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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ag.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1947 (Monday)
Polio receipts banked today
bring total for county ig $1(1-,-147.59,
according to Coanty
Treasurer Ralph Sweeney
From Arthur Perf ry's Ya
Smudge Pot column": "BARE
LIMBED TREES LOOK GHAST
LY" (Hdline Home & Garden
Mag.) The trees have nothing
on something else. .
20 YEARS SGO
Fab. 3. 1937 (Wednesday)
City council last night adopts
ordinance directing foreclcgure
of assessments delinquent three
years or more.
Southern Oregon resurrjesnor
mal communications today Ss all
roads blocked by Monday's Storm
are reported cleared jyith few
exceptions.
a. u .
? 30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 3, 1927 (Thursday)
Henry J. Allen, ex-governor
of Kansas, editor and owner oi
the Wichita Beacon, harecently
endorsed the city manager p,Jan
for Med.rord.
Inter-city meeting .-Hid banquet
of Rotary clubs of Klamath
Falls. Grants Pass and Medford
ris held S$ Bedford hotel.
46s YEARS', ACOa .
Feb. 3. 1917 (Saturday)
Severance of diplomatic
lations with Gcf manv is
re-
an-
nounced i8 spech to.congr--Ciby
r'n.. , ,1 . H- J . t ti-: i 1 .
W. J. Scott of Vitioch pro
poses commurfity distrfc? siiil G
Jo an irrigation dijtrict'o'i bdut
-25.000 -sii$ Jjams Vll;;:?, to
hphonrlpH 1i.r aiSnnoif 'ttf.'.'nn
Si. an eecic power piBni :v"iJ
imgation dis&ic .
nnai lour s .
limine or te correct Is sup21or;.t-
5 E 1
IX . r .d .
1. Is Okinwaout i00. 0e,
or 1.200 miles fromhe Philip,
pines? a .
I
2. Was the .first . Amrteai:- p&k 5fle ife COUntf? .Jilt $fC3dd it. We be-
orec, t fa firtent ita h vetlookld w in
form!? ' "" SstsSiftgra QS fo3& siepogits. R.H M.
3
the
Bible: Atf.vhp tiv: .-;:
"gif? of the tSngVies"' jrf.vov.?
O 9 "'
JVas "J 'lunrjjidgfloji
rite". i "Bumble F,ee piKceuV
the nar.t of .a newsp5
what
o B. 3uivhuroa3es siA'-.
f.j".
musical CL,8tf5.t , jy A ,y Deet"
the Ficid f V;-- ciii. ..j;.- nf apvdQ,?recpinsf saum.
3 tvrnish;
'.-rue o
faSe?
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7. JVhat itheV.T-nifrjcfl
tern
o - -
O 8. Base&J . dvuionc fi
ball: gritjroi?: Iannis: what.'
9. Girl Miles Slandish pl?ad
Johr?j Alden's cause with Pris
cil'a?3 10. "My heart was in my
moutn" Petronius. Is this, a
refrence to love or fear?
Answers: 1. 600. 2. Oregon
City (1844). 3. Pentecost. 4. News
paper, in Oregon City. (See ques
lioa 2). 5. "Gold" 6. True. 7. For
the lime being. 8. Court. 9; No.
.Vice versa. 10. Fear.
What h "hfodtfn
We have often seen in doubt ss to sxct meaning
o? President Eisenhower's "Modem Republicanism."
In his last press conference the President was
asked to define the term as contrasted with "New
Deal."
He did so as follows, quote :
1. An hoift-st ?icjl gclicy fjith deficrt-eendinf only in
gn amerjrncy.
2. C(jLCntrtic c tha gowr en. reajoneiSiifity c
government wit tha saogia insie.iS of in 'hinto.
3. Preservation Oi? j ound-dolle.
THAT is clear "enough. But WHAT is ther "mod
i era" about it?
President Roosevelt creator of the "New Deal,"
only advocated "deficit spending" in the dirs finan
cial "EMERGENCY" of the depression in the 30s.
As to No. 2, FDR was continually going over th
heads of the congress and appearing to the people for
support of his liberal policies, and with great success,
except for his ill-advised plea to advance liberalism
by what his enemies called "packing" the Supreme
Court.
