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iUedfor and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 9, 1945
(It wast Thursday)
Atomic bomb dropped
on
Nagasaki.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The bomb
d fatom) itself is a holy terror. Its
force can knock off a man's hat
at 10 miles. In the 1910 boom,
the best Front st. whiskey could
do was to remove a hat at 10
gaces. The kick of a mule or
overloaded shotgun, or chained
lightning ; are puny. People at
great distances from the experi
mental blast, felt like they had
Awaken hands with Dewey Hill
the rugged Prospect hired man
20 YEARS AGO
August 9, 1935
(It was Friday)
R. I. Stewart and Sons award
ed contract for construction of
nw sewage disposal plant.
q Social Security bill awaits
President Roosevelt's signature.
SO YEARS AGO "
August 9, 1925
a (It was Sunday) ,
Summer School of Art closes
art show at Ashland Junior high.
From the Local and Personal
column: "Rev. Edgar, assisted
by his ton, David, and Joseph
LSngell are digging a well at the
Presbyterian church," says the
Jacksonville Post.
4o!years AGO
August 9. 1915
(It was Monday)
Showers of meteors over Uni
tefiGStates tonight predicted by
University of Missouri professor
of astronomy.
Congressman F. H. q Gillett,
Springfield, Mass., visits Crater
.
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What's the Answer?
Can You Get of the 7?
Oflpr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. U. S. soldiers abroad can
be tried in foreign courts- for
offenses committed on duty, off
dut, both or neither?
2". So far this year many more
Cadillacs .nave been made than
De Solos,- or many more De,
Sotos. or about the same num
ber of each? e
j. vvnicn one or these was-
termed "Seward's Folly" when
the U. SCgot it: The Philippines,
Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
Alaska, Hawaii?
4. About 40, 70, 100 or 130
different plays are put on in
Broadway theatres during a
year? O
5G"A nation of shopkeepers"
was "what Napoleon called the
French, English, Swiss, Prus
sians, or Americans?
6. Spaso House contains the
U. S. embassy in Rome, Moscow,
Paris, ' Madrid, London, or
Tokyo?
7. A doodlesack is a musical
instrument: French horn, trom
bones boss drum, bagpipe, or the
sambas a glockenspiel?
The Answers: 1. Off-duty of
fenses only. 2. About same num
ber of each. 3. Alaska. 4. About
70. SirEnglish. 6. Moscow. 7. Bag-
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London UJ.R) Columbia
Pictures announced today that
thrice-married actress Eva Bar
tok will marry Austrian actor
KurtTurgens at Schleirsee, near
Munich, Germany, Saturday.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Entirely in Character
Some people are surprised that the Southern Pa
cific defied the order of the Public Utility Commis
sioner of this state to continue its rail service between
Ashland and Portland, and rescind its order of dis
continuance pending a public hearing.
Why should they be?
This is entirely in character.
WHEN the almighty dollar is concerned, the South
ern Pacific has no regard for the public and not
much regard for the law. It considers itself and from
its very beginning always has considered itself, a law
unto itself.
Senator Hiram Johnson ended that "rule or ruin"
policy in California many years ago. And the Public
Utility Commission of that state a year or two ago
reasserted its authority by denying the SP request to
drop its local noon trains between San Francisco and
Sacramento because it claimed they were losing
money. The SP refused to obey and appealed to the
California Supreme Court. The SP lost.
BUT it may be different in Oregon. As this is writ
ten the appeal of Oregon's Public Utility Commis
sioner to the courts has not been acted upon.
But it is hard to see how any court could properly
sustain the railroad in this high-handed and arbitrary
action. If it does and the decision is sustained by the
State Supreme Court then our Public Utility Commis
sion might as well be abolished, and the seal of the
state handed over to the mighty SP with a blanket
permission to do as it pleases !
AS the lawyers for the commission stated this de
" fiance of "due process of law" on the part of this
billion dollar corporation was surprising.
Our prediction, is that as matters proceed, the
legal department of the Oregon PUC will be due for
many more surprises, as it deals with this "public be
damned" corporation. R.W.R.
