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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read The Mali Jibune Published OaiJy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-ll ROBERT W RL'HL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $1800 vauy ana Sunday One month 1.30 ' 'i nu urairn uc per copy All TermaCashln Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford OffleUl Paper of Jackson County United Press full Leased Wire" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU UfLJKLULATION Advertising Renrpientaf fu' WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Office in New York Chicago, de trot t San Pr.nri.M I A, I Seattle Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver u r.; NATIONAL EDITORIAL association u vj Lua OlV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 30. 1946 (Wednesday) With less than $700 left to complete the quota, the 1946 Community Chest drive is ex pected to close this week. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The rain is fine for ducks and fall plow ing. Falling on the autumn leaves, it also accelerates the skidding of daredevil autoists on the curves. 20 YEARS AGO Oct.. 30, 1936 (Friday) About 800 were in attendance at the opening session today of teachers' Institute at the South ern Oregon Normal school in Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1916 (Saturday) Halloween activities have al ready commenced to worry the local police, numerous pranks having been played last night In various sections of the city. Home Economics Advisory committee, Alice Hanley, chair man, adopts resolution extend ing thanks to Dr. Warner for her "Health" lectures. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 30, 1916 (Monday) A fungus growth, known as the California peach blight, is to be found in almost every peach orchard in Jackson coun ty. "Although I have always been a Republican, I am supporting Woodrow Wilson in the presi dential campaign," says Dr. J. K. Baillle of Phoenix. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 30. 1906 (Tuesday) There is a great danger eight hundred renegrade Cheyene In dians will join the marauding Ute band near Sheridan, Wyo., and that the threatened danger of bloodshed will become a re ality. From Local and Personal col umn: George H. Church is re moving his bakery from Seventh st.. to his new shop at Tenth and D sts. What's the Answer? Can Ton Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1933 EdiuirtaJ Reiemrcb Report 1. Able-bodied women cover ed by social security must wait until 65 to draw benefits; right or wrong? 2. President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China became (a) 60, (b) 65, (c) 70, (d)75 or (e) 80 years old on Oct. 31? 3. No American woman could vote for president until the equal suffrage amendment was added to the Constitution; right or wrong? 4. AU high U. S. State Depart ment officials boycott the Soviet Embassy social functions in Washington; right or wrong? 5. Many states use receipts from their gasoline taxes for purposes other than roads; right or wrong? 6. Stevenson carried no states west of the Mississippi in 1952; right or wrong? 7. The Thanksgiving turkey is expected to cost more or less per pound this year than last, or about the same? The Answers: 1. Wrong, may now become eligible at 62. 2. 70. 3. Wrong; some states had al lowed women to rote for all of fices 4. Wrong. 5. Right. 6. Right 7. A little less, say government ficials. MAIL TRIBUNE Measure Recommendations No. 1: Vote "yes" No. 2: Vote "yes" No. 3: Vote "yes" No. 4: Vote "yes" "No. 5: Vote "yes" No. 6: Vote "yes" No. 7: Vote "yes" Non-Partisan ballot : Write in name of Wm. McAllister of Med ford for State Supreme Court, No. 301. The other candidates and present incumbents are unoppos ed for the State Supreme Court or District Court and County School Superintendent. So no rec ommendations are needed, just mark the names on the ballot For the first time in local history the Mail Tribune favors affirmative action on all state measures. The only two that could properly be called contro versial are No. I, allowing the state legislature to place the emergency clause on tax measures and No. 6, placing a state tax on cigarettes. T'HE CHIEF objection to No. I has been the claim that it would open the way for the imposition of a state sales tax. Not necessarily. The Legislature would first have to pass such a tax over the veto of the Governor for both Elmo Smith and Robert Holmes, the Republican and Democratic candidates, have pledged themselves to veto any sales tax until such a tax has been approved by the people. In this question as so many others, the objections should be weighed against the benefits and there should be affirmative action if the latter outbalance the former. As we see it, the benefits of this proposal No. I do outbalance the objections, for it really does nothing but restore the right of taxation to the legislature where it belongs. And also where it exists in most other states in the union. The practical effect of the constitutional