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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1946
(It was Monday)
Robert Kyle Jr., 609 South
Oakdale ave., returns home
with discharge from Ft. Lewis,
Wash., efter 18 months in Eu
rope. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Earl
Bigelow boy, Earl, who has
been wearing khaki cn the
Rhine, has landed in Gotham on
his way home.
20 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1936
(It was Wednesday)
As part of an educational pro
gram the Navy will have a dis
play at The Toggery, 127 East
Main st.
Four mild cases of smallpox
were reported today by Dr. L.
D. Inskeep, city health officer.
30 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1926
(It was Thursday)
The annual city clean-up day
will be next Saturday, accord
ing to Fire Chief Roy Elliott.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Daughters of Veter
ans will meet at the armory at
7:30 Friday for a social and
Grant's birthday party.
40 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1916
(It was Saturday)
A Woodrow Wilson club was
formed in Medford Thursday.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The grounds of the new
federal building are being cul
tivated and beautified by the
ladies, who are first to interest
themselves in such matters.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. Have either the Democrats
or the Republicans ever renom
inated a former President for
President again?
2. Average earnings of U. S.
factory workers these days are
considerably more or less than
$80 a week, or about $80.
3. One, two three, four or five
defeated candidates for Presi
dent are still alive?
4. Of all men and women
"social" drinkers today, about
one in every (a) 5, (b) 15, (c) 30
or (d) 50 will some day be al
coholics, probably?
5. Egg stains are best removed
by hot or by cold water, or will
either do?"
6. Which one of these states
doesn't now require poll-tax
payment for voting: Alabama,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Texas. Virginia?
7. Norma Jean Baker is the
real name of which prominent
movie star?
The answers: 1 Yes, the Dem
ocrats chose Grover Cleveland
again in 1892 though he lost for
reelection in 1888. 2 About $80.
3 Five Cox (1920). Hoover
(1932). Landon (1936). Dewey.
Stevenson. 4 About one in
every 15. 5 Best removed by
cold water. 6 Tennessee does
not. 7 Marilyn Monroe.
GOODBYE. GRIZZLY
Cheyenne, Wyo. (U.R) The
grizzly bear, long a symbol of
the Rocky Mountain West, is al
most a memory in Wyoming.
The state game and fish depart
ment estimates only 26 grizzlies
are left in the entire state.
MAIL TRIBUNE
In Our Best Tradition
. We have often, through the years, expressed
satisfaction over the high quality of citizenship here
in Southern Oregon particularly in the direction of
unselfish and unremunerated public service.
With very few exceptions there has never been
a period of genuine need in this direction, when vol
unteers have failed to come forward, some at the
last moment, but when the bell rang there they were,
ready to serve asking nothing as reward but the
satisfaction of having contributed their bit to the bet
terment of their community.
Medford and Jackson County have, we believe,
surpassed any other part of the state in this depart
ment continuous and disinterested public service.
TTO the long list of such deserving volunteers, the
name of Mr. Alfred S. V. Carpenter should now
be added, as he resigns as chairman of the County
Public Welfare commission after a continuous ten
ure of nearly a quarter of a century.
fUR only regret is that more and longer absences
from the valley, and more and more dissatisfac
tion with the policies of the State Welfare Commis
sion, should be the chief cause of such action.
For county welfare administration is getting less
and less a part-time job, and for satisfactory service
cooperation with the state department on a friendly
and sustained basis is extremely important.
OOWEVER, Mr. Carpenter's record of over 20 years
of devoted service, with so little friction with
state or federal units, and so little criticism at home,
shows what a policy of tact, human consideration and
administrative skill, can do.
As indicated above Medford has a well deserved
reputation to sustain at this time. With such an exam
ple to follow, we feel sure the right man or woman
for the job will eventually be found. R.W.R.
They Must Be Desperate
Former Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay
must have a sublime faith in the magic power of
President Eisenhower's coat-tails. Otherwise he
would hardly attempt to replace Wayne Morse on the
basis that our senior Senator has been a "Do-nothing"
representative of this state in the Upper House.
That may fool some people in Oregon but it can't
fool many. For those who know anything about this
"anything to beat Morse" attempt, know that the real
complaint against Senator Morse is not that he has
done so little but that he has done TOO MUCH.
