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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2. 1946 (Monday)
"Service to your community,"
theme of address given in Med
ford by Robert t. Moore, first
international vice president of
Active International.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The ju
venile element has started to
lose interest in everything but
Santa Claus, and ice cream
cones. e
20 YEARS AGO '
Dee. 2. 193S (Wednesday) 0
Preliminary wori is under
way for development of old
Sturgis gold mining property
west of Jacksonville by the B-H
company.
City council adopts resolution
declaring due and payable the
unpaid balance plus interest of
Bancroft assessments delinquent
about three years.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1926 (Thursday)
Banquet with few musical
numbers and speeches is held
for about 60 alumni and students
of the MedforoBusiness college
at Medford hotel.
Southern Oregon fishing will
be the best it has been for many
years because of the recent
heavy rains flooding the Rogue
river and its tributaries.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2. 1916 (Saturday)
Rogue River Fish Protective
association members attend
meeting of "live and let live"
anglers' club, called by John S.
Orth.
' Medford lodge 1168, BPO Elks
will hold their annual memorial
exercises Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1906 (Sunday)
Mayor and city council me?t
to inspect new septic tank, con
structed under contract by Rein
hart andgAtwell for Medford.
C. H. Pierce sells Barnum
property at the comer of Fifth
and D sts. to V. 3. Emerick for
$2,500.
What's the Answer?
Can Too Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1935 Editorial Research
Report
1. Richard M. Nixon entered
the Vice Presidency from the
U. S. Senate, House of Repre
sentatives, California governor
ship. Marine Corps, or the
F.B.I.?
2. About i) 6, (b) 129(c) 18.
(d) 24, or (e) 30 per cent of all
primary school children are
classified as "slow learners"?
3. Most people on Cyprus are
of Greek. Turkish. British, Jew
ish or Arab origin?
4. Most cancers of the mouth
are or aren't first detected by
densts?
5. AnotherGstate has or hasn't
joined Georgia in letting 18-year
olds vote?
6. David Sarnoff is oard
chairman of Montgomery Ward.
R.C.A.. Dumont Television. Hart
Schaffner & Marx, or Neiman
Marcus? The answers: 1. Senate. 2. 18
per cent. 3. Greek. 4. Are. 5.
i& (Kentucky). 6. R.CJL.
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MAIL TRIBUNE
How the U.P. Does It
How is your imagination? In normal working
order? O.K. then close your eyes and try to imagine
this:
The Friendly Southern Pacific announces it will
run a modern daylight "shuttle train," from Ashland
and Medford to Portland and return every day in the
week including Sunday.
THERE will be no extra fare, iiyfact inexpensive
coach tickets will be required only.
The train will leave Medford at 9 a.m. and reach
Portland at 4 p.m. It will leave Portland at 5 p.m.
and reach Medford at 11 p.m.
The train will be of the lightest, most modern
construction, with comfortable overstuffed seats,
both a lounge car and a diner.
There will be a hostess, unif ormed stewardess a la
airplane transportation, and again like deluxe air
travel, appetizing meals will be served and put on
your life Belts please ! the meals will not only be for
free, but passengers will be allowed to eat all that
they can hold, at any time.
The new train will be cozy warm in winter and
air-cooled in summer, there will be special construc
tion and such a low center of gravity the "Aerotrain"
will take sharp curves safely and at a good speed,
allowing it in spite of half a dozen stops to average
nearly 50 miles an hour.
i
ou don't believe it? Well, neither do we.
But that is the sort of passenger service the "Union
Pacific" is going to establish on December 18 between
Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Nev. he distance is
slightly more than it is from Ashland to Portland
332 miles to be exacfi And the train has been sold out
for some weeks in advance. s
"llfE GRANT Medford is no Las Vegas-thank trie
, Lord! and9 Portland is no Los Angeles, for
whjch also let us be grateful.
But the principle is the same.
The Union Pacific instead of trying to "price oyt"
itspassenger sevice, and becoming solely a freight
line, is not only determined to keep its passenger
service running, but so improve and modernize it,
that not only will trie traveling public be better
served, but the tritditional passenger deficit, will be
materially reduced, if not completely cancelled, e
e Many travelers have marvelled at the constant
and increasing prosperity o? the Union Pacific. Well
oil land "grants may have been a factor, 'but keeping
up with the times and refusing to go to "sleep at the
switch," has,' we believe9, been more a factor and
more responsible for the enviable position the U.P.'
holds and has held in the ral transportation pic
ture of westeiti United States for so many years.
