Friday, September 5, 19S8
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1948 (Sunday)
A colorful parade, turtle
races, treasure hunts, an ama
teur contest and a dance high
lighted yesterday's Gold Rush
Jubilee in Jacksonville.
The Crater Lake Union for
Christian Endeavor will hold
the year's largest rally in
Lithia park, Ashland, Labor
day afternoon.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, 1938 (Monday)
Medford schools will open
tomorrow morning.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Young
ladies ride bicycles in auto
traffic with their hands off
the handle-bars. This is an
acrobatic feat on a par with
washing the supper dishes,
with one hand tied behind
them."
80 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, 1928 (Wednesday)
Local deer hunters, impa
tient for the Oregon season's
Sept. 10 opening, have drift
ed into Siskiyou county, Cali
fornia, where hunting is al
ready legally underway.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, 1918 (Thursday)
Frank Amy and Jesse
Houck between them landed
a 45-pound salmon in the
Rogue river last Tuesday.
Solicitors for the Red Cress
drive will meet for instruc
tion at the public library to
morrow. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The purchase price of the
Louisiana Territory was 10,
15 or 20 million dollars? '
2. What was the Pharos of
Alexandria?
3. Can an electric motor op
erate in a vacuum?
4. Before Herbert Hoover
entered public life, what was
his profession?
5. What is a gnu?
6 Lead is the heaviest
known metal; true or false?
7. What is a metaphor?
8. The Big Inch and the
Little Inch were built during
W. W. H; what are they?
9. Daily Double is used in
connection with contract
bridge, baseball or horserac
ing? 10. Are there five, six, or
seven countries in Central
America?
Answers: 115 million dol
lars. 2-Lighxhouse. 3-Yes. 4
Engineering. 5-Antelope. 6
False. (Iridium is the heavi
est). 7-Figure of speech. 8
Pipe lines. 9-Horseracing. 10
Seven.
Portlander Fined
As Result of Fight
Portland -UPD Daniel St oi
ler, 27, was fined $50 Thurs
day in Municipal Court as
the result of a fight which
reportedly arose from a re
cent walkout at the Portland
plant of the . American Can
company.
Stoller, an employee of the
company, was found guilty of
assault and battery by Muni
cipal Judge J. J. Murchison.
Harold Bradley, another
employee, claimed Stoller
broke his nose during the
fight. - '
Unpaid Public Service
-
One of the oldest traditions in America is that
of unpaid public service. ' . . ,
In many cities across the country, the policy
makers mayor and council are elected to un
paid jobs. Most of the bodies which attend to the
many chores of public administration, the boards
of this and commissions
of men and women who have accepted appoint
ment to difficult jobs without any expectation of
financial remuneration.
The same pattern is repeated on a state and
national level, and in all fields of governmental
endeavor. ,
1UHY do people do this?
Perhaps some are motivated by the pres
tige involved. There is a
m serving on a public body.
A few, of course, do it for self-seeking rea
sons. It may help their
their law practices, or
influence which can react to their benent.
But after years of watching the unpaid public
servants at work, for the cities, counties, special
districts, state and federal governments, we are
thoroughly convinced
number serve from a
service to do part of the
our. government "of, by and lor the people
functioning.
rESPITE this honorable tradition of public
service, the public as
ciative of the sacrifices and dimcuities involved.
Probably this is natural. This nation, as a
mutter nf fact, came' to be established in laree
measure as a result of
ments against government. -
Arbitrary decrees of government have always
brought violent reactions of one sort or another,
and there seems to be an ingrained distrust, with
a few exceptions, of men who have assumed
positions of responsibility and autnonty.
The Coos Bay World recently speculated
about this very , thing based on the action of
members of the city council at Coquille. It said:
"The county seat's mayor and two of its three
councilmen whose terms expire this year declared they
would not stand for reelection. Although their reasons
were stated somewhat differently, they all boiled down
to this: After varying years of unpaid public service,
they were disillusioned; their hours of hard work for
the public did little but make them enemies."
' ."
IT IS TRUE that the unpaid public servants do
come in for a lot of abuse and very little praise ;
that their motives are suspected more than they
are understood; that the times when the public
takes an interest in what is going on are the
times when they rise up 'against" something they
feel is against their interests.
