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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Fb. 16, 1951 (Friday)
rtt CnnarlnlpnrinnL Vernon
Thorpe reported this morning
that workmen started pourm
concrete- for the three main
beams of the Jackson st.
bridge across Bear creek.
Kiwanis corn kept custom
ers cramped with chuckles last
night as the third annual Ki
wanis Kapers and Minstrel
show made its first Medford
appearance.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16. 1941 (Sunday)
Medfnrd'a first fatal 1941
automobile accident occurred
inrtnv when n 24-vear-old man
died of injuries sustained In
a two-car accident at North
Riverside ave. and Kennett at
From Arthur. Perry's '
Pnl" column: "From
all reports on the Oriental
situation, the waters around
Singapore have more , mines
than the hills norm of Jack
sonville."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16. 1931 (Monday)
. Construction of the new
'Medford High school building
on Oakdale ave. started today.
Several valley organizations
are seeking a survey of the
Rogue river to determine po
tential power plant sites.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16.. 1921 (Wednesday)
An OAC expert will outline
a plan for the new county
fairgrounds here next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Car
penter have returned here
from a trip to San Francisco.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 16, 1911 (Thursday)
The Senate Fisheries com
mittee voted 3 to 2 today In
favor of the Pierce bill to re
open the Rogue river to com
mercial fishing.
John F. Stevens, head of
the Hill railroad empire in
Oregon, said in Madras yes
terday that the Oregon Trunk
line will reach Medford with
in two years.
M"s Your LQ.7
Nine or ten corner ft superior
liven or eight it excellent; five ei
lix it good.
1. Which religious body has
the largest membership in the
Dominion of CanodaV
2. Yehudl Menuhin is fa
mous as a cornctist, cellist,
violinist or pianist?
3. in which country' did
Pearl Buck, the author, spend
her childhood?
4. A gambit is a term used
in hockey, badmitton, chess,
or tennis?
5. Is the velocity of wind
measured by a barometer, hy
drometer, or anemometer?
6. Did Alexander the Great
ever reach India on his con
quests?
7. State the simplest for
mula for finding the total
surface of a cube.
8. Wellington is the capital
of Australia, Union of South
Africa, of New Zealand?
9. Was the Liberty Bell
cast in London, England; Phil
adelphia, Pa.; or New York
City?
10. Is venison the meat of
bear, rabbit, deer, or ostrich?
Aniw.rit 1. Roman Cath
olic. 2. Violinist. 3. China.
4. Chtif. 5. An.mom.t.r. 6.
Yai. 7. Squara an adga and
multiply by iix. 8. Naw Zea
land. 9. London, England. 10.
Dor.
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lS" NEWSPAPER
Cn2rtf PUBLISHERS
FEBRUARY 16. 1961
A New Look
Having had some rather harsh things to say
about Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. dur
ing last fall s campaign,
be able to declare that,
the emotions of an election battle, he makes a lot
of sense in some of his activities.
We have been particularly impressed with
three things which have come to our attention
recently:
1. He is the moving force behind a plan to
expand the research clone regarding state insti
tutional care, looking toward a lessening of hu
man misery AND a decrease in tax expenditures.
2. He is an advocate of developing a me
chanical or electronic method whereby the results
of an election will be known quickly, accurately
and more economically than is possible with to
day's century-old procedures.
3. He has exhibited
sense) in opposing- ehantre simply for the sake
of change, specifically
the state s institutions by
I AST. December, in a
paper, he discussed
search to improve Oregon's program of penal,
mental, health and custodial institutions. He gave
two premises, as follows:
"1. When you are dealing with the infinite variety
and depth of the problems of more than 10,000 people,
as we are in our state institutions at a biennial cost
of almost $50 million and at an untold cost in human
grief it seems to me that both compassion and
economy would dictate that you constantly and ac
tively seek to Improve the effectiveness of your treat
ment programs. This means clinical research.
"2. It is a fact on which attention is rarely center
ed that most governmental programs seek to deal with
effects, with the results, of our human shortcomings.
