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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.
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Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of tha writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Iniial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribuna reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters
printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; In tact tha contrary is often the case.
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.
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