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3 4 Sunday, December 28, 1 95t MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordWTribunb " "Everyone in Southern Oregon - Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by - MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR- Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai I In Advance. Copy 10c. : Dailr" and Sunday 1 year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent, and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c OPT 10c All Terms Cash in Advance i Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland,' St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSMf (I k ruBiiSHiis "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASoc5T8N 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 Dec. 28, 1948 (Tuesday) A proposal to move the old Agate school to the Central Point school grounds, to pro vide two additional class rooms is approved. Carpenters begin work re modeling., the .women's quar ters of the county hospital as living quarters for the hospi tal superintendent. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1938 (Wednesday) Incoming Christmas parcels this year showed a substan tial increase over the two pre ceding years. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A New Year is at hand. It is ex: pected to be different from the last one, but won't." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1928 (Friday) W. H. Gore, local banker, reports word that the Guggen heims plan to sell the Blue Ledge mine, a rich copper holding in southwest Jackson county. From Local and Personal: "Big snowball fight, Jackson Springs, Sat. night." 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 28. 1918 (Saturday) ' Medford women are invited to sew for the soldiers at the Red Cross rooms. Soldiers and sailors en route through town enjoy a heated snowball fight and al most miss their "train when it pulls out. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct i superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In a standard pack of playing cards, one king has no mustache; which is it? 2. The abbreviation "i.e." stands for the Latin words id est; what do they mean? 3.. What is the motto of the U.S. Army? 4. Where could a house be built so that windows on all four sides would all have a southern exposure? 5. Name the college located at Hanover, New Hampshire. 6. Does the Zodiac contain ten, twelve, or fourteen con stellations? 7. Which state of the U.S. has been called "the mother of Presidents"? 8. Name the capital of the Bahamas. 9. What famous Greek ora tor is said to have practiced speaking with pebbles in his mouth? 10. The names of the 48 states of the Union utilize ev ery letter of the alphabet ex cept one; what is that one? Answers: 1. King of hearts. 2. "Thai is." 3. "Duty, Honor. Country." 4. ' At the north pole. 5. Dartmouth. 6. Twelve. 7. Virginia. 8. Nassau. 9. Dem osthenes. 10. Q. FAMILY GROWS FAST Lecco, Italy -UP&- Anita Brusadelli gave birth to her third set of twins in five years Friday. All were reported do ing fine yesterday. The two boys brought to 10 the num ber of Mrs. Brusadelli's children. Symbols and Things Words are symbols. And one of the things which causes so much difficulty in modern America is the fact that so many people tend to think in symbols, rather than in the facts for which the symbols stand. Take, for example, the phrase, "American Way of Life." It means different things to differ ent people. Some people, when they see or hear the phrase, think of "middle - class" America, with its cars, TV sets, frozen food compartments, and pleasant homes in suburbia. But to others it can mean life in a teeming tenement, or on a isolated ranch, or the relatively relaxed life in a small town. To still others it means the frenzy of Madison Avenue, or the un- realities of TV studios, it can mean all of these but none exclusively. - THUS, when the phrase is used, it means dif- derent things to different people and some of the reactions are good and others bad. There is a breakdown in communications, for what the speaker means is not what all his listeners "get." American'speechis rife with similar examples. "Taxes" is a word ant connotations of paying money. But tax evasion" brings up visions of criminality, and people trying to gyp the government and the rest of the citizenry. And it is a rare individual that translates the word "taxes" into a picture of the benefits which come from taxes fire and police protection, better roads, education, care for the sick and so on. " JUVENILE delinquency" is another phrase 'which too often is reacted to emotionally, rather than in a judicious or analytical manner, taking into consideration that no two youngsters are identical, nor are the circumstances of the different cases. A certain amount of this confusion of the symbols, w7hich are words, and the facts, which invariably "differ somewhat, is probably inevi table, for language itself is nothing but an agreed upon convention as to what noise-symbols will mean generally. A rose by any other name will smell as sweet, but if one decides to call it a hippopotamus he's bound to confuse his listeners. LANGUAGE the ability to conceptualize and Idf" o mmGA rf n PrtmAn llrn? vvrtln icv a Jiuioc kji a. oci as a symbol for a thing factors which sets the tne rest of the animal kingdom. But it has its dangers, too, for often we get to thinking of words as "things," rather than as symbols representing things. The five letters "spade," do not constitute a digging instrument : they are a symbol for a digging instrument. And when one says "let's call a spade a spade," he is succumbing to the natural tendency to confuse. words with things. There are other words, in all languages, which are also perfectly satisfactory symbols for dig ging instruments. "THE way to protect oneself from being caught they stand for is to remember that some words and phrases are emotionally charged, that they mean different things to different people, and that the things they stand for often, in actuality, constitute a wide range of characteristics. "Do - Gooder" is an emotionally charged phrase with a negative connotation. But where would we be without the people who suffer un der this negative symbol the people who keep the world of charitable and welfare enterprise alive? And yet the phrase does have a meaning, and is a symbol for the small minority of such people who are nosy, meddling and irritating. The difficulty is in using the symbol to describe a wide variety of people. It is easy too easy to allow words to become, in effect, things rather than symbols. But for straight thinking, and accurate conclu sions, one must keep in mind that words ARE only symbols and often misleading ones at that. E. A. Odd The week between Christmas and New Year's is the oddest hiatus of the year. The mystique of Christmas is past, but not quite gone; the tree and how look old and out-of-date where a few days ago they looked exciting and festive ; the presents have not yet lost their newness, but they are no longer mysterious packages. Where a week ago the air was filled with a blend of religious references, allusions to Santa Claus, and a strong emphasis on gift-giving, the odd week is taking on a new character a mix ture of looking back over the waning year, and looking ahead to the new one that's almost here. yHE youngsters are out of school. But the va- cation isn't long enough for any long-range plans to be put into effect, nor short enough to shrug off as just another holiday. And the wea ther keeps them pretty well confined to the house; Stores are recuperating from the Yule-time rush, and girding for the first-of-the-year in ventories. , And lots of people are recovering from over indulgences in food and conviviality, and begin ning to think of New Year's resolutions. It's an odd time of the year. E. A. or Hollywood. Actually which brings up unpleas ico uj. ukxmr. uixin.a suauu. or a fact is one of the human being apart from Timt the-decorations some Dennis the 3 I I '60MB8O0 MINTED TO TALK TO OAO BUT I HUNS UP "CAUSg m THOUGffT I WAS A Matter of Fact WHAT KHRUSHCHEV WANTS Berlin - What the Kremlin wants is this city. Nikita Khrushchev's threats to Berlin are most emphatical ly not primarily intended to force the West to recognize the East German government, or to promote German confed eration, or to produce another summit conference. They are primarily intended to secure the surrender of free Berlin. One can guess the moment when the renewed attempt on Berlin began to be planned. One can even imagine the conversation that decided Khrushchev to act. The mo ment was almost certainly last summer, when the Kremlin extended a huge credit to the East German government, in order to help it get' its econ omic and political house in or der. Khrushchev was report edly rather severe with, the slimy Walter. Ulbricht, rap ping him smartly on the knuckles as he promised the big loan. "Really now,"' one can al most hear Khrushchev saying, "East Germans you ought to do at least as well as the Czechs, and with all this help we're giving you,, you've just got to do as well." And one can almost hear Ulbricht's . answering wail: "But how can I ever do as well as the Czechs, when' I have this cancer on my heart that is free Berlin?" ' THE evidence for some such exchange is by no means imaginary. In every discjus sion Nikita Khrushchev has ever ' held with Westerners, one of the two or three themes he has stressed most strongly is the need to "recog nize and ; accept " the : status quo.". By this he means sever al different things, but the first thing on the list is cer tainly recognition and accept ance of the status quo in eastern Europe.. But the Eastern European status quo can never really be "accepted" by the West, as long as the West