amendment prohibiting attaching the emergency clause to tax measures was to allow any small minority to nullify the tax legislation for a con siderable period of time, even when the need from the standpoint of the state finances and the public welfare, did make immediate action highly important. Moreover, repeal of the some have claimed, destroy the power of popular ref erendum, that power would -still exist whenever the neccesary percentage of the voters so desired, in the alloted period of time. In short this amendment would not give the legislature any ers over taxes, but merely resentative body the powers that formerly existed in this state. This should be THE SAME general principle in our judgment ap- plies to the cigarette tax. Such a tax was passed once but has never been enforced because a pro-cigarette minority invoked the referendum. The chief argument against such a tax is that it is a special and discriminatory "sales tax" and therefore contrary to sound taxation principles and the public welfare. A large number of states have such a tax, however, and if our information is correct there has never been a repeal! Such a tax would raise approximately $5,000,- 000 a year and is no more as we see it, than the tax on gasoline, liquor or cosmet ics. We endorsed the proposal before and do so again. In the readjustment of the income would help. "THE OTHER measures refer chiefly to the repeal of constitutional salary limitations, based on the ancient cost of living before the Battle of Bull Run to the tremendously high cost of living today. It is as unreasonable and unjust to expect our state officials to be given a wage scale of a century ago as to ex pect groceries today to sell 6 quarts of milk for two bits as they did in the '80s and fresh eggs for a dime a dozen. If the servant is worthy of his hire then sure ly our public servants should be. As to the authorization of acceptance of gifts in corporate stock by the state and confining the selec tion of county coroners and surveyors to candidates who are in certain fundamentals fitted for their re spective jobs, we question the crying need of such leg islation, but can see no objection whatever to taking affirmative action, so long as the issue has been raised. This doesn't mean any stock dealing by the state, but is chiefly beneficial to the State Board of Higher Education which, is under this change simply allowed to accept gifts of corporate stocks whenever donors prefer that method to selling stocks and giving the money. We can see no objection whatever to such action. As to the prevention of certain types of fishing in coastal streams, this is another one of the hardy per ennials of legislation where the initiative is regu larly invoked. This does not affect Rogue River where commercial fishing is now illegal, but to the other streams to the north. On the basis of the benefits out balancing the objections, we again favor affirmative action. FINALLY, ONE last word in this department, name r ly: If you have not read the Voters Pamphlet yet READ it ! This presentation of non-partisan inf orma tion on "men and measures" to every voter in the state is one of the most progressive and enlightened political moves ever made by any state government. Failure to take advantage of it would be inexcusable. 2 R.W.R. Tuesday, October 30, I9S6 prohibition, would not, as unusual or excessive pow restore to the proper rep clone. unsound or discriminatory, tax program this added Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances me use is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 4UU words. Keep Nunley on Job To the Editor: The public em ployee who is involved in law enforcement, and who sees the inside workings of the district attorney's office, which, of all agencies, MUST have a good strong, fair district attorney in office, is the one person who is j restricted in speaking out dur ing an election because of his i office. It is easily seen that such agencies as the police, the sher iff's office, the judiciary and the foresters, cannot take sides po litically, but must sit back and watch a man who has been do ing an excellent job of enforce ment, unfairly and maliciously slammed and ' accused, cursed and belittled. For eight years, until last April 1, 1 was a law enforcement officer with the state depart ment of forestry. During that time there have been three dis trict attorneys. It has been the experience of the state forestry department that immediately from the time Mr. Nunley took office, up to the present, we re ceived the full cooperation of his office and we have consid ered him fair, impartial and competent. As a forester, I can say that with all due credit to all the forest protection agencies and the cooperative loggers and for est industry, a good deal of credit for the proper function ing of our forest laws should go to Mr. Nunley as district attor ney. This letter, is long overdue. It should have been written after Mr. Nunley took office, and again last spring when he was so unfairly and unscrupulously, without basis or