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4 Sunday, April 5, 1M MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordWTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MU3FORD PRINTING CO. 33 North fii St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GREV Advertising Manager GEPALD 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-! Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medforrt Oregon under Act of Maith 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mai 1 In Advance. Coot 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only one year i4.au Rt Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point, jacKsonviue. ooia run, Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv . Talent and cm motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUsy 1 mo. 130 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City "t Medford Official Paper of Jackton County United Presa International Fun Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WXST-HOUDAY 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 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASWOCWkTlS ax 2E 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 April 5, 1949 (Tuesday) The flowering plum tree on the Jackson county courthouse lawn bursts into bloom, con firming beyond a reasonable doubt the arrival of spring." Two ."eggbeaters" (U.S. hel icopters) pay a whirlwind call at Medford airport. 20 YEARS AGO April 5. 1939 (Wednesday) The Medford city council urges residents and owners of business properties to conduct a "spring cleaning" before the tourist season. . ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Srudge Pot" column: "Wan derers in the wildwoods of late, report running into poi son ivy, .but no democratic picnics, sa far this spring." . 30 YEARS AGO April 5. 1929 (Friday) City police order that dogs must be kept tied up or face a trip to the pound. The county court declines to provide gasoline for strand ed tourists. 40 YEARS AGO April 5, 1919 (Saturday) Taxpayers rush to Jackson ville to pay their taxes. The first Medford auto of the year negotiates the pass over the Sifkiyous. 50 YEARS AGO April 5, 1909 (Monday) , A vein of bituminous coal is uncovered on the Broad bent property and Desert Oil company drills even deeper in its well on the Gore tract. Central Point's new Com mercial club plays host to the Medford Commercial club. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. '- 1. During World War II, what was the OPA? 2. If a contest took place in Santa Anita, would it most likely be a horse race, dog race, or foot race? 3. Name the three ships commanded by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage. 4. Correct the following sentence, "He must go : and lay down." 5. The city of Taipeh is on what large island off the coast of China? 6. - Name the five States that have coastlines on 4he Gulf of Mexico. 7. A female deer is known as a ? 8. "Gopher State," is a nickname for which state of the United States? 9. Was Nathan Hale a hero of the French and Indian, Revolutionary, of Mexican War? 10. In the nursery rhyme, what sat down beside Little Miss Muffet? Answers: 1. Office of Price Administration. 2. Horse race. 3. Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. 4. "He must go and lie down." 5. Formosa. 6. Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. 7. Doe. 8. Minnesota. 9. Revolutionary. 10. A spider. Salem-TCPD-Gov. Mark Hat field has appointed Charles W. Fox of Portland, a member of the State Board of Forestry, to the Forest Protection and Conservation Committee. t Best School Plari Tomorrow, the people of six school districts in Jackson county will have a chance td vote on whether or not the six should be consolidated into one big school district. The opposition to the change has been fairly vocal. Those who support it have been less so, per haps on the theory that the plan has such obvious merits that its passage is a foregone conclusion. There's nothing foregone about it. m m A COUPLE of 'points should be made at the outset. First, make no mistake about it, costs of edu cation are on the rise, and will continue to go up. It isn't as much a question 'of "cutting taxes" as it is a question of keeping them from rising faster than necessary. If anyone tells you to the contrary, he either doesn't know the facts of life, or he's pulling your leg. Second, the most important thing involved is the education which we can offer to our young sters. In today's world, a good education is prob ably the most vital thing we can give to any youngster. More, education is vital to the nation, not only in its "cold war" with Communist im perialism, but in the new space and nuclear age, which will demand the best trained, thinking minds available. THERE is a lot of sentiment connected with small schools. This is not only understandable it is right and proper. And the old adage