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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MeifordTmbune "Everybody In Southern dregon . Reads me aiau iTipune fubliahed Dailv Except Saturday by MTTriFORD PRINTING CO. 47-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. " An Independent Newspaper " Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act 01 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6JS0 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday Only One year 5350. p, rarrier In Advance Medfora, yAshlam Central Point. Eagle Point. jfcksonviUe. Gold Hill. Fhoerux, StadSCive; Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: - inn DaUy and Sunday One year 15- Daily and Sunday One month lio Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance OHIciid Paper ol the City of Medford official Paper of Jackson County ' T-itrt Press Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUft Advertising KerJesenwuvc. WFST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De teoit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. ' NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOClJATLQN Z) W NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1946 at was Tuesday) : Reorganization of Rogue River National forest will add Ashland and Prospect ranger stations, Karl Janouch, supervisor, an nounces. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls are all in fine fettle. They were delighted with the sun shine, and still disgusted with the flu, etc., etc., etc. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1936 Ot was Wednesday) The only two bids submitted to Medford- city council for street weeper are identical. County Judge Earl B. Day sees no alarm in county from fact that Calif orna has banned transients from , entering the state. -, " 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1926 at was Friday) ; John D. Beeson elected presi dent of the Medford Central La bor council at organizational meeting. From Foots Creek news: Our adult class had 15 in attendance Sunday, besides seven babies. Where is the class to beat that record for babies. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 5, 1916 at was Saturday) Rogue valley residents pay out about $20,000 annually, to have coal shipped into area; ex press desire to use coal at foot of Roxy Ann and Mount Grizzly. . i - ' 'Ranger M. L. Edwards of Cra ter Lake National park snow shoes out of park Via Fort Klam ath reports 11 feet of snow com pared to average of 20 feet. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Draft registrants are nlaced in Class? n because of occupation, marriage, dependents, disability or ' conscientious objection s to .war? ', -. J2. Sexual impotence is grounds for divorce in most states, or about half of them, or only, a few? ' . ' 3. The recent censure of Israel by the U.N. Security Council for attacks on Arabs was or wasn't unanimous? - - v 4. Which U. S. Senator used to be a member of his state's legis lature at the same time as his wife was? ' 5. More money is spent during the year on advertising in news papers or on radio and TV com bined? 6. More cotton is grown in Ala bama, Arkansas, California, Mis sissippi, Georgia, North Carolina or Texas? 7. The term "boneyard" is used irr chess, checkers, back gammon, duplicate bridge, poker bingo or dominoes? The Answers: 1- Occupation. 2 Most. 3 Was. 4 Neuberger (D) of Oregon. 5 In newspapers. 6 Texas. 7 Dominoes. WEATHER -By United Press; . Northern California: Fair Sun day but variable high cloudiness northern, portions; 8 lightly warmer. Gf ft) 1 MAIL TRIBUNE Another Idol Smashed Our favorite in the Eisenhower cabinet has always been Secretary of Agriculture Benson. As the record will show we have often commend ed him for his refusal to play politics and "butter-up" the farmer for votes. Our knowledge of farming is microscopic but it did appear fairly plain that a satisfactory solution of the problem did not lay in the direction . of plowing under little pigs or increasing indefinitely the billions of dollars in crop surpluses at the taxpayers' expense. . JUDGING by the Secretary's recent speeches, how ever, and particularly the one in Portland Thurs day, all the farmer now has to do to return to the higher-income brackets again is to vote for the Repub licans and that party's latest solution of the farm problem. Eyen more surprising, this plea was made in the name of "non-partisanship!" The Secretary did-not advocate plowing under little pigs exactly, but he did recommend special subsidies for the pig and corn farmers, so they could as he expressed it, "share in the country's prevailing and abundant prosperity," in stead of being left out in the cold in sub-zero weather. rTHE "LITTLE PIGS" escaped burial, but if we un derstood the Secretary correctly, he favors plow ing under grain, paying subsidies to those farmers who reduce their production, and in general adopting many