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Flight 'o Time
Medford aijd Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 17. 1948 (Tuesday)
The painting exhibition in
the Confidential Business
agency by Medford Artist
Clifford Platz closed today
after attracting enthusiastic
comment from local art-lovers.
Tickets are now on sale for
the "Community Appreciation
Day" ball game honoring the
Medford Dodgers.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 17, 1938 (Wednesday)
There are more entries
every day for the contest to
choose the little Southern Ore
gon girl who most resembles
Shirley Temple.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Laun
. dries are now using invisible
ink for making of laundry
' marks on shirts. The mark is
- said to be harder to find than
the shirt that didn't come
tack."
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 17. 1928 (Friday)
Table Rock melon growers
' are standing by with loaded
shotguns to ward off thieves.
Three hundred seventy-five
China pheasants were re
leased in Jackson county re
1 cently by the state pheasant
farm.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 17. 1918 (Saturday)
Thanks to an early fruit
' harvest, Medford schools will
open Sept. 16 instead of Sept.
SO.
Tourists to Mt. Ashland re
port there is but one small
snowbank left on the summit.
Whai's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
.seven or eight is excellent; five or
snc is good.
1. Which vitamin is impor
' tant in the prevention of
scurvy?
2. A half-wild horse of the
South west plains is .called a
m g?
3. Who has been called the
Immortal Bard?
4. According to the Bible,
whose father was Jesse?
5. What is the antonym of
; occidental?
6. What is the short name
for the B. P. O. E.?
7. Which flowering plant
has been called "The Queen
of Flowers"?
8. Name the capital of El
; Salvador.
9. Georgetown University
is in which city?
10. The rank of a Captain
in the Army is equivalent to
that of a Captain in the Navy;
true or false?
Answers: 1. Vitamin C. 2.
Mustang. 3. William Shake
speare. 4. David's father. 5.
Oriental. 6. Elks. 7. The rose.
8. San Salvador. 9. Washing
Ion, D. C. 10. False. (Navy
Captain equals Army Colo
nel) President's Nominees
Include Oregon Man
Washington (WD Presi
dent Eisenhower yesterday
nominated Hugh M. Milton LT,
New Mexico, to be Under
secretary of the Army.
The President also nominat
ed Paul Kearney, Astoria,
Ore., Sheriff of Clatsop Coun
ty since 1936, to be U. S.
Marshal for the District of
Oregon, y
The Free Souls
Sometimes, at the end of a long day (like the
moment when this is written), we have a sneak
ing desire to emulate those hardy souls who prize
independence above all else.
People like young Jeff Williams, who took off
earlier this summer to hitch - hike around the
world, and who now presumably is on the last
leg of his trip perhaps in the Orient, or on the
Pacific headed for San Francisco.
rR LIKE another acquaintance of ours, a man
of many travels and many parts, who thinks
as little of taking off for the far corners of the
world as others do of starting out for a picnic.
This man sailed Aug. 11 from Canada bound
for Rotterdam. Aboard was his red-painted jeep.
He's off for a jaunt through Europe, and in the
fall will stop in Paris for a while at the Sorbonne,
to brush up on his French.
He has just completed a couple of years at
the University of Oregon, where he received his
degree in journalism resuming an education
started years before.
DUT his "education" never really stopped, for
he has soaked up knowledge all his life, in
rambles all over the world. He has no particular
source of income, and occasionally comes back to
Oregon to work in a log pond long enough to raise
another stake to take him again to far places.
And he says, "Frankly, I expect to see myself
back on a pond in a year or so. I am too indepen
dent to care a hoot whether papers want my stuff
or not."
And he added, typically, "You might be
amused "to know that my very tenuous connection
with the journalistic world enabled me to ride in
the offical cortege when Princess Margaret was
in Quebec. It was strictly a 'con' job."
More power to him. The world needs such
people. But, also, it needs the stay-at-homes, the
people who work 8-to-5 five days a week. The
world needs, in fact, all kinds.
But it's fun thinking about the free souls, and
envying them, a little. E.A.
Move Ashland's Festival
To Portland? No!
Adroitly, The Oregonian suggests the removal
of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival to Port
land, foi"the Oregon Centennial in 1959 seeing
as how the people at Ashland are confronted with
the problem of rebuilding their Elizabethan stage
and the dressing rooms and service facilities at
tached to it to meet fire marshal's requirements.
