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4 1 FrMay. August 29, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD, ORE. t very one in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune- Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING Cof . 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor f B GREY. Advertising Manager vciuiuj ijinjM. rmfineaa Msr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor SARL, H. ADAMS. City Editor ?A-5,R.X,HIPMAN- TeI8- Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor un-u. e. mmsoN. CirculationMgr, An Independent Newspaper Kntered at second class matter at waoiora Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year 115.00 uany ana sunaay s moa. 8.00 IJaiiy and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday only One year $450. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle w " t, jacKsonvine, iOJd rilll. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday X mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of MedfoTd t Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC- Of. IDA ce In New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL c5'N 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. 29, 1948 (Sunday) The climax of "The Last of the Wild Horses" involving 200 horses and riders, is scheduled for filming today, and features the Jackson County Sheriffs posse, the Eagle Point mounties and the Ashland riders. Male chins in Jacksonville vary from light fuzz to heavy, grey-streaked beards in prepa ration for the Gold Rush Jubilee. , so Years ago Aug. 29, 1938 (Monday) Medford residents will vote Wednesday on whether the city should issue $73,500 in bonds to finance repair of paved streets. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Prac tice runs on newly paved resi dential streets, in preparation for the Labor Day auto wrecks, are quite prevalent." 30 YEARS AGO , Aug. 29, 1928 (Wednesday) Over 50 million salmon eggs are expected to be taken this season from the Elk creek fish hatchery above Trail. - The fall dancing season will be opened next Monday eve ning with a dance at Hilarity hall sponsored by the Ameri can Legion Drum corps. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 29. 1918 (Thursday) One fresh young soldier in a contingent passing through town on the train today shout ed to Chief of Police Timothy, "Who owns this town any how" to which the chief re plied, "A widder woman, and was met by a chorus from the soldiers of "Where is she? Trot her out!" Twenty-two local men reg istered for the draft last Sat urday. . Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight it excellent; five or hi it good. NATIONAL J. What is the boiling point on the Fahrenheit thermom eter scale? 2. What is the source of linseed oil? 3. On a man's coat, are the buttons on the left side, or the right side? 4. Complete the quotation, "I know not what course oth ers may take, but as for me, give me - - - -" 5. Which Federal agency has the initials FJD.I.C.? 6. How much money does the slang expression "jitney" denote? 7. There are 88 keys on a piano keyboard; how many are black and how many are white? 8. Which horse-drawn ve hicle has the same name as an English Queen. 9. If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how many cats wiU it require to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes? 10. Who was U.S. Presi dent when the White House was burned by the British during the War of 1812? Answers: 1. 212 degrees. 2. Flaxseed. 3. Right side. 4. "... liberty or give me death." 5. Federal Deposit , Insurance Corporation. . 6. ' Five cents. 7. 36 black and 52 ' white. 8. Vieteria. 8. 5 eais. 10. James Madison. , , Men With Nerce ine numDer 01 tnunaerstorms tms summer may not have set a record. But they have been far more numerous than in most summers. Record or not, it SEEMS like a record. The grumble of thunder and the flash of light ning has been a frequent thing the past two months. And the emergencies which result have been dealt with in the the agencies and firms witn tnem. Fire crews have gone ning-set forest fires regularly, and -crews from Copco have been johnny damage to the electrical IN THIS connection, Bill Jenkins of the Klamath Falls Herald and News recently . printed a tribute to the linemen who keep the electricity flowing into our homes. It applies as much in the Rogue valley as it does across the mountains, and we found it both interesting and applicable. Here are excerpts: ". . . The bolt of lightning . . . took out its spite on the neighbor's house. It hit a transformer on the power line, traveled down the wire, melted the nails in the wall, and set fire to a bedspread or something. They caught it in time and no real damage done, but they had no lights. "By this time it was raining. Shortly a Copco truck . pulled up, checked in at our house, and we went out to see the transformer on the pole behind