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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
June 26, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Jackson county financial sta
tus such that one-mill levy for
reconstruction of county hos
pital not necessary, county treas
urer reports. ,
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: After a ride
over the C. Lake hgwy, a re
turned GI complimented the log
ging trucks. He stated he never
saw a better job of pulveriza
tion by the heavy artillery on
the Italian front.
20 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Rate reductions to European
countries means $40,000 to
$50,000 savings for Rogue Valley
growers shipping fruit.
Supply of irrigation water
will meet need of valley, but
lakes will be empty at season's
close, district officers indicate.
30 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1925
. (It was Friday)
Oregon National Guardsmen
leave on five special trains after
41-day encampment at Camp
Jackson here.
New $3,000,000 Copco plant on
Klamath river near Hornbrook
dedication announced for July 5.
40 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Contracts let for paving Sis
kiyou highway; paving and' re
pairing highway to California
line to start soon.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Several farmers of the val
ley have received offers of $8 a
ton for their hay as it stands in
the field.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research taper!
1. The San Francisco confer
ence on U.N. 10 years ago ended
with a speech by Winston
Churchill, F. D. Roosevelt, Dean
Acheson, Harry S. Truman or
Alger Hiss?
2. Recent agreement of the
Ford Co. with the union on an
annual wage did or didn't carry
flat wage increases as well?
3. Heart (cardiovascular) dis
eases cause more or less than
half of all U.S. deaths today?
4. The famous Monitor vs. Mer
rimac naval battle was fought
in the War of 1812, Mexican War,
Civil War or War with Spain?
5. Many more men than wom
en are color-blind, or many more
women than men, or is it about
50-50?
6. George Washington is
buried in Arlington National
Cemetery, under the U.S. Cap
itol dome, at Mt. Vernon, or at
his birthplace in Wakefield, Va.?
7. The first talking movie fea
tured Mary Pickford, Rudolph
Valentino, Pauline Frederick, Al
Jolson, or Douglas Fairbanks?
The Answers: 1. Truman; 2.
Did; 3. More than half; 4. Civil
War; 5. Many more men than
women; 6. At Mi. Vernon; 7.
Jolson.
6lL RESERVES
Ottawa Current oil reserves
in Canada, according to recent
estimates, amount to one-half
tank car for every resident.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Slight Hope but, Some.
If any hope of GREAT achievement at the forth
coming "Big Four" meeting has been entertained in
diplomatic circles, or any other circles, the speech
by Foreign Minister Molotov in San Francisco should
have reduced same close to zero.
This does not mean Russia will cease to smile and
drink Vodka toasts to sweetness and light, nor that the
Kremlin won't make some tempting offers in the direc
tion of world disarmament as it continues to sing the
praises of peace on earth good will to men. But it does
mean that the totalitarian vs. democratic conflict in
purposes and policies, that existed before this gather
ing can hardly help but exist thereafter, without fun
damental change.
For if Foreign Minister Molotov meant what he
said and he usually does, there is no more chance
of Soviet Russia opposing the entrance of Red China
into the U.N. than there is of the United States fav
oring it.
By the same token there is no more chance of the
United States abandoning the defense of Formosa,
than there is of Russia coming out in favor of turning
Formosa over to Chiang Kai-shek.
Here are two issues in the "cold war," one of
them very important, and unless some major miracle
is performed at Geneva, they will remain as they have
been, potential causes of war after the gathering and
yet, less and less likely to cause war war on a
world-wide scale at least.
Not because such differences particularly over
Formosa COULD not cause armed conflict, but be
cause neither side, in our judgment, really wants them
to not now at least.
And when on neither side there is a desire for a
fight, there is between nations as individuals not
likely to be one.
TN OTHER words we see no more chance of Soviet
JL Ttncaio ovpr sioninor nn urrreemenr. nn the dotted line
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at Geneva or anywhere else that would satisfy the
United States, than of the United States taking similar
formal action, that would satisfy Russia and Red
China. tensions or no tensions. The two groups are
too far apart, their differences too fundamental.
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DUT, AS before stated, we do see a chance of a
superficial improvement in relations particularly
as far as Russian manners and protocol are concerned,
and we also see a chance of preventing World War
III, as far as the Formosa and the near-future are
concerned.
