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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1945
(It Was Tuesday)
Medford police start check for
habitual water wasters who al
low water to flow in streets.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Older
Girls are now complaining about
the heat and the flies. Between
the twin evils, they are kept
watting and sweating.
20 YEARS AGO
July 24. 1935
(It Was Wednesday)
Rogue Valley ripening, pear
crop escapes damage as severe
thunderstorms sweeps valley
leaving heavy damage to power
lines from lightning.
Ashland city council passes or
dinance requiring parallel park
ing. 80 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1925
(It Was Friday)
Ashland starts summer hours
or irrigation.
James Stevens of Medford
makes hit in St. Louis Municipal
opera as baritone singer.
40 YEARS AGO
July 24, 1915
(It Was Saturday)
Jackson countians read of Chi
cago excursion steamer East
land turning over at dock kil
ling estimated 1.300 picnickers.
A special session of the city
council will be held next Mon
day night to consider the matter
of the application of the Rogue
River Public Service corporation
for an electric franchise.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copt. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Number of words in the
Bible (both Testaments) is less
or more than a million, or about
a million?
2. Members elected to the new
parliament of Isreal will repre
sent only two parties or many
parties?
3. Manv older persons who
have major operations die on the
oneratine table: right or wrong?
4. First U. S. President to ride
on a railroad train was J. Q.
Adams. Jackson. Van Buren,
Polk, or Lincoln?
5. The family name of Queen
Elizabeth of Great Britain is
Hanover. Windsor. Saxe-Coburg
Gotha. Tudor or Edinburgh?
6. The Great Smokv Moun
tains are on the Pacific Coast,
in the Southwest, in New Eng
land or in the Southeast?
7. A tort is a kind of cake,
a civil wrong, a species of turtle.
a tense frame of mind, or a pros
titute?
The Answers: 1. About 200
000 less than a million: 2. Many
parties; 3. Wrong: 4. Jackson; 5.
Windsor; 6. Southeast (Tenn.
N.C.); 7. Civil wrong.
About $27,000 Included
For State Flood Work
Washington (U.R) Some
$27,000 is included in federal
allocations for flood control sur
veys and navigation studies in
Oregon by the Army Engineers
during the current fiscal year.
The state breakdown: Siuslaw
river and bar, S1.000; Oregon
slough, S1.000; Dry Hollow, $8,
500, and Silvies river $16,500.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
"Ike " Takes Command
Surprise is an important factor in successful di
plomacy. This element in President Eisenhower's challenge
to Soviet Russia on interchange of military informa
tion, probably will prove of greater permanent value,
than the substance.
For by that unexpected challenge, the United
States for the first time since the cold war started,
took the initiative away from Moscow, and forced
the "bear who walks like a man" to look carefully
at his hole card.
I7E CAN'T go quite as far as the "Oregonian"
which admits great excitement over this "world
shaking offer" which it believes backs Soviet Russia
helplessly up against the wall.
Diplomatically, however, it was a master-stroke
particularly in timing, and for the present at least
not only clears the atmosphere at Geneva, but puts
the United States instead of Russia in the driver's
seat.
Finally it removes or should remove all doubt
about America's peaceful intentions anywhere in the
world and its willingness to join with Russia or any
other nation in a practical and cooperative effort
to move the threat of a Third World War farther and
farther away from the realm of reality.
AS HAS so often been remarked in this department
"that is a great accomplishment.
For the longer the period of peace is extended the
greater the likelihood that eventually Russia and the
United States all the world powers in fact will
come to the realization that war as a means of settling
international differences is as out-of-date as the muzzle-loading
musket, and along with the musket should
be consigned to some convenient museum along with
other useless relics of the past. R.W.R.
Just a
As this is written there has been no formal reply
to President Eisenhower's challenge, from the Rus
sian delegation, and the whole world is wondering
what it will be.
We don't know. But we do know or THINK we
do what it WON'T be. It won't be a stern and blunt
refusal. The boys in the Kremlin may be dumb, but
they can hardly be as dumb as that.
In fact our guess is, it will take the form of re
newed praise for Mr. Eisenhower's f orthrightness and
sincerity, a willingness to join him in this mutual ef
fort to secure a better understanding and progress
along the road to world peace but with certain
conditions. .
