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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1945
(It was Thursday)
Colorful parade scheduled for
Medford's first peacetime Armis
tice Day observance in three
years..
From Arthur Perry's' Ye
Smudge Pot column: The latest
and most effective rat poison,
discovered by a federal agency
after two years of chemical re
search, is called 1080. What the
world needs is something called
1081. that will eradicate the poli
tics from a politician, without
eliminating the politician.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8. 1935
(It was Friday)
City Superintendent Fred A.
Scheffel asks residents not to
rake leaves into city streets.
Grangers seek rooms for ac
commodating members attend
ing state meeting here.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1925
(It was Sunday)
City, county, state and federal
officials and representatives of
Ministerial association and the
WCTU present at dumping of 64
cases of bonded gin and whisky
seized by prohibition officers.
Insurance Rating bureau rec
ommends opening Sixth st. west
ward; states rates may rise west
of tracks if not opened.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8. 1815
(It was Monday)
Rogue River Spitzenburg ap
ples displayed by A. C. Fiero of
Central Point win first prize at
Portland land shgw.
FromXocal and Personal col
umn: The tendency of the local
chicken market is upward, with
less than the demand in sight.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Most Hallowe'en rites in the
U.S. derive from the British
Isles, China, Scandinavian lands,
Germany, Russia or Africa?
2. Many more hardtops than
station wagons are bought now,
oor many more station wagons, or
about the same number of each?
3. The law against a British
royal family marriage under 25
without Crown consent was or
wasn't due to Edward VIII want
ing to marry Mrs. Wallis Simp
son? 4. Which college football team
is called the Buckeyes?
5. Who were the Vice-Presidential
candidates with Dewey
when G.O.P. candidate for Pres
ident in 1944 and 1948?
6. Juan D. Peron, ousted dicta
tor of Argentina, found refuge in
a neighboring state: Boliva, Bra
zil, Chile, Paraguary or Uragu
ary?? 7. Atherosclerosis is the same
as arteriosclerosis (hardening of
arteries), or is one form of it,
or arferiosclerosis is one form of
atherosclerosis?
The Answers: 1. British Isles,
especially Ireland. 2. Many more
hardtops-. 3. Wasn't; it goes back
almost 200 years. 4. Ohio State.
5. Sen. Bricker (Ohio). 1944,
Gov. Warren (Calif.), 1948. 6.
Paraguay. 7. Atherosclerosis is
one form of arteriosclerosis.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Probe on Government Secrecy
A new House subcommittee study of federal
agency information policy which begins this week
should, in the words of Chairman John E. Moss (D
Calif.), "show the public the extent to which there
has been a brown-out of information about the pub
lic's business."
The House group on Aug. 10 sent out inquiries on
information policy to 63 federal departments and
agencies. The subcommittee will base its study on the
replies of the federal bodies and also on some 350
letters and telegrams alleging that government infor
mation policies have been remiss in about 100 cate
gories. THE Congressional inquiry will take up the work
ing of President Eisenhower's Executive Order 10
501, issued on Nov. 6, 1953. Originally hailed by the
press, the order replaced President Truman's Execu
tive Order 10-290 (Sept. 24, 1951), under which
every government agency had authority to classify
documents for security reasons.
The Eisenhower order abolished the "restricted"
category of classification, leaving only "confidential,"
"secret," and "top secret." One other legal classifica
tion, "restricted data," applies exclusively to atomic
secrets. Also, the order deprived 28 non-military
agencies of classifying power, limited classifying
power in 17 other non-military agencies to the agency
chief.
But subcommittee investigators on Sept. 23 dis
closed that at least 30 formulas were being used by
agencies to classify information that could not qualify
in the three regular security grades. Papers were be
ing stamped "administratively confidential," or "not
for publication," or "limited official use," or "confi
dential treatment." One agency was identifying un
officially "secret" documents by putting them on
specially colored paper. The codes, "medical-private"
and "personal-official," were frequently used.
DRESS comments on the administration's handling
of information have not all been brickbats. J. R.
