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Newspaper Page Text. 4 Sunday, Mt 4, M .MAIL TRtaWKt, jwhtobO. OCX. 9 . . ... "Zveryone Reads The Published Dany xcwt Se4wary MBDFORD KUITUG CO 33 North Fir St W. SPJ-tlAj ROBERT W RUHL. Ht HERB GREY Advertising 9lamftet GERALD LATHAM. Business Mer ERIC ALLEN. JR Managias Mitor wm , T- 1 lie : . t - HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editr RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Mitor fcALE ERICKSON. Circulation An IndeoenHent Npwtmnff ntered as second class mattr at Bedford Oregon under At f March 3 J9p'i T SUBSCRIPTION Ae Jtaii In Advaa: Catty tkily and Sunday i ywr fliS Xaiily and Sunday f mna 8.04 4ily and Sunda mos. AJti unday Only Ons year $49 't Comer In Advance Iedfarf Ashland. Central oit. Eagle Joint. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Vhoenlx. Shady Cove. t-ogua Riv er" Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 yaar $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 sno 159 Carrier and Dealers coay lie AH Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of Ci,y of Meaford Official Paper of Jackson Coanty JJnited Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUXBAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: VEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portia St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C. , Cr7 NEWSPAIEI 3 v PUBLKIEK ' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A S S O C'l-A T fdtu U KJ hmiinifl!"ma 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 May 4, 1948 (Tuesday) Glenn Ackerman, Portland, Republican candidate for gov ernor, arrives in Medford on campaign tour. Entries for the Miss Med ford beauty pageant, sponsor ed by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be received at the Medford hotel Friday at 8 p.m. 20 YEARS AGO May 4. 1938 (Wednesday) Medford's all-school fair opens Thursday night in the high school auditorium, the two-day show features ex hibits of student work. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The un springlike weather has re duced, the woodpiles so low, no politician can hide a color ed gent in one of them." 30 YEARS AGO May 4. 1928 (Friday) "The Rogue river, which is becoming recognized as one of the greatest fishing streams In the world, is growing into one of the most substantial summer payrolls here," a real estate man here claims. From local and personal column: "Saying that he is still weak but rapidly recov ering, H. W. Conger, county coroner, was downtown for a short time yesterday ..after noon." i 40 YEARS AGO May 4, 1918 (Saturday) Word from Jackson and Josephine counties indicated land locators are at work and are preying upon the unwary, according to Roseburg News Review. From local and personal column: "The Girls Honor Guard held a sale of carna tions at the public market this morning and on the streets this afternoon." What's Ysur LQ.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five et six is good. 1. During the War of 1812, who was President of the United States? 2. 3ible: In which hour after His crucifixion did Jesus die? 3. Who is the present Secre tary of the Army? 4. How many one inch pipes are required to convey as much water as a four inch pipe? 5. Which was the last state admitted to the Union? 9. What letter is missing from this scrambled word be ginning with P; Pmtri? 7. Are British and U. S. gallons the same? 8. The Grand Prix of Italy, Germany and France, th9 Le Mans Endurance, and the Monza 500 are related to which sport? 9. Who was the champion American League batter in 1955? In what year did Nationalist China's government flee to Formosa? Answers: I. James Madison. 2. Sixth. 3. Wilbur M. Bruck er. 4. 16 (Square of diameter). 5. Arizona (21412). 6. E (Permit). 7. No (British equals 1.20094 U. S.). 8. Auto racing. 3 KalinS (.340 Detroit). 10. 1949. . , : J Politics vs. the Judiciary We have received several requests to empha size the fact there should be no politics in the races for judicial office. Ok we hereby EMPHASIZE there should not be. But the truth remains, there IS. In fact we have never seen so much of it, as has been evident in this primary campaign which in this field promises to be final. Not only party politics, Democrats voting their party, Republicans ditto, but personal politics, anonymous letters, street comer whispers, door bell insinuations, and an extraordinary number of "letters to the Editor" all calculated to get votes for one candidate and prevent them going to another. 