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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFOfUVSIgWrRIBUNI -Xverybodjr In Southern Oregon Rttdi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by ixrnrMift ri n t vViv i r ST-29 North Fir St. Phone X-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertiaina Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiineaa Manager ERIC AXJ-t.N jk Managing ivaitor EARL. H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD jEwtrr Sports caitor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Per Codt 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 112.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 1-50 Sunda? Onlv One vear 13.50 By Carrier In Advance Med ford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. nrf on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday unt monin i-" Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or jacKson county United Pri Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AAvriimina Representative: WXST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Office In New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCll-ATLQN I J W giiinrna'H.'iin NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight a Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of Tba Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 13, 1946 (It was Monday) Employment in the Medford area shows increase in April, ac cording to the monthly review by the employment service. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A total of 203 voters poured out en, masse Friday in a S44.316.82 exercising of their prerogative of wielding a ballot. More than that exer cised their prerogative of trying to catch a fish. 20 YEARS AGO May 13, 1938 (It was Wednesday) Sale of the Cargill Court by the Prudential Life Insurance company to Mrs. M. E. Schuch ard of 108 Geneva st., announced. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce committees for the 1936-37 year announced Tuesday by Olen Arnspiger, president. 30 YEARS AGO May 13. 192S (It was Thursday) Forty-seven crippled and han dicapped children of Jackson county examined at free clinic for handicapped children at First Beptist church Monday. , . At a meeting of representative Democrats from Jackson county, a club was organized known as the Democratic club of Jackson county. 40 YEARS AGO May 13, 1916 (It was Saturday) Bids opened Saturday by the county court for the surfacing of the Medford-Jacksonville road with buckshot gravel. A dredge to handle 1,000 yards of dirt a day, known as the dry land dredge, will be installed soon on the Applegate below Ruch on the Ray property. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S. Editorial Research Resort 1. A car's wheelbase is the dis tance between its front arid back axles, bumpers, windshield and rear window, front and back tires, or differential and trans mission? 2. Of all occupied hospital beds in the U. S. one in about (a) 2, (b) 5, (c) 10, or (d) 15 is occu pied by a mental patient? 3. British political leader to visit the U. S. in mid-May is prime minister Eden, Labor party leader Gaitskell, Winston Churchill or Foreign Minister Lloyd? 4. More than half the natural gas consumed in the whole U. S. originates in Texas; right or wrong? 5. Digitalis is prescribed by doctors to help eyesight, hear ing, heart action, sleeping or di gestion? 6. In Israel a Kibbutz is a co operative factory, fortification line, cooperative farm, type of military plane, or prayer for the dead? 7. J. Bracken Lee is governor of California, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Texas or Utah? The answers: 1 - Between axles. 2 About one in every tw0. 3 GaitskelL 4 Right. 5 Heart action. 6 Cooperative farm. 7 Utah. Milk output in France in 1955 was 42,000,000 pounds. - x-x - MAIL TRIBUNE Hitchcock Gaining Fast The most sensational feature of this primary cam paign has been the rise of Phil Hitchcock and the de cline of Douglas McKay in the race for the senatorial nomination on the GOP ticket. The first important newspaper to switch from Mc Kay to Hitchcock was the Salem Statesman prob ably outside of Portland the most influential paper in the state. . . Then the Bend Bulletin, also strongly Republican, joined in. And a few days ago that Gibraltar of party regularity on the Republican side the Corvallis Gazette-Times, kissed the cherubic ex-Secretary of the In terior goodbye and jumped on the Hitchcock band wagon. The latest is the estimable and powerful Eu gene Register-Guard. . At this rate, before another week rolls around, the newspaper opposition to "Give Away" Doug, may be unanimous. IT IS VERY interesting to this department, and re- vealing, also. Our only regret is we have been unable to get all the facts. It was supposed, for example, that when Sec retary McKay in 24 hours changed his mind about be ing a candidate, President Eisenhower was respon sible. . -. .. But -when asked if this was true, McKay declared emphatically it was not. The President, he said, had had nothing to do with his decision. What