R.WjR. .
Tragic Misunderstanding
m
e On one thing there seems general agreement,
nfcmely :9 the popularity of the USA has reached a
new low in Europe.
In view of the Suez crisis, and the part Vncle
Sam played in it, a feeling
in Britain is understandable, but to learn an even
greater hostility exists injlungary comes as a surprise
and shock. e
How come? 9 0 .
Did not Presi4entfEisenhowrer send a warm mes
sage of sympathy to the unfortunate victims of Rus
sian brutality, and agree to an increase in the number
of refugees thi country would accept and succor?
He did. s e
But that appears to b one cause of the resent
ment and illf eeling. e g 0
For that is all he did do.
The poor, afflicted people of thisetragic country,
expected "more. When they cried out for help they
expected something more effective ethan a message
of sympathy, good will and atemporary change in
the U.S. immigration laws. e
We don't refer so much to the ruling classes in
that border state, but the plain people the rank and
file and as usual in such casls they were the chief
sufferers. 6
"They had no right to feel resentful."
Probably not.
But to understand whyithey did one needs only
to review the USA diplomatic and military record
what the USA did in two world wars and what was
said to the Russian satellites shortly after the cold
war with Russia slipped into high gear.
o
IT WAS Secretary of State Dulles, for example,
who talked about uprisings and "liberations" of
the captive peoples. Then President Eisenhower
stated over and over the
tion of this country to continue its championship of
the cause of human freedom."
e
A S STEVENSON remarked many years ago9, it
takes two to establish the truth, the one who
SPEAKS and the one who LISTENS.
TTQ IS fair to assume the people of Hungary only
- listened. So to them, at least, it was not a surprise
when the blow from Moscow fell that the crowds in
Budapest waved and cheered while others prayed
when a car with the U.S. emblem on its windshield
passed by. Later they asked when their liberators
would arrive.
When they found they were not to arrive, how
could anyone familiar with the U.S. record and the
Hangarian temperament expect any other reaction
than the one that occured?
Un wan-anted? Yes, from a technical, factual
Sunday. December 2. 1958
of piqiie and resentment!
"unshakable determina
fAGttQt" Of FCfCf By joe and Stewart Alsop
BULATED SECOND
THOUGHTS
Washington A convulsive
effort to glue the shatteed West
ern Alliance together again, and
' to repair some
of the terrible
damage . done
to the whole
Western posi
tion by the
Middle East
crisis, is now
going on in
Washington.
The mst im
portant part
is a yet un
of this effort
announced b, u t nevertheless
firm administration decision to
make up the desperate prospec
tive West European oil shortage,
caused by the closing of the
Suez Canal. Official estimates
place the likely cost to the U.S.
treasury at over a billion dol
lars. There was even some consid
eration given to calling a special
session of Congress to get the
money but
has since been
decided that
available
funds are
enough to tide
things over
until the regu
lar session.
The idea of a
special session
h- - l
Stewart Alsop was Of course.
to put it mildly, distasteful to
the Administration, for obvious
political reasons. And it was also
feared that a special session
would dramatize the issue, and
thus infuriate the Arabs, per
haps leading to the cutting of
the oil "pipelines fron? Saudi
Arabia.
For such reasons, the decision3
to see Western Europe through
the oil crisis has not been an
nounced with the usual blare of
trumpets. ut quiet assurances
that the problem will be han
dled in one way or another have
been conveyed to the Europeans.
The Effort to glue things to
geiher again has taken other
forms as well, like President Ei
senhower's strong statement re
agirming support for the Wes
ern Alliance, and the decision
to send Secretary Dulles off to
the NATO meeting in Paris,
less than five weeks after his
cancer operation.
The official American re
action to the Middle Eastern
crisis has gone through three
phases. The first phase, was
simple fury; in this initial phase,
there was much talk of "letting
the British and French stew in
their own juice." One very high
administration policy-making of
ficial was widely quoted as say
ing it was now American policy
to "write, off Britain and
France."