"The Baby in Diapers "
The current Colliers runs a page "ad" showing a
baby in diapers, striding forward with the aid of
helping hands with one chubby foot nearly touching
the following arresting caption:
"WHOSE ELECTRIC BILLS WILL HE HAVE TO PAY?"
There follows this argument, quote;
"Is this youngster going to grow up to pay a lot of
other people's electric bills just as you do today?
"You're actually helping to pay the bills of 4 million
businesses and homes that get subsidized electricity from
federal power projects.
"Government subsidized electricity is sold to customers
for less than it costs. Who pays the difference? All tax
payers including you.
"If the groups that want the government to build more
electric power projects have their way, you must , have to
help pay many more millions of other people's electric
bills.
"Isn't that a good reason for opposing any more un
necessary federal government power projects?"
The "ad" is signed "American Electric Light and
Power Companies.
IN OTHER words if no more public power projects
are built this young man, when he grows up, will
have to. pay less and less
If more such projects are built he will have to pay
more.
Carrying this argument to its logical conclusion,
if all the present public power projects like Grand
Coulee, Bonneville and TVA were abolished and
"America's Electric Light and Power companies"
were given a 100 per cent
the electric bills and this
probably buy himself a two
of having the burden of paying the electric bills of
4 billion businesses and homes" taken from his shoul
ders.
WELL, WELL, well, what NEXT !
" The only trouble with this argument is there
is no evidence to support it. Public power in the realm
of multiple federal projects on our larger rivers may
be as wicked and unAmerican as the A.E.L.&P. pri
vate companies maintain or they may not. But one
thing about them can't be denied. That one thing is :
WHEREVER they have been established, electric
rates have come down, and industrial development
and material well being in the areas served, have
come up in many instances sensationally.
More than that.
The electricity generated has not been sold for
less than cost. It has been always sold at a profit,
and instead of these projects being a burden on the
taxpayers, they have been and are self-liquidating.
They won't in the end cost the federal taxpayers a
cent.
IN THIS advertisement,
The matter of electric
brought up. Usually this
anti-public-power propaganda.
For example in this Hells
vate power company enthusiasts, have stressed the
fact that this construction by the Idaho Power com
pany won't cost the taxpayers anything, while a high
dam would cost them $350,000,000 in federal funds.
But there is no mention
thus generated is 'going to
the private company starts
It is known that the Idaho Power company, fi
nanced in Boston, has to
highest rates for its output
And this little boy m diapers if he should settle in
Idaho will have to pay the
upon. R.W.R.
Tuesday, August 9, 1955
for his electricity.
monopoly, down would go
promising bambino would
- tone Cadillac, as a result
in fact there is one sur-
rates to the consumer is
is noticeably skipped, in
Canyon decision, the pri
of what the electric power
cost the consumer, when
operations.
date charged one of the
in the far western area.
price this company decides
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CONFERENCE OPENING Seated at opening session of
Atomsf or Peace" conference at Geneva are (left to right):
Swiss President Max Petitpierre; UN Secy. Gen. Das
Hammarskjold; Conference President and noted Indian
scientist Dr H J. Bhabha, and Professor Walter G. Whit
man of the U. S. They are seated at the President's tribunal.
Matter of
RUSSIA IN RETROSPECT II
Editor's note: This is the second of
a series of reports summing up Stew
art Alsop's experiences in the Soviet
Union, which he brought out with
him from Moscow.
Moscow There are two very
simple facts, taken together, that
provide the main clue to the
k? VTimA1! m n r h dis
cussed internal
problem of
the whole So
viet system.
The first is
the fact that
Moscow is on
about the
same lattitude
a s Labrador,
Hudson Bay,
or Sitka, Alas
Stewart Alsop
ka.
In other words, the Russian
land mass is very far north.
This in turn means a dangerously
short growing season except in
the most southerly parts of Rus
sia, and no real growing season
at all in the north. And this is
why, even with the best agricul
tural system in the world, and
despite the immensity of the
Russian land area, it would still
be difficult to grow enough
food for the Soviet population.
The second fact is that the
whole Soviet system is squartly
based on ruthless exploitation
of the peasantry, in order to
provide the capital for industrial
expansion. The way it is done
is essentially . very simple. The
state pays the collective farms
artificially low nrices for what
they . produce. The state then
sells the farm produce for as
much as ten times what it paid.
