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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1948 (Monday)
O. H. Bengtson, Medford at
torney and legislator who is serv
ing as chairman of the legisla
ture's Interim committee to
turns to Medford from Boys'
Town, Neb.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Consider
able complaint is being leveled
at the high-handed, one-handed
auto speedists.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7, 1938 (Wednesday)
"This is the best fire preven
tion week we've ever had," Fire
Chief Roy Elliott says.
Arthur W. Priaulx, chairman
of the Republican state central
committee, arrives in Medford
to confer with county Republi
can leaders.
(0 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1926 (Thursday)
Pioneers of southern Oregon
meet today at Jacksonville for
50th reunion.
The first business structure to
be erected on North Grape st.
this year will be a $10,000 double
store building expected to be
complete within 80 days.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7, 1916 (Saturday)
Sen. George E. Chamberlain
arrives in valley to speak in
Ashland and Medford.
Ezra Yates of Peoria, 111., who
has been a visitor in the valley
for the past 10 days, is a relative
of former Governor Yates of
that state.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct, 7, 1906 (Sunday)
Two Oregon postmasters ap
pointed today; Guy T. Fox, Cen
tral Point; and Nina Jackson,
Bonita.
.
The Oregon Bar association
has taken steps to disbar Albert
H. Tanner the former law part
ner of the late Sen. John Mit
chell. What's (he Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955 Editorial Research
Report
1. Most TV stations would pre
fer Very High Frequency (VHF)
or Ultra High Freqeuncy (UHF)
channels, or does it make little
difference?
2. Senator Kefauver is some
years older or younger than Vice
President Nixon, or about the
same age?
3. St. Pierre and Miquelon are
two small islands, belonging to
France in the Atlantic south of
which large island?
4. First President buried in
Washington, D. C. was Jefferson,
Van Buren. Lincoln. Cleveland,
Taft, Wilson or Coolidge?
5. Cancer is apt to come at an
earlier or later age in women
than cancer in men, or at about
the same age?
6. A Catholic major-party can
didate is running for the Senate
against a major party Jewish
candidate in Oregon, Idaho,
Ohio. New 'York or Massachu
setts? 7. A hemophiliac lives in a
dream world, is over-sexed,
drinks too much, can't easily stop
bleeding, or steals incessantly?
The answers: 1. Most would
prefer VHF. 2. Kefauver almost
10 years older. 3. Newfoundland.
4. Wilson. 5. Earlier in women.
$. N. Y. (Wagner vs. Javits). 7.
Can't easily stop bleeding.
MAIL TRIBUNE
How About Hell's Canyon?
Vice President Nixon told his audiences in Idaho
and Washington that only through President Eisen
hower's "partnership policy" can the "natural resources
of the West be fully developed. "The Hell's Canyon
debate," he said, "typifies this issue." He went on to
say that "we are for whatever program can produce
the power we need at the lowest cost."
Let us take a look at how the facts bear out the
vice president
Under the Eisenhower program the Idaho Power
Co. is building two, perhaps three, small dams on the
Snake River at the Idaho-Oregon border. These pri
vate projects have been given preference over a public
project for a high federal dam which would have
afforded full development of the most valuable re
maining waterpower site in the United States.
The Idaho Power dams, compared with the federal
dam which the Eisenhower Administration has re
jected, represent a loss to the West of as much electric
power as the entire prime output of Bonneville.
They represent a loss to the West of nearly three
fourths of the water storage that could restrain floods
and enhance the production of downstream power
plants by regulating stream flow.
TPHEY represent a loss to the West of electric power
which could be produced at the low figure of 2.71
mills a kilowatt-hour. They represent a saddling on
the West of high private power production costs of
6.69 mills a kilowatt hour more than double the
amount!
Finally, the private project represents a loss to
the West of an opportunity to develop extensive de
posits of phosphate ore for use as fertilizer to enrich
the farms of the region. That development would be
made possible by means of cheap electricity that
would be produced at Hells Canyon. Idaho Power's
electricity will not be cheap.
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LJELLS CANYON is the example of Mr. Nixon's own
1 choosing. He could hardly have selected an exam
ple which typified more completely the deliberate
incomplete development of a great natural resource,
the production of electric power at unnecessarily high
cost.
It is on the basis of this performance that Mr.
