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Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, January 11, 1959 I w A ii th idiikip k.A rsr dp m m I MEDFORDtTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by wrnrnnn dd!vttv rr 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. Women1 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 Mall In Advance. Copy 10c. Dailr and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 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 118.00 Daily and SunUsy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A tie V rk t 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 Jan- 11, 1949 (Tuesday) Six Ashland city council men turn to Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna for settlement of their dispute with Mayor Tom Williams. Don Berry is appointed county horticultural inspec tor. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. II, 1939 (Wednesday), The Fruit Growers League, Inc., meets this week to elect new officers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The dressy males, the coming spring, may wear bracelets, the wearer will be stylish, but don't get caught" 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 11. 1929 (Friday) Scores of Medfordites hie to the Siskiyous for skiing. The Greater Medford club Is to start in February on a new Community House, 40 YEARS AGO Jan; 11, 1919 (Saturday) W. G. Tait, president of the First National bank, is elect ed head of the Commercial club. Schools plan to make up for time lost during the flu epidemic here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. On what date this year did which Congress convene? 2. Can the Senate and the House of Representatives of the U. S. Congress refuse to seat a person who has been elected to those bodies? 3. What is the minimum age for a U. S. Senator and Repre sentative? 4. In the 86th Congress, will the various committees have a majority of Democratic or Republican members? does the term of Congressmen officially begin? . 6. Who will be President of the U.S. Senate during the 86th Congress? 7. Under the Constitution do legislative bills concerning the appropriation of money originate in the Senate or the House? . ' . . 8. What Congresswoman claims defeat in the election was du to publicity that her husband wanted her to come home? . 9. In the absence of the Vice President who is designated to preside ove the Senate? 10. Can the President of United States meet in session and help the Congress deliber ate on legislation? 1. Jan. 7 - 86th. 2. Yes. 3 ' Senator-35, Representative 25. 4. Democratic. 5. Jan. 3. 6. Richard M. Nixon. 7. House. 8. Coy a Knulson. 9. The Presi dent pro Tempore. 10. No.' (This would void the separa lion of powers) ' TS71 I E Broken Marriages A recent editorial in the Roseburg News Review started out in this blunt fashion: "Oregon's divorce rate is appalling." It goes on to point out that board of health statistics show that for each two marriages in the state there is one divorce double the national rate. And it adds : "This is certainly a poor testimonial to the sta bility of the Oregon home. It takes cn the propor tions of a state-wide tragedy." IT IS a tragedy tragic in its implications to the individuals involved, and to the social fabric of the state. It can be said that the business' of the individ ual is the business of the individual. And that's tmp Rut. whpn individual nroblems of this nature mount to such an appalling total, it also becomes 11 J? J. - 1 a proDiem ior society m gexieiai. : The question, "What can be done about it?" is not easy to answer. New legislation is no an swer although Americans are historically prone to "pass a law" and then just sit back. THE News-Review speculates that an increase in marriage counselling services would be of some help, and it probably is correct. But this, by its nature, would have to be a gov ernmental agency of some sort, or at least tax supported in whole or in part, and there is enough of an outcry against mounting governmental ex penditures as it is. However, there is a need and a demand for something of this type, as is shown by the re sponse to the temporary family counselling serv ice which has been in operation here during the fall and winter months. It will terminate at the end of this month, and was operated on a volun tary and demonstration basis. The News-Review points out: "Ideally, a family's personal problems are their own and should be solved by its members without the unsolicited help of others. When help is solicited, it should, again ideally, be gvien by qualified special ists in the field of family relations ... "In the case of disintegrating marriages, the cir cumstances are often so highly emotional that the prin cipals find it difficult to think clearly and logically. This emotionally charged climate interferes with solu tions of the