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History from the files of Tht
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
. 10 YEARS AGO
Dec 10, 1949 (Saturday)
Pear prices are running one
dollar higher per box this
year over last on New York
markets.
Medford high records first
basketball loss of season in
dropping 33 to 29 contest to
Shasta high. .-
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10, 1939 (Sunday)
Finns kill hundreds of Rus
sian invaders by smothering
them : under man-made aval
anches. From Arthur Ferry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: ."Ice
land Clark, the . insurance
agent, conferred a calender
for next year last week. It
was the first of the season
and owing to the economic
state of the nation, it will
probably be the last." -
30 YEARS AGO .
Dec. 10, 1929 (Tuesday)
William J. Warner, is re
named Medford postmaster.
Wall street rally continues
with steel in the lead.
40 YEARS AGO ;
Dec. 10, 1919 (Thursday)
Winter rules upstate, and
.Willamette river is frozen
over for third time in history.
.U. S. government fuel ad
ministrator resigns declaring
proposed coal strike settle
ment is a surrender to labor.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10. 1909 (Friday)
City will vote on amend
ment to relieve recorder of
police court work.
Grants Pass city council de
fers action on electric road
franchise there..
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior:
seven or eight is eseellentj five at
lis is good.
1. Name the river that
forms the boundary between
Mexico and Texas.
2. What birds are used to
carry messages?
3. In what season of the
year does Indian summer oc
cur?
4. What U. S. Government
agency is charged with rail
road rate regulation? -5.
Who commanded Ameri
can Naval forces at the Battle
of Manila Bay in 1898?
6. Is a female sheep a doe,
cow. cub, ewe, or filly?
7. In what game is the term
snooker used? , -
v 8. Complete the names of
' these trees: horse c --
slippery e - -, weeping w
9. If you unknowingly ac
cept a counterfeit bill, will
. the TJ. S. Treasury redeem it
for you?
10. Who has been called the
foremost ballerina in the
world?
Answers: 1. Rio Grande. 2.
Pigeons. 3. Autumn, 4. Inter
state Commerce Commission.
5. Commodore George Dewey.
6. Ewe. 7. Pool or billiards.
8. Horse chestnut, slippery
elm,, weeping willow. 9. No.
10. Anna Pavlova.
COMIC ORIGINATOR DIES
Bellows Falls, Vt. - (UPO
Gene Carr, 78, originator of
America's first four-panel
black and .white comic-Strip,
"I --"" Bountiful," died Wed
lit
,' Labor Court Support
, ; ...
This newspaper's advocacy of federal courts
to settle labor disputes apparently is not entirely
a voice crying in the wilderness.
Sen. George Smathers of Florida has made
such a proposal, and it was the basis for a recent
Gallup poll which found a majority of Americans
in favor of it.-
The poll showed that 59 per cent of those
queried favored federal labor courts, 21 per cent
opposed, and 20 per cent had no opinion,
.v Members of unions and their families also
approved, by a slimmer margin: 54 per cent fa
voring, 30. per cent opposing, and 16 per cent
with no opinion. - . ;
The poll also indicated that many Americans
are pessimistic about settlement of the steel strike
within the 80-day "cooling off ' period, and that
as the strike has progressed, more and more peo
ple are disgusted with BOTH sides. E.A.
Religious Freedom
Up in Bend, the young editor-publisher of the
Bulletin, Bob Chandler, seems to delight in get
ting himself into hot water. -
He knows, as a newspaperman who has been
around, that few editorial subjects will raise the
hackles on the backs of more necks-than flat
statements concerning religion.. .
Yet, with this knowledge, he had the forti
tude (or the brass) to come out in an editorial
the other day and condemn, in no uncertain
terms, the current practice of saying grace before
lunch at one of the elementary schools in the city.
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AS A PREDICTABLE result, he has been taken
to task by readers' of his papery whose ob
jections he has scrupulously printed in the "let
ters to the editor" column.
. Most of them have, figuratively, nailed his
hide'td the barn door for suggesting that the con
stitutional separation of church and state extends
to the saying of grace in a public school.
The letters have come from ministers, from
lay people, from the old and young. At last count,
only twp (2) short letters have more or less sided
with the editor. . . -
,
WE HAVE no wish
- But we would like to
is a highly personal matter. In America, everyone
is free to practice his religion as he sees fit or
to practice none at all.
