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Medford and Jackson County
History from the filet of Tba
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1946
(It was Monday)
Employment in the Medford
area shows increase in April, ac
cording to the monthly review
by the employment service.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A total of
203 voters poured out en, masse
Friday in a S44.316.82 exercising
of their prerogative of wielding
a ballot. More than that exer
cised their prerogative of trying
to catch a fish.
20 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1938
(It was Wednesday)
Sale of the Cargill Court by
the Prudential Life Insurance
company to Mrs. M. E. Schuch
ard of 108 Geneva st., announced.
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce committees for the
1936-37 year announced Tuesday
by Olen Arnspiger, president.
30 YEARS AGO
May 13. 192S
(It was Thursday)
Forty-seven crippled and han
dicapped children of Jackson
county examined at free clinic
for handicapped children at First
Beptist church Monday. , .
At a meeting of representative
Democrats from Jackson county,
a club was organized known as
the Democratic club of Jackson
county.
40 YEARS AGO
May 13, 1916
(It was Saturday)
Bids opened Saturday by the
county court for the surfacing
of the Medford-Jacksonville road
with buckshot gravel.
A dredge to handle 1,000 yards
of dirt a day, known as the dry
land dredge, will be installed
soon on the Applegate below
Ruch on the Ray property.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 195S. Editorial Research Resort
1. A car's wheelbase is the dis
tance between its front arid back
axles, bumpers, windshield and
rear window, front and back
tires, or differential and trans
mission?
2. Of all occupied hospital beds
in the U. S. one in about (a) 2,
(b) 5, (c) 10, or (d) 15 is occu
pied by a mental patient?
3. British political leader to
visit the U. S. in mid-May is
prime minister Eden, Labor
party leader Gaitskell, Winston
Churchill or Foreign Minister
Lloyd?
4. More than half the natural
gas consumed in the whole U. S.
originates in Texas; right or
wrong?
5. Digitalis is prescribed by
doctors to help eyesight, hear
ing, heart action, sleeping or di
gestion? 6. In Israel a Kibbutz is a co
operative factory, fortification
line, cooperative farm, type of
military plane, or prayer for the
dead?
7. J. Bracken Lee is governor
of California, Kansas, Maryland,
Michigan, Texas or Utah?
The answers: 1 - Between
axles. 2 About one in every
tw0. 3 GaitskelL 4 Right. 5
Heart action. 6 Cooperative
farm. 7 Utah.
Milk output in France in 1955
was 42,000,000 pounds.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Hitchcock Gaining Fast
The most sensational feature of this primary cam
paign has been the rise of Phil Hitchcock and the de
cline of Douglas McKay in the race for the senatorial
nomination on the GOP ticket.
The first important newspaper to switch from Mc
Kay to Hitchcock was the Salem Statesman prob
ably outside of Portland the most influential paper in
the state. . .
Then the Bend Bulletin, also strongly Republican,
joined in. And a few days ago that Gibraltar of party
regularity on the Republican side the Corvallis Gazette-Times,
kissed the cherubic ex-Secretary of the In
terior goodbye and jumped on the Hitchcock band
wagon. The latest is the estimable and powerful Eu
gene Register-Guard. .
At this rate, before another week rolls around, the
newspaper opposition to "Give Away" Doug, may be
unanimous.
IT IS VERY interesting to this department, and re-
vealing, also.
Our only regret is we have been unable to get all
the facts. It was supposed, for example, that when Sec
retary McKay in 24 hours changed his mind about be
ing a candidate, President Eisenhower was respon
sible. . -. ..
But -when asked if this was true, McKay declared
emphatically it was not. The President, he said, had
had nothing to do with his decision. What impelled
him to declare one day he would not run for the Sen
ate, and.the next day he would was the demand that
he received from the "home folks" in Oregon it was
their insistence, not pressure from the White House,
that induced him to execute such a complete and sud
den somersault, from not being a candidate to being
one. "
TE DON'T KNOW how
Vtolioirarl t-Tiia talo nf
ly ex-Governor Sprague, editor of the btatesman,
didn't put much stock in it, for the day after this
explanation the Statesman remarked editorially as
follows, quote :
" the circumstances attending his (McKay's) decision
have been disturbing. Over his oft-expressed determination
not to run for office he was pressured into running by top
political brass in Washington. The ostensible reason was to
encompass the defeat of Morse who stands out as GOP En
emy No. 1. The Statesman questions the wisdom of this decision."
