MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
SUNDAY. JUNE 24. 1962
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Today'! A Ntw Day
Today! Ah, 'tis a brand new day!
Tomorrow's not yet here;
And yesterday has faded with
The flowers of yesteryear.
But as we lived those bygone days
Preparing for today,
So let us grow in wisdom love
And face life, come what may.
Today! Ah, let us live it well.
So that tomorrow's morn
Will break upon some beauty that's
Been hitherto unborn!
Some word of comfort let us speak
Some deed of kindness do;
Let's be a channel for God's love
That love so old, yet new!
Today? Ah, yes a brand new day
With precious moments fraught!
When comes the night let's leave behind
Some worthy deed or thought.
Tomorrow's dawn too soon will come
Too soon will pass away;
We're building our tomorrows from
The love we give today!
Lila Curtis Bates
Eagle Point, Oregon
O
Death the Lovelier
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour aginst Fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Scepter and crown
Must tumble down,
And In the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Some men with swords may reap the field,
And plant fresh laurels where they kill;
But their strong nerves at last must yield;
They tame but one another still:
Early or late
They stoop to fate,
And must give up their murmuring breath
When they, pale captives, creep to death.
The garlands wither on your brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds!
Upon Death's purple altar now
See where the victor-victim bleeds.
Your heads must come
To the cold tomb:
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
James Shirley, 1650
O
Crabs'
Some crabs look like spiders with their long and
curly legs.
And their shiny, oval bodies like blackened Easter
eggs.
But a spider doesn't have those funny, pricking jaws
That reach way nut in front and clamp, just like a
pair of jaws.
Some crabs are very large and some are very small,
But the many little shore crabs I like the best of all.
When the tide comes up, they hide in rocks and sand.
And when the tide goes out sometimes they're left
on land.
And when you come along and poke in little pools,
You'll find them huddled up like boys and girls in
schools.
And then they'll scurry off, like frigthtened, busy
bees,
And wait until the tide comes up to wash them back
to sea.
Virginia Towner
'This poem is based on the recorded thoughts and ex
pressions of six-year old children, arranged and rimed by
their teacher. From "Childhood Expressions" by Corinne A
Seeds, University of California at Los Angeles. Submitted by
Miss Clayton Burrow, The Manor, Medford.
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contrary is often the case.
Local Woman Honored By Insurance Company
Mrs. Eddy Moore, 1425
Whitman St., Medford, was
honored recently by Investors
Syndicate Life Insurance and
Annuity company as the May
queen of her husband, Paul
R. Moore's, sales division.
He won the honor for his
wife by achieving highest
sales production record in his
division during May. As an
award Mrs. Moore will have
a choice of merchandise
items.
The Greedy Minorities
To the Editor: Sylvia Por
ter, in her "Your Money's
Worth" column, refers to
greedy minority Wall St. gam
blers as "pigs, "hogs.
They're worse; being piggish,
pigs become hogs, hoEs be
come pork, good food. Greedy
minorities are like wolf packs
or humans at war that kill
to kill, or cripple, with no
good end.
Greedy English overlords
taxed American Colonies into
the Revolutionary War; envi
ous, greedy minorities oppos
ed and hindered George
Washington and his half
starved, freezing patriots in
their struggle for America's,
our, freedom; caused Wash
ington's 1779 appeal to Pat
rick Henry to "come forth
and help save the Colonies
from the selfish special In
terests."
Greedy minority Northern
manufacturers with ill-paid
child labor, feared Southern
planters' slave labor compe
tition and cried "Free the
Negro slaves," causing the
Civil War and its horrors. Try
to evaluate its costs in inno
cent human lives, suffering.
bitterness, what's followed.
and yet to come.
Greedy minorities caused
the 1870s, 1896, 1907 Wall St.
crashes and depressions; the
l14-t8 World War, 1929
crash; 1939-45 World War, bit
ter cold war and skirmishes.
