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    MONDAY. JUNE 6, 1960
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
"Everyone In Southern Oregon
Reads The Mail Tribune"
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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
June 6. 1950 (Tuesday)
Pnnlra 1 Point A proposal
to exceed the six per cent
limitation by $4,500 in the
city s 1950-51 budget was ae
feated by the voters 78-77
yesterday.
Mayor Diamond F 1 y n n
dressed in western garb yes
terday and called upon other
residents of Medford to get
into the spirit of the Rogue
River Roundup of the Jack
son County Mounted Sheriff's
posse to be held this week
end.
20 YEARS AGO
June 6. 1940 (Thursday)
Delegates from four slates
will convene here tomorrow
for a conference on fruit and
vegetable grades, standards
and uniformity.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Qmnrlim Pnt" column: "A
nf citizens have re-
turnpii from the Oregon const.
and report they found no
more clams in tne ciam enow
dor there, than at home."
30 YEARS AGO
June 6, 1930 (Friday)
The first California water
melons have arrived in local
markets.
Members of the local
Granges are seeking the Ore
gon State Grange convention
for this city next year.
40 YEARS AGO
June 6, 1920 (Sunday)
Jackson county banks will
close at noon during the sum
mer. The price of potatoes, here
as elsewhere, has gone up to
$11.75 per hundred, the high
est price in history.
50 YEARS AGO
June 6. 1910 (Monday)
For the second straight day
high winds have prevented
the aviation show from taking
place here; will try again to
morrow. The forest service is ex
perimenting in growing east
ern hardwoods in the Crater
National reserve to see if the
species will grown on the
west coast.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
loven or eight Is excellent five er
la is good.
1. In the 10th century the
China lea trade brought into
development sleek ships,
heavily spread with canvass,
and designed for speed. What
were they called?
2. What was the middle
name of Robert E. Lee?
3. By what name was Pales
tine originally known?
4. Who, in mythology, was
Mercury?
5. The proper scientific
word to describe the bending
of light is r n?
6. Supply the missing
words: "A man is as old as
he , a woman is a old
as she ".
7. The Romans and Cartha
glnans fought the P c W-s?
8. Are whale-sharks man
eaters? 9. What is the name of
John Bunyan's widely read
book?
10. What is the largest
species of deer?
Answers: 1, "Clipper" ships.
2. Edward, 3, Land of Cana
an. 4. Messenger of the Godt.
5. Refraction. 6. Feels; Looks.
7. Punic Wars. 8. No. 9. "Pil
grim's Progress." 10. Ameri
can moose.
Cr8Sv pubushers
J ASSOCIATION
Past and Future Challenges
As our new President shaves to put his de
cisions in order in his mind and on paper let
us hope above all that he will decide to make
his inauguration as Chief Executive the signal
for the inauguration of a new era. On January
20th he will know, even as he begins to speak, that
the test of this first assignment will rest with what
he says, while the success of the second will rest
on what he subsequently
As he strives to rise
he tan draw assurance and support irom the liv
incr memories of how his most illustrious pre
decessors rose to meet
times. For part of the challenge of the New In
augural will be his ability to recapture the spirit
of inaugurals that have
THUS I hope that again next January we will
hear something of the prophetic challenge of
yv ctoiuiJgLUil o J.UBL uiaugui ai 111 x i -tv .
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and
the destiny of the republican model of government are
justly considered . . . deeply . . . finally, staked on
the experiment instrusted to the hands of the Amer
ican people."
Again next January I hope we wil! hear some
thing of the unifying dedication to civil liberties
of Jefferson s first inaugural in loUl :
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of
principle . . . We are all Republicans, we are all
Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish
to dissolve this Union or to change its republican
form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the
safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated
where reason is left free to combat it."
I HOPE that once more
of that deep and enduring compassion for hu
manity which immortalized Lincoln's second in
augural in 1865 :
"With malice toward none, with charity for all,
with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in,
to bind up the nation's wounds ... to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations."
