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Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, March 1, 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Tveryor to Southern Oreron Readi The Mail Trtbunc'r Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-3141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER WomM'l Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon tinder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy lOe. DaU- and Sunday 1 year (15.00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Iifli Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 uaiiy ana Sunday 1 mo. l.so Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City at Medford Official Paper of Jacfcson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative 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. 0? NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL CSS. ini""ii rmi Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 1, 1949 (Tuesday) KYJC is deluged with calls congratulating it on becoming affiliated with the American Broadcasting company. A 10-year-old Ashland boy Is retrieved from his scouting outing to a cave in the "Big Rocks" west of Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO March 1. 1939 (Wednesday) The WPA approves a $296, 645 project for improvement of Jackson county's roads. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A gen tle reader demands something nice be said about the legisla ture. Okay! They have not yet passed a bill slashing salaries, only to discover the bill raises salaries." 30 YEARS AGO March 1, 1929 (Friday) March comes in like a lamb, with bright sunshine. Table Rock cows are given a clean bill of health. 40 YEARS AGO March 1, 1919 (Saturday) SP railroad orders its con ductors to eject any Jackson county deputy sheriffs who board trains to search passen gers for rum. Still more cakes are need ed for the returning soldiers' reception. 50 YEARS AGO March 1. 1909 (Monday) The government's suit to recover the O and C railroad lands starts in the U.S. court in Portland. Medford's postal receipts showed a 32 per cent increase for the year ending Feb. 28. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six it good. 1. "What shell fish is com monly believed to be fit for human consumption only in months containing the letter V? 2. What is the official Rus sian news agency called? 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous as the author of what book? 4. What was the one word that Poe's raven repeated? 5. If a pen and ink costs sixty cents, and the pen cost fifty cents more than the ink, what did the ink cost? 6. What game is sometimes called "barnyard golf?" 7. Elephants drink through their trunks; true or raise r 8. A contagious disease is the same as an infectious dis ease; true or false? o Warren G. Harding was resident of the U.S.; for what did the initial G stand? 10. For what crime was Bruno Richard Hauptman ex ecuted? 1. Ovsters. 2.Tass Tnm' Cabin." 4. 3. uuu - .,...,n,nr." 5. Five cents, - u- 7. False. 8. r'alVe. 9. Gamaliel. 10. Lind bergh kidnapping. NEA Points the Finger The National Education association is not ex actly an unbiased outfit. It is composed largely of school teachers and administrators, and is, quite naturally, concerned with the future of the schools in particular and education in general. For this reason its pronouncements can be eyed with the knowledge that they come from a not-disinterested group, although it is a group which generally is characterized by high ideals, and a dedication to their life's work which is as it should be. "THAT preamble is by way of putting in perspec- tive a release received this week from the na tional headquarters of the NEA, which had to do with what it called "one of America's national blind spots paying for good schools." The news release concerns a report from the NEA Journal entitled "Can America Afford Bet ter Schools?" Here is a sample of the "eye-opening" state ments of fact contained in the report : In 1902 the share of all taxes going to educa tion was about 17 per cent. In 1932 the share was 25 per cent. In 1958 it was 12 per cent. - THHE FIGURES, coming from this source, can be presumed to be accurate. (The onty qual ification that immediately. suggests itself is that in neither 1902 nor 1932 was national defense a major taxeater, as it is today). The report goes on to present other figures of interest. It points out that the federal government, "with its efficient, streamlined collection sys tem," collects almost three out of every four tax dollars. And it adds : "Yet, despite the national implications of our brain power race with other nations, it (the federal govern ment) pays only 4 per cent of the cost of