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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
4 Sunday, February 22, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22, 1949 (Tuesday)
Local YMCA officials plan
an open house and parade for
the grand opening of their
new building here this week.
Heavy rains raise the dan
ger of Rogue valley floods.
20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 22. 1939 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
Is advised to authorize a blan
ket fire Insurance policy for
city-owned property.
From' Arthur Perry's' "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Spad
ing of gardens that will need
hoeing, when the fish start
biting, is underway in resi
dential areas."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22. 1929 (Friday)
The sheriff is called to ap
prehend a mad dog in the
Phoenix area.
The Rogue river steelhead
bill is killed in the legisla
ture. .
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 22, 1919 (Saturday)
Legislators fail to finish
their business in 40 days,
and ask their constituents for
a raise.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 22. 1909 (Monday)
F. H. Ray plans to develop
his lime deposit at Gold Hill.
The telephone franchise
question is to be referred to
Medford's voters.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In which City in Louisi
ana is Tulane university?
2. The milky way is a cloud
of meteors; true or false?
3. Identify the German
breed of dog that is noted for
its short legs, long body, and
ability to enter badger holes?
4.- Name the capital of
California.
5. Was it the 13th, 14th or
15th Amendement that abol
ished slavery?
6. What most powerful U.
S. House of Representatives
Committee 4an and often does
stymie bills, which may be
desired by a large number of
Representatives?
7. Who was President of
the U. S. when the Panama
Canal Zone was acquired?
, 8. Is a child most closely
related by blood to its father,
mother, or brother?
9. How many Senators
comprise the U. S. Senate,
when all Senatorial offices
are filled?
10. Are icebergs ever form
ed from salt water?
1. New Orleans. 2. False,
(cloud of stars.) 3. Dachsh
und. 4. S a c r a m enio. 5.
Thirteenth. 6. Rules Com
mittee. 7. Theodore Roose
velt. 8. Brother. 9. Ninety
eight. 10. No.
WAX FOR WINTER -
New York - (UPD- For win
ter protection, says a wax
manufacturer, apply wax to
the chrome bumpers, radiator
and hubcaps of your car.
S. C. Johnson and Son, Inc.,
points out that these parts are
particularly subject to erro
sion from salt or chemicals
used on icy roads. It also
recommended waxing your
snow shovel to keep the snow
from, sticking to it.
The Missile "Gap
"Your arms are too short, gentlemen." This
smug, forboding remark was addressed to the
United States recently by Soviet Defense Minister
Rodion Y. Malinovsky.
The Kremlin, it appears, is confident of its
lead in missile development especially in the
intercontinental ballistic missile field.
Meanwhile, we notice in Washington in
creased concern over the
are the Russians ahead,
ii i
are increasing tneir ieaa.
DUT U.S. Secretary,
liixuiiuo uo we die
boviets "missile for missile" m the ICBM field.
Instead, he told two- Senate committees late
last month, we are to maintain over-all military
superiority through what he calls, borrowing a
phase popular to corporate circles, a "diversified
arsenal missiles of various .ranges and, for the
time being, bombers.
It is a familiar, and
proach. What we lack m
tor with curves, knucklers and sliders. .
McElroy asserts, and
that right now the Russians lack an ICBM stock
pile sufficient to pulverize our bases. But he has
also conceded that at
ICBM cupboard for military purposes is absolute'
lybare.
IF IT were true as McElroy implies that we
possess a compensating: strength in shorter-
range missiles and bombers, then the logic of
diversiiication would
But intelligence estimates, as summarized in
several reports from the
that m shorter-range missiles the gap if any
thing yawns wider.
The U.S. missile arsenal shows to best ad
vantage in the plastic
youngsters m toy store windows. It shows to worst
m Pentagon inventories,
and in program timetables.
