4 Tuesday, August 5, 1938
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
1G YEARS AGO
August 5 1948 (Thursday)
Gold Rush Jubilee planners
in Jacksonville warn male
residents they better start
growing beards.
A lone enlisted man was
escorted by' seven officers as
the octet, comprising Med
ford's 3822nd Quartermaster
battalion, organized reserve,
departed for summer training
at Ft. Lewis, Wash.
20 YEARS AGO
August 5. 1938 (Friday)
Those planning to attend
the Elks band concert in city
park tonight warned that
blowing auto horns for ap
plause is frowned upon by
nearby residents.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
wild blackberries of the Ap
plegate are ripening. No finer
handiwork of Nature ever
adorned a pie or dish, if some
body else picks them."
30 YEARS AGO
August 5, 1928 (Sunday)
Now that the state Ameri
can Legion convention is over,
all hands are turning to pear
picking, with a bumper crop
expected.
A number of Medford wom
en appear in a new refer
ence book, '"Woman of the
West."
40 YEARS AGO
August 5. 1918 (Monday)
The pear and packing sea
son opened today with many
girls and women helping in
the orchards.
The Case Six, last word in
automobiles, has appeared on
the streets of Medford.
What's Yourl.Q.?
Nina or ten correct s superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In what city is the Mayo
Clinic?
2. Was Winston Churchil
Prime Minister of Great Bri
tain at the time of the out
break of W.W. II?
3. Which weighs more, a
gallon of fresh water or a
gallon of salt water?
4 The traditional method
of determining the rank oi
guests at state social functions
in Washington, D.C. is called
P -1?
5. The planet Mercury is
larger or smaller, than the
moon?
6. Is Lower California a
part of the United States?
7. Which Pope is respon
sible for our present-day
calendar?
8. The international date
line, where each calendar day
first begins, is located in
which ocean?
9. Long bearded "Father
Time," is usually depicted
carrying two objects; name
them.
10. May the President de
clare a national holiday which
must be observed in all the
States?
Answers: 1. Rochester,
Minn. 2- No. 3. Salt Water.
4. Protocol. 5. Larger. 6. No.
7. Poge Gregory XIII. 8. Pa
cific Ocean. 9. Scythe and
hourglass. 10. No. (States leg
islate their own holidays.)
"Mid-Summer Rash"?
One of the most fascinating parts of an edit
orial writer's job is to keep track of what other
editorial writers are thinking and saying around
the state.
Some 20-odd daily papers, and several week
lies, pass over our desk, and we, spend many
hours poring over their editorial pages for edi
torial ideas, sometimes, or to see what the "cli
mate" of the state is, politically or otherwise.
IN RECENT weeks there have been many edi-
torials concerned writh, and about, the state
system of higher education.
It all started some time ago when the board
held several meetings in private excluding
even the press, which usually is allowed to attend
as the "eyes and ears" of the voters and taxpay
ers. This practice was hit and hard by several
papers, notably the Oregonian and the Eugene
Register-Guard, which claimed that by so doing
the board was opening itself to charges of con
ducting the business of the public in private.
It heated up even more when the board, more
or less simultaneously, announced that the "exec
utive session" practice would cease, and that
Portland State college had been granted status as
a four-year, degree-granting institution.
THE Register-Guard, located in the home town
' of the University of Oregon, picked the latter
announcement up, declaring that the floodgates
had been opened for duplication,' overlapping and
for high-cost education at a low level an alle
gation echoed by the Capital Journal in Salem
and the Gazette-Times in Corvallis, the latter
the home of Oregon State college.
Then the Pendleton East Oregonian, edited
by J. W. (Bud) Forrester Jr., himself a member
of the state board of higher education, chided
these papers for being "shocked" at a decision
which he said was inevitable, almost a foregone
conclusion, that PSC, located in populous Port
land, could not long deny the many students in
the metropolitan area the advantages enjoyed by
less-populous parts of the state.
i
BOUT this time a side
The Camtal Journal
the state capital and on educationally "neutral"
territory, be made the headquarters of the state
system. (The chancellor's office is now on the
U of O campus in Eugene.)
The Corvajlis paper, miffed at the chancellor
for what it felt was a double-cross concerning
OSC's hopes for a liberal arts-program at the col
lege, seconded the motion.
