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Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, October 19, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORBtfSSjfTBIBUBE "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. ROHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewsDaper Entered as second class matter at Mecford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 . Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4jio Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Pnoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv, er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms casn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AdvertisingTRepresentatlve: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC- Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION 2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL T7 .cfjTgN AS.SO HMJf.Hfl.'.AI:H:a 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 . " , V Oct. 19, 1948 (Tuesday) Sixty county voters yester day heard explanations of November ballot measures at a meeting of Medford's Coun cil of Republican Women. Medford's city council to open bids on purchase of the $400,000 in bonds for the sani tary sewer trunk line to the Camp White sewage disposal plant. .. ' , " 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 19. 1933 (Wednesday) Throngs of Medfordites at tended last night's premiere of Medford's own movie, "Runnin' Wild." ; From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There will be a football game here Fri. night. All signs indicate nobody will stay home, and study the 'Voters' Pamphlet' to be able to vote intelligent ly." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 19. 1928 (Friday) A special "good will" train bearing members of the Port land Chamber of Commerce received gold nuggets during their brief but lively stop in Gold Hill. Miss Marion Voorhies has received six priceless tulip bulbs, of a new type named after her, from Holland. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 19. 1918 (Saturday) George T. Collins is new chairman of the Jackson County Council of Defense. Medford subscribers have gone over the top in the liber ty loan drive ; and show no signs of stopping yet. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. Name the President of the U. S. who laid the corner stone of the White House. 2. "Amigo" in Spanish means what in English? 3. Does the dromedary, or the bactrian, camel have two humps? 4. Julius Caesar's life span was before, or after, thejbirth of Christ? 5. In the U. S., there is a telephone for approximately every 4, 8 or 16 person. 6. Does an adult's heart, or brain, weigh more? 7. Liberty Bonds were first issued by the U. S. Govern ment during the Civil War, Spanish - American War or World War I? 8. Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, both of whom signed the Delcaration of Independence, were father and son; uncle and nephew, or brothers. 9. Complete the much-quoted saying "Eternal vigilance is the price of . . ." 10. The closing words of the Declaration of Independence are "we mutually pledge to each other our lives, . . . ."? Answers: 1. George Wash ington. 2. Friend. 3. Bactrian. 4. Before. 5. Four persons. 6. Brain. 7. World War 1. 8. Brothers., 9. "Liberty." 10. "our fortunes, and our sacred honor." Piffling Charges We have rather expected some politically alert Democratic correspondent to take up the comments of Don Stathos, Republican party chairman -here, on Congressman Porter's recently mailing of what he (Stathos) chooses to call "po litical propaganda" and "openly partisan, politi cal material." Stathos, in a letter to the Mail Tribune, work ed up quite a head of steam about this, accusing Porter of "squandering the taxpayers' money" by mailing the material under his frank, and alleging the "it is close to out-and-out fraud, since Porter is using tax money to further his own ends. 'IXT'HAT Stathos didn't bother to report was what the mailing actually constituted. It was a four-page leaflet reprinted from the Congressional Record, containing-a report by Porter on the activities of the 85th Congress which were of importance to the Fourth Congres sional District. If this is "political propaganda," it is that only in the minds of those who will use any excuse to hang Charlie Porter to the nearest tree come elec tion time. - . E have always believed it was the job of Congressmen to keep their constituents in formed of what they are a task which Porter has done excellently well. That doing this job of informing the voters is smart politics is incidental to the main fact that it is part of his duties. And it is for just such activities that Congress men are granted the franking privilege. We suspect Stathos' excitement is bubbling up only due to the proximity of the election, and believe his charges to be piffle. If this is the best that Porter's opponents can do, we're sorry for them. E. A. Correction While on the subject of Congressman Porter we would like to call attention to a communica tion from him which appears elsewhere on this page, and in which he ; orrects an erroneous state ment which appeared in a recent editorial. The letter is self-explanatory. The error, which resulted from a misunderstanding of a statement he made during an - interview, some weeks ago, is regretted. E.A.