This enormous profit margin
provides the bulk of the capital
for new plants and equipment
for Soviet industry , plus the
funds for the huge Soviet war
machine.
Put these two facts together
and you see why the Soviet agri
cultural crisis, about which the
world has heard so much, is no
new thing, but something in
herent in the system.
THE CRISIS has been going
on ever since Stalin forced
collectivization on the peasants
in the early 30s, starving some
3,000,000 people in order to
achieve it. Stalin did so, not
simply out of wanton cruelty,
but because he recognized that
collectivization of the land was
essential in order to sweat the
peasants for the capital for in
dustrial expansion and for funds
for the war machine.
The present Soviet rulers
cannot posibly abandon collec
tive agriculture unless they are
prepared to abandon Commun
ism, whicn tney are noi. ui
the collective system is by its
very nature inefficient.
Essentially, the collective
farming system is an attempt to
apply the Soviet method of in
dustrial production to agricul
tural riroduction. The Russian
peasant has "norms" to fulfill,
just like a Russian factory work
er. As in the case of the worker.
the peasant income depends on
how well he fulfills his norms
But a sick calf is not like a
piece of machinery. You cannot
use a mechanical approach to
biology because biology is not
mechanical. One result of trying
to do so is the collective farms
are cursed with bookkeepers,
bosses, overseers and all the
trappings of bureaucracy. Over
all, it requires six or seven So
viet workers on the land to pro
duce what one American agri
cultural worker produces.
Add the short Russian grow
ing season, less tne continuing
voracious demand for funds
from Soviet industry and the
Soviet war machine, and it is
easy to see why the Soviet agri
cultural crisis is permanent.
In statistical terms, the crisis
is easy to describe. The Soviet
population is growing at a rate
of about 1.5 per cent a year, 'and
farm production is increasing at
a rate of only about one per
cent. In the long run the very
long run this could be a
formula for mass starvation.
Moreover, the rate of increase
in farm production has only
been maintained by all sorts of
temporary expedients.
. .
"pOR EXAMPLE, grain and po-
tato crops have long been
emphasized at the expense of
livestock, since grain supplies
far more calories per acre than
meat. But this process has now
reached the point of no return,
with the livestock population of
Russia lower than before the
Revolution.' Again, the system of,
Fact by sa ai,op
crop rotation was recently de
nounced by Nikita Khrushchev,
and in many areas the soil is
currently being mined to in
crease immediate production at
the expense of future fertility
Another temporary expedient
has been the training of some
30,000 hard-core young Com
munists to take over the man
agement of the collective farms.
This, so far, has led only to
bitterness and confusion. At the
same time, the much publicized
attempt to exploit some vast
acreages of marginal land has
been undertaken, an attempt
which, depending on the weather
could quite easily fail disas
trously.
Finally, in- order to provide
incentives, the Soviet rulers
have done what they least
wished to do they have given
the farm workers a bigger share
of the national income. This in
turn has been the major factor in
the current Soviet inflation,
thus reducing the available mar
gin of funds to pay for indus
trial expansion and the was ma
chine.
"Inflation," significantly, is
the one word no Soviet censor
will pass when this reporter
tried to suggest the same thing
with the phrase "rationing by
the purse, the sharp-eyed cen
sor caught and cut it out. But
the inflation is there, visible to
the naked eye, in the endless
lines of people . waiting to buy
shoddy, fantastically over-priced
consumer goods.
Add finally the severe de
mands made on the Soviet
economy by the satellites, and
above all China, and it is easy
to see why the Russian rulers
now want a breathing spell. But
here the usual caveat must be
entered. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles . to the contrary,
the Soviet system is nowhere
near to being "on the point of
collapse." In the ways outlined,
the Soviet system has problems,
and the Soviet agricultural sys
tem works particularly badly.
But the system works all the
same.
One. way or another, by one
expedient or another, the system
will beimade to keep on work
ing, even if it again becomes
necessary to adopt mass starva
tion as Soviet national policy.
