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Mcdlord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
Highway Finance Problems
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1953 (Thursday)
The U.S. Senate has volcd
to strip Sen. Wayne L. Morse
of the seat he formerly held
as a Republican on the Armed
Services committee.
A new "normal" rainfall
figure for Mcdford - higher
than the old one - has been
received by the U.S. weather
bureau here; the old figure
' was 16.77 inches per year,
and the new one is 18.15 per
year.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1943 (Tuesday)
nr A v.. Mcrkel. Jackson
county health officer, issued
statement denying there is an
epidemic of spinal meningitis
in this area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Food
In nnur listoH as a weapon In
war. It is hoped it never
comes to the point whore the
bride s biscuits are suusutuica
for Jiand grenades."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1933 (Thursday)
Judge G. F. Skipwortli of
. Lane county denies motion
sought by Sheriff Gordon L.
Schermerhorn to quash peti
tion seeking recount of bal
lots for former sheriff Ralph
G. Jennings.
H. P. Jewoit, Central Point
superiptendent of schools, re
ceives minor injuries in fall
at high school rally.
40 YEARS AGO
, Jan. 10, 1923 (Friday)
Incendiarism suspected in
the $10,000 fire west of Tal
ent. Basket bull team from
Rogue River High school,
which has total enrollment of
27 students including 13 hoys,
defeats Ashland 22 to 17.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1913 (Sunday)
Adam Siscmorc, Gold Hill,
born in Kentucky in 1837 and
a resident of southern Oregon
since 1862, dies after lcnglhy
illness.
Workmen start clearing
right-of-way for Grants Pass
Crescent City railroad.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nint or ten correct ii superior;
even or eight it excellent; tive or
li ii qood.
This newspaper has strongly opposed the
approval of bond issues for construction of spe
cific stretches of highways during the past three
sessions of the state legislature.
For years Oregon has financed Its highways
on a pay-as-you-go basis, relying on the gasoline
tax which, incidentally, Oregon was the first
state to adopt.
The first breach in this policy was, if memory
serves, a Sla-million bond issue to Iinance badly
needed reconstruction of segments of Highway
101 along the coast.
ZITHERS leapt into the breach. Subsequent
legislatures were bullied and teased and lob
bied into approving other bond issues $26-miI
lion for the Columbia river bridge at Astoria;
$4-million for Highway 42 improvement, and
so on.
The bonding raids promise to continue. ,
Now it is most understandable that substand
arcl road areas want their highways brought up
to an acceptable standard. And it is understand
able that they should not be too concerned about
the methods used.
But the inevitable result is that the heavy
bonding has brought with it high amortization
costs so high that they threaten to cut down
.seriously on the amount of money needed to keep
the regular highway construction program on
schedule.
THUS we have the two propositions first, that
f 1". ft Ofl. .ivt nrY i cf of n Inrriblof imn a o 1Miair
highway commission, and second, that excessive
bonding is a dangerous threat to the continued
well-planned program of highway construction,
designed to meet the needs of all the state with
out unduly favoring any section.
The state highway department figures that
there is a backlog of $500-million worth of high
way construction and improvement that badly
needs attention. With its present revenues it can
only whittle away at this backlog, a little bit each
year.
This is the reason that the bonding proposals
keep coming up. It is also the reason that a 1
cent per gallon increase in the gasoline tax has
been proposed.
The most recent proposal combines these
the suggestion that the 1 cent per gallon tax in
crease be applied to pay off future additional
bonds.
"PP0SED as we are to additional bonding,
we would support this suggestion, with two
provisos, namely: -
1. That new bonds issued do not exceed the
repayment amounts available from the gas tax
increase ; ,
z. That the funds derived from the new
bonds be spent solely at the discretion of the
highway commission.
buch a measure would enable the commission
to cut down more rapidly the huge unmet high
way construction needs. And it would eliminate
the log-rolling, pork-barreling -kind of highway
programming which is inevitable when the leg
islature gets into the act.
WITHOUT these two limitations, we strongly
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highways. It is destructive to the overall good
of the state's highway program.