Judging by the way Republican newspaper sup
port is ebbing, a majority of the Republican party
question the wisdom of the decision also. And this op
position to sending the former Secretary of the Inter
ior to the Senate for the
be even greater when the
day.
THE STATESMAN also declared its primary reas
on for supporting Hitchcock instead of McKay
was the f ormer s "high potential or statesmansnip.
Well, there is no doubt our former Governor lacks
that "potential." But we can't go along 100 with that
rationalization of this defection from- McKay to
Hitchcock, bv so many outstanding representatives of
the Republican press, as well as prominent members
of the Republican party.
After a careful readinp-
ations the real reasons for
we believe accurately, in a very few words to-wit:
"Secretary of the Interior McKay's record from the
standpoint of promoting the best interests of the PEOPLE
of this state, and the country, has been such a depressing
one, that the papers don't want the job of defending it added
to the task of defeating Senator Morse. And the latter is the
common denominator of all these "explanations." That is
the purpose No. 1, not only of the Republican party in this
state, but in Washington. 'Whatever you do, GET Morse,' is
the slogan. So putting first things first, they prefer a rela
tively unknown candidate against whom little can be said,
to a well known candidate as vulnerable as the acknow
ledged champion of the 'Give Away technique,' and against
whom so much CAN be said."
That is all there is to it, as we view it
It is not because the Republicans rate Phil Hitch
cock so high in the realm of potential statesmanship
or anything else but because they rate Secretary Mc
Kay so low.
They feel no certainty that Hitchcock can beat
Morse, but they believe he has a good chance and they
believe secretary Mc.K.ay nas pracucaiiy none.
So Mr. Hitchcock, against whom little if anything
but his lack of experience can be said, is the benefi
ciary of the Republican hatred of Wayne Morse.
How much that beneficence will add up to the
Friday primary should disclose. At this writing it looks
considerable and is steadily growing. R.W.R.--
The Tydings Case
We hope former US Senator Tydings of Maryland
wins out in the official count of Tuesday's primary.
If ever a man deserves to be returned to the Sen
ate he does. Mr. Tydings had a fine record of intelli
gent and statesmanlike service in the Upper House,
even though he was too much on the conservative side
to satisfy some of his more radical colleagues.
But Senator McCarthy, who was then at the height
of his prestige and power never forgave Tydings for
the report of his Tydings committee in the Owen Lat
timore case, and decided that he must be liquidated.
So "Mac" and a few of his most trusted undercover
men concocted a fake photograph scheme showing the
Maryland Senator consorting with Comrade Stalin,
had the same put in friendly newspapers and circu
lated throughout the state in pamphlet form. This was
to back up the scurrilous personal attack against "The
Gentleman from Maryland," terming him soft on com
munism, and impugning his loyalty to his own coun
try, although he- had a brilliant record as an officer
in the World war and had
Sunday, May IS, 1956
many people in Oregon
linmo sunnnrt lint, nhvinns-
next six years, promises 10
polls open this coming Fri
of all the editorial explan
this switch may be stated,
no more sympathy with
Matter of
Kuwait, Persian Gulf Here
in Kuwait, the West's extreme
vulnerability to the new Soviet
flank attack in
the Middle
East is brought
home with ex
t r e m e vivid
ness. This tiny
desert Sheik
dom at the
head of the
Persian Gulf is
nowlittlemore
oieun aisop man a vast oil
well with a small town on top
of it. Kuwait's oil output now
substantially exceeds the com
bined output of Iran and Iraq.
The famous "sweet crude" of the
Kuwait wells now provides two
thirds of the oil fuel of the Brit
ish Isles.
The 50 per cent of profits
paid to the Sheik of Kuwait by
the half British, half American
Kuwait Oil Company currently
amounts to about $260,000,000
a year, or rather more than
$1,000 a year per head of the
whole population of the Sheik
dom. And the people here are
getting good pay, too, from the
oil company and on all the con
struction and other, projects that
have been started by the influx
of oil money.
TN THESE circumstances, it is
hardly surprising that Kuwait
is a boom town. By Saudi Arabi
an standards, the ruling clan of
Kuwait, the House of al-Subah,
is distinctly restrained, yet the
desert is dotted with their pal
aces which they like to illumi
nate by night in a way that puts
Broadway to shame. With a lav
ish hand, the Sheik is also build
ing schools, hospitals, new roads,
water distillation plants and
great numbers of houses for
his people.
