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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24. 1948 (Tuesday)
Lewis Ulrich, manager of the
local United States Employment
office, said today that workers
are badly needed in local pack
ing houses and orchards.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A. M. Sut
ton is enjoying a broken rib.
(This isnt' his wife.) (Bear Creek
Jottings) A country corres
pondent gets funny.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24. 1936 (Thursday)
George T. Frey, manager of
the Medford branch of the U.S.
National bank, is named by the
county court as a member of the
1936 budget committee.
The Medford Gieemen will
meet for the first rehearsal of
the fall season tomorrow night
at the Baldwin Piano Shoppe.
SO YEARS AGO,
Sept. 24. 1926 (Friday)
Two fires within 12 hours
caused damage estimated to ex
ceed $28,000 in Jackson county
last night and this morning.
Six traffic violators paid fines
today which totaled $105 in
Judge Taylor's court.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept 24. 1916 (Sunday)
In order to aid the election of
Woodrow Wilson, the Mail Trib
une will receive contributions
from the public in any amount
from ten cents up.
Sells - Floto Circus, Buffalo
BUI Wild West champion shows
of the world, will exhibit here
on Thursday.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24. 1906 (Monday)
The closing services of the
conference year were held at
the M.E. church yesterday.
From Local and Personal col
umn: J. W. Perkins, the orchard
ist, left for Portland last eve
ning.
What's the Answer?
Can Tou Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1953 Editorial Research
Report
1. In 1952 most nation-wide
election polls gave Eisenhower
a wida or a narrow edge, or
Stevenson a narrow edge, or
found it about 50-50?
2. The Ford Motor Company
is or isn't a member of the Auto
mobile Manufacturers Associa
tion? 3. Minimum wage for work
in interstate commerce is now
by federal law 75 cents, 90
cents, SI. SI. 10 or $1.25 an hour?
4. Which one of these gen
erals was once superintendent
of the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point: Robert E. Lee,
U. S. Grant, J.J. Pershing, D. D.
Eisenhower?
5. Did the Senate or the
House sit for more hours this
year, or was it about 50-50?
6. Which state of the U.S. con
tains a city of over 10,000 nam
ed Moscow?
7. In a famous poem there
was no joy in Mudville because
of the result of a football con
test, horse race, prize fight, base
ball game or quiz program?
The answers: 1. Most gave
Eisenhower a narrow edge. 2. Is
(joined recently). 3. SI. 4. Lee.
5. The Senate sat longer (as
usual). 6. Idaho. .7. Baseball
9S ("Casey at the Bar").
MAIL TRIBUNE
Deserves Thanks
State Sen. Phil Lowry is entitled to a vote of
thanks from the people of southern Oregon.
It has largely been through his efforts that the
Southern Pacific has had to defend publicly its action
of last year in leaving all of southwestern Oregon
without railroad passenger service.
With an assist from his state senate colleagues in
Grants Pass and Roseburg although the burden has
fallen on him most heavily he has forced them to
bring their arguments out in the open where they can
be scrutinized and seen for what they are.
TTHE SP alleges that a deficit in one small section of
its overall, immensely profitable operation justi
fies it in forgetting about its moral (and perhaps le
gal) commitment to provide this fast-growing section
with passenger service and good service, at that.
Whether or not one agrees with this, we should be
thankful that Senator Lowry got up and made the
powerful SP attempt to justify it. (And it should be
pointed out that he did it without recompense other
than a feeling of obligation to the area, much of the;
time single-handedly and ranged against a high-powered
battery of SP attorneys.)
AS to the SP's justification attempt, it may satisfy
some" people. But it won't satisfy those who be
lieve that a public utility has some obligation to serve
the public in ways other than making a lot of money.
The most amusing thing about the whole hearing
last week, in our view, was the naive comment of the
SP's chief attorney in Oregon, Frank C. McCulloch.
He was quoted in the Mail Tribune as saying:
"One thing that seems to be forgotten in this case is that
Southern Pacific is not the only railroad serving Klamath
Falls."
That is the ONE thing that people in this area
have NOT forgotten. For if Southern Pacific were
"not the only railroad serving" Medford, how long
would it take SP to get passengers back on the track .'
About the length of time it takes to say "competition."