AS FOR' the preservation of a "sound dollar" the
dollar under F.D.R. was far "sounder" than it
has been under the Republican administrations since,
and today is worth approximately half as much.
CO WHAT is the big idfca? We are as much puzzled
as we were before the official explanation.
More than that.
We fail to discern anything here that would not
be endorsed by most of the "Old Republicans," so
why call it the new and MODERN Republicanism?
Franklv we can't make it out.
'Peitiaps in some future comments to the press
the President will elucidate. We hope so. R.W.R.
i'How About tke New Deal?
SSe n-sfJlfii w id a of wh.$t "Modem Republican
ism' tdde up 9 ia iliis, to-k:
Approp?i.t.tini' most of the basic principles of
RooiSvelJ's "Nav? Deal" without admitting it.
Whstsver doubfe existed as to this "appropriation"
was removed in President Eisenhower's recent budget
message, Vjnd his collateral rsmarks.
A clearer and more explicit defense of Roosevelt's
;"Nev De'f' in principle coyliS h$rdly be imagined.
THE President not only st&t& the people of the
- ihe countiy should get whit tny wanted, but that
it was what he 2elt they DES&KVED to get.
Ar,d t?ien ii& enumerated -aoivie of the deserving
go.emm?nt ayfe, such as increased social security,
unemployment .ifisyrance, old age assistance, govern
ment ippropriisioM for aid to the inf inn and dis
abled, and Koi ffliljions but BILLIONS, through a
five-ye.tr period grom the U. S. Treasury for state
schools ai(fi education.
Thsse, uiidqu&tedly, are some of the things that
impelled Secretary ot the Treasury Humphrey to cry
"uncV and flvjitf into such an excruciating spirit
ual struggle bd:re5en his loyalty to President Eisen
hower snoli is detestation of Franklin Roosevelt.
LoyeJ'ty .fiasU?" 'C-on wut but only after a severe
inne? sisugflu. 'the surprising admission that un
less t'Mfii q 4km. n 'the national economy were
.halted i'efe yyovjlcj resuli
make' v-Qyr ,aif y?l."
- iAj' trawls Sara's prcper pls.es ia the "public wel
fsre" i&3S,e, fe tvfiat itifki th term "Modem
Repu'tiSkoaisife' an4 not
en&dwer i &u press
EiiwS'o ihyfo itial Tk
-jsccisa gris SJsreaS f ano'ch? iepfasion,
jjj,.,. W0U1(5 b OftC Oft a
i. i7 f. ft. . iV.
i&x wondd the Ncv?
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J. uic'cp w c.! uxis u? - asrufrijii tiia.b iiLcu
! i ,iT, Tt-S . ,J."Jt i. J v
...o'l'V. w s4 mu. m aj ae recora snows,
taki; raw,? 4ht main provisions f the "New Dfcal"
jJtsi m jwdgmeat rrefe 4sirs.We and would
i?eBocif SiigiiSj- sj-aiiisly c-ny
mm m
Ifal 39 &si, .Uveve; -
! tern fea ass aiM ff.D&EJuer-9l5
(.sfi pifia"' rvferf&is ss eves
!Sepab&?i'i9 ia tei-gori
:aj-i;t, yh5f?! SiiiSesas wiU
A ND no1:
flr'
me (except in time
his Secvetary of the Treau?y 4e?uas to sanction a
penK.y out of nearly 72,OO-O,0G,OQO dollars to con
struct even one federal pawer pp&jed in the northwest.
This refusal includes such a project S3 the John Day
dam on the Columbia, whieh Sia bea suho'risg-tL is
ACUTELY needed, and in viaw n t-risii powf
shortage, now threatening, SHOULD bs Ksse4 Nm. E
on. the agenda of ANY enlightened. puiDlieWrlfs-re
program, f or Oregon, and the northwest 1.W.E-."
Rcpuhlkafitem"?
& depression that would
a
&m iifns that President
WftfaraJic enumerated.
fesi(ieD4 in commenting
stated he
large scale
j : i v
sJ.
