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4 San-fay, January 18, 1939 MAIL TRIBUNE, MfDFORD, ORE. Dennis the Menace Congo Challenge "Everyone ic Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MU( UHU FKI.N i 1 CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 3-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager uliuujU bAinAjn, ousmesa just ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. IS97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year S 15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.3Q By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point, E a g 1 Point. Jacksonville. Gold HID. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sun-isy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c opy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford jrnciai raper or jacKson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of fices In New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Aneeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS(s))drATl(3)N ZJ U C3 Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1949 (Tuesday Mayor Diamond Flynn ex pected to announce appoint ments to the Medford plan ning commission, water com mission and budget commit tee. Nipper, an English pointer who lost five of her seven pup litter to freezing tem peratures, adopts a small pig let named "Runt" 20 YEARS AGO. Jan. 18, 1939 (Wednesday) Mayor C. C. Furnas reap points all Medford depart ment heads and commission members whose terms had expired. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Bird lovers now note the return of. robins, who have been here" all winter." SO YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1929 (Friday) Business women of Med ford are to sponsor a dance on St. Valentine's day. The auto license rate re duction and a phone rate in vestigation are the mam Items before the state legisla ture. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1919 (Saturday) D. M. Lowe attends a meet ing from Talent to consider forming a farm bureau here. The duck season ended Jan. 15, and hunters are warned they better cease fire SO YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1909 (Monday) The Rogue River Horticul tural society will take steps soon "to prevent Congression al passage of the Porter bill, which would increase the size of apple boxes used by north west growers. The . Weinhard; company plans to erect a new $20,000 Ice plant, which would supply Medford the next 20 to 25 years. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who is the Speaker, of the U. S. House of Represen tatives? ' 2. Who wrote the "Waverly novels"? : 3. Which is farther south; Melbourne, Australia, or the Cape of Good Hope? ' 4. Who usually calls the sig nals on a football team? 5. Is the average weight of the adult human female brain the same as, greater than, or less than, the average weight of the male brain? : 6. On which card of a deck of playing cards is the largest pip found? 7. How many faces has a cube? 8. What are the first ten Amendments to the U. S., Constitution called? j 9. What Is a scarlet tana ger? 10. What continent contains practically half of the world's population? Answers:-!. Sam Rayburn. 2. Sir Waller Scoit. 3. Mel bourne. 4 Quaierback. 5 Less. 6 Ace of Spades. 7 Six. 8 Bill of Rights. 9 A bird. 10 Asia.. Belo-inm. reacting rmieklv to last week's vio- O 7 T. eV lence, has promised voting rights and eventual independence to the Belgian Congo's 13 million inhabitants. ' A government statement this week assures the colony's citizens of ii .i i elections tms year ana provincial council elec tions in 1960 with equal voting privileges for all. "Belgium," the government states, "will or ganize in the Congo a democracy able to exercise the prerogatives of sovereignty and decide its own independence." w OERETOFORE African and European inhabi tants alike have been unable to use the ballot in determining their political affairs. The sole exception arose only last December, when liter ate Africans were allowed to vote along with white residents for municipal councilors whose functions are "purely consultative." Belgium has endeavored through, education, welfare services and economic development to raise standards of living in its mammoth colony. It proudly displayed its achievements last sum mer at the Brussels Worlds Fair. Undoubtedly it has hoped that material well being could provide a bulwark against Africa's independence movement or at least deflect the spearheads of violence. DUT while temporary unemployment has been blamed for last week's riots in Leopoldville, such a lapse in economic stability was not the only cause. Physical want has often inspired revolt. But freedom from want is not people who want freedom. The turmoil in Leopoldville brought death to 42 Africans, and injuries Shops were looted and Belgium learned, suddenly and