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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
. 10 YEARS AGO
The Jackson County Cham
ber of Commerce has an
nounced it will spearhead a
drive to induce the state high
way commission to improve
Highway 99 in the Canyon-
ville area. -
More than 75 persons at
tended the recent 4-H home
economics canning show.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1938 (Wednesday)
The Medford News official
ly moves today to 39 South
Grape st., , formerly occupied
by the Mattress shop.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
I. Coleman boy, John, 5, had
lunch with a girl friend last
week. John got mad about
something, and showed his
spunk. He crawled under the
table and stayed there, until
the young lady went home.'
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1928 (Friday)
At least 200 Boy Scouts are
expected at the jamboree to
night in the Medford armory,
H. W. Conger opens his
new mortuary tomorrow.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1918 (Saturday)
- The state militia company
paraded nd drilled on Main
st. early this afternoon, wear
ing their recently-arrived uni
forms.
The local Red Cross unit
needs funds for the purchase
of surgical dressings and oth
er necessities.
What's Yoar I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight it excellent; five of
six is good.
;1. The whorls and ridges
on human fingers do, or do
not, change with age?
2. In liquid measure, how
many gills are in a pint?
3. Seven letters in the al
phabet' are used in Roman
numerals; how many can you
name?
4. ' "What datev in January,
1961, commences the next
term of office for the TJ. S.
Presidency? '
5. Name the Federal agency
whicl) prints U. S. currency.
6. Which Jewish organiza
tion has the intials Y.M.H.A.?
7. If you suffered from
chrematophobia, would you
fear, or crave wealth?
8. How many children con
stitute a pair of twins? ,
9. At a wedding, are the
bride's reltives seated on the
left or right side of the
rhnrch?
10. Usually, in Homer and
In later writers, ambrosia is
the food of the gods; what is
the drink of the gods?
Answers: 1. Do not change.
2. 4 gills. 3. C,D,I,L.M,V,X.
4. January 20. 5. Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. 6.
Young Men's Hebrew Asso
ciation. 7. Fear wealth. 8.
Two. 9. Left. 10. Nectar.
Albany-Camp Adair
Bus Service Approved
Salem - (CPD - Public Utility
Commissioner Howard Mor
gan Friday approved the ap
plication of Roy J. Sinnott
and Louie C. Meierhenry, op
erators of the Radio Cab Com
pany and Albany Transit
Lines in Albany, to conduct
bus service to Camp Adair
starting Sept. 2.
4 ASSOCIATION
Handwriting on the Wall
Charlie Stanton sees some handwriting on
the wall. He doesn't like what it says, but believes
it is inevitable.
Now Charlie, in addition to being the able edi
tor of the Roseburg News-Review, is one of the
state's most ardent outdoorsmen, fishermen and
conservationists. Many a battle has he waged on
the side of those who believe the outdoors repre
sent an irreplaceable natural resource that must
be wisely used so that generations of the future
will be served as our present generation is being
served.
A ND, too, Charlie delights in "fast water fish
ing," the exciting sport of going after a sal
mon or trout in a rushing stream.
But he fears that the era of the fast-water
fisherman is coming to
doesn t like it, he feels
even grudgingly admits
Water-users is a legitimate thing although he
sees the day when he and
be hard-pressed to find
favorite sport.
He says:
"Industry Is taking more and more water for in
dustrial purposes. That water is needed. We want more
industry. The only way we can get more water, and
thereby more industry, I believe, is through upstream
storage, whereby runoff waters are held back for re
lease when needed.
"And let's turn to the anglers. Are we getting more
fishermen on fast water or impoundments? I'll say
that impoundments are drawing more fishermen, con
sidering the distance and difficulty of travel, than
fast water. A few of us still like to fish for ocean-run
trout, salmon, etc., but I'm very much afraid that the
great majority of fishermen want more lakes and more
lake fishing."
ND he concludes:
."Are we old-timers about done? Must we give
up our favorite" type of recreation, fast water fishing,
for something else? I'm very much afraid we will.
People who know more about our sports fishery than
do I are also of the opinion that the days of fast water
'angling are about through. Perhaps a few places in
Oregon may be saved, but they probably will be few."
There are many definitions of nrosress. One
or tnem includes more
and more uses of our precious water.
btanton's plaint is not really new. but in the
past few years it has become increasingly obvious
tnat tne last-water man even he who likes to
whip a dry fly on the smaller streams seeking the
pan-sized trout is a member of a minority.
lhe water-skier and
swimmer and the boater,
New Building Technique
"A quiet revolution has
concrete industry, little
those who keep up with
metnods.
