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fBstory from the, files of The
Nil Tribune 10. 20, 3a, 40
and 50 yean sjgo. "
10 YEARS-' AGO
DcCj23, 1946 (Monday)
O Incoming parceP post totals
..-oun&400 tacks daily and the
volume isrunning 15 per cent
heJft'ier than, my previoug year.
Fjomo Arthur Perry's Ye
mudge Pot colunm: From all
Mr ther-state comes reports of
violets blooming in backyards
and "bloomlng idiot'' on the
highways, o o a
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q De. 23. 133B (W.diwtdsy)
Philander McEentyre, Jack-
O son'tounty's number one old age
nsntinnpr 1 nkiynrnir nilT h 101
years' old!
O C Initial ateps are taxen by Jack
qO rfB coiiraty residents to reward
William, H. Gore, pioneer and
o backer, for his efforts in the
pattage by ongre in 1928 of
the Oregon-California land grant
4ax refund bill.
SO YES ACO .,
Dec. 23. 1926 (Thursday)
'-Santa Claug, with reindeer and
(gleigh bells,, appears at the Lions
ciud tuntneon -at ine nouarra
5sotr..
O "Meifford Ministerial associa:
q tion agrees at meeting; yesterday
OO r4o o'fiaerSe a week of prayer.
40 YEHRS AGO o
D.CC2J. 191 (Saturday)
F. V. Medynskl files for may
or, heads complete ticket for
city co-.ci.
Preparations are complete for
thP municipal Ceristmis tree
Ofesttaitiea to be held on -.he
q lawn tonight.
50 YEflSAGO
Je. 23. ft06 (Sundayf "
Gv. Chamberlain spraks in
QSaler on achievements of the
National0 Rivers., and .Harbors
Conzress.
nFrom Local and .Personal
coffimn: Ex-county commission
er Thomas Riiey is in town to-
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cWhal'oS Y6ur I.Q.?
Nine or tf correct is inpertor: ie
en or elrnt It excellent; five or
1x H food. '
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1. What is a rinking fountain
on a ship called?
2. 5jame another word for spi-
toun.
3. When the cuspidor was in
common use what was the term
ir the current so-called "tav
ern"? 4. CutheaTis from Media re
populated Samaria; hence "Sa
arians": true or false?
Grace Goodhue was the
wife of a Governor. Vice-President
andj President. Name him.
6. Are coral snakes poisonous?
7. "Giggle water" is the slang
Qterm for wha other slang term?
08. Is "giggle water" popular
liquid medicine or laughing gas?
9. Did Do?i Quixote have a
squire?
10. "hy, then, do you walk
at) if you bid swallowed a ram
rod." Epictetus: Did "he" walk
stiffly o? springily?
Answers: l. Sculile butl, 2.
Cuspidor; spiibox. 3. Saloon. 4.
True. 5. Calvin Coolidga. 6. Yts.
7. "Canned heat." 8." No. An in
toxicant. 9. Yes. Sancho Pans.
lO.OBtiffls.
EIG BANG DUE
Chicago .li.R! Some 2.500
Chicagoans will a;et a big bang
out of Christmas. That's how
many exploding cigars have been
sold0at a novelty store in the
past two weete.
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Use Tn'bijna Want Ads
MAIL TRIBUNE
"The Public be Damned" Again
When the Southern Pacific petitioned for the
elimination of all passenger service from Eugene to
Dunsmuir, Calif., one of its many claims was that such
action would greatly improve and facilitate its freight
service, in the area affected.
' There was about as much validity to this claim, as
to the many others made by the SP at that time.
TNSTEAD of the freight service being improved be-
tween Medford and Portland, it has been impaired.
Formerly there was daily freight service between
southern Oregon and Portland, but a fewr weeks ago
this was" abandoned and now to the indignation and
financial loss of many residents there are only two or
three freight trains a week.
a
"II'ITH their usual lack of humor and intelligence,
the SP moguls blandly pull out the same excuse
they made for abandoning passenger service, namely
"lack of patronage."
It seems freight business has declined (which it
always does at this time of year) so instead of con
sidering the question of public service, its promises,
and its obligations, but considering only the matter
of more profts, that old weather-beaten banner "The
Public be Damned" whs raised once more by the SP
and the all-precious overhead and service again re
duced. A PROTEST to the state Public Utility Cpmmis
sioner will be filed and the usual effort made in
that direction to get some justice and relief.
