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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 24. 1949 (Tuesday)
The Medford Trail Riders'
benefit horseshow is a success.
The flood of letters to the
editor from children urging
approval of the bond issue for
completion of Hawthorne
park's swimming pool swells
to a veritable torrent.
20 YEARS AGO
May 24. 1939 (Wednesday)
Free movies on ducks and
other feathered creatures are
offered by John C. Hunting
ton, New York, president of
Ducks, Unlimited.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
fair sex is now wearing large
brimmed hats, some of which
have more acreage than their
skirts."
30 YEARS AGO
May 24, 1929 (Friday)
Rogue river fish are faced
with extinction through com
mercial exploitation, local
sportsmen are told.
The city council agrees to
Issuing new licenses to Front
st. establishments, "if they
behave and sell no more bit
ters." 40 YEARS AGO
May 24. 1919 (Saturday)
Four are arrested for
snagging salmon at Gold Ray
dam.
The city council plans to
bar horses from the new city
auto camp on Bear creek.
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50 YEARS AGO
"' May 24, 1909 (Monday)
Construction of the P. and
E. railroad begins at Eagle
Point.
Tomorrow is Clean-Up day
. in Medford, by mayoral proc-
i lamation.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Who wrote "The Song of
Hiawatha"?
2. What animal spends al
most its whole life hanging
: upside down from tree branch
es? 3. What amendment to the
U.S. Constitution abolished
slavery?
4. When a cow gets up,
which end rises first:
5. What common liquid ex
pands upon solidifying? .
6. Do the arteries, or the
! veins, of the body carry fresh
blood outward from the
j heart?
7. Which of these States has
the longer coastline? Florida
; or California?
8. With which Democratic
politician do you associate the
"Brown Derby"?
9. What ex - Presidents of
the United States are living?
1 1 0. The names of two States
in the U.S. begin with the let
; ter "T"; name them.
Answers: 1. Henry Longfel-
low. 2. Sloth. 3. Thirteenth.
4. The rear end. 5. Water. 6.
Arteries. 7. Florida. 8. Alfred
; E- Smith. 9. Herbert Hoover,
Harry S. Truman. 10. Texas,
Tennessee.
Musical Evening
Dr. Billy Blackstone, in a letter which appear
ed ori this page Friday, put into words something
we have often thought.
This is, that the young people of today are
far better than many people, including the young
ones, often think.
Dr. Blackstone's emphasis was on . the Boy
Scout program, from Cubs through Explorers.
But the same message came to us again Thurs
day evening, which we spent listening to singing
by students at Hedrick Junior high school, and
Medford High.
e 4
1X7E STARTED at the junior high, first inspect
' ing an amazing display of science, shop and
home economics projects, then settling down to
listen to the Seventh Grade Chorus.
. These , young voices, not all of them trained,
by any means, still blend well, and the youngsters
really put their hearts into the songs. The overall
effect is fresh and happy.! :
The Hedrick Choir, composed of Eighth and
Ninth graders, exhibited a rather greater degree
of proficiency, as could be expected. They sing
slightly more difficult songs, show a greater re
sponsiveness to direction, and a greater sureness
in their singing.
AT THE conclusion of this concert, we made a
quick trip across town and sneaked into the
high school auditorium for the last part of a
concert under way there.
The Medford High school Senior Choir pro
vided the highlight of the evening. Seldom have
we heard a comparable group of young people
show greater mastery of their music, better tech
nique, or more obvious joy in what they were
doing. '
We have heard this choir in prior years, and
each year it seems to get better, surer, more
disciplined, and more varied in repertoire.
e
'THE CHOIR'S director, Lynn Sjolund, deserves
1 the applause of patrons of the school district
for his work in welding these singers together
into a cohesive and outstanding musical group.
We would have only two minor suggestions,
and perhaps they are nothing but carping. First,
it seemed to us that the program was rather too
heavily loaded with pieces, many of them of a
religious nature, which were totally unfamiliar
to the audience. And second, we missed any
tribute to Oregon's Centennial year. (We'd still
like to hear the Choir sing "Down the Oregon
Trail," one of the all-time favorites of the Eugene
Gleemen.)
All in all it was an evening we shall remember
long and pleasurably. The
i.1 i
xeceive is suineunng mat win stay witn mem al
ways, making their lives fuller and richer. E.A.
