4 Unity, March 29, 1959
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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
March 29. 1949 (Tuesday)
Two state tax commission
representatives will be at the
courthouse to help loeel resi
dents fill out their tux re
turns. Jackson county's Green
Guard members are invited
to take part in the statewide
Keep Oregon Green poster
contest.
20 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1939 (Wednesday)
A Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce committee
reports on possibilities of re
lief to local taxpayers.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
first smudging of the season
occurred this morning. It left
no havoc among the pears,
blondes, lace curtains and
white dogs."
20 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1929 (Friday)
The new machinery at the
new S.O.S. plant is to be test
ed June 15.
Frost is forecast for tonight
and orchardists stand by for
the season's first smudging.
40 YEARS AGO
March 29. 1919 (Saturday)
Medford's clocks are to be
advanced at midnight for day
light saving.
Jackson county seeks aid
for building a road between
Eagle Point and Blue Ledge
mine.
50 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1909 (Monday)
Much interest is expressed
in who will be appointed to
the commission for the Cra
ter Lake road.
The formal dedication of
the new high school building
is scheduled for next week.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
ix is good.
1. Of which North Amer
ican colony was Peter Stuyve
sant the governor?
2. In music, what is meant
by pianissimo?
3. If you were interested in
"horse opera" where would
you go?
4. "My cup runneth over,"
is found in what Psalm?
5. The title of which of
Shakespeare's plays comprises
the names of the famous lov
ers? 6. In weighing merchandise,
would a silversmith use avoir
dupois, troy, or apothecary
weight?
7. Did the Communist Par
ty register with the Depart
ment of Justice within the
deadline set by the Internal
Security Act?
8. What name is given to
puppets worked by means of
strings?
9. Is the vampire bat an ac
tual, or an imagined, creature?
10. How many points are
there on a Maltese Cross?
Answers: 1. New York.
(New Netherlands). 2. Very
soft. 3. "Western" movie. 4.
Twenty-third. 5. Romeo and
Juliet. 6. Troy. 7. No. 8. Mar
ionettes. 9. Actual. 10. Eight.
About 83 per cent of a nor
mal man's span of knowledge
comes to him through his
eyes. The other four senses
share in the remaining 17
per cent.
Home Rule Bill
State Representative Eve Nye of Medford, In
her column written from Salem which appeared
in Thursday's Mail Tribune, answered a question
which we have been pondering since the legisla
tive session opened.
This was, what is happening about county
"home rule"?
She points out that a bill has been drawn
up House Bill 616 to put into effect the home
rule provisions which voters approved last Fall.
"THE bill is not as clear, nor as lucidly written
" and logically organized, as we would wish.
While we support and applaud its objectives,
we hope it can be rewritten.
Even if it is not, however, and is adopted in
substantially its present form, it will do the job
it is intended to do, which is to make it possible
for voters in any Oregon county to approve a
county charter, which, like the Constitution for
the state, would prescribe the form of county
government, its organization, powers and limits.
f TNDER the bill, a proposed county charter
would be drawn up by a committee comprised
of members appointed by each member of the
county court, and by each state senator or repre
sentative, plus such additional members as the
committee feels to be needed.
The proposed charter would then be subject
to the vote of the people of the county.
If approved, it would be the basic document
of county government, and under it the county
could enact legislation concerning county affairs,
much as cities now do in regard to city affairs.
"THIS authority for self-government is something
Oregon counties have long needed.
In recent years the need has become stronger,
for with the rapid rise in population which came
with and after World War II, the suburbs started
growing at a great rate, thus bringing problems
which were outside the domain of incorporated
cities, and which there was inadequate govern
mental machinery to handle.
If the counties can legislate for themselves,
they will have a far better chance of doing a
responsible, careful job to solve county problems
than they can do at present.
The bill in its present form would make this
possible. If it were better-drawn, however, we
feel it would be more effective. E.A.
The Managership Plan
What kind of county government is best?
Should the proposed new law discussed above, if
passed, be used to revamp the organization of
county government? If so, how?
This newspaper has long advocated a county
managership, where a county commission, or
council, is the legislative branch, and where a
county manager is the administrative or execu
tive head of the county.
Our belief that this would prove to be a good
system for the county is based, in large part, on
our observation of the city manager form of
organization in operation.