. . v j v l 1
tiepreasioji like the ctas-
, ftptsirjlfat Eifsefchiotve? is
K.O. ?ihr&.
ta uv ttout in n.rtnr-
sosr f iHe tnosi influential
w &&ml. ie phoney
i aaj-elv j.n4 at-
c!i '?i'i &e President and
and
j Water
ICXX? DIS10KA.CT
The House hi approvtij the
Presidfnt's Middle Esstern reso
lution and tftert is no reisonsble
doubt that the
Senate will fol
low suit. The
Congrtss h s
no choice, giv
en tht fact that
it h.s b n
tola by the
President that
he needs etrs
ordinary pow
ers to save the
Vefcr Llrpmaata
Middle last from Soviet domi
nation end from wr. For this
is erf argument which i not in
feet debatable.
The President hss at his com
mand the whole diplomatic, in
formational, and intelligence es
tablishment of the government,
nd no one in Congress is in s
position to contradict him when
he vs fhat there is great and
imminent danger which he can
avert only if he can ct without
having to consult Congress.
Wt are seeing once again a
demonstration of the familiar
truth, that under our constitu
tional system on the issues of
iica or war the President has
thg paramount powtr.
WHAT is unfamiliar eftout the
' resolution is that it is being
adopted in time of peace, and J
that it consits of a blanket ap
proval in advance of whatever
the President decides to do in
the Middle East. There is no
precedent for such an action by
Congress, and the constitutional
precedent w-hich it establishes is
troubling deeply some of the.
most conscientious and respon
sible members of the Senate.
They think that Congress
ems to be voting away its right
to hold the Administration to ac
count for the employment of the
armed force and for the expend
iture of oublic money. Their
constitutional qualms are enti
tled to respectful hearing be
fore tha vstes rs csit. There
should not 1st in attempt to
silence thm on th ground thst
it is somehow uijoetnotic to de
bate tha President's ettrfordin-
ary progossl.
m m m
TH3I real ct for the resolu
tion i that tha President
needs extraordinary and unprec
edented powers because he is
proposing ta dsl with what is
by American experience an ex
traordinary and unprecedented
situation. The President has ac
cepted ths responsibility of play
ing the leading part in dealing
on behalf of the Western world
with the Soviet Union nd with
the anti-Western Arab agitation.
To play this part requires
Totta
F
I III
fAattGl- O'f FOCf By Stewart Alsop
AKD KO, THS ICBM
Washington An interconti
nental ballistic missile, known
as "the ultimato wepon," will
be tested this
y e r, accord
ing to present
Air Force
plsns. The test
may come in
the late sum
mer or early
fall, but in any
c a a, unlcat
Al T o e
ehtdule jo
a-svry, the itwlDle weapon wm
tted beoye 1837 ends.
This first tst of the intercon
tinental ballistic missile, or
ICBM, will be comparable in
significance to the first test of
the atomic bomb. Tor like the
stowiie bmft, the ICBM will in
time basically transform the na
ture of warfare and thuj the
whole world situation.
Ths roiawile to be tested is
known unofficially as "Atlas"
(it'e official Air Force designa
tion ie WS-18TA-1), and the Con
vair Comjany has been princi
pally rtsponibl" for its devlop
mnt. Another form of the
ICXM. no tie "TiW is
thought ia b about year be
hirJi Atk I i.1 dvlopmnt
ejrcla. .
.
THX nea vopct of tst of
Atl represents a very great
techftiel ackievemen. Until
ethtr recently, forward esti
fiate yvt the first tst of an
CSM in U-eO, er ltr. Ift ehort,
world, to? Setter or lor
worse, i firir th g of the
ultimata weapon than anyone
until v7 reely i4 hog" 0
Jrd.
Tht JC3S- ! 1US th ulti
iat weapon for a simple re
o it cannot be intercepted by
any means now known. Dwtail
re secret, &u4 th general char
acteristics or? A41s ar well
inown. I-i i atagciS miasila,
rii,inf on '.V launching i
aiout li tcwa. -tt maximum ae
stleraiiea, ii will reach a pe4
on tha orier f 20 times tha
speed fi 3U!-.1. it will rcX
ituximum altitude on the order '
of 600 miles. Ite range will be
5,000 miles or more. Thus, when
it is developed as an operational
weapon, it v.iJl as capable f
speeding from launching site to
targets half a world away le-ithin
a. matter if minutes.