We particularly oppose bonding tor specitic
projects, for these are unfair to other sections
of the state eauallv needy, but perhaps not as
skilled at political techniques to persuade the
legislature. We repeat, the legislature is a lousy
highway commission.
but, it Oregon s highway needs are to be
met, within the foreseeable future, something
must be done. A 1 cent per gallon increase in
the gasoline tax would help. So would bonding
so long as it does not interfere with the planned
and orderly program of highway construction
already laitl out. n
Combine the two, and wc think the way
would be clear for a more massive attack on cut
ting down the backlog of unmet highway needs.
E. A. . '
No UFO's, Alas!
1. Are the Federal Reserve
banks owned by the U. S.
Government?
2. Was Pern once ruled by
the Aztecs, Mayans or Incas?
3. The short full skirt worn
by Greek men Is called a
pantanrlla, f u s t a n e 1 1 a, or
skirrct?
4. What Is the purpo.se uf the
ostrich sticking his head in
the sand?
5. In what New England
slate Is Plymouth Rock?
tl. A document which shows
the transfer of ownership i(
real estate from one person
to another is known as what?
7. Under which President
did Henry Wallace serve as
Vice President?
8. Do various insects have
varying numbers of legs?
9. In what state are the
famed Carlsbad Caverns?
10. What seal appears on
the back of a one dollar silver
certificate?
Answers: 1. No. 2. Incas. 3.
Fustanella. 4. To seek waltr.
S. Massachusetts. 6. Dttd. 7.
F. D. Roosevelt. J. No. all
hare six legs. 9. New Mexico.
10. Creat Seal of the U.S.
"You're Out Of Order"
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Matter of Fact
By Joseph Atsop
(c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
Ajsnp
(In September of lillio, a number of Unidentified
Flying Objects - UFO's - were being reported. At that
time wc composed the following bit of doggerel, which
wc now reprint in view of the interest stirred up by a
feature story In last Sunday's Mail Tribune and subse
quent Iclters.-E.A.)
Though UFO's may flit and fly
And make their way across the sky,
To tlate, thus far, I've been denied
A chance to see them, though I've tried.
I'd love to sec a UFO.
I've heard it said, "My! How they go!"
lint never, never have I seen
A flash, or blip on radar screen.
Some folk will swear they've seen them fly
At night, across a starry sky.
Hut as for me, I've missed, alas.
They're always other things that pass
In regal state across the blue:
A jet, balloon no FO (U).
Til keep a watch upon the sky
I'd like to see one going by.
E. A.
THE GREAT ROW'S
NEXT STAGE
Washington - With bated
breath, the Western students
of Slno-Sovict demonology are
waiting for
the next stage
in the great
row between
Moscow and
Peking. The
scene is ex
pected to be
the East Ger
man Commu
nist Party
Congress. An
other even more lurid act
in this strange political drama
Is thought to be insur i by
the recent resumption of Sino
Sovlct name-calling.
All of Communist terminol
ogy's equivalents of four-let
ter words have now been
used by the Chinese, to de
scribe the sins of Nikita S.
Khrushchev. "You're anoth
er," the Russians h.ive re
plied in effect, in the official
Pravda.
In this new outburst of po
litical billingsgate, the Chi
nese were the aggr .sors. A
furious' denunciation of "the
modern revisionists" - mean
ing Khrushchev - was pub
lished in Peking on Dec. 15.
This was followed by the gi
gantic, full-dress document
stating the whole Chinese
Communist case against the
Russians, which was .lao Tsc
tung's angry welcome to the
New Year.
rFHESE two articles in the
People's Daily were then
reinforced on Jan. 6 bv an
article in the Chinese Commu
nist army paper, R-d Flag,
which bore all the marks of
hysterical fury. And on Jan.
7 Pravda hit back by directly
accusing the Peking regime,
for the first time by name,
as a disseminator of "dog
matic, divisive views."
It is likely that the Chi
nese decision to return to the
attack with increase violence
had an important hidden mo
tive. The Chinese Communist
armed forces arc si ill almost
wholly dependent on the So
viets for their heavier and
more complex wenpo. i. But it
is now accepted as a fact that
the Soviets have put an end
to their arms exports to the
Chinese.
llench the sorely strained
Chinese economy must be
strained still further, in order
to manufacture spare parts
for existing equipment, and
to produce the replacements
that will later be needed. In
these circumstances, the sus
pension of arms exports is a
grave provocation.
