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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail. Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years agov
10 YEARS AGO
October 9, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
A. R. (Tony) Manno announces
Ralph Cook and George Davis
as leaders in Community Chest
drive downtown solicitations.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudgff Pot column:. Whatever
became of the curfew whistle,
that blew each night, between
nine and ten, to let parents know
the kids would, be home in due
course of time.
tO YEARS AGO
J3ctober 9, 1935
(It was Wednesday) '
Assessed valuation table for
1935 shows slight increases in
most items for Jackson county.
Girls' League debating team
composed of Katherine .Ford,
Elaine Brophy, Mabel O'Nell and
Ruth Garlock judged winner of
contest at Senior High school.
0 YEARS AGO
October 9. 1925
(It was Friday)
Medford area residents ap
0 prove new water bonds, a new
city hall, and small annexations
by vote of about three to one in
special election.
Judge C. B. Watson plans trip
to Los Angles where he will edit
and have published a history of
Indian wars in Southern Oregon.
40 YEARS AGO
October 9. 1915
(It was Saturday)
J. T. Sullivan, manager of
Rogue River Canal company, an
nounces plan to construct $250,-
000 expansion to provide water
for additional 3,000 acres in Cen
tral Point-Tolo areas.
From Ashland column: The re
cent robbery from a leading res
idence in the Scenic Drive dis
trict which rounded up three dia
mond rings, a solid gold neck
lace and a gold ring all at one
and the same haul, might pass
unnoticed but for the fact that
the stock of valuable jewelry was
the property of a local Methodist
minister.
7hat's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
opr. 1955. Editorial Research Rcparl
i. ii Xiisencower runs ag-am
In 1956 and loses all states that
gave him under 55 per cent of
their votes in 1952, he would or
wouldn't be re-elected?
2. More Germans are settling
In Canada now than in the U.S.,
or more in the U.S., or is it
about 50-50?
. 3. The average woman of 65
will live about one, three or five
years longer than the average
man of 65, or about the same
time, or one year less? -
4. The Straits of Mackinac
are between two shores of the
St. Lawrence, two Great Lakes,
Key West and Cuba, or Canada
and Washington state?
5. Average total of bets (per
person) at a race track (running)
is about $25, $50, $100, $200 or
$300 an afternoon?
6. A typical state takes In
more money from its gasoline
tax, property tax, auto license
fees, or inheritance tax?
7. The Russian word "Soviet"
means strictly state farm, coun
cil, Communist dogma, nation
alized factory, or military dicta
torship?. The Answers: 1. Would. 2.
More in Canada. 3. About three
years longer. 4. Two Great
Lakes. 5. About S 100. 6. Gaso
line tax. 7. Council ,
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Oct. 5 It took a lot of time and considerable
hard work for this department to make the Brooklyn Dodgers win
a world series from the Yankees but at long last it has been
accomplished. Everything comes to him who waits if he can
wait LONG enough!
And the victory was particularly sweet, for the lowly Bums
came from behind, downed the cocky Yanks on their own grounds
and, for the first time in baseball history, won the world title
after losing the first two games. Even Ira Blue, the loquacious
and partisan sports announcer, had to admit the Brooklyn team had
what it takes. Some admission from Ira! .f
The death of George Cameron, editor and publisher of the
S. F. Chronicle, at the age of 82, was given more space in that
paper than the world series. Mr. Cameron often visited Medford
when the Nion Tuckers spent the summers at their ranch on the
Rogue, not far from TraiL He was always a vigorous, stimulating
and dynamic visitor. He and Nion Tucker were brothers-in-law,
having both married daughters of the late Mike de Young, owner
and founder of the Chronicle, but they were not at all alike.
Editor Cameron, born in Redding, Calif., a self-made millionaire
in his 30's, was the high-powered, extroverted, tireless promoter
type, with always a score of irons in the fire, and all of them
apparently red hot as well as prosperous. He was not so much
interested in making money per se hgwever although he made
millions as he. was in the development of his city and his state.
