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10 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 17. 1940
(It Wat Wednesday)
Nearly 250 planea visited
Medford airport during March.
Miss Alice Hoefs elected
chairman of new Pro-America
group In Jacksonville.
Public library discloses near
ly 7,000 persons registered to
use 32,633 books.
Northwest district convention
of 20-30 clubs scheduled here
June IS and 18.
Medco reports 390 workers on
payroll, Including 110 in woods.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 17. 1930
(It Was Thursday)
Constitutional amendment to
limit fishing in Rogue river to
angling to go on November bal
lot. Road to Klamath Falls via
Crater lake cleared of snow; four
to six feet deep on highway.
Glenn Slmkins chosen Med
ford representative in Edison
scholarship test.
Phoenix school's first four
grades to present operetta.
14 YEARS AGO TODAY
April 17, 1916
(It Was Monday)
Ground to be broken tomor
row for construction of new St.
Mark's church at Fifth and Oak
dale. Adin Hasellon and Theodore
Florey to represent Eagle I'oint
school in county spelling bee.
County asks bids for repairing
Medford-Jacksonvllle road.
News of 4-H
O CLUBS
Central Point 4 H Club
The Central Point crop club
meeting was held at the Paul
Williams place recently. Elec
tion of new officer were held
with the following results:
President. Marvin Hohnert;
vice-president, Hobby Williams;
secretary. Vernon Gebliard; re
porter, Paul Williams Jr.: song
leader, rtilly Williams and yell
leader, Loren Gebliard.
Vice-president Bobby Wil
liams brought the meeting to or
der. There was no old business,
but under new business, It was
decided the next meeting would
be held the second Tuesday of
May, May 9.
It was decided that the club
would buy some films and as
soon as the members had their
group worked up they would
lake pictures of their seed bed
after it Is planted.
Paul Williams Jr., Reporter
Antelope 4-H Club
The Antelope 4-H club held Its
monthly meeting April 14 at the
Antelone school house.
Exhibitors at the Cow palace
at San Francisco gave reports on
their trip. The exhibitors were
Marilvn Hohnert, IJorene Hon
nert. Waller Cahail and Bruce
Field.
A report was also given by
Robert Hays on the kinds and
types of swine.
The next meeting was sched
Uled for Antelope's annual box
social which will be held at the
Antelope school house May 12
The public Is invited.
Bruc Field, Reporter
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
New York City, N. Y., Apr. 14 Well, "Bingo" left Thursday
on the Queen Elizabeth, and as a result the hotel and New York
are much quieter. We went down to see the Queen Elizabeth but
didn't see Bing, so continued on with No. 2 grandson to see the
statue of Liberty. No. 2 being a native New Yorker runs true to
type and refuses to be impressed by anything although he did agree
tnat Bom me giant liner ann nirs. LiDeriy -were Digger man mey
looked." He refused to explain In more specific terms, so we de
cided he meant that when one got near them, they loomed much
larger and more Impressively in person than on the picture post
cards. And they do, of course.
The excursion, however, was not very successful. We could
not get on the Queen Elizabeth because we did not have creden
tials, and we could not climb up into the torch of Mrs. Liberty,
because we did not have time. There was a family luncheon dead
line to meet and the distaff side of the household insisted that
deadline had to be met, or ELSE,! (Needless to add it WAS!)
No. 4 and No. 3 were also at the luncheon, en route to the pedia
trician, the former refusing to eat anything but his ice cream, and
he would allow no one to feed him that. He did the Job ok him
self. (Don't know where these
pendence of spirit but they all fairly ooze with it, each and every
one).
However, the pediatrician declared No. 4 was ok lunch or no
lunch in fact, his reactions, mental and physical, put him defin
itely in the "genius class." (We had suspected something of the sort
but are glad we don't have to foot the pediatrician's bill for THAT
bouquet!) When the doctor finished with him (No. 4) guess what
the embryonic Thomas Edison did? He tapped his knee cap for
reactions and used his policeman's whistle as a stethescope! WHAT
a boy and he is only 22 months old!
