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4 Sunday, March 8, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, ORE. MedfordSkTbibukb "Iveryone ie Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Dail except Saturday by M7J3FORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph . SP 2-6141 ROBfcBT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mtfr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Znterea as second class matter al Medforri Oreeon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dail- and Sunday 1 year. $15 00 Daily and Sunday mos 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier' In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUzy 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson 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 1 ASSOCIATION HATIONAl EDITORIAL Flight fo 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 3. 1943 (Tuesday) The House at Salem refuses to repeal the 1947 state in come withholding tax act. The fire department works on an extensive study of . downtown buildings in Med ford's business district. 20 YEARS AGO March 8. 1939 (Wednesday) Repaving of Medford treets under the WPA pro gram is scheduled to begin in about a week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Re ports persist an Applegate gold mine has proved it is . one." 30 YEARS AGO March 8, 1929 (Friday) Eagle Point's park is to be improved for summer visi tors. Medford's mayor instructs fie police to keep roller skates off the streets. 40 YEARS AGO March 8, 1919 (Saturday) Rogue valley Jersey breed ers plan to organize. Work on Pacific highway is to start as soon as contracts are let. SO YEARS AGO March 8, 1909 (Monday) By July 500 men are ex pected to be at work in a lo cal coal field. Desert Oil company sinks a well on the Gore tract northeast of town. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. With what industry do you associate the words Chelt enham, Caslon, Gothic? 2. Does the Statue of Liber ty hold the torch in her right hand, or left hand? 3. In what country is Guy Fawkes Day celebrated? 4. Name the man who pre ceded Franklin D. Roosevelt in the office of Governor of New York. 5. The title of the wife of a Maharajah is what? 6. What are the male, fe male, and young of a deer call ed, respectively? 7. What is the name for the tribunals that try military per sonnel for military offenses, 8. In which U. S. city was President McKinley shot? 9. Which of, these planets can most closely approach the earth; Venue, Mars, Mercury? 10. Which is the larger amount six dozen dozen, or one-half dozen dozen? 1. Printing. 2. Right hand. 3. England. 4. Alfred E. Smith. 5. Maharenee. 6. Buck, doe, fawn. 7. Courts-martial. 8. Buffalo. N.Y. 9. Venus. 10. Six dozen dozen. Judge Kelly to lafk At Roundtable Meeting Circuit Court Judge Edward C. KeUy will discuss the op eration of Jackson county's juvenile court Monday noon at the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce roundtable's weekly luncheon. Judge Kelly is expected to describe the function of the county's juvenile detention home as well. The public is invited. State The legislature has passed, and the governor has signed into law, a bill which will: 1. Result in a contest to be conducted through the schools seeking a state slogan appropriate for use on Oregon's automobile license plates ; 2. Cause the use of the winning slogan (as de termined by a committee of the governor, the for mer governor, and the superintendent of public instruction), on the plates. ITE HATE to see Oregon's licenses cluttered up y with slogans. They don't do anyone any par ticular good, and, in some cases, are a subject for ridicule. Idaho has used slogans to advertise its pota toes, Michigan its lakes, Florida its sunshine, and so on. It's a silly business. Now comes Albert Weisendanger, of the Keep Oregon Green association, who suggests that the word "Oregon" be retained much as it is in fairly large letters, and the word Keep be placed be fore it and "Green" after it, both in small letters, resulting in the slogan, "Keep OREGON Green." If we have to have a slogan, that's about as good as any. E.A. Its Hypocritical Our objection to a license-plate slogan, while firm, is mild compared to our irritation with the hypocrisy involved in the over-frequent use of the so-called "emergency clause" on legislative en actments. This clause, tacked on the legislators want to diately, reads as follows : "This Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace,' health and safe ty, an emergency is declared to exist, and this Act shall take effect upon its passage." - THERE are occasions, a few of them, when the emergency clause is an accurate description of the situation. But, believe it or not, the emergency clause was attached to the state slogan bill. The legislative calendar does not indicate it was eliminated before the Now if anyone can tell tic stretch of a warped imagination, there