Even after all these expedi
tures, so much is leftover that
the British government thought
it worth while to send the Brit
ish Ambassador in Washington,
Sir Roger Makins, on special mis
sion here when he was one of
the top officials in the Foreign
Office. Sir Roger's task was to
persuade the Sheik of Kuwait
to invest his reserve funds in
London. The Sheik complied. To
day his money is probably the
biggest single sum of new capi
tal annually available for in
vestment in the sterling area.
In these circumstances, it is
not surprising that the British
regard the Persian Gulf Sheik
doms, and especiaUy Kuwait, as
their hole card.
HHHE entire population of the
-- three oil producing Sheik
doms, Kuwait, Bahrein, and Qa
tar, hardly amounts to more
than 400,000 persons. But even
if all the other Western posi
tions in the Middle East crum
ble in the end under the pressure
of the new Arab nationalism,
spurred on and supported by
the Soviets, the oil wells of these
little Sheikdoms can be made
to meet Britain's and Western
Europe's requirement for fuel
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
In the closing hours of its 1956
session at Bend, the Oregon Cat
tlemen s association decided to
reexamine its stand against gov
ernment subsidies. The news dis
patches explain that the organ
ization has long opposed federal
subsidies, but recently some
members have been urging a re
versal, of this policy."
At any rate, the association's
president Garland Meaaor has
ordered a poll of the member
ship on the issue. Presumably,
the poU will be taken by mail.
THAT is to say:
Some of the association's
members have been looking at
their financial hole cards and
flirting with the idea that it
would be AWFULLY nice to get
each year from Uncle Sam a
check representing the differ
ence between the price they
CAN get on the open, free mar
ket and the price they think
they ought to get.
Admittedly, it is an intriguing
idea.
'D LIKE to suggest that before
going off the deep end in
favor of government subsidies
the cattlemen take a look at the
automobile industry. The auto
mobile people are presenUy in
a pickle. They have been produc
ing more cars than the market
will absorb. So they have decided
to CUT DOWN PRODUCTION.
As a result, men are losing
their jobs and the companies are
losing the cost advantages of big
production. There is distress in
Detroit, and elsewhere where
automobiles are produced.
It isn't a rosy picture.
B
UT-
Suppose the government
communism than he had
and they knew it.
Not only did McCarthy
attack, but he boasted of it and following the subse
quent victory thus won, he and his cronies held a bois
terous victory dinner to celebrate. '
THEREFORE, if former Senator Tydings does come
out victorious and is returned to the Senate it will
provide a refreshing example of poetic and political
iustice and a fittinsr and .lonsr-delaved repudiation of
mendacity and 'indecency in
Fact By Joseph Alsop
lifeblood for a long time to come.
If these grim circumstances
ever arise, Britain will have
to choose between holding the
Sheikdoms and surviving, and
risking the loss of the Sheikdoms
and ending her career as a seri
ous world power. The choice
has already been made in Lon
don. The Sheikdoms will be held,
by naked force if necessary. The
ugly war in Cyprus is being
fought to make sure of a transit
base for troops bound to this
region.
The question is whether this
British strategy of the hole card
will really work. Certainly it
will be difficult to execute. To
be sure, there is little of the
popular unrest in Kuwait that
is creating such a problem in
Bahrein. The house of al-Subah
really rules its Sheikdom, and
with an iron hand. Most Ku
waitis are contented by the new
prosperity, and for any who are
known to be subversive, there
is harsh and summary punish
ment.' e '
OUT even the house of al-Subah
will be anything but pleased
by a military occupation, if this
becomes necessary to protect the
Kuwait oil source from the drive
of nationalism in the rest of the
Arab world. The trouble in
Bahrein, in this event, would of
course be even worse. Further
more, if the Arab nationalist
drive finally forces Britain to
play her hole card, one can fore
see all sorts of other very grave
troubles, perhaps on the borders
here, certainly at Suez, and quite
probably at Aden.
The Soviet object in the Mid
dle East is simply to use Arab
nationalism to bring down the
Western Alliance, by encourag
ing the Arab states to deny to
the West the vital oil on which
Britain and Western Europe so
absolutely depend. Since this is
quite certainly the Soviet pur
pose, it is a little difficult to
see what good results can be
expected by trying to negotiate
a Middle Eastern settlement
with the Soviets. This increas
ingly popular expedient will be
like sitting down with your own
murderer to argue about wheth
er he will stab you in the heart
or only cut your jugular vein.
DY THE same token, however,
the present British plan for
dealing with the Middle Eastern
danger if worst comes to worst
does not look very practical or
very attractive when one ex
amines it on the spot, here in
the gulf coast Sheikdoms where
the last ditch defense is to center.