The revolutionary technique is called "Dre
stressing" of concrete.
recently as one of tne great advances in construe
ion of the 20th century, providing builders with
i material "of superb strength, flexibility and
economy," according to
Scientific American.
The article describes the process:
"The idea is simplicity itself. We take a long block
of concrete, put a bar of steel through it lengthways,
and tighten nuts at the ends of the bar so that the
steel is stretched and its tension compresses the con
crete. Concrete, which is strong In compression, also
loses its tendency to crack when thus compressed.
Maximum advantage is taken simultaneously of the
steel's high tensile strength. The stressed concrete span
will now bear a considerable load. It . is no longer
brittle, but actually resilient. Jndeed, with prestressed
concrete, we can make a whippy fishpole or a bouncy ,.
diving board."
.. i
MARRS Gibbons, head of one othe local firms
dealing in concrete products, recently re
turned from a tour of Europe and Africa where he
inspected some of the products thus described.
He is enthusiastic about it, but states that be
cause of lack of information, and lack of appro
priate facilities, the advantages of the new ma-
enais are not Deing used
on the west coast.
But abroad, and in parts of the United States,
it has become big business.
THE magazine article
Vi ritT nva a4-irttfcrt
The new race course
has a grandstand roof made of it, only three inch
es thick, but which projects 90 feet from its sup
porting pillars, with no posts obstructing the
view. The edge of the roof is tipped up slightly
by the. pull of the wires.
out, but never will droop
evered roofs commonly
And m Los Angeles
has a three-inch slab of pre-stressed concrete as a
roof, covering 100,000 square feet. It is covered
with two inches of water
MR GIBBONS says
For bridge spans it
clares, and its versatility
vistas of possible use in the construction industry
long spans without support and huge roofs.
And all this at a cost
ional reinforced concrete
altogether different.
This, incidentally, is
search going on in all types of building materials
wrhich, increasingly, are competing with lumber.
And it is another argument for an expanded re
search program in the uses of, wood to keep our
m a . i Mi i m r-i a
orests ana miiis Dusy ior
an end. And, though he
it is inevitable. And he
that the pressure of other
others of like mind wil
a place to pursue their
people, more payrolls
the lake fisherman, the
are taking over. E.A.
been under way in the
- known to any excent
new techniques and new
.
It has been recognized
a recent issue of the
.
as mucn as they might
describes examples of
nr - ry?vri - Any, V s i-r
at Caracas, Venezuela,
Eventually it will flatten
as conventionally canti-
will do.
there is a factory which
to cool the building.
the future of the new
can't be beaten, he de
will open up whole new
little more than conven-
which is something
another example of re
years to come. u.a.
Dennis the Menace'
'HOT MAW HUMMINGBIRDS SET 74TtilC A FUNERAL J
Matter of Fact
(Joseph Alsop is on va
cation. While he is away his
column will be written by
Rowland Evans jr.)
NO DOUBLE HEADER
Sanford, Me. - The Demo
crats are hoping to win
double-header in the weather-
vane election here a week
from Monday. As it looks to
day, however, they may have
to settle for a seat in the U.S
Senate, their first since 1912
when the Bull Moose move
ment split the Republican
party and gave the Demo
crats a momentary advantage
Chiropractor Clinton Clau-
son, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, by all the signs
is trailing Republican Horace
Hildreth. It will take a Demo
cratic landslide, or a major
Republican blooper, to save
Clauson. No one rules out the
latter, particularly in view of
reports that President Eisen
hower has not yet decided
whether to , sign or veto the
depressed areas bill.
Former Gov. Hildreth was
talked into running for Gov
ernor as a Republican unity
candidate. Since 1952, the
Republicans have been beset
by a rising Democratic tide
fed by an influx of French
Canadians, chronic unemploy
ment in the old river towns
and the astonishing populari
ty of the two-term Democrat
ic Governor, Edmund Muskie,
who is running for the Sen
ate. One. result has been a
sharp decline in the political
power of the old Yankee Re
publicans who ruled the state
for generations.
;
TO PREPARE for the elec
tion next week, the Re
publicans revamped their en
tire state political organiza
tion and' bound up their 1952
Senatorial primary wounds,
when the present Sen. Fred
erick Payne challenged form
er Sen. Owen Brewster.
Brewster was a strong Taft
man while Payne went all out
for Eisenhower that year.