These characteristics suggest
why no means of intercepting the
missile are now known. The
prcblem of interception is com
i.arafe'.e. ia very simple terms, to
interc9gti3 bullet in mid-air
Toi
Lippasaaa
more than arms end more than
money, more than public declar
ations and votes in the United
Nations. It requires secret di
plomacy not only with the nom
inal heads of governments but
with the great courtiers and with
the factional leaders. The sim
plest way to describe the Middle
Eastern resolution now before
Congress is to say that it ants
to the President Cceijreisional
license ts gractice secret diplo
macy in the Middle Sast.
THIS does not mean that Mr.
Dulles explained so little be
cause he has secret plans which
he does not ware to explain to
Congress. It means, that what
ever plans or aims he may have
would be frustrated in the Mid
dle East if he expounded them
publicly to Congress and to the
American press. The political
leaders of the Arab world, of
whom King Saud is in some corl
siderable measure representa
tive, do not belong to the age
or to the tradition of open diplo-1
macy conducted by free-speaking
democracies.
If the United States is. for ex
ample, to have a .hand in the
intricate and secret, but crucial,
diplomatic game now being
played by Nasser in Egypt, King
Saud in Saudi-Arabia and Muri
in Iraq, the United States has to
indulge in the un-American prac
tice of secret diplomacy.
WE SHALL have to. wait and
see how ur brand of secret
diplomacy works. The art of
secret diplomacy is a special art,
and not one that can be learned
easily or quickly. We do have,
it is true, a considerable number
of young men who have become
experts in the inner politics of
various Middle Eastern coun
tries. But at the top of affairs
the men who must m?ke the de
cisions, beginning with the Pres
ident and his Secretary of State,
have only begun to acquire the
kind of intricate knowledge of
the Middle East which the suc
cessful practice of secret diplo
macy requires. Secret diplomacy
is the extreme opposite to diplo
macy by broad public declara
tions. Al Ifhis leads me to think that
when the resolution is adopted,
we should continue to be vigi-
lant. We should continue to real
ize that we re embarked on 9
kind of diplomacy wsich is out
side the American tradition. If
anything goes wrong with it, we
should be prepared for an alter
native for some kind of open
plan, negotiated among the
great powers, for a truce and j
standstill.
(C) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
before it reaches a soldier at
whom it is aimed. The difference
is that the target is nt a single
soldier, but a whole city which
can be blasted off the face of
the earth by the missile's hydro
gen warhead. A city, unlike a
soldier, cannot hide in a fox
hole or behind armor. To be sure,
the scientists have some ideas
about how the job of intercept
ing or deflecting the missile
might be done. But these ideas
ar for tha present wholly Vkto
fatical.
a
A LTHOUGH t h s immwSiate
prospect of a test of Atlas
reflects a very great technical
achievement, it should1 not be
taken to mean that the United
States will be armed with thesa
decisive weapons in the near fu
ture. Like almost all new weap
ons, the 'missile to be teste-d i a
prototype, rather than a weapon
which could be usea in war, ami
there is a very Ions Sap between
the testing of a prototype and
the creation of, an operational
weapons system.
The prototype to be -tested will
carry no warhead, and the aaai-
tion of a heavy hydrogen wal-'
head vastly complicates the 4ris-i
nical problems of creating an op
erational weapon. Agwn, al
though advance iave kn
made, th guidare jrofciw in
not bwe ully aolya S
missile will timfiy aVf-UL dqwit
into ih it, a Terr' isrg j
determined. area. An. OS courts'
it is necessary t allow tor i '
fact thst th tst may JsiJ, Mm
thing that hss happened f.sny
times with far less gsPlitfSe
missiles. v
Wlien an eperstioftsl Wtsjak
is produced, it will be orm&uv
ly costly, and larje nwber
weapons, and large number 4
expensive launchins it ..a
well, must be created l?or.
there will be a truly ope?tioSi1
ICBM wsason tyt'-tm. Th Ait
J'oec stiTt i that ws .
yWr wiil ejne ia iitie
aomeiins atcui lie
IM.
o
tH fT?S t. S9SiTU
y s? iMiictina "ma;iv
taliatioe." y iither r.n
jecislly !ftnw4 sitciait -
oi course xh all cotU ha Jraiuv
tained. 3Cvh whaa in ifitr.ti.iij
al ICBM systsm i 2tst,
manned sarcraft a"ill e-trtaialy
be needed. Because 0-2 ths graat
difficulty in solving the guid
ance problem, the ICBM will
probably always be an "area
weapon", designed to inflict nu
clear destruction on a great city
or even a whole province. Other
mmunications
Isksimanily ts Bcj
To the Sditor: I wish to creat
mental picture for any two
legged creature who has been
guilty of deliberately abandon
ing a dog or cat along the high
ways or wide open spaces.
