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History from the files of The
Mail Tribiyie 10. 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AJO
March 6. 1947 (Thursday)
Qjuccessful bidders for Camp
White buildings will be an
nounced next week, according to
the war assets administration,
Ported.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: A day1 of
sunshine caused the Older Girls
to activate spades in back yards,
by placing their mates on the
business end of same.
20 YEARS AGO
March 6. 1937 (Saturday)
Pacific coast pear growers
meet to discuss a campaign to
reduce present top-heavy stocks
of canned Bartletts.
Plans discussed by Town club
for a northwest air tour in June
with Medford as starting point.
30 YEARS AGO
March 6. 1927 (Sunday)
M. D. Field, general auditor
of Copco, elected secretary of
the company.
Crater Lake National park
gets considerable attention in the
advertising program of the
Multnomah hotel.
40 YEARS AGO
March 6. 1917 (Tuesday)
Miss Anna M. Turley, exten
sion specialist in home econom
ics of the Oregon Agricultural
college, is spending four weeks
in southern Oregon.
Library receives shipment of
documents and reports describ
ing various activities of the state.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior; tvw
en or eifht U exce'nt: five
six good.
A -"
KWhat color shirts were worn
by '-Adolf Hitler's original fol
lowers? 2. What sort of plane is the
Globester?
3. Bible: Was Hezekiah a
prophet?
4. Name the capital of Ar
kansas. 5. A contest in which two
teams try to spell words correct
ly is called a "spelling . . ."?
6. In w,hat European city is
the Champs Jllysees?
7. Spftin is bounded on the
Owest by Portugal and what
ocean?
8. "The Flying Dutchman"
opera was composed by ?
9. tihould an apostrophe be
used in the form "Yours sin
cerely"? 10. "One brave deed makes
no hero." Did Longfellow or
Whittier write this?
Answers: 1. Broern shirts.
2. An Army Air Transport
Command C-4S4. 3. Yes. 4. Lit-
tl Roci, Ark. . "be." 6.
O Paris, France. . Allan. I.
Richard pfrtr. . . lt
Whittier.
EisMtYir's Cough
Said 'M Beftti'
Washington (U.R) 'hit
House Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty Jid Tuesday that Presi
dent Eisenhower's cough seems
to be "a lile better."
"He is not coughing as much
as I've heard him cough in the
past." Hagerty said.
There still was no word on
whether Mr. Eisenhower would
make a trip to Arizona in an ef
fort to cure the cough that has
bothered him since inaugura
tion. Mr. Eisenhower expressed a
wish last week to go to a warm,
dry climate for a few days "to
get rid of this thing."
mail tribune
"Monogamous" Youth
Our Potpourri column Sunday quoted "Informa
tion," a magazine of the Catholic Paulist fathers, to
the effect that the church is increasingly concerned
about the "going steady" habits of American youth
today.
This comes at the same time as an article in the
current Harper's magazine along somewhat the same
lines, entitled "American Youth Goes Monogamous."
The latter article, by Charles W. Cole, president
of Amhurst college, records pretty much the same set
of circumstances, but is less concerned than the author
of the church article over the results.
TR. COLE declares that a definite pattern of
"mores" has arisen around the fact of "going
steady" among college young people, and that they
are as rigorous in their observance of this code as our
Victorian grandparents were in the observance of
theirs.
The free-wheeling days of competition for dates,
of the stag-line, of the "wallflower," are now gone,
Dr. Cole states, and references to them in the pres
ence of today's youth are met by incredulous and rath
er disapproving reactions.
He adds:
"The philanderer of the 'twenties who dated a different
girl every night and went out with dozens in the course
of a year has disappeared. So has the prom trotter of ear
lier times. A' clever girl today might conceivably have a
male friend in four or five different colleges, but she would
not be much admired if she had two at the same college.
If she collected an array of fraternity pins from several
boys I knew of girls in the 'twenties who had as many as
seven she would be condemned by her aquaintances."
rR. COLE concludes that it is too early to tell what
' effect the new unmarried monogamy will have on
the stability of families, while the church publication
saw in it "a serious occasion of sin," robbing young
people of a variety of companionships, stunting emo
tional development, and paving the wray for unstable
marriages and broken homes.
