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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1962
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Medford nd Jackson County
History from the. files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1952 (Thursday)
The "usual" sharp increase
In unemployment in the area
arrived in November, accord
ing to the Medford office of
the State Employment serv
ice. Twelve recorded messages
for servicemen in Korea were
recorded at radio station
KYJC during the "Christmas
Crusade" for blood, which
concluded yesterday, accord
ing to Station Manager Jim
my Dunlevy.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1942 (Friday)
Annual Medford school cen
sus shows 3,50(1 children ot
school age in district; in
crease ol Mil over previous
year.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge r)t" column: "Do-
comber luis been designated
'Save Fuel Month' In this
stale. This Is a result of not
Jiaving a 'Cut Wood Month
last August."
An End To Slobbery
There is some truth to the old saying that
there are liars, damn liars, and statisticians.
Still, statistics, if taken in perspective and
with a grain of salt, do furnish interesting in
sights in many cases. One such case in point was
provided by a aanrord Research Institute study
which indicated that the United States is not,
as rumored, a cultural desert, populated wholly
by baseball, rock n roll, and chewing gum fans,
utterly lacking in appreciation of music, the arts,
and the finer things in life.
To the contrary. The SRI study reports that
the market for "the arts" in this country runs
about $2 'U billion per year.
-
FOR instance:
There are more piano players in the United
States than there are licensed fishermen, and as
many painters as hunters.
Twice as many Americans attend concerts
and recitals as see major league ball games.
There are more theater-goers than boaters,
skiers, golfers and skin divers combined.
Some 120,000,000 Americans annually at
tend cultural events, and as many as 50,000,000
are active amateur artists of one sort or another.
Individuals' expenditures for cultural ob
jects and events rose well over 100 per cent be
tween 1953 and I960, twice as fast as spending
on all recreation, and more than six times as fast
as outlays for spectator sports.
HOW valid are these indications?
a a nuiyiiiu tint tiiuay uu ivg a ouun iiwjJico-
sion that Americans' tastes are not all with crea
ture comforts, the "nudie" motion picture, or
True Confessions magazine.
Arnold Mitchell, SRI economist for the study,
remarked,
"I find it somehow quaint that more servicemen
visiting New York go to the Museum of Modern Arts
than to any other attraction, except for the Empire
Slate Building."
We're not sure that we agree with the word
"quaint," and we'd prefer the Metropolitan to
the Modern. But the general theme is all to the
good.
A combination of status seeking, and a need
lor seli-fulrillment, is raising the level of taste
of the Great American Slob. E.A.
"Caroline? Caroline Who??
Labor Party Gaining Confidence That
It Can Control Government Before Long
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
London - Britain's Labor
party is gaining confidence
that it will take over tr. . gov
ernment after
the next gen
eral clctions
and that the
11 -year rule
of the Con
servatives i s
near its end.
They base
their opti
mism on three
main points:
1. British by-elections
which have increased Labor's
strength in the House of Com
mons, although not even com
ing close to endangering the
Conservative majority.
2. Public opinion polls that
show mounting evidence of
either dissatisfaction or bore-
... Communications ...
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condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views ol the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1932 (Sunday)
Thieves enter basement of
Medford home and carry
fiway 30 gallons of grape
juice.
First concert by Medford
Gleemen reported as "notable
success;" W. F. Isaacs, L. N.
Foy and Dr. W. W. Howard
heard in solos.
40 YEARS AGO
Fire caused by explosion
destroys city of Astoria; two
dead and damages estimated
at S15.II00.OUO.
W. B. Bidille, Medford. ap
pears before Interstate Com
merce commission hearing in
Wa-slungton, D. C, to urge di
vorce o Central Pacific rail
roads. 50 YEARS-AGO
Medford woman Indicted on
charge of mutilating county
records; police stale she re
moved divorce proceedings
from courthouse and destroy
ed them.
Medford Elks club an
nounces plans to construct
? 75,000 home at corner of
-'ilth st. and Central ave.
Hhal's Ycur I.Q.7
The Thing Is Balance
In commenting on the American cultural ex
plosion, we do not intend, by innuendo or im
plication, to say there's anything wrong with
hunting, fishing, baseball games, or outdoor
recreation.