"NE other comment may be appropriate.
A number of people were interviewed by an SP
official, who reported at the hearing that the "general
reaction" was not adverse to the abandonment. This
statement, quite properly, was stricken from the rec
ord. Speaking as one of the individuals whose opinion
was lumped in a "general reaction," we are moved to
believe the SP man in question either has a bad mem
ory or can't understand English.
Our "general reaction" is that Senator Lowry and
his colleagues have done a great service in putting up
a fight against the SP's action, win or lose. E.A. -
Cascade Highway Nearer
The road frpm Medford to Klamath Falls by way
of Lake of the Woods The No. 3 priority project for
southern Oregon highways is negotiable now, we
discovered with interest last week.
Considerably more than half the route is now
paved and in good condition. The rest of it about 20
miles is forest road. But as forest roads go, it isn't
baH at all. We can't recommend it to the average driv
er, however, because it is now heavily traveled by
logging trucks, which are not exactly pleasant to see
coming at one around a curve on a narrow road. .
THE route has a number of advantages. It would be
ail-weather, and could be kept free of snow more
easily than the Green Springs highway. The grades
are considerably less than on Highway 66, and the
total distance traveled through snow is far less.
Here's how it goes:
From Medford to Eagle Point via Highway 62;
east from Eagle point through Brownsboro and Lake
Creek almost to McAllister Soda springs (it is about
here the pavement ends) ; then up Little Butte Creek
to a point just west of Fish lake, where it joins the
road coming south from the Butte Falls area; then
along existing forest roads to Lake of the Woods,
around the north side of the lake, joining with the
Klamath county road (paved almost to Lake of the
Woods) which goes to Klamath Falls along the west
side of Upper Klamath Lake.
pOR years the stretch between McAllister 'Soda
springs and the junction near Fish Lake was im
passable, although before the war the state had start
ed construction of a good road along the route. Re
sumption of construction depends on a number of
things agreement between the Jackson and Klamath
county courts and the highway commission, and the
availability of federal bureau of public roads funds.
Discussions are now under way toward this end,
and the optimists involved think that work can begin
not later than next spring.
Such a highway would open up more than a bil
lion feet of ripe timber; it would make a trip to Klam
ath Falls little more than a hop. and a skip; and the
recreational facilities of the mountain country would
be much more readily available.
We hope the optimists are right. E.A.
Potato Growers Due
Washington (U.R) The Agri
culture Department will offer
a subsidy this fall to potato
growers who agree to hold low
quality spuds off the market.
The subsidy will be 50 cents
per 100 pounds for better grade
potatoes sent to starch factories,
flour mills and livestock feed
lots through Dec. 31. The aim
is to bolster retail prices by re
ducing supplies of potatoes for
food.
The subsidy will drop to 40
Monday, EipUmbu 24, 1958
To Receive Subsidy
cents per hundred pounds from
Jan. 1 through next March 31.
It will be 30 cents from that date
until the program closes. This
will be not later than next
June 30.
London (U.Pj A man who
wanted to sell his 1933 car plac
ed today the fouowing adver-
tisement in newspaper: "Start
haggling about 40 pounds ($112)
Bring own. beer," this may take
time, .-i
Sinkiang Build-Up May Result
In Future Sino-Russ Conflict
By CARLES M. MCCANN
United Press Correspondent
A vaft development program
which some day may treaten
the Russian Far East has been
lW"S almost ignored
at the Chinese
C o m m u n ist
party Con
gress. The threat
is the build-up
of S i n k i ang
Province. That
Russia is
aware of it can
hardly be
doubted.
Sinkiang forms the northwest
corner of China. It is China's
largest province. It is bordered
by Outer Mongolia, now a Rus
sian satellite, and the Soviet re
publics of Kazakh, Kirghiz and
Tadzhik.
Not many years ago Russia
had a strong foothold in Sin
kiang. It was for years a dream
of both the Czarist and Bolshe
vik regimes to take over the
area.
Now the Chinese Communists
are pouring men and money in
to the Sinkiang on an amazing
scale. The territory is completely
under the authority of the
Chinese Red government.
Foothold Gained
Also, Red China is now getting
a foothold in Outer Mongolia.