This is another unscrupulous effort on the part
of the metropolis to steal something good from the
upstate which is really Portland's bread and but
ter. If the people of Ashland and Jackson county
submit to this raid, they are dumber than we
think they are. Portland does not give back.
CINCE it was established in 1935, under the in
spiration and leadership of Angus Bowmer,
the Shakespearean Festival has grown steadily in
popularity and in artistic merit to the point where
it has achieved national recognition. Through all
of these years most of the special financing has
come from the people of Ashland and Jackson
county. Portland has contributed nothing to the
growth of the enterprise (except the scanty and
often incompetent "reviews" of its professed
"drama critics").
Much more effective support has come from
discerning and able friends in nearby Calif orniaJ
Much of the charm of the Shakespearean Festival
has derived from its site in the lovely little hillside
city in Southern Oregon with its inexhaustible list
of forest and mountain and countryside attrac
tions to occupy the daylight hours between shows.
IN PORTLAND, the Shakespearean Festival
would be just another side show. We would not
pay a plugged dime to see it in Portland. The
phoniness of Portland's "one year" offer can be
seen from these facts :
1. If plans are made now, Ashland's stage and back
stage facilities can easily be rebuilt to any dimensions
and specifications in ample time for the 1959 Centen
nial shows.
2. If Portland takes the shows for one year, Port
land will not be able to provide more than a temporary
structure which would be little better than present
Ashland facilities.
3. If Portland houses the shows in anything but an
Elizabethan theatre the character of the plays is des
troyed. Tony Brandenthaler, the energetic promoter
of the Centennial has been trying hard to con
vince the upstate towns that though Portland is
the only logical place for the Trade Exposition,
Portland is not trying to hog it all, and that all
other tows should push their special attractions
and get their share of the Centennial tourist busi
ness. By raiding Ashland, Portland threatens to
destroy the illusion.
MO DOUBT some of the theatre people at Ash
land are plugging for a move to Portland. We
know temperamental and ambitious theatre peo
ple always "an itch," the pickings in Portland
look awful good at a distance. In Portland, their
festival would probably become just one of the
dozens of struggling and partially supported ar
tistic enterprises.
For nearly a quarter of a century the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival has had ROOTS in Ash
land and Jackson county. Such enterprises do not
transplant easily. As a patron of many years we'll
say a loud NO on moving the event to Portland.
Editor BUI Jjjgman, Port Umpqua Courier. -
Dennis the Menace
M HE just got scared
WM A r-Kfcfc HAIRCUT.
Matter of Fact
THE PAIN OF CUTTING . 1
LOSSES
Washington Until the
President went off to join the
U. N. vaudeville in New York,
the American
National Se
curity Council
was engaged
ffi in something
very like an
agonizing re
appraisal of
our world pol
icy and strate
gy. There has
Joseph Alsop
never been a time when the
gap was so wide between the
governmental facade and the
things going on behind the
facade. The facade "peace
plan," including the develop
ment scheme so ironically
borrowed from Aneurin Bev
an. The reality is the secret
huddle of high policy-makers,
anxiously discussing how to
avoid total catastrophe, not
just in the Middle East, but
also in the very heart of the
Western alliance itself. For
the policy-makers know what
they do not tell the country,
that - the rush of events in
the Middle East will begin
again, just as soon as the U. N.
speech-making is over.
THE policy-makers know too
that the real question
raised by this rush of Middle
Eastern events is the ques
tion, "What to do about
Britain?" The second partner
in the Western alliance is not
just dependent on Middle
Eastern oil; Britain's solvency
is also directly dependent on
Britain's ownership of the
Middle Eastern oil sources.
The British, we may say, are
like a family that not only
needs water to live, but also
gets a large share of tha fam
ily income from the stock in
the water company.
Britain cannot stay in busi
ness as the second partner in
the Western alliance after
sustaining the kind of loss
that now threatens in the
Middle East. The British divi
sions in NATO and many
other vital contributions are
quite directly at stake in the
outcome. All this was recog
nized in a grim .presentation
of the British situiation .Sec
retary of the Treasury Robert
Anderson made to the hud
dled policy makers.