Nixon asks the voters of Oregon to elect to the Senate
Douglas McKay, who as secretary of interior was the
man most directly responsible for. the Hells Canyon
debacle. On the same basis he asks Oregonians to
retire Sen. Wayne Morse, who has fought zealously
for the full development of their natural resources.
And on the same basis the vice president calls for the
voters of Idaho to reelect Sen. Welker, an isolationist
who has joined the bloc of Republicans-against-Eisen-hower
on many issues.
Vice President Nixon is the second ranking official
of the party which has set "truth squads" to trail
Democrat candidates. It would take a truth battalion
to correct the distortions which the Californian has
left at Hells Canyon.
GORRY, but we can't take credit for the above. It is
a reprint of an editorial in a "bigger and better"
newspaper than the Mail Tribune i.e. : The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. '
The Post-Dispatch has no axe to grind as far as
Hells Canyon and the area it serves is concerned. We
doubt if even Mr. Nixon would call this journalistic
off-spring of the grand old New York World, a
"leftish" or a Red "communist sheet." It just happens
to be an independent paper with a genuine interest
in conservation and the production of more and
cheaper power, not only in Oregon but throughout
the USA.
That is one of the chief reasons it condemned the
policies of Mr. McKay when he was Secretary of the
Interior, and on these two issues is a strong supporter
of Senator Morse.
"I17E BELIEVE it is interesting and should be profit-
able for the people of Oregon in a hot senatorial
campaign like this one to get the views of newspapers
of high standing and influence outside of the state as
well as within. R.W.R.
As to Communications
With only about 30 days left before election and
the partisan tempo sure to rise, it appears necessary
to again point out this paper's rules and regulations
particularly regarding communications of a political
nature.
We welcome them regardless of the party slant
but we will not print communications of any kind
over 400 words in length, nor any where the identity
of the writer can not be established.
We have received more political offerings this
year than ever before signed with name and address,
but upon investigation have found neither to be
genuine. It has therefore become necessary where the
name and address can't be verified by the local direc
tory or telephone book, to make a special check, and
needless to say this takes time, and therefore causes
delay if not rejection.
We have received several complaints of non-publication
in this area, which have been due entirely to
the necessity of such action.
The fault has been not with this paper but with
our communicants.
HTHERE is another point which needs to be'clarified.
Some years ago we made it a rule that all commu
nications of a purely political or controversial nature
must be signed by the name and address of the
writer and printed so. In other words a distinction
was made between controversial and non-controver-
Sunday. October 7, 1956
Matter of Fact uy stewon ai50P
THE MYSTERY OF
WHEATSHEAF STREET
Montclair, N. J. There is
good news for Dwight D. Eisen
hower on Wheatsheaf Street,
Roselle, New Jersey. There , is
also a mystery on Wheatsheaf
Street the mystery that makes
American poli
tics so endless
ly absorb i n g
and excitipg
and puzzling.
The houses
on Wheatsheaf
Street are
small, two -story
houses
built since the
Stewart Alsop warj neat! anrj
rather pretty, and structurally al
most identical. The people who
live in them are proud of them.
Beside almost every front door
there is a small ironwork orna
ment a railroad engine, an old
fashioned car, a dog. There are
flowers around the front steps,
and on about every third lawn
there is a pink plaster flamingo,
or perhaps duck followed by
plaster ducklings.
A cop lives in the corner house
he is off duty, raking hi,s lawn.
The re is a long-haul trucker in
another, a unionized aircraft
worker in another, a white col
lar man in a utility company in
another. Racially, Wheatsheaf
Street is a mixture German and
Polish and Irish and Yankee
stock. Economically, it is on the
blurred borderline a mixture
of union workers, white collar
workers, and very small bus
inessmen with the former pre
dominating. IITHEATSHEAF STREET, in a
" word, is like a thousand
other streets on the outskirts of
every big American city. But in
its very ordinariness lies its mys
tery. Thii reporter and his partner,
in their wanderings over the
land, have visited other Wheat
sheaf Streets. There was a
Wheatsheaf Street, under an
other name, n the outskirts of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was
the same street, right down to the
pink flamingoes. And there was
a Wheatsheaf Street, flamingoes
and all, in Portland, Oregon.