China for centuries exerted
formal, if loose, control over
Outer Mongolia. Abandonment
of this claim, and recognition
of Outer Mongolia's "independ
ence," came finally only in
1945.
It is quite possible, if not
probable, that China may be
come agai.i the dominant power
in Outer Mongolia.
Considering that China, with
600 million people, needs more
territory, it is quite possible
also that some Chinese, includ
ing the Reds, may dream of tak
ing over some of Russia's under
Cbailes M. UcLann
Matter of Fact jo.
THE STEVENSON FORMULA
Washington Adlai Stevenson
and his vast entourage have
been in and out of Washington
during this
past week, ex
u d i n g confi
dence at every
pore. Politi
cians, to be
sure, especial
ly u n d e r dog
politicians, ex
ude confidence
as instinctively
as cows give
milk. But in this case the confi
dence seems genuine at least
to the extent that Stevenson and
his advisers really do believe
that he has a chance to beat
Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a
pretty good chance at that.
Moreover, they have a shrewd
ly fashioned formula for achiev
ing this uavia-ana-uouam mir
acle. The first part of the for
mula call or Stevenson to
stage as a his
torian in his
entourage put
it, the most en
e r g e tic cam-
1 p a i g n in the
V 3 history of the
American pres-
. 1 idency."
f
I From here
on out, Steven-
Stewart aisop son will be
here, there, and everywhere,
following a staggering schedule
of speech-making, hand-shaking,
and fence-mending. These days,
moreover, Stevenson seems ac
tually to enjoy the man-killing
task of campaigning. Whereas in
1952, he was much given to ask
ing plaintively "do I really have
to do that?", he is now a bear
for punishment, according to his
aides.
The purpose of this fierce ex
penditure of energy is not only
to get Stevenson's views to the
people. It is also to present a
contrast between the vigorous
Stevenson and the relatively
sedentary Eisenhower, thus
subtly underlining the health
issue. And another purpose is to
identify Stevenson to the maxi
mum extent with local Demo
cratic candidates, and thus with
the Democratic party.
I?OR the Stevenson strategists
citing the three-year Demo
cratic trend culminating in the
Maine victory, are .certain that
on a straight party basis, the
Democrats have the Republi
cans on the run. "We'll take
both houses, J'm dead sure of
that," one top Democrat re
marked. "The only question is
whether Ike can survive his par
ty's defeat."
By the same token, every ef
fort wiU also be made by Ste
venson and the astute Stevenson
propagandists to identify the
President with the Republican
party. Another part of the Ste
venson formula as applied to
Eisenhower is to bear down
hard on the "part-time Presi- j
dent" line, and, of course, to I
center the attack on Vice Presi
dent Nixon as the President's ;
potential successor.
The Stevenson formula also
calls for making full use of the
Democratic party's ambassadors !
ITS
y ' J
to special voting groups, in,!
which the Democrats are rich, j I
populated Far East in the years
to come.
Russia began penetrating Sink- j
iang Province long before World
War II. In fact, for some years
there was joint Chinese-Russian
control over the province. The
Chinese Nationalist government
got control of it during the
war. Russia still had hopes of
domination. Both the Chinese
Reds stopped Russian penetra
tion. Sinkiang covers 66.500 square
miles of territory. Until recently
its population was only 4 mil
lions. Now the Reds are planning to
move millions of people into
Sinkiang.
About 200,000 men who fought
for the Nationalists in the Chin
ese Civil War and later went
over to the Reds are acting as
pioneers in the development
program.
Railrpads Built
The Chinese Reds are con
structing a railroad through
Sinkiang to the Sovit Union
border. They also have com
pleted, in cooperation with Rus
sia, a railroad which runs from
Peiping through Outer Mongolia
into Siberia.
The railroads are accepted as
evidence of Chinese - Russian
Communist friendship. In the
Communist Congress in Peiping,
Red Chinese leaders swore ever
lasting friendship to the Soviet
Union. But China and Russia
are natural rivals in the Sin-kiang-Outer
Mongolia-Manchuria-Siberia
area.
Speakers at the Communist
Congress mentioned almost cas
ually that Sinkiang was includ
ed in the big program of agri
cultural and industrial develop
ment under the new five-year
economic plan which starts in
1958.