The problem in the Middle
East, therefore, is not just to
prevent a new outbreak of Arab-
Israeli fighting. The problem is
to find a firm, united, imagina
tive and generous Anglo-Ameri
can policy towards Arab nation
alism which will frustrate the
Soviet Strategy and protect the
oil source without recourse to
desperate measures.
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
News
stepped in ana established ' par
ity" on automobiles. Suppose it
BOUGHT UP AT THE PARITY
PRICE all the surplus autos and
stored them in government ware
houses. What would happen?
That question is easily an
swered. In a little while all the
surplus warehouse space in the
USA would be filled with autos
and the government would be
building new warehouses at tax-
payer expense to hold the over
flow that would be spilling off
the ends of the assembly lines
And
The automobile business would
be wrecked as a free private en
terprise by the accumulating sur
pluses that would hang over the
markets oi the future like a
dark thundercloud.
fREGON'S Gov. Elmo Smith
has asked the advice of Ore
gon's Attorney-General Robert
Thornton on what action could
be taken to stop construction of
the Pelton dam in the Deschutes
river up north of Bend. He asked
the state's attorney specifically
just what action should be taken
and who should do it.
Previously the governor had
asked for an opinion on the le
gality' of the Pelton project and
the attorney-general ruled that
the Portland General Electric
company is violating state, water
laws by building the Deschutes
dam.
Several weeks ago the attor
ney-general said the Jefferson
county district attorney (the
project is in Jefferson county)
should prosecute the company if
construction is started. .
WHAT'S the shooting about?
' Is the state of Oregon
fighting private power develop-
for "Murder Incorporated"
perpetrate this false sneak
public life. R.W.R.
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation,
not exceed 400 words.
Who Is McKay?
To the Editor: WU1 you be so
kind as to inform me who this
great and mighty McKay, who
shot off his mouth so loudly over
radio and television a few days
ago, may be? You know, the bird
who was so RIGHTEOUSLY (?)
indignant at our Senator Morse?
I do not suppose HE ever
herd of the old adage "He who
lives in glass houses should never
throw stones". And he certainly
threw enough stones to fiU a
box car.
What is he trying to do? Does
he hope to scare Senator Morse,
or does he hope to scare him to
death? Or just drive him to
drink?
Maybe Mr. McKay wants to
turn cannibal. It could be that
he hankers for a roast or a fry
from Morse's carcass. However,
it may prove to be mighty tough
chawin'.
Or, it could be, as he has so
often stated, that his "respect"
for the "dollar" has increased to
real veneration?
Such things have happened to
many others in the past, as wit
ness the story of Midas the king.
Whichever it may be, or neither,
he seems, to want to go to the
Senate that, to him, all means
are to be used to that desired
end.
Let's take a look at the Al
Sarena case.
McKay says he complied with
the law. Did he? I have the
U.S.F.S. records in the matter,
wherein emphatic protests to the
issue of patents were made. Were
he in the right, those protests
need not have been made. That
every man with reasoning power
will agree.
Also, I have been over the Al
Sarena many times in the last
32 years, and while I have only
a prospector's experience, I aver
that there is no metal on any one
of those claims worthwhile.
McKay also said the timber
thereon was small and worth
little. How does he know? Was
he there at any time?
If worth little, why are the
claims being denuded of such
timber as fast as possible? I have
seen that timber and I state un
equivocally that it averages up
to the rest of the timber on the
reserve. That is a fact.
About the Hell's Canyon Dam
give away?
Does he forget that the people
of this state know that the
Coulee Dam in Washington and
the big Bonneville Dam are pay
ing, for themselves, and that in
the future the dams will have
paid for themselves and give
fine profit to the federal govern
ment thereafter?
He says Morse was always
against the President's projects,
I have Morse's "voting records
for this Congress.
He supported the President
82 per cent.
And that was enough, and, as
I see 'it, too much.
A. L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania ave.,
' '' Medford, Ore.
Fire Protection Costs
To .the Editor: The city of Ash
land fire protection budget for
1956 is $42,000. This figures out
to $5.25 per person, or $21 for a
family of four living within the
city limits.
For this same average family
living in an average-construction
$10,000 house on a lot worth
$1,000, the fire insurance pre
mium will run about $15 a year.
So, we reach the figure of $36
spent by this average" family
total for fire protection for a
year.
Taking another "average" sit
uation . . . say that this- house
catches on fire to the extent that
it is damaged 30 per cent during
a fire.
