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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
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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.