..There are good Amencan citizens of every
faith and of one. (Nearly half of our people
the largest single group have no church af
filiation, some by default, some by choice.) There
are Protestants in scores of denominations (in
cluding Episcopalians, who consider themselves
both Protestant and Catholic), Roman Catholics,
Greek and Orthodox Catholics, Coptic Christians,
Mohammedians, Buddists
Confucianists, Jews (at
well as agnostics and atheists.
- This diversity is a splendid thing if some
what confusing. It is a testimony to America's
freedom of choice in matters of religion. And any
coercion, be it ever so small even so small as
savin? a simple grace at a public school luncheon
tends to detract from this freedom of choice in
religion. Or so thinks Bob Chandler. E.A.
Esperanto
Esperanto, the "artificial" universal lan
guage, has hardly shaken the world.
Yet it has a way of hanging around, and
growing slowly in popularity.
It has been some 70 years since it was first
devised. It has not, of course, been adopted as
an "auxiliary" language by any nation, nor has
it swept into the public schools.
But, increasingly, and more than any of the
other so-called "interlanguages," it is widening
in popularity and influence. -
THERE is much to be said in behalf of a uni
versal tongue for this, babbling world, which
speaks in hundreds vOf differing, languages and
dialects. ' -
In a world where communication is virtually
instantaneous, where international conferences
and meetings are becoming more and more fre
quent, and where tourists are visiting every nook
and cranny of the world, the language barrier
is a real one.
No nation is going to accept the language of
any other nation as an official second tongue.
(Can't you just imagine what the Daughters of
the American Revolution would say if it were
seriously proposed that Russian, say, or even
French, were proposed as an "official" second
language for the United States?)
-
A' "NEUTRAL" and
Tvnnli f r nnmmnri
oldest and most widely accepted, would come
pretty close to filling the bill. '
-It is fairly simple to learn, has only 16 rules,
and permits a wide flexibility of .expression. It is
based largely on root-words derived from the
Indo-European tongues. It already has. its own
literature and specialized vocabularies.
If the day ever comes when it becomes the
"second language" of all peoples, either official
ly, or by common consent, the peoples of the
world will be that much closer to a common un
derstanding. And, for "common understanding," one can
read "peace." E.A.
to become embroiled in
point out that religion
(Zen and otherwise),
least three varieties), as
artificial language has
if An? lcnoraTltr. 99 tViP
Dennis the Menace
We fiortfy more flash
Matter of Fact
MINORITY REPORT
New York A great sea
change has transformed the
situation in the Democratic
party in the last four months.
The fact was
v noi iiuiy ac
; knowledged
, 1 by the partic-
gggi ipants in the
rtynnri men on1
richly enter
training Dem
ocratic raUy
that has just
taken place
Joseph aisup here; but the
fact sticks out a mile, none
the less.
The tide that has altered
everything is simply the ris
ing tide of Republican voter
support. The ground swell
began last summer. By au
tumn, after the President's
European tour and the Khru
shchev visit, the former Dem
ocratic expectation of certain
victory had been thoroughly
undermined.
The President's latest tour
may be only "a performance
and not a policy," as a guar-
anteed-impartial observer has
remarked. But this new show
can be counted on to keep
the Republican tide running.
Unless Nikita S. Khrushchev
disappoints all Republican ex
pectations, the summit meet
ing in the spring will also help
the President's ' party. : Then
there is the grisly prospect
that the first summit in April
or May will lead on to a sec
ond summit in October, on the
very eve of the election.
IT DOES not matter much
that the so-called "peace
issue" is probably as phoney
as a three-dollar bill, as most
expert international analysts
believe. From the standpoint
of domestic politics, what
matters is the simple fact that
this peace issue has magically
revived the Republican par
ty's drooping fortunes.
So much was admitted by
every practical politician who
gathered here for the monster
dinner for Mrs. Roosevelt on
Monday. Yet very few of those
present wanted to admit the
real meaning of the Republi
can revival, mainly because
they aU had their own axes to
grind and were too busy to
think about anything else.
None the less, the meaning is
obvious.-
Unless there is a new Re
publican slump, the Demo
crats are bound to decide in
the end that they can no
longer afford to pick a candi
date just to suit their own
tastes. The voters' presumed
tastes are bound to be the
main consideration. In short,
when the party convention
finally gathers at Los Angeles,
the question generally asked
will not be: "Is he a liberal?"
