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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30. 1949 (Sunday)
L. L. Lewis, Central Point
guide, proudly displays a
large bear and cougar he shot
in the upper Applegate dis
trict. M6df ord's current cold
snap becomes the longest on
record as the mercury dips
below freezing for the 35th
straight day.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30,. 1939 (Monday)
Medford mops up its heav
iest snowfall of the year.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
snow, the snow, the beautiful
snow, From which the slush
and cussing flow."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30. 1929 (Wednesday)
Wealthy Oregonians who
bought S3 California auto
licenses instead of the $60
Oregon counterpart face the
dubious pleasure of seeing
their names in print. .
Christian Endeavor socie
ties of the valley meet at Ash
land. 40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30. 1919 (Thursday)
The 65th Field 'Artillery
battalion,, with many Medford
and Jackson county residents
in its ranks, arrives at Phila
delphia. The P. and E. railroad is
to cease operations at mid
night tonight as local com
mittee decides $125,000 cash
bonds demanded by receiver
is too much.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 30, 1909 (Saturday)
Medford and Jackson coun
ty residents are urged to rally
their forces in support of the
Crater Lake road bill now in
the Legislature.
Central Point decides to dig
a huge pit to supply itself
with water.
Vhafs Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
sis is good.
1. Is batik a kind of wood,
a rare mineral, or a method
of executing colored designs
on fabrics?
2. Four States border on
Lake Erie; name them.
3. In which South Ameri
can country is the city of
Asuncion?
, 4. The. accurate time-keeping
device used in navigation
on board ships is call a c ?
5. What well known song
about Kentucky was compos
ed by Stephen C. Foster.
6. In England, what is FJt.
C.S.?
7. Name the woman who
was executed for complicity
in the plot to assassinate Lin
coln. 8. Complete the following
saying: "An apple a. day . . ."
9. Was the Hebrew proph
et Daniel cast into the fiery
"furnace"?
10. : Is gold weighed by the
avoirdupois or troy scale?
Answers: 1. Colored de
sitras. 2. Ohio. Pennsylvania.
Michigan. New York. 3. Par
aguay. 4. Chronomeier. o.
"My Old Kentucky Home."
6. Fellow of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. 7. Mrs.
Mary Surrati. 8. . "keeps fxhe
doctor away." 9. No. 10.
Troy.
Van Gogh
"I don't know much about art, but I know
what I like." '
This classic remark represents the thinking of
a lot of people when it comes to appraising the
works of certain artists. We didn't happen to
overhear it the other night at the opening of the
showing of a collection of the works of Vincent
van Gogh at the Portland Art Museum, but the
expression on a lot of faces reflected a similar
feeling.
. The fact is, nowadays, that a lot of people
know quite a bit about art, and the number, as
well as the degree of knowledge is growing.
INTEREST in art is an increasing phenomenon
in America today. It is evidenced in a multi
tude of ways. One of them, surely, is the surpris
ing fact that this van Gogh exhibit of 155 draw
ings and paintings, valued at some $9 million,
has been an "SRO" show wherever it has been.
In San Francisco, about 200,000 persons stood
in line to see the paintings. In Portland Tuesday
night, a crowd estimated at between 2,500 and
3,000 persons trooped into the museum for a
"preview" invitation-only showing.
During the 33 days it will be in Portland, we
will be surprised if fewer than 50,000 persons
attend, and it might well 'be double that figure.
CONDITIONS at the "preview" were not ideal
V for a close, detailed or appreciative inspec
tion of the paintings on display.
A writer in the Oregon Journal put it this way :
"Those who could, looked at Vincent van Gogh's
magnificent paintings and equally magnificent draw
ings. Those that couldn't quite see, craned to see what
the others were looking at, and the rest just talked."
But, with patience, determination, and the
judicious use of elbows, one could edge through
the packed crowd to look at the paintings, and
see what all the excitement was about.
Discounting the confusion caused by the as
semblage of formally - dressed dignitaries, the
turn-out of half -again as many people as was ex
pected, and the constant and ear-splitting roar of
many simultaneous conversations, the excitement
was caused by the drawings and paintings of a
man now dead, less than 70 years, a man who
died a "failure," insane and virtually unknown.
