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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
June 2. 1945
(It was Saturday)
Construction of a $70,000 Pa
cific Greyhound terminal in
Medford to start within 60 days.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The rains
of May left the vallejr water
logged. The city Planning com
mission is thinking some of
launching a project for the con
struction of a civic ark, but it is
too late to vote on same at the
June 12 special election.
20 YEARS AGO
June 2. 1935
(It was Sunday)
Peak of single - bearing straw
berry crop to be reached this
week, according to County Agent
Robert G. Fowler.
Medford Active club holds
dinner and dance for members
and their wives in Jacksonville
Grange hall.
30 YEARS AGO
June 2, 1925
(It was Tuesday)
Gold Hill city officials agree
to remove speed traps from Pa
cific highway after Oregon Mo
tor association receives com
plaints from out of state drivers
caught speeding through town.
Camp Jackson being prepared
for Oregon National guard en
campment here June 12 through
26.
40 YEARS AGO
June 2, 1915
(It was Wednesday)
Rogue River Public Service
corporation filed bid with Med
ford council for 10-year fran
chise for furnishing light to the
city.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Commercial fishing on the
upper Rogue for the sixty days
permitted under the present law
for a strip of river running from
Grants Pass to Jump-Off Joe
Creek began Tuesday, the catch
of 17 boats totalling 1688 pounds
the lightest take in years, due
to high water.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Resort
1. When impeachment pro
ceedings are voted against a
President, is he tried by the Sen
ate, the House, both, or the Su
preme Court?
2. Negoes comprise about one,
two, three, four, or five per
cent, or more of all U. S. Army
officers?
3. Dentists now are or aren't
eligible for federal social secur
ity coverage?
4. Most states take in much
more money from taxes on gaso
line or from auto licenses, or
about the same from each?
5. Three presidents of this
century were New York resi
dents when elected; the two
Roosevelts and who?
6. Natural gas is now about 5,
10, 15, 20 or 25 per cent of all
fuel consumed in the U.S.?
7. A mangle-wurzel is a piece
of laundry equipment, farm im
plement, kind of pretzel, vege
table or German dialect actor?
The answers: 1. The Senate.
2. About three per cent. 3. Are
not. 4. Much more from gasoline
taxes. 5. Eisenhower. 6. About
25 per cent. 7. Vegetable.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Will "TV A " Win Out?
More editors in Oregon., should visit Knoxville
Tennessee and know the facts about TVA before they
write concerning it. For there is a surprising lack of
understanding of the true situation in that state, and
the surrounding states that make up the Tennessee
Valley.
It is frequently stated, for example, that TVA is
not only "creeping socialism" but represents an "alien
philosophy" akin to communism, and is driving out
private power and private enterprise in that entire
area of approximately 80,000 square miles.
TTHIS simply isn't true, and a visit would show its
falsity. In this area, including six states bordering
Tennessee, there are many private power utilities,
still doing a profitable, business.
Across the river in Arkansas, for example, Arkan
sas Power and Light has fought TVA on a straight
competitive basis, and won out by pushing rural elec
trification intensively and according to "Business
Week," furnishing juice to rural cooperatives even
cheaper than TVA can or will. That certainly
doesn't indicate TVA has driven out private enter
prise entirely or wantonly "destroyed our cherished
free competitive economy."
It does indicate it has reduced electric rates to the
consumer materially not only in the state of Tennes
see but in the surrounding territory. Yet the Knox
ville Power company in Tennessee is still in opera
tion, as is the Kmgsport Utilities, and in a few of the
smaller towns private power companies are still doing
business at the same old stand. They don't make the
profit's they once did, but they do make profits-or
they wouldn't and couldn't stay in business.
We don't deny TVA pretty well dominates the
Tennessee field as far as electric light and power as a
whole are concerned. But we do deny that it has
driven out all competition and is far on the road to
establishing a totalitarian state.
A visit to Tennessee will convince any fair minded
person that the residents of that state are no more
socialistic or radical in their political views than the
residents of Oregon or any other conservative state.
Yet it is a fact that for over 20 years whenever the
issue of TVA has been raised, the people of that state
have voted around 16 to 1 in favor of it.
Why?
