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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Klamath Falls Herald and
News sports editor suggests Med
ford's Black Tornado play a
Chicago school for unofficial
title; Tornado has won 18 games,
scoring di00 points.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The sher
iff's office reports armed boys,
some of them almost ten years
old, are roaming the country
side at random, and hitting prac
tically everything but random.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6. 1935
, (It was Wednesday)
WPA men start Medford air
port improvement project cost
ing $32,340.
o
Rjnancial reorganization plan
to put Medford Irrigation district
In "sound financial state an
nounced by Olen Arnspiger, sec
retary. 30' YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1925
(It was Friday)
Ashland school district sub
mits budget of $66,916 to be
raised by tax leyv for new fiscal
year.
Construction . of sawmill
Talent is announced.
at
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. S, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Medford residents voice op
position to Medyfiski rebonding
plan which would greatly in
crease present paving debt.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The person who helped
himself to a miniature state map
that hung near Secretary Latta's
desk in the Commercial club of
fice is requested not to forget
io bring it back when he shall
finish with it. Otherwise the pa
tient secretary will call him a
petty larcenist.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Reseaich Report
1. Which one of these is among
the Big Four foreign ministers
meeting at Geneva: Khruschev,
(Eden, Adenauer, Scelba, Mendes
France, Churchill, Macmillan?
2. About 20 per cent, one-third,
one-half or two-thirds of all chil
dren who go to school are car
ried there in school buses?
3. Greatest single cause of
death between 5 and 20 is can
cer, auto accidents, rheumatic
fever affecting the heart, pneu
monia or polio?
4. More money is spent on ad
vertising in newspapers than in
any other medium; right or
wrong?
5. With acreage sharply re
duced, this year"s cotton crop is
much or slightly lower than last
year's, or much or slightly high
er? .
6. Who was the last previous
Republican Vice-President be.
fore Nixon?
7. A cryptanalyst builds ceme
tery tombs, breaks secret codes,
speaks in double-talk or grows
ferns?
The Answers: 1. Macmillan.
2. About one-third. 3. Rheumatic
fever. 4. Right. 5. Slightly high
er. 6. Charles Curtis... under
Hoover (1929-33). 7. Breaks sec
ret codes.
Dead line Sunday Classified Is at
noon Saturday. 1 a. m Monday for
Monday; other Cays 5:30 Dreviousday.
is.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Nov. 3:
Margaret surprised everyone but herself.
She not only announced she would not wed Group
Captain and Commoner Peter Townsend, but she
made the romance-shattering announcement with a
smile. In fact, according to
times reliable British press, the sister of the Queen
appeared buoyant and relieved, while the party of the
second part appeared quite the reverse dejected and
depressed.
If these facts are correct then the result was not
only best for all concerned, but as nearly perfect as
one could expect under the circumstances.
For if the responsibilities to church and state were
more important to the Princess than the man she
loved and who loved her,
would not have been very
If young Townsend' doesn't realize, this today
he probably doesn t he will when he regains his
emotional equilibrium and the clouds of romance roll
by as eventually such clouds always do.
As for Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother
this outcome must be pretty much what they hoped
and prayed for. Knowing
a spirited and independent
have doubted this would ever happen. The Archbishop
of Canterbury must be as jubilant as the dignity and
sanctity of his position allow, wThile the Government,
particularly Premier Eden, must be greatly relieved.
So as Mr. Shakespeare
that ends well."
In fact the only person
this romantic historical incident in British histoiy this
department feels genuinely sorry for is a certain
former King of England and now the demoted and
dispirited Duke of Windsor.
It must have been a terrific blow to the Duke to
have his favorite niece refuse to follow his own exam
ple, and instead do what in all likelihood he often has
wished he had done, but at the zero hour didn't have
the good sense, character
So to paraphrase the
ending:
"And they lived happily forever after but NOT
together !" '
We can't agree with some of our Democratic
friends and optimists that whether President Eis
enhower runs again or doesn't, the Democrats are
bound to win. That, as we see it, is wishful thinking.
