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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
Oct. 14. 1946 (Monday)
Medford residents asked by
Vernon Thorpe, city engineer
and acting city superintendent,
not to burn fall leaves in the
streets because the heat is in
jurious to the pavement.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Rain is
needed for fall sown grain, and
duck shooting.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14. 1938 (Wednesday)
Jackson county has a regis
tration of 20,788 voters for the
general election, and of this num
ber 11,254 are listed as Repub
licans; 9.081 as Democrats, and
453 voters as miscellaneous.
Wade Crawford, superintend
ent of the Klamath Indian reser
vation, speaks at Active club
meeting at Medford hotel.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14, 192B (Thursday)
A record was established for
the Crater Lake National park
during the season past when
94,770 people entered its boun
daries. Queen Marie of Rumania will
nass throueh this city. Monday,
Nov. 8 en route to San Francisco
from Portland.
40 YEARS AGO
nrf 11 101R (Saturday!
t tj stnnlpv nf Cpntral Point
elected president of the Southern
Oregon Schoolmasters cjud.
Nurmi's bakery formally opens
modern bakeshop on South Front
st.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 14. 1908 (Sunday)
Citizens of San Francisco arm
ing themselves to resist thugs
and fnotnads who have become
bold under the inefficiency of
the city administration.
Mayor Tom Johnson roasted
the University of Chicago today
in an interview.
What's the Answer?
Can Ton Get 4 of the 7T
Copt. 195J fdltortaj Research
Report
1. President Eisenhower Is
now the oldest man in the Pres
idential office since the Civil
War; right or wrong?
2. The Elsie Dinsmore books
were written by Harriet B
Stowe, Lydia Pinkham, Martha
F. Finley, Charlotte Bronte, Jane
Austen, or a man?
3. Most states that adopted
daylight saving time this year
are now off it; right or wrong?
4. The party in power always
loses a Presidential election if it
lost the Congressional elections
two years before; right or
wrong?
4. The party in power always
loses a Presidential election if it
lost the Congresional elections
two years before; right or wrong?
5. Allspice is a combination
of spices or a separate spice in
itself?
6. Of all U. S. war veterans
more that 3-i, about 23, k or
13, or less than belong to the
American Legion?
7. The late Louis X. Brandeis
was or wasn't the first U. S. Su
preme Court Justice of the Jew
ish race.
The Answers: 1. Wrong: Tru
man was older before he left the
White House. 2. Martha F. Fin
ley. 3. Wrong. 4. Wrong. 5. Sep
arate spice. 6. Less than V. 7.
Was.
A New Law
Oregon needs a new law
office of Public Utilities Commissioner, unless we the
people want to be run as
years ago, by the Southern
As the record in recent years shows, when the
PUC in Oregon orders the SP to do something in the
public interest, that billion-dollar corporation thumbs
its nose, does nothing and when the matter is taken
to court it seems always to win.
As far as we can determine the courts are not at
fault, the laws governing the office of Public Utility
Commissioner and his powers ARE.
THE RECENT decision of the SP to reduce its Day-
light service between Portland and San Francis
co to three days instead of seven days a week is a case
in point. 1
Oregon's PUC refused to give its OK and so did
the California commission. But according to reliable
report, the railroad was not disturbed in the slightest
by the action in Oregon but was and is much put
out by a similar action in California.
We will have to leave the details of the remedy
to the lawyers, and the members of the forthcoming
state legislature.
But as stated unless the SP is to run the state and
determine what the public interest DEMANDS, there
must be radical changes made in the laws that govern
such matters, in this state.
Not only are the orders of the Oregon commission
disregarded but the railroad has been allowed to dis
continue all passenger service in one of the most pros
perous and rapidly growing sections of the state, by
running all passenger trains through the barren
wastes of the Natron "cut-off." This wouldn't be al
lowed in California for a minute.
Not only will the denial of such action as contem
plated for the "Daylight" stick, but when the Cali
fornia commission told the SP to continue its passen
ger service between San Francisco and Eureka as well
as between San Francisco and Sacramento the SP
obeyed. It also changed and improved its passenger
equipment as the commission ordered. That's the way
it should be.
Surely what California can do in the direction of
public utility control Oregon should be able to do. .
When the Legislature meets will be the time to
do it R.W.R.
Why?
One of the mysteries of this senatorial campaign
there are many is why the McKay supporters persist
in keeping alive the much-publicized Al Sarena mining-timber
deal.