We don't enw Bine his ocean trip, although of course the
Queen Elizabeth is so huge, probably the blizzard that visited the
city yesterday and today and we assume the Atlantic ocean did
not disturb the super-cunartier
what a hideous day. A blizzard on
there, we went to a movie through it.
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The movie was another blow.
Your correspondent has always been a great booster for the
Marx brothers and particularly for Groucho, so we were positive
their most recent effort after three or four years rest, would be
somethina terrific. The distaff side was reluctant and sceptical.
Well, all we can say after enduring the movie entitled "Love
Happy" there is no "love" in it, no "happiness," not even good
slapstick, melodrama, or "horse
nor good red herring, in short
it DUES!
In the newspaper ad it was
first Marx movie in three or four years, the only mistake the
boys made was not to make it 30 or 40! The real comedian of the
group, Groucho, in contrast to his "slap happy" brothers, only had
subordinate and a son ot m.c.
still has "Bet Your Life." he can make all the money and reputa
tion he needs there, all in all the funniest give-away radio pro
gram on the air.
Once more our favorite golfers the Bauer sisters get their
pictures in the local papers but this time the news is not so good.
Ol course when Papa and Mama Bauer were in Medford they both
said amateur golf was a terrific drain on the rather meagre family
pocketbook and they could not afford the luxury for long, the
girls would eventually have to turn "pro." We assumed, however,
they would wait until one of them at least had won the women's
national amateur. But now Papa Bauer mnkes the announcement
at a cocktail parly the two girls will start their professional
careers at Pebble Beach the last of this month.
Well this is nothing reprehensible, there are many fine girls
and fine golfers in the women pro ranks. But we would have pre
ferred to have the Bauer sisters remain where they Were and play
the game for the fun and the sport of it. Playing lor money some
how doesn't seem to be like either of them.
At long last the effort to make artificial rain via airplane seed
ing has been launched. After a week or 10 days of false starts a
police plane with two policemen and Dr. Howell the Harvard rain
maker flew up above the cumulous clouds and dropped 100 pounds
of dry ice. This was yesterday afternoon when your correspondent
had to fight a miniature blizzard to get to the Marx movie.
Whether it was the result of this seeding or not here are the
facts:
The family had made preparations for a week end at Lake Mo
honk in the Catskills, reservations oked and everything packed,
But when we awoke this a.m. the city was blanketed with the
heaviest snow of the year, five or six inches in some places, while
reports from the lake were roads would not be open until noon.
So the excursion had to be called off.
It should not be hard to figure out how this snowstorm pleased
the lake hotel management and the grandchildren, three of them
looking forward for weeks to the trip and with all their fishing
tackle in readiness.
Dr. Howell is extremely cagey, he makes no claims, he takes
responsibility for nothing, but his popularity is declining rapidly
and more arid more criticisms of the experiment are appearing in
the papers.
As stated when the plan was launched, when week end rains
or snows which spoil picnics and sports can be blamed on the
city administration and not on Nature, the Weather Man or the
Almightv, watch out for the political repercussions. Don't try to
play "God" If you want VOTES!
Not only the family picnic but the long heralded pie-season
baseball opener over in Brooklyn, between the Dodgers and the
Yankees will suffer for as this is written (11 a.m.) it is still snow
ing. Dr. Howell gets S100 a day for his efforts, it is a fairly safe
bet that before he gets through he will have earned it! And an
other thing. two months ago the reservoirs were only 30 per cent
full now they are 76 per cent WITHOUT artificial rain.
In this frenzied effort to find a goat for the failure of Amer
ican policy in China, we believe the real culprit the real nigger-inthe-woodpile
has been completely overlooked namely
JAPAN. Not Japan as a defeated nation of course, but Japan as a
strong and militaristic one.
We have been researching a hit on past history and find that
the real turn in the fortunes of Chiang Kai-shek came in 11)37,
when the war with Japan stalled. Nominally Ihc Chinese Reds
lined up with Chiang to repel the Jnp invaders but actually they
conserved their forces, recruited thousands who deserted the Na
tionalist cause, and while Chiang was bled white they became
stronger and stronger taking over more and more supplies and
territory.
