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AUDI! fetJjSA3 o cntcuLA no--: Advertising Reprenw.'jTive: WEST-HOLIDAY COjTPAXTT JPG Office In New Tc- CjM. d. trolt San Francisco Li Ar.21el.9t Seattle Portland 3t L-iiil AuazrVa Vancouver B C NATION A . t D I T 0 t IA a N.4 I I AsTbcfA'frN PUBUSHf J ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 20, 40 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 3, 1947 (Monday) Mrs. Elsie Ragsdale, 613 Palm st., Medford, wins name contest sponsored by the American Eeauty shop. From Arthur Perry's ' Ye Smudge Pot column: Crows are now plentiful in the' rural reg ions. They caw at dawn and fly around all day as the crow fli-ss. 20 YEARS AGO March 3, 1937 (Wednesday) Plans to start the sawmill cf Medford corporation (Owen Oregon Lumber company) Mon day, if weather permits lo aid ing, are announced by Jamts K Owen, general manager. Under supervision of County Agent R. G. Fowler, eight men started work this week on a WPA project that will remove diseased fruit trees on county land. 30 YEARS AGO March 3, 1927 (Thurtday) Boy Scout summer camp Ap plegate river is inspected by Lee p. Brown, camping committee chairman of Crater Lake coun cil. Plans are in formative stage by the chamber of commerce for election of 11 directors. 40 YEARS AGO March 3, 1917 (Saturday) Medford and Jackson county schools asked to compete in the statewide contest for prizes of fered by Dr. W. A. Wood, of Hillsboro, state senator of Wash ington county for essays on good roads. From Local an Personal col umn: A Bowman of Phoenix is in Medford transacting business with local merchants. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior; t en or elcht l excellent: five or six Is rood 1. Did the War of 1812 end in 1812? 2. Name the capital of Portu gal. 3. Bible: Was Herod Antipas or Archelaus tetrarch of Judea and Samaria? 4. Was thorium B, the first isotope, used to study how cer tain plants absorb and internally use lead, or silver? 5. Which Roman diety is asso ciated with the forge? 6. During World War I the "Central Powers" were Ger many, Austria - Hungary, Bul garia, and what other country? 7. Is a fortnight a week end? 8. In the Army, what is a ''hash mark"? 9. Which word is expressive of bullet: caliper or caliber? 10. The athlete was in the what of condition? Answers: 1. No. 2. Lisbon. 3. Archelaus. 4. Lead. 3. Vulcan, S.Turkey. 7. No. Two weeks, 8.Servic strips.' 9. Caliber. 10. "pink". Invitation Accepted By Governor Jcfroe The Dalles (U.?J Gov. Robert Holmes of Or?s'on and Gov. Albert Rossellim .".ave ac cepted invitations to t'nri,decii cation of the Army 2iu!.ni navigation lock 2. Tfcr" DaU dam March 16-17. Gov. Holmes said lie would be forced to keep an etwaement in Portland after the ii;t day's activities but Gov. Rcsst lliiii said he would participate in lb: full two-day ceremony. MAIL TRIBUNE What's the The tax behaviour of to understand. The members of both houses must know the peo ple of the state want a balanced budget, nd that many millions in taxes must be collected to secure that. Yet to date the chief activity in both houses has htm to reduce the area of tai revenue, 4 the complete tax picture can be kows. What Is the big idea? 'J'HE House of Kepree?itaijv wag ?& Sim ?n et only a short time after the airesent s-sdon ?.ieJi(fi. By aa overwhelming majority JePnocrais and Rt puoucans joined u au any prospect oif rales-tea. Our recollection is Representative Littrell of Ja-ck&o-is County was only one M i&ree r fcieinkera i' oppose such action. Now the Senate has followed uet $y & mtfufej wverwneuaiii vote u tm general vse of any .ate property tax. This isn't closing the stable 5oor after ?fce 5,ot hsa been stolen it u closing &ndt locking: dootr the poor beast can't be propej-Jy watered fe(S. VAii iiAVL lor many years ofosed 4sle les tax, and we hold ko bnef r.ow or a sbste prop erty tax. v Dut when necessary state expens-es fcr th eneuing biennium are added up, it may b apparent, that one of these sources of revenue, or both, will be seeded to avoid a state deficit financing veering close to the edge of bankruptcy. Whether guch a situation will arise or nor, we fail to see the sense in approaching the state's financial problem in guch a thoughtless, "precipitate and nega tive fashion eliminating legitimate sources of tax revenue, oefore the necessary needs of the state tax wise, have been determined. If any reasonable, or convincing explanation has emanated from Salem we have failed to note it. "VyE BELIEVE the people of the state who have to r foot the tas billa, would appreciate one. The business-like approach would seem to be in order, namely: to secure as accurate an estimate of what money the state will need as possible EEFORE eliminating ANY lesal end legitimate means of getting it. R.w!r. The . "Honeymoon " Is Over We prophesy thet, instead of "relying