But judging the future by the past, there will be
no real help from this source. Probably it will be
claimed that under the laws as now written, the
P.U.C. has no jurisdiction. But if that "alibi" isn't
used some other equally effective will be, and the
people of Southern Oregon as usual will be "damned,"
as far as any proper service, passenger or freight, to
this section of the state is concerned.
IT IS really an outrageous situation, and only brings
, into sharper relief than ever, the inescapable obliga
tion of the representatives of the people at Salem to
do something about it.
The issue is really a simple and clear-cut one.
It is whether the mighty Southern Pacific is going
to run the affairs of this state, or the people of the
state are going to have something to say about it.
Also is the Southern Pacific lobby up at Salem
going to hav e things its own way next month as usual,
or are the members of the Legislature going to have
something to say about THAT?
TT SHOULD be an interesting session to watch.
- The interests of thousands of people living in
the vast and growing section of the state from Eugene
to the California line will be affected; and if nothing
is done to compel the Southern Pacific to fulfill its
obligations as a public utility and a common carrier,
the members of the 1957 Legislature will have to
answer for it.
FINALLY, as has been stated before in this depart
" ment, one of the first things. on the agenda should
be either to abolish the office of Public Utility Com
missioner, (for as things now stand it is a farce), or
so rewrite the laws that the occupant of that office will
be able not onlv to iss.ie orders but able to see that they
are ENFORCED, whether the SP likes it or doesn't.
R.W.R.
How About the I.C.C?
With the opening of the new congress, the rat-race
known as committee investigations will no doubt be
in full blast again.
Well, while the committees are at it we wish one
of them would, for' the sake of novelty and a change
of pace, investigate the Interstate Commerce com
mission. 1'E WOULD like to know, for example, something
about the backgrounds of the members of this
powerful body and why it is that they as a unit
NEVER refuse to raise freight or passenger rates on
request, but ALWAYS refuse either to lower or read
just them?
The freight rates for decades have been unfair to
the far West, particularly in the case of inland as
opposed to Pacific port points, but grossly slanted in
favor of the Midwest and Atlantic seacoast, at all
times.
3Iany efforts., dating back over 40 years, have been
made to correct this discrimination but the I.C.C. has
never seen fit to do anything about it.
MOW there has been another boost, and even more
are to be requested, according to the Oregonian
which is as strongly opposed to such action in this
field as is the Mail Tribune.
In fact we shall conclude today's discourse by the
following extract from the lead editorial of the Ore
gonian of last Friday, quote :
"Every general increase in railroad
freight rates is equivalent to shoving the
West a few hundred miles farther out
into the Pacific. Eventually must come a
point of no return, when rates will be so
high that we cannot ship produce to the
East in competition with closer produc
tion areas and come out even a little bit
ahead. And if we cannot sell in the East,
we cannot buy there. Both areas will be
hurt, and so will be the railroads which
transport goods across the continent.
"Freight rate increases have been
frequent in recent years. The one au-
6unday, Ctcembcr 23. 1956
Matter of Fact
BLOOD, SWEAT AND
DIVIDENDS
Washington- -The word has al
ready gone down that the Presi
dent's message on the State of
Stewart Alaop
the Union, the most important
state paper of each year, is to
be grave in tone and to have
peace for its theme.
There will be none of the easy
boasting about peace in our time
that recurred so often in the
Republicans' campaign oratory.
Instead, the President is reported
to intend underlining the dan
gers of the world situation. The
simple but often forgotten truth
is to be emphasized, that peace
is not usually attained by mere
good intentions and firmly word
ed resolutions.
Sacrifices in the cause of peace
are to be called for. With a cer
tain ironical exaggeration, some
of those in a position to know
are saying that the President
means to offer the country the
old Churchillian diet of "blood,
sweat and tears."
Thus far, the President has
merely informed his staff of his
broad intentions. As Eisenhower
speeches always evolve very con
siderably while in course of
preparation, no one can tell as
yet how strong the speech will
really be. But one point at least
is pretty clear already. The prac
tical actions that the Adminis
tration will take in the cause
of peace, as embodied in next
year's budget, are going to repre
sent a compromise.
