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4 Friday, February 13, 1939 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.. MEDFORDtTBIBC!iB "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MT.DFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JE, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation aigr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, unaer aci.oi . March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUjy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c AU Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City f Medford omciai raptt or daemon muniy United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertislne Reoresentative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of- ' -fire in New York. Chicago. De- troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1949 (Sunday) Nineteen World War I vet erans , comprise the third group of arrivals at the new ly opened Camp White domi ciliary. Radio station KYJC announces- it will join the Amer ican Broadcasting company next month. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 13, 1939 (Monday) The Oregon Shakespearean Festival association players stage a scavenger hunt to round up props for their pro duction next week of "You Can't Take It With You," by Kaufman and Hart. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot ' column: "The first objectors, have voiced their objections to the Sales Tax in Oregon. They, have no objection to the Sales Tax, but fear the revenue there from, will not be spent where they think best." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1929 (Wednesday) Valley fishermen abrogate lish law for lower Rogue river. Fred Homes, Ashland, and Cole Holmes, Medford, are elected president and vice president respectively of the Jackson County Lincoln club. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1919 (Thursday) Irvin S. Cobb, pleading fa tigue and Democratic affilia tion, declines to appear at the Lincoln club banquet. Valley residents count their blessings as the worst blizzard in years grips the Middle West. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1909 (Saturday) Crater Lake road boosters return from Salem, confident of their bill's passage in the Senate. The Rogue River Fish Pro tective association s bill to outlaw net fishing in the river gains House approval. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What flag was known as "The Stars and Bars"? 2. "CWT" means what? 3. Which of these women was famous for her work to abolish human slavery: Susan B. Anthony, Lillian Russel, Harriet Beecher Stowe? 4. Are the romance langu ages derived from the Greek, Latin, or Slavic? 5. Is the actual weight of a ship denoted by its "gross . tonnage," or its "displace ment tonnage"? - 6. A bar of steel will float on the liquid mercury; true or false? 7. Is an "excise tax" levied upon individuals, corpora tions, commodities, ' or real estate? 8. What city in the Philip pines is known as the "Pearl of the Orient"? 9. John Bull is a nickname that personifies what people? 10. Complete the proverb: "A stitch in time ..." Answers: 1. Confederate States of America. 2. Hun-dred-woight. 3. Stowe. 4. Lat in. 5. Displacement. 6. True. 7. Commodities. 8. Manila. 9. The English. 10. ". . . saves nine." Km, Corporate Ever since the Southern Pacific railroad abandoned passenger service to southwestern Oregon in August of 1955, long-time patrons of the railroad have pointed out, time and again, that the SP has deliberately set out to kill off passenger service. The pattern shows up again on its "main line" service, where it is attempting to cut wintertime runs of the Shasta Daylight to three per week. If anyone doubts that the railroad has set out to make passenger service unproductive, so that it can use "losses" as an excuse for abandoning it, he should read the testimony prepared by Clif ford W. Ferguson, counsel and director of rail transportation for the Oregon public utilities commissioner. 17ERGUS0N is now in A interstate commerce hearings on the three-a-week Daylight proposal. Excerpts from his testimony follow : "Several years ago President Russell of the SP . . . made a prediction. 'Railroad passenger service,' pre dicted President Russell, 'is on its way out.' "Mr. Russell is an unusual prophet. The main rea son he is an unusual prophet is because he can go about making the things happen that he prophesies will hap pen - and that is exactly what is happening to Southern Pacific assenger service. It's 'on its way out,' that is, if presently adopted policies of the SP bear fruit. Evi dence in this case generally will show that passenger patronage of the SP is being deliberately discouraged by adopted practices designed to discourage patronage. "This design might be properly titled 'Pattern for Abandonment.' It was used, the evidence will show, in - a modified form in relation to the Rogue River intra state passenger service prior to abandonment of their service." FERGUSON continues: .," "President Russell said something else . . . 