That isn't bringing on
it is some improvement in the world situation a far
greater one than seemed possible only a few months
ago. R.W.K.
The Disarmament Hoax
Everyone favors disarmament, just as everyone
favors peace.
But we have to face the world as it is, not as we
would like it to be.
And one does not have to make a world-tour de
luxe to realize that there is acute hostility between the
communist and democratic nations nurtured by mu
tual hatred, suspicion and fear.
CO LONG as this condition exists there will be no
disarmament of any consequence though there
may be a few gestures in that direction as there have
been in the past.
For the truth is armaments don't cause wars, it
is the hostile war spirit that causes armaments.
Somehow, someway that spirit has to be removed,
or at least materially modified, before disarmament
talks will amount to anything more than that just
conversation. ,
But because of the general popularity of disarm
ament, Soviet Russia as usual is getting the jump on
other nations in the realm of propaganda, by pretend
ing to be the one champion of it, with the war-mon-gering
nations headed of course by the "belligerent
USA," the only obstacle to prevent progress and
eventual fulfillment. '
This would be comic if it were not so tragic.
For propaganda is secret weapon No. 1, in the
game Russia is now playing, and to date the free
world has devised no effective propaganda weapon
against it.
It is to be hoped that an effective form of counter
attack will be devised, before the sad signal of failure
is raised again under the dismal heading, of "too little
and too late." R.W.R.
Democrats Also Like Ike!
The recent vote in the House of Representatives
upholding the Dixon-Yates contract clearly demon
strates, with reverse English, that the Democrats also
like "Ike".
At least enough of them do, to overcome the
nominal majority the Democrats enjoy in the lower
House, and give the present administration what it
demanded, namely:
Endorsement of this private power contract and
a k.o. punch in the direction of TVA, on the familiar
and well-worn ground of "creeping socialism" versus
"private enterprise."
This was the chief argument at least , that put
Dixon Yates over and public-power under.
The Senate may reverse this decision, but accord
ing to report in Washington it doesn't look likely. .
LIOWEVER the proponents of government projects
1 1 of the multiple type should not lose heart. These
national issues swing back and forth, on the general
Sand?, June IS. 1135
the millenium exactly, but
Matter of Fact sy st. u.
Br STEWART ALSOP
PEACE AND THE -WEIGHT
LIFTERS
Moscow "I hope," said the
first English-speaking Russian
encountered by this reporter,
"that you will write the truth
about my country." The same
suspicious hope has been repeat
edly expressed since. Alas, after
fully four days in Russia, this
reporter still does not know the
truth about this strange country.
Instead of telling the truth
about Russia, it may be worth
describing a couple of incidents
which occurred on my first day
in Moscow. The incidents had no
importance at all but they stick
in the mind like burrs, and they
may have, at least, the simple,
photographic value first impres
sions sometimes have.
The first episode was really
hardly anything at all. After
wandering vaguely around what
I wrongly thought to be Red
Square, I had gone down a side
street, when suddenly it started
to rain. I t6ok shelter under a
wooden awning. There were al
ready a few Russians under the
awning, and very soon we were
packed shoulder to shoulder.
OUR little crowd was cheerful
enough. There was an old
Russian peasant woman in a
shawl, looking so much like an
old Russian peasant woman in a
shawl that you had to pinch
yourself to believe she was true.
There were two or three soldiers,
in the dashing Russian uniform,
one a very handsome fellow who
was holding hands with a dumpy
girl with whom he was obvious
ly very much in love. There
were several civilians, dressed in
dark suits with square shoulders
and sailor-wide trousers.
This reporter, in a light tan
gabardine suit, could hardly
have been more conspicuous if
attired in a ballet costume. There
was no uncultured staring by the
Russians, but there were a good
many nudges and side glances
at the peculiar animal from the
other side of the moon.
Then somebody addressed a
polite, incomprehensible ques
tion to me. I shook my head
and said "Americanski." There
were murmurings in the crowd
A man in a dark suit said
"peace," and smiled and I said
"peace" and smiled too. Then
we all smiled and nodded our
heads reassuringly at each other
and then the rain stopped and
we all went our ways.
