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History from tne filet of Tha
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1, 1953 (Sunday
A Halloween that was "pretty
quiet" In Medford and surround
ing towns was something more
than that in the rural areas,
according to state police.
A defense motion for change
in venue has been denied in the
circuit court forgery trial
against a Medford man.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1, 1943 (Monday
Wade Crawford, Medford, re
ceives letter indicating Sen.
Charles McNary and Rep. Har
ris Ellsworth are seeking to
have congressional subcommit
tee come to Southern Oregon to
study mining problems.
Charles Rease Braley Jr.
named first alternate for ap
pointment to U. S. Naval acad'
emy.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1, 1933 (Wednesday)
Dr. John F. Reddy, former
mayor of Medford and long
prominent in Southern Oregon,
dies in Medford hospital.
John Snider and Glen New
land leave for , Eugene to see
football game; plan to visit Miss
Mary Snider, a student at Uni
versity of Oregon.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 1, 1923 (Thursday)
First "modern" pipe organ in
city of Medford installed at new
First Baptist Church; dedica
tion of church will last six days.
Annual Red Cross drive,
scheduled to get under way in
Medford with goal set at $3,775.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 1, 1913 (Saturday)
Li Lee, Chinese cook at Med
ford restaurant, jailed after al
legedly pulling six-shooter on
Charlie Mong, Ashland.
F. E. Upton, Central Point,
reports he saved crop of 1,800
boxes of apples by orchard heat
ing; expects to get $1.50 to $2
a box for fruit.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct la superior;
seven or elfht Is oaeellent; five or
sli is goad.
1. Do tadpoles make a better
bait for bass, trout, or salmon?
2. A patty shell Is a type of
seashell; true or false?
3. Name the Carthaginian gen
eral who Invaded Italy In the
Second Punic War.
4. Federal Income taxes are
authorized by which constitu
tional amendment?
5. Is it stalagmites or stalac
tites that are formed and hang
from the roof of a cave?
. 6. What are the five positions
on a men's basketball team?
. 7. The Pilgrim's reportedly
celebrated their first Thanksgiv
ing in 1620, 1621 or 1622?
8. If served the furculum of
the turkey, would It be the wing,
leg, neck or wishbone?
9. The temperature at which
theoretically all molecular mo
tion ceases Is known as what?
10. Does tidal friction act as a
brake or accelerator to the ro
tation of the earth?
Answers: 1. Bass, t. False.
J. Hannibal. 4. Sixteenth. I. Stal
actites. (. Center, two gaardt
and two forwards. T. 121. I.
Wishbone. 9. Absolut tero. If.
Brake. ...
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VfJAIIOeiATIOM
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1M3
Tax Polls
The Mail Tribune's
brought considerable
only locally but statewide.
The Klamath Falls
it, almost word for word, and the results coin
cided to a remarkable
to the Mail Tribune.
The Herald & News
were is now tne balloting turned out:
TAX QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS
The tax bill wai defeated because:
1. The tax increase was too much 1SS
2. The budget was too large 216
3. The bill was poorly written and unfair 241
4. The state needs a different kind of tax 235
5. Other 40
What should be done now Is tot
. Cut full 60 million revenue increase
, 7. Keep budget as is, raise revenue another way
S. Combine budget cuts, new tax increases ......
9. Devise entirely new tax program
10. Other :
What, if any, new taxei should be enacted?
A. cigarette tax
B. General sales tax, providing Income,
property tax relief J32
C Revised Income tax 38
D. More property taxes o
E. No tax increase of any kind 9
F. Other . 30
AS NOTED here previously, newspaper polls
are nnt arnonrifir, Rnf . f hen Art nffav rtma
means of sampling public
a matter wnicn is controversial, and on which
many people hold strong
Both the Herald &
une poll results indicated a strong sentiment in
favor 01 sales andor cigarette taxes, should ad
ditional income for state
They also indicated a strong sentiment, perhaps
amounting to a demand, for added economies.
But they did not indicate any overwhelming
sentiment for slashing
i: 1 i!i..ir
nun, weuare, uisuiuuuns
A similar, though more detailed, poll pub'
ished by the Oregonian, to which more than
8,000 persons replied, gave a similar message.
..
HPHE Legislature can, through a combination of
budget cuts and stop-gap measures, enable
the state to get through the current biennium on
a much curtailed almost crippled basis.