Because TVA as a federal project has turned a
faltering marginal economy into a flourishing one,
a backward state into one of the most progressive
and prosperous states in the union.
This has been due not only to the introduction of
cheap power, but to the collateral benefits of a multi
ple federal power project.
The Oregon Statesman of Salem called attention
to this phase of the TVA controversy in an editorial
sometime ago, from which the following is an extract.
"Collateral activities have been an Important part of
its work. It moved in to rejuvenate the whole region.
Its specialists have promoted better practices in agriculture,
better forestry and have engaged in chemical research.
TVA made important contributions in the development of
electric furnaces for the production of phosphate fertilizers.
Its .designs have been used by several of the phosphate
plants in Idaho and Montana. Use of the Tennessee river
for navigation has been greatly expanded through better
control of water flow and losses from, flood damage re
duced. Fish are so plentiful that the TVA long ago abolished
closed seasons on TVA lakes."
And Editor Sprague concludes as follows :
"There is no need to discount the success of TVA because
one doesn't approve of the pattern. It offers a challenge to
other regions to join hands in solving regional problems."
I
T does.
And Hells Canyon is
Ralph W. Page, well known columnist' on the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin summed up the Ten
nessee river development problem very well in the
following after, not before, he paid a visit to TVA
quole :
"TVA has rendered a public service which has saved
private enterprise millions. It has increased river naviga
tion from 33 ton miles to 800 ton miles. All of this of course
is carried on by private enterprise and for its benefit.
It has increased the installed capacity of electric power
from a comparative trickle to 3.6 million kilowatts, and
expects this to increase to 9.6 million by 1956. In 1933
only one farm in 28 in Tennessee had electricity. Today
85 per cent of all farms have this service. And they get
'it at about half the average national cost, and use half
again as much. Moreover this power is the mainstay of
our defense industries."
"But it is said all this cheap power hurts the private
power companies. That makes me laugh. The neighboring
companies are the Southern Company in Georgia and
about. I bought stock at $12 and sold at $16. Another is
the Carolina Power & Light. When I lived in Carolina
in 1932 I paid this concern 10 cents an hour for my juice.
They now sell it for about 2 cents and have prospered.
Now no sane person not hipped by dogma can call
this socialism. It is the very prop and mainstay of private
industrial and agricultural progress Everywhere in
the world but the United States this plan is studied and
copied as a river solution."
We can't agree with Communist Page that no sane
person can CALL this "socialism." Plenty of perfectly
sane people, particularly if they are in politics or the
private power business can and will.
.
DUT that does not alter the basic fact that where
conditions are suited to a government power proj
ect on a multiple basis, and are not suited or as well
suited to a private power development (as on the
Snake river for example) the former will, we believe,
ultimately prevail.
And the chief reason is this:
If the federal government doesn't do the job it
won't be done.
Private enterprise won't do it, because the col
lateral benefits are too expensive, the returns too
small and extended over too long a time. The project
can't be privately financed.
In short it is the belief of this department that
what program will best advance the public welfare
will eventually win out as it should in a democracy.
R.W.R.
Thursday, June J, 19SS
I
such a challenge.
France Again Faced
With New Crisis in
African Possessions
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
France, which had troubles
enough already, faces a new
.crisis in North Africa.
Premier Ed
gar Faure is
going his best
to combat it.
But whatever
he does, he
meets power
ful opposition.
Things are get
ting worse
steadily, and
Faure may
lose his job as
Charles Mctaau xne result.
The situation involves France's
rich possessions of Tunisia, Mo
rocco and Algeria. Tunisia and
Morocco are protectorates. Al
geria has been incorporated
into France itself. It is repre
sented in the French parliament.
Nationalist movements have
been getting stronger and
stronger in Morocco and Tuni
sia ever since the end of World
War II. They have been marked
by serious terrorism. Now the
terrorism has spread to Algeria.
Successive French govern
ments have tried to deal with
the nationalist movement in
Tunisia and Morocco by a com
bination of conciliation and
sternness.
New Complications Arise
It is recognized in Paris that
there must be concessions to na
tionalism. But every time a
French government tries to
make concessions that might sat
isfy the nationalists a new com
plication arises.