I have lived" in this area five
years and there have been quite
a number of dogs and cats left
in the area to forage for them
selves. The presene victim of a "friend
to man" (no doubt he had reason
to fetl tfiat sometime in his
past life but certainly not in
the present) appeared in our
area the early part of December.
He is a large dog and shows a
predominace of German Police.
He is too courteous 2 dog to be
come the "garbage can" type
with his desperate need of food,
and consequently does not come
in close enough to our homes
throughout the area to receive a
handout. -We had one occasion
last week to feed him. My hus
band spied him on the highway,
dashed home and picked up a
can of dog food. When he stop
ped his car beside the dog, the
dog made a dash for the fence
and tried to get away. My hus
band talked to him and tossed
the contents of the can down to
him. You can imagine what a
dog, who had been covering
acres of frozen ground covered
with frozen snow for the past
few weeks, would do.
There are any number of hay
barns throughout the area where
he no doubt finds shelter. But
WHERE and HOW could he pos
sibly find food over the many
acres of snow covered ground?
If the two legged creatures
could see this dog, how he mopes
across the pastures, through the
brush and on the highway, his
head and his tail down, half
limping, they would have night
mares for some time to come,
no matter how hardened they
are. He is a pitiful, dejected
and forlorn looking dog, still
searching, I am afraid, for the
one who let him down.
Mrs. J. N. Taylor
Bar G M. Ranch
Prospect, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
New note in world affairs:
The United States and Canada
may JOINTLY propose to the
United Nations late today a new
formula for settling the con-
t?oversy between Israel and
Egypt. If this controversy could
be settled, it would help to calm
down the presently explosive
Middle East situation.
The proposal is a two-pronged
affair. It would call for a com
plete Israeli withdr&wel behind
the 1949 armistice line and
would set up UN emergency
force troops along both sides
of the line.
UN troops would also be sta
tioned along Egypt's Gulf of
Aqaba Soast until peace is stab
ilized.
WOULD it wtiri:?
" That no on can say at
this moment. It.; nurpose would
be to prevent any more shooting
in the present ticklish state of
affairs in that psrt of the world.
The BIG point is that the United
States and Canada are working
toyethir to keep the peace.
They can work together bet
ter than aAy e&sr twa nations
because they vst4 each
other, have .conftdasos ih egch
other's motives ed way ns con
flicting interest ideologies.
A b?b grant that sort beats
si id eangustri &. tivllov.
S3 fiJUL H& Bftw and AMla
staioo and eletihof-goli hvtsi
nM ths.t Atav!f,Kw hA i-"it
of Kin $ gcvA 1 WaaS'ihsgtcn,
let's net everted' aMtminsly
minor but potentially tr? im
portant phase e &.
Stud brsush alea it f .$
t ci hi rather nuHM-rou a?.a,
3 1 Vyeay-eld STisee K a k w r.
UTUe Kasftvr U sa5!?i?ins r
tii r?jri ei 4i imA
and hi risM
3K wa to undergo ft
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piUi, irKf dcio ill
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the jriyat. I 9
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to ' Atiri
nar, n.4 oist o- tfct jstv.
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tr'.i.cM'Jt,& frt-isoirt. ftn .y esaa,
it VrH o t ?i4 li? -U?oJVinfil
ttalliatie .iils,
; i ta oecw ,
H wriKfi Bow ritfii
evsa 5n tl4 m.a??, lie
US'. ih wrli ra atonic
tank- 4t Ji Ifeaw thiiKaatn
tt ig. noi, lIi'iiAsly, il3py
vmX sws.se i ge time
whea M saankind will 'live .on
the slopts ef a nuclear Vesuvius.
But at least it is good th-jt, in the
race for the ultimate weapon, the
United States has not fallen be
hind the Soviet Union.
