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Newspaper Page TextCTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MECFORDs&kTRIBUNE ""Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Dallv except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAV. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor PALE HRICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper . Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 ' Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford - Official Paper of Jackson County "United-Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: '. WEST-HOLIDAY CO . INC.. Of- fices in New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At " lanta, Vancouver, B. C. O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL "vJ7 I ASSOCIATION J U 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 :Jan 5, 1948 (Tuesday) - Rain totaling 3.34 incnes of nreciDitation since Jan. results in minor flood condi- tions in sections of southern : Oregon. : From Arthur Perry's Ye : Smudge Pot column: "City planning commission plans to change names of 40 local streets. Unsettled. High 41 ; low 37, according to an item ; In Flight o Time lor Jan. b ! 1938." : 20 YEARS AGO : Jan- 5. 1938 (Wednesday) - The WPA could not make ; allotment of $12,000 to sur ; face an additional width of : the runway at Medford air ; port according to word re I ceived here. ' Establishment of a museum in Medford will be aim of '. Southern Oregon Gem and Mineral society this year. 80 YEARS AGO Jan. 5. 1928 (Thursday) Contractor Harry Scholts and a crew of six start pour ing concrete at Legion play grounds. Turkeys sold for 40 to 50 cents a pound in Medford dur ing the holidays, according to E. J. Runyard. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 5, 1913 (Saturday) The Medford Choral So ciety will present the third annual concert at the Page theater Tuesday. From Local and personal column: "In the near future Postmaster Mims will receive for distribution to post office patrons a large consignment of government garden and flower seeds. j What's Your I.Q.? I Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or n six it good. 1. What word means a short I space of time, a small quan- ; tity, syid the mouthpiece of ; a bridle? ; 2. Bible: Which son of Noah . was the direct ancestor of ; Benjamin? 3. In what year did the ; United States declare war on ; Mexico? : 4. Do insects have skel- - tons? '. : 5. In which State was the Civil War prison of Anderson- jville? : : 6. Who is the author of : "The King's General?" Z : 7. Over the portals of what ; "place did this inscription ap : "pear: "All hope abandon, ye 1 "who enter here?" 8. In U. S. the Fourth ; :of July holiday commemor ! "ates what event? 9. Is cream heavier than i rrnilk? J 10. The locked room which I Bluebeard forbade Fatima to j -open, contained what? I Answers: I. Bit. 2. Shem. 3. 1846. 4. Yes (on the outside of the body instead of the in- side). 5. Georgia. 6. Daphne ; du Maurier. 7. Dante's "In I ferno." 8. Adoption of the I Declaration of Independence. ' 9. No. 10. The corpses of six -former wires. I Ezra Benson on the Spot "When Congress reconvenes on Jan. 7, Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra Taf t Benson faces a fight over milk products that's going to involve politics more than human kindness. Sen. Charles E. Potter (R-Mich.), after waiting broke silence on Benson's decision to cut dairy price supports to a minimum, joining an angry chorus that includes most Democrats from farm states and a good many Potter's reaction takes on importance from the very fact that he sounded out milk-producing constituents before speaking. Potter probably will seek reelection in 1958. Michigan, for all its auto interests, is at the same time an important dairy area. Benson on Dec. 18 on dairy products as deeply as the law allows The decrease is effective April 1, but milk pro ducers said that handlers to pay lower prices now. When Benson's announcement was made, price supports stood at $3.25 a hundredweight for milk used in manufacturing; 58.6c a pound on butterfat representing 83 per cent of parity for milk and 80 per cent for butterfat. His slash was to the 75 per cent of parity minimum allowed by the Agricultural Act of 1956 soil bank legislation. ent parity dollars-and-cents nounced later would mean support prices of $3 per hundredweight for milk and 56.2c a pound for butterfat. .DENSON in announcing the new reduction in dairy price supports saving to consumers. E. the National Milk Producers association, said that the history of previous price support reduc tions would not bear Benson out. Actually, the history Benson announced early prices would be dropped from 90 per cent of parity to the legal minimum of 75 per cent. Farm ers were getting from 64 butter: the retail price was 12c