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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1944 .
(It -was Tuesday)
Fire destroys Frank Cameron
home, built in 1868, in Applegate
area.
Smudge Pot column: War pic
tures now 'stress the muddiness
of European battlefields. The
average Republican could com
pete on even terms in a political
campaign with Secretary Ickes
if equipped with that much mud.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5, 1934 '
(It was Wednesday)
General "Manager Floyd Hart
announces that Timber Products
company will rebuild portion of
retail lumber shed destroyed by
fire; damage estimated at $50,
000. 'V.-;;- y
Negotiations started by C. G.
Smith, acting superintendent of
Medford schools, for postseason
football game between Medford
high school and McKinley high
school of Honolulu; game would
be played" in Medford.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5. 1S24
(It "was Friday)
Medford circuit court jury
aquits man, charged with boot
legging after only seven minutes
of deliberation.
Henry Pace conducts banquet
for members of Coach Callison's
state championship football
team. . '
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 5. 1914
(It was Saturday)
Medford police round up sev
en boys caught ? smoking cig
arettes in the alley behind the
city hall. , ,
From the Local and Personal
column: Later developments in
the case of Carl Tengwald prove
that he was a hero instead of a
violator of the law Thursday
noon when halted for speeding.
Tengwald was placed between
the choice of ranning over a boy
and breaking the law, and he
broke the law. No legal action
was taken against Tengwald.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
1. The Watkins committee res
olution for censuring Sen. Mc
Carthy cited one, two, "three,
four, five, or more counts gainst
him?
. 2. On Tuesday," Nov. 30, Brit
ish Prime Minister Winston
Churchill was 70, 75, 80, 85 or
90 years old?
3. Which three of these do not
now have a Roman Catholic
cardinal: Baltimore, Boston, Chi
cago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New
York, Philadelphia?
4. A chemical test for drunk
enness in auto drivers is volun
tary or compulsory in most of
the states using the test?
5. Formosa is about ten, 50,
100, 500 or 1000 miles from the
Red China mainland?
6. Only a handful of Civil War
veterans are left more Union
ists .than Confederates, more
Confederates than Unionists, or
the same number of each?
7. A uxoricide kills a king, a
President, his girl friend, his
child, . his wife, or her boy
friend?
The Answers: 1. Three. 2. 80.
3. Baltimore, Boston, Philadel
phia don't. 4. Voluntary. '5.
About 100 miles. 6. More Con
federates. 7. Hia wife.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Strange!
We were not surprised that Senator Cordon chose
a defense of Senator McCarthy and opposition to his
censure as his valedictory. For it was generally known
that "Guy" was one of "Joes" pals, although during
his campaign our senior Senator never admitted it.
But we were surprised that he should base his
case for "Joe" on the constitutional right of free
speech.
For Senator Cordon is a smart lawyer, and must
know that free-speech is a limited freedom. The
laws we have against libel and slander prove that.
The great Justice Holmes made the point clear when
he said that the right of free speech does not include
the right to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre par
ticularly when there is no fire.
LEGITIMATE freedom
J iI J ii !11
uiu uuuaue it, win hol
est by the vote of censure
tered so overwhelmingly
from Wisconsin.
It was not his freedom
volved, but the way he used
dom.
TIfOREOVER this was not a court case. It was
exclusively a senate case. The laws of the coun
try were not involved, but only the rules, regulations
and traditions of the Upper House of Congress. It
was not an issue for a jury to rule upon, but for the
members of the Senate', themselves, for they have,
by law, exclusive power to determine what the con
duct and quality of their membership shall be.
So again the right of free speech, as guaranteed by
the constitution was not involved in this case, as it
would have been in some civil action involving a
private citizen, in the same field.
TT was surprising that Senator Cordon should have
brought up this legal phase. It was even more sur
prising that our senior Senator, not only a good law
yer, but an experienced and effective prosecutor,
should have pulled out the tremelo stop for fear
of hurting the feelings or doing an injustice to his
colleague from Wisconsin, but should have no con
cern apparently for the feelings of his colleagues in
the senate who had been called cowards, liars, fellow
travelers and traitors by the man he was defending.
O TRANGE, very strange!
In fact for four or five years, this department
has been mystified by the course adopted by Jackson
county's old friend of the O&C days, from nearby
Roseburg. '
When he was appointed to take the late Senator;
McNary s seat he is the last man in the world his sup
porters would ever have suspected of falling for the
phoney cult of McCarthy and McCarthyism.,
Yet, uuy not oniy ien ior it, out went completely
overboard.