'There's no sense in talking about railroads trying to keep up with airlines. The future of the railroads lies in freight . . . President Russeell has taken steps, and has been taking steps for more than a year, to insure, that his railroad will not keep up with the airlines insofar as passenger patronage. is concerned. ' 4 "The evidence will show that SP ticket agents have been holding themselves out to sell major air line tickets . . . for nearly a year ... "One of the amazing things about the, arrange ment . . i is that this service of selling tickets by the SP for the airlines in competition with itself was negotated under contracts between SP and the airlines whereby all of the expense of handling this service at its 240 passenger stations will be borne by the SP passenger service, with no cost to the airlines . . . "Curiously, however, President Russell is con cerned about passenger deficit, and because of passen ger deficit his railroad has now filed a notice of partial discontinuance of Shasta Daylight passenger service . . . The evidence will show that partial discontinuance is, of course, a practical step toward total discontinu ance of Shasta Daylight passenger service along the only railroad line extending north and south along the Pacific Coast from Portland to San Francisco ..." TTHUS Ferguson points out this sequence: 1 1. The SP sells airline tickets, and adver tises airline travel, AT ITS OWN EXPENSE. 2. Then it pleads that passengers are "desert ing" railroads in favor of airlines, and causing a "deficit" on passenger runs. 3. Finally it uses this as an excuse to reduce, or abandon, its passenger service. It may be, as the SP piously claims, that rail passenger service is on its way out. But the SP certainly is doing what it can to hasten the day. Ferguson points out that the SP recently closed its big downtown ground-f loor ticket sales office in Portland, then rented the space to a com peting airline. Its own ticket office went to the sixth floor of an office building. Since 1957 the SP has almost entirely discon tinued the cleaning of passenger equipment in Portland, has laid off or furloughed 17 employees engaged in such cleaning, and dropped its aver age cleaning costs from $12.76 to $4.02 per car. The SP has failed to improve its food service, as other lines have done. Out of a total of 68 agency stations in SP's PortLnd division, only 23 are supplied with pas senger ticket stocks for serving the public. FERGUSON'S testimony indicates that 25 per cent of Portland arrivals of the Daylight were late, and the condition became worse in 1958, with 45 per cent late during the first six months of last year, and 60 per cent late during June. He points out that traveling agents and porter service has been discontinued or decreased ; that SP company expenditures for advertising of their passenger service have declined by 57 per cent during the past five years. These show clearly the SP has decided that passenger service (which it is morally obligated to provide this area) is not for it, and that it has deliberately set out to provide the conditions which will kill it off. It is a disgusting example of corporate dis honesty. E.A. February 14, 1859 As a result of legislative action and by proclama tion of President Buchanan, Oregon today at last be came a state. It is expected that the state officers who were installed last year in anticipation that statehood would be granted at that time and who subsequently resigned will immediately be re-installed. Congressional approval of admission of Oregon has been achieved only after a long and bitter battle brought about by the fear of slavery Democrats that the admission of Oregon as a free state would upset the delicate balance between free and slave state repre sentatives in the Senate. In Oregon itself the question of slavery was a political issue for many months prior to the convention of 1857 that wrote the state constitu tion, and it was alleged on the floor of thct convention that slaves had been and were then being held in bondage by certain citizens living in the Willamette Valley. However, a free state constitution was adopted by an overwhelming vote. The struggle was at length resolved as a result of a vote by eleven Republican Congressmen led by Representative Eli Thayer of . Massachusetts. And so after many trials and disappointments, Ore gon is a state. And a century hence these political skirmishes will be very nearly, forgot. Dishonesty San Francisco, where the commission is holding Dennis the 'IsTWWc WW PLATE YOU Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia! 