higher. The cut to farmers was only 8V4C a pound, but Benson said on March reduction took effect, that the retail price would come down to the mid-60s. The average price did come down from 78 25c a pound-in March, 1954 to 69 l3c in September. Part of the drop was only seasonal, but for the full following year, the retail price was only 70 910c a pound, as against the 75c or so we're paying at the higher support level today. Will Benson's program prove popular enough with consumers to offset It's a gamble, and on the figures, a shaky one. Fluoridation On December 5 the delegates of the American Medical Association reaffirmed its approval dation of municipal water supplies to cut down tooth decay in children. than it used in a previous AM A declared: "No evidence has been found . . . that continuous ingestion of water containing the equivalent of ap proximately one part per million of fluoride for long periods by large segments of the population is harm ful to the general health." The Journal of the American Dental Associa tion has declared this report means there now is "no reason why any community interested in the health and well-being of its children should with hold from them the benefits of properly fluori dated drinking water." -"THIS is a logical conclusion, but unfortunately the American public can be frustratingly Illogical. Portland people, for instance, surely have faith individually in the judgment of their own doctors and dentists. And these offered as surances of the merits of fluoridation when this proposition was on the municipal ballot last year. Yet Portlanders as a group rejected the counsel of their medical men as a group and listened to the fear-peddlers who have fought fluoridation, just as they fought and delayed widespread ac ceptance of such health measures as vaccination and chlorination. Fluoridation has stood the test of time in U. S. communities whose residents had the wit to adopt it, just as the doctors and dentists said it would. If Portland had fluoridation now, our children would enjoy better dental land voters must have a rect their poor judgment on the fluoridation issue. Portland Oregonian. WHAT applies to Portland applies equally to TAfA t? wr t? 1UCU1U1 va. J.t. If .it. British Airplanes May Be Purchased London, (tPI The U. S. Navy has "approached" Brit ish authorities to investigate the possibilities of using Brit ain's giant 10-engine flying boat for atom-powered planes, a Ministry of Supply spokes man said Saturday. Three of the 140 - ton Prin cess flying boats have been in "mothballs" near South hampton for over three years. They were originally ordered by the Ministry of Supply at a cost of 28 million dollars. Sunday, January S, 1958 over a week, on Dec. 26 Republicans. cut federal price supports and dealers would move 19o4, unchanged m the The reductions at pres levels are to be an predicted a consequent M. Norton, secretary of is iffy. Take 1954, when in the year that support to 66 a pound for 29, two days betore the the dairymen s protests : E.K.K. Reaffirmed policy-making, house of of the controlled fluori In even stronger language report six years ago, the health. Some day Port new opportunity to cor The Daily Express today reported that the flying boats may be bought by the U. S. and modified as atomic-powered aircraft. The reactor and shielding for an atom engine would re quire a mammoth airframe, such as the Princess. The Princess flying boats, which like Howard Hughes' monster flying boat, never went into service, are 150 feet long with a wingspan of 219 feet. prr rr Look at the swbll F&&ST! bvbqovy lbtmz wb tmtz old Christmas Tzeesi Sputnik, Recession, Election: Bywords For Congress in '58 By CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY Washington (CQ) Three words will dominate the sec ond session of the 85th Con gress which gets underway Tuesday- They are sputnik, recession and election, and they all add up to big spend ing. The watchword for 1957 economy went out the win dow Oct. 4 when the Soviets lobbed an artificial satellite into orbit and the United States launched an agonizing reappraisal of national se curity. Result: the Adminis tration will ask for at least $2 billion more for the defense establishment, arid will pro pose an ambitious program of Federal aid to shore up the education of scientists. At the same time, inflation has given away to deflation. You won't notice it at the supermarket, but the economy is looking a bit peaked. Un employment hit 3.2 million in November, when personal in come dropped for the third month in a row. The Admin istration looks for recovery by mid-year, but Democrats are skeptical. Result: a strong drive to enact pump-priming measures. Election Scheduled Meanwhile, there's an elec tion to be won next Nov. 4. All 435 seats in the House and 32 in the Senate are at