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Flight o' Time
Mediord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1945
It Was Wednesday)
Medford post of American Le
gion planning new home.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Ar
mistice day parade started on
time. Only a trio of vets head
ed by Hobias Deuel, the wood
man, and a decorated truck
were tardy, but participated by
themselves.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1935
Infantile paralysis claims sec
ond victim in Jackson county
in four days.
Olen Arnspiger, general man
ager of Talent and Medford ir
rigation districts, in Washing
ton, D.C., concerning proposed
projects in county.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1925 ,
(It Was Friday)
Interest develops as eight
foot vein of gold-carrying gran
ite is discovered near Gold Hill.
Rains proving beneficial to
ranch lands in valley.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1915
(If Was Saturday)
Oregon Highway commission
refuses assistance in surveys for
road between Medford and Cra
ter Lake park.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Al Williams, of Toledo,
Ohio, who has been in various
sections of Rogue river valley
for a month or more, will return
in a few days to his home to
Jackson county to remain. .
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
l.rThe American Legion at its
1955 convention in Miami came
out for or against U.S. quitting
U.N., or took no stand on it?
2. More home mortgages are
written these days by savings
and loan associations or by
banks?
3. The Hatch acts are on trans
porting females for immoral
ends, corrupt political practices,
shipping liquor into dry territory
or conspiring to overthrow the
Government?
4: Tulane University is in Cal
ifornia, Louisiana, Massachus
etts, Ohio or Texas?
5. Less than one-fourth, about
one-third or one-half, or more
than two-thirds of all U.S. farm
families now have TV sets?
6. Tetuan is the capital of
which Africa colony of a Euro
pean nation?
7. Dr. Francis E. Townsend
gained fame by his anti-polio
vaccine, treatment of heart dis
ease, old-age pension scheme, or
atomic energy research?
The Answers: 1. Against quit
ting. 2. By savings and loan. 3.
Corrupt political practices. 4.
Louisiana (New Orleans). 5.
About one-third. 6. Spanish
Morocco. 7. Old age pension
scheme.
THROWN FROM CAR
Grand Prairie, Tex. U.R)
A. J. Seeton of Fort Worth,
thrpwn unhurt from his automo
bile by a collision Friday night,
watched as the car kept going
and turned down a railroad
track. It might still be rolling
long. he said, if it had not been
for a Texas and Pacific freight
train.
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The Arab Refugees
What's behind Soviet bloc arms sales to Egypt,
reported offers of arms to Israel, Russia's sudden
friendliness toward Turkey, its about-face on Tito.
In large outline, the answer seems to be centuries
old ; Czarist or Soviet, Russian policy is expansionist.
And for centuries the principal object of Russian glo
bal expansion has been a toe-hold on the Mediter
ranean. Once that toe-hold were gained, Russian pol
icy presumably would call for making the eastern
Mediterranean, like the Baltic, a Russian lake.
0
IMPERIAL Russia for over 200 years was in freq
uent conflict with the old Ottoman Empire as suc
cessive Czars tried to push across the Black Sea to
ward the Mediterranean. The Crimean War in
which Great Britain, France, and Turkey defeated
Czar Nicholas I's aspirations for protection over the
"holy places" of Palestine and over the several mil
lion Greek Christian subjects of the Sultan was
really a struggle for control of the Dardanelles. It
ended with the Treaty of Paris of Mar. 30, 1856, in
which Russia agreed to the neutralization of the
Black Sea.
After Turkey's defeat in war with Russia in 1877
88, the Treaty of Berlin assigned to Russia the Turk
ish districts of Kars and Ardahan. Russia also got
Batum, still an important Russian oil port today.
BRITAIN and France in World War I, when Turkey
was allied with Germany, secretly promised to
rvovicf "Russia flnnstantinonle. both shores of the Bos-
thp Rnrrmpan roast
and the Dardanelles. The
snneomiPTit rprmnriation
the Allies of the obligation to live up to these pledges.
SnhspmiPTit.lv Russia, bv treatv returned Kars and Ar
dahan to Turkey and the Turks agreed to allow the
Russians to keep Batum.
But in 1945, as World War I was drawing to an
end, Russia was demanding from Turkey Kars and
Ardahan, plus other Black Sea territoy, plus the Turk
ish port of Trebizond, plus bases at the Dardanelles.
Turkey rejected the demands and threatened to take
them before the United Nations, but Soviet pressure
on the Turks died out only in 1948.
