FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON)
UNE
"Everybody in Southern Oregon
Keaas me jaau jnuunc
Published DaOy Except Saturday by
MEDFORD PRINTING CO.
27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141
DADtTJT xr nTTTTT. F.rtitor
HERB GREY. Advertising Manager
GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager
ERIC ALLEN JR., Managing Editor
EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor
HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor
RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor
OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor
DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr.
An Independent Newspaper
Entered as second class matter at
Medford. Oregon, under Act ol
. - n . arm
iviarcn j. xog'
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c
Daily and Sunday One year S12.00
Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50
Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50
Sunday Only One year S350.
By Carrier In .Advance Medford.
Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point,
Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix.
Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent,
and on motor routes:
Daily and Sunday One year 15o
Daily and Sunday One month lis
Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy.
All Terms casn in Aovancg
Official Paper of the City of Medford
Official Paper oi dacuson mun-j
United Press Full Leased Wire
MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU
OF cm.Uliflliua
WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC.
Offices m new lore. v,iukis.
troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta.
Vancouver. B.C.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
I ASSOCS-ATLQN
J U
'6v NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION
Flight or Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29, 1946
(It Was Tuesday)
Construction reaches half-way
mark on Medford's new 8,200,
000 gallon reservoir on Capital
hill.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A jet pro
pulsion catapulated across the
country in four hours and 26
minutes, and a few seconds, at
times going almost as fast as
sound. Nothing on earth is of
enough importance to necessit
ate Man going that fast:
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
From Side Glances: Frank
DeSouza, postmaster, viewing
with alarm the fact that ony
two more days of fishing remain,
and just as he was about ready
to break out the fishing tackle,
too.
Fire Chief Elliott says all firemen-
favor civil service; voters
to decide issue at special elec
tion Friday.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29, 1926
(It was Friday)
A total of 80,275 people is
a conservative estimate Crater
National forest officers made on
number of visitors at forest last
year.
League of Oregon Cities con
sider and discuss possibility of
extending six per cent limita
tion on tax increases to cities
and other taxing bodies.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26, 1916
(It was Saturday)
Professor Charles G. Anthony
tells group at Library meeting
that it would be possible and
valuable to pipe mineral water
and gas from springs above Ash
land to Medford.
The Bearnard Motor compa
ny has been incorporated with
$25,000 capital to handle the
Dodge automobile in southern
Oregon.
What's the Answer?
1. More states in the Solid
South voted for Eisenhower in
1952 or Hoover in 1928?
2. Most new businesses start
ed in 1940-45 lasted at least 10
years under their original own
ers; right or wrong?
3. The "Eternal City" is Paris,
Washington, D. C, Hollywood,
Vienna, or Rome?
4. The Administration plans
to spend on foreign aid in 1956
57 a little over $1 billion, $4
billion, $7 billion or $10 billion?
5. Which member of the Eis
enhower cabinet is the son of
a former cabinet member?
6. An employee out of work
because disabled can draw un
employment compensation in al
most all, about half, only a few
or no states?
7. How many sons of the late
president Roosevelt are mem
bers of the present Congress?
The answers: 1. Hoover. 2.
Wrong. 3. Rome. 4. $4 billion.
5. Secreiary of Commerce Weeks
(father was Secretary of War
under Harding). 6. Only a few.
7. One (James).
From 1860 to 1890 the Penn
sylvania oil fields were the chief
source of petroleum in the
United States.
MAIL TRIBUNE
What Is a "Smear"?
Ever since the Al Sarena mining case became a
burning issue Congressman
"smear," for political purposes only.
What is a "smear"?
Apparently it is any investigation into any matter
which the accuser does not
If the investigation is
dure is an entirely legitimate "inquiry." It depends
in other words, as is so often the case m politics, upon
whose ox is gored.
"liniEN Senator McCarthy was enjoying great pop
ularity as an investigator into Red subversion,
no one ever heard Mr. Ellsworth accuse him of using
the "smear" technique as a political weapon. The Wis
consin Senator was then a great patriot and states
man and but for him "good old Joe" would have long
ago have taken over the White House.
Ln fact it was then the intention to convict the
Democratic administration of treason 20 years of
treason and that the Representative from the Fourth
District of Oregon approved.