President Eisenhower was
'pefsorftlly in large part respon
sible for phase two. He rebuked
his furious subordinates, and
emphasized the importance of
the Western Alliance. At the
same time, he initiated the pol
icy of putting the main empha
sis of American policy on work
ing through the United Nations,
and the Western Alliance was
correspondingly down graded.
During this period, policy was
being made entirely by the
President, under Secretary of
State Herbert Hoover Jr.o and a
handful of high administration
appointees.
a
T'HIS phase culminated last
week, when the United States
joined the Soviet Union in de
manding at the U.N. that Britain
and France evacuate Egypt
"forthwith." At this point, Brit
ish Foreign Minister Selwyn
IAyd communicated to the
British government his doubts
that .the Anglo-American alli
ance could any longer be con
sidered valid.
Within the last few deys, how-1
ever, the voices of the profes
sional foreign policy specialists,
at the second level of govern
ment, who have been dubious all
along about the direction of
American policy, have begun to
be heard, and certain hard facts
have begun to be faced. There
is, for example, the hard fact
that failure to 'make up the oil
deficit would leave, not only
Britain and France, but all
Western Europe and ultimately
the United. States- too, stewing
in their owi juices.
Expert studies have shown
that the prospective oil short
age would create a desperate
economic depression in Western
Euroge, with four million or
moe unemployed. This would
mean pouring the vast Ameri
can investment in European re
covery down the drain. More
over, it could have disastrous
political consequences in Eu
rope. It would more than restore
all the ground the European
Communist parties have lost as
a result of the Hungarian revolt.
It could even bring in a strongly
anti-American government in
Britain, thus denying to our
i v&L
standpoint, but from a human. standpoint certainly
quite understandable.
So what?
Well Teddy Roosevelt's slogan was "Speak soft
ly but carry a big stick."
If he were alive today he might change the word
ing to something like this :
"If you haven't a big stick or if you have one but don't intend
to use it, not only speak softly but choose words with great care."
R.W.R.
Strategic Air Force the British
bases on which SAC is crucially
dependent
'PHIS third phase of sober sec
- ond thought, in short, has
served to remind the American
government that the Western
Alliance is as important to the
United States as to Europe.
Hence the convulsive last min
ute effort to repair the enor
mous damage which the alliance
has suffered. But the question
remains whether the damage
can really now be repaired at
all.
For without the strategic
area and the resources of the
Middle East the Western Alli
ance is not worth very much.
And Egypt's Colonel Nasser,
who looks like emerging from
his military defeat with an enor
mous political victory, wants
just what the Soviets want to
eliminate all Western power in
the Middle East, including
American power. In sum, the
sober second thoughts may have
come too late.
Copyright 1956, New Work
Herald Tribune Inc.
Edilorial Comment'
BALLOON FOR MORSE
In his weekly newsletter. Sen.
Dick Neuberger of Oregon scents
enthusiasm in California for Sen.
Wayne Morse as a Democratic
candidate for vice president or
perhaps even the presidency in
1960.
Senator N'Suberger's comment
follows: l
"After our 350 speeches dur
ing $h Oregon campaign in be
half of Senator Morse and the
rest of the Democratic ticket,
Maurine and I went south for an
interlude in California. There
we addressed several schools, the
Westside Jewish Community cen
ter, the Democratic Women's
forum of Los Angeles county and
a number' of other fine groups.
Thunderous applause invariably
greeted the comment that Wayne
Morse must be considered as a
possible presidential or vice pres
idential nominee in 1960.
"We both emphasized that
there was ample precedent for
service on a national ticket by
a man who had changed parties.
After all, Lincoln went to con
gress as a Whig but to the White
House as a Republican. Willkie
was a Democrat as late as 1938,
yet the Republican nominee for
president in 1940. Furthermore,
Senator." Morse's political cour
age and statesmanship qualify
him for higher national office.
"Although Oregon has. only
six electoral votes, this need not
be a major handicap. Wasn't Ore
gon's Charles L. McNary nom
inated for vice president at a
time when Oregon possessed a
mere five electoral votes?"
So there you have it, the first
out-in-the-open balloon goesa up
for Wayne Morse for a to'p spot
on the Democratic ticket in 1960.
We would be surprised if Sen
ator Morse wound up in 1960 as
the Democratic presidential nom
inee, for there are too many
populous and powerful eastern
states who will have candidates.