It will not be: "Is he a Cath
olic?" Most certainly it will
not be: "Will he make a good
President?" It will be, quite
bluntly, "Can he possibly
win?" ,
AS OF NOW (with strongest
emphasis on that "now")
this clearly benefits Sen. John
F. Kennedy more than anyone
else. To be sure, this is a
minority view as yet. In fact
it is currently fashionable to
say that Kennedy has been
"finished" by the birth control
controversy. - In reality, his
stand has been handsomely
endorsed by Mrs. Roosevelt.
It has been quite outdone by
the much stricter stand taken
by President Eisenhower. This
talk of Kennedy being "fin
ished" is nonesense, although
Kennedy's Catholicism will no
doubt be a handicap, on bal
ance, at Los Angeles.
Despite this handicap, Ken
nedy looks like being the chief
beneficiary of the change in
the Democratic situation and
for a simple reason. As "of
now, he seems to have much
stronger voter - support than
any other Democratic con
tender: A recent careful poll
taken in Ohio, for instance,
showed Kennedy beating Vice
ii
bulk? Mb w saav arb
By Joseph AIsop
President Richard " M. Nixon
in that state, though only by
a hair. And it showed Ken
nedy leading New York's
Gov. Nelson D. Rockefeller
with 58 per cent of the Ohio
ans polled.
The same Ohio poll also
showed Nixon defeating Adlai
Stevenson by a 60-40 margin,
and trouncing Sen. Stuart
Symington of Missouri by an
even larger majority. Rocke
feller also led Stevenson and
Symington, though more nar
rowly. The poll in question is
automatically suspect, be
cause it was taken to gauge
Kennedy's chances in an Ohio
Democratic primary. But this
reporter believes the Ohio re
sults have not been tinkered
with, if only because they ac
cord very closely with the
findings of the inquiring Dr.
Gallup and . other pollsters.
All who have taken soundings
have found Kennedy with sub-
stantiaUy more strength than
any other Democrat.
Fi ANY case, the validity of
individual current polling
results has no bearing on the
central point. The Ohio poll
merely symbolizes this point.
The point is. that Kennedy's
rivals will have to gain much
ground against him in the
months ahead, unless they
want the Massachusetts Sena
tor to reach Los Angeles as
an odds-on favorite. Maybe
they will gain while Kennedy
drops back. Maybe Kennedy's
strategy of proving his voter-
support in the more important
pre-convention primaries will
end in. humiliating failure.
But unless all .the many
opinion tests are even phonier
than the peace issue, the new
urgency of the Democratic
need for a vote-getting candi
date is going to help Kennedy
As of now (and again, remem
ber that "now") the pressure
of this need clearly endangers
all the complex schemes for
securing convention dead
locks, opening the way for
compromise candidates, and
the like,
(e) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Four Pictures on
New Phone Books
"Oregon Land of Contrasts"
is the theme Pacific Tele
phone has chosen for the Med
ford telephone directory cover
in 1960, according to Manager
J. H. Creager.
. The I960 telephone book
covers will feature four color
pictures of Oregon's scenic
beauty. Mt. Hood, Crater
Lake, the Oregon coast and a
wheat field were selected to
portray the state's variety.
Covers on Pacific Tele
phone directories for 1960 for
all other Oregon communi
ties will feature the same col
or pictures. More than 37,800
copies of Oregon telephone
books will be distributed for
use throughout the United
States and Canada.
"The colorful treatment of
the directory cover will act
as a continual reminder to
Oregonians of our state's
many attractions," Creager
said. "The pictures will also
tell thousands of potential
tourists of the' unlimited beau
ty of Oregon."
Medford's 1960 directory
will start arriving in April."
Vancouver Woman -Auto
Wreck Victim
Portland -UPD- Mrs. Burnie
Barbier, 47, Vancouver, Wash.,
died .Wednesday from in
juries suffered earlier in the
day in a three-car accident
on the Broadway bridge.
Also injured in the acci
dent was Peter F. O'Neill, 50,
Portland, president of O'Neill
Transfer Co., who was in an
other car. His condition, first
described as critical, later was
said to be satisfactory. Driver
of the third car, Alfred New
ell, 39, was not injured.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the, writer.
although under certain circumstances
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words' The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Anonymous Criticism
To the Editor: No'- that
you have made an issue of the
anonymous letter which ap
pears to be critical of Dr.