The college president sees a different possibility
that the "fiercely monogamous premarital folkways"
may serve to strengthen later marriages.
Only time, and statistics, will show who is right.
E.A.
Imaginings Coming True
Is mankind, in the foreseeable future, going to
break the bonds of gravity, solve the innumerable
problems of space flight, and take off for the moon
and points outward from there?
There is a growing body of scientists and engi
neers who not only declare he is, but are hard at work
toward that end. Development of the dreaded ICBM
(intercontinental ballistic missile) is bringing the day
closer. And an Air Force general the other day pre
dicted that before long, any future battles are more
apt to be fought in space than on the surface of the
planet.
THERE have been a couple of loud dissents from
this belief, however. Dr. Lee De Forest, one of the
pioneers in radio and electronics, pish-tushes the idea
as nothing but a "wild dream worthy of Jules Verne."
And he adds:
"I am bold enough to say that such a man-made moon
voyage will never occur regardless of all future scientific
advances."
He finds a strong seconder in the editor emeritus
of the Salem Capital Journal, who comments:
"Yet numerous pseudo scientists have gone nutty on this
crazy idea and even books and magazines are printed in a
lingo of their own on alleged adventures in space flights
where human existence is impossible for lack of oxygen
to breathe. And the gullible have even bought 'first trip
tickets to the moon' and areas in its sterile craters have
been sold at fancy prices. And from there, of course, it will
. be easy to fly to Jupiter and cruise the Milky Way 'sailing
like the little stars round about the moon' with Mother
Goose at the throttle."
rR. DE FOREST and the
to their opinions.
But we have a hunch
same category as those of
lumbus, James Watt, the
Edison, and a host of others who had crazy ideas
which later proved practical.
And the Jules Verne simile was unfortunate, too
for his best known work
the Sea, a title "which
atomic-powered Nautilus
age without refuelling.
Soaring to the moon is
than soaring through the skies was to our grandfa-then.
TF IT IS a crazy idea, there are a lot of hard-headed
men who are crazy, and
hard cash to bring it true,
oi the United States.
More than a dozen commercial firms, such as Bell
Telephone Laboratories,
craft companies, are working in areas which contrib
ute to the knowledge of
f inn, Systems Laboratories,
pose alone. And the department of space medicine
has been established by the Air Force at the school of
aviation medicine at Randolph Air Force base.
The science fictioneers have fun with their imagi
native concepts of space
vuitjf nicjr c iiou jaLcij. 10 needing dUCdU Ul Uie SOI1U
scientific achievements, which have had a way of
making one generation's wild imaginings the next
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Wednesday. March 6, 1957
Salem editor are entitled
that their opinions are in the
the men who ridiculed Co
Wright brothers, Thomas
was 20,000 Leagues Under
recently came true as the
completed just such a voy
no crazier an idea, to us,
who are spending a lot of
including the armed forces
General Electric, and the air
space travel. At least one
was founded for that pur
and time. But a major diffi-
About One -
Requests to
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) Almost
half the requests in the program
President Eisenhower has asked
Congress to approve this year
are old ones.
Congressional Quarterly re
ports that 77 of the 156 legisla
tive requests the President has
made in the seven weeks since
Congress convened were sought
in previous years.
However, the President, based
on past performance, still has at
least 50 more requests to submit
to Congress. He already has indi
cated he will send special mes
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although
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is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words.
Not Commission's Fault
To the Editor: Real sob stuff:
There have been several letters
to "Communications" accusing
home owners on the Bear creek
freeway site of being sorry for
themselves, having to give up
their homes, etc.
Well, this owner happens to
be one of them for we know
how this property was accumu
lated. No one else wanted it, be
cause it was in the Bear creek
flood area. I needed a home so
I took the chance.
The writer paid for it partly
by taking in washings, the
mustering out pay of my young
son who never came back, and
the military allowance of an
other soldier boy, all went in
to pay for my home.
I always wanted a home and
this was good enough for me. In
fact you couldn't offer enough
money to make me willingly
part with it.
I now have a nice little fam
ily orchard ready to bear,, no
pear trees, tnougn.
