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History from the files of The
frail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
(j ft) YEARS AGO
August 14, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
(Japanese
surrender received.
'From
Arthur Perry's Ye
Pot column: Nylon
(Srtmdge
stockings for the fair sex are
prptriised as the first order of
business now. Many of the Older
Girls want 12 pairs for Christ
mis; and want them now.
20 YEARS AGO ;
Awfiust 14, 193S
C (It was Wednesday)
Growers meet to plan co-operative
pear cannery.
(County road oiling operations
over J for this season after 13Va
miles treated.
30 YEAR AGO
August 14, 1925
. (It was Friday)
Prince Lucian Campbell dies
after 23 years as University of
Oregon president.
Fipm the Local and Personal
colun$:GThe people are again
washed to boil the city water for
drinking purposes, by Dr. E. H.
Pickel, city health officer.
40 YEARS AGO
August 14, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, for-
("jrier chaplain of U. S. Senate, to
preach in Medford Sunday
at
St. Mark's hall.
Six hundred Knights of
rthias to attend annual state
conissntion at Crater lake next
week. -
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Re perl
leJ. Edgar Hoover says
FAI. is finding it easier
the
or
0 harder to catch active Commun
ists these days, or about the
Same as usual?
2. The Roman Catholic Church
has more cardinal bishops, cardi
nal deacons, or cardinal priests?
3. Urdu is spoken in central
Africa, Alaska, Switzerland, In
dia or South America?
4P St. Cecilia is the patron
saint of painting, the dance,
travelers, music or sculpture?
5. Number of persons on the
first sailing of the Mayflower
to North America was around
50, 100, 250 or 500?
6. The one President to go
Qiirectly from the Senate to the
White House was McKinley,
' Taft. Harding, Coolidge or Tru
man? 7. Theda Bara was a wife of
Henry VIII, early woman suf
rage leader, former U. S. tennis
- star actress in early movies, or
German spy? -
The Answers: 1. Harder. 2.
Car&nal priests. 3. India. ' 4.
Music. 5. Around 100. 6. Hard-
mg.
7. Actress in early
movies.
Baker People Reassured
On Location of Bypass
Portland (U.R) Plans for a
freeway on Highway 30 in
Bakeir county do not call for the
bypass to be located six miles
from the city of Baker, State
Highway Engineer R. H. Bal
dockcsaid Friday.
(gaidock told a delegation from
Baker, headed by Mayor Fred
Yourjf, that it was common prac
tice $p locate city bypasses in
closfe? proximity to cities.
Yoig had expressed concern
over reports the freeway would
be si$ miles from Baker.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Happy
In the case of ex-President Hoover who cele
brated his 81st birthday here in Oregon a few days
ago, the Law of Compensation seemed to work over
time. For Mr. Hoover was one of the most unpopular
single term and badly defeated Presidents in recent
histoiy yet he has lived to become one of the most
highly regarded and highly respected "elder states
men" in the Republican party, and to enjoy the rare
privilege in his declining years of having a large por
tion of his party come around to his view of American
statesmanship and destiny.
THIS is particularly true regarding the New and Fair
Deal policies. Although none of the Roosevelt pro
gram of social betterment has to date been repealed
by the Republicans and probably never will be
when Mr. Hoover condemned the ideals of his presi
dential successor, as a lot of "fuzzy-minded totalitari
anism," he received enthusiastic applause, and un
doubtedly faithfully echoed the sentiments of the
GOP leadership.
IN THE field of foreign policy Mr. Hoover is a con-
firmed and unashamed isolationist. He would re
peal the Marshall plan, eliminate all foreign aid, with
draw all US troops from foreign posts, and m case 01
war in Europe or elsewhere, leave active US participa
tionif any up to the air force alone.
He is far from being alone in this view as far as
his own party is concerned, but he is opposed by
President Eisenhower, and one surmises that when
they get together if they ever do public power and
TVA will be the topic of conversation rather than for
eign policy or E.C.A.
70R on public versus private power these two distin-
guished Republicans do see eye-to-eye. In lact as
President, Mr. Hoover vetoed the TVA bill and while
he did not use the familiar term of "creeping social
ism," that was his general idea then, and if he could
have his way now he would turn all the public-power
projects over to the Private Power combine, and the
private bankers, with multiple projects on any nation
al scale, and consequent lower prices for power, light
and irrigation, out of the window forever.