is an "emergency" affecting the public peace, health and safety" because we don't have a state slogan, we'll eat the damed bill, amendments and all. I TSE of the emergency clause on such legislation is hypocritical, and every legislator who vot ed for the bill with the emergency clause should be ashamed. We are informed that there is a group of mem bers of the house of representatives, led by Rep. Katherine Musa of The Dalles, who feel the way we do, and make every effort to eliminate the hypocritical emergency More power to them. members see the light Sunday Ride The Kansas City Star the Sunday ride. In a mood of nostalgia, it ruminates : "Perhaps the family jaunt fell into disfavor because of wartime rationing when rare coupons were not to be wasted for whimsical purposes . . . But certainly the family that tries this remedy for Sunday doldrums will discover what it has been missing. "The destination need not be far, or even planned . . . Spring or fall, north or south, time and place are not important. The mind is refreshed by the mere process of going somewhere, even a few miles. The road stretches - homeward, and there is the silence of young sleep from the back seat." TXTE SHARE with the Star an affection for the Sunday ride. But the writer of that editorial should have been in the Medford vicinity last Sunday. The day was choice warm, sunny, clear; the air was balmy and breezy. And on the streets and roads in and around Medford were probably more cars than are seen on an ordinary, busy week day. In early spring in the Rogue valley, there is no lack of appreciation of the Sunday ride. E.A. New Protest The National Council of Churches has joined those who already have urged Congress to knock the loyalty oath requirement out of the 1958 Na tional Defense Education act. The council gave religious reasons for its disapproval of the re quirement, but it also pointed out that the Amer ican political system rests on "trust and integrity of its free, uncoerced citizens." The council's general board repeated the warn ing that "persons genuinely disloyal to the United States would not hesitate to sign." That is the trouble with loyalty oaths; they do not expose traitors, they merely create a false sense of secur ity. They are a gratuitous reflection on the integ rity of those asked to sign them. Instead of en hancing patriotism, they create resentment. And there is the risk that potential scientists who might be of great service to the nation will not be trained simply because they refuse to sub mit to this indignity to get a loan or grant for study. So self-defeating a provision should be killed. St Louis Post-Dispatch. Slogan to the end of bills which become effective imme bill was passed. us how, by any fantas clause whenever possible. We hope other house E.A. mourns the passing of Dennis the 4& , 'NOIV.imtS AH' GENTLEMEN. IF I CAN HW& WUK ill tfNTiON Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop PEACE OR A SWORD? Washington There is on ly one thing that is fairly cer tain about Prime Minister Macmillan's forthcoming visit to discuss the Berlin crisis. Macmillian will inevitably de mand that the President choose between waging peace, or taking up his sword. In other words, Macmillan will argue that his experiences in Moscow now leave only courses open to the West. Eith er the United States and the other Western allies must agree on the kind of conces sions that may produce a nego tiated settlement of the Ber lin problem. Or the West, and the United States above all, must immediately make the kind of military preparations which will convince the Krem lin that our "firm" Berlin poli cy is more than empty talk. The Macmillan argument will not make pleasant hear ing for the President, who in dignantly denounced the idea of mobilization at his last press conference. Nonetheless the Prime Minister will oppose going on any longer as we have been going, loudly pro claiming that "we won't give an inch," and simulataeously 'though less loudly adding, "or mobilize a man either." IN VIEW of his public exper iences in Moscow, it would be only natural for Macmillan to insist upon getting ready to give several inches or mobil ize a great many men. The in terruption of Macmillan's ne gotiations by Nikita Khrush chev's brutal public speech about Berlin, was not just a piece of flagrant rudeness to the British Prime Minister. It was an open warning to the whole West, and a warning of the sharpest kind at that. But it is known that Mac millan's post-Moscow attitude also has another, thus far non public source. In his talks with Macmillan before their nego tiations, were virtually broken off, Nikita Krushchev consid erably surpassed aU his pre vious boasts about the new superiority of Soviet nuclear striking power. The details of Khrushchev's latest claims are still hidden. No doubt Mac millan took the claims with a grain of salt. But they at least convinced Macmillan of the unwisdom of