And those conditions may well be difficult to
fulfill.
IN OTHER words we predict the answer will be
"OK" with a BUT, the latter a rather transpar
ent effort to regain the initiative that has been lost,
appealing not so much to public opinion in this coun
try, as throughout the world, and especially to the
prejudice against America and Americans. That prej
udice is unfortunate, but no informed person can deny
it exists.
However as stated that is only a "guess."
IN THE meantime it might be well to remember that
whether this challenge brings immediate and de
sirable results or not, as far as armament reduction
agreements are concerned, it is difficult to see how
they can amount to much.
For the atomic age, in our judgment, has made
such agreements, like war, obsolete. Even granting
that the Kremlin might act in good faith which is
SOME grant and a system of inspection acceptable
to this country could be arranged how could there
be any real sense of security when enough atomic
and H bombs to destroy a country could be stored
in one peasant's hut in Siberia or one deserted build
ing in the wilds of Wyoming, and the people of neither
country would necessarily be aware of it.
In other words in this atomic age, and for large
countries like Russia and the USA, such a thing as
an air tight and therefore satisfactory inspection
system regarding armaments, just isn't in the cards.
The only way to assure peace, in short, is for the
world to abandon war.
And our belief is it will be abandoned, not be
cause it is wicked, but because the instincts of self
preservation and self-interest will by common consent
of all nations capable of waging all-out war, event
ually outlaw it. R.W.R.
It All Depends, --!
We have often referred to the importance of
"whose ox is gored," as to the determination of opin
ions. It makes such a difference in this country of ours,
particularly in politics.
We have no doubt for example that the news
papers up-state (not excluding the ultra-conserva
and business-motivated Oregonian) would be as in
dignant over the abandonment of all rail passenger
service in Multnomah and Marion counties as are
the southern newspapers with the single exception
of the Grants Pass Courier over the abandonment
in Douglas and Jackson counties.
But as long as they have what THEY need five
or six trains a day, Portland many more of course
they apparently can see nothing for the people of
Southern Oregon to get excited about. If the SP
wishes to increase its profits by providing no pas
senger service whatever that's ok by them. In fact
it is merely the "march of progress," the same being
the practice all over the country so why should there
Sunday, July 24, 1955
"Guess"
be any complaint in Southern Oregon? That is the up
state line.
QNE answer is it ISN'T being done "all over the
country." In fact according to a reliable report,
if the SP is allowed to do what it threatens to do, the
highly productive and rapidly growing section of
Oregon from Eugene to Ashland will be the only sec
tion of the country of its size and importance in the
United States which having had rail service for so
many decades, will be entirely deprived of it. It's one
thing to reduce the number of trains as is being done
in many instances, it is quite another to abandon them
entirely.
CDITOR STANTON of the Roseburg News Review
" comments interestingly, on this phase of the rail
road controversy, quote:
"Willamette Valley towns 'haven't much sympathy
for Southern Oregon which for years has suffered from a
monopolistic, unsympathetic and uncooperative rail-line.
For although its local officialdom is extremely "friendly"
in keeping with its company's assumed title, Southern Ore
gon's industrial potential has been kept bottled up, the
area discriminated against in the matter of short-haul
freight rates, has received the short-end of previous freight
car shortages, has been bullied and threatened and pushed
around at willHad the Southern Pacific in past years
been a little more cooperative in aiding in our industrial
growth, had it helped develop some of our potential areas,
had it shown some inclination toward responsibility to the
public it is supposed to serve, perhaps we would not now
be so bitter But our long stay in the deep-freeze, the
discriminating freight rate structure that so long hampered
our economy, the deliberate withdrawal of even a sem
blance of decent passenger service, and many other abuses,
have long rankled the people of this area.Consequently
we lack the tolerant sympathy evidenced by editors in
cities to the north."
R.W.R.
Matter of Fact
THE TACIT AGREEMENT
Geneva The Big Four con
ference here has now reached
its first, and very probably its
only, import
ant agreement.
The agree
ment it un
written and
even unspok
en. Yet it is
implicit in
e v e ry t h i ng
that has been
done and said
since the con
ference began.
