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4 Sunday. February 1, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtS-WTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune". Published Daily except Saturday by MK1 UKU rtw lou 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBfcHT W RUHL. Editor EJtRB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business aigr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHEB -Women'! Editor DALE ERICK5QN. Circuiauonjttgr 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. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mm. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 . Sunday Only One year $450 8v Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Tulent and on motor route. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or jacKson lonnty United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertisln ReDresentative: 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 ASlJ)cfATIN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO rh. 1. 1949 (Tutiday) Local birds have pretty well decimated the holly ber ries in front of the post office. Todav marks the 38th straight day of below-freezing temperatures, with a two-incn snowfall just to rub it in. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1939 (Wednesday) Medford's building activity is off to a "flying start'? with permits valued at a total of $17,750 issued during Janu ary. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Xirst cnipmunis nas ueeu im ported from the Applegate, still a bit wobbly in the first sprint down a rail-fence." V 99 YEARS AGO Fab.. 1929 (Friday) Cross-walks in the city park In Medford are rebuilt by municipal workmen. An airplane beacon light is to be placed on Barron field near Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 1919 (Saturday) The P. and E. railroad ceases operations, and 100 men employed in the woods near Butte Falls are thrown out of work. A bill in the legislature pro poses to correct fishing con ditions caused by the Ament dam in the Rogue river. 50 YEARS AGO Fab. 1. 1909 (Monday) Some 100 Crater Lake road boosters are taking the state capital by storm. An interurban station, the first, is to be constructed on the Rogue River Valley rail road. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1: In which state are the Carlsbad caverns? 2. In Lima, Peru, is it now summer or winter? 3. How many syllables does a monosyllabic word have? 4. Is penology the study of pensions, penmanship, or pris on management? 5. From what ancient lan guage are most of the terms used in music derived? 6. An action in what war is commemorated in Tenny son's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade"? 7. Correct the following: "I consider it as my duty to go." 8. In which Michigan city does the Chrysler corporation have its headquarters? 9. Is Louis Bromfield best known as a scientist, novelist, oractor? . '10. On the average, do men, or women, live the long est? Answers: 1. New Mexico. 2. Summer. 3. One. 4. Prison management. 5. Latin. 6. Cri mean war. 7. "I consider it my duly to go." 8. Detroit. 9. Novelist. 10. Women. Highway Steady and noticeable progress is being made in bringing Highway 99 from the California line to Washington up to freeway standards. Hardly a month goes provement is completed, and each trip north be comes progressively easier. yWO of the major improvements recently com ' pleted are just north of Grants Pass, and just south of Myrtle Creek. The closer one runs from just the other side of the hill outside of Grants Pass to the base of Sexton mountain. It is a wide four lanes, two in each direction, with a wide median area between them. All access is controlled and limited, and it is as safe and easy a section to drive as any we've seen. The other one takes off from the old highway just at the old bridge which used to take highway traffic through Myrtle Creek, sweeps around the face of the bluff above the Umpqua river, and curves gently past the Tri-City area, which used to be a driver's nightmare of roadside businesses and traffic hazards. THERE is other work progressing, too. Some of the fairly new highway not far from Rose burg is being widened, from two and three to four lanes. New bridges are being built. Center fences are being installed. With all these improvements, older sections of highway, which were once thought of as high standard and modern, are beginning to suffer by contrast. And still older sections of road (such as High way 99 between Rock Pass and between Eugene and Junction City) seem to be positively antiquated market roads by comparison. SINCE human nature is good highway all the way, the more exasperating are the sections which don't measure up. But in a few years it will be completed. From Portland all the way to Albany the highway is now all four-lane freeway, except" for the Salem