trying to combine tough talk with total neglect of all military aspects of the crisis. " On this- same point, an American voice that deserves to be heard with extreme re spect has now spoken out. With great disinterestedness for he owes no debt to John Foster Dulles Dean G. Ach eson has consistently and vig orously supported the firm policy of his successor as Sec retary of State. In a major article just published in the "Saturday Evening P o s t," Acheson does not withdraw a word of his support for the Dulles policy. But he vigor ously insists that prosecution of the Dulles policy demands full, immediate and national mobilization, including large scale mobilization of ground forces. ACHESON couples his de mand for mobilization with a deeply interesting proposal for conducting the test at Ber lin without final resort to the nucleardeterrent if any test is necessary after mobilization shows we mean business. But this part of Acheson's plan of action is too complex and too interesting to be presented in summary. It deserves to be studied at length. Acheson has gone further than anyone else who has spoken out to date. Yet there is also a powerful behind-the-scenes ferment inside the Ad ministration. In his Congres sional testimony, the Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Max well D. Taylor, has come pret ty closeto acknowledging the need to mobilize. Even more important, the leader of the) Menace " Strategic Air Command, Gen. Thomas S. Power, has asked for authority to mount an air borne alert of his vital, dan gerously exposed force; and although he has been refused, the air-borne alert is ceasing to be a closed question. There are stirrings, too, at the State Department. Pressure is beginning to be felt, as well, from quarters to whose pressure the Adminis tration generally responds. Until now the reverence of "Time" and "Life" for the Ei senhower administration has continously surpassed the rev erence qf the pre-Munich Lon don "Times" for the adminis tration of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. But this week the Luce press endorsed the call for national mobili zation made on the floor of the Senate by the freshman Democrat, Thomas Dood of .Connecticut. All the signs suggest, in short, that the time is getting nearer when a serious choice will indeed have to be made, however reluctant the Presi dent may be. All the nations of, the West, most specifically including the United States, have been the targets of the most naked military threats from the Kremlin. The due- date for the threats is rapidly approaching. In these circum stances, it is downright friv olous to go on talking about "not giving an inch," while not mobilizing a man. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Mac millan forces the choice, with out further delay. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must rot exceed 400 words Fo? Deer Hunters To the Editor: Calling all deer hunters. You guys had better snap out of it and come out of hibernation or come next faU you may find that the price of those little slips known as "Deer Tags" has gone up just 100 per cent. Very little or nothing has been done for our deer with the dollar paid in the past. Now we may have to pay two dollars and still see nothing done for the herds. The few that are left in Eastern Ore gon may be counted as usual. Always a great help we are told. House BUI 319 was defeat ed once. Now it has been re vived and introduced into the House again. Before it is too late, write to our representa tives, Speaker Robert Duncan and Evelyn Nye, and give them both barrels on this deal. Looks like we have enough "Inflation of the Outdoors" now, without any more added to it. To see what a small frac tion of the large amount of money derived from licenses and tags, was spent on our big game, just read the game com mission's biennial report for 57-58. It is really a dilly of an eye opener on where our money went. Now more is said to be needed to pour down the old "rat hole." Or maybe there are two of them now. Who knows? Bill Brewster Secretary Oregon Sportsmen club Shady Cove, Ore. She Says "Thank you" To the Editor: Will you give a few lines announcing my thanks to the many friends who sent me cards on my 74th birthday March 3. On account of poor eyesight I am unable to answer them. Thank you. Martha Hill, 369 North Second St., Central Point, Ore. Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE STULTIFYING DRAMA The President's budget is now a football in a political scrimmage. Both parties are pret ending that they are struggling to balance the budget. In fact neither the Administ r a tion nor the Cong r e s s shows any sign of being willing to vote the taxes which are absolute ly essential if the budget is to be balanced. As of now, both parties re gard as untouchable the in come tax rates which were fixed in 1954, the date of the Eisenhower reduction of taxes. The President's budget plan, if we accept some rather fancy calculations, can be brought into balance - but only if Congress will raise postal rates and increase the gasoline taxes. As Congress is certain to reject the new taxes, the official theory of the Democrats seems to be that they can balance the budget by cutting down on what the President has asked for in foreign aid. TOTH parties have now worked themselves into a jam which, considering the state of the world, is not an inspiring thing to look at. The Republicans have gotten them selves into a position where they must "save" on spending for native -American needs -such as education and public facilities, almost certainly also the national defense. But the Republicans, as the great sav ers, are implored by the Presi dent to spend abroad on for eign aid the sums they would like to spend here at home. The Democrats on the other hand have worked them selves into the embarrassing position where they, the party of Wilson, Roosevelt, Tru; man, a nd Stevenson, are threatening to save on foreign aid in order to spend more at home. Surely, there is something inherently absurd in a situa tion where the Republicans are the globalists and the Democrats are the isolation ists. Could such a topsy-turvy situation have developed if politicians in both parties had not forgotten the realities of Walter Lippmann Washington Report By WILLIAM ROCKY AND DICK Washington PnUtiral lih eralism in both parties is long on gooa ideas lor spending public money for the pub lic good, and sometimes for the public safety as well. But political liberalism generally is short indeed r n w i 1 1 i n ff- WS- nesstofaceup to plain, if unhappy, fact: when money goes out money has also got to come in, un less government is to become a Kind of spenamg-naypy, grinning farce. This built-in tendency to ward irresponsibility is the greatest single long - term weakness of the noerais, whether Democratic or Re publican liberals. And it is, to rpasonablv detacnea peopie, the hest single argument for preserving conservatism as a counteriorce. T.iheralism. in a word, often comes close to the classic defi nition of the demagogue. This fellow, being bravely consist ent, always votes for all ap propriations ano against an taxes except, of course, those on corporations and the rich. This small lecture having hppn dulv entered into the record, it is possible to report tht two young noerai poli ticians are now trying to do something about it all. And while they no doubt wiu laii in their ultimate objectives they are making genuine con tributions to reason in me current budget debate. A LIBERAL Republican, Governor Nelson Rocke feller of New York, is trying to persuade the New York legislature to put on large new j state taxes to pay for the new I welfare programs he is pro posing. He is having very hard going. But, at any rate, he is serving candor, and something else as well. He is giving valu able warning to fellow liber als that more and more voters who are not necessarily black reactionaries are tiring of the liberal notion of trying to oo much for most everybody without asking anybody much to pay anything much back. A Democratic liberal in Washington, Sen. Richard Neuberger of Oregon, is hav Lippmann our national needs while they play politics with the budget and with taxes? ITHAT has happened to all these parnpst anH natri- otic men? They have become entangled in a dogma which few of the members of Con gress and none of the leaders in Washington have the cour age to challenge. What is the dogma? Is it that the budget should be balanced? No. The budget should if possible be balanced, and if that is im possible, there should never theless be a serious attempt made to balance it. The dogma which confuses the whole situation and the position of both parties is that the budget must be balanced without raising the income tax rates. The crux of the mat ter is the acceptance by both sets of political leaders of the dogma that the income tax rates of 1954 are sacrosanct. rjNCE that dogma is ac " cepted, the budget cannot be balanced except by two equally unacceptable methods. One is to balance it by taxes on consumption. This is some thing that Congress will not now do. The other method is to balance the budget at the expense of our national de fense and of our foreign poli cy, and of our internal public needs and development. This is something that the country cannot afford to do. Here, having accepted the dogma about the 1954 income tax rates, we have locked our selves in a room from which there is no decent exit. IITHAT is in prospect now, " unless there is a revival of national leadership at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue is, first, a budget which does not balance because Congress and the President between them will not produce the taxes necessary to balance it; second, a budget which does not support our national in terests at home and abroad, and will, therefore, have to be supplemented in the near fu ture by extraordinary appro priations. . While this is going on we shall have to pay the price of having neglected our national needs because we were too soft and too timid to tax our selves enough. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. S. WHITE ing his own try for similar motives. Neuberger has asked Congress to raise taxes by about $3 billion before it ap proves more housing, more unemployment benefits and other inherently desirable things. Neuberger wants to soak everybody at least a little bit. He would raise federal gaso line taxes and he would allow the Post Office department to lift postal rates to sensible levels. And he wants to hit some of "the interests." He proposes excess-profits levies on the arms makers and re ductions in the tax write-offs long guaranteed the oil in dustry because of the highly chancy nature of its opera tions. Congress is perhaps even less likely to do all this than the New York legislature is likely to let Rockefeller slap on new taxes to the degree he wishes. But Neuberger, a lib eral of the liberals, is deter mined at all events to force his own liberals into some self-examination. If he is able to do only this much he will be content. HIS VIEW, and it seems per fectly sound here as in Albany, is that the voters have pretty well come to know a hack from a handsaw; or that anything that is any good will cost somebody some thing. He even suspects that the people know that consist ently supporting in Congress the most madly "liberal" pro grams, and simultaneously crying out for lower taxes on "the little man," is not really liberal. The word for that kind of policy is not liberal; the word is spelled p-h-o-n-y. Neuberger himself has pain ful memories of the real spelling of the word. Last year in the Senate he had the duty to guide a bill to raise postmen's pay. At this point his fellow liberals regarded him as a very sound man. But then he came along with the obviously necessary second part of the thing, a bill to increase postal rates to pay the freight. A great chill fell upon some of his fellow lib erals. "They acted then," he says wryly, "as though I had come out for a bill to nationalize women and children." (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) cwiiuac (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We will pay our Copco bill this month, like a law-abiding and conscientious citizen, but our heart won't be in it. By an unhappy coincidence, the bill arrived on the same day that a Copco crew re placed an old power pole just across the street from the office. The newsroom had ringside seats for the opera tion, and it proved fascinating. There were, at various times, up to 12 men involved In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Oregon's Governor Hatfield is worried by what he calls the possibility of a legislative plot to promote enactment of a sales tax. At a news conference held in his office the other day, he told the reporters that "a group of Republicans are send ing up a trial balloon for a tax set-up that would have the state's building program fi nanced by a four-cent cigarette tax with no increase in the income tax." At the same time, he added, "the Democratic leaders who over the week end advanced a sales tax proposal are trying to make the picture gloomy enough that we will be faced with no alternative but their past proposal." He concluded that maybe a plot hatched to paint the situ ation in such a gloomy light that we will appear to have our backs to the waU and in the ensuing hysteria we will get ourselves into a sales tax. This, he thinks, would be fis cal brinkmanship. A SALES tax, he said, "will hit the low income earner, the retired, the welfare recip ient, the widowed." True enough. But So do all other taxes. Taxes are a part of the cost of doing business, and have to be ad ded to prices. So EVERY BODY pays. PERSONALLY, I'm not en amored of a sales tax. Es pecially when it is added to THE TAXES WE ALREADY HAVE. . In that event, it merely raises more money. When more tax money is raised, the modern tendency is to SPEND IT. The more money govern ment spends, the more money it has to reach into the tax payers' pockets and take it out. Many of the problems and many of the disappointments of the modern world arise out of the fact that government at all of its various levels is taking so much out of the people's pockets that the peo ple don't have enough left to buy for themselves all the wonderful mondern conveni ences they'd like to have. WHAT shall we do about it? I'm coming to believe that the only feasible way to keep taxes from rising is for government to SPEND LESS What do you think about it? Editorial Comment HIGH WAGES It's possible for a boy of 16 to make $5 an hour. By the time he's 18 he can be mak ing S10 an hour, attending school at the same time, and also be taking full advantage of the most valuable years of his life. At least that's what statistics show. Here's