4 Tueiday, October 28. 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
October 28. 1948 (Thursday)
Jackson county has receiv
ed its share of state amuse
ment device taxes.
A 7-year-old Medford girl
reported missing here turned
up safe ands ound-in bed at
a neighbor's house.
20 YEARS AGO
October 28. 1838 (Friday)
A 35 mile per hour wind
whipped through Medford
this morning.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Up
state editors are now thunder
ing against the stay-at-home
vote, who neither stay-at-home,
or vote.
30 YEARS AGO
October 28, 1928 (Sunday)
The usual large delegation
from Medford and the valley
plans to attend the Pacific
International Livestock Expo
sition at Portland.
Local merchants consider
a recent "Dollar Day" in
many Medford stores a great
crowd-getter at least.
40 YEARS AGO
October 28, 1918 (Monday)
Two men are in town to
recruit local volunteers for
YMCA work overseas.
Evans creek farmers are to
vote on whether to form an
irrigation distirct.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five oi
six is good.
1. In boxing, what part of
the human anatomy is the
"button"?
2. On the Fahrenheit ther
mometer scale, 212 degrees is
the boiling point; what is the
boiling point on the Centi
grade scale?
3. Human hair grows faster
in winter, or summer?
4. Would a birling contest
be a sack race, guilting bee,
or a log-rolling, contest? .
5. A sesquicentennial would
be an anniversary denoting
50, 75, or 150 years?
6. If the delegate's speech
was reported to haye been
acrimonious, would that signi
fy that it was caustic, or pleas
ant? 7. Who is the genie of folk
lore who makes children
sleepy?
8. The number (or magni
tude) from which another
number is to be subtracted is
called the m-n-e-d?
9. In seaman's slang,1 the
bottom of the ocean is known
as what?
10. Name the three types of
gloves in baseball.
Answers: 1. Point of the
chin. 2. 100 degrees. 3. Sum
mer. 4. Log-rolling. 5. 150
years. 6. Caustic. 7. The sand
man. 8. Minuend. 9. Davy
Jones Locker. 10. Fielder's
glove, catcher's milt, first
basemen's mitt.
COMMUNIST SONGS
Tokyo UPD The Commun
ist Chinese government broad
cast these three songs today
to show everything is lovely
in their realm:
"The Peoples Commune Is
Good." -.
"The Community Dining
Hall Is Too Good To Tell."
"Every Place Is Wonderful
In Our Dear Motherland."
Measure Recommendations
The Mail Tribune, starting today, in accord
ance with long custom, presents its recommenda
tions on the measures which will appear on the
Nov. 4 election ballot.
We do this NOT to tell anyone "how to vote"
rather we do it in an advisory manner, hoping
that our study of the measures, and the conclu
sions derived from that study, will prove helpful
to voters who will be confronted with a baker's
dozen of decisions in the voting polls.
We claim no infallibility. But we do present,
for our readers' consideration, our thoughtful
recommendations.
D ALLOT item No. 1, "Fixing State Boundaries,"
is what is called a "housekeeping" measure,
and allows the states of Oregon and Washington,
by interstate compact, to set more definite boun
daries than those at present which are based
on the shifting currents and channels ' of the
Columbia river. The state's boundaries were set
in the 1857 constitution, but were revised by
Congress when Oregon was admitted, so a con
stitutional amendment is required. No opposi
tion is known. Vote No. 1 "Yes."
Ballot item No. 2, "Increasing Funds for War
Veterans Loans" will increase from 4 to 6 per
cent of the state's assessed valuation the limita
tion on bonds to be used to finance state veterans
loans. The philosophy of loans to veterans has
been well-established by'large majorities of Ore
gon voters. Up to now only a small percentage
of Oregon's veterans have been able to take
advantage of the loans. Despite recent increases
in assessed valuations, which have in turn in
creased the bonding limitation, the added amount
ultimately may well be needed. The program is
self-liquidating, and no added taxes are needed.
If the loan privilege is approved at all (as it has
been) it should be made available to all those
eligible, as a matter of equity. Vote No. 2 "Yes."