Wiggins, executive editor of the Washington "Post
and Times-Herald," who as chairman of the Ameri
can Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Infor
mation Committee has frequently been critical of fed
eral information policies, on Oct. 15 commended
White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty.'s
handling of the facts about the President's heart at
tack. Hagerty's performance, declared Wiggins, is "an
example of open dealings that should not be lost upon
others in government." But on the same day, Norman
E. Isaacs, managing editor of the Louisville, Ky.,
"Times," was telling the Southwest Journal Forum :
Along with so 'many newspapermen, I am astounded
that Mr. Eisenhower should have given his blessLig to the
Department of Defense's fatuous proposal that there should
be screened out of non-security news whatever might be
of interest to an enemy.
FJEFENSE Secretary Charles E. Wilson on Sept. 16
had warned defense industries to "exercise con
siderable caution" in publishing economic and techni
cal information even though it bears no security label.
"Indiscriminate release could make easier the job of
the saboteur by pointing out potential targets," Wilson
argued.
One of the first witnesses before the Moss sub
committee is to be James S. Pope; executive editor of
the Louisville "Courier-Journal" and "Times," who
has been extremely critical of recent Defense Depart
ment directives as "outrageous . . . muddle-headed . . .
asmine. Un Aug. Zb rope declared: 1 don t want
Charlie Wilson or anybody in his department to de
cide what nonsecurity information I ought to have."
E.R.R.
To Honor
We should not let this week pass without noticing
the fact that it is American Education week. Parents
of Medford youngsters, in connection with the obser
vance, have been invited to visit the schools to see
how their children are treated, and to get an idea of
what goes on in today's schools.
Additionally, the Medford Council of Parents and
Teachers has set aside Wednesday, Nov. 9, as Teach
ers' day, in honor of the men and women who have
the highly responsible job of. teaching today's chil
dren. JT IS not an easy job, but often it can be a rewarding
one, as most teachers can tell you. It is one of the
aims of this day to point this out for as has been stat
ed repeatedly, many, many more teachers are going
to be needed as more and more youngsters go to
school.
Here is Mayor Miller's proclamation of the day:
WHEREAS, The period of November 6th to 13th, 1955,
has been designated for the 35th Annual American Educa
tional Week, and
WHEREAS, The Medford Council of Parents and Teach
ers have resolved that Wednesday, November 9th of Ameri
can Education Week, be set aside as TEACHERS DAY. This
day to honor and give special tribute to teachers for their
wise and experienced guidance of our children's educational
growth laying the ground work for the citizens of tomor
row our children.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, EARL MILLER, Mayor of the
City of Medford, proclaim that November 9, 1955, be here
by set aside as TEACHERS DAY and do hereby appeal to
all persons having an interest in education to make this day
a memorable tribute to teachers.
EARL M. MILLER, "Mayor
E.A.
HAWK IS GUEST
Worcester,' Mass. (U.R) Carl
Anderson's unusual pet is ' a
broadwing hawk. Found injured,
the bird was nursed back to
to health and now appears to be
a contented member of the An
derson household.
Tuesday, November 8, 1955
Teachers
FORESTER TRANSFERRED
Lakeview (U.R) Robert L.
Bjornsen, on the Fremont na
tional forest staff here, has been
promoted to district ranger of
the Bear Sleds ranger district of
the Wallowa-Whitman national
forest.
Russia Wortd
If Tito Friend
Attempt Payi
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Presi Correspondent
Soviet Russia's leaders may be
wondering whether their at
tempt to make up with President
Tito of Yugo
slavia is really
paying off.
They have
failed com
pletely to get
Tito back into
the Soviet
bloc.
They have
failed to
weaken Tito's
alliance with
cnanes Mccano Greece ana
Turkey, which are members of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization. Tito's relations with the
United States have been
strengened, not weakened, since
Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin
and Communist Party boss Ni
kita S. Khrushchev made their
pilgrimage to Belgrade last May.
Now Tito has agreed with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles that Russia's eastern Eu
ropean satellites ought to be
free.
The statement which Dulles
made after his conference with
Tito Sunday, and to which Tito
agreed, on the satellite situation
must have caused considerable
annoyance in the Kremlin.
Russia Worried
There are many signs that the
Russian government is increas
ingly worried over the problem
of keeping the eastern European
satellite countries under its
heel.
