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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
30 YEARS AGO
lpril 7. 1947 (Monday)
Fire escapes are being in
flailed on several apartment
Souses and business buildings,
Jire Chief Roy Elliott reports.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
nudge Pot column: In many
trpstate burgs, the parking meter
ft superseding Bonneville dam
Jectricity as a civic issue, and
Caose for an election.
OS YEARS AGO
jil 7. 1937 (Wednesday)
JSrst frost of any importance
ttiff season was deposited last
eight on the Rogue river valley
4 a minimum temperature of 31
degrees is recorded. .
gree motion pictures of the U.
. Navy will be presented in the
Bedford armory tonight, accord
ing to Ernest M. West, recruiting
ofiicer here.
YEARS AGO .
(jQttil 7. 1927 (Thursday) ,
G. M. Raymond, for the past
two years circuit court reporter
under Judge C. M. Thomas, re
signs. Bettv Stennett. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Stennett, will
rjresent a Russian feature dance
at the Masonic Dancing club ball
tonight.
4 YEARS AGO
Aril 7. 1917 (Saturday)
Superintendent F. W. Carna
han of the Blue Ledge mine is in
Medford arranging for the camp
and feed for stock.
A "Home Guard" for Med
ford and vicinity will probably
be organized at once to assist in
cases of emergency in "home
service."
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev
en cr eight Is excellent: five or
six Is good.
1. In 1689 French Huguenots
settled New Rochelle in which
British Colony?
2. The purchase of which ter
ritory of the United States orig
inally was referred to as "Sew
ard's folly"?
3. Bible: Is there any reference
in which God teaches one to
profit?
4. Are dragonfiies harmless to
man?
5. Which flowering plant is
referred to the "The Queen of
Flowers"?
6. Name the only U.S. Presi
dent who never married.
- 7. Brogans remind one of a
type of vehicle, shoe, or head
gear? 8. The famous war corres
pondent, Ernie Pyle, was a na
tive of which state?
9. Do observation and observ
ance have similar meanings?
10. "There was his barbarians
all at play, There was -their
Dacian mother he, their sire
Butchered to make a Roman,
holiday." Byron. What is a "Ro
man Holiday?"
Answers: 1. New York. 2.
Alaska. 3. Yes. Is. 49:5. 4. Yes.
5. The rose. 6. James Buchanan.
7. Shoe. 8. Indiana. 9. No. 10. A
day of carnage.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Marshal Should Be Retained
Some things we understand. Many things we
don't. Among the latter is the edict from Portland
that the U.S. Marshal's office in this city be closed.
This is the second time the attempt to oust Paul
Hanlin, efficient deputy U.S. marshal, has been
made. , . ,
The first attempt last year failed. This second at
tempt should also. The plea of economy is rather
absurd, except on the false basis of being penny-wise
and pound-foolish.
As the local Bar Association has pointed out with
the marshal's office closed here, all services of process
in civil and criminal federal cases will have to be
made from the Portland office 300 miles away and
will therefore result in unnecessary expenses not only
to the legal profession, but to litigants and the gov
ernment. Certainly if there was need for a marshal's office
40 years ago there is, with the material increase in
business, litigation and population, greater need now.
Deputy Marshal Hanlin has served as U.S. mar
shal for 20 years and has done an UNDERstanding
and OUTstanding'job.
We agree with the Bar Association that he and
his office should be retained. R.W.R.
The Post Office Mess
There is another thing
In a country like this,
mately $72,000,000,000, how can there not be suffi
cient funds available to maintain a respectable and
decent postal service?
Yet we have Postmaster General Summerfield
maintaining that if the appropriation for his depart
ment is not materially increased, he will have to
eliminate Saturday mail service entirely, and deliv
eries to business to the pre-historic one-a-day basis.
THIS passeth all understanding.
The postal service is not operated for profit,
it has never, to our knowledge, enjoyed a profit. It
is a basic and essential public service to the inhabi
tants of the richest country 'in the world, some 170,-
000,000 of them.
It would seem obvious
factory postal service, should be the No. 1 obligation
of a Pastmaster General, and it should equally be
the No. 1 duty of the Congress to appropriate a suffi
cient amount to accomplish this.