impelled him to declare one day he would not run for the Sen ate, and.the next day he would was the demand that he received from the "home folks" in Oregon it was their insistence, not pressure from the White House, that induced him to execute such a complete and sud den somersault, from not being a candidate to being one. " TE DON'T KNOW how Vtolioirarl t-Tiia talo nf ly ex-Governor Sprague, editor of the btatesman, didn't put much stock in it, for the day after this explanation the Statesman remarked editorially as follows, quote : " the circumstances attending his (McKay's) decision have been disturbing. Over his oft-expressed determination not to run for office he was pressured into running by top political brass in Washington. The ostensible reason was to encompass the defeat of Morse who stands out as GOP En emy No. 1. The Statesman questions the wisdom of this decision." Judging by the way Republican newspaper sup port is ebbing, a majority of the Republican party question the wisdom of the decision also. And this op position to sending the former Secretary of the Inter ior to the Senate for the be even greater when the day. THE STATESMAN also declared its primary reas on for supporting Hitchcock instead of McKay was the f ormer s "high potential or statesmansnip. Well, there is no doubt our former Governor lacks that "potential." But we can't go along 100 with that rationalization of this defection from- McKay to Hitchcock, bv so many outstanding representatives of the Republican press, as well as prominent members of the Republican party. After a careful readinp- ations the real reasons for we believe accurately, in a very few words to-wit: "Secretary of the Interior McKay's record from the standpoint of promoting the best interests of the PEOPLE of this state, and the country, has been such a depressing one, that the papers don't want the job of defending it added to the task of defeating Senator Morse. And the latter is the common denominator of all these "explanations." That is the purpose No. 1, not only of the Republican party in this state, but in Washington. 'Whatever you do, GET Morse,' is the slogan. So putting first things first, they prefer a rela tively unknown candidate against whom little can be said, to a well known candidate as vulnerable as the acknow ledged champion of the 'Give Away technique,' and against whom so much CAN be said." That is all there is to it, as we view it It is not because the Republicans rate Phil Hitch cock so high in the realm of potential statesmanship or anything else but because they rate Secretary Mc Kay so low. They feel no certainty that Hitchcock can beat Morse, but they believe he has a good chance and they believe secretary Mc.K.ay nas pracucaiiy none. So Mr. Hitchcock, against whom little if anything but his lack of experience can be said, is the benefi ciary of the Republican hatred of Wayne Morse. How much that beneficence will add up to the Friday primary should disclose. At this writing it looks considerable and is steadily growing. R.W.R.-- The Tydings Case We hope former US Senator Tydings of Maryland wins out in the official count of Tuesday's primary. If ever a man deserves to be returned to the Sen ate he does. Mr. Tydings had a fine record of intelli gent and statesmanlike service in the Upper House, even though he was too much on the conservative side to satisfy some of his more radical colleagues. But Senator McCarthy, who was then at the height of his prestige and power never forgave Tydings for the report of his Tydings committee in the Owen Lat timore case, and decided that he must be liquidated. So "Mac" and a few of his most trusted undercover men concocted a fake photograph scheme showing the Maryland Senator consorting with Comrade Stalin, had the same put in friendly newspapers and circu lated throughout the state in pamphlet form. This was to back up the scurrilous personal attack against "The Gentleman from Maryland," terming him soft on com munism, and impugning his loyalty to his own coun try, although he- had a brilliant record as an officer in the World war and had Sunday, May IS, 1956 many people in Oregon linmo sunnnrt lint, nhvinns- next six years, promises 10 polls open this coming Fri of all the editorial explan this switch may be stated, no more sympathy with Matter of Kuwait, Persian Gulf Here in Kuwait, the West's extreme vulnerability to the new Soviet flank attack in the Middle East is brought home with ex t r e m e vivid ness. This tiny desert Sheik dom at the head of the Persian Gulf is nowlittlemore oieun aisop man a vast oil well with a small town on top of it. Kuwait's oil output now substantially exceeds the com bined output of Iran and Iraq. The famous "sweet crude" of the Kuwait wells now provides two thirds of the oil fuel of the Brit ish Isles. The 50 per cent of profits paid to the Sheik of Kuwait by the half British, half American Kuwait Oil Company currently amounts to about $260,000,000 a year, or rather more than $1,000 a year per head of the whole population of the Sheik dom. And the people here are getting