1IIORE open provocation of
" the Chinese at the East
German Communist P.irly
Congress is anticipated for
two reasons. On the one hand.
Castro Said Seeking To Rebuild Prestige
Through Agitation in Other Latin Lands
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When Nikita Khrushchev's
scheme to set up rocket
bases in Cuba backfired and
Fidel Castro
ewiom
store lost prestige
the Sino-Sovict dispute has
now become too burning a
topic to be passed over in
silence. On the other hand,
this party congress culminates
a series that began in Bul
garia. And the Chinese have
been roundly condemned at
all the preceding satellite
party congresses in this scries.
At the East German con
gress, the least that can be
expected is a sharp denuncia
tion of tile Chinese by the odi
ous East German party boss,
Walther Ulbricht. Anlonin
Novotny of Czechoslovakia
and Ulbricht of East Germany
are the two surviving Stalin
ist leaders in the East Euro
pean satellite parties. Even
more than Novotny, Ulbricht
probably sympathizes with
the Chinese; hence Ulbricht
may not mean what h- says.
Yet at the Czech Congress,
Novotny was required to go
on record witli the sharpest
attack on the Chinese position
made by 'iiy satellite boss up
to that time.
What Novotny had to do,
Ulbricht will also have to do,
one may be pretty sure.
But the East German party
congress will be set apart
from its predecessors in the
series by the august presence
of Khrushchev himself, at the
head of an unusually hightow
ered Soviet delegation. At a
minimum, therefore, Khru
shchev will be on hand, smil
ing, slapping, and givir j for
mal countenance to the ex
pected attacks on the Chi
nese.
QUITE possibly, Khrushchev
will go beyond merely giv
ing countenance. In their han
dling of the Chinese problem.
uie preceding satellite parly
congresses have followed a
crescendo naitern. Novotnv.
for instance, was the first sat
ellite leader to name the Chi
nese quite openly, instead of
denouncing nameless "dog
matists." It would complete
the crescendo pattern rather
neatly if Khrushchev himself
joined the chorus with his
own overt condemnation of
Mao.
The thing may not stop
there, cither. The experts now
incline in mini, tnai it is oniy
a matter of time before the
formal, final, Stalin-Tito-siylc
rupture between Peking and
Moscow. The East German
congress may also produce
the call for the world con
gress of all Communist par
ties everywhere, which will
probably have to-be held be
fore an official anathema can
be pronounced on the Chi
nese. As the East German con
gross may also be expected
to show tiie present condition
of the three-utiarlers buried
Berlin crisis, tins meeting on
the ltilh of this month should i
be an interesting occasion.
suffered sub'
a e q u e n t
humili a 1 1 o n
tD-lrr, I I " r o u g n-
fkA 1W I out Latin
a' a i
r ill c r 1 t
it was natural
and expected
that an im
portant policy
shift to re-
would
follow.
- First tangible evidence
came when Venezuela report
ed intercepting a coded signal
from Havana radio directing
Fidelista- Communist agents
in Latin America to step up
their campaigns of subversion
and violence.
Within hours, saboteurs in
Venezuela blew up four oil
company power stations at
Lake Maracaibo.
Since then, more evidence
has accumulated.
Last week, Peru's ruling
military junta suddenly car
ried out a vast roundup of
Communists, Castroites and
fellow-travelers on charges
that they plotted a simultane
ous break-out of violence
throughout the' country in
order to pave the way for a
Communist government con
trolled by Moscow.
That the arrests were not
merely acts of oppression by
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
lei Field Enterprises, Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
The next time, before you
blame your child for "not
listening to reason," take a
look around the world and
count the number of adults
who habitually listen to rea
son. Speaking of that uncom
mon trait, might we not de
fine an "unreasonable" hus
band as one who wants his
wife to look lovely without
taking the time that loveli
ness requires?
A venal police force is a
greater threat to liberty in a
society than a nest of sub
versives: subversives can be
dealt with by the law, but
who is to deal with the law?
