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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 28. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Japan occupation under way.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A local GI
Is back from Okinawa and the
peace riots in San Francisco re-
cently.
20 YEARS AGO
August 28, 1935
(It. was Wednesday)
Merchants to keep stores open
till 9 p.m. during fruit season.
Relief canneries in county to
continue operation.
30 YEARS AGO
August 28, 1925
(It was Friday)
Congressman Madden of Illin
ois visits city, and is taken to
Crater lake by Chamber of Com
merce committee.
Fist fight erupts at local rural
school meeting.
40 YEARS AGO
August 28, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Forest fire in Butte Falls area
brings heavy loss.
Longest hot spell in many
years reigns; month and a half
temperatures average between
93 and 101.
g What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rspari
1. Which one of these Presi
dents was not elected to that
office: James Garfield, Chester
Arthur, Theodorrf Roosevelt, Cal
vin Coolidge, Harry Truman?
2. Which war'of the U.S. was
ended by the treaty of Paris?
3. Nob Hill is in Baltimore,
Boston, Charleston, S. C, Den
ver, New Orleans, or San Fran
cisco? 0
4. The Garrison of a "Garri
son ' Finish" was a track star,
pugilist, jockey, football coach,
or traveling salesman?
5. The Watch Tower Bible and
Tract Society is the governing
body of which religious organiza
tion? 6. Elderly or young drivers
are more apt to doze at the
wheel while driving, according
to the Automobile Club of Amer
ica? 7. Lady Cavendish was better
known as what star of the stage?
The Answers: I. Arthur; 2.
Revolutionary War; 3. San Fran
cisco; 4. Jockey; 5. Jehovah's
Witnesses; 8. Young; 7. Adele
Astaire.
Leaflets Ask Caution
From Holiday Drivers
Salem (U.R) Leaflets ap
pealing for special driving care
to prevent accidents during the
Labor day weekend will be
handed to motorists by state
police as the holiday nears, Su
perintendent H. G. Matson said
Saturday.
The leaflets call attention to
the critical traffic hazards of the
weekend and ask the help of all
drivers in preventing such need
less tragedies as the five deaths
charged to Labor day traffic last
year.
Hollywood (U.R) Actor Jean
Hershot, who played the title
role in the Dr. Christian radio
dramas for. many years, today
t underwent minor surgery in a
Santa Monica hospital.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Deeds Versus Words
The one outstanding criticism of Soviet Russia
today is the absence of deeds to match her words.
Her words are most reassuring at times positive
ly beatific. Russia is passionately for peace, disarma
ment and good will toward men. Her emissaries, of
ficial and unofficial, in sharp contrast with the past,
are today, models of good manners and filled with
friendliness and humor, toward the free world in
general and the U.S.A. in particular.
But when things come down to brass tacks, and
something concrete enters the debate, such as the
union of East and West Germany, Russia is just as
firm and unyielding as was the case before the winter
of discontent ended, and the great Slav thaw started
in. .
a a e
CO THE net result is to leave the free world, includ
ing the United States, cheered by the change of
heart in the realm of Communist diplomacy; but still
skeptical as to any fundamental change in totalitarian
ideology, or the Kremlin's basic attitudes toward
that world.
There has been one great improvement however
in recent months, particularly since the Geneva meet
ing that is the growing conviction in Washington and
throughout the country, that as President Eisenhower
remarked, "Russia doesn't want war anymore , than
does the United States."
Senator McCarthy brushes this off as a shameful
"retreat, appeasement and
But it is, of course, nothing of the sort. It is merely
the truth. With the advent of the atomic age, war as
a desirable weapon of advancing national interests
has ceased to exist although some nations may be
slower than others to realize it. The "new Russia" has
not been.
DUT the reduction and
" war danger, does not mean necessarily the elimi
nation of ALL danger.
For until there should be a complete change in the
brand of communist imperialism that exists in Moscow
and Peking, the dangers of conquest by infiltration
and subversion, remain a threat to the freedom and
independence of other nations and the survival of the
democratic world. .