Then along came the high
way commission looking for a
site for freeway and our hon
orable county court and plan
ning commission recommended
the Bear Creek route giving
up Hawthorne park as well as
our homes.
The people over on Genessee
street do not want it there either
but are perfectly willing for
the Bear Creek route.
I protest against it coming
through Medford anywhere.
We are tax payers, spend all
our money in Medford, now.
have good credit records, and
do not want to be dug under
by the freeway.
People, the highway commis
sion is not to blame the county
court and planning commission
allowed this to happen to us.
Mrs. Mary Morgan,
618 East Ninth st.,
Medford, Ore.
From Grants Pass
To the Editor: Have intended
for some time to write to the
Mail Tribune. Can't send it to
our local paper as there is sure
to follow, below the letter, edi
torial comment to suit his point
of view. He doesn't seem to
know there are two forces only.
working in the universe, con
structive or destructive. It has
been said "you are either for or
against me." Seems to us our
local paper is "agin" just every
thing that is for the good of the
most of the people.
He predicted "The People"
would show Sen. Morse they
didn't want his kind in the Sen
ate. He scarcely lets a week
pass without castigating Senators
Morse and Neuberger. His last
editorial was meant to put
Charles Porter in his place, ac
cording to the editor's point of
view.
We.- along, with many others
in this community subscribe to
the Mail Tribune because we
do not like a paper that sees
absolutely no good in an op
position party," as we think
there is some good in both
parties. Not judged as to whether
it is good for us personally, but
for the eood of the many. As
an editorial writer, he is a far-
cry from a police reporter, we
formerly lived in Long Beach
too, where he worked on the
Fress Telegram.
Thank you R.W.R. for your
tnlendid editorials, also E.A.
We do a lot of trading in the
-itv of Medford. where we find
a better selection and mostly
cheaDer nrices. We always meet
others from here who are shop-
ninff too.
We wonder when the local
merchants are going to wake up
to that situation?
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. B.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
(Names on file).
Sunset Home
Tn the Editor and anyone inter
ested: There is a place on South
Highway 99. that hs flowers and
trees, good food and kindly care
for those who have out-lived
their usefulness and their bank
accounts. (That is one of the haz
ards of life.)
It is a lovely place with no in
stitutional odor, but an ominous
name. Why call it "County
Farm"? Why not call it "Sunset
Home"? It faces the sunset, and
is a home for those in the sunset
of life. Their only home.
E. B. M.,
Medford, Ore.
Half of President's
Congress Old Ones
sages to the Democratic-controlled
Congress concerning foreign
aid, the Post Office Department
and veterans.
Above 200
These and other Presidential
requests some of which also
will be repeats are expected to
push the total number above
200, a mark surpassed in each of
the last three years.
Mr. Eisenhower has indicated
he will press harder this year
than ever before to get Con
gressional approval of his pro
gram. His legislative batting ave
rage has been declining steadily
A Request from Georgia
ro the Editor: I am writing
this to try to find out who a cer
tain lady was who befriended
my wife and me at the Cali
fornia-Oregon border. We crossed
the border on Aug. 24, 1956 at
approximately nine o'clock at
night. She was going to see her
parents who lived in California
and take them some vegetables.
She was very nice and wanted to
give us some of the vegetables
she had. We appreciated this so
much that we want to find out
who she was and send her some
thing in return.
Would appreciate any help
you may give us in this matter.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S.
Thomason,
1425 Thomason rd.,
Columbus, Ga.
Favors Hells Canyon
To the Editor: I'm for a federal
high dam at Hells Canyon.
Many figures have been quoted
pro and con. Figures are many
times only tools manipulated to
serve a purpose, and I'm not in
terested in them as such. The im
portant thing in the long1 run is
the principle. It is either good
or bad for the majority of the
people. It is morally and phys
ically right or wrong.
The private power companies
and combines have run full page
ads in the leading magazines and
newspapers telling us of the
thousands of stockholders who
were sharing in the lucrative
profits. Apparently, they . take
great pride in this fact, and wish
to give us the impression that
they are not too private.
This is good as far as it
goes, but it doesn't go far
enough. Every man, woman and
child, regardless of color, creed
or financial standing, should be
a stockholder. And the only log
ical way this can be done is for
all of us' to build the dam
through our federal govern
ment, and to share equally in its
benefits.