It seems reasonably clear Ihat if Japan had never declared
war on China. Chiang would today be muster of the Chinese em
pire and the Chinese communists would be merely a meagre task
force marooned somewhere In the far north. But when Japan
struck and Chiang refused to grant needed reforms to the Chinese
masses confident that with foreign aid the Chinese Old Guard
could win. the die was cast. then no aid from the U.S.A. or any
other country could have prevented the Red tide from sweeping
over China Just as two decades before in spite of allied interven
tion, the same tide swept over Russia.
True. Chiang even alter Japan attacked COULD have saved
the situation but had Japan never attacked there would have been
no situation to save Q.E.D. R.W.R.
Old Kentucky Home
Obtains Face Lifti
Bardstown. Ky. OJ.P.i "My
Old Kentucky Home." immortal
ized by Stephen Foster, is under
going a complete facelifting to
restore it as a southern mansion
of the period of 18.12.
The stale accepted the proper
ty, once known as the Federal
Hill estate, in I!i22. Since then
ninny structural defects in the
building have developed.
The building was closed last
January 1 and restoration
started.
Removal of old plaster re
vealed that damage from file
which once struck the house was
far more extensive that had been
thought. The dale of the fire is
not known but was believed to
be prior to 1852. when Foster
visited the place and wrote "My
Old Kentucky Home."
TWO PERFECT HANDS
Alanson. Mich. tU.Ri Most
cribbace plavers consider them
selves lucky to hold one perfect
rribhage hand. Hay Essex can
boast of Iwo in a row. which he
held in a tournament here.
Mondiy, April 17, I960
children get all their ornery Inde
s equiiinrnim very mucn. urn
the 13th of April! And we were
- feathers," it is neither fish, lowl
it, oh well you know, ! And
proclaimed "Love Happy," is the
pari, rve are graietui oroui-fiu
Mickey, Minnie Shine
As New Star Groups
Philadelphia UP The "con
stellation'' Pluto and Mickey
and Minnie Mouse are appearing
lor the first time in the FeU
Planetarium's "skies" this!
month.
Floppy-cared Pluto is substl
tuting for the constellation Canisi
Major, the Great Dog. Mickey i
and Minnie arc filling in for
Gemini, the Twins.
The planetarium's director.
Dr. I M. Levitt, explained that
the Wall Disney characters were
flashed on the artifical sky to
illustrate for visitors how the
constellations got their names.
It also will prove, he said, that
"if the memory of mankind
were blotted out tomorrow, wc
could step in and supply new
names for the constellations at
a moment s notice."
The Twins and the Great Dog
he said, were as well-known
to the mythology-loving ancient
Greeks .is Pluto and Mickev i
I Mouse are to the modern genera-
lion of star gazers.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
I have an interesting letter;
from a Mr. Darrell Wilson, who
describes himself as a recent
newcomer to southern Oregon.
He says he likes my politics, he ,
likes my style and he enjoys my i
writing very much.
BUT, he says, spoofing me
gently, why pour it onto these
murdering gangsters in Kansas
City and the Kansas City cops
vfho look the other wav, while
paying little attention to the il
legal gambling that goes on in
Oregon while the authorities look
the other way?
YOU have something there,
Mr. Wilson.
As I recall it, I got pretty cyn
ical the other day about the
killing of these big-time hood
lums back in Missouri. I even
allowed as how. if that's the only
way they can be got rid of. it
may be Just as well that a couple
of them got plugged in a shoot
ing spree over the division of the
swag.
Mr. Wilson agrees as to the
probable good accruing from the
popping off of the Kansas City
gang bosses, but he twits me
nicely about being one of these
editors who can see a bad situ
ation 2.000 miles away but can't
see a thing wrong here at home.
WELL, lei's come clean.