Had our Senator been less active against the pri
vate power interests, against monopoly, against such
"give-aways" as Tidelands Oil and Dixon Yates, or
the various and sundry attempts to ditch conservation
in favor of selfish private exploitation
Above all if he had been a good boy and stuck
to the GOP when he no
ciples or its leadership, instead of going over to a
party in whose basic principles he DID believe, this
frenetic determination to "get" him, rain or shine,
good or evil, would not be one-half per cent as strong
as it is today.
In fact, after two creditable terms our senior Sen
ator would under such conditions be a shoo-in for
a third.
But, as noted, Senator Morse proved to be too
active, too alert, too busy ferreting out the facts in
various propositions, and informing the people of
his state and the country concerning them, to satisfy
the Powers-that-be, or to fail to bring down upon his
head the wrath, of ultra conservatives in both parties,
but principally, of course, the GOP.
TO SUSTAIN this "do nothing" charge our former
wuveiiiur wim uie aia oi me liur Dureau ot sta
tistics, cites Senator Morse's attendance records and
also the large amount of legislation he introduced or
endorsed and the small percentage that was passed.
This reminds us of the attempt made many years
ago to defeat Senator Borah of Idaho on a similar
basis.
e Borah like Wayne Morse had one of the best
minds in the Senate, was unexcelled as a fighter and
skillful debater. Not only did he admit he seldom
introduced bills into the Senate, but noted that for
six years past ne nad introduced none at all. He made
no apology for this. He said he thought he could
serve his state and nation better, fighting for the
legislation he believed in and fighting against the
legislation in which he did not believe, than in trying
to set a new record for thinking up new legislation
when there was too much half-baked legislation
already.
"Uf AYNE MORSE can't claim as extraordinary a
record as that. But he could point to a truth which
no one familiar with Washington would deny, that
to judge a state representative's value to his state by
his attendance record, or the number of bills bearing
his name, would be like judging a horse's value in
the derby by the colors of his jockey's cap.
Such statistics have nothing to do with the point
at issue.
The point, as far as Oregon's senior Senator is
concerned, is not how often he was in attendance,
but what he said and did when he WAS there. And
equally important is how often when he was reported
absent was he doing yeoman service in committee
work often a matter of utmost importance to the
state and nation.
e
T'HE enemies of Wayne Morse and there are many
1 of them will have to think up something more
effective than his attendance percentage, just as they
will have to think up" something more effective than
court action outlawing his membership in the Demo
cratic party, if they expect to achieve their desire.
R.W.R.
Sunday, April 22. 1958
longer believed in its prin
Today and
By Walter
THE FARM BILL VETO
The President had no choice
but to veto the farm bill that
Congress sent to him. Had he
signed it, he
would have
had to repudi
ate not ' only
his own public
statements but
the whole rec
ord of his Sec
retary of Agri
culture and the
actions of the
Walter Lippmann two Republi
can leaders in Congress, Sen.
Knowland and Rep. Martin.
Does it follow that the original
program which he sent to Con
gress in January was adequate
and satisfying, and that all
would be well if only Congress
had accepted it?
It does not follow. The Presi
dent's own actions when he ve
toed the bill recognized that the
basic complaint of the Congres
sional opposition to his original
program was about halfway
justified. Where the bill would
have subsidized farm prices to
the tune of about $1,000,000,000,
the President, by administrative
action, is going to subsidize farm
prices to the tune of about $500,
000,000. He has vetoed very high
and rigid price supports. He is
going to put into effect high, but
not quite so high, theoretically
flexible supports.
The issue between the Presi
dent and the Congressional oppo
sition is not really one of prin
ciple. It is whether farm income
shall be subsidized at the Con
gressional rate or at the Admin
istration rate.
THE farm bill is in its details a
very complicated business.
But what has happened since
the President's special message
in January comes down, I think,
essentially to this. In the admin
istration's mind the crucial and
fundamental "problem is" as the
President said in his veto mes
sage "price depressing sur
pluses," caused by "wartime in
centives too long continued."
From this it follows that the
basic principle of a sound farm
policy is to reduce productoin in
order to reduce the surpluses.
THE opposition in Congress,
consisting of the Democrats
and most of the Republicans
from the farm states, is primar
ily concerned with the decline
of the incomes of the farming
population. Their total income
from farm and non-farm sources
has declined 26 per cent since
1947 while the total national in
come has increased by 36 per
cent.
e
THE Congressional opposition
recognizes that there is a
problem of surpluses. It does not
accept the view that it is the
only or the paramount problem.
