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4 Friday, August 8, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medford-Wtribune "Everyone in Southern Vcrregoo Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATH Ail, Business Mgr BRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 189i SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pr Mail in -Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogus Riv. er Talent and on motor routes; Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily ana Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of Ciiy of Medford -Official Paper of Jackson County United Press FuHLeased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC, Of fices in New York, Chicago. De- - troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOClTjTlgN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 8. 1948 (Sunday) Wild flowers at Crater Lake National park are re ported at their best. Three Mexican burros from the Upper Applegate mine have been enlisted for the Jacksonville Gold Rush Ju bilee. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1938 (Monday) The Ashland Shakespeare Festival presents "The Tam ing of the Shrew" tonight. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The successful use of hillbilly mu sic in the Texas primary has caused a California candidate to attack his audience with a saxophone. It is too late for everybody in possession of a fiddle to run for some thing in Oregon." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1928 (Wednesday) An ordinance was intro duced at the city council meet ing last- night to protect ra dios from unnecessary inter ference. The local Artisans plan to sponsor a carnival dance Sat urday night at Hilarity hall. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1918 (Thursday) Local doctors are reluc tant to take on the position of city health officer, which has just become vacant again, and a city councilman sug gests appointing the veteri narian. The city council passes an ordinance declaring poplar trees in certain parts of the city to be a nuisance. Whai's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Lansing is the capital of which State? 2. Which of the original 13 States was the last to ratify the Constitution? 3. A derringer is a short barreled pistol, a kind of dag ger, or a type of conveyance? 4. Would you keep birds or bees in a apiary? 5. Mary Livingstone is the wife of which radio comedian? 6. Hominy is made from wheat, corn, oats or barley? 7. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the office of Presi dent? 8. What is "Adam's Ale"? 9. The magnetic compass al ways points toward the geo graphic North Pole; true or false? 10. What is the difference between animals that are: (1) herbivorous. (2) carnivorous and (3) omnivorous? Answers: 1. Michigan. 2. Rhode Island. 3. Pistol. 4. Bees. 5. Jack Benny. 6. Corn, 7. Andrew Johnson. 8. Water. 9. False. (Magnetic North Pole.) 10. (1) vegetation eai- . ers. (2) flesh eaters, (3) eat both. COME EARLY San Leonardo, Italy IUF3 Wine will flow like water rmt nf a new fountain in this hamlet in north Italy when it is inaugurated on Sunday. But it will be only for an hour Xnrint? the inauguration cere mony. After the 220 gallons of wine is used up water wiij flow indefinitely. Poof!! The Portland Oregonian that beneficent and all-wise metropolitan daily newspaper. has charitably proposed that the Oregon Shakespear ean Festival be moved to Portland for one season during Oregon's Centennial year in 1959. It blithely ignores the fact that the festival has been in the same quarters for some 20 years; that it is solidly based on Jackson county support; that no proper stage for it could be built in Port land for a "one-shot" season for less than a pro hibitive sum; that it is one of the state's major tourist attractions just where it is, and that mov ing it would be to dilute a decade of work in pub licizing it as a Southern Oregon institution; that costumes, props, library, lighting equipment, box office records, files and all other impedimenta built up over the years are and belong in Ashland; that directors of the association are Jackson county people, as are the members of the permanent staff and many members of the technical and acting staff; and that the Centen nial commission itself has urged strongly that each area of the state concentrate on building up its own regional attractions, rather than putting too much emphasis on Portland during the Cen tennial celebration. P OOF! says the Oregonian. Wave a wand and tram snort nil this to Portland so that the need ed new theater can be built in Ashland next year. Well, down here we're used to California try ing to swipe Crater lake, but the Oregonian's lack of perception of what makes the Shakespear ean Festival tick is matched only by its effrontery in trying to kidnap it, and overwhelm it by the hoo-rah and ballyhoo of the Centennial exposi tion, and attendant activities in Portland. Poof! yourself, you old Oregonian, you. E.A. . Festival Figures, Again Tf Vioc lioon rpnpatpfllv nninteH nut. not onlv in J- S J.iCLj J-' WW WM.