ONGRESSMAN Cannon, however, according to
press reports, claims there . has been enough
money appropriated; Postmaster General Summer
field claims there definitely has not.
Who is right?
We don't know. But our guess is this present tidal
wave for economy and reduction of taxes pronto and
regardless bears a heavy responsibility.
"IHETHER this is true or not, there is one thing
" for sure, namely: - . .
For the richest country in the world, with a record
breaking peace-time budget, to find it impossible to
give the people of the country the kind of mail serv
ice they deserve because of lack of funds, is just
another thing that doesn't make SENSE.
Someone, some place has blundered terribly. If
Postmaster General Summerfield is right, then the
Congress should apologize
he needs, immediately.
If he is wrong then
place taken by someone who is a better business man
ager, and has a keener sense of public responsibility,
in a most important federal post. R.W.R.
. Sneezes and Tremolos
We have often been impressed of late by the fact
that no actor or actress, on the stage or over-the-air
can give a reasonably accurate imitation of a sneeze.
Even Jack Benny, so good in most directions, failed
completely in this department of histrionics, the other
night.
The best he could do was to shake his head, enun
ciate a loud, clearly enunciated and emphatic "KER
CHOO" and wave his handkerchief, as a signal of
sinus distress.
We have seen a number of plays on stage, screen
and "TV" but never yet a sneeze that was not a com
plete phoney from start to finish.
They successfully imitate most sounds, animal,
vegetable, mineral and human in Hollywood these
days, all the way from pestiferous parrots to prowl
ing panthers, but never to our knowledge, has anyone
in any cast come up with a successful and convincing
SNEEZE.
We are a bit fed up with "quiz and prize pro
grams," but would gladly give an MT "Oscar" to any
actor or actress who can deliver the goods to the
satisfaction of our sneeze department. (And we would
not disbar Jimmy Durante, who would seem to be
physically exceptionally well equipped in that direc
tion.) "IX7E HAVE another gripe in the field of entertain-
ment, that is what, for want of a better term,
we would call the "rock and roll tremolo."
There are some notable exceptions Perry Como
and Lili Pons, for example but by and large most
vocal aspirants for the "Hit Parade," male and female,
put on a tremolo that is completely off-the-beam, im
proper, unconvincing and inane as the stage. sneeze.
It isn't an authentic tremolo at all, it is purely physi
cal, a sort of cross between the bleat of Mary's Lit
tle Iamb, and a seasick cow suffering from a sudden
and severe attack of ague. It blends with the music
Sunday. April 7. 1957
we can't understand.
with a budget of approxi
that a modern and satis
and hand over the money
he should resign, and his
Elbow-Bending in Washington
Wanes Somewhat Writer Says
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The president's limousine Isn't
the only thing that is slowing down in the na
tion's capital this spring.
Elbow bending and cheese dipping is also
somewhat on the wane. At
least the freeloading variety.
Society reporters say the diz
zy social whirl here ain't what
what it used to be in the earlier
days of the Eisenhower admin
istration, when party giving
and going hit a new peak.
One big reason is that the
incentive is gradually dimin
ishing. People don't give fancy,
expensive shindigs with plen
ty of eats and booze just to keep the old town
alive. Most of them have an axe to grind,' some
one they want to influence, a profitable deal
they want to put across, a bill they want enact
ed, a government policy they want modified to
their advantage.
Party giving, in a word, has hit the lull for
this reason as explained by one professional
party major-domos:
All Axes Ground
"Everybody who had an axe to grind (with
the administration) has ground it, Ike can't be
president after this term so there's no use court
ing the people around him. And nobody knows
yet who they ought to start making up to."
Among those who give parties for the fun, or
prestige, of it, the number of invitations they
send out is going down because the cost is going
up. The men who make the parties click, the
caterers, have jacked up their prices 10 to 15 per
cent on the average over last year to reflect ris
ing prices' in food and drink.
A.
Robt Smith
Job of Picking Five
'Greatest Senators1
Studded With Danger
Washington (CQ A spe
cial Senate committee is sched
uled to climb out on a limb May
1 and name the five greatest Sen
ators of all time to a Senate
Hall of Fame."