So until reassuring words are matched by reassur
ing deeds, this danger will continue to exist, and while
it would be silly and unwise not to express gratitude
for the considerable blessings of the past few months
as far as our improved relations with the communist
world is concerned ; it would- be equally unwise and
foolish to assume those blessings include an end to
all danger and a security, which in a permanent and
lasting sense, does not as yet exist. R.W.R.
Words Versus Deeds
In the realm of deeds versus words, we would sug
gest that before the Oregoniah writes another lauda
tory editorial entitled the "Forthright McKay" the
record of the Secretary of the Interior in this field be
more closely examined.
The Oregonian apparently took Mr. Secretary's
speech before the Isaac Walton league of Portland as
its justification for handing him this bunch of roses
in recognition of our ex-Governor's outstanding
frankness and courage.
IN. THE realm of words we believe the record will
show that Secretary McKay has claimed he is not
against "true conservation," not against "public
power" where private power can't do the job as well
and the national credit will allow. He is devoted to
preservation and improvements of our national parks
and always has been he isn't against .anything
much but the Democratic party, the New Deal and
being a hardy Scot, feather brained extravagance and
waste. .
piOSE are the "words."
How about the deeds?
But for Secretary McKay's initial opposition to
public power at Hells Canyon, the Idaho Power com
pany "give away" would have been beaten before it
started. There is scarcely a real friend of public power,
conservation of our ' natural resources or effective
protection of wild life in the Interior Department that
Secretary McKay has not fired or tried to.
On the other hand his department has called in
representatives of the private power companies to
check on proposed legislation, and their recommenda
tions were generally followed.
"QUTDOOR America" the official publication of
the Isaac Walton League, before which the Ore
gonian claims the Secretary of the Interior so courage
ously displayed his f orthrightness, devotes five pages
in its August issue to a recent .speech given in the
House by Representative Reuss of Wisconsin, from
which the following are extracts, quote :
"This week Albert M. Day, a veteran of 37 years in the
. Department of the Interiour and seven years director of its
Fish and Wild Life service is being fired by Secretary of
the Interior McKay because he had the courage to stand up
to the pressure groups which are trying to restore the evil
practice of baiting water fowl. This splendid career public
servant is being sacrificed because he refused to do the bid
ding of the wealthy game-hogs who now caU the tune in the
. department of the interior."
And here is the conclusion of the Wisconsin Rep
resentative, quote : '
If the President is interested in protecting wild life he is t
making a tragic mistake in firing Mr. Day and retaining
Secretary McKay. If he will study the record I think he will
come to the conclusion that he should restore Mr. Day and
fire McKay."
Publisher Palmer Hoyt former editor of the Ore-
Sunday, August 28, 195S
surrender."
eventual elimination of the
Matter of Fact
THE PRICE OF PARALYSIS
Casablanca Either the French
will somehow get rid of the
built-in paralysis of their sys
tem of government, or aU North
Africa will go
the way of
Indochina.
That is the
main lesson of
the tragedy
which has
been unfolding
here.
Consider
what has hap
p e n e d. Two
years ago. a
Stewart Alsop French m i 1 i
tary clique, acting more or less
independently of the govern
ment, succeeded " in getting rid
of Moroccan Sultan Sidi Mo
hammed ben-Youssef, who had
displayed a disquieting tendency
to think for himself. Ben-Youssef
was replaced as Sultan by
an elderly, agreeable fellow
called Sidi Mohammed ben
Moulay Arafa.
Ben-Moulay Arafa's relation
ship with the French is best
conveyed by the famous story of
the menu. Shortly after ben
Moulay Arafa was installed as
Sultan, Gen. Guillaume, then
Resident-General, gave him an
official luncheon. When the
guests sat down, Guillaume po
litely offered the menu for the
Sultan's inspection. f Ben-Moulay
Arafa immediately reached un
der his robes for an official seal
and stamped the menu.
The conveniences of this sort
of relationship are obvious. But
it developed that there were dis
advantages as well.
The deposed ben-Youssef (act
ually a rather worldly type) be
came precisely what Morocco
had hitherto lacked a sym
bol of nationality acknowledged
by all Moroccans. In short, the
deposition of ben-Youssef was
precisely what was required to
make Moroccan nationalism the
formidable force it has now be
come. Ever since ben-Youssef was
deposed, the situation has deter
iorated steadily. Months ago,
it became obvious that some
thing had to be done, and in
June, French Premier Edgar
Faure sent Gilbert Grandval to
Morocco as Resident-General.
with instructions to work out a
plan of action.
