4 Sunday. Auguit 10, 1958
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1948 (Tuesday)
Five girls so far have en
tered the Jacksonville Lions
club's Gold Rush Jubilee
queen contest.
From "Side Glances": "The
Medford clinic crew in the
midst of 'Operation Coffee
Pot.' "
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1938 (Wednesday)
The sheriff has closed 12
gambling games operating in
a carnival outside the city's
north limits.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Elks' torn cat returned Tues.
scratched up worse than if
he had been picking wild
blackberries on the Apple
gate, without putting on an
armored suit."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1928 (Friday)
A special train brought 500
brightly-garbed Artisans here
today, and the state conven
tion is now in full swing.
Jack Wakefield's old safe,
which hers harbored valuable
documents for 15 years with
out ever being locked, was
locked by someone during the
Legion convention, and Jack
cannot find the combination.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 10. 1918 (Saturday).
A speeder was fined $13.60
for tearing along the Pacific
highway from Medford to
Phoenix at 37 miles per hour.
A 12-day-old goat is being
auctioned tonight at the Page
theater.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; rive or
six is good.
1. In golf, a "birdie" is a
hole in one stroke less than
par; what is an "eagle?"
2. How many angles or
sides are in a heptagon?
3. Name the author of the
novel, "All Quiet on The
Western Front."
4. A curlew is a bird, in
sect, or mammal?
5. Complete the saying:
"Impaled on the horns of a
d a."
6. What is a claw-hammer
coat?
7. An odometer is an in
strument which measures
odors, distances, or electrical
currents?
8. To be elected U. S. Pres
ident, a citizen must be at
least 25, 30, or 35 years of
age.
9. A grandmother clock is a
miniature grandfather clock;
true or false?
10. "Golden State" is the
nickname of which state?
Answers: 1. Two less than
par. 2. Seven. 3. Erich Maria
Remarque. 4. Bird. 5. "Di
lemma." 6. Dress coat with
long tails. 7. Measures dis
tances. 8. Thirty-five. 9.
True. 10. California.
FIRST IN SAFETY
Alameda, Calif. (UPD
Workers at the Listo pencil
company plant here are hang
ing up an industrial safety
record that may be hard to
top. The factory has gone 10
years without a single acci
dent that forced a worker to
miss a day on the job, according-to
the California Depart
ment of Industrial Relations.
The Cheaters
It's positively amazing how many ways some
people can think up to cheat other people.
This sad thought came to mind the other day
as we inspected just one issue of the bulletin
"Facts," published by the Portland Better Busi
ness Bureau.
The' publication had only four pages, but in it
was contained information on a wealth of sneak
ery, semi or whole-hearted crookedness, and just
plain cussedness.
WITNESS:
v ' A promoter sold "advertising" space to a
group of busy businessmen in a publication pur
portedly connected with a major festival in a
large city. It turned out to be a tiny, poorly printed
leaflet, giving "meager street and transit" infor
mation, while the rest of it contained the "ads"
the businessmen paid for, reduced to small size.
The BBB commented, ". . . if you insist on hand
ing your money to promoters of dubious schemes,
in all fairness to legitimate media, don't charge
it to advertising' because it isn't."
- A fake door-to-door salesman (who may be
operating in Oregon now) has a record in Califor
nia of claiming to represent an unnamed company
which is conducting a survey of viewer reaction to
TV shows, and "rewards" the participant by "giv
ing him a set of encylopedias, or a color TV set."
He then proceeds to collect the "tax" or "shipping
costs" which vary from $5 to $12 and prom
ises delivery of the gift within a week. It never
shows up, and all the participant has to show is a
receipt with a phoney name but no address, no
company name, and no explanation.
N OUTFIT in the east has sent a series of
" mailings to WPst. rnnsf-. hiisiripssrnori cnliitinnr
their "listing" and or ad in a "directory," which
the BBB says "may or may not be published, and
if it is, is likely to enjoy very limited distribution."
Cost of the listing alone in one such scheme was
$18.75; ad prices ranged upward, one for a single
column, 3-mch ad was $97.50.
PeoDle still are believing thp mrnnr (xxrlnn
started it or why no
save ud the celloDhane
ages and redeem them for Seeing Eye dogs. It is
a laisenooa, ana Decause it mignt raise some peo
ple's hopes falsely, it is a vicious one.