Then again I hope we will hear something of
the urgency for immediate social action which
Wilson expressed in his lirst inaugural in ltUd:
"This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedicat
ion . . . where justice and mercy are reconciled and
the judge and the brother are one . . . Men's hearts
wait upon us, men's hopes call upon us, to say what
we will do."
"INCE more we will need a clear reaffirmation
of the sense of world mission which Wilson
gave us in his second inaugural on the eve of war
in 1917 :
"We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of
the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have
Just passed have made us citizens of the world . . .
And yet we are not the less Americans on that ac
count. We shall be the more American 1 we but re
main true to the principles in which we have been
bred. They are not the principles of a province or of
a single continent. We have known and boasted all
along that they were the principles of a liberated
mankind."
Finally, next January, I hope we hear another
summons to join in a resilient national effort of
the kind to which Franklin Roosevelt called us
in his first inaugural in
"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth,
the whole truth, frankly and boldly ... So, first of
all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing
we have to fear is fear Itself nameless, unreasoning,
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to
convert retreat into advance.
"In every dark hour of our national life a leader
ship of frankness and vigor has met with that under
standing and support of the people themselves which
is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will
again give that support to leadership in these critical
days."
A ND let us pray that our new Pesident, on In-
" auguration Day and
will distill all the best
all the best that is in us challenging himself
and all Americans to stand boldly for the truths
that man's future on earth need not be cancelled,
that our political ingenuity can still rescue us
from ruin, that our moral standards are still in
tact, that some things like war and injustice
may seem everlasting, but that these things are
everlastingly wrong and that they continue to
summon men of good will to action.
(Quoted from "Agenda 19(11," two speeches given
recently at Grinnell College, Iowa, by Chester Bowles,
former governor of Connecticut, former ambassador to
India, now a Connecticut congressman.)
No Harm Done
Two more of the "Little Rock Nine" were
graduated from Central High School last week.
This brings to three the number of Negroes who
have received diplomas from the school that was
the center of tne segregation-integration con
troversy two years ago.
If tl he white students were harmed at all bv
the forced association with Negro students, they
were harmed because the schools Were closed for
so long, not because they studied in the same
rooms with Negroes. Eugene Register-Guard.
U -
The Providence Journal Bulletin provides
this definition of a vacation : "It is 2 weeks which
are 2 short, after which you are 2 tired 2 return 2
work and 2 broke not 2."
does.
to the needs of the hour,
the tasks of their own
gone betore.
we will hear something
1933:
in the succeeding davs.
that is in him and evoke
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Dennis the
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'Boy, a REAL horse; Boy.' He's a
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the
writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen
name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to
clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in
this column do not necossarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is
God Forbid
To the Editor: E. A.'s very
naive comments Friday, on
tax collecting, at first sug
gested he be given a heart to
heart talk on the birds and
bees. Then, a second thought
suggested he did it deliberate
ly, knowing it would stir up a
controversy.
A third thought comes more
to the truth. E. A.'s past
editorials prove the fact that
he is one hundred and ten
per cent for socialism and
with the U.S. govern m e n t
jumping in with both feet for
federal aid to education.
One comment he made may
have some truth in it - the
fact that Uncle Sam can col
lect taxes with less cost than
state or local governments.
But he failed to reveal that
this is done against the bill of
rights and the constitution and
with near police state meth
ods.
He also failed to reveal that
of the billions the federal gov
ernment sucks from each
state, most states receive less
than half of it back, Oregon
being one of the more unfor
tunate states in this respect,
E. A. and Porter like to
juggle figures. Let them jug
gle this one. Regarding the
present budget, if the federal
government can collect from
the people and disburse to the
people, 80 billion dollars, at
total cost of 1.6 per cent,
where in h did Ike get his
near 5 billion for his idiotic
foreign aid.
