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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 12. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Medford restaurants and bak
eries face necessity of closing
nless additional shortening sup
plies can be obtained.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The woods
are now full of citizens wearing
red hats. This is a safety meas
ure against being shot for a deer
that turns out to be a steer.
20 YEARS AGO
June 12. 193S
(It was Wednesday)
One pupil enrolled in Climax
school summer program, the
only summer; school in Jackson
' county. ,i
Water flow into irrigation
reservoirs except Four Mile lake,
In Jackson, county stops.
30 YEARS AGO
June 12, 1925
(It was Friday)
Eight special trains en route
to Medford throughout state
with national guardsmen for
Camp Jackson encampment.
Jacksonville city council
passes resolution asking mer
chants to encourage use of gold
in business transactions.
40 YEARS AGO
June 12. 1915
(It was Saturday)
Representatives of Utah and
Idaho Sugar company of ' Salt
Lake City inspect Rogue Valley
grown sugar beets for possible
commercial markets.
From Local and Personal
column: A delegation of Yreka
and Montague Chinamen are
spending a few days in the city
visiting Medford Mongolians'.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the T?)
Cos. 1935. Editorial Research Rep
Which one of these has not
been making Salk anti-polio vac
cine under license: Pittman
Moore, Eli Lilly, Parke, Davis,
Borg - Warner, Sharps and
Dohme?
2. The U. S. is or isn't willing
to see West Germany take the
status of a neutral in the cold
war between East and West?
3. Do more U.S. homes have
deep freezes or electric stoves?
4. The U.S. Defense Depart
ment, denying that Russia has
air superiority, is speeding up its
jet bomber program, slowing
it down, or keeping it un
changed? 5. More than nine of every 10
cases of early uterine cancer are
cured; right or wrong?
6. The distance from home
plate to first base in baseball is
60, 70, 80, 90 or 100 feet?
7. Mohair comes from sheep,
goats, lambs, llamas, or rabbits?
The Answers: 1. Borg-Warner.
2. Isn't willing. 3. More have
electric stoves. 4. Speeding it up.
5. Right. 6. 90 feet. 7. Goats.
AWARDED CONTRACT
Portland (U.PJ Army en
gineers said Saturday Sierra
Dredging company, Astoria, has
been awarded an $18,666 con
tract for excavating designated
areas in the mooring basin at
Depoe Bay to a depth of eight
feet at mean lower low water
and disposal of all excavated
materials. The work must be
completed by September of this
year.
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Dr. Peters Case
Speaking of the Supreme Court we had some
thing to say about our highest judicial tribunal in our
last installment, it may
tion returns, but in recent
regularly the path of least
It would be too much
"to lead with its chin" or
troversies that can properly be avoided.
But in its decision in
we consider it regrettable
constitutional issue, and
sor on a charge of disloyalty, not on the ground he was
denied the right of "due process" as guaranteed by
the constitution but only on the ground that the
Loyalty Review Board (now extinct) had exceeded
its authority.
IN the judgment of this department here was a gold-
en opportunity for the Supreme Court to declare
once and for all, that no matter whether a US citizen
is charged with disloyalty, treason or horse-stealing,
he is entitled to a fair deal, to face his accusers, reply
to their accusations, and
out due process of law, nor
of innocence, until his guilt has been positively
proved.
In the case of Dr. Peters, senior professor of medi
cine at Yale, the attempt to "GET" him, started back
in January, 1949. Who his
dence they had, was never
least. Several hearings were held, Dr. Peters on oath
emphatically denied the charge, every witness called
supported him, his attorney
evidence against him be produced. The latter was not
done on the ground of national security and finally
several months later the
missed Peters from his advisory position in the gov
ernment service, not on
proved, but on the ground
and that was that!
TN other words here was
x hunting technique at its
tion was not only contrary
violated every principle
dence, by sustaining guilt
evidence, condemning by
of fact.
But the verdict was upheld by a lower court and
the great wrong was snot
years, and the case was
cided by the supreme LOurt. .
We will grant this.
In their majority opinion
did what they could to make amends..
They granted Dr. Peters was wrongly convicted,
should be reinstated in his
admitted this would , have been done had not the
Peters term already expired. The court did order the
Civil Service Commission
charge and Associate Justice Douglas had this to say,
quote: '
"Dr. Peters was condemned by faceless informers, some
of whom where not known even to the board that condemn
ed him. Some of these informers were not even under oath.