THE art of reproduction being what it is, any-r-Ktr
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some of van Gogh's paintings. So what is to be
gained by viewing the originals?
Partly, perhaps, the attraction is that they are
fabulously valuable. Partly it is because he is
now in the midst of a wave of popularity, and it
is "the thing to do" to see his work.
But principally it is because anyone in tune
at all with what painting is, and is attempting to
be, will realize that the man was, in his own way,
a genius with the paintbrush, evoking in the
viewer a variety of emotional responses.
And, despite the quality of today's reproduc
tions, the originals do this as prints and copies
cannot.
1M0ST painters do not attempt to reproduce
. objects in the same sense that they are re
produced by a .camera.
To a degree, they project themselves into the
picture they are creating. In doing so, they may
paint a picture which "looks like something," or
they may create an abstraction which looks like
nothing in the natural world. In either case, it is
their own creation, and a painter's success is
measured in how well he communicates the emo
tions he himself felt while painting the picture.
If he fails in this communication, it can be
the fault of the painter. Or it can be the fault of
the viewer, if he has not the background, the
understanding or the comprehension of the ar
tist's aims necessary to "receive" the message.
IT MUST follow; then, that the public of today
A is far more responsive to van Gogh's work
than was the public of 70 or 80 years ago. For the
pictures are the same, and at that time they were
rejected by the public, whereas today they are
enthusiastically acclaimed.
This is one evidence of what we said earlier
that an appreciation, and understanding, of
art is far more widespread today than ever be
fore in histoiy.
It is evidence that today's art public has a
sufficient grasp of' the artist's methods and ob
jectives to understand that a picture can be a
valid statement, even though it does not give a
photograph-like representation of a person or
scene. ,
1MUCH of this readiness to understand and ap
ATA predate has come about unconsciously, and
through constant exposure to the work of "mod
ern" artists, not only in painting and sculpture,
but in the design of everyday objects, even in to
day's advertisig, which has made a much greater
use of non-objective art in recent years.
But whatever the causes, it is a fact that an
ever-larger segment of the public today is willing
to investigate, to study, to see and enjoy works of
modem painters and sculptors. .
Van Gogh is not as far out in left field as
some of the modern painters, but some of his
works, particularly later in his painting career,
are sufficiently non-objective to cause puzzle
ment to the traditionalist
The fact that thousands upon thousands of
people do not let this bother them is impressive
evidence thatart today is "getting through" to
an ever-larger number of people. E.A.
and "Art
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
A Dime Worth a Million
To the Editor: Riddle . . .
You were born with it: The
less of it you have the more
it is worth: if it gets away
you may not get it back: what
is it???
Your health. Just your
health. A dime given to the
March of Dimes may be the
answer to your keeping your
health, and certainly your
health is worth a million dol
lars to you, or even more to
your loved ones.
It is a plain fact that
through the March of Dimes
of the past years, the dread
ed polio has almost been de
feated. Also out of the test
tubes and countless , experi
ments conducted through the
March of Dimes many other
important medical aids have
been found and improved.
Various treatments have been
found to assist medical sci
ence in bringing back to
health diseased, afflicted, and
injured human beings by your
March of Dimes that would
have not been possible other
wise. The Salk vaccine shots for
my children came too late for
me, I contracted polio in 1935.
But look at the diseases which
stiU take a terrible toll of
healthy people year after
year. Virus disease take many
lives and many people's health
each year. The March of
Dimes is now going to under
take finding of the answer,
with your help. One thin
dime? Arthritis cripples and
handicaps many people not
just temporarily but for life,
and I know of no disease
which can let a human being
live so long and suffer so
much.
Your March of Dimes is go
ing to undertake the finding
of the anwser.
What causes birth defects?
Will your unborn children
suffer from a birth defect?
How about the children of the
future? Your March of Dimes
is undertaking the task of
finding the answer. Maybe the
March of Dimes will provide
the help for you tomorrow
that you don't need today. Ill
ness and health are two sides
in a war that knows no end,
and a war which exempts no
one, not even you.
Thousands of dedicated peo
ple are pledging their lives
to finding the answers and
certainly those answers are
worth giving a dime's worth
of help for perhaps a million
dollars worth of health.
Bruce R. Sexton,
Chairman, Medford
Active Club participa
tion in March of
Dimes.
