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OBSESSED WITH AN IDEA!
He or more frequently,
she always arrives in the
newsroom shortly before the
day's deadline, sidles up to
a . reporter who is working
feverishly to get his last
story out, and produces a
sheaf of clippings from ob
scure, poorly-printed publica
tions. "Now I want you to read
these carefully," says the visi
tor, directing a reproachful
glance at the reporter. "The
public isn't aware of what a
grave problem this is. We
need action. Right away."
So the reporter, with whom
tactfulness is an occupational
hazard, scribbles a hasty end
ing to his story and turns his
attention to the visitor. The
clippings turn out to be docu
ments explaining, in exhaus
tive detail, the satanic rela
tionship between Darwin's
theory of evolution and
Marx's theory of world com
munism.
. The visitor, and every
newspaper has its own collec
tion of them, is the Vacant
Mind Obsessed With an Idea.
Such people make up only
a fragment of the population,
but they're always on the
move. They maintain active
correspondence with like-
Tninrifrt cnnlc Thpir distin
guishing Qiark is the sheaf of
clippings, which thgy produce
as positive proof that their
ideas "are valid. The zaniest
argument appears to take on
.dignity after it has found a
place on a printed page.
Many of these idea-crazed
individuals are motivated by
the highest of impulses: The
lady who worries about pris
oners in the penitentiary, the
elderly gentleman with a
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poverty, the intense house
wife who wants to tell the
world about her religious dis
coveries. Others are leas agreeable.
One is sure that the Commu
nists have planted an agent
with each newspaper in the
country how else could the
news come ou so garbled?
Another announces that the
Medical Trust is bribing the
press to ignore the news of
Dr. Quack's anti-cancer mira
cle drug; look here, it , ex
plains all about it in this
clipping. With such visitors
the "reporter tries to look as
un-Red or as unbribed as pos
sible, meanwhile keeping a
wary eye on the nearest exit.
The most pleasant, and by
all odds the most persuasive,
of the visiting idea specialists
are the food faddists.
They don't start by assum
ing the reporter has a grudge
against them. On the con
trary, they sympathize with
him for his ignorance of the
benefits to be gained from
sunflower seeds or Bulgarian
yogurt or blackstrap molasses.
"I used to look almost as
wretched as you until I dis
covered what proper diet can
do," says the yogurt fan, smil
ing cheerfully and radiating
good spirits. "But now I feel
fine. I haven't got a worry
in the world. Life is wonder
ful. See, it explains all about
it in this clipping."
Unlike the worrier over
communism or vivisection or
eternal damnation, the food
faddist seems to get pleasure
out of the idea that has seized
him. He gains few converts,
but at least he enjoys himself.
Albany Democrat-Herald.
Two Big Fires
Consume Sagebrush
Sunnyside, Wash. (UPI)
Two large brush fires Thurs
day consumed two-thirds of
the sagebrush on Big Snipen
Mountain and for a time
threatened the Granger water
supply before the blaze was
brought under control.
A powder house belonging
to the Granger Clay Products
Co. also was endangered by
the flames before they were
controlled.
Fire departments from
Sunnyside, Outlook, Granger,
Villa and Toppenish fought
the fire. Cause of the blaze
was not immediately known.
Flexible rubber electric
blankets are spread on the
floors of brooder pens at Joe
Davis' farm to prevent baby
turkeys from suffering , from
cold feet." The new system
keeps turkeys alive and
healthy during the first few
weeks of ther lives when the
mortality rate is high.
Try and Stop fvle
-By BENNETT CERF-
WHERE ELSE but in Texas could this happen? A little bar
was devouring an ice cream cone when a lady swathed
in mink walked by. He boldly wiped his dripping cone against
His 10-year-old sister was
aghast "Junior!" she shrill
ed, "you're getting fur all
over your ice cream'."
Broker drove his wife to
Idlewild airport and put her
aboard a non-stop plane for
Denver. Driving back to
town, he hit the peak of the
morning traffic, arrived at
his office in a state of ex
haustion. Propped up on his
desk was a wire from his
wife: "Arrived in Denver.
Perfect trip. Love and kisses."
Comedians were discussing' the fame and foibles of out of their
most successful contemporaries. "One thing you've got to hand
him," admitted one. "He never says anything bad about the dead."
"Nor," added another, "anything good about the living."
1358. by Bennett Cert. Distributed bj Kiaf Features Syndicate r
Railroad Bill Draws Criticism
Washington (UPI) Com
merce Secretary Sinclair
Weeks criticized the Senate's
pending railroad bill Thurs
day, branding certain of its
provisions unwise and dis
criminatory. He sent a letter with pro
posed changes to Chairman
Warren G. Magnuson (D
Wash.) of the Senate Com-
Youngsters Face
Juvenile Action
Norwalk, Calif . (UPI)
Two; 10-year-old boys, who
said they tied 7-year-old Mi
chael Evans near a railroad
track "just for fun," faced
possible juvenile action to
day. .
The two were released to
their parents Thursday after
explaining to sheriff's . depu
ties they were only having
fun when they tied the Evans
boy within five feet of a rail
road spur and 20 feet of a
main line.
"We wanted to scare him,"
deputies quoted them as say
ing. Michael's father ran a mile
and pulled his son away from
the tracks moments before a
freight train went by. He
had been warned by two
companions of the bound boy.
Sheriff's deputies said Mi
chael never was in danger
but might have suffered psy
chological damage if the
train had rumbled past while
he was tied.
merce Committee which draft
ed the bill. The letter said
in effect that the measure
goes too far in some respects
and not far enough in one
regard.
