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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
. Jan. 24. 1950 (Tuesday)
President Truman calls for
Increase in tax levies on cor
porations, gifts, and estates in
budget message, which will
- raise government revenue by
. estimated $1 billion.
Medford Center building
officially changed its name to
the Medical Center building;
t structure is being remodeled.
" 20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24. 1940 (Wednesday)
. Good progress reported
made on Rogue river diver-
- sion dam near Gold Hill;
after conmletion next month,
a power plant will be built
nearby for a cement com
pany.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
. committee is now adding up
figures to determine what the
depression has cost the coun
try. Whatever it is, it hasn't
been worth it."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24. 1930 (Friday)
State Grange backs plans
for a lieutenant-governor for
Oregon.
"Diamond swindle" opera
tors have been visiting city,
with poor results so far, ac
cording to city police.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1920 (Sunday)
Local barbers say they
have no intentions of boosting
price of shaves and haircuts
to 35 cents and 75 cents re
spectively. Mary Pickford stars in
"The Hoodlum," now at the
Page theater.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24. 1910 (Monday)
Petitions being distributed
asking for the recall of Ash
land's Mavor Snell and to
have the city record inpected;
scandal is brewing.
The Medford Commercial
club will entertain at annual
"high jinks," Tuesday in the
opera house.
What's Your I.Q.?
U:.. . correct tuDerior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
tis is good.
1. What is the beam of a
ship?
2. Can objects be seen clear
ly through a translucent body?
3. Italy is a constitutional
monarchy; true or false?
4. Are there any States of
the United States in which
snow has never fallen?
5. What product does the
hevea tree yield?
6. Does the city of Chicago
have a subway system?
7. Which of these is not a
monetary unit: rupee, rouble,
peso, rondo?
8. In what sport are clay
pigeons usedr
9. "Hand" is a unit of meas
urement of what animal?
10. Which colonial settle
ment was earlier: that a
Plymouth, Mass., or at James
town, Va.? .
Answers: 1. Width of vessel
at widest point. 2. No. 3.
False (republic). 4. No. 5.
Rubber. 6. Yes. 7. Rondo. 8.
Skeet and trapshooiing. 9. The
horse. 10. Jamestown. -
On National Values
At the risk of becoming tiresomely repeti
tious we would like, once again, to call attention
to Walter Lippmann's column today.
Mr. Lippmann is concerned, and we think
rightfully so, about the self-satisfied, complacent,
flabby, sanctimonious, conforming attitude so
prevalent today.
America today is becoming a rather terrify
ing latter-day Rome eating, drinking, sleeping
and playing while the Barbarians gather their
forces and muster their strength.
"117E DO NOT believe this nation is in imminent
T danger of destruction from without al
though with every day that passes that danger
comes closer.
But we are a bit fearful that too many people
in this country simply don't care about pur na
tional direction, our 'national purpose, our na
tional morale.
It is a matter of values.
If we, as a nation, believe that right is right,
and wrong is wrong, if we believe that we are,
in truth, our brothers' keepers, and care enough
to make our beliefs known through the political
machineiy which is ours, we'll have little to fear.
But if our beliefs and our convictions are not
strong enough to worry us, then we're headed for
trouble. E.A.
Speed and First Aid
There may be an attempt during next year's
legislative session to repeal a 1959 law which
requires ambulances to obey all traffic rules, and
does not permit them to use siren and red light
to shoo other traffic out of the way.
If such an attempt is made, it most probably
will be defeated. And if this happens, it probably
will be because the medical profession approves
the new law, and would oppose its repeal.
Physicians, of course, are in a good position
to know whether speed allowed ambulances as
emergency vehicles is more important, in the long
run, than the danger created by such speed.
rR. LOUIS FEVES, president of the Oregon
State Medical society, recently wrote a long
letter to all newspaper editors in the state, in
which he set forth the society's detailed reasons
for liking the new regulation.
The consensus of the
there is more hazard from speeding ambulances
than there is from any
patients to hospitals.
And Dr. Feves put his finger on the crux of
the matter when he said that on-the-spot first
aid-treatment is far more important in saving
life than "speeding to the hospital, endangering
the patient and others in the process."
