Diem has so far
sadly failed to do. They are able
to compete with the Viet Minh
in controlling the peasants of the
villages.
HENCE the sect leaders feel
themselves far stronger than
Diem. There is not a one of them
who is not bewildered by the
American view that the way to
fight communism is to back Diem
rather than to back the sects.
They say, and with some justice,
that they have already proven in
their own domains that they can
take on and defeat the Viet Minh,
whereas the Diem government
has shown no sign of doing so.
For the same reason that they
are strong, because they are still
in a sense Asian primitives, the
sect leaders do not see their own
folly. They do not understand
the larger, non-local issues which
make their feudal answer to the
Viet Minh ultimately hopeless.
going along without the Colonel in the Tribune tradi
tion at least along the line that has been maintained
so long under his personal dictatorship.
For as McCormick was almost literally , the Trib
une, so with his passing the Tribune will, we fear, pass
on with him. ' .
At least we can see no other outcome from this
distance, and incidently we can think of none that
would really please the Colonel more!R.W.R,
By Joseph Alsop
But just because the sect leaders
do not have this kind of under
standing, the American policy
makers are not excused from the
effort of trying to understand the
sect leaders. '
In this respect, there has been
a lamentable failure. Think for
example, the shouts of joy in Sai
gon, the pointing with pride in
the State Department, when the
Cao Dai general Trinh Minh The
"rallied" to the Diem govern
ment at a reported price of
around twenty million piastres.
The price was paid. But Gen.
Trinh Minh The is now a conspic
uous figure in the anti-Diem
"Presidium" of the sects. And
the best excuse he has been able
to offer American officials is that
he wished to exercise "a moder
ating influence," which has not
been visible to date.
THERE are other things about
the sect leaders : that want
understanding too. For example,
the Cao Dai "Pope," Pham Cong
Tac, has already made public
gestures of conciliation towards
the Viet Minh in the North. When
the heat is on, it is only too prob
able that some or many of these
Indo-Chinese warlords will make
the same kind of compacts with
the Communists that many Chi
nese warlords hastened to make.
To encourage this useful prac
tice, the warlords who made com
pacts are still being conspicu
ously cherished in Peiping.
It is a melancholy business, of
course, facing unpleasant facts
such as those set forth in this re
port. But the lesson of the sect
crisis in Saigon still remains. In
the long run advertising slogans
and Coueism are a poor substi
tute for fact finding.
, (Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Eastward from aanta Fe, on
the Los Vegas (Las Vegas New
Mexico, not Las Vegas Nevada)
road, there is a rugged pass
known as Apache Canyon. It is
one of the dozens of hot canyons
traveled by Coronado and his
armored knights and gentlemen
in the course of their years-long
search for the fabled Seven
Cities of Cibola some four cen
turies ago.
Up toward the top, in a nar
row defile known as Glorieta,
there is a well. It is said to be
the oldest well in the United
States. Coronado's men drank
from it and in that dry coun
try I'll bet the cool water tasted
good.
Who wouldn't relish a drink of
cool water after a day in the
saddle in the hot sun, bearing
up all the long and tedious hours
under a suit of steel armor?
"DUT it isn't of Coronado that
I wish to speak today. It is
of an event much more recent
in our history an' event that
may have, been of immense sig
nificance. I'm referring to the battle of
Glorieta, fought in this pass be
tween soldiers of the North and
soldiers of the South, in 1862. It
is a Civil War battle to which
little attention has been paid.
T ET'S go back a little in his-
tory.
In 1862, the South still held
hieh hones of winning the War
between the States. But the
Northern blockade of the
South's" ports was beginning to
hurt. So an expedition into the
Southwest was conceived. If
successful, it would add the ter
ritory recently acquired from
Mexico to the South.
- It involved an even larger
gamble. If successful, such an
expeditionary force might bene
trate clear to the PACIFIC
COAST, opening up such a har
bor as San Francisco bay,
where the South might receive
munitions of war.