Weeks said one of the bill's
provisions would be of great
benefit if it allowed one type
of carrier, railroads for ex
ample, to exploit its cost ad-,
vantages in setting its rates.
The section is designed to per
mit such rate making with
out requiring the Interstate
Commerce Commission to con
sider the effect on other
modes of transportation.
But Weeks said the commit
tee version endorses ICC poli
cy of keeping the rates of one
carrier above a certain level
to protect another. Moreover,
said Weeks, the committee bill
would not permit rate reduc
tions to encourage competi
tion between different types
of transportation.
Grange News
Phoenix Grange
Phoenix Grange meets
Tues. June 10 at 8 pjn.
The program, sponsored by
the Home Economics club,
will be open to the public,
and will precede the regular
meeting. Mrs. Harland Glas
cock, chairman of . the pro
gram, will also have charge of
the display table.
Gertrude Lewin
Publicity Chairman
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In two Algerian cities
Constantine and Algiers
General (now Premier) De
Gaulle pledges that Algeria's
NINE million Moslems and
ONE million Europeans will
henceforth have the same
RIGHTS AND DUTIES.
That is to say
If he means what he says
and is able to make good on
his pledge
BOTH will have the right
to VOTE in free and un
hindered elections.
SO FAR, so good.
But hprp is the catch!
In Constantine, the speech
was received with clamorous
applause by the crowd, more
than half of which was made
up of MOSLEMS.
In Algiers, where the crowd
was made up almosl entirely
of ALGERIAN FRENCH, his
pledge was received with
marked coolness.
YVER the years, this has
" ' been the situation in Al
geria: About a million , French
have been running the affairs
of about nine million Mos
lems. But
If De Gaulle makes good
his pledge of EQUAL rights
and duties (including, presu
mably, FREE elections) the
nine million Moslems WILL
RUN THE AFFAIRS OF THE
ONE MILLION FRENCH.
THERE'S where the rub will
come.
Will the French stand for
it?
We'll have to wait and see.
At the moment, it looks a lit
tle doubtful. If De Gaulle can
make good his pledge and
can MAKE THE FRENCH
LIKE IT he will be entitled to
a place in history among the
world's GREAT leaders.
Cape Canaveral (UPI)
A speedy test version of the
Navy's solid fuel Polaris mis
sile roared into the sky on a
zigzag course today and tum
bled back into the ocean when
its engine burned out.
EAST EVANS CREEK
Holiday Visitors Named
BY NELLIE BERGMAN
East Evans Creek-Meadows
Memorial Day visitors in
the Lloyd, Beers home were
his cousins, . Mrs. Iral Moore
of Portland, Mrs. George Rod
man, Mrs. Lou Hibbs, James
Owens and Mrs. Frank Bruhn
of Yakima, Wash., and Jerry
Owens of Clarkia, Idaho.
The Amos Maplesden fam
ily visited in Yreka and Horse
Creek, Calif., over Memorial
Jack Webb Plans
To Wed Miss U. S. A.
Hollywood (UBD-l- Jack
Webb, TV's dead-panned Sgt.
Friday of "Dragnet," plans a
new venture into marriage.
" The hard - working producer-director
of the Los Ange
les cops-and-robbers drama
disclosed Thursday night he
and Jackie Loughrey, 28,
Miss United States of 1953,
would be married before the
end of the month.
They met when the actress
was trying out for a role in a
picture produced by Webb.
Miss Loughrey was married
to crooner Guy Mitchell.
Webb, 38, was married pre
viously to singer Julie Lon
don and actress Dorothy
Towne. He and Miss London
had "two children, Stacy, 8,
and Liza, 5.
4-H Club News
St. Mary's Cooking Club
St. Mary's 4-H Cooking
club met June 3 at the gym
annex for their last meeting
until this fall. Fourteen mem
bers were present. We all
made brownies again. The
finer points of b a k i ng
brownies were pointed out to
us by our leader and from
the mothers who served as
aides. Meeting was adjourned.
Terri Calhoun,
Reporter
Day weekend. In Yreka they
visited the Robert Head fam
ily and the W. E. Callick fam
ily. - '
In Horse Creek they visited
the Ben Maplesden family.
Sunday afternoon another
brother-in-law and sister of
Maplesden from the Apple
gate, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hu
kilL visited the Ben Maples
dens' home.
A number of children has
had the mumps in the Meadows.
Dr. Guy W. Bishop Jr. and
family of Aberdeen, Idaho,
were visiting in the valley
with Dr. Bishop's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Bishop Sr. and
Mrs. Bishop's parents, the
Ben Dawsons of Valleyview,
Ashland. Dr. Bishop was in
the graduating class of Wash
ington State college and re
ceived his degree as doctor of
philosophy in entomology. He
attended Oregon State col
lege. He was a member of
Phi Sigma national honorary
biological society.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, June 8, 1938 5
For the first time in nearly
100 years, there was not a sin
gle case of diphtheria in Nor
way in 1957.
. New timber grown in the
nation's forests each day
makes enough lumber to build
15,500 one-family homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Coul
ter spent memorial day in
Grants Pass visiting their
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
John Lichtenburgur and spent
the evening with their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Wade Coulter of Rogue River.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Beers
attended the graduation at
Prospect High school last
Wednesday evening. Their
niece, Patricia Sanderson,
was one of the graduates.
Emery Stingley spent sev
eral days in Crescent City,
Calif., visiting his sister, who
has been in a hospital there.
A family picnic was held
at the Carl Bergman home
Sunday last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Berg
man spent Sunday at Tenmile
attending a field trial and
won several trophies with his
dogs.
The rain has done some
good to crops in the Meadows.
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