Mail already in shows the se
lection committee will not be
able to please everybody; prob
ably nobody. The nominees must
be dead a requirement that has
not cooled the ardor of the pub
lic nominators.
A Vermont Yankee, for in
stance, wrote the committee it
had better pick Jefferson Davis
of Mississippi, the president of
thj Confederacy during the Civ
il War and a Senator in the
1840s and 1850s.
A Texan said the committee
must not overlook Mrs. Rebec
ca L. Felton of Georgia. He
maintained Mrs. Felton should
be named one of the greatest
even though she wasn't, a Tex
an because she was the first
woman Senator. She served for
only two days in 1922.
And a Birmingham, Ala., res
ident, wrote that his state's John
Tyler Morgan, a Democratic
Senator from 1877-1907, was an
all-time great because "this
grand old man alone conducted
the longest filibuster in the. his
tory of lawmaking which re
sulted in defeating (in 1890) the
vicious Force Bill, keeping the
Northern bayonets from watch
ing over Southern ballot boxes."
The Alabaman added that the
Panama Canal should be re
named the Morgan Canal be
cause it was the Senator's idea
in the first place. ' ,
See Protests
On top of the deluge of mail
from the public come suggest
ions from historians and current
Senators, few of which agree
since the Senators generally
want to honor someone from
their state and party. No matter
whom the committee picks, the
protest is sure to be deafening.
It is entirely possible the Sen
ate itself will be unable to agree
on the five greatest Senators.
Charged with selecting the
nominees for the "Hall of Fame:
are Senators John F. Kennedy
(D-Mass.), Mike Mansfield (D
Mont.), Richard B. Russell (D
Ga.),. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.)
and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio).
They are officially called the
Special Committee on the Sen
ate Reception Room, because
portraits of the five greatest
Senators if they're ever se
lected will hang there.
The reception room is just off
the main Senate chamber and is
usea Dy senators to receive
guests. Impressively appointed
with two glistening chandeliers
spraying light from the high
ceiling to the colorful tile floor,
the room has five blank oval
spaces designed for portraits.
Asked if the five ovals dic
tated the number of Senators to
be named to .the "Hall of Fame,"
Charles Clapp, selection commit
and the song about as well as putting a dunce's cap
on the skull of a mad elephant if you can.
What is the big idea anyway? A proper tremolo
should not be so" difficult to cultivate. But the run
of the mill tremolos todav in the juvenile vocal field
particularly, contribute about as much to the pleasure
of the listening audience as a cat fight among the
"shiners" in the Philadelphia Philharmonic.
And one of the worst and most amazing features of
all this is, that the moronic performers seem to rest
under the delusion that this sort of musical atrocity
is surefire with the auditors, and puts them the
vocalists on the first rung of the ladder leading to
permanent tame and mink coat aitluence.
It is all veiy depressing.
- We should think some of the "pros" would se
about concocting a CURE. R.W.R.
catered cocktail party for 100 persons for some
thing like $265 plus the cost of liquor, an expen
sive variable which depends on who is invited.
This year the same spread wiU run about $300,
still without the intoxicating cost of beverages.
If you think everyone who throws a party on
this scale must be in the chips, the caterers can
tell you you're wrong.
"All of us are having trouble making collec
tion," confessed one. "This is one of the most
difficult years in the business along those lines.
People can't borrow money as easily as they
used to."
So it looks like the time has come to soberly
stop calling it a tight money policy.
Another Omen
There's another good omen for those who like
to see "high society" encounter troubles.
In the realm of those who thrive on being in
"who's who" here in Washington there is a fel
lor who devised a license plate system whereby
the big shots get the low numbers and the little
shots get the big numbers. One newspaper even
prints the full list of 1200 low numbers and sug
gests the reader should put it in his glove com
partment so that when he is driving along be
hind a low number, he can tell whose exhaust
he is smelling.
The fatal flaw of this version of the elite so
cial register is that everybody in society and pol
itics wants in on the act, so the list gets bigger
and bigger. The presidentially-appointed commis
sioners who run the city can't resist this pressure.
This year they increased the list 200 more num
bers. They even gave one to George's Radio and
Television store, which should please everyone
who doesn't qualify by having blue blood.
tee staff member, commented
wryly: "I think that had some
thing to do with it."