TT WILL be, you might say, a
compromise between events
and George Humphrey. The Sec
retary of the Treasury is not
only the most forceful and cour
ageous member of the Eisenhow
er Team. He is also in the for
tunate position of having many
accomplices and no real op
ponents among the other team
members. When he makes his
annual drive to balance the
budget at all costs, no leading
figures in the State Department
or Defense Department or any
other department really fight
hard against him.
But in the present Instance,
events have fought against him.
Three simultaneous crises, in the
Middle East, in Western Europe
and in the Soviet satellite area,
plus strong hints that the Krem
lin is how returning to a more
belligerent policy, have been
Humphrey's real opponents. They
have combined to make the argu
ment that serious cuts in nation
al defense, for instance, are not
exactly desirable at this time.
As. has been pointed out al
ready 'in this space, our existing
defense structure has only been
maintained in the last four years
by running down all available
surpluses to the vanishing point
and by deferring all maintenance
to the danger point. Secretary
Humphrey's ally. Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson, might
not approve these practices at
General Motors, but they have
been approved at the Defense
Department none the less.
IITITH the surpluses all gone
" and the maintenance de
ferrable no longer, a hard choice
has had to be made this year.
In essence, it was a choice be
tween increasing defense appro
priations by at least 55 to S6 bil
lions, or dismantling part of the
existing defense structure In or
der to reduce the cost of upkeep.
If events had not fought
against Secretary Humphrey, the
second alternative would surely
have been adopted. The original
target of Secretary Wilson was
a defense budget of only $38 bil
lion, this would have meant in
creasing appropriations by a lit
tle more than $1 billion, and
meanwhile reducing the numbers
of our air groups, infantry com
bat units and naval forces in
readiness very sharply indeed.
The compromise that has now
been worked out between Secre
tary Humphrey and events in
thorized this week by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which gives
eastern carriers ?. 7 per cent "boost, and
western roads 5 per cent addition, is the
second this year.
"It is apparent that it would be sui
cidal to the railroads and murderous to
western industry to continue to impose
general rate increases on the country's
shippers. Railroading costs more in the
East where double and four-track lines
must be maintained on property which
represents extremely high investment.
Some western railroads have oil and
mineial properties which return high
profits, yet they go along with rate in
creases designed to protect eastern cap
ital. It is time to overhaul a system
which threatens to convert arteries of
communication into strangling nooses." '
It is indeed ! We earnestly hope our respected and
powerful contemporary will be able to do something
about it. R.W.R.
By Joa and Stewart Aliogt
stead provides for an increase
in the defense budget of about
S3 billion, to a figure just under
S40 billion. This will necessitate
no immediate and important cuts
in American force-in-being, it
will merely condemn certain
units of the Army. Navy and
Air Force to eventual obsoles
cence, because no orders will
be placed for the new equipment
they will need in the future.
A SIMILAR compromise be
tween Secretary Humphrey
and events has reportedly been
reached in the field of foreign
aid. With Europe's oil problem
so acute and other needs grow
ing more pressing, it will be
very difficult to cut foreign aid.
But no great ,iew adventures, no
"Little Marshall Plans," are to
be attempted.
Meanwhile the enormous in
crease of national income should
provide the tax revenues to pay
the bill. Perhaps the best way to
describe the new trend of Ameri
can policy is "blood, sweat and
dividends-as-usual."
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Following their two days of
private conferences, President
Eisenhower and Prime Minister
Nehru issued a joint communi
que. In it they say their full and
frank talks have confirmed "a
broad area of agreement" about
world problems and predict that
their meeting of minds will
"speed achievement of peaceful
and friendly relations among all
nations of the world."
WE KNOW about Ike already,
and this meeting has brought
out at least one good thing
about Nehru.
HE HASN'T TALKED MUCH.
That's good, because deeds
speak so much more impressively
than words. We'll watch Nehru's
deeds after he gets home.
THE dispatches tell us the Joint
communique issued by Ike
and Nehru was purposely vague.
It didn't even mention any of
the specific topics that were dis
cussed.
But, the dispatches add:
"It is known they talked about
the status of red China which
India recognizes and which the
United States has made clear it
can not recognize without great
changes on the part of red
China's government."
IKE, a sound thinker and a
devout Christian, might well
have quoted to Nehru the Gold
en Rule:
"Therefore all things what
soever ye would that man should
do to you, do ye even so to
them: for this is the law and
the prophets."
He could have said to India's
prime minister:
"If, over a period long enough
to prove their sincerity, the
red Chinese will follow that
rule, we'll consider admitting
them to our circle of friends
and associates."
