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Newspaper Page Text2 B family Council Miter's Notet Till family Con' ill canslita ol a lads, a psychia trist, three clerryraen, a newspaper alitor, a wumen's editor, and two wrltari. Eacn article li a limitary f an actual can history. Tha - Council reports on problems that " nava bean daalt with by reipon ' ilbla agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1J General reaturei Corp.) Helen B. Just let a prob lem arise, he runs (or the bottle. Emit R. - It's the only way ' I can unwind when I get tense, a a a Helen R. I'm worried about Emil. He's just opened his own law office and he's under a strain. But when he meets a tough problem, instead of talk- - ing it over with someone or re laxing at a movie, he makes a ' beeline for the whiskey bottle. Last week he emptied one and stayed in a stupor for 24 hours. I had to make excuses to cli- ents. Emil R. When I'm faced with a blockbuster of a puzzle, I get so tied up in knots I can't get hold of the issue. Those usu al tricks Helen talks about just don't work, but after I've really been under the effects of alcohol, ' I relax and then I'm able to come to grips with any problem. This is a new discovery for me. I'm sorry about last week's ex cess. I'll have to figure a safe amount. , The Council: How long will ' you stick to the "safe" amount, Emil, if it turns out to be a thimblefuU? 'Fess up. What you're after is enough hookers to grant you insensibility! Get-ting-away-from-it-all is your aim, while Helen's is Bringing-you-back-to-it-all fast. Before your health, career, marriage fall victim to your false ideas on tension relief, please mull over these findings: Alcohol gives temporary relaxation, but at a price to the brain, stomach, liver, and kidneys. This momen tary relaxation moves along to stupefication. Example: Tests show that after only 1 ounce of whiskey, the driver of a car has a decrease In efficiency. So, how about giving the real ways of relieving tension the old Army try? The Dept. of Health Ed at Stanford Univ. asked 826 phy sicians their favorite Rx for same. Most recommended plain "walking it off" (nice and cheap!). Others advised swim ming, golf, bowling, gardening with a bit ot socializing along the way. So, don't drown in al cohol, Emil. Jump In the lake ' and cool off. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON California Losing Its Most Precious Possession Land v By JOHN BARNETT United Press International SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Southern California's sunny Or ange County used to live up to its name: the orange and lem on trees stretched in orderly rows as far as the eye could see. Today, bulldozers are rooting out the trees at the rate of 3,000 acres a . year, and Orange County is virtually out of the running as a citrus producer. Santa Clara County, a lush food basket at the southern edge of San Francisco Bay, was America's biggest strawberry-producing county 10 years ago; it also grew half of the world's prunes and a giant share of the nation's pears. But today, fruit and vegetable trad ers in Santa Clara County are talking about importing crops instead of exporting them. California is losing foot by foot, acre by acre one of its most precious possessions: its rich, incredibly productive farm lands. The land Is not disappearing. It's still there, and it's just as fertile as ever. But it's be ing buried under an avalanche of freeways, factories, shopping centers and, most of all, houS' es. As California continues It.i dizzying population climb and its headlong rush toward ur banization, (he cities are splash ing outward into the country side. They don't grow up the hillsides and mountains be cause it's too expensive to level building sites there; they pour instead down the fertile valleys that have helped make Califor nia the nation's biggest food producer. For veara. neoDle have fret ted over California's growth over the loss of natural scenery over the problems of providing housing and fire departments and social welfare and trans portation for the burgeoning millions. But now there's a new worry: Where, with more and more farmland covered,- win tne state's food come from? The California state Depart ment of Agriculture says that, of the 100.2 million acres in California, 16.4 million acres are suitable for farming and only half are good to prime farm