Greedy minorities would have
the world at war now but
for fear of their own hides.
Greedy minority railroad
robber barons and millionaire
timber thieves stole enough
public lands and destroyed
enough timber to supply
America's needs a thousand
years, if used as urged by
Gifford Pinchot and Pres.
Theodore Roosevelt. Greedy
minority's boom and bust
economy system depressed
timberland prices, forcing
small holders to lose their
claims; then they ballooned
stumpage prices and squeezed
hundreds of small mill opera
tors out.
Greedy minorities, USCC,
NAM, et al, have obstructed
U.S. forest service policies, if
possible, needed Congression
al appropriations, etc. They'd
grab or control the people's
forests, parks, grazing lands,
etc. Then they'd control tim
ber volume, lumber produc
tion; prices, and labor, and
continue exploiting, as for a
hundred years. With Amer
ica's resources, her means of
resistance gone, China or
Africa could walk in.
Greedy minorities are ter
mites in the dark, boring at
the core of government, civil
ization - ours.
John E. Gribble,
, 139 Kenwood ave.,
Medford
ber of Commerce Roundtable
luncheon the previous day.
One more among the growing
number of voices raised by
physicians against the AMA
campaign of misrepresenta
tion. Dr. Rutter said: "The AMA
has done a wretched job of
leading us. The association's
record in matters of this sort
has been very poor. They've
! been against everything since
the year 1." And he added,
"In this particular issue the
AMA has been guilty of
throwing up red herrings, and
broadcasting misleading state
ments," - just as I and many
another critic have insisted
for a long time.
However, Dr. Rutter still
seems to be laboring under
some misapprehensions - in
duced, in all likelihood, by
the AMA's continuing barrage
of misrepresentation from
which, perhaps, he has not
yet fully freed himself. While
eloquently affirming the need
for "some plan to help the
aged meet whatever medical
expenses they may incur," the
good doctor evidently believes
that "grafting such a proposal
as the King-Anderson bill onto
the Social Security program
is the wrong way to do it."
One of Dr. Rutler's fears ap
pears to be that Social Secur
ity could not do the job be
cause it "is already In finan
cial trouble." Too bad he
wasn't at the Roundtable re
cently when Social Security's
Edward B. Jacobson effective
ly disposed of that myth.
Another of Dr. Rutter's ob
jections was that under K-A
"everyone was included in the
measure," that many people
don't need it and therefore
the inclusion of all is unneces
sary. That point (and others)
was well answered in E.A.'s
excellent editorials of June 7
and 13. I would commend
those editorials and Mr. Jac-
obson's talk to Dr. Rutter for
further study. As E.A. pointed
out, inclusiveness is essential
to any sound insurance plan,
and K-A is just that, a hospi
talization insurance program,
with the insured prepaying
the benefits eventually to be
claimed.
Dr. M. Donald McGeary, on
the same program with Dr.
Rutter, was reported to have
expressed concern that K-A
would affect adversely the
hign standards now main
tained by our medical profes
sion. A completely groundless
fear. The King-Anderson bill
specifically provides for the
insured's free choice of phy
sician and medical facilities
and physicians' freedom of
practice.
Arnold Eugene Jenny,
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Among Growing Numbers
To the Editor: It was re
freshing to read Dr. Thomas
Rutter's forthright criticism
of AMA propaganda against
medicare under Social Secur
ity, as reported in the MT's
account of 619 of the Cham-
J
writing to the Thessalonians
said "Greet all the brethren
with a holy kiss." (II Thess.
2:26) This pastor preferred to
include the "sisters" as well.
Two of his feminine parish-
oners once brought my father
home from town. Dad had
been in the hospital for sev
eral weeks and hadn't seen
our "preacher" neighbor dur
ing that time. Being in a
friendly mood he asked the la
dies to stop by the parsonage.