"TVWO good Christmas stories
stories are going the rounds
of the news. Here's No. 1:
At one of the areas where
Hungarian refugees are being
housed while arrangements are
being made to get them settled
in their new homes, kind-hearted
but somewhat flustered
people got worried over what
Hungarian children might want
for Christmas gifts. So they in
stituted inquiries.
It developed quickly that the
little girls wanted dolls and the
small boys wanted toy trains.
MORAL:
People are PEOPLE the
world over.
And children are children.
TTERE'S No. 2:
Two typical Americans
that is to say, two men who
under , our beneficent economic
system have about everything
in the way of small personal
possessions they really want and
need had been beating their
brains trying to think what they
could send to the other that
would really hit the spot.
Finally one of them cut the
Today and
By Walter
NEHRU IN WASHINGTON
There can be no such thing,
I would suppose, as a measure
of what was accomplished by
91
Prime Minis-
-'! ter Nehru's
visit to Wash
ington. H i s
talks with the
President
were private,
and the offi
cial communi
que is not com
municative. It
is fair to as
sume that out of the long talks
there came not specific decisions
but a "broad area of agreement"
within which both men acknowl
edge the same general'principles
and express the same general in
tentions. There can be no doubt that
this is a very good thing indeed.
But time alone will tell how the
general agreements are con
strued by the operating officials
in Washington and in Delhi and
at the U.N. in New York. One
might say, for example, that it
is almost certain that Eisen
hower and Nehru have much
more in common than do Mr.
John Foster Dulles and Mr. Kri
shna Menon. This causes one to
wonder whether Eisenhower and
Nehru agreed upon how, when
they are separated by half the
world, they can carry forward
consultations which began at
Gettysburg.
TN thinking about private
meetings of this kind between
the heads of governments, most
of us carry around with us the
memory of the war-time meet
ings between Roosevelt and
Churchill. Those meetings set
the pattern and precedents in
our age for meetings at the sum
mit and they have habituated
this country to the expectation
that great and important busi
ness will be transacted. Roose
velt and Churchill used to bring
along with them to these meet
ings their highest military and
diplomatic agents and they made
agreements and reached deci
sions on which the two countries
then acted.
This image is now quite mis
leading and we must clear it
from our minds. This is particu
larly true of the meeting be
tween Eisenhower and Nehru.
For these two men would not if
they could and could not if they
would, publicly adopt and pur
sue a joint policy. The essential
principle of Nehru's policy is
that India is to make no entan
gling alliance, is to have no
fixed alignment with the Com
munist orbit or with the Atlan
tic powers. It follows that noth
ing in the nature of a joint pro
gram could have come out of
the Gettysburg talks.
THE real question is how far,
since joint action is not to
be expected we may look for
ward to parallel action. The im
pression I gleaned from this, and
that is about as follows:
Nehru has been completely
convinced of Eisenhowers sin
cerity as a man of peace. The
r
W alter LiDomjuu
Editorial Comment
"FRIENDLY" SP
... I doubt if any railroad in
the United States really wants
to operate passenger trains.
Every railroad company dpubt
less would be delighted to rid
itself of the necessity for trans
porting passengers. Many of
them, however, realize that they
are public - service institutions.
They acknowledge a general ob
ligation to the public. But not
the "Friendly" Southern Pa
cific! The evidence is conclusive, I
believe, that the "Friendly"
Southern Pacific deliberately
"murdered" passenger traffic in
Southern Oregon by reducing its
service to a point unfit for man
or beast as a means of further
padding its bookkeeping exhibits
of deficit operation. Reports
from the Willamette Valley in
dicate that "The Treatment" has
started there poor service,
poor trains, poor equipment, etc.
Senator Neuberger definitely
is on the right track in urging
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to develop a more realis
tic formula upon which to cal
culate passenger service deficits.
He will be going up against a
tough and vigorous lobby in try
ing to put his ideas across.
In the meantime, here in Ore
gon, we have an opportunity,
through our next legislature, to
put some teeth into our public
utilities laws and give our pub
lic utilities commissioner some
authority to regulate railroads
in the public interest. Again,
there will be a powerful lobby
to work against any such legis
lation. The public utilities ' commis-
Gordian knot. He sat down and
wrote his friend as follows:
"For years I've been sending
you shirts and neckties you'd
rather have chosen for yourself.