That is the refusal of the
French colonists in North Afri
ca, and the very powerful par
liamentary elements in France
which support them, to concede
the inevitability of home rule.
Former Premier Pierre
Mendes-France decided last sum
mer that something had to be
done.
He made a dramatic visit to
Tunisia and announced that the
country would be given home
rule.
Mendes-France fell later
partly because of the enmity of
the anti-concession elements.
Historic Agreement
Faure carried on with the
home rule negotiations. He and
Tunisian Premier Tahar Ben
Ammar reached a .really historic
agreement in Paris in the early
hours of last Sunday morning.
It could become the model for
a Moroccan agreement.
The agreement gives Tunisia
practically complete home rule.
France keeps control of defense
Babson... Small Cities
By ROGER W. BABSON
New York City (Special to
Mail Tribune) I am writing this
from Room 15T on the 15th floor
of the Waldorf Astoria overlook
ing New York
City. I h a v e
s u pplemented
my fears by
talks with
leading au
thorities. I am
told that what
I see from this
window will
someday be
destroyed: but
Soger W. Babson
it is very hard for me to ac
cept. I like small cities. This is
nothing against large cities.
Both have their usefulness. In
fact, large cities usually have
some great national advantage,
such as nearness to waterpower,
like Buffalo or Minneapolis; or
location at the junction of two
rivers, like St. Louis, or at the
outlet of a river, like New Or
leans; or having a wonderful
harbor, like New York. Nothing
can prevent such fortunately lo
cated cities from always being
great, even if vulnerable. But
today I want to tell you why I
like small cities.
The H-Bomb and gufded mis
siles will postpone World War
III; but Scriptures teach that
there will be at least one more
war someday, and it will be the
worst one of all. Just now, much
is appearing in newspapers and
magazines regarding the pros
pects for peace. Civil Defense
has never taken hold; and it is
very difficult to interest people
in it at present. It seems to me
that England, France, and Russia
are lulling us to sleep with their
"Big Four Conference."
Switch of Uranium
To Peacetime Uses
Now speculators are crazy
about uranium as an agent
which will be switched to peace
uses and thus protect the United
States from the H-Bomb. With
out doubt uranium has many
useful possibilities; . but these
discussions will soon be forgotten
as the American people have
very short memories. However,
the world supply of uranium is
very large and is well scattered
throughout the leading nations
and their possessions.
Certainly, most nations will
be making H-Bombs which can
be used for "blackmailing" pur
poses and for attempting to get
what they want without World
War III. All the above will re
sult in further inflation and
continued high taxes. Someday
and foreign relations.
Now Faure must get his par
liament to ratify the agreement.
There, he faces a determined
fight by the anti-concessionists.
It is not certain that he can get
the agreement ratified. If he
failed, undoubtedly he would
resign.
But leaving that aside, the sit
uation in Algeria has become
dangerous so dangerous that
France is withdrawing a divi
sion of troops from the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
command to reinforce its ap
promimately 100,000-man Alger
ian forces.
The policy of the French gov
ernment toward the Algerian
terrorists is one of sternness, for
the present. But sternness has
not worked in Tunisio or Mo
rocco. Commies Tighten
Berlin Blockade
Berlin (U.R) r- West Berlin
officials charged today that East
ern Communists have tightened
their baby blockade and endan
gered lives by cutting elevated
train tlephone lines linking the
city's East and West zone. -
Officials said the Communist
run Berlin railway system yes
terday cut direct telephone ca
bles between railway stations in
the West Berlin and those in the
Soviet sector.
Western officials said the Com
munist action endangered city
elevated railway traffic as well
as interzonal traffic to the West,
since the latter trains use the
elevated railway system to en
ter and leave the city.
They said West Berlin rail
waymen now will meet serious
delays in reported trouble to
headquarters since the lone re
maining line usually is busy.
German Typhoid Fever
Epidemic Claims Five
Hagen, Germany (U.R) An
82-year-old woman died of ty
'phoid fever Wednesday night.
raising the total of West Ger
mans killed by the typhoid epi
demic to five.
Health officials reported a to
tal of 739 cases in West Ger
many, with 674 occurring in the
Hagen, Ruhr, and other north
Rhine Westphalia areas. Hagen
reported nine new cases in the
past 24 hours, but officials .be
lieved the epidemic was past its
peak.
one of these "blackmailing"
threats may be "called" and
some large cities will be bombed.
