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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct, 2. 1945
(It was Monday)
All rationing on liquor in Ore
gon removed as of today.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Now it is
October. Frost and sun are mak
ing the leaves of the oaks and
maples almost as much of a riot
of color as the cowboy shirts
worn by the dressier males.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct, 2. 1935 ; '
(It was Tuesday)
Ernest . Smith sells East Side
Pharmacy to Harold Wainscott,
formerly of Roseburg. -J
If reservoir project authorized
at special election, Superintend
ent Robert A. Duff estimates it
will supply 60,000 hours of work
during the six-month construc
tion period.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 1, 1925
(It was Thursday)
Thieves rob Klamath Falls
home of $115, then burn it down.
From the Local and Personal
column: Lieutenant Eric Nel
son, round-the-world flyer, ac
companied by Lieutenant Mose-
ly, departed this morning for
Los Angeles, Calif., en route by
sea-plane from Seattle, Wash.
He is piloting the first of a new
type of plane capable of attain
ing a speed between 140 and 150
miles per hour. He flew from
Seattle to Medford in the record
time of three hours and ten
minutes.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct, 2, 1915
(It was Friday)
Applegate man suspects foul
play in prospecting adventure.
His friend went prospecting with
a stranger, the stranger returned,
said the friend was injured and
in a Grants Pass hospital. He
wasn't. Stranger gone.
Fifth anniversary of Mann's
store observed today, September
said to be best month in history
for business there. . .
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, fditorial Research Ripe
1. Truman Doctrine was on de
fending Formosa, strengthening
Greece and Turkey against Rus
sia, keeping Red China out of
U.N., or atomic weapons?
2. About four, seven, 10, 15 or
20 of every 100 fatal auto acci
dents are due to falling asleep at
the wheel?
3. Reading good books during
pregnancy will help to make the
child literary; right or wrong?
4. Acreage of the next cotton
crop under Government controls
is to be reduced, enlarged, or
kept the same?
5. First World Series in 1903
was between the Giants and
Yankees, Cubs and Yankees,
Dodgers and Red Sox, Pirates
and Red Sox, or Cubs and White
Sox?
6. What European capital is
on the Liffey River?
7. Millionaire playboy Tommy
Manville has had three, five,
seven, nine, or 11 wives so far?
.The Answers: 1. Strengthen
ing Greece and Turkey. 2. Seven
out of 100. 3. Wrong. 4. Re
duced. 5. Pirates and Red Sox.
6. Dublin. 7. Nine,
Safety experts estimate traf
fic accidents would be reduced
40 to 50 per cent with an ade
quate system of highways.
Sit
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Sept. 30 How time flies! Here it is the start
of October. Only yesterday it was the 4th of July!
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Not so very long ago some of the wise-boys were predicting
newspapers would be badly injured by news via the radio. The
reverse has been true. This baby-snatching case here is an ex
ample.
The first news came over the air very early in the morning.
There were several broadcasts before the first morning papers
came out, but what was the result? Over the air, only the main
facts were given, what the people wanted were the retails the
WHOLE STORY. They got it in the newspapers because that was
the only place they could get it. The radio broadcasts increased
the street sales, instead of decreasing them. Q.E.D.
And the S.F. papers did a great job. Every phase of the sen
sational case wa3 brought out with pictures, and pedestrians read
ing the "extras" as they walked along the sidewalks were not an
uncommon sight.
It was a tremendous human-interest story. And through it all
the ten-day old Marcus infant slept soundly and continued .to gain
weight. We wonder when little Robert awakes will he ask mother
to take him to the wrestling match and put more sugar in his milk?
Never can tell. He apparently enjoyed himself in the Benedicto
household. A sure sign for babies he gained weight.
It is surprising how much Mrs. Benedicto resembles the
sketches made of her entirely from descriptions of those who
caught a mere glimpse. She is blonde, overweight, and the hard
boiled, water-front type. She will probably spend some time in
in jail and we don't believe her Filipino husband will be sorry.
He told newspapermen he and his "mother love" wife fought a
good share of the time over money and booze Mrs. B. he said,
indulged in both too much. It is hard to believe Mrs. B. is still in
her twenties apparently an example of the black-sheep Kipling
remarked "knew the worst too
she took excellent care of the baby, and had no mercenary motives
a term in jail may do her good, PHYSICALLY at least.
