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4 WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28, 1961 WORDCfcTlUBDNB . "everyone in Southern Oregon pubHihed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Flf 8t Ph. SP 2-8141 "ROBERT W. RUlfiTEditor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. k .- - J I . Entered as second elasa matter at Medford, Oregon; under Act of March 3, 1897 : i SUBSCRIPTION RATES . By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c i Daily and Bunday-rl year SIS 00 ' Dally and Sunday 6 moe. 8.00 1 Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle i Point, Jackjonvllle, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, RoKue Riv ', er Talent and on motor routes, -Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily, and Sunday X mo. .1.50 Carrier and Dealer! copy 10c v. ) . KirTwrni rtanh In Advance . 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O NIWSPAfER rUt(,ISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATION At tOITOHI At Flight o' Time ;Mfd?ord and Jackson County Irltttory from the filet of The .Mail Tribuna 10, 20 30, 40 UnJ 50 year ago. .. ljTJ YEARS AGO j f Af report of the Audit Bu reau of Circulations,' released here- today, : showed that the average net paid' circulation of the Mall Tribune i during 1050 was 13,188 copies dally, aridf 13,038 Sunday. : A- 14-year-old Salem, youth admitted yetterday to being responsible for string of 38 burglaries in Medford, which netted him only $81. , , ; n.-;0.V. 20 TEAM AGO ' ; Plana for a CCC central rs r 'Ir; depot to be' built on a 7.1 Sere tract of land here at a edit of approximately $75, 000,. were announced recent- riom Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot": column: "Most dering! if America) will' get into the war, ana wnen tne defense plan..itriKe win cease." , ... - .-V vvaaa IflA ;Hlgh school '-e'nrdliment herd topped the. .1,000 1 mark for the first tlm In history; the average daily attendance at a. ; A crew of 40 man .has been asilgned to battle the trouble one pine beetle in Crater Lkt National park forests this summer. 40 TEAR8 AQO Amrll 2$. 1821 (Tuas'ar) - The first day of Medford Chamber of Commerce, dis play; of home-grown and man ufactured products here was considered a luccess. s ' A barrel of moonshine has beerj seized by the sheriff on a ranch in the Beagle district., 88 TEARS AGO , "v a.ii in lau fWadnaadavl ; A; carload of ' horses and . . - I a . V. 1 -1 muies arrived nere wiie w for Use on' a new road to be biillf between Derby and the Rogue river. The cessation 6f commer cial fishing in the Rogue river has enabled the federal hatch ery to take a record yield of steelhead eggs this year. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina' or fen correct h superior; teveii or elfhl Is excellent; five ar six is flood. 1.! A thick glass when filled With" hot liquid is more likely to break., than a thin glass under the same test; true or false? 1 1 ; 2.'. "Private" was formerly the lowest rank in the Army; whal Is now? 3 .,' Which of the ' following dp. not belong in the same citogpry: Alimentary, Erie, Panama, Suez? 4.-W h 1 c h countries com prise: members of the Arab Lfeague? it. Patagonia li on what con tinent? 6. Appendicitis occurs more often in males than females; true or false? .7. Which Is the taller, the Empire State building on the Eiffel Tower7 v '8. In history, who were call ed "Drlsoners of the Vatican"? 9. Where are the ruins of the Parthenon? r"y ; 10. Is the capital of Maine Bangor, Lewlston or Augusta? i Aniwersi 1. True. 2. Re cruit. 3. Alimentary. (The rest ar ship canals.) . Cffypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia, Syria, Trans-Jordan and Ye men. 5. South America. 8. True. 7. Empire Stale build ing, $. The Popes. 9. Athens, Greece, o Augusta. : Prerequisites for Peace Cuba, The Congo, Laos, Algeria. What a dreary roll-call. And it was "only yesterday," in effect, that it was Eevnt. Lebanon. Syria, Suez, India, Pak istan, Guatemala, Panama, Cyprus, Indonesia. There seems no end to the difficulties of peo ples and nations. And the list stretches back wards, far into pre-history. In some ways it seems that the history of mankind is the history of wars and rebellions. Are We to conclude mankind to live at peace with himself and his neighbors, in freedom and dignity? : SOMETIMES such a pessimistic conclusion seems justified. But the optimist will point out examples that prove the opposite. For the past 