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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-gl41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adverusing Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of juarcn a. law SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three moi. 3.50 Sunday Only One vear $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 1J 00 Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Sea ttl. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOHAL lASSOCfATllON U J NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and iQ years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Diamond Flvnn named chair man nf .Tarkson COUntV Unit of National Federation of Small Business, Inc. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A volcano expert reports smoke arising from the waters of Crater LaKe is due to some minor subter ranean devilment, and there is not much chance of a Class AA eruption that would bury Pros nf-t. in lava like Pompeii. Be sides, Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man, is too busy sawing wood and shovelmg snow off roofs to fight rivers of fire and red-hot rocks. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 20. 1935 (It was Wednesday) W. Woodrich, manager of Eagle Point Ladino cheese fac tory, reports theft of 500 pounds of cheese. Jim Pinniger, former Mich igan State star, elected business manager of Provolt Lime plant basketball team. 80 YEARS AGO Nov. 20. 1925 (It was Friday) Jackson county court signs order reducing maximum truck loads on county roads. Enrollment at Talent High school almost doubled what it was last year, school officials re port. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 20, 1915 (It was Saturday) Castillian Grill on South Grape st. advertises the follow ing: Chicken Broth; autumn salad or shrimp salad; roast pork, apple sauce; roast chicken with cranberry sauce; mashed potatoes, cream gravy; creamed peas; jello fruit or pie; coffee, tea, milk all for 50 cents. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7 Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rcpad 1. If this winter is especially cold, fuel oil will be, says the oil industry, scarce, plentiful, or jut about enough for home heat ing needs? 2. About one in every five, ten, 15, or 20 U.S. families changes its residence every year? 3. Which two men prominently mentioned for the 1956 Demo cratic presidential nomination have been divorced? 4. About 45 per cent, 60 per cent, 75 per cent or 90 per-cent of all U.S. car owners carry per sonal liability insurance? 5. The island of Aruba in the West Indies is a British, Danish, Dutch, French, or U. S. posses sion? 6. There are about twice as many Democratic as Republican federal judges, or about twice as many Republican ones, or about the same number of each? 7. A whiffletree is found in a forest, on a sail boat, on a carriage, in "Alice in Wonder land," or behind a lunch coun ter? The Answers: 1. Plentiful. 2. About one in five. 3. Stev enson and Harriman. 4. About 90 per cent. 5. Dutch. 6.' About twice as many Democratic ones. 7. Carriage (it's an at tachment for harnesf. - . MAIL TRIBUNE "Small Potatoes Some of our Republican friends are hard to please. When ex - Governor Stevenson of Illinois an nounced he would make known his decision re garding the Presidency early in November he was chided for pretense of action and lack of candor. For example : "Why doesn't he come out and say he is going to be a candidate when everyone including himself knows he is? Why try that old game of being coy and "hard to get" again, as he did in Chicago 3 years ago? That old dodge is played out and Adlai ought to know it." , MOW that Mr. Stevenson HAS made his announce A" ment very brief and to the point he is con demned by the same group as before and Adlai is now rushing things, jumping-the-gun, and extending the political campaign needlessly to the detriment of his own party and his own chances. TXTE FEAR nothing the Democratic candidate of 1952 may say or do, is going to please the Oregon press at least the overwhelming Republican ma jority. Even the usually fair minded and judicial Salem Statesman scores the Stevenson announcement as properly invoking the term of "egg-head." It is too brief and mild apparently to arouse any enthusiasm in his own party or the country, and of all things lacks the fire and "give 'em hell" punch of that stal wart "Gentleman from Missouri," and former Presi dent of the United States, Harry S. Truman ! (Consid ering what the G.O.P. had to say about Harry's cam paign methods, that is something for the book!)' . W! HAT did the Statesman want or expect? a rip sTinrinp-. table-thumrjine- camDaien soeech fol- kjm.v - 3 7 x o x o x lowing the old time-honored stencil of the profes sional politicians giving everyone on one side hell and fitting golden halos on the heads of the other? Ex-Governor Stevenson is not the hell-raising type of political spellbinder, never has been and never will be. This announcement was, moreover, a personal announcement, not the opening shot in the 1956 campaign. Why