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o o o- O 4 s, MAIL TglBUfig. "Everyone Sal Souther Reads The Mail Trlbave" Published Daily aaacept fetvfay T,rr,'.nr aa -a t I xt S3 North Fir 91. . P.C-141 ROBERT V VIOL. Jditor HERB GREY AVrtisiB Maaa GERALD LATHAM. Buiines Mar ERIC ALLEN. J8 Managing Saiasr HARRY CHJPMA4N, Tales Srfitr RICHARD JEWETT. ports Editor OLIVE STARCHI. Society Editor DALE ERICKSO? Circulation Jtfor An Indmandaht Newspaper Entered as sKcaaal lam anattar at Medfond Oraac) uadar Act at March , lit VBflCBTPTIOal KATES P7 Jjil la Aa"vace: Caay 19. DailO gst fuaalay 1 yar 115.00 DailO an aundar 8 not. 8.00 - DailO and umday ana. AM Sunday Cfcly Oa yaar t4X By Carrier la Aianc Hadfor AsiAftl. Caai1il Joint. Saele Phoenix, Shady Cova, Koaia Kiv- foini. iBHonvmL rem. Hajari ana cat motor routes: ana Sunday l yaar sis.uu And Sunday 1 ano. Ut ily Qxrrior and Daalars corny 10c qAU Terms Caa ! Advance Official Piar at Cy of Ke4fer4 Official Paaar at Jackiea caaaty Unitad Pre lull Leased Vlr S9CB5S OS AUDIT BUBSATJ 63 cmcvLAnoN Advertising Rprantative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. WC. Of fices In Neej York. Chicago, Da- troit. S&n Francisco. La Annies, Seattle. Portland St Leuis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C IVAIE VMOCIATIOt NATIONAL fBITOIIAl I ASSOCn-AT tuN U J Flight 'd Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 6 10 YEARS AGO : June 22. 1948 (Tuesday) : Mrs. Stephen G. Nye elect- ' ed director of the Medford " school district. : A total of 412,84 was re ported in ,csh and pledges - yesterday noon 6y division . chairman of tha building fund O ' appeal for tha Celvetion " QArmy. 28 YsrARa) fc0 '. June 3& 1888 ("rednestay) Madforfl federal building projects fill.coon reach the sta,g of development where O ' Aln9 nfi pcificetiqns will be drawn up, according to a . lt-tttr rom Sen. A. Evan Reamed. Jrom Arthur Perry's Ye Smuflj Pot column: "A barn that looks suspiciously like a art jje if under construction In ft rurml tret." CO TIAB8) &SO ; June MM (FrilT) Reprtstntftives, of 11 Like - 'creek telephone; ueera on the 0 old city -ater work intake ; pipeline pretentet their - claims to thft city council last ' night. ; The Oregon Caves rd. i - bound to come, C. X. Gates tells forum meeting of the Realty board. 40 YEARS AGO The Jackson County Agri cultural council has made ar rangements with Victor Bur sell, Central Point, to handle community shipments of hogs and cattle for two months. Jackson County Black smiths association will go on a cash basis on July 1. What's Your 1.0.1 Nine or ten correct it saaerisr; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1 Who is tha Prtmier of ; France? 2. What is tha law-making body of Franca called? 3. One of tha Cantral Amer ican3 Republics doas not bor der on tha Caribbean Sea; tjame it. 4. What are tha names of the four phases of the moon? 5. Is Bagdad the capital of Saudi Arabia, Iran or Iraq? 6. Does the Dominion of Canada pay taxes to tha Brit ish Government? 7. Correct the following sentence: "The economic 1 structure has been effected by . Vorld War II." 8. Who holds the long '. throw record in baseball, ' which is 340, 395 or (45 feet? ; 9. Did the Army, Navy or , Air Force receive the larger appropriation for the 1958 fis ; cal year? I 10.GWhich state had the largest percentage population ' increase between 1880 and 1950? ' 0 Answers: 1. General Charles ' de Gaulle. 2. Xational Astern ; bly. 3. El Salvador. 4. New Moon. .First.. Quarter. . Full Moon. Laii Quarter. 8. Iraq. ' 6. No. 7. "The economic struc ' lure has been affected by : World War II." 8. Don Grate ; (Minn. Millers). 44 feet. 9. Air Force. 10. California 53.3 h (ditoriil Correspondence . . . New York City, N. Y. The sirens are blowing all over .... i. t 9 a.i i i.ti 4-4- tnft pisce to marK xne ena oi uie senu-monuiajr aix-iniu. icsi aii rA rin .9v i wo hnno thpv will never have a real one, ry 1 we ai o- j They won't unless some new liava that win ever nappen. Tha front pages of all N.Y. up the Adams hotel-and-vicuna It is a mess. And we acknowledging it. He frankly again he would not do what Well, confession is good eood for the administration. There was no question of any criminal sense. There was of interest" and improper procedure. A member of ANY administration5, particularly as power ful a one as presidential assistant, should, like Caesar's wife, be ABOVE suspicion. To accept special favors and expensive gifts, trom any citizen, no matter how close the relationship, personally, when that citizen favors from the government, The suspicion may not be warranted, but human nature being what it is, the suspicion is created. We don't question Mr. Adams' contention