Out he came on the trot. By
the way, this parson often
chewed tobacco and this day
was no exception. In addition
he had a bad facial disfigure
ment, a large open cut by one
1'P.
At any rale here was the
pastor. Instead of saying hel
lo my father whom he hadn't
seen in weeks, he grabbed
each of those woman folk and
smacked a kiss on their lips.
The tobacco juice was running
out of his cut lip. One lady
grabbed her handkerchief and
wiped her face. Then as if
that weren't enough he look
ed up, winked at dad and
said, "Johnson, don't you wish
you belonged to my church?"
While we are on the sub
ject I might as well include
this one. I don't have any
pick on preachers. It's the
"filthy weed" some of them
use.
A parson in the South
found himself behind the pul
pit one sultry Sunday morn
ing with his tobacco in his
mouth. He had forgotten to
rid himself of the wad before
entering the church. He care
fully wiped his mouth with a
handkerchief and at the same
time unbeknown to the audi
ence deposited the tobacco in
the white cloth.
The day was hot and beads
of sweat stood out on the par
son's face. He grabbed the
handkerchief and mopped his
brow. The congregation began
to smile. He remonstrated
them for their lack of rever
ence. More sweat and another
facial "cleansing" and his lis
teners were in an uproar. His
face was covered with his own
chewing tobacco.
Amusing, yes, but pathetic.
God wants his servants to be
clean as shown in Isaiah 52:11
and elsewhere in His word.
Henry Johnson, Jr.
3215 Highway 66,
Ashland, Ore. ,
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PRESENTATION A plaque In honor of the
local Civil Air Patrol squadron's work in
Air Force recruiting was presented to the
group last week by M. Sgt. Harold K.
O'Leary, Medford recruiting officer. Ac
cepting the plaque are Maj. John W. Keener,
commander of the Medford composite squad
ron, and Lieut. Mary Lou Hall. Sergeant
O'Leary also read a letter ol commendation
from Col. Robert F. Lay ton, commander of
Air Force recruiting activities in the western
stales.
Medford Boy Scout Group Hikes 54 Miles Along Rogue
Lived Near Preacher
To the Editor: The writer,
as a boy, lived near an indi
vidual who called himself a
preacher. The group he repre
sented took a rather amplified
view of one scripture in par
ticular. The Apostle Paul in
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Twelve members of Explor
er Post 10 of Medford re
cently completed a five-day
trip hiking down the Rogue
river from two miles down
stream from Graves creek to
Gold Beach.
The Scouts included Ron
Ingram, Mike Hurt, Dave
Hall, Gary Ottoman, Rich
ard Slusser. Mike Black, Mike
Dean, Jim (Butch) Jones, Jim
Cotton, and Gary Froreich,
all of Medford. Accompanying
them were George Barber,
post advisor, and his son,
Gary Barber, associate post
advisor.
The group, sponsored by
Elk Lumber company, Med
ford, left here early June 13
and drove to the start of the
trail. At the end of the ad
venture they had hiked 54
miles and traveled another 34
miles by boat.
The first day included 18
miles of hiking, some along
sheer cliffs, but with "fantas
tic" scenery surrounding
them. They also passed sev
eral old mining claims before
camping at Horseshoe Bend.
During the 18-mile hike
the second day, the youths
saw two bears, salmon and
steelhead at the bottom of
Stair Step falls, and three
rattlesnakes. That night they
camped at Blossom Bar.
At the end of the third day ;
they had seen two airstrips j
and had passed through the
town of Marial. Camp that
night was in the Agness City
park.
The next day the boys
boarded the mail boat in Ag- j
ness for the trip down river 1
I to Wedderburn. They made
camp that night under the
south end of the Rogue river
bridge at Gold Beach. They
were met by their families
the next morning.
A 5
Fire Fighting Class
Held in Happy Camp
Happy Camp A two-day
fire fighting school was held
recently at the Happy Camp
Ranger station and at a near
by timber sale area.