Mayfield's articles on Russia,
I think you' should publish it
for further comments by in
terested readers of your edi
torials. From the description of the
letter, it appears that it may
reflect the thoughts of many
persons who have followed
the good Dr.'s articles. In case
it does, should you not be
aware of the general feeling,
in this area, regarding a vital
issue of this nature?
William Doernbach
143 Mace rd.
Medford
Editor's note: If correspon
dents wish to be critical, let
them sign their names and be
responsible for the criticism.
Tumbleweeds and Christmas
- To the Editor:
Tumbleweeds and mon
keys -
The subjects of the day.
What about old Santa?
His reindeer and his sleigh?
Now Santa's in a 'copter,'
Kids crying by the score, -Children
that I've heard, of
Don't like Santa any more.
Will Santa be forgotten?
Killed by a greedy few?
Let's not forget Lord Jesus
Made Christmas for me and
you.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Let's Look Up
To the Editor: A day or so
ago Patsy (my 4-year-old girl)
and I were rolling down "66"
on the Green Springs moun
tain. In an endeavor to get
our minds off the clouds of
oil smoke that the old pickup
was producing, -we turned on
the radio. (Might say here we
weren't burning fuel toil, it
was only one of the many
ways "old faithful" was let
ting me know she'd gone over
99,000 miles.)
At any rate, we . ran into
trouble with the radio. For
some reason or other any
where we tuned the dial all
we could get was a lot of
sounds that almost made "old
faithful" go over the guard
rail. No, there didn't seem
to be anything wrong with
the radio. We could hear dif
ferent announcers voices very
plainly.
Patsy kept saying, "Daddy
turn that nasty music off."
I'd then try another station
ana mere again, possibly in
a different key, but bing,
bong, crash, "bang and what
have you. Why if I'd tried to
make my body move to the
tempo of that so-called music,
Patsy would either have had
to try and convince a police
officer her daddy wasn't
drunk, or we might have both
taken a short cut to the
morgue.
Frankly, what has gone
wrong with . us Americans
when it comes to music? As
for radio and TV listening,
we have been forced almost
to quit listening. Oh, sure,
there is some good music on
Sunday and scattered in be
tween. However to secure it,
it's like going to the garbage
pail, rooting down through
the waste to find a pie that
the wife accidently heaved
out. Your hands get stained.
I fear our youth, and older
ones, too, are finding their
minds getting rather stained.
I wonder what Heavenly be
ings think of our modem age?
Are we going to continue to
let ourselves be led on paths
that lead down? Lets look up,
what do you say?
Henry Johnson, Jr.
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Apes and Hammers
To the Editor: In regard to
the "music" controversy.
I was certain in the begin
ning that I was definitely not
in a minority and I do believe
that if the Mail Tribune -were
to conduct a poll (I would not
be willing to accept the" find
ings of a poll conducted by
the radio stations of the Rogue
valley because if they are
willing to rig the list of most
popular records, they'd also
be willing to rig the results of
"said poll and I'm certain such
has been the case), we would
find .that only a very few
people really like the type of
"music" available on Rogue
vailey stations.
I liked the idea of Louise
Rea, of calling the station
when something is played that
pleases the listener. (I don't
think they'U get many calls
from outlying areas because
of the toll charges.)
Any ape with a hammer and
an old wash tub could make
better "music" than we can
get on Rogue valley stations.
(I personally think no ape
could be dumb enough to ham
mer on the. tub like the Disc
Y
the use of a pen name or initial
Jockeys on our stations play
then, rock 'n roll.)
I do wis I could get the
Seattle, Wash., station, KING,
which was mentioned in
"Editorial Comment" column
and attributed to the Chicago
Sun-Times.
I "second the motion" of
Mr. Robert H. Cook of Ash
land. I first heard "My Bonnie
Lassie" played on a bagpipe
on a Canadian station, and it
really was good.
Floyd R. McCabe
Butte Falls, Ore.
Stamps for Children
To the Editor: It seems not
to be generally known that
by saving cancelled stamps of
certain types one can provide
milk for hungry children in
other lands.
The Oregon council of
churches imitated this project
some time ago. The stamps
collected are sold to a whole
sale dealer and the funds thus
acquired go to purchase sur
plus milk from the govern
ment stock pile. Because of
very favorable rates, 100
stamps will purchase 00 cups
of. milk for distribution
abroad.
- With the coming of the
Christmas season when we all
have an impulse toward shar
ing and when every mail box
bulges with greeting cards, it
seems an opportune time to
call attention to this worthy
project, and to -urge everyone
to participate.
