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History from the files; of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
to years ago.
,10 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1948
(It was Monday)
Medford stores participating
In the UNRRA food and cash
donations drive were announced
today by Robert Upson, chair-
Frora Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: So far this
month, there has been nothing
so rare as a June day in June.
20 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Mrs. Charles Braack of the
Butte Falls district was bitten
by a rattlesnake on her right
hand today while distributing
gopher poison near her home.
Oregon Osteopathic associa
tion will hold its annual con
vention here June 19-20.
30 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1926
(It was Thursday)
Judge E. D. Briggs of Ash
land, chairman of the general
committees on the removal of
the courthouse, was in Medford
today to confer with Rawles
Moore, president of the bar as
sociation. A check for $25 for a mem
bership in the local chamber of
commerce was received this
morning by Secretary Boyl, of
the chamber, from James E.
Grieve, fight manager and train
er. 40 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1916
at was Saturday)
At a meeting of the county
court Friday the advertising of
bids for the grading of the Ash
land hill section of the Pacific
highway was authorized.
During the season of 1916 the
Rogue River Fruit and Produce
association will handle their
fruit either in pools or for the
individual account of the grow
er. What's the Answer?
1. A woman cannot become
President without an amend
ment to the Constitution; right
or wrong?
2. The Federal Republic of
Germany (West Germany) is
larger or smaller than East Ger
many under Communist rule, or
about the same size?
3. Less than a million mem
bers are now in unions outside
the new AFL-CIO; right or
. wrong?
4. Lawyers and dentists will
or won't be covered by social
security under bill now on way
5. The numbSr of civilian em
ployees of the federal govern
ment has been going up or down
this year?
6. Americans own (a) 40 mil
lion, (b) 55 million, (c) 70 mil
lion, or (4) 80 million ordinary
life insurance policies?
7. Onlv (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3. or
(d) 4 of the world's 10 highest
mountains have not yet been
scaled?
The answers: I. Wrong. 2.
Much larger. 3. Wrong: close to
2.000.000 are in the non-affiliat
ed unions. 4. Will be covered.
5. Increased each month to total
of 2.359.611 in April. 6. 80.000
000. according to University of
Michigan survey. 7. One (Dhau-Ugiii).
MAIL TRIBUNE
"You Never
According to our New York representative the
Boys on Wall Street are so sure of Bee's reelection they
refuse to open any books on the outcome.
This if true is unusual. ,
Yet as things stand today were the bookies to ac
cept wagers, the odds on "Ike" would probably be so
astronomical that even Secretary of Defense Wilson
with all his millions, would hesitate to risk even one
of them.
C0R you can't always, sometimes tell. It does look
like a "shoo-in" for the President against any
Democratic nominee thus far mentioned, but who
would want to give odds of say a hundred to one?
e e e
THERE ARE 5, months still to go. A great many
things might happen in 150 days to change the
picture, if not completely transform it. And as all the
statistical experts know, a slight change in the distri
bution of the popular vote four years ago could have
resulted in a Stevenson victory.
AS AN INDICATION of how things in a compara-
tively short time can change and make monkeys
out of the self-anointed prophets, look at baseball
especially the time-honored National League.
Who six weeks ago would have predicted Pitts
burg would be leading the pack, with the "champs"
from Brooklyn only four spots from the bottom?
Not even E. T. or the redoubtable E. G. B. jr.
would have risked so much as a buck on any such in
credible juxtaposition
Yet only a day or two ago that was the situation,
and as this is written another "weak sister," Cincin
nati, is leading the league, with not only Brooklyn but
the famed New York Giants, champions in 1954,
among the "also rans."
What has happened in sports COULD happen in
politics the odds are against it but so were the odds
against "Sugar Ray" Robinson and Jim Bailey, but
look what THEY did!
rjELVING in sporting terms and speaking of Adlai
Stevenson four years
his being the Democratic presidential candidate THIS
year?
The Stevenson general
umph in California claim
Kefauver there last Tuesday ends the struggle and
Stevenson's nomination is
noted that Mr. Stevenson
such claim, and we as usual agree with the former
Governor of Illinois.
The primary outcome in California did not end
the struggle for Stevenson but only for Kefauver. The
latter, following the approved sportsman's code re
fuses to quit publicly, but he might as well in fact,
better. The primaries are over and Estes never had
much of a chance in the Chicago convention anyway,
had he put on a repeat performance of his 1952 show
ing. Failing to do so, and vanquished by Stevenson
in a free-for-all voting contest, Senator Kefauver had
better follow the advice of his home-state paper, call
it a day, and resume the performance of the duties of
the position to which the people of Tennessee elected
him.
