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I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY, APRIL 9, I9B1 Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny Were half the power that fills the world with "terror-""" Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. . Henr Wadsworth Longfellow Poetry Poetry is a river whose waters enrich the shores of time; It is a fountain for those who thirst; It is a garden with loveliness to share, t i A star beckoning to the heights. " Poetry is the rhythm of the soul in tune With the 'music of the universe. Ella Doxsee 1 Grants Pass, Oreon With Smile I love the man who' greets me with a smile Though on his face I mark the hand of care; Though premature the silver in his hair, ' And though I know he's bluffing all the while, I love the man who greets me with a smile. His days, I know, march oft in dreary file 'Neath somber skies and ample weight of grief. ! , Where I might fret and sigh and seek relief He cheers a fellow traveler mile on mile With brave, unselfish word and genial smile. Oh', may the dear Lord bless his simple guile And keep the man who greets me with a smile! . Jack Finel : Medford A fire-mist and a planet, a crystal and a cell, 1 A jelly-fish and a salamander, a cave where cavemen dwell; Then a sense of law and order, a face upturned from the clod; Some call it Evolution, and others call it God. William Herbert ' ' ' , Carreth (Submitted by Bert Kissinger, Medford) Marching to Oregon '. We are a band of pioneers, With prayer and faith to calm our fears, : With upward gaze and sturdy stride, . We seek Columbia's roiling tide. . Delay us not nor let us rest, . . i The land we seek lies in the West; We're marching on to Oregon, 1 The land of beauty, wealth and song. Across the plains' we lay. our trail; To reach our goal, hearts must not fail. We climb the mountains, wild and high, - To where their summits pierce the sky, Where mighty rivers seek the sea, .. Where land is good and men are free; We're 'marching on to Oregon, The land of beauty, wealth and song. v Where now the Indians' wigwam's stand, We build our cities, fair and grand; We raise our homes with strength and toll; With courage plow the virgin soil; The fir clad hills their lumber yield; We gather food from stream and field; We're marching on to Oregon, The land of beauty, wealth and song. ' L. G. Weaver V " -. Medford . Let Me Be Brave Let me be brave to face the night, And bear my portion of the fight ' - With courage; not that I " May be counted great in victory, But that another treading on I May still keep heart when hope seems gone. .. , Grant to me wisdom; not that I ? May pose as one who's clamored high . And count myself superior clay To those less learned. God, I pray For wisdom and a clearer mind To aid the ones who come behind. . ' Let me be strong and brave of heart, And teach me how to play my part As one who toils not just for gold Thus I'd not have my history told; But let me serve as best I can. My God, my home, my fellow-man. Eduard C. Lindeman and . Edgar A. Guest, in collaboration Damage Suits Filed In Circuit Court Three complaints seeking damages have been filed by the members of one family against Margaret A. Nesheim, ' Table Rock rd., Central Point. Seeking a total of $50,000 general damages, and $643 medical expenses and car re pairs are Virgil and Alice Michalenko, route 1, box 183, Talent, and their 10-year-old daughter, Judith Ann. According to the complaint, Virgil Michalenko was oper ating a car north on River side ave. Aug. 3, 1960, when it stopped in the line of traf fic at Fourth st., and was struck from behind by the Nesheim vehicle. The complaint charges the defendant with negligence. Attorney for the plaintiff Is Gerald J. Scannell Jr., Ashland. Gold Hill Man Hurt In Auto Accident Charles Clyde Kell, 54, of Gold Hill, was treated at Rogue Valley hospital for in juries received in a two-vehicle collision about 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Intersection of North Riverside ave. at Ed wards st. According to city police, the Kell vehicle had stopped for the red light, and was struck behind by an automobile ope rated by William Elzie Skaggs, 38, of route 2, box 204A, Cen tral Point. Skaggs was lodged in the city jail on a charge of drunk in public, police said. Kell complained of pain in the neck and back. Passengers in the Kell vehicle, Mary Kell, and their daughter, Shirley Marie Kell, were not Injured. jf TAURUS - APR. 31 ( MAY 21 if 42.70-8 .84 2- 4-22-40 43-53-77 ' GfMJNl JUNE 22 EA19-25-39-42 SC73-74-75 CANCER JUNE 23 JULY 23 KA16-21-31-34 54-58-84.901 LIO m JULY 24 AUG. 23 9-10-54-59 CC40-44-71 vnoo AUG. 24 Vj SEPT. 22 1- 3- 6-11 STAR GAXElC) By B. 