-
BUT this Al Sarena case, according to Ellsworth, is
and was a different kettle of fish it was merely
an effort to "smear" Secretary of the Interior McKay
as the leader of the GOP "give-away" brigade and
thus make votes for the Democratic party and take
them away from the Republicans. As a matter of fact
Congressman Ellsworth claimed from the outset there
was nothing irregular, illegal or even improper about
the Rogue River mining - timber deal, though he
never presented convincing evidence to prove it.
DEMOCRATS on the Senate subcommittee on the
other hand, claim and have claimed otherwise,
declaring that the Interior Department refused to
ornnt. thf Al Sarena mining claim in the Truman ad
ministration, because there was msufficent evidence
to indicate the mineral values were sufficient to justi
fy same, and that the whole deal was not a legitimate
minim? venture but iust another "timber grab" under
the pretense of such transaction.
WHO is right?
Until all the evidence is in, no one can truthful
ly say. But as far as the claims of Congressman Ells
worth that everything connected with this deal was
on the "up and up" is concerned, ne lurnisnes tne oest
evidence that the contrary is true.
For the issue had no sooner been publicized than
our Congressman got busy, introduced a bill and se
cured its passage, which now makes what the Al
Sarena mine owners did illegal. If there was nothing
improper in the original transaction why prohibit it
by law m the future
The Ellsworth measure
nlrl minincr-clnim laws lone-
as a result of their laxness and antiquity, scores of
fraudulent mining claims in recent years have been
laid out and used to secure valuable government tim
ber at a slight percentage of its market value, and
that this procedure has grown into a national scandal.
SO WHATEVER the final verdict is this Al Sarena
rasp flnH it. is rlmihtful if there is anv excent on
strictly political lines it is
initiated.
For had no inquiry been
rorvnlrl still hp nnssihlp to file
in the national forests of
by mineral values oi not, and cut down tne timoer as
a by-product of the operation, at a mere fraction of its
value to the government on the open market.
If this is a "smear" then let's have a few more
smears of the same type. There is no doubt the people
of the country as a whole, regardless of party would
approve them. R.W.R.
Public Service Rendered
It is somewhat amusing to observe the ardor with
which Secretary McKay's loyal followers rush into
the public prints to disclaim any responsibility on
McKay s part for the Sarena decision.
Why all this haste and emphasis on IRRESPON
SIBILITY?
After all. in anv government department as im
portant as that of the interior, the department head
is responsible for what is or isn't done by any of his
subordinates whether he
tails and assumed it or did
Considering these facts
case it would have seemed
for Secretary of the Interior to at least have shared
the responsibility with his suDordmate instead of al
lowing the latter to assume it all.
...
DEFORE the Al Sarena
Mail Tribune printed
racket then in full swing, whereby fake mining claims
were filed on public lands, only the minimum mining
requirements were observed, and those granted the
patent proceeded to cut the
a financial cleanup as a result.
It was because of the suspicion this Al Sarena deal
was essentially aiong the same line that the present
inquiry was instituted.
We grant that to date evidence to sustain any
criminal charge has not been offered. Perhaps it
never will be.
As remarked above
judgment should be reserved.
DUT one thing is certain. .
The inquiry has justified itself, not as a "smear"
but needed public service, for had no investigation
been! considered, nc public opinion aroused, there
would be no law on the statute books, making what
the Al Sarena group did, legally impossible in the
future.
Sunday, January 29, 1956
Ellsworth has called it a
approve.
approved then the proce
m tact recognizes mat tne
a:o became obsolete, that
fortunate the inquiry was
indicated, undoubtedly it
a mininp claim anvwhere
Oregon, whether justified
himself attended to the de
not.
and the importance of the
more natural and proper
case ever became known the
a news story pointing to the
timber thereon and make
until all the evidence is in
Matter Of FtrCf By Joe and Stewart Alsop
1952 AND 1956 j
Washington "The difference
between 1952 and this year is
very simole and pretty import
ant. In 1952,
the President
was really re
luctant to be
come a candi
date, because
he hated the
idea of getting
into politics.
But he had no
doubt about
Joseph Alsop his capacity to
do the job, and when the call
grew strong, he responded to it.
"This time, although he often
hankers for retirement, Ike is
not at all reluctant to become a
candidate. But
he has very
grave doubts
about his capa
city to do. the
job, because of
his heart at
t a c k. And
doubts of this
kind are not
going to be re-
stewart Alsop solved by any
call from outside, however
strong.
"In fact, hell make up his own
mind; and the only question he
will have to answer will be the
question about his health
OUCH is the best solution now
oDiainaDie to the enormous
puzzle that completely domin
ates current American Dolities.
