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History from the flies of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
49 fears ago.
10 rsig AGO
(Tlr f. 1M7 (Monday)
Qb. Ira laker, retired from
tb Army air force, and Gen.
Carl puts, present chief of the
jktmf air corp. are fishing on
he locue river today.
from Arthur Perry's Ye
sfauJB ot column: The first
(adjO ox winter showed up last
rek. Hand-picked stove wood
I advertised for sale.
i M TEA AS AGO
nlf 7, X937 (Wednesday)
City council adopts ordinances
"listening regulation of carnl
(ote, Increasing minimum age
tat plnylng pinball machines and
eiuthoTiiina sale of $50,000 in
bcods for repair and reconstruc
tion oi paved streets.
.Charles L. MacDonald. local
ijMBtvr of Foster and Kleiser,
sseted commander of the Med-
CSi American legion post.
OH TSARS AGO
JV larr (Thursday)
(-Calmer Investment Company
of Chlcaae, largest Individual
growers of fruit in Rogue valley,
urchases track on Southern Pa
cific right o -way south of city.
D. M.. Little, government mete
orologist, will take charge of the
local weather bureau July 15.
40 YEARS AGO
July 7, 1917 (Saturday)
C. M. Kidd, manager of the
C. M. Kidd and company shoe
house, 223 East Main st., pur
chases Dunlap-Ritter building on
East Main st.
From Local and Personal col
umn: City Engineer Arnspiger
warns city property owners that
grass must not be allowed to
overhang on the sidewalks.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
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six Is good
1. Was the first settlement In
Oregon, a trading post, estab
lished by the Missouri Fur Co.,
Pacific Fur Co., or John Jacob
Astor?
2. Which of the following Is
not a chemical element: arsenic,
bismuth, strychnine, ytterbium?
3. Bible: Was the prophet Jere
miah, Daniel, or Amos "lowered
In the miry pit"?
4. President Franklin D. Roose
velt had three close unofficial
advisors; two of them were Judge
Rosenman and Barney Baruch;
name the third.
5. What is the name of the ac
curate time-keeping device car
ried on ships for use in naviga
tion? 6. Name the States that border
on Lake Erie.
7. What sentence was passed
upon Japanese General Yama
shita by the military court that
tried him?
8. In which city is the "Treaty
Elm" under which Wiliam Penn
negotiated a treaty with the In
dians? . Whose is the possessive of
who. Is it correct to use "who's"
in the-ame sense?
10. TjE you lak-a me Iak I lak-a
you,And we lak-a both the
same. . ." Under what tree will
they live?
I. Missouri Fur Co. (1808).
2-Strychnine... 3. Jeremiah... 4.
Harry Hopkins. 5. Chronometer.
6. Ohio, Penna.. N.Y.. Mich... 7.
Death by hanging. 8. Phila
delphia. 9. No. "Whose cat is it?"
"Jim. who's next door?" 10.
"Under th Bamboo Tree."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Wood Industry Changing
Not too many years ago a lump of coal was a lump
of coal, a barrel of cil was a barrel of oil, and a sack
of sand was a sack of sand.
Now, increasingly, they are raw materials for
plastics, glass and ceramics, and a host of "new" ma
terials obtained by breaking them down into their
components, and reconstituting them as something
else.
The business of taking something and making
something else out of it is as old a mankind, and has
a long and fascinating history. But in recent years it
has given rise to a whole complex of new industries.
e
TTODAY they're making
imaginable, and shaping it into materials which
have a hundred-and-one specially tailored character
istics. Some are light and fluffy; others are pliable
and transparent ; others are as hard and tough as steel.
Some are sensitive to heat;
resistant. They can be easily
Oddly, wood is one of
which has been little used
terials. Wood has been wood except only for paper,
cardboard, sawdust and a few other products.
Perhaps the reason for this is that wood has had
such excellent characteristics of its own, and has al
ways been in such widespread use, little thought has
been given to giving it different forms.
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D ECENTLY, however, more thought has been given
to the development of wood "substitutes" the
ersatz products of wartime Germany, for instance.