I think. Mr. Wilson, that
Oregon's overlooking of the play
ing of slot machines and other
forms of gambling is just as
smelly, in principle, as the alli
ances between racketeers and
politicians that exist in our big
ger cities back east. The differ
ence is only a matter of decree.
In all these big cities, there
are laws against gambling and
other forms of wrongdoing, but
the laws are more or less ig
nored because somebody in au
thority gels money for ignoring
them Here in Oregon, there are
LAWS AGAINST GAMBLING.
Gambling is forbidden by our
state law. Gambling is forbidden
hv ordinance in nearlv all of our
cities. GAMBLING IS EVEN
SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN
BY THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE STATE OF OREGON.
But. as you say, Mr. Wilson,
slot machines and other gam
bling devices are permitted to
operate from time to time more
or less all over our stale.
It isn't legal. It isn't nice. It
isn't honest.
I've remarked often in this
column thai every time I see a
slot machine running (or a
nunchboard, or any other gam
bling device) I can't help won
dering who is GETTING MONEY
FOR LETTING IT RUN.
That isn't a pleasant situation,
because oflen enough over this
state of Oregon the men whose
duty it is to enforce th law are
personal friends of mine. One
doesn't like to wonder if friends
are getting money for looking
the other way while the law is
being broken.
LET'S be candid about this
whole business. Here in Ore
gon, slot machines and other
gambling devices operate (from
time to time, in between spasms
of morality) because the public
doesn't seem to care much wheth
er they operate or not. Has any
one ever heard of an Oregon
citizen placing himself in front
of a slot machine that is open
for business and yelling bloody
murder until a cop comes and
puts a slop to it?
I never did. And yet it is each
citizen's duty to see to it that
the laws are enforced I suspect
that if every citizen stopped ev
ery time he saw a slot machine
in operation and yelled loud and
long for a cop and kept yelling
till the cop came and did his duty
slot machines would soon vanish
in Oregon.
If every citizen in Kansas City
did likewise, the Kansas City
rackets would soon be ended.
The public just doesn't seem to
care much. If laws are to be en
forced they must have public
backing.
ONE other point, while we're
on this subject.
As yet, here in OreRon, our
gambling rackets are small-time
stuff. The swag involved hasn't
yet got big enough to cause our
racketeers to kill each other off
over (he division of it.
But it's getting closer. There
are the Bugsy Seigels. who get
notted in Los Angeles. There are
the Mickey Cohens who so far
have been missed every time
they have been shot at. Gam
bling profits lie at the root of
these shootings.
Oregon is growing. We like to
noint out that in the past 10
vears our rate of growth has
been the highest in the United
States. If we eel big enough and
careless cnouuh about our re
sponsibilities as citizens, the
time will come when the profits
of our gambling rackets are big
enough to cause our racketeers to
kill each other over the division
of the swag.
I'D HATE to see that. I'm proud
of the fact that as of now the
average sense of public duty in
Oregon is probably higher than
anywhere else in America.
GRANDMA GETS WISH
Undue City. Kan lU.R) Mrs.
Mary Barton, who longed to be
a grandmother, has had her wish
fivefold. In the hist, eight
months, each of her five children
has pnsented her with a grand,
child.
METERS HIS DOO
Battle Creek. Mich. U P
Patrolman Donald Knowles
watched a pedestrian tie his dog
to a parking meter, deposit a
nickel and walk away. He said
the man came back within the
time limit to reclaim the dog.
You II tun or
Quality wh,n
laiimun Him omuiMjr.
I a'Saaaaaaaa. I J
I I J Vj I ! tUrman Nichols
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES President Gabriel Oonzalei Vldela (left) of
Chile and President Truman wave to welcoming crowd during cere
monies honoring the Chilean chief executive on his arrival In Wash
ington. President Vldela is in ihe O. 8. for a three-week goodwill
visit.
