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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 22. 1947 (Saturday)
Transfer of Falrview Home
for the feeble-minded from Sa
lem to Camp White is opposed
Oby state investigating committee.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Prompt
possession, seminary district,
furnished five room house, sleep
less porch." CSast St. Louis
Journal.) As usual.
20 YEARS AGO
March 22. lf (Headay)
Plans for construction of a
sawmill near Medford Corpora
tion mill north of Medford are
announced by Chauncey Florey
of Medford.
Schedules for the inter-district
and stat championship high
school cfcba.se contests have been
announcel bj T. Is. Collier, sec
retary, Ojo high school de
batinf ltgi.
30 Y&1.00
March . 1T (Taasday)
Librt building at the corner
of Wtt Wain and Grape sts. sold
to A. W. Jluas, yacently of Sal
mon City, Idaho.
The present general, special
and market road and current
out standing indebtedness of
Jackson county is $150,000, ac
cording to County Treasurer
Walker.
40 YEARS AGO
March 22. 1917 (Thursday)
Local residents hold meeting
at public library to organize a
chapter of the American Nation
al Red Cross In Jackson county.
From Local and Personal
column: City street department
employees are using a drag on
unpaved Medford streets.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev
en cr elcht Is excellent: five
six Is food.
1. Gretna Green Is the name
of a color, a haven for elopers,
or a famous movie star?
2. which state is nicknamed
"G,PReMStawK? .
founder of The iTraeiite &
dom?
J. When a soldier is acci
dentally wounded by one of his
n unit, would he be eligible
r the Purple Heart?
i. Name the author of the
aTcf. "The Last ef the Mohi
0ri'. 6. Name the "twin cities" of
Minnesota.
7. Who wrote "The Son? of
Hiawatha"?
8. Did Adolf HiUer ever visit
the United States?
9. Which of these are not
mammals: armadillos, eels,
whales, anteaters, sturgeon, and
pigeons?
10. Caraway is the name of
a famous prohibitionist, an aro
matic herb, or a kind of con
veyance? Answers: 1. A haven for elop
ers. 2. Minnesota. 3. David. 4. No.
5 James Fenimore Cooper. 6. Si.
Paul and Minneapolis. 7. Henry
W. Longfellow. 8. No. 9. Eels,
sturgeon and pigeons. 10. Aro
matic herb.
A NAME FOR THE BUS
Madison. Wis. (U.R) A farm
group scheduled to leave here
Friday for Washington. D. C,
have pegged the bus they will
ride on "The Cut The Budget
Special."
1 rwia
Every once in a while, someone will ask, with a
touch of acid in his voice, "Why don't you ever print
any news?"
What they mean, of course, is "Why don't you
ever print any news that interests ME?"
The fact is, we print scads of news. News about
Boy and Girl Scouts, about the Granges, the 4-H clubs,
the schools, the city and county governments in all
their ramifications ; news of the f arms and the forests ;
news of accidents and weddings, of social gatherings
and the chamber of commerce, of service clubs and
fraternal organizations, of churches and sporting
events. We also print column after column of news of
the state, the nation and the world, and column after
column reporting, interpreting, highlighting and com
menting on the news.
TF a person can't find anything in all this to interest
him, that, bluntly is his own fault.
On the other hand, occasionally a critic will in
quire why we print so much "junk," so much "trivia"
such as some of the things listed above. This is another
case where the individual is not concerned with what
interests others, but only with what interests him.
For the trivia of human life is human life itself.
Hodding Carter, the distinguished, prize-winning
Mississippi editor, in a recent speech at Eugene, was
commenting on this subject, and said of this type of
news :
"... I agree that these matters, weighed against the
catyclysmic events of the world of the past year and the
past half century, ire trivial indeed. But they are not trivial
to us in the communities vhere they take place. Nor are
they trivial in the American Scheme or the American dream.
"For the common denominator of our agricultural re
porting, our community service and our editorial page is
a concept, shared by the great majority of America's news
papers, of the dignity of the individual and the responsibility
of the individual to his community and country. I submit
that never has ou- kind of trivia been more needed than
now in a mechanistic world, populated greatly by mass,
anonymous man- n world two-thirds of whose people are
cruelly driven by tyrants to whom all human dignity is
trivial; a world of ruclear fission and fusion, of Bigness so
vast as to become "11 but meaningless.