stake. Democrats and Repub licans will striVe to pinpoint and capitalize upon national issues, but for the individual Senator or Representative seeking reelection local issues will predominate. Result: an irresistible urge to vote through such measures as the rivers and harbors "pork bar rel" bill. The big spending decisions won't come easily. This is the year, after all, when both the President and Congress hoped to spread some pre-election cheer with a tax cut. That's out. But budget-balancers in the executive and legislative branches will fight to offset increased spending for mis siles by cutbacks in other areas. The odds are against them, however, and there's a good chance that Congress will have to raise the $275 billion ceiling on the public debt. Here are the top issues fac ing Congress in 1958: Defense- The Administra tion should get most of the additional money it wants, along with authority to share atomic data with U.S. allies Congressional critics will call for greater unification of the armed services, but no major reorganization of the Penta gon appears likely. Foreign aid The $4 bil lion Mutual Security Program of military and economic aid to other countries remains the most likely victim of Congres sional pruning knives. Despite the President's personal ap peal to provide the funds, a substantial cut is almost cer tain. Trade policy Protection ist forces, encouraged by ris ing unemployment, wiU wage an all-out battle to write crippling amendments into the President's tariff-cutting program. No appropriations are involved, but this fight may well be the most time consuming and bitterly wag ed of the 1958 session. Civil defense The Gaither Report's call for a multi-billion dollar shelter program will continue to provoke cries of alarm, but Congress seems no less determined than the Administration to shove this issue under the carpet. Postal rates The House al ready has approved a $500 million - a - year increase in postal rates, including a boost from 3 cents to 4 cents for first-class mail. The Senate is expected to agree. Federal pay Increases totaling more than $1 bil lion will be asked for mili tary personnel, 500,000 post al workers and one million Federal civilian employees. Chances are good that Con gress and the Administration ! will come to terms. Education The Adminis tration has dropped its school building program killed by the House in 1957 in favor of a four-year, $1 billion pack age featuring Federal schol arships and matching grants to states to strengthen teach ing standards . and facilities, especially in the sciences. iThe program is controversial, but Jtederal aid in one form or another will be increased. Farm policy There is 'broad agreement that the acreage ' reserve part of the soil bank program should be dropped and that the surplus disposal program should be extended. But Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son's aid for a freer hand in fixing price supports is doom ed. No really new departure in farm policy appears likely in 1958. Labor The Senate's probe of the Teamsters and other racket-ridden ; unions has put steam behind the effort to tighten up Federal labor laws, but there is considerable dis agreement over the amount of tightening needed. Two proposals both opposed by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell are particularly disputed: a Federal right-to- work law and extension of antitrust penalties to labor unions. SmaU business Congress is expected to extend the life of the SmaU Business Ad ministration, but prospects are nil for a tax cut for small corporations. Veterans The Adminis tration wants to begin easing on on compensation pay ments for non-service con nected disability, while the American Legion and others want improved benefits for veterans. Neither goal stands much of a chance in 1958 Natural gas With memo ries dimmed of the sensation al bribery scandal of 1956, the drive to free natural gas rates from Federal control will be resumed with the blessing of the President and the two Texas Democrats who run Congress Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon B Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Barring anoth er round of unforeseen cir cumstances, the bill should be enacted. Civil rights -- The leading political issue of 1957, civil rights, may take a breather in 1958. Majority opinion in the Administration and on Capitol Hill wants to "let the dust settle." " - (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Director Needed For Civil Rights Washington (ff) The controversial federal Civil Rights commission hoped Sat urday to get "within a week" a top-notch director to guide its 20-month inquiry into vot ing rights violations. President Eisenhower will pick the man for the $22,500 job from a list of several can didates submitted by the new commission. Commission