We should think they would like to forget it.
For by no stretch of the imagination can it fail to
bring discredit upon the McKay administration of the
Interior Department. Yet it is continually being reviv
ed not by the supporters of Senator Morse but by his
opponents.
Is there some sort of "guilt-complex" involved
here, or do the Al Sarena defenders and apologists
feel that the issue is still alive and hurting the Repub
lican candidate, so they intend to do what they can
to stop it?
fXTE DON'T know the answrer, but we do know that
the more the McKay supporters try to gloss over
this approval of "mining for timber in the US Forest
Reserve, at $5 an acre, the more they advertise the
fact that while the transaction, no doubt, was "within
the law" at the time it was put over, it was from the
standpoint of conservation of the national forests, and
a fair deal to the non-mining buyers of government
timber, unprecedented and
Small wonder that Secretary McKay's successor
looking over the record
country that nothing like
happen again, so long as he
TTHERE is another peculiar feature of this journal
istic "alibi" for the Al Sarena deal the per
sistence of so many of
the law compelled Secretary McKay to do what he
did. Listen to this, from one of the anti-Morse news
papers, quote :
"Why should the (Al Sarena) claims have been denied?
Are you asking that public servants refuse to do their job
as they have sworn to do? Are you suggesting they attempt
to circumvent the law?"
Might one inquire : WHAT law?
There was no law that
tor" of the Interior Department to do what he did,
without the sanction or knowledge of the head of his
department as former Secretary of the Interior Mc
Kay now admits.
As far as the policy and long-established tradition
of the Forest Service is concerned, the denial of the
mining patents by the mineral assay branches of both
the U.S. Forest Service
agement would have been sufficient to quash the pro
posal at the outset as was the case under Mr. McKay's
predecessor m the Interior
But for the first time on
ledge of the head of the
his subordinates oked the
sued and for $5 an acre,
we did not say operators
erated it and don t now
valued in the open market at $500.
MOT a "GIVE-AWAY?" How could any fair
minded observer term it anything else?
And if the precedent
followed fortunately under the new Interior Depart-
man dispensation, it won't
phoney mining claims in
Sunday. October 14. 1956
is Needed
to put some teeth in the
California was run many
Pacific.
indefensible.
assured the people of the
the Al Sarena deal would
held office.
the McKay supporters that
COMPELLED the "solici
and Bureau of Land Man
Department.
record, without the know
Interior Department, one of
deal, the patents were is
the Al Sarena mine owners
for they never really op
secured their timber land
thus established were to be
be there would be more
Oregon's Forest reserve,
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not exceed 400 words.
The Whispering Campaign
To the Editor: Some of the
Morse haters in the beautiful
Rogue Valley must have taken
the "low road" in their cam
paign tactics, according to a
neighbor lady who says she was
approached recenUy by a lady
campaigner, who after finding
she was registered, and intended
to vote, proceeded to tell her
that as many women failed to
do any thinking when they went
to the polls, she was doing a
little instruction work.
So according to her. our
neighbor lady should, of course.
vote for Ike and McKay. As this
didn t seem to have the desired
effect, she went on to inform
her that both Stevenson and
Morse were communists.
She happened to be talking
to a lady that not only "thinks",
but has for many years taught
children in the public schools
to think.
Of course this charge is so
utterly ridiculous, that no one
with ordinary intelligence will
pay any attention to it, but
the intent to damage reputations,
and lessen chances for election.
is obvious, and we believe is
punishable by law.
Wayne Morse is amply able
to defend himself against any
out-in-the-open attack, but these
whispering assaults are not in
his category.
We wonder if the Republican
County Committee will sanction
this manner of campaign to win
an election?
R. E. Nealon,
Table Rock rd.,
Central Point, Ore.
How About It?
To the Editor: Has any man
or group of men any moral
right to claim by statement or
implication any glory or credit
for a Job or task well done by
another man or group of men
who worked hard to achieve a
given goal?
I am refering to the truce
in Korea. The truce teams of
Truman and Red China worked
out and agreed on a truce for
the Korea war. They bogged
down on one point, and that was
the forcible return of prisoners.
Red China had other work for
the army in Indochina so it
waived the point of no forcible
return of prisoners and in July,
53, a truce was signed. Ike
should have credit for holding
out for that one point but not
for stopping the war.
The credit or glory should go
to the Truman and Red Chinese
truce teams and not to Eisen
hower, as Truman would have
signed the same truce that Ike
signed had Red China waived
the prisoner issue during Tru
man's administration.