insists upon protecting free Berlin; for the very simple reason that the Eastern European status quo can never be truly 'Stabilized as long as this great city lives in glittering freedom : in the very midst of Walter Ul bricht's drab slave state. For that precise reason, Khrush chev calls Berlin a "cancer." - TiHE hemorrhage-of refu-- gees from East Germany into Berlin is -" very serious, but it is not the root of the trouble. Otherwise, steps would already have been tak en to stop the hemorrhage, as could quite easily be done by Draconian . police measures. The often-silly Western prop aganda carried on from free Berlin is not the root' of the trouble either. The root of the Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE GOVERNOR. of a Rocky Mountain state phoned the warden of the state penitentiary and sneered, "I see there's been another jail break at your miserably run institution.', The warden pleaded, "Keep your pants on, Guv.. It was a mere slip of the pen." Jack Paar tells how the audience at a drive-in thea ter in 'New Jersey devised a new ending for an atrocious feature film. All the drivers turned on their motors in unison, headed for. the screen, knocked it down, and drove over it. ,' ; ...... There's a kid; in Reginald Nolan's history class in Chi cago who's destined to go far. Nolan asked, "Who can ten me about Joan of Arc?" The kid came up with, "She was Noah's wife!" . . . . ' A man entered a drugstore one bright Sunday morning and asked for change of a dime. "Here you are," said the druggist pleasantly. 'Two nickels and I hope you enjoy the, sermon." O 135. by Benaett Ctrl. Distributed by Kinx Features Syndicate, Menace By Joseph Alsop trouble is simply this city. Anyone who has any doubts on this point only needs to drive down to the Branden burger tor, where slave Ber lin begins, and note the con trast between the terrible greyness on one side of the line and the brilliance and bustle on the other side. That contrast cannot be hidden. Those who have experienc ed wartime internment know only too well the first rule of all efficient camp command ants. If the inmates can be made to forget there is any other way to live and they do forget in time if they are not reminded the camp set tles into its routine, however horrible the routine may be. Walter Ulbricht is merely the commandant of an unusually large internment camp,-which cannot Te made to settle down because of free Berlin. And as long as East Germany can not be truly stabilized, East ern Europe cannot be stabil ized either. . THEREFORE the surrender of Berlin is Khrushchev's first aim. However, it is by no means his only aim. In partic ular, he also aims to promote the fearful series of other Western defeats and surren ders, in all parts of the world from Europe to the Far East, which would inevitably, re morselessly result from the surrender of Berlin. In this manner, as he sees it, he will vastly assist the course of his tory. He has just finished trying to help out history, in the same way but on a smaller scale, at Quemoy. Surrender there would have produced the same sort of results in the Far East that surrender at Berlin would have produced i nthe world. But at Quemoy, Khrushchev and his Chinese allies ran head on into the fire of Secretary State John Foster Dulles. The Western alliance is far from presenting the same monolithic appearance as the Chiang Kai-shek-Foster Dul les partnership. Dulles cannot make the decisions about Ber lin virtually alone, as he made the decisions about Que moy. Khrushchev no doubt hopes that objections to firm ness by one or another part ner will hamstring Dulles. Hence Khrushchev may think he has a better chance at Ber lin than at Quemoy. Fortu nately the signs to date sug gest that these calculations will finally prove wrong.' " Copyright 1958 New York . Herald Tribune Inc. GHANA BUYS YACHT Monte Carlo, Monaco -(UPD- Ghana bought the $840,000 luxury yacht, Radiant, Friday presumably for the use of Prime Minister Kwamo Nkru raz on state occasions. Stop Me Today & Tomorrow By Walter MAJORITIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS Presumably, the first busi ness before the 86th Congress which opens on Jan. 7 will be the question of amending the rules to prevent fili busters. Un der the exist ing rules, which were adopted in 1949, debate can be ended Walter Lippmann by what is called cloture only when two thirds of the entire Senate -or at least sixty-six Senators - vote in favor of it. There is one exception. If the question is on amending the rules of the Senate, there can be no cloture. PROBABLY not more than twenty Senators in the new Congress will want to keep Rule XXII exactly as it is. A great and overwhelming majority will support amend ments to Rule XXII. But they differ on how far they want to go. There are two main choices. The one is supported by Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas and the other by Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois. Un der the Johnson proposal de bate can be ended by two thirds of the Senators Dresant and voting. In theory, this could mean that cloture might be applied by as few as thirty four Senators, that is to sav two-thirds of a quorum which is fifty Senators. The pronosal of Sen. Dous las, which has the support of men like Javitz, Keating, Humphrey, and Case, also provides that within two days of tne filing of a cloture peti tion debate can onlv h closed by a two-thirds vote of those present. But if debate contin ues for as long as fifteen days, cloture can then be voted bv a simple majority of the whole Senate, or fifty affirm ative votes. Under the Doue las proposal there could be a long debate, perhaps as much as eight or nine weeks, but in the, end fiftv Senators could bring, the bill to a vote. THE choice will be between the Johnson and the Doug las proposals, and in all prob ability the Johnson proposal will prevail. The real issue at the bottom of this complicat ed argument about the rules of the Senate is, I believe, a constitutional question. It is not what the letter of the constitution says. For it says nothing. It is about what is in accord with the spirit of the constitution. The question is how big a majority must there be in or der to overrule the opposition of a determined minority, Rule XXII, as it now exists, says that sixty-six Senators must favor the legislation be fore a determined minority can be over-ruled. The John son proposal says that a de termined minority can be ov er-ruled, in theory at least, by as a few as thirty-four Sena tors. In practice, on a contro versial measure there is, of course, likely to be a very full attendance. So," the Johnson proposal is not substantially different from the existing rule. There is one exception to this. It does not contain the indefensible provision of the present rule, which is that there never can be cloture on any proposal to amend the rules. . The Douglas proposal, while it permits extensive debate, allows fifty Senators to close the debate and to pass a con troversial bill. TJAVING read carefully the material being circulated by Sen. Douglas, I have come to think that he has not dealt with the real issue. The real issue is not whether measures shall be fuHy debated. The question is" how they can be passed. There is no doubt that eight or nine weeks of debate is quite sufficient for any measure, and that after that there is no hope of anybody's mind being changed by the debate itself. The real ques tion is what are you to do with a minority which is not open to being converted by a debate. Under what condi tions should you over-ride it? In my mind, the proposal to decide highly controversial questions by a vote of no more than one plus one-half of the Senate is not good enough. While the constitution itself says nothing about the ques tion, it is a fact that the con stitution is by no means de voted to the principle that a simple majority should rule. Treaties and impeachments require two-thirds of those present and voting. . Constitu tional amendments, the expul sion of members, the over-riding of. the President's veto, re quire two-thirds of all . the Senators elected. What is the reason for these exceptions to simple majority rule? Is it not that what is at stake is of such great, moment that it should Lippmann have the concurrence of more than half of the representativ es of the states? Why should it have this concurrence? Because when controversial matters are de cided by a too-narrow major ity, the prospect of resistance and nullification is increased. To enforce difficult laws, there should be a very large majority which concurs in them. rPHE issue of the rules is a hot one because the fili buster is a principal instru ment of obstruction against Federal legislation on behalf of the civil rights of Negroes. The substantial question is whether the indisputable rights of Negroes can be achieved and maintained by simple majority which over rules the South, or whether progress depends on winning Washington Report By WILLIAM LONDON THEN AND NOW London-If you have no bit tersweet memories of the last war and are concerned only with what is now directly on in our lives, you really should turn away from this little piece. If, how ever, you do have a stake in this tim of William b. column may have some inter est for you. And possibly it might even have some not entirely sentimental value simply as a recollection of things that have gone. The only point really is that this London of Christmastime 1958, is still here,, in all its solidity, and in all its basic decency, just as it was here in a very dark Christmas of 15 years ago. Then, German bombs were still coming down in the nighttime, though the truly ereat blitz was over and done Then, an absolute blackness wrapped this city-and much else in England, too. No light shone anywhere then. rpHEREwas, however, much