The School Patrols
' In the same vein, one could well nnnder nn
the work of the school safety patrols.
These youngsters, who spend hours guarding
street crossings their classmates use en route to
ana irom school, are performing a real and
important civic function.
The banauet Fridav evening at which thev
were honored was really
ii ! i i i
tne gratitude wnicn should be felt toward them.
They may be young, but they're good citizens.
And the work they do is making them better ones.
E.A.
New Bridge Needed
We're all for the plan to extend 10th street
across Bear creek by means of another bridge.
There are several reasons why it should be
done, and be done this year.
First of all, the new bridge is needed. Med
ford always has been hampered by both Bear
creek and the railroad cutting through it, north
to south, and has never had enough east-west
arterial streets. Such a bridge would provide one
more such thoroughfare.
CECONDLY, we believe the bridge should be
built before construction of the new freeway
begins.
It is to be assumed that the highway depart
ment will give all possible consideration to Med
ford's needs in the way of arterial streets, but
we'd still feel more comfortable if the new route
is in before the state starts throwing dirt and
concrete around.
With this bridge, and with the extension of
Melrose' avenue to join with Barnett road, the
city proper will have McAndrews road, Jackson
street, Main street, 10th street, 12th street, and
Melrose-Barnett or six crosstown routes.
As its growth continues, it is going to need
them, too, for much of the growth will be on the
east side to say nothing of the needs of the
two hospitals, Rogue Valley manor, and the other
developments which can be expected. E.A.
Which
Laws sometime create oddities.
For instance, the Phoenix-Talent consolida
tion proposal was defeated, because the election
was conducted under the laws pertaining to
boundary board elections, when each district
must approve.. .
However, if it had been 'conducted under the
school reoreranization law. if. wmild Iiqvp nawo
for that v law specifies
v.uunccu tugcuicr, witn me
training these students
mi i ii i
only a small token of
- . .
Law?
that all votes will be
majority ruling.
Dennis the
010 0U EYE? THINK OF
VOU C0ULQ4 MADE WITH
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE FDR IMAGE
Washington-The backers of
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
of Minnesota for the 1960
1 D e m o c ratic
inomina tion
1 have deter-
.- : 3
mmca uu uie
biggest gam-
; ble of the pre-
c o n v e n t ion
campaign.
Though they
rlr not. mt to
William S. . ... . ,
White put the matter
quite so strongly, even in pri
vate, the plain fact is this:
they are staking everything
on one roll of the dice.
Knowing quite, will that
their strategy has its perils,
they have decided to present
Senator Humphrey as "the"
Roosevelt. New Dealer in the
field of aspirants. Their risks
are plain. Their strategy is, in
military terms like committing
every last resource to a mas
sive counterattack in full
awareness that if it fails the
whole war is . lost then and
there.
But their candid conclusion
is that for Humphrey it must
be all or nothing.
-. .
ERANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
is 14 years in his grave and
this is a. .new political world
with different problems from
those he met so long ago.
Since his death a spirit "of
accommodation, of modera
tion, has swept the Democratic
party.
The old Roosevelt New
Dealers are for the most part
no longer in power anywhere,
either in public office or in
the party. Too, Mr. Roosevelt
of course made powerful ene
mies with long memories. The
image of Humphrey as the
man who seeks frankly to be
the heir to FDR will, beyond
doubt, stir up these enemies
again.
And, finally, the policy of
the Humphrey strategists de
liberately stares into the
bright face of danger in two
other ways: 1. It flatly and
directly challenges to combat
another former President who
is also a liberal Democratic
leader, Harry S. Truman. (Mr.
Truman is plainly, if not offi
cially, backing Senator Stuart
Symington of Missouri for the
nomination.) 2. It necessarily
will draw a sharper line be
tween those party old-timers
who are basically "Truman
men" and those who are
"Roosevelt men."
EVEN so, the Humphrey men
reckon that on balance they
have more to gain than to
lose, and perhaps they do, in
deed. A certain New Deal cast
Si. .
Matter of Fact
THE NELSON-MASS
Budapest, Hungary - In the
Coronation Church, the parish
church of the ancient fortress
""H of "Rnrla that
still towers
above Buda
pest, they sang
Haydn's "Nelson-Mass"
last
Sunday.
