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I Friday, November 28, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtrTRIBUMB "Everyone In Southern Oregon KeadTheaiJribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 3orFirSthJ:4141 "" ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GHEYAdvertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JB, Managing Editor EARL H ADVMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second ela-is matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10e. Daily and Sunday 1 year 15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One yea $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hm. Pnoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Ts'-nt, and on motor routes: Daily end Sunday I year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comity Unite d Press International Full Leased wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF UHUUmiiuri Hl BC. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVbcIhA Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History frcm the files of The Mail Yr'bune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 30. 1948 (Tuesday) A special election to approve $685,000 in bonds for extra rooms in Medford schools is scheduled for Dec. 16. County Engineer Paul Ryn ning reports gravel will soon be ready for the improvement of roads in the vicinity of Butte Falls that have been damaged by logging oper ations. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 30. 1938 (Wednesday) The new pre-marriage ex amination, approved by voters at the last election, goes into effect here tomorrow. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Salem reports say 'the legislative horse-trading has started.' It Is just as well to get it over before the legislative horse play." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 30, 1928 (Friday) Medford whips Benson Tech, 39-0 to win the state high school football crown. - Two gold prospectors have "struck it rich" on Birdseye creek above Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 30. 1918 (Saturday) A fake "war hero" who strutted about Medford and was lavishly entertained now denies he was ever here. Pianist Leopold Godowsky charms a responsive audience here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight iaxcellent; five of the is good. 1. Belgrade is the capital of which European country? 2. Does the Jewish Feast of the Passover occur in the spring of the year, or the fall of the year? 3. Is it true that soaking poisonous mushrooms in salt water will make them fit to eat? 4. Is a hamster a small ham, a mediocre actor, or a burrow ing rodent? 5. Was Horace Greeley an American clergyman, journal ist, or explorer? 6. With the name of what country do you associate the anthem "The Maple Leaf For ever"? 7. Is gelatin derived from mineral, vegetable, or animal, sources? 8. Fill in the missing words In the following: "It is more to than to -" 9. Is the coastline of Tuni sia on the Atlantic ocean or the Mediterranean sea? 10. During World War II, was the Nazi propaganda min ister named Goebbels, Goer ing, or Himmler? Answers: 1. Yugoslavia.' 2. " Spring. 3. No. 4. Burrowing rodent. 5. Journalist. 6. Can ado. 7. AnimaL 8. Blessed give receive. 9. Mediterrane an. 10. Goebbels. r. Ups and Downs of Alaska After President Eisenhower proclaimed that the results of the national and state elections in Alaska on Tuesday had been certified, it became the 49th state. Statehood arrived 91 years after Russia formally transferred Alaska to the United States. The Czar's government was willing to sell in 1867 because aware that it couldn't defend the territory if the British (through Canada) or, con ceivably, the United States should move to annex it. Indeed, during the Crimean War a dozen years earlier Russia had feared a British attack on Alaska, and seems to have sounded out Washing ton on buying it at that time. A LSO, the charter of the Russian American (Fur) company, which had been administer ing Alaska, was expiring. The company was in financial trouble, so that the government at St. Petersburg was in little mood to renew the char ter. And the Russian settlements in California to the south had been abandoned in 1844. On our side, Secretary of State William H. Seward had become a territorial expansionist after the Civil War. He 'visualized the United States as spreading all over North America. After buying Alaska Seward tried to acquire the Dan ish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands) and the Dominican Republic, also Hawaii. I JNTIL the discovery of gold in the Klondike in 1898, our government had paid little or no heed to "Seward's Folly." The gold rush doubled its population, but later the gold become expen sive to extract, and now has dwindled to a rela tively minor economic factor. In 1930 Alaska was the only piece of U. S. territory with fewer inhabitants than in 1900. Then thousands of defense personnel were sta tioned there: and better transportation connec tions have stepped up