Grandval is a briUiant and
forceful man. He SDent several
weeks sounding out all shades
oi opinion including the views
of the Nationalist leaders, who
had been jailed or exiled by the
previous regime. He soon con
cluded that two policies were
possible, . i '
. . ,
rjNE was a policy of absolute
" ly ruthless and brutal repres
sion. But this, he warned the
French government, while it
might work for awhile, wouM
lead to another Indochinese sit
uation in the end. The second
alternative was a policy of com
promising with the Nationalists,
while safeguarding French in
terests. Grandval advocated this
choice.
But for such a policy to suc
ceed, he warned, tie thing must
be done with decision and a cer
tain dash. Ben-Youssef must
immediately be brought back
from his dusty boarding house
in Madagascar to France and in
stalled there in comfort and
honor. Ben-Moulay Arafa must
be replaced by a Regency Coun
cil approved by ben-Youssef.
And real, not fake, reforms, giv
ing genuine power in internal af
fairs to qualified Moroccan Na
tionalists, must immediately
thereafter be put into effect.
Above all, Grandval warned,
these things ' must be done be
fore Aug. 20, the second anniver
sary of the deposition of ben
Youssef. Otherwise, there was
gonian, now of the Denver Post, seconds the motion,
as does the Sacramento Bee.
DUT the quarrel we have witii the 'Oregonian at this
"L particular time is the use of the word "forthright"
which in our dictionary means, "straight forward,
above-board and outspoken."
That is precisely what our ex-Governor has not
been.
We believe the record will show Secretary McKay
has never admitted he is "all out" for private power
versus public power or he is against any effective con
servation of natural resources, where private profit
and exploitation can be realized, or that his remark
after his appointment that "business had been put
back in the saddle" meant that he agrees with his col
leagues from Detroit, that what benefits General Mo
tors benefits the country and G. M. in his opinion
should come, first
S HAS been so often.remarked in this department
the man's sincerity or
but the man's entire philosophy of government, his
conception of public life and its obligations in a
democracy, are.
In other words we believe Secretary McKay hon
estly believes in that well known . "trickle-down"
theory, is a perfectly sincere advocate of the principle
that the main job of this government is to see that
Big Business prospers, and that once attained the
General Welfare will be able to take care of itself.
If he would admit this, or if he would not repeat
edly, when charged deny it, the term "forthrighf
would be deserved. ;
But with the record what it is, the term isn't.
R.W.R.
Stewart Alsop
isure to be. bloodshed, which
would make further rational ne
gotiation difficult or impossible
Premier Faure agreed with
Grandval indeed, he as much
as said so to American Ambas
sador Douglas Dillon. . But at
precisely this point, the built-in
paralysis of the French politi
cal system began to operate.
Powerful economic and politi
cal interests here in Morocco
threw their full weight against
the Grandval plan. Equally pow
erful military and polical lead
ers in France, like Gen. Juin
and former Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault, brought great
pressure to bear against the
Lrranavai policy, mey were
joined by members of Faure's
own cabinet, like Defense Min
ister Pierre Koenig and, to a
lesser extent, Foreign Minister
Pinay. The French political
system is such that this opposi
tion was enough absolutely to
inhibit any decisive action at all,
So transparent substitutes for
real action were adopted. First,
ben-Moulay Arafa was asked to
form a "representative" govern
ment, which everyone knew the
unfortunate old man could not
possibly do. Then the Nationalist
leaders and other Moroccans
were invited to Aix-les-Bains, to
confer with French Cabinet lead
ers an equally futile gesture,
since the views of all concerned
have been known for months.
TlsEANWHILE. Aug. 20 has
come and gone, and what
Grandval foresaw has occurred.
Although the responsible Moroc
can Nationalists succeeded in
preventing serious trouble in the
big cities, where their authority
is great, there was the most ter
rible violence in the countryside,
where they have little power.
The result is already obvious.