about the best education being a top educator on one end of a log and a bright student at the other has a lot of truth to it. But you can't put 7,660 kids on one end of a log and 339 teachers on the other. You need buildings. And books. And special-equipment. And good administration. The "little red school house" won't do any longer. If high standards are to be maintained, you likewise need a district which has the resources to provide special equipment for instruction over and above the "Three R" level audio- visual aids, laboratory equipment, school buses, extra curricular activity equipment, and so on. THESE things can be done by a larger district. TPV Vrs rlnnn V.ir o cm oil rlicf vinf nnlir at a much greater comparable cost, and with real effort. - A larger district has fied administration, a lack of duplication in pur chasing, services, bus routes, and so on. it nas ine advantage oi unuorm stanaaras. . It can maintain special education classes for handicapped and retarded children. It can obtain a higher quality of teachers, not only by offering adequate pay, but also by being able 'to let them fulfill the roles in which they do their best work not asking an English teacher to coach a team or teach elementary arithmetic on the side. . ' TTHE changes in tax levels in the various districts under the consolidation proposal will be neg ligible a few dollars a year, at most, either way. , As remarked earlier, there are some valid arguments against the consolidation proposal. But the advantages to the youngsters them selves, who are the most important consideration in the whole thing; to teachers; and, in the long run, to taxpayers far outweigh the , disadvan tages. The clinching argument, for us, is that the school boards of all six districts the people who have devoted hours and hours to studying the problem over the years have come to the con clusion that the consolidation proposal is sound, and in the best interests of all concerned. THERE is no selfishness in the proposal. It has been made soberly by intelligent, public spirited citizens, who, many of them, real ize that in proposing a plan for the best good of all in the long run, some sacrifices will have to be made by everyone involved; . But good schools are not a luxury. They are a necessity in today's world. They orm the whole basis for the American ideal of an educated, liter ate citizenry. And, despite whatever slight disadvantages may attend the consolidation proposal, it is, under present circumstances, the best way to continue working for the best possible education of our children. E.A. Early Tax Dodging Most people, these days, are perfectly willing to pay taxes if they know where they're going, and if they are convinced they're getting their money's worth for whst they pay. . A hundred years ago, in southern Oregon and northern California, there didn't appear to be quite the same spirit. In the delightful little historical booklet en titled "The Pictorial History of Southern Oregon and Northern California," just off the press, the author, Grants Pass Teacher Jack Sutton, has this to say: ". . . The areas covered by this -text' cannot be divided in presenting a true nlstory. "Neither Indians nor early gold seekers bothered to determine the actual location of the border between the two states. Close elections were completely con fused when miners of Jacksonville, Waldo (Sailor's Diggin's), Democrat Gulch and other Southern Ore gon gold producing centers voted in both states but refused to pay taxes in either. "Whenever a tax representative of the Oregon Territory called, he would find the miners had just decided they were Californians, but they became staunch Oregonians by the time the California collec tor arrived on the scene . . ." E.A. the advantage of a uni Dennis the mil mmm iiinmNYM ...AND WHEN OEMS ENTfRED THE TMOR BttHPOOM.tfB STARRED fat. TAYLOR, WHO THEREUPON DROPPED AND, CONSEQUENTLY. 6SOKE HIS UPPER 0EN7Uf?E. IS TWTESSQJTlALiy CORRECT? 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 Put Aside Selfishness To the Editor: I have been dismayed -to note during the past few days the tone of a number of letters-to-the-editor opposing the consolidation of our schools.