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Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 17. 1946
(It was Wednesday)
Twice daily delivery of first
class mail to residential sections
of Medford was resumed Mon
day, according to Postmaster
Frank DeSouza.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The sum
mer crop of dandelions extermi
nated in late April with a dead
ly, sure-fire, never fail fluid, are
coming up unabashed on the Es
pee lawn.
20 YEARS AGO
July 17. 193S
(It was Friday)
The Medford corporation
(Owen - Oregon Lumber com
pany) today paid its Jackson
county 1935-36 taxes, amounting
to $87,631.63.
Chief of Police Clatus Mc
Credie today issued an appeal
to parents asking that they for
bid their children riding two on
a bicycle.
30 YEARS AGO
July 17, 1926
(It was Saturday)
Drilling has begun on the An
cient River property at Rogue
River to test the ground for
dredge work.
From Local and Personal col
umn: County Agents R. G. Fowl
er and L. P. Wilcox of this coun
ty attended the session of county
agents of southern Oregon held
at Grants Pass yesterday.
40 YEARS AGO
July 17. 1916
(It was Monday)
A half million dollar benefit
to Rogue River valley orchards
is estimated as a result of Sat
urday night's heavy rain.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Ray Cole left this morning
for a vacation trip to St. Paul.
Try a King Suitz cigar and en
courage home industry.
What's Ihe Answer?
Can You Get 4 of ihe 7?
Copr. 1955. Fditorial Research
Report
1. A new Government anti
trust suit has beeen filed against
Du Pont, General Electric, Gen
eral Motors. Bell Telephone
system or Aluminum Co. of
America?
2. The Aleutian Islands in the
North Pacific are part of Japan,
Russia, the U.S., Canada, Den
mark or Canada?
3. More shares of stock are
traded on a normal day on N.Y.
Stock Exchange than on any
other; right or wrong?
4. Has the U.S. Supreme Court
ever had a member who wasn't a
lawyer?
5. The famous Dreyfus Case
in France 50 years ago turned
on prejudice against Catholics,
Jews. British. Russians. Free
masons or Communists?
6. In baseball the distance
from home plate to first base is
(a) 50, (b) 70, (c) 90 or (d) 110
feet?
7. Most so-called Pennsylvania
Dvtch are or aren't of Dutch
origin?
The answers: 1. General Mo
tors. 2. The U. S. 3. Wrong (but
highest in value). 4. No. 5. Jews.
6. 90 feet. 7. Aren't (of German).
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Subsidized College Athletics
Tom Harmon is one of the best sports commenta
tors in the business.
But we can't agree with him regarding the punish
ment of Pacific Coast colleges for violations of the
conference rules of cash payments to athletics, par
ticularly football players.
Instead of agreeing with Tom that these fines and
penalties have been excessive, we believe they have
not been strong enough.
For judging the future by the past the colleges
concerned will pay up and the destruction of true
college amateurism will go on-and-on, as before, until
none is left. f
TX FACT if we had anything to say about it which
we of course haven't we would change the system
of coast conference athletics entirely.
There would be no board-and-room tuition, con
vertible cars, souped-up Fords, cash or any other
similar 'handouts' under the table, or over.
There would be only one requirement for admis
sion to any conference college, namely BRAINS.
We don't mean in the high-brow academic
sense, but we do mean that only boys of genuine col
lege MATERIAL would be admitted.
'THE great need of this country now, and in the fu
ture, in other words, will be for educated men
men of trained minds and developed skills, and only
the colleges can supply them. Let the colleges then
concentrate more on that service and less on securing
promising material for the next "Rose Bowl."
'II'ITH such a standard adopted and enforced, we
would favor outdoor sports, as a compulsory
part of the college curriculum, and the best coaching
it. -l i .i i , i ii
system available to develop tne oesc teams, on tne
gridiron, on the river, on the track, etc., that the ma
terial available would permit.
Then we would have the college emphasis where
it belongs on brains, not on brawn, and college grad
uates prepared for some service more useful, and
eventually far more remunerative than joining up,
for a brief period, with the "Red Skins" or the
"Yankees."
fNE very desirable by-product of such a program
would be placing the colleges of the conference,
large and small, rich and not so rich, on a more equal
footing. California, for example, would not be able
so readily to out-bid Oregon year after year, when
it came to gathering in the best "Prep" and High
School material, for track, baseball or football. In
the field of brains rather than brawn, the two states
competitively would be more on a par.
