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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
tO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 1. 1946
(tl was Monday)
Medford Civic theater organ
ization meeting called by Nancy
Day, temporary chairman.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Cowmen
started driving their steers to
the grassy dells of the high hills
the past week for summer feed
ing. The herds represent a good
ly portion of next winter's meat
shortage.
20 YEARS AGO
July 1. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Buildmg permits in June total
$20,395; represents 300 per cent
gain over June of last year.
Rogue valley peach and apri
cot crop described as "virtually
nil," need imports for local de
mand. 30 YEARS AGO
July 1. 1926
(It was Thursday)
First band concert of the sea
son by the DOKK band to be
given Friday in the city park.
From the Local and Personal
column: Medford housewives are
warned that next Saturday they
must purchase food and ice sup
plies for two days because of
the Fourth of July celebration
period.
40 YEARS AGO
July 1. 1916
(It was Saturday)
Eastern representatives of the
Southern Pacific who are on an
educational tour of the west,
will arrive in Medford Sunday
and spend the day in a scenic
trip over the Rogut River Val
ley.
A dredge is being installed at
the mouth of Sterling creek, on
the Little Applegate, with a
capacity of 1,000 cubic yards a
day; it will "clean up" about
60 acres of placer ground in that
location.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, editorial Research
Report
1. Washington, John Adams,
Jefferson, Franklin or Madison
had most to do with drawing up
the Declaration of Independ
dence? 2. Of all drivers in fatal auto
accidents, about one-third, one
half , or two-thirds were violating
speed laws?
3. The International Confeder
ation of Free Trade Unions is
pro-Communist, ant i-Commu-nist
or "neutralist"?
4. Most U.S. drug addicts are
21. between 21 and 30, or over
30?
5. Largest state east of the
Mississippi River is Florida,
Georgia, Michigan, New York or
Pennsylvania?
6. U.S. farms are producing
somewhat fewer or more hogs
this year than last year, or about
the same number?
7. Golda Myerson is a U.S.
golf star, British tennis player,
N.Y. labor leader, Hollywood
dress designer or the foreign
minister of Israel?
The' answers: 1. Jefferson. 2.
About one-third. 3. Anti-Communist.
4. Between 21 and 30. 5.
Georgia. 6. About 8 per cent
fewer, says Agriculture depart
ment. 7. Foreign minister of
Israel. ' i
MAIL TRIBUNE
There Should
We are somewhat weary of the Al Sarena case,
but there seems to be so much misunderstanding con
cerning it, and the attitude
a few more words appear necessary in an effort to
clarify the situation.
We have a communication from Mrs. Ernest T.
Ross of Gold Hill for example, asking if we believe
in lynching the implication being that opposition
to the policy of "mining for timber" on the federal
forest reserve at several thousand per cent profit, adds
up to a policy of lawlessness.
UE THOUGHT we had made it plain in the edi
torial referred to, that what we wanted was a
change in the present mining laws, so far as mines
in the national forests are concerned, so that thi
racket could be stopped. We can see in this contention
no suggestion that we favor
in fact exactly the reverse. We don't want any law
broken, we want a new law and want it enforced.
It is true, as Mrs. Ross states, that the mining laws
since the Al Sarena case broke have been changed
somewhat. But the changes do not have any effect
on the Al Sarena "give away" whatever. That is
"water "over the dam." The only hope of redress lies
in voiding the mining patents, as the Minority report
advised but as we stated, to accomplish this during
the present administration appears extremely remote
to say the least.
THE Ellsworth law does make anv repetition of the
Al Sarena case less likely but it does not render it
impossible.
It will give US Forest service the right to do as
it wishes with the timber on the mining claims until
the patents have been granted. This might be a period
of 5 years, ample time to avoid any "give away."
But as we understand it there is nothing in the law
to prevent the mining claimants from doing the re
quired $500 improvement work in one year instead
or five and then follow the Al Sarena pattern drop
mine operations and concentrate upon cutting off the
timber, secured at approximately $5 an acre' and
worth anywhere from $500 to $1000 an acre depend
ing on the quality and stand.
TT IS this sort of profiteering the Mail Tribune thinks
should be stopped. We grant the Ellsworth law
takes a step in that direction, but only a short one,
and one that can too easily be blocked.