that he granted no special favors to Mr. Goldfine, as far as bringing special pressure to bear upon any department of the government is concerned. But we do believe that for a man in his position to call up the chairman of the FCC or FTC for example, and merely mention the Goldfine special favor, giving automatically special consideration. ' So that's the sum and substance of the Goldfine case as we see it. Whether this is enough to persuade former Gov ernor Adams to resign his post to save the Eisenhower admin istration embarrassment, is. we think entirely up to Mr Adams. One thing at this writing is sure, President Eisenhow' er, convinced of his assistant's integrity and dedication to the welfare of the administration, will never ask for it. So we repeat it is up to Mr. Adams. Former Governor Adams having his troubles. Mayor seems that an appraiser for the a payment for some property Some of the local papers have been unkind enough to call this a "steal." Mayor Wagner says it isn't and he has perfect confidence in James C. Sheridan, the appraiser as President Eisenhower has in Mr. Adams. Well, so it goes. Just as y the Republicans, with an election approaching, will not let this matter drop, so- it is to be expected the Democrats will keep the "Adams mess" alive, as long as they can. That is politics. To a casual observer it is hard to detect any signs of a depression in New York even though the summer vacation exodus has started. All the stores at least those we entered are crowded (perhaps they are and white shoes). The buses taxi except on off-hours. And the newspapers (we always notice the newspapers) are chock full of ads. Meanwhile the popular barometer of the local economy, the Stock Mar ket, is usually on the up-grade. So where is the depression? Our lawyer friend here crease in unemployment. But up the unemployment rolls impression of being a very busy and prosperous place. It is hard to figure out whether more big buildings are being torn down or more bigger ones being built up here. There are so many of both. This is particularly true over on Third Avenue where the street virtually a slum. But more, Third Avenue is rapidly nue. Not as expensive or top-hat of course, no colorful park ing strip, but more like Lexington Avenue perhaps reason ably good retail stores and a with pent houses, balconies and even with roof gardens on the top. There are some excellent restaurants thrown in for good measure. Quite a transformation in comparatively a few years. Those promoters who got in on the ground floor probably have no worries financially, except the size of their income taxes. The weather remains unbelievably. cool and wet. Not so food for baseball receipts, but girls from the hinterland who happen to be allergic to At lantic sea-board humidity and heat. Speaking of baseball We doubt if the great national sport has ever witnessed such a complete collapse of any once-champion team,v as has completely overcome and overwhelmed the former Brooklyn Dodgers now the Los Angeles wings. Even the "TV" the other night couldn't "take it" and flickered out when "LA" with two out and certain victory in the ninth af Philadelphia for 7th place, played a brand of baseball that would have disgraced a contender in the lowliest East Side sand-lot league. What is the answer? We don't know what it is, but we do know what it ISN'T. It isn't lack of money. R.W.R. In the Day's , News By FRANK Taxpayer-gets-break note in the foreign news: The congress of the Domin ican Republic held a night ses sion in the republic's capital city of Ciudad Trujillo and REJECTED $600,000 WORTH OF AMERICAN FOREIGN AID! It then proceeded to cancel an agreement permitting Un cle Sam to build radar stations and a missile range on Domin ican soil. The members of the Domin ican "congress" were appar ently pretty huffy. IITHAT'S the pitch? " Well, the root of the trouble seems to lie in the treatment received by Lieu tenant General Rafael Trujillo Jr., the son of the dictator who runs the Dominican Re public, who came over to the mainland a while back and enrolled in the U. S. Army command and general staff school. He turned out to be a not very attentive student. He spent MUCH more time play ing glamorous hookev than in military skull practice. The glamor of his hookey playing was enhanced by the fact that he has an annual allowance of $600,000 by an odd coincidence, the exact amount of the "aid" extended by generous old Uncle Sam. A T ANY rate, he cut classes -tx of tener than he attended them, and come graduation time the U. S. Army FLUNK ED HIM. Instead of a diploma, it gave him merely a docu ment certifying that he had spent so many hours in class. - Hitler arises and we can't