by-pass, which is now being widened to four lanes. Contracts have been let for much of the freeway from Albany to Eugene and work is well started. From Eugene to Grants Pass the highway is now superb, with only a few sections which leave somethmg to be desired. It's not all four lanes, but it's good. When the Gold Hill-Grants Pass and Eugene Albany sections are done in. two or three years, it should be possible to drive from Medford to Portland in little more than five hours, and in relative comfort and safety. E.A. ' Grouches, Chuckles and 2t Since when is a good and money? Two of the state s editorial writers, presum ably arising on the wrong sides of their beds in recent days, have grumpily complained about a resolution recently introduced in the state legisla ture. The resolution, admittedly, was frivolous. It had to do with red headed women and the Cen tennial. It was, in fact, silly. THE grouchy editors complained, not so much but because the resolution was filed in the usual way, took up the time of the busy legislators, and cost a few dollars (of, horrors!!, taxpayers' money) to print. ' We suggest to our grumpy friends that they spend a day or two at the legislature, working the same hours and under the same pressures as do the members. We suggest they attend the committee ses sions, the meetings of the mail, attend the meetings and dinners, subject themselves to the persuasions of lobbyists and constituents, as do the tives. THEN, perhaps, they will understand that the therapeutic value of a laugh, or even a chuckle, is a mighty thing. It helps the members retain their sense, and their sense of perspective. It eases tensions, pro motes cooperation, establishes friendship and jespect. And all these things are needed by a harried member of the legislature. . Maybe the joke wasn't very funny. But if it evoked even a smile from them, we'll bet our bottom dollar that it saved the state of Oregon more by helping to keep house and senate mem bers sane and happy than it cost the state for paper, ink, wages and postage. - And if the grumpy editorialists still complain. we'll mail 'em each a penny, which will compen sate them about ten thousand times over for what it might have cost them in taxes. E. A. Jails and Schools Educator Horace Mann, quoted in the Hoover HiLite : "Jails and prisons schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former." Improving by but what another im Point bridge and Grants human nature, perhaps laugh a waste of time two houses, answer the senators and representa are the complement of E.A. Dennis the M0M,WULD OJ EXPLAIN TO VW BOYS DONT PLA WITH DQU.6 ? J FORGBT.' Today fir Tomorrow By Walter DUTY OF RICH NATIONS The President of Argentina Mr. Frondizi, has come to Washington and gone. Unlike Mr. Mikoyan's visit, his was a state visit in which the whole ritual for such occa sions wes ob served. But Mr. Frondizi has left be- j,. xv-. Lippmann the American people to ponder what can fairly be called the most poig nant, and it might be the most embarrassing, question in our foreign relations. The question is whether we are ready to recognize the principle that rich nations in the world community, like rich individuals in their own communities, have a duty to help the poor to raise them selves out of poverty. We cannot ignore" said President Frondizi to Con gress, "the harsh fact that millions of beings in Latin America suffer from misery and backwardness . . . when there is misery and backward ness in a country not only- freedom and democracy are doomed but even national sov ereignty is in jeopardy. rPHIS principle that the rich have a duty to the poor is not now part of our official philosphy of foreign aid. The United States has made substatial contrbutions, and not all of them have been wisely and efficiently spent But in relation to our wealth the contributions have not been very great. What matters most, how ever, is that Congress has voted these contributions on what is humanely speaking a s e 1 f-defeating principle. They have not been voted on the principle that the rich have a duty to the poor but on the theory that we are subsidizing our allies in the cold war, we have done com paratively little about, the "misery and backwardness" of Latin America. THIS theory that foreign aid is an instrument of the cold war,' and would not otherwise be necessary or de sirable, was challenged by President Frondizi., On this point, there were as he spoke men in high places who were prepared to understand him. Notable among them was Mr. Douglas Dillon, who is the Under Secretary of State in charge of economic : affairs. On Jan. 16 before the Foun dation for Religious Action, Mr.