The seemingly easy way out
is for Britain to use military
force if need be and the
need seems likely to arise
in order to hang on to the
enormously rich, rather easily
defensible oil sources in Ku
wait and the other British
protected sheikdoms of the
Persian Gulk But this expe
dient cannot possibly be
adopted by the British with
out all-out American support,
for obvious reasons of war
risk. THE expedient also has two
further, vastly more im
portant drawbacks. Any such
despairing British move will
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
OBSERVTNG A POLITICIAN in action whose speeches "al
ways have overshadowed his actual achievements, humor
ist E. B. White concluded, "His words leap across rivers and
mountains, but his thoughts
are still only six inches
long!"
Another E. B. White re
mark worthy of quotation
is, "A despot doesn't fear
eloquent writers preaching
freedom, but he does fear a
drunken poet, who may
crack a joke that will take
hold."
Do you know that the word
"abecedarian" means "easy as
ABC?" A Chicago dean slip
ped it into a letter last week. .
It's very useful for silencing
hecklers.
Solemn warning1 sign in a suburb of Cleveland: "Beginning Mon
day, there will te absolutely no parking allowed ia front of No
Farkjug gags:" :
'cause 1 SAtO tp GIVE
By Joseph Alsop
actually strengthen Nasser
l greatly, by giving him a burn
ing anti-Western reason that
he can use to control the di
visive forces in his growing
empire. It will also force Nas
ser to go beyond his present
anti-Western but non-Communist
policy. It will thrust
him, in fact, straight iiito the
Kremlin's waiting arms, with
incalculable but surely evil
consequences.
Such are the apparent alter
natives: Doing nothing, and risking
British bankruptcy that will
begin the break-up of the Wes
tern alliance; or- backing the
British in the Persian Gulf,
and thus causing a war scare,
defying large sectors of world
opinion, actually strengthen
ing Nasser, and making the
Kremlin a free present of Nas
ser and his whole powerful
movement. Confronted by
these hideous alternatives,
most of the American policy
makers have been frozen into
immobility.
However, a few on the low
er levels have recalled the
scheme put forward by
George F. Kennan in 1949,
for a special Anglo-American
relationship that might . also
include Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand. There was
no pompus constitution-making
in Kennan's , half-forgotten
proposal. It envisaged
military and political, co
ordinating machinery, on the
simple model of the old Com
bined Chiefs of Staff Com
mittee. It also - envisaged
economic machinery, perhaps
in the form of a massive
stablization fund, that would
maintain an agreed exchange
(ate between the dollar and
the pound, thus freeing Brit
ain from her eternal hard cur
rency problem.
THE minority recalling this
plan of Kennan's points
out that it would not only
strengthen the core of the
Western alliance. It would al
so free Britain and the United
States from the need to make
either of the horrible Middle
Eastern choices above - out
lined. With British solvency
no longer so dependent on
shaky, neo-imperial positions
in the Middle East, sensible,
down-to-earth bargaining with
Nasser and Arab oil pro
ducers would at once become
possible. And after the U. S.
and Britain have conceded 'so
much, 'they would then be
able to draw the desperately
needed clear line, say. at the
Sudan and Libya, that Nasser
must not pass without . im
mediate war. : '
These are the. advantages.
The disadvantages are the
cost, which would not be un
bearably great, and above all
the difficulty of taking such
bold, imaginative action with
out admitting past errors. This
second difficulty would- be
very great indeed. Cutting
losses and making a sensible
new start is alway, alas, an
extremely paninful process,
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. .
Stop Me
eLA-BLA-BOt.
Washington Report
By William
GREAT DIVIDE ;
Washington President Ei
senhower's United Nations !
plan for quieting the Middle
East may
u n expectedly
mark a Great
Divide in
America's en
t i r e foreign
policy.
If he presses
on for con
structive and
e s s e n t i ally
William S. White op
tions, in that area or else
where, he may well win a
truly vital and creative Demo
cratic backing in foreign af
fairs throughout the world.
This kind of backing he has
not had for two years and
more. His need for it has been
very great all along. And it
will be even a far greater
need if, as is expected, the
new Congress chosen in No
vember is again in Demo
cratic control.
For the critically dangerous
years of the Eisenhower te
nure will ; be the final two
years when his influence with
the public, and especially
with the Republican party,
wUl be on its last declining
curve. And this phase will
open in January, concurrently
with the new 86th Congress.
INDEED, the President's
newly proclaimed policy
could turn out to be a most
useful one even if it should
fail in the Arab world itself.
For the significance of his ap
proach goes profoundly be
yond this immediate area.
