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Medford and Jackson County
History from tna files of The
Mill Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1953 (Saturday)
A chinook wind warmed the
Rogue valley yesterday.
Two Medford men, John J.
Patterson and Robert D. Church,
received the highest award
which Crater Lake Council, Boy
Scouts of America, can present
to persons in the Scout program.
)
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1M3 (Sunday)
Mrs. Clara Phipps, 74, long
time resident of Medford, dies
in local hospital.
Claude Haggard scheduled to
speak on "Supervisors of War
Production" at meeting of Med.
ford Toastmasters Club.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7. 1931 (Tuesday)
Ken Denman leaves Medford
la attend Oregon-Oregon state
footbi'l game in Portland.
Southern Oregon Brewing
Company, Medford, receives fed
eral license to manufacture pil
sener beer.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 7, 1933 (Wednesday)
Large crowd attending laying
of cornerstone for new Wimer
school, to serve combined Wi
mer, Pine Grove, Mayes Creek
and Bybee Springs school dis
trict; speakers include Mrs. S.
H. Carter, county superintend
ent. SO YEARS AGO
. Nov. 7, 1913 (Friday)
Professor P. J. 0'Gara, Jack
son County, ' instructs Medford
school children in the planting
and care of roses.
Carload of machinery, to be
used In prospecting for gold in
' Jackson Creek bed, arrives in
Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten ca-.rtct It supeiler;
seven er tight ii eictlltnt; (In er
Hi ii eood.
1. Which is the only bird that
can drink water without throw
ing its head back?
2. According to the Bible
which was the elder son of
Adam and Eve Cain or Abel?
3. Which of these is the cap-
lltal of Canada Montreal, OUa
wa, or Quebec?
4. Who wrote the poem, "The
Shooting of Dan McGrow ?
S. Was Alger Hiss convicted
of perjury, Communist subver-
aion or treason .'
' . Would you think that more
money is spent annually for
hunting or fishing licenses:
7. Is the city of Cleveland
Ohio, situated on Lake Michi
gan, Lake Erie or Lake Supe
nor?
8. Harriet Beccber Stowe is
the name of the author of what
famous book of about a century
SCO?
9. Name the patriotic hymn
that begins "Oh Beautiful for
unaelous skies . . ."
10. Would you guess that the
adding machine was invented
by a rronenman, cngusnman
Chinaman or American.'
Answers: 1. Pigeon. 2. Cain,
3, Ottawa. 4. Robert W. Service,
.1. Perjury. 6. Hunting. 7. Erie,
I. "llucle Tom f Cabin."
"America. The Beautiful." 10.
Frenchman (Pascal).
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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER I. 1963
Irrigation and Controversy
What is it about irrigation districts that ap
pears to invite controversy?
Whatever it is, it has, in recent years, shaken
two local districts to their foundations the
Eagle Point Irrigation
was embroiled in a Jong series of altercations
with a water user, and the Medford Irrigation
District, which is now plagued by open feuding
between members of its
We sat in on an MID directors meeting for
about three hours Tuesday afternoon, and were
forcibly reminded of a group of third-graders
playing a vociferous game of "You did ! ! "I
didn't!!" It was difficult to believe that a group
of crown, presumably mature, men of good will,
had let themselves be led so far down the path
of infantile acrimony.
IF THIS were a meeting of officers of a civic
1 or fraternal group,
scout patrol leaders, it
be more a case tor amusement than concern.
But this is a quarter-of-a-million-dolars-a-
year organization, spending public funds, and
responsible for providing water and service to
a large segment of the
a result, it s no laughing
It probaby would take
lawyers several months
and sources of the controversy, but on the sur
face, it appears to consist chiefy of two things
A clash of personalities,
aaminisu aiive acuities
.1 i. t:
Jack Hoffbuhr.