With the Marcus baby case,
the World Series, the newspapers and news commentators are
having a Roman holiday. With all of them, as of now, it looks as
though "All's well that ends well" will be fitting. We have in
mind Papa and Mama Marcus, the Republican party and the Yanks.
,
Grandmother "Myrt" won $32,000 over TV as . a baseball
expert and rabid Dodger fan. She also got a free box to see her
pet team play in the world series. If she inspired the Brooklyn
boys to greater efforts, it is painful to think what they would have
done had she not been there!
One of the popular movies here now is called "To Catch a
Thief," starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. It is a beautiful
picture in color with the picturesque French Riviera as a back
eround. Miss Kelly is very good to look at, and the gals seem
to like Cary, the former circus trapeze artist, although he looks
in this opus more like an Othello than a Clark Gable. Like all
Hitchcock productions, "To Catch a Thief" has many thrills, but
in recent years "Hitch" has been more inclined to telegraph his
punches than was the case in his youth. The picture has run four
weeks here and promises to continue for several more. Accord
ing to Hollywood gossip, Cary Grant has a large interest in the
show and expects to make a million before it folds up. He might
at that. The interesting feature to Medford will be that Cary not
only is an Oregonian, who knows his timber, but praises the attrac
tions of the Rogue River Valley! Perhaps he fished with Clark
Gable near Grants Pass or helped milk the cows at Ginger Rogers
ranch near Shady Cove! At any rate the C. of C. should be pleased!
- With hurricanes in Yucatan and typhoons in Japan, the USA
looks pretty good. We have an idea the Leonard Carpenters, who
are now in Japan, would, if they had a broadcasting outfit, second
the motion. . . -
It took a long time, but Secretary of Agriculture Benson has
admitted he made a mistake in dismissing Ladejinsky as a "secur
ity risk." When Stassen hired the man a fejv days later for an
important post in his department, that was strongly indicated.
However, that is one thing we like about Benson, he is slow and
sometimes mistaken, but he is one of the few important members
of the Eisenhower cabinet willing to admit a mistake when he
makes one.
What this country needs is not a 5-cent cigar, but a good
comedian on the stage, screen or TV. There are plenty who claim
to be comedians, but Groucho Marx is the only one who comes
near it and he only appears once a week. The others at least
as this' department views it try so hard to be funny they
AREN'T. (By the way what has become of Victor Moore?) R.W Jt.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The most important news in
the world is still the state of
President Eisenhower's health.
So let's take up developments
alone that line in logical order,
1. In Denver, a medical bulle
tin issued at Fitzsimmons hospi
tal savs the President had a com
fortable - sleep for the second
straight nieht. He awoke
REFRESHED after a 10-hour
sleep. The bulletin says his prog
ress continues to be satisfactory,
without complications.
2. Vice-President Nixon ap
pears to go along with a reported
decision by other top members
of the Eisenhower administra
tion against delegating ANY
Presidential powers to Nixon
or anyone else. He' says govern-
m e n t operations are gomg
smoothly "and we see no seri
ous legal problems involved in
President Eisenhower's illness.!'
3. Vice-President Nixon's fel
low Californian, Senate Repub
lican Leader William Know-
land, agrees with Nixon that
there is no nead for special
measures to carry on the govern
ment while the President is ill.
He adds: "I see no emergency
that would require a meeting of
legislative leaders."
THAT is to say:
Resnnnsihle members of
the administration feel that
everything is going as well as
could be expected and that AS
OF NOW it seems probable that
within a reasonable length of
time (say two or three weeks)
the President will be able to sign
necessary papers and perhaps
even make certain decisions
hat do not involve too much
strain.
LET us now consider another
1nrir!al Hevelnnmont
The stock market moved up
ward again in HEAVY trading,
continuing a strong recovery
movement from Monday's big
break. The high speed ticker
(which can handle up to 500 sym
bols per minute) again lagged in
reporting transactions.
Gains ranged for one to four
points, and losses were few and
scattered.
