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History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
to years ago.
10YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1346
at was Tuesday)
Phoenix city council passes
ordinance governing construc
tion of buildings.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Jack Frost,
a valley caller lor five morn
ings straight, was today accom
panied by Jim Fog, another non
member of the Better Climate
committee of the Cham, of
Comm.
20 YEARS AGO ,
Jan- 15, 1938
at was Wednesday)
Plans and specifications of
a proposed $130,000 expansion
of Medford airport completed
for Portland office of PWA.
George A. Codding -announces
he will seek reelection as Jack
son County District Attorney.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1926
at was Friday)
Al Smith, governor of New
York, announces he will retire
from public life next January.
Grant Matthews elected presi
dent of Riverside Community
club; other officers are Clar
ence Boyd, vice-president; Mrs.
Maude Champlin, secretary;
Mrs. eelma Wohl, treasurer;
Fred O'Kelly and Charles Gray,
directors.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 15, 1916
(it was Saturday) .
Rogue River Canal company
announces plans to construct
highline ditch from Bradshaw
drop to Bear creek at Talent.
"A three-story summer hotel
on Rogue river at Elk creek
almost completed; being built
by W. G. McDonald.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7T . V
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Repeal
1. Benjamin Franklin was
born 250 years ago in Baltimore,
Boston, New , York, Philadel
phia, Williamsburg (Va.) or Eng
land?
2. Re-marriage of divorcees
comes, on the average, one,
three, five or seven years after
the divorce?
3 3. States now have or haven't
the right to choose their presi
dential electors by Congression
al districts instead of by state
wide vote?
4. Southernmost U. S. city is
Son Diego, Brownsville (Tex.),
New Orleans, Mobile or Key
West?
5. Most Methodists reporting
in a national survey do or don't
consider Sunday golf-playing as
sinful?
6. Slivovitz is the national
drink of Russia, Austria, Switz
erland, Hungary, Greece, Yugo
slavia or Turkey?
7. "Ask the man who owns
one" used to be an advertising
slogan for which car still being
made?
The answers: 1. Boston. 2.
Three years. 3. Have. 4. Key
West. 5. Most don't. 6. Yugo
slavia. 7. Packard.
EWES)
Minnesota produces 2,000,000
board feet of lumber annually.
Illinois motor vehicle registra
tion in 1955 through October
was 3,300,300, which was 160,000
more than in all of 1954.
-A
MAIL TRIBUNE
An "Iffy" Question
According to all the important polls, if President
Eisenhower should not be a candidate for reelection,
Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren would be far
ahead of any other Republican aspirants.
But if Justice Warren should be foolish enough
to yield to party pressure and agree to run, he would
have to abandon any hope of getting (as "Ike" did)
any electoral votes in the Solid South.
That verdict of the Supreme Court outlawing
segregation in public schools would tend to that
,
AS Justice John Harlan, grandfather of the present
Supreme Court member of the same name, said
in his dissenting vote back in 1896 when the Supreme
Court upheld segregation, quote:
'The constitution is color blind and neither knows nor
tolerates classes among its citizens."
THAT is true today in the North, but it plainly is not
true in the South. Virginia demonstrated this and
on the same issue there is little doubt that the follow
ing 12 states of the South would follow suit: Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
Texas and South Carolina.
These states would add up to quite a package of
electoral votes, Mr. Warren.
THERE would also be opposition to Justice Warren
from the isolationist-reactionary wing of the GOP.
This would probably be headed by Republican leader
Senator Knowland who is as anxious to get into the
White House as he is to get a 50 reduction in his in
come tax. , x
For ex-Governor Warren was a member of the
Liberal Wing of the Republican party in California
and even opposed the imposition of a loyalty oath
in the University of California. The Knowland fac
tion put him far over on the left wing for that exhi
bition of common sense and enlightenment.
So if Justice Warren should be foolish enough to
yield to pressure, and answer the call to save his
party's honor (assuming of course Ike would NOT)
California's ex-governor would not find the nomina
tion any easy sailing, or presented to him, as was the
case with Justice Hughes many years ago, on a silver
platter. In other words he and his followers would have
a fight on their hands in the convention.