Stamps desired are all U.S.
commemorative issues that
is, all stamps which com
memorate some special event
or person; all regular U.S. is
sues of denominations larger
than the usual 4-cent stamp
and the usual 7 cent air mail
stamp; aU foreign stamps of
whatever type or value. It is
preferable that the entire face
of the envelope be saved, or at
least that portion which in
cludes the stamp and the post
mark.
These should be sent to the
Oregon Council of Churches,
212 Fitzpatrick Bldg., 917 S.
W. Oak St., Portland 5, Ore.,
or they may" be given to Mrs.
Everett Faber of the Medford
Council of United Church-
women.
Grace N. Pearson,
Route 2, Box 50
Jacksonville, Ore.
c.:.M f Tumblaweed
To the Editor: I came from
the country of the Russian
u:.i lrnmim as tumble-
weeds when matured. After
the harvest in wesiern buu
Dakota, the stubbles would be
covered with a dark green ve
vnnurn ns rtoor man s
hay or Russian thisUes. The
farmer would cui, "
salt it for his livestock. If fed
alone, it was, as we used to
say, quite warn.
vsH manv a farm-
wecu "M " .,.
er from selling his last milk
cow. These thisUes must be
cut before they formed sharp
stickers because me
would then refuse them.
I have seen western farm
ers come to the auction sale
with his last few head because
i - nf Russian thistle
hay. I can stiU remember the
farmer telling me of his har
vest, selling oats at 9 cents,
barley at 13 cents and piling
his wheat on the ground at
21 cents a bushel. And then
he had to sell down to only
two cows, when ordinarily he
milked 10 or 12. He said "We
just have to eat slimmer.
TViio ic -mtViw T had to Dut a
good word in for tumble
weeds, because it used to be
my friend, except on windy
days when tney wouia ime Ui.
hum for miles, and
then would roll over the fence
lines as if playing a game.
Leo A. Rifenbark
1131 Pinecroft Ave.
Medford
Salesmen's Rolt
Tn the Editor: So, one of
our distinguished (?) politi
cians believes" that President
Eisenhower is lowering him
self into the roU of a sales
man? Now that's too bad, be
cause maybe the old boy will
amount to something yet.
Everyone has heard jokes
about the traveling salesman,
and probably no one enjoys
them more than the salesman:
However, few people seem to
realize the significance or im
portance of salesmen in to
day's world (or yesterday's,
for that matter).
The United States of Amer
ica can truthfully be called
the "head of the world." Just
as truthfully, the salesmen
can be called the "back
bone."
We are inclined to take for
granted all these' new things
in every line of our life, be it
tfrocerv. hardware. aDDliance.
drugs, soap, automobiles or
even baby powder. Now who
do you suppose gets these
things to your dealers' shelv
es? Who gets them in your
home? Who explains to doc
tors, crw drvgs? Their use?
Who sold you that new home
or auto you have? I wonder
why that grocer put in new
foods when the old ones were
selling alright?
Every day new and improv
ed . things are making their
way into our homes, until to
day we have achieved . the
highest standard of living ev
er achieved from the begin
ning of time! .
I suggest you show that
salesman a little respect. His
job isn't easy, (although to a
salesman it is the most satis
fying on earth). Be they retail
salesmen, wholesale salesmen,
direct line salesmen or even
fellows on TV, they are con
sistently making things better
for you. .
I say "Go to It, 'Ike'." You
may amount to something yet,
and maybe some day you too,
will fit into the "backbone"
and help hold the "head of the
world" high.
Arthur E. Tropple
417Lynwood Ave.
Medford
Is the Lost Found?
To the Editor: After read
ing the Dec. 7 issue of the Register-Guard,
which had an
editorial which mentioned
yours on the Whooping Crane,
I recall that about last Friday,
Dec. 4, on my farm about 10
miles due north of Eugene, I
heard a weird sound or whoop
at about 15 or 20 second inter
vals.. I looked up and saw a
real large bird flying south
slow and rather awkwardly.
It looked white and was from
700 to 1000 feet high.
I wonder now if it could
have been your lost and 34th
Whooping Crane. The poor
fellow sounded as if he was
lost.
' A. W. Tyler
Route 2, Bo 458
- Eugene, Ore.
