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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.