Seldom- do they deal with causes, and in this regard,
our stale institutions have been no exception. This
fact seems to me to dictate the need for basic research."
"THE board of control
suggestions on research to the extent of get
ting the various institutions together to do ex
ploratory work toward the development of a
research program. . .
As to the board of control itself, Appling last
night presented a stout defense of the board as
the administrative unit for the state's institutions.
He is all for the "virtuous objectives" of in
creased efficiency, economy, effectiveness, sim
plicity and responsiveness, he declared. But he
said that the proposed reorganization plan, drawn
up by Uov. Mark Hattield, fails to accomplish
these very objectives
masquerades.
IT MUST have taken courage for him to come
out as flat-footedly as this in opposition to the
pet reorganization project of the Governor, who,
ji n j! l f i i i j. j?e;
alter an, iirsc appointed mm to onice.
But his statement is eloquent and persuasive.
(It also is based on the same objections to the
plan voiced heretofore
The plan as it would
Appling declares, does not reduce the number of
executive agencies ; rather
It would not consolidate related functions : it
it would "un-consolidate and un-relate" them,
and would put under separate departments the
many functions (housing, feeding, medical serv
ices, education, rehabilitation, recreation,- con
struction and maintenance, collections, and
others) now performed under central adminis
tration. ... , '
MOR would the plan decrease the likelihood of
of units so uncoordinated that efficiency
would be lost. Just the reverse, Appling declared,
and cited many specific examples of coordination
and cooperation among
It would add to, not
bureaucratic insulation,"
on to give other equally
opposition.
He wound up by quoting Ex-Governor Oswald
West, at whose recommendation the board was
created, thus:
"All state institutions should be placed under a
single Board of Control and to avoid creating new
officials and expenses, the Board should consist of
the Governor, Secretary ot State and Stale Treasurer.
By this arrangement the management of our state in
stitutions can be greatly simplified and the cost re
duced." This is at true today at it was 47 years ago.
FINALLY, Appling appeared yesterday after-
noon before another legislative committee
seeking authority to explore the possibility of
developing machinery for counting election bal
lots, quickly, accurately and at a cost less than
the present antiquated methods.
His request should be approved speedily.
Appling's statement reveals that he has uiven
the matter considerable
that he will need legislative approval and a min
imal appropriation to pursue the matter.
". . . In this age of mechanical miracles," he
said, "certainly it is not
somehow we can bring
elements needed to lift
me past, ana gear them to the present and future.
AS WE said, we didn't like Appling's campaign
tactics.
But, as a responsible official, he is giving
evidence that he is not afraid of change, when
change is indicated, nor is he enamoured of
change for its own sake, with little promise of
improvement.
These three separate instances research,
unified administration of the state's institutions,
and improvement in election techniques sub
stantiate this conclusion. E.A.
at Appling
it is now a pleasure to
when not engrossed in
conservatism (in its best
in the administration of
the board ot control.
,
letter to another news-
the need for more re
has adopted Appling's
under whose banner its
in these columns.)
affect the institutions,
it would increase them.
institutions.
decrease, the "layers of
Appling said, and went
cogent reasons for his
thought and study, but
too much to expect that
toirether those modem
voting procedures out of
Dennis the
THE STORE.HE FOUOWHWE---:
Independence Hears for New
West Indian Island Nation
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign N.w Analyst
Kingston, Jamaica IIIPD - An
independent West Indies fed
eration is on the verge of tak
ing Its place among the free
autfuapaa nations oi tne
western, hem
isphere. It will em
brace a mixed
population of
a Utile more
than three
million people
and include
1 0 principal
islands spread
Newsom
Matter of Fact ay Joseph ai$oP
THE TWO-HEADED
MONSTER
Washington - When Presi
dent Kennedy meets with Ni-
kita S. Khrushchev-as he is
pretty sure to do by the end
of April at me
latest - one of
the meeting's
numerous
handicaps will
be, ironically
enough, the
1 n c o m plete
ness of Khrus
chev's author
ity. Kennedy,
the leader of a loose alliance,
can now speak for the West
with fair confidence that his
views will ultimately prevail
in the councils of the West.
