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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
Feb. 2, 1950 (Thursday)
Medford's groundhog was a
shivering and confused little
rodent this morning with two
inches of snow on the ground
and a 7 degree above zero
temperature whistling about
his ears.
Portland had 3 degree be
low zero record low this
morning with 300 miles of
roads in or about Portland
blocked by snow.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2, 1940 (Friday)
The state Democratic chair
man returned a $100 check
to the Ashland Chamber of
Commerce today and com
mented he was "embarrassed"
and "regretful."
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A New
Deal idealist urges the peo
ple 'to face mounting costs
of government wtih a song.'
It will be no time at all until
valiant Young Democrats will
be running around cutting the
taxes in two with a tenor
solo."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2, 1930 (Sunday)
Charles Evans Hughes will
succeed William Taft, who re
cently resigned as chief jus
tice of the U.S. supreme court.
There were 19 days in Jan
uary in which snow or rain
fell in Medford. The snow
was 10.3 inches deep on Jan.
13.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2, 1920 (Tuesday)
The Democratic postmaster
at Portland rejects President
Wilson's order to resign.
Applications for 1920 auto
licenses are coming into the
county clerk's office at a rate
of 50 per day.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2. 1910 (Wednesday)
Mayor Snell of Ashland
will go to court to prevent a
special recall election against
himself.
Ashland Commercial club
membership reaches 400.
Mention at a club banquet
last nipht of proposed state
of Siskiyou brings applause.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
teven or eight is excellent; five or
lix is good.
1. Which Biblical character
symbolizes old age?
2. Does a starfish have 2ive
or six points?
3. Will sound travel faster
in air, water, or iron?
4. Which country is our
closest Latin American neigh
bor? 5. What sort of work is per
formed by a cooper?
6. Butte is the capital of
Montana; true or false?
T. In which country is the
port of Haifa?
8. In what political party
in the United States was Nor
man Thomas a well-known
leader?
9. Does a fathom measure
6, 16, or 60 feet?
10. In what part of the
world is Laos?
Answers: 1. Methuselah.
2. Five. 3. Iron. 4. Mexico.
5. Makes barrels, casks,
tubs. etc. 6. False (Helena).
7. Israel. 8. Socialist Party.
9. Six. 10. Southeast Asia.
The possibility of eliminating; slash-burning in
our forests in the fall and spring: vas mentioned
here the other day in connection with the progress
being made m controlling air pollwtiOH.
This mention brought from a losal forester a
long letter m winch he questioned strongly wtietA
er slask, burning j& advisable or necesefiry.
It is, in effact, required now bo& by state
and federal regulalaona. The only exception is
when a logger under state jurisdicitkm takes up
on himseli the risk and expense and responsibility
for maintaining a closa watch over tfhburnecl
slash until it has decompoaad to a point here
it is safe, and he is released by fcho etata. This
can be for a period ol yeara.
OUR forester friend maintains that good forest
managemento would eliminate filaah-burning
on the basis that it is a hazard to reproduction:
that it robs the soil of natural humus; feat it cre
ates air pollution; that it increases the danger of
erosion and soil deterioration, and that it destroys
wildlife, recreational ana gasthetic values.
He make a ood caaa particularly i? his
statement that afcudie regrding slaSh-feuwrlng
and its necessity tsave mm . inconclusive is
bome out.
If it is true that feere are acceptable alterna
tives, and that slash-burning is as detrimental as
our friend declares, then pressures should be
brought for a change in the state0 law ang the
federal regulations. E.A.
Congre&hu peelam
No one has, as yet, indicated any intention
of seeking the Republican nomination for Con
gress from this district, but there has been con
siderable speculation that State Sen. Edwin R.
Duino, M.D.,of Medford, may do so.
When Peter Gunnar, state GOP chairman,
was through here recently, lie wa making dis
creet inquiries about Dr. uurno. 0
And in its issue of last week the Oregon Voter, ;
the conservative little magazine of commentary
on political and economic aTiairs, devoted a mil
half-page to discussing Durno and) his chances,
under the headline "Dumo Poised For Try at
Porter's Seat."
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"IITE TRIED to call Dr. Dumo to ask him, point
blank, if he is considering this racg, but
found he had left for a vacation in Mexico, and
wfsn't be back until Jate this sionth still well
ahead of the deadline for filing a candidacy.
Republicans are looking seriously for a man
whom they feel would have a chance against the
fourth district s brilliant bubcontroversial mcum
bent, Charles O. Porter.