-J W - 7 ' these columns but in newspapers throughout the . . i . . 1 v-v " J 1 state (including tne uregoman; just now gieai an asset the Shakespearean Festival is, both as a cultural event and in the realm of economics. We took a stab at it 'again the, other day, pointing out that in dollars and cents, the Festival brings several hundred thousand dollars into Jackson county each year. This was sort of a horseback estimate, based on some rather iffy figures from the state high way department. WE HAVE since seen an analysis of the eco nomic impact of the festival, prepared for the festival association, which not only corifirms nui" "orlu-ci tori oness " but which estimates that. conservatively, the festival is worth more than $300,000 to Jackson county every year. Here are excerpts: "In 1957, there were about 24,000 admissions to Vio festival Dn the assumption that the average person attended between two and three plays, this would net to about 10,000 different people. Of these, approxi mately 2,500 traveled less than half a day and should not be considered tourists ... "The 7,500 people attending the festival who could rightly be called transients or tourists, could be as sumed to stay and average of three days in order to attend two or three plays. This results in 22,500 tourist-days. , "The national average of tourist expenditure is $10 per day. For southern Oregon and northern California, this average is "estimated to be a little higher possibly 12 per day. In the case of the Festival attendants, the average would be even higher because, of the educa tional and economic level of those preferring this type of recreation. The average would undoubtedly be close to $15 per person but may be assumed at $13. This would produce a total expenditure of $292,500. If some allowance is made for the money spent by "local" -people, this total could be in the neighborhood of S300.000. Added to this should be the Festival's own budget of 60,000, most of which is spent in this area. -An estimate of the total amount of money spent in the Rogue valley because of the Festival would thus come to about $350,000 per year. This amount may be larger in the future in view of your extended program. . , , , "In the case of a manufacturing industry such as a sawmill a payroll of about 90 employees would be required to produce the gross expenditures of the Festival attendants ..." That's the sort of thing we're talking about when we say the Festival is a major economic, as well as cultural and recreational, advantage to southern Oregon. E.A. White Mice and Traffic "Traffic downtown reminds me of a bunch of white mice that have learned to run a maze, then find a new obstacle, and just sit there, all confused." This remark was overheard yesterday a comment on what it is like to drive without the familiar red-amber-and-green traffic lights, on which we've all become so dependent. With the couplet changeover, the traffic lights on Main street were all out of kilter. Motorists were at a loss. Some would stop on a yellow light, or no light at all, look in all direc tions, and then scoot ahead. Others would bull right ahead, and to heck with it. UE TRUST that all will be well after today. But we felt sorry for the police officers, out in the hot sun in the middle of some of the worst intersections, directing traffic. How long has it been since you've seen a policeman directing traffic except in an emer gency, or during a parade? Traffic lights do the job better, and, in the long run, less expensively. Automation, that's what it is. E.A. . r Dennis the Menace '1 mtMtmm oh my mvoGimm'A HAMBURGW West Europeans Relived Debate On Mid-East Due in By WELLINGTON LONG UPI Correspondent Bonn, Germany (UPD . West European governments generally seem relieved that the Middle Eastern crisis will be debated in the United Na tions General Assembly rath er than at a more exclusive "summit meeting." France would have been the only West European gov ernment participating in such a "summit" session. Paris was claiming for itself the right to appear at that meeting as West Europe's "spokesman." But most other West European - governments are unsympathetic with the French posture in North Afri ca. They feared France would try at a "summit;' meeting to commit other West Euro pean governments to actions in which the latter did not believe. With the great debate now to be held in the 81-member General Assembly, the West Europeans are, to a greater Southern Liberals' Worries Eased by Gore's Nomination By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent t Washington (UPD Sen. Albert Gore's renomination in Thursday's Tennessee Democratic primary eases the worries of Southern Demo cratic moderates and liberals. But it does not mean a mark ed shift in the trend shown only last week by Gov. Orval Faubus' runaway victory in the Arkansas primary. Despite