On the Side"8" v Dur' in9
(Distributed be King faarurai Syndicate, lac)
HM.MMMIHI.IHIIl
The sun is shining today down
here in Florida, the Sunshine
State. The ocean bathers are out
in full force. The shuffle board
players are coalless again. The
well streamlined females are pa
rading the downtown streets
wearing shorts. There are some
good looking bathing beauties in
this part of the country, but 1
still am of the opinion that when
it comes to beautiful beach si
rens, Santa Monica, Cal., tops
the country.
Aga Khan
The Aga Khan. Rita Hay
worth's father - in-law. now
weighs 224 pounds. In 1955 his
followers will present him with
his weight in platinum. Incident
ally, among these followers are
the Hunzas, the healthiest and
longest lived people on earth. The
average Hunza keeps on playing
nolo when 85 years old. There
has been a book written on the
Hunza diet. Better look it up if
you want some advice on how
to live long.
Very Unusual
The other day a girl swimming
in the Indian river near Fort
Pierce. Fla.. was bitten bv an
alligator. Local authorities stated
it was the first time in 43 years
that anybody swimming in that
oart of the Indian river had been
bitten by an alligator. Neverthe
less. I am going to do all my
swimming in swimming pools
down here. Yes, sir!
Over There
It is said the biggest spenders,
the best caviar and champagne
customers at the Swiss winter
resorts this season were Ger
mans. It is therefore quite nat
ural that British tourists, on lim
ited travel incomes, bitterly
asked "Who won the war?"
Please Note
The Elks will hold their na
tional convention this year in
July in Miami. That's quite an
expression of confidence in
Florida's summer climate. Ask
Crosstown
'I could hardly wait for th seaion
.these good
Ambulance Service
The "Black & White" Ambulances
E & J Rciujcitator
Blood Plasm
Oxygen
MABEL CARLOS
CONGER-MORRIS
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
"Preferred by to many"
We it Main ar 6th Phont 3-1051
Offic of the County Corontr
XA
" A.
(Aemt Ttlenhoto)
the nearest Elk how the "Hello
Bill" greeting of his organiza
tion originated. If he can tell you
quick as a quarter of a flash he
doesn't have to send me a stogie.
Asidts
Do you remember Toby Wing,
cinema cutie of the yesteryear?
ihe lives in Miami now. Toby is
married to the celebrated air
pilot, Dick Merrill. . . . Now I
have a reader in Poy Sippi, Wis.
Must ask her how her home
town acquired such a quaint
name. . . . Have Just heard of
a Milwaukee youngster, three
years old. who has been fitted
with a full set of false teeth.
That's probably a world's record.
Brides
What music did your bride se
lect to be played at your wed
ding? If that happy event has
not token place yet has the girl
you are engaged to marry any
.cieas on the subject? Anyway, a
minister of long experience says
he has noticed that young women
who ask that the song, "My
Hero," be played at the wedding
are usually around in 12 months
or less complaining about the
man they married and are soon
est to seek divorce.
Briefly
Ever know anybody who had
feet of different sizes? I am in
formed there is a surprising num
ber of such people. They must
either have their shoes made to
order or buy two pairs of shoes
of different sizes. . . . The meat
shortage must be getting really
acute in Merrie Old England.
Some of the London newspapers'
domestic science editors are reg
ularly printing recipes of which
horse meat is the major feature.
A strange state of affairs in a
country in which the national
snort is horse racing.
Friend of Dogs
Dogs ride free on buses and
metropolitan railways in Paris.
That is due to some vigorous
campaigning on the part of Gen.
by Roland Cos
to open so I could hear some of
stories!"
A Nichols' Worth oF
Comment On
By KARMAN
United Sraaa
Washii.i, : :. Apr. 17 ;U.R
The census saKers, currently en-
11 uaa-vuuiiu ji iiues
count, are rurrH
mng into an
odd assort
ment of towns.
And don't
'.nigh.
The cross
roads are the
places which
made America
great. But
some of the
i a m e s don't
fit the pattern.
For instance,
take Double
Springs. Ala.
There isn't a bed factory in
sight, the census folks report.
The little community turns out
plenty of products from saw
mills and cotton gins, but no
bed springs.