on the magic Oi the Eisenhower nemo in the 19S8 elections," Republicans who bliev in less Federal government and in protection of the American people's inWret first in foreign affaire mill ta engflge-a in a struggle with the Republican "One Worlders" ?or party nomination. We bolieve that, iu 1SS0, the two partie will not be so much alike that confused citixens constantly are raising the query: "What' tJia difference betwcun the Republican end D.inceraMc pflrt!f-s, anyway?" Granls Fail Ceurie?. This ii an interesting and somewhat surprisinf ad miidon on lbs part of one of the state's most uncom promising Republican newspapers, that the Eiien hover honeymoon i3 over. The Cornier is convinced that a year hence, the magical vote-getting power of the Eisenhower name will be abandoned, and" the Republicans will rally not around "Ike" but the standard bearer of those G.O.P. leaders who are tired of being mistaken for "New Dealers" and "One Worlders" and (presumably) wish to return to the good old days of isolationism, "full dinner pail" and William McKinley. "llELL, this has been the contention of this depart- ment for a long time. But we never expected to have the Courier, or any other stalwart supporter of the G.O.P. status quo ante admit it at least until the bye elections of 1958 had passed, and the tenure of the Eisenhower administration approached its zero hour. DUT there it is in the Courier in black and white. So to the scrap heap with the basic principles of the "New Deal" which President Eisenhower ac cepted and continued to support. Also down with the "One Worlders" who as the President has declared believe in acceptance of ' "our own doep ' involvement in the destiny cf men EVERYWHERE." Down writh all that half-baked socialist philosophy in fact disguised under the hated term 'of "New Deal" and up with the new standard that "what is best for General Motors is best for the country." VyE FIND the Courier's frank admission as refresh ing as it was unexpected. So many Republicans feel the same way but for the sake of political expedi ency, have refused to admit it. However we have our "doubts" that the prediction of the Grants Pass paper will be sustained by the events. For while the old elephant never forgets, he never likes to take a beating either, and to not only be without President Eisenhower's blessing but to publicly repudiate him and his political beliefs, would, we fear, give Jumbo a lacing that he might like to f orjet, but never could. R.W.R. Bill Versus Dick Of course in thi? turbulent world, almost anything can happen in the next three years politically and otherwise. But barring some spectacular and unforeseen de velopment, such as a world war, a major business depression or the like,' the next G.O.P. convention promises to be a contest between two prominent Cali fornians Vice President Nixon and Senator Know land. The latter, of course, will represent the "Old Deal" Sasdty. Mirch 3, 1957 Big Idea? the Stale LegL!a ilure : hard jpasgea s im srnai&g Communications Leti to fhe Editor exist tear the nsrne and address of th writer, al'bouch urxSer certain circumstances the ooe of a pen name or initial for publication b pwmiasi&e. The feiail Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with a Tie to clarification and eensSewaatfcw. Letters submitted far pubHealfcn must Wity 3 M-wsh Bait.? To the E.iite?: O:? &a litiwaseS 1st SSui-iViay Binning. Ke v e-w I8-yew 14 Uoy' fc-ifXl, "KflJfHtot fl4 glfOtltCtOF. Ov dog i,imt fcjr lit 5rct U.e, mtfjt itnjr OiMfxi him M few ift t o V gfiwiray &c.ool. cm: xr'Xjr, is t:ts5 no much Hat i ta vorlA, that iomt Sin; H Rcery to 6troy? 3lsw Vy tutrtt ,-aS son (e? "fcu.jhF) leki Ufon a pet re4 frien-tlT I wonder, ho evcr.AM thW, iS thity kave eve; atM aue o and his etos play iiS bill in the bacfe tt4, rc ui2 ihbvn Mm strwet tosetheF, ome4iia iitvt boy on hi biitc, Kinj vh eowltl hcuvvt first. Or, i Vhy tal looii ia the vinloir t&y enuU have aten many vitli Kiatehw, er the iv iUioS uitly vatching televwion she fes? v i i ti his : m arounel ihe 60$. 85 lAey twuld loo'i into the ioy ey now and the S-:p sofro-sr there, I'm certain they would be filled with remorse. It tra e comforting feeling, to be able to go out in the even ing and leave the boy and know that the dog would watch the house. There ia a ad and quiet fam ily at 1007 Murray, because a friendly, wagging ta.il is no long er there. Mrs. Vincent Lobdell 1007 Kurray t., Bedford, Ore. Stale Democrats Score il To the Editor: Your editorial headed "Blind Partisanship" dated Feb. 24 has avoided many of the facts. Referring to the last two lines of the . editorial: "We don't deny it may be blind Dem ocratic Partisanship tomorrow" ia pretty good except it should have read "yesterday." I would like to call your at tention that prior to the election thia Democratic majority that you are trying o hard to de