The line between discre
tion and cowardice is ex
ceedingly fine; and man's
worst sin is the negative one
of failing to speak up for
justice when it cries out for
support. Nothing we do is
half as bad as what we do
not do.
Best and tersest explana
tion for the steady output of
creative productions was
Riven by Auerbach, when he
wrote: "The little dissatisfac
tion which every artist feels
at the completion of a work
forms the germ of a new
work."
The cultural snobs who
sneer at the masses for
being "victimized" by bad
Hollywood films are them
selves victimized more of
ten than they know by bad
foreign films whose miser
able lack of technique mas
querades as "realism."
Hostesses who bring strang
ers together at a party by say
ing brightly. "I'm sure you
two will find a lot in com
mon," have already put a
damper on the relationship:
for nothing makes us more
ill at case than the feeling
that some other person has a
In the Day's Nevs
By FRANK JENKINS
Rig question in the news:
Did British Royal Air Force
jet bombers r-lip through our
defenses, including our Kar
North radar screen, UNDE
TECTED, and make a mock
attack on our cities?
V RELIABLE British news
paper, the Loudon Ex
press, says lhcy did. and it
adds that it published the
story yesterday after receiv
ing firm confirmation from
the British Air ministry The
Express reporter ih Keith
Thompson) has rejected do
nials by the British Air Min
istry in London and the Pen
tagon in Washington, lie adds'
"The fact is that the V bomb
ers have penetrated U S. de
fenses - and RECENTLY "
j tense exercises since llltil.
I Tiie IYnlac.un spokesman say
tlic Express report and similar
1 reports in oilier British news-
j papers are wilhoul fouuda- i
I lion.
! The London p.iprr's defense j
export says the denials follow-1
I ed the "standard pattern of i
j U.S. pressure tx'ing applied i
j to save face in Waj-hmcion
land to s;ive faces' it. White
.hall ilhe British Pentagon.)"!
ment, though there are be
lieved to be 16.000 to 17,000
Russian soldiers still on the
island. . . . For this and other
reasons, a Slate Department
representative told the Or
ganization of American
Stales, the communist beach
head in the Caribbean RE
MAINS A THREAT. And, the
U.S. spokesman added, the
problem is one that must be
tackled jointly by the Ameri
can republics.
Adlai Sicvensun, U.S. am
bassador to the United Na
tions and director of the U.S.
negotiations, gave a closed
OAS meeting the SOMBER
news that the talks are being
terminated with no agree
ment about the troops (mean
ing the Russian troops re
maining in Cuba) and on Iwo
oilier remaining questions.
'PHIS contradicts a statement
by a Pentagon spokesman
who says NO British bombers
have participated in U.S. de-
'11AT really did happen''
Did bombers come
j through our radar screen, un
i delected, and fly ovei Ameri
! can cities -where they COULD
ha o dropped nuclear bomhs
j if they had been so minded '
Presumably the tacts will
i come out m the course ot
tune
piSOM w7-hinTuTn.
! l' S -Sowot talks on Cuba I
arc ending with no dual arcc-1
WHAT arc wc and the Rus-
' sians stili dickering about?
This appears to be tile nub
of It:
I We are trying to get ON j
THE lil.ut.M3 verification
thai all nuclear missiles and
other offensive weapons have
been removed from Cuba.
2 The Russians are trying
to obtain from us a pledge
that there will be no invasion
of Cuba to overthrow
communist dictatorship of Fi
del Casiro.
The important point seems
lo be 1'iat the Cuban situa
tion ISN'T all Ironed out.
a frightened military dicta
torship was confirmed in
Washington where worried
officials had been warning
the Lima government for
weeks that just such a plot
was In the works.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil. UPI
coVrespondent Joseph Brant
interviewed a secret police in
spector. The inspector, Al
cides Cintra Bueno Filho,
charged that Soviet bloc arms
for a projected Brazilian peas
ant league uprising are buried
in secret caches "all over
Brazil."
The inspector led the inves
tigation which uncovered two
such caches In late December.
C z e c h-made arms were
wrapped in Havana news
papers dated Feb. 24, 1962.
Since Brazil still maintains
diplomatic relations with
Cuba, the movement through
the country of Castro and
Communist agents traveling
on Cuban passports is rela
tively easy.