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A Lesson To the Editor: Though our proven way-of-Iife is a rugged one, often most difficult and seemingly unrewarding, it is far more dependable than the flowery promises off to the right and off to the left. Like news-releases today, telling of court orders dissolving a num ber of benevolent societies that gave forth in promises that proved impossible, human nature being as it is. But in the proving, many of our old- ones and some not so old, found their scanty savings gone and no reward save in sad experience gained. A well remembered experi ence of the long ago warned me of extreme rightisms. A friend in the city police dept. of Kalamazoo, Mich., wangled me a $2.50 a day job, double the going one. It was as a po lice guard, isolating the insane asylum there due a small-pox scare. It was a very short one but highly educational. Constantly the inmates ha rangued me from every steel barred window, including the third story of the big brick building. Constantly they warned me of the evils of the present administration and the wrong way of life people in dulged in. One of them shouted from a' second story window,, "Lis ten you. My dad is Admiral Dewey. I just got word from him that he'll be steaming his battleships up that river there, (Kalamazoo river, less than a foot deep) and he'll shoot hell out of this big brick tning. And when I'm free again, you'll see some changes here In America. These big business guys and officers will find themselves In jail and we common people will run things the way thev should be run." , . That was the general run of the talk. Religion domi nated much of it. i'Smite thine enemy," was the battle-cry among 'them, the dangerous ones. A husky attendant -in charge of a group out for exercise told me, "No, I'm not in much danger. I can over power any one of them, or even three at a time. My main chore is to keep them from choking each other to death in their endless argu ments and to see that they don't pick up a piece of metal, nail or glass that they can use with deadly effect." Three days was enough of it for me. My old job at the machine shop was most wel come even if only 11 cents per hour for a 10 hour day, pro viding food, shelter and hap piness fully comparable with the best today. F. J. Clifford, Eoute 2, Box 200F, . Central Point, Ore. A Time of Troubles To the Editor: In December my husband had -pneumonia, as did I at the time, and we dropped behind a payment to a local collection agency, so my husband went and told them he'd been sick for over a month. The guy was real nice, he said he'd wait for payment till January. Well, my husband was able to go back to work a few days be fore Christmas, and of course we thought we'd be, able to have some Christmas, being as we have 4 children at home. But to top it all off, the guy goes out and gar nishees my husband's wages. He only had a couple of days coming, which left us the bal ance of $10 to buy food and Christmas and pay our cur rent bills. We went to a lawyer, but he said we were better off to forget the whole matter. This left us with a grocery bill tor almost two months un paid, plus our lights and water, etc. Now my husband hasn't been able to work real steady, and if you've ever lived on mill worker's wages in these days, ifs a job. By the way, the bills the collect ors had were mostly doctor and grocery bills. We ve had an awful lot of sickness, and doctors are quite high, if you must go very often, as is med icine. Now it is April, and we've been making regular pay ments on the bills the collect ors have, and figured we just might make it out of debt in a couple of years with no sickness. Well to top it all off, pay day was yesterday. and here the local collection agency garnisheed his wages again. They didn't write or call us. Our bill was around $30. By the time they were down they'd taken $60 from his check. Well, our rent, etc., is due, and here we are again, unable to pay our bills. But I'm puzzled by this. I've always been told as long as you make a payment, they can't garnishee a paycheck. Now the lawyer says legally they can, even if you'd just made them a payment, and there's nothing we can do about it. Well, it makes