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4 Sunday, January 4, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfobtTbibuns "Everyone te Southern Oregon Readi 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 l tlAjvi, Dusmess mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor , EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD J EWE IT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women 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 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year S 15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only one year J4.Z0 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 l mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms casn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or jaciran 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 Anceles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION Si NATIONAL EDITORIAL asc&tkSJn Z J zj Flight yo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1949 (Tuesday) Diamond L. Flynn, flanked by new councilmen, city trea surer and city recorder, takes the oath as Medford mayor tonight. The prize list for awards InKYJC's "Sleepy Hour" quiz program, designed to raise funds for completion of the municipal swimming pool, is announced. 20 YEARSAGO Jan. 4. 1939 (Wednesday) . Effective next Monday, punch boards, pinball mach ines and slot machines are barred in Jackson county. , - From Ar t h u r Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The bright, though occasional sun shine, has caused golf and piscatorial enthusiasts to re varnish their clubs and poles, though it's the lawn mower handle that really needs it." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 4. 1929 (Friday) Mayor Pipes takes the oath of office and outlines Med ford's needs. District Attorney George A. Codding announces plans for a double check on the prohi bition enforcement fund as he assumes office. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 4, 1919 (Saturday) Medford schools are to re open Monday after a prolong ed closure brought on by the flu epidemic and aggravated by Yule holidays. The Southern Oregon Poul try show closes tonight. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What is a decibel? 2. In what city is the Al hambra? 3. With what European city do you identify this expres sion: The Left Bank? 4. Which of these is the cap ital of Louisiana: New Or leans, Baton Rouge, Shreve port? 5. Complete the saying: "March comes in like a lion and ..." 6. A preface is the introduc tion to a book; a prologue is an introduction to a dramatic performance; what is a pre lude? 7. From what language does the word "interim" derive? 8. What is the difference be tween a bridge and a viaduct? 9. Where was Knute Rockne born? 10. How often is a new dis tribution of Congressional dis tricts made? Answers: 1. Unit for meas uring sound. 2. Granada. Spain. 3. Paris. 4. Baton Rouge. 5. "goes out like a lamb." 6. Musical introduc tion 7. Latin. 9. Bridge over water, viaduct over land. 9. Norway. 10. Every 10 itm. Changes in Cuba What will be the outcome in Cuba, now that Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar has fled after some 25 years in direct or indirect control of that nation's destinies, is anyone's guess. It is to be hoped the revolutionary regime can succeed in establishing a stable government, a notably difficult thing to do in the volatile and "young" republics of Latin America. If Fidel Castro's government is able to do this, it will be cause for hope elsewhere in Latin America, for. the insurgents appear to take their democracy and their nationalism seriously, draw ing neither from the Fascistic right nor the Com munist left. IT MAY be possible work out a modus vivendi with the revolution aries, although this might be difficult. New York Times correspondent Herbert Matthews last year described the Castro group this way: "It is a revolutionary movement that calls itself socialistic. It is also nationalistic, which generally in Latin America means anti-Yankee. The program is vague and couched in generalities, but it amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic, and therefore anti-Communist. The real core of its strength is that it is fighting against the military dictatorship of Presi dent Batista." It is not enough for a new government to be "against" something; it must also be "for" some thing. What Castrd and remains to be seen. JESPITE a slow start, "gained a substantial in the rapidly-growing it was only a little over two years ago that he'and 82 followers landed in Oriente province, and were almost wiped out. Gradually they grew in strength and numbers, and only, in the last month gained. the military and popular ascend ancy which led to Batista s running for his life. We wonder if Trujillo will be next? E.A. Rasslin 9 and Classic Drama Once upon a time, long ago, this writer