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Centennially Yours To the Editor: Will you join me in a project that will re mind thousands of people each day that this is Oregon's 100th anniversary year? If so, sign all of your let ters (especially to out-of-stat-ers) "Centennially yours." .' Centennially yours, J. Pat Metke State Representative Deschutes County Protests Tuition Increase To the Editor: I have lis tened to the commentators on television ana read in our newspapers about the need for higher education for our American youth, so that we may compete with the Rus sians and the .rest of the world in scientific, fields. 'I also read in last night's paper where MrHatfield urges that tuition fees be . increased in our schools of higher educa tion. Now $10 or $20 does not seem, like much, but if such increases continue we, are go ing to do nothing but discour age higher education. There have been several in stances in southern Oregon where students have been forced to withdraw from the college they were attending, simply because they or their parents could not meet the expenses. - I am not one that knows too much about finance, but it seems to me that if more money is needed to meet state requirements there could be other ways to raise it other than a direct increase of tui tion. A. D. Van Horn P.O. Box 793 Central Point School Suggestion To the Editor: School dis trict reorganization and edu cation improvement are the order of the day. Medford has a greater ex panse of educational facilities to offer Phoenix and Phoenix does have something to offer Medford. Phoenix now has a good vocational agriculture course. vThis is what they have to offer Medford that Med ford does not now have. Con solidation of these two dis tricts does not mean that this feature must be lost. I feel sure the present Medford Jun ior High buildings will be able, currently at least, to handle the increase in enroll ment caused by consolidating with the outlying districts. In Phoenix's case at least the drain off of all the Junior High school students would relieve the building need pressure at the current time as well as opening the field towards future improvement. Medford has no facilities for an agriculture course and space as it now exists could not be made available till a new high school building is completed, probably not be fore the 1963 school year. Assuming Medford, Phoe nix, Jacksonville, Applegate and Ruch all became one school district what in the world would be wrong with keeping the Phoenix High school as a continuing Voca tional Agricultur-e High school of the consolidated school district? This would make any later transition eas ier to complete. Such a program would have two very important advan tages. First it would relieve a fair amount of the impending strain on the enrollment of high school students at Med ford High. Far more impor tant, it would, by reason of the single school district for all the communities men tioned, open agriculture as an available course to those oth er than Phoenix. It would do so NOW rather than waiting several years. These students represent our source of food in the very near future. (Or Menace &SH MM T&li&lB W7H?' does everyone figure on Cra ter High doing the job for our whole end of the valley?) The administrative expense- reduction and simplification of fund distribution would be attained without delay. Trans portation expenses would not vary a great deal from any of the other plans offered. Phoenix High school could be operated on a full high school basis but with enroll ment controlled to give first preference to those students desiring agriculture as their main subject. This would avoid the necessity- of stu dents being transported from one , school to the other be tween classes during the school day. Girls should also be allowed vocational agricul ture classes. I have known some very excellent lady farmers. .Yes I have a personal in terest in this problem, with four children in the Phoenix school system now. Space allowed for this let ter does not permit a more detailed outline or sales talk but perhaps it will call atten tion of some SLEEPERS to new school opportunities and maybe even stir up a better plan of action. Marian V. Glidden 243 South Stage rd. Medford He'll Help To the Editor: Read the letter from Mrs. N. Hollis, 112 West California st., Jack sonville, about, an old man, Mr. Tom Bjornstin, who is about to lose his house for taxes. I am enclosing a dollar bill to the Medford Mail Tribune with the hope that others will contribute enough to save Mr. Bjornstin's home. It seems the tax gougers of this day and age have no regard for the old people liv ing on a pension. I am living on a pension myself and I know pensions are not keep ing pace with taxes. Mrs. Hollis's letter was in the Tribune of Feb. 10. I am mailing a copy of this letter to Mrs. Hollis. I would appre ciate very much advising me in event you do not receive sufficient funds to cover the tax bill and I will make fur ther effort to raise the money. Thomas S. Williams, 1233 Highway 199, . Grants Pass, Ore. Editor's note: Mr. Williams' contribution is being forward ed to Mrs. Hollis. Not Recognized To the