public schools. Local and state governments pay 96 per cent." THE NEA says there will be a 100 per cent in- crease in the cost of education within the next decade. This is based on census figures showing the rising number of school-age children, plus the expanding birth-rate. And the NEA doubts that local and state gov ernments can handle this 100 per cent increase, pointing out that local and state debt has risen 182 per cent since 1948. Unless the federal government assumes a larger share of the cost of schools, it forecasts : A 50 to 90 per cent increase in real estate taxes in thousands of communities. A 2 to 4 per cent increase in sales taxes in some states. An income tax jump of 22 to 5 per cent in some states. An increase of 4 to 8 cents in cigarette taxes in several states. "THIS IS a pretty dismal picture. Can America, then, afford to double its school expenditures, no matter whatunit of gov ernment pays for them? The NEA says it can. It says : "The value of all goods and services produced by the nation in one year is now $440 billion. That's 70 per cent over what it was in 1948. "Our national income is up 63 per cent since 1948, and our personal incomes after taxes and our personal savings have increased drastically. Since 1948, we were able to afford $110 billion for new and used cars, $151 billion for alcoholic beverages, tobacco and cosmetics, and $127 billion for recreation. "In the same period, we spent only $78 billion for public elementary and secondary schools." flTE WOULD like t see some authoritative, un biased source either corroborate or dis prove these figures, for they look highly signifi cant to us. Are we, really, spending only about half of what we did in the depression year of 1932 (per centagewise) on schools? Have our incomes AFTER taxes, and personal savings, increased drastically since 1948? Do we really spend only about half as much on schools as we do on liquor, tobacco and cos metics? If these things are true, then we, as a nation, ought to be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves. Does education really mean so little to us? i IF THE NEA's figures are not correct, then they should be set straight. But if they are correct we can have both guns AND butter which in this case means schools with less sacrifice than in 1932 or 1948. Taxes on all levels and of all varieties have risen sharply. But if the NEA's statement is well founded, they have not risen as sharply as person al income, and as a result; a lesser proportion of individual income is going to buy the things that only government can furnish. . x The most important of these, in the short ran, is national defense. The most important in the long ran is education. E.A. Life Gets Easier (?) Life, in some ways, gets easier all the time. There are cars now which have seats that swivel to make it easier to get out. Food is frozen, oven-ready. Super-markets are putting in escala tors so people won t have to walk from their cars into the store. We read the other day they've even developed a fish fillet without bones so you don't have to spit 'em out when eating. Two problems remain, riowevei. No one has invented an easy-to-put-on tire chain. And the tooth brush has hardly been improved for years and years. E.A. Dennis the 'There1, she's been lY4m7AfA colorbd TELEPHONE J NOW SUB'S GOT OWE Today & Tomorrow By Walter MACMILLAN AND MR. K We do n o t as yet know what caused Mr. Khrushchev to interrupt his confidential talks with Mr. Macmillan in order to make a public speech. But if the report is correct that what he said about Ger many and Eu- Walter . . . "7 Lippmann ity nad been written out in advance, then his speech was a calculated diplomatic move - presum ably to let the world know that he is not discussing with Mr. Macmillan any serious change in the Soviet position. The way Mr. Macmillan has been treated in Moscow is not a good sign. For it is extraor dinary that , Mr. Khrushchev did not wait until he had fin ished his talks with Mr. Mac millan. Whyhe did not wait, he alone knows. It may have been that for one reason or an other he did not dare to let the impression grow that he was on the way to a negotia ted compromise. This might be due to opposition within the Kremlin, it might be due to opposition within the Com munist orbit. Or, Mr. Khrush chev's calculated breach of the confidential talks with Mr. Macmillan may be due to an over-weening confidence that he is dealing from a position of superior strength. We do not know. But Mr. Macmillan is bound to do his best to find out in the talks which are still to come. In the meantime, It Is only prudent to assume that Mr. Khrushchev believes that he is in the superior position, and then to ask ourselves if indeed he is, and