As so often stated we are not considering the min
ing laws in general but only within the federal forest
reserve where the paramount concern is or should
be not mining or well-drilling but the conservation
and properly regulated sale of timber.
Mining, of course, should be allowed where the
Forest Service engineers find mineral values that
justify operation. But a mining permit at $5 an acre
should not include FOR FREE a timber cutting permit
where the acre value may be more than one-hundred
times as much.
TN OTHER words on government land the two
operations should be kept separate, the miners
should operate on one side of the fence and the timber
men on the other, they shouldn't be mixed up, and
both should be under strict federal control, for the
land does not belong to them but to the people of the
United States.
As to why former Secretary of the Interior Chap
man did not deny the Al Sarena patents, we have
never heard his explanation but we do know he did
not GRANT them. Our guess is he hated to sanction
a deal whereby, in his judgment, US Forest land
that was worth five or six hundred dollars should
be sold for five.
That at least would be a natural reaction for a Sec
retary of the Interior we should think! R.W.R.
As to Communications
IT IS ABOUT time to issue our usual pre-election
warning regarding communications.
The Mail Tribune, as a matter of policy through
the years, has probably given more space to commun
ications, particularly of a critical nature, than any
other paper in the state.
But we have hot and will not print communica
tions which are anonymous, are of an abusive, per
sonal nature or exceed 400 words in length.
The writer of each offering must be identified, and
the more the writer sticks to facts and objective dis
cussion of issues, and the less to partisan cliches, prop
aganda and glittering, generalities the better the
chances of publication.
If there is some good reason offered why the writ
er's name and address should not be printed but the
reason in the realm of political controversy must be
GOOD the name will be withheld and placed on file
to be divulged only on personal request.
Finally communications which question the integ
rity of this paper or that any members of its staff will
promptly be consigned to oblivion where gratuitous
and unwarranted insults of such a nature belong.
Finally after the two conventions have been held
and the campaign really gets into ' "high" the Mail
Tribune will offer as heretofore equal space to both
parties to the party organizations, not individuals
where they may express their opinions freely, subject
only to the same rules and regulations that apply
and have applied for so many years to communica
tions, regarding length and subject matter. These de
partments wall be run 3 days a week, Tuesday,. Thurs
day and Sunday. R. W. R. .
Sunday, July I, 1956
Be A Law
of the Mail-Tribune, that
calling in Judge Lynch
Today and
By Walter
WESTERN COMMUNISTS
IN TROUBLE
We are now hearing from the
Western Communist leaders on
the subject of -Khrushchev's
:
degrade Stalin.
They are pro
foundly em
barrassed, hav
ing for many
1 years been Sta-
Sm'"'m servitors, now
denying that
his rule was a
Waiter Lippmann reign of terror
and then justifying the purges
and executions. They cannot
plead, as Khrushchev has, that
he served the tyrant because he
was afraid of him. Togliatti and
Nenni in Italy; Thorez in
France, not to mention the little
Communist politicians in Britain
and the United States, did not
have to embrace Stalinism. Now
that Stalin is being demolished
in Moscow, they have lost face,
and they look very foolish in
deed. To make matters worse, Khru
shchev has shown how little
thought he gives to them by not
taking the trouble to send them
a copy of his famous diatribe.
The leaders of Western commun
ism have been reduced, as they
bitterly complain, to finding out
what Moscow now thinks of
Stalin by reading a text furnish
ed to the Western newspapers by
the Department of State.
piETRO Nenni, the leader of
- those Italian Socialists who
are in partnership with the
Communists, is so upset that he
is now calling Stalinism "the
most vast propaganda hoax in
the memory of the world." This
raises the interesting question
of why he was taken in by this
hoax. There were plenty of It
alians who were not taken in by
it, and the main charges now
made by Khrushchev have been
published long since. The only
thing about them that is essenti
ally new is that they are now
officially confirmed by Stalin's
successor at the head of the Com
munist party.
Men like Togliatti, Thorez,
Nenni have been the victims of
the hoax, not because they have
been intimidated and not, I
would think, because they have
been bribed, but because ' they
were in the grips of their own
will to believe.