increased racial tension in the South because of the conflict over school in tegration., Gore won renomi national against a traditional Dixie style campaign conduct ed by Prentice Cooper, a former governor. Cooper at tacked Gore for voting for the Civil Rights Bill in the Senate last year and for fail ing to sign the Southern con gressional bloc's "manifesto" aaainst mixine the races irr schools. He also took a more conservative line than Gore on foreign aid and foreign trade. Extremism Voted Down Gore's victory could not be interpreted as evidence of any slackening in racial tension. But his defeat would have been a loud, clear signal to southern politicians that tak ing the extremist position on the segregation issue was es sential to political survival. There was a widespread be lief among Democrats in the Senate that Gore's real trouble was not his record but his failure to give enough atten tion to fence repair in his home state. Incumbent members of Con gress usually .are heavy favorites when they seek re nomination. No senator who has sought renomination this year has been defeated in the primaries so far. Gore, the 15th to be renominated, won the hard way and by a mar gin that was less than over whelming. Similar To Yarborough Gore's victory was similar to that won two weeks ago by Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex0, another Southern moderate who voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Yar borough won more easily against a conservative chal lenger. But between Texas and Tennessee lies Arkansas. And between the Texas and Ten nessee primaries came the Arkansas primary and the third-t e r m nomination of Faubus, who has become the symbol of Southern white re sistance to racial integration. degree, masters of their own destiny. Counting of Noses On the minus side, how ever, West Europeans realize that a General Assembly' de bate must end with a count ing of noses. That could put the West Europeans, most of whom are allied with the United States and Britain through the North Atlantic Treaty alliance or the Organ ization for European Eco nomic Cooperation, in an em barrassing situation. West European govern ments were annoyed that the U.S. landed troops in Leba non without consulting its al lies first. And even post facto consultation and explanation has failed to convince all Eu ropean leaders that the Amer ican action was the best pos sible move, legal though it may have been. ' But it is one thing for the West Europeans to carp at the U.S. behind closed doors. It is quite another thing for Gore and Yarborough can be expected to be among those Southern Democrats fighting for a united Democratic party in the 1960 presidential cam paign. Others will be less .in terested in keeping the South in the national party. This whole subject no doubt will get formal or informal atten tion from the Southern Demo cratic leaders, meeting for unannounced purposes, at Columbia, S.C., this week end. In the Day's News By FRANK What about the big "sum mit" meeting in the U.N. Se curity Council that Russia turned down? Let's not worry too much about it. It would have turned out to be just . another big propaganda show and there's already too much propaganda in the world. And too little common sense. WHAT'S wrong with the world including us? I wouldn't know, but here's a" hint: At a convention in Buffalo the other day, a sociologist told his hearers that Ameri can youth's notions about ro mantic love lead to some pretty -foggy choices in matri monial prospects. In his talk, he cited a survey made among marriageable 20 - year - old women in 12 cities on their ideal husband prototypes. These were their preferences: Perry Como, William Hol den and Rock Hudson as top three. President Eisenhower and Tab Hunter tied for fourth place. Tony Curtis and Elvis Presley tied for fifth and Mar lon Brando, Jeff Chandler, James Dean, Senator William F. Kennedy, Jerry Lewis and Vice President Nixon shared sixth place. LET'S talk about the stock market. It's more realistic. In particular, let's talk about what happened when the Federal Reserve Board hiked the margin requirement from 50 per cent to 70 per cent. (As a result of the hike, prices on the New York Stock Exchange faltered Tuesday, but swung upward again Wed nesday morning.) FIRST What's it all about? Washington Report By William NIXON'S SUMMIT ROLE Washington If we go to a summit conference over the Middle East or any other kind of high level meeting involving heads of state Vice President R i c h a r d M. Nixon will be an unseen but powerful par ticipant, even though he will U. illarr, K llhif. UUUUl UC absent in the purely physical sense. In all that has thus far gone on inside the Eisenhow er Administration on the sum mit issue, Mr. Nixon's hand has been far heavier than has appeared from the outside. Actually, he is already serv ing as a sort of assistant gen eral manager in charge of propaganda and domestic in telligence for the summit Assembly them to