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Medlord and Jackson County
History from the flies of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30., AO
and 50 years aoo.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1951 (Saturday)
A "wildcat" walkout of
railroad switchmen on the
West Coast, has affected Med
lord so badly that a passenger
train scheduled to leave here
. for Portland last night was
unable to do so when the
crew failed to report for
work.
State Rep. Robert Boot (R
Medford) said today his "little
Taft-Hartley act" is intended
to strike a balance, between
the rights of labor and the
rights of management in Ore
gon. 20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1941 (Monday)
The Jackson at. bridge was
threatened with destruction
this morning when a large tar
melline machine that is Be
ing used during bridge repairs
went up in names.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Rural
residcnls report frog male
quartettes in their pastures
have started singing Locked
in the Muddle of the Puddle.
This is one of the surest signs
of spring." '
30 YEARS AGO ,
Feb. 3, 1931 (Thursday)
The county court, will se
lect an architect soon to de
sign the new county court
house to be located on the
old Washington school site.
A Jury was selected yester
day for the trial of a con
fessed killer charged with
slaying an Ashland city po
liceman. -
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1921 (Friday)
The Trigonia oil well In
Fern valley is now down 800
feet and signs of oil are said
to be more pronounced.
The Greater Medford club
Is urging citizens . to plant
trees on their property.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1911 (Friday) .
The county court yesterday
appropriated $7,500 toward
construction of a national
guard armory in Ashland.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior:
avon or eight is excellent; five el
Ix ft good.
1. Which noted American
said "I will return"?
2. Was it a King or a Queen
who reigned longest In Eng
land?
3. A group of lions is called
a P -1 - c?
4. Which deceased New
York Governor was frequent
ly called "the happy war
rior"?
5. Name the motion picture
actress who had the leading
role in the movie, "Mother
Wore Tights."
6. Jade is always green; true
or lalse?
7. Is the State of Massachu
setts, Wisconsin, or Now Jer
sey the leading state In cran
berry producUon?
8. The zodiac sign for those
persons born between Oct. 23
and November 23 is Sagitta
rius or Scorpio?
9. Bruno Hauptman was ex
ecuted in 1935 for the kid
napping of whose baby?
10. The noted painter, Rem
brandt Van Rijn, was -t
Dutch, Swedish, or Norwegian
nationality?
Antwern 1. Douglas Mae
Arthur. 2. A Queen (Victoria
- 1837 to 1901). 3. Prido. 4.
Alfred E. Smith. S. Betty Gra
bit. 8. False. 7. Massachusetts.
8. Scorpio. 9.Th Charles A.
Lindberghs' baby. 10. Dutch.
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Ca NEWSPAPER
V--ASSOCIATION
FEBRUARY 3, 19S1
Who Represents Who?
Bob Taylor, newly-installed president of the
Medford Chamber of Commerce, is a forthright
guy who calls the shots as he sees them.
He did so in a talk at the chamber's round
table the other day, and painted a splendid and
optimistic future for Medford and vicinity.
With most of what he said we agree. We're
just as optimistic as he is about the future of the
Rogue valley, while at the same time believing
that it's going to take some forethought and plan
ning to make it (or, perhaps we should say, keep
it) an attractive and livable place.
-.
DISAGREE, however, with a few of his
" remarks. In particular, this one:
"I don't think we have the caliber of people on the
council to represent business that business is entitled to."
Well, Bob is entitled to his opinion. But he's
on pretty shaky ground here. For instance :
Or the eight members of the city council, five
are members of Bob's own chamber of commerce.
Six, if you count the mayor.
Four of the eight are definitely "business
men," and others certainly could be called that.
"TAYLOR is understandably concerned with the
business community, and therefor is serving
the chamber of commerce which is to his credit.
But the city council was not created to serve
the business people of Medford it .was created
to govern the entire city,
population, not just business people. : ,
There are about 725 members of the chamber
of commerce ; the population of the city is about
25,000. One could make
business is OVERrepresented on the council.
The principal reason
is that the members of
them, anyway take their duties seriously, and
consider it their job to represent all the people
who elected them, not just business.
.
THE CHAMBER of commerce is a worthwhile
ni'fra niV'ifi'nn HPl-io .TVTi.il TVili ntm ic a rviiiYir.oi
(Its immediate past-president, in fact, is a Mail
Tribune executive.)