fact, accused of malfeasance in office. I write this from a completely non-partisan viewpoint, because the protection of our natural re sources, and enforcement of our laws, is far greater than party politics. From my experience, I feel we must continue to have the full cooperation of the DA's office, which Mr. Nunley has been competently providing. As an ex-public servant, I can speak. Vote to keep Mr. Nunley in office as District Attorney. Robert A. Stokes, Route 3, Box 86A, Medford, Ore. Approves Anexation To the Editor: This letter is addressed to residents of ' the Berrydale Sanitary, district. The article in Sunday's Mail Tribune, certainly gives the figures clearly on annexation problems. It is certainly clearer than the big guessing game that was staged by the opposition crowd last Wednesday at the Howard School. There is nothing In annexation to scare anyone. Otherwise why would one district follow the other in asking for it? And is any one fool enough to think we should not have to pay for our sewer when we get it? I, for one, am willing to pay my share. We must have sanita tion here soon. Any thing we might get as a result of these open sewer drains, can spread to the city, itself. And what a picnic germs could have In this large school! And our natural drain could do untold damage to business outside our boundary, where it passes through, should we have an epidemic of con tagious disease. The area that was included after the petition was turned in is quite thickly settled, and al ready behind the first row of homes, at Beall lane, a new street has been put in, and three homes already built. In that heavy soil, which does not drain well, how many years will it be before they need better sanita tion? AU too few! Look ahead, don't try to stand still. You can't have "Rural liv ing" anyway on a citysized lot, which many are trying to do, with chickens etc. Crowded so close together you can't very long keep your septic tank from damaging other property, espeo ialy in this district of shallow soil on hard pan, and heavy "sticky" soil. In a crowded district, every one owes something to the com munity. We need to clean this pollution from our soil and clear the air. And as we have to annex in order to have a disposal plant, let's annex! We can't raise enough to build a plant as well as a sewer, and one without the other is use less! In going through this district with the petition, I found an odd situation. Some of those opposed to annexation, or to even a sewer can't smell! It is rather late to depend on the opposition's theories, even if they might work eventually. Can we afford to dream? Vote "Yes" so we can take the next step toward sanitation. - Sincerely trying to help the district. Grace Kurz 360 De Barr ave. Medford, Ore. They Won't Stop to' Shop To the Editor: The other day I was listening to discussions on the freeway, to go through the city of Medford, the Hillcrest or the West side. ot a pen name or Initial for publication So from aU the arguments, if the city of Medford wants to be the city of dimwits, like Los Angeles, when the fog sets in in the winter that lasts about two or three weeks and breathe all the exhausts vapor from the smudge combined then, by all means, have it along Bear creek, and you wont be able to see the tourists passing through. They certainly will not stop here in the hotels or motels. On the other hand, if the Hillcrest route whould go about a mile further east, it would by-pass many orchards, perhaps1 cover up some of your beloved poison oak, and be east of the irrigation ditches. As for the new Memorial hos pital on Barnett road, the way so many of us motorists are driv ing, it will be just nice to have it close by to pick up the maimed and crippled. Xavier Widmer Route 2, Box 186 Medford, Ore. Allergic to Fluoride? To the Editor: As the argu ments continue on the fluorida tion problem, I would like to ask a very pertinent question. Have you ever seen a case of a person being allergic to so dium fluoride? Our son was advised by his dentist to use a toothpaste con taining sodium fluoride, and he used it regularly for a short period of time until suddenly he broke out with the most beau tiful assortment of hives, welts, lumps and itches a dermatolo gist could ask for. He could hardly stand to have his shoes on because of the severe itching of his feet. Upon seeing a doctor, how ever, we soon learned he was allergic to the toothpaste he was using, and after discontinuing its use his skin cleared up, and in three or four days he was able to return to school which is a case of "All's well that ends well," but I hesitate to think what our solution would have been had the sodium fluoride been in the drinking water and he could not have discontinued its use. We probably would have had to sell our property and move to another community in able to escape the effects of it. This is just something to think about, you who want this chem ical put into our drinking water you could be allergic to it too. Mrs. Norvel T. Jones 1019 West Second st. Medford, Ore. If Poison, How Come? To the Editor: If fluorides In public water are so poisonous, then how come: l.