'T'HE judiciary municipal, state or federal should be above politics particularly the tricky, slick-propaganda type. But as this campaign has shown it isn't. And we don't claim one side of the fence is any more virtuous than the other. We do claim there will be no material change until the present system of selecting JUDGES is changed. IN OTHER words, so long as judges are selected by the people, whether the ballot is, or is not, marked "non-partisan" the old army game to a greater or less extent, will be played. And we have decided there is only one way to stop it, namely: Have all judges at least above the local level APPOINTED. And have them hold office during good behaviour. In event of behaviour which isn't good, give the people in the area served, the right of recall with adequate but not too stringent restric tions, or red tape. ME REALIZE Old Debbil Politics would re turn in event of a recall, but as a practical matter we believe, appointments in general would be far more satisfactory than the present system of nomination. As for recalls they would, we believe, be far less numerous than voluntary retirement for personal, pecuniary, or health reasons. At least, as we view it, that is the ONLY way to prevent the selection of judges being just another political rough-and-tumble, with no holds barred and the devil take the hindmost. R.W.R. i "Death and Punishment" We sometimes wonder if those who oppose capital punishment because of a sympathy for the condemned, are not allowing a sentimental and mistaken view of human suffering to cloud their judgment. The question arose when we viewed the pic tures on the front page of the Oregonian showing Hugh D'Autrement when he and his two brothers committed their wholesale slaughter in the Siski yous and as he looks today, manacled between two grim-faced and burly guards on his way to pleading guilty to minor offenses in an effort to ultimately secure a parole. COME idea of what life in prison for' over 30 years has done to him could be reached by a few moments contemplation of those tragically contrasting pictures added to the realization that one of his two brothers has been in an insane asylum for several years, and the other brother is so near a similar fate, that he is regarded as "not socially adapted to parole." We will have to leave the EXACT summing up of total human suffering m those 31 years, compared to the suffering involved in a sudden and painless death to those more competent and experienced in the field of psychology than the undersigned. But our belief is, there is on such a basis, no comparison whatever the former ex ceeds the latter as much m time. v CO AS indicated above, we believe those who oppose capital punishment solely on the ground of sympathy for the condemned are fol lowing a sentimental and mistaken view of human suffering to cloud their judgments. "IXHICH does not mean, however, that this paper is in favor of capital punishment. We are NOT! But not because of any sympathy for the criminals or desire to protect 'them. But to pro tect society, and to stop a practice we consider ineffective, degrading and morally wrong. R.W.R. The Good Ship 'Golden Rule9 We doubt if the indignation expressed by the Quaker quartet in the sailboat "Golden Rule" over their detention on the "High Seas" and re turn to Honolulu for a hearing, was asgenuine at is appeared. " , What we believe would have irked them far more would have been to have been ignored and allowed to go their sweet and precarious way into the atomic-test area. ' For if a hearing is held they will be able to plead their cause of putting an end to nuplear tests to a far larger audience perhaps a world audience whereas if they had gone their way, only a tragic ending could have given them any considerable advertising. R.W.R. : in suffering, as it does Dennis the Menace 00! BRING YOUR CAMERA Washington Report By William THE 'OLD GUARD' Washington liberal or "modern" Republicans may come and go, but there will always be an Old Guard t u n f orgetting - and unimagi native, but un- comp licated and undaunt ed, too. This is really being g r a s ped for the first time by the "Eisen hower Repub WHIara S. White ni-cina. xiicj are discovering that the ortho l : j, ti dox Republicans play for keeps and for themselves It is even becoming dis tressingly apparent that these tough and basically candid old boys never quite put their hearts into the Eisenhower concept of one whole party as a happy "team. They went along with this bit of high-minded sloganeer ing while it seemed desir able or, rather, necessary But it was never more than a sour and silent acceptance of an embarrassingly sticky notion. Their power of self- delusion never was very strong. Thus, under the hot partisan dust now gathering over the Capitol in this Congressional election year, notall the vic tories are being won by Demo crats over Republicans, or the other way round. SOME of the most signifi cant are being won by Old Guard Republicans over lib eral Republicans. For the Old ' Guard is stripping for action in 1458, calmly and all but openly heedless of the larger test of the 1960 Presidential year and just as heedless of the needs and wishes of the mod erns. It is trying to retain its dominant place on the Re publican side of Congress far more than it is trying to win the 1960 Presidential contest. It is attempting most of all to hold the traditional Re publican . heartland beyond the