4 Sunday, April 19, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1949 (Tuesday)
Further discussion of fund
raising for the municipal
swimming pool is expected at
tonight's meeting of the Med
ford city council.
Twenty six Phoenix con
solidated school district vot
ers approve a $250,000 bond
Issue for erecting a new high
school.
20 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1939 (Wednesday)
Curry county anglers com
plain that up-river miners are
muddying the Rogue.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: . "The
first barefooted kids of the
season showed up Wed., on
residential streets."
30 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1929 (Friday)
Shotgun blasts halt a chari
vari on Williams creek.
A railroad for the Blue
Ledge mine is planned to pro
vide speedy transportation to
market of copper there mined.
40 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1919 (Saturday)
Miss Hazel Brown accepts
a position at the Eagle Point
state bank.
Lady motorists are given
free lessons on carburetor
care by Seely Hall.
50 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1909 (Monday)
Capt. Nash says he may
erect an , eight-story hotel in
Medford. j
Clouds prevent frost, and a
record pear crop is in sight.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. "When in the course of
human events," are the first
words of what famous docu
ment? 2. Complete this proverb:
"Too many cooks . . .."
' 3. The first Republican
party in the U. S. was found
ed by Thomas Jefferson, John
C. Fremont, or Abraham Lin
coln? 4. In which city did the
million - dollar Brink robbery
occur?
5. For which purpose are
fresh fruits more important
in the diet: as regulatory
foods or source of protein?
6. Persons married for 50
years celebrate their silver,
diamond, or golden wedding
anniversary?
7. At what place was the
first permanent European set
tlement made in New Eng
land? 8. "Wooden overcoat," is a
slang term for what object?
9. Salt water can be made
fresh; true or false?
10. One cubic yard equals
how many cubic feet?
Answers: 1. Declaration of
Independence. 2. ". . spoil
the broth." 3. Thomas Jeffer
son. 4. Boston. 5. Regulatory.
6. Golden. 7. Plymouth. 8.
A coffin. 9. Tue. 10. 27-.
EX-CHAIRMAN DIES
Oneida, N. Y. -(UPD- Pierre
pont B. Noyes, 88, former
president and board chairman
of Oneida, Inc., one of the
world's largest silverplate
manufacturers, died Wednesday.
Marijane Hits Back
Marijane Duncan read an editorial in this
space entitled "Shilly-Shally Session." It made
her mad. She sat down at her typewriter and
wrote an excellent rebuttal. It appears on Page 5,
and we commend it highly to our readers.
Mrs. Duncan, as Jackson county people know,
is the wife of State Rep. Robert Duncan of Med
ford, who is making a name for himself through
out the state as the speaker of the house.
She serves as his secretary, is close to the leg
islative picture, and her remarks deserve the re
spectful attention of anyone attempting to assess
what this session is accomplishing.
JN OUR editorial a week ago, we declared:
". . . If the overall impression is not of indecisive
shilly-shallying, we don't know what it is."
We expected something like Mrs. Duncan's
letter when we also said:
"Such a verdict is bound to cause irritation to some
of the more conscientious and able legislators who have
been working hard at their jobs, doing the committee
chores to which they are assigned, and expending
their best efforts for what they think is the right
kind of legislation."
'Much of what Mrs. Duncan says we agree
with, devoutly.
W
E AGREE when she
Personally, I would
earned tax dollars) on an excellent educational system
and buildings for higher education than almost anything."
We agree that some of the bills which have,
been defeated, have been our "pet" bills. They
are also the pet bills of a lot of other people
such things as billboard control, the apparent de
feat of increased state aid to hard-pressed school
districts, the cutting of i appropriations for badly
needed new buildings.
We agree that far too many people are un
aware of the state's needs, and are concerned
only with taxes.
I7E DO not believe, however, that the legisla-
ture has a "mandate" to keep taxes down.
Look, for instance, at the number of local bond
issues which have been passed throughout the
state since the November election.
Look at the marked difference in the econ
omy. Yesterday's recession - influenced anti - tax
vote may well be today's complaint, "Why doesn't
the state do something?"
We maintain, instead, the legislature received
only one mandate to do what it believes is
necessary for progress and well-being in a fast
growing state.
llE AGREE that the problems faced by the
legislature are vastly difficult and compli
cated. We agree that compromises are necessary.
We do not agree that the legislature, now al
most 100 days into the session, was on safe ground
in cutting a welfare department deficiency appro
priation $700,000 below what the welfare com
mission and its administrators say is necessary.