The school was under tha
direction of Proctor J. Ault,
fire control officer of the
Happy Camp district, Kla
math National forest.
Among subjects discussed
were multiple use manage
ment of forest lands, health
and safety, fire weather and
district manning, lightning
fires, and evidence collection
in man-caused fires.
Ault stated that all men at
tending the school will receive
on-the-job training during the
summer months.
PEOPLE FROM ALL
OF LIFE...
walk into Local for one-visit
loans . . . butcher, baker,
rocket ship maker . . . and
they get up to $1500 on
their signature only, car or
other security.
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CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO INSPECT THE FACILITIES
OF THE LATEST ADDITION TO OUR CHAIN, THE
IMPERIAL 400 MOTEL
345 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE
MEDFORD, OREGON
OPEN HOUSE: 1:00 P.M. TO 4:00 P.M.
JUNE 27th to 29th
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
Thomas P. inrj Clair Lorertx
Your Co-Owner Hottt
Phono: 773-7727
Harry and David
Install IBM 1401
Computer lor Firm
Harry and David at Bear
Creek Orchards have an
nounced completion of instal
lation of a new solid stale IBM
1401 electronic computer, the
first of its kind in southern
Oregon.
G. A. Coltingham, vice pres
ident of Harry and David,
said, "the computer system
comprises three rather com
plex major parts, each inte
grated to produce, at amazing
speeds, computations and
printed documents which in
turn greatly increase effic
iency in conducting the busi
ness of Harry and David.
"The computer has suffic
ient flexibility to handle a
a great many office opera
tions. Inventory, payroll, pro
duction and sales statistical
computations are but a few of
the areas in which the system
will be used," he noted.
Special Training
"Special training to pro
gram and operate the com
puter systems has necessitated
intensive schooling at the IBM
company's San Jose, Calif.,
plant for a number of Harry
and David employees, for
while the computer system
performs lightning-like calcu
lations and answers many
questions, a high degree of
skill and knowledge is re
quired in its operation.
"Utilization of the comput
er system open the door in the
field of arithmetic and logic,"
Cottingham said, "making it
possible to explore applica
tions which heretofore could
not be performed at all, or
which were too time consum
ing to undertake.
"For these reasons, it is not
a labor saving device intended
to reduce the number of em
ployees," he said. "Rather, it
will permit expansion and
progress which will, in turn,
continually increase employ
ment in the years to come.
Recognizing that a number
of business firms in southern
I Oregon have individual appli-
' cations for electronic comput
ing, but to a degree which
would not justify acquisition
of such a system, Harry and
David will offer the service
jot their computer system to
other firms in the southern
Oregon area and thus greater
efficiency in oprrallon and
t labor li contemplated.
IMPERIAL 400's NEW MOTEL
NOW MEDFORD'S MOST MODERN
Royal Accommodations at Thr-rifty
Rates Gives Key to Luxury for Less
The forerunner of the many I wall carpeting, and ample parking;
,wt thinn, to come In the motel some units have fully equipoed
world is symbolized by a brilliant
scotch-plaid neon recently erected
at 345 South Central Ave. Tower
ing over the new 39-unit motel,
the Imperial 400 sign is emblaz
oned with a caricature Scotch king,
illustrating the newest, and for the
customer, finest idea in chain motel
accommodations royal comfort at
a thr-rifty rate.
The Medford Imperial 400, co-
owned and operated by Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas P. Lorenl, offers
"extra touch" features Including
free coffee, air-conditioning, indi
vidually controlled heat, color co
ordination, modem decor. Individu
al bath and shower, oversize beds,
free TV, bedside phones, wall to
kitchen.
But the most pleasant surprise
is the price $2 to $4 less than
for comparable accommodations in
a given area which is the actual
proof of Imperial 400's slogan,
"Luxury for less."