None of them is really Com
munist, of course. In none of
them would Communism have
the least chance of approval in
a free election.
There are signs also that the
Russian attempt to woo Tito has
served to weaken the Kremlin's
hold on the satellites.
The Soviet government has
been compelled to press the Hun
garian and Bulgarian Commu
nist governments to follow its
example in trying to be friends
with Tito.
Such friendship can hardly
strengthen the Kremlin's posi
tion. Developments ever since
Tito's break with Russia in 1948
have tended to suggest that he
may be the smartest of all Com
munist leaders.
Despite his break with Russia.
Tito remains a Communist. But
he certainly does not seem dedi
cated to the Kremlin's obsession
with the necessity for Commu
nist world domination.
Tito seems increasingly to be
Jacksonville City
Council Declines
Britt Estate Use
Jacksonville The Jackson
ville city council recently voted
not to accept an offer from ex
ecutors of the Miss Amalie (Mol
lie) Britt estate be made into a
municipal park. The property is
in the southwest section of Jack
sonville. Under terms of the will the
estate originally was left to the
Southern Oregon Historical so
ciety along with $25,000 provid
ing the society financed main
tenance of the estate. The society
believed that it would be unable
to maintain the estate as a
museum.
The estate now will go to the
state department of higher edu
cation. Offered for Park
The city of Jacksonville was
offered the estate for a city park
by the Britt estate attorney,
Frank Van Dyke.
The council decided, however,
to maintain the Britt burial lot
in the old cemetery here.
In other action, the council
heard a letter from Harvey and
Watkins, consulting engineers of
Medford, advising removal of
everything on the second floor
of the U. S. Hotel building in
Jacksonville. The city owns the
building, which has been used
by the Royal Neighbors as a
meeting place. The Royal Neigh
bors have equipment stored on
the second floor.
The council also voted to ask
various organizations with sec
tions in the old cemetery to help
clean up lots and maintain them.
TO DIVORCE ACTOR
Santa Monica (U.R) Actor
Victor Mature's wife, Dorothy,
35, was scheduled to appear in
Superior court here today to
divorce the film star.
Editorial Comment
TOUGH
Ordinarily it's bad form to
find comfort in the failure of a
business. But we just can't feel
too sorry about the plight of the
people who publish comic books.
They're hurting and hurting bad.
Comic book sales, which neared
the 80 million mark in 1952. will
only be about 40 -million this
year.
Publishers of the poorly
ring
hip
g Off
the sort of Communist with
whom the United States and its
allies can do business.
No Police State,
Yugoslav no longer is a police
state. Tito has veered away from
the Communist insistence on
collective farming. He is trying
to transfer priority from defense
spending to increased food pro
duction and the making of con
sumer goods. He seems to be
really popular with Yugoslavs.
At 63, Tito has a record of
continued successes for more
than 10 years. He organized and
led the partisans who fought the
Germans and Italian Fascists so
successfully in World War II.
He made himself Yugoslavia's
leader after the war, with little
trouble. He got away to the as
tonishment of the world with
his defiance of Josef Stalin be
cause he insisted on putting his
own country's welfare ahead of
Russia's. Now it is reported that
the Kremlin is thinking of
breaking up, for Tito's benefit,
the "Cominform" propaganda
agency which was made the me
dium for his break with Russia.
So far the benefits of the
Kremlin's courtship seem, to be
on his side and on the side of
the Western Allies. .
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Geneva the other day a
rumor spread that Russia's Molo
tov was ill with stomach cramps.
He answered the rumor in per
son by taking a vigorous stand
on four hours of debate on the
German problem. Then he en
tertained British Foreign Secre
tary MacMillan at dinner.
The next morning he entered
the foreign ministers session as
bouncy as ever and that night
he joined the British and French
ministers as a guest of U.S. Sec
retary of State Dulles.
THE rumor about Molotov and
his stomach ache, you see,
was just another of the BIL
LIONS of things people know
that AIN'T SO.
POLITICAL slogans depart-
ment :
A National Democrats for Ste
venson club has been started by
a group of Oklahoma Democrats.
