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Flight 0' Time
Viedford and Jackson County
t'istorv from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
1(1 vears ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 22. 1346
Hi JIUHU.1J1
D.ive Wilson of L'cntrai Point j
fk-aec president of the Montana
association at the annual meet- j
ing in Ashland s Lithia pars.
l-ro ni Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Farmers
have sorted cutting the grain
trop and their own hair.
20 YEARS AGO
July 22. 1S36
(it wa Wcdnt sda )
The cily council orders paving
nf Appie st. beiwtcn Third and
Fifth sts. and of East Jackson be
tv.i t n Crater Lake ave. and Ma
rio st.
Spray for control of moth lar-
;k .should he completed on all
v::r ..tics of pears and apples by
An ; 1. accoiciin to L. G. Gen-tnc.-.
southern Oregon entomolo-
30 YEARS AGO
July 22. 132S
lit was Thursday)
The Pomona Grange will meet
with the Koxy Ann Grange at
the Jackson county fairgrounds
at 1U a.m. Sa.uroay.
Siir.crest Orchards Inc., Llew-
fruit .tkpiiraTX:
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40 YEARS AGO
July 22. 1916
(It was Saturday)
A. W. Walker opens new gar
age and automobile salesroom at
corner of Fir and Eighth sts.
A musk' publishing company
launched in Medford by Fred
Alton Haight and Edwin Charles
Root company, music publishers.
Modford. Ore.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr l'OS. I niiori.1I liesrarcn
Rpp.trt
1. Interest rates on bank sav
ings accounts in most areas have
been going up or down lately or
staying same'.'
j. Are children of divorced
ivren's more i;ki'i on uic wooic
to get divorced, themselves, than i
other children?
n;. rents more likely on me wiioic
owiujn David Eisenhower got j
B S. degree m 191o from the.
a 1
University of Texas, U.S. Mili
larv academy, Columbia univer
si;. Virginia Military Institute,
or University of Kansas?
4. Niagara Falls is between
Lake? Erie and Ontario; rieht
or v'. Mils'
.1. Throe U. S. Presidents were
born west of the Mississippi: Tru
rn?n. Hoover, and who?
The average tractor is ex-
to hive a useful life of
it 4. 7. i ) or 13 years?
r.vmin. Togliatti .s an lui-,
: i.-ai leafier communist..
.-i i-. socialist, rightwing so-
st. L . -istnn Democrat or
iv''c!r?t" 1
sowers: 1. Going up. 2.,
c:;;
M
Ye:-.
Pi
10 v
U.S. Military Academy. j
at. 5. Eisenhower. 6. About j
" Communist.
tractor driver
-Ait'nP
y''".'!!-! 'tractor operator 8her
?.ou:s. but not the best. The
-vouncster climbed aboard his
f-hrr s machine, started the
E'.-.ie and put th.e tractor m gear.
p rrK-ed across the farmyard.
1-- off a water hydrant, hit
a truck and storprd. The boy's
motr.er nssned up and snut oil
the er.gir.e.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Is The SP Ready to Quit?
If we were the board of directors of the "friendly
S. P." too bad we aren't we would fire D. J. Russ
ell, president of the billion dollar corporation, even
though he is a highly-successful ex-Jacksonville boy.
We would fire him for one good, and we believe,
sufficient reason, namely: no man should direct the
destiny of an important business who no longer be
lieves in that business.
DRESIDENT Russell doesn't believe in the railroad
concerned. We quote:
in .ju years i-unman Travel win De a ming oi tne past
and thorp will be little if any
ri.'anccs at least.''
Small wonder that a railroad directed by a person
holding such views should have deprived all of South-
ti n uregon oi passenger
1 all orders of the Public Utility Commissioner to re-
store it.
' I70R this, according to the Russell philosophy, is just
A "good business." When a department in any cor
1 poration starts to lose money, don't waste time trying
I to improve it and make it DROP it. That is what
U. S. Steel or any other billion dollar concern would
j do, why shouldn't S.P.? So goes the-S.P. story.
There is only one reason and the Russell school of
i thought refuses to consider it. That reason is the
i railroad business, unlike U. S. Steel, is a PUBLIC util
ity. It enjoys a monopoly in southern Oregon and
.'northern California. According to the terms of its
:' original franchise, it agreed in return for tremendous
gran's of valuable public lands and this monopoly
privilege to provide a continuous service to the
people of the areas involved, passenger AXD freight.