LIOFFBUHR has been
1 ployed executive
years. He is a leader in his profession. He
handled many of the details of the long pro
cedures which led up to the rehabilitation of the
uicuius water uitanuuuun system, ne was neijj-
ful in gaining approval for the now-completed
Talent project, and for the recently-authorized
Rogue Basin project.
, Only within the past year have his abilities
been publicly questioned. Involved, chiefly, is the
propriety of certain relatively minor expendi
tures made on behalf of the district (all of them,
it now appears, with board approval), and some
other alleged administrative deficiencies.
He is strongly defended by two board mem
bers, Chairman Albert Hueners, and J. C. Cam
eron. Director Paul Culbertson has been critical
of Hoffbuhr. So has a former employee of the
district.
IE HAVE no way of knowing who is right
I " and who is wrong in this impasse. But we
do know that the present split on the board
makes it almost impossible to conduct the dis
trict's affairs in an orderly and proper manner,
While the board did
business Tuesday, much
up with profitless debate
found itself unable to agree on the merits of an
audit of funds paid to district personnel over the
past year, a report which on the face of it would
appear to clear the administration of any mis- or
malfeasance.
Since they could not
to the extent of asking
spected water-user of the district, to examine the
audit and to make recommendations as to its dis
position whether it
whether further studies
should be conducted.
T IS APT to be a thankless chore for Nieder
meyer. He is almost bound to offend one
side or the other, no matter what sort of a report
ana recommendation he
the man, we would be inclined to trust him and
his judgment m this matter. So, apparently, at
east m advance, would
If he finds it possible to go further than a
simple examination of
the causes (and, perhaps, cures) for the am
mony which has existed, he will be doing a scrv-
ice to all concerned.
Perhaps this is too
is evident that something
THE SITUATION is further complicated by
noxt. Tiifwrlnv's plnotinn. ?n which Hiionnre
is seeking reelection to
by Wilton White.
Observers believe that if Hueners is retained
in office, present policies will be continued. If
White cleleats him, it
of Hoffbuhr's employment with the district.
1 hus, more is at stake than m an ordinary
district election. It is apt to mean the continu
ation or end of a man's professional career. And,
for a man who has labored long and hard for
the district, this is a serious decision to have to
make.
IT IS NOT a happy situation.
In our opinion, it could be solved if all
concerned agreed to set personalities aside, put
all the cards on the table, and actively and co
operatively seek solutions.
Unfortunately, it is doubtful that this could
be accomplished, under present circumstances.
Things have gone too far, too many harsh words
have passed (on both sides), too many others
have become embroiled
too many feelings have
It is too bad that
a public business without such controversies.
But they seem to
to time.
And particularly in
District, which recently
board.
or even a group of Boy
would matter little ana
valley s agriculture. As
matter.
a team of Philadelphia
to dig out all the seeds
and a dispute over the
j ci i ir
oi oecretaiy-ivAanaeei
the district's chief em-
for more than a dozen
manage to transact some
of the time was taken
and argument. It also
agree, they compromised
John Niedermeyer, a re
should be approved, or
of the district's affairs
makes. But knowing
the board members.
the audit, and determine
much to hope for. But it
of the sort is called for.
w
the board, and is opposed
could well mean the end
in the controversy, and
been hurt.
grown men can't conduct
be inevitable, from time
irrigation districts. E. A
CAMMJ.
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". . . and they wauled to ban Commie speakers because
thev thought we might be influenced they've got to be
kidding!"
BLOOD ON OUR HANDS?
WASHINGTON - The Ameri
can role in the bloodstained
but purgative coup d'etat in
Vict Nam is a subject demand
ing serious inquiry, if only be
cause so much bosh is sure to
be talked about it unless the
real facts arc understood.
Beginning, then, at the begin
ning, the American government
was of course aware that the
leaders of the Vietnamese army
were talking with one another
about ways and means of dis
placing President Ngo Dinh
Diem. Indeed, there was no way
to avoid being aware of this.