"Nerve Wrackr
lo tne: Edito-V -ave ex
-r -av(
pressed my opinion of radio
music oh local stations sev
eral times to the stations
themselves and felt it would
do no good to express it in
a letter to the paper (being in
some agreement with Mr. Al
len about the futility'of this!).
- Howeverj since ' so ; many
others are ; expressing their
opinions 'at this time,- I felt
I could not resist adding my
hearty agreement to those
who feel completely disgust
ed with the sort of music we
hear every time we turn the
radio on. For this reason, our
radio too stands silent and
useless.
The only exception that I
have been able to find is on
KBOY FM which on Sunday
night does give us a real treat,
and from time to time during
the week they also give us a
brief respite from the steady
stream of- nerve wracking
junk. My teen age boys do
like the sort of music that is
currently played. But they
are only home a few hours of
the day to listen, while it is
poured out from sign-on till
sign-off.
And even more important,
they are not the purchasing
agents for this family. As
most business men should be
aware, women spend the big
gest share of money in Ameri
can families, and the sort of
music I hear every time the
radio is turned on by some
one else in this family so an
tagonizes me, that, if any
thing, it would make me want
to deliberately boycott the
sponsor.
I wouldn't object to a var
ied program, since I freely ad
mit that there are all sorts of
tastes and everyone is entitled
to his own tastes. But that is
exactly the reason why I feel
that I too ought to be entitled
to my tastes, and I surely feel
that they are not being con-1
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sidered at all by those who
plan the programming of ra
dio music.
I surely wish that music of
the sort one of your readers
described on KABL could be
available around here-some-thing
sweet, smooth and pret
ty, semi-classical and old
something to make you feel t
little bit better instead of like
tearing your hair out;
I think it is high time the
local radio stations took a
real poll around the valley
and made a genuine effort to
see just how all the people
feel about this, not just any
one isolated group. 1 couldn't
tell you how many people I
have discussed this with who
all feel the same way.
Marie Ottosen
Route 1, Box 251
Eagle Point, Ore.
She's Happyl
To the Editor: May I say a
word in defense of the local
radio stations? Or would I be
in too much of a minority? '
I like Medford radio sta
tions, I like Medford, Jack
sonville, the Rogue valley,
Jackson county, Josephine
county . . . the whole ' of
beautiful southern Oregon. ,
And I'm not a native Oregon-
ian. We are fairly new resi- t,
dents here. I'm wondering if
some of the people who are ,
so unhappy with the radio
stations' and their music are
newer residents than we, and
there is a possibility this won
derful valley has not had
time to work its magic with
them as it did with me. ,
We came here approximate-
ly ten months ago from a
busy, congested area, I had a i
chip on my shoulder and felt
pretty much like they taid )
Adolph Hitler did at one time
. . . I was just giving the rest
of the world 24 hours to get
out. But the beauty of the
spring time began unfolding,
there was blessed peace, and
quiet; wonderful, friendly
neighbors, and the world be
gan to look like not such a
bad place. There followed a
glorious summer with fishin
and swimmin', picnic outings
with new friends and visits
from the Southland from en
vious friends and relatives.
And when the . countryside
began taking on its autura
colors we almost went mad
with the wonder of it alL
Each and every business
and professional personality
we have had occasion to con
tact has been most kind and
considerate. They're all hon-est-to-goodness,
down-to-earth
"good joes."
And what has all this to do
with the local radio stations?
Well, they're just another
part of this enchanted valley.
And as I said before, I like
ALL of it. Who needs the Bay ,V
Area stations? What's the I
matter with KYJC for ins- f
tance? Their news coverage j'
is good, both local and nation
al, they carry the CBS broad
casts and a few from the ABC
network. I find the friendly,
homey attitude -of their" an
nouncers very enjoyable. And I j
they play a pretty good selec- ; ,
tion of recorded mosic. I can't
say I care too much for soap j
operas, but there aren't many
of them. Besides, after listen- U
ing to a few chapters' of I ,
"Young Doctor Malone" I be- J.
gan to think as Mrs. Terwilli- y
ger on the "Funny Side Up" j j
show when she said she . j
wished Young Doctor Malone I
made house calls. ' j
To sum it up fellas, we're fj
so doggone happy to be liv-
ine in such a beautiful, won- t ;
derful place, I think we'd like J
the local radio stations if they ,
spoke nothing but Yiddish all f
day. )
Note to Chamber of Com
merce: I'm available.
(Name on file) j
Jacksonville, Ore. ;
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PHONE SP 2-A030