The great Russian scientist
Pavlov would no doubt have ex
plained this episode in terms of
the conditioned reflex, and cer
tainly it does not encompass the
truth about Russia. Nor did the
second incident.
fFHAT same evening I crashed a
reception given bv the ec
tion of Heavy Athletics of the
committee of Sport and Physical
Culture of the Union of Sovipt
Socialist Republics in honor of
a team of American weight lift
ers. The most consDicuous Amer
ican weight lifter was a prophet
without honor in his own coun
try Paul Anderson, of Georgia,
an amiable Gargantua, whose
arms are so enormous that he
carries them at a sharn ancle
from his vast chest.
In the United States.
lifting is largely concentrated in
the area of York, Pa. In the
Soviet Union, weight lifting is
nigniy popular, and the com
petition had drawn stanrlinir.
room-only crowds. The Russians
had won, but Mr. Anderson had
saved the national face by break
ing all known records.
The Section of Heavy Ath
letics of the Committee of Sport
and Physical Culture nut nn
quite a show. There was a sing
er, wno looked as though she
could have lifted a few
herself (she was actually yery
gooa, according to a competent
judge of such matters) and a
sleight-of-hand artist, and a won
derful Uzbekistan peoples dancer
and an enthusiastic male vocal
ist. The big-muscled weight lifters
listened politely, although one
had a feeling that the Americans,
at least, might have preferred
Marilyn Monroe. But the really
memorable moment was the con
versation between the Russians
and American weight lifters.
Except for their muscles, they
might have been a different
species, the Russians in their
square - shouldered suits, the
Americans tough, casual and
oddly innocent in their sports
shirts and openwork shoes. At
first, they seemed shy of each
other. Then, through random
interpreters, they began to talk
about weight lifting and sudden
ly they were all weight lifters to
line of action and reaction,
sea.
The defeat of the Democrats after 20 years in of
fice marked the ebb of the
sooner or later, that will
opinion will form and flow
When it does the popularity of multiple power
projects financed by the government, will return,
and force political action accordingly, not because of
any move to the left, or
prise, per se, but because
m valleys where the larger rivers flow, do the job
BETTER from the standpoint of contributing to and
advancing the public welfare, than private enterprise
can, at least .WILL-io.
gether.
A small attentive group of
weight lifters gravitated to Mr.
Anderson, the man who had lift
ed a greater weight than any
weight lifter had ever lifted be
fore. The talk was professional,
and a little hard to follow. Asked
by a Russian about a weU known
American lifter, Mr. Anderson
remarked sadly that he was still
pretty good but that he had lost
his speed.
WHEN this was translated,
" there was on every face a
hint of that ancient tragedy
the tragedy of the passage of
time and the loss of speed it
brings to all men. For that mo
ment, it seemed, all the weight
lifters together were of the same
race of men.
After the concert, a high of
ficial of the Section of Heavy
Athletics recited a somewhat
lengthy address, with emphasis
on the comradeship of peoples,
and then there was a buffet with
vodka and caviar.
But the golden moment was
never recaptured. Walking after
ward in Red Square (the right
one, this time) it was tempting
to believe that peace was as
sured because everybody under
a wooden awning wanted peace
or because weight lifters share
a common humanity and a com
mon interest in weight lifting.
But alas, there are also such
dreary matters as the world bal
ance of power and the frighten
ing difference between social
systems. This difference in no
where more obvious than here.
(Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
In San Francisco yesterday
Russia's Molotov presented to
the United Nations a preview of
the terms Russia will lay before
the Big Four heads-of-state con
ference to be held at Geneva in
July. These terms included:
1. A BAN on nuclear weapons.
2. Seating of Red China in the
UN.
3. Surrender of Formosa to
the Chinese Communists.
THESE were his hottest items.
To them he added another
sticker:
Abandonment by the United
States and other major powers
of ALL OVERSEAS BASES.
THAT ONE, if we agreed to It,
J- would LEAVE RUSSIA AS
CLOSE TO THE UNITED
STATES AS THE UNITED
STATES IS TO RUSSIA.
