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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1952)
rOUATEEir MZBFOKD (OSZGOH) MAIL TRIBUH2 In the Day's By FRANK JTHriKS Another ho-hum day in ,the news. Example, this one from 1st Aneeles: "Siinirshot vandal down here arm mttintf entirely too accurate in their aim. They raised con- iforahi havoc earlier wis week by shooting (lass marbles thrnuffh windows of business es tablishments and residences. "Last niffht a vandal in moving automobile shot a quart of oil out of the hands of a serv ice attendant. He said he was wininff off the bottle nrenara tory to putting theoil in a cus tomer's engine when he heard a z-i-n-g and felt the glass crasn in his hand. f ORE of the weird phenom- "ena of this modern woria wlrnn Still, I have an old-fossil no tion that if enough of these van -worm laid over somebody'! Vn and criven old-fashioned spankings, or taken out into the woodshed and introaucea w a hinffle annlied vigorously in the right place, it might help THERE'S a hole, of course, in that reasoning. In fact, there are two holes. One of them is that in these modern days nobody knows any more how to administer a good workmanlike spanking without rancor or anger, for disciplinary purposes only, in the pure spirit of this-hurts - me - more - man - w hurts-you. The other hole is that there are no longer any woodsheds. T.ID you ever stop to think that " in the America-as-envisioned- bv- the -Founding- Fathers, the America - of - the-days-before-the-crewballs-got-into-control. the woodshed occupied a position of the very highest moral, econom ic and social importance? Well, it DID. I've referred already to the value of the woodshed as a mor al institution. So far as I'm con cerned, the statement that i little prayerful woodshed sua sion either with a shingle which is too light to do perman ent physical nam, . or wnn a hame-strine. which in the old days shared responsibility with the shingle in that respect . would be' ffood for what ails slineshot vandals isn't . iust smart crack. It was good at times for WHAT AILED ME. I'm old enoueh now to admit it. . So let's nass on to the eco nomic and social phases of the subject. -rpHERE was a time, in the hey - day of the woodshed, . when we provided with our own lit tle hot hands for a lot of our economic needs. If we lived in the country, we went out in the slack winter sea son to the WOODLOT and cut down trees and trimmed them up and hauled the logs home and cut them with a bucksaw into stove-wood lengths, which were stored in the woodshed. In later off-peak hours, we split these lengths into stove-wood size. As a result, we BOUGHT NO FUEL which was quite an eco nomic advantage, helping ma terially to make the dollar go further. TN CONCLUSION, the wood---shed bit heavily into what in these modern days we call LEI SURE TIME. Our more practical sociologists are well-night unan imous in their opinion that a whale of a lot of our modern evils sprout and take root in LEISURE time. There's a proverb (proverbs, you know, are well defined as succint, salty .truths distilled out of centuries of human ex perience) to the effect that "Sa tan will find some work for idle hands to do." Well, in the OLD DAYS when the woodshed flourished there was so little leisure that NO YOUNGSTER EVER WON DERED IN A BORED MANNER WHAT THE HECK HE WAS GOING TO DO WITH THE PRECIOUS LEISURE TIME THAT WAS HIS. He didn't need to think up deviltry. . Leisure ' time, in his life, was so scarce and so won Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich "1 always maka aura of cor rect numbers ... Don't want to mako a mbtako and call any of those rod squirrels!" . . .To get the right number, please look it up in your latest directory Paafic Tekphpne. News derful that even MILD diver sions gave him a great thrill as contrasted with working up knot ty stove-wood lengths into pieces that would go into a stove and then going on to make some of them small enough for kindling. . Why, back in those days, a youngster could get an IM MENSE. THRILL merely out of curling up in a chair with, a good book! AS FOR stay-ing out all night which, I think it will be agreed, is in, these days not to tally unknown shucks! the kid who had put in a normal stint in the woodshed was TOO TIRED even to THINK with any enthusiasm of staying out all night. Besides, he would have known it would mean another MORAL session in the woodshed added to his expected and ac cepted economic sessions there. Really, I'm sure we don't give thought enough to the tremen dous hole left in our lives by the passage into oblivion of the woodshed. Rogue Being Stocked With Silvers, Chinook Grants Pass, , Ore. (U.R) State Game commission agents Monday began stocking the Rogue river with 81,000 silver and chinook salmon. The fish, all