As long as two months aco
when this reporter was in Sai,
gon, he was taken into the confi
dence of one of the most active
organizers of the coup. This
member of the junta listed the
other generals who had placed
themselves under the leadrship
of Gen. Duong Van Minn; he
said the coup would come soon;
and he actually asked that the
information be transmitted at
once to Ambassador Henry
uabot Lodge. ,
rVHE INCIDENT has no im
portance, except as an in
dicator of tne way information
about tne intentions or the Junta
reached the U. S. Embassy in
Saigon from many different
sources. In recent weeks, the
initial trickle of warnings and
reports swelled to flood propor
tions. '
Long before the coup d'etat
occurred, therefore, it was quite
clear there was trouble ahead.
The expectation of early trouble
In fact led Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara to send his
personal plane to Saigon, so
that Ambassador Lodge could
make his planned visit to
Washington without the extra
days away from his post re
quired for travel by the com
mercial airlines.
That simple fact in turn re
veals another aspect of the
story. While aware that trouble
was brewing, the U. S. govern
ment was in no sense a patty
to the preparations for the coup.
Otherwise, the plan would never
have been made for the Lodge
trip to Washington, which was
so abruptly forestalled when the
coup took place.
ITNTIL THE very eve of the
coup d'etat, moreover.
Ambassador L o d e e continued
his fruitless effort to persuade
President Diem to set his house
in order. His last attempt was
made on bunday, Oct. 27, when
Diem invited Loclgo to join him
on a visit of inspection in the
countryside.
The long day with Diem gave
the Ambassador the opportunity
to discuss both the state of af
fairs in Viet Nam, and its ef
fects on V. S.-Vietnnmcse rela
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Aftermath ot the V irln.-imnsr
blood bath:
Mmc. Nco Dinh N'hn
the
umRun uaay, and her es
tranged father meet in l.os An
geles -where ANYTHING can
happen. They have a 40-minulc
visit. As he departed, Dr. Trun
Van Chuong, the 65-ycar-old fa
ther, told the waiting reporters:
r. , .
i ncrc was no need of recon
ciliation. As soon as I learned
of the tragic events of the past
few days, my heart was very
near to my daughter."
DL00D is thicker than water.
Misfortune la a great lev-
eler,
tyHAT of this weird woman
' who has (la.shed across the
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
VHVV I I ro
' X I MM
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Afsop
IO New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
tions, in detail and at great
length. He offered a list of
modest but significant steps
which Diem could take to relax
the. tension in Saigon, and to
improve the climate in Wash
ington. Every item on the Lodge
list was categorically, vetoed by
Diem.
Lodge then asked Diem
whether he had any suggestions
of his own about possible means
of escape from the impasse.
Diem merely gave the Ambas
sador "a blank look and changed
the subject," as Lodge subse
quently reported. Yet on Mon
day Lodge returned to the at
tack with Diem s intelligent and
flexible Minister of Defense,
Nguyen Dinh Thuan.
qiHUAN, WHO described the
program pressed by Lodge
on Diem as "extremely mod
crate," promised to go to Diem
and see whether his persuasions
would have any effect. His
first report was decidedly en
couraging. But the second re
port from Thuan, the next day,
was a gloomy, final negative
Diem's brother, the all-powerful
and half-mad Ngo Dinh Nhu,
had had his say in the interval.
In short, there was no way
to save Diem and Nhu from
themselves. Or rather, there
was only one way. It was indi
cated to Secretary McNamara
just just before he left Vict Nam
by the able Englishman, Prof.
Patrick Honey, who is the
unique expert on Viet Nam with
out a personal axe to grind.
"You must understan d,"
Honey told McNamara, "that
the Diem regime will surely be
destroyed by a coup d'etat un-
1 e s s the u. S. government
makes a ringing reasscrtion of
confidence in Diem and sup
port for his government as soon
as you get back to Washington."
-WW
AX cNAMARA gave Honey's
judgment to President
Kennedy as his own judgment.
