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Communications Letters io the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a iew to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted ior 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. He Misses Mike To the Editor: Just finished reading " 'Only' a Cat," Trib une, Feb. 6, and I figure the party who did it is some rela tion to the lower than a snake's belly who killed our little dog Mike the 22nd of last September. We raised him from puppyhood and he was my constant friend and companion for almost six . FIBER'S Quality Color or B. & W FILM k Finishing "BROWNIE" 1 Starmatic Camera With ELECTRIC-EYE CONTROL ST k. . : if A i 1 :j i I . PHOTO SHOP J V 232 E. 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I hope that chap reads this and realizes just how lucky he is that I don't know for sure, yet, just who did it, and know that I have one wish I pray will materialize. If he ever has a wreck and is lying in a ditch with a broken back, I can be the first one at the scene, to laugh as I spit on him and tell him he now knows how Mike felt, then go on my way rejoicing. Claude M. Hall 2860 Placer rd. Sunny Valley, Ore. Non-Support To the Editor: This letter to you is one of my small step ping stones in my fight against welfare and the non support law which this coun ty does so little about. Because of my small wage and the high cost of baby sit ters, I was forced to quit work and go on welfare when my ex-husband stopped sending support for my three small children. At this time I begged the welfare and the district at torney to force this man to support his family with the payments stated in our di vorce papers over a year ago. The welfare sent him a let ter asking why he had stop ped payment. He replied he was out of work and did not have the money, which I could prove was false because he wrote to me saying he was working and would send some money at a certain date. At that date I received another letter saying he did not have the money. This has been going on since December and the dis trict attorney told me he could do nothing until a 60 day waiting period was up, completely ignoring the fact that the man was lying all this Mrs. Lilwiller Dial 482-2816 COIN -OPERATED LAUNDRY AND time, and was working all this time, and being single, and drawing at least $100 per week. Dear people, can't you see how unfair it is to all of us? You are supporting me while I could be supporting myself. You are supporting my three small children while the one that should be is go ing free. At the end of 60 days he will be picked up and tried and will be convicted of non support of minor children and sent to prison. He will be in prison for at least one year. Think how much it will cost to keep this man in prison and how much it will cost to keep his family on welfare, not counting the money spent going after him and the money spent on his trial. I teel this law is so unjust because it takes so much away from all of us that should never be taken in the first place. The man is working and is very strong and healthy. If enough people would get together, we could change this law into a law that would pro tect us all, and would help people like myself to help ourselves. Please, dear people, I beg for your help. My future and the future of my three small beautiful children depend on you. Thank you so much for reading this and thank you, Mr. Editor, for printing this. (Name on file) Medford. Share With CARE To the Editor: I am a sivih grade student at Lincoln school. My classmates h me to write this letter to you. Our class won a PTA mem bership contest of $5. We wish to share our nrize mnnpv with other people who are not as xortunatc as we are. The class voted to send half of our prize money to CARE for each of two countries, Equador and Colombia. Bruce Bradcly Brown Lincoln School Medford Dough for Doe To the Editor: Here's that old doe hunter again and I've got sad news. It looks like we li nave to hang up the old rifle, get out the shotgun and eat doe rabbits this year. Here's the way she looks to me. Now check this, and you had better make the check big. Our friend the State Game commission still wants $4 and SI deer tag and J cluck stamp. That s $8. Now along comes the Walton gang and says we should pay S6 for fishing privileges and SI Enjoy a Visit AAedfords Newest & Finest CLEANING CENTER Its a Nice Place and a Nice Way to do your Laundry & Dry Cleaning 8 BIG 12 LB. Top Loading Whirlpool WASHERS 25 EAM MEDFORD for steelhead card, that makes $7 for fishing. Then the Huds pcths ("plural," cause there will be a lot more like them) spring up Sb'5 for the en tire family. Oh yes, last but not least, the Anti-Game Com mission Boys. Now they will have to have operating ex penses for their 30-some-thou- sands. Let s say they let us in for S12 a year. Now let's add them up. State Game commission, S8, Walton gang, $7. Hudspeths, $65, and the Anti-Game Com mission Boys, $12. Looks like about $92 without a doe per mit. Well sir, it sure looks like the deer population will in crease cause I for one can't afford that kind of doe. I mean dough. (Name on file) Medford Liberty Amendment To the Editor: Why are the papers so quiet