Viewing the situation objectively as this "INDE
PENDENT" paper always does! we would say if
"Ike" runs again, no one now visible on the horizon
can beat him. The. only thing that could beat him
would be a depression not necessarily a financial
crash like that of '29, but a widespread extension of
economic dislocation now evident on the. farms and
in certain textile areas in the rest of the country.
The American people as a whole when satisfied
with a party administration vote to retain it, when not
satisfied vote to turn it out. There is-always -much
oratory' about issues pro and con, but as a general
rule the voters en masse pay little attention to the
talk, but vote their FEELINGS rather than any care
fully thought-out convictions. Therefore, as things
stand today and "Ike" runs, nothing, as we see it,
could defeat him on a platform of "peace and pros
perity." But if conditions that now exist in most of our
rural and some of our mining and mauf acturing areas
should spread over the country, as a. whole, there
would be such general dissatisfaction probably noth
ing could elect him. (However . we grant any such
outcome economically is highly unlikely.) .
If President Eisenhower on the other hand should
decide not to run, that would be a different kettle
of fish entirely. Then the result would depend consid
erably upon the choice of his successor. If Vice-President
Nixon should be the nominee, we doubt if even
the battle cry of "peace and prosperity" would be
sufficient to put him in the White House. There seems
to be a general feeling even here in his home state
of California that in his present position of official
greeter and public relations man Dick is ok, but there
is no popular demand to see him go any further, cer
tainly not to the White House !
Lest there be any misunderstanding, we hasten
to state that . the Mail Tribune today, as it has in the
past, believes Secretary of Agriculture Benson is con
sistent and courageous in his farm policy, and in his
effort to avoid over-production and the piling up of
unusable surpluses he is right. The fact remains that
whether he is right or isn't, if farm prices continue
to decline and dissatisfaction among the farmers con
tinues, the Republicans may well lose the electoral
votes of half a dozen farm states they won three years
ago and in 1956 as in every presidential election
year votes are what will count.
Speaker Rayburn is a great power in the Demo
cratic party and Senator Morse isn't. But we believe
in the matter of campaign policy Oregon's senior
Senator is right, namely:
The Democrats should not withhold criticisni of
Republican policies, because of the great personal
popularity of President Eisenhower and his endorse
ment of them. That, as we see it, wTould be a cowardly
course and a fatal one. They should,' as they have
done, support President Ike where they believe he is
right and oppose him where they believe him wrong,
letting the chips fall where they may. After all a presi
dential election is not a popularity contest or should
not be it is a contest to decide wThat course of action
sh'ould be adopted to best promote the welfare of the
country and. ALL the people in it. R.W.R.
Sunday, November 6, 1955
Well it appears Princess
the always busy and some
then their life together
successful anyway.
so well the Princess to be
young lady, they may well
once observed, "All's well
intimately connected with
and sense of duty to do.
time honored story-book
Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart AIsop
ESTES ON THE BRINK , them. The second is money. You
Washington One of the cen-
tral assumptions of current politi-
cal forecasting may prove to be
a phony, after
all. It is en
tirely possible
that Sen. Estes
Kefauver will
not be a can
didate for the
Demo cratic
Pres idential
nomination, al-
though thebet-
ting is certain
Joseph Also
ly the other
way.
Any caller at the large solid,
amiable, almost artlessly ambi
tions Tennesseean s souvenir-
jammed office here must be
struck by the sharp contrast
between Kefauver and other
Presidential hopefuls. Here there
are no doubts, hesitations or
equivocations, no complex per
sonal stage settings or dignified
pretenses or elaborate political
strategems.
Estes Kefauver badly wants to
have another try for the Presi-
dency and he makes no bones
about it. But
he is not quite
sure that the
great gamble
is a 1 together
worthwhile, or
even feasible
this year, and
again, he
makes no
bones about it.
