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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1959)
I WAS JUST THINKING needs in your lawn ? 0 '.' , tit ?V nn.' )1. 'i spray WEED-B-GON- llpiililillliil 1 get rid of weeds, roots and all ! Use the ORTHO Lawn Sprayer and spray lawn weeds away! Or use a sprinkling can. It's the easy way to wipe out oxalis, plantain, dandelion, chickweed, dock, thistle, wild onion . . . even poison oak and poison ivy. Killed with WEED-B-GON, weeds don't grow back. Most die from the roots up with one application. Economical . . . control costs less than it per 100 sq. ft. with WEED-B-GON. i. w. Mtt. u. . Mr. orr.t on 1 1 io'TiwT s KTTH0) ki s California Spray-Chamlcal Corp. A Subsidiary of California Chemical Compiny Richmond, Calif.: Wishintton, D.C. D D D D D D 0 D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D 0 D D D 0 D a D D D 0 D ...they're institutions in their towns. They're the ones who are quoted in the newspapers whenever there's remembering to be done. They're the ones who were the community builders in the days when the towns were wide spots in the road. And now they have become "boosters," instead. The yeai-s have not sent them doddering to old folks' homes but rather to a richer enjoyment of their independence. In our town the institution's name is Dave Steel. On his 77th birthday recently, a motley assortment of friends young and old gave a surprise party for him at the Elks Club. It was the logical setting because he's been a member for 50 years and helped to organize the chapter in our town after he retired from the grocery business. The cynicism of a Sinclair Lewis might falsely label him a Babbitt, yet he is prin cipally joined to the effort of maintaining the rascally charm of his individuality. If he associates more with youth than with age, it is not that he rejects his own years. He fails to find them a handicap. Recently, with the smoke of his constant cigar wreathing his smooth white hair, he went to the doctor's office for the first time in his life and with real embarrassment He discovered, he said, that he'd been feeling a little tired after he climbed the stairs to the Elks Club or after dining at 10 o'clock in the evening on a top sirloin. The doctor, a boy of 45, merely clapped him on his straight shoul ders and went enviously back to work on sick people. Dave is a fountain of anecdotes, and age cannot wither their quality. He maintains a hotel apartment filled with the beloved rem nants of his home, but he travels to Kansas City for Christmas and to Florida for the rest of the Winter. He is one of the principal characters of our town. But he is something more. He has retained the gallantry of another era, in corporating it into the shrewd comprehension of a new age. The secret of the Dave Steels is not simply that they grow old gracefully. They have retired from business but not from the love of life. COVER April showers pose no problem to a resourceful mailman. But what about the tail-wagging pup? Does he want to get in out of the rain, too, or does he just want a share of the postman's lunch? Painting by Joe Haramy. LEONARD $. 0AVI0OW PrtMent and Publisher WALTER C. DREYFUS VUe-Prttident rATKiuK o ROURKE Adverting Director April 19, 1959 Board of Editori I ERNEST V. HEYN Editm-in-CMI EN KARTMAN Executive Editor narar riT-Maa1IJ Mtuuiainll BO"" c I .11 j. - ROIERTFITZGIIION jho"w" RALPH J. FINCH, JR. Art Director . . . .... . a ... . a vAttar MtiANievtrnvri r - Jack Ryan. Kevin Brown. Honore Singer, .Thoroai Grm n ' Jerrv Klein. N York- Pr OoMnheimer, nonr- Conlentt Coovriaht IKf b Fauiiv wirm ...... MWJu,NE INC., 179 N. Michigan Ave.. Chicago I, III. All right. reserves.