if so, what we can do about it. TTfY OWN view, for what it is worth, is that there is in the Soviet attitude a mix ture of anxiety and confi dence. The ruling oligarchy are, I think, deeply anxious about the position in Eastern Germany and in Eastern Eu rope, once the West Germany army is completed and armed with nuclear weapons. It is not because they think that West Germany can or will at tack the Soviet Union. It is be cause they fear, not without reason, that an armed West ern Germany will have a mag netic attraction for the under lying rebellion and resistance in Eastern Europe. The. Krem lin is, therefore, under great pressure to arrive at some Try and By BENNETT CERF-- T HERE'S A NEW BOOK out called "The Rapid Fact Finder," and it's just the thing for contestants on a quiz (beg pardon, information) program. Can you tell offhand, for instance, how many waterfalls are higher than Niagara and which one is the world's highest? Well, there are 56! The highest is Angel Falls in Venezuela a staggering 3,300 feet Nia gara is only 167 feet! Question two: What cities are called (A) The City of Lilies; (B) Cream City; and (C) The City of Bells? An swer: Florence, Milwaukee, Strasbourg. Finally, what do these all have in common: Steinber- ger, Trittenheimer, Wiltin- ger, Scharzhofberg and Markobrunn? Answer: They all are names of German dry wines; Class dismissed! Charged with plagiarism recently, -a distinguished Hollywood re porter replied indignantly, "Everything a man makes up can't pos sibly be original." 195$, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Menace Lippmann kind of modus vivendi in the two Germanys within the two years that remain before the West Germans are fully arm ed. Along with this anxiety there is at the same time great confidence, perhaps over-con fidence, that in dealing with the German question the Sov iet Union now holds the stronger cards. The Soviets' hand is strong because they have the diplomatic initiative They can create situations where - if it came to force - the onus of firing the first shot will be on the West and the actual occasion for firing will not be good enough to rally the West for a world war. "DECAUSE they have this In- itiative, they can exer cise pressure on the West Unless they overplay their hand, deliver a real ultimatum and use military force to blockade Berlin, there is much reason to believe that the West will feel impelled to look further for a more nego tiable position on the two Ger manys, on the two Berlins, and on security arrangements in Central Europe. The weakness of the West is that it has clung too long to its old formula for Germany and because of that it has lost the initiative. Every time the West reappraises and revises in some measure the old for mula, it seems to be retreating - as in fact it is and to be making a concession to the Soviets. Thus any new idea be comes appeasement and, if by any chance the Soviets have first mentioned the idea, it be comes surrender. This will go on until the West itself seizes the initiative. rro SEIZE the initiative would be to test the Soviet proposals, not by rejecting them but by asking the Sov iets searching questions as to how in practice they would carry out their proposals Thus for example Mr. K. says that German reunification is a problem not for the four Al lies but for the two Germanys Does he in fact mean this? Is he willing to let the two Ger manys deal with ach other and is he willing to abide by the results? If Dr. Adenauer could be come willing to make a move of this kind, it would in some measure reverse the field and restore the initiative to the West. Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Me Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althouah 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 ease. Migrant Labor Bills To the Editor: With the mi grant bills coming before the legislature at this time, I feel it is the Christian duty of our J citizens to urge our legisla tors to support these bills. HB 139 provides 1 a pilot program for migrant children; the children who will be our next generation of adults. HB 136 is for safety of transporting vehicles for crews. HB 159 deals with sanitary standards for farm labor camps. HB 160 deals with licensing farm labor contractors. HB 161 provides income tax deduction as business ex pense to a grower who con structs or improves farm la bor camp for his migrant labor. Any improvement of the migrant problem in Oregon will be of benefit to all resi dents of our state and I would urge that we write our repre sentatives, Mrs. Evelyn Nye and Robert Duncan, and to our senator, Dr. Edwin Dur no, immediately, that they may know our feelings. Mrs. Oliver P. Taylor 3254 Jacksonville Hwy. Medford. 