- These letters seem td be motivated by con siderations other than that of giving every child in this area the best education possible. The arguments advanced against consolidation range rather widely in content but none seems especially con cerned with this most de sirable goal. Many appear prompted by various personal cant and others have made reasons while others exag gerate inconsequential factors, such as minor changes in the rate of taxation. Nowhere does anyone contend that con tinued separation into smaller districts will give a better op portunity to every , child in an area already bound by economic, social, cultural and other ties. . . In this post-Sputnik era the whole field' of education has been subjected to considerable criticism because of our fail ure as a nation to keep up with our potential enemy in several critical zones of en deavor. It becomes clearer with every new development in foreign affairs that the most urgent task of our time is that of meeting the challenge posed by a nation avowedly bent on destroying us. A con flict seems inevitable unless we make ourselves invincible. To do this requires us as a nation to excel in many high ly complex and. .difficult fields, but particularly in mathematics, the -sciences and in certain technical skills. To ward this end Dr. James Co nart and others have made some specific recommenda tions for the education of as many of our children as we can. The reorganization and consolidation of our schools is in line with their sugges tions. It is important that we do not let trivial or selfish considerations influence our voting on this matter. I should, therefore, like to make a plea to all of those who are also concerned with educational improvement on a national scale, no matter what district they live in, to exert the effort to vote for consolidation. O. T. Heyerman, M.D., 125 Winema Way Medford. Facts Not "Beclouded" To the Editor: In answer to Mr. Fred Edens' communica tion in the April 1 Tribune, I'd like to bring out a few of the facts he deems "be clouded" about consolidation with the Medford School dist rict. First: It was stated that we wouldn't receive a reduction in taxes due to the fact the drop in millage would be tabled and held in reserve for future improvements. Surely this must be his own point of view. To my knowledge no of ficial has stated, nor did an article in the March 25 Trib une (one of a series of articles written to acquaint the peo ple with consolidation) state that this saving was to be set aside for future improvements or expansion. The article did point out that the millage rate in all but the Medford dist rict would decrease. Second: It is true we have graduates attending colleges, but what percentage of our students go on to higher edu cation, ' and what vocational training is provided for those students who do not wish to go on to college? Third: Devaluation of our property would be no threat because through this consoli Menace dation we would offer the same education per tax dol lar as the other districts. This in turn would bring potential property owners into our com munity, resulting in more building and prosperity to our city. , Fourth: Of the 13 teachers we are supposed to lose as residents if this consolidation goes through, only four live in Jacksonville. The other nine live in Medford and else where in the valley. Mr. Edens prefers to wait for future legislation and gov ernment gifts to solve our problems. He is forgetting the school boards involved spent many months studying and analyzing the consolidation program and that they highly recommend it. Why wait years when we can solve this prob lem at the April 6 election? Actually the study and plan ning of this consolidation started in the fall of 1952 so it can hardly be called a hasty decision. I, too, say let's forget about taxes and think of this con solidation from the education standpoint. Let's think of the broader curriculum it has to offer in the field of sciences, foreign languages, vocational training, music, sports and a few "of the "extras" our chil dren so richly deserve. A. E. Reinking P. O. Box 66 Jacksonville, Ore.' On Outside School Aid To the Editor: School boards of the school districts propos ing consolidation have been criticized for not waiting for State andor Federal Aid on our school problems. Additional state aid now be ing considered by our legisla ture will not be sufficient to solve the serious problems fac ing our school .district. Fur thermore there is no basis to assume that federal aid will be forthcoming soon, since this issue has been before Con gress for several years. It is also a question whether or not we would qualify for any funds so appropriated. Opponents of the consolida tion plan object to some loss of local control. Surely any federal aid would entail far greater loss. It should not be necessary to remind anyone that the federal government cannot give us anything it has not first taken from us. It's a long pipe line from Jackson county to Washington, D. C, and return, and there are many leaky faucets en route. This issue' is of great im portance to all the children involved and should not be resolved on the basis of emo tion, personal prejudice or lack of information. Harold M. White, Box 643, Jacksonville, Ore. Give Children The Best To the Editor: Having seen in various places the big schools eat up the little ones, and the different types of problems brought on by such consolidation, being forceful ly brought to mjattention, I would like to state that here is more headache than any one is entitled to. Taxes may fco down for a year, then go up