Well Mr. Hoover is entitled to his views. And as
long as the Republicans remain in power those views
will probably be the views of the government of the
country.
. The Democratic party on the other hand, as a
whole, does oppose them. But this has not prevented
many Democrats from paying their respects to Pres
ident Hoover on his recent birthday anniversary, and
wishing him in his private capacity, many happy re
turns so long as political "returns" are not included.
A ND now our 31st President once so discredited, un
happy and embittered, is not only enjoying the
best of health, party-wide popularity, but trout fishing
on the McKenzie, and might before he returns to Cal
ifornia even try his luck again on the Rogue.
Being a loyal, if not a devout Quaker, undoubtedly
our ex-President takes a breathing spell now and then
to express sincere appreciation for his manifold bless
ings. He should.
Reviewing the past we can recall no President of
the United States whose life story, all m all, covered
so many useful, healthful and successful years and
with such a happy ending. In fact his life as a whole
has been in the best Horatio. Alger tradition, "from
rags to riches" literally, not only in the material realm
but now politically. R.W.R.
Bumper Crop of Babies
This isn't Spring.
But evidences of "new life" are many.
In fact we can't recall a time when a casual prom
enade up or down the "Main Stem" of Medford gave
such a striking evidence that the Mail Tribune will
have to increase the normal space given to births, or
offend a multitude of prospective parents.
Well it's a good thing particularly in this fortunate
country, where the supply of nourishment so exceeds
the demand, that subsidies to the producers still have
to be paid, to make up the slack in consumption.
A NOTHER biological fact is apparent hereabouts,
"namely a large proportion of the distaff side with
"great expectations," are in their "teens." Or they
look to be. And those who aren't must be in their
early 20's.
This means there will soon be not only a startling
increase in the local birth rate, but an increase in
grandmothers and grandfathers in the 40-age group.
And a man in his 40's is today in his prime, al
though few in that age bracket think so when they
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nrst get mere.
CO what?
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Well we can't have our
baby can't be born every 8 seconds in the USA as is
claimed, without the present perplexing school prob
lem becoming more and more difficult to solve at
least properly and satisfactorily.
And there is the unemployment problem also.
Things look promising today but the flood-tide can't
last forever. Sooner or later there, is bound to be an
ebb. And when that comes with more mouths to feed
and more hands to keep employed and more and
more demands for free education at the expense of
the taxpayers than ever before, things may not be as
rosy as they appear today.
However we do not wish to enter any sour note
into this brief observation in the realm of increased
productivity. Sufficient unto the day is the increased
production thereof. R.W.R. '
Sunday, August 14, 19SS
Birthday
99
cake and eat it too. A new
Matter of Fact b,
RUSSIA IN RETROSPECT: IV
Editor's note: This Is the fourth of
a series of reports summing up Stew
art Alsop's experiences in the Soviet
Union, which he brought out with
him from Moscow.
London Has there been a
real change In Soviet policy?
Especially since Geneva, this
question has been uppermost in
almost everybody's mind. Some
weeks spent in the Soviet Union
suggest that the most obvious
answer is also the most accurate
that there has been a change
that the change is perfectly real
but that it does not go deep.
This answer applied equally
to Soviet foreign and domestic
policy. Experienced Western ob
servers believe that, at some
point last spring, the Presidium
reached a formal decision to take
certain measures to reduce the
danger, of war.
It is very probable that the
crisis in Asia first gave rise to
this decision. Although there is
no hard evidence to prove it, all
Western observers in Moscow
believe that the Soviet Union
made a major effort to restrain
the Chinese Communists from
attacking the offshore islands
last spring. At any rate, since
then, it has become more and
more clear that the Soviet lead
ers genuinely do want to reduce
the risk of war and to initiate
an international breathing spell.
But there is no informed West
erner in Moscow who believes
that the change in Soviet foreign
policy goes deeper than that.
Nobody believes for a moment
that the Soviet leaders are ready
to make the sort of basic changes
in policy which a true world
settlement would involve.
XTOBODY believes that Mr.
