4 Friday, February 13, 1939
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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
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
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although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia!
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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