He has at last made a deep
appeal to the leading Demo
crats. This time they are pri
vately and genuinely enthu
siastic, though the feeling is
tempered with skepticism
that says: "Now, if he will
only go through with it . . ."
For a long time before this,
these Democrats had been
only publicly and wearily go
ing along with Presidential
proposals on foreign policy
and solely because they were
not willing to divide the
country before the Kremlin.
The Eisenhower promise of
American support to a region
al Arab economic develop
ment scheme is good Demo
cratic doctrine. It is wholly
in line with what the senior
Democratic member of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Senator J. Wil
liam Fulbright of Arkansas,
has been urging for at least
four years.
pij
Today tr Tomorrow
By .Walter Lippmann
BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION
The General Assembly hav
ing met, there is some reason
for thinking that there now
exists a basis
for negotiation
on the im
mediate issue.
The ' issue is
not in Leban
on, which does
not pose an
insoluble
problem. The
issue is in Jor
dan. Walter
Lippmann
.The fact is that the kingdom
of Jordan is not capable of
being an independent and
sovereign state, and that it
cannot be maintained much
longer even if the British
troops remain there. The ques
tion before the U. N. is how
to prevent the collapse of the
kingdom from producing an
Arab-Isaraeli war for the par
tition of the territory of Jor
dan. .....
The only hope is that the
U. N. itself, following along
the lines indicated a few days
ago by Mr. Hammarskjold,
will make the territory of
Jordan into a protectorate of
the U. N. For Jordan cannot
be a British protectorate. It
cannot be absorbed into the
United Arab Republic with
out arousing Israel. If peace
is to be preserved, Jordan
must be given a new and
special status. Only the U: N.
itself can do that.
On this crucial point, the
American position . and Rus
sians are within negotiating
distance of Mr. Hammarsk-
jold's proposals.
THE essential element of an
arrangements for Jordan is
that its territory should be
neutralized and demilitarized
as between Israel on the one
hand, Egypt and Syria on the
other. Jordan cannot be parti
tioned without a great risk
of war. It should, therefore,
be preserved" and be trans
formed into a buffer state, as
is the Gaza Strip.
This requires concessions.
It means that Nasser mut re
nounce the notion of incor
porating Jordan into his mili
tary system. It means, on the
other hand, that the West
must renounce the idea of pre
serving the kingdom under
the Eisenhower doctrine as a
"bastion" against Nasser and
S. White
r" IS good, strong medicine
to the Democratic Congres
sional leadership in general.
The Democrats say, too, that
it is little more than what
Adlai E. Stevenson had urged
on the Eisenhower Adminis
tration long ago. Harry S.
Truman, too, is said to be
pleased.
All these facts mean that
if and when the President
calls on Congress for any leg
islative action he might need
in this field, he will get it,
and quickly. In fact, the Dem
ocrats do not exclude action
in a special session of Con
gress this fall in the unlikely
event that the President
should decide on such a
course.
Too, the President's posi
tive stand is widely r seen
among the controlling Demo
crats as a belated but still
welcome break with the
negative influence on foreign
policy of the right-wing Re
publicans. - The Democrats believe that
such Republicans, and notably
the Senate Republican leader,
William F. Knowland of Cali
fornia, have frightened the
Administration away from
imaginative steps in world
affairs. They see the new Ei
senhower policy as a signal
that a thoroughly honorable
but thoroughly inflexible
veto power by right-wing Sen
ate Republicans has come to
an end.
THUS, they think that even
if the Russians or Nasser's
Egypt should forbid t.he
peaceful development -t5f the
Middle East which we seek,
the Eisenhower Doctrine of
1958 will have been far from
in vain.
They see it and so do
some Western members of the
foreign . diplomatic, commu
nity here as opening ; the
way to a fresh and hopeful
start in the cold war. They be
lieve, for example, it will do
much good for us, as one puts
it, "with all the Nehrus of
this world."
' He means Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru of India
and the vast numbers every
where who have persisted in
suspecting us on the. ground
that we are "sterile" on the
issues of pacifying the world.
They think, in short, that
we are at last off dead-center,
assuming that' the President
will strongly exploit the ini
tiative he has gained.
(Copyright, 1358, by United
, Features Syndicate, Inc.)
the Soivet Union. A United
Nations protectorate over a
neutralizied Jordan would not
prevent the Jordanians from
entering the new Arab com
munity. But it would prevent
them from being part of Nas.
ser's military system.