The Wisconsin Wheatsheaf
Street was heavily Democratic,
as it had been in 1952. The Port
land Wheatsheaf Street was also
normally Democratic, but it had
swung in large part to Dwight
Eisenhower in 1952, and a sin
ister portent for the Republicans
looked like sw'nEin6 back
again. Roselle's Wheatsheaf
Street went heavily for Eisen
hower in 1952 and it is stick
ing by him solid as a rock.
HPHIS conclusion is based on a
door-to-door check of Wheatsheaf
Street and the surrounding area
by this reporter and three crews
from Louis Harris Associates, the
public opinion survey organiza
tion. For what they are worth,
the statistical results of our sur
vey were 64 per cent for Eisen
hower, 30 per cent for Steven
son, 6 per cent undecided a re
markable Eisenhower majority
in an area with many union
members.
More significantly, we found
only one voter a voluble lady
in a green dress who had voted
for Eisenhower in 1952 and was
now thinking of voting for Stev
enson. Asked why, she replied:
"So far Eisenhower's been won
derful, but why not give some
body else a break?"
We came upon other peculiar
reactions, like that of another
lady, who said: "Eisenhower is
very straightforward but he
wastes too much money." But
more often there was the refrain
you hear from Eisenhower voters
from one end of the country to
another: "Eisenhower's a man
you can trust, and I think he'll
keep us out of war." The refrain
of the Stevenson voters "The
Republicans are for the big shots,
and the Democrats are for the
little guy" was very rare.
After Wheatsheaf Street, we
moved on to Greenwood Avenue,
sial offerings, to the "letter box" and that is the rule
today.
The former must in all cases be signed. The latter
need not be if the writer wishes anonymity and has
a valid reason for it, but the correct name will be
placed on file not for publication at any time, but
only to answer inquiries as to the identity of the writer
if and when they occur. (It might be added that
through the many years this regulation has been in
force such inquiries have been very few and far
between.) ,
DUT the point we wish to make particularly clear
at this time is that offerings of a political nature
from whatever source must be signed by the writer,
and the writer identified.
If this were not done we would be flooded by
letters of a political and controversial character, with
the request that the name of the author be withheld.
Finally, this has been pointed out many times
before but apparently it needs to be stated again. .
While the Mail Tribune gives a greater percentage
of free space to its critics than any other newspaper
in the state, and is the only newspaper that gives free
space to both sides in a political-campaign three times
each week, there is no obligation to print EVERY
THING of a political nature it receives, signed or
unsigned, it reserves the right as does every news
paper in the country to decide what is most news
worthy and what isn't. Otherwise in a hot campaign
like this one there would be room for nothing else.
R.W.R.
here in Montclair, and again we
found good news for Eisenhower.
Greenwood Avenue and its side
streets are occupied by middle
class Negroes, who live decently
in houses which are older but
bigger than those on Wheatsheaf
Street.
THE Negroes of the area of
Greenwood Avenue will vote
Democratic, but in nowhere near
the same overwhelming propor
tions as their economic equiva
lents in the better apartment
houses in Harlem. Instead of
better than three to one, tp in
Harlem, the Negroes of Green
wood Avenue tend Democratic
by a ratio of only three to two,
and there are real signs of a
shift to Eisenhower.
The difference between the
voters of Greenwood Avenue
and the prosperous Harlemites
can he explained in terms of
"the Len Hall Rule" that peo
ple who live in apartments, how
ever well off, tend Democratic,
and people who live in their own
houses, however debt-ridden, are
drawn to the Republicans. But
how is the rmazing difference
between Roselle's Wheatsheaf
Street and its equivalents in Mil
waukee or Portland to be ex
plained? The answer would tell
a lot about this puzzling cam
paign, but this reporter does not
pretend to know what it is.
(C) 195S New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Today and
By Walter
THE TIMES WE LIVE IN
At Cleveland and Lexington
this week the President insisted
"that there are deep and essen
tial differences in the beliefs
and convic
tions of the
two major par
ties." I do not
believe the
facts support
this theory.