B
UT what is a franchise between a billion dollar cor
poration and a hundred billion dollar government
when there is no profit in it? Let the long-hairs and
the egg-heads talk about the obligations of public ser
vice, the rights of the "dear people," etc., etc. such
obligations and rights end
, - ... .- ,,
(lay as tner uiu in me puonc ue uauineu utt s ui
Commodore Vanderbilt, several generations ago.
CORTUXATELY, however, all railroad presidents
do not share President Russell's defeatism regard
ing the passenger department of American railroads.
The passenger departments for many years have not
been profitable, the railroad freight traffic has liter
ally ''paid the freight" since the war with Spain. But
such directing heads as those of the great New York
Central system and the Santa Fe, believe they owe a
certain obligation of service to the traveling public
and they are making a determined effort to meet it,
not by dropping passenger service entirely and be
coming freight lines only as S.P. proposes but by
improving BOTH.
yHESE two railroads have improved their service
to passengers materially, provided better cars and
I more modern Diesels, offered special family rates and
increased speeds. They have not put on more trains,
but better schedules. It is doubtful they expect to
make their passenger traffic pay a profit, but they are
obviously doing their best to so improve the service
that the losses, if any, will be so slight the large freight
profits Call Cai'lT them.
u In the end they may fail No one can be sure about
the future. But at least THE are not quitting. They
I are making a fight for it, which is more than can be
I said for the "friendly Southern Pacific."
A XD WE HAVE a hunch
JTX.
Motor and air transportation are growing by the
proverbial leaps and bounds, and this growth as the
country grows will continue. But both are based very
largely on the American mania for speed and more
speed ! Because of increasing congestion on land as
well as in the air both casualties and discomforts in
these areas of transportation are on the increase also.
In far greater comfort and safety, and in a free and
exclusive right-of-way, with terminals in the business
sections of cities instead of miles away, the railroads,
we believe, enjoy an advantage the importance and
value of which will increase as time goes on. After
ail. there is a limit to this passion to "pass the car
ahead."
In other words the people of this country as they
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grow more mature, will or at least should not care
?o much about how fast they can get somewhere else,
h safeiv how comfortably and with how little
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stress ana strain.
When they do arrive at this point, the "friendly
S.P." may find that becoming a freight line only, put
ting the Almighty Dollar above good-will and public
service, did not add up to such a smart business move
after all .' R.W.R.
Foolish
Naturally foiTner Secretary McKay is delighted
, j f' t f th h fe(feral dam at Hells Can.
.
yon and the victory of the Idaho Power Company,
If he had his way he would follow his beloved
leader, former President Hoover, and not only bar
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any iuture ieaeiai ciam projecis, uui lurn over muse
nowT in existence, like Bonneville, Grand Coulee and
XVA, to the private power companies.
j Well "Doug"' is entitled to his opinion, and no one
censure him for celebrating this victory of the
! Grand Old Party and the defeat of his pet aversion,
' Wayne Morse, the senior senator from Oregon.
! .
en-jpUT THE REASONS given in the press dispatches
J , r ..r
for hi? uibilation, are somewhat surprising.
. According to his statement from Portland this de-
, , , f , "nnwPf hiinm-v imrth.
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' 1 west," for the Hells Canyon
Sunday, July 22. 1958
passenger business for long
service ov ran, ana aenea
in the S.P. philosophy to
, j j., j jr
they won't fail.
Talk
r "f.-
measure only AUTHOR
Matter of Fact
DULLES IN A JAM
(The following dispatch by
the Alsop brothers wii writ
ten the day before the slate
department announced it has
withdrawn its offer to Egypt
to help finance the Aswan
dam.)
Washington The handling of
the matter of the Aswan high
has been one of
the strangest
exercises in di-1
plomacy since
Secretary of
State John Fos-
ter Dulles took
office, which
is saying a
ood deal. In-
deed, Dulles-
and American
foreign policy
-is in about the
along with him-
w-orst jam in his career as sec
retary. Dulles is faced with a most un-
pieasani cnoice. ne can reverse
his previous policy, and make a
firm agree
ment with the
Egyptians to
help build the
dam. which is
d e sicnod to
avert future
starvation in
Egypt by irri
gating desert
areas. If he
does 50. he
worst possible
Congress. and
tlic powerful
ft- 1
Mf warl Aisnp
will be in the
trouble with
especially with
conservative Republican leader
ship, which violently opposes the
dam proioct.