vote against the U.S. in the United Nations. But it might be ' equally difficult for many European leaders to justify to their own con stituents a vote for a resolu- tion expressing full support of the American actions in Lebanon. Much will depend on the wording of any resolutions the U.S. may bring before the General Assembly. Probably the U.S. will have to "water down" its resolutions consid erably, as it did its resold tions on the Hungarian ques tion in late 1956. West Germans Relieved The West Germans are probably more relieved at lat est developments than any bf their neighbors. Bonn has al ways held that the United Nations was the proper forum in which to handle Middle Eastern questions, political and economic, For that reason, Germany in general supports the plan of Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani to channel economic aid to the Arab states through the U.N And West Germany is in the politically advantageous position of not being a mem, ber of the United Nations. As an accredited observer at the New York headquarters, it can make its influence felt, but it doesn't have to stand up and be counted, West Germany also feared that a summit conference might degenerate into horse- trading in which there could be an agreement to neutralize the Middle East in return for similar neutralization of cen tral Europe. Official Bonn opposes neu tralization of central Europe, and sees less chance of such a deal being arranged at the U.N. than at a "summit" session. JENKINS What does this "margin" business mean? . Why was it done? In more generally under standable language, "raising the margin" means requiring a larger DOWN PAYMENT on purchased stocks. In this case, it meant raising the down payment from 50 per cent of the purchase price to 70 per cent. The purpose was to CHECK SPECULATION. LET'S now take a sharp look at speculation. Americans are natural spec ulators. If you see a vacant lot that seems to have possibili ties of becoming more valu able you buy it (if you can raise the money) and hold it for a rise, in price. If you are a business man (and if it looks like prices wil go up) you in crease your inventory that is, you buy more than you need at the moment in the hope that prices will rise and you will make a speculative profit. ' IS THAT bad? It all depends. If you become so obsessed with the idea of buying low and selling high and making a killing in the process that you quit your job and spend all your time speculating you'll .probably come out of the short end of the horn in the long run. That's what too many people did back in 1929. The historic binge of that sort was John Law's Mississippi Bubble, which nearly wrecked France by causing most Frenchmen to quit work and spend all their time speculat ing. The Federal Reserve Board is trying to prevent TOO MUCH speculation. LVWy S. White enterprise, To him, the Presi dent, Secreary of State John Foster Dulles and the White House staff have repeatedly turned for certain estimates. These estimates have had to do with how the American and foreign publics were re sponding to each necessary turn in the American ap proach to what is already a deeply intent contest with the Kremlin for face and credit with the uncommitted world. AND if a summit confer ence or anything like it, in fact if not in form should actually come off, the Presi dent's main advisor on the vital matters of public reac tions and public relations would be Richard M. Nixon. The Vice President, in short, would be a highly significant member of "the team," even though t almost certainly he would not attend the confer ence. There would be, in the formal sense, no place for him, for there would be only one official American sea t President Eisenhower's. Nix on nevertheless would be con tinuously in touch with the President and with Secretary Dulles to keep them abreast in his specialty. This specialty is the intui tive sensing of what ordinary people think or merely feel at this or that stage of a public controversy. In this in tuition Nixon, approve him or not, is a master incompara bly abler than any other mem ber of the Administration, in cluding Mr. Eisenhower him self. Many times the Vice Presi dent has exercised that skill. He reached Congress 12 years ago mainly because he sensed that the postwar American public would be responsive to attacks on the alleged in fluence of Communism or left-wingism on our public policy. TIE ASSOCIATED himself tiwith successful Republic an attacks of that kind for eight years. But then, in 1954, he was found supporting Sen ate condemnation of the late Senator Joseph .R. McCarthy, the chief so-called "Red hunt er" of that era. As the public has moved to ward a willingness to try to do some sort of business with the Russians, Nixon, too, has so moved. Regardless of whether he has been ahead of or merely in step with such movement, the essential point is simply that he has never yet got out of sensory touch with them. Those who have followed his career have never