D ALLOT item No. 3, "Salaries of State Legis
lators," would amend the constitution to in
crease the pay of state senators and representa
tives from $600 annually to $1,200, and permit
them to vote expense funds in addition to travel
ing expenses. Since the present salary prevents
many talented people from running for the leg
islature, and since no legislator in his right mind
is going to vote himself a reckless expense ac
count, we feel the measure would be valuable,
and perhaps attract an even higher caliber of
men and women as our representatives. The pres
ent amount will not allow anyone to "break
even" in the service of the state. Vote No. 3
"Yes."
Ballot item No. 4, "Capital Punishment Bill,"
is to remove from the constitution the provision
setting the death penalty as the maximum for
first degree murder., The legislature has already
passed legislation, effective contingent on the
passage of this amendment, setting up life im
prisonment as the maximum penalty for murder,
(except in the case of a
while under life sentence), and limitations on
parole, as well as other pertinent legislation. For
reasons detailed in this space previously, we
strongly advocate this measure. If the death
penalty does not deter murder (and statistics
indicate it does not),
for it, and it defeats the ends of justice. Vote
No. 4 "Yes."
D ALLOT item No. 5, "Financing Urban Rede
1"' velopment Projects," would permit that por
tion of tax income from urban renewal projects
which is increased as a result of the development
itself to be used in paying for the development.
lhis is permissive legislation, and will require
further study and enabling legislation by the leg
islature, which can work out the details. It ap
pears to be an equitable solution to a problem
which will be increasing in Oregon in coming
years. Vote No. 5 "Yes."
Ballot item No. 6, "Modifying County Debt
Limitation," would allow counties to issue bonds
in excess of $5,000, and for purposes other than
building roads and suppressing rebellion, as per
mitted by the legislature. This is not something
needed in this county at present nor in the near
future. But it may be needed by other counties,
particularly if the Home Rule amendment
passes. The legislature will enact suitable safe
guards. Vote No. 6 "Yes."
p ALLOT item No. 7, "Special Grand Jury Bill,"
revises some constitutional provisions with
out changing their effect, and also provides that
more than one grand juiy can be called into ses
sion in a county at the same time the need
for which was shown in Multnomah county two
years ago when one grand jury was so busy on
special vice investigations that routine but im
portant business was neglected, thus tending to
deprive some prisoners of their constitutional
right to speedy justice. A minor amendment, but
a good one. Vote No. 7 "Yes."
Ballot item No. 8, "Authorizing Different
Use of State Institution," would authorize the
legislature to change the use of some institutions
outside of Marion county, if the need became
apparent. We see no objection, and it gives the
legislature the authority to make necessary
changes without the later cumbersome business
of again amending the constitution. Vote No. 8
"Yes."
(Continued tomorrow.)
E.A.
person killing another
then there is no excuse
Dennis the Menace
5EE? OlONY J TELLVA HE SLEEPS
IN A CfiAZY OUTFIT?
Roscoe Drummond
Reports . . .
(Drummond is substituting for; Walter Lippmann,
during the latter's trip to Russia,)
HOLLYWOOD AND
POLITICS
Hollywood Hollywood is
tentatively, timid and very
cautiously beginning to regain
its political consciousness.
Even with California burst
ing with the most exciting
and significant election since
Mary Pickford was a star, my
experience is that in any gath
ering of motion picture per
sonalities many of whom
once endorsed a cause or a
candidate with all the care
of giving a toothpaste testi
monial a question about
politics fall with a dull plunk
into the conversational pit.
Hollywood's political free
wheeling of a decade and
more ago is nowhere visible
and when you tentatively ven
ture a casual political remark,
you find yourself as conver
sationally isolated as an un
invited guest on a studio set.
It seems a long time since
that a handful of actors, writ
ers and directors, lured or
trapped into the pro-Communist
miasma, reached franti
cally for the 5th Amendment
and Hollywood became un
fairly synonymous with rad
icalism. It was then that the grim
defensive device of promiscu
ous black-listing came into
play, unproved rumors hound
ed some lesser actors from
their profession and in self
defense most of show busi
ness gave up its rights of
democratic free speech.
