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Mefod and Jackson County
History ijrom the files of The
Mail Tribun 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
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10 ffeAlS AGO
July 27. 1948 (Tuesday)
"No left turn" signs will be
installed this week at the
Main st. an, Sixth st. Inter
sections of Central ave.
A substantial decrease in
truSc rates between the Klam
frtlasin gnd the Rogue river
vally is announced.
20 TEAlg AGO
Julyf.il (Wednesday)
Jjif htnin storm this after
noon brfught new fire threats
to local timber.
From .rthur Perry's "Ye
StnusL2ePot column: "Weath-
erdHditions are now such the
Oldtr 6 iris complain of the
0523 I
crvold in thg morning and the
jt &l th afternoon."
bi AGO
Jujy . 1321 (Friday)
Herbert Hoover, presiden
tial nominee, has accepted an
invitation to spend Sunday
night on the Rogue river with
the provision that politics be
taboo during his stay.
A white-haired woman sci
q entist is collecting fungi at
Crater Lake.
AO YEARS AGO
July 27, 1918 (Saturday)
The Dixie society of Jack
son county is planning a
southern fried chicken picnic
in the park at Ashland. ,
The WCTU will hold its an
nual election of officers Fri
day with "a good program
and social" to follow.
What's Yaur I.Q.?
Nina or ten scrrect is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
she is good.
1. The short full skirt worn
by Greek men is called a pan-
tanella, fustanella, or skirret?
2. Does the zebra have a
black or blackish background
with white or buffy stripes, or
vice-versa?
3. A combination of mist
and fumes, which reduces vis
ibility to a few hundred yards
is called s ?
4. Name the largest library
In the world.
5. Which great dam is lo
cated on the Colorado River?
6. In the duel between
Alexander Hamilton and
Aaron Burr, who was
wounded? 1
7. What is the name given
to the food of the larvae of
queen bees?
8. Which of these is NOT
a variety of cheese: Edam,
Cheltenham, Cheddar, Ca
membert? 9. What sort of creature
was Cerberus, the guardian of
the entrance to Hades?
10. What country has the
oldest parliamentary assem
bly in the world?
Answers: 1. Fustaiella. 2.
Vice-versa. 3. Smog. 4. Li
brary of Congress. Washing
ton, D. C. 5. Hoover Dam. 6.
Hamilton. 7. Royal Jslly. 8.
Cheltenham. 9. Three-headed
dog. 10. Iceland.
BILL BECOMES LAW
Washington (UPD Presi
dent Eisenhower signed into
law Friday a bill to extend
for another four years the
agricultural conservation pro
gram under which farmers re
ceive cash subsidies to reim
burse them for part of the ex
pense of approved conserva
tion practices. ;
Water for the Future
It's been a wet spring and summer in the
Rogue valley.
Looking at the lush fields and green lawns, it
is a bit difficult to imagine that the time may
come when water will be one of our most pre
cious commodities.
But it is already. And it will become more so.
Steps are being taken to conserve it so that care
less use, and destructive practices, will not for
ever leave us in short supply. ,
Without abundant supplies of water, nothing
is possible certainly not a highly developed
civilization.
JOHN Gribble, the "old forester" who is one of
Medford's most' ardent conservationists, call
ed us the other day to discuss the problem, which
had been in his mind since reading a recent Mail
Tribune story by a UPI correspondent.
The story pointed out that water supplies are
almost bound to be one of America's foremost
problems within the next 20 years.
Industrial use of water, a major use these
days, has increased 11 times in the past half -century,
and the rate of increase is goinsr up all the
time both because of new methods and new
techniques which require more water, and be
cause of the tremendous expansion of industry.
Municipal use of water has also increased, as
the population has grown and as more efficient
municipal water systems
"THESE are only examples.
But they serve to hint both as to the im
portance of water and as to the future inadequacy
oi the supply.
And is anything being done about it?
Yes, quite a lot although far from enough
to meet the problem.
One of the most important steps (and one
little-recognized by the public at large) is the lm
provement in logging practices.
Forested land holds water; it prevents ero
sion; it tends to limit floods, and release water
throughout the year.
Forests which are cut
ever, lose those properties. Land erodes, floods
can result, and what is
be a parched area the next.
On federally-administered lands, now, and in
creasingly on privately-owned lands, good prac
tice requires reforestation, care to prevent ero
sion, and other methods which minimize or
eliminate the dangers.
