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.Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sepl. 21. 1948 (Tuesday)
Richard House has been
named president of the Med
ford Tastmasters club.
Glenn Hale, Eagle Point,
has been chosen president of
the Jackson County School
Superintendents association.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21. 1938 (Wednesday)
Eight blind residents of
Jackson county were guests
of the Lions club last night.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Swim
ming accidents show a decline
this summer throughout the
nation. Not a one hereabouts
has dove 15 feet into seven
Inches of water, and the hos
pital." 30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21, 1928 (Friday)
Medford citizens so far
have contributed $275 toward
a Red Cross Emergency fund
for hurricane relief in Flor
ida, Puerto Rico and the Vir
gin Islands.
A display of grains and
grasses grown in the Lake
Creek district and exhibited
at the county fair last week
Is currently on view in the
window of Monarch Feed and
Seed on East Main st.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 21. 1918 (Saturday)
Four railroad cars contain
ing war relics from Chateau
Thierry are due here Monday.
A federal spokesman states
the government is not inter
ested in acquiring rails from
the Medford - Jacksonville
railroad as long as local oppo
sition lasts.
What's Your l-Q.?
Nine or ten correct h superior;
even or eight is excellent; five el
six is good.
1. The Chief god in Roman
mythology was Zeus, or Jupi
ter? 2. What is the official lan
guage spoken in Cuba?
3. For the name of which
agency of the U. S. do the
initials FCC stand?
4. Of which religious de
nomination was John Wesley
the founder?
5. If an automobile uses a
gallon of gas every 16 miles,
what will be the cost for gas,
at 25 cents per gallon, to go
80 miles?
6. Name the American
showman who was noted for
his declaration, "There's a
sucker born every minute."
7. It requires about two,
four, or six, pounds of pota
toes to make a single pound
of potato chips?
8. If one is suffering from
monophobia, would he dread
crowds or solitude?
9. Both the rhea and os
trich are flightless birds; true
or false?
10. Would you guess that
there are more, or fewer
morning than evening news
papers published in the U.S.?
Answers: 1. Jupiter. 2.
Spanish. 3. Federal Communi
cations Commission. 4. Metho
dist. 5. $1.25. 6. P. T. Barnum.
7. Four pounds. 8. Fear Soli
tude. 9. True. 10. Fewer morn
ing newspapers.
B
We're Way, Way Behind
Just in case members of the county court, and
others interested in effective county government,
missed it, we are reproducing herewith a brief
story which appeared in Thursday's issue of the
Mail Tribune :
Salem-flJPD-County Judge Rex Hartley said today
a parks commission has been created to advise the
Marion county court on park development.
The move is the first step in setting up a parks de
partment. The six commissioners will serve voluntarily
but will have a full-time staff. The county court has
agreed that no property will be disposed of without an
investigation of the commission into possible recrea
tional use.
The county has 170 acres which might be used for
parks. The land is located on two parcels on the Little
North Fork river and on the Willamette river near
Champoeg state park. ,
Marion county has been behind in county
park development. It is now startino- to catch un
but it will have a long
iact tnat .Lane and Douglas counties have well
oreranized and well-established ennntv nark svs-
tems, and other counties, including Josephine, are
also active in this important field.
"1X7HERE does this leave Jackson county?
Way, way, way back in the rear, stultified
and ossified, and looking blamed foolish in com
parison to some of the more progressive areas of
the state.
Oh, the county has
budgeted $3,000 for parks last year, and helped
out on Maple Park Grove
ot Medlord. That took
And this year it has
county park purposes, but about all it has done
about them is to "look at some sites."
THE COUNTY has no
It made a token eresture bv asking- the countv
planning commission to
i.Z 1 1 i ?I Jl
uuuai planning 0 us amies, and men. wnen tne
planning commission appointed a committee
which showed signs of coming up with some rec
ommendations, the court turned around and took
the ball away again (on the Howard Prairie pro
posed development) without as much as a bv-
your-leave or a thank-you.
The court has talked
ing with the city of Medford in developing po
tential recreational areas in the Camp White-
Agate Desert area : it has
Shady Cove, and it has talked a little about "get
ting some land" in the vastly popular (and, on
pleasant week ends, vastly crowded) Applegate
valley.
BUT WHAT has the court done?
X UbWUilpii;iVlll tiling.