It comes from one who should
know the true state of the mat
ter better than almost anvone
else an old, close presidential
mend who was intimately in
volved in the draft-Eisenhower
movement four years ago, and
today is again intimately in
volved in tne increasingly elab
orate preparations to run the
President for a second term "if
his health permits."
On the positive side, this pic
ture of the President's state of
mind justifies the extreme ouh-
lic optimism that is now fash
ionable m the highest Republi
can circles. It is a vital fapt that
on balance, Eisenhower wantr
to be a candiaate to succeed
himself. ;
Furthermore, his reason for
wanting to be a candidate is also
vital. His task, as he sees it, is to
bring to birth a new kind of
American conservation, more
moderate, more enlightened and
more ready to meet the chal
lenges of a changing world than
the American conservatism of
the older style. To perform this
task successfully, he feels he
must re-make the Republican
party in a rather thorough way.
.
TIE THINKS, apparently, that
"the transformation of his
party is well started. But he also
thinks that at least four more
years hard work will be needed
to comrlete the transformation.
and to make it firm and endur
ing. Very obviously, those
around him who want him to
run again can truthfully and
convincingly argue that only
Eisenhower can complete this
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
The San Francisco Chronicle
carried a story this morning in
which this sentence appeared:
"This wiU be the 32nd day
of rain in the 42 days since Dec.
15, and the seventh day of rain
in the last eight days."
I've heard that statement re
peated today at least 40 times
always in tones of deep dis
gust. In northern California,
the weather is beginning to get
on people's nerves. It is gen
erally conceded that in its prop
er place and in reasonable quan
tities rain is good, but the con
census is that 32 days of it out
of a total of 42 days is too much
of a good thing.
STALES of woe are forthcoming
whenever two or more per
sons get together. A friend down
in San Mateo awoke this morn
ing to find that a cottonwood
tree in a neighbor's yard had
let go all holds d u r i n g the
night's downpour and had
crashed down right in the middle
of his pet plot of shrubbery.
The only consolation in his hour
of sorrow lay in the fact that
the neighbor was in a hurry to
get to work and offered to don
ate the tree for fireplace wood.
He figures that it will yield
at least a cord, and at present
prices for firewood that is some
thing. .On the other hand, the
cost of getting it sawed up will
be something fearful to contem
plate. So he's afraid he's going to
have to saw it uphimself, since
he was so brash as to accept his
neighbor's offer. That thought
isn't adding anything to the
gaiety of the occasion.
ANOTHER citizen who lives
on Tiburon island looked out
this morning and what he saws
"ruined the. day for him. On the
west side of his property he had
planted last year a row of eight
fancy imported pine trees. Dur
ing the night a playful zephyr
wandering in from the stormy
Pacific had toppled all eight of
them over on their sides.
Since most of the roots on the
down-wind side had remained in
the ground, he thinks maybe he
can prop the trees up and with
luck they'll go on growing, but
the prospect of getting out in
task which he regards as : all-
important.
On the other hand, it must
also be remembered that those
who are so optimistic about the
President's intentions have a
strong, natural interest in accen
tuating the positive at this time.
In the main, the men who now
head the Republican political re
gency are the same men who
headed the draft-Eisenhower
movement four years ago. The
leading figures are veterans of
the 1952 Commodore group, like
former Governor .Thomas E.
Dewey, General Lucius D. Clay,
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge
Jr., and Senator James Duff of
Pennsylvania.
It suits the regents to have the
country believe the President
will probably run again for two
very obvious reasons. While the
impression is abroad that Eisen
hower will be a candidate, the
Eisenhower wing's grip on the
Republican party can be and is
being quietly but firmly consoli-.
dated. With the potential opposi
tion paralyzed, the regents are
organizing " a 1956 convention
that "Eisenhower can bend to his
whim whether he is a candidate
or not.
FURTHERMORE, the ten or a
dozen men who compose the
political regency can agree
about Eisenhower, but they can
not agree about anything else.
The mere opening of a discussion
of alternative Republican can
didates would produce not one
but several immediate splits in
the group. So they are literally
workmg on the curious role that
no alternative candidate can be
discussed unless and until the
time comes when the President
decisively bows out.
In short,' when the members
of the regency authoritatively
assert that the President will
surely run again if his health
permits, it is necessary to take
the conditional chance very
seriously. The members of the
White House staff, who are in
daily contact with Eisenhower,
are far less hopeful about his
final decision than the members
of the regency, who are organiz
ing the second term, movement
with no direct authority from
trie President.