be- newspapers are still playing mess. compliment Mr. Adams upon states if he had. to do it over he did do. for the soul and In this case corruption or wrong doing in only the question of "conflict is interested in getting special is NOT to be above suspicion case, added up to granting a is not the only public official Wagner of this city is also. It Wagner administration oked at many times its market value, only buying swimming suits are jammed, it is hard to get a says it is evidenced by the in as suggested unless one looks Manhattan gives the general ancient "elevated" made that with the Third Ave. "L" no becoming another Park Ave number of swanky apartments a God-send to the boys and "Angels," angels without any JENKINS That wounded the feelings of his dictator father, who summoned his puppet con gress into session and ordered it to call off the whole deal American foreign aid and all. QJPEAKING as one pint-size American taxpayer, my personal reaction to the whole business can be summed up in these words: BOY! WHAT A BREAK! lyHAT to do about it all? " On that point, Zsa Zsa Gabor, one of the Hollywood denizens with whom Junior played around during his class-cutting intervals spend ing, it is alleged, somewhere in the neighborhood of a mil lion dollars buying gifts and having fun comes up this morning with some sugges tions for our state department. She says she knows the BEST WAY to better relations be tween the United States and the Domjnican Republic. Her solution is to have Jun ior that is to say, Lieutenant General Rafael Trujillo, son of the Dominican dictator who is the source of all the funds MARRY A NICE AMERICAN GIRL. TIMMMMM. It's a thought. ''It's a thought worthy of Zsa Zsa. But there's a catch to it. The catch is this: Where in the circles in which Junior and his Holly wood playmates move would you find a NICE girl? There are e o 1 d - dieeers aplenty. But nice eirls seem to be rather scarce in those areas. Dennis the Menace IS HE DEAD? Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Candidates Agree To the Editor: A news event of great importance to the future of Oregon from the hu manitarian viewpoint, and of equal significance in the cur rent gubernatorial campaign, evidently was missed by the pres this week. It was not missed by the 200 or so persons who attended the Oregon Prison Association's luncheon in Portland Wednes day where Gov. Robert D. Holmes and his opponent, Sec retary of State Mark Hatfield, presented their views on Ore gon's correctional problems. In his statement, Governor Holmes reiterated his well known position opposing cap ital punishment, and added: "I would like, however, to see the question (of capital punishment) removed from partisan politics and to hear it discussed reasonably, in the light of facts and in the light of the enlightenment we have derived from our education and our religious heritage." Mr. Hatfield, in effect, did just that: he took the capital punishment issue out of parti san politics! In the strongest and most unequivocal state ment I have heard him make on this issue, Mr. Hatfield said he personally favored "com plete abolishment" of capital punishment in Oregon. When two opposing candi dates take the same position on a controversiaL. issue, that issue can no longer be con sidered a partisan political football. That this now has happened is, I, believe, the most news worthy fact to come out of that meeting. Certainly, there is a responsibility to keep the public informed on a matter that has caused so much mis understanding. Therefore, I am calling it to your attention. Marguerite W. Wright, 3035 Hulsey ave., Salem, Ore. Work of Sadists To the Editor: Today I saw evidence of one of the most vicious acts of brutality . to animals I have ever seen. While driving along the air port road in Medford, we saw a crate that had evidently been tossed from a car. My daughter said something was moving in it, so I backed up to look. Inside the box were two what had been beautiful long-haired kittens; outside, lying on the ground, were two more. Their fur was matted with sweat, and they were gasping for air, and were too weak to barely move. We took them to a friend's house where we tried to give them milk, but they were too weak and close to dying to even swallow. We, therefore, had to take them to the pound where I was told they are put to death quickly and painless ly. How can anyone be so cruel? Surely if they didn't want them it would have been just as easy to leave them at the pound themselves. I was told at the pound they get them in sacks, boxes, and just lying beside the road, brought in by people like me who found them after the sadist had dumped them. I call these people sadists because