OTHER factors besides just quantity are im
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tency and precision, for
if the reports from Washington are to be believed,
we are weaker than the
The most troubling aspect of the "missile gap"
is this: it appears to be widening, and could con
tinue to widen for several years at least as the
Russians build up their stockpiles with missiles,
including ICBMs, already in production.
ben. Stuart Symington, Missouri Democrat
and former secretary of the Air Force, has been
quoted as saying a period is imminent when we
will be unable to retaliate effectively should Rus
sia launch an all-out war.
JVyfLLITARY superiority,
T 4 tor in the cold war,
the diplomatic table. If Russia is allowed to widen
the missile gap too far,
a dangerous disadvantage.
Our hopes for success
including, paradoxically, disarmament de
pend on our ability to match or surpass the So
viets' military strength.
our own missile program into higher gear, then
it is high, time we did so. E.W.
Consent Rather Than Force
Where it's voluntary
ben. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, school deseg
regation will work better. So his civil rights bill
provides federal "conciliation service" to states
and localties m disagreements or difficulties
over the federal laws or Constitution.
For precedent, the
points to the federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service. This unquestionably prevents many
strikes and lockouts, by persuading Management
and Labor to agree on
Some state labor mediation bodies have been
similarly successful.
OLUNTARY consent
T ly used by state commissions working against
discrimination in employment. Yet retiring chair
man Charles Abrams of the New York commiss
ion recently reported that complaints of job dis
crimination in -the state had risen sharply. His
agency may intervene only on complaint, not of
its own initiative.
President Eisenhower is skeptical, he said,
about the Johnson plan proving "fruitful." The
Administration's pwn civil rights bill offers fed
eral funds to help meet the costs of desegregation
school programs.
However, would Deep South states request
federal aid for school programs that they call
entirely their own affair? In 1950 Southern
Senators, filibustered to death a House-passed
bill for a federal Commission against discrimina
tion in employment (FEPC). And the Commis
sion could have tried only to persuade, not en
force. E.R.R.
Yearbook Printing
In State Requested
Salem-UPD-Rep. Ed Whelan
(D-Portland) Thursday intro
duced a bill to require print
ing, in Oregon of any state
college student body year
book or other printing.
Present law requires the
state, counties and cities . to
have printing done in Oregon
unless cost is excessive. Whe
lan said the bill was prompt
ed by Portland State college's
saving its 1959 yearbook
printed in Houston, Tex.
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"missile gap." Not only
reports indicate, but they
i
of Defense Neil McElroy
nut cu uv inatniijug lug
hence appealing, ap
a fast ball, we make up
some observers agree,
the same time the U.S.
be acceptable.
nation s capital, indicate
replicas displayed for
m production figures
example. Yet here too,
Soviets.
while not the only fac-
provides vital leverage at
we will find ourselves at
on other cold war fronts
If this requires shifting
instead of imposed, avers
Senate majority leader
disputes between them.
is also the weapon chief-
Inept Horseshoeing
Curb Offered in Bill
Salem - (UPD - There is evi
dence that some people in
Oregon are injuring horses by
inept shoeing, Sen. Walter
Leth (R-West Salem) said
Thursday.
He and Sen. Eddie Ahrens
(R-Turner) introduced a bill
requiring horseshoers to take
out licenses from the depart
ment of agriculture after tak
ing an examination on ability.
Dennis the
VVELL. THEf?'S AtKUff&YAm tO BETTER STAV OUT
Of IF I KNOW WHAT'S GOOO KMe
Matter of Fact
THE KENNEDY POLLS
Washington One thing,
and one thing only, makes
Sen. John F. Kennedy of
Massa chusetts
the front-run-
n e r of the
Democr a t i c
President i a 1
nominat ion.
Without the
e v i d e nee of
his extraordi
nary appeal to
the mass of
4os-Oh A1SOD -r"."
ers, K-enneay wouia naraiy
be in the running at all.
Some of the evidence for
this mass appeal is drawn
from a series of state and city
polls taken by the profession
al opinion-tester, Louis Harris.