Ihe chamber is designed to represent busi
ness; the city council is
It the day ever comes
the economy is in the
administration, the city
That is not true now.
of the members of the council businessman,
attorney, barber, schoolteacher, or whatever
wno up io mis point nave
for the best interests of
a small part. hi. A. -
"Boeing
Well, now that the
settled on the Jjoardman
for future expansion of its missile operations,
maybe the rumor about Boeing moving into the
Medford area will cease for a while, anyway.
. We've been hearing the rumor for the past
dozen years, in one form
It popped up again uist the other day. A man
telephoned us ,to report that Boeing was trying
to buy a large acreage in the Talent area, and
that it was "being held up" by the city council.
-
IUST how the Medford city council could stop
f a company from buying land around Talent
wasn't explained. But, as always, we checked the
rumor and found it without foundation.
Having spent years tracking down rumors, 99
out of 100 of them baseless, we'd like to know
how they get started.
We know of one way. A city official (no long
er with us) once remarked to a friend, "I'm going
to start a rumor in the Elks club today and see
how long it takes it to get to the Mail Tribune."
It took just 17 minutes. E.A.
Morgan Makes Things Interesting
It was just 22 years ago, if memory serves,
that a young man named Howard Morgan was
serving as president of the student body of Keed
college in Portland. ,
He had just weathered a crisis in student gov
ernment, and at a later meeting was presented
with a plaque. It said :
"No matter what else can be said about the times
in which we live, no one can say they aren't interesting."
It was true then ; it's true today.
V
A ND ONE of the reasons it has been interesting
is because of people like Howard Morgan,
who was named to the Federal Power Commis
sion the other day.
, Howard is a tough cookie ; a man of strong
opinions,, keen intelligence, and the diplomacy
of a Hereford bull. He is also dedicated to serv
ing his concept of the public interest the inter
est of all the people, rather than a few.
He proved himself to be both tough and fair
when he served a tour of duty as Oregon's public
utilities commissioner. And' he was tough and
sometimes ruthless when he led the fight in the
Democratic party which was responsible for it
coming to life again in Oregon after many years
of hack leadership.
IN THE process of making life interesting, How
1 ard Morgan made powerful enemies, many
of whom are a credit to him.
H is a man who neither asks nor oives Quar
ter in a fight, and that is a good omen for the
difficult job he will be taking on in one of the
most controversial of government airencies."
! It is a credit to President Kennedy that he put I
abilityforMolitics (Morgan was a Stevenson
nan; in maiuiij; ins cnoiee. 1VA.
and to serve its entire
a pretty good case that
this is not really the case
the council or most of
not.
when one segment of
driver's seat in the city
will be misgoverned.
And that is to the credit
naci ine courage to wont
ALL the city, not just
Boeing Aircraft Co. has
site in eastern Oregon
or another.
Dennis the Menace
1-3
'YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD GO GOOD WITH THIS
GLASS OF MILK? A SIASS OF ROOT BR!'
...Communications ...
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact ihe
contrary is otten me case.
For Fair Taxation
To the Editor: The bum
bling, stupid and confusing
methods of financing the cost
of education in this state are
enough to make strong men
weep, The recent revelation
of how the allocation of O&C
funds for Jackson county dis
tricts penalizes taxpayers is
just another example of the
ridiculous, obsolete and dis
criminatory laws governing
school finance.
The use of the so - called
"Property Tax" to supply ap
proximately two - thirds of
school revenue is a vicious dis
crimination against those who
take the most pride in their
homes and communities. Gold
Hill is currently undertaking
program reminiscent of the
Make Medford Beautiful"
campaign conducted in Med
ford recently. The amount
they will be penalized for
their efforts will depend upon
how well they succeed in this
praise-worthy endeavor.
The term "Property Tax"
is obviously a misnomer.
When property is defined as
wealth, "possessions", "any
thing of value", how do we
justify the owner of a $500
equity in a $15,000 home pay
ing $300 a year tax, while the
holder of the mortgage pays
nothing? What of the millions
of dollars in the state that are
invested in stocks and bonds?
If we are 'to tax wealth, let's
tax all wealth equally.
Our own Mr. Duncan would
relieve businessmen of the
oppressive tax on inventories,
a worthy objective, no doubt,
but will It apply to farmers'
inventories of livestock and
produce? Another bill would
relieve property owners over
65 of their taxes. Might there
not be others below this age in
equal neca ot relief?