President Roosevelt kept us
out of war for nine years and
did not take us into war until
half of the Pacific fleet was on
the bottom at Pearl Harbor and
Hitler had declared war on us.
Just what do the Republicans
mean when they call the Demo
crats the war party? Just what
would Ike have done had he
been our president at the time
of Pearl Harbor? How can Ike
and Dick take any credit for
the larger pay checks for labor
when both were hostile to the
$1 an hour minimum wage law?
Any credit for the largest pay
checks in history should go to
George Meaney, Walter Reuther,
John Lewis and to organized
labor and not to the present
administration.
The Republican orators try to
tell us how lily white this ad
ministration has been. Just how
much of this hooey do they
expect us to swallow? If we
reelect Ike and a few more Mc
Kays the natural resources of
our great country will go the
same way as the Tidelands Oil
and Al Sarena mining claims
went, namely to big business.
John R. Schumpf,
Route 1, Box 312,
Central Point, Ore.
Annexation Needed
To the Editor: The news item
regarding probable elimination
of the Berrydale District an
nexation from the ballot Nov.
8, prompts me to use your col
umn to reach the most people
in the shortest time.
I wish to remind the City
Planning Commission, the City
Council, and Mr. Doernbach's
group that there has been a
than there are prairie dogs
policy of timber conservation, for the benefit of this
and future generations would be on the way out and
FAST.
'THE ABOVE are facts.
name-calling or the
sion. And to attempt a new
these facts do not reflect
tive responsibility or the
of the man who seeks to
Morse, namely Mr. Douglas McKay.
Why, then should the pro-McKay supporters in
sist upon bringing up the case time after time, week
after week, when obviously
about the facts of this case,
posed to vote for the man
responsibility for them?
It has this departmeit
and address of the writer, although
great deal of work done by
some Berrydale residents to ob
tain a sewer and improve con
ditions in our district, dating
back some seven or eight years.
Nearly all of these people have
reached the same conclusion,
that our only solution is annexa
tion by the City of Medford,
inasmuch as it is the only source
of such utilities. The advantages
of annexation outweigh the dis
advantages so much that any
sensible citizen of this area can
not afford to see the proposal
dropped and delayed any longer.
I cannot condone the poor
excuses of the opposition present
at the meeting Oct. 10. I signed
the petition in good faith and
I read it first. There wasn't a
single word or statement that
would indicate any misunder
standing of its purpose. It is the
only first step in securing im
provement of our district.
Let's remember that the peo
ple in the present City of Med
ford will share part of our
burden, just as we already en
joy some facilities paid by them
every time we travel into town.
It is very true that sewers, streets
and other needed improvements
are going to cost us money. How
else do you expect to obtain
such improvements? The plan
ning and administration of such
facilities alone is a tremendous
job and where else could we ob
tain trained men except from
the city?
Let's leave the annexation up
to the good old American custom
of decision by the voters where
majority rules. The opponents
present did not represent the
majority of the citizens of our
district.
For the health of our people,
protection and decent living, let
the people of our district decide
what we want on Nov. 6, 1956,
not 1957, 1958, or 1959.
N. F. Gier,
2902 North Pacific Hwy.,
Medford, Ore.
As to "White Supremacy"
To the Editor: One sentence
in F. J. Clifford's letter of Octo
her 5 causer) us to take nen in
hand to ask a question, ine sen
tence was, "They re fighting to
stay white folks, they don't
want to become colored, which
they sure will if forced to live
with the blacks."
Sunnosine in all fairness we
were to reverse that sentence
when the white man was so
eager to settle-in America, and
the American Indian had salQ,
"We are fighting to stay red
fnlkK we don't want to become
whit, which we sure will if
forced to live with whites." At
that time, the Indians had to
contend with "white" foreigners,
but today we are dealing with
colored American born citizens!
Why, on the one hand, did we
Hitler in his attempt
to retain the Aryan race by
practicing inhuman atrocities
nH mt hv the same token
sanction the southern white
man's merciless attempt to up
hold his superiority over the
fnlnrprl man? Where, oh. where
did the white man ever obtain
the ungodly notion that he rules
all other races?
At times like this, we can
obtain encouragement irom ine
scriptures found in the book of
Acts. "If this counsel or this
work be of men, it will come to
nought: but if it be of God, ye
-onnnt miprthrffli it: lest haply
ye be found even to fight against
God."
