4 Sunday, October 19, 1958
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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 . " , 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
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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.