Some such solution as this
may be possible at the meet
ing in New York because it
serves the vital interests of
all the powers concerned.
None of them can afford to
stand by land let another
Palestine war break out. On
the other hand, none of them,
not the Western powers nor
Russia and Egypt, has a vital
interest in Jordan as such.
Jordan is not an asset but a
strategic vacuum which must
be filled by statesmanlike ac
tion lest it be filled by
violence.
IN THE larger sense, the
chance of a general accom
modation in the Middle East
rests on the fact that the vial
interests of Russia on the one
hand, of Britain and the Unit
ed States on the other, can be
satisfied without the military
domination of the region.
The Middle East is very im
portant to all three of the
great powers involved, but
none of them has a vital inter
est of a kind that demands
exclusive military control.
The oil of the Middle East
can be sold only in the West.
It. is not needed and it is
not wanted in Russia. The
West for its part cannot hope
to control the oil of the Mid
dle East by its military pow
er. It can control it only by
the use of its financial and
economic bargaining power
which, all things considered,
is very great..
What we might hope is that
in New York there will be an
agreement to deal with the
very real emergency in Jor
dan, and, beyond this, that
the great powers will find a
basis for a negotiation aimed
to achieve an economic and
strategic accommodation in
the whole of the Middle East.
OF PRESIDENT Eisenhow
er's address to the General
Assembly, one may say, I
think, that it permits an
agreement about Jordan but
that it does not very much
promote any larger negotia
tion and arrangement. Con-
TQUCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
That Russian rocket case
(usually referred to, incorrect
ly, as "Sputnik"), has prob
ably been the principal topic
of conversation in the Rogue
valley the past week.
Probably a majority of the
residents have tried to spot it,
and a lot of them were un
doubtedly disappointed. It
has been difficult to get pre
cise information as to what
the darn thing was going to
do, and how long it is expect
ed to be visible.
The object has caused a few
casualties, too.
One of the girls that works
in our office received a "crik"
in her neck peering up to see
the rocket so severely, in
fact, that she made a visit to
the doctor's office the next
day.
He was quite blase about
the whole thing. -
"You're my second Sputnik
victim today," he told her.
"The other was a man who
looked up, stepped back and
fell into a cellar window. He's
now walking on crutches."
Funny thing about the sky
object when you see it,
you can't quite see how any
one could miss it, so bright
and dramatic it is. But when
you're looking for it and can't
see it, you can't understand
how it can be so elusive, and
how everyone else can see it
while you can't.
The Daily Bulletin of hap
penings in the sheriff's off-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Free world reaction to Ike's
Middle East proposal:
Western Europe generally
welcomed President Eisenhow
er's peace plan as a realistic
approach toward solving the
problems of the troubled Mid
dle East.
A Paris source says it would
be difficult not to admit the
honesty of the speech. In Am
sterdam (Holland) the speech
is greeted as very construc
tive. A West German spokes
man says the plan is a "rea
sonable beginning."
RUSSIAN reaction to Ike's
speech:
' The Russian press and radio
sharply criticized President
Eisenhower's Mideast pro
gram. Radio Moscow said the
President "virtually ignored
the most URGENT problem
withdrawal of U.S. and Brit
ish troops."
QUESTION:
HOW ABOUT WITH
DRAWAL OF RUSSIAN
TROOPS FROM HUNGARY,
POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAK
IA, EAST GERMANY, etc?
- It is an ancient proverb that
what is sauce for the gpose is
sauce for the gander.
MODERN gadget note:
A Danish inventor
(name of Hellweg Friborg)
claims he has invented an
electronic atmosphere - taster
with a great distastes for liq
uor. He says the jigger will
shut off an auto engine "at the
slightest hint of alcohol on
the driver's breath."
He adds that once the shut-
off system goes to work the
driver can't shut it off.
TTMMMMMM. . .
These electronic thinga-
majigs are wonderful, but
there is a point at which hu
man credulity balks.
How can ans electronic
breath-sniffer tell" the differ
ence between likker on the
breath of a DRIVER and lik
ker on the breath of a PASS
ENGER? STILL
Modern progress is fabu
lous. Maybe it can be done.
structive work can be done
in using Mr. Hammarskjold's
proposal as the basis of a
plan for the neutralization of
Jordan, and if it can be done
it would be a great blessing
for aU the world.
