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History from the file of The
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tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Julr 17- Ms
(It was Tuesday)
Military and civilian personnel
at Camp White purchase $94,927
in series E war bonds in recent
campaign.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The some
what cooler weather o nights
caused many of the Older Girls
to sing like a lark, but no better.
20 YEARS AGO
Julr 17. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Medford's application for ad
ditional PWA help for sewage
treatment plant construction
costs approved according to word
from Washington, D. C.
Gold Hill organizations plan
Northwext Jackson countv fair
to include $500 for cash prizes
donated by county court.
30 YEARS AGO
Julr 17. 1925
(It was Friday)
Gnats leave Diamond Lake
area as quickly as they arrived
four days ago; fishing reported
good.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Southern Pacific com
pany has applied to the interstate
commerce commission for au
thority to extend its line of rail
road from Klamath Falls 40
miles south to Cornell, Calif.
40 YEARS AGO
Julr 17.' 1913
- Qt was Saturday)
Medford residents launch
movement to rebond city for pay'
ment of old paving debt.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Bud Anderson, former
pride of Medford, received his
usual licking at Tacoma Friday
night, when he was knocked out
In the last round of a four round
bout with Billy Weeks. Bud was
outboxed, outgeneraled, out
fought, and outeverything else.
Bud has not come anywhere near
winning and well wishers in this
city, would greet with joy the
announcement that he had quit
the ring forever.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Rspart
1. Dwight David Eisenhower
got a B.S. degree in 1915 from
emy, Univ. of Kansas, Columbia
Univ. or Va. Military Institute? -
2. Has any amendment to the
U. S. Constitution ever been re
pealed? 3. Potato chips account for
about 2, 12, 24 or 48 per cent
of the potato crop sold for food?
4. Number of banks in the
U. S. has been increasing or de
creasing recently or staying
about the same?
5. Iran and Persia are names
for the same nation or for dif
ferent nations?
6. The U. S. war with Spain
came early in this century; right
or wrong?
7. Walter Ulbricht is a Red
leader in East Germany, the
President of Switzerland, West
German foreign minister or
Czechoslovak prime minister?
The Answers: 1. U. S. Mili
tary Academy; 2. The 18th. on
Prohibition; 3. About 12 per
cent; 4. Decreasing; 5. For the
same nation; 6. Wrong; at end
cf the last century; 7. Red lead
r in East Germany. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
How About the "Big 4"?
Those who expect great things from the "summit"
conference at Geneva, are bound to be disappointed.
In fact those who expect anything of importance
signed and sealed, will probably be disappointed.
' There will be considerable conversation and un
doubtedly general agreement the two countries are in
favor of peace, an end to the armament race, and
along with the late President Coolidge against sin.
But when it comes to tangible, concrete results,
in the area of formal agreements, it is doubtful that
much if anything will be, or under the circumstances
CAN be, accomplished. '
THIS does not mean the conference will necessarily
be a failure. In fact the mere gathering together
of the leaders of the 4 great powers, insures a cer
tain success. A year ago even this much cooperation
would have been impossible. The assembling in such
a short period of preparation, and without noticeable
hesitation on the part of any participant is a decided
step in advance, internationally.
THE significance of this unanimity in our judgment
lies in the fact that no one and this includes
Russia wants war. The fear of war on one hand and
the financial burden involved in preparation for it on
the other have priced war out of the market. If the
burden can be relieved every nation wants it.
However so long as the United States fears and
distrusts Soviet Russia and with reason and Soviet
Russia fears and distrusts the United States, it is too
much to expect that the leaders of either country will
agree to any disarmament program of any practical
importance.-and if they
financially, would not be worth the paper it was writ
ten on.
So any treaties of vital
cards, or any formal epoch
HAT is in the cards
talk-f est at a hieh level which will or should
clarify the atmosphere, reduce rather than increase
existinz tensions, and make it more evident to the
four great powers and eventually to their peoples
that while the cold war promises ta continue the
danger of any hot war, any war on a worldwide scale
of any sort in fact is steadily declining, for the very
simple and undeniable reason that no country and
again soviet, Kussia nas 10
The imDortant thinir is
United States become more
is a fact and we believe it
In so far as this Geneva conference contributes
toward this mutual realization, it can't help but be a
success. R.W.R.
How About Secy Dulles?