An editorial in the Albany Democrat-Herald
chimed in to say that, yes indeed, the chancellor's
office should be on neutral ground, but that the
logical place for it was Albany a claim which
the Bend Bulletin disputed, pointing out that Al
bany is too close to Corvallis to be neutral, and
stating that Bend would be a good location.
ALL THIS motivated
tVi Cnlnw, Otnfn
governor, no newcomer to internecine strife) to
observe, quietly:
' - ,
"After all this kicking around we may be certain
that the offices will remain as they are: business office
at Corvallis, chancellor's office at Eugene."
He goes on to point out that "the youngsters
who are writing editorials these days" (Mr.
Sprague last November celebrated his 70th birth
day) "don't know that Salem was once the city
of the central office of the board of higher educa
tion." .
And he concludes: '
". . . We rate the present agitation as mid-summer
rash, a welcome innovation from the tales of the sum
mer sea serpent. None of the guns in the present higher
education controversy is loaded." ,
DERHAPS, as Governor Sprague asserts, the
guns aren't loaded. But they're noisy.
And as we see it, there is a legitimate basis
for argument about the status of Portland State.
The board of higher education, composed of
high-caliber, capable and integrious people, is
doing the best job it can to provide higher educa
tion for Oregon equal to the demand. It is, in
some ways, an impossible job. How can it best
be done?
By a-wider use of "community" colleges
throughout the state? By concentrating on the
U of O and OSC as the major institutions, and
using PSC and the three smaller colleges (at Ash
land, Monmouth and LaGrande) as supplement
ary institutions, largely for teacher training? Or
by going all-out, developing the whole system to
best serve Oregon's needs at, far from inci
dentally, a "staggering cost?
TTHAT, at least, is a valid subject for debate and
A for some pretty serious soul-searching.
The board, despite its general excellence,
probably could use some informed thinking on
the subject, and before long, too, for the "war
baby" group is nearer college every day that
passes.
It has been suggested that a sweeping study
of the matter be undertaken by the legislature,
and it is a good suggestion provided only that
it isn't too late.
No matter what happens, Oregonians had bet
ter get ready to pay. for more and more, and better
and better, higher education. Either that or throw
in the sponge, admit that a high standard of edu
cation, for as many as are equipped to take ad
vantage of it, is "too expensive," and thus limit
the opportunities of one-third of a generation.
The Oregonian's answer to the question, "Can
we ? ", is,. "We must." E. A.
- issue developed.
sup-p-esterl that Salem.
Charles Sprague, editor
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Dennis the
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Washington Report
By William S. White
THE DIPLOMATS
Washington Massachusetts
Avenue in Washington is a
way of life within itself
This is the street on which
stand most of the world's em
bassies to the United States.'
A few are quartered else
where the Russians, for ex
ample, in a gloomy, closed-up.
looking stone mansion on
Sixteenth Street.
Massachusetts Avenue, at
all events, is the hub of all
this diplomacy, the center for
the practice of an ancient art
that has two main functions.
The first of these is to rep
resent here the interests of the
visiting diplomat's country.
The second is, less directly,
to explain this country ,to
the diplomat's own country.
Basically, it the operation, in
a polite way, of an intelligence
system.
This is a long, winding,
tree-lined street full of im
pressive houses. They run in
architecture from colonial to
turreted semi-horrors from
which it is possible to imagine
groans and the sounds of
clanking chains emerging late
in the night.
THE diplomatic community
is one of the largest self
contained industries here. Its
personnel number uncounted
thousands. Each official or
foreign worker in an embassy
is, for official purposes, in
his own country. The British
Embassy, for example, is leg
ally a bit of England, as is
the French Embassy of
France.
Sir Harold Caccia, the Brit
ish 'ambassador, may, if he
wishes,, regard himself as sit
ting solidly on British ground
and tenanting one of the
many houses of the Queen.
Embassy people are not
subject to arrest, except on
grave charges and through
special countfy-to-country ar
rangements. Their automo
biles bear plates on which
the letters "DPL" signify that
it is no use putting parking
tickets on them. The local
people, sometimes have no
lively appreciation of these
special privileges, which do
not apply to a Senator or a
Supreme Court justice.
