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Newspaper Page Text4 Sunday, March 22, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by S3 North Fit St. Ph. SP 2-611 KERB GREK Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor DiruADn TV.WFTT Snnrta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICK5QN, circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Intered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dailv und Sunday 6 mos. 8.0C Tlailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 c...4r Hnlv-uDna war S4 2ft 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 Tt-jl. Ciir 'tf 1 TTIrt 1 VI Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All lerms casn in avancc Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of jacKson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKC ULATIUI WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago, ue rnit Sr Franrisen. Los Aneeles. 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 22. 1949 (Tuesday) Mayor Thomas Williams of Ashland suggests four names as replacements for the three city council seats vacated when councilmen were re called in last week's special election. Medford Mayor Diamond F 1 y n n discusses municipal problems before a women's group, including the problem of the budget's not permitting him a stenographer. 20 YEARS AGO March 22. 1939 (Wednesday) Consolidation of the Gold Hill and Alderbrook school districts is approved at a spe cial election. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Con siderable backyard spading has been completed, resulting in a callous on the hand that swings the golf stick." 30 YEARS AGO March 22. 1929 (Friday) The interstate commerce commission opens a freight rate hearing here. Seeding starts in the Table Rock district. 40 YEARS AGO March 22, 1919 (Saturday) The Commercial club mem bership now totals 363 as a re sult of recent interest. A Red Cross drive for old garments is planned. 50 YEARS AGO March 22, 1909 (Monday) A department of agriculture pathologist asserts that pear blight has been all but eradi cated here. The Southern Pacific's farm demonstration train draws large crowds. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Choreography concerns dancing, singing or map mak ing? 2. Is the average weight of a standard bale of American cotton about 49, 490, or 4,900 pounds. - 3. Is a diving bell open, or closed, at the bottom? 4. Name the city in the U. S. which is said to be "the home of the bean and the cod." 5. If an automobile is driv en at 30 miles per hour, how many feet per second does it travel? 6. In honor of whom is the Soviet city of Leningrad named? 7. "Windy City" is a nick name applied to which TJ. S. city? 8. What does a barometer register? 9. How many sheets con stitute a quire of paper? 10. Correct the following r "The condemned man was hung." Answers: 1. Dancing. 2. 490. 3. Open. 4. Boston. Mass. 5. 44 feel. 6. Nicolai Lenin. 7. Chicago. 8. Atmospheric pressure. 9. Twenty-four. 10. "The condemned man was hanged." Russians eat three times more ice cream per person than Americans do, according to Dr. George Borgstrom, an international food expert. Coming Car Shortage Blame for an impending freight car shortage in Oregon described as the "granddaddy" of them all should not fall upon the shoulders of Western railroads alone. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week points out that the problem arid its causes are nationwide. The Journal article cites as one cause a "squabble" between Eastern and Western , rail roads over possession of badly-needed cars. During the recent recession, the article points out, railroads in this part of the country fared better than those in the East and were able to carry out for the most part their car-buying and repairing programs. '"THE shrewd, perhaps envious Eastern lines re-- portedly have taken advantage of this by the legal if not entirely ethical practice of "pirating" Western cars. When these cars enter Eastern systems in the normal course of commerce they can be kept there for indefinite periods them pays a $2.75 daily The article quotes an irate Midwest rail execu tive as saying the Eastern roads "figure it's cheap er to use one of our new cars for $2.75 a day than it is for them to build or "So," he adds, "they've just let their car pro grams go to pot. TTHE Eastern railroads, according to the Journal, have found it necessary to cut down on main-tainino- their own rollins- stock because of shrink- 0 - o - ing capital. The Pennsylvania road, for one, re portedly lavors establishing a iederal agency to purchase new equipment and lease it to the hard pressed private lines. Many Western railroads apparently view the $2.75 rental fee a major culprit. They point out that it provides insufficient reimbursement for a car that cost them anywhere from $8,50(Mo $20, 000 to acquire. "So long as it is cheaper to rent a car than it is to own one and that is the situation today underbuilding- will be the nolicv of strategically- situated