4 Friday, August 8, 1958
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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
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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.)
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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.
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