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Medford and Jackson County
Hlslory from the files of ,The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 2, 1950 (Monday)
Some residents of Rogue
River still protest the naming
of a new bridge there "Tail
holt" and claim that propo
nents of that name "railroad
ed" it through the county
court. '
The annual Jackson County
Community Chest opens its
drive tomorrow with Its 1950
goal set at $75,000.
20 YEARS AGO .
Oct. 2, 1940 (Wednesday)"
.Tnannh CI OrftV. lonB-time
Medford resident and former
member of the Medford dis
trict school board and city
council, died Tuesday after a
Vtriof illness. '
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Kmnrioo Pnt" column: "The
weather Is. uncertain, It's too
warm for an overcoat, ana too
. cold to run arouna wunoui a
hut Tn (he rural areas it's too
wet to plow, but not to go deer
hunting."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 2. 1930 (Thursday) '
The county court has an
nounced . plans to Improve
1 county roads, as a means of
'providing relief employment.
' The Fruitgrowers' League
"yesterday voiced' a protest
'over the government's policy
fof charging for fruit inspec
tion. .'.-
"40 YEARS AGO
5 Oct. 2. 1920 (Saturday)
: The county court has de
voided to put a measure on the
1 ballot proposing transfer of
I the county seat from Jackson
ville to Medford,
j A meeting of all Interested
fpersons will be held at Crater
;Laka Monday to seek ways of
, bettering conditions there.
; 50 YEARS AGO '
;Oct. 2. 1910 (Sunday)
S Postal receipt In Medford
have increased 96 per cent
jthls month over last month to
a new record high of $4,304.
J The Rogue River Valloy
.University club, an organiza
tion of male university gradu
ates, held Its first meeting
t-nere last night with 75 per
sons attending.
NEWSPAPER
JJJ-ASSOCIAIION
j jV hat's YourlQs?
,1 iNlne or fen correct is superior;
:j jseven or eight Is eacellenti five at
! .six is good.
1. Does a planetarium house
;exotlc plant life or marine
:ille?
J 2. Aroyl acelatc has an odor
alike which fruit?
J 3. In which slate of the U.S.
fdld the Whiskey Rebellion oc
cur? f 4. Of the big game animals
;in the U. S., are there more
Snoose, deer or bear?
J 5. Who was responsible for
the "Massacre of the Inno
cent!" at Bethlehem?
- 6. Is the right side of a
j ... ship (lookmg forward) the
: starboard I ' the port side?
i 7. i "The Three Sisters,"
j "Rainier" and "Hood" are all
what?
8. - What did Napoleon say
an army marched on?
" O nM I onn TrnloWv u,k.
w was oanisnea irum me uosh,
die a natural death in Mexico?
10.' "Pickett's Charge" oc-
m.imhuS In whit fltwisltm hut.
tie of the-' War Between the
V Slates;? .;. '..-., ':
i 11. i Neither. (Me-dei oi rap
reitmtiiion of tha planetary
vatemh 2. Bananas 9. Feniv
( ty'vaniai 4. Deem 5. Herodi
V Btaxboarai 7. mountains;
.Its stomach) 9. No, h was
- fusfjslntladi 10. CUttyeburg.
Rivers and Partisanship
In 1948, the Rogue River Basin project was
killed. It died in the cross-fire of people interested
in irrigation, flood control, power, fish, and rec
reation. ' . p
' These varying interests could not compro
mise their differences.
Later, after a long series of delicate negotia
tions, the Talent project wa$ "chopped off" from
the overall basin development project, and re
ceived the support of the people of the basin, at
best, or a lack of noisy opposition, at worst.
It was authorized, and is now nearing com-
' ,
DUT the Rogue project itself lay dead.
And it staved dead until two thihe-s ban
Dened : ;
" 1. Disastrous floods
Rogue, from above Shady Cove to below Grants
rass, in me winter oi
2. A VlPoi'ous. lmnetnnns. nrririifiniis ranrliri
ana intelligent young Eugene lawyer, Charles O.
Porter by name, was elected Congressman from
this district in November of 1956. " .
TheRfi two fflf'tni'S hrpaf.hnrl now lifo l'nfn tha
long-dormant plans. , It js now a "live" : issue.
Studies are Wfill alnno'. Tf is hahavad thav nan ha
COmnleterl in t.imp tr ni
1962, during the second
gress. -
Its chances of passage then look good.
rNE of the moving
v"' rolling again was
sprang up after the 1956-56 floods, which had the
cumbersome name of Rogue Basin Flood Control
and Water Resources Association.