Editors: For the past few months, doctors, nurses and others in the health field have been receiving brochures from the American Registry of Doctors, Nurses and the Certified Nurses Aides of America. We would like the public to know that these are commercial enterprises, which are not recognized in the field of health. In the State of Oregon the following organizations are recognized: The Oregon Nures Association, The Li censed Practical Nurses Asso ciation and the Jackson Coun ty Medical Assistants. For in formation about any of these organizations call SPring 2-8163. Oregon Nurses Association, District No. 4, By Ada Martin, R.N., 1133 Spring st., Medford Resents Mexicans To the Editor: Have been hearing quite a bit of talk about the fruit harvest condi tion here and I have found out that it is the growers' own fault they have trouble with so-called "migrant" workers. The Mexicans are treated much better physically, though I gather they are noi Minnesota Farm Agent Says All Not Rosy In Midwest; Produce Prices DownUneasy' By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DTD Today it will be C. F. Knickrehm ver sus the Wall Street Journal, a kind of Da vid and Goli- vath contest in which Knick rehm, like Da vid, is loaded. Knickre h m is a farmer and a mana ger of farm properties i n Vyle C. Wilson d 111 e B Minn.,' a small town in the southern tier of counties. His county is Watonwan, an area of lakes and rich farmland, Li4 " M Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt Gets Ike's Pledge of Firm By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The man-of-the-week: West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. The nlace: Washington and New York. The quote: "I know now that our American f r.i e n d s are ;s i r o n giy De- -;hind us. You tcan rely on us ijust as we Know we can Phil Nfusnni in yOU. J.H1S is an age of official travel. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles can scrawl the phrase, "D.ulles was here," in more places even than the much-travelled and legendary Kilroy of World War II fame. Two official visitors to the United States in the last few weeks have represented widely-separated ideological be liefs. The first was Anastas Mikoyan, deputy premier of Russia.- Mikoya smilingly said Soviet Russia and the United States had two alternatives: Friendship or war. Mikoyan Sees Thaw He also repeated the Com munist demand that the West ern powers get out of Berlin. When he got home to Mos cow, Mikoyan said the people of the U.S. wanted an end to the cold war, and reported he saw a chance for a thaw. Ticker tape parades are a traditional part of New York City's welcome to a visiting foreign dignitary or a nation al hero. There was no ticker tape parade for Mikoyan.' But he should have seen the one for Willy Brandt. It was a cold, rainy, miserable day in New York. But the crowds turned out anyway. And as West Berlin's may or rode up Broadway,' they cheered him. "Good luck, Willy," they yelled, or "Good boy, Willy." Late that day, Brandt left for Washington and a meeting with President Eisenhower. But the next day he was back in New York again, this time for a mammoth reception in his honor. He Fought Nazism "The President gave me firm assurance that the Unit ed States will defend the peo ple of ' West Berlin against any threat to their freedom," he said. v And he said the President told him: "A coward has to die 1,000 times and a brave man only once." respected too much either. Why should they get free transportation here and a pre pared place to live and a good ride to the job, meals furnish ed? Are they so much better than our own people, who spend their money here and pay taxes and when necessary defend this country with their lives, which the Mexicans re fused to. do, as we all remem ber. If the "migrants" and I say that with a lot of respect, were given the same consid eration, they would do a bet ter job than the aliens, and would pay for it.' Many arrive here broke after they paid their way and haven't money to rent a place to stay and have to draw wages first day to eat that night. I saw a family of nine, only four old enough to work, sleeping in car and on the ground. Now at the same time the aliens had a - good, warm, soft bed. Is that fair? Our own people who work with the Mexicans resent it when they see our local peo ple being turned down for work while watching a Mexi can working behind the boss. Do unto others Charity be gins at home. Ralph Hill, General Delivery, Phoenix, Ore. ASKS ASYLUM Lyons, France- (UPD - Police said today that Jean Steler, 30, vice president of Poland's bobsled federation, has asked French authorities for politi cal asylum. Steler left the Polish team which last Sun day participated in the bob sled championship events. L fit for corn, wheat, sugar beets, flax, dairy and beef cattle. About 200 Watonwan Coun ty acres are mine under Knickrehm's management. He is a good manager. A check for $1,000 