The alternative is to risk
Egyptian acceptance of a Soviet
offer to build the dam, which
will ultimately mean Soviet
domination of Egypt and the
Middle East. It is not an agree
able situation for the Secretary
of State. Yet it is a situation
largely of his own making.
T AST December, an Egyptian
-i delegation visited this coun
try, and an asreement in prin
ciple was reached for an inter
national bank loan of S200
million for the dam project,
plus initial grants of S56 million
from this country and S14 mil
lion from Britain. In January,
Eugene Black, able President of
The International Bank, went to
Cairo to work out the details of
the deal with Egyptian boss Ga
mal Abdel Nasser. He found Nas
ser reasonable enough, and the
deal seemed all set. The S56 mil
lion was set aside from foreign
aid funds for the dam project.
Thereafter, the Nasser govern
ment brought up some nit-picking
points about the terms of
the Anglo-American grants. In
stead of answering these points,
an attitude of studied indiffer
ence was adopted by Dulles and
the State Department, over the
strong protest of Henry Byroade,
American Ambassador in Egypt.
T AST month, when Dulles testi
lu tied before the Senate
Appropriations Committee, he
j stated flatly that there was "no
j likelihood" of using ''any United
j States funds'' for the Aswan
dam. He further promised that,
j "no funds would be used without
! further reference to the Com
mittee, which is strongly hos
tile to the dam project. And he
dam in KqvpI
Six
IZED a federal high dam and "past history indicates"
that it "takes 7 to 10 years after authorization to get
appropriations." "We can't wait that long," said Mr.
McKay.
We wonder what history our former governor
has been reading?
Practically all of the measures authorizing multi
ple federal projects like Hells Canyon have had to
wait upon the necessary appropriation from the House
Wrays & Means committee. Work could not be started
without money.
But does Mr. McKay believe and expect the
people of Oregon to believe the Upper Colorado
project for example which will cost almost twice as
much as the Hells Canyon proposal, and is just as
socialistic," but has been passed, will have to wait
7 to 10 years for the appropriation?
Our former Secretary of the Interior must be hard
pressed for an argument in favor of the Idaho Power
Company if he has to put relief for power to the north
west first on the list.
MOT only will it be many years before the Idaho
Power Company completes its three small dams
if it ever does but it will not produce nearly as much
power as Hells Canyon, and it, in all likelihood, will
furnish no power, or any real benefits to Oregon at
all!
This Is not our opinion but the considered official
opinion of the examiner for the Federal Power Com
mission, whose conclusion as far as benefits to the
northwest are concerned, were as follows, quote:
"The prospects as reflected in this record for the sale in
the Northwest of any large amounts of power that would
be available from the three (Idaho Power Company) dams
at rates which would equal the cost of the power are so
feeble as to be worthy of no consideration."
And later the same official examiner stated,
quote :
''The High Dam (Hells Canyon) would be dollar for dol
lar the better investment and the more nearly ideal devel
opment of the Middle Snake."
So just where and how "power hungry" Oregon
and the great northwest are to be put on Easy Street,
by the victory of the Idaho Power Company and the
defeat of the Hells Canyon bill is unclear, to say the
least. R. W. R.
By Joe and Stewart Alsop
.remarked that the Russians;
J might well build the dam in-
! stead, as though this were a j
i matter of hardly passing interest. I
! No doubt Dulles had his rea
, sons for adopting such a policy.
jThe Egyptians are anything but
j easy to deal with. In recent
months, moreover, Nasser has
I acted in a manner nicely calcu-
j lated to infuriate the American
j government.
! In such circumstances, Dulles
I might reasonably have adopted
a policy of calculated hostility
to Nasser. He might have used
the considerable power of the
United States notably in Saudi
Arabia, where American oil
j money finances many of Nasser's
; pet foreign projects to cut the
Egyptian President down to size.
But Dulles adopted instead his
policy of studied indifference,
which was really a policy of do
ing nothing, and he thus fell be
tween two stools.
j TPHE basic reason for the sud-
den indifference to the dam
project, moreover, was to "be
found not in Cairo but on Capi
tol Hill. The Aswan Dam proj
ect is opposed by a curious alli
ance of southern Democrats
from the cotton states, pro-Israel
senators, and conservative Re
publcians like Senators Knovv
iand and Bridges. In the cir
cumstances Dulles preferred
simply to duck the issue.
