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.
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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."
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' GUESS NO MAN EVER TRUSTS A WOMAN when it
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" 'Xow don't forget to get gas, and don't forget it's
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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
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