But so far has this gone that the substitutes are no
longer substitutes they are full-fledged competitors
with wood. Masonry, glass, aluminum, steel and now
plastics are standard building materials. And as this
transpired, so the relative use of wood declined.
This change, much of it stimulated by the war,
came to a head coincident with two other things
the so-called "hard money" policy, and the catching
up on the demand for housing also generated by the
war. The combined result of the three was the "lumber
slump" which has had so profound an effect on Ore
gon's economy the past year.
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DECENT action to make more readily available
housing credit may serve to offset the financial
troubles of the housing (and thus the lumber) market.
By 1961 or 1962, housing demand will shoot up
again, as the "crop of war babies" grows up.
.These two reasons alone give promise of a pros
perous long-range future for lumber.
Meanwhile, developments in the utilization of
wood are moving at an accelerated pace. Long ignor
ed, they have been speeded up by the present market
troubles, and by the growing emphasis on the need
to take advantage of each stick that comes out of the
forest, and make it pay.
These will pay off some day.
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COR EXAMPLE:
An excellent grade of wax can be made from the
bark of Douglas fir trees. No major firms have yet
started to produce it, but the potential is there.
Industrial alcohol can be made from sawdust.
Chip-board and hardboard are growing rapidly,
both in quality of product and in production volume.
Veneers are being produced which can provide beau
tiful, hardwood interiors at a fraction of the cost of
the solid native woods.
Other chemical applications, taking a leaf from
the plastics producers' book, are coming along.
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CONGRESSMAN CHARLES 0. PORTER recently
reported on experiments being made in producing
a nylon-like fiber from lignin the chemical which
binds together the fibers of the natural wood, and
which is removed chemically to make pulp.
Lignin has always posed a pollution problem, for
in the past it has been a waste product, frequently
dumped in the nearest river. But if it can be shown
to have an economic importance of its own, it will pro
vide two benefits, added income from the use of a
once-wasted product, and decreasing pollution.
Some experimenters actually believe that lignin
some day will be more valuable than the wood fibers.
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THESE are only samples of the potentialities which
lie ahead in the woods products field. Others
await the experimenter's research and development.
And why are they important to us in southern
Oregon?
Because about one-half or more of every dollar
in circulation has its birth in our forest resources. It
will continue to be one of the mainstays of our econ
omy providing the funds which circulate and buy
the bread and shoes and automobiles and services on
which we all depend, and through which we earn our
livings.
There will always be need for lumber. But more
and more we will see that the materials which are now
left in the forest as slash, or which now go up in smoke
in mill burners, will be of an importance equalling
that of planks and studs.
THREE things are needed to provide a stable, pros
perous and long term future for our forest in
dustry. They are :
1. Sustained yield programs in government
owned forests and tree farm programs on private
holdings to guarantee a perpetual supply.
2. Intensified research to find more and more
ways that lumber and lumber products all of them
can be used.
3. Capital investments to create the industries
based on the other two.
And all three legs to this tripod are needed if we
are to have any real hope of a secure future for this
area in particular and Oregon in general. E.A.
Sunday, July 7, 1957
plastics out of everything
others are strongly heat
shaped and molded.
the basic raw materials
in this revolution in ma
J. '"fewi- J-li? Ai-s i
THAT WAS A PRETTY
FOR A AC0. WASNT
Matter of Fact stewan aiSoP
THE UNCONSCIOUS SHIFT
Washington The public face
which the Eisenhower adminis
tration presents to the world is
more unchang
ing than that
of any admin
istration in re
cent history.
Yet behind the
public face, the
Eisenhower ad
minis tration
has been
changing in a
subtle but im-
Stevait Alsop portant way
One way to define the change
is to say that, four years after
his death, the late Sen. Robert A.
Taft has at least ceased to have
an important influence within
the Administration. A symbol
of the disappearance of the Taft
influence is the imminent depar
ture of the two most important
Taft men in the government.
George Humphrey, departing
Secretary of the Treasury, was
Taft's Ohio treasurer in the pre
Eisenhower days, and his views
have continued to have a strong
Taftian flavor. And John Hollis
ter, also on the way out as chief
of the Foreign Aid Agency, was
Taft's law partner and one of
his oldest personal friends.