good pay, too, from the oil company and on all the con struction and other, projects that have been started by the influx of oil money. TN THESE circumstances, it is hardly surprising that Kuwait is a boom town. By Saudi Arabi an standards, the ruling clan of Kuwait, the House of al-Subah, is distinctly restrained, yet the desert is dotted with their pal aces which they like to illumi nate by night in a way that puts Broadway to shame. With a lav ish hand, the Sheik is also build ing schools, hospitals, new roads, water distillation plants and great numbers of houses for his people. Even after all these expedi tures, so much is leftover that the British government thought it worth while to send the Brit ish Ambassador in Washington, Sir Roger Makins, on special mis sion here when he was one of the top officials in the Foreign Office. Sir Roger's task was to persuade the Sheik of Kuwait to invest his reserve funds in London. The Sheik complied. To day his money is probably the biggest single sum of new capi tal annually available for in vestment in the sterling area. In these circumstances, it is not surprising that the British regard the Persian Gulf Sheik doms, and especiaUy Kuwait, as their hole card. HHHE entire population of the -- three oil producing Sheik doms, Kuwait, Bahrein, and Qa tar, hardly amounts to more than 400,000 persons. But even if all the other Western posi tions in the Middle East crum ble in the end under the pressure of the new Arab nationalism, spurred on and supported by the Soviets, the oil wells of these little Sheikdoms can be made to meet Britain's and Western Europe's requirement for fuel In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In the closing hours of its 1956 session at Bend, the Oregon Cat tlemen s association decided to reexamine its stand against gov ernment subsidies. The news dis patches explain that the organ ization has long opposed federal subsidies, but recently some members have been urging a re versal, of this policy." At any rate, the association's president Garland Meaaor has ordered a poll of the member ship on the issue. Presumably, the poU will be taken by mail. THAT is to say: Some of the association's members have been looking at their financial hole cards and flirting with the idea that it would be AWFULLY nice to get each year from Uncle Sam a check representing the differ ence between the price they CAN get on the open, free mar ket and the price they think they ought to get. Admittedly, it is an intriguing idea. 'D LIKE to suggest that before going off the deep end in favor of government subsidies the cattlemen take a look at the automobile industry. The auto mobile people are presenUy in a pickle. They have been produc ing more cars than the market will absorb. So they have decided to CUT DOWN PRODUCTION. As a result, men are losing their jobs and the companies are losing the cost advantages of big production. There is distress in Detroit, and elsewhere where automobiles are produced. It isn't a rosy picture. B UT- Suppose the government communism than he had and they knew it. Not only did McCarthy attack, but he boasted of it and following the subse quent victory thus won, he and his cronies held a bois terous victory dinner to celebrate. ' THEREFORE, if former Senator Tydings does come out victorious and is returned to the Senate it will provide a refreshing example of poetic and political iustice and a fittinsr and .lonsr-delaved repudiation of mendacity and 'indecency in Fact By Joseph Alsop lifeblood for a long time to come. If these grim circumstances ever arise, Britain will have to choose between holding the Sheikdoms and surviving, and risking the loss of the Sheikdoms and ending her career as a seri ous world power. The choice has already been made in Lon don. The Sheikdoms will be held, by naked force if necessary. The ugly war in Cyprus is being fought to make sure of a transit base for troops bound to this region. The question is whether this British strategy of the hole card will really work. Certainly it will be difficult to execute. To be sure, there is little of the popular unrest in Kuwait that is creating such a problem in Bahrein. The house of al-Subah really rules its Sheikdom, and with an iron hand. Most Ku waitis are contented by the new prosperity, and for any who are known to be subversive, there is harsh and summary punish ment.' e ' OUT even the house of al-Subah will be anything but pleased by a military occupation, if this becomes necessary to protect the Kuwait oil source from the drive of nationalism in the rest of the Arab world. The trouble in Bahrein, in this event, would of course be even worse. Further more, if the Arab nationalist drive finally forces Britain to play her hole card, one can fore see all sorts of other very grave troubles, perhaps on the borders here, certainly at Suez, and quite probably at Aden. The Soviet object in the Mid dle East is simply to use Arab nationalism to bring down the Western Alliance, by encourag ing the Arab states to deny to the West the vital oil on which Britain and Western