The list of his major accomplishments as printed in the Chronicle
nearly equaled the number of honorary pallbearers headed by
former President Hoover and Vice-President Nixon. There was
general agreement here his passing will be a genuine loss to his
community and the state no question this verdict was not only
unanimous but entirely sincere. It is hard to think of a finer
tribute for one of the "older boys" or one that would have pleased
Publisher Cameron more.
'"'
,
A few years ago we awarded first prize for the WORST news
commentator in the country to one Holmes Alexander who at
that time appeared frequently in the Oregonian. He disappeared
from that highly respected daily shortly thereafter and while we
realized our disapproval had" nothing 'to do with it, we did hope,
that Alexander had decided to devote his talents- to some other
form of writing, preferably of a creative rather than a factual
nature, to which he was better suited by disposition and character.
But thanks to the McNaught Syndicate we are now informed
Alexander is covering the Neuberger-Coon debate and a copy of
his first, offering is enclosed with' the suggestion' that the Mail
Tribune subscribe to the series.
Here is Alexander's conclusion as to the significance of this
debate regarding public versus
"The wayfarer though a
cance that's wrapped up in . this, contest. If nothing else it's
a running fight between Rugged Individualism and Self
Pity. It's a packaged definition of American politics today."
We might conceive a self-respecting newspaper publishing
the first five words as the reason for its rejection, but nothing
more.
As has often been staled, we fail to see why "we the people"
can't differ regarding public vs. private power without getting
personal or abusive.
In this salesman's sample of his ability as a news commen
tator, Holmes Alexander after attending the first debate hasn't
a word to say about the arguments of either participant. He con
fines himself to smearing our junior Senator as "whining" and
"whimpering", notes he becomes so angry his lip trembles and
"for one agonizing moment it seemed he would break into tears."
Not having been there we don't know whether that is fact or
fancy, but what have such personal items to do with the case?
Probably Senator Neuberger is more sensative and emotional than
Congressman Coon he is certainly more intelligent but these
personal characteristics have no pertinence, and anyone compe
tent to cover such a debate should know it.
The whole purpose of the debate is or should be to bring
out the two sides of this controversial question, clearly and effec
tively or at least as clearly and effectively as the abilities of the
two participants allow and thus aid the people in forming their
opinions based upon the FACTS. Judging by the press reports in
ihe MT the California papers don't regard the debate as news
this has not been .done, and the debate for some, reason unex
plained, had no moderator to see that it was done.
We have been here three weeks, but it seems like three days,
the chief reason being very little has been accomplished. And for
the first time in many visits to the cosmopolis on the Golden Gate
we have met no one from Medford. As usual the Weather Man
has behaved in an exemplary fashion three- weeks of sunshine,
foggy at times and cool, but not a drop of rain and no cloudy days.
.
That censure of McCarthy by his colleagues in the Senate must
have done him good. At least a copy of his 5,000 "word speech on
August 1st which has just been received by the undersigned,, is'
the best effort we have ever waded through. Unlike previous at
tacks on President Eisenhower and his policies, there are no smears
or even vague charges unsupported by evidence, or the usual
table-thumping appeals to ignorance and prejudice. In fact we have
to grant that from HIS standpoint the Senator from Wisconsin
makes a case. The only trouble is his standpoint is 100 per cent
wrong. r
.
That standpoint is, briefly:
Coexistence with Russia is impossible. To attempt any friendly
relations with that, or any other communist country, is cowardly
appeasement. President Eisenhower in maintaining relations of
personal friendship with his World War II pal Zhukov, is rendering
a disservice to his country if not actually betraying it. The Four
Power conference was not only a fizzle but one of the worst diplo
matic defeats for Uncle Sam in modern history, in fact came but
exactiy as Senator McCarthy predicted. In short, unless the Dulles
Eisenhower policy is changed, Soviet Russia will over run west:
era Europe, and be master of the Pacific or words to that effect,
and the USA will be isolated and without an ally left.
.-
A fairly dismal picture! ,
And what would the junior Senator from Wisconsin do about It?
He doesn't say explicitly. But there is, as we see it, only one
Jthing (that he and those who believe as he does could do,
namely: Declare war on Soviet Russia the sooner the better.