Did those ten years in Washington do that to
him, or did we really never know him?
Perhaps the answer is both. R.W.R.
Freedom of the Press
Just as freedom of speech is a limited freedom,
so is freedom, of the press.
It is now being claimed in certain quarters, how
ever, that unless camera-men are allowed to snap
pictures in court rooms, courts are fitted up with
radios and TV sets, the freedom of the press will be
illegally abridged, or at least the people will be
undesirably separated from our judicial processes. ,
How silly can we get?
QJO long as newspapers are freely admitted into
open courts, the press has all the freedom it needs.
. Of course news pictures are desirable, and add
to newspaper readability. Court scenes and reports,
particularly in sensational cases, would no doubt be
popular in radio and TV circles. But so long as the
public can get the facts, and the papers give them
accurately, that is all the press need worry about, as
far as its freedom is concerned.
- The rest comes under not press freedom but press
privilege.
TtTOREOVER there is the attitude of the bar and
"- courts to be considered, the matter of attaining
justice for litigants without interference or over
emphasis on behalf of one party or another. Yes, and
the matter of proper dignity in our courts should not
be overlooked; or needless ballyhoo and hippodrome
in the serious business of securing "the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth."
. These camera-flashers in conventions and other
public gatherings where notables are assembled have
become a public nuisance. But to have them crawling
around the chairs anc the furniture in our court rooms
would be intolerable.
At any rate if this is to be done on the basis of
progress, let it NOT be done under the claim of press
freedom.
As long as the newspapers are given freedom to
get the salient facts in all court actions and other de
partments of our day-to-day life, without hindrance
or censorship, that is quite enough, in that particular
department. It seems tc this department the judiciary
of the country should decide the rules and regulations
of their own courts. We are , quite sure the people
Should be glad to abide by their decision. R.W.R.
Sunday, December 8, 1954
of speech within the senate,
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ue aiieciea in uie siigiiu-
or condemnation regis
against the junior Senator
of speech that was in
and abused that free
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READING . .
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daily Bible reading in -the
period between Thanksgiving
and Christmas.
The suggested scripture
reading for today is:
iaiah 40.
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The Christmas Meaning
To the Editor: Christmas, the
time of brotherly love,, and ex
change of gifts. The time when
everyone should be more con
scious Of the Child who was born
so many years ago. People wish
each other a Merrv Christmas
and spend dollar after dollar
ior gifts, but how often do they
pause to utter a nraver?
Here it is, the'first of Decem
ber, and already the streets are
gaily decorated, the stores have
Christmas tree ornaments, and
suggestions for that Christmas
present for mother. Why, with
better than three weeks until
Christmas Day, is everything
focused on "shop now, avoid the
rush." "Shop now while our
stock is complete." Could it be
that Christ is slowly being push
ed out of Christmas, and the all
mighty dollar taking His place?
I'm not advocating the abolish
ment of exchaneine nrespnfs nn
Christmas, because it is one of
our strongest traditions, and our
way of life is built on traditions,
but in these pre-Christmas shop
ping days, lets all add another
item to our shopping list, right
up at the top. That item: to stop
at our preferred place of wor
ship and thank God for His kind
ness and love,, and on Christmas
eve, as we sit around the tree,
unwrapping all the beautiful
presents, let's all thank God for
the Child whose birthday we
celebrate.
Let's all put Christ back in
Christmas!
Richard L. Hart, .
Secretary Junior Chamber
of Commerce.
Westsick
To the Editor: From earW
grammar school days until last
August, I considered the West to
be nothing more than a geo
graphical area containing miles
ana mues 01 ranches and moun
tains intermixed with small
bodies of water. Although maga
zine articles , and advertisements
depict the West as something
breathtaking and panoramic. I
was nevertheless satisfied in my
own mind that the East held the
key to everything especially in
industry, beauty and progress.
In August there came an op
portunity to travel throughout
the western and far western
states. With an indifferent atti
tude I accepted the invitation
and one evening, with a friend,
left New. York City destined for
California.