Then several million innocent
citizens in these cities could be
killed.
Small Cities
To Grow Rapidly
All the above could result in
a continued movement of fami
lies and industries out of the
large cities into the smaller com
munities. These small cities
when located not too near a big
city should have a great fu
ture. Many . young people will
prefer to live in one of these
smaller communities, both from
a safety standpoint and also to
profit by their growth.
Decentralization of industries
is also under way. Few manu
facturing plants in the big cities
are enlarging within those cities:
they are building supplemental
plants in smaller places. This
factor of decentralization will
greatly benefit small communi
ties. The big cities are getting
more vulnerable to war dangers,
labor troubles, and high costs.
Corporations are finding it easier
to raise money for capital ex
penditures in the small cities,
rather than the large cities. In
the end, bankers and investors
determine locations.
Real Estate Values
May Beat Peak
I forecast that the prices of
the stocks of companies with all
their assets in big, vulnerable
cities may decline; while those
with their assets in small, safe
cities may not. My belief is that
downtown real estate values in
some of the large cities may be
at their peak, but that in the
smaller cities such real estate
is still a purchase. In addition to
the factors above, let me remind
readers of the curse of the auto
mobile and the downtown park
ing problem in large cities. Good
roads, however, are helping the
small cities, which should profit
by President Eisenhower's pro
posal for expending $101 billion
for good roads.
Workers in the smaller cities
have a high character, are in
telligent, and may give more
thought to the ultimate con
sumer. Owing to the lower cost
of living in the smaller cities,
there are fewer labor troubles
where management is reason
able. Labor has less turnover in
these smaller cities. To avoid
the handicaps mentioned above,
the large cities should get solid
ly behind the new federal "urban
redevelopment program." ,
Communications
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the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The Sex Deviate Problem
To the Editor: Last summer
our little girl, then seven, was
molested in Medford by an ln-
tnviratert ex-convict. The exper
ience was terrifying for her and
sickening for us. A child aoesn i
forget such an incident. Its ef
fect is quite lasting.
The crime usually is listed in
ihi naner as "contributing to
the delinquency of a minor," and
it is not an uncommon occur
rence. This particular molester was
61 and had been in and out of
penitentiaries on a variety of
rharffps! erand larceny, sex
crime, assault, etc. I understand
that, according to' law, anyone
rnnvieted of his fourtn teiony
can be imprisoned for life. This
crime was his fourth or fifth
felony. Local authorities sentenc
ed him to only five years ana
a parole within that time is pos
sible. He'll be free to ao as ne
nleases. and the result could be
tragic, as it has been in so many
instances.
We read of horrible sex
crimes so very often and almost
invariably the offender has a
past record of child molesting.
At this writing, a little girl in
Michigan is missing, and author
ities fear the worst because a
sex offender is known to have
been in the area. Why do we
allow these deviates to maim or
kill our children?
T don't feel we should impris
on for life all known sex of
fenders for the purpose of pun
ishing them. Men who will mo
lest children or commit otner
sex crimes present more of a so
cial than a police problem. They
are unbalanced men living in a
society unsuitable to them. To
date, little has, been done to
solve the problem, that is, to
prevent such things happening
in the first place, by institution
izing or therapy.
Therefore it is imperative
that men found guilty of child
molesting be imprisoned for such
a length of time that they will
not have the opportunity to com
mit a similar crime or a worse
one. In other words, imprison
ment as punishment for the man
is secondary to imprisonment
for protection of the next child
he will harm.
The bill concerning sex dev
iates passed by the 1955 legisla
ture is a step in the right direc
tion. Until the problem can be
solved by preventive measures,
I urge the local court to stop
these foolish two, three or five
year sentences and give sex dev
iates the maximum penalties al
lowed by law.
Mrs. J. E.
. (Name on File) .
Too. Many Mosquitos
To the Editor: I wonder just
how many people in the Rogue
Valley had the same trouble this
past Memorial' Day week end as
we did . . . Mosquitos.
