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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Two Klamath Falls residents
and on Vancouver. Wash., man
drown while on fishing trips at
lakes near Medford over week
end.
From Arthur Ferry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Civilians
will get more butter next month,
the OPA promises. The way
things have been working out,
under food regimentation, there
will be no bread to spread it on.
SO TEARS AGO
July 10, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Rumors that Bartlett pears
hipped to California will have
to be washed to remove spray
residue prove unfounded.
Jackson county relief expendi
tures for first six months within
ludget.
10 TEARS AGO
fair 10, 1925
at was Friday)
John Thomas Scopes Indicted
for violating law prohibiting
teaching of evolution in Dayton,
Term., public schools; trial starts.
Jackson county Jail trusties
evalk away from court house
yard; neither located within five
hours.
40 TEARS AGO
July 10, 1911
(It was Saturday)
Blue Ridge Mine, larger cop
per mine in Jackson county, ex
pected to open soon with ore
named iron valley by motor
truck.
From Local and Personal col
vmn: The annual exodua of
people to the hills on camping
trips has begun and the season
will be In full swing by the mid
dle of next week. Many will
leave tomorrow to spend a
couple of days fishing.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7? '
Ceer. 1955, Editorial Research Repeat
1. Is it legal or illegal to ship
fireworks for sale from a state
allowing such sale into one for
bidding it? . . . -
2. The Septuagint version of
the Old Testament was written
in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Old
English or Aramaic?
3. The chances are for or
-against Congress changing the
Taft-Hartley act this year, or
about 50-50?
4. Most so-called "Pennsylva
nia Dutch" are of Dutch origin;
right or wrong?
5. About 50, 40, 30 or 20 per
cent of all Spanish-American
war veterans are alive, or less
than 20 per cent? -"-..
6. Venice, Italy, is on the
Adriatic, Black, Caspian, Aegean
or Tyrrhenian Sea?
7. Frederick Austerlitz is the
real name of which stage and
screen star?
The Answers: 1. Illegal. 2.
Greek. 3. Against change this
year. 4. Wrong: of German. 5.
Less than 20 per cent. 0. Adria
tic. 7. Fred Astaire.
BIG RADISH
Altamont, 111. (U.PJ If you
like winter radishes, here's one
that would make a meal. Joe
Mardorf said he pulled a 8V4
pound radish in his garden. It
measured 20 inches in circumference.-...
Km
mail tsxbtjke
Where Is the
Naturally Congressman
express regret over the
Talent project appropnation from $500,000 to
$150,000.
With another congressional election in the offing
he could not be expected to approve. After all Talent
has votes.
But if and when he is
speaking, and pledges himself to devote his influence
and energies to restoring the $350,000, then we hope
he will pardon an editorial
" a a
70R what did the House of Representatives (of
which he is a veteran and immovable member) do,
when in conference with the Senate, it took this dras
tic action, throwing the Talent project into the ash
can?
It merely followed out
gressman has preached for lo these many years, and
that the Republican administration adopted and has
repeatedly upheld, namely:
Government power is "creeping socialism."
Yes it is un-American and contrary to the sacred
principles of private initiative and enterprise, which
have built this great country and must be preserved if
the land of the free is to
than death namely communism. For after all, com
munism is merely socialism under another name, at
least so Mr. Ellsworth has for so many years, main-
tamed.
To be consistent he should object to even spending
$150,000 when this is all government money and no
partnership is involved, whether it be in this section
of the state or any other.
PUT the strange feature
while Talent was denied
thanks to Senators Morse
granted, but the House denied; three new projects,
also representing government power as opposed to
private power and financed entirely by the former,
were approved.
These were Cougar and Hills Creek in Oregon
and Ice Harbor in Washington.
These appropriations
stated that does not alter
If government power
democracy and a nose-dive
anism, then why spend even a thin dime on prepara
tions for such costly and suicidal ventures in un
American radicalism?
SO WHY the tears? Why
AlUiaUf JT VTA. VUltlTTlWi
If "TV A" is creeping socialism, if a high dam at
Hells Canyon is "creeping socialism," not only is con
struction of the Talent project by government funds
alone "creeping socialism," but so are all other proj
ects similarly financed. The
but the principle is surely
and wicked to spend $300,000,000 of the taxpayers
money on Hells Canyon unassisted by local funds,
then certainly it could not be RIGHT to spend 10
or 1 of that amount on Talent, under exactly same
conditions? C "
CO WHAT is Congressman Ellsworth complaining
about? The action is in accord with his belief and
actions.
