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Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, May 25, 1953 ; MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Everyone in Southern '.Oregon Reads The MaJ Tribune" FubTished Daily except Saturday by f "frnvr ion d d TVTlvn n S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-0141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATH Ail. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon tinder Act of March 3 1891 SCBSCRIPTION RATES F- Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 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: Dally 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 CiCy 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC&ATPCtN 27 J 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 25. 1948 (Tuesday) The special county zoning measure balloted upon during the primary election Friday was defeated by 72 votes. "Tourist Host Week," spon sored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is launched with a tourist host school at Rogue Valley Coun try club. 20 YEARS AGO May 25. 1938 (Wednesday) L. L. Meadows, former lo cal man now residing in Alaska, and his wife escaped death in a violent storm May 13, according to a Juneau paper. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Repub licans smell a victory in No vember." 30 YEARS AGO -May 25, 1928 (Friday) Yesterday with a maximum temperature of 98 degrees was not only the hottest day of the year so far, but the highest temperature recorded by the Medford weather bureau. From local and. personal column: "Commencement ex ercises of the Phoenix High school will be held tonight at the high school with A. C. Strange of the Southern Ore gon Normal school delivering the address." 40 YEARS AGO May 25. 1918 (Saturday) From local and personal column: "Sheriff Jennings, having become satisfied that two barrels confiscated at a vacant farm house near Agate contained cider, has returned them." The Olsen farm, in the Meadows district, will be sold at public auction next Satur day to satisfy judgment ren dered in the circuit court.. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct .is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. Radio waves travel at a velocity o f approximately 1,860, 18,600, or 186,000 miles per second? 2. When it is noon (Stand ard Time) in San Francisco, what time is it in New York City? 3. How many feet are in a statute mile? . 4. Who composed the Blue Danube Waltz? 5. On which river is the headquarters of the United Nations? 6. In Roman mythology, who was Morpheus? . 7. Name the longest wall in the world. 8. Tungsten is an element; true or false? 9. Which of the Great Lakes lies wholly within the bound aries of the United States? 10. Since 1860, Germany has begun five wars: Danish, Austro - Prussion, First and Second World Wars; name the fifth. Answers: 1. 186.000; 2. 3 p.m.; 3. 5.280; 4. Johann Strauss; 5. East River. New York City; S. The god of dreams; Great Wall of China; 8. True; 9. Lake Michi gan; 10. Franco-Prussian. - - Editorial Correspondence . . . . Rice Mountain Lodge, N.Y., May 21 Back in the land of 1,000 lakes where we spent several weeks a year ago. The season is very backward here, the deciduous trees are a skimpy green (not leafed out), the fields near-lakes, and we arrived in a cold windy rain. One compensation it is too cold for the midges and the deer flies. As the rules of family protocol demand Miss Maria Mac Arthur called on us accompanied by her mother, oldest sister and the new station wagon.' Being no expert on babies, particularly when they are three weeks old, we had to leave the verdict up to "older gals", assembled, including Mrs. McKee, our hostess, who has three grown children of her own. Greatly to our surprise! the verdict was "innocent" sweetly innocent and amazingly alert as well as beautiful. Unlike most babies at that age she has turned herself over three times, and takes a great interest in other members of the animal kingdom not excluding her grandparents. She prefers the feminine sex however that won't last"more than 16 years and proceeded to greet grand-pappy as the South Americans greeted Richard Milhous Nixon, with a spittle coated sneer, and then a rebel yell. However it was easily explained the poor dear had not had her 6 o'clock bottle, and quickly realized when em braced by the only member of the male sex present she could expect no nourishment from him. So the young lady, not only beautiful but spirited, registered a natural protest. We still haven't been able to figure out why when a candidate for office in Oregon withdraws from a race but fails to get his name off the ballot, he always gets more votes than anyone expected he would, had he stayed in. Don't most of the voters read the papers, and consequently don't realize the man they are voting for can't be elected? Or does the impulse proceed from some sort of perverse resentment against the candidate who has no competition? It has this department baffled. Perhaps Revlon could an swer it. As before the single-coach