MAILINGS from the mid-west purport to come
from a group of handicapped workers. On
investigation it is found to be a business enter-
prise operating lor protit, and close reading of
the misleading letter reveals that it indicates that
no profit on the item offered for sale (a ball-point
pen; goes to nanaicappea persons, and that no
pens are made by them.
A man has been neddlino- "baro-airis" in wnnl
yardage. While he claims
examinations nave snown
similar "deals" in the uast
age to be inferior. He has no peddler's license.
A NOTHER warning was issued to would - be
vending machine buyers. The BBB said, "A
survey conducted by the National Better Business
.Bureau reveals that 95 per cent of those persons
who buy such machines lose all or most of their
money."
A man in Virginia rretends t.n hnvp nmvoi
waiting, or that someone may be a missing heir,
in order to obtain information which could be
used in identifying or collecting from a debtor
methods which the Federal Trade Commission
has stopped or is now investigating.
And here is the BBB -report on how "short
change artists" can work:
"One of a pair of men busies a clerk by pretending
to be interested in a purchase. The other follows in
and asks the cashier if she can give him a $20 bill for
20 one dollar bills. When she agrees, he hands her a
wad of ones, takes the twenty, and appears to place
it in an envelope which he seals and makes some com
ment about sending it to his mother!
"At that point it develops that there were only 19
ones he is sorry about this, says he will go and get
another hands the cashier the envelope to hold, takes
his $19 and says he will be back in just a few minutes.
"You've guessed it, of course he doesn't come
back and the envelope is empty. It's an old trick,
true enough, but there can always be some new
victims."
TTHESE, of course, are only samples of the du
plicity which can be, and is, used to make a
quick buck.
There are others phoney roof-repair men;
salesmen of phoney "Irish lace"; magazine sales
men who attempt to trade on the name of a vet
erans organization or (in one recent case locally)
the March of Dimes; peripatetic photographic
studios, which seldom render a dollar's worth of
service for a dollar; uniform salesmen who take
an order and a "down payment" for a uniform
which never appears and so on and so on.
One of the worst, in some ways, is the "ad
vance fee racket," where a man assures a pros
pective seller of real estate that he can advertise
the property in a way which practically will guar
antee a sale, and accepts a fee in advance for it.
When nothing happens he still insists on payment
sometimes substantial amounts for the "ad
vertising" which may or may not have been per
formed. Recent cases in Ashland, Medford and
Grants Pass have involved amounts of money
ranging up to $700. A legitimate advertising
salesman never guarantees specific results, nor
does a legitimate real estate broker accept ad
vance fees.
The moral is just this : Be on your guard, and
when in doubt, patronize local people who have
a stake in the community, and a sense of decency
and honesty. E.A.
one knows) that one can
tabs f j
it is 100 per cent wool,
there is no label and
have shown such vard-
Dennis the Menace
1 fOiAD (T! IT WAS JUST
UF&UARQSJfg&UXly
Matter of Fact
EISENHOWER. 1958 ,
Washington Press con
ferences in Washington, in
cluding Presidential press con-
tW ferences com
monly pro
duce head
lines without
solid news un
der them.
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ft ft. 1 WS "-
Jri M matters, facts
tnat count,
generally
have to be
jni.h Aison aug i o r or
fought for; and for these rea
sons this reporter almost
never goes to press confer
ences. The President's last press
conference the first in
over a month was no ex
ception to the foregoing rule.
But I went all the same, main
ly because I had not seen one
of these performances in some
years. The impressions left by
the experience were sad and
negative, but perhaps they
are worth recording all the
same.
Beginning, then, at the be
gining, any one whose private
Eisenhower-image is the vig
orously striding, easily smil
ing, richly self-confident Ei
senhower of the past is bound
to be a little shocked by the
Eisenhower of today. I had
seen him recently only at the
NATO meeting in Paris,
where he so bravely played
his part after his stroke. I
had been told that he was al
together different now from
what he was then, when one
wanted to cheer his every sen
tence as a courageous act of
will.
CERTAINLY" he is different.
He seems an altogether
well man, now. But he also
seems what he never used to
seem an old man who is
a little tired. The extraordin
ary mobility of that extraor
dinary face has been partly
lost. The smile is more mech
anical. The eyes are less vivid
ly blue. And especially when
you see the face in profile,
yon are suddenly struck by
the way all the lines go down.