Nothing could be more danger
ous than to base American na
tional policy on the assumption
that the Soviet system is sud
denly and delightfully going to
come apart at the seams.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Editorial Comment
B. L. M. Tests
To the Editor: I wish to have
the people know the simple facts
about the 50 tests made on the
Hidden Treasure Placer claim
mentioned in a recent Mail Trib
une story.
The tests were made in bull
dozer cuts. There were ten per
pendicular cuts. Some of them
were made outside of the pay
streak which would have never
been mined. The total amount of
material tested was about 30
cubic feet out of those cuts.
Of this amount 48 tests were
made, 35 in a radius of 30 feet
by 25 feet. The tests ran from
trace to $1.50 per yard. Assayers
tell me it takes Vz ounce of con
centrates to make a good test of
placer ground, which would have
been impossible to get out of
each of the 48 samples.
Of these ten test cuts, there
was only 2V square feet of bed
rock tested. It is where most of
the gold is. The two center bed
rock tests could not be measured
as it was muddy and sloppy.
There is about 264,000 square
feet of surface pay gravel con
tested by the B.L.M. Of this
amount, they did not test over
41 square feet of bedrock. They
are also blocking off my tailing
dump of my other claim. Another
misleading statement was made
at the hearing. They stated a
yard of gravel washed by hand
was a day's work. That is true
by using a pan. But shoveling in
a sluice box would be 5 to 9
cubic yards per day, as any text
book on mining will verify.
I know that the B.L.M. would
admit that these statements are
true, as their figures wiU tell.
Samuel L. Dickey,
RRT. 1, Box 271,
Rogue River, Ore
Crater lake- in Oregon is gen
erally believed to be the deepest
lake in the North American
continent
Witness Describes
Seeing POWs Thrown
From Korea Barracks
New York (U.R) A witness
testified today that he saw Sgt.
James C. Gallagher mistreat two
fellow American prisoners of
war in Korea and throw them to
their deaths in the sub-zero cold.
Sgt. Donell Adams, 27, Cot
tonwood, Ala., testifying at Gal
lagher's court martial on
charges of murder and collab
orating with the Communists,
said the 23-year-old Brooklyn
soldier dumped . the two dying
men through a barracks door
"like a bartender bouncing a
drunk."
The two victims were identi
fied as Cpl. John William Jones,
Detroit, and Cpl. Donald Thomas
Baxter, Waukon, la. The inci
dents allegedly occurred in
prisonor of war camp No. 5 in
Pyoktong, North Korea', in Feb
ruary, 1951.
River Frozen Over
A second witness, Sgt. Ed
ward T. Smith, 24, Fresno, Calif,
now stationed in Toule, France,
corroborated most of the testi
mony given by Adams. He said
Gallagher grabbed the ailing
prisoners and tossed them from
the room "like a sack of spuds "
Smith testified that it was 40
degrees below zero outside at
the time. There was snow on
the ground and the nearby Yalu
river was frozen over with six
to eight feet of ice, he said.
Asked when he saw the two
men again, Smith said it was the
next day when he saw them
being carried on a stretcher to
the camp's "death house."
"They were dead," he said.
"They were frozen solid."
Unable To Move
Smith testified that there was
sufficient heat inside the bar
racks to keep the men alive and
that none of them died of freez
Communications
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tion must not exceed 400 words.
SP Was Subsidized
To the Editor: Regarding the
SP railroad passenger transpor
tation, Portland to Dunsmuir,
this service was subsidized, both
freight and passenger, by the
people through the government
by a grant of land along both
sides of the railroad survey. The
bill called for exchange of all
poor lands within the original
grant for other more valuable
land beyond the grant bound
aries. The grant land was to be
sold for $2.50 per acre to the
public for the purpose of rais
ing money to .build the railroad.
The most valuable of this land
was disposed of for values be
yond those intended. However,
during this earlier period, the
timber was a good investment,
and all stands of full sections of
larger lumber in the timber belt
of Oregon and California became
the property of future lumber
companies, thus provided the
funds for building the railroad.
All other land within this grant
was withdrawn from the market
probably because to pay taxes on
this unsold land would, during
the coming years, be unprofit
able, rather than profitable,
though they contested the peo
ples' right of confistication by
not fulfilling the agreement as
to the grant.