of ex-Secretary Wallace's proposals which were so roundly condemned by the Republicans only a few years ago. "Write your senators and congressmen," Mr. Ben son then urged, "and tell them you want the Eisen hower program adopted not some time in the future but now before spring-planting starts." This simple procedure, it was promised, would put silver dollars in the farmer's overalls and credit in his bank, the implication being that any proposal by non-Republicans wouldn't, and all this in the name of non-partisanshipj and opposition to placing agri culture, as Benson expressed it, on "the political auc tion block, for sale to the highest bidder." ' 1XHAT IS, the answer? Has Secretary Benson changed since the time he fought against higher and more rigid price sup ports, as well as in favor of common sense arid the sacred law of supplVvand demand? . ;. Or have the times changed? We believe it is the Jatter: . THE ANSWER, in short as we see it, is that this year is a presidential election year, That's all. The farm problem is a serious one for the Republicans, and un less the resentment against the administration in the farm-belt can be overcome between now and Novem ber the loss of the farm vote might mean GOP de feat. .. fr---:'r- . So Secretary Benson has been subjected to tre mendous pressure from the party leaders, to change his tactics, flatter the farmers instead of talking tur key to them, and. thus let the Secretary do his share to keep the party in power for another four years, in stead of handicapping it. We still, don't believe Secretary Benson is "just another politician." But we do believe he is far from being the high type of dedicated public servant and non partisan administrator, that for a considerable time, he appeared to be. This sudden change may have been the result of this political pressure-ordeal that impelled Mr. Ben son through a subordinate to endorse a magazine ar ticle he had never read, which condemned and ridi culed the American farmers whose best interests he took an oath to serve. But that, after all, is another story. R.W.R. How We are always surprised to hear from Republic an sources that the "welfare state" as advapced by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations was un American, and thanks, to President Eisenhower has now been extirpated from the. body politic. We wonder what these commentators think the "welfare state" means today and has meant for over 20 years. . ' - - ' . If they would look up the record they would find the "welfare state" to include, among others, the fol lowing items of social and edonomic betterment namely: Government health aid. ' Government housing aid. , Government aid to social security. ' Old age pensions. Government aid to public welfare. ' Government relief for flood damage. . ..... - - -. Government relief for economic distress areas. Government aid to education. Government construction of schools. Minimum wages. :; " . Farm relief by "the government. Government aid to highway construction, etc., etc. . If they would, at the same time, look over the rec ord of the Eisenhower administration and particular ly the recent messages to the congress from the White House they would. find that the present administra-. tion has endorsed and advised the continuance of each and every one of the above items'. - OOW THEN can the "welfare state" be called "uh 1 American" and how can the President be praised for extirpating it from the pure and uncontaminated body politic? ,- ' ," We would appreciate it if, the next time one of our correspondents takes pen-in-hand to score the "welfare state" as un-American, and use the- term "New Deal" as an epithet, he or she would take a few minutes off to explain how, with the record what it is, they can logically or consistently do so. R.WJL - Sunday, February 5, 1953 Come? AIsops Say Military Satellite Project Now Being Developed By JOSEPHnAND STEWART ALSOP -Washington, D.C. Concen trated work has started on a project, informally dubbed with rather grim humor, Proj ect Big Broth er," whose purpose is to launch a recon naissance sat ellite vehicle from this coun try within five years. Stewart Alsop ITOject 31g Brother" is, of course, wholly distinct from the far more mod est and militarily meaningless project for a tiny earth satellite, announced last summer by Presi dent Eisenhower. The reconnais sance satellite project has enor mous strategic significance. As now envisioned, the satel lite will be capable of trans mitting to this country images of the entire land area of the earth, in cluding.of course, the vast now hidden area of the Communist bloc.' The im ages, it is be lieved, will be Joseph Aisop s u f f i c iently clear and detailed to register such major military, activity as air base construction or fleet movement.' And it will give a sure "fix" on existing Commu nist bases, whose location can not be determined with absolute certainty by present