As the speedometer recorded
the mileage, the midwest wrote
a thrilling prologue. Here were
rich farmlands, well-constructed
highways, and the type of archi
tecture which clearly separated
the urban from the rural. "And
then suddenly, almost without
warning, the entire complexion
changed! Now huge and majestic
mountains with their snow
capped peaks, scenic landscape
so rich in color and ." texture
that an artist would find diffi
culty in extracting its true beau
ty, deep gorges surrounded by
massive patterns of rock, long
reaching waterfalls lazily gush
ing thousands of gallons of water
into crater-like pits, and the calm
and serene freedom found in
rivers and lakes, unfolded spec
tacular beauty. .
The cities and towns bore a
distinctive charm of .their own.
It was amazing to see modernism
in their design, for we Easterners
still have visions of the Old West
with its corrals and wooden
structures. But hand -in -hand
with the beauty and modern fea
tures I found a genuine spirit
which was firmly embedded
within each individual a spirit
which reflected warmth, sin
cerety and hospitality. .
I am once again in the East
with nostalgic memories and
even though my 35 . mm. slides
bring me closer to your scene, I
must confess that I am Westsick.
A1C Donn G. Dutcher,
AF 12378413; 3650th Per
sonnel Processing Squadron,
. Sampson Air Force Base,
Geneva, N. Y. Box 78
Parking Lots vs Taxes
To the Editor: I noticed in the
Medford Mail Tribune of Sun
day, November 28th, Page 15,
where it was suggested that a
group try to gain support for a
municipal parking lot.
I can f orsee the future need of
off-street parking facilities and
I understand the concern of
downtown property owners and
merchants in trying to protect
their future. Still, I do not be
lieve this burden should be sad
dled on the Medford homeown
ers and outside business areas.
This, to me, is a form of subsidy
to tne downtown property own
ers and merchants. '
I believe this future emer
gency can be met bv these sami
property owners and merchants
Matter of Fact
THE PIRANHA-POLITICIAN
Washington To -the frequent
visitor to the Senate galleries,
there is a mysterious fascination
in w a t c hing
the Senators
in the well be
low, their fig
ures foreshort
ened and their
balding heads
emphasized by
the people ' of
vision. It is
something like
the fascination
some people
Stewart Also? find m watch
ing fish in an aquarium. As in
the case of the fish, after, a cer
tain amount of Senator-watch
ing, each Senator acquires his
own instantly recognizeable
characteristics.
The habitual gallery-visitor
comes to look around instinct
ively for the familiar landmarks
the worried frown on the face
of Republican Leader Knowland,
the . huge yellow shoes - of the
miraculously preserved Neely of
West Virginia, the Grant Wood
features of the white-thatched
Watkins of Utah, the magenta
red face of well-liked Saltonstall
of Massachusetts, and so on.
NO group of men could be
more oddly assorted. But the
gallery watcher soon realizes
that they get oh amazingly weU
together. This is partly because
the. desire to be liked is a char
acteristic of most politicians. It
is partly because, like fish in a
tank, they have to get on well
together, if the Senatorial sys
tern is to work at all.
But there are now in the Sen
ate a tiny handful of men who
do not give a fig whether they
are liked, and do not give a fig
for the Senatorial system. When
they rise to speak, they do not
really try to persuade their fel
low Senators. They hardly pre
tend to. Their purpose is rather
to frighten or dismay or frus
trate the Senate, and to use the
Senate as an instrument for gain
ing political power outside the
Senate.
The effect "of the presence in
the Senate of this different breed
of Senator is oddly paralyzing,
It is a little as though a few
piranhas the tiny, voracious
ly carniverous Brazilian fish
had been dumped into a tank of
amiable, elderly gold fish.
I
THREE times last Tuesday, the
last full day of debate on
the McCarthy censure resolu
tion, the piranha-spirit was on
display. The first came when
Jenner of Indiana leapt to his
feet to attack the aging Fland
ers, of Vermont, with the shriek
ing, arm-waving frenzy which
is his specialty." Everyone knew
that Jenner's act was not really
meant to convince anyone pres
ent that Flanders' rather rou
tine propaganda broadcast to
Russia was evilly motivated.
Everyone knew, instead, that
it was intended to feed grist to
the McCarthyite' propaganda
mill and above all to serve
notice on other Senators of the
treatment they could expect if
they dared lift their voices
against McCarthy and his band,
While Flanders, white-faced
and flustered, tried to answer,
no Senator rose to his defense.
This was not simply cowardice.
Those present knew from ex
perience that nothing is at once
more dangerous and more futile
than to try to reason with a
piranha-politician.