90 years or so the United States has lived in relative peace with itself. Great Britain has not had a violent internal disturbance for some 300 years. Canada has been relatively peaceful since the beginning of the llttn century. What are the necessary prerequisties for this civic stability? How are they achieved? And how can they be extended to more volatile parts of the world? THIS is an area where our social sciences have not yet caught up with the physical sciences, which make armed conflict ever more deadly. ' But to an interested bystander the conditions would appear to include, at a minimum, a decent and increasing measure of social justice, an ex- nanAinrr annnnmv anA OIlfflPlAnt ArlllPaMnnal VP. aniit-cPH t.n nrnviriP a literate citizenrv. and from which to draw a nation's None of these are conditions which can be imposed from without ; they must grow from with in. And they grow slowly; oh, so slowly. THESE- prerequisites do not exist in most of the world today. And if our offhand thesis is correct, they will riot exist in most of the world for a long time to come. . ., '" : ', While thev cannot be imposed from without, they can be helped and encouraged from without,, and in our own enlightened self-interest we must, as a nation and as a people, continue1 to do just that. -' : A world at peace is very greatly to be desired. But it cannot be obtained of the people of the world are ignorant, hungry and repressed. E.A. ' The Two Sides To Zoning .' ; Voters in the county have voted down pro posed zoning ordinances twice in recent years. . , The cry nas alwavs i been "they're trvintr to take our freedom away has-been needed sufficiently to Kin the zoning proposals. . . , If we read1 the signs aright, more and more people are beginning to see the other side of the coin tiie fact that intelligent zoning actually preserves freedom for the majority, by, restrict ing certain activities of a minority. i- IF A few more wrecking yards are proposed for 7 construction in what are principally agricultur al or residential areas, we believe the lesson will have been learned, and that a majority will see zoning as a measure for their own protection, not us an lniringement oi uieir ireeaom. , The current proposal, for a nine-acre wreck ing yard just south of Talent, has aroused a storm of protest from adjacent property-owners. Of itself, zonine is not involved, because the area is not zoned. But wrecking yards receive the county court, and the court here asked the planning commission to study the situation and make a recommendation. THE commission's favorable recommendation frt fha mit-f ia tirViof Viaa taiaarl fVa -fnoa ''WVipfti- er the commission is right or wrong is not the point we wish to discuss at the moment al though we can .certainly sympathize with the nearby home owners.: What we want to point out, once again, is that zoning is a necessity lation is growing rapidly, offensive public nuisances and esthete values are to On one hand we hear, son county to get away from all these restrictions, We want to do as we please with our own prop erty." . On the other hand, we hear, "But we moved to Jackson county because of its beautv and be cause it is a delightful want to spoil it all by door. They can't DO this to us." . , . . IS THERE no compromise between these view Of course there is, if ally and constructively At the moment, zoning is advancing on a piecemeal basis in Jackson county, with one small area after another being put in an "interim zon ing" category as its residents come to demand this protection. , The solution would be for the entire county to work out a moderate, reasonable zoning ordi nance, which is neither unduly restrictive nor unworkably loose, and vote it in. The question boils down to this, which each can ask himself: "Which is more important my right to do anything I want on my own property, no matter who else I iniure. or someone else being restrict ed from building a wrecking yard next door?" that it is impossible for leaders. so long as two thirds from us." And the cry state law requires that the advance approval of m an area where popu if blighted districts and which reduce property be avoided. "But we moved to Jack place to live. Now they putting a junk-yard next it is aproached ration and with good will. Dennis the m Communications Letters lo the Editor must bear the name and address of fhe writer, although certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification ana condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. ' . Seashore Versions To the Editor: Should -there be an Oregon Dunes National Seashore Recreation Area? The answer now seems to be an unequivocal and universal YES!! Happily, the early oppon ents of the park proposal are now stoutly and ioudly back ing the seashore park idea. But, we should not rejoice too soon in this strange switch from park opposition to park support for, sadly, there has been no conversion at all, This small, vocal group is still out to kill S.992, Maurlne Neuberger's bill to create an Oregon Dunes National Sea shore Recreation Area (in troduced in the Senate on Feb. 20, 1961). The opponents of the park have now put their last-ditch efforts behind Con gressman Durno's hastily con ceived "substitute," which we are already being urged to support, sight unseen. Yet the Western Lane Taxpayers' Assn. is already braying the praises of Durno's "substitute measure." 1 1 am afraid that this "sub stitute proposal" of Dr. Dur no's is a subterfuge to stall for .time and confuse the issue. Maurine Neuberger's bill has several new provisions which safeguard the occupancy of private homes in the park area, minimize the need for acquisition of private prop erty, and provide for pay ments of in-lieu of taxes - all of which effectively satisfy earlier reasonable objections to the national seashore pro posal. Myrna S. Martin 235 Cal Young rd. Eugene, Ore. Proposal Shocking To the Editor: When I read In Friday's edition of the Mail Tribune the legal notice con cerning the proposed bond issue of $120,000 to build water filtration plant in Gold Hill, I was really shocked. . This measure, if it should pass, would give the city council a "blank check," and would do away with all the safeguards or restrictions we now have on city taxes, city budgets, or water bills. The proposed ballot meas ure plainly states: ". , . and providing for payment of said bonds and the interest thereon by levy, assessment and col lection of water revenues and by a tax levy." The measure also states: "Neither the debt limitations nor the tax limitations con tained in the Charter of the City shall apply to the bonds hereby authorized." Do we want to give our city council this unlimited power, under which the levies and water rates can be as high as they choose to make them? Verbal promises do not mean a thing! Who knows who our future councilmen may be? Future councils would not be bound by any promises made now. In any case, even our present city council would have to collect whatever is necessary to pay the costs of this fantastically expensive project, and nobody can say for certain what the costs might be. ' At the public meeting held on May 12th, Mayor Stein mctz said the bond issue would be for 20 years, with interest not to exceed S per cent. He said that it would probably be possible to sell the bonds at an even lower interest rate, perhaps four per cent. The proposed bond meas ure, however, authorizes a 25-year issue, with interest as high as 6 per cent. This would cost much more than the figures given out at that meeting. Why were we de ceived? At the meeting I sat right In the front row and took notes on all that was pro posed, and I certainly hejrd MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Menace m no mention of 25-year bonds at 6 per cent interest.. In spite of any promises to the contrary, it would become necessary to install water meters if we authorize this filtration p i a n t. Engineer Rice's report give's a suggest ed price of $75 to each water user for the installation, of meters. Do we want to pay this cost and also pay metered water rates? What would a filtration plant do for us? Well, it would strain the mud out, for the few days a year that we have muddy water. A settling basin would do the same thing. In fact, Steinmetz sug gested at a council meeting some years ago, before he be came 'mayor, that the city could construct a settling basin next to the hydro plant for very little cost, and it would solve our water prob lem. - Vera Stewart 619 Fifth Ave. Gold Hill, Ore. "Fantlstic" . To the Editor: ... And now that the Liberal pattern has had wide notice, Mr, Jenny confidently mounts his charg er and hurtles bravely into the fray-or so we should be led to believe (Mail Tribune, 4-24-61). Look for more, much more abuse to be heaped upon the i ascist (AEJ namecalling?) John Birch Society, and meas ure it as you will. But keep other events in focus. (N, B. Individual commu nists have had a history of as sassinating each other in a drive for personal power; but keep in mind, communist countries do not fight other communist countries.