-How does it happen that the 30,000,000 current users of controlled fluoridated public wa ter in approximately 1400 com munities don't die or become deathly ill like they are sup posed to? 2. How come the residents of many areas, such as Bartlett, Tex., who have used fluoridated water all their lives in concen trations many timer that of the recommended amount, haven't shown a higher morbidity and mortality rate from its use than in neighboring areas which were not fluoridated? Ditto for areas having used artificial fluorides. over ten years? (Average ex posure time of over 100 persons examined in Bartlett exceeded 36 years. Concentration there: 8 p.p.m.) 3. How come the fluoridation of public drinking water was the most extensively tested measure ever tackled by the U.S. Public Health Service, and they stiU endorsed it? 4. How come the "control" cities, as Cameron, Texas and Kingston, New York, both pre viously not fluoridated and both being used for comparison with fluoridated cities, installed flu oridation after their research study period was over and they had come out on the wrong end of the dental caries picture? They should have been scared to death. As to its not being "scriptral," as one "Communications" writer complained, how about her auto mobile, telephone, and type writer? It is agreed, God "hath done all things well," but this includes providing us with the raw materials to improve our lot when we put them together in the proper combination. Seems like He expects a little ingenuity and faith on our part. If the "compulsory" aspect is objectionable, should we not also throw out compulsory edu cation, compulsory social secur ity, compulsory income taxes? These things were designed and put into effect for the benefit of the community as a whole whether they reflect equal bene fits directly on every individual or not. For the lady who plans to sell her home and move away if our water is fluoridated, she may escape Medford water, but not the ingestion of fluoride. Ac cording to the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science, over 130 of our foods contain 0.2 to 0.3 ppm of flu orine, so she has already been eating that "deadly poison" and will continue to do so if she likes her fish, corn, potatoes, and milk. Obviously, in view of the above, the safety margin for in gestion of this "poison" is very wide, and one ppm is well with in that margin but still is high enough to do some good. Dr. G. A. Dierdorff 214 Medical Center Bldg. Medford, Ore. Parking Rumor To the Editor: I would like a public answer to a rumor I have heard in regards to off street parking. This rumor was: "that If the vote should be in favor of off street parking, all parking me ters in the City of Medford would be changed to a minimum of a nickle, and that meters such as we have in town with a 12 minute maximum for 1 cent would be changed to a 12 min ute maximum for five cents, which would be five times the present rate." This rumor stated that this increase would be to help pay for off street parking. I thought that off street park ing was to be self supporting without help from the meters on the street. If this rumor is true, off street parking will not be as painless as some people believe. T. Johnson 3070 Lone Pine Medford, Ore. Editor's note: If off-street parking is approved, the plan is to change 254 parking meters in the downtown "core" area (out of a total of 853 in town) from 5 cents per hour to 5 cents per 30 minutes. This has been stated repeatedly in articles con cerning the proposal. As to the 12-mmute meters, the city coun cil has found they are not en tirely satisfacory, and tentative ly contemplates eliminat ing them, whether or not the off-street parking proposal is passed. Spending and Spending" To the Editor: Democratic prosperity has always been pocket-book prosperity. They were in power 20 years. During that time, our national debt rose from about $15 billion to $270 billion. This prosperity was pocket-book prosperity every inch of the way. Had Harry Truman stayed in office we would have had more of the same. If you will notice the argu ments and promises they are making in this campaign, it is the same as before, spending and more spending. So the , question arises, how much more Democratic pros perity can your pocket book stand? M. A. Adams Route 1, Box 589F Central Point, Ore. Th McKay Philosophy To the Editor: RecenUy the Court of Appeals decided the Hells Canyon issue in favor of the Idaho Power company, and when the Hells Canyon associa tion announced that they would carry it to the U. S. Supreme Court. Douglas McKay, the can didate picked by the High Repub lican Brass in Washington to represent us, was quoted by the press to the effect that this deci sion of the Court of Appeals was the law of the land and should be followed. I wonder if he really believes that. I have a faint recollection of a decision of the U. S. Su preme Court, made on three separate occasions, in which it was ruled that