The departure of Humphrey
and Hollister will write finis to
the once-famous "four-H club."
The other two members of the
four-H club were the late Budget
Director Rowland Hughes and
the extremely conservative Her
bert Hoover Jr., who has been
replaced as Undersecretary of
State by Christian Herter, an
original Eisenhower man. By
and large, the four-H club was
the bastion of the Taftian ap
proach to foreign and defense
policies within the Administra
tion.
a a a
VITITH the break-up of the four-
" H rlnh thp voirp nf thp late
Senator in administration affairs
is muted, if not wholly stilled.
By contrast, the voice of Taft's
great rival, former Governor of
New York Thomas E. Dewey, is
still loud at second hand, al
though Dewey himself is not of
ten consulted these days.
Attorney General Herbert
Brownell, a Dewey man from
way back, is credited with per
suading the President to make
civil rights a down-the-line party
issue in the current session of
Congress, the most important
domestic political decision of the
second Eisenhower administra
tion. Press Secretary James Hager
ty, another original Dewey man,
has far more influence in the
Administration than most press
secretaries enjoy. And the Presi
dent's special economic adviser,
Gabriel Hauge, who was placed
on the Eisenhower campaign
train as speech writer and eco
nomic specialist by Dewey, also
enjoys increasing influence.
Hauge has been the chief theo
retician of "Modern Republican
ism," and he sees the President
regularly. With the departure
of Humphrey, with whom he
often amicably disagreed.
Hruge's influence is likely to
increase still more.
a
ALMOST every important
change in the Administration
has seen a movement from the
Taftian right to the Deweyite
center, as in the case of Robert
Anderson for Humphrey in the
Treasury.'Fred Seaton for Doug
las McKay in Interior, ana mar
ion Folsom for Mrs. Oveta Culp
Hobby in the Welfare Depart
ment. And yet in a way it is
an oversimplification to define
the chanee in the Eisenhower
administration in terms of Taft
and Dewey or right and center.
What has happened is less a
shift from right to center than a
sort of settling down process.
We came here with fire in our
eyes," one Administration ofi
cial recalls ruefully. "We were
going to turn everything upside
down. But we found out it
wasn't so easy."
The settling down process has
had various aspects. For one
thing, hardly anybody in the Ad
ministration talks about "The
Eisenhower crusade" any more.
The "Eisenhower train" (another
phrase rarely used now) has dls-
LOUD WHISTLE
IT?.
jovered that there is a big dif
ference between crusading and
the complex, often tedious busi
ness of governing.
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TOR another thing, any reason
ably able man, given a job to
do, tends to become an advocate
and an enthusiast. Contact with
the harsh realities also has a way
of changing a man's views.
Thus Hollister, for example,
who was certainly no fervid ad
vocate of foreign aid in former
days, hotly defends an adequate
foreign aid program. And Secre
tary of Defense Charles Wilson,
who came into the Administra
tion determined to cut the de
fense budget sharply, and did so,
has latterly been taking a "thus
far, but no further" line. And
Marion Folsom, a strongly con
servative man, became convinced
after exposure to the facts, of the
need for Federal aid to education
just as Sen. Taft himself did,
years before.
The change within the Admin
istration, in short, is less a con
scious shifting to the left than
a largely unconscious response
to the realities of the world situ-
Congressional Wishes,
Ability, to
Said Different Things
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CO) What
Congress will do to the Supreme
Court and what some of its
members would like to do are
two very different things.
Chief Justice Earl Warren and
his colleagues have been in hot
water with some Congressmen
since their unanimous 1954 de
cision outlawing racial segrega
tion in public schools.
The crescendo of criticism
reached a peak in the past two
weeks, when the Court in a
breathtaking series of decisions:
Opened secret FBI files to
criminal case defendants.
Criticized in harsh language
procedures of the House Un
American Activities committee.
Narrowed the range of the
anti-Communist Smith Act, free
ing five California Communist
leaders and ordering new trials
for nine others.