yearlings from 13 to 15 months old, were raised in the Butte Falls and Fort Klamath hatcheries and will be I brought to the river by tank truck. Game officials said the silvers would return to the stream in 1953 weighing about 12 pounds each after their migration to the ocean. The chinook will return in the spring of 1954 at an aver age weight of nearly 20 pounds. Washington, D. C, has had many temporary White Houses. They were used while the execu tive mansion was under repair or reconstruction. WIDOWED IN MISTAKE SHOOTING Mrs. Lena Cappo, 27, shown with her five-month- old daughter, Nina, when police fatally shot her 33-year-old vet eran husband, Vincent, at New Orleans. Cappo had mistaken the police for auto thieves in the dark and opened fire on them, wound ing a patrolman. The police re turned the fire which resulted in I ;" Cappo's death. fteyour pocket -timetable 0 A..; !2:JJ p. J, PORTLAND . .24hra. KATTO - ...a'shrs. J"bBrf Mofnllncrt laav at ":I5A.AtoiN4J5p.M. ANWANCISC0 2hrs. WSANGHIS . Si4fcr. tlntt air fnkm tmttt tn mar. -. UNITED AIR LINES Airport TriBoi. Coll 2-7111 In Monday. March 17, 1132 Medford High By ROBElfE ST ARCHER "The Shock of His Life." a one-act play by Donald Payton, was presented ' to sophomores Tuesday and juniors . and seniors Thurs day in the au ditorium. The cast included Gail Gatter, Oscella Cald wells, Jack Hughes, Carla McKeen, Ann Hart, and Mary Ann R. Siarcher Birdseye. Richard Dickenson directed the play, which was staged by ft UfaSBiBKSSSsaBSfl IIDIElKIDMSTriffiATIKID (Dim TTflne FmnOflMIfflGIE Even "deep down dirt washes out and away with no scrubbing or rubbing by hard metal parts! r There's no rough scrubbing of clothes ift a Frigidaire Automatic Washer. Cloth are submerged in water ALL the tima, while rolling currents el hot, sudsy water do all the work ot wash ing. And two fresh -water. Live -Water Rinses float all dirt away I Buy the new Frigidaire Automatic Washer for only News Notes members of Mr. Stedman's fifth period drama class. Girls in the sophomore class presented the program of the monthly Girls League meeting which was held Wednesday aft ernoon. Those in the skit, which represented a "typical family," were Neica Chapman, Alene Bingham. Lynette Sylvia. Ann Padgham, Donna Norris, Marty Myers and Dixie Neathammer. Betty Hawkins played "Bumble Boogie' 'on the piano and Patsy White presented two tap dances, "Tea For Two," and "Blue Skies." A trio composed of Sylvia Tunnell, Mary Lou Anderson and Connie Clark sang These ATI0M '0 foolish Things." Moon Glow," and "Broken Hearted.- Pat Newland, Janith Smith and Eileen Hise read the "com mercials" and Doreen Cantrall announced the program. Connie Clark was chairman. Plans for the Junior Prom, to be given by the class of '53 in honor of the seniors, are under way with Tresa Barr and Dick Crain being named general chairman. Committee chairmen include Jane Phillips, decora tions; Gail McDuffee, programs; Ann Denman, patrons and pat ronesses: Nancy McKinstry, in vitations; music and program, PomeRoy Sorum; LeRoy Pyle, refreshmets;. Marcia Houghton, flowers; and Jim McDanieL clean-up. Dead tin on Classified -Ads: S30 day: noon Saturday for Sunday a m MEDFORD'S LEADING APPLIANCE DEALERS FOR THE PAST 309 EAST MAIN PHONE 2 Eagle Point Graduate Is OSC Sax Soloist Eagle Point Richard Mc Corkle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight McCorkle of Eagle Point and a graduate of the local high school, was the saxophone solo ist at the first Oregon State college spring band concert giv en recently at Toledo, Ore. This was his first appearance as solbist with the OSC band. McCorkle received high honors for his saxophone solos in the state regional contests and in 1949 was given an excellent rat ing in the state solo contest. He has also played sax in the May bands at Forest Grove. At Oregon State, McCorkle is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, p0RCiLAM FSH fosMe end oof 0 national band honorary; Thanes, sophomore men's service honor ary,, and is student conductor and drum major of the college ifssaeb good soft! .:r Dfain fir tnAtvaA X fl runnin,2; always "uniform. At your grocer s in the red package. Enjoy Leslie's "Meet the Missus Varieties" with Harry KoplanCB.S. Saturdays - A .. .. - Frigidaire Selecf-O-Dial does everything for you I Frigidaire's exclusive Select-O-Dial lets you pre-select the proper washing time for any kind of clothes rayons, nylons, woolens, etc. All you do is put in the clothes and soap.. .set the dial once . . . and forget it. The washer does all the rest. Come in ! See a demonstration I U IniL ROTC band. Re Is a pledge! of Delta Sigma Phi, national so cial fraternity. McCorkle is ma joring in electrical engineering. fcs. r2 4?uiatre 4faa 11:30-12 noon. "V - O 1 21 YEARS - 4427 "Bssmss ' " . m