-RJH). Let us not be diverted, for example, from the present se ries by Mr. Phil Newsom in the Mail Tribune. Read him with critical minds. His theme rests on the (Ulusory? RJH) widening split between Red Russia and Red China. Take note if through Mr. Newsom and other columnists, broad casters and authors, we will be led to conclude the split is heading for a break-off of re lations. Then the further con clusion that the United States must ally itself with the U.S.S.R. in order to protect the world from the all-out-war by the Red Chinese. "Eh?" "What's that you say Mr. V.'elch?" "The U.S. is being prepared for a comfortable merger with the Soviet Un ion?" "Fantistic!" agrees Mr. Allen. Of course it's fantistic! . . . isn't it?! Robert J. Howard, i 828B West 14th St., Medford. War-H Necessary -J To the Editor: Cuba invad ed! And all the world blamed the United States for intervene tlon. Even our so - called friends. Yet the Invasion fall ed. Still Khrushchev and Castro and the entire Soviet block accuse us. of the in' vasion. Now the Communists are more solidly in control of Cuba than they were before and we have lost face in the eyes of the rest of the world. We arc a free democracy. We are the leaders of the free world. It is the might of the U.S. forces which has caused the Soviets to suspend mili tary aggression and instead operate by infiltration and de ception. We have a mighty striking force in our military and the Russians know it. But still the Communist movement In the world Is gaining momentum. Why are the Communists gaining so much ground? I believe that we are not firm enough in our dealings with the communists, They are out to enslave the world and they are going to accomplish this by any meas Conflicts Of Mali: Taureg, Black, Soviets, By PHIL NEWSOM UP I Foreign News Analyst Timbuctu, Mali' Republic - The tall, old Taureg warrior, in blue turban and liowing white robes. tepped silent- into the log and grass pavilion and seated himself. At his side, he carried an engraved dag ger, His Nawsom swora, wiin its handle in the shape of the cross, dated back to the Chris tian Crusades' Neither weapon was car ried for decoration. Sitting cross-legged on the grass mats, he ceremoniously passed to this correspondent a bowl of steaming, heavily spiced mutton and vegetables, and with his fingers helped himself. . ' Seated just .behind in a long uncomfortable row were thpv can. As far as words go, we are fighting a losing bat tle. In this cold war the Com munists are winning. So far i have done little to stop them. I believe that if we want to stay free ana neip others to stay free we are go ing to have to use force. Yes. I mean war u it De-, comes necessary in order to coDe with the Communists. War is a terrible thing but peace under the Communists is worse. Look at Cuba, where hun dreds who would have1 their country free are now awaiting the firing squad. How about Hungary in 1956 when those people had the guts to defy Russia. But some day there may not be anyone left brave enough to resist them and then they will naye wnat tney want; the world. I would rather be a soldier than a slave. I believe that we should have helped those who would try to drive 'the Com munists out of their country and fail. Lots of people have died to keep this country free and it would be shameful if we were to let them down now. Tough ness is all that Mr. K under stands and if necessary for the freedom of the world then let's get tough while we still have a few friends around to help us. , Darren C. Monk Box 268 Jacksonville, Ore. To Protect Their Right! To the Editor: There are times when' we ordinary citi zens are justifiably aroused enough to join with our neigh bors and have our say in what our elected public offi cials do in their official ca pacities. This is an oppor tunity we citizens are fortu nate to possess. Thus, when the county of ficials have the power to ap prove or disapprove the estab lishment of a junkyard in an area in which citizens have established homes, small farms and businesses, it is our opportunity and even our duty to actively inform such offi cials how we feel. Let there be no doubt that I and many others in the Talent area are strongly and seriously making a most emphatic objection to the County Court's taking any action to approve the estab lishment of a wrecking