THE city manager plan is not perfect. We don't
know any form of government which IS per
fect. But it offers, to moderately sized cities, what
is probably the best and most efficient system
devised to date.
In two cities in Oregon right now, Coquille
and Albany, there is considerable agitation to
get rid of city managerships. In both, the osten
sible purpose is to "save money" by eliminating
the one salaried position.
In Albany, the additional objective of "getting
the city government closer to the people" is also
advanced.
AlE DO NOT believe that either of these aboli
" tion attempts will be successful. But if they
are, we predict the cities will be sorry.
The Coos Bay World, commenting on the
Coquille movement, declares :
". . . The manager system is probably the most
efficient manner found in which to get the job of city
government done-particularly in cities which do not
have a full-time elected chief. It has proven out too
many times to deny."
Up in Lewiston, Idaho, where a campaign is
under way to change over to a city managership,
the Morning Tribune says:
"The council-manager system can bring a tremen
dous savings to a city. It provides businesslike methods
without destroying democratic controls by the voters.
It encourages high caliber citizens to continue serving
on the council, confident that they can establish policy
and leave its administration to a specialist without .
spending endless hours in part-time administration
themselves."
And in Eugene, the Register-Guard adds:
"To residents of both Albany and Lewiston, we'd
observe that experience in Eugene and Springfield has
shown there can be no question as to whether a city
. can afford the council-manager system. The question
for both Lewiston and Albany is whether those cities
can afford to be without a business-like city hall
operation."
TTO THESE comments, we add our own that,
1 despite some doubts and differences, the city
of Medford is now being operated better more
efficiently and economically, in the face of ever
rising posts than at any time in its history.
It is for these reasons we would like to see
this time-tested and proven system adapted to
county government.
The government of Jackson county is right
now operating probably as smoothly as it ever has.
But how much more efficient and responsive
it would be if the county government-were better
adapted to today's needs. E.A.
Dennis the
Hi, Mow; jm Tf?iN'ctn"TriE
Matter of Fact
THE RISKS AT BERLIN
Washington -(UFD- The chief
unannounced result of the
Eisenhower - Macmillan talks
was a semi-
final agree
ment on a
Berlin contin
gent plan.
A Berlin
c o n t i ngent
plan is offi
cial jargon
for a condi
tional plan of
Jostph Alsop miiuary upei
ations, which would be car
ried out if and when Nikita
Khrushchev gives the signal
to his East German puppets
to renew the Berlin blockade.
Washington and London have
been deeply divided on this
problem. Hence the Anglo
American agreement is a ma
jor step forward, although
the agreement will not be
final until it has been ap
proved in Paris and in Bonn.
The plan that was agreed
upon calls for the use of
force, if the need arises, to
defend the Western right to
use any and all access routes
to Berlin, on the ground or in
the air. In the most extreme
case that can be foreseen, if
the roads to Berlin are block
ed to the West's military
transport, armed convoys will
be sent to open the roads
.
HPHE decision to defend the
Western right to use ALL
the access routes represents
a substantial concession by
the British, who have pre
ferred the less uncompromis
ing plan of answering a re
newed Berlin blockade with
another air lift. At the same
time the President's repeated
insistence that "we won't
shoot first" has been spelled
out in practical terms. It
means that the Western con
voys will go peacefully about
their business, using engineer
troops if need be to remove
physical obstacles placed in
their way. No force will be
used unless and until the
other side uses force first.
A more important British
objection to the contingent
plan was also overcome by
ending the debate about
"risking war for a rubber
stamp." It is not known
whether the agreement that
was reached here fully cov
ered this point, or whether
the British simply made a res
ervation on this point. At
any rate,, the British were
not asked to commit them
selves to "risk war for a rub
ber stamp," by which they
mean forcefully resisting the
use of an East German rub
ber-stamp instead of the Rus
sian rubber-stamp that is al
ready required on the travel
documents of Berlin-bound
Western convoys.
I
N other words, the contin
gent plan both is as firm
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
JEAN ROATH writes about a small town drug store she
visited while motoring through Wyoming. The store was
full of happy youngsters consuming banana splits and other
concoctions. In the center
of the group sat a sunburn
ed old cowhand in blue
jeans, flannel shirt, and
sombrero.