It is as simple
as that.
"There are
Stewart AIsop
three things I've got to think
about, he said the" other day,
"The first is my family. The
children are growing up, and if
I run again, it win just about
mean a whole year away from
By FRANK JENKINS
Argentina's ousted dictator
Juan Peron has left by plane for
Nicaragua in Central America.
Nicaragua's president Anastasio
Somoza says Peron is a good
friend and is welcome to come
to Nicaragua if he wants to.
Peron's presence in Paraguay
has displeased some members of
the Paraguayan government.
TT'S A GOOD sign when dicta-
tors have to flee hither and
yon in the world in an effort to
find some place to lay their un
easy heads.
I SUPPOSE you've read about
the hoards of gold and jewels
that have been found in Peron's
secret caches. It is to be pre
sumed that there were other
hoards that weren't found that
were probably got safely away
to Paris, or the Riviera, or some
where else where they can be
tapped when needed.
That's fascism for you. Fas
cism and communism are broth
ers under the skin. Both are
based on exploitation of the
many for the benefit of the few.
F
IOR better or worse
It will be better if wise, hon
est, sincere, able leaders are
chosen in Argentina and WORSE
if unprincipled demogogs get in
to power
Peron has been thrown out in
the Argentine.
Here's a prediction:
If we can keep down the
shooting long enough, COMMU
NISM WILL SOMEDAY BE
THROWN OUT OF RUSSIA
AND CHINA. Communism and
fascism are too foul to endure
forever in the modern world.
SENATE hearings on federal
flood disaster insurance are
moving from Washington to New
York and New England, with
New York's governor Averell
Harriman scheduled to testify
in New York.
Democratic Senator Herbert
Lehman, the senate investigating
committee's acting chairman, re
oorts that representatives of
some private insurance compa
nies have also been invited to
testify.
FLOOD insurance has a big
nnlitical aDDeal in heavily set
tled areas where disastrous
floods are more or less constant.
Since those who live on the hills
have little flood risk whereas
those who live m the creek and
river bottoms face a constant
menace, it has been hard to ap
ply thebasic insurance principle
of spreading the risk because
private companies have been
loath to enter the risky flood in
surance field. So in the flood
areas the demand is rising that
the government take over the
job.
If it does, I hope flood insur
ance can be made to pay its way
instead of resting on a federal
subsidy. .
Court Records
POLICE COURT
James V. Landers, unnecessary
noise. S10.
Thomas Urien, violation of basic
rule, S10.
Gordon Laverne Layton. violation
of basic rule. S10.
Orein Lester Cotter, failure to yield
right of -way to oncoming traffic. S10.
William Martin Myers, violation of
basic rule, S10.
William Henry Dunn, expired ve
hicle license. So.
Vernon Walter Thomas, disregard
ing traffic sign. So.
James Albert Hughes, expired driv
ers'' license. S5.
Bertie LeRue Graff, failure to yield
right of way to oncoming traffic. S10.
Jack Pascal, illegal right turn, S3
Harry, Howard Chapman, disreeard-
ing traffic sign, S5.
...
"
In the Day's News
need money to make the only
kind of campaign I'm able to
make, which is a campaign in the
primaries. As for the third, and
maybe the most important thing
to think about, is whether some
one else wUl pick up the prize
after I've half killed myself to
win the primaries."
It seems a fair prediction that
the claims of family life will be
rather rapidly forgotten.if
Kefauver decides he can solve
the other two problems listed in
his down-to-earth analysis.
Of these two, the problem of
money is immediate and press
ing. Among our other politcos,
any discussion of money prob
lems is considered to be crude
and vulgar in the last degree.
The dollars to finance the large
headquarters, to pay the busy
staffs, to meet the bills for the
motorcades and the television
appearances, . are always . sup
posed to materialize as though
by magic, like the ectoplasm at
a spiritualist medium's seanace.
