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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
, 10 YEARS AGO
Mar 1951 (Saturday)
World oblivion can be
avoided by a united America,
MaJ. 5en. Thomas A. Rllea,
Oregon's adjutant general,
; told an Armed Forces day au
' dlence here today.
'A civil aeronautics board
; examiner has recommended
; increased air service between
' Medford and Klamath Falls.
SO YEARS AGO
Mar 19. 1941 (Tuesday)
Hollywood starlet Ginger
Rogers and her mother have
purchased a ranch - on the
Rogue river north of Medford,
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Spring
houiecleanlng and golf tour
naments are all the rage
among the Older . Girls and
their breadwinners.' Among
the latter it is more fun to
beat a foe I up than a dlnlrlg
room rug In 9,864 strokes, and
138 to go."
90 YEARS AGO
Mar 19. 1931 (Wednesday)
Under the rules for to
night's Walkathon at the Med
ford Natatorlum, contestants
can sleep only IB minutes at
a time and will be served
regular meals. '
40 YEARS AGO
Mar 19. 1921 (Friday)
The first group of a 22-man
crew, who will maintain a
continuous forest tire flying
patrol, arrived here today.
The Medford Chautauqua
committee of 60 met here to
day to discuss plans for a
week-long meeting series later
In the month.
M YEARS AGO
Mar 19, 1911 (Friday)
New Jersey Gov. Woodrow
Wilson, a potential presiden
tial candidate, visited Med
ford today and lauded Oregon
for Its "progresslveness."
The mayor of Eugene and
several of that city's council
men were In Medford today
Inspecting recent paving Jobs.
Whsl's Year I.Q.?
Nine at tea carreer Is lu eerier;
seven ee elgltf (s excellent) Hve er
all h feed.
1. Who were the respective
heads of governments of the
U.S. and France when the
Louisiana Purchase was nego
tiated? 2. In which State are the
colleges of Mt Holyoke and
Smith?
3. Is the headquarters of
the American Red Cross In
New York City or Washing
ton, D.C.T
4. Which American public
official, now retired, was
"Cactus Jack"?
. 5. Old the Golden Age oc
cur in Rome, or Greece?
6. California was once a
part of Vcxlco; true or false?
7. Senator McClellan, Dem
ocrat, represents which State
In the U. S. Senate?
t. The famous Krupp muni
tions works were located in
which German city?
9. Name the French phar
macist that popularized the
slogan, "Day by day, In every
way, I am feeling better and
better."
10. Is the horse a bovine,
equine, or ovine?
: Aaswerst 1. Thomas Jef
ferson and Napoleon Bona
parte. a Massachusetts. 9.
Washington, D.C. 4. Form
Vice President John N. Gar
iter. . Oreeee. t. True. 7.
Arkansas. 9. Essen. 9. Emits
Cons. 10. Equine.
FRIDAY. MAY 19. 1961
Prank or Crime?
Youthful prank? Or serious crime?
The line between
pretty thin. And in too many cases the youth
who thinks he's just being gay, witty and light
hearted is actually committing a crime, the rec
ord of which will follow
Impressine on voune
suits of unthinking actions is a problem which
has long bothered parents, teachers, police au
thorities, judges, and
1X7HEN it comes to
" there are several
une is me Doy or gin
wrone and doesn't care.
Another may find right and wrong blurred,
with only a hasy line separating them.
A third may actually not knowwhat is right
or wrong in any given instance, without further
instruction.
There isn't too much that can be done to
help the first type, except to try to keep him in
line and out of trouble.
For the second or third, however, guidance
and education can make the difference between
a good future, or one clouded by wrong-doing
born from ignorance or indifference.
'.
THE current issue of the NCCD News, publi
naMnn nf trio, WaMnnal nrmnri1 nn flrime iinrl
Delinquency, reports on a new booklet, entitled
"You and the Law," designed to follow one of
the recommendations of the White House Con
ference on Children and
"That informational material and brief summaries
of laws of major concern to young people be devel
oped to help them avoid initial minor infractions '
which often lead to negative attitudes and more se
rious delinquency."
"You and the Law" was written by the West
chester Citizens Committee of the NCCD. It
has been added to the curriculum of a number
of schools in New York, and has been adapted
to other states.
; Tt alsn will Vip userl
and others. Even parents, those neglected souls,
could put it to good use in their own homes.
, .