Alleghenies for this year and this year alone. And in the process the Old Guard itself is undoubtedly weak ening GOP chances in the East. But, then, the East is not its home and never was. When Republican Senate leader William . F. Knowland went down to a series of spec tacular and easily foreseen defeats in his program to ob tain instant restrictive legis lation, he won a certain war in losing so many battles rpHE war he won was this: He drew with a flourish as his mentor, the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio had drawn before him a line upon which all "good" Republicans could rally. Primarily, he appealed to the farmers, the small busi nessmen and the bankers who still make up the bulk of the Republican party out beyond the Eastern Seaboard. And the battles he lost were not his battles, nor those of the regular Republicans in general. For these Old Guard ists are quite unafraid to have their names put down in the bad books of the labor lead ers. The losers, instead, were the more or less liberal East ern Republicans, who now find themselves in a most trying political position. They are - being forced to explain the yea or nay votes ihey cast upon highly complicated labor issues without time to weigh the political implica tions. To this pass the old Guard has stolidly driven them. Not many voters may ever know precisely what the Sen ate did, and to whom. No matter;' the Knowland policy, S. White will be presented by the Dem ocrats in the urban and indus trial East as an anti-labor manifestation of the Republi can party as a whole. rpHE EASTERN Republicans fear that this will be the lasting public image in their part of the country. They are struggling now, with little confidence, to dissociate them selves from such a picture. In their area, at least four Senate seats are likely to be adversly affected this fall. ' Worse still, what has been happening recently in Con gress will continue to happen as it reaches the critical phase of its work. By August, the Republicans will be in two sharply divided camps. 1 Knowland, by necessity, will be more and more a frac tional or purely orthodox leader and less and less of an all-party one. For the Old Guard has had enough of col laboration with the moderns. To 'these the Old Guard is saying good-bye, and in less than tender tones. (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Editorial Comment BETTER AIR SERVICE Air service will be very greatly improved if recom mendations by a Civil Aero nautics Board examiner are approved. If the examiner's proposals are accepted, West Coast Air lines will be able to fly non stop from Medford or Klam ath Falls to Sacramento and San Francisco. The company also will extend its service to Boise by way of Lakeview and Burns, and . add an Oregon stop at Salem a connection we have long needed. West Coast Airlines is set up exclusively as a "feeder" line. It is designed to provide a local service connecting at terminal points with through and transcontinental airlines. There has, however, been a weakness in the West Coast schedule in that connections with transcontinental flights at San Francisco required changes at Medford or Klam ath Falls to either United or Southwest lines, with another change at San Francisco. The necessity of changing planes often caused long waits. Be cause of this fact, a great many people have been driv ing their cars from Roseburg to San Francisco rather than use air service. Direct service should add many passengers to West Coast lines. This will not take business from other lines, but will, rather, add to use of the airways and lessen ground travel in private cars. West Coast Airlines expects to have new planes in service in the late summer. The first of the new planes, the Fair child Friendship, F-27, has come off the production line and is now being tested. One or more soon will be made available to the airline's pilots that they may familiarize themselves with its operation before it is put into service. The plane has an airframe based upon Fokker patents. It will be powered with twin Rolls-Royce, turbo - prop en gines. West Coast will, of course, continue to use its DC3s tem porarily, as the extension of its service will make full use of all the new equipment as rapidly as it is received. It is the plan of the airline, how ever, to replace all its present equipment with the new type of plane' as rapidly as the ships become available. Roseburg News-Review. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann THE PEARL HARBOR1 COMPLEX At the U.N. on Tuesday, Mr. Hammarskjold said that the basic reason why no prog ress is being made on dis- disarmament is that there is a "crisis of trust from which all mankind is suf fering at the present junc ture." It is re fleeted, he Walter Lippmann went on to say, "in an unwill ingness to take any moves in a positive direction at their face value . . . because of a fear of being misled." This surely is the heart of the matter, and we may take it that our Arctic bomber flights, which Mr. Hammar skjold referred to as "the present state of extreme pre paredness," reflect an abso lute mistrust in the intensions of the Soviet Union. Mr. Lodge in the same debate spelled out this mistrust, which actuates our military policy, by saying that "the awesome destructive power of modern armaments makes it at least theoretically pos sible to wipe out the military capacity of a state even one of the great powers in a single attack. But such an at tack must come without warning if it is to succeed." THE proposals for interna tional inspection in the Arctic zone are based on the theory that the inspectors could detect the preparation for a super attack and could, therefore, nullify the danger of an allout and absolute Pearl Harbor. Our remedy, in short, for the mistrust we have of Soviet intentions is to put a great deal of trust in an inspection system. If I read Mr. Hammar skj old's remarks correctly, he thinks that if the Soviet Union and the United States would make an agreement to set up an Arctic inspection system, this would reflect a state of mind in which other agreements might then be reached. Certainly inspection as such, which would be as the saying goes "fool-proof," is not in the cards. If the will exists and the means exist to deliver the absolute knockout, no system of inspectors can prevent it. . THE real guarantee against a super-Pearl Harbor is that the means do not exist, and therefore the will to at Aloffer of Fact THE UN-MURDERED Washington The question is no longer whether the grim process of Soviet political evo lution is enter- i n g another stage. The quest ion is what the new stage will re veal. "In the So viet Union to day," George F. Kennan re- 1 V. A I . - C XI li A Y n A VI t 1 -wr pua"pu ruaui marked in his wry way, "there are just too damned many neonle who have been left un-murdered. ' The signs suggest that Nikita Khrushchev, who is basically a tidy man, is now preparing to deal with the sadly untidy situation noted by Kennan. It is hard to find any other explanation, in fact, for the perfect drumfire of renewed attacks on Khrush chev's fallen and impotent enemies, Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov. The denunciations of the "anti-party group" began "in a major "Pravda" editorial on April 17, and were repeated, with even greater emphasis, in another long editorial on "Pravda's" front page the next day. The neo-Stalinist theorist, Party Secretary Po spelov, delivering the prin cipal speech at the celebration of Lenin's birthday on April 23, threw a quick rock at the "anti-party group" as well as excommunicating the Yugo slavs. ,, IN SPEECHES at Kursk and Kiev on April 25 and 26, Nikita Khrushchev himself took up the theme with great vigor and enthusiasm, singling out Georgi Malenkov for spe cial attack. Also on April 25 in a speech in the Ukraine, Ignatov denounced the crim inals and paid special tribute to Khrushchev. And just Tues day, at Chernovsky, near the Roumanian frontier, Pospe lov's fellow neo-Stalinist, Mi hail Suslov, got in his five bits worth. Among the present Secre taries of the Soviet Commun ist Party, Furtseva and others known to be Khrushchev nom inees, are the only ones who have not yet spoken. It was needless for them to do so, since Khrushchev himself ,! spoke out with such, vigor. tempt it cannot exist. It is not necessary in this situation to trust the Russian intenions. It is necessary only to have trust in Russian sanity. In Mr. Lodge's remarks, which I have already quoted, the key words are that it is "theoreti cally possible" to strike a knockout blow. But is it even theoretically possible to do that now? Not according to the director of Central Intelligence, Mr. Al len Dulles, who said in an ad dress this week that "as I see it, under its present policies, the U.S.S.R. does not intend to use its military power in such a way as to risk general war." .Why not? Because they have a healthy respect for our retaliatory capability." We have a right to think that Mr. Dulles does not be lieve that it is now even "theoretically possible" to knock out our retaliatory ca pacity. For," as he said in the next paragraph, we must be ever watchful of military de velopments "in order to anti cipate any attempts at a break-through, there exists a balance of military power which is a true deterrent to a Pearl Harbor. TN the last analysis, a more flexible policy on our part does not depend upon putting trust in the intentions of the Soviet Union. It depends upon our putting in their ability to read correctly the balance of power. , The rest of Mr. Dulles's ad dress reinforces this view. He dwelt at length and in rich detail upon the spectacular success of the Soviet Union in promoting its own industrial development, and with the prospect that in the course of a generation the Soviet in dustrial capacity may catch up with our own. It is likely that with such prospects, the Kremlin will risk everything on the very theoretical