land. Alreadv. urban development covers about 2.5 million acres in the state, most of it land that formerly was used for ag riculture. By 1975, the depart ment estimates, cities with ;ov er 4 million acres. Big Population "It is estimated," said the department "that by 1975 the population of our state will be about 25 million persons. That would be approximately 8 mil lion more than live in Califor nia now. We shall need all of our remaining good soil to grow the food for our people." For those who say that tech nology is the answer that science will improve land pro ductivity indefinitely there is this reply from Dr. Elmer W. Braun, economic advisor for the agriculture department: "At the moment we're bor rowing from technology. We're going to wake up and the land is going to be gone." Portland Firm Is Low On Freeway Work mile west of the present high- The Slate - Hall Construction Co., Portland, with a bid of $3,512,034, was the apparent low bidder Tuesday afternoon , for grading a section of Interstate 5 from Siskiyou Highway to the summit, according to United Press International. Bids were opened by the State Highway Department in Salem. It was one of some 11 highway projects on which bids were re ceived. The contracts will be awarded at the highway com mission meeting Nov. 22. The project will include grad ing to provide four 12-foot lanes on a new alignment with the summit approximately one-half way. The project will be approxi mately two miles south of the Wall Creek section now under contract. The section to be skip ped at this time includes a struc ture for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and is not expected to be let for contract until next year. STUDIES BOOKS PORTLAND (UPI) - The Portland School Board is study ing new primary, books in which the characters are primarily Negro. Braun said technology sim ply is not going to be as much help in the future as it has in the past. The surpluses of to day, he said, have obscured tomorrow's need for farm lands. "Without technology," accord ing to Braun, "we would al ready be deploring our losses." Agriculture on a large scale is already virtually a thing of the past in Los Angeles and Orange counties, which once were the citrus centers of the West. As the subdivisions move in, the citrus growers- move out to Arizona, to the great Central Valley of California, to the relatively low - populated southeast corner of the state. Santa Clara County, home of the rapidly growing metropolis of San Jose, is finding that the demand for food goes up as the supply goes down. L. H. Scaletta has been a food broker there since 1939. Ten years ago, he said, his business was nearly all export of local products through the world. Today, about half in volves importing food for his own county and he believes when he will be bidding for food against areas that used to be his own best customers. Dennis the Menace Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., dean of agriculture at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke not only of California but of the nation when he discussed the situation in a speech earlier this year. r "While we have been con quering half a continent," he said, "we have not always been mindful that our land, our wa ters, and our space are the re sources, the basic ingredient of this opulence we enjoy ... It may well be, in this era of the ranch house, the suburban su- oermart. the freeway, and the 40-mile commute, that we have never been more wasteful. . . "Cities are where they are largely because a living could be made where rivers joined or land was fertile. But farm cen ters became cities. Now the same cities are spreading out, in some cases over nearly all of the level and rich soils that created them. We're seeing a million acres of agricultural land concreted over each year (in the nation) for housing tracts, school grounds, shop ping centers, airports, and what we call freeways in California. Once the concrete is laid down, a natural resource is gone." ' There's a new kid in kipderqartsn' with wq BLACK Vfifs DIM MB WAKfiU Hi BABY DOCTOR' DEAD KUALA LUMPUS, Malaysia : (UPI)-Dr. Lee Keng Soon, 65, popularly known as the "baby doctor," died Sunday of a stroke at hie home in Penang. ; The obstetrician was credited with delivering more than 50,- 000 babies during 40 years of service in Singapore and Pen- ang.' . Two-Ways Smart ! U 9431 if SIZES 10-18 Inj KftVi! "fTTeVi, BUTTON, button or fly-front which version will you sow? Eiuier way, wis casual is a treasure to have ready when busy days become busier. Printed Pattern 0431: Misses' Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 16. Size 16 , requires 35 yards 35-inch fab ric. 