one can't think of them as human beings. We have always had pets, and sometimes it be comes necessary to dispose of kittens or puppies when there are too many. However, there are so many merciful ways that it just isn't necessary to leave them along a road to die of thirst or hunger in the hot sun. I was also told at the pound that these sadists are seldom caught as they sneak out at night, but I wish I could see this particular one caught and staked out in' the broiling sun for three or four days without water. I guess that the most I can hope is that sometime they will suffer as these poor babies did before we found them. I don't suppose you had better use my name or address as some of these misguided an imal haters may think it clev er to leave more homeless kittens in my yard, and I nev er want to have to see any thing so pitiful again. L. Z., (Name on File). Editorial Comment WHY KEEP HIM? Now that the federal charge against Hugh d'Autremont has been taken care of, one of the most famous prisoners in the Oregon penitentiary will press for parole. He has served 31 years, after taking part in a brutal, and bungled, attempt at train robbejy. Four trainmen were killed. The affair has not been for gotten in Southern Oregon where opposition, to any len iency for the d'Autremont brothers has often been ex pressed. Yet one must be asked, "What can be accomplished by keeping this man behind bars?" He was put there to protect society from his fur ther outrages, to punish him, to set an example, and (we fondly hope) to "rehabilitate him. Society was protected for 31 years. There is no reason to believe he .would now be more dangerous on the streets than any other citizen. Statis tically murderers are good pa role risks. He has been punished. This 54-year-old man has been in prison since he was 23. What greater retribution ' could a decent society ask? His example is there to see, although criminologists ques tion the importance of a "bad example" in preventing crime. Is he "rehabilitated?" His prison record is excellent. He has learned a trade. He has been as tractable and as co operative as a-man in his po sition could be expected to be. Will he make a go of it on the outside? Nobody knows for sure. Indications are good. The murders in which he took part were brutal, to be sure but they were no more brutal than other, more re cent murders for which other murderers have since served long sentences and then won parole. Few men in the peni tentiary have been there so long. One suspects that Hugh d'Autremont would have been paroled long ago had not this been a "celebrated" case. It compares with the Leopold and Loeb. case in Illinois, a murder committed the same year as the Oregon case and by boys of the same age. Na than Leopold was paroled last spring after more than 30 years. In that case, as in this, parole would doubtless have come much sooner had state officials been, willing to let their own good judgment play a larger role than the howls of a vindictive public. So again we ask, "What can be accomplished by keep ing this man behind bars?"., Eugent Register-Guard Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann Br WALTER LIPPMANN Stalemate With Poison The Hungarian executions, because they are both cruel and treacherous, have poison ed the inter national air in which the great powers w e r e s u p posed to be w o r king to wards an ac c o m m oda tion. We do Walter Lippmann not know why the g o v e rn ment in Moscow decided that the executions were neces sary. But it is certain that so great an outrage to world opinion would not have been committed were there not compelling pressure . within the Communist orbit. The executions have taken place at a moment when the diplomatic talks in Moscow have shown that on the sub stantial issues there are no negotiable propositions which could be dealt with at a sum mit meeting. There is a bare possibility, not more than that it would seem, of an agree ment to suspend nuclear test ing. But if testing is suspend ed, it is likely to be done be cause, like the Russians, we too have our own reasons for thinking that more will be gained before world opinion than will be lost i'n the de velopment of weapons. There is no other subject in the whole series of con flicts where there is even an approach to a meeting of minds. On Central Europe, on .the Middle East and on the Far East and positions on the two sides of the Iron Cur tain are irreconcilable and not negotiable. The Hungar ian executions look very much as if the men who ord ered or sanctioned them did not any longer care to keep up the appearance of trying to negotiate an accomoda tion. .