- Good Luck! By the sound of it, Medford's new park and recreation commission is starting out in its job with fire in its eye and enthusiasm in its heart. At its meeting last week, members sparkled with ideas for things which could boost Medford's qualities as a "good town." Not all of these ideas may come to pass, but some of them will. rHE meeting was a lively one, covering a wide range of subjects, from specific suererestions for immediate development, to planning to incor porate "park thinking" in the city's long-range plans. On the basis of this, we have a hunch that the city's park and recreational planning is in good hands. It will take enthusiasm, ideas and a will ingness to work to make program a success, and the indications are that the members of the commission have all of these. Good luck to them ! E. A. Planning Ahead Jackson counttv has a nrettv donations to the Red Cross blood bank. Most of the time when the bloodmobile visits here to col lect blood, the quota is not met by local donors. unce m a wnne tne quota is met or exceeded. In looking back, it seems that the successful visits were those when groups of people actively organized themselves to obtain rlmws TVip Ipss successful ones were those where most of the do nors were public-spirited TWO months ago, when the Bloodmobile last r 41 ..1 OA . L JO i J J loiter, ueauv pei the 249 collected was ganization, the Telephone Employees Activities association. This was because the group actively planned, in advance, that its members who could 1 iit ao so would snow up to Other organizations, the same thing. It's just ine DioocimoDiie is clue her again next Wed nesday, Oct. 22. E. A. Cold Driving; home the other dav. w fnlWoi car driven bv a vounp- small children in the back seat, a boy about five or six, and a pretty little blonde girl about two or three. The little erirl was standing nn tho Yr-v coaf leaning out an open window. Once the little boy reached over and hauled her back into the car, but she soon leaned out aeam. and was tpptprino- -p caridusly, feet on seat and aims waving happily m uie air, xor aDOUt two It the little enrl had did a couple of times) it wouldn't have been an "accident" it would have been pretty close to negligent homicide. And we still have cold chills dow.n our spine when we think of it. E. A. doing in Washington the parks and recreation individuals. cent 10 pints OUi, 01 donated bv a sinp-lp or give blood. if t.h a matter of planning. Chills woman. TWp wwa two miles. fallen out fas sho npavlv TOLD MB HE WAS TYW FlfESH Matter of Fact BAD NEWS FOR HARRIMAN New York There is bad news for Gov. Averell Harri man in the dingy two-family nouses and the crowded apartment buildings o f the Borough of Queens in this city. One has to be so precise about just where the bad jns-ph Aisop news is, be cause no one in his senses would base a statewide elec tion forecast on a poll of a single election district, how ever laborious and thorough the poll may have been. All the same, this little district bounded by 34th and 35th Avenues and 91st and 93rd Streets, is just like the sort of place where any politics wise candidate would partic ularly like to hear good news rather than bad. It is average because most of the people who live in this particular corner of the vast brick and mortar dormitory which is Queens, have chosen to live here because it is a relatively respectable, rela tively cheap place to bring up. a family. And it is average because the families of this district are almost all in the upper - worker - lower-middle income zone that is the grand American average. IT IS representative, too, be cause its people comprise Catholice, Protestants and Jews, and because .they are of Irish, Italian1, German, Scan dinavian, Polish, Spanish and several other descents. All the major stocks of the great New York melting pot are to be found in this district, except for the Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Furthermore, these people gave Gov. Harriman a 58 per cent majority in 1954, as they gave President Eisenhower a 54 per cent ma jority in 1956. These were the reasons why the professional poll-taker, Louis Harris, and this repor ter chose the ninth election district for a day of pavement pounding and doobeU ringing, which at least proved that Queens can be more gruelling than Quemoy. What else it proved, readers must deduce from the voting patterns that were discovered. They were fascinating and extraordinary patterns. THE bad news for Gov. Har riman pan hp rather cimnlv ......... " f -j summarized. Omitting