N.Y. Central train coming up here from Utica reminded us of the Barnum Cannon Ball that used to run from Crater Lake Motors to the Jackson ville courthouse. The fireman doesn't act as conductor but the conductor acts as conductor, brakeman and red-cap very efficiently too. . The single-coach does the rock and roll better than your correspondent could, but thanks to the new Diesel engine the "accommodation" makes good time. The coach was pretty well filled considering the tourist season is not on, most of the passengers dressed like lumber jacks, except a collegiate looking young man, an attractive but foreign looking young lady, and a very "tweedy" gentle man with a British accent, all bound apparently for Lake Placid or Saranac. A few years ago this train ran to Mon treal, Canada, last year only to Malone, U.S-A.., and now only to Lake Placid. The N.Y. Central would like to abandon the two trains, night and day, entirely, but the Public Utility Commission, like the PUC in California, recognize railroads have a public obligation and to date have refused to allow it. As there is no airplane or bus service, and not all the residents in these little villages have cars, it is hard to figure what they would do if passenger service stopped. Speaking of trains, one evening in the City of Portland club-car a group of men were playing bridge and between hands one them praised the Union Pacific for running such a luxurious and up-to-the-minute train from Portland to Chicago. He agreed with the undersigned that it is one of the best trains he had ever ridden on, and wondered how the U.P. could afford it. "They can't make any money on it," he observed. "No railroad makes money on their passenger trains," his partner declared, "it is only a question of how much they lose. It's mostly a matter of bookkeeping, however, for on overall operation, all the railroads or most of them are well in the black. I am in the railroad supply, business and I know how tough the passenger business is, but one thing you can say for the U.P., they meet the problem not by reducing the quality of the service as to drive people to airplanes and busses, but by improving service, by adver tising, by doing everything they can to get more passenger business." It was too bad President Russell of the "Friendly S.P." could not have listened in to that conversation. R.W.R. Os Wests Plaque Former Gov. Os West noted his 85th birthday the other day. He can look back on a long life, much of it devoted to service to the state of Oregon. In 1903 he was named state land agent; in 1907 he became a member of the state Railroad Commis sion (predecessor to the Public Utilities commis sion), and in 1911 he was elected 14th governor of the state. ......... ,. After his one term (he did not fun for reelec tion) ha lived in Portland and practiced law until his retirement a few years ago. .... LIE ACCOMPLISHED many notable things 1 during his years in state government. One of the most lasting was his successful effort to persuade the legislature to set aside Oregon's beaches as public property, reserved for the use of all the people of the state, forever. Oregon is fortunate in this. Too many other seacoast states were not sufficiently far-seeing, and mile' after mile of choice beaches are owned privately, and thus are inaccessible to their peo ple. Oregon, in effect, has a 400-mile state park along the coast. One of the choicest bits Short Sands beach, just north of Neahkanie mountain recently was renamed Os West State Park in his honor. A ND today a bronze tablet, authorized by the Oregon legislature, is being dedicated in a spot on Neahkanie mountain in honor of Os West's achievement. The gracefully-written tribute on the plaque says: "If sight of sand and sky and sea has given respite from your daily cares, then pause to thank Oswald West, former Governor of Oregon (1911-1915). By his foresight, nearly 400 miles of the ocean shore was set aside for public use from the Columbia River on the north to the California border on the south. This marker is erected and dedicated by the grateful citizens of Oregon to commemorate this outstanding achievement in the conservation of natural resources." E.A. Dennis the Menace - Wity don't we but BLACK Matter of Fact THE SECOND COMING Paris Short of a mircle in the French Chamber of Deputies, it is hard to see w5h o w Gen. de Gaulle's event tual return to power is going to be avoided. The French parliament is not usually a miracul ous body. Hence the circum- Jos-pb Alsop s i o " t c a which Gen. de Gaulle will take power probably consti tute the key problem of the French future. If he is elevat ed to the leadership of France by unconstitutional or anti constitutional means, the con sequences are likely to be fairly lurid. But one can at least hope for much better re sults if de Gaulle attains power by metter means. The foregoing conclusions flow quite directly from the logic of the present situation here in France. The surface is deceptive. Paris is calm. Paris is in full springtime glory. Paris even has a government, headed