Europe so absolutely depend. Since this is quite certainly the Soviet pur pose, it is a little difficult to see what good results can be expected by trying to negotiate a Middle Eastern settlement with the Soviets. This increas ingly popular expedient will be like sitting down with your own murderer to argue about wheth er he will stab you in the heart or only cut your jugular vein. DY THE same token, however, the present British plan for dealing with the Middle Eastern danger if worst comes to worst does not look very practical or very attractive when one ex amines it on the spot, here in the gulf coast Sheikdoms where the last ditch defense is to center. The problem in the Middle East, therefore, is not just to prevent a new outbreak of Arab- Israeli fighting. The problem is to find a firm, united, imagina tive and generous Anglo-Ameri can policy towards Arab nation alism which will frustrate the Soviet Strategy and protect the oil source without recourse to desperate measures. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. News stepped in ana established ' par ity" on automobiles. Suppose it BOUGHT UP AT THE PARITY PRICE all the surplus autos and stored them in government ware houses. What would happen? That question is easily an swered. In a little while all the surplus warehouse space in the USA would be filled with autos and the government would be building new warehouses at tax- payer expense to hold the over flow that would be spilling off the ends of the assembly lines And The automobile business would be wrecked as a free private en terprise by the accumulating sur pluses that would hang over the markets oi the future like a dark thundercloud. fREGON'S Gov. Elmo Smith has asked the advice of Ore gon's Attorney-General Robert Thornton on what action could be taken to stop construction of the Pelton dam in the Deschutes river up north of Bend. He asked the state's attorney specifically just what action should be taken and who should do it. Previously the governor had asked for an opinion on the le gality' of the Pelton project and the attorney-general ruled that the Portland General Electric company is violating state, water laws by building the Deschutes dam. Several weeks ago the attor ney-general said the Jefferson county district attorney (the project is in Jefferson county) should prosecute the company if construction is started. . WHAT'S the shooting about? ' Is the state of Oregon fighting private power develop- for "Murder Incorporated" perpetrate this false sneak public life. R.W.R. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation, not exceed 400 words. Who Is McKay? To the Editor: WU1 you be so kind as to inform me who this great and mighty McKay, who shot off his mouth so loudly over radio and television a few days ago, may be? You know, the bird who was so RIGHTEOUSLY (?) indignant at our Senator Morse? I do not suppose HE ever herd of the old adage "He who lives in glass houses should never throw stones". And he certainly threw enough stones to fiU a box car. What is he trying to do? Does he hope to scare Senator Morse, or does he hope to scare him to death? Or just drive him to drink? Maybe Mr. McKay wants to turn cannibal. It could be that he hankers for a roast or a fry from Morse's carcass. However, it may prove to be mighty tough chawin'. Or, it could be, as he has so often stated, that his "respect" for the "dollar" has increased to real veneration? Such things have happened to many others in the past, as wit ness the story of Midas the king. Whichever it may be, or neither, he seems, to want to go to the Senate that, to him, all means are to be used to that desired end. Let's take a look at the Al Sarena case. McKay says he complied with the law. Did he? I have the U.S.F.S. records in the matter, wherein emphatic protests to the issue of patents were made. Were he in the right, those protests need not have been made. That every man with reasoning power will agree. Also, I have been over the Al Sarena many times in the last 32 years, and while I have only a prospector's experience, I aver that there is no metal on any one of those claims worthwhile. McKay also said the timber thereon was small and worth little. How does he know? Was he there at any time? If worth little, why are the claims being denuded of such timber as fast as possible? I have seen that timber and I state un equivocally that it averages up to the rest of the timber on the reserve. That is a fact. About the Hell's Canyon Dam give away? Does he forget that the people of this state know that the Coulee Dam in Washington and the big Bonneville Dam are pay ing, for themselves, and that in the future the dams will have paid for themselves and give fine profit to the federal govern ment thereafter? He says Morse was always against the President's projects, I have Morse's "voting records for this Congress. He supported the President 82 per cent. And that was enough, and, as I see 'it, too much. A. L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania ave., ' '' Medford, Ore. Fire Protection Costs To .the