people who had not registered, house wives who sweetly said their husbands had not told them how to vote, and persons hos tile to poll-takers, we ques tioned a total of 51 voters, most of them highly articu late. Of this total, 32 had vot ed for Gov. Harriman, 9 had voted for Sen. Ives, and 10 had ' not voted in 1954. In other words, in terms of the 1954 election, our sample was rather heavily weighted in Gov. Harriman's favor. Of the 32 formeer Harriman voters, no less than 10 had decided to vote for Nelson Rockefeller this time. The Governor had won over one of the former Ives voters and two of the former non-voters. Thus our poll gave him a majority of 25 votes to 23 for Nelson Roc kefeller and three who "had not made up their minds. But this narrow Harriman major ity was almost meaningless, compared to the. heavy de fection of old Harriman friends and the small total of new friends gained. What, made the bad news for Harriman all the more poignant was the even worse news for the Republican Sen ate candidate, Rep. Kenneth Keating. The Democratic Sen atorial nominee, District At torney Frank Hogan, got just about all the Harriman. votes and nearly half the Rocke feller votes, for a total of 34. Keating got only 11 votes "- y. I III j( II' Ilk III By Joseph Alsop the basic, rock-ribbed, true blue, Hoover-Republican elec tors. Six of those polled had not yet made their choice for the Senate. A LMOST more significant than the choices of the voters were their attitudes to wards the candidates. Hogan was also the only candidate on the list of whom the voter-s seemed to have what the poll takers call a "positive image." Those who had this image were a minority. But at least some of the voters explained their choice of Hogan by re marking, "He's done a good job," or "He's a fine fellow." The Keating image, in con trast, was dim to the point of non-existence. There was nothing like a positive image, either, of Gov. Harriman or his rival, Nelson Rockefeller. No voter expres sed strong hostility or warm admiration for either man. Former Harriman voters who were switching simply said that "it was time for a change," o r remarked that "they kind of like the other guy a little better." One ar gued that Rockefeller was so rich that he would not be tempted to loot the public treasury, and then added that he guessed Harriman was also rich enough to be a non-loot: er. The combination "of lack of animus, lack of enthusiasm, and widespread decision in favor of a change was really very odd indeed. The decision n favor of a change may well be reversed if Harriman can only hang the "Republican reaction" al batross around Rockefeller's neck. Furthermore, even if the frame ' of . mind of the ninth election district means, as it almost must mean, that Harriman is in trouble i n New York City, at present, the Governor may still gain on the upstate swings what he loses on the downstate roundabouts. " All the same the bad news for Harriman is also very good news for Rockefeller. It offers strong local confirma tion of the Rockefeller-financed polls which show Rocke feller currently drawing ahead in this critical Gover norship race. The Democrats had better change their minds about Rockefeller's "poll-faking." c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Thought-provoking note in the news: " Four men have been ar rested in Los Angeles with 100 ounces of pure heroin in their possession. Arresting officers say the stuff represents a retail value of roughly ONE MILLION DOLLARS. They describe the haul as one of the largest in Southern California history. The four are being held in jail pending action by a fed eral grand jury. (Manufac ture, importation and use of heroin in the U. S. are for bidden by federal law.) FIRST What is heroin? It is a drug made from mor phine. It has an effect simil ar to that of morphine, but it is more poisonous and much more .habit-forming. At the same time, it doesn't soothe pain and bring sleep as quick ly as morphine. SECOND Why are people willing to pay so much for it? The answer is interesting: At first, heroin EXPANDS THE EGO OF THE USER AND GIVES HIM A SENSE OF- EXAGGERATED PER SONAL VALUE AND HAP PINESS. ... ' Later it removes pity, re morse and all sense of respon sibility. It undermines the emotions and morals of its user perhaps more than any other drug. ommunications 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 a 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 Daper; in fact the contrary i often the case. Correction From Porter To the Editor: My atten tion has been called to your editorial discussing my accu sations against my opponent with respect to violations of the Fair Elections Practices Code. I thank you for your generous remarks. However, one correction please: I did not vote for or against the Omnibus farm bill. It never came up for a vote in the House of Representatives be cause it failed to win a vote for consideration. The editorial stated