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Dec. . 1
(St as Tuesday)
Frnfc S. Trime and Foute
E;gleton promoted to Captain at
' Camp Whit.
From Arthur Fery' Ye
Smudge Pot column: It now ap
pears buttir is now under the
unters, where the cigarettes
used to b, tnd mors of same is
in the sop, thtn en the pan
cakes. 20 YEAR A
Dec. 25, 143
(It Wti "W4nsdy)
Iks are nott to 1,100 under
privileges eftildren at Christmas
Dionn guifttujlet frolic on
th'eir fcoR fcitm in Cal
lander, Oat.
SO YESiRt 0
Dee. 25, 1S? o
(It Jriday) .
Water anS -rr lines to be
constructed after holidays into
Conroy and Clancy ddition and
era.
Meaiord Hiht ireas.
Nw Christmas mail volume
established t Medford post of
fice with pile of undelivered
package nd cgrds.
40 Yf 1 40
Pc..ll9
O (It was Saturday)
Henry Ford concedes peace
ship failure, starts return trip
from Norway.
Medford's . first municipal
Christmas tree displayed; lights
turned on by Mayor Emerick.
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What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. ($55, Editorial Research depart
1. The custom of decorating
a tree for Christmas came to this
country from Denmark, Ger
many, Russia or Canada, or from
England with the Pilgrims?
2. Sen. H. H. Lehman, who
preceded Averell Harriman as
Democratic governor of N.Y., is
or isn't for Harriman as 1956
Democratic presidential nomi
nee.
G 3. Maximum attainable speed
Claimed for new U.S. cars in-
creasedhbetween 1948 and 3955
i t i rrf
on fase average, Dy apoui 13-
35T55 or 75. -
4. Practically all the money
received from Christmas savings
clubs is spent on Christmas gifts,
right or wronfi?
5. The Sovit Union has a very
DowSful. rthi -vt, or just
about avtrif t-tren$th fleet of
subisarinw?
6. It il Aart&er fey air from
New York Miami r from Chi
cago to Miasa, the same
distance?
7. Jamtt . K33a is a power
ful labof it4s: emong auto
worker, iswt verfeers, long
shoreman, MHtF(n coai
miners? '
The Kg"ffj 1. &e many, in
19th cntu. . fea't ( for
Adlai). 3. ? Jfet 1 ave
rage. 4. etwie show, at
lease one-thirl si mte sav
ings. 5. Verf pewerful. 6. Fur
ther frffim Chicago. J . Teamsters,
TREE PROBLEM
Grand Rapids, Mich. OJ.R)
City Forester Bert Roubos be
lieves nearly one-third of Grand
Rapids' 200,000 trees should
come down. Roubos said many
of the trees are too old, others
are too big and break up side
walks and others damage umuy
n7iro anH others are just "the
wrong kind."
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Ellsvoorth Survey
Congressman Ellsworth recently made a survey of
his district to determine the views of his constituents
regarding his policies and those , of the Republican
party the two terms are synonymous, of course. (If
Mr. Ellsworth has ever voted against his party on an
important issue we have no record of same.)
The results we are informed are highly significant
and satisfactory.
According to the Roseb'urg News Review (the
Congressman's spokesman in his home town) the
"referendum showed these gratifying results' to wit:
1. The voters of the Fourth district are over
whelmingly conservative and Republican, joining the
rest of the country in fact the world accqrding to the
News Review against socialism.
2. They .are overwhelmingly for higher postal
rates over 3 to one in fact.
3. They are against more federal -housing at the
same emphatic ratio,
4. They are against any "pay-as-you-go" road
program and in favor of the administration's bonding
proposal nearly 8 to 1 in short, practically unanimous.
5. Less competition by the government with pri
vate business was favored by 77, and the balancing
of the budget before tax reductions by 80.
Increasing Government aid for school and educa
tion, received more support but the Ellsworth ele
ment won on this issue also 53 to 40 ; increased social
security payments just squeaked by 48 to 44 ; federal
health assistance was disapproved 54 to 33, and Sec
retary Benson's flexible price supports were favored
over any. program of fixed price supports 39 to 6.
Farmers in . general throughout the district voted
against any subsidies to farmers from the government
in favor of permitting farm prices in the open market
to seek their own level. As to Hells Canyon and gov
ernment development of water resources and power,
the people of this district according to this poll, only
could muster 17 in favor, while the Ellsworth pro
gram of a partnership deal got approximately 60.