THE pamphlet, 12 pages in length, resulted
from a remark by a judge who said that-many
of the junior and senior high school children
who came before him were unaware of the seri
ousness of the offenses
involved and the penalties entailed.
The pamphlet is based on interviews with
school officials, teachers, sociologists, judges,.
lawyers and district attorneys. ,
-, It fills a gap in teaching materials, written
in simple prose, it tells of specific laws and the
-.lif. if sill. . 1 it.- 1
penalties ior vioiauon :
jf i; Li v i
aisunciion oeiween civil
between felonies and misdemeanors, and defines
some basic terms, such as offenses, violations,
sentences, probation and parole. ; . ,
IT GIVES actual examples of actions which
started out as youthful escapades but really
were crimes, and points out the penalties ' pos
sible in each case, under the laws on larceny,
burglary, malicious mischief and disorderly
conduct.
There is a section on
a Criminal Record," which points out that "a
single act , of recklessness, irresponsibility, or
animal spirits can affect
Copies of the pamphlet, at 15 cents each
(less in bulk lots) are obtainable from the Na
tional Council on Crime and Delinquency, 44
East 23rd Street, New York 10, N. Y.
Obviously, the pamphlet is no panacea. But
equally obviously, it could be exceedingly help
ful if used properly.
If even one or two or three young people,
through its use, are encouraged to avoid a first
fatal mistake, society would be saved many
times the cost. E. A.
The Bill for Crime
Apropos the above, a life of crime is costly
not only to the criminal, but to society in gen
eral and the taxpayer in particular. ,
The criminal, except in rare instances, makes
very little money far less, over the years, than
he could make in an honest and respectable job.
He also suffers his losses of freedom, his
self respect, and the respect of those around him.
But the loss doesn't stop there.
IT HAS been estimated that the costs to society
of a young man who starts out as a juvenile
delinquent and ends up as a criminal at the age
of 22 or 23 including prosecutions, court costs,
police costs, prison costs
equal to the cost of sending a young man
through school and college.
It costs the taxpayers $1,354.97 per year to
keep one man in the state penitentiary for one
year. And this doesn't count the cost of the
penitentiary itself, nor the depreciation on
equipment.
Our law enforcement services of all sorts
make up a considerable portion of anybody's tax
bill.
"THERE is a negative loss from crime, too, as
well as this positive loss.
The criminal is lost as a productive, taxpay
ing member of society. This is probably the
greatest loss of all.
And both of these are in addition to the ac
tual depredations of the criminal the physical.
financial and moral losses and injuries he in
flicts. The total bill, nationally, is in the billions
oi dollars, it is sheer waste. E. A.
these two sometimes is
him all his life.
people the possible re-
others concerned.
"juvenile delinquency,"
possibilities.
wno Knows ngiu lrum
Youth, which advised:
bv clubs, church croups
m which they became
aisu explains me general
- i j i l 3
anu criminal law, anu
"The Consequences of
your whole lite.
and so on are about
Dennis the Menace
M.WUSON WON? UT
US HAVE OUR BALL '
Hof fa Suffers Modest Setback
In Transportation Unionization
By LYLE C. WILSON
WashLngton-ttJPD-Next to the
H-bomb, the most powerful
force In the United States
p r o b ably is
controlled by
the Teamsters;
James R. Hof-
fa. Hoffa's un
ion is the In
T cm lci a uuuai
- : 1
ft B r o therhood
of Teamsters,
C h a u ffeurs,
Ware house
men and Help
ers of America-the Teamsters
union for short. There are dis
turbing Indications that Hoffa
intends to create a unionized
transportation monopoly in
the United States.
His combination in one un
ion of teamsters, chauffeurs,
warehousemen and their help
ers provides a broad base for
a monopoly of U.S. transpor
tation. Hoffa moved last week
toward power to control
American transportation and
to paralyze it at will. This
week he suffered a modest
setback.
Last week's action was the
signature of a mutual assist
ance pact by Hoffa with the
chiefs of the International
Lonushoremen's Associa t i o n
and the National ' Maritime
Union. The setback came
Tuesday when the Longshore
men's executive committee re
pudiated the mutual assistance
agreement.
Giant Union Sought
What Hoffa is believed to
have In mind is an alliance
of his teamsters with all other
U.S. transportation unions,
land, sea and air. Such a con
centration of union power
would have no precedent here.