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Aboard the City of San Fran
cisco, headed East. This famous
train is beginning to show signs
of age. It was the earliest of the
Western streamliners, and one of
the earliest in the country. But
that was quite a while ago. And
railroad equipment ages, just
like newspaper presses and type
setting machines. New and mod
ern passenger cars are hard to
come by, and traffic has been
growing as the nation grows.
Because of all these things,
some of the original cars are
stiU in use. They seem badly out
of, date in comparison with the
new, last-word ones. For those
of us who come off the spic-and-span
Shasta Daylight, one of
America's most modern trains,
the City of San Francisco suf
fers by comparison.
BUT all this refers to phyical
equipment. The staffing of
the City of San Francisco is
above reproach. From the train's
topmost brass clear down to the
newest porter on the run, the
service is cheerful and friendly
and hospitable. That goes a ONG
way.
The Union Pacific has gone a
long way also in smoothing up
its roadbed. You walk down the
aisles without being thrown from
side to side. You read without
discomfort. You can even type
without missing the key you aim
at by more than two keys
which is something us poor dev
ils who have to travel with a
typewriter hung around our
necks, like the Ancient Mariner
and the Albatross.
THE route of the Union Pacific
is rich in history. In its east
ern reaches it is the route of
Lewis and Clark, and the physi
cal trail that was blazed by
Lewis and Clark followed the
trail that was imagined by Presi
dent Jefferson when he came to
the definite conclusion that the
infant U.S.A. must spread first
to the Mississippi and then on to
the shores of the Pacific.
When Jefferson started the
two captains on their epochal
trek, he was looking for a water
route to the. Western Sea. Belief
in the fabled Northwest Passage
was fading, but it was still possi
ble that by going up the Missouri
to its headwaters and perhaps
portaging for a few miles, the
headwaters of a mythical Great
Tomorrow
Lippmann
The paramount problem is the
decline of incomes which may
be due not only to the war-time
supports, but to the technologi
cai revolution which has in
creased so enormously the pro
ductivity of agriculture.
The administration, its eyes
fixed on the surpluses, has been
interested primarily in the soil
bank, which is a device for re
ducing production. ' The opposi
tion, its eyes fixed on the fall in
the income of the afrming popu
lation, wrote a bill which used
the income of the farming popu
ing out larger subsidies to the
farmers.
The President, though he has
vetoed the biU, has tried to go
about halfway as far as the bilL
rtf the long run, it may well be
that the character of the Presi
dent's veto marks the accept
ance of the principle that, in the
great transition through which
agriculture is passing, it is a na
tional obligation to cushion the
effects on the farmers. There is
a stern theory that prices should
be set in the market and that
in this price structure the more
efficient farmers should survive
and the less efficient farmers be
forced out of farming. But no
public man could or would think
of acting on this theory, no mat
ter how many times he has
made speeches about free enter
prise. The hazards of farming
during the technological revolu
tion now in progress have be
come a social obligation, in prin
ciple akin to the Social Security
System which deals with unem
ployment and old age.
The day will come, let us hope,
when we shall have a farm pol
icy based candidly on this prin
ciple of social security. The
enormous increase of agricul
tural productivity in this gen
eration, even more than the high
parity . supports, is producing
the great price destroying sur
pluses. To eliminate these sur
pluses, miUions of acres now in
wheat, corn and cotton, will
have to be taken out of produc
tion. This wiU mean that several
minion farmers will have to go
off the farms. It is to slow up,
to soften, to aUeviate this pain
ful human readjustment that the
social security principle will
have to be applied to farming.
WHEN it is applied, then it
' will no longer be necessary
tn maintain artificially high
farm prices. For the artificial
prices are only an lnaireci ana
cumbersome way of subsidizing
farm incomes.
It will be better to support the
incomes of the farmers, as we do
those of the industrial popula
tion, on the principle of social
security, and to let prices be
come genuine as determined by
the markets.