Where young men of demonstrated college ma
terial, and their families lacked, however, the finan
cial resources needed for a college education, cash
scholarships of course should be provided. But they
should be SCHOLARSHIPS, based upon the young
man's ability to think, rather than his ability to run
the 100 under 10 seconds flat.
But the one big advantage of some such system
over the present bounty system, would be in the elim
ination of hypocrisy and double dealing on one hand,
and the utilization of our college system in harmony
with the needs of the country, in this confused and
turbulent world, on the other. R.W.R.
A 64 Cent Question
As expected Governor Elmo Smith opposes the
federal high-dam at Hell's Canyon and favors the two
or three small dams proposed by the Idaho Power
company.
The Oregon Journal also to no one's surprise
takes a similar stand.
Their reasons are alike but not identical. Both
however agree that Idaho would get the main benefit
of the federal project, and this would be unfair to
Oregon so on the basis of self-interest down with
the Hell's Canyon proposal.
WHAT did they expect? The Snake river and
tributaries being principally in Idaho would
naturally give the maximum benefit to that state just
as the projects on the Columbia river give the maxi
mum benefits to Oregon and Washington. Yet, as we
recall, Idaho never fought the Columbia develop
ments. Why should Oregon fight maximum power
from Snake river developments? What helps one part
of the western coast helps us all.
Moreover a high dam at Hell's Canyon would
benefit Eastern Oregon particularly the counties of
Wallowa, Union, Baker, Malheur, Grant and Hamey,
wrhile the Idaho Power company proposal would not
benefit them at all.
This is not only our opinion. It was the official
judgment of Wm. J. Costello, Special Examiner of
the Federal Power Commission, who after a thorough
and exhaustive survey disposed of the Idaho Power
claims as follows, quote:
'The prospects as reflected in this record, for the sale in
the Northwest of the large amounts of excess power that
would be available from the three projects (Idaho Fower
company) at rates which would equai the cost of the power
are so feeble as to be worthy of no consideration."
TT WAS the same official examiner who said there
was, of course, no doubt that the federal project
would supply more power in the area covered than
the Idaho Power company's three small dams.
If the Examiner Costello doesn't know what he is
talking about why does the F.P.C. keep him in their
employ?
Of course he does. He is and has been telling the
truth. But the F.P.C. disregard him, and the present
Governor and trfe Oregon Journal follow suit.
Why?
Well we can't give $64,000 for the correct answer
but we would give 64 cents. R.W.R.
Tuesday, July 17, 1938
Soviet-West German Relations
In Bad Way; Ambassador Leaves
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Diplomatic relations between
Soviet Russia and West Ger
many are in very bad way.
There is even speculation in
1 some Euro
pean diplomat
ic quarters
over the possi
b i 1 i t y of a
break in rela
tions. That seems
most unlikely.
B u t it would
not be sur-
CSarlej McCano prising If the
Kremlin declares open warfare
soon on tough old West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
The recall last week-end of
Valerian A. Zorin, the Soviet
ambassador to West Germany,
was a clear indication of the en
mity Adenauer has roused in
Russia in the last few months.
Admission of Error
The recall also was a tacit
admission that the Soviet gov
ernment blundered in sending
Zorin to Bonn in the first place.
Adenauer went to Moscow
last September to establish dip
lomatic relations between his
government and Russia.
There was considerable anxie
ty at that time that West Ger
many's ties with the Western
Allies might be weakened seri
ously as the result.
It soon developed, however,
that Adenauer consented to the
establishment of relations only
as a means of pursuing his No. 1
goal the unification of Germany.
- - a a- -hi
Parties Will Vie For
'Nationality' Voters
Washington (CQ) Repub
licans and Democrats will bid
for the big bloc of "nationality
votes" in the 1956 election on
two issues: liberation of satel
lite nations and liberalization
of immigration laws.
Strategists of the two parties
agree these are the topics of
greatest concern to first- and
second - generation Americans.
The proportion of the popula
tion they represent is shrinking,
but it is still large enough to
swing weight in an election.