The functions of embassies,
and their whole tone, vary
enormously according to the
size of the countries they rep
resent and the work they do.
"nOR the biggest is the Brit-
ish establishment. It is a
red - brick, ramblin'g and
sprawling structure with a
touch of the old manor about
it. Nearby are the embassies
of some of the British Com
monwealth. Australia and
New Zealand are back of the
British Embassy on the same
side of the street. They are
very close in every sense to
what could be called the home
house of the Commonwealth.
Across the street and in
finitely farther away than the
short physical distance would
indicate is the Embassy of
the Union of South Africa.
South Africa, under its pres
ent Dutch-descended Boer and
Nationalist leadership, is a
somewhat reluctant jewel in
the British crown. It likes to
be aggressively independent
of London.
Its embassy is rather like
the house provided on the
ranch by the old folks for a
son-in-law who would just as
soon ' live somewhere else. ,
Embassy life here is like
international political life
everywhere in the present
state of the cold war. The
Western diplomats draw to
gether even more than com
monly they would. The Rus
sians, their satellites and
quasi-friends tpnd to get into
the other social and profes
sional camp.
THERE is, of course, still a
social interchange between
West and East, but not on a
very clubby, basis. Both em
Menace
you had a HAifcy chest r
bassy sets West, and East
have a good deal to do with
local people. The Westerners'
dinners are much more fun;
the Russian's dinners are
much more grand.
The presence of two sets of
world groupings the Western
alliance in which the United
States is chairman of the
board and the Eastern mono
lith in which the Soviet. Un
ion is simply the boss has
simplifed the practce of di-'
plomacy.
More aifd more the ambas
sador's home office makes the
real decisions. More and more
it is his job mainly to carry
out these decisions in this
country. ' This is not the era
of the application of persua
sion; it is more nearly the era
of the application of force.
(Copyright, 1958, by. United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Last week this writer was
moved to write a piece point
ing out that AS OF NOW
tourist dollars aren't hay in
the economy o f Southern
Oregon and Far Northern
California and suggesting that
if we all tackled the job in
earnest we could bring about
an IMMENSE increase in
tourist expenditures in our
area.
The way to do it, we opined,
is for all of us to become so
familiar .with our glamourous
and beautiful area that when
we encounter- a tourist at
a filling station, at a motel or
hotel, at a restarant, any
where we happen to meet him
just won't be able to re
strain ourselves from telling
him ALL ABOUT IT in wing
ed words that will carry con
viction. '
If we all did that, we con
tended, tens of thousands of
tourists could be influenced
to spend DAYS AND DAYS
in our imaginary State of Jef
ferson instead of whishing on
through at high speed in or
der to get somewhere else.
If that could be brought
about, MILLIONS of dollars
of outside money would be
left here instead of the mere
hundreds of thousands that
are presently left.
This new money would
spread itself out among ALL
OF US.
WE got a raise. The raise
came from Elizabeth
Loosely of Ft. Klamath, who
sent us a little pamphlet is
sued some time ago by the
people of historic Ft. Klam
ath and the lovely Wood Riv
er valley. The, pamphlet is a
gem and, knowing Mrs.
Loosley, Ave have a notion
she had a finger in the prep
aration of it.
It brings in the Hudson
Bay trappers who roamed our
country a Century and a quar
ter ago an4 the wiskered min
ers who discovered Crater
Lake more than a century
ago. It touches upon John C.
Fremont, that strange, mete
oric character who flashed
across our skies in the preg
nant years of the nineteenth
century when the Golden
West was being born. It does
n't omit the cattle rustlers
who plagued us in our early
days.
TT IS a masterly job.
It suggests this thought:
Suppose every region of our
mythical State of Jefferson
which never existed as a po
litical entity and never will,
but which has lived as an
imaginative concept in men's
minds for more than a cen
tury should issue a similar
pamphlet, all of them touched
by the finger of genius that
lends charm to the Crater
Lake -Wood River valley-Fort
Klamath pamphlet here described.
Matter of Fact
LETTER TO ENGINE
CHARILE
Washington.
Dear Mr. Wilson:
Maybe there are more im
portant things to write about,
but your recent remarks about
Jim Gavin positively demand
this letter of thanks.
Gen. Gavin has been doubly
fW"" l.wwl! i m p e r t ient.