For while
there are dif
f e r e n ces be-
ttalter LiDDmajm tween the two
part ies, they
are not very deep or essential
in the field of their beliefs and
their convictions. The new Re
publicanism which the Presi
dent proclaimed at the San Fran
cisco convention does not chal
lenge, indeed it accepts and pro
poses to extend, all the big in
novations which were made by
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin
Roosevelt. This covers not only
the vast structure of the new
welfare state, the federal protec
tion of agriculture, the regula
tion of business and of banking,
but also that most far-reaching
of reforms within the western
capitalist order the acceptance
of federal responsibility for full
employment and for the man
agement of the business cycle.
These innovations which have
meant a vast extension of the
federal power have little con
nection with the essential beliefs
and convictions of either party.
As a matter of fact, according
to their historic tradition which
descends from Alexander Ham
ilton and Lincoln, the Republi
cans should be the Federalist
party. They were that in the
19th century and down through
the administration of Theodore
Roosevelt. It has not been ideol
ogy but history, the turn of
events in this century, which
has made the Democrats over
into the Federalist party.
THE great reversal of roles
took place in 1912. There
had been building up for some
20 years before that a strong
popular demand for public con
trol of the excesses of the new
corporate individualism. Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt, that is
to say the Republican Roose
velt, undertook to make the Re-
Communications
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit al) letters with
view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Would Sell Out TVA
To the Editor: Shortly after
taking office, President Eisen
hower appointed Dr. Dean Man
ion and ex-President Herbert
Hoover to head two study groups
for the purpose of determining
the appropriate areas of activity
for the Federal government
particularly in the power field.
In order to get an idea of the
political beliefs of Dr. Manion,
I would like to give a portion
of a TV appearance in which he
was interviewed by William
Wise, former deputy administra
tor of the Rural Electrification
Administration.
"Mr. Wise Dean Manion, I
wonder if you agree with my
favorite Republican of all times
that the government should do
for the people which they cannot
do for themselves or that which
they cannot do so well for them
selves? I refer of course to Abra
ham Lincoln.
"Dr. Manion No I do not
agree with Abraham Lincoln.
"Mr. Wise Do you agree that
the test should be not whether
the states should have the power
but whether or not it is neces
sary for the Federal Govern
ment to take certain action in
Tomorrow
Lippmann
publican party the agent of the
reforms which the times called
for. Until 1908, while he was
stiU in the White House, he suc
ceeded very well indeed. But
under his successor, the party
did not follow him. In 1912, the
Republicans split over the ques
tion of reform, and Woodrow
Wilson not only won the elec
tion of 1912 but made the Dem
ocrats into the party of modern
ism and 20th century reform.
The Democrats have been that
ever since. As a young man,
Franklin Roosevelt was in fact,
I think I am right in this, a dis
ciple of his great relative Theo
dore. But after 1912 anyone who
had such ideas joined the Demo
cratic party. The Republican
party has always had a hanker
ing for its old Federalist tradi
tion. This expressed itself in the'
nomination of Wendell WUlkie
in 1940, of Dewey in 1944 and
1948, and of Eisenhower in 1952.
But the Republican party, as an
organization and in Congress,
has remained what it was when
it split in 1912 a rump of those
who oppose what Theodore
Roosevelt stood for, namely the
modernization of our economic
institutions and the emergence
of the United States as a world
power.
IN CONSEQUENCE, the Demo
crats have in this century be
come the agents for bringing our
public policy and institutions
abreast of the changing times.
There; have been, as it were,
two political cycles each with a
period of innovation followed
by a period of correction and
consolidation. In the innovating
phases the country has turned
to the Democrats, as with Wil
son and with Franklin Roose
velt. In the correcting and con
solidating phase, the country
has turned to the Republicans,
as with Coolidge and Eisen
hower. THERE is substantial evidence,
I believe, for thinking that
for the third' time in. this cen
tury the country is coming into
an innovating phase. This is, I
submit, the reason for the extra
ordinary upsurge of the Demo
crats at the grass roots. The new
phase is caused once again by
the country's need to bring its
policies and measures abreast
of the times. In the period of
Theodore Roosevelt and of Wil
son, there was need to impose
social and public standards on
corporation capitalism. In the
period of Franklin Roosevelt
there was the need to overcome
the miseries which the great de
pression revealed and provoked.
It led to the welfare state and
to the public regulation of the
business cycle.
