Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 15, 1959, Image 4

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., March 15, 1959, Image 4

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1959)

Prev Page of 59 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (5.1 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 59 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, March 15, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medford&Tbibunb "Everyone lc Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 1KDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr 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 Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogua Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City 1 Medford Official Fapet 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 15, 1949 (Tuesday) Ground-breaking for a new drive-in theatre south of Med ford is scheduled this week. California Oregon Power company embarks on a five- year building program to meet new demands for elec trie service. 20 YEARS AGO March 15. 1939 (Wednesday) Cyrenius Combest, Talent, Is signed up as Jackson coun ty's dog catcher. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "One of the Older Girls has completed the first of 36 spring house- cleanings, and is tuckered out from telephoning all her friends about it." 30 YEARS AGO March 15. 1929 (Friday) Scores of valley residents journey to Salem to see Med ford's very own in the finals of the state basketball tourna ment. Sams Valley Grange mem 'bers plan a birthday supper. 40 YEARS AGO . March 15. 1919 (Saturday) The public is urged to rally to the support of the Commer cial club in developing and boosting southern Oregon. Sam Leonard, last of the Leonard boys to return from the war, is reported en route home. 50 YEARS AGO March 15. 1909 (Monday) Little hope is seen for per petuation of the state's nor mal schools. Ashland and Grants Pass get free mail carrier service. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Prior to President Tru man, who was the last vice president to succeed to the of fice of President of the U.S.? 2. Which state of the Union borders only one other state? 3. Do the arteries carry blqod to the heart, from the heart or both? 4. Is riposte a term used in music, bridge, fencing, or po lio? 5. Sovereignty over south ern Sakhalin and the Kuriles was promised to Russia at what famous W.W. II confer ence in the Crimea? 6. How many red, and how many white stripes, are there on a U.S. flag? 7. If a cattle boat carries cattle, what does a pig boat carry? 8. Two train, on parallel tracks, leave at the same time, travel the same speed and ar rive at the same destination. One takes 80 minutes and the other 1 hour 20 minutes. Why the difference? 9. In boxing, which of these is the lightest weight: light weight, bantam weight, fly weight, featherweight? 10 Which state covers the largest area? 1. Coolidge. 2. Maine. 3. From the heart. 4. Fencing. 5. Yalta. 6. 7 red. 6 white. 7. Men (submarine). 8. No difference. 9. Flyweighhl. 10. Alaska. , A Case of College: A society of scholars incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; a university or one of its schools; also a building or group of buildings used by a university or one of its schools; an institution for special or profes sional instruction . . . University: An institution organized for teaching and study in the higher branches of learning, and em powered to confer degrees in special departments, as theology, law, medicine, and the arts; in U.S. typically a college and one or more graduate or professional schools. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Oregon State College is smarting because i ' wants to be known as and no one seems to be seriously. The Corvallis Gazette-Times, for instance, is fuming over the fact that the Oregon legislature shows no immediate interest in legislating a new name lor UbU (which cultural college until some zi) years ago). The G-T says: "Oregon State meets every requirement of a uni versity, in fact considerably more so than some of the schools which have already had their titles changed. The school is already a university in fact if not in name, so why not recognize it as such officially and with little to-do about it? This stalling is ridiculous." WE FAIL to see the rush. " "College" is an entirely honorable and de scriptive name. The University of Oregon, with its schools of law7, medicine and liberal arts, and with its ex tensive graduate program, fully merits the name oi university. mi. j m ' r-v ine patrons oi uregon state argue that it does too, and perhaps with some justice. Thev have their schools of forestry and engineering: and agriculture, for instance, which offer gradu ate programs. It also has ol study at the undergraduate level. DUT WHAT difference' nition