railroads." The road who made this statement believes, according to the Journal, that raising the rental charges would increase the national car supply automa tically "by the operation of natural economic laws." . , ' ( EORGE Ehlen, traffic manager for the Spo kane, Portland and Seattle railway, is quoted as saying recently that "more teeth" in the Asso ciation of American Railroad's rales would dis courage the Eastern roads from hanging on to Western cars for long periods. Raising the rent would probably help the Western lines. On the other hand, it could well put that much more pressure on the profit squeeze, of which most railroads, particularly in the East, complain so bitterly. Another investigation, as demanded by Ore gon officials, might come up with a partial solu tion, or at least some valuable insights. But from all reports the problem can only be licked on a na tionwide basis. The need for action railroads have gotten on lead to economic calamity, both for them and tor their patrons. E.W. More Than Lip Service Some wise men believe that a student ex change program, in, which all the nations of the world participated would, if permitted to operate a. sufficient length of time, remove virtually all threats of another world war. These are the men who originated the Ameri can Field Service program whereby students from foreign lands come to the United States for a year of study in a high school and Americans go abroad to live with families in which there are children of approximately their ages. (The program is to be expanded this year so that American high school students can study abroad for a year.) HTHESE are the men who have devised many other programs which permit American col lege graduates to study abroad and college gradu ates of many countries to come to the United States. One of the very best of these is the Rotaiy Foundation Fellowship program. The program was inaugurated in 1947 as a memorial to 5 the founder of "Rotary International, Paul P. Harris. Since 1947 Rotaiy Foundation Fellowships have been awarded to 1,201 young men and women from 66 countries for study in 43 countries. Total grants for this Rotaiy contribution to the promo tion of international understanding have been in excess of $3,000,000. VER the 1959-60 academic year 131 graduates from 34 countries wall set all-exnense Rotarv Foundation Fellowships, We cite this because Club in your communitv And because there is nothing Rotarians do as Koianans tnat tney consider more important. Their organization exists in most of the countries of the world. Thus thev know the imDortance of international understanding. Their financial .par ticipation in this immense graduate study program is pi ooi tnat tney give international understand ing more than lip service. Pendleton East-Ore- goman,. . so long as the line using rental charge. repair their own. a. v v president of a Midwest is urgent. The nation's a wrong track that could totalling approximately members of the Rotaiy have contributed to it Dennis the ''AWd&JtfSrVW I WENT TO samuCpu Aiy knee wmffSHmmn? wii,w,WI$Wfc Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roseoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) ALLIANCE VS. FORTRESS Washington It is time to get ready for the most signif icant debate and the .most fateful decision which will be taken at this session of Con gress. The debate is: whether to seek survival by helping our allies do what they cannot en tirely do themselves or to turn into a Fortress America and try to do it all alone. The decision is: whether to approve the President's "min imum" mutual security pro gram of $4,000,000,000 or to hack it to pieces in order to spend it some other way. The opponents of the mutu al security appropriation are counting on you to be ade quately gullible, uninterested, and misinformed, so that it can be slashed with impunity. The unanimous conclusion of the Draper Committee, a panel of distinguished and knowledgeable Americans who have earned the right to be heard, is that nothing could be more wasteful and so im peril the national interest than to enfeeble the mutual secur ity program so that it can't do the job. I AM NOT suggesting that the President's military and economic aid request should slide through Congress with out being questioned and with out being argued. There should be debate, very earnest debate. It seems to me that the debate is coming at a good time and under circumstances which will enlist the largest public interest. It comes at a time when the Communist military threat is greater than ever before and when, because of events in Berlin and Iraq, the Commu nist threat is more visible than ever before. The debate comes at a time when we must either rescue the mutual security program from being gradually choked to death by inadequate funds or given the resources equal to the need. It comes at a time when the Democratic leaders of this Democratically controlled Congress who almost unani Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - The warning bells for the future of foreign aid are ringing with rising 1 stridency, but ! there is little indication that 1 1 h e Adminis tration gener ally is paying J much heed. The program no doubt will survive the short run-this year and next at least-if only because of the Soviet Union's habit of fo menting crises like Berlin. Its most effective,, if unwitting, lobbyists, indeed, have been the Russians. They largely caused foreign aid to be adopt ed in the first place, in its initial form known ' as the Marshall Plan. Less than tactfully, they overran Czechoslovakia just as Congress more than a dec ade ago was being asked by the Truman Administration to face up for the first time to the postwar economic and military vacuum left in Eu rope. Congress was under standably weary of shoving out the billions as it had done all during the war. But it simply could not look the oth er way in the face of this brutally candid disclosure of Russian intentions. THE LONGER outlook for foreign aid, however, is far from good. President Eisen ' William S. White Menace ! TT THE DOCTOR? 'MBM6BR. HE mously say they want to put more into our defenses can show whether they really mean it. The mutual security appropriation puts the issue squarely and fairly before the Administration's Defense crit ics. If fthey want stronger de fense, as they avow they do, they must either support the President's mutual security appropriation or be prepared to spend at least three times as much as they cut from it in order to get the same mil itary result. Let us not forget that the mutual security program brings into being many times as much military, strength as the U. S. pays for and de spite some admitted waste, despite some bad administra tion is the economizer's way of getting the greatest secur ity for the free world at the least cost. AT STAKE is not whether a half billion , or a billion dollars will be struck from Mr. Eisenhower's request. For several years now Congress has so cut back and truncated the mutual security program that it can neither be planned well at home or used to best advantage by our allies. At stake is not a little trimming here, a small cut there; at stake is the basic de cision whether the U. S. is go ing to seek survival in isola tion or in a common effort with our allies. On this point the Draper Committee says: "The choice our country faces is very real and near at hand. In our fascination with our own mistakes," and the constant use of foreign aid as a whipping boy, we may be gradually choking this vital feature of our national secur ity policy to death. "What we do this year is an important step in one di rection or the other. By forth right and affirmative action we can set the example ex pected of us. The penalty for failure to do so can well be the beginning of the end of the free world coalition." Those in Congress who are willing to bring about this re sult are counting on you not to care. S. WHITE hower himself has put more heart into backing the pro gram than into anything else in his tenure. No one familiar with the inner situation de nies him good marks here. Down below, however, where actual operations go on, the Administration's leadership is progressively less impressive. In the first place, there is massive, cumulative evidence -not merely the prejudiced evidence of isolationists-that there is a good deal of waste and bureaucratic nonsense in foreign aid. The President's own dis tinguished advisory commit tee, headed by industrialist William H. Draper Jr., has more politely now said just about as much. Foreign aid's best friends in Congress have been saying the same thing for years, and for the same reason. They hope, and so does the Draper commission, that the Administration can be prevailed upon to clean up this situation before Con gress becomes completely fed up and throws out the baby with the bath water. COMPLAINTS about waste have been treated as though they were irresponsible at tacks on the principle of the program. Some of them have not been in good faith, but many have been. And the"se need urgent attention; the time for alibis is running out fast. In the second place, the Matter of Fact THE SUMMIT CASE Washington-Nikita Khrush chev's first dividend from his Berlin crisis is the serious dis- c u s s ion of a summit meet ing that is now going on be tween Dwight D. Eisenhow er and Harold Macmillan. If the President's hand had not been forced, 4osoh Alsnn he would not. be talking with Macmillan about what to sav at the sum mit. He would be trying to avoid going there. Realism reauires this admis sion that Khrushchev has had considerable success alreadv. in the sense of compelling the American policy makers td do something they greatly wished not to do. In a lesser sense, Prime Minister Macmil lan has also had a success. Macmillan's Moscow visit, its European sequels, and the certainty that he would press tne resident very strongly for a summit rally, all com bine to crystallize the reluc tant American