Through parts of southern
California, the company volun
tarily relinquished a portion of
the grant as desert land, non
supporting of railroad or man.
Later, however, - these lands be
came desirable, and were being
taken up by the people. The RR
reapplied for land grants. Huntr
mgton and one of California s
U.S. senators managed to renew
the land grant, and they, with
state officers, ran the settlers off
the land.
My interpretation would be
that the railroad belongs to the
people, and that the RR gets the
revenue for running the enter
prise. In the days of its incep
tion, Chinese labor was cheap,
so the cost of its construction
was not hard on the pocketbook.
My guess would be that the rail
road owned some bus stock. I am
not alone in this belief.
George L. Haff
P.O. Box 105
Gold HU1, Oregon
Needed By Invalids
To the Editor: I sure hope they
can arrange to keep the pas
senger train service going from
Medford to Portland. It would
be awful for sick people to go
without this train service. I
think the State of Oregon could
pay the railroad enough so they
could afford to run this train and
keep it going.
My sister came. home here in
1945 from Nebraska. I went up
to Portland on the night train
and met her at the train in Port
land, and she stood the trip on
the train from Portland, but
could not have stood the trip
from Portland on an old bus. I
think it would be a big draw
back to this country if this train
is stopped.
Frank Griffing
Box 484 J
Central Point
ing during the time they were
there.
Adams testified, under ques
tioning by assistant trial counsel
Lt. Erwin B. Drucker, that he
was in a room next to the one in
which Gallagher, Adams and
Baxter were quartered. The par
tition between the two rooms
had been torn down, Adams
said, and he had an unobstructed
view of the beds where the two
victims lay, suffering from
dysentery and exposure and un
able to move.
Jubilant Chandler
Confident of Win
In Fall Election
Louisville, Ky. (U.R) Former
baseball Commissioner A. B.
(Happy) Chandler was assured
of the Democratic nomination
for Kentuckys governor today
but it caused little joy among
the state organization whose can
didate, Bert T. Combs, was
soundly defeated.
When the tabulation reached
3124 of the state's 4165 precincts
Chandler had 209,927 votes, a
margin of 19.144 over his pri-
i mary opponent's 190,783.
Chandler arrived at his cam
paign headquarters here yester
day to celebrate his victory with
his campaign leaders and work
ers. He issued a statement ex
pressing his gratitude and his
confidence he would defeat the
Republican nominee, Edwin
Denney of Lexington, in the
November election.
State Healing Wounds
At the same time, Chandler
set about healing the wounds
caused by the bitter campaign
in which he overthrew the Dem
ocratic machine in power for
eight years.
U. S. Sen. Earle C. Clements
and Gov. Lawrence Wetherby,
heads of the state organization,
were prime targets of Chandl
er's biting oratory during the
campaign.
Referring to the pair fre
quently as "Clementine and
Wetherbine" Chandler said he
was out to break their "dictator
ship." Indications were his ver
bal blasts would not be forgot
ten easily despite his prediction
"there will be no division in
Democratic ranks in the Novem
ber election."
Chandler added, "I earnestly
solicit the support of all Ken
tuckians." However, at Combs head
quarters, Wetherby announced,
"we will not concede this elec
tion until every vote is counted."
Special Board
To Review Case
Of Eugene Landy
Washington (U.R) Secretary
of the Navy Charles Thomas has
announced that a special board.
of officers will review -the case
of Eugene W.' Landy, who was
denied a reserve commission
because his mother was once a
communist.
Thomas said that Landy, a
Merchant Marine honor gradu
ate, will receive "a fair and im
partial hearing" and that he per-
sonaUy will review the board's
finding.
Congress May Investigate
Congress may also take up the
case. Sen. Warren G. Magnusbn
(D-Wash.) said his Senate Com
merce Committee will invest!
gate the matter" in January if it
isn't "cleared up" before Con
gress reconvenes.1
As it stands, Magnuson said,
the case "is a proper subject for
inquiry."
Landy was graduated last Fri
day from the Merchant Marine
Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., but
was denied a Navy reserve com
mission on security grounds.
The 21-year-old midshipman
sailed Sunday aboard a tanker
to earn $400 needed for school
ing. :
Second in his class of 96, he
plans to study admiralty law at
Yale University.