known him to err seriously in a priv ate assessment of public at titudes. All this being so, there is special interest now in the Vice President's situa tion. It may be described as follows: He was more intimately a part of the Administration's decision to send troops into Lebanon that he has ever been on any high policy determina tion. He wholly supported that decision and wholly supports it now. He seems confident that the public does likewise. And as he backed the Leganon operation without reservation. he is now backing the Presi dent's reluctant agreement, under conditions, to meet with the Russians. a THE Vice President believes there is nn hvprnnwprin a I o reason to fear the propaganda disaster to our side which many have feared. Indeed, he sees a good possibility for a Western success instead pro vided always that we go with affirmative proposals. He considers that we could lose out with the world policy only if we allowed the confer ence to fall into a mere shout ing match with the Russians. He is quite certain that this will not be allowed to occur. As to domestic politics, no one accuses the Administra tion of sending the troops, or agreeing to a summit meeting, for partisan motives. All the same, there will political by products. Mr. Nixon, whose bleak realism is noteworthy, is of course aware of all this. He can have no illusions that even a moderately successful summit conference would have any decisively favorable effect on Republican chances for recapturing control of Congress in the November elections. Too, he is conscious that a sour summit conference, fol lowed -by more and more world troubles, would certain ly do the Republicans no good in the 1960 Presidential con test in -which he himself is likely to be the Republican nominee. It is no less clear, however, that. a success at the summit, followed by a more tranquil world, would be most helpful to the Republicans in 1960. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication 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 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the Clean Up or Shut Up To the Editor: I've been following the controversy on the new Sanitary " Service dump with a great deal of interest and I think it's about time some one cited a few facts other people know and think about the garbage sit uation around Jacksonville. I've been a resident of this vicinity for 20 years and ac quainted with the people and activities of JacksonviUe since 1916. What disgusts me so is the fact that Jacksonville has had an open garbage dump, just up Sterling Creek above town on the old road, for as long as I can remember. It's in fested with every kind of ro dent and drains into the creek that goes through the center of town. As long as this garbage dump ("Junk Dump," as Mayor Keaveny calls it) has been there, it has never had a cover job or rat poison program, and the flies! Do these people think this menace doesn't affect the town? Those homes up Ster ling Creek have a beautiful view (of this dump). Until Medford water was received, all this' drainage polluted the wells and everyone 'had to use it. Before and during the de pression, the town was un dermined with shafts and tunnels until it got so honey combed that after a wet win ter you were apt to find a sunken garden in your yard When the mining was stopped and more modern plumbing installed, what happened? People started and are using these mine shafts and tunnels for sewer disposal. Now ask you, is this sanitary? Do these few people who are doing all the talking know what garbage disposal procedures are? Do they know that 60 per cent of the new additions in Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, New York and other big cities too numerous to mention are built over garbage dumps built and maintained on the same method as the Sanitary Service is using? So people, get wise, use your heads for thinking and start working on a sewer disposal plan, be fore trying to tell men who make Sanitary Service their business how to run it and accuse them of polluting your fair city. Another thing, on entering Jacksonville from Medford, have you ever slowed down and looked right and left and noticed how some places on the highway looked like a junk, yard? I know others feel the same. So why not clean up or shut up? Ima Madden, Jacksonville. Boys' and Girls' Aid To the Editor: I've been en joying the series of letters on the United Medford Crusade visit to Oregon United Appeal agencies. It was my pleasure to participate in this inspec tion, and I would like to add my thoughts on this fine work I will never forget the sat isfaction I received in realiz ing that these agencies are at work night and day for the benefit of all of Oregon's cit izens. Many Jackson county youngsters are served each day at a greatly reduced cost to Jackson county taxpayers. The agency that most im pressed me was the Boys and Girls Aid Society. -A highly trained staff handles the adop tive wOrk here. The