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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
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years and I miss him now just
as much as the day he died,
especially when each morn
ing his little brother Pat sits
on the front step, softly whim
pering as he looks wistfully
out toward the spot where
Mike went to the barn.
He now rests under the
climbing rose where he loved
to bury his bones, and each
time I pass the spot 1 think
how wonderful it would be if
he could be with us again. 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
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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As our guests you'll enjoy a wonderful
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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
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