"OREGON is a pioneer
sources. ,
It was the first state to
code, and name a water
board has been hard at
now, studying water utilization and conservation.
They don t have all
are finding many of them.
tions, Oregon still has a tremendous water re
source to call on. With the start the state has, the
chances are good that much or most of it can be
saved for use at its maximum potential. K
COME people feel that the state's entering into
this field constitutes an invasion of. individual
rights that it has no right to tell people what
they can or can t do with
the state.
Once when people were few and water
abundant this attitude
no longer.
For water is vital to
child in the state, and
than one way. And the
supplies for the many
benefit of the few. "
Therefore, rivers must be studied to deter
mine the extent of the resource, and the greatest
beneficial uses. In the process, someone is going
to be limited in his use of water. This must be so
if the right of the majority is to be protected.
A LSO, the state's "ground water" code was en
" acted to protect the wrater tables from deple
tion. Tf sav. nnp man drills a number of wells.
thereby lowering the water table so that other
men's wells go dry, he is robbing those other men
just as surely as if he'd sneaked into their house
and stolen a wallet.
It is a vastly complicated study, and, those
who are working on it tell us, a fascinating one,
and one which still has a long way to go.
A FINAL mention should be made of efforts
Tirtiir ntiflor Tii7 rr tan fnr Vmmnn nsp. thp
nnp. inexhaustible source
These waters, now unusable because of their salt,
are the ultimate source of
If we can bv-uass the
our water from the ocean
do it sufficientlv inexpensively to make it practic
able, one of our greatest
We cannot do so yet. ant experiments, coin
by government and by private companies, are
being performed. They show progress, and hints
of ultimate success.
Particular! v when
available in large quantities, and inexpensively,
the nroblem. both of converting sea water to
fresh, and pumping it
should be solved. E.A.
have been installed.
indiscriminately, how
a mudrfield one day can
in the study of water re
enact a water resources
resources board. The
work for several years
the answers yet, but they
And, with some excep
the God-given water ot
made sense. But it does
every man, woman and
to most of them in more
state must step in if the
are threatened for the
of water the oceans.
all our water.
evele of nature to obtain
directly, and if we can
problems will be solved.
atomic energy becomes
to where it is needed,
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Dennis the Menace
7-26 e.iiiuii
'NOW CALM DOWN, HIPS. WAV& . AND
WtiTS TD JOIN OEMS' NUDIST COIOHY? ffff" MUtJlST CQUOWZ-J
Matter of Fact
WHERE WE STAND NOW
Washington This is a mo
ment when it is important to
know just where we stand
now; and for
this purpose,
it is essential
to note . the
great gap at
the very cen
ter of the pic
ture. We have
troops in Leb
b a n o n. The
British have
Joseph Aisop i troops in Jor
dan. But the United States
and Britain do not have a
Middle; Eastern policy ;
This Is the only way to sum
up the unhappy results of
widespread inquiry in author
itative quarters. You cannot
get an answer to the question:
"Where do we go from here?"
or rather, you only get vague
ly mumbled prayers that
somehow or other, some day
or other, the combination of
the Marines and special Am
bassador Robert Murphy will
achieve a political compro
mise in Beirut.
A good many people seem
to believe that this is a work
able Middle Eastern policy,
fit to compete with the cruel
ly shrewd, arrogantly bold
policy of Nikita Krushchev.
But this widespread belief is
only a testimonial to the Ad
ministration's success in blur
ring or concealing all the
facts that count.
TT IS hard to believe that
President Eisenhower pur
posely misled the Congres
sional leaders, at the July 14
meeting when he first re
vealed his intention to send
troops into Lebanon. A Presi
dent who leaves the entire,
day-to-day task of policy-making
to his Secretary of State
can quite easily misconceive
the choice he has to make,
wjien- he must suddenly make
a very hard choice with great
speed. At any rate, the mis
representation of the Middle
Eastern situation was begun
by the President himself, at
this first moment of dis
closure. Three different kinds of
false impression were con
veyed to the Congressional
leaders. The President first
of all said that he had re
ceived an "ultimatum" from
President Chamoun, threaten
ing the effective abdication of
the Lebanese government if
the Marines were not sent
within 48 hours."
In reality, President Eisen
hower had long since prom
ised President Chamoun to
send troops, to Lebanon, if the
Lebanese government desired
him to do so. Now Chamoun
had simply requested Eisen
hower to keep his freely
given promise. He had also
warned that the seismic shock
of the coup d'etat in Baghdad
would quickly destroy the
government in Beirut, unless
the American promise were
quickly kept. Being on the
naked brink of immediate de
feat, he had , asked for the
American answer within two
days.This was the Chamoun
"ultimatum."
