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Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, October 26, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORDtlaKrTrauire "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tri&ine-' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Cltv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Zptered as second class matter at Meford Oregon under Act of - March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c op J 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paperjof Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 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. NEWSPAMt PUBLISHEIS 'ASSOCIATION ESS NATIONAL EDITORIAL l"goc5'N 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 Oct. 26. 1948 (Tuesday) Moore Hamilton and Dia mond Flynn, candidates for mayor of Medford, are to speak at the League of Wom en Voters campaign school. Clyde Fichtner, Medford police traffic officer, has re turned from the National Safety Congress in Chicago. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 26. 1938 (Wednesday) The Medford city council has approved plans and speci fications for the city's PWA paved street, reconstruction project. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Sbudge Pot" column: "Med ford is listed 'an outstand ing football conscious city.' At least part of the time." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1928 (Rriday) More than 100 high school boys are planning a "Pajama rine" tonight to publicize Sat urday's game. Local sheriffs have seized "one of the cleanest and most modern moonshine stills ever captured in Jackson county." 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 26. 1918 (Saturday) Trials in circuit court are being postponed by the influ enza epidemic. James Stewart, the bee man, reports the honey season is about over. ' What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ft superior; even or eight is excellent; five of is is good. 1. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, wrote a book, the title of which was "In Dark est "? 2. What is oakum? 3. Excluding Australia, what is the largest island in the world? 4. Are one-third, one-half, or all of the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to be chosen in this November election? fc 5. What is the name of the southernmost city or town 'in the U. S.? 6. Which vitamin is sup plied by cod-liver oil? 7. Four of the first five books of the Old Testament are Genesis, Exodus, Num bers, and Deuteronomy; name the fifth. 8. Is Costa Rica in Central America or South America? 9. The Brenner Pass con nects Austria with what other country? 10. The name of what com mon bean is identical in spell ing with the name of the capital of Peru? Answers: 1. ". . . Africa." 2. A calking compound. 3. Greenland. 4. All. 5. Key West. Fla. 6. Vitamin D. 7. Leviticus. 8. Central America. 9. Italv. 10. Lima. Two Tanuki Arrive, Exchange For Beavers Portland -(LTD- Six Japanese Tanuki, racoon-like animals, arrived by Western Airlines in Portland Friday at 4 pjn. They were the first such crea tures ever to enter the United States. The Tanuki were sent in exchange for Oregon Beavers. The new guests will be in the Portland Zoo. The beavers will b in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. The Sidewalk Proposal The parents of youngsters w-ho walk to school are aware that Medford has a "sidewalk problem." Much of the city's growth has occurred since the automobile became the universal means of transportation, and many residents simply haven't bothered to install them. They cost money, for one thine, and "Who wants 'em?" is another common reaction. Well, the Parent-Teacher associations, for one, think they are necessary particularly in areas around schools (those on the east side, and in some sections of the west side, especially), where groups of youngsters are forced to walk in the streets at no little danger. A NOTHER group which would like the city to have power to force installation of sidewalks is those who have put them in themselves, but whose neighbors have not, resulting in a blpck where there are some sidewalks and some lots without them. These pressures came to a focus last August in the city council, which as a result voted, with out either approving or disapproving the propos al itself, to put a charter amendment on the Nov. 4 election ballot in an attempt to solve these prob lems. The ballot title is brief and descriptive. It says: "Purpose: Amend City Charter by author izing construction of sidewalks on local assess ment basis without petition of owrners of abut ting property." ' IF PASSED, the amendment would except side- walks from the charter provisions limiting the city's power to make assessments for paving. If we read this correctly, it