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1 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB News depicts a prospect looking over one of those underslung foreign sports jobs on a dealers floor, and demanding angrily, "Goshalmighty, eight thousand dollars for this tiny crate? Which impover ished nation, does- this one come from?" Joe E. Lewis came to grief when he crossed one rooster with another rooster. All he got for his pains was one mighty cross rooster. So this year he changed his tactics and crossed a raccoon with a skunk. Result: A very dirty look from a raccoon. To shew you how quickly fortunes change hands in. Las Vegas," writes publicist AI Freeman, "a. visitor arrived here on Wednesday in a 2,000 Rambler, and left Thursday in a 540,000 bus!" C 1339. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written on the eve of Easter Sunday. What do we do on Easter? We do many things. W E COLOR eggs, and hide them for the children to find. We buy new clothes. Having bought new clothes, we want to show them off. Hence the Easter Parade of which the Fifth Avenue parade in New York is the best known in our country. All too often, we eat too much. We go to church some of us. do we do these things? ; s a long story-ior easi er goes far back into human history. The Venerable Bede, generally accepted as the earliest Anglo-Saxon historian and scholar (at least he was among the first to write it down) says Easter originated in a heathen festival held at the vernal equinox in honor of the Teutonic goddess of dawn. Her name, Bede tells us, was Eostre. Hence, by derivation, our word Easter. IITHY do we color eggs? That.too.isanoldone.lt comes down to us from Egypt and Persia. Eggs were a sign of new life and new life tends to begin in the spring. Why the colored eggs? Egyptian and Persian legend has it that colored eggs were laid by the Easter rabbit on Easter eve. Rabbits too are very old. They go as far back into history as legend goes. clothes? In the spring, the earth dress es itself in a new cloak of greenery. So, at Easter, people also dress up. When people dress up, they want to show off their new clothes. How about over-eating on Easter? The origin of that is equally simple. As far back into history as we can reach, festivals have tended to be preceded by fasts. Why? Your guess is as good as anybody's. Possibly it was because one enjoys a feast more when one is hungry. So (maybe) people fasted before feasting so that the feast would be more en joyable. 0 MUCH for the dim past. We come now to the final IN JACKSON COUNTY'S WELCOME STOCKADE ON THE SISK1YOUS Clip and Mail Coupon Pledge of the 39ers for our most welcome anniversary guests. TWO EASY WAYS TO EECOME A 59er 1. Fill in this application and send $1.00 to Jockson County Centennial Headquarters, 1959 Oregon Avenue, Medford. Your pin will be mailed promptly. 2. Obtain a pin ct ony bonk' in Jackson County. Name- Address- City- tOeie BetUtuf. question: Why do we go to church on Easter? W E GO to church on Easter because Easter is the Christian festival that honors the resurrection of Jesus. The Christian religion changed the world as no other religion ever changed it. The TEACHIING of Jesus changed the world as no other TEACH ING ever changed it. Jesus came into a world in which for countless centuries TOO MUCH POWER HAD BEEN HELD IN TOO FEW HANDS. His teaching was a flaming protest against too much power held in too few hands too long. His crucifixion was encompassed by those who held too much power in too few hands and proposed to KEEP it there at any cost. His resurrection symbolized the TRIUMPH of his teaching upon which the progress of the modern world has been founded. I N CONCLUSION: Whenever in the modern world human progress has fal tered it has been because of too much power held in too hands too long, and the re sulting abuses thereof. Whenever as in Martin Luther's case and in the case of our American colonies someone has arisen to chal lenge successfully the holding of too much power in too few hands too long, human prog ress has been resumed. LUCY'S FRIEND SUED Hollywood, Calif .- (UPD -Actress Vivian Vance, who plays a more-or-less happily mar ried friend of Lucille Ball on the "I Love Lucy" television show, has been charged with extreme cruelty in a divorce suit brought by her husband, Actor Philip Ober. They have been married 18 years. ASKS SCHOOL LAW Atlanta, Ga.-(UPD-Sen. man Talmadge (D.