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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nor. 27, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Robert L. Mullin, formerly of
Gold Hill, replaces Mrs. Mar
chial Stansbury, as secretary of
Ashland Chamber of Commerce.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The scent
of fermenting sauerkraut is now
wafted on the evening breezes
of the rural regions and will
eventually drape pig backbones,
with some meat left on same.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Medford National Bank sold to
United States National Bank of
Portland; George T. Frey ap
pointed manager.
Fruit shipments from Rogue
' valley to pass 2,000-car mark.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27. 1935
(It was Friday)
Work on covered grandstand
for Salem - Medford football
game starts; to seat 500.
Central Point city council
adopts ordinance requiring per
mits to erect, alter or raze build
ings. 40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 27, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Ashland residents express de
sire to have city pay one-third
of street paving costs.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Track work on the west
side of the Bullis electric line
to Jacksonville has reached
Holly street, the rails having
been laid to that point. It begins
to look like Manager Bullis will
be able to inaugurate the
through service to the county
seat next month, as promised.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
vopr. 1955, Editorial Research Raped
1. A typical American family
spends much more during the
year on clothing (including
shoes), or on housing,: or about
the same on each?
2. Practically all diamonds in
the world are mined in Canada,
North Africa, South Africa, India
or Australia? -
3. Average pay for first-grade
police patrolmen in largest U.S
cities is around $3400, $4200,
..$5000 or $5800?
4. The Lusitania was sunk in
World War I by iceberg, Ger
man submarine, floating mine,
bomb from a plane, or collision
with another ship?
5. A New York, Chicago,
Washington, Milwaukee or Los
Angeles paper published most
advertising in first eight months
of this year?
6. Less than one-third, about
one half or two-thirds, -or more
than three-fourths of all car
owners carry collision insurance
on damages to their own cars?
7. The samba is the national
dance of Mexico, Belgian Congo,
Cvfta, Brazil or Spain?
The Answers: 1. About the
fame. 2. South Africa. 3. Around
$5000. 4. German submarine. 5.
Los Angeles (the Times). 6.
About two-ihirds. 7. Brazil.
Mexico City (U.R) Mrs.
Ofelia Castanon de Juarez told
police she never would have
called them just because her
husband was beating her but
said it was just too much when
he let his mother- and. -brother
help. '
MAIL TRIBUNE
Do Speeches Win Elections?
Are campaign speeches a determing factor in a
presidential election?
The Republican party seems to think so.
At least, according to our special operator in
Washington, D. C, the GOP expects to spend $10,
000,000 on the Pacific coast to defeat public power
candidates, a large portion of same will be used to
defeat Senator Morse or try to.
His figure may, or may not be correct. We don't
vouch for it. But we have no doubt many millions will
be spent and a large share of it to finance the cam
paign against Oregon's senior Senator.
Also a major share of that Morse portion will be
spent for political speeches, from the platform, over
the air via TV (and some we hope with the news
papers). The point we are interested in, at the moment
however, is just how effective campaign speeches
by representatives of either party really are, when
it comes to getting the votes and determining the
result.
Our idea, which we have held for some time, is
that the actual vote-getting power of campaign
speeches is, and for many years has been, consider
ably over estimated.
,
CERTAINLY if speech-making were as determin-
ing a factor as many of the professional politicians
maintain, William Jennings Bryan would have been
elected President twice and perhaps 3 times.
For as an orator, a platform persuader, a star per
former on the stump-speaking partisan circuit, Wil
liam Jennings, in his prime, stood out head and
shoulders above all his competitors.
And the "Boy Orator
actor, and a master of all
trade, never failed to give
honesty, sincerity and dedication to his political be
liefs and principles so much so that many who went
to hear him with their fingers crossed, came away
with the same fingers blistered from the violence
of their applause.
In many cases the magnetic and oratorical spell,
had spent its force by the time the voting booths were
open or the final roll call in the convention had
started, if the speech had been entirely a party one.
But the effect at the time was tremendous.
DON'T mean to suggest that campaign speeches
have no effect, or deny that when they deal with
new issues, or clarify old ones, present new facts, they,
may make votes and change them many of them.
But we do maintain that as such things go, the
"run of the mill" table-thumping orations of the 100
partisans, regardless of their political label, have al
ways had far less effect on the final decision of the
voters than the political professionals have main
tained, and have less today than ever before.
