MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, I960
'Communications
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writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen
name or initial for publication it permissible. The Mail
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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.
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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
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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.
Thic is worth remembering
In no other major country on
earth, with the prooaoie ex
ntinn nf Great Britain
could the changing oi ine
arA Wa offartprl with so
small a margin WITHOUT
TROUBLE. That is something
mnptli urhilo
It is true that in these mod
ern days our electoral col-
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lege syaiein muiva j
But, all in all, our system oi
choosing a President is pretty
good. Let's not start tinkering
utiivi it-vet.
Mr. Kennedy is our next
President. Difficult days lie
ahead of him-especially in the
field of foreign policy. Left
all get behind him and give
him all the help we can in
that tricky and dangerous
area.
He'll need all the help he
can get.
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