Chairman John A. Hannah said any one of the candidates approved un animously by the group would be acceptable. He de clined to name the prospects. CONFERENCE SET Corvallis (1?) The seventh annual Oregon rural health conference, which will be de voted primarily to planning regional meetings for study of local health needs, will be held here Jan. 9-10. A. Robert What New Year Will Bring in By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent (Editor's note: To aid readers in anticipating what events will doubtless make headlines in 1958, the Mail Tribune publishes the crys tal ball gazing predictions of its Washington corres pondent, who spent the hol idays peering through the keyhole into the next , 12 months.) JANUARY Senators Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neuberger begin the new ses sion of Congress by holding a joint press conference to an nounce renewed unity, fidel ity to the same cause, and mu tual admiration. Half way through prepared statements which they are reading in un ison, Wayne's mike konks out, and only Dick can be heard by TV audience. Morse ac cuses Neuberger of nulling his plug. Oregon newspapers leave themselves wide open by reporting it as it hap pened. C. Girard Davidson blasts press for partisanship. Sig Unander returns from secret trip to Washington with announcement that he has persuaded President Eisen hower not to stop construction of The Dalles dam as economy measure. Six more femme teen-age Mark Hatfield clubs are organized under the slo gan, "Say it ain't so, Mark." Lew Wallace says his doctor isn't sure whether he can run for governor now or not. The stock market holds firm. FEBRUARY C o n g r e s s -man Walter Norblad turns up missing from his office. Aides hint he is on secret military mission. Phil Hitchcock says he found Walter spying on his house from across the street to see if Phil was going to file against him. Douglas Mc Kay flies to Salem under the assumed name, Mac Douglas, summons Hitchcock to Mar ion hotel for unity talks. Hitchcock decides not to run for "persmal reasons." Nor blad gets first-night's sleep in 6 months.' McKay files against Neuberger, but is told he's two years early. White House announces McKay's res ignation from International Joint Commission to prepare for campaign. McKay ex plains, "I don't need a job, but I'm going to clean out those left-wingers or bust!" MARCH Neuberger says In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What happened in Vene zuela? I wouldn't know. But I sus pect it was a plot to seize power. History tells us dictator ships tempt ambitious per sons to do away with the dic tator and take over his job and his perquisites. 17'EEP this in mind: Khrushchev is a die tator. It is historicallv Drob able that sooner or later some ambitious communist will try to take his job away from him. SPEAKING of commies there's Tito. A high communist source in Belgrade (Yugoslavia's capital) i says there is NO chance he will change his "neutralist" policies during the coming year. The "source" savs Tito in tends to remain noliticallv in dependent from both Moscow ana the West. "RUT let's get closer home " Coach Len Casanova says he is prouder of his 1957 Oregon Rose Bowl football team than of any team he has ever coached. . He adds: "Everybody said we'd- be humiliated. But we went out there and put up one whale of a battle. It was a real ex ample of guts." TTE HAS reason to be proud. "He turned out a bunch of do-or-die fighters who cave everything they had, at every minute of the game, against long -odds. If the state of Oregon will go out and tackle its prob lems in the spirit disDlaved by those youngsters at Pasa dena, there will be little cause to complain of Oregon's eco nomic progress in the future. "OREGON political note: " Secretary of State Mark Hatfield left the door ooen on the possibility that he may yet file for the Republican nomination for governor, even though State Treasurer Siz Unander has already an nounced his intention to seek the nomination. Hatfield has so far declined to say flatly that he would oppose Unander for the nomi nation. While remarking that he could not conceive of cir cumstances that would cause him to jenter the race, he ad mits that he is open to re- evaluation of the situation. Smith Makes Predictions of once more that he may not run for re-election because he would rather be a writer than a senator. Saturday Evening Post updates Neuberger's fa mous article, newly entitled, "They Never Go Back to Roseburg." Guy Cordon, from his Washington law office, blasts the article, saying he's been back to Roseburg every summer since 1954. Harris Ellsworth, who's been back every year since '44, orders Civil Service Commission to prepare report showing there are still more New Dealers in Washington than anything. Republican National Commit tee gets White