how to make all that money. The average high school graduate will make, during his lifetime, $24,000 more than the average grade school graduate. The average college graduate, during his lifetime, will make 556,000 more than the average high school grad uate. A Grants Pass insurance man got to figuring. If there are 180 school days a year, multiply by four to get the total high school (including ninth grade) time involved. That is 720 days, and at 6 hours of classes a day, the to tal is 4,320 hours spent in ac quiring a high school educa tion which is worth $24,000. That comes to $5.50 an hour, or almost 10 cents a minute. We did a little figuring our selves. For most courses, the University of Oregon re quires 186 term hours for graduation. There are 10 weeks in a term. Total 1,860. Each term hour requires, on the average, an hour of class attendance per week plus two hours of outside preparation for the class. Add the 1,860 hours spent in class to the 3 720 spent in preparing for class and you find the student gets a degree in 5,580 hours. For this he will get $56,000. That comes to $10.03 an hour, a mighty husky wage for an 18-year-old. -Eugene Register Guard in the project, along with four, or five vehicles. There was one point in the proceedings, when the new pole was feeing lowered into the hole, that a grand total of seven men were working all at the same time. During the rest of the op eration, however, the usual maximum of men-at-work was two, with the rest of the crew standing around in various stages of idleness and lassi tude. At one point, we observed one man operating the power auger, one man wielding a hoe, another a shovel, seven men watching with interest. and another standing in the street directing traffic. We take it on faith that Copco crews work at a maxi mum possible efficiency, and presume that this type of thing is inevitable under to day's conditions. But, as we said, when we pay our bill this month, our heart won't be in it. We hope this impression of a Copco crew at work will fade with time, and be sup planted with another, earli er memory, which stems from the early, early morn ing hours during a howling gale of a couple of winters ago. when a two-man crew repaired a transformer across the street from our house, under almost im possible conditions of wind, rain, lashing branches and darkness, thereby restoring heat and light to the house. At the end of THAT month, we paid the Copco bill with real pleasure. A'staff member recently re ceived a letter which she be lieves contains the understate ment of the year. The letter, received from the county clerk of a county in another state, says: "On April 26, 1957, you wrote the county clerk and recorder asking for a photo static copy of a document. This letter was evidently mis placed in another office as it was just given to us today." The letter was dated Feb. 19, 1959. Enclosed with the letter was the same dollar bill mailed nearly two years before. No charge was made; the clerk didn't send a photostat, he sent the original document. . . The staff member's faith in the honesty of government em ployees was resvored, but her faith in the efficiency of some unnamed office employee was somewhat Impaired. For no particular reason that we know, a couple of staff members, in a light mood, were talking about tongue twisters, and came up with this one, which they call 'The Igloo Dig ger's Holiday": Anarchic Antics of an Archaeologist in Archaic Antarctica." Oh, well never mind. I Two county commissioners, Chester Wendt (Republican) and Ralph James (Democrat) engaged in a "quick draw" contest the other day. No blood was spilled it wasn't that kind of quick draw. When James entered the county court room, Wendt quickly drew a packet of tickets to the Kiwanis Kapers from his pocket, and tried to sell some to James. A little while later when Wendt re-entered the room. James quickly drew a packet of tickets to the Roosevelt Me morial dinner from his pocket and tried to sell some to Wendt. We're informed that the "quick -draw" contest wasn't a draw, and that Wendt suc ceeded in selling James, but that James didn't succeed in selling Wendt. Have you noticed how smoothly and quietly things are operating around the courthouse these days, in cidentally? Since the turn over in elected officials, some courthouse observers have remarked that the at mosphere seems "almost perfumed." Puzzle fans might take note of this one. Up at the jail there is a Chinese puzzle. One prisoner worked at it for two months, without solving it. He turned it over to his fellows, and they had it anotner 60 days without solving it. When they gave up, how ever, it was given to another prisoner, who came back with it 15 minutes later-all worked out. Some people are already referring to the new build ing, which houses the wel fare commission and the state tax commission as "Robin Hood Hall." One agency takes from the rich and the other gives' to the poor.