Many of them feel that Dr. Durno would be
the man. -
The Voter is most laudatory concerning him,
and declares:
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". . . Senator Durno could easily have a clear field
and party leaders' support in the Primary, with some
Democratic followers in November."
XJLTE RATHER hope Dr. Durno does decide to
" " make the race, for we think quite highly of
him and his abilities and attitudes. It would assure
both a good race, and the election of a good man
to the important Congressional seat.
We consider Porter to have been a good con
gressman a view which, we know, is not uni
versally held.
But in devoting a portion of his time to for
eign affaire, he is only carrying out a campaign
pledge made two years ago. In doing what he
can to advance the cause of peace, he is follow
ing his own deepest convictions. And, his de
tractors to the contrary, he has worked long and
hard on matters pertaining to his own district.
DORTER is independent too much so for some
tastes and is quick and bright both in and
out of 'congressional halls again too much so
for some tastes. :
But he is a better-than-average congressman,
and has earned another chance for election.
If the race is against Dr. Durno, who made
a good records in the last legislature, it will pit
men of differing temperaments and outlooks, and
will give voters of the district a clear-cut choice ;
a choice, happily, between two sincere public
servants. E.A.
Uniform School Plans
One of the "planks" in the party platform
adopted by Jackson county Democrats for pre
sentation to last week end's ostate convention is
worth thinking over.
It suggests that the state department Qof ed
ucation prepare sets of plans for school buildings
so that they could be furnished to local districts
which are contemplating building new schools.
The plans would be standard, and come in
versions to meet differing requirements.
THIS would permit contractors throughout the
state to be familiar with0 the plans, so they
could prepare bids and estimates on a more know
ledgeable basis; it would speed up the time be
tween a bond issue and the start of construction,
and it would save the local school districts con
siderable sums in the preparation of plans.
There might weft be sorrife drawbacks to such
a procedure, but at first glance its merits would
seem to outweigh its disadvantages, and. we'd
like to see the idea pursued further. E.A.
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ediPall letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication mustonot exceed 400 wordg The letters
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paper; in fact the contrary isQoften the case,
Thoughtful Sniff
To the Editor:
Regarding
your aditorial, "111 - Smelling
Rose," fan. 22s. I s not play
ing with semantics t all. A
tramway runs on tracks. An
aerial gondola hangs from
wire and is sort of an enclosed
chairliffc
I cen!t believe that it is
"outrageous" to want to dis
cuss this proposal to increasa
tie enjoyment and attendance
at Crater Lake. You end Bob
.ErazieP ctf the Register-Guard
think so and say so elo
quently and repeatedly. How
ever. I've had less than two
dozen letters on the subject
from Oregon since I first pro
posed consideration, they're
about half for, half against
On tha other hand, avery
questionnaire I know f, in
cluding at least two taken at
the Park, shows that tha pub
lic apparently is mora for
than against.
I agree with you that people
should think the proposal
through. That is why I amd
having a model built. This
will allow people to sea for
themselves a lm o s t exactly
what is proposed.
As for "people who believe
strongly in National Parks
and in their concept of mini
mum despoilment of scenic
and wilderness areas," I count
myself as a member of that
group. Crater Lake is a su
perb, unique scenic area. But
it is not a wilderness area.
Thousands of people drive
(there every year. .
Aerial gondolas in the Alps
do not despoil lovely scenery.
They do attract tourists. I
want many more tourists to
g and to return to Crater
Lake. Oregon needs their
dollars and will give full
value fcr every penny.
I could be wrong. Maybe
it isn't such a good idea. I
want to examine the model
myself and think the matter
through 08 the basis of hard
facts. You, Mr. Editor, realize
full well that many outdoor
groups and fee National Park
Service itself share your
opinion. There is certainly no
immediate prospect o? con
struction. Whatever the name of this
"rose," gondola, tramway or
chairlift, let's not toss it aside
without a thoughtful sniff to
determine whether the smell
is a stench or a fragrance.
Charles O. Porter
Member of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Clean Air Progress
To tig; Editor: We agree
with you that the progress
that has been made in clean
ing Rogue Valley air is amaz
ing; howler the Citizens' Air
Pollution Abatement League's
position regarding the need
for legislation on the matter
has not been understood.