"I'm just an old feller
having myself a time," he
explained happily. "Many's
the time I used to come to
town to get drunk, but now
I get a much bigger kick out
of buying the kids all the
ice cream they can eat!"
Michael Brown, songwriter,
told Caskie Stinnett in Phila
delphia that he gets ideas for
music and lyrics at all sorts of odd moments, and jots them down
on any scrap of paper that is handy. "Just today." he boasted, "I
wrote one song on a paper towel, another on a book wrapper. Let
me play them for you. What do you want to hear first, the paper
towel or the book wrapper?" Stinnett, a loyal book man, says the
book wrapper is a surefire hit.
C 1959, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Futures Syndicate.
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By Joseph Alsop
as necessary and as moderate
as it can be, if it is to work
at all. The importance of the
plan really cannot be exag
gerated. The Western lead
ers .have agreed to go to the
summit under threat of force.
No one can negotiate under
threat unless he knows quite
clearly what he means to do
if the threat is carried out.
Nikita Khrushchev's grand
design has been to split the
West on the Berlin issue. His
best hope of success lay in
a row about the contingent
plan. That hope has dimmed.
Nonetheless, it is extreme
ly premature to say that all
Western disagreements have
been eliminated. For reasons
which are mysterious, Presi
dent .Eisenhower is wonder
fully confident that the Sov
iets will not risk a big war
for Berlin. After his Moscow
reconnaisance, Prime Minis
ter Macmillan has decided
that a big war must be ex
pected, if the Western allies
are ever driven to carry out
the contingent plan he has
agreed to. Thus there is a
real gulf between Eisenhow
er's and Macmillan's assess
ments of the risks at Berlin.
rpHIS difference in the as--
sessment of risks undoubt
edly contributes pretty im
portantly to the other differ
ence that survived the Eisen-hower-Macmillan
talks. The
American government, like
the French and West German
governments, strongly tends
to stand firm on Western
rights "without giving an
inch," as the President has
said. Prime Minister Mac
millan is by no means infirm
about the specific problem of
West Berlin. But Macmillan
wants to give a good many
inches, in the sense of grant
ing a sort of de facto recog
nition to the entire Eastern
European status quo, includ
ing the division of Germany
and the new frontiers of Po
land. In British quarters,
there is even talk of the need
to persuade Chancellor Ade
nauer to make some sort of
gesture of acceptance of the
new Polish frontier on the
Oder-Neisse line.
To sum up, Ensenhower
and Macmillan agreed on the
need to go to a summit meet
ing. They also agreed about
what must be done, if Khrush
chev makes a unilateral grab
for West Berlin before, dur
ing, or after the summit. But
they still must debate what
should be offered to Khrush
chev, in order to dissuade
him from making such a grab.
In this debate, the President's
negotiating position is going
to be sadly weak, if he per
sists in saying, "I won't mo
bilize a man," while he also
swears that he "won't give
an inch."
(c) 1959 New York Trib
une, Inc.
Stop Me
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE SOFT PURSUIT
Washington - The soft pur
suit of the 1960 Democratic
Presidential nomination is be
ginning to pro
vide the most
arresting poli
tical drama of
our times.
This is an
complicat
ed and subtle
search for the
William S. , '
White and no won
der. In the first place, there
is the matter of sheer num
bers. Not in decades has the
field of obvious and potential
aspirants been half so large.
In the second place, never
in history has that field been
so overwhelmingly dominated
by United States Senators.
The traditional powerhouses
at national conventions, the
governors, are overshadowed
this time, as one of them, Gov.
Pat Brown of California, has
himself observed.
Of the five young to com
paratively young Democrats
who are now Presidential
"possibilities" four are mem
bers of the Senate-John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts,
Hubert H. Humphrey of Min
nesota, Stuart Symington of
Missouri and Lyndon B. John
son of Texas.
AND in the third place, no
party has ever faced a
Presidential election with a
sharper awareness among its
top contenders that being
nominated, and even getting
elected, is only a part of the
job. There is, way past the
necessities of nomination and
election, an even more severe
necessity.
This is the requirement to
be able actually to govern,
once a man has reached the
top place. There is a perhaps
unexampled understanding of
this last and greatest neces
sity precisely because so
many of the field of possibles
are members of the Senate.
