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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)
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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.
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' 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 ' "