Molotov, for example, in his
forthcoming meeting with West
ern Foreign Ministers, will budge
an inch from his established pos
ition. The Soviets do not really
want a general settlement ex
cept strictly on their own terms
What they really want and ex
pect to get is a general accept
ance, for the time being, of the
status quo. But this, as far as
it goes, is a real change, since
it implies that the Soviets will
make no violent moves, like the
Berlin blockade or the Korean
War, to upset the status quo
The internal change is real
also, as far as it goes. One
measure of the internal change
is a Moscow hit play called "The
Wings," by Alexander Korni-
chuk, a friend of Communist
party boss Nikita Khrushchev,
In this play the heroine, whose
husband was afraid to speak out
for her when she was nabbed
by Beria's secret police after
the war, forgives him on the
ground that the terror was too
great to withstand. The play is,
in fact, an outspoken denuncia
tion of police terror in general,
An officially approved denun
ciation of police terror obviously
means a perfectly real change
in the Soviet system. Old Mos
cow hands believe that Soviet
citizens now have a greater sense
of personal security than at any
time since the mid-'30s. But now
as then, the change does not real
ly go deep.
Fear is still there, below the
surface. Russians love to talk to
foreigners now, whereas a few
years ago they would go to any
lengths to avoid them. But a
Russian is still careful never to
give a foreigner his private ad
dress or his telephone number.
Above all, every Russian is care
ful never to deviate from the of
ficial line.
Indeed, the way every Russian
parrots every other Russian on
all political matters was what
most interested and depressed
this reporter in the Soviet Union.
Nor is this endless parroting in
spired only by caution, although
caution obviously plays its part.
This reporter is deeply con
vinced, after many talks with
Russians, that the vast majority
of them really believe in the
mess of lies and alf-truths which
they have been fed.
,
rFHIS is not really so surpris
ing. Suppose, for example,
that all Americans, as soon as
they began to go to school, were
told that all Russians had two
heads. Suppose that any evi
dence to the contrary was ruth
lessly suppressed; and that it was
dangerous even to be suspected
of thinking that some Russians
might have only one head. Then
most Americans would go to
their graves firmly convinced
that all Russians had two heads.
Thus it is surely not surpris
ing that most Russians believe
that John Foster Dulles started
the Korean War on orders from
Wall Street; or that the Ameri
can capitalists own the Ameri
can government body and soul,
while the American workers
live in impotent misery; or that
all capitalists want war because
war is profitable. As one Rus
sian remarked simply to this re
porter: "But of course, we be
lieve what we have been taught."
The extent to which the Rus
sians believe what they have
been taught is greatly underesti
mated in the West. So is the
political importance of this phe
nomenon of mass delusion. Con
sider one example. Most Ameri
cans think of the Russian peace
propaganda as strictly for ex
port. Actually, a Russian is
hardly ever out of sight or sound
of the Russian word for peace
PEACE TO THE WORLD is writ
ten in huge letters on every
empty wall.
Stewart Alsop
At first glance it might be
supposed that this internal peace
propaganda would weaken the
position of the regime in case of
war. The precise opposite is
true. If the Kremlin ordered
the Red Army to attack the West
tomorrow, not one Soviet citi
zen in a million would doubt for
an instant that Russia had been
the victim of ruthless capitalist
aggression. And the genuine
fury of the Soviet people against
the "breakers of the peace"
would greatly strengthen the
regime for whatever was in
store.
The changes which have oc
curred in Soviet external and
internal policy since Stalin's
death are welcome changes. But,
despite smiles and picnic parties,
it should never be forgotten for
a moment that the Soviet sys
tem is profoundly and inherently
hostile to the West. Bar a basic
change in the Soviet system, the
West will invite certain disaster
if it lets down its guard for an
instant.
There is one simple criterion
of such a change. The Soviet
system will really have changed
when Soviet citizens begin hotly
disputing the political views of
each other and of their govern
ment. There is nothing like a
few weeks in the Soviet Union
to restore meaning to that tired
old word, freedom, or to show
how wide and treacherous is the
gulf between those who have it
and those who do not.
Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Today and
By Walter
ON THE DAYS TO COME
The most reliable objective
test of real, and not merely
tactical, change in Soviet policy
is not whether
there is agree
ment on this
or that specific
issue. It is
whether the
Soviet system
is beginning to
operate less
s e c r e t ly. As
long as the
secrecy is
Walter Uppmann main tained.
the censorship and the restric
tions on coming and going,
there is no telling what is the
purpose or the value of a specific
concession or from a friendlier
official attitude. They could in
deed, as so many suspect, be
meant to divert and confuse. As
long as the territory is sealed
and the people are locked up
and hidden in darkness it is, not
only possible but indeed neces
sary to wonder whether the
friendlier attitude is not the
mask for some unpleasant sur
prises.