The "give 'em hell" partisans like the "noise and
fury" of course and yell for more. But they are going
to vote for their party anyway. Only those who haven't
decided how they are going to vote the Independ
ents can be influenced by speech making, and unless
the speaker affects their decision, he might, as
far as any practical result
have skipped the date and
WE DON'T deny there is
former President Truman and Governor Harriman
of New York would take the contrary view, as would
Senators Bridges and McCarthy of the opposing politi
cal faction.
But that happens to be our opinion and we believe
if some student of political economy would take time
off to do some careful researching, a mass of evidence
to sustain the negative side of the question could be
presented.
Among other things it would be discovered, we
believe, that it was not the "give 'em hell". speech
making of President Truman that elected him in
1948, it was the ineffective speech making and unfor
tunate personality of Tom Dewey in other words the
American people didn't so much vote FOR Truman,
as vote AGAINST Dewey.
Not that campaign speeches don't make votes
and sometimes lose them but they could, we
believe, be eliminated entirely and the election
results would seldom be changed materially.
As for the 1952 campaign, we believe it was m
spite of General Eisenhower's speeches instead of be
cause of them, that he won such a decisive victory.
The unknown genius who invented and circulated
the brief slogan "We Like Ike" won that election
with an "assist" from the fact that after 20 years of
Democratic rule, the American rank and file wanted
a change.
THE beauty of such remarks as above is that no one
can disprove them or prove them for that
matter.
They add up merely to an expression of opinion,
which whether speech making really is the determin
ing factor in presidential campaigns, or a waste of
time and lung power, will we trust, remain free in this
free democracy so long as elections endure. R.W.R.
Tiplon Home Children
Ask For Oregon Holly
Oregon holly is requested by
children who live in the Tipton
Home for Children at Tipton,
Pa., according to members of
the Intermediate Lutheran
league of Zion Lutheran church.
League members, who benefit
the home, announced the re
quest last week and valley
residents who would like to do
nate holly may contact C. S.
Sunday, Norember 27, 19SS
of the Platte" while a great
the political tricks of the
the impression of complete
is concerned, just as well
kept his mouth shut.
'
another side to this ques-
Slessler, 846 West 13th st., tele
phone, 2-8220. Students of the
seventh, eighth and ninth
grades make up the local league.
They will wrap and ship the
holly.
Recently the league sent 10
dolls, valued at $20, cartoon
books and candy to Sitka Com
munity hospital at Sitka, Alas
ka. Girls of the league dressed
the dolls.
You can wash your best china
and glassware safely if you use
a rubber sink liner which pads
the sides as well as the bottom
of the sink.
Matter of Fact ey
THE HIDDEN CRISIS
Washington It is very lucky
that the President is now grad
ually resuming command of the
American government; for a sort
of hidden crisis
of foreign pol
icy is now go
ing on that de
mands a long
series of Pres
idential decis-
ions of the
gravest sort.
There are two
rea sons why
this crisis has
been hidden
Joseph ALso
from the coun-
try thus far. The Eisenhower
team has been trying desperately
hard, first of all, to keep up the
appearance of government - as -
usual; and this could not be
done, obviously, without deny
ing the need for grave decisions
which the President was in fact
not ready to make.
The other reason why the
crisis has been hidden lies in the
nature of the crisis itself. It is
shapeless, amorphous, scattered.
Superficially, it does not look
like a crisis at
all. It resem
bles, rather an
accumula t i b n
of critical but
local situations,
without any
unifying, over
all pattern. The
pattern is seen
to be there,
however, of the
several situa
tions that com
pose the crisis
Stewart Alsop
are listed and
analyzed together, item by item.
Item one on the list, in alpha
betical order, is Afghanistan.
Soviet infiltration of the historic
approach-route to India is now
so deep that the Afghan govern
ment has actually forbidden any
foreigners but those approved by
the Soviet Embassy to visit the
richer and more important half
of the country lying to the north
of the Hindu Kush. The Afghans
already have a mission in
Prague, haggling for Soviet
arms. When Krhushchev and
Bulganin come home from India
by way of Kabul, the Afghans
are expected to accept a modi
fied status as a Soviet satellite
in return for economic and mil
itary aid.