But as things look today, Warren would score
a victory over both Southern opposition and the
Knowland hatchet-squad and with President Eisen
hower's aid and blessing would, in this paper's judg
ment, be a very hard man to beat.
DUT all this is what former President Franklin D.
Roosevelt liked to call an "iffy question" very
much so.
For as was remarked in this column over a month
ago, there is little doubt that unless he should suffer
another heart attack, or his doctors should explicitly
advise otherwise, the President will yield to the tre
mendous pressure of his party leaders and agree to
make the race for another 4-year term.
The Mail Tribune hopes he does.
Not because of any sense of duty as stressed by
self-seeking politicians of the Joe Martin type, but
because he WANTS to run, FEELS like it, and the
best medical advice he can get, sees no reason from
a physical standpoint, why he shouldn't.
That would be good news for all ! R.W.R.
Good News for Russia
It is not pleasant to think that the issue of states
rights and "nullification" were not settled by the Civil
War. ' -
But quite apparently they were not.
The Supreme Court decided on November 25,
1955, that segregation in public schools of the U.S.A.
is unconstitutional.
To "nullify" this decree Virginia, Georgia, Missis
sippi and many other southern states plan to amend
their state constitutions so they can in effect abolish
public schools, and by giving financial aid to private
schools, continue their system of segregation on the
basis of the pigmentation of the students' sarins.
A ND we have representatives of the South in con
egress maintaining solemnly that for the govern
ment to interfere with educational regulations within
any state is unconstitutional.'
So there we are back where we the people and
Abraham Lincoln started from.
OOWEVER we don't expect there will be any sur-
prise attack on Fort Sumter, or any secession
movement south of the Mason & Dixon line. For many
years the constitution has been violated as far as
negroes in the South are concerned, in some states,
for a negro to mark a ballot today at any election
would be to risk his life and perhaps lose it. So our
prediction is no U.S.. troops will be sent to Virginia
or anywhere else in the South to enforce the Supreme
Court decision.
The decision probably will stand, and be observed
in the North but not in the South at least in most
portions of it and time will march on. However, in
due course we hope Father Time will make this a
country of, by and for the people ALL the people
regardless of the color of skins, in fact as well as
theory. '
THE serious side of this, segregation question is not
r so much. here at home as it is abroad, particularly
in Asia, Africa, and way stations where Soviet Russia
is working so hard and to date -effectively to gain
politicakcontrol. .
Here' surely is grist for the Kremlin propaganda
mill presented on a silver platter to Bulganin-Khrush-chev,
et al, by the southern half of the U S A. R.W .R.
Sunday, January IS. 1956
Today and
By Walter
THE NATIONAL CONSENSUS
There is an old rule in Ameri
can politics that as the elections
come nearer, the differences in
what the two
parties offer
become small
er and small
er. The rule
seems to be
working now.
In his State of
the Union mes
sage, which is
a comprehen
sive platform
Republicanism,
Walter Lippman
of Eisenhower
the President has moved very
far indeed into the ground occu
pied by the Democrats. It re
quires an effort to say how the
Eisenhower social principles and
social program differ in any fun
damental sense from what, after
some 30 years of trial and error,
remains in the New DeaL
i ,
TI7HATEVER one may think of
Y this or that feature of it,
there has developed a national
consensus which makes it very
difficult to draw sharp partisan
issues on the legislation before
Congress. There is a consensus
among the Eisenhower Republic
ans and the pain mass of the
Democrats on the principle of
social security, otherwise known
as the welfare state.
There is a consensus among
them also on the principle that
producers and consumers shall be
protected against the unregulat
ed impact of the open market.
There is no genuine party issue
on the subject of the tariff.
There will . be differences be
tween Eisenhower Republicans
and the Democrats from the
farm states on farm relief. But
both parties are committed to
the same principle once regard
ed as heresy of government in
tervention with subsidies and
controls into the free market for
farm products. There is probably
not a single member of Congress
today who would stand up and
argue that it is not the duty of
the federal government to at
tempt, to protect the farmer's
standard of life.
WHERE are, it may be said, dif-
ferences between the two par
ties as to how these principles,
on which they are agreed, are to
be applied. In such matters as
housing, power, the development
of resources, health, education
and highways, the Eisenhower
Republicans prefer to work
through measures to subsidize;
to help and to protect private en
terprise. The Democrats are
more ready to use the govern
ment itself in such undertakings.