(C) New YorV Herald
Tribune Inc.
Public Library Jrita
To the Editor: I think the
situation at the Medford Public
Library is a disgrace to the
peojle of Medford; especially
the attitude of the librarians
toward students.
This nonsense of the students
having to leave their notebooks
on special tables at the front
door is so much "bunk" it isn't
even funnv. Whv is this done?ipuppy was frisky OnS sniffy
This is the bij!est question asfced
by most of the students who
usa tha library for their study
ing. Last week a librarian told me,
111 so many words, that 1 had
to leave my books 5t the front
door because I was going to
to slip a library book in among
my own, and take it home. Most
of the students who use the
library have library-cards and
can check out 'lie books, if they
want them. They won't W&I& out
with them.
Our library was a gift of An
drew Carnegie. The manner in
which it is run, and sctejip.
would probably make Mr.
Carnegie turn over in his grave.
Why can't something be done
about it? Even if the librarians
were a little more friidly and
helpful, it would be a great
blessing.
I know that the librarians are
worked terribly hard all day, but
if they would let the students
use that part of the library
which is "reserved for the old
people," more, as I heard one
librarian say to a student, and
would help the students loi?ate
reference material, which seems
to be kept behind locked doors?
the students wouldn't be griping
so much.
Last week a librarian told
two students that it would be
appreciated more if the kids
didn't use the library for study
ing. The public library is one
of America's greatest cultural
institutions, and if boys and
girls can't eo there without the
peopra who run it standing over"
them with "out-of-the-place"
rules, our public library, will
sotfn be a thing of the past.
The students around Medford
are becoming so discouraged
with this present system, that
they are slowly, but surely
staying away.
Let's not let this happen!
Jim Jongs
1128 West Main St.
Medford, Ore.
Th "Why" of tha Rules
To the Editor: The rules of
the Medford Pffib'uc library,
about which Jim Jones com
plains in his letter, are not made
for the 95 per cent or more of
the students who firs well-behaved
and conscientious. But,
like the laws of the city and
the state, they are madeefor the
5 per cent or less wh are wil
ful violators.
Perhaps. Jim Jones doesn't
know that in the past several
months, several hundreS dollars
of damage 'has been caused, to
tfte library' through theff and
vandalism. But it has. Books
have been stolen (many of them
in those brief-cases and note
books, he complains about), furn
iture and fixtures have been
Lseriously damaged, and, believe
it or not, pages have been torn
from sets of encylopedias, theres
by destroying there values to
others (including Jim Jones).
The library, though the 0I1J
part of the building was erected
with Carnegie funds, ha; been
enlarged and Is maintained, and
books ai-e purchased, through
funds from the city and1 county,
paid in the tjxes of" everyone.
The library board and the
librarians have an obligation to
the taxpayers, Jio the other pa
trons (even the "older" ones,
Jim), aid to the students who
wish to use the library for its
real purpose.
That i the reason for the
rules, ivhich v.re hope'aae reason
able to reasonable people. We
want the library '-o be used by
es'eryone. To do so.'wj must pro
tect it. and its contents from
theft and destruction.
Jim Jones is herewith extend
ed a friendly invitation to dis
cuss tie mattei with librarian
Kiss H,elen 'Webster, with the
undersigned, or with tile board
at its next meeting. Perhaps he
can tell us 'how we can pro'-3ct
pCiblic property without the
rules "wMch have so far proven
4o be necessary. Ve could,. very
A'sjikly, use oae fc-elp from
ytfung people. If; ti'ieir problem,
too. becauas it iy theirs library
Eric .illsa
1 Presiifent
riedfora Public
Librasy S'rd
OiiiareH Should Bearr
To the Editor: Gocd Inten
tions surely do 'Some, road "pav
ing to "places". LiuVthH let'.er
thet was promised to have been
written wa fcacij before tjpe
Weed schoolboy was kl'lled as
he ran 'rom the school bus to
the home that will see .him no
more. Just recently, a . man
whose work keeps him on Jack
son country roads just about all
the time, told me how frighten
ed he is the way school children
run so heedlessly from the bus
homeward wih not a glance to
right or left. They know of
course, that all oncoming traffic
must come'to a complete stop
when a school bus is discharging
POUUCtC
(By SS-T Stetf? art
CoatribuJjorjJ
The air was mellower lQs&
week. The society editor c,VZn
asked, sort of wistfully, on Sat
urday "Does it feel a little liuQ
spring outside?" There ws Ctill
a smidgin of snow on RoQy
Ann.