Doing some figuring, the fire
insurance will recompense the
homeowner $2,700 for this fire,
Thus; the fire department has
succeeded in preventing the
complete destruction of the
house, giving a figure of $6,300
saved by the fire department for
the home-owner.
Breaking this down we find
that the home-owner has been
recompensed $180 per doUar-a-
ment?
NO, THAT isn't it. An entirely
different principle is in
volved. The situation is roughly
this:
Some time ago the Portland
General Electric company ob
tained a permit from the federal
power commission but.. NOT
from the Oregon hydroelectric
commission. In subsequent liti
gation, the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in effect that the federal
power commission has the right
to license the Deschutes dam re
gardless of what the state of
Oregon may do about it.
That raises this question: WHO
OWNS OREGON'S WATER?
That is the biggest question in
Oregon's future.
F OREGON accepts without re
sistance the theory that the
federal government can do with
Oregon's water what it pleases,
it will STRENGTHEN the "con
tention that the federal govern
ment owns Oregon's water.
That theory we MUST NOT
accept by acquieicene.
Letters submitted for publication must
year spent on insurance. He has
been saved $300 per dollar-a-year
spent on taxes to cover fire in
surance. '
While we all know that fire
insurance is one of the most
worthwhile investments, I just
want to point out that citizens
sometimes do not realize the
value of their investment in the
fire department. When they real
ize they are getting their mon
ey's worth, there will possibly
be less oppostion to raising taxes
and voting additional money to
maintaining and improving the
local fire department. A recom
mendation such as raising sal
aries or buying new equipment
is often shrugged off with the
excuse that it will involve a
raise in taxes and is not worth
while. The point of all this Is that if
the taxpaying citizen knows
where his tax dollar is being
spent, and that an increase in
taxes for a given proposal will
pay off in a sound investment,
he will not have unfounded prej
udices and give undue opposition
to proposals for fire department
improvements as they come
along.
Ran Lovejoy,
474 North Main st.,
. Ashland, Ore.
Justice
To the Editor: As a candidate
for public office, I am grateful
to the Mail Tribune for permit
ting use of its columns by candi
dates in an attempt to sell their
wares to the voter. I am sure aU
candidates feel likewise.
It is a long way back to Jus
tinian, but it' is one way of dem
onstrating how organized soci
ety, as we know it, has consist.
ently striven to create a condi
tion of equality, especially be
fore the law.
Justinian said "Justice is the
constant desire and effort to ren
der every man his due." This
passion for justice and equality
has always been foremost in the
thinking of great men and since
Justinian, many have strength
ened our beliefs in the proposi
tion of man's equality before the
law, by their utterances,
To show how closely the think
ing on this subject runs parallel
down through the centuries, con
sider the statement of Edmund
Burke, "Justice is itself the great
standing policy of civil society;
and any departure from it, under
any circumstances, lies under the
suspicion of being no policy at
all.
You may wonder what aU this
has to do with the Justice Court,
and why I stress these references
to justice. It is to remind you,
that should complacency and
apathy ever prevail over- our
love of liberty and justice, then
our courts will become . instru
ments of persecution. When that
day arrives, democratic govern
ment, as we know it, will cease
to exist,
I believe so strongly in what
these men have advocated, that
it wiU be my fixed and steady
purpose to see that, even in so
obscure a court as the Justice
Court, equality before the law
will be the rule and guide of
my policy; which after all, pretty
much boils down to "due pro
cess, plus whatever humanity,
reason and justice tell me
ought to do, in given circum
stances.-
This is my creed. If you be
lieve with me, I ask you to en
trust me with the administra
tion of the Justice Court by your
vote on May 18.
Lee Wilmeth,
Candidate for Justice
of the Peace,
Ashland, Ore.
Figures Given 1
To the Editor;- In recent days
it has been our unfortunate ex
perience to read some statements
made by a political candidate
which are wholly without foun
dation, in our opinion.
As auditors for the people of
Jackson county wejwish to give
to the people of Jackson county
the actual figures shown in the
county records, which figures
are as follows:
(a) The 1955-1956 total budget
includes the amount of $390,
887.63 for the Court House Build
ing Fund and $60,000 for the
Armory Building Fund. . The
1955-1956 budget DOES NOT in
clude any other amounts for
the building fund.