It is reassuring to this
States will be represented
at Geneva rather than Secretary of btate uuiies.
Our Secretary of State has been extremely tactless
in his statements, particularly those concerning Russia
of late, and on at least three occasions nas expressed
opinions directly contrary to those expressed by the
chief-executive. ,
DERHAPS it is the humidity. Or it may be that the
membership of Senator Knowland on one of the
committees Dulles addressed, had something to do
with his undiplomatic and
" Whatever it was the report from Washington that
die Dulles stock has been declining ever since his visit
to the Far East, and he is being criticized by Repub
licans as well as Democrats, causes no surprise to this
department
, We assume Mr. Dulles still has the confidence of
the President or he wouldn't be holding the job he
has, but we doubt if his advice as far as conference
tactics are concerned will have sufficient weight to
place the President's more sound diplomatic instinct,
much out of balance.
THE great danger in Europe as of today is in our
1 judgment, by blundering provocation throwing
Germany into the arms of Russia. And it is hardly an
exaggeration to say that President Eisenhower is the
best man in international ruling circles today, to pre
vent it
The Russian leaders know the President, and all
evidence indicates they like and respect him. He is
equally respected and liked by Adenauer of Germany.
"Ike" also has this great advantage, he can not
only understand the Russian point-of-view but he can
make concessions to it, without being accused ex
cept by Senator McCarthy perhaps of being "soft
toward communism." In addition as his opposition to
dropping atomic bombs in Indo China and blockading
Red China demonstrated, he is naturally conserva
tive, conciliatory and self-controlled.
MO ONE should expect Mr. Eisenhower to accom-
plish any miracles at Geneva. The age of miracles
in the realm of international relation, we fear, has
passed.
But he is in a position to accomplish more in the
direction of decreasing tensions and reaching some
satisfactory condition of peaceful world co-existence
than any other national leader, and the more he fol
lows his own judgment and impulses and the less he
heeds the . whispers and alarms of his Secretary of
State, the better for the Geneva conference, the USA
and the democratic world.
Sunday, July 17. 19SS
did the agreement, except
moment, are not in the
- making agreements either.
at least as we see it is a
De inciuaea warns iu
to have Russia and the
aware of this fact if it
is.
department, that the United
by President Eisenhower
irritating attitude.
K.WJC
i Matter of
AND "GUIDED" V.
Washington The intelligence
estimators have been sent into
a quick huddle by a seemingly
minor detail in the recent Soviet
statement on
Germany."1? In
a passage con
cerning the
horrors of mod
ern war, there
was a brief
reference to
the invention
of "new, for
merly non
existent wea
pons of mass
Joseph Alsop destruction . . .
atomic, hydrogen, guided and
others."
In this casual manner, the
Kremlin has in effect declared
that guided missiles which are
weapons of mass destruction"
are now accomplished facts. And
the Kremlin has further placed
these guided missies in the same
grisly class as the A- and H
bombs. The experts are not certain
precisely what this may portend.
But it is a fair bet that it means
the Kremlin is well satisfied
with the progress of its guided
missile program. The bet is logi
cal because Soviet guided mis
sile development has .been an
all-out effort, both more inten
sive and larger in scale than the
comparable American effort,
ever since the end of the last
war.
A deadly, unseen race is go
ing on, in fact, to, produce the
first workable models of the true
ultimate weapon the inter-continental
guided missile with
atomic or hydrogen warhead.
And in this race, while the So
viets are working all-out and
have now begun to hint of their
own success, the American
motto is plainly "business as
usual."
The prevailing Pentagon cen
sorship is nowhere stricter than
in this special field on which the
fate and future of this country
may quite probably depend. But
anyone with the most trifling
experience in such matters can
see that there is little urgency in
the American effort, just by tak
ing a quick look at the way the
effort is organized. The pattern
of organization is a matter of
common knowledge in the air
craft industry.
The effort is headed un under
Brig. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever
and his Western Division of the
Air Research and Development
Command. Gen. Schriever has
a total staff of about 100 persons.
pi ADDITION, he has the con-
suiting services of the Remo-Wool-Ridge
Corporation, an ex
tremely competent scientific
group headed by the two former
chief scientists of the Hushes
Aircraft Company. Gen. Schrie
ver's chief, scientific adviser is
the brilliant Atomic Energy
Commissioner, Dr. John . von
Neumann. ,
Such is the superstructure of
the American effort to build
long-range guided missiles. The
actual missile projects are in the
hands of primary contractors,
who in turn emolov swarm of
subcontractors. Atlas, the nro-
jected intercontinental ballistic
missile with a speed ten times
that of sound, is a Convair con.
tract, for example. Navajo, the
slower ram-let missile of inter.
continental range, is a North
American contract; and the still
slower Snark is a Northrop Avi
ation company contract.