possi bility that it could knock out the United States? The moral of this argument is that, having taken all the necessary precautions to pro tect our retaliatory power, we should resolve our Pearl Har bor complex. It paralyzes our military thinking and it stul tifies most of our diplomacy. We should instead, conscious of our own security, address ourselves to the great fact of our era that in almost every field of human endeavor we are pressed by the competi tion of a new and extraordi narily powerful social order. (Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) By Joseph Alsop The two neo-Stalinists, Pos- pelov and Suslov, and the oth er party Secretary who is gen erally accorded a certain in dependence, Ignatov, have quite conspicuously joined the chorus. In effect, this makes it unanimous. IN ALL cases, the "anti party group" was denounc ed for "stubbornly resisting" improvements in the lot of the Soviet people, and espec ially of the peasants.-In the Khrushchev and Ignatov speeches and in the "Pravda" editorials, the attacks were rather consipicuously coupled with high praise for Khrush chev's boldest agrarian re form, the abolition of the mo tor tractor stations. This was put through after Malenkov, Molotov and company were defeated and broken, and it is much disliked by the party apparatus. What then is one to make of this sudden, superficially puzzling spasm of vilification of the present manager of the power plant at Ust-Kameno gorsk, the present Soviet Am bassador in remote Ulan Ba tor and the others of the group? In short, why are such big guns suddenly firing at psuch small targets? As to the first part of the answer, it is now very hard to believe that Malenkov, Molotov and their allies can much longer avoid being ti died up in one way or another. The minimum tidying that seems likely is the expulsion of the victims from the Com munist Party, of which they are still members, and their removal from the jobs which they still hold. In the case of Malenkov, the way that Khrushchev singled him out at Kiev suggests the possibili ty of something much more dire. And in the whole group, Malenkov is certainly the one whom it is most dangerous to leave un-murdered. I T WILL be a great and ter rible step if Khrushchev fol lows Josef Stalin in rejecting the warning of Nikoli Lenin, against "crossing the line of blood" in disciplining erring brethren of the party hier archy. Only time can tell whether he will do so. . But even what has been said already is enough to tell lot. Zhukov and the party apparatus were the two in struments that . Khrushchev EWILUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A man we know thought long and hard about the candidates for state repre sentative, and finally came up with the following ob servation: "Eve Nye is not NyeEve." We have, in the past, rec orded the graphic reporting not uncommon in the publi cations of the Medford public schools. Now we'd like to call attention to the clear, lucid and unexceptionable syntax employed by a reporter for our own newspaper, Linda Pittock, who writes of the doings of the Applegate Beef Club. In her most recent re port, Linda said: "David Pittock brushed one In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written on May Day. Special observance of May Day is an ancient institution in our world especially in our English-speaking world where it is believed to have origi nated with the Druids, who were tree worshippers. The Druids go back; beyond the beginnings of recorded history. They were in Britain when the Romans came which was more than 20 cen turies ago. For better or worse, the Romans got rid of them. It was probably better. At any rate, for nearly three cen turies the Romans gave Brit ain what then was the best government in the world. The Druids worshipped trees, and the oak was their special tree. In Britain, the oaks be gin to burst into leaf around the first of May. IN THE Middle Ages, May Day was qjiite a holiday in the English villages. The people chose a King and a Queen of the May. They danced around the maypole and gathered spring flowers. Why? Presumably it was because SPRING was be ginning to get under way. The discomforts of winter were ending, and better times were m the offing. TVfAY Day got "into politics in 1887, when the So cialist parties of the world chose - May 1 as a day on which working people could show their unity by march ing and holding special dem onstrations. That brings us down to to day when May Day has been taken over by the Com munist party. In Moscow, the streets are strung with bunt ing and lined by huge por traits of Krushchev. Lenin and Stalin. Thousands of com munists are parading in Red Square io the raucous sound of a hundred bands. Commu nists are holding huge rallies in Peiping, Rome, Paris and East Berlin. MAY Day, you see which began as a day of HOPE has become a day of trage dy. It has become a day of tragedy because it has been taken over by the commu nists. Wherever the commu