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Box pleat styles are1 not hip stitched. our big buy on girls' stretch slacks 'n knit tops! 7 to 14 Sizes 3 to ix 2.99 Our prices have gona down, down, down, until they've hit rock bottoml Don't miss out on the spectacular savings on these smart casual out fitsl Jaunty combed cotton knit lops with turtle neck styling . . . stretch nylon fleece pants with elastic foot strapsl Tha colors are brighter 'n bolder than evarl The color coordination , . . terrific! What a buy! A lop Penney value . . buy an armfull MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Reporter Ue veals EDITOR'S NOTE Very little of America's general af fluence has rubbed off on Ap palachla, a six-state moun talnous strip in the Southeast. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., chairman of the President's Appalachian Regional Com- mission, recently told Con gress it is a place of "abys mal poverty." Following .'is a report on one of the "have not" communities in the great mountains on the Tennessee Kentucky border. By RICHARD OLIVER I . United Press International CLAIRFIELD, Tenn. (UPD Junior Hall, 26, was a coal miner with a wife and four children before he wound up in a hospital bed. Doctors say it will be years before he is able to work again. Several weeks ago,' the first frost of the season came to Tennessee, and temperatures in the Appalachian mountains dip ped to below freezing. The Hall family lives in a two-room, rot ted shack on the top of a "nob." They had run out of fuel for their ancient rusted stove. Their charity clothes barely i covered them. Hall went out one night to a truck mine to steal some coal for their fire, when a ton of slag . rocklike coal mine waste crashed down on him. Although his cries for help were heard, he lay helpless for sev eral hours with a shattered pel vis and a crushed chest. Hall is a "yellowdog," a member ' of the Southern Labor Union, the rival of the United Mine Work ers in the Tennessee coal coun try. "I didn't care if he was a yellerdog or a black man," said Amy Marlow, a grizzled and toothless woman in her 60s. "He said he was stealing coal to keep his family warm and I helped him." Amy said a group of men who heard Hall call for help refused to aid him because he is a "yellerdog." Work Is Scarce Besides what he can make from bootlegging mountain whisky, Carl Miller sometimes earns $15 a Week cutting the wooden beams that are used for support in the truck mines. His family, a wife and seven chil- Abysmal (Poverty of Appalach lans dren, live atop a high mountain in a broken-down shanty. Recently, he was fined $9 plus court costs for refusing to send four of his children to school, down a dangerous, wind ing make-shift road covered with "red dog" slag from the mines. "My kids didn't have any shoes," he said. "Would you walk down that road without any shoes on?" Miller's son, Henry, 13, is a frail boy with the physique of a nine-year-old. He lay feverish with a torn baseball cap on his head. The room in the clap- Court Records CIRCUIT COURT Erneit M. Mlngua vs. Vivlenne H. Mingus. divorce complaint. , Maxlne Mee vs. Frank J. MM. divorce decree. Mike M. Tepovac va. Minnie Ola Tepovac, divorce decree. Dorothy M. Dobson vs. William L- Dobson, divorce decree. Ruby M. Watson vb. Glen O. Watson, divorce decree. Sharee Lue Bross va. Ralph Ger ald Bross, divorce complaint. Kenneth Howard Luney vs. Ge neva Juanita Luney, divorce de cree. Judith Kathleen Gayer vs. Wil Ham Arthur Geyer. divorce decree. Diane Frazier va. Robert Wes ley Frailer, divorce decree. Nina .Lorene Gregory vs. Harold James Gregory, divorce decree. Beverly L. Saltmarsh vs. Melvin L, Saltmarsh, divorce decree. Mary Ann Haleck vs. Ernest R. Haleck, divorce decree. Ada Parke vs. Fvancis Wayne Parke, divorce decree. Fred J. Boice vs. Marjorle Boice, divorce complaint. Robert Timothy Daily VI. Jean Daily, divorce complaint. Mildred M. Jewett vs. WUbert F. Jewett, divorce complaint. Lorrain Backus Hutchinson vs. James E. Hutchinson, divorce complaint. Grace Eudell Rodgers vs. Ed ward