SECONDLY, both the Presi
dent and Secretary of
State briskly threw Allen
Dulles to the wolves, by in
timating tha- they had been
taken by surprise by the coup
in Iraa. Hence the Senate is
now busily investigating the
C. I. A.
But in reality the President
and Secretary of State had
long been warned that indeci
sion about Lebanon would
lead to a coup in Iraq. The
warnings had come, not only
from the C. I. A., but also
from the murdered Iraqi lead
er, Nuri Pasha, from the gov
ernments of Pakistan, Iran
and Turkey, and from many
other sources. All the C. I.' A.
failed to do was to say: "On
this particular day, in this
particular regiment, a' mili
tary coup will be organized."
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SAY THAT ASAlM. MXR3AR&T
By Joseph Alsop
Thi was the extent of the
"surprise," and this much
"surprise" all governments
must expects
Finally, and perhaps worst
of ail. the President also indi
cated to the Congressional
leaders that the American
problem centered in Lebanon,
rather than ' in Iraq. It was
true, of course, that he had to
make an immediate choice be
tween keeping his promise to
Chamoun or dishonoring this
country's word. That was the
first part of the problem,
which could only be solved as
it was solved.
DUT the heart of the prob
lem lay, and it still lies, in
Baghdad rather than m tsei
rut. The British and Ameri
can governments jointly de
cided not to attack the heart
of the Droblem in Baghdad
The consequences of this de
cision must be faced, there
fore, before the two govern
ments can fill the great gap
in the center of the picture
which is their present lack of
any real Middle. Eastern
Dolicv.
The first consequence con
cerns Lebanon and Jordan
No matter what compromise
is reached m Beirut (and a
sucessful compromise seems
unlikely) it can only afford a
pretext for the withdrawal oi
nur trnnns After Nasser's tri
umph in Iraq, no government
in Lebanon can survive nis
nressure. once the Marines go
out. By the same token, King
Hussein cannot survive m
TnrHan. if the British para
troops depart. And Saudi
V . . . ., rt .If r -4- n;l
Arabia ana xne tjuu v-uasi u
Sheikdoms are also sitting
birds for the next conspiracy
Nasser chooses to hatch.
In these circumstances, only
three courses of action deserve
the name of a Middle Eastern
policy. We can defy Khrush
chev and deal sternly with
ttasspr himself. Or we can
Hefv world oDinion. and get
ready to hang on by our Toe
nails to the oil in the fairly
onsilv defensible Persian Golf
area. Or we can take the bold
and ' tiainful measures inside
the Western alliance, which
may protect the West against
the worst effects oi msser
nationalism's onward march.
Those are the choices. Take
your pick.
(C) 1958 New Yoric neraia
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It's a Tanager
To the . Editor: Perhaps a
birdwatcher can tell me what
kind of birds are at my place.
The bird has a beautiful yel
low body, black wings with
three white stripes on a scar
let red neck and head, larger
than a sparrow.
(Name on File)
Medford
(Editor's note: Our bird
watcher informs us the bird
is a Western Tanager.)
Illinois Man Named
GOP Group Chairman
Washington (UPB Spencer
T. Olin, Alton, 111., indus
trialist and banker, was nam
ed Friday to be chairman of
the Republican Finance com
mittee. His selection was announc
ed by GOP National Chair
man Meade Alcorn. Olin suc
ceeds Charles S. Thomas who
resigned July 2 to become
president of Trans World Airlines.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
DEAD END STREET
As things stand at this mo
ment, the notion of a sum
mit meeting in the heart
of New York
City has the
c haracteristic
of one of those
nightmares in
which one feels
c o mpelled to
do what one
d e s p erately
does not want
to do. At this
Walter Lippmann time, a public
confrontation between Eisen
hower' and Khrushchev would
be a ghastly spectacle, almost
certain to poison the air still
further with charges and
c o u n t e rcharges. Moreover,
there are great risks that the
local police would not be able
to maintain perfect law and
order during the visit of a
man who has in the cosmo
politan city of New York so
many embittered enemies. Be
yond that, there does not now
exist as between Washington
and Moscow a basis for nego
tiation. Both have talked
themselves into extreme posi
tions from which it is most
awkward to make any con
cession. Yet the fact is that the
President has been pushed and
pulled by the British govern
ment, and by widespread pub
lic opinion in Germany, in
Scandinavia, in Japan, and
elsewhere, to a grudging ac
ceptance of the idea of a sum
mit meeting on the Middle
East. Why, we must ask our
selves, do Mr. Eisenhower and
Mr. Dulles find themselves
between the devil and the
deep blue sea, between having
a conference which would
now be dangerous and refus
ing to have one, which is dan?
gerous too?