These fairly staggering docu
ments - even worse in their
meaning for the Republicans
than for Kennedy s Democrat
ic rivals - have been confided
to a small circle of politicians
friendly to Kennedy. Copies
have been obtained from a
member of this circle.
In view of their origin, the
Harris polls will no doubt be
denounced as less than impar
tial. But in the first place,
Kennedy is only one of many
candidates, Republican as well
Democratic, concerning
whom Harris has made opin
ion tests; and the record shows
that the Harris tests have been
useful. Then too. the more
general results of the inquir
ing Dr. Gallup's recent na
tional Presidential poll strong
ly confirm the Harris results.
Finally, this reporter has often
rung doorbells with Harris,
and can vouch for the care
Harris takes in his polling.
I
N SUM,- if the findings of
any polls deserve attention
(which can be argued), the
findings of the Harris polls
deserve it. For the main find
ings, Kennedy was tested
against the Republican front
runner, Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon. State by state,
omitting the undecided voters
who generally form about a
quarter of those polled, the
percentages of Kennedy-fanci
ers and Nixon-fanciers were
as follows:
State
Kennedy
55
Nixon
California
45
Florida
Maryland
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
72
58
54
59
57
56
' 50.4
state
28
42
46
41
- 43
44
49.6
Wisconsin
All these
tests of
Kennedy versus Nixon were
made during the last elections,
as interesting extras, so to say,
when Harris had been com'
missioned to do other political
polling in the same states. In
some of the states, other
Democratic candidates were
also tested against Nixon,
again with fairly startling re
sults.
T?OR example, in Pennsyl-
vania and Oregon where
Kennedy had such heavy ma
jorities, Sen. Stuart Syming
ton of Missouri actually lost
to Vice President Nixon, both
times by margins of 51-44.
Again, Symington was snowed
under by 61-39 in Wisconsin,
where Kennedy won by half a
point. Yet again, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey of Minnesota car
ried Oregon against Nixon,
but by a margin of only 2
percentage points, whereas
the Kennedy margin was 18
points. And Humphrey also
lost in Wisconsin, although by
a much narrower margin than
Symington.
West Virginia was the one
state where the Kennedy,
Humphrey and Symington
performances w e ie closely
comparable., Adlai E. Steven
son was not run against Nixon
in the same state where the
strength of Humphrey and
Symington was tested. But in
Ohio, where Kennedy beat
Nixon easily, Stevenson was
also run against the Vice
President and lost the race
by a hair, 50.5 to 49.5.
Menace
Bv Joseph Alsop
Another, much more recent
Harris poll indicates that the
support for Jack Kennedy is
not just a passing mania of
the people in the walk-ups, the
split - levels, and the farm
houses. Farmhouses, to be
sure, did not enter into this
one, which was taken within
the last weeks in the cities of
Los Angeles, San Diego, Sac
ramento, San Francisco, Port
land, Seattle, Salt Lake City,
and Phoenix. This time, the
news for the Vice President
was even worse than in the
other polls, since he did
markedly less well than New
York's bustling Gov. Nelson
Rockefeeller in these cities in
his own home territory.
EMITTING the undecided
v voters, Kennedy beat
Nixon 61-39; Symington beat
Nixon 53-47, and . Humphrey
beat Nixon 54-46. Kennedy
also beat Rockefeller 57-43;
but Rockefeller defeated Sym
ington 52-48, and he barely
defeated Humphrey, 51-49. In
this poll of West Coast cities,
it may be added, all three
Democratic entrants ran es
pecially well among Catholic
voters, with Kennedy strong
ly in the lead, rather natural
ly. The Protestant voters were
more Republican-minded, but
they too like the Catholic
Kennedy, better than they
liked their fellow-Protestans,
Symington and Humphrey,
For instance, Kennedy and
Rockefeller ran 50-50 among
the Protestants, whereas
Rockefeller led Symington,
57-43, and Humphrey too, 58
42.