...
TO an impartial observer the only fly in the amber
from an administration standpoint would seem to
be the small number of answers from his constituents
received by Congressman Ellsworth. Out of 12,000
voters queried only 1200 sent in answers which repre
sents only 10) of the poll
per cent of. the number of
But the Roseburg Review has an answer to this
which it appears to regard
In fact it claims this 10
indeed half as much would
al," and the result as a whole can be interpreted, the
Review concludes as showing an unusual interest
in government activities.
Even more UNUSUAL
cally every issue favored
representative in the Lower
thusiastically endorsed. . A batting average ot bUU
could be considered exceptionally good but here is . a
batting average of approximately 999 for our dis
tinguished congressman.
I JNDER the .circumstances why should Mr. Ells-
worth spend the time an d, money to conduct a
campaign m 195b :
His election assuming his figures and conclu
sions are. correct must be in the bag -without it.
- . . R.W.R.
All Is Not
We suggest that Congressman Ellsworth who is
a gifted performer on the typewriter, take a few days
off and compose a skit entitled "The Sarena Case or
Within the Law." It might prove useful in next year's
campaign.
Every week or so this department receives a re
port from' Mr. Ellsworth's office, or from one of his
Oregon aides, that there was nothing illegal about
the Al Sarena case, there was nothing improper, that
the facts have been distorted and blown up for politi
cal purposes only, thus doing a great injustice to the
mine owners, who made their money not by mining
but by cutting timber on their mining claim, the profit
placed anywhere between $100,000 and $500,000 de
pending upon which party in the controversy made
the appraisal.
W1
'E HAVE read a good
case, have listened
don't know precisely what it all adds 5 up to as yet.
We do take exception, however, to the pious claim
there was nothing IMPROPER about the deal.
For if everything was on the up-and-up as far as
the mine owners operating as timber producers and
salesmen were concerned, WHY did Congressman
Ellsworth hasten to rush a bill through the congress,
which according to his own statement makes what
the aforesaid mine-owners did hereafter illegal?
That hardly adds up to a clean bill-of -health mor
ally if it does from a purely legal standpoint.
If there was nothing improper in the transaction
in the past then why go to the trouble of legislating
against it for the future?
MANY years ago a play was a considerable success
on Broadway entitled "Within the Law." It
dealt with the type of highly respectable criminal who
"get, away with murder" thanks to an expert legal
staff who directed the operations which came close
to breaking the law,, but technically never quite did
so.
Before he writes his Al Sarena skit if he does
Mr. Ellsworth might with considerable interest and
profit, read the play and note its moral, R.W.R.
Sunday, December 25, 1955
and about one-halt ot one
voters in the district.
as satisfactory.
to be a "large response,"
be considered "exception
we think is mat practi
by our durable perennial
House, should be so en
"Sarena"
deal about trie Al Sarena
to both sides, and frankly
Today and
By Walter
THE PRESIDENT'S DECISIONS
Sen. Khowland is pleading
with the President that he
should decide whether to run
again some
time before
Feb. 15. That
is -the filing
date for the
Pres idential
preference pri
. maries in five
states and in
,Alska.
On its face,
this looks sim
ple enough.
Walter Llppman
Sen. Knowland can argue with
much plausibility that by wait
ing say three weeks longer the
President's doctors wiU be only
somewhat surer, not conclusive
ly, of their prognosis. There is
no scientific deadline at the end
of February when the question
of whether the President is able
to run again can be answered
definitively.
VIHAT the President must
' ' sooner or later decide is
much more complicated than
whether to say yes or no. There
are, it would seem, three not
merely two choices. One. He
can decide to run again. Two.
He can refuse to run again and.
abstain from choosing his suc
cessor. Three. He can choose his
successor.
Now what Sen. Knowland is
asking of the President is not
merely that he should decide
whether he himself will run;
the Senator is asking the Presi
dent, if he decides not to run
again, to refrain from choosing
his successor. Such a complete
retirement of the President from
the Presidential campaign would
certainly be a great help to Sen.
Knowland who is in fact leader
and rallying point of the anti
Eisenhower wing of the Repub
lican party.
