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Newspaper Page Texto 4 (Sunday, (July 1,8 JL TRIBUNE. MtDKR, E. MEDFORDtjTlIBUNS "Everyone in Southern 'regos Iublishel Daily cept Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ' ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. 'BRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor "HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of . March 3 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Py MaiJ Jn Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 I Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 i Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. I Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 130 - Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of CtCy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B C. O? NEWSPAPER FUBIISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL association 7 U J Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County HistoryOfrom the files of The Mail Tribune Ko20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 13. Ig48 (Tuesday) Talent Experiment station ! invites th public to a field : day. Miss Louene Birch of the Toagtmistress club will ex plain the proposed $500,000 city sewer bond issue at the ; noon luncheon of the Medford : Kiwanis club Wednesday. 20 YEARS AGO iJuly 13. 1938 (Wednesday) J Possible PWA projects dis I cusse$ with city and county officials by Kenneth C. Legge, .engineer from the Portland 5 office. ; From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number have returaed from J the hills, where they served las beef au jus for mosquitos." ;30 YEARS AGO Jul? 13. 928 (Friday) f Medford people asked to' J bring sacks of sand back, from ocean resorts with them to supply the sand box in the children's playground off t North Main st. v ' From "Local and Personal" column: "The construction of the new Montgomery Ward building on South Central is J proceeding rapidly." !40 YEARg AGO '.July 13. 1918 (Saturday) There will be a reception land supper for the drafted J men of Jackson county in the ?ity park Friday. Miss Anne McCormick went to Rogue River this morning to give a war bread demonstration. I What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is tuoerior: seven or eight is excellent; five or riix is good. 1." Who succeeded Woodrow , Wilson as President of the .United States? : 2. The Army of the U.S did, or did not, use homing .pigeons to carry messages dur ing World War II? i 3. Name th British Na- 'uonai antnem. 4. A meter in the metric ! system is longer, or shorter, "than a yard? ; 5. Martin nailed his famous thesis to the door -of the castle church in Witten- berg, Germany? 6. Genuflaction is the act .of bending the knee in wor ship, a mirror trick, or a form "of stone carving? ; 7. A channel catois a kind of fish, seagoing cat, or a Tgrooving tool? : 8. Who was the- first Vice President of the United States -who later became the second President? . 9. A judicious decision -rwould be rash, or a wise one? 10. A capon is a chicken or 'rabbit? - Answers: 1. Warren G. Har ming. 2. Did. 3. God Save the .Queen. 4. Longer. (39.37 inches). 5. Luther. 6. Bending J he knee in worship. 7. Fish. 8. John Adams. 9. Wise one. .10. Chicken. BAN SOUGHT ON FLAG Evansville, Ind. (UPI) A resolution asking a clamp Idown on a growing display of the Confederate flag through out the United States is ex pected to appear before the Indiana American Legion Monday. The resolution de Jplores widespread display of She banner as "disrespectful" lot the Ameriaan flag. Dr. Eisenhowers Tour President Milton S. Eisenhower of The Johns Hopkins University departed Saturday cjn his postponed trip to Central America as a fact-finding representative for his brother, President Eisenhower. , A friendly reception little like that which greeted Vice President Nixon in Pern, Venezuela, and Argentina is predicted for Milton S. Eisen hower on his Central American tour. -For one thing, despite occasional' leftist charges that the President's brother was too friendly with former dictator Juan Peron of Argentina during a fact finding tour in 1953, Milton Eisenhower is gen erally held in warm regard south of the border. Much of the respect for the President of Johns Hopkins stems from the Latin American appre ciation of the constructive nine-point program for U.S. economic aid Dr. Eisenhower presented to his brother on returning. Some observers have noted that these recommendations are as valid today as they were in 1953. Moreover, had they been followed, much of the resentment evidenced in the demonstrations against Nixon might have been forestalled. THE Communists are reported to be "lying low" all over Latin America until the counter reaction to their attacks on Nixon dies down. And they have been shackled somewhat by the world-wide anger over the execution of Hun garian Premier Imre Nagy. In any event, Communism's influence has been waning in the states which Milton Eisen hower is visiting. This appears especially tine in Guatemala, which for all its pro-Communist regime of 1954 now has as its President Gen. Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, a ght-wing militarist. - POLITICAL violence is common in the recent history of the states on Eisenhower's itinerary except for Costa Rica, a country without an army, which has been called "one of the few truly democratic nations of Latin America." All six nations are "banana" and coffee republics, but Panama, Eisenhower's first stop,' depends upon the Canal for its principal source- of income. The five others, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, are linked in the International Coffee Organization founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,' in January. Waning; coffee prices inevitably will figure large m the Eisenhower talks. THE same five states had approved agreements " in February, 1957, to create a Central-American free-trade zone; This would mean a regional market of nine million persons .and would figure large in any plans for U.S.-Latin American eco nomic cooperation. . Milton Eisenhower in improved economic relations with Latin America : 1) A stable and consistent trade policy with a minimum of mechanisms for raising tariffs and setting quotas. 2) Stockpiling program for im perishable materials the prices of which are declining. 3) Review of tax obstacles to U.S. in vestment abroad. 4) Substantial public loans where private financing is not available. 5) Tech nical help where needed. 6) Grants of surplus food in emergencies. 7) Expanded technical coop eration. 8) Vigorous support of Organization of American States (O.A.S.) technical agencies. 9) Continued support of U.N. Economic Com mission for Latin America, other U.N. bodies. Latin American nations want more', including massive U.S. economic aid and commodity price supports. While not subscribing to the demands of the Latinos, Adolf A. Berle Jr., former U.S. Assistant Secretaiy of State and one-time Ambas sador to Brazil,vrebuked the Eisenhower admin istration June 6 for "losing touch" with Latin America. He. recommended an integrated eco nomic system including "all of the American countries which wish to join." E.R.R. Traditional Enemies Just as though the Greeks-vs.-British imbro glio on Cyprus wasn't bad enough, it's now Turks-vs.-Greeks . riots there. The Turkish minority, pledged to prevent the Greek majority from ac complishing union ("enosis") of "the island with Greece, ciy, "Partition or death." The Turkish government at Ankara also de mands that Cyprus be partitioned between the two nationalities. Britain, which once heard the cry,, "Death rather than Partition," on Ireland, is caught in the middle in trying to maintain law and order between Cypriot - Turk and Cypriot Greek. I TNFORTUNATELY, the Turks and the Greeks "are traditional enemies. Greece fought Tur key for nine long years, from 1820 to 1829, to get independence. The two military foes again in the first Balkan War, 1912-13, the first World War, 1914-18, and in 1920-21, when the -Greeks invaded Turkey and won victories over . the armies of the decadent Sultanate soon to be abolished. But in the summer of 1922 the Turkish forces, revitalized under Mustapha Kemal Pasha, drove the Greeks before them all the way to the sea. In those days Turkey like to. boast, "One Turk can beat 10 Greeks," just as' in our country the South had once boasted, "One Southener can beat 10 Yankees." But the Greeks proved their military prowess in 1940-41 against Italian invaders, until Nazi troops, the real "Pros," came to the rescue of the badly beaten Fascist forces. E.R.R.- - 1953 recommended for Dennis the Menace a - in - ; 'tCtt.XMWWl XXJ UKE A FUR CtMT WHEN I SET SIS J Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann DISENTANGLEMENT Barring a new development such as an invasion of the Leb anon . from Syria, there will not now be, indeed there cannot now be, a British American armed inter vention in the civil war. The report of the U. N.; observ- Walter Lippmann ers - has Cut the ground from under intervention at the request of President Cha moun, be it on the basis of promises which have been given to him, or on ;the basis of Article 51 of the Charter, or under some interpretation of the Eisenhower Doctrine. For unless the report is con tradicted by events in the fu ture, it not only" denies that there is any just cause to in tervene, it also makes it cer tain that the United Nations would oppose and condemn an intervention. The thesis of the report is that the fighting is an in ternal Lebanese civil war. The idea of landing the British paratroopers who are now in Cyprus and the American Ma rines who are now with the Sixth Fleet has, therefore, been opposed in advance. President Chamoun's friends are, of course, challenging the U. N. report. They claim that the United Arab Republic is infiltrating its own fighters, is sending in arms, and is, of course, conducting a virulent propaganda by way of the ra dio. There is no doubt that