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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?
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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. -