Meanwhile, Nasser, who is '
no fool, and who is not eager j
to commit the economy of his
country wholly to the tender
mercy of the Soviets, has sent
Ambassador Achmed Hussein to
Washington for another try at
negotiating the Aswan Dam
deal. But Nasser himself is sched
uled to go to Moscow in August,
where Soviet Foreign Minister
Dmitri Shepilov will almost cer
tainly repeat the offer he has al
ready twice made to finance the
dam on seemingly reasonable
terms. Ambassador Byroade
(who has an inconvenient habit
of reporting unwelcome truths
to Washington, and has now been
removed for his pains) has
warned that Nasser will in all
probability accept the offer if
Hussein returns to Cairo empty
handed. In the circumstances, it is not
surprising that Dulles has shown
signs of hastily reversing his
policy. But it will not be easy.
The money earmarked for the
dam is no longer available.
Above all, the anti-dam sena
tors, no doubt led by Republi
can minority leader Know-land,
will fight any reversal tooth and
nail, a prospect with unpleasant
implications in an election year.
Either way, in short, the Dulles
policy of studied indifference is
likely to prove costly in the end.
(Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Costly Wind Carries
Away $975 in Bills
Battle Creel:, Mich. (U.R) It
was a costly wind that blew
open Mrs. Robert Williams'
purse as she hurried across a
downtown street. It carried
away S975 in small bills.
Motorists and pedestrians help
ed Mrs. Williams round up S900
but no trace was found of the
other ST5. She had withdrawn
the money minutes ea-'ier to
cash pay checks at a restaurant
she and her husband operate.
Today and
By Walter
THE RADFORD PROPOSALS
There are going on inside the
government two big arguments
about military policy. The one
has been brought into the open
through the
Sy m i n g ton
Sub - Commit
tee, prompted,
it seems plain
enough, by
high but not
the very high
est officers of
the Air Force.
This argument
Walter lippmann IS about
whether the money asked for by
the Administration is enough to
keep us ahead of the Soviet
Union in the ultimate nuclear
weapons. Out of this argument
has come the action of Congress
in voting $900,000,000 more for
the Air Force than the President
asked.
The second argument, which
was brought into the open in
dispatches by Mr. Anthony
Leviero, turn on proposals by
Admiral Radford to reduce the
armed forces by about 800.000
men during the coming three
years. This would mean a smal
ler army but one armed with
i more deadly modern w eapons.
! The Radford doctrine would give j
I up the idea of being prepared j
I to fight large local wars, like i
the Korean, with "convention- i
ai." that is to say without mi-
clear, weapons. j
There is a connection between !
the two arguments. It is that j
the cost of maintaining both
kinds of military povvi would
be prohibitive. It is not possible
as the cost ot weapons rises to
keep up two military establish
ments one for a world war and
one for local wars, one with the
big nuclear armaments and the
other a powerful but convention
al army, navy and air force. It
would mean that both military
establishments would be second
rate. Insofar as the Radford pro
posals face up to the dilemma,
they will have a sympathetic
hearing.
FOR the general public the
most serious question is
raised by those who make the
following argument. Now that
the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. have
reached a stalemate in nuclear
weapons, neither will dare to
use them. This will mean that
military aggression with con
ventional weapons like that
of the North Koreans can be
undertaken without fear of nu
clear penalties. It is necessary,
therefore, to be ready 'co resist
conventional aggression with a
conventional army, navy and the
air force.
Without saying that it is the
oretically impossible, it seems
to me most unlikely that a war
as big as the Korean war, which
concerned the U.S.S.R. and the
U.S.A., could ever be fought
again without the use of nuclear
weapons. The chances would be
j very great that small atomic
bombs would be followed by
bigger bombs and these by still
bigger ones. The chances of gen
eral war would be so great that
a local war on the Korean scale
would be an incalculable mili
tary risk. It is not absolutely
certain but it is very probable
that for the visible future wars
of this type will be absorbed
into the over-all nuclear stale
mate. This calculation should
not prove to be an imprudent
risk.
HPHE assumption which lies at
A the root of the argument is
that the alternative to general
nuclear war is local convention
al war. I wonder. It seems to
me that the real alternative is
first, guerrilla warfare and
second, political infiltration and
maneuver. Against neither of
these kinds of warfare are the
conventional American military
forces prepared to be effective.