fluttered out of the envelope which reached me Thursday with Knick rehm's report- on how things were on the farms in the up per Mississippi Valley. Knickrehm's report seemed not to jibe precisely with a survey which appeared this week in the Wall Street Jour nal. This was a survey of the farm machinery business at the manufacture and retail It is part of U.S. national history that this nation for gives its enemies. It also is part of the national nature to cheer for the underdog. Both of these characteris tics may have played a part in the reception for Willy Brandt. But sympathies aside, there are two characteristics of the Washington Report By WILLIAM ONLY ONE SECRETARY Washington-The gravest of responsibilities now lie upon the Senate, and especially its D e m o c ratic majority, and upon the Ad ministration's political oppo sition in gen eral. The hospi tal leave forced upon Secretary of Williim S. White Foster Dulles State John has most un- pleasant implications. To face the facts head-on, it means that for indefinite weeks our foreign policy leadership will necessarily be weakened. And this is at a time when West ern and Soviet maneuvering over the Berlin crisis will reach the pitch of delicacy The situation is to some de gree reminiscent of 40 years ago, when . President wood row Wilson lay ill. Then, a hostile Republican Senate op position made a shambles of his post-World War I policy For to look plainly at yet more reality-, Mr. Dulles, and not Mr. Eisenhower, has dom inated the Eisenhower Admin istration's foreign policies. President Eisenhower has al ways handed over unusual power . to Cabinet subordi nates, and particularly to Mr. Dulles. MOREOVER, to much of the world, quite apart from much of the United States, the President ever since his heart attack of .'.955 has been regarded, rightly or wrongly, as less than a full- time participant in the direc tion of this country s affairs abroad. In brief, the constitutional head of foreign policy, Mr. Eisenhower, for nearly four years has been seen as noi fully functioning. And even if he had in fact been so func tioning, the rest of the world would not believe it. Now, the real creative head of for eign policy, Mr. Dulles, is ef fectively compromised by nis illness. Our vital interests could be imperiled by the slightest partisan exploitation of these melancholy circumstances, as these interests were imperiled four decades ago by willful Senators in the administration of Wilson. Fortunately, the present leadership of the Senate in both parties. is well aware of all this, and almost certainly will act accordingly. Even more fortunately, the con trolling Democrats for six years have patiently built a practical, adult bipartisan ship. In this they have had much cooperation from sen ior Republicans. THUS, though there can be nn hirline from the fact that we are entering a period of national danger, there is also a sound reason not to be alarmed for the outcome. The Senate is not now the Senate of 40 years ago. It is not even the Senate of less than 10 years ago, when irresponsible partisans from the Republi can far-right wing clawed and hammered at the Truman Ad ministration, seeking its de struction in the middle of the Korean War. It is surely plain now, in looking back, that the moder- rate Democrats have been wise in rejecting the endless demands of the Democratic left wing that they "get in there and fight the Adminis tration" in foreign policy. The levels which the journal re ported were booming fit to bust. Buyers Less Satisfied Manufacturers and retailers alike were happy. Resale prices for used farm equip ment were substantially high er. Farmers were making larger down payments and even paying off their equip ment notes well ahead of due date to save interest. This was a happy-days-are-here-again survey. It unquestion ably was accurate because the Wall Street Journal is well edited and its reporters are experienced newsmen. The survey, however, re- Support 44-year-old West Berlin may or about which there is no doubt. . He hated and fought Adolf Hitler's Nazism. And he hates and continues to fight Communism. In Berlin last month, he told the city parliament: "Free Berlin belongs to the free world." t S. WHITE Congressional Democrats have always understood what the non-Congressional Demo crats, in the national commit tee and elsewhere, have been persistently unable to grasp. This is that the -United States can have, across the waters, only one President and one Secretary of State at a time. Good, bad, or indif ferent as these may be, there is no rational alternative to supporting them whenever we are in- trouble anywhere abroad. Indeed, any other ap proach is not even good poli tics; it is the shrill campus politics of a girls' finishing school. rFHIS was precisely the les- A son the right-wing Repub licans could never learn when, not long ago, they were trying to smash Mr. Truman's Secretary of State, .Dean Acheson. If the Congressional Demo crats had got in there and fought the Eisenhower Ad ministration on world mat ters, what wpuld have been the results? First, they would not have been able to dislodge Mr. . Dulles anyhow, any more than the right-wing Re publicans were able to dis lodge Mr. Acheson. Second, since Congress cannot make foreign policy anyhow except by subtly leading rather than berating a President, they could not have really altered the Dulles policies; they would only have enfeebled those policies before the world. And, finally, today the Democrats would stand prop erly convicted of having add ed, for no sensible reason, to the burdens that have at last laid low the man who is, aft er all, the only Secretary of State we have got. Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) twhen.mDa iwisehave Separate Accidents Leave Two Dead Eugetie (UPD Two men died in separate accidents in the Eugene area Thursday. Charles Brooks, 73, was killed when struck by a pick up truck as he crossed High way 99. The driver, Tom Ritchey, 44, was not cited. Paul Dyksterhouse, about 60, was killed near Coburg when a tractor he was using to pull logs tipped over back wards on him. Try and By BENNETT CERF- wl TY PROBLEM is my son," a psychoanalyst. "He spends pies, then eating them." That s not too serious a problem," the analyst as sured her. ".The same habit pops up repeatedly in child behavior." "Well, I don't like it," snapped the woman, "and neither does his wife." One of those angry young men spokesman for , the un silent generation wangled a job in a TV studio. "Remem-' ber," he was cautioned, "you can't afford to ignore the old love interest There's got to be a chicken in every plot!" A frigid silence at home, observes Orville Reed, is often the sign that a man will have to thaw his own dinner. Another Reed dis covery: since the invention of elastic, women take up ne-thiiJ less space. C 1&3. by Sumett Cut, gistributod by Kiss Featuies Syndicate. . neasy fleeted the seller's point of view. The point of view of the buyer the farmer is something else again. Hear this from my 'friend, Knick rehm who, in typical farm fashion, begins with the weather report: "We have had some real winter here the past four weeks. The thermometer has been below the zero line quite regularly. And the past week we have been getting some snow. We have bad about five inches of new snow since Monday, Feb. 2. "Our markets on the farm produce have .been somewhat uneasy the past weeks. It seems since the livestock prices are slipping, especially the hog markets, everything else is uneasy. In The Squeeze "Farmers are all hoping it won't get going much worse than it is. The price of farm produce alone would not be so much hurting if the cost of farm equipment would not be climbing up higher and Jiigher. Many of the smaller farmers do not have enough income to keep on farming, after paying all the expenses such as taxes and cost of re pairs or machine hire where it is not advisable to have all the necessary machines such as combines and corn pickers and hay balers and other . large equipment. "The small farmer either needs to get more acreage to farm, if there is land avail able, or else rent his land, to someone else, and find work elsewhere. "I guess the farmers are not the ones that have prob lems, so I think we will all just have to try and work things out, best we can for all. We pople in our Ameri can country have much to be thankful for. We have free dom of speech and religion and many other conveniences. "Hoping that you and all of yours are enjoying good health,- as I can say for my self and family. "Sincerely, (Signed) C. F. Knickrehm (agent.)" SHORT MEMORIES Sacramento, Calif. - (UPD -Members of the California assembly paid dignified trib ute to Abraham Lincoln Thursday and then got into a shouting debate over a base ball - contract between Los Angeles and the Dodgers. Pre siding officer Carlos Bee re stored order by remarking: "We have forgotten all about Lincoln in half an hour." TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 13, 1882 .A tragic accident occurred in East Portland a few min utes before noon today when the bridge over Sul livan's Gulch at Sixteenth street and Holladay avenue fell, killing one person and injuring four others. The bridge had been condemned and workmen were taking up the planking of the road way when it collapsed without warning. Teams had crossed the structure as late as 7 o'clock last night. FEBRUARY 13, 1838 Senator Linn of Missouri today introduced a resolu tion requesting that the Secretary of War send to the Senate all information in the possession of his de partment which may relate to the Oregon territory; and also that he cause to be made for the use of the Sen ate, a map embracing re cent discoveries of all the country claimed by the United States from the west slope of the Rocky moun tains to the Pacific ocean. Stop Me woman announced to a new the entire day making mud