However, the vice presidency is
something else again and Sena
tor Morse might very well turn
up as the Democratic vice presi
dential candidate on the pre
sumption that he would pull with
him a strong block of western
electoral votes. Stranger things
have happened.
Ashland Tidings.
In The Day's
Salvador Dali, Spanish im
pressionist painter (shall we just
say screwball and let it go at
that?) has a new technique. For
him, no more brushes. No more
paints. No qjore smeary palettes,
to get your thumb dirty while
holding the thing. Pernaps not
even a smock.
He just loads up an ancient
arquebus original version of
the scatter-gun with pieces of
lithographic pencils and lets fly
with it at a stone lithographic
plate. When the fragments of
pencil leqds hit the plate, they
make marks on it. The irferks
look strangely like what a hen
would make if she dipped her
feet in printer's ink and
scratched vigorously on a piece
of paper.
He says: "It creates a violent
most explosive and tremendous
force on the stone, with lines of
force or tension in every direc
tion fast, violent and clean."
He calls it a PICTURE.
He describes his new art tech
nique as "bulletism."
HmmmmmmI
I wonder if maybe it isn't
about time
after all.
for Armageddon,
AMERICAN correspondents in
London and Paris report in-
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation.
not exceed 400 words.
Pleads for Help
To the Editor: We are turning
to you, the free American Press,
for your support in Operation
Freedom Chain.
We are asking your help on
behalf of the brave Hungarian
people whose heroic reach for
Freedom has been ground under
the treads of Soviet tanks.
The fighting is over now, the
guns silent once more. But the
misery remains: Refugees, in
danger of being deported to Si
beria, are pouring into Austria
at the rate of 2000 a day. Within
barely three weeks, their num
ber already has reached 60,000.
Government and private organ
izations are striving to meet
these demands but there Just
aren't enough funds,
i Although you are thousands
of miles away, we feel sure that
there are many among your
readers who would like to help.
And so we ask you to put your
link in the Freedom Chain by
printing this appeal in your
newspaper.
Such support on your part,
would, we feel, be another ex
ample of trig tremendous good
the free press )n do for causes
like this one.
Let us not forget that the Hun
garians fought and died not only
for themselves, but also for us
and the whole free world. If the
world could not help where help
had so long been promised, it is
to be hoped that it paused long
enough to register that for the
first time Communism's own gen
eration rose against it; and that
those who he the courage to
choose the unknown hand of the
West to the familiar fist of the
East should not be forsaken.
We are suje that you will not
let us down.
J. Coudenhove-Kalergi
Operation Freedom Chain
Executive
Fleischmarkt, 3,
Vienna, Austria
Life Editor Scored
To the Editor: The brave, fear
less and freedom loving Hun
garians are fighting for their
liberty on four fronts. They won
a glorious victory on two fronts.
They licked their vicious, cruel
and merciless Communist Gov
ernment and the diabolical se-
gret polite, who practiced the
most insidious tortures on the
true Hungarian rebels.
After their victory, these brve
Christians were duped by ap
peals from some turncoat leaders
to lay down their arms and ne
gotiate for the withdrawal of
the scum of the earth the Rus
sian Communists. They were
doublecrossed, of course, 3y the
Communists as well as the "rest
of the civilized world. At the
conference table their leaders
were seized and President Eisen
hower's war buddy, Zhukov,
made a sneak attack on the help
less patriots. The United Nations
instead of kicking the Commu
nists out, are saying meaning
less words. The United States
instead of breaking off diplo
matic relations with all Commu
nist nations, is talking of send
ing food and medifine. This
third front will help the Rus
sian Communists because they
will use it in their name to calm
the people down and give up.
The fourth front all the Com
munist Satellites and all free
dom-loving people must fight, is
the insidious world-wide invisible
News f
rank Jenkins
creasing criticism of American
policies in the Middle East. In
London the other' day nearly a
third of the membership of the
Conservative party (presum
ably the die-hard Tories who re
sent the disentegration of the
once vast British empire) signed
a motion declaring that the U.S.
attitude in the Middle East is
"gravely endangering the Atlan
tic alliance.
AP's James King, who has
lived in England for the past ten
years, says the average English
man feels he has been let down
by the United States in the Suez
crisis, and adds that a growing
bitterness toward Americans is
evident in Britain.