by Pierre Pflimlin, which commands a large and seemingly solid majority in the Chamber. - BUT this smiling, tranquil surface is relatively mean ingless when it is weighed against two central facts. The government of Pierre Pflimlin no longer has any real auth ority in Algeria. And there is no visible, practical way to reestablish the supremacy of Paris over Algiers, except by de Gaulle alone. In the feverish days since the French army in Algeria in effect proclaimed a second French government there, the key event here in Paris has been the resignation of the moderate and high-minded French Chief of Staff, Gen Paul Ely. Ostensibly, Gen. Ely resigned because the new Minister of Defense, Pierre de Chevigne, abruptly arrested a couple ot members of the General Staff without giving Gen. Ely any warning. In fact, however, this was just the straw that broke the camel's back, as was indicated when Gen. Ely was beseeched most humbly to resume his post. He simply answered that he did not agree with the government on much larger issues than the arrest of his subordinates. Three other sen ior officers, beginning with A dm. Henry Nomy were than offered the post and gave the same answer as Gen. Ely., Gen. Henri Lorillot, who fin ally agreed to take over, is an intimate collaborator of his former chief, and only be cause the French armed forces could not be left headless. ' ALL this implies as it was intended to imply, the vir tually absolute solidarity of the French Army here in Eur Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THURSTON MORTON tells of a political campaign in which, by accident, the rival Congressional candidates met at the same time in a town with only one large auditorium. The sheriff, who had -to sweep out the courthouse, told the candidates they'd have to have their meetings at the same time because he didn't intend to sweep twice in one day. And it was" up to this sheriff to introduce the can didates. He arose and said, "I want to present to you a man who, above anyone, has the welfare of each and every one of you at heart. He is devoted to our great and glorious state. He un derstands, as no' other man, the problems of our great nation ... he knows 'em all." Then he turned to the candidates and asked: "Which of you polecats wants to talk first?" Rocky Marciano recalls one fighter who had taken so many dive he had a cauliflower stomacl.. ' C 1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate Tom&T By Joseph AIsop ope behind the French Army in Algeria. What the Army wants is a serious attempt to solve the cruel Algerian prob lem once and for all, without undue further delay. The ap parently enthusiastic response of the Muslim population to the Committee of Public Safe ty in Algeria has convinced the Army that such a solution is now feasible. But Gen. Raoul Salan has also revealed the Army's con viction' that only one man can impose this Algerian so lution. In his recent address in Algiers, Salan spoke vol umes, both by his ecstatic praise of Gen. de Gaulle and by his significant silence con cerning the Pflimlin govern ment the same government which was obsequiously vot ing full power to Gen. Salan almost as the General deliver ed his address. In these circumstances, how else can the authority of Paris be restored in Algiers, except by an eventual resort to Gen. de Gaulle? No easily imagin able combination of French parliamentarians can accom plish this without, as a mini mum the support of the Army in Europe against the Army in Algeria. That support will hardly be forthcoming, because the French Army in Europe shares the conviction of the French Army in Algeria that no imaginable combination of civilian politicans can impose an Algerian solution. This conviction, furthermore, is al most certainly correct; fdr Gerl. de Gaulle will be able to sponsor a solution that would cause cries of "treason" if it emanated from the Cham ber of Deputies. , ' rpHERE is, therefore, only one peaceful way out that seems to Have much chance of success. This is for the civilian politicians to of fer power to Gen. de Gaulle for a limited term, and for two specified purposes to seek a solution in Algeria and to carry through a consti tutional reform. No one can tell whether the General would accept such an offer, but it is certain that if he refused he would then lose much of the support he now enjoys, and this would trans form the situation once again. The Leftwing parties want nothing of the sort; the Com munists are threatening a gen eral strike. AH the parliamen tarians are looking for still another combination, which will somehow overcome the harsh reality of two quite separate governments in Paris and Algiers. Maybe a miracle will happen, along this un likely line. But it is much more likely that the situation will drag on to the point of open rupture between Al geria and Parla. Then there can be very bad trouble in deed in this unhappy country. (c)1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me ' yry. .STIa .,JriW TVAl Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann r TOO COMPLACENT Washington