Speaking of pride, the most
lowly man among us should be
able to visit Hells Canyon dam
in his overalls and jumper, and
say, "I own this great struc
ture, and so do my children and
their children. I helped to build
it. I help to maintain it. and I
have an equal voice in its man
agement and disposal. I am
proud ol it, and I'll protect it. I'll
fight for it die for it if necess
ary. And I will not have to be
drafted.
"Nor will it destroy my in
centive and initiative. On the
contrary, it will inspire me to
help build other great structures
like it, based on the true Amer
ican concept of justice and equal
ity for all."
Guy G. Lake,
Route 2, Box 547,
Boring, Ore.
Dulles Leaves for
Australia Meeting
Washington (U.R) Globe
trotting Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles takes off today
for Australia to see what can be
done about Communist subver
sion in Southeast Asia.
Dulles, whose last trip abroad
was to Paris in December, is
headed this time for a meeting
of the eight-nation Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization.
The organization, known by
its initials SEATO, is anxious to
push a new campaign to expose
Communist activities throughout
the vast arc of Southeast Asia.
SEATO warned in' an annual
report Monday that Southeast
Asia's greatest threat now is
from Communist subversion
rather than nutright aggression.
The meeting, in Canberra, Aus
tralia, will concentrate on this
problem.
Roseburg Man Sent
To State Hospital
Roseburg (U.R) Lloyd
Geisler, 33-year-old Roseburg
man, yesterday was committed
to Oregon state hospital at Sal
em. Geisler Saturday was found
innocent by reason of insanity
on a charge of -murdering his
wife. Circuit Judge Charles S.
Woodrich ordered Geisler com
mitted to the hospital until doc
tors there judge him fit to return
to society.
Approximately 4,000 separate
operations are required to manu
facture the parts needed for a
watch.
since 1953 when he "batted"
.727. The Republicans controlled
Congress in 1953-54 and the
Democrats have been in control
since. Congressional Quarterly's
figures show the success of Pres
ident Eisenhower's program in
Congress:
Number of Requests Percent
Tear Requests Granted Granted
1953 44 32 72.7
1954 232 150 64.7
1955 207 96 46 3
1956 225 103 45.7
Already Congress appears less
receptive of Mr. Eisenhower's
wishes than it had been in the
past. A possible additional ob
stacle to the President's attempt
to raise his "batting average" is
his ability to succeed himself,
thus theoretically diluting his
influence over Congress.
Two Turned Down
But only two of his legislative
requests have been turned down
and they still may get approval
on the floor. The House Veter
ans' Affairs Committee ignored
those requests by refusing to re
port out a bill to raise the inter
est rate on GI mortgages from
4V4 per cent to 5 per cent.
One request already has be
come law. It increases the total
limit of Small Business Admin
istration loans from $150 million
to S230 million. One of the five
Presidential requests that has
passed one or both chambers but
is not law yet also deals with
the SBA. It would authorize an
extra $45 million in loans for
this fiscal year for the SBA and
has been approved by the Senate
and House.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, Prime Min
ister Ben Gurion of Israel has
just taken matters into his ow.n
hands and ordered Israeli troops
out of the Gaza and Aqaba areas.
His action follows a hectic
week-end of battling to comply
with United Nations withdrawal
demands without toppling his
own government into the ditch
for getting out of this strategic
territory that was won in battle
by Israeli troops naturally
arouses violent opposition in
Israel.
TEN GURION called Israeli
ministers and political lead
ers to his home one at a time
After conferring with them, he
sent the withdrawal order to his
chief of staff without the formal
ity of seeing either his cabinet
or the parliament.
Jerusalem news sources say
his decision was based largely on
assurance . contained in a mes
sage he received from President
Eisenhower on Sunday.
TJE describes his order as an
--"act of faith in United Na
tions."
Well, under the circumstances,
it seems impossible that his
faith could be misplaced. Presi
dent Eisenhower has gone far
out on a limb in practically or
dering Israel to GET OUT with
out guarantees that she wouldn't
suffer by her action.