THE pall of political silence
whirh thpn fpll nwr Hol
lywood, once a reformer's
fund-raising paradise even
for the political wolves in
mink's clothing is begin
ning to lift, but slowly and
very gingerly. t
Only the hardy and stub
born few are venturing from
the political woodwork. The
Republicans, in the nation
and in California, are making
a little headway in encour
aging some of the TV and
motion picture stars to break
out of political limbo and
stand up and be counted.
When President Eisenhow
er or Vice President Nixon
address a big rally in South
ern California there are a
few big name actors and ac
tresses who will be entertain
ing the audience and taking
walk-on introductions.
You will see Bog Hope,
Irene Dunne, Lou Costello,
Virginia Mayo, Robert Mont
gomery, June Allyson, Dick
Powell, Jimmy Stewart and
John Wayne. And there will
be the ubiquitous veterans of
Hollywood Republicanism,
Cecil B. DeMille and George
Murphy.
This is a goodly sprinkling
of star talent, but from my
observation this list has not
appreciably been added to in
recent years. In a city which
hates privacy, the instinct of
most stars is to be as afraid
of politics as an astrologer's
plague and as with Imogene
Coca and Peggy Wood in "The
Girls in Room 509," to keep
to their private chambers lest
the goblins get them.
N THE Democratic side
" there are of course such
venturesome souls as Lauren
Bacall, who probably got
some of her venturesomeness
from her late husband, Hum
phrey Bogart, and who says
quite simply: "If you believe
in something and want to
make your country a better
place to live in, you just have
to be willing to speak out.
Being an active actress is no
reason for not being an active
citizen."
And so you find Miss Bacall
active in her own lights, at
tending a dinner for Adlai
Stevenson and ready to sup
port .any Democrat who is
nominated in 1960.
And there are a few others
who are like-minded and who
are out in the open. Such Hol
lywood figures are Dore
Shary, Tony Curtis, Henry
Fonda, Myrna Loy, Jim Back
us, Edward G. Robinson, Bette
Davis, George Jessel, Frank
Sinatra, 'Sammy Davis J r.,
Robert Ryan and Mercedes
McCambridge make appear
ances at Democratic rallies,
And there is no proof that
they are punished at the
box office or in their studios
(Dore Shary is an exception
who says he was dropped
from his studio because of
his political views).
But in the main, conscious
of what happened to the 5th
Amendment writers and ac
tors, Hollywood is still play
ing it safe and is either timid
about or massively indiffer
ent to political matters. I at
tended two large press re
ceptions, one for Alec Guin
ess and one which Milton
Berle gave for Carl Sandburg
As one who finds discussing
politics as natural as.: breath
ing, I discovered the" current
campaign very much out of
bounds,
(c) 1958, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Washington Report
By William
"WISE ENEMY"?
Washington The politi
cal wars in our American Mid
dle West and elsewhere are
obscuring
some import
ant v marching
and counter
marching re
lating to the
cold war in
the M i d d 1 e
East.
For years
there have
been just two
kinds of news
William S. Whit
from that area - bad and dis
astrous. It is possible, in the
view of foreign diplomats
here, to consider the present
news to be almost good, to
a point at least.
The action of President Ha
bib Bourguiba of Tunisia in
breaking openly with Col. Ga
mal Abdel Nasser's United
Arab Republic - Egypt and
Syria - is having some effects
that clearly favor the West.
First of all, the Nasser
Arabs are showing far more
alarm about it than might
have been expected from the
outside. This is the clearest
possible evidence that Bour
guiba's thrust poses a genuine,
if perhaps not a vast, threat
to the Communist-assOciated
expansionist axis of Egypt and
Syria. Tunisia's potential pow
er in the Arab world is being
re-estimated upward.
DROOF that Colonel Nasser
is indeed "taking it big"
in reaction to Tunisia's chal-1
lenge is amply available.
(1.) United Arab Republic
diplomacy in the West is now
sounding a n openly urgent
tone, half of threat and half
of appeal. The whole manner
of the UAR's new ambassa
dor here, Dr. Mostafa Kamil,
a short, egg-bald, volubly
worried man, makes it plain
that in his eyes a new crisis
of grave implication has aris
en. (2.) The vice-president of
the UAR, Marshal Abdel Ha
kim Amer, has just been giv
en the "A" treatment in Mos
cow. Soviet promises of more
assistance against the efforts
of the West to "further rob
the Arab people" this in
Soviet Premier Nikita Krush
chev's language have been
trumpeted with unusual stri
dency. (3.) Colonel Nasser has ask
Monroney Sees Democratic Sweep; Nixon
Declares Trend Turning to Republicans
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Washington-flJPD-Sen. A. S.
