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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MWORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Xverycm ti Soueaera Orefoti Beads Ths Mail Tribune" Published Daily feectDt Saturday br MXDFORD PRINTING CO 37-23 Honh rr St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUBU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CKRAJ-D LATfcAM Buainesa Manner ERIC ALLEN JR. Manadnc Editor EARL B ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIP-MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE BRICKSON. Circulation Mgr. " An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Orel! on under Act of starch 3. 1897 sinscRipnoN rates Bt Mall in Advance Per Coot 10c Dally and Sunday One year 15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year M-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold H1U. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorus River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year 918 00 Daily and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealers 10c oer copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United' Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU JW CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DtC Offices In New York Chlcaro. ds trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NAIIONA I. fOITOIIAa ' I IasTpcFatm8m NEWSPAM PUSltSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 24, 1947 (Monday) B. L. Nutting, Medford lum berman, is reelected to the board of directors of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Rain fell yesterday on a number of pre- mature picnics Older Girls feel sure this is a sign the same thing will befall their Easter bonnets. 20 YEARS GO March 24. t937 (Wednesday) Jackson county chapter of the Navy Mothers' club is organized at a meeting held in the home of Mrs. Florence Cuffel, 909 North Central ave Work on the municipal air port's new lighting system gets underway with arrival of largest shipment of cable ever received In Medford. 30 YEARS AGO March 24, 1927 (Thursday) Any grade school building in Medford can be emptied of its students in the average time of 1:05 minutes according to Fire Chief Roy Elliott. Boy Scouts of Jacksonville troop 35 stage demonstration in Jacksonville High school for par ents and residents. 40 YEARS AGO March 24. 1917 (Saturday) The Greater Medford club will exhibit paintings of Miss Dorland Retina Robinson in the n,9, flltlirp I The Medford center of the Drama league announces the public production of three one act plays in the St. Mark's hall Friday. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is enpertor; sev en cr eight Is excellent; fire er III Is food. 1. Name the capital of Puerto Rico. . 2. Do social security payments begin automaticaUy to eligible persons? 3. Bible: Was Jesus compeU ed to carry the Cross alone? 4. What flag was called "The Stars and Bars"? 5. Who was the Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany? 6. There are more left-handed boys than girls; true or false? 7. Which of the following metals is the heaviest known substance: iridium, lead, iron, osmium? 8. Is a flamingo a type of air plane? 9. Which motion picture act ress was nicknamed "'America's Sweetheart"? 10. The names of which two states of the U. S. end In the letter "y"? Answers: I. San Juan. 2. No (a claim must be filed at the nearest Social Security office). 3. No. 4. The flag of the Confed erate Slates of America. S. Paul Joseph Goebbels. 6. True. 7. Os mium. 8. No. it is a species of bird. 9. Mary Pickford. 10. Ken tucky and New Jersey. Trial by Newspapers We will be glad when the battle of perjury ends and the "Portland mess" is transferred from the precincts of congress and the press to the halls of justice, where it properly belongs. The struggle between Portland's two highly re putable papers, the Oregonian and the Journal, is particularly depressing. "The Journal, for example, recently printed on Page 1 a couple of affidavits from Messrs, Clifford Ben nett and Larry McCormick, (who the Oregonian characterized as "fringe-operators") swearing the charge of bribery against Mayor Terry Schrunk was a "frame-up." The Oregonian couldn't "take" this. So it called in State Police Captain Gurdane, and also called Robert Kennedy, counsel for the McClellan committee, presumably by long distance, to obtain a refutation. As one of the innocent and impartial bystanders in this journalistic fracas, we feel compelled to admit that the "refutation" was not a particularly convinc ing one. All that Captain Gurdane had to say was that his department initiated an investigation of the charges against Mayor (ex-Sheriff) Schrunk seven or eight weeks before the alleged "frame-up," but then he was careful to point out that: "He would make no statements concerning the truth or falseness of any statements made by persons appearing be fore the county grand jury and he would make no comment on