ITEM TWO is Ecuador.' Offers
of Soviet arms have' also been
made to this small Latin Amer
ican country that is involved in
a bitter dispute with its larger
neighbor, Peru. There is some
evidence that an Ecuadorian
mission has left secretly for
Pragufe, to negotiate an arms
purcHase agreement. The situa
tion is regarded as sufficently
serious to justify Henry Holland,
the Assistant Secretary of State
for Latin American Affairs, hur
rying to Quito for talks with the
Ecuadorian government.
ITEM THREE is Egypt. Here
the problem arises from the
fact that the Soviets have offered
to build the High Aswan Dam for
the Egyptians, and to lend them
no less than $600,000,000 on easy
terms for this purpose. The deal,
if it goes through, will give the
Kremlin something close to a
Today and
By Walter
THE SHORTAGE ,
OF EDUCATION II
In a preceding article I argued
that the White House Conference
on Education which meets next
week, should
make definite
recommen d a
t i o n s on
whether and
on how Fed
er aid should
be given to
education.
There is a
grave short
age, which
Walter Uppmann
threatens to become much worse,
in the supply of class rooms and
of teachers. The class rooms can
be built when the money is pro
vided: the only question is
whether all the necessary money
can be provided by the states
separately, or whether Federal
contribution is required.
The shortage of teachers calls
also for more money to attract
and to hold competent men and
women. But money alone will
not solve the problem. The arith
metic of our rapidly growing
population shows that by the
conventional standards enough
teachers cannot conceivably be
found.
The problem is set forth
clearly in a pamphlet called
"Teachers for Tomorrow," which
is published by The Fund for
The Advancement of Education,
a creation of the Ford Founda
tion. (I should say for the sake
of the record that while I have
had nothing to do with the prepa
ration of the pamphlet, I am a
member of the board of the fund
which is responsible for the
pamphlet.)
TEW of us, myself included,
have realized until recently
how enormously and how sud
denly the American birth rate
i- -
Joe and Stewart AIsop
stranglehold on the Egyptian
economy. But the alternative is
for America to offer to build
this gigantic dam on the Nile,
with foreign aid funds plus a
loan from the World Bank. For
us the cost will be no less than
$1,200,000,000, since our engi
neering estimates are not polit
ically shaded. And the situation
is further complicated, by the Soviet-Egyptian
arms deal, which
has so inflamed the whole Middle
East.
Item four is Saudi Arabia. The
Saudi Arabians also have an
arms deal with the Soviets sim
mering on the fire. Since their
army is inconsiderable, the Saudi
Arabian arms deal is not intrin
sically serious. But it is strongly
suspected that it carries a sub
ordinate clause. If this suspicion
is correct, the Saudi Arabian
government will expel the Stra
tegic Air Command from its
biggest Middle Eastern airbase,
Dhahran, when the airbase
agreement comes up for re-negotiation
next spring.
THESE items are only a brief
selection to illustrate the new
ways the Soviets are playing the
game they call "competitive co
existence." Two different and novel de
vices have now been adopted by
the Kremlin. The first is to offer
arms at bargain basement prices
from the vast Soviet surplus
stocks, to those countries where
the arms will make the most
trouble andor most effectively
extend Soviet influence.
The second device is a kind of
parody of a leaf from our own
book. The Soviets now have their
own foreign aid program, typi
fied by the High Aswan Dam pro
ject. But there is nothing gov-
ernessy about this program
There is no nonsense about tell
ing the aid-recipients that they
cannot do this and must do that
because it s all for your own
good." Where aid is offered, only
the Soviet political advantag
is considered.
The Soviet aid program is
thought to be financed by the
huge Soviet annual gold output,
which the new masters of the
Kremlin are too shrewd to go
on hoarding as the old Georgian
peasant Stalin hoarded it. Other
manifestations of this program,
in India and Burma for example.
are soon to be expected.