Hoffa is guiding the geo
graphical divisions of his own
union to a situation In which
teamster contracts will expire
in all parts of the country at
the same time.
That situation could Invite
a nationwide Teamsters
strike, a disastrous thing. If
Hoffa 8 teamsters were sup
ported by other transportation
unions in such a strike it
would not need to last long
to measure up to some ex
ploding H-bombs in terms of
hurt to the people of the
United States.
The American people prob
ably are not aware of Hoffa's
position In the community nor
of his potential power for
harm. One American who Is
fully aware of Hoffa is the
U.S. Attorney General, Rob
ert Kennedy.
Significant Book
This Kennedy was counsel
for the McClellan Senate com
mittee which Investigated la
bor and management mis
deeds. The record of Hoffa's
i3
m lis.
LMJ
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF
ONE OF THE most beguiling films in the world unfortu
nately will never be exhibited publicly. It's a compila
tion of all the song-and-dance numbers done by Ginger
Rogers and Fred Aslaire
from their first collabor
ation, "Flying Down to
Rio," to their last, "The
Barklcys of Broadway."
It runs for three solid
hours, and includes such
memorable numbers as
"Check to Cheek," "The
Continental," "All My
Ksgs in One Basket," and
"They Can't Take That
Away From Me."
There are only two
prints of this film in ex
istence: Fred Astaire has
one, and Ginger the other. There are too many rights in
volved to permit a general release.
e e e
Tna teenage son slumped dejectedly In his chair, and his
mother anxiously whispered to his father, "What's biting htm
now?" "It's nothing worth whispering about," said the father
resignedly. "He wants to go to the drugstore down at ths corner
but ths car won't start."
O 11. by BeaniU Cert. DliUibuted by Kw Features Syndicate
lOOX.m FOR SOMETHM02"
union was a shocker. Sylves-jon
ter Petro summarized the Mc
Clellan committee testimony
in a book, "The Corruption of
Union Leadership," published
in 1959 by the Ronald Press,
of New York, at $5. Petro is
not anti-union. He was active
in the CIO's organizational
campaign in the 1930s. Citi
zens should read this book
for an estimate of Hoffa in
particular and labor monopoly
in general.
Counsel, now attorney gen
eral, Kennedy expressed . in
1957 this opinion: "There is
no organization, union or busi
ness, that has a greater effect
Washington Report
By William S. White
(ci United Feature Syndicate
NEO-ISOLATIONISM
Washington -American for
eign policy stands at the most
fateful crossroads since the
old isolation
ists and paci
fists narrowly
failed two
decades ago to
prevent this
country from
joining in the
resistance t o
the Nazis and
Fascists.
White J-nis move
ment honestly believed itself
dedicated to "peace" and to
America first. But had it had
its way, America would have
finished not first but third -the
third victim, after Britain
and France, of an anti-human
force centered in Adolf Hit
ler. Now there has risen to
frightening influence a new
American isolationism, a new
American pacifism which may
well destroy the capacity of
the United States to resist the
equally anti-human force of
international Communism,
e e e
IN one way, Indeed, the dan
ger is greater now than
then. For the old Isolationists,
the old pacifists at least did
not deny their isolationism,
their pacifism. But the new
isolationism will not acknowl
edge itself for what it is. The
new pacifism will not admit,
even to itself, that the In
evitable end of its reasoning
is the surrender of one anti
Communist position after
another until there will be at
last no place left for the West
to turn and stand its ground.
Instead, the neo-isolation-Ists,
the neo-pacifists put the
plain maining of their policies
under a bland, superior cloud
of self , deluding talky - talk.
They do not simply say flatly
that we should take no risk in
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
Way of Life in Algeria Ending
Of Bombs,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Plastic bombs disturb the
quiet of Paris , nights.
In the vacation village of
E v i a n -les -Bains
near
the Swiss bor
der, the citi
zens wonder
der if there
M will be a rep
etition of the
bomb blast
...U i -U . 4 1,
lsyrriif; of
Newiom men majTui.
In Algiers, Moslem and
European alike nervously
draw their shutters against
the night at the 10 p.m. cur
few. The bombs are sounding
the requiem of a way of life
in Alceria.
It is a way of life which
over more than the last six
vears has been marked by
war and violent hatreds
stirred between one million
European settlers and more
the community life of this
country, a greater effect on
our economy, than the Team
sters' Union.'
Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C), a
committee member, heard the
testimony and said that the
Teamsters' power to interfere
with trade was greater than
that of local, state and federal
eovernments. Petro's judg
ment was that the president
of the Teamsters Union com
mands the greatest unrestrain
ed economic power in the
United States.
Citizens should do their
home work on this powerful
man
this world - not in Cuba, not
in Laos, not anywhere - and
let it go at that.
With that kind of candor,
the Issues could at any rate
be met head-on. Rather, they
argue, for example, simply
that Cuba is not really a
threat to the United States, in
spite of the public alliance
with the Soviet bloc publicly
proclaimed by Fidel Castro.
Cuba is only "peripheral,"
though Cuba lies 90 miles
from the American shoreline
and though for the first time
in our nationhood an aggres
sive international power has
an undeniable lodgment in
this hemisphere.
e
CO it is with Laos. Laos is
not really worth any risk,
either. We are held to be
interfering there in local poli
tics, or something or the oth
er. Again, the pre - conditions
for fair debate are denied for
lack of candor among the new
isolationists, the new paci
fists. For nearly all those who
now declare that Castro of
fers no great danger to us
were In the forefront of those
who built up the dictator Cas
tro, with almost hysterical
hosannas, In the first place
He is in part their own cre
ation. This truth they cannot
admit without admitting their
share of . responsibility. So
what is a truth becomes, to
them, no truth at all.
The new isolationists, the
new pacifists have honorable
motives. But at the very bot
tom they are also men caught
by a dangerous and shallow
myth exploded way back in
Hitler's time for all mankind
to see. This is the. delusion
that all force is always evil
(and all generals always stu
pid), even when only force is
left to defend right and jus
tice. It is the delusion that
only "diplomacy" and "nego
tiation" are acceptable weap
ons. . .
QO we fail in Cuba because
we dare not risk direct
action and thus the censure of
the neo-isolationists, the neo
pacifists in this and other
countries. So our Secretary of
State refuses one day to sit
down at Geneva with Com
munist gunmen and next day
agrees to sit down with them,
under pressure of the neo
pacifists in England, in
France and here.
It is easy to laugh aside
those who object to these sur
renders. It is only necessary
to suggest that we are simply
naive, excitable men, flag
wavers and war-mongers. But
just as Hitler tragically fool
ed the old isolationists and
pacifists, Khrushchev Is trag
ically fooling this new lot.
So President Kennedv faces
a great imperative of history.
He must soon free himself of
every shadow of the influence
of this new lot. or this coun
try is going down the drain -and
so is his administration
in the long book of that history.
!l W
as 'Ultras
than nine million Moslems,
but which had its beginnings
more than 100 years ago.
The French conquered Al
giers in 1830.. Drawn by the
lure of free land, settlers
from France, Malta, Italy and
Spain poured into Algeria in
such numbers that at the end
of the first 40 years they to
taled more than a quarter of
a million.
Moslem property rights not
always received much heed.
Now the French "ultras" ps
those who violently oppose
President Charles, de Gaulle's
plan for an Independent Al
geria are called, feel that they
have been betrayed.
Certainly during the com
ing weeks of the Evian nego
tiations between De Gaulle's
representatives and the Al
gerian rebels, the "ultras"
may be expected to step up
their terrorist activities.
Ultimately, they must fail
as the generals' revolt in
Algeria failed a few weeks
ago.
But despite all precautions
they continue capable of caus
ing great damage. It is even
possible that by some ill-considered
act they could make
Moslem and European co-existence
in a free Algeria im
possible. De Gaulle has asked Al
geria's Europeans' to remain
in the new Algeria and to
help rebuild a nation which
he hopes will remain in close
association with France.
The more violent of the
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(c) General Features Corp.
PRIVACY FOR
PUBLIC FIGURES
Despite the well - known
(and comically ironic) sensi
tivity of the press to criti
cism of its own
a c t i v Hies, I
should like to
commit a little
quiet treason
to my trade to-
day, and sug
gest that the
President and
his family be
given a little
of the privacy
they so devoutly crave.
Not long ago, press pho
tographers were denied the
right to take pictures of the
President teeing off. I think
fills is a right they could
easily abandon without at all
jeopardizing our precious free
dom of the press.