Over the years we have seen public-spirited
men (putting in hours
unpaid jobs, often at considerable financial sac
rifice, and doing it with no ax to grind) called
little dictators, Hitlers,
who seldom take the trouble to attend the meet
ings, the hearings, the
ferences that go into making decisions on public
matters.
As a matter of fact,
as not are made by those who haven't even, read
the stories in the newspapers which explain the
reasons for the disputed actions.
BY AND LARGE, however, the unpaid public
things. They realize that not everyone can be
familiar with all the problems with which they
deal, day by day. And they find that, with prac
tice, they can usually shrug off, or laugh off, the
unfounded criticisms that come their way.
Snmp. nf them even find the criticisms useful.
in that they make them
about the implications 01 what tney are doing,
and give them a deeper realizatifin that they
are, in fact, representing the people.
It is easy to say and is in part true that
"tbev nslcpH for it" in accentine: a rmblic trust.
"Rut unthinking- and unfounded criticism doesn't
make their jobs any easier, nor does it make it
anv easier to find worthy successors. Nor does
it make their memories after they-have left public
service memories which by right should be
pleasant and prideful any pleasanter. E.A:
Kinds of Criticism
. The above comments are not intended to indi
cate that public servants paid or unpaid
should be immune from criticism. One of Amer
ica's other traditions is to place its public men
in a peculiarly vulnerable position regarding criti
cism, and protecting the critic when he sounds
off. The principle is found in law as well as
custom.
But there is a vast difference between unin
formed and vindictive criticism, and the kind
which is based on fact and on public policy.
,
THE latter, indeed, is one of the foundation-
stones of effective public administration. It is
the basis of two-party government. It is the right,
even duty, of public spirited citizens to speak
out against men in authority if and wjien they
conscientiously believe that something is wrong.
It takes a special brand of courage to stand
up and challenge the actions of public officials
on a sound basis far more courage than it does
to sound off irresponsibly and "just for effect."
One is responsible citizenship; the other is
irresponsible trouble-making. Unhappily, once in
a while it is difficult to tell the difference, at
first. E.A. - -
for that, are composed
certain amount of honor
businesses, or build up
put them in positions of
that by far the greatest
srenuine desire to be of
work necessary to keep
a whole is little appre-
suspicions of and resent
and hours each week at
Khrushchevs by people
inspection trips, the con
such criticisms as often
think more seriously
Dennis the Menace
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Early Maine Vote
To Test Reliability
Of Prophet's Role
By JOHN E. BYRNE
UPI Corrspondent
Portland, Maine -(DPD Mon
day's earlybird election will
provide the last opportunity
for political prophets to test
the old saying: "As Maine
goes, so goes the nation."
The saying has been ridi
culed on many occasions, such
as the year that Democrats
r em a r k e d cynically: . "As
Maine goes, so goes Vermont."
But this year the strength of
a predicted national j Demo
cratic trend could well be
tested in the Pine Tree State.
The contest for U. S. Sena
tor may also provide the first
test of voter reaction to the
revelations by a House com-
U. 5. Scientists
Back Up Claims
Of Leadership
Geneva (DPD American
scientists today presented to
the atoms-for-peace confer
ence dramatic laboratory re
ports to back up their claims
of being a year ahead of the
Russians in fusion research.
The Americans submitted a
flood of papers detailing new
studies on the possibilities of
harnessing hydrogen power
for peace, a subject which
continued to dominate the
assembly of 5,000 . scientists
from 69 nations.
Leadership Claimed
The Russians also present
ed more papers on the same
subject.
The claim the United
States was a year ahead of the
Russians in fusion research
was made Thursday by Dr.
Raymond Bell and his col
leagues at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
They are in charge of Amer
ica's DCX machine, which is
considered to have come
closest to achieving a fusion
reaction.
The Russians have a far
larger machine operating on
the same principle, but Bell
said they had inferior means
for introducing hydrogen gas
into the chamber and decided
to adopt the American
method.