THERE has been at least one
occasion in the past weeks
when the alarm spread that the
President meant to bow out im
mediately. One of the Eisen
hower medical advisors, Dr. Paul
Dudley White, clearly feels that
the presidential burden wiU not
be too much for his patient. But
the other two, Drs. Thomas Mat
tingly and Howard Snyder, fire
known to take a considerably
. more, somber view. ?- - .
In the circumstances, then, it
is easy to understand why the
President so movingly said that
he "could devoutly wish there
were some method by which the
American people could point out
the path of my true duty. But it
appears that this is a question
that first I alone must answer."
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
News
the wet and doing the job wasn't
giving him any pleasure along
about the lunch hour.
gUT these were minor catas
trophes. Down in Redwood
City a normally dry gully had
gone' on a bender during the
night, and come morning the
waters were two feet deep in
the living room of a newly built
home. Not only was the furni
ture floating around in a woe
begone away. The room was pan
elled, and the commuter who
was teUing the tale was pretty
certain that when the water sub
sided the paneling would warp
and he'd have to do the whole
job over "again.
What was giving him acute
pain was the news, just broken
to him by his insurance agent,
that his policy didn't cover flood
damage.
rFHAT raises an interesting
issue. In most of the flooded
towns, little if any flood insur
ance was carried. The reason is
that in. the very nature of things
flood insurance is expensive.
If your property is located
in a place where floods are like
ly to occur, it is a foregone con
clusion that you're going to be
flooded if old Jupiter Pluvius
goes on a rampage. Since insur
ance rates are based on the prob
ability of loss, it follows that
if you live in a place that is
subject to floods in times of ab
normal precipitation the cost of
flood insurance is going to be
pretty steep.- : .
It appears that down this way
nearly everybody relied on Cali
fornia's sunny climate and failed
to take out flood insurance. The
result is a lot of unhappiness in
this particular year.
HHHAT brings up another
thought. In this campaign
year which ; follows a year of
rather spectacular floods in var
ious parts of the country con
gress is doing a lot of talking
about government flood insur
ance. I can see where people, living
in the river valleys and the creek
bottoms are going to be all for
it, but I can't help wondering
how the people who live on the
bills will feel about it
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use oi a pen name or
Initial for publication is permis
sible The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted (or publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Price of Gold
To the Editor: One of the rea
sons that gold placer and quartz
gold mining of northern Cali
fornia and southern Oregon from
the 1850s through the years to
the 20th century paid well as
an industry was because of the
large amount taken from the
mines, even at a price ranging
from $16 to $20 troy ounce de
pending on the quality of the
metal. . . .
Today, lower grades of ore
could be mined profitably pro
viding the price for all new raw
gold could be sold from $75 to
$100 a fine ounce.-
When the product, like tim
ber, becomes less, the price in
variably goes higher. Mining
gold should not be an exception
to the rule. The probability there
is enough gold yet in the hills
to finance all the contemplated
highways for years to come,
maybe pay off the national debt.
Anyway it is one of importance
to think about.
. 1 Bert Kissinger,
y 520 Boardman,
Medford, Ore.
and
By Walter
UNIQUE AND INIMITABLE
The statistical notes which
come with the' President's . eco
nomic reports are eloquent about
the success of
the American
economy since
the end of
World War H
They show
that in the ten
years, 1946-
1955, while
our population
rose by 24
Walter Lippman 000,000 per
sons, the gross national product
measured in present buying
power rose, by over a hundred
billion dollars, and the money
spent in personal consumption,
rose by sixty billion.
In spite of the first demo
bilization, the Korean war, and
rearmament, the people's stand
ard of living Jias risen much and
steadily. The President's eco
nomic advisors are well justi
fied in saying that in these ten
years the American economy has
"met severe tests with consid
erable success," has been able
to expand and yet to maintain
full employment without severe
ups and downs. I t
.-;-
TiHE report has, however, nbth-
ing to say about the severe
test that has now begun that
of competition with theSoviet
Union. The President's economic
advisors are, judging by the re
port, thinking inside the frame
work of the 30s and 40s. That
is to say, they are concerned
with the over-riding problem
posed by the great depression
of 1929, which is whether a free
economy can expand and pro
tect itself against the violence of
the business cycle. The Council
of Economic Advisors was. cre
ated by the Employment Act of
1946, and the act was passed in
order to apply the lessons learn
ed, fundamentally from the
teachings of John Maynard Key
nes, about the great depression.