The extremists on both sides bid
fair to take over. The respons
ible and moderate Nationalists,
like Bouabid and ben-Bar ka, are
in serious danger of losing the
leadership of the Nationalist
movement to the most brutal ter
rorists, and no doubt ultimately
to the Communists. At the sama
time, both here and in France,
the hands of the French advo
cates of drowning Moroccan na
tionalism in a sea of blood have
been greatly strengthened.
In short, since Aug. 20, French
North Africa has moved a long
way toward becoming - another
Indochina. Perhaps the situation
may still be saved, but' no one
here thinks it likely. And the
pity of it is that decisive action
by the French government only
a few days ago would almost
certainly have averted the dan
ger. It might even ' have sta
bilized the situation here for a
generation. Obviously the par
alysis which is built into the
French political system is a cost
ly luxury.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
342,000 Students
Expected in State
Salem (U.R) An estimated
342,000 elementary and high
schoolstudents will attend Ore
gon schools this fall, Lawrence
L. Marschat, director of research
for the State Department of
Education, said today.
The figure is an increase of
4.5 per cent over last year's
enrollment, which itself was up
4.9 per cent over the preceding
year. Last year's total was 327,
800. -
Marschat said most of the in
crease was due to the highest
number of births in the 1940s.
Transfers from other states have
decreased slightly.
honesty are not questioned,
In TKe Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Weather news bad again!
Edith, fifth of the Hurricane
sisters, is building up strength
about 550 miles northeast of
Puerto Rico " the familiar
stomping ground of the Hurri
cane tribe.
She is expected to continue
on a west-northwest course at
about 15 mph during the next
12 hours, with a gradual in
crease in size and INTENSITY.
TlfHAT-to-do-about - it depart-
ment:
Somebody back East suggests
that an atom bomb be exploded
inside hurricanes to BREAK
THEM UP before they cause
trouble.
The weather bureau is cool to
the idea. It says that in com
parison with the power of a hur
ricane an atom bomb is a mere
firecracker.
THAT is to say:
Man still hasn't equalled
nature in his powers of destruc
tion. THE news seems to be running
on the screwball side.
A dairy specialist at the Uni
versity of Idaho tells us that a
strange (and presumably glam
orous) heifer, when introduced
into a dairy herd, can set off no
end of production troubles. In
fact, he says, a newcomer to the
herd is the most frequent cause
Today and
By Walter
THE "BLOODLESS
REVOLUTION"
When the outgoing president
of the American Bar Association
is cheered as he calls for a
"bloodless rev
olution" to . be
led by lawyers
to restore our
"ancient liber
ties," there is
no doubt that
the times have
changed. We
are in the early
stages of a
Walter Lippmann great popular
reaction against the hysteria and
the demagoguery, .the lawless
ness and the cruel injustices
which we call quite rightly the
era of McCarthyism. There are
underway, or projected, many
investigations which are in ef
fect reviews and reappraisals of
what was done in the name of
security and patriotism and anti-
Communism to the ancient liber
ties which Americans share with
other free and civilized peoples.
The great majority of the
leaders of American opinion are
no longer willing to stand for
the theory that espionage, sabo
tage and subversion can be dealt
with only by ignoring the Consti
tution, and by conniving at what
is nakedly and simply lynch law,
There are, however, a minority
who hold that such is the danger
of Communism and such is the
threat to American security that
no patriot should question the
methods or the results of the
anti - Communist investigations
and prosecutions. They hold
that nothing, not even the con
stitutional guarantees, must in
terfere with the detection, the
exposure, and the punishment of
those who may be security risks.
And if in this process innocent
men and women are tortured
and ruined, these unfortunate in
cidents not to be talked about
too much in the work of sav
ing the American republic.
THESE zealots consider them
selves the purest and highest
patriots in the land. They are
in the habit of insinuating that
all who do not take them at their
own valuation are in some meas
ure suspect suspect perhaps
of treason, perhaps of disloyalty,
certainly of softness and blind
ness. The zealots are due for a
reappraisal, most particularly
for their pretension that the law
lessness which they incite and
defend is necessary to the secur
ity of the United States.