Ever since the two factions
have been at arm's length.
After walloping Brewster in
the primary, Payne went on
to win election to the Senate
where he has performed his
duties with diligence and the
precision of an expert account
ant. It was Payne who spon
sored the depressed areas
bUl, one of the last bills of
the session to pass Congress.
The bill promises $275,000,
000 in Federal aid for areas
of chronic unemployment.
One such area is this town of
Sanfordwhere the sprawling
textile plants that once, hum
med with business are now
wasteful remnants of a van
ished era.
PAYNE sponsored the bill
and he naturally is mak
ing much of it. At a Republi
can rally in . the Elks Hall
here,' Payne recited his own
record and attacked JviusKie
for not doing more to solve
the problem of industrial mi
gration south and west, ine
Democratic Governor, he
said, "has failed the state ot
Maine and failed it badly."
This kind of attack on Mus
kie does not seem to be hurt
ing the 4 Democratic governor
and if a suspicion now held
within the Payne camp is
wen founded, it could boom
erang with a vengeance. The
suspicion is that President
Eisenhower may veto the de
pressed areas bill. A veto of
Payne s bill wouia seem m
be an unthinKaDie Diooper,
it were not for the recol
lection of other occasions oi
administration rug pulling.
The biu went to tne presi
dent's desk on Tuesday, fie
has ten days, excluding Sun
rlavs. to act. putting the dead
line just two days before the
election.
As this report is written,
Payne and the entire Repub
lican team are agonizing
over the prospect of such a
veto." On the other hand the
By Rowland Evans Jr.
President's signature on the
bill would give his party
decided lift.
It would not, however,
change Sen. Payne's status as
underdog, a status that is
partly due to Bernard Gold-
fine s characteristic kindness
to politicians.
One of the most astute Re
publicans in the state sums it
up this way:
"We were comfortable
right down the whole length
of the ticket when this cam
paign started. We thought
we were getting Muskie's
number and destroying his
image, nut then along came
Goldfine and there's been
nothing but trouble." '
TT WAS Payne .himself who
disclosed the loan of $3,-
500 from Goldfine to help
finance the purchase 'of his
modest $22,500 house in
Washington. He volunteered
the whole story; Nevertheless
casual conversations with
run-of-the-mill Maine voters
convinced this . reporter that
the unpaid loan is costing
Payne important support. It
is undoubtedly a more signif
icant silent issue than Mus
kie's Catholicism, despite pri
vate estimates by some Re
publicans that the two cancel
each other out.
But even if Payne goes
down, recapturing the Gover
nor's mansion after four
years of Muskie would be
more than a consolation prize
for the Republicans. It would
put them back in charge of
the apparatus of state con
trol and of the Civil Service
lists. Muskie knows this. He
is annoyed that Rep. Frank
Coffin, the second - ranking
Democrat here, rejected Mus
kie's appeal to run for gover
nor and decided instead to
run tor reelection to tne
House.
With Coffin as Muskie's
running mate, a doublehead
er a week from Monday
would have been an excel
lent Democratic prospect.
With Clauson, the odds favor
a split.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Porter Family
Heads Homeward
Washington Rep. Charles
O. Porter (D-Ore.) and his
family left Washington, D. C,
last Sunday en route to Ore
gon, following the 4 a.m. ad
journment of the 85th Con
gress the same day.
Porter, his wife and four
children are driving across
country. They plan to camp
out each night in their col
lapsible "camper" trailer.
The Porters will travel
through the northern part of
the United States. They plan
to stop briefly in Glacier Na
tional Park. ..
The Fourth District repre
sentative hopes to arrive m
Eugene shortly after Labor
Day. He will leave by plane
the evening of September 3
for an international peace
conference in France. He will
return Sept. 13 in time for
the Lane County Fair.
The Porters will be living
at their home, 2680 Baker st.,
Eugene. Mrs. Porter said the
family will hold an "open
house" after her husband re
turns from Paris.
Porter's secretary, Miss
Barbara Burke, wUl be in the
representative's district con
gressional office, room . 200,
858 Pearl st., following Labor
Day. Until that time, inquir
ies should be directed to tne
congressman's administrative
assistant, Jack L. Billings,
324 House Office building,
Washington, 25, D. C.