A S TO THE ODDS on
cratic choice in August we would say they are
now about even.
He will enter the convention as an odds-on favor
ite, and therefore will have to suffer the penalties of
such a position. Needless to say the slogan of the Ke
fauver backers will be "anything to beat Stevenson."
Just what the attitude of Senator Symington of Mis
souri will be is not now clear, but there is no reason
able doubt as to the attitude of Governor Harriman
of New York. According
nanced the Kefauver campaign to kill off the former
Illinois Governor if he
other than the "Gentleman
According to the same grapevine former President
Truman will be in the Harriman coiner. If this is cor
rect then there will be a battle royal at Chicago be
tween the "rive 'em hell"
sense" contingent. From
expediency, which rules in
will be valid arguments on
to the finish.
We would not at this time advise anyone to wager
any large suni on the outcome. But there is no doubt as
far as this department is
standpoint of plain self-interest, politically speaking,
the Democrats at Chicago
nominate Adlai Stevenson
Again he might not win, but at least he would have a
chance. Governor Harriman would, as we see it, have
none. R. W. R.
You Certainly Can 't!
The above was written before the startling an
nouncement of the sudden illness of President Eisen
hower was announced.
Needless to say this unexpected and regrettable
turn of events changes the political picture materially
even though, as now appears likely, the President will
make as rapid a recovery as such a major operation
allows.
In fact it would transform the status of the Re
publican party completely, if this second physical
upset should convince the President that he could not
accept another 4 year term with any expectation of
doing the job as he believes it should be done.
Only time can tell. Meanwhile the people of the
country are not thinking of politics or partisanship
but only of the President of the United States, and
as a unit are hoping for his speedy and complete
recovery. R. W. R.
Snuady, June 10. 1956
Can Tell
ago what are the odds on
staff, flushed by their tri
Adlai's defeat of Senator
as certain as Ike's. It will be
always modest makes no
Stevenson being the Demo-
to the grapevine, he fi
didn t, certainly someone
from Tennessee" did.
advocates and the "talk
the standpoint of political
all party conventions, there
both sides. It will be a fight
concerned, what from the
SHOULD do they should
on a "talk sense" platform
Today and
By Walter
THE DIATRIBE
Reading Khrushchev's enor
mous speech, I found myself fas
cinated by his tale of cruelty and
treachery and
cowardice, but
u n c o n vinc
ed and puzzled
by his theoret
ical explana
tion of Stalin.
Reduced to
its elements,
K h r u s h -
chev's theory
Walter Uppmann Is as follows.
Lenin, who was the infallible
leader, thought that while terror
ism should be used to win the
class war against the members of
the old regime, terrorism should
end when the class war had been
won, and it should never be
used against factions within the
revolutionary movement itself.
Kruschchev went on to say
that by the time Stalin had
climbed to power in the mid-20's,
the Communists had won the
class war. There was therefore
no further need for terrorism
against non-Communists and no
excuse whatever for terrorism
against Communists. Lenin's vic
torious revolution should then
have been conducted by leader
ship and persuasion within the
hierarchy of the Communist par
ty.
This hierarchy was in Lenin s
view, as in Krushchev's, the self
appointed and unquestioned rul
er of the new revolutionary re
gime. Stalin s offense was, ac
cording to Khrushchev, that he
overrode the Communist party
hierarchy, and set up a personal
despotism by the use of terror
through his own personal secret
police. Stalin did this because he
had an insane lust for power.
IlfHAT I find nuzzline and un-
' unconvincing is Khrush
chev's assumption that the ter
ror which has prevailed in Rus
sia was an aberration due wholly
to the deranged personality of
Stalin. This begs the main ques
tion. The question is whether the
transformation of Russia in the
30's could have been carried out
without terrorism.
I do not doubt at all that Stal
in was the monster that Khrush
chev makes him out to be. But
what we have to remember is
that the forced industrialization
of Russia and the agrarian revo
lution, carried out in a short gen
eration, was a monstrously ab
normal undertaking. It subjected
human beings to an ordeal to
which there is no parallel.
It seems to me highly unlikely
that the quick transformation of
the life of the Russian people
could have been carried out
without extensive, ruthless, per
sistent and pervasive terrorism.
