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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1S46
(It was Saturday)
City of Medford buys 220
trees to plant in new city park
on East Main st.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: E. Newbry
of Ashland came out last week
for the state senate, and is the
first candidate to bloom in Jack
son county.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1936
(It was Sunday)
Thousands of people file past
King George's bier in 1 London;
new King Edward VIII goes to
country home for rest.
Medford Mayor George pot
er urges residents to support
and participate in President's
Ball Jan. 30,
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1926
(It was Tuesday)
International broad casting
trials being conducted; local re
ception to London stations poor,
good reception from stations in
eastern United States.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Cletus McCredie has re
turned from a several week's
business sojourn in the Klam
ath country.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1916
(It was Wednesday)
Medford school board favors
addition to high school to handle
increased enrollment next year.
Medford school board favors
addition to high school to handle
Increased enrollment next year.
During 1915 valley fruitgrow
ers shipped a total of 480 car
loads by freight; 225 cars of
pears and 218 of apples among
them. i
What's the Answer?
1. Tax relief for dividends in
federal income tax for 1955 is
limited to $50 per recipient;
right or wrong?
2. U. S. farmers as a whole
cultivated in 195o fewer or
more acres than the annual aver
age for the preceding 10 years,
or about the same number?
3. The Last Supper, famous
da Vinci painting, is in an Ital
ian city: Rome, Assisi, Naples,
Florence, Milan or Venice?
4. A higher mileage total is
rolled up each year on U.S.
roads by all passenger cars or
all trucks, or is it about 50-50?
5. Which of the Ten Com
mandments forbids adultery?
6. Average size of greens on
U.S. golf courses is about (a)
1600, (b) 6000, (c) 16,000 or (d)
60,000 sq. ft.?
7. Bedloe's Island is in Bos
ton, New York, Charleston (S.C.),
Mobile (Ala.), San Francisco or
Honolulu harbor?
The answers: 1. Wrong. 2.
Fewer. 3. Milan. 4. Much more
by passenger cars. 5. Seventh (in
most Bibles in general usage). 6.
About 6,000 on the average. 7.
New York (the Statue of Liberty
is on it).
A modern kitchen with stove,
refrigerator, cabinet sink and
dishwasher represents the use of
800 pounds of steeL
MAIL TRIBUNE
Knowland Is No Quitter
We disagree with Senator Knowland on practic
ally all political questions, but can't help but admire
the man's courage.
Unlike his colleague from California, Richard
Itfxon, there is nothing phoney or shifty about "Bill."
The Oakland senator was named party leader in
the Senate by the late Senator Robert Taft of Ohio
and he remains a Taft man, and devoted 100 per cent
to the Taft school of ultra-conservative thought.
IT IS no secret in Washington that Knowland be
lieves President Eisenhower is too much of a "New
Dealer," as well as too much of an "internationalist."
Were some miracle to happen and Senator Know
land land in the White House there is little doubt he
would use all his influence to secure a separation, if
not a divorce, from the United Nations. He would also
cut-off economic aid to foreign lands, and if he could
restore Chiang Kai-shek to control in China by force
of arms if necessary.
Thi3 is not to say he would succeed, but as things
stand today he would certainly TRY.
IT IS significant that the California Senator chose
Illinois as his first primary test. For he is one of
the favorites of the paleolithic but potent Chicago
Tribune, while President Eisenhower definitely isn't.
In spite of general opinion to the contrary, most of
the smart politicians in the "sucker state," believe
even against the President, Knowland would have a
fairly good chance of coming out victorious. If the
President should not be a candidate then it would
be, in the opinion of the same "wisemen" a "push
over." So "Bill' has little to lose. .
jlEANWHILE let no one think that in spite of
President Eisenhower's extraordinary personal
popularity, the GOP leaders are a unit in treing simi
larly enthusiastic. They are too smart to say anything
out loud about it, but at plenty of "bull sessions" and
week end gatherings, there are protests against the
present dispensation, and hopes for a change to the
right, and heaving overboard of the detested "wel
fare state," and all its trimmings.
.
THE "Old Guard" dies but it never surrenders.