Our obvious need is men in
Salem with the- intelligence
and courage to face the fact
that tax laws that may have
served quite well a hundred
years ago, no longer fit the
needs of the present. Instead
of trying to appease various
pressure groups, give us just
and equitable taxes, based on
the ability to pay. Until they
do this, they are not earning
tneir ?ouo a year pittance.
Howard S. Wilson
Route 1, Box 280
Central Point, Ore,
Not As Strangers
To the Editor: Perhaps it
would interest you to know
that through the means of
your Communications page.
friendships have been made.
It is true that some of your
readers are in disagreement
with many things written
here. We live in a free coun
try, so aside from holding
differences of opinion to our
selves, we can express these
views publicly.
The other day the phone
rang and the individual on
the other end stated that he
and his wife had been enjoy
ing the communications col
umn. He indicated that thoy
would be happy to meet me
as they had been interested
in some of my letters. So again
our circle of friends has broad
ened. An interesting Sunday
afternoon visit resulted.
It is a small world, how
ever, for we soon found that
they knew many of our
friends. In the conversation
which ensued we found that
we had many things in com
mon. One. can almost liken
contacts like this with the
refreshing breezes that wafts
down from the mountains on a
hot summer day. Yes, they
were total strangers, but yet
they were not. When Christ
ian people meet they are
really not strangers. They
have the same Heavenly
Father. True they might wor
ship in a different church,
bl" if lhc lovc of Cnrist is
SJlTJS
i might find tomt of my
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
own close friends taking me to
task for such a statement,
We are all one in Christ. True
all Christians may not be fol
lowing all of the light that
there is in the Scriptures. But
as long as we step out and fol
low that light as it is revealed
to us, then we are safe.
"Of all the lessons to be
learned from our Lord's first
great temptation." In the
wilderness, none is more im
portant than that bearing
upon the control of the ap
petites and passions. In all
ages, temptations appealing
to the physical nature have
been most effectual in corrupt
ing and degrading mankind.
Through intemperance, Satan
works to destroy the mental
and moral powers that God
gave to man as a priceless en
dowment. Thus it becomes im
possible for men to appreciate
things of eternal worth
through sensual indulgence.
Satan seeks to blot from the
soul every trace of likeness to
God."
Credit to the foregoing lines
in quotes, goes to the book
"Desire of Ages." A volume
I highly treasure. It's com
ments draw one closer to
Christ and His word.
Henry Johnson Jr., '
2315 Highway 68,
Ashland, Ore.
First-Grader Bill
To the Editor: The follow
ing is a letter sent to State
Reps. John Dellenback and
Robert Duncan, and State Sen.
Monroe Sweetland, chairman
of the Senate committee on
Education, in support of House
Bill 1097:
Dear Sir:
I would like to take this
opportunity, to urge that you
support the adoption of House
Bill 1097 which sets a new
entrance age of July 1 for be
ginning first grade pupils.
Thousands of immature
children who are both physic
ally and emotionally unpre
pared to cope with first grade
work enter the first grade
each year. Statistics show that
there are many times the num
ber of retentions in the pri
mary grades among these im
mature children than there
are among those whose birth
days fall earlier. The first year
a child spends in school is
most important in forming at
titudes he will retain through
out his school years. The suc
cess and achievement he ex
periences are vital. The extra
few months gained by this
new proposal would be of un
told benefit to immature chil
dren and would certainly be
of harm to none.
As both a. parent and ad
ministrator of a primary
school, I feel that only those
who have dealt with this situ
ation really understand its
seriousness. Please help us
keep before the legislature
those educational bills that
k-e des-igned to impsove the
qua-M-ty of education for our
children.
William Brewster,
Principal, Jewett
Elementary school,
Central Point, Ore.
Good for the Dads
To the Editor: We, the stu
dents of West Side school,
would like to take this oppor
tunity to publicly thank some
of our dads for constructing
and installing our new score
board. Through the efforts of Mr.
Bob Kaay, Mr. Bill Warren,
and Mr. Joe Brooks we were
able to enjoy it at our first
home basketball game on
January 26.
The team and the entire
student body are very appre
ciative of the interest shown
by our dads and of the extra
time that they expended for
our benefit.
David Culbertson,
Secretary,
West Side School
Student Body.
t
Kennedy
In House
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington -IUP1K The Ken
nedy administration and the
Democratic party confront
ifff jreiLia their greatest
ffsfc&fSSrl challenge now
House of Rep
resentatives;
The Presi
dent and his
party are on
their own.