It is appropriate enough, there
fore, that, the economic advisors
should have much to say about
our success in carrying out the
directives of this act.
But someone at the highest
level, of the government (and
why not the Council of Economic
Advisors) should be examin
ing the new test of Soviet com
petition. For it is certain to
dominate much of the world's
affairs to come. This test was
not foreseen, was perhaps not
even foreseeable in 1946 when
the Soviet economy was still
small and greatly damaged by
the war. The challenge of So
viet competition has, in fact,
come suddenly up over the
horizon in the past six months.
WHAT is it that is going to be
" tested? It is whether the So
viet Union is to become the
model and is to be the principal
guide and supplier in the in
dustrial development of the old,
densely populated and under-developed
countries of Asia and
North Africa. Another way : to
put the question is to ask our
selves whether the fabulous suc
cess of our economy is something
that can be imitated in, let us
say, Morocco, Egypt, India, and
Indonesia, or whether the Amer
ican economy is something
unique the product of our
unique geopgraphical 'position
and of our special history.
If the American economy is
unique, then if we are to com
pete with the Soviet Union in
the under-developed countries,
we shall have to invent methods
which are applicable to their
economies, though they are not
applicable to our own.
rjpHE crucial problem is how
the capital needed for devel
Today
KM
POT LUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors) o
- The sun (remember it?) was
shining brightly Saturday, and
a lady called the paper to re
port that a group of youngsters
were having what is probably
the first picnic of the season
on a lawn at the corner of
Palm and Oakdale. '
. -
. One of the best sad-but-funny
stories to come out of the recent
floods along the Rogue is the
one about the couple who inno
cently were sitting on their front
porch, watching the water carry
neighbors' furniture by, all un
knowing that the river was
creeping into the back part of
their own house, and covered the
floor of the living roonu
-
One of the local hospitals
has a telephone number which
is quite similar to that of a
local grocery. The lady that
answers the hospital's tele
phone reported that one day
someone called and asked for
the meat department. It look
a real effort of willpower, she"
said, to refrain from connect
ing them with the surgery. '
.."
The Church of the Brethren
had an announcement last week
1 which reminds us that the
Tomorrow
Lippmann
opment is to be obtained.
In our own formative period
in the 19th century, we received
capital on loan from private in
vestors in Europe
In the formative period of the
Soviet economy capital has been
built up by the forced savings
of the Russian people, a process
which has meant the fierce com
pulsions and regimentation , of
the Soviet state. The question in
non-Communist Asia and Africa
is at the bottom this: Assuming,
as one must, that private invest
ment on the early. American
model will not be forthcoming
on an adequate scale, nor accept
able for political reasons if it
were forthcoming, is there any
third way that can be taken?
This, I believe, is the question
to which we shall have to find
the answer. There is no use tell
ing the Asians to imitate the
United States. We shall have at
the outset to accept the fact, that
in iese old, crowded, politically
primitive countries, the initiative
in industrial development has to
be taken by the government,
that it cannot be expected to
come from native private enter
prise. ' -.
We shall . have to recognize,
too, that unless these countries
are to follow the Russian meth
od of forced industrialization,
they will have to get a consider
able part of their initial capital
from the outer world, and as a
matter of fact, from the govern
ments in the outer world.
! '
IlfHAT is more, unattractive as
it must sound in Congress,
these under-developed countries
will have to get more capital if
they are turned to the West than
if they turn to Moscow. For
Moscow is a standing example
of how to industrialize by forced
savings at home and without
foreign aid.
So if the Western aid is so
meager that there is little visible
progress in raising the standard
of life, the temptation to copy
Moscow is bound to become
very strong. For development
with freedom, though ever so
much better than development
with coercion, is a slower and a
more expensive method..
TtfEXT year's report will, we
x may safely predict, have
much to say about these matters
on which the present report is
silent. For we are drawn into a
contest from which we cannot
run away, a contest fought with
weapons with which we are un
familiar. It is a contest which
the President and his advisers
did not foresee when thev went
to ueneva last summer.
It is a contest about which
they have said almost nothing
to enlighten our people, perhaps
because it is a contest about
which they have said almost
nothing to enlighten our' people,
perhaps because it .is a contest
which they, like, the rest Of us.
have just begun to think.