THE .! expeditionary force : was
recruited chiefly in Texas. It
was placed under the command
of General Sibley, a capable and
experienced officer. It started up
the Rio Grande. At a point near
the town of Socorro New Mexi
co it was met by a much smaller
body of Union regulars taken
from the garrison of one of the
forts watching the Apaches. This
force was badly defeated by Sib
ley's Texas volunteers, who pro
ceeded on up the Rio Grande to
Sante Fe and thence on into
Apache Canyon.
At Glorieta, it was met by a
body of Union volunteers hastily
collected in Colorado. These
men had received little military
training, because the emergency
was grave and time was pre
cious, but gathered up from the
Colorado mines they were a
tough and rugged lot.
They stopped Sibley's column
and turned it back. It was a
bloody and rugged battle.
Losses on both sides were heavy.
I won't go into the details of it
here, for this isn't a history les
son, but if General Sibley , had
GOT THROUGH to the Pacific
Coast the course of our history
Is That So?
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalitt .
MAMMALS RANGE FROM
TINY SHREW TO WHALE
Although there are today,
roughly speaking about 3,000,
000 species of creatures in, the
animal kingdom worms, in
sects, spiders, fish, birds, reptiles,
mammals, etc. '. 'only a tiny
fraction of these are mammalian
species less than 4,000. Yet
this tiny . minority is the pre
dominant form of life on earth.
Many and, wonderful are the
differences among these 4,000.
Some, like, the bats, have taken
to the air; others like the monk
eys have taken to the trees;
some like the whales have left
the land and gone to sea; others
like the mole have burrowed
underground.
, In size they range from the
tiny shrew that weighs less than
a used 25 cent piece a frac
tion of an ounce to the gigan
tic sulphur-bottomed whale
which may weigh 300,000
pounds!
Yet, despite the tremendous
diversity, because they are mam
mals they have many things in
common.
First off, as the Latin word
mamma implies breast all are
milk-suckling during infancy,
although two, the duck-billed
platypus and spiny anteater of
Australia are without breasts,
the milk supply oozing out of a
general area and following the
hair roots when the young lap
it up.
Also, except for this primitive
pair which lay eggs, all mam
mals bear their babies alive.
Some young like the agouti
of South America can be weaned
the first day and may survive;
others like the porcupine may
need only a week of the mother's
care; others like the walrus may
nurse for three whole years
until its tusks grow long enough
for it to rake up mollusks from
the sea-floor.
Variation of development at
birth, likewise, is enormous
among these mammals: Some
rodents remain sightless for more
than six weeks; some hooved
animals, like the pronghorn an
telope, can race 25 miles an hour
within as many hours.
Size at birth also varies tre
mendously from the oppossum's
"living abortion" which is de
livered from 10, to 13 days after
mating and a dozen could fit
into a teaspoon to the whale
which may whelp a 25,000-pound
calf within a year after mating
All mammals are backboned
and have four legs, although bats
and seals are hardly four-footed
in the ordinary sense of the
word; in the former the limbs
have developed into wings for
might have been considerably
changed.
I mention it here because so
few of us realize that the Civil
War ever got as far West as
New Mexico.
THE old well and the site of
the Glorieta battle are now
private property. A trifling fee
admits one to look into the old
weU and to view the relics pick
ed up from the battlefield over
the years. An old boy collects
your money and at each point
of interest he pauses, looks off
into the distance and chants the
story in a sing-song tone, much
as the French minstrels must,
centuries ago, have chanted the
Song of Roland.
THE Civil War! Ah, me! The
countless dead and gravely
mangled who littered its battle
fields. It was fought for a
sacred cause the cause of hu
man freedom. If there is any
cause for which men are justi
fied in dying in agony in battle
it is the cause of human freedom.
But.
If only a little more time had
been won in which men might
have come to their senses and
freed the slaves WITHOUT
WAR!
JT COULD have happened.
It MIGHT have happened.
It seems to most of us now
that if only the shooting hadn't
got started at Fort Sumpter or
somewhere else it W O U L D
have happened.
What a tragedy it all was!
AGAIN we're in a period akin
to that preceding , the war
between the American states.
Tempers are hot. On our -ide,
the ties and the insults of the
Communists are hard to take.
