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Sunday, November 23, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-4141 ROBERT W. RXJHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JK, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON, circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at HeCford Oregon unoer aci oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES , Mail In Advance. Copy 10e. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and sunaay o mom. o.w Dailv and Sundsy 3 mos. 435 Sunday Only One year $450. Sv Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv mr Tulent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 . Carrier and Dealers c o p 7 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 CIRCULATION Arft7T-in Representative: WT.ST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC- Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. T NEWSAEt k PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCl-ATcCiN r J W IMS 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 Not. 23. 1948 (Tuesday) Miss Noreen Kelly, a stud ent at St. Mary's academy, is the Medford winner of the Voice of Democracy high school speech contest. Christmas seals are in the mails this week, according to the Jackson County Public Health association. 20 YEARS AGO , Not. 23. 1333 (Wednesday) Half of Medford High school's journalism class visits the inner workings of the Mail Tribune. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A rob in has been fooling around the courthouse yard, and ex pects to be announced next February as the first robin1 of spring." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 23. 1928 (Friday) "Too ' Many Husbands" Is now playing at the Playhouse theater. Stewart's honey and Copco preferred stock are featured in a Copco window display as "home products." 40 YEARS AGO Not. 23, 1918 (Saturday! Medford troops are ordered ' home from overseas by Gen Pershing. Mavor Gates has selected the Gore alfalfa field as landing place for the Army aviators expected to drop in ' on a trial flight from Sacra mento to Seattle. Yhal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ei sis is good. 1. Crabs can, without turn ing, walk in any direction on land; true or false? 2. That which an artist strives to represent, such as a scene, figure, or incident is called a s ? 3. Frost is frozen dew; true or false? 4. Leukemia is a disease marked by overabundance of red, or white, blood cells? 5. Cardigan is a name ap plied to a type of jacket, foot gear or glove? 6. The early part of the day from morning to noon is called the f ? 7. Four-poster is a name for what piece of household fur niture? 8. Upon graduation, West Pointers become second lieu tenants: what naval rank is given to Naval Academy graduates? 9. R is a material used by athletes, acrobates, and violinists? 10. Does the word austerity denote simplicity, or ostenta- tiousness? Answers: 1. True. 2. Sub ject. 3. True. 4. White cells. 5, Jacket. 6. Foronoon. 7. Bed, S. Ensign. 9. Ruin. 10. Sim- plicitT. Good for Ashland Hugh Coleman stands a good chance of los ing $100. Coleman, the personable JHediord auto deal er, is tiie one who had the temerity, at the "kick off" dinner for the Shakespearean Festival fund raising campaign, to challenge Ashland to live up to its responsibilities. Clarence Bell, Ashland businessman, iook up the challenge rather heatedly, and wagered Cole man $100 that Ashland would fill its $50,000 quota in the drive before Medford filled its $100,- 000 quota. The bet was made, with the money to go to the campaign. E VERY report we have heard from Ashland in dicates that Bell's confidence was well placed. The town, with a population of about 9,000, shows every promise of doing its job fully as fast and enthusiastically as Medford, which is nearly three times the size. More power to them! Ashland, a charming town, has gained a reputation of sleepiness and lethargy over the years, but it is now showing real signs of shaking this off, and taking a strong and responsible role of leadership in the fund-drive effort. If Ashland is successful (and we believe it will be), it can put a great big fat feather m its cap, and cock a disrespectful snoot at the rest of the state for past patronizing attitudes. 1HILE the cities of Jackson county and south T western Oregon stand to gain the most from a successful fund drive, the entire state will share in the benefits. The benefits are many and considerable, not only from a cultural standpoint, but from a coldly economic one. The Festival, which has brought millions of dollars of buying power into the area more than all but the largest industrial payrolls is at a crossroad. The old theater is gone, a beautiful new one has been designed to succeed it, and all that is needed is the money to do the job. If the drive fails, Jackson county loses one of its biggest assets, one which has brought prestige, renown and hard dollars to this area. If, however, it succeeds (and we are confident it will),, we are assured of a continuation, and an