Balance is the thing. The well-rounded man
is the one who can attend a baseball game in
the afternoon and a concert in the evening, each
witii equai aplomb.
Nor is there anythincr in the rule book that
e;..u: J.-.. i
aaya iuu icii t ju iiniun uri; nay ana inusuum-
hopping the next. And if one wishes to dabble in
philosophy while toasting marshmallows around
a campfire, who is to say nay?
I IFE is far too complicated these days to hope
for a real rebirth of the Renaissance man
the well-rounded character in the mold of
Leonardo who could fitrht a duel, conduct a
love affair, design a building, plan a battle, paint
a picture, and converse about the nature of the
universe, all with dash and style.
This is, by necessity, the age of specializa
tion, and one man's intellect hardly will stretch
to more than one or two specialties' in the world
of science or bread-winning.
But in the field of culture and recreation, each
man is his own master, and need place no crip
pling limitations on his own breadth of interest.
Open the Cabernet Sauvillon, spread the
pate', bring me my pallet and brush, and turn up
the hi fi, Baby. li.A.
States Price
Tau
Was anyone shocked by Governor Hatfield's
proposed budget for the coming biennium total
ing s; in", 'inn iiiiii'1
Nine or ten corrscf Is tuparlor; ! ' i ' i i t
oven ot tight ii .icellent; liv. si ! 1 lKV sllOlUdll t IKIVC heell.
'"'9""d- I The Oregon Statesman reminds us that the
budget lor 120 years ago, the llll-l; biennium,
was $120.;'U7.000; for 10 veais ago, the 1 ).". 1 -,":t
A Parody
To the Editor:
Twas the night before Mom
my got up out of bed.
(She'd been down with a sore
throat and cold in the head.)
Not a thing was in place like
it once used to be.
And the house had the look
of general debris.
The dishes were stacked in a
disorderly pile.
lor washing and drying had
gone out of style.
Clothing was strewn on the
sofa and chair.
While hangers in closets were
lonely and bare.
The dining room table was
inch thick with dust,
And numerous soup cans were
starting to rust.
The iron stood idly aloof in
a corner,
All backsides of pans were as
black as a mourner.
Toys had been carelessly left
on the floor
The windows were smudged
and a knob off the door.
Three boisterous boys had
been tucked in their beds,
While visions of mischief
danced in their heads.
Both children and pillows had
started to clash
When suddenly Daddy arriv
ed in a flash.
"Now fellows let's cut out the
racket," he said.
"Tomorrow's the day mom
gets out of bed."
(Soon hectic confusion will be
all in the past.
Her sick-bed vacation is over
at last.
But, I thought, she might
quickly retreat
To the bedroom again, at the
sight she would meet.
But when she came down,
feeling rested and fine,
I heard her exclaim: "Is this
poor house mine?"
Then quick as a flash she
went straight to her work.
Put on Iter apron and gloves
wilh a jerk.
And holding a hanky up close
to her nose,
She went on her way, as up
the dust rose.
Then 'fore you knew it, as
quick as a wink.
She cleared up the dishes and
scoured the sink.
As she gathered the last of
Ihe clothes out of sight,
1 saw her collapse in a chair
for the night.
Poor dear, she'll never look
forward wilh anticipation.
To having another sick-bed
vacation.
Author unknown. Submit
ted by:
A. It. Nelson
P.O. Box 81:1
Ashland, Ore.
that she had been beaten up,
just the month before. Is it so
odd that a girl who only
weighed 105 pounds should
want protection . . . ?
Nancy was a child psycholo
gist and received some of the
highest honors ever given
from the University of Cali
fornia. She was the gentlest
mother I have ever known
Her baby Carl, 2 years old.
was so sick that he had to be
given artificial respiration
whenever he fell and hit his
head. Still this is the baby
who was shot twice in almost
identical spots, when either
shot would have been fatal
Nancy was very depressed
and unhappy over her broken
marriage. She (stuck it out)
for five years before she gave
up. Also she had been
quested to leave her job be
cause of her upset condition.
She had been separated from
her husband for 15 months
and was trying to support her
family alone, with practically
no financial help from him.
Still she was so kind that she
bore him on hatred . . .