One would hardly dare to
present these figures if it
were not for the recollection
of such experiences as the
doorbell ringing in the district
of Queens that went for Eis
enhower in 1952, for Harri-
man quite comfortably in
1954, and for Eisenhower
again in 1956. Harris went
along on that occasion. We
found the kind of switch from
Harriman to Rockefeller that
eventually gave Rockefeller
the victory. Yet in a Kennedy
Nixon test which we did ndt
publish, we also found Ken
nedy leading Rockefeller and
swamping Nixon by about 20
percentage points. Here again,
the Protestants included many
Kennedy-fanciers.
The election is far ahead, of
course, and delegates are not
won by opinion-polling. But
there is much to jnterest any
political handicapper in the
data presented above,
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Pear Promotion
Planned by Bureau
A three -week advertising
and sales promotion cam
paign for Anjou and Bosc
pears from the Rogue river
valley and other west coast
orchards will begin March 5
in 34 cities, according to R. A.
(Dick) Patterson, general
manager of the Oregon-Washington-California'
Pear bu
reau: The promotion will include
radio spots on 75 radio sta
tions and newspaper -advertising,
as well as chain store,
supermarket and other outlet
merchandising.
The campaign, known as
"Fresh as Spring" promotion,
emphasizes that Anjou and
Bosc "are about the only
fresh, sweet fruit on the mar
ket this time of year." Bosc
should be in ample supply
well into 'March and Anjou
supplies appear ample
through most of May, Patter
son said.
ETERNAL VIGILANCE
Bethel, Conn. (UPD Police
Chief Jackman observed his
birthday by stepping into a
church to pray. He wound up
arresting a youth accused of
robbing the poor box.
Communications
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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.
Reviews Promises
To the Editor: Rep. Evelyn
Nye is one of the few Repub
licans in the Legislature who
isn't furious at Mark Hat
field for promising reductions
in taxes and spending, and
then calling for increases -in
both. She says she-doesn't be
lieve he' promised reductions.
Now, I'm sure your readers
feel that he did because, ev
en in his most equivocal state
ments he tried to create that
impression. But, just for the
record, here are some of his
promises:
1. To reduce capital gains
taxes to encourage business
expansion and investment
capital.
2. To reduce the merchan
dise inventory tax.
3. To reduce business taxes
through a small business loss
offset. :
This is from radio spots
running Oct. 26, 1958, and
forward:
Announcer: Mr. Hatfield,
what effects can reduced tax
ation have on Oregon's econ
omy? Hatfield says, in effect,
more business and more jobs.
The announcer's script was,
of course, written by Hat
field's staff.
His greatest blunder from
the plan of not being too def
inite was his statement in a
statewide ad: "I do not pro
pose additional taxes."
Hatfield slipped up on ex
penditures, too. Again, he
was straightforward once in
Klamath Falls, the Oregonian
reported, in "pledging the
presentation 'of a reduced
budget for state expenditures
to the next session of the le
gislature." .
The rest of his reduced budg
et promises were carefully
couched in general terms, but
the impression was nonethe
less there.
As for results, Hatfield has
submitted a bill for a new
gross income surtax that
would hit low income fami
lies and those with many de
pendents. He has asked for a
new cigarette tax ana a one-
cent increase in gasoline tax
es.
He has no chance of get
ting the capital gams relief
through, and he knows it, be
cause he has tied it onto the
cigarette tax, which has been
defeated at the polls four
times.
He has offered no bill at
all for small business tax re
lief on. merchandise inventor
ies and through loss offsets.
Hatfield's spending budget
is $38 million higher than the
present one because, as he
well knew before the elec
tion, it had to go up if state
services were to be maintain
ed, even at their present lev
el, in the face of rising costs.
Now, Mrs. Nye complains
that we Democrats are "snip
ing" at the governor. Well,
were calling on him to pro
duce what he promised. If
thats sniping, it's a good
thing for the public that it
has snipers to make politi
cians keep their word or suf
fer the consequences.
Ken Johnson.