After the turmoil of the past week it cannot have been easy for the Secretary of State to face a big press con ference. But Mr. Dulles not only did just that. He man aged somehow to convey the impress ion that far from being disturb- Walter LlDomann ed by what had happened he was, if anything, confirmed in all his views. The explos ions were ripples upon the surface of a great stream on which we were moving in the right direction and with right eous self-confidence. The question which domin ated the conference was not what the Secretary of State would do to remedy the troubles which have explod ed. That could not be expect ed of him. The question was whether these troubles had caused the Secretary of State to believe that anything for which he is responsible needed to be re-examined and re appraised, and whether, there for, he would encourage or would discourage our people to think about what has gone wrong. Mr. Dulles' reaction to this, which was implied in a whole string of questions, was to appear unperturbed and im pervious, denying that any thing very significant had hap pened. The net result of the press conference was an in vitation to the American peo ple not to allow themselves to be stirred up into thinking about the state of their af fairs. AS IT turned out, Tuesday was a day devoted to pro moting a general move of complacent self - confidence. This was the theme of Mr. Dulles' press conference on Tuesday morning and, applied to the recession, it was the theme of the President's ad dress on Tuesday evening. It is reassuring to have self-con fidence. But is it possible to f v V 1 Washington Report By William S. White MIDDLING CANDIDATE ' Washington It is possible that in looking for a Presiden tial nominee in 1960 the De'm- ocrats may find in Senator S t u a rt Sym ington a new Missouri com promise. The original Missouri Com promise, as readers of his tory will re call, was a set- wuiam s. white tlement in 1820 involving the issue of slavery. It. roughly determ ined what new states entering the Union could be free and what could be slave and did not greatly please either side. Symington, of course, is from Missouri. No slide-rule technique could establish the matter, but it is probable that he would be more popular with the public if he should get the nomination t h a n with the professionals at the Democratic convention itself. Many believe, for example, that it was one kind of non pro vote, the feminine vote, that twice made heavy Eisen hower victories possible. If this be true, Symington should do pretty well provided he got past the convention. For he is tall and fair and hand some. TTIS general potentialities for the Democratic nomi nation are not much built, however, upon personal gla mour. Actually, they are more related to a striking absence of political glamour. Every thing about Symington, in the poltical sense, is somewhat middling. His home slate, Missouri, is not quite in the North, as it is not quite in the South. Cer tainly not Eastern, it is not wholly Western. It is just there, so to speak, astride the middle of the country. Symington himself h a s some of the political qualities of the peculiar centralism of Missouri itself. He has, for ex ample, nearly always stayed quietly with the' liberals when the chips were really down as in- the 'civil rights fight. Still, he has never wholly alienated the Southerners. This no doubt has been a highly conscious circum stance. It is only fair to say, too, however, that he could hardly have done otherwise than to keep at least the toe of one foot in the Southern door if he expected to; have any sort of career in the Sen ate. ' FOR his great legislative in terest has been in military have such self-confidence ex cept by sweeping under the rug the harsh and disagree able facts which worry so many of us? Thus it may well be that the recession is flattening out, and it is true, of course, that eventually there will be a rise and, no doubt, some day another boom. But can we accept the pros pect of a prolonged slump at the present level, especially as its repercussions tend to be multiplied abroad, and to aggravate the international disorder? There must be many who feel as I do that they are not made confident by see ing that the President is un worried, that they would have more confidence if they saw him worrying about the very ugly things that ther,e are to worry about. COMING back to Mr. Dulles, it can fairly be said that the troubles all about him are not superficial incidents which a strong man can ignore. What happened to the Vice President in Venezuela is not disposed of by saying that we misjudged the efficiency of the local police. The fact is that the Vice President had a bad reception in all the coun tries he visited. He was not stoned and spat upon in more than two of them. But there was bad will, and plenty of it, everywhere. It is a mistake to minimize the basic fact that almost ev erywhere to the south of us in this hemisphere there is great dislike and much hos tility. We are merely delud ing ourselves if we pretend that only a