fend vere promising everything to the voters including tie kitch en sink! I would just like to call to your attention a few of these fantastic promises supplied by the campaigning Senator Holmes: "I am for repiesl of the sur tax." (Incidentally, House Bill No. 1, introduced by the House Taxation Committee at the re quest of the Governor, calls for repeal of the surtax, we nave now been in session 6Va weeks and there has been positively no action upon this measure). "Raise the liependency exem- jrtion from $500 to $&00. "Unalterably opposed to a sake tax." (When Campaigner Holmes wag asked the quetion as to where all this money would come from, his glib an swer would be: "It is possible to derive all the needed- revenue from change tf Fates in the income tax.") In Governor Holmes' inaugur al addreM, he stated he was charting the course for a bold, new look in Oregon; followed by the words: "Ijefs fly not flounder." To date. Governor Holme has refused to answer direct letter questions: "What are your budget recommenda tions?" If it ia irresponsible to attempt to ascertain a Govern or' budget recommendations, then I am aure that many oi the Jackson county citissn would have to join me ia being irre sponsible. I would Uo SiMe io remind you that it was tbewe same vo cal Democrats who supported defeat of the emergency clause for taxation bills. Now since they are in the majority, they seem to be crying their heads o'i because many of us wish to take the State out of the prop erty tax field and assure home owners, small businessmen and others in similar circumstances from being penalized with pro perty taxes because of what might prove to be an irresponsi ble Democratic majority st the Legislature this session. Wayne R. Gier, Monroe, Ore. State Representative Salem, Oregon Republicans, as exemplified by such newspapers as the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago News, the Los Angeles Examiner and the Grants Pass Courier to be guilty of a major anti-Climax ! It is fairly clear that California's senior Senator in opposing certain Eisen hower policies now is preparing for such a transfer and readjustment. rN THE other hand the shrewd and calculating Vice President is not only working night and day, with the 1960 presidential nomination in mind, but is plainly getting enthusiastic and constant help from the White House. So at this distance in time it is hard to see how the G.O.P. Old Guard is going to get much satisfaction out of the 1960 convention, as far as repudiation of "modern Republicanism" is concerned. This is entirely speculative of course. But one thing isn't namely that so long as President Eisenhower's influence and prestige not only throughout the coun try, but within the Republican party, remains at its present high level, "Bill" will never beat "Dick" for the coveted prize. R.W.R. ,3l Glsse Shave io the Editor: we elrrr.i 11 our tfut,T t0 put ia the Conissiuniea tione column an account ei a near tragedy aJmsctt ia tfee heart oS HetV'Ofd. Had tSse fcajofly oe curad thia account would not have fcsrea writtea 6? Sty fcaal Mere ia the story: Froce-eding feonwurasS ia our car along Sisth t., veetvaFd.ena the afternoon ef Sunday, Feb. 17, we were passing the post office when a car Fsae4 across ahead cf us ea Ivy Bosfeward. 'itiS p.a sign oS a j siasfc e r e A rate, ype esftfeaated tSse sp,p3 to have baea ss 50 mil Er hour. We r3o not fenow Tsftetfces it was a firunii, a "soupefl up" hoS rodder, er ju4 plain careless dare-devil drive? who taua tore north on Ivy. Cold chills Fan Sown our spines, but we proesded slow ly to cross Ivy first looking south to ae that no second car was following. Looking north we saw the fame car far enough ahead that it must have crossed 4th, a through street, at the same rate. Stilling an urge to follow and catch him if possible to turn in his number, we continued homeward. We live near the nev? Memorial Gardens Cemetery, but are not desirous of being in terred in it yet for a while. Yours truly and in sincere thankfulness to God for timing us so that we were in front of the post office and not cross ing Ivy intersection when the might-have-been Juggernaut car made its "wreckord" run at about 50 miles per hour. The Rev. and Mrs. II. R. Bulman, Rt. 1. Box 316A, Medford, Ore. In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKIIJS What of the Middle East? The most encouraging answer to that question is that AS YET there' is no shooting. ON THE home front: The joint congressional eco nomic committee bucks up Presi dent Eisenhower's recommenda tion against a general tax cut this year. The committee says in Washington this morning that a general tax reduction at this time would tend to increase in flationary pressures. That's sound advice. The only safe way to cut taxes is to CUT SPENDING FIRST. NOTHER question: When IF EVER will the federal government (which spends about three-quarters of all the tax money taken out of the pockets of the people) begin to cut spending? The answer: Not until the voters begin vot ing the spenders out of office. As long as heavy spending con tinues to win votes, the spending will go on. 