that I Jiad voted against the Omni bus Farm. bill. What I had meant to tell you, and no doubt did in an ambiguous fashion, was that had the bill as it was then come up for a vote I would 'have voted against it. My position . has always been against price supports for so-called basic crops. In March, 1958, as an anti-recession measure, I voted to freeze price supports in 1958 pending the comprehensive farm bill which was being worked on in committee. My opponent has sought to make people believe I favor high supports. He argues that a vote to consider the Omni bus Farm Bill is a vote in favor of the bill. He is wrong. Charles O. Porter, Decency io Dogs k To the Editor: I read in the Medford Tribune on Sun day about the dogs which went into the fields and killed some sheep. Well, that isn't very nice for the sheep owners, but don't blame the dogs, but the people, for it. Any creature on earth wants to eat if it is hungry, so a dog, when it is not fed, will go out to find food any place. It hurts to be starved and not only animals turn wild when they are starved. I knew peo ple in the war who would do almost anything for a piece of bread in Europe. A dog can't tell you that it is hungry and can't go to buy something, so it will go someplace to get it. It is nothing else than the will to exist and the instinct how to do it. If you don't want so many hungry and homeless dogs around, you, as a thinking hu man being, should start to prevent it. First 'of all would be for the dog - owners to watch their females at certain times, or even better, have them spayed. There wouldn't be' so many unhappy puppies to begin with. Second, if you have adopted a dog and given it a home, don't drive it after a year ' to some place strange and leave it, -because you think the puppy offered from your next door, neighbor is more fun for the children. I couldn't count the dogs I have found that way. I fed them, gave them a home myself, or "found them one, or let them be put mercifully to sleep. Remember, culture did not begin with hearing a concert or seeing a ballet, but witk human understanding and care for those who are de pending on us and our mercy for the mute creature. And if you do so, it will cost less than to destroy them later. And everybody would be hap pier - the sheep and chicken owners, the dog lovers and the dogs. The third basic rule would be-if you have a dog, feed it! It isn't a matter of money, but of "care enough"! And if you don't care, don't have one. H. Hiebert 2510 Country Club dr. Medford Air Pollution To the Editor: I've been hoping you would write an other editorial on "Air Pollu tion" as you did a month or so ago. Now with the "Keep Med ford Beautiful" campaign go ing on, would be a very appro priate time for it. In my opinion "Cleaning up Medford's Air" should come first. We lived in Los Angeles for several years. Ten years ago we started vacationing in the valley, and always enjoyed and appreciated the lovely fresh, clean air. It was the main reason we moved here, as so many other smog-disgusted folks. have done. This past month I've begun to wonder if I really did move, I feel like I'm still back in the Smog Belt. Looking north from downtown Medford it has been so thick you could cut it with a knife. I'm sure that visitors to our valley would notice and ap preciate CLEAN AIR much more , than- clean approaches to the city. If you know of anything the citizens of Medford could do to get the City Council to adopt an Anti-Smoke Ordinance BE FORE it becomes a serious problem and endangers the health of thje people, would you please advise? Mrs. Leonard Mathews 1124 West 10th st. Medford (Editors note: The State Sanitary Authority recently conducted a week-long test ing of Medford's air pollution and the results, together with the authority's recommenda tions, will be made available to the city within the next few weeks.) Madden Finds Error ' To the Editor: I have sent the following letter to the county clerk: Dear Mrs. Hopkins: I read with interest your press re- lease in the Sept. 24 issue of the Medford Mail Tribune concerning persons who are required to reregister. It has come to my attention that your press release Con tained certain inaccuracies as to who must reregister. Two of the mistakes are (1) that a person who moves within his precinct must reregister, (2) persons whose address has been changed by the Post Office must reregister. ORS 247.290 sets forth the conditions requiring reregis tration and the two above re quirements contained in your press release are not to be found. I notice that the same error also appears on the back of each yellow voter registration card which is issued to each person registering as a voter. Since the county clerk is the chief elections officer in I the county, you should publi cize in all the newspapers and other media a correction of this error. We should encour age voting and not mislead persons properly registered to believe they cannot vote in