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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 23. 1945
(It was Thursday)
Class underway to train civil
rrinia weathermen to operate rain
"'J n :
weamer equipment uc
From Arthur Perry's Ye
OHlUUgC i w -
fcj was caught, right out on . the
Main Stem yesterday eating a
O 1945 model Bartlet pear. He was
immediately identified as a new
o comer. All the natives talk pears,
? the Majority do not eat them.
O 20 yaRS AGO
O August 23, 1935
0 (It was Friday)
0 Farm mortgage bill passes
Senate, ready for signing.
Blind bogey tournament to
open season at Medford Public
golf course.
30 YEARS AGO
August 23, 1925
(It was Sunday)
Vice President Dawes to visit
Portland Sept. 7.
Rain upstate hits prune crop.
GFrost at Klamath Falls.
40 YEARS AGO
August 23, 1915
(It was Monday)
Farmer demonstrates third
crop of alfalfa possible only if
water is available.
Grizzlies club to climb Pilot
Rock.
What's the Answer?
O Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Which has the largest cir
culation: N. Y. Times; N. Y.
NewstrChicaeo Tribune; Detroit
News; Philadelphia Bulletin; Los
O Angeles Times?
q2. Most of the leaders of Rus
sia are Jews; right or wrong?
3. Less than half,' about half,
titwo - thirds or three fourths of
all men over 25 smoke regularly?
4. Which U. S. president of the
O last 40 years demanded a return
q to "normalcy."
5. Which one of these is a track
(Confined to harness racing; Sara
toga, Laurel Park, Hollywood
0 Park, Roosevelt Raceway. Hazel
o owns?
fj 6. Pewter is made chiefly of
6 aluminum, iron, lead, silver, tin
r zinc?
7. Which one of these stars
jjij -as born in the U. S.: Merle Obe-
(Son, Olivia de Haviland, Greer
Garson, Jinx Falkenburg, Kathe
tj (Jine Hepburn?
The Answers: 1. N. Y. Times.
O 2. Wrong. 3. About iwo-ihirds. 4.
O Harding. 5. Roosevelt Raceway.
0 6. Tin. 7. Hepburn.
n Anti-Utter Ordinance
Pointed at Truckers
Milwaukee (U.R) The city
o attorney here has been asked to
g draft, an
ordinance providing
f: for stiff fines for truckers and
contractors who fail to clean up
'glitter they make on city streets.
William J. Rheinfrank, super
intendent of street sanitation,
said he had received increasing-
ly 'frequent complaints from
business establishments and
home owners about the situation.
He-said he also will ask for
rigid enforcement of an existing
anti-litter ordinance which pro
vides fines from $loto 51,000.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Patterson
When asked if his controversy with Attorney Gen
eral lhomton was "political" Governor Patterson
said no comment.
The Governor might
received credit for being frank and forthright.
For the controversy IS 100 per cent political.
If the Attorney General were a Republican, or if
the Governor were a Democrat there would have been
no controversy over the Liquor Commission findings
whatever and probably
For in this case one
between the two major parties, and both principals
in the argument were true to their own but conflicting
political beliefs.
GOVERNOR Patterson
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what is good for General Motors is good for the coun
try, but government is essentially big business and
should be conducted in a big business way.
Well, Big Business is conducted in actual practice
exclusively by the executives and the board of di
rectors. Proxies are sent out and perhaps a meeting
of the stockholders is occasionally held. But a very
small and select group really run the business, and
the stockholders have little or nothing to say about it.
As for giving them information regarding details of
the business from day to day that just isn't done the
theory being what they don't know won't hurt them,
and the less they know, the better for smooth run
ning of the business.
"THE Democratic theory is different,
f Government is regarded as similar but not as
identical in procedure or philosophy with business,
big or little. The greatest importance is placed not
on the board of 'directors but upon the stockholders,
that is the people. The theory is that not only the more
the people know about their government business the
better, but those who run the business from day to
to day have a solemn duty
all matters of genuine importance.
IN ASKING that he be given the complete file on the
Liquor probe Attorney General Thornton, as we
understand it, was not interested in exerting his of
ficial authority. He was only interested in seeing that
no evidence of importance
duly elected legal representative of the people.