But no reassertion of confidence
in the Diem regime was pos
sible, simply because the U. S.
government had quite rightly
lost confidence in the Diem
regime. Instead of a statement
ot support for Diem, therefore,
the sequel of the McNamara
mission was the decision to
make certain aid cuts, in order
to bring more pressure on Diem
to put his house in order.
Such arc the facts. They con
stitute an interesting moral
problem.
On the one hand, the U. S
government had foreknowledge
that a coup d etat was being
considered. In addition, t h e
U. S. government could have
forestalled the coup d etat by
stultifying itself. But the U. b
government refused to stultify
itself. Diem refused to put his
house in order. And so the
coup took place.
news skies like a blood-red me
teor? What will become ot her?
How will she wind up?
One never can tell.
History tells us that women
can be strange characters.
'THERE was Eleanor of Aqui-
I toine.
She was the vivid youthful
queen of saintly Louis VII of
France, wedded to him at the
age of 15. The marriage seemed
to be going well until glamor
ous, youthful, brilliant Henry
II of England arrived In Paris
to negotiate a treaty with
Louis.
Eleanor fell for him. She fell
hard. She demanded and oh-
tained a divorce from Louis,
and promptly married Henry.
OREGON
Acts of Terrorism Thus Far Fail To Dim
Hopes for Venezuelan Presidential Vote
PHIL NEWSOM
UP! Foreign News
Analyst
In Caracas' sprawling Mira
flores, Venezuela's white house,
and in the guarded interior min
istry, President Romulo Betan
court and his aides are prepar
ing tne way for free national
elections Dec. 1.
The elections are to deter
mine Betanourt s successor
and the new congress which
will take office next March.
But just outside Maracaibo,
Venezuela's oil capital, police
pick up a young member of the
f ALN, the so-called Armed
Forces for National Liberation
which are aligned with Fidel
Castro and which are deter
mined that the elections shall
not take place.
ine young man carries a
small but powerful explosive
which may be attached to a vi
tal pipeline. It is the same type
of explosive the oil companies
themselves use but in the hands
of the young FALN member it
is intended for sabotage.
Police Seize Terrorist
On a street in Caracas, in
terior police pick up another
suspected terrorist.
In his possession are found
detailed plans for a bank rob
bery. The plan includes the amount
of money which passed through
the bank on a given day, the
names of cashiers and how
much each is paid and how the
guards are armed. Beside each
name is a notation:
"Friend."
"Brother of cop."
"He's all right."
Others are described by ob
scenities
The . bank robbery doesn't
come off and the plan to sabo
tage the oil pipeline also fails.
But others in the unceasing
drive to throw Venezuela into
chaos and eventually to trans
form it into another Castro Cu
ba have been more successful.
The immediate goal of the
FALN is to disrupt the eco
nomy and to goad Venezuela's
military into overthrowing the
elected government and setting
up a military diclatorsnip,
against which the Communists
could rally a revolution.
Neither Plan Successful
Neither plan has been success
ful and the betting now is that
neither will be.
As Betancourt prepares to
bocome the first president in
Venezuelan history to turn his
office over to a freely-elected
successor, seven candidates
have declared themselves for
office.
Front - runner is 57-year-old
Haul Leon I, head of Betan-
bringing to him as a dowry half
ot bouincrn t rance.
HOW did it turn out?
Nnf Inn unll
Henry was a great king. But
he was also a philanderer.
TIE; fell in love with a maid
" known to history as Rosa
mond the Fair. Tradition has it
that he made for her a "house
of wonderful working, so that
no man or woman might come
to her." This house was named
Labryrinthus, "like unto a knot
in a garden called a maze
It was so intricate that Henry
himself could come to it only
by a thread of silk which he
followed.