Stewart Alsop
The Four Powers, and above all
the United States and the Soviet
Union, have agreed not to have
a war if they can possibly avoid
it.
That is about all there is to
this meeting. It is the real mean
ing of the mild and even cordial
tone in which the spokesman of
the two sides expressed their
totally irreconcilable views. It
is even the real meaning of the
toothy, gold-plated smiles, which
Soviet Communist party boss
Nikita Khrushchev bestows on
President Eisenhower at every
possible opportunity; and of the
inscribed desk set which Presi
dent Eisenhower gave to his old
friend Marshal Zhukov to pass
on to his newly-married daugh
ter. At the moment, it looks as
though the conferees" are going
to be satisfied with this tacit
agreement to avoid mutual de
struction, if at all possible. This
report is written in mid-conference,
and international confer
ences have a tricky habit of pro
ducing some sort of seemingly
important decision at the very
last moment. But it is hard to
see what kind of miracle is go
ing to produce any really sig
nificant substantive agreement
here.
During the debate on the prob
lem of German reunification,
Prime Minister Bulganin re
marked mildly that the German
problem "should be decided by
time." The meaning of this re
mark is obvious. The Soviets
did not come here seriously ex
pecting the West to accept the
Soviet plan for Germany, which
would require the dismantling
of the Western defenses in re
turn for vague promises. For
that matter, the Western powers
did not seriously expect the
Soviets suddenly to accept a
plan which would tie all Ger
many into the Western alliance.
VFITHOUT an agreement, or at
" least the beginnings of an
agreement, on Germany, there is
not much use talking about Eu
ropean collective security ar
rangements, and there can be
only the most tentative sort of
feeling-out process on arms re
duction. Perhaps some sort of
progress can be made on such
secondary matters as East-West
contracts, the fourth item on the
agenda. But that, as it looks
now, is about all that can be ex
pected. Yet the importance of the sil
ent, unspoken decision not to
have a war if it can possibly tie
avoided should not be underesti
mated. In the euphoria gener
ated at first by the rather phony
good-fellowship which has been
the hallmark of this conference,
some siUy people actually began
to expect peace to break out all
over, as a result of a few days'
chat. In fact, the purpose of
this conference never was to
reach substantive, meaningful
agreement.
The real purpose was quite
different. Both sides came to
this conference with the same
question in the backs of their
minds: "Can we somehow man
age to live with these terrible
people, or must we really have a
war with them?" The purpose of
the conference was to find the
answer to this question. Both
By Stewart Alsop
sides seem already to have ar
rived at what is at least a tenta
tive answer that we can rock
along for a long time without a
war.
President Eisenhower has as
sured the Russians, in so many
words, that much as we detest
their treatment of the satellites,
we do not intend to go to war
about it. The Russians have
made it equally clear that, much
as they detest the rearmament
of West Germany, they do not
intend to fight to prevent it.
Asia, where by far the great
est danger of war lies, has, to be
sure, only been discussed ob
liquely, in informal conversa
tions. But while neither side
has budged an inch from its of
ficial position, there have been
well-received hints from both
sides that it would be better to
settle such issues as Formosa
without shooting.
"COR the short-run, at least, this
silent, unspoken decision to
avoid war if at all possible prom
ises a breathing spell, or rather
a talking spell, for the world.
But in the long-run a tacit agree
ment to talk rather than fight
is no substitute for a real settle
ment. For in the long-run, the
pattern of the present situation,
on which the tacit agreement is
based, is sure to be broken. It
could even be broken in a few
weeks, since shrewd observers
here are beginning to suspect
that the Soviets are getting
ready to offer German Chancel
lor Adenauer the kind of deal
he could hardly refuse. On the
other hand the present situation
could last much longer than now
seems at all likely. In the mean
time both sides are now con
vinced that the other side quite
genuinely wants to avoid war
and just possibly this simple con
viction may provide the time
to "build the bridge" that Presi
dent Eisenhower wants to build,
across the chasm that divides the
world.
Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
One Killed, 10 Hurt
In Four-Car Crash
Longview, Wash. U.R)
One man was killed and 10
persons were injured in a four
car collision about 6 a.m. Sat
urday on the Pacific highway
two miles north of Woodland,
Wash.