". . . We deal, foi the most part, with the stuff of the
understandable that gives meaning and dignity to each of us;
the personal story, thf community triumph and the com
munity tragedy, the reduction to 'cop-and-robber' terms of
the eternal struggle between good and evil.
"We are privileged to emphasize through the trivia of
everyday events the fact of man's individuality, as he stands
midway between macrocosm and microcosm in a universe
in which we are increasingly pawn to our own unplumbed
Intellect.
"And these am the noble purposes of our reporting of
the trivia; to make "nen proud, to make men ashamed, to
make men purposeful and to keep men free."
A NEWSPAPER must, as much as it can, be "all
things to all people,"
It must present the bad with the good, for if it
did not it would present a distorted picture. It must
present the big and important things, of course, but
it would be failing if it did not also present the small
and the "unimportant." For it is these "unimportant"
things with which we, as
day-to-day mostly concerned. E.A.
Lumber Promotion
It has often been noted in Oregon that, to achieve
stability and continued growth, the lumber industry
must gradually shift its past practices and methods
to conform with a changing economy.
There are three major areas in which a change
in emphasis has occurred in recent years change
which for the industry's own good must continue.
They are:
Forestry and forest management.
Product utilization
Sales methods and promotion.
IT IS the last of these with which we are concerned
A today.
A recent editorial in Crow's Lumber Digest took
lumbermen to task for sticking their heads in the
sand when it comes to industry-wide advertising and
promotion.
True, some regional groups, such as the West
Coast Lumbermen, and a few other organizations,
!make a hiS thing of their product on a nationwide
I basis' A f ew of th larSer firms, notably Weyerhaeu-
I ser ana ueorgia-racnic,
type advertisers.
But that's about the size
pHE Digest editorial declares:
"The average lumbtrmin is about as promotion-minded
as a Holstein cow. H; idea of a big advertising campaign
takes place when he spend ten dollars on a two-inch ad
vertisement in his town's hgh school annual. No. he doesn't
expect to sell lumber from the ad. he realizies it's a dona
tion . . . but he projects that thinking into all advertising
. . . And the world is passing him by."
It points out that the aluminum industry, for in
stance, is spending millions of dollars to compete with
lumber for the entire house, from the foundation up.
"These metal people aren't fooling," it says, add
ing:
"If something isn't done, this industry, as we know it,
can be wiped ofi the face of the earth in not too many
years."
It suggests a broad, industry-wide advertising and
promotion program, with a minimum of 1 per cent of
annual gross sales as a budget for a central organiza
tion employing top artists, copy writers and account
'men, which has only one
lumber, sell lumber."
It's something to think
about half of every dollar
forest products. E.A.
Friday. March 22. 1957
aspiring human beings, are
are consustent lnsututional-
of it.
goal: "Sell lumber, sell
about in this area where
in circulation comes from
Today and
By Walter
THE NASSER PROBLEM
Havinc taken off a bit of time
hefore startine on a short trip
abroad, I have spent quite a lit
tle of it won
dering about
the Middle
East and the
turn in our af
fairs. We have
had forced up
on us vast but
undefined re-sponsibil-
w alter Lippmann ities in anoth
er great region of the globe.
There are some who think that
by the role we have played in
the United Nations since me
Egyptian crisis last autumn we
trm esteem and the
confidence of the Afro-Asian na
tions, and that they will now ac
cept us as being uncontaminated
with "colonialism." Our opti
mists think we have achieved a
position in the uncommitted
world of Asia and Africa which
is nt once anti-Communist and
nuree " of historic grievances and
suspicions against Europe.