17 LSE WHERE around the Mediterranean, Soviet
1-1 Russia over the years has made these major moves
toward a Mediterranean foothold:
1. Arms aid and advice to the Spanish Republican
government in the Spanish Civil War of the mid
1930's. 2. Post-World War II demand for trusteeship of
the Italian colonies of Libya and Eritrea. This prob
lem was not resolved until November, 1949, when a
UN General Assembly resolution provided for the
eventual independence of Libya and otherwise made
arrangements for administration of the colonies.
3. Postwar political agitation m Italy and pres
sure on Greece by means
Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The pressure on
Greece, and the external pressure the Soviets brougnt
to bear on Turkey gave rise
of 1947.
4.. War of Nerves against Tito's Yugoslavia, be
gun in June 1948. It was this policy the Soviets re
versed when they began to woo Tito in 1954.
Soviet Russia s expansionism is by no means lim
ited to the Mediterranean
in regard to the Baltic states, the Central European
satellites, and the Far East. But the positive policies
listed above, plus Soviet opposition to Turkish and
Greek membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization and to the "northern tier" pact of Turkey,
Pakistan, and Iraq, qualify the Mediterranean as
quite as much a major Russian target as it was
in the days of the Czars. E.R.R.
Russia And The Mediterranean
Of all the tough nuts to crack in the Israel-Arab
conflict, none is tougher than the plight of the Arab
refugees. They number about 900,000, most of them
quartered in makeshift relief camps in the Gaza
strip or near the frontiers in Jordan and other Arab
states. Minimum subsistence is provided by a UN
agency.
TTHESE former residents of Palestine left it in 1947
48. Israel holds that they left voluntarily, persuad
ed to decamp by Arab propaganda, and that the
Arabs who stayed behind are glad that they did. The
refugees insist that they had to get out to escape ter
roristic activities of Israel extremists.
The refugees have gone largely uncompensated
for the homes, farms, farm animals, bank accounts
and other property which they left behind and which
were impounded. Israel, hard pressed economically,
says that as much compensation has been given or
offered as the state can afford. Also, that more could
be vouchsafed if the United States would make a loan
for that purpose, in the interests of peace.
""THE refugees want Israel to recognize their right to
be repatriated, even though few of them, probab
ly, would use that right. Israel maintains that with its
total population of 1,700,000, including some 175,000
Arabs, the incursion of 900,000 more, most of them
bitterly anti-Israel, would mean internal combustion
that' would break up the state of Israel.
However, Israel has permitted some 50,000 of the
refugees to come back. It argues that the Arab states,
wTith their large area, could absorb the others, but
the Arab states say they can't accommodate more
than the few they have assimilated. Anybody with a
simple, practicable solution that U. S. public opin
ion would accept would be doing a favor to a Mr. J.
F. Dulles by writing him in care of the State Depart
ment, -Washington, D.C. E.R.R.
Sunday, November 13, 1955
of the Sea of Marmora,
Russian revolution and the
of Czarist claims relieved
of guerrillas supported by
to the Truman Doctrine
area, as witness its policies
Mat t er of Fact
WAITING FOR IKE
Washington In nublic. the
Republican leaders are showing
a stitf upper lin about the dis-
couragi n g re
sults of the lo
cal elections in
Ind i a n a and
els e wh ere.
Nonetheless,
this new devel
opment has
clearly put an
extra edge on
the rather edgy
political situa
tion that is
Joseph Also
T ,. x waiting in
Washington for President Eisen
hower. Everyone in a key position has
been and still is extremely chary
about getting committed in any
manner. Eut it is now possible
opinions on the Republican fu
ture that the President will hear
from those who are closest to
him on his symbolic return to
Washington which lifts the Den
ver ban on all political discus
sion. The men around Eisenhower
like all other R
urally hope that the President's
remarKabie recovery from his
u e a r I axiacic
will make it
possible for
him to run
again. Unfor
tunately, how
ever, the odds
will still be
rather he a v y
against Eisen
hower agree
ing to run, even
if he gets the Stewart Alsop
kind of medical
certificate that would normallv
clear the road.
The truth is that the President
himself did not want to run, and
his wife and family were pas
sionately opposed to his running,
even before he had his tragic
heart attack. The President's
own reluctance, and the nleas of
Mrs. Eisenhower and Maj. Eisen
hower were being gradually
over-borne when he went to
Denver. All the Republican
leaders in the country were
shouting the call to duty in
Eisenhower's ear.