Brut the black 0"d C'hit
wnen ne went out in ire morn
ing air. He didn't see ground
hog (fortunately for 9both of
them, probably), but if he had,
and the groundhog had had time
to look arouHd, he (the ground
hog), wouldn't have seen his
shadow.
But that's all right. We're not
superstitious. Hardly anybody
is anymore. Are they?
And Sprine is less) than seven
weeks away!!
...
Early in tha J2e, though,
and tha weei before, it wrt
downright tinier. Our Jack- ,
sonvill correspondent drop
ped us a not to report thai,
instead of a cup of augar or a
p;t of butter, th most fre
quent neighborly borrowings
thereabout vert blowtorches
Snd kettles of hot water. She
said that frozen water pipes
were tha min topic of dis- a)
CUSSion.
...
TJjpic of a speaker last week
was "Buil(jjing a Better eMouse
trap." Advance publicity of the
sponsoring group, heffvever, list
ed the last word as "Moosetrap.
and the faithful old M-T duly
recorded it as such.
Next day came a correction
notice, with a carefully drawn
cartoon picture of aomoose label
ed "This is a MStose" and a
mouse labeled "This is a mouse."
We like the first title better
anyway.
.
Firemen, in the cours of
their necessary duties, some
times must wield ax and hos
in a way distressing to prop
erty owners. But th boys on
the big red wagons ar as
careful as they can be, and
ar a? bit touchy about what
they son?etimes hav to do.
Last weak a staff mmbcr
spok to a "very honast" fire
man, ha said, who reported
"W did very little damag.
and didn't let tha fir do
much either."
Some weeks on the ob are
better than other weeks. Last
week was one of the not-so-good-weeks
in some ways at the .1-T.
Gremlins, obviously.
There was a misprint In a
story, a lady called to correct
it, the correction story was writ
ten, and it appeared in print
missing one full line. That's the
sort of thing we mean. Enough
to drive ur.to drink, if we drank.
And we wonder what Larry
Rose, a Medford postman thinks
of us. He's had his picture in the
paper a couple of times. The
first time we called him Larry
Ross. Then last week, on the
other picture, we called him
Larry Mose. And after he'd ask
eg us politely please to get it
right this time, too!!
, Girl reporter had a sor
back last week. Boy reporter
talked to her and the con
versation went thus:
Boy: How's your back?
Gjjrl: Better.
Boy: Sure was beautiful
yesterday. ,
Girl: (Surprised) My back?
Boy: No silly, th weather.
its precious cargo. But, and it
is such an important but, the
modern car so wonderfully con
structed is not 100 per cent de
pendable, no more than the hum
an hand, eye and foot. Twice
since the advent of he hydraulic
brake has the small fluid carry
ing tube vibrated against metal
till worn paper thin, it gave way
and came that awful lost feeling
when the car did not obey the
pressure of myfoot. It takes a
second or so for one to recover
and go for the emergency brake.
But a car, depending on sueed,
can travel 15 to 25 feet, gwith
lethal Results if someone, is in
the way, which, fortunately for
me and them, no one was.
So now, every time myecar
is greased, the fluid tubes (and
battery cables toojre inspected
for worn spots, by me. The
emergency is not too depend
able for even if in A-l condi
tion, which many are not, it
usually only acts oi the two
rear Afheels which is not so
good. And the human Znini is
subject to wool gathering as
attested by motorists hauled be-
Mior a juiige for running stop
signs.
A call to the county school
headquarters .told me that all
schoCl bus drivers are .nstructed
never to open the bus door till
oncoming traffic has been halt
eii. Admission was made,
through, that.no formal training
has been set uj for warning on
this score. The J also agreed that
a good example" could be set by
Medford people who could at
least give a glance at oncoming
cars at signal or stop sign in
stead of strolling along cross
streets often looking the other
way. But, again, children should
be given self-protection training
also.
. . F. J. Clifford
1211 West Main st
: Medford, Ore. -
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