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History from the Mies of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1950 (Thursday)
Southern Oregon dairy and
creamery employees signed
new contracts yesterday grant
ing them a 15-cent-an-hour
wage hike.
A proposal that the veter
ans domiciliary center at
Camp White be made into a
laboratory for the study of
rehabilitation practices is be
ing considered by the veter
ans administration in Wash
ington, D. C.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31. 1940 (Saturday.)
Thirty-five Medford High
school gridiron hopefuls left
here yesterday for the Lake
of the Woods where they will
spend a week in pre-season
football drill.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Gold
Hill held its fair Saturday
with many in attendance. Sev
eral from here went down for
a hunk of barbecued beef.
Among the sporting events
was a child calling contest for
ladies only."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31. 1930 (Tuesday)
Enrollment in local schools
yesterday was 1,642, an in
crease of 80 over the first day
last year.
Phil Metschan, Republican
candidate for governor, cam
paigned in Medford yesterday.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1920 (Thursday)
August 13 was the hottest
day in the history of the
weather bureau here when
the temperature climbed to
109 degrees.
Autoists who parked their
cars on the public library
driveway at last night's park
band concert, have been cited
into justice court.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1910 (Wednesday)
Weather in Jackson county
lias again turned hot and dry
increasing the threat from
forest fires, a number of
which are again burning out
of control.
A large fire near Prospect
has jumped firelincs and is
again posing a serious threat
to that town; the second time
it has done so in the last week.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine oe ten correct is superior:
soven or eight Is excellent: rive er
six Is good.
1. How many years of wil
derness wandering was spent
by the Israelites?
2. Is Gold weighed by fluid,
troy, or avoirdupois ounce?
3. Are porpoises classed as
reptiles, mammals, or fish?
4. What bird lays the small
est eggs?
5. Is India, Canada, or Aus
tralia referred to as "down
indcr"?
6. Niagara Falls is the high
est waterfall in the U.S.; true
or false?
7. Was the first European
reputed to have seen Indians
Columbus, Raleigh or John
Smith?
8. From what language does
the word interim derive?
9. Who painted the picture,
The Angelus"?
10. To what family of vines
docs the sweet potato belong?
n.w.rt l. Forty. 2. Troy.
3. Mammals. 4. Humming
bird. 5. Australia. 6. rant.
(Ribbon Falls. Yosemite). 7.
Columbus. 8. Latin. 9. Jtan
Millet. 10 Morning glory.
What Are the Issues?
Religion, it is now pretty well agreed by ob
servers in all sections of the nation, will be an
issue in the coming presidential campaign.
As remarked before, it probably was too
too much hope for that it wouldn't be that
American voters would base their voting judg
ment on the record, ability, character and person
ality of the candidates, and on the great issues
which are facing the nation.
In some ways, indeed, the issues themselves
are more important than the candidates. But,
sadly, they are being lost to sight, as, in the words
of Scotty Reston of the New York Times, the
campaign "is getting more petty and personal as
it goes along."'
AND what are the issues?
They are many, and important.
There is the health of the natf a's economy,
and how much the federal government should
use its vast fiscal authority to stimulate economic
well-being.
There is the vital question of how much Amer
ica is going to invest in the education of its young
people, and how this can best be done.
There is the national defense.
There is the conduct of foreign affairs, includ
ing the sums for mutual security, and how they
should be employed.
THERE is, indeed, the whole question of the
role of the federal government in the conduct
of public affairs, and how far it should go in
encouraging scientific research and exploration,
in protecting the health of the nation, in aiding
the well-being of the elderly and the incompetent,
in developing and protecting our national re
sources of minerals, soil and water.
Does the federal government really have a
part to play in seeing that constitutional guaran
tees of equality before the law should be en
forced ?
Should it police the nation's air mass and its
streams to prevent pollution from rendering them
unfit for human use?
These are some of the overriding questions
which must be decided, at least in part, as Amer
ica's voters make their choices in November.
AND it does us no credit
IU UCOLCIIU LUC JCttY ttllU jJClOUUcll ICVCl
of whether a man is rich or poor, what church
he attends, or how he cuts his hair.
