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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEI)FORDv&TRIBUKE "everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Trtoune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. tt-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 330 Sunday Only One year $330. 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Casli in Advance Official Paper of to City of Medford Official Paper of jacKson vonnty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL is IassocPatlqn u w knjjiirim'H'iUM 0rfU NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 29, 1946 (It was Wednesday) " The Jackson County Mining association convention, to have been held June 13-15, in Medford and Jacksonville, has been post poned, Floyd K. Dover, presi dent, announced today. From Arthur . Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; Rural resi dents have started planting watermelons, in the face of a shortage of shotgun shells to load with rock-salt, and fire at moonlight marauders of their patches. 20 YEARS AGO May 29, 1936 (It was Friday) Contract for construction of the Southern Oregon Gas cor poration new building at Main and Holly sts., was let Thursday to D. R. Smith of Talent. An informal dinner will be held at the Hotel Medford to night for J. J. McEntee, assistant national director of the Civilian Conservation corps. 30 YEARS AGO May 29. 1926 (It was Saturday) A big time is expected next Wednesday night when the Chamber of Commerce will cele brate the opening of the new membership campaign. From Local and Personal col umn: The number of out of the state cars registered here yester day with the local state traffic bureau was 33. 40 YEARS AGO May 29. 1916 (It was Monday) A concert will be given on Fri day evening, June 2, at the Page theater, by the Medford Choral society. iThe Hall Taxi company will carry women and children free to the cemetery tomorrow be tween the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. What's the Answer? 1. U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold is going abroad again in June (a) for more Middle East negotiating, (b) for talks with Bulganin and Khrushchev in Moscow, or (c) for a vacation in Sweden? 2. Surplus crops owned out right by the government now amount in value to about (a) $3 billion, (b) $5 bililon, (c) $6 billion, or (d) $11 billion? 3. Cash dividends paid by U. S. corporations in the first quar ter of 1956 were lower, about the same, or quite a bit higher than in the first quarter of 1955? 4. Democratic dark horse Sen ator Symington before getting public office was a manufactur er, lawyer, doctor, college pro fessor, or newspaper publisher? 5. British armed forces are being cut by (a) 72,000 men, (b) 772,000 men, or (c) 1,200,000 men? 6. Joseph Teodor Konrad Na lecz Korseniowski was a Polish general in the American Revo lution, assassin of a Russian czar, famous writer of sea stories? 7. Some members of Congress are members of the Mormon church; right or wrong? The answers: 1. To see B. & K. in Moscow. 2. 6 billion. 3. Quite a bit (20) higher. 4. Manufac turer. 5. Reduction of 72.000 men. E. Writer of sea stories (Jo seph Conrad). 7. Right. Homicide takes a toll of 7,500 Americans in an average year. MAIL TRIBUNE The Oregon "The Oregon Voter" is fender of the political and financial status quo, as long as the GOP is in control which it usually is. Be cause of its valuable statistical information, political and economic, however, it is highly regarded by the Republican press in the state and Big Business in gen eral, frequently being kept on file for ready reference by both. TN ITS last issue -The Voter established what we be lieve is a new precedent. It not only failed to com mend the Oregonian, the Portland Journal and half a dozen of the leading conservative Republican dailies including the highly respected Salem Statesmen, but criticized them all for not supporting ex-Governor Douglas McKay against ex-State Senator Phil Hitch cock in the recent GOP primary, more generally and enthusiastically. , "The Voter" accuses these papers of having failed to discern the vital issue of true Republicanism in volved in this contest, and by implication, at least, charges them with betrayal of the Grand Old party, and the sacred principles for which it stands. One wonders just what "The Voter" regards as the sacred principles of the GOP. But the party's ten commandments are not enumerated, the "wayward press" is merely chided for this dereliction and advised somewhat patronizingly to go forth and sin no more. A LTHOUGH no explicit charges are made in this broad indictment, it is not very hard to discern the main outlines of The Voter's complaint, namely : Didn't Chairman Leonard Hall of the Republican National committee urge Secretary of the Interior Mc Kay to resign and take on the important duty of kick ing Wayne Morse out of the U. S. Senate? Didn't' Mr. Adams, the President's adviser and