But this is so obvious that
at Gettysburg and in the White
House the effect of Sen. Know
land's plea can only be to make
it evident that, if Eisenhower
does not run himself, he must
be sure to choose his successor.
The one thing he will certainly
decide not to do is to turn over
the future to his own political
opponents.
.
TTN AVOIDABLY, the decisions
which the President will
have to make are complicated
and trying, and this in itself
would be a good reason for post
poning them, for not asking him
to make them until he has re
covered more of his strength.
We know now from the doc
tors themselves that they will
not be able to decide for him
whether he should run. They
may be able to tell him that
he' can run. But whether he
should run will have to be his
decision, and in reaching that
decision conflicting pleas will
press upon him from many
sides.
He will be' told that the fate
of the world and the fate of
his kind of Republicanism de
pend on him alone, and that like
a good soldier he should do his
duty at the risk of his life. He
will also be told that it is the
duty of a commander to relieve
officers who are not fully fit,
and that he has no right to
subject the country to the risk
of his becoming incapacitated.
He will be told that his party
needs him desperately. And he
will be told that it would not
be fair for him to take the
chance of elevating to the Presi
dency a Vice-President who
could not be elected to it.
TF HE decides not to run again
but to choose his successor,
there is no self-evident choice.
What he needs is someone who
stands for what he stands ' for
and has a good chance of being
elected. The man who fills the
bill perfectly is, of course, for
mer Governor Warren, of Cali
fornia. But he is now the Chief
Justice of the United States and
that, as he has said in absolute
ly unequivocal language, is a
conclusive reason why he must
not be drawn into partisan poli
tics. It may be said, too, that
while this rule applies to any
Chief Justice, it applies particu
larly to the Chief Justice who
presided over the momentous
desegregation decision. For him
to go into partisan politics would
be a Constitutional catastrophe.
There is no one else who fills
the bill obviously and clearly.
The question will be if the
President decides not to run
himself who can be built up
so that he can fill the bill. In
principle it comes down, so it
seems to me, to this. Shall an
authentic Eisenhower Republi
can be chosen and then built
up? Or shall some one who is
already built up be made to
look like an Eisenhower Re
publican? i
IS IT not better to choose a man
who is already an authentic
Eisenhower Republican? For it
is easy enough for the President
to make a less known man well
known.
But if the root of the matter
is not in the man he chooses, if
he is not an authentic repre
sentative but is only an oppor
Tomorrow
Lippmann
tunist, to choose him would be
to risk not only the election
itself but the control of the party
and the future of Eisenhower's
kind of Republicanism.
Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Matter of Fact by job and stew.. aiSoP
THE HAT TRICK
Washington The real story
of next year's budget is very
different indeed from the story
suggested by the recent barrage
of headlines
about defense
increases, for
eign aid in
creases and
like. .
It is first of
all the story of
a hat trick
that did not
quite work.
The authors of
the hat trick
were Secretary
Stewart Alop
of the Treasury George M. Hum
phrey and Budget Director Row
land Hughes. Both Hughes and
Humphrey are long-headed men.
With some help from the Con
gressional economizers, they pre
pared their crop no less than 12
months ago.
The preparations were simple
indeed. Extensive one-shot econ
omies were made in the last de
fense budget,
and these "sav
ings" kept the
defense spend
ing level down
to $34,500,
000,000. In the
same fashion,
both the mili
tary and econ-,
omic aid pro
grams were
largely financ
ed by running
Joseph Also
down unexpended balances, and
these "savings" kept last year's
foreign aid appropriations down
to $2,700,000,000. Thus the hat
trick was nrepared. The trick
consisted of a simple policy di
rective to hold the defense and
foreign aid items in this year's
budget down to the level of last
year's appropriations.
LAST year's "savings" could
not be repeated. Hence last
year's appropriations level could
not be attained without making
"savings" somewhere else. Thus
the real effect of the Humphrey-
Hughes directive was to require
a sharp permanent cut in Ameri
can fighting' power and an even
more drastic permanent reduc
tion in foreign aid.
Moreover -and here was the
real beauty of it this weaken
ing of our defenses and slacken
ing of our cold war effort would
hardly be noticeable. The Con
gress would be asked to vote the
same sums as were voted last
year. The country could there
fore be told that we were car
rying on as before.