As of now, WITH our over
seas bases, WE are closer to
Russia than Russia is to US. If
Russia starts something, we can
HIT BACK QUICK. Without our
overseas bases, we couldn't hit
back so quickly. That would give
Russia the advantage the ag
gressor always has.
e e
TMOLOTOV added some minor
window dressing, by way of
trading stock, such as withdraw
al of United States, Russian, Brit
ish and French troops from both
East and West Germany, termi
nation of "war propaganda"
everywhere, and ending of "dis
crimination" in international
trade and economic cooperation
Russia could give up all these
Doints without losing either
"face" or military advantage,
see
WHAT is the HARD CORE of
" demands Russia will prob
ably stand pat on at Geneva?
Here's a slant on that:
India's Nehru has been in Mos
cow, conferring with the Krem
lin. He left yesterday. Just before
he left, the terms of a declara
tion which he and Soviet Pre
mier Bulganin SIGNED were
made public.
The terms included:
1. A BAN on nuclear weapons.
2. Seating of Red China in the
UN.
3. Surrender of Formosa to the
Chinese Communists.
THAT, apparently, is to be IT,
1 Russia will dicker on all
the rest, but these three she will
stand pat for. For whatever, it
may mean, India's Nehru has ap
parently joined up with her on
these points.
T ET'S put it this way:
1 We have had and still have
superiority in nuclear weapons
atom and hydrogen bombs and
the bombers to carry them and
the overseas bases from which
to deliver them quickly on
Russian targets if Russia starts
something. That fundamental sit
uation has KEPT THE PEACE
during these 10 years since the
much as do the tides of the
"general welfare" tide, but
run its course and public
in the opposite direction.
opposition to private enter
such projects, particularly
K.W.K. .
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Our Golden Age
To the. Editor: We live in a
golden age. Especially for the
very old who no longer nurse
their chimney corner jitters or
busy with knitting. Nope,, they
are down at the dance haU,
swishing partners that heal old
hurts and some times make new
ones as they do the "I do" with
the wrong one. Happily fortun
ate are those who choose the
right one. Romance never dies
in the human heart.
Love, unburdened materially,
is ever young.
And the very young ones, pro
tected by child-labor law they
run free till nigh too old to
learn to work. No more do they
wait for second table when vis
itors come. A Canadian lady told
how the young-ones loved to see
Uncle Charley come visitin.' He
whacked off a nice big cap from
his breakfast egg for that was
all the kids got till they learned
proper manners to eat with older
people. Now kids are served
first with first of everything, not
able to realize how "lucky" they
are.
With still great areas of virgin
forests, free lands of open prai
rie, snowy mountains, lush val
leys and lonely stretches of sea
shore strand, unprofaned by any
sound save the pounding of surf
and call of sea-bird, there is full
opportunity to "get away from
it all." And in our own chosen
free way of life with freedom of
movement, speech and assembly
quite unknown in any land or
time, we can denounce anyone
from president on down to dog-
catcher, everything, everybody
well no, not a labor union when
a member, for that may bring
economic disaster or worse. But
for all that, this is still a land
of liberty and independence.
A day or two back, a house
wife hanging her snowy wash
on the clothesline remarked,
"Golly, think of it, just 90c for
three tubs of soiled clothes all
done as I sat and read a book."
Over on a south slope of Little
Roxy are the flagstones where
Grandma Taylor carried her
wash water from the spring be
low. And by the old back-door,
the stones are scattered that
were once her own bee-hive
shaped bake-oven. Long gone is
the old ash-leach that furnished
the lye for soap making. Now,
bread comes baked, wrapped and
sliced. Packaged soap powder
can be had for a few cents. What
a change.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main St.
Opposes Slate Cigaret Tax
To the Editor: I am not a
smoker and do not sponsor smok
ing, yet I am wondering if it's
on the square to penalize people
because they smoke. The Oregon
State Legislature passed a bill
which would collect a three cent
state tax on each package of
cigarettes sold in the State of
Oregon. The estimated annual
tax collected by the state on the
sale of cigarettes would exceed
$10,000,000. The penalty tax on
each individual smoker would
amount to not less than $4 per
annum.
I see no reason why "people
who smoke should pay a state
tax on cigarettes when the Ore
gon state sales tax bill was de
feated by the Oregon state legis
lature. Donald Rader,
General Delivery,
Medford, Oregon.
Editorial Comment
DREGS GO WITH GAMBLING
Via the Ashland Tidings we
pick up remarks of the city man
ager of Las Vegas made in Hon
olulu. He said this about legal
ized gambling:
"Gambling is overestimated as
a tourist attraction, and with aU
the money it brings, it also
brings hoodlums, easy money
men, and small-time crooks."