And as it, happens, the fifth
and non-senatorial member
of the field, Adlai E. Steven
son, is himself wholly savvy.
He made as much clear to
some of his campaign associ
ates when he was running in
1956 as the Democratic nomi
nee. The fundamental and unal
terable reality is this: any
Democrat nominated this time
must face the fact that a middle-road
Democratic regency
is deeply lodged in control
of Congress. This regency can
not conceivably be, overturn
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roseoe Drummond
reports from Washington in his absence.)
1
THE UGLY CONGRESSMAN
Washington By now mem
bers of Congress must have a
pretty good idea how dis
tressed foreign service officers
are to see so many taking
the novel, "The Ugly Ameri
can," as the typical U.S.
diplomat.
For weeks the newspapers
have been reporting the news
of how Congressmen are
packing their payrolls with
relatives, paying some chil
dren attending college high
salaries for work way beyond
their experience; how some
use government money to pay
henchmen back home to do
political chores; how another
Congressman paid himself
rent for the use of his front
porch as an alleged "office,"
and all the while trying to
cover it up with that curtain
of "classified" secrecy which
they criticize so virtuously
when the executive branch of
the government does the same
thing.
It is well to have all this in
the open. It is the only way it
will be corrected. But just as
the "Ugly American" is a por
trait of the exception among
Americans serving abroad, so
the "Ugly Congressman" -who
hires his relatives in or
der to keep his office-pay al
lowances in the family and
who is so proud of it that he
wants to keep it secret - is the
exception among honest and
honorable members of Con
gress. I AM NOT one who believes
that the instant answer to
any problem is to pass an
other law. It is not useful to
lay down a blanket rule that
a Congressman must never
employ a relative on his staff.
I have known Senators who
have drawn their wives from
their secretarial staffs and
who - have employed their
wives on their staffs to very
good purpose. All relatives are
not incompetent and all non
relatives are not necessarily
competent.
It seems to me that the cor
rective for the abuse by Con
gressmen of the right to em
ploy incompetent relatives to
do useful work and political
henchmen to do useless work
is publicityAnd that's what
many of the "ugly Congress-.
S. WHITE
ed in the Senate short of four
more years and is unlikely to
be overturned in the House
in any lesser time. This re
gency, in a word, has now
and will long maintain so
much power than it could
paralyze and break any Demo
cratic administration .before it
had been three months in
office.
BY WINNING three consecu
tive Congressional elec
tions while the party was los
ing two successive Presiden
tial elections the Democratic
Congressional wing has reach
ed a uniquely dominant place
in that party.
Thus, whatever Democrat
is nominated for President,
assuming his election, will be
under unavoidable necessity
to seek and keep some form
of peace and partnership with
that regency. His only possible
alternative would be to walk
into the White House on inau
guration day and embrace the
failure of his administration
on the doorstep.
This, then is the special na
ture of the difficulty confront
ed by the Democrats in the
1960 Presidential test. The
Republicans, though certainly
not without their own prob
lems, have none of equivalent
delicacy. Their Congressional
party simply has no power
of which any GOP Presiden
tial candidate need be afraid,
All this is why the pre-con-vention
contest on the Demo
cratic side can accurately be
called a soft pursuit. All pres
ent candidates and hidden can
didates are aware that it would
be a hollow triumph to gain
the nomination and even the
election at the cost of mortal
breaks with the Congression
al party. The Senators who
are in the race-or, like John
son, will be in it before the
thing is over-have not served
in the Senate for nothing.
AND Stevenson himself Is
already so aware, though
he never SDent a day in the
Senate, because he under
stands the true base of power
in the Democratic party. This
is, no doubt, one of the rea
sons why he has so far resist
ed all pressures to move from
about the center of the party
over to the identifiable left
True, a man may refuse to
accept these realities and may
conceivably still be both norm
nated and elected as a Demo
crat. He will not, however,
win real power in the White
House; it will be to him a
costly victory, indeed.
(Copyright. 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
men" have been getting. This
publicity will either bring
about some payroll changes,
as it has" already, or at the
very least it will let the voters
in the Congressmen's own dis
tricts know what's going on
so they can take appropriate
action at the next election.