None of them had to submit to cross-examination. "
"None had to face Dr. Peters. So far as we or the board
knows, they may be psychopaths or venal persons, like Titus
Oates, who revel in being informers. They may bear old
grudges. Under cross-examination, their stories might disap
pear like bubbles. Their whispered confidences" might turn
out to be yarns conceived by twisted minds or by people
who, though sincere, have poor faculties of observation and
memory- '
"Confrontation and cross-examination under oath are
essential if the American ideal of due process is to remain a
vital force in our public life."
Striking at the whole
searching the past ,of every
taints of disloyalty, and keeping every employee, even
after acceptance, on a hot griddle of uncertainty,
Douglas continued:
'We have here a system where government, with all its
power and authority, condemns a man to a suspected class
and the outer darkness, without the rudiments of a fair
trial. The practice of using faceless informers has apparent
ly spread through a vast domain. It is used not only to get
rid of employees who work for private firms having con
tracts with the government. It has touched countless hun
dreds of men and women and ruined many. It deprives men
of liberty' within the meaning of the 5th amendment, for
one of man's most precious liberties is the right to work."
It is hard to imagine
minded American citizen
dict, in this case.
But the majority of the court refused to do so,
although as stated it did on other and purely tech
nical reasons, reach the same conclusion and arrive
at the same result.
In fact Chief Justice Warren by indirection and
rather vague implication, gave the impression at least
that had the constitutional issue been considered by
the court, the same decision and exoneration of the
Yale professor would have resulted on those grounds
when he stated, quote :
"It would have obviously presented serious and far
reaching problems in reconciling fundamental constitution
al guarantees with the procedures used to determine ths
loyalty of government personnel."
"Obviously" is right!
Too bad the Chief Justice arid a majority of his
associates did not follow the equally "obvious" line of
their duty to have met the challenge presented and
declared that Dr. Peters should have been exonerat
ed, not because the board that condemned him ex
ceeded its authority but because the methods em
ployed were in direct violation of the rio-hts ranted
every American citizen by
.United State. R.W.R.
f uadty. June 12, 1935
not always follow the elec
year it has followed pretty
resistance.
of course to expect the court
take sides in political con
the Peters case a week ago
that the court dodged the
exonerated the Yale profes
neither be condemned with
be denied the assumption
accusers were, what evi
disclosed not publicly at
asked repeatedly that the
Loyalty Review Board dis
the ground of Disloyalty
of his loyalty DOUBTED,
McCarthyism and the witch
best, or worst. Such ac
to the "Bill of Rights," but
of Anglo Saxon junspru
by suspicion, instead of by
rumor and surmise instead
corrected until after six
finally considered and de
the members of the court
government position and
to wipe out the disloyalty
government practice of
prospective employee for
any right-thinking, fair-
disagreeing with that ver
the Constitution of the
Matter of FactBy
WHEN CENSORSHIP FAILS
Washington Consider the
following moral problem. A
lady is told by her trustees that
she has a nice
little oil well
down in Tex
as. Then com
peting inter
ests prove a
more valid
lease, so she
does not hav;
an oil well
after all. ijo
the trustees
Stewart Alsop
warn the
widow lady
that maybe she had better not
buy that yacht, or do they spare
her feelings by suppressing the
bad news?
The little problem has im
portant current meaning. It
bears very directly, in fact, on
the much larger moral problem
of the Eisenhower administra
tion's attempt to enforce peace
time censorship, by more and
more stringent security rules, bv
more and more flagrant harass
ment of working reporters, and
by other methods new to the
American system.
Here, for instance, is the
bizarre and rather frightening
inside story of the Administra
tion's handling
of a recent
piece of news
of the very
highest na
tional import
tance.
For 2 years
the E i s e n-
hower admin
istration has
based both its
world strate-
Joseph Alsop
ev and its de
fense programs on America's as
sumed air suDerioritv over the
soviet union. For two vears. the
country has been told that we
were unchallengeably stronger
man the Kussians in the air. At
one point. Secretary of Defense
cnaries E. Wilson even assurer!
the American public that the
Soviet air program was purely
"defensive in character" no
threat to us, in short, and shaped
entirely by our threat to them
These assurances were nleasine.
and the country believed them.
ihen, just before and after
May 1. the Soviets showed their
true air power. Planes eaual to
ours in all categories, from
heavy bombers to sunersonic
fighters, were ostentatiously dis
played in the famous Moscow
overflights.