On the religious question, we like the calm
words of Ex-Gov. Charles A. Sprague, writing
in his Oregon Statesman :
"Surely we should not condemn the great number
of American Catholics to permanent Ineligibility to
serve as President. Senator Kennedy has made frank
and honest, and in my judgment very satisfactory,
answers to the question of performance in office if
elected. The decision on the presidential candidates
should be based, not on their church membership, but
on a comparison of their qualifications, their training,
experience, character, capacity."
The "religious issue" is a false one, based on
fear and suspicion, and, aside from the constitu
tional question involved (which Senator Ken
nedy has answered, we believe honestly) does
little credit to those who belabor it. E.A.
OV Earls Success
On the face of it, the election of "01' Earl"
Long to congress seems a sort of travesty on the
democratic process.
01' Earl, the brother and one of the political
heirs of the late Iluey "Kingfish" Long, is the
former governor of Louisiana, barred from re
election, who upset the entire state by his antics
last year, seeking to get around the reelection ban.
He was in and out of mental hospitals, con
sorted with strip-teasers, ranted and raved, and
generally conducted himself like an oafish medi
eval baron.
"T'HIS was the picture which was broadcast to
the American public by the mass media
newspapers (and their wire services), radio and
television.
As far as it went, it undoubtedly was a tine
picture. But in a tour de force of reporting, a
writer for the New Yorker magazine, A. J. Leib
ling, ventured into Louisiana, spent some time
with knowing observers on the scene, visited with
01' Earl himself, and came up with a deeper and
more penetrating picture of the old rascal than
the superficial aspects of daily reporting make
possible.
01' Earl, the reporter concluded, is just about
everything he has been called raffish, unman
nerly, sly, opportunistic, perhaps even somewhat
unbalanced mentally.
But, beyond this, he found him to be crazy
like a fox, and the stoutest and perhaps subtlest
defender of human rights in the state.
I OUISIANA has never been distinguished by
the purity of its politics, and the crowds
against which 01' Earl was fighting first for
the governorship, and when that failed, for Con
gress were, by and large, fairly smelly char
acters. But 01' Earl Long, political robber baron that
he is and has been, still is a believer in an
elemental human dignity of spirit, in a sort of
rough-hewn equality of opportunity, in a break
for the "niggers" and "po' white trash" of the
Kavftnc q nr. ninmr urnr-rls . i
That, anyway, is what this sensitive inquiring
reporter concluded. And it made us feel a bit
better to recall his report when we read that 01'
Earl is now going to Congress, and still is a live
political force in the jungles of Louisiana. E.A.
to permit the campaign
Dennis the
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The Dog Problem
To the Editor: Everyone
knows that a dog running
around without a collar means
that a license has not been
paid, and it should be turned
over to the dog control offi
cer. Every time I go anywhere
in town, or passing through,
I see several dogs without
collars.
Seems to me it is useless
to make any different laws
when the present one is not
fulfilled.
Many people that keep their
dogs up in the day time turn
them out in the small hours
of the morning, which is not
much better than having no
laws at all.
Those that voted o u t of
prejudice for country dogs
to be tied will be sorry that
they voted that way when
they are taxed for extra help
and trucks to take care of
this. Everybody has to pay
their part toward any county
expenses.
It was reported in the pa
pers this spring that over
2,000 dog licenses had been
sold.
I wouldn't be afraid to bet
that there are at least an
other 1,000 without a license.
That is just too much dog.
I know people become at
tached to their pets; especial
ly if they have raised them
from puppyhood.
We, like everyone else
thought our dog was the
smartest and best ever.
But everyone should be
willing to do their part to
restrict the dog population.
It never will be done that
way, though, as long as the
price is S20. Male puppies
could be taken care of as
easily as the farmer controls
his stork. That wouldn't be
done either unless there was
a fine imposed for not doing
Perry Mason Visits
Bar Association;
Lawyers Envious
By DICK WEST
Washington-lTt-The Amer
ican Bar Association is meet
ing here this week and the
town is teem
ing with 15,
000 1 a w y ers
and Perry Ma
son fans.
As conven
tions go, this
one is unusu
ally decorous.
The business
sessions are
Dick wen we'l aucnaca
and the delegates generally
pay attention to the speakers.
But you ought to see the
way that heads turn when
ever an ambulance goes by.