The primary contractors by no
means give all their time to
these vast projects which have
been conf inded to them. The Con
vair company,, for instance, is
wonting on the F-102 fighter and
the B-58 bomber, a new jet trans
port and a jet-powered flying
boat, a seaplane fighter' air
craft and the Terrier guided mis
sile, in addition to having re
sponsibility for Atlas. The sub
contractors are similarly han
dling the needs of the long-range
guided missile nroiects alone
with much other business.
The Pentagon maintains,
meanwhile, that the long-range
guided missile nroiects have
highest priority. "Every dollar
that is asked for is promptly
made available, is the Pentagon
theme sons. But that is meaning
less. Los Alamos, at the end of
the war. had 8.000 neonle at
work behind the barbed wire. In
the lons-ranee missile effort the
substitute for Los Alamos is a
Brigadier General with a staff of
100, plus a rather small indus
trial rnmnanv. rilus a chief sripn-
tist who is giving his life-and-
death 30b what time he can
spare from his other duties as
Atomic Energy Commissioner.
BUILDING long-range missiles
is a vastly more difficult job
than building A-bombs. What is
wanted to do the job, of course,
is a Manhattan District type of
organization, outside Pentagon
channels, able to mobilize all
needed scientific manpower, en
joying a commanding industrial
priority, and above all directed
by the sort of huge collective or
synthetic super-brain that was
the Los Alamos laboratory in
war-time. But that kind of orga
nization would upset the Penta
gon's dominant budget balances
by developing really massive ex
penditure requirements.
The people now involved in
the long-range missile effort are
all admirable and capable peo
ple. But the organization is
wrong. The priorities an wrong. 1
Fact By Joseph Alsop
The Pentagon outlook is wrong
(which is not surprising, since
Secretary of Defense Charles E.
Wilson originally regarded the
whole effort as visionary non
sense.) And so the Soviets are
being given a golden opportu
nity to win the guided missile
race. -
Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Editorial Comment
A HEW CLIMATE'
FOR AMERICA?
So much has happened. It is
hard to believe that only a year
ago, as the "Army-McCarthy"
hearings ground to a close,
Americans were still scared to
death of "subversives," so scared
in fact that they didn't have
time to hold the initiative in the
cold war. But so much has hap
pened since. Now, as.Alistair
Cooke observed in the Manches
ter Guardian "Freedom breaks
out all over." Rarely, we dare
say, has the "political and moral
climate" changed so radically in
one short year. Remember a
year ago, or two years ago if you
prefer, and now look. Consider
these recent events:
The government decided not
to prosecute Owen Lattimore,
the man whom Sen. McCarthy
identified as "The top Russian
secret agent in this country,"
that the McCarren committee
called "A conscious, articulate
instrument of the Soviet conspir
acy," that Pres." Truman's at
torney general James McGran
ery, called "A Communist sym
pathizer and promoter of Com
munist causes and a perjurer
for denying that he was these
things," an dthat Pres. Eisenhow
er's attorney general, Herbert
Brownell, called "A follower of
the Communist line and perjur
er for denying he had been one."
It occurred to the government, a
little late, that Mr. Lattimore's
"crime" had been the possession
of bad judging, a failing not pun
ishable by law.
The courts took away from
the state department its arbi
trary authority to deny pass
ports without cause and without
permitting the citizen recourse.
The U.S. supreme court clear
ed Dr. John Peters of Yale of the
"security Tisk" stigma. (Unfor
tunately the court did not rule
on the more basic question of
using "secret witnesses" and
"star chamber" techniques, both
of which figured in the case
against Dr. Peters.)
Harry P. Cain, once a bit of a
witch-hunter himself until the
voters of Washington saw fit to
retire him from the Senate, suf
fered a change of . heart. 4 Now
he's an outspoken critic of the
devices he once used himself.