But in the larger conception
of the address there is, it
seems to me a fallacious as
sumption namely, that the
region can be stabilized by
coming to terms with the
Arabs, by-passing the Rus
sians. Necessary as it is to work
towards an accommodation
with Nasser, there will be no
peace in the Middle East un
less there is an understanding
with Russia.
For the Middle East is not
all Arab. There are also Tur
key and Iran which, are not
Arab, and they are on the
southern border of the Soviet
Union. As the Soviet Union
can no more be excluded from
the Middle East than can the
United States be excluded
from Central America, any
position which ignores this
fact will have about it an air
of unreality,
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
ice. on Aug. 12. had the
following notation: "Joe
Cowley reports thai he is
the father of a 9 lb. baby
girl." Joe is lhe Mail Tri
bune's farm editor, who is
sometimes quoted in this
space; also the "office phil
osopher, junior grade"
whose observations have
been noted here.
Joe passed the cigars around
the next day, like a good fel
low. But he was a little upset
about the whole thing, for he
took Mrs. Cowley to the hos
pital in the morning, was as
sured that it might be a long .
arawn-out process, and then
came to work, without saying
"boo" to anyone about the im
pending blessed event.
He worked right through
the morning, anxiously await
ing a call summoning him to
the hospital at any moment.
Finally he could stand it no
longer, and called to find out
how things were going. He
was casually informed that he
was the father of a baby girl
had been, in fact, for some
time.
No one had bothered to call
him. No wonder he was sore.
Anyway, it all worked out
all right; mother, baby 'and
father are doing fine, and the
M-T news staff is as pleased
as can be. v
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While, generally speak
ing, the opening of the one
way couplet involving Main
and Eighth streets went
smoothly enough, there
were, as was to be expected,
a few creatures of habit
who just plain forgot about
it. One of these, we are in
formed by a spy, was May
or Snider, who was driving
blithely eastward on Main
street early one morning,
and wondering what those
cars were doing parked on
the wrong side of the street.
There's also an unconfirmed
report that Police Chief
Charles Champlin was an
other of the forgetful trans
gressors. And the secretary
of health, education and
welfare of a family we
know was horribly' embar
rassed after she'd turned out
of her favorite grocery's
parking lot into lhe honk
ings of oncoming cars, and
the shout of a small boy,
"Hey Lady, that's a one
way street!!"
Four travel editors from
various publications came
through Jackson county not
long ago, on an annual tour
sponsored by the Pacific
Northwest Travel association
for publicity purposes.
Before they arrived here,
the local chamber of com
merce was making prepara
tions for their reception, and,
among other things, forward
ed them a "Southern Oregon
Survival Kit" for them to have
ready when they arrived. ;
The kits contained a num
ber of handy items, including
a pack of Bull Durham for
snake-bite, windshield wiping
or smoking; a tin of a well
known pain-killer for head
aches caused by criks in the
neck caused by watching Ore
gon s magnificent scenery; a
kit for repairs of scratches.
nicks and dents in the hide; a
thin dime as a down-payment
on a telephone call home in
case of emergency; a pack of
Pik Pak toothpicks for after
dinner use following tough
steaks, and a packet of No-Doz
tablets to help them stay alert
for Oregon's scenic wonders.
The visitors, by all ac
counts, were taken, not only
with the kits, but also by the
magnificent southern Oregon
country from whence , they
came.
Kiwanis club members
were upset the other day
when someone referred to
their organization as a
"lodge." Whereupon, from
the back of the room, came
a voice in a molasses-thick
southern accent, which said,
"Waaal, suh, we-uns sho
nuff are a lahdge Kiwanis
club."
Bob Chandler, the editor of
the Bend Bulletin, claims that
there are many, many quiet
indoor sports, but that the
Big Three are dieting, quitting
smoking, and going on the
wagon. The biggest, by far, he
says, is dieting.
Participants may be divided
into types, he says, such as
the quiet welsher, the quitter,
the compulsive cheater, the
martyr, and so on.
The authoritative tone of
his little essay leads one to
believe he has had personal
experience in one or more of
these sports, which in turn
leads one to wonder in which
type he classifies himself.
Overheard in the M-T
newsroom, young lady to
society editor: "Do you
handle engagements?" So
ciety editor to young lady:
"We ANNOUNCE ngags-ments."
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