Sunday, November 23, 1958
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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
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
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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.
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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.