EX-NEWSMAN DIES
Tokushima, Japan-(UPD-Wil-
liam A. Finnin, 65, a for
mer Australian newspaper
man known for his aphorisms,
died Thursday after a heart
attack.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
Defaulting Politicians
Whatever the Supreme
Court does about the Little
Rock case, it is most unlikely,
indeed it seems impossible,
that the court can resolve the
fundamental issue. For while
it can declare
what the law
is, it cannot
teU the Presi
dent h o w to
induce or com
pel the state
state of Ar-
k a n s a s and
the state of
Virginia and
Walter
Lippmann
others to ob-
serve and enforce that law
The states of the deep Smith
do not accept that law. They
nave enacted their own laws
which contradict the Federal
law, and it is their own laws
that they are determined to
oDserve and enforce.
There is a deadlock betwpon
the Federal government and
these states, and as it cannot
be broken by the Federal
power, the choice before the
country is, ,on the one hand,
to acquiesce in the nullifica
tion of the 1954, decision by
the Supreme Court and, on
the other hand, to negotiate
for an understanding with
the Southern states. Such an
understanding would mean
that the principle is preserved
but that the application is
adapted to local conditions
and to local sentiment.
r
T IS. however, one of th
facts of our current Doli-
tical life that there are no in-
fluental politicians in either
party who are willing to take
the lead in trying to work
out such an understanding.
AU the politicians, insofar as
they do not take refuge in a
storm cellar, are boldly in fa
vor of what the majority in
their constituencies want.
And so, outside-the South.
there are no political leaders
who are willing to admit pub
licly that in the deep South
integration plus, co-education,
especially for teen-agers, is
impossible within the fore
seeable future. And in the
South, where there is much
moderate sentiment, " there
are no- influential elected
politicians who are prepared
to work publicly for a nego
tiated program to modify, re
duce, restrict and eventuaUy
to dissolve the principle of
segregation.
The President, whose duty
it is to lead the country to
wards an understanding re-
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
MIND DIVIDED
Washington The Eisen-
hower Administration is like
a mind divided as it confronts
the issue of in
tegration and
the whole
question of
how far to
push the South
to comply,
inis is per
haps the worst
of all the
harsh and dan-
wiiiiam s." white gerous nation
al problems involved.
On one day the President
himself concedes that a
slower" approach would suit
him better. On the same day
the President's chief legal of
ficer, Attorney General Wil
liam Rogers, reminds the
country that in outlawing seg
regation in the first place the
Supreme Court itself laid
down no "inflexible rules
about when or how this was to
be done."
But on the next day, Mr.
Rogers' Department of Justice
files a court brief insisting
that Little Rock is to be given
no more time whatever before
integrating. This brief adopts
precisely the line of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
FIS now scarcely arguable
that the President either is
not fully controlling his own
Administration or has made
no truly firm decision of his
own policy views. The ques
tion then arises: Why is this,
so; what has happened? These
are among the answers:
1. The President, whatever
his other qualities, is a thor
oughly amateur and soft-hand
ed politician. Long ago he al
lowed a Republican party,
which he nominally leads, to
get far out beyond him on the
whole racial issue.
It has been clear for years
to any reasonably perceptive,
onlooker that Mr. Eisenhower
in his heart is much less cen
sorious of the South than is
his partyl Indeed, he is far
more sympathetic to Southern
problems than his associates
in his own Adniinistration.
The fact that he carried four
Southern states in 1952 was
due in part to an instinctive
understanding of that early
among Southerners of his real
attitude.
fuses-in his view on righteous
grounds-to take the lead. This
really means that the Presi
dent is leaving himself only
two extreme choices. One is
to acquiesce in nullification,
however much .the fact may
be disguised by litigation. The
other is to intervene with po
litical force to compel observ
ance of the Federal law at
some particular , school. The
President has left himself no
means of inducing the resist
ing state governments to
enter into a negotiated pact.
AS things stand now, it is
not unlikely, that the
problem of a negotiated pact,
which the President and the
Congress will not touch, will
become the central problem
of the Democratic party as
the 1960 national conventions
approach. For of the two par
ties, only the Democrats are
an operating party in all sec
tions of the country. In the
coming election this autumn,
the Democrats will be segre
gationists in the South and
integrationists in the North.
But in 1960, if the party is not
to split, they must find some
common ground on which
Northerners and Southerners
can stand. It may be if one
does a bit of wishful think-ing-that
necessity will be the
mother of invention. The
need of the Democratic party
for unity may cause the
Democrats to work out a sec
tional compromise.
This might well engage the
fixing abilities of Sen. Lyn
don Johnson and the broad
nationalism of Gov. Steven
son. The Republicans, since
they are a Northern party,
have nothing to gain in the
South and much to lose in the
North by. trying to negotiate
a compromise.