For if peaceful coexistence is impossible; if Chiang Kai-shek
must be given sufficient U. S. aid to reconquer China; if all at
tempts at disarmament and "leading from strength" are futile;
then why delay longer? If Russia, China and their satellites are
determined to conquer not only the United States but the world
by force, and nothing we can sav or do will dissuade them, then
Senator McCarthy might as well do what he once offered to do,
raise a company of stalwart U. S. marines and land on the Red
China coast as the first step in an invasion.
In other words, in this speech the Wisconsin Senator again
tries to make the dominant issue in, this 'country between those
who are with him and against the communists, and those who are
against him and ergo, for them; but he really ends up by making
the fundamental issue between those who want World War m and
those who favor making every possible and honorable effort to
prevent it. R.W.R. '
Editorial Comment
COURAGE IN IDAHO
All is not lost. The University
of Idaho joins the University of
Oregon among Northwest insti
tutions in refusing to be bullied.
Idaho locked horns with the lo
cal American Legion and spurned
the Leeion's demand that the
University keep Dr. Robert May-
nard Hutchins off its campus.
The educator is" scheduled to
sDeak there in January. It is our
hope that Oregon's courage in
insisting on the right to invite J.
Robert ODDenheimer to speak
here firmed up Idaho's position.
la objecting to jjx. nutcmns
Sunday, October 9, 1953
private power, quote:
fool could not miss the signifi
appearance the Legion asserted
that "His record has rendered
him unsuitable for such appear
ances before our students." We
suspect, however, that , the Le
gion's principal objection is that
Dr. Hutchins has served as a
punching bag for the Legion's
national commander! The com
mander's attack on Dr. Hutch
ins and the Ford Foundation's
Fund for the Republic, of which
Dr. Hutchins is president, will
come to the attention of Legion
members at the national conven
tion in Miami this month.
: We get- a little tired of Mr.
and
By Walter
GENEVA REVISITED
. Enough, time has passed and
enough has happened to enable
us to see more clearly and con
cretely the significance ' of 'the
meeting at the
summit in
Geneva last
July. I am
afraid' that an
honest exami
nation must
show that Mos
cow has had
the initiative,
and that it has
waiter Lippmann taken formid
able advantage of the military
and political situation. ',, -
It has adapted its foreign pol
icy to the fact that there is a mili
tary stalemate, and it is exploit
ing this fact in an astute and
carefully calculated , diplomatic
campaign. The campaign is de
signed to undermine the western
military system and to neutral
ize American power in Europe.
We-shall soon be asking our
selves what is wrong with.. our
own policies. We shall he ask
ing ourselves whether they have
not remained frozen in the pre
Geneva mold, and whether as a
result we are not coming off sec
ond best, in the diplomatic duel
in Germany, in the Middle East
and in the Mediterranean.
In retrospect, it is clearer than
ever that what happened at
Geneva was a public acknowl
edgment by the heads of states
that they cannot wage an atomic
war., The words used at Geneva
were in the form of declarations
and pledges that they would not
go to war. But the underlying
reality was that the governments
knew from their scientists and
military leaders that in the
existing balance of power war
has to be avoided.
That simultaneous public
acknowldgment about war was
all that was agreed to at Geneva.
But that agreement was eaior
mously important. For on both
sides of the Iron Curtain there
have been built up during the
cold war military and political
structures of alliances based on
the expectation of a third world
war. There is no doubt about
this in regard to the foreign pol
icy of the United States since the
declaration of the Truman Doc
trine. And in the East, the threat
of encirclement by the United
States has long been used to jus
tif y the domination of the satel
lites and the police repression
within the Communist orbit.
.
Tt is clear enough now, I think,
that some time last winter the
Kremlin, realizing that there
was an atomic stalemate, formed
a diplomatic policy based on that
fact. The major premise of the
policy was that the fear of Soviet
military agression, which had
been so strong since the Korean
aggression, should be removed
from the minds of the people of
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Instruments Needed .
To the Editor: We of the Evans
Valley school at Wimer are tryr
ing to locate any available musi
cal instruments which might be
donated to our school band. Of
the 83 students eligible for band,
we had 51 turn out. We are sadly
in need of instruments for many
of these students are unable to
obtain any kind of instrument
and will play "anything" in or
der to take music.