Mrs. Helga Mitchell,
Route 1, Box 7B,
Jacksonville, Ore.
He Likes Frank Jenkins
To the Editor: This is to ex
press my appreciation of the fact
that your good newspaper pub
lishes "In the Day's News" by
Frank Jenkins, in spite of his
frequent statements which seem
to be in opposition to much that
you express in your editorials,
Senator Morse has done a lot
of expensive "politicking" by
the use of his so-called "Senator
Morse Reports" which have been
paid for by the voters all of
them, regardless of their politi
cal preferences. Months ago I
wrote to the senator asking if
his reports were paid for by
him or the Federal Govern
ment. His office answered, but
the answer was to a question I
had not asked. If his reports
in Kansas, and the entire
They can't be refuted by
silly claim of legal compul
record in under-statement,
credit upon the administra
statesmanlike potentialities
displace Senator Wayne
the more the people leam
the less they will be dis
who insists upon taking the
stumped. R.W.R.
were factual and free from
propaganda calculated to aid in
his re-election, they would be
welcome, even though it costs
thousands of dollars to print,
fold, stuff, address and pay cost
of franking the stuff to the
voters.
Ivan Peoples,
Gold HiU, Ore.
Use of Funds
To the Editor: This is an age
when a question has to be worth
at least $64,000 to attract much
attention, and yet, at the risk of
appearing inexcusably petty, I
would like to consider one that
involves nickels, dimes and sin
gle dollars.
Yesterday in the mail there
was a letter from the Jackson
County Public Health associa
tion urging attendance at a meet
ing to promote fluoridation. The
letter, which was over the sig
nature of Isobel Sickels, was not
very remarkable, but the print
ing at the bottom was almost
unbelievable. Financed by the
Sale of Christmas Seals." I al
ways thought this money was
donated to help those ill with
tuberculosis.
Having made several phone
calls to make sure there is no
mistake that Seal money is
being used to promote fluorida
tion I think it is important to
ask the following questions, pub
licly. Why, if the Seal Sale officials
were intending to use these funds
to promote fluoridation, didn't
they say so at the time they col
lected them? The 1955-56 Seal
Sale letter makes no mention of
anything but tuberculosis. They
say they have a right to use their
funds as they see fit, and the
privilege is granted by their
charter. If their charter does in
deed give them authority to col
lect funds for one thing and use
them for another it is a unique
and remarkable document.
How, since Ashland voted
down fluoridation, can their Seal
money be spent to force it on
Medford? All of Jackson county
buys Christmas Seals . . . and
this is a city measure.
Finally, if there is a surplus
of tuberculosis funds so that the
allotment to fluoridation is sur
plus, unneeded money, then why
are chest x-rays pot free Instead
01 51.707
The question here is not flu
oridation as such. Whether one
supports it or thinks it is deadly,
it is his constitutional privilege
to support his opinion. If char
itable funds can be taken from
his pocket and quietly used to
defeat his opinion and deny his
privilege, then we have here not
only decayed teeth but also
crumbling democracy.
Jane Gillaspie,
636 West Fourth St.,
Medford, Ore.
Editor's note: The following
statement was issued Saturday
by Mrs. Henry Padgham, presi
dent of the Jackson County Pub
lic Health association, with re
gard to the questions raised in
the letter above:
"The charter of the Jackson
County Public Health associa
tion, made up 37 years ago, spe
cifies that we do a tuberculosis
control program and a general
health education program.
"Dental health was one major
activity from 1928 to 1939, and
the association, with local den
tists, supported a clinic to fill
teeth. That was discontinued be
cause of the shortage of dentists
and other difficulties. Dental
health education was continued,
however, with emphasis on pre
vention. At this time one can't
talk prevention without discuss
ing fluoridation of local water
supplies. We submit a program
of work each year to the state
organization. It has been ap
proved for 1956 and 1957.
"The Public Health Associa
tion has brought in outside
speakers who were experts in
their line on many health topics,
including heart, sanitation, tu
berculosis, mental health, and
other subjects.
"We are not spending seal
sale money on the promotion of
fluoridation, such as through
television, radio or newspaper
advertising. A local committee
has raised its own funds for
that. But we do feel the citizens
of this county are entitled to
sound information on dental
health and any other subject,
and we will continue to give it
to them.
"Any parent or group of par
ents who want unbiased infor
mation should attend our meet
ing Oct. 19 at. 1:30 p.m. at the
courthouse auditorium.
