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Road Complaint
To the Editor: The follow
ing is an open letter to Mr.
Rodney Keating and the coun
ty commissioners of Jackson
county.
I'd like very much to take
you gentlemen for a ride over
the Butte Falls-Fish Lake rd.,
said ride to be taken on the
back end of my truck, to see
if you feel that our road in
this area is adequate for the
residents of the area,, plus the
fishermen and vacationers
who drive over it to get to
Willow Creek Dam and Fish
Lake. I'm sure you have suf
ficient intelligence to under
stand how rough it is. At least
you should after the calluses
you'd acquire on the ride. I've
driven over a lot of roads in
my life but never, I repeat
never, have I found a road,
which is supposed to be main
tained by the county, as bad
as this one.
You, and the road depart
ment have had a rock crusher
set up on three different oc
casions at the mouth of Bowen
Creek, about ZVz miles east
of Butte Falls and I thus far
have been unable to see any
signs of any of the rock which
was crushed at that site on
any part of the road between
what is locally called "Little
Tokyo" and the lower end of
the Mosquito Hill, which is
somewhere near eight miles
east of "Little Tokyo."
Do you the county court,
feel that we who drive over
this road and pay the license
fees and gasoline taxes, which
are supposed to be used to
maintain our roads in an ade
quate manner, are getting our
money's worth? If you do
then I think you are derelict
in your duty to the people
who use these roads.1 Also I'm
sure many others will agree
with me.
Do the fishermen and va-
cationers who drive over these
roads feel that the rocks in
the alleged road are an ade
quate surface for their use?
I'll bet a hard day's work
they do not.
Mr. Keating, last spring you
told me personally that we
had an excellent road here.
However, I did not agree then,
nor do I agree now, nor do I
think anyone else who drives
over this road would agree,
that this road here has been
properly maintained. Do you,
the county court, feel that
we, who live here and work
here, are getting the proper
benefit from the receipts of
timber taxes? I wonder . . '.
If I had financing necessary
I'd only be too happy to start
court proceedings charging
you, the county court of Jack
son county, with dereliction
of duty, and anything else
which could be said to apply
to improper service to the
people. I sincerely hope this
letter brings about some con
scious effort toward a remedy
for the conditions.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Rt.,
Butte Falls.
Park Idea Spreads
To the Editor: , A report
from Athens on this desk says:
Famed Mount Olympus and
Mount Parnassus, both soon
may become National Parks.
Above are objectives of the
Greek Society for the Protec
tion of Nature.
Thus further expands over
seas U.S.A's National Parks
concept. The idea really origi
nated in 1832. Arkansas' Hot
Springs then nationally was
set aside. Real National Park
status, however, did not come
till Yellowstone was created
in 1872. The National Park
idea then really took form:
Yosemite and Sequoia, (both
1890), accelerated the growth.
It was not until the Wood
row Wilson presidency, how
ever, that creating a National
Parks chain really com-
"menced. The first Director,
the late Stephen Mather, pour
ed his borax millions into
"pumppriming." He had to
' educate Congress. Ere long
he was to have the opposition
of a Manhattan group thai
hoped to profit by leasing Yo-
, semite for a super-casino. It
was a desperate struggle.
U.S-A.'s National Park con
cept has spread to even Cey
lon, Belgian Congo, Mozam-
'. bique. On this desk from Ba
hamas' proposed Skindiver
National Park plan for under
seas camera enthusiasts.
' The danger to U.S.A.'s Na-
' tional Parks from profit-hungry,
ruthless exploiters, nev-
ertheless, probably always
, will exist.
C. M. Goethe,
Seventh and J sts.
Sacramento 14, Calif.
any of the county employees
with people off the street.
This was too much for me, so
I looked for employment else
where so that I would have
some security.
Now this is where you, the
taxpayer, come in. I would es
timate conservatively, that
half the salary I have re
ceived has been for correcting
errors made by these people
who were "off the street."
Maybe . this member of the
budget committe can run his
business with inexperienced
help, but when your county
government is run with peo
ple off the street, it takes a
portion of some experienced
employee's time to correct
these errors, which is just an
added expense in operating
the county government.
Operating the county gov
ernment is big business, and to
operate any business efficient
ly and economically you must
have efficient and conscien
tious employees, who are sat
isfied. To keep satisfied, com
petent help, the employee
would have some feeling that
his experience will be re
warded by a reasonable assur
ance of an annual pay adjust
ment as was set up by the civil
service people when they
made the survey; of the em
ployees' positions for the coun
ty court.
The court gave as an ex
cuse that it would raise taxes
Jackson county hasn't had a
tax levy for two years and
does not have one again for
1958-59. If it would have
raised the taxes it would not
have been a great amount per
property owner. Another ex
cuse they gave for adopting
Plan 2 on salary schedules was
purely a bigoted statement.