In all probability the abnormal
ity of the undertaking itself and
the abnormality of Stalin's per
sonality reinforced and exacer
bated the one or the other.
e
TN THE NEW cult of Lenin,
which Khrushchev celebrates,
it is set down that the Commun
ist revolution was victorious by
the time of Lenin's death in
1924. The fact is, however, that
the revolutionary transforma
tion of Russia into an industrial
state was not seriously begun un
til the first five-year plan in
1928.
This plan called for sacrifice
and for a kind of hard labor
which could be extracted from
any people only under fiercest
kind of compulsion. One histor
ian, Richard Charques has this to
say about it: "Since the volume
of investment in industry, which
it called for, could come only
from production itself, notori
ously low standards of living
were reduced to the barest level
of subsistence ... In the vast
new factory encampments In the
Urals and beyond, men and
women from remote parts of
Russia worked and starved and
in winter half-froze. Labor dis
cipline was maintained by strin
gent penalties . . . The basic
tasks of socialist construction
were achieved by the blood, toil
and tears of peasant labor di
verted to industry. It was in the
wilds of peasant Russia that the
real revolution, effected by the
first five-year plan, came with
most shattering consequences . . .
The horrors of collectivization is
no empty phrase. This second
and much greater Bolshevik
revolution was waged with im
placable cruelty and resisted
with the extreme of desper
ation." lyHAT seems to be false in
' Khrushchev's argument is
the fundamental assumption that
this terrible undertaking could
have been carried out, but for
Stalin's personality, without a
reign of terror. It is more likely
that the main cause of the terror
was the decision to sacrifice one
Russian generation in order to
transform Russian society, and
that Stalin's character was a
complicating element in an
undertaking to which the whole
Communist hierarchy was .dedi
cated. This would also help to ex
plain, along with the fact that
they were personally intimi
dated, why they worked so long
for Stalin. . , -
Tomorrow
Llppmann
ALL this bears on the practical
questions which are in our
minds. What ground is there for
thinking that the reaction
against the Stalinist terror may
be lasting? Why are the present
rulers of the Kremlin relaxing
the iron discipline of the Soviet
state?
My notion Is that the Stalin
ist terror, allowing for Stalin's
personal abnormalities, was an
integral part of the violent and
abnormal revolutionary transfor
mation of Russia which began in
1928. The question would be
operated without the terror.
The post-Stalinist rulers of
Russia are acting as if they
thought that there is now such
an equilibrium, and that the
Soviet system can now be oper
ated by more normal incentives
and discipline. That would ex
plain why they, dare to relax.
It would also leave open the
question of whether the relaxa
tion will last. In fact it would
cause us to believe that it will
last only if Russia does not de
velop a serious crisis, be it inter
nal or external.
YUE must remember in all of
this that we are not witness
ing a revolution against Com
munism but an historic dispute
within the Communist world.
The issue between Khrushchev
and Stalin, or for that matter
between Tito and Stalin, is not
about dictatorship, democracy,
the Bill of Rights, a government
of laws and not of men, much
less about the two-party system.
The test of whether the anti-
Stalinists are winning is not
whether they are coming closer
to our American conception of
how government ought to be con
ducted. They have a radically
different conception of govern
ment from our own, and their
quarrel with Stalin is that he
distorted their conceptions of
government, not that he vio
lated our conceptions.
Copyright 1956, The New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Freedom of information note:
The Turkish parliament has
passed a stringent press law. It
provides prison sentences for
newsmen under certain circum
stances. It authorizes suspending
newspapers that publish FALSE
NEWS.
TTIIRST let's be cynical.
- When somebody does some-
thing he hadn't oughta do and
gets caught at it, it isn't so much
the punishment he fears as the
DISCLOSURE of his wrong
doing. He'd cheerfully pay a fine
or even go to jail if the public
could be kept from finding out
what he has done.
That is to say:
If newsmen can be INTIMI
DATED, a lot of news can be
kept out of the papers.
NOW let's be sensible:
, Publishing FALSE news is
a crime against decency. When
it is deliberate and malicious
when it is done with full
knowledge on the part of the
newspaper that it IS false it
deserves stern punishment.
But
Who is to be the judge as to
its truth or falsity?
THAT brings up a lot of prob
lems. So often men make a public
statement and then, when what
they said stirs up a frightful
row, they renig and say it's all
a monstrous lie and they never
said any such thing.