As he stated:
"let's get the whole affair out in the open."
THAT is just what the Governor apparently did not
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there was nothing criminal involved, that while there
had perhaps been irregularities and indiscretions, in
some directions, the Attorney General had no" juris
diction anyway, and Thornton was decidedly out of
order, if not just head-line hunting, in raising the
issue at such a time at all.
So there you are.
Two different views
democracy.
As stated Governor Patterson was true to the doc
trine of his party, that unless there. has been a crime
committed, what the people don't know won't hurt
them, and might hurt the party, so why rock the boat
If a crime has been committed then it's up to the
proper courts.
In contrast the theory of the Democratic party is
that the more the people, the stockholders in our
national corporation, KNOW about what "is going on
in their government criminal or not criminal the
better for them and the future of democracy.
So it is the duty of a responsible government to
keep them duly, fully and accurately informed.
TF WE had to guess as to the outcome of this par-
ticular affair we would predict the Governor will
be sustained in his contention that no crimes of an
indictable nature haye been committed which will
undoubtedly be interpreted in the executive depart
ment at Salem as a "great victory," for him and a
great defeat for the Attorney General., .
But wre shall be surprised if this verdict is accepted
by Attorney General Thornton as satisfactory or final.
For as he has frequently stated Governor Patter
son should make public the whole record, so the peo
ple may know just what has been doing on in the
O.L.C. and what hasn't. "
This is what he wants and we doubt if he will be
satisfied until he gets it. We have a pious idea, the
people of the state as a whole, agree with him.
R.W.R.
Schmidt's Mother
Disturbed by Delay
Portland 0J.R) Mrs. Nellie
Peters, mother of Airman Dan
iel C. Schmidt, took a mild seda
tive and went to bed yesterday
after being informed her son
was delayed on his first visit
home since his release from a
Red China prison camp.
Mrs. Peters had been expect
ing to see her son. Schmidt told
newsmen last Saturday at Child's
Meadows, Calif., that he was
leaving then by automobile for
the trip to Portland. However,
Mrs. Peters received a telephone
call today from a San Francisco
newspaper that her son had
spent the weekend at the home
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Wal
ter Ferguson, at Child's Mea
dows. Mrs. Peters said she was in
formed her son and Mrs. Fergu
son had left today and expected
to arrive here Wednesday or
Thursday. ...
Tuesday, August 23, 1955
- Thornton Feud
have admitted the truth and
m no other field either.
comes to a basic difference
has the same idea Secretary
Vine? nomalir V n f nnf rmlT7
to keep them informed on
was kept from him, as a
of proper procedure in-a
'Sunglasses' Advised
By L.A. School Head
Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R)
The head of the California De
partment of School Planning at
Los Angeles has recommended
"sun glasses" for classrooms and
other areas where visual work
is essential.
Charles D. Gibson, who spoke
at a University of Michigan con
ference on visual environment
in school rooms, said reducing
the .light transmission in the
vision strip to 12.5 per cent is
possible by use of "a neutral
gray glass."
. The vision strip is that part
of the window area a person
normally would look through
from either a standing or sitting
position.
Gibson said the gray glass
"offers no color distortion, per
mits unrestricted viewing of the
outside and has the same effect
as sunglasses worn on a bright
day." .
Matter of
A SICK CITY
Editor's note: This delayed report
was sent by Stewart Alsop on the
very eve of the outbreak of the North
African riots.
Casablanca A sick city gives
forth a sort of smell-, a special
emanation of its own. The sick
smell is always much the same,
whether in Cairo during " the
riots or in Prague in the first
weeks after the coup or in
Shanghai just before the Com
munists got it or in Jerusalem
during the Palestine terror. This
city has the smell of sickness,
which is the sme& of hatred and
fear.
The sickness here is like that
of a persdh in a dangerous fever,
before the crisis has been reach
ed. The crisis was expected Aug.
20, the second anniversary of
the day when the French de
posed Sultan Sidi Mohammed
ben-Youssef, a self-regarding and
luxury-loving man who has be
come, thanks to the French, the
symbol of Moroccan national
ism. A great blood-letting was
expected on this day between
the ruling French and the rebel
lious Moroccans. Newspapermen,
who share with vultures a com
mon interest in death and dis
aster, have flocked here to be
in at the kill.