Tpo believe what? That the rev--
olution in Russia was show
ing the way, and must therefore
be followed, to the construction
of that society which they, and
European Socialists, had learned
to believe in. They became the
dupes not .only of Stalinism but
of Leninism as well, because
they misjudged the essential
character of the Soviet exper
ience. As disciples of Karl Marx
they should have been on their
guard. For Marx taught that So
cialism would develop out of the
most highly developed capital
ism. Yet here was "Russia, the
first Socialist state, a society
which had only a primitive cap
italism. Evidently, not only was
the Marxist prophecy wrong as
to where Socialism would begin
but it was wrong also as to what
Socialism, when it did begin,
would be like. In Russia it has
turned out to be quite different
from what Marx had led his dis
ciples to expect.
What Stalinist Russia was con
ommunications
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.
Do We Believe in Lynching?
To the Editor: Do you believe
in lynchings, too? Lynchings
were supposed to be a form of
"justice," when "men" took the
law into their own hands.
In your editorial on the Minor
ity Report of the Senate Com
mittee investigating the Al Sa
rena Mining Case, you state that
you never believed there was
anything unlawful in the trans
action that it was all entirely
"within the law," but it should
be corrected by new legislation.
During the twenty years of the
Democratic regime, the law re
mained unchanged. Are you un
aware of the fact that during
the "nearly four years" of the
Republican administration, the
law has been changed to recog
nize the timber value on mining
claims?
Don't you feel that you are
being unjust in calling a perfect
ly legal transaction "shenani
pans"? Or are you playing "par
tisan politics"?
The plain fact is that these
individuals were entitled to their
mining patents under law. Other
wise, why didn't Oscar Chapman
deny the patents?
Mrs. Bertha Coy Ross,
Gold Hill, Ore. .
Tax Burden
To the Editor: I want to call
the attention of your readers to
the way th-; unprecedented and
unnecessary increase in taxes
on real property in this county
this year is doing great damage
to our county and state. A great
Tomorrow
Lippmann
cerned with was the forced and
rapid industrialization of a back
ward country. What Stalin did,
at the sacrifice of the happiness
of a whole generation, was to
organize an economy which
would enable Russia to compete
in productivity with Western
capitalism. In the Stalin era
the objective was not to lead the
West to Socialism, but to make
Russia catch up with the West's
industrialism.
IT WAS an extreme form of
self-deception for a Socialist
like .Nenni to look for leadership
to a country which had never
developed a modern industrial
system and had never known
the civil liberties and the demo
cratic institutions of the West.
The most intelligent way to con
ceive the Soviet system, is, it
seems to me, as a successful
demonstration of how, by ignor
ing the human costs, a country
that is primitive in its economy
and unused to constitutional
government, can be industrial
ized rapidly and developed into
a powerful state. A
If w ecan conceive Soviet com
munism in this way as a gos
pel for the primitive we have,
I think, the key to a number of
puzzling questions. Why, for ex
ample, has communism made
such progress in Asia and the
Middle East while it has made
no progress at all in Europe on
this side of the iron curtain? Be
cause what has been done in
Russia in the past 30 years is
something that might be done
in other underdeveloped and
pre-democratic societies. In the
Western countries, on the con
trary, the Soviet system would
be not only reactionary but ir
relevant. That is why Western
communism has been so alien
ated from the interests and sen
sibilities of the Western peoples.
IN A speech he made the other
day in San Francisco Mr.
Dulles remarked that while the
Russian Communists now "dis
sociate themselves from Stalin,
not even this much gain is reg
istered by the Chinese Commun
ist party." The explanation may
well be that the Chinese are
still Stalinists because they are
still in the early stages of their
own forced industrialization, of
which the target date is 19.67.
The Russians, according to this
view of things, have now achiev
ed a formidable industrial sys-
tern, and have therefore outlived
Stalinism.
To take this view is to regard
Stalinism as in its essence the
totalitarian terror required for
an inhuman purpose to com
pel a generation to sacrifice it
self in order to transform a prim
itive peasant economy into an
advanced industrial economy.
YlTTH this in mind, we can best
' appreciate the crucial im
portance to the future of man
kind of what Nehru is doing in
India. It is to demonstrate that
there is a humane and liberal
alternative to the Stalinist way
of developing a backward coun
try. But for Nehru's India,
backward countries would have
no practical alternative model
to that provided for them by
Soviet Russia and Red China.