At that time, he regularly
answered that there are nlentv
of younger Republican leaders
who are capable of finishing his
job for him. But the constant
appeal to his sense of duty was
clearly overcomins his doubts.
As reported in this space some
weeks before his heart attack,
the stage had been reached
where an Eisenhower candidacy
to succeed himself was all but
inevitable, "unless Yip haH the
kind of (physical) upset which
would give greater force to the
pleas of his wife and son."
JTiHE importance of the heart
attack is not so much that it
has partly incapacitated the
President, although this is des
perately important. The real im
portance of the heart attack, as
one Republican politician has
gloomily remarked, is that "you
can t tell a man who s had a bad
heart attack that it's his duty to
run for the Presidency." In oth
er words, Eisenhower is now
wholly protected from pressure
to run. He can therefore do as
Today and
By Walter
THE GENEVA GAMBLE
Mr. Dulles, and Mr. MacMil
lan and Mr. Pinay as well, went
to Geneva knowing that there
was no chance
whatever that
the Soviet Un
ion would ac
cept their
terms for the
reunif icat ion
of Germany.
There is no
warrant, there
fore, for pain-
Walter Lippmann ed surprise at
the fact that
Mr. Molotov has restated what
was so obviously the Soviet posi
tion while the President was
talking to Bulganin at Geneva
last July.
Just to show how obvious it
was even to one who was not
in Geneva, I should like to quote
from an article I wrote while
the summit meeting was still
in session: "The Soviet Union
has rejected the Eden plan" and
"the West is left with what is
in facta gigantic gamble: wheth
er time is on the side of Aden
auer or of the Opposition to Ad
enauer. The German Chancellor
is playing for very high stakes
for a German settlement on
his own terms, for a Germany
reunited within frontiers that
are better than those of Pots
dam, reunited under his govern
ment in Bonn and under his
party, rearmed within . NATO
and when rearmed, the leading
European power within NATO
. . . What the Atlantic allies very
much need is something lhat will
reinsure their interests in case
Dr. Adenauer's gamble fails, and
a successor enters into direct
negotiation with Moscow."
"POR reasons which seemed
compelling to them the West
ern Foreign Ministers chose to.
go to the Geneva conference
By Joe and Stewart AIsop
he pleases. Unless he had
changed his mind in his hospital
bed, what will please him most
is to retire to Gettysburg.
If he has in fact changed his
mind and now desires to run, the
talk about Eisenhower getting a
new running mate will almost
certainly prove to be empty non
sense. The President likes Vice
President Nixon far too well to
inflict this sort of public humil
iation on him. And making such
a fuss about the Vice-Presidency
would be an Implied admission
that the state of the President's
health was still rather doubtful.
On the other hand, while there
is no substance to the move to
replace Nixon as a Vice-Presidential
candidate, there is no
discernible enthusiasm in the
White House circle for Nixon
as a Presidential candidate.
Most of the President's closest
advisers appear to believe that
Nixon cannot get the independ
ent vote. Hence they think that
Nixon will be unable to lead the
Republicans to victory if Eisen
hower retires.
TF THE President in fact, re-
tires, therefore, it is probable
that most of those around him
will first try to persuade him to
try to persuade Chief Justice
Warren to become the Republi
can candidate.
Almost all Republicans agree
that Warren would be their
strongest candidate after Eisen
hower, and the White House cir
cle is particularly strong on this
point. They feel, in truth, that
Warren would be almost unbeat
able, and the Democrats, holding
their breath, secretly agree with
this view. But the big question
about Warren, of course, is
whether he will consent to run,
It is perfectly plain that War
ren will not leave the Supreme
Court, except at the direct re
quest of the President who put
him on the Court. It will be un
like Eisenhower to make such
a request, but in view of the
opinions of his advisers, the
odds seem to be about even that
Eisenhower will try to persuade
Warren to run if he decides not
to run himself.
AT" THE present moment, the
Chief Justice is freely telling
all and sundry that nothing will
change his mind about staying
on the Court. He means every
word of it, beyond question. But
no one on earth, including the
Chief Justice himself, is in a po
sition to forecast the Chief Jus
tice's response to the kind of ap
peal that the President can make
if he chooses. The odds are
against Warren's yielding, bu
he may yield.
Say the odds are even on the
President making the appeal
Say the odds are two to one
against Warren yielding. That
makes one chance in four of the
Justice becoming the Republican
candidate if Eisenhower does not
run.