We agree that it is
all the needed buildings
colleges in the next year
HPHE functions of an editorial writer are to com
ment on events 01 the
interpretation of them. This involves value-judgments,
and editorial writers are just as fallible as
anyone else.
But it is our considered opinion that the legis
lative session, viewed overall, IS a shilly-shally
session, divisive and indecisive, and unresponsive
to the state s needs of the moment, which lie
chiefly in the fields of education, institutional
care, and taxation.
Many good things have been accomplished.
The accomplishments cited by Mrs. Duncan
are to the credit of the legislature. But they are
far short of what we would like to see.
"UR growing spnse of dismay at the legisla-
ture's record has been heightened by reason
of the high hopes and ideals many members ex
pressed at the beginning of the session.
Nowhere have we seen these so well stated
as in an article which Mrs. Duncan herself wrote
early in the session, and which appeared in the
Mail Tribune of last Feb. 26. We quote, in part:
"The plain fact is that Oregon is a growing state,
that costs have risen, and that our needs have become
much greater in fields such as education and public
welfare. Legislators who in the past have served on
such committees as ways and means and taxation had
come to grips with those hard truths long ago, but it
evidently had not been faced up to by the Hatfield
people until after election. Now that it has been, there
is a public reaction that is akin to shock.
"This is an unfortunate situation, and it was not
unavoidable. Taxpayers and voters are not children;
they are home-owners, parents, heads of families. We
know that the cost of living has risen for all of us; we
know, too, that our standards are not what they were
10, 15, 20 years ago.
"We understand that we cannot stand still and
atrophy as families, as groups, as communities. We do ,
not want this. We want to move ahead, to grow, to
progress. But, unfortunately, progress has a price. The
big question today is: are the people of Oregon going
to be willing to pay it?
"How badly do we want one of the best educational
systems in the country, for instance? How badly do
we want fine, modern highways to drive on? How
much are we moved by. the plight of those less for
tunate, the mentally ill, the retarded, the blind and the
deaf, those in straitened circumstances through no
fault of their own?
"Do the farmers want an improved agricultural
program for this state? Do the businessmen want plan
ning for new industries, development of our resources?
Do the lawyers want better laws and better courts, the
doctors, improved health conditions and research?
Are all these, in the words of the Governor in his
inaugural address, 'merely desirable'?"
How well are these questions being answered
by the Centennial session of the legislature? It is
with reluctance we have come to the conclusion,
not well enough. E.A.
says:
rather spend mine (hard-
increasingly evident that
will not be built at our
or two.
day, and to give his own
Dennis the
r J rm II
MY GOT AHV AT
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case
(Editor's note: If the
woman who wrote "I dare
you to print this" will let
us know her name, and al
low its use with her com
munication, we'll lake the
dare.)
Research Needed
To the Editor: An old Eng
lish phrase . my grandma
brought from England that
she . continually admonished
complainers with, was: "What
can't be cured must be en
dured." The native Yankee
version went thusly: "The
tail must go with the hide,"
and truly so. For just as the
hide buyer despised paying
the same price for the almost
worthless tail, this he must
do to get the valuable hide.
So all of us must remember
as we endure the soul as
well as nose and lung trying
smudge of springtime, this we
must do to have the $10,000,
000 pear crop "hide" that is a
grub-stake for hundreds of
valley residents and of real
economic value to all of us in
this high, mountain ringed
valley so conducive to the
raising of the lucious pear
that are the envy of others
world over.
Now if my time battered
old brains have recorded cor
rectly, it was House Speaker
Duncan who advocated cer
tain research work and the
setting aside of where-with-all
to do it. My choice would be
the finding of lesser nuisance
laden frost controls. Nature
provides three: the wind is
one, but it takes enormous
horsepower to move large
columns of air, ruling that
out. Clouds are also a good
preventive of frost, but that
seems out of our reach. It's
close kin, fog, is helpful. In
the fall and early winter when
ground warmth acts on the
chilled and moisture laden
air, we get fog naturally, gen
erally unwanted. It would
seem that some research along
this line might bring most
helpful results. At least it
seems worthy of more exper
imentation than has been had
in the past. Something besides
just talk should be done or
we may find the tail wagging
the dog, which could be far
from funny.