It is called
Nelson - Mass,
the legend
runs, because
t i j 1
-lostpn Aisop -iNeisons vic
tory at Aboukir Bay is cele
brated by the blood-tingling
flourish of trumpets introduc
ing the Benedictus. What
with the trumpets and the fid
dles and the superb Italinate
choir, it must be admitted that
the Nelson-Mass did not sound
like religious music to the un
tutored American ear.
Yet the huge old church
was filled as only Polish and
Hungarian churches are filled
nowadays. Long before the
mass began, every seat was
taken. In the aisles and en
trance, latecomers young and
Menace
ALL THE LEAtoMADE
THIS iVATgR?'
S. WHITE
was bound in any case to
be put on Humphrey. His rec
ord is essentially a New Deal
one. He is an official of the
New Deal splinter movement
called Americans for Demo
cratic Action. And his cam
paign manager is one of the
most authentic of the New
Dealers, James H. Rowe Jr.
Mr. Rowe, now a Washing
ton attorney, was a member
of the inner-inner FDR brain
trust as a White House assist
ant to the President. He has
remained absolutely and un-
apologetically faithful to Roo
sevelt doctrines in all the sub
sequent years in which party
dogma and party memories
have generally shifted away
from the Roosevelt era.
Moreover, the late Presi
dent's widow,' Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, has been saying
markedly good things of Humphrey-kinder
things, by far,
than she Mas said for any other
hopeful. Efforts, indeed, are
now being made to bring Mrs.
Roosevelt and also former
Gov. Averell Harriman of
New York openly into Hum
phrey's support.
POWE himself, oddly
A enough, did not initiate the
decision of the Humphrey
camp to run the Senator as
a mid-century FDR. He has,
however, concluded it is a wise
decision and it will form the
basis for all his future sorties
in seeking to gather up con
vention delegates for Hum
phrey. .
The analysis of the Hum
phrey people is about this: Hu
bert Humphrey never would
be given the nomination any
how by a convention deter
mined on a "moderate" can
didate. Such a convention, in
common sense, would turn in
stead to Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson of Texas, Senator
Symington or Senator John
F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Humphrey would never, in
any case, be acceptable to
the convention's conservatives
-and certainly never to those
from the South. Thus, far
more even than any of his
rivals, he is barred from play
ing any kind of waiting and
hoping game. He must sharply
and clearly-and early and
often and bluntly - identify
himself and seek the sort of
delegate strength really open
to him. He must do this even
at the cost of alienating other,
and more iffy, strength.
It is the case of the New
Deal bird in hand, or more
or less in hand, against X
number of possibly non-New
Deal birds in the bush.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
By Joseph AIsop
old, workers and peasants and
artisans, kneeled or stood
through the long service. Even
when Haydn's 18th century
imagination sent the fiddles
and sopranos on their wildest
flights, one felt the faith and
fervor! But the great outpour
ing of passion came at the
close, when the whole crowd
ed congregation joined in the
Hungarian anthem, the hymn
of the Magyar people, which
Hungarians have sung to
gether for more than a cen
tury .
THE POINT about this mass
at the Coronation Church
is quite simple. In brief, this
is all that the great majority
of the Hungarian people real
ly believe in any longer. The
system they live under, the
government that rules over
them, the future that the gov
ernment promises, are all
duly accepted. . But they do
not command belief or hope.
It is a curious fact, yet it
really seems to be a fact, that
belief and hope were strong
er when the lot of the Hun-
Communications
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No Argument
, To the Editor: Referring to
the Phoenix election on school
consolidation.
There was at no time any
argument between myself and
the election board or any
member of that board before,
during, or after the election.
The deputy sheriff was there
to uphold my legal right to
sit as a poU watcher.
Fred Wilcox,
Camp Baker rd., -Phoenix.
Successful Convention I
To the Editor: The state
convention of the Oregon Op
tometric Association, held in
Medford May 15-17, was , a
great success, due in large
measure to the hard work of
the members and auxiliary of
the Southern Oregon Opto
metric society. Too often little
public recognition is accorded
local convention delegates for
their contribution of time and
effort to, insure that visitors
to the area are given a favor
able impression of southern
Oregon.
Perhaps this letter will in
some way express to them the
appreciation of the community
and convention committee.