should Adlai start out to play a part so for eign to his nature, and his conception of what a cam paign for the office to which he aspires should be? As Stevenson often remarked in the '52 campaign, he wasn't trying to appeal to the emotions or prej udices of the voters, but to their reason and their sober judgments. He was in other words trying to talk sense, to clarify the issues not distort or becloud them, or conduct his campaign along the bally-hoo line of an Atlantic City beauty contest. . He did talk sense. He made some of the finest speeches from the standpoint of logic, lucidity, good natured humor and charm, ever made in a presidential campaign but as everyone knows, and history now records, "Ike" gave him a tprrifiV beating. This was not because of logic, TnrirHrv nr charm of HIS the latter's PERSONAL charm and.megnetism and on the turn of the political tide due. .... IT WOULD no doubt have been too much to expect T?fiwnVi1iori nroec tr Tiavo nvaisprl Mr 'Rt.PVPTl- son's brief announcement there was no cause for hnumiet throwing from either side but it seemed to this department it was pretty small potatoes to con- demn the announcement, on trie grounds tnat it iaiiea tn bp what rpo-ardless of rjartv no such announcement, by the nature of things, should have been R.W.R. ' Why? ' As for jumping the gun as far as the presidential campaign is concerned the private power companies are doing that For many weeks now the Republican press has been deluged with anti-public power propaganda. Public power development, it is claimed, is the invention of the devil and the late . Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is not only creeping socialism but second cousin to Stalin communism, and must be extirpated from the body politic if the American way of life aqd the free enterprise system is to prevail. THHIS is the same old wheeze that marked the reign of Samuel Insull a quarter of a century ago and should cause no surprise. It may not be so generally known that this campaign is not really designed only to , defeat further development of the public pow er but to defeat Senator Wayne Morse. Oregon's sen ior Senator is a seasoned and extremely effective campaigner, he has also started his -campaign early, but one of his main platform planks is the support and extension of public power, and if the Oregon electorate can be turned against public power and in favor of private power it is reasoned that regardless of who runs against him, Wayne Morse can be de feated. Mebbe so. But we wouldn't advise anyone to mortgage the old homestead and wager the proceeds on it. However, there is one striking feature regarding all the private power propaganda thus far circulated in the state, that one thing is what will the price of electricity thus produced be how will those prices compare with public power prices? - A FTER all one of the most important factors in northwest development is "cheap power." Not public power that will drive out private power but public power that will keep private power prices with in reasonable limits and provide the maximum bene fits for development of the country and all the people in it. One naturally wonders why, this important factor in all the pro private power propaganda has never to date been mentioned! &W.R. - - Sunday, November 20, 1955 oDDonents speeches, but on Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Retarded Children's Week i To the Editor: Nov. 13 through 23rd has been designated" by President Eisenhower as Men tally Retarded Children's Week. It is well that the nation pause and give thought to the many people born with this affliction. In the state of Oregon alone there are more than 32,000 mentally retarded persons. Ap proximately 12,000 mentally re tarded are school age children." Friends of Retarded Children, a local chapter of the Oregon Association for Retarded Chil dren, is deeply concerned with this "number one" child handi cap. We promote counciling with parents, showing them they are not alone in their trouble, we ask the public school system to establish special classes for re tarded children. Jackson county deserves high praise in this re spect for it is the only district in the state which has special classes for the education of re tarded children. Friends of Re tarded Children cooperates with Fairview, the state institution, in every way possible. We pro mote the general welfare of the mentally retarded of all ages, we try to develop better public understanding of the facts of mental retardation and there fore public acceptance of help ing these citizens that are born less fortunate. Many ministers, concerned with the despair, the heartache associated with this affliction, will give announcements, con cerning National Retarded Chil dren's week and in Grants Pass will distribute leaflets giving information about Oregon. Friends of Retarded Children welcome membership from all interested persons and especial ly from civic-minded organiza tions. For information write our secretary, Mrs. Claude Keyte, 626 S.W. Western ave., Grants Pass. Our next meeting will be Dec. 8 in the Eagles hall, Grants Pass. We