methods. Obviously, launching a satel lite vehicle capable of watching the whole world, like the "Big Brother" of George Orwell's famous novel, will be no easy job. In fact, it will be so diffi cult and expensive that the five year time schedule may be op timistic." VET the project is an absolute ly ; serious one, which is al ready moving past ' the pure research, stage. It has a high pri ority, and a generous share of the recent heavy, increase in' re quested ( appropriations for mis sile work: Great companies like the Radio. Corporation of Amer ica, the Columbia' Broadcasting Company, and Lockheed Air craft have been enlisted for the work. , The technical problems in volved in the project are hide ously complex. To put it simply, the purpose is to launch a satel lite which will circle the earth on an overlapping pattern more or less indefinitely, and which Today and By Walter THE POWELL AMENDMENT ; The Kelley bill. . to appropri ate Federal money in aid of the construction of schools has run into the con ' flict which Is still unresolv. 4ed in the the Southern states over the Supreme Court's deci sion on segre gation. Rep. Adam C. Pow- Walter Lippmann .: ell . of New York is proposing anv amend ment -Jo' the ''-bill which would deny Federal funds to states or local school districts which con tinue to' maintain segregated schools. The money which is de nied them would be held in escrow and paid out whenever a local district complied with the decision of the Supreme Court. This amendment, which has the support of Rep. Joseph W. Martin, the Republican leader in the House, might weU, if adopt ed, Dring about the defeat of the bill and the hope ' of Federal aid. for the schools. It would be expecting too much that the Southern Senators and Congress men would vote for the bill with this amendment in it. - The Southerners, plus many Northerners who are reaUy op posed to Federal aid on principle or on grounds of economy, would be a formidable opposition. But even if the biU could be passed over their opposition, it would complicate and obstruct, rather than assist and " ' promote, the movementjto end. segregation in the schools. ' "T THINK I shaU vote for the Powell amendment," said Rep. Martin the other day, "be cause of the position of the Su preme Court, I don't think you can do otherwise." Mr. Martin is entirely mistaken. The truth of the matter is that because of the position of the Supreme Court, Congress ought to reject the Powell amendment. ' For that amendment, far from upholding the Supreme Court's decison, would subvert it. ; ;The position taken by the su preme court is that segregation in the public schools is unconsti tutional, being a denial of the equal protection of the laws, and that the court will pass upon "the adequacy of ahy plans" that state -and school authorities may propose "to effectuate a transi : S 1 will constantly transmit tele scopic images of the earth's sur face. ' The first problem that arises is obvious. Some way must be found to store, as it were, the television images, so that an image taken when the satellite is over Moscow, for example, can be transmitted to receivers in this country while the satel lite is over, say, New York. THERE are plenty of other problems, of course. It is .no easy matter to get reasonably clear and detailed images from an altitude of somewhat over 300 miles, which is expected to be about the height of the satel lite when in its orbit Still an other problem, which may be the toughest of all, Is the power source. . The satellite will be, after all, a permanent man-made heaven ly body, like the moon. There fore, in order to store and transmit images, it must have some built jn and virtually per manent source of power, inde pendent of the earth. . One possibility being explored is solar energy "Big Brother" would get its energy from the sun. Another, more probable so lution is a nuclear reactor. But present calculations suggest that the reactor must somehow be kept to less than 40 pounds in weight, since every added pound, of: course, enormously compli cates the problem of propelling the satellite intp . its orbit. It will take a "technological break through" to achieve an efficient 40-pound reactor. THIS is enough, to suggest how great are the obstacles which must be overcome before the global all-seeing eye can be launched. But the technicians are sure that the job can be done. The technicians are even sure that the manned satellite of the juvenile comic books is now certain to become a reality eventually. Here again, a serious govern, ment project, largely assigned to Republic Aircraft,, has been organized. But unlike the recon naissance satellite, 'the manned satellite project is still very much in the blueprint stage, and a manned satellite is certainly far more than five years away. AH this raises the obvious question: Where do the Soviets stand? No one knows the answer, but the evidence does not lead to complacency. The Kremlin