or off the record, concerning the truth or falseness of the Bennett and McCormick affidavits." The best that was secured from Attorney Kennedy was in part as follows: Counsel Kennedy said that in his interviews with Ben nett no mention of any frame-ups against Schrunk were 'ever made. SO what? We can't believe any impartial jury would con sider this much of a refutation of the charges made. We wouldn't, from what we have read, believe either Bennett or McCormick on oath, and we would for the same reason, credit both Gurdane and Robert Kennedy with telling the truth, but after all this paper is neither judge nor jury. So all that we main tain, as of now, is that while the two "fringe oper ators" may have been, as usual, lieing in their teeth, the Oregonian's front page "spread" did not in any sense of the term, PROVE it. TN SHORT the Schrunk bribery charge stands just where it did before the shooting started. It may have been a "frame-up." It may not. The nnlv nnint we wish to make is that as far as Portland's mavor is concerned, there talk" and too much trying the case in the rival Port land newsDaoers. The Multnomah Grand Jury is in session. Let that all-important body call in the alleged perjurers, the witnesses, non-witnesses and what-have-you, sift all the evidence and following established procedure decide against whom true bills should be returned, and against whom they should not. Then perhaps we can and something to read in cept more details of the unsavory Portland mess. As usual in such cases the courts should decide R.W.R. Brewster versus Knight Soeakine of this interminable "battle of perjury" it miehtbe noted, en passant, that Frank W. Brewster, the well creased, well heeled and well-behaved boss of the northwestern teamsters said ONL thing, and the personable, plausible . . - . t ... Knight of the great state 01 t-,aiiiornia, quite anouier. For example : Brewster said his union had given financial aid to Governor Knight's gubernatorial campaign. The Governor immediately denied this. But the Governor's alleged refutation of the Journal s affidavits, was no entirely convincing. For instead of following the usual political pro cedure on such occasions, and calling Brewster i "liar," the Governor did such a contribution had been received, but said, some wrhat obliquely, that he was unable to find any REC ORD of it. Naturally one wonders just how complete the Governor's list of contributions is, and how in such a short time, he could survey? I7HAT followed, according to press reports, was even more surprising. said, in effect, that his appointment of a member o: the Teamsters Union to director" at San Francisco the supposition being that even if further research should reveal certain teamsters contributions, there would be no relation between them and the appoint ment he made. WELL, as noted above, this paper can't assume the role of either judge or jury. But we trust a frank opinion, editorially speaking, would not be out of order. That opinion as in that of the hassle the party of the first part has all the better ot it. Moreover we can see ster to sav his union had camnaip-n when it had denies that the Teamsters Sunday, March 24, 1957 has been enough "talky- have some peace ana quiet, the metropolitan press ex and photogenic Governor A fr . ?i i.1 denial like the Oregonian's not categorically deny that have secured a very exac The Calif omia Governor the important post of "port was purely coincidental, x is that in this controversy, regarding Mayor Schrunk in our judgment had and no motive for "Boss" Brew helped Governor Knight': not. No one at all informed gave financial aid to many Matter of Fact THE AMBASSADORS SCANDAL Paris The Eisenhower Ad ministration's traffic in diplo matic appointments has now reached a stage that calls for public comment. The latest news is that Sena tor Jo seph R. Mc Carthy's depu te in tho Ctita Departm e n t, Joiepn Aison Scott McLeod, is to receive the Embassy in Dub lin as his just reward for having done more harm to the American foreign service than any one else In recent memory. Perhaps Mc Leod will not do a great deal more harm in Ireland, but why on earth should he be sent there at all at the expense of the American taxpayer? But this is a relatively minor Incident in a long and squalid story. This year, most of the diplomatic posts in Europe have been crudely placed on the auc tion block and sold for cash on the barrelhead. By sheer accident, some of the very rich men who have been named to represent the United States abroad ought to make excellent ambassadors. John Hay Whitney in London, for in stance, is the sort of man who ought to receive a political ap pointment to a major embassy, quite without regard to his Re publican contributions. Then too, the Administration must be credited with at least two really admirable non-political appoint ments, those of David K. E. Bruce in Germany and Ellsworth Bunker in India. ALL the same, the overall record is really