It seems inconceivable that if
Israel does get out she will be
thrown to the Arab wolves.
It must be remembered that
there are TWO sides to this Mid
dle East trouble the Israeli side
and the Arab side. Before any
thing constructive can be done,
mutual faith must be established.
OEFORE mutual faith can be
established, Arab suspicions
must be removed, as well as Is
raeli suspicions.
At any rate, we'll see what
we'll see.
THE action that has been taken
so far has been taken in the
name of United Nations.
UN is admittedly a weak reed
to lean on. It looks more and
more like the basis of President
Eisenhower's plan to secure a
settlement must be to provide
United Nations with the strength
it must have if it is to act as the
policeman in the Middle East.
Bonneville Reports
Top Gross Revenue
Portland (U.R) Bonneville
Power administration Tuesday
reported the largest gross pow
er revenues for one year since
inception of the system.
Administrator William A.
Pearl reported to the Interior
Department that gross revenues
totaled $60,992,623. Net reven
ues were $5,949,412 after all
expenses including interest and
depreciation BPA reported a
gross capital investment of $1,
288,752,939 in the U.S. Colum
bia river system, including the
transmission facilities. Capital
repayments to date, including
$247,512,964 in current operat
ing expenses and interest of
$202,176,121 for the fiscal year
ending last June 30 represent
15.69 per cent of the gross cap
ital investment.
Industrial customers account
ed for more than 46 per cent
of the revenue dollar of which
aluminum industries represented
$32.9 per cent.
Hillsboro Food Service
Plant Wrecked by Fire
Hillsboro (U.R) Jossy's
Food Service plant on Tualatin
Valley highway in Hillsboro was
destroyed by fire last night and
owners estimated damage at
close to $75,000.
Russian Authorities
Make Divorce Harder
Than Staying Married
Moscow (U.R) There is an I When the divorce bureau next
old Russian saying that "To i door saw this grand appeal, it
marry is not as simple as putting
on your slippers
In present day Russia, neither
is divorce.
Times have changed in the
Soviet Union since the early days
of the revolution when getting
a divorce was as easy and na
turally accepted as telephoning a
friend.
A married person did not even
need the permission of his
spouse, he simply notified the
authorities and moved out.
Divorce bureaus virtually
competed with marriage bureaus
for customers. The story is told
that after the 1917 revolution an
eager marriage bureau received
permission to hang out a sign
reading: "Workers of the world,
unite."
Indonesia's Chief
U.N. Delegate Sees
Ho Civil War There
By RALPH TEATSORTH
United Press Correspondent
United Nations, N. Y. (U.R)
Indonesia's chief U. N. delegate
said today his people will never
resort to civil war.
Communism, he asserted, has
little chance of overpowering In
donesia. The Indonesian masses
would block it, he said.
These opinions were given by
Dr. Abu Hanifah, chairman of
the Indonesian delegation, in
response to questions during an
interview with the United Press.
Personal View
He emphasized that he was
giving his personal opinions and
was not speaking as an official
of the Indonesian Foreign Min
istry or as a U.N. delegate.
Hanifah was asked about Indo
nesia's so-called "Red menace,'
wnich is causing concern in
Western countries.
ine communists have no
chance on their own to overcome
the government," he said. "The
key words are 'on their own.' I
don't believe I should go beyond
that.
"It would be difficult to make
the Communist issue a general
problem because of the reluct
ance of the people to accept
Communism. It's up to the peo
ple whether they like it or not."
Would Have Last Word
He said 80 million Indonesians
would have the last word on ac
ceptance or nonacceptance of
Sukarno's concept of a "guided
democracy" under which the
Communists would be represent
ed in the government.
He noted that the people were
"not yet too willing to agree
toatally with the president.
Hanifah said he looked at the
present Indonesian crisis some
what as a physician looks at a
patient.
"As a doctor, I must not look
at one symptom only but at the
disease," he said. "In that way
the therapy can be found."
Morgan's Removal
Demanded in Letter
Salem U.R) Rep. Graham
Killam, a Portland Republican,
today demanded the removal of
Oregon Public Utilities Com
missioner Howard Morgan.