Unlicensed Dogs
To the Editor: After read
ing several letters on dog con
trol and dog problems, espe
cially your Sunday and Mon
day editions, I would like to
tell of a problem I had.
On several occasions a boy
in my neighborhood brought
his unlicensed dog in my
yard and sicked him on my
licensed dog, which was very
securely tied up. After my
son and I both had talked to
the boy and he ignored our
request to stay out of our
yard, I called the city police.
They referred me to the Hu
mane Society officer. He in
turn referred me. to the man
at the dog pound. After three
phone calls he promised to in
vestigate. After two calls
made in person to the pound,
I was told he was away deer
hunting and I would have to
wait until he returned.
That was in October of
1958. This is January 1959.
To this day I have never been
contacted by him. He was
given my home address, a,lso
the phone number where I
work. Strange as it may seem,
Menace
TUB SfiOHMCOAT. YOVUKZO
I could not be given help and
advice on how to protect my
dog so I could keep him, but
I was given more than suf
ficient help in obtaining a
new home for him by the Hu
mane society officer.
The unlicensed dog I spoke
of is still unlicensed and
roaming the streets, fighting
other dogs. One of your
writers spoke of overturned
garbage cans. I cook in a large
restaurant in Talent. Every
Say when I go to work the
garbage cans are turned and
garbage scattered all over. I
have seen several of the dogs
and not a one has license.
Perhaps I sound bitter in
my letter. The dog I gave
away was a registered li
censed 3-year-old male dog.
I sincerely hope that no one
else in the city of Medford
who has to work for a living
as I do ever has the same dis
couraging experience I had.
Won't someone please get on
the ball and do something, not
just write about it?
Audrey Roberson,
529 Edwards st.,
Medford.
Grounds for Divorce
To the Editor: This is to
R. G., whose letter appeared
in the Sunday paper.
Let me set you straight on
the teachings of the Bible, if
you are an authority which
you should be to make a
statement correcting and crit
icizing all of the ministers of
all denominations. If. you will
read St. Matthew, Chapter 6,
Verse 32, you will find justi
fied grounds for divorce. Not
only does it give grounds be
cause of fornication, but by
any sense of decency ' and
righteousness it would seem
justifiably and reasonably be
cause the marriage laws gov
ern moral conduct and any
one guilty of committing for
nication should be put away
as so stated in the good book
according to Christ's own
words.
Gordon L. Logan,
Route 4, Box 421 A,
Medford.
History in Dumps
To the Editor: With grow
ing opposition to closure of
the Camp White waste dis
posal dump, it seems there
should be little wider study
given it. As all of us sadly
know, there is a fringe ele
ment who will not go to the
trouble and distance south of
Medford to dispose of their
gunny - sacked household
wastes: They will be found
as they used to be, dumped
along out -of -way highway
places, partly hidden pretty
camping places and secluded
forest areas. And mind you,
this is not done by the getting-
by element back of the rail
road tracks.
A woman out Antelope way
told me how people persisted,
despite her no trespass signs,
in dumping trash in her pas
ture field. She finally found
a day-book of & Medford con
tractor who then had the
ornery chore of cleaning up
the whole pasture field. It is
sad but true that this type
of people are much like dogs,
where one starts fouling up
a flower-bed in someone's
dooryard, it attracts others to
do the same. There should be
more waste dump grounds in
stead of less, each providing
a living for an attendant
there.
- It surely is a headache,
providing waste dumping
grounds. Great mounds of it
that nature has patiently dust
ed and grass-grown provide
happy hunting' ground for
archeologists to dig into, re
constructing ways of life of
bygone civilizations. An inter
esting and amusing angle was
provided me many years ago
Italy Example of Confusing, Multi-Party
Government; Stability Seen Long Way Off
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
The European usually pro
fesses a complete inability to
""' extend American politics
-the verbal
fireworks im
mediately pre
ceding an
election, i a n d
'I the compara-
tive peace that
descends after
the decision is
reached.
iu'TSewbdnt real lesson in
political science and for some
really mixed-up politics, let's
take a look at Italy which at
the moment is in the hands of
a caretaker government.
In the Italian Chamber of
Deputies are approximately a
dozen political parties, rang
ing from extreme left to ex
treme right.