NOT so with Kefauver. He
talked about the campaign fi
nances with the same solemn,
dedicated interest that most peo
ple show in discussing the state
of their digestion. Above all, he
is pained by the memory of end
ing his last try for the Presi
dency with no cash in the till and
about $36,000 of unpaid debts.
"I raised more money to pay
part of it," he said. "I compro
mised part of it. And part of the
debt I took over myself and I'm
just now finishing paying it off.
I won't make another try unless
I can raise all the money I think
I need. I honestly don't know
now, whether I can or not, al
though I think I can."
Assuming the availability of
the cash to pay the bills, Kefau
ver professed to be extremely
confident of his ability to beat
the Democratic front-runner,
Adlai Stevenson, in the primary
battles that lie ahead. California,
where Stevenson is reported to
have decided to enter, and Wis
consin, where Stevenson is being
strongly pressed to enter by his
political advisers, are regarded
by Kefauver as the most import
ant ririmaries.
He claimed that the declara
tion for Stevenson by most of the
California Democratic leaders
had actuaUy helped the Kefau
ver cause out there. - "The peo
ple," he remarked, "don't like
to be told who they ought to be
for; they like to make their own
choice." But while he put his
faith in the people in California,
he admitted that he looked to
the leaders in Wisconsin, where
he has a considerable, carefully
preserved personal organization,
built around the 1952 Kefauver
delegates from Wisconsin.
"Although I believe I can win
in the primaries, it's a man-killing
job to try for a nomination
by the primary route, "Kefauver
added a little glumly. ."There
were davs. last time, when I just
didn't think I could last out until
Chicago. And that's why 1 want
to be pretty sure someone else
isn't going to come along and
pick up the prize I've fought to
win in the primaries.
rT OTHER words, although he
refused to spell it out too pre
cisely, Kefauver feels an intense
distaste for the role aUotted to
him by the wily Carmine De
Sapio. He most emphatically
not want to pour out sweat
and treasure to weaken Adlai
stpvpnson in the primary fights,
tnr thp extremely hollow pleas
ure of seeing Governor AvereU
Harriman, of New YorK, tase
over wnere aieveiisuu
and thus win the great reward
nn the other hand, js.eiauver
Hoes not auite see how he can
insure against this misfortune.
Tt's reaUv a tough pro Diem,
he summed up, with a highly un
characteristic hint of weariness.
In the end of course, since run
ning for the Fresiaency u -natural
instinct, indeed almost
tnmatic reflex, with
tho announcement he
will make in December or Jan
uary will probably De an an
nouncement of candidacy. But
since all calculations of every
other Democratic hopeiui "
t,oxi thp firm expectation
UMU V" - j. i
that Kefauver will run, the fact
that this expectation should be
quite so firm is still a signu.iv.an.
fact.
trnrwriaht 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Editorial Comment
MEDFORD INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT . j
A "Pears to Pineapple guu
will air flight of M memoes -the
Jackson County Chamber of
PnwiwiarnA 51 T.I irdav from M.ea-
ford to Hawaii caused the Med
ford city council to cnange u
official name of the airport for
the day. .
A council resolution giv
port the imposing title of "Med
ford Trans-Ocean and Interna
tional Airport for a period
from 8 a.m. to midnignx oi uic
one day.
The Medford port nas du
develoDine rapidly in recent
years and is the nearest point to
Grants Pass from whicn com
mercial flights originate or ter
minate.
The people of Medford and
the chamber of commerce are to
be congratulated on the effec
tive work they have done to de
velop their airport until it is one
of the best in the state.
Grants Pass Courier
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not exceed 400 words.
Support Dave Holmes
To the Editor: This letter con
cerns the future progress and
policies of the Talent Irrigation
District as an important eco
nomic factor in the lives of all
of us.
The undersigned endorse Da
vid H. Holmes for this position.