House to stamp Ellsworth report top secret. Governor Robert D. Holmes remembers he forgot to send Seasons Greetings to all Dem ocratic county chairmen, and vows to do better next year. Sig Unander returns from Washington with advance word that an Oregon girl will be queen of the annual Cherry Blossom festival, if Sherman Adams can fix the turn of the wheel of chance. APRIL Gov. Holmes goes to Washington to attend cere mony at which President signs proclamation for Oregon Centennial. Sig greets him at the White House door. Edith Green holds private dinner party for governor and a very few other guests. Maurine Neuberger says she will head up Edith's 1958 campaign com mittee, after Edith pledges not to run against Dick in '60. Everyone drinks a toast (just wine) to this, except Dick who doesn't drink anything. He repeats Royal Canadian Mounted police oath of fidel ity. MAY President Eisen hower limps into locker room of Burning Tree country club, but stock market recovers quickly when Dr. Snyder re ports the condition is tempor ary, will pass as soon as Ike breaks in new golf shoes, Wayne Morse calls on him to resign in a 30-hour Senate speech, and regains talk title from Strom Thurmond. Harp er s pubishes article by Neu berger entitled, "Jack Ken nedy for president: a liberal's liberal." Nixon clips it for use in 1960. JUNE Congress passes the Alaska statehood bill 'and 99 per cent of Oregon's unem ployed go north to the new frontier. Many are hired by film crew on location in Brit ish Columbia doing TV torn mercials for Marlboro. Mark Hatfield takes a wife, and 99 per cent of Oregon's unat tached gals head for Calif. Governor notes drop in unem ployment, says his program now paying off. American Mercury magazine, next to article on New Nixon, has ar ticle by Wayne Morse enti tled: "Jack Kennedy: a reac tionary's liberal." Nixon, clips ootn lor 1960. JULY As Congress is held up from adjournment by quarrel over foreign aid bill, John Foster Dulles flies to Lima, Peru, for talks with ex Congressman Sam Coon at his ICA post there. Coon flies back to Washington with Dul les, goes on TV to tell the in side story of how foreign aid has kept Latin America from going communist. Charley Porter challenges Coon to take back implied support for Latin dictators who claim to be anti-communist. Congress passes the bill, and Coon is promoted to vice-deputy as sistant for agriculture aid at Karachi. Norblad sets record with second speech on House floor. The Oregon Voter pub lishes special edition on "The New Norblad." Oregon Demo crat begins pre-election series on the New Sweetland, who has secretly filed against Nor blad. AUGUST Neuberger in Holiday magazine article, in vites Ike to spend vacation at Seaside. Jim Haggerty goes to Seaside and finds Pacific ocean warmer, but crosswinds too strong for Ike's slice. Ore gonians then relax and enjoy it themselves. All but Charlie Porter, who discovers Domin ican Republic has placed larg est order for Douglas fir in history with foreign , a i d funds. Eugene becomes boom town. SEPTEMBER Dave Beck goes on trial for income tax evasion. Los Angeles Dodgers hint they may move to Seat tle. LA Mayor Norris Poulson says Seattle already has too many dodgers. Neuberger an nounces he will sponsor bill to give Portland Exposition Recreation center priority for kilowatts under the prefer ence clause if Dodgers will use E-R center as .home grounds. Paul McKee rallies utilities against this socialistic move. Dodgers move to To kyo. Yankees and Gov. Fau-; bus protest that this will open ' world series to foreigners. Washington Senators threaten to move to Portland. Ernie Swigert, pulling the National Association of Manufacturers into line against it, says:- "We have too many last place sen ators as is." Poulson agrees to transfer Rose Bowl to the Rose City in face of popular sentiment that Rose Bowl now rightfully belongs to Oregon OCTOBER Election cam paign rolls into high gear, de spite general disinterest Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Benson leaves for Oregon to tell Oregohians what a big help Unander has been, but is met at Boise by Sig and told to "be a big help and re turn to Washington on next plane." Secretary of Interior Fred Seaton and Nixon dedi cate two more federal dams started by the Truman admin istration, say, "partnership" policy is answer to Eisen hower "no new starts" edict. Al Ullman hands out Hells Canyon literature except to construction workers at Brownlee dam. NOVEMBER Wayne Morse flies to Oregon for whirlwind tour in support of Democratic ticket in last days of cam paign. Unemployed Oregon ians return from B. C. in time to vote Democratic. Lew Wal lace announces he is voting Republican. Holmes an nounces if elected he will not take a top job with CBS, but will serve out his term. Voters as usual split their tickets