good comraaesnip men, among the Free Poles, the Australians, the Canadians the British and the Americans-all who were here then in the crisis for what we call perhaps too emotionally but fairiy sounoiy, iuo, me way of life. . This city withstood many tests then - the bombs, the fires, the unforgettable cries of the air-raid sirens, the nat ural strain of mixing so many different peoples-all here on the common errand of mak ing war. It was, of course, in 1943 a purely defensive war-making. But the Allies were slow lv marshalling on this island the vast angry pile of assault that was at length to be flung across the English Channel against Hitler and his people. That Christmas of the years now gone was a grim holiday. For "no one knew or could know then what the "end would be in a war that seem ed then to have no end at all. There were few Christ mas ornaments and no Christ mas lights. But there was a snirit of an odd kindliness, not really of hope or thanks giving but of real gallantry and also of real strengtn. NO ONE sang happy noels in the streets of darkness, but everyone had at least the private awareness that, in one small way or another, he was here at the center of trial, of struggle and of history. And London at Christmas now? Massively unchanged, really it is. True, repairs are going forward on the Houses of Parliament. A chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral com memorating the Americans who died here has lately been dedicated. The lights are up now in London. (There was that sticky but well-remem bered old war song sighing for the time when the lights would go on again all over the world.) BUT in a deeper way, Lon don is still the same-the ancient home of free govern ment, the seat and center of what is, after all, the world's best and fairest system of justice, the home away from home in his heart of every man in all the world who is of the British race. It is a good, going concern, this old, encrusted city. May be the plumbing still does not work too welL Maybe life in some ways has passed Lon don by.: But . London and Eng land are still London ' and England, and the house where Prime Minister Gladstone liv ed is still doing its sedate busi ness somewhere - one cannot the assent of the rapidly growing enlightened opinion in the South. In addition, we must not forget that majorities are not always liberal, and may in deed be quite tyrannical. It is a short view of history . to equate simple majority rule, as does Sen. Douglas, with the defense of civil rights. He might ponder, for example, the case of President Tru man's emergency strike legis lation which proposed to break the railroad strike -by drafting the railroad men into the Army. The House was stampeded into passing this bill two hours after the Presi dent's message by a vote of 306 to 13. Senators Taft and Wagner held it up in the Sen ate, and after six days of de bate its sponsors were compel led to omit the provisions for a draft. That, too, was a civil rights case, and a very striking ex ample of why simple majori ties are not necessarily the guardians of civil rights. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. S. WHITE remember just where in the West End. And it is not only London and England that are still here. Still here, too and strongly and vibrantly so -stands our old ally. We may well face, in Berlin or else where, another time of peril and trouble. But, if so, we shall not face it alone. (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer 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 400 words. "Traditional" M To the Editor: I would like to thank you for the comment that Medford Hi-Times was "a well edited student news paper". . Then I would like to dis agree with your main editor ial m Tuesday's Tribune. You asked why there should be a "M" on Roxy Ann. Two fast replies came to mind, (1) It would give the over-privileged Sophomores something to do, paint the "M". (2) It would tell everyone they are enter ing Medford territory. I think it would give more school spirit. We can have spirit in our "hearts and brains." But this isn't telling everyone we have spirit, is it? So - what if other schools have letters on their moun tain? All schools are similar, they have alma maters and fight songs. Let us say that the "M" would be a tradition Rosemary Eismann 121 Vernada Place Medford What of $50,000? To the Editor: Now that the off street parking issue is set tled (we hope) many of us would like to know what hap pens to the $50,000 that the budget committee set aside for that purpose. They had no legal right to do so as they acted against the will of the taxpayers who had voted against it. The councilmen are elected to represent the people of their wards, but it seems they try to run the affairs of the city to suit themselves regard less of the people's wishes. L. E. Bean 608 Franquette st. Medford On Sales Tax To the Editor: In