Killam protested to Gov. Rob
ert Holmes the dealings of Mor
gan with labor union officials as
revealed in Morgan's testimony
before the Senate Labor Rackets
committee last week.
Killam wrote Holmes: "Since
the Washington, D.C., inquiry
concerning certain officials and
labor people from Qregon defi
nitely establishes the fact that
your Public Utilities commis
sioner, Mr. Howard Morgan, was
involved in an illegal transmis
sion of an offer from the Team
sters union to support you finan
cially in your campaign for gov
ernor in turn for your appoint
ing one of their people as liquor
commissioner, and since he fail
ed and neglected to turn this in
formation over to the attorney
general or the proper district at
torney, I must at this time ask
that you demand his resigna
tion ..."
22nd
ANNIVERSARY.
We again renew a pledge
which was first made 22 years
ago, and repeated each year
since. We regard this pledge
as a sacred obligation.
1 A Kt
C. M. Litwiller
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dictate; to put service before price; quality before profit. To be guides
and counselors to those we serve, seeking always to act in their best
interests. To be honorable and fair in all our dealings and never to
violate what once we have promised.
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Home
Mountain View Chapel
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ASHLAND
We Never Close
put up a gigantic sign spying:
You have nothing to lose ut
your chains."
Honeymoon Over
In those days Soviet authorit
ies recognized marriage by co
habitation. But in 1944, the care
free honeymoon of the revolu
tion over, divorce was condemn
ed, obstacles were placed in the
way and a concerted campaign
began to persuade young soviet
couples to stay together.
In a young married couples'
club in Stalino, Ukraine, today
a notice proclaims in bold black
letters, "no divorced people ad
mitted.-
Membafs of the club work at
staying happily hitched. They
hold discussions on such sub
jects as how to deepen love and
respect, avoid jealousy, bring up
children and share the house
work.
According to the Konsomol
(Young Communist) plan, if a
martial rift develops, the un
happy couple is showered with
the contempt of follow members
and expelled from the club.
Walk 'Public Plank'
Since 1944 only registered
marriages have been recognized.
Either husband or wife, or both,
must submit an appeal to a pure
ly advisory people s court.
This court hears complaints
and tries to help patch up the
quarrel. If it fails, the case goes
to a higher, regional court. A
waiting period of 12 to 18
months ensues before a decision.
But meanwhile the couple
"walk the embarrassing and hu
miliating public plank" by print
ing an announcement of their
coming divorce in the newspap
ers. The authorities hope that pres
sure of public opinion will dis
courage the couple from press
ing their case. A study of Mos
cow newspapers shows an aver
age of 618 divorce announce-1
ments a month. At the official
exchange rate, it costs $100 to
get an announcement printed.
Bills Provide
For Suspension
Of Public Officers
Salem (U.R) Two bills pro
viding for suspension of any
public officer against whom an
indictment, has been returned
for corruption or malfeasance in
office, any offense involving
moral turpitude or violation of
oath, have been introduced in
the Oregon House.
One of the bills from the com
mittee on state and federal af
fairs deals specifically with dis
trict attorneys and authowzes
the attorney general to assume
the duties of a' suspended district
attorney.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes had
asked for legislation embodied in
today's bills.
Would Have Power -
Under the district attorney
bill the attorney general also
would have power to suspend or
remove deputies or other em
ployees and to appoint substi
tutes. The district attorney or any
other suspended public officer
would still receive pay until he
was convicted of the offense.
The governor would have the
power to appoint public officers
pro tern until the indictment had
been disposed of. He could de- i
clare the office vacant upon
conviction or upon expiration of,
time for appeal.
Excluded from the list of per
sons the governor could suspend
would be civil service em
ployees. PICKED WRONG CAR
Denver U.R) Eleven-year-old
Richard Jackson faced with
a whipping for naughtiness, de
cided to hitch-hike to New York.
Four miles out Smith road, with
50 cents in his pocket and a 60
pound knapsack on his back, he
gratefully accepted a ride from
motorist Gordon Dolliver. Dolli
ver drove him to the Denver
county jail, where Dolliver is .
warden, and called the worried
Jackson parents.
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Mrs. Litwiller
J
sfwrtri ?- - -
"It is better to know us and not need us,
than to need us and not know us."