director, Stuart R. Stimmel, is a doctor Senator Gore Primary Winner Nashvillej Term. (UPD U.S. Sen. Albert Gore was virtu ally assured today of a second term, his moderate approach to the civil rights issue ap parently backed up by voters in Thursday's Tennessee Dem ocratic primary. In the four-man governor s race segregationist B u f o r d Ellington, former commission er of agriculture, held the lead, but both Memphis Mayor Edmund. Orgill and Judge An drew (Tip) Taylor were run ning so ciose behind him that the outcome remained in doubt. State - Sen. . Clifford Allen, trailing badly, conced ed defeat Thursday night. Gore assumed an early lead over iormer uov. .rreuuee Cooper, and the margin wid ened as returns poured in. He claimed victory as the count passed the two-thirds mark. Returns from 2,277 of the state's 2,583 precincts in the senate- race gave Gore 304,- 941 votes to Cooper's 213,524. With 2,276 precincts reported in the governor's race, Elling ton had 179,894 votes, Orgill 170,409, Taylor 166,995 and Allen 48,697, at law. and holds two psychol ogy degrees. All members of the staff are most competent. Constantly they receive letters of praise and thanks from people who have worked with or through them. It should be satisfying to all United Medford Crusade do nors to realize that their rifts and efforts are doing such an important job. Ken W. Cook, 2226 Aloha ave., ! Medford. Victory Against Cruelly To the Editor: A tremendous victory has been achieved against cruelty. After seven hours of strenuous debate in which Sen. Hubert H. Hum- phrey urged the cause of hu mane slaughter with great brilliance and determination, the Senate, by a vote of 72 to 9, adopted the good humane slaughter bill. HR8308. Dassed by. the House this February. opponents of the measure fought it every inch of the way. The powerful American Meat Institute's most effective lobbyist was right there on the spot using every means at his command to kill the bill. Fortunately for the animals that give us food and .fortun ately for our nation's moral stature and self - respect, the bill passed nevertheless. The benate adopted one amend ment against the advice of the leading proponents. It was offered at the last moment without consultation and with out known endorsement of any group, but since it applies only to a small proportion of slaughtering, it may be classed as a minor amend ment. The effective provi sions of the bill remain un changed. It was the widespread pub lic demand on" the part of the decent citizens and on the part of the newspapers big and small throughout the country that caused this bill to pass both the Senate and - the House. You can take great pride in the part you played in obtaining passage. All that remains to be done, after the House considers the Senate amendments and an agree ment is reached,, is for the President to sign the bill so that it becomes law. Would you write to President Eisen hower telling him how much you look forward to his sign ing this vitally necessary hu mane bill which will prevent unnecessary cruelty to count less millions of animals in the coming years? . Madeline Bemelmans President . Christine Stevens Secretary-Treasurer Society for Animal .. Protective Legislation 745 Fifth ave. New York 22, N. Y. - Public Relations Tough To. the Editor: We wish to take this opportunity to ex press our thanks and grati tude for your editorial in Sunday's paper, although we certainly realize that it was not written merely to please us. The daily operation .of a garbage collection business presents many unusual prob lems of public relations, pos sibly more so than in other types of business operations, but this recent controversy concerning the dump ground caused us a considerable amount of concern. If we succeed in demonstrating to the public, particularly those residing in and around Jack sonville,, that we can and will operate a clean and sanitary garbage disposal plant at our new site, which will not con stitute a hardship on anyone, we will always feel that the objective viewpoints express ed in your editorial were a major factor in allowing us the opportunity of showing that we can operate without being obnoxious. We wish to give you our personal assurance that if it appears in the future that our operation at the new site in terferes with or detracts in any way from the future de velopment of Jacksonville and the surrounding area, we will find it necessary to locate elsewhere, just as it has been necessary for us to curtail in the past, and now proceed to terminate our operations in the Camp White area and on Ellendale Drive. We hope that we will al ways continue to be aware of the fact that in exchange for being granted the exclusive franchise to dispose of gar bage by the valley communi ties, we have also incurred the obligation to provide for them the very best garbage removal program that is economically feasible. City Sanitary Service Co. Anthony Boitano, Charles W. Bottjer, Partners 209 West Main St Medford. i j