There is a clearly distin
guishable line, it seems to me,
between stories and pictures
in the public interest and
those which serve only the
most childish and vulgar curi
osity. I recognize that human
interest is an element in
snapping pictures of the Presi
dential famlly-but there does
come a point when the inter
est definitely reaches the sub
human level.
After all, one teeing-off pic
ture is much like another. One
shot of the President entering
church is like another. One
photograph of Caroline run
ning across the lawn is like
another.
What the President's press
secretary ought to do is to
assemble the first family for
a strenuous day of pictures
all the routine, standard, sen
timental, human interest shots
for a whole year.
These could include swing
ing off the first tee, sailing
the boat, licking an ice cream
cone, sitting in a theater seat
and whatever other little do
mestic pastiches the cunning
camera men demand. Dozens
upon dozens of these intimate
family scenes should be made
from every angle and in
every light.
e
Then, when President Ken
nedy wants to take a morn
ing at the golf course, the
newspapers and wire services
will have a ready-made phc.o
of the Presidential swing. No
need to waste time, men and
equipment trooping out to the
fairways for a shot that looks
exactly like all other golf
snots.
I do not mean to single
out the photographers for my
opprobrium. They are acting
under orders, and it is the
orders that are so often fool
ish and unnecessary. For, after
all, what makes public figures
"human" are the spontaneous
things they do-and the mere
presence of a crew of report
ers, camera men and TV tech
nicians ruins the spontaneity
and kills off the very quali
ties the occasion was supposed
to generate.
It is a truism that public
figures voluntarily give up
the right to much of their
privacy when they step Into
the limelight. But it is equally
true that pursuing them up
hill and down dale, through
the most trivial activities, only
serves to dehumanize their
personal reactions " to such
publicity, and, like all ex
cesses, quickly becomes self-
defeating.
Harris
Voice Protests
" - I- L-e,
ultras say they will do any
thing but that.
Many already have liqui
dated their holdings and are
planning to get out. They
look to North or South
America or to Spain.
Algerian nationalists also
say they need the Europeans
who wish to remain and pro
In the Day's News
By FRANK
England has an Interesting
institution known as the Na
tional Trust. Its purpose is to
preserve the historic and love
ly places in the Tight Little
Isle. More than a thousand
such places have already been
preserved and beautified.
The National Trust is sup
ported by individual contribu
tions, based upon member
ship dues. The minimum mem
bership fee is 20 shillings per
year ($2.80 at the present rate
of exchange.)
It is a patriotic enterprise,
for England is a fabulous
storehouse of history and leg
end for the whole English
speaking world. In addition, it
is a THRIFTY project, for
tourism is one of present-day
England's largest sources of
revenue. Tourism is coming to
be rather highly regarded in
the U.S.A., and in our own
State of Jefferson we are be
coming at least vaguely aware
of its possibilities.
Over here, it is BIG BUSI
NESS. If, for any reason, the
flow of tourist money should
suddenly stop, the effect on
business-not only in England
but all over Western Europe
-would be disastrous.
ENGLAND has a farm prob
lem. Its origin is identical
with that of our farm prob
lem. Which is to say, when
World War II started England
realized that something dras
tic would have to be done to
encourage the production of
MORE FOOD. As the German
submarines began to get in
their deadly work, the prob
lem became acute.
Before the war, England
(often described as a nation of
small shopkeepers) was pro
ducing only about 40 per cent
of its food supply. The rest
was Imported. So a system of
SUBSIDIES was instituted.
Stimulated by these sub
sidies, England's farmers in
creased their production fab
ulously. Hitherto unf armed
land (including huge estates)
devoted largely to hunting (in
cluding fox hunting) was
broken up and put into crops.
English farmers revolution
ized their methods. Hand
Communications
Incident on Mars
To the Editor: This happen
ed on the Planet Mars last
week: An elderly gentleman,
in the company of three com
panions, attended a meeting
of a club, known on Mars as
the Fifty Plus Club. Follow
ing the meeting, this quartet
drove to the home of a mem
ber of the group for ice
cream and strawberry short
cake. Enroute to this home
their car was purported to
have side-swiped a car parked
at the curb, causing consider
able damage. However, not
one of the four occupants of
the car were aware any such
side-swipe had occurred.
The following afternoon a
police appeared at the home
of this gentleman and served
him with a citation to appear
in court to answer to a charge
of being a hit and run driver,
or leaving the scene of an ac
cident, even though he was
unaware that there had been
any accident.