But come the 1965-67
going to face a new crisis,
tacts, me "war baby" wave will be of college
age; the population will have increased (and
mostly in the old and young categories the non-
taxpaying areas) ; damage from the curtailments
of the current biennium will need repairing;
there will be no fiscal "cushion," and "borrow
ing" from next biennium
situation even more drastic.
' Despite the call for a quick session, if prepar
atory measures are not taken, 1965 will be a year
of true crisis lor Uregon.
Slapping the
This is the winter of discontent for the poli
tician for the Oregon politician in particular.
The beating they took last month was vicious
not only through the massive vote, but also
through comments in newspapers and letters.
Gov. Mark Hatfield, who has taken his share
of the dispraise, said the other day that such
words as "inefficient, dirty, graftridden, stupid,
grasping, dictatorial, traitorous, lying and in
competent" had been used widely and freely.
THE Daily Astorian commented :
"Some of the criticism expressed on the street and in
letters to newspapers was indeed savage. The people were
. hurting in the pocketbook and many of them took it out in
brutal comment on their elected and appointed representa
tives. "Gov. Hatfield remarked, rightly, that government In the
U.S. is generally better than we citizens deserve. It state
officials and legislators were half as bad as some of the pre
election critics alleged, we who elected them have no one to
blame but ourselves."
It must be conceded that certain actions by
both elected and appointed public officials have
been injudicious and lacking in perception. But,
with certain exceptions, we are convinced that
they were acting in what they considered to be
the best interests of the'state they serve.
e e e e
WE'RE not exactly sure what Gov. Hatfield
meant when he said government generally
is better than the citizens deserve (a comment,
incidentally, which has brought him additional
criticism from some self-righteous citizens).
But he may have had in mind the appalling
apathy which many citizens show toward their
government (except when they are aroused by
such matters as a tax increase) ; by the almost
unbelievable ignorance of government and how
it works on the part of far too many voters; by
the simple disinterest and lack of knowledge that
too many display tibout where and how their tax
dollars are spent.
Surely it must be this which motivates such
epithets as the Governor quoted.
r"PHE politicians we know are, in an overwhelm
A ing majority, honest and decent, serving the
state to the best of their ability.
Many of them are making a considerable
personal sacrifice. Few not more than half a
dozen at most are less than honest and sincere.
Collectively the 1963 session of the legisla
ture wrote a pretty sorry record. But individually,
the members acted on principle and in accord
ance with their best judgment.
A politician is fair game for criticism. But
name-calling ill becomes any citizen who has
only the dimmest idea of what state government
is all about and how it works. E.A.
-and 1965
recent tax questionnaire
response and interest, not
Herald & News reprinted
extent with those returned
received 477 responses.
... in
... 90
... 132
175
45
275
opinion, particularly on
opinions,
News and the Mail Trib
purposes be necessary,
state services educa-
,
ana so on.
biennium, and they're
an entirely new set of
for this will make the
E.A.
Politicians
"I Don't Know If Wd've Ever Met Before"
JjfieSf its I H
4giegaXagtiL keT""eser""e
Worser Dead Than
Rhode Island Red
By Arthur Hoppe
WILTON PARK, England
Our nation, ladies and gentle
men, is at war. I am speaking,
of course, of the Chicken War
now raging between our beloved
United States, home of the
free chicken, and the Europe
Common Market, captors of the
common chicken.
And after listening to my
European colleagues discuss
this and related problems for
several days at this internation
al conference, I feel I fully quali
fy as a chicken expert. Than
which there is no other kind.
First of all, let's place the
blame for this war squarely
where it belongs. Let's blame
them. The war was undeniably
started by the new spirit of mili
tant independence abroad in
Europe today - a militancy
which led to The Great Euro
pean Chicken Buitd-Up. In both
conventional and fresh - frozen
drumsticks. With all the grave
consequences this has entailed.
f or years, America nad en
joyed a marked superiority in
chicken production. Thanks to
American technology and know,
how, we could piuduce chick
ens faster, fatter and cheaper
than anyone. We were the
world's leading Chicken Power.
indeed, in 1962, we thought
fully sent our European friends
$52.6 million worth of chicken.
For which they thoughfully sent
us $52.6 million.
