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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
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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.
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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.
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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.