By no means all the pro-McCarthy
Senators are piranha
politicians , no man could . be
more clearly a gold fish-Senator
than Mundt of South Dakota, for
example, and even Dirksen of
Illinois, the Liberace of politics,
is no political carnivore. The
if they will plan now by pur
chase or lease of present mar
ginal business areas for parking
purposes; but I believe that this
is their problem and not the
property owners outside their
district.
The tax load that real prop
erty is. now carrying should be
of great concern to every home
owner and business man. We are
fast approaching the maximum
limit that real property can
carry.
In the past two years many
continuing bond levies have
been placed on real property in
Jackson County, and the known
need for future schools will place
a burden on many taxpayers
that they will not be able to
meet. ,
The fact is that many people
are now paying their taxes on a
monthly basis. They do not real
ize . the emergency until it
creeps up on them. Then it is
too late. The average Medford
home owner with a $10,000
home valuation is now paying
$152 in taxes. Then there is the
new bond issue voted in the last
general election and increased
school budget for 1955. (Remem
ber the new schools and deten
tion home you voted. They must
be staffed and maintained.) Also,
it is generally agreed that a state
tax will be levied by the next
legislature to meet increased
state operation costs.
Wake up, Mr Taxpayer. Look
at any bond issue, and be sure
to go to the polls and vote. Re
member, less than 10 of eli
gible voters have been ; voting
these continuing levies and -1
wonder what percentage of
these are taxpayers.
Ray J. Schumacher
1619 N. Riverside .
Medford, Ore, ' '
By Stewart Alsep
piranha spirit interrupted the
habitual, droning Senatorial
rhythm once again, to be sure,
when Welker of Idaho, whose
speaking voice drips with almost
audible venom, rose to attack
Fullbright of Arkanses. But the
real climax came late in the
afternoon, when flash bulbs in
the corridors announced the ar
rival of the Grand Inquisitor
himself.
WHEN McCarthy's oddly swol-
len fieure entered the Sen
ate, the chamber had been de
populated by a tedious pro-McCarthy
speech by Mundt. Mc
Carthy had been seated only a
few minutes, when he rose to
the attack.
Gesturing toward the Demo
cratic side, he rumbled that the
sparsely occupied chamber was
"the most, disgraceful spectacle I
have ever seen . . . " He sat
down grinning. The point of the
grin was not lost on those pres
ent. McCarthy himself, the cen
tral figure in the debate, had not
bothered to enter the chamber
that day.
His complaint was, of course,
a way of providing material for
those busy picturing him as a
martyr. But it was more
than that. It was his way of ex
pressing his contempt for the
silly little gold fish-Senators who
had all that day been earnestly
debating what course the Senate
should, adopt in regard, to him.
As if to underline his contempt,
McCarthy lumbered to his feet
in a few minutes, and, still -grin
ning, left the chamber for the
day.
TN ITS WAY, this smaU, unno-
ticed episode suggested what
the censure debate has really
been all about who shaU rule
the Senate tank, the gold fish or
the piranhas. .
In a more general sense,? the
debate has also been - about
whether the piranha-politicians,
whose greatest weapon is what
Fullbright 'called "contempt for
the human personality," are to
dominate American pontics.
(Copyright, 1954,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK! JENKINS
The British are bothered.
They are wondering why there
are no FEET on the portrait of
Prime Minister Churchill which
was given to him on his 80tb
birthday.
rpHE PORTRAIT is the gift of
both houses of parliament
and is the work of Artist Gra
ham Sutherland. It depicts an
alert old man who seems to be
thinking of something and about
to spring out of his chair to do
somethmg strenuous about it
which is strictly Churchilhan.
But
The portrait ends vaguely at
the trouser cuffs. Artist Suther
land has given an explanation of
the lack of feet to newsmen in
London. He says they were once
there, but when he got to' look
ing the picture over after he had
finished it he came to the con
clusion that they destroyed the
balance of it.
So he painted the feet out.
LL
I'd say that Sir Winston's feet
aren't particularly important.
They have carried him. it is true.
over a considerable part of the
world.
But it's Winston Churchill's
HEAD that counts.
A FURTHER word here about
his head.
Though most of World War II,
Churchill dealt with the Rus
sians. He dealt personally, time
and again, with Stalin. But he
kept his head clear and his eyes
open.