higher than ever, and you just can't do anything about it. Transportation is one item that is always being used as a lever to raise the cost. The board in control will no long er be your board, but of the other district you consolidated with. You will have no say! Also the larger schools have a ten dency to regiment all chil dren to the place where very few do any individual think ing. The new school aid bill be fore the state legislature Matter of Fact THE UNRENOVATED REPUBLICANS Washington - The resigna tion of Meade Alcorn as Chairman of the Republican National Com mittee will be lamented by the party's or thodox profes sional politici ans. The or thodox profes sionals have liked Al c o r n pre cisely be- XT- 2 1 1 cause mis dDie, jos,ob nj, businesslike man was also completely orthodox and com pletely professional. The ques tion remains, however, wheth er orthodox professionalism is really what the Republican Party needs. The question is raised, for instance, by the story of Neil McElroy's bad beginning as Secretary of Defense. When first appointed, McElroy con sidered bringing in as Under Secretary one of the principal authors of the Gaither Report, William C. Foster. But Foster had been Under Secretary of Defense once already, at the end of the Truman adminis tration. He was "tainted with Trumanism," as the orthodox professionals like to phrase it. TN THE eyes of the profes- sionals, all Republicans with the "Truman-taint" deserve the blackest sort of black list. Hence McElroy's inclination towards Foster was firmly dis couraged. McElroy, being at a loss, then decided to con tinue Under Secretary Donald Quarles m office. Having sought one of the authors of the Gaither Report as his chief tutor, the wholly untutored McElroy ended by leaning on the most obstinate opponent of every idea and theory in the Gaither Report This result was rigidly or thodox and st-'ictly profession al. No doubt the choice of a "Truman-tainted" Under Sec retary of Defense would have disquieted such Republican Congressional grandees as House Leader Charles Halleck Certainly such a choice would have disquieted men like George M. Humphrey, at least if McElroy had followed the Gaither Report line. The orthodox, professional thing to do was also the safe thing to do-at least for the short run. Yet it is a pretty safe fore cast that this . was not the safe thing to do for the long run. By election year, the unwisdom of tossing the Gai ther Report into the scrap basket will surely be appar ent. The policy that Donald Quarles has stood for and sold to his chief will surely be discredited. The price for short run party harmony will be paid, in the long run, should lift the burden to a large extent and a close watch on your economy will do the rest. Give your children the best by keeping the small high schools going: You do not have to consolidate! Don't lose your individuality! Ruth Stagg, v ' Harold Stagg, Jacksonville. Ore. Many Suport Plan To the Editor: We - would like your readers to know that there are many of us who are whole-heartedly behind our school board and the Jackson county reorganization commit tee who have recommended consolidation of our school with the five other adjoining school districts. We have attended the pub lic meetings which were con ducted by the board and feel that the issue has been clearly and f airly'presented. Contrary to some people's belief, this consolidation issue is not a sudden' one, but has been dis cussed for some time (as long ago as 1952, at which time at least three meetings were held). We have followed with interest your paper's coverage of the work of the reorganiza tion committee from the time of its establishment. True, we do have a strong sentimental attachment Try and -By BENNETT CERF- DOROTHY SIMS tells this story with a moral worth re membering. There once was a lady named Mabel Jullup who had taste. She bought a lovely vase at an auction and put it on her table! It was Ming, and very elegant, but it made the rest of her furni ture look tacky. So she sold the rest of the furniture, and had an expensive interior decorator re-do her entire apartment. That made Mr. Jullup look cheap. So she got a divorce from Mr. Jul lup, and married a Mr. Pres ton Potter, of the Social Register. But here's the sad end ing to the story. Mr. Pres ton Potter made HER look cheap! ' "What are you reading?" a mother demanded of her 7-year-old. "A story about a cow jumping over the moon," was the answer. "Throw that book away at once," commanded the mother. "How . often have I told you you're too young to read science fiction?" O 1959, by Bennett Cert Diitributed by Kins features Syndicate. By Joseph Alsop in lost Republican votes at the polls. ONE could cite other, similar cases, such as Alcorn's suc cessful effort to block the au- pointment of Henry Labouisse as Foreign Aid Administrator. But there is no need to ac cumulate further evidence, in