Ia amazement or anger, Con
gress lashed back. A biU was
introduced that would .bar from
appointment to the Federal
bench anyone who in the prior
five years had been a federal or
state official. Its purpose, said
the author, Rep. Thomas G. Ab
ernethy (D-Miss.), is to "keep
politicians off the court."
Another measure, backed by
Rep. D. R. (Billy) Matthews (D
Fla.), would have Congress ad
vise the justices not to run for
federal office while on the bench
or within two years after leav
ing their robes.
Would Limit Term
Chairman James O. Eastland,
(D-Miss.), of the Senate Judici
ary committee proposed a con
stitutional amendment requiring
that Supreme Court justices
come before the Senate every
four years for reappointment.
No less than seven bills are
in the hopper prescribing as
qualifications for future justices
anywhere from 5 to 10 years
prior judicial experience.
Sen. Herman E. xaimaage a-
Ga.), and three southern Repre
sentatives have bills in to deny
the Supreme Court jurisdiction
over "any matter relating to"
state administration of public
schools.
Two House bills provide sim
ply that lower courts "shaU not
be bound by any decision of the
Supreme Court . . . which con
flicts with the legal principle, ot
adhering to prior decisions . . ."
Furthest along the road to
passage are administration-backed
bills to limit the effect of the
Court's June 3 decision to give
defense lawyers a look at FBI
reports made by government wit
nesses in criminal cases.
The Senate and House Judic
iary committees have approved
a measure to empower judges to
screen the secret files before
they are turned over to the de
fense.
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Search Group Needed
To the Editor: At this early
date few people from this valley
need to be reminded of the grim
and horrible details concerning
the disappearance of 5-year-old
Cheryl Lee Johnston Saturday
afternoon, and the discovery of
her body in the Rogue river
Monday noon.
I was in the search party for
24 hours, and many others had
been there much longer. Strain
and fatigue could be seen on
the faces of every one there,
but not xne word of complaint
was heard. Everyone there was
concerned and eager to find the
girl alive, but all in all it was
the most unorganized and un
controlled performance I have
ever seen.
I ask you, the people of this
valley", how many more of our
children are going to die or be
lost and left to the elements
before we do something about
it? I say that now is the time
to do something about it and not
the next time one of our chil
dren get lost. Perhaps if we had
had a trained search group out
there to organize the 2,000 vol
unteers Saturday night, Cheryl
Lee would still be alive and
Mrs. Johnston would not be
faced with the grief she is now
burdened with.
This is a plea to the people
of this valley to get busy and
organize a trained search group
so we will be ready the next
time something like this hap
pens.
Jesse F. Dressier Jr.,
Route 2, Box 465,
Medford, Ore.
ation and of domestic political
and economic reauirements. One
sometimes wonders, indeed,
whether, if Taft had become
President in 1952, and survived
thp course of a Taft administra
tion would have differed in any
really basic way from the course
of the Eisenhower aaministra
tinn
(Copyright) 1957 New York
Hearld Tribune Inc.
Slap Court
Also carrying administration
endorsement , are bills to re-establish
state jurisdiction in the
field of anti-subversive legisla
tion. These bills and other leg
islation opposed by the admin
istration to prevent the Court
from making any such infer
ence" about Federal preemption
of any field of legislation are
"the next order of business" for
the -Senate Judiciary committee.
an aide to Chairman Eastland
told Congressional Quarterly.
Congress is not powerless in
its conflicts with the Court. It
has a part, through its power
of confirmation and impeach
ment, in actually selecting and
removing the justices.
But any Congressional effort
to . cripple the Court s power
comes up against the Constitu
tion's declaration, as President
Eisenhower put it June 27, that
the "Supreme Court is just as
essential to our system 'of gov
ernment as is the President or
as is the Congress."
(Copyright 1957. Congressional
Quarterly Inc.)
Editorial
Comment
OREGON INDUCTEES
GET HIGH RATING
Oregon's youth and its educa
tional opportunities win plaudits
in statistics made available by
the Surgeon General of the
Army in regard to inductees dur
ing the Korean War, 1950
through 1953.