There are, in this county, thousands upon
thousands of people who
and picnic, or just relax, outdoors. There are
fishermen and boatmen
back riders who more
difficult to find public areas out-of-doors in which
o pursue their wholesome and healthful activi
ies. (
They are taxpayers. And, if there were more
places, their numbers would increase by leaps
and bounds.
It isn't as though the county CAN'T do any
hing (it is specifically given power in state law
,o create parks) ; it's just that the court hasn't,
and judging the future by the past, they still won't
until the people of the county get mad enough to
demand that the court give some regard to their
wishes.
I ' ET US grant that being
y is difficult. A three-man board, it has to act
in concert, and what one commissioner wants
may be blocked by the others.
That is what we mean when we say that the
present system of county' government is unre
sponsive, is not limber enough or flexible enough
to do what needs to be done in this fast-growing
and fast-moving age.
The commissioners are, in part, captives of
the system in which they are caught.
DUT IN a case like this where the people are
thus far wholly dependent on the activities
of the federal and state governments for recrea
tional areas, and the county court continues to
mumble about "inspecting sites" in such a case
the commissioners have to shoulder the blame
personally, individually and collectively.
In this case we think they're stupid, short
sighted and behind the times, and fair game for
any taxpayer who wants to call them on the
'phone and make it hot for them. E.A.
Plenty of Other Things
The construction labor dispute has been over
for some time, the Teamster's dispute over wages
for long-haul truckers was settled last week, an
industry-wide strike of auto workers was averted
by an agreement with Ford Motor company
which is expected to set a pattern for the others,
a threatened strike of lumber workers was averted
with only a few work stoppages of short dura
tion, a strike threat by pilots for West Coast air
lines was postponed with some hope of settlement
soon.
Let us hope we can now breathe a collective
sigh of relief and start worrying about other
things pf which there are plenty. E.A. j
way to go, in view of the
made a few gestures. It
near the south city limits
most of the $3,000.
budereted $12,000 for
park program, and no
add parks and recrea-
1 .1 1 .1
vaguely about cooperat
looked over sites near
like nice places o camp
and hunters and horse
and more are finding it
a county commissioner
Dennis the Menace
'-Sft1 JwfttK'N' sy 'Omar Bos'vm !.ya wwk so? Huh?
,yAV- im-
Matter of Fact
ONE-SIDED CEASE-FIRE
. Taipeh, Formosa No one
seems to realize it, but in the
present context it is im-
portant that
the U.S. gov
ernment long
since imposed
a one - sided
cease - fire on
the Chinese
Nationa list
government.
. It is impor
tant, particu-
jos!pb Alsop iany, oecause
of the American policy-makers'
hope that the Communists
will agree to an informal
cease-fire during the Warsaw
talks. If one side is free to
fire and the other side is not,
the side that can fire at will
is unlikely to be tempted by
a cease-fire.
The . history of 'this ' one
sided cease - fire is also an
ironical commentary on ' the
strangeness of American policy-making
that began with the
celebrated "unleashing" of
Chiang Kai-shek. So far as the
American public is aware,
that big, bold, beautiful ges
ture has never been reversed.
It has just been : forgotten
about.
TN FACT however Chiang
Kai-shek has been incon
spicuously releashed in three
successive stages. The first,
and presently the most im
portant, stage occurred dur
ing the crisis three years ago,
which ended with the evacua
tion of the Tachen Islands.
At that time, as will be re
called, the Congress voted the
Formosa resolution, thus giv
ing the President the authori
ty he has now said he would
use to defend . Quemoy and
the Matsus.
Nothing in the Sino-Ameri-can
written agreements of
1955 so much as- hints at the
big step that was then taken.
But at that time, under se
vere American? pressure,
Chiang Kai-shek was induced
to promise to make no further
air attacks on mainland tar
gets. Until . then, he - had al
ways used his air power
against the ' mainland in a
desultory way; and he had
stopped the big artillery at
tack on Quemoy in 1954 by an
intensive air - bombardment
of the Communist positions.
Since 1955, however, Chi
ang has been bound by his
commitment to the American
government. Air reconnais
sance of the mainland was ex
cluded from the commitment,
and this still continues. But
combat flights over the main
land were forbidden; and this
is the reason why all the air
combats of the present crisis
have begun over-water.-
TT .IS rather funny, if you
think about it, but the
Eisenhower administr a t i o n
has imposed on ; Chiang the
same "sanctuary" limitation
that the Truman administra
tion imposed on Gen. Mc
Arthur. As Chiang's crack
pilots have done really bril
liantly irt their clashes with
the Communist pilots, this
limitation chafes a good deal.