problems . . . The family relations clinic ... is not the ideal plan of attack, but it could often spell the difference between success and failure of marriage. It's certainly far better than nothing. "Because of such byproducts of divorce as juvenile delinquency, the community will benefit if the clinic is a success. The problem is evident. It is getting worse without the community's help. This may be a partial answer, so it should be studied thoroughly." TTHE provision of family counselling services, aoeordmp- to some rhilosorjhies. would be an unwarranted intrusion of government into a pri vate field. Others would maintain that a city of this size has no business getting into such a field. Still others would question wnetner or not sucn services ever did any real good. Yet the experience ot now comino- to the end of fnrrl inHiffltps that there tivity, that there is reason to believe that some good has been accomplisnea, and tnat oniy the public can support sucn an agency. li anyone has a suggestion for a better way to make a small beginning on attacking the grow ing problem of divorce, and all its attendant evils to individuals and to society as a whole, let him make it known. E. A. Of Smugness and Smoginess The Mayor of Los Angeles has been raising a er stink of late, about auto fumes, asserting they are a prime ingredient in that noisome com modity, smog. Righteously, he has taken to driving about in a Rambler, since small cars, burning less gaso line, theoretically generate less exhaust gases. His own vehicle, a generously-proportioned 1952 Cadillac, he says he keeps penned up in a garage. He never, never drives it around the smog area. Not the Los Angeles smog area, anyway. But according to an aide, he drives it instead "on his summer vacations to Oregon." MOW Oregon has its share of cars, large and small, to say nothing of logging trucks. And this year, the Centennial should swell our high way traffic to record peaks. We cannot, therefore, begrudge His Honor the right to bring his smelly old Cadillac into the state. But we do take exception, vigorously, to any implication that Oregon is a place where "it doesn't matter." We have our own air pollution problems present and potential. And we must learn how to deal with them even if it means, ultimately, banning 1952 Cadillacs. So take heed, Norris Poulson, Mayor of Los Angeles. Or should we say "Put that in your pipe and smoke it." E.W. ' March in January If we recall correctly, it was Mark Twain who, in discoursing on New England's weather, re marked that if you don't like what it is at the moment, just wait a few minutes. We were reminded of this Friday as we look ed out through the Venetian blind slats. It was raining hard. The sun was shining brightly. There was a rainbow in the sky. On the hills m the dis tance was a glimpse of snow. And what was the bare-headed chap working in the car lot across the street doing? He was washing down the as phalt with a hose. E.A. tne temporary service, its experiment in Med- is a call for such an ac Dennis the Hi f I'M NOT LOCKED IN THERE AWWORE. I SOT OUT THE WNOCW' Today & Tomorrow By Walter MIKOYAN AND BERLIN Mr. Mikoyan is making two visits to Washington, sepa rated by the ten days or so which he will spend travel; ing about the country. The first visit has confirmed the view, held by many who watch these things closely, that the So- Walter I .tppm,nn viet's move in Berlin, though entirely serious and of great consequence, is not an ulti matum but a move to open up negotiations on a large range of questions. Although no agreements have been negotiated in this first diplomatic encounter, it is reasonably certain that the door has been opened to a ne gotiated solution of the Ber lin crisis, and it may be to bigger things than Berlin. A PART fron what has been said in these preliminary talks, which are properly con fidential though they are not altogether secret, there are objective reasons for saying that the Berlin crisis is nego tiable. In the various notes that have been exchanged about Berlin two controlling propo sitions have been established. The first is that the Western allies will not withdraw their troops from West Berlin until there is a general German settlement, and that they will not permit anyone to inter fere with their right to supply these troops. A blockade of the Western troops by the East German government would be an act of war, and there cannot be any doubt on this subject in Moscow or in East Berlin. On the other hand, we can not prevent the Soviet govern ment from delegating to the East German government any of the powers it now exer cises. Therefore, if at the end of the six-month period the Soviet government transfers its authority to East Ger many, a crucial question is whether this will in any way interfere with our military presence in Berlin and with our military access to Berlin. This is