Sunday, October 2, 1955
young." One thing in her favor:
the President's heart attack and
THAT is to say;
Investors (who are VERY
numerous in this prosperous
country) can read the signs in
the news as well as anybody else
and when at the crack of dawn
this morning they heard- on
their radios and read in their
morning newspaper the favor
able developments in Ike's con
dition they reacted strongly on
the optimistic side.
WHY all this chatter about the
stock market?
The answer is simple. What
happens on the stock markets is
a reflection (which can be meas
ured and recorded) of HOW
PEOPLE FEEL. In this mercu
rial country, how people feel
about the future determines to a
surprising extent the state of our
economy. -
On Monday, they felt terrible.
On Tuesday, they felt better.
On Wednesday they feel bet
ter stilL
LET'S put it this way:
When you have -just escaped
by the skin of your teeth a hor
rible automobile accident that
might have killed everybody in
your car and maybe other, cars
and have come off with a dented
fender and some bad scratches
on the paint, you feel TREMEN
DOUS relief and suddenly the
world is a bright and beautiful
place. '
That is the way people feel to
day. We know, of .course, that
we aren't out of the woods, but
we have HOPE again.
WRONG-WAY PUMPER
Scarborough, Me. (U.R) Fire
Chief Henry Gould and his men
raced to a fire here equipped
with a brand new power pumper.
But the pumper didn't work. Ex
plained the chief from the smok
ing debris: "We must have been
excited. The pumper was on
backwards."
Flint, Mich. (U.R) Charles
Simms, 22, Flint, picked the
wrong time to sneeze. He lost
control of his car while sneezing
and crashed into a police cruis
er. The crash caused $300 dam
ages and Simms wound up with
a reckless, driving ticket.
Matter of
Washington Even while Pres
ident Eisenhower is courage
ously struggling with his illness
sBfjsMwui'jiifM in his Denver
hospital bed,
tne drive is
already taking
sh'ape to make
him run again
despite his
heart attack.
Chairman
Leonard Hall
of the Repub
lican National
Committee has
Joseph Also
declared that
he still hopes the President will
head the party ticket in 1956.
Hall's subordinates swear that
Hall really means what he says.
They also give all sorts of elabo
rate reasons why Hall's hopes
may turn out to be well-founded,
if the President makes the good
recovery the whole country
prays for.
Chairman Hall is not alone,
either. Among other Republi
can leaders and in the party rank
and file, everyone is automatic
ally repeating Dr. Paul D.
White's statement that the Pres
ident will be theoretically fit to
run again, if his recovery pro
gresses satisfactorily. Dr. White's
opinion already has become a
sort of Republican slogan. And
this sort of thing will quite
certainly become more and more
widespread and overt as the
President's health improved.
In fact, however, it is obvi
ously unrealistic and even pretty
shocking to continue the pres
sure on the President to seek
another term. In the first place,
the Republicans portrayed it as a
wicked act for President Roose
velt to seek a fourth term when
he was not in tip-top physical
condition.
Yet when Roosevelt accepted
the nomination, he was no more
than a little wearied by the bur
den of his office. Contrary to
common legend, he had had no
warning heart attack or any
other recent illness more serious
than Bronchitis. Furthermore,
he had just been certified as
entirely sound by battalions of
doctors, including the great and
incorruptible Dr. Frank Lahey of
the Lahey Clinic. And Roose
velt in 1944 was more than three
years younger than Eisenhower,
will be in 1956.
Quite aside from this parallel
which ought to be decisive, there
are current and highly practical
reasons why it is unrealistic for
the Republicans to pretend that
Eisenhower will "now go forward
as though the recent tragedy had
really never happened.
"FT IS an open secret that even
before his heart attack, the
President was reluctant to run,
while his wife and son were
bitterly opposed to his doing so.
He had. just about made up his
mind that he would have to run,
all the same, because of the con
tinuous pleas by Gov. Sherman
Adams, Chairman Hall and al
most everyone else around him
that "it was his duty to finish
Today and
By Walter
ON MARKING TIME
The reports from Denver about
the President's condition have
been so encouraging that no de
cision needs to
be, or in fact
can be, taken
at this time
about the dele
gation of his
powers. T H e
question was
raised, quite
. properly and
res p onsibly,
Walter Ltppmann
by Mr. Hager-
ty on Sunday after the' Presi
dent was stricken. When he
raised the question in a message
to the Attorney General, Mr.