As I sat mumbling aloud
corrections of this, grandson
Larry emerged from the bed
room where we had bundled
him, "daughter Mary'lln and
family elsewhere after an all
night run down from Tilla
mook for a long cherished
week end at grandma's. He
asked, "Smudge, what's that?"
Just imagine.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200 F,
Central Point.
Bear With It
To the Editor: Fifty years
ago my father cleared the
land and planted his pear
orchard. He is gone now but
my mother and hundreds of
other small (and large) orch
ardists' entire livelihood de
pends on their pear crops. My
husband was' an orchardist
and I a pear packer and we
raised our family with our
wages. Hundreds of workers
depend on the pear industry
for their living. Our packing
houses are the hub of the en
tire industry of our valley.
Our merchants depend on
these wages earners as their
customers. Our Pear Blossom
Festival was the celebration
of our Spring anticipation of
a successful fruit year.
I now am a waitress at
Woplworths and I know our
business depends on the com
ing pear cropv. My hands, my
uniform are a soiled mess in
this smudge but I am proud
Menace
tub. poor FARM ? '
of my weathering of this if it
means saving our fruit.
Where have our homes and
clothes come from, dear nei
bors of Melrose eve., if not
paid for directly or. indirect
ly from our pears?
And how are the few hours
of breathing this smoke
going to really injure our
health? My doctor says my
health is 100 per cent perfect
and I have lived here all my
52 years.
The few dollars cleaning is
a smair loss to what it would
be if we have a complete loss
of our pears.
Bear with us, Newcomers.
You'll not be sorry in the long
run.
, Mildred Bray
i 1830 North Riverside ave.
Medford.
Cost of Examination
To the Editor: This being
"cancer month," we are con
stantly reminded by radio,
T.V., magazines, and posters,
to help fight cancer with a
"check up, and a check."
I don't know what a
"check-up" consists of, but I
wouldn't be satisfied with just
having my blood pressure
taken, and my heart checked.
However how many of us
can afford to pay from $50
$100 for a physical examina
tion? My husband's last exam
cost $65, and it wasn't "com
plete." Wouldn't it be a great step
forward in the fight, if a
complete exam could be
priced within the range of
most of us?
We are told that our health
and our lives cannot be
counted in dollars and cents.
I wonder if the doctors and
hospitals agree.
.We've always felt we
"couldn't afford to be sick,"
but can we afford to stay
healthy?
How many of us have paid
$300-$400 for dentures we
cannot wear, and $50 for
glasses that can't be used?
(Name on file)
Central Point.
On Insurance
To the Editor: This is part
ly a reply to Mr. Cole Holmes'
letter concerning "uninsured
motorists." (April 15).
It is silly or outrageous to
suggest stopping all cars at
the border and requiring evi
dence on insurance when all
that should or could be done
is to show proof when re
newing license, tags.
1 At least it would protect a
person or his property from
neighbors or relations who
look "down their nose" or
openly brag and boast, "Why,
I've never bought insurance
since me moved. to Oregon."
Quite a few local people
"go to work" or "go to the
store" without ever seeing or
traveling on a main road or
highway and its the back
roads or side roads that are
more dangerous or risky to
travel or drive over than any
tiisrhwav fOni- nnininnV
O"- ' ' J v ' I ' - r
We had an experience witfr
a drunken neighbor once
uninsured on a back road
and it taught us to watch
out with the people in your
own vicinity.
This man ran my husband
off the road and up a mountain-side
and still managed
to side-swipe him.
The authorities got after
this person, but he just moved
out.
Some people think they
can't afford insurance (of
any kind) when really a per
son can't afford not to have
insurance. (On everything!)
(Name on file)
Central Point
Matter of Fact
THE OLD MEN GO
Washington-Within a short
fortnight, Konrad Adenauer
has accepted transfer from
the Chancel
lorship to the
Presidency of
West Ger
many; and
John Foster
Dulles's i li
ne s s has at
length driven
him to lay
down the of-
ins-ph aisod Ilce i secre
tary of State of the United
States-
The Dulles resignation, cli
maxing an amazing display
of stoic fortitude, coming at
a desperately critical moment
in our affairs, is a deeply poig
nant episode. The most ordi
nary human sympathy com
pels one to wish that this as
tonishing old man might have
achieved his grimly pursued
aim.
It was a modest aim, after
all. It was no more than to
hang on, still in harness, still
pulling the coach, until the
West had turned the Berlin
corner. Man's fate is often
cruel, but it seemed extra
cruel, somehow, jthat the few
months of extra time that
Dulles wanted so badly-that
he bore such suffering to gain
-were not in the end granted
to him. By the same token, it
is a great misfortune for the
Western allies.