its industrial development, fishing, agriculture. Since 1950 Alaska has shown a greater population increase than any other state, not excepting Florida, Texas or California. E.R.R. World-Wide Ship Boycott Some 2 million U. S. transport workers are planning to participate in a four-day, world wide International Transport Workers Federation boy cott of ships flying the flags of Panama, Hondur as, Liberia, and Costa Rica beginning Monday. A BOYCOTT that could tie up ships flying so called "flags of convenience" in every port in the free world is slated for the first four days of December, with 18 U. S. maritime and water front unions cooperating. However, leaders of the National Maritime Union and the Seafarers International Union were ordered to appear in federal court in New York City, Nov. 28, to show cause why they should not be enjoined from any attempt to prevent, interfere with, or obstruct the operations of the shipping companies. The boycott is the first move in a major effort of the International Transport Workers Federa tion to enforce standard shipping conditions throughout the world. It is aimed at Panamanian, Honduran, Liberian, and Costa Rican flag ships that are not under contracts with the federation or any of its affiliates. Flag of convenience ships,, regardless of their true ownership, are registered in countries such as those named with low tax and labor costs. According to the U. S. Maritime Administration these four countries had on their registry books as of June 30 a total of 1,695 ocean-going vessels, totaling 24,266,000 tons or 16 per cent of world tonnage. MAR Becu, secretary general of the ITWF, in announcing the dates of the boycott, Nov. 14, declared that the United States was respon sible for the "run-away" ships because U. S. own ers were allowed to transfer ships abroad. "To a large extent," he said, "this problem can be solved by the U. S. government because 42 per cent of the ships under these flags today are owned by American citizens." But a day earlier Clarence G. Morse, Man- time Administrator and Maritime Board, had announced there would be no change in federal policy despite the threatened boycott. U. S. interests own about 7.8 million tons of the so-called PanHonLibCo shipping. Much of the remainder is owned by Greeks. Norway was reported, Nov. 16, urging British, West German, and Netherlands maritime officials to exert pres sure on the United States to halt private U. S. financing of new vessels for operation under flags of convenience by Greek exiles. Norway's 9.4 million tons of merchant ship ping earn that nation a third of its foreign ex change. Stavros Niarchos, the Greek merchant snipping executive, said on Nov. 16 that he would go ahead with plans to build in the United States a 106V-thousand-ton tanker, the world's largest, despite" the "blackmail" attempts of the maritime unions.. CHIPOWNERS who say they can't afford high .labor costs and taxes under U. S. registry in sist the foreign flags are "flags of necessity." And "cheap flag" owners deny their labor and safety standards are low. ' To this countiy the backing of the boycott by IS maritime unions is remarkable in that these organizations frequently are squabbling among themselves, E.R.R. chairman of the Federal Dennis the Menace if Wanna see a pretty waterfall1?4 Matter of Fact By Rowland Evans Jr. (While Joseph Alsop re ports for Middle East, Row land Evans covers the home base. PRESSURE FROM NORTH Washington The Demo crats from-the northern, in dustrial states are laying rath er elaborate plans to cash in on their new influence in the Senate. They will have a weighty package of propos als ready for Sen. Johnson, the voice of power and author ity in the top-heavy Demo cratic Senate, before the ses sion starts on Jan. 7. These proposals are a bit more than requests, but quite in the na ture of demands. One of them, of course, is the well-know plot to change Rule XXII and make it easier to break Senate filibusters. Not so well publicized, how ever, are at least three other Northern - Democratic propos als, each of which will be taken up with Sen. Johnson as part of the strategy of the Northern liberals, a smallish band that gained new re cruits in the Democratic land slide. What this resourceful band now seems to want is a new and strong voice in the party's inner circle of policy makers, now entirely domin ated by the skillful Johnson; an increase in the number of Democratic floor managers by the addition of a new assistant-leader from the ranks of the liberals; and a shake-up of the nominally powerful Democratic Steering Commit tee, eleven of whose fifteen members now represent Southern or border states. This committe controls the appointment of new Senators to standing committees. SEN. Hubert H. Humphrey, the human Univae w.h o presides over the Senate Dem ocratic liberals, would be the obvious choice for a new as sistant leader, but he might defer to Sen. Clark of Penn sylvania. As a leading Presi dental possibility. Humphrey might prefer to keep his pres ent identity as the