pretty un appetizing. Some recent inci dents suggest, on the one hand, that the price of diplomatic ap pointments has now reached a level that is downright scanda lous. There is the case, for ex ample, of the present Ambassa dor to Denmark, the experienced ex-foreign officer, Robert Coe. It is an open secret that Coe's original appointment was a re cognition, not of his foreign serv ice training, but of his family's enormous contributions to ithe 1952 campaign fund. In the last campaign, he was again ap proached by an old friend who was one of the Republican com mittee's money collectors, with the delicate intimation that it was once more time to cough up It s going to have to be a deep bronchial cough too," add ed the friend. In total, Coe's cough reached the sum of $7,000 surely a re spectable extra cough from a man who has always been a generous Republican contributor in his adopted state of Wyoming. But it was not enough, and Coe was summarily informed that his services would be dispensed with this spring. He is to be re placed by a professional diplo mat. Miss Frances Willis, Minis ter to Switzerland, who is being Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Tapping The Till" ' To the Editor: Sure is bad to have our dirty linen dragged out for all to see. But that, and its washing, has already been too long delayed. This lifting of the iron curtain of silence from dues paying union members by the able if ruthless hands of Chair man John McClellan of the con gressional committee is a fine restorative of faith in our gov ernment. It is a sort of what could be called, "Evils Of Easy Money." For "tapping the till" is old as it is bad, even though it be but a doUar assessment on each labor union member. But when they add up to a million or more, it builds to power giv ing amounts. Surplus earnings used wisely like the Ford, Rockefeller, and other foundations, can be a mighty help in furtherance of the arts and sciences. But when used for high-brass personal pleasures, corrupting of mens morals and filching of govern; mental documents, as told in news releases of the congres sional investigation of the all powerful Teamster's Union, it candidates and to many It is hard to picture any refusing such financial assistance. ' A ND as far as that goes there is no more reason political campaigns, state capital. And everyone knows what huge sums Big Busi ness contributes. On the other hand we CAN see a motive for Gov ernor Knight's denial. sented or misrepresented by the revelations con cerning the Teamsters union is under a cloud as o: today, and acknowledgement of labor support might lose some votes. AS BEFORE noted in this department, Governor Knight of California, is the type of political and ingratiating opportunist, who would say or do AL MOST anything to avoid By Joseph Alsop moved to make room for a po litical appointment. ON THE other hand, a really distainfnl disrpparH for thp feelings of our Allies (and there fore of the interests ef the United States) is frequently shown. Bel gium, for instance, may be a small country, but it is an im portant country in NATO. Four years ago, the Belgians were not too pleased to be handed over to a large Republican contributor. But now this first Republican contributor, Fred Alger of Michi gan, "has presumably failed to give a sufficiently deep bron chial cough. (His cough was only $1,500 deep.) So he is being re placed by another contributor. John Clifford Folger of Washing ton, who has no known qualifi cations for the post except his service as Republican Commit tee Treasurer and his check book (together with his wife. Folger coughed to a depth of SI 1,500). In neighboring Hol land, an able professional, Am bassador H. Freeman Matthews, is being replaced by loyal Re publican Civil Service Chair man, Philip Young. In still other cases, public un truth has been freely indulged in. The present American Am bassador to Moscow, Charles E. Bohlen, is the leading Russian expert remaining in the Ameri can government s service. In Moscow he is the unchallenged leader of the whole Western community there. Perhaps in tribute to Bohlen's suitability for Moscow, it has been officially given out that he is being trans ferred by his own request. 1 ... THIS is plain not true. Bohlen was entirely willing and even eager to carry on in Moscow. In fact he is being sent to Manila to make room in Moscow for our present ambassador to Vienna, Llewellyn Thompson. The shift of Thompson from Vienna is an other move in the game of dip lomatic musical chairs. Thomp son, as it happens, is an exceed ingly capable diplomatic pro fessional. But the United States would have been far better served by leaving both Thomp son and Bohlen where they were. There is no use continuing the sorry tale. Its point is all too simple. We are not living any longer in the nineteenth century, when the traffic in ambassador ships did no great harm. Ameri ca now has incalculably great interests abroad, and America's ambassadors are the necessary guardians of those interests. It does not matter whether they are rich or poor, foreign service officers or outside recruits. What matters is whether they are well qualified. The expense of embassies is a phony excuse. Surely the United States can afford the few extra hundreds of thousands of dol lars by the sole test of knowl edge and ability. And surely the cheaply political traffic ' in am bassadorships, with its sordid checkbook side, has become a really shocking business. Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. Letters submitted for publication must is shown to be an evil eating into the very foundation of our coun try. Put in plain language, it amounts to a contest as of who is to take over the administra tion of this government. For it is on record that high union officials have challenged the right of congress to investigate labor union member complaints of union funds misuse, and other unfair practices of union offi cials as reported in news re leases. But it is with deep regret and surprise we read of Senators Morse and Neuberger coming out in open criticism of the con gressional findings. Senator Morse has the effrontery to de clare it is without value, that it should be tried in a proper court. Yes, why hasn't it been? The only statement by Senator Morse noticed on the subject was just recently wherein he said, "the employers are as much to blame as the unions," or words to that effect. What in all that's reason able have the employers got to do with it? Is it another Ted- herring" maneuver? But let campaigns in many states, politician of the Knight type or national, than organized Organized Labor as repre a calamity like that. R.W.R. Insurance Against Flood Damage in Areas Like Rogue Valley May be Obtainable Soon (Editor's note: The floods along the Rogue river of De cember, 1955, and February, 1956, did hundreds of thou sands of dollars worth of dam age little or none of it re imbursable by insurance. The following article outlines plans for government - subsidized flood insurance, and the re quirements and qualifications necessary lo obtain and retain it.) Washington, D.C. (CQ) Homeowners and businessmen will be able to buy insurance against flood damage for the first time in a few months. Up to now flood insurance has been unavailable at reasonable rates because private companies could not afford the heavy risk, so Congress last year, following disastrous floods in many areas, passed legislation setting up. a cooperative Government-private company insurance plan. The first of this insurance to be available will be sold this Spring or early Summer, reports Frank J. Meistrell, head of the Federal Indemnity Administra tion, the agency set up to handle the insurance plan. But in order for communities to remain eligible for the insur ance after July 1, 1958, they must enact and enforce special zoning laws, and states must prepare to take over much of the Government's role by July 1, 1959. Meistrell estimates a property owner would pay from $1 to $12 for each $100 worth of cover- The most insurance available for one home will be 810,000 worth. If the home is wiped out by flood, the owner could collect up to $10,000 minus $100 and 5 percent of the remainder, or $9,- 4ud. I he individual insurance limit for a person or government will be $250,000 worth. But each governmental unit within a state qualifies as a separate person, so it could buy the fuU $250,000 worth. The agency can write $3 bil lion worth of flood insurance, but the law gives the President permission to raise that cefling to $5 billion. Most of ne wrinkles prepara tory to so rting the program have been ironed out. But setting the rates continues to be a prob lem. The 1956 Federal Flood In surance Act only said that the premiums should be adequate to produce sufficient proceeds pay all claims for probable losses over a reasonable period of years." As Meistrell puts it, "We were asked to create a completely new conceptThere is almost no credible experience on record for damage by flood. No one knows what the risks are. Our first task Senator Morse be informed that it is being tried before a court, the highest court in the land, the court of public opinion. And he will know our verdict come election time. For when a man abandons principle in favor of bloc-voting, be will surely lose support of honest fair-minded people, for that all - important quality still reigns in the hearts of the majority of mankind. F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st. Medford, Ore. A Bible Prophecy To the Editor: All nations are to be gathered at Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken. Later Jehovah will smite the in vaders by means of a plague and deliver Israel. Jehovah's new world under the rule of His Son, Jesus Christ, will follow. See Zechariah 14:1-21; Luke 21:23, 24; Matthew 24: 1-14; 1 Corin thians 15:20-28; Psalm 83:18. Heed Romans 10:9 and Zepha- niah 2:3. A. R. Stewart 67 Ocean st. Dorchester, Mass. 