the house. "I wouldn't have Shorty Poole's job for all the money there is. He got a light on the transformer, which looks like a lard can to me, put on his climbing spurs and went up that pole like a monkey up a string, "Just as he reached the top of the pole the rain started coming straight down in drops about the size of pigeon eggs. Shorty just hung up there in his safety belt and went to work replacing whatever it is you replace to make it work. All this time, mind you, it was raining hard, the lightning was still smashing and roaring around all over the place, and the scene was lit up like something out of a horror movie. "No sir! I wouldn't have Shorty's job for anything. "I suppose the big public utilities are fair game for public wrath and criticism, but you sure have to hand it to the men who go out in any kind of weather and keep the juice running so we can all sit inside in warm comfort and marvel at the storm. "They have earned a vote of gratitude. "You've got more nerve than I have, Shorty, you and all the rest of your buddies." -E.A. Why Sunday? Idle curiosity department: Why, we wonder, is the 186th National Guard regiment now drilling on We have often stated our opposition to the use of pressure or compulsion to force any busi nessmen who want to remain open on Sundays to close. By the same token, we would oppose forcing anyone against his will to do things on Sunday he didn't want to do. Some members of the guard, or their families, have expressed resentment against the orders which have changed a weekly evening drill period into a full day of drill on Sunday twice a month. ; IF MOST guardsmen have no objection to this, and if the reasons are sufficiently compelling, we see no particular objection. But if a majority of ject (particularly in view of the fact that they enlisted under the understanding that dnll per iods would be on week nights) , and if the reasons are shaky, we would join The crux of the matter, as we see it, is that no reasons for the Sunday And we think that members of . the guard, their families, and the public which pays for the train ing, are entitled to know. E.A. New Ice Age? It almost never nows in the Arctic. This odd fact is a bit startling, as one thinks of the movies and4 tales one has seen and heard about blizzards, ice packs, and so on. But scientists tell us that the ice . pack is formed largely either of frozen sea-water, or of ancient ice f ormed from snows of long years ago. In the polar region, the blizzards are chiefly high winds blowing fragments of this old ice. . THIS is one of the facts supporting a theory, explained in the new Harper's' magazine, which sets forth that the last ice age ended be cause the polar sea was frozen over, and moisture was no longer available to turn into the heavy snows which, over the years, packed down to form the huge glaciers of the northern hemi sphere, some of them up to two miles thick. m And the theory, formulate by two American scientists, goes on to point out that warm water in the oceans is moving north, and that their level is rising. When enough warm ocean water seeps into the Artie ocean, the, theory goes, the ice-pack will melt, the sea will be open, the moisture will be available to form snow, which will fall and again build up the glaciers. AS THEY grow, they will lock up so much water tVlrt -..nnv. ln,TU .ill .CI! Al A l! wic mean icveia win j.au, uie atcuc uceaii will be cut off from warm water again and will freeze, the snows will decrease and the glaciers will gradually melt, again building up the ocean levels. And so the cycle goes. This won't happen tomorrow or the next day, obviously. These cycles cover thousands of years. m But the scientists believe that we are on the brink of a new cycle. The Arctic ice covers 12 per cent less area than it did 15 years ago, and is 40 per cent thinner, they say. - And they believe that within 100 vears in the lifetime of our grandchildren a new ice age will begin. E.A. . . . . . . usual efficient manner by which are used to dealing out to battle the 'light - on - the - spot in repairing systems. Sundays? the guard personnel ob m the protests. drill have been given. Dennis the Menace 0m IF I TAKE My GRUB OUT Washington Report By William ON PUBLIC SERVICE Washington-The period be tween summer s end and au tumn's real beginning is an unofficial poli tical holiday. Congress has gone. The bu reaucrats are relatively calm. Present j activity in the national politi cal community is confined wiiiiam s. white largely to the small off-stage . noises, like the shifting of stage scenery, that are being made for the fall Congressional campaign. It is on the whble wonder fully quiet here-part of the time. And it seems an appro priate moment to say a few kind "words - for - that . man against whom so many say so much that isMinkind, the pro fessional politician: - The common notion is that he is too tricky, talks too