No, E. A. - you and Porter
will have to talk a lot faster
to convince the majority that
Uncle Sam should step in with
a big bundle for federal aid
to education. Many thinking
people are realizing that along
with Uncle Sam's billions for
education, would go many re
strictions and a subtle cnange
in teaching procedures, meth
ods and a thorough brainwash
ing of our children's minds
towards more, ana iinauy
total embracing of Socialism
Could E. A. name one oi
two socialistic countries with
anything like the living stan
dard of capitalistic United
States? England is a good ex
ample of a capitalistic coun
try turning socialistic. If it
wasn't for a benevolent stupid
Washington, shovelling b i 1-
lions into its economy, Eng
land would fall flat on her
face.
Yes, I will admit that. the
U.S. is gradually going social
istic and it is a pitiful sight to
see a once proud nation raised
to economic heights undream
ed of in the history of the
world, raised there by free
enterprise, not confiscat 1 n g
socialism, gradually crossing
the peak and plunging into
the abyss awaiting us.
God forbid this happens to
us, but if it docs, you and all
other socialistic editors and
writers may take a final grand
bow.
M. J. Olsen
Route 4, Box 325
Medford.
Scholars and Writers
To the Editor: This USA
has benefitted by having had
scholars and writers as presi
dents. Better than the follow
ing cannot be found any
where: Woodrow Wilson,
Thomas Jefferson, Q u I n c y
Adams, Franklin Roosevelt,
Madison and Lincoln, the lat
ter a self-taught logician, who
as of K1B0, lacking "papers,"
would be unacceptable to even
a fourth rate college. These
top-notchcrs were of the type
that our budding America
craved. And they stood at the
vanguard of the world just as
fitly as they stood alerted to
needs of the growing states.
But, so sad, too bad, we also
Menace
6-4,
BAUjyW!im ...YOU GO FIRST.
often the case.
had our motley of obscuran
tists, semi-illiterates, so called
practical men that served not
at all before the bar of world
estimation. How we managed
to "miss beats" and, in mass,
voted for this weird type is
still a mystery. The incum
bent, presently to end his term
of "stewardship," will prob
ably end up with being rated
in the category with the latter
group. In his first campaign,
contending the learned Gov
ernor S., after being handed
a bit of bad news in the polls,
replied, "We'll drop all pre
tense of matching this man
In rhetoric, well appeal to
emotion (hero worship)." Thus
seven years we have painfully
listed to his remarks . . . "Lay
it on the line" . . . "clean as
a hound's tooth" , . . "Gim
micks" . . . "coek and bull."
These expressions are impos
sible to translate and there
fore serve us illy in foreign
relations where exactitude of
language is imperative.
Afresh we have candidates.
This time all of them are fully
accredited university gradu
ates. There is balm in this
fact. One of them, Syming
ton, in a speech - "The ulti
mate future of the world
whether it is to be free or
slave, will not be settled on
battlefields, but rather in the
minds of men. We have not
matched the Soviets in train
ing men for diplomacy andor
to write out the high-lights of
our way of life."
This is the .type folks, we
will have to rely upon here
after. Dulles and Herter are
easy marks for the wily Russo-
Chino trained misanthropes.
Walter Gabriel
Howells, Nebr.
Monoxide Miasma
To the Editor: When first
coming to Medford nigh 40
years ago, it was easy enough
to figure out why, as a rule,
the fine old two-storied houses
in west Medford were built
with the first floor some four
feet above ground level. Fear
of flooding from Dead-Bear
creek (as it was first known)?
But why have all bedrooms
up at least one story high?
"No, it was not fear of flood
waters," Old-Timer Homer
Harvey (now some two years
gone from the earthly scene)
told me. "It was fear of the
unseen and unexplained dread
'miasma.' Newcomers were
advised not to build to the
west because of it. If they did
so, then to build the first floor
high and all sleeping rooms
upstairs, as those doing so
were less plagued with the
'thing' and less loss of work
ing time.
Homer went on to explain
that it was the pestiferous
'skcetcr, a malaria carrier
that brought to the hard
working pioneers the series of
fever and chills, that was bad
enough, but the loss of time
in getting things done for
shelters and harvest was the
most heartbreaking.