This is why Nehru, far from
being a stooge of Moscow, is the
most formidable rival in Asia,
indeed the only rival in Asia, of
Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung.
(C) 1956, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Letters submitted for publication must
many people are selling out and
moving out of the state because
they cannot stand the present
tax burden.
To give one example among
many: One rancher of my ac
quaintance got a raise of $600
on taxes on his ranch, and since
the profit on his beef cattle is
not sufficient to stand such an
unjust increase in taxes, he im
mediately had a sale and sold
all of his cattle, and as soon as
he can find sale for the ranch,
he intends to move to Idaho and
buy a ranch there.
The tax on my business prop
erty was increased over 300 per
cent, and my business cannot
stand it, therefore I may be
forced to move my business out
of the county. I have talked with
quite a few others who are in
the same dilemma. This may be
a part of the present efiort of
big business to crowd out and
force small business into liqui
dation. How can we expect to attract
tourists, and get them to settle
in the county, with our our ex
cessive tax burden to discour
age them? Again, how can we
expect to attract and persuade
industries to settle in the valley
and create jobs for our people,
when they hear of our excessive
taxes?
I hope that our civic leaders
will seriously consider the harm
that is being done, and do some
thing to lessen the burden.
Robert L. Taylor,
906 North Riverside Ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Matter of Fact
' By JOSEPH ALSOP
LETTING THE DUST SETTLE
Washington" The most im
portant single "fact revealed by
a lone Middle Eastern journey
is the simple
fact that the
United States
of America has
not the shadow
of a Middle
Eastern policy.
. The Middle
East has
consider ably
greater strate-
(epi .isop gic ana econo
mic significance than the Far
East A Middle Eastern convul
sion now looms ahead, on the
scale of the Far Eastern convul
sion that began with the loss of
China. '
If this Middle Eastern convul
sion is not averted or controlled,
the effects on the Western Alli
ance can make the after-effects
of the Far Eastern convulsion
seem downright coy.
BUT in their dealings with the
Middle East, the American
policymakers are now imitating
the unfortunate example of
Dean G. Acheson, in the fa
mous period when he was "let
ting the dust settle" in the Far
East.
To be sure: This Administra
tion is always very conscious of
its public relations. All sorts of
meaningless activities and pure
ly temporary expedients are
made to look like parts of a
large policy-design, that does not
in fact exist. '
For example, the Middle East
ern mission of UN Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold had
no visible result whatever ex
cept the momentary prevention
of an actual outbreak of war be
tween the Arabs and Israel. Yet
this was grandiosely portrayed
as a brilliant triumph of Ameri
can policy.
It was like claiming every
successful foray of the fire bri
gade as a triumph for the muni-
ciple housing program, on the
ground that even although
houses are not getting built, at
least they are not being burned
down.
MEANWHILE, the vacuum of
American Middle Eastern
policy approaches the point of
being ludicrous. We have able
diplomatic representatives in the
area, but when you ask them
what our policy is they throw
up their hands in amusement or
despair.
Almost every American Em
bassy in the Middle East sees
the problem utterly differently
from all the other Embassies, so
that you wonder if they all be
long to the same country. The
operations coordinating board,
that mysterious adjunct of the
National Security Council, has
event sent an able young staff
member to the Middle East to
rush about from Embassy to Em
bassy, in order to synthesize
viewpoints but this has little
visible effect.
This utter vacuum of Ameri
can policy cannot be too strong
ly stressed, because it is the
least understood of the four car
dinal factors in the ugly and
dangerous Middle Eastern crisis.
The other three factors axe:
'
FIRST, the rise of Arab na
tionalism, with its threat to
all Western positions in the area
including the oil interests that
provide the lifeblood of most of
the Western allies.
Second, the unceasing and in
creasing Arab-Israeli tension,
with its constant threat of re
newed fighting.
Third, the Soviet intrusion in
the area, which has greatly en
couraged the Arab nationalists
both in their anti-Westernism
and in their determination to
wreak vengeance upon Israel.
These three forces are im
mensely powerful. They have
combined to produce a rancid,
rising ferment of a really fright
ening kind. The British, the peo
ple most directly threatened by
this ferment, ' no longer nave
either the prestige or the power
to control it effectively. They
can talk of moving troops to the
head of the Persian Gulf, if this
is needful to safeguard their
most important oil sources. But
this is really about the best they
can do; and it is a very poor best.