There must be many persons
having unused musical instru
ments tucked away in attics or
basements and there may be
some persons willing to donate
their unused instruments, string,
woodwind or brass, to such a
worthy cause. ,
We would appreciate it if you
Hutchins sometimes, too. But he
remains an apostle of intelligent
discontent not discord, but dis
content and what better qual
ities could a man bring to a uni
versity campus? Eugene Regis
ter Guard.
(Comment on the same sub
ject from the Bend Bulletin:)
Actually, the Legion resolu
tion, to us, makes it apparent
that the Legionnaires have no
faith in their state university.
For if the university has not
taught its 'students, or the most
of them, to .separate the wheat
from the chaff dealt out by a
speaker it has done a poor job
of educating them.
(The Albany Democrat-Herald
also comments:)
If the students of college age
can't be trusted to hear both
sides of any problem, we might
as well give up and call it a day
so far as higher education is con
cerned. Anyone who thinks col
lege students believe everything
they're told', even by professors
of a subject, has never - done
much teaching.
Today
Tomorrow
Lippmann
the Old World. Then, when the
fear; had been removed, the
Soviet Union would be able to
exploit diplomatically the great
divisions of the non-Communist
"world that of the two Ger
manys, that o France "and Germany,-
that of Islam and Europe,
etc, - . ; . ." ', '''
The removal, of the fear of
Soviet military aggression was
easy enough because; as a matter
of fact, Soviet military aggres
sion was impossible in the exist
ing stalemate.' On this point, the
Soviet policy was not to' deceive
the .West. The policy was to
advertise the stalemate which
neither East - nor West, could
alter.
The 1 amiability of V Moscow
since the spring . may reflect a
number of things .that are hap
pening in the Soviet Union. But
on the military level it has ex
pressed the fact that war is at
this time impossible. What the
Kremlin wanted and what the
Kremlin got at Geneva was a
spectacular demonstration that
there was no longer need to fear
Soviet military aggression.
THE removal of that fear has
made it difficult to keep the
democratic parliaments voting
the military appropriations. It
has also produced a reappraisal
of their foreign policies. The
fear of Soviet military conquest
having been largely dispelled,
there is a new order so to
speak, of priorities in many na
tions.
Among the Germans, for ex
ample, reunification has become
more important than the mili
tary alliance with the West.
Greece and Turkey have allowed
themselves a quarrel over Cy
prus that they would never have
dared to indulge in if they were
still afraid of being conquered
by the Soviet Union. Egypt, and
perhaps also Syria, are feeling
free to maneuver for high
stakes, something they would
not risk if they thought the Red
Army might roll down upon
them.
rpHE strength of the new Soviet
- diplomacy is in the fact that
in these various conflicts they
have worked themselves into
the classic position where they
hold the balance of power. This
is most evident in Europe where
they are now in a position to
play upon the balance between
the two Germanys, the balance
between France and . Germany
and the ' balance of Germany
with Poland. ; ,
The Western position is in
ferior. For one thing the Soviet
Union holds the biggest cards
namely Eastern Germany and
the lost German territory be
yond the Potsdam frontier, For
another the Soviet Union is
stronger because it can be more
flexible. It is not bound as Brit
ain and America ere bound to
a German policy which is not
negotiable.: As a result, because
the Kremlin can negotiate while
we cannot, the prospect in Ger
many must suit Moscow only too
well. For the siuation is shaping
up for direct dealings with Ger
many while the English-speaking
peoples are on the sidelines.
rpHE frozen condition of our
own policies is our greatest
weakness. We ; have, of course,
great military, economic and
political assets if only we were
in a position to use them for
bargaining purposes. - At the
present time we . are unable to
use them. They are frozen by
rigid and highly emotional com
mitments. Before bur. diplomatic
position can be improved,' our
assets must be made negotiable.
That is something which the
President was just beginning to
do when he was stricken.
Copyright. 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
could bring this' to the attention
of your readers. v
Gwen Anderson,
Assistant Music Chairman,
Evans Valley PTA,
Route 1, Box 62-A, .
Rogue River, Ore.