Henry Rodgers, divorce com plaint. Billy Joe Cave va. Lillian P. Cave, divorce complaint. Mary Ruth Mcelroy va. Wayne Wiltsey McElroy, divorce com plaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS : ' Lee Goddard, Route 1. Box 521, Talent, and Jonette Lynn Tibbetts, Bandon. ' LeRoy Ray Stubbletleld, 330 Van Ness St.. Ashland, and Barbara Rankin Martin, 111 S. Laurel St., Ashland. Verlyn Gene King, General De livery, Central Point, and Jacque line Ann McCollom. Portland. James Jon Susee, 324 Liberty St., Ashland, and Ellen Marie Ward, 655 Frances Lane, Ashland. board shack was cold. His sick bed was fashioned out of wood en crates. His mother was nurs ing a five-week-old baby in the next room. . Henry was seriously ill. Be sides a fever, he had a pain in his chest and complained that he had difficulty breathing. There would be no doctor. There wasn't even an aspirin. , Forgotten Land . Junior Hall, Carl Miller and young Henry are a few of the 4,000 inhabitants of Clear Fork Valley, an almost forgotten strip of land comprising the once-abundant , towns of Fonde, Pruden, Valley Creek, Clair field, Eagan, Anthras and Mor ley lying on Tennessee Highway 90 just south of the Kentucky state line. Fifteen years ago, before the great labor battles in the Ten nessee coal fields, the valley prospered in the post-war indus trial boom. About 3,000 men worked some of the richest coal mines in the Southeast. The coal is still in abundance today, but the valley is decayed and dying. Just ten years ago, a tobacco chewing oldtimer testified, an unwed mother and her child would have been run out of the valley on the next Southern Railways train passing through Clairfield. Today, promiscuity is quietly condoned and lorae times encouraged to bring checks that will buy food. The state of Tennessee pays $50 for the first child, and up to $99 for subsequent produc tion, in monthly welfare checks as long as the unwed mother cannot, or does not, identify the father. Try To Help "We don't have much in this valley in the way of money," said Baitor Davis, a big man with huge hands and feet who mines in the valley when there is work. -"We got plenty of love, though, andwe all try to help everybody out." Davis and his wife, Frankie, have 13 children.. When he 'is able to work, he usually makes $4 a day. His family survives the winter huddling around a coal stove on an almost -solid diet of bread and beans, plus what their 10 school-age chil dren can bring home from their free lunches. Trying to exist from day to day amidst sickness and disease is a fact of life in Clear Fork Valley. Recently at least 50 per sons were stricken with deadly hepatitis in the valley. A few died and many will never be fully cured. Its source has not been found. Social diseases are rampant, as are other forms of human sickness and suffering. The people of this valley feel orphaned by their county, their state and their country. "The only time we get to see one of those county politicians" said one man "is around elec tion time." Very few of the valley people have heard of none remember ever seeing their congressman, Rep. James (Jimmie) H. Quillen, R-Tenn. Land Is Leased . Most of the land in the valley is owned by the British - held company, American Land, Ltd., which leases to residents and to small coal entrepreneurs. The inhabitants of the valley lease the land for about $20 a year and build their shacks from the surrounding woodlands During the times of steady paychecks, there were four churches in the valley and their poorboxes were full. There was little need for cnarlty clothes and welfare checks to buy food. But then when the great labor troubles came, the valley's econ omy soared in a downward spiral. Now, there is very little work in the valley. Company after company comes in and digs out the coalfields with their own men. Miners are without jobs, and families are without food. And recently, the minister of the local Baptist church said he was leaving the valley. There is a padlock on the church's door. Increasing Flow of Tourists Noted in Panama Canal Zone By MURRAY J. BROWN United Press International NEW YORK (UPD-See the sun rise In the Pacific and set in the Atlantic. Watch an ocean liner sail across the Continental Divide. Cross a continent by car in an hour-and-a-half. Impossible? ! Unbelieveable? Not in Panama happens every day.'