Part of the success of the Im
perial 400 operation Jies in Its co
owner program, in which co-owner
couples like the Lorenz's join with
Imperial 400 management In a
partnership arrangement whereby
the co-owner provides active man
agement, and the company pro-
ides site location, architectural
plans, construction financing, ad
vertising, chainwide referrals and
a national public relations program.
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Lorenz To Extend
Warm Hospitality
The beauty, ' ultra-modern ap
pointments and comfort of Imperial
400's new Medford motel are cer
tain to please travelers through th
Rogue River Vailey. Even more im
portant, however. Is the warm.
friendly hospitality extended by th
managers, Tom and Claire Lorenz
Tom Lorenz, who comes to Med
ford from Crosby, North Dakota,
was engaged in the retail hardware
and furniture business in that com
munity for 25 years. Included In
many civic and fraternal positions
held In Crosby was the presi
dency of the Kiwanis club, alder-
Imperial 400 Motels Now Spreading
To East in Coast-to-Coast Network
Although Imperial 400 built and
opened new motels at the unprece
dented rate of one every 15 days
during 1961, an accelerated pro
gram calls for a new Imperial 400
Motel to be opened every 10 days
during 1962.
The company which originated
in Los Angeles in 1959, now ope
rates 34 motels in 11 states, with
another 15 motels currently under
construction. The nearest Imperial
400 to the new Medford hostelry
is at Redding, California. Others
have just been opened at Cjipsr,
Wyo.; Yakima, Wash.; and Great
Falls, Mont.; with openings at Las
Cruces, N. Mex.; and Fresno Calif,
soon to follow. Ahe company op
erates motels in downtown areas
wherever possible, on the theory
that both tourists and commercial
travelers prefer to be close to cen
ters of activity where they can
select their own restaurant, bars
and placet of amusement rather
than be on the edge of town or
along the highway.
A practical and convenient fea
ture of all Imperial 400 Motels is
free reservation service from any
motel to another within the Im
perial 400 network.
Due to the rapid expansion of
the Imperial 400 chain In the east
cm a; ';!! as western states, the
national headquarters have recent
ly been moved to Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey. West coast headquar
ters are in the Imperial 400 build
ing in Los Angeles,
"SCOTCH KING"
JAMES YOUNG VER-R-RY
MUCH IMPRESSED
BY BEAUTY OF
BEAVER STATE
Jimmy Young, the red-bearded,
bagpipe-playing Scot who performs
so successfully as the kilted good
will ambassador for the Imperial
400 Motel chain is a chap who is
ver-ry impressed by the sights and
natural beauty of southern Oregon.
Visiting Medford for the first
time since his arrival in this coun
try from Perth, Scotland last Sep
tember, Young came to the city to
participate in Open House activi
ties for the new Imperial 400 Mo
tel here.
One of Scotland's leading bag
pipe players, James is holder of
more than 22 first prizes, won for
his exceptional piping at the world
famed Highland Games.
A descendant of Clann Donna
chaidn, Young can claim royal
blood as a Robertson on b't moth
er's side. He was selected for his
job with Imperial 400, following
an interview with Imperial 400
president, Bernard Whitney, In
Glasgow last summer.
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man on the city council and presi
dent of the Holy Name's society
He is now a member of the Med
ford Kiwanis club and Knights of
Columbus here.
Claire Lorenz, a fermer teacher
of piano In Crosby, served In Girl
Scout activities for IS years. Sh
also was a member of the Crosby
Parks and Recreation commission
for 4 years.
Nancy Lorenz, a daughter, at
tends St. Catherine's College at
St. Paul, Minnesota. Two sons,
Donald and Paul, attend school in
Medford. Don is a junior at St.
Mary's high school and Paul la
enrolled in St. Mary's grade school
The Lorenz family are delighted
with Medford and the Rogue River
Valley and plan to take an activa
part in community life here. Fin
ishing touches have been put on
the handsome new Imperial 400
motel In time to serve the travel
ers through this Valley enroutt to
the Seattle World Fair.
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