the tideland oils belonged to all of the states, and not merely to the four who were trying to get control of them. This too was the law of the land. but did Douglas McKay believe it should be followed? Hardly, in view of the assistance he save Ex-Sen. Guy Cordon in pushing through Congress a bill to nul lify the decision of the Supreme Court and give these vast re sources to the four states. Why was this done? Is it possible that' McKay puts his wisdom above that of the Nine Old Men on the Supreme Court? Or was there another reason of which he has not told us? Further, on several occasions recenUy McKay has emDhasized how he wants to represent all the people in Oregon, how im portant our school svstem is. and how high the intelligence rate of the people of Oregon is. Did he have these views when he helped to take away from the peopje of Oregon the vast sums that might have been available for our school system and the school systems of other states and turn them over to just four states? Would the people of Ore gon be facing the possibility of a further increase in taxes to support our school system next year if this revenue from the tideland oils was available? Does he give us credit for this high intelligence rating in thinking we have forgotten such things? From his past actions it seems that the law of the land is to be followed only when it meets his own political ends, that the peo ple of Oregon are only intelligent when they agree with him. Would the best interests of the people of Oregon be safe in the bands of anyone who has this philosophy? A. J. Curry 906 West Main st Medford, Ore. How High is High? To the Editor: During the cur rent political campaign, the Democratic candidates have Matter of Fact ay stewa a.soP IN THE REPUBLICAN HEARTLAND Rensselaer, Ind. (U.R) If you stand at the junction of Grace and Scott Streets, in this pleas ant, sleepy county seat, and look in any direction, what you see looks for aU the world like one of those handsome, nostalgic scen es "The Sat Stewart Alsop urday Evening Post" often uses on its covers. There is a brisk, plump wo man in slacks and bandana, raking the autumn ' leaves. A few houses away a man in a visored cap is polishing his car. A couple of boys are tossing a baseball. The two-story brick and frame houses, set in their neat yards, have a happy, set tled look, under the yellowing trees, in the autumn sunlight. This, it seems, is average America. But when you begin to press the doorbells they all play a cheerful small tune and ask questions, you quickly realize that it is not politically average, fortunately for Adlai Stevenson. "Do your normally consider yourself," you ask, "a Republic an or a Democrat?" The people who answer the door look gen uinely surprised, as though you had asked. "Do you normally consider yourself a human be ing or an animal?" They answer Republican," sometimes adding 'of course," more often imply ing the words by intonation. VIHEN you ask them, finally, ' ' whv thiv are eoine to vote Republican, once in a while they will say that it is because they "like Ike." Much more often they say, in the same surprised tones, "Why, I was born and raised that way." Thi i in short, the ereat Republican heartland, as in stinctively Republican as me Solid South is Democratic, and fnr Tplatjd historical reasons. Rensselaer and surrounding County will inevitabley vote heavily for Dwight D. Eisen hower, as in 1952. The only question is: how heavily? It is an important question, tor axe venson must cut sharply into th Fisenhower maiority in such areas as this, if he is to have the ghost of a chance of winning a popular majority nationwide. From Grace and Scott Streets, this reporter and his companion Walter Ridder of the Ridder paper, moved on to the poorer section close to the towering grain elevators. Here, for the first time, we began to unearth npmocrats our first Democrat was an angry old many who shoulted, "By Golly, I'll vote for Eisenhower if you keen on pestering me" After him, we began to find small beleaguered knots of Democrats a carpent er, a clerk, a small contractor. V MORE important, we also be ean to find switchers people who had voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and were now undecided, or determined to vote for Stevenson. There made a very considerable issue of the fact that the cost of liv ing index is now at an all time high. That is absolutely true. It would also be true that, if you added two inches to the top of the Empire State Building, it would be the tallest building in the world. Yet I think it wouid be idiotic to contend that the man who added two inches to the Empire State Building had built the tallest building in the world. The cost-of-living index In creased steadily and consistently during the seven years of the Truman administration. Wages in some cases also increased, in terest rates went down. Many people who were in the ranks of organized labor were able to keep pace with this increas ing cost by reason of wage in creases. The non-organized, the elderly, the disabled were con stantly