V
IirHILE these new devices have
' been adopted, the old meth
ods of underground infiltration
and overt military pressure have
not been abandoned. The prepar
ations for an air blockade in the
Formosa Strait are going for
ward apace. The Communist in
filtration in Malaya and Indo
china has never abated. Even
Thailand, once so closely allied
with this country, is now report
ed leaning towards neutralism
In short the hidden crisis that
is now going on is caused by far
more intense, far bolder Soviet
pushing into soft but strategic
ally vital areas. How to hold the
line for the free world is the
Question the President must
somehow answer. And, any effec
tive answer will require this
country to make much greater
efforts and run much greater
(C) 1955, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
is increasing. During the '40s
the enrollments year by year in
elementary schools remained
steady at about 20,000,000 chil
dren. This year the enrollment
has jumped up to 29,000,000. But
when the babies born in the past
five years record-breaking years
are ready for school, enrollment
will be pushing 35,000,000. This
means that for every 100 en
rolled in elementary schools dur
ing the '40s there will be 170 at
the beginning of the '60s. The big
increase in the secondary schools
will come a little later, as the
children grow older. By the end
of the '60s, which is only four
Presidential terms away, the
children who have already been
born will be enough to push sec
ondary school enrollment up by
more than 70 per cent of what it
is today.
The burden of the colleges will
be still greater, in part because
of -this increased birth rate and
in, part because a growing pro
portion of the young demand a
college education. College en
rollment will be double the pres
ent number some time after
1966. '
w
E COME now to what we
metic of the Teacher Problem.
Our present ratio of teachers to
pupils is supposed to be one
teacher for every thirty elemen
tary pupils, one teacher for ev
ery twenty-five secondary pu
pils, and one teacher for every
thirteen college pupils. To have
enough teachers if the present
teaching system is to be main
tained it would be necessary to
recruit by 1965 an additional
half million elementary and sec
ondary school teachers. For the
colleges 'we shall by present
standards need in the next fif
teen years about double the num
ber of existing teachers.
We cannot hope to find that
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Against Ordinance
To the Editor: Seventh-day
Adventists as well as other liberty-loving
citizens in the Med
ford area are watching with tre
mendous interest the outcome of
a case involving the arrest of an
Adventist minister in Gresham,
Ore., on Nov. 8. Elder C. Lloyd
Wyman, assistant pastor of the
Gresham Adventist church,
called on several homes offering
Bibles and religious books for
sale. He was arrested, as a test
case, for violating the Green
River ordinance which forbids
door-to-door selling.
We take the position that re
ligion is the most sacred thing
any person has, and that in
America everyone should have
the right to practice and teach
religion without interference 'by
any regulating ordinance.
The Green River ordinance,
which has been adopted by
many towns and municipalities
throughout the country, prohib
its house-to-house soliciting for
the sale of goods, and such so
liciting of sales is declared to be
a nuisance and punishable as a
misdemeanor. Adventists con
tend if this ordinance is made
to apply to the conducting of re
ligious work, such as the selling
of Bibles, it is an infringement
of the religious liberties guar
anteed in the first amendment
of the constitution of the United
States.
Many on this locality feel that
no state or municipality has a
right to enforce statutes or or
dinances which interfere with
the unrestricted propagation of
the Christian faith, which is in
harmony with the American way
of life.
Elder E. F. Coy, Pastor
Seventh-day Adventist
Church, Medford, Ore.
Up To Judges
To the Editor: We will soon
observe another Safe Driving
Day. Our local courts can great
ly assist in making this, and
every day, safer through the im
position of more severe sentences
for infraction of our traffic laws
It is understood that we will
not have 100 per cent compliance
with all our laws, they are too
complex for that and we do have
an element in our midst that
takes sadistic delight in flouting
the rights of others.
There are two basic methods
by which our inconsiderate
drivers can be penalized first
by fines and second by imprison
ment. In this day of high income
and high expenditures a mini
mum fine serves no good pur
pose. Fines imposed should at
number of teachers. We cannot
hope to do so even when as we
mustA-we have raised teachers1
salaries. The number of teachers
needed will be one-half of all col
lege graduates of every variety.
At present one-fifth of all col
lege graduates go into teaching.
It just is not possible that in the
next ten years one-half of all
college graduates will go into
teaching, that as many college
graduates will go into teaching
as go into all other professions
and vocations combined.
"TT WILL be impossible," says
the Ford pamphlet, under
the present pattern of teacher
recruitment and teacher utiliza
tion to secure anywhere near
enough good teachers for our
schools and colleges over the
next fifteen years."
It will be necessary, there
fore, to find ways of enabling
teachers to teach a larger num
ber of pupils. The arithmetic of
the situation allows no escape
from this conclusion.
