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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Sunday, October 5, 1958 MedfordTribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Head The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RlTHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Meoford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: C o D V 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily ana Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 faunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, laient, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c op; 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCJLATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. . NEWSPAPER E2 PUBLISHERS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1948 (Tuesday) A new boys' chorus is be ing organized here. Fire drills are being held at Medford's schools. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1939 (Wednesday) A total of 195 airplanes used Medford's airport during Sep tember. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Farm ers remark upon the scarcity of candidates this fall, and claim those who do show up, look no better than the corn did last June." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 5, 1928 (Friday) The American Legion drum corps is sponsoring the third in its series of dances tomor row night. J. W. Wakefield, Republi can warhorse, comic opera authority and insurance agent, returned this morning with four mule-tail deer gracing his fenders. FORTY YEARS AGO Oct. 5. 1918 (Saturday) A total of 12,378 visitors registered at Crater Lake this summer, setting a new attend ance record. A big cannery is proposed here as a result of Medford's approval of establishing irri gation. What's Your I.Q.7- Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five et ix is good. 1. Navy Veterans know that "skivvies" are two-man subs, T-shirts, or gas inflated rafts? 2. A patty shell is a type of seashell; true or false? ft - 3. Name the Carthaginian general who invaded Italy in the Second Punic war. 4. High, thick cloth and rubber overshoes fastened with one or more buckles are called "A s? 5. Is it stalagmites or stala ctites, that form and hang from the roof of a cave? 6. What are the five posi tions on a men's basketball team? 7. The Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving by a feast pre pared from their first crops gathered in 1620, 1621, or 1622? 8. If served the furculum of the turkey, would it be the wing, leg, neck, or wish bone? 9. Womens components of the armed forces fill their quotas with draftees; true or false? 10. Was Sherlock Holmes a fictional or real-life char acter? ! Answers: 1. T-shirts. 2. False. 3. Hannibal. 4. Arctics. 5. Stalactites. 6. Center, two guards and two forwards. 7. .1621. 8. Wishbone. 9. False. 10. Fictional. About Newspapers October 1 to 8 Is National Newspaper Week. To mark the occasion, we are reprinting the following comments from the Eugene Register-Guard, which sum up nicely the thoughts of many newspaper people on this event. Newspapermen are great scoffers about some of the special-observance weeks during which Americans are supposed to honor the invention of stay-tied shoestrings, the essential services performed by chimneysweeps or other vital things and services. And so when they come to National Newspaper Week, as they do each October, they are faced with an embarrassing dilemma like a bunch of. little boys with new slingshots and pockets full of rocks who have just recited the tub bcout promise. Their first impulse is piece, bury it somewhere deep inside the next edition, and go on to more important things. A lot of them follow that with their conflicting maybe, after all, Newspaper Week is one of those special observances in which the public has a real interest. Why .Because, is everybody's business. are satisfied with it, some are disgruntled and feel free to say that they are, and that the blankety-blank sheet ought to do this, that or the other thing differently. '"THERE'S an old adage that everybody knows the eruv who's doing them. One is laving a fire place fire. The other is publishing a newspaper. If nothing else, 'Newspaper Week gives the working newspaperman a chance to tell how he thinks a newspaper should be operated and how he s trying to follow these convictions. As the Register-Guard's policy statement at the top of this page has A newspaper is a citizen 01 its community. That idea, or something mental m the American tradition ot news papering. All that any newspaperman can hope is that the paper he's working on is a good citizen of its community. And toward that end, he must employ his own labors and such talents and experience as he may have at his command. NOT all newspapermen advertising. &ome work as printers or press men. Some are bookkeepers. And still others are circulation motor route drivers, nroof readers, me chanics, plant maintenance workers or photo- engravers. However, all ot them feel a keen sense of participation in the job of getting the news timely, factual information t.n the nnhlir ns auicklv and in as accurate form as is hrnnanlv 1. 