'Horrible Business" To the Editor: In reply to the article on Humane slaughter by Mr. John Taylor, and knowing every word of that article is true, could not face the Cross on Easter unless I had done my bit to stop the horrible suffering of our helpless animals as they die in the meat packing plants of our country. On our trip through Austin, Minn., last summer, it was very gratifying to read the large sign "Every animal in the Hormel Plant is killed humanely". Yes, if the Hormel Packing Co., also the Oscar Mayer Packing Plant can kill our animals without the terror and suffering, then why can't others' If those large com panies can put their plants in order, certainly larger plants can do the same Some have said tfcey will, but when? My friend, a school teacher, was skeptical about the hogs be ing improperly slashed and low ered into the steaming vats while still alive, so she visited a pack ing plant. She only got as far as the screams and groans of the dying animal when she passed into a dead faint and had to be carried out. Some weeks ago I contacted our Congressmen from this state and they were in full accord with any legislation that could stop this horrible business. Folks, if we all get behind this now we can stop it. For informa tion as to your part send a post card to Mr. John Taylor, . co Post Office. Watervliet, N Y. (Name on File), , Medford, Ore. was to create a measuring rod that we could put alongside a piece of property and say:: 'This age, depending on the risk in volved. In addition to this rate, the Government will contribute up to 40 percent of the premium on each policy to increase the amount of the premium, while keeping the cost of an individual policy low. Private casualty and fire in surance companies will sell the Federal flood insurance. Con tracts with the Federal Flood and Indemnity Administration will set forth the company's com mission and allowable expenses. Meistrell estimates about 5,000 companies could participate in the program. Private companies have a big stake in the flood insurance pro gram. The Act states that the Federal insurance agency must maKe a continumg study of the feasibility of having private in surance companies take over, with or without some form of Federal financial support, the In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS How not to do it note: In Jefferson, Okla., a proud father wasted no time in letting the neighbors know his wife had presented him with a new daughter. The father, one John ny Krittenbrink, flew LOW over each home in his neighborhood in his plane, with the new baby's name "Cheryl Lynne" painted on the fuselage. T Y DOING so, he 1. Scared the daylights out of everybody, for a low-flying plane can crash into a house or into a group of children. 2. Made all his neighbors as mad as hops. 3. Ran the risk of killing him self and leaving his wife and lit tle Cheryl Lynne without breadwinner. He WOULDN'T make a good public relations manager. npAXES and business note: - The Freeport Sulphur com pany is considering four towns in the Deep South as a site for one of two plants it is planning to build in a hundred million dollar nickel and cobalt expan sion program. The first plant will be built in Louisiana unless that state raises its severance tax on sulphur. If Louisiana does raise its tax on sulphur, the plant will be built at Pascagoula, Miss., or at Mo bile, Ala., or at Freeport, Tex. "DEFORE going off the deep end on the subject of Big Business and tax policies, con sider what you would doif you were going to start a hamburger stand into which you would put all your savings. If you were wise, you would consider the tax situation in aU the towns you were looking over as prospective locations for your business venture. In these mod ern days, taxes take a big bite out of business profits and, presumably, if you were going to put your life's savings into a hamburger stand you would want to make a profit out of it. IF, in one town you were con sidering, the tax situation was such as to- leave you a reason able profit -on your investment, whereas in another town you might be looking over the taxes were so much HIGHER as to cause you to wonder if you could make a profit at all, you'd be almost certain to choose the town where the taxes were more reasonable. That's just good business judg ment. TNCIDENTALLY : There is an interesting exam ple in the state of Oregon of what unwise taxation can do to industrial development. TN OREGON a number of years ago, there were a dozen or more breweries (as I recall it, there were 14). You may not think much of breweries; but at least it must be admitted that they are factories that employ labor and use raw materials. In Oregon, hops and barley are lo cal raw materials for the manu facture of beer. In addition, breweries provide a residue of waste that makes spendid live stock feed and all of Oregon needs a livestock feed that will will be competitive with corn or cottonseed. At