For years you've been sending
me shirts and neckties I'd rath
er have chosen for myself.
"This year I'm sending S20
to the needy Hungarians FOR
YOU. You send $20 to the needy
Hungarians FOR ME.
"I'm sure we'll both be hap
pier.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
notion has been widely bI in
Asia fed by some mi3ity foolish
speeches made over here that
the ultimate purpose of this
country was a preventive war.
we can, I believe, csunt ou
Nehru as powerful witness in
our favor in Moscow and in
Peipieg, and all over Asia.
Nehru, on Uie other hand,
pretty well disposed of the idea
that he is a crypto-Communfsfe
Practically nobody' who has
known hijji, and is informed
about' how he governs Intiia. has
"nad this prejudice. But there has
been so much talk by tos ene
mies in America that his appear
ance in Washington was salutary
and has done much tS cleaf the
air. o
. . . . o
A T the level of practical issues
A- in foreign affairs we may
distinguish three fields China,
the Middle East and Russia-and-(
Europe. My impression is that
for India the highest priority is
in her relations with China,
with the China whose popula
tion fs growing seriously, Veliofa)
industralization is proceeding at
a very rpid pace.
As foe the Middle East, I go?
the .impression that India s ac
tion is not unaligned. It moves,
so to speak, in a channel. One
bank of the channel is the liv
ing memory of the old European
colonial system i Asia. Tfiis
tends to confine India to file
role of a partisan of 1ie former
colonics, and to inhibitIndia as
a mediator, betwefn Cast "and
West. o
o
The other bak of the chan
nel is in India's difficult ad
dangerous relations- with Che
Moslem world, particularly w jth
her own Moslem population and
with Pakistan. Nehru is in nP
position, it woulfl seem, trj take
any serious risks when Moslem
sentiment is involved. This too
inhibits him in the role c9 medi
ator, o
"
A S FOR Eurooe, my impra-
sion is that India does not
regard the grave problem of
Germany, of East Europey and
the Soviet Union as within her
field of effective influence. She.
does not regard herself as a
world power inthe sense, that
she can or should! play a princi
pal part at such a distance from
home. We mustonot it seen to
me, expect fndia tOotake a lead
ing role in Europg.
What I have been saying cot
sists of impressions and infer
ences, and nothfng in it should
be regarded a' m6re0definite or
more authoritative than that,.
Congressional
Quiz :
'Copwiefit. m
Congressional Quarterly),-,
Q If Senate Demd(ats and
Republicans tied on the question
of which party ShouW organize
the Upper Chamber, wltoowouldi
settle the question?
A The Vic Pres3ertt
Would vols to break ih lit.
sioner in Califbrnlao not only de
nied railroads permission t8 dis
continue some of their jajissenger
runs but ordered them to im-
prove tneir service, and spwedi - . To
out in detail the service to be??001 r'?!J
provided. He get away with it.
Our public utilities cmmissionei
er here in Oregon should be
given the same authoritv. -2.
Editor Charles Stantion. Roia
berj News cRavtaw. 0 0
OREGONS TAX PROBLEM
o
. . . Now what does all thi (a
discussion of comparative tgx
rates in Pacific Coast states) acjd
up tb? Simply that those ire low
er income brackets fare better
tax-wise in Oregon than in the
other states. None of the states
is a tax haven for corpgrations.
Any loss of industry to Washii-fe1"3"1
ton because of taxes may be
due to personal decision of man
agers who seek to escape pay
ment of a state income tax. It
must be Remembered howvr
that state and local taxes are
deductible on federal tax re
turns, so that the penalty of a
higher state tax ic softtned by
the lighter federal income tax. j
The study really just confirms
wnai was pretty well understood
by those familiar wuh the tax
structures of the several sla'9m.
Taxes are high in all the coast
states because the pesple
mand a high standard of govern
ment and lots of it. Tlsey seem
to hurt more in Oregon because
our wealth is less than that oli
our coast neighbors.
What we Oregonians need to
do is to devote less attention t
the shifting of tax burdens and
ferreting out more sources of
revenue and' more attention !
holding down the costs of state
and local government. harlei
Sprague in Oregon Statesman,
Salem.
JOIN THE ARMY
The department of defense has
ordered the fluoridation of wa
ter supplies on all military bases
where dependent children live.t
The moral, we would say after
last November's.election, is that
if you want your'children to have
eood teeth, you'd betfer join the
Army. Eugene. Regijter-Guard.