... ; ; '
ALL of this offers a father
drab prospect. It promises
years in which the principle
is proclaimed, In which nulli
fication is the fact, nullifica
tion decorated by law suits
and punctured by little force
ful ventures. Given the cur
rent level of virtue in our
political life, this is the best
we can hope for.
There is a conceivable al
ternative. It is that voices
will be heard in the land caU
ing the people to rise out of
their inertia and their apathy,
which are so unworthy of
them, to; the effort . and
energy of which in their best
days they have been capable.
(Copyright. 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
2. The President's first
Attorney General, Herbert
Brownell Jr., was plainly for
"tough" integration policies.
AU this time the President
himself was plainly for far
softer policies but he never
repudiated Brownell.
3. ,Brownell left a wide
spread impression here of a
highly political interest fn
civil rights in general. So ar
as can be discovered, for -example,
he made no serious ef
fort last year to quell-Little
Rock disturbances through the
use of civilian deputy mar
shals. The result was Jo leave
the President no alternative
to sending Federal troops
which have been hated sym
bols in the South since the re
construction that followed the
Civil War;
.
TN POLITICAL terms, this is
the situation: the Republi
can party is fully committed
and became unalterably com
mitted once the troops went to
Little Rock in its determina
tion to press integration to the
bitter end. The President is
far from so committed on the
contrary. He has no convic
tion that integration should be
pushed all the way at the per
il of great national division.
In all these circumstances
the man to watch is the pres
ent Attorney General, William
Rogers.
He has inherited the conse
quences Jtthe "tough" Brow
neU poliTs and could not, if
he wishew now, merely toss
them aside. He must grapple,
too, with the realities of the
political determination of his
party. He must, on the other
hand, try somehow to find a
means to uphold Federal law
and order at the least possible
harm to national unity and to
local and states rights and re
sponsibilities. TIE IS working with intense
care at this profoundly
difficult, this seemingly im
possible, task. His hope is to
combine conciliation in man
ner with firmness in action.
Thus when he pointed out last
Wednesday that the Supreme
Court had never said every
Southern community must in
tegrate on a deadline he did
not stop there. He attempted
at the same time to put the
central issue beyond all racial
I IJWLUCCC
I (By M-T Staff and Contributors)
During a fairly routine
week, when the news was of
war and threat of war
strikes, murders, airplane
crashes and integration trou
bles, and while the communi
cations column discussed such
matters as county roads, pear
picking problems, rodeos and
feminine dress, we were de;
lighted to find one calm, clear
note sounded - news of the
formation of the Society for
the Propagation of the Lark
No complaints: no recrim
inations; no bitterness - just
the straightforward statement
that some people like larks;
and are a bit worried about
the larks' ability , to. survive
civilization, coupled with
muted request that people let
them know how the lark sit
uation is in this part of the
world.
The lark situation, as far
as we are informed, is fine,
here-abouts. We heard one
meadowlark early the
other morning. (Is it the sea
son for larks? we asked our-
self. Or is this an unseasonal
lark, bringing a tone of spring
and joy into late summer?)
This same bit of intelli
gence struck a responsive
chord in another member
of the staff, who reacted
with poesy. (He may some
day be named poet laure
ate of the north end of the
newsroom.)
Anyway, we liked his re
pose, and hope you do too.
Here it is:
I think that I shall never
hark ; '
To any bird quite . like
the lark.
The lark, who, threatened
with extinction,-,
- Sings with such dis- .
traught distinction, . -Winging
over marsh and
. meadow :
Making up Us. own lib
retto. "
Shelley, happening to.
hear it.
Stammered. "Hail to
thee, blithe spirit."
Now we read with great
elation
Of plans to aid its propa
: gation.
Some save their own -
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The letters printed in this
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fact the contrary is often the
case.
'Compulsory Dancing
To the Editor: Here's a post
script regarding "compulsory
dancing" in our schools.
Here's what I've found out,
after visiting the school auth
ority of District 6C: ,,
If enough children are ex
cused from all forms of danc
ing this school year to war
rant school- action, a special
class will be set up for them.
, If the people hi our district
want it, we can change the
dancing set-up in our school.
We can have all forms of
dancing taken out of the P.E.
and Music classes, and placed
on a sign-up basis-just for
those who want special in
struction on this certain sub
ject. , Our school . system is big
and it will take an organized
effort to. accomplish this. How
ever, the school is run, for our
children and by our tax dol
lars and we can do it, if
enough of us want it.