Suppose GOVERNMENT were
the judge as to truth or falsity.
I'm afraid that under such cir
cumstances a lot of newspapers
would be suppressed.
I ET'S put it this way:
If government has the
power to decide what is true and
what is false, then government
has the power to suppress ANY
newspaper.
If the time ever comes when
government has the power to
decide what is true and what is
false and has the further power
to suppress any newspaper that
published what the government
SAYS is false, freedom of the
press, which means freedom of
information, wUl be gone where
the woodbine twineth.
THE big point is this:
Freedom of the press,
which means the right of the
people to know what is going
on, BELONGS TO THE PEO
PLE not to the newspapers.
That is why the subject is im
portant. THE dispatch telling of the
passage of this stringent law
adds:
"The debate was interrupted
by fist fights and, at one point,
by a REVOLVER sliding across
the floor of the chamber" pre
sumably knocked out of the
hand of some disputant who was
about to use it.
I think this riotous debate,
with its evidence of strong feel
ing on the part of the debaters,
is evidence that the members of
the Turkish parliament realized
they were taking action that
could result in the death of Tur
key's new democracy and the
rise of Turkey'! old despotism.
Matter of Fact wh ai.oP
ON THE EMMAUS ROAD
Emmaus, Jordan The little
vUlage of Emaos, or Emmaus in
the more familiar spelling of
the Bible, is
no more than
a cluster of
mud - built
Arab houses
nestling among
sparse olive
groves on the
crown of a
rocky hill.
Just down
..osepii Aisop the sunlit slope
there is the immemorial village
threshing floor, bright now with
the golden harvest. A swarm of
tragically thin children are
cheering the work on. Two old
men guide the scrawny ox and
bony donkey which are tramp
ling the wheat stalks in the
ancient way. And half a dozen
women are briskly sifting the
gram from the chaff in big
basketwork sieves.
THE RIBBON of road winds
-- im frnm fVia .iaTa n Alalnn
f "... vu.b . - - -j ...... .
past the threshing floor. It is
the road we have been brought
to inspect by Brother James
Nolan, an aged, merry, lavishly
beardei English Cockney monk
who lives in the abandoned
convent of Emmaus and works
for the Trappist Fathers in their
great nearby monastery of Notre
Dame de Latroun. Brother James
overflows with little jokes for
instance, he says his Trappist
friends drink only "baptized
wine,' by which he means wine
heavily diluted with water. But
now his eyes' customary twinkle
has been replaced by a different
light.
Partly it is the light of com
bat. It angers Brother James
that Biblical commentators are
not sure that his Emmaus is
the real Emmaus of the Bible
As for Brother James, he has
no doubt about it. Pointing to
the road, with tears of simple
faith suddenly welling forth, he
tells us solemnly, "there is the
road where our blessed Lord,
crucified for our sins, risen
again from the dark tomb, met
the disciples on Ressurrection
Morn."
.
MOREOVER, even if Brother
James cannot quite prove
his identification of Emmaus,
this is a place that has known
more history than most. Here,
we told the moon stood still,
for did not Joshua give the
command, "Sun stand thou still
upon Gibeon, and thou, moon
in the valley of Ajalon." Here
too the mighty Judah Mac
cabeus fought one of the first
and bitterest battles in the Jews
long war of independence
against the Seleucid heirs of
Alexander the Great.
Here came the Romans -when
the Maccabees weakened in the
Trappist Fathers' garden, in the
walks deeply shaded by clip
ped orange trees, white marble
fragments of a Roman temple
show palely in the cool gloom.
Here too came the wild desert-
riders of the Caliph Omar, sec
ond successor to the Prophet,
who started the transformation
of the Aramaic Christian peas
antry into the Muslim and Arabs
that they still are.
Here came also the Crusaders
Richard the Lion Hearted
once took his Christmas dinner
in the grim keep of the Knights
Templar on the high crag of
Latroun. 'Then Saladin drove
the Templars from their castles,
and after that there were the
Turks, and after that the British,
and finally . the Jews returned
again. And here the Arab Leg
ion, dug in among the ruins of
the Templars castle, held the
Israeli advance down the Em
maus road in a long and bloody
fight.