This was composed of many local organiza
tions, But in practice, its governance was handled
by a 16-man board of directors.
They are all men who are dedicated to even
tual development of the Roeue basin. And this
time, it had been hoped,
varied "special interests
a plan which will harm
and benefit all.
This is commendable. :
.-',;,
DUT there is such a tiding as being so dedicated
" to a single objective that you can't take into
consideration anything else. ' ,
There is such a thing as not recognizing other
worthy projects which (in these single-minded,
dedicated eyes) might , conceivably delay the
tning you re wonting tor.
There is such a thing as being blind to politi
cal realities, engineering realities, and the reali
ties of widespread public opinion.
And there is also
non-partisan organization tor violently parti
san purposes, while, at
up1 one's hands in mock horror at "dirty old
politics.
IF WE read the signs aright, the small board of
1 directors of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and
Watei; Resources association has trapped itself in
that cul de sac which often is the dead-end for
single-minded, dedicated organizations which
won't listen to the opinions of others including,
be it noted, some of the groups which comprise
its own membership.
It has played dog -
Rogue River Valley Irrigation district, which
wants and needs the Agate Dam project, on the
grounds that this small project, to be tied in to
the Talent project, might delay the over-all basin
project their Holy of Holies.
And this despite the best possible political
and engineering advice that such would not be
the case. . ' '
THEY lashed out at the
Agate proiect as a small,
irrigation and recreation
valley.
And this week thev
Congressman Charles 6. Porter (without whohi
the Rogue, project would still be a dead issue),
largely because he, too, supports the Agate
project. '
They did so by using the device of calling
themselves "non-partisan" (which they are, or
should be), and expressing a self-righteous horror
at a frankly partisan press release he had issued
for use AFTER he was to meet with them the
other night. : -
yjLTELL, it's the silly season, so one can expect
" more of this type of thing.
But one is tempted to wonder how much sub-
rosa partisanship entered into the decision to
withdraw Porter's invitation to the "non-partisan"
board because of his frank and open parti
san approach to his campaign for reelection.
, Either they re babes in the political woods,
or else thev'i'e out gunning for the Congressman
and upholding the
partisanship to do it. We see no third alterna
tive. . : , . ;
QN SECOND thought, maybe there is a thh'd
alternative.
Maybe they're afraid to listen to Porter, and
his factual recounting of what has been done on
their pet project, plus his "political" pitch for
support. ' , . , v
Maybe they're afraid he just might convince
them that he's right. And wouldn't that be awful !
It reminds us of the little girl who said : '
"I'm awfully glad I donrt like spinach, be
cause if I did, I'd eat
stuff." E.A.
bit trip, main atom if tha
j.oo - bb.
- pspnf. f.Vio nrnnnaalo in
session of the 87th Con
factors in getting things
an organization which
the differences of the
' could be reconciled m
no one special interest.
such a thing as using a
the same time throwing
in - the - manger , with the
Medford Chamber of
but important, bit of
development for the
vented their sn een at
lily-white banner of "non-
it, and I hate the darn
Dennis the
'-" " ' 'l"1'1!,. ' ' g) iqSP. 7HC tWL S-rP7fe IXM.d
I donY cAlllbttuce
J CALL POTATO SAIAV
Matter of Fact M
'THE SPEECH' '
En Route with Nixon - In
pelting, rain in Memphis, in a
thin drizzle in Arkansas, be
fore a poor
crowd', in
Queens and a
good crowd, in
Mineola, and
In other plac
es too numer
ous to men
tion, Vice
President Nix
on has been
d o g g e d ly
making "the speech" in the
soomewhat nervous days since
the television debate with
Sen. Kennedy. 1
Veteran members of the
Nixon campaign entourage
call It "the speech," because
It always is, always has been,
and presumably always will
be just about the same speech.
It has the uniformity, and
some would say, the approxi
mate intellectual consistency
of toothpaste. It may be
squeezed out long or short;
but this is the only significant
variation.
Technically, "the speech" is
not an absolute innovation in
American politics. Judging by
reports, Senator Kennedy's
shorter orations are also high
ly standardized. In the pre-
convention campaign of 1952,
Sen. Robert A. Taft, one of
the least artful and most
forthright leaders in our his
tory,; also made the same
points in the same words on
every street corner and plat
form in America. Indeed one
suspects that Nixon's use of
the speech" is imitated from
Taft. ,
BUT there is an important
difference between "the
speech" that Nixon delivers,
and the flat, pedestrian, opin
ionated, fact-crammed, trans
parently honest, wonderfully
self-receiving discourse that
all reporters following Bob
Taft eventually came to learn
by heart.