French Premier Mollet has
gone so far, Paris dispatches re
late, as to express his "bitter
ness and anxiety" at American
policy in recent months.
WHY all this criticism?
It's quite simple.
When we do something fool
ish and get ourselves into seri
ous trouble, we always - look
around for SOMEBODY ELSE
TO BLAME. ,
Nobody ever likes to blame
himself.
HPHE British and the
French,
JL
members of the Atlantic al
liance, decided to take the Suez
canal situation into their own
hands. So, saying nothing to
anybody, keeping their decision
a dark secret from their fellow
members of the Atlantic alli
ance, including the United
States, they WENT IN SHOOT
ING and got themselves in
VERY serious trouble.
So now they're looking
around for a whipping boy.
, That's about the size of it
Letters submitted for publication must
influential power which dictates
what we must see and read. It
seems to be Anti-Christian and
Pro-Communist and perhaps
even International Brotherhood.
A good example of this may be
seen in "Life Magazine." While
one of the owners of this maga
zine sat on a platform in Madi
son Square Garden in front of
12,000 Hungarian supporters
who were protesting the rape of
Hungary by Russian Commu
nists, tlifc sanctimonious hypo
crite's magazine was showing
horror pictures of Hungarian
Rebel brutality. These pictures
seemed designed to discredit the
brave people and maybe justify
the Russian action. There were
one or two minor pictures of
Russian brutality, but there was
no detailed account of the brave
Russian soldiers in tanks mow
ing 20.000 unarmed men, wo
men and children.
Americans must rise in rebel
lion against the brain washing
controlled communications
which we have obtained for 50
years, or we shall some day find
ourselves fighting on many
fronts.
Joseph M. Howard
350 West Vanderbilt dr.
Corpus Christi, Tex.
Objects to Withdrawal
To the Editor: It is a well
known fact among mining circles
that the Rogue river from Ray
gold dam 'n Jackson county to
Gold Beacn in Curry county has
been noted for its gold produc
tion for as far back as 100 years.
For more than 60 years, the com
munities of Gold Hill and Grants
Pass thrived entirely on the local
mining interests. All the gold
and other rare minerals have
not been "worked out" yet.
This is proven when every
time the river banks have been
submerged by high water or
flood there is a fresh supply of
placer gold and nuggets found
by prospectors and miners up to
the time of the closing of the
Rogue to placer mining in 193
or thereabouts. Withdrawing
any mineralized land within one
half mile of Rogue river would
prevent any hunting for buried
treasure. Around 60 years ago
there was reputed treasure of
considerable amount of gold dug
up on the Sams Valley highway
within a stones throw of the
river. Arojnfd 1924 an $84 gold
nugget was found near the old
Gold Drift dam site below Sav
age Rapids dam on the river.
A Jackson county native son
who now resides at Kerby in
Josephine county first learned
to pan gold at Woodville, now
Rogue River. He may well be the
world's champion gold panner
today, as he took first prize
among five contestants at Jack
sonville on August 4, 1956. His
time using a medium size gold
pan was 36 seconds.
There is no assurance that an
other financial depression will
not happen, in case one did ma
terialize there would be miners
on the river again.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
Medford, Ore.
Materials Solicited
To the Editor: I hope that you
will print this in behalf of two
elderly ladies who would so
much appreciate gifts of old
clothing of either cotton or wool
materials with which they can
make crocheted and braided
rugs for their Christmas giving.
They could use old cretonne or
chintz drapes or hangings, no
matter how faded, and they
would be happy to receive scraps
of new materials with which to
make doll clothes and quilt tops.
If anyone has odds and ends
of sewing thread of any color
they no longer need, that too
would be appreciated, as well as
odds and ends of any color cro
chet thread or yarn. Faded and
worn house dresses, housecoats
no longer wanted and even
sleeping garments, any color ex
cept all white, would provide
wonderful material for rug mak
ing. If anyone having the above
materials to give away will they
phone 2-5067, Medford, a way
will be found to pick thero up.
But if it coud be brought to 534
North Bartlett st. it would be
highly appreciated.
If any article of clothing given
seems too good for rug making
I will personally see that it is
given to a charitable organiza
tion. Thank you.
Mrs. Ruby Rusque
534 North Bartlett st.
Medford, Ore.