few hoodlums led by Communists are unfriend ly, and that because the Vice President and his wife be haved with courage and dig nity, the incidents are closed and forgiven and forgotten. This is to make trivial a se rious business, one which de manded, so if seems to me, a sterner complaint against Ven ezuela, and than at home here a searching re-examination of our policy and of dur record, (c) 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. J affairs. And Southerners con trol the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee far more sure ly than Union General U. S. Grant ever controlled Rich mond. No one could get very far in that committee, of which the first five senior members are Southerners, by going around humming the "Battle Hymn of the Republic. Symington wholly enchants nobody very much but he also is not absolutely intoler able to any party segment. He has been a leading figure only in ' military preparedness more specifically, -in air pre paredness. Most of the time he is only a rather amiable silent Sena tor. It is not easy to picture him as the commanding and haloed head of any crusade. Alternatively, it is hard to imagine him as a man likely to draw from rockbpund to sunkissed coast the hearty, up springing hatred that Frank lin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Tru man and Robert A. Taft couid so readily evoke. But this fact, far from being a weakness, is perhaps Sym ington's inherent strength. His nomination for the Presidency in any case could reasonably be assumed only as the prod uct of some negotiated con vention peace. rpHE flaming Democratic lib- erals, in a word, might rather sadly settle upon him if they could not have somebody like Governors G. Mermen Williams of Michigan or Aver ell Harriman of New York. And the moderates and conservatives might take Sym ington, too, if they could not have the moderate-conservative they would far prefer. In short, his nomination would be something of an ac cident but accidents happen often in politics. . He is not a good speaker, and nothing thus far suggests any highly creative political skill. Nevertheless, of all the Democratic Presidential pos sibilities, he has the longest and most impressive record as an administrator. And admin istrative skill is infinitely more important in the White House than in the Senate. In his time Symington has been chairman of the War Surplus Property Board, As sistant Secretary of War for Air, Secretary of the Air, Force, chairman of the Na tional Security Resources Board and administrator of the old Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation. - -(Copyright, 1958. by United ' Features Syndicate. Inc.) OOTILUCCt (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Robert Burns, the famous I Scottish poet, once implored a Power to enable ourselves to see ourselves as others see us. He seemed to think it would be good for the soul. Well, it's happened around here, and boy, it sure is good for the soul if not for one's morale. Ila Grant, a reporter on the Bend Bulletin, is spend ing a couple of weeks on the Mail Tribune. The other day she wrote a letter back home, to another Bend reporter, and in it she told about some of the characters she'd met up with here. We swiped the letter long enough to see for ourselves. It's too long to quote in fuU (and we'd get scalped if we did, anyway), but for those who might like to look in on the seamier side of newsroom life, here are a few excerpts: "Olive asked me today, would 1 write a guest column for Sunday. Said I'd love to. At least SHE recognizes tal ent. She brought me a beau tiful Peace rose today, big as a soup bowl . . . "Showed this to Evelyn. . . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary Is often the case. Forcing TV Off Air? To the Editor: How ii it that a Medford city council has the power to grant a franchise that will very pos sibly prevent people living outside' of Medford from hav ing any TV? We cannot get a cable, we are informed, yet if the ca bles are successful KBES-TV will go off the air, according to their announcement on TV Question Box. ' I think that the county or state courts should prevent any cable system from doing anything that might force KBES-TV off the air, and leave only Medford with TV It is really a shame that just because Medford is the larg est town, they seem to think that they have the right to shove the rest of Southern Oregon around. Calvin Humner, Brownsboro rd., Eagle Point On TV Regulation To the Editor: Your edi torial of May 22, "The T.V. Proposals," having a direct slant at me as I am one part of the "quarters" that did criticize our city council, I feel that I must set the record straight as it pertains to me and my. attitude towards "free enterprise." My letter as printed May 20 makes no mention on the subject of whether or not but one franchise should be grant ed. It was my position and I still hold to it that it is the - duty of . the council to include a regulatory . clause in the ordinances granting T.V. franchises; and duly con sider any request for a regu latory