unofficial emissary and negotiator of the Northern liberals. As of now, the floor lead ership is composed of John son, the top man, and Sen. Mansfield, his faithful lieuten ant and the assistant floor leader. How successful the North ern liberals are in their quest for more power within the Senate Democratic hierarchy may well bear on the course of the new Congress and the outcome of the Rule XXII struggle. It might even have an indirect influence on the shape of the Democratic na tional convention in 1960. THE Northerners are the legatees of the New and Fair Deal who seemed to prof it from the campaign attack that labelled them the "radi cal wing" of the Democratic party. If the astute and mod erate Johnson makes conces sions to the Humphrey-Clark equality program he should find it easier to keep the peace between the opposite wings of his party. This should make for greater cohesion among the Democrats throughout the session, although, of course, it would only mitigate, not avoid, a Rule XXII battle. If, for example, Johnson agreed to place Humphrey or a Humphrey candidate on the nine-man policy committee, the panel that controls the flow of legislation to the floor, the Northern Democrats would be less inclined to press the limit in the great strug gle over the filibuster rule. The Republicans already have a well-advertised organ izational fight going on. Their liberal wing is demanding a spot in the party's conserv ative Senate hierarchy. With the relative decline of the con servatives, the liberal Repub licans are certain to get an By Joseph Alsop assistant leadership in the hew Senate. rpHE bid by the Democratic -- liberals for equal space and time with the Southern and moderate blocs, however, seems to have shriller over tones. It may, in fact, be an opening gun in the battle for control of the 1960 Democrat ic national convention. In California, where the Democrats scored their great est election ga;ns, a move by party officials is already afoot to weaken the influence of the moderate Congressional lead ers in the wide-open nomin ating convention in 1960. . It is based on the sound theory that control of the convention machinery the keynote speaker, the permanent chair man, the programming will carry with it unusual power to influence the selection of the nominee. This would be true, of course, only if no candidate locks up the nom ination ahead of time. If Johnson fails to make concessions now to the Sen ate liberals, the militant and triumphant party officials from the West Coast, and their National Committee al lies, will intensify the effort to undermine the Democratic moderates in Congress. It is a good bet that the Senator from Texas will go at least part of the way with the Nor therners. He will probably do that for party harmony, even though he knows there is no power in the world that, in a showdown, could upset his ul timate control of his party in the Senate, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Washington Report By William PERSONAL DRAMA Washington - One of the most-arresting personal dra mas of Washington is that of John Foster Dulles, whose p e r m a nent residence is in the eye of the hurricane. Various ob servers may rationally dis like Mr. Dul les or some of WiUiam S White nis policies as Secretary of State. But no body "in possession of the facts" - which, by the way, is just the kind of farge, dustily legalistic phrase Dulles him self would use - could reason ably deny two things: 1. This Secretary of State has what are inelegantly call ed guts to a degree that few men in recent public life have surpassed. True, it may seem at times a rather tire some, quibbling sort of cour age; Mr. Dulles is not one to read from the large print when the fine print is avail able. 2. This Secretary of State, whose endless travels about the world would long ago have left limp and exhausted the average man of 30, has a physicial industry so great as to be fatiguing even to watch. TWO years ago this very month Mr. Dulles all but crawled on hands and knees from the hospital, where he had undergone an unpleasant thing - surgery for intestinal cancer. He returned to his manifold duties stolidly silent about what most men find it impossible not to comment on - "my operation." Never once since has he gone about holding his pulse in public. Never once has he asked quarter, on grounds of health, from the very hard world that surrounds him. He is the oldest member of the Cabinet - now in his 71st year - and yet he makes far Today & Tomorrow By Welter lippmonn MR. DULLES AND THE CHURCHMEN Last week at Cleveland be fore a conference of Protest ant C h u r c hmen, Secretary Dulles ended his address on a note which was novel and "Today," hesaid,"when despotism rid es h i g h , our society is closely ob served. Many find us lacking." In terms of works, we seem to be confus ing freedom with moral li cense and our productive power is often devoted to friv olities. "In some respects, we seem to be as materialistic as the Communists but without their supporting philosophy and