In the speech, as deliv
ered by Nixon, there is much
emotion but there are almost
no facts at all. A reference to
the link between the cotton
bolls in Mrs. Nixon's ceremo
nial bouquet and the cotton
output of Arkansas is about
par for the factual course.
There is no self-revelation in
'the speech," either; only Nix
on's public personality is on
view. As to the opinions ex
pressed, they are all contain
ed in the following shortened
version of the speech :
ReliKlon. Ideals, the fam-
Uv. America, the voters, Pres
ident Eisenhower, Henry Cab
ot Lodge, and peace are all
good things! Communism,
poverty, Khrushchev, appease
ment, farm surpluses, ana war
are . all bad things! Senator
Kennedy Is also a bad thing,
because he keeps saying that
America's world position has
been deteriorating.
But that does not mean
we have no problems. Take
(here Insert your favorite
problem, whether it be civil
rights, or farm surpluses, or
the balanca of military power
in the world). This U a nation
al problem . . , We need to
make progress in this field
All Americans must move
forward . . . W must leave
no one behlndl"
T H E sentences emphasized
-l arc those the Vice Presi
dent actually used, when out
lining his proposed specific
solution of the civil rights
problem in Memphis. But al
most the same sentences serve
him almost equally well to
outline solutions for all the
other problem!!. "Progress,"
"moving forward," "keeping
America first," are also good
things.
As can be seen, "the speech"
docs not offer its hearers an
indigestible Intellectual diet.
That docs not mean, however,
(hat It is unsuccessful.
As a salt smansnip, u l.
very good indeed. There arc
moments when it comes 30
close to a television commer-,
cial that you expect to hear I
Menace
an' tomatoes salad;
SAIAD'"
Joseph Alsop
a boast about "the BIGGER,
more GENEROUS quart con
tainer." The use of these well
tested devices of emphasis is
effective, although not always
attractive.
It is all the mose effective,
too, because of the happily
simple Nixonian division- be
tween good things and bad
things. A throbbing lilt in the
speaker's voice invites the
listening thousands to cheer
for peace, America, and fam
ily life. A sudden hardening
of tone calls for hisses for
Khrushchev, war, and weak
ness. And the invited respons
es almost automatically occur,
as though buttons had been
pushed in the crowd.
YET one cannot avoid won
dering why this highly
intelligent, remarkably well
informed man, capable of
such an effort as the accep
tance speech at Chicago,
should be stumping the coun
try with a standard campaign
speech of Just this kind. Is
it because, he thinks the vot
ers are like queasy infants
who reject any nourishment
moire solid than pablum? This
has not been his view in the
past. -
Or is it because Nixon
thinks the best campaign
strategy is to begin with tele
vision commercials, and to go
on to something more serious
later on? This may be the
case. He has already begun
to publish special position pa
pers, like the interesting one
on education. On special oc
casions, too, he has addressed
himself in some detail to spe
cial, topics, as in his farm
speeches.
Yet, "the speech" remains
a mystery, - all the same, un
less, you simply assume that
Nixon Is mainly trying to
avoid the Charybdis of Bob
Taft's kind of Republicanism
and the Scylla of Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller's more novel and
controversial brand. If this is
the answer to the riddle, the
double effort of avoidance is
successful. But it must be add
ed that this effort has also
landed the Vice President in
a kind of , middle-of-the-road
void.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Election Striking No
By ERIC SEVAREID
For the expectant European
audience, the Presidential
campaign,
so far, has been a
drear and dis
tant failure, a
drama devoid
, of meaning to
1 them -indeed,
almost a play
of shad ows
without living
actors. Inter
est abroad is
declining, not
1 n t ensifying,
sevareld
as the climatic period of the
play begins.
This is so not only because
Khrushchev has been dominat
ing recent headlines, not only
because most Europeans can
not tell a Democrat from a Re
publican, not only because
they know America will re
main a democracy whoever
wlps.
It is chiefly so because
neither candidate has launch
ed a personality or an idea
with the carrying power of
trans-Atlantic trajectory. Nei
ther has uttered a speech or
a sentence that has stirred the
European spirit or charmed its
intellect.- From this contest
Europe has received nothing
remotely comparable to the
skyrocketing conceptions of
Wilson, Roosevelt, Stevenson,
even Willkic; nothing that
could make Europeans in the
gloom of darkening events, say
with the poct-'But Westward,
look, the land is bright!"
