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Newspaper Page TextV TOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MebfornSWTribukx Kvcryboa u, auc.cru utwo Read I'he Mall lYlpunc" Published DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO tf-29 North Tlx St. Phone 211 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC "" JR Miiunnl Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ER1CKSO.N Circulation Mgr. A n Independent Newspaper " Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One veal I12U0 Dally and Sundav Sin montha S.50 Dally and Sunday Three mns 3.50 Sunday Only One vear $350 By Carrier In Advance - Medlord Aahland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River Talent an 1 on motoi routee. ,.,, Daily and Sunday One year 115 oo Dally and Sunday One month 1-23 Carrier and Dealers- 5c pei copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of tn City of aledford Official Paper 1 Jacksun county United Pre Full Leaaed wire " MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising R'epresentttlve WEST-HOIXIDAY COMPANY INC Oflicea in New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Loi Angeles Seattle Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL !ASSoc5T6N -iiiiiiiiMiini. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1946 (It was Monday) Seth M. Bullis reelected chair man of the Jackson county chap ter of the American Red Cross. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: More fish ermen are running to Rogue River than there are fish running in Rogue River, all reports indi cate. ' 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1936 (It was Wednesday) The popular Elks club band plans to give a concert at the city park Friday, F. Wilson Wait, band director announces. Bartlett pear shipments from Rogue valley to canneries up to and including last Saturday total 2,685 tons. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1926 (It was Thursday) Lee P. Brown of the forest service returns from a three week's stay in the region of Peli can Bay lumber company's camp No. 2. The elm beetle, which has de stroyed many trees, has made its appearance in Medford, ac cording to County Agent L. P. Wilcox. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 19. 1916 (It was Saturday) C. L. Climes, factory overseer at the Savage Tire company's San Diego plant, arrives home after a business trip to Chicago. The Rogue River and Produce association reports the sale of a car of Bartletts at Pittsburg at $2.95 and one at New York at $3.15. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 193S Editorial Research 1. Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower is almost the same age as his broth er Dwight D., or some years old er or some years younger? 2. The once famous Pierce Arrow car was made in Detroit, Buffalo, Flint, Syracuse, Lansing or South Bend? 3. What did these men have in common: Adlai E. Stevenson Sr., Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Henry A. Wallace? 4. President George Meany of the AFL-CIO comes from Chi cago, Detroit, New York, Pitts burgh. San Francisco, or Seattle? 5. The state of Wisconsin lies east or west of the Mississippi River, or does the river flow through the middle of it? 6. No man has been nominated for President in the last 100 years while holding the Vice Presidential office; right or wrong? 7. Which prominent Washing ton hostess has the middle name of "Geneva"? - The answers: 1. Soma years (9) younger. 2. Buffalo. 3. They ware all U.S. Vice Presidents. 4. New York City. 5. East of the Missis sippi. 6. Right. 7. Mrs. Eisen hower. McCANN ON VACATION Charles M. McCann is on ' Taction. His weekly news out look and daily foreign news commentary columns will be resumed upon his return. MAIL TRIBUNE They HAD a "Wonderful Time " We predicted at the outset the Democrats would have a "wonderful time" in Chicago. They certainly did! They had plenty of rough-and-tumble fighting, arid no Democrats in convention assembled can have a wonderful time without it. And they came through with a ticket that in spite of former President Tin man's ill advised remarks, will in the judgment of this department, come closer to victory in November, than could any other combination, presented. And needless to say Democrats want to win just as strongly as the Kepublicans do or the members of any other party. m e e e ""THE insistence of Governor Stevenson that instead of his running mate being his own selection, it be that of the party as represented by their delegates in this convention, proved to be a political master stroke. It killed two birds with one stone. It emphasized the fact only believes in the basic principles of democracy but practises them. And it also emphasized the fact that the Repub lican party leaders in their do NOT. As Leonard Hall and other Kepublicans in the Upper Echelons have so clearly brought out, it is going to be Eisenhower and Nixon this year as it was four jjears ago or ELSE ! COME of the radio broadcasters seemed to