Hagerty was preparing for the
possibility that . the President
would need a long convalescence.
Since Sunday the doctors have
done much to allay the fear that
the President will be wholly in
capacitated for some months to
come.
But the outlook in Denver is
regarded as so favorable and be
cause this happens to be a time
when there is a lull in public af
fairs, it is possible to mark time.
It is possible even to suppose that
before the lull in affairs ends
the President will have recov
ered sufficiently to carry on.
But if it is too early to take de
cisions, it is not in the least too
early to deliberate about what
it may be necessary and wise to
do if for a considerable time
the President cannot do much
work.
TiHE TAKING of decisions
-- about this must wait until
the extent of the President's dis
ability can be determined by his
aoctors. lhat determination can
not, we are told, be expected for
about two weeks. But while de
cisions are being deferred, it is
no service to the President or to
the country to let the American
public think that everything is
so well organized at the White
House, that everything is so
clearly and finally determined
by the Cabinet and the National
Security Council, that the gov
ernment can carry on indefinite
ly without the President's active
participation. Eisenhower has
Fact ey
Joseph AIsop
the job."
But all that is changed now.
The President cannot any longer
be pressured to run, because no
one will dare to pressure him
after what has happened. It is
no man's duty to run for the
Presidency after a coronary
thrombosis. The U.S. Army, in
which the President was trained,
has a strong contrary tradition
that a commanding officer whose
health is at all impaired has
positive duty to hand his com
mand over to another.
By any honest assessment, in
truth, the growing talk about the
President running again in spite
of his heart attack is nothing
more nor less than a symptom
ot Republican disarray. The Re
publican leaders have no idea.
for the moment, which way to
turn or what to do or where to
Innlr.
Vet hv the normal rules of
nolitics. this Republican sur
render to nanic is almost ludicr-
onslv nremature. The world's
seemingly peaceful state may be
phony or it may be real. But for
nrartipal nolitical ourposes, the
Republicans in 1956 will still be
able to use "peace as one giun
mie nianir in their Dlatform. And
unless things go very wrong in
the next twelve months, tney
will also be able to use pros-
rjeritv" as the other glorious
nlanlc.
r . i 1
Most political carpemers re
lieve that a platform tnat nas
those two planks hardly needs
QT1V nthers. Whv. then, does
nanic nrevail?
The answer seems to be that
the terrible misfortune of the
President's illness has brought
the Republicans face to face witn
the terrible foUy of their own
self-indulgence. Until now, they
have left almost the. whole task
of vote-eettins to the President,
Thev have not undertaken the
hard and necessary task of trans-
fnrminff their oarty into an Eis-
enhower party. The prooi oi
their folly came to them in the
1954 Congressional election, but
thev went risht on relying on tne
President to win for tnem . in
1956:
npHERE IS no visible reason.
- however, why the Republi
can leaders cannot now do what
thev oueht to have done before.
They have no right to plead with
the President to run again, un
less he actively wishes to run,
which -seems highly improbable,
he has a right to be let alone on
this point. But the Republican
leaders will certainly be justi-
fied. if the President makes
good recovery, in asking him to
chart the party's course and pre
vent party discord by nominating
his own successor.
A candidate who can be pre
sented as a true Eisenhower man,
a party that the country believes
is truly an Eisenhower parry
these are the only requirements
the Republicans must fulfill, in
order to regain their former con
fidence. And they are not impos
sible . requirements ,to fulfill,
either.
(Copyright, 1955.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Tomorrow
Lippmann
gone further than almost any
other President in delegating his
powers. He has been away a lot,
and- the administrative machine
in '-. Washington has carried on
well enough in his absence.
But that does not mean that
he has not played a decisive and
indispensable role, or that with
out him it would be possible to
go on marking time for months
to come.
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THE PRESIDENCY is an enor-
mous office which imposes on
one man the functions of Chief
of State, Chief of the Adminis
tration, Commander - in - Chief,
Chief of his Party, representative
of the nation, and its moral and
political leader. Certain of these
functions can be suspended for
a time and certain of them can
be carried on by others. But the
fact of the matter is that the
burdens of which the President
can be relieved are those which
are the least important and the
least taxing to his health.