1 Good Response To the Editor: When we made the decision to with draw from participation in programs under the National Defense Education act, be cause of the disclaimer affida vit that is required, we na turally wondered what the public response would be. Consequently, it was with real pleasure that I read the editorial in the Medford Mail Tribune which expressed so well the fundamental reasons for our action. Incidentally, we have re ceived a number of clippings of your editorial, enclosed with letters commenting fav orably on both our stand and your statement. Your public stand against the disclaimer requirement has been of real value to us in helping people understand the basic reasons for Reed's decision and should aid in se curing the repeal of the oath provisions which are a hang over from a past era. Richard H. Sullivan, President Reed College Portland 2, Ore. Porter Defended To the Editor: A recent story by Robert Smith gave the im pression that Congressman Charles O. Porter, in 1957, up on learning that House leader McCormick was to receive a medal from Dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, brazenly wrote Congressman McCormick criticizing him and that McCormick replied to Porter, who was then a freshman congressman, that such a letter was presumptu ous on the part of Porter and that McCormick was "short" with Porter. Mr. Smith was pointing out that this was the reason that Porter did not receive a place on the foreign relations com mittee of the House of Repre sentatives. That article did not treat Congressman Porter fairly. I was in Congressman Por ter's office at the time, in Feb ruary of 1957, when he got a call through to McCormick. He humbly explained to Rep resentative McCormick that he had just learned that Rep resentative McCormick was to receive a medal from Trujillo and that Porter had a speech prepared condemning Trujillo on the Murphy matter, among other things. He wanted Rep resentative McCormick to know that it was a coincidence that the time allotted to Por ter for that speech was to be a day or two after the medal was to be presented. Porter emphasized that he wished to assure McCormick that he in no way wanted to embarrass him and that the speech was not for that pur pose, but Porter felt that he must conscientiously give the story of Trujillo on the floor of the House. Porter said, in passing, that if McCormick knew what he knew, he did not think McCormick would accept the medal. I could detect nothing pre sumptuous in the tone of Con gressman Porter in his con versation with McCormick, nor from hearing one side of the conversation, was there any intimation that Represent ative McCormick was "short" with Representative Porter. It is one thing to be firm in the position that a man con scientiously takes as a Repre sentative of the people in Con gress, and it is another to be brash. . Everyone knows that Con gressman Porter contributed much to democracy in the free world in his criticism of the dictators in Latin America. If the telling the world the cause of the disappearance of Ger ald Murphy cost Representa tive Porter a seat in the for cing, affairs committee, he should be praised and not con demned. Gene B. Conklin 203 Raley Bldg. Pendleton, Ore. Matter of Fact TROMBONE 33 Offutt Air Force Base, Oma ha, Neb. A great many hours ago an age as it now seems the snow was falling gently but per sist ently on Western Mass achusetts. The big Westover Air Base was muffled and e n c 1 o sed in -iosDh 4isnpi wmieness; dux its operations continued with out cease. The miracle of the Strate gic Air Command is the con tinuous recreation of a gigan tic, incredible complex, ever ready machinery of striking power, always using the same men and planes and weapons and communication lines as parts of the machinery, but varying the design from hour to hour. One element in the design's Westover sector this Joseph Alsop, political columnist of the Mail Trib une, will make one of his rare television appearanc es, Sunday, March 1 (6 p.m., PST). The program in which he will appear is Edward R. Murrow's "Small World." In an intercontinental dis cussion of current relation ships between Red China, the Soviet Union, and the United Slates. Mr. Alsop will speak from Washing ton, D.C., novelist Han Su Yin (Dr. Elizabeth Comber) will speak from Hong Kong and Sir Robert Boothby, former private secretary to Winston Churchill, will speak from London. Mr. Murrow will moderate the long-distance conversation from New York City. Under discussion will be such topics as recognition of Communist China and the Quemoy-Matsu impasse. Joseph Alsop has first-hand knowledge of Russia and all areas of the Far East. morning was a "cell" of three B-52s, flying a training