The Russians never fooled
him. In the closing days of the
great war, when the Russians
were booming westward and the
Germans were fleeing before
them and trying to surrender to
our side to save themselves from
Communism, Churchill was
issuing quiet instructions to his
commanders in the field NOT to
destroy German : arms ; because
they might be needed IN THE
HANDS OF GERMANS to fight
back the Russians if they came
too far.
That was foresight.
CHURCHILL was NEVER fool
ed by Russia. '
He dealt with, the Kremlin
when he had to. He followed the
old adage: "ANY port in a
storm." In World War II, Brit
ain's life was at stake. And
Churchill was the guardian of
Britain's life. In his dealings
with the Russians, he did what
had to be done to keep his coun
try alive.
But he kept his wits about
him. He read the signs in the
sky - and he read them aright
He visited the United States in
1946, about a year after the end
of the war, and in a sensational
speech he WARNED US OF A
POSSIBLE WAR WITH THE
SOVIET UNION. .
His head was still working.
CHURCHILL has, and more or
less always has had, a sense
of the sweep of history. He in
stinct for the lessons of history
told him that COMMUNIST Rus
sia was the real enemy to be
feared..
We would be better off if we
had trusted his instinct back in
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Is That So?
A great orderliness exists in
all animal inheritance. Like be
gets like. Dogs produce dogs;
horses produce horses; rabbits
produce rabbits. The zoological
fence of family divisions cannot
be crossed. '
Despite this, my mail brings
in an astonishing number of
questions regarding the inter
mixing of species of cats asso
ciating with rabbits and produc
ing long-legged . "rabkits"; of
house-cats mixing with skunks
and producing "skunk-cats"; or
with a tame woodchuck, and
producing "cat-chucks"; or
"squirrel-cats. - t -
Some of this is due to publi
cized mistakes: for example a
"coon-cat," or raccoon-cat, was
displayed at the 1940 East
States Exposition at West
Springfield, Mass. . ,
Nonsense. As stated at the
onset, zoological family fences
cannot be hurdled. But freaks
do occur. OccasionaUy a rabbit
may grow horns a couple of
inches long, due to a skin para
site; or a cottontail rabbit may
grow a skin bell one such had
a 21 inch beU on its throat
much like that of a moose. And
there are one-eyed cats, four
horned cows, and two-headed
dogs. These "sports" can and do
happen in the best-regulated
families.
Such variations, in many in
stances, are responsible for the
belief that a cross of two unre
lated kinds of animals produced
the "freak."
Nature Contributes
Too, nature 'herself in some
ways contributes to the misun
derstanding of the identity of
certain species by creating what
might appear to be strange com
binations of such animals. For
example, the ringtail cat might
give the appearance of a cross
between a cat -and a raccoon
but it does not belong' to the cat
family, despite its name, and is
a cousin of our familiar raccoon.
Or the zebra-wolf of Tasma
nia. It appears to be a cross" be
tween a dog and a zebra; Or the
white-tailed gnu of South Africa
which looks like an antelope,
horse and cow rolled into one. -
Or, the weird duck-billed pla
typus which rivals anything
that man has ever imagined; its
ducklike bill, fur-covered body,
four-webbed feet, horny poison
spur on the heel, with the fe
male laying and hatching one or
two eggs, and then suckling her
young without benefit of breasts
the milk following the hair as
the young lick the belly. Sure
ly, to the inexperienced this
might be the final product of a
nightmare of crossings.
Unnatural Breedings
However, where unnatural
cross-breedings may occur, na
ture herself has set up some
specific safeguards, and one of
three things may happen:
1. If the species are far apart,
there, are no offspring a zebra
and an antelope crossing, for
example,- have no issue. Or a
peking duck and a chicken.
; 2. If they are closer together,
offspring may result but the, off
spring is sterile such as a pin
tail duck with a mallard duck,
a sparrow with a junco combi
nations which occur quite often
in nature, or a tiger with a lion,
resulting in a tiglon or liger.
3. Even more closely related
animals, within the same family
group of course, may sometimes
cross and produce fertile off
spring, both rarely or regularly,
some of which if they are good
may tend , to replace existing
species, but, mostly they are not
good and die out. .
May Produce Mule
For example, a donkey may
cross with a mare and produce
a mule in which the offspring
u? rare instances may be able
to reproduce.
At the fringe, as where mule-
tail and blacktail deer, overlap,
crossings do occur and these
may be fruitful. Where wolf
meets dog, the same may hap
pen.