has assigned a . high-level com mittee of scientists, including the brilliant Dr. Peter Kapitza, to the task of perfecting a "space Tomorrow Lippmann tion to a racially non-discriminatory school system. During this period of transition," the courts win retain jurisdiction of these cases." THE Supreme Court, recogniz ing that the change-over from segregated schools is a difficult and complex matter, has re frained from demanding imme diate and unconditional applica tion of its ruling. It-' has-recognized that there must be a period of transition a period of persua sion and accommodation' and the Supreme Court has accepted the burden of presiding over this transition. The Powell amendment runs counter . to . the letter and the spirit of the Supreme Court's de cision. For the amendment pro-. poses to have Congress take over from the court the burden of get ting the rule against segregaton observed. It proposes to punish the localities which are slow about, or opposed to, complying, and to give .to. administrative fof- ficials, xather than to the Su preme Court, the power to de termine whether the law is be ing observed. No one, I submit, who understands and believes in the Supreme : Court's decision, can vote for the Powell amend ment. " :" . : rP THE amendment is adopted and the school aid bill is de feated, the cause of integration wiU suffer. Federal aid ' for school construction will be with held from precisely those states and school districts which it is most needed. Integration, since it means1 that Negro children will' have the same education as white children, requires much money. In the segregated school systems -the Negro children are for the most part less weU pro vided for. One of the necessary means to the integration of the schools is .to build more schools. Otherwise, under integration the education of the white child ren will be pulled down towards the standards now prevailing for the Negro children. Any true and understanding irieno oi lniegrauon in me Southern states should realize that when he proposes to starve the Southern schools, he is mak ing it more difficult to "bring about integration The South now has a dual school system,- the white one better than the Negro. It will take money to bring about one school system at the platform," as the Russians call a satellite. MOREOVER, the recent re- 1TApeated tests of an "interme diate ballistic missile in the So viet Union, reported some days ago in' this space, indicate very clearly that the Soviets are at present markedly ahead of this country in missile development Missile development and satel lite development are.of - course, interdependent, and the striking Soviet successes in the missile field partly explain the Ameri can government s decision to go ahead full steam with "Proiect Big Brother." s. Copyright 195B, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Theffs From Cars Reported To Police Three thefts from cars were reported to city police Friday. Four wheel discs valued at $108 were stolen sometime last Wednesday night from , a car owned by Robert M. Miksche, 2216 East Siskiyou blvd., while it was parked at the Rogue Val ley Country club, police said. Four gallons of oil. and other items valued at $5.50 were tak en Driday from a car owned by Charles M. Kins, route 1 Gold Hffl, which was parked in a baieway lot at Oakdale ave. and Main st, according to police. Margaret O. Schnack. route 3, reported to police the theft iTiaay oi groceries valued at 54.18 from her car while it was parked at the Groceteria park ing lot ELECTED PRESIDENT Portland (U.R) Charles C. Bowen'. San Francisco, was el ected president of the Portland iraction company Friday. ' St. Louis Paper H its Eastland Committee; Lauds N e u The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a frequent critic of the Republi can administration, recently as sailed the Democratic majority in the Senate for condoning com mittee investigative methods which it said are similar to those of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The Pulitizer' prizewinning newspaper also praised Oregon's Sen. Richard Neuberger for be ing the first senator to call at tention oh the Senate floor td the activities of Senator East land's committee On Other Foot ' The Post - Dispatch editorial, printed Jan. 19, was entitled "On the Other Foot." It follows: What is the Demqcratic ma jority in the Senate going to do about the excesses of the internal security suDcommitxee under the chairmanship of Sena tor Eastland of Mississippi? This question is entirely in order. When the Republicans con trolled the Senate in 1953 and 1954,, they were severely criti cized because they were so re luctant, to come to grips with the ugly, messy issue of Mc- Carthyism; For many months Republican leaders looked the other way while the Wisconsin demagogue brought the Senate into disrepute at home and abroad by misuse of his author ity as chairman of the Permanent