But this is by no means the
situation of Khrushchev, the
dictator of the Soviet Union.
Khrushchev is on warning, in
fact, that if he seeks to speak
for the Communist part of the
world, his views will most em
phatically not prevail
throughout the Communist
bloc.
For the American and other
Western policy-makers, this
is the most immediately im
portant meaning of the as
tonishing, recently obtained
documentation of the row be
tween the Soviets and the
Chinese Communists. These
documents apparently take
the form of a very full rec
ord of the proceedings of the
prolonged secret Conference
of the leaders of the world's
80 Communist parties, which
took place in Moscow in No
vember.
'PHE unofficial British So-
1 vlet expert, Edward
Crankshaw, was the first with
the news that this hardly
credible record had been ob
tained, presumably from sat
ellite sources, by the West
ern intelligence services. The
same documents which Crank
shaw summarized in an im
portant article published over
the week end, are of course
in the hands of the American
government. American expert
opinion confirmed Crank
shnw's estimate that the doc
uments reveal "the most ser
ious crises the (world) Com
munist party lias had to
weather since the Russian
revolution,"
In this space and else
where, the existence of a
Sino-Soviet disagreement has
often been pointed out. The
main issues dividing the two
giants of the Communist bloc I
Alson
have also been described. lion with utmost obstinacy.
But the new documentation j even if the Soviets approve
has now shown.lhat the dis-iit.
pute is immeasurably deeper,! In short, the Western lead-
more bitter, and more irrecon
cilable than had ever been
imagined. At 'the Moscow con
ference, Khrushchev in effect
called Mao Tse-tung every
bad name in the Communist
book. And the Chinese dele
gate in Moscow, leng Hsiao
ping, replied to Khrushchev in
kind before all the delegations
there assembled. .
The essence of the .dispute
Is whether another world war
is Inevitable and. according to
the Chinese, really almost de
sirable. Since the more fur
ious exchanges only began
when Khrushchev was mov
ing towards a summit meet
ing with President F.isen-
MEDFORD MAIL
Menace
SOX & CANDY BARS!
ing across 1,000 miles of the
Caribbean.
Independence for these lush
green islands has been 20
years in the making and in
general the transition from
British colonial status to' con
trol of their own foreign pol
icy, currency and treaties
should be painless.
Some, such as Barbadoes,
Jamaica and Trinidad, long
have enjoyed internal self
rule.
Slructually, it will be a
weak federal , government
with many key powers re-
hower, it is quite clear that
Khrushchev's desire to nego-
tiale with the leaders of the
West was the catalyst that
brought the Sino-Soviet dif
ferences so violently into the
open.
PRESUMABLY Mao Tse
tung and the other Chi
nese leaders are just as en
raged by the current spectacle
of Khrushchev s moving
heaven and earth to secure
an early meeting with Presi
dent Kennedy. The. Moscow
conference in November pro
duced a lame, division-concealing
formula leaving
Khrushchev apparent free
dom of action. But it is abun
dantly plain that this free
dom of action docs not in
clude freedom to speak with
authority for the Chinese.
Consider, for instance, how
this affects one of the few
areas where the U. S. and the
U. S. S. R. have a vivid, un
deniable common - interest.
Both this country and the
Soviet Union will gain very
greatly if Ihey can reach
agreement on an adequately
policed suspension of nuclear
tests. General tests -suspension
will effectively close the nuc
lear club's membership list
Thus the two giants will con
firm their own virtual nuclear
monopoly, and they will
enormously reduce the risk
that haunts them both, of an
accidental nuclear war.
But the new documenla
tion discloses that one of the
subsidiary causes of Chinese
discord with the Soviets has
been the Kremlin's reluc
tance to add nuclear weapons
to Communist China's arsen
al. With grim persistence, the
highly competent Chinese
scientists are now laboring to
provide the weapons the
Kremlin has refused to pro
vide. WHAT then is to happen at
Geneva on March 207
The talks about nuclear tests
suspension will then be re
sumed by Arthur Dean, the
able new Disarmament Nego
tiator chosen by President
Kennedy and his chief disarm
ament advisor, John J. Mc-
Cloy. But even if Dean and
his Soviet opposite number
can agree on a satisfactory
inspection system to guanm-1 ter if it weren't for the Ven
ice test-suspension, it will still I ison in the freezer.
be worthless if the inspection
system omits the whole of
China. And one can be sure
the Chinese will resist inspec-
ers must now fact the fact !
that the Communist bloc is j
no longer a Kremlin-con-!