- Dillon made a speech which had ; little attention at the. time but is of great 'and far-reaching consequence. After saying that there was no need before that audience to spell out the full dimen sions of the Soviet challenge, Mr. Dillon went on "to ex- l-amine with you the demand being made upon our resours es and upon our consciences to help raise the living stand ards of the peoples of Asia, Africa, Latin America. These are the areas where most of mankind lives and where the struggle between freedom and totalitarianism may ultimately be decided. The need to help these peoples forward on the road to economic progress would confront us even if Communism and the Sino-So-viet bloc simply didn't exist." IlfHY? For the same funda ' mental reason,-which is at once a matter of morals andor prudence, that we have learned to accept the view 'that within a nation great extreme of poverty and riches are intolerable to our v5j Menace Lippmann consciences and subversive of the social order. We now live in a world community, : and the most portentous fact about the age in which we live is that the gap between the rich peoples of Western Europe, North America and Australia on the one hand, of Asia, Af rica and Latin America on the other, is enormous. Worse still, the gap is widening. Rich peoples are getting rich er faster than the poor peo ples are overcoming their poverty. The rich countries,' with a total population of about 400, 000,000, have an average in come per capita of about $1, 000 a year. In the United States, it is more than $2,000 a year. The undervelopedj countries, leaving oux commu nist China, have a population of over a billion the per cap ita income in the west has doubled, and it is rising ap preciable each year. In the poorer countries, the per capi ta income increased very lit tle, and in many places it has deteriorated. THESE are, I believe, the facts of the - - - 'O times we live in and of the world in which we have to play so big a part. It is not too much to say that on our response ' to these facts will depend if we do not all go up in smoke of a world war our prospects in the cold war, and our position in the decades to come as a world power. This does not mean, and no one should be so silly as to suppose that it does, that .we are only about 7 per cent of the world's population, can eliminate the immemorial misery of half of the human race. What we can do is to raise considerably the amount we invest or lend to the key countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Thus we can well afford to set aside something in the or der of five billions annually for development and recon struction. For that would not be much more than 1 per cent of our gross national product. THE way we make our con tribution is at least as im portant as the amount of the contribution. For insofar as we treat the contributions as a subsidy to buy allies in the cold war, they do as much, probably more, harm than they do good. For then we present ourselves in the guise of a " great imperial power seeking to buy dependents, and that is a principle reason why with all the fuss about our foreign aid programs, we have been losing, not gaining, friends in the world. The whole operation on for eign aid would wear a differ ent face if it were founded on the principle, laid down by Mr. Dillon that we make a contribution because it is the simple duty of the rich to help the poor. It would be a noble act, which would pay big divi dends in self respect at home and good will abroad, if the government would declare the principle that to fight against poverty is a duty, not an in strument of our military strat egy. I do not myself think it is wishful thinking to believe that Congress and the people, who are now bored with for eign aid as it is presented and administered, would respond much more readily if ic were inspired by a big idea, rather than by small and calculating notions of how to score points in a contest, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tzibuna lac 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 fact the contrary is often the case. Fish Suggestions To the Editor: I have sent the following letter to Mr. K. G. Denman, member of the Oregon game commission: - It was very gratifying to read of the new ruling on the opening of the Upper Rogue and Upper Big Butte creek on April 25. Now, would it be possible to carry this a step further and open the Kogue to winter steelhead fishing up to either the Dodge bridge or Shady Cove bridge and CLOSE the Applegate and Illinois rivers entirely to allow the spawning of steelhead to.be done with out interference? This would enable more eggs to reach maturity and more f ingerlings to ' migrate during the closed portion of the year and -in a few years to return for more and better fishing at no expense to the fishermen or to the commis sion. It would also, allow more fishing spots in Jackson coun ty since under the present rul ings only a small area of the Applegate lies in our county -and so much of that is through private closed areas. I - hope you will forward this sincere suggestion on to your fellow members of the commission and that the nec essary action will be taken for the 1960 season. Sincerely for better fishing, Jess Vail, P.O. Box 387, . Medford UCC Criticized To the Editor: I have never written to the paper- before, but I think that something should be done at the state unemployment office. You go there looking for work and they look down their noses at you.