When we, the family, went
to the funeral parlor, the day
before they buried them, to
see where my sister had been
shot, we found that they had
never even removed the bul
let from in back of her left
eye and that there was anoth
er bullet graze across the top
of her head and that she had
a terrible black eye. The
sheriff's office had told us
that she had been shot through
the mouth and the top of her
head was practically blown
off. Then they changed it and
said that she had been shot
through the temple. At this
point, we felt we should see
for ourselves and found that
none of these things were true
- she had been shot from
above, and in back of her
right ear, in a downward
angle.
We hurried to Medford and
requested a post-mortem be
done on the bodies, but our
request was denied by District
Attorney Holmes. He did call
and request the pathologist to
remove the bullet from her
head, the morning they buried
her - that was all. His rude
ness to all of us was like a
slap in the face! When ve
mentioned the black eye, they
told us it was caused by the
bullet lodged in back of her
left eye, although this bullet
would have killed her instant
ly. Also, there were no pow
der burns on her, although
they were very evident on
both children. Thev staled
twice to us, in front of wit- j
Juvenile Delinquency
To the Editor: A good doctor
before attempting to apply a
suitable remedy for any dis
ease analyzes the nature, char
acter and cause of the disease.
He does not use soothing syrup
to cure a malignant disease, as
is being used to cure the ma
lignant disease of juvenile de
linquency. The same will
never be remedied by remand-
ing the delinquent to delin
quent parents for discipline
Coddling law breakers will
encourage crime by young or
old.
The causes of delinquency
are lack of training and disci
pline in the home, overindul
gence, giving allowances in
stead of having the children
earn and merit the same, is
suing auto licenses under age
18, and increasing of the legal
responsibility age from 12 to
18.
The law in many states pro
vides that a child from eight
to twelve, when proof of ca
pacity to know they were do
ing wrong could be estab
lished, that child could be
punished and held responsible
for breaking the law. When
children from eight to twelve
do not know right from wrong
it is a reflection on their home
training and discipline.
One of the main causes of
juvenile delinquency is the
fact that parents, both father
and mother, are forced to
work.
A suggested cure is to stop
all wasteful spending from top
to bottom of the government,
to pass a parental responsibil
ity law, to give the children
all the love and affection the
parents are capable of show
ing, to teach the children cour
tesy and politeness and re
spect for other people and
their property and plenty of
old fashioned toil. Also to is
sue auto licenses at age 18, to
pass laws that will hold a
child amenable to the law at
ages eight to twelve if it can
be proved that they know
right from wrong.
Also, to publish the names
of law breakers would act as a
deterrent and the parents
would make an effort to keep
their children under control to
avoid the unfavorable public
ity-
The present set up in regard
to the punishment of young
criminals and the protection
of the legal rights of the peo
ple from vandalism and inva
sion of those rights ties the
hands of all law enforcement
agencies and encourages the
youthful criminals in their ne
farious deeds, and the same
will lead, in many cases, to a
later penitentiary sentence.
Of what avail is the equit-
the
dom with the present govern
ment.
3. A belief that Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan will
retire within the next couple
of years regardless of the out
come of any futu:o elections.
On the latter point, the
Conservative Daily Mail this
week went a step further.
It predicted Macmillan may
step down within the next
three months.
"His stature among Tory
(Conservative) members of
Parliament is near its lowest
ebb," the newspaper said.
The rcent flurry of specu
lation springs from five re
cent elections in which the
Conservatives lost nearly 7
per cent of the vote, a percent
age which if continued in a
general election would be
enough to put the Laborites
of Hugh Gaitskell into office
with a comfortable majority.
General elections in Britain
need not be held until Octo
ber 1964, but the ifident
Laborites believe that poltii
cal necessities will force Mac
millan or his successor to call
them at least by April or May
1804.
Harold Wilson, a member
of Gaitskell's "shadow cabi
net" in the opposition, ex
plained the reasoning to this
correspondent over coffee one
evening in the Parliament restaurant.
The chief reason," he ex
plained, "is that no party in
power wants to wait until the
last minute for general elec
tions. The closer the deadline,
the less chance the govern
ment has for maneuver
against an emergency which
might have an adverse effect
at the polls."