Dave has operated a dairy in this
area for approximately three
years. He now lives on a stock
farm and is raising cattle. He
is an experienced orchardman
and is personally familiar with
sound and successful business op
erations. He is intelligent, honest
and concerned about the welfare
of the District and he has specific
suggestions to make with refer
ence to improvements in opera
tion of the District.
1. He believes that more positive
action should be taken on the
Talent Project. Government re
quests for factual data should be
met promptly, and strong, vigor
ous action should at all times be
exerted by the manager and the
board of directors.
2. There should be a complete
review and analysis of manage
ment policies and procedures!
The management should not con
duct itself as a closed corpora
tion to the exclusion of the mem
bership. 3. There should be a complete
survey and inventory of all prop
erty and facilities of the District
to permit intelligent determina
tion of future needs.
4. An advisory board of dairy
men, stockmen and fruitmen,
and small homeowners should
be set up to consult with and ad
vise the Board on problems fac
ing the District. This will enable
the Board to keep more closely
in touch with the varied needs
of its water users and their de
grees of satisfaction with work
being done.
5. There should be better utili
zation of water in the District,
Many problems are common to
all water users and when a user
is confronted with a problem
common to other users, he should
know the policy of the District
will be consistent.
For these reasons, the follow
ing constituting, the Committee
for the Election of David - H,
Holmes as Director of the Tal
ent Irrigation District, respect
fully recommend voting for Mr,
Holmes at the election at the of
fices of the Talent Irrigation Dis
trict on Tuesday, Nov. 8, be
tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
COMMITTEE FOR DAVID H.
HOLMES for Director of
Talent Irrigation District
Henry G. Enders, chairman,
and Dick Westerberg, Jeff Lem-
ley, John Kesler, Gilbert Hill,
Don Minear, Ralph Swingle,
Steve Nye, Evan Maupin,
Archie Ferns, Howard Bush,
Bob Ly tie, Jack Spangler, Cloe
Small, Benny King, Jim War
ren, Wayne Heard, Clarence
Hunter, Ralph Cook, Charles
Correy, Robert Ricfiardson,
Harry Flynn, Lem Hughe,
Martin Schnack.
On Population
To the Editor: Your editorial
on population was quite interest
ing. The facts are that the earth
is overpopulated now. Steps
should have been taken at least
30 years ago to keep down the
population. The U.S. .Census bu
reau predicts a population of
336,000,000 in the year 2000.
If the rest of the earth keeps
up with us in our mad race to
destruction, there will be 5,376
million people in 2000 and 191,
042 million in 2500. I do not be
lieve that even the most opti
mistic of your food experts can
provide for such numbers.
A California foundation has
made a study and states that we
take 1,000,000 acres out of pro
duction every year. We have
400,000,000 acres in cultivation
In 400 years we will have no
land to cultivate.
The Author of Creation tells
us, "Be fruitful and multiply
and replenish the earth." Replen
ish means to preserve, - restore
and replace. It does not mean
to destroy or tear down, nor to
replace 100 people with 10,000.
In times past, Egypt had three
or four times as many people as
it has now. An expedition to the
Arabian desert bordering Egypt
dug up ruins of 140 'cities and
found indications of that many
more. That proves that the re
gion was fertile with a climate
that produced two or more crops
a year. As the population in
creased, they cut down timber,
increased herds, and raised crop
after crop on the land until they
exhausted the soil, overgrazed
their pasture, and left nothing
that would hold moisture in the
soil. So the cultivated land and
pastures dried up and crops fail
ured. So the people were forced
to leave. They swooped down
and destroyed other people who
were less developed and had
plenty of land.
The only safety for humanity
is that no woman be allowed to
have more than two children,
and that the law should be rig
idly enforced, and should be in
full force by 1960.
We can increase the popula
tion as rapidly as possible and
create a nice little hell on earth
for our children and grandchil
dren. We can sacrifice our de
scendants. Possibly nothing too
serious will happen in -our -life-,
times, so what do we care?