A strong and recognizable
type are the Communists.
They are the second largest
party in the Chamber of
Deputies, but are not repre
sented in the government. An
other group is the . Liberals.
But, instead of leaning left
as the name might imply, they
are conservatives.
Some Parties Split
Then there are the right
wing Socialists, who have
participated in the govern
ment, and the left-wing So
cialists who do not. These1 two
originally were the same
party, but split when the left
formed an alignment with the
hisses:
Editorial Comment
TREES CAN BE HARMFUL
Medford has engaged a
landscape architect to advise
it on a program for planting
trees in parkings. What- kind
of trees to plant was what
Medford wanted to know.
Such a program would not
be out of the way here. Trees,
properly selected and placed,
enhance the appearance of
any town. Albany is not bereft
of trees but many of them,
particularly the' Oregon Ma
ples and Weeping Willows,
have been giving trouble, not
because they are unsightly
but because they have been
planted in the wrong places.
Such trees break up side
walks and paving and clog
sewers if not properly located.
Many Albany residents have
found that out to their sor
row. Perhaps We could profit,
too, by services of someone
who knows what trees to plant
and where to plant them.-Al-bany
Democrat-Herald.
OUR WATER RESOURCES
The Oregon Water Re
sources report on Rogue river
water utilization fits in per
fectly with. Josephine and
Jackson county development
aspirations.
The board recommends re
peal of all laws restricting the
use of water in the Rogue
River basin. In their place
would be instituted a sepa
rate program for water use
in each of seven sub-basins
in the region. Industrial use
of water would be permitted
in six of the seven includ
ing the middle and lower
basins extending from Med
ford to the mouth of the river.
This finding is the result
of a survey authorized by
the 1957 legislature, under a
special $20,000 appropriation
to defray the cost. The report
will be made to the 1959
legislature, which will have
an opportunity to change the
law in keeping with the
board's recommendation.
It is too early to say
whether there will be opposi
tion to the suggested changes.
Frankly we hope not, for the
Oregon Water Resources
board has offered a program
that can be of inestimable
benefit both to Josephine and
Jackson counties.
For the recreationists and
sportsmen who object to
taking water out of the
Rogue for industrial purposes,
and fear that such develop
ment might result in waste
disposal problems, there is
when an assignment from the
Road Builder of San Fran
cisco sent me to then excava
tion work for the new clover
leaf approaches to Ross Island
bridge south of Portland.
"Yep," commented a wag
gish shovel-runner, "we sure
are shoveling out history here.
Got through the Model T lay
er yesterday with a couple of
those dinkey brass radiators,
high wood-spoke wheels and
a 'pig' (crankcase). See them
old massive beer - wagon
wheels 'n' double-trees, and
neck-yoke over there, what's
left of them? Tomorrow we
should be into the ox-yoke 'n'
lynch-pin wagon layer. Below
that we might find some old
busted mortar 'n' pestle hiding
artifacts of the Indian. Yep,
sure is interesting how we
can shovel up history in this
old waste filled ravine."
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point
Communists,
In the center are the Chris
tian Democrats. They have
been the' governing party
since World War II. But they
also are split between right
and left.
In between the major
parties are others such as the
Monarchists and Neo-Fascists,
who have special interests,
but in general lean left, and
still others who chiefly repre
sent language differences in
side the country.
Out of all these divisions
have grown the present diffi
culties wherein weeks may
pass before a new government
is able to take over and which
may take years to solve.
Tied to West
Italy achieved a reputation
for political stability, and tied
itself closely to the West, dur
ing the eight years immediate
ly following World War II,
from 1945 to 1953. Then it
was under the leadership of
Alcide de Gasperi.
De Gasperi ruled the Chris
tian Democratic Party with
an iron hand and ran the gov
ernment -the same way, even
though only once did he have
an absolute majority in the
Chamber of Deputies.
It was De Gasperi, incident
ally, who crushed the Commu
nist threat to take over the
Italian government in 1948.