Public Information Director
Democratic Party of Oregon
360 State st.
Salem, Ore. -
Thanks Readers
To the Editor: I wish to ex
press my sincerest thanks to
the Mail Tribune and the
many readers that help in
the worthy task of paying
Tom Bjornsen's taxes.
Mrs. N. Hollis
112 W. Calif. St.
Jacksonville.
On Prescott Park
To the Editor: The recent
ly appointed members of our
city parks and recreation
commission have assumed a
tremendous , and challenging
undertaking to formulate and
develop a well planned, use
ful playground "and recrea
tion system.
The current parks and rec
reation commission's action in
cooperation with the county
court is the beginning of the
realization of the dream of
.the many groups and indi
viduals who have through
the years worked on, and
urged that Prescott pari be
developed. The improvement
of the road and the eradica
tion of the poison oak is one
of the major steps now being
taken so that we may look
forward to the utilization and
future development of this
potentially beautiful park.
It is gratifying, indeed, to
hear the expressed desires of
the many citizens of this area
who wish that Prescott park
be rehabilitated and devel
oped and that it be included
in our plans concerning parks
and recreation. It will be nec
essary for all of us to work
in cooperation with our offi
cials to lend a hand and en
courage them. Let us be proud
of our parks and reflect our
appreciation by the way we
make use of them.
Welcome Wagon club,
Medford i
Air Pollution
To the Editor: Copies of this
letter has been sent to our
representatives in the state
legislature.
I am writing you to ask
your help to keep any indus
tries which would pollute the
air in any way or our streams,
from entering the valley. We
do need more industries, I
suppose, but there should be
industries that would use
electricity for power and
which would not throw sul
phides or other pollutants
into the air or into our
streams.-
It would seem that legal
means should be used rather
than a commission, for since
a commission consists of only
a few men, these can be pres
sured into action detrimental
to the population they should
serve.
The contour of our valley
is such that stagnant air
carrying large quantities of
pollutants hangs overhead
sometimes for weeks at a
time. It is just at such time
that illnesses begin to occur.
These affect all ages. This
winter school attendance was
cut almost 50 per cent some
days. With each succeeding
year, the amount of pollutants
increases, due in part to popu
lation increase, and also to in
tensified spray programs in
the orchards. These are facts
that must be faced and met
with intelligent action.
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
Expresses Appreciation
To the Editor: May I ex
press appreciation through
communications to KBES-TV
and Playhouse 90 for the
radical change, and marked
improvement of their last
night's offering -over the un
holy, vicious thing of two
weeks, ago depicting deprav
ed and unreasonable murder
of the innocent, under the
harmless sounding title of
Quiet Game of Cards"?
-The latter- offering, "The
Raider," showing the inside
workings of boards of direc
tors of big corporations was
interesting, logical, informa
tive and showed . excellent
acting throughout.
May we hope that th
storm of national protest
which followed the former
story has reached the consci
ousness of exhibitors and pro
ducers so we may be spared
repetition of such a spectacle,
If such is the case, many less
TV sets will remain dark, to
the profit of sponsors and
benefit of TV stations, for
believe the vast majority of
TV viewers are fed up with
the ever-increasing flood of
blood and murder stories be
ing inflicted on TV viewers,
If sponsors would demand
wholesome programs accom
panying the names of their
products, such products would
certainly command more re
spect from the public than to
appeal solely to that segment
of humanity who are interest
ed only in murder.
So congratulations to Play
house 90, and may the good
work continue.
- Frank Gray,
122 Valley View,
' Medford
Thanks People
To the Editor: I should like
to thank the people who call
ed in reporting tne fire in
our home on 2350 Meadows
lane, the persons who helped
get some of our things out
of the house and who have
been "so very wonderful to
us since the fire.
I should also like to com
mend the members of the
Medford fire department who
got to the fire so quickly and
worked so efficiently in
getting the fire put out so
soon against the almost im
possible odds of a terrific
wind storm. One doesn't fully
appreciate the teamwork and
skill of these men until they
are needed.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Robnett
and Family,
2350 Meadows lane,
Medford
TODAY
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 22, 1825
Weather fine. Six men
started to examine road.