Mrs. Henry Padgham,
President, Jackson County
Public Health Association.
On Loggers' Nose
To the Editor: I have noted the
campaign groups in Jackson
County are putting on to rid
the county of porcupines. It
seems that porcupines are killing
and maiming our young forest
trees. In order to exterminate
these vicious little rascals, the
Chamber of Commerce, with the
cooperation of the Kiwanis Club,
is sponsoring a contest to see
which 12 to 18-year-old can bring
in the most porcupine noses. It
is stipulated that the noses must
include both nostrils and con
testants are advised to salt the
noses carefully to avoid "de
terioration."
The Chamber of Commerce
and the Kiwanis Club are to
be commended for being so con
servation-conscious, it is only
fair that these organizations
should know that the porcupine,
too. Is worried about our van
ishing timber supply. This was
one of the main subjects of the
Annual Convention of Porcu
pines, the last meeting of which
I was fortunate enough to wit
ness. All the porcupines gathered
in the middle of a logged-off
section of land for the meeting.
Their chairman, and old and
greying porcupine standing on
a tree stump, brought the meet
ing to order.
Fellow porcupines," he said.
pounding his gavel, "we are in
the midst of a great crisis. Every
day more and more trees are
disappearing fronrour domain
some are being packed off the
property bodily, but worse, oth
ers are being knocked down to
lay and rot. And what is the
cause of this state of affairs?
LOGGERS! That's what!"
There immediately arose a
loud babble of agreement among
the assembled porcupines.
"Furthermore," said a lady
porcupine, they are accusing
US!" She shook with disgust.
"In all my many years of por
cupining, I've never seen as
many trees ruined by us as they
ruin with one sweep of one of
their 'Cats.' I ask you, what are
we going to do about it?"
There was a long pause while
everyone thought. Finally some
one in the back row said, "Ex
terminate the loggers!" There
was a great burst of applause,
and the speaker sat down, cough
ing and blushing modestly.
A good idea, that," said an
old porcupine, "but how?"
"Well," said a gentleman in
the fourth row, "as a member
of the Porcupine Piwanis Pub,
I suggest that we have a contest.
The lad bringing in the most
logger noses wins a cigar.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" said
the chairman. "A nose for every
logger and for every logger a
nose.
"Ugh!" said a young co-ed,
smoothing her quills, "what'U
we do with them?"
"What?" asked the chairman.
"What'U we do with the
noses?" said the co-ed, grimac
ing with distaste.
"Well, said someone, "we could
put rings in 'em and sell 'em for
sink stoppers . . . we'd all be
rich."
"Or," said another, "we
could ...
Well anyway, you can see
what the porcupine population
thinks of the timber shortage.
It should make everyone feel
good to know that the Chamber
of Commerce isn't the only one
who's worried. After all, trees
are the porcupines' bread and
butter.
Sylvia Reed,
219 N.W. "E" St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Why Pick on Morse?
To the Editor: I don't like Ike
and nix on Nixon. And as for
the Secretary of State why
couldn't Mr. Eisenhower have
appointed the most intelligent
man in the United States instead
of the Dulles?
In fact, I quite go along with
Theodore Roosevelt, who found
the Republican party so corrupt
that he, left to found the Bull
Moose the Progressives. Re
member Senator La Follette?
Why pick ' on Senator Wayne
Morse? He merely did what oth
er great Republicans have done
left the party when he found
he couldn't disentangle it from
Big Business and corruption.
Why even Mrs. Gifford Pin-chot-,
widow of the late great
Republican governor of Penn
sylvania, wrote a letter to Ore
gonians coming out flat-footed
for Morse. You see, Mr. Plnchot
was a chief forester before being
elected governor of Pennsylvania
and he helped Theodore Roose
velt start conservation policies
in the United States. Until then
it was mostly plunder. We
wouldn't have had a drop of
water flowing over Niagara
Falls if it had not been for Theo
dore Roosevelt. The factories-to-be
along Niagara were going to
divert ALL the water and leave
the people of the United States
a dry Niagara.
In the days of Abraham Lin
coln and later of Theodore Roose
velt I would have been a Re
publican. Then we had another great
Roosevelt who rescued us from
Hoovervilles (now, I wonder
where they ever got that name?)
and Farmers' Holidays. In them
there days you could have
bought the whole town of Med
ford for $1200 only nobody
had $1200. And we got the CCC,
which took jobless boys out of
city slums and into the depleted
forests, which the boys prompt
ly proceeded to replant and re
build. Well, in those days,
strange to say, I became a Demo
crat. I saw armed guards turn
away desperate people from the
"Dust Bowls" and the "Tobacco
Roads."