Thev were beaten at Chicago in 1952, and joined
forces with the progressive Eisenhower element of
the Republican party to win the election, but they
have never surrendered and as long as they endure
they never will.
Senator Knowland represents their best hope of
that dreamed-of and
It is a vain hope as we see it, but one must admit
stranger things have happened politically in this
topsy-turvy world, in recent years. R.W.R.
Dulles Won't Help
Whether President Eisenhower chooses to run or
doesn't (the White House reporters now think: he
won't) Secretary of State Dulles will be a definite
political liability to the Republicans, whoever the
candidate may be. '
, For whether he is the best Secretary of State since
John Q. Adams or the worst, he is not popular as a
person, and an extremely poor campaigner.
We were in New York when "Senator" Dulles ran
for the US Senate against Senator Lehman and al
though he toured the state as meticulously and vigor
ously as he now tours the world, he seemed, to lose
votes wherever he 'spoke and was beaten ignomin
ously. THE main trouble appeared to be that aside from
his austere personality and lack of popular appeal,
he continually overplayed his hand.
It was pretty generally known that he was not
particularly unfriendly to the Roosevelt Democrats in
the state and had no personal grudge against his
friendly opponent, yet he raved and ranted at every
"whistle-stop" against both, his general theme song
being that the "Welfare State" was ruining the coun
try, and the socialistic experiments emanating from
the White House, if continued, would destroy private
initiative, fatally weaken American manhood and ev
entually hand over the state to the radical devotees of
Karl Marx or words to that effect.
It was a depressing and surprising performance.
It was equally surprising when President Truman ap
pointed him as his special representative to the UN
and special adviser to Secretary of State Acheson.
THERE is no doubt of Mr. Dulles' legal ability and
erudition. His physical stamina is nothing short
of phenomenal.
But in humor, tact and general "know-how" po
litically he is a complete wash-out. His endorsement
of the recent "brink" article in Life magazine was
only one example among many of his chronic inepti
tude in public and personal relations.
Secretary Dulles' subsequent appeal to the Demo
crats to stop playing politics with foreign policy, when
only a few days before he had started the ball rolling
in that direction, was another.
It will be interesting to see if Secretary Dulles
takes the stump for the GOP in this year's campaign.
If the Republicans are smart they will persuade
him to go on a summer tour of the world for three or
four months. Mr. Dulles likes to travel! R.W.R.
Sandy Electric Co-Op
Portland 0J.PJ Portland
General Electric company has
offered conditionally to buy the
Sandy Electric Co-op in response
to a letter from the co-op's
board.
The Sandy REA system serves
898 customers in Sandy and
near Mt Hood.
Board Chairman Thomas W.
Delzell of PGE said the comp
any was "interested" in acquir
ing the co-op and would make a
Thursday, January 26, 1956
long-desired "come-back."
Purchase Offered
"firm" offer after investigation
and conferences.
The co-op has been the center
of a community feud for several
months because some patrons
claimed rates were nearly twice
those of PGE. A meeting two
weeks ago resulted in a vote
to put the co-op up for sale.
The Co-op had been trying to
compete with PGE while retir
ing some $1,000,000 in REA
Matte? Of FaCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop
IKE HOLDS ALOOF
Washington The publicly
missing piece in the Republican
puzzle is verv simple, decidedly
curious .and
quite import
ant enough to
make the
whole design
look rather dif
ferent. In brief, all
the busy polit
ical activity on
the President's
Joseph Aisop behalf is now
being carried on without a shad
ow of positive authority from
Dwight D. Eisenhower "himself.
State .delegations to the Re
publican Convention are being
briskly organized in the Eisen
hower name.
The Citizens
for Eisenhower
are being call
ed to the colors
again with
slight changes
in make-up the
old "Commo
dore Group,"
the same body
Stewart Aisop of men who di
rected the Eisenhower strategy
in 1952, is now working hard
to prepare for a second Eisen
hower term.
But the President himself,
meanwhile, is still holding per
fectly aloof. He has not interven
ed to halt any of this activity,
as he could of course very easily
do. But he has never approved
any of it, either. Therefore he
is still free of any shred of
moral commitment to the friends
and supporters who are working
so hard for him.