Irolled monolith. Instead, it
is a two-headed monster, '
whose heads are wholly at I
variance about the road the.
monster ought to take.
The American policy-mak- i
ers' inclination is still to see
what can be accomplished
With the Soviets, and to hope
that it anything is accom-
plished. the Soviets can bring j So here's to more girls, boys
the Chinese around. All the I and women learning the pleas
same, the monster's novel j ure of hunting, be it jack-two-headedness
constitutes a! rabbits, squirrels, deer or elk.
very big new problem. j Mrs. V. M. Adams
(c) 1961 N.w York I 12211 South Stage rd.
Herald Tribun. Inc. Medford
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contrary is often the case.
Sanitary Verse
To the Editor:. We note
with much interest, and
pride, that at long last a step
is being taken in the direc
tion of investigating air (and
water) pollution which may
be affecting Gold Hill. (M.T.,
Feb. 10). But we wonder why
this particular moment was
chosen to initiate the venture.
In this season of the year
the rains lay the dust. And
the wind predominately
moves to carry anything in
the air from our cement
plant away from the city.
For some reason it seems
obviously ridiculous to spend
time and money when any
school boy would know tests
under the above mentioned
conditions of weather would
prove nothing.
Of course there is a ceme
tery directly west of our ce
ment plant. (And let it be
maining with the individual
island.
Thus, Jamaica, with approx
imately half of the federa
tion's population, will retain
most of its own revenues and
will be free to pursue the
swift pace of its industrializa
tion, agricultural and tourism
programs.
Similarly, Trinidad will re
tain the bulk of its oil rev
enues and Barbados the in
come from its sugar.
But, with independence, all
the islands will face a com
mon problem. This is one of
exploding population, which
in most of the islands means
an average of close to 400
persons per square mile and
Barbados exceeds 1,300.
Emigration of some 85,000
West Indians to Great Bri
tain since World War II eased
the problem only temporar
ily. Here in Jamaica, the diffi
culty is being met by an in
dustrialization program under
direction of the government
established Jamaica Industrial
Development Corp. and by an
agricultural program to teach
farmers modern agricultural
methods.
Capital in Boom ,j
Kingston, Jamaica's capital,
is a boom town today, with
thousands of new housing
units going up and new manu
facturing firms coming in a
steady stream under incentive
laws which include every
thing from tax benefits to
government help in building
and planning factories.
As a further boost to Jam
aica's booming tourist indus
try, a whole new vacation
area is being planned for the
island's western tip.
Boosting both Jamaica's in
dustry and its agriculture has
been the intensive mining of
bauxite, key ingredient of
aluminum. Bauxite compan
ies employ thousands of Jam
aica workers and are using
freehold areas not in use to
improve both the breed of
Jamaican cattle and the lands
Joys of Hunting
To the Editor: I would like
to put in my two cents worth
in answer to the lady who
wrote about the poor jack-
rabbits.
Evidently she is not a hunt
er, or at all familiar with
guns or hunting, or she would
know there is a great differ
ence in a hunter snooting at a
running rabbit and a TV star
pot shooting at some poor
standing Boob. That idea is
the one we are trying to get
away from when we teach our
kids how, where and when
to use a rifle. The ones who
are taught to respect a rifle as
such do not go around shoting
at everything they see.
All hunters do not go out
to kill just for the killing but
for the hunt, and the pleasure
of being out in the woods. The
game they bring home is us
ually incidental, although I
know of two or three families
around here who would have
rather slim pickings this win-
I I usually get my buck every
i year, but even if I don't, I still
j mark the days I spent hunting
as some of the most enjovable
of the year. I would rather
have my boy out in the woods !
hunting with men than in a
300-horse power car zooming
to some hamburger joint or
super market for his meat. His
chances of living are a lot
better and the " odds of him
killing some one else a lot
less.