horribly, that a policy of benevolence no longer suffice. The government has punch. Its enlightened response indicates it will grant major concessions fiasco like France s in Algeria.. Furthermore, this response is a challenge to Africa's nationalism, r and to the responsibility of its leaders. ' HANA'S Prime Minister Nkrumah, for one, 'preaches a non-violent approach. But other groups such as the Abako association, impli cated in the Leopoldville will not hesitate to shed - -1 xrom colonialism. Belgium's new policy as it offers hope. While more rational nationalists, it may pose a special threat to those less stable. For violent revolutions gain their justification only from the degree of the oppression against which they are pitted. If Belgium fulfills its reaction should provide J -lJ. il l - ana ultimately 10 shLtt of Africa s status. E. W. "Birdwatcher's" Year Elsewhere in today's Mail Tribune appears the column entitled "Diary of a Birdwatcher," as it has each week for m We are sorry indeed win De its last. The author, "T. M.," has written the column oi the seasons, and that I tivities to be more pressing. IT HAS never been any particular secret that 1 "T. M." is the Rev. Thomas McCamant of the Medford Congregational church, although he pre ferred to sign it simply with his initials. " This reticence is typical of Mr. McCamant, who was diffident about the Mail Tribune in the prised and pleased when and, we suspect, equally at the warm response it all parts of the country. Perhaps it is, in part, this same reticence AT 1 I 1 t I wuikzii gave tne coiumn lis special -cnarm, ior in evitably anyone writintr for Dublication will re veal facets of his own oi ume. - - THE COLUMN attracted people in all walks oi nie wno nave long liked to watch and identify birds, and, more important, drew many readers who had only a passing interest in the M .H.'J 1 l , .... wnaiue wnicn is so abundant about us. Perhaps, sometime in the future, Mr. Mc Camant can be pursuaded to resume his "notes" on birds and wildlife generally. We hope he can, for it has been a pleasure to read them each week, to share with him the gentle thrills and successes of his avian hobby, to watch through his trained and appreciative eyes the birds which we accept for granted. We know that many readers share this hope municipal and county r i ?i .i always a deterrent to to at least 200 more. burned. without the ballot could rolled well with the before it will face a uprisings apparently blood in seeking release demands patience, even it should encourage the promises, the natives' a key to understanding .1 il judging me massive the past year. that today's appearance explains today that he through one full cycle he now feels other ac offering the column to first place, rather sur it was agreed to run it, , surprised and pleased has had from readers in character over a period all too much tend to of the Mail Tribune's with us. E. A. i 'jtofr WE GETntf PmtY FARAWAVFRCMA eWWRQOM? Today & Tomorrow By Walter MR. DULLES MOVES At his press conference on Tuesday, Mr. Dulles opened the door to negotiations on the future of Germany. He was scrupulously careful to say that h e was not now negotiating with Mr. Mi: koyan. But he has made it rv I Possible for Mr- Mikoyan iJM to reDort back tfi TVT nc p n xwr waiter i n a i mere is Uppmann "a desire on both sides to get together and talk." Mr. Dulles did this by mak ing two points. Neither, of these points, is entirely new. But the emphasis upon them, considering the circumstances, gives them a new Importance. The first point is that while the formula of reunification by free elections is the agreed formula" and, while we think it is "a natural meth od," he "wouldn't say that it is the only method by which reunification could be accom plished." The second point is his acceptance of the principle that for a reunited Germany thre must be military guaran tees to reassure the Soviet Union: "If there is going to be any reunification of Ger many,, it has got to be under conditions which take into ac count realistically some of those very elemental, primi tive facts of life.". The record shows that the point which Mr. Dulles made about free elections was first made in our note to the So viet Union on Sept. 30 of last year, and was reiterated in our note of Dec. 31. For some months at least we have not regarded free elections as the "necessary first step" to Ger man reunification. And ! the record shows also that we have long recognized that if the Soviet Union withdraws from a reunified Germany, it is entitled to have military guarantees against, the possi bility of German aggression. VTEVERTHELESS, it is im- portant that Mr., Dulles emphasized these two points on the eve of his second round of talks with Mr. Mi koyan. It was evident at the press conference that he was acutely aware that there would be a reaction in Bonn, possibly in London and in other