mis sion rather oddly called Trom bone 33, together with a cell of three KC-135 jet tankers, flying, together as Alcibiades II. The pilot of the second plane in Trombone 33, Lt. Col Winston Moore, was annoyed at the weather man, who had incautiously predicted no more snow by morning. All the same, Colonel Moore and his seasoned crew and his be wildered guest were all ready to go at the appointed hour. Endlessly, item by item, this plane's readiness was also checked. Then, quite suddenly, the eight jets emitted their dire starting shriek which sounded all the more blood curdling in the padded silence of the snowfall. "CLEARED to take off," said Colonel Moore, and the B-52 started down the run way that seemed to stretch to infinity. The far-spread wings, which actually droop at rest, curved quickly upwards from the pressure of the onrushing air. Gently, inperceptibly, the ground was abandoned. The B-52 was in its natural ele ment at last. "We're starting to climb," said Colonel Moore, when ' the immense ailerons had been retracted. Up, up, up, the great plane went, at not much less than a mile a minute, until the sudden breakout into the bright, emp ty blue of the upper air, with the cloud formations lying be low like a relief map done in cotton wool. A speck ahead and a speck behind were the lead plane and the last plane of Trom bone 33. Now, with the for mation levelling off at 36,000 feet, it was time to think of keeping rendezvous with the tankers of Alcibiades II. All around, in one unending, illi mitable, bright blue empti ness, was the air space above the Eastern United States. In this illimitable emptiness, three specks had to find three other specks. Magically, the specks. con verged on schedule above Erie, Pa. Erie lay far beneath the cloud; and over Erie, un know, unseen, utterly unim agined and unimaginable ex cept by the participants, oc- (By M-T Staff and Contributors) It is veritable, authentic spring weather outdoors as this is written (Friday after noon). It may not be the same when it appears in print Sun day morning, but sufficient unto the day. . . . If you're an early riser, and have looked toward the west on several mornings this week, you will have no ticed the bright, bright moon, changing from full on Mon- By Joseph Alsop curred the strange aerial coup ling. The huge tanker let down its long, . stubwinged re-fuel ling boom. The boom operator protruded the fuel pipe barred in green and orange. The B-52 flew up beneath the KC-135. "Forward three; forward two, good position! Good posi tion!" cried the boom operator on the radio. There was a clank. The fuel pipe had been successfully inserted in the or ifice above the B-52 pilot's compartment The coupling was accomplished. With the fuel just audibly gurgling into the tanks at a rate of a good deal more than a ton a minute, the two great planes flew on ward together at many hun dreds of miles an hour. WHEN the KC-135 sheered off at last, the B-52 veered southward, heading, if you can believe it, for the north east corner of the Super Duper bnopping Center in Columbus. Ohio. Like many another un conscious American city, Co lumbus has a bomb-plottins center, where men wait 'all day with computers and radar tracking mechanisms to test the bombing accuracy of SAC's radar - navigators, as they now call the bombar diers. The theoretical destruc tion of Target Alpha, the same northeast corner of the Super Duper Shopping Center, was now the grand objective of Colonel Moore's radar-naviga tor, Maj. Gilbert d' Andrea, To the untrained passenger, a radar-scope looks like noth ing so much as the haphazard splatter of phosphorescent oat meal. But at the right moment, Maj. d' Andrea singled out one blob in the luminous splatter; turned a dial; and gave the signal, "Cross hairs are on the target." Then canie the count- down-"Centered up and 90 seconds to go," and so on, .un til the final cry, "Automated!" Thereupon the machinery took over from the men, and only the radar bombing apparatus guided the big plane until "bombs away!" above an invis- ble target more than seven miles below. - Maj. d Andrea s average bombing error is considerably under 1,000 feet, with a weap on that can kill at nearly a mile. This time, the error re ported by Columbus bomb plot was well above the maj or's average. Something was wrong with the plane's radar- bombing apparatus, and the purpose of the test was to lo cate the malfunction. The ma-J jor was a little put out all the same, as though somehow, by sheer grim determination he might have bent the im perfect machinery to his will. But after another long leg of the long journey, the major and everyone else chered up, because Colonel More's elec tronic counter-measures ex pert, Sgt. Earl