Sweeney Commended
To the Editor: We commend
the action of Ralph E. Sweeney
in .resigning his office as treas
urer of Jackson county due to
his continuing ill health. He has
shown the same unselfish loyalty
that has existed during his long
period of service to the people
of our county.
- The duties of county treasurer
are such that when the office is
properly conducted little public
ity, certainly none of a spectac
ular nature, accrues to it. So well
organized and efficient was his
office that perhaps the greatest
compliment that can be paid
Mr. Sweeney is that many of us
were aware only at election time
the office existed. He has always
placed service , to the people
above his personal needs and de
sires. i. We extend to Mr. Sweeney
our thanks for a, job well done;
our. sincere sympathy and an
earnest hope that he may again
enjoy good health.
Dan F. Krotz H, Chairman
for Community Service, -
Steelhead Post 6881, VFW,
Shady Cove, Ore. .
Fight About UNESCO
Forecast at Legion's
National Convention
A sham controversv over the
American Legion's stand on U.S.
participation 'in the United Na
tions Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) may be expected at
the four-day Legion convention
opening in Miami on Monday.
Oct. 10.
Will the American Legion
convention condemn" UNESCO.
as Legionnaires have been vot
ing to do since 1953? A fight ap
pears to be brewing over the Le
gion's position on U. S. member
ship in the international agency.
The Legion's national execu
tive council last fall voted 51 to
6 against sending, a representa
tive to the U.S. National Com
mission for UNESCO. This was
despite the report by a special
region committee urging that
the Legion "give serious consid
eration" to joining the commis
sion.
Charges Said Unfounded
But the special committee con
tinued its ' research under its
chairman. Rav Murnhv. a former
Legion national commander
from Iowa, now of New York.
Early in May he appeared be
fore the national executive com
mittee to announce that his
group had found charges against
UNESCO "utterly without foun
dation." A Legion press release
said that Murphy's speech had
received "a standing ovation."
The report carried three main
findings: '
1. That UNESCO is not fav
orable toward world govern
ment; that the programs and
functions of UNESCO are not
such as to tend toward world
government; that the U.S com
mission (to UNESCO) individu
ally and as a group are strongly
opposed to world government:
2. That UNESCO is not athe
istic, and
3. That UNESCO is in no
sense or no degree communistic
No Hiss Connection
Specifically, the report rejects
charges that Alger Hiss or Harry
Dexter White had anything to
ao with UNESCO. And it notes
uiat KUSSia took no nart. in
UNESCO until 1954. Neverthe
less, Legion departments in 20
states are reported to have
Matter of Fact
LOOKING AHEAD
Washington According to
those who should know, the pol
icy to date has been to under
line the dark
side of Presi
dent's t r a g
is illness, in
order to avoid
arousing false
hopes.
The area of
damage to .the
heart was
s o m e w h a t
smaller than is
usual, for ex
ample, but this
Joseph Also
his not yet been revealed. Again,
the period of intense depression
after a thrombosis characteris
tically lasts considerably long
er than was the case with the
President, who recovered his
good spirits on the second day.
But this has not been emphasiz
ed. Bad luck must always be al
lowed for, of course, yet the
fact that" the President's heart
attack was at least marginally
less serious than is generally
supposed is none the less an im
portant fact. It explains the com
parative confidence" with which
the leaders of the junta now run
ning the administration are look
ing ahead to the future.
The great question, of course,
is just when ' President Eisen
hower will again be able to
function4 as President. The ac
cepted answer
comes in stag
es. Until , the
end of the two-
week period in
which compli
cations are ai
rways to be
feared, he will
really not
function at all
in the vital
sense of exam
Stewart Alsop
ining and de
ciding great is
sues of policy. Until the end of
October he will hardly function,
seeing a minimum of visitors and
signing only those papers which
it is essential for him to sign.
By the end of October, how
ever, it is expected that he will
be able to move without risk to
his farm in Gettysburg. There,
according to official forecast, he
will spend another convalescent
month. At Gettysburg, in the
words of a high source, "he
ought to be able to work about
as long every day as he was
working during his Denver holi
day, before his attack came.
That means that with due pre
cautions to avoid getting over
tired, he will be able to devote
a couple of hours daily to public
business.