Copyright, 1956,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
Boy Scoufs
Howard Cub Scouts
Forty cub schouts who met at
Howard school Monday were
presented a charter and heard
a talk on scouting benefits by
H. S. Morris, neighborhood com
missioner and member of the
district training committee for
cubbing.
There were 73 parents and
visitors at the meeting. Den five
won the attendance award for
having the greatest number of
parents at the December meet
ing. Scouts presented four pri
vate skits.
Refreshments were served in
the Howard school cafeteria.
crucial time of year is approach
ing February 2. The church is
planning its annual "ground
hog" dinner Thursday night
(One of the start members had
to be convinced that the title of
the dinner referred to the entree
not to the season.)
.
One of the most interesting
sounds we have heard in a
long time occurred last week
when a long-time and faithful
employee of a well-known
Medford firm gave a loud gasp
as she heard a man from out- .
side the firm call the distinguished-looking
head of the
company "You Old Buixard."
in friendly fashion.
-.
The head of one of the depart
ments of a local Sunday school
last week had occasion to tele
phone a Medford physician, also
member of the church. The
phone rang; it was answered by
the doctor's wife, who promised
to call him; there was a long
pause, interrupted only by oc
casional family-type sounds and
that was all.
The teacher waited and wait
ed. Finally,, in desperation, she
hung up. Later she tried to tele- .
phone again, but got a busy sig- 4
nal.
Several hours later the doc
tor's wife telephoned the teacher
in some confusion and embarrass
ment to confess she'd been in a
rush to get away to a meeting,
and had ' laid the phone down,
completely forgetting it and to
call her husband.
.
On a dinner1 reservation slip
at a local hotel, holding a zoom
for a dinner meeting of the
Christian Business Women, ap
peared the notation: "No Ash,
Trays."
Oh, , it's a mechanized world
w: live in, all right.
Last week, when Copco an
nounced that -the power would
be off in one Medford neighbor
hood for a few hours while some
transmission changes were made,
several housewives went into a
complete decline at the thought
of ATI t3l3f",fTl f1 'f"T7l ore v 4 t
Couldn't cook; couldn't vacuum;
couldn't wash; couldn't even
read (not enough light); and,
worst of all in houses with elec
tric heat), no heat.
One housewife we know en
visioned herself bundled and
huddled on the floor near the
fireplace where, a small glow
would come from a kindling fire.
As it turned out, Copco did its
work in about 40 minutes; the
house hardly had gotten cooled
off, and the housewife didn't
even get a chance to be a pio
neer. ,
-
There's an ancient riddle
which asks why firemen wear
red suspenders. '
One of the wrong answers is,
"To match the fire trucks."
We got a reverse wrinkle
on this last week, when it
was seriously (or half-seriout-ly)
proposed- to repaint the
trucks to match the firemen's
underwear. Department mem
bers last week purchased
longies to use as basketball
uniforms, and had them dyed
red, they wanted. They turn
ed out to be a murky pink. .
We rather like the idea of
"murky pink" fire trucks rush
ing by.
A staff member (female) was
elated last week when she got
a compliment on her appearance
from a total stranger. She was
relating the incident with great
zest when another staff member
(male) inquired: "Was it from
that little man with gray hair
and a white cane?"
Six Invited To Bid '
For Dairy Structure
Bids for construction of an
ice cream plant for Jorgensen's"
dairy Products company, are to
be opened in the Jorgensen of
fice at 2 p.m'. Feb. 8. Six con
tractors have been invited to
submit bids.
Plans for the tilt-up concrete
building, covering 14,600 square
feet, were drawn by Leslie
Poole, Portland consulting en
gineer. About 3,100 square feet
will be office space.
Some brick veneer is to be ;
used around the? office area.
Office floors will be covered
with asphalt tile and some glaz
ed tile block partitions will be
installed in the factory portion.
High pressure steam is to be
used both for heat and proces
sing. Bidders selected include Bes
sonette and Graff, Medford; Ar
min Richter and associates,
Medford; Ausland Construction
company, Grants Pass; D. W.
Knight, Albany; H. G. Carl con
struction company, Salem; and
Smith-Phillips company, Port
land. PETITIONS FOR
ANNEXATION
Grants Pass Petitions seek
ing annexation of a 151-acre-tract
of land in the vicinity of
the new Highland school to the
city of Grants Pass are being
circulated in the area. The pro
posed tract adjoins the city on
the northwest.