One of the organizers says the
club's slogan will be: "Gladly
for Adlai."
The trouble with the slogans
is that somebody is always
thinking up a backfire. Some
wicked Republican would be
pretty sure to twist it into "BAD
LY for Adlai," which rhymes
just as well but doesn't sound
so good.
SOMEHOW I have a notion that
next year Americans are go
ing to be more interested in good
government for our country than
in. fancy slogans.
At least, I hope so.
PRESIDENT Joao Cafe of Bra
zil suffered a heart attack
which, his physicians say, will
force him to take a complete
rest. They describe his condition,
however, as not serious.
Cafe is 56. As modern top
leaders go, he's a mere young
ster. He became President of
Brazil in August of 1954. The
term for which he was elected
has three months to run.
T ET'S be serious for a moment.
It isn't by sheer accident that
so many of our modern leaders
are suffering heart attacks, or
other serious illnesses. It may
have been different in the old
days, but modern leadership of
modern nations involve a heavy
burden of responsibility.
We little people can relax and
take it easy when we get tired.
There is no such thing as relax
ing and taking it easy for a while
for the leader of a modern na
tion. The burden of responsibility
weighs upon his shoulders all the
time.
"DAJA (Lower) California ju
dicial police report that they
have just seized 435 pounds of
marijuana and have arrested
three men in connection with
peddling of the stuff.
The officers estimate that the
shipment in cigarette form would
retail at between $70,000 and
$100,000.
TF PEOPLE were willing to
pay as much for things that
are good for them as they are
willing to pay for THINGS
THAT ARE BAD FOR THEM,
there would be a lot less kick
ing about prices in these modern
days.
printed and often pernicious
booklets blame the "clean-up
code" which forced them to drop
the gorier, sexier, more brutal
stories and pictures from their
publications. This left them with
only the comic comics, and it
lost them their audiences of
adults who gloried in drawings
of little girls being tortured.
Some people have a hard time
making a living. And that's just
tough. Eugene Register-Guard.
Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop
THEY HAVE 15,000
Washington A desperately
grave Middle Eastern crisis has
been touched -off by the Soviet
sale of arms to
Egypt and
other Arab
states. And be
hind this crisis
which is re
ceiving far too
little attention,
there is an
other set of
facts of almost
equal gravity,
which is get
ting no atten
Joseph Also
tion at all.
The very fact that the Kremlin
has Mig-15s, T-34 tanks and
other expensive weapons to sell
at bargain basement rates speaks
volumes about the way the So
viets have handled the most im
portant single problem of mod
ern defense planning.
This is the problem of ob
solescence, which is a wholly
modern problem. ' Nelson's flag
ship, the "Vic
tory," had
fought in the
British line of
battle for
something like
a century on
theglorousday
of Trafalgar;
and five sen
ior British
naval officers
were still
Stewart Alsop
squabbling about who should
have the "Victory" when the
Napoleonic wars ended a good
many years later.
Nowadays, however, the re
morseless . onward march of
science makes any weapon ob
solescent before it enters full
production. And within five
years of going into service most
aircraft types, for instance, must
be classed as absolutely obsolete.
This rapid obsolescence of
arms of all types is combined,
moreover, with another modern
trend. Because of the increasing
destructiveness of the terrible
absolute weapons, , the import
ance of what the war planners
caU "force-in-being" is also in
creasing by rapid leaps and
bounds.
According to one expert esti
mate, the value of force-in-being,
which is the force you have
ready to fight on the outbreak of
war, has gone up by 10 per cent
per annum compounded since
1945. Meanwhile the value of
reserve power, such as the in
dustrial power this country has
always relied on, has declined
proportionally. Reserve power,
in short, has ceased to be re
liable, while a strong force-in-being
has become decisively im
portant. TUT how; to maintain a con
" tinuously strong force-in- be
ing, when its arms are continu
ously becoming obsolete? After
a period of compromise answers
to this question under President
Truman, the Eisenhower de
fense planners firmly chose the
cheaper , answer, for budgetary
reasons. Our system now is to
leave large parts of our armed
forces with obsolete arms for
very long periods, while main
Babson and Stock Market
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. (Special
To Mail Tribune) Twenty-five
years ago I made a wellknown
forecast about
an impending
big break in
the stock mar
ket. (Reprint
of the article
which ap
peared in the
New York
Times in 1929,
recording my
oger W. Babson statement, will
be sent to anyone free on re
quest.) At the close of the pre
vious day in 1929, the Dow.