BUT SKIRT the barbed wire
that marks the beginning of
no-mans-land between Jordan and
Israel. Go to the fine gate of the
handsome Trappist monastery.
where it looks out across its
vineyards to the untitled fields
of the wide neutral zone in the
valley. See the heirs of all this
history, the many scores of half
starved poor people of Emmaus
who come to share in the mon-
asterey's daily distribution of
soup and bread. Then you think
men can have too much of
history.
Seek out the Trappist's tall,
slender, wise-eyed Father Ab
bot, who was a Belgian para
chutist in the war against Adolf
Hitler. He tells of the fighting
at Latroun between Arabs and
Israelis. He explains that Tinder
the armistice agreement, all the
rich valley lands in the neutral
zone are forbidden to be tilled.
He describes how the people of
Emmaus tried to work their for
bidden fields back in 1953; 'how
they managed well enough un
til the harvest; and how they
were caught in the fields at har
vest itme by the Israeli border
guards. "Three were killed
among the grain," he says drily.
"They had broken the armistice
agreement." Once again you
think that it is better for poor
people to keep out of. history's
path.
fXR GO again among the dusty
melancholy streets of Em
maus, to the once prosperous,
now shabby house of Mukhtar
who leads the village. Toneless
ly, as though telling a story al
ready told too often this shrewd
SSL
old farmer describes what has
happened to his people. They
held no less than 7,500 acres of
land "in the times before the
war when we were rich." Now
those people over there" the
Mukhtar means the Israelis
hold 4,000 acres of the lands of
Emmaus. Another 3,000 acres lie
in the neutralized zone, "where
we learned our lesson three
years ago." And all the lands
that Emmaus can till are now
the few patches among the rocks
on the hill where the village
stands.
"We are 2,000 people, we of
Emmaus," said the Mukhtar.
"With our lands we lived well.
Now we beg from the monas
tery. Our men go to other places
to earn support for their fami
lies, but they know only the
farmer's trade so they earn lit
tle. We are not refugees so your
United Nations gives us no re
lief. Many among us starve.
Where can we turn, and what
have we done to deserve this?'
a
AT THE last question, the old
man's voice grows harsh and
he looks out across the valley,
gesturing towards the Israeli
side. "Ha, it is bitter to see our
good acres that have been taken
from us" and here there is an
other gesture down towards the
unfilled valley "but it is almost
worse to see those fields grown
up in weeds, used by no man in
no-man's-land when even a part
of our lands might keep Em
maus from hunger."
Then indeed you wish to cry
out in warning to all simple peo
ple everywhere to flee those
place where history may tread
with a heavy foot.
(Copyright 1356 The
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Editorial Comment
GIFTED PUPILS NEED
CLASSES
The idea of special classes fori
gifted children, by which fuller
development of bright young
minds could be achieved, is usu
ally waved aside by educators as
unworkable and undemocratic.
The basis for their contention
that it is unworkable is the fact
that it has been tried and has
failed in some places. But we be
lieve that it failed because the
method of applying it was
wrong, not because of any Inher
ent shortcomings
The question of democratic
procedure enters. Why should
one pupil be given special priv
ileges over another just
because of superior intelli
gence? We do not think that this Is
the serious question posed by
the educator. His problem is
the more practical one of deal
ing with parents who think
their child is gifted and should
be included among the "favor
ed few." If this is what keeps
the educator from favoring spe
cial classes for gifted pupils, we
think he is failing in his role.
It should take no more cour
age to separate the gifted stud
ents from the masses than it
should to set aside the slow stud
ent for special work, as is done
in many school systems. Much
emphasis has been placed on this
problem of education now to
bring the sub-normal child up
to normal so he can join society
as a contributing member. But so
far too little emphasis is placed
on the problem of developmg to
their fullest capacity potential
leaders of society.:
When we speak of democracy,
we don't place the period after
the word equality of opportun
ity for all." We read the whole
Dhrase as "eaualitv of opportun
ity forall to develop themselves
to the fullest."
American society, in its worth
while striving for equality, can
stop too soon to the extent of
revering mediocrity. In an edu
cational system, this could be fa
tal. We think that special classss
for gifted children is one way to
assure that our education re
mains progressive and develops
the individual as fully as pos
sible. Coos Bay Times.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyrlrht, 1951
Congressional Quarterly)
Q. With farm surpluses a ma
jor headache, agricultural ex
ports assume an important role.
Which is the biggest single farm
export in dollar value: (a) wheat
(b) rice (c) cotton (d) tobacco?
A (c) Cotton still topped the
list in 1955 at $477 million, but
it had slumped sharply from
1954, when cotton exports total
led $780 million.