of "college" admirably, and at no cost remaps tne word with it just a bit more cut hardly enough to get into a sweat about. If OSC becomes QSU, we foresee consider able confusion in prospect. And we also foresee the day when Portland State College begins mak ing noises about becoming sity. It might even want Decome PU. Then Eastern Oregon lege of Education, and Uregon College, as "societies of scholars, wouid presumably get on the bandwagon. We wouldn't want six universities m Oregon, would we, Elmo? Policy Reviewed We have, in recent weeks, given renewed at tention to this newspaper s policy regarding the publication of names of juveniles who get into trouble, in stories reporting the events. uur policy has Deen, yv i i people aged 17 and under, and who are arrested or detained dv auinonties, win not oe named. Exceptions are made in serious lelonies, and also m the case of traffic of fenses. (The latter is based on the belief that if a youth is old enough to the state to do so, he is old enough to take respon sibility for his actions behind the wheel. Some may argue that this distinction is an academic one, but it doesn't appear so to us.) 17 VERY SO OFTEN we review this policy, con-A-' suiting with those people we believe to have the best knowledge of the field, and studying the policy, and the reasons therefor, of other news papers. After we did so again recently, we again came to the conclusion that the policy should remain unchanged at least for the time being. Most Oregon newspapers in the past have op erated with generally similar policies, but in re cent months a few of them have modified their policy to permit the publication of juveniles' names more frequently, on the theory that publi cizing of the-names of youthful offenders is a deterrent to juvenile crime. THIS THEORY is questionable, at best. And it doesn't jibe with the Oregon law, which considers crimes committed by juveniles in a class apart, to be handled in most instances in special juvenile courts. The objective is not punishment; it is rehabilitation. The authorities we consulted are virtually unanimous in declaring that publicizing the names of youngsters in trouble would, in most cases, seriously hinder their chances for reha bilitation. We make no claim that this policy is perfect, for we know it is not. There are undoubtedly cases where the Use of a Tiflmp in a stnrv wnnlrl have a salutary effect on ui ins parents. t But some policy is necessary, and we consider this one to be the best, in lip-ht of all pirrMim- stances, and upon the best expert advice obtain- aDie n.ii. Semantics j cj Oregon State University. taking this proposal a bit was OAC Oregon Agn j-x . . a well-rounded program does it make? The defi (see above) still fits OSC to local pride. university does carry prestige than "college," Portland State Univer to drop the "State," and College, Oregon Col possibly even Southern E.A. . generally, that young the case of exceptionally drive, and is licensed by the youngster involved, Dennis the 'iVai.cto! its samw&TmTODoMBi Matter of Fact The Protocol of Humphrey WashingtonTUntil recently, the protocols ' of Zion held their rank as history's most inf lu e n t i a 1 fraud In case anyone has forgotten about them, the protocols were a gross anti - Semitic forgery that helped to warp the mind Jnunh A Ion Xiuuii 11"" ler, and then Hitler to warp the mind of the German peo ple. Now, however, one begins to wonder whether the proto cols of Zion' are not losing first place to what may be called the protocol of Hum phrey. This is" the theory of George Magoffin Humphrey, supported by a wholly unveri fied quotation from Lenin, that the true Communist stra tegy for the defeat of the West is to force us "to spend ourselves into bankruptcy." From a moral standpoint, of course, the two cases are as different as chalk, from cheese. The people who ped dled the protocols of Zion were creatures from the gut ter instinctively dealing in garbage. George Humphrey is courageous, high-minded, and patriotic man. Where on earth he picked up the proto col of Humphrey, the record does not reveal. He peddles it, moreover, only because he knows a great deal more about the forces at work in the modern world. FROM a practical stand nnint Vinwpver. t.hp nroto- col of Humphrey has the ut m o s t significance. It" was twice cited by the President himself when he discussed the Berlin crisis with Congres sional leaders before the week end. On that occasion, the President gave Lenin as his authority for the theory, just as his friend, the former Sec retary of the Treasury, cus tomarily gives Lenin as his authority. At his press confer ence, President Eisenhower did not quote Lenin, having perhaps been warned that the quotation was unverifiable. But he again insisted on the validity of this theory that the real Communist aim is to