FNALLY, the presently . ac
cepted forecast calls for the
President's return to Washington
about Dec. 1. But for a good
many months after his return to
Washington,, the President will
have to continue on a . "limited
schedule" This means that lie
adopted anti-UNESCO resolu
What is UNESCO? The TTN
charter (Art. 63) provides for
"specialized agencies" whir-h are
to be brought "into relationship"
with the UN through the Econo
mic and Social Council, an 18-
member group elected by the
Lreneral Assemblv. UNESCO is
one of 10 such agencies. Its stat
ed . purposes are "to promote cc
laboration among nations
through education, science, and
culture in order to further ius-
tice, rule of law and human
rights and freedoms without dis
tinction of race. sex. language or
religion."
UNESCO is described as an
'autonomous, specialized laff ili-
ate" of UN. Of its 1955-56 bud
get (two years) of S21.000.000.
the U. S. is paying $6,300,000.
The UNESCO Constitution
was drawn up at a conference in
London in November 1945. Its
members are not necessarily UN
members; . UNESCO members
contribute directly to its reve
nues outside the UN.
OK'd By Congress 1 ,
Coneress in 1946 authorized
U.S. participation in UNESCO
by a voice vote in the Senate
ana a 264 to 41 vote in the
House. Among p r o-UNESCO
members of Congress was the
late Sen. Robert A. Taft.
The UNESCO constitution pro
vides that each member state
shall makeS arrangements to
bring its educational, scientific,
ttna cultural organizations into
xoucn with UNESCO, usually
through the formation of a na
tional commission. In the U.S.
the national commission was
established bv Coneress and in
eludes about 80 private organi
zations. These range from the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the
American Farm Bureau Founda
tion, and the Junior Chamber -of
Commerce to the CIO. Secretary
of State Dulles has said:
"The advancement by
UNESCO of human welfare
through education, srienre. and
Culture promotes international
understanding which contributes
to peace." Editorial Research
neports.
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
will be held down to perhaps
two hours work in the morning
and two more in the afternoon
if he is feeling well.
r. Such are the limits, as it were,
of the grave problem created by
the Constitutional rule that the
Executive branch tof the Ameri
can government contains no ex
ecutive body except the actual,
physical body of the President
.of the United States.
On this point, there has been
much confusion. The ' Cabinet,
or the National Security Coun
cil, or both, have been widely
represented as able to carry on
the government indefinitely in
the absence of the President.
But in fact, the National Secur
ity Council is only an advisory
body. The Cabinet is the same.
Neither nas a particle of Execu
tive authority, which belongs to
the President alone.
No one is more conscious of
this than the. members of the
junta that has been formed to
act as a sort of committee of
government in the President's
absence. Vice-President Nixon,
the junta's effective chairman,
and its two Cabinet-member lea
ders, Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey and Secretary of
State Dulles, showed their aw
areness of the true situation
when they pleaded with Gov.
Sheman Adams to join the Pres
ident in 'Denver without furth
er delay.
Gov. Adams would have pre
ferred to stay in Washington,
working day by day with his
junta colleagues. But Nixon,
Humphrey and Dulles correctly
insisted that hone of their ac
tions had authority except from
the President. Therefore, they
said, there must be someone at
the President's bedside who
would be able, as it ; were, to
serve as a transmission line of
Presidential authority.
... In. short, Nixon and his col
leagues have made the very best
they could of a very bad busin
ess. Already, however, at least
one grave issue has had to be
compromised in order to spare
the President. '
, If he had been well, he would
have had to decide the question
of priorities, as between main
taining the national defense and
balancing this year s budget.
Secretary of Defense Wilson was
about to fly to Denver to pre
sent the case for his department
when the President .was strick
en. But now Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey has content
ed himself with less than nail
of the defense cuts he was orig
inally demanding. . ' '
,.'
BUT problems of this order
pannnf on nn Hoin 0 unsolved
forever ty the. simple system of
splitting the defference between
opposing viewpoints. Only the
President can decide the - far
graver conflict between known
defense needs and pressing fis
cal interests in the next year's
bud set and that decision will
have to be taken in November,
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
' Contributors)
What do you think of when
you hear the word "money"?