the rebels are being helped and encouraged, and that this is intervention by Nasser in Lebanese affairs. But the question is whether this in tervention is, as the Chamoun government claims, '"massive" or whether, as the U. N. ob servers report, it is not enough to be significant and decisive. Tfor the American bystander, asked to choose between these two conflicting stories, there is one undeniable fact that argues convincingly in favor of the U. N. observers. This is the fact that the Le banese Army is passive, do-' ing little more than to con tain the rebels, refusing to subdue them. This destroys the claim that the Lebanon is defending its national inde pendence against foreign ag gression. It supports the judg ment of Mr. Hammarskjold and the U. N. observers that the real opposition to Cha moun is by Lebanese, by those who are in open rebellion, and by those who, including the Army, are refusing to help put down the rebellion. , . THERE are some who be lieve that in failing to in- ervene actively in support of Chamoun, we are participat ing in another "Munich," that is to say in the sacrifice of a friendly country to appease an aggressor. There are oth ers who believe that if the British and American forces were to intervene, we would be participating in another Suez. We might do better not to argue by analogy and to discard the stereotypes of j Munich and Suez, trying in stead to see the Lebanese problem itself. 'The Lebanon is a unique state, unlike any other in the Middle East or anywhere else, in that it exists by virtue of a pact between the Christian and the Moslem community to live and work together. The J independence ot me ieDanon rests upon the maintenance of this pact, and the crucial question of the civil war is not whether Lebanon shall ad here to the Eisenhower. Doc trine or whether the Christ ian community and the Mos lem community can live to gether. If they can, the Le banon will jiot be absorbed by Nasser even though it ab jures the Eisenhower Doc trine. If the Christian and Mos lem community cannot live and work together, there is no solution in sight and every prospect of the endless misery of an endless war. THE fundamental objection to British and American armed intervention in favor of Chamoun is that it' would destroy the chances of restor ing and maintaining the Christian-Moslem pact. Western in tervention on behalf of 'the Christian President of the Le banon would surely arouse the implacable opposition of the Moslems. In all likelihood the internal war would be come what, happily, it is not now, a religious war.- Our true interest is to de fend the independence of the Lebanon, by using our influ ence to preserve the integrity of the basic Christian-Moslem pact. Insofar as Chamoun stands in the way of a politi cal settlement of the civil war, we should advise him to step aside, we should warn him not to prolong the strug gle by gambling on a British American intervention. If the pact is preserved, his succes sor would also be a Christian Arab, and there is no present reason to think that he would be any more ready than is Chamoun to be absorbed into the United Arab Republic. He will be air the less ready if we have played the part of mediators for a settlement rather than of partisans of Chamoun personally. IF our commitment to Cha moun personally has been as explicit as many reputable reports say it' is, the "outcome is of course inglorious, how ever prudent. In fact, Cha moun's is the third conspicu ous case in recent history when, in order not to be drawn into irrational war,, we have had to disentangle our selves from client govern ments. , The other two cases are that of Syngman Rhee in Korea and that of Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa. Both in Korea and in -Formosa there was a time when each of the local leaders believed that he could lead us into war Syngman Rhee for the reconquest of Northern Korea, Chiang for the reconquest of the main land. These were dangerous entanglements and in both case we have managed to dis entangle ourselves. A similar entanglement with Chamoun seems to have existed until, thanks to the U. ,N., we have found a way to disentangle ourselves, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Dredge Salvage Job Scheduled to Start Coos Bay (UPI) Sal vage operations to remove the wreckage of the Army dredge William T. Rossell from the channel near the entrance to Coos Bay will begin this week. H. L. Groves said his firm, the Treasure Salvage com pany of Lynwood, Calif., had been hired for the job by the Newark Pipe company. Groves said he planned to use a 200-ton, 117-foot-long salvage ship, the Elsie T, man ned by a crew of seven, for the job estimated to take three months. CREMATION TO MUSIC Gobo, Japan (UPI) Thoughtful city fathers have installed a huge music box at the .municipal crematorium. When a coffin is placed in the incinerator and the door slammed shut, soft music fills the building.' Washington Report By William Washington Sometimes an apparently