At the so-called trial or
hearing, no material or well
verified evidence was pre
sented to support the conten
tion that this man had been
In vol vet" in the purported traf
fic v.olatlon. This Elderly
Gentleman, uncertain of his
j status or his rights before the
court, not represented by le
gal counsel, confused and
frightened, admitted the pos
sibility of guilt while at the
same time protesting that he
was innocent. He certainly
had not been proven guilty.
The presiding judge Imposed
a fine of $150 which, inciden
tally, he suspended and sent
the man home. Justice had
been administered, the dig
nity of the law upheld, the au
thority of the police estab
lished, and every one was
happy-that is, every one ex
cept the Elderly Gentleman
who, being the type of citizen
on which stable society is
built and maintained, proud
of his 82 years of upright liv
ing and knowing in his heart
he was innocent of any
wrong-doing in this situation,
was very unhappy.
He went home from the
court room a broken and
shaken man.
He rested for a time, then
prepared and ate his lunch,
washed his dishes, sat down
in a comfortable chair in his
living room and died died of
a broken spirit and a broken
to Sound
mise that no distinction
will be made on the basis of
origin or creed.
De Gaulle foresees a future
of confederation among Mor
occo, Tunisia and an Algeria
closely linked with France.
But more than the prestige
of France hangs upon the ne
gotiations at Evian.
JENKINS
work was abandoned, and
modern machinery took its
place. By the end of the war,
England was producing better
than two-thirds of its own
food supply.
THEN came the war's end.
By that time, with the aid
of the subsidies, farming had
become quite profitable.
And
As was the case in the
U.S.A.
The politicians shuddered at
the mere thought of what
might happen as a result of
repealing the subsidy, laws.
So as in our own case the
evil day was postponed, and
the situation was allowed to
drift.
The cost of maintaining the
subsidies is becoming burden
some to the taxpayer, but as
yet nothing has been done
about it. The general hope has
been that the exchequer
would be able to "muddle
through" in some way, but by
this time it is coming to be
plain that something will have
to be done.
ENGLAND is prosperous.
Probably, everything con
sidered, more prosperous than
ever before in its . history
meaning by that, of course,
more prosperous for tha
whole body of English people.
One doesn't have to dig into
economics to come to that con.
elusion. It is obvious on the
streets, in the stores, in the
hotels everywhere that peo
ple gather. The English are
well fed, well housed and
WELL ENTERTAINED.
But even the tourist is be
ginning to hear this question:
HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?
Which is evidence that tha
thought is present in English
minds that maybe the present
prosperity isn't based upon
SOLID foundations.
Among other' things, pro
duction costs are getting dis
turbingly high-and if they get
TOO HIGH England, which is
an industrial country, will suf
fer loss of business to com
petitors who are able to under
sell her in the markets of the
world.
heart.
Unfortunately the officers
of the law on Mars forgot for
the moment that they wera
the servants of society and
not its custodians.
This happened on Mars. It
could not, of course, happen
in Medford.
(Name on File)
Medford.
Sportsfair Site
To the Editor: The Sports
fair Home and Garden show
produced by Crater Lions
club of Medford is looking
for a new home for the 1962
production.
The Armory has unoffici
ally notified the Sportsfair
committee thai an eight-foot
steel fence is to be erected
around the southern end of
the Armory for a parking
lot and parade ground, which
will eliminate the use of the
outside area for fair use. This
loss of space, coupled with
the loss of the upstairs, due
to permanent bleachers fixed
this year, makes the Armory
almost useless for this Jack
son county function. The rent
to the Armory for the three
day show has been over $500
and Is on the budget for next
year. Any assistance for space
next year would be appreci
ated. Frank M. Wilson
Crater Lions Club
Box 604
Medford.
Just Plain Selfish
To the Editor: Before
every election we hear, from
the papers, television and ra
dio, that everyone should
vote and let the people make
their choice. It seems that it
is just a joke to even bother.
How many times have the
people of Oregon made their
choice regarding daylight
saving time? Now it seems
the business men (they go to
work about 9 a.m.) are go
ing to force it on us regard
less. For years business places
and the people have done
very well with our national
time zones. Now It would
seem some people are very
selfish, or Just plain stupid
if they do not want them to
have, or cannot remember, a
different time In a neighbor
state.
L. Page
Route 1, Box 484
Central Point, Ore.
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