This, coupled with advance warning to hos
pitals of emergency cases on route, and exchang
able stretchers so patients won't have to be un
necessarily jostied, constitutes the doctors' rec
ommendations. E.A.
Finish the Armory
The man who brought the Harlem Globetrot
ters to town last week told us (with anguish in
his voice) that he had to turn some 2,000 people
away because there wasn't room for them in the
Hednck Junior High school gymnasium.
He said the total paid attendance was 1827,
and that every available seat was filled.
And he added that this proves that Medford
will turn out to see a top-flight attraction.
TTHIS brings to mind a few questions: What
about the Medford armory? Wasn't it design
ed to be a multi-purpose building? Didn't both
county and city pour tax funds totaling $100,000
into its construction with the definite understand
ing that it would be available for such purposes?
It appears that it COULD be so used except
for the fact that it has only some 500 folding
chairs available, far from enough for the kind
of crowd which turned out to see the Globetrot
ters, more than half of whom were disappointed.
Putting that much tax money into an armory,
and then not finishing it to a point where it can
accommodate the people who paid for it, seems
short sighted.
FOLDING bleachers, of the type in use at Hed-
rick, would make the armory usable for a
variety of events.
Improving the acoustics (long discussed, but
not much done) would make it suitable to many
kinds of events not only sports, but also those
of a cultural nature, for which the public appetite
is growing, and for large conventions. The latter
purpose was one of those cited in "selling" con
struction of the armory. ' .
The armory is easily reached from any direc
tion, and has large parking areas available
more than any other facility which can seat large
crowds.
THE fact that the armory was designed for such
events is shown in the fact that the floor is
marked out in a basketball court. The fact that
it hasn't been completed is shown by the fact
that there are no backstops and baskets. Even
the National Guard team has to play elsewhere.
Medford is now a large enough town, and the
center of a large enough population, to house
attractions which have a large audience poten
tial. (People drove from as far away as Yreka
and Roseburg to see the Globetrotters.)
We understand it is the state's responsibility
to finish the job. It should be done and soon.
E.A.
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Matter of Fact
KENNEDY'S BIG GAMBLE
: Washington - Sen. John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts has
now staked his Presidential
candidacy on
the chancy
Wisconsin pri
mary, where
his chief op
ponent will be
Sen. Hubert
H. Humphrey
of Minnesota.
This gamble
of Kennedy's
Joseph alsop is much more
remarkable than most people
suppose. Its background story
casts much light on the char
acter of the man who made
it. The cold, even grim calcu
lations that led to the gamble
also explain the seemingly
disproportionate importance
of the oncoming struggle in
Minnesota.
For Senator Kennedy, in
the first place, it must be un
derstood that the Wisconsin
primary involves very grave
and painful risks. In order to
judge the risks accurately, he
has ordered repeated polls of
the state by the well-known
opinion tester, Louis Harris.
The most recent Harris poll,
completed about a fortnight
ago, was taken "in depth"
with an extra large sample.
Its results show what the
risks are. ;
On the one hand, in a state
wide test of the preferences
of Wisconsin Democratic vot
ers, Kennedy beat Humphrey
by 53.5 per cent to 46.5 per
cent.-Thus Kennedy apparent
ly has a slight edge over
Humphrey in the contest for
Wisconsin's 10 delegates-at-large,
who are chosen by a
statewide popular majority.
ON the other hand, Humph
rey has a slight edge on
Kennedy in the contest for
Wisconsin's 20 remaining
delegates, who are elected,
two to a district, by the state's
10 Congressional districts.
Kennedy has a commanding
lead in only three districts.
Humphrey also has a com
manding lead in three dis
tricts, plus a narrow lead in a
fourth district. The remain
ing three districts could swing
either way. It can . be seen,
then, why Kennedy himself
has frankly described Wis
consin as "no better than a
50-50 bet."
Meanwhile, Kennedy has
a good chance for the Demo
cratic nomination in any case,
while Humphrey has the slim
mest imaginable chance. Sev
eral of the men around Ken
nedy therefore opposed a
contest ; with . Humphrey, in
a state with peculiarities that
favor Humphrey, and at no
better than even odds.
One of these was the Sen
ator's brother, Robert. An
other was the head of his
personal staff, Theodore Sor
enson, who was only convert
ed to the Wisconsin gamble
last week end, after long and
prayerful study of the polls
and other evidence.