Jones Industrial Stock Average
stood at 380. The market im
mediately began to weaken and
shortly plunged down swiftly,
closing at 230 a decline of 150
points in less than eight weeks.
As this is written the Dow-Jones
Industrial Average is 358, with
in six points of the highest fig
ures since 1929. In fact, it has
moved up over 100 points since
September, 1953.
Reactions To Be Expected
I expect another severe reac
tion sooner or later, of at least
50 to 75 points. Surely, present
stock yields are now too low.
when 1954 Federal Taxes are
deducted. Such a break in the
market could occur even during
a period of good business acti
vity such as I am now fore
casting. Stock prices have of late
demonstrated that they can
move independently of both bus
iness and earnings. It is well to
recall that, in 1929. there were
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE
h -C i
taining a research and develop
ment program that at least pro
vides models of truly modern
arms.
The Soviets, in contrast, have
adopted the expensive answer.
The extraordinary character of
that answer is best illustrated by
the fighter aircraft story.
At the end of the second
World War, the Soviet force of
fighter aircraft was a mish-mash
of inferior types, big in num
bers, but in every other way in
ferior to ours. By very great ef
forts, the Soviet air industry pro
duced the first model of the
Mig-15 in 1947. At that time the
American experts thought this
early Mig was a hand-made job,
which could not be produced in
quantity.
But while we in the United
States were turning out our F
86s in hundreds, the Soviets were
turning out their Migs in thous
ands. In the end, according tc the
official Pentagon estimate, So
viet output of Mig-15s reached
the staggering total of 15,000. In
other words, the entire Soviet
fighter force-in-being was equip
ped with Mig-15s, with a great
many left over for the Chinese
and other satellites.
Even today, a good many units
of our fighter force are still
equipped with types inferior to
the F-86, and the F-86 is still our
only fighter in wide use that is
fit to meet the Mig-15 in the air.
Among our allies, the- position is
still more serious. With the dan
ger in the Formosa Strait rapid'
ly increasing again, the Chinese
Nationallist Air Force, for in
stance, is more than half equip
ped with World War II aircraft
types that will be utterly use
less against the jet aircraft of
the Chinese Communists.
UTEANWHILE the Soviets have
briskly put the Mig-15 on
the obsolete list. After making
the gigantic investment needed
to produce 15,000 of these planes,
they have written them off for
their own purposes. They are
now making another, equally
gigantic investment, to re-equip
the Soviet Air Force and after
it the satellite air forces with
their new "Farmer" day-fighter
and "Flashlight" nightfighter,
which are measurably superior
to any comparable planes we
have in quantity production.
It is precisely this change
over, in turn, which has permit
ted the Soviets to start peddling
Mig-15s at bargain basement
prices in the places where they
will make the most trouble, such
as the Middle East.
The Migs, the tanks, and all
the other weapons the Soviets
are selling the Egyptians, Sy
rians, and Saudi Arabians (and
now the Afghans and even the
Yemenites must be added to the
list) are nothing more nor less
than war surplus, created by the
way the Soviets have handled the
problem of obsolescence. But
these Soviet arms that are junk
in Russia are also good enough
to turn the whole Middle East
ern balance of power completely
upside down. And this is per
haps a warning to the West.
(Copyright 1955.
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.'
few outward signs of the stock
market crash ahead.
Investors were then anticipat
ing larger dividend returns with
a reduction in risk through
diversf ied Investment Trust
holdings and promised mass pro
duction and inventions "such as
the world had never seen be
fore." The research laboratories
of our great industrial concerns
were also then depended on to
bring these miracles about. In
short, a "New Era" was then
confidently anticipated. Basical
ly, there was weakness, but it
was most apparent in stock mar
ket speculations.