much, probably is dishonest and almost certainly coward ly, and works very little. NO other professional man suffers from so many un fair stereotypes. For the poli tician is vastly different from the way he is commonly pic tured. His "trickiness," for example, nine-tenths of the time is the exercise of plain common sense. His business is leading peo ple by persuasion; his daily necessity is somehow to aver age out the bitterly competing view and wishes of constitu ents, parties, business, farm and labor interests. If it is "tricky" to find rational com promises that will let the vari ous viewpoints live and will let laws be passed and poli cies be actually executed, then he is tricky. As to talking, the profes sonal politician actually falls considerably short of most f physicians, far short of most lawyers, vastly short of most barbers and infinitely short of the true national offender in this regard, the taxi driver. People read, for example, that so and so spoke for eight hours in the Senate. And from this they conclude that those fellows spend all their time hurling throaty syllables at the Capitol dome. What they do not grasp is that at least 90 percent of the Senate will be quite as annoyed with an eight-hour speaker as anybody could possibly be-if only be cause he is preventing some more terse character from saying fewer and better chosen words. .-- AS to honesty, this corres pondent's experience with business and the various pro fessions and trades indicates Try and sere v -By BENNETT CERF- JAMES THURBER is forever remembering wonderful stories about the late Harold Ross,' founder and editor of the New Yorker. Thurber recalls the day Dorothy Parker labelled Ross 'a professional lunatic. Russell Maloney noted that "Ross considered perfection" his personal property, like his hat or his watch." One -editor complained ta Ross, "Every week you holler that the new issue doesn't con. tain a single laugh." Snarled Ross, "This week there are fewer than ever!" . . Editor Ross e-nce worried that the name, of plump, ubiquitous Alexander Woollcott was appearing too frequently in the New Yorker. "J don't want to sea that name in our pages again for six months at least," he thundered. The very next week however, a Weolleott anecdote was turned in that was just too good to kill. "I've got it," exulted Boss, "We'll misspell him!" One "1" was duly 'omitted from Wooll eott's name, with a resultant cry of protest from Mr. W that made Ross happy for days. - C1XS. by Bennett Cerf.- Distributed by Kins reatures Syndicate. 7H STARS, M'AM f ' S. White this to him: the average poli tician is considerably more honest, in his personal life and in his working life, than any other group-with the pos sible exceptions of clergymen, editors and military men. In Congress alone 532 men and women members are open to a constant opportunity to make a fast buck, as the say ing goes among the savants and language purists. And so are thousands of major and minor officials in administra tive government. That the conscience slips very rarely is illustrated best of all by the fact that when it does the resultant national gasp of horro can be heard from Sandy Hook to the Golden Gate. . So, too, with courage. Men who would think twice about risking their whole business careers and their families' fu tures on a single issue of prin ciple will do what? Why, they will be loudly scornful of the politician for not being eager to do just that-on issue after issue and almost day after day. rpHIS writer knows a good many men who calmly put their political lives on the line time after time in the last session of Congress alone And they made no claim for medals becaues of it. Finally, as to shirking: any corporation executive would be - hurt and astonished if asked ever to accept the load of labor that is cheerfully commonplace-to most national politicians appointed o r elected politicians. The simple truth is that public life is a. literally kill ing life. And while a few poli-ticians-notably President Ei senhower-take very frequent breathing spells and spend a lot of time on the golf course, most of them go at a terribly demanding pace. It is quite true that they "can always quit if they don't like it." It is quite true that their lives have compensa tions in the way of a little giory here and there. But it is also true that no occupational group is more devoted and less complaining - and that none is one-tenth so abused by a public it tries to serve. (Copyright. 