improvement, of an institution, a tradition, and an "industry" of which the entire state can well be proud. E.A. Legislatures Centennial Members of the 1959 legislature meet in Sa lem this afternoon, their first get-together since the election, and the first time that all of them, veterans and newly-elected freshmen alike, will meet lace to face. But they will not meet they gather as house and senate. The meetings will be strictly partisan, with Republicans meet ing at one hotel and Democrats at another. The meetings (some is a perfectly good word meaning "a meeting of leaders of a party or faction to decide on policies t i . ....... or candidates ) may well decide the organiza tion of the new session Oregon's 50th, or Cen tennial, legislature. THE legislature will have more Democratic mfiTVl Vl010 fllOV T? AWlll-l 1l ArlTtn TH t OwnJ-.. i AAiwuutio iyiia.il iwcpuuiiv.aii3. xiic ociiatc lo divided 19 to 11, and presumably .will elect Sen. Walter Pearson of Portland, former state treas urer, as senate president. The house division is closer, 33 to 27 a small er margin for the Democrats than in the 1957-58 legislature. There may be a contest, or the race tor speakership may be Leading candidate at can ot Medford, who has vote pledges from sub stantially more than half of the Democratic mem bers of the house. IF DUNCAN is named speaker, he would be the , fifth Jackson county man to hold that post in the past 100 years. The first was E. V. 1898-99 legislature. In 1927 John H. Carkin, then of Medford, was-speaker; in the 1943 session William McAllister, Medford, (now a member of the state supreme court) J. Van Dyke "was speaker at the 1949 session. The speakership is chief public duty is presiding over the house, but as a practical matter, the power of the office is in making committee assignments, and in choos ing the committees to which bills are ref erred. In addition, the speaker has an initial pres tige on which he can build real leadership, or which he can fritter away in trivialities. The job is a challenge. I AST session, and this one, are the only times in more than two decades where partisanship has been much in evidence at the legislature. Con trol was vested firmly in the Republicans, and the small minorities of Democrats had little chance and, indeed, little motivation to do more than pitch in and work. In the sessions of the 40s, party labels meant little, and as a matter of fact were largely for gotten. We are not prepared to say whether this was good or bad, but it is a fact today that partisan ship is much in evidence. And this is good, at least to the extent that it shows that the two party system is sound, healthy and competitive in Ore gon once again. E. A. in the Capitol, nor will call them caucuses, which decided without delay. present is Robert Dun Carter of Ashland, in the was speaker, and Frank an important office. The Dennis the 'A v-r 43? lUr )itaineMwenf,Aie.rMS 'MOVI, HOlVo U tIKg TO FINISH Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann THE INCOMING TIDE For the next two years the President must live with a Congress which has a strong Demo cratic majority, and in this "ma jority the Nor thern Demo crats will have more power than they had before. In the shrunKen Re publican min ority. the "moderns" wUl have more to say than they had before the elections shattered the Old Guard. Much will de pend upon how Mr. Eisen hower decides to deal with the new political line-up and how he interprets the changes which it reflects. For it would be a mistake to suppose that nothing im portant is changed, and that somehow Sen. Lyndon John son is a worker of miracles who can, or will wish, to make the new Congress act as if it were the old one. To be sure, Sen: Johnson is a moderate and cooperative man, but he is also a profes sional politician and he has laready made it plain that he knows that there is a new tide running in our affairs. VTO DOUBT, it would be wrnntf trw retoa-rA Be Haintf . o wt 0 definite and conclusive Mr. Eisenhower's first reaction on the morning after election day. Yet there was truth though it was not the whole or the main truth in his saying that the electorate "ob viously voted for people that would class among the spenders." It is true that the main political generation are prepared for a lot more pub lic spending on public (serv ices and public facilities and on national defense. This can be said not only of most of the Democrats. It is conspic uously true of Mr. Nelson Rockefeller. In Mr. Eisenhower's defin ition, the Governor of New York is a "spender" in that he stands for a much enlarged effort to meet public needs which, if they are to be met at all, must be financed pub licly. There can be little ques tion, it seems to me, that Mr. Rockefeller did not win the election only because he is an attractive man with s celebrated and greatly respec ted name. He won it because he is identified in the public mind with a long, persistent, varied, and expert concern with the public needs of this growing and expanding na tion. BEFORE the President artonts a st.nhhorn