He should know because police
protection is costing his home
city $1.5 million per annum.
Ashland is interested because
of a proposal to locate a dog rac
ing stand near that city. Both the
local ministerial association and
chamber of commerce have
adopted resolutions in opposi
tion. Salem. Oregon, States
man. end of World War II.
If we admit Red China to the
UN and surrender Formosa to
the Chinese Reds, we will deliver
our FRIENDS, the Nationalist
Chinese, over to butchery by the
merciless Communists.
That would convince all the
rest of the world that the friend
ship of the United States is val
ueless, because in the pinches
we are willing to throw our
friends to the wolves.
TITHAT shall we do at Geneva?
" Well, let's talk and talk
and talk, with friendliness and
courtesy and patience for talk
ing is cheaper than shooting.
But let's keep our guns loose
in their holsters.
Above all, let's not permit our
selves to fall into the delusion
that the Russian leopard has
changed its spots.
That would ba lataL .
IPQTlUCEt
(By M-T Stiff and Contributor)
A meeting was held at the
studios of radio station KYJC
last week to discuss problems
of annexation, and what ser-
ices, such as water and sewer
service would be provided by
the city.
Drinking fountains in the
studio had signs above them
saying, "Do Not Drink This
Water." t
Two wells which furnish
KYJC with water h a e be
come contaminated, and the
water can be used only for ir
rigation. Mrs. Jesse Linton, 274 Mace
rd., was outside on her place
one day last week, picking some
clover for her chickens..
Working industriously, she
was intrigued when she found
a four-leaf clover. Then she
found one with five leaves. Then
one with six leaves. A little
more searching brought up two
clover stems with seven leaves.
And, to top her search, she fi
nally found one with eight
leaves.
One father we k n o w .of
didn't get his intended present
last Sunday, Fathers' day.
His wife and small son went
shopping the day before to
find a present for him, and
finally selected a cup and sau
cer they thought were particu
larly attractive and appropri
ate. The mother,- not quite trust
ing her 8-year-old son to carry
the precious gift, insisted on
carrying it herself. While cros
sing a street, however, she
fell, smashing the cup and
saucer to smithereens, and
suffering a nasty gash on her
chin which required two stit
ches to repair.
.
The Mail Tribune news staff
has received Civil Defense
Emergency identification cards,
On the cards they are assigned
to duty as "Public Information."
One nt trio vmmerer staff mom.
bers inquires how he is to go
about becoming a public infor
mation.
e
The other day an unknown
contributor suggested a foot
. note to Fathers' day. He (or
she) suggests that most fathers
agree that a big platter of
southern fried chicken would
be a welcome change from'
"cold shoulders" andi "hot
tongue" on Fathers' day.
(On second thought, we're
pretty sure that our unknown
contributor is a man.)
Progress . . change . . what
ever you call it anyway, it's
evident all around.
Not too long ago news staffers
could watch the steam locomo-
Brannan May Run
Against Millikin
Portland (U.R) Charles F.
Brannan, who was Secretary of
Agriculture under Former Presi
dent -Harry Truman, Friday
night indicated he would enter
the Colorado Senate race against
incumbent Republican Eugene
Millikin.
However, Brannan said he
would not make a definite com
mittment "yet" as to his enter
ing the senatorial race. He did
say he was sure he could beat
Millikin if he entered.
Brannan took time out from a
trip to Yakima, Wash., where he
was to address a farmers' con
clave, to criticize the present ad
ministration's farm policies.
He said businessmen in small
communities were coming to
realize that they, as well as farm
ers, "are suffering under the
farm policies of the Eisenhower
administration."
BPA Contract Goes
To Corvallis Firm
Portland (U.R) Bonne
ville Power Administration said
Saturday it has awarded to the
Witzig Construction company, of
Corvallis, a $76,402 contract for
construction of the 6.3 mile Res-ton-McKinley
230,000-volt trans
mission line.
The line will start about six
miles west of Reston and term
inate about six miles east of
Dora.
Energization of the new line
is scheduled for 115,000-volt op
eration in 1956 and 230,000-volt
operation by 1957 when the Al-vey-Reston
line is completed and
an interconnection with Copco
at Reston is made.