me quite angry. We aren't mak ing ends meet, and the gro cery man isn't very happy with his almost $200 grocery bill, and us wanting to charge some more. Why isn't there a law to protect us? These bills weren't made for fun, and they weren't neglected any. His pay checks are just so large and they'll go just so far, and we try to pay our bills as much as we can, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Since there isn't a law I wish some one would make one, where if you're honestly trying, you can have a chance. They're sure not giv ing us one. Of course there's bankrupt cy, but my husband thinks it's dishonorable to not at least try and pay your bills. So here we are. (Name on File) Ashland Security ' To the Editor: I wuz asked another question: "Why did the Telephone companies al ways put their telephones just under the celling on the chimneys?" , . , : ... I guess they just figured we had ants in our pants and couldn t sit down. I proved you could sit on top of a box of dynamite and talk on the telephone at the same time. I did it in Placerville. I did it, until the firecrackers and sky rockets got on fire in the store window. I didn't run out the back door of the store like a Kansas cyclone and jump into Leopard creek be cause I wuz afraid of the dy namite. I just didn't want to get the rockets in my pockets. When the Chinese New Years Celebration ended, I went back in the store and sat down on top of the cash register full of $5 gold pieces, and answered ..the telephone. It wasn't as comfortable as sitting on a box of dynamite, but it wuz more secure. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Look To Oregon To the Editor: That indefin ite period, the future, is an intriguing subject. 'Among its possibilities, at which the vot ers no longer scoff, is the election of a lady vice-president or president of the Unit ed States. Advice to the nation: Look to Oregon, i In the United States Sen ate, Oregon's junior senator, Maurine B. Neuberger, is making a fine impression with her level-headedness. The country is aware that she has both feet on the ground, is in close touch with mun dane affairs; and that her sympathies are with the com mon man. 1868? Wait and see. . David Frisch, i P. O. Box 292, White City, Ore. Old Technique To the Editor: I have en titled the following "I'm Not Color-Blind, Everything IS Red," or "Who was that com munist I seen you with on the street last night? That was no street, that was Red Square." I remember when it used . to be A Birch was just a lovely tree, A Welch was just the grape compressed That dribbled on your Sunday vest. A communist preached from Lenin and Marx On soapboxes in the city parks; At making bombs he was adroit, He wore a beard and bright red shirt. (with a Brooklyn accent.) Those simple days are gone ' and past, The Red is camouflaged, alas! In the Birch Blue Book we have to labor To unmask our cunning com munist neighbor, Who brings the U.N. to our shores i t And opens our schools to blackamoors; , Promotes qur Social Security To demoralize society, And'under a clever liberal guise He undermines free enter prise. Strove the Dulles brothers and Eisenhower To help the communists rise to power; . And supporters of foul doc trines foreign Alone defend Chief Justice Warren, And only traitors dare besmirch The Society of John Birchl Now, Welch's next Blue Book will be A re-write of our history, With fiction freely inter spersed, Dating back from Welch the First. In reverence gaze now you and I At the Technique of tha Whopping Liel George W. Rode . Fluhrer Building Medford Objection ) To the Editor: As residents of the city of Medford, and as taxpayers who are con cerned about the burden im posed upon property owners by administrative boards, we wish to make our objections. The current boundary dispute between residents of this area and the Phoenix school board presents a direct opportunity for taxpayers, and parents, to see directly the source of in efficiency and high taxes gen erated by governmental agen cies that usually point to each other when the time comes to fix the blame. These are o'ur objections: We object to the fact that our children must be taken to school by a school bus for several miles while those chil dren a few blocks away can go to Hoover School just down the street. Why should our children take the risks at tendant to such travel, and why should they not go to the same school as other chil dren in the area? Is it the unfortunate