It just doesn't make sense.
Just as the administration's approval of the billion
dollar federal power project on the Upper Colorado,
without the aid of "local funds" or so much as a penny
from private power, fails
Well, as far as that goes, politics doesn't make
much sense these days, in
But as things look now, next year s campaign
promises to establish a new high in this regard or
perhaps a new low" would be the more accurate
term. R.W.R.
Too Optimistic
According to Senators Morse and Neuberger,
quote:
"In our opinion the partnership issue died in the Pa- ,
cific northwest when the Senate-House conference, com-
mittee approved funds to start construction on 3 new
federal dams. For partnership advocates have insisted ,
we must surrender operating facilities to private utilities
because Congress would appropriate no more funds for
federal dams. That argument has now been officially re
pudiated. So let us all go forward now with the great '
Bonneville public-power program that has meant so much
to Oregon and the northwest in the past"
If consistency were the hob-goblin of the "big
minds" in Washington, as Emerson once claimed was
true for the "little minds," such optimism as above
expressed, would perhaps be justified.
But the "big minds" now in control in the admin
istration have no fear of inconsistency, or regard for
the reverse. .
What they do fear is a liberalism that would place
the public welfare, above profits to "private enter
prise" in any department but particularly in the field
of light and power.
"What is good for General Motors is good for the
country." ..
. That is the philosophy of the Republican admin
istration in a nutshell, and that rather than this action
repudiating the partnership theory of public power,
is the really significant fact, that must be faced.
-. So we doubt very much if the . "partnership" idea
which we believe originated with Secretary of the
Interior McKay, has died, much less been buried.
i' , . . e . a . a ..: ; . .
IT WILL, we predict, be used again and again
1 when the conditions make it a politically feasible.
For it "listens well." : , .
Private power instead of government will put up
Sunday, Mr 10. ItSS
Cpmplaint?
Harris Ellsworth should
House action reducing the
reduced to tears, politically
smile.
the doctrine that our con
be saved from a fate worse
of this business is, that
what it asked and what
and Neuberger the Senate
were small, but as before
the principle.
means the end of our free
into the abyss of totalitari
the weeping and wailing,
amounts are not identical
the same. If it is wrong
to make sense.
any direction.
some of the money, perhaps a considerable por
tion of it and the taxpayers will only have to pay
for the so called non-profit elements of the multiple
project, such as flood control, transportation, irri
gation benefits, fish ladders etc., etc.
There will be no return on those latter millions,
of course, as far as the tax payers are concerned, but
there will be plenty to compensate, for the private
companies will have a monopoly on all the profits
of the enterprise for half a century at least, and ac
cording to the financial experts, the total on an aver
age project will run into many millions in fact bil
lionslong before the time runs out.
And then if the present political climate prevails
there will probably be a renewal.
a a a
CO THE assumption that the "partnership" proposal
has passed on we don't regard as justified. Like
the report of Mark Twain's death we fear it is exag
gerated. The same argument will be used as we see it,
in.the future as in the past, and when ever it appears
to be the best way to prevent public power projects
inaking headway. The -fundamental purpose is to
secure ultimately a monopoly of all profitable ven
tures in this field, under the control of that great
American institution known as private enterprise.
Whether that will succeed or not, remains to be seen.
R.W.R.
Today and
By Walter
THE GARDEN PARTY
At the Fourth of July party
Mr. Khrushchev complained to
Mr. Walmsley that the Western
press was spec
u 1 a t i n g . too
much about
why the Soviet
Union was tak
ing a new line:
"They pay' lit
tle atten t i o n
to what, we
say and prefer
to read tea
Walter Llppmana leaves." That
is not quite true. We are paying
the closest attention to every
word they say. But what they
have not yet said is why they
have changed, why they now
think their new "decisions" are,
as Mr. Khruschev said at the
garden party, "the. only right
decisions." And, at last but not
least, they have not said why he
and the other dignitaries talk big
politics at garden parties. It was
never like that before.
I may be paying too much at
tention to the tea leaves but it
seems to me that there is a dif
ference between Mr., Molotov,
opening up a bit as he did when
he was in this country, and Mr.