'PHIS joint economic committee recommends that "small busi ness" should get some form of tas relief. That raises another interesting question: What is "small" business? One accepted definition, is that a SMALL business is one that employs less than 500 people. WHAT is EIG business? The biggest business in AmwHras fe the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company. America's second largest tmsi nex is General Motors. Who owns Eig Eusiness? That is an. interesting question. President Harlow Curtice report ed the other day that on Feb. 14 (the date of the latest count) General Motors had 667,000 shareholders. I don't have at hand the latest figures on the number of holders of American Telephone and Telegraph Com pany .stocks, but it is somewhere in excess of a MILLION. Ownership of Big Business in America is widely scattered among all kinds of people. Matter of Fact REFLECTIONS ON NIKITA. Paris An attempt to analyze the character of a single indivi dual may seem an odd first in stallment of an attempt to sum up seven ex-perience-packed weeks in a country more than 200 million people. Yet I think all the same that N i k i t a S. Joseph Aisop Khrusheisev is a useful humaa symbol of the strange society which Im leads. Tor one thing, despite the ri mors to the eoatrary, this pow erful, resilix-nt, gutta pweite like man has almost certainlv teen strengthening his position as first among tine e-tjuals cf the Soviet ruling collective. It was highly significant, for instance, that Khrushchev, the Party Sec retary, rather than Bulganin, the Chairman of the Ministerial Council, presented the stagger ing new plan of administrative and economic re-organization to the recent Plenum of the Com munist Central Committee. Under Soviet practice, this make the new program a Khru shchev program. The right com parison ia the only slightly l.iss staggering new lands program, with its total investment of more than $3 billion dollars and it human movement of about 800,000 firm workers, which is also a Khrushchev program. TN THE circumstances, in truth, x it is rather more likely that Nikita Khrushchev will eventu ally combine the two key posts now diviied between himself and Bulganin, than that he will be replaced as first among the equals by someone else. What then is the character of this rep resentative Soviet leader? The record tells a good deal Khrushchev danced the "Gopak" and pacified the Ukraine with an iron hand for Josef Stalin. He reached his present great posi tion in a period when no man's back was safe from the dagger of intrigue, a period when the struggle for survival at the So viet summit was quite literally a struggle to the death. He must be tough. He must be astute. He must have a talen for survival Otherwise he would not have survived. It may seem presumptuous to think that one can add much to these established facts on the bfisis of a mere conversation even a very frank conversation that continued for two hours. Yet as I watched and listened to Nikita Khrushchev the other day certain of his traits seemed to stand out in a way that was in disputable. , TTE IS, first of all, possessed of "an incomparable energy, an astonishing zest and gusto. When he and Bulganin returned from their grueling trip to India, the exhausted Bulganin had to take to his bed for a few days. But Khrushchev resumed ordinary From Washington By Roscoe Drummond DOCTRINE IN TROUBLE Washington The Eisenhower Doctrine economic aid and military support for the Middle East nations against Communist agression is in some trouble in the Senate. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson is making no present headway toward getting unanimous consent to a vote. First a Democratic Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon getting unanimous consent to a vote. First a Democratic Sena tor Wayne Morse of Oregon and then a Republican George Malone of Nevada objects, and the desultory, repetitive debate drones on. Amendments which would have emptied the resolution of all meaning and which were de cisively defeated by bi-partisan votes in committee, are now be ing brought to the floor by Dem ocratic Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia and others. They will provide more days of debate though they will be defeated. rjiHE Eisenhower resol u t i o n, constructively re-worded by the Senate, has the full-bodied support of the leaders of both parties, Sin. Johnson and Sen. William F. Knowland of Cali fornia. Yet it is encountering far more resixtancc and delay than the Administration expected. I am not suggesting that the President's resolution