Available Facts Reviewed
Thomas said he had "quickly
reviewed the facts ' presently
available in the case." He noted
that a Navy board had unani
mously ruled that Landy's suit
ability for a reserve commission
was "open to question" and that
a screening board had unani
mously recommended against a
commission.
Thomas said that Landy, who
has appealed, would be invited
to appear personally before the
officers board that he will set
up.
Landy s mother has stated
that her "Kaffee-Klatsch" mem
bership in the party was ended
largely because of the opposition
of her three sons.
"He is not responsible for the
activities of his mother," Mag
nuson said, "and we hope the
Navy will look at all the facts."
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other day 9:30 previous day.
In the Day's Hews
By FRAHC JENKII
As this is written, America's
emotions are deeply stirred by
the case of Eugene Landy, 21-
- e
U.S. merchant marine academjr
wno wm acniea a navai reserve,
commission because his widowed
mother was once a Communist.
, On the face of what we know
which is very little it doesn't
seem fair to us that the sins of
the parent should be visited upon
the child.
A T any rate, Landy hasn't lack-
aA infliipntial frinHc
Sen. Herbert Lehman, a noted
(and, I think, a sincere) liberal,
is demanding a full report on his
case from the navy. Sen. H. Alex
ander Smith of New Jersey not
a professional liberal, but a fair
and able senator took up the
case at once and has just notified
Landy that the navy will recon
sider his application for a com
mission. G
Senator Smith's statement is
confirmed by Navy Secretary
Thomas, who has just announced
that he will review the case fully
and impartially.
TN situations of this sort, it's so
hard to judge when we know
so little of all the circumstances.
I think it will be better to with
hold judgment until we know
more of the facts.
VISITATION of the sins of the
rtarpntc imnn ho Viilr4 !
an ancient human tragedy. Euri
pides referred to it some four
centuries before the birth of
Christ when he said in one of his
Fragments: "The gods visit the
sins of the fathers upon the chil
dren."
In Merchant of Venice, some
20 centuries later, Shakespeare
used almost the same words:
"The sins of the father are to be
laid upon the children."
I hope the time may come
when human beings will be so
tolerant and so fair that each of
us will be judged upon HIS OWN
record.
OPEAKING of ruckuses:
Canada's army and air force
have developed a difference of
opinion over who should have
control of ground-to-air missile
programs.
The army is reported to con
sider missiles just another form
of artillery and thus are the
army's responsibility.
The air force argument is un-
is responsible for all air defense,
including not only interceptor
planes but ground units firing
missiles.
T expect the common, .ordinary
Canadian won t care much
WHO saves him from invading
enemy bombers in case Cana
da should be invaded. His chief
interest will lie in BEING
SAVED.
IRENCH Premier Faure tells
the French national assembly
in Paris that France's living
standard will DOUBLE in the
next ten years if economic prog
ress in the country continues at
the present rate.
How come the present satisfy
ing rate of economic progress?
Well, the French seem to have
quit quarreling and GONE TO
WORK.
WEATHER note:
" On the nation's weather
front, showers and cooler air
have brought some relief to the
HEAT STRICKEN regions of the
Midwest.
But many parts of the Eastern
and Southern sections of the na
tion are still SIZZLING in hot
and humid weather.
pRETTY rugged?
Wait a minute. Listen to
Mr. Dun and Mr. Bradstreet, the
noted business prognosticators:.
Retail merchants are smashr.
ing all prior records, for mid
summer business. Despite SIZ
ZLING temperatures, retail sales
for the week just ended were at
the HIGHEST LEVEL EVER AT
TAINED at this time of year.
"All major areas of the nation
racked up better sales records
than in the comparable week
last year . . . Merchants in resort
areas enjoyed the biggest tourist
business on record."
WE grumble about the weather,
but when all's said and done
we take it in stride.
Almost every business or industry
has unusual, specialized risks that
need insuring. Many insurance
agencies have neither the experi
ence nor range of policies to han
dle such unusual risks. I am tolct
that the Medford Agency wel
comes rare insuring situations, and
has Lloyds of London, and Sur
plus Lines to handle them. Is this
true?
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