A fair arangement. But was
Europe content to rest its fate
in the hands of American chick
en strategists? No. In every
European nation technologists
went to work. Chicken tests
were conducted in the atmos
phere. The proliferation of chick
ens was astounding. And in the
short space of one year, the
Strictly
Personal
ft? Sidney J. Harris
(t) Field Enterprise!, ine.
COMMUNICATION
During a recent teachers' con
vention at which I spoke, one
of the panel members asked my
opinion of "mechanized" teach
ing by means of television, tape
recordings and such impersonal
devices.
I could only answer that
mechanization is better than a
bad human teacher, but infinite
ly Inferior to a good one. More
over, while certain subjects
might lend themselves to im
personal teaching, the truly im
portant ones depend upon direct
human communication.
Geometry might be taught by
an exceptionally clever ma
chine; history could never be.
At least the rudiments of bot
any or geology might be trans
mitted mechanically, but not
even the rudiments of philoso
phy or ethics. Whatever teaches
us to think, feel and behave
more like men (which Is why
we call such subjects "the hu
manities") cannot be offered In
a dehumanized fashion or it
loses all meaning and impact.
e e
All true communication Is
"personal," In the highest
sense of the world. The most
profound truths are manifest
ed in persons, and not In prop
ositions. What a man believes,
In the abstract, cannot be di
vorced from how and why he
believes It. and what he does
with It "A great teacher," as
Prof. M. V. C, Jeffries has
said, "does not merely preach
his gospel; he Is his gospel."
Consider, for example, the
question as to the "nature of
Justice." As Lord Lindsay put
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKORD, OREGON
Common Market
closed
Chicken Gap!
Today, Western Europe is up
to here In chickens. Worried
about the overkill, they lowered
a Tariff Curtain against our
brave American chickens who
had given their lives for our
European allies.
Oh, the furor in Congress!
Our chicken-minded Congress
men, most of whom have many
chicken - raising constituents,
bellowed for war. We retaliated
with our second strike capa
bility, announcing we would
raise our own Tariff Curtain
against $46 million worth of
Common Market goods. How the
feathers are flying!
General de Gaulle is report
edly developing an independent
egg-laying force so that France
will have something to crow
about. Britain is maintaining a
strict neutrality, but is refusing
to put its chickens under Ameri
can control. Plans for a multi
lingual NATO chicken have been
decried as unsound. Scientists
on both sides hold out little hone
for development of an ultimate
chicken or even an anti-chick
en chicken. There seems no
where to turn.
I say: "Ban the Egg!"
Oh, I know It Is an idealistic
course, But do you want to be
Burled in chicken fallout? For,
I say, the inevitable prolifera
tion of chickens spells the
world's doom.
No, I say, the only way to
survive the horrors of the Chick
en War is to be on the chicken's
side. Let's think chicken. Let's
act chicken. Let's be chicken.
For I say the world will be
saved only if enough of us rec
ognize the dangers and have the
courage to admit we re chicken,
It: "The question as to the
nature of justice was one
which It was natural for Soc
rates to ask, and Impossible
for him to answer." Plato
wrote the Socratlc dialogs be
cause he believed that "Soc
rates In his person and his
life offered the real answer to
the questions he propounded,
and which his teaching never
solved."
Such ultimate dedinitions as
"justice" can never be ade
quately put into words, logically
or philosophically. It is only
through the character of anoth
er person that we can glimpse
the existential meaning of such
a term. First, we must learn to
love Socrates; then, and only
then, can we share with him
his own love of justice and
right-doing.
And, as pcrson-to-person re
lationships tend to dwindle away
In the complex and chaotic mod
ern world, we find increasing
skepticism about such "abso
lutes" as justice, truth, decency,
and goodness. This skepticism
is understandable because such
terms can never be "proved"
they can only be communicated
on an intensely personal level,
and this level is rapidly being
replaced by "mass communica
tion," which can in no way be
a substitute for the personal
confrontation.
Good teaching, of important
subjects, can never be mechan
ized. Even between persons. It
cannot be transmitted only on
the intellectual level. It is the
whole living man who alone can
bring us the truth.
the
Nenni Leads Italian Socialists Toward
Coalition
r
PHIL NIWMM
tlM rorelm News
Analyst
Pietro Nenni is a bald, hook
nosed man in spectacles who
affects a worker's beret instead
of the bourgeois hat.
More than 50 of his 72 years
have been spent in the turbu
lent arena of Italian politics,
most of them in opposition.