He can be relieved of his cere
monial duties. These, though
they must often be tiring, are
not what caused that "erosion"
which the President spoke about
only a few weeks ago. He can be
relieved of virtually all the rou
tine of administration. But that,
though it is irksome, is not the
hard part of the Presidents
work.
The hard part is also the part
which can least easily be carried
on for him by others. This is,
first of all, the making .of those
high and grave and ultimate de
cisions on which hang the issues
of war and peace. Last year the
situation in Indo-China and in
the Formosa Strait, the question
of whether to hold the summit
meeting in Geneva, called for
dangerous and difficult decisions
of this kind. Only the President
could have made them. We may
soon be facing very grave ques
tions in our own military policy
resulting from the talks about
disarmament, and grave ques
tions about bur system of al
liances resulting from the talks
about Germany.
It is also virtually impossible
for the President to escape the
Communications
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the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name or
initial for publication is Dermis
lible. The MaU Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
It Is Devaux
To the Editor: Regarding Mr.
Kissinger's letter recalling names
of old cars in Thursday's Mail
Tribune: as a proud owner of a
1931 DeVaux I wish to correct
his spelling it is DEVAUX not
DeFoe as he stated.
Mike Bauer,
1522 Terrace Dr.,
Medford, Ore.
Officials' Salaries
To the Editor: The average an
nual income of a well established
attorney in Jackson county is
estimated at $15,000. We pay our
district judge $7,500 and our cir
cuit judge $11,000 per year. Can
we expect to secure the best
legal talent to fill the offices of
judge in our courts when we
choose so to underpay them?
There are some who, in a de
sire to serve the public, are will
ing to make sacrifices as to their
income; there are a number who
are competent but unable to
serve due to the low remunera
tion; then there are some who
through lack of ability must rely
on a public office to provide that
which they are otherwise unable
to procure. '
The men who occupy the
benches in our courts of justice
should be selected for their wis
dom and their fervent desire to
uphold the laws of our land.
They must be absolutely impar
tial in all decisions just as they
must base these decisions on the
facts presented before them in
open hearing. When we have
judges of this type we have bet
ter law enforcement at all levels
because police officers will know
that the many off-duty hours re
quired to complete some of their
cases will not have been spent
in vain. -They will know each
case will be judged on the evi
dence presented and that per
sonal .favoritism and petty jeal
ousies will have no influence in
the acquittal or adjudging of sen
tence. Dan F. Krotz H,
Chairman for Community
Service, Steelhead
Post, VFW,
Shady Cove, Ore.
responsibility of party leader, at
least as it affects the choice of
his successor.
VlfHEN THE bad news came
over the week-end, it was
natural enough , to say, as Mr,
Dulles did, that there is a team
and that the principles and pol
icies under which this team op
erates are well known to all its
members. But that cannot be
true for more than a short time,
The question is who, in President
Eisenhower's absence, would
keep the team a team when old
policies have to be altered to
meet new developments, when
new policies have to be formed
Under President Eisenhower the
Treasury, the State Department,
and the three services in the
Pentagon have been kept lined
up as a team. During his con
valescence, who is going to keep
them lined up? That is the big
question to which there is no
plain and evident answer.
Part . of the answer is, no
doubt, that in so far as the Pres
ident cannot act, decisions , will
be reached by groups of Cabinet
officers, administrative assist
ants and Congressional leaders
who are concerned with the par
ticular issues. There will be
many in Washington who will
want, even if the President s dis
ability is considerable and rather
prolonged, to muddle through by
improvising such arrangements
and devices.
II7E MUST consider the disad-
vantages of muddling through
and whether 'anything can be
done about them. The paramount
disadvantage of the muddling
through method is that there
will be nobody who can accept
public responsibility, as did the
President in his press confer
ences and speeches, for the ad
ministration as a whole. The
powers of the President will not
be tied together and focused.
They will be parceled out among
a heterogenous and largely anon
ymous collection of office hold
ers and party leaders.