' Those closer to the field of
battle may know why this is
so, whether the two men are
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE TV DEBATE
The TV debate was a bold
innovation which Is bound to
carried
forward into
future cam
paigns, and
could not now
be abandon
ed. From now
on It will be
impossible for
any candidate
1 for any im
portant elec-
tWra r1foA in
Walter ' - - -' '. , u 1
upBDiann a v oi d t h 1 s
kind of confrontation with
his opponent.
This will have consider
able consequences. One of the
most interesting is that it will
break down . the synthetic
candidates, the men who
communicate with the public
only by reading speeches
that other men have written
The TV confrontation forces
a man to speak for himself
For which he will still be
able to recite passages writ
ten by others-as bJth Ken
nedy and Nixon did - the
whole effect is the product
of the candidate himself, and
not of his ghost writers and
public relations men.
In this first try, which can
be improved in the future, the
main impact was not that of
a real debate. It was the
showing, as no other medium
could, of the two personali
ties. TV, it is often said," is a
truth machine. What the ma
chine revealed is hard to put
into words. But 'we may be
sure that the chief effect of
what it revealed will not be
felt immediately in the opin
ions of the voters but on their
unconscious attitude towards
the two men. That is probab
ly the r e a s o n why imme
diately after, the debate it
proved impossible to measure
the' effect on the election
-
fF THE experiment itself,
v I would make two criti
cisms.
The first is that the camer
as, which can be very search
ing but can also be cruel and
sometimes unfair,-, were very
hard on Mr. Nixon. I do not
for a moment suggest that
they were intended to be un
fair. Almost certainly, how
ever, they were not corrected
for his photogenic defects
They made him look sick.
which he is not, and they
made him look older and
more worn than he is. I do
not understand the technical
reasons for this. But they
should be studied. For it was
a misrepresentation and we
must make sure for the fu
ture that the cameras are in
fact impartial
My second, criticism is that
the procedure, as agreed to
by the candidates themselves,
prevented the exchanges from
becoming a genuine debate.
The candidates should be able
to question one another, sub
ject to the right of the mod
erator to rule a question as
out of order. There is no rea
son, except of course the
prudence of the candidates
themselves, why there should
be interposed between them
a panel of interrogators
Furthermore, in my view
if there is to be a genuine de
bate which is to have a decis
ive influence on the national
election, an hour is too short
a time to devote to. domestic
affairs. There is something
unsuitable in having the two
men, one of them is to be the
saving their heavy shells for
the climax, or are restraining
themselves for fear of loosing,
in the wrong direction, a land
slide among the immense
number of apparently unde
cided voters-or whether they
simply have no incandescent
ammunition in their lockers.
Whatever the reason, a dull
sense of resignation is creep
ing upon the most attentive
Europeans', even upon those
who had given up on Mr. Ei
senhower long ago and were
so certain that the change to
either Nixon or Kennedy
would be an electrifying
change, heralded by a thrilling
campaign battle of young and
bold Ideas.
5
They have found no cause
for excitement in either man,
in terms of arresting Soviet
advances, in terms of cleans
ing the dirty international
weather or even in terms of
their own specific needs and
problems.
Those very few with inti
mate experience of America
can read between the lines of
the campaign speeches and re
alize that Kennedy cannot
harp endlessly upon America's
physical weaknesses without
risking a negative reaction;
that Nixon cannot truly urge
Americans to greater efforts
without tacitly admitting ad
ministration failures, and yet
cannot say that all' is well be
cause he has embraced the
Rockefeller doctrine of exer
tion. They can see that each
man is boxing a very confined
compass. ,
But there ii much that they
be
fell
Uppmann
next President of the United
States, told that they have
three minutes and 20 sec
onds" to turn up. If these de
bates are worth having at all,
they should be allowed to run
on without rigid time limits
until the two principals them
selves have had their full
say. If that proves to be bor
ing to some of the audience,
it will be enlightening to the
rest of it.
.
AS FOR the show itself,
eanh nerson's reactions are
personal and subjective. My
general feeling was that both
men treated each other with
dignity and respect, and be
haved as the citizens of a
free county are supposed to
behave.
My main surprise came
from the fact that I expected
Mr. Nixon to be the more ag
gressive of the two. It turned
out that he was on the defen
sive, responding to the chal
lenges which Mr. Kennedy
put to him.