alter ego, second the motion, and was not this official decision upheld by the "All-Highest" none other than by the President of the United States himself, the exalted ruler of the GOP and to quote Mr. Hall, "the most popular Presi dent in the nation's history." Whereupon "The Voter" would no more challenge the right of this group to tell the people of Oregon who they must have to represent them in Washington -than it would challenge the U. S. National bank the right to charge 5 on a commercial loan. Obedience to the High party command in the Voter's political philosophy is as inviolable as similar obedience to the high com mand of the Commander-in-chief in time of war. , 1X7HAT the Voter seems to overlook or at least " failed to state in its indictment, is that not dis loyalty to the Republican party, but the desire at all costs to prevent Wayne Morse from returning to the Upper House of congress was the fundamental cause of the failure of these Republican newspapers to sup port the former Secretary term m the senate. As we believe all of them explained they did not support Mr. Hitchcock because they thought so highly of him, but thev thought so as a victor in a rough-and-tumble Morse. The def eat of Morse .not was in other words their objective. And many of them believed as the Salem Statesman indicated the command from the White House that ex-Secretary McKay not Phil Hitchcock, the Republicans in Oregon, might not prove m tne long run to be as great a nosed. The neonle of Oresron. regardless of party are inclined to resent outside dictation, however high its source, and show by their votes at election time that they cherish their freedom to vote as they wish, re gardless of what the political chiefs of staff, may think about it. SO IT appears to this department the surprising cen sure of the GOP press in. Oregon by The Voter, may prove to have been somewhat premature. For' if on November 6th, six more years of Wayne Morse rather than 6 more years for ex-Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay in Washington should be the verdict of the people of Oregon, The Voter will then have to admit that the Oregon press headed by the Salem Statesman was right, from the standpoint of the welfare of the Republican party, and The Voter was NOT. R.W.R. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q There are two sets of like names in the top ranks of gov ernment. A U.S. Senator and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court have the same surnames. So do a Senator and the Secre tary of Treasury. What are the two surnames? ADouglas Sen. Paul H. and Justice William O.; and Humphrey Sen. Hubert H. and Secretary George M. Q. How many of the leaders of the 84th Congress do you know? Match the names in the following list with the positions they hold: (a) Lyndon B. Johnson (1) Speak er of the House (b) William F. Knowland (2) House Minority Leader (c) Walter F. George (3) Presi dent Pro Tempore of the Senate (d) Sam Rayburn (4) Senate Ma jority Leader (e) Joseph W. Martin Jr. (5) Sen ate Minority Leader A (a)-(4); (b)-(5); (c)-(3); (d) (1); (eH2). Q President Eisenhower has appointed two men to the Su preme Court. Who are they? A Earl Warrtn, Chief Jut- Tuesday, May 29, 1956 Voter Protests a small, unimaginative de of the Interior for a 6 year little of Secretary McKay, contest with Senator the humiliation of McKay be declared the choice of political asset as many sin Symington To Get 38 Missouri Votes Jefferson City, Mo. U.R) Missouri wiU cast its 38 votes for Sen. Stuart Symington as the Democratic presidential candi date at the Chicago National convention. "It is the greatest honor that has ever come to me," Syming ton said today after his fellow Missouri Democrats passed a resolution backing him at their state convention Monday. ' The resolution binds the dele gation to Symington until it is determined that he is not avail able or until the delegation is released. Symington still is an "unan nounced" candidate, but he left little doubt he will take the nomination if it is offered. Symington, going to the plat form after the resolution passed, addressed the convention enthu siastically, attacking the admin istration on his pet peeve of in adequate defense preparations. He said the United States posi tion in the world has deteriorat ed rapidly during the Republi can years in Washington. Hce, and John Marshall Har lan, Associate Justice. Hope Seen for Clarification of French Governmental Confusion By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The confused political situa tion in France may start to clear up soon. The National Assembly, the control p a r 1 1 a- ment, will start a debate on Thursday on every as pect of French policy. Foreign policy, intern al finance, Charles McCann economic and social policies and policy throughout North Africa will be included. Socialist Premier Guy MoUet, leader of the government "Re publican front" coalition, pro posed the debate. He