It is somewhat doubtful that
two high-ranking Communists
ever . trusted each other com
pletely. It is exceedingly doubt
and Stewart' Alsop
and the Republicans notably
poor. The chief ambassador to
the farmers is, of course, Estes
Kefauver, whose popularity
among farmers is a striking if
somewhat mysterious phenome
non. Before the campaign ends,
Kefauver will have displayed
his special brand of folksiness
in just about every important
farm county in the country.
T'HE chief ambassador to the
-- Catholics, who have in re
cent years shown a strong ten
dency to shift their allegiance
to the Republicans, is Sen. John
Kennedy of Massachusetts. Ken
nedy's speaking schedule is al
most as staggering as Steven
son's. He will get an assist, of
course, from such other impor-
t a n t Catholic Democrats as
Mayor Robert Wagner of New
York and Democratic leader Pat
Brown of California.
Chief ambassador to the mi
nority groups will be Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose
popularity among Negroes and
other minorities is another re
markable phenomenon. Mrs
Roosevelt already has accepted
engagements to speak for Ste
venson in a whole series of key
areas. '
To counter the immense po
litical advantage which any in
cumbent Republican enjoys, Ste
venson also has had the sup
port of a whole series of new
Democratic governors an asset
he lacked in 1952. His chief pre
convention rival. New York's
Gov. Averell Harriman, is pitch
ing in manfully, and even Ohio's
Frank Lausche, who has held
himself carefully aloof in the
past, is working hard for Ste
venson.
QJTEVENSON also has far more
' enthusiastic and energetic
labor support than he had in
1952. Finally, Stevenson himself
will key his whole campaign to
presenting himself as the "cham
pion of the people. He is well
aware, as he was not in 1952,
that incomparably the greatest
asset of the Democrats is the
image of the party, among im
portant voting groups, as the
party of the "little guys against
the big shots." If being the
champion of the people requires
a mite more demagoguing than
in 1952, so be it.
Add the inherent advantages
which any Democrat enjoys, no-'
tably the Southern vote, and the
Stevenson victory formula looks
rather formidable. The popular
President is still unquestionably
the front runner, but not to the
point where the Republicans can
afford to- sit back happily on
their haunches.
Copyright 1956.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Take Along
Plenty of GRUB
On Your
HUNTING TRIP!
SAVE AT . . .
ful that the Russian and Chinese
Red leaders completely trust
each other.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
During the week just past,
the White House announced four
specific actions by the govern
ment's home financing agencies
which are designed, the an
nouncement indicated, to stim
ulate the low-cost, housing field.
'T'HE federal housing adminis-
-- tatinn mit frnm 7 1r s rfr
cent the minimum down pay
ment on houses appraised at
S9.000 or less. At 7 per cent.
the minimum down payment on
a new house costing $9,000 or
less has been $630. At 5 per
cent the down payment will be
$450. That is, the minimum down
payment has been lowered by
$180.
The federal home loan bank
boosted from 10 to 12V4 per cent
of their share capital the limi
tation on borrowing of member
institutions. That means that if
the savings and loan institutions
FEEL IT IS SAFE they can
loan a little more money for
building new houses.
The federal national mortgage
association, in effect, raised the
price it will pay for mortgage
by 1 per cent. It did this by
decreasing the discount at
which it has been buying mort
gages. The result of that is to
increase the interest rate
which, presumbly, will bring
more mortgage money into the
market.
The FNMA also agreed to
issue advance commitments to
buy home mortgages at prices
more favorable to the seller.
TKY
was' this done?
11 T.,
Let's be brutally frank
about it. Home construction has
been slipping off in recent
months. This reductioniin home
building has been affecting un
favorably the market for build
ing materials, home furnishings,
etc. There is strong pressure to
make more credit available, so
that more new houses will be
built.
This is an election year. In
election years it is highly de
sirable to the administration in
power to keep business bovming.
SHOULD it have been done?
That is a debatable ques
tion. Home ownership on the
part of our people is undoubt
edly desirable. American fam
ilies should be encouraged to
build all the new homes they
can pay for and so far the
payment record has been good.
On the other hand, if more
homes are built than are need
ed, or can and will be paid for,
the resulting situation wiU be
bad.