Khrushchev opening up when he
goes to a party.. Mr. Molotov's
new ways fitted very well the
theory that there is a new tacti
cal policy in the Kremlin. He
was more open that he had ever
been before but never so wide
open but that he could close up
again at any moment.
With Mr. Khrushchev it does
not somehow seem like that. Mr.
Molotov, besides being an old
Bolshevik, is a highly trained
diplomatist in the old Russian
Byzantine style. Mr. Khrushchev,
by contrast, plays himself rather
than a role. He acts as a man
might .be expected to act if he
had been immersed in the in
grown life of the Communist
party who is unused to dealing
with foreigners and is not much
aware of how things look to for
eigners, who' has no habit of sub
tlety or complication, and who
goes out to get what he is out
to get
a e . a
rpHE contrast between Mr. Mol
otov and Mr. Khrushchev has
brought to my mind a talk I
had with the late Mayor Reuter
of West Berlin. It was in the
early spring of 1953, a few weeks
after the death of Stalin, and
Mayor Reuter, who had once
been a Communist leader and was
still in contact with Communist
officials in East Berlin, was quite
certain that there would be a
great change in the Soviet Union.
With Stalin gone, said Reuter,
there is no one except Molotov
left of the generation that made
the Bolshevik revolution of 1918.
The men who will now be the
rulers have crown un in the So
viet Union. They Know what war
cost the country. They are proud
of what the Soviet Union has
won as a result of the war. They
look inward, and they pay only
lip service to the old evolution
ary ideals.
I know many7 of them, said
Beuter, and they are material
ists in a literal way that the old
Bolshevik crusaders and conspir
ators never were. This new gen
eration wants to develop the
country, and to make money, and
to enjoy personally the material
pleasures of better living. They
do not want to die or make sacri
fices for the sake of the comrade
in foreign countries.
This is not a literal report of
what - Mayor Reuter said that
evening in Washington. But it is
the point of what he said. I was
deeply imprssed when I heard it
because it corresponds so closely
with the fact that in other revo
lutions the original revolutionary
deal has almost never, if ever,
outlasted the original generation
of revolutionists. v
The present ruling oligarchy
in Moscow belongs to this new
generation; If Renter's - theory
wis right; they would be "more
n a n -
Tomorrow
Lippmann
materialistic, more isolationist,
more turned inward, less adven
turous, less conspiratorial, less
zealous, than the generation of
Lenin and Stalin.
a a a
READING the tea leaves some
more, I am reminded of a
talk which I had almost two
years ago with a high European
diplomatic official who knows
Russia before and after the
revolutionas few Westerners
have known it. He too thought
the death of Stalin opened up a
new chapter, and' he predicted
that in the'Russian revolution as
in so many others the army offi
cers would be the successors of
the original revolutionists.
Why not the hierarchy of the
Communist party, I asked him.
Because, he said the Party will
lose its original revolutionary
zeal, which is what has bound it
together, whereas the army,
which is covered with glory
from the war, will be the focal
point of the national feelings of
the Russian peoples.
And what, I then asked him,
does that mean for the West? I
think it will mean, he said, that
they will take no serious military
risk in order to expand the Com
munist orbit and that they will
make no concessions which di
minish the strategic security that
they gained from the war.
fR. KHRUSHCHEV at the gar-
den party seemed to me to
be saying something of that sort
when he told Mr. Walmsley that
something would come of the
Geneva meeting . if the West
talked "to us honestly and sin
cerely as equals." He was con
cerned with the notion in the
West, which Mr. Dulles has been
advertising, that Soviet Union is
leading from weakness. Being
talked to as an "equal" means to
him, it would seem, being talked
to on the assumption that both
sides are very strong, and that
their over-aU war-making powers
are equal, that is to say that they
are in balance.
If would be better for our
cause if Mr. Dulles resisted the
temptation , to boast about our
superior strength, and if instead
he acted upon the assumption
that there is a balance of power.
Then the negotiations could pro
ceed on the principle that there
must be two equal sides to every
bargain, and that for every quid
there must be a quo.
a a a . '
THESE" are not obvious and
easy matters to judge to
know whether something gained
here is really worth Something
given up there. But in the field
of armaments, whicti will be a
principal subject of the later ne
gotiations, the risks can be kept
to a minimum by putting aside
for the present the notion of
limiting the' size of the military
establishment , and of concen
trating at first on-the problem of
their deployment and their mo
bilization. It is one thing to re
duce forces at the point of high
est tension in the world, and
quite another thing to 'disband
these forces. .