It chafes particularly, since
the American government is
still pressing Chiang -: suc
cessfully thus far not to use
his air power - against the
artillery that is strangling
Quemoy.
The second stage of the re-:
leashing also seems to have
dated from 1955. Exact in
formation concerning it is
hard to come by, but some
sort of further commitment
was apparently extracted
from Chiang that covered the
use of his artillery on. Que
moy and the Matsus. The evi
dence suggests that it was a
commitment not to open fire,
but only to answer the ene
my's fire.
The result, you may say, is
the key enemy artillery posi
tion on Weitou Point, without
which the artillery blockade
of Quemoy would hardly be
effective. When the Commu-
nLL 66 WWN f HUHl YA THINK
By Joseph Alsop
nists began to construct this
strong, deeply dug-in system
of gun emplacements, Chiang
wanted to stop the work with
his Quemoy a guns. American
influence was brought to bear,
however, and Chiang's guns
finally remained silent while
the Weitou emplacements
were built.
"PINALLY, the re r leashing
last stage was reached
quite recently. Until recently,
Chiang used the Quemoy and
Matsu positions, plus his
limited naval, forces, to pre
vent shipping from entering
the ports of Amoy and Foo
chow. But then there was a
flareup of Communist artil
lery firing and other military
activity that seemed to threat-
en Quemoy. Once again, pow
erful American pressure was
brought to bear. Thereafter
ships could and did sail at
will into both these ports, vir
tually under the snouts of the
Nationalist guns on the is
lands. . . .
AH of this is important, as
an answer- to the people in
Britain and elsewhere who
are justifying the Communist
aggression on the ground that
the Communists are merely
answering Chiang's aggres
sions. Chiang has been about
as aggressive as a mouse since
the re-leashing was "quitely
completed. But the political
value of this non-aggressive
ness has been altogether lost,
because the'American govern
ment has been so mousily
quiet about the re-leashing.
The obvious reason for this
silence, in turn, was that it
would have been embarrass
ing to admit to the re-leashing
after the grandiose adman's
gesture of the unleashing. The
question that now remains is
whether the promise to de
fend Quemoy and the Matsus
was an adman's gesture. It is
as certain as anything can be
that unless the American gov
ernment at least manifests its
readiness to meet force with
force, the great defense prom
ise will turn out td be as emp
ty as the unleashing. But the
retreat will be more difficult
and much more conspicuous,
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Harriman Proposes
Truman Candidacy
Albany, N.Y.-(UPD-Gov. Av
erell Harriman said Friday he
was "deadly serious" in pro
posing Harry S. Truman as
the 1960 Democratic candi
date for president.
Harriman told a Democratic
rally Thursday night the cur
rent state politicalcampaigns
wbuld lay the groundwork for
the "bigger" battle two years
from now.
"I nominate for president of
the United States in 1960
Harry S. Truman," the New
York governor told more than
2,500 c h e e r i n g Democrats.
"He is the man to get us back
on the : rails."
Truman, smiling and polite,
told the. rally: "I'm afraid I
cannot accept the nomina
tion." "I don't deserve what he
(Harriman) says, but I like to
hear him say it," Truman
said.
Vincent Smith To
Speak at Roundtable
Vincent N. Smith, manager
of Gilman's Dairy, Medford,
will speak at the Jackson
County- Chamber of Com
merce Roundtable luncheon
Monday noon at the Jackson
hotel.
Bob Balk, chairman of the
roundtable's program com
mittee, said Smith's topic will
be "Should the Individual
Worker Have the Right To
Vork Without Compulsory
Union Membership?"
Balk said local Teamsters
union officials also have been
invited.
Today Cr Tomorrow
- By Walter lippmann
PREDICAMENT AT
QUEMOY
It has seemed probable
from the beginning back in
August that the attack on
Quemoy was
timed in rela
tion - to the
meeting of the
General As
sembly in mid
S e p t ember.
The event has
confirmed this
theory. For
what the Red
Chinese . have
Walter
Lippmann
done is to blockade Ouemov.
compelling us to decide in the
presence of the United Na
tions whether we will Ipt On.
moy be strangled or will take
onensive action to break the
blockade.