I feel anxious regarding
our route; we are now but
eight encampments from
ihe main Snake river and
all accounts thai we can
never reach ii with our
horses in their present state
. . . party sent on discovery
returned this day with nost
unfavorable' accounts of ihe
road ... I must confess the
prospect is gloomy.
Journal of Peier Skene
Ogden
(By M-T Staff
We have a lot of corres
pondents who help gather the
news for their organizations
and communities, and we'll
never tell which one it was
that wrote "Many visitors
came dressed in authentic
clothes."
What called it to our atten
tion was a note from ANOTH
ER correspondent who inno
cently inquired what kind of
clothes the rest of the people
attending wore.
One member of the plan
ning commission, in argu
ing for a more orderly way
of assigning rural addresses,
pointed out that his postal
address is Central Point,
his home is in Sams Valley,
and his telephone is listed
in the Gold Hill part of ihe
book.
All this discussion about
the Centennial, history, how
things were done in the old
days, and so on, has prompted
our farm editor to do a bit of
junior-grade philosophizing on
bread.
He says that people who,
now, carry bread home neatly
wrapped in sanitarily - sealed
wax paper can be thankful.
Old timers, he says, can re
member when one bakery
would load up a horse-drawn
wagon with freshly baked
loaves of unwrapped bread,
then whip up the horses.
. Sometimes the wagon
would bounce over a bump in
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
World of the future stuff:
Experiments to determine
if man can be frozen solid for
years-long trips to other sol
ar systems are UNDER WAY
at the University of Califor
nia at Los Angeles.
' Dr. John Lyman of UCLA's
biotechnology labor atory
plans to freeze mice and rats
at first, but believes his find
ings can be used to turn hu
mans into ice-like statues for
AGELESS trips through
space.
WHY?
Well, it's like this:
The problem ISN'T to get
man into space. That, Dr. Ly
man says, will be done within
a very few years. But, he
adds, giving man a NATUR
AL environment - that is, j
building ships big enough to
provide oxygen, food ana so
cial and recreational facili
ties designed to enable him
to live as human beings have
become accustomed to live
mav be prohibitive in cost.
The best answer, he thinks
is FROZEN SLEEP.
T ET'S go on from there
J Experiments with mon-
kevs Dr. Lvman says, have
shown that their temperature
ran be lowered to 39.2 de-
erees for ud to two hours
without detectable after-ef
fects.
However, he goes on, mon-
kevs were merely in a stage
-of hibernation, what we neea
to do is to STOP THE Llt ii;
PROCESSES COMPLETELY
AND THEN RESUME THEM
AT WTLL.
"If we can do this witn
.. . Ki m :
man, ne says, ne wm onivc
at a distant star - wnicn
miiriit take him several life
times to reach - JNUT win.
DAY OLDER THAN HE
WAS WHEN HE LEFT THE
EARTH.
Another frozen sleep
would bring the space travel-
pr hnme vears or even cen
turies after his departure and
he would have aged only for
the oeriod between frozen
sleeos."
What an awakening ne
would have when he got back
to earth maybe five centuries
from now!
OR example:
Leonardo . Da Vinci,
who lived some 500 years
ago, imagined an airplane
and, since he was an engineer
as well as a great artist, he
drew sketches of it. His
sketches look surprisingly
like the rudimentary puddle-
jumper that was first flown
by the Wright brothers, ine
only trouble with his idea
was that the internal com
bustion engine hadn't yet
been invented and a man's
arms and legs didn't provide
power enough to get the
thing into the air.
Da Vinci also imaginea a
machine gun and drew
sketches of it, but the ma
chine shoos of his day weren t
advanced enough to build the
thing.