But in 1953 De Gasperi and
the Christian Democrats made
a mistake. They rammed
through a law which gave 65
per cent of all seats in the
reassurance in a statement by
John D. Davis, boardXchair
man. It says:
"Utilizing the entire yield
of the Rogue River basin,
there is sufficient water to
meet all existing and present
ly contemplated needs and
uses, except for abatement of
pollution. The indiscriminate
use of our water resources
for pollution abatement, in
lieu of proper treatment, is a
waste . . . and should not be
permitted."
We "doubt if there will be
disagreement with this view
point by many residents of
Southrn Oregon. They are
just as concerned as the board
with preserving the Rpgue
river as a major recreation
and tourist attraction. These
uses alone bring millions of
dollars to this region.
It even might be advisable
to require a definite guaran
tee of non-pollution, in any
new legislation authorizing
use of Rogue river water for
industrial purposes. This
could be accomplished by re
quiring certification from the
proper state agency - possibly
the Oregon Sanitary Author
ity that any waste material
scheduled for release into the
stream first has been sub
jected to adquate treatment.
Some of the most highly
industrialized states in the
east have river and streams
that again are pure enough
for swimming and boating.
Fish populations have been
restored. What once were
little more than open sewers
have been cleaned up by pub
lic insistence on waste purifi
cation. Thus it IS possible to have
crystal clear streams, good
fishing and pure water for
domestic purposes, and still
allow the industrial use of
water. The way to make cer
tain such conditions will
apply to the Rogue is to re
quire, by law, that waste dis
posal receive first considera
tion. Otherwise, no water.
Certainly no one wants the
beautiful Rogue river to be
come a smelly, slimy mixture
of water, sewage and waste.
Unfortunately, it carries too
much pollution already to
suit many persons.
Cognizance also must be
taken of the fact that, regard
less of what the legislature
may do, there still will not be
enough water in the Rogue
for all the legally designated
uses. Even now the stream
gets so low during the sum
mer months that persons with
long-established i r r i g a t ion
rights run short of water.
What the Rogue basin must
have is impounded water,
made possible by a series of
storage dams. These dams
must be for flood control as
well as irrigation. They must
be built on the main stream
as well as along major tribu
taries of the Rogue.
In this manner water that
now rushes to the sea during
most of the year, only to be
wasted, can be stored and put
to use the year around.
This is the bright prospect
for Southern Oregon if the
legislature accepts the Water
Resources Board recommen
dations, and the Army En
gineers subsequently are
given the go-ahead in the dam
building program now under
consideration. Steps should
be taken immediately to im
plement the board recom
mendations at the present
session of the Oregon legis-lature.-Grants
Pass Courier.
Chamber of Deputies to the
party winning 50.01 per cent
of the votes in a general elec
tion. In the following election,
they lost.
Uneasy Coalitions Formed
Shortly afterward, De Gas
peri was forced to- resign and
a year later, died.
From that day forward,
only uneasy coalitions ruled in
Italy, none with the power
really to rule and each able
to last only a matter of
months.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
ONE MAN'S DECISION
Washington A h a r d di
lemma faces Congress and the
country, and the Administra-
tion itself in
a way, over
the issue of
President Ei
s e n h o wer's
military budg
et. And the
V u n p 1 e asant
iact is inai
this dilemma
rnnnrvf vaiIItt
Williams. J
White be resolved.
The central and obvious
question is whether in asking
for some forty billions of dol
lars the President is asking
enough. 4 For at least in
missiles, which may become
the ultimate weapon, the Rus
sians seem chillingly ahead
of us.
But it is not possible for
Congress and the country to
find a rational answer to the
big question without first an
swering another question.
Here it is that the rub comes.
This is the query:
How far may the profes
sional military officers prop
erly go in appealing to Con
gress over the heads of their
civilian superiors, including
the President himself as com
mander in chief, for higher
military expenditures than
these civilian superiors have
decided upon?
NO ONE, not even the Presi
dent himself, is absolute
ly sure. It is plain that the
Secretary of Defense, Neil Mc-
Elroy, is not entirely easy in
his mind, either.
Thus members of "the
brass" go one by one before
Congressional commit tees
carrying heavy and delicate
burdens. These admirals anf
generals have a compelling
need, and also a high respon
sibility, to fight for what they
honestly believe their services
require in a world of danger.
But, again, they have the
plain constitutional duty to
bow in the last analysis to
the civilian authority. And,
finally, they must think of
themselves. They are aware
that outright rebellion from
the Administration's high de
fense policies may cost them
their careers.