- -
TIE other evidence in ques
tion chiefly concerned Ken
nedy's prospects in such
states as Illinois and New
York. In Illinois, in brief,
Kennedy has high hopes of
support from Chicago's Mayor
Richard Daley, whose choice
will guide three-quarters of
the 81 Illinois delegates. But
Daley is .still waiting for the
results in Wisconsin and the
final words from Adlai Stev
enson, who is also, quite
clearly, waiting for the re
sults in. Wisconsin.
In New York, foo, Kennedy
already has the support of
certain great local barons like
the Buffalo leader, Peter
Crotty, the Bronx chieftain,
Charles Buckley, and the
O'Connells in Albany. But
victory in Wisconsin can be
expected to give Kennedy
something even better the
lion's share of New York's
114 delegates. These facts
were what chiefly impressed
the two most active pro-Kennedy
professional politicians,
Connecticut's Gov. Abraham
Menace
ttes. Alusoh's voctoz TOLO
FEELS LIKE IT
By Joseph Alsop
Ribicoff and State Chairman
John Bailey.
"It's your decision, Jack,
and you've got to make it
alone,"- Governor Ribicoff
told Kennedy, . after giving
the arguments for the Wiscon
sin gamble.
pHARAC TERISTICALLY,
this is precisely what Ken
nedy finally did, after the
coolest assessment of the
odds: On the one hand, he
noted, a win in Wisconsin
would virtually insure the
break-throughs in Illinois,
New York, and other states,
which would in turn insure
his nomination. On the other
hand, he considered that he
had decidedly less than an
even chance to be nominated
without a win in Wisconsin.
With the odds in Wisconsin
quoted at 50-50, that made
the primary there the best
gamble open to him. So he
gave his decision last Monday:
"I guess we'll give it a try,
and it will be a damned hard
try."
It is not quite an all or
nothing try that Kennedy is
making. With a pointed re
minder to Sen. Stuart Sy
mington of Missouri that Ne
braska is just across his bor
der, Kennedy is also, enter
ing the Nebraska primary.
The filing date for the Cali
fornia primary is on March 7;
and by then the trend in Wis
consin will show whether
Kennedy ought to attempt
another, last chance, double-or-quits
gamble on the West
Coast. But Kennedy can suf
fer a sharp setback in Wis
consin, all the same; and there
is something rather formid
able in the way he has decid
ed to risk so much, in order
to gain so much. .
(Copyright 1960 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
In ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Today's headline news, at
the hour when this is written:
Another airliner crashes
Russia fires a missile into the
Pacific, which is probably de
signed to say to us: "We could
have fired it at YOU just as
easily" . Senator Kennedy
says he'll buck the Humphrey
tiger in the Wisconsin pri
mary election other assort
ed politics the daily pepper
and salt dash of scandal, from
Las Vegas, Hollywood and
way points.
HMMMMMM.
Let's fall back on the
commonplace.
And-
What could be more com
monplace than taxes?
QUESTION:
Where will Uncle Sam get
the budeet dollar with which
to pay the bills called for by
the next budget? He has four
sources to draw on.
Individual income taxes
will provide 52 cents of it.
Corooration taxes will pro
vide 28 cents. Excise taxes (an
other name for sales tax) will
produce 11 cents. Nine cents
will come from "other reve
nues." NOTE, please that 52 cents
of every dollar the federal
government spends will come
out of your pocket and the
pockets of 180 million otner
individuals in this country.
THE thought will occur to
you, of course, that a LOT
of it will come from the pock
ets of the filthy rich - those
whose incomes are so swollen
that Uncle S takes 91 cents
out of each net dollar they
get.,
That's true enough, but
there are comparatively FEW
of these filthy rich. If our old
uncle took EVERY DOLLAR
these superlatively well heel
ed ones get, it would amount
to only a mere drop in the
bucket. The bulk of the mon
ey our admittedly extravagant
federal government gets out
of individual income taxes
(which account for 52 per cent
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
A SATISFIED NATION
With the Economic Report,
which has just been trans
mitted to Congress, the Presi
dent has com
pleted what
was begun in
the address on
the State of
the Union and
the message
accompanying
the Budget.