any rate, Oregon decided that it had to have more tax in come, so it raised the barrelage tax on beer to a figure MUCH HIGHER than that prevailing in the state of Washington to the north and the state of California to the south. IKHAT was the result? ' The result has been that whereas Oregon had a dozen or more breweries then it has only one now. The one remaining brewery isn't paying anywhere near as much taxes at the higher rate as the dozen or more for merly paid at the lower rate. IN OTHER words, the higher tax hasn't been a good invest ment. And . . . In addition Oregon has lost the source of livestock feed that was a valua ble residual material of the brewing industry. insurance programs authorized." is the risk we are undertaking'.' Besides setting premium rates, agency officials are worried over how states will react to the flood insurance program. Floods that killed 302 people and caused $995 million worth of. property damage in 1955 convinced most state officials that some kind of flood insurance was necessary. But will they fulfill their legal and financial responsibilities under the Act? The Act directs the flood agency to refuse to sell insurance in areas where the necessary zoning laws have not been passed. This provision was de signed to encourage states to pro hibit further settling of areas likely to be struck by floods. The flood zoning laws must be in effect, where necessary, by June 30, 1958, in order for the area to qualify for flood insurance. States also must help pay the subsidies on policies held by its residents. Starting July 1, 1959, states will pay half the premium subsidies and the Federal Gov ernment the other half. Meistrell says that "we thought that in view of the very real interest that various states have in the success of this pro gram that certainly they should be willing to bear their propor tionate share." (Copyright 1957, Congressional Quarterly) POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Every school child, of course, knows the story about the Ut ile Dutch boy who saved Hol land when re stuck his finger in the leak in the dike. Every school child, that is, except those in Holland, apparently. A Dutch exchange student who visited here last week confessed he'd never heard the tale until he came to this coun try. Our alert Applegate corre spondent, Helga Mitchell, re ported that Maj. Gen. Joseph Hicks, county civil defense ad ministrator, was birdwatching out that way recently. We pre sume that General Hicks may be a little like the legendary post man in this case birdwatching when he's not plane-spotting.. Among the new books ac quired by the Medford Public library recently is one entitled "Sword and Scalpel." The au- thor? A man named Slaughter. A police officer never knows what will be next. It might be an armed criminal, or a cat up a tree, or a drunk driver So they try to be ready for anything. The other day a small Doy rushed in to state police head quarters north of town, and told Sgt. Thomas Eaton his mother was "real sick" in her car out side, and neaded an ambulance to take her to the hospital. The sergeant went out to find the woman, Mrs Harold warne, Galls Creek rd.. Gold Hill, in the first stages of childbirth. He hustled her into a police car and, siren screaming, rushed her to Sacred Heart hospital. They just made it. A T pound girl was born seven minutes aft er they arrived at the hospital. The mother, the daughter, and Sergeant Eaton are reported to be getting .long fine. Dear Potluck Editor: . In re your story about St. Patrick and the wheelbarrow, that ain't the way I heerd it. According to my Irish ances try, the truth U the Irish in vented the wneelbarrow to teach their boys to stand upright, and used it for genera tions before the other critters learned , to stand on their hind legs. The Britons, jealous of everything Irish, refused to use the. wheelbarrow. They were the last io learn to stand upright. Respectfully, s L. G. Weaver 301 Haven st. Lester C&s. of the Rogue Sportsman, jokingly remarked the other day that, if he knew he wouldn't ?et killed, he'd kind of like to go through an earm quake some day, just to see what it was like. WpII he went to Caiuomia last week, and was in San Fran cisco on Friday . . We've reported, from time to time, about the remodeling which is lifting the face of the old M-T building and which will enable us eventually to present a bright new facade io the world. Last wees: it was discovered that one doorwrfy had been made about a thirty-second of an inch too small to accommo date one of the new doors, and a router was employed io shave off th-it amount of wood. The resulting noise was loud, irritating, and virtually inde scribable. Some of us main tained that it sounded like a baby crying. Others compared ii io the screams of a dying cat. Still ' others said it was exactly like the sound a den tist's patien; hears -when the dentist is drilling, and one young thing insisted she HAD to have a shot of novocaine.