But
While new home construction
since the end of the war has
bordered on the fabulous the
demand for new homes is amaz
ing. There are indications that
this demand will continue for
some time to come. The census
bureau, for example, estimates
that between 1955 and 1957
TWENTY MILLION more
households may be added in the
United States due to the present
rapid rate oi increase in our
population.
That would require a lot more
houses.
NOW for the $64,000 question.
WiU what has been done
work?
There is a lot of talk about
"tight "money. That suggests a
realistic question:
Why is money tight?
THIS seems to be the answer:
The demand for new money
to build new houses, to build
new factories, to purchase new.
mechanical equipment, to build
new highways, etc. is IN
CREASING FASTER THAN
SAVINGS.
This fact is fumdamental: Be
fore a HARD dollar can be loan
ed, a- dollar must be saved up
by somebody.
So
If more money is to be avail
able for investment more money
must be saved by the people.
That is the only sound way in
which money for investments can
be provided. At this point, the
realistic-minded people of Ore
gon deserve a pat on the back.
In August of this year they
bought more E and H govern
ment bonds than in an August
since the 1945 war days.
That is a good sign.
Italy has a coastline of 2,270
miles. On the peninsula no place
is more than 60 miles distant
from the sea.
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Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although
under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication
is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all fetters with a
view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Back to George Chamberlain
To the Editor: A recent article,
on attempted $70,000 bribery
to defeat Oregon's Senator
George Chamberlain in 1908, so
coincides with what I've just
recread in Introductory to Loot
ing of The Public Domain li
brary book that I'm offering it
as a sequel. Among other pierc
ing statements Mr. .Stevens says:
"Practically all arrangements
for this immense plunder origin
ated among unscrupulous resid
ents of distant parts ... in the
ranks of the devout moneyed
aristocracy, and it has remain
ed for the honest manhood of
Oregon to redeem the common
wealth from the stigma of dis
honor ... by the polluted hands
of Eastern commerical greed.
"Careful analysis . . . indicates
most of these stupendous
schemes of plunder were con
cocted in the cunning minds of
those who had made a life study
of the subject." . . . From Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
came the offsprings which pro
duced a Jim Hill, a Weyer
haeuser, a Thomas B. Walker,
a C. A. Smith, "and a host of
others responsible for present
conditions."
"It is noteworthy . . . that
this volume furnishes an object
lesson in support of the idea that
there is a remarkable similarity
in all fraudulent enterprises and
that the scheme of looting the
public domain is merely a by
product of the general scheme
of plunder running riot through
out the country. The same tools
are used upon all occasions
where it is found expedient to
rob the people. The same courts
are tampered with, the same
members of both branches of
Congress, and the same beads
of departments in Washington
are polluted each time, until it
has come to be regarded as
certain that vast interests have
fattened on the life-blood of the
nation by process qf having a
veteran force at their command
. . . and they have developed
a vein of activity . . . that has
its parallel in the history of the
downfall of the Roman Empire.
. "No nation can long survive
the reign of corruption that has
characterized the speculative
craze existing in America the
past decade. It has permeated
all branches of public service,
and the history of the land
frauds of the West is the history
of corruption tactics in other di
rections. Corruption is a hydra
headed monster of hideous mien,
and the fact that it has been
exposed wholesale . . ..in Ore
gon and San Francisco . . . and
retail in other states and cities,
Housing Code Gets
Enthusiasm
Portland, Ore. (U.PJ Ore
gon building and financial cir
cles Saturday expressed little en
thusiasm for the federal govern
ment's reduction from 7 to 5
per cent in FHA down payments
for houses under $9,000.
John M. Dickerman, executive
director of the National Associ
ation of Home Builders, said in
Portland, "We are glad to see the
administration taking at least a
step in the right direction."
But, he added, "It will take
more drastic action to bring hous
ing into competition with other
demands for money. The present
situation is hitting the low-income
housing group hardest and
the middle-income group next."
Builders and mortagage men
both said it was interest rates and
not down payments that have
curtailed building and caused a
slump in the lumber industry. In
terest rates on FHA and VA
housing loans are frozen at 4-and-one-half
per cent while other
loans collect from five-and-one-half
to six per cent interest
Herb Cox, of lumberman's buy
ing service in Eugene, said the re
duced down payment require
ments "will be of little assist
ance to the average home buyer
and no material help to lumber
and other forest products."