and sterile opposition to what the younger generation, is up to, he should make a careful study of Mr. Rockefeller's vic tory. For there, more clear ly perhaps than in any of the other election, he can see what is happening. There is a "tide." But it is not primarily a Democratic tide. It is Dem ocratic only when the Re publicans act like a lot of com plaining codgers, like the old cronies of Colonel Blimp, fighting in the present bat tles of their youth. The tide is largely Demo cratic because the Democrats, at least outside the South, are on the whole younger and more modern and less stod gy than are most of the Re publicans who run for office. What is this tide which has brought in both Mr. Rocke feler and a great Democratic majority? It is propelled, I believe, by the growing con viction, based on personal ex perience of living in count less American communities, that our public needs are not being adequately met. The Walter Lippmann Menace MAKING SOME WAFFigS ? face of America has changed since Dwight Eisenhower was boy in Kansas. We have become in large part a mass society living in congested urban agglomerations. One half of our people live in me tropolitan areas; in the six Northeastern states four-fifths of the people live close together in such metropoli tan areas. HHHIS is not the only reason - but it is an important and sufficient reason, why the country today is compelled to spend on civilian projects more public money than it used to spend. O u t in the country or even in small vil lages, the individual can do many things for himself which m the city must be done by public enterprise. There is no need to labor the obvious wnen a community grows from, let us say, 10,000 inhab itants to 100,000, the cost of the public services required is bound to go up more than ten times. For the larger com munity requires extensive fa cilities as, for example, wide roads and underpasses which the smal town does not have at all. Because of the great cost of the second World War and the very large cost of the. cold war, this country, which is a very different country from what it was 29 years ago, is in a predicament. It is rich in the things that mon ey can buy and it is, speak ing comparatively, poor in the services and the facilities that private enterprise cannot sup ply. From now on. barring a great war, our internal poli tics will be dominated, we may be reasonably certain, by this predicament. In it lies the real problem of "spending." The problem is whether the productivity of our economy can be in creased so that public spend ing can be increased without forcing a decrease in private spending, perhaps even while permitting an increase in pri vote spending. This will be the subject of a great debate in the years ahead of us. THERE are, no doubt, many different conclusions to be drawn from all this. But the first conclusion I would draw is that the President should look not only at his $80,000, 000,000 budget and its $12, 000,000,000 deficit. He should look also at the problem of the economy which is still running below capacity. And last but not least, he should look squarely at the vast com plex of difficulties which are being caused by the lag in our public services, and at the human strain which this lag subjects our people. , For the future, which he must face for another two yean, will be greatly con cerned with this lag. It will be concerned with ' the lag in the provision of schools and colleges, with the lag in hospitals and medical servi ces, with the deficiency of highways and the backward ness of much of our transpor tation, and with city planning and slum clearance. The fu ture will be considered with the conservation and develop ment of our natural resourc es, with the water supply of large areas of the country, with the contamination of the air, and with many other con sequences of the extraordin ary growth of our population, its conglomeration in big ur ban masses, and with the shaking up of the people's habits due to the application of modern science. (eV 1958 New York Herald Tribune lac. Matter of Fact ATTEMPTED PORTRAIT Amman, Jordan The fine head is far too big for the short, slender body. The dark, deep fringed Arab eyes are far too pene trating, the set of the mouth far too resolute for the boyish face. Even the musical voice 1 I is far too deep Stewart Alsop ana re&uiitui for so small a man. By these odd contrasts, at just 23 years of age, Hussein, King of Jordan, achieves wnat few men twice or thrice his aee ever achieve a genuinely commanding presence, jwen in a very ordinary business suit, sitting at a very ordin ary desk in a quite ordinary office, he does not iook luce a bov olaying at being lung. or like a King playing, in the modern manner, at being a good bourgeois. He looks, quite simply, like a ruler. When the Young King re ceived me the other' day for a long private talk, I could hardly resist the temptation to put the question bluntly: "How do you do it and what makes you tick?" But the answer, wouia sureiy nave been polite and meaningless; for this seeming-boy