In his career he has been a
close friend and then bitter foe
of Benito Mussolini, a member
of three post-war governments
under the late Alcide de Gas-
peri and then a leader of its
opposition, an admirer of Josef
Maun and winner of the Stalin
Peace Prize an award which
he returned in disillusionment
after the Russians crushed the
revolt in Hungary.
Last week as Italy's Socialists
met to decide the terms upon
which they would enter into a
new center-left government and
Nenni girded for what he be
lieved would be his last battle.
he looked sadly back upon his
own and his party s history.
"If I had to say in one sen
tence what struck me most in
my long life as a fighter and
a militant," he told the party
congress, "I would say it is the
drama of the wasted oportuni-
ties, of the things that could be
done . . . and were not . ,
Since Hungary, Nenni has
sought to lead his party away
trom close ties with the Com,
munists and toward collabora
tion with Italy's Christian Dem
ocrats who, though fragmented,
remain the country's largest Do
mical party.
This week was to be the I cli
mactic battle.
Nenni won it, but with a vic
tory margin over his pro-Red
opponents so narrow and so
hedged about with conditions
that Italy's future again is in
aouDt.
The Socialists promised to re
frain from attacks on Italy's
lies with nato but attached
other qualifications which the
Christian Democrats would find
hard to swallow. They included
uposition to all forms of
nuclear armament in Europe.
A demand for a state-
planned economy that would in-
In the Day's News
y FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
RepresentativeMorrisK.Udall,
of Arizona, has introduced in the
congress a bill that would raise
the pay of the vice president of
the U.S. from the present $35,000
10 ?u,ouu; cabinet officers from
$25,000 to $40,000; Supreme
Lourc justices from $35,000 to
$50,000 and members of con
gress from $22,500 to $35,000.
He says in explanation of his
bill that present salaries paid
top government officials are
ridiculously low and that sub
stantial increases are needed to
attract and HOLD the kind of
people it takes to run the gov
ernment properly.
TN DEFENSE of his bill, he
goes on to say:
"It doesn't make sense when
Chicago pays its chief of police
wu.wu a year to protect its cit
izens and the United -States pays
its secretary of defense only
$25,000 a year to administer a
$55 billion budget for the protec
tion of the entire nation."
AND, he adds:
" "It's absurd when the
city of New York pays its comp
troller $40,000 a year but the
U.S. secretary of the treasury
gets only $25,000 a year."
HMMMMMMMMMM.
What Congressman Udall
seems to be saying is that the
higher the pay the higher the
quality of the government the
taxpayers get.
One wonders.
Out this way, we seem to re
call that over the years the mu
nicipal governments of Chicago
and New York have been fantas
tically corrupt in spite of the
high salaries that are paid to
their officials.
We are so naive as to think
that it isn't so much WHAT WE
PAY THEM as the KIND OF
MEN WE GET that results in
good government.
INTERESTING thought:
Suppose the congress
should enact and the President
should sign Representative
Udall's bill.
Suppose it could then be re
ferred by petition to a vote of
the people of the U. S. as an
act of the legislature can be
submitted to a vote of the peo
ple in Oregon.
What would happen?
One suspects that It would be
beaten as decisively as was the
recent tax increase in Oregon.
yHY?
Well, one suspects that
all over the country people are
getting jst as hot under the col
lar over soaring taxes as are
the people of Oregon.
Taxes are beginning to BITE.
Government; Instability Seen
crease the "real income" of
workers.
lTUtbUthmeiit of regional
governments throughout Italy.
The first would close the door
to Italian participation in the
U.S. proposed multi . nation
NATO navy armed with nu
clear weapons.
The second arouses fear of a
new wage - price inflationary
spiral, increased nationalization
of industry, reduced foreign in
... Communications ...
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contrary is often the case.
School at Home
To the Editor: Several teach
ers are my personal friends. Re
gardless of this fact, I must
confess, also, to disfavor with
the system's practice of sending
quantities of "homework" home
with my children.
In effect the teacher, who has
their attention and obedient
presence all day, comes home
with my child, stands, uninvit
ed, in the sanctuary of our
home, and dictates what my
child shall do there, as well.
If the assignment is difficult,
and unexplained (as algebra),
this intruder-teacher further dic
tates what I shall do with my
evenings, for I must also work
at such homework that my child
may complete it correctly.
mis is quite obviously a vio
lation of personal rights.