Minnesota .with 97.4 per cent
led the nation in the ratio of its
inductees passing Army educa
tional tests. Oregon was next
with 97 per cent and the two
other Northwest states also
were in the first 10 Idaho, 5th
with 96.2 per cent and Washing
ton, 7th with 96.1 per cent. South
Carolina with 53.2 per cent
trailed, with most other south
ern states also near the bottom.
(California with 92.3 per cent
was 23rd.)
The figures were cited in a
letter to members of Congress
from the American Veterans
Committee which urged federal
aid to education except in states
with segregated schools. They
were printed in the Congres
sional Record at the request of
Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.).
The senator in an appendix to
the letter says Oregon's achieve
ment is the greater because it
came when taxpayers were af
fected by "great economic ad
versity." We think we've been
fairly generous with our schools,
all right, but the years 1950-53
are not particularly recalled as-j
a depression period. However,
POTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
T"ln vmi lrnnur what it thp "most
democratic and ubiquitous food
morsel of all time"?
The hotdog, that's what.
At least that is what Daniel
J. Edelman and Associates, a
public relations firm represent
ing thp mpftt Inrliistrv. tells US.
B '
The information is contained in a
letter which proclaims July "Na
tional not Dog Montn.
We kind of hate to be sucked
in on such an obvious play for
publicity, but we can't resist the
frank approach used by Edel
man and Associates, who write:
"We trust you have sufficient
respect for the red hot tradition
and sufficient loyalty to the
wienie way of life to take edi
torial cognizance of National Hot
Dog Month". If you've derived
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Down Highway 99, the great
north and south highway of the
Pacific Coast, on the day before
the Fourth of July, which this
year falls on a Thursday and
that means that in happy Ameri
ca vast numbers of fortunate
people in this most fortunate
of nations will take the rest
of the week as a long holiday.
Not just the great ones of the
earth. Not merely the rulers.
Not the captains of industry.
Not the landed titled nobility.
Just the average run of the
people, who will be getting into
THEIR OWN cars and taking
off for the seashore, or the moun
tains, or the lakes, or the wide
open spaces of the desert wher
ever their fancv listeth.
This is AMERICA. The land
of the free. No passports re
quired. No police permission
needed. Just get in the car,
step on the starter and TAKE
OFF.
WOULDN'T it be wonderful if
the Founding Fathers, who
laid the foundations upon which
all this has been built, could come
back and see it in all its splen
dor? Maybe they are sitting some
where Up Yonder, looking down
on this land whose future they
envisioned and regarding with
satisfaction everything that has
come to pass in the 181 years
they drafted the Declaration of
Independence and cut the orig
inal 13 little colonies loose from
the Old World and thus set in
motion all the processes that
have resulted in the America of
today.
I hope so.
They are certainly entitled to
that reward.
TF THE Founding Fathers" real-
" ly are sitting up there On High
on this 181st anniversary of the
eve of the Great Day on which
they finally adopted the Declara
tion of Independence and started
it all off.
If they have been following
all that has happened in these
181 years, including the inven
tion of the automobile and its
development from a chugging
little gas chariot' that couldn't
go fast enough to get into trouble
to the whizzing demons of today
that if somebody permits his
attention to stray even for a
moment from the business of
driving them can run amuck
and scatter death all over the
place
If thev realize that the modern
automobile can be restrained
from scattering death and de
struction on every side ONLY
BY -THE SKILL AND THE
CARE of those who sit behind
its wheel and guide it down the
smooth and fast highways of this
modern day
w
In that event
I think they would be pleased
with the way such of their de
scendants as I have been able to
see on this third day of July of
the Year of Our Lord 1957 on
U.S. Highway 99 in the states
of Oregon and California have
been handling the grave respon
sibility of driving their cars in
reasonably heavy traffic.
There has been no wild pass
ing in places where passing
should never be attempted. No
roaring around the other fellow
on curves or when approaching
the brow of a hill.
No tragic groups gathered at
the scene of fatal accidents.
I SUPPOSE it has just happened
that way at this particular
time and on this particular great
artery of traffic. I assume sadly
that when the figures are all in
the slaughter on America's high
ways on this holiday will have
been about average.