In TRYING to interpret the.
"future Vifn ixm Kit nnoc.
tions are dominant' Should one
place more weight on the Presi
dent's passive acceptance of such
accomplished facts as the reviv
al of the Citizens for Eisenhow
er? Or should one instead read
the most meaning into the Presi
dent's carefully non-committal
aloofness? Two incidents which
show how the system actually
works help to make these ques
tions more concrete.
The first incident concerns the
New Hampshire primary.. There
was broad agreement among the
leaders of the Commodore group
former Gov. Thomas E. Dew
ey; Attorney General Herbert
Brownell; the old time Dewey
man and former member of the
White House staff, Thomas E.
Stephens; Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr.; Gen. Lucius
D. Clay; the Missouri leader,
Barak T.;- Mattingly; Republican
National Chairman Leh Hall
and Sen. James Duff of Pennsyl
vania. ' (
' ' .
A LL these" men agreed that it
was essential to start the
drama of the: state primaries by
organizing a strong pro-Eisenhower
delegation in New Hamp
shire.. Under the peculiar rules
which govern the Commodore
group's relation with the White
House, the President's chief of
staff, Sherman Adams, is in the
group but not of it. In other
words, Gov. Adams is informed
of what is planned, but he is not
consulted about it. The reason
is that a request for the formal
assent of the President's chief
of staff would be too close to a
request for the President's as
sent. In the case of the New Hamp
shire primary, therefore, Adams
was duly informed' of the Com
modore group's plans about the
delegation. Thereupon informal
warnings began to fly from the
White House staff to the Com
modore group. Influential mem
bers of the White House staff
argued that if the President's
name were actually entered in
the primary, the effect might be
to force Eisenhower's hand. It
was feared that if his hand was
forced, the President would is
sue a statement taking hiriiself
out of the race for good and all.
HPHERE was serious hesitation
A because of these warnings,
but these were ignored in the
end, quite largely because of the
boldness of Gen. Clay. The Pres
ident's name was entered in New
Hampshire. And the President
did not take himself out, but
instead wrote a letter so strong
ly stressing the problem of his
health that it left him just as
uncommitted as ever.
The same pattern appears
again in the incident of the re
vival of the Citizens for Eisen
hower. Some weeks ago, for
mer leaders of the Citizens for
Eisenhower went to the Presi
dent. They wanted to circulate
a letter calling the 1952 citizens
into action again; and they want
ed the President to approve it.
He replied that he could only
approve the letter if the avowed
object was to organize support
for his policies and program; he
would not approve a letter speci
fically seeking to organize sup
port for his candidacy.
WITH this presidentially im
" posed restriction, the let
ter would have had no point.
Hence the project was dropped
by its first originators. Yet re
vival of the Citizens for Eisen
hower was still judged to be
necessary ' by " the Commodore
group. Therefore General Clay
took ths initiative on his own
responsibility, asking former
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby
and the New York banker, Sid
ney J. Weinberg, to join with
him.
Weinberg and Mrs. Hobby said
they would sign if General Clay
signed. So the letter calling for
revival of the Citizens for Eisen
hower went out over their three
names, but without any author
ity from the President himself,
and with the strongly stated con
dition that Clay, Weinberg and
Mrs. Hobby only wished the
President to run again if his
health permitted.
A manful but perhaps impru
dent effort to interpret these
facts will be made in a further
report in this space.
(C) 1958 New York 2
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In this space yesterday I spoke
of going to the old Tremont
hotel in Red Bluff for dinner and
the pleasant, relaxation that
comes with the dinner hour.
Why mention a trifle like
that? Well, in this case, the situ
ation is a trifle unusual. For
nearly a hundred years, the Tre
mont has been the civic center of
Red Bluff. In our youthful West
ern country, that doesn't happen
too often.
When it does happen, it is in
teresting. As to the Tremont of a cen
tury ago, one pan only guess.
Red Bluff was then the hus
tling, bustling head of naviga
tion on the Sacramento. The rif
fles and the bars of the original
discovery country, which lay
eastward and northward from
Sacramento, were becoming
crowded. The miners, who were
pouring into California in an
ever-swelling stream, were . be
ginning to spread out in search
of new diggings. They found
them in the upper Sacramento
and the Klamath river country.