TN SOME vital categories, it
was made clear that the So
viets were far ahead of us: in
others, it was proved that they
were rapidly catching up. Sec-
retary Wilson's "defensive
theory of Soviet airpower was
snown to be mere wishful drivel
After this, of course, the
American public was in the
exact position of the widow lady
after she lost her oil well. But
public trustees, evidently, are
permitted to do things which
would be regarded as very
shocking if done by private trus
tees. There was a determined effort
to suppress the news in Wash
ington which was street corner
talk in Moscow. Secretary of
Defense Wilson, particularly
fought long and hard against
the slightest hint to the Amer
ican public about the Moscow
overflights and their revolution
ary meaning. .
In the end, Wilson had to give
ground a little because word was
received that an announcement
about the overflights would be
made on May 13 in Britain. A
brief colorless announcement
was approved by the President,
saying only that the overflights
had occurred, and had shown
certain Russian technical prog
ress. It was like the trustees
telling the lady, not that she
had lost her oil well, but that
maybe production had dropped
a bit.
It was enough, however, to
break the story. Under the usual
threat of reprisal by security in
vestigation and in other ways,
one of these reporters obtained
and published a large part of
the relevant facts. Shortly there
after, the complete, ugly truth
was printed by "Aviation Week'
in a brilliant and detailed ar
ticle.
At this point, on May 24, Sec
retary Wilson held one of his
inimitable press conferences. He
made the laughably phony sug
gestion that the Russians, not
having G.M. -production know-
how, of . course, were just hand
making all these new airplanes.
With his usual endearing com
placency, he further insisted that
he saw no need for any step-up
in our own air production ef
fort. Curiously enough.lt is au-
MATTER of Fact Gal (2) ..
thoritatively reported that the
Secretary of Defense really
meant everything he said on this
occasion.
ltfEANWHILE, however, the
dreary old democratic pro
a
cess which had been suspended
while the censorship still work
ed, had now been set in motion
again by the failure of the cen
sorship. Senators Symington and
Jackson pointed out the shock
ing danger of letting Soviet air
power surpass American air
power. Large segments of the
press took up the theme. The
widow lady, having heard the
whole of the bad news at lift.
Jos and Stew Alsop
became extremely peevish; and
that made the trustees a bit
nervous.
There was another sharp de
bate inside the Administration.
It briefly appeared that Secre
tary Wilson might be supported
in his desire to stand pat. But
in the end, Secretary of the Air
Force Harold Talbott declared
he could no longer defend a fail
ure to do what should have been
done long before; and Talbott's
arguments won the day.
Therefore Congress has Just
been asked to authorize expend
iture of $365,000,000 extra, to
step up production of our B-52
heavy bomber. Production of our
F-100 fighters is probably to be
increased too. These moves are
the direct result of the failure
of censorship. It took just about
six weeks, and a barrage of pub
lic criticism, to force the ob
viously necessary action. Even
now, what is being done looks
too little and too late. But what
would have happened if the cen
sorship had worked?
(Copyright. 1933.
New York Herald Tribune, Ine.)
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Keeping-prices-up note:
Sixteen Latin-American coun
tries all of them producers of
coffee are considering a pro
posal to "stabilize" prices by
holding about 3,000,000 bags of
coffee off the market during the
coming year. .
The plan was drafted at a re
cent meeting in New York City
of delegates from the coffee
growing nations.
Approval of it is sought by
July l.
pERTTNENT question:
Who are we to complain?
We're holding a lot of wheat,
rice, peanuts, cotton, corn and
tobacco off the market for the
same reason.
AT THE beginning of last
"week, the Ford Motor Com
pany signed a new labor con
tract which is hailed as opening
the door in the automobile in
dustry at least for the guaran
teed annual wage system. Big
General Motors is now wrestling
with the same problem.
Meanwhile, both Ford and
GM are plagued with a series of
wildcat walkouts in plants
across the country. The most
serious of these is in Ford's big
Rouge plant in Dearborn, Mich
where tool and die workers are
off the job.
The tool and die workers com
plain that the new contract gave
them too little in the way of
wage hikes. So far, they are de
fying union leaders who are try
ing to get them to accept the
Ford contract terms.
WELL
". I suppose
If one is to get paid for time
he DOESN'T WORK one will
probably have to anticipate
getting paid less for the time he
DOES work.
There's only so much blood In
a turnip.
TlRITAIN is rjlamierl hv work
fm "
MM stoppage, the most serious of
which is the railroad strike that
is playing hob with her indus
trial production. About 20,000
dock workers are out in seven
British ports. There is a wild
cat walkout by about 800 stew
ards on Britain s big ocean
liners.