local political race has, below the surface, an i m p o r tance far above its meaning at 1 home a sig nificance hard er ly less than f$ that of a na- 1 1 1 o n a i elec tion. Such a Tare contest has developed in Tennessee. Willam S. Wbite Superficially, the issue simply is whether Senator Albert Gore shall be granted a Demo cratic renomination equiva lent to reelection or whether he shall be replaced by Pren tice Cooper. The outcome of the primary Aug. 7 will involve neither partisan gain nor loss; the seat in any event will remain Dem ocratic. But being put to the test is a whole new political movement. This is nothing less than the long effort of the younger South to turn away from the destructive memories of the War Between the States still to honor southern gallantry, yes, but to forget the wounding bit terness of a defeat sealed near ly a hundred years ago. THE result will tell whether a moderately liberal and forward-looking Southern po litical view can survive in the tragic backwash of the racial crisis in Little Rock and else where. And if this view can not live in Tennessee, which is Upper Southern rather than Deep Southern, it can hardly live anywhere in the South. All this is the estimate of the ablest national politicians here, in both parties and from tical Washington are focusing on Tennessee For Gore is the first to come up for reelection of that handful of Southern Senators who twice in less than three years have refused to go all the way with the traditional Southern position, on civil rights. In 1956 Gore and his Tennessee colleague, Senator Estes Kefauver, and the Sen ate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas did not sign the Southern manifesto for all-out resistance to school integration. '. AND in 1957 Gore and these same two - worked for, rather than against, a moder ate civil rights bill. They help ed provide the first Federal enforcement powers over the right to vote. that had been granted since the Reconstruc tion. ' . Cooper, Gore's challenger, is recalling these facts from the levees of Memphis to the hills of Chattanooga and Knoxville. He is the cham pion of Southern standpat ism. Gore is now feeling the whip of the Southern right wing for'having gone too far on civil rights. A year ago he and all the other South ern moderates were under the Democratic liberal wing, and of Northerners in gen eral, for not being willing to go far enough. This, of course, is not the sole issue in Tennessee. An other is Gore's discipleship of Cordell Hull, father of re ciprocal trade. But on the great and sometimes harshly simplified scoreboard of na tion politics, few will look beyond the total of hits, runs and errors .on civil rights. GORE'S victory would heart en those Southern moder ates who wish to work out the civil rights problem by compromise and not to break mortally with the Northern Democrats. It would permit a slight forward movement of those who know that demand for increased Negro rights will not slacken but will at length break, violently or oth erwise, every barrier that is kept too high against it. His defeat would amount to a repudiation of this whole policy of giving ground gradu ally rather than not at all. It would frighten all the Southern moderates in nation al politics. Deeply, if subtly, it would alter the tone of the next Senate. The moderates would be far less able to seek Hawaiian Dinner Set By Valley Organization The Rogue River Valley chapters of the Oregon Lic ensed Beverage association and the Women's Association of Allied Beverage Industries will sponsor an Hawaiian din ner party at Zottola's Country club, Grants Pass, Sunday, July 20. Several OLBA state officers and chapter presidents from throughout Oregon are ex pected to attend prior to at tending a quarterly board of directors meeting Roseburg the following day, according to Jim Clithero, local OLBA president. r ii" t-T' v. S. White middle-road solutions. The Southern extremists, who now actually have little power here, would raise their influence, their demands and their voices. Less immedi ately visible . ripples, too, would, come from this rock in the pond. The 1960 Democratic Na tional Convention would not be unaffected. For the North ern Democratic liberals would feel both able and compelled to demand more and more in the way of a "strong" civil rights plan. Already they are making this plain in private. Tennessee is indeed a great battleground not between Republican and Democrat but between Democrat and Demo crat. This is a passage at arms that is immeasurably bigger on the inside than it looks on the outside. (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Matter of Fact ROCKEFELLER'S . LONG SHOT New York Nelson Rocke- feller is making a pretty re- marKapie long shot bet, in seeking the o - .. i- i t ! can nomina tion for the New York Governorship. He is not act i n g blindly, either, for he sent out the prof essional pells ters to Joseph Alsop test the New York situation before he made his bet. The pollsters' results