Mike Monroney (D-Okla),
back from campaigning in
several states, today predicted
a "Democratic sweep reaching
the proportions of 1936" if the
present trend among voters
Matter of Fact
MINNESOTA MUSINGS
Minneapolis It is not ax
actly easy to write about poli
tics on an autumn weekend
out here. The
air is crisp
and brilliant.
In its late fall
colors, the
countryside is
just as splen
did as one of
the cock
pheasants that
half the peo-
ioipb Aisop pie or t n e
Twin Cities are hurrying into
the countryside to shoot.
There is no football, to fill
the bright air with balloons
and banners, and the vast
stadium with people. But a
large part of the state of Min
nesota's population still forms
a counter-current to the cur
rent of gunners, hurrying city
wards on pleasure bent. Car
nival genially reins, as it
seems to do hereabouts every
weekend all - autumn. Maybe
the most interesting question
to try to answer is why this
is the most pleasure-loving
place in America, except per
haps San Francicso.
All the same, reporters are
not sociologists; and this state
also poses a political question
of real interest. Maybe the
b'est way to phrase the ques
tion is to ask why on earth
the Democrats seem to like
winning, whereas the Repub
licans almost seem to hate it.
NO INTERMINABLE period
of time has gone by, after
all, since this was a reliably
Republican state. In the reign
of Harold Stassen, despite the
national magnetism of Frank
lin" Delano Roosevelt, Min
nesota was solidly Republican.
Even after Stassen's beady
eyed pursuit of his ambitions
had discredited him, the Min
nesota Republican party pro
duced an enormously success
ful state-wide vote-gefter, in
the N person of Gov. Luther
Youngdahl.
But Youngdahl failed to re
make the Minnesota Republic-
S. Whit
ed Premier Krushchev to
"warn" the West not to help
the , Israelis if new Arab-Is
raeli fighting should break
out.
The line being taken by the
Nasser Arabs here is that they
are wholly unconcerned in the
cold war between West and
East. They only wish to be
left alone by the West and
to be given some economic
and maybe military assistance,
too. The suggestion is that
unless the West obliges and
makes no more "interven
tions" on the side of such
non-Nasserites as Bourguiba
in Tunisia very nasty things
may happen.
rpHE
inference is encour-
aged that
these nasty
"revolutions" of the kind
that murdered the pro-Western
Iraq regime last summer
and very nearly took over
Lebanon and Jordan until we
and the British moved in
troops.
Coupled with all this is
the development of a new line
of Nasser "reasonableness." It
is being explained here that
the Nasser Arabs are not ex
actly "neutral" between us
and the Russians, but only
have a "policy of non-alignment."
This.of course, is the term
long favored by Prime Minis
ter Nehru of India and it
is a little odd to hear it from
Arabs whose belligerent rec
ord is as long as is the pacif
ist tradition of the Indians.
What is happening is that
the Nasser Arabs for the mo
ment are adopting and
not without a grim sense of
humor precisely the prim
tactics and even the slogans
of Nehru in playing the West
off against the East.
But the great difference is
that whereas Nehru is the
middle man for peace, the
Arabs are the middle men
for the Arabs. They seem per
fectly prepared to go on to
more armed trouble-making
in the Middle East if their
diplomacy fails to soften the
American attitude.
T is newest of all, how
ever, is an oDvious loss
of a sure sense of touch in
the United Arab Republic
almost, it might be said, there
is a trace of quite unaccost
umed pane. This sort of thing
could easily lead Nasser to
continues until Nov: 4
Monroney's view challenged
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's statement Monday be
fore a Republican fund-raising
meeting in. Michigan that
a "striking shift of voter opin
ion" had halted the trend to
ward a Democratic landslide.