result of a line drawn on a map which has no basis in the reality, of pop ulation growth actually on the ground? Our families chose to move Inside the city limits of Med ford to take advantage of the proximity of services ren dered in the municipal area, and now find that some of those services are denied be cause the school board in a community several miles away refuses to recognize the inequities resulting from such line-holding. We also object to paying taxes to the school district which is engaged in ineffi cient operation as a result of mossy-backed veneration of historical boundaries. Why must we, when our neighbors a few doors away do not, pay for transportation costs for school children, or expensive land acquisition programs, and for the extra cost in volved in a smaller school district? The situation becomes sil lier when the facts show that a less expensive solution is prevented only by the inabil ity of the admin istrative boards involved to recognize that the needs of the people may be met by facing the problems of growing popula tions from the standpoint of the members of that popula tion, not from the view of administrative perpetuity. . We taxpayers do have a voice and a clear right to use it. There is no better oppor tunity than this to speak out against any furtherance of the property tax monster. We do not want to miss this rare chance to object to high taxes and bureaucratic inefficiency. Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Mason Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Reeves Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Cox Mr. and Mrs. Darral Payant Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Parker Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Sweet All Edgemont st. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Krouse Ruth dr. Medford. 'Gum Ball Day' Planned By Medford Kiwanians "Gum Ball Day" will be ob served by Medford Kiwanis club at its regular luncheon Wednesday, April 12, at Rogue Valley Country club. Speaker at the meeting will be Clarence Hutchinson, Port land, Pacific northwest repre sentative of Ford Gum and Machine company, Akron, N.Y. He is a past president of Northeast Portland Kiwanis club. Kiwanis is sponsor for Ford Gum Ball machines in the Medford vicinity. The Wed nesday meeting will open a "Chew for Charity" campaign to put machines in more loca tions. Kiwanians will call on businessmen and request their permission to place the vend ing devices in their establish ments. In Operation Now Approximately 2 0 0 ma chines ate in operation in the area now. It is hoped to place 180 machines in other loca tions. Some of the devices presently in operation are to be put in more advantageous places. Medford Kiwanis club real izes a percentage of the rev enue from the sale of ball gun. Proceeds go toward the service club's philanthropies and projects which Include the county-wide dental clinic, medical expenses for under privileged youngsters, camp-ershlps- for youth organiza tions, playground squlpment, the annual Easter egg hunt and a junior bowling league. Kiwanians received $900 last year from Ford gum re ceipts, and the amount has totaled $9,000 over the past 12 years. Coordinating the "Chew for Charity" drive are Hugh Eng strom, chairman of the Med ford club's ball gum commit tee, and Ben Roeser, Ford representative in this area. A 5 Medford Youth Named To WSU Honorary Richard Lee Peterson, Med ford, Is one of the 104 fresh men at Washington State uni versity, Pullman, Washington, selected to be members of the Intercollegiate Knights. A sophomore service hon orary, the Intercollegiate Knights at WSU chose new memhera parh enrinir nn tha basis of scholarship and cam pus activities. All of the men chosen this year were from the top 10 per cent of their class. ALL TYPES OF ROOFING Shake and Shingle Composition Shingle ' Built-up & Gravel Roofs Industrial Spraying . Speciaiiizng in Recover work Free Estimates Phone SP 2-4428 T. D. RICH Roofing Co. Ill North Fir v RUSTIC FENCING Split Rail Fence Post & Rail Fence ALL NEW MATERIAL ESTIMATES Without Charge! Call SP 2-8240 Town & Country FENCE 111 North Fir ONE DAY COLOR SERVICE K0DAC0LOR EKTACHROME ANSCOCHROME IN BY 10:00 A.M. . . . BACK THE NEXT AFTERNOON Also 6 Hour Black & White Service ANDER'S PHOTO SHOP 232 E. Main Phone SP 2-5646 HILLAH SHRINE BAND SHOW SUNDAY, 3 P.M. Medford High Auditorium Extra Special Savings! 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