was assigned to sports, and in. the course of these duties had to cover the wrestling matches in one of the cities in the San Joaquin valley of California. The "circuit" of the that time there also included much of Oregon, and Medford fans of that period probably would recall such names as George Dusette, the Masked Marvel, "Wild Red" Berry, Danny O'Shane, and even the turkey-rancher George Wilson (if we recall correctly), who later let his hair grow long, bleached it blond, and went on to win TV fame as "Gorgeous George. THE art form which is wrestling (pronounced "rasslin' ") never quite caught our enthusi astic fancy, somehow. And we now learn that this is not because of any deficiency in the "sport" itself, but a deficiency in recognize and appreciate of classic drama. ' Dick Revenaugh, who the Enterprise-Courier in Oregon City, once wrote publicity for the boys on the circuit, and is therefore in a position to assess things without bias. He says rasslin' follows closely the true, pure form of drama, and explains: "There was a meany and a queeny. The queeny, through boyish trust, invariably got himself into an uncompromising situation in which he was about to lose all to the meany, when all of a sudden, through good living and fair play, he wriggled out of the situation and came out smelling like the clean-living young rose he really is. The plot is obvious, the characters are opposites, the ultimate is presumed and the climax and end are purity in itself. No sir, you aren't going to convince the rasslin' fans they are being taken for a bunch of dupes. Almost every one of them knows just which way the whole thing is going to come out, and the miscarriages just make it aU the more interesting. Life is simple and complete in this dramatic form. Triumph is sweet and uncompli- ' cated and the art is untrammeled with subtleties and psychoses of today's fast-moving world.". THIS leads to the question of whether psslin' The question itself is they are no more "fixed" than are those other American fairy-tales, the Westerns, where justice triumphs and evil is crushed to earth. ' The rasters, as Revenaugh claims, and as we can also testify from our long-ago personal experience, are nice guys, and are engaged in a business where they have to keep in absolutely top physical condition. Dick says that they are about the best trained, best coordinated and are among the most intel lectually honest of the professional athletes, and that while it is necessary for them to have abund ant publicity, their personal lives usually are quiet, "and they must be beyond reproach as far as the law is concerned." CO THE matches are not fixed, because they are not spoils events in the usual sense of the words. They are displays, employing physical prowess not so much in the "who's the best man?" approach as for a symbolic substitute for character in the classic struggle of, virtue against evil, bad against good. They are less tests of strength and agility than they are morality plays, with the contest on a physical, rather than spiritual, plane. The average fan, in his own soul, knows this to be true. And it is the reason why professional rasslin' is so successful, while the "pure" amateur sport invariably lacks spectators. - After this, we are almost ashamed to admit we didn't much care for wrestling. Maybe we just don't like morality plays. E.A. . ' , for the United States to his party will be "for" the revolutionaries have following, particularly Cuban middle classes. professional wrestlers at . us the failure to see, in rasslin' the elements is now on the staff of an impertinent one, for Dennis the I GUBSS I SffOfllflA &BH A Matter of Fact MOLE'S RETURN Washington Who reads the "Wind in the Willows" any longer, now that chil dren's literature, like milk, has been homogenized? And what reader of that won derful book reme m b e r s the wonderful description of 1 the mole's re turn to his el igible country residence. Late in the - . a t 4ostph Alsoo evening, me water rat and the mole are making their way across coun try, through the dark fields, af ter their terrible adventure in the Wild Wood. Suddenly, the mole, who has left his home so long ago that he has all but forgotten about it, finds his memory jogged by some thing familiar in the shape and smell of the earth. His friend the water rat, is impatient and even rather rude, but the mole searches hither and yon until he finds the lost front door. With the joy of the home- comer, with the pride of the householder, the mole shows his friend his house. He ran sacks his cupboards for stores of food and drink. He gets supper on the table. And so the wanderers are warmed and fed and enjoy a cozy eve ning, and the mole knows all the pleasures of being in his own place, before he starts on his travels again. THESE reminiscences are rertainlv a rather neculiar substitute for a serious polit ical report. But this is the New