There is every reason to be
lieve that the Humphrey-Hughes
hat trick would have worked to
perfection, if the Kremlin had
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Only The Young?
To the Editor: I have a prob
lem that is facing quite a num
ber of women who are approach
ing "middle age." My children
no longer need me during the
day so I would like to help out
with the family income.
Since I didn't train for any
thing special when I was in
school, I've been thinking about
learning Speedwriting and im
proving my typing and learning
all the up-to-date types of busi
ness letters. ' "
What I would like to know is
this. If I go to the expense of
learning Speedwriting would I
have a chance in the business
world? Or is that for the very
young or experienced? I can be
prepared in a couple of months
or sooner and then can be relied
on as a steady worker for a long
time.
I would appreciate hearing
from business men or firms,
firms.
Mrs. Edna McCaU
Thanks for Aid
To the Editor: Steelhead Post
No. 6881, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, thanks the many people
of the area for their assistance
in time, labor and money during
the -flood7 disaster in the Shady
Cove-Trail area.
We, together with other organ
izations, are proud of the role
we were able to assume in the
protection and safeguarding of
lives and property. This was
made less difficult by our many
volunteers who labored hard and
long, by the orderly conduct of
those whose lives and property
were in peril.
Again our thanks and a very
sincere wish that the holiday
season will be safe and happy.
Dan F. Krotz II,
Chairman for
Community Service
Steelhead Post, VFW
Shady Cove, Ore.
Grange
Sami Valley Grange
The Sams VaUey Grange held
its Christmas party Saturday,
Dec. 17. Gilbert Mack was in
charge of the program. Ex
change of gifts was followed by
the usual good home-made
candy.
Plans are being made for the
New Year's eve dance to be
1 held Dec. 31.
not meanwhile extended and in
tensified its cold war offensive.
But the Soviet intrusion into the
Middle East spread the deepest
alarm through all the staff levels
of the Administration. And it
also mobilized the group of
higher policy-makers led by Vice
President Nixon and Nelson A.
Rockefeller, who came to be
called "the young Turks."
WHILE Messrs. Humphrey and
Hughes were indirectly de
manding the weakening of our
defenses and the slackening of
our cold war effort, Nixon and
Rockefeller passionately advo
cated exactly the opposite
policy. They warned that the
whole world balance of power
was rapidly tilting in favor of
the Soviets. They asked, with
natural anxiety, how any
American administration could
permit this to happen. They
urged a "bold new program" to
reverse the trend.
In the ensuing struggle, a
great deal more bad feeling was
generated than has yet been ad
mitted in public. The intra-Ad-
ministration struggle reached its
climax in the all-day meeting
of the National Security Coun
cil at Camp David. The out
come, as so often in this Admin
istration, was a compromise be
tween the two conflicting view
points.
Our defenses were not to be
weakened. Thus the requested
defense appropriation had to be
raised to $35,500,000. The cold
war effort was not to be slack
ened either. Thus large sums had
to be asked to build up the de
pleted foreign aid balances, so
that spending could continue at
the old rate. In short, the real
meaning of all the recent com
motion about increases in
these budget items is simply
that we really are carrying on
as before, instead of just pre
tending to.
BUT there is another meaning
too, in this decision taken at
the Camp David N.S.C. meeting
which was the real cause of the
President's temporary fatigue.
The recent extension and in
tensification of the Kremlin's
cold war .offensive constitute
one great challenge. The massive
recent progress of the Kremlin's
armament programs constitutes
another great challenge. These
challenges almost certainly
mean that the world power bal
ance is now moving in the So
viet's favor, just as Messrs. Nix
on and Rockefeller maintained.
Yet the decision at Camp David
was to ignore these challenges,
and to let the world power bal
ance tilt against us. 1
This is a national choice of the
most far-reaching importance. It
has been carefully shrouded, as
the custom now is, from the vul
gar gaze of the American pub
lic. Yet events will tear aside
the veil sooner or later, when
the Joint Chiefs of Staff have to
tell the Congress the seal state
of our defenses, or when some
development abroad causes more
searching inquiries than are now
being made.
Copyright 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Estimated 1,!
In School Programs
An estimated 1,8.00 children
participated in the Christmas
programs put on this year in the
Medford public schools the
school office - estimated Friday
on the basis of reports from all
the schools.