Thle political
battle over
control of the
Wilson
House Rules committee was
widely publicized. It was ex
plained to the voters in sim
ple terms. The explanation
was like this:
Bad guys, some Democratic
some Republican, were joined
in partnership to control the
Rules committee. This combi
nation often was able to pre
vent the House from consider
ing certain New Dealish legis
lation. The Kennedy adminis
tration and the House Demo
cratic leadership considered
Monopolies '
To the Editor: May I at
tempt to answer Mr. Clifford's
letter in last Sunday's M.T.?
Free-enterprise, in the com
mon usage of the term, de
notes a desire to engage in a
business or undertaking un
hampered, and as many of its
proponents would have it, un
regulated. This leads to mo
nopoly. Organized Labor is a loose
but misleading term used to
describe any coalition of
workers. Labor is far from
being completely organized.
The original intent and pur
pose of organized labor is to
protect and promote the wel
fare of its members, and is to
labor what chambers, clubs
and associations are to the
businessman.
In the course of progress
each of these groups have so
developed as to become each
a colossus, and being diamet
rically opposed have created
the present conflict. ,
This conflict between labor
and management is in reality
a - struggle for wealth and
domination, on the one hand
and a struggle for justice and
freedom on the other.
History shows certain men
came into power through pos
session in ways not always ex
plained in detail, and that lust
for more power and greater
wealth induced them to usurp
the production of labor
through slavery.
Slavery has been abolished,
largely, during the last few
centuries, but not without
great suffering in strife, hun
ger and bloodshed and in the
present century unions have
acted to regulate working con
ditions and wages, promote
health, stimulate economy by
increasing the purchasing
power of the worker and dis
tributing the proceeds more
evenly. Yet unions are not
without fault. Neither is free
enterprise untarnished, for at
times it has .been too free and
too enterprising for its cloak
of respectability to conceal the
horrors and human suffering
it has created in the past.
One need not go'back more
than a hundred years to re
veal many of the abuses I have
mentioned. A monopoly is a
dangerous thing regardless of
the field in which it arises, be
it business, labor, politics,
church or other phases of hu
man relations. Let none of
them get too powerful or
trouble is close at hand, as
history will attest.
There is a solution If we
wish to use it.
C. R. Burrill
122 Vilas rd. W
Central Point, Ore.
Mfen and 9oors
To the Edjtor: After sitting
and observing people walking
in and out of a super xnarhset
with autoMWtic deers, I have
come to the cona-Vusiom Svrt
seme nee we net loeaeV ier
them.
Of all'.he weee I tijsevvejel,
not one put their ii.mm out e
push open the door.
Some men walked in ati
out without using their riands.
Others put their hand out
to
push open the door and
when it flew open, put then"
hand back to their side as fast
as possible.
One man put his hand out
and when the door flew open.
rubbed the back of his neck
fast.
Another man did the same
and looked around to see if
anyone was watching and
scratched his head.
One man stood in the door
way watching that door, as if
he just dared it to close.
What if they some day have
automatic doors on cars?
Think of all the steps the
men would save, and the wear
on his shoe leather. But what
a dull life!
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Forces Find Great Challenge
of Representatives This Year
this bottle neck intolerable.
They broke it this week with
a House vote authorizing
Speaker Sam Rayburn to add
two Democrats both good
guys to the Rules commit
tee. .
One Republican Added
House Republican Leader
Charles A. Halleck at the
seme time was authorized to
name one more of his party
to the Rules committee. This
new Republican is to be a bad
guy but Rayburn's twq addi
tional members will give the
good guys committee control.
So, the good guys' have it.
Unlike the Roosevelt and the
Truman administrations, the
Kennedy administration will
not be able to blame the
House Rules committee for
any legislative setbacks. Har
ry S. Truman made a lot of
hay in 1948 with his campaign
against the Republican 80th
congress as the worst, ever.
When the House Rules com
mittee successfully challeng
ed FDR in 1936-37-38, Roose
velt moved against the Demo
Go m u I ka
Tightrope
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Polish Communist leader
Wladyslaw Gomulka is a good
Communist who likes to push
!sJ!J his luck.
.Jj How long
nis iuck win
i u :i
ly against so
formidable an
o p p o nent as
Nikita Khru
shchev, is a
matter of con
jecture. Nowsom -inis line or
thinking comes from two bits
of information from behind
the Iron Curtain. One said that
the Soviet Union is weary
ing of Gomulka's persistent at
tempts to strengthen and in
crease Poland's commercial
ties with the West.