squeezed between ever mounting taxes and the rising cost of living. In addition, in vestment income suffered be cause of the steady drop in in terest, rates. The fiscal policies of the Democratic Administration were directly responsible for great hardship, worry, and anxiety on the part of many thrifty, unfortunate people who found the results of their years of saving virtually stolen away from them by this mistaken eco nomical policy. In contrast, under the Repub lican Administration, the cost of living index has advanced less than 3 per cent in three and a half years. The rights of organ ized labor have been protected and real wages have been in creased. The number of hours lost to strikes and labor diffi culties has gone down and at the same time, there has been a tax reduction and a rise in interest earnings that has benefited aU who live on incomes. - - All the campaign oratory in the world can not deceive the in telligent Americans who have been benefited by the sound financial administration of the Eisenhower team. - Richard J. House Fluhrer Bldg. Medford, Ore. was the highly articulate store keeper, a Republican who plan ned to go Democratic this time because "I'd be a fool as a small businessman to vote for high interest rates and rigid capital ism." Then there was the farm owner, who lived comfortably in a big house in Rensselaer, who said he didn't like the Ad ministration's farm program. "I'd had voted for them anyway if they'd stuck to it," he said, "but I got disgusted when they tried to buy the farmers' votes." There was the youngish man with grey hair, playing with a child in a back yard. He said, surprisingly, that he would vote Democratic this time because President Truman's decision to fight in Korea was "The guttiest thing we've ever done, whereas this Administration wasn't stand ing up to the Communists." There were enough such switch ers to make us wonder whether Stevenson might not cut quite decisively into the Eisenhower majority here. e BUT when we moved to anoth er section of town, where the streets were lined with pretty, newly-built one - story houses, and we began to find switchers the other way. There was the young doctor who had voted for Stevenson in 1952, but would vote for Eisenhower this time, because "He'd proved him- -self one of the best Presidents we'd ever had." And there was the retired farmer who had vot ed Democratic all his life he was "born and raised that way" but admired Eisenhower and disliked Stevenson. "I don't like this mud-slinging," he said. Out in the countryside, as the day drew to a close, we stopped in at a number of farms, and here and there we began to find switchers again. More important, we learned enough to feel sure that many farmers in Jasper County, like many farmers else where, feel discontented and ill used by the Administration. So what did our expedition to the Republican heartland indicate? It seemed to indicate that there is some small leakage of former Eisenhower votes to Stevenson but not enough for his pur poses. And, as one travels across the land and talks to the voters, one gets the same impression in many other places. 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment FREEWAY ROUTE Practically- the entire time of the Medford (highway commis sion) hearing was devoted to what route would be used there. The -sc-called west side route, swinging west between Medford and Ja;ksonvilIe, received little consideration. The question was whether the new highway should run east of Medford or follow Bear creek through the heart of that- city.. The preponderance of support was in favor of the Bear creek route, which would take the high-speed road through the middle of the county seat. If this is the final route selected, it would seem to be a deviation from the highwy department's policy, which in general has been to bypass the center of com munities with new freeways. We recognize the desire of Medford interests to have the road go through the heart of their city, but we also believe that it will pose problems and possibly some concern by resi dents for it will divide the town in the middle, a fact which could create substantial problems. The third route, or east side line, would swing the new high way some distance away from Medford and require a trip of a mile and half or so from the ' major interchange to downtown Medford. This route finds small favor with Medford as indicated at the hearing. If the highway department follows the apparent sentiment , expressed at the hearing, it will select the Bear creek route; if it follows what appears to be previous practice, it will favor the east side route and will not give Medford a preferential po sition over all other cities on the new super 99. Ashtland Tidings. Mr. Insurance FRSD BRENNAN Phone 2-4940 FREE INSURANCE! To insure that we remain b strong, industrious and United Nation ALL. AMERICA must go to the POLLS! One week from today you can help insure the future of our country. VOTE ft-r the leadership you thifcie best. .But be sure you VOTE. 1 fej MEDFORD INSURANCE J I"! AGENCY