West European capi tals. To soften this reaction, he dwelt on the thoroughness of our consultations with our allies, and he spoke at length on his agreement with and admiration for Dr- Adenau er's conception of European policy. . But his remarks that free elections are not the only method by which reunifica tion can be accomplished have, as the dispatches show, aroused Dr. Adenauer. It re mains to be seen whether once again, as on several pre vious occasions when Mr. Dulles tried not to be entire ly inflexible, Dr. Adenauer will compel Mr. Dulles to re tract and reverse himself. -. THE real question about free elections is whether they must come first, whether they are the necessary first step to German reunification, Those who hold this view are in effect demanding the liquidation of the East Ger man state and the absorption of the East Germans into the West German state1. The trouble with this view is that it is absolutely impossible to achieve it in any foreseeable time. For it. demands an un conditional surrender of the Soviet position in the whole of Germany, and uncondi tional surrender of the Soviet i J Lippmahn Union is a pipe dream. I think it is not unfair to say that those who demand free elections as the first step to German reunification are not urgently . interested in bringing about reunification. Some of them-want to believe hoping against hope, that the Soviet Union will somehow collapse. Many of them do not want to have to face the enormously complicated prob lems which a reunified Ger many will pose. In the status quo with a divided Germay there are very powerful in terests which would prefer not to be disturbed. Thus, for example. re unified Germany with free elections would be far more to the left than Dr. Aden auer's Germany. For another example, the whole fascinat ing structure of the West Eu ropean political and economic community, which Mr. Dulles spoke of, would have serious problems if it had to dieest the 17,000,000 East Germans. For still another example, a reunified Germany could not long remain the camping ground of the NATO armies, and this would raise the nroh- lem of where the NATO forces should be stationed. ' A GAINST all these riiffir-i-H. ies there -has, however, to be weighed the grave and in calculable dangers of the con tinuing partition of Germany. or, sooner or later, there will be uprisings against the the Soviet hold on East Ger many and on Poland, and if there are these uprisings, we may all be sucked into the struggle. To avert that it is necessary to proceed to the reunification of Germany which, If I understood him correctly, is what Mr. Dulles has decided that he must try to do. If that is our purpose, there is no reason why German re unification should not begin with a provisional regime that of a dual state with some common political institutions under a pact or constitu tion which promised that there should be a srradual in tegration over a period o f years, culminating in a free election to elect a constituent assembly, which would form an all-German state. This is only one among in numerable conceivable ways of bringing about reunifica tion of the two Germanys. The crucial Question is whether on the SovieJ side and on our side there is in fact a genuine will to make one German state, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JANUARY 18. 1835 (On the Deschutes) . . .1 attempted lo run their boat empty just, as I took the Shute she struck a rock I did not see she swung round filled at once and commenced whirling over like a top. I hung lo her and passed without further damage than mashing both of my feet severely be tween the boat and a rock was in much pain all day - but not lame . . .-men much tired and discouraged and .wish to abandon the canoes which I do not mean lo dd until I am obliged lo cashed at the first portage today 22 traps. Journal of Nathaniel J. Wyeth 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 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 fact the contrary is often the ease. A Suggestion To the Editor: Mrs. J. E. Hurst asks for dog pound sug gestions: . When I think of all the dog leavings I have shoveled off my lawn before I could mow it; all the times I have ac cidentally stepped in the stinking pile of filth and tracked it into the house; all the garbage I have picked up and "put back into the can; all the bulbs, flower and gar den seed I have put back into the ground because some body's dog that "was just like a member of the family" had decided to bury his bone there; the money I have spent on dog repellent to keep my shrubs alive and in a condi tion that I could smeU the fragrance of the flowers on the bush above the stinking odor under the bush; the near accidents I have had trying to avoid hitting "one of man's best friends" that dediced to amble across the street just at that time to see if the bush on the other side of