Investigating - subcommittee. Democrats, in Control : . Now the shoe is on the other foot. The Democrats control the Senate. They have the commit tee majorities. Their, senior mem bers hold the ' chairmanships. Thus James O.. Eastland, a Sena tor these last 13 years, is chair man of the subcommittee whose legal responsibility it is "to in vestigate the administration of the Internal Security Act and other security laws." - This is the subcommittee which has revived memories of McCar thyism by the shocking way .it has attempted to relate "The New York Times" to internation al Communism. By concentrat ing on a few employees and former employees of "The Times" in a total organization of more than 4000 the Eastland subcommittee presented a wholly distorted picture. Sounded Keynote As a consequence "The Times," In one of the strongest editorials it has ever, printed, sounded the keynote of a free"( press to which many other newspapers' imme diately rallied. Strangely enough, however, several days passed be fore any member of the Senate took the floor ; to defend the level of the schools' for white children. The worse the two sys tems are allowed to become, be ing deprived of money that is in dispensable, the harder it will be in fact to integrate them. And the more acute will be the passions aroused. Mr. Powell is a Democrat ana Mr. Martin is a Republican. They would do well not to play poli tics with the public schools. " " Copyright. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. POTLUCtt; ' (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A newspaper office receives many requests for information ranging from who will win the next presidential election to what happened to Saturday's paper. But a letter received a couple of weeks ago has us stumped. . The writer described a puzzle which was said to have been pub lished in the Mail Tribune "about three years ago," and asked for the solution. Rather than face the Hurculean task of going through the files and finding the solution, a staff member decided he would simply solve the puzzle and report his own solution. That, as we said, was a couple of weeks ago. Staff member has developed a 7 o'clock shadow and a grouchy disposition. The puzzle is stUl unsolved. - . A friendly reader pounced' with delight on what she thought was a typographical error in the M-T's classified ad . section, where there was an ad seeking a contractor to repair a man's "fool damaged home." We checked this item and found it wasn't a typo graph-, ical error after all. Thai's what the copy said. Well, we've heard of fools damaging houses before. -.-. The purchase of new automo biles, by the city or others, can lead to problems, some of them unexpected. One police officer, about to give' chase to a traffic violator, tramped down on a floor button in a new police car. Instead of the expected wail of the siren, however, he found himself look ing through a windshield cov ered, with water from the auto matic washing squirters. Another city employee, mak ing an inter-city trip on official business in a new city car, needed to clear the windshield, be rg er Ta I Ic press against this insidious at tack. And then the defender was not one of the senior members, but a freshman Senator, Richard L. Neuberger, with hardly more than a year of service. In a strong speech, the Oregon ' Democrat said: . "Under the open-book charges now in vogue, what is to prevent a committee which is bigoted against a certain church or reli gion from looking for Commu nism in that particular church? Is this not carte blanche for com mittees of 'varying views to in vestigate trade unions, banks, colleges, libraries, telephone ex changes, fish hatcheries, schools or temperance groups all in the name of ferreting . out Commu nism?. 'v . ' ::; "What if some other commit tee decided to probe alleged dis loyalty on the staffs "of certain newspapers-which were suggest ing - opposition to a unanimous verdict of the United States Supreme Court? "Whatever faults it may have and I believe they are many the American press has a high degree of loyalty to freedom and liberty. Its faults are not a mat ter for congressional inquiry, but are something to be judged by public opinion and to be cor rected by the press itself, from within." Lehman Approve i So far as we know only Sena tor Lehman of New York asso ciated himself promptly with this sound speech. Previously Senator Hennings of Missouri, also a Democrat, had worked to hold down the excesses of the subcommittee. ',-, If the Eastland inquisition con tinues the Senate wiT- have to face it just as the Senate, in the end, had to face the McCarthy obscenities. Editorial Comment OVERRIDE WEST'S 'VETO' Our state constitution pro vides that a bill may be re passed over a governor's veto by a two-thirds vote. That pro vision s h o u Id be invoked to override the veto of ex-Governor Os West on naming for him some park on the Oregon coast. For expressions '' of opinion on this have been uanimous save only for West's letter to the Oregon ian rejecting the proposal. Let some choice spot on the coast be named by the Highway commis sion to perpetuate the name of the governor chiefly responsible for saving Oregon's beaches for public use and enjoyment. Oregon Statesman, Salem. CAR ROLLS ' , A car registered to a Des Moines, Io., woman rolled over several times and went off the Green Springs highway in the. Keene creek area some time yesterday, according to state police. The driver, unknown to officers, apparently was unin jured and made his way to Klamath Falls, where he called a wrecker to remove the car, which was heavily damaged. and after poking and pulling all the knobs in sight, spotted a floor button. He triumphantly shoved it with his foot, and startled everyone for miles as the siren rose into a shrill whine. Last week a customer went ' into a branch bank in a near- ' by community and asked the teller if he handled United ; States savings bonds. The teller asked: "Do you want to buy or sell?" As callers-at-the-newsroom know, a self-service elevator connects the news office with the business office of this newspaper. Some people prefer not to us it. for various reasons claucfrn. phobia, natural distrust of .me chanical contrivances, and so on and insist on climbing the stairs. Others are game, but oc casionally eet mixed ud in thr operating directions, and push uie up Button when they want to go down, and vice versa? or wait for the outside doors to open automatically which they aont. -, They shouldn't feel r.aEid however, for newsroom em- , ployees, who use the thing every day, also sometimes cet mixed up. A girl reporter last; week spent several frustrated momenta pushing the "down" button to go-"up," and wondering if the eievator was out of order. This elevator, in truth" ! somewhat temperamental and choleric. But it had not been known to pause in mid-flight, as it were. traDDinc the occunant in the small, grey cubicle. - Well, it finally haonened Fri day, when an electrical conduit blew out. And, horrors! someone was trapped. At first the news hounds rather hoped it was the girl reporter. Then thev had thm awful thougHt that it might turn out to be someone with genuine -claustrophobia. ' As it turned out. it was th helpful office boy, who calmly rang the alarm bell, pushed the emergency . switch: unshed inn the door, and leapt out; safe and souna., i .... ,-,'. In resnonse to nnerfen h t-w. plied with an "Aw-shucks-t'warn't-nothing" air, but prom ised to write a book entitled "How I Escaped From the Ele vator," or, "Heroism 'Tweea Floors." - A group called the Jolly Stitchers club met on day last week at the Wooden Shoo room in the Holland hotel for lunch. : Dutch treat, of course. . Large numbers of volunteer workers have been turning out at 7 ajn. (that's right 7 A.M.H) for breakfast the -past month, as part of the fund-raising drive for the proposed new hospital. They have had gay, gay times, accord ing to reports. . 4 Last Wednesday, Insurance man Lou Cranston and Public Relations Man Russ Jamison dressed up as women, for a gas. Thursday , morning one of the features was someone dressed in one of the same dresses, and all fitted out with ' padding, blond wig, slathers of make-up, a fals nose and men's shoes.- One of the workers a rather well-known businessman saw the creature and assumed it wai' either Cranston or Jamison, so as it went by he gave the "crea ture" a familiar slap and pinch. He was horrified to learn shortly thereafter that the "crea ture" WAS a woman, dressed up to look like a man dressed up to look like a woman. r -. . . We recently mentioned in . this spac a st of identical twins, who had bn mis identi fied as being 1S3 years old, and who wer the subject of several coincidental happvn-, ing. . -H.",.- v- i W ar sad to report that they ar identical no longer. One of them not long ago lost a finger in a meat grinder. . Want to know the latest pro posal to bring fresh water to the parched regions of Southern California?, ; i Well, it is suggested that a ; huge Antarctic iceberg be towed to the shore off Los Angeles where it would be cradled and the water siphoned off and pumped ashore as it melted. Clever, those Los Angelenos. ' Cockfighiing, howvr re pellent it may b to most of us, ' is Cuba's national sport, and Cubans hay erected a six foot statu, to a fighting cock in on8 of their cities. By means of recordings, th big bird is mad to crow twice daily, and it can be heard VA miles away. Maybe residents of Rogu River would like to consider something lik this to publi ciz their annual Rooster Crowing Contest. The birds were singing, yes terday morning as we trudged off to work. And the gal staff member who brought pussy-willow buds to the office just before Christmas reports that acacias have started to show up in the flower shops ' a true indication, she maintains, that spring is really on the way;