Then, if both Eisenhower and
Warren are finally eliminated
it will be Vice-President Nixon
against the field. And then most
of the old Eisenhower-for-Presi-
dent crowd, who do not fancy
Nixon, will be searching the
dark horse stable with a rather
feverish intensity.
(C) 1955, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
with the old Adenauer terms,
which they knew, which their
experts knew, which every cor
respondent knew, were not ne
gotiable. After a visit to Mos
cow in September, we may al
most take it for granted that
not even Dr. Adenauer himself
can have failed to realize that
reunification could not be had
on his terms. So far as I have
been able to find out, the reason
why the Western Foreign Minis
ters remained inflexible on the
unnegotiable terms was that
they feared ' the effect on the
German opposition to Dr. Aden
auer of any concession from
them.
In any event the gamble has
failed. Unless there is some
kind of brilliant improvisation
by the westerners at Geneva, we
are once again in the kind of
position we were in when we
stood so immovably on the Eu
ropean army plan and saw it re
jected by the French Assembly.
The situation then was saved by
Sir Anthbny Eden's diplomatic
ingenuity. The situation we are
now in will need a very bold
statesmanship if it is to be saved.
WHAT is at stake is our posi
tion in Germany and the
confidence of the Germans in
our leadership of the Western
coalition. For there is a very
strong German opposition, by
no means limited to the Social
Democrats, which has never be
lieved that we could prevail
upon the Soviet Union to ac
cede to Dr. Adenauer's terms.
This German opposition has al
ways maintained that Germany
could not be unified as an armed
state within the Western mili
tary alliance. It has , always
argued that German membership
in NATO must be treated as a
negotiable asset in dealing with
the Soviet Union.
Now it may well be that the
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
Che name and address ol the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a Den name or
initial for publication is oernus
rible The Mail - 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.
They Wash the Smoke
To the Editor: With the State
Sanitary Commission citing two
Coos Bay lumber firms for air
pollution, there'll be some saw
millers wondering what to do
about it short of going broke.
But it can be done and not go
broke, for one sawmill owner
did just that. It's the Gamble
Lumber Co. at Brewster, Wash.,
on the Columbia River some 60
miles south of the Canadian
line. Dan Gamble ran it there
for some 45 years when at last
it was "sawed-out," both in tim
ber and years. They were sit
ting around the cook-house sup
per table figuring how to get
enough stock to fill a box-shook
order when Dan said, "There's
that pile - of rough lumber out
back we can . . ." and he
swayed into the arms of an em
ployee, one of the old-time loyal,
pride-of-accomplishment kind . .
proud that he could do this last
bit of service for Dan.
So, his danghter Martha (Mrs.
John Gebbers) took over, Mar
tha whose name is more used
by the lumbering fraternity of
north central Washington than
Gamble Lbr. Co. What to do?
No more timber available "on
the hill." So she proposed mov
ing the mill back to the gulch
on the town's north edge where
Dan first had it, and this writer
helped rock up the twin
Scotch boilers for power. But
the townspeople objected to the
smoke and cinders from it,
though the pay-roll would be
most acceptable. Martha told
them, "We'll just wash the
smoke." And she did just that,
force-drafting the burned gases
from the dutch-ovened boilers
to an upright steel washer that
discharged all solids into the
mill-pond.
It's a most unusual sight to
see the mill in operation, clean
white steam pluming from en
gine and shot-gun feed exhaust
pipes, no smoke-stack or high
cone burner with their, high po
tential fire hazard polluting the
air. Then come winter, the char
coal cinders are drag-lined from
the pond and distributed" by
dump-truck over the extensive
apple or c h a r d s thereabouts
Proof enough that the plan pays
off financially and also in com
munity goodwill.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main st.,
Medford, Ore.
Pound of Flesh?
To the Editor: Armistice Day:
Business as usual, and we all
hope the business men of Med
ford have salvaged their pound
of flesh by keeping open this
day. Now on Sunday they will
go to church to show the people
they put God before the dollar.
It would be too bad if someone
gave them the idea of canvassing
the churches for a. concession
just outside the door to set up
their wares just in case someone
had the idea of driving to Ash
land to get a clean pair of sox
on Sunday.
And still they had the nerve
to hang out the flag in front of
their stores.
Thank God we have the banks,
city and county, who are willing
to close, and let's not forget the
barbers.
Jess Flowers,
Route 1,
Medford, Ore.
Soviet Union would not agree to
German unification even out
side of NATO. My own belief
is that the Soviet Union will not
agree to that now in view of
the inner political weakness of
the Western powers.