Another thing: I have found
the hunters in the woods, both
male and female, a lot more
j polite than the meat hunters
1 1 find In the suuer markets.
gossiping and blocking the
aisles.
known right here that nobody
is more friendly to the ceme
tery or cement plant than
ourselves. In fact we regard
"our" cement plant as a veri
table institution, no less.) And
tests in the area of the ceme
tery could prove very effec
tive now, when the winds
carry from the cement plant
to it.
But, we don't think the in
habitants of the graveyard
care about the dust in the air.
May we call the attention
of Mr. Moore and Mr. Gerow,
the official sanitarians as
signed to our Gold Hill Prob
lem, to the following:
East is east and west is
west
And never the twain shall
meet
The wind that goes with the
dust it blows
Is the same on our Gold
Hill street.
For months the wet wind
veers to west
(Ah, here's your chance to
make the test)
With the source of dust in
the West, you see
"No dust" is proved. Con
clusively! But oh, you sanitary men!
When wind drives from dry
west again,
I!ask your noses and be
wary
Or you won't feel so sani
tary! "Gold Hill Billy"
Gold Hill, Ore.
Executives Defended
To the Editor: To all fair,
logical and open-m i n d e d
people, the surest way to de
stroy faith in a government
is to play up the evil twins
of favoritism and partiality.
Like the freeing of those 11
arrested, convicted and jailed
commies from down Califor
nia way. It seems to have
come about by a federal court
choosing to go along with
some obscure technical point
or Jaw-loophole the Red's at
torney had dug up, freeing
these turn-coats to go back to
wrecking our so dearly
Dougnt tree way of life.
Then there is Boss Hoffa of
the Teamsters union who,
noutiea tnat federal attor
neys had him up on charges
of member union funds mis
use, yawned: "Just another
fight." And Boss Bridges of
the Pacific Coast Longshore
man union grinned his satis
faction when a district court,
on some alleged minor error,
quashed the repeated at
tempts of government attor
neys to have the chronic
trouble-maker returned to his
native Australia even though
the government there an
nounced, he would not be
allowed to land.
How different the sudden
coming to life of the U.S.
District court trial of some
30 electrical companies? Ac
cused of agreeing collectively,
(this seems OK when a labor
union is in a hassle with man
agement) to what they
deemed safe in bidding on
government contracts, the
long arm of federal law
reached out to grab top eche
lon executives of General
Electric, Westinghouse, Allis
Chalmers and others to ar
raign them in federal court
for a tongue lashing by
holier-than-thou Chief U.S.
District Judge J. Cullen Ga
ney, all heavily fined, some
clapped into jail and others
out on suspended sentence,
probationed on good be
havior. These men, proven
loyal by years of faithful
service to country, helping to
create jobs for tens of thou
sands wage-earners, to be
treated like some petty vag
rant offender, let out on pro
bation? Yes, all this, and to be
bannered in the public press
(Mail Tribune, Feb. 7, Page
A 5) so much like when petty
offenders were put up to pub
lic disdain with head and
hands protruding from the
old blue-law wooden pil
lories? Is this America? Are v
being led into some socialis
tic affair, the thing initiated
by the FDR team and mentor
Harry Hopkins who is cred
ited with saying, "we must
bleed the American pigs dry
before we butcher them."
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Picture of Cuba
To the Editor: Do we really
; know what is going on
Cuba? The following is a
quote from Dave Dellinger, in
"The Independent."
"During my first few days
in Havana, I was constantly
amazed at the number of peo
ple in the streets and other
public places day and night.
Saturday night, Oct. 29, I
first witnessed a well-attended
baseball game and then
joined the 35,000 people who
attended the Feria de la Vaca
(a fair to raise money to buy
cows for the Cuban coopera
tives, with its gay music and
holiday atmosphere. . . .