this forthcoming election. I would not make this point except for the fact that a great many people in Jackson county have had their address changed by Post Office order recently. I am sending a copy of this letter to all newspapers in the county with the hope that each newspaper will help to correct the erroneous impres sion caused . by your recent press release. I hope that you will take; this letter in good faith and work with all of us to en courage maximum participa tion of our citizens at the polls on .Nov. 4. Marvin Madden Democratic Candidate for County Clerk Phoenix, Ore. Don't Curdle the Milk To the Editpr: In a recent story in- your paper, John Pletsch, Jackson County Fed eral manager and former pres ident of the Chambe'r of Com merce, was quoted as saying that this area does not "Milk the Tourist" the way it should, and that he is worried about the enthusiasm of the people of the Rogue River valley. If he means enthusiasm for "Milking the Tourists" he is absolutely correct. We are from California and one of the things this valley had which appealed to us was the fact there was not the "Milking of the Tourist," or anyone else as far as we could tell, and it was a welcome change from other areas we had visited. '; If ihis man's thinking rep resents a major portion of the Chamber of Commerce, then it is no wonder this area has not had the growth and de velopment it should have. The countless firms in southern California that are looking for places to expand their fa cilities would certainly, come here if there were some pro motion work done. All the average Calif ornian aver hears about in southern Ore gon area is Grants Pass, and they are certainly plugging their industrial development sites. The enthusiasm in this val ley, is certainly something to be thankful for. Look at the fine jol) that has been done on the Community, hospital and other worthwhile projects. The new skating rink will be a wonderful addition. It is possible that Mr. Pletsch was misquoted and if so it should be corrected. It is also possible that he meant well but bungled getting his message across I hope there are not too many, southern California people getting this paper, for they certainly have had enough ; "Milking the Tourist" propaganda down there. . . Anyway, the Rogue River valley is a wonderful place to live and is now my home, and several of my California friends have come also and they join me in saying "Keep the Valley the way it is." Too much milking of the cow might curdle the milk. Robert R. Vickers Shady Cove, Ore. (By M-T Staff and Contributors) It sprinkled a little Friday afternoon, the first rain in 32 days, according to the off hand computations of one of the office force who is inter ested in things like that. Everyone looked out the window at the shower, and the photographer, in an excess of zeal, offered to rush out and snap a picture of a rain drop. The shower coincided nicely with the noise parade put on by Medford High school students in advance of the Klamath Falls game. Why is it that the rain will hold off for more than a month, and then pick just the moment when . some sort of outdoor activity comes along? ' . The rain is only one more item of evidence that . the year "is creeping toward' win ter. Another ; is the much shorter days. It's dark when the earliest-risers on our staff climb out of bed these days. And it was dark at 7:30 Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann DIPLOMACY VERSUS PUBLICITY ' On behalf of Mr. Dulles, whose press conference have such a bewildering variety, we must re member that he is doing something which has rarely, if ever, been done be fore. He is conducting , a delicate and Lippmann three - corner ed negotiation with the two Chinese governments and with our principal European allies. Parallel with it, he is conducting a series of press conferences. In these he is concerned not so much with the disclosure of the facts as with the saving face in For mosa, in Washington, on Mr. Nixqn's : circuit,, and : among his critics at h o m e and abroad. This requires much twist ing and turning, and much insistence that there be no public demand for a straight forward statement; of the American position. THE trouble lies in the at tempt to combine an intri cate secret negotiation with a continual outpouring of pub lic pronouncements. Thus, it is evident that if there is to be any kind of understanding with Peiping, it will have to be one in which nothing is agreed to in principle though concessions are made in fact. It is evident, too, that if con cessions are to be made, Mr. Dulles must : induce Chiang to make them without forcing Chiang to admit he has made them. : Granting that this is all necessary, is it also necessary to accompany it by so many contradictory public state ments? For while most people have rather short memories, there are a large number of responsible people in the cap itals of the world who can remember what was said from one week