He has de
scribed our
situation as he
sees it. He has outlined his
program. And he has sketched
in his general ideas. All js
well in that the government
will ask nothing more of the
people, and there is a prospect
that it will ask less. ,
-For it is -the. President's
view that the country is se
cure. It is prosperous. And in
sofar as it is challenged by
the rise of the Soviet Union,
the country can rest assured
and tranquil that because of
our devotion to individual lib
erty we are destined to win
the competition.
IS ALL this self-satisfaction
justified? Are we entitled
to do what these three mes
sages unite in telling us to do?
Are we entitled to concen
trate our energies on our pri
vate affairs, confident that
our national interests are se
cure and well taken care of?
For myself I do not think
so. I think the President's
satisfaction with our situation
is based on a short and a
small view of the historic
competition in which we are
challenged.
His view of the Soviet chal
lenge is short and small be
cause he does not distinguish
between private prosperity,
measured in the total produc
tion of goods and services for
private use, and national pow
er, which is measured not on
ly in terms of armaments but
also in terms of wealth di
rected to education, to public
health,, to the conservation
and development of the natu
ral and the man-made resourc
es of this country.
What is happening is that
under the leadership of the
President we are promoting
private prosperity at the ex
pense of national power. As
a result the influence of the
United States as a world pow
er is declining. That is why a
growing number among us do
not share the President s satis
faction and" are worried about
the future.
GIVEN our situation in the
world today, these three
messages betray a dangerous
complacency.
"This complacency derives
from the deep fallacy of be
lieving that in an era of cold
war it should be the policy of
the national government "to
reduce the share of the na
tional income which is spent
by the government." This fal
lacy can best be understood
in the light of some testimony
given a year ago by the chair
man of the President's Coun
cil of Economic Advisors. "As
I understand an economy," he
said, "its ultimate purpose is
to produce more consumer
goods. This is the object of
everything we are working at:
to produce things for consum
ers."
Then the chairman went on
to say that "if you take total
gross national production, you
find that growth in recent
years has lagged. But if you
look at consumption - the
thing which, as I say, I re
gard myself as being commis
sioned to maximize you find
that we are doing better."
.
THERE precisely is the root
of our trouble. Our goal is
to maximize consumption.
That is a very low national
goal, and altogether unworthy
of a great nation which has
a great part to play in human
affairs. The object of our
economy is not to become fat
of the federal government's
income) comes out of the
pockets of what we commonly
refer to as the COMMON peo
ple. PRESIDENT Lincoln, who
was one of our great
phrase-makers, is alleged to
have dreamed one night that
he was in a crowd when some
one recognized him as the
President and exclaimed in
surprise: "Why, he looks like
a very common man!"
Whereupon, according to
the dream, Mr. Lincoln an
swered: "Friend, the Lord
loves common people. That is
the reason he makes so many
of them."
OUR OLD Uncle loves com
mon people, too.
He loves them because
there are so MANY OF THEM
TO TAX.
IN CONCLUSION, one more
question:
Why are taxes so high?
The answer is simple: BE
CAUSE GOVERNMENT
SPENDS SO MUCH.
As long as government
spends too much, taxes will
be too high.
Walter
LlDDmann
Lippmann
with consumer goods. It is to
use the wealth and the power
which the economy can pro
duce to support the national
purposes which we so fre
quently proclaim.
There is nothing very con
vincing or inspiring in loving
our "liberty" to enjoy con
sumer goods so much that we
cannot afford to educate our
children. If we really believe
in the ideals and the spiritual
aims about which so much is.
said, we have something else
to do besides maximizing the
enjoyment of consumer goods.
r E MOST vocal criticism of
the current official satis
faction has come from those
who believe that we are fall
ing behind in the race of arma
ments. To this criticism the
new Secretary of Defense, Mr.
Gates, and the Chiefs of Staff
are now replying. They are
replying to the critics who
have over-simplified and over
dramatized the situation and
are arguing that within a few
years the Soviet Union will
be able to devastate and knock
out this country.
There is no reason to doubt
that the Administration is
right when it replies that the
Soviet Union does not have
and is not likely to achieve
such military supremacy over
us that an all-out attack would
be undertaken. But Mr. Gates
is dealing with a straw man.