But at least it does go to prove
what CAN happen when even
for a brief space of time drivers
are uniformly careful, courteous,
thoughtful and considerate of the
rights of others. '
we won't quibble with the re
sults and are glad we ranked
right there at the top . . . though
we hope other states will build
toward being able to provide
their proportionate share of pro
ductive manpower, both in war
and in peace. Oregon States
man, Salem.
tastebud titillation from the edi
ble, we'd like to have you give it
the words of appreciation it de
serves. Frankly, we want the
frank to get its due with or
without mustard."
And they get paid for this sort
of thing, too!!
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A little girl, aged 5 or so,
with big brown eyes, attended
an evening baseball gam at
the fairgrounds field last week.
She sat very quietly, watch
ing the gam. About midway
through the third inning, in
familiar baseball "chatter"
started rising from players on
the field and in the dugouts,
and the fans. The demur lit
tie girl broke her silence with
a loud "SHUT UP!!"
We have always been fond of
cheese (even more so than hot
dogs, alas) and welcomed an op
portunity recently to tour a local
cheese factory where blue-veined
cheese, one of our favorites, is
made.
We learned many interesting
things, including the fact that
cheese is one of the oldest known
foods manufactured by men; that
there are 28 basic types of
cheese with enough variations
to produce more than 400 sepa
rate varieties, and that all of
them are made by approximately
tne same process, only the vari
able and controllable conditions
being changed at ona point or
another in their manufacture to
give each its own distinct quality.
We discovered, too, that
cheese smells differently at dif
ferent stages of manufacture,
and that some of these smells
are less pleasant than others. We
have long thought the aroma of
well-aged cheese is a delight, but
we found that the sour-acid smell
created in the earlier stages,
when the curds are being sepa
rated from the whey. Is some
thing else again.
We also found that this par
ticular sour-acid smell clings to
the clothes, the hair, the pores
of the skin, for hours. At least
it did with us, and the lingering
curds - and - whey odor almost
spoiled for us a luncheon which
ordinarily would have been
greeted with enthusiasm a
lunch of dairy products. The
blue cheese, the cheddar, the cot
tage cheese even the milk and
ice cream seemed to take on a
taste similar to the acid smell
we couldn't get rid of.
It was days before we could
look cheese in the face again, but
we're now back to our normal,
cheese-loving self again, we're
happy to report. But we aren't
going to tour a cheese factory
again for a while.
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A window in the law offic
of Sam Harbison and Gen .
Piaxxa was left open all night
recently, and lh following
morning Sam walked info th
offic, infant on reading some
thing, when suddenly he was
startled by th flutter of flap
ping wings. Two pigeons had
com in th window during
th night, and had spent seve
ral hours there, judging by
th evidence, which was sort of
messy. You know how pigeons
are.
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We work in a labyrinth, here.
We have both stairs and an ele
vator to the newsroom, and
downstairs there are several
ways of getting to each.
The paths of two news staff
members, as a result of this and
of differing temperaments, cross
several times each day, as they
use different routes between the
newsroom and the street floor.
One, a long-time member of
the staff who works at his desk
most of the day, uses the stairs
almost exclusively. The other, a
younger man who pounds a beat
each day, consistently rides the
elevator.
As one journeys to the back
shop and the other starts on his
daily rounds, they leave their
desks, which are about six feet
apart, go their ways, then meet
downstairs about halfway along
the circulation department.coun
ter. The senior of the two says he
needs the exercise, and, besides,
the stairs are faster. The younger
feels he needs the rest he gets
in the 10 to 20 seconds it takes
t wait for and ride the ele
vator. e e
On of th supporters of the
proposad new shopping crater
appeared at a public hearing '
Friday night, to advocate re
zoning of the area to mak th
plan possible. In the cours of
his statement he remarked that
he didn't expect much opposi
tion. Thar was a brief mo
ment of stillness before one
spectator commented audibly:
"You don't know Medford."
One of the most enjoyable
things about the July 4th fire
works snows inat the ymca has
put on the last two years is the
good-natured horseplay between
the firemen and policemen.
Next year, though, we hope
the red-underwear-wearing fire
men win the tug-o-war, which
they've lost twice. We've always
wanted to see what a wet police
man looks like. We know what
a wet fireman looks like.