the question which will have to be negotiated. rIS NOT in itself a hope lessly difficult question. Assuming that the Soviet gov ernment turns over to the East German government its control over access to Berlin, the practical question is how to make sure that the East German government will not attempt to interfere with Al lied military communications by road, rail, canal, and air. It is here that there will have to be some give and take on both sides, the point of compromise and negotiation being about the powers of the East German control officials. The nub of the problem is whether the Soviet govern ment will give us a guarantee that the East German officials will hot interfere with our military traffic and whether if the Soviet government gives this guarantee, we will allow the East German officials to inspect the travel papers of our vehicles. ! A SOVIET guarantee that the East Germans will not interfere with our vehicles would be a compromise in which neither side would lose face. The Soviet promise to transfer its powers to the East German government would be fulfilled and at the same time a possible cause of war would be removed. On our side, the fact that the East German officials were subject to a Soviet guar 3 Menace Lippmann antee would go a long way toward satisfying our official view that in Berlin the Soviet Union cannot divest itself of its obligations under the old international pacts. This for mula would also be in accord with the position originally taken by Secretary Dulles in his press conference of Nov. 26, and withdrawn later only upon the insistence of Dr. Adenauer. TO THOSE who will hur riedly exclaim that any dealings with the East Ger man government are appease ment, we may point out that if this is appeasement, then the leading appeaser is Dr. Adenauer himself. For the actual fact of the matter is that civilian traffic between West Germany and West Ber lin is now moving, and has for some time been moving, under an agreement between the two German governments. This agreement includes ac ceptance by Dr. Adenauer of the right of the inspectors and control agents of the East German government to deal with the travel papers of West German vehicles. Dr. Adenauer is now deal ing with the East German of ficials, and if he can do this, why in the name of common sense should we not do the same, especially if we have obtained a guarantee under which we can hold the Soviet government responsible? A world war arising out of a quarrel as to whether East German officials can inspect our papers when they already inspect West German papers would be the most preposter ous war in history. T DO NOT mean to say that the formula I am describ ing is the only way to resolve the Berlin crisis. But it is a way. If it were taken, the real problem of Berlin would still remain, which is how this city can cease to be an island surrounded by the Red Army and become the capital of a reunited and unoccupied Ger many. This is a much more diffi cult problem than the current problem of Berlin, and it will call for much more complicat ed negotiations, not only with the Soviet Union but among the Western allies, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment GOVERNOR'S DECISION Whether or not . one ap proves of his decision to com mute the death sentence of Billy Junior Nunn, it must be conceded Gov. Robert D. Holmes has strong convic tions and personal courage. The outgoing governor will begin next week the difficult task of readjusting himself to private life and a campetitive business world. Perhaps he may yet have political ambi tions. In any case this surely is a time when he wants to make friends and allay old antagonisms. Clemency for Nunn, a sex deviate who brutally mur dered a young boy, will not be popular with Oregonians who went to the polls last Novem ber and expressed themselves in favor of retaining the death penalty in this state. Holmes knows his commutation of two previous death sentences hurt him in his unsuccessful campaign for re-election. We believe as strongly as Holmes does that capital punishment is a barbarous, vengeful sys tem that should have no place in an enlightened soci ety, but have not agreed that a governor should take advan- Communications Letters to the Editor, must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use. of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact the contrary is often the case. Pollution in the Air To the Editor: One thing that causes so much smoke and haze in the air in Med ford is mills burning sawdust. You hang your clothes out and they are a mess, and espe cially in the evening, air gets heavier and damp, so settles worse. If you go for a drive and get up above the valley you can see a heavy smoke screen hangs over the valley. Now why can't mills haul their sawdust off to fill up holes or gulleys, or even ad vertise to give it to people to haul