With so many visiting at
torneys around. I thought this
would be a good time to pick
up some free legal advice. Un
fortunately, howeve. , nobody
is suing me at the moment so
the opportunity was wasted.
Turned To Perry Mason
That being the case, I did
the next best thing and cadged
a consultation, as well as a
cup of coffee, from Raymond
Burr, a Hollywood . :tor who
plays the role of attorney
Perry Mason on television.
Burr has hung out his shin
gle here long enough to make
a speech before one of the
bar association groups and to
participate in a panel discus
sion.
I consulted him in his hotel
room where he was sipping
coffee and working on his
speech. He acted so much like
Menace
THAT AT OM ?
often the case.
so. If this was all done thor
oughly dogs just as well all
run at the owners' will, pro
vided they paid a license.
And I would make it so high
that no one would want to
keep more than one dog.
High license and cheap vet
erinary service is definitely
the only way to finally have
less dog population.
Mary E. Atkins
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.
The Constitution
To the Editor; In reply to
the letter by Mr. A. E. (Earl)
Glidewell of Hermiston, Ore.,
in the M.T. Aug. 26.
I find no flaw with this
gentleman's quotations from
the Constitution of the United
States, but his interpretation,
application, and obvious omis
sions lend the thought that he
is trying, as so many do, to
construe its meaning to fit
personal affairs, or that he
has not given sufficient
thought and study to its full
intent and purpose.
Firstly, he mentions regu
lations and regimentation of
businesses exclusively within
sovereign states. If my dic
tionary be correct, we have
no sovereign states in the
United States. My dictionary
defines sovereign as "having
supreme rank, power or au
thority."
Article 4, Sec. 2 states plain
ly that "any law made under
the authority of the United
State shall be the supreme law
of the land" to quote in part.
Therein it is specifically
stated that each and all states
are subordinate to the United
States.
Were it not so, we would
not be the United States, but
only 50 states very much dis
united, in which a state of
chaos, similar to that in the
a real lawyer, I was afraid
he would charge me a fee.
Since he began playing in
the Perry Mason series, Burr
has been getting about 5.000
letters a week, mostly from
TV fans who are looking for
a good attorney.
However tempted he might
be to handle some of the cases
himself, he always turns them
over to the Legal Aid Society
or some other such group.
Not only has his acting
been convincing to the TV
audience, but the legal pro
fession also has tended to ac
cept him as one of its own.
Already this year, he has been
invited to 52 bar meetings,
which is more than most prac
ticing attorneys attend in their
entire careers.
Why the Popularity?
I asked Burr how he ac
counted for his popularity
among lawyers. After all, the
medical profession never ex
actly went overboard for Lew
Ayres when he was playing
young Dr. Kildare.
Burr said he thought it was
because he admired the legal
profession and felt a responsi
bility to present it in a favor
able light on his shows. Often
times, he pointed out, criminal
lawyers have been represent
ed in books and plays as shy
sters or sharpies.
This may be so, but I sus-
i pect the real reason why law
yers like to identify them
e!ves with Burr is because
Perry Mason never loses a
case.
Dutch-Indonesian Warfare Seen Unlikely
Despite West Irian Territorial Dispute
By RUSSELL E. DYBVIK
Jakarta- IUPD -Is Indonesia
prepared to start a war with
Holland over the 160,000
square miles of jungle known
as West New Guinea?
That seems unlikely, despite
heated declarations from the
Indonesians calling for the
overthrow of the Dutch colo
nial regime in the sparsely
populated land.
For more than 10 years,
Indonesia has fought a hot
and cold war of words with
Holland over the area which
lies just a few miles beyond
the eastern boundary of Indonesian-held
territory.
Ties Slashed
Just two weeks ago. Pres
ident Sukarno unexpectedly
slashed all diplomatic ties
with the Netherlands and vow
ed to "liberate" West Irian
"in a revolutionary manner."
Earlier this summer, 2,500
new Dutch troops were added
to the token force of 1,000
soldiers with which The
Hague government manned its
last colonial outpost. Twenty-
four Dutch fighter planes
were carried more than half
way around the world to give
Dutch New Guinea an Air
Force.
Congo at the present time,
could easily exist.