Redelsperger, "really creamed Quiet." INTERPRETING the Serg eant's triumphant but mys tifying phrase, "Quiet" was the ground control intercept station at Kirksville, Mo. "Quiet's" radars, continu ally jumping from frequency to frequency, have the assign ed task of seeing the approach ing B-52. Sergeant Redelsper ger, with his bewildering ar r?j of consoles, dials of lev ers, had the assigned task of blinding "Quiet's" radars by jamming them as they jumped. He did so well that "Quiet" was utterly blinded during all the long tense minutes of the approach. So the day's prac tice ended, and the B-52 turn- j ed one last time, towards Off utt Field and the journey s end. The great SAC Headquart ers base here was basking in a perfect late-winter after noon, when the B-52 put down. After many hours of meticu-' lous hard work, Colonel Moore was in good humor. Just before the farewells, he was asked the obvious quest ion about the difference be tween daily practice and actu al performance. "Oh," he said, simply, "we are here because we may have a job to do. We don't think about it much, but if they ever tell us to do the job, why that's what we're here for." (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. . I day morning to a fat half moon later in the week. It woke us up about 5 o'clock one morning, shining onto the bed through the window. It had almost the aura and glow of a harvest moon. It's silly, of course, but we have to confess to a mild at tack of spring fever the last week in February. We are delighted to re port that our Phoenix friend, who so solicitously keeps track of bloopers in the Mail Tribune and lets us know about them, has now broadened his hobby to include television. He re ports that Joe Hosick, In giving tho weather forecast the other night, announced that the w.eather would be "cloudy with shattered scours." Our PF comments thai if you've ever seen a calf sick with the scours, you know what a mess that would be. - Obviously, the MT didn't escape wholly unscathed from our friend's sharp eye. He spotted a story about a bill requiring most chickens to be labeled showing "their state or origin." Upon which he inquired, How can a stark naked dead chicken HIDE the state it's in? As to its origin, which came first, the chicken or the egg? I think the bill should be defeated!" (In case the subtletv of the typographical error passes you by, it was intended to read "state OF origin." Isn't English funny?) A Medford housewife was shopping in a down town variety store the other day. and after she left, she happened to notice that she was carrying a child's purse looped over her arm behind her own purse. This mysti fied her, but, worse, also embarrassed her to think that she'd walked out with u n p a i d-f or merchandise. She walked back to the va riety store and, unnoticed despite her nervousness, placed the purse back on the counter from whence it came. Then she walked out quickly, shaky but much relieved. .. Someone who signs himself only "Gold Hill Billy" thinks he may have the last word on the dog situation. We're not so sure about that, but are willing to give him a chance, as follows: I've read so doggoned much o' dogs, . I've got to cough up some thing, The subjects' got my brsm in fogs And doggoned nerves a-jump- ing. I always figure just like this, A-watching dogs and folk. That saying ain't just "hit or miss And ain't no empty joke, That says that dog and master be i Like two peas in a pod. And you can judge the own ers, see, By the pooch they kep, by God. Each breeding female -wild. at large- Why gas her in a chamber? Slap on a hundre d-dollar charge And make her owner tame'erl There's quite a fad these days about the good old western "fast draw." This may have influenced a city police officer, who issued a citation for failure to yield the right of way, and it came out "failure to yield right away." Better duck, son. Last week the county court was being conducted on a field inspection tour of some county road projects. Eh route back to town County Engineer Paul Ryn ning took them to see a "completed" project of which he was proud, the new bridge across Barnett rd. where it joins the Phoenix-Hillcrest rd. The bridge had been com pleted less than 48 hours before. So he was no little cha grined when they arrived and found the bridge had been struck by an automo bile that very morning, with a heavy railing knocked off and two supporting posts split off at ground level. Rynning was pleased, however, when it was found that it would be possible to have it replaced at no cost to the county. The driver who hit it left after the ac cident, but there was no trouble finding who it was. -The only thing left at the scene of the accident was hit cafs license plate.