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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Tuesday, July 7, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of The
Mail Tribuna 10, 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 7, 1949 (Thursday)
The Jackson County Vete
rans council asks at least tem
porary retention of rent con
trols in the Medford area.
Jackson county Democrats
endorse Edward C. Kelly for
the new Oregon third federal
judgeship.
20 TEARS AGO.
July 7. 1939 (Friday)
Gates and Lydiard's pooch
parade is slated for tomorrow,
with ice cream for children,'
dog food for canines and spe
cial prizes expected.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
-wild blackberries of the Ap
plegate are beginning to ma
terialize and mature. They are
fine eating after somebody
else has picked them."
30 YEARS AGO
July 7, 1929 (Sunday)
Word is received here that
Russian scientists are report
ed "close to the secret of eter
nal life."
A civic row looms over a
new city hall deal.
40 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1919 (Monday)
Shoe shines in Medford are
raised a dime, . and rumors
have it that barbers may boost
the price of a shave from 20
cents to 30, causing mutter
ings of an inflationary trend.
An auto collision at Main
and Front sts. attracts a big
crowd, further augmented
when a dogfight with some
dozen participants follows
close on its heels.
50 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1909 (Wednesday)
Medford City Recorder Ben
jamin M. Collins resigns.
The city council lets a pav
ing contract for West Main st.
from the schoolhouse to the
city limits.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten correct is superior;
savan or eight is excellent; five oi
six is good.
1. With what country do
you connect the name of Sun
Yat Sen?
2. In what' country was
John Paul Jones born?
3. With the political life of
which State do you connect
the name of Eugene Talm
adge? 4. Complete the quotation:
"blood is thicker ........."
5. George Bernard Shaw
lived to be more than 90 years
of age; true or false?
6. What stringed instru
ment is considered the most
Important instrument in an
orchestra?
7. Where is the U. S. Naval
Obvervatory located?
8. With what war, in which
America was engaged, do you
connect the names of Von
Steuben, Pulaski and Kosci
usko? 9. Is it possible to grow
coffee commercially in con
tinental United States?
10. Dose the word "feasi
ble" most nearly mean "cap
able, "justifiable, "practic
able,' or "reliaWe?
Answers: 1. China. 2. Eng
land. 3. Georgia. 4. . . than
water.' 5. True. 6. Tha violin.
7. Washington. D.C 8. Ameri
can Revolution. 9. No.
13. rxacScabU.
4
No Crown for Us
We have often wondered why Americans
whose constitution prohibits the government from
creating titles of nobility
creating and awarding them unofficially.
No summertime festival or pageant is com
plete without its "queen" and "princesses": fe
fraternal organizations
rial this, or their "royal" that.
To a non-joiner, these
but we presume that they fulfill some sort of
need which the United States, with its major
titles confined to the academic, or elective, fails
to meet.
i
A' BRITISH author,
gests that the U. S. let down this constitu
tional barrier, crown President Eisenhower King
Dwight I, and create a nobility. He says:
"Let the color, glamor and chivalry of the histori
cal past which begat the United States return to it in
rightful form."
He does this, we suspect, with tongue firmly
in cheek. But we also would guess that he does
it to emphasize the fact that the ordinary Ameri
can citizen knows little about the uses of royalty
and nobility, yet finds them inexplicably attrac-
live ana exciting, witness tne Dig ana entnuiastic
throngs which are greeting Queen Elizabeth H
on her American visit.
IITE WOULD hate to
w T taken too seriously.
By the same token,
ciation and understanding of the role of the
crown in modern, democratic monarchies, such
as Britain, The Netherlands, Belgium, and the
Scandinavian countries, would give Americans
a more realistic basis for judging its friends.
The crown has a number of roles traditional,
symbolic, as an historical pageant, and, to a lim
ited and circumscribed degree, governmental.
Queen Elizabeth is
bonds yet remaining which today cement to
gether the British Commonwealth of Nations.
No, we want no titles of royalty or nobility
in this country. But m
accepted, the crown furnishes a real and impor
tant function. E.A. f
The Uses of "Guff"
The Congressional Record is, nominally, a
verbatim account of everything that transpires
during the sessions of the two houses of congress.
Some days, when both houses are in session,
and there is protracted debate, the "Record" will
run up to about an inch thick.