But if there is publicity, not
total of course but sufficient, it
becomes impossible to mount
and to launch a formidable sur
prise. In a country that is fairly
open no one can hide a mobiliza
tion, and without a mobilization
a sneak attack could not be at
tempted. By this test we have
made genuine progress since the
spring of the year. Both Moscow
and Washington have now based
their armament proposals on the
same principle: that there should
be publicity which makes im
possible a surprise. The Soviets
propose to arrange the publicity
by permitting inspection at the
key points of a mobilization
The President, while accepting
this proposal in principle, has
proposed the added device of ex-
chaneins blueDrints and of
aerial reconnaisance.
This is progress. But if noth
ing else were nappening, we
would still be in a position of
waiting to see whether these
verbal formulas can be tran-
lated into agreements and then
administered. But something else
is happening. And it all points in
the same direction. It points
toward less mystery about the
Soviet government and less
secrecy in the Soviet Union. For
as freedom of travel and circula
tion increase, there will be in
side the Soviet Union, as there
have always been inside the
United States, a growing num
ber of "inspectors," that is to
say of intelligence agents. Inter
course is as yet, of course, very
far indeed from being open be
tween the Soviet Union and the
Western world. But the more
open it becomes, the more effec
tive and reliable will be our
canacitv "to inspect" the Soviet
Union, as we ourselves are "in
spected." The ruling oligarcny m xne
Soviet Union have quite evident
ly decided that they do not want
or do not need the aura oi mys
tery and of majesty with which
Lenin and Stalin surrounded
themselves. This is an extra
ordinary change, and it has
come about very recently.
No one, I think, has as yet ex
plained it. But from what we
know of the history of revolu
tions and of despotism, it is most
probably the key phenomenon
in the present situation. For as
a government begins to operate.
in the public view, it cannot gov
ern by arbitrary command, ii
must take account of how at
least some considerable public
will receive its commands. It is
much less likely, Indeed it is
much less able, to go to war
HE'S THE TOP Master Sgt
Andrew J. Downey (above) of
the 436th Troop Carrier
Wing, Brooklyn, N. Y., was
named "Outstanding Reserve
Airman of 1955" during con
vention of the Air Force As
sociation in San Francisco.
Northern Japan Area
Shaken by Earthquake
Tokyo-ftJ.R) A rolling earth
quake originating in the Pacific
Ocean shook northern Japan on
a 200-mile front today.
The central meteorological
observatory said the temblor
shook Mito 100 miles northwest
of Tokyo with a "rather strong"
shock, and was felt along the
ccast from Tokyo to Fukushima.
There were no reports of in
juries. Tomorrow
Lippmann
without notice.
Among the many good things
that are being done by the
Geneva conference on nuclear
energy, by no means the least is
that it promises to destroy the
iron curtain between the East
ern and the Western scientists
end engineers. There was a time,
only ten years ago, when Amer
ican atomic scientists were
taken to Moscow to a conference,
and were not allowed when they
got there to meet any Soviet
atomic scientists. Now there is
a prospect that the scientists can
exchange scientific papers, can
correspond with one another,
can meet and can talk. This is
the highest and best form of
mutual "inspection." For at the
highest level of knowledge and
among men who have mastered
their subject, concealment and
deception are virtually impos
sible.
There is a general movement
among the great powers. They
on secrecy and surprise to secur-
are turning from security based
ity based on publicity which in
hibits surprise. With the modern
weapons of mass destruction
was is for all practicable pur
poses impossible if the aggressor
cannot achieve surprise. It is no
longer wishful thinking, than to
say that the great powers are on
the way which, if followed fur
ther, means the avoidance of the
third world war.
In human affairs there is no
clear cut dividing line between
one era and another. The old
era continues long after the new
one has begun. Feudalism, for
example, is long past and yet
even in highly socialist European
countries, important elements
of feudalism remain. The cold
war is very far from being over,
and probably no one alive today
will see the end of it. But what
is happening, it would appear,
is that we are entering a new era
in the cold war, one in which
that cold ar is ceasing to be, as
it has been for the past ten
years, the seedbed of a great
and total war.
