4 Sunday, October 26, 1938
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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
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.
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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.
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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.