1 THEREFORE the utter vacuum
of American policy in the
Middle East means that the only
power, the only influence that
might be used to pacify and con
trol the situation is not being
used for any purpose whatever.
We do not wish to take the risk,
or accept the commitments, or
even make the distasteful
choices that are essential for a
serious Middle Eastern policy.
So we are just letting things rip.
e
BUT in Cairo and in Baghdad,
in Damascus and Jerusalem.
one always heard the same
weary, desperate, pieaaing re
frain -"Any American policy,
even a bad policy, is better than
none at all. You must at least
try to prevent catastrophe, even
although you cannot be abso
lutely sure of success."
The true criticism of the 'iru-
man administration's handling
of the rise of Chinese commu
nism was not that they did not
prevent Communist success. No
one could guarantee the defeat
of the Chinese Communists. The
true criticism was that the Tru
man administration did not aven
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Eagle-eyed . readers of this
(and other) newspapers take a
certain delight' In finding silly
errors. More power to them. We
all make them some of them
in the reporter's or wire ser
vice's copy, some of them typo
graphical. One recent wire story read as
follows: "(He) was born in Lou
isiana. His father . died three
months before he was born. He
began shining shoes to help his
mother."
A reader (anonymous) clipped
it out and sent it in, comment
ing, "It s a good trick if you
can do it."
A columnist on the Ashland
Tidings pointed out another
one which appeared in the M-T
last week, . in a story about
a death in which a line was
dropped, with the result that
the story indicated the county
coroner shot himself.
Sigh!!
A day or two ago there was
an editorial on this page voicing
mild protest over the confusing
practice of saying 12:15 p.m.
when, to be utterly clear, it
should be 00:15 p.m.
Well, sir, another kind reader
(also anonymous) sent us a clip
ping from Llewellyn George's
Moon Book of 1953, and there,
big as life and twice as hand
some, were tables of the moon.
The hours between midnight and
1 a.m., and between noon and
1 p.m., were all PROPERLY set
forth 0:10 a.m.; 0:09 p.m., and
so on.
That, friends, is progress.
Newspaper Publisher Bob
Chessman visited the M-T one
day last week during his va
cation. He comes from one of
the West Coast's fishing cap
itals, Astoria, origin of many
popular brands of canned fish
sold all over the country. And
why was he vacationing in
southern Oregon? To go .fish
ing in the Rogue, of course.
Helga Mitchell of the Apple-
gate area sends us a paragraph
of "Rural Reflections," as fol
lows: Summertime causes changes
in country traveling. Convert
ibles become converted, cyclists
decrease their attire, and truck
Editorial Comment
NIXON PRAISED
In the excitement over Presi
dent Eisenhower's operation it
was widely overlooked that Vice
President Nixon had made a
speech in favor of eggheads.
The Vice President addressed
the graduating class of Lafayette
College at Easton, Pa., and dis
cussed the new Soviet line which
Moscow is propounding. In meet
ing this challenge, he said, we
may find ideas rather than mili
tary weapons more useful. In
many parts of the world "the in
tellectual is not dismissed as an
egghead" nor " the artist as a
longhair," he went on; if we are
to appeal to people with such
views, we must show that we
are not "to materialistic to have
such ideals," that we ,are not
"anti-intellectual, deficient in
culture, or superficial in re
ligion." This sounds like a sensible
speech. In all frankness, it
sounds quite unlike the kind of
speech we have been accustomed
to hearing from Mr. Nixon. Per
haps this is confirmation of the
theory that in the new phase of
nis career which is now unfold
ing Mr. Nixon intpnri tn
away his brass knucks, turn his
back on nolitical thuirperv, anrl
present an altogether new char
acter to the people. The trans
formation will be watched with
interest. St. Louis Post. Dis
patch. Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195S
Congressional Quarterly)
Q In 1947 Congress revised
an 1886 law and established a
new order of succession to the
Presidency. Can you arrange the
following list of offices in the
order in which their incumbents
would succeed to the office- of
President: (a) Secretary of State;
(b) Attorney General; (c) Speak
er of the House; (d) Vice Presi
dent; (e) President pro tempore
of the Senate; (f) Secretary of
the Treasury; (g) Secretary of
Defense?