Conservative Advice
The current market presents
much the same irregular picture
as was present in 1929. The so-
called blue chips have outdis
tanced the bulk of the issues on
the market, due to concentrated
buying, much of it by Institu
tions. Pension Funds, and Mu
tual Investment Trusts. There
are in addition many new cross
currents m the market that did
not exist in 1929. We have arma
ment activity and other Govern
ment buying, heavy spending,
support of farm prices, and es
pecially the intense. new adver
tising programs, which I con
sider very important. It is clear
that the economic picture and
the trend in the market can
change abruptly and snowball
rapidly to an unexpected degree.
The real purpose of my column
this week is to bring to your at
tention that the market may
soon be in as vulnerable a posi
tion as in 1929.
WISHING MW7MAKEITS0
The future independence end leisure you are
hoping for will be yours only if you prepare
for it. It is never too early to make provision
for a happy retirement. Don't let it become
too late. How about today?
CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent
Phone 2-9772
COMPANY OF CANADA
Simpson Slated
To Take Part in
Forestry Session
L. L. (Doc) Simpshn, secretary
manager and iorester or tne
Southern Oregon Conservation
and Tree Farm association, will
be one of several speakers and
discussion panel leaders at the
46th annual Western Forestry
conference in Portland Dec. 7
through 9.
The three-day conference will
feature discussions on compet
ing demands for use of forest
lands, reviews o forest problems-
radio communication, forest
credit, and financing forest pest
control.
To Discuss Protection
Simpson will be on a panel
discussing forest protection, new
equipment, cooperative- pro
grams, the Clarke-McNary law
and fire weather forecasting.
Others on the panel include
C. S. Cowan, Washington Forest
Fire association. Seattle, chair
man, E. E. Silva, of the Unitd
States forest service at Arcadia,
Calif., DeWitt Nelson, of the de
partment of natural resources,
Sacramento. Calif., and Nelson
Jeffers, Weyerhaeuser Timber
company, Longview, Wash.
Ervm L. Peterson, assistant
secretary of the United States
department of agriculture, and
A. D. Nutting, president of the
national Association of State
Foresters and forest commis-
soiner of Maine, will speak at
the conference, which will be at
tended by representatives from
17. western states.
Awards Planned
The annual Western Forestry
award for distinguished service
in forestry, awards for prize
winning essays and a report on
the fourth World Forestry con
gress in Dehra Dun, India, also
will be featured. Exhibits will
feature forestry equipment.
Emmit R. Aston of Omak,
Wash., is president of the con
ference, and Stuart Moir of
Portland has arranged the con
ference. Phoenix Schools Set
Education Week Events
Phoenix Phoenix High and
elementary school will hold an
open house starting at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 10, in observ
ance of National Education
Week.
A musical program by the
band and chrus will start at
7:30 p.m. in the high school
gymnasium, and classrooms and
various departments in the high
school and elementary buildings
will be open.
Refreshments will be served
in the high school homemaking
room and in the grade school
cafeteria.
Communications
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Likes Trees
To the Editor: Ten years ago
my family and I came to this
lovely valley, bought a home
and established a business. We
decided to come here when we
could have gone elsewhere just
as well. Our reason for chrsing
Southern Oregon was the beau
ty and charm of the Rogue River
Valley.
I feel almost everyone will
agree that some of the Valley's
greatest assets are its trees of
all kinds. Now, I am not an or
chardist but it seems to me that
anything which might tax the
trees to the point of making
fruit raising any the less prof
itable is a dangerous policy. Not
only because the orchardist
should be encouraged in every
way to keep up fruit produc
tion for the sake of labor but be
cause we all love the trees and
want to keep them FREE.
Why not give all the wee own
ers of every kind a pat on the
back and encourage the planting
of even more of one of nature's
most wonderful gifts. Let us not
only keep Oregon green but
prosperous and beautiful as well.
(Mrs.) Alberta A More,
P. O. Box 547, 0
Medford, Oregon.
MR.
INSURANCE
Fred
Brennan
It It aggravating to have your
home insured and then find that
the policy doesn't cover the dam
age that occurs. Does this new
"broad form" fire insurance from
your agency cover virtually every
kind of physical damage to a home
and landscaping?
For Information Call
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phone 2-4940