I have since read the text
of the debate, and it supports
this impression of Kennedy's
holding the initiative. But
the impression is less vivid
in the text than it was, for
me at least, in the viewing.
And that difference was due,
I believe, to what the cam
eras did to Mr. Nixon and to,
the general effect of his phy
sical vitality being lower
than Mr, Kennedy's.
F
-sef
FACT, so much did he
seem to be on the defensive
that I became convinced that
he was far from happy and
comfortable in the position he
occupies on the welfare mea
sures, and on the question of
economic growth. It would be
only a little exaggerated to
say that he sounded as if he
wished he had Kennedy's
side of the argument. Cer
tainly he had no burning con
victions against the Kenne
dy position, and to my ear he
was diffident and apologetic
in dealing with it.
This effect of being in a
minor key may well be the
result-I am reasonably sure
it ,is the result-of his trying
to deal with three conflict
ing pressures, one coming
from Goldwater reactionar
ies, one from the Rockefeller
progressives, and one from
the Eisenhower record itself.
As a result of these pres
sures he looked and sounded
like a man who knew that he
was in a difficult position and
was determined to preserve
his dignity and to make the
best of it. '
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Potluck has been miss
ing from this page the last
iwo Sundays.
It was the victim of a sur
plus number of things the
Potluck editor (who also
has other chores) had to do.
It may or may not be re
vived. - . '
Did you miss it? Do you
want it back?
The Potluck editor wants
to know whether it's worth
the effort to write the col
umn each week, or whe
ther readers would soon
er have more serious things
to read about.
Sparks in Europe
feel both men could say about
Europe and its problems. They
can get no clear conceptions,
at least from the campaign
speeches as reported abroad
as to how much the candidates
believe in the economic inte
gration of Europe and how
strongly they would push it;
whether they would oppose
dcGaulle's anti-integration in
fluence, encourage or discour
age British entry into the
Common Market, restrict, or
expand the arming of Ger
many. They do not know what
value either man places upon
free Berlin. They do not know
how keenly either man realiz
es the implications of the tre
mendous role the President
has sketched out for the Unit
ed Nations, the effect, for ex
ample, of general UN custodi
anship over Africa upon Eu
rope's own pace and system
for altering the status of Al
geria or Kenya or Nyasaland.
As for the Asiatic tinderboxes,
while th-y know both Nixon
and Kennedy would refuse to
deal with Red China, they
have no idea whether either
man would withdraw those
fragile hostages to our com
mon fortune, the off-s h 0 r e
islands.
The truth is that Europe
does not know either Nixon
or Kennedy. Kennedy has not
recently appeared in Europe,
and while Nixon' has visited
Britain, he left a confused
and Impermanent impression.
As far as Europe is concerned,
Mr. Nixon suffers from having
been the understudv of a
President that Europjj, - to
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
T HERE'S ONE swank hospital in New York where rich
folk go to rest up from the merry march of cocktail
parties and galas. The town's best brawls have been held
in some of those private
hospital suitesl
One day a group of a
male patient's friends in
vaded the premises with
a whole case of liquor
and before long everybody,-including
the pa
tient, was pie-eyed. The
next inorning the donor
of the liquor woke up
with a very guilty con
science. Ho phoned the
hospital and asked to talk
to his incapacitated pal,
Biff Carter.
"Sorry," reported a hospital attendant, "but Mr. Carter is
no longer with us." - ;
"Good Lord!" gasped the caller. "What happened?" e
"Mr. Carter was so sick this morning," explained the at
tendant, "that we had to send him home." t
i860, by Bennett Cerf. Blstril uted by King Features Syndicate
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From Whittler, Calif.:
Dr. Albert Upton, chairman
of Whlttier college's English
department and a former pro
fessor of Vice President Nix
on, says he thought the Kennedy-Nixon
TV debate was a
disappointment.
"I never saw two such
eggs laid in my life," he told
a reporter. "I suppose we
have to regard It as good
when two American politi
cians act as gentlemen.
"But if that is what is
known as a history-making
debate, I hope they , call off
the rest of them."
rpUT! Tut! Dr. Upton.
I'm afraid you're getting
old.
In these days GLAMOR is
the big word.
FROM New York:
Emily Post, internation
ally famous authority on the
social graces, dies. She had
been in poor health for sev
eral years.
WHO was Emily Post?