Over any prolonged tune this
will be very unsatisfactory. It
will be particularly unsatisfac
tory now because the President's
illness has almost certainly ruled
him out for 1956. Yet there are
within his own official family
several men who are entitled to
consider themselves in the run
ning for his succession. In the
muddling through process they
may be tempted to think about
how doing this or not doing that
will serve their own presidential
prospects,, And even if they are
not tempted, they will in an
atmosphere of undefined power
be suspected of being tempted.
For Mr. Nixon the situation
could become so confused that
he would never know whether
he was usurping his powers or
failing to exercise them.
Primarily for this reason, that
an administration needs to have
a responsible chief, it. will be
wise, I believe, to put the con
stitutional provisions into effect
if it should be determined thai
the President is going to be in
capacitated for any considerable J
POTLUCEC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The following item, submitted
by Mrs. Dutch Farfan, 723 South
Newtown st., Medford, was
turned over to the tender mer
cies of the Potluck editor, who
decided it could not be withheld
from posterity:
The Hunter
Across the rocky, burned-out
ridge
The mighty hunter staggered.
His face was worn, his clothing
torn,
His. weary features haggard.
The morning hunt was cruel
and cold
And though the sun shone
bright,
His meager cloth could not
withhold
The bitter, freezing bite
Of stinging wind and driving
snow
That cut him to the core,
And yet, as you and I both
know
He'll go back up for more.
Up on the ridge from which he
came,
His weariness he'll stifle;
But still, he must return
again
For he forgot his rifle.
It should, perhaps, be added,
that the foregoing was dedi
cated by Mrs. Farfan to all
local hunters, but especially to
Mr. John Snider.
'
Speaking of hunters, the woods
are full of them this week end
which may or may not be the
reason that a porcupine decided
to try urban life. He arrived in
Medford some time Friday night,
and ended his wanderings near
the corner of North Front and
East Jackson sts.
It was there the city police put
an untimely end to the prickly
beast. Because of the damage
they do to trees and shrubs.
porcupines are considered unde
sirable neighbors.
We liked the double-bill
showing at a local theater last
week. The pictures were The
Magnificent Matador and Sit
ting Bull.
e .
Dead fish make excellent fer
tilizer. -
. There were plenty of them
available following tfle Lake of
the Woods fish-poisoning job
Sept. 21. One Medford family, it
is reported, gathered two large
sacks of dead fish to brine home
to place around flowers and
snrubs.
Dead fish are alsn evr-Perlincrlv
smelly. . ; - . . . ; -.- - - :
As a result, the family drove
toward home with the windows
rolled all the way down. After
two miles, however, they de
cided that the potential fertilizer
October Sky Review
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division
Oregon Higher Education System
HIT X . . , . ,
jviosi oi tne pianets are "in
hiding" at the first of this month
Mars is rising in the dawn about
due east an hour before the sun,
but is rfbt easily observed. Venus
and Mercury are in the evening
twilight " sky, but are too near
old Sol to be sighted. Within a
few weeks Venus will be far
enough removed from the solar
rays to be observed as a brilliant
object over the southwestern
horizon shortly after sunset. For
several months thereafter it will
be a splendid "evening" star."
Saturn is now setting in the
west-southwest an hour after the
sun goes down, but is not con
spicuous. For those willing to
brave the early morning "dews
and damps," brilliant Jupiter
presents a splendid picture in
the eastern sky. This old king of
the gods risesfour hours before
the sun at present. .
Harvest Moon Season
We are now in the season of
the harvest moon. We usually
trunk of this as occurring in Sep
tember, but by the rule it comes
in October this year. This is the
time the full moon comes near
est the autumnal equinox. The
equinox this year was on Sep
tember 23; the October full
moon, October 1. This is much
nearer the equinox than the full
moon of September 2. The har
vest, moon this year appears
larger and brighter than in
marry years, for it is relatively
nearer to us.