The period into which we
have now entered is dominated
by two new historic develop
ments. The one is the phenome
nal increase of the American
population. The other is the
challenge and the dangerous
competition of the Communist
orbit. These developments will
require great innovation and,
unavoidably, a great expansion
of public action at all the levels
of government, foremost among
them at the federal level.
Once again, regardless of how
the Presidential election comes
out, the Democrats seem des
tined to become the agents of
these innovations. For while
President Eisenhower would
like to give the Republicans that
role, there is little evidence that
the Republicans who will suc
ceed him are much concerned
about it. j
Copyright. 1956,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Letters submitted for publication must
what to protect and advance for
the general welfare of all the
people to the greatest good for
the greatest number?
"Dr. Manion No, I don't.
"Mr. Wise Do you agree that
there is no one other than the
Federal Government large
enough to do certain things which
have been done during this last
20 years to which you have re
ferred? I would like to ask you
with respect to certain specific
action: one, the TVA.
"Dr. Manion I think the TVA
should be sold to private busi
ness. "Mr. Wise Do you think pri
vate business would have built
TVA projects in the first place?
"Dr. Manion I don't think the
Federal Government should have
built the TVA in the first place."
Surely President Eisenhower
must be held responsible for the
Dean Manions, the Herbert Hoo
vers and the Douglas McKays
who after all must have reflected
the boss' views. It is going to be
very interesting to hear what
Mr. Eisenhower has to say to the
power minded Northwest when
he returns accompanied by, an
other man who walked out on
us Douglas McKay.
Ken Corliss,
1564 Myers lane,
Medford, Ore.
Humane Society
To the Editor: I only know
what I read in the newspapers
and lately I have read news
items, an editorial, and com
munications all concerning the
humane society. From these I
judge something must be wrong.
Through the years what was or
ganized and incorporated as a
non-profit and charitable society
for the prevention of cruelty has
become a boarding kennel. Dur
ing the years of inactivity money
was received from donations,
county and state funds for pay
ment of salaries and operating
costs. Now there is a kind man
to underwrite these expenses and
some fine citizens have become
directors. But where is the hu
mane officer and when will a
program be inaugurated to ac
complish the work that humane
societies generally do? If it is
still to be a business why bother?
I have yet to hear of another bus
iness that expec's to be main
tained by donations and public
funds.
Mrs. E. O. Green,
1039 Crater Lake ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Communisim Issue Again
To the Editor: Just a few ques
tions to my Democratic friends
who are now writing to "The
Editor" in such glowing terms
of Sen. Wayne Morse:
1. Did they vote for Senator
Morse in 1950? If they did they
did more than the undersigned
registered Republican did.
2. If they didn't vote for him
in 1950, why .are they voting
for him in 1956? Surely it is not
because, as of now, he is a regis
tered Democrat? Could it be that
they now consider he has chang
ed so much in the past six years
that they now feel he is the
champion of the double talk?
3. What happened to the Inde
pendent party? Is his next move
to the Morse party?
4. Were not both houses in
Washington controlled by the
Democrats these past two years?
It must be that the Editor of the
Mail Tribune must be trying to
tell the people of Southern Ore
gon that all of these "awful
woes" were not caused by this
last Congress.
5. Does Senator Morse frank
ly admit that the Communist
party is not a threat to the Unit
ed States?
W. E. Driscoll Sr.,
1120 South Oakdale ave.,
Medford, Ore. .
Who U Emotional?
To the Editor: Some of the
most entrancing reading at this
stage of the campaign is supplied
by editors who, never having
within the memory of man sup
ported a party other than the Re
publican, go into the Silence and
emerge solemnly with "consider
ed judgment " to do the same
thing this year.
As witness, The Oregonian,
Sept. 23, and The Sat. Eve Post,
SepV 29, 1956. Both eschew emo
tion, the Oregonian declaring
slogans and emotional issues
aside," deems it "logical" to
"keep Eisenhower in the White
House;" the Post begins by "leav
ing out emotional issues" but
does so beneath Vt page-tall head
line "The Country Still Need
Eisenhower."
Dear Sirs: Eisenhower (and
particularly "Ike") IS the emo
tional issue, and your party is
certainly not putting it aside or
leaving it out. On the contrary,
it appears to be about the only
one (you hope) you can depend
upon, and Ike and his affection
for the people and the people
with their affection for Ike, are
going to have ample opportunity
to react emotionally over and
over, over the country, no mat
ter how wearing on Ike, or how
confusing to the unemotional is
sues at stake.