yard in our area. We do not consider our selves agitators, radicals or conservative resisters of change. It is not radical to join with neighbors to resist the coming of an activity which will lower the value of our property, making it difft cult to borrow money tor building and improving our land. It is not mere resistance to change which we express, but resistance to a type of activity that is notoriously known' as a harbinger of de terioration and blight. How can we be agitators by mere ly objecting to the intrusion into the area we have chosen to build our homes of a large and sprawling burial ground of highway castoffs which inevitably also become a home of vermin? We respect the rights of citizens to use their property in the way they think best, but we acknowledge, and even insist, that those rights must be tempered by a recog. nition of the rights of others in the 'benefit and enjoyment oi their property. , Those who live in zoned cities have the problem neatly solved for them, in most cases, by the zoning regula tions, we who live in areas outside cities become involv ed with the same problems of land use but do not have the benefit of the regulations, Our opportunity to object to the county court is our meth od of protecting our rights. The hearing on this matter1' I StS'.ll ly it JT mat Influence the representatives of 17 for eign nations, ambassadors and charges d'affaires, summoned there by the Mali government to witness the coming of the airplane to Timbuctu and dedication of Timbuctu's new desert air strip. Government of Blacks - Mali's is a black African government and in its Memet Baba, the old Taureg warrior, has no part. His was the. race which once preyed upon the Africans for the slave trade and which, before the coming of the French, almost had succeeded in returning Timbuctu to the sands of the Sahara. Now he was a second-class citizen; A Middle East diplomat before the county , court on Wednesday evening will be our chance" to protect the right to live in the type of neighborhood in which we have chosen to live. All per sons interested are invited to attend. ' .' Dorothy M. Hunt, Route 1, Box 237, Talent, Ore. Predicts Defeat To the Editor: I read with extreme satisfaction the MT news item regarding the- op position to the proposed draft of the county building code by some 200 citizens. Circum stances prevented my attend ing the meeting, or there would have been an audience of 201 to protest this so-called "safeguard of the people," The planning commission does not believe that an audi ence of 200 is necessarily a cross-section of the county. I should like to ask, "Is a nine man commission to be consid ered a cross-section of Jack son county?" It Is my opinion that the only constitutional way to set tle such a matter would be to allow the citizens of Jack son county to pass judgment on- it by means of a vote, and I predict a resounding defeat for the county building code if such a vote is allowed to take place. Glenn A. Archibald, 534 DeBarr ave., Medford, Ore, Disgusting, Isn't It? To the Editor: Fish (not ducks). Why clutter up the Communications column with items Such as-I wuz In a rock er and who cares who sat on a cash register? Take Pearl, for instance. I bet she gets a big thrill out of reading her own item even though she did not sign it. ' ' Now the duck story, who cares if he made a safe land ing or not? Not me. I have a story too, mine is a fish story but I doubt if any one will be interested but here goes anyway. I was fishing back in Missouri, in the Lake of the OzarJcs and hooked a fish that-pulled me out of the boat and through the water so fast the friction set fire to my clothes and I had to turn It loose to put out the fire. Why not use your column for such items as establishing junk yards and items of inter est? We might complain about KBES-TVs program. Why pay for disgusting programs where half the time is con sumed in advertising and the other half with a couple lock ed in each other's arms kiss ing? Disgusting, isn't it? Yes, I said pay for the pro grams, bomeone has to pay for them so if you have any doubts about who pays, go out and buy a cake of soap, break- last cereal, washing detergent, cigarettes, beer, you name it. it will be taxed, and believe me those programs don't come a dime a dozen. To produce a program it takes equivalent of 600 telephone circuits and in addition to this cost there is. the actor's salary, all told tne cost is enormous. I'll be glad when NBC