What can we discern about the
era into which we are beginning
to enter? Not much as yet but
perhaps at least this that as
war ceases to be the main pre
occupation of the nations, they
will be governed less by their
fears and more by their hopes
This will subject them to a new
and difficult test whether in an
atmosphere of security and of
hope, they can freely agree on
what is the public interest and
how to achieve it. The fear of
war is a better thing. But it com
pels men to agree on a common
purpose, that of national defense.
The question which may well
be uppermost in the days that
are to pome is whether, without
the coercion and the cohesion of
fear, the differing and opposing
hopes of free men can be recon
ciled and fused into national
purposes.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Crew Battling Forest
Fire Near La Grande
La Grande (U.R) : A crew
of 32 men Saturday battled a
forest fire in the ' Wallowa
Whitman National forest quar
ter mile from the airstrip at
Red's Horse ranch. Latest re
port from the fire front said
the blaze was about controlled.
The fire was discovered late
Friday and by Saturday had
burned over about 15 acres of
timberland.
The fire was in extremely
rough country. There are no
roads into Red's Horse ranch
and guests have to be flown in.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
That tall wife of the tall
farmer who has figured in these
columns in the past (once in con
nection with skunks), is Pot
luck fodder again.
Staff member , reports she's
been pointing out to city folks
lately that parents who live in
the country don't have to worry
about city hazards which might
attack their children. (This de
spite the fact that the 2-year-old
boy recently has wandered off on
long rural walks, to be found
only after his parents had con
sidered forming a posse.).
But maybe she's right, though.
And one of the city hazards
may be said to be Sunday-school
going. The 3-year-old girl went
to the Methodist Sunday school
one recent Sunday; it was a nice
day; the class went outdoors to
enjoy the trees and grass of the
Library park; some Presbyterian
Sunday-schoolers and some
other Methodists had the same
idea.
The 3-year-old got somehow
mislaid, and when her weeping
mother finally found her, after
searching the church, the Sun
day school building and the
park, the youngster was calmly
sitting with a Presbyterian lady
who found the young DP,
gathered she was not a Presby
terian, and volunteered to watch
her until help arrived.
The Starlile Drive-In last
week had a big sign adver
tising "The Blakboard
Jungle." Management explain
ed some hoodlums had swiped
all their "Cs". It was fortu
nate the film playing wasn't
"Conquest of Space," or even
"The Solid Gold Cadillac.
Why is it that Potluck seems
to attract animal stories?
Anyway, the rest of the
column is devoted to them.
Here's the first:
Ray Harnish, who lives at the
western edge of Eagle Point,
found he had an audience one
recent evening while milking
his cows.
Four tiny spotted fawns at
tentively watched Harnish at
work until two does arrived and
herded the little fellows away,
a move watched, and perhaps
supervised, by a forked-horn
buck nearby.
Before departing into the
woods, the seven, possibly made
thirsty by watching the milk,
drank deeply at the farm pond.
A Mail Tribune employee
buys her eggs from some
body else that works down
town, but who raises eggs at
home. The M-T worker re
ports that most of the eggs are
double-yolk jobs, and about
once a week, there's a iriple-
yolker in the bunch.
The lady whose hens pro
duce the eggs explains that
it's too bad, because a hen's
laying capacity is not govern
ed by the number of eggs
laid, but by the total number
of yolks produced.
It seems virtually impos
sible to end this item without
remarking, "That's a yolk
son."
A Jacksonville man the other
morning found a small fox in
his chicken pen. He shot it
wounding it in the leg, then
found another one nearby which
appeared not to be particularly
scared of him. He took the two
pups to the house, and then de
cided, because they were so darn
cute, to take the wounded one
to a veterinarian.
The doctor set, splintered and
otherwise attended to the leg,
McKay Says Local
Groups Must Help
Preserve History
Champoeg (U.R) Secre
tary of Interior Douglas McKay
Saturday said local communities
and the states should take more
of a hand in development and
preservation of " historic sites
within their boundaries.
The secretary, speaking at
the dedication of Robert New
ell house at Champoeg as a his
toric site, said there was a limit
to what the federal govern
ment can and should do in the
field of preserving such sites and
objects.