In cattle, where the relation
4-H Club
Ashland Sewing & Cooking Club
The Ashland 4-H Sewing and
Coking club held its annual
presentation of awards Nov. 15
at the Christian church in Ash
land. Mothers of the club mem
bers were invited. Jean Brooks,
county - agent presented . the
awards. v
They were, first year, Carol
Rayner. Ruth Monktcn anrl San.
dra Wilson; second year, Patri
cia MciMabb, Mane Schmelzer,
and Nylia Cooper; third year,
Colleen Creel; sixth year, Carol
Johnston.
Miss Brooks gave a short talk
on the selection of patterns. Re
freshments were served.
On November 30, a meeting
was held at the church. A
Christmas party was discussed.
Refreshments were served.
Nylia Cooper
.. Reporter-- -
. By Eugene Bums
Ranger-Naturalist
ship is close, buffalo, yak and
zebu may cross with a cow and
be fertile. But yet, in the wild
these hybrids from such as'the
buffalo and the cow tend to
die out naturally." They only
survive when the offspring are
better adapted, then they find
a new niche in our animal king
dom. . ' "
In conclusion . may I ' say I
hope this piece - has answered
the hundreds of honest and
straightforward questions that X
have received from , parents.
teachers, scoutmasters and stu
dents everywhere. :
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IS THAT So! co Medford Mail
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Potluck
By M-T Staff and Contributors
The staid but well-edited Ore
gon Statesman in Salem com-
"In the Jackson county cir
cuit court, one man was given
. . . 'two life terms' for nartici.
pation in a murder. We may as
sume the two life terms are to be
served 'concurrently. "
Oddly enough, the Statesman's
assumption is incorrect. The sen
tences are" to be served "con
secutively," although how a man
can serve a second life sentence
after completing the first one
escapes us at the moment.
Notice from one or the oth
er of the garden clubs not long
ago said the speaker would
.talk on "white winter bloom
ers." Perhaps she doesn't like'
pink ones.
State Police Lieutenant Paul
(Skinny) Morgan got the start
of his life the other day when,
j ; at a.
to the city police station, he
spied a rabbit charging straight
at him down the middle of the
street. . . '
Someone suggested maybe its?
name was Harvey, and if had
just escaped from ' the nearby
Elks club bar. '
A small girl was rnestioned
by her parents as to why she
apparently stayed away from
a. visitor who is blind. Her
explanation:
"Do. you think X want to i
' catch the blindness?
Margo Fluhrer, head of Fluhr
er's Bakery, the other day com
plained that she didn't have any
breakfast because when she got'
up in the morning all she could
find were two slices of bread;;
and they were so old they were
moldy.'
Staff member's comment on
getting up in the morning: ,
"I always set my alarm. 15
minutes early so I'll have
more time to lie there hating
to get up."
Headline in a recent issue of
the Pendleton East - Oregonian
stated:
KNOWLAND - EISENHOWER
SPLIT FLARES
Staff mfmVer e a m m a n t fl.
"WeU, now Bill and Ike each
can have one flare."
Case No. 11.115 was report
ed to city police at 7:30 pan.
Nov. 30, 1954. The case:
"Wambm v-nA email ha
with a larger knife cutting
down two trees across Bear
creek 1
Police, we are told, ire still
investigating.
Franlr Dancer. 1310 Gregory
rd.. owns a Jersev cow which
had twin calves Nov. 19. The
following day an older daughter
of the same cow also naa iwin
calves. All reported doing fine.
The Ashland Tidings tells
this one: '
A man bought a second-hand
car during the cold spell last
week. Worried that it might
freeze, he - dashed out and
drained the radiator. Instead
of water, though, out came a
thick, syrupy fluid. He had it
tested and found out the pre
vious owner, who lived in
Alaska, had put in enough
anti-f reeze to protect it at tem
peratures of 50 below zero. ;
A rsnnrtar A rnnTVd into the
crrnnfv a vent's office One flay
last tveelr and was startled-: to
find Home Extension Agent
Eula Wintermote and county
A aont TTarle '.Tossy, rneither -of
whom smoke) puffing madly
away at cigarettes. Miss Winter-
mote, moreover, was Dummj
table top with the smoking
weeds.
It seems Miss W. was testing
new Drocess of refinishinfc!
humeri table tops, and needed
a burned table top to test