Rather than
lie to the Con
gress about
the results of
defense poli
cies, he has
preferred re
signing from
from the serv
ice that he
josDh aisod iovea ana
gave his life to. And now he
has dared to publish a book,
suggesting that your defense
policies have led this country
into mortal danger. This kind
of impertinence of course de
serves the rebuke you so
characteristically meted out:
."I know Gavin," you are
reported as saying. "And he is
just another over - inflated
Army officer with an exag
gerated regard of his ability.
He's just trying to sell his
book."
.
was so wonderful
V was your simultaneous
denial that Gavin could real
ly know you, since you had
only seen him "on rare . oc
casions'." You know Gavin, in
other words, as you . knew
about the defense of the Unit
ed States by interpreting
the messages of your own
peculiar mental telephathy in
the powerful light of your
own prejudices. Or one might
say, you know Gavin as you
knew about the danger to
this country' from the rapid
growth of Soviet power by
ignoring all the unpleasant
facts reported by the intel
ligence services, and faith
fully following your own na
tural instincts (with some
help from the budgetary poli
cies of your friend, George
Humphrey).
There are certain facts
about Jim Gavin, to be sure,
that lesser men than you still
have a tendency not to ignore.
I There is the simple ' fact of
JENKINS
Suppose all of these could
be pooled, so that ALL OF US
COULD HAVE A COPY of
each pamphlet and thus could
be prepared to indoctrinate
every tourist who enters our
area with the fascinating
charm of this Southern Ore
gon - Far Northern California
country of ours.
TF THAT could be done, it
wouldn't merely double the
number of tourists who stop
with us (and spend money
while stopping) instead of
rushing on to s e.e SOME
THING ELSE. It wouldn't
merely quadruple the number
It would multiply it at least
by ten. That would mean a
lot of new dollars to be dis
tributed among us.
(XUR material is so RICH.
v There is Old Jacksonville,
and its days of old, the days
of gold. There is Port Orford,
once a teeming city of 10,000
that existed to supply the gold
camps o f Southern Oregon
and Far Northern California.
There is old Scotteburg, at
the head of navigation on the
Umpqua, where gold supply
ships came when Port Orford
burned : and once' came'
within two votes of becoming
the capital of Oregon. There
are the lost mines from Rose-
burg south.
There is Thompson's mule,
that nibbled at a bunch of
grass and so discovered the
rich gold deposit that strated
Yreka. There are the Indian
battles along the gold trail
that swung up through the
Klamath country and then
turned southward to Yreka.
Scenery? There are the
matchless Trinity Alps and
the fabulous beauty of the
Mount Shasta area. And the
wide reaches of the purple
sage stretching on and on into
Miller & Lux land of cattle
tradition.
We have plenty to talk
about.
Jerry Flakus Gets
Vocal Scholarship
Jerry Flakus, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Flakus, 612
J st., Medford, has been
awarded a vocal scholarship
to Southern Oregon college,
the first of its kind awarded
by the school, according to
the youth's parents.
Flakus, a graduate of St.
Mary's academy, .has studied
under the direction of Sister
Miriam Joseph, and this sum
mer attended Southern Ore
gon college.
CANAL DEEPENED
Port Said. U.A.R. (UPD
The Suez Canal Authority
said today 35-foot draft ships
will be abla to transit the
waterway beginning Aug. 31.
The maximum draft of ves
sels now using the canal is
34 feet. . .... . ... . . ..; .
By Joseph Alsop
the man himself the brilliant
intellectual who is also a great
fighting man, the adored lead
er of the best division in the
U.S. Army, the combat gen
eral with the cool courage that
goes with knowledge, the
shining soldier with the hu
man style that all men envied
and the best men tried to
imitate.
ONE does not forget, either,
the parachute landing that
Gavin made in Sicily, and the
long cruel battle at Salerno,
and the drop at dawn into the
inferno at Nijmegen and des
perate attack that turned the
balance in the desperate Bat
tle of the Bulge. All these
further facts still arouse
strong emotions and call up
vivid images but only in
smaller minds than yours.
And of course you are right
that, the two Distinguished
Service Crosses, and the Sil
ver Star and the Purple
Heart, all won in the fire
of battle, are mere military
fripperies that probably had
a lot to do with "overly inflat
ing" Jim Gavin.