1958, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) ESPECIALLY THE LAST Milwaukee, Wis. - (DPD - Bernard J. Geisheker, super intendent of the city Bureau of Garbage ' Collection, has asked for better pay for gar bage men who: ". . . Must have an even temperament, w e 11-rounded personality, adequate power of expression, physical stam ina, fair educational back ground " and be oblivious to odors." Stop Me Odds Add Up to Republican Defeat This Fall in Race for Congressional Seats By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD - There is a general Congressional election coming up Nov. 4 which is like ly to deal the R e p u b lican party a mas sive political defeat. The Repub licans are short of money, shy of issues. The party is teed Lyle C. Wilson up to be hit hard, barring a miracle, and miracles do happen in politics. Peace, prosperity and that-mess-in-W ashington have Iraq, Oil Company Exchange Assurances of Agreements By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London-flJPD-The Iraqi gov ernment of Brigadier Abdul Karim Kassem has given fresh pledges to honor exist ing international oil agree ments which will set plans in motion to double the coun try's oil production before long. The assurances were given to G. H. Herridge, managing director of the internationally-owned Iraq Petroleum com pany who just returned from talks with the new leaders in Baghdad. The new Iraq government has reaffirmed in these dis cussions its intention to honor Unfinished Labor Legislation Seen As Future Issue By RAYMOND LAHR , UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD - Republi can determination to make a campaign issue out of labor reform legislation should re sult in heavy and continued pressure in Congress next year for action. Meanwhile, a great deal of questionable stuff will be dis pensed by both parties dur ing the 1958 campaign about who was to blame for the failure of Congress to act this year. This is one of the few issues which finds the GOP on the attack and the Democrat? on the defensive. Since the Demo prats did control Congress, they cannot escape final re sponsibility for failure to en act a bill to deal with cor ruption and racketeering .in unions. House Democratic leaders tried to protect themselves from this attack by resorting to extraordinary procedure in the closing days of the 1958 session. They attempted to pass the Senate-approved bill, which was acceptable to the AFL-CIO leadership, under a rule rermirine - a two-thirds vote, barring amendments and 'ii' . , a n . . t m permuting omy u jmuurca of debate. All-Or-Nothing Most Republicans and Southern Democrats refused to go along with this allor- nothing approach. Few in Congress would defend this procedure on a subject so complex as labor legislation but the Democratic leaders in the House obviously felt that they had no other choice., : The Democrats now are blaming the GOP for putting uo most of the votes to kui the bill. Meanwhile, the Republicans are talking about the "40 days and 40 nights" that Speaker Sam Rayburn held the biU without referring it to the Labor committee. , Most members of Congress would agree that a subject as complicated as labor legisla tion should be subjected to full committee hearings and a study even if it had already gone through the process in the other chamber. Strange Bed Fellows There was no evidence, however, that the House com mittee was ready to tackle t.h subiect. Powerful man agement organizations object ed to a bill along the lines of that passed by the Senate, and John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers wanted none at all. If a maioritv had wanted to move ahead with a generaj labor bill, the House commit tee could have started months ago without waiting for the Senate bill. Nothing in the rules of Congress requires a committee in one house to wait for passage of a bill by the other chamber before act ing. If there were such a re quirement the first Congress would not have passed the first federal law in 1789. But now union reform leg islation survives as a political carrmaisn issue and as unfin ished business for Congress ceased to be issues upon which Republican candidates could seek support. If there is no shooting war right now, neither is there peace, a fact attested to by the day's head lines and the monumental spending for defense which Congress and President Ei senhower require. The issue of prosperity shrivelled with the rise in un employment. The Democrats will bang the recession-depression drums in this Con gressional campaign, making a big point of what they re gard as the Administration's failure to deal with the situa tion. The Democrats will get away with it, too, because Re publicans cannot explain the agreements with the for eien oil comDanies. and it let it be known its policy was to keep the oil flowing. As an immediate outcome of this development it was reported authoritatively that plans will be put in opera tion to double the oil output from its present level of 30 million tons annually to some 57 millions tons by the end of 1961. Have Equal Shares The operation lies in the hands of the Iraq Petroleum company which is owned in equal parts by United States, British, Dutch and French in terests. Fears at the time of the next year. Because of the many pres sures involved, Congress has never found it easy to enact general labor legislation. The last bill was the Taft-Hartley law of 1947. Congress passed that one, under ,the public pressure growing out of post war strikes, by overriding President Truman's veto. His veto of the Case, bill a year earlier had been sustained. 