Brilliant Vega -
For the brighter stars let us
observe about 7 p.m. standard
time. Only a little southwest of
overhead, note the brilliant
Vega. This and a few dim stars
near it constitute the Celestial
Harp, discussed in this column
last week. A little east of the
zenith look for Deneb at the
head of the Northern Cross. The
main line of the cross extends
toward the south-southwest and
is made up of considerably dim
mer stars. The cross arm of three
stars, all of nearly equal bright-
period of time. With the situa
tion abroad what it is and with
an election coming, it will not
be . wise to attempt to muddle
through for too long without a
Chief Executive who is consti-
tuticnally responsible and can be
held accountable.;,
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) !
wasn't worth freezing them
selves to death. Out went the
sacks.
Mrs. Grace Noble of Jack
onville, it is reliably reported,
is rather proud of the title,
"Biggest Liar in Jacksonville."
She was the prizewinner In
two recent liars' contests. ;
You've heard of the long arm
of coincidence? WelL it was
really stretched, out in the case
of two Medford families.
They are the Lloyd Leonhardt
and Howard Lage families.
The men, as youngsters, were
friends in the same neighborhood
of Sacramento. Later, both were
employed by the same oil com
pany. Last year, Leonhardt was
transferred to Portland by the
firm, and the Lages arrived in
Portland a few months later,
also transferred by the same
firm.
Within the past few weeks.
both were transferred, simulta
neously, to Medford, and both
started house - hunting. Leon
hardt finally found a home at 43
North Peach st. Within a few
days the house at 56 North Peach
was rented to guess who? Right;
the Lages.
The Leonhardts are parents of
Richard, 2, and Debra, 10, and
the Lages of Laura, 4.
- Mrs. Quintin Jordan of
Jacksonville is a versatile
woman, and it's a good thing,
too. v-
One day last week, she was
called in to operate a dress
shop for a friend who was
working in the fruit harvest.
The same day the operator of
the filling station across the
street (which the Jordani for
merly owned) also had to be
away from work for the day.
"So Mrs. Jordan spent the
day selling dresses on one side
of the street, then dashing
across to fill gasoline tanks
and wash windshields. ,
.
The quest for information,
which newspaper people con
stantly carry on, sometimes has a
reverse twist.
Reporters, in the course of
their duties within the past week
or so, have sought information
about accident victims from two
different doctors' nurses (only to
find it was the first they had
heard that their bosses had been
called in); information - from a
woman whose son is to go to
Antarctica (only: to find it "was
the first she knew of it), 'and
information from a lumber
retailer about a big lumbermen's
meeting (which he knew nothing
about).
ness, easily catches the eye.
Very high . and almost duo
south, bright Altair in the Eagle
forms a short line with two dim
mer stars, one on each side of
Altair.. . - ,; ;; :
Well above the horizon a little'
north of west, orange Arcturus
sparkles at the lower end of the
Kite. The entire figure, all the
stars but Arcturus being dim, is
easily traced. Low in the north-,
northwest we find bright Capel
la flashing various colors
through the horizon haze. High
in the northeast five stars of
only medium brightness outline
the rather imperfect letter W of
Cassiopeia. -
About 8 p.m. (standard time)
watch for the appearance of the
little stars of - the Pleiades in the
east-northeast. Through the hori
zon haze this small group looks
like a tiny white cloud. Looking
toward the northwest we see the
familiar Big Dipper, and high in
the east the large square of
Pegasus precariously . balancing
on one corner.
Editorial Comment
PIN-CURL PARADE
There are many editorial sub
jects that call for moderation.
The public display of pin-curls is
npt among these.
There are girls and, so help
us, grown women, too who
inexplicably flaunt their beauty
preparations before thousands
daily. Going to and from school,
on a shopping tour, riding the
bus, they shamelessly thus pro
claim that they are saving their
final grooming for some more
worthy audience. Some have
headscarves, but even these leave
revealed the abominable little
badges just above the forehead.
One may well inquire into the
logic of the pin-curl wearers.
Are they preening themselves
for a party or for some other
occasion? If so, is it not prob
able that, when they appear in
public in their state of unreadi
ness, they will be seen and
judged by thousands more than
ever will view the resulting
curls? And there is always the
chance that the best boy friend
the one the curls are to impress
will be confronted suddenly
in the crowd on the street. That
one hazard alone should, encour
age thousands of girls to confine
their pin-curl parading to the
home or the backyard. At least,
we hope it will Portland Ore
gonian. " " V'
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