demands a blanket vote of confidence. What Mollet wants is a com plete new start after serving as premier since Feb. 1. He is expected to give, for the first time, a detailed and spec ific program aimed at bringing peace in Algeria. French political experts pre dict that Mollet will get his vote by a big and possibly by an ov erwhelming majority. Leads Minority Government Mollet leads a minority gov ernment. His coalition actually holds only 183 of the 595 seats in the Assembly. The full strength of the House is 627, but there are 32 vacancies. Mollet holds office largely be cause the 146 Communist and four fellow-travelling Progres sives support him. Many members of the As sembly disagree with Mollet's North African policy and with various aspects of his internal and foreign policies. But very few of them feel that this is the right time to over throw the government. Hence Mollet is expected, in a sense, to get a new start. How long he wiU last then, nobody cares to predict. But there are strong indica tions that France is moving steadily toward a decision to strengthen its government after going through 21 cabinet over throws since the end of World War U. Whatever happens to Mollet in the next few weeks or months may bring the decision. Wants More Stability There is growing feeling in France that it is absolutely nec essary to strengthen the govern ment. Mollet himself has pro posed a meeting of all French Republican parties to consider changes in the 1946 constitution and give the cabinet more stability. F 7(1 Struggle for Control Of Congress Centers In Western States Washington (CQ) Some of the bitterest political tugs-of- war in 1956 will be seen in eight Senate contests in the 11-state West. Here Republicans feel they have a better chance to unseat Democrats than in any other part of the country. Just as in 1954 when the re sults of its Senate elections help ed pivot control of the upper chamber from the Republicans to the Democrats, so this year the West could determine wheth er or not the Democrats wiU keep that control. Incumbent Democratic Sena tors up for re-election in the West are Wayne Morse (Ore.), Warren G. Magnuson (Wash.), Alan Bible (Nev.) and Cary Hay- den (Ariz.). Incumbent Republi can Senators seeking reelection are Eugene D. Millikin (Colo.), Thomas H. Kuchel (Calif.), Her man Welker (Idaho) and Wallace F. Bennett (Utah). No seats are at stake in the three states of Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming. GOP Eye Seats The GOP particularly is eye ing the seats held by Morse, Magnuson and Bible where they have strong candidates tackling the Democratic incumbents. With the Senate's current lineup of 49 Democrats and 47 Republi cans, the GOP hopes to hold its own in other races and return to Capitol Hill in 1957 with 50 Senators to the Democrats' 46. But the Democrats disagree. They regard their chances to pick up the seat now held by Millikin .in Colorado as excel lent. They, also feel their chances are better than average to win the seats of Kuchel in California, Welker in Idaho and Bennett in Utah. And they think the Re publicans are engaging in wish ful thinking when they say their chances are good to win Oregon, Washington and Nevada. Morse Changes Parties. Morse declared himself an In dependent during the 1952 Pres idential campaign when he with drew his support of President Eisenhower. In 1955, when the Democrats already had a ma jority of one in the Senate, he Strong right wing groups fa vor a constitutional change which would give the French president, now a figure - head, something like the authority which the president of the Un ited States holds. The trouble with this is that Frenchmen . generally shy away from the "strong man" type of government. They want no dic tators. They prefer the present Matter of THE GHOSTLY CANDIDATES Miami, Fla Most expert po litical observers in Florida be lieve that Adlai Stevenson has a slight edge ov er Estes Ke fauver in their primary race here. Since the voters have acquired a nasty habit of making ex pert political observers look silly, the simply for the " in m a Stewart Alsop above is noted record. Meanwhile, what will it really signify, if Stevenson beats Kefauver, or Kefauver beats Stevenson? The answer is simple and in disputable. As a fair index of the relative popularity of the two candidates, and of their chances of beating President Ei senhower in November, the out come will mean nothing. Noth ing at all. ' rpHE outcome will mean a great deal to the candidates, of course. To maintain the legend that he is the peoples' choice, Kefauver has got to win here, and in California too, to have a chance for the nomination. Real izing this, Kefauver has decided to go for broke. He has accused the leading Florida politicians of "ganging up on him, a charge which will not be lost on other professional politicians in other states. And Kefauver's tricky last minute attacks have so in furiated Stevenson that Steven son aides