The Washington state patrol
identified the dead man as Dav
id A. Smart, 24, a Navy man
from Bremerton.
Hospitalized in Longview
were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Valburg
of Vancouver, Wash., and Don
ald Weinrich, a Navy man from
Bremerton.
Treated at the scene for cuts
and bruises were Clifford Mc
Connell, C. O. Salyard, Ralph
Salyard Jr., all of Portland;
Ralph Salyord Sr., Hardy, Neb.;
R. D. Wall, Gresham, Ore.;
James T. Gill, Beaverton, Ore.,
and Joseph E. Plamondon, Van
couver. '
The state patrol said it had
not been definitely established
just how the accident occurred.
Father of Eight Dies
In Freak Accident
Roseburg U.R) Ralph
Spencer,i 60-year-old father of
eight children, was fatally in
jured Friday while working at
the Martin Brothers Box com
pany at Oakland, Ore.
Spencer and another, worker
were opening the sliding door
of a box car when it came off its
top track. The door, which
weighed about 500 pounds fell
and Spencer's head was crushed
between the door and a steel
beam of a loading dock. He died
two hours later in a Roseburg
hospital.
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Neuberger Replies to Barber
To the Editor: In a letter
printed on your editorial page of
July 13, 1955, Mr. D. H. Barber
of Trail, Oregon, accuses me of
statements which he calls "ri
diculous" and "false propagan
da," in connection with the Ei
senhower administration's posi
tion towards public works ap
propriations for Oregon.
I think the record speaks for
itself. The Republican adminis
tration asked for no funds for
Ice Harbor, Hills Creek, Green
Peter, Coos Bay harbor, mouth
of the Columbia dredging, and
Tillamook bay. The Budget Bu
reau recommendations for Tal
ent irrigation project, Cougar
Dam and John Day dam were
far from adequate. The Con
gress, due to insistence from the
Senate, appropriated $3,790,000
for these projects which in
cluded three new starts on mul
ti-purpose dams.
Mr. Barber asked, "where is
the Administration to blame?
Did it veto an appropriation
made by a Democratic Cong
ress?" He should have waited
a few days. On Friday, July 15,
the White House announced that
start of these projects was being
delayed by order of the Presi
dent. If the Republican adminis
tration carries out this threat to
thwart the decision of Congress
to proceed with sound develop
ment of the natural resources of
the Northwest, the economic fu
ture of Oregon will be faced
with paralysis.
In the 1954 political cam
paign, the Republican party
staged a great jamboree in Jack
son county heralding all that the
Republican party could do for
the Talent irrigation project. In
January, 1955, the Administra
tion's budget submitted to Cong
ress had not one cent for Talent
construction. Appropriations for
a project become doubly diffi
cult to obtain if they have been
excluded from an administration
budget. Congressman Ellsworth
said this was an "oversight", af
ter I had protested it vigorously.
This is the background of why
Talent received only $154,000
from this Congress.
The House, where Oregon is
represented by three Republi
cans and one Democrat, allo
cated $154,000. The Senate,
where Oregon is represented by
two Democrats, raised this sub
stantially to $500,000. The con
ference committee cut back the
sum to $154,000.
I plan to continue my de
termined efforts to secure for
the Talent project the recogni
tion and funds which it deserves.
Richard L. Neuberger
United States Senator
Information Requested
To the Editor: A roster of all
Oregon family associations and
reunions is being prepared by
the Genealogical forum of Port
land. The list will include the names
of family groups having annual
meetings, picnics and reunions.
Information desired Includes the
names of ancestors concerned,
the date of arrival in Oregon,
residence of family, any other
data pertinent to the history of
family name and address of per
son designated to give informa
tion about family, and date and
place of annual meeting.
Persons interested in contrib
uting to the roster are invited to
send information to address be
low. Thank you.
Mrs. Anthony Thomas,
415 N. Baldwin st.,
Portland 11, Ore.
Lane, Willamette
Fire Areas Closed
Salem (U.R) Closure of
high fire hazard areas in east
ern Lane county and in all of
the Willamette National Forest
went into effect at midnight Fri
day, according to the State
Forestry department.