order to make the essential point, which really has to do with the President rather than Meade Alcorn. The point is that the President s drive to reconstruct, or as he put it, to "modernize" the Republi can Dartv has utterly failed in the end. Having been Re publican National Chairman in the second Eisenhower ad ministration, Meade Alcorn cannot justly be blamed tor this failure. The banishment of the "Tru man-tainted" Republicans was of the Dattern from the'outset-although the Presi dent himself was Truman tainted, too. For just that rea son, the present Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commis sion, John J. McCone, was ve- tnpH for a maior Defense De partment job in 1953. Mc Cone got his present post be cause his predecessor, Lewis Strauss, got into such a fear ful row with Congress. Still another, even more imDortant Dart of the pattern was the heavy preference giv en by Eisenhower to men "who had met a payroll"-to industrial executives, as op posed to lawyers, bankers, and men with academic back grounds. Practical experience showed that industrialists commonly find it more diffi cult than almost any other group of men to adapt them selves to the peculiar ways of government. Furthermore, the competition for promotion in the great industrial hier archy makes it very danger ous for the abler junior execu tives to shift to government work; so the second-raters are more easily available. All this was plainly proven by the ap palling effects of the Charles E. Wilson years at the De fense Department. TT WOULD take too long to - analyze all the other ele ments in the Eisenhower pat tern, such as the very great behind - the - scenes influence that Robert A. Taft exercised over many of the earliest ap pointments. Since Harry Truman's time, the Democratic party has been largely renovated, by the kind of men who organized the California and other state vic tories in the last election. But the Republican party will have to wait for renovation by Richard Nixon or Nelson Rockefeller. Both men have strong ideas about how to do the job, and both frankly ad mit that the job needs doing for our "own little school," but we are equally convinced that it would be foolish pride that would not allow us to transfer our affection and sup port to any school which would provide our children with greater opportunities in education. We sincerely be lieve that we and our children can make this adjustment, and even further, we earnestly hope that in doing so we can bring with us some of the school spirit of which we have so long been proud. Those opposing the plan have studiously avoided mak ing any mention whatever of the obvious and important ad vantages this consolidation will bring to our young peo ple. Many opportunities for in tellectual advancement will be available which Jacksonville cannot offer now nor in the future. We want to commend the Jacksonville School Board for their conscientiousness and hard work on this matter. We also wish to thank Mr. Becken for appearing at one of our meetings and thank the Medford School Board and Administrators for their coop eration. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Davis, P. O. Box 671, Jacksonville, Ore. Stop Me PTILUCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Joseph Hall of Shady Cove wrote us a nice letter last week about a tree which he calls the "Teamsters' Tree"- or "the perfect graft." Just in case we didn't be lieve him, he enclosed the snapshot of it reproduced above. The trees (or tree) grow (or grows) a few miles south ' of Prospect, Mr. Hall reports, are firs, and he speculates that the soil is so poor that it took two stumps to support one tree. With all the fuss about the little foreign cars these days, it fell to the uninten tional lot of the Mail Tri bune to figure out the per fect name for them a fact drawn io our attention by our persistent friend down Phoenix way. In a story the other day we made ref erence to an "antomobile" and if you can come up with a better name than that, we'll put is with you. A telephone call to the weather bureau for the fore cast is a daily occurrence at In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, President Eisenhower addresses the 10th anniversary session of NATO. "NATO" is alphabetese for North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the al liance of Western nations whose job is to protect the Western free way of life which is threatened by the communist objective of world conquest. (UR JOB, he told the mem vbers of this 15-nation alli ance, is to follow the road that leads to lasting peace and universal justice. If we are to reach our destination, he said, we must: 1. Have the courage to stand fast in the face of men ace and of threats. 