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Petition Submitted To Council Against Auto Wrecking Yard A 123 -signature petition against operation of Speed way Auto Parts at 1395 Hil ton rd. has been filed with the city council. The petition, presented at last week's council meeting by Mrs. Hiram Martin, 1336 Hilton rd., charges that A. Ray Forbes' business presents 'an unpleasant view," creates "smoke and odors" and deters "the future industrial and residential development" of the area. It protests the city's approv al of the business. An auto- wrecking enterprise, to oper ate legally, must file an appli cation annually with the city If the city approves the oper ation, it forwards a recom mendation to the department of motor vehicles, which in turn issues a license. The council has agreed to consider the issue as a "com mittee of the whole." Denies Charges Robert Boyer, Forbes' at torney, denied the charges Friday. "This area," he said, "is no more unsightly than Highway 99 running north or south through Medford. A large portion of the people traveling the Crater Lake highway are not aware there is a wrecking yard on the highway." The petition states that Speedway presents an "unpleasant vigw" to highway travelers as well as to local residents "The smoke and odors cre ated by this business," the pe tition states, "are carried by the prevailing winds of the valley over the east Medford residential area, and are com bined with the fog of the fall season to form a nauseous smog that lays like a pall over Medford." "They do no burning, Boyer replied. ' "The only odors would have to come from the use of acetylene torches on car bodies." Verifies Belief "The history of wrecking yards in the Rogue valley," the petition goes on to say, "verifies our belief that the future industrial and residen tial development of this area will be measurably deterred by such a business in the area." And Boyer responded, "Mr. Forbes has on every occasion been willing to modify the property to improve the Citation Issued After Accident - Kenneth Vernon Harris, 48, of Klamath Falls, was cited for failure to yield the right of way following an accident Saturday night in front of the Triangle market on the South Pacific highway, state police said. No injuries were reported. Officers said a northbound car driven by Vivian Smith Lobdell, 42, of 1007 Murray st., Medford, collided with one driven by Harris. The Klam ath Falls car pulled out into the northbound traffic from the Triangle market parking lot and in front of the Lob dell car, officers said. neighborhood, but the people behind this movement are not willing to compromise in any manner. If people in the neighborhood would make affirmative suggestions, he would go to any length to im prove the aesthetic nature of the location. "If they want a war," he added, "we would give them a war. They couldn't win." Brush, Timber Fire Said Under Control La Grande (UPD A brush and timber fire that broke out 28 miles north of here Satur day was reported under con trol early today after burning nearly 900 acres of land. State forestry official W. M. Curtis said barring strong winds, the fire should be out today. He said, however, the forecast for this afternoon is for electrical storms and wind. A 50 to 60 man crew is standing by the fire. Six smaller blazes erupted in this area late Sunday from electrical storms. Three small fires broke out in the Ukiah district, two near La Grande and one in the Wallowa district. Three Injured In Auto Mishap Central Point Three per sons received minor injuries in an auto collision at the intersection of Manzanita and Second sts., Central Point, Saturday, police reported. Slightly injured were Mrs. George Wayne Pearce, route 2, box 647, Central Point; her son, Billy Wayne, five years old; and Diane Lee Holt, 1044 West 12th St., Medford, a passenger in the Wayne car. Cars driven by George Wayne Pearce, route 2, Cen tral Point, and Robert Dale Hill, 443 North Second st., Central Point, collided at the intersection. No citations were issued, according to police. Considerable damage resulted to both vehicles. Record Willamette Catch Reported Portland (LTD The state fish commission said today that spring Chinook anglers fishing the Willamette river took a near record catch of 15,500 fish and exceeded last year's catch by nearly 4,000 salmon. This record was surpassed only three times since catch statistics were begun in 1941. The final catch record was compiled by both the state fish and game commissions. Total weight of the catch was estimated at 282,000 Washington Report By William S. White VALOROUS SOUTHERNERS Washington A high sense of national responsibility and tolerance clearly is at work 1 in the upper ' South. This is one i of several '4 g r e a t points if emerging from the renomina tion in Ten nessee of Sen ator Albert Gore on the vviiiam s wtuie neeis oi we renomination in Texas of Sen ator Ralph Yarborough. Both men are, by Southern standards, dangerously liberal on the facial question. Both had been marked by the Southern Old Guard for liqui dation. Both won without abandoning unpopular con victions and with the over whelming endorsements of their own people. Both will now return here for six more years of Senate service since Democratic nomination in both Texas and Tennessee is as good as elec tions in seats, not merely safe, but honorably safe. A YEAR ago four Southern Senators Lyndon B. Johnson and Yarborough of Texas, Estes Kefauver and Gore of Tennessee broke publicly with an 80-year-old Southern tradition. They did more than consent to the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction days. They made this legislation possible Johnson most of all, as the powerful and astute Demo cratic leader of the Senate. y , How Can Choosing This Man Mean DON STATHOS GREATER SECURITY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY? This man is an independent insurance specialist. He is free to select the best fire and casualty in surance for your car, home or business out of hundreds of policies available. And he gives you continuing service helps you collect when you have a claim. You can't get all these advantages when you buy insurance directly from an insurance company. So be sure you buy your insurance through an independent insurance agent. Insure through I YOUJy 77 ndiptnJtnt I DON STATHOS, INSUROR Professional Insurance Protection 220 South Central Medford PHONE SP 2-2677 True, it was a bill far from satisfactory to the advanced liberals. But the point was that it was a bill, where eight decades had produced none at all. This was an act of cour age and statesmanship, even though each of the four has presumed or suspected Presi dential ambitions. To each, the Presidency was a wholly improbable bird in a very dis tant bush, whereas the risk to each was a very real bird in the