The blood-letting did not de
velop early in the day. But as
this is written the day has not
yet ended and Casablanca's smell
of hatred and of fear cannot be
ignored. Anything a fire out of
hand or a few ill-advised spots
may start very bad trouble.
So far, the trouble has been
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Weather news bad, as usual:
Furious floods ripped at the
Northeastern states for the sec
ond day in a row, with 112
known dead and property dam
age estimated in the billions.
Rivers, bloated with record
breaking rains (as much as 12
inches in one day, in places)
rolled out of their banks across
seven states, leaving thousands
homeless, roads in shambles and
whole communities in debris
covered ruin.
T WOULDN'T think of criti-
- cising Mother Nature who
when the magnitude of her op
erations is considered, does an
amazing job but if she'd just
SCATTER IT AROUND a little
more it would be appreciated
THE rate of increase of our
stored-up wheat surplus is
believed to be slowing up a lit
tle. It is still growing, but not so
fast.
Come next July 1, the wheat
reserves are expected to total
about 1,500,000,000 bushels or
only 35,000,000 bushels more
than on July 1 of this year. That
would be the smallest carry
over increase since July 1, 1953
But-
Current wheat stocks are now
about FOUR TIMES the 256,-
000,000 bushel carryover on
July 1, 1952.
TT'S a big problem, as everyone
A knows, with many angles
including the political ones.
But I still think it would be
better to feed the surplus wheat
to livestock at prices competitive
with other feed grains instead
of stashing it away in ever
increasing quantities to hang
like a menacing thundercloud
over the markets.
BUT let's get away from the
crops and the weather and
talk for a moment about MOD
ERN highways. We're planning
some interesting developments
along that line in Oregon.
The B a n f ie 1 d Expressway,
leading out of Portland to the
east, is a divided highway. In
the center strip it is planned to
plant a screen of ornamental
shrubs to shield night drivers
from the headlights of cars ap
proaching from the other direc
tion. '
I think everyone will agree
that it is a splendid idea. Blind
ing headlights are the chief men
ace of night driving. On two
lane highways, there is no satis
factory solution to the problem'.
But on modern divided high
ways a screen of shrubs in the
center will provide an astonish
ing amount of relief.
It might as well be added that
the time is coming when all of
our main highways must have
four or more lanes. These multi-
lane highways cost a lot of
money, but they handle a lot
of traffic. There is a lot of traf
fic already, and it will increase
steadily in the future as our
country grows.
ON THE new multi-lane high
way from Portland to Salem
that is nearing completion an
other interesting experiment is
under consideration. It, too, has
to do with planting.
The idea is to-plant the sides
of the road, beginning at the
right-of-way fence, with a heavy
screen of wild rose bushes. As
everyone knows, wild roses pro
duce a tangle of vines. The
thinking is that a car going off
the pavement out of control
would be caught in this tough
network of vines much as a
trapeze performer who misses
his hold is caught in the pro
tective net beneath and saved
from serious injury.
At any rate, it is an interest
ing proposal, and I hope it is
given a triaL
Fact
Stewart Alsop
small and sporadic. Here is what
it has been like. You are riding
in an open car behind a French
jeep patrol, through the "New
Medina" the shoddy, glaring
Arab section. The patrol leader,
suspicious, stops a closed Arab
funeral truck, painted white,
with""Pompes Funebres Mussul
man" written on the side. No
less than 15 Moroccans, ranking
from boys to old men, pile out
of the little truck.
TUST what they planned fo do,
no one knows. There are no
weapons in the truck, but the
two long empty coffins have air
holes punched in them. The 15
frightened Arabs are made to
lean forward in a line, with their
hands outstretched against the
walls. From time to time a black
Senegalese soldier walks down
the line, and pulls their feet out.
to make the leaning as painful
as possible.
A crowd begins to gather, but
it is quickly dispersed when a
platoon in a heavy truck is driv
en hell-for-leather into it. A cou
ple of French soldiers catch a
young Moroccan slithering along
an alley and slap him until he
screams, and then let him go.