None f the League's mem
bers has been so naive as to
believe that the day was here
when the lion and the lamb
would lie down together, or
that ultimately some legisla
tion would not have to be
passed. The members did
think they had a duty to be
constructive, and that the first
thing to do was to obtain all
factual information possible
and present it to the commun
ity leaders with the belief
that such leaders had suffic
ient civic responsibility to
unite in an effort to solve the
problem.'
Not all members agree with
this procedure. Many have
favored faster action in the
form of more meetings, and
proposed laws and regula
tions. They may have been
right; ' however in the past
five monthS more has been
accomplished than in all the
time previously. Only a few
months ago the mere raising
of the question in this letter
column brought threats of
physical violence and "If you
don't like this country, go
bacR whera you came from.'
Mr. Jack Foster deserves
thanks from this community
for obtaining cooper a t i o n
from sources that were hostile
and for furthering much of
the progress that has beea
made.
There is stiU anough hpat
in this question of air pollu
tiofi to produce quite a fire
If anyone wishes to proceed
in that manner, he might in
quire into the spraying of
suburban areas0 with para,
thion, chlordane, dieldrine
amaizole, DDT, TEPP and
other poisons. Just how many
tons of such material is spray
ed into this valley air every
year? How far does such ma
terial travel and how long
does it hgng when mixed with
a stagnant, soot and carbon
filled atmosphere? These are
questions whose -answers we
have been unable to discover,
If you fear, Mr. Editor, that
we depend too much on soft
talk, stay with us. We will
do better when: we have the
facts.
By the way, what has hap
pened to the state air pollu
tion study which was an
nounced last spring?
Bruce J. Manley, Chairman
Citizens Air Pollution
Abatement League
212 Leverette Bldg.
Medford.
Interesting Nonsense
To the Editor: My opinion
is that the "Stargazer" horo
scope is far more interesting
nonsense' than dailv re
prints from "Arthur Perry
Smudge Pot which were
never either humorous or in
teresting;
Mrs. L. A. Diamond,
520 DeBarr ave.,
Medford.
The Third Dimension
To the Editor: For the new
Mail Tribune feature, -the
Regional News page we
would suggest: "The Third
Dimensional News?" That
would include all of Jackson
county and of course parts of
Josephine and Siskiyou coun
ties.
As for the continuation of
the "Stargazer" feature, we
would say, "let it go, gallig-
her," as there are plenty of
Horoscope magazines to con
suit anyway.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman st.,
Medford.
gnow!edge?-Holy Cow-
To the Editor: While doing
my weekly newsclipping
came across last week's letter
of protest against general dis
interest of Jackson county in
the college extension courses
offered from time to time.. At
first glance it doth appear we
know nothing and nothing we
want to know. But have you
run down the listing of the
courses offered?
"How to cook southern
meals with northern gro
ceries". "How to hem last
year's dress to look like this
year's style". "How to make
a pair of bookends with your
own little hands".
Holy Cow.
We are on the edge of
space, about to step out into
that great infinite, round, ex
panding unknown which Ein
stein told of. We are calmly
going about our eternal hum
drum duties while thousands
of guided missiles somewhere
stand bristling like hairs on
a dog's back, each loaded with
enough power to eradicate an
American city, all ready to
leave launching pads and zip
across continents to obliterate
us within seconds after one
small button is pushed, if cer
tain brains decide the destruc
tion is desirable.
We are in a time when
NEW FACTOR FOR '60
Washington-Aftother (jjoud
is rising on the Democratic
horizon, and one that may
later prove to
be decidedly
bigger than a
man's hand.
In brief, the
pollsters have
begun to re
port clear
signs that ev
en the South
ern states are
Joseph alsop joining the
swing to the Republicans
wnicn started last summerd
The "peace issue" may be as
phony as a three-dollar bill,
as most informed observers
think. But in combination
with prosperity, it seems to
exert a universal puU.
Last autumn, some time af
ter the swing to the Republi
cans was already well under
way, the South still appeared
to be safely Democratic. Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
did not then share the Presi
dent's popularity in the South,
as he had begun to do else
where. Southern Democratic
leaders were still happily con
vinced that Nix$n would nev
er be a threat to their states,
since they regarded him as
positively unpopular among
their voters.
NOW, however, this lof as
. sessment of Nixon's
standing in the South is at
least highly questionable. The
inquiring Dr. Gallup's most
recent poll showed Nixon car
rying the South against Sen.