She was a gracious influ
ence in the world. Born in
Baltimore in 1873 into a gra
cious and cultured family,
she made a career out of good
manners. Her book, Eti
quette," written in her mid
dle years, established her as
an authority on proper be
havior and made her world
famous.
It is a complete encyclope
dia on how people should be
have in.all kinds of situations,
In it, she erve rules for all
occasions. But5 she emphasiz
ed above all her own belief
that good manners are less a
matter of rules than, in her
own word "a sensitive
awareness to the needs of
others." '
She was able to adapt her
self to changing social condi
tions and revised her buok at
frequent intervals to include
new practices of polite be
havior. CJUGGESTION to Mr. Kroosh
Buv vourself a codv of
Emily Post's book. Study it
carefully, thoughtfully - even
prayerfully. Note its disap
proval of those who make
themselves bulls in china
shops. Heed its precepts - es
pecially those having to do
with the importance of a sen-
put it bluntly - has grown
tired of; and Mr.- Kennedy suf
fers from the fact of having
supplanted Adlai Stevenson,
the American beacon for an
astonishing number of respon
sible Europeans, and the man
whose mind they feel they do
know.
I suppose no Presidential
candidate in mid-campaign
would accede to this sugges
tion, and none would do so
purely In the interests of al
lies, who are not, after all,
doing the voting. But there is
one simple act that would
bring the whole campaign in
to focus for Europe and other
foreign regions; one act that
would reveal the minds of the
two candidates in world terms.
That would be the public des
ignation now, by each man of
his prospective Secretary of
State. Whatever the names,
whether Bowles or Stevenson
or Dillon or someone else, they
would be the names of men
who have accumulated mean
ingful, dissectible records on
the specific problems of Eu
rope, Africa and Asia.
If the two names were now
would be able to take the first
woud be able to take the first
real measure of Nixon and
Kennedy and to see if they do
significantly differ on the
great global Issues. Indeed, it
is not only the outside world
that would feel enlightened,
but a fair few millions of per
plexed American vote"rs.
(Distributed 1960 by
The Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
Sf op Me
JENKINS
sltive awareness of the needs
of others.
If you will do this, - you
might be able to make some
thing of yourself yet. , .
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Count Your Blessings t
To the Editor: It seems wa
have a person in southern
Oregon who has a very low
opinion of the United States.
Every day, or so, this man
writes to this paper complain
ing about the U.S. and show
ing his liking for Russia. He
says we have poverty.
I guess we do, some, but
for every family in the U.S.
who is hard pressed, there
are many more in Russia who
are worse off. I don't believe
U.S. government has ever
starved ten million (or more)
citizens to death as the Red
Chinese have. Or forced us
to live in communes. ,
Another time he spoke of
death on our highways. Well,
for my part, I would rather
die on the highway than be
murdered by Russian tanks,
as the poor souls in Hungary
were. These poor people want
ed only to free themselves
from the Hell of Communism.
I wonder if this person has
ever thought about what
would happen to him if he
lived in a Communist coun
try and was caught . saying
the things he now has the
freedom to say. If this per-'
son I'm speaking of thinks
he can have more freedom
in some Communist country,
then I suggest he get going.
As for me, I am proud to
be an American citizen. Here
in the U.S. I can vote for
whom I want to be my leader.
He might not win, but I have
the freedom to vote. I wonder
how many common people in
Communist countries have
this freedom?
Yes, our government has re
strictions on us all right but,
for every restriction there are
freedoms too many to write
in this space.
He spoke of losing his prop
erty to the government. Well,
he's lucky. The people in Com
munist countries don't own
any property to lose.
If Communism is so won
derful, why is it that for
every person who leaves the
West and goes to live in the
East, we have a million or
two who leave the East and
comes to the West to live?
When they are asked why
they left their homeland of
Communism, they all say, we
wanted to have freedom.
So my friend, I think you
should count your blessings
while you still have some to
count.
Don Turnbaugh,
(A Korean Vet)
Box 18-A,
Applegate, Ore.
Thanks
To the Editor: We would
like to thank the residents of
Medford for the kind recep
tion given us on our recent
candy sale for the Oregon
Crippled Childrens Hospital
School in Eugene. This school
is for children from anv nart
of Oregon who need special
scnooung and therapy be
cause of physical handicaps.
Because of the generosity
of the people In this area we
were able to send over $300
to the school.
Deepest thanks from Alnha
Lambda and Delta Omea
chapters.
Mrs. C. R. Harrison
Secretary. Alpha Lambda
Epsilon Sigma Alpha Int'l
Medford.