O
POTLUCK
(By M-T fcaff and
Contibutors) O
JlfANY items often are mis-"-
placed did to the last-minute
Chftstmas rush. A woman
tcii us that a friend of hers
i called to inquire if she had lost
her false teeth. A spare set had
been found in her car and she
was desperately calling friends
in an attempt to find the owner
so far with$t success,
o
PACH Christm; not only
things are misplaced, but the
rush occasionally confuses soma
of our helpful correspondents.
One news release from a church
last week, in describing a Christ
mas pro, stated hat "the
chorus will interr- the song
fthe angles."
ftECENTLY, a man e know
" was doing a bit of shopping
in a downtown store and was
chatting with a clerk he knew.
(The clerk saiu he had a prob
lem) namely: -g know a girl who
doeSn' know what you want for
Christmas."
REPORTS reach a that at a
doctor's office "the TV set
which is lasually going full blast
in the wailing groom has been
displaced during the Christmas
season by a tiny, fully-decorated
Christmas tree, mucli to the sat
isfaction of th patient making
thfc report.
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TREtS
We nice, all
ripllt hut iVA a lr,M 11,1
Other DatieifllG of th rtnclnr rtVu
jct deluding onegtnan who
woi aa in me u same ounaing
and who regularly comes in at
a certain tfine St thecaftoiiilioon,
watches a certain gap opera
from beginning to eijui, then re
turns to his own office.
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iLIPPED from the Oregon
J Statesman: "Will everyone
wlso doesn t get a Ckvistmas
laiSi from somejjiie hfotailed to
sena -one to pres s$and up?
Bet we canJyxaiSl u gl one
hand." 0 0 O
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TTAS uifavorableoweather had
a bad ftj&cfc i shoppers
tis Chistmas? One merchant
f whom this question as askii
aid 3b did and thafe during tlgj
recentofogaj days "WJ had So
kcp a close watch 09 our neck
tie racks keep peopft from
hanging themselveso'0
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TVELATrraXy (few brand-new
" ftithers are entirfty rational,
w suspect. One we kno, a doc
tor who likfaj to do hi) paper
work at home in thevenig, sat
up with his wek-oat daughter
until 1 a.m. the other night, do
ing his honiwork and "improv
ing her omus appreciinjnj
v&th a tal stack of records.
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N this aftumsjolast eek, wo
youobi$it the ftwsrfem
wiorker V.10 said he oulfo't
hear well withoO. his glasses on.
le discove3, aftet-naking
that rnark, tlftt ce ofthe new
kfsadgels now on the jnarket is a
pairf glasSis witl? a hearing aid
0"Phidden in the ear-pieip. He! re
garding nis own passes wim
some suspicion, these 4Jys.
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OATRDtlYS in (January will
te devoted a Medford High
league schedule. t this time of
tste year we note with apprehen
sion that one of the fjrst games
will be betweai he fnnocaKU"
and the "UnholytTive."
THE county clerk's offi( last
we recorded our favorite
assumed business name of the
week: "K;s-Me-Qutf k Mistle
toe." o o O
MOTHER of a little girl who
had missed her cue on stage
during a church Christmas pro-
overheard another woman
remai., "I'll bet she is a female
Dennis the Menace at home!"
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A MAN we know gave his 8-year-old
daughter a dime
,and sent her to a 'phone booth.
He figured it was time she was
learnine to use a pay telephone.
She made the call successfully.
and enjoyed it Later, with a
nickel of Ser own, she went to
a booth, intending to "pretend"
toall, knvg she'd gO her
nickel0bacl She completed her
"preted" call and hung up the'
receiver. She got her nickel
back, all right and another
S1.2f m sall c&inge tumbled
into the coin-return slot.
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SINCE pracUcally everyone
hs competed mailingtheir
Christmas cards by now, we fecJ
free to tell about a man in Port
land we heard about, who had
about P00 cards to mail out. He
carefully addressed every one
to himself, put ne nar id
ad&ress of the person he wanted
to receivethe card in the upper
left-hand corner of tlu: envelope,
and drSppe'Ji them unstamped in
a post box. fch one was de
liveries promjjfly to the person
he wanted it to go to, markPd
"Returned for Insufficient Post
age." o o
ERRY CHRlSlMAS,
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