The 1950 census found about
seven of every 100 Americans
were born abroad. Another 15
of every 100 were children of
immigrants. Together, this for
eign white stock" composed al
most one-quarter of the nation's
population.
Bloc's Importance
But this national percentage
does not begin to indicate the
importance of nationality bloc
voting in areas where first- and
second - generation Americans
are concentrated.
For instance, New York's
24th Congressional district in
the Bronx had 105,637 foreign
born white residents in 1950.
Tennessee's 7th district, on the
other hand, counted only 407.
The proportion of first- and sec
ond-generation Americans rang
ed from 3 per 1,000 in Missis
sippi's 1st district to 999 per
1,000 in New York City's 21st
district.
To check on this range of
influence, Congressional Quar
terly computed the foreign
white stock percentage for every
district in the country.
Here are the highlights of
that survey:
25 or More Per Cent
One hundred and fifty-eight
districts have 25 per cent or
more first- and second-generation
Americans in. their popula
tion. These districts are repre
sented by 76 Democrats and 82
Republicans in the House of
Representatives in 1956. Fifty
of these Congressmen elected
in 1954 36 Democrats and 14
Republicans represent districts
where more than half the popu
lation is foreign white stock.
By contrast, the 277 districts
with less than 25 per cent for
eign white stock elected 156
Democrats and 121 Republicans.
Two-thirds of these under-25
per cent districts are in rural
and small town areas. Of these,
117 are in the South, all but 10
of them safe Democratic strong
holds. On the other hand, the 158
districts where immigrants' fam
ilies are concentrated are main
ly city districts; only 22 of them
are composed of rural areas or
small towns.
This strategic location, rather
than sheer numbers, gives the
nationality blocs their political
power. One party leader told
Coneressional Quarterly, iney
can swing the big cities,, like
New York and Chicago, that
swing the big states that swing
the Presidential election."
Vole Contrast
An indication of the politici
ans' awareness of the potency
of this bloc can be seen in the
1953 House vote on the Refugee
Relief Act: 127 Representatives
from districts with more man
25 ner cent foreign white stock
voted for the bill; only 15 voted
gainst.
Bv contrast. Reriresenta lives
from tha under-25 per cent dis
Russia got off on the wrong
foot by sending Zorin to West
Germany as its first ambassador.
Kremlin Hatchet Man
His nomination was accepted
only with reluctance and open
resentment.
West Germans recalled at
once that Zorin, with his toothy
smile, is a Kremlin hatchet man.
It was Zorin who was sent to
Czechoslovakia to prepare the
way for the coup that put that
country behind the Iron Curtain
in 1948.
Zorin arrived in Bonn last
Dec. 20. He had hardly un
packed his bags when he em
barked on a campaign to build
himself up with West Germans
and undermine Adenauer's re
gime. He started to visit West Ger
man officials, by-passing the
West German Foreign office,
and to attend all sorts of public
gatherings from concerts to beer
evenings. He entertained lav
ishly. Given Freeze-Out
All he succeeded in doing was
to antagonize Adenauer. He was
given freeze-out treatment.
Hence it was not a startling
development when Zorin visited
Adenauer Saturday and told
him he was going back to Mos
cow to take up another post.
Zorin did not say who would be
his successor if the Kremlin
intends to name any successor
at this time.
Adenauer has referred to
world Communism in recent
weeks as the No. 1 enemy of
Germany. His foreign minister,
tricts voted against the measure.
93-170. There was no significant
difference between Republicans
and Democrats in this pattern.
While Republicans have an
82-76 edge in Representatives
from districts with high per
centages of foreign white stock,
they hold their seats less se
curely than do the Democrats.
Thirty of the Republicans won
by margins of 5 per cent or less
in 1954. Only 10 of the Demo
crats could be defeated by a
similar vote shift.
Counter Claims
Democrats will bid for the
nationality bloc votes by claim
ing the Republicans have reneg
ed on their pledge to "liberate"
the satellite nations and have
given only "lip service" to the
campaign for freer immigra
tion. Republicans will assert a Dem
ocratic-controlled Congress has
blocked President Eisenhower's
repeated pleas for liberalized
immigration laws. They also
will maintain the Administra
tion's "peaceful liberation" poli
cy offers the best hope for a
lifting of the Iron Curtain.