- THE underlying fact that there is no basis of negoti ation is not a new develop ment. It was there last Dec ember when Mr. Khrushchev began the campaign for a meeting at the summit and it was still there when the ex ploratory talks with Mr. Gro myko got under way. Each side is asking for what amounts to, the unconditional surrender of the other's ex pansion since World War II. Both the Soviet Union and the United States' emerged from the war with enormous ly enlarged spheres of in fluence. The Soviet's objec tive in the cold war is to push us back; to force us out of Europe, out of the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, the far Pacific, and Eastern Asia. Our objective is to push the Russians back out of Europe, at least to the Bug River, out of Africa and most of Asia, if possible back to the pre-war position. There are the irreconcil Matter of Fact CHAMOUN SPEAKS , Beirut, Lebanon As a last resort, President Camille Cha- moun is reluctantly but grim ly considering a request for Anglo - Ameri c a n military interven t i o n "to defend the Lebanon against enemy attack." "Certainly I greatly pre- S tew art Alsop fer to do the job with our own resources, the Lebanese President told this reporter. "I hate the idea of making an appeal to our friends, who have on several occasions affirmed their in tention to preserve the inde pendence of the Lebanon. We ourselves must do our utmost to put down ' this rebellion without making ' such an ap peal. But the appeal must be considered if the interference of 'the United Arab Republic cannot be difinitely stopped. It is a very delicate matter delicate for us and delicate for our friends. I don't want to involve our friends if I can help it. But you must realize that the Lebanon today is a country under heavy foreign attack." THE question of calling for Anglo-American aid was being reviewed on a day-today basis as the President in dicated. But as the statement implied, the final decision may be delayed. President Chamoun re ceived his visitor in a moment of lull in this city of street fighting. The eagerly arguing crowds of visitors, occupying every seat in the big ante rooms of the fine old Presi dential Palace, were the chief surface symptom of the in tensity of the crisis. Beyond the crowds there lay the President's guarded, quiet study, and here again , g. s able and unnegotibale objec tive which have from the be ginning made it certain that without large concessions on both sides, a summit meeting could not succeed. The Sov iet government would like us to retire from the whole of Europe while they remain in the eastern half of Europe. The American g o v e rnment would like the Russians to re tire from Germany and Po land while NATO, of which we are the principal power, remains inside a reunited Germany. To expect Eisen hower and Khrushchev to talk away this conflict is to refuse to see candidly what the conflict is. NEGOTIATION is impossi ble as long as on each of the issues each side has a position which is not negotia ble. It is impossible to nego tiate the reunification of Ger many. It is impossible to nego tiate a stablization of the competition for power in the Middle East. The best that can come of it is what we have got a political stale mate among the great powers, and the hope that at least the status quo will not be over turned by an explosion say in East Germany for Europe and in Lebanon or Jordan for the Middle East. In fact, however, the dip lomatic impotence of the great powers in dealing with the great issues means, as events are proving, that the great powers are losing their capa city to control events. There is good reason to believe that the Soviet Union is no longer the undisputed leader of the Communist world. The trou ble with Tito and the Hun garian executions are not localized and isolated events. Our own influence in the non Communist world has ob viously declined very consi derably, so much so that we must be on guard against the temptation to recover our in fluence by an action say in Lebanon Vhich once en gaged, might be very dif ficult to conclude. t M MAY except, I think, to see more and more that the great powers will lose control of the issues which they have not been able to settle. This is what is happening in Cyprus, at many points in the Middle East, and it may be unless Gen. De Gaulle performs a miracle in North Africa. It is a fair guess that as Rus sia and America remain dead locked over the fate of the two Germanies, proving that they cannot solve the German question, the time will come in the not too distant future when the two Germanies will negotiate with each other. For what cannot be settled by the great powers will in one way or another be settled by others. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Joseph Alsop there was a lesser symptom Tension had driven Presi dent Chamoun to chain-smoke the big cigars he likes. On the worst night, he had seized his hunting rifle he is a fa mous shot to exchange fire with the rebels who were at tacking the Palace. But now he spoke coolly and impres sively, with only an extra note of earnestness to indicate his feelings. THE American people should understand that the Leba non has in fact been under at tack for a full two years," he said. "The .reason for the at tack is simple. The Lebanon chose friendship with the West. The attack started in December, 1956, with an out break of terrorist activity di rected by the Egyptian Em bassy. "The resources, the propa ganda instruments, the agents of the Egyptian government, the strong net of the Syrian intelligence, the -Palestinian terrorist bands the Egyptians and Syrians have trained all these have been employed to the full. Some politicians here in the Lebanon have been won over to serve Egypt. "The process culminated in the present rebellian. It was started and it has been main tained by huge amounts of Egyptian and Syrian money, massive smuggling of arms into this country, and the in filtration of very large num bers of foreign military per sonnel, officers, non-commissioned officers and even sol diers in organized units." President Chamoun here made a long list of detailed charges. He said that the exiled Jordanian military plotters, Ali Hayari and Ali Abu Nuwar, were command ing elements of the Lebanese rebel forces. He said that in the Druse area, a whole bat talion of Syrian Druses had crossed the border to join the (By M-T Staff If you drive for 10 hours at 40 miles per hour, about 35 miles of the 400-mile trip will be driven with your eyes closed, according to the Na tional Safety Council. It explains: The average person blinks 25 times a minute for an average of one fifth of a second. Why is it that whenever yellow 'traffic lines are painted on the streets or highways, it always seems to act as a signal for the road repair crews to come along and cover them up with fresh blacktopT We have developed a high level of immunity to the blandishments of most public relations firms, particularly when it comes to the observ ance of special "weeks," "days," or "months." We can toss their communications in the waste basket with the greatest of ease and a maxi mum of ennui. Not so, however, for the ingenious perpetrators of Na tional Hot Dog Month, which is July. We like hot dogs as well as the next man, but this is not the reason we find the publicity blurbs appealing; it's just because they are written with a degree of im pertinent insouciance which we fjnd well nigh irresistable. We quote: "We who run the hot dog flag up the pole each year hope that you are one of those who salute the event for July of 1958. If you find a fancy in our figures or a fighting. And there was more of the same sort. rf THIS connection, he was asked about the possible usefulness of the U.N. mission that has come to Lebanon Great numbers of men, great quantities of money and arms have already been sent across the Lebanese borders to aid the rebels. In view of this, would not the establish ment of a U.N. border control at this late date be rather a case of shutting the barn door after the theft of the horse? "If the U.N. people can stop the flood of arms and terror ists and soldiers," he replied, "it may give us a chance to do the job we want to do our selves. I don't know. It is very difficult, but I have not lost hope that we can put an end to this by our own means. - The difficulty of the situa tion, he noted, was that the small Lebanese Army of 9,000 men was already spread out very thinly, trying to contain the trouble at the many dif ferent points where revolts have started. He refused to discuss the much-mooted ques tion of the reluctance of the Lebanese Army commander, Gen. Shehab, to press home the fight. On this point, he merely noted that the "for eign interference was so heavy that the Army did not have an easy task" and that Gen. Shehab was quite right to argue that it was impos sible to risk defeat anywhere "which would be fatal to the morale of tha Army and the people." - A S to the time factor of the grave decision, for or against a request for an A n g 1 o-American landing in the Lebanon, the President said that it was only possible to watch the way the situation developed, andjto struggle to bring it under control by every means possible. Maybe a political settlement could be achieved, he said. But on this point, he spoke bitterly of the opposition charge that he in tends to try to succeed him self if the rebellion is halted. "I have no intention of seeking to amend our