The Red Chinese hav car
ried out a very skillful man
euver which is possible be
cause Quemoy is so near to
the mainland that it is within
artillery range. Once they had
collected the guns and the
ammunition, they had the in
itiative. They could make
Quemoy untenable without in
vading it, and they could con
front us with the grave fact
that the defense of Quemoy is
impossible without a large
bombing offensive against the
artillery positions on the
Chinese mainland.
Against such an American
offensive, the Red Chinese
had equipped themselves with
two deterrents. One was a
Soviet guarantee of help in
case they were attacked. The
other was this meeting of the
General Assembly in which
an American offensive on be
half of Chiang against the
Chinese mainland would
arouse enormous criticism. If
nuclear weapons were used in
the American offensive, the
effect on our standing in the
world would be tragic and
incalculable.
rpHUS we have been man
euvered into a position
where the question is not
whether we will defend Que
moy against invasion but
whether we will make war
against the Chinese mainland.
Was this maneuver foreseen,
it is fair to ask, when Mr.
Dulles persuaded the Presi
dent to stake American pres
tige on the defense of Que
moy? There is reason to doubt
it. There is reason to doubt
whether the President and
Mr. Dulles and their military
Washington Report
By William S. Whit.
THE KEY IS VIRGINIA
Washington - The Eisen
hower Administration sees the
integration crisis as a fairly
long Historical
process now
moving rea
sonably well
in the second
of its thr e e
great phases.
The first
phase was de
fined by the
Supreme
wiiiiam s. wute C o u r t's de
cision in 1954 outlawing
school sesreeation. The third
and last, in the Administra
tion's view, will be a period
of active adjustment in the
South.
What is now going forward,
in phase No. 2, is a kind of
domestic cold war between
Federal, state and local lead-ers-a
war Mr. Eisenhower is
determined to keen as polite
as possible. The official di
rectly responsible for carry
ing out integration, Attorney
General William P. Rogers.
identifies this as the period in
which Southern public' opin
ion is to be brought to accept
the inevitability of racially
mixed schools.
ClOUNDLY or not. neither
Rogers nor the President
is greatly dissatisfied with the
rate of this process of ac
ceptance. Neither, moreover,
wishes to talk, or even to
think, iust now in terms of
Federal force either in the
courtroom or through the use
of troops. The last thing the
President wants is any repe
tition, anywhere at any time,
of last fairs scenes of eaerai
troops on patrol in Little
Rock.
The Administration, in
deed, has taken as fundamen
tal a decision as any since it
came to power. This is to put
major trust, not in law suits
or Federal threats, but in the
presumed unwillingness of
the white "parents of the
South to see the schools closed
outright for long or kept in
turmoil long by resistance to
integration.
This will not please the ex
tremists - but, in truth, the
Administration, seems willing
to break with them.
This approach, of course us
characteristic of the Presi
dent. Rightly or wrongly, he
has always put extraordinary I
reliance on persuasion as his
advisors had fully realized
that Quemoy could be block
aded by artillery fire from
the mainland. There is strong
evidence that the commit
ment to defend Quemoy was
made before there was a plan
to defend Quemoy.
There is evidence too of
muddled thinking as, for ex
ample, in the strange order
directing the 7th Fleet to es
cort Chinag's ships to within
three miles of Quemoy. For if
Quemoy belongs to Chiang,
then the waters within- three
miles of Quemoy belong to
Chiang, and there was no
legal reason why the 7th Fleet
should stand off at the three
mile limit.
Thus, we have said that
Quemoy, which we mean to
defend for Chiang, lies within
the territorial waters of Red
China, which we do not mean
to invade. Our legal position
is complete nonesense,. and
discloses an alarming con
fusion of minds.
-
WE ARE in a very embars
sing predicament, having
promised to defend Quemoy
while the price of defending
it is exorbitant. The Presi
dent had a lot to say the other
night about how our position
in Asia would be hurt if we
did not defend Quemoy. Has
he realized what will be our
position in Asia and in Europe
and in Africa and in Latin
America if he goes to war for
Quemoy?
What is needed is a cease
fire, which will at least post
pone the fateful decision and
provide a little .time for rea
son to assert itself. The ques
tion is whether the Commun
ist powers, who now have the
whip-hand at Quemoy, would
agree to a cease-fire. Con
ceivably they would, but then
surely at a price. Perhaps, in
the Warsaw talks Ambassador
Beam will learn, what the
price is.