Officials said the fire danger
in most of the state was not
considered high but that a few
more days of dry, warm weath
er would result in more wide
spread forest closures.
Only fires reported so far this
season have been in Jackson,
Josephine and Coos counties.
Portland Woman Dies
In Bay Bridge Crash
San Francisco (U.R) Mrs.
Anna Tallman, 39, of Portland,
Ore., wife of a Military Sea
Transport Service commander,
was fatally injured on the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
late Friday night when another
car crossed over the center line
and crashed into the Tallman ve
hicle head-on.
Mrs. Tallman was riding with
her husband, John A. Tallman,
43, who was treated in a San
Francisco hospital for-head in
juries and lacerations and then
transferred to the Oakland Na
val Hospital.
POTlUCGt
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Vern Brophy, 749 West 14th
st., who since his retirement
from ranching has been an avid
gardener, was disappointed re
cently when his magnolia tree,
on which he had lavished both
care and affection, bloomed
with only two big white blos
soms. There should be more, he
mourned, and they should be
pink.
The next morning, when he
arose and inspected his tree,
Lo, it was covered with blos
soms and in all colors, red,
pink, yellow, purple.
Excitedly he called his wife
"People will come from miles
around!!"
He later found that in the
night kindly neighbors had tied
on the natural-looking blossoms,
which were made of paper.
We note with pleasure that
the newly - formed Oregon
Arms Collectors, who are
crasy about all sorts of old
weapons including rifles, have
picked as the site of their first
meeting the Oregon town of
Winchester.
Like to do things in a hurry?
There's one Medford mother
who'll probably take a bit more
time next time she goes shop
ping.
Dashing in from a week at the
lake for supplies, she went in to
a grocery store, leaving a small
child in the car. While mother
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Public finance note:
The federal government
wound up its 1955 bookkeeping
year with a deficit of $300,000,
000 LESS than had been ex
pected.
(The actual deficit figure was
$4,192,000,000.)
IT'S BETTER to have the deficit
less than expected rather than
MORE than expected but it
would be a WHALE OF A LOT
better if we had a surplus in
stead of a deficit.
QTILL
This year's deficit was $3,-
300,000,000 less than in 1954 and
nearly $10,000,000,000 less than
in 1953.
We're making a little progress
toward financial sanity, anyway
POLITICAL note:
We could balance the bud
get in no time at all if the mem
bers of congress could get out
of their heads the idea that the
way to get reelected is to spend
and spend and SPEND.
How could that come about?
Well, if the spenders were reg
ularly defeated and the non
spenders were regularly elected.
it would come to pass in just
about nothing flat.
VTOTE from Geneva:
President Eisenhower says
he is convinced that Russia has
the same desire for a lasting
peace as the Western powers.
If I had to guess, I'd guess that
Ike had his fingers crossed when
he said it. But, just the same, it
was the right thing to say and
the right time and the right
place to say it.
In a big poker game like Ge
neva, you can't start out by in
timating that all the other play
ers probably have aces hid up
their sleeves.
HERE'S what we newspaper
people call a "feature"
story:
"Courtesy has paid off for the
Skowhegan, Me., police depart
ment. "On July 8 J. R. Denkert of
Johnstown, N. Y., found a ticket
on his car parked in Skowhegan.
But it was only the polite warn
ing that is usually given to out
of state tourists instead of the
regular ticket calling for a fine.
"In appreciation, Denkert sent
Skowhegan police chief Albert
Dionne a note and the note was
accompanied by a package con
taining 24 baseball gloves, two
footballs, two basketballs, a vol
leyball and a set of boxing
goves all of them to be distrib
uted with the compliments of
the police department to the
youngsters of the Maine town."
ACCORDING to the fundamen
tal principles of our craft, a
"feature" story must contain the
element of the UNUSUAL such
as a man biting a dog.
So
I presume
The story is based on the idea
that courtesy on the part of the
traffic police is unusual.
PERSONALLY, I refuse to be
lieve any such thing.
In a fairly wide experience on
the highways of our country,
I've found traffic policemen uni
versally courteous and helpful.
And NEVER rude.