When you leave, 20 minutes
later, the Arabs are still leaning
against the wall, their legs
quivering from the strain. The
last thing you remember is their
brown hands, the veins swollen,
against the dirty white of the
wall, and the veiled look of fear
and hatred in their eyes.
Or, later, you go to a place
near a quarry, where trouble
has been reported. There . is a
line of German-made tanks, with
soldiers sitting on them in the
hot sun, talking and joking. Just
to one side, there is a long, dusty
road with Arab houses on the
left and a "bidonville" on the
right. "Bidon" is French for gas
oline can, and a bidonville is a
town, or rather a city, built en
tirely of flattened gasoline cans,
and crawling with humanity.
In the peculiarly casual man
ner- of French soldiery, troops
are spread out along the road
between the Arab settlement
and the bidonville. There are
45,000 Arabs in this bidonville,
and 20,000 more behind the
closed shutters of the Arab set
tlement. But there is no Arab
to be seen, except for a rare,
quick shadow, and a brooding
silence reigns, broken only by
the intermittent cackling of
chickens and an, occasional rifle
shot.
The shots are fired mostly in
warning. The corpse of one
Arab, who did not heed the
warning quickly enough, has
been dragged off to one side.
Two or three Arabs were killed
earlier. A French non-com,
wounded, by a shot from some
where in the silent depths of the
bidonville, has been taken off
to the hospital.
AT THE moment there are
hardly more dead and wound
ed than one might expect traffic
to inflict on a crowded holiday
in an American city. But this
is a sick city and both French
and Moroccans are perfectly
aware that the blood-letting can
come at any time.
It can come, for example, if
the Arab leaders become con
vinced that negotiation with the
French is futile, and pass the
word to the mobs to move
against the French. Or the blood
letting can start if the French
extremists gain the upper hand
and the military are permitted
to "teach the Arabs a lesson" by
shelling and bombing Arab
towns, as in Syria and Algeria
after the war.
It will be a long, long time
before this sick city is well. Here
in Casablanca, and throughout
Morocco, fear and hatred have
bitten too deep to be erased and
forgotten.
(Copyright, 1955
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Western Pacific
Train Derailed
Hayward, Calif. (U.R)
Some 200 passengers escaped
injury Monday when the Western
Pacific's streamlined California
Zephyr was derailed within the
city limits here as it neared the
end of its trip from Chicago.
Nine cars of the glass-domed
luxury train jumped the track,
but all remained upright and
on the right-of-way. The diesel
power unit, baggage car and two
forward coaches remained on the
rails.
H. C. Monson, vice-president
and general manager of the rail
way, blamed the accident on
track repair work which was in
progress on that section of the
main line.
He said the train was passing
over unballasted ' "skeleton
track" at about 25 miles per hour
when one of the sections of rail
collapsed under the train's
weight.
- The train ripped out 960 feet
of track and scattered railroad
ties like matchsticks, but steward
Carl Bollinger of South San
Francisco reported that not a
dish in the dining cars had been
broken.
WP officials said the line
would be cleared for travel
sometime today.
Eleven states and Alaska are
sources of pumice.
Producer of $64,000 Question TV Show
Tells How To Get Crack At the Loot
New York (U.R) Steve Car
lin, executive producer of "The
S64.000 Question," today sup
plied a 864,000 answer how to
go about getting a crack at all
the loot.
Carlin,. who helped nurse the
money - winning (it's ranked
number one by the rating agen
cies), money-losing (it's shelled
out 100,560 and two Cadillacs
over 10 weeks) show from the
start, gets' about 15,000 letters
a week from viewers. Almost all
suggest friends, relatives or
Democratic Troubles
In South Expected To
Carry Into '56 Drive
Washington (U.R) Cur
rent evidence indicates that the
Democratic party's troubles in
the South will carry into the
1956 campaign despite the grow
ing unity among Democrats in
Congress.
Some of the more astute South
ern veterans here share this be
lief, on the bases of two as
sumptions: Ike Expected To Run
1. That Republicans will re
nominate President Eisenhower,
who cracked the Solid South in
1952 and won the electoral votes
of four Southern states.
2. That Adlai E. Stevenson,
1952 Democratic nominee, is the
most probable choice of the
1956 convention, and that Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York,
who could expect even more
Southern opposition, ranks
next.