No doubt smaller minds are
afflicted with these distort
ing emotions and are impres
sed by these foolish images,
simply because they do not
understand as well as you
do what makes our country
great. If you had left West-
inghouse Electric to go into
uniform, for instance, you
might not have got the job
with Delco-Remy in 1919. And
if you had not got the job
with Delco-Remy, you might
not have got the job with
General Motors, later on. And
if that job had been missed,
heaven forbid, we might not
have had you as Secretary of
Defense.
pVEN before the great mo
ment when you took over
the Pentagon, you always in
sisted on the right priorities
One remembers, for example,
your reply to Bob Lovett
when- he asked for a loan of
one of your junior executives
during a very bad moment in
the Korean War. The man
Lovett wanted did not mind
the heavy cut in salary. He
only asked Lovett for your as
surance that his absence on
the nation's service would not
hinder his later promotion in
the peculiar hierarchy over
which you then presided
With a thrill of admiration,
Lovett still recalls your stern
and patriotic answer: "Of
course it will be- held against
him, if he leaves G.M. the way
you want him to.'.'
At the Pentagon, too, "how
firmly and wisely you always
insisted upon the right priori
ties! It was a dangerous mo
ment when you took over, no
doubt about it. Action was de
manded on a whole series of
ugly reports announcing the
early loss to the Soviets of the
existing American military
lead. There were a lot of peo
ple who wanted to "press the
panic button" in your immor
tal phrase, and make the ef
fort to maintain the American
lead.
' .
T)UT you went right on as
suring everyone, in your
cool-headed way, that "the
Russians were't ten feet high."
So the Soviets are now well
on their way to gaining al
most unchallengeable superi
ority in nuclear striking pow
er. For .this, we have you to
thank.
But this letter is meant to
offer thanks of a more person
al kind. It is intended to thank
you for the final revelation of
the true grandeur of your
viewpoint; and it is especially
intended to thank you for
showing us all what gratitude
is owing, what respect is due,
from the comfortable people
who have been saved to those
men who have uncomfortably
risked their lives to save
them. Thank you,, and good
bye. '
Joseph Alsop
Man Called To Aid
Fatally Injured
Boy Find Own Son
Leonia, N.J. (UPD volun
teer ambulance squad captain
Edward R. Miller answered a
call for aid Monday night for
an 11-year-old baseball player
who had been struck and fa
tally injured by a pitched ball.
The boy found unconscious
and dying was Miller's own
son.
The victim, Edward Jr., had
been struck by a ball just over
the heart as he stepped up to
bat in a Leonia Midget League
game. Although his father and
the ambulance crew strove to
save him, Edward died of
asphyxiation a few moments
later. '
Edward was an honor stu
dent at Anna C. Scott Elemen
tary School and an Altar Boy
at St. John's Roman Catholic
church.
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Hushed-Up Affair
To the Editor: We the under
signed are writing in regard
to your editorial of Sunday,
the third of August.
As you stated, a garbage
dump is not a pleasant thing
nor is living near one, but this
is the reason we didn't go to
bat right away. We understood
that the land was going to be
used for a housing project, not
a dump. The first we knew of
the- dump was the article in
your paper.
Why weren't the land own
ers notified about the pro
posed dump? What's to be
come of the people who have
years of labor and money in
the lands adjoining the
dumps? If we had known in
time what the land was going
to be used for you can bet that
there would have been a lot
more heck raised.
After reading the article
about the proposed dump, we
went to. the city council meet
ing and were advised to hire
our own lawyer. After con
tact i n g numerous lawyers,
Walter Nunley was the only
one with enough guts to help
us fight this proposition.
After such a hushed-up af
fair we have come to the con
clusion that garbage is not
the only thing that smells.
Thurl W. More,
Ellnora T. Moore,
James W. Moore,
P. O. Box 332,
Jacksonville.
"Cat Dumpers"
To the Editor: I'm Just
ready to "poke somebody in
the nose.
My little boys have ring
worms because a man and
his boy dumped their kittens
at . our place . on Sterling
Creek rd.
We don't want your pets,
we, have our own. Why, if
you don't -want them, don't
you take them to the Humane
society?