Year. After Baghdad and Cairo, Beirut and Berlin, Am man and Paris, this reporter has just got home again, feel ing precisely like the mole in the book. Instead of a grim analysis of the past year's grim events, or a grim fore cast of the grim challenges the next year will probably bring, maybe it is permissible to cel ebrate this New Year by praising familiar, homely things. A professional wanderer with no wife or child tends to feel like the mole because he really is rather like the mole. Amid the ruins of ancient Jericho, amid the ruins of Western policy in the Arab lands, amid the tragic refu gees in menaced Berlin, home is forgotten, and the way there is almost forgotten too. Then quite abruptly and un expectedly, the memory is jogged. After so many nights in hotel bedrooms, the image of one's own bed springs sud denly to mind; and after that come crowding all the- other images of the house long lived-in and too well-remembered. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- FtEDRIC MARCH and his equally talented wife,' Florence Eldridge, starred last year in Eugene O'Neill's tragic and lengthy play, "Long Day's Journey Into Night." March tells about a woman who came to a matinee, and grumbled to her companion on the way out, "Over four hours for a play! We could have flown to Miami in that time!" One scoop garnered by demon reporter John Straley at the Brussels fair concerned Khrushchev's master plan for the future of the U.S.S.R. In twenty years he expects to land a Soviet expedition on the moon, in thirty years on Mars, and in fifty years, if everything goes just right, , every Russian will have a pair of shoes. ' :'. At least once every year, notes Allan King, every good taxpayer exercises his power of deduction. 0 by Scaortt Ctrt Distributed by Kin ?ttwei Syndicate, Menace Mllimtis LITHE 00. By Joseph Alsop BUT these thoughts, while they may lighten the long air journey across the Atlan tic, are as nothing to the mo ment of arrival. This wan derer is fortunate because those who share his house have been there for a very long time. We hail from New England and the Philippines and Brazil, but by now we are all one family; including even the Brazilian member of the combination, Maria's parrot, a bad-tempered bird resem bling many bad-tempered but successful people, who relies on his wit and charm to make one forget his tantrums. The first and best reunion is on the steps, . after the weary drive from the airport. Next, Bill the parrot has to be vis ited. Finally the whole house must be inspected, . because, at a certain point in a man's life, the furniture of his house becomes his life's furniture. . Wise men constantly warn against too strong attachments to material objects, and no doubt this is sound doctrine. But even a Buddhist monk must develop an affection for his own, his very own beg ging bowl, at least after he has entered middle age. . -' c - . -S FOR those with a jackdaw like disposition, moreover, the objects they accumulate have commemorative value. That bronze recalls Siam in wartime, when the wisteria flowered in the courtyard and the Japanese were almost at the gates. Those candiesticKS are symbols of the stirring davs in Paris, when the Fourth Republic docilely climbed into the grave it naa carefully dug for itself. In short, such things are not merely the furniture of one's life. They are even a kind of snmmarv of one's life, mute ly but comprehensively re cording failures ana successes, bad moments and good, in the matter of knots in the old Peruvian quipus or string- tally. So each home-coming al ways produces the same surge of feeling, part :true senti ment. Dart sheer sentimental ity. If the sentimentality and the nostalgia and the personal recollections can be separated out bv some psycho-chemical process, the residue of this surge of feeling even nas a certain general meaning. In part, at any rate, it is a surge of feeling for all those pri vate, intimate, human values which stand in deadly peril in this troubled world. The peril has never been greater than at the New Year of 1959, and so one wants al most to shout, "Let us rally to defend the human values while we can!" (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me Today Or Tomorrow By Walter THE COLD WAR Taking stock at the year end, there are those who think that our position in the cold war nas un- proved and that in the end all will be well if we standf irm and persevere. They think that time is on our side. On the other hand, there Walter Lippmann are those who think that the balance of military power is turning against us, and also that in the underdeveloped regions of Africa, Asia, and South America, the tide is running against us. They do not think that it is enough to stand firm and per severe. It is necessary also to take bold and costly meas ures to turn the tide. They think that time is not on our side unless we make a prodi gious effort in