HERE, by the way, is a REAL
feature story:
Navy Seabees training at Da-
visville, R. I., for the job of
building Antarctic air bases plan
to sail in November for the
South Pole, where the tempera
ture goes to 80 below zero.
They'll take with them 379 tons
of frozen food AND HALF A
DOZEN REFRIGERATORS
The refrigerators are not in
tended to keep the food frozen.
Their purpose will be to THAW
IT OUT GRADUALLY.
That's one for the book.
was occupied with shopping, the
child wandered into the store to
the candy rack. Mother finished
shopping, paid for the grocer
ies, hopped in the car and drove
away.
It was only a few minutes
later that she realized something
was missing and telephoned the
store to see if the child was
there. It was.
A "paragraph filler" in the
Mail Tribune last week said:
Mormons settled In Utah end
chose that city as their capital
in 1847.
Before anybody knew any
thing about annexation, bo
doubt.
Charles Lewis, 327 North
Berkeley way, is chairman for
the 10th anniversary convention
for former members of the
249th coast artillery band, to be
held here next month. The chair
man of each gathering is elected
and given the title, "The Big
Red Bird."
Mrs. Lewis this year did much
of the work (maybe even most
of it) for her husband, and the
notices which went out werfp
signed:
The Big Red Bird
By the Little Red Hen
We'll bet daddy (or mommy)
was mad.
Two youngsters left for a
few minutes in a parked car
on Central ave. at about 5:30
p.m. Friday apparently had
dug into glove compartment or
purse, and were passing the
time by throwing cigarettes
at passing cars.
The Mail Tribune recently
editorialized about typographi
cal errors the kind where let
ters get switched. There's an
other kind, too, where entire
lines get transposed. They re
sult in the kind of miserable er
ror such as appeared in the paper
last week, in an item about
swimming lessons, as follows:
Children are to register this
week for the lessons. The cost
will be $2 for 10 lessons. Each
child is to furnish a towel and
Phil Sanders of Medford and
a swim suit. Instructors will be
John Smock, faculty member of
Crater High school.
For a correct reading, switch
the lines beginning "Phil" and
"a swim suit."
At Tuesday night's council
meeting. Councilman John
Snider entertained a motion
that the frontier enthusiast
Davy Crockett be made an
honorary member of the Med
ford City counciL
The council took no formal
action.
Remember Sally, the sow
some of whose 13 progeny went
out to Christmas dinner last
year and New Year's dinner this
year because the owners couldn't
find a piglet-sitter? They were
taken along, if you recall, be
cause the mother pig couldn't
handle the feeding problem for
13 piglets properly, and a bottle
was used.
Well, Sally has continued to
be productive, and has had a sec
end litter, 14 this time, making
a total of 27 piglets in 6V4
months.
This time the owners, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Dorich, Jackson
ville, haven't had to give special
feedings to any of the little pigs.
The weather has been better,
for one thing; she is getting more
used to the problems of multiple
motherhood, for another. And
this time nature has seen to it
that her table is set for 14.
A pure white robin was re
portedly sighted in the yard
of the Orr home at 220 North
Barneburg rd. last week.
The tourist season is here, and
as a result, Jacksonville, one of
the area's major attractions, is
enjoying the usual influx of visi
tors. They walk curiously 'down
the street, peering into the win
dows of the old buildings along
California street.
One such building is the
former Ganong home, still a
residence. Last week, about dusk.
some tourists came by, peered
in, then knocked at the door.
"Are you Mrs. Ganong?" they
asked the occupant.
"If I were, I'd be about 135
years old," came the quick
reply.
(Incidentally, Mrs. Ganong is
best - remembered for raising
a, petticoat on a flagpole as a
protest when Jacksonville males
left town in the daytime without
providing protection against In
dians for the women and chil
dren of the community.)
One female Medford resi
dent (this identification will
have to suffice for reasons
which shall soon become ob
vious) recently reported to po
lice that two pairs of unmen
tionables had been taken from
her clothesline during daylight
hours. On the police log the
item was marked "no publi
city, please."
Good authority reports that
another woman suffered
similar theft but was too em
barrassed to report the mat
ter. Well, you can hardly blame .
her.