regard to the sales tax proposal I say the gentleman from Rogue River, Mr. Glyndon O. Loom- er, is correct. I have spent nearly' fourteen years in Cal ifornia where a sales tax is levied on all items other than groceries. It - is my under standing the sales tax in Cali fornia is supposed to be used for schools but I have yet to see evidence that it had les sened the tax paid on prop erty by the home, farm or business owner. I'll allow I could be very much wrong. I do not think the person in business should be required to collect taxes for the government. This statement also applies to the income tax withheld from the wages of workers; it is my opinion that each and every individual should be held responsible for payment of any taxes owed to the gov ernment. Also I feel it the duty of each and every individual to record all his own income if it be required by law. I know California law requires the person in business cannot ab sorb the tax. Having to fid dle with those pennies when rush hours come around is no small item. It's a real bottleneck. If an item is priced at $2, the buyer must dig up six POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A famous poem notes that the night before Christmas not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. That's the way it was around the news department Christmas Day and since. In fact, there hasn't been hardly enough activity to keep the dust-puppies circulat ing around the floor. They found themselves a nice com fortable spot and settled down for a rest, which they prob ably hope will last until after the New Year creeps in. A little more than a week ago, one staff member be came a father for the first lime the father of a 10 pound boy. On the same day. In a small country low i in Kan-: -sas, a sow, owned by the lo cal father's nephew, be came the mother iof 10. ' - Needless to say the 4-H club member was right proud that his sow was the mother of 10 one-poundert the day his aunt and uncle become parents of one 10 pounder! We'll sort of sneak into this pig story! A local farmer says he is running sheep with hogs. He claims it's proof that hogs are clean animals; he observes that hogs will have nothing to do with the sheep. (Or was it the other way around? Oh, well!) A young single girl, who ' works in one of the local of fices, learned too late she was missing something dur ing the pre-Christmas daysl What was missing stemmed from her lack of " knowledge of Christmas tra dition. A sprig of seeded mistletoe hung over the en- " trance to the office door, -and hung there several days before someone told her she .. could collect a kiss for each berry on the sprig! We never found out If-,--she made up for those she . ' lost! A friend the other day won- ' dered if a couple of the staff members were preparing to go into the cough drop business. Not hardly, we expect, unless things get. real tough, but the"' comments of our bewhiskered members are beginning to di-,; minish. Our city editor and photog-. . rapher, who started the beards a growing, seem to be about the only ones left with the exception of one, who some how has become known . as somewhat of a philosopher. The beards still startle some, but those on the distaff side have learned to live with what they probably would term a necessary evil. The other day, the sub ject changed from beards to long eye lashes. ' t ' A reporter who substi tutes when a staff member is on vacation, was asking our city editor about m story, or the contents there of, when she reared back, looked amazed and said: "My, what long eye lashes you have!" , Asked how she knew, she jokingly replied: "They tickled my cheek!" Later in the day. how ever, after an unlimited number of comments about long eye lashes, another re porter said to the first she would rue the day she men tioned them. She already did. . Shopping, gift wrapping, and all the other pre-Christmas activities are not half as f tiring as those that come on Christmas day, one staff mem ber believes. It takes a lot of energy crawling around on hands and knees trying out the children's toys, shooting off rockets and retrieving the new ball that became lodged behind the chimney on the roof. VISITOR GETS TAKEN Catania Sicily -flJPD- Ameri can Rosario Vitaliti 61, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has reported two holdup men robbed him of $10,000 early Christmas day. Police said Vitaliti, who arrived here a few days ago on a visit to his native Guard ing was stopped and robbed as he drove through here at. 2 '. a.m. cents, so the buyer usually gives, say $2.10 and gets four cents change. It takes more time and bother. And if the seller decides to absorb the . tax so the price is in even, money the state tax commi sion more properly referred to as the "Board of Equaliza tion" descends on the sellei like a load of bricks. No, I . say, lets have no sales tax. Floyd R. McCabe -, Mt. Pitt Star Route,? Butte Falls