"POR the short run, in truth,
the loss of Dulles means
the loss of the greatest single
element of strength in the
Eisenhower administr a t i o n,
and the departure from the
stage of the one Western lead
er whose knowledge and au
thority could not be challeng
ed, even by his most bitter
enemies. Viewed in a longer
perspective, however, the de
parture of Dulles has another
meaning, directly linked to
the meaning of Adenauer's in
tended half-retirement.
These two great changes in
the West's leadership mean
the beginning of the end of
a whole era. Dulles and Ade
nauer, like Eisenhower and
Macmillan . and De Gaulle,
were old enough to expert
ence the first World War, not
as mere boys, but as grown
men. Dulles, who rose in the
world more rapidly than the
others, was even a fairly sig
nificant junior member of the
cast in the drama at Ver
sailles. The present era's tone
has been set, its outlook has
been determined, its leader
ship has been provided by
these and other men who saw
the first war, made their ca
reers in the inter-war years,
and reached command posi
tions as a result of the second
war.
THAT is the era which is
now ending. It will come to
its real close, for all practical
purposes, when Dwight D.
Eisenhower steps down from
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
DULLES AND HERTER
With the announcement
that Mr. Herter would repre
I sent us at tne x oreign Mims-
ers meeting,
Mr. Dulles
had already
put aside the
specul a t i o n
and the hope
that he might
conduct the
coming nego
tiations about
Germany.
Now, in sub
mitting his resignation, he has
opened the way for an early
decision on his successor and
a clarification and strength
ening of Mr. Herter's author
ity in the coming meetings.
There is no disguising the
fact that Mr. Herter's position
in the forthcoming negotia
tions will be difficult, even
should he then be our Secre
tary of State. It could be
come an insurmountably dif
ficult position if here and
abroad Mr. Herter is judged
by the measure in which he
duplicates the role of John
Foster Dulles, and is judged
on specific questions as to
whether he adheres to what
are supposed to be the views
that Mr. Dulles would have
held.
There are two things we
must bear in mind. The one
is that it is impossible to
duplicate the role played by
Mr. Dulles in this administra
tion. The other is that if Mr.
Dulles were able to conduct
the coming negotiations, he
would not and he could not
stand pat on all of the old
formulae. While he was still
active -he said so much.
THE relationship betveen
the' President and Mr.
Dulles has had no precedent
since the United States be
came a world power in this
century. Although Mr. Dulles
has been loyal and scrupulous
in deferring to Mr. Eisen
hower, the fact is that in our
foreign affairs he is the man
who has been really at. the
Lippmann
By Joseph Atsop
the Presidency. In many re
spects, it has been a great
and fruitful era, particularly
marked by a total revolution
in the relations between the
United States and the rest of
the world. But a new era has
been long overdue, nonethe
less. .
Ideas, at bottom, are what
make an era; and the dearth
of seminal and fresh ideas in
these last years -has become
downright frightening. In our
domestic politics, the con
servatives still sound like
parodies of Herbert Hoover,
while the Left wingers are
still pale and timorous imita
tions of Franklin Roosevelt.
In foreign affairs, the great
innovations were made after
the war ended; but the first
Truman administration was
the cut-off point NATO, for
which the keel was laid in
1948, was the last big ship
to go down the long abandon
ed ways.
The second Truman admin
istration was wholly barren
of fruitful new departures
(for the brave response to the
challenge in Korea, though
admirable. in itself, was only
a decision to cope with a dis
aster which had been invited
by the preceding Truman
Louis Johnson disarmament
program). Under Eisenhower,
despite the talk of a "dynamic
new foreign policy," the bar
renness continued. With all
his stature and energy and
angry determination to hold
the line for freedom, John
Foster Dulles offered no fruit
ful new inventions-for there
was nothing novel in such de
vices as SEATO, which mim
icked NATO, but lacked
NATO's substance.
TIME did not stand still
after 1949, however: On the
contrary, the last decade has
witnessed a gigantic upset of
the world balance of power,
owing to the Soviet Union's
military and economic growth.
It has witnessed, too, a long
series of upheavals in the
ex-colonial areas like the Mid
dle East, on which the West
ern allies' are still heavily
dependent. Yet no reasonably
safe and sure and reliable
way of coping with either of
these huge and ominous proc
esses has even been suggested
by any of the existing West
ern leaders.