"Monday morning when I
was interviewing the editor
of the anti-Castro Times of
Havana, he volunteered the
formation that 'all the small
night clubs and public places
are prospering like tney nev
er did before, L.uue piotcs
that used to be half empty
are jammed every night."
"An hour after I left his of
fice, I picked up the New
York Times (available all
over Havana) and read two
dispatches which said that 'on
a sultry Saturday night, the
Cubans are silent ana me
streets are empty,' and : The
country continues to be con
cerned today about an invas
ion. Few people were on the
streets of Havana '.md traffic
was light.' I suppose that even
this example is political in
that the Times' correspondents
(who seem to cover very little
territory and to talk mostly
to other correspondents ana a
few upper-class Cubans) were
trying to imply that morale is
bad and the regime is crack
ing up. Every indication l
found was that the revolution
has tremendous mass support
and will continue indefinitely
unless the United States in
tervenes in Cuba's internal
affairs even more extensively
than she has already done.
It has become increasingly
difficult, with the ban on
travel to Cuba, to find out
anything accurate about what
is happening there. Paul Har
vey, Hearst, and Howard
don't need to travel there to
misrepresent the facts, how
ever, so we wind up believ
ing all sorts of atrocious
charges about graft, commu
nism, dictatorship, etc. While
some of these charges may be
true, a few dissident voices
like the one quoted above
seem to cast doubt upon our
whole picture of Cuba.
Truman O. Price Jr.
2633 14th Ave., West
Seattle 99, Wash.
Editor's note: True enough.
Yet it should also be pointed
out that the Times of Havana
finally has been forced to
cease publication, and the
New York Times no longer
circulates in the island.
Nature's- Firsts
To the Editor: Man schemes
to rival the Moon with his
own satellite. Mother Nature,
however, as with the Moon,
usually has the "First at the
Patent Office." Mother Nature
taught us as to war, one les
son: An armament-race can
bring extinction. One dino
saucr, stegosaurus, was as
heavily armoured as a battle
ship. It is extinct.
Hummingbirds were feath
ered helicopters millions of
years before the first cave
man. Bats had radar 25,000,
000 years before U.S.A.'s sub
marine Sailfish, using radar,
sank a Japanese super-plane-earrier.
Men make cordage,
ropes. Monkeys swung on
jungle liane swings 10,000,000
years before Java man. Pack
rats used cholla cactus "fin
gers" around nests long be
fore men had barbed wire en
tanglements. Queensland's archer-fish,
to get dinner,
"fires," through its cannon
like snout, a drop of water
at insect above.
Bombardier beetles dis
charge a strong - smelling
smoke-like liquid, like poison
gas. Dandelion's seed was
model for parachutist Nazis,
uniformed as Holland's regu
lars, for Rotterdam's destruc
tion. Airplane engineers study
fishes, birds, with millions of
years of Motor Nature's ex
periments, in streamlining.
Airborne maple seeds also
drift to distant food-soil. Be
fore steam, even warships
were sail-maneuvered. Watch
a linden seed scudding, in a
gale, over a frozen lake. Na
ture invented sails aeons be
fore the first Chinese used
matting ones to aid wheel-barrow
transportation, as writer
had travelled in the Orient.
C. M. Geothe
3731 Tea st.
Sacramento 16, Calif.
Ne-.c-1." Is Our Friend
v'i tne Editor: Some of you
- j wondering why I should
be sticking my nose into our
city of Gold Hill, problem.
After all, who am I that I
should?
Who am I? I'm no one in
particular, and yet I am some
one of importance. So are
you!
Why am I someone of im
portance? Because I am one
of THE PEOPLE of Gold Hill.
So are you!
As one of the people of
Gold Hill, it is my duty to
do what I can to make it a
belter place to live. If there
is a need for something, I
must do my part to help fill
the need. If there is a prob
lem, then it is necessary for
me to help solve that prob
lem. It is my responsibility to
be proud of our city and to
love it. Also, it is my duty
to love all the people of this
city. These also, apply to each
of you.