will fail to pass. That's not the danger. It will pass. The danger is that the delay in passing it and the size of the opposition will leave the impression with Moscow and with our friends in the Mid dle East that the President has only indifferent support behind him. Such an impression could seriously undermine the value of the "doctrine" since its pri mary purpose is to remove all doubt that the U.S. means busi ness when it says we will not accept Communist aggression in the Middle East. rpHERE are three factors which which, I believe, have con tributed most to stirring Demo cratic opposition: 1. The widespread feeling among Democratic leaders that the Republicans took unfair ad vantage of the "peace issue" in the Presidential campaign plus frustration over the fact that when events belied "campaign By Joseph Aisop duties with the air of having en joyed a rest cure. In the same manner when I saw him, he had just finished a pretty rough two weeks, with the Supreme Soviet the Central Committee Plenum, the changes in the Foreign Min istry, the big program of admin istrative re-organization, and all sorts of other tasks crowding in together. But he still seemed just as touncingly gutta percha like as when I first raw him tcasting Chou En Lai in high goosl humor at th? ?Irem!in. 7"ET fhe immensity of the stakes upon the table (stakes which of course quite possibly include Khrushchev's own fu ture) did not seem to dismay him in the least. On the contrary, he positively rubbed his stubby. strong peasant hands in open de light, when he described the planned movement, from com fortable berths in the capital out to hard jobs on the industrial front in the provinces, of count less thousands of important offi cials, engineers and technicians. The radical character of the in dustrial-economic shakeup ob viously appealed to him greatly. At the same time, Khru shchev's discussion of Soviet in ternal problems was singularly practical and hard-headed. In contrast, his discussion of for eign policy seemed at first to have an inordinately high con tent of polemic and Communist gobbledygook. Yet if one listened analytical ly, this initially unfavorable im pression was soon dispelled, or rather soon replaced by an im pression of a different nature. On the one hand, it became clear many Khrushchev statements that would seem outrageous to every American, were in fact be lieved by Khrushchev himself. And why not? He himself has re vealed that even his primary education began very late. His whole training and experience have been acquired within the iron limits of the iron Soviet system. So the special way he sees the outer world is hardly surprising. rVN the other hand, despite the great distortion of some of his judgments, concerning Amer ican intentions, for instance, there was an extreme sharpness, a ruthless, brutally realistic fo cus in most, of his vision of the outer world. Above all, he plain ly saw with utmost clarity aU the weak points in the patchy armor of the Western alliance. And he plainly realized only too precisely how those weak points could best be probed rnd ex ploited. Altogether, it seemed to me impossible to resist the conclu sion that Nikita S. Khrushchev was a very formidable fellow in deed and above all a very un comfortable sort of opponent. And it also seems to me that this same conclusion can be applied to Soviet society. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune Inc. oratory" they did not affect Mr. Eisenhower's popularity. The Democrats quickly recall that in a simulated press con ference Mr. Eisenhower dra matically assured the country that he had "good news" about a prospective agreement on op erating the Suez Canal. It never developed: They recall that Vice President Nixon assured the country that a Republican vie tory would be the best way to secure peace in the Middle East and that shortly thereafter four nations were at war in Egypt. It is the genuine conviction of some that if the Eisenhower Ad ministration hadn't ' talked peace" so hard, it never would have needed to ask Congress to pass a resolution to prove to the Soviet Union that we weren't going pacifist. 2. The Democrats deeply re sented the action of a high offi cial of the Administration leak ing the information about the new "Eisenhower Doctrine" to the press three days before the President's conference with the Congressional leaders. They say this was not only a discourtesy but a deliberate tactic of con fronting them with an accom plished fact which made a gen unine negotiation over the reso lution impossible. 