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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
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
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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-
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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.