But even here the issues tend
rather to cut across- than to run
with the lines between the
parties.
Some, seeking further for dif
ferences, have argued that the
Eisenhower Republicans stand
for the welfare and protective
measures within a balanced
budget; that the Democrats do
not mind deficit spending. As a
matter of fact, both parties are
Editorial Comment
LIES ABOUT RED CROSS
None of the agencies that dedi
cates itself to helping people in
need suffers the abuses heaped
upon the Red Cross. Until we
had served three years ago as
county Red Cross membership
drive chairman we had not real
ized the extent to which delib
erate lies about the Red Cross
were circulated. We wanted (and
still do) to hang by the heels
the authors of all the vicious
stories that are told about the
organization. This editorial from
the Astorian-Budget hits some
of the liars in the teeth:
When Astoria had slides and
the Red Cross came to the aid
of local citizens; there was a
widespread belief, disseminated
by irresponsible gossip, that, the
Red Cross required recipients
of its help to pay back the money
granted them.
Apparently the Red Cross was
victimized by similar malicious
gossip when it came to the help
of New England flood victims
last year. No doubt similar tales
are being spread in California
and '" southern Oregon, where
once again this year the Red
Cross is helping those impover
ished and made homeless by
disaster.
The current Red Cross news
letter tells how New Haven,
Conn., citizens killed the vicious
rumors that the Red Cross was
selling its services and supplies
to flood victims.
A group of leading New
Haven citizens simply placed a
large advertisement in newspa
pers offering $500 reward to
anyone who could prove the
charges against the Red Cross.
There were of course no tak
ers. After five weeks, the escrow
BROWN RESIGNS
Klamath Falls (U.R Law
rence Brown, manager of the
Klamath Medical Service bur
eau, Saturday announced his
resignation effective as soon as
a successor is found. Brown
came here in 1948 from Portland
where he had. been manager of
the industrial Hospital associa
tion. He did not state future
plans.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
now committed to the same fiscal
doctrine, which descends from
Keynes the doctrine of the com
pensated economy under which
in times of 'boom the Jpudget
should be balanced with a sur
plus, in good times it should be
balanced without a surplus, in
times of recession, it should be
unbalanced with a deficit. We
are now in a high industrial
boom and quite properly the Eis
enhower administration is in fa
vor of balancing the budget with
a surplus.
But let there be a recession, if
the unemployed begin to ap
proach say five millions. The
treasury and the Federal Reserve
Board will reverse the engines
in order to have the federal gov
ernment spend more money than
it takes in.
THE real contest and conflict
in our modern politics is not
about legislative measures. It is
about the administration of the
government. It is about the way
farm policy, the military estab
lishment, fiscal affairs, the wel
fare and protective measures are
in fact conducted and operated.
That is why the Presidency has
become so paramount in our sys
tem. For the Presidential office
is the fountainhead of adminis
tration. This may also be the ex
planation of why the investiga
tive power of Congress, which
has to do with administration,
has tended to become 'so much
more controversial and impor
tant than the legislative powers
of Congress.
It is also the reason why it is
virtually impossible these days
to think about any national ques
tion without coming back very
quickly to President Eisenhow
er's unresolved problem. Until
his decision has been made, the
whole political system is held in
suspense.
QINCE the President was strick-
u en in septemDer, we nave
been made to realize as perhaps
never before how extraordinary
is the role of the President, in
our affairs. We have been forced
to think not only of what hap
pens if a President dies in office
but more particularly about
what happens if he is not weU
enough to perform the duties of
his office.
It was an accident that the
President became ill at a time
when Congress was not in ses
sion and it was, therefore, feasi
ble to postpone big decisions and
to let the government machine
run on its own inertia. It would
have been a very serious busi
ness indeed if the President had
not made so good a recovery be
fore the political season opened,
if at this time of year he were
incapacitated for three months.
" There is a gaping hole in the
usages of our constitutional sys
tem in respect not so much to
the death as to the disability of
the President. This, as the Presi
dent indicated at Key West on
Sunday, is a prime consideration
in the decision he must make.
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
agent holding the $500 gave it
baci to the citizens who offered
the reward. And the rumors died
out.