The GOP is prepared to sum
mon again the ghosts of the
Yalta conference, which Repub
licans say led to "the enslave
ment of Eastern Europe." The
Democrats' reply will be that
the "false optimism and frater
nization" of the more recent
Geneva Conference were "a dis
aster for the free world."
(Copyright 1956,
Congressional Quarterly)
Editorial Comment
OREGON SHAKESPEAREAN
FESTIVAL
Annual fairs, festivals and
celebrations crowd the calendar.
Most of them are important only
in a small area, and few of more
than state or regional interest.
Outstanding among the latter is
the Oregon Shakespearean Fes
tival at Ashland, which opens
August 1 and runs for a month.
If recollection is correct it was
once known as the Ashland
Shakespearean Festival. Now,
more appropriately, the name of
the state is used. But its import
ance is more than statewide, for
it is the only thing of the kind
in the west and the plays of
Shakespeare are sta
ica's first Elizabethan theater.
One reason why the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival is im
portant is that it fills a need. Its
founding 21 years ago was time
ly, for even then the timo hH
gone by when students in any
sman college town could go to
the local theater and spp Sliato.
speare played by Charles B.
nantora, rrederick Warde or
Louis James, or by Walter
Hampden who came on a little
later.
There are still good Shake
spearean actors, but they are
rarely seen in person, for long
ago the pictures practically put
the Toad Shows nut nf hiteino..
Occasionally a fine presentation
onaKespeare may be seen on
television. But the intimate
touch that used to be offered by
ine traveling troupe, in a way
serving as a living link- in th
Shakespeare tradition, isn't
mere.
The festival at Ashland re
stores that intimacy, and the
piays, tor which fine talent and
capable directors are assembled,
are worth traveling across the
state, or several states, to see.
Salem Capital Journal.
Heinrich Brentano, reminded
Russia in a speech on July 1 that
West Germany wants back the
territory east of the Oder-Neisse
rivers line which Poland now
occupies. Adenauer and Bren
tano have said firmly that they
will not negotiate with the East
German Communist regime on
unification.
An East German delegation
arrived in Moscow Monday to
conduct "important negotia
tions." This may be the Krem
lin's first move in an anti-Adenauer
campaign.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Adlai Stevenson, who is pres
ently regarded as the leading
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for President, tells a
press conference in Belfast, Me.,
he had hoped the United States
might "take some strong initia
tive in halting nuclear tests"
(meaning tests of atom and hy
drogen bombs.)
He was referring to the recent
rejection by the United States
and Britain of pleas by India
and Yugoslavia that we stop im
mediately the testing of our nu
clear weapons.
ITELL, I suppose a lot of peo
' pie living out at the edge
of town, in the immediate neigh
borhood of the area where the
deer hunters sight in their rifles
ahead of the opening of the
hunting season, feel somewhat
the same way about it. The con
stant banging of the guns gets
annoying, and there is always
the possibility that a bullet might
ricochet and kill somebody.
But
If a deer hunter doesn't sight
his rifle in, he's apt to do some
very bad shooting when the first
buck appears. It works much the
same way with weapons of war.
If you don't know what a wea
pon anywhere from a deer
rifle to a hydrogen bomb will
do under certain circumstances,
you just can't be WHOLLY EF
FECTIVE with it when the time
comes to use it.
TF AND when nuclear war
starts we all hope, of course,
that it never will start, but we
have to concede that it MIGHT
I think we'd better know ex
actly how our weapons will work
so that we will be able to use
them in the most effective man
ner possible.
Nuclear warfare will MOVE
FAST. We'll have only one
chance to destroy an enemy, and
that will be at the moment when
he strikes and we retaliate.
If we miss that chance, w're
goners.
TN THE old days of the West,
- it wasn't enough just to HAVE
a six-gun. If you were to protect
yourself in the sudden pinches,
you had to be proficient in the
use of it. To be proficient, you
had to do a lot of practice shoot
ing. That's what we're doing
when we conduct tests of our
nuclear weapons. Until the face
of world affairs changes quite a
little, we'd better keep it up.