A little homework; 20 min
utes' homework daily, is ac
ceptable, but when such assign
ments consume hours of in
tense concentration and study
and work by both parents and
children, it is then that the in
visible intruder becomes a de
spised ghoul, and the system
itseu is distrusted and feared
Such assignments require that
a cnua nas nis own large, well-
lighted and warm room, with
a fine desk and absolute quiet,
while the balance of the family
stands in the ready to rush in
ana try to explain some formu-
la or concept to the completion
of the horrendous ordeal. Such
is not always the case: in my
home, the dining table serves
many purposes, and how often
the tired parent and hungry
smau cnua nave nad to wait
and wait, until at last this
table may be used for its orig
inal purpose.
How many nights mv high
school student has tossed sleep-
lessiy about with fear for un
finished work because such
work, house centered, kept all
awake until I made him stop
in oraer mat tne others could
get some rest? How many days
the little ones are absent from
school because the older ones
had to sit up beyond midnight
to do homework, and I had to
help?
If I am to be teacher, and
my home is to be auxiliary
schoolroom, then out me on
salary and include my home
expenses on the school budget,
and permit my children to stay
here, all the time. I will teach
their lessons, yet I will also
arrange so they have time to
live a little.
Please leave this unsigned.
but disclose mv name to anv
school faculty member who
might inquire.
(Name on file)
Medford.
Biblical History
To the Editor: In answer to
the Rev. Donald Krug, 1025:
. If I understand his statement,
the account of the tower of
Babel is a legend and not a
true account of the event.
Every word in the Bible is
true or none of it is true. For
me every word is true. But be
cause of ignorance to the true
meaning, some are quick to
dispute the writings. All scrip
ture is given by the inspiration
of God. Nay but, O man, who
art thou that replies! against
God? Shall the thing formed
say unto him that formed it.
"If he's not a candidate, how come he follows those
public opinion polli so closely?"
vestments and a flight of capi
tal the same elements blamed
for Italy's current economic dif
ficulties. And the third could result in
whole regions falling under con
trol of a Communist socialist
coalition, for the Socialists
made no commitment against
Communist support and re
tained their ties with the Communist-led
General Confedera
tion of Labor.
These are the conditions
Why has thou made me thus?
(Rom. 9:20.) He also says (in
Matt. 7:15) Beware of false
Prophets which come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves.
I sure (as God is my guide)
near the voice of a wolf in your
article. For the voice of the
tine spirit would never belittle
God's word as you did in your
reply to the lady's article of
Oct. 21 on the (Jood Neighbor.
She stated the Bible. And God
did segregate the people at that
time for his own purpose.
Also I looked up every refer
ence to Ham and his posterity,
and he is the father of the peo
ples of the southern countries,
Arabia, Egypt, Median and
Ethiopia.
Num. 12: verse 1 to end of
chapter, tells us Moses' wife
was an Ethiopian. (The dic
tionary in the back of my Bible
says Ethiopian means burnt
faces.) Aaron s wife Miriam
made fun of Moses' wife on ac
count of her black face. And it
so angered God he struck Miri
am with leprosy. Moses en
treated God not to so harshly
punish Miriam, so God healed
her after he had given her sev
en days of punishment. Only be
cause Moses had so entreated
for her.
You may not like what
have said. But I have God's
word to sustain my remarks. A
true prophet of God glorifies
God's word. Ham's punishment
was that he and all his poster
ity were to be servants of all of
Noah's two other sons' poster
ity, for his sin of looking at
noans nudeness as he lay
drunk on his bed.
I advise you to get the book
Josephis, the profane history
of tne Jews. It is a very en
lightening book. You can get It
from th. public library. Or I did
in Bakesfield. Calif., when I
lived there in 1929. He describes
Jesus's appearance, Also told
how many distinct prophesies
were fulfilled while Christ hung
on the cross. He told how the
Temple was rent from top to
notion. How the graves opened
and his dead friends came out
and went about. He did not be
lieve Christ to be divine. Said
he was just a very good man,
It proves much of the Bible. I
have read many world histories
and everything I could get on
the pyramids, and they all sus
tain the scriptures by relative
ly different historical events
also related in the scriptures.
Dr. Kreisman at Southern Ore
gon College is a great scholar
on ancient history. Maybe he
could enlighten you on Ham.
Delia Randleman
Route 1, Box 330
Rogue River, Ore.