Despite removal of his of
fensive missiles, Castro still
has plenty of weapons left
with which to encourage re
volt among peoples already
discontent as result of unbal
anced economies, hunger and
galloping inflation.
Estimates as to the worth of
Soviet -bloc arms in Cuba
range all the way from $100
million to $400 million.
... Communications ...
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under
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 and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Shirt Prices
To the Editor: In reference
to Mr. Jenny's letter of Jan,
6, 1963, concerning shirt
prices charged by Medford
laundries, if he- would have
taken the time to run down
the facts, he would have learn
ed the following:
That the long sleeve cotton
sport shirts require 30 per
cent more labor to finish than
a dress shirt. The assembly
line unit of presses was de
signed primarily for the Iron
ing of dress shirts and can
only be used in part to finish
a sport shirt. Additional labor
in the form of hand ironing
and touch up is necessary to
make a sport shirt present
able. Our company can iron three
dress shirts in the length of
time required to process one
sport shirt.
There is no additional
charge levied for returning
either type shirts on a hanger
in a plastic bag.
If Mr. Jenny can spare some
of his letter writing time, I'll
be happy to take him on a
tour of our plant and then he
can see first hand the labor
problems involved.
Murrey A. Dumas
Sales Manager
Dumas Domestic Laundry
30-32 North Riverside ave.
Medford.
Taxes
To the Editor: I read with
a good deal of interest the
article by Cleo Canoose in
Monday's paper, as this is
along the same lines I have
been thinking, only I was
thinking too of ail the new
taxes the state of Oregon is
going to try to add to all us
already overburdened tax
payers. I don't see it will help
the economy any to have the
federal government lower our
taxes, then the state turn
right around and add more.
When they are getting so
desperate as to try to collect
taxes off a few men working
for the state of Washington,
when these men live in Wash
ington, besides, then they
must be getting awfully des
perate I would say. But so
long as we the people sit
quietly in the background
and allow them to, things win
continue to get worse instead
of better, and it seems the
present ones heading our
state government are sure tax
happy people. They tell us
they need this money for bet
ter government but it seems
lo me better to cut expenses
and unnecessary spending
rather than asking more
taxes.
Well, folks, perhaps there
is some hope for us taxpayers,
if you can call it that. Maybe
after they finally take all our
paychecks they will issue us
certificates for food and hous
ing, etc., etc. Anyway that
way we will be giving them case of nuclear attack, we see
high, anticipation of meeting
us.
What young people fail to
realise it that candor with
out kindness invariably de
feats itself, for no one will
lake to heart any criticism
that seems inspired by mal
ice: "telling the truth" with
ill will it only telling part
of the truth, and mott in
effectively. To marry without physical
attraction is a crime against
the body: to marry for physi
cal attraction alone is a crime
against the spirit; and both
crimes eventually exact a
heavy punishment, of differ
ent sorts.
Those who profett to
despite pleasure often do to
because they obtain more
pleasure from despising
then they would from en
joying. An ideal parent is one who
knows when the child wants
to be forced to do something
against his will.
COMMENTS ON LIGHTING
Pittsburgh -ilTP- Allegheny
County Commissioner John
Walker has commented on the
the I need for Improved lighting in
Common Pleas Court, "while
justice is supposed to be
blind," he said, "there's no
reason why the judges should
be confronted daily with eyestrain."
money and in turn they can
put us on welfare.
Yours For What It's
Worth.
(Name on File)
Eagle Point, Ore.
Demonic Forces
To the Editor: Concerning
the article in last Sunday's is
sue about the alleged flying
saucer seen and ridden in by
a scientist now living at Mer
lin, Ore., I would like to point
out that such incidents, if they
happen at all, are, according
to God's Word, brought to
pass by the enemy of our
souls Satan.
Before I refer to the Bible
texts I would like to quote
some words from a lecture
given some time ago by Dr.