A The proper order is Vie
President; Speaker of the
House; President pro tempore
of the Senate; Secretary of
State; Secretary of Treasury;
Secretary of Defense; Attorney
General. Other Cabinet offices
follow in order of rank.
try. The same can be said of the
Eisenhower a d m i n is tration's
dealings with the Middle East
ern crisis to date.
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune, Ine.
driven stand on the running
boards of their cabs, cooling
off. The most unique method of
travel, however, was observed
last week when four children,
dressed in swim suits, floated
home on inner tubes in the Ir
rigation ditches.
Reporter "A" gleefully rush
ed up to Reporter "B" last
week, with a newfound word,
hoping that, for once, she'd
found he didn't know. "I'll
bet you don't know what an
ecdysiast ill"
. Without batting an eye ha
replied airily, "Oh. that's
stripieaser."
That's the kind of word ha
WOULD know.
One newsroom worker cus
tomarily brings his lunch to
work with him, and munches
away seated at his desk. Saves
him time, he claims. The other
morning his helpful wife as
usual fixed a tasty lunch and
put it in a brown paper sack.
As he left, he picked up a brown
paper sack and went to work.
At mid-morning he received
a call from a giggling daughter,
telling him he'd forgotton his-
lunch. Mystified, he inspected
the sack he'd brought, only to
find a bunch of rolls left over
from the night before.
From now on, he claims, he's
going to count the sacks before
he picks one up in the a.m.
Speaking . of eating at the
desk, and such-like things,
we're learned that an item
appearing on this page last
week, giving rules of member
ship in the "Coronary club,"
and outlining the dangers of
workers pushing themselves
too hard, attracted consider
able attention. All over town,
we're told, wives have been
pasting it up for their hus
bands to read. And in one case,
a husband pasted it up for
his wife to read. .
In the same vein, we know of
a Meford businessman who at
tended a breakfast meeting on
Monday, and again on Tuesday,
an again on Wednesay. A friend,
who had attended two of the
three, asked him, half jokingly,
if he had a breakfast meeting
on Thursday, too.
A quizzical look come over
the businessman's face and he
said no no breakfast meeting
Thursday. As a matter of fact,
he explained, he had to take
some medical tests Thursday
morning, and he wasn't allowed
to have any breakfast at alL ;
Working late one night last
week, the society ediloress
' was overhead to exclaim upon
looking at the clock. "Heavens,
time is fugiting!'
Our reaction to thai Anglo
Latin mauling is to wonder
if, when Christmas comes. Is
Adeste just Fiddling?
,
One of the steadiest, most
reliable, hardest-working and
most conscientious business
women we know was accused
by a disrespectful colleague the
other day of being unpredict
able. A short time later he re
ceived from her the following
note:
"I get up early every morn
ing, I collect my clothes (for
getting at least one piece of
them so I make another trip
upstairs), I get breakfast and
eat at the same time, I drive
to the office, over the same
route, arriving at 8:10, I always
wear my hair the same way, I
am always attired in either grey,
black or navy blue. I always
think I can do more than I
actually can, both at home and
the office, I always get the es
sentials done even though I
think 1 cant Pssibly. I always
dnnk coffee whei I promise
myself I wont, and after 15
years I'm still worried that r
don't earn my pay and that I'll
be fired any dav.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY
SAYING I'M UNPREDICT
ABLE!!!?" It's a rapid 99 miles from
a point just north of Central
Point (where a sign says 127
miles lo Grants Pass) to
another point about a mile
down the road (where another
sign says 26 miles to Grants
Pass).
.
The other ' evening about 7
o'clock we saw a dozen or so
high school girls, dressed in
pedul pushers, pushing their way
up the s'iairs of the building
marked "Carpenter's Local
2067."
We assume they were union
label pedal pushers.
You know how people are
always talking about women
not knowing their way
around?
.Well, a couple of agronom
ists last week, in their car,
started leading a gal reporter,
in her car, to a farm where
some soil research experiments
were under way.
She says it was a real nice
drive, but she began to wond
er after they passed the same
corner in Jacksonville for the
f earth time.
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