I do not share this view. It
seems to me naive and wishful
thinking. Our connections with
the West are inseverable. The
Communist competition is very
strong. And a new accommoda
tion between the i-ast and the
West will not come easily. It is
perhaps the greatest and most
difficult task which lfes before
I THINK rather that the events
of the past few months have
made this difficult task much
more difficult. For we have fall
en into what may prove to have
been an irreparable error in the
way we took our stand on the
Anglo - French - Israeli interven
tion. Instead of insisting from the
outset that their attack was pro
voked by Nasser, and that the
intervention and the provoca
tions must be cured together,
we have insisted that the inter
vention must be liquidated first
before the causes which provok
ed it are dealt with. We put all
our pressure on Britain, France
and Israel. We put no pressure
on Nasser, and we have cleared
Egypt without obtaining any
serious assurances from anybody
from Nasser, from Krishna
Menon, or from the Soviets
that this would not bring about
a return to the status quo ante
from which the explosion erupt
ed. The result is that on the great
issues of the regime of the Suez
Canal and of the pacification of
Palestine, our policy has meant
that before negotiations are to
begin, we have restored and in
fact aggrandized Nasser's bar
gaining power. We have provid
ed him with the big trumps be
fore the diplomatic game is
played.
Unless we make it our busi
ness, which we could do if we
were resolute and resourceful, to
restore the greatly diminished
bargaining power of the United
States and of the Western na
tions, we shall be negotiating
from weakness. The Soviets are
against us. China is against us.
Nasser and the Arabs are
against us. India is under the in
fluence of their combined press
ure. So in. fact, also is the Unit
ed Nations.
a
OINCE the second World War
we have entered a new epoch
in the relations between East
and West. We are at the end of
the centuries which began with
the great European voyages and
were followed by the imperial
conauest of so much nf Asia anri
of Africa. Though there are
pocKets ol die-hard imperialism,
it is no longer debatable wheth
er imperialism and colonialism
are to be liquidated. They are to
be liquidated. The questions ev
erywhere, be it in Cyprus, Al
geria or Goah, are how the im
perialism is to be liquidated and
how soon.
What is not yet in sight is
anything that could be called an
understanding of th new inter
national order which is to fol
low the imperial and colonial ep
ic. For national inrlprwnHon
and the disestablishment of the
old imperial regimes, will not
alone produce a new order in
which East and West can live
peaceably together. Neither the
new nations nor the old nations
can live in isolation from one
another, and they must therefore
work out an order of relation
ship which they can accept. They
are interdependent, as we can
see clearly in the case of the
Suez Canal and of the oil of the
Middle East. Europe needs access
to the oil. and the Xrah nm in.
tries would be sorely stricken if
they could not dispose of their
oil to the West. They cannot dis
pose of it to the Soviet Union.
But if this East-West interdepen
dence is to be stable and dur
able, there must he a
equality of bargaining power in
worKing out tne principles and
the details of the new rol m t ir-in.
ship.
Since Nasser's seizure nf the
canal, since the miscalculations
of the two London
since the fiasco of the interven
tion, ana since our own mistak
en policy in thp TTnit M,i;nnc
wavi.u 4 a i .1 ,
the balance of bargaining power
has turned drastically against
the West. This is reflected in the ;
Tomorrow
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fact that the United Nations and
the United States are not nego
tiating with Nasser. They have
been appeasing him, finding
themselves so short of negotia
ting power.
IN NASSER, both as a political
figure and as a symbol, we are
bound to recognize, it seems to
me, a radical opponent of an ac
commodation between East and
West. Nasser's rebellion against
the West has a momentum and a
direction which, if it is not con
tained and restrained will carry
him beyond any negotiated set
tlement which the West can ac
cept. There is every reason to be
lieve that Nasser will not volun
tarily agree to any kind of inter
national regime for the canal
which guarantees to the users
rights that they can count upon.
It is plain that he means to use
the strategic importance of the
canal as an instrument of his anti-Western
and pan-Arab move
ment. And it is quite evident
that he intends against Israel to
keep on waging war, as hot a
war as appears to him a safely
calculated military risk.
The crux of the Nasser prob
lem is that his position in Egypt
and his influence in the Arab
world would soon collapse if he
agreed to negotiate and to abide
b-' settlements with the Western
nations. He must remain in re
bellion against them, never for
long, allowing the conflict to
subside. He needs the tension of
international,, indeed of inter
racial, struggle. He needs it to
maintain among the Arab mass
es the image of himself as their
champion. He needs the tension
also for his political survival at
home, to divert his rivals who
conspire against him, and as a
distraction for the people.