1-T1J1 I.. i . " possiDie. it taKes a lot or. team work to produce a daily newspaper. It takes a lot of people who believe the job is worth the trouble. Here, at the Register efforts of 225 people are directed to the service of a community of more than 150,000 residents. "Public service" mav sound like a too-loftv phrase to be used in describing the function of these Register-Guard emuloyees, vet. it is concern for and attention to the binds them together in the spirit of newspapenng. MEWS writers endeavor to report local events and developments "without fear or favor," in order that the public will know what's tran spiring in the community. Editors offer opinions separate and apart from the news pages, some times with the intent of instructing readers, more often to direct their attention to happenings and situations which the editors feel are significant and merit thoughtful consideration. Advertising representatives not only work to help merchants and those offering personal serv ices in presenting their advertisements efficiently and effectively. They also follow a code govern ing what can be accepted for advertising in this newspaper, a code which strives to protect read ers against misrepresentation or exploitation. Printers and other mechanical department workers rquickly translate the elements of each edition into type metal and then onto the printed pages which circulation supervisors immediately dispatch toward the newsstands, doorsteps and rural route boxes where readers wait for them. jVIEANWHILE, employees whose duties are not directly involved in the production-distribution process are nonetheless conscious of the prime of objective of the entire organization. Even young newspaper carriers usually take a quick look at "what's in the paper today" before they start their delivery rounds. It's an infectious thing, newspapering. It's a business sometimes filled with harassments and frustrations, but more frequently it's one that fosters a personal sense of purpose. A newspaperman comes to expect that not everyone is going to agree with the way his paper is operated, and that's as it should be. As one sage editor has observed : "If readers have minds of their own, they're sure to disagree with much of what they read." And so, finally, it comes down to a simple fact. The biggest profit in any news- Eaperman's life is the knowledge that his paper, y holding the light of information high as it can, is helping illuminate the area in wThich the public's interest is determined, protected and promoted in accord with the public's assess ment of fact and comment the newspaper has provided. to dash off a trite little impulse. But some wrestle attitudes and decide that in a sense, a newspaper Usually some readers that there are'two things how to do better man proclaimed for 60 years, veiy close to it, is funda are writers. Some sell - Guard, the combined public's welfare that Dennis the Menace 'HOW W9ULD lIKE 10 CUT MY Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary i. often the case. Why Another Station? To the Editor: After read ing the news article on the new radio station, I can't help but wonder what the Rogue valley is coming to. Of all things it needs it is NOT an other radio station. Both Eu gene and Salem are larger than either Medford or Ash land and between them they have no more than 10 stations. What will this new station use to support itself? Heaven knows the merchants in the valley have enough stations asking for advertisements. I strongly felt the Federal Com munications commission would have been wise, to halt any new stations from coming into the valley after station KBOY went on the air in mid dle 1954. The new station will be run by a church group and I as sume will have mainly reli gious programming. This leads me to wonder if the people connected with it have ever checked the local stations for religious programs. Each of them have regular religious programs throughout the week. Therefore I do not feel the reason for the new station is because of any lack of pres ent church shows. Radio stations need money not only to stay on the air but also to get on the air. I under stand the price is rather high, to set a station up for broad casting. I can't help but feel the money which this station will cost the church could be put to better use. I'm sure many will agree there is a need for a good youth center in the valley. There are very few, if any, places where teens can go of an evening. Those now present are not equipped to handle very many teens at one time. The price the station will cost would help to build, or build, a good youth center which could supply things for the interests of a great num ber of teens. It seems to me it's a waste of money to buy a new radio station. If this station comes in that will