- They -never check their files to see if there are any jobs. They might as . well make a recording, "No not a thing." I know work right now is hard to find, but it looks like they could make an effort. I don't see how they can just sit there day in and day out not doing anything. Two peo ple could handle the unem ployment very well. Maybe when they were out looking for a job they would find out what a gravy train they had when they sat there all day long" not doing nothing. They have been there so long that they think they own the whole State of Oregon. The only way there is to get a job is by your want ads. As for going to the state unemployment office, you are just wasting your time and wearing out .a ' lot ' of shoe leather. If there is ever a job called in to the unemploy ment office nobody knows anything about it, they don't even have the energy to write it ' down. Maybe some day things will be different. Charles Marshall 824 Niantic st. Medford Obedience To the Editor: Every com munity with a ' dog problem cries out for it, and strangely enough obedience's worst en emies and most severe critics are those who stand to bene fit from its existence. Every individual who owns a dog needs some form of it, Now it is necessary for the obedience : club to serve the community and teach pet owners to make good citizens of their dogs, a sort of glori fied G.I. boot training if you will. A course of this kind is preparation for whatever else the owner may decide on do ing with his dog, particularly if he decides to do-it-himself . So much can be learned, such as basic control training. It involves staying, heeling, and coming when called, with the thought in mind of develop ing good attention on the part of the dog and good smart rapid response to commands. . In this local area I have noted several dogs making wonderful progress; some starting on their way, and still others beginning to get ready. And yet we continue to hear that chant, "It can't be done. You'll ruin the dog and his spirit will be broken." This is of course pure unmiti gated hog wash. J.E.Taylor, ' 214 North Peach st., Medford. Likes Mercy Flights To the Editor: I'd like to thank publicly the wonderful people who have made the Mercy Flights possible. We have been subscribers ever since they started opera tions, but thank's to God we haven't had to use it. But it makes us very happy to know we have .helped others. I know it cannot run on a shoestring, and the people of the Rogue Valley are always ready to respond . to other drives. Let us not forget this 1 one right close to home that we really know does wonder ful work, and give them a helping hand too, because we never know who will be next. Here's cheers for a wonder ful organization. Let's keep them flying. God bless them. F. C. Andrus, 391 South Mountain ave., Ashland Editor's note: Mercy Flights, Inc., the non-profit air ambu lance service, recently mailed a letter to aU its subscribers, asking contributions of $1 or more to help finance the many flights it makes for pa tients who cannot afford to pay for them, and who are not subscribers to the free emer gency service. Contributions are welcome from anyone, and may be mailed to P.O. Box 522, Medford. Investment in a Dog To the Editor: The sticky sentiment expressed in letters directed at me, pointing out the "love and warmth" of a dog and the "silky caressess" of a cat, and other expressions showing great love for ani mals, is not an expression of love for God as Hulda Bran son's quote 'Cruelty to ani mals is as if we do not love God' would indicate, but rath er an abomination to Him, when love and kindness for and to animals takes priority over love, kindness and con sideration for people. - Some 2,000 years or more before Cardinal Newman, Christ said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the sec ond is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as theyself ." (Matthew 22: 36,38.) . I am glad to see the letter from the Humane society pre senting facts, but controlled breeding is a halfway measure as is Judge Miller's sugges tion of a $5 license fee for unspayed females. Does spay- Matter of Fact WHAT THEY DON'T SAY Washington-In public and in private, the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are now pour ing the usual floods of soothing syr up about Am erica's defense posture. This year's -Jos-ph Alsop soouung syr up differs in several respects form the syrup of earlier years, however. For instance, it has a higher content of