The other comes from noth
ing less than Nowe Drogi, an
official publication ; of the
Polish Communist party."
Pea Soup
To the Editor: We see some
personality haggle creeping
into our Gold Hill hasslei Why
lose sight of the over-all Issues
in these trivial person against
person sparnngs?
"P"s for Personalities
Some pea soup's yellow,
some is green
While some is colored in be
tween; -
So the pea soup issue could
be wide
On which, perhaps, to
choose a side.
But when it comes to split
each pea ;
To prove it's yellowish
green degree-,
Right then and there we
have to say,
"We change our order
Consomme!"
Gold Hill Billy,
Gold Hill, Ore.
to
Lovely City, Lovely World
To the Editor: Gold Hill is
a lovely city. I said it and I
mean it!
I grew up in the large city
of Portland, and though it
shall always remain very close
and dear to my heart because
of relatives and many "old
friends," I wouldn't go back
there to live after having lived
here in Gold ill.
Here in this small city, I've
found peace, contentment,
time for reading things I love
to read, to study things I've
always been eager to learn.
Our children have the op
portunity to enjoy growing up
without the many restrictions
of a large city.
During summer there is the
beautiful Rogue River for
swimming, fishing, boating,
etc. Throughout the year the
hills surrounding us are
dressed in gorgeous colors of
varied shades. There are the
fsesh-looking green of the
trocs and the soft velvety
green of Wie grass in early
Qfln
AiO.CVGiVIST vAe ;iM i tfm w-wwei 5
gags get .i -:?.' rse IW:i iar
cently. After he iai strung out his fifteenth aalM(i 'a.
chairman interrupted to
tell him gravely, "We've
decided to ask you, sir,
to please put your speech
back on the cob!"
Two drunks were stag
gering through the lion
house in a zoo when one
lion gave a terrifying roar.
"Let's get out of here
quick," quavered the first,
drunk. "Don't be a fool,"
reproved the second. "The
picture's just starting!"
A promising young f manied-
French intellectual confessed to Voltaire why he was not man.ecL
he adored women-but they terrified him. All the more reason
to marry at once." Voltaire sssured him. "A m.tn m "JJ
only to fear one woman; an unmarried man lias to be afiaia oi
all of them." ......
5 1961. t Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feeture. Syndic -U -
cratic Rules committee chair
man and licked him in a New
York City congressional elec
tion. The Kennedy-Rayburn
challenge to the Rules com
mittee was on a broader front.
The margin of victory was
narrow, however, so narrow
that a shift of three House
votes would have defeated the
President and Rayburn.
GOP Fought Change
Halleck and the Republican
leadership went all. out to pre
vent the addition of good guys
to the Rules committee. It is
a fact, however that the House
Republican leadership and Re
publicans, generally, were
fearful of what the conse
quences, would be if they won.
Halleck and his associates
were determined that they
would not put their party on
the hot seat it occupied in
1948 when Truman was able
to blame everything, includ
ing bad weather, on the Re
publican party in Congress.
The fact is, the -administration's
victory is not likely
Still Wa I ks
Between
In a declaration of inde
pendence with possible wide
spread repercussions, Nowe
Drogi proclaims the right of
Communist nations to conduct
their own internal affairs in
the light of the "ma,. features
specific to their respective
countries."
Foreign Solidarity
But then, perhaps as an ap
peaser, it threw in that In the
field of foreign affairs there
must be solidarity "as a basic
condition of the unity of the
whole Socialist camp."
For all this, Khrushchev can
chalk up another mark against
the Red Chinese. . ..
For its immediate source
must be the squabble between
Red China and the U.S.S.R.
over interpretation of Com
munist doctrine and Red
China's determination to con
duct her own affairs, both in
ternally and externally.
With varying degrees of
success Gomulka has been
spring. Did you ever go bare
foot on the grass, fresh with
dew? It gives one a "deli
cious" feeling all over,
. Silly? Maybe. Have you
ever gotten up just! before
dawn, viewing the sun as it
rises and then - all of a sud
den, it seems, every bird in
the world is singing - and I
guess they are!
So many of us go through
life automatically - like a ro
bot - not really seeing, hear
ing, feeling, smelling all the
glorious, wonderous sights,
sounds, things' and smells
around us.
Life is given to us for a
purpose and to be enjoyed no
matter who you are, where
you live or what your station
in life - rich or poor or just
in-between.
All peoples must learn to
live together in harmony -peace,
love and understand
ing - regardless of race, creed,
national origin or status. How
ever, some people exalt them
selves; others are humble.