Since the President' is near
ing 68 and holds down the
most taxing job in the world,
this change in his appearance
woulld not be very surpris
ing, even if he had not suf
fered the severe illnesses
from which he has recovered
so well. But there is another
thing that strikes you, too
something more intangible,
less easy to pin down, but per
haps more important than the
inevitable signs of age. You
are struck by the diminution
of the curious, almost magical
power that Eisenhower once
had.
This strange Eisenhower
power, it has always seemed
to me, was best summed up
by a trifling experience of
my own. It happened just af
ter he had been named NATO
Supreme Commander. I had
an errand in the Pentagon
and I was walking along the
corridor when the General in
his glory burst out of the
Secretary of Defense's office,
at the head of a hurrying re
tinue of aides and escort of
ficers. We' were friends in
those days. I congratulated
him on his post, and he all
but pinned me to the corridor
wall, and gave me a five-minute
answering lecture while
the, aides and escort officers
tapped their impatient feet.
THE theme of the lecture
was simply America's role
in the free world, and his own
deep satisfaction, to have been
asked to serve as a principal
embodiment of A m e r i c a's
leadership of the cause of free
dom. The syntax, as usual,
was tangled. What he said
was platitudinous enough, al
though the sentiments were
virtuous. But for a moment
he made those copybook-platitudes
sound like great truths,
eternal and profound, worthy
to be inscribed in letters of
fire on the arch of heaven
5o , I 1
L4YIN' AXOUm ON TOP OF TUB
By Joseph Alsop
itself. When he set off on his
tour of the pentagon I must
confess I was left with rather
a chokey feeling.
I kept thinking of that long
past experience at this press
conference. The President had
been well-briefed. Jim Hag
erty must have been pleased.
Even the question about Sher
man Adams and the White
House secretaries who took
Goldfine's checks evoked no
more than a short, bright
flush of anger. The questions
that could be answered fact
ually were as aptly answered
as ever. The essential good
ness of the man's intentions
was just as apparent as ever.
The platitudes of today were
not really different from the
platitudes of the past. On the
bitter question of school in
tegration in the South, for
example:
"I keep preaching that
there must be some wisdom,
some sense of civic duty in
accordance with the princi
ples which have been laid out
for a citizen of this country."
BUT now unhappily
the platitudes did not
sound as though they ought to
be inscribed in letters of fire.
They did not sound, either,
like prefaces to fruitful, posi
tive action. They sounded,
rather, like the words a man
speaks about great and pain
ful problems which he is not
sure how to- tackle.
At the ena of the confer
ence, the President admitted
that the problems were press
ing in upon him much more
heavily nowadays than they
ever did in the past "I think
there are more of them," he
said, "And I don't know
whether it is just because I
notice them more, or because
there actually are more." But
of coures it is true there are
many more problems now.
For this deeply good man has
been wonderfully lucky all
his life; but now, his luck
has turned; and so, alas, has
the luck of the United States,
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
Communications
Is It Fair?
To the Editor: Please print
this as an open letter to the
Medford city council.
Members of the city coun
cil, we have noticed in the
paper the publicity the con
tractor has received about the
new paint job on our city hall.
In the past, whenever civic
organizations such as the Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts or other
charitable institutions wanted
a free paint job or some other
type of work donated, they
come to the members of the
building trades. Union shops
and contractors have gladly
donated equipment and mater
ials, which is as it should be,
as a matter of civic pride and
duty.
But whenever they want to
buy some labor, as in the case
of repainting the city hall,
they put the bids out among
the local contractors, who
spend their time and effort
to make a legitimate bid, and
then they give the bid to a
non-union shop who hires non
union labor, and then see fit
to be proud of it.
To. add salt to the wound
the painter's local, in the last
two days, has been asked to
supply painters and equip
ment to paint the Little The
atre in our new West Side
Park.
Now we ask you, would
you in our place feel obligated
to furnish equipment and men
for city and county recreation
al facilities under these cir
stances? We leave it up to you as
members of the City Council,
do vou believe this is fair?
S. W. Kiel
for the Officers of Local
Union No. 1124 Brother
hood of Painters, Decor
ators and Paperhangers
of America
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
NOW THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
Having disagreed on how
they might meet face to face
in a closed meeting, Mr. Eis
enhower and
Mr. Khrush
chev find
them selves
agreeing that
there should
be a spectacu
lar meeting of
Gene ral As
sembly where
oito r tt Vi r A it
Walter & " J " " "
Lippmann Will confront
everyoody in a public meet
ing. The previous proposals for
a summit meeting Khrush
chev's, de Gaulle's. Macmil-
lan's and Eisenhower's had
one thing in common. This
was the idea that there should
be some opportunity for pri
vate discussion and perhaps
negotiation, even though there
was sure to be a great deal of
public propaganda.