In short, Secretary Dulles
carried on a holding opera
tion, not always successfully
but with great courage and
self -sacrifice. It is downright
tragic that he should be re
moved from the scene at the
very moment when the need
is greatest for his special tal
ent and his unusual strength
of character. But the need
is also great for the fresh
ideas that ,are always born
when a new era starts, under
the auspices of new men with
fresh outlooks.
Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc. - -
summit. The world has be
come used to the idea that
this is what an American Sec
retary of State is supposed to
be.
This creates a special obli
gation on Mr. Eisenhower. It
is the obligation to convince
the world that he himself is
participating in-the decisions,
and that what the new Secre
tary of State says is the au
thentic and authoritative
voice of the United States
government. It will be very
poor businss to let the notion
get about that the Secretary
of State lacks authority, and
that there is a last appeal over
his head to the Walter Reed
hospital.
IF THE President, seconded
by Mr. Dulles himself, deals
clearly with the question of
authority, then there is
every reason to believe that
Mr. Herter is highly qualified
for the office. He is a success
ful and experienced politi
cian and public man. He
is also a man with a large ex
perience in foreign affairs.
This is a very unusual combi
nation. Mr. Acheson and Dul
les were not politicians, and
both paid dearly for it
Acheson in being persecuted
by Congress, and Dulles in
appeasing those who had per
secuted Acheson. By contrast
with both of them there was
Cordell Hull, who was a
very astute politician but
with little knowledge or apti
tude for foreign affairs.
By and large under our
system the office of Secretary
of State is not one that calls
for an expert in foreign af
fairs. Under any President,
but particularly under a
President like General Eisen
hower who is not a politician,
it is very necessary that the
Secretary of State be an old
hand, in fact a professional,
in the art of politics. He does
not need to be an expert in
foreign affairs to know, as
one might, say, the precise
differences between the,
(By M-T Staff
This is from the Hoover
HiLite, publication of Hoover
elementary school:
Kent Clinkinbeard drew
this picture for you. It shows
the pioneers coming to Ore
gon. It took a long time to
travel here in those days.
They did not have cars then.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
They say money talks.
Let's talk about money for
a moment.
French money this time.
WHY French money?
Well, the French are
overhauling their currency
system. The French unit of
money value is the franc, just
as ours is the dollar. For a
long time, they've been doing
business with paper francs.
They're starting today to mint
a METAL franc.
This metal coinage will be
silver. . The five-franc silver
piece will be "worth" ; 500
present-day francs. That is to
say, the government will DE
CREE that its value will be
500 francs. There is some ac
companying mishmash to the
effect that at the same time
the money is increased 100
times in value prices will be
scaled down 100 times to
match.
That is probably govern
ment moonshine. What these
new silver francs will be actu
ally worth over the long pull
will depend on how much in
the way of goods and services
people will be willing to ex
change for them;
' That is the REAL value of
money.
fiUESTION:
How much will these
new francs be worth in terms
of American money?
The answer is NOT MUCH.
The present exchange value
of the paper franc-meaning,
if you are touring France, how
many of them can you buy
for a dollar-is m the broad,
general neighborhood of a
quarter of a cent. So the new
French five-franc silver piece
won't buy any houses and lots
It might buy an American
postage stamp. r
A NOTHER question:
Why is the French gov
ernment making this change?
One suspects it is for psy
chological reasons. The French
are a rather realistic lot-as
evidenced by the way they're
apt to invest their savings
When they want to put some
thing by for a rainy day,
they're inclined to go out and
buy some GOLD-on the black
market, or wherever they can
get it-and take it out in the
back yard and bury it.
The French government
probably thinks the French
people will have more confi
dence in metal money than
in paper money. That suspi
cion is buttressed by the fact
that the new money is being
called "heavy francs."
Arabs and the Kurds. But he
must, of course, be an educat
ed man with a trained mind
who can work with experts
and decide between them.
In all these respects, Mr.
Herter seems to me to fill the
bill admirably. I am fortified
in this estimate by knowing
how excellent are his rela
tions with Congress, and how
greatly he has restored the
morale and the discipline of
the fnreien service since he
came into the Department of
State.
