4 Sunday. February 1, 1959
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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-
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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
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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
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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. .