Ezra Taft Benson, the secre
tary of agriculture, came around,
somewhat less than gracefully,
to admitting what most people
already knew, that he gave a
public servant named Wolf
Ladejinsky a very bad deal.
(There are some who think Mr.
Benson might have added that
he's sorry. . But he didn't, so
maybe he isn't)
-
i
The Senate Internal Security
committee asked the attorney
general to scrub up his list of
subversive organizations. One
member of that committee is In
diana's Sen. Bill Jenner, one of
the few remaining "McCarthy-
ites," and Sen. Jenner didn't say
a word about the committee's re
quest Didn't even wave his
arms.
'The troubles of a New York
politician named Corsi started
the ball rolling for possible re
vision of the immigration law.
When Sen. McCarthy sought
to tell President , Eisenhower
what to talk about at the coming
"summit" meeting, the Senate
voted, 77 to 4, to put the Sena
tor in his place. -
And from here it looks as if
Sen McCarthy will be remem
bered in history principally as
the man who gave "mccarthy-
ism" to the language back in the
frantic days when the people of
the home of the brave were act
ing scared to death. Eugene
Register-Guard.
FBI Asked to Check
Theft of 49 Cents
Los Angeles (U.R) The FBI
is used to tough cases but this
one may be a real puzzler.
Police called the FBI yester
day when 49 cents was reported
stolen from a Bank of America
Branch. - '
Officers said they had to call
in the FBI because bank bur
glaries are federal offenses. The
money was reported missing af
ter a bank burglar .alarm
sounded.
Ike's Message Too Late
For Philomath Man, 100
Philomath (U.R) President
Eisenhower sent a congraulatory
.message - to A. R. Brown of
Philomath, but Brown, who
would have been 100 years old
Sunday, did not receive it
Brown died at his home Fri
day at just about the same time
the mesage was delivered by the
postman. Relatives said Brown
was not aware tjf the greetinf.
Letters to tha Editor must bear
the name and address of tha writer
il though under certain circum
stances tha use of a een name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
ere to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
How About It?
To the Editor: One thing I like
very much about being a new
citizen of the United States is
that now I can "pop off" about
things I don't like.
There are very few things I
do not like in my new country
but there are many things I do
not understand. One of these
things which makes a big puz
zle to me is this:
Before coming a U. S. Ameri
can I am a Latin American and
where I come from we mostly
drink the coffee "straight" No
cream, no sugar, just coffee.
The other day in the news
paper a restaurant man said
that the 5 cents cup of coffee
will never come back. He said
that while the coffee that makes
one cup of coffee now costs
only 2 cents, the sugar and
cream prices make it impossible
to sell for 5 cents so he charges
10 cents.
Now, for my "pop off." Why
should people like me who al
ways drink the coffee black pay
ten cents, the same as people
who use the cream and the sug
gar? I think for American fair
play the man who drinks the
coffee "straight" should pay not
so much as those who take the
sugar and cream. Maybe some
of your readers will agree with
me, I hope. '
Jose Rivera Gonzalez,
Parkway Village
Jamaica, N. Y.
Today and
By Walter
THE PRELIMINARY SKIRMISH
As "a preface to the secret
meeting at the summit we have
just heard a public dialogue on
the subject of
German re
unification. Last Thursday
evening Sir
Anthony Eden
made a speech
saying that
the West want
ed a united
Germany
Walter Llppmana Within the
NATO system, but was prepared
to negotiate about guarantees to
reassure. the Soviet Union. That
this was the Western position
was, of course, known in Mos
cow, and that same day Pravda
had an article rejecting German
unification inside NATO. On
Tuesday of this week the Krem
lin backed this up in an official
statement'
The question is why, after go
ing to a great deal of trouble to
arrange a secret meeting at the
highest level, after all that has
been said about confidential di
plomacy, the two sides have
chosen to make a public demon
stration of how incompatible are
their positions oh the German
problem. I can think of only one
reasonable explanation. It is that
they know that . they cannot
agree now on German unifica
tion, and they want the world to
know it before they go to
Geneva.
rpHE public exchange does not
disclose all the reasons,, and
certainly not the main reason,
why the four powers cannot
agree now. It is that German re
unification can only be ap
proached, it cannot be achieved,
without a settlement on the German-Polish
frontier. The West
ern proposals, as outlined by Sir
Anthony Eden, are silent on the
subject of the frontiers. The So
viet reply is also silent Neither
proposal is entirely serious.
