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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."