armaments, in the development of our own economy to support them, and in a demonstration that there is a way. other than the Com munist way, by which the under-developed nations can ov ercome their weakness and master their poverty. T SHALL leave to others, who are more expert .in these matters, the problem of what should be done to maintain a military balance of power. I should like to define the cen tral reason why, as things are now going, the West is losing and the Communists are win ning the contest in the under developed countries. The central reason is that the advanced and industrial ized Western countries of North America and Western Europe and Australasia are growing richer while the under-developed countries, out side the Communist orbia, re main in dire poverty and in sofar as they are advancing, are moving very slowly: It is in this factual situ ation, it is in this soil, that Communism is expanding. For the Soviet Union has succeed ed in demonstrating that there is a way, though harsh and cruel, by which a oountry can be raised by its own boot straps. A few figures, which are generally accepted as ap proximately correct, will make concrete the nature of our problem. There are roughly speaking, about 400 million people in Western Europe, North America, and Australasia, and they have measured in 1949 prices, an average income per capita of not quite $900 a year. This, let us remember, is an aver age. In the underdeveloped countries, excluding Red China, there are about 1,000 million people and they have an average per capita income of about $60 a year,' which is less than one-tenth of the av erage in the West. B UT this is only the begin ning of the story. It is ob Washington Report By WILLIAM UP! THE OLD GUARD Washington-The late Presi dent Calvin Coolidge once told a friend that when he iTl got into poli- 1 tical difficulty his policy was simply to stay put and stay silent - silent, i that is, as in "Silent Cal."- This is the present tech niaue of the WwwS8' somewhat cyn ical, but also very tough and able, chief of the Republican Old Guard in the Senate, Sen ator Styles Bridges. No doubt he could have got along very well otherwise, but it does no harm to carry a little in surance. While the liberal - modern and Old -Guard Republicans generally have been breathing polite but genuine maledici tions upon each other here, Bridges has been maintaining a grand and icy detachment in the chill fastnesses of his home State of New Hamp shire. Everybody knows he - has been heart and center of the Old Guard's rugged defense against the effort of the liberal-moderns to have a signi ficant voice in the party lead ership in the new Senate. But nobody can really prove it by anything Bridges has been saying or been seen in the act of doing. rpHE truth is this: 1 f t h e -- liberal-moderns nad reaiiy intended to shake up the Old Guard leadership where it would count they would have had first of all to dispose oil Bridees. Tht fict that they1 1 4A m Lippmann vious that this enormous gap can be narrowed only if the backward countries are able to use the modern technology in agriculture, mining, and in dustry. But to use the modern technology there . are needed technically trained men and capital. The technicians can be trained and they can be borrowed. But where is the capital to come from? At a rough estimate, the heavy basic industries, such as steel, reauire a caDital in vestment per man of "about $20,000 more or less. For the lighier industries something in the neighborhood of $6,000 capital per man is needed. r.OW in the West, we are able to save and invest productively about 10 per cent of our income per capita per year. That comes to an aver age of about $90 invested per person in new plant and ma chinery. That is why the Western countries are grow ing richer - as a matter of fact at an average rate of 2 per cent per capita per year. But that $90, which the West is able to save and to invest is more than the whole income of the average person in the under-developed coun tries. That is why they remain poor and are unable to do much about their poverty. rpHIS is the point at which the Communist challenge really becomes so formidable For Communism, as practiced in the Soviet Union, has proved that if the leaders are powerful enough and ruthless enough, the capital required for the new . technology can be extracted from the work and the sacrifices of the peo ple themselves. The tyranny of Stalin and of Mao is in its essence the method of capital formation of a backward people which does not have access to the capital markets of the rich er countries. Therefore, to avert Stalinism of one sort or another in the under-develop ed countries, it is imperative that the west provide and lend the capital need for the transition from backwardness to the modern technology. If the richer nations will not or cannot do this, they must ex pect in the end to lose the