TUT UNLIKE the House of
Representatives which
makes public the Washington
payroll of every member -whom
he hires and what he
pays them - the Senate is
fighting off the corrective
power of publicity as though
it were a plague.
This practice of covering up
the salaries of the Senators'
staffs is relatively new. It has
begun in 1948 when the Re
publicans were in control of
the Senate. The Senators
found this secrecy so much to
their liking that both parties
have.perpetuated it ever since.
Some prominent Senators,
like Senators Jacob Javits
and Kenneth Keating of New
York, Sen. Paul Douglas of
Illinois, Sen. Richard Neuber
ger of Oregon, and others,
favor dropping this secrecy.
But Senate Republican Leader
Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois
wants to keep the secrecy. He
is morally indignant at the
very thought of making Sen
ate staff salaries public.
"We have a high sense of
morale in the Senate," he
said. "We don't want girls
gathering at the water foun
tain and one saying to the
other, 'Well, kid, you get S60
a month more than I do.' "
TT DIDN'T seem to affect the
morale in the Senate before
1948. It doesn't, hurt the mo
rale in the House to reveal
how Congressmen use the
money provided to them in
Washington. Senate commit
tees disclose their staff sal
aries without any impairment
of morale. Wonder if this mo
rale argument isn't phony.
Bear in mind that the law,
a statute passed in 1842 and
never repealed, requires a
"precise" public accounting
for every penny the Senate
spends, but the Senate now
makes its accounting so im
precise that there is no telling
how a Senator disposes of his
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Many Helped
To the Editor: I am using
this means to express my sin
cere appreciation to all of
Jhose who volunteered their
services and equipment in
searching for Mr. Andrew
Kolstad of Pleasant Creek.
Although the search had a
tragic ending it is gratifying
to know that so many persons
are willing to make sacrifices
for someone in distress.
Joseph D. Walsh,
Sheriff
Dog Story
To the Editor: It surely was
no intention of mine to get
into this dog controversy. But
it was forced onto me when a
smallish mongrel dog darted
out to bark and bite at the
slow moving tires where chil
dren were playing. There was
a sudden yelping following a
slight bump. We stopped to
find the dog sitting up at the
roadside. We inquired if the
dog was bad hurt. "Don't
know." "Call and see." The
dog hobbled away. "It don't
seem much hurt so we'll wait
and see how it comes out,"
and we hurried on our de
layed way.
A half hour later the hu
mane officer came to our
humble home, wanting to
know if we had run over a
dog. Being assured of that, he
wanted to know if I would
stand good for veterinary hos
pital cost of caring for the
dog. Being assured we would
not, he gave us the alternative
of going to the police station.
This I also refused as there
appeared no reason for both
ering them about it. So we
finally went to the owner of
the dog who said if I would
pay her the $1.50 license she
was out of, everything would
be OK. With this agreed to,
the Humane officer left.
But the deal rankled, trying
to coerce me into giving a
signed blank cheque that
would not be less than $5 for
examination and x-rays, that's
right, x-rays, and might run
up to $15 or $20 or even more,
the humane officer admitted,
was too much for me to live
with it, especially when we
found out that the owner had
called the humane office to
have the dog destroyed and
had signed a paper to that ef
fect and supposed the case
closed.
So the sheriff's office was
called and they promptly sent
out their dog control officer
who said my stopping to find
the owner (or phoning police)
was all that was necessary
when a dog attacks, or paying
the license was not necessary
but was an act of good-will,
that dogs have full pedestrian
rights, not even confined to
safety cross-walks as people
are. He also promised to get
the humane officer's side of
it for me but not doing so, this
letter is written for those who
might be coerced into unnec
essary veterinary hospital
costs.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point.
About Society
To the Editor: When you
were viewing "Reach for To
morrow" over KBES - TV
Wednesday, did you know Ore
gon has these same benefits
for the crippled children and
adults?
Eugene is the home of Ore
gon's crippled children's
school. Orthopedically handi
capped children from 3 to 15
years may attend this school
if they are educable. They
are given occupational, speech
and physical therapy by the
society. The public school sys
tem furnishes four school
teachers to assist the children
with their education.
Many of these children are
later able to join their age
group in the public schools.
Thirty or more children at
tend this school each year.
They either live at home or
in foster homes and spend
their days at the school. Sev
eral youngsters from Jackson
county have benefited from
this service.