Mr. Jewett, School Super
intendent of District 6C, has
said he would talk ,wit& any
one about 'this, by telephone,
letter, or in person. I hope
every person who would like
to see this accomplished in
our district, would contact
Mr. Jewett and tell him what
they would like done.
If anyone would like to
talk with me about this, call
me at TA $-4875.
Barbara E. Scrivner
6295 Ponderosa st.
Central Point
passion.
It was not "particular rules
of law" that were fundamen
tally at stake, he said, but
rather "whether the law of the
land is supreme or whether it
may be evaded and defied."
This approach obviously is
unpromising. Nevertheless, it
seems the Only possible ap
proach between the Presi
dent's troubled . hesitation on
the one hand, the general Re
publican and Northern Democratic-resolve
on the other
hand to force the South to sub
mit, whatever the cost.'
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
.. skins, like the shark.
But only man can save
the lark.
-
Newspapers in Salem and
in Bend have pulled a sneaky
trick on some of their con
stituents. - .
- They sent reporters forth
to inquire of actual passers
by, "What do you think- of
Bryan's chances in the elec
tion for governor?"
This innocent - seeming'
question is, of course, loaded.
For therfe is no Bryan run
ning for governor; the race is
limited to Bob Holmes for the
Democrats' and Mark Hatfield
for the Republicans.
But, - predictably, each
newspaper found a certain
percentage of individuals who
answered, "Pretty good,"" or
"Fine." A few said they
weren't sufficiently familiar
with Bryan's record. While
a few came out flat-footedly
and claimed that no such
man is in the race.
All of which merely goes to
prove what a lot of people
know already, that not every
one is interested in politics.
-
At the east end of Eighth
street there is a store. Soon
it will be lorn . down to
. make way for the Eighth
new bridge across Bear
creek. The store is having
a sale, and the sign adver
tising lhe sale, intentional
ly or otherwise, says "IRE
SALE."
Some 'musically - inclined
young people still form bands,
or play "in organized musical
groups, to make a little money
on the side. One prominent
and highly - respected citizen
reports that he did so too, as
a youth". '
One of his engagements was
playing in the band which
performed at the race track
at the county fair. From his
perch in the bandbox, he kept
a knowledgeable eye on the
horses, and their perform
ances. c
Later, he also had a musical
job at the Jackson county
fair, and noticed" that the
same horses were running in
the local event.
He said his bets reaUy paid
off that year.
' Speaking of instrumen
talists,' we are told that one
of the local political candi
dates will literally be loot
ing his own horn in the
near future, and that anoth
er man, a public official,
will be beating - his own
drum. The. explanation is
that one of lhe fraternal
organizations is forming its
own' band.
; ? .- - - -
As has been remarked with
increasing frequency in.' re
cent weeks, it's been a hot
summer. And some oi tne
warmest days of all came
during the 4-H, FFA, Kiwanis
club fair events at the fair-
giuuuua mob .Yrv.
One of the county fair offi-
cials succumbed to the heat
and to the modern trend in
dress, and appeared in a pair
Bermuda shorts. Our- in
formants tell us it' caused cort--siderable
comment among the
other not-so-rugged individ
ualists, but there is some hope
it may be standard uniform
next summer. , -
And, in lhe same sum-
'mery vein, we know about
an office where one of the
girls has threatened to wear
a bathing suit to work if a
better air conditioning unit
isn't installed soon. If she
follows out her threat, Jhe
resulting inefficiency -among
the men in lhe office
might be worse than that
generated by the heat.
Our readers may have no
ticed the column after column
of results from the 4-H, FFA
anrl pountv fairs. There were
results .in home economics, in
livestock, and a whole range
of other divisions.
The results were printed in
very small type, to save room,
and the chore jor the proof
reader was a staggering one.
But he found his efforts re- -
warded, as he was going
through a long list of live
stock sale results, monoton
ously reading about . Angus,
Hereford,-. Hereford, Angus,
and so on, and suddenly came
across an Antelope, which was
recorded as having been sold
to Safeway. ' s
This column started out
with a poem, so il might
as well end up with a
"pome," this one contribut
ed by the backshop phil
osopher: - . . '?
- ODE AT THE FIRST
OF THE MQNTH '
.Nor rain nor sleet! nor
kindred ills f
Prevents the postman
bringing bills.
Were we alone, 'twould
be a shame,
' ' But shucks, he treats him
self the same. ? '