Since Mr. Eisenhower's over
whelming victory in 1952 the
is That So?
A skull .whacker. Answers fol
low questions and each has its
individual score. . If you make
90 or better, you are an outdoor
expert; 80, a woodsman; 70 is
still good; but less than 50 calls
for some outdoor reading.
1. If you were to-f hear these
remarks, would you believe or
disbelieve them? ;
A. Believe, disbelieve: A full
grown elm may have up to 7,
000,000 buds which form and
burst during each spring.
B. Believe, disbelieve: ine
Monarch butterfly has been
known to make a 3,000 mile trip
migration.
C. Believe, disbelieve: The vast
majority of houseflies that sur
vive the winter s cold are ierii
lized females.
2. Antlers seem to inspire a lot
of myths. Which is fact, which
myth?
Nine Cases of
Illness Reported
Only nine cases of communi
cable diseases were reported in
Jackson county during the week
ended Aug. 20, according to the
weekly report prepared by the
county health department.
Leading the list were three
cases of measles, including one
each in Medford, Gold Hill, and
Ashland. One case of three-day
measles also was reported in
Medford.
A case of infectious hepatitis
listed for Medford involved a
resident of Crescent City.
Other diseases on the list in
cluded a case of amebic dysen
try and a case of strep throat,
both in Medford; a case of trench
mouth in Central Point, and a
case of pneumonia in Rogue
River.
Skeleton's Identity
Sought by Police
Portland (U.R) Police yester
day launched an investigation
into the identity of a male skele
ton found hanging over a fence
with a rock tied around the
waist.
A railroad section crew found
the skeleton near the intersec
tion of Morgan and St. Helens
road. Multnomah county police
said it appeared that the man
had fallen or been thrown into
high water and been caught on
the fence during a flood. Resi-,
dents said, however, that water
had not been that high in two
years.
The rock tied to the body
weighed between 7 and 10
pounds and . was secured with
wire and twine. All identifica
tion tabs in the man's wallet had
apparently been . cut out with
knife or scissors.
themselves as possible contest
ants. But Carlin said most of them
are dumped in the waste basket
right off the bat.
"To get any initial considera
tion at all, a letter should be
fairly long and read intelligent
ly," said Carlin. "It should in
clude detailed information about
the following age, profession,
educational background, family
status, interests outside work,
the hopes that can be fulfilled by
winning any money.
Democrats have drawn some
what closer together, particular
ly in Congress.
' But the problems which caus
ed party splits in 1948 and 1952,
particularly the civil rights is
sue, have not been solved.
Shivers Still in Office ,
Two of the 1952 pro-Eisenhower
governors, Allan Shivers of
Texas and Robert F. Kennon
of Louisiana, are still in office.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, who refus
ed to support Stevenson in 1952,
is still the dominant Democrat
in Virginia. . Strom Thurmond,
1958 States Rights Democratic
party nominee and a 1952 Eisen
hower backer, is now in the
Senate.
There is no reason yet to be
lieve that men such as these will
turn around and support Steven
son or Harriman in 1956 even if,
as many Democrats claim, Mr.
Eisenhower has lost ground in
the South.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
A. All deer shed their antlers
each year.
B. The number of tines and
size of antlers pretty well indi
cate a deer's age.
C. While in the "velvet" a
deer's antlers are soft, sensitive,
and warm to the touch.
3. Man has been timed at
swimming 4.1 . miles an hour,
which of these animals beaver,
octopus, leatherneck turtle,
muskrat, sea lion is slower or
faster than man and place each
one in the proper order:
1 ; 2 3 Man ;
4 i.; 5 .; 6
Answers: 1. Disbelieve only A.
irue enough, the elm may have
up to 7,000,000 buds but they
form during the previous year
and are ready formed long be
fore January. (Take 15 points for
each one right.)
2. Of these, only B is a myth.
Regardles of how firmly en
trenched this belief is, it is false.
In the earlier years, perhaps.
But after buck passes his physi
cal prime, the antlers may grow
fewer tines each year until it
goes back to the forked horn
stage! (Take 10 points for each
one right.)