The American and Russian
machines are designed to
create "magnetic bottles," in
side which thin hydrogen gas
can be contained at tempera
tures of many millions of de
grees to achieve an energy re
leasing reaction similar to
that of the sun.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF7
THE LANGUAGE OF- one classified" ad in a newspaper
brooked of no misinterpretation. ' "Air-conditioned, fully
equipped Cadillac," it read, "in perfect condition, for sale at
$50." A bargain hunter
hastened to the address . vKf- .la-W-SB.
given, ana aemanaea 01 tne
lady who opened the door,
"You the one offering that
Cadillac?' T am," she said,
and led him to the automo
bile a beautiful thing in
every respect. "Here's the
fifty," said the man hastily.
"Now what's the catch?"
"No catch at all," ex
plained the lady patiently.
"I'm simply carrying out
the provisions of ..my. late
husband's will. He provided
that his new Cadillac be sold at once and the entire proceeds
be turned over to his secretary."
,
A well-known playwright's -new drama was about to open on
Broadway, and -bis bitterest rival wired him, "I can't be there in
spirit so I'm coming in person." , - -
C 1354. fcr BMMtt Cerfc Distributed by Kiss restores Syndicate.
mittee of the gift-giving of in
dustnahst Bernard Goldfine
Sen. Frederick G. Payne was
one of a host of politicians on
Goldfine s eift and euest list.
Maine has voted to abandon
its September election day in
the 1960 balloting. The early
vote was a product of the
horse-and-buggy days when
November weather was more
of an obstacle than in this day
of the automobile. Two vears
hence, Maine will vote in No
vember with the other states
Flexible Mood
The last of the September
elections finds Maine in a flex
ible mood politically. Demo
cratic Gov. Edmund S. Muskie
ended 20 years of Republican
rule in Augusta in 1954, re
peated in 1956 and now is
gunning for the job of Senator
Payne, long one of the state's
most popular office holders.
Two years - after Muskie
won the governorship for the
Democrats. Frank M. Coffin
became Maine's first Demo
crat i c congressman in 20
years. Coffin seeks re-election
to the Second . District seat
against GOP challenger Neil
Ss. Bishop. .
The race this year for eov
ernor is between Republican
Horace A. Hildreth, who held
the job from 1945 to 1948. and
Democrat Clinton A. Clauson.
Hildreth was Ambassador to
Pakistan from 1953 to 1957
Clauson was Collector of In
ternal Revenue in Maine from
1933 to 1952.
Goldfine Issue
MUskie was re-elected in
1956 with the largest vote
ever colled for the office of
governor in Maine. Coloring
iixa iuni.es i, will! jrayue, an
other great vote-getter, is the
GOP senator's lone-timle
friendship with Boston mil
lionaire Goldfine. Payne was
one Of Goldfine's vicuna coat
recipients, hotel guest and
beneficiary of a $3,500 interest
tree loan.
If Muskie's popularity and
the Payne-Goldf me link put
the 44-year-old lawyer in the
Senate, he will- be the I first
Democratic senator from
Maine since 1911. This is the
tOD contest on the ballot. -
Playing second fiddle will
De tne contest for governor
and the three congressional
races.
Besides the Coffin - Bishop
choice voters will decide be
tween: Incumbent Republican Rep.
Robert Hale and Democratic
challenger James C. Oliver in
the First District.
Rep. Clifford G. Mclntire.
incumbent in the ThirH Dis
trict, and Democratic nominee
Gerald J. Grady..
Stop Me
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I !vs,
Britain Sending High-Ranking
In Attempt to Counter Arab Propaganda
By K. C. THALER
UPI Correspondent
London -(DPD- Britain is
sending a high-ranking gov
ernment mission to Africa to
ginger up Middle Eastern
propaganda as a counter to
Cairo's effective radio war.
The mission, headed by Dr.
Charles Hill, chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster and cab
inet member with responsibil
ity for information services at
home and abroad, will start
a three week tour next Mon
day. Democrats
Charges of Reckless
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Washington (DPD Demo
crats are ready " with then
answer to Republican charges
that a free-spending Demo
cratic congress has saddled
the government with a record
peacetime deficit.
They will say, "blame the
recession, not us," and sup
port their answer with testi
mony from one of the chief
spokesmen for the Eisen
hower administration.
The Democratic argument
is that the business slump is
bringing a drastic cut in ex
pected tax income and that
the fall-off in revenue is
causing most of the estimated
12 billion dollar deficit.