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
News
River of the West could be
reached, and down this river
boat traffic could be carried on
after the manner of the Ohio and
the Mississippi, which were then
our main arteries of interior com
merce. Captain Lewis and Captain
Clark found this Mighty River of
the West all right, and they fol
lowed it to its mouth, where it
discharged its waters into the
Pacific. But in between the
source of the Missouri and the
source of the Columbia they
found a staggering mountain
range that was toq tremendous
to be portaged.
That ended once and for aU
the dream of a water route to the
Pacific and made it clear that
communcation with the Far West
must be by land and not by
water.
TT WAS the Union Pacific rail
road that first bridged this
gap and made possible commer
cial communication in a big way
between the Far East and the
Far West and thus made possible
a UNITED States of America
reaching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
LET'S skip the staggering job
of building a railroad through
these vast wide open spaces with
Irishmen and wheelbarrows and
mules working all the time be
hind a screen of soldiers who
fought off the Indians with guns
while the builders worked with
their shovels.
Let's glance for a moment at
the task of FINDING THE
MONEY at a time when Ameri
cans were so busy with the job
of taming a raw new continent
that they had no time to save up
their money for investment. We
had to go abroad for a LOT of
the money Europe was then
sending its money to America
just as America is now sending
its money back to Europe.
There were scandals galore
including the Credit Mobilizer.
If Senators Morse and Neuber
ger had lived then, they would
have had something to talk about
in the way of "give-aways." And
the politicians of those days DID
talk. And protest. And howl to
high heaven.
But, at long last, the job was
done. And in the end it paid off.
The land that was granted to the
railroad made possible- the
BUILDING of the railroad and
the building of the railroad made
Matter of Fact by josPh aisoP
GAMAi, ABDEL NASSER
Cairo The new ruler of
Egypt, the embodied symbol and
acknowledged leader of the new
surge of Arab
n a t i onalism,
Gamal Abdel
Nasser, is not
an easy man
to read.
Certain of
Nasser's quali
ties are obvi
ous enough. He
has the warm,
Joseph Aisop natural charm
that often goes with inexhausti
ble vitality. With all the charm
he alsi has iron nerves, great
boldness and solid strength of
character. Furthermore, he is a
dedicated patriot, a strict Mo
hammedan, and a man immune
to aU the ordinary temptations,
who lives just about as simply
as' the virtual dictator of Egypt
as he lived when he was an ob
scure colonel in the Egyptian
army.
But although I have been
lucky enough to see Col. Nasser
twice since I have been in Cairo,
and although he has talked at
length and with apparent free
dom on both occasions, I can
not even dimly guess what his
intentions really are. The best
guess I can hazard is that Col.
Nasser himself is at a crucial
turning point, considering differ
ent alternatives with aU their
fateful implications, and waiting
to decide which course he wiU
choose.
ONE alternative he has already
resoundly rejected. He will
not enter any exclusive alliance
with the West, such as he would
have been forced to enter if
he had accepted the invitation
to join the Baghdad Pact. The
defense of the Arab lands, he
said to me as he has said so
many times before, should be
"independently organized by the
Arab peoples themselves."
That means, of course, that
the defense of the Arab lands
should be organized under Egyp
tian leadership. Although Col.
Nasser stoutly denies any ambi
tion to be the pan-Arab leader,
it is hard to believe that he
would reject the role. Yet I do
not think that this is the real
cause of his passionate opposi
tion to the Baghdad Pact.
The real cause, I believe, is
the conviction of Col. Nasser
and almost every other Egyptian
that an exclusive alliance with
the West would once more re
duce Egypt to a semi-colonial
status of a new kind. On this
point, his suspicion is constant,
his fears are ineradicable. "Brit
ain," he says, "is always going
out the 'door and then coming
in the window."
SPHERE is a curious ambiva
lence in Col. Nasser's atti
tude towards the British, who
are being sharply distinguished
from the Americans in the pres
ent phase in Cairo. On the one
hand, he is obviously alarmed
as weU as angered by the attacks
on him and his regime that have
recently been heard in London.
On the other hand, Col. Nas
ser is clearly voicing his honest
conviction when he predicts
(with great probable accuracy)
that the serrti-colonial positions
BritaLi still holds in the Middle
East are doomed in the long run.
"In the long run," he told
me, "they cannot stand against
the power of Arab nationalism.