comes in, in September. Then we may get some decent pro grams. E. T. Moody 235 Fifth st. Ashland, Ore. Domestication of the Cougar To the Editor: Government trapper Klrby Tant's testi mony with regard to cougar screams, as reported bv R. E. Nealon in in his Tablets col umn April 21, coincides with testimony I obtained about 15 years ago from a ranger of Crater Lake National Park This man had spent a great deal or time outdoors In cou gar country, yet he was quite skeptical of reports that they screamed. Nevertheless, as I said be fore, I am of the opinion that the eerie sounds I heard as a boy in the Umpquas, nearly 40 years ago, were made by a cougar, even though I never saw the varmlt. (After hear ing those terrifying screams, I had no hankering to go any nearer tneir source.) One reason for this opinion is the analogy of a tom-cat's caterwauling, which can sound pretty spooky, as I'm sure many people will agree. The cougar, remember, is close relative of the common cat. If you magnify the torn- cat's volume and lower .4ts Emerging leaned close and whispered: "The camels will be gone tomorrow." He was right. For, shortly after dawn the next day, Meh met Baba and his fellows, un impressed by the airplane, dis satisfied with the role accord ed them in the welcoming, ceremonies, disappeared into the desert. ' The conflict between the Taureg and the black African goes back farther than any man can remember. New Rivalries Seen Now new conflicts also are at work. Both the Communist East and the Capitalist West seek pitch somewhat, you have something similar to the scream I heard. ' If this analogy is valid, the screaming cougar is a love sick male, or possibly an an swering female. And far from intending his cry to terriry, even though it has that effect on humans, he simply intends it to lure an amorously in clined female cougar his way. Granting, for the sake of argument, that cougars do scream and that the reason they do so is that they are love-sick, their modern-day silence may possibly be ex plained by their having learn ed through bitter experience that such caterwauling is dan gerous in the vicinity of man. Or it may be that evolution has been at work and that the more vocally-inclined cou gars have been wiped out by man, leaving only the silent ones to carry on. It appears that in the early days, before the cougar had had the lesson, Beware of man, drilled into him via rifle bullet,- he often hung around human settlements or even trailed a lone pioneer through the woods, chiefly out of curiosity (although, to be sure, it would have been hard to convince someone who discovered that a cougar had been stalking him that the cougar had no evil de signs). Almus Prult, 119 North Central ave., Medford Savenih-day Sabbath To the Editor: The contro versy respecting the seventh day 'Sabbath appears to be the result of (a) misreading (b) misunderstanding (c) mis- Interpretation (d) misconstru ing the written record of the scriptures as written by Moses and the prophets. tne following notes are grouped together to enable even the simple minded read er to fully understand the purpose and importance of the institution of the seventh day Sabbath and to pinpoint the day with which the number ing begins. Gen. Chap. 1:3-5 "Evening and morning the first day," Ver. 14-9 "Evening and morn ing the fourth day," Ver. 31 and Chap. 2:1 "the sixth day, thus were the heavens and the earth finished," Ver. 2-3 'And God rested on the seventh day. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it." Moses' first task in leading the Israelites' out of Egypt was to teach them to observe the seventh day Sabbath (to which Pharaoh strenuously objected Exo. chap 5:1-19). Inasmuch as the annual an- niversary of the creation week occurs at the end of the dreary winter season, the week be gins with the evening and the morning following the appear ance of the new moon just prior to, or subsequent to, the vernal equinox (Exo. Chap, 9:24, 31-32, Exo. Chan. 12:1-2). So begins the new year count, the seventh day being the Sab bath. This is the particular day uoa calls "My Sabbath1 Exo. Chap. 31:13; "My holy aay- isa. cnap. 38:13. The authorities in Jerusa- lem were promised prosperity pruvimng uiey observed the babbath properly. Jer. Chap 17:19-? Subsequently they were charged with rejecting t'-o statutes and the Sabbath of God, In turn were them selves rejected. Ez., Chap. T. Schlndler Route 1, Box 255 Rogue River, Ore. Golden Dream , I To the Editor: One of