want you to send a representative from your school, your lodge, your church. We need you. Friends of Retarded Children 519 S.E. "H" Street, .. Grants, Pass, Ore. Mrs. Neil Hachenberg. President. Merchant's Praised To the Editor: The streets of Medford presented- a beautiful sight on Veterans Day, Nov. 11 What is mnro ripmitiful and in- snirin? than our National FlaS?i And the streets of Medford were well bedecked with the stars and stripes on that national holiday. A partial check showed that nearly every merchant who pos sessed a flag had it displayed in front of his place of business Friday. The Medford post of the Amer ican Legion worked hard to dis tribute as many flags as possible before the holiday but the pro ject was just too big. Many mer chants have inquired as to why they did not have a chance to purchase a flag and bracket. Being commander of a Legion Post the size of Medford's is like having the job of the mother with 17 small children. Two hands cannot begin to handle all the work and even- with 40 hands there are just not enough hours in the day to complete all the tasks before us. The rest of the merchants of Medford will have their chance to obtain the flags and brackets soon. How ever those merchants who had the flags are to be complimented on having them displayed. On the other hand it would appear from all the rumblings and complaints from the indi vidual merchants, that Medford was open for business as usual in spite of the fact that most of them wished to close. The pro gressive town of Ashland to the south of us closed up business for the day in order to celebrate our victories over our enemies. Flags were well displayed and many of the Ashlandites came over to Medford to join in the festivities and ceremonies. Why should Medford have to be the pigtail and follow what they did in a few cities up north? Why can't we take the lead along with Ashland and show the other cities of the state that we are glad that the wars are over and that our form of gov ernment has been preserved? Don't force our veterans to work on Veterans day. Let's all plan and work together for next year to make Medford the leader on this very important holiday. Bud Fisher, Commander Post 15, American Legion. Let Ike Know To the Editor: During its three years in office the Eisenhower administration has made a mas sive contribution to the well being of the American people. Perhaps its two most significant long-range achievements have been the re-dedication of the Re publican party to its traditional role of promoting intelligent social progress and the accept ance of the responsibilities im plied in America's new role as the world's greatest power. To my mind, the best interests of the American people dictate the continuation and extension, after 1956, of the progressive Eisenhower program. And the best man to carry out that pro gram is Dwight D. Eisenhower himself. The President's remarkable re covery from his recent illness indicates that he is able to make the race if he wants to. The final decision must, of course, be his and his alone, but I think that the American people should let him know how they feel. In 1952, when enough Americans said "We Like Ike," our great war time leader responded to the call. Now is the time for us to reaf firm our faith in him. It would seem singularly ap propriate that Oregon, which has provided so much progres sive leadership for the Republi can party in the past, should lead the way now. At the recent Young Republican State Conven tion I sponsored a resolution urg ing Mr. Eisenhower to run again. But I am certain that our Presi dent will be much more recep tive to the urgings of individual citizens than to the pronounce ments of political organizations. I am convinced that a second term for Mr. Eisenhower is the best insurance policy for Amer ica's future. If you feel as I do, write the President and tell him that you are hoping he will run in 1956. Let's show Ike how we feel. Paul Kerrigan, Reed College Eisenhower-for-President Committee, Portland 2, Ore. Carnage Continues To the Editor: As I heard the talks Wednesday at the Con gressional hearing on federal for est lands, a great many and var ied thoughts percolated through the gray matter beneath my gray ing hair. I've walked and worked over much of that land, even in "impenetrable" Curry county terrain. My thoughts went back to millions of Michigan acres of virgin white pine, left a scorched earth by ruthless doUar-wor- shippers; some of whom moved onWest with exhilarated destrue tion. I recall warnings, pleadings, attempted passage of laws to stabilize and maintain Ameri ca's forests. I thought of the tire less Gifford Pinchot, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt, and many other farsighted, public spirited souls, and finaUy crea tion of National Forests, the only bwance-wheel to prevent un; Hfidled forest destruction. I recalled another Congres- V eional committee inquiry about 15 years ago when Col. Greeley, W. C. L. A. Secy, was asked, "Why such liquidation of Amer ica's forests?" He replied, "Be cause the owners of that timber have no faith that it is