That being the case, the ob
vious remedy is to supply the
qualified teachers with aids who
can take over the housekeeping
and clerical chores, leaving the
teachers more time to teach. We
shall have to apply to the teach
ing profession the general prin
ciple which Dael Wolfle, director
of the Commission on Human
Resources and Advanced Train
ing, states as follows:' "A trained
expert seldom" works alone. A
lawyer has his clerks, an engi
neer his draftsmen, a doctor his
nurses a and technicians, a re
search scholar his assistants.
How much the expert accom
plishes is partly determined by
his own ability, but partly by
the number and skill of his as
sistants and by the effectiveness
with which he uses these.
Experiments along these lines
are being conducted in a num
ber of school systems and col
leges. The results have been en
couraging. But we are only at the
beginning of what is bound to
mean great changes in the sys
tem and practice of teaching.
I
N THIS field the White House
Conference is not called upon
as it is on the question of Fed
eral aid to make recommenda
tions to the government. Here
the problem belongs to the
schools and colleges in the states,
and any recommendations that
come from the conference will
be addressed to them. For the
Federal government as such is
not involved.
(Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
the very least equal the cost of
an evening in a beer parlor and
imprisonment should be of suf
ficient length to allow the male
factor to meditate on the ser
iousness of his offense against
the rights and safety of others.
Most people realize that laws
are enacted to preserve our lib
erties and privileges. Most of us
are basically considerate of our
fellow men, but those who lack
this consideration must be taught
that all are equal under the law
and none hold special privilege.
since the imposition of light
fines and suspended sentences
have proven to be of no good pur
pose it would seem that the law
violators in our midst must be
taught to fear conviction and this
can be done by imposing sen
tences of greater severity.
The, problem of securing re
spect for our laws and for the
rights of all, lies squarely in
the laps of the judges of our
trial courts.
i Dan F. Krotz II,
Chairman for
Community Service,
. Steelhead Post, VFW,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Pastured Out
To the Editor: It's 12 miles
east over the mountain, as the
rookery-bound crow flies, to the
old Climax country, 24 miles
around by Camp White over a
good but very roller-coaster
type road, one-way in places
It was quite a thriving commun
ity up to some 40 years ago
when 21 or more families had
their homes in the fertile val
ley and mountainside locations
Evidence of them can still be
seen in patches of yellowing
grass where crops were once
harvested. October green apple
trees are brightened with colors
of persimmon, their small hard
fruits a great attraction for
northward migrating bears when
coming snow warns them to re
treat for the long winter sleep,
A lonely sun-blackened house or
barn can be seen, gravity slow
ly pulling them back to Mother
Earth that gave them being, all
disappearing under the en
croaching forest of bearded fir
and hemlock. Like Longfellow's
Evangeline: "But where are the
hearts beneath it gone are
they, scattered like leaves ."
For only three homes are
there now, high at the end of
the trail with water handy,
adapting themselves to changed
conditions. There seems to be
three reasons for the exodus, so
typical of many other locations
in the west. Mainly, it is the lack
of the heavy winter snows when
one time, bed-ticks were robbed
of straw to feed the starving
stock.. And also the loss of the
soaking, crop-insuring "June
Rain," that marked a sharp de
cline in 1916 on. Pioneers tell
of waving fields of grain
lands that must now be watered
when riders stood high in stirrup
or saddle, if good enough, to
locate stock over-top, the wild
grass. This brought on No
reason when short pasture and
growing herds of large stockmen
over-ran the often poorly fenced
lands of the hill people. "We
wuz pastured out," as one griz
zled old-timer put it. Then there
was the "stickey," still stickily
isolating these lonely homes
when the rains come. Horses
and wagon or two-wheeled cart
could always make .it, even to
unhitching and making home
horseback, something' beyond
the versatile capacity of the then
popular Model T. But one thing
is sure, where people have been.
they 11 be there again. Increas
ing population will demand it
F. J. Clifford
1211 West Main st.
Medford, Ore.
Against Hospital, Highway
io the Editor: It is true everv
community needs adeauate hos
pital facilities, but why must tax
payers no wbe goaded into the
expense ef building a stupen
aous, colossal hospital project
lor generations yet unborn to
die in when so many other things
are needed to live in and enjoy
now. For just a fraction of what
is to be raised for the hospital
we could have the much needed
Girls Community Club build
ing. And what has happened to
the plans for the Armory which
for Jackson County residents?
were to include the Auditorium
Why isn't it possible' to build
the hospital adequate for the
near future into additions or
wings built as the need arose,
as is done with school buildings?