Editor: The city of Ash land fire protection budget for 1956 is $42,000. This figures out to $5.25 per person, or $21 for a family of four living within the city limits. For this same average family living in an average-construction $10,000 house on a lot worth $1,000, the fire insurance pre mium will run about $15 a year. So, we reach the figure of $36 spent by this average" family total for fire protection for a year. Taking another "average" sit uation . . . say that this- house catches on fire to the extent that it is damaged 30 per cent during a fire. Doing some figuring, the fire insurance will recompense the homeowner $2,700 for this fire, Thus; the fire department has succeeded in preventing the complete destruction of the house, giving a figure of $6,300 saved by the fire department for the home-owner. Breaking this down we find that the home-owner has been recompensed $180 per doUar-a- ment? NO, THAT isn't it. An entirely different principle is in volved. The situation is roughly this: Some time ago the Portland General Electric company ob tained a permit from the federal power commission but.. NOT from the Oregon hydroelectric commission. In subsequent liti gation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in effect that the federal power commission has the right to license the Deschutes dam re gardless of what the state of Oregon may do about it. That raises this question: WHO OWNS OREGON'S WATER? That is the biggest question in Oregon's future. F OREGON accepts without re sistance the theory that the federal government can do with Oregon's water what it pleases, it will STRENGTHEN the "con tention that the federal govern ment owns Oregon's water. That theory we MUST NOT accept by acquieicene. Letters submitted for publication must year spent on insurance. He has been saved $300 per dollar-a-year spent on taxes to cover fire in surance. ' While we all know that fire insurance is one of the most worthwhile investments, I just want to point out that citizens sometimes do not realize the value of their investment in the fire department. When they real ize they are getting their mon ey's worth, there will possibly be less oppostion to raising taxes and voting additional money to maintaining and improving the local fire department. A recom mendation such as raising sal aries or buying new equipment is often shrugged off with the excuse that it will involve a raise in taxes and is not worth while. The point of all this Is that if the taxpaying citizen knows where his tax dollar is being spent, and that an increase in taxes for a given proposal will pay off in a sound investment, he will not have unfounded prej udices and give undue opposition to proposals for fire department improvements as they come along. Ran Lovejoy, 474 North Main st., . Ashland, Ore. Justice To the Editor: As a candidate for public office, I am grateful to the Mail Tribune for permit ting use of its columns by candi dates in an attempt to sell their wares to the voter. I am sure aU candidates feel likewise. It is a long way back to Jus tinian, but it' is one way of dem onstrating how organized soci ety, as we know it, has consist. ently striven to create a condi tion of equality, especially be fore the law. Justinian said "Justice is the constant desire and effort to ren der every man his due." This passion for justice and equality has always been foremost in the thinking of great men and since Justinian, many have strength ened our beliefs in the proposi tion of man's equality before the law, by their utterances, To show how closely the think ing on this subject runs parallel down through the centuries, con sider the statement of Edmund Burke, "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. You may wonder what aU this has to do with the Justice Court, and why I stress these references to justice. It is to remind you, that should complacency and apathy ever prevail over- our love of liberty and justice, then our courts will become . instru ments of persecution. When that day arrives, democratic govern ment, as we know it, will cease to exist, I believe so strongly in what these men have advocated, that it wiU be my fixed and steady purpose to see that, even in so obscure a court as the Justice Court, equality before the law will be the rule and guide of my policy; which after all, pretty much boils down to "due pro cess, plus whatever humanity, reason and justice tell me ought to do, in given circum stances.- This is my creed. If you be lieve with me, I ask you to en trust me with the administra tion of the Justice Court by your vote on May 18. Lee Wilmeth, Candidate for Justice of the Peace, Ashland, Ore. Figures Given 1 To the Editor;- In recent days it has been our unfortunate ex perience to read some statements made by a political candidate which are wholly without foun dation, in our opinion. As auditors for the people of Jackson county wejwish to give to the people of Jackson county the actual figures shown in the county records, which figures are as follows: (a) The 1955-1956 total budget includes the amount of $390, 887.63 for the Court House Build ing Fund and $60,000 for the Armory Building Fund. . The 1955-1956 budget DOES NOT in clude any other amounts for the building fund. (b) The amount expended to date on the Court House Build ing, Improvements and Equip ment is as follows: 1953-1954 .