To further establish the
authority of the Federal Gov
ernment may 1 quote the first
seven words of the Preamble
of the Constitution of the
United States: "We, the peo
ple of the United States."
I conclude by expressing
confidence in the integrity of
our elected representatives to
Congress to safeguard the
Constitution by demanding
that any changes be made by
proper amendment.
If the laws be incorrectly
construed, it is the duty of the
Supreme Court to decide.
I heartily endorse Mr.
Glidewell's interest in the
government affairs. We need
more of it.
C. R. Burrill,
122 Vilas rd., W.,
Central Point, Ore.
4-H Fair Coverage
To the Editor: I couldn't
help noticing during all your
items and pictures of the 4-H
fair, every prize winner was
mentioned in all types of club
work except there was never
one thing mentioned about
the Kaper Kids, a dairy goat
club.
During my several visits to
the fair I was very much im
pressed but the fine exhibit
they had and how much work
had been put forth by the
children who seemed to be
mostly younger children.
It seemed to be a very well
organized club, someone was
always on barn duty eager
to answer any questions ask
ed them. Their part of the
barn just shone, it was kept
so clean.
They also seemed to be
ahead with blue cards for the
herdsmanship for each day
of the fair.
Surely this must be an over
sight on the part of your re
porters. I would hate to think
adults could be so prejudiced
as to just ignore the club.
I believe this same sort of
thing happened last year, as
I read nothing of their awards
last year and they had an
exhibit.
How about giving these
children some recognition too?
B. J. Richardson
185 North Pioneer
Ashland, Ore.
Editor's note: In the Mail
Tribune's coverage of the 4-H,
FFA fair, no one was slighted
knowingly, and the news
paper has run, to the best of
its knowledge, all the results
provided by the 4-H office and
fair officials-which has run
to dozens of columns of type,
too much to print in any sin
gle issue, in addition to a
score or so of pictures. In this
volume of material, a few mis
takes were undoubtedly made,
unintentionally. But we were
glad to note in yesterday's
paper that Kaper Kids won
the herdsmanship rosette for
dairy goats. Congratulations!'
Hell Vole "Against"
To the Editor: The health
bill for the aged passed by
the House of Representatives,
that compromise monstrosity,
is prophetic but not pleasant.
It is an ill omen but true in
nature. It reveals the atti
tude of the majority toward
that minor and helpless seg
ment of our society who have
served their purpose in life
and are now relegated to that
social station in our society
comparative to a pariah.
It is a sad commentary, but
a true picture of the thought
processes held toward the
stable citizens of yesteryears.
It is a hideous picture of the
mental process of the major
ity of those members of the
House that participated in
the voting. It is an illustra
tion of the warped moral out
look of th.t majority. That
vote smacks of moral decay,
an obscene revelation of a
moral and social trend. It is
robbing the senior citizens of
l th dignity of social security
This, fiercely nationalistic
Indonesia claimed, was tanta
mount to- aggression. Sukar
no's government was further
provoked when the Dutch
said the move was prompted
by "aggressive " elements" in
Indonesian foreign policy;
When Indonesia gained her
independence in 1949, the
Netherlands agreed to turn
over West Irian to Indonesia
following proper negotiations.
But these talks were brok
COPEfs Record in Kefauver's
Election Forecast for Fall
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-OT - AFL-CIO
endorsement of the Kennedy
Johnson presidential ticket
rep resents a
massive com
mitmentof men, women
and money to
the Democra
tic cause.
This m a s
sive commit
ment could
make for Sen.
Lti. c. wusoa John F. Ken-
endy and Sen. Lyndon B.
Johnson the margin of dif
ference between victory and
defeat on Nov. 8. The men
and women thus committed
are not mere voters ordered
by platoons, regiments and
brigades to the polls to cast
their ballots for the choices
of labor leaders.
These men and women are
more important than mere
voters. They are campaign
workers at the precinct level
and higher. These workers are
and intellectual independence,
and making them wards of a
bureau to be badgered and
insulted.
Death, where is thy sting?
Suicide, where is thy horror?
Decency, where is thy wrath?
Humanity, where is thy pride?
Justice, where is thy shame?
As there is nothing to vote
FOR in the coming election,
this writer is going to vote
AGAINST something. He is
going to vote against that In
human gesture, that bulldozer
manipulated by the Republi
cans and southern Democrats.