The committee, other than
pointing to some of the names
most often mentioned for the
honor, admits it hasn't gotten
very far in deciding whom it
will recommend.
But while the committee is
still a lone way from agreeing
on its nominations, offers to do
the portraits are pouring in, des
pite repeated protestations that
it is much too early to think
about painters.
Names frequenUy suggested
to the Senate committee are
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster,
John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jack
son, Stephen A. Douglas and
Robert A. Taft. Several letters
have suggested Edmund Ross,
the Senator whose vote saved
Andrew Johnson from impeach
ment. (One man wrote Kennedy
that he thought he had read
about Ross someplace. He had
in Kennedy's own book, "Pro
files in Courage.")
No one expects to see the por
traits on view any time soon.
Even if the committee can make
up its mind by May 1, it is un
likely a majority of the 96 Sen
ators from 48 states will get to
gether easily on the five great
est of their predecessors.
Agreeing" on the five greatest
Senators of all time may touch
off the biggest disagreement
RPpn on the Senate floor in a
Ions time.
(Copyright 1957. Congressional
Quarterly)
Editorial
Comment
IN DEFENSE OF NO. 321
One regrettable side angle to
the labor and racketeering hear
ings in Washington the past few
weeks has arisen because too
many people are willing to tar
evervone with the same brush.
Because the Teamsters union has
figured prominently in the hear
ings, there has been a tendency
to blacken all Teamster locals.
This newspaper holds no brief
for those Teamster leaders
particularly Beck and Hoffa
who find tnemseives in not wa
ter. But there is a big difference
between the national picture and
thp lnral one.
Most of the Teamster prob
lem locals seem to be "trusteed
locals, operated by the interna
tional union. Local 321 or tne
Teamsters, headquartered in
Bend, controls its own affairs,
and from what we can deter
mine, controls them wisely and
honestly.
The local also has been gen
erous in making the time of its
secretary, Hugh Cole, available
for a wide variety of community
projects, which he has perform
ed well. Bend Bulletin.
Last spring society matrons would toss a eood
Matter of Fact
THE DEAD END STREET
Washington If anyone were
so rude or so imprudent as to
swing a cat on the Democratic
side of the
Senate aisle,
he would be
likely to hit
several actual
or potential
Preside n t i a 1
candidates.
Their names
are legion
the , perennial
stewait Alsop jveiauver, ui
-rr F r
course, Morse ot uregon, trore
of Tennessee, Clark of Pennsyl
vania. Lausche of Ohio, Mon-
roney of Oklahoma, perhaps
Kerr of Oklahoma too he got
the hankering no-one ever loses
in 1952. But the names most fre
quently and seriously mentioned
are those of Lyndon Johnson of
Texas and John Kennedy of
Massachuetts.
There are two reasons why
there is already so much talk
about this enormous gallery of
potential candidates among the
Senate Democrats. For one
thing, there is an extraordinary
paucity of real Democratic tal
ent outside the Senate. For
another, the Senate Democrats
by contrast include many able
men, of whom Johnson and Ken
nedy are perhaps the ablest;
Yet history suggests that it
would be an . excellent odds-on
bet that not one of the names
listed above will ever grace the
White House. Of all the dozens
of distinguished men who have
sat in the upper house just one -the
undistinguished W a r r en
Harding has moved direcUy
from the Senate to the White
House. Aside from the wholly
accidental Harding, since the
Civil War only two ex-Senators
have reached 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue Benjamin Harrison
and another accident, Harry S.
Truman. And in all that time
neither party has nominated a
sitting Senator, other than
Harding.
rfiHE SENATE, in short, is vlr-
tually a dead end street as far
as the Presidency is concerned.
If you consider the cases of Ly-
don Johnson and Jack Kennedy,
you can see why.
Johnson is the ablest Majority
Leader in a long time. His many
admirers claim he has the stature
needed in a Presidential candi
date he has, if you will, a Pres
idential smell. Provided the
President survives his second
term, the much younger John
son's heart attack will be no bar
to the White House.
Yet the fact that he is a Sen
ator is a big, solid bar. As a Tex
an, Johnson had no choice but
to lead the fight last year to free
natural gas from Federal control.