always speaks with the circumspec tion of an old master politici an.. PARTLY for this very rea son, I shall not record the interview in detail. Hussein told me what he wanted to tell me that his storm-tossed little country had never been nearer to tranquillity, which is true. He has the knack, which most older politicians should envy, of never being self-revealing. So what he says rarely casts any light on the question above - noted, which is nonetheless the real ly interesting question about Hussein. The question is posed in deed it is almost shouted by the extraordinary scenes from Hussein's story which seem to crowd into the room whenever you see him. Con sider, for example, the last incredible scene. When the Syrian MIGs at tempt to shut the well-laid trap, the young King quietly hands over the controls of his little plane to his former fly- ine instructor, the veteran Wing Commander John.Dalg- leish. Flying just ten feet above the ground, Dalgleish sets a wrenching zig-zag course. The King coolly takes over the observer's role, warn ing Dalgleish of each new pass that the MBIGs make ("as though he had been talk ing about the weather," Dal gleish says later). ONE pass all but drives the hunted little plane into a hill-face. But the end is dis appointment for the layer of the trap, Nasser's Syrian vice roy, Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj Serraj has been waiting at Damascus airport for his in tended victim since early morning with an eager little company of the Jordanian exiles who plotted to kUl the King in 1957. But they wait in vain. "I'd have died before land ing at Damascus, trie rung remarks about this frustrated reception committee. And so, of course, he gives the real reason why he got away. Or consider those other scenes in 1957. when Hussein's best friend and chosen Chief of Army Staff, Ali Abu Nu war, many of the Army's oth er senior officers, and all the members of his . government joined to destroy the King; and were defeated only by Hussein's naked courage. Or consider his cool firmness when the bloody coup in Baghdad shook Jordan to its foundations, and another coup in Amman was expected every hour. "That was the worst mo ment," the King admits. I needed to go away after it was over." OR FINALLY, for contrast consider the strange night- scene at the great Arab Legion camp at Zerqa, when they celebrated the King's 23 birth day last week. All the grave, elderly notables of the king dom are there to salute him, and he is as grave as the old men until the soldiers dance. Dance, endlessly they dance, great stamping, weaving cir cles with a bagpiper, a flute player, and a star performer taking the girl's part at the center of each circle. The star performers win loud, ribald cheers when they parody the belly dance. But the roaring is loudest when the King, looking like a boy for once, suddenly grins and shouts for a certain Ali, who turns out to be a specialist in simul taneous dancing and Sten-gun-shooting. And so the party ends, whereat the wild Leg ionaries all but mob the King's car, shouting, "We are your men, oh, Hussein, we are your men! The violence, the drama, the almost absurdly pictur- 1 '-aD, Hv Joseph Alsop esque character of such scenes from Hussein's life must not be allowed to obscure the oth er realities. Although even his enemies have come to admire him, this young King rules by force and watchfulness. r!1 THE voice of Nasser and the hand of the Kremlin have lost their power in Jor dan, it is because very great numbers of Egyptian and Communist agents and sym pathizers are in jail or in concentration camps. If the country is more stable than it has ever been in the recent past, it is because the Army's loyalty has been tested for all to see. These facts carry their own penalties, morever. Among Jordan's town dwellers too many families contained at least one active or suspected Nasserite or Communist. Too many families today have mis sing members. In the great plot of 1957, too much depend ed on the loyalty of the simple soldiers, who refused their of ficers' orders to move against the King. Today, therefor, the soldiers are perhaps too much trusted and the officers per haps too little. Too much depends, as well, on the Bedouin attachment to the King; and even among the Bedouin there is too much rivalry between the men of the Beni Sakr and the men of the Howeitat. The govern ment of Jordan by force and watchfulness is no easy busi ness. But by some curious in stinctive throwback to his an cestors, Hussein carries on this government with the quiet guile and ever-ready naked courage of the old rul ers of the desert tribes. As political phenomenon in the age of the H-bomb, his feat seems very strange indeed, Strangeness only makes the feat more striking, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer although under cer- i 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 oo words Rules About Pets To the Editor: Here are some rules to protect children Many people give puppies and kittens to small children as playthings. Dr. H. R. Car- ithers of Jacksonville, Fla kept a record of 157 cases of children . bitten by pets. Dr. Carithers found that the child was usuaUy responsible for the bite and he devised these rules to avoid such mishaps. 