He is voting in protest of in
human treatment. He is vot
ing in protest of vile slander
and cruel insult. He is voting
for a principle. He is voting
for hope and home. He is
voting for Smiling Jack Ken
nedy. He may look like a "rube"
but not like a ruffian. He may
look like a hick and a hay
seed or a local yokel, but so
did Lincoln. This writer is
not a Catholic.
Walter Reece
Galice Rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Funny Humans
To the Editor: Here is a
United Press report from
Paris, France, March 23, 1910,
in a mid-west paper:
"Lieutenant Brequet, with
an aeroplane, carried eleven
soldiers three miles in four
minutes. The soldiers weighed
1,500 pounds and the feat
established a new world's rec
ord and shows the use of the
aeroplane in war, in carrying
scouting parties."
Nothing was said in the way
of a new mode of transporta
tion in a peaceful world or of
the future prospects of car
rying mail or being used as
an ambulance in case of gen
eral disaster, like Mercy
Flights.
Now the plane is indispen
sable to explorers, scientists,
farmers and just about the
entire field of useful occupa
tions of commerce.
Did you ever think, if it had
not been for the ingenuity of
inventions before Christopher
Columbus' time, we may have
never been born in "a new
world" of America to read
history, either ancient or of
a modern version? No won
der the human creature has
been termed "funny."
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman st.
Medford.
Best Week For
Albacore Reported
Astoria-dTD - Packers here
this week reported the best
loads of albacore tuna of the
season.
The largest load was 15
tons. Fishermen said most of
the boats were finding fish
in an area about 40 miles
west of the Columbia River.
Some boats were reported
headLjg for the area from as
far so.ith at San Pedro, Calif.
More Comfort Wearing
FALSE TEETH
Here U . pleasant nj to overcome
loose plate discomfort. FASTEKTH,
an Improved porder. sprinkled on
upper and lover plates holds them
nrmer so that they (eel more com
fortable. No rummy, coney, pasty
taste or feeling. It's alkaline l non
acid). Does not sour. Checks "plate
odcr" (denture breath) Get PAS
TEETH today at any drug counter
en off In 1960, and have never
been resumed. Indonesian ap
peals to the United Nations
have brought no resulls.
The Hague announced re
cently that West New Guinea
would be given independence
"v.-ithin 10 years."
Australia, only a few hun
dred miles to the south, holds
the eastern portion of New
Guinea.
Since Holland announced
organized and largely financ
ed by COPE, the AFL-CIO
committee on Political Educa
tion. Help for Kefauver
How COPE functions and
with what results was well
illustrated a few weeks ago
when labor used its muscle
to renominate Sen. Estes Ke-
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Nelson Reed, Al Hattan,
Laurence Shaw and the writer
of this piece have just re
turned from Washington. Our
purpose in going to the na
tional capital was to convince
the Forest Service, if possible,
that a new National Forest,
with headquarters in the
Klamath Basin, should be
created out of the Klamath
Indian forest lands that are
now in the process of being
added to the National Forest
area as a result of the liquida
tion of the Klamath Indian
Reservation.
WHY DOES the Klamath
Basin want that to be
done?
Over the past half to three-quarters-
of a century, the
great Klamath Indian Forest
and the Klamath Basin lum
ber industry have grown up
together. The Klamath In
dian Forest has provided the
raw material for the Klamath
Basin lumber industry, which
grew up in the first place be
cause of this large supply of
nearby timber. The Klamath
Basin lumber industry has
provided a nearby market for
the Klamath Indian Forest
timber.
That has been a perfect
buyer and seller relationship.
Each has helped the other
as is always the case where
a sound buyer and seller re
lationship exists.
OVER these long decades of
the past, administrative
headquarters of the Klamath
Forest lands have been at the
Klamath Agency. The Klam
ath Basin people want the ad
ministrative headquarters for
these lands that are soon to
pass into the hands of the
Forest Service to remain
where they have always been.
They want no disturbance of
the buyer-seller relationships
that have existed throughout
the years.
To them, that seems per
fectly reasonable. As of now,
as has been the case through
out the years of the past, the
Klamath Basin has provided
a market for at least 95 per
cent of the timber marketed
from the Klamath Indian
Forest.