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 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 saper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Best Friend Lost . To the Editor: Tuesday eve ning's Mail Tribune told about the death of Mr. Oscar Larson. What your reporter could not know was that hundreds of boys and girls in Medford whose lives he has touched have lost a good friend. Mr. Larson has been in charge of maintaining Jeffer- son school since it was built three years ago. If you could visit our school you would know he took pride in his work. He has helped teach us to have pride in our school too. It is hard for me to tell you about Mr. Larson. He was a "special" person to all of us. He was kind, cheerful, and never too busy to talk to or help any of us. We will miss him, especial ly his morning greeting when he opened our school doors. : I know all of the students at Jefferson would agree that I should write, to you about him, for they would want the people of Medford to know how we felt about him. We have lost a "best" friend. " Betty Lou Hatch Secretary, Jefferson Student Body 944 Whitman ave. Medford Work and Idleness To the Editor: We read and hear about the shortage of fruit pickers and what we are going to do. Nothing else to do but bring in the Mexicans. Well, I have nothing against Mexicans, but this I do have against fruit growers, scream ing they haven't enough help, when all they really want is Mexicans in so they won t have to turn loose of the coin or quite so much of it. My boy and several .others that I know of have simply pestered the unemployment and labor offices and orchard ists to death trying to get work, and have driven ap proximately 250 miles, going from one place to another, not just once but four or five times. My boy is just one but I can name a lot of others. They say he's too young, that they want men or big huskies. Well how big do they grow them in Oregon? He's over 6 feet and weighs 185 lbs. Then they say,--we -haven't had away the plight of the unem ployed or the fears of the em ployed person who thinks he may be next. Adams Issue The issue of that-mess-in- Washington vanished into the uproar around the relation ship between textile manufac turer Bernard Goldfine and Sherman Adams, the No. 1 Presidential assistant. The issue of economy in Govern ment paid off for the Repub licans in 1952. It is a dead issue now because the Eisen hower Administration is bor rowing "money to run the Government and wants the permanent public debt limit raised by 10 bililon dollars to enable the Executive Depart- recent Baghdad coup for the future of the Iraq oil appears to nave now been allayed by the government's proclaimed desire for continued coopera tion with the Western inter ests. . There were strong indica tions though that before long the Iraqi leaders may seek modification of the treaty terms to secure a larger share of the profits derived from the oil operation. But Herridge's latest pn-the-spot soundings have encour aged hopes for compromise when the issue is raised of ficially. More For Iraq The Iraq government Jias in turn received assurances from the oil company that efforts to increase the oil out put in the country will be coupled with a policy of ex pansion of Iraq's oil exports. The present profit sharing for Iraq oil follows the estab lished pattern in the Middle East-i has been arranged on a 50-50 basis. But this wiU have to be modified in Iraq's favor when another oil state in the area obtains better conditions. From its present output of which much is shipped to Western Europe-the Iraq gov ernment has so far derived some 70 million or 80 million sterling (between 196 million and 224 million dollars) in royalties a year. much luck ' with kids, lazy, etc. Well, that leaves the age- old saying "one rotten apple spoils the barrel." Well, my boy isn't lazy, and I speak for a lot of mothers. v The strange thing about this is the fact that the same people that refuse these young boys trying to get work to pay for clothes and student body cards for high school sit around and cuss these juvenile delinquents. (Why don't they keep off the streets), do something benefi cial, don't know how to face responsibility, and hot-rod-ding all the time, get into trouble. . Well, my boy hasn't been in any but I do know idleness brings on what these so called citizens proclaim and it is these same citizens that re fuse to help do away with idleness. All I've got to say is they'd better look in a good clear mirror the next time they read about some boy in trouble and ask, could I have helped prevent it? Mrs. Ira Copley 785 Queens