decision that a summit was unavoidable. The record clearly proved the distaste of a summit meet ing that is stronelv sharpH by the President and Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles. For the past two years, they have used everv imag inable dodge to avoid such a meeting. During all the first months of the Berlin crisis it self, they followed the same line. As in the past, the chief expedient was insisting that all the real work must be done by a Foreign Ministers' meeting, before the meeting of heads of state. , THE President still says that a foreign Ministers' meet ing must "justify" the sum mit meeting. But the Foreign Ministers' meeting is no long er being used as a blocking tactic. Ihe summit meeting is accepted as virtually un avoidable. That is the big con cession. Yet the fact that the Ameri can policy makers have been forced into this . concession does not necessarily mean that the concession itself is a mistake and a misfortune. To begin with, our highest policy makers' reluctance to go to the summit had some pretty personal motives be hinri it Onfl cimVi -fny incfanno was Secretary of State Dulle's almost passionate preference for doing all the negotiating himself. The Secretary is an admir ably tough negotiator, but there are certain kinds of ne gotiations he cannot carry on. There are certain things which it mav be desirable to sav. that only the President can say with full authority' Equal Iv. Nikita Khrushchev mav have highly important things to sav. which he cannot easilv say through the mouth of Sec retary Dulle s opposite num present mixture of military and economic assistance in a single Congressional bill and program is a case of oil and water. There is a world of dif ference in the two objectives. The one, military security, is totally intertwined with our national security. Military aid thus could be more rationally handled by simply and frank ly throwing it all into the same large pot with the Penta gon's functions. One bazooka is pretty much like another, no matter the nationality of the corporal who fires it. The second objective, eco nomic aid, is both economic and political in purpose. It is unwisely involved now with our purely military planning. AGAIN, in its longer mean ing economic aid to our friends is really only our pres ent substitute for a fully ra tional policy of freer world trade. And it is at this point that the whole of the Admin istration, this time including the President as well, is per forming in what can only be called an odd way. More and more we are putting petty protectionist devices on world trade. Here we deny to a for eign firm a construction con tract it has won in open bid ding. There we lay down im port restrictions. Thus, one hand of the gov ernment assists other coun tries in foreign aid. The other hand hampers them in for eign trade. And foreign trade is, after all, the oldest and cheapest of all forms of "for eign aid," and the best in the end for both parties to the transaction. Finally, to one who has watched thel program from its very beginning it increasingly appears that the Administra tion officials before Congress are putting the "secret" label on too many things too often. For years we have been spend ing millions on foreign mili tary installations, some of which are right next door to Soviet or satellite territory. It is not likely that the Rus sians have got to read the Con gressional Record to discover as much. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) By Joseph Alsep ber, the wooden Andrei Gro myko. WITH regard to Khrushchev, in fact, the story of the summit agitation is highly suggestive. From the outset, the Kremlin's campaign for another rally on the heights took a most curious form. The first official call for such a meeting came from Nikolai Bulganin, then still official chief of the Soviet govern ment. But the Bulganin call to the summit was solely aim ed at the woolier sort of "world opinion." Since he de manded a meeting on the scale of an international garden party, Bulganin's official pro posal was plainly designed to horrify any practical diplomat. Concurrently with Bulgan ing, however, the man with real power in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev, carried on a seeming-unofficial cam paign for a quite different sort of conference. He spoke first through semi - private persons like Mrs. - Franklin Roosevelt and Aneurin Bevan. He finally made his proposal quite openly, in a famous New Year's toast at the Kremlin. What he proposed was no in ternational garden party, but a meeting in a corner between himself and Eisenhower, with no other nations' represented except the United States and the U.S.S.R. VERY obviously, Bulganin's proposal was solely intend ed to force acceptance of Khrushchev's proposal, as the more bearable alternative. Nonetheless, Khru s h c h e v's messages and his toast were firmly ignored by the State Department. Still seeking a chance to talk with the Presi dent. Khrushchev thereupon agreed