about the so- called "Liberty Amendment" to the U. S. Constitution? It has been approved by a num ber of states, yet we see little or nothing about it here. This amendment would serve a two-fold purpose: 1. Abolish the income tax. 2. Put the U.S. Government out of business in competition with private industry. There are more than 700 such business (not authorized by the constitution) now com peting with private business. They pay no dividend, and no taxes, and in many in stances no rent, and yet in 1959 (the year for which the figures are before me) they ran into the "red" a sum greater than all the money raised in that year for per sonal income taxes. It took all our income tax money and S8 billion more to bail them out of the "red". If all these businesses were sold to private industry it would almost pay the national debt; and instead of being a dead load, they would go on the tax rolls and help pay the expense of government. Don t you think it about time we get interested in this and do something about it? John C. Stille Shady Cove, Ore. A Christian Nation? To the Editor: In the last paragraph of his letter pub lished on Feb. 5, James Wil liams of Jacksonville says: "Let us stand together to pre serve all rights and full jus tice for all as a Chrislain na tion should." The question is: Are we a Christian nation? Many people have the er roneous idea that this country was founded by Christians, This simply is not true. The founding fathers were deists not orthodox Christian be lievers. Rejecting the belief in revelation, the deist be lieves that by the light of reason and an understanding of nature, the individual may determine for himself religi ous doctrine and practice. In accordance with the phil osophy of rationalism, deists have established a natural re- LBS. OF DRY CLEANING FOR 8 QUARTERS DRESSES, SWEATERS, SUITS, SLACKS, SKIRTS, SUP COVERS, ALL DONE IN ABOUT 35 MINUTES Drapes a Specialty and a Sizeable Economy for You! MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ligion, based on reason and experience in place of institu tional religion based on faith. What is Christianity any way? When and in what coun try has the way of life that Christianity claims to be, been practiced? Could any people, loving their fellowmen as they love themselves, countenance extremes of wealth and pov erty existing side by side? Are we a Christian nation when we gather up vast sur pluses of wheat and other food products and allow them to moulder in warehouses while there are hungry, needy people who could use them? The fact is that our nation is more founded upon the Christian religion than upon the Jewish religion, or any other religion. It is founded upon freedom of religion, and this also means freedom from religion. The founding fathers accepted the moral teachings of Christ, but not the creeds and dogmas of so-called Chris tianity. Lydia Burnham 814 Wame st. Prescott, Ariz. It's All a Plot To the Editor: Noting the article on the Round Table discussion of last week, wherein Dr. Kreisman and Paul Selby introduced the question of why the people so utterly repudiated by a three to one margin the Home Rule charter, I cannot resist the urge to make my answer thereto. When first proposing the charter it was to be a simple instrument from which the county accepted constitutional and statutory authority to as sume "legislative authority in matters of county concern." Within its authority, as a duly formed committee, the Home Rules committee de cided to go further and actu ally prepare an instrument which fully re-organized the county government: eliminat ed political parties, as well as to put the people's elective rights at a minimum by pro viding for appointed officials over elective. The people recognized the power of their vote and meant to keep it. This was primary reason for the re pudiation of the charter. Further it became obvi ous that outside interests were very much interested in having the charter accepted by the people. The method of promoting the idea coincided with that used by the nation al organization of League of Women Voters who had worked for such charters in other areas of the U.S., which resulted in bad situations such as Dade county, Florida A common phrase used by that organization in all such promotions, and is also being used in the promotion of the proposed revised state consti tution, is in substance this don't pick out only parts of the instrument you don't like but instead take the instru ment as a whole. The good outweighs the bad. This in fact means don't pay any at- to the Double Load Front Loading Whirlpool WASHERS 35 N DRYCLEANING OREGON In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Theme for today: WHAT'S IN A NAME? rpHE line is from Will Shake- speare's Romeo and Juliet. It is spoken by Juliet, who precedes it by saying: "O Romeo, Romeo! Where fore art thou Romeo?" Juliet then adds: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose "By any other name would smell as sweet. "So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, "Retain that dear perfection which he owes "Without that title. Romeo, DOKF thy name." rHY all this quoting from ' the Bard of Avon? Well, it fits, rather patly, an incident in the early his tory of Klamath Falls, which originally was y-clept LINK VILLE. LINKVILLE was logical nnnuch hack in lfl67when Lincoln's Relative Opposes Method Manchester, Vt.