I'm sure any of the girls who
do the bookkeeping for the
various departments could
have determined the extra
amount to put in the budget
necessary for these salary in
creases that might fall in the
middle of the year. How can
the taxpayers or court expect
satisfied employees if it takes
20 years to reach the top of
one's bracket, which,, by that
time, would be so far out of
line with the cost of living
that it. is absurd.
In conclusion, how can the
county taxpayer expect effi
cient employees in the court
house when the county court
will appoint any party to the
budget committee with an at
titude of wasting the taxpay
ers money with "off the
street" help?
Carl M. Busch,
Route 1, Box 27,
Salem, Ore.
APPEARING before Senate
committee, Barbara Bate3
Gunderson, South Dakota, is
approved as member of U. S.
Civil Service Commission.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, August 18, 1931 ' I
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just watch your savings soar!
Sleel Workers Call
Wildcat Strike
Portland OIPD United Steel
Workers Local 2070 here
staged what was called a wild
cat strike of 425 members at
the American Can company
this morning.
A union spokesman said
the workers walked out be
cause the company had laid
off two men for disciplinary
reasons.
The union officials said the
two men were laid off because
they refused to "double up"
on their shifts on Saturday as
requested by the company.
American Can officials were
not available for comment.
CHEER ROBESON
Moscow (UPD American
singer Paul Robeson received
a big ovation from the audi
ence at a Sunday concert in
Lenin Stadium. Radio Moscow
reported. The broadcast quot
ed Robeson as having tola the
Russians, "You have been in
spiring me with strength."
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Animal Cruelty
To the Editor: Every year
in the United States there are
about 3,000 commercial ro
deos. Few people realize the
cruelty that is so inherent in
America's crudest . public en
tertainment. The promoters
are exclusively concerned
with making a profit. The
phony romanticism connected
with rodeos does not alter the
fact that they are spectacles
of brutality. Almost every ani
mal used is injured in some
way by spurs, by violent
falls, by lariats, by nails and
by sharp corners in pens into
which the animals are whip
ped into frantic fear. They
are clubbed, kicked and goad
ed by electric prods on tender
est parts, ears and tails are
twisted and bull whips are
used. Tired old horses that
would be safe with a small
child are driven to an imita
tion of bucking by a strap
that is cinched to agonizing
tightness just as the gate
opens into the arena. The
"chute men" as well as con
testants sef.m to hate and fear
the Brah'na bulls and these
are clubbed and whipped al
m o s t constantly whenever
moved from pen to pen.
Calves and steers suffer the
worst abuse in the arena. The
panicked little animals are
lassoed at full gallop and
snapped heels over head
when the lariat tightens. They
lose large aras of hide and
suffer sprains and bruises. In
"steer wrestling" where the
steers used seldom weigh over
300 pounds, the neck is twist
ed violently and the fall is
often violent.
The anti-cruelty laws of al
most all states need rewriting.
It should be possible under
law to prohibit the beating
TESTIFYING before Senate
probers, ex-Gov. Payne H.
Ratner, Kansas, admitted in
terceding in behalf of Team
ster James R. Hoffa in 1953.
and injuring of animals as a
commercial public entertain
ment. (Name on file).
Medford.
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Higher Forms
To the .Editor: A political
form of government is a de
structive force, and when com
bined with a financial system
and based on a price struc
ture, eventually destroys it
self. Some of our forefathers
wanted this country to be
come a commonwealth repub
lic along industrial economic
lines. However, this met oppo
sition and a democracy was
formed. A democracy is that
form of government that gives
the individual or minority the
right to govern and exploit
the majority. The world has
reached its maximum of
credit and debt, and faces its
zero hour.
This is the point where pow
er politics no longer endure
and economic necessity holds
aloft the torch of liberation.
This is the age of industrial
revolutionary upheaval out of
which emerges from the sea
of despair a vast continent of
the ancient, lowly rising to
mountainous heights of peace
and plenty, for they alone are
the industrial economic foun
dation upon which future pro
duction and consumption ca
pacity can be maintained and
increased. In the present
change from lower to higher
forms, poverty, with its con
suming capacity, now holds
the key to the economic fu
ture, dominating the market
place and the bargain counter.
Tom Caldwell,
408 Laurel st.,
Medford
Taxpayers' Loss
To the Editor: This letter is
addressed to the taxpayers of
Jackson county.
I resigned my position in
the Jackson county . court
house because of a statement
made by one of the budget
committee about replacing
For Dr. J. H. Steere's clients in his practice area
s in Jackson County 1 -'.
He wishes fo announcs that he has returned to ;
Grants Pass and that the Veterinary Practice of
DR. STEERE and DR. MOODY is expanding to. in- .
elude SMALL ANIMALS and POULTRY PATHO
LOGY as well as the present practice in LARGE'
ANMALS.
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