are saying that he would not take Kefauver in sec ond place, even if it cost him the nomination. Obviously a defeat here, after the Minnesota disaster, would also hurt Stevenson very badly, even-if he came back strong in California. The fact remains that, aside from the personal fates of the two candidates, this is a remerkably meaningless con test. "CiOR one thing, Florida is en tirely unlike any other state, North or South and proud of it. Thus it is a little as though the relative national popularity of the candidates were being tested became a Democrat to increase the majority to two. McKay specifically was urged by Mr. Eisenhower to make the race against Morse. This contest also pits two of the foremost exponents of different power and resource development phi losophies against each other in a region where power is the paramount issue. Morse, a firm believer in pub lic power development, calls Mc Kay the "Giveaway King." Mc Kay, as Interior Secretary, led the Eisenhower Administration's fight for a partnership concept of power and resource develop ment whereby private develop ers and the government team. Morse charges McKay's poli cies have hampered the West's development. McKay retorts: "Pure political bunk," calls Morse a "turncoat." Also important in considering western politics in 1956 are the gubernatorial contests in seven states where the Senate delega tion differs ' in political party from the incumbent governor: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Ne vada,' Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. Governorships at Stake Republicans sit in governors chairs in Montana, Utah, Wash ington and Oregon. Democrats believe they can pick up all four. Democratic governorships are at stake in Arizona,- Colorado and New Mexico. Republicans say their chances to have GOP gov ernors elected in Colorado and New Mexico are good, only fair in Arizona. Thirty-seven Republicans and 20 Democrats hold the 57 House seats in the area. Little, if any, change in their makeup is anti cipated. In primaries to date, no incumbent has lost. In the West, where Congressional districts are large in area, it is particular ly difficult to unseat an incum bent. Republicans virtually feel posi tive their national ticket of Mr. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon will repeat its 1952 triumph in sweeping all 79 electoral votes in the 11 western states. i.? f$ (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) system under which the National Assembly, like the British House of Commons, is the determining authority. Whatever the choice may be, it is increasingly apparent that nearly aU the political groups in France are becoming tired of a constant succession of parlia mentary brawls which lead to the1 overthrow of a cabinet, sometimes on a minor issue. Fact by Stewart Alsop in France, say, or perhaps Pata gonia. For another thing, both candidates, have delicately skirt ed around the only issue which really raises the voters' blood pressure in Florida school de segregation. In the five of six speeches this reporter heard Kefauver make in central Florida, the unpleas ant word was never mentioned. Stevenson has been more out spoken. But the views of the two men are substantiaUy identical anyway, so for the Florida vot ers it is a Hobson's choice. The outcome will be cloudy in other ways. If Stevenson wins, Kefauver will surely maintain, with some color of truth, that the "bosses" meaning the local politicians gave Stevenson the victory. If Kefauver wins, the Stevenson men will surely claim, also with a measure of truth, that Eisenhower supporters vot ed for Kefauver as in Minne sota, to kill off the strongest can didate. BUT what really underscores the meaninglessness of the outcome here is the total indif ference of the voters. The weary reporters covering the two can didates often make up half the crowds that gather round them Kefauver, running out of vot ers' hands, occasionally grabs a reporter's hand by mistake. But almost aU the reporters come from out of state. Most Florida papers are giving the race only the most casual coverage, simply because they know that most readers don't give a hoot about the results. The best guess here is that the total vote wiU run under 40 per cent of the eligible voters. As in other states, the Florida voters are mainly interested ift local is sues, and these have been large ly setUed in a previous primary. But the real reason for the apa thy is that Flondians generaUy assume that Dwight D. Eisen hower will carry the state in November, and thus both Demo cratic candidates are as unreal to the voters as though they had been constructed of so much ec toplasm. ALL you have to do is look around you here at the pink and purple villas, the red and green bars, the cars that choke the highways, the busy bustle everywhere to under stand the main reason for the ghostliness of the candidates. Florida is enjoying a boom to make the splurge of the twen