Remember, you are the
most important person in the
world and you are no better
nor any worse than anyone
else. All of us have the same
rights and privileges, so as
long as we always try our
best to do what is right, we
don't have to worry what
anyone thinks or says.
Let's start right now, todayi
to be thankful for the things
we have at this present mo
ment - for our husband or
wife, for our children, for
our friends and our neighbors,
for our home, for our job, our
food, our schools, churches,
etc.
Do you know your neigh
bor? Get acquainted if you
don't. A better city begins
with "me." Also, a better
world.
Mrs. R. P. Corona
904 Fifth ave.
.(P.O. Box 19)
. ' Gold Hill, Ore.
mi
much to change the House
legislative routine this yegr.
For self protection, the House
Republican leadership would
have supported : the Rules
committee good guys in send
ing most legislation to the
House floor for consideration
even if the administration
lacked Rules committee con
trol. Republican policy usually
would have been to permit
the Rules committee to give
the House an opportunity to
vote for bills which the Re
publican leadership opposed
rather than to hold such bills
in the Rules committee. '
"We'll take our chances on
licking 'em on the floor in a
vote of the House," a top Re
publican explained.
And the chances still look
pretty good, too. The House
votes oti the Rules committee
change was 217 for, 212
against. Those 212 "no" Totes
represent the Heuse strengt!
of the bad guys or, as they
sometimes are described, the
conservatives.
U n ea sy
East West
battling Khrushchev since Oc
tober 1956 for Poland's right
to run her own internal- af
fairs. He has, as- well, shpwn
himself to be a realist. Two
examples will illustrate,
Gomulka, after once being
imprisoned as a Titoist, moved
back into power in 1956 in
the upheaval which followed
Khrushchev's renunciation o
Stalinism.
, He demanded that Poland
be allowed to conduct its .own
internal affairs and success
fully resisted Khrushchev's
charge that he was a "traitor"
who wished "tq sell the coun
try to the Americans and, the
Zionists." .
But less than a year later,
Gomulka also was declaring
that an alliance with the So
viet Union is "necessary' for
Poland to exist."
Gomulka's motto seems to
be: To live, Poland must de
pend on the Soviet Union. But
first, it must eat to live, and
that depends upon the West.
From "Y"
To the Editor: Let me take
this means to thank you and
your firm for your support
in i advertising our YMC A
weeks activities. ' , s
At times we neglect to show
our appreciation to the many
supporters who help promote
the YMCA but this does not
mean it goes unnoticed. - Wa
want you to know that we
don't forget your support
which has been coming year
after year for many years." ;
The board of directors, staff,
members, and myself thank
you again for your help and
support in promoting our
YMCA.
Bob Nelson
Medford YMCA. ;
Cigarette Law
To the Editor. The Oregon
State law states that anyone
under the age of 18 is not. al
lowed cigarettes, etc., in his
or her possession. Why is this
law not enforced (as it was in
the fall of 1959)? In my opin
ion, everybody has goofed.
The stores have quit asking
the young people the proof of
their age to smoke.
The police forces have slack
ed their measures of enforce
ment on this low.
Also the law states persona
under 21 are not allowed to
buy liquor. So why should
young people under 18 be al
lowed to buy cigarettes? : '
(Name on file.)
Medford
Commentary
To the Editor: "Setting It
Straight. In a personnel letter
to Speaker Rayburn: Ike says
indeed he would like to have
five-star rank restored with
some of its benefits such aa
medical care."
The quote is found on the
ninth page of the Jan, 23, 1961
issue of Newsweek 'magazine.
The . above ,ex-cerit, . frdje.
Newsweek is ene of ike rsoi
appropriate c s i e t s
Medieal Ca--e 'nt 'rrs imjuA
As '3 Isowa ftHDejMnk is. oVp
liSs ieMftt.
. . . . ro ls m.
t&e itfft CftMJpie.
?e Mw Ktw: A few years
.3, we wore on the gold
standard. You didn't like gold,
you were afraid you might
lose some out of your wallet,
purse or pocket. In 1934, the
New Deal took your gold and
gave you paper. You have lost
53 cents out of every dollar
which you possessed. Could
you have lost that much gold
out of your wallet?
I hope Mr. Kennedy will
make a good President, and
I think he will, but I don't
see why he is so upset over
conditions in America. After
all, it ain't nothin' but New
Deal chickens comin' home to
roost.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.