2. We must be willing to make the sacrifices needed to maintain and improve our collective strength over a long period of time. 3. We must have the per severance to explore every avenue which offers reason able hope for just solutions to the issues between our selves and the Soviet Union. H OW are we doing? Well- Ike told' the NATO nations We aren't doing too badly. l?OR example: Hit 11AXU alliance was forged ten years aeo. our President said, the commu nists have made NEITHER POLITICAL NOR MILITARY GAINS IN EUROPE. Nor, he added, have the military efforts made by these countries stunted in any way their ECONOMIC growth. On the contrary, he hammerpH home, there has been a NOTA BLE INCREASE IN PRO DUCTION. TRADE AND LIV ING STANDARDS among the NATO peoples during the ten years of NATO's existence. Economic and military strength, he said, have devel oped hand in hand. I S THAT a bad record? It -is NOT. It is a WONDERFUL record. A THOUGHT in closing: - A lnt nf tylnnm line Keen peddled. We've been told that the Russians are too much for us. That they have us over a barrel. That they are going forward while we're slipping back. Ike says it isn't so. And- He is the world's top sol dier. LET'S take him at his word. Let's BELIEVE IN OUR SELVES. Let's get back the old American confidence that the bigger they are the hard er they fall. the Mail Tribune. And the newspaper frequently refers enquiries on weather to the bureau's station at the Med rd airport (telephone SPring K1QS7). The tables were turned the t!er day. The meteorologists alledothe M-T asking for a py of the 30-day national Mcast, having misplaced ttir copy. The M-T, having eived the report by United International wire, wai efcte and happy to oblige. 0e of our readers had i ' IwPFY day last week, after seading a word in a head ing which he just KNEW ' was wrong. He looked for ward all evening to drop ping in the next morning to tease the staff about their goof. He came in, started his teasing, and was con siderably abashed when he found that the word was perfectly correct after all. . The word in question was "temblor," another name for an earthquake. There is no such word as "tremblor." he discovered before he left, somewhat 'apologeti cally. i A reporter was in the sheriff's office the other day when a deputy answered the telephone. His side of the conversation started out like this: "Yes. Yes. What did you say happened? He did WHAT?" The reporter, sensing a hot news story, questioned him after he hung up the tele phone. It developed that the call was from home, and it was his wife reporting that his young son had used a spray gun filled with black paint to spray on his face. It's spring, all right. The same reporter mentioned above was walking back to the office when he saw a hat. He described it as "A straw hat with visor, and what appeared to be a rocket mounted en the crown with other rockets" shooting off the sides of the hat." In bemusement, he stopped and stared. Where upon an older nn, ob viously a veteran of many springs, spoke softly: "You ain't seen nolhin' yet, son!" We've always heard of cafc nip as a feline delicacy, but never knew what it was wntil we were motivated to look it up Friday. (It is a "strong scented herb of the mint fami ly, having whorls of small blue flowers in a terminal spike.") Anyway, we learned from a news release from the state department of agriculture that it grows in Oregon, and, in deed, that a lot of people either grow it, or know where to get some. A man in New York wrote the department asking about sources of supply, -and the department relayed the word through the press. Where upon the New York man was 4'snowed under" with replies from Oregon. The department says that catnip isn't yet sufficiently a cash crop to get rich on, but that (who knows?) maybe Oregon will some day become the catnip center of the U.S. 0 t The hunt for Hunt, the young Brownsboro gunman., has spread far and wide, and there have been sev-. eral false alarms about him being seen in this area each of which are carefully checked by law enforce ment officers. We are told that one of the city's con- scienlious Western Union, messengers is the one most frequently mistaken for. him. April Fools Day has come and, fortunately, gone, and no one is much the worse. There was an abominable snowman reported in the La Grande area. A search for a lost gold cache got undtr way in eastern Oregon. Kids switched over from crowding into telephone booths to crowding into tiny cars. And up at the Kiwanis club that day. Dr. Tom Anderson. president of the flub, was pre sented with a sandwich con sisting of a hollowed-out loaf of oread -containing two baby chicks. At the same luncheon. Po lice Chief Charlie Champlin was handcuffed to his chair by a couple of his officers. . Isn t it about time for Med ford High school boys to start demanding the right to wear Bermuda snorts to school? . v We still see a few Cen tennial beards around, but the attrition is something awful. Is it wives revolt ing? Or itchy skins? Or just a wearying for that old. smooth-shaven feeling again?