But why bring this up now,
with malaria controlled? Be
cause it is a valuable guide-
post, tying in as it does with
a most serious problem con
fronting us as a nation. It was
featured in a science news re
lease in Thursday's M-T, that
research is proving more and
more, monoxide poisoning
from gasoline - burning vehi
cles is tied In with the top
killers, heart attack and can
cer. A builder from down Cali
fornia way tells me the city
dads In L.A. arc fixing up
building permits that rule out
sleeping rooms on the ground
floor that border freeways
and heavy traveled streets.
Seems that houses breathe
Russ Income Tax End Eyed,
Phony or
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-IUPB-Who would
have thought that Nikita S.
Khrushchev would junk num
ber two of
the Commun
ist Ten Com
mandments? That Mr. K.
now has done
so is almost as
astonishing as
the fact that
the United
States reveres
and practices
Lrie c. Wilson
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Foreign Notebook:
Would-Be
Arm Talks
BY PHIL NEWSON
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook.
Destpite seeming official de
termination to go ahead with
President Ei
s e n h o w er's
visit to Japan
and despite
vast security
arrange-
ments, anxiety
persists in
Tokyo that
PAJward event
I'llll, Kl.WHUN ,w a j l a n c
place. One fear is that hot
headed demonstrators may
force Secret Service men ac
companying the President to
take some drastic protective
step. Many of the fanatic stu
dents who have been demon
strating against the U.S.-Ja-pan
mutual security treaty
would like to become mar
tyrs, and should such an event
occur, the left-wingers would
seize on the issue with a ven
geance.
Test At The Polls
Japanese Socialist leaders
claim that the majority of the
Japanese people are against
ratification of the TJ.S.-Japan
treaty but they are not yet
ready to take their fight
against Premier Nobusuke
Kishi's government. The rea
son: Voters may not see eye
to eye with them on "other
issues."
Talkfest
Western diplomats in Lon
don now expect the Geneva
disarmament talks to stretch
out longer than had been ex
pected right after the summit
like we do, only much slower.
As the air cools with the set
ting sun, the house inhales
the ground laying monoxide
fumes. As the air' warms, the
house exhales. It's just that
simple, deadly so.
Oddly enough, the one
time shunned West Medford
is favored now. Prevailing
westerly winds hereabouts
press ear fumes eastward.
Seems like our health authori
ties should have had this
more in mind when they
went along with demands of
the big freeway overpass with
its roaring traffic of truck and
car right through and over
Medford city center.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
DAV Plans
To the Editor: In less than
a month, July 4th, the 50 star
flag will become officially
our emblem. Jackson county
chapter No. Eight, Disabled
American Veterans, has enter
ed upon a project of selling
the new 50 star flag at the
rediculously low price of $1.50
each. There is a small profit
from the sales, which will go
into the rehabilitation fund of
the organization.
These flags are 3 by 5 feet
in size, made of waterproof
and stainless dacron material,
will fold to a very compact
size for handling and trans
porting from place to place.
A large number of orders have
been received so far for the
flags, which have been order
ed from an eastern firm in
large quantity. It has been
requested they arrive before
Flag Day, June 14. Those in
terested contact Pat Graham,
175 Jeanette st phone SPring
2-4192, in charge of the proj
ect. The price, $1.50, has
been set at that low mark for
fast handling of the product.
The state convention of De
partment of Oregon, Disabled
American Veterans, will be
held this year in Bend, Ore.,
June 23, 24 and 25.
The next business meeting
of the local chapter will be
held in connection with a
social gathering June 20, in
the Girls Community club
building, 229 North Bartlett
St.
Convention plans of the
chapter arc scheduled for
formulation at that time.
Pat Graham
Publicity Chairman
175 Jeanette st.
Jackson Chapter 8, DAV
Medford.
mm
No, It Sounds Good
C o m m u nist Commandment
number two with religious
fervor.
Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels compiled the Commun
ist Ten Commandments in
their Communist manifesto of
1848. The ten commandments
laid out the program for com
munization of any nation after
it became eligibl by revolu
tionary class warfare. Num
ber two states that the crea
tors of Communist states must
lay on:
Martyrs,
Continue
fiasco. Although the West does
not like Nikita Khrushchev's
latest disarmament proposals,
they contain enough conces
sions to compel the West to
sit down and talk about them
instead of turning them down
cold.