Britain where the govern
ment, as a hangover from the
recent experiment in socialism,
still owns a lot of her Industry,
including the railroads is hav
ing her troubles. In an effort to
promote export trade, upon
which she must live or die, she
is trying to hold down prices of
British goods by the process of
holding down British wages.
The present wave of strikes is
the result of this effort.
TN LOOKING at Britain's prob-
- lems, let s be realistic.
If our costs of production (and
therefore our prices) are going
to go on going 'up, we are com
pelled to hope that Britain's and
Germany's and Japan's costs
(taking in the three big indus
trial nations besides ours) will
be forced up correspondingly.
Otherwise, we're going to suf
fer serious and possibly damag
ing competition in world mar
kets and we're going to fact
considerable clamor on the
part of our own consumers to
lower our tariffs and thus make
available to our people the
cheaper merchandise produced
elsewhere in the world.
ALL THIS, of course, has to do
with Dim Inn a mill nf tnmnr.
row.
Both here and in Britain a lot
of people are saying: "The
HECK, with TOMORROW! I
want mine TODAY."
SHUCKS! This piece is getting
serious. Let's turn to the
lighter side of life.
Amopg the new things in the
world is a device to peel hard-
boiled eggs. You put the egg in
the gadget, large end down.
Then you attach the whole thing
to a water faucet and when the
water is turned on four tiny
water jets whisk the shell off
just like these fancy hydraulic
debarkers in ultra-modern saw
mills.
To only trouMo X
Communications
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the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use of a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit aU letters with an
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tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed .400 words.
Again Thanks
To the Editor, and Citizens of
Medford:
You may not be a great big
city ,
V But your hearts are larger
than any city I know of.
I wish to thank all you good
people of Medford for the won
derful welcome you extended
the children of the Forks of Sal
mon school.
They are so thrilled over, your
thoughtfulness and gracious hos
pitality. The memory of their visit to
Medford will never be forgotten.
I still remember the first elec
tric lights f ever saw at the
Chicago World's Fair, 1893.
Again thanking you all. I wish
to remain,
Sincerely x .
Mrs. Homer Werts,
Forks of Salmon, Calif.
Regarding Colorado
River Project
To the Editor: Some of our
latest information is that the
mass of testimony about Echo
Park Dam, Upper Colorado River
Project, presents no concrete
evidence that an Echo Park dam
is necessary. Claimed justifica
tions for it have changed as one
after another contention has
been proved invalid. The House
Sub-Committee has requested
further information from the
Bureau of Reclamation about al
ternatives, needing due consid
eration before final decision.
Practically all promoting pres
sures for the project come from
quite localized groups, appar
ently mainly seeking their own
dollar interests. A few men in
control of thousands of acres of
desert lands want water to raise
more farm produce while we are
now paying millions of dollars
in price parity and for storage
of millions of bushels of surplus.
Lack of positive evidence that
the Upper Colorado River Pro
ject is a National need for the
greatest good to the largest num
ber for the longest time, should
be sufficient proof that it be
postponed. Increased population
may justify such a project 20 or
30 years hence.
Many preventive and correct
ive matters do need immediate
attention. Constant removal of
forest cover, trees grass and
other water runoff-retarding
vegetation growth increases
floods, drouths, loss of soil, fish,
wildlife, lowers water levels,
and robs posterity of a rightful
heritage Posterity is entitled to
protection and provision for by
each generation. Failure in these
have already brought the timber
famine, increased floods, dust-
bowls, water shortage. Many
another crisis may soon be add
ed due to greed of a few to grab
America's fast-dwindling natur
al resources, convert them into
immediate dollar profits, and
leave the land despoiled. That
more-than-a-billion-dollars pro
posed for the Upper Colorado
River Project could go far in re
habilitating overgrazed deforest
ed, and otherwise depleted
public lands.
Doesn't building a dam to irri
gate desert lands to produce
more surplus farm crops on
which to pay more parity and
storage; ruining our watersheds;
causing more floods, drouths,
loss of soil, water, wildlife, etc.,
seem rather inconsistent?
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood Ave.
Seeks Studio Space
To the Editor: In view of ine
facts that there are over 50 ama
teur and nrofesional artists in
the Medford area, that courses
in art instruction have been well
patronized in previous years, and
that a number of leading citi
zens warmly endorse any art
program, it seems safe to assume
that classes in oil painting and
other media for adults and tal
ented children would be a wel
come asset to this community.