Both sides know that neither
proposal is acceptable to Dr.
Adenauer's government Even if
the Soviet Union agreed to the
Eden plan, Dr.. Adenauer cannot
sign a treaty which renounces
the German claim to the lost ter
ritories. And the West .cannot,
of course, agree to the Soviet
plan for a weak Germany con
fined' within the Potsdam fron
tiers. '
The two positions which were
taken publicly this past week are
not only incompatible with one
another. Each is inherently im
possible. Both are based on the
outdated premise, which no one
can really believe in any longer,
that it is still possible for the
four victors to make, if they can
agree among themselves, a Ger
man settlement. A four power
agreement, based on the Pots
dam frontiers, would have to be
imposed on the two Germanies.
But the German Federal Repub
lic is now a great European
power, and a settlement cannot
be imposed upon it. No German
government which was free and
democratic could survive if it
agreed to the Potsdam frontiers.
SINCE this spring, since West
Germanv recovered its sov-
ereienty and was admitted to
NATO, it has been evident that
when serious negotiation be
gins the two , principal powers
will be Bonn and Moscow. Dr.
Adenauer's loyalty to the West
ern alliance is not in question.
But bo made it clear enough dur-,
IPOYIUCEC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Potluck can be serious, once
in a while, and this is one of the
times.
. We shared the shock of his
other friends at learning of the
death of Dr. Bob Sleeter at the
age of 44 last .week.
Dr. Bob was one of the nicest
people we know, and that senti
ment is shared not only by his
friends but by most of his pa
tients. One of them, who asked
not to be identified other than
as one "who has reason to be
grateful to him," called us Fri
day to suggest that it would be
most appropriate to remember
him in a permanent way.
"There will be plenty of flow
ers at his funeral," she said, and
added, "I'd rather give what I
can to do something he would
have .liked. Maybe the other
doctors in his office would be
willing to accept gifts for the
purchase of obstetrical equip
ment for one of the hospitals,
or for some other purpose about
which they'd know best. What
do you think of the idea?" ,
Potluck collectively likes the
idea, and its sincere and honest
and heartfelt motivation, and
passes along the suggestion to
others who may feel the same
way.
On the lighter side, we can
report that a new hampthire
red hen, owned by Mrs. Andy
Payne, 4264 Hilsinger rd
laid a speckled egg last week
on which the speckles were so
arranged that on one side the
figure "292" was spelled out
The formation of the figures
Tomorrow
Lippmanh
ing his American visit this
spring that his policy is to be
armed by the United States, and
.then with the loyal support of
the whole Western alliance led
by the United States to negoti
ate a German settlement with
the Soviet Union. Dr. Adenauer
believes that in two or three
years, -when there is a German
Army in NATO, his position will
be strong enough to obtain re
unification with frontiers that
are much better than Potsdam,
It follows that Dr. Adenauer
neither expects nor desires seri
ous negotiations about. Germany
at this time. :
There are strong reasons for
thinking that the Soviet Union,
for. its part, is also intending to
negotiate not with the Geneva
powers but directly:- with the
Germans. The invitation to Dr.
Adenauer to come to Moscow to
arrange for normal diplomatic
relations is the necessary prelim
inary. But there is more to it
than that. Since the Berlin meet
ing of 1954 there has been little
reason to think that Moscow
would ever wish to negotiate
with us about Germany. All the
Soviet actions , have quite ob
viously been addressed to the
Germany.,
THE fact that both Bonn and
Moscow are looking toward
direct negotiations does not
mean that they are ready to ne;
gotiate. Almost certainly neither
is now ready to negotiate. Dr.
Adenauer wants first to have a
German Army, which means
that he expects to wait .about
three years. The Kremlin, pre
sumably, is waiting for Dr. Aden
auer to disappear, confident that
it can deal more easily with his
successor.
Dr. Adenauer seems to think
that the Soviet Union is in
trouble,, that it iil need a set
tlement more and more urgently
and that by putting off the nego
tiation Germany will gain. the
upper hand. It-is a bold specu
lation. The obverse of it is that
in this waiting period of several
years the Soviet Union can keep
on tempting the Germans and
sowing dissension inside West
ern Germany.
-.
TOHE Atlantic nowers cannot be
-- happy about the prospect of
all : this maneuvering ' and of
eventual direct German-Soviet
negotiations at the end of it Dr'.