If there are men and women
on earth with reason and under
standing who love their children
and want to see the nation sur
vive more than 100 years, they
will be doing something useful
for a change.
G. S. Ackerlund,
Camp White, Ore.
Appreciates Cooperation
To the Editor: On behalf of
the Medford Junior Service
League I should like to express
our deep appreciation to all ot
the people of our community
who helped to make our Follies
a success.
For the generous publicity
which was given us, we say
thank you to the Medford Mail
Tribune, to the Medford Times,
to radio stations KMED, KYJC
and KBOY and to television sta
tion KBES-TV.
We sav thank you to the stores
who sold tickets for us, to the
business and professional people
who supported us with advertis
ing and contributions, to the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce for its support, to the
people who purchased tickets
for our show, and to those who
assisted with the production it
self. It is very gratifying to us to
know that so many people are
interested in our . kindergarten
for hard-of-hearing children. We
invite interested persons to visit
our school, which is located- at
606 Victory st., Medford, Ore.
.Mrs. Donald B. Whalin,
President, Medford
Junior Service League.
Chain Reaction
To the Editor: Shucks, this
chain-reaction ' of the uranium
atom is not so new or so much.
A first hand meeting was had
with the thing, let's see, golly
it's more'n three score years ago
when it was my sad and ornery
chore to pick out our two milk
cows in free . pasture along
Thornapple river, near Hastings,
Mich. Bringing 'em ' home was
the worst part, unwinding the
messed up picket lines from out
around bushes and trees. The
big roan muley cow would lead
good. But the small red cow
with sharp horns that old Roany
wa sso -afraid of, would dray her
slow feet along with me tugging
at the lead-rope.
As necessity, and misery too,
is often the mother of inven
tion, so it was with me. A
bright idea dawned on my ex
asperated mind. It was simple.
A fixed loop was made in one
end of old Roany's picket-line
that was put well-back on her
neck, the balance laid along her
broad back to the red cow and
trailed between her horns, ' un-
aer ner oeii-strap and with a
crooper loop in the end through
which the lazy thing's tail was
put and pulled up in place.
Following events were rather
confused, for when I started
Roany, the loop tightened rather
sudden like under the red cow's
tail that brought an agonized
"brauw-w-w" from her as she
jumped ahead. Roany thought
she was going to get hooked so
she jumped ahead which result
ed in a violent chain reaction of
leaping and bawling , cows with
me hanging desperately to the
wnrpping end of the red cow's
rope. A stump stopped the
chain reaction with me, also eve
ning came sudden and dark-like,
as I dimly listened to crashing
brush and bawling cows in the
distance. Sadly I meandered up
town, persuaded a beer-breath
farmer to let me go home and
work for him a while.
No, there was no more chain-
action when I finally returned
home. But poor dad; ma said it
too him a day and a half to find
the cows. The red one's tail had
a hump in it but she sure be
came a good leader.
F. C. Clifford
1211 West Main St.,
Medford, Ore.
Our Responsibility
To the Editor: One of the most
popular subjects for discussion
at present are our county tax
bills. Never before have we
been asked to pay so much for
so little.
Each of us has only one per
son to blame for our present
high rate of taxation that is
ourselves individually. When
elected or appointed practically
all of our public officials are
filled with the desire to give im
partial economical and efficient
service. As time goes on these
same officials are called upon
only when we want an added
service but hardly ever does
anyone tell them that a bridge,
road or some service is not in
the public interest. It is at this
point that the small pressure
groups make their most telling
blows. They inveigle themselves
into the confidence of our public
servants and are able in their
snide way to convince all who
hear them that the county will
disintegrate unless they are
granted the favors sked.
When all of us attend school
board meetings and meetings of
our county court we will be able
to control the expenditures of
these agencies to which our tax
money goes. If we do not believe i
in the necessity - for some con-1
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Now that Medford High's
Black Tornado has safely beaten
the Grants Pass Cavemen, may
be we can let you in on a little
secret we know.