cause the collapse of the free economies by excessive de fense spending. Hence it is necessary to say again, in the most emphatic terms, what has been said al ready by Marguerite Higgins, by this reporter, and by one or two others. The protocol In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At the moment this is writ ten, there is no BIG news on the wires. By BIG news, I mean news that goes off with BANG. For that, let us be duly grateful. In this modern world in which we live, the big news that goes off with a bang is pretty apt to be BAD. news. THAT brings up an inter esting subject - at least, it is interesting to me. Over the years, I've been interviewed by dozens off committees representing or ganizations devoted to the betterment of the community, the state, the nation and the world. These interviews deal largely with this question: Why do the newspapers print so much BAD news? So much crime. So much scandal. So much dirt. So much about the seamy side of life and so LITTLE about the altruistic side, the CONSTRUCTIVE side, of life. 1TTH the passage of time, I've developed a tech nique for the handling of these situations. A DEFEN SIVE technique. A sort of pro Menace By Joseph Alsop of Humphrey is a transparent, glaring, and rather ridiculous fraud. There is not one iota of discoverable evidence to sup port or excuse the fraud There is also a vast mass of evidence to prove the fraud Over and over again, the So viet leaders have said that spending for armaments is the sole prop of the free capital ist economies. Without this stimulus, they have declared, capitalism would soon totter and fall. Furthermore, every knowledgeable expert on the Soviet Union agrees the So viet leaders are sincerely con vinced that heavy defense spending is necessary to keep free capitalism going. TN THESE circumstances, the mipstinn siricpc wV,-., a frv. mer Secretary of the Treas ury and a President of the United States should both be parroting such nonsense. As to Humphrey, the answer clearly lies in his peculiar conviction that the American economy is desperately frag ile. "Two more years of Tru man budgets," he once told this reporter with perfect sol emnity, "would have landed this country in Communism anyway." On being asked whether he truly meant Com munism, rather than some vague, unpalatable form of left wing experimentation, Humphrey replied that he meant Communism in the lit eral sense. If he could believe this much -as he certainly seemed to do-it must have been easy for Humphrey to discern a Soviet plot behind the pressure for defense spending created by the arms race. As to the President, there is no secret about the vast power over Eisenhower's mind that Humphrey early ac quired and still retains. The protocol of Humphrey, being believed by Humphrey, would have at least three chances in four of gaining Eisenhower's credence too. To be sure, $7,000,000,000 of tax revenues that George Humphrey sacrificed when first in office would alone be enough to balance the budget, after paying all the bills for overcoming the missile gap. But this reminder will hardly alter the opinion of Hum phrey, which seems to be shared by Eisenhower, that a serious attempt to defend this country is really much more dangerous than leaving this country quite inadequately defended. (c) New- York Herald . Tribune Inc.) tective coloration, like that of the birds and the animals. I discuss with my callers the current crime stories. The current scandal stories. The current stories dealing with DIRT of various kinds. As I name each story, my visitors nod acquiescence, indicating familiarity with it. "Yes," they say. "That's EXACTLY the kind of stuff we mean. Why do the news papers print so much of it?" AT THIS point, I switch my tactics. I begin to men tion CONSTRUCTIVE stories that have appeared in print within the past few days. Stories dealing with worth while projects that go to make a better community, a better state, a better nation. Things the service clubs are doing to make theirs a better town. The lectures. The concerts. The achievements or research. Developments in in dustry that go to provide more and better jobs for more people. The new books the public library has just got in - books dealing with lit erature, science, art, history and sociology. Intelligent, thoughtful, con- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Mulli-Purpose Bills To the Editor: The Oregon Senate's recent refusal to al low industries any use of wat er whatever on the middle Rogue river was inconsistent with its other recent acts in the field of water use policy. The Oregon Water Resources board was set up in 1955 and told by the Legislature to rec ognize the multi-purpose prin ciple of water use, and encou rage coordinated, integrated developments to get the maxi mum beneficial use of it with out waste. When on Jan. 