going to be worth anything 20 years from now. And being businessmen they feel no other course but to cut it and get it off their hands,1 etc. So, carnage continued. Yet, long before, and ever since Greeley's talk, distress, even dis aster signals, were everywhere visible, warning of the . timber famine we're in today, and will increasingly plague each suc ceeding American generation. Maybe each generation must ad just itself to circumstances, as present nomads in other once forested lands have done. As witness after witness pre sented his needs for more tim ber, each urge edged small oper ators faster and closer to ex haustion of timber. Then what? Tax-delinquent county forest land is bought, stripped of a bit more dollar value, goes back; each time at reduced value and increased liability. As forest re sources dwindle tax money must come from elsewhere; i fruit trees, shade trees, flower gar dens? Else we must live within our much-reduced means. As you scan deforested ridges, just visualize the beautiful, bountiful, inexhaustible supply of a thousand forest products God gave freely for millions of people to use and enjoy, on through the ages. But, alas, alack! John Gribble, 139 Kenwood Ave., Medford, Ore. Taxes Too High To the Editor: You wondered why people were angry over the revaluation of their property? Because so many homes were put too high. A family can spend 83,500 for materials and build their home. The board revalues the place at $7,500. Why? Others have spent $300 for their home in the depression years and managed to put an other $100 on it in repairs, re valued up so high that the taxes were four times what it was the year before. Another person spent out on labor " and paint $500 to preserve their building, revalued at $1,000 above what it was. As one woman said while standing in line, "It's highway robbery." She paid her taxes all right but that's the general feeling. Just why the new addition to the court house? Why can't one floor of it be used for the juvenile detention home? Why didn't the last -congress try to balance the books instead of raising their pay 10 high? Ar we heading this country into a monarchy by over-doing the tax ation business? A working man may be buy ing his home, raising his family, yet his taxes will' include county tax, federal income tax, state in come tax, F.I.C-A., state indus trial, etc. So by the time his de ductions are paid he has little left to buy food, clothing, etc., for his family which also should include doctor bills. The late Phyliss Swearingen left Chicago, 111., years ago be cause they insisted on having money from the patient before being taken in. She told me she had seen too many people die be cause of lack of money, so she came to Medford and run the Community hospital in a hu manitarian manner. I wonder how she would feel now. Gladys Hamilton, Route 2, Box 468, Medford, Ore. Organic Foods To the Editor: I was so glad to see so miy people out to the meeting of Natural Food Asso ciates at Grants Pass, Oct. 22. And such wonderful meals they served there; were simply de licious, foods all grown organic way. And the women of Grants Pass certainly knew how to pre pare them. All grown without poisonous spray. The JN.d.a. journal tens us food can be grown this way, and will not burn foliage, men or beast. The table centers were decor ated with apples, grapes and peaches for all, grown the or ganic way. In the September Monthly Jour nal of N.F.A., Dr. Nichols stat ed, thousands of dollars are given each year to various national fund drives which could be bet ter used in N.F.A. He said we know what is wrong with the national health, we need money for action. I sure wish everyone in Amer ica could of heard Dr. Joe Nichols' wonderful talk that night. I feel sure all who did, will never use D.D.T. or phos phorus sprays again. May God , protect and bless him in his wonderful work. Julia Grissom, Route 2, Box 657, Central Point, Ore. Seek Public Interest To the Editor: We wish to clarify our letters written to the Medford Mail Tribune. This committee and Steelhead Post are not against any political party or the members thereof so long as they do not advocate the overthrow of our government through the use of force. We are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, the laws and insti tutions of the United States of America. At the inception of this pro gram it was our plan to com mend our local public servants. Contrary to the belief of some we have found some in public office worthy of commendation and in due time these will be recognized. It is our belief ' that most Americans are law abiding citi zens who want public servants that can be trusted and respect ed. We further believe that most of us take our government, city; county, state and federal, too much for granted and fail to realize that our public officials are actually public servants who perform the duties that are our responsibilities. it we allow small pressure groups or individuals to domi nate our public servants we wUl not have a government of, by and for the people, and given op portunity (.oi wnich tnere is plenty) these pressure