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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, I960 'Communications Letters to th Editor must bear the nam and addreu of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication it 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 necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary it often the case. Mot Selling Anything To the Editor: Today I was visited by a "But, Lady, I'm Not Selling Anything." He was from the Mumble Mumble Survey Service and wanted to know how often we moved and if we knew where we were moving to when we moved. If so, he had 3 to 5 magazine subscriptions for me! Now wasn't that nice of him? Of course he wasn't "telling" anything.. I've been visited by $35 Bible salesmen not selling anything, $50 photo album ladies not selling anything; and once at 7 a.m. by a mem ber of the Mumble Mumble Foreign Legion that needed only 15 more magazine sub tcriptions so he could go to college in Hawaii. He wasn't selling anything either. And let's not forget the pots and paners. All their atuff is free if you get every one else to buy some too. What I'd like to know is this-when is open season on magazine salesmen and what it the limit? I'll stick with the Avon lady, the Fuller Brush man and the Raleigh and Watklns people. At least they TELL you they are selling. (Please don't sign my real name or address to my letter if you decide to print it. My husband thinks only Republi cans, idiots and religious fana tics write "Letters to the Ed itors.") Jackson County Housewife " (Name on file) Mothers To the Editor: In all re tpect and honor, let us con aider mothers. Your mother and mine. 1 When mother says that lomething is vulgar, that it could incite and lead into temptation, her sacred trust (her children), let the whole nation harken unto her, for the Madonna has spoken. No matter how right we consider our broad minded approach to the modern world, let us bow and con cede to mother. For mothers know. . By the fruit the tree is known. ' In all sincerity. Ida Kelly ''; 1141 Pinecroft ave. Medford t Bathrooms . To the Editor: When I wuz t boy in Placerville, we had 2 bathrooms. One wuz 300 feet long and 8 feet wide. Everybody in Placerville could take a bath at the same time. We could take a steam bath in one end of the bath room and freeze to death in th nthpr The bath tubs WUZ made of rocks, but they had tome gold and uranium in than. The walls, ceiline and 1nnr uniz made nf rocks with 2 creeks running through the bathroom. The creeks emptied Into the San Miguel River, but that didn't imDrove the fishing in the bathtub much. Most of the fish in the San Miguel died from the stomache ache, eating too much gold from the Telluride Gold Mines. When the New Deal went off the gold standard, the fish got well and we got sic. We didn't build the bathroom a mile from the kitchen. That's where it wuz when the old Prospector struck it, 300 feet back in the hill. We had another bathroom Placerville. It wasn't a mile from the kitchen. It was the well which wuz a mile from the kitchen. We had running water in the kit chen, but I had to run 2 miles to get it. . The water wuz heated in the bathroom with pine-cones. That ain t good either. vummne out of der bathtub & times to put pine cones in the stove. The bath room was 3 feet in diameter with handles on it. The han dles wuz hot, but ve man aged to carry the bathroom from the top of the stove to the vood-box and take a bath behind the wood-box. My Grandparents had the same kind of bathroom on the old homestead in the sandhills around Julesburg. Dere kids could splash vater all ofer der bathroom und it vouldn't hurt anyting. It was a sod bath room. Der bathroom wasn't mile from der kitchen, it vas der restroom. Ven ve come to Oregon t'ings vas getting a little bet ter, that is, some t'ings. Ve got der old Brush car. Dot vas der only ting we ofer had vqt ve couldn't get a mile from der kitchen. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Signal Needed To the Editor: I would like to write a communication about seeing what could be done about a stoplight and turning signal at Kim's Res taurant and Charlotte Anne rd. I live on Charlotte Anne rd.. and turn off the highway every day going to work. I put my turning signal on, put my arm out the window to sig nal and then I don't know if the car behind me is going to hit me in the rear or not. Last week end had a sam pie, a women getting killed there. Seems to me too many people have gotten killed so far. Besides the speed limit is 50 miles per hour, which is too fast. Turning off in this fos-is iust like suicide. HoDe some otner people will write a complaint and see what could be done before someone else Bets killed. A Resident on Charlotte Anne rd. (Name on File) Oklahoma City -When the n.imap nf a rnmnnct car re turned to a garage to get his auto, he discovered it was smaller than when he left it. The car had rolled 25 feet down an elevator shaft. An average five-room house contains about 2,000 pieces of lumber. . LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BW? Gandee Elected Chairman of Area Promotion Group Ron Gandee, Medford, was elected chairman of the execu tive committee of the Vaca tion Land of Southern Ore-, gon organization at a meet-i ing of chamber of commerce: representatives here Thursday. The organization is made up of presidents, managers and tourist committee choir men of chambers of com merce in Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and Cave Junc tion. The group was organized to direct and supervise a pro gram of advertising in maga zines and southern California metropolitan newspapers to attract tourist trade to Jack son and Josephine counties. Funds for the program have been budgeted by both coun ty governments. Other Members The executive committee includes Archie Fries, Ash land, vice chairman, Carl Speith, Cave Junction, and Len Grover, Grants Pass. Don McNeil, manager of the Med ford chamber, will serve as secretary-treasurer. Brochures will be printed by the Journal Print Shop of Yreka, Calif., for the promo tion program. The Journal Print Shop was low bidder on the project. The brochures will be printed in four col ors. Brochures will be forward ed to persons who return cou pons clipped from advertis ing displays in Sunset and Westways magazines. Accom panying the brochures will be business reply cards for those who seek more detailed infor mation about specific areas in either Jackson or Jose phine county. The executive committee will consult with both coun ty courts to account for ex penditures, review the pro gram, -and suggest changes. i a a li AUkf 1 SATURDAY City of Newberg Gets Sewage Aid Portland-OIPU-The U.S. De partment of Health, Education and Welfare Friday announ ced it had approved a $77,880 grant to aid Newberg in con struction of its secondary sew age plant. The total project for New berg is anticipated to cost $276,155. '' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS With certified election re sults in from all 50 states Senator Kennedy holds a thin lead of about 113,000 in the popular vote over Nixon. Here is the tabulation (in round figures): Kennedy 34,231,000 Nixon 34,117,000 Others 505,000 Total vote - 68,853,000 I0ok m Jewel HuSe fa biggest diamond Values efgr- If rc Convenient Terms I qUick'y arranfled 4j I 12 CARAT Total Weight i50 Also Other Sizes ar Comparable Low Pr)ceil JEWEL HOUSE Across From Penney at 103 N. Central LET'S look now at percentages. Of the total votes cast for President, Kennedy got 49.715 per cent. Nixon got 49.550 per cent. Others (meaning scatter ing minor candidates in the various states) got 0.735 per cent. Which is to say: Kennedy got less than half of the total votes cast. But Nixon's per centage of the total votes cast was a trifle SMALLER than Kennedy's. T ET'S look now at the total TWO-PARTY vote. It amounted to 88.348.000. Kennedy got 34,231,000 votes. His percentage of the total two-party vote was 50.083. Nixon got 34,117,000. His per centage of the total two-party vote was 49.917-a record-low percentage difference of 0.166, or about one-seventh of one per cent. In other words, by a hair- thin margin, Kennedy got MORE THAN HALF of the total two.nartv vote cast- which means that he won the POPULAR vote as well as the electoral vote. IT WAS a narrow squeak so far. that Is. as the popu lar vote was concerned. But let's accept it with good grace and call off the aogs. 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