What fighting there is in the
world today is in Algeria and
in Cyprus and in Palestine. Such
guerilla warfare can be an ef
fective kind of warfare in a
sense that it wins concessions.
But it is not the kind of warfare
for which American military
power, nuclear or conventional
is prepared or even designed.
It follows, I believe, that if
ever our vital interests are in
volved in an outbreak of local
violence and disorder, for ex
ample in the' Middle East, we
shall not again do what we did
in Korea. We shall not engage
nurseles in a big land war on
the other side of the world. We
shall remember that we are a
sea and an air power, and we
shall tailor the shape of our in
tervention to the character of
our military forces.
ITE are vulnerable in Germany,
in Japan, in Vietnam, in
Korea and in Formosa, not to
military aggression but to politi
cal infiltration and maneuver.
Red China is working to make a
deal with the Chinese in For
mosa, and who can be at all con
fident that they will not suc
ceed, if not now behind Chiang's
back then later on when Chiang
goes? The same kind of thing
is under way behind Dr. Syng
man Rhee's back in South Korea
and behind Diem's in South Viet
nam. In Germany negotiations
with the East are not very far
off, and once Dr. Adenauer re
tires, they are certain to take
place.
ha'
Tomorrow
Lippmann
The critics of the Radford
thesis, who want to maintain
conventional forces big enough
to fight another Korean war,
may fairly be asked at what
place, where our interests are
at stake, a war of the Korean
type might break out. This is
a fair question because a mili
tary establishment has to be de
signed for a war with a particu
lar adversary. It cannot be de
signed for any kind of war any
where with anybody. Our stra
tegic air force is designed for
a particular war. But is not the
plea that we must also have
big conventional forces prepar
ed for another Korean war a
case of preparing for a war that
is past?
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Communications
Scores GOP Pamphlet
To the Eritor: Twelve years
ago, Russia was allied with the
United States against the pow
ers Germany and Japan, and
I'm sure we heard the phrase
"Good old uncle Joe" many
times. I think everyone will
agree, however that the passing
years have a way of changing
just about everything because
circumstances vary continually.
Every two years during election
time, one becomes aware of
those, who in order to gain
their end. take phrases out of
context, either written or spok
en and distort to suit their spec
ial, vindictive motives irrespec
tive of the consequences.
Shorty after the birth of the
human race, the Almightly gave
us, among others, the eighth
commandment prohibiting this
practice. It must have present
ed a serious problem.
Political campaigns have a
tendency of bringing the indi
viduals that exist in this cata
gory into the public eye. They
are with us the rest of the time
more or less under cover; for
where there is no selfish po
litical end, there is no public
need.
How are we to recognize these
distorters of persons and facts?
To me they rlpresent a very
poor artillery battalion that is
supposed to soften the resistance
which of course comes at an
early stage in the battle. Instead
of using live ammuntion, theirs
is quite dead for it consists of
very carefully edited, rephrased,
old, twisted bits of misinforma
tion gathered over a period of
years which have seen multitud
inous changes in events and per
spectives for everyone. I am re-
fering primarily to the booklet
published by the Republican
Central Committee in Oregon
intended to stop Wayne Morse
politically, personally and any
way possible to prevent his re
election. It is not a factual rec
ord by the same reasoning that
a selection of sentences from
a group of entirely different
poems could make anything
worth while reading. Material
taken from context in this man
ner can be but for one purpose.
Every right thinking person
realizes the total Inadequacy
and malicious intent of such a
pamphlet. The serious aspect of
all this is that the Republican
party officials in this state ex
pect the people to believe it.
is it ngnt mat we nave our
intellects belittled in this man
ner? Ken Corliss
1564 Myers lan
Medford, Ore.
A Truck, A'Rope, and A Ladder
To the Editor: Mrs. Erismann
writes from Portland of her am
azement and dismay concerning
the fact that the further opera
tion of the Southern Oregon Hu
mane society in Medford de
pends upon the compassion of
one man alone. As she suggests
a community as large as ours
must provide for its dumb resi
dents; and there must be many
other citizens who are concern
ed for their care.
However, as Mrs. Elizabeth
Adams pointed out recently,
those people have become dis
couraged from contributing to
the work of the Humane society
because it has proved inadequate
to the needs of the community.
The proverbial "vicious circle"
has proved an ever-lessening spi
ral: the society was not ade
quately supported, and could not
therefore serve adequately; it
failed to serve adequately and
accordingly lost support.