In the classified ad section of
Tuesday's and Thursday's pa
pers, there was the following
item:
LOST & FOUND
Science has been working on various
theories as to the method of bri;- -ing
up Tornadoes. Be at the Med
ford Stadium on Friday night and
see a machine from Grants Pass
show you how it's donel
Well, this item, it is reported,
created something of a turmoii
at good old MHS. The students
wanted to know who the traitor
was. They were mad, and afraid
that it might mess up the team's
chances of winning the Big One.
The secret is this: The ad was
placed by a Medford man
(whose name we have sworn
never to tell) who is a strong
supporter of the MHS tam. He
figured that it might make the
team .mad enough to really
whomp the Cavemen.
We don't know whether the
ad had anything to do with it,
but Medford won, didn't it?
"We don't want sewage
running aown our streets, a
city councilman declaredQast
Tuesday in commenting on the
problem of sanitary sewer con
ditions in the Verde Hills dis-'-trict.
Jimmy Dunlevy, the rotund
impressario of KYJC (paid
adv.), commenied that the sit
uation hadn't reached that
point yet, but he confided that
there are occasions when you
can't take a bath and wash
clothes the same day without
causing septic tanks to over
flow. F. J. Clifford tells about the
Medford construction foreman
who, early last summer, went in
to a market after quitting time,
accompanied by three co-workers.
He was carrying his lunch
pail, and as he stopped to pay
for his purchases, he opened his
pail to get out his pay check.
He took one quick look inside,
slammed down the lid, looked
around, took another quick look
to verify what he'd seen, told
the cashier he'd be right back
and dashed outside. There he
gently dumped out of the pail a
baby porcupine.
He says he's got a good idea
who the culprits were.
Medford bird-hunters back
from the Klamath area are
circulating advice, thesis days:
Take your track shoes along.
With hunters only about 50
feet apart along the six or
seven mile firing line, they say
the man who can run the fast
est gets the bird.
Sometimes one of the bird
chasers even gets tackled in
the process, they report.
Two hunters stationed near
each other worked out a sys
tem. If a bird on the ground
showed a wound on one side,
it would go to one hunter; if
the shot-holes were on the
other side, it would go to the
ether.
Two staff members were on
the sidewalks in front of one of
Medford's better emporiums of
gay 'living (just happened to be
passing by. you understand) late
one night, recently when an in
dividual emerged, looked grog-
gily up and down the street,
spotted a police car, and yelled.
"Hey, TAXI."
Auburn, Nebr. (U.R) Gov.
Victor Anderson, attending a fall
festival here after his second
trip to the stare pjiison in five
months' to help stop a riot, got a
serenade. The festival band
marched to the governor's stand
and played "The Prisoner's
Song."
struction or service
we must
speak against it.
It is well to remember that
our public servants are only hu
man and will be controlled by
the groups who appear before
them most often. It is not too
inconvenient for the speciaL
privilege groups to appear at
meetings of these bodies and if
we want more economical gov
ernment we must make our
wishes known.
Government is every citizen's
business and it is impartial
when it represents all of us.
Dan F. Krotz II,
Chairman for
Community Service,
Steelhead Post, VFW
Shady Cove, Ore. -
Sees a Difference
To the Editor: Oregon's new
Democratic senator again has
demonstrated his New Deal
mentality by not seeing any dif
ference in Wayne Morse, elected
by Republican votes and money
to represent them, deserting to
the Democrats, and a defeated
Democrat shifting to the Repub
licans. Neuberger previously cri
ticized Herbert Hoover for sug
gesting that a nation badly in
debt should not be lending mon
ey or building dams at Hells
Canyon.
Wayne Morse had every obli
gation in any code of honor to
complete the mission he asked
for, and was paid for, while the
defeated Democrats had no obli
gation whatsoever.
Ira C. Jones,
2325 Stewart ave.,
Medford, Ore.