If you could hear my
babies (two and four years
old) cry and plead, "No mom
mie, please, no, no, no, please,
it hurts," then you would un
derstand the reason for this
letter.
Now if this man in the
light grey car should call
me (SP 2-7640) and tell me
he would like to reward these
babies for the pain and hurt
his carelessness has caused
them, then maybe he would
think twice before he dumps
anything else.
Mrs. H. G. Roether,
Route 4, Box 399C,
Medford .
Need for Socialism
To' The Editor: The real
bone of contention in the Mid
dle East is oil, billions and
billions of dollars worth of
oil. The stakes, said "Fortune"
magazine, October, 1956, are
"working c o n tr o 1 of the
mightiest single pool of cheap
energy on the face of the
earth indeed, the largest
single treasure, translated in
to billions of dollars, still left
in the hands of weak, and in
many ways medieval na
tions." It is not even a question of
whether Europe is or is not,
to have access to Middle East
oil. Capitalist spokesmen who
admit that oil is the prize, try
to justify the risk of another
world war by claiming that
80 per cent of Europe's oil
needs come from the Middle
East. Their claim is a distor
tion of the facts to conceal
the truth that it is oil profits,
not oil supplies, that are
threatened.
As the "Fortune" article
noted, "... Just grabbing the
Counsel With . .
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP 3-743
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOUY ST.
oil, as the Iranians found to
their dismay, would profit the
Middle East countries little.
They cannot drink it; they
cannot eat it. Oil produces
wealth for the Middle East
only in the degree that it is
used to satisfy the enormous
energy demands of the West."
Therefore, American troops
are in Lebanon to protect the
oil profits of the oil capital
ists. They were sent there for
no other purpose. The strug
gle for the .maintenance of
oil profits could get us into
World War III.
The alternatives to this po
tential catastrophe, toward
which decadent class rule is
now taking the world, is a
rational peace and human
brotherhood based on com
mon and collective material
interests. The social system
that builds greed and in which
the actions of governments
are dictated by the material
interests of ruling classes
capitalism must be abolish
ed. The Socialist Labor Party
proclaims that survival for
the human race now decrees
the urgent need for a recon
struction of society along So
cialist lines.
Henry R. Korman
2640 Garfield St.,
Longview, Wash.
"Speederosis" '
To The Editor: I would hate
to be so deeply in love with
the almighty dollar that I'd
have to break the law every
minute of every working day
to earn it. I would also hesi
tate to risk the lives of child
ren and adults alike in order
to continue my deadly, assault
on public roads.
The log truckers up here
have a disease called speeder
osis they can't observe our
speel limits through our town
or by ' our homes. After all
what do the lives' of our child
ren mean to them?
And if our youngsters drive
like hellions when they grow
up, they will think it's the
proper thing to do. Surely the
roads belong to the guy who
can scare everyone else out
of his way!
Let them continue their
! treacherous misconduct on our
roads, or crack down on them
while there is still time.
Jean Stanton
Medco Camp No. 4
Butte Falls.
Bus Service
To the Editor: Our bus serv
ice is a lousy mess. We only
have one bus a day going into
Medford, and three going
from Medford through Gold
Hill. Just why can't we have
one of them in the afternoon
too? We like to go in town
in the afternoon sometimes,
and if we catch the 11:30 a.m.
bus, Sve have to stay all after
noon in town. I know if we
had as many buses going to
Medford through Gold Hill
even in fruit season a lot of
people would ride . them.
Some, like ourselves, who
dorf't have a car to go in,
just have to depend on the
buses.
Coming from Medford to
Gold Hill there's one about
6:39 a.m. and about from 10
to 11:30 a.m., and one at
about 4 pjn. and 9. So if
only we could have just a
late afternoon bus through
fruit season, say about 3 or
3:30, it would help lots of
people I know. There's still
lots of us who can't afford
a car yet. We have good serv
ice with the one bus we 'do
have.
(Name on file).
Gold Hill, Ore.
OVER OR . UNDER?
UNDER-PAID . . UNDER-WA-TER
. . UNDER-WEIGHT all
have a different meaning for
different people.
BUT UNDER-INSURE CAN
ONLY MEAN TROUBLE! BE
SURE . . . INSURE ADEQUATE
LY. Bill Fish