We'll wager you think of a
crumpled green bill, or a fistful
of coins.
That's money, all right, but
we are reliably informed that in
the U.S. today by far the most
important form of money is the
check book. Our authority talis
us that business transactions -in
tne country average about $6
000,000,000 per day, or some
$2,000,000,000,000 (that's six
trillion dollars) per year. Of
this onlv about 10 ner rant io
paid in folding money and coin.
XI A . . .
me rest in cnecits.
In years past, however. rnn
have used many other things for
money shells, beads, stones,
porpoise teeth, -whale teeth, boar
iusks, scaips of. redheaded wood
peckers, beaver skina vlanirot.
knives, woven ftiats, pieces of
ciotn, slaves, cattle, pigs, rice,
corn, wheat, wool, indigo - to
bacco, salt, sugar rum, and beer.
This week it's big straw
berries. Mrs. Pearl Boliou of the
Central Point area last week
brought in a flat-shaped berry
about 2V2 inches fat on the
stem side, and about 2 inches
from stem to tip, ''and had a
flat, fanlike shape.
'
The United ' Press last week
duly reported that a man we
shall call John Doe was iniurerl
in a bus crash near Fairfield,
and later died in -Sacramento
General hospital.
At the end of the storv. the
San Francisco bureau of the UP
sent a message to the Sacramento
bureau which said:
"Suggest keep watch on Gen
eral hospital for Doe's condi
tion." ' o
An accident report filed
with the city police last week
. saidt
Damage to property other
than vehicles: 1 guernsey cow.
Approximate cost to repairt
$125.
The report added that the
.cow was so badly "damaged"
that it had to be destroyed. '
,
A Jacksonville man went on
a' hunting trip in the Klamath
Falls area last week. On ' his
way home he piirchasld two
chipmunks (for $3) for his two
young daughters.
The seller placed the tiny ani
mals in an old oatmeaf box for
safekeeping, opening the oat
meal pouring spout so they could
get air. i 7
Driving through Medford, our
hunter stopped and purchased a
birdcage ($2.98) in which his
daughters could keep the chip
munks. - '.-
Arriving home, he proudly dis
played the birdcage and an
nounced the acquisition of the
new pets. He opened the oat
meal box. No chipmunks. They
had managed to squeeze out the
spout of the box.
Anyone have any spare pet
chipmunks? Or else anyone
want a brand-new, unused, second-hand
birdcage?
Robertson Students
From Seven Towns
Students registered for the fall
term at Robertson School of bus
iness come from seven towns in
Oregon and California.
Members of the new student
body from Medford are Ruby
Arnold, Myrna Bailey, Avis Bis-
seger, Audrey Brew, Mariene
Brown, Joan Catalano, Dell
Crandall, Loraine Croucher,
Verna Dudley, James Farmer,
Bonnie Graves. Juanita James.
Deann Reich, Naida" Smith, and
Marilee Whitlock. . ' '
Four students from Grants
Pass are Pat Annis, Alta Fen
ner, Shirlee Fisher, and Barbara
Offill.
Other members of the student
body are Bill Callender, Fern
Hannaford, Margradelle Hiatt,
Betty Twedell, and Betty White
from Central Point; Ted Hoff
man, Eagle Point; Waitselle Ten-
penny, Phoenix; Lyalle Blunck,
Kay Gilbert, and Phoebe Sim
mons, Ashland; and Katherine
Selby from Yreka.
UMC CONCERT SLATED
Camo White The Eve Pren
tice Accordion band will present
a urogram in the theater Mon
day at 8 p.m. for the United Cru
sade fund. Mrs. Prentice wiu
feature several soloists and vo
calists as well as ensemble num
bers during the program. This is
the first of a series of concerts
for the coming season to be giv
en by the band at Camp White.
at Gettysburg.
There will be many other
nroblems. too. in this top-level
category. It will be hard for the
Administration junta to draw
the line wisely between sparing
the President and shoving under
the rug questions that he ought
to answer. For alltheserea
to answur. For all these reasons.
it is a matter for general thanks
giving that he should be able to
start taking the really big de
cisions before too many weeks
have passed. 4
Copyright, 1955, Mew .
York Herald Tribune Inc.