those unusual incidents I remember happened around 45 years ago when a well seasoned gold pocket prospector, a few years oeiore mat, had staked a 20 acre mining claim. It was his habit to walk bv my mountain cabin and ask if l wanted to go along, and In case we found any Docket. w would share the discovery be tween us. we spent about a week, only finding a trace of gold now and then, due to the ter rain and earth slides of former geologic period. Well, my spirit had rather ehbrA at not finding any encourage ment, and our panning water was getting rather short, too But my friend still had hopes, as one always must, and he was of a most optimistic na ture. Well, the next morning h waa earlier than nccl although he had not told mi Nation West Mali's friendship. The Com munists are running hard and so far have the edge. Soviet Ambassador Alexan dre Ivanovitch Lochtchakov misses no opportunity to for ward the Soviet cause, and he has behind him a Soviet grant of $44 million to the Mali government. Iron Curtain nations take all of Mali's peanut crop, its principal export, which ac counts for $9 million of Mali's $11 million annual export in come. By contrast, U.S. aid to Mall is minute but will in crease as needs are assessed. of a dream he had the pre vious night. Being in a rather hapnv mood, probably he thought that if he told me about how he had visualized uncovering a gold quartz deposit I would only think of it as a silly omen of his. I told him how I would have to forget all about going along again and get back to earning by doing . some other job the hard way, with an axe and cross-cut saw. To my amazement around 3 p.m. he came down the trail in long strides with a 10 pound ore sack full of grey slate-colored quartz literally filled with bright gold. He had found the hidden vein in the exact spot he had dreamed It, and named the new discovery the "Golden Dream," num ber 2. , The total value did not ex ceed more than a few hun dred dollars, but I have good reason to believe the main de posit is still eluding the for mer searcher. Bert Kissenger 520 Boardman st. Medford. Wolf, Wolfl To the Editor: We do not see crises as being anything so new, since they can be traced back to the beginning of man's history. Such inci dents as Alaric at the gates of Rome, Hannibal's sudden de scent from the Alps. Tamer- lanes and Alexander s re venges on their foes - and so on - prove our point. At the present time, crises have been ballyhooed so much that they have become like the, "Wolfl Wolf!" of the shepherd boy in the fable. Nobody pays much attention anymore, anyway. Crises Worn Thin It's critical in the Congo, U s critical in Laos: Manana in Havana' May never come to pass. The world is so much trouble- torn 1 No one can have no fun - You'd think the crucial era born , In Nineteen Sixty-One. But to the best of our belief, wnen jsve put on that first ' fig leaf. Times were as critical right men As any since have ever been! "Gold Hill Billy Gold Hill, Ore. Explanation Provided To the Editor: In answer to the letter, "Exd la nation Asked," 424, by Mr. David Frisch: Here is another reason whv Communism will sooner or later collapse . . In the light of history, all systems that gain power eventually decline. rerisn the thought that we may have to bear the oppres sive weight of Communism for the next couDle of cen turies while she is doing her 'bit' in the social scheme! As for man the mechanical marvel, being obsessed with self extermination it may well be, that upon becoming too "fearful and knowledge able," he loses touch with na tive Intelligence. On the scientific or home front,' The sad truth is such; You can tell a robot, but You can't tell it much. Thelma Carson, Star Route, Box 60, Prospect, Ore. Company's Loans in Area Total $250,045 Mortgage loans totaling1 $250,045 were made in Med ford during the first quarter of 1961 by the western home office of Prudential Insurance company. B. F. Crisler, local Invest ments manager for the com pany's mortgage loan depart ment, said the total was for residential loans. In Oregon during the three-month period, dlsbur--sals totaled $2,162,774. This was divided $941,874 for resi dential, $905,000 for commer cial and industrial, and $319, 900 for farm. During the 90-day period a total of $31,148,798 was dis bursed for loans throughout the 13 western states. Of this, $21,186,175 was for residen tial properties, $5,171,738 for commercial and industrial projects, and $4,790,885 for farm loans. 4