The soberer criticism is much
more formidable. It prophe
sies no catastrophe. But it says
that the rate of the rise of
Soviet military capacity in
conventional as well as nu
clear capability appears to be
greater than our own, and
that the Soviet Union appears
to be administering more ef
ficiently than we do the re
sources of the new and revo
lutionary military technology
That does not portend
doomsday in 1963. But it does
portend a rise in the world
power of the Soviet Union
and a corresponding decline
of our own.
No doubt that will not wor
ry us too much if we can keep
our mmas nxea on consumer
goods.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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In Other's Shoes
To the Editor: That loco
motive doesn't bother me a
bit. Why should it? I don'
happen to live on McAndrews
rd.
It affects me only in this
resDect. that I disagree en
tirely with any action taken
by city representatives that
completely disregards the
rights of others. In my opin
ion, this is what happened
when they placed it in its
present location without first
asking the affected property
owners how they felt about
it.
Mrs. Pidcock put it in
nutshell when she said, if it
were in front of any one of
the commission members
homes it would be a different
story. But, of course, we all
know this wouldn't happen
in the first place.
I only hope I don't live m
a city where men have for
gotten how to put themselves
in the other person s shoes.
Mrs. Leonard Matheus.
1124 West 10th st.
Medford.
Mist the Issue
To the Editor: The letters
concerning the proposed 23rd
Amendment, both pro and
con, ignore tne main oasis
for the argument. The writers
fail to note the issue - one
world in peace under one
leader, vs. individual freedom
and unconcern for the State.
In 1797 George Washing
ton advised America to let
Europe have its fights and
stay out of them. This advice
was followed until 1917. It
was good advice. When Amer
ica ignored it, the Old Order
went by the boards. The
groundwork for this was laid
in Paris in 1889 when the
Second International started
what is wurld Socialism to
day. This is not Communism,
but the aims are the same
heaven on earth through
State Planning.
The 16th Amendment has
financed this in America. It
was really the end of Ameri
ca as it was conceived.
The men who argue for One
World today call this evolu
tion. They claim society has
changed, and with it went the
old ideals and codes. Now
we must plan a new perfect
social order and control our
evolution to create a super
breed of man to build the new
society which will end war
and usher in the millenium.
You can read it in reports of
so-called scientific meetings
in the paper almost daily.
I am not for the 23rd
GOTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
This page has received (be
lieve it or not) a request that
nicture of the guy who
wrues editorials be printed.
We can't comply at the
moment, but we CAN print
picture which he swears
isn't a good likeness, either
as to appearance or as to
sentiment. Here it is:
A cast of "gross discrim
ination" (and segregation,
too, for that matter) was
reported indignantly to the
newsroom last week. The
informant told us that at
a Southern Oregon college
building there are two
rooms, one labled "Gentle
men," the other labled "Wo
men." The r p o r t was
made (of course) by a-er-lady.
One of our reporters was
a dinner guest at the home
of a Drominent Medford tarn-
ilv the other evening when
politics, as it has a way oi
doing, crept into the conver
sation.
"We're very democratic,
said the couple's daughter
Droudlv. "Father. Mother, my
brother, and I are ;ul tor dU-
ferent candidates."
"Fine!" said your man en
thusiastically. "Which one's
for Nixon?"
There was a dead silence
for a few moments. Then the
host replied, "You have the
floor, young man.'
Our reDorter. thinking rap
idly, declined and turned his
attention furiously to a plate
full of fried chicken.
Which goes Ip show, we
suppose, that it's too bad
the name and address of the writer,
Amendment. It is too late for
that. This country needs
revolution. I expect to see it
come from God Himself. He
will throw the whole lot out
on their ears, and run it His
way, if the Bible is true. This
is my only hope.
Parker Bailey
542' A st.
Ashland, Ore.
Air Wells
To the Editor: As reports
of a coming water shortage
are heard quite frequently
f rom various sections locally.
maybe a serious answer to
the problem would be the
installation of "air wells,!
Dunt nice tne "dome" ones
are in the great Sahara des
ert of Egypt.
A series of open end build
ings containing air pipes could
be installed on the upper end
of Bear creek east of Ash
land to the city limits of
Medford. That would be tak
ing the water right out the
thin air, would it not, pro
viding air wells really work
in foreign lands, as we are
led to believe.