And, as explained yesterday on this page by
UPI Washington Correspondent Frank Eleazer,
more than 17,000 pages of the Record have been
printed so far in 1959 some 6,000 of them in
the Appendix, which is a place where speeches,
recipes, editorials and such-like can be printed
as "extensions of remarks," although they are
never actually read on the floor of either house.
.
THE Record, because of some of these vagaries,
or 3 Vflnoiicfl if irca VAiif . norfo rflt "rrr"Yrl
to print, has often come under attack, from
economy-minded Congressmen, or from editors,
or from others who may recognize the value of
the Record as a day-by-day record of Congres
sional activities, but who object to its use as a
dumping ground for a
has little direct bearing
One of the defenders of the Record, how
ever, is the Congressman from this . district,
Charles O. Porter. ;
In reply to a critical editorial in the Eugene
Register-Guard, which termed much of the ma
terial in the Record, and particularly in the
Appendix, "guff," Porter said, in part:
"I can't agree that appendix inserts are largely ,
-'guff.' ,
"Our business here on Capitol Hill is government.
This includes the promotion ' of policies to help the
. general welfare, to preserve our freedoms, to defend
our country, and to create and maintain confidence by
the people in the men and women who make and
execute these policies both in and out of government.
"So if someone says an 'appendix insert' is merely
for the purpose of satisfying the vanity of the folks
at home and not for the historical record or for the
education of Congressmen, he is right in a sense, t
But if the words make good sense to me by pointing
up a new approach or backing me up in an opinion
or heralding a beauty of Oregon or the district, I be
. lieve Jt is good appendix material.
"My job is to be a representative in fact as well
as in name. One way I make this clear is 'through
insertions in the Record. One man's back-scratching
is another man's encouragement.
"One man's 'guff is another man's history. A sub
scriber to a magazine or newspaper doesn't read every
item. He reads what is of interest to him. No one
would ever expect anybody to read the Congressional
Record from cover to cover.
"Of course I read quite a bit of the Record . . .
"Much of what I read I find interesting, helpful,
"often important. Not 'guff at all, but the fabric of
our legislative process, reflecting both strengths and
weaknesses but always demonstrative of the un
matched worth of our democratic processes."
-
THE federal government today is so huge and
x complex, and the means of communication so
inadequate, that the Record does fill a need.
Much of it, undoubtedly, is waste. But a dem
ocratic (or republican) form of government is
essentially wasteful in that its processes are far
more complex, and far more expensive, than
those in a dictatorship, where the rights' of
minorities and individuals come second to the
demands of the state. ' .
If the Record unwieldly, verbose and over
weight as it is can in some measure assist in
tiie legislating process, and in keeping open the
lines of communication between representative
and constituent, then it is worth its cost, which
is, after all, only a tiny fraction of the other costs
of government. E.A.
go so far overboard in
are without their "impe
sound faintly ludicrous,
Geoffrey Bocca, now sug
see Bocca's suggestions
however, a wider appre
one of the few tangible
those nations where it is
welter of material which
on the legislative process.
Dennis the
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Matter of Fact
NIXON'S MASSIVE LEAD
Hartford, Conn-Last week,
the Republicans of Connecti
cut's seventh district, which
is all of north
em Connecti
cut west of
the river, had
a dinner meet
ing in the
pleasant little
town of Sims
bury.
T h r e ading
his way
joitnh aisod inrougn me
XI .1 A 1
throng of town chairmen and
committee women, First Se
lectmen and the like, was a
visitor from a much higher
political . sphere, former Re
publican National Chairman
Meade Alcorn, "Who'd you
like. Nixon or Rockefeller?"
was Alcorn's question. As Al
corn tells it, Vice President
Richard M. Nixon was the
universal choice. Among these
people who constitute the en
tire working Republican or
ganization in their part of the
state, none favored the Presi
dential candidacy of New
York's Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller.
One veteran Republican
First Selectman seemed to
speak for them all. He began
with the routine remark, that
Nixon would be a good Presi
dent and a good candidate
too. He concluded, with an
emphasis that implied severe
criticism of Dwight D. Eisen
hower: "And by God, Nixon
would really build up the Re
publican party, and how we
need it!"
OTHER less rock - ribbed
parts of this state would
show results differing" a little
from the results obtained at
the seventh district clambake.