1. Children should not own pets until they can understand the handling and care of ani mals. This ability is rare un der age 4 and unusual under age 6. 2. Older animals make bet ter pets for young children. 3. All youngsters should be taught that animals hav rights, including freedom from pain and teasing. Judith Hollman, Route 2, Old Stage rd., . Medford. Active Club Invitation To the Editor: The Medford Active club, seeking to aid in the development of young men for service to the nation and to their own communi ties, invites young men of good character between the ages of 21 and 39 to attend the meeting at the Timber Room, downstairs, 3 South Riverside ave., Medford, on Monday at 7 p.m; The Medford Active club s purpose is to develop young men and create in them the desire for self-improvement and knowledge, and the urge to participate actively in civic and welfare service, such as, "Make Medford Beautiful." To promote good fellowship and true . friendships among its members, and goodwill be tween the memberships of the various clubs and their respec tive communities. To serve and improve the community, state and nation in which we live, with par ticular emphasis on child welfare, thereby becoming better and more useful citi zens. To promote international goodwill, peace and progress. Active club gives you pub lic speaking training, leader ship training, an exchange of ideas. If further information is desired, call Ron Clancy at SPring 2-7208. Jack V. Cummings, Secretary, . Medford Active Club, ' 1200 Fortuna dr., Medford Inner and Outer Space To -the Editor: I am becom ing impatient with the end less discussions among states men and diplomats that seek to guarantee the peaceful use of outer space. Unless and un til we can learn to devote "in ner" space to peaceful uses, this question is . wholly aca demic and irrelevant, for none of ua ii likely to remain here pHUCEt (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Whiskers, we are told, are making a comeback. We believe it. Glancing down the clut tered vista of the newsroom, our eyes light on our city editor, who has a week's growth - a ring around his jowls reminiscent of Abra ham Lincoln, plus a mustache. Our eyes swing over to the farm editor, who has the first famt smudge of an oncoming mustache, which gives prom ise of imposing dimensions. Further to the right, our photographer shows up with widespread stubble, not yet of sufficient determination for accurate description. And, as our hand idly strokes our chin, we feel the roughness of juvenile whisk ers. The same would be true of our telegraph editor, had he not shaved by mistake, in a fit of absent .- mindedness, last week. . Why? Well, it was sort of spontaneous inspiration, mo tivated by. the fact that the Centennial year is approach ing, and the news from up state that it is becoming fash ionable to grow whiskers in celebration thereof. Ernie Hood, the county Cen- tennial chairman, has ambi tions for a fine, spreading handlebar mustache -al though he admits that, up to this point, it needs the minis trations of his wife's mascara to make it evident ' Now it should be under stood that this project is not undertaken lightly, nor with out some danger. The danger comes from wives, obviously, not to mention the1 distaff members of the staff, who view but dimly the hirsute as pirations of the menfolk. But the ultimate in beard- growing courage comes from east or tne mountains, in Bend, where Robert Chand ler, editor of the Bulletin, makes known for all his read ers the fact that he once had a full, red beard, grown while on overseas service in World War II. He always has had hankering to try it again, but has been restrained by the objections of his wife. But now this brash man al lows that his wife has gained several pounds since they first were wed, that he ob jects to it, and that if the excess poundage is not .lopped off within a specified period, he will grow that red beard back in retribution. There is a brave, but fool ish, man. : long enough to need to worry about it. Make no mistake, I am completely in favor of pro moting the peaceful uses of anything, anywhere, but in this instance, the emphasis needs to be applied nearer home. Arnold Toynbee, the noted British historian, has said if or civilization perishes, he does not anticipate it will come about through nuclear warfare, but rather from some fundamental moral lack in its own makeup. Shortly after Ezra Benson took office as Secretary of Agriculture, it was facetiously said that the only crop likely to receive a government subsidy was "moral fiber," but it is still in short supply. For much too long, our highest frame of ref erence for American policy at home and abroad, and to some extent for our own personal decisions as well, has not been the eternal, unchangeable val ues of right and wrong, but rather, what Russia does