mean two new stations in less than a year's time. At that rate it won't be long until the valley can claim the saying cheaper by the dozen" as a slogan for their numerous radio stations. (Name on file) Ashland. Physically Handicapped To the Editor: On the oc casion of National Employ the physically Handicapped Week, Oct. 5-11, I believe it is in or der if I submit a few words at this time. At the national convention of Disabled American Veter ans in Louisville, Ky., in Aug ust, a feature of the program was a report asked from the 48 state commanders, on the employment condition, and the situations of partially dis abled veterans in regard to the effect of the so-called re cession felt throughout the nation this year. My report as pertaining to veterans specifically, follows; Of current new applications for work 135 of 342 handi capped were veterans. Of applications -on file, old and new, 1251 of 3075 handi capped were veterans. Of non - agricultural place ments 135 of 238 handicapped were veterans. Of initial counsel inter views, 45 of 110 handicapped were veterans. We of the DAV know and understand .that any person physically handicapped is in need of employment that fits his remaining abilities, as well as the disabled veteran. But the very nature of our organi zation, as indicated by our HAIR IF I WAS 7WSTAU ? " name, explains why we focus our activities especially on the veteran in this NEPH movement. Our DAV program for re habilitation of the disabled veteran has been formulated with employment as the end result. We know that only through employment on a job where his remaining abili ties can be used, can a dis abled veteran be truly brought back to his place in society. We realize that when a dis abled veteran loses a Job, he loses more than the average able-bodied man. It isn't as easy for him to replace his job with another. And inci dentally, he knows that, and it is reflected in his loyalty and effort while on his job; The disabled veteran usual ly has been barely able to make ends meet with his modest disability compensa tion, and he isn't likely to have much put aside for these rainy days. He needs the break of a little extra consid eration when it comes to hir ing and lay-offs. Our report on employment for disabled veterans teaches us clearly that we must not relax in our efforts to let the public know that Disabled American Veterans- are valu able when properly placed in employment. The state survey showed Oregon to be above average in veteran employment. Pat Graham, Commander Department of Oregon Disabled American Veterans Medford Contact!! To The Editor: Just a few comments on the new game of "Contact Bridge" mentioned in your issue of Tuesday 30, top left on Page 6. Contact bridge is the new development that is sweeping the country, originated large ly because it was not consider ed sporting to kick or slug an offending partner. In the new game contact the smaller, lighter partner is is seated in the lap of the larger (usually male). Hus bands and wives do not play together, thus eliminating the principal friction heretofore. For the contracting part ners, one hand is exposed, and partners alternate in playing the contract, as do their similiarly seated oppo sition play in defense. In the new contact, pinch ing and kicking an offending partner guilty of poor play is considered ethical, as is judi cious fondling of a partner for good play. It's amazing - the num ber of yoUng people, who are learning the new game youngsters who had to be forced to play formerly! Sporting goods manufactur ers and dealers are enthusi astic about contact too, since it opens up a new field of equipment pads, shin guards, spiked shoes, etc. r It's a great game contact and bound to be popular for a long, long time. D. W. Robertson 1020 West 11th st Medford. Nasser Recognizes New State of Guinea Cairo -(UPD-The United Arab Republic has extended diplo matic recognition to the newly-independent state of Gui nead. UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser sent a cable to Guinean Premier" Skou Toure Friday offering his congratu lations to the new nation. Guinea voted for independ ence from France in last Sun day's referendum on the new French constiution. Matter of Fact STOP DRIVELING! Taipeh, Formosa The Washington theory that im proved methods of blockade- running are going to solve the problem of Quemoy is obvious wish ful drivel. That does not mean, of course, t h a-t it is useless to increase the 4 - - 4ospb Alsop iuajidgc ot supplies delivered to the blockaded offshore islands. As recorded in a previous re port, the Communists have made an astonishingly ineffi cient military showing to date. Hence they have not Quemoy garrison's powers of resistance. In these circumstances, im proved blockade-running can buy time. The time can be used to find better military methods to force the Commu nists to lift the Quemoy block ade. But the idea that just buying time will solve the basic problem is like the idea of childishly