Remember the Tidelands Oil
money some of which should
have gone to the schools of this
state?
Well, a lot of the water supply
and power has just now been
shot to Hells Canyon. Oh sure,
what's good for General Motors
is good for the country but
what about that anti-trust suit
against General Motors?
Compare the two Gettysburg
addresses David Dwight Eisen
hower's and Abraham Lincoln's.
I'll take Lincoln's.
Edith Y. Ingle,
333 Bessie St., ' .
Medford, Ore.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors).
The problem was this: What
sort of a note should Mommy
leave for small ton to find
when ha got home from school,
to let him know she wouldn't
be gone too long?
The solution, proposed by
pro-school daughter, was am
follows: "Mother will be homo
soon. Amenll"
One of the nicest things about
Fall is the fact that school has
started, and publication of "The
Lincoln Legend is resumed at
Lincoln school. At hand is Vol.
II, Issue No. 1.
One enterprising reporter for
the periodical made the rounds
of the school staff to inquire
"What did you do last summer
that gave you the most enjoy
ment?" The three answers we
liked the best were:
'Mr. DeVoss: I went fishing.
fishing, fishing.
'Mrs. Ragsdale: I stayed horn
while my husband went fishing,
fishing, fishing.
'Mr. Gilbertson: To San Fran
cisco I went, and a portion of
money I spent. We rode on the
ferry, "Twas a ride most merry,
then home with a pocketbook
bent. (I NEVER went fishing.)"
m m m
"Gov. Paul Patterson has
called a conference . was
a phrase from one alert, up-to-the-minute
local organisa
tion, brought to us in the form
of a press release last week.
The other evening, as curfew
was tolling the knell of another
parting day, a weary staff mem
ber was asked by his wife what
he planned to eat for breakfast.
His reply was cereal, of course,
the same kind he'd had for
breakfast every day for a long
time.
"Don't you ever get sick of
eating the same kind every
day?" she asked, somewhat petu
lantly. "Not particularly," he
replied.
"Well, I get sick of WATCH
ING you eat the same thing
every morning," she stated.
The staff member, in report
ing the conversation, thinks it
might be the result of the fact
that his wife has been on a diet
for a week.
One candidate for elective
office has the initials "L. G."
Someone asked him what they
stand for. "Looks Good," he
replied modestly.
A neophyte reporter, who is
getting a good, solid indoctrina
tion in reporting political
speeches as the election cam
paign gets into high gear, is
thinking about buying himself
an umbrella particularly if,
when going to political func
tions held in connection with
dinners, he continues to be
placed at the head table where,
in the past, he has been damp
ened by a gentle dew from the
lips of aspiring and aspirating
politicians.
, Nov. 4 to 10 is Cat Week.
. . a
The gastronomic item of which
a local cocktail lounge is most
proud is listed on its "specail"
menu.
Conversation at the family
dinner-table turned to the new
school acquaintances of the
younger members such things
as what their fathers do, hew
the new friends do in school,
what church they belong to,
and so on. The question arose
as to the church affiliation of
one particular boy. The young
est member of the group
thought for a moment tnd
said:
"I'm not sure, but I think
he goes to the OsteopiiUc
church."
Southern Pacific
To Keep Shasta Run
San Francisco (U.PJ The
Southern Pacific will continue,
its regular daily schedules for
snasta Daylight streamliners
pending a review of an applica
tion to make the runs two-weekly
during winter months.
Claude E. Peterson, vice pres
ident in rharaa
traffic and public relations, said
ne believed the winter schedule
was "a necessity" because of
light travel, which resulted in
the loss of $5,000 per day.
He said, however, that the
railroad was deferring to the
Oregon and California Public
Utilities commissions in delay
ing plans to start the tri-weekly
service Monday.
The railroad has proposed, un
der the winter schedule, that
the PorUand - San Francisco
streamliners would be trimmed
to three times a week in each di
rection during the light months
while still maintaining daily ser
vice from June through Septem
ber and during the winter holi
day periods.
HI, DAD!
Akron, O. (U.R) When a
"masked" man entered her fath
ers market here, Dorothy Frient
dashed out to summon police,
who captured the intruder with
out a struggle. He was her fath
er, who entered holding a hand
kerchief over his mouth after
having some teeth pulled.
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