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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.
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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