This was a simple and effec
tive way to give the lie to gossip
mongers. The same thing could
be done in Astoria, should we
once more need Red Cross help
and should falsehoods about it
be disseminated again. Pendle
ton East-Oregonian.
(Editor's note: There were lies
and rumors about the Red Cross
during the recent flood, period
in southern Oregon too, as ihe
Astoria suspected.)
Safety Council
Sets Dinner Meet
The annual dinner meeting
of the Medford Safety council
will be held Friday, Jan. 20,
at 6:30 p.m. in the Jackson hotel,
with Stater Sen: Mark Hatfield
as main speaker. He is the dean
of students at Willamette uni
versity, Salem.
-R. L. (Bud) Palmer, who has
served out the unexpired term
of the late Alan Cameron, will
be installed as chairman; Aubrey
Loper as vice-chairman; Mrs.
Ruth Ragsdale, secretary; and
Medford Police Sgt. Clyde Ficht
ner, treasurer. New directors
are Dr. William Thompson,
Emerson Anderson, and John
Childers.
Awards will be made for out
standing contributions to indi
vidual, institutional and indus
trial safety during the past year.
Claude Haggard, safety engineer
for the California-Oregon Pow
er company will make the
awards. -
LeRoy Williams of the Med
ford fire department received
last year's individual award and
the California Pacific .Utilities
the industrial award. "
Entertainment will be provid
ed . by a string ensemble from
the Medford senior high school,
directed by John Drysdale. The
public is invited and reservations
may be made by calling 2-6504.
Communications
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The Need for Blood
To the Editor: There has been
much activity recently in the
Medford area regarding con
struction of a new and larger
hospital to replace the Commu
nity hospital. The brochures in
dicate a desire to make Medford
a medical and surgical center,
and if sufficient medical and
surgical skill is available there
is little doubt but that our hospi
tal population will increase.
Many cases now being sent to
larger and more adequate cen
ters could stay in this area.
It is understood by this com1-
mittee that the need for blood
rises in direct proportion to the
increase of beds in a hospital ca
tering to the general needs of
an area. .
The people of Jackson county
furnished less than 60 per cent
of the blood needed by our pres
ent and admittedly inadequate
hospitals in a recent four month
period. This 'is arrived at from
the anticipated needs of and ac
tual donations to the Red Cross
Blood program during the past
two visits of the Blood-Mobile,
the figures being taken from the
news columns of our paper.
There has been no indication
that our residents will furnish an
increased amount of blood
should the new hospital be erect
ed, but it is So our best interests
that we do so. We cannot expect
the people of other areas to
shoulder the responsibility that
is our own. A breakdown in the
present program can only result
in going back to the old system
of paid blood donors which
would cause a large increase
in the cost per transfusion.
Do the people of our area
care so little for the lives of
their feUowmen that they re
fuse to support the blood pro
gram? Transfusions, when need
ed for accident victims and sur
gical patients, materially short
en the recovery period and fre
quently are the deciding factor
in saving lives. y
The pint of blood you can
giVe may be returned by another
donor when it is needed to save
your life.
Dan F. Krotz H,
' ; Chairman for
Community Service,
Steelhead Post) VFW,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Article Said Misleading
To the Editor: An article en
titled "We Licked the Veteran
Problem," which appeared in
one of our nation's leading mag
azines late last fall and which
has caused many misconceptions,
of the situation, should, in our
opinion, have been entiled, "We
Licked the Veterans."
Judging from the expert twist
ing of. words, the use of . half
truths, -and we think, in some
places, the deliberate use of un
truths, the author seems to con
sider himself as having delivered
a KO punch to the cause of dis
abled veterans.
A sample of the inaccuracies
contained in the article is a
table showing compensation pay
ments to 100 per cent service-
connected disability , cases. He
calls it pensfon and, we believe,
not un-wittingly. The purpose
as we see it is to cause the pub
lic to think every veteran will
receive, upon becoming 65 years
of age, an automatic pension
amounting to more than a 100
per cent service-connected com
pensation. Even more, because
he has mis-stated the- amount
of compensation . that the S-C
veteran with wife and kids
draws, by about $1,644 a year
too much. .