John F. Kennedy of Massa
chusetts by a margin of 54 to
46, and running 50-50 in the
South against Adlai Steven
son. The states here classed as
Southern are Alabama, Ar
kansas, the Car olinas, 'Florida,
Georgia, . Kentucky, Louisi
ana, Mississippi, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Texas, and Virgin
ia. They have 146 celectoral
vot& in the Rational total o
537.
As the Gallup sample for
these 13 states amounted to
hardly more than 700 people,
one might be inclined to dis
miss the, results given. Bat
they cannot be dismissed, be
cause they have been con
firmed and even exceeded the
results of private, local poUs
These polls, using very much
larger samples, have recenUy
been taken in certain South
ern states.
The most important was
taken in Texas, the most pop
ulous state in the South. This
poll showed the Texan hero,
Senate Majority Leader Lyn
don B. Johnson, beating Nixon
every human is tortured with
elusive pains and symptoms
of an illness which he does not
have, and when doctor's long
hours are lengthened by the
majority who come to him for
pills for paiiis they have
which are not illnesses but
which are protests against his
fear of fear, and yet, the
understanding of that fear,
and the pain, and the symp
tom, and a solution is avail
able, and understandable to
the majority of our people.
We live in an age when the
word 'metaphysics' is out
moded, and where our belief
in God is no longer neces
sarily based on blind stagger
ing faith alone.
Perhaps the instructors of
the courses would be com
pletely surprised at the turn
out of seekers if knowledge
m cadence with our times
were offered
Another course which
should be highly successful in
this area would be "History
of Southern Oregon .
. Until then, many of us will
have no choice but to spend
time we would give to such
courses, in pursuit of more
current knowledge where it
is available, from books in
the privacy of our own homes.
(Name on File)
Medford
Mom Rain
To the Editor:
And now i?s ground-hog
day ag'in;
If hoggie sees his shadder
He goes right back for six
weeks more
Which makes folks sad or
sadder.
But we web-footers shout
'hor-ray", .
Though we do like the sun,
We want the rain, much
more of rain
Out here in 'Jefferson'.
FJC
Central Point, Ore.
by a few percentage points,
with Kennedy again -behind
Stevenson. And just to prove
the increasing weakness of
Democratic party loyalties,
this poll also showed Nixon
beating both Senators Hubert
H. Humphrey of Minnesota
and Stuart Symington of Mis
souri by gigantic margins close
to 80-20.
TN THESE figures, the first
A feature that leaps to the
eye is Adlai Stevenson's slight
but significant lead over Sen
ator Kennedy. As long as the
Southern states seem to be
loyally Democratic by heavy
majorities, it did not matter
if a small percentage of South
erners were inclined to vote
against Kennedy because he
is a Roman Catholic. But in
an even-steven race, 2 per
cent of the voters changing
sides means victory by a 4
per cent margin.
According to Dr. Gallup,
this was just what happened
in the recent Nixon-Stevenson
and Nixon-Kennedy trial
heats. It is hard to find any
other explanation butfKenne
dy's Catholicism.
If the South still showed
the same Republican leanings,
Kennedy's Catholicism can
therefore handicap him with
Southern leaders at the con
vention in Los Angeles. If
Kennedy is nominated, too,
the changed situation in the
South will have real mean
ing. It can completely upset
the Kennedy strategy, which
Ras- always been based on the
calculation of carrying the
South plus the big Northern
industrial states where Ca
tholicism is a positive help.
In contrast, the extension
of the Republican trend to
the South will certainly help
Senator Johnson. Johnson is
the Democratic candidate with
the largest number of dele
gaStes already in the bag. Ken
nedy, the generally recogniz
ed front-runner, calls Johnson
his "real opponent." If John
son appears to be the only
Democrat who is pretty sure
to carry the Southern states,
with their quarter of the to
tal electors, he is bound to
look more attractive, even to
Northern Democratic leaders.
Unlike :m any Republicans,
most Democrats have a liking
for victory.
fTKD BE SURE, this new talk-
ing point for Johnson can
never be truly effective until
something else happens, .
Boasting that he alone, can
carry the South will get John
son nowhere, until the North
ern Democrats begin to think
he may also have some chance
in the North. Johnson has in
vaded both Illinois and New
York, to try to win over the
chieftains of these big states.
He had more than a. little suc
cess in New York. Yet. one
cannot imagine him being
nominated unless he takes the
difficult action that will un
s&k his Southern label.