The easiest way to get there
was by way of the river. Steam
boats chugged up the Sacramen
to as far, as they could get, and
when they went aground they
stopped. Red Bluff was that
approximate spot. So they stop
ped there and transferred their
cargo to land transport pack
animals at first and later freight
wagons.
It was this traffic that built
the town as Port Orf ord was
later built on the southern Ore
gon coast and later still, when
Port Orf ord was destroyed by
the reat fire, old Scottsburg
was built at the head of tide on
the Umpqua. , ' ' . '
Supplying the gold mines was
big business in those days.
RED BLUFF must have been a
colorful place then, for the
river men' and the mule packers
and the freighters were colorful
characters by all accounts. Not
to ' mention the miners, whose
vivid traits have , been told in
song and story as long as gold
has been mined.
But enough of the Red Bluff
of the past. Its present is quite
different. Different, but charm
ing. A century ago, the rush for
gold was on in California. In
these days a different kind of
rush, is on the rush for CLI
MATE. AU over America people
are saying they're going to
LIE IN THE SUN or they're
of a few short decades this yen
to live in the sun has changed
going to quit living. In the space
California as completely as the
gold miners changed it when in
the 1850's they poured in and
swamped the lazy, . easy-going,
glamorous and romantic life of
Spanish California.
IITHICH brings me to the point
" I'd like to make. Jt seems to
me that Red Bluff has been
changed less by this rush of the
climate seekers, that has made
California the second state of
our Union in population, than
almost any other area of the
Golden state.
Somehow Red Bluff has been
able to retain a considerable
measure of the charm that must
have "Characterized Spanish Cal
ifornia in the days of the Dons
or that was characteristic of the
Old South of ante-bellum days.
Maybe it's because Tehama coun
ty has remained predominantly
agricultural especially cattle
agricultural whereas the rest
of California is going commer
cial and industrial in a big way.
ANYWAY, take my advice and
spend a Saturday night some
time in Red Bluff. Go down to
the old Tremont, with its spic-and-span
new Palomino room
which includes an ultra-modern,
m i d d 1 e-of-the-r o o m, built-of-sheet-iron,
ope n-all-t h e-w a y
around fireplace with its at
tractive cowhide-with-the-h a i r-left-on
furniture and its old iron
horseshoes for doorknobs.
You'll find an unusual out
turning of home town people,
sprinkled only moderately with
tourists who have- stopped for
the night, and EVERYBODY
having a happy, relaxed and
agreeable time chatting with
friends and passing the time of
day. i
If you don't enjoy it, there's
something wrong with you. If
you're bored with it all, it will
be a sign that you're just too
darned modern.
Sweeping Review of Japanese
Foreian Policv Said in View
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Japan is about to make a
sweeping review of its foreign
policy.
New lines are to be laid for
relations with the United States,
Communist
China and So
viet Russia.
There are
hints in Tokyo
that Premier
Ichiro Hatoya
ma, as part of
the review,
would wel
c o m e invita-
Charles McCann tions to Visit
Washington, Peiping and Mos
cow. The review is to be made dur
ing the session of the Japanese
Parliament which opened yester
day and continues until May 17.
There is every indication that
Japan's present close relations
with the United States will con
tinue. But strong pressure is being
brought on Hatoyama to enter
closer relations with Red China.
On Record -
Both he and Foreign Minister
Mamoru Shigemitsu are on rec
ord as feeling that Japan's rela
tions with its neighbor China
are the country's No. 1 problem
now. Relations with Soviet Rus
sia are important also.
Japan's chief reason for con
sidering closer relations with
Red China is that it must main
tain a big volume of foreign
trade.
Its 90 -million people are
packed into four islands which
cover only 141,529 square miles
of territory. It lost Korea, For
mosa and its other possessions
as the result of World War H.
The United States, with 165-
million people, has an area of
3,022,387 square miles.
Japan is Western-minded and
it is the most highly industrially
developed nation In Asia; It
seeks trade with all the world.