As a Southerner, he has no
choice this year but to oppose
Northern proposals for civil
right legislation. Both positions
will alienate Northern Liberal
support and the labor-backed
Northern Liberals, though they
do not dominate the Democratic
Party as they once did, still ex
ercise a veto power over candi
dates. AS Majority Leader, more-;
over, Johnson suffers from a
special liability. In a time of
prosperity, the Eisenhower Ad
ministration has shrewdly abort
ed every traditional Democratic
issue. Although Johnson on most
issues is a liberal by any fair
test, the Northerners tend to
blame the currently Democratic
sterility and frustration on his
"conservative" leadership.
Kennedy has great ability, as
well as great appeal for the vot
ers (the ladies especially) and un
limited financial backing. His
Catholicism is no bar to the
nomination, any more than John
son's heart attack indeed, a
good case could be made that his
religion is a political asset.
Kennedy is certainly an am
bitious man, but he is also a real
ist, with a sense of history. He
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
One Richard Studwell of
Flossmoor, 111., recently wrote
the Chamber of Commerce here
for some materials a request
which is both common and rou
tine as far as the chamber goes.
His letter is as follows:
Gentlemen:
I am making a survey of the
United. States. I have chosen
your city for THE WILD WEST.
Please send to:
Deposits at Branch
Bank Show Decline
Quarterly statement of condi
tion figures released by the Med
ford branch of First National
bank of, Portland show that on
March 31, 1957, deposits at the
branch ' were 826,326,965 and
loans were $11,935,914, accord
ing to C. E. Hedberg, vice presi
dent and manager.
Comparable totals for the
Medford branch March 31, 1956,
Were $30,296,139 for deposits
and loa"s totaled $12,736,008.
The statements showed that
on March 31; 1956, deposits at
the First National and its 74
statewide banking offices were
$764,700,115, loans were $429,
130,115, and resources were
$849,C15,416.
By Joe and Stewart AIsop
is quite aware that the Senate
is the worst possible jumping
off place for the Presidency. Al
ready, his vote against rigid par
ity has alienated farm groups,
his vote against Colorado River
development has caused doubts
in the Northwest: his pro-civil
rights stand has endangered
Southern support; and his failure
to dance on the political grave, of
Sen. McCarthy (who is still popu
lar among important voting
groups in Massachusetts (has an
gered the Liberals.
- ETWEEN now and 1960, as a
ID Senator, he cannot avoid poi
soning still more political wells.
In the circumstances, he might
seem weil advised to emulate
Knowland of California, duck
the Senate when his term ex
pires next year, and try for the
Massachusetts governorship. But
to do so would alienate the Ital
ian voters who support the pres
ent governor, Foster Furcolo
(with whom Kennedy has al
ready had a damaging row) and
thus might end his political ca
reer. It would be a mistake to un
derestimate either Kennedy or
Johnson. But the above suggests
why the hurdles which have
proved too high for them, too;
and why the Democrats' 1960
candidate is likely to be, not a
familiar face from -the Senate,
but some yet faceless man.
(Copyright 1957. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At his news conference on
Wednesday, President Eisenhow
er said in reply to a question
that he certainly hopes there
can be an income tax cut before
the end of his second term.
But he declined to speculate
as to just WHEN a reduction
may be possible. . ;
LETS put it this way:
Reduction of federal taxes
can come about (wisely and safe
ly) only if and when there is
a reduction in federal spending.
WHEN will that come about?
Material reduction in federal
taxes can come about ONLY
after it has been demonstrated
in several elections that heavy
spending is no longer popular
with the voters.
As long as the spenders get
RE-ELECTED, we will go on
spending.
THAT suggests another ques
tion: .
When will people begin to
vote against heavy government
spending?
I'll try to answer it:
People will begin to vote
against excessive government
spending whenever they begin
to realize that the money taken
out of their pockets by exces
sive taxation would have
broueht them MORE in the way
of comforts and satisfactions IF
THE MONEY HAD BEEN LEFT
IN THEIR POCKETS FOR
THEM TO SPEND.
LOOK at it like this:
The federal budget for the
next fiscal year totals just un
der 72 biUion dollars. Let's as
sume that there are about 160
million people in the United
States.
