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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1958)
Government Marches On! by Jack Ryan I he Montana senate sol emnly voted to make the ponder osa pine the state's official tree, only to discover that the ponder osa had been the state tree since 1949. Mayor Francis Berry of Libertyville, 111., proclaimed a "Kick Week" in which citizens were invited to complain about village services. On the first day of "Kick Week" the mayor left for a fishing trip to Canada. A letter intended for the director of intelligence of Pakistan was mistakenly addressed to "The Intelligent Officer." The letter came back marked, "The govern ment of Pakistan does not have an Intelligent Officer." A history teacher in Gra ham, N. C, got into hot water when he gave students a test with the question, "The Graham city council is largely composed of (A) Idiots; (B) Ignoramuses; (C) Ne'er-do-wells; (D) You call it, you got it." Henry Robeck was ac cepting congratulations on his election as mayor of Irondale, Colo., when officials discovered the voters also had decided to abolish the town and the office of mayor. Government officials in Rangoon, Burma, found docks and warehouses choked with more rice than the nation could use for years, so they traded it for cement from another country. Result: docks and warehouses in Rangoon were choked with more cement than Burma could use for a decade. Family Weekly. January 5, 19SS 9 AN drawings oWtooarocJ from ocfvof construction btvpant$ wro winy i ufiipfuiig rrum mn cwiirrucnon owvpr WATIMONT WONMUW u-liiUnrP Choice Waterfront Lots from '895 , down monthly Htmuilt owMrskip ineludtt free membership . . . a membership that will provide the use of a planned 18-hole golf course, boating and fishing facilities, Olympic swimming pool, tennis courts, putting greens, Badminton courts, quoits, croquet, and shuffleboard ! Tampa I N KM,.,, Milti-Riillioi dIUr ctRttnictioa and development con tracts have been signed, bonds posted and money escrowed to assure completion ... and one of the larg est single shipments of new road-building and dirt moving equipment ever put into a Florida subdivision is. already hard at work building your dream city and ours-Cape Coral! Even as you read this, another span of road is being paved ... another waterway widened and deepened, and another one of Cape Coral's many pleasure facilities is brought closer to completion. cape corai Choice Waterview Lots iM95 monthly Breathtakingl . . . in'f H? How omM H bt tkerwlM when Nature was so lavishly generous to begin with! See how the imaginative engineering skills of master planners did the rest! . . . 3548 choice homesites fronting on 54 miles of navi gable waterways to the Gulf and its rich promise of record-breaking tarpon, sea trout, snook, bonita and channel bass. 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