But Japan cannot get away
from its geographical position-
Editorial Comment
DO IT DIFFERENTLY
In Medford they've annexed
to the city a sparsely settled tract
of 1,100 acres. Among the rea
sons for annexation were plans
to build a hospital, a retirement
home and a big housing develop
ment in the area.
Here we do it differently. We
let our suburban fringe fill up
with people who need city serv
ices. And then we still don't
annex 'em." Eugene Register
Guard.
MERCY FLIGHTS
In recent years, there have
been frequent news stories from
Southern Oreeon about the ser
vices of Mercy Flights Inc. of
Medford in connection with
transportation of seriously ill
patients to various Hospitals.
Mercy Flights is a uniaue non
profit organization which main
tains two large ambulance
planes at Medford for patient
ui uaiispuri.
It is primarily a membership
service, with the small fee of S4
per year providing emergency
air service for all members of
the subscriber's familv.
Heretofore, no real effort has
been made to enroll members
outside of the Medford area.
Because of the value of the
service to the public, the Grants
Pass Active club has undertaken
to stage a Mercy Flights mem-
oersnip campaign in this area.
In the past, there have been
numerous occasions for use of
the air service by Grants Pass
people needing emergency treat
ment at Eugene or Portland hos
pitals. Mercy Flights will provide
sucn service but a flight to Port
land from Grants Pass costs $120
to non-subscribers, said to be
the actual cost. The commercial
rate for a chartered plane would
be $160.
George Milligan of Medford
is one of the Mercy Flights orig
inators and one of its pilots. He
has given unlimited emergency
service in the Rogue valley, in
cluding 8M hours in aiding
Grants Pass pilot, Fred Hale,
involved in a plane crash in the
rough Lower Rogue area while
himself engaged in air relief.
Grants Pass Courier.'
Oregon Potato Growers
Asked To Cut Plantings
Washington U.R) A 11
per cent reduction in 1956 plant
ings was asked of Oregon po
tato growers by Agriculture Sec
retary Ezra Taft Benson today,
The secretary recommended 36,-
300 acres be planted in Oregon.
He asked a national cutback of
eight per cent.
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l-
only 500 miles from China and
150 miles from Asiatic Russia.
Premier Hatoyama is due to
make an address on policy to the
Parliament next week.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles is to make a brief visit to
Hatoyama and Foreign Minister
Shigemitsu on March 18, on his
Communications
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Unity " ti ;
To the Editor: At this time in
the world's history, when, more
than ever before, all genuine
thinking individuals appear to
realize .the inestimable value of
unity, there is a most gratifying
and warming example of unified
thought and purpose going on in
this community, right under our
noses, so to speak, of ' which
many may be unaware. I refer
to the marshaUing of interests
among both older and newer
residents in bringing about a re
surgence of artistic expression in
Medford, once renowned here
and elsewhere for its high stan
dards of accomplishment along
such lines. . : - ,
Many years ago, there were
the iUustrious Andrews families,
remnants of the Andrews Opera
company, specifically George
and Ed, whose experiences and
efforts brought such artists and
productions of international
status . to this small West coast
town that it became widely
known. Later, there was the
now-dissolved Medford Musical
society, with its Elizabeth Col
lins, Harvey Moore, Ruby Hogan,
Margaret Fabrick, Nancy Mul-
holland, Esther Church Leake, to
name only a few. (Since the
writer was one of that later
group, she knows how hard the
members worked). Now we have
the Philharmonic Society,
gathering: beneath its protecting
wings the older and newer ele
ments in this community, unit
ing them in a common purpose.
That purpose is to raise this com,
munity, again, to its former
status in the musical entertain
ment field of endeavor.
The above is aU to the good,
but underneath all of , this out
ward expression of a unified pur
pose, I sense a deeper, even more
significant one a bright and re
assuring example of that very
unity for which the world, is
seeking, a unity of thought for
the betterment of all mankind.
Jeunesse Butler,
106 South Ivy St.,
Medford, Ore.
