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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. .
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' '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.
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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'.
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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.
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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;