away for their barn lots or gardens and stop the burn ing? I'm sure if they wanted to they could figure out some way to get rid of it. Another thing, there are three short streets leading from a very busy section of town, Bowling Alley, Jack's Drive-In and also cut through for Riverside and Central aves. In summer time at night you can see in front of your headlights such a dust that it looks like a Kansas dust storm. The people not Interested in getting streets paved live in other places or on other streets that are paved. So please tell me why isn't something done for the sake of making Medford a clean and dust-proof town? A fellow from California came up to visit and he said, "This road is just like it was nine years ago when I came up here. Medford sure is behind on their streets aren't they?" Well, I don't suppose it will do much good writing this. It's only my opinion of the situation and of the problem. Mrs. Robert Nichols, 501 Putman, Medford The Dorcases' Work To the Editor: The Dorcas Welfare group, sponsored by the Seventh - day Adventist church, wishes to thank the people of Medford and the sur rounding territory for the won derful way you have assist ed us in caring for the needy In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS :By a margin wide enough to be decisive, the active con gressional leadership of the Republican party decides to stay on the conservative side. Thus it insures to our country continuation of the two-party system, ' with one party in power and the other party in opposition! We need people with cour age enough to stand by CON SERVATIVE convictions. If we throw conservative think ing completely to the winds, the Lord only knows where our country will wind up. JISRAELI, the classic Eng " lish conservative (he might even be said to be the coiner of the term) entered politics and was first elected to parli ament as a Tory The Tories were arch con servatives. LATER on, Disraeli mel lowed. He abandoned his hard boiled protectionist princi ples, saying he thought the "needs and the feelings of the British nation had changed." He left the Tories, and termed himself a CONSERVATIVE. In doing so, he gave a defini tion of the term Conservative that I think we will do. well to remember in these days. He said: "I am a conservative to PRESERVE ALL THAT IS GOOD IN OUR CONSTITU TION and a radical to RE MOVE ALL THAT IS BAD. "To conserve means to MAINTAIN and to REPAIR." INSTEAD of apologizing for conservatism, the Republi can party of today might do well to adopt Disraeli's defi nition of conservatism. If it follows that course, it may get somewhere. If it abandons all its conservative leanings and goes all-out to out-liberalize the Democrats it will be up against an impos sible job. And Our 'country will suffer. We NEED a conservative counter balance. tage of his constitutional pow ers to thwart the will of the people. But Gov. Holmes remains convinced it would have been "contrary to the teachings of Christianity" to send Nunn to the gas chamber. He could have taken the easy way of leaving the decision to Gov. elect Mark Hatfield. But he did not. He held fast to his principles, and did what he thought was right, regardless of the consequences. Even his strongest critics must give him credit for that. Portland Or-egonian. in our locality during the past year. You have brought us your good used clothing, fur niture, bedding, dishes, etc., and we have distributed to those who have been over taken by poverty or distress, to the best of our ability. Of the surplus, we have boxed and shipped tons, along with that of our other churches, to our Western Warehouse at Watsonville, Calif. There it is baled and shipped to dis aster points all over the world. Our work is all donated and we meet on Wednesday of each week from 10:30 to 3:30 to process and mend this ma terial and to make bedding. We solicit information of those in need of help, or that they be directed to our build ing at the corner of Edwards and Beatty sts. So we ask for your support for another year, for poverty takes no time off. One great need we have is for worn blankets, bedspreads, drapes, etc., to fill quilts with. We have given away six quilts smce Jan. 1, 1959. Mrs. Maude Davis is the director of the Welfare Cen ter for this year. All calls should be made to her at NOrmandy 4-2829. Mrs. Hortense Miracle, 1702 Corona ave., Mediora Matter of Fact NIXON'S CHOICE Washington - At the most stirring opening of a Senate session in recent history, Vice M "iPS5!l President Richard M. Nixon was pale, tense, and plainly ill at ease. Under the stern, in t i m i d a t ing glare of Ma jority Leader Lyndon B. T 1 kt:. 