But there is no sign of active
support for a Rockefeller can
didacy anywhere in Connecti
cut, except among the exur-
banites of Fairfield county,
which is really a dependency
of New . York city , seething
with men in gray flannel
suits.. And although the state's
Republican leaders have made
a pact among themselves to
keep their mouths shut and
their eyes open for a while,
there are plenty of signs of
active support for Nixon all
over Connecticut.
Connecticut's decision does
not make a convention decis
ion, anymore than one swal
low makes a summer. But al
though this is a small state,
it is a state where the Re
publicans now want to win
very badly. In 1958, they suc
ceeded in transforming a state
legislature majority of just
under ten to one into an ac
tual minority. This unprece
dented political feat satisfied
the recurrent Republican hun
ger for lost elections in a
rather too ample way.
FURTHERMORE, this is a
state where Rockefeller
ought to show strength, if the
New York Governor has real
strength anywhere. In the
three great Republican strug
gles since the Hoover debacle,
Connecticut went for Landon
in 1936, for Wilkie in 1940,
and for Eisenhower in 1952.
There is a hard core ex-Taft-ite
nowadays. But these peo
ple have never controlled the
state in any show-down fight.
Rockefeller sentiment could
be expected to be visible here,
too, because of the state s
proximity to New York, and
Nelson Rockefeller's many
personal links with Connecti
cut leaders in both politics
and business. .
The absence of such senti
ment is surprising to a visitor
from Washington. To the
Washingtonian, so accustomed
to the endless, airless political
debate in the capital, it even
comes as a bit of a shock to
find the massiveness of the
Vice President's lead in the
grass roots.
Back in Washington, .. half
the experts - perhaps rather
more than half the experts -wag
their heads and sagely
predict, "You wait and see;
the Republican choice will be
Rockefeller." Out here where
the hunt for delegates is al
Menace
MOSQUfTO OH 0 pmi
By Joseph AIsop
ready in progress, it is hard to
see how the Republican choice
can be anyone but Nixon, ex
cept in two special sets of cir
cumstances. IF THE public opinion polls
again begin to favor the
New York Governor, the
seemingly massive Nixon lead
may prove pretty fragile after
all. Just after the New York
election, the beginnings of an
impressive pro - Rockefeller
tide could be perceived in
Connecticut. The, tide quickly
subsided when the polls start
ed to indicate that Nixon
would run better than Rocke
feller against the Democrats
e y e n although the polls
showed both of the Republi
cans running very poorly in
deed. But let Nelson fall bad
ly behind. Let the polls sug
gest that Nixon cannot win,
whereas Rockefeller has a
chance. Then there will be a
knock-down, drag-out fight
here in Connecticut, and no
doubt in most of the other
states that now seem sewed
up for Nixon.
As for the other circum
stance that may destroy the
Nixon lead, it is a major for
eign policy disaster. After
Nikita Khrushchev's grim re
marks to Averell Harriman,
no one can rule out the possi
bility of a really major dis
aster in the foreign field m
the next 12 months. President
Eisenhower may suddenly be
caused to look like a hand-me-
down Stanley Baldwin instead
of a golfing Prince of Peace.
In that case, although Nixon
has often urged stronger for
eign defense policies on Ei
senhower, as a Vice President
will surely be tarred with the
brush of the President s fail
ure. Once again, there will be
an opening for Rockefeller.
Otherwise, it is very hard
to see how there can be any
opening for him. Otherwise,
indeed, although Gov. Rocke
feller is a bold long-shot bet
tor, it is hard to imagine him
making his bet this time.
(Copyright 1959, New York
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Box-Cars-Mora or Less
To the Editor: Last year,
the short box-car committee
didn't make any report. We
don't know how many box
cars we is short for 1958. In
1920, 1 worked for the South
ern Pacific, and sent a box
car to Dunsmuir, which should
have gone to Portland. The
Southern Pacific is short one
box-car, some fuel oil, eight
hay-balers and a crate of
chickens.
Frcn 1919 to 1940, we isn't
short any box-cars, then they
appointed a committee to find
out why we isn't short some
box-cars and we is. For 19
years, we is short. Next year
we are going to appoint a
new committee to see if we
can't get started to gettin'
short on flying box-cars for
1965. I wonder if them birds
in Washington who thinks
they is short some box-cars
knows how short we is gittin'
on passenger trains?