When President Eisen
hower presented his budget
last January, it was approxi
mately in balance at 74 bil
lion dollars for this fiscal
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saper; in fact the contrary is often the case. "
Everyone's To Blame
To the Editor: All teen agers
are not juvenile delinquents
Most if not all teen agers get
into some kind of trouble
when growing up. Medford's
big problem is that there is
nothing nor any place for the
teen ager to go or do. You
had a-roller skating rink. Old,
yes. But what was built in
the same spot? A juvenile de
tention home. Right then you
should have known something
was wrong.
Lots of you are praymg
your children don't get into
any serious trouble, but what
are you doing to prevent it?
Next to nothing. Maybe a
picture show. Your chief of
police says, there're parties
with drinking and dancing in
private homes. He's probably
right, too. But what has he
done to prevent it? I don't
mean a traffic ticket for dual
pipes and red lights, I mean
decent sports and entertain
ment, and decent teen ager
clubs so they can dance open
ly. You think you really uncov
ered something. Believe me,
you have, and I wouldn't be
a bit proud of it. Just how
relaxed can a city get before
it goes to sleep?
Medford and the Rogue Val
ley could 1 have at least 20
baseball teams and 20 Softball
teams and tournaments, golf,
etc., for teen agers.
In plain straight words, you
as an adult are too busy think
ing of yourself and your own
benefit to help them out. Re
member 15 to 20 are about
the hardest years in your life.
You're not a- child and you're
not grown up. A little confi
dence and help can go a long
way. Bend over backward if
necessary. Don't think the
Medford Tribune is going to
get off easy .with me. Being
a daily paper and read by
almost everyone in the Rogue
valley, they could do a lot
to help if they'd stick their
neck out a little. Read a lot
about the Suffering Pacific,
now let's get busy with some
thing right here at home.
I know that no one or two
people can do much about a
situation like this, but where
are all these smart politicians
and educated and rich people
we got around here? Oh, I
see, it's none of their busi
ness. Then who in hell's is it?
You can find the trouble, ar
rest, make the laws and build
detention homes, but cant
do anything to help stop it.
Should be someone around
here to get the ball rolling
in the other direction.
A lot of people will say I'm
crazy. Probably right, too, but
I'm not stupid.
Orville Bunn
. Route 1, Box 445
Central Point
Caption Wrong
To the Editor: The article
by Dr. Francis Haines Jr.
describing the history of the
Rogue Valley Railroad Com
pany in Sunday's Mail Tri
bune was most. interesting.
The engine and train illus
trated with the article is not
the so-called" Rogue - Valley
He will be accompanied by
Harold Evans, Prime Minis
ter Harold Macmillan's advis
er on press relations.
In addition to Africa they
will go to India and Pak
istan. In Africa they will visit
Kenya, Aden and Somaliland
for an on-the-spot investiga
tion of how best to make
Britain's voice heard in the
mounting radio war.
Official On Tour
The foreign office also' has
announced that it is sending
its joint parliamentary under
Ready Answers To
year, which began July 1.
The Treasury now estimates
spending up about five bil
lion from that figure and
revenue - down about seven
billion, with a resulting 12
billion deficit.
A Major Issue
With plenty of help from
the president, the GOP has
made it clear that the spend
ing record of the Democratic
controlled congress will be a
big issue in the 1958 election
campaign. Their argument is
that the Democrats can't be
trusted with the taxpayer's
money. .
The Democrats believe there
is still political mileage to be
gained from' the recession it
self, since it came under a
Republican Administration.
Now they will enjoy pointing
to it as a major cause for the
Treasury's troubles.
They can quote testimony
"Cannonball." The picture of
this engine and train is de
scribed by the S. P. Co. as
follows:
' "The first regular passen
ger train of the Oregon and
California Railroad Co. to
Ashland from Portland in
May, 1884. D. McCarthy was
engineer of the locomotive 22.
He is the man with the oil
can. Directly above him sit
ting on the running board of
the engine is his. son, H. G
McCarthy, who in 1930, was
trainmaster in Dunsmuir for
the S. P. Co. James Porter,
fireman, is at the front of the
engine. The man in the cab
is thought to be Joe Marshall
who was then engine wiper
at Ashland and later an engi
neer at Sacramento.