and go back to reading the sports page. Arlington Club About 11 o'clock each Sat urday morning, "Mr. Satur day" makes his weekly visit to the news room. Last week, he did some thing almost unheard of in the world of pipe smokers: he forgot his. Left it on a desk in the office, he did. Knowing he would return for it, staff members decided to do something special. Our photographer used his tal ented pencil on an old box; our sports editor furnished the coat; a reporter her scarf; and San Francisco the paper, to all of which was added a little touch of an old feather duster. "Mr. Saturday" returned for his pipe. He searched the desk where he remembered leaving it but it wasn't until our society editor turned his direction to the above display that he found his gem. Needless to say, a happy "Mr. Saturday" left with his pipe and caricature as a sou venir. One of our feminine staff members, accustomed t o wearing heels, arrived at work one day last week in something to which she wasn't accustomed: loafers. She even brought a pair of slippers "one day, and caused a minor sensation in other departments. They probably wondered just how relaxed can one work? Reason for the loafers and slippers: little toe trou ble. A couple residing on Win chester st. was a bit bewil dered on their first encounter with one of its Christmas gifts, but the two quickly agreed that the present was one of the best they've ever received. Recently, the two entered into a transaction for con struction of a new home. The deal, involved trade of the two houses they owned the one they lived in and one across the street. Before the couple and their two sons left town for a Christmas hol iday in Washington, they learned that a buyer had been found for the house they lived in and that they would have to move into the dwelling across the street as soon as they got home. They headed north sort of dreading the move. When they arrived home a PTIUCIK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) f&My 1 p. Headlines is wreathed in same black crepe used after 54 and '56 fluke victories for Democrats. DECEMBER Attorney General Bob Thornton an nounces record number of convictions by the state against motorists exceeding speed limit. Blames GOP highway program as cause of law violations. Oregon con gressional delegation returns to Washington for a rest. Six staff members are fired for saying, "How'd you like your vacation?" Neuberger calls press conference, says not sure whether he will run for re election or return to writing. Passes out advance copies of" article from March issue of Sports Illustrated, entitled: "I Played Doubles at HandbaU with the Oldest Senator in History and We Won!" Says it shows all senators would benefit by more exercise in team sports, and should hold some sessions in the Senate gym. From his Maryland farm, Morse issues statement saying "I've never been on a team in my life, and I'm healthy as a horse." - Human experience is one year further in debt to its leaders. couple of days after Christ mas, and opened the door, they were startled to find their house practically bare and devoid of their personal belongings. But they soon no ticed a sign stating they now lived across the street. Now, a good number of the homes on Winchester are ex actly alike in interior design. When the family crossed the street and opened the door, the couple found their fur nishings and belongings al most exactly as they had left them in the other house. Several neighbors and fel low employees did the mov ing. One of our staff members, driving blissfully along the highway during the holi days, was stopped by a short blast from a state po lice car siren. His automo bile license had expired. - Later he started out to renew the license. But guess what? Yep, he was slopped again. He finally did get it renewed, though. v The staff members who write "heads" for news stories have been doing ' it a long time; they could turn them out without hardly thinking about the number of letters required in a line for a spe cific kind of type. But something happened the other day. Many of the "heads" were returned from the back shop marked "too long." The writer apparently wasn't thinking, but as the days passed fewer and fewer "heads" were returned. Which all leads up to the question: We wonder how many readers noticed New Year's Day the Mail Tribune started using nine columns. We heard that one local woman noticed "something different" about the paper, but couldn't quite figure out what it was. It took the wife of one of our staff members a couple hours to see the dif ference. . , A local family was mys tified recently when a pet's feed bowls kept disappear ing. Sometimes they would be found a block from the feeding spot, and sometimes not at all. Then one day, an embar rassed neighbor returned the bowls. Her dog took them, she said.