or does not do, and what the rest of the world is going to think about it and about us. This has led to such con-! fused and muddled reasoning that the one essential ingred ient to survival in any age that of personal integrity has atrophied to a shocking extent throughout our society. Now we are searching fran tically for a "scapegoat" the Jew, the Negro, the'labor un ion upon which to rest the blame for our own moral de ficiencies. Instead of facing up to the problems that have un dermined the democracy we try so glibly to sell to others, we choose instead to devote our energies to the contempla tion of uttr space like a home owner who gives his all to promoting fire prevention programs elsewhere, while the flames that are consuming his own abode already illumine the far horizon. In view of these conditions it is little wonder, as Walter Lippman has said, that Com munism to earth's underpriv ileged millions has begun to appear as the only wave of the future that holds any hope for their condition. It is not in outer space, but "in the minds of men" here and everywhere that the defenses of peace must be built, ana the hour is later than we think. Grace N. Pearson, Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore. Understatement of the week, in a headline on an editorial in the Medford High school Hi - Tiniest Boy - Girl Relationships Can Cause Problems." A certain Medford house wife we have heard about hat been a willing worker in church and school, but recent ly found the extra duties had overburdened her to the point of exhaustion. Reluctantly, she finally de cided she was going to have to turn down any additional requests for her services. So, above her kitchen tele phone is a sign which says. 'Think NO!" Congressman Charles O. Porter, a fast man with a word or phrase or for that matter an entire speech, was the speaker at the ban quet of the National Forest Recreation association. So perhaps it was appropriate that Ted Tedrick of Union Creek, intending to intro duce Porter's talk on con servation, announced . him as a "well-known conversa tionalist." In this 20th century age of progress, when we can twist a dial and see what's happen ing across the nation, or throw missies into space, or speed across the continent between breakfast and lunch, or drive our high - powered vehicles from one corner of the state to the other, in utter comfort and in less than a day, why is it that no one has yet had the ingenuity to come up with one basic, simple Invention. We refer to tire chains. They have not progressed since 1912, and there never was one made which could be put on without barking knees or elbows or fingers, and with out getting dirty, and without undergoing considerable phys ical danger. 7 An Upper Applegata friend has dropped ua a note,' glorying in the glorious weather of 'fa 11 (which since disappeared under a dank cover of gray fog and clouds), but who eyed the forthcoming win ter by saying, "I still think the bears have the best of the deal, crawling into a nice snug hole with their tummies full, and just for getting the whole tiresome business until spring cornea north again. Oh, to be one of them and do likewise!!!" A Jackson county family recently was en route home from a hunting trip, with the one-deer limit strapped to tha front of the car. They were stopped at a check point, and the game warden looked over the deer. The young daughter of the family remarked to him: "Isn't that a pretty deer my Daddy got?" "Yes it is, little girl," the warden replied. "Well, if you think that one is pretty, you ought to see the one we have under : tha back seat," she replied. Shell probably stay home next year. We have good reporters on this paper, by golly, who go right to work at the first sniff of a news story. - One of them got a "news tip" last week, from a usual ly reliable source, to the ef fect that an unusually large number of law enforcement officers had left in a hurry for the airport. Like the good newshen she is, our reporter started making telephone calls like mad. The "big story," when traced down, was that (1) an officer had left on a rou tine flight to Portland; (2) a state policeman bought a bicycle for his son at the Medford city police auction held at the airport, and (3) the auctioneer for the sale was the department's detec tive lieutenant. She also found out the auction was a big success. A native of England, read- ing about the recent naturaliz ation ceremony here, got to reminiscing about her first ex periences in this country. Her hubsand had carefully explained to her the unfa miliar American money, and had impressed upon her that small, silver-colored coins are dimes and worth 10 cents. She remembered. The time came for her to make her first purchase in a dime store, and she offered in payment one of those zinc coloreS pennies which war time shortages made neces sary. "My hubsand told me this is a dime," she told the clerk determinedly, and the long and the short of it was that the clerk and manager both finally gave up, and the woman left with her 10-cent purchase.