But of this much we can
be reasonably certain. There
will be no chance of an agree
ment to renounce the use of
force in the Formosa area
which does not carry with it
measures on our part to ex
tricate ourselves from our en
tanglement with Chiang. For,
as his Ambassador in Wash
ington told us just the other
day, Chiang will have nothing
to do with the idea of re
nouncing force,
(c) 1958 New York Herald
. Tribune Inc.
principal and sometimes his
only tool of national policy,
Of equal significance is the
fact that Attorney " General
Rogers, whose day by day
actions will be more prac
tically decisive than the Presi
dent's, is deeply in sympathy
with this policy.
THUS the Federal govern
ment's recently announced
plan of comparative inaction
-not to go to court any time
soon against Southern resis
ters - rests first of all upon
a conviction that this is both
the right and the most effec
tive position.
But there is also a second
ary reason of much practical
weight. This is that there is
great doubt here that the Fed
eral government would win a
suit intended to tell a South
ern Governor that he could
not lawfuUy close the schools
of his state.
Nobody in the Administra
tion concedes that such a suit
would necessarily fail. But
many concede that the ques
tion in some circumstances
might be an uncomfortably
close one. It goes without say
ing that the Administration
would not gladly rush into an
action at the risk of a very
damaging black eye.
The conclusion in the Ad
ministration is that a far
sounder method of preventing
the closing of Southern
schools would be to marshal
parental opinion against such
closings.
So the fixed intention of
the Administration is to take
a confident line, now at least,
that the local communities
will keep their own schools
open - or get them reopened
if they are closed by authori
ty of the Governor.
THE Federal government
will carefully present it
self as being interested not so
much in integration as in the
larger concept of obedience to
the Supreme Court as, the
only proper final interpreter
of the Constitution.
This is the reason for the
almost antiseptically calm
speeches Rogers is making
these days concerning the
court's place in national life.
He is trying to direct a spe
cial appeal to the South's tra
ditional veneration for the
judiciary.
The objective of all objec
tives is Virginia. That state's (
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
She's Been Busy
" To the Editor: Like many
other registrars, I have been
very busy during the last sev
eral weeks but have neglected
to send a daily notice to the
newspapers. I don't believe
that the Republican party
should be engaged in a regis
tration race or any other com
petition except the contest
which will be decided at the
polls on Nov. 4.
Until that time, let's all go
to our corners - and come out
balloting.
Marina Gardiner
Old Military Road
Central Point
Thanks
To the Editor: On a recent
visit to your fair town, I was
clumsy enough to drop a
wallet at "Cubby's" Drive In.
They were kind enough to
send it back with all the
money in it, which was a con
siderable sum. Thank you.
Julie Banning .
Belvedere-Tiburon,
Calif.
Immoral Binaural
To the Editor: The gag is
inevitable, so I might as well
take credit as wait until some
TV comic comes up with it.
Considering the limitations
of "stereo" broadcasting using
two separate radios to receive
it, we find it necessary that
one sit carefully at the point
of "focus" of the . two loud
speakers. For two people to
participate they must sit snug
ly close together in, order to
share in the "focus" area.
Which gives rise to the follow
ing inevitable routine-:
He: Sit hereo
And Stereo?
Her: Nope!
Binaural
Ain't Moral.
Win Marks
309 Newtown St,
Medford
Pro Bono
To the Editor: ' "Pro Bono
Publico."
By putting down my thoughts
in prose
I hope to catch' the eyes of
those
Who've read the letters ex
pressing woes
That the National Guard
drills Sunday chose.
I reaUy dislike" to stick vmy
nose in . .V.
To the aggravation what's
been undertaken
By a venturesome housewife,
armed with pen,
Obscuring the Guard's pur
pose with verbal din.
For the good of the Guard
'must bur purpose be . A
Who guard our homes, ur
country. " V ' '
This time change for drill;;:
foreseeably, -
Will augment their training -immeasurably.
Let's ax aggravation and raise
trouble no more, .
Tend the kids, fix- the meals,
keep a clean floor.
Two days out of thirty -
God knows the score,
And bless our homes,
and our esprit de corps!
Mrs, (SFC) Dick
Berningausen
S65 Vista
Ashland
Educators to Attend
Salem Conference
Two Jackson county educa
tors have, been invited to at
tend a ' meeting of the state
supervisory staff of the state
department of education, ac
cording to county school of
ficials. .