Wilson, a former chancellor
of the exchequer, noted as one
possibility any adverse Jevel
opment in Britain's balance
of payments which would
force the government into a
new austerity program. For
the government involved the
effect on the voters would be
equally adverse.
Wilson rejected the idea
that the Laborites would cam
paign on a program of oppo
sition to British membership
in the European Common
Market.
"We would want to cover
the whole spectrum," he said,
"housing, education, pensions'
and the like."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Some interesting figures:
The federal budget for the
next fiscal year is estimated
at somewhere between $90
billion and $100 billion. The
U. S. population at the 1960
make our lives a little brighter.
I suggest the establishment
of a Veterans Club in Med
ford, to be financed by the
various elements that go to
make up the city. It should
preferably be a building de
voted exclusively to club pur
poses, and having the com
bined atmosphere of home
and recreation center. In a
very short time such a project
would become self-sustaining.
It would reduce the volume
of headaches all around,
while serving to spread good
will and good fellowship.
Merry Christmas and Hap
py New Year.
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
CARE Program
To the Editor: The mem
bers of Travel Study Club, of
the Oregon Federation of
Women's Clubs, wish to thank
the Medford Mail Tribune for
the space given them for the
General Federation of Wom
en's Club-CARE program.
Much credit is due to Olive
Starcher for her fine coop
eration during the "CARE"
campaign.
The project was very suc
cessful, due to the splendid
cooperation given by the
press, and the people of the
community, who supported
the drive.
Travel Study Club wishes
to express "CARE'S" sincere
gratitude to the community
for their participation in this
General Federation of Worn
men's Clubs-CARE literacy
program, which is aiding
adult literacy and primary
education programs in eight
countries throughout the
world. This organization is
challenged as never before.
Dedication is not enough to
develop a literate population,
teachers need the tools of ed
ucation with which to work.
The General Federation of
Women's Clubs-CARE pro
gram will help provide these
tools. This is an imporant
undertaking.
Contributions are warmly
welcomed, and may be sent
to Mrs. Clay M. Lee, Cargill
Court 8, Medford, as late as
Dec. 31, 1962.
Mrs. Carl W. Peterson,
president.
Travel Study Club,
OFWC.
630 Siskiyou blvd.
Ashland, Ore.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
1. Anti-truM Inws arc eon
lions, monopoly. r tax loop-i I'loiinuim, it was $17(1.2712,0(10; and for the cur-
f lent biennium. l!tlil-:i. it has been $:(.li.77!l.OOO.
The proposed budget is up $10 million from
that.
by
liolcs
2. Is a truttlc hound a dog
that hunts truffles, a pulley,
tr a bookbinding machine?
;i. For what U. S. govern
ment agency do Ihe initials
(ISA stand''
4. Who discovered th wa
ter route around the tip uf
Africa?
5. The Romans regarded
Venus as the Greeks regarded
Aprhodite, Minerva, or C'lcu
palm? 6. A pi lest is Id a chapel as
I) rabbi is to a Hethel, Syna
gogue or Mosque?
7. Ol what nalionality are
most Au-ltalians descend-
llllls?
8. Are plane;s always seen
In the same part of the sky?
0 How many lines must be
fit awn on a four toot square
to mark it off in square
led?
1(1. C'nncd: As soon as I
caw Inn) I knew it was him. j . ,
Answers: 1. Monopoly. 2. nl
Dog. 3. General Services Ad-i what WO
ministration. 4. V a cod
Gama. 5. Aphrodite,
gogue. 7. English. 8. No. 9
Six. 10. ". . . was he."
nesses, that there were no able legal right to enjoy
fingerprints, inside or outside 1 use of property and the home ; j
on vcii. tinonoKii sue was nut in peace aim cuunun n m.n
j w earing gloves and had been j right is invaded with impunity
No Justice? j driving the car for over
i To the Editor: Will you month with the children in;
, please print this letter in its il constantly. She left the j
entirely, if possible, and if; house with a fu'l carton of
-you are not afraid of pressure ! cigarettes but there was only!
i from the officials involved, j a Partially empty package in
i The (",o ernor of Orccon and
juveniles
Kd Black.
2373 Camp Joy rd ,
Grants Pass, Ore.