A craft shop for the handi
capped is located in Portland,
where articles made by Ore
gon's handicapped are on sale.
Camp Easter seal in Coos
county offers camping activ
ities for our youngsters from
6 years on. They swim, fish,
boat and hike under super
vision. Besides the camp di
rector, therapists, nurses, and
many volunteers help in this
program. This year there will
be six 10-day sessions. Each
session is composed of chil
dren of congenial age and
many times camperships are
provided by interested groups
or individuals. Two boys from
Jackson county have received
staff allowances.
If the Senate is going to
make its voice heard in break
ing down secrecy elsewhere
in the government, it must
show clean hands by break
ing down its own secrecy.
(Copyright, 1959. New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.) ,
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Among the niceties provid
ed by West Coast airlines
aboard its new F-27 turbojet
airplanes is a little "souvenir
packet" of information about
the airline, the planes, and so
on, including schedules and
maps.
One of the folders in the
packet is entitled "Welcome
Aboard." One paragraph we
plan to send to the "Our For
getful Authors" department
of the New Yorker magazine.
In part, it reads as follows:
"If you are subject.to mo
tion sickness (we never use
the term 'air sickness,' be
cause it can happen in a bus,
automobile or train as well as
in the air) you'll want to
Marezine, a war-time discov
ery which really works! . . .
By the way, if you do become
air sick, please don't feel em
barrassment . . ."
Our sports editor Is til
ing the sad, sad story of a
group of young people who
decided to go skiing in the
Siskiyous, but were pre
vented by lack of snow, and
who then decided to go '
kite-flying, did so, and then
found there wasn't enough
wind. m
Ogden Nash, the Justly fa
m.o u s American versifier.
once wrote a couplet which
went this way:
"The one-L lama, he's a
priest;
The two-L llama, he's a
beast."
This verse, having been
called to the attention of our
proofreader, motivated him to
add a postscript, as follows:
"The one-L lamas
Wear pajamas.
But two-L ones
It looks to me
Seem to avoid
Such dignity."
Two women were en
route to a meeting which
they felt duty-bound to at
tend, but without much en
thusiasm. One of them said,
"My, it's cold. Should I go
back and get my wrap?"
The other replied, "Never
mind. There will be plenty
of hot air before the ere.
ning is over."
SKYWATCHERS
COMPLAINT
I often stay awake at night
Looking for a satellite.
So far my search is unre
warded, Sometimes I. wish I'd neve
started.
But having started, I'm duty
bound
To keep the watch till one is
found.
Our farm editor, who
worries about such things,
wonders if it is merest coin
cidence that one of the
large supermarkets is now
featuring a big sale of as
pirin, now that income tax
es are due in only 2Vi
weeks.
A Medford businessman, in
philosophical mood, was dis
cussing household appliances.
He recalled that, during the
depression, his wife had to do
the washing for a large fam
ily on a washboard.
Now that the family is
trown. she has virtually auto
matic machines to do most of
her housewoiV -yet seems to
get just as tired as before,
maybe more so.
This has been an "open
winter. We've probably had
winters before with as little
rain, but offhand we can't
recall any. And even now
that spring is here, the lack
of rain is causing concern
to farmers. Thus it is. some
how, appropriate that one
of the local feed and seed
stores has a sign on the side
of the truck which says,
"We provide everything for
the garden except rain."
Why is it that the Pear City
has no Pear street?
It has streets named for the
apple, cherry, grape, orange,
peach, plum, prune and
quince, and even newtown,
d'anjou and bartlett. But no
pear.
these camperships the last
two
vpars Do vou know of a
child who would benefit?
The society has recently.
been presented a mobile ther-"
unit to expand ineir serv
in fhilHrpn around the
state. Remember, "90 per cent
of the money raised in uregon
stays in Oregon." You may
apply for any of these services
to the Oregon Society for
Crippled Children and Adults,
Inc., 1135 S.W. Yamhill st.,
Portland 5, Ore., or through
your family doctor.
I will be glad to furnish
further information to anyone
who contacts me.
Mrs. C. C. Peterson,
Jackson County Chair
man Oregon Society for
Crippled Children &
Adults, Inc.,
907 E. Beall Lane,
Medford.