3. The beaver is slowest, at
about two miles; the muskrat,
next at 3; man, of course, at 4.1;
the octopus, at six (and back
wards, jet-propelled); the leath
erneck turtle, surprisingly, at
22; and the sea lion, at 25 miles
an hour. (Five points for each
animal in the right position
maximum 25 points.)
Add up your score. If you
come out a woodsman, that's
mighty fine. Perhaps next time
you'll make outdoor expert.
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Syria Releases
American Students
Jerusalem, Israel (U.R)
Syria today freed four Ameri
can theological students who
were seized by Syrian soldiers
while they swam in the Sea of
Galilee but refused to let them
return to Israel.
The Israeli government agreed
to deliver the Americans' car
to Jacobs Daughters bridge over
the Jordan river and they will
continue their Middle Eastern
tour.
In Washington, the U. S. State
Department said it was trying
to arrange for the Americans
to go to Turkey once they get
their car back.
The four were identified as
Paul Mayer, Arthur Rithinger,
and Fred and Tom Freudehhau
er, all naturilized Americans who
were born in Canada of German
extraction. Their home towns
wert noi given. .
"We steer away from maud
lin letters. Someone who writes
that he plans to build a house
or take a trip around the world
has a better chance ePf being
picked than someone with a hard
luck story. And one other thing
it helps if a photograph is in
cluded." If an applicant passes the first
screening (and only about 300
or 400 do), the show sends out
a letter asking for three charac
ter references. ,
"We usually get about a 50
per cent response to this test,"
said Carlin, "and then we boil
this batch down to about 25 pos
sibilities." Then comes a second letter
from the producers asking for
five references from solid
sources such as a bank, landlord,
employer or church. From this
group -of replies come the final
choices for the program.
Lure and Motor
It's Carlin's belief that thisHe
dious screening process has 6en
responsible for the success of
"The $64,000 Question."
"The large amounts of money
that we give away are, of course,
a lure," said Carlin. "But the
way we look at it," the $64,000 is
the sparkplug of the show and
the contestants the motor."
Carlin is one of a steady two
some who work up the questions
fired at contestants. The other
is Bergen Evans, a Rhodes schol
ar, gentleman and moderator of
"Down You Go." Carlin and
Evans huddled for two weeks in
a New York hotel room before
the show opened, fashioning .
queries. Three -other experts in
the fields of music, sports and
science also are called in when
Carlin and Evans run into a
snag. The names of the experts
must remain anonymous.
Work by Medford
Artist Wins First
In Popular Poll
A work by . Clifford Platz,
Medford artist, entitled "A
Study in Perspective" won first
place in the popular poll con
ducted as part of the annual
Greenwich Village fair held Sun
day by Southern Oregon Society
of Artists. The show was held
in the old city yark down town
with artists using park benches,
easels and clothes ynes to dis
play their work.
The winning painting shows
the interior of a barn with a
view of the meadow beyond.
Victor Wrigglesworth's paint
ing, a ' French scene entitled
"Chartres Le Rue" as given the
second award by visitors at the
fair and third went to Mrs.
Blanche Johnson for a painting
of a horse called "Mr. White's"
Chief."
14 Enter Works
Only members of the society
are entitled to exhibit in the
show, and 14 entered their
works. A total of 460 votes were
cast, and it is "" estimated that
more than 600 visited the show
during the afternoon.
' Visitors were registered from
several towns and cities in Ore
gon and California and other
states.
Mrs. Charles K. Todd, Camp
White, was chairman of the
show, with Dr. Emil Muhs and
Harry Marx, society members,
serving with her on the com
mittee. Warm Springs Boy
Killed by Auto
Gresham (U.R) Three-year-
old Conly Jackson of the Warm
Springs Indian reservation was
fatally injured last night when
he darted across the highway
three miles east of here and was
struck by a car driven by Allen
Leroy Anderson, 25, of Sandy.
The child died several hours
after the accident at a Portland
hospital.
' Deputy Multnomah County
Coroner Ross Woodward said
the boy had been picking berries
with his mother and the two
were returning to their camp
when the boy ran in front of the
Anderson car.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
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self 600 miles from home, with
your luggage, clothing, camera
and money stolen! If I had only
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Personal Effects Insurance. Would
it have cost only $5 or $10?
For Information Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phone 2-4940
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