Ever since McCarthy was rid
ing high, it has been as plain as
the nose on his face that he did
more than' the whole Commu
nist propaganda to turn the
world against us, to deface the
good name of America, to rum
confidence in our leadership. His
goings-on fed our enemies and
silenced our friends. '
What was not so immediately
and blatantly evident was that
the application of lynch law to
men suspected of being security
risks threatened to become in
itself a major cause of national
insecurity. McCarthy carried the
lawlessness he represented to its
logical end when he charged the
Democratic Party with 20 years
of treason. That was an effort
to divide the American nation
implacably, and to create an issue
within our people which pointed
in the direction of civil war.
At that extreme point, to be
sure, the tide of American opin
ion began to turn against Mc
Carthy. But the zealots who
still adhere to McCarthyism con
tinue to advocate and justify law
lessness. They continue to de
mand and to praise the sub
version , by Congressional com
mittees and by private vigil
antes of the guarantees of the
News
of PSYCHOLOGICAL UPROAR
which can cause milk and but
terf at production to drop as much
as five per cent.
He adds:
"The intrusion creates excite
ment, and this is marked by but
ting, kicking and threatening
until the new arrival is accept
ed and a new " social order is
established. The duration of the
uproar depends on the pride and
aggressiveness of the individual
cows."
rr. WHAT he says is'true, our
agricultural colleges may have
to set up a cow psychology de
partment. AN ARIZONA farmer (John
Jacobs of Phoenix) is back
home after a tour of Russian
agricultural areas. He says Rus
sian agricultural methods aren't
as bad as most of us had sup
posed, but Soviet farm produc
tion isn't anywhere near up to
ours either in quality or quan
tity. He adds:
"Their system of farming end
their planning apparently come
from a central headquarters,
probably in Moscow, and until
they CREATE MORE INCEN
TIVE FOR THE PEOPLE and
allow more planning at the farm
level it's going to be hard for
them to step up their farm pro
duction." ,
What he means is that in
Tomorrow
Lippmann
Constitution. Were they to pre
vail, which happily they will not,
they would leave the innocent
who are injured with no lawful
redress. That is the way to dis
order. For when a state sub
verts its own laws, it opens the
way to violence.
7':.
PUNNING parallel with the
reaction against McCarthy
ism, there is under way a reex
amination of security itself. Ont
can distinguish four principal at
tacks on our national security.
The first is spying in order to
obtain military secrets. The
second is infiltration by secret
agents for the purpose not only
of spying but of influencing
policy. The third is the organi
zation of sabotage in case of war,
The fourth is subversion by pro
paganda and other means of con
version in order to build up a
revolutionary opposition.
It is with the first of these-
the spying out of secrets that
informed opinion is changing.
The Geneva Conference on Nu
clear Energy has proved con
clusively what scientists have
long been saying that scientific
secrets do not last long because
what one scientist can discov
er, others since they deal with
the same natural world will
discover too. It is also plainer
than it was a few years ago that
what you can hide temporarily
from the Russians, you must hide
also from your own scientific
community. The net of it is that
the preservation of scientific sec
rets is not nearly so important
as it once seemed because there
are so few real scientific secrets,
THE real secret, we have come
to realize, is not what weap
ons and devices the adversary
possesses. It is what he intends
to do with his weapons. - Our
new "disarmament" policy is
based on this new secret. It
looks toward, making . public,
making visible and unmyster-
ious the purposes of the govern
ments that command the military
forces. The objective of the new
policy , is not to" hide secrets but
to bring about the disclosure of
secrets.
This will have, in fact is al
ready beginning to have, a big
effect here at home. Until re
cently we have regarded the Iron
Curtain as some of the perma-
net furniture of the world, and
we have felt compelled to guard
our own secrets with our own
homemade and improvised, ver
sion of an iron curtain. Now,
as it is our policy to induce and
encourage the Soviet Union to
roll up the Iron Curtain, we aref,
rolling up our own iron curtain
at home. We are not so wor
ried about our secrets because
we do not have so many secrets
to worry about.
' -
1I7HY, we ask ourselves, has
" there been this great change
In the tide of American opin
ion? Is it because McCarthy
overplayed his hand and, hav
ing attacked the Democrats, let
fly also at the Republicans? Is
is because the innate decency of
our people was revolted by the
cruelties and the injustices? No
doubt. And yet the ultimate rea
son for the change is, I believe,
the enormous emotional relief
which has come .since all the
great powers have acknowledged
publicly that there is no alterna
tive to peace, that they cannot
contemplate war.