21 the Board here at Medford made its re port on Rogue river, it said that the several Legislative re strictions on the use of Rogue river water were at variance with the multi-purpose con cept and were causing confu sion and waste of water. It ad vised that all these restrictions be removed and Rogue river as other rivers be brought completely under the jurisdic tion of the Board. Senate Bills 182 and 183 were steps in that direction. If the Legislature refuses to allow any industrial use of water on the middle Rogue even for so small a thing as a log pond or a steam engine it will set at naught this fine talk about the maximum use and multi-purpose character of water. The objections to the indus trial use of Rogue river water come mostly from those who fear it will open the door to such things as paper mills with their large amounts of air and water pollution. The State Sanitary Board and the Water Resources Board both have responsibilities in pre venting water pollution. Some long established industries continue to be pollution of fenders but they are older than the control boards and can't be brought under regula tion. New ones using water will be. It is claimed that as much as several hundred tons of wood wastes are run off into incinerators and burned in this area daily. The destruc tion of so much wood is a big loss and should be causing some concern. If this material were taken to Grants Pass where water for processing is most available and these nu merous incinerators around here were shut down, there couldn't help but be a net gain for the Medford area so far as air pollution is concerned. Why have an Oregon Water Resources Board and a Jack son County Water Resources Committee if their well thought out recommendations are to be ignored? The House should do better than the Sen ate did and pass SB 183 with out amendments and then try to get the Senate to reverse its position. W. E. Davies, Route 1, Box 110 Eagle Point, Ore. Against Bill To the Editor: There is a bill in committee at the State Leg islature which would permit all public employees of state, county, city, and districts to organize for collective bar gaining. This means that the unions could get control of all our public services such as police, courthouse, all our city, units, and also all our schools and educational plants. ,The bill reads: "all structive statements that have been made within the past day or so by thoughtful, well informed people and PRINT ED IN THE PAPERS. And so on. . I THEN begin to quote sta tistics. Statistics, gathered by responsible research or ganizations, showing that ap proximately THREE - QUAR TERS of all the news printed by the newspapers is CON STRUCTIVE news. I get out a copy oi today s paper, or yesterday's paper, and COUNT UP. The count invariably shows a heavy preponderance of constructive, informative, in structive stories - stories that tend to build up rather than tear down - stories that in cline to picture the GOOD side of life rather than the BAD side of life. IT nearly ALWAYS works. My interviewers get the point. They realize, in almost every case, that THEY THEM SELVES have perhaps been reading the ruggeder stories, the raggeder stories, the stor ies dealing with the BAD in life rather than the GOOD, and tending to NEGLECT that which is more constructive, more UPLIFTING, in the news of the day. Human na ture, you know, is human na ture. At any rate, my interview ers nearly always go away and leave me in peace. Some times, a certain amount of sheepishness is written on their faces. state, county, city and dist ricts, authorities and public corporations, and entities and any of their instrumentalities, organized and existing under charter of law." Do you want union bosses to tell you how your tax dol lars are to be spent? This is a vicious bill that is going to be sneaked by the people with a lot of long legal words that most of the people do not bother to ana lyze. This bill is classed , as "permissive" legislation. It is a foot in the door that the unions have long been work ing for. This bill has already had two readings in the house and will be voted on the next time it is read. As the Democrats have a large enough majority to pass it and are controlled by the unions, there is only one alter native, and that would be to write to Governor Hatfield. Ask him to veto House Bill 138 when it comes before him. Please do not delay. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who false ly believe they are free." Goethe. Leila A. Morrow 531 North Bartlett st. Medford. Berrydale Betrayed? To the Editor: How can the city council expect our faith in their "doings" when they keep on betraying us? They betrayed" ' us when they would not honor the con tract with the Berrydale Sani tation District which was first a few years ago. Again it hap pened when they promised im mediate sewerage if we came into the city. They certainly saw to it that we were taken in just before the tax receipts were made out which we had to pay twice now without much in return. And finally why should the cost of our line be more than double what we were told by the city man ager, Mr. Duff, at the How ard school meeting? He told us the cost per frontage foot at $2.74; $15 per lot; $65 per acre and there would be no connecting cost. Compare this now with their present figures at $3 per foot frontage; $79.50 per lot; $198.50 per acre and $75 for connecting. Why should we pay the same high scale as in another area where they had to do ex tensive blasting and shoring? And where our area has been excavated without difficulty by the local sanitation con tractors in installing tanks and fields and again proven by the installation of the wa ter lines? The layer of hard pan in our area has been an advantage from cave-ins. Fur thermore we had, our sewer engineering done and paid for years ago. I was for a sewer system then and still am. What I am against is taking the dollar from the poor and giving it to the rich. There's been talk in con trolling private investigators. I believe in the opposite, with first investigating the city government. Walter Frohreich, 303 Berrydale ave., Medford. Pony Express To the Editor: April 2 will mark 99 years since a most unique, trail riders pony ex press, then established just 13 months and 14 days after Ore gon became a slate, Feb. 14, 1859. At that time, one of the longest pony riding trails on the American continent start ed at St. Joseph, Mo., and end ed at Sacramento, Calif. That lasted only to October, 1861, or about 18 months. The short lived heroic business and fi nancial failure had already engaged the services of many adventuresome young men of steel and nerve including "Buffalo Bill" - (W. F. Cody). Probably one of the most traveled pioneers of the west with ox team and wagon, liv ing to a ripe old age of 90 some years, was Ezra Meeker, who crossed the plains the last time in 1910. Around 1906 Death Valley Scotty rode an "iron horse," Santa Fe special, from Los Angeles, Calif., to Chicago in 44 hours, 54 min utes. Col. Rodgers first span ned the continent in 1911 by aeroplane in somewhat less time. The first pony express car riers that made history and headlines was Oregon Terri tory in 1851, according to the Centennial history, after the discovery of gold in Jackson county. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. Need for Ordinance To the Editor: What is this ordinance for licensing of pri vate detectives and merchant patrol agencies all about? It is for the protection of citi (By M-T Staff Bert Harr of the Applegate valley isn't half-hearted about the Centennial, but he is half bearded as shown above.. He has, he says, several dif ferent stories to explain his unique facial foilage but he rather favors the explanation that he turns the right side of his face (clean-shaven) to the young men who can't grow beards, and the left side to those who can and do. It's a handy compromise, anyway. We have no idea -whether or not anls are subject lo the common cold, but we have heard about some who died as a RESULT of a com mon cold. They were attract ed to a box of the cold-sufferer's cough-drops, swarm ed through it, and were deci mated with insecticide. We've never met Gold Hill Billy, but he's sent us a couple of verses (we can't quite bring ourself to call it poetry) in re cent weeks. Here's another of his offerings: The traveler stopped to get some change In Medford, far from his home range. His heart within him slowly sank When he approached a lo cal bank. For hairy "yeggs" were at each cage! A hold-up? Oh! What bold outrage! zens, police and the private agencies themselves. We have a good chief of police, and he has a big job to do without anyone causing him more trouble. We also have a good police force. I know there have been some complaints, but stop and think who is at fault: "We the Peo ple" are, by letting some of our number take advantage of the police and ask them to do too much courtesy work. Taxpayers that do not ask for such work will help to pay for it, and in so doing help those who consider only themselves, not their neigh bors, by turning to the police instead of hiring an agency which pays for a license to do that type of work. Let's get off the back of the police department. The private patrol is a great advantage to citizens, especially merchants, and more so to the police depart ment even if they have an itchy feeling about it. As you know, we have had problems with teen-agers shooting out lights and break ing windows in residential districts. Now if the merch ants in town hired private patrols to check their doors and windows, instead of ask ing the police to do it as courtesy acts, that would let the police