the street wasn't a little better than the one in his own yard, or came rushing madly out to bark at the car as it went by . . I sug gest: That , she fill the "over whelming emptiness" in her heart and heal the "deep scar with love for her neighbor and spend $1.50 to have one of the "forsaken" mongrels put to sleep. Etna Ragsdale, 1214 West 10th st., ' Medford. Oregon's Birthday Party To the Editor: Back in March of 1958 a number of us were wondering whether the Oregon Centennial meant "the big show in Portland" or what it SHOULD .mean: a giant birthday party for every man woman and child in Oregon. Mrs. Hochstatter, you would be plumb amazed at what has happened. A Pony Express mail route has been charted from the California border to Portland on which the young people in local riding clubs will carry the mail; the 4H and FFA youngsters are well along with their plans for a covered wagon trip to the summer school in Corvallis; the Apple- gate Grange held a Centen nial Banquet last night, the Central Point Grange Pioneer banquet is being held on the eve of statehood Feb. 14; Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops are tackling worthwhile proj ects, like cleaning up our pioneer cemeteries, historic sites, making our county beau tiful; women's clubs are pre paring their own booklets on reminiscences of pioneer fami lies in the valley, (at very litUe cost I might add); in Jan. 7 "Communications" you may have noticed the F. J. Ciu- fords of Central Point have taken it upon themselves to tape record the stories of old timers in their own words "to help us meet coming events by knowing better what has occurred in the past that con stitute a guide-post for the future"; the shop students in four Jackson county schools have taken on the task of carving historic site markers In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Defense program news: The heavy emphasis in President Eisenhower's new 41 billion dollar defense budget wUl be on air-atomic power and intercontinental missiles. . Of the approximate 41-bil- lion dollars planned to be spent in the next fiscal year, the army will get (in round figures) about 9V4 billions the navy will get about 11V4 billions and the air force about 18 billions". In addi tion, the department of de fense as a whole will get about lte billions for ad vanced research projects That is to say: We expect the bulk of our defense in the coming years will be IN THE AIR. rpHE army is low man on the totem pole. It will be held to its present manpower strength of about 14 divisions and will get only about half of what it wants for a five- year equipment moderniza tion program. WHY? " It looks now like future wars will be fought else where than on the ground. rpHE navy won't get the ad- ditional atomic - powered aircraft carrier it wants, but WILL be aUowed an addi tional MISSILE LAUNCH ING submarine to go with the nine now ordered or planned. These submarines launch MISSILES from under the surface of the water. out of thick wooden slabs; Southern Oregon college and other schools throughout the county are preparing spring plays and musical programs ultlizing the Centennial theme; letters pour into our office from enthusiastic citi zens offering excellent sug gestions which, in the majori ty, have "hatched." As for beards and period clothing, I dare say the popu lation of bearded ones may have doubled in the last week; and you may, within the next two months, notice local dry goods stores stocking pioneer type clothing to keep up with the demand made by planners of up-coming events. We indeed apreciate your concern, Mrs. Hochstatter. It has allowed us to answer a very important question: Are we capable of bringing 100 years of OregoiJ history to life again, re-stating the im portance of our wonderful heritage and the sacrifices made to attain it, then hand the parcel to the next genera tions in a condition they will be proud to carry for another 100 years? The answer is "yes." Ernie Hood Coordinator, Jackson county .' . Oregon Centennial 1959 Oregon Medford Matter of Fact THE GREAT UNMENTIONED Washington - The Presi dent's appearance at a Na tional Press Club luncheon was his grudg ing substitute for the press confer ences he increasing ly detests. It was. also a much better summary ' of the state of the natjon than the for- 4oiph A is op mal Eisenhower message on that topic. Outwardly, it was a high ly re-assuring occasion, ex cept in one respect. Dwight D. Eisenhower now looks an old man. His high color, which comes, from a sun lamp, his quick smile, his India-rubber- like facial mobility, make you think at first that he has hardly changed at all. But catch him for a moment in repose. Except for the bril liant blue of the eyes, every feature, every line of his face now bears the marks of time's harsh and heavy hand. Time's hand has not reformed the President's syntax, however, or diminished his