Adenauer's policy is for a long
run, and there is no telling who
will conclude what he : has
started. There is no certainty at
all that the German government
which settles with the Soviet
Union will think and feel as does
Dr. Adenauer.
The . problem of the .West- is
how to avoid being excluded and
disregarded, or of being dragged
along," when the German-Soviet
negotiations take place. Our best
hope would seem to he in work
ing out in the near future an all
European-security agreement
some sort of all-European politi
cal community, within which the
two ; Germanies would be im
bedded. On this point the Soviets
appear to be ready to negotiate
with us..
For while the direct German-
Russian .negotiations are . un
avoidable, and indeed necessary,
it is enormously important that
in these negotiations neither the
Germans - nor . the Russians
should have an entirely free
hand.
v- - Copyright lt55 -
Mew York Herald Tribune lac
was "juit perfect" she said.
As of the moment, two mem
bers of the Mail Tribune staff
write editorials. The senior of
the two last week received a
'phone call from a young man
a very young man who de
manded if he had written "that
piece about Davy Crockett?"
No," the senior editorial
writer disclaimed, and offered
to connect him with the junior
staff member who had done so.
This was accomplished.
Did you write that piece
about Davy Crockett?" the
youthful voice asked the sec
ond writer.
"Yes," he admitted.
"Is it true?" the youngster de
manded. (The piece in question
had been entitled "Davy Crock
ett, Bum.")
The truth of the piece was.
somewhat hestitantly, admitted.
The young voice exuded ela
tion ai it said, "I thought to. My
friend didn't believe it an will
you teU him?"
Another young voice came on
and asked "is it . true?" "Yes,
I'm afraid so," he was told.
Oh," he said. There was a
long pause. "OK," he said. Even
the click as he hung up sounded
sad.
"An observing tourist" pass
ing through Medford dropped '
off this inscription which he'd
spotted on a tombstone near
Santa MAitira fTalif
"Remember Friends, as you
pats by as you are now. so
once was L As I am now you
soon may be, so be prepared
to follow me."
.
At Wednesday's council meet
ing, which had the problem ol
cutting the Medford budget for
the coming year by $66,510, the
question of fire hoses came up.
About $1,600 worth had been
destroyed in a fire recently, and
City Manager Bob Duff was ask
ed if there would be enough
money to replace them. '
"Barely enough," he said. But
Councilman Dick Woodcock
maintained that new hoses and
nozzles wouldn't be needed next
year, because of a new fire-fighting
system was to be used. The
svstem:
"They're going to use wet
gunny sacks and pray there are
no more serious downtown
fires." .: ,
F. J. Clifford, a- frequent
correspondent to the M-T. last
week was visited by Glenn E.
MitehelL Seattle, former Sis.
' .iniim. umj
regaled each other by speak :
ing old Indian Chinook jargon.
Mitchell is one of the few left
with whom Clifford can conV
verse in the almost-disappeai,
ed language. '
.
Two customers at a Jackson
county beverage emporium were
standing at the bar one dav re
cently.
"I iust heard a bird rhirn-
one declared. Tbe other miiMnl.
but' listened, and pretty soon bo
neara it too.
No. 1 said "It comes from un
front."
No. 2 said. "No. it
thataway ..."
What they didn't know that
the bird was in cage under the
bar. while the bartender was
bird-sitting for a friend.
Fergusons Return
From Portland
Mr. and Mrs. X. C. Ferguson,
Evelyn apartments, have return,
ed to Medford after being in
Portland since May 28, when he,
underwent major surgery at
Good Samaritan hoimitaL
Ferguson, managing editor of .
the Mail Tribune, is convalescing
at nome, and said he would bo
glad to have friends call upon
him. -
The Fergusons returned by
automobile with their daughter.
Mrs. Ford Knutson, Astoria, and
two grandchildren, Barbara and
Mary. The girls will be at Girl
Scout camp at Lake O Woods for
two weeks, while Mrs. Knutson
stays with her parents. .
10 Fined for Pinball
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dedtion on keyloperatcd pin-
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contention of city attorneys that
removal of the coin chute from
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them from the category of coin :
operated amusement devices as
outlawed by city ordinance.
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that Portland' charter was
amended in 101
the right to confiscate. Judge
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order confiscation of the pinball
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