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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
Most Offensive
To the Editor: The "Oregon
Statesman" h a s reprinted
your article about the "Twen
ty Miracle Miles" along the
coast and 1 cannot refrain
from telling you how delight
ed I was to read it.
For many years I have
watched the destruction of
trees and land clearance along
the Pacific driveway and the
erection ot shacks, hot dog
stands and ugly houses and
have lamented over the sit
uation and have discussed the
condition with many friends
and acquaintances. Man and
bulldozer have utterly ruined
the roadside and 1 do not see
how it ever can be restored
As my beach home is below
Newport I must take this
highway many times a year
and instead of seeing improve
ment it seems to me the con
dition becomes worse. I have
had friends out of state tell
me they can hardly stand the
Miracle Miles, and their main
thought is to drive as fast as
possible to get out of this sec
tion along the coast. Unfor
tunately, everybody drives at
snail's pace and it is about
the slowest part of the high
way. I have been a summer resi
dent of the Oregon coast since
1894 and have experienced
all the types of travel and
have seen the entire coast
highway built from one end
to the other but I consider
this area about the most of
fensive. Thank you for your
straightforward article.
Elizabeth Long
545 Mission st.
Salem, Ore.
None Righteous
To the Editor: In regard to
editorial, "What It Will Take,"
in March 27 paper, morality
is an individual thing. Only
when tlic individual is free
to rise above the masses is
progress made.
The so-called social prog
ress we have made in the
past 30 years is the cause of
the decrease in patents. Small
business has died and small
farms have perished because
of the social pattern. If gov
ernment would give back to
tlie people all freedom except
the basic protection against
thieves and violence and the
guarantee of property rights,
small business would prosper
again and American ingenu
ity would again take its place
as foremost in inventions. If
Ford and Edison and others
had not been free to acquire
capital and to use the other
fellow's savings, (which is
capital) we perhaps would
not have had the cars and
electrical products we enjoy
today.
As to the "cooperative en
deavor for the greatest good
for all men," let's be practi
cal. About one-third of our
marriages end in divorce. If
we find one-third of our na
tion not being able to live
together and work for the
benefit and the greatest good
of their own children, how
can we expect everyone to
work together for the good of
all? Men need a change of
heart, not a moral program
for the greatest good of all
men. "As it is written, there
is none righteous, no, not
one." Romans 3:10.
Carroll Powell
Box 621.
Central Point, Ore.
of a
ready
Cost Too High
To the Editor: I've been
watching the controversy over
signs adjacent to the freeway
with mild interest, thinking
the anti-sign element would
desist in the light of the tre
mendous financial importance
of signs as they directly affect
so many people here. I am
writing because I have been
told that the anti-sign element
is making the most headway.
If the city council of Med
ford enacts, in a fit of aes
thetic anti-commercialism, any
ordinance that would keep
one family a week from
stopping overnight here, they
will be doing the community
a great dis-service.
Passers-through spend mon
ey that finds its way into ev
ery pocket. Some airplanes fly
slower than the legal freeway
speed limit. So to many mo
torists, a lack of signs might
act as an invitation to sizzle
on up the road. Signs that
might be objectionable to a
few would probably appeal to
a vast majority as snappy,
up-to-snuff indicators
stopping place that's
and eager to please.
Travelers from the south
have come through the scen
ery of Shasta and the glorious
Siskiyous, and may not have
stopped to admire the view.
When they get to Medford
they should be arrested in
their more than mile a min
ute flight by colorful, imagi
native signs and posters ex
tolling the warm rooms and
soft beds, hot food and cold
drinks, gas and oil, dres.
shops and sporting goods and
every other thing for sale or
for rent that the citizens
around here want to adver
Use.
People from the north have
come along the incomparable
Rogue river and are aware of
it, but not wanting to nestle
down on its rocky bank, are
looking tor a town with a mo
tel in it with soft beds, and
sub-consciously are looking
for a motel owner with gump
lion enougn to put up a sign
bragging about the luxury of
his inn and the ecstasy of his
hot-cakes.
If the most effective place
for these inducers is out of
town to the north and the
south, then demand will put
them there. But if the most
effective place should turn
out to be in town, along the
raised portion of the freeway
men so be it. That s where
they should be erected.