RICE OVER CONFETTI
Deptford, England (U.R)
The rector of the parish church
here has requested wedding par
ties to throw rice, not confetti.
Church workers have to sweep
up confettie, he said, but birds
will take care of the rice.
DR. ROBERT L. HARLAND
OPTOMETRIST
Announces with pleasure the Opening of his Professional Office for
the practice of Optometry in all its branches.
AT
213 EAST MAIN STREET
Medford, Oregon
Practice devoted to examination, analysis and rehabilitation of the
visual functions.
BY APPOINTMENT
Telephone 2-2210 Office Hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Letters submitted for publication must
should never be accepted that
it is dead beyond all power of
resurrection."
John E. Gribble, .
139 Kenwood ave,
Medford, Ore.
She Resents TV
To the Editor: Well, I know
one sure thing, if I wanted an
excuse to leave Medford I'd sure
have it, trying to get some fun
out of your TV station is enough
to drive a person nuts. Does
KBES-TV think we are abso
lutely crazy over steel, tin cans
and repeat programs? Your sta
tion acts like they are all dead
down there. As long as you peo
ple sit there and take those pro
grams tney will push it on you.
After all you're the ones that
buy the things they are tryinf
to sell.
I've lived In several towns
and I've never seen so manv
steel pictures, poor singing
shorts, or have I seen so many
oreaxaowns. ivery day "trou
ble here." it's on the screen now,
on a steel picture too. They art
gradually getting rid of all the
good shows. If they don't want
to run a decent station why
don't they sell it and let some
body run it that, knows how
and will buy some decent equip- '
ment.
Don't anybody bother to write
in and say they are doine a
swell job, because they aren't
If you think so find out how
many hundreds of good pro
grams there are. They wiU tell
you they have to take what they
get. I don't believe it They will
sit there and make you believe
they are doing their best Oh,
yes, with that smile. And now
football every night. Once a
week is enough. . .
Everybody you mention this
station to says, "Oh, that sta
tion." Well come on, do some
thing about it. You're the only
ones that can do it. And you
sponsors wake up. Women won't
buy your products when you
sponsor a duU, boring program.
They just leave the room. Don't
you forget it, KBES-TV. You
need the public's money for you
to pile it up. Wake up! The kids
are even disgusted, the same
Disneyland over and over and
over. If they ever get that cable
this far that gives you all the
Portland stations you'll wake
up.
Mrs. H. E. Johnson,
Route 1, Box 648,
Medford, Ore.
The Al Sarena Punle
To the Editor: Would you and
the people of Jackson county
like to have the facts about the
Al Sarena mine business? Then
listen to this:
One Martin- Applegate discov
ered mineral not far off Elk
Creek. He located thereon, and
name"d the mine the 'Buzzard',
a name it carried for many
years. He did this about the year
1900.
Applegate worked this mine
until in the year 1912, when he
closed it down as "worked out'
Nothing further worth while
could be found.
During the time he bad it he
found two leads going out from
the original shaft. One was a
very small vein of almost pure
silver. It was at its largest about
two fingers in width. And was
varying in size throughout its
entire length, but was worth
working until the vein 'petered
out' This drift was about one
quarter of a mile in length.
The other was gold in a crys
talized state with the gold run
ning in rough cubical shape and
with some joined in a curious
angle form, which was exceed
ingly rare in this metal.
This vein ran in the opposite
direction from the silver vein
and in a semi-circle, as did the
silver vein. The gold vein paid
very well for Mr. Applegate.
During the time it was in op
eration a full crew was em
ployed. Then Applegate abandoned
the mine as not further worth
while, and after a lapse of a
number of years, the McDonald
brothers either dealt Applegate
out or filed on it as abandoned,
which is legal. One of the broth
ers became disgusted and quit
the whole affair.
It truly would be a fine way
to acquire a fine stand of tim
ber if it worked. And at prac
tically no expense. Uncle Sam
being the fine gullible old man
he is as McKay very nearly
proved, and maybe has proved.
A. L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania Ave,
Medford, Ore.