nists take over, the liberties of the common run of people are dead. The basic idea of modern communism is that the rich meat and the gravy are for the FEW ON TOP and the bones and the feathers are the portion of the MANY ON THE BOTTOM. That bitter fact is obscured by propagands, at which com munists excel. SO FAR, we've been talking about, the nast' Let's talk now about the present. In Washington, AFL-CIO President George Meany is sued a statement cabling on the workers of the world to renounce communism and ALL OTHER FORMS OF DICTATORSHIP. He pointed out that his torically May Day commem orates the workers' struggle for shorter working hours and fuller lives. He told the work ing members of the world's labor force to MAKE SURE THAT NO DICTATOR WILL EVER CRUSH THEM. used in his rise to power. Zhukov has been dealt with. The thunders against Malen kov and Molotov are already a stern warning to the mem bers of the party apparatus that they had better be care ful about arguing with Com rade Nikita about motor trac tor stations or anything else. And the mildest further dis cipline of Khrushchev's de feated opponents will confirm the warning in language that all can understand. (Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc. side of a steer, and Jimmy Christian brushed the other side. They explained .what they were doing." Rogue Valley Hospital workers, who helped out at the birth of three babies within a few hours of the time the big, new hospital was opened for business, commented that the stork had a better landing field at the new hospital than at the old. Youngsters in an elemen tary school class were study ing various objects last week, including a plumb line. The teacher demonstrated one, and asked the kids if anyone knew what it was used for. "Sure1," volunteered a boy, "you hold it over a woman who's going to have a baby to see if it's going to be a boy or a girl." We have a friend who likes movies, and one of whose minor hobbies is looking for boo-boos in the films. He happily reported that he saw one of those low - budget horse operas last week, and said that the 1870 atmosphere was some what marred by jet air plane vapor trails in the sky, and by the deserted side - hills which plainly showed the tracks of motor vehicles. A blood - curdling screarx brought teachers running from all directions at the Roosevelt annex at Hedrick Junior High school the other day. A student prankster had placed a live snake in one of the girls' notebooks. P.S. The notebook later was found a considerable dis tance away, where the girl had thrown it when the rep tile made its appearance. A young husband we know reports what he calls "wifely remark No. 23456 789" as follows: "Before my sister comes, WE will have to get busy and really clean the house so she will think that I am a good housekeeper." Automobile dealers, now in the throes of their "You Auto Buy Now" campaign, are doing some hard selling these days, but not enough to make them inhuman. Witness the one who was approached by a young minister about a cer tain shiny new model. The salesman warned him away from it, explaining, "That's for those guys wh think they know everything about cars." The city's recreation sub committee got a taste of some business mixed with recreation the other day, when they had a picnic type lunch in Hawthorne park, and transacted busi ness while nibbling at fried chicke'n, seated happily on park benches in the warm sunshine. The long - awaited pony arrived at the car dealer's across .the street about a week or so ago, but develop ed some ailments, possibly the result of a long, cross country ride in an open pick up in all sorts of weather. Anyway, the inexperienced used-car cowboys finally de cided he needed professional attention, and called a veteri narian, who took him away for medication and care. So, with Pony No. 1 hors de combat, so to speak, they scurried arouid and located another pony, No. 2, who is now cooped up in the 12 by 12 pen provided him in the midst of the hot asphalt lot. A few kids have been around to watch him, but mostly he just stands, head down, wait ing for he knows not what. We know quite a few peo ple who have resolved never to buy a car of that brand at least as long as the poor pony has to stand mournfully in the blazing sun. He vanishes at night, and we are informed that he's taken to another lot where he sleeps contentedly enough, but occasionally nibbles wist fully on the-tail fins of the new model cars. The small - town minister who has been battling the woodpeckers who have been ' making holes in his church has lost a round, having been informed that it's- un- lawful to fire a gun inside city limits. But he's going to appeal to the city for assistance. v Dick Hogan, the city pur chasing agent, recenUy com piled a manual of purchasing procedures. He didn't expect to win fame or fortune from it, but he's wondering, now that he received a letter from. Johannesburg, South Africa, asking for a copy to study.