By the way, one of the Demo
cratic plans the Post opposes is
the one condemning the wrongly
named "right-to-work" laws. But
representative secretary of labor
Mitchell has also condemned
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
A woman we know does
not have any antipathy for the
tirm "Egghead."
"Because," she explains,
"not all of them are cracked
and some' of them are even
hard-boiled."
A subscriber called the news
room the other morning to ask
if anyone else had telephoned
about the "bright red star, low
in the eastern sky"?
He reported his wife routed
him out of bed at about 4:30
a.m. to look at it. It seemed to
have a flaming tail, he said, and
he hauled out his binoculars to
take a look. They studied it for
some time, and then returned
to bed, still thinking about the
odd star.
When they got up later, about
dawn, the star was still low in
the eastern sky, but they got
a better look at it a red bea
con light atop one of the sur
rounding hills.
a
A big headline In our fa
vorite newspaper the other
day said "Lenin Still Diety
in Russia Bui Everyone Wants
to Forget Stalin."
Whereupon a subscriber,
who modestly forgot to identi
fy himself, clipped U and
mailed it in, with the request
to "Tell us more about Lenin's
diet where he is now."
Speaking of headlines, a five
paragraph humorous column,
which said nothing whatsoever
about the climate,, appeared in a
neighboring daily paper the
other day under the heading of
"Weather." The columnist was
not Old Sunnyside, either.
Good news, friendsl!
October is . Potato Chip
Month.
The week ending Sept. 29
was National Television week.
Also National Dog week. Alto
Home Fashion Time, Christian
Education week. National Tie
week and Visit -Your Dealer
week. Gold Star Mother's day
fell during that period.
October is Membership
month of the National Con
gress of Parents and Teachers.
Next week is National Win
week.
Columbus Day is next Fri
day. The information above was
culled, more or less casuaUy,
from mail received in this
office. Think what we might
have done if we'd researched
a bit. . '
Editorial Comment
GIVING UP?
The Southern Pacific, a great
corporation, is apparently giving
up. Passenger service, the Espee
is deciding, is not worth fighting
for. Service to "Rogue River"
towns south of Eugene was halt
ed more than a year ago. Now
the firm wants to increase fares
on the Shasta Daylight by 10 per
cent, a move that is certainly not
calculated to increase business.
The fare increase, if granted,
would apply only to fares for
trips within Oregon. The step,
in other words, would be anoth
er in a series of steps to eliminate
the relatively scanty traffic on
short hauls.
Already it is less than easy to
book passage on the Shasta and
the equally pleasant Cascade.
In-state passengers are urged in
stead to ride the old Klamath
an experience which will drive
the more sensitive passengers
onto the airlines for keeps.
The railroads' attitude (and we
don't think this is limited to the
Espee) is in marked contrast to
the attitude of the phonograph
industry which is bigger now
than it was when it was "killed"
by radio a quarter century ago.
Phonographs were supposed to
be as out-of-date as the linen
duster as soon as radios began
appearing in living rooms. But
the phonograph industry im
proved its product, did a master
ful selling job, developed equip
ment and demonstrated there
was still room for the "Victrola."
The phonograph people were
demonstrating the spirit of
"try," the spirit we like to think
built America's industrial might.
The railroad people are giving
up. Eugene Register-Guard.
(Editor's note: The above edi
torial was written before the
SP announced that during the
winter months it will run the
Shasta Daylight only three
times' a week.)
Deer Hides for Boat
The Sea Explorer Post 30 of
the Boy Scouts, Medford, are
collecting deer hides to raise
money to outfit a 26-foot boat
which was donated recently by
the Navy.
Persons wishing to donate deer
hides are asked either to call
2-2877, 2-6435 to have someone
pick up the hides. The hides can
also be left at the Kliever Ma
chine shop, 130 North Front st.,
Medford.
these as has the Oregonian. Is
the GOP going to dump Mitchell
off the campaign plane when the
going gets rough, as it reportedly
has already dumped Benson, as
dangerous and excess baggage?
Mrs. Mabel RundaU Boufiioux
844 N.E. Stafford st. - - -Portland
11, Ore.