As in most projects of the kind
which are unique in nature, it is
quite-difficult to locate proper
quarters, and I must make an
appeal, especially to those of you
sympathetic to a cultural pro
gram in Medford, for assistance,
Studio space is needed in any
large, airy structure, preferably
on the edge of town, having some
windows, access to lavatory fa
cilities, and at least four hundred
square feet of clear floor area.
A solution to this problem will
be greatly appreciated by me and
the many active and prospective
artists in Medford.
Robert Miller,
514 West Jackson St.,
Phone 3-1914.
Thanks From Forks of Salmon
To the Editor: I should like to
express to you, and through you
to the people of Medford, the ap
preciation felt by the staff of the
Siskiyou County Schools for your
open-armed reception of Mrs.
Brown and her boys and girls of
Forks of Salmon.
The news coverage was com
plete, sympathetic and exciting
to it is that while you're doing
all that the rest of the crowd
will have shucked their hard
boiled eggs in the good old man
ner and will be all through with
their breakfasts.
POT
(ly M-T Staff
Grants 'Pass" slogan, "Ifs
the Climate." Is right all
right, all right. -
Got up to ,108 there Wad
nesday. Medford had only 101.
Summertime additions to the
Mail Tribune's newsroom are
two bright young boys, recent
ly graduated from Medford
High school. Both, for some rea
son, want to be newspapermen,
and they're getting broken in
the hard way filing, doing
some of the more tedious chores
and so on. .
Anyway, one of them picked
up a story at the police depart
ment one day last week, and
after he had written it, was ask
ed -to call back and check one
small detail in the story. .
He telephoned the1 police de
partment, and in a high' school
is h sort of voice announced that
"This is the Mail Tribune call
ing." "Oh yeah," came the officer's
voice from the other end of the
line. "Who'ya trying to kid?"
To his credit, the young news
paperman persisted and got
what he was after.
Speaking of beginners at
the craft of newswriting, we
wish we knew who in the Un
ited Press organisation put
forth the following horrible
example of grammar and con
text which arrived by tele
type lastweek:
"The action was expected
to immediately bring to an
end a strike against many
Ford plants which started at
to all of us. The editorials were
particularly noteworthy. Th e
careful planning by the Chamber
of Commerce 'and civic officials
packed a wealth of activity into
a very short time. The warm
greeting of Medford has pro
duced many pleasant memories.
You may rest assured that Mrs.
Brown will capitalize on these
outstanding experiences in mak
ing an expanded environment
more meaningful for her stu
dents. Medford, "in the heart of the
Rogue River Valley," truly dem
onstrates a heart big in friendli
ness and justly deserves its repu
tation for "Southern Oregon
Hospitality."
Sincerely,
Keneth G. Young,
Director of Curriculum
Siskiyou County Schools.
As to Flag Day
To the Editor: As Flag Day is
Tuesday June 14, we believe a
few remarks about our flag
would be in order at this time.
The U.S. Flag originated in an
act of Congress June 14, 1777,
but it was not the first flag under
which colonists fought.
Many different kinds of flags
were improvised in those days
Some carried Latin mottoes. The
"Sons " of Liberty" in Cam
bridge, Mass., raised a plain red
flag on the Harvard campus,
They carried this same red flag
with a green pine tree added into
the battle of Bunker Hill.
A favorite device for flags in
the colonies was the rattlesnake,
and one famous . flag bore the
legend "Don't Tread On Me."
The rattlesnake was in the pub
lic mmd after Benjamin Frank
lin, through his paper, advocated
sending a cargo of rattlesnakes
to London parks in retaliation
iur xjriusii injustices.
A flag officially adopted by
George Washington and raised
on Jan. 2, 1776, had 13 red and
white stripes with the cross of
St. George and St. Andrew on
a blue field in the corner. But the
Red, White and Blue of Stars
and Stripes fame, adopted by
Congress on June 14, Flag Day
1777, stiu stands and commands
the respect of aliens, and the
homage of all true Americans.
I believe this "Ode to the
Flag" is appropriate for the oc
casion of Flag Day. It is by
Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of
Interior in Woodrow Wilsons
cabinet:
ODE TO THE FLAG
Here's to the Red of it
There's not a shred of it
No, nor a thread of it . .
But heroes bled for it
Precious blood shed for it,
Bathing it Red.
Here's to the White of it
Thrilled by the sight of it,
Who knows the right of it
But feels the might of it
By day or night.
Womanhood's care for it
Makes manhood dare for it;
Purity's prayer for it
Keeps it so White.
Here's to the Blue-of it
Heavenly hue of it
Star-spangled blue of it,
Steadfast and true;
States stand supreme for it
Diadems gleam for it
Liberty's beam for it
Brightens the Blue.
