4 San-fay, January 18, 1939
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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
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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,
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Tribune Inc.
youngsters from developing
an inferiority complex.
Newspaper people often
are amazed at their reader
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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
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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.-