Inventors Need Help
To the Editor: I wonder how
many people in this land of ours
are truly interested in inven
tions? How about all those gadg
ets the housewife has that makes
her life more leisurely? Or your
husband and mine who finds his
work easier because of someones
painstaking efforts and hard
work at perfecting an invention
he has worked at for many
months or even years?
The sad part of this story is
that many wonderful inventions
are still sitting in work shops,
their inventors lacking the
money to make our lives even
more leisurely than now.
I'm thinking of just such a
fellow as I'm writing this. He
POTLUCK
. (By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
The fog, or smog, or whatever
you want to call it, was a major
topic of conversation ail iasi
week, and the week before, too.
It was the dirtiest fog many
people had ever seen. One man
whose car-top is white found it
had changed to a dirty gray
brown color after standing out
for a few hours.
Another man called to assure
that what people were looking
up at, at mid-day, was not a
flying saucer, it was the sun.
"I know I remember the sun,"
he said.
Two news staff workers
couldn't get their cars started
on different cold mornings.
And we suspect that a lot of
other people had the &me
trouble battery trouble as we
watch the number of parked
cars with the lights still on, the
result of people driving with
lights in the fog and forgetting
to turn them off because it was
"daylight."
Ashland escaped most of the
fog during the past two weeks,
and its residents are pretty
smug about it. The Ashland Tid
ings had a Page 1 headline Fri
day which proclaimed "Banana
Belt Weather Here." Hmph.
It went on to report that the
sun was shining there while
Medford choked in a thick
blanket of smoke-and-fog, and
that the temperature was 30
degrees warmer in the Lithia
city than the county seat.
And a Tidings columnist sug
gested Mercy Flights, which
couldn't get planes off during
the week, should change its
base of operations to Ashland.
(An office functionary sug
gests that if Medfoni had as
much hot air as Ashland does,
we wouldn't have fog, either,
but we think that's an unkind
remark.)
Single girls, we arc inform
ed by a single girl we know,
who get beyond a certain un
specified age, are a bit touchy
when people ask them "How
come you never got married?"
One such single girl, we are
informed, thinks she's found
the perfect answer to such
impertinence. Her reply from
now on, she says, will be:
"I met a man and fell in love
with him, but he had two
heads and my parents didn't
approve of the 'match."
A couple of the younger and
more athletic members of the
news staff at the M-T retain
their figures and thejr training
by dashing downstairs and to
their parked cars before the
meter officer gets there.
The city's announcement that
such practices will be frowned
on in the future to the extent
of J2.50 caused minor conster
nation in the office, among those
who feed the meters while await
ing their next newsgathering
assignment.
'
It is said that professors are
absent minded. What about
judges? A distinguished mem
ber of our judiciary last week
stumbled through the cold fog
for several blocks to a garage
where he had left his car
earlier. He arrived only to
remember tke garage man had
delivered the car to the court
house parking lot several
hours before just as he had
asked him to do.
Curiosity may have killed a
cat, but not the one that's been
loitering around the corner of
Sixth and Ivy sts. lately. In the
manner of cats in cold weather,
it likes to perch and nap on
the warm hoods of automobiles.
One day last week a car park
ed near the corner and the oc
cupants l&'t on a shopping
jaunt. The cat approached, jump
ed to the car's rear trunk, climb
ed to the roof, jumped to the
hood, then climbed inside the
car through the driver's window,
which was open. It Inspected
the front seat, the back seat,
items on the rear-window shelf,
and the floors, then It came out
the open window, across the
hood, up to the roof, down to
the trunk, and then to the pave
ment. It then stalked across
the street, climbed to the hood
bf another car, and went to
sleep.
Our sports editor reports
that his home telephone has
a long extension cord, so his ,
wife can carry it with her as
she does her household dut
ies. Our man Inlep.ioned home
the other day, and the call
was answered by his pre
school daughter. He (sked to
speak to "Mommy."
"Just, a minute," small
daughter replied, "and I'll
take you to her."
has a wonderful invention, some
thing that would help a man in
a certain type of work immense
ly, besides making whoever in
vested a little capital a tidy sum
in return.
For those who are able, why
not find these inventors and give
them a hand? Your life and mine
will be better for the effort.
Mrs. Delbert Casey,
Route 1, Box 358,
Central Point, Ore.