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Senior Activity Center
To the Editor: I have been
asked to tell the readers just
what the Senior Activity Cen
ter, 601 East Jackson st., Med
ford, is.
First, I want to say, it is
not a branch of the Fifty Plus
club. That meets at the Guild
Hall on the northeast corner
of Fifth and Oakdale, 12 'tUl
4 Fridays.
The room at 601 East Jack
son st. belongs to the city of
Medford.
They kindly let the oldsters
meet there throughout the
week. Senior men and'women
Sentiment
Through U.N. Security Council
XKxr PUTT wruicnu vi r:i j t-. - . . . .
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Dag Hammarskjold .wants
any summit meeting that may
be held to be conducted with
in the Unit
ed Nations
framework.
The secre
tary general,
whose strong
point is "quiet
d i p 1 omacy,"
has been
guarded in his
statem ents
Phil Newsom but he has
made it clear at the United
Nations and in a speech at Co
penhagen that he feels any
meeting of the Big Four chiefs
of government should be un
der U.N. auspices.
He may win his point yet.
Park Litter Problem
Machines
Washington-OIPD-With those
eagle-eyed park service offi
cials standing right there, no
body could
bring himself
to follow the
press agent's
instructions to
hurl used pa
per plates,
wooden
spoons, crum
pled cups and
chicken bones
X A. L. 1
Frank Eleazer OUl me DUS
window and onto the green
sward. So the publicity lady her
self dragged a washtub load
ed with picnic debris into the
middle of the mall, in full
Wa shington Repo rt
By WILLIAM
FRENCH CHANGE TACTICS
Washington-General Charles
De Gaulle's French govern
ment has opened in this coun-
trv a remark.
n and oddlv "un
i French" - new
campaign to
inf luen c e
American
opinion in fa-
V l p'm M vor of France's
1 Position in Al-
Irf- geria.
"whtSr -What the
French desperately seek, of
course, is what they have nev
er had: the support of the
United States for their policy
of implacably suppressing the
Algerian rebels in what, after
all, for a century has been
legally as much a part of
France as Texas is of the
United States.
They know that the long
process of condemning France
for her actions in Algeria will
begin all over again this fall
in the United Nations.
There is nothing new about
the muddle of Algeria, where
the rebels have long since cap
tured much of the free world's
easy sympathy with their cries
for "independence" and
against "colonialism." What is
entirely new is the whole
nature of the present French
propaganda drive.
.
rpHIS IS being watched here
Dy certain specialists m iu
ternational propaganda, some
of them in official position,
with some sympathy - but
even more professional inter
est and . curiosity. For the
French have suddenly begun
to sell their story without the
Gallic emotionalism most
people have always associated
with the "typical" French
character.
It is a startling change. It
is almost as tnougn certain
French spokesmen had taken
a quick course in Lor don from
the world's masters of the
technique of seemingly casual
persuasion, the British.
The most -effective French
voices over the Algerian ques
tion now are not those of
Frenchmen from France. They
are those of Frenchmen from
Algeria who are also Algerian
members of the French Cham-
enjoy games, books, classes
and coffee breaks-also maga
zine exchange.
There's a kitty-bank on the
desk if any one cares to help
out, but otherwise everything
is free.
. Monday, 1 'till 3-Ann Chair
Travel.
Tuesday: Colored chalk pic
tures, with a teacher.
Wednesday. 1 'till 3-Study-
ing wood carving.
Thursday. 10 'till lZ-Span-
ish class. 1 'till 3-Music.
Friday: Closed.
Saturday. 10 -12 - ShufHe-
board. 12 'till 1: Social Hour.
At these hours there is a
hostess on duty.
The bucket brigade waters
the flowers: That means "You
and I" if we are 50 or older.
find that it is great to be
senior at the Senior Activ
ity Center. .
; . Pearl . spaexman,
Box 33, Jacksonville.
Seen Growing for Summit Talk
Only Britain and Russia now
are disposed toward holding
a summit conference of the
1955 type at Geneva. But all
four powers were agreed last
year-until Red China vetoed
the proposition that it would
be good to hold a summit con
ference within the U.N. Se
curity Council.