A S FOR Nehru of India and
Tito of Yugoslavia, who are
pleading with us to call off the
testing of our nuclear weapons,
I don't trust their motives. They
have too much admiration for
Russia and too little admiration
fbr us.
Birds of a feather flock togeth
er, and Nehru and Tito have been
doing a lot of flocking together
with the Russians lately.
BACK in Kansas City the other
day, three teen-age boys were
wandering around looking for
something to do when they came
upon a 1,000-foot television tow
er. The challenge was irresisti
ble. So, being American boys,
they started to climb it.
The youngest, aged 15, got a
bit woozy at the 300-foot mark,
and lay down on a catwalk. The
other two, aged 16 and 17, kept
on going until they reached the
900-foot level. By that time,
some 20 cops had gathered
around. One cop climbed up to
the 300-foot level and helped the
woozy youngest boy down. The
others managed to descend under
their own power.
Back on the ground, the old
est boy explained: "We just
wanted to see how it looked look
ing down." The cops booked him
on a charge of creating a public
disturbance, and turned the
younger ones over to their par
ents. IX WAS reprehensible, of
course. The boys shouldn't
have done it.
But the impulse they followed
was much the same as the im
pulse that started Columbus sail
ing westward across the Atlan
tic. He just wanted to see if the
world was round, so that a ship
could circumnavigate it, or if
it was flat so that somewhere out
to the west he and his ship would
sail over the edge of it into the
never-never land.
If American boys ever lose the
impulse to "see how it will look
from the top looking down,"
they will be safer, but the spirit
of adventure that has carried our
country so far will be badly
dulled.
Ni0ttQf Of FtfCf By Joa and Stewart AIsop
THE CHICKENS COME HOME
Washington All sorts of elab
orate theories have been put for
ward to iustifv the very heavy
reductions in
the armed
forces which
have been pro
posed by Sec
retary of De
fense Charles
Wilson and
Admiral Arth
ur R a d f o rd,
chairman o f
The Joint
Chiefs of Staff. But there is
hardly an informed man in the
Pentagon who has the slightest
private doubt that the theories
are just so much camouflage for
the following simple facts.
The Eisenhower administra
tion came to power committed
to lower taxes and balance the
budget. Both laudable objec
tives have been achieved, large
ly thanks to the "new look" at
defense policy, which has permit
ted very sharp reductions in pre
viously planned defense lev els.
Even the
"n e w look,"
however,
would not
have permit
ted a balanced
budget for the
current fiscal
year if it had
not been for
an a r t i f icial
nrocess of
8E Ok.
Stewart Alsop
"one shot detense reautuuiu
For the current fiscal year the
armed services were told, in ef
fect, to live off their capital in
order to permit a balanced budg
et. But it is not possible to live
off capital forever. On the con
trary, artificially low defense
spending for one fiscal year
spells artifically high defense
spending for the next. More
over, certain military hardware
like the B-52 heavy bomber
is reaching the stage where it
must be bought and paid for.
Thus the Administration's fiscal
chickens are suddenly coming
home to roost.
THE powers that be in the
Administration have been
horrified by the size of these un
welcome birds. For example, in
order to maintain the agreed-
upon force levels for the air
force (which many air officers,
like Gen. Curtis LeMay, consid
ers already grossly inadequate)
it will be necessary to up air
force spending a cool $6 billion
in the next fiscal year.
Similarly, the artificial sav
ings for the other two services
must also be made'up in the next
fiscal year. Preliminary esti
mates by the services have put
the overall increase in the neigh
borhood of $12 billion. Final
and official estimates must be
submitted to Secretary Wilson
by Oct. 1.
Any such increase would of
course knock the budget for the
next fiscal year into a cocked
hat. It would also knock into a
cocked hat the Administration's
budget-balancing boasts, which
are counted on heavily as cam
paign material for this election
year.
SECREARY Wilson has thus or
dered that defense estimates
for the next fiscal year be held
down to about the current level,
or at most only a billion or so
more. Because the current level
is artificial, there is only one
way that this can be done, other
than by abandoning the 137
wing air force program, to which
the Administration is absolutely
committed.
It can only be done by the
kind of very sharp reduction in
military manpower which Wil
son and Radford have been pro
posing to the dismayed Joint
Chiefs. It is well to understand
what a cut in manpower of 500,
000 to 800,000 men would mean.