Why do the same men have such
long vision in regard to hos
pital an dbe so short sighted in
regard to the Highway as now
proposed. Why is there such
secrecy; is it because as now
proposed our beautiful Haw
thorne park would still be jeo
pardized? In case Sixth st. is
opened would not the road go
directly through swimming pool?
And what about other streets
connected to park entrances be
ing, closed? And who wants a
huge raised highway bordering
one side of park, making a slum
condition of a nice residential
area? With all the bare land on
either side of Medford why can't
the long range vision be used
on this project? How many tour
ists stop and buy hardware and
automobile parts when on a trip
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
The staff member who usually
assembles Potluck was out of
town part of last week, and did
n't put the thumb-screws on the
rest of the staff sufficiently
tightly to amass the usual
amount of trivia for publication
in this column.
All in all, it's been quite a
week for members of the news
staff. One was in the throes (and
the word is used advisedly) of
getting a daughter married. An
other was winding up affairs and
leaving for a new job. Another
was getting ready to assume new
and added responsibilities. And
all of them still on the job filled
in to make up for the lack of
those absent.
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In the middle of it all came
Thanksgiving, which gave' rise
to the information that city fire-
men, who are called out occa
sionally to rescue cats or help
residents who are locked out of
their homes, had a new one to
add to the miscellaneous file on
Thanksgiving day. They were
summoned to the Jackson school
playground to free a small boy
who had caught" his leg in a
barbed wire fence. The firemen's
report states that the youngster
was "released without injury."
One of the absent news staff
members also was "released
without injury" from an air
plane which had engine trouble
and had to return to the airport.
Back on the ground a discreet
count revealed there had been
13 passengers, which information
gave palpitations to the staff
member's wife until an extra
passengers, the 14th, boarded at
the last moment and made the
second take-off a success.
Everyone, for the good of his
soul, ought to take an airplane
flight sometime in his life. Some
how, being high in the air, look
ing far, far down on the things
that usually loom so large, gives
one a sense of perspective that
no other experience can.
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Last week, when it was cloudy
and hazy on the ground, the air
at 9,000 feet was crystal clear
and smooth. The sun was bright
on the fleecy blanket of clouds
below. And in the middle dis
tance, the majestic, snowclad
bulk of Mt. Shasta was an almost
unbelievable vision of beauty,
capped by its customary plume of
cloud. . -
As for weddings and wedding
receptions, and such-like excite
ment, these too are experiences
in which everyone ought to par
ticipa'.j, some way, at one time
or another. The very special glow
which lights the cheek of a
bride, the half-embarassed pride
of the groom, the combined ache
of happiness and pain of the fam
ilies involved these are a part
of life which should be seen and
savored and remembered.
Any one with any spark of
sensitivity realizes the high emo
tional charge which fills the air
at times such as these, and reacts
to it. "A wedding is a special time
in a person s life, something that
can never be recreated. Perhaps
this is why there is always a
sense of loss at a wedding as well
as the joy of watching two young;
people starting what will, in
reality, be a new life.
Automobile Accidents
Reported to Police
Two automobile accidents,
neither of them serious, were re
ported to state police Friday
evening. . '
One occurred on Highway 99
north of Medfeord, at about 7
p.m., and involved' cars driven
by Lillie Margaret Oakes,' 5L,.
1111 Oak Grove rd., ana
Charles .Rollin Pedigo, 40,
Grants Pass. The other, at about
10:20 p.m. was at the intersec
tion of Keene Way and Waver-
ly, officers said, and involved
cars driven by Benny Lee King,
20, Roseburg, and Jane Stuart
Little, 37, of 1700 Lenora dr.,
Medford.
No injuries were listed, and
police said damage to all four
cars was of a minor nature.
County Sanitarian
o Attend Meeting
Orie Moore, county sanitarian,
ill be in Corvallis Nov. 28 and
29 to attend the annual sani
tarians' short course sponsored
by the state department of ag
riculture.
The course is required for all
milk inspectors. Moore conducts
milk inspection in Jackson coun
ty as well as most restaurant
inspections.
The two day course will deal
with dairy legislation, water
supply requirements for daries,
butterfat testing and labeling
laws, and milk shipments.
that the highway must be with-
a few block of these stores?
I would like to know.
"Poor taxpayer."
(Name on file)
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