N conclusion:
Let's tell Dr. Lyman to
go on with his rat-Killing u
he so chooses and can find
the money to finance it. But,
as for the rest of us, I think
maybe we'd better devote our
energies to more immediate
problems - such as how to fi
nance all the luxuries the po
litical spenders want to pro
vide at government expense
without bankrupting ourselv
es with taxes.
and Contributors)
unpaved streets, the wagon's
rear doors would fly open,
and out onto the dust tumble
the golden - brown loaves of
bread. The driver would jump
down, pick up each loaf,
brush it off, and toss it back
in the wagon.
He also declares that the
spirit and courage of the
pioneers was admirable for
more reasons than those as
sociated with flood, starva
tion or getting lost. It took
courage to fire off ihe dog
gone rifles ihey had in those
days, the F-E declares, for
he recently watched ihe
firing of 45-70 Springfields
like those carried on ihe
Oregon Trail and used in -the
Civil war. He said, "If
ihe rifle didn't knock you
over backwards, the smell
of the black powder-worse
than rotten eggs almost
overcame ihe gunner."
Speaking (as we were) of
horse-drawn conveyances, one
long-time resident in the. area -used
to drive a milk wagon.
His horse at the time had,
previously, been a fire horse.
When jogging along his route,
he knew he was in for trouble
and would hang on for dear
life when the fire siren sound
ed, for the old fire horse in
variably would take off at
top speed for the fire - drag
ging the milk wagon behind
him.
The same old - timer con
fesses he knows how the horse
must of felt, for on his visits
to Medford, occasionally, he '
sometimes finds himself driv
ing along his old milk route 1
without thinking.
We received a letter the
other day from Jackson
ville, Ore., discussing cor- .
-respondence with Jackson
ville, Fla., and suggesting
that residents of the latter .
community be invited here
for ihe Centennial. . Our
proofreader plaintively sent
us a little note which said.
How about the residents of
the Jacksonvilles in Ala
bama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Illinois, Maine, Missouri,
New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas
and Vermont? Well?
One of our favorite people,
a woman who lives in the foot
hill country some distance
from Medford, had big plans
for herself and her family on
Saturday, Feb. 14, the state's
Centennial anniversary.
They were going to drive
to Medford, watch the parade,
and then, clad in Sunday best.
go to dinner - rather an event
for this family. t
Saturday dawned, as every
one recalls, wet and gloomy,
with heavy rain in Medford,
and in the area where this
family lives, heavy snow. The
snow continued. By noon it
was so deep the group de
cided that even if the "pi
oneers" were hardy enough to
put on a parade, they (the
family) weren't hardy enough
to get in to see it. And as the
snow deepened, they finally
and reluctantly abandoned
their plans to "go out" for
dinner.
About 5:45 p.m., when they
began to think about fixing
their own meal, the telephone
gave a jingle and the lights
and TV set flickered, and
then went out altogether.
There they were, no lights,
no TV, no radio, little water
(the pump runs by electricity
and only the gravity-flow left
in the pipes was available), no
cooking stove, no communica
tion with the outside world.
They had warmth from the
fireplace, candles, and some
water in a pail.
Their appetites grew. The
electricity remained off. Final
ly a camp skillet and wire
steak-grill were pressed! into
service, placed over the fire
place fire, and dinner pre
pared. The family clustered
around the coffee table be
fore the fireplace, ate hearti
ly, and began discussing the
situation of Oregonians of 100
years ago.
None could think immedi
ately who was president at
that time, and a book of presi
dents was dragged out. They
read about President James
Buchanan, and became fas
cinated in reading about other
chief executives. They took
turns reading aloud, and, in
short, enjoyed the evening as
much as any they'd ever spent
together.
At bedtime, they piled wool
blankets over the non-func
tioning electric blankets, and
found how much different the
heavy covers feel.
Our friend concluded her
letter thus:
"The lights came on again
about 4:20 a.m., so today
things are a lot more con
venient, if not half so much
fun, and not nearly so quiet.
In one room the radio is blar
ing and in another room the
TV is going. The telephone
still is out. Going back 100
years, if inadvertently, was a
satisfying experience."