The pall of a terrifying and
obsessive fear has been lifted,
and men feel free again to care
for those things, like their lib
erties, which they have always
cared for.
Copyright. 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Russia the government RUNS
EVERYTHING.
LET'S put it this way:
finnnnu .vnn livpri lmflpf
a system in which everything
you did was ordered by the gov
ernment and run by the govern
ment.
Suppose you knew the govern
ment was going to pungle up
every time you went in the hole
and was going to TAKE THE
SURPLUS AWAY FROM YOU
every time ygu did pretty weU
Would you lie awake nights
devising cheaper and more ef
ficient ways to do the job? .
I DOUBT it.
- I'm nuite sure T wouldn't
When I went in the hole, I'd
just sit back and wait for the
government to reach Into other
people's pockets and take out
the money to PULL ME OUT
OF THE HOLE.
If Mr. Jacobs' observations are
accurate, that's what is happen
ing in Russia.
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the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot sen nam or
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tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Has Hope in Spit of McKay
To the Editor It has been
truly said that "the price of lib
erty is constant vigilance. When
President Theodore Roosevelt de
clared' for conservation of our
natural resources, seconded
heartily by Secretary of the In
terior Pinchot, we felt a sense of
relaxation. We couldn't have
been more mistaken, like young
newlyweds saying their "I do,"
feeling so secure against any in
terruption of their happy dreams.
An elderly friend of mine, the
watch-dog type, stopped by with
a sheaf of documentary evidence
that a trusted U. S. agency has
turned predator. It told of a U.
S. Chamber of Commerce secre
tary in an address to the San
Francisco Chamber of Com
merce, that, the organization he
represented was against the pol
icies ot our Forestry Service,
National Parks Service and any
other agency proposing to bottle
up our timber-lands, power sites,
etc., that they, the U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce were prepared
to and are mailing out literature
to school-teachers upholding this
"new look."
Is it any wonder that our sup
posedly protector Secretary of
the Interior McKay and others
have been inveigled to help put
some slippery skids under our
strenuously won, Golden Age,
that includes our almost lost
Hell's Canyon power site?
The Washington Water Power
Co. thought they had the Grand
Coulee site stymied when they
got the smaller and easier KetUe
Falls site, so -much so they went
to the cheaply developed Lake
Chelan with its miles of free
sandy beaches, age old pines and
shaded areas, turning it into a
muddy bank power reservoir in
spite of all the small bunch of
us "crack-pot die-hards" could
do. .'v
'. Well, we have Senators Morse
and Neuberger and others on the
public-interest side. And when
the New York Times and even
staid old Oregonian indorses
their valiant stand, there's still
hope for our natural resources.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 W. Main,
Medford, Ore.
Natural Route for Freeway
To the Editor: Why has no
mention been made in your pa
per about the seemingly natural
route for the proposed Freeway
which is to relieve the heavy
through traffic?
Two routes have been exam
ined, both of which are through
the city which is supposed to be
by-passed.
The natural route mentioned
is on the west side.
Now there is still time to plan
for the future. Twenty years
from now when the rapidly
growing city of Medford wiU
have moved out that way.
The East side is already so
congested with new roads lined
by new homes that it is consid
ered the residential part of the
city, which we all know is not
the accustomed, nor welcome
route for a Freeway.
In planning for the future, the
200-foot wide Freeway, we un
derstand, can be located in an
approximately straight line from
the new highway over Black
well Hill bypassing Medford and J
Ashland, and connecting with
highway 99 over the Siskiyous.
No matter where it goes it will
cause contention: the point at
issue is to look ahead, and NOT
make a choice we would all be
sorry for (as in portions of the
Highway from Medford to Ash
land). A. B. E. (name on file).
NAME LEARNED
Name of the occupants of the
five-room house which burned to
the ground on Sticky lane Thurs
day night is Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
HoweU, Central Point rural fire
men reported. The name was
first given as Matthews. .The
couple is now staying with
friends at 114 South B stT, Eagle
Point. Howell reportedly is em
ployed by Jim Henson, White
City building contractor.