-Ga.)f Her who has proposed a constitutional amendment giving states full control over public schools, said Monday night that only legislation on the federal level can save public schools in the South. Juan Ponce de in 1521 in Cuba. Leon died A WEAR WITH PRIDE A citizen's symbol of Jockson County Centenniol Hospitality. Display this replica of the gold, rush dcys to prove your participation in tht Jackson County Centennial effort. You will be a pioneer stockholder in the welcome stockode on tht Siskiyous. The 59er bodce synfaolixes rh worrnth of ' frontier friendliness they'll Gom Bad i facJtiOH Countf. Attorney Asks Help Display of 'Obscene' Paul Haviland, former Jack-, son county district attorney, yesterday called on parent teacher groups to help prevent the display and sale of "ob scene" literature on local newsstands. He told a Jackson County Chamber of Commerce round table audience that such litera ture has a bad influence on juveniles and sex deviates in particular. Haviland, now in private practice here, said court ac tion under existing law has proved an inadequate solu tion. "A personal approach" is, he said, "in my opinion, the only practical solution." He suggested that parent teacher association committees approach merchants and ask them "without threats" to take offensive booklets and magazines from their shelves. Business Elsewhere "If merchants continue to carry material we don't want," Haviland added, "we can take our business elsewhere. And let them know why." Commenting on an April, 1957, editorial in the Mail Tribune opposing the use of economic pressures in deal ing with the problem, he said: "I personally don't feel it is unfair. "We have a perfect right to ignore their places when we're shopping. "There is no reason," he added, "why any merchant can't police his magazine stand in the same manner as a meat counter or vegetable bin. "You don't find rotten ap ples or vegetables in their vegetable bins." Haviland said criminal ac tion against such literature is "difficult." He said it is "virtually impossible to get a conviction," and mentioned cases in Salem ' and Eugene where defendants were found innocent. A judge in Lane county, it is understood, has found ac tion brought under Oregon's anti-obscenity statute in one case unconstitutional. Haviland said sympathetic juries, merchants' denials that they knew the literature in question was on their stands and deciding the "fine point of what is obscene" are rea sons why criminal actions have proved unsuccessful. State Police Office Being Remodeled Remodeling of the state po lice office on Pacific highway north of Medford is being ! completed this week, it was reported. State police district offices are being relocated on the south side of the building The section for the local of fice and communications will be placed in the north end of the building, it was explained, The main public entrance will be through the north door now. This is designed to expe dite office operations. All communications including the telephones, radio, and tele type will be centrally located Both radio and teletype ma chines will be placed in a glassed-in room in the local office to cut down on the noise, an officer said. PARTNER He did not define "obscen ity" yesterday himself. But for illustrations he showed aj number of magazines with photographs or drawings of nude or semi-nude females, and read aloud two limericks and part of a poem. "All these magazines are available for young people," he observed. No Control Asked if approaching dis tributors who deliver maga zines to the merchants might be effective, Haviland replied that their answer is they have no control over the magazines sent to them and would lose their franchises if they re fused to accept and distribute what they receive. He said PTA committees would be the "best bet," since they could make regular in spections in neighb orhood areas and would "keep at it." . Tony Manno asked whether persuading merchants not to sell offensive literature to minors would help the situa tion. - . "The average shop owner who sells this sort of thing," Haviland replied, doesn't care who buys it." Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Knoxville, Tenn.-Henry Jones, a jeweler from Lenoir City, Tenn., who gave King Hussein of Jordan a ride in his motor boat Monday and heard the King say he'd like "to see me some time in his country": "I told him I'd like to come if I had the money." Honolulu-Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R.-N.Y.) who urged Hawaiian voters to send two Republican senators to Wash ington: "Or you can send Democrats to be lost in limbo with Lyn donjust another pair of mustangs lo be rounded up in Lyn don Johnson's already overpopulated corral." Amarillo, Tex.-Uncle John Graves, 82-year-old court bail iff, a one-time Texas Ranger who wounded an escaping pris oner with a dead-eye shot from 50 yards away: "I hit him within two inches of where I wanted to." Indianapolis, Ind. - Divorcee Connie Nicholas, charged with the murder of a married business executive who left her after a 15-year romance, after the selection of an all male, all-husband jury to try her case: 'They seemed to be a group of fair-minded men. and that's all I ask." San Francisco-Scott Lamb, to police that a 12-foot king truck: "One drop of its venom would kill an elephant." '' Wlifl OyU 5.98 VALUB! WOOD YOUR (q) (q) ILL IINIn ...S!R--6' CHOICE co5co) ! iHl 'I II Beam"back con- 1 66 Reg. 1.29 gallon. tO-lPi5 1 Hi lUrMl l section. For home "TP Frrzstf Nu-Purpose thinner, lLZTw SllS III