contest for influence, which we call the cold war. LET us be warned that while it is imperative and essen tial to maintain the balance of military power, Communist expansion in the under-devel oped countries cannot be con tained by military means. If anyone doubts this, let him look at Iraq, which on the map is protected from the So viet Union by the containing wall of Turkey and Iran. Yet obvious that Iraq cannot be protected against Communism merely by standing firm in Turkey and Iran. (C) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Columbus discovered the pi minto when he discovered America in 1492. S. WHITE have not tried to dispossess him as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee does not indicate, however, that their campaign has been spurious. It only indicates that they are sensible men. An old say ing fits the case: if you strike at a king you must kill (and not merely wing) him. And to this could be added another: you cannot very well strike at a king, in any case, unless he presents some kind of tar get to you. Bridges has stayed still, and absent, and thus present ed no target - though even if he had, it is not likely that many guns would have been fired at him. The chances are that he will continue to pre sent none. He has contended himself with a solemn state ment that, of course, the choice of their leaders is en tirely up to all the Senate Republicans. You cannot do a great deal by way of attack upon such an observation, since it is hardly more belli cose than a sage comment that Wednesday will usually fol low Tuesday. THUS it increasingly looks that the liberal - moderns will confine themselves in the GOP caucus on Jan. 7 to: 1. A highly doubtful at tempt to put. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky in as floor leader over the Old Guard choice, Senator Ever ett Dirksen of Illinois. 2. A probably successful effort (since this one will have Bridges' concurrence) to elect as assistant leader a moderate liberal, Senator Thomas H. Kuchel of California. Indeed, the net outlook i (By M-T Staff In the midst of snow flur ries Friday afternoon, a friend of ours happened to be leav ing the country club after lunch, and, tied to a tree on the lawn, he saw a cheetah. A cheetah is a leopard-like animal, which sometimes is domesticated and used for hunting. Our friend, who had spent New Year's eve and day in relatively sedate circum stances, took it in stride, but he is of the opinion, which we Editorial Comment- A LESSON IN JOURNALISM The long suspension of pub lication of this and eight other New York City newspapers was at least an object lesson in the services provided by newsprint and printer's ink. When the crisis arose other methods of distributing the news were put into immediate action. It was clear, however, that no substitution and no ex pansion met the need for the facilities that had been so suddenly paralyzed. The new miracles of communication have supplemented the old but they have not displaced them. The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced and is not out of date. The thought is precious to all who practice the journal ism of the printed page, in any way and at any level, in management, in newsgather ing and editing, in all the highly skilled and exacting trades that daily discipline their practitioners to bring this and hundreds of other newspapers to the street. It may be hard for the lay man to realize the loyalty that journalists who are sincerely committeed to this great co operative enterprise feel for its tradition. Newspapers have their faults, experience their failures, miss some of their opportunities. They are a part of the culture in which they live. But they have grown out of some bygone imperfec tions, achieved some new wis doms and worked toward a fuller maturity. Their days of romance did not pass with modern inventions. The best of them are still produced by men who love their work. We are haDDy to be back. As we watch the folded news papers coming off the ma chines we rededicate ourselves to the cause of public infor mation, discussion and debate. We rededicate ourselves, al so, to the service of democra cy, which withers and dies when the press is not free, unhampered and uninterrupt-ed.