make pretty bleak reading for Re publicans and just the oppo- tJlTlb. they found that Rockefeller would run much better against Gov. Averell Harriman than any other potential Republi can candidate. But they fur ther found that Rockefeller was trailing, as of today and among the voters with a de cided choice, by a fairly stag gering margin of nearly 20 per cent. - In other words, with the "don't knows" left out, the Rockefeller - instigated poll showed a vote of close to 60 per cent for Harriman and hardly more than 40 per cent for , the strongest Republican available. Pollsters very rare ly underestimate the chances of the man or party who sends them out on their doorbell ringing rounds. And if these pollsters' New York state find ings are even within shoot ing distance of approximate accuracy, they are the worst kind of news for the Repub licans.., UNHAPPILY, the findings of the Republican-hired poll sters in New York appear to be rather strongly confirmed by the findings of pollsters hired by Democrats to test opinion in New York's two neighboring states, Massachu setts and Connecticut. In these latter cases, this reporter knows the men who did the testing. They did their best to achieve , impartial results. They were alarmed by the re sults they got. They rechecked, but only got the same results all over again. No wonder they were alarmed. In Connecticut, VY 11H11 UOCU IU UC biajscu U a swing state, the opinion-testers found Democratic Gov. Abraham Ribicoff taking no less than 67 per cent of the total vote. In Massachusetts, they found that Sen. John Kennedy's share of the vote would cross the 70 per cent mark, which is all but incred ible. One would refuse to believe these extraordinary polls in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, in fact, if one other item of evidence did not exist. All the way across the continent, in the shattering primary, the Democrats got approximately 58 per cent of the vote. No one thought this possible until it happened. .. ? A S IT IS, the Eastern polling 1 JnL results and the California primary have to be regarded as mutually confirmatory. Un less the voting trend is radi cally changed by very great events, this off-year election seems likely to become a po litical earthquake without real past precedent. At . any rate, the Republicans have no where to go but up. And here in New York having noted the heavy odds in favor of the Democrats, Nelson Rockefell er is still doggedly confident that the Republicans can go a long way up at least with himself in the governor's spot on the ticket. The nomination is by no means in the bag for him, as yet. But he is certainly heavi ly favored to get the nomina tion; and the very fact that there will be an interesting contest at the Republican state convention will make the nomination more worth (By M-T Staff Next to people, people prob ably like wild life best. Last week, a few such stories came across the desks of the news room. Among them: One staff member, who has always had an affection for chipmunks, pine squir rels and other tiny animals inhabiting the woods of the area, said he could have skinned one particular fly ing squirrel alive last week end. The little so-and-so, upon waking up at 4:30 a.m. and finding campers had moved in under his tree during the night, began sucb chatter ing and raising caih that he got all the campers up. After that, he went back lo bed himself, refusing even to be observed, let alone photographed. Joseph Alsep having. The Democrats, dis turbed by this,1 are already growling that the whole Re- publican contest is being elab- ; orately stage-managed. is good. The Republican as- pirants for the governorship, former National Committee Chairman Leonard HaU, has been solemnly beating the bushes for votes for many months. Rockefeller also start ed bush-beating this "weekr driving off into the upstate counties with his son at the wheel of the car in the best folksy style. He plans a gruel ling fortnight of small meet ings with Republican county leaders and party workers; then a brief rest; then a con tinuous and more elaborate campaign that will last until the Republican state conven tion on Aug. 25. Not a few people have al ready been amused by the likelihood that the New York voters will probably have a choice between a Harriman and a Rockefeller. But there is something else that Nelson Rockefeller ; nas in common with AvereU Harriman, . be sides a comfortable share of this - world's goods. . He has the same sort of formidable determination, the some con centrated wilL to win.. ; 4 Furthermore, all qualified observers in these parts agree with the pollsters that Rocke feller is at least the strongest runner the Republicans put in the race. In New York City, particularly, he has a pulling power that the Democrats genuinely fear. As for Rocke feller himself, - he says: "I'd be a fool to say I'm sure I can win; but if ' the party nomi nates me, I'll damn well try my best." (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Safety