It would mean a' large scale
Neuberger Informed
Of Governor's Stand
Washington (U.R) Gov.
Elmo Smith of Oregon has in
formed Sen. Richard L. Neuberg
er, (D-Ore.) he opposes construc
tion of a federal dam in Hells
canyon.
Neuberger asked Smith for his
stand recently in questioning a
statement of opponents that the
governors of Washington, Idaho
and Oregon oppose the federal
projects.
Smith said in a letter to Neu
berger he agrees with the Fed
eral Power commission con
struction of three dams at the
site by the Idaho Power company
is "more beneficial."
Neuberger said Smith's stand
means he is "in step with the
tune called by the Idaho Power
company."
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright. 1956
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of
Washington will be the keynote
speaker at the 1956 Republican
convention. Who was the Repub
lican keynote speaker in 1952?
A Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur.
withdrawal of American forces
from Europe, which would drive
the last nail into. NATO's coffin.
In a large sense, it would also
mean that the United States had
passed the point of no return in
total dependence on the Strate
gic Air Command's ability to de
liver hydrogen bombs to enemy
targets.
No sensible man disputes that
SAC must have the power to de
liver its hydrogen bombs, if the
worst comes to 'the worst. But
it is highly significant that Gen.
Nathan Twining, Air Force
Chief of Staff, has joined the
army and navy chiefs in protest
ing the proposed cuts. As an
high air force official has re
marked, "We don't want to be
left all alone with SAC."
fpHE meaning of being left all
alone with SAC was spelled
out in Lt. Gen. James Gavin's
recent testimony before the Sen
ate Air Power Subcommittee. A
hydrogen attack on the Soviet
empire would result, Gavin said,
in "several hundred million
deaths from radioactive fall
out." The deaths would "extend
well back into western Europe,"
or deep into Asia, "depending on
which way the wind blew."
Thus, in case of future local
Communist aggression, the
United States would be left with
the choice of killing several hun
dred million people, including
our friends, or doing nothing at
all. The Administration's much-
vaunted "new look," in short.
threatens to leave this country
in the hopeless situation of a po
liceman armed only with a
weapon which, if used, will de
stroy not only the criminal at
which it is aimed, but several
city blocks round about.
(Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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Another "Lost Mine"
To the Editor: Another early
day saga of southern Oregon
frontier life of the stage coach
days, related to this writer by
one of the early pioneers, was
the escapade around the time
of 1870, of a questionable char
acter who had been under suspi
cion for horse stealing. In those
days the foothills were prac
tially free of any underbrush.
Anyway this fugitive fleeing
from justice, took to the hills in
a South westerly direction from
Gasburg what is now the town
of Phoenix. While on a high
ridge keeping a lookout, the
renegade came across an im-
mensly rich lode of gold bear-
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It is said he took one, on a moon
lit night, up in the hills to show
him his secret. There it was in
plain view of the two men al
right, and the finder took off
for parts unknown in a few
days, after the fury of a search
had been made by the local law
officials and the excitement had
calmed down.
The "silent friend" of the
would be criminal set out to
stake a claim on the lode one
day shortly afterward and to
his astonishment never oould
find the same ridge.
Whether the discovery was
ever concealed by either one of
the two men that night will for
ever remain a question. There
it is yet, probably grown over
in tall brush.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman, Apt. 1
Medford, Ore.
Jehovah Will Win
To the Editor: Jerusalem's
present peace is temporary.
Eventually all nations will be
gathered against Jerusalem to
battle and the city shall be
taken. Later Jehovah will fight
against the invaders, defeating,
them and becoming King of all
the earth. Then Jerusalem shall
dwell safely. See Zechariah,
chapter 14, American Standard
Version Bible.
A. R. Stewart
67 Ocean st.
Dorchester Ctre. 24 Mass.
MR.
INSURANCE
FRED
BRENNAN
Just when it looks like profitable
year, a couple of beef cattle are
stolen, my tractor is hit on the
highway, or my combine is dam
aged. Can livestock and farm
machinery be insured so we can
avoid these disappointing losses?
CALL
MEDFORD INSURANCE
AGENCY
Phone 2-4940
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