think this maneuver MIGHT force the GOP convention to do likewise. But we wager the powers-that-be at San Francisco, will no more leave the selection of a VP to the members of the Republican party through their convention delegates than a ride over Niagara Falls old pachyderm is concerned such democratic -"free wheeling just isn t done. Ihe Big Boys don t like it, and what they don't like they don't have to take. IT IS hardly necessary to Adlai Stevenson as head of the ticket pleased this department immensely, for we have regarded him as the man best qualified for this exacting and vital posi tion at this critical time, ever since the conventon four years ago. In the final selection by the convention of Ke fauver and what a fight with a photo finish that was ! they have as stated in our opinion selected the best possible combination. Just HOW good, of course, won't be known until Nov. 6. R.W.R. What is a Liberal? We have been asked "What is a Liberal?" As of today it is, in Republican circles, an epithet. A ready synonym is "egg-head," that is a long-haired intellectual, a dreamy idealist, who never met a pay roll, and never will have enough sound business sense or money to do so. -; "THIS may surprise some of our readers, but it is historically true nevertheless. . When in 1952 at Chicago the fight between Sen ator Taft and General Eisenhower was at its height, one of the most devout Republicans in the country then and today not only did not "like Ike" but called him one of "those damned Liberals," who un like Robert Taft, really belonged in the Democraticy not the Republican party. 4That was the view of the Taft forces in general four years ago. And they were not entirely wrong. In foreign policy then and today President Eisen hower is a Liberal. It is only when Big Business enters the picture that he ceases to be. Had "Ike" decided to join the Democratic, instead of the Republican party when he was debating the question so earnestly with himself, he would, we feel sure, never have seriously considered f orming a Third Party, as he did shortly after his GOP inauguration he would at this time we suggest be feeling quite re laxed and at home ! OOWEVER that may be, the most satisfactory defi nition of a Liberal, politically speaking and as of today, is a citizen who, when there is a clear-cut issue between what is best for the people of the country, rather" than best for some" powerful private interest; instinctively arid inevitably supports the former. Undoubtedly there are better definitions, but we have none in stock at the moment. a TN FACT it is probably easier to define what a Lib- eral is NOT than what he or she is. It is not a question of the party label, for example. There are liberal Republicans as well as liberal Demo crats, just as there are hopeless reactionaries in both parties. But as of today, outside of President Eisenhower himself we can think of precious few genuine Liberals in the UPPER echelons of the GOP. We can think of several in the past such as our own Senator McNary, Teddy Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, Senators Borah, La Toilette and Norris, but today where are their prototypes? If they are still in the upper brackets of the party, we can't with the only telescope available, discern them. R.W.R. Siskiyou Schools Set Yreka Students of Red Rock will be the first in Siskiyou county to return to classrooms when school begins Monday morning. Four others, Delphic, Duns muir. Mt. Shasta Union and Weed Union, will open Aug. 27. Sunday, August 19, 195S the Democratic party not insistence upon Nixon they would, willingly take in a rowboat. As far as the add that the selection of Opening Dates Schools in Dorris, Grenada and Macdoel will open Aug. 30. Opening Sept. 3 will be But teville Union. Calahan, Ft. Jones Union, Greenview Union, Junction, Sawyers Bar, Willow Creek, Yreka Union and Ft. Jones will open Sept. 4. Mattel" Of FaCt By Joa and Stewart Alsep ENGINEERS OF VICTORY Chicago Four individuals have made the chief contribu tion to the smooth success of Adlai Stevenson's bandwagon operation. In their peculiar order of de scending im portance, they are pwight D. E i s e nhower, James Finne g a n, Eleanor Roosevelt and E s t e s Kefau- ..ei,n A.n.p ver. rjisennow- er must come first because he created the moderate political cli mate in which Stevenson has flourished. The insistence of Harry S. Tru man and Av erell Hani man that you really have to fight a politi cal campaign, and that basic issues matter like the devil. fell on deaf Stewart Alsop or positively hostile ears here at Chicago. The great majority of state leaders simply did not want that Tru- man-Harriman kind of campaign this time. They wanted the Ste venson kind, because of the cli mate that Eisenhower has cre ated. TIM FINNEGAN comes second among the engineers of the Stevenson victory because this quiet-spoken, deliberate - acting ccol-headed and intensely pro fessional Irish politician has ut terly transformed the Stevenson high command. The turning point