WHY? WHY a 120-fold increase
i lie Malesman re
plies:
"For one thine, inflation ha.s clipped away over
half the buying power of the dollar. For another, the
state has assumed more financial burdens. Biggest is
the basic school support fund which, w ith a proposed
increase to Slllll per census child will rim to around
S 1 .10.000,000. Higher education cosl.s far more because
the state operates three more institutions than a score
of years ago . . . Two more institutions under the
board of control haw been added . . .
"Introduction of the 40 hour week for emplm ees
and expansion of professional stalls al institutions
have added to costs Public welfare outlays continue
to increase as population grows and new programs are
added."
The.-e are not all the re;
the ino.-t important ones
or lty implication.
The price t;tu about
till. I'.ut it hardlv seems
tret for our mono v. There's a real nos-
visibility that it's not hijrh eiuuiirh to provide the
Hie Secretary of Slate plus
II 1212 Veai'S? j Chief Justice Douglas of the
! Supreme Court have been
alerted to llns case and it is
not finished yd.
1 am writing this as an open
letter to the citizens of Jack
son county, not only as a
giief stnekcn relative bul as
a person who has laced the
injustices of a lax investiga
tion of one of the most hid
eous Cl imes that ever hit your
county. 1 am referring to the
deaths of my sister. Nancy
Kohl, and her two babies, who
were shot to death in the Gold
Hill cemetery on Oct. 7 of
j this year. Perhaps 1 should
sons, either, although ' we """ ,"' '' "
vii. i, om suue no 1)1
the car.
They have made a big Ihing
Sell The Shoes
To the Editor: We see
where President Kennedy at
tended the Army-Navy Game
last Saturday and presented
each team captain wilh a sil
ver dollar.
We hope each captain re
members to pay his Federal
income lax. Social Security
t angle for a suicide that tax and the numerous other
taxes due from the dollar be
cause otherwise they run the
risk of the Infernal Revenue
Department auctioning off
their football shoes to pay the
bill.
V. J. Olson
Route 4. Box 325
Medford
Solution
To the Editor: A Medford
ked me to make an
estimate on lowering the ceil
ing her apartment. That wuz
before the flood. Now she
wants me to make an estimate
on the cost of leaving the
ceiling where it is and rais
the floor.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
are covered, directly
$l2l2. per person is
too hicli, considerinc'
but
i out of the fact that the paraf-
fin tests show powder residue
1 on her hands. Is this so tin
visual in view of (he bullet
crease on her head, which
obviously points to a struggle
i for the gun? Ev en the mor
tician stated that it was the
iKide
he had ever seen and w-oniler.
ed why something hadn't
been done in the investigation
and w hy no post-mortem had
been performed .
1)1 view of all this evidence,
would any of you let it rest
like tins, if it was your w ife,
sweetheart, relative or loved
one We have begged, plead
ed and cajoled the Jackson
ANTICS WITH SEMANTICS
When I proclaim that I can
"take it or leave it," you can
safely bet that most of the
time I take it.
When I praise your idea as
being "fine in principle,"
may be sure that I haven't
the slightest intention of
putting your principle into
practice.
When I say 'T don't mean
to be critical," that's exactly
what I mean to be.
When I make the modest
disclaimer that "Of course,
I'm not an authority," it is
invariably ihe prelude to an
authoritative statement.
When I murmur "I have
nothing against him, but . . ."
you are going to hear some
thing against him.
When I interpolate "I
don't mean to change the
subject, but ..." I mean to
change ihe subject as rapid
ly as possible in the direc
tion of my own interests.
When I advise you that "I
don't wan this to get around,"
I am getting it around as ea
gerly as my little tongue can
spread it.
When I observe that "I'm
not entirely sure thai I
agree with you," it means
that I am completely sure
that I utterly disagree with
you.
When I begin with "I'm a
tolerant sort of person," it's a
certainty that I am going to
end with some violently intol
erant judgment.
When I shake my head
that "I don't understand
children nowadays," I use
that statement as a launch-ing-pad
tor a half-hour
flight into verbal space try
ing to prove that I under
stand children very well,
past, present, and future.