dr. Medford. Pear Picking Et Al To the Editor: Fringe bene fits paid to Mexican help is not extended to white help in local orchards, neither ' do they receive extra pay on boxes picked to bring their wages up to equal the Mexi can help. Perhaps the local orchard ists think it is fair to treat their help that way. I do not. Suggest the sponsors of the rodeo take a look at the peo ple on the streets; their an swer is written there for them. Young folks are leaving the valley. They want to es tablish homes but that takes money and Rogue valley does not supply anything to earn money. So they are leaving, either to the services as ca reer men or into industry, in California or Washington. There is going to be untold hardships in the valley this winter due to the fact of no payrolls. Lockout strikes have kept local people from working, so when- and if they go back to work there is no extra money because bills run at the time ment to keep within the law. There is a solid labor issue lying handy to the Republi cans but most of them are afraid of it and for some it unquestionably would be political suicide. In few states or congres sional districts will Republi can candidates follow the labor lead of Sen. William F. Knowland, Republican candi date for governor of Califor nia, or of Sen. Barry Gold water, (R-Ariz.), who is up for re-election. Knowland, Gold water and scattering of other Republicans endorse volun tary unionism as opposed to compulsory unionism. That is, they are against the closed or union shop. A report by the Senate Re publican Policy Committee staff recently indicated that the AFL-CIO Committee On Political Education will act ively oppose a considerable number of Republican Sen ate and House candidates this year. There are some Demo crats in labor's black book, but not many. The same re port said labor's reported spending in the 1956 political campaign aggregated $1,078, 852 of which all but $3,925 was in behalf of Democratic candidates. Not Yet Due The alliance of labor's top leaders the men who con trol union funds with the Democratic party may in time create a major national issue between the Republi cans and the Democrats, but it is not due this year. Under the existing circum stances, it seems likely that the Republicans will lose seats in both Houses of the Congress in a defeat almost as severe as the only they suf fered is 1934 when the party nearly was obliterated. Of the 33 Senate seats to be filled in November, 12 now are held by Democrats, 21 by Republi cans. The Democratic seats are in the South, border states or otherwise and are more safe than in peril. None of the 21 Republicans can be rated as a shoo-in. The present party division in the Senate is: Democrats 49; Republi cans 47. All 435 House seats are up this year. The division there is: Democrats 233; Republi cans 198; "vacant 4. Republi can partymen are less pessi mistic about the House than about the Senate. Chairman Meade Alcorn of the Republi can National Committee said some months ago that he ex pects his party to lose some Senate seats. Alcorn has changed his mind about that and claims now that the Re publicans will hold their own or better. There are well in formed Republican political strategists in town, however, who believe ' the Chairman was right the first time. : Not Since 1952 The. Republicans have not won a Congressional election since 1952 when they had Dwight D. Eisenhower going for them fresh out of his Gen eral's suit and in the non controversial role of an un known political quantity. Not even Ike could do the trick , in 1956, however, although the President achieved . then a terrific popular vote end a real personal triumph. Best election news for the Republicans is from the farms. Farm income may hit 12.4 billion dollars this year, highest since 1953 and up 15 per cent from last year. The farmers have ceased hating Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. One of the odd set believe-it-or-nots in the Capital - today is that farm belt Republican members of the House are dickering with Benson to come up to Capitol Hill so that each may pose with him for a campaign pic ture. A sign of the political limes may be seen in the number of Republicans who will not seek reelection this year. Six Republican senators and 26 members of the House are bowing out. All Senate Demo crats whose terms are expir ing are candidates. Six House Democrats are quitting. will have to paid and daily ex penses met. Local farmers were nit by frosts, cool weather and rains, no hay crops raised to speak of as rain destroyed first crop and damaged the second and star thistle took the third. Taxes are up again. Which reminds me, the county col lects taxes in advance, pays no interest on it unless you call the 1 per cent refund in terest, then asks you to pay more than 1 per cent if you can't meet the Nov. 15th dead line. Fair, huh? Gladys Hamilton Route 2, Box 468 Medford