-IUPIl- Abra ham Lincoln's great - grand daughter says she disagrees with Atty. Gen. Robert Ken nedy "inforcing integration on the South." Miss Mary Lincoln Bcck- with, 64, told United Press In ternational Tuesday -the 54th anniversary of Lincoln s birth that she was concerned about "the aggression of the federal government in forcing ntegration on the South. "1 disagree with the stand aken by Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy on this matter. We re southerners, but I don't think of the South as a separate culture. It is part of the Union," she said. Miss Beckwith has lived more than 50 years at Hil dene, a 1,000-acrc dairy farm built by her grandfather, Rob ert Todd Lincoln. Her family had lived in Kentucky and South Carolina. lention to what you don't like but just note what one docs like. In closing I slate that all of this so called "modern gov ernment" comes from a so- called research organization which has planted seeds in our universities under lib era! arts" to promote the ideas of the organization, con tcred at 1313 60th Street, Chi- cao. III., and the University of Chicago. When the voters arc informed on these mat ters all such things will con tinue to be repudiaed by the vote of the people. Ray O. DeMarrs 708 West Second st. Medford. IPOLY CLEAM CEMTEH 111 Uncle George Nurse moved his sutler's store down from Fort Klamath, and thus started the town. It was located on Link river, which links Upper Klamath lake and Lake Ewau na. Viewed in that light, Link ville was not only logical. 11 was not unmusical. It had a good reason for being. So for a couple of decades, it re mained Linkville, and every body was happy enough with the name. out- Rv 1RR7 The town was beginning to feel its oats. In that year, a bill was introduced in the Ore gon legislature to incorporate the town. It failed on the first try, but at the next legislative session, in 1889, a charter was granted. rpHAT did it. Linkville mieht have been good enough for an un incorporated village. But for n INCORPORATED CITY it. Give Your Wife The Village Green On Your Anniversary tv-J-L J-l SUPER BIG BOY WASHERS Cram them full, takes up to 9x12 shag rugs . . . great for sleeping bags. Any big loads. 75 Next Door to JOHNSTON STORES MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER DRIVE IN AT THE BIDDLE ROAD ENTRANCE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1963 just didn't tinkle pleasantly enough in the ear. So the search began for a more ap propriate name. The first suggestion was Klamath City. It sounded pretty good, but after a few weeks of vigorous chewing it over the town's newspaper, the Klamath County Star, came up with a better one. QUOTING a prominent citi zen of the time, the Star said: "Isa Lcskeard, who has been in Portland most of the tune since last summer, thinks the name of this town should be Klamath Falls. That name advertises the fact that there are FALLS here, and thus gives the town an advantage fully recognized as such by other towns similarly situated. There is a great deal of advan tage in a town situated by a heavy cataract." 'VHE name caught on, and in February of 1893 a new charter was granted to the town and its official name be came Klamath Falls. And so it has remained for these in tervening 70 years. We like it. We wouldn't change it for ANYTHING. ... or to rephrase the headline, whisk her awy to The Village Green for a second honeymoon. For the next few weekends we're offer ing a special, second honeymoon rate of $22.50, which includes a luxurious room for Saturday night, a gourmet dinner with a choice of chicken, prime rib or lobster, and a continental breakfast served in your room on Sunday morning. As our guests you'll enjoy a wonderful new experience in the art of living . . . here you may golf, lounge in the Captain's Cabin cocktail lounge, sip coffee in the Copper Rooster, wander under covered walkways, bowl, listen to live music, browse in our unique gift shop, or just relax in the elegant luxury of your suite. Why not plan now to visit us this week end for your second honeymoon? Remem ber, the special "package" cost is only $22. JO a couple! Write, wire or phone me as to what time you will arrive Saturday. Harry Wngland, your host. -T 1'l sVsf llsjhs'Hl" Our washers take out most of the water. Our dryers are kept lint-clean. You dry fast and economically. OUT the falls are gone. A They went the way of progress. Where once the falls were, there is now a dam. The dam raises the former level of Klamath lake and makes it a more beautiful lake. And it diverts the stored water down the valley over tens upon tens of thousands of fertile acres. It has added immensely to our prosperity. But the tourists still ask: WHERE ARE THE FALLS? It keeps us busy answering, or trying to answer, their question. Maybe we'd better put up a billboard at the Link river bridge telling the whola story. It would save a lot of ex plaining. Give the gift you would like to x." ,V receive VAN DUYN &r-i CHOCOLATES from AVAN'S In the Medford Shopping Confer 1 THE VILLAGE GREEN motor hotel i DRY 10