THEY find themselves in
this dilemma because they
have no Middle East policy
and have therefore lost the
diplomatic initiative. The
right and effective answer to
Khrushchev's caU for a sum
mit conference was not to
refuse it and leave it there,
was not to accept it and to
be entangled from there on
The right answer would have
been to propose the terms of
a , settlement which included
but extended beyond the
withdrawal of the Marines
Such a proposal would be
something substantial to talk
about in place of the talk
about where and when to talk.
Unfortunately, we do not
have negotiable terms of set
tlement to propose. The An
glo-American intervention in
the Lebanon and Jordan was
carried out to prevent their
collapse. But this was a hur
ried reaction to the unexpect
ed news from Iraq. It was not
a deliberate act of policy.
We find ourselves, there
fore, in a dead end street.
The presence of our troops
not only does not promise a
settlement of the revolution
ary condition which caused
us to send them in the long
er the troops stay, the harder
it will be to withdraw them
without precipitating the dis
aster they are meant to pre
vent.
THUS, it is true that neither
the Lebanon nor Jordan
can be stabilized and made
secure without a wide settle
ment beyond their frpntiers.
There is a school or. tnougnt
both here and in Britain
which argues that the only
settlement which is accept
able and which wiU really set
tle anything will be one
which followed a restoration
in Iraq and the, elimination
of Nasser. They would do now
what Eden and Mollet at-
temDted to do at the Suez
some two years ago. They are
prepared to defy the Soviet
Union and they would by
force of arms establish a Brit
ish-American protectorate in
the Middle East. . .
There is a kind of logic in
this view. But those who hold
it t are living in the wrong
century. Relatively speaking,
particularly in the Middle
East which borders on Rus
sia, the Sovie Union is in
comnarablv a" stronger power
than was Czarist Russia in
the 19th century. The Arab
revolution, of which Nasser is
the most conspicuous but not
the only champion, did not
exist at all in the imperial
davs of the last century. More
over, and this must not be
overlooked, the democracies
of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization must be consid
ered. They cannot be counted
upon to go all the way in
case of a military showdown
over an Arab country in the
Middle East.
IF, THEREFORE, the day is
nast and cone forever when
the Middle' East can be sta
bilized by Western military
nnuer. we must seek an ac
commodation with the new
powers in the Middle East
namelv with the Soviet Un
ion and with Nasser's Con
federation.
What other line of policy
is conceivable? None, unless
it can be called a policy to
do nothing but dig in where
we are in Lebanon and in
Jordan, and for the rest to
trade insults with Nasser and
Khrushchev. We shall get the
worse of the exchange of in
sults, in that it is always
easier to denounce interven
tion than to defend it. Let us
have no illusions then that
we can dig in, and sit it out
hoping that something better
will turn up.
Unless there is a reasonably
prompt settlement in the Leb
anon with the Marines with
drawing, their continuing
presence will embarras us
everywhere in the world.
They were sent in in order to
prove -to the Turks and the
Pakistanis and others that our
military promises will be
honored. But if the Marines
stay on and become an army
of occupation, there will ' be
some serious second thought
not only among the nations
guaranteed but also here
among ourselves who must
provide the guarantees.
TI IS, therefore, a very great
interest, one might with
out exaggeration call it a vital
interest, of the United States
to work out by negotiation an
honorable exit for the Ma
rines. This may be impossible,
given the revolutionary char
acter of the Nasser movement.
But it may not be impossible,
if it is seriously and thorough
ly attempted, given on the
one hand the military weak
ness of the Arab states and
on the other their great need
of the West in the oil busi
ness and in their economic de
velopment. (c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Washington Report
By William S. White
COURAGE, DECENCY
AND NECESSITY
Washington The courage
and decency and harsh ne
cessity : of the Allied inter
vention in Lebanon and Jor
dan is being submerged in a
1 sea of collat-
erai argu
ments and val
id complaints
that the future
is far from
bright.