means that the city could go ahead without a by -your -leave, build the sidewalks the council thinks, are neces sary, and then send a bill to the owners of the property which abuts the new sidewalk. At present there are two ways of obtaining sidewalks. One is for a property-owner to build one for himself, at a cost of about $2 per lineal foot, after the city has laid out the line for it. The other is for a group of property-owners to petition for sidewalks, as is done for streets. The proposed amendment would provide a third way. Under it, the assessment bill could be spread over a 10-year period. ' IN LOOKING over the city charter in connection with this proposed amendment, we find that sidewalks are sort of the step-children (no pun intended) of city construction. They pop up from time to time in various parts of the charter. But nowhere is there any detailed provision, spelling out how sidewalks can be obtained, the powers of the city to install them where necessary, and the rights of the property-owners who may be assessed for them. s Nowhere is there provision for remonstrances in case the city exceeds even, specifically, for public hearings. AND, as w-e read it, the proposed city amend ment would solve none of these things. It! would give the city blanket authority to do as it would regarding sidewalks. There is no provision for petitioning, there is no provision that any spe cified percentage of abutting" property-owners should agree, there is no "forcing m a sidewalk the objections of the property-owners. For this reason, and despite the fact that we recognize the need for sidewalks in school areas, and elsewhere, too, we oppose this proposal. We wrould suggest, instead, that a more com prehensive amendment be drawn which wbuld answer these objections, and others which might arise m the course of a study of the problem, and that then it be presented to the voters for their approval. As it is, we feel the proposed amendment would create as many problems as it would solve. E. A. A Good Thing The League of Women Voters' chapters throughout the state have been giving a series of Candidates Fairs, similar to the one held here so successfully a week ago. In Corvallis they had a good one, too, and the Corvallis Gazette-Times said-there was "an al most full house of spectators who never enjoyed a political meeting so much in their lives. And not only did some four or five hundred spectators enjoy it, but so did the politicians." It added: "It is a great relief to the office seekers to be able to express their points of view to a crowd where the voters outnumber the politicians. Last night some of them got in some really good licks, not only on the platform but in shaking hands and discussing issues with anyone who cared to stop around to talk to them personally." "1X7E FEEL the same way about the Candidates Fair here. The fair gives candidates a chance to try their wares on friend and foe alike, which is good for everyone concerned. Some dedicated partisans might even be shocked to find out that the candidates of oppos ing political faith do not have horns and a tail something they'd never find out from going to strictly party gatherings. The League of Women Voters and for that matter the Granges and other organizations which hold similar but to be complimented on service. b.A. its proper authority, or procedure outlined for when the need overrides smaller gatherings are performing a real public! i Dennis the Menace He mure to see km BAIL... BUT J 01QHT Matter of Fact "ONLY THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE" Minneapolis "The only hope is the religious issue." The maker of the foregoing remark was one of the most eminent Rep ublicans hereabout. He would norm ally be horri fied by any m in g ling of religion and politics. Even Jos-pb Alsop 1 11 1 a year, when Minnesota Republicans need all the help they can get, from whatever source, he was visibly uneasy about what he was saying. This is one reason why his remark is a good measure of the plight of the Republican party in this state. There is another reason too. By implication, this reference to the "religious issue" con ceded a rather general Dem ocratic victory. Religion does not figure in any way in the Governorship race here. The Republican nominee, George McKinnon, strangely manages to combine dimness with shrill ness; and he is universally expected to be badly beaten by the exceptionaly able Dem ocratic incumbent, Orville Freeman. In fact religion does not figure at all in this Min nesota election, except in the race for the Senate. .'