But
If the shooting gets started
again, what happened in our
tragic , Civil war won't be a
patching to what will happen
this time if the war dogs get
loose again.
SO let's hope that SOMEHOW'
the shooting can be staved
off long enough to give time for
men of courage and good will to
seek a way out of the present
tension without letting the shoot
ing get started again,
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Know what gobbledegook is?
Here's a sample:
"Effective this date, recruit
ing detachments are authorized
to communicate direcUy with
Air Force Bases, designed in
paragraph 33a (6), Section G.
Chapter 3 and paragraph 45a(6),
Section G, Chapter 4, AFM 39-9,
dated 1 December 1954, regard
ing a direct assignment to a TD
or TU vacancy within units lo
cated on those bases for prior
service enlistees and reen-
listees."
That is the first of four para
graphs of an Air Force letter re
ceived recently. It means:
Men with prior service can en
list for service with any Air
Force base they wish, so long as
there is a vacancy there.
why tell me why doesn't
the Air Force just say so?
Know what hot money is?
It's money that has baan in
a cash box sitting by a heater
as was the cash box at a plant
sale held here last weak. A 50
cent piece given in change to
a staff member was hot, and
led to complications (finally
straightened out) when sha re
ported tha "hot money" to a
couple of police officers.
Through the unbeknownst
courtesy of the Richmond (Va.)
Times-Dispatch and the Klamath
Falls Herald and News, we now
have the last word in synonyms
for group.
For what it's worth, here it is:
"A flock of ships is called a
fleet; a fleet of sheep is called a
flock; a flock of girls is called
a bevy; a bevy of wolves is
called a pack; a pack of thieves
is called a gang; a gang of angels
is called a host; a host of por
poise is called a shoal; a shoal of
fish is called a school; a school of
buffalo is called a herd; a herd
of seals is called a pod; a pod of
whale is called a gam; a gam
of lions is called a pride; a pride
of children is called a troop; a
troop of partridges is called a
flight, in the latter they have
become flippers. And as for the
hind limbs of the whales, dol
phins and porpoises, they no
longer emerge from their bodies.
In the whale, they are only a
pair of small rudimentary rods
buried deep in the body, not even
hooked up to the spine.
AU mammals are warm-blooded,
with a four-chambered heart
which pumps blood through a
double circulatory system, con
sisting of arteries veins- and
capillaries. Yet the blood tem
perature among mammals may
vary and, , in ; fact within the
same individual during the year
may undergo a 65 degree change.
In hibernation, for example, it
may dangerously drop from 100
degrees to near-freezing below
freezing the animal dies.
To go with this highly de
veloped circulatory system,
which gets oxygen into the blood
stream and carries away poison
ous carbon dioxide, all mammals
have a chest which contains the
heart and lungs, and this is sep
arated from the abdomen, con
taining the stomach and other
organs, by a thin sheet of muscle
called the diaphraghm. Needless
to say, all mammals breathe air
even a whale will drown if it
cannot surface regularly to draw
life-giving oxygen into the lungs
and expel carbon dioxide.
To help maintain its - warm
temperature, every mammal has
hair ranging from a few stout
bristles to very fine and some
times, expensive fur. Even the
whale has a few scraggly thin
whiskers.
Another mechanism unique to
mammals which helps to regu
late their temperature is sweat
glands, although in some animals
like the camel they are exceed
ingly few to conserve bodily
moisture in deserts.
Add all these, and you have
the mammal. And besides in
nearly every type, a creature of
exquisite beauty and grandeur
of form.
(Copyrfght, 1955,
by Eugene Burns)
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SOC Spring Quarter -Registration
Climbs
Ashland Spring quarter reg
istration at Southern Oregon col
lege, although dropping below
that of the winter term ,has con
tinued to increase over that of
last year, according to Mabel
Winston registrar.