enthusiasm for the eternal verities, or greatly weakened the electric glow of his personal charm. While he was waiting to be called upon, he sat slack and uncaring, and one was alarm ed by the signs, of deep fa tigue that seemed to reach to the man's very bones. But as he rose to the sound of cheering, the inner lamp was turned on, the charm glowed out in the usual electric way, and it seemed just like bid times. IT SEEMED just like old times in another way, too. The President warmly en dorsed a balanced budget, free enterprise, an expanding economy, an improved tax system, , better education for all, and a removal of impedi ments to Negro voting so that all' citizens might have a "greater opportunity to pro ceed with, you might say, the proper, observance of their civil rights." He also spoke warmly of Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and the retiring West Point football coach, Earl Blaik. He further discussed the possibilities of a German set- where they. will be hard to detect and hit. As to the atomic-powered carrier, it is presumably rea soned that if a guided missile can track down and destroy a plane in the air it can track down and destroy an aircraft carrier much more easily. QUITE significantly, a big slice of the air force budg et is earmarked for purchases of Atlas and Titan intercon tinental ballistic missiles and for the first time an intercon tinental ballistic unit an Atlas squadron-will replace a PILOTED AIRCRAFT UNIT in the air force's strategic air command. So- It appears- The job of defending our selves if war should come will be carried on chiefly in the air-and the air is the domain of the air force. In the future, it will be different. When war starts, it will be ON US in a matter of minutei. (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Things are looking up, beardwise. More and more one can see them on the streets and in the stores. The weather bu reau is breaking into the game, too, and veteran me teorologist Bob Church is sporting a set of what might be called baby mutton-chop whiskers. In his case, at pres ent, they might even be called lamb-chops. There are cynics that say some of the beards are REAL LY being grown to celebrate the centennial, but that most of them are being grown just because their owners want to see if they can. There's another story, too, about the bald feUow that claims he's not only going to grow a long one; he's going to comb it upwards and back wards. We have it on reliable re port that there was a move ment in one of the county's third-grade rooms for the boys to grow whiskers; but that the teacher refused permis sion. He said it is going too far, even for the centennial. But we don't think he had to worry much. In a different category, we also are told that high school authorities are taking a dim view of the older boys mak ing attempts at whiskers, but that may be less from con cern about good grooming in the classroom than it is to save some downy - cheeked By Joseph Alsop tlement, the possibility of fu ture tax reductions, the visit of Anastas Mikoyan, and mod ern Republicanism, a term which he admitted he had been first to use but now has come to dislike. When he re minisced about the second World War he was genuinely stirring. When he talked about his own retirement, he would have drawn admiring sympathy from a stone. ALL the same, when every thing was over, and the huge crowd of newspapermen began pushing for the door, you could hear them all ask ing one another, "Well, what's the lead?" In other words, they were asking just what the President had said that was remarkable enough to de serve banner headlines. : No headlines could be given, how ever, to the most truly re markable feature of this oc casion. News leads are never built upon what is not said, so no one will report that the President did not bother to mention Berlin. The State Department's Rus sian experts are unanimous in regarding the Soviet threat to Berlin as the most danger ous challenge that has been offered to the United States and the West since the end of the second World War - and those 13 years, remember, in eluded a long war in Korea. Echoing the Russian experts, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles also used language of really awe-inspiring gravity about the Berlin crisis, in his presentation to the Congres sional leaders at the White House. .' ON THE record, this country has been plainly notified that at an early and specified date, the Soviets intend to take action at Berlin which will leave us no choice at all except a disastrous surrender or actions likely to provoke a big war. Anastas Mikoyan has smiled and smiled and talked about "no ultimatum." But he has not withdrawn one word, of Nikita Khrushchev's threat, or changed the grim opinion of the State Depart ment's Russian experts in any particular. Maybe Mikoyan will give cause for a real reassessment