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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."
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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.
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