II TE must be on guard
' against those who, if there
is any departure from the of
ficial formulae of the past,
will cry out that flexibility is
appeasement, and that any
thing different is another Mu
nich. There are a lot of peo
ple here and abroad who are
opposed to negotiation with
Communists. They like to be
lieve that this is the real view
of Mr., Dulles, and they will
invoke his name as against
any effort to work out by
give or take a new modus
vivendi in Germany.
They will have to be made
to understand that while
nothing substantial can or
will be given or taken in the
two Germanys and the two
Berlins, the existing situation
needs to be repaired and ren
ovated if it is to endure. It is
like a house which needs a
new roof and a coat of paint.
To be sure, it will not then
be exacting the same house
which it used to be. On the
other hand, without the new
roof and the paint, it will not
for long be the same old
house either, and in the end
it may be no house at all.
( (c) 1959 New York Herald
' Tribune Inc.
and Contributors)
Potluck Editor -Dear
Sir:
. In the interest of greater
misuse of the English lan
guage, here is a P.P.S. (in "
free verse) to your item ia
the Sunday, March 29, Pot
luck column re lamas and
llamas. '
A one-L lama, he's a '
priest;
A t w o - L llama, he's a
beast;
A three-L lama', that's a
pretty bad fire.
Profoundly yours,
(Mrs) Laura R Gansel
Eagle Point, Ore.
. .
The smudging (or. if vou're
within earshot of Clifford
Cordy, orchard heating) last
week, brought out all sorts of
reactions in people - rage, ir
ritation, despondency, unhap
py acceptance. The orchard
ists like it probably least of
anyone, because it costs them
so much money.
One of the reactions to the
smudge came from versifiers.
Here is a sample, from one of
our young men:
Smug pigeons, unbudging,
Put up with the smudging.
Millions of smidgeons - -Of
smudge. Silly pigeons.
Here's another, this one
from Mrs. Delbert Casey of
Central Point: '
My eyes are weeping.
My nose is loo.
None would believe
I'm not really blue.
The skies are dark.
The sun can't shine.
i ne pois are smuaging
Are they getting paid
time and half for over
time? The trees which are appear
ing, one group at a; time,
along Main street are, most of
them, Japanese privet. This is
variety of tree which some
times is used for hedges, and
can be clipped for shape.
As a matter of. fact, this
has been done with the ones
here now. ..They have been
grown tall and their trunks
trimmed, so that they will be
s!;m along the bottom where
psople pass, and bunchy and
leafy above, where they give
the best effect.
Mrs. Edith Eden, the foster
mother and nursemaid of the
trees, provided this informa
tion, but was absolutely
aghast at a suggestion that,
when grown bigger, the trees
might be trimmed into shapes
appropriate to the stores they
grace a shoe, for instance,
for Norfield's, a bow tie for
Barker's, or a book for
Swem's.
Advance word from New
York thai erstwhile Shakes- -pearean
Festival actor Dick
, 1 , - n. . .
uianam naa a pari in a iy
drama last week sent many
local people to their sets
that night. They were disap
pointed when it turned out .
that Dick had what amount-.
ed to a "walk-on" role, and
appeared in front of . the
cameras for all of about 10
seconds. . .
Members of small town, vol
unteer fire departments sel
dom, if ever are paid in cash,
for their efforts. Their re
ward comes from doing some
thing for their community,
and because of the friendships
they make with other volun
teers. There's an esprit de corps,
too. One veteran fireman put
it this way: "We're all good
eggs here. The bad eggs just
get discouraged and leave."
Another member of the
same department insists -that
sirens should be ban-
ned from all TV programs.
Quite a few of them have -
been off the couch and out
the door, suspenders flying,
before they realized the
siren came from the TV set,
not from the town alarm.
. .
Informality and friendliness
are marks of the small town,
we are told by a resident of
one, who likes it. He reports
the story of one of his com
munity's oldest and most re
spected citizens who had a
knack for making newcomers
welcome.
In doing so, he had several
tricks. One of them was to
approach a new neighbor
bearing a measuring cup.
"Say, I hate to impose on you
folks," he'd say, "but the wife
is hakins a cake and forgot
about the sugar. Wonder if I
could borrow a cupful?"
In five minutes he'd be back
with the sugar. "Didn't really
need it at all," he'd say with
a disarming grin. "But I
couldn't think of a better way
to get acquainted."
Churchwomen in the same
small town recently tried
the same technique to get
new comers interested in
their group. One of them
called a new neighbor, in
vited her to a meeting, and
asked her to bring the bis
cuits. She did. .