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...classified section of the Atlantic Monthly, along with those two-line ads for items like "Cookie Beef Stew" and pleas for companionship from "caring" bachelors who love long walks and Mantovani. Under the headline is a fat, two-column come-on from the Bear Creek Corp. In Medford, Ore. In the country round Medford, it declares, "trees outnumber people." The place is "15 minutes from Ashland (home of the summer Shakespearean Festival) in the valley of the Rogue River, beloved by demented steelhead and salmon anglers. Excellent skiing, hiking, boating and swimming at your back door." The Bear Creek people...
...thus the equivalent of an Eastern suburb-are not cheap. But even with a little wooded acreage, their prices are dramatically lower than large houses without land in Westchester County, N. Y. The really good news is that owners pay proportionately far less in property and school taxes. Medford schools are harder to assess. Real Estate Agent Billie Powers recalls that when she moved up from California, her children had to be tutored to catch up to Oregon classmates. But a high school sophomore whose family just came from the Dakotas has a different idea. "Much easier here," he says...
From the air Medford at first looks fairly familiar, a blacktop and stucco fantasia of gas stations and fast-fooderies sprawling out along a meandering, not-too-clean creek. But the mountains that rim the valley are tipped with snow and trimmed with dark firs that wipe the skyline like distant eyelashes. "Gee, Dad," the boy says, nose pressed to the window, "could we really move out here...
...Bible again. "I cannot be tolerant and be a Christian too. Jesus pointed to the religious leaders of his day and said, 'You're a bunch of snakes and a bunch of hypocrites and whited sepulchres.' And that's the kind of religious leaders I have here in Medford. They will not take a position on these things. They're a bunch of crowd-pleasing, pink-laced, lily-livered do-gooders, and they've gotten that example from government...
...which she attends downstairs along with 29 other born-again children. Red tie, blue tunic, white shirt. Michael watches her leave and talks about the government's efforts to condemn the Christian dayschool movement on charges of unqualified teachers and unfit teaching facilties. He mentions the 214 fire alarms Medford Public School endured over a one-year period. Earlier, it was eight years; by the end of the conversation, it has become eight months...