ties pale into insignificance, and as one bystander remarked, "You don't vote against pros perity." Another bystander after hear ing Kefauver make his patented In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In Washington a few weeks back, in the office of an able, sincere and thoughtful member of the congress, my eye fell upon this sign: "Before You Louse Things up, THINK!" It's good advice. TUT JL Before we can think, we must have something to think about. So why not call this col umn today a something-to-think-about column? INHERE are many, many things to think about. For example: In California, the counties of Los Angeles, Orange and Ven tura spend FIVE MILLION DOL LARS every year picking up trash scattered thoughtlessly by highway litterbugs. The' Automobile Club of Southern California says that with that amount of money two and a half miles of new FREE WAY could be built each year. If the litterbugs could be brought to THINK about that, they would scatter less litter. DISTRICT judges in California are being asked to suspend more drivers' licenses in an at tempt to cut down traffic deaths which result far too . often from reckless driving. The re quest was made the other day by Judge Halden Broaders, pres ident of the California Associa tion of Judges, Constables and Marshals, which was holding its annual meeting in Sacramento. THERE can be little doubt that revocation of his license "is the most dreaded penalty that can be faced by a reckless driv er. If he KNEW his license would be revoked, he would THINK MORE PFTEN before breaking the law. But ' . How is every cop to know whose license has been sus pended? California has 6,650,224 licensed drivers. How is every officer to know ALL of them Polio Reports Encouraging; Incidence of Disease Down During Year's Washington. D.C. As the "polio season" advances, data on incidence of the disease so far in-1956 appear distinctly en couraging. The "disease year" opens April 1 and by June the seasonal rise in new cases is us ually well under way. Incidence in most areas reaches a peak in the late weeks of August and early weeks of September. Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir, chief of the epidemiological branch of the Communicable Dis ease Center, Atlanta, Ga., on May 2 said: "In aU previous years, polio has really been on the rise in the next three or four weeks. What happens in the next three or four weeks will make me feel very good or very worried." Figures Down For the week ended May 19, the U. S. Public Health Service reported 85 cases of polio, of which 40 were paralytic. In the like week of 1955, 245 cases were reported, of which 86 were paralytic. For the disease year through mid-May, 546 new cases had been reported, 298 of them par alytic. During the correspond ing period of last year, 983 new cases were reported, 405 of them paralytic. For the calendar year to mid-May, new cases reported have numbered 1,632 vs. 2,046 cases in the first four and a half months of 1955. Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, U.S Surgeon General, early this month was talking "hopefully" m terms of having 100,000,000 doses of Salk anti-polio vaccine available by October. v T h i s would represent vastly stepped up production. In April, 8,566, 551 cubic centimeters were re leased, the largest amount thus far in any single month. Many Get Vaccine Dr. Scheele said that of the 53,000,000 persons in the first priority group, many had had one dose and some had received two. He was hopeful that all persons in that group children up to 15 years old and pregnant mothers would have been giv en two-shot protection by Oc tober. Then, he said, the vaccine would be made available for persons in higher age brackets. As for the effectiveness of the vaccine, Dr. Langmuir reported that studies of 22 states and New York City during 1955 showed a reduction of 78 per cent in pitch to all the major voting groups, said, "Looks like both of them need an issue." They do indeed. Aside from unmention able desegregation, there simply is no issue that makes the Flor ida voters' ears prick up, and their pulses beat faster. It is aU very weU for Stevenson to com; plain, as he does regularly, that the Republicans are "liberal only once every four years," the fact remains that the administration has astutely undercut every ma jor Democratic issue. All in all, the ghostly contest here is a convincing demonstra tion of the truth of Harry S Truman's dictum: "Primaries are eyewash." (Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) News and recognize at a glance those whose licenses nave been sus pended? . THIS might work: If every suspension was pub lished In the papers, every driver whose license had been sus pended would be KNOWN IN HIS OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. If every neighbor who saw him driving during the period of his suspension would report him to the authorities, the suspension penalty could be made to ,work. Another "but" How many ordinary citizens would do that? Not very many, I expect. It's something to think about. ri SAN Francisco last week Justice Hall Lusk of the Ore gon state supreme court told a joint meeting of the Oregon and California state bar associations that the time has come to do away with popular election of judges. By way of example, he point ed out that in Oregon's recent primary he had to run for reelec tion against a candidate who was not even a lawyer. Such a situation, he added, is a travesty. IP ' Justice Lusk WON OUT indicating that the voters of Oregon used discrimination in the way they marked their bal lots. Still, if a .candidate for county health officer didn't have to be a doctor it would be rather silly. Anyway, it's something to think about. There are so many things worth thinking about. Southern Oregon Health Service 16 S. Bartlett Summer Schedule Starting June 2, 1956 CLOSED SATURDAYS Mon. thru Fri. 9 am-5 pm Open Wednesday Evenings 6-9 pm First Months the rate of polio among vaccin ated children. A total of 8,500, 000 vaccinated and unvaccin ated boys and girls were includ ed in the survey. Attack Rate Down Among the vaccinated, most of whom had only one-shot pro tection, the "attack rate" was only 6.3 per 100,000. Among the unvaccinated, the rate was 29.2 per 100,000. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, the youth ful Pittsburgh scientist who de veloped the vaccine almost four years ago, now says that it could provide not merely temporary but life-long immunity from par alytic polio. At the annual meet ing of the Association of Ameri can Physicians on May 1, Dr. Salk reported that it was "not unreasonable to conclude" that "once a good and substantial an tigenic stimulus has been induc ed by any means (such as vaccin al doses) durable immunity hat also been induced." Not all the persons in the first priority range will accept the anti-polio shots. But Dr. Scheele believes that 70 to 80 per cent of them will and "It doesn't take 100 per cent immunization to have the disease wiped out." Editorial Research Reports. Communications Letters to the Editor must bemr Che name and address of the writer Although under certain circum stances the use ot Den name en initial for publication la permia lible. The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Phonograph Minds To the Editor This letter, if printed, will be forwarded to Dr. Alvarez who in his health col umn, speaks pathetically . of angry letters, denouncing him for his earthy and commonsense advice on health and character training, especially, that of her editary tendencies. It was some twenty odd years ago that cer tain of our school-room intelli gentsia who came to school do ings, PTA meetings, etc., laying as how the old-fashioned method of wood-shed and strap or handy slat of wood was all wrong in youth training, that it led to serious frustration of the young mind, that all children are born good little angels and with prop er environment will continue so, that heredity was all bosh and" should be discarded. What can be their , reaction when a ninth grader, Nancy Wil son of Hedrick Junior High school, places heredity as No. 1 in her oration on the building of personalities, as reported in Sunday's Mail Tribune. What a lift it gives to us tax payers, es pecially the old ones who have such a time garnering tax monies of which schools take a hefty bite, hardly getting the tax paid when we must start putting it away again to have ready so at to avoid tax penalties. There has been much criti cism leveled at our school-room educational system. Columnist Babson takes it to task for what he says, "there is something fun damentally wrong with our edu cation (he must mean the school room and book part) of marking and promoting. These radio and , television exhibits should make college professors and trustees hame-faced." What he seems to drive at and with good reason, that our schools are turning out too many phonographic minded young people, of whom young Nancy Wilson is certainly NOT part. Congratulations from a worried but much encouraged old-timer. -F. J. Clifford, . 1211 West Main st., Medford, Ore. No Litterbugs To the Editor: Girl Scout Troop 19, Hedrick Junior High, spent one Saturday morning picking up trash along a short section of Crater Lake highway near Coker Butte rd. After working in the hot sun, for an hour picking up trash, the Scouts decided they would never be litterbugs. ' Mrs. William E. Acord, leader, 3976 Crater Lake highway, Medford, Ore. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN When I think of all the acci dents falling on stairs, over toys or tools that could happen to visitors, and all the accidents that I or my children could cause with sports equipment, bicycles, etc., away from home I wonder why anyone risks not having Personal Liability Insurance. Does a policy cost only $10 per year? CALL MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Fhone 2-4940