of the Berlin problem in bis current talks in Washington. But when the President ap peared at the Press Club, he appeared with a possible choice between big war -and surrender less than five months distant. And this pos sible choice was not touched upon, and above all, it did not seem to weigh upon the President's mind. The explanation seems to lie in two lines of Alexan der Pope: "Old politicians chew on wisdom past, and totter on in business to the last." Although he is far from tottering, Secretary of State Dulles is an old politician, only too glad to take the whole responsibility for Ber lin. The President, being young no longer, but. not a politician," is only too glad to let his Secretary of State do all the worrying about Berlin. And in the American system, when the President of the United States is not worrying, nobody else wor ries very much either, except perhaps ' the lonely deputy- worriers, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. youngsters from developing an inferiority complex. Newspaper people often are amazed at their reader .. . u a axaw wuvi w uw can find their names in tiny v type in the court records, say, but completely miss m story which has a two-inch-high headline on it. Speaking of newspaper peo ple, many of them have a wide assortment of duties. One such -a competent reporter who also doubles as church editor -haf friends she meets in one or the other of her capacities, and who don't realize she has others. One day list week she wa visiting the city hall in the line of duty, and while in the police department was told she had a telephone call com ing in. She answered the tele phone on what was later de termined to be the wrong line, and recognized the voice of one of the local ministers, who was startled to hear her voice and asked, "How on U J C J T -i- nil ""iu mil x ei you: The next day he called her at the office, in her capacity as church editor, and explain ed that the day before he had wondered if she had landed in jail. Going back to beards (or the lack thereof) for a mo ment, a recent meeting of the Medford Ministerial as sociation was enlivened by a report on the history of the various denominations in the valley, accompanied by the comment of one of the ministers that the clergy didn't seem to be joining the celebration-there wasn't single whisker lo be seen. This story came to us about third or fourth hand from a source that swears it's true: In an unnamed parochial school somewhere in Oregon, a young mail was feeling his oats, and declared that the cracks in the plaster ceiling worried him, and that he was getting out of there. He got up and walked to ward the door. Just as he reached it, the ceiling-plaster. lath, insulation and all-came tumbling down on the rest of the class. He's been walking around feeling like sort of a minor prophet ever since. Professors sometimes ean be absent-minded (we hap pen to know from experi ence), but they aren't the only ones. A couple of court house employees have been having the same trouble, one of them driving to work with the lights on because of the fog, them leaving the car with the lights burning a good part of the day, and another leaving her car with the lights burning all night. That friendly critic in Phoe nix (at least we hope he s friendly), has been having a high old time spotting typo graphical errors in this news paper the past week, and mail ing them to us with little notes attached. One of them was "neat cat tle," instead of "meat cattle," in the Centennial feature about Oregonians buying California beef. The FC want ed to know if Oregon cattle were so slovenly that cultured California cows had to be imported to grace the pio neers' milking parlors. He also suggested that the importers must have "cleaned up" a "tidy" profit. Another one he spotted was about a man trapped in a cave-in, who had an "agoniz ing ordeal," only it came out "organizing ordeal. FC de clares he thinks the unions are going too far if they have to bury a man to get him into the union. In some cases where fa ther and son have the same first name, they are dis tinguished by calling one "little" and the other "big. One such father and ton - combination recently got into a family wrestling, match, and "Little Bill" proceeded to get a scissors hold on "Big Bill." and cracked his ribs. Which leads one lo wonder when "little" ceases to be "little" and becomes "big." . A friend just back from a wintertime- vacation in the southwest reports that the oddest sight seen in the en tire jaunt was in the high mesa country between Flag staff and the Grand Canyon, where the road passes through a corner of the Navajo In dian reservation. At one point the road passes an isolated group of three Indian hogans, miles from anywhere, and there was a group of children at play including a little Navajo girl with a vivid blue hula-hoop, "just hooping away for dear life.-