. N HENCE this eminent Re publican was really saying that his party's only chance to save something from the wreck lay in the Democratic Party's choice of a Catholic candidate, Rep. Eugene Mc Carthy, to run for the Senate in this dominantly Lutheran state. Everyone else here agrees that the one Minnesota contest with any interest or excitment'is the contest be tween McCarthy and good, bumbling Republican Sen. Ed Thye. - No one, least of all this re porter, can really tell whether the Lutherans' prejudice against a Catholic candidate will overcome McCarthy's ap parent lead. According to the latest local poll, he is now ahead by 50 to 45, with. 5 per cent undecided. The great Lutheran concen tration is in the Scandinavian rural counties of northern Minnesota. These people are also the strongest adherents of the newly powerful Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition in this state; and they actively and almost unanimously de test the Eisenhower adminis tration's farm policies. So the question seems to be whether they will decide, in the priv acy of their polling booths, that they hate Rome or Erza Benson the most. TO COMPLICATE their de cision, there is the fact that Sen. Thye, though a Lutheran Try and By BENNETT CERF- A N AMERICAN TOURIST drooled over the "specialite de la maison" in a Paris restaurant, and entreated the chef to reveal the recipe. "Eet is very simple," declared the chef. "One takes mprplv a thirlr slim of beef, mushrooms, tomatoes, mustard, salt, a leetle water "Just how much water?" cut in the tourist, writing furiously. "As I told you. a leetle," repeated the chef. "Me, I use about one mouthful." Words of wisdom culled from the Irish Digest: You can tell how healthy a man is by what he takes two at a time stairs or pills. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has a very great deal of work to do. Card-playing can be expensive, but so is any game where you hold hands. We drink to one another's health and spoil our own. O 13S. by Burnett Cert Distributed by Sine Futures Syndic!, ascot a pouczmah's TAKE ITJ' By Joseph Alsop himself, is married to a Cath olic. To complicate the whole situation, there is the further fact that many of the staunch ly Republican farmers in southern Minnesota are Ger man Catholics. Thus any ap peal to religious prejudice can cut both ways. Just to give credit where credit is due, it must be added that Sen. Thye is not the sort of man who would likely to make an open appeal to prejudice in any case. Other ingredients in this Minnesota Senate race are Presidential aspirations, past and future. Sen. Thye can be figuratively described as, the last surviving province of the once-pround political empire of the ambitious Harold Stas- sen. He was the man Stassen picked as his Lieutenant Gov ernor, when Stassen was get ting ready to enter the Navy, in prepration for entering the Presidential stakes after the last war. The Stassen link will be the reverse of helpful to Thye. HfEANWHILE. the restorer and rebuilder of the Min nesota Democratic party, Sen. Hubert Humphrey, has bet a large share of his own Presi dential prospects on Gene Mc Carthy. Humphrey hopes to return to Washington with McCarthy by his side, and with the legend, "We won everything in formerly Re publican Minnesota," inscrib ed upon his banners. If he can do that, he will at once become an active, if not an avowed, candidate for the Democratic Presidential nom ination in 1960. Humphrey-for-President contributors are already visibly and openly preparing to dig deep to fin ance the campaign. Humphrey makes no secret of the fact that he will be a candidate, if McCarthy wins, but prudently says he will hold back if Mc Carthy is beaten. Finally, it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that Humphrey's Presidential am bitions had something to do with the original choice -of the Catholic, McCarthy, to run for the Senate nere. To be sure, McCarthy was probably the best available choice, be ing a man whose intelligence and charm are admitted even by the Republicans. But it will also be pretty useful to Hum phrey, in a contest with Sen. Jack Kennedy of Massachu setts, particularly, if he can exhibit as his own creation the first Catholic Senator ever elected in Minnesota. Altogether this is another race with big stakes riding on the outcome. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me lB"25" Roscoe Drummond Reports . . . (Drummond Is substituting for Walter Lippmann, during the latter's trip to Russia.) THE PRESIDENT AND THE, Here in these 11 Western CAMPAIGN I states, from New Mexico and San Francisco " In theArizona to Washington and wake of President Eisenhow er's streaking campaign through the Pacific Coast, be stowing a radiant smile and a few hard-hitting arguments in a last ditch effort to arrest a Democratic tide in this Con gressional election, this is what he has left behind him: 1. Clear proof, despite three serious illnesses and a. major operation, that this resilient 68-year-old President is in hale, ' sturdy and bouyant health, fit to face the rigors of the final lap of his eight years in the White House. However little or much of stiff campaigning may pay off in votes for others, it is assuring the country and Mr. Eisenhower himself that he has every prospect of completing his second term and despite the cold wars abroad and the hot wars at home, emerge as the first President to reach the age of 70 before leaving office. 