But what Moscow would do
now is not the first question.
The first question is whether
the German people will think
we are making proposals that
are not only sincere but are
rational and practicable terms I
for their own reunification. To
make German membership in
NATO negotiable would be to
take a position that Moscow
cannot reject without great loss
of face in Germany.
As long, on the other hand,
as we stand fixed in. a position
that is not negotiable, there will
be in Germany a growing loss
of confidence in our good sense,
and even in our sincerity.
OUR position is very difficult
indeed. For if we concede
German membership in NATO
in order to promote German
unification, we shall be faced
with a deep dislocation of the
NATO military structure. West
ern Germany is the keystone of
the structure, and if it were
taken away, the strategical con-1
ception of NATO would have
to be radically revised. The
Western governments would con
sider that an exorbitantly high
price to pay for the unification
of Germanv.
On the other hand, if we stand
pat on our present terms and,
as Mr. MacMillan has said so
hopefully, just continue to
"lean" on the Soviets, we must
be prepared to see increasing
intercourse and direct negotia
tion between the West and the
East Germans. Insofar as we
cannot or will not negotiate
across "the table with the two
POTLU.GK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The Rev. Thomas McCamant,
a dedicated and able birdwatch
er, reported last week the fact
that a flock of about eight large
birds is roosting in tall elm trees
on Orange st. near Fourth. Res
idents of the area had called
him to tell him about them, and
he went to look at the birds.
They roost in the daytime, and
apparently fly out to eat during
the evenings.
Mr. McCamant identified
them as black-crowned night
herons, which he said are not
particularly rare birds, although
they are not listed as being in
digenous to Jackson county. He
said, however, that it is inter
esting to find them roosting in
the middle of a city.
.
Staff member on an after
noon drive in the Applegaie
area spotted a grey squirrel
climbing in a tree, right over
a "No Trespassing" sign.
We have our woes with proof
reading yes we do.
It serves only to lighten our
burden when we realize that
other papers do too. Specifical
ly the San Francisco Examiner,
which last week ran a story
about the most recent Holly
wood imbroglio involving two
females and a male, and a long,
long story giving "background"
of those involved. It pointed out
that in a recent divorce case, a
husband admitted that he spank
ed his wife and tossed her into
"their swimming pool and said
she went after him with a ight
ed cigaret."
(Note to typesetter: Please set
that last sentence wrong
mean right no, wrong. Any
way, set it as it is, and if it comes
out wrong, that's right.) ,
Movie marquee sign spot
led last week said "Peat Kel
ly's Blues."
In the past few weeks, the
newsroom has been the grate
ful recipient of a number of
"exchanges" of the kind it likes
best the publications of
number of the schools of Med
ford and Jackson county.
Following are some quota
tions from some of them:
"Scavenger Hunt! Scavenger
Hunt! Looking for people who
would like to work on the news
paper. They can be reporters, ed
itors, or help with circulation,
We need you!" (From the Hed-
Women's Division
Of UMC Successfu
The Home Crusade,- women
division of the United Medford
Crusade, is successfully winding
up its part of the annual fund-
raising campaign, according to
Mrs. E. A. Littrell and Mrs
Scott Davis, co-chairman.
Most of the residential calls
have been completed, they said
but there are a few homes which
were missed for one reason or
another, and residents who have
not been contacted but who still
wish to contribute may call at
the UMC office in the Leverette
building or telephone 3-4287,
they said, and someone will call
to pick up the donation.
The co-chairman paid tribute
to the 300 volunteer women who
worked on the home phase of
the UMC drive, including neigh
borhood representatives, and
section and block leaders. De
spite some conflicts and confu
sions the job was described as a
success.
They also declared that the
women workers are convinced
of the benefits of the united
fund type of drive, and express
ed their gratitude to those who
gave.
Griffith Mill Votes
In Favor of Union
Portland (U.R) Employ
ees at Griffith Rubber Mill in
Portland have voted in favor of
union representation by the CIO
Rubber Workers Union.
The election was conducted
by the National Labor Relations
board. The vote was 48-12 in
favor of the rubber workers un
ion and against the AFL auto
motive, garage and service em
ployees union.
Germanies, the Germans them
selves will negotiate under the
table. If anyone doubts this, he
might study the proposals made
to this Geneva conference by
the German Social Democratic
Party. He will find there a
call for direct dealings between
i the two Germanies which dif-
fers in principle and in legal
form but not very much in its
practical purposes from what
Mr. Molotov is proposing.
i VV s"3!1 now see whether the
Foreign Ministers have pre
pared themselves for what they
must have foreseen would hap
pen at Geneva. For they knew
they could not succeed with
their terms.