But now we have to have a
gigantic spectacle which is
entirely propaganda, and we
have to pretend that we like
it. The only visible advantage
is that the President is under
no compulsion to attend the
meeting and that Mr. Khrush
chev may decide not to attend.
The summit conference which
we have never wanted has
been for the moment avoided,
and we have accepted instead
a rough and tumble oratori
cal bout.
f)UR problem is to prevent
this session of the General
Assembly from being a public
trial of the British and Ameri
can military intervention in
Lebanon and Jordan. This is
what Mr. Khrushchev says he
wants and, according to Mr,
Dulles's press conference last
week, the case for the defense
which we shall present has
been decided upon and is
being worked out. The official
American position seems to be
that, having been widely criti
cized even in friendly coun
tries, we welcome the chance
to explain and to vindicate
publicly our actions in the
Middle East.
. This is an optimistic view.
Possibly, it may turn out that
ivir. j-ioage ana ivir. uuiies can
win a vedict in the General
Assembly. But it will not be
prudent to rely too much on
the logic of our case and" on
the eloquence and magnetism
of Secretary Dulles, or even
of President Eisenhower. In
the General Assembly we do
not have a working majority
in our favor. We do not have
the two - thirds necessary on
any important issue, even if
we can win the support of all
the American republics and
of all of Western Europe and
of the old commonwealth
states, Australia, New Zea
Washington Report
By William
LATIN PROBLEM
Washington Our relation
ship with Latin America is
no longer merely unsatisfac
tory. It is now
highly dan
gerous. And
a time when
we may be
driven' back
to a depend
ence on this
hemisphere, a
situation we
have never
i x
illam s vvrnl Known Deiore.
Such unpleasant factors as
these underlie the hurried
arrangements being made for
a so-called "summit confer
ence" of the 21 American
presidents.
All the same, this forth
coming allrAmerican consul
tation offers hope along
with significant problems.
But we will fail in grasp
ing our opportunties unless
we have a far better sense of
the nature of these problems.
Administrations in Washing
ton always 4end to misunder
stand the people to the south.
But few Administrations
have so failed in understand
ing as has the Eisenhower ad
ministration. It runs its hem
isphere policy like a Cham
ber of Commerce.
TWO high-voltage missions
have gone to Latin
America for the President.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's sortie was disastrous
ly revealing. It produced the
clearest demonstration that
hatred of the United States
had reach a new pitch some
of it Communist hatred, yes,
but not all of it by a long
way.
The President's brother,
Dr. Milton Ensenhower, has
now returned with a sense of
urgency at the state - of af
fairs. What he has to propose,
however so far as has been
publicly indicated is not re
assuring. He is talking mainly . of
providing "bankable loans"
to the Latin Americans. But
land and Canada, and of our
client states in Asia.
The General Assembly, as
it is now composed, is a very
unfavorable forum in which
to justify intervention by Brit
ish and American forces in
two Asian countries.
CJO IT is important that in
J nrerjarine for the Assem
bly, the diplomats rather
than the litigators and the
argufiers should take the lead
ing part. One place to begin
is to stop building up the size
and power of our. military
forces in Lebanon and instead
to begin reducing them. The
newly elected President of
Lebanon is going to ask us to
leave, and the sensible thing
to do is to begin leaving be
fore we are asked. We do not
need 15,000 troops to protect
Mr. Chamoun, for the few
weeks ihe has a legal right to
remain in office. Moreover, it
would be a good idea to use
our diplomatic influence in
Beirut to persuade Mr. Cha
moun to leave the country
now and to take a holiday
abroad. Then, we could order
the withdrawal of all our
troops before the General As
sembly meets.
The problem of extricating
the British from Jordan is
much more difficult. But
there is not much doubt that
a way must be found to extri
cate them. For the 2,000 para
troopers in Amman may be
enough to protect the king
from assassination, but they
will never be able to make of
Jordan a viable and indepen
dent kingdom. Sooner or later,
but not much later, the para
troopers and the king will
have to leave, and Jordan, as
a separate and sovereign state,
will disappear.
.
THE great question Is wheth
er Jordan is to be trans
formed into some kind of neu-
tralized territory under the
United Nations, or whether it
is to be broken up violently
at the risk of a very probable
war between the united Arabs
and Israel.