THE effect of Nasser's move
ment extends far beyond
Egypt, the canal and Palestine
By his example, through his
agents and his propagandists, he
is makmg it very dangerous, per
haps impossible, for moderate
leaders of the Afro-Asian peoples
to arrive at settlements with the
West. He is identifying modera
tion with treason and settlement
with betrayal. This makes it for
all practical purposes impossible
for any other leader in North
Africa and South Asia to come to
terms with the West.
This applies even to India
where, unhappily, Nehru is now
declining the role in which he
had cst himself, the role of me
diator. For many months past it
has been apparent that India
does not feel strong enough to
differ with Nasser.
In fact it is an open question
whether India is now able to put
through an independent policy,
what with Nasser on one side of
it, with Red China on the other,
and with the Soviet Union be
hind both Nasser and Chou En
lai. It is certain'that we have no
right to expect India to redress
the balance which has turned
against the West as long as our
policy, or at least our practice,
is to acquiesce in our weakness
and to accept appeasement.
rpHE enlightened leaders of the
- Western nations have hoped
and believed that the old impe
rial system could be liquidated
in peace and good will by a wise
and friendly acceptance of East
ern nationalism, by education
and technical assistance, and by
generous contributions of capital
for the development of the new
nations. But as things stand at
the moment, there is no ground
for thinking that Nasser, who is
astride the strategic center of
East-West relations, believes in
or wants or will permit such a
peaceable evolution to take
place. It is 'not easy to make
peace when only one side wants
it.
Nasser thinks he has the upper
hand, having obtained control of
the access of the Western nations
to the oil of the Middle East. He
thinks it has been proved at the
British-French failure last au
tumn that his paramountcy can
not be challenged. He thinks that
the United States will not refuse
to coerce him but will in fact
appease him.
e e
ALL this will now be put to the
test.
It will be put to the test over
the regime of the canal, over
whether Gaza becomes again
the base of a guerrilla war, and
over the ig' of innocent pas
sage in the Gulf of Aqaba. The
United States has been heavily
committed by the President, and
if he cannot or does not carry
out the commitments, the pres
tige of the United States will be
gravely impaired in the whole
Afro-Asian world.
If Nasser is not effectively
checked, it will be idle to sup
pose that American influence
can then be maintained by the
Eisenhower- doctrine, by pacts,
by arms deliveries, by some
economic aid, and by resounding
declai- tions against the menace
of Communism.
(c) New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
ROCK "N ROLLER FINED
Leeds, England (U.R) Five
teen-agers who played rock 'n
roll on a 17th century harp in
a Leeds Museum Thursday were
fined two pounds ($5.60) for "ma
licious damage."
Writer Reviews Good and Bad
News in Week's Balance Sheet
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
President Eisenhower and
Prime Minister Harold Macmil
lan met in Bermuda to discuss
mmmmmmmi, a wide ranBe
of internation
al al problems.
14 n...i j i
Gamal Abdel
Nasser of
Egypt had
taken over
civil adminis
tration of the
Gaza area from
rharies McCann which Israel
withdrew at the request of the
United Nations.
Nasser had announced that the
Gulf of Aqaba, outlet to the Red
Sea from the Israeli port of
Eilath, would remain closed to
Israeli shipping.
Nasser also had announced
that all tolls for passage through
the canal .nust be paid to Egypt
in currency to be specified by
Egypt.
Threatens To Shoot
Israel, still resentful over its
forced withdrawal from the
Gaza area and angry over the
entrance of Egyptian adminis
trators, threatened to shoot its
way through the Aqaba Gulf
if necessary.
President Ramon Nagsaysay of
the Philippines, a warm friend
of the United States and an im
placable foe of Communist pene
tration in the Far East, was
killed m an airplane crash.
Delegates of the United
States, Canada, Great Britain,
France and Soviet Russia met in
London to try again to reach an
agreement on disarmament for
the armed forces of the 'great
powers.
The feeling was that though
the meeting might not result in
any firm agreements, it was
likely to bring Russia and the
Western Allies closer together.
The Eisenhower - Macmillan
Communications
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A Reply lo B. F. M.
To the Editor: I wish to reply
to tne letter in Monday night's
man iTioune, signed "B. F. M.,
concerning the "muddy water"
supply in Gold Hill.