Here's to' the whole of it.
Stars, stripes and pole of it
On to the goal of it,
Carry it through.
At home or abroad for it
We've unsheathed the sword
for it
On, in accord for it
Red, White and Blue.
Pat Graham, Adjutant
Disabled American fVet
. erans, Chapter No. C
LUCK
and Contrtbutora)
midnight when a new settle
ment hadn't been reached yet.'
A Medford couple, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Borresen, who lived
at 1016 Winchester St., moved
to Eugene last week.
Their sons, Mickie and Gary,
were in the car with them on
the trip, and the car also con
tained a cat, a parakeet and a
bowlful of guppies.
It developed - that arrange
ments had to be made to keep
the cat in the front seat, to keep
it from molesting the bird and
the fish, which thus had to be
kept in the back seat.
- A Medford couple frequent
ly drive out to a local drive
& restaurant for a late-evening
cup of coffee. Usually
they take their dog along.
When they do. they order cof
fee with cream, although each
drinks coffee black.
When the order arrives,
they pour the cream into a
small bowl carried in the car
for the purpose, put it down,
and let the little dog lap it
up while they enjoy their
black coffee.
We recently ran across an it
em "How Not To Be Popular
With a Newspaper Reporter," ,
which was dreamed up by some
unnamed upstate city editor. Wo
find ourselves in complete agree
ment (One of our reporters
wanted it printed on Page 1).
Anyway, here it is:
"Go directly to the publisher
with a publicity release . . .
Ask for correction by demand
ing, 'Hey, don't you guys ever
get anything right?' . . . Have
your secretary put through a
call and let the busy newspap
erman dangle on the other end
of the line (right at his dead
line, preferably) . . . Call him
at meal time . . . Argue with
him on his facts, insisting you
heard it opposite on the radio
. . . Ask him to leave the room
while members talk in private
. . . Take it for granted he is out
for a free ride . . . Razz him for
typos (typographical errors) . . .
Whisper a news tip and caution
it's off the record ... If he joins
an organization, put him on the
publicity committee . . . SetUe
down for a long chat at his desk
at press time . . . Hand him a
news item in longhand, on both
sides of the paper . . . Tell him
not to change anything this is
just the way you want it . . .
Fortify your demand for front
page position by pointing out
inferior stories used on front
page of prior issues . . . Tell him
the publicity must be used to
day, because you want it to tie
in with the spots that have been
bought on the local radio sta
tion." Well, whaddayaknowl Here
all these years we've gone
along blissfully thinking that
antidUestablUhinentarian ism
is the longest non-scientifie ;
word in the English language.
Now comes a staff mem
ber to shatter this illusion
with a word one letter longer
which he ran across in some
esoteric volume or ether. The
word is floccinaucinibilipilifip
cation.
It is pronounced approxi
mately something like sort of
this: Floxy-nawsee-knee-hilly-pilly-fication,
and it means
the action or habit of estima
ting things as worthless.
Now you know.
County 4-H Summer
Camp Members To
Leave on Tuesday
Fifty Jackson County 4-H'en
will leave Tuesday at 8:30 im.
for the 4-H summer school, June
14 to 24 at Oregon State college
in Corvallis.
Approximately 1,800 club
members from around Oregon
will attend, joining classes
taught by commercial represen
tatives, state government spec
ialists, college professors, and
volunteer lay leaders. Speakers
are scheduled to come from as
far away as New York City,
Seattle, San Francisco, and
Sand Springs, Okla.
On Friday. June 17, the 4-H
members will be hosts to 400
Beaver Boys Staters, at Oregon
State for a week of- the Ameri
can Legion sponsored boys pro
gram, at the annual evening
variety show. Owen C. "Red"
Dunning and his troupe from
KOIN, Portland, will .entertain
the massed groups.
The talent show, radio revue,
and stunt night programs, fea
tures the second week will draw
talent from the 4-H'ers them
selves and the fraternities or
sororities where they are hous
ed. ' ' '
Glen Klein and Jean Brooks,
4-H agents for the county, and
Eula Wintermote, county home
extension agent, will accompany
the local delegation. Chaperone
will be Mrs. H. B. Chapman,
Valley View.
Boston (U.PJ Mrs. Frank:
Di Francesco testifed at a di
vorce hearing Friday that when
she tried to wake her husband
he muttered "Go away Marion,
and leave me alone." Mrs. XX
Francesco's' name Is Mazy.
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