It will be possible to negotiate
with more confidence and with
more boldness about the regula
tion of armaments if at this stage
nothing decisive and irreparable
is done toward actual disarma
ment. (Copyright. 1955. Mew York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Profitable Harvest Due
Northwest Peach Growers
, . Spokane (U.PJ Pacific North
west peach growers will have
an excellent crop and profitable
harvest this year, according to
Department of Agriculture of
ficials
; Washington, Oregon and Idaho
expect -better crops of peaches
than last year, the officials said.
A crop of 2,500,000 bushels
was forecast for Washington as
compared with 1,500,000 last
year. Idaho's crop wag estimated
at 400,000 bushels
Matter of Fact
By Stewart Alsop
THE POOR RUSSIAN LADIES
Moscow The visiting Ameri
can here can make some kind of
contact with the Russions on
three levels
with officials,
with people
encoun tared
purely by
chance on the
streets or else
where, or with
such semi
official per
sons as inter
. preters and
guides. But
Stewart Alsop the reporter
soon learns that it is highly dan
gerous to draw large, striking
conclusions on basis of such
tenuous contacts.
A rather astonishing example
of official contact between
Americans and Russians was
provided by the Fourth of July
party- given by the American
Embassy here. The party was
certainly a success. All the most
important Russian leaders at
tended, despite the absence of
Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen.
A French diplomat here attri
buted this triumph to the fact
that "the entire Presidium is in
love with Mrs. Bohlen;" and cer
tainly Mrs. Bohlen was the
heroine of the occasion.
The contact established at the
party, moreover, was nothing if
not close, since the crowd
around the great men approxi
mated mob scenes. At one point,
I found myself held as in a vice
between the bulky Mr. Bulganin
and the massive Mr. Khru
shchev, with powerful Mr. Ka
ganovich pressing hard on the
flank. Yet this East-West con
tact, close as it was, was not
reaUy very revealing.
Indeed, the- conversation .be
tween the Russian rulers and
Western diplomats oddly re
called the talks at the first
"grown up" party I attended
well over a quarter of a century
ago. There was the same agoniz
ing attempt to think up small
jokes, the same nervous laughter;-
the same lone, embarrassed
pauses. , There was even the
same tendency of the boys a
role queerly played in tins case
by the Russians to wink and
poke at each other.
Aside from the fact that the
Russians were so obviously de
termined to be nice, even if it
killed them, there was only one
really significant moment at the
party. This was just after Mr,
Khrushchev had made his smaU
speech about how the Russians
were not going to Geneva "on
our knees."
; , . a a ' a
"JifR. KHRUSHCHEV was wax-
AT-B ine rather vehemently, ees
turing violently with his short,
thick arms, when he seemed to
catch a warning glance from the
oeeue-browed Mr. Kasanovich
He broke off and said: "I moke
with Bulganin. before we came.
and we agreed that I should say
this. Right, Bulganin?" Surely
Mr. ruirushchev s obviously ex
tempore remark lustifie. a fair.
ly formed conclusion that . this
state, incredibly - enough," really
is run on a "committee system."
. As for the kind of casual con
tacts you can make on-" the
streets, they would seem onlv to
justify the conclusion that there
is an underground not a pro-
American underground, but a
pro-jazz underground. I had an
entirely typical street conver-
sation the other night . with a
couple of twenty-year-old boys.
The conversation went shout
as follows: "Know Frank Sina
tra?" "No ... but you look a bit
like him." (He did. .a little.)
Much laughter, obvious pleas
ure. "Know Dorsey? Know
Armstrong?" "Sorry, no."
Pause, then suddenly and
loudly: "Jawnee. Jawnee. Oh!
how you. can lawve." Much
laughter, reaching almost hys
terical pitch.
There was some desultory
conversation, friendly enough.
but limited by the fact that the
boys' English was restricted to
lines from jazz lyrics, and I had
no HUBsian at all. They refused
the offer of a beerv (Russians are
friendly but many are still leery
of being seen , with Americans
unaer intimate , circumstances)
and finally they wandered off.