This is a question which
ought to be discussed private
ly and with great seriousness
at a summit meeting. Mr
Khrushchev is making propa
ganda when he talks about
military plots against Iraq as
rnnstitutins? the danger of
war. But here in Jordan,
though nobody wants it, there
does exist a very real danger
nf war.
London and Washington
will fail lamentably to do
their duty if they are unready
to so into the General As
sembly with a constructive
plan for Jordan, as well as
with tangible evidence of our
withdrawal from Lebanon,
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
S. White
easily negotiable bank drafts
are not what is needed most.
The greatest need is an eas
ily negotiable friend ship
among equals of the United
States and the rest of the
hemisphere.
This country has no reason
to feel guilty in its economic
relationships with the Latin
Americans.- Though they are
having their troubles, their
trade with us multiplied six
times while Western Europe
lay in the ruins of World
War II.
THUS, all solutions based
on the assumption that
most everything can be put
right with money are going
to fail. So, too, will all solu
tions based on the notion
that we shall automaticaUy
be popular once . we cease
supporting any regime open
to the charge of dictatorship.
We are not going to close
the gulf until we grasp this
central, human fact: The peo
ple of Latin America are in
deed Latins. They are not
"Americans" in our defini
tion of the word. Entirely
apart from their resentment
of past exploitations by Yan
kee corporations, the Latinos
simply don't share our na
tional enthusiasm for either
bigness or business.
The development from
Mexico to Chile of an image
of the United States as the
home of an authentic and un
commercial culture would do
us more good than all the
economic aid projects that
could be assembled from
now to Christmas after next.
No Latin American regime,
not even the most "demo
cratic," rests on the broad
popular consent theory on
which our own government
is based. An emerging intel
lectual elite is the true base
of power. One man's vote
may be worth 10 times, or a
hundred times, that of anoth
er in terms of real influence.
I
T IS thus entirely impos
sible for the U.S. to make
pTiLya
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
A letter from a 12-year-
old girl at Scout camp has
fallen into our hands, and we
reproduce excerpts, as follows:
"Dear Family,
"Boy, I sure miss all of you.
We just got back from a
"MUDWALK." That's where
you go to the marsh and walk
through it. The ' water came
up to my knees. It's terrible.
"We went on an overnight
last night. We saw a poor
little dead fawn.
"I think I told you I spent
a night in the infirmary with
a backache. I hope I didn't
worrie you too much. I'm all
better now.
"Better go now.
"Love always,
"P.S. -
Write more often,
please:
Two public officials were
driving in the country, w
are told, when all of a sud
den sweat started to pour
down the face of on. He
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Two questions:
1. What of Nasser?
2. What of the Arab world?
T ET'S take Nasser apart first,
Li Wo startprl little. He
wants to be BIG. His easiest
road to bigness is to become
the ruler of the Arab world
That is his present objective.
He will stop at nothing to
ACHIEVE his objective.
But
If we are to deal with the
Arab world, the Arab world
must have a LEADER. It's
hard to deal with a mob. May
be Nasser is the man we need
Our job is to find out.
TJOW are we to find out?
Keep your eye on this
man Murphy.
For days and days he has
been gunning for an interview
with Nasser. He cooled his
heels in waiting roms. But he
finallv eot his interview. It
lasted four hours. Coming
away from it, he told the re
porters: "Our four -hour dis
cussion was very thorough,
very friendly and, from my
point of view VERY SATIS
FACTORY." Robert Murphy is a PRAC
TICAL diplomat. He talks
common sense, and people
listen to him.
IITHAT of the Arab world?
" , Well
'We'd rather . have the
Arabs running the Middle
East than to have the RUS
SIANS running the Middle
East
And
We don't want to run it
ourselves. That would be im
perialism. We Americans
(meaning the American peo
ple) want no truck with -imperialism.
It isn't our dish.
CHANGING the subject
The Federal Prison Bu
reau reports this morning
that more U.S. adults were in
prison at the end of last year
than EVER BEFORE IN HIS
TORY. HMMMMM.
Is that bad?
Or is it good?
Maybe, as a people, we're
getting worse -and worse and
because we are getting worse
and worse more of us are
landing in jail. That would be
bad. ' "
But
It MIGHT be that our
courts and our law enforce
ment agencies are getting
BETTER AND BETTER and
as a result more of us who
ought to be in jail are getting
clapped into jail.