Democratic National Chair-
Joseph Alsop
an party in his own attractive
image, as Eisenhower has fail
ed to remake the national
party. Indeed, there are good
reasons for thinking that
Youngdahl was given a judge
ship in response, at least in
part, to pleas from more con
servative Minnesota Republi
ans who wanted to get this
dangerous vote-getter out of
the state.
Today, there is really not
very much left of the Min
nesota Republican party, ex
cept the last surviving Stas
senite, good, earnest Sen. Ed
Thye. And Thye does not even
have a 50-50 chance to hold
his Senate seat against Dem
ocratic Rep. Eugene McCar
thy,, unless their anti-catholic
prejudices make the local
Lutheran voters forget their
strong Democratic allegiance.
VTET it was not so easy long
-1 ago, once again, when Min
nesota's Farmer - Laborites
were led by Henry Wallace's.
worthy sidekick, Ex - Gov.
Elmer Benson, while the local
Democrats had the status of
a small oppressed minority.
Each group, in those days,
hated the other worse than
the' devil hates holy water.
But from a running start as
Mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert
Humphrey leaped into the
Senate. And from his Senate
seat, Humphrey conjured up
the united, powerful and en
thusiastic Democratic-Farmer-
Labor party that rules Min
nesota today.
Moreover, Humphrey is not
the only grandee of the Min
nesota democracy nowadys.
The able young state Gover
nor OrviUe Freeman, looms
almost as large out here; but
he and Humphrey are so care
ful to stick together that they
even shared the same hotel
suite at this year's state con
vention, so that no one could
organize friction between two
different leaders headquart
ers. Unity and energy, youth
fulness and optimism these
are now the marks of the Min
nesota Democratic party, from
the precinct level to the top.
THE Democrats here are
proud of their party, too,
where as the Republicans, or
at any rate the Republican
candidates, seem to be
ashamed of theirs. Both Sen.
Thye and Rep. Walter Judd
have plastered the Twin Ci
ties with their billboards. But
the billboards make no men
tion of the candidate's party
affiliations Judd and Thye
might just as well be Demo
crats, or Farmer Laborites, or
even "creeping Socialists," for
all anyone is told about the
matter.
If it were a purely local
phenomenon, there would be
no great significance in this
Minnesota contrast between
demoralized and somewhat
shame-faced Republicans and
Democrats trotting off to
town with their tails over-the
dashboard. But it is not a local
phenomenon. It appears in
Minnesota in .. an especially
strong way; but it also ap
pears in California and in
most other state where big
jobs are at stake in this elec
tion. In fact, this reporter has
seen or heard about confident,
hard-driving, united Republi
cans in only one state so far.
The sole exception is New
York, where Nelson Rockefel
ler is hardly running as a Re
publican. So the question
about the difference between
Republicans and Democrats
plainly exists. Unfortunately,
it is as hard to answer as the
other question about why
Minnesota people- are pleasure-loving
and Indiana peo
ple most emphatically are not.
(Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
break out wildly, if only be
cause he has been so thrown
off balance.
Thus it is that the relative
weakening of his position
raises dangers as well as gains
for the West. This fact ex
plains why the United States
and Britain are not officially
crying hurrahs to Bourguiba.
Even the Israelis are playing
it cool, as the saying goes.
Certainly, they are not un
happy with what Tunisia has
done; but they are avoiding
giving any excuse to Nasser
for saying it all resulted from
Israeli plotting.
There is an Arab saying,
"Better a wise enemy than a
foolish friend." The danger
now is that Nasser might not
be a wise enemy.
(Copyright, 1958. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
man Paul Butler also chipped
away at Nixon s statement, de
claring the vice president was
"whistling in the dark" with
statements the Republicans
were gaining in the final days
of the campaign.
. Both the Republicans and
Democrats were beating the
confidence drums ' during a
partial lull in the heated cam
paign on a national level. But
President Eisenhower was
still on the political trail, to
day, in New York City.
Truman Oul Working
Nixon returned to Washing
ton Monday night to rest be
fore launching his final jaunt
of the fall campaign. Former
President Harry Truman, who
has traded verbal blows with
Nixon most of the past month,
also was pausing before the
climatic final effort to get out
Democratic party votes.
Monroney said "Continued
Republican fumbling is doing
more to insure Democratic
victory than even the well
run and streamlined cam
paigns" of the Democrats.