There is Smackover, Ark. It's
not a ball park with a short
right field fence like you'd ex
pect. The town is rich in oil
fields, timberland, and fertile
loam.
Ballclub, Minn., is a little
jealous. It doesn't have a ball
club in any organized league.
Buttons, bows, and brrck bats
come out of a town called
Loogootec, Ind., where one cen
sus taker was bitten by one
small dog and one small boy.
Three "Polis" Towns
There are three seldom heard
of "polis" towns. One is Media
polis, la., a farming commun
ity. And Illiopolis. 111., birth
place of a new synthetic perma
$7 Billion in Coins
Minted by Country ,
New York (U.R) From 1792
until the end of December. 1949.
Uncle Sam minted more than $7
billion in gold, silver and minor
coinage, with a total of 319.502,
294 pounds.
The first coins in the United
States mint were struck on Oct
9. 1792, in the presence of
George and Martha Washington,
the Alexander Hamiltons and
Thomas Jefferson, according to
an article in Steelways Maga
zine. The first coins were less than
a half-inch in diameter and each
was known as "half a dime."
One side showed a woman, sym
bolic of Liberty and probably a
likeness of Martha Washington.
On the other side was an eagle
on wing with the legend "Uni.
Stales of America."
Some Silver Shortage
The presses and steel dies had
arrived from France shortly be
fore. At first there was a consid
erable silver shortage which
necessitated General Washing
ton's contribution of $100 worth
of silver plate from Mount Ver
non. The plate was melted into
bars, rolled out into thin strips
and cut in blank disks.
All told. 31.141.346.843 pieces
with a total value of $7,131,813
414.41 in U. S. coinage has been
struck off in the past 157 vears.
Maurice Mancelle (ret.) of Paris,
who devotes much of his time to
making France a better place for
dogs to live in. During World
War I the general's life was
aved by a dog on the battle
fields of Flanders. The general,
seriously wounded, was lying
helpless on the battlefield when
a dog came along, licked the
UI..U ins lace ann DarKed 1
continuously until he attracted I
the attention of some stretcher
bearers. Since that time General
Mancelle has conducted innu
merable campaigns in the in
terests of dogs.
Now you can
ind furniture
your homf work
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This and That
W. NICHOLS
Feature Writer
starch, which home economists
boast is the first "major change
in starching technique in 2,000
years lasts through eight to
15 washings, etc." And Kanna
polis, N.C., which runs off mil
lions of towels, dish clothes,
sheets, and pillowcases a year.
Bemidji. Minn., is the so-called
birthplace of the legendary
Paul Bunyan. But there isn't a
Bunyan in the Bemidji tele,
phone directory,
Paul and his big blue ox re
main nothing but legends.
No Gat Now
Gas City, Ind., takes its name
from natural gas that abounded
there a couple of generations
ago. There is no gas there now.
These days, the hoosier city goes
in for glassware production,
concrete vaults, cement tile, and
barrels.
Another community heard
from by the census people has a
misleading title Lapel, Ind. No
suits are produced there. Noth
ing but bottles, jars, and can
ned goods.
Sleepy Eye, Minn., is a wide
awake town and there is noth
ing much to cheer about in
What Cheer, la., and speaking of
Iowa, there is nothing forlorn
about Lost Nation. Ia. It does a
brisk business in chicken hatch
eries, grist mills, and agricul
ture. Protection In Kansas
On the plains of Kansas is k
town called Protection, which
shjps wheat and stock, has a gas
works. Plain Dealing, La., does
not even pretend to invent new
political terminology. It's con
tent to keep up producing feed,
operate lumber mills and oil
wells.
A memo from the census man
at Sparks, Nev., hints that the
town derives its name not from
telephone equipment, but most
likely from the gleams sent out
by its gold and silver mines.
At Jet. Okla.. there isn't a
plane in sight and in Noone,
N. H.. it's still 12 o'clock every
time the clock strikes 12.
But the census people, in giv
ing out the report, missed a good
one.
My home town Farmer City,
111.
They still have farmers and
a lot of them out that way.
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