outright untruth. Even the President indulged in flat misstatement of facts, though no doubt unwittingly, when he told his press conference that "our missile program is going forward a, rapidly as possible.". But what makes the 1959 vintage of soothing syrup real ly memorable is not so much the untruth that is included, but all the harsh, disagree able, indigestible facts that are left out. As a really su perg illustration of how to compound soothing syrup by the method of omission, con sider the "diversified means of delivery" argument used before the Senate Armed Services Committee by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Nathan Twining, and also, used elsewhere by Secre tary of Defense Neil McElroy. EVEN by making the most transparently o v e r-opti- mistic estimates of Soviet progress, the Secretary and the General could not abso lutely wish away the Soviet lead in intercontinental bal listic missiles. Secretary Mc Elroy has actually admitted that we are conceding the So viets a three-to-one lead in ICBMs by 1962; and in reality we are almost certainly -do ing far worse than Secretary McElroy admits. But Twining and McElroy argue that the Soviet ICBM lead wttl be counter-balanced by our "di versified means of delivery." On the debit side of the balance sheet, in other words, Twining and McElroy write down just Soviet ICBMs, and on the credit side they write down our much smaller num ber of American ICBMs, plus our Strategic Air Command, plus the intermediate range missile squadrons we are sending to our allies, and so on and on. According to Twin ing and McElroy, the results ought to satisfy everyone. THE Senate hearings, Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri therefore asked Gen. Twining how many IRBMs the Soviets would have among their own "diversified means of delivery." Fantastically PTILUCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Main and Eighth streets re cently were, over much of their length, converted into one-way streets. Central and Riverside avenues were changed similarly some years ago. But, judged by Medford's history, it is a relatively re cent development. The same pattern of one way street grids is showing up in cities all over the coun try. We were a bit startled, therefore, to learn from the New York Times that one way streets are not at all new; that, in fact, they were inaug urated by Julius Caesar when ing females or altering males keep them in their own yard? One man who telephoned me concerning my letter told me that no member of the Dog Breeders association would vote for a higher li cense fee, yet it was admitted that so many dogs of all shapes, sizes and breeds run ning at large was a menace to breeding of good dogs. If people had to pay a $10 li cense fee plus $10 or more for spaying or altering, wouldn't they curb that great desire to own a dog? For $20 to $50 is harder to come by than $2.50. And I think they would take a dim view of the "love and warmth" of a dog. - j A man pays a business li-l cense to operate a business which is an asset to the com munity and I'm sure it is'more than $2.50; but for $2.50 he can own a dog that is only an object of his own desire and self-love, but a menace and a nuisance to the com munity if it is allowed to run loose. ': Now doesn't it follow that if a person wants a dog, just has to have dog, and - life wouldn't be worth living with out a dog, he would pay a higher license fee to ownione and the more money he has invested in it, surely the bet ter care he would give it? Incidentally, I like dogs, Etna Ragsdale, 1214 West 10th st., Medford By Joseph Alsop enough, Twining replied that he really did not know, and would have to look into the matter. But the answer to the Senator's question ' is plain. The Soviets must -be assumed to have, already in operation al squadrons or soon going in to operation squadrons, be tween 600 and 1,000 IRBMs to cover the Strategic Air Command's bases in Europe and the Mediterranean, plus enough more to cover SAC's Pacific bases. The facts that demand this assumption are of aU sorts. One is the regular Soviet IRBM testing rate-15 a month, fired off as though by clock- work-which clearly implies test-firings to train operation al IRBM squadrons. Another related fact is the identifica tion of whole Soviet IRBM- trains, including specifically designed cars to serve as launching pads. Still another fact is the enormous number of Soviet IRBM tests that were identified in the earlier period, .before we had even tested one IRBM at full-range. The plain truth is that the Soviet IRBM lead is vastly greater than the Soviet ICBM lead. Secretary of . Defense McElroy has not been allow ed to count the Soviet IRBMs on a special guided tour, so he can say he is not "posi tive" the Soviets have any that are operational. MEANWHILE the mere eight squadrons of 120 IRBMs that this country will eventually