He said a "definite and in
dentifiable Democratic trend"
formed the basis for his hbpe
for a Democratic victory of
1936 stature, when President
Franklin D. Roosevelt carried
all but two states against Re
publican Alfred M. Landon
and nearly swept Republican
candidates out of Congress.
Editorial Comment
THEY MUST BE
ENCOURAGED
Sympathy for an Oregon
State policeman who was dis
charged for insubordination
and for one of his spokesmen,
State Rep. Richard Groener,
will, we think, be confined
almost entirely to the cop
haters. Many victims of State
Police efforts to curtail acci
dents and deaths on the high-
Iways of Oregon will applaud
the man who talked back to
his superior's. And they will
have a kindred feeling for
Rep. Groener who has been
arrested many times for traf
fic law violations.
We find it impossible to
Flock Pays Last
Respect To Cardinal
Detroit-(UPD-Members of the,
flock lie served for ,21" years'
as their first archbishp and
cardinal I today began -filing
j past to pay their last respects
to Edward Cardinal Mooney.
-Few had ever been in the
cardinal's residence but he
was readily known through
out the eight-county archdio
cese of southeastern Michigan
for his presence at 'innumer
abel ground-breaking ceremo
nies, confirmations and other
duties in the United States'
seventh largest archdiocese.
Cardinal Mooney, 76, was
stricken Saturday by a heart
attack in the North American
college in Rome just 70 min
utes before he was to go into
a conclave with 51 other car
dinals to elect a successor to
Pope Pius XII. His body was
returned to Detroit Monday.
Tranquillity tonight
on television with
bed-time story.
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President Aggressive
Monroney also denounced
President Eisenhower's "So
cialization talk" as a "cash
register speech to get the
money in" for GOP campaign
coffers. The Republicans,
Monroney declared, are "hav
ing a hard time convincing the
people of any drift toward
socialism."
President Eisenhower, in a
speech Monday night at Pitts
burgh, continued hammering
on domestic issues with the
Democrats his chief target. He
urged all Americans regard
ness of party to put Republi
cans in control of Congress on
election day to keep the Dem
ocrats "from flogging the
economy into inflation."
Mindful that his "tough
talk," approach to the Demo
crats recently has attracted at
tention in political circles, Ei
senhower said he thought his
"choice of words has been
conservative."
Adlai . Stevenson, titular
head of the Democratic party,
said in Chicago that the "fai
lure of leadership in the
White House has created a
vacuum, and it is not surpris
ing that Congress is filling it."
The twice unsuccessful can
didate for president told a
party gathering that "more
than ever this year we need
to elect a Democratic con
gress." support, the officer who has
been discharged as the result
of a hearing at which it was
clearly developed that he had
criticized his superiors while
wearing the uniform. This
cannot be condoned within
the State Police organization.
Any man who feels as this
man did must resign or get
his grievances settled with his
superiors. He can't take them
to outsiders, and particularly
not to a member of the state
legislature, and remain a
member of the organization.
As for Rep.' Groener and
others who have had brushes
with the State Police as vio
lators of traffic regulations, it
is impossible to build a case
for them. The State Police
have the solemn responsibility
to do everything possible to
curtail accidents on the state's
highways. Furthermore-, the
organization has in recent
months been acting under in
structions from Gov. Robert
D., Holmes which were to get
tougher. The Governor be
lieves this can reduce tragedy
on the highways.
We trust the State Police
have -come out of this situa
tion stronger than" ever. They
must have the respect of all
who drive Oregon highways.
What they are trying to do
must be understood and re
spected. "The effortsi they are
making 24 hours 'of every
day to enforce the laws could
save your life. It makes no
difference how well you are
driving when you collide with
a car operated by a man who
is breaking the law. It is the
irresponsible drivers the state
police are cracking down on.
If you place any value on your
life you had better encour
age them in every way pos
sible. Pendleton East Ore
gonian. at ten-thirty-five
Jack Vaughn's
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TEENERS
TOMORROW'S MEN!
That's why we're happy to
process assigned risk auto poli
cies for the younger men in
this area. We both desire and
appreciate your business now
and tomorrow.
Bill Fish
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