If he really does unstick
his Southern label, however,
the Johnson candidacy may
well become a decidedly seri
ous and important affair,
(c) I960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
TEMPERATURE UP
, Washington - The official
part of the city of Washington
is a good deal like an Army
post in that
nearly every
body on the
reservation is
in or on the
fringes of a
single profes
sion, politics.
And like an
Army post on
William s. '" " "
wmte change in
commanding generals, politic
al Washington is now begin
ning to seethe and boil over
who is to be the next com
manding general here, the
next President of the United
States.
There are several band
wagons "running around here.
And there ' are thousands of
people who feel acute need to
get onto the right one at the
right time. The whole coun
try, of "course, has a vast in
terest in who is going to be
President. But Washington
has what can only be called
a feverish interest-of about
106 degrees on the thermome
ter.
The serried -ranks ' of the
more or less permanent bur
eaucrats have a deep concern
not only as to who the top
boss is to be but what men
are going to be "close to him."
THE DOZENS of women
urVir crvnH thpil- livpc hp.
ing hostesses have a delicate,
dual problem: not to become
too identified, just yet, with
any Presidential aspirant
whatever, lest he turn out to
be a loser. Not, at the same
tim.e, to become so disassociat
ed from any aspirant what
ever as to forfeit a welcome
to the White "House should
that aspirant make it, after
all.
Then there are the .hun
dreds of professional men -
lawyers, high-toned salesmen
and contractors and lobbyists
-who are not quite in gov
ernment but are intimately
connected with it. Many are
themselves ex-government of
ficials, mostly from the Roose
velt or Truman administra
tion. .These men have not
only a . bread-and-butter i
terest in politics. They also
have- the homesick interest
of those who cannot forget
the years when they them
selves were in the thick of
public affairs.
AND, FINALLY, there are
th still-ar-rivo nnlitipal
professionals, the advisers,
speech-writers, and stalkers
of convention delegates. These
stout characters, whose . trade
is the toughest and most spe
cialized there is, are in enor
mous demand. They are asked
to cocktails; to tea among
those hopeless reactionaries
who still drink tea in the af
ternoon; and, course, to the
dinner party. They carry the
inside word. Later they will
inhabit the well-known
smoke-filled hotel rooms..
These pros are in some
ways like soldiers of fortune,
but they are dedicated sol
diers of fortune, if the terms
are not contradictory. They
like to turn a cynical glance
to the world. But this fools
nobody. It is really done to
hide the unconquerable ideal
ism of a strange kind, of fel
low who makes a lifework of
promoting the careers of
other men who may or may
not tnank him later on.
The pros are hired fighters
in the literal sense. But in
the genuine sense they are
anything but mercenaries.
They believe in the men they
back.
Now shake up all this high
ly political population, con
sider its special interests in
the campaign, and the result
is an atmosphere that be
comes ever more tense and
brittle as November ap
proaches.
THE MORE : numerous the
pVlWiil bV J
the ' greater the excitement.
Thus the tension this time is
becoming just short of ulcer
ous. For while Vice President
Richard Nixon will almost
certainly be the Republican
Presidential choice, there are
at least five authentically ma
jor availables among the
Democrats.
Nearly everybody in this
official Washington considers
himself a political expert
and usually he is. Nearly ev
erybody's eyes go back and
forward among the jousting
candidates like spectators'
heads at a tennis tournament
in which not one but five
courts are in play. And nearly
everybody spends his time
carefully avoiding any un
wise cheering of his own
(Gad, he might be cheering
the wrong fellow in the
wrong court) and trying at
the same time to get the next
spectator to utter cheers that
will reveal ' which player he
is backing.
Confusing? Yes. Stirring?
Yes, definitely. Wearing?
Well-yes.
(Copyright, 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Newspaperman to
Hear Knowland
Want Own Union
To the Editor: Apparently
there is some misunderstand
ing about why we grocery
clerks in this area want to be
long to the Retail Clerks
Union.
The answer is very simple.
Presently we are members of
the Teamsters Union in this
area and we are tired of being
second class citizens in what
is supposed to be our own
union.
In the Retail Clerks Union
we will have our own local
union, our own officers, our
own secretary and business
agent and be able to make up
our own minds about how we
want to run our own affairs.
F. R. (Johnny) Davis
914 Winchester ave.
, Medford.