improvident people that an extension of a loan is just as good as repay ment of a loan. In sum, the basic problem is the blockade. And while the blockade is not lifted, there will be . constant and growing danger of a Commu nist victory on these little islands which the President and Secretary Dulles have solemnly committed the Uni ted States to defend. WHILE the blockade en dures, there will always be another constant and grow ing danger, too. Chiang Kai shek has sworn that he will not wait forever to send his crack air units to relieve the Quemoy garrison by attack ing mainland targets. What ever its other faults may be, the Chinese Nationalist gov ernment does not share the present American govern ment's predilection for big talk followed by big retreats. All the available evidence suggests that Chiang will risk widening the war in an un predictable manner before he risks defeat on Quemoy. Anyone who looks at a small scale map of the Que moy position ought to be able to see why mere improve ments in blockade - running will only buy time. IN the first place, even if the Communist military showing continues to be infer ior, what can be accomplished by mere blockade - running will always be strictly limit ed. Big Quemoy island is be ing supplied by small am phibious landing craft scut tling over open beaches under heavy fire. More landing craft can ease the Quemoy position by putting in more supplies. But even on Big Quemoy, there is no known way to put in enough supplies, so that the garrison will be able to fight back. On this point, all the Amer ican military authorities on the spot are in agreement. The Chinese and the wiser Americans are meanwhile growing more and more con cerned about the three other islands in the Quemoy group Little Quemoy, Erh Tan, and Ta Tan. No landing craft can reach these islands', which have been the targets of near ly half the entire rriassive Communist bombardment. On these islands, enough damage has already been done to be gin to impair the defenses. And these islands are only getting and can only get the merest trickle of supply by air drop. The Communists do not have to take just the little Tan islands; and they will amply succeed in making the leaders of the American gov ernment look like weak-willed braggarts and feebly false friends in the eye's of every nation of Asia. By the. same token, let the Communists merely attack the little Tan islands, and Chiang plans to use his air power against the mainland without regard to the consequences. T N the second place, in addi- tion to the foregoing realis tic supply facts, it is necessary to remember the character of the Quemoy position. It .is al together different from the position of Berlin, where there was a blockade but no shooting. As this reporter has al ready pointed out, no garri son on earth ca'n be expected to hold on forever in a'posi- tion under heavy fire, with no relief except by blockade- running under fire, and with no possibility of fighting back. Any American government that asked an American gar rison to hold on in these con ditions would be lynched; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff would lead the lynching party against the White House. In other words, the artil lery blockade- has to be ex pected to crack the Quemoy position somewhere in the end, even if the Communists attempt no landing and do not succeed in bettering their present military showing. For j By Joseph Alsop uio ioouii, tiicj nave in sisted they must use their air power to the full before the risk of a crack in the Que moy position grows too great. T'HERE is not an iota of evi- dence that the Chinese leaders are champing at the bit to widen the war, in order to involve the United States and Communist China in a general conflict. That theory is not just drivel. It is a pack of lies. Chiang and Yu Da Wei and the others are in fact de termined to make no risky move whatever,' except as a last resort. They will only make such a move if this be comes absolutely necessary for the purpose to which the United States is also pledged the purpose of preventing a Communist victory on the offshore islands. For these reasons, the es sential question is whether the American pledge, so sol emnly given by the President and Secretary of State, ought to be honored and is going to be honored. That question squarely confronts the Ameri can people today. (c) 1958 New York Herald , Tribune Inc. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann MR. DULLES ON TUESDAY At his Dress conference. Mr. Dulles went a Ions wav to show that he is now genuine ly interested in negotiating a settlement of the Que moy affair. This is the first time he has done that. In all of his previous state ments, includ ing the speech Lippmann prepared for the President, he has been talking as if he ex pected the Chinese. Commu nists to back down uncondi tionally, to give up the block ade of Quemoy, and to get nothing in return. On Tuesday ne lev it be known through the veil of diplomatic lan guage that a bargain might hp struck in which Chiang's troops would be withdrawn and save.d and the offshore is lands would be evacuated. It is evident, however, that Mr. Dulles is troubled in his mind about , this retreat from a defiant showdown into the give and take of negotiation What troubles him is whether in making concessions, his ad versaries in Peiping may not be encouraged and incited to raise their demands. "We are having," he said, "a very critical negotiation with the Chinese -Communists. Thev are pushing and probing to tind out whether we are weak, or whether we " are strong." It is evident that Mr, Dulles takes it for granted that to offer concessions for a bargain is to be "weak" and that to refuse them is to be "strong." . THIS, it seems to me, is,not a fully considered view of the actual problem in Quemoy and in the Formosan Strait. From the American point of view the true .view of Que moy is that it is a dangerous liability which weakens our power and our prestige in the whole area, and that to liqui date the liability is in fact to strengthen, not to weaken, our position. For Quemoy is an exposed and vulnerable salient from which a good general would certainly withdraw if and when he was able to do it. And when he did withdraw, and had straightened his line and consolidated his position, he would know that he was stringer than he had been before. Strategically, a with drawal from Quemoy will re lieve the 7th Fleet of an ugly commitment and will increase the power of the 7th Fleet to defend Formosa. For 'it will relieve the 7th Fleet of the need to take great and in calculable risks to defend an indefensible island. With a hundred miles of water and the 7th Fleet be tween Formosa and the main land, Formosa is invulnerable to invasion. A WITHDRAWAL from Que mnv tn Fnrmnw will lin- uidate a dangerous liability and will consolidate the stra tegic position on Formosa. To what end? To establish a po sition in which we have the time and the opportunity to negotiate without too much pressure and with deliberation about the future of Formosa. Thus it may be, as many be lieve, that Chiang's regime will be deeply shaken by a withdrawal from Quemoy, es pecially as it must now be ac companied, as Mr. Dulles im plied, by a renunciation of the hope of reconquering the mainland. But even if Chiang's regime is shaken, the width of the Formosa Strait and the power of the 7th Fleet would mean that the future of For POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) "Topic A" last week, natur- ally enough, was the World Series. (We are informed that the world series is a series of baseball games played by two teams from a small part of the United States for the cham pionship of the whole world no other part of which is invited to participate. But no matter.) The Series, as a northern contemporary declares, is "a plague more far-reaching and persistent than the Asian flu. Even the hermits can't escape it, as the hunters and hikers, the planes overhead, and the cars passing by all carrying radios blasting out the play-by-play account of this an nual fall madness." This virus, naturally enough, struck the Mail Tribune with a heavy hand Wednesday. There was a portable TV set tucked away in the "back room" next to the newsroom, and when duties didn't press too heavily, staff members mosa can be determined not by fiat from Peiping but by an international treaty, agreed to by the victors in the war against Japan. Were we disengaged from Quemoy and disentangled from Chiang's ambitions, there would be time to consider calmly what in the long run is truly important to us in Formosa. We know that in the long run our interest in Formosa cannot be tied up with Chiang's government. For that government is mani festly living on borrowed time. We know, too, that For mosa is much too near the mainland ever to be consid ered as an American strategic base. In time of war, Formosa would be a costly liability, what with the missiles that could devastate it and the submarines that could block ade it. , (XUR true interest in For mosa, having done our duty to see that Chiang's peo- pie have a safe asylum some where, is that the island should not be militarized for an advanced Chinese base against the Philippines. Our best objective in Formosa is that it should become the au tonomous and demilitarized home of the Formosan people, and that they should enjoy the prosperity which the is land can afford them. ..- SO WE should disengage in Quemoy. We should .stand at Formosa for the purpose of negotiation. We should pre pare for the passing of Chi ang's regime. And we should go before the world in favor of a Formosan settlement of which we are the sponsors, asking no special privileges, strategic or economic, for our selves. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment SHOULD SEE A DOCTOR At least three candidates for re-election to the U. S. House of Representatives got some unsought help the other day. : , The trio was marked for purging by. none other than Generalissimo Rafael 'Tru jillo, . Dominican "Republic" dictator are Republican Rep-' resentative Charles B. Brown son of Indiana,' Alvin M. Bent ley of Michigan and Charles O. Porter of Oregon. General Trujillo has threatened to ban imports from the districts rep resented by these objects of his wrath if they are returned to Congress. How dumb can dictators get? Albany Democrat-Herald. RUNNING OUT OF LOOP HOLES The United States Supreme Court has plugged the legal loophole through which Gov. Faubus sought to wiggle with his scheme for operating Lit tle Rock schools as "private" institutions. No other action by the Su preme Court could have been expected, for Faubus' plan was plainly a subterfuge of extremely doubtful legality. The legal net is tightening around the racial segregation ists in both Arkansas and Vir ginia who have sought to evade the Supreme Court's orders against segregation. They must be close to run ning out of expedients to cir cumvent the law. . Astorian Budget, Astoria. sneaked off to watch a half inning or, so. (At one point, only the society editor was left to hold the fort, and even she succumbed once or twice. looking in and crying plain tively "I wish I understood was was going on!") As nearly as we can deter mine, there isn't a bona fide Yankee fan in the entire of fice, so that joy was un- confined Wednesday and ihursday, after a few breath less minutes Wednesday. And the wire editor de veloped a small ulcer Wednes day, as presstime came, and tne game went into an extra inning. He finally put the paper to press with a head line which said "Braves. Yan kees Tied in Ninth." Enough , copies of this were run off to take care of the mail and bus deliveries, and by that time the game had ended, Page 1 was "made over" with the final score in the headline, and things got back to normal again-until the following day. www With the Series coming to a conclusion,' perhaps then everyone can get back to less important things like politics, for example. Speaking of which The Republican party here moved its headquarters last week to the corner of Main and Riverside and is now just a hop, skip and jump away from the Esquire thea ter, where Democratic party headquarters are located. Maybe they're just trying to "localize" the political war. But unless the campaign warms up soon (the election is less than a month away) even that half-bldbk of East Main street is going to be fairly peaceful. Journalism like politics , is different in different parts of the world. We heard from a friend of ours in South America some , time . ago about . a paper which started an interview with a former president of Peru with these words: "We had to give our word of honor not to publish this interview. But as we think Mr is a liar, we don't see why we shouldn't break our promise." ' The old saying, "A man works from sun to sun, but women's work is never done," may have some substance to it. We suspect some feminine church-members think so, from a remark a local minis ter let drop some lime ago. He was telling about a re cent "work day" at the church, at which "the men worked hard, and then the women cleaned up after the men." . It figures. A staff member, one who occasionally has the snif fles, observes that when you get a prescription filled at a drug store these days, a single capsule is apt to con tain an antibiotic, aspirin, a ide-congestant, a stimu lant, vitamins and bicarbon ate of soda. But, he said, this is not a new develop ment. Time was you could buy the same thing from any traveling medicine wagon, claimed to be a sure cure for stomach trouble, colds, dandruff, fallen arches and baldness. . One of our young men jour- -neyed up to Fish lake last week to watch as it was poi soned to kill all the fish, in eluding the trash fish, so that it can be restocked next year. (He picked up a couple of the dead trout, too, which are perfectly edible. But that's another story.) He said there were a num ber of spectators, many of them attracted by all those fish,' available just for the netting. One man remarked that more people showed up at the lake Wednesday than during the entire season. One of the two skin divers who helped do the work is putting himself through col lege dqing this work, our man reported. The diver said he Tiopes to continue it dur ing summers, both to make money, and because he likes it. But, despite the attraction of the fish, no one could es cape the World Series. (See above.) For a while the main attraction was the TV set at the lodge, where fans quickly staked out their claims to the handiest chairs. -.- j The Republican party is continuing its "neighbor-to-neighbor back your ballot with a buck" campaign un til everyone has had a chance to give. Which prompted a friend of ours (we suspect he's a Demo crat) to remark thai that's just like the GOP- carry- ing the campaign into hunt ing season and then ask that ballots be becked by a buck. Oh well, that's poli tics. " n 4
