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Tribune
HLOfO&D, OKfcGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1960
To the Editor;
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America speaks fts mind through fetters to the editor. Six men and women whose names
and writings are often found in the Communications department of The Medford Mail
Tribune today face their readers by way of this page. One of the most frequent con
tributors is Albert Kissinger, 520 Boardman street, who came to the Rogue river valley in
1912 seeking adventure and gold and who now shares his rich store of information about
earlier days with thousands of friends gained through the columns of The Tribune.
The name of Mrs. Pearl (John) Spackman of Jacksonville is one of the more recent ones found in the
1 Tribu ne's Communications department. Mrs. Spackman, photographed as she played with the orchestra
at the Senior Activity center, is a devoted member of the Medford Fifty Plus club and uses the paper's
columns to publicize the club's program and to reminisce of days gone by. Mrs. Spackman, a native of
New York, came to the Rogue valley from Texas.
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When Ray O. DeMarrs writes letter to The Mail Tribune, he often disagrees
with the paper's editorial policy. Mr. DeMarrs, photographed in the barber
shop which he operates, believes strongly in the rights of the individual.
-Letters to the editor are one means of helping the citizens of Medford pre
serve these rights, he believes, and Mr. DeMarrs usually writes oftener in the
periods before elections.
Politics, pioneer times, the outdoors, wild life and homely
philosophy, all this and more comes from the mind and type
writer of F. J. Clifford, one of the most prolific of The Mail
Tribune's contributors. Mr. Clifford, who is still wearing his
Centennial beard, came to Oregon at the turn of the century
called by "the sweet scent of the pines" and says he writes
both to earn money and to influence the thinking of his
fellow men. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford now live in the country
near Camp White.
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If the letter to the editor is written in verse, it might well bear the signature of
Mrs. Delbert (Catherine) Casey who finds this means of expression easier than the
more ordinary prose. Although an ordained minister of the Full Gospel church, Mrs.
Casey's poems in the Tribune are not on matters of religion but deal with cur- .
rent events, her observations and her daily life as she and her -husband, also a
minister, work for their Church in the Pines located a few miles northwest of
Medford.
Letters about "yumping yackrabbits" and "kwazy monkeys" which are smarter than
people come from 'Everett Acklin, Ashland. In addition to pioneer anecdotes and
humorous comment on the present day world, Mr. Acklin often writes about cars.
He is something of an authority in this field, since he drove the first taxi cab to be
operated in Ashland back in 1912. Mr. Acklin is reading a letter from Garry Moore,
the television star, which was written in response to one from the Ashland man
pointing out a misstatement about early-day car heaters made on Moore's TV show.