Letters and Comments for August 6, 2009

Letters and Comments for August 6, 2009

DA has job to do

To the Editor:

I read your editorial of July 30 casting aspersions on your local law enforcement team and the district attorney for not releasing what you thought was enough information on a homicide case. The audacity of the press never ceases to amaze me. Sometimes I wish we could go back 20 years when we didn’t get so much information from the news.

As a former deputy sheriff of Josephine County, I worked with D.A. Tim Thompson and have known him for years. I have always found him to be a dedicated and hard-working public servant. I am confident in saying that if giving the press more information on this homicide case would have made the public any safer, that Mr. Thompson would have released it. After all, it is his and the law enforcement team’s job to protect the public. It is also his job to ensure the perpetrator is convicted once he is arrested.

It is your job to objectively report information provided and not inflame the situation to sell more papers at the expense of your law enforcement team and a homicide case. Shame on you!

Carol Dickson

Cave Junction

Outstanding tribute

To the Editor:

In response to Ted Kramer’s “thank you’’ in the historical scrapbook for the use of historical photographs from my collection, I say a very hearty “You’re welcome’’ and an appreciation to Eden Kruger and Phil Bullock

 What an age we live in! Maybe even before your time, Ted, newspapers were printed by “letterpress’’ (raised type) and a picture was reproduced 60 dots per inch. All you could see were the dots. Now with high speed offset, these pictures appear to made with a 200-line screen (200 dots per inch), and my compliments to the plate maker and the press crew.

“Remember When’’ is an outstanding tribute to the memories of those of us who can, and an education to those who are younger.

Fred Hill

La Grande