They are Robert Lawrence,
county elementary curriculum
coordinator, and Gladys Dur-
rand, elementary supervisor
for the Medford public
schools.
They will leave Monday to
attend the two-day meeting
in Salem.
The purpose of the meeting,
according to school officials,
is to discuss the common
needs and objectives of school
supervisors. -
old intellectual and social
primacy in the South is being
underlined in private by Ad
ministration officials. Too,
they are strongly praising
Virginia's leaders, Senator
Harry F. Byrd and Governor
J. Lindsay Almond Jr., for
their powerful warnings that
the state will not tolerate
anti - integration violence.
Great distinctions are being
made by Administration
spokesmen between these
men and Governor Orval E.
Faubus of Arkansas, for ex
ample.
In short, it is felt within
the Administration that if and
when resistance collapses in
Virginia, the heart of all
Southern resistance wiU col
lapse - not everywhere, of
course, but most everywhere.
(Copyright. 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Some honed soul, who
presumably U a fan of
certain TV program, has
put a sign on his automobile
which says "Have Car
No Gas."
November, we have figured
out, is the month to be a gov
ernment employee.
That month has five week
ends, so there are 10 Satur
days and Sundays without
work. The 4th is Election day,
a legal holiday; the 11th is
Veterans day, another one.
and the 27th is Thanksgiving.
That works out to a total
of 13 ,days off, and 17 work
ing days, during November.
One of our spies has sent
ut a note saying he admires
the -cool confidence with
which Medford attorneys
cross the street from the
courthouse against the light.
He says maybe they think
the passing motorists will
be awed into yielding the
right of way by brief cases
weighted down by vasty
law books.
.
There was a Rotary Suit
Sale in town not long ago,
which received considerable
publicity.
Which led an acquaintance
to inquire, What is a rotary
suit? He's heard of round
robins, rotary tillers, round
tables, merry-go-rounds, but
never a rotary suit.
The answer, of course, is
that a rotary suit is one de
signed for a revolving so-and-so.
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Boss lo employee: "Are
you working on the solution
-or are you part of the prob
lem?" Up in Gearhart next week,
the Oregon State Bar associa
tion is going to have its an
nual convention. At one point,
there will be a baseball game
between two teams entitled
the "Up-State. Hoosiers" and
the "City Slickers.! The rules:
"Marquis of Queensbury,
to the extent applicable. Spec
tators are admonished to keep
off the infield and quit tack
ling the runners. These frus
trated would-be major Mea
guers need all the, help they :
can get."
There are perils in one's
taking one's citisenship too
seriously. It appears in the
news that two persons the
other night set about mak
ing a citiien'i arrest, and ''
one of them wound up being
arrested himself on charges
of assault and battery.
Take the figure 15,873..
Multiply it by any number
from 1 through 9. Now multi
ply the result by 7.
Now try it again, multiply
ing 15,873 by a different num
ber 1 through 9, and again
multiplying by 7. t
Not being a mathematician,
we can't explain the results,
but we found them surpris
ing. ' A large dog, a shepherd
or police variety, showed
tap at the sheriff's office the
other day, critically eyed
the officers and left. Depu
ties say they have his note
prints on the window in the
door if identification is .
' ever required.
A friend of ours who claims
to be in the early stages of
middle age, was complaining
the other day that he waa
born at the wrong time.
His father and grandfather.
he declared, did their court
ing in a buggy, leaving the
young men with both arms
free. If anything went wrong,
the horse tobk care of it.
The present younger gen
eration, he added, has cart
with automatip transmissions,
so that one-armed driving is
no problem at all.
"But me," he said, "I had
to do my courting in a Model
T, and had to steer with one
hand and feed the gas with
the other." ;
..;
If, come Sunday evening,
you drive by a small coun
try church and hear the
strains of rock and roll
music emitting therefrom,
don't be disturbed. It's just .
that the young people's
group hat scheduled a dis
cussion on "Religion in the
Rock 'n Roll Age," and
plan to use phonograph for
the necessary audio - visual .
effects.
Two well - dressed women
were spied recently in the
clothing department of a
large store, discussing new
styles. The younger said: "You
know, I just don't know what
looks well any more."
The other replied: I have
n't tried on any yet. I can't
find any I want to."
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ODE TO THE HULA HOOP
Let's close the door oa
delinquency.
Let's keep the kids from
running wild.
By knocking the hoops -off
beorkegs, ,
To make playthings for
very child. . . - -