constitu tion in order to gain another term as President," he said f orthrightly. "I could not if I wanted to do so, since Prime Minister Samy El Solh has de clared that his cabinet will not support such a move. "But I am the legal au thority until the 23rd of Sep tember," he added, with a new note of irony in his voice. "I will reman the legal au thority until the 23rd of Sep tember, when I can be suc ceeded by another legally elected President of the Leba non. I am determined never to give way on those points. And there is another point that is all-important to me too. I want to insure the con tinuation of my policy of neu trality among the Arab states and friendship for the West. It is a policy which does not imply hostility to- another na tion. It is a policy that the great majority of Lebanese support. It is the right policy, j And it s a policy that my suc cessor must carry on." (c) 1958 New York Herald Trbune Inc. and Contributors) chuckle in our charts, remem ber that meat packers - are merry men. And are we to be less stout hearted than tha sponsors of Kraut season, pickle month, write-a-letter-home-to-mother- once-a-week. or Kippered herring day? "No, never. Not so long as the hot dog remains our na tional institution in the field of good eating. With each of us now eating our way through the average 62.4 hot dogs per year, we know there's no such allegiance to any foreign potentate ... "Governments may coma and go and economies rise and iaii, out tne not dog goes on forever. That's the way . tha mustard splashes . . ." One of our spies who has impeccable conn e c t i o n s with the local medical pro fession informs us that a local M.D. recently came down with parotitis com monly known as the mumps. While confined to home, we are. told, he con tinued to conduct a large portion of his practice via telephone. We foresee a period of con fusion in the newsroom. There are now two men named Eric who work here. The suggestion has been made that, when yelling for one or the other across the room, they be differentiated by calling one "Big Eric" and the other "Little Eric" a suggestion neither takes to kindly. "Young Eric" and "Old Eric" are equally ob jectionable (at least to "Old Eric"). The situation has yet to be resolved, if it ever will be. A large sign on a Med ford auto agency says: "Terriffic reductions." That's ffine. Any ffurther comments would befrivo lous and probably ineffffee- 9 A local businessman tha other morning arrived " at work to find l card by his telephone. It said, "Patrolman Blank found two windows open in your office. We would appreciate it if you would close and lock your windows before leaving." The card, of course, was from the police. ,The businessman looked at the windows, and saw two large footprints. He's still puzzled. How did the officer spot ih two open windows in the jumble of rooftops? How did he get into the windows, which appear virtually inac cessible from below? Anyway, the department seems to be efficient if a bit mysterious. The office philosopher (jg) is awed by the prog ress in automobiles, with their instant ignition, quick stopping brakes, easy -ride springs and tires, and all the rest of the Improve ments which have made it a luxurious item. But, how ever, there is one thing which is still horse - and buggy about most of them the license plate, which still, remains precariously mounted over the front bumper where it is spatter ed by mud, nicked by gravel, discolored by road oil, and shattered and torn by the '"nudges" every ear receives in traffic and in parking. The Rooster Crowing Con test at Rogue River held yes terday recently caused one of the county officials to reminisce about his boyhood days when he'd take a rooster, blacken its bright red comb, and put it back with the Hock. The other roosters, not rec ognizing him, would think he was a newcomer and take out after him. There must be some way this tactic could be useful in a political year. . A San Francisco radio station recently started a contest to name the most popular singer, and agreed to play records by him for f Our solid hours. Votes for Pat Boone and Johnny Mathis came to about 4,000, but thanks to some ener getic Stanford university students, the winner, with some 10,000 votes, was Enrico Caruso, and tha famed operatic tenor's voice was heard from 6 to 10 p.m. the following Sat urday. A woman about whom we have heard has a cat, which recenty gave birth to a litter of kittens, which the woman didn't particularly want. She advertised that they would be given away free. first come first served. She received no replies to her ad. She put in another ad, tell ing of kittens for sale at $5 each. They were all " sold within two days. -