send to Britain and elsewhere are put down on the balance sheet's credit side. And the fact is omitted that our allies will absolutely control the use of these Amer ican IRBMs. The whole strik ing power of SAC is also put down on the credit sice. And the further fact is omitted that SAC's striking power can be reduced by at least 50 and perhaps 60 per cent, by a sur prise attack by the Soviet IRBMs on SAC's overseas bases. Thus the balance sheet is cooked in the most flagrant manner. The question remains why such men as Twining and Mc Elroy are first willing to de lude themselves, and then willing to delude the public by cooking the balance sheet. The answer lies in the Admin istration's conviction that it is better not to look hard facts in the face, because the rich est country in the world real ly cannot afford to defend it self. As General Twining has gloomily remarked, ''irrespon sible spending for military hardware" (for which read "spending to meet the Soviet challenge) could result in our losin, without ever firing a shot, the very things we now fight for (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. , he was running things in Rome. The old saying, "There's nothing new under the sun," isn't, of course, always true, but it's true oftener than it is false. When a staff member called the weather bureau at the usual time en day last week for the daily re port, a desperate situation was revealed. A voice saidt . "A crisis ; has arisen. We can't find tht forecast" That Phoenix man who has figured prominentiy in these proceedings for the past sev eral weeks is at it again, al though he disclaims any in tent to needle. "Where's your sense of humor?" he asks in effect. - OK, friend, we'll grin at our own mistakes, even if it kills us. (And it might, too, one of these days.) Anyway, this week he sent a clipping which told about a 16 - year - old boy being "stabbed in the army." Our friend inquires, "Has the draft age been lowered to the point where courts mar tial are held in children's court?" . Glenn Klein, the county 4-H agent, has "broken in" his face lo a beard (Cen tennial variety) and is now busy breaking in a pair of cowboy boots. He says both, are intended lo equip him for the 4-H wagon trek to Corvallis this summer. ... Speaking of beards, we missed out on our weekly M-T whisker report last week, chiefly because there wasn't much to report. - But this week we can re cord progress, both in num bers and quality. The first ad vertising department whisk ers made their appearance, and ; several new ones are flourishing in the printing de partment. As to quality, a few of the older beards are now really impressive.,.- , - But there was one casualty. Our photographer, who got an early start and who has look ed like something out of a swashbuckling novel for the past few 'months, came down with a case of flu complicated by the sniffles last week. When he returned to work he still had his beard, but the mustachibs were gone. Mus taches and a runny nose just don't go together comfort ably, he reported. The Centennial emphasis in clothing, as well as beards, can have some star tling effects like one of the more ' dignified occu pants of one of the more dignified public offices, who last week showed up in cowboy boots, western style hat, and stockmen' clothing, complete to the string tie. - Our efficient Central Point correspondent, Doris Hughes, reports that workmen were taking up old flooring in a building on Pine street last week, and came across an old grocery list, dated Feb. 12, 1921, for Cowley's Emporium. The slip was made out to A. E. Turrell, who still lives in Central Point. But it was the 1921 prices that caught Mrs. Hughes' eye. Two loaves of bread cost 30 cents; four gallons of milk, a dollar; and two pounds of coffee, forty cents. A high school teacher la - the county gave her class a quiz the other day, and figured that one of the answers should be a cinch for all members cf the class.- She was surprised when a number of students missed it, because the answer was found in a recent issue of "Prince Valiant." the MaU Tribune's popular Sunday comic strip. The county dog control board and Southern Oregon Humane society met last Wed nesday night to discuss dog control. But the meeting found that one of its practical problems involved cat control - which arose when County Commis sioner Chester Wendt stopped in mid - sentence, reached down by his leg, and pulled' up a large, plump cat. The feline, a friendly type, visited all the men at one end of the table, and finally had to be forceably ejected from the meeting. Students in the third grade at Hoover school have been studying about birds, and several of them have reported on their findings in the school's paper, the Hoover HiLite. This is the one we like best, by Jim Allen: Some birds are blue And some birds are red. But all birds have to go to bed. .