I am not, nor have ever been
a member of the Gold Hill city
council, nor am i related to any
one who is or was on the coun
cil. I did, however, attend coun
cil meetings regularly for sev
eral years when I was the Gold
Hill correspondent for the Mail
Tribune, so I know some of the
problems the council has.
The city council has been con
sidering the possibility of a
water filtration plant for a num
ber of years, but the cost would
be about $125,000. In a town
this size, a little over 600 in
total population, there probably
aren't more than 125 to 150
adult property-owning taxpay
ers. That would be a cost of
maybe SI, 000 per home owner.
Considering the fact that the
proposed school bonds for this
district were voted down recent
ly, it is quite doubtful that a
t-1 25,000 bond issue, for the
town of Gold Hill alone, would
have a chance of passing. Any
one who wants to get out a peti
tion to have such a bond issue
placed on the ballot is welcome
to do so, though, according to
Mayor Ernie Cooper.
B. F. M. (apparently a woman)
need not worry about the city
water being unsafe to drink.
The water supply is chlorinated,
and the automatic chlorination
apparatus is regularly inspected
by a representative of the State
Sanitation Department. At my
house, we have had muddy water
only 'about two weeks during
the entire past year. If she had
it nine months out of 18, I am
sure she is the only one in Gold
Hill who has.
Our mayor and councilmen
serve without pay, and I know
that it is such a thankless job
that nobody wants one of these
offices after one or two terms.
I consider that the council has
done well in recent years in
stretching the budget to include
a complete overhaul of the sew
age disposal plant to comply
with state sanitation require
ments, the installation of some
long-needed new water mains,
extension of the sewer line to
many additional homes, the pur
chase of a street grader machine
which enabled the city to open
up additional streets that prev
iously existed only on city maps.
and -improve and maintain our
other streets.
If Mrs. B. F. M. would attend
a council meeting instead of
listening to gossip from her
neighbors, the information she
would obtain would be a little
more correct. Council meetings
are always open to the public,
and the council is always glad
to hear constructive suggestions.
You may print my name. I
don't need to hide behind in
itials. Vera I. Stewart
619 Fifth ave.
Gold Hill, Ore.
if a
meeting was the first top-level
British - American get - together
since the Suez invasion.
The President had refused to
meet Sir Anthony Eden, who
was prime minister at that time.
Mr. Eisenhower and Macmii
lan, who succeeded Eden on Jan.
10, are good friends.
Rut thprp was doubt that the
two leaders could do more in
Bermuda than to estaoiisn a
basis for consultation and cooperation.
Babson Sees Impact
In Population Climb
By ROGER W. BABSON
Babson Park, Mass. In 1950,
our U.S. population was about H
150,000,000. Today we are 170,-
000,000 strong
and the pros
pect is that
our rapid ex
pansion in
numbers will
continue. The
20,0 0 0, 0 0 0
more Ameri
cans added
since 1950 are
equivalent to
Eoger W. Sanson
twice the present population of
the six new England states.
I am told that a baby is born
in this country every eight sec
onds, and that, if present rates
of increase continue, we could
well have a population of 220,
000,000 by 1975. This huge gain
means that demand prospects for
our products are good. Each new
birth, each immigrant, and each
person living a longer life than
had previously been considered
normal, adds to the potential de
mand that American manufac
turers and merchants can at
tempt to satisfy.
This growth in population far
exceeds earlier predictions. I
well remember the experts tell
ing us in the depression days of
the thirties that the U.S. popu
lation would hit a peak prob
ably around 1980 and then
decline. As I recall - it, they
thought that peak might be
around 154,000,000 a mark we
actually passed about five years
ago! i
What About Labor Force?
The current boom in people is
the result of an unexpectedly
high birth rate and a steadily
declining mortality. Modern me
dicine conquers many of the
disease which in the past have
cut life short. Thus the area of
our greatest population gain is
among the very young and
among our senior citizens. The
adults who form the labor force
are a decreasing segment of the
total population.
That being he case, we should
be more concerned about labor-
management relations in future
years. I forecast that labor-force
growth may continue to lag the
tctal population rise to an in
creasing degree during the next
twenty years. This widening gap
will create problems for man
agement except as the automatic
f-ctory becomes a factor in the
situation. This is especially true
if tro small a proportion of the
lrbor force possess the scientific
;-.rd engineering skills required
to keep us abreast of technologi
cal developments.