Today there is only one impor
tant Arab government . support
ed by the British, the govern
ment of Iraq. Already in Jordan,
nationalism has proved stronger
than Britain. In Iraq it will hap
pen too, not today, but tomor
row. They say we Egyptians
conspire to make the national
ists succeed, but I teU you Arab
nationalism succeeds because it
is strong in itself."
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Use of the Rogue
To the Editor: I am enclosing
a clipping from the San Diego
Union of last Sunday. April 15.
I have written a comment to the
editor on the misnaming of the
Rogue River, called in the ar
ticle the "Rouge."
I would like to say, however,
that had the Rogue sportsmen
and others, who so vigorously
fought the building of the Lewis
Creek dam when it was proposed
several years ago. been k little
more farsighted in lookins to
ward Southern Oregon tourist
business, Medford and the Upper
Rogue might now be a destina
tion instead of a stop-off on a
motorlog.
True, it is always sad to see
progress at work on beauty spots,
but what has happened at Shasta
to make it a stomping ground for
tourists, so to speak, might have
valuable aU the rest of the land.
And it MADE the West. Other
transcontinental rail roads' fol
lowed and when transportation
was provided the West began to
grow.
It has never stopped growing.
A r"
And to this he adds (again
with great probable accuracy)
that: 'You in the West should
remember that the real alterna
tive to true nationalism in the
Arab lands 'is almost sure to be
Communism. Here in Egypt,
until we of the army rose and
took control, the Communists
were gaining strength each year
because the people thought they
represented the national spirit.
That is the choice for you in the
West, between the Arab nation
alism, and Communism disguis
ed as nationalism. You must
make the choice soon."
i LL these themes Col. Nasser
developed at great length
during my firs call on him.
I asked to see him a second time
heranse T wished to ask him
what the Western allies, would
have to do in order to come
to terms with, in order to make
friends with, the new Arab na
tionalism. Part of the answer was of
rnnrse obvious. The minimum
requirement is for the United
States to persuade Britain to
liquidate the semi-colonial posi
tinns Britain stiU holds out here
The minimum requirement for
nersuadine Britain is for the
United States to guarantee Brit
ain, to reinsure Britain, as it
were, against the losses tnat
the British fear wiU result from
concessions to Arab national
ism This cannot be escaped.
But if nationalist aspirations
were satisfied, would Col. Nas
ser guarantee the West the pre
cious oil that the West needs for
survival? Could the West be sure
that the triumphant Arab na
tionalists would not soon launch
a revenee attack upon Israel?
And if the West insisted on these
two vital conditions, would Col
Nasser then incline towards an
exclusive alliance with the
Kremlin, which might open the
door to a new form of colonial
ism even more rapidly than an
exclusive alliance with the West?
TD THE first question, about
oil, the Egyptian leader an
swered that he "recognized the
West's vital interest" and that
"good relations were the best
guarantee of the oil." Yet his
press and some of his subordi-
nates have sometimes talked a
rather different language.
To the second question, about
Israel, the Egyptian leader re
plied that "Egypt would never
attack Israel unless Egypt were
first attacked, in fact until Egypt
was attacked on Feb. 28, 1955,
we were neglecting our army
and spending all our money on
internal development. It was
only after that that we began
to look for arms and we bought
them from the Russians because
you would sell us none." Yet
on this subject too, Col. Nasser's
press and some of his subordi
nates often talk a very different
language; and Col. Nasser him
self would not seriously discuss
any positive settlement ' with
Israel.
JJIINALLY, to the last question
accepting further aid from
the Soviets, the Egyptian leader
replied that the Soviets had al
ways been "perfectly correct"
with Egypt, and that "no Mid
dle Easterner had any experi
ence of Soviet imperialism."
Those answers, quite obvious
ly, define the hard choice that
lies ahead of Col. Nasser. Any
Westerner is a fool who does
not see why Nasser and Egypt
are today in doubt about which
road to take.
And Western statesmanship
wiU surely miss another last
chance if Nasser and Egypt are
not aided, by all means possible,
to make the choice that best
serves the long run interests of
Egypt and the West alike.
Copyright 1956.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
been compensation to Medford
and surroundings, pinpointing
instead of by-passing for tourist
publicity. Also, the disastrous
flood this year might have been
prevented.
One other thing southern
California is growing more water
hungry each year. The tapping
of the Feather River is now on
the agenda and approaching the
beginning stages. Even that wiU
not aUeviate the water shortage
too much, as people keep pour
ing into this country.