If manipulation of adver
tising freedom deprives one
motel chamber-maid of a
day's work or keeps one res
taurant waitress from one 10
cent tip, then the cost is too
high,
Sam T. Richardson,
1609 Stratford way,
Medford
Program Planned
By Medical Society
The Jackson County Medi
cal society has chosen April
to introduce the program
"More Doctors for the Rogue
Valley," into the schools and
homes.
The program has been de
veloped due to the develop
ing need for more doctor and
health service personnel in
coming year3, it was stated.
During April personal talks
by physicians in schools, stu
dent attendance at hospital
staff meetings and tours of "A
Day in a Doctor's Life" will
be offered interested high
school students.
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FINANCEi
128 Eatl Main St., 2nd Floor-Phone: 773-5301
Hoars: KM thru Thur. 10 le 530 fri. 10 t 7 f. H.
To the Editor: I was out
for a drive on Interstate Five
highway and an 80 mph wind
came up and blew the paint
off my Hudson. I took after
it and raced my car up to 100
mph to catch my paint.
I raced my car for 2V
hours. I finally caught my
paint in Portland. A state cop
stopped me for speeding. I
tried to tell him the wind
blew the paint off my car
and that's the reason I was
driving so fast.
I don t know what this
world is coming to. He didn't
believe me.
David J. Sletten
121 Reager st.
Medford.
205TH JAIL TERM
Gulfport, Miss. -lUPII-Jordan
Archie is serving his 205th
jail term. Archie's current 36
day sentence like all the oth
ers, is for drunkenness. He
said he was first jailed 17
years ago. Since then he has
served terms ranging from
one day to three months.
Youngster Mistakes
Marine for Squirrel
Perris, Calif. - (UPD - Some
thing moved between rocks,
so a 13-ycar-old boy raised,
aimed and fired his 22-ealiber
rifle. He thought it was a
squirrel.
But his accurate marksman
ship felled a Marine reservist
out on a hunting trip.
Sheriff's deputies said
James Clair Davis, 19, Lyn
wood, Calif., died on the spot
of a gunshot wound in the
head. Davis and two com
panions were hunting in the
rocky Gavilan Hills Sunday.
Deputies said the 13-ycar-old
Westminster, Calif., youth
told them he aimed at what he
thought was a squirrel. The
youth's name was withheld.
Earthquakes Cause
Damage in Iran
Tehran, Iran - IUP1I - Two
earthquakes have struck re
mote parts of Iran in the past
two days, causing several
deaths and widespread de
struction, it was reported to
day. The Red Lion and Sun So
ciety, a relief organization on
the order of the Red Cross,
said one quake hit the village
of Hendojan in northeastern
Iran Sunday morning.
The society said first unof
ficial reports from Hendojan
indicated at least four persons
were killed, two others were
injured and more than 100
houses were destroyed.
Radio Tehran said a new
earthquake shook the Esfar
ayen region in northern Iran
this moining. There were no
details.
Tool Sheds Entered
At Freeway Site
Three tool sheds along In
terstate 5 freeway construc
tion site, three miles north of
Ashland, were broken into
Friday night and tools and
gas were taken, according to
the Jackson county sheriff's
office.
Entered were small build
ings owned by M. C. Lininger
and Sons, Central Point;
Rogue River Paving company,
and Slate-Hall company, Portland.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
PHILIP THOMAS identifies Hawaii as "the place where
men make passes at girls who wear grasses." He also
claims that what Sir Lancelot REALLY asked Lady Guine
vere was, "Who was that
last knight I saw you out
with, Lady?"
a
It was the great come
dian Bert Williams who first
told the story of his hike
along a hazardous moun
tain tray : "here I was
mooching along a path only
four inches wide with a
solid cliff on the left and a
6000-foot drop on the right.
Suddenly I wheels around
and sees this here lion
chasing me, I begin to run
like rnad. Then I comes to
a turn in the path and
what's confronting me but a great big tiger growling and lash
ing his tail."
"Holy smokes!" gasped the straight man. "What did you do?"
"What could I do?" mourned Bert Williams. "The lion ate me.
Jack Leonard is responsible for the sad bit about the insom
niac who finally fell asleep and then dreamed he was awake!
i& 1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
WHO ARE THESE
UNITARIANS?
HEAR
DR. HARRY B. SCHOIEFIEID
OF SAN FRANCISCO
THURSDAY
April 4th 7:45 p.m.
Lecture Room-Rogue Valley Manor
TOPIC: One Man's Quest "Why I Am a Religioui
liberal"
Sponsored by
Rogue Valley Unitarian Fellowship
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