Recently, a writer expressed her unhappiness with the type of country music being played on our radio stations.

She can turn her dial to 94.7 FM, the KRRM radio station. This is what you will hear: Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Johnny Horton and George Jones, plus more artists like them -- and 24 hours of the day! Happy listening!

-- Ella Cross, Jacksonville

Why the increasingly vitriolic howls from the media for gun controls? We are to believe it's to stop the killing of innocent people, especially the children.

The abomination known as abortion is a genuine holocaust that has denied birth to over 35 million children. It has not only made the womb the most dangerous place on earth, but has turned doctors into killers. Where are the banshee wails of righteous indignation from the media?

Information gleaned from a recent report by the Journal of the American Medical Association states that doctors kill (in addition to abortion) more people than do auto accidents and guns. Where are the screams of anguish about medical malpractice?

Our draft-dodging president is now killing innocent people in other countries. And not content with the carnage inflicted by bombs, he plans to send in American troops to finish the job with guns. Why no "weeping and gnashing of teeth" by the media?

If truly concerned, why then does the media only rant and rave about gun-related killings to the near exclusion of all others?

Could it be gun ownership rather than gun deaths that really motivates these hyper-hypocrites?

Could it be because America is the only country left in the world where gun ownership is still a right and not a licensed privilege?

And could it be because Clinton's lap-dog media knows that gun-owning Americans are all that stand between world slavery and individual freedom? You bet that media knows.

-- W.D. Ferguson, Medford

It is essential to understand that communism/socialism is a control-the-wealth program, not a share-the-wealth program. It is the ultimate monopoly.

I can plainly see the high-handed gimmick for what it really is. So many people believe that to take from the wealthy and share with the poor would make everything equal. A diversion from the actual truth. Unbeknownst to them, these individuals have had the deep wool pulled over their eyes.

The extreme environmentalists and their worries over fish runs, dams, birds, plants and trees are diversionary. To separate, divide and control toward one-world government is their objective.

Monica, the Serbs, school shootings are a diversion from Chinagate, away from Clinton. In the past I believe a man and wife were put to death for treason. How come not now?

TV and media blabbermouths have made many bucks over the school shootings, and look at all their concern now. The copycats want to take a shot at it now. Top TV media are 90 percent guilty.

High officials and a few controllers have financed both sides of wars at our taxpayers' expense. They would rather see us as peons controlled with one-world government. The bureaucracies with many tangents are the rulers and the destruction of our Constitution.

Vote out these culprits.

-- Earl Millhouse, Central Point

The Antioch Cemetery Association wishes to thank the Sams Valley Sheep and Livestock 4H Club for helping with the clean-up in the cemetery. These young people work very hard to weed and help with the clean-up.

Antioch Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Jackson County.

The association was formed in 1949 after the cemetery was bought from the U.S. government when Camp White was no longer a military base.

-- Charlotte Sweet, for the Antioch Pioneer Cemetery Association

Some lawmakers encourage crime and low morals. The space allowed here is enough to tell a few examples:

They destroy the rights of parents. They make our public schools condemn religions, such as whatever faith the parents have and want their children to have.

Then they make children accept the beliefs of some evolutionists. That is a violation of our Constitution.

They encourage adultery of minors. They allow girls in their early teens to get abortions and don't let the parents know about it.

They make it legal to kill a baby that is 90 percent out of the woman. They say the baby is still part of the woman's body.

Several babies are killed to get enough brain substance to partly heal a brain of one rich old person.

Those that favor brutal partial-birth abortions have minds more brutal than the most brutal convicts in prison.

There is one official accused of much adultery and lies. Some children will follow those habits. He used veto power to extend certain brutal abortions.

I am 79 and able-bodied. I approved what lawmakers do for the handicapped. But in some other matters they are wrong: When they void the rights of many people to satisfy a few who are wrong.