Have they prepared them
selves for what comes next?
Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
rick Junior High school's "???,"
which is conducting a contest
for a name).
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"The library is a verv busv
place, and it looks as it will be
even busier because more books
are coming in . . . There are oth
er things you can do besides
read books. You can look at
framed pictures of butterflies
and other insects . . . " "On
Sept. 24, Jackson school had its
first Student Body meeting. Mr.
Newton explained the meaning
of the word constitution, and
also explained about the U. S.
Constitution ..." "On Colum
bus day we had a film on the
life of Columbus. Columbus was
discussed by the children in
their home rooms . . ." "We have
very nice lunch room. The
cooks always have a good var
iety of food ... I am sure that
if we try to keep the lunch room
clean, it will make it easier for
the cooks . p . " "The Jackson
school has made 100 per cent in
the Junior Red Cross. The chil
dren have brought pennies and
nickels. Every child got a Jun-.
ior Red Cross pin. We have pos
ters and put them in the
rooms." (From the Jackson
school "Hickory Chips."
"George Hartwein had an ac
cident and had to have 15 stitch
es taken on his cheek. He is
much better now. He doesn't
have the bandage on his cheek
any more. He says it is just a
scratch." "Mike Black's dog
died Sunday. We all feel badly
about it. We hope he can get
another one ' soon." "In our
Science class we have been
studying spiders and insects. We
had a cocoon, hoping to see it
emerge into a Monarch butter
fly, but we were disappointed."
We have studied insects. We
learned six ways that insects are
different. We drew pictures of
insects. We saw a movie of spid
ers. Spiders are not insects."
"Mrs. Kaye's home making
class hao! a candy sale and
made $10.50. The money is to
be used for buying homemaking
supplies. At the present they are
hemming and embroidering dish
towels." "In Social Studies we
have been studying about an
cient civilizations. We have stud
ied about Egypt, Babylonia,
Phoenicia and the Holy Land."
"We have seen two films this
year. One was on cheating, and
the other was on Pompii. They
were both very good films."
"We have been studying early
happenings in America, espec
ially about Oregon. We ,jjed
all the counties of Oregon and
where they are located." (From
the Howard Times, of Howard
Grade school).
"From the Journalism room
window, we can see some of the
many new improvements which
are being added to the attrac
tiveness of the school grounds.
The first and most important
change that we notice are the
new walks which connect the
boys' and girls' dressing rooms.
These walks will prevent the
tracking of mud into the hall
way of the gym and the dress
ing rooms. The next thing we
notice is the work which the
grader has been doing. The
ground in back of the gymn has
been leveled, along with some
of the ground around the bleach
ers. The landscape site in front
of the gym has been leveled for "
the possible planting of grass , ."
"Wanted! One good sports writ
er so that we may have stories
on the basketball games." (From
the "Prospector" of Prospect
High school.)
"The first meeting of Lincoln
school student body was held
Oct. 28. The president called
Lynn Creel to say the flag sal
ute. A boy from Jr. high talked"
about Halloween signs, how we
should not bother sick people.
There was a movie on Trust
worthiness." "Last week two
Indians came and danced at Lin
coln school. It was very excit
ing. There were many dances.
The two Indians were Red
Eagle, the man, Moon Woman
was the lady." "In the last foot
ball game of the season, Wash
ington beat Lincoln 7 to 0. Our
boys played hard, but didn't get
the breaks. Lincoln finished the
season winning one, losing two,
and tieing one." "We sent ' a
birthday greeting to our Presi
dent, Mr. Eisenhower, and sign
ed all of our names. We hope
our President is soon well again.
He sent us a card thanking us
for our note, and now it. is up
on the bulletin board for all to
see." "One morning we helped
Mr. Tom, our janitor, put up
the school flag. Up, up, it went
to the top of the pole. We aU
got to give the long rope a pull.
It is great big. The pole is high,
high. There were two flags. One
for our country. One for our
Oregon. It is all blue." "Mrs.
Hohensee's room .was a hub-bub
a few weeks ago. Some of the
6th graders who wanted to were
given a chance to draw pictures
for the Lincoln Legend. Well,
Maureen Schultz was the lucky
one this time. No telling who
will be the lucky one next time."
(From the Lincoln Legend .. of
Lincoln school.) '
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