All Americans here have had
such fleeting, casual and pecu
liar contacts. But they don't
seem to mean very much, excent
possibly that a good jazz band
wouia nave the same subversive
effect on Moscow as the Pied
Piper had on Hamlin. x
There was one other ttnv
episode which seemed to have
a larger meaning. After a Ions
set tour, I asked an in tourist
guide a rather dumpy woman,
weU Into middle age, wearing a
fussy . print dress to have a
glass of beer. She refused .the
oeer but sat down and asked
why America had surrounded
Russia with a ring of air bases.
I tried to answer seriously,
talking about the Berlin block-
aae, aggression in Korea and the
size of the Red Armv. But the
mask of smug incomprehension
instantly descended. There was
a pause. I 'pointed ' to a well
dressed woman walkinz bv. and
said, for conversation's sake,
"Look at the -foreigner. I won
der Where's she's from."
SHE caught the tactless impli
cation rieht awav: ''You
mean the foreigners are dressed
so much better than us Rus
sians?" I smiled and said "yes,"
IPOYUUJCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The Medford riost office staff
is in Detween unrisunas tusun
at the moment, but they are still
having their troubles with the
way people address mail.'
Wednesday was a particularly
bad day.
First came a letter addressed
to: "Table Rock Chamber of
Commerce Table Rock, Ore
gon." On a hunch, they sent it
the the Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce in Medford. and
sure enough, that was the right
spot."
Then there was the letter
which wound up on the desk
of Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Jack
son county clerk.
It was addressed to: Mrs.
Bereth Jackson Josephine
County Clerk Medford. Ore
Son. This week's mail also brought
a letter to The Mail Tribune, this
one properly addressed, from a
former resident who recently
moved to Houston. Texas.
He comments on how fond
Texans are of praising the vir
tues of their state, and men nas
this to say:
"Since I've been here I know
of at least four Deonle who have
hit oil wells, and - two others
uranium mines in New Mexico
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
tl though under certain circum
stances the use ol a pen name or
initial for publication is permia
rible. The Hail Tribune reserves
the risht to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Our Biassed Valley
To the Editor: About a year
and a half ago I left Oklahoma
and came to Medford to be pas
tor of the Temple Baptist church
on 794 Lozier lane. At that time
I was thrilled at the wondrous
beauty of Rogue . River valley.
Since then I have seen and ex
perienced things that have made
me more appreciative than ever
of this country.
I have made two trips back
to Oklahoma since I came, and
have gone over four different
routes. I have seen beautiful
farm lands and orchards be
tween here and there. I have vis
ited nationally advertised scenic
spots and parks. But there was
no plaoe and -1 ? mean "No
Place"-i-that compares to .the
scenic places, . orchards,, and
farms around Medford and in
the Rogue River valley. : r '.
Another thing I noted in our
valley we have no strong winds
that almost blow you down as
you go down the street, no winds
that fill the air with sand and
dust that gets into the tightest of
houses. . Neither do we suffer
from extremely high tempera
tures in the summer, nor terrible
low biting temperatures in win
ter.' We have no, tornadoes that
work havoc and' leave destruc
tion in their oath. ;
Surely with such wonderful
climate and . such a beautiful
prosperous place, we can say
that God has richly blessed the
Medford valley as-a land that
"flows with milk and ' honey.
There ought to rise from each of
our hearts in this valley adora
tion to God in words and actions
day by day, and we should wor-
shm Him in God's house eaen
Lord's t day lest with our un
gratefulness, indifference, and
sm, our prosperity De taxen
away, and our beauty become as
a fading flower.
Floyd H. Yeats,
794 Lozier Lane
Editorial Comment
PLANES FOR SHAKESPEARE
The Oregon Shakespearean
Festival, touted as an event of
international renown, held its
premier at the week end for this
year's schedule of offerings.
Shakespearean plays are rare;
the Ashland event which con
tinues for a month, is something
of great importance. The plays
are well , produced and acted.
Members of the cast are profes
sionals or college students.
Unfortunately for Bay Area
people,. Ashland is just a bit too
far away to visit without an
overnight stop. The plane sched
ules do not fit an evening per
formance although it certainly
would be' nice if West Coast,
fresh from its recent publicity
as the peoples' airline, would ar
range a special trip or two tor
the cultural lovers. Coos Bay
Times.
for there was nothing else to say.