Cold Shoulder
The United States and
Britain will politely turn
down French President Char
les de Gaulle's renewed call
for a three-power directorate
composed of the United
States, Britain and France to
dictate the policies of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization (NATO). The U.S. and
Britain are telling De Gaulle
that they are anxious for
close consultation with him
on all major international
problems, but not at the ex
pense of other NATO mem
bers, including West Ger
many and Italy.
De Gaulle, meanwhile, will
press his drive to put France
as near as possible on an equal
nuclear footing with the U.S.,
Russia and Britain. The fail
ure of the summit conference
strengthened his determina
tion, and now he also hopes
that Washington will come
through with the know-how
France needs to catch up
quickly.
The U.S. U2 spy planes
based at Atsugi Naval Air
Station in Japan have become
a big political football and
both foreign and Japanese re
porters have tried to see the
planes. But, it was learned,
not even the two top Navy ad
mirals in Japan have clear
ance to enter the restricted
area where the planes are
kept.
Playing the Game
To the Editor: The big game
of international politics
now-a-days a life and death
matter to all South Euro
peans. It has become that
since the shattering of the
old "balance of power" strate
gy that existed prior to to
World War I days. Into that
arena of power politics, our
nation has been unnecessarily
but most certainly, drawn.
The old European strategy
had, actually, led to the bor
derland of annihilation and
despair. The mutual mistrust
and suspicion that belonged
to that era resulted in the col
lapse that came to these gov
ernments, and from which
they would not have recov
ered but for the intervention
of America. That, too, is
where we were drawn into
this whirlpool of politics, that
is now international in extent,
In other words, we are in
vited and baited into aligning
ourselves with one side or
another of this many-sided
game, and it is here that we
also know that it may mean
our Waterloo, but we do not
know any means of escape.
Europeans are weak, because
they will not work together,
and no one can trust the other.
It is, therefore, left for Amer
ica to "carry the ball," one
that may easily turn out to be
an "atomic bomb" ready to ex
plode at any minute.
South Europeans and West
ern Europeans have the
strength, the power and the
know-how to render them
selves invincible to the Tar
tar, Mongal or Russian hordes
that so often threaten their
borders, and their lands. It is
because they "mis-played" the
game among themselves so
long, that now they will not
anneal for their continental
security. Besides, "playing the
game" against us is, undoubt
edly, now a part of the earlier
game. To bring us into the
combine they have given us
the "ball to carry." O, my
good friends, how we take to
it! But let us beware that it
may not be our undoing.
Fee Clifford Esteb,
P. O. Box 1022,
Medford.
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"A heavy progressive or
graduated Income tax."
Some of the other com
mandments are:
Abolishment of Taxes
-"Abolition of private prop
erty In land and application
of all rents of land to public
purposes.
'Abolition of all rights of
inheritance.
"Equal liability of all to
labor. Establishment of indus
trial armies, especially for
agriculture."
The slick paper magazine
which the Soviet Union pub
lishes and distributes in the
United States is out with a
cover headline:
"Income Tax Abolished."
This repudiation of the basic
Marxist economic dogma may
or may not be phony. Phony
or not, it beats anything in
the tax line accomplished Dy
the United States and, for that
matter, by any of the Free
World allies.
It long has been an amusing
field of speculation to ponder
the methods by which the in
dustrial revolution in the
United States and elsewhere
could have developed into the
welfare state revolution with
out adopti: g the heavy gradu
ated income tax gimmick of
the Communist manifesto.
There wouldn't be any wel
fare state if there were no
heavy graduated income tax.
Taxpayers Foot the Bill
There would be consider
ably less welfare state, any
way, if the income tax payers-
the little fellows-realized
that they were not getting
something for nothing but
were paying the bill them
selves. Khrushchev announced the
abolition of the income tax in
his May 5 speech before
the Supreme Soviet in
Moscow. That also was the
speech in which Mr. K shook
up his fellow citizens by re
vealing that the U.S. U-2 had
been overflying the Soviet
Union for some time but fi
nally had been knocked down.