It is plain,
that legiti
mate ques
tions but
Willam S White secuuuaijr
questions all the same are
causing many to lose sight of
the central problem. This
problem was and is simply
the salvation of the Middle
East from an ugly chaos that
would lead in time to the en
feebleme'nt, if not the destruc
tion, of the free world.
The problem is not whether
intervention will settle' every
thing; nobody ever supposed
it would. It is, regrettably, not
even whether the uninvolved
world likes what we have
done. And it is not of con
trolling significance whether
the chaos was being prepared
on direct Moscow orders or by
what is called by the curi
ously soft' term of Nasser
"Nationalism."
WHOEVER was preparing
it, was demonstrably just
what President Eisenhower
said the other day it was
"Violence, murder and terror.
ism as instruments of interna
tional policy."
This may be the new "na
tionalism" that movement so
atWactive to so many in their
recoil from "Colonialism." But
in a less sophisticated time it
would have been called in
plain truth by another name.
That name is gangsterism.
Even those who have most
ably opposed the landings in
Lebanon and Jordan have not
offered much alternative
apart from one form or an
other of diplomatic negotia
tion. While talking things over
is a useful and civilized de
vice, it has its limitations.
Even in the United Nations.
The dead bodies in the little
palace of Iraq might well have
been followed by dead bodies
elsewhere if President Eisen
hower and Prime Minister
McMillan had not sent troops
rather than notes.
But the heavy pressures on
Macmillan by the British La
bor party and the undoubted
ly strong and high-minded
public pressures on Mr. Eisen
hower here are clearly weak
ening Western will. Many
including this correspondent
in a small way had long
criticized Mr. Eisenhower for
not acting in the world drift.
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MOST of these critics now
upbraid him for the ac
tion he has taken. This does
not prove that they are wrong
now. But it puts a burden
upon them to face up to the
real, the central, issue and not
to speak as though there had ,
POTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors) 7
The word "catskinner" is
so admirably descriptive and
flavorful that it has come to
be fully accepted in these
parts, where the big crawler
tractors are seen so frequent
ly, and play so large a role
in our economy.
But it is a bit baffling some
times to newcomers. One
such, a young man on our
staff, was overheard the other
day diffidently asking a col
league if it was a usable word,
and just what it meant.
The meaning became plain
when the parallel with "mule
skinner" was outlined.
The word seems solidly en
trenched, probably to the
mixed pleasure and pain of
the Caterpillar Tractor com
pany, which makes every
effort to protect its trade
marked name (insisting that
the word "Cat" be capitalized
when used to mean its variety
of tractor), but which cannot
but profit from the notion
that all crawler tractors are
"Cats."
Glenn Jackson (whese
nickname of "General" is
used by his friends both
descriptively and respect
fully) was probably the
proudest man in town last
week, when news of the ar
rival of Glenn Jackson
Ford, Grandchild No. 1, was
announced. It was, to his
relief, a boy bringing
the family odds down to
something like seven lo
three. Presumably the
youngster could start out as
"Corporal" and work up
from there.
County Judge Rod Keat
ing, whose mane of gray-
been all the time in the world
to make a tidy response in the
Middle East. .
It is being said of the troop
landings, "well, yes, perhaps
they did have to do it but
what is the policy now?"
There is a rhetorical pseudo
logic in this question. But
there is a plain answer: "We
"don't ye,t know just what the
policy will be. Let us have
some cha"nce to prepare one
For the moment, at any rate,
our plan is very clear. This is
not to allow the plotters or
the aspiring nationalists, if
you prefer to sink the West
ern position. For the moment,
we have kept our young
friends from drowning. Don't
require us just now to plan
their future through college."
Those who demand a total
"plan" in crisis overlook this
fact: war or, as in this case,
a somewhat convulsive de
fensive military movement .
never was a final solution,
and nobody ever claimed it
was. Yet is an act of desperate
necessity to "avoid imminent
defeat while one maneuvers
as best he can to bring off
some tolerable . victory, some
tolerable conclusion, some
where ahead.
THEN it is said that our pol
icy lias "the smell of oil."
Of course it has. Middle East
oil is not merely desirable to
our European allies; it is in
dispensable to their lives. And
oil is really not inherently
evil. Like coal, or sugar or
food it is neither moral nor
immoral. It is only necessary.