Children and others needing
its help in emergencies were
often refused aid because they
could not make the contributions
required. Some who had contri
buted regularly to the society
found themselves called upon to
render services they felt should
have been rendered by the soc
iety. The time seems to have pass
ed when a private society partly
dependent upon voluntary con
tributions can adequately fulfill
the needs of this community. As
Mrs. Adams and Eric Allen have
pointed out, we need a humane
officer with authority to prose
cute cases of cruelty; we need
housing for strayed pets; we
need free disposal of sick, crip
pled and unwanted animals. We
need a strong, agile man to ef-j
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
The mother-in-law of a man
we know is sometimes difficult
to convince that things hava
changed.
In correspondence involving
her possible visit to Medford
from her midwestern home sh
was told that the Southern Pa
cific no longer runs passenger
trains through Medford.
She just plain refused to be
lieve it, and wrote her son-in-law
in a chiding manner. "What
you undoubtedly mean," sha
said, "is that the train doesn't
stop in Medford any mora. If
you just check with the agent,
I'm sure you'll find I'm right."
Somebody overheard some
body else remark about last
week's warm weather ai fol
lows: "Well, it puis sugar in
the peart."
The laws and regulations cov
ering the sale and consumption
of alcoholic beverages in Ore
gon are designed for maximum
sobriety, tempered by the pub
lic's right to purchase and down
the stuff. This uneasy compro
mise sometimes results in oit
situations.
At a rural Jackson county
store, for instance, beer is sold.
But it cannot be opened or con
sumed on the premises.
The solution to this dilemma
is a post located just at the edge
of the property. On the OUT
SIDE of the post is a bottlo
opener, and a sack for empty
bottles.
So members of a visiting
group we know about stopped
there last week, bought their
beer, trudged to the edge of the
property, opened the bottles,
crossed the road into some shade,
consumed the beer, dropped tha
bottles in the sack, and went
on their way.
In last Sunday's society sec
tion a story about a wedding
recorded the costume of tha
bride, and said she was wear
ing a cap "encircled with
pears." This, obviously, was
an error, and what she really
wore was pearls.
We were chided for this by
a neighboring daily paper,
which Is perfectly all right,
always remembering iha ad
vice: "He who is without
sin . . ."
The Medford Kiwanis club
has a small novelty band, of
which it is inordinately proud.
The band, as yet, has no name,
and at the club picnic Friday
night suggestions for a name
were taken, and applause was
recorded for each suggestion. A
name may be selected by the
next meeting, but we like ona
suggestion especially: "Five
Crackers and a Crumb."
A possible difficulty is the de
termination as to which Is tha
crumb.
feet rescues and to capture ani
mals which are endangering pub
lic safety. We need an agency
with a truck, a rope, and a lad
der, as well as boarding cages.
These things the Humane soc
iety could not supply with its
available resources. It seems to
me that it is now time for Jack
son county to extend the function
and increase the budget of its
Dog Control Board so that all
members of its dumb population
can be controlled and protect
ed for the general benefit.
Helen E. Webster,
940 Whitman St.,
Medford, Ore.
SP's Crossings
To the Editor: Some time ago
the Southern Pacific railway,
after a long and painstaking ef
fort on their part through fur
nishing unsatisfactory service
with delapidated equipment to
discourage passenger service,
finally gave notice that they
were discontinuing passenger
service to Medford. They
claimed that this was due to fi
nancial losses because of lack
of passengers. How they could
expect passengers to ride the
trains they provided is beyond
comprehension. However, no
mention was made of the enor
mous profits they were deriving
from the freight haul on this
road.
As a result of their action tha
population in the vicinity of Med
ford was forced to provide their
own transportation. This was
principally provided by automo
biles. But, not satisfied with the
roadblock they threw In our
way when they discontinued rail
service, they force us to driva
our automobiles over the delapi
dated crossings on our main
streets. I have driven in many
cities in Oregon and throughout
the United States, but in no case
have I ever in an incorporated
town observed crossings in a
worse condition than the one on
Main street. In fact the sama
holds true in practically all
crossings in the city.
What I would like to ask is,
would it be expecting too much
to ask the City Administration
to require the Southern Pacifia
to spend a small portion of their
profits from the freight traffic in
keeping these crossings in a
usable condition so we may save
on our tires and make our trans
portation last us a little longer?
A. J. Curry
906 West Main St.
Medford, Ore.