She smoothed her . print dress
with her hand it must have
cost her many hundreds of rubles
and said quietly: "Oh, the
poor Russian ladies." ,
In those five words tnere
seemed to me an echo of all the
sadness of the war and of the
long years of simple longings
unsatisfied and hope deferred
again. Perhaps this was mere
sentimentalism, and' certainly
the hard facts which I had tried
so futility to explain remain un
changed. But I shall remember
the', words, and the look of the
woman's tired face, long after
the memory of being squeezed
by Messrs. Khrushchev, Bulga
nin and Kaganovich fades. , . '
Convriaht..iaS5
New York Herald Tribune iJa
"One' close friend of ours sat
in a room aoout two weeks at,
with a uranium prospector and
listened to . a proposition, he
wanted $10,000 backing to check
a claim he had staked. They
thought it was a rather wild
scheme. The prospector was in
sulted when they refused to
back him. His parting statement
was 'I'll get backing someplace
and you'll regret not getting in
on this deal.' ' " .'
"He did and they did. He sold
the claim 10 days later for $5,
000,000."
Maybe there's something to
what the Texans have to say
about their state after alL
With two elections going
on at the same time Tuesday,
and what with hearings on
this, that, and the ether thing
in recent weeks, some voters
apparently were more than a
little confused about the issues
on which they were to vote,
Tuesday's vote inside the
city limits was on whether she
city should adopt a general
fund budget $66,510 in excess
of the 6 per cent limitation.
But city officials said some
Medford residents believed
they were voting on whether N
trees and bushes should S-;
taxed. ; - ' J.
The late Arthur Perry, who
kept close tabs on Rogue valley
rumor mills, would have been
proud of the crowd that watched
Friday's fire at Medford Furni
ture company.
The crowd had no less than
six rumors at once as to how the
fire started.
Fire department officials and
others who have to deal in solid
facts can put an end to all of
them. As of Saturday morning,
the cause of the blaze had not
been definitely determined.
As far as is known, which'
is pretty well, no member of
the Mail Tribune staff Is e?
practicing nudist. ; '
Therefore, it's probably Just .
as well that the plans of those'
sponsoring the recent nudists-'
convention, held last week end;
somewhere near Medford''
didn't go quite right. .
They had planned to give
the newspaper staff advance,
. warning i of the convention?
and Invite a press representa
iWe to be present. The usual;
stipulation is that the news-,
hound (or newshen) assigned
to such an event dress (or vice
versa) In the same manner as ;
. the rest of the conventioneers. ;
, It would have been real in-,
teres ting, trying to wish that,
assignment on somebody. '
Last Year Third f
Highest for State j
" Salem 0J.R) Payments to
Oregon's unemployed during the
benefit year that ended June 30
reached $20,406,000, third high
est in the state's history, accord
ing to State Unemployment Com
pensation Commission. . -But
the number of those look
ing for work declined to 22,400,
lowest in nearly two years. And
the count of weekly claimants at
local offices dropped below 8000
for the first time in nearly three
years. ' . ...
With a steadily expanding
labor force, summertime employ
ment, throughout Oregon,. was
deemed certain to establish new
highs over the next few months.
Unemployment Lower
All of the local office with
the exception of Baker reported
fewer persons without work than
at last mid-year and only three
areas had more unemployed than
last June 1 when 27,700 were
counted. A year ago 38,900 were
looking for jobs but at least 3400
of them were involved in the
lumber labor dispute that lasted
until September. Biggest decline
in unemployment came from As
toria, Eugene, Hillsboro, Milton-
Freewater and , Toledo.
Late berry harvests in the Wil
lamette valley and delayed farm ,
work in other sections were ab
sorbing many of the workers but
most of the recent gains were in
lumbering,; construction and
other seasonal activities.
Truman Sends Photo
To Police Commissioner
Philadelphia U.R) Police
Commissioner Thomas J. Gib
bons has a prized photograph in
scribed: "Kindest regards and
many thanks to Tom Gibbons,
who is always kind and courte
ous to unemployed visitors.''
The likeness of former Presi
dent Truman was delivered to
Gibbons, who headed police se
curity escorts on occasions when
Mr. Truman visited the city both
as president and after he left
office.;,... ; . -
FIRST CAN ALT
Dedham. Mass. 01Jn This
town Cjlaims the site of Ameri
ca's first canal. A tablet says
the canal, known as Mother
Brook, was built "before 1640.T
The canal, now unused, connecta
the Charles and Neponset Bivertv
Payments