The Oregon and California
Railroad Company built the
line from Portland to Ash
land. It later became insolv
ent and was taken over by
the S. P.
W. E. Thomas,
P. O. Drawer 1227,
Medford.
Teamsters Delay
Decision To Call
New Convention
Washington -(DPD-The Team
sters Union executive board
has put off until Sept. 16 a
decision whether to call a
new union convention and
election of officers.
The board's decision came
Thursday following a disclos
ure by teamster President
James R. Hoffa that he fa
vored such a convention.
Hoffa's convention move
was viewed as an attempt to
get rid of the teamsters' court-
appointed : monitors. He said
the three monitors would be
invited to meet with the board
Sept. 16 to discuss the ques
tion. Hoffa also announced
Thursday that all employees
of the union would be covered
by $30,000 bonds to give mem
bers "additional protection
against dishonesty."
Security for Funds
He said the new policy also
would "afford unprecedented
security for union funds.". The
bond plan was approved by
the board.
The executive board met
shortly after the monitors
conferred with U.S. District
Judge F. Dickinson Letts
about the teamsters' right to
set up their own cleanup com
mission, headed by former
Sen. George H. Bender (R
Ohio). Following the meeting,
Chairman Martin F. O'Don
oghue of the monitors said an
effort "probably" will be
made to get a court ruling on
the matter.
O'Donoghue said Letts de
clined to give any opinion on
the creation of the clean-up
group by Hoffa. He said Letts
did not want to discuss it be
cause a motion may be filed
for a court "interpretation."
secretary of state, Ian Harvey,
on a tour of British informa
tion centers in Spain, Italy,
Yugoslavia and Austria.
Purpose of the trip is to
strengthen the impact of Brit
ain's overseas information
services. Harvey will also visit
the Brussels exhibition, the
announcement said.
According to weU-informed
sources, present plans are to
establish some form of a reg
ular radio program, beamed
to the bazaars of the Middle
East, which would try to
Spending
from Secretary of the Treas
ury Robert B. Anderson be
fore the Senate Finance Com
mittee last month. He was
being questioned by Sen. Paul
H. Douglas (D-Ill.).
Douglas led Anderson over
the ground about the changes
in budget estimates since last
January and referred to, the
combined two-year deficit of
about 15 billion dollars for
the past and current fiscal
years. Then he put this ques
tion: ,
. . Ten billion dollars of
the deficit will be created by
the decline in business acti
vity or two thirds of the total.
Only five billion dollars, or
one-third of the total, will be
created by an increase in ex
penditures above those bud
geted and, . therefore, it has
been the recession which has
primarily created the prob
lem. Is that not true?" ,
"That is correct, sir," An
derson replied.
Where Increases Come
Democrats in Congress and
the Administration can still
argue about blame for the
five billion dollar increase in
spending over the . January
forecast. Here are some of
the major items:
-Defense spending up 500
to 700 million dollars. '
-Government farm- pro
gram costs up about $1,500,-
000,000, partly as a result of
a bumper wheat crop,
-Housing program outlays
increased about a billion dol
lars because of a bill pushed
by Democrats as an anti-re
cession weapon and signed,
under protest, by the Presi
dent. ' . .
-Supplemental unemploy
ment benefits to cost, about
600 million dolalrs under one
of .the Administration's anti
recession proposals,
. -A postal deficit about half
a billion dollars more than
was expected, partly because
Congress refused to give the
Administration all it asked in
postal rate increases and gave
it more than -it asked to raise
the pay of postal employees.
Medford Lumber
Officials Testify
On Freight Rates
Portland - (DPD - An attor
ney for northern California
lumber shippers Thursday
challenged the need of Ore
gon lumbermen to market
their product in southern Cali
fornia and Arizona.
Attorney E. R. Berol assert
ed before an Interstate Com
merce Commission, examiner
here that California now pro
duces more lumber than Ore
gon and that shipments from
Oregon to California were
like "bringing coals to New
castle." The ICC is taking testi
mony here in connection with
Southern Pacific railroad's
attempt to restore the lumber
freight rate balance that
existed between Oregon and
northern California shippers
for 27 years prior to 1954.
California mills oppose the
change.