Herbert Butterfield, profes
sor of modern history at Cam
bridge university. This man
is also a recognized authority
in the fields of philosophy
and theology. He declared:
"Christianity, as it operates
on mundane events, conducts
the battle in behalf of righte
ousness in a manner that is its
own, not in the manner of the
men of the world. By the very
definition of the situation, our
fight is not against flesh and
blood, but, to use the New
Testament phrase, against
principalities and powers
meaning by these, not stales
or political bodies, and cer
tainly not human beings, but
pervading systems. Our fight
is against some deviltry that
lies in the very process of
things, against something
which we might even call de
monic forces existing in the
air. The forces get men into
their grip so that men them
selves are victims in a sense,
even if it is by some fault in
their own nature they are
victims of a sort df posses
sion." To me this would seem an
apt commentary on the words
of the apostle John, who in
vision, having seen Satan
"cast out into the earth," de
clared: "Woe to the inhabiters
of the earth and of the sea!
for. the devil is come down
unto you, having great wrath
because he knoweth that he
hath but a short time." (Rev.
12:12). i
John again describes the
judgment to come upon men
in the seven last plagues by
saying: "And I saw three un
clean spirits like frogs come
out of the moulh of the dra
gon (Satan) and out of the
mouth of the beast, and out
of the mouth of the false pro
phets. For they are the spirits
of devils working miracles,
which go forth unto the kings
of the earth and of the whole
world, to gather them to the
battle of that great day of
God Almighty." (Rev. 16:
13, 14).
Scientists, commentators,
and statesmen have been tell
ing us repeatedly that the
threat to modern man is
found in the explosive hea
vens above us. Wc would like
to magnify these warnings by
saying that the even greater
danger is that represented by
"the prince of the power of
the air." or, as Dr. Butterfield
states it, "demonic forces
existing in the air."
Let us suggest in closing,
that instead of colonizing in
isolated spots for survival in
to it that we "dwell in secret
place of the Most High" and
"abide under the shadow ot
the Almighty." (Ps. 91:1-12.)
Harold J. Reith
Briggs Bldg.
Shady Cove, Ore.
Fog Tax
To the Editor: Mr. Jenny's
question about taxes, Mail
Tribune, Jan. 6, can be an
swered in a very few words.
Until such time that the vot
ers get their heads out of the
sand and quit sending money
mad governors and legisla
tors to Salem, they will hava
to put up with tax, tax, tax,
and spend, spend, spend.
Seems they sit in the old easy
chair during the campaign in
stead of getting out and root
ing for those who stand for
reduced spending, and then
holler their heads off after its
too late.
This session I look for soma
bright shining light to intro
duce a bill placing a meter on
each person's nose and then
tax them for the fog they fil
ter. Claude M. Hall,
2860 Placer rd.,
Sunny Valley, Ore.
Take Over the Banks
To the Editor: Floyd
McCabe in a letter to the Ed
itor 1-7-63, "What's a Bank?,"
could open the eyes of a lot
of people if they would just
take time to find out how our
monetary system works. Hen
ry Ford once said years ago,
when they had him hanging
on the ropes, that if the Amer
ican people knew how our
monetary system really
worked, there would be a rev
olution before morning. I
think that still goes today.
How many of us have taken
time out to do a little investi
gating for ourselves? There is
nothing about it that makes
sense. It is too bad we did not
have more Aaron Burrs and
not so many Alexander Ham
iltons. We rant and rave about
our forefathers. Well they left
us saddled with a monetary
system that is strictly for the
birds.
The government operates
the post office department at
a deficit. That is fine. Now I
say why can't the government
operate the banks and let that
interest go into the U. S. treas
ury? That will balance the
budget and also cut taxes. We
own the minis and make Ihe
money and money is just as
good as the government that
is back of it. What investment
do the bankers have? Quite a
business, don't you think?
I say take the banks over,
pay the bankers dollar for
dollar for their assets, then
let the government loan the
money and collect the inter
est. Then and not until then
will the people of the U.S.A.
own their country. Let's di
vorce ourselves from the in
ternational banks and run
our own show. Why should
we have to -borrow and pay
interest on something wo
manufacture o u r s c 1 v c s? It
looks a little stupid to me.
Think it over. I am now on my
way to see my banker for a
friendly loan. You know, they
just love to loan.
Roy Prichard,
414 South First St.,
Central Point, Ore.
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