(b) The amount expended to
date on the Court House Build
ing, Improvements and Equip
ment is as follows:
1953-1954
.$ 17,745.85
1954-1955
1855-1956
297.038.00
230.690.04
Total $545,474.89
(c) The Court House Building
and Improvement Fund balance
at April 30, 1956 is $154,241,55
and the unexpended portion of
this balance, when the building
is completed, will be returned
to the General Fund of Jackson
county.
As we state above, we are the
auditors for Jackson county and
we have checked the above fig
ures, and these figures are in
cluded in our monthly reports
to Jackson county, and we so
certify.
This office is not interested
in taking political sides, but. we
submit this information to your
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
A staff member with cleanly
habits was taking a luxurious
bath Saturday morning before
coming to work. As he was
soaking in the tub, the telephone)
rang.
He muttered a curse and
heaved himself out of the water,
planted a foot on the bathroom
floor, slipped, and crashed down
amidst a flurry of spray. He
cracked his head on the heater,
sprained a shoulder and barked
an ankle Undaunted, he grabbed
a towel and limped, head ringing
and shoulder hurting, to the tele
phone.
It was (need you ask?) a wrong
number.
Automation has its hazards.
We assume it was the result
of a misplaced digit and the
new long-distance dialing now
possible in some cities, which
resulted in a telephone caU
received by a local attorney
last week. The call was from
a city in Massachusetts, and
the person calling didn't want
Medford, Oregon, at all. They
wanted Ansonia Derby, Con
necticut. Mrs. Bette Hoskins, the Mail
Tribune's correspondent in Jack
sonville, has come up with some
thing that newspaper people
appreciate. She reports that a
contributor to her regular Jack
sonville column donated a quo
tation from the Hewitt Banner,
in Hewitt, Minn., which goes
like this:
"I know not what the truth
may be; .
"I tell it as 'twas told to me."
Mrs. Hoskins added, "As
Jacksonville correspondent, I
trust" this will explain any mis
takes I may have made in the
past or may make in the future."
So say we all of us.
One well-known Kiwanian
put his brother club members
to shame last week at . ins)
Wednesday Mothers', Day
luncheon. He not only brought
along his mother, but . his
mother-in-law. too.
One of our feminine staff
members (about whom more
elsewhere in today's paper) spent
some time at the police firearms
training school last week. At one
point in the proceedings her car
got stuck in a muddy area, and
she called for help from the as
sembled lawmen.
They responded nobly, and
with some grunting and heaving
(combined with usual male state
ments about women's abilities as
drivers) helped her get her car
unstuck. ;..!
After she got back to town
she suddenly realized, to her
horror, that her auto license
plates had expired. She still
isn't quite sure whether the of
ficers who helped her were be
ing gentlemanly in not noticing
the expired plates, or simply un
observing. Anyway, she dashed
out pronto and got her car le
galized, i
As a post script, it should be
noted, perhaps, that the same of
ficers who commented caustical
ly about women drivers got their
owncars stuck in the same mud
puddle later the same day. '
Last Sunday, we reported
on Jacksonville Police Chief
Frank Carter chasing a while
mule, which escaped in - the
direction of Mom's Hideaway.
Immediately that restaurant
proudly brought out a menu
which listed "White Mule
Steaks, a la Frank Carter."
It's an old story, but stul eood.
A Medford housewife some time
ago asked her businessman-husband
to take her out to lunch.
No, he said, because his service .
club met that noon. When he ar
rived at the service club, the
presence of a number of women
reminded him too late that the
meeting that day was the annual
session to which club members
were SUPPOSED to bring their
wives.
We're not sure whether ha
ever told her that or not.
I. A. Mirick, school instru
mental music supervisor, ar
rived late al a Washington
school program dress rehearsal
last week, so young Jim John
ston directed the band in its'
first number. He did so well
thai Mirick called on him lo
lead the band for the first
number at the regular pro
gram the following night.
Say!! Whatever happened
to
Davy Crockett?
Herbert Seitz Elected
ions Club President
Herbert Seitz " was elected
president of the Medford Lions
club for the year beginning
July 1 at the club's annual elec-
. : t j i '
uon weanesaay. :
Other officers include Louie
Ruhl, first vice-president; Joe
Tomjack, second vice-president;
Lee Knox, secretary-treasurer;
Ed Ashton, lion tamer; Lee Mell
ish, tailtwister; Jerry Lausmann
and Speed Waters, directors for .
two year terms and Elliott Beck
en, director for a one-year term.
newspaper for publication so that
the people of Jackson county
can be correctly informed of the
issues.
George L. Stacey,
Certified Public Accountant,
Medford, Ore.