The number of people attend
ing the shows, conducted during
the week, was estimated at 4,300,
mostly parents, relatives and
friends of the young performers.
A school spokesman pointed
out that emphasis is given to a
religious motif in the programs,
in addtion- to the ."jingle-bells
stuff" which the children enjoy.
CROSSED WIRES
LouisviUe, Ky. !U.R) It was
confusing and amusing when ra
dio and telephone lines became
crossed here throwing communi
cations between headquarters
and police cars haywire. Officers
could receive calls but couldn't
answer. "It sounds like Donald
Duck," a police dispatcher said.
SUGGESTED BIBLE
READING VERSES
The Medford Council of
Church Women each 'year
between Thanksgiving and
Chrisimas sponsors a pro
gram of daily Bible reading,
recommending a different
verse of the Bible for each
day during that period, in co
operation with the American
Bible association, the Med
ford Ministerial association
and the National Council of
Church Women.
Following are the passages
recommended for today:
Mathew 2:1-11.
(By M-T Staff
AfERRY Christmas! And to
''-"prove we mean it, we'll re
peat it in 19 other languages, as
foUows: God Jul (Swedish); Fe-
nz iatai (Brazilian): Glaedeli?
Jul (Danishl: .Tnvpa
(French); Bona Natale (Italian);
Boas Festas (Portueuesel: Hans-
kaa Joulua (Finnish); Hartelyke
rierstgroejen v (Dutch); Kung
Hsi Hsih (Chinese); Felices Pas
cuas (Spanish): Nosteria Lui
Christ's Sa Va Die De Felos
(Rumanian) Prijemme Svatky or
Vesele Vanoce (Czechoslovak
ia; Froehliche Weinachten
(German); Kala Christougenia
(Greek); Christmas O-Medeto
(Japanese); Giaedelig Jul (Nor
wegian); Wesolych Swiat (Pol-
isn;; b. Kozhdestvom Christova
Utussian). and Sretar Bnzoii'
(Serbian).
"C'ARLY this wcek; a woman
shopping in a local deDart-
ment store demanded to see the
manager. He was out of the of
fice, and a young lady asked if
she could be of help. "You cer
tainly may," the shopper de
clared. "It's that male clerk
downstairs, who was very rude
to me!" "Oh, really?" was the
answer. "Which one?" The shop
per described the man who had
waited on her. "Well, said the
young lady, hesitantly, "that's
the manager "
"DOUNDING up cattle brought
w bad luck to Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur Burrell of Lake Creek
Thursday. He was on horseback
doing the job when the horse's
foot caught in some wire and
the horse fell and the rider was
thrown. When he didn't show up
at home, Mrs. Burrell went out
to find him. She did, and assist
ed him home. Then she mounted
a horse to finish the iob. HER
horse jumped a log, tangled in
some wire and was thrown. Bur
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Z hafY v, 4
cared for at Osteopathic hos
pital. "DAY Harp, 727 Western ave.,
was In Seattle on business
last week, and was returning
via bus. He arrived in Grants
Pass at 4 a m. Thursday, when
all travel was halted by high
water. A determined man, Harp
decided to walk. He did. He
came along the' west bank of the
river, sometimes detounng into
the hills a bit, sometimes going
barefoot. But he made' it, and
arrived in Medford at about 3
p.m. Thursday. He left for Tex
as Friday morning to visit with
his parents for about a month.
VTULETIDE animal story No. 1:
A chicken's life is a happy
one for four kittens at the Home
Brown home on the Old Stage rd.
near Central Point. The kittens
were adopted when newly born
by one of Brown s hens, and now,
when the chickens go to roost
for the night, the kittens go
too. Mother hen brooded the
tiny kittens, and the mother cat
didn't seem to mind, even nurs
ing them as the chicken hovered
over them, wines outSDread. As
they grew, the kittens accepted
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O. UiCb Ul 11C3JUXUU1 gci dim ucdu
grasshoppers from their foster
mother. They began to go to
roost when about a month old.
A snapshot of them is shown
below.
SOC Program Is One
Of Few in Country
Ashland A 200-hour pro
gram required for teacher edu
cation students at Southern Ore
gon college here is one of few
such programs fn colleges
throughout the country, accord
ing to Dr. Alva Graham, direc
tor of the plan.
