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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
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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
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