We have bragged so much
about our beautiful valley and
wonderful climate that we en
tertained several guests from
Portland who came down to
bask in our sunshine and what
happened? We have so many
mosquitos that no one can hope
to sit outside or play outside
games. Our friends from Port
land told us that while we might
have sunshine, what good does
it do if we can't even enjoy it
in our own yards. They stay in
doors because of the rain we
stay in because of mosquitos.
I think something should be
done about this problem and
right away before the summer
tourists carry away the brand
of a Rogue Valley mosquito.
Mrs. Dan M. Hutson,
Route 2, Box 226, -Medford,
Oregon.
"Too Far Out?"
To the Editor: When we first
returned to this lovely valley
after an absence of several years
we wondered why there were
so many partially constructed
small homes, shacks and just
garages that people were living
in along the country roads. Now
we know we too, tried to get
a construction loan to build in
the country where the air is
fresh and clean, but the bank
appraiser said we were too far
out!
My husband was drafted from
this ranch in the country and
served in the army three years,
13 months in Europe. It wasn't
too far out for him to be drafted.
The Loan company say they
cannot loan on a G.I. basis.
Mr. Banker, I'll live in a tent
on my ranch land before I'll
build a house in your city.
I'll raise my children where
they can belong to 4-H livestock
clubs and the nearest neighbor
is 2 miles down the road. My
children won't be in the next
door neighbor's yard and they
won't be roaming your city
streets at night.
Oh, yes, my husband goes to
Medford Monday through Fri
day to work. We do all of our
shopping in your city and we
attend one of your churches.
But, no thanks, to your city
Matter of Fact
THOSE BASILISKS
Washington After six
months in Asia, this reporter
cannot quite repress the sus
picion that
the Republi
cans may be
counting their
political
chickens be
fore the basil
i s k s are
hatched.
Consider for
example, the
ugly situation
in Indochina.
By the terms
Joseph Alaop
of the Geneva treaty, the fate of
Southern Indochina is to be de
cided in July, 1956. Next spring,
therefore, unless there is a mod
est miracle in the interval, the
Eisenhower administration is
going to have to make a pretty
agonizing choice. And this spell
of political agony is scheduled
for the worst possible moment,
on the eve of our own Presiden
tial campaign .
The basic reason for this
forecast is the weakness of the
non-Communist government of
Southern Indochina, and the lm
pressive strength of the Com
munist-dominated Viet Minh
government of Northern Indo
china.
In the South, the American
administration is giving rather
desperate all out backing to
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. In the
last six weeks, Premier Diem
has scored his first and only
major success in nearly a year in
office. He has soundly defeated
the Binh Xuyen, the paramili
tary gangsters who used to run
Saigon.
Unquestionably, Premier
Diem has been considerably
strengthened. Both by his vic
tory over the Binh Xuyen, and
by his simultaneous creation of
a violently anti-French National
Revolutionary Congress. His
prestige has risen markedly
throughout all of Southern Indo
china.
But Diem has not yet defeated
the Hoa Hao, a paramilitary
religious sect far more danger
ous than the Binh Xuyen. He
has not yet done anything to
shake the underground govern
ment of the Viet Minh in the
great majority of villages in the
Indochinese countryside. And
even if he can beat the Hoa Hao,
Diem does not appear to have
either the military resources or
the administrative capacity to
bring the countryside under real
control.
'
THE MODEST miracle that is
needed in , Indochina is for
Diem to establish his authority
in this manner. If he fails, if the
Viet Minh underground still gov
erns most of the countryside
next spring, the consequences
are easy to foresee. The peasants
will raise against the Diem re
gime, to demand the nationwide
election promised in the Geneva
treaty for July, 1956.
The probability of such a peas
ant rising has already been con
sidered by General "Iron Mike"
O'Daniel, who has the task of
retraining and reorganizing Pre
mier Diem's army. General
O'Daniel has officially told
Washington that the army will
be able to hold the main urban
centers and chief lines of com
munication for a matter of a few
weeks. In short, if the Viet Minh
can stage a successful peasant
rising, Premier Diem will be
doomed unless he gets massive
outside aid.
The French will never aid
homes I'll stay in the country
where it's too far out!
Mrs. R. J. Ellis
Route 2, Box 568
Central Point.