Q Basic' legislation in the
field of foreign trade is a law
passed in 1934 permitting the
President to make reciprocal
trade agreements with other
countries. Under the law, he can
agree to adjust tariffs up or
down from an agreed base as
much as: (a) 25 per cent (b) 50
per cent (c) 75 per cent?
A (b) 50 per cent.
WEATHER
- By United Press
Northern California: Fir Sun
day but occasional? cloudiness ex
treme north portion. Fog on
coast with occasional drizzle
north of San Francisco. Cooler
north of Merced Sunday.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
A staff member reports that
he and several colleagues
dropped into a local lounge
the other evening for a mo
ment of relaxation. It was no
ticed that of the 10 customers
in the establishment, all but
two were female. Times
change.
The report, naturally
enough, was made by a male.
We have great respect for the
meteorologists of the D.S,
Weather Bureau. (It was only a
few years ago, in fact, that we
learned how to spell their title
correctly.) Anyway, our collec
tive heart has bled for them in
recent weeks. Did you ever see
any group of scientists so con
sistently wrong for such a period
of time?
Anyway, Friday and Saturday
were simply beautiful days de
spite the predictions of clouds
and occasional showers. It ac
tually got warm or, as one
Stan member put it, "One-petticoat
weather,"
We still have that list of
examples of Federalese gob
bledegook from which we
quoted last week. Another
one we like is "Further sub
stantiating data is necessary."
This means 'We've lost your
stuff. Send it again."
A neighboring daily newspa
per (to the south) and the dis
trict attorney are a bit at odds
these days, a disagreement over
who said what and why. It's
none of our affair, but it arose
out of a cooperative law enforce
ment effort which resulted in
the closing of an illegal poker
game in the town to the south,
and the arrest and fining of the
participants.
The thing that intrigues us
about the situation is the fact
that two deputy sheriffs from
the northern part of the county
joined in the game to get the
evidence which led to the ar
rests. The two deputies must have
had differing emotions about the
approaching denouement and
end of the game, for we are told
that one of them was weU ahead
while the other one was on the
verge of losing his shirt.
On of the senior members
of our printing crew recently
got back to work after a siege
in the hospital during which
he was cut open again for
about the fifth time. His ab
domen, he maintains, looks '
sort of like a railroad switch
yard from the number of
healed incisions.
He claims he now couldn't
be sent to the penitentiary
(he's not likely to be, anyway)
because he's sewed up with
steel wire, and he'd never get
by the prison's automatic gad
get that spots people carrying
metal.
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Three Medford youngsters
could be classed as being thrilled
one day last week.
A friend of the three fathers
recenUy had a business trip to
make to Tucson, Ariz., and he
promised them that while there
he'd try to get autographed base
balls for them from the Cleve
land Indians, then undergoing
spring training there.
He purchased the baseballs.
all right, but when he arrived
the team was on the road.
Through a series of misadven
tures, arrangements to leave the
balls there for "autographing
misfired, and they eventually ar
rived back in Medford, still
white and unsigned.
Our businessman friend, how
ever, was undaunted, and mailed
them to Cleveland with faint
hope that the ball players would
go along with his request for
autographs.
Last week they were re
turned, all of them' signed by
each member of the Indian
team, and they were presented
with ceremony to the young
sters Jimmie Root, Charlie
Taylor and David Crowder.
Medford High School Track
Coach Bob Newland last week
was introducing members of
his squad at a Kiwanis club
luncheon. As he went down the
line, he came to E. H. Hed
rick. retired city superintend
ent of schools. Nothing daunt
ed. Newland introduced "E.
H." as a sprinter. An anony
mous voice corrected him: "An
old sprinter, you mean."
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Our sports editor was in
Portland last week end to cover
the Medford-Lincoln high school
baseball game. During the eve
ning he and his wife sat through
six hours (18V4 innings) of base
ball, and both were tired as, in
the wee hours, they drove to
ward Salem.
As he drove, his wife alter
nately snoozed and kept a look
out for somnolent tendencies on
the part of the newspaperman.
The urge for sleep, however,
soon overcame her, and she
dozed off for a considerable
spell.
Suddenly she awoke with a
start, realized she hadn't been
keeping a watchful eye on her
husband, and yelled "Wake up,
wake up!!!"
The husband, who happened
to be wide awake, said his wife's
shout nearly frightened him
right off the road. . ...