clause. Your editorial states "the three new systems proposed re alike in one thing they will use cables or wires, and will not send their signals through the air. Thus they are not subject to regulation by the Federal Communica tions commission." The Federal government has seen fit to regulate T.V. within its jurisdiction. Is it not just as important that our city regulate T.V. within its jurisdiction? Protection and the "general welfare" of our local citizens are just as im portant to our community as they are to those who have several T.V. stations in one city under Federal regula tions. Otherwise it would be implied that you are not in favor of Federal regulations. In conclusion I want to say that I am in favor of competi tion. It is the best know pro tection to the consumer. My only v concern in the matter is that our city council act as the people's representa tives and in accordance with th city charter Ray O. DeMarrs, 1309 N. Central ave., - Medford Editor's note: Federal regu lation of radio and television broadcasting began solely be cause of the need to allot channels, so that one station would not interfere with an other. To accomplish this, it had to decide between appli cants, and attempts to do so on the basis of "public con venience and necessity," something the city has no business doing. , and everybody passed it around and read it. As much privacy as a goldfish bowl. Was about to tell you about Eric's vest. It's absolutely fab ulous. Striped in front, with brass buttons and a beautiful shade of yellow in back. He wears field boots, too. So does Earl, city editor. "Wire editor's name I have n't "learned yet. He doesn't say much. Quiet type. Man of action. I asked for style the other day on court records and nobody would tell me, so he did. "Then there's Bob. Photog rapher. Very handsome. Al ways back in the dark room with his hands in smelly so lutions . . . Olive runs Bob ragged taking pictures of peo ple and things for her fabu lous Sunday section . . . "I submit map of M-T news room, to submit to architect for remodeling Bend Bulle tin . . ." Springtime, which we're into with a vengeance, is of course the time for bare feet, but a tiny lad in a nearby community report edly went that one better, on a hot -day last week. when he went bare, period. Oh this is a sophisticated old world, this is, and it gets worse every day. We have it on reliable au thority that a young girl was offered a trip to the east coast, including a tour of New York, and a view of the fab ulous Manhattan skyline. "Don't be silly, mother," she retorted. "Everybody knows a Manhattan is a cock tail!" . A member of an organi sation which recently elec ted new officers was quiet ly musing to himself as fol lows: "If they call the presi dent prexy. why shouldn't they call .the secretary ..:...?" One of our reporters tells us that the floors in the court house received pretty hard use last election night. On the first floor, election board members were hurry ing in with their official bal lot pouches, wearing out the floor. And upstairs, some of the incumbent office holders on the ballot this time were pac ing back and forth waiting for election returns, also hard on the floor. At o n of the polling places set up in the schools, of the city for the election, a determined voter (female) was looking for a telephone. She went from one to the other, and could get none of them to work. Finally she enlisted the assistance of a member of a civics class, there to help people find their proper precinct polls, and dragged him off to the telephone to help her out. He watched as . she dropped a coin into the slot, and then turned to him in triumphant d I s g u tt . "See," she demanded. "NONE of the telephones in this school workll" He re plied quietly, "I think they will if you drop in a dime instead of a nickel." . An aged dog we know about, who is 12 (the equiv alent of about 84 in a human), was quietly slumbering away the mid-afternoon last week when a couple of salesmen started bothering his mistress. . He roused himself creakily, and drove the invaders away - and as she tells it, one of them was lucky to keep his leg. Anyway, after dinner, the old dog, who usually prefers to remain outdoors, demand ed to be let into the house. Apparently he felt he'd earn ed this much of a reward. A recent headline in the Portland Oregonian falls, we believe, into the non se quitur department. It said in full: "Birth Hard On Fathers." A local dairy farmer, ac cording to our farm editor, thinks that the best thing about his kind of farming is the fact that the animals are earning him money as he sleeps at night. ' Last week he went that one better. He leased his farm, and lets somebody else do the work and worrying, too all he does is collect the money. Races were run at the Lincoln school' at a recent health day, and the day be fore, lines were laid to form t the lanes in which the runners would compete. Some of the first graders heard the talk about run ning between the lines, and got just a bit worried about dashing a 1 o n g between rows of 'lions."