groups can usurp all our liberties and privileges. We can have a government, na tional and local, which is truly representative of the people only when we are interested enough to study the qualifica tions of each person who desires public office. When the method for selection of a person for any public office does not permit a free choice of those best suited we must insist that another method for selection be used. No small group can be allowed to determine the candi dates for any office. Dan F. Krotz II, Chairman for Community Service, Steelhead Post VFW, Shady Cove, Ore. Who Voted It Down? To the Editor: We have built a truly wonderful economic ma chine here in America, one that has made possible this golden age we live in, appreciated so much by us older ones with memories of "the good old days" that were rather often "root, hog or die" days. Like all ma chines, this economic one must have its wheel bearings greased with a special brand known as taxes. Taxes we all must pay directly or unnoticeable like in commodities we buy and rents we pay. The past year we voted for new schools, a detention stop-and-listen station for unruly kids, and a few other odds and ends in keeping with the age and our way of life. But we voted down proposals for new monies to finance all this, the sales-tax that bordering states have had for quite some time and whose people we welcome here in vacation time or for sea sonal work, all of which they seem to enjoy, especially the. 711 offer of Fact sy stewc ais0P A NEW REPUBLICAN FACE Topeka, Kan. Although hard- j 1 1 : a; ! ly anyone outside his native state has so much as heard his name, Fred L. Hall, the stocky, scrap py, ambitious, out - spoken, in t e 1 1 i gent young Gov ernor of Kan sas, may-well prove a man to reckon with in 1956. . HaU has a Stewart AUop number of po litical assets, including a forceful speaking style, a very attractive wife and the personal liking of President Eisenhower. But he has one asset that over-shadows all the rest. He is strong in pre cisely those areas where the Re publican party minus Eisen hower is weak. There were three essential ele ments in the Eisenhower land slide almost solid farm sup port, a big slice of normaUy Democratic labor support and a huge slice of the independent vote. If the President does not run, the Republicans must some how hang on to enough of these Eisenhower gams to win. As they will admit in private. farm discontent in this area has the Republican strategists wor ried sick. Hall has not publicly at least 3omed the hue and cry for Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's scalp. Nor does he claim that 90 per cent parity support is tne whole answer to the farm program. But, he says, with re freshing candor, that the whole national economy is being sub sidized and that the farmer de serves his full share. He adds, even more frankly, that the rea son the Republican party is in trouble with the farmers is that the Party has not kept its prom ises to them. Right or wrong, Hall s stand on the farm issue is the popular stand in these parts As for labor, if there is a hero of organized labor in the Repub lican party, it is HaU. This spring HaU vetoed a "right-to-work" bill, which had already been signed into law by eighteen governors, twelve of them Demo crats. He vetoed on the grounds that the bill "destroyed the prin ciple of collective bargaining." In so doing, Hall earned the undying enmity of powerful con servatives; congratulations for his "courage and devotion" from the Eisenhower Secretary of Labor, James P. MitcheU; and the genuine gratitude and ad miration of many labor leaders. The admiration of labor leaders is an unusual but not inconsider able asset for a Republican. '.;' ' VTO ONE can safely"-define what attracts the mysterious independent vote, unless it is being exactly in the political center. Hall, an all-the-way Eis enhower man except on the farm issue, considers himself an Eisen hower middle-of-the-roader. But the Kansas Governor also has a POT - (By M-T Staff Mrs. Bill Bostwick, who lives in Sunnyside, Wash., is a former Jacksonville girl and the sister of Mrs. Lewis Applebaker, Jack sonville, whose husband. is fire chief there, and the daughter of Mrs. Riley Norris, also of Jack sonviUe. Well, Mrs. Bostwick, we are told by our Jacksonville corres pondent, became the mother of a boy last Nov. 2, in Sunnyside She asked a friend, Mrs. Lola White, to call Mrs. Applebaker in JacksonviUe, and report the blessed event, Mrs. White made the call, but found the telephone at the Ap plebaker residence busy, so quite naturally decided to call Chief Applebaker at the fire hall. The call went through successfuUy on the alarm phone The siren wailed and 15 vol unteer firemen came rushing to me lire nau irom an over town 1 : , 110 The excitement died down graauaiiy, tne mrtn was an nounced, and the long-distance operator was told of the circum stances, But a second operator some how got the idea the call had not been completed, and put it through to the fire haU again ihe siren wailed and 15 volun teer firemen came rushing to the tire hall from all over town. Seldom, we