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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
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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.