2. Large friendly glownig crowds continue to greet Mr. Eisenhower with almost as much warmth as they did in 1952. These crowds finally "like Ike" as they always have, and they would, I be lieve, elect him again if they had the chance. Even when they are not going to follow his political advice, they like him as a President - largely above-politics who is loyally doing his party duty with no great relish for the partisan battle. 3. There appears to be no substantial evidence that Mr. Eisenhower is succeeding in translating his personal popu larity into votes for the Re publican Congressional candi dates, and there is some evi dence, certainly here in Cal ifornia, that the increased in terest the President is arous ing in the campaign is shak ing off any vestiges of over confidence among the Demo crats. . IT IS plain that the President is buoyed by getting away from the White House routine and in meeting and talking with large crowds; he relishes the trip even if he doesn't really relish politicking. He obviously feels no need to spare himself and there is further evidence of his lean (his present 172 pounds are only a few ounces over his West Point football weight) ruddy vigor. But I cannot see that the President's smiling my-record-deserves - a - Republican-Congress appeal is altering the shape and outlook of this Congressional campaign any more than it did in 1954 when Mr. Eisenhower was also not a candidate or in 1956 when he was a candidate. In this burgeoning area of the nation, whose population and economy grow by leaps and bounds while you turn your head, and where the majority of voters, including many Republican leaders, are m,l-,li Yrtri minrlof? anil ,t wi,mdnn n mnr. "" " ""o- to harness a declining water, supply, the President's earn est plea for less rather than more Federal government fall on pretty unresponsive ears. In these far-western states the people are expansive minded expansive in pri vate enterprise and expan sive in public enterprise. They see their needs for more schools, more highways, more housing, more water power, mounting by a population which is expanding far more rapidly than anywhere else in the country, the tendency is to look to Washington to do somewhat of a job. IN THE 10 years from 1940 to 1950 the nation's total population increased only 14.5 per cent, while the population of the Rocky Mountain states went up 22 per cent and that of the Pacific Coast went up 49 per cent. Dirt Slide Kills i Tillamook Logger Tillamook (TJPD- A logging accident at the D and F log ging company operation eight miles north of here on the Mi ami river Friday took the life of Grayden Bernard, 20. Company officials said the youth was setting choker on a train of logs on a steep hill side when a log hit a stump, knocking it loose and causing a dirt slide. The slide threw Bernard down the hill and he was struck by a flying log. Officials said it took near ly two hours to get Bernard to an ambulance. He died in Tillamook General hospital four hours after the accident. He was the son of Mrs. Lillian Bernard, Tillamook. i Montana, eight Governor ships, eight Senate seats and 57 House seats are at stake in the voting Nov. 4. An up dated check on how things are going suggests that on a conservative estimate the Democrats will gain at all levels perhaps as much as three Governorships, three Senators and seven members of the House. This part of the country apparently "likes Ike" in the White House and a Demo cratic Congress on Capitol Hill. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications tetters 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. Littrell on Politics Tothe Editor: I've read with interest the many let ters in this column on the coming election, the truths and the half truths. I feel that I whom you have twice elected to represent you in the state legislature, should speak out and give you the whole truth on a few subjects. - It's true Governor Holmes, a Democrat, called a special session to reduce taxes. How ever, it was he and a Demo cratic controlled legislature who in reality put those extra taxes upon the people. It was done against the advice of the conservative and ex perienced Republicans and we were backed with - facts from the Tax Commission. That special ' session cost you, the people, approximate ly $100,000 and but for the Republican members of both the House and the Senate, you would have gotten only a 6 per