All too often, we look on
the gloomy or negative side
of things. We talk about the
bad things and so seldom re
member that there are also
good things. So what if we
do have air pollution? It is
something that can be cor-
rected. If we didn't have the
cement plant how many men
would have to look for work
elsewhere?
Then, there's the question
of the filtration plant. We do
need something but is this the
only answer? Let's all of us,
THE PEOPLE of Gold Hill
look into this carefully and
give it serious thought!
The glorious Rogue river
flows almost past our Dack
doors but not much has been
done about it. Why? A won
derfully beautiful swimming,
etc., area could be made right
there under our bridge. Tour
ists would stop to enjoy it
and would remember the
name of our city, Gold Hill.
Let's stop "piddling around "
ana lake acuon-au ot us
now! What's that pretty green
"tiling" in the center of the
city? You know, where they
had the Christmas tree. Ohhh!
Its a park? How come we
never see anyone "park"
there? What's it for, to look
at? Np? Then how come no
one seems to dare set foot on
it? I thought a park was to
be enjoyed-I never even see
those who made it enjoy it.
Is it holy ground? Or maybe
untouchable? I'm not bein-'
funny-I'm serious.
"Necessity is our friend!"
Mrs. R. P. Corona
904 Fifth Ave.
Gold Hill, Ore.
Kids and Cars
To the Editor: Thank you
very much for your editorial
in Tuesday's paper, on cars
not being playthings. You are
so right. The silualion has
gotten so far out of hand that
a measure is about to be placed
m legislature (HB 1092) which
would raise the driving ase
from 16 to 18.
This measure has been dis
cussed in a number of organi
zations and one in particular
suggests a probationary 2-year
permit which would be re
vokable for stealing, sexual
delinquencies, failing grades,
drinking, etc. This seems to be
a good idea, but quite a load
for law enforcement to keep
up with.
Circuit Judge Charles Fost
er of Lakeview had an article
in your paper about two years
ago that was almost identical
to this one printed yesterday.
They both are in a position to
realize our growing concern
or what SHOULD be a con
cern to all families. The Febru
ary issue of the magazine,
"Scouting," has an article by
All Stale Insurance, which
has been following this situa
tion for a long time, and it
also substantiates both Judges
and your article.
Minnesota has also found a
need' for this driving age
change. They will have it
legally at 18 also.
Probably the reason this
situation has gotten out of
hand is the fact that used
cars are now inexpensive and
some well-meaning parents
have been pretty free with
gifts of ears to Joe and Jane.
It is sad that a few responsible
youngsters who don't abuse
the privilege of driving have
to suffer for the negligence
of others, but that's life.
Thank you for bringing this
to the attention of the public
and I hope you'll follow up
on it from time to time.
We're terribly concerned
with the lack of interest in
furthering education in this
competitive world of today,
and we're equally concerned
with the corrupted morals of
children who suffer from this
"floating boudoir" because of
the privacy and lack of super
vision that the car affords.
We love our kids and would
like to see them grow up (o
have good educations and lead
a decent wholesome life.
(Name on file)
Medford.
Mother Shipton's Words
To the Editor: Was look ins
over old scrap book yesterday
and noticed I had written
down some prophecies by a
Mother Shipton, which she
made over 150 years ago. They
are as follows:
Carriages without horses
shall go and accidents fill the
world with woe.
Around the earth thoughts
will fly in the twinkling of
an eye.
Under water men shall
walk, shall ride, shall sloop,
shall talk.
In the air men shall be
seen, in white, in black, in
green.
Iron in the water shall float,
as easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and
shown in a land that's not now
known.
Fire and water shall won
ders do, England shall at la.it
admit a foe.
Women will dress like men
and trousers wear, and cut off
all their locks of hair
They will ride astride with
brazen brow, and love shall
die. and marriage cease.
And nations want and babes
decrease, and wives will
fondle cats and dogs.
And men shall live much as
hops, just for food and lusts.
I When pictures look alive
i with movements free, when
I ships like fishes swim beneath
the sea.
When men. outstrippinc
I birds, can soar the sky. then
nan tne world, deep drencnea
in blood, shall die.
Mary E. Atkins.
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.