If you will get out a pencil
and some paper and divide 72
billion dollars by 160. minion
people you will, discover that
the pe- capita share of next
year's federal taxes (assuming
that the budget remains in the
neighborhood of 72 billion dol
lars) will be about $450.
If you have no dependents,
your per capita share of the cost
of running the U.S. government
during the next fiscal year will
be about $450. If you are the
breadwinner for a family of
four, your share will be about
$1800.
Richard Studwell,
Flossmoor, Illinois.
We're not quite sure whether
he wants Medford or the Wild
West to be sent. Anyway, should
it go freight, express or parcel
post?
A prominent Medford resi
dent is back in circulation fol
lowing a major operation.
During convalescence he re
ceived a memento of which he
is proud a lie clasp on which
are a few words proclaiming
to the world that he no longer
has a specific portion of his
anatomy.
Know what a common cold Is?
We thought we did until last
week, when we received a press
release which says that a com
mon cold "Is now defined as a
mild, self-limited, respiratory ill
ness, without fever, character
ized by catarrhal inflammation
of the mucous membranes of the
nose, the sinuses, and contigu
ous structures of the upper res
piratory passages."
Now you know.
A service club member, last
week proved that he knows
the ropes regarding the ways v
of service clubs, when he gave
a report on a project of which
he was co-chairman. He said,
resignedly, "I suppose, if we
do a good job, it means we'll
get another committee chair
manship." He could have add
ed, too, that one of . the best
ways to be assigned a tough
job is to be absent from a
meeting.
We are increasingly disturbed,
in a minor sort of way, with a
sort of usage which is becoming
more and more in vogue, which
doesn't make it correct. Until
about 1939 or 1940, World War I
was called simply the "World
War." But when the next one
came along, and no obvious
name for it presented itself, peo
ple started calling it World War
II which made the "other" war
World War I. If we. recall cor
rectly, Time magazine started
this usage.
Anyway, the name World War
II is well established. But more
and more people are- writing
them World War 1 (which is all
right), and then going on to
write World War 11 which is
wrong. .
We may get to WW Eleven
some day (which God forbid),
but we're not there yet.
A city fireman attended a
committee meeting last week
in a place where there wes a
fireplace in which a fire was
briskly burning. Presumably
because of his experience and
conditioning over the years,
he politely turned down a
chance to sit by the fire.
The Bend .Bulletin comes up
with proof that it's not a good
idea to throw trash on the high
way. It tells of a motorist who
tossed a magazine out of the car;
The action was spotted by a state
policeman, who gave chase,
stopped the offender, charged
him with messing up the high
way (a state offense) and, in
checking by radio with head
quarters to find out 'what the
bail should be, found the man
was a suspect in a forgery case,
and carried him away to jail.
The moral, obviously, is that it
doesn't pay to toss rubbish out
of the car.
'Jimmy Dunlevy was wel
comed as manager of the
Rogue Valley Country club in
a recent issue of the club's
monthly bulletin with a head
line which declares "Dunlevy
Adds Weight to Administra
tion." Anyone knowing Jim
my will be bound to agree
and in more ways than one.
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In a refrigerator we know.
about last Monday morning were
two bowls, one containing hard
boiled eggs for the students
lunches, and the other fresh
eggs. The 1 1-year-old made her
own lunch that day.
At noon in the cafeteria, fol
lowing a bad habit learned from
her father, she tapped her lunch
eon egg against her head to
crack the shell. The egg, taken
from the wrong bowl, splattered
all over her head.
Since it was April 1, it was
impossible to convince her this
was not an "April Fool" joke.
Hot news from Page 1 of
the Medford Hi-Times, publi
cation of Medford High school:
Realizing the need for trans
portation, the Southern Pa
cific railroad has decided to
construct a spur line until a
proposed subway can be
finished. This independent
branch " of the i SP's crack
streamliner, "The Whistle
Stop," will parallel East Jack
son to Valley View. From Val
ley View the commuters' spe
cial will highball down Spring
street and' then pursue a cir
cuitous route to Crater High
school. Time schedules will
be distributed when former
MHS students register.
. The story was published
' under an April 1 dateline, of
course.
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