But Eleanor was no ordinary
woman. She found the "threddc
of Sylkc" and followed it to the
bower where, as Sir Winston
Churchill tells it in his Birth
of Britain, she presented the
Fair Rosamond with a choice
between the dagger and the
poisoned cup.
llosamonn chose me poisoned
cup and mat was the end ot
her
EVIL days came finally upon
Eleanor.
She had a brond of wild chil
dren, including the fantastic
Richard the Lion Hearted and
the scandalous and tricky John,
who was forced by the barons
to sign the Magna Charta at
Runnymedo.
Through it all, Eleanor stood
like a rock for the good of Eng
land. No task was too hard for
her. She would rise in the mid
dle of the night and ride alone
through any pattern of danger
to uphold the good of England.
You never can tell about wo
men, you sec. Even the Dragon
Lady might reform. She has
children, you know, as did
Eleanor.
TN conclusion,
one more word
1
about Mmc. Nhu's father.
In an interview In Fresno, he
said the Diem government col
lapsed because it was blind to
realities. He went on to say:
When you are isolated from the
rest of the world, you arc sur
rounded by admirers and flat
terers who tell you only what
they want you to know, and you
are not able to see the truth."
He concluded:
"Vict Nam was ruled by a
family government. Its rulers
were
too much inclined to
choose leaders among THEIR
I FRIENDS AND IN-LAWS."
court's own party, Accion Dem
ocratica. The party claims
more than 900,000 votes out of
an electorate of around
three and a half million. The
parly gets credit for the gov
ernment program which by
next March will have distribut
ed land to nearly 100,000 fami
lies and built close to 5,000
schools.
... Communications ...
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contrary is often the case.
The Politician
To the Editor: Your editorial,
"Birchers and Believability,"
contains so many false state
ments it is impossible to an
swer all in a short letter. How
ever, let me state first that
members were warned in the
October bulletin to expect a
campaign by Communists to de
stroy the society by creating di
vision among the membership.
Your editorial fits in nicely
with this campaign. However,
it won't succeed. Mr. Rousselot
stated when he was here that
membership had doubled in Cal
ifornia in the past seven months.
The word patriotism means
to stand by your country to
promote its welfare. A traitor
betrays his country, works for
the welfare of some other coun
try, or to further his own in
terests at the expense of his
country. Let us examine a few
well known incidents in Eisen
hower's career.
1. Operation sledgehammer
Invading Europe through
France. Churchill, Gen. Wede
meycr and others wanted an in
vasion up the Danube but were
overruled by Stalin, Eisenhow
er and others. This gave Russia
Eastern Europe. See wedemey-
er Reports.
2. Eisenhower's profit from
his book, Crusade in Europe
was $1,000,000. But he was un
willing to pay the legal income
tax on this amount so he asked
for and received a reduction of
$450,000 from the Internal Rev
enue Service. .
3. He did not write his book.
It was written by a well known
Communist, Joseph Fcls Barnes
who has since been deported be
cause of activities against our
government. This also put him
out of reach of Congressional
investigating committees.
4. operation Keelhaul in
which, after the war ended, at
the rcauest of Stalin. Eisen
hower returned all refugees in
Western Europe to the land of
their origin. I5y this act he re
turned 2,000,000 men, women
and children to Russia to tor
ture, slave labor camps and
death, thousands of these men
had fought in our armies. His
tory has no other record of
such betrayal.
5. Our armies should and
could have entered Berlin first.
But Eisenhower deliberately
halted his armies to enable the
Russians to enter first. The
Berlin situation today is the di
rect result of his and Gen.
Marshall's decisions.
6. Stalin rewarded him for
his services by presenting him
with a medal valued at $100,000.
Also when he visited Moscow
at Stalin s invitation his pic
Strictly
Personal
By' Sidney J, Harris
(c) Field Enterprises. Ine.
I'KItSONAL PREJUDICES
The most prevalent defect in
society is deafness most of
I us simply do not hear what peo-
pie are saying beneath the
words they use; and the great
creative artist is not one who
is wiser or better than others,
but one with the keenest sense
of hearing.