for Stevenson, in fact, was when he called his campaign manager from the hard training ground of Pennsylvania poli tics. Outwardly, to be sure, the Stevenson entourage has not been very greatly changed by Finnegan. The group of enthus iasts that the political profession als always call the . "crewcuts" (with a decidedly bitter intona tion) are still in there enthusing. So is the companion group of prosperous, idealistic ladies. But behind this familiar facade, there is no more of the fantastic confusion that reigned four years ago in the Stevenson head quarters in Springfield. Instead, there is the smoothly whirring efficiency that goes with IBM machines. The mechanics used by Finne gan were familiar enough the detailed card file of delegates and alternates, with everything listed including names of wives and preferences in liquor: the intelligence operatives in each .egion and each State; the method of daily pooling the de tailed information transmitted by the field men. But all this usual machinery was brought by Jim Finnegan to an-unusual pitch of perfection. U'lNNEGAN'S machinery pro- x vided the data on which to base confident judgments of con spicuous astuteness. After the California primary, for instance. Finnegan already foresaw that President Truman would prob ably intervene on behalf of Gov ernor Harriman. For this reason, he angrily warned the Steven- sonites against relaxing their ef forts. But at the same time. Finnegan also forecast that if there was no relaxation, noth ing would take the nomination away from Stevenson. So he and Stevenson together could set the target of getting the nomination without making any deals with nnyone which was a bold thing to do. The correctness of the judg ments, the efficiency of the ma chinery, received their supreme test when Finnegan's prediction of Truman's intervention was duly fulfilled. That day, at the regular meeting of the Steven son high command, the crewcuts were apprehensive and cast down. But Finnegan turned to hi able intelligence chief, John Sharon, who placidly announced that Truman's declaration for Harriman would cost Stevenson precisely 23 delegate votes. In the upshot, Sharon was one vote low. In these circumstances, Ste venson could afford to wait, while his bandwagon seemed to slow and check, until the big, uncommitted Northern States finally climbed aboard. But there might well have been no bandwagon at all without the senior political professional in the entire Democratic party, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. STEVENSON himself has said that Mrs. Roosevelt turned the scales in the California pri maryj where f Stevenson's big win stopped Estes Kefauver dead in his tracks and put Ste venson far in the lead. .Mrs. Roosevelt was also the dominant personality in the complex ne gotiations to compromise the civil rights issue. When she spoke up for compromise, and even provided the language of the original compromise civil rights plank with no mention of the Supreme Court, the heart went out of the Northern fire eaters. And when Mrs. Roose velt came to Chicago to help her man win, the Stevenson camp seized upon her as a sort of human talisman, and made her work as hard for three days fi ' 3 as though she had been a candi date herself. , As for the fourth man on the list above, Estes Kefauver has to be included not because he withdrew from the race against Stevenson. His campaign debts forced that decision. Kefauver has to be included, rather, be cause here at Chicago he worked day and night to bring his own fundamentally anti - Stevenson delegates into the Stevenson camp and did this, too, with out asking any firm committ ment that he would get the Vice Presidential nomination. Add up the list. They make an odd group. Chicago The impression left by the Democratic convention is curious, to say the least. You might almost say that the Dem ocratic party's second nomina tion of Adlai E. Stevenson is like a man marrying his mistress, long after the flames of passion have flickered and gone out, be cause he is used to her and badly needs someone to darn his socks. In this respect, the contrast between 1952 and 1956 has been very marked indeed. Four years ago, there really was passion. The Democratic party's intellec tual and idealistic elements were shooting flames of love from their eyes, ears and noses. But plenty of the harder-boiled types were also stirred by the hopeful image of the successful, reform ing, literate and thoughtful gov ernor of Illinois. TH E political professionals were on fire toe, no doubt for the highly practical reason that they thought they had found another likely winner, but on fire all the same. Harry S. Tru man himself had repeatedly begged Stevenson to stand for the Democratic nomination. Three quarters of the big north ern party bosses were on the telephone day and night, plead ing with Jake Avery to plead with his man to yield to the con vention's will. When Stevenson did yield there was not a dry eye in the house, except perhaps for Aver- ell