When I protest that "I
don't want you to change your
plans on my account," I am
looking forward to a general
revision of plans on my ac
count. When I tell my audience
that I can t begin to de
scribe. . ." I am off and run
ning wilh a full-length de
scription in gruesome de
tail. When I leave you with Ihe
genial reminder that "I'm in
the book," I don't expect you
to call me for lunch anv soon
er than I'll call you - which
will be a freezing August afternoon.
When I insist that "I'm an
independent voter," what I
mean is that if my party
were running a convicted
kidnaper for office and the
other party were running
Dr. Albert Schweitrer, I
would probably vole for Dr.
Schweitzer.
census was in the immediate
neighborhood of 180 million.
That means that the PER
CAPITA cost of the federal
government in the next fiscal
year will be somewhere
around $500. (Meaning $500
per person.)
As currently estimated by
Governor Hatfield, the Ore
gon budget for the 1963-65
biennium will be $405.3 mil
lion. The population of Ore
gon at the 1960 census was
1,757,691.
The per capita cost of
government in Oregon, if
Governor Hatfield's budget is
accepted by the legislature,
will figure out at a few
pennies over $230-or some
what less than half the cost
per person of the federal
government.
u The
$90 billion federal
budget is for ONE year.
The $405.3 million Oregon
budget is for the next BIEN
NIUM, and a biennium is a
two-year period.
So
The per capita cost of Ore
gon state government for
ONE year will be only $115
or less than one-fourth the per
capita cost of the federal
government.
AT first glance, it looks
rnrrtnlnlnli, n,. f l l
Why should remote federal
government cost more than
four times as much per person
as close-to-home Oregon government?
QNE suspects, of course, that
the reason Oregon gov
ernment costs so much less
per person than federal gov
ernment is because it IS
closer to us.
We can see it.
We know what it goes for.
We have the feeling that
it comes right out of our
pockets.
The federal government is
farther away. We can't act
ually see the federal money
being spent. That makes
quite a lot of difference.
HPHERE is, of course, another
reaston why the federal
cost is larger than the state
cost. The federal government
includes DEFENSE and in
these days defense costs a
fantastic amount of money.
And
The cost of federal govern
ment includes a lot of fab
ulously reckless extravagance.
For example:
A few months ago the
Washington bureau of the
Louisville (Kentucky) Cour
ier Journal, after an exhaus
tive investigation, came up
with the stunning figure that
the over -all, everything-in-cluded
cost of keeping a mem
ber of congress in Washing
ton for a year is $275,000.
Things like that happen
when the seat of government
is REMOTE from the people
who pay the taxes.
QREGON is a small state. Its
government is close to the
people. If reckless extrava
gances should creep into our
state government, everybody
in Oregon would soon know
about it.
That keeps costs down.
mortem was ever performed sheriff s office not to close the
0 1)0(1
I E.A.
inti
services state government needs.
or no inquest held, w ho know s
what day I hey died or what
day to look fur an abili for
w horn?
They said that, since she
purchased Ihe gun herself, sui
cide was Indicated. We had j
explained to them that her
life had been threatened and !
case, but we have been ig
nored and they have clo.-ed
the case.
I cry out for justice, in mv
sister's name, is THERE NO
JUSTICE?
Mrs R. D. Graham i
2971 Martha st.
Anderson. Calif.
Veterans Club
To the Editor: There is a
way to cause the people of
Medford to be glad that a
veterans' domiciliary is close
I to their town. A way that
would relieve tension, bad
feeling and misunderstanding.
After all. Medford is a very
fine comimirity and Its vari
ous organizations do much to the University of Portland.
Foundation Gives
Money to Colleges
Some 525 privately sup
port e d, coeducational and
male liberal arts colleges and
universities have just received
checks totaling S77.000 from
Household Finance founda
lion, C. A. Lindsey, manager.
al 128 East Main, announced. I
These checks ranged in !
amount from $50 to $1,000
based upon the full-time en
rollment of the individual col-1
leces.
Checks are sent to all four
y ear accredited colleges and '
universities in the 47 states in
w Inch Household Finance
corporation operates. In Ore-,
con. Ihe-e include Cascade.!
George Pox. Lewis and Clark. I
Linf'.eld. Northwest Christian
and Reed college. Pacific and
Willamette universities and
"Well, lor hnven's sake
They make theie things
days ... I"
. . il was bound to happen,
too danged llle-like nswa-