The most potent enemy is
the former friend, for he
knows where all the soft spots
arc located, and can strike in
fallibly. It is not the harshness or the
lenity of the law that makes
a good state, but its certainty;
it matters not how severe the
laws if their enforcement is
capricious, arbitrary, and un
equal toward the powerful and
the weak.
"Virtually" is one of the
most dishonest words in the
language; we commonly use
it when we hope to short
change the truth.
A child must be allowed to
hate its parents from time to
time without being made to
feel criminally guilty about
such feelings: indeed, only if
a child is permitted to vent its
hostilities against parents (with
in reasonable limits, of course)
can the child give love freely.
Never to talk about one
self is the ultimate in arro
gance masquerading as diffi
dence. Young people who resent the
social order should, before they
assert Iheir autonomy, keep in
A leading opponent is Rafael
Caldera, a 47-year-old lawyer
and member of the Social
Christian party which has
worked in coalition with Betan
court and shares credit for na
tional reforms.
Also In the race is Jovito
Villalba of the left -of - center
Democratic Republican Union.
Villalba won an election in 1952
but it was nullified by former
ture was taken with Stalin at
the tomb of Lenin. No other
person had Stalin allowed to be
so favored, ine propaganda
value of this picture to Stalin
in the satelite countries was
enormous.
Read "The Politician. It is
replete with documented his
tory. Anna m. htreea
36 N. Peach St.
Medford
Spider's Web
To the Editor: Your editorial,
Booze and Control": Hard to
control the web while the spi
ders run loose. According to the
FBI, 60 per cent of all crime
is liquor involved, the aggre
gate cost $22,000,000,000 a year,
this would make liquor's share
$13,200,000,000. Federal, state
and municipal taxes are $4,000,-
000,000, thus for each dollar re
ceived, $3.30 was spent on crime
caused by liquor.
This is only cost in dollars.
Think of the 24,000 dead bodies
left along our highways, and the
million injured, property dam
age, broken homes; hungry,
beaten children as I experi
enced as a boy, 6,000,000 alco
holics. We will bury 350,000 this
year, while 425,000 new ones
take their place.
The people want this, they
voted it, they can vote it out any
time they choose as they did
Lthe lax.
According to our great medi
cal men, lung cancer was almost
nonexistent 30 years ago. This
year over 40,000 will die from
it. A million teen-agers alive
today will die of lung cancer
before they are 70 as a result
of cigarette smoking, a disease
self inflicted, a deliberate form
of suicide. Said Dr. Ochsner, a
bullet is quicker, cheaper and
much less painful than lung
cancer. The death rate from all
causes is 105 per cent higher
among cigarette smokers than
nonsmokcrs, while the death
rate from lung cancer is 800
per cent higher.
The latest court decisions are,
no damages because of cigarette
cancer deaths. The people have
been warned by the medical
profession that cigarettes are
one of our greatest killers, and
they who use them do so at
their own peril.
Liquor and tobacco are the
two most deadly killers the peo
ple ever met on the battle front.
They leave more dead, crippled
and insane than any human en
emy we ever met, or all dis
eases put toether. We don't only
tolerate them, we love them and
refuse to give them up, even
mind the shrewd observation of
Chamfort: "When we cast off
the yoke of public opinion, it
is seldom to rise above it, but
always to fall below."
Dare one say it above a
whisper without being labelled
as hopelessly provincial 1
that it is barely possible that
Paris, despite its numerous
attractions, is the most over
rated cily in the world?
The most lacerating and in
effectual passion is the jealousy
that continues after love has
fled; for it would deny to others
what it is no longer desirous of
possessing itself.
No cvcnls in history arc so
obscure or difficult of inter
pretation as those that arc
taking place right now; for the
nose that is pressed up
against the painting can see
nothing but streaks of oil.
without purpose, pattern or
plan.