cent reduction. How ever, after combined pres sure was brought to bear by you the people, we the elect ed Republicans, did get a 21 per cent reduction. In fact we said at the time that a 30 per cent cut would be more realistic, and it is now a prov en fact, as the reports from the tax commission show the surplus is stiU increasing. The research laboratory for the state forestry department was set up many years ago and under a Republican adminis tration, it has functioned effi ciently and under competent men. I see Governor Holmes is now taking credit for the creation of this department. For many years Oregon has had a department of develop ment and expansion of indus try, which normally cost the state between 50 to 75 thou sand dollars. (Biennial). In the 1957 session Governor Holmes had a bill introduced and passed for an appropria tion of $235,000 for this de- partment, and every move made Ul:. j . UII9 UCUCU tlllC'k UG3 since, Governor Holmes has used as a political football. Many of the industry ex pansions and the f,ew indus tries which have come into Oregon were begun long be fore Governor Holmes took office-yes, it was under a Democratic regime that the State' of Oregon was taken out of the real property tax field, and many Democrats fought and voted for it, but it was the Republican mem bers of the legislature who forced the bill out of com mittee and on the floor where it could be voted upon and passed. And Bob Duncan was the Democrat who fought the hardest to keep it off the floor of the House and he voted No. So I say for a fair and equitable state govern ment let's send a Republican delegation to Salem. E. A. (Al) Littrell State Representative Medford Who's Ambiguous? To the Editor: The ambigu ous letter written by Mrs. Catherine Gribble , Lynch proved to me one fact: That Mrs. Lynch is not acquainted with Congressman Charles Porter. Through the- years that I have known Mr. Porter J have found him to be the ex act opposite of her descrip tion. He is an earnest and sincere young nian with a deep sense of responsibility. His first two campaigns for election were made by sheer stamina and moral courage. He did not. have political know-how and funds were meagre. His efforts on behalf of a bereaved father and mother in Eugene turned the spot light on a Carribean dictator who has for years thumbed his nose at free Americans PTIUCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Students at one of Med ford' s junior high schools held a "serpentine"-one of those long, wriggling, snake - like processions-in the halls one day recently to bolster school spirit for a football game. When- school was out, one of the youngsters rushed out to her waiting mother, flush faced, and said, "Oh, Mother, we had the most wonderful turpentine thiS afternoon." A thinking man with a taste for politics cam up with the following suggest ed revision of a national ad vertising slogan as appro priate to the season: "A thinking man should filter while taking handouts from their treasury. Are these the ways of a vague and indefin ite man?? i Oregon can well be proud of its young congressman and he deserves the vote of every one whose special interest is only for good government. I have read the articles mentioned in Readers Digest. There is absolutely no rela tionship between these arti cles and Congressman Charles O. Porter. AMBIGUOUS?? C. A. Lusk 10 Portland ave. Medford Highway Group Quits To the Editor: It is with great regret that we announce the dissolution of the Isaac Roop Low Pass All Weather Highway Association, which association has proposed that a highway be constructed from U. S. Highway 40 at or near Winnemucca, Humboldt county, Nevada, to a junction with U. S. Highway 395 at or near Viewland, Lassen coun ty, California, due to the lack of interest, lack of coopera tion, and apathetic attitude of the residents of northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon. However, we sincerely be, lieve that one day, under dif ferent circumstances, this road will be built and that our children and grandchildren will benefit greatly with its construction. We do wish to express grateful appreciation to those very few who worked for and believed in this proj ect and were of great assist ance at all times. : F. W. Loosley, President Isaac Roop Low Pass All Weather Highway Association , P.O. Box 338 Susanville, Calif. - On Tax Exemption To the Editor: The county assessor, Mr. Schumacher, has made an important showing to all taxpayers of the coun ty, according to the article in Thursday's paper on ad val orem taxes; and I feel that all taxpayers should take note of the disclosures so as to have an understanding the reason, among others, as to why their individual prop erty taxes are so high. . It is shown that more than one half of the assessed property of