4os-ph Alsop JUUUSU, on gave his crucial rulings hesitantly, nervously, and un clearly. It was a curious confronta tion between a master par liamentarian and a master politician. One reason for Nix on's uneasiness, very obvious ly, was his consciousness of his own parliamentary weak ness. For the most different possible reasons, Nixon is no more a "Senate man" than Henry Wallace was before him. Otherwise, he could hard ly have brought himself to raise his famous doubts about the Senate being a continuing body with enduring rules. When he raised these doubts in 1957, and on this new oc casion when he so tensely reiterated them, politician Nixon was speaking. But there was also another, purely poli tical reason why Nixon was not at his ease. In this mat ter, the politics were hardly more plain sailing than the parliamentary procedure. rtfDEED, Nixon must have minded the confrontation with Johnson a good deal less than another confrontation that occurred the day before he gave his 1957 decision call ing in question the whole sacred, immemorial structure of the Senate's rules. Nixon then defied the en tire Republican high com mand in the Senate-the true but behind-the-scenes leader, Styles Bridges of New Hamp shire; the official leader, Wil liam Knowland of California; and the Chairman of the Party Conference, Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts. Each of these men, even the mild Saltonstall, was bitterly angry with Nixon. Each show ed his anger in his own way, Saltonstall by expostulation, witty Bridges with his cutting tongue, and violent Knowland by something very close to a physical explosion. According to one of those who were present, they "came as close to blows as men can without actually using their fists." No wonder, then, that this scene has become a major legend of the Senate's inner history. THE story did not end there, either. Led by Bridges, the Republican conservatives are still working with Lyndon Johnson to prevent any over drastic change in the Senate rules by the civil rights advo cates. Bridges therefore went to Nixon, again the day before the session opened, to make the same arguments that were made in 1957. This time Nix on did his best to be accom modating on lesser points of procedure. He agreed, for in stance, to hold that the old rules retained their force un til they were directly chal lenged. But he flatly refused to change his stand on the main point. Bridges had practical poli tical arguments to offer, too. Even in 1957, Nixon was pri- IPTLUCI! (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The Centennial whisker situation, which seems to be looking up in Jackson county in general and also through out the state, took a slight re verse in the Mail Tribune's regular inventory last week. In the newsroom there was the net loss of one mustache shaved off by a spineless fel low who gave in to his wife's objections and the fact that the darn thing didn't look very good in the first place, and was beginning to itch. (The fact that nobody even seemed to notice it was gone might be a measure of its quality.) iLisewnere tne status re mained fairly quo. The re maining beards are getting longer and longer, and more and more impressive, and some of them are actually be ginning to get curly - a good test of the maturity of any beard. The other morning, stop ped and waiting for one of SP's "speed demon" freight trains to pass by, on of our young men wondered idly what company would want with up lo 15 flat cars loaded with nothing but snow and heading north at that . " One of the most appealing classified ads we've seen in a long time appeared in the By Joseph Alsop marily the candidate of the Republican conservatives. To day, when Nixon's night mares, it ne nas any, are haunted by the bustling spec ter of Nelson Rockefeller, the conservatives are Nixon's nec essary mainstay. Yet the Re publican conservatives care not at all about civil rights, and they care very deeply in deed about preserving the Re publican - Southern conserva tive coalition. "FOR .this reason, Nixon's stand has outraged his strongest supporters in his own party, and particularly in the Senate. He has not diminished the outrage, either, by pleading his necessity to "represent the Eisenhower ad ministration's" position on civil rights. The President's total tepidity on the civil rights issue is too flagrantly apparent. Nixon's own eager efforts to promote a much stronger civil rights policy are too well known. In short, it is well understood that he had been representing him self, and not Eisenhower These facts in turn speak volumes about the political strategy Nixon means to use, in order to ward off the threat of Nelson Rockefeller. This strategy is plainly based on the assumption that the conservatives will have to join the Nixon camp in the end, if only because Nixon will be the lesser of two evils. On this assumption, Nixon will not be bound by the tradi tional conservative attitudes. He will be free to compete with Rockefeller on his own ground. Holding the old Taft group while sounding like Nelson Rockefeller will be something of a feat; but Nixon means to try it. Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN. 10. 1911 Fir of a supposed Incen diary origin levels Mt. Ta bor school in Portland at a loss of $8,000. Slippery and muddy streets so delay the fire department that it lakes the trucks 20 minutes to arrive, and the building is beyond saving. JAN. 10, 1903 Dying monster sperm whale drifts into the mouth of the Columbia and is beached by the surf. Al ways interested in the mea surements of pretty girls and other natural curiosit ies, one editor reports the whale is 54 feet long with an estimated weight of 75 tons, has a tail 12 feet across, 12 foot jaws contain ing 38 teeth 5 inches lang and 2 inches in diameter. JAN. 10, 1863 Proclamation of Gov. Ad dison C. Gibbs calling for volunteers for six addition al companies of First Ore gon Cavalry spurs Ashland Democrats to call a demon stration meeting. The patri otic editor of the. Jackson ville Oregon Seniinal claims but a "baker's dozen of superanuated old fogies" attend the meeting, de nounce military dictator chip, take a drink and depart. M-T last week. It reported the finding of a "very friendly" male puppy, and implored: "Owner please claim before my kids do." The ad was inserted by Bill Bray, the big auction man, and at last report (Friday afternoon) the puppy was still part of the Bray household. and Mrs. Bray said she's about ready to give him away - if the kids will let her. The William R. Uhrines of 60 Summit ave., Med ford, have thought up their own way of plugging the state's 100th birthday. On the little return - address stickers which they use on all outgoing letters they have added the words, "Celebrate Oregon's Cen tennial." We suspect that the opera tors of the Mt. Shasta Ski bowl must be on the verge of ulcers or gray hair, or both. Theirs is a poignant story of frustration. The beautiful big new lodge was virtually completed early in the fall, and a "press pre view" was scheduled for late October. It was held as sched uled, but there was no snow. None at all. The grand opening, first scheduled in October, was moved to Thanksgiving day, but postponed again. No snow. In the mail each week we've been receiving a post card reporting on conditions, and week after week it would report: "Snow pack: None. Ski con ditions: No skiing." This went on until the. storms of late December, when a little dribbling snow fall came along. Then the storms of last week dumped a great deal of snow so much in fact that the highway up to the lodge was closed. And there, in the big lodge, sat the manager, his wife and the chef, with 63 inches of deep powder snow, skiing conditions perfect, and no one could get there. To add insult to injury, the county commissioners said that they weren't, after all, going to guarantee snow re moval after each storm - and that the lodge would have to clear off their acres of park ing space themselves. A friendly critic In Phoe nix dropped us a note lo point out that a recent pic lure of a basketball game had a cut caption which said something about a Medford thigh guard. It was a typographical error (it should have read Med ford HIGH guard), but it motivated our friend to comment that modern bas ketball sure is highly spe cialized. Speaking of typographical errors (we've had our share of late), we've also had a little fun with some headlines late ly. One of them, over a ttory about the city planning to train a man to check on air pollution levels, called the employee a "Pollution Man," . which brought the comment from an office wit that we have enough pollution already without hiring anyone to go around polluting things. Another headline, this one in Friday's paper, recounted that a "Central Pointer" has been named to the dog control board. "How appropriate that a Pointer got that job," some one said. "Should have been from Beagle," another would-be wit added. "The man they really should have a p p o i n t e d," chimed in another, "is Bill Barker." That's enough. The Medford city police chief, who celebrated his birthday last week, was honored by the department . with a birthday "cake" and candle. The cake was a doughnut, and the candle was six inches tall and big enough to fill the hole in Ihe doughnut. It was re ported thai Ihe chief was pleased with the surprise, but is contemplating enlist ing the aid of the detective division to find out who lipped off - who about the date. No one, as far as we know, has yet discovered which birthday it was. ' This same TV addict be lieves that all television film companies should adopt, as a bare minimum, - two New Year's resolutions. The first would be to re frain from using that same shot of New York harbor (the one with the same white yacht cruising along) in pic ture after picture. The other, would be to remember that revolvers aren't machine guns and can fire only five or six or seven shots, depending on the maka.