. In speaking of .the general
cost of rehabilitation of the vet
erans of our wars, this author
fails to recognize that a sizable
portion of the overall cost of
veterans' benefits is for educa
tional aid and. training, as well
as other assistance - programs
which have a definite termina
tion date in each case.
Those who fight the wars, and
those who cause them, come
from different sections of the
population. If the group who
hate so to see the good money
that was accumulated via the
war boom spent on care for
war veterans no longer able
to care for themselves because
of having fought the war, will
refrain from another war long
enough, the cost of veterans'
benef its will be appreciably re
duced by elimination of the
temporary assistance programs'
during transition from G.I. to
civilian.
When it comes to pensions
for the aged, ailing veterans
with non-service disabilites, the
author of the article ignores
the fact that the government
maintains an income limitation
of $1,400 a year for such vet
erans who have no dependents,
and $2,700 for those with depend
ents. Social security, private
pensions, several private retire
ment plans, are all counted as
income to report against the
non-service pension limitation.
Another wrong inference in
the article is that all a war vet
eran has to do, upon reaching
the age of 65 years, is to notify
the VA that he is of that age
and ready to commence drawing
the non-service pension. This is
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
It must have seemed like
paramnesia.
Gal staff member early last
week attended a wedding held
in the Jackson county jail
the first such she'd, ever at
tended. Later in ihe week the at
tended a play, "Cry the Be
loved Country," in which one
of the scenes depicts a mar
riageconducted in a jaiL
A "rather tall, nice-looking"
lady has been distributing chick
feed in the flower beds at Haw
thorne park this winter, for the
birds. That's the report of an
other Medford woman who, her
self,- likes to put out food for
birds, and thinks the park lady
deserves recognition.
Our informant, who like to
watch the antics of the birds as
they go after the food, suggests
that placing a box of such tid
bits for the feathered residents
near the bedroom window pro
vides good entertainment for a
sick person or other shut-in.
Another Medford woman re
cently picked . up a prescrip
tion at a drug store. She
didn't check the bottle too
. closely, and had taken ' most
of the medicine contained in
it before she discovered that
it had someone else's name'
on . it. Whatever it was she
was taking didn't seem to
bother her particularly, for
tunately. . v
When you're working with
lines of type, such as are used
in the publication of a news
paper, fcdd things can sometimes
happen. Like last Sunday, for
instance, when, as a matter of
routine, this paper carried a lit
tle boxed notice labeled "Sub
scribers." It called attention to
the number which can be called
to report improper or non-de
livery of the paper.
Then, there was a paragraph
which, after one line of type
had been dropped out accident
ally, read: '
"U regular delivery arrives
shortly after you call please
notify office thus eliminating
special mes
'.
The. sports department has
confessed the real reason why
the Medford High school bas
ketball team lost its pre-con-ference
game with Cleveland
High of Portland. .
For most of the season, the
sports editor has used a red
and blue pencil to keep , spe
cial notations during Ihe cov
By FRANK JENKINS
This modern world note:
A special advisory group that
has been studying the problem
reports in Washington this morn
ing that the' nation's . airways
are becoming so crowded that
there are now, on the average,
four reported near-collisions in
volving the commercial airlines
every day. i
The committee recommends
that a prominent person should
be appointed immediately to
Jiead a review of all aviation
problems and ' draw up with
as little delay as possible a 20-
year aviation facilities develop
ment plan. " ,
THAT is to say:
It is beginning to look like
the airways are going to be as
badly crowded in the future
as the highways are now.
TT ISN'T true, of course, that
the actual air itself is becom
ing so crowded that there is
no longer room for the plane's
to get through it without hitting
each other. The trouble lies
in the big cities, where the bulk
of the air traffic originates. They
haven't enough airports to ac
commodate safely and expedi
tiously the planes that need to
land and take off every day if
the traffic is to be taken care
of. .
That is basically the 'trouble
with our highway system. Out
in the open country cars and
trucks can manage to get along
without, becoming completely
bogged down. It is in the big
metropolitan cities that the trou
ble comes. So many people are
collecting in the big cities that
there just isn't room enough
to move the cars (and trucks
and buses) that need to be
moved. '
THAT'S where the bottleneck
is. Everyone who drives rea
sonably long distances is aware
of this fundamental 'fact. In
spite of the congestion, it is
possible to make fairly good
not the case. To be awarded the
pension, any veteran must be
totally and permanently disabl
ed, and that means unemployed
at gainful occupation. It is also
conditional that the physical
disability is not due to the vet
eran's own misconduct
Pat Graham
Adjutant and Service
officer ,
Jackson County Chapter
Disabled Amercian Vet
erans 1515 North Riverside ave.