Harriman s. This time, it could hardly have been more different. Stevenson himself was not going through any agony in the garden, and praying, as he said he did in 1952, "let this cup pass." He was working like a nailer to get the nomination, in the approved practical way. Meanwhile, however, there were few signs of the old pas sion anywhere. Most of the ideal ists and intellectuals certainly were for Stevenson. One of the mildly depressing aspects of this rally in Chicago was the way the high minds and the deep thinkers turned peevish towards Harry Truman and Averell Harriman because their man was being ob structed by the former president and New York governor. BUT although they were back ing Stevenson and wanted him to win, the idealists and in tellectuals were much more like ly to be heard discussing their candidate's quirks and foibles than lauding his nobility of soul. The very qualities of extreme literacy and articulateness, which used to be regarded as Stevenson's greatest assts, were now mentioned as semi-handi caps. . As for the practical politicians. the basic attitude of most of them was typified by two lead ers of important delegations who talked with these reporters. For obvious reasons, these men can not be quoted by name. It is enough to say that they are big men in their states, who picked Stevenson early, stuck with him through thick and thin, and held their delegates in line for him, too. Both of them insisted, perhaps a little guiltily, that Stevenson was a "fine man" and both em phasized his peculiar quality of personal distinction. But both admitted, very frankly, that they did not think Stevenson had much ability to get through to the voters to establish the close personal and emotional contact with the people that is the real mark of the natural political leader. They predicted, in fact, that he would make a decidedly indif ferent campaign, although both breathed sighs of relief at the presence of Stevenson's able campaign manager, James A. Finnegan. Finnegan, they re marked, would at least insure that the campaign would be or derly and well organized, which it certainly was not in 1952. THEY had picked Stevenson, these two men said, not be cause they expected him to make a stirring campaign, but almost because they could count on him not to. The people of their states, they explained, did not want the kind of rip-snorting, issue-thumping, dust -raising campaigning that Harry Truman and Averell Harriman wanted. In their states, the mood was an Eisenhower mood, amiable, contented, anti political and one had to say it more than a little complacent. Stevenson's moderation would not offend against that mood. It would fall in with it nicely. As for he outcome, well, they really did not think Stevenson had a snowball's chance in hell of carrying their particuar states if Eisenhower's health held up. Of course, you had to remember the big Democratic gains in 1954. But if you were really honest In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At Chicago, the expected hap pened which at a Democratic convention is something approxi mating man-bites-dog news. Democrats are an unpredictable lot of extroverts. They are his torically apt to BE THEM SELVES at the very moment when circumstances seem to re quire that they should conform to a pattern. So nobody can ever be SURE what Democratic convention will do. But this time the logic of the situation called for Stevenson. The Democratic party is riven by conflicting ideologies. But it is held together by the desire to win. Over and over, this state ment was made on the floor: "We're here to unite a party and win an election." Stevenson was obviously the candidate best qualified to unite the party. It was equally obvious that without unity victory against Eisenhower would be a chimerical dream. So Stevenson's nomination was practically inevitable. A DLAI STEVENSON is a good man. He was a good man in 1952. But he is a better man now, because now he is HIS OWN MAN, whereas in 1952 he was compelled to be parUy Harry Truman's man. He didn't like to be Harry Tru man's man. He let that slip when in the 1952 campaign he made his famous remark about the "mess in Washington." But un der the then circumstances he had to accept Truman's support. rTHIS time Truman, by his all--- out support of Harriman in the course of which he made the statement that Stevenson "could n't be elected" removed himself completely from the Stevenson camp. That left Stevenson on his own free from all entangle ments, his debts all paid. He is clearly the man best equipped to put up a good fight against an immensely popular Republican President who is seeking anoth er term. The Republicans better watch him. The outcome of this cam paign can't be taken for granted. A S this is written, the delegates are busy with the selection of a vice-president." Several in teresting things have happened Mr. Stevenson came out for an open convention. That is inter esting because he owes a debt of gratitude to Senator Kefauver, who at the