Other approaches to a 1959
summit meeting becoming
more and more cluttered, the
idea for a "summit-council"
session is again being pro
posed. U.N. News Dull
From a news standpoint,
the United Nations has gone
through its dullest season
since before the Korean War.
A summit conference would
change all that and would
give full swey to Hammar-
Are Given
view of the capitol at one end
and the Washington monu
ment at the other, and dump
ed it out on the grass.
Although you wouldn't
think so to look at some of
our recreational havens on
Monday morning, there's a
law against this kind of con
duct in the national parks. So
we all stood around, kind of
uneasy, until a battery of out
door vacuum cleaners sucked
up the mess.
That's why we were there,
of course. It seems that Park
Service maintenance men are
acquiring permanent crooks
in their backs leaning over to
pick up the cigarette butts,
empty packs, beer cans, film
S. WHITE
ber of Deputies.
These authentic Algerian
Frenchmen are able to do
what the French-Frenchmen
could never do. They are able
to speak not as accused "col
onizers" and exploiters of Al
geria but as natives of that
area who can fairly claim to
love that land quite as much
as the Algerian rebels do, so
say they do.
It is rather as though the
United States government
were under attack for not al
lowing Hawaii, say, to become
wholly separate and indepen
dent, and we selected to give
our answer freely elected Con
gressmen who were not only
"Americans" but also native
Hawaiians.
These quiet visiting Alger
ian - French . members of the
French parliament include
men who during World War II
were active in the French un
derground against the Nazis.
Some have American friends
and wartime comrades who
were in our own cloak-and-
dagger outfit, the Office of
Strategic Services. Others
have international friendships
as sportsmen.
BASICALLY, the case these
visitors are trying to make
is this:
1. Algeria, far from being a
fat source of profit for France,
is utterly dependent economi
cally on France. Algeria, all
the same, is being retained by
France or the same reason we
would insist on retaining
Alaska in the Union. That is
to say, Algeria simply is a part
of France - and in military
terms a strategic part.
2. The French can under
stand the irritation of France's
allies that the bulk of the
French arrdy has long been
pinned down in Algeria. But
the French believe these
troops are serving the common
Western defensive interests.
For the loss of Algeria to the
rebels .would give to the forces
of chaos - and forces with
Communist support - a foot
hold in North Africa. North
Africa has been historically a
bridge to conquest by aggres
sors; as it was, for example, to
Hitler.
3. The French are convinc
ed they will have broken the
Algerian revolt altogether by
the end of this year. They see
no possibility, .however, of
being able safely to recall the
French r forces to European
France for years to come - un
less. The "unless" is that the
United States alters its own
policies and quits directly or
ind i r e c 1 1 y encouraging the
rebels.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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skjold's talents for quiet di
plomacy.
Everybody was agreed on a
"summit - council" last sum
mer until Soviet Premier Ni
kita Khrushchev talked - it
over with Chinese Communist
Boss Mao Tse-tung and back
ed out.
The Chinese Reds balked
because, for the summit meet
ing to be held within the Se
curity Council, it would have
meant that Nationalist China
would sit in equally with
Khrushchev himself. The Chi
nese Communists, not being
recognized by the council, of
course would have been ex
cluded. There is provision, if not
precedent, for a "summit
council" meeting. The U.N.
Charter calls for periodic
G
rows;
Testing
cartons, cardboard boxes, can
dy wrappers and other trash
thrown on the ground by peo
ple who otherwise manifest
normal intelligence.
Consider Machinery
To help prevent threatened
inundation of our national
parks in litter, they were
thinking of buying some of
the new power gismos that
look like big rotary mowers
and sound worse, but which
apparently have a large appe
tite for practically everything
left behind by the relaxing
public.
The tentative verdict was
that the vacuum cleaner will
help in some situations, such
as small, heavily congested
grassy areas where the traf
fic always is heavy. Out in
the big woods, said park serv
ice maintenance chief Edwin
O. Kenner, no substitute has
been found for the bent back
or the pointed stick of the
litter remover.
We could, of course, quit
throwing our trash on the
ground, but nobody thinks
this is likely. Many national
parks furnish entering motor
ists with litter bags for their
cars. It has been found that
some people stuff these con
scientiously with all the loose
debris in the car, then furnish
the clean-up by flinging them
out the windows.