The knowledge that an Ameri
can airplane could penetrate
their air space must have jar
red the Russians. Perhaps the
good word on taxes softened
the blow.
Phony or not, the tax plan
sounds pretty good. The So
viet magazine further report
ed something planned by
Khrushchev which reads like
a squirrel chasing its tail, like
this:
"This abolition of taxes also
is In line with general govern
ment policy-to bridge existing
wage gaps by gradually bring
ing the wages of the lower
paid categories of industrial
and office workers up to the
level of those in the middle
categories and bringing the
wages of those in the middle
categories up to the level of
the higher paid people. This is
a fair and equitable pro
cedure." How was that again, Mr.
K?
Hearing Waived
In Neotsu Shooting
Newport -IUPD- Raul Flores,
33, Neotsu, has waived pre
liminary hearings here in
the gunshot slaying of Al
Curl, 55, Neotsu, and was
bound over to the Lincoln
county grand jury.
The Lincoln county district
attorney has charged Flores
with first degree murder.
Flores surrendered to po
lice early Friday and told
them he had shot Curl at the
Curl residence. Flores said he
went to the Curl home look
ing for his wife.
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Assurance
Gratify
To lighten the burden
of care at time of sorrow
Nothing is left undone to relieve the family
of all worry and care as to the competent
handling of all details of a service.
In Ihe Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Question:
What makes Americans
happiest? O
This-according to a namin-
wide mental health inventory
of average U.S. citizens just
completed by the University
of Michigan's Survey Re
search Center - is the answer:
PLENTY OF MONEY AND
A BIG-ENOUGH HOUSE.
ODD sidelight of the study:
Only 14 per cent of the
allegedly "average Americans
interviewed by the research
ers from coast to coast gave
credit to their JOBS as a ma
jor source of the enjoyment
they get out of life.
HMMMMM.
If more of us got more fun
out of our jobs, might it not
be possible that more of us
would have more money io
spend? How can you get
ahead in your job, with re
sulting increases in your pay
check, if you don't ENJOY
your job?
And
What could be worse than
DRIVING yourself to work in
the morning and spending the
day wishing that quitting time
would hurry up and get here?
ON THE question of how
Americans handle their
personal crises (meaning the
times when everything seems
to go wrong) the report says:
"Many do nothing at all . , ,
just let the situation run its
course and take the conse
quences. Those who TRY to do
something about it turn to
their spouses, other mem
bers of their families or
friends for help.
"Another sizable group
turns to prayer as a means o
handling daily worries. Of
these, 16 per cent pray in
the hope of finding a solution
of their problems and 33 per
cent turn to prayer as a child
cries in its mother's arms -for
consolation."
THIS one is interesting:
Only FOUR per cent ot
those interviewed by the Uni
versity of Michigan resear V
ers said they were unhar y
at any time during the year ;is
a result of world tensions and
the possibility of war.
THE mental health research
ers conclude their study
with this observation:
"Rarely did anyone inter
viewed in the course of this
survey admit putting faith in
bartenders, taxi drivers, for
tune tellers or other sup
posedly popular, but unoilho
dox, confidants."
I wouldn't know abou'
fortune tellers, but a
bartender or a capable
driver can provide a lc
exceedlingly good a d v
Why? Well, maybe it's
cause they see so much i'
way of human frailty
they know nearly all
answers.
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Drowning Claims
Former Oregonian
San Juan, Puerto Rico, -(UPI)
- Lloyd Jorgenson, 45, immi
gration superintendent at San
Juan International airport,
was drowned Sunday while
skindiving at the Army beach
club.
The body was taken to
Rodriguez Army hospital, for
an autopsy.
A native of Mabel, Ore.,
Jorgenson was a retired navy
officer and had lived here for
the past eight years as an em
ployee of the immigration
service.
He is survived by his wid
ow, Helen, and three children,
Mabel is north of Marcola
in Lane county
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