our county is tax exempt. If it were otherwise our indi vidual tax would be cut near ly in half. Due to the fact that city owned property is tax ex empt we, the people, should be interested in any and aU property acquired by the city for any purpose that is there by taken off the tax roll. To illustrate if the city were to purchase "parking lots" in the down town "core" area it would be property of high assessment taken off the tax roll and distributed over all other taxpayers and thereby increasing individual taxes again. In this light such ven tures should be left to pri vate enterprise, thus left on the tax roll.. It would seem appropriate that a look-see should be had into some of these tax exempt matters. The so called "non profit organizations" should be non-profit in fact as well as in name to be exempt. Lodges which conduct busi nesses within their doors in competition with tax paying businesses should not be ex empt in my way of thinking. The same applies to hospitals. But above all, governments owned property should be kept at a minimum. Thanks again to our county assessor in pointing out these tax matters to the people. Ray O. DeMarrs 139 North Central Ave. Medford , what a politician smokes." Some days it hardly pays to get out of bed. A man we know recently had some official business in PorUand. He drove to the air port, parked his car, and dis covered after the plane' had left that he'd locked his hat and coat in the car. When he ot to Portland, it was raining. The one bright spot in the day was the fact that he was a guest at one meal in Port-, land, then another free meal aboard the plane en route home. (The plane was late.) As he got out at Medford, he found he'd parked his car in one of the lots which was due for paving, and the work men had towed his car away while they paved it. Finally, with t.h helri nf an imnmmn. tu search party recruited from officials at the airport, he found his car and returned home - safe but somewhat shaken. A slate police officer says that the place to stop drunk- . en driving is at the bend of the elbow, not the bend of the road. A reader called in to report she has heard from a member of her family who volunteer ed under the new reserve forces act which provides for six months of training, with the rest of the service at home with a local unit. He did so, she said, after he'd been informed he was going for training as a "con struction engineer." She said that, so far, he's been "training" with a pick and shovel. a A family we know were awakened by strange music . early one morning recently. When the man of the house investigated, he found the newly - acquired cat march ing up and down the piano . keyboard. ' a a There was some discussion not long ago among members of a newly - formed young adult club what to call the organization. Someone (probably a man) supeesteri that since . it wn preponderantly female, it be called the "Young Adults Klub" - or "YAK" for short. ' The office philosopher (jg) suggests that many .a local politician has discov ered that the best way to ' keep his chin up is to keep his mouth closed. This story has bobbed up in different form a few timea lately, but this is the version our farm editor tells: A local farmer with land to sell got interested when told that the Ford Motor com pany was looking for farm acreage in or near Medford.. "Why?" he said. The answer - "To raise worms for Thund-. erbirds." The general deer hunting season ends today, which . gives us an excuse to do some reporting about the season. One hunter was out stalk ing game when shots started whizzing around him. He ' stood up and started wav ing his arms. But apparent ly the shooters just took the arms for antlers, and the shots kicked up dirt all around him. He dropped and hugged the ground until the would be hunters ar rived to check their "kill." Elsewhere in the state, we are told, a game-warden came across a man skinning ' out a dead mule. He pro tested his arrest indignant ly, declaring that it was a "mule-deer" he was skin ning. a And in an up-state news paper we came across some hunting season definitions, as follows: Prey - What the birds and the animals are doing. Bird - That which, if the hunter doesn't bring one home, he gets from his wife. Quail - What suburban resi dents do during hunting sea son. Grouse - What hunters do when unsuccessfuL . Duck - A warning. Get your head down before it gets shot off. Bird Dog - A lousy song. Big Game - A football con test between Oregon and Ore gon State. Moose - An animal, runs in herds of meese. Antelope - Hasty marriage between insects. Six -point - Related to the 18-inch trout. The one that got away. Duck Stamp - A popular new dance. . Safety Catch - A device on the '"gun that should not be used as it prevents taking a quick shot at a rustling in the brush.