For Secretary McElroy has
passed the word that while
he wishes to weigh indepen
dent judgments with sym
pathy he will not stand for
out-and-out disloyalty to the
Administration's budget pol
icy. Given all this, it is easy to
understand why the eyes of
high officers and 4heir in
flections of voice sometimes
seem to speak these days be
fore Congressional commit
tees rather louder than the
words actually uttered in sup
port of the budget. For where
does independent' judgment
stop and disloyalty begin?
THIS is the situation:
1. The Administration at
the top (that is, the President
and his chief civilian advisers)
is satisfied that the budget is
enoufh to maintain a "reason
able" margin of safety.
2. The professional officers,
by and large, are by no means
so stisfied - though it is fair
to add that they almost never
are.
3. Congress itself simply
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
A STOCK BROKER with very questionable ethics talked an
unitiated sucker into buying five thousand shares of a phony
oil stock at 50 cents a share.
A week later the broker
reported, "You're lucky!
That stock just doubled in
price!" "Buy me another
five thousand," ordered the
sucker.
A few days later the
broker was on the phone
again. "That stock's going
wild," he exulted. "It just
hit $2 a share!"
"That's enough for me,"
decided the sucker. "Sell all
I've'got at the market price."
"Sell?" echoed the broker
in amazement "To whom?"
An agent was trying to persuade a night club impresario to give
his new client a break. "Why, she's another Marilyn Monroe." he
said then felt constrained to add, "She don't look like her, I admit
but you ought to see how she reads Dostoyevsky:"
C 1959. by Bennett Celt DiaUibuted by King Features Syndicata
s
The last one, headed by
Amintore Fanfani, one of
Italy's most astute politicians,
fell last Monday.
Hence the confusion. There
are predictions that in subse
quent shifts-two entirely new
political blocs may emerge
both non-Communist, one of
them "conservative" and the
other "progressive." But they
may be a long time in com
ing. Meanwhile, the Commu
nists will be outside, waiting.
S. WHITE
does not know whether to
feel satisfied or not. Congress
does not know precisely what
"reasonable" safety means.
And when Congress does not
know, the public cannot
know.
Though believing itself to
be right about the budget,
the Administration neverthe
less is not happy to seem to
be muzzling the officers or
imperiously shutting off pub
lic debate. But, again, it feels
- and quite properly, in this
correspondent's opinion - that
it simply cannot allow the
uniformed men to seem to
challenge civilian control of
the military. That is the way,
if pursued long enough, to dic
tatorship. The constitutional
system requires that the civil
ian leadership have the very
last word even if that last
word be terribly wrong.
CONGRESS, on its side, feels
cut off from the genuine
opinions of the military pro
fessionals. Its members know
they need more information.
But its most responsible mem
bers know, too, that there is
great peril in encouraging the
uniformed men to buck civil
ian authority and "tell all" to
Congressional committees.
What is the outlook, then?
It is simply that there will
not be, and cannot be, any
really searching great nation
al debate, of the sort that
would seem to be objectively
needed. Indeed, the fact must
be faced that in the nature
of the present world Congress,
at any rate, can no longer
really exercise its old power
over the military purse. The
Pentagon is able to put hush
hush over its operations, an
ugly necessity but a necessity
nevertheless.
So the sum of it all is this:
if the President is wrong, we
are all in a very bad way.
For in all the circumstances
only a single man, the Presi
dent, can, effectively and at
last, determine what the mili
tary budget is going to be.
(Copyright, 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
JANUARY 30, 1921
It was announced loday
that Oregon will have eight
delegates at the convention
of the national woman's
party to be held in Wash
ington, Feb. 15 to 18. The
principal purpose of the
convention is the adoption
of a future program now
that equal suffrage has been
won. While nothing is yet
known of the nature of the
proposed program there is
worried speculation in male
circles that the ladies, not
content with simple equal
ity, want something more.
PLAN OIL PIPELINE
Rome - (LTD - Italy has an
nounced plans to construct a
big pipeline system to funnel
oil imports to Switzerland
fro mthe port of Genoa. Of
ficials said today the project
will sharply reduce land ship
ment costs for oil needed by
land-locked Switzerland.
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