$ 17,745.85 1954-1955 1855-1956 297.038.00 230.690.04 Total $545,474.89 (c) The Court House Building and Improvement Fund balance at April 30, 1956 is $154,241,55 and the unexpended portion of this balance, when the building is completed, will be returned to the General Fund of Jackson county. As we state above, we are the auditors for Jackson county and we have checked the above fig ures, and these figures are in cluded in our monthly reports to Jackson county, and we so certify. This office is not interested in taking political sides, but. we submit this information to your POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A staff member with cleanly habits was taking a luxurious bath Saturday morning before coming to work. As he was soaking in the tub, the telephone) rang. He muttered a curse and heaved himself out of the water, planted a foot on the bathroom floor, slipped, and crashed down amidst a flurry of spray. He cracked his head on the heater, sprained a shoulder and barked an ankle Undaunted, he grabbed a towel and limped, head ringing and shoulder hurting, to the tele phone. It was (need you ask?) a wrong number. Automation has its hazards. We assume it was the result of a misplaced digit and the new long-distance dialing now possible in some cities, which resulted in a telephone caU received by a local attorney last week. The call was from a city in Massachusetts, and the person calling didn't want Medford, Oregon, at all. They wanted Ansonia Derby, Con necticut. Mrs. Bette Hoskins, the Mail Tribune's correspondent in Jack sonville, has come up with some thing that newspaper people appreciate. She reports that a contributor to her regular Jack sonville column donated a quo tation from the Hewitt Banner, in Hewitt, Minn., which goes like this: "I know not what the truth may be; . "I tell it as 'twas told to me." Mrs. Hoskins added, "As Jacksonville correspondent, I trust" this will explain any mis takes I may have made in the past or may make in the future." So say we all of us. One well-known Kiwanian put his brother club members to shame last week at . ins) Wednesday Mothers', Day luncheon. He not only brought along his mother, but . his mother-in-law. too. One of our feminine staff members (about whom more elsewhere in today's paper) spent some time at the police firearms training school last week. At one point in the proceedings her car got stuck in a muddy area, and she called for help from the as sembled lawmen. They responded nobly, and with some grunting and heaving (combined with usual male state ments about women's abilities as drivers) helped her get her car unstuck. ;..! After she got back to town she suddenly realized, to her horror, that her auto license plates had expired. She still isn't quite sure whether the of ficers who helped her were be ing gentlemanly in not noticing the expired plates, or simply un observing. Anyway, she dashed out pronto and got her car le galized, i As a post script, it should be noted, perhaps, that the same of ficers who commented caustical ly about women drivers got their owncars stuck in the same mud puddle later the same day. ' Last Sunday, we reported on Jacksonville Police Chief Frank Carter chasing a while mule, which escaped in - the direction of Mom's Hideaway. Immediately that restaurant proudly brought out a menu which listed "White Mule Steaks, a la Frank Carter." It's an old story, but stul eood. A Medford housewife some time ago asked her businessman-husband to take her out to lunch. No, he said, because his service . club met that noon. When he ar rived at the service club, the presence of a number of women reminded him too late that the meeting that day was the annual session to which club members were SUPPOSED to bring their wives. We're not sure whether ha ever told her that or not. I. A. Mirick, school instru mental music supervisor, ar rived late al a Washington school program dress rehearsal last week, so young Jim John ston directed the band in its' first number. He did so well thai Mirick called on him lo lead the band for the first number at the regular pro gram the following night. Say!! Whatever happened to Davy Crockett? Herbert Seitz Elected ions Club President Herbert Seitz " was elected president of the Medford Lions club for the year beginning July 1 at the club's annual elec- . : t j i ' uon weanesaay. : Other officers include Louie Ruhl, first vice-president; Joe Tomjack, second vice-president; Lee Knox, secretary-treasurer; Ed Ashton, lion tamer; Lee Mell ish, tailtwister; Jerry Lausmann and Speed Waters, directors for . two year terms and Elliott Beck en, director for a one-year term. newspaper for publication so that the people of Jackson county can be correctly informed of the issues. George L. Stacey, Certified Public Accountant, Medford, Ore.