Individual Values
10 the Editor: It is a pity
tnat voters are so slow in recog
nizing individual values. Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt won his
election by charging Herbert
Hoover with reckless extrava-
gence of taxpayers' money; FDR
promising great economy. Just
think of it. a
inow anotner test is coming
up. We now recognize Herbert
Hoover as the greatest statesman
and economics advisor " living,
He has saved us millions, and
now advises an executive vice
president. We hope he will in
clude an expert accountant to
furnish a debit and credit state
ment to voters on every elected
public servant. That would aid
intelligent judgment for voters,
ine Diggest nypocrites on
earth are the Democrats writing
letters to the President advis
ing hundreds of things that
would cost billions of taxpayers'
money, then broadcasting to the
people what they are asking for
in their behalf, placing . the
blame on the President if they
do not get everything asked for.
They., know very well the Presi
dent has no power except to
veto; he has no power to tax,
spend, make laws, not even to
vote on these matters. These
hypocrites have all these pow
ers, including control of both
houses. They alone are respon
sible for what their constituents
get or don't get, and it is cow-
-3L
W
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way home from a conference of
the Southeast Asia Treaty Or
ganization in Karachi, Pakistan.
That visit is bound to be an
important one. It is indicated
that Hatoyama will emphasize
to Dunes that closer Japanese
relations with Communist China
are essential.
ardly to try to lay the blame on
the President.
The Democrats spent the na
tion up to the debt limit, and '
taxed industry stockholders 92
per cent of their profits, and
really had the country broke,
owing more than everything
owned, leaving individual in
dustry to pull us out of bank
ruptcy. Eisenhower's manage
ment has done it.
We would all like o see a
balance sheet on Wayne Morse,
what he has accomplished and
what he has cost the taxpayers
by his constant obstruction and
animosity to progress of our gov
ernment, and advocacy of com
munistic government industry,
to tax the many to aid a few,
by unfair competition using tax
money to build industry that
pays no tax.
The only object in writing
these letters to the President is
to annoy, destroy,' and prevent
second term, a shameful treat
ment for a troubled heart.
Ira C. Jones,
Stewart ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Only A Chip?
To the Editor: There's a grow
ing concern here over news re
leases that report the Soviet's
lead in the guided missle that
could neutralize our defense air
bases within a 1,500 mile radius
of Russia. But I'm not much
bothered. History bears much
evidence of the Russian's ability
to defend his homeland. But he
seems to have little stomach to
fight on foreign soil, like little
Finland which he jumped a few
years back and came awfully
close to losing that unequal
war of aggression. The Russian,
oy nature, is a schemer. Thack
ery in his fine historical writ
ings speaks of it well over two
centuries ago. And there's the
old, old saying, "put more than
two Russians together and
there'll be a plot afoot." There
would likely be a plot afoot if
there were but two Russians, but
Ivan prefers company if fight he
must. That must be the reason
we practically never see a Rus
sian prize-fighter where one
must stand alone in the fight,
seldom a wrestler even. The only
Russian , I ever knew intimately
had a theme song he was ever
sounding off in a high pitch
voice, "scheme mit der brain
scheme mit der "brain."'
It is my very firm and con
sidered belief that future his
tory will tell how the Kremlin
cuties have bluffed us all over
the world map, putting it over
by arming (when we were naive
ly, disarming), creating by their
slave labor the greatest war ma
chine in all history with its pri
mary purpose as a threat. And
they will hesitate to use it in
any other way so long as we are
willing to step up "to the brink
of war," as Secretary of State
Dulles so courageously put it.
Like the time a couple years
back when a bunch of China Red
fighter craft jumped two of ours
and two of them were promptly
sent crashing aflame into the
Formosa Strait sea. That's the
kind of "talk" they understand
and the only kind they'll pay
heed to. Let them prance across
the world with chip on shoulder.
So long as we stand united, suf
ficiently armed and ready to ad
vance tothe "brink of war" with
them, it's pretty sure to remain
just a chip on the shoulder.
F. J. Clifford
1211 West Main St.
Medford, Ore.
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wish to be sent "back home" , for burial,
when that time comes. Or, someone away
from Medford may have the wish to be
brought back here.
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the responsibility of carrying out that wish,
now is the time to find out just what is going
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