I even heard a suggestion on
a radio program of tapping the
Rogue. Everyone up there had
better hope this does not hap
pen, and make sure it doesn't
by some plan to utilize the Rogue
waters for Southern Oregon, not
Southern California.
Carma McCarty,
690 Lincoln St.,
El Cajon, Calif.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195S
Congressional Quarterly)
Q What is the biggest dollar
value crop grown and marketed
in the United States? (a) corn;
(b) wheat; (c) cotton; (d) tobacco?
A (c) Cotton. According to
preliminary figures of the De
partment of Agriculture's mar
keting service, cotton led the
field in 1955 with a total value
of $2.6 billion. Wheat cam next
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Say, those Medford boys get
around.
Remember Carl Landis pic
ture of the lads in the bermuda
shorts strolling jauntily down
the streets of Medford? It was
on Page 1 of the M-T.
Well, it was sent to Portland.
and appeared in both daily pap
ers there on Page 1 of the Ore-
gonian. The Associated Press
wirephoto network picked it up,
too.
An incomplete list of places
where it had been printed, so
far reported to us, includes
Seattle, San Jose, Calif.; Houston,
lex.; Hawaii, and one or more
service papers, including one
near Paris and the European
edition of 5tars and Stripes.
A man we heard about has '
a telephone on a four-party
line. The other day he -was
trying to get the line, but
two women were -talking.
Time passed. He got more and
more anxious, and dropped
several noisy hints to them to
let him have the line. No luck.
Finally, he lost patience, and
said firmly: "Excuse me! Don't
hang up. Just call a taxi for
me."
Three young men (healthy,
outdoor types) dropped in to
the office Friday to report kill
ing what they thought might do
the first rattlesnake of the
season.
They ran across our junior
distaff-type reporter, who's a
darned good reporter, mostly,
but who refused to take their
story until they put that horrid
old rattle away.
A family in town has two
tiny fruit trees in their back
yard. An operative tells us
that between the two tiny
fruit trees is a tiny smudge
pot.
A staff member (male) is a
budding camera fiend, and
another staff member (female)
has a husband who's an old
camera hand.
The male staff member (just
for fun, we'll call him Earl) ask
ed the female staff member
(we'll call her Olive) what kind
of a camera her husband had.
Olive had forgotten, but said
she'd find out. She did, and re
membered it all the way to the
office and told Earl or so she
claims. But Earl can't remember
what, if anything, she told him,
and by the time this all came
to light she couldn't remember
what kind of camera it is.
They plan to start all over
again, from the beginning.
We know one taxpayer who
figured out and filed his fed
eral return good and early,
and was delighted to learn he
would get a refund. Than he
sat down and figured out his
state tax, and found that the
49 per cent surtax this year
would require him to pay the
state a fairly substantial
amount.
He hopefully waited for the
federal refund so it could be
used to help pay the state tax.
When did the refund arrive?
April 17, of course.
Spring, by George, really IS
here!
Even if it weren't for the
pear blossoms we could telL
How? By the flies that come
in the open windows, and the
discussions as to whether the
air cooler should be on or off.
A man we know drove to
Portland a few weeks ago.
En route home, he travelled
through a small town just a
bit faster than the law allows,
and the law caught up with
him and issued him a ticket.
Well, back in Medford, the
thing slipped his mind, and
by the time he remembered,
the deadline for posting bail
or appearing in court had
pasted. Slightly worried, he
went to a lawyer in town
(professional courtesy forbids
the use of his name) to get
him out of this small jam.
The attorney wrote a long,
professional-sounding letter to
the justice of the peace in
volved. The other day a reply ar
rived. It said, in part: "From
your letter we are unable to
determine whether you are
pleading guilty to the
charge . ."
A woman who sometimes goei
to rummage sales attended ono
recently, much to her happiness,
found a couple of porcelain fig
urines made in Germany in the
roaring 20s, and portraying girls
of that era, cloche hats and aU.
She picked them up for a nom
inal price which she refused to
reveal, thinking she could re
sell them to some collector
friends at a smart profit.
Her profit vanished on the
way home a day later when she
dropped the sack and smashed
the figurines into a million
pieces.
at $1.7 billion. Corn, the largest
dollar value croD. is used rhipfiv
for fodder, not sold in the market