Old Horseless Carriage
To the Editor: Some 48 years
ago we were hiking from Ash-
land over the old Green Springs
dirt road with a companion from
Rogue River, Ore. There was
a handicapped shoe cobbler who
also lived in Rogue River, who
possessed a 1910 vintage model
chain driven single sealer Max
well. Just as we were nearing
the steep side of the summit
we heard the chugging and
coughing of the old horseless
car. The driver asked us if we
would give them a push up the
grade, unce over the grade,
tney went merrily on their way,
ai inat time we did not know
urn
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which the Christian Democrats
are asked to swallow in return
for Socialist help.
Together tht Socialists and
the Christian Democrats could
form a government.
For years Italy has suffered
from a series of a weak and
short-lived coalition govern
ments. But the solution offered
by the Socialists seems to make
the cure more dangerous than
the ailment.
much about the different grades
of gasoline. All we do know is
that in those days the gasoline
used did not have that extra
"umph" in it, or was it the
two cylinder opposed engine
that made the difference? Wa
did not know much about cars
then either.
Bert Kissinger
322 South Riverside Ave.
Medford. t
Atheist Americans
To the Editor: Referring to
the letter written by Mrs. Ern
est Santo which was published
on Oct. 25, I explained in two
previous letters why the de
cision of the Supreme Court
banning prayers and Bible read
ingin the public schools was a
sensible ruling, and why this
country is not a Christian na
tion. I will repeat that, because
the founding fathers were deists,
not orthodox Christian believers.
As for the "In God We Trust"
motto on our coins, our stock
pile of nuclear bombs proves
that we don't. This makes us a
nation of hypocrites. At least as
far as our national safety is
concerned we don't trust in any
God and we know it. Then why
not remove the hypocritical mot
to and regain our self-respect?
The suggestion in the last
paragraph of Mrs. Santo's letter
that all who do not believe in
God and the Bible should take
a one-way ticket to some Com
munist paradise smacks of re
ligious intolerance, than which
there is no greater evil. This
is what makes it mandatory
that the edict concerning the
separation of church and state
be upheld.
There are today some five
million American citizens in
good standing who do not be
lieve in God. In every crowded
classroom there is likely to be
an atheist child. On every fac
ulty of 100 teachers there are
likely to be two or three or
more atheists. Among the 40
000 who watch a ball game at
Yankee Stadium there are prob
ably over a thousand atheists.
There are thousands in the arm
ed forces. They are part of
America and they are entitled
to the Constitutional rights of
any American.
There are more atheists today
than ever before in fh nrM'.
history, and their number in
creases with the spread of secu
lar eaucauon.
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne St.
Prescott, Ariz.
Sign Your Name
To the Editor: I moivnA In
the mail the other day an un
sealed envelope mailed in Medford
102163, containing three
separate tracts, one headed
"How Did Reds Get Secret U.S.
Defense Details". This was
marked "tract 9". The address
given to obtain more Cinema
Educational Guild Inc., P O
Box 46205, Cole Branch, Holly
wood 46, Calif.
Another entitled "While Men
Slept." For additional copies,
Freedom Center, Box 3905, Port
land 8, Ore.
The third, tvoed on both sM
whose only heading was "Will
You Help Stop This?" Since
neither enclosure did not bear
name or clue to the Medford
sender, my answer is an em
phatic YES, I will do my utmost
to stop all such, and failing, I
will deter as much as possible.
If anyone believes in a pro
gram enough to send a copy to
me, he or she must be sincere
enough to sign their name. Anv
one so furtive as to employ
such tactics creates only dis-
tasie ana aisirusi in me.
You see, dear Editor and
Readers, I soent several vnr
in the open spaces of our state
and it was always my policy to
shoot or trap the coyote or other
furtive preditor that do their
damage by sneaking around
under cover to be unseen. But
invaribly they leave some aim.
usually an obnoxious odor.
We used to have a bounty in
this state on coyotes and cou
gar. I would favor bounty and
a year round open season on
furtive propaganda peddlers.
This third sheet entitle "Will
You Help Stop This?" used
about two-thirds of its entire
space to castigate Nelson Rock
efeller. This whole thing has the
aura of Goldwater for it smells
like backwater.
If you can't sign it don't send
it.
C. R. Burrill
S344 Cherry St.
Central Point, Ore.
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