psychological moment withdrew as a candidate for Pres ident and threw his strength to Stevenson. Coming when it did, that helped. It had been assum ed that Adlai would indicate Ke fauver as his choice for a run ning mate. TTERE is an interesting polit " ical point: Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas has been a big man in this convention. He is weU equipped to be the party's candidate for vice-president. He is a Southern er. He is able. His nomination would help to heal the breach be tween the Northern and the Southern wings of the party. It would strengthen the unity that has been striven for. But he is out of it. He announc ed flatly this morning that he is NOT a candidate for the vice presidency. Perhaps he doesn't want second place on the ticket. But there is a reason more com pelling than that why. he must not be nominated. He too has had a heart attack. If he were the choice of the con vention for the vice-presidency, it would remove from the Demo cratic campaign arsenal the No. 1 WEAPON. Such is politics. Marion County Jail Inmates End Strike Salem U.R) Fifteen inmates of Marion county jail ended a two-day hunger strike by taking their first hot meal Friday morn ing. They hadn't eaten since Wednesday morning. Sheriff Denver Young said two ringleaders of the group in cell block B of the jail were re moved temporarily to isolation quarters. He said the food boy cott was settled "without any concessions." The prisoners were striking for improvement in the quality of food, more recreation and the privilege of reading newspapers and buying such commissary items as candy and fruit. about it, the president's health was the one real factor to watch. EISENHOWER would have a hard time limiting himself to a television campaign. He would be cruelly pressed for help on the spot by every Republican candidate from senator to dog c at c h e r. If Eisenhower suc cumbed to the presures to over do, if he had another setback of some sort, then the whole pic ture would change. And then Stevenson, with his moderation making him a sort of Eisenhower image, would have a real chance. It seems an odd, not to say grim, campaign strategy for one of the two great American par ties. But an amazing number of leading Democrats genuinely are thinking along these lines. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The Mail Tribune news room, the radio stations, the TV station, the city police de partment, and County Coro ner Carlos Morris spent most of yesterday denying that Car los Morris was a dead mur derer. Tne rumor (and it was a real hot one) arose from the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. CroMagnoni To the Editor: Announcement comes of discovering of another j grotto in France's Dordogne, with murals of mammoths, rhinos, wild horses. Same stimulates -memories of writer's field work at CroMag- non. Incidentally our meals there were almost always goose-meat sausage. That part of France pro duces nearly all the world's pate de fois gras. Since the livers only are used, there are tons of goose meat. The French are the world's real Scots as to hate of waste. So the superabundance is preserved as sausage. Our apartment at CroMagnon had, as its rear wall, the grotto where one of the CroMagnon skeletons was found. These were our first artists. The brain capac ity of their women (at supposed ly 25,000 years gao) surpasses that of the average modern male of today. They seem to have had a marked religious sense. Why did this superior type become extinct? Is it not appro priate that Washington has been trying to educate our citizenry by the "comeback" stamps (wild turkey, also pronghorn ante lope)? These have been saved from extinction by Conservation ists. C. M. Goethe, Seventh and J sts., Sacramento 14, Calif. Freeway Location ' To the Editoj: A long ways from home, but I receive the Mail Tribune.! have been fol lowing this new highway deal. If any of those people that have strived and gone without, stand still for a highway cutting through those beautiful farm lands, they are just walking around to save funeral expenses So you people, just lay down and let the live ones live. After living in Arlington, Va.; and -visiting Washington, D.C., for 1 year and 7 months I real ize that God threw away the mold when he created those farm lands around Medford. It sure made me happy when I read the article that Dr. ana Mrs. Bert Elliott wrote. "Go at 'em, Doc, just like you were pulling teeth." Sure would like to believe that, if and when, 1 come home, I can ride through that beautiful country and re lax. People here, that have va cationed through it, say it is a beautiful country. But not if you are speeding through it on a highway. Doris Clark 510 South Highland Arlington, Va. A Brickbat for Rayburn To the Editor: Those who haven't made up their mind how to vote in the presidential elec tion this November, should have gotten a good clue if they watch ed the convention on Wednesday, Aug. 15. After several hours of oratory on the theme of the Democratic party's concern for the individ ual, an individual from Georgia tried to express his opinion. Mr. Democrat, Sam Rayburn, showed his personal contempt for the rights of individuals by refusing to recognize the Governor of Georgia. That's a capsule picture of their operations. Long on ora tory and promise, short on per formance. The individual is the boss until he tries to speak, then Mr. Democrat rams the gavel down his throat and gags him. ' Dick House 207 Fluhrer Bldg. Medford, Ore. Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 195S Congressional Quarterly) ' Q Can you match the follow ing people with their convention roles? Arthur B. Langlie Sam Rayburn - .' ' Frank G. Clement Clarence Cannon William F. Knowlend Prescott Bush GOP platform committee chairman Democratic keynoter Democratic parliamentarian GOP temporary chairman GOP keynoter Democratic permanent chair man , A Langlie, GOP keynoter; Rayburn, Democratic perma nent chairman; Clamant. Dam- fact that in Portland Thurs day a man named Morris shot and killed a woman named Conger and then shot him self. A southern Oregon daily newspaper (not the Mail Trib une) put a headline on the story which said "Conger. Morris, Death Vietimi." The genial mortician, who operates Conger Morris fu neral home, rather plaintively " followed Mark Twain's lead in telephoning us to say the reports of his crime and pun ishment were greatly exaggerated. A well-known Jackson county farmer, who is a Democrat and a former public official, showed up in the office Saturday with Morse" button clipped to each collar tab of his shirt. The conversation drifted to the Dem ocratic national convention, and our friend confessed that he got so tied up in watching it on TV a couple of days that his poor cows had to wait for their milk ing several hours past their reg ular time. That's one farm problem the Democratic platform didn't solve. Boy, oh boy, this is sure an interesting business to be in. We learn things important things all the time. Like ihe press release that came air mail the other day to let us know that the more home owners, there are in the coun try, the more men get crew cuts. That's what it said. Honest. Change is inevitahlo it rise frequently been remarked, but change is not always progress. You be the 'judge: While cleaning th county fairgrounds for the 4-H and FFA fair, some of thi nmrV. ers uncovered a child's ticket to the 1928 county fair. It was in good shape, and cost 25 cents in 1928. when the fair urn ni county fair. Today admission U iree, ana tne lair is limited to 4-H and FFA exhibits, demon strations and contests. The alley by ihe Craterlan theater, between Central are. and Bartlett sr., frequently has water flowing down it, from ihe many air condition ing units in the adjacent buildings. A sign was hung in the alley last week. It said! "West bank of Bear creek. No Fishing." For a while last winter, we be gan to think that "Potluck" wag really turning in to a bird-and-animal column. Seldom a week passed without an item about the fauna of Jackson county. Recently, however, the number of items about our dumb friends has dropped off, and we are hap py to recount the following: Mr. and .Mrs. Walter Messe car of Trail posses a banty hen which has built a nest in the hollow part of a tree 12 feet above the ground. They report ed they noticed the hen scratch ing at moss on the tree, but thought nothing of it until they found the net, complete with eggs, way up in the tree last week. The banty climbs to her pent house by walking up the tree, which leans at a marked angle. To descend, she spreads her wings and flaps down. The nest is in an awkward spot, and nobody knows just hew many eggs the nameless year-old hen is sitting on. Photographer Carl Landis recently painted his residence on Dakota ave. with greea and- yellow, which are the col ors of ihe University of Ore gon a development which brought a protest from Neigh bor Frank Roelandt, who as an Oregon State college grad uate would have preferred orange and black. A Medford couple frantically scoured their eastside neighbor hood the other evening, looking for one of their children miss ing from home. They searched, called and yoo-hooed for more than an hour. The search was called off, however, when the tyke was found fast asleep in the family back yard. Another Medford couple took a trip down the northern Calif orna' coast recently. A California Highway Patrol of ficer stopped them and point ed out they were driving with expired license plates. They were forced to buy expensive California plates be fore they could continue en their journey, but the thing thai really bothers them is that ihey are afraid of being picked up by an Oregon po liceman for having California plates and ihey can't do any thing about it until ihe .Cali fornia motor vehicle division returns their registration slip. ocraiic keynoter; Cannon. Democratic parliamentarian? Knowland, GOP temporary chairman: Bush, GOP plat-, form committe chairman. ducers the value of 100 tons of, meat a day.