Bert Kissinger, :
520 Boardman st.
Medford
On Pension Threat
To the editor: Why is it
when Congress wants to econ
omize, it is at tno expense of
the old veterans?
Congress never mentions
the billions of dollars they
throw away on foreign aid,
to build dams in dry rivers,
to build saw mills in coun
tries without timber or pay
Chinese soldiers a pension.
They buy farmers' wheat,
corn and butter, then let it
spoil. They pay them to let
their farms grow up to weeds.
Congress gives ex-congressmen
and ex-judges big pen
sions, not to mention the $25,
000 pensions to ex-presidents,
also $50,000 to hire their
friends and relatives.
But they cut the pension of
the old war veteran that
saved this country from the
ravages of the enemy. :
Veterans, look out for a
bill that will cut your present
pension next year. Don't wait
and cry in your whiskers-do
something now. If you don't
know what to do, find out. '
Charles A. Kretschmer,
734 S.W. Burgess st,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Rynning's Ability
To the Editor: I noted in
the Mail Tribune that Mr.
that the distinction between
a capital "D" and a small
"d" can't be discerned when
people are speaking.
Our favorite school publi
cation (and one of our favor
ites of ANY sort) is the Hoo
ver HiLite.
A copy arrived on the desk
the other day, and we im
mediately shoved aside a
mess of work to peruse its
sprightly columns.
Our reading was rewarded,
as always, with a number of
choice items, two of which
we shall pass along.
One of them was written
by Mark Teeters and Martin
Brown, both of them mem
bers of 4M, and both of them
now studying science.
It follows:
"A hundred years, from
now, man may find about
ten new nlanett and mavbe
fly to Pluto and far beyond
the Solar System. Maybe all
the stars have planets. At
least it will be fun finding
out."
The other item we present
is one of a number of "Win
tertime health hints," all
written by students in the
third grade (3B to be pre
cise). After a number of . items
telling about dressing proper
ly, going to bed if you have
a cold, washing hands before
eating, eating properly, get
ting enough rest, and so on,
we came across the advice
offered by Alan Collins. He
said:
-
"I will blow my nose
gently so no germs can get
in my ears."
.
As pointed out In this col
umn last week, 1960 is a po
litical year, and all sorts of
sijly things are apt to hap
pen. Now it so happens that our
farm editor covered a Repub
lican get-together the other
night (and never you mind
what HIS politics are).
After doing this, he wrote
us a note, which said:
"I don't know if there's
much the Democrats could
teach the" Republicans. - But
SOUTHERN Democrats could
teach Jackson county Repub
licans a thing or two about
how to eat fried chicken.
"At the country club the
other night, everybody was
picking away at their chick
en with knife and fork, until
one brave party member
picked up a piece with his
fingers.
- "However, the elite of the
party continued to show dig
nity and decorum in pursu
ing the friend viand around
their plates. .
"Eating fried chicken with
knife and fork is like eating
watermelon with chopsticks.,:
We've never run for pub
lic office, and don't plan
to. But we. wonder what
goes through the minds of
o f f i e e-ieekers sometimes.
Like when Paul Running
walked up to Ralph James
the other day, and said
"Ralph, I've filed on the
Republican ticket for your
job."
Speaking of politics, they
sometimes get sort of rough
at the county courthouse
level.
Which, one of our men ob
serves, may account for the
fact that the county court
offices have been rearranged,
with a large window looking
out on the courthouse steps.
'An escape hatch?" he won
dered.
Paul Rynning, our ex-county
engineer, has filed as candi
date for county commissioner
on the Republican ticket.
Now, I have nothing against
Mr. Rynning personally, but,
hasn't he held public office
long enough? Besides, I think
we should have a younger
man in office. In fact I favor
legislation which would pro
hibit any person holding pub
lic office after their 65th
birthday.
As far as the qualifications
of Mr. Rynning are concern
ed, my opinion is: He is a little
bit old-fashioned in regard to
what constitutes a suitable
road.
If I thought for a minute
I had the chance of a ,snow
baU in the red hot stove (I
had another expression in
mind but figured the editor
wouldn't print it) I'd run
against him. At least, I
couldn't do any worse than
some former members of the
county court, 'tis certain.
Floyd R. McCabe,
Mt. Pitt Star rt,
Butte Falls, Ore.