If we can understand the al
coholic as a "sufferer" rather
than as a sensualist, only then
can we generate enough sym
pathy to help him cope with
the problem; Dr. Johnson
grasped the point two centur
ies ago. when he commented:
"He who makes a beast of him
self gets rid of the pain of be
ing a man."
Our widespread belief that
curvaceous and beautiful film
stars are "love-goddesscs" is
part of our national delusion
of confusing the package with
the product.
dictator Marcos Perez Ji
menez. '
Others, Including Vice Ad
miral Wolfgang Larrarabal,
who headed the military junta
which took over after Perez Ji
meoez fell, are given little
chance. And the Communists
none at all. They have been
suspended from all political ac
tivity. to save our own children from
being caught in the same web.
Vote out the spiders, then
you can control the web. The
people have the power, but not
the will. It is up to them.
a . E. Beverly ....
112 Geneva,
Medford.
Fight Fan
To the Editor: Ever since Gena
Tunney beat Dempsey 1 have
heard and read comments to
the effect that boxing was mor
ibund. All this time there bava
been persons who have been
feeding a toxic substance to the
sport in order to hasten it to
an early grave. Some of tha
articles have the effect of mak
ing mc think that I am tha
last fight fan in the world. I
have written a poem about the
last occurence.
On Friday nights I feed my yen
And watch the fights on channel
ten.
Now it has become our fate
To view a tape three hours late.:
In spite of this I m not undone
So long as no one spills i .
WHO WON.
But that's what you . hear on -
cnannel five . .
They announced the winner!
Man alive!
Tp keep the boys from turning
ine KnoD
They've really started raising
hob.
But I decided there and then .
On Friday nights I'll STAY ;'
on "10" !
Pat Redmond
Rt. 4 Box 393
Medford
Session Views
To the Editor: My personal
views on the special session of
the legislature called for Now
U, 1963:
I would like to know why it
was so urgent that it be called
on a national holiday. Why not
three or four days earlier or one.
days later? I believe it is an
affront to all patriotic citizens. .'
I would like to see some suc
cessful businessmen called in and
consulted on efficiency in the ad
ministration of the state and the
spending of taxpayers' monies.
If $1.2 million available can be
found, in one agency alone, is it
not possible that much more tan
be found by a close examination
all the way down the line?
If more taxes are actually
needed, then I believe a sales
tax earmarked for a special pur
pose and relieving some proper
ty taxes so that it would not re
sult in just another added tax
would be acceptable.
To me the "no" vote on Oct;
15 is a clear revolt by taxpayers
and will be followed up by a
much closer scrutiny of all state
and local agencies. . -i
Herman Lee Wood ' '
725 N. W. Second St. ' .
Grants Pass Ore.
APA
To the Editor: Back around
the turn of the century a po
litical organization existed
named the American Protective
Association, APA for short. It
bound its members to support
only political candidates who
were of the white race and non
Catholic. When this association
was formed or when it was
ended I have never seen men
tioned in print. I learned about
it as soon as I enlisted in the
U. S. Navy in the year 1902, be
cause the term "APA" was
often heard among the men
"before the mast."
The gob, when getting sore
at a mate, would sing out "Aw
shut your mouth you dammed
APA."
Certain fraternal orders did
firmly believe in APA principles
and urged its members to vote
accordingly. Time will tell how
strong the anti-Catholic, anti
colored sentiment remains in
the U.S.A. at the next Presi
dential election. JFK has
proved himself an able pilot of
the ship of state, but the anlis
could possibly pull a bunny out
of a hat and bring about the
unexpected, particularly if Rich
ard Nixon were slated for GOP
standard bearer in the coming
convention. That is the belief of
this writer.
John E. Ring
10-19 W. nth St.
Medford.
HIGHWAY OPENS
SALEM (UPI) -Opening of
the easterly two miles of the
Westport - Clatskanie section of
the Columbia River Highway
(U. S. 30) was scheduled for
this afternoon.
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