Instead of paying too much at
tention to the expensive frills
of education (as we do now),
we need to encourage high
school boys and girls to become
scientists, chemists and en
gineers, as well as economists,
business managers, merchants,
and teachers We ought to find
out whether our schools are act
ually doing the type of educa
tional job that needs to be done.
If we do not mend our ways in
th's lespect, we shall pay dearly
in coming years for our fool
ishness. More Sales?
growth in population suggests
a r'ting demand for products and
services. However, we should
not be too quick to assume that
this increase will always be
translated into actual buying
powei. Much will depend on the
economic corditions during the
years ahead
Mure people .will not neces
sarily mean more sales if the
government does not curb its
spending. Such spending makes
fo highly progressive taxes
which undermine profits and
cripple business incentive.
Ncitiier will more people mean
more sales unless we are able to
adjuyt as a nation to the vast
charges which are ahead. I have
in mind the further develop
ment of atomic power, automa
tion, speedier transport, and
othe- new manufacturing and
marketing techniques. Mere big
ness in numbers and in potential
resources will not assure our
prosperity. Hence,, my repeated
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For one thing, they had a
dozen complicated problems to
discuss in a mere three days of
talks.
For another, Britons still are
resentful over the United States
attitude in the Suez dispute. To
keep in office, Macmillan will
have to make sure that nothing
he does can be interpreted as
making Britain a junior partner
in an alliance which the United
States dominates.
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To Many People?
Our rapid population growth
scares some folks. They fear we
cannot produce enough food for
al' these people. I do not share
those fears. We have learned
during and since World War II
how to step up our crop yields
to levels not dreamed of a gen
eration ago. We now have food
and feed surpluses. Irrigation
nd phosphate can produce
miracles.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The Oregon legislature is
wrestling with the problem of
the state fair. The current hassle
arises out of a bill whose chief
purpose is to cause the fair to
place more emphasis on agricul
ture. The bill would abolish the
present state fair commission
and let the state department of
agriculture run the show.
With this purpose, Represent
ative Stewart of Baker county,
who will become director of the
Oregon state department of agri
culture at the end of the legisla
tive session, is not in complete
harmony. He told the legislative
committee that is holding hear
ings on the bill that the state
fair should not confine its em
phasis to agriculture but should
be a combination agricultural
fair, trade fair and exposition.
He realizes, probably, that a
state fair that amounted to noth
ing more than a collection of ag
ricultural exhibits at the state
capital, wouldn't draw big
enough crowds to make it worth
while.
rPHERE was a time in our coun-
ty, district and state fairs
were immensely important from
the standpoint of improving ag
riculture. They provided a place
where farmers could come to
gether and see what other farm
ers were doing. (You will re
member possibly the ancient
story of the rooster and the os
trich egg. He brought his flock
of hens to see the huge egg with
the idea of showing them what
others were doing in the egg
line, hoping thus to arouse them
to emulation of the. ostrich.) -The
exhibits of agricultural
products, including livestock.
and the prizes and the awards
that went to the producers of the
biggest pumpkin and the best
ear of corn and the ripest water
melon and the fattest hog really
did much in these times to stimu
late other farmers to do a better
job of farming.
T)UT this is a different, and
much more complicated,
world. In these days, the agricul
tural colleges, the experiment
stations, the agricultural re
searchers, the fertilizer people
and the agricultural chemists
are leading the way to better
agricultural production.
They are doing far. far more
along that line than state fairs
can hope to do.
TTERE'S a thought:
Might not the money a state
fair costs be worth MUCH more
to agriculture in these modern
days if spent for more agricul
tural research, more agricultur
al experiment stations and more
study of the problem of finding
more and better markets for our
farm products?
A NOTHER thought:
In both Oregon and Califor
nia a lot of the money that helps
to finance state fairs and district
fairs and county fairs comes out
of the state's share of the money
that is bet on horse and dog
races.
Might it not be better, in these
days when the tax bite is getting
bitterer and bitterer and rugged
er and ruggeder, to PUT THIS
MONEY IN THE GENERAL
FUND, where it would help to
relieve the burden that rests
with increasingly galling weight
on the back of the average tax
payer's neck?
Medford, Oregon