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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
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.
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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
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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
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or a fact is one of the
human being apart from
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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."
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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.)
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"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