That would be on the good
side.
an effective appeal to the
Latin American masses. To
win friends effectively, we
must win the elite. This elite
is essentially European in its
attitudes of. life. And it is es
sentially liberal, as the term
is understood here, in its
political view.
As in many parts of Eu
rope, men in Latin America
are extremely well educated
or simply not educated at all.
There is no intellectual mid
dle class. The weU-educated
are controlling. And they de
mand a, cultured, urbane"
sympatico a Spanish word
meaning "sympathy" and a
bit more than that.
It cannot be a sympatico of
sticky sentimentality, true;
but it also cannot be a sym
patico based upon commer
cial transactions, mosquito
extermination and pompous
sermons about American free
enterprise.
We must find a way to de
velop a true association with
the educated men to the
south.
(Copyright, 1958. by United
Featura Syndicate, Inc.)
squirmed and twiild. H
jumped half-way to his feet
in the car. his fac hat
red. His fist pounded on xh
seat beneath him. Th driv
er pulled the car to a
screeching halt, the front
door swung open, and th
writhing man. brushed a
dead bumblebe out onto
the road.
Sometimes, in the process
of putting a newspaer to
gether, lines of type Ret
scrambled, and the story
comes out all haywire con
fused and confusing.
Well, it happens to the or
dinarily orderly United Press
International, too, we discov
ered the other day when the
following story came over the
wire, exactly as follows:
Berlin (UPD A West Ber
lin denazification court im
posed a $12,500 fine Wednes
day to to make Hawaii the
50th state. But Speaker Sam
Rayburn of Texas said the
measure had "no chance" of
passage at this session of Con
gress. On the back of a calen
dar in one of the county
offices is a sign, which says
simply: "The reason bills
wear out so quickly is that
too many people pass the
buck." Whatever happened
to "You Auto Buy Now."
anyhow?
We read in an upstate news
paper about a fellow who has
almost lost faith in his fav
orite, tried-and-true rainmak
ing procedures, as he tries to
break the hot dry spell which
has plagued that aea.
Up to now he has: .
Washed his car. .
Bought a new swimming
suit.
Ordered reserved seats to a
baseball game.
Gone on a picnic, planned
days in advance.
And he's worried that they
haven't worked to cause a
general rainfall, as they usual
ly do. But last we heard, he's
going to try out a super block
buster, sure - fire, never-fail
plan to make it rain.
He's going to start re-roofing
the house. v
A man at his office was
talking, via telephone, to
his wife at home the other
day. All that was heard by
our eavesdropper was his
end of the conversation,
which went like this:
"Neighbor kids there?"
"Just NINE?" "Is there any
of the house left?" "Good!
Well, keep the doors lock
ed." We drove up the Applegats
river almost to Copper last
Sunday, and all along the way
we saw people some pic
nicking, some swimming,
some fishing, some just being
lazy in the shade.
But, at every available
spot where there was access
to the river, there were peo
ple. The point, however, is
that these spots were fairly
few and far between, and in
between them there were long
stretches of barbed wire
fence, many of them marked
with "No Tresspassing" signs.
There are a few publicly-
owned recreational spots on
the river, but darn few, 'so the
citizens and taxpayers of the
county have to make-do with
what they can.
All of which lends point to
a true story we've been told
about a new artificial lake
which was created by the bu
reau of reclamation in Idaho.
Somebody goofed, and no pro
vision for recreational use of
the lake was made. One large
cattle outfit leased, a section
of the lake-front, and kept a
mounted and armed cowboy
on patrol there to drive off
any fishermen or thers who
came within gunshot of that
section.
Horse sense, the office
philosopher declares, is
what prevenis horses from
belting on people.
The following Is sympa
thetically dedicated to Don
McNeil, manager of the cham
ber of commerce, and to all
others who have positions in
which they have to deal with
a whole bunch of bosses:
If he writes a letter, it's too
long; if he writes a postcard,
it's too short.
If he attends committee
meetings, he's butting in; if
he stays away he's a shirker
and slacker.
. If he duns members for
dues, he's insulting; if he fails
to collect dues, he's slipping.
If he asks for advice he's
not competent; if he doesn't
ask for advice he's a know-it-all.
If he writes complete re
ports he's long-winded; if he
condenses them they're in
complete. And if he talks on a subject,
he's trying to run things; but
if he remains quiet, he's lost
interest completely.