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.
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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
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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
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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.
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and a graduate of the local high
school, was the saxophone solo
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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,
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national band honorary; Thanes,
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