Medford, Ore.
in Ihe Day's News
erage of the game blue for
one team, red for the other.
In every case so far the team
for which the blue end was ;
used has won. In a mad rush -to
get away from the office
to make the trip to Grants :
Pass for this game, however,
the pencU was left behind.
A little man appeared t a.
tavern not too long ago, and
slumped on to a stool at the end"
of the bar. The bartender a
man dedicated to his profession,
inquired about his order. "I jus
wanta bowl of shilly . . he
said, and dropped his head on
ms arms in apparent slumber.
The bartender, sensitive to
this insult food being mention
ed in such a place and sensi
tive to the respectability of his
establishment, ordered the man
out. The fellow collected himself
wim .an effort . and made his
way out the front door.
Moments later fio
through the back door, slumped
v" oar siooi ana said, "I Jus
wanta bowl of shilly . . .
The bartender escorted him
none too gently, out the back
door, closing it sharply behind
him. He returned to his post
umy Denina the bar. In the
front door came the little man
again, streeline fthat's
we just made up it's half -way
uewcen sir0u and reel) toward
uue oar.
The bartender forestalled him
however, turned him around!
and shoved him out the front
door. Then, wiser from experi-
ums ue uasnea io me DacK door
to await the little man's reap
pearance there. .
The crowd in the place of
business watched tensely as the
bartender kept his post at the
back door. Almost unnoticed, the
little man slipped in the front
door, made his way to the bar,
slumped on to a stool," and an
nounced "I jus' wanta bowl of
W. J . . . ,
We never did learn how the
story ended.
We are reliably Informed
xnai u you want to get longer
life from a. light-bulb, you
should buy bulbs designed for
130 volt current, rather than '
the standard Copco 120 volt.
We don't know the reason
for this, but our informant,
an engineer who could be ex
pected to know, says it has
something to do with bulb
capacity and current fluctua
tions. They won't be quite as
bright but they'll last longer,
he says.'; . :
time, without too great a hazard
to life and limb, out in the open
country and - through ' what we
call the "country" towns. It is
when; one hits a Bigtown that
that the trouble . begins. --
The -shining example of that
in the West is Los Angeles. If
you're headed .say, from. Palm
Springs to Santa Barbara, or
from Bakersfield to San Diego,
and feel that von mnrf
jium
through Los Angeles, you're in
zor trouble. You might just as
well shrug your shoulders and
say you'll take a half dav nff
to get through the Big Burg.
You'll do well if you're de
layed only a half day.
WHAT to do about Ml
" T TtrrailsJmM. '
But I can offer a saeeeMtm
If more of us were willing to
uve in tne smaller cities and
fewer of us insisted
up in the big metropolitan cen
ters, there would be less trouble
with, our transportation both
by land and by air.
TTERE'S another suggestion:
If more of our indusrtrfM
were willing to locate in the
smaller cities and fewer of them
insisted on crowding together
in our congested metropolitan
centers, life would be better for
everybody. - - ,
We're reaching the Doint in
America where we need to do
a lot more intellieent thinkine?
on the problem of decentraliza
tion.
Bids on Wafer Mains
Will Open Tuesday
Bids will be opened Tuesday,
for construction of about 5,500
feet of four, six and eight inch,
water main and installation of
seven fire hydrants in the re
cently annexed portion of Laur
elhurst district.
Construction of the new
mains will give direct service
to all houses in the area except
for a few along Crater Lake
ave.- where water mains will be
installed before July 1, accord
ing) Robert Lee, assistant city
water superintendent.
All houses in the area will
also be within 500 feet of a fire
hydrant.
Construction is to start with
in three weeks and be com-:
pleted by April 15. .
Tentative plans have been
made for installation of water
mains in the area southeast of
Medford where an annexation
eleclon will be held Jan. 16.
Pipe and material for construc
tion in that area have been or
dered subject to cancellation,
Lee said. ,