Further plans call for a 230,
000 to 115,000-volt stepdown
substation near McKinley to aug
ment BPA's service to Pacific
Power and Light Company, the
Coos-Curry Electric co-op, Doug
las Electric co-op, the city of
Bandon, and the Central Lincoln
PUD.
JUICE VARIETIES
Miama Canned citrus juices
have soared by more than 1,500
per cent since World War II,
while consumption of oranges
and grapefruit has fallen off 20
percent.. -----
tives chugging up and down the
SP tracks, viewed from the east
windows.
So it was with a start the
other day we heard a more re
cent acquisition to the staff re
mark, with some slight wonder
and excitement, "I saw a steam,
engine on the tracks today."
See what we mean?
.
Firemen recently reported
that City Fire Marshal Tru
man Nelson inspected "on
circus grounds." Staff member
remarks he's glad they're so
specific, because there are so
many circus grounds in and
around Medford.
Noticing that the School Dis
trict 6C budget election a few
weeks ago attracted a total of
only 133 voters, a suspicious
staff member made a quick
check with the county school
directory.
It showed that District 6C
teachers, and their wives andor
husbands, total approximately
148.
Now, he asks, which ones
didn't vote. And worse yet, who
were the 44 who voted "no?"
We should perhaps draw the
veil when it comes to inquiring
about the total number of teach
ers in connection with the sctefJ.
board elections held more recent
ly in 6C, Medford and Ashland.
Medford votes totaled 59; Ash
land 41, and 6C 22.
A tall farmer we know ran
over a skunk while driving in
his station wagon Friday
night. He had to take off his
clothes before his family
would let him in the house
after he got home. And the
station wagon isn't fit for use
Mystery Driver
Hinted by Defense
In Oveross Trial
Salem (U.R) Reports that
Ervin Kaser was watched by two
men in a car some days before
he was shot to death last Feb.
17 were hinted Friday in the
first degree murder trial here of
Casper Overdss. r
Stopped in Front of Home
Defense Attorney Bruce Wil
liams told the jury in the court
of Circuit Judge George Duncan
that the defense would show
that an unidentified driver
stopped in front of ther Kaser
home near Silverton, got out of
the car and continued on home
between the time of the fatal
shooting and the arrival of Harley
R. De Peel, Silver constable.
Williams closed his opening
statement with the admission
that Oveross was one who had
a motive. He said: "The motive
was there; we are not denying it
Cap Oveross had a motive. We
do not deny that. It is certainly
true, too, that he is not guilty'
Oveross had blamed Kaser
for breaking up his home.
To Show Ownership
The State, with special Prose
cutor Charles Raymond of Port
land making the opening state
ment, said it would prove every
charge in the secret indictment
returned against Oveross by a
Marion county grand jury. Ray
mond said Oveross would be
shown as owner of a' rifle which
the state says was the murder
weapon.
Constable De Peel was the
state's first witness and the only
one to testify yesterday, after
the jury had visited the Silver- .
ton area home of Kaser where
he was shot to death as he sat in
his car in the driveway. -
Dr. Balcomb Speaks
At Methodist Meet
Eugene (U.R) Dissatisfaction
with present-day burial and fun
eral practices was expressed
here Saturday by 80 per cent of
Methodist ministers in Oregon .
attending the annual Methodist
conference.
Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb,
Medford, chairman of the con-,
ference committee on social and
economic relations, said that by
a persistent educational efJjrt
"we believe that current prac
tices can be made more nearly
Christian." He reported that the
average funeral in Oregon today
costs between $450 and $500.-
The conference yesterday!
authorized establishment of a;
permanent conference business
office in Portland under the"
direction of a full-time treasurer.;
A benevolence budget of
$150,318, a record high, was
adopted by delegates and the;
appropriation for the board of
missions was increased to per-j
mit founding four new churches
within the conference.
ANNUAL SNOWFALL
' Ottawo About 40 to 50 inches
of. snow falls in the far-north
Mackenzie district of Canada;
whirh i nnlv ahrtnt nnoJtalf the
average annual fall for the re-j
gion of the Great Lakes district
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday fori
Honday; otter days 3Q nerttsja day.