to a summit meeting in the U.N. Security Council, which was only prevented by Chinese Communist protests. The same theme emerged again during Prime Minister Macmillan's visit to Moscow, when Khrushchev so brutally underlined his lack of desire to talk seriously with any Western leader except the President of the United States himself. For all these reasons, the able American Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thomp son. has advised the State De partment that Nikita Khrush chev almost certaily has some thing important that he wants to sav in person, and to no one but Eisenhower. What Khrushchev has to say may be most unpleasant, but it is worth finding out what it is. That is one justification for a summit meeting. The other iustification is the chance the President will have to warn Khrushchev privately but solemnly that he can push the United States just so far, but not a millimeter further. Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Highway problem: Shall we have white lines in our highways? Or should they be yellow? OREGON has yellow lines. So does Wyoming. Both states want to keep 'em yel low. Yellow, -they say, shows up better through a thin skim of snow or frost. But Uncle Sam says NO that most states have white lines, and we ought to have uniformity and if we're to have uniformity the majority should rule. So Oregon and Wyoming will probably have to conform. Uncle holds the purse. It's our money that goes into the purse, of course. But UNCLE SPENDS IT. That gives him a lot of authority. ANOTHER highway prob lem: What shall we do about the drivers who smack into other people, smashing cars, breaking bones, running up big hospital bills, etc., and turning up WITHOUT INSUR ANCE? Shall we pass a law compelling everybody who drives a car to carry insur ance? It's quite a problem.. There's a lot of talk about it, but noth ing much has been done yet. Maybe the best IMMEDIATE solution for provident drivers is to take out insurance against getting hit by the oth er fellow. That's at least the rugged individualist's way. fTVHE federal government has A a new idea. It would like to be authorized by congress to establish a national clear ing house for the names of dri vers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked. It might be a good idea. It would make a lot of new fed eral jobs. New federal jobs cost money. The money comes out of the taxpayers' pockets. The more Uncle takes out, the less the taxpayer has to spend. Maybe all these things are essential. Maybe they should all be enacted into law. May be they are all so important! Communications Letters 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 not exceed 400 words Swallows Debunked Again To the Editor: It is not at all necessary to be an ornithol ogist to know there is no vest ige of truth in the front page item of the Mail Tribune stat ing: "The swallows returned to Mission San Juan Capis trano today to keep alive their traditional St. Joseph's Day appointment." Just common sense reasoning will convince anyone willing to learn, that no swallow or any other bird can be induced to break age old established habits to keep an appointment with some human-designated day, be it saint or sinner. Swallows, feeding only in flight, must follow the hatch of air flying insects. This de pends on the weather. Thou sands of swallows and other members of the finch family died in the south when an un timely freeze killed air-flying insects that such birds feed on in flight only. Back following depression days, Capistrano first came out reporting the padres of the old mission claiming that old St.. Joseph fed the starving swallows on March 19 some 160 years ago. So, ever since in gratitude for this kindly act, the swallows have re turned on that date to the old mission. It surely does tax the imagination to know how St. Joseph could scatter the millions of live flying insects into the air for the swallows to gulp down in flight. The M.T. item goes on to state that the swallows came in greater numbers than ever. This could be true as this is a very early spring and the swallows would arrive earlier than usual which I am willing to go on record as saying, de spite the claims of one Ted Hodges to verify the swal lows' arrival on the date named for 25 years. Where was Mr. Hodges on March 19, 1938 when this writer was there and no swallows showed up all day? When newsmen finally cornered the old padre, he said so many people coming scared them away. This is just not true, as we were almost the very first arrivals. This never made the printed page, But a bannered news item in the Los "Angeles Times did run "SWALLOWS RETURN." When we called the managing editor on it he stoutly main tained there must have been swallows there. When asked how come his staff-photographer had to photograph a cock-sparrow to go with the news item, he promised a cor rection on the false news, but never printed it. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Rigamarole and Rime To the Editor: A Rime For You: I like to see a man of his word, A man whose words ring true; I like to know that what he 1 says, That is what he will do. We don't print poetry in the M.T., Nor writings of literary charm, That's what the editor says, says he; And hopes it will do no harm. Then straightway the corres pondents' page Is filled with mush and some slime, Enough to make a heathen rage, And feeble efforts at rhyme. We don't print poetry in the M.T., Repeat it from time to time. We don't print poetry, no siree; We print rigamarole and rime. (Ex exemplia, for what it is worth). L. G. Weaver, 301 Haven st, Medford. that we just can't get along without them. But They'd all cost money. A LOT of money. IlfHY not close this piece by ' " talking for a moment about something that would perhaps contribute more to highway safety than anything else that could be done and it WOULDN'T COST A CENT. I'm referring to courtesy. Just common, everyday courtesy. The same kind of courtesy we employ more or less EVERYWHERE ELSE, but fail to display on the high ways. If we were all as courte ous to others, as considerate of the RIGHTS of others, when we are out on the highways behind the wheel of a car, as we normally are in our homes and on the sidewalks on foot, our highways would be FABULOUSLY SAFER. And it wouldn't cost a red cent. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A recent news item told how the Centennial caravan, which will move via covered wagon from Independence, Mo., to Oregon this spring and summer, will be taken to Missouri from Oregon aboard a big freight truck. This mo tivated one of our staff writers to poesy, as follows: Wagons, wagons, eastward, ho! On to Independence, Mo. Truck and trailer will pro vide A horseless, uneventful ride. There your true trek will begin: Two thousand miles back home again, On highways. In a hundred days A trail for tourists you must blaze. "On to Oregon," caravan! And with you, yes, that spe cial van Filled with feed, parts, . tools, supplies; For beards, no doubt, assorted dyes. Polaroid glasses for the eyes, And bug-bombs, just in case of flies. The pioneer, that early bird, Got no such worms, from what we've heard. The Indians you need not fear. They're licensed drivers, too, out here. Remember, though, the trucker's code: Endeavor not to hog the . road. The people in the welfare department spend most of their lime working for ihe benefit of others, or, in the rather cynical phrase of some critics, do - gooding. Last week, be it noted, the office moved into a new lo cation, and not a single person sent flowers. Bud Forrester, the able editor of the Pendleton East Oregonian, recently wrote a little column which does two things: 1. It proves that the Mail Tribune is not the only news paper in the. land to be plagued on occasion with gremlins. 2. It tells a sad story so well, and it comes so close to home, that we herewith reprint his remarks: "Some of the terrible things, none of which can be explain ed, that happen in a newspa per plant on Mondays, have been spoken of in this column. We did not speak of something that the gremlins that inhabit newspapers do any day that they think the editors need a little needling. "This little game the grem lins enjoy is taking some type that belongs in one story and moving it into another story. You say, 'Pshaw! How could gremlins do that? How could they pick up type and move it around?' Well, we used to scoff at it, too. But we have had to conclude that it is grem lins that do it bcause no print er has ever confessed having done it. "This is something that hap pens on all newspapers, not only at the East Oregonian. Just last week we saw this in the Coos Bay World: 'The Congress took no ac tion. But Truman remarked: "Zud removes rust and stains from bathtubs".' " The gremlins get in their dirtiest licks when they ex change the lines of type under two pictures. Editors who have had that experience, awaken in the night with the screaming heebie - jeebies. We recall the case of Tom Shea, managing editor of the old News - Telegram in Portland, who never was the same after the gremlins exchanged the lines of type that were under a picture of a bride with those under a wrestler's picture. The wrestler didn't complain, but what the bride and her rela tives said left Mr; Shea in a state of shock for days. There is no explanation for this. So, if it ever happens in a story that involves you, don't A 1 - J ' . T expect, an explanation, iou can only be given an apology." Just io prove things, the gremlins arranged for a typographical error io ap pear in Bud's column that day. The word gremlins came out spelled "gremi lins." The Mail Tribune's unoffi cial gremlin-counter, that man in Phoenix, points out that a recent story talked about a "reinformed" (instead of rein forced) bridge. He commented, "And I al ways thought that 'talking to a stone wall' was a figure of speech: Will the information poured into the new structure bring it up to date historically, or physically?"