-New York Timet. that Bridges in the new Con gress will have a practical and personal power in the Senate, not. matched by any GOP member since the high days of the late Senator Rob ert A. Taft of Ohio in the late 'forties and early 'fifties. This is not to say that Bridges will necessarily and openly and always dominate Dirk sen although if one is. to be absolutely blunt even this pos sibility should not for a mo ment be excluded. But it is to say, at the very least, that if Dirksen succeeds to the leadership, as almost certainly he will, no one will be unaware that it was Styles Bridges who put him there. In short, it is more than likely that the real and final leader ship of the GOP in the Senate - and to some extent in the Administration itself - will center in the chairman of "policy," Bridges. IT did just that after an other GOP collapse at the polls in 1948. Then, the actual boss of "policy" became Taft; the floor leadership was quite secondary. Why this seeming ly illogical repetition of seem ingly illogical history? Simply because the regular and orthodax" Republicans - all Republicans save the lib erals meet election disaster not by changing their ways but rather by clinging all the more fiercely to those very ways. Old guardism, as typi fied in the public mind by Taft, helped elect President Harry S. Truman in 1948. Did the Old Guardists then rebuke Taft? Certainly not; they ele vated him. Old guardism as typified by Bridges and others contributed to the GOP Con gressional election disaster in November. What now? Why, up, up the 0 1 d G u a r d of course! Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) and Contributors) share, that it's just as well that this vision from Africa didn't appear to certain of his acquaintances late in the evening of New Year's eve. The cheetah, it turned -out, was on legitimate busi ness. It was waiting for its owner, a visitor passing -through town, who was guest of a member of the club for lunch. Personnel at -the club. seemed to lake a -dim view of having the beast inside the premises for lunch. Those snow flurries Friday were the first seen in these parts for some time, and dur ing parts of the morning snow was falling while the sun was shining. When rain falls during sun shine, one usually sees a rain bow. We have received no re ports of a snowbow, however.; A staff member just re turned from a holiday vaca-. '. tion tells of a relative who resorted to stralegem io make sure that his brother .' would return for a family . get-together. He simply held his nephew as a "hostage." . Our weekly whisker report, for this first week end in Oregon's Centennial year, is either discouraging or prom ising, depending on one's point of view. In the newsroom the whisk- , er situation is static. That is, the number of whiskered faces remain the same, al though some of th whiskers are a little longer. The count remains two beards and two mustaches. One of each ap pears on the same face, and one of each on different faces. (Figure, that out.) The circulation department is now completely clean-shaven, as is the display advertis ing department. -.. There is a fine young set of whiskers, however, previous ly unreported in this space, in the classified advertising de partment, but the average falls again in the printing and composing rooms - an almost complete blank, except for one set of proofreading whisk ers, one long-established mus tache, and one fine, black new one. It doesn't seem that the fad is exactly taking the county by storm - although an occa sional hairy face is seen. As a matter of fact a red beard about two inches long walked into the office as "this was being written. It belonged to a not - infrequent correspon dent to this page who lives on the Butte Falls Star route. The jg office philosopher observes that one of the -greatest aids for New Year's eve sobriety would be io convert more people into square dancers. You can't drink and square dance at the same time, he maintains or if you do you sweat it all out before it has a chance to do any serious harm. It's amazing what reporters have to do for stories, some times. One of our young men got a tip "that an Italian engineer was visiting in the. county, here to -supervise installation of an Italian-built generator at the new Green Springs power plant. Well, he found the Italian visitor was in an Ashland ho tel, and put in a call for him there. Despite the major, de ficiencies of the hotel's tele phones, and the fact that tho engineer's English was rudi mentary - learned in a two week period of listening to phonograph" record lessons -our reporter succeeded h making an appointment, al though he says he wished for television so he could talk sign language. But there was a misunderstanding as to where it was to be. . The reporter showed up in one- office, the engineer in another. They finally got to gether, and with the aid of a young woman who knows Greek, and who rephrased his English into patterns more familiar to one "schooled in the Romance languages, they managed to conduct the inter view. One of the things he learned was that gasoline in Italy costs about 120 lira per gallon, and that the av erage worker makes 200 lira an hour. That's pretty expensive gasoline but, as in America, a good part of it is taxes. . Farmers in this country may be getting the dirty end of the stick, pricewise, as some of them claim. But we know a tall farmer's tall wife who quite by accident found checks totaling more than S1.000 in her purse which she'd just plain forgotten to deposit. Shucks, if we mislay a dol lar bill, we get panicky.