- : . ' ' ' ,-' Americans have probably spent more time in Panama I " " " . "2 - - - ' R3jlSV ' ' - ' HOLIDAY ' - COLOR RICH ?Z . 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MEN'S GENUINE SUEDE LEATHER JACKETS 88 11 TERRIFIC SPECIAL! QUALITY AT BIG SAVINGS! Imaginel Sueda jacket with 3-piece knit trim at this prlcel Fully rayon lined too for added com fort and good looks. In all-season colors of rust, charcoal, beige and haze. Specially priced for holiday givingl Sizes 38 to 46. PENNEY'S STREET FIOOR mm-. than in any other Latin Ameri can country since 1904 when work started on the Panama Canal. But most were members of the armed forces or employ es of the Canal Zone. . There has been, however, an increasing flow of tourists in re cent years, according to Irma Arango, director of the Panama Government Tourist Bureau. She attributes this to several factors more Americans stop ping over en rouie 10 soutn America by plane, more cruise ships making calls, and the new Pan American Highway. "There's a new look to tour ism in Panama," said Miss Ar ango. "Visitors will discover a combination of old attractions, new exotic destinations and the best hotel accommodations, res taurants and sanitary facilities in Central America. Tourists can enjoy what we describe as the unusual, the unique and the impossible as compared with any other resort area in ' the world.'' ; Reversed Sun-rises '. The VimDossible" haooens during the 50-mile trip across tne continent via the fully-paved Boyd - Roosevelt Highway. The Isthmus curves so that the Pa cific coast is actually east of the Atlantic coast. So the tour ist can see the sun come up over the Pacific and go down over the Atlantic. It takes only 90 minutes to drive from ocean to ocean. After you've seen the impos sible, Miss Arango suggests, try the unusual and the unique. "Marvel at tne miracle ot the Panama Canal"' where huge lin ers are luted as nigh as 85 feet above sea level as they cross the isthmus, she said. "See the romantic, ruins of the oldest cities on the Ameri can mainland. Or go on safari to the unexplored Darlen jungle still unchartered and with many regions where no civilized man has yet set foot. Visit the un spoiled San Bias Islands in the Caribbean where 'Indian women still wear gold nose-rings." Miss Arango said there are countless other attractions such as the Summitt Gardens, a 300-acre picnic ground and botanical park in the Canal Zone with more than 15,000 different species of tropical trees and plants, or the honey moon haven of Boquete in. the mountains amid a profusion of tropical and temperate flowers. Or you can take a "railroad" trip through' the giant Chiriqui land banana plantation, one ot the world's largest. Your coach" will be an iron-wheeled gas - engine truck which will have to compete with cars com ing from the other direction on the single track as well as with chickens, mules, horses . and plantation workers. " ' Jungle Trips One-dav jungle trips to Dar len ($27.50 per person) includes air transportation, a visit to a Choco Indian village and river trips aboard piraguas, large native dugout canoes. A round trip air tour to San Bias ($18 per person) includes guide, boat trips to lour islands and tne op portunity for swimming, fishing and other aquatic sports. ! A must is a visit to the Pan ama Canal. Mlraflores Locks, at the Pacific side, and Gatun Locks, near the Atlantic, are only minutes away from the cit ies of Panama and Colon respectively. At special sightseeing stations maintained by the Canal Zona Guide Service, one can watch the enormous locks raising and lowering ships on their trips across the Continental Divide. And no sightseeing trip could be complete without a visit to Panama City, the republic's capital. Americans will have no diffi culty with either language or money. Most Panamanians speak English and the Balboa, Panama's largest unit of cur rency, is always on par with the U.S. dollar. : Waldo Lake Road Contract To Be Let PORTLAND (UPI) A con tract will be let next spring for development of an access road into scenic Waldo Lake In the Cascades, t h e Association of OiC Counties was told Tuesday. Thomas E. Utterback, chief of the road section in the Forest Service's division of engineering gave the association a report on plans for the lake area. Waldo lake is southwest of Bend on the Cascade crest at the 6,000 foot level, and is Oregon's sec ond largest lake.