Award Picnic Planned by Firm Gold Hill The Ideal Ce ment company plant at Gold Hill July 1 passed its 782nd consecutive day without a lost time accident. Frank Sutcliff e, I piant manager, announced. Since the company had no lost time accidents during 1957, the Gold Hill plant will hold a Boettcher Safety Award picnic at TouVoulle State park on Table Rock rd. Saturday, Aug. 2. The picnic has scheduled a full program of entertainment starting at 10 ajn., and roast beef dinner will be served be tween noon and 2 p.m., follow ed by introductions and pre sentations. All employees and their families of the Gold Hill plant have been invited. Fjrst in Series of Articles on Space Travel Set Monday One of these days and no one can be sure how soon t h e United States will send its first man into space. Martin Caiden has prepared for United Press International a series- of five articles on the subject. The stories will tell what sort of man this country's first space explorer will be, how he is being prepared as you read this for his journey, how he will get into space, the purpose of the "trip." and how, if all goes well, he will return to earth. The astounding part of this account is that everything reported is pos-. sible today, Caiden says, scientifically proved and tested. All that remains is se lection of the man and the moment, according to' Cai din. ' . The first chapter will ap pear in the Mail Tribune Monday. "" - 1 and Contributors) - ' A veteran cowbay, who settled in this area, advises .horse Idvers thusly: "Never trust a horse no matter hot gentle it may appear." If one were to inquire, why? he woutd mention some Kars he's received while riding horses he considered gentle. The staff member whose wife not long ago obtained a kitten, says the kitten is getting an education or maybe it's bad habits. Anyway, the othgr morn ing, after the alarm rang, no one stirred? from the bed. The kitten didn't appreci ate that he was hungry. So he jumped up on the bed and started playing f ih feet under the covers. It only took or?e good bite on a big toe to get the staff member out of bed. That could serve double purpose the cat gets fed, and the staff member gets to work on time. , Modern and old-gashioned fishing, says a staff member, are bound to conflict. And they did in one the area lakes recently. Anglers have complained that they hardly get their lines unreeled at a choice spot, only to find that spear fishermen have cleaned the area of good-sized fish. ' People ..are ..constantly complaining about being "iaken for a ride" whether its by someone they know or . not. Not long ago, a county of- . f lefel was "taken for a ride" by a relative, but this time it was in boat. But after a couple shaky moments when the high-powered, craft about tossed him out, the official decided to stick to less strenuous forms of water recreation like fish ing. . Another county official has devised a way to get away from it all. Comes vacation time, h e and his jvife park their small trailer in a secluded spot and enjoy the outdoors, like so many other people do now. The spot they pick is a well kept and guarded secret. . -:; ' One of Medford's com mercial photographers gave himself a shampoo the oth er morning, buj really hadn't intended to. It seems he has two tubes, similar in color and design, in the cabinet. Blurry-eyed, he removed one the tubes, and proceeded to apply what he thought was hair cream. But alas, he woke P' , It wasn't hair cream he put on his head. It was , tooth paste. The shampoo followed. We wonder what would have happened if he had brushd his teeth with hair cream. From the Eugene comes this message: paper "For the first time, thanks to the Albany Democrat Her ald, we find a reason for pre senting the statistics of fe male structure, figures like 36-24-36. Always before ire'd believed the statistics were superfluous, mere mathemat ical expressions of realities that were already pleasantly apparent "But comes now the Albany daily with pictures of its tim ber carnival queens in sack dresses. The reader needs fig ures if he is to know about the figures." Editorial Comment Suggests Bounty To the Editor: Since the county bounty has elapsed on the scalps -of the destructive rodent porcupine, the idea oc curred to us that another pest although of the feathered tribe, called the English spar row, is practically equal In haVing . a voracious appetite for any kind of early berries or small fruits of all varieties in season. In our observations the com mon sparrow is a sly oppor tunist in -its naive way of watching the chance "to be Johnnie on 'the spot" where. ever a band of the old world warriors lurch rom all points and descend on a small in nocent song bird that is try ing to be welcome and soci able. A good riddance of the nuisance is for a county or state bounty to be offered for the trapping, same as a bounty of eight cents each was placed on crows by several states, and the pest was soon eradi cated. , . (Name on File) " " Medford, Of!. 1 ' "