efficiency." But, said Mr. Dulles, there is one other way, and that the most impor tant, in which we are lack ing. "In terms of faith, We seem unable to articulate a basic philosophy for our tim es which carries deep convic tion and strong appeal." This is a remarkable thing for Mr. Dulles to admit. For the President and he, and he particularly, have certainly been untiring in their at tempts to articulate a basic philosophy. It is rare indeed that either of them discusses a public question without wrapping it up in the confi dent claim that the position they have taken is derived di rectly from the moral order of , the universe. How then, has it come about that Mr. Dulles, despite all the basic philosophy that he has articu lated for so many years, finds that his use of philosophy does not carry "deep convic tion and strong appeal?" THE clue to the answer to this question is to be found in the fact that the very gathering he was addressing has made it manifest that it does not accept the notion that is Mr. Dulles's constant theme. It does not believe that his policies in foreign affairs are derived from and found ed upon "a moral order which is fundamental and eternal." Many of the churchmen at tending the conference dis agreed with the Dulles China policy, and all of them appear to have rejected the notion that any specific Dulles pol icy has somehow the author ity and sanction of religion and of the moral order which religion sustains. Yet the incessant claim that our policies are more than human, and have about them an aura of divinity, has been having a devastating effect on our prestige in the world. Mr. ,. S. White more demands upon himself in every way than do any two of the others. JUST now, these demands are piling high about him. The Russians are glowering at the Western position in Germany, and crisis in its nastiest meaning may be in the air. Dulles is making our policy in this infinitely tricky busi ness; and in a sense making the policy of the whole allied West since we are the biggest of its partners. He is walking a high and swaying wire. His problem is not to give up any of our vital interests but not, on the other hand, to do any thing that would make it im possible for the Russians to draw back without losing face. In all this, he is carrying three buckets of water on his soberly tailored shoulders. One of these buckets repre sents the Allies, one the Rus sians themselves,' and one the Congress - to which, with its huge new Democratic major ities, Mr. Dulles must pay far more heed than ever before. How adroitly he is swaying with these buckets was well illustrated by a recent Dulles press conference. This the Secretary held, on the day usually reserved for the Pres ident's own press conference, while Mr. Eisenhower himself was on holiday in Georgia. HERE Mr. Dulles with pvrilosive grappled questions like an old Army sapper re moving land mines. He spoke of the Russians without ani mosity or threats. His manner toward them, rather, was that of a corporation lawyer deal ing with a rude and irrespon sible but dangerous witness in an anti-trust suit - firm, but careful and coolly detached. The Secretary has been oft en - and sometimes fairly -accused of "brinkmanship," of an unduly threatening line. Whatever the past, this is in Walter Llppmann Dulles who carries a very big stick with our weapons and our wealth, seems curiously insensitive to the fact that h should therefore speak sofilv. In the face of the outer world he, even more than the Presi dent, is the wielder pf great material power and, if only he could see himself as others see him, he would be humble and would not wield this pow er with moral dogmatism and any suggestion of special righteousness. THERE is no surer way for a leader in the free world to repel free men than to let it seem that in our foreign policies we make the assump tion of infallibility, that what finally emerges from the vast bureaucracy which forms these policies, is hedged with divinity, and that only the blind, the ignorant and the wicked can disagree with whatever the policy , finally happens to be. It is right here, so I have come to believe, that lies the source of the irritation which is frustrating the hopes of the President and of Mr. Dulles that they can rally the peo ple of the world in a moral crusade against Communism. For far from articulating a basic philosophy which is dif ferent from Communism, the pretense to know a n d to speak for the universal order of things is, when seen at a distance, in Asia and even in Europe, too painfully similar to the central vice of the Com munist philosophy. For the Communists, when they are true believers, are certain that they know the inner se crets of all human exper ience, and that wnatever tney happen to be doing is a mani festation of destiny. THE tendency to transform our mundane and secular matters, as for example what to do about Quemoy or Ber lin, into religious and moral dogmas is an old and a bad habit of the human race. Free dom has one of its deepest roots in the realization that the business of states is the business of fallible and ' alto gether human persons, that tariffs and budgets and mili tary establishments and what to do in Lebanon and Cyprus and the rest, cannot be deduc ed directly and neatly and ob viously from the moral princi ples of any religion. The spir it of freedom is an emanation of the human experience in which men have learned to distrust politicians who, lack ing humility, are too sure of themselves, and pretend to have some special kind of in spiration. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. U.S. Funds Asked For Flood Control Pendleton (DPD Ted A. Smith, president of the Mc Kay Creek Property Owners association, yesterday asked Rep. Al Ullman to propose to congress a $10,000 appropri ation for flood control. Smith said the amount would be used for flood con trol studies and surveys of the McKay dam reservoir and lower McKay creek. Several families suffered flood damage costing many thousands of dollars in April, 1958, Smith said. The association is now form ing a legal group to take ad vantage of a $15,000 appropri ation for channel widening and clearing of McKay creek. Firm Abandons Eugene TV Fight Washington-(UPD-The feder al communications commis sion said Friday Northwest Video has dropped out of the contest for television channel 9 at Eugene, Ore. This withdrawal leaves the field to two other competing applicants-KEED, Inc., which operates radio station KEED at Springfield, Ore., and Lib erty Television, Inc., owned by area businessmen. The commission said KEED and Liberty had paid $1,000 to Thomas B. Friedman and Dawkins Espy of Los Angeles, owners of Northwest Video, for partial expenses incurred in the , contest. no sense now his line. It is now hardly possible, even for an observer never exactly en chanted with Mr. Dulles, not to feel some sense of security that our latest crisis, given all present circumstances, is in the hands of this possibly un comfortably righteous but un doubtedly tough and supple man. (Copyright 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to' the Editor must Bear the narre and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen came or initial for publica tion s permissjbie The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ail tetters with an eye to I clarification and condensation. le.ieis luDtmiwa iot publica tion must Dot exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this loJumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper. In fact the contrary is often the Hits Nail en Head To the Editor: The letter of Mr. Ray J. Schumacher "cart before the horse" in your is sue of Nov. 26, in connection with the proposed bond elec tion for offstreet parking hit the nail squarely on the head, and I wish to congratulate him in presenting the issue so plainly and so forcibly to the public. When the question of off street parking was previously presented to the voters and defeated, the question was so evasive that there is a ques tion if the voters actually understood what the city ad ministration was trying to ac complish, and from my per sonal discussion with some of them there is doubt in my mind if they actually knew themselves. However, later action by the city council in authoriz ing an item of $50,000 in the budget in direct opposition to the will of the voters indicat ed clearly that there was something in their minds that was not placed before the voters. - When an open meeting was held by the council on the budget it developed that the council did not in fact have any concrete plan for off street parking, but was simply asking the voters to authorize this expenditure like a pig in a poke without any idea as to how the money would be spent. If the city administration is sincere in the matter and has the honest interest of the citi zens as a whole, and not sim ply the few who would be especially benefited by this project, why not lay the cards on the table and let us have everything i open and above board in the matter. If the voters are to be in a position to vote intelligently in the matter, then the information requesed in the letter of Mr. Schumacher, items 1 to 5, in clusive, are vital, and should be given to the voters before they are asked to vote on the bond issue. Remember, fore sight is better than hindsight. The action of the city coun cil in previously trying to ac complish by council action what the voters had already turned down did not enhance the confidence of the voters in the actions of the council. Therefore, if the administra tion hopes to gain the confi dence of the voters in the coming election, they will have to earn it by presenting all the facts in definite form before the voters are asked to approve a bond issue. If this is not done, my prediction is that the result will be the same as in the preceding elec tion. Give us all' the facts, then if your case has merit, we will support you. If merit is lacking, we will be equal ly as positive in the dis approval. A. J. Curry 906 West Main st. Medford Road Gets Rock To the Editor: I mutw be lieve it or not, congratulate the county road department for having dumped a few, but I must say, only a few, loads of crushed rock on the Butte Falls-Fish Lake rd., thus cov ering up some of the worst of the rocks which protruded from the surface of the road. However, what was done was only a starter. The road is very narrow. I must admit, not as narrow as the Dark Hollow rd. where the recent school bus accident occurred, but still narrow enough to be unsafe for the amount ol traffic on this road. when the rock crushers were set up at the mouth of Bowen creek was the time this road, should have been completely rebuilt, as it would have saved a great deal of expensive rehandling and have saved a great deal of miles of haulage. The rock which was re cently placed on the Fish Lake rd. was hauled some where near 10 miles, from the crusher site on the Rocky Hill west of Butte Falls. A haul of some seven or more miles would have been saved by hauling onto this section of road at the time the crusher was located at the mouth of Bowen creek. It appears to me that the jobs could be better planned to avoid such obvious ex pense as long hauls and dump ing in piles instead of on the road, which makes for unnecessary rehandling at con siderable expense. I sincerely hope our county court which is in office after Jan. 1 will consider care fully the factors I have noted, better than its predecessor and thus do more for less money. I also have a few POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) From the whisker depart ment comes news of soma loss, some gain. Our farm editor's mustache has gone, probably because one of his rancher friends kidded him about not recog nizing him when he went to pick up his Thanksgiving turkey. Our wire editor has devel oped what one party terms a "whiskerlip," a neat Spanish type mustache. Our photographer, who had a full-face, black and grey stubble started, appeared late in the week with all but a mustache and the start of a goatee shaved. He said he plans to grow the rest back again. The other bewhiskered member of the staff still is trimming the first stages of a full beard. The future Centennial look has spread to the circulation department where some staff ers show fresh beginnings; from hence we know not where it might spread. The average man today lives 25 years longer than a century ago. But then he has to in order to pay his taxes.. The following quotation is taken from the Hoover school Hi-Lite, and is entitled "Why I Like Birds": "I'm Betty Jo Hicks. This summer I became interested , in birds. My father is one of the best bird watchers in Jackson county. He goes bird watching with Reverend Mc Camant who is quite a bit better because he has studied birds longer. Father bought me some very expensive binoculars for my birthday, and ever since then I've studied birds. I enjoy watch ing birds because it gives my father and me much to talk about. a Back in 1898, when this country was yet young, there was published in our neighbor to the south a small newsy-type newspa per. 'Town Talk." Subscription rales were low: 50 cents, one year; 25 cents, six months; and 5 cents, one month. For that, the reader would get a va riety of "talk around the town," such as: Local news: "August Cos tel has purchased the inter est of his partner, J. L. Fenton, in the Ashland Iron Works." Opinions: "Never make fun of a young lady if she does not walk just as you think she should; she may have a corn on her toe." Advice: "Say less than you think, rather than think only half what you say." And humor: "Eating on ions will prevent a mus tache from coming on a woman's lip." - Thanksgiving Day, a 30- pound turkey caught fire in the oven of a local resident. In the process of extin guishing the flaming bird, smoke filled the house. The owner, to make things a little more pleasant inside, opened the house doors, and took a' broom to help circulate the air. In the process of shooing smoke from one room, the broom struck a light fixture, tinkling it to the floor. It was the third turkey the family attempted to cook without success. But the fam ily's courageous; they plan to try again someday to cook a turkey, to prove to them selves it can be done. Santa Claus' helpers ap peared on the local scene Friday night, mingling with the crowd of area pros pects looking over gift ideas for the coming holi day. Indeed there was a crowd of prospective buyers seek ing their treasure in the city's Christmas opening treasure hunt. Not only that, there were uncounta ble numbers of children, chilly perhaps, but happy to see Santa Claus helpers. . Most people downtown went from window to win dow checking numbers, holding a list of numbers or cards in a shivering hand while looking over another person's shoulder into the store's display window. Among the comments overheard by the younger generations were: "My feet is getting tired walking on." . "Let' go to Monkey Ward's and sea Santa's helpers." other suggestions if they are willing to listen. Floyd R. McCabe, Fish Lake rd., Butte Falls