hand a Senate seat. Not many men in public life have shown more valor in our time. And these four faced more than the wrath of the Southern traditionalists at their rear. Constantly, they were sniped at by Northern liberals in both parties. These Northern liberals, complain ing that the bill did not go far enough, .cruelly harried the four, who had run all the dan ger, for not running yet more. AND those who most criti cized these forward troops were taking no risk at all. It is not difficult to be for a "tough" civil rights bill in New York or Illinois. Now, two of these valiant four have gone before voters of their states and have won. It is two up and two to go. (Johnson and Kefauver stand for re-election in 1960.) What Texas and Tennessee have done far more nearly ex presses the upper South than what Arkansas has done in re nominating Governor Orval Faubus, who has fished in, rather than tried to calm, the ugly waters of racial strife. But even the outcome in Arkansas does not necessarily mean that the people there are absolutely unwilling to accommodate the segregation issue for all time. More near lythough, of course, not completely it means that they have reacted in anger to the shame and bitterness of seeing Federal troops patrol their capital city. To understand this feeling is not to condone it. For the memory of other Federal bay onets those of the occupation in the Reconstruction still burns and scars below the Potomac. THE results of Texas and Tennessee mean that mod erate and responsible politi cians can -still live in the South, given half a chance. These results suggest that the advanced liberals in the North who really intend to assist the cause of racial equity will do well not to demand of these moderates acts of sacrifice amounting to instant suicide. They suggest it is still pos sible to draw this country to gether, to bring the Old South back into the United States of America upon the backs of these moderates. But the mod erates the responsibles must first of all be allowed to live in office. They have shown they can survive South ern extremism, even in the wake of Faubus in Little Rock. They cannot, however, sur vive Southern and Northern extremism running at full pitch and all at once. And this is the lesson for the fu ture for all who really wish to reach solutions, rather than strike attitudes, in the racial issue. (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- "WTHEN Calvin Coolidge was vice president, he lived in th V old Willard hotel in Washington. A fire alarm in th middle of the night brought every guest into the lobby, in i variety of negligees, and fancy pajamas. Mr. Coolidge speedily surmised that there was no danger and started to trudge back to his room. "Nothing doing," said the fire marshaL "Get back to that lobby." "You are speaking to the vice president," snapped Coolidge. "Okay," then," said the marshaL "Go ahead." A moment later he called sus piciously. "What are you vice president of?" "The United States," said Coolidge. "Come right back down here," ordered the thought you were vice president of the hotel." marshal. "I Wine-lover Lucius Beebe, about to submit to a minor operation, cautioned the doctor, "Be sure to open me at the same temperature as the room." 1958, by Bennett Cat. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Quotes From the News United Press International London Bishop Henry Knox Sherill of the United States, urging the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Church to have faith in the common man: "There is often a blessed common sense possessed by ordinary, if uninformed, men and women, which, leads them .almost unconsciously to discern between the vital and the secondary." Detroit United Auto Workers president Walter Rauther, on his union's preparedness in the face of any industry recalcitrance: "We have now cleared the decks of all the preliminary steps needed to call a strike and when we decide it is to the advantage of the union, we will move quickly to authorize a strike." Buenos Aires (UPD Ar gentine scientists recently recorded a record tempera ture of 121.7 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in the Ant arctic, the government an nounced Sunday night. Orizaba, "Vera Cruz (UPD Eleven persons, including six from one family, died Sunday night when a bus ran off the Talapilla bridge and hurfled into the Blanco river 30 miles from here. Kuibyshev, Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev, at dedication ceremonies of a new huge hydro-electric plant, on Russia's foreign policy for "peace." "If they (the West) disregard common sense and begin a war we .shall do everything io rout the aggressors and estab lish good peace on earth." Baalbek, Lebanon Rebel leader Sabri Hamadi, differ entiating between personal feelings and political expediency: "I like Americans very much. But this is a bad lime for them lo be here. They must go from my country until it knows peace again." Washington A House subcommittee, indicating how Am ericans are being bilked of $100 million dollars a year: "Candy wafers, machines, appetite satients and appetite curbing drugs are some of the means which unscrupulous hucksters of the lose-weight cult use to lure us to an earthy slenderized Valhalla." MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, August 11, 1958 I electric heat is .. Sunshine Silent. (and as automatic the year around as summer sunshine! So quiet, you know it's there only because you're always warm as toast when you heat electrically.) THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY IMS. JOHN HINSEY Of SEPIM.VEOA. CAUK. f My Husband doesn't really trust me... ' GUESS NO MAN EVER TRUSTS A WOMAN when it comes to certain things. "For instance, every Thursday (that's my day to take the car) I get the same old speech with the car keys. Something like this: " 'Xow don't forget to get gas, and don't forget it's Royal 76, and be sure to check the water, and see if we need oil, we take Royal Triton such-and-such a weight, et cetera, et cetera.' "I just let him ramble on; all the time I'm thinking 'about the price of round steal: and asparagusr "Then I just roll the car to our Union Oil dealer on the corner. We've been going there for years, and he knows just what to do. So he takes care of All , Those Things while I'm checking my grocery list. I don't even have to watch! "Then when my husband comes home and starts in, 'Did you?... did you?... did your I just say 'Yes dear, yes dear, yes dear.' t "And, do you know? I've never yet been caught !" Union Oil dealer, in addition to filling your tank with the West's most powerful premium gasoline, automatically checks the water and oil, the battery, and the tire pressure. And, of course, cleans the windshield thoroughly. He does it always with a smile. 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