Ghaing Kai-sheks
Term Ends Soon;
Third Term Eyed
Phii Newsom
By PHIL NEWSOM
JPI Foreign Editor
Another of the "old men"
among national leaders faces
up to a major decision this
month. He is
72 - year - old
President Chi
ang Kai-shek
of Nationalist
China and the
a question l
whet her he
will allow
himself to be
drafted for a
third term,
The betting now is that he
will, despite the fact that such
a third term is agamst the
Nationalist Chinese constitu
tion and his own insistence
that the Constitution must be
observed.
As recently as last Decem
ber, Chiang said he emphati
cally opposed any amendment
to the constitution.
Won't Shun Responsibility
But those who expect him
to bow to a draft also quote
him as saying he would not
"shun my responsibilities.
They reason it this way:
They point out that Chiang
dges not necessarily have to
be bound by the Constitution.
They say the nation is in an
emergency situation under
which the Constitution can be
suspended temporarily with
out actually revising it.
There are few things that
would make Communists
throughout the world happier
than Chiang's stepping down.
For the past 20 years, Red
attacks against Nationalist
China have been directed,
against Chiang personally.
As for Nationalist sympa
thizers still on the mainland,
Chiang is the only man upon
whom they depend for event
ual deliverance from Commu
nist rule. -
United Nations interroga
tion officers who served dur
ing the Korean War can testi
fy to this. Frequently Chinese
prisoners of war demanded to
be turned over immediately
to "Generalissimo Chiang's
army." Some even claimed
they surrended only after see
ing the generalissimo's battle
flags at the front.
Can't Match Prestige
It also is an established
fact that there is no ' one
among the Nationalists who
can match Chiang in prestige.
And therefore there is no one
who can take over Chiang's
job without causing consider
able confusion among his fol
lowers.
Every effort is now being
made by various Chinese
groups to impress this upon
Chiang before the Feb. 20
meeting of the Chinese Na
tional Assembly.
The assembly is a group
made up of representatives
from both at home and over
seas and it has the power to
amenf" the Constitution. Un
der the Constitution it must
meet 90 days before expira
tion of the President's , six
year term.
Chiang's second term of of
fice expires on May 20..
A FARE RIDE
Wytheville, Va. -TCPD Pas
sengers 'on the Norfolk and
Western's main line between
Roanoke and Bristol, Va., got
classier accomodations than
they bargained for Monday.
A rock and earth slide had
covered more than 500 yards
of track. The passengers were
shunted around the slide by
taxicab.
Eugene - Former U. S. Sen
ator from California, William
F. Knowland, will give the
1960 Allen Memorial Address
when Oregon newspapermen
meet on the University of
Oregon campus for the 41st
annual Oregon Press confer
ence Feb. 19 and 20.
Knowland, associate pub
lisher of the Oakland (Calif.)
Tribune, will speak at a 2
p.m. session Friday of the
two-day conference.
Speeches, panels, and round-
tables are on the program for
the conference, which has
been planned to bring new
ideas to the newspapermen.
Prominent speakers will in
clude William E. Bade, man
ager of the Oregon Tax Re
search, Portland; Martin
Schmitt, curator of special
collections in the (University
of Oregon Library; Dr. Hans
H. Plambeck, chairman of
the department of sociology,'
Oregon State college; Charles
V. Stanton of 'the Roseburg
News-Review and Wes Sher
man of the Stayton Mail; and
Dr. Harry Alpert, dean of the
graduate school of the uni
versity. Featured will be a discus
sion of the Portland newspa
per strike with M. J. Frey of
The Oregonian and William
W. Knight of the Oregon
Journal speaking.
The Oregon Press confer
ence, held annually on the
univrsity campus, is co-spon
sored by the university's
school of journalism and the
Oregon Newspaper Publish
ers association.
SEAL RETURNED
Chicago -(UPC- An apparent
souvenir hunter who stole
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's seal of office from a
lectern here has given the seal
back. The plaque was stolen
from a lecterti at a GOP $100-a-plate
dinner that Nixon ad
dressed last week. It was re
turned Monday.
ON TIME AT LAST
Tokyo -flJPD The Tokyo dis
trict court's civil department
courtroom set a record Mon
day. For the first time in its
history it opened on time.
ARTHRITIS?
have been wonderfullv
blessed in being able to return
to active life after sufferinff
from head to foot with muscu
lar soreness and pain. Most all
joints seemed affected. Ac
cording to medical diagnosis,
i naa Kneumatoid Arthritis,
Rheumatism and Bursitis. For
free information, write:
MRS. LELA S. WIER
2805 Arbor Hills Drive-GG .
P.O. Box 2695 '
Jackson, Mississippi