Iwlittl Aluminum extension llr'JtfeC. Reg" qt" ,iquid rSf ' , if 8 KZBil U ,adders are available S brush cleaner, 88c. ' rJf :fl rm Catalog-Order SP Re3- -49 roller-tray j lii III III Department combination, 88c. o' to Prevent Literature commenting on the argu ment that controlling news stand literature amounts to censorship, he said, "We have censorship in practically everything we do." He mentioned movies as one example. As another, he refered to the pure food and drug act, which protects pub lic health and welfare through preventing the sale of spoiled food or potentially harmful drugs. "How much more injurious it is," he said of the litera ture, "to have this type of material available to young people." He referred also to the law prohibiting the sale of alco holic beverages to minors. Haviland said the literature creates "an additional load" for youth agencies to which citizens contribute. He said he presented his viewjs on the subject two years ago on several occasions, with the result that some mer chants removed objectionable items from their newsstands. While a few have continued their supervision, he said, oth ers have not. Some, he said, never did cooperate. a snake dealer who reported cobra has been stolen from his Senate Approves Planning Group Name Change Salem-(UPD-With six nega tive votes, the Senate mon day passed a bill changing the name of the State Department of Planning and Development to the Department of Econom ic Development. Opposition to the bill did not resovlve around the change of name but rather to same parts of the original act setting up the planning ag ency which passed four years ago. Act Not Amended Sen. Ward Cook (D-Port-land) said a subcommittee had not amended the original act, the only change in the bill be ing the new name. The department had request ed the change of name, it was said that many officials and individuals felt that the de partment was concerned with answering questions on mat ters in which the department had no responsibility. Protest Letters Sen. Jean Lewis (D-Port-land) told the Senate that she had received 117 letters pro testing against what was de scribed as proposed elimina tion of home economics at Oregon State College. "I wish that everyone would wait until we have the budget of the Board of Higher Educa tion completed and can report to you," she said. "However, I can say, very definitely, that there is no intent by the Ways and Means Committee to abol ish this important activity at Oregon State College." Port Bill Passed A bill which sets up pro cedures for establishing port districts and providing for elections after a port district has been approved by the county court was passed. The bill, requested by the Oregon Chamber of Com merce, changes the provisions for municipal corporations designated as ports from coun ties with 100,000 or more pop ulation to counties with pop ulations of 50,000 or more. The bill was introduced by Sens. Monroe Sweetland and Richard Groener, both Mil waukie Democrats. There are more than 21 mil lion bicycles in the United States. WE'VE Population Growth Worries States on Red China Borders By ROBERT MUSEL United Press International London - (UPD - There is an ominous word used by the Chinese to describe the civil ians they moved into Tibet in the wake of the army in vasion of 1950. The word is "colonizers." It is a word as worrying to the states bordering China, and perhaps to Soviet Russia itself, as the present emer gency over Tibet. In New Delhi a few weeks ago there was a great inter national conference on con trol of population. Communist China did not attend. Almost alone among the great powers, it is encour aging, at least by tacit con sent, an explosion of popula tion unequalled in magnitude anywhere in the world. A Billion Chinese British experts estimate that the Chinese population grows by more than 13 mil lion every year! This figure nationally increases as the overall number of Chinese increases. There are now more than 650 million Chinese in China itself. There could be more than a billion by the end of the century squeezed into an area less than twice the size of the United States. There also are increasing indications that China has no intention of remaining within the borders of what the out side world regards as China proper. For example, in 1954, Chinese maps appeared m New Delhi which showed Sikkim, Assam and Bhutan as part of China. Chinese Need Room Indian officials refused to take the maps seriously Al though Sikkim is a protector ate of India, Bhutan is inde pendent but has close ties with India. Assam is an adminis trative unit within India. Now, according to dis patches reaching London, the Chinese are admitting that With 700,000 troops, the Republic of Korea now main tains the world's fourth larg est armed force SOLD I GAL. THE PAST 37 YEARS! IT MUST BE SALE! SAVE OVER 1 A GALLON ON CERTIFIED SUPER finest linseed oil-based house paint you can buy Reg. 5.49. 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