to' the next. THESE people would rather be told honestly that the negotiations are delicate and must be secret than to be told so many different things. For then they come not to believe any of them. Mr. Dulles is much concerneed, and fairly enough, with saving Chiang's face. He is much concerned and rightly, that Red China should not think that he is running away. He is much concerned, excessively - per haps,, with avoiding having a compromise called appease ment. But he should also be concerned that the word of the Secretary of State is be lieved and is trusted. On that important aspect of the whole matter he has not been con- concerned enough. ,-' It would be a great relief, and it would enhance the prestige of this country, if the Secretary of State announced that the situation had entered a phase where the issues are too delicate and critical to be discussed in public state ments. Most people would be lieve him. Most people would accept his decision. And a great deal of the embarrass ment caused by the twisting and turning would be avoid ed. For this is one of the oc casions when good diplomacy cannot be combined with hon est publicity.- ' (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. m. Thursdav when the - rifv council convened. Someone giancea up at the top of the city hall and saw the. ns flag still waving, despite the darkness. It was still there after the council adjourned, and for all we know it flew all night Wonder if th Dowers that be forgot, or just don't know about the flag convention which calls for flairs tn h lowered at nightfall? We've just heard the a up posedly true story about woman who was undergoing a lie-detector test, and was doing fine until the inter, rogator asked if she smoked. No, she said - and the needle on the machine be gan to wiggle violently. She later explained that she'd promised her husband she wouldn't smoke, but that she'd been sneaking a ciga rette every so often. Inci- -dentally, wouldn't it be awful if lie-detectors were made standard equipment in the homes of all married couples? It happened in a lunch coun ter in a nearby city. Two women were nibbling sand wiches, -and discussing who was the good - looking man who kept smiling in their di rection. They figured they must know him without realizing it, so they smiled back. But it still bothered them, so they asked the waitress -who he was. She said she didn't know, but that he might be a candi date for office in the election. A few minutes later, the man finished his coffee, got up, and as he passed them, smiled and handed them a card, which" showed that he WAS a politician running for office. ' The women greeted ; thii with bursts of laughter, and the candidate, - puzzled and perhaps a bit hurt, departed. If it makes him feel; any better, the ladies later said they were of his political party - and probably will vote for him. Our courthouse spy re ports that the gals in the county courthouse have been counting their calories ever since a weight limit was posted on the build ing's elevator. " Volume I, Issue 1 of a brand new publication, the "Hoover Hilite," arrived on our desk recently. This is n worthy addition to the other school publications of this area, such as the Jack son Hickory Chips, the Lin coln Legend, and others. It is, of course, the publication of the new Hoover schooL , In ,No. 1, the students who do the reporting are pretty much excited about their at tractive new school, about the Jact that it is named for one of two living ex-Presidents of the United States, and about the letters and gifts which have been received from Mr. Hoover. ' . - A picture of Mr. Hoover will be displayed at the school, along with his framed letter, which reads as follows: To the Herbert Hoover Ele mentary School Meford, Oregon I know of no greater honor that can come to a man. than to have a school named after him. I am indebted to the people of Medford and their school board. I grew up in the publia schools and I have all my adult life been interested in their expansion and progress. For all these reasons, it is great pleasure to send greet ings to the School and my good wishes to all its scholars and their teachers. Faithfully yours, Herbert Hoover The students -replied to the letter, as follows: Dear Mr. Hoover: All the students in the new Hoover Elementary School here in Medford, Oregon, wish to thank you for the wonder ful things you sent us. We received the letter, the pic ture, and the books. We prize them highly. We are sending you this copy of our school paper. We have the first six grades in our school. We all think it is a wonderful place to go to school. Our very best wishes to you. Sincerely yours, The Hoover School Student Body The new school's colors, incidentally, are light blue and red, and an item in the Hilite explains that "Blue stands for Justice, Red for Courage. We hope we can be proud of these colors with Justice and Courage as our guide." ' We hope so too. youngsters.