The program requires that
prospective teachers spend a
minimum of 200 hours working
with young people to become fa
miliar with ways of children.
Counting toward the program
are baby sitting and leadership
of adult groups.
Dr. Graham stressed the im
portance of participation in stu
dent organization, and pointed
out that students may fill as
much as 25 per cent of the re
quirement with extra-curricular
activities.
FALSE ALARMS
New Haven, Conn. (U.R) For
two successive days a false fire
alarm was pulled from the
same box about 3 p.m. On the
third day a fire marshall nab
bed a six-year-old boy pulling
his third false alarm, from the
same box about 3 pjn.
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CHRISTMAS trees are wonder-
ful things. This year, again,
one of our favorites is the tiny,
perky little tree placed in his
front yard, bespangled with or
naments and silvering, 'and lit by
a floodlamp, by Abby Green,
1118 East Main st.
TIOSPITALS, too, have trees,
""and a very special one was
"created" at Community hos
pital. It's on the maternity floor,
ma ai tne base of the tree is
a large stork made of rntinn
with legs of paper straws. Tree
ornaments are made from the
colored paper used on patients'
charts: from rubbpr flnvpe with
the fingers blown out to form
balloons; from "bootees" made
of cotton, and Santa rim, fir.
ures of cotton colored with mer-
tnioiate. They ace all fastened
to the tree with safety pins. A
big shiny star is atnn tho tr
made with silver foil which
one of the night nurses made
with the wrarjrnnjT fmm
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lunch.
"DAILROADS are hard to fig
v ure out sometimes. For rea
sons unknown, we are informed,
the New Haven RR has this
month refused to accept ship
ments of Christmas trees con
signed to Hell Gate yard in New
York. Well, maybe they don't
need the trees in Hell Gate.
TN Jacksonville recently, a
A 6-month-old Barred Rock pull
et, owned by Mrs. Gl(jnn France,
laid a 7V2-ounce egg. 'Broken
open, the ees was found
tain a regular volk and white
and also another 2-nnnpp oaa
. -bfe,
complete with shell. Three days
later the same chicken laid an
other egg weighing seven
ounces. She didn't break that
one until she brought it in to
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news room 10 display it. sne
thinks t0- y have another-
OTAFF member last week
reached in his pocket or a
quarter, and hauled out a fist
full of keys, small change, etc.
A quarter, the only one he had,
slipped away under the wash-Q
ing machine. He and his son tug
ged and pulled and heaved to
move the machine. As they did
sp, a hose broke, showering
them and the room with water.
They shut it off, mopped up
the water, and shoved the ma
chine back to await repairs.
They also gave up the search for
the quarter. The staff member q
moved into the living room in
the midst of a stony silence from
his wife, sat down and. crossed
his legs. The quarter fell out
of .his pants' cuff.
rTHIS little boy, we learn in
J- "Check," the publication of
Eagle Point schools, was caught
in mischief by his mother, who
asked, "How do you expect to
get into Heaven?" He thought
a moment, and replied, "Well,
I'll just run in and out and in
and out and keep slamming the
door until they say 'For good
ness sake, come in or stay out!!'
Then I'll go in."
UTATLTNO a mcliaso af -tha
' " " "
-LTX post office last week, a lady
was asked "Is there anything
breakable in the Dackaee?" She
replied: "Nothing except the 10
commandments." A Bible, may
be? A FAMILY which runs a bus
iness in Medford had two
packages to mail, one business,
one family. The first was to go
collect, the second prepaid. A
"new man" at the business mail
ed them both collect. Wonder
what the family will, think of
getting their Christmas presents
collect?
SALLY has done it again! Re
member Sally? She is the
Duroc and Chester White sow
who appeared in these columns
last year a couple of time when
she spent both Christmas and
New Year's visiting, because she
had a litter of piglets, and
couldn't be left without a litter
sitter. And this Christmas, she
has another litter a total of .45
babies in less than a year on
Dec 11, 1954, 13 piglets; on
June 27, 1954, 14 more; on Dec.
8 this year, 18 more. And she's
had 40 grandchildren in the past
year. (She belongs to Mrs. Tom
Dorich on the Central Point
Jacks,onville rd., who is about
the only jone who can handle
Sally particularly recently
when she hasn't been feeling
too well.)
All honor to Sally. Her pic
ture appears below.
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