are sure, has a baby been given such a noisy ana exciting double welcome, sales-tax-free supplies and other items they need or just want. Hence, the main tax load must be taken on by the property owner. And everyone of them talked with, swear they voted for the sales-tax. Who the dick ens then voted it down? So, the bedeviled officials who have the chore of rustling money with which to meet our public debts, had no other choice but to place a fair market value on aU properties. A very fair valuation was placed on the one here but nigh doubled the taxes, the first big bite of $125 gomg to the school fund, $66 to the city and $144 to the county, some of which also goes to schools. F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main St., Medford, Ore. special political style of his own. very different from the bland- 1.-: 11 I. , . iieaa nuw puiiLiuciiiy lasmonaDie, but with a certain appeal to the independent mind. He is no mincer of words. Consider these unminced words, prepared for delivery to the National Repub lican Club: "There is an almost incredible thing about the Republican Par ty ... At a time when we can ill afford the loss of a vote, we are alienating . . . labor and agri culture. We are fighting the farmers. We are fighting with labor. The farmers and labor are the vast majority of the rwn- ple . . . No politicarparty can af. ford the luxury of alienating the votes of the majority of th people." There are still a surrrisinsr number of Republicans who have failed to grasp the simple mathematics of the last sentence quoted above, and HaSMias a right to can himself, as heTfoes- pragmatic Republican." Ha is also an instinctive scrapper. Friendly critics here in Topeka say that his greatest weakness is a tendency to leap into the fray when there is no sound political reason to ao so. To be sure, he got where he is by leaping into frays. Again and again he has defied the powerful Republican Old Guard, led by former Sen. Harry Darby. Again ana again the Darby faction has done its damndest to purge him and failed. But the end is not yet. ine Darby faction is expected to do everything in its pow& to kiU off any budding Hall candi dacy by sending an anti-HaU fac tion to San Francisco. HaU claims he can "lick them again, it tney want to fight." But Dar by also has important national connections, while Sen. Frank Carlson, a Darby ally, has access to the President, and win do the Governor no good in that vital quarter. THERE are other high and low nVctarlic r a PTall nar1ir1Mr The stiU powerful right wing of the party is not likely to clasp him to its bosom. HaU is also very young he.wiU be barely forty by convention time. Aside from war-time service with the War Production Boafd, he has little experience in the vital de fense and foreign policy fields. He is not a veteran he has high blood pressure, and was rejected despite repeated attempts to vol unteer for service. Finally, there is the too-fresh memory of the terrible licking Hall's fellow Kansas, Gov. Alfred Landon, took in 1936. And of course Hall may suffer from far more serious disabili ties, as weU no one can judge his real stature until he ias played a greater national role. But he is certainly one of the most interesting new faces to ap pear on the political scene for a long time. And if the President bows out, it will be weU worth keeping an eye on the chunky young Governor of Kansas. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) tU - CK and Contributors) anywhere, as was Gregory Allen Bostwick, of Sunnyside, Wash., O in Jacksonville, Ore. Deb Addison, of the Kla math Falls Herald and News siaff, has a boat which he calls "The Dog's Nose" because it is wet, cold and has no hair. A Medford school held an open house for parents last week. In one room, a teacher had pre pared for the event by teUing her students she was going to give their parents an arithmetic test, and asking them to write a note of welcome, to be left on their desks to greet their parents in the evening. A Potluck a operative copied down a couple of the notes, and here they are: No. 1 "Dear Dad If you lis ten you might learn some sub traction. Welcome to open house." No. 2 "Dear Mom & Dad I'll find out if you're as good as you say you are in arithmetic. Because you're going to have a a lesson. "P.S. Good luck." ' Young daughter (speaking out of a clear blue sky): "Daddy, did you ever wish something when you were little that you wished you hadn't wished when you were bigger?" A valley family recently pur chased a large older home. They found, in an upstairs bedroom, a little closet, shanowQind flat, which seemed to have no particu lar purpose. They found a purpose tor it, however. Come Halloween, when it came time to put away the decorations, they found that a folding skeleton just fit when hung in the closet. They now can lay claim to a bona fide "skeleton in the closet." WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Mostly cloudy through Sunday; oc casional rain Ukiah and Red Bluff north; slightly warmer to day; southerly wind near coast 20-35 MPH Point Arena north and southwest 10-20 elsewhere. O O