R J. Hogue, vice president
and general sales manager
for Medford . Corp.. testified
that since 1954 it has cost his
firm $140,000 to maintain its
competitive standing in the
California, market. He said
the company no longer feels
it can absorb such losses and
its volume of shipments to
California has dropped off.
Many lumber . operators
testifying in favor of the
freight rate reduction for
Oregon's prime industry
testified" . they have turned
more and more to the use of
trucks for lumber shipments
south.
But Glen Moyer, sales man
ager of the Kogap i,umoer
Company, Medford, told the
examiner "we have not used
motor carriers because of the
quasi-legality of most of the
lumber carriers who ap
proach us."
STORE SALES UP
Washington -(DPD- The Fed
eral Reserve system reports a
sharp increase in nationwide
department store sales last
month over July. .
Mission
catch the ear of the average)
AraD. :
Britain does not want to ;
enter the radio war in compe-
tition with the voice of Cairo. ;
But the plan is to get Brit- .
ain's and the West's viewpoint
heard in the Middle East and '
beyond, in the so-called neu-'.
tral and non-committed areas,
more effectively than hith
erto. Britain urged the end of the :
radio war in moves at the re
cent United Nations special,
assembly on the Middle East
crisis. In the British view, the :
toning down of aggressive
radio propaganda should play .
an important part in efforts to
pacify the explosive area. , 2
Ignore Radio War v-
However, the United Na-1
tions peace resolution on thei
Middle East did . not specifi--r
cally mention the radio war.'
After a short lull, Cairo Radio
has resumed at least some of
its propaganda war, it was
stated.
In its new moves, Britain
merely intends to seek "a fair
hearing" of its viewpoint,
among the masses of the
Arabs, the sources said.
A British government white '
paper last year approved a
British-sponsored radio pro
gram for the Middle East to'
be beamed from Cyprus, but
so far it has not materialized.
Some observers expected
the plan to be frowned upon,
by U.N. Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold, who is
presently touring the Middle"
East to seek implementation
of the recent U. N. peace reso
lution. In other places the British
mission was expected to liven
up and possibly extend pub-,
licity and information services
after: consultation with the
British missions on the spot y
Britain is currently spend
ing some 36 million dollars a -year
for her overseas infor--
mation services. But they
have been under fire for some
time for their alleged inade
quacy. In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Business note:
The Big Three auto manu
facturers report this morning
that automobile production
was down froma third to a
half during the first eight
months of 1958, as compared
to a similar period in 1957.
The Big Three (G-M, Ford,,
Chrysler) have reportedly pro-,
duced slightly more than three'
million cars and trucks up to
now this year, compared to
nearly five million in the first
eight months of 1957.
fN ITS face, that looks bad.
v But let's look at
the
the
doughnut,
rather than
hole.
Last year the automobile
manufacturers misguessed and
produced too many cars. That
slowed down production while
they were getting rid of the
surplus. This year, they have
produced fewer cars, which
means they will clean up
quicker. ,
That will make for better
markets in the future.
MORE about business:
The" Federal Reserve'
Board reports that consumer
installment debt (meaning
goods purchased on the instal
lment payment plan) has been
declining ever since the first
of February of this year. After
rising steadily for years, it is
now down almost to the total
of a year ago. ,
Again looking at the dough
nut instead of the hole, that
situation hasn't promoted bus
iness so far this year but it ;
makes possible bigger busi
ness in the future.
After all, recessions are !
catching-up periods. It's be-'
ginning to look like we re get
ting caught up.
EDWARD Teller gen-
to as the
father of the H-bemb and
recognized as one of the
world's foremost physicists
tells the atoms-for-peace con
ference in Geneva that H-'
blasts "could crush rock for
mining, recover trapped oil,
build harbors and canals or
DIVERT RIVERS."
I don't want to discourage
you, sir, but nere uj soumern
Oregon we aren't interested in
diverting rivers. Our idea is ?
to keep them where they are.
We need them in our busi
ness. ;
CONSIDER
the safety of your savine
end investments. First Fed
eral accounts are insured
safe to $10,000 by en in
strumentality of the United
States Government. Save
your money for the future
and earn while you save.
FIRST FEDERAL
Savings & Loan Ass'n
of Medford .
29 North Ivy Street