3. There is growing political opposition to the whole econom ic aid program though public support still seems to hold firm. About a dozen Southern Sena tors will vote against the Eisen hower resolution primarily be cause they oppose its economic side. THE outlook now is that there will be a minimum of 20, perhaps as many as 30, votes against the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Senate. The White House is going to lose a number of Re publican Senators, including Senators Jenner, Malone, Mc Carthy, Langer and some others who believe that their party is in the wrong hands. Every index of public opinion shows that the American people continue to place high trust in Mr. Eisenhower's purposes and judgment in foreign policy. In a very large way a vote on the Eisenhower Doctrine is a vote of confidence or lack of confidence in the President. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) There's quite a bit of remodel ing going on these days. Have you noticed? Two firms on the north side of Sixth street between D'Anjou (Front) and Central are doing themselves over, one of them expanding all over the place. And across the street, a for mer furniture store is getting a major going-over, and it is understood that the unannounc ed plans call for a group of at tractive offices there. We've succumbed ourselves. The display advertising depart ment of the M-T is in the throes of moving into glossy and attrac tive new quarters adjacent to their old ones; the front of the building is undergoing a face lifting, and the business office is due for a major rearrange ment and overhaul. This is progress, of course. But did you ever try to concentrate as a jack-hammer was shatter ing the air (and concrete) only a few feet away? Or did you ever start to scamper down a stairway suddenly to find that the bottom half of it was miss ing? Or did you ever have a carpenter poke a hole through the waU while you were sitting quietly and busily at work at your desk? Discon-darn-certing, that s what it is. Seth Bullis, our favorite sidewalk superintendent, was inspecting the progress last week. Asked for his authority to do so he promptly produced a properly authenticated "Sidewalk Superintendent's" card but for Portland. He was told he'd better have it punched to make it valid in Medford. We like the rules of "How to Stay Young," composed by LeRoy (Satchel) Paige, the pe rennial baseball player, which we spotted in the Pendleton paper. His recipe for agelessness is as follows: 1. Avoid fried meats, which angry up the blood. 2. If your stomach disputes you, lied down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 3. Keep the juices flowing by jangling gently as you move. 4. Go very lightly on the vices, such as carrying on in so ciety. 5. Avoid running at all times. 6. Don't look back. Some- thing may be gaining on you. The 13-year-old was going to a dance, and mentioned that the mother of a friend was go ing to be a chaperone. Eleven-year-old: "What's a chaperone?" Thirteen-year-old: "Oh. sort of an "overseer." (Shades of Simon Legree!) A lady we happen to know quite well started an adult edu cation class in sculpture not long ago, and got exceedingly interested in it, finding she thor oughly enjoyed messing around with the sculping clay. She searched her closet for some sort of raiment which would protect her good clothes from getting dirty, but found none she deemed appropriate. Inspiration struck, however, and she Called a friend who had re cently became a mother, asking if she had any old ' maternity smocks she no longer wanted. A deal was concluded. Since then, she has been spotted wearing a smock by several friends, who approached with surprise and delight in their eyes to congratulate her on her "condition." ... Oregon's stale bird Is ihe meadowlark. Its flower is the Oregon grape. Its tree is the Douglas fir (pseudotsuga taxi folia). Its official dog? Alas, it has none a state of affairs that a major dog-food com pany seeks to rectify. It points out an "official state dog" can be named by the state legis lature, by proclamation of the governor, or by popular vote. (There's a really serious prob lem for the legislature, now.) Anyway, it is also seeking an expression of public opinion on this weighty matter, and if you have a. suggestion the Gaines Dog Research Center. 250 Park Ave., New York 17. would be happy to hear it. ... Telephones are fearful and wonderful machines and we're made aware of it nearly every day. For instance, the other day an M-T staff member tried to telephone a county office. She dialed, but there was no ring at the other end of the line. Sud denly, though, she heard a voice. The following conversation en sued: "Hello." "Hello?" "Are you the operator?" "No, I'm calling from the Mail Tribune and I'm trying to get an outside line." "Well, I'm calling from the air port, and I'm trying to get an outside line ' too. Shall we try again?" ... Bert Kissinger tells us about a sign in front of a house on North Court street which says. "For Sail or Rent." Bert says he hopes the owner has suc cess, although he thinks the house should remain anchored lo its foundation, for the time being.