Praises Champoeg People
He praised the people of
Champoeg for their interest and
work in preserving the Newell
house and cited the cities of
Newberg and Vancouver, Wash.,
as other "communities which
worked mostly on their own in
establishing historic sites.
McKay stressed the import
ance of historic sites because of
the "association value" they
have with the people of the
community..
'Nothing else "certainly no
school textbook can compete
with them when it comes to ar
ousing interest in history," Mc
Kay said.
McKay left here after the ded
ication of Fort Vancouver Na
tional monument.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday: 10 .m. Monday for
Monday; other days 6:30 previous day.
and the little fox made a great
hit, nuzzling the doctor and
nurse and generally acting ap
pealing. When our man got home, he
untied the other fox pup for a
moment, and it got away from
him. He chased it; it ran to some -neighbors,
and he found both
foxes had been raised more or
less as pets.
Second-hand reports indicated
he explained about shooting the
other fox, and said they could
have it back if they'd pay the
medical costs, but otherwisa
he'd keep it himself.
We're still waiting to learn
how it all came out But we
have been told the wounded
fox pup is getting along fine.
Communications '
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the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a Den name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Thoughts About Grandchildren
To the Editor: There's long
been a mild wonderment with
me just why the word "grand",
was used to designate our chil
dren's children. Of course they're
always, or nearly, a grand ad
dition to the family circle. Un
fortunately, they do not always
continue' so. But a new and
pleasant slant was given recently
following a wild and rapid
descent in a rain of dust and
busted boards to a sudden stop
some seven feet below, that put
me out of the running a few
days. Worst of all, there's quite
a few home owners who depend
on me to help keep homes land
scaped and maintained in pleas
ing style. As one said, "I don't
know what I'll ever do without
your help here."
Now such pay cannot be meas
ured in mere dollars and cents.
So, my 16-year-old grandson was
approached. Sure, sure. It was
all a wonderment. His car that
he and his brother had bought
the various parts for and as
sembled, purred along like some
thing fresh from the factory.
And his sharp" observance of
traffic rules, their limited ease
ments like red-light right turns,
so nonchalant-like driving in
such contrast to my gingerly
careful way, for when one is
old, bad disaster or less lifts
ones' driver's license; you don't
get it back as in younger years.
No more to wheel the winding 3
roads through the cherished
lands of our fathers, mine who
were here long long before the
coming of the pale-face. A terri
fying contemplation.
. But most astonishing was the
ease with which he lifted out
the big power mower that took
so much of my tugging, lifting
and grunting. Yet, it was so little
while back we boys vied in flip
ping 120 pound sacks of wheat
from the thresher to shoulder
and raced to release its golden
flood to the hungry bins. How
the years do sneak away youth's
boundless strength and time.
Our ride home and his pride
of accomplishment was so pleas
ing. Bringing to mind another
grandson's insistence to do his
own building, saying, "Grandpa.
a boy has got to be proud of
something." Answer enough for
most of youth's problems.
F. J. Clifford c
1211 W. Main
Like News Coverage
To the Editor: The Medford
Central Labor Council wishes to
convey its sincere thanks end
appreciation for the excellent
news coverage given to the Ore
gon State Federation of Labor
convention held here recently.
The officers and delegates unani
mously agreed that your write
ups were the best that we have
had for some years.
Pauline La Plane,
Secretary,
Medford Central
Labor Council.
Log Famine Closes
Molalla Area Mills
Portland (U.R) Edward
Woozley, director of the Bureau
of Land Management, has been
asked to investigate a "log
famine" which has closed two
mills and reduced operations at
two others in the Molalla area.
The log shortage, caused part
ly by declining supply in the
hands of private operators,
forced shutdowns at the Davis
and A. F. Lowes Lumber Com
panies. Avison Lumber Com
pany and Kappler Lumber Com
pany were reported running part
time.
The four mills employ more
than 225 men.
Court Records
DISTRICT COURT
Arlet Alvin Anderson, overwidth
$15.
Gordon Lafe Redfield. failure to stop
at stop sign. $10.
Marry Lee Fuller, failure to stop
at stop sign, $10.
Dan Richard 'Hakes, failure to stop
at stop sign, $10.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Peter Roberts. 45.
Medford. and
Florence Olive Lynn.
51. 131 South
urape st. .
Winston W. Kurth, 52. of 1980 Barn-
ett rd.. and Peezy Janice Benton.
21, Berry dale ave.
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