patrol stay on the move, which would stop the biggest percentage of vandal ism. It stands to reason that when those who are up to mischief see the police park ing and checking doors they know when and where to commit their acts. What tax money is for, is to give all the same police protection. What I would like to see for the benefit of every one is an ordinance recog nizing the private agency as a special police agency, which would cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in giving protection throughout the county. If anyone would like to know more details, which I am unable to state at the present time, I would be glad to answer by mail. Ray Koch Forest Green Detective Agency, Box 425, Medford. Navy Seeks Candidates For Aviation Program Portland - The Navy recruit ing office here has announced it is seeking candidates for Na val aviation. Two programs, the Naval Aviation Cadet or the Aviation Officer Candi date, are offered. Additional information may be obtained from the Navy re cruiting office in Medford. and Contributors) Then he spied a police man's badge Half-hid by bush-like cam ouflage And saw the cashiers through their wickets Wearing some ungodly thickets. He knew at once this was no crime, Just Medford's celebra tion time. It's probably a good Ihing Gold Hill Billy's stranger didn't run into Bert Harr on a dimly-lit street. While in a versifying mood. we should report on the epic composed by a student in one of our junior high schools, who was assigned to write a poem. He thought, and strain ed, and agonized, and finally came up with this: Teacher gives us poems to write. Which should be against the rule, And though I've tried with all my might Mine sounds like I'm a fool. We note in an upstate pa per that conceit is an unusu al disease. It makes every body sick but the guy who has it. Ila Grant, a columnist on the Bend Bulletin (and a one t i m e vacation replacement staff member on the Mail Tri bune), noted a little piece on Sunday rides which appeared on this page several days ago. In nostalgic mood, she ex pands on the subject, and we quote: But the Sunday ride nowa days is not like the Sunday ride I remember from my childhood. Now, all too often, the Sunday ride is a contest in which a determined driver, foot pressed hard on the ac celerator, is out to collect statistics. So many miles cov ered in so much time, so many miles to the gallon, and always a definite destination. The Sunday ride of yester year was a leisurely, purpose less excursion that filled in the time between morning church services and the early evening Sunday dinner. Often the route was through an out-of-the-way farming dis trict, and the most important business'at hand was to count the white horses grazing in the fields. What do youngsters count nowadays? Red convert ibles? ' Years ago, the trip always started with a stop at the service station, as of course, . it frequently does today. But the service station 30 years ago was like the old curiosity shop. Those were the days when a five-cent candy bar was large enough to spoil your appetite. And the candy counter at the service station was a tradition. Often the service station was just a gas pump in front of a village general store. And inside, there was every thing from calico yardage to lamp chimneys. There were more flat tires on those long-ago motoring trips. No fun for Father, prob ably, but wonderful for the small fry. While the repairs were being made, there was time to wander away and picJc wildflowers, shuffle through the leaves or throw snowballs, according to the season. Not so much comfort then, either. I remember the snug ness, in winter, of the beaver rug in the old touring car, and the closed-in feeling im parted by the snap-in side curtains with their isinglass windows. You can believe this if you want to. We are told that woodpeckers helped school district save money. They had the habit of drop ping nuts down between the studs of a school build ing wall, where they piled up and piled up, eventually forming an insulating bar rier and saving the school money for heating costs. Spring is in the air. We saw a bed of daffodills in bloom the other day. The flowering quince outside the window is a mass of pink. Grass is be ginning to get its healthy green color again, and to grow. A courJle of lawns in our neighborhood have had their first mowing already. The students at Hoover school have been watching this ever-wondrous progress of the seasons toward the best of them all, and a num ber of their comments are printed in the school paper, the Hoover HiLite. The one we liked best was by Marily McQueen, and it goes like this: "Spring is coming. I like spring. I like spring very much. The flowers come out -they are pretty. It is in March. It came in like a lamb and goes out like a lion. The wind is in March. I like the wind."