At the end of the second day
of the second week the total en
rollment was 623, approximately
16 per cent over last year at the
same time. Included in this total
are 360 men and 263 women. A
total of 172 veterans are en
rolled . this term, Mrs. Winston
added.
covey; a covey of beauties is
called a galaxy; a galaxy of ruf
fians is called a horde; a horde
of rubbish is called a heap; a
heap of oxen is called a drove; a
drove of blackguards is called a
mob; a mob of worshippers is
called a congregation; a congre
gation of theater-goers is called
an audience; an audience of pea
cocks is called a muster; a mus
ter of doves is called a flight; a
flight of larks is called an exalta
tion and if they are starlings, it's
murmuration; a murmuration of
bees is called a swarm; a swarm
of foxes is called a sulk; a sulk
of pigs is called a stye: a stye
of dogs is called a kennel; a ken
nel of cats is often called a nuis
ance." A local golfer, .who had ,
mentioned to his wife tha de- .
sirability of showing out-of-town
people here for last
week's tournament how hos
pitable Medford folk are, in
vited three of the players to
his home for cocktails Friday ".'
evening. When they left he "
invited them to return Satur
day evening for mora of the
same.
Saturday afternoon his wife, '
thinking sha recognised one of
tha guests among the three
some just leaving tha ninth
green, bustled up to inquire
how his game was going. The -player
acted a bit cool, sha
thought, but sha excused hia
grumpiness as probably being -due
to his having three-putted
No. 9. So. still trying to be
""friendly, the Medford lady
said briefly, "well, good luck .
and IH see you tonight." At
this the golfer, looking a bit
startled, hurried abruptly to
the next tee. ,
Later in the day the lady t
discovered the man she .
thought she knew was not her -husband's
guest at all. She's
still wondering what ha must
have thought of such unusual
friendliness from a perfeet
I stranger.
Accident Injures
Four Young Men
Saturday Morning
Four young men were confin
ed to Community hospital Sat
urday after a sedan driven by
one of them' smashed into a light
nnlo at th intercept inn rtt CnufVi '
Riverside and Stewart aves. '
nuuuici JUULU.. wo iCiCdacu '
trom ine nosmtai alter examina
tion. The wreck occurred about
4:50 a.m.
ijisiea Dy city ponce as serious
ly hurt in the accident were
Bobby Lee Whisenant, 23, PO
Box 252, Phoenix, driver of the
car, ana jesse veiner opeaKS, zu,
PO Box 313 Ashland. Also hos
pitalized were Alton J. Warner,"
21, Weaubleau, Miss., and Ray
Labonne Cummings, 18, of 931
South Central ave. The other,
passenger in the sedan was John
William Whisenant, 19. PO Box
252, Phoenix.
They were taken to the hospi
tal by Medford Ambulance ser-
vice andQity police.
Fuel Pump Trouble
Officers said they were told
that v the car developed fuel
pump trouble starting near Tal
ent and that Cummings was rid
ing on the left front fender,
working on the pump, and sig
nalling directions to the driver
at the time of the mishap..
Speaks was reportedly in the"
front seat with the driver and
John Whisenant and Warner ;
were sleeping. in the back seat.
No citations were issued, po
lice reported. Bobby Whisenant
and Warner were listed as Navy
men.
State police reported that Lew
is A. Birkland, route 1, box 290,
Central Point, suffered minor in
juries when the car he was driv
ing left the road and hit a tree
at the junction of Kirtland rd.
and Old Highway 99. The car
turned over, and the driver was
taken to a relative's home by a
passerby, police said- The acci
dent occurred at about 12:45
a.m. Saturday.
Three Instructors
Due at Police Class
A class on governmental func
tions, in the advanced police
training schools sponsored by the
Oregon Association of City Po
lice Officers and the Oregon
State Sheriffs association, will be
given by three instructors here
tomorrow.
..They will discuss the func
tions of their agencies in connec
tion with local law enforcement
The instructors are Thomas J.
Sheridan, assistant administra
tor, Oregon Liquor Control com
mission; Capt. A. P. Oakley, Ore
gon Military District, U. 5.
Army, and Harold Sexton, Unit
ed States Marshal, District of
Oregon.
BACK FLUORIDATION
Portland U.R) The city
club of Portland Friday by an
overwhelming voice vote adopt
ed a committee report which
recommended fluoridation of the
city's water, to help reduce tooth
decay.