They say they are asking
for nothing new. They want
only a continuation of the
mutually profitable relation
ships that have existed in the
past.
IT MIGHT be argued that a
NEW Forest Service head
quarters in the Klamath Basin
would involve ADDITIONAL
FEDERAL EXPENSE.
That doesn't seem probable.
It must be remembered, the
Klamath people argue, that
these lands have always been,
for all practical purposes,
FEDERAL lands. Their ad
ministrative costs have been
borne, in the final analysis,
by the federal government.
So, they say, it should
AVERY IMPORTANT
SERVICE . . .
Mrs. UtwiMer has been our lady as
sistant ever since we came to Ashland
in 1935. In addition to regular duties,
she furnishes vocat music when de
sired and is our regular Organist. All
without added cost to our patrons , .
this has resulted in savings of many
hundreds of dollars. This is our way
of saying "Thank You."
' LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
Highway 66 at Normal Ave.
Ashland Dial MU 5-4541
Only tool member ot Oregon &
its aircraft carrier, the Karef
Doorman, would conduct
"flag showing cruise" to West
New Guinea in order to- de.
liver the planes and troops,
Indonesia has quietly built upf
her military strength in. the!
bordering areas. '
Needless to say,' Indonesia
could easily overrun the. tc-l
ken Dutch force in an out
right invasion. But such an
invasion is extremely unlike
ly. fauver, (D-Tenn.), in an angry
primary. Kefauver's oppo
nent was Circuit Judge An
drew T. Taylor. Taylor'enter.
ed the campaign on even
terms or, perhaps, with some
advantage. Kefauver over,
whelmed him.
Gene Kelly, writing from
Nashville, Tenn., for the AFL
CIO news, reported on the
methods which obtained Ke
fauver's triumph. Taylor in
1958 had made a strong race
for governor. Kelly wrote:
"Labor precincts in Chat
tanooga and Memphis voted
for Taylor in 1958 and against
him in 1960. What happened?
"COPE made 60,000 tele
phone calls, mailed 300,000
copies of Kefauver campaign
material, distributed 160,000
leaflets and handbills, set up
central files with the names
of 65,000 union members, got
many of them registered.' and
helped turn out the vote. .
Full-Scale Operation
"The job was started in
May of 1959, when the excu
tive committee of the state
AFL-CIO endorsed a broad
education and registration
program. It was agreed that
full time COPE people will
be assigned to four major
cities, and that central card
files would be set up in each.
The card file was the key.
Without it, there would have
been, no checking of union
registration, no extensive
mailings, no telephone cam
paigns. It (the card file) kept
200 members of the COPE
Women's Activities Division,
(WAD) and some men, busy
for weeks.
"In Nashville, WAD mem
bers typed 15,000 names on
cards, chacked them with the
city directory, telephone book
and voter lists. A COPE pre
cinct organization was set up,
lists of nonregistered voters
were sent to precinct captains
and a registration drive con
ducted. Massive Card File
"In Chattanooga, the WAD
produced a card file of 10,000
names. Fifty women volun
teers addressed 40,000 mail
ings, made 15,000 phone calls
on election day, loaned their
services, also, to Volunteers
for Kefauver."
Kelly ended his piece with
a quote from a COPE re
port:
"The Tennessee campaign
was a clear example of what
COPE can achieve."
There is no doubt about
that. Not much doubt, either,
that COPE could elect the
Kennedy-Johnson ticket if it
goes all out nationally "now
as it did statewide for Ke
fauver.
Republican strategists must
answer this question: How can
we match massive political op
erations of big labor's men,
women and money?
make no difference which
federal pocket the cost of ad
ministering these lands comes
out of. That it is merely a
case of providing the best
possible administration, uvei
in the Klamath Basin, .tney
fool Qtrnnolv that LOCAL
administration will be better
for everybody concerned.
That is about the long and
the short of the Klamath re
quest for a new National For
est, with headquarters in the
Klamath Rasin tn be created
out of the Klamath Indian
Reservation lands that are
soon to pass into the hands
of the Forest bervice.
i jr -..
Mrs. Lirwiller
National Funeral Directors Ast'n
C. M. Lirwiller
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