Worse Each Year
Kenner said the litter prob
lem gets worse every year. He
wouldn't say people are slop
pier. It's just that more peo
ple every year use the nation
al parks. Just picking up the
stuff we throw down in our
parks already is costing us
pretty near $1 million a year.
Considering that the park
service has only about $80
million a year, for construc
tion, maintenance and opera
tion of its 22,384,000 acres of
parks, that's a considerable
item. And it doesn't cover
trash disposal in general. Just
the picking up of what we
drop, and getting it into the
nearest container.
In the crowded capital area,
the problem is worse.
Ada Woman Killed
In Car-Truck Crash
Florence, Ore. (UPD Mrs.
Millie Miles, 69, of Ada near
Florence, was killed and three
other women were injured
when their car and a logging
truck collided on Highway
101 about five miles south of
here Monday evening.
Reported in "satisfactory"
condition at the Florence hos
pital were Mrs. Mabel Yaters,
69, Canby; Mrs. Elnora Kaare,
62, Ft. Bragg, Calif., and Ce-
cile Hall, 62, Martinez, Calif.
The truck driver, Bob Hu-
miston, 21 Lakeside, was uninjured.
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Meeting
high-level meetings of tha
council to be attended by
members of the participating
governments. This has never
been done.
Closest Approach Suet
The closest approach to
such a meeting came in 1956,
when the major foreign min
isters sat around the council
table to discuss the Suez cri.
sis.
Hammarskjold broke up
what looked like a develop
ing parliamentary wrangle by
passing notes around the ta
ble asking the principals to
come to his office for a pri
vate talk.
Out of that man-to-man ses
sion came the six principles
on which the United Arab Re
public now operates the Suez
Canal.
The idea last year-now be
ing promoted actively again
was that a similar procedure
would be followed in a "summit-council"
meeting.
Khrushchev, President Ei
senhower, President Charles
de Gaulle and Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan would sit
as council members in public
sessions with the representa
tives of the other seven coun
cil countries: Nationalist Chi
na, Argentina, Canada, Italy,
Japan, Panama and Tunisia.
The Big Four would go into
private session in Hammar
skjold's office, or at their
own various headquarters, for
secret talks. This would be
much like the foreign minis
ters' procedure of meeting at
each other's villas and then
reporting publicly in the open
session.
Former president Harry
Truman has come out for the
"summit-council" idea. Sen.
Mike Mansfield (D - Mont.)
likes the charter idea of peri
odic high-level meetings.
The question bothering U.N.
diplomats is: would Red Chi
na again refuse to let Khrush
chev attend?
Police Check
Two Accidents
Two traffic accidents were
reported to state police early
Monday morning.
At 7:30 ajn. two vehicles,
operated by Bertie Milium
Rogers, 77, of 1424 Maple
Park dr, and John Wesly Ma
haffey, 33, of 3857 Jackson
ville highway, collided at the
intersection of Maple Park dr.
and Ross lane, police reported.
Reports show that Rogers
was westbound on Maple
dr. when his vehicle pulled
into the path of the Mahaffey
vehicle, which' was north
bound on Ross lane.
Both vehicles were exten
sively damaged, police said.
Rogers was informed by po
lice that a complaint charging
failure to yield right of way
would be signed against him.
The second accident at
8 ajn. occurred on South Pa
cific highway near Kim's. Ac
cording to police both vehicles
were southbound in the inside
lane when the automobile
operated by Naomi Keplinger,
50, of 360 Cherry st., Medford,
stopped to make a left turn
onto the Charlotte Ann rd.,
and was hit from behind by
a vehicle operated by Georgia
Catherine Russell, 52, of 2525
Sandy terrace, Medford.
Both cars received minor
damage. Police reported that
a complaint would be filed
against Georgia Russell for
violation of the basic rule.
Paris -UPD- France Monday
rejected Ghana's demand that
she abandon her plan to con
duct nuclear weapons tests in
the Sahara desert. Authorized
sources replied that Sahara is
French territory and also
questioned Ghana's right to
speak for the other African
states.
COMPULSORY
INSURANCE . . .
Does not protect you against
vehicles from other states nor
does it protect against hit and
run drivers or stolen cars.
YOUR BEST PROTECTION
is the. broader coverages of
voluntary insurance purchased
through your local independent
agent.
Bill Fish
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