And, indeed, it is true that
certain large oil corporations
may have their interests pro
tected if we continue to pro
tect the higher general inter
ests of the West itself in the
Middle East. It may even be
that their profits will be sus
tained. If so, then it could be
said that the producers of
every strategic necessity
whatever aircraft, tanks,
ships, as well as oil have al
ways had their profit. Gener
ally speaking, this has seemed
the best way to have the
strength required. '
Finally, it is said that we
are looking under the bed for
Communists; that the Nasser
Arabs really only want their
own way of life. While it is
not necessary to prove'an im
perialist Communist connec
tion to justfy action against
government by homicide,
plenty of evidential proof of
such a connection is, in fact,
at hand.
Professional Western and
pro-Western military men
not "politicians" and. not
"propagandists" have files
full of documented informa
tion of Soviet and Soviet-bloc
arms, officers, technicians,
trainers operating in Nasser's
group of countries. If these
are not placed to serve Rus
sian interests, Moscow has
been generous to a fault.
(Copyright 1358, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
white hair is one of his most
distinguishing characteristics,
probably got a few new white
ones the other day when,-flying
back from a conference in
Montana, the plane's two en
gines both quit over rugged
mountain country.
Happily the pilot got them
started again (he'd inadvert
ently switched to an empty
luei tank). But Rod says that
everyone aboard, including
the dead - pale but self - pos
sessed young stewardess, was
real shook up.
"I began to think that si 9
i a spent on air-trip insurance
was the best buck and a quar
ter I'd ever paid out," he said,
mopping nis brow at the mem
ory. Ever have fried al fresco .
for dinner? We suspect you
haven't, but that's what an .
M-T story recommended the
other day inadvertently, .
of course, in a story which
said, "If you haven't tried
fried al fresco dining, you
may be missing a lot of eat
ing enjoyment ..."
And. speaking of errors, tha
M-T gave a Talent woman a
shock the other day. She
thought she'd lost several
days out of her life when she
picked up a paper and saw
"bunday, July 27" in camtal
letters on page one.
What had harmened was
this: - Each week the "date
lines" for the paper for a full
weeK are set into tvne. then
each day the printers pick out
the right one for use that dav.
Last Tuesday one of them
picked ud the wronz one.
dropped into place without
checking it carefully enough,
and no one noticed it until
several hundred papers had
come off the press and
some of them carted away by
carriers.
The error was caught and
corrected for most of the cress
run but we wish to apolo
gize to the lady who had that
sinking feeling that Tuesday
to Sunday had vanished, and
to any others, similarly dis
comoded. Well, it's been hot lately.
And there have been a lot ,
of thunderstorms. .Some
people swear they haven't
seen weather like it for 30
years. A newcomer to the
valley observe ,' ?Y ou
know, I've never been any
place yet where people .will
admit that the present poor
weather is the usual and
expected thing."
. Tradition requires that
when a youngster IcKes - a
tooth, he must place it under
his pillow at night so "the
fairy'' will come during the
night and exchange it for a
dime. (It used to be a nickel,
but inflation, you know.)
One local mother recently
sneaked into her daughter's
bedroom to "play fairy," and
left a dime under the pillow,
cen though, fumbling in the
dark, she couldn't find the
tiny tooth.
The next morning the child
happened to mention that
she'd "hidden the tooth from
the fairy" to save it to show
to a playmate. Whereupon the
mother hastily and secretly
returned to the bedroom and
retrieved the coin for later
use.
"Life," our sports editor
remarked wistfully the oth
er day, "is just a bowl of
Cheerios."
Two of Medford's busiest
men one a businessman, the
other a public official took
off for the high country re
cently undecided as to wheth
er to snend one day, or two,
or even three at a mountain
lake.
After the first day the busi
nessman said to his friend
that they'd better decide
whether to go back to town.
The public official looked
at him wearily. "Don't bother
me," he said. "I don't even
want to think. Just tell me
what we're going to do, and
we'll do it."
That man's been working
too hard.
We have been told about
the small foreign car which
dashed into the street be
tween two pedestrians, and
was damaged.
.
We've also been told, this
time on the level, about anoth
er small car with a Canadian
license plate, which was
parked in a service station.
Annther vehicle drove ud be
hind, but was prevented from
getting to the gasoline pumps
because the small car was in
the way, and its driver re
fused to move, even wnen
courteously asked to do so by
the attendant.
WhereuDon the attendant
looked at his assistant, nodded
his head, and the two of them
lifted and rocked the littlt)
car so that it just rolled away
from the pump.