Misses E.C.F. Editorials
To the Editor: So, the need of
a little surgery lias caused the
absence of the earthy, illusion
less E.C.F. editorials recently.
Of course we do enjoy those of
far-reaching and factual R.W.R.
as well as the cheerfully opti
mistic ones bearing the . initials
E.A. Really, -none of them need
signing for that is disclosed in
the first few sentences, often
first few words. For personality
shows as truly in the writing as
it does in finger-prints.
So, here's hopin' that E.C.F.
will soon be writing again, may
be a new viewpoint from his
stay abed, for just being alone
blessedly alone for a while
is a mighty remedy for much of
our ills.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main st
Frank Morgan
ittati aV
By Joseph Alsop
Diem. The rescue party, if it ar
rives at all, will have to be
American. And it will have to
be composed, furthermore, of
American ground forces.
That is bad enough. In addi
tion, if this kind of situation
arises in Southern Indochina, the
Viet Minh in the North will be
able to cry out that the Geneva
treaty has been violated. And Ho
Chi Minh may think this a good
enough pretext to send his pow
erful new army of 20 well
equipped divisions into the fight
for the South.
Altogether, in short, the task
of maintaining a non-Communist
government in Southern Indo
china is likely to be both im
mensely costly and politically
repellent in a very extreme de
gree. That is the natural price
of last year's Geneva-Munich.
On the other hand, however,
if Southern Indochina is passive
ly permitted to fall under Com
munist control, all the rest of
Southern Asia will be immediate;
ly imperilled. And something
else will happen, too, that may
have more direct political im
portance in this country.
For Premier Diem is not the
Eisenhower a d m i n i s tration's
only stake in Southern Indo
china. The American govern
ment today has complete, un
challengeable moral responsi
bility for the fate of the more
than 700,000 refugees who have
fled to Southern Indochina from
the Communist North.
THE NAVY was used to trans
port these poor people from
their old homes in the North to
their new homes in the South.
They were encouraged to flee.
The 'eager hucksters and public
relations officers in Washington
even portrayed the fearful
human tragedy of this mass
flight of simple, helpless people
as an inspiring, reassuring event
almost indeed as another ad
ministration success in the for
eign policy field. In addition,
since three quarters of the refu
gees are Catholics, they will not
lack for natural friends in the
United States.
What then is to happen to
these refugees, if Southern Indo
china is also to fall to the Com
munists? They cannot be trans
planted a second time, for no
country will receive more than
700,000 new Asian citizens. Are
they to be left . to their cruel
fate? Or are the Marines to be
sent to rescue them and hold the
South. That is just one aspect of
the choice that probably lies
ahead; but it is enough to sug
gest that the choice will be
agonizing in the very fullest
meaning of the word.
(Copyright, 1953,
New York. Herald Tribune Inc.)
Editorial Comment
PLANS STALLED FOR
NEW HIGHWAY
Joint efforts of the major
chambers of commerce of the
Southern Oregon counties of
Josephine, Jackson and Klamath
do not seem likely to pay off in
the matter of a proposed new
highway from Medford to Klam
ath Falls via Lake O' the Woods.
At a recent State Highway
commission session, those cham
bers of commerce appeared in
support of the project.
The Ashland Chamber of Com
merce had representatives pres
ent who objected violently.
We were not surprised.
The present route from the
Rogue valley to Klamath Falls
via the Green Springs takes off
from the southern environs of
Ashland. It is understandable
that Ashland interests object to
being "by-passed."
In any event, the clash be
tween the two civic bodies in
Jackson county had no real
effect. t
The chairman of the commis
sion told the rival delegations
that there will be no funds avail
able for improvement of either
route "for some time."
That's just too bad for those
of us who have occasion to use
the present route to Klamath
Falls over the mountains. f
This writer made a vacation
automobile trip to Salt Lake
City a couple of years ago. The
portion of the highway between
Ashland and Klamath Falls was
the worst encountered on the
entire trip FS in Grants Pass
Courier.
Livestock and poultry on the
farms and ranches in the United
States increased three per cent
during 1954.
Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
"The Chapel of
Cherished Memories
CHAPEL MORTUARY
Across from the Courthouse 1 " "