Representatives in the Med
ford area who assisted are to
be commended. They include
Dr. and Mrs. George S. Jen
nings, Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Urie, Mrs. August Glutsch,
Dr. Robert Harland. Dr. and
Mrs. Tom Urie, Mrs. August
Glutsch, Dr. Robert Harland,
Dr. and Mrs. Tom Anderson,
Dr. Frank Freeburger, Dr. and
Mrs. Richard Nelson, and Dr
and Mrs. William J. Thomp
son.
Backing up the work of the
local planners with the full
support of the news media, the
Chamber of Commerce, and
the staff of the Rogue Valley
Country club, site of the con
vention. Without this co-oper
ation 'the convention would
have been less than the suc
cess it proved to be.
August W. Glutsch, O.D.,
Medford, General Chairman
O.O.A. Convention Committee
garian people was far more
terrible, in the iron times of
Rakosi and Stalin. Precisely
because power was displayed
with naked ruthlessness, pre
cisely because of the cruelty
of the grim policies pursued,
they seem to have inspired
a curious masochistic mysti
que, at least in certain sectors
of the youth and the intelli
gentsia. It was the same in
Poland, where the most rigid
ly Stalinist intellectuals are
now the most strenuous "re
visionists."
This mystique collapsed
when Khrushchev broke the
Stalin image " in his famous
speech, with consequences in
Hungary that the whole world
remembers. Nothing has ' re
placed the lost mystique, al
though the blood that was
shed was not shed altogether
m vain if you apply the com
mon economic tests of our
age.
pfCONOMICALLY, the Hun
garian people are substan
tially better off under Kadar
than they were under Rakosi
and somewhat better off than
under Imre Nagy. The im
provement began even before
the great explosion here. The
trading system by which Sta
lin's Russia levied a heavy
tribute in Hungary was aban
doned soon after the old ty
rant's death, for instance.
Now, moreover, the rate of
state investment is far more
bearable. The investment plan
is no longer insanely over
balanced in favor of an arti
ficial ultra - heavy industry.
Ordinary consumer's goods
are being produced in reason
able quantities. Above all, the
tremendous burden of defense
expenditure that Hungary
was formerly required to
carry, has now been reduced
by about four-fifths for ob
vious political reasons.
All these changes mean, in
effect, that the state is taking
less for itself and giving more
to the people. This city, with
its spectacular situation
astride the Danube and all its
possibilities of beauty, is still
sadly gray and drab. But
there are goods in the shops.
The people have 'decent shoes
and decent clothes. Except
for the old and the tragic
survivors of the former ruling
class, no one goes hungry.
rpHE GOVERNMENT'S con
scicus effort to improve
the conditions of life in Hun
gary is the direct result of
the defeated revolution.
"Something must be done."
they said in the Kremlin, and
this was what was done.
There is no solid evidence,
either, that the renewed drive
to collectivize Hungarian ag
riculture means a change in
policy.
The propaganda about the
new rural collectives being en
tirely voluntary is - propa
ganda. But brute force . has
not been used in the old way.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
PROGRESS AT GENEVA
As a public spectacle, the
Geneva conference is still in
the prelude to the negotia
tions. But this
prelude is of
great impor
tance. For it
is dealing with
a momentous
qu estion:
Shall the Four
Powers as
sume, when
they come to
Walter
Lippmann
negotiate
about Berlin and other mat
ters, that for all practical pur
poses the partition . of Ger
many is permanent?
Mr. Gromyko's taqtical
moves and his proposals have
been designed to emphasize
the partition by building up
the prestige of the East Ger
man state.- Mr. Gromyko
knows as well as we do that
his package of proposals is
not going to be accepted. But
as in the incident of the seat
ing of the East German dele
gates at the conference, he
has been working to create
the impression that the West,,
which is not unanimous about
German reunification, is ac
cepting the partition.
The task of the Westerners
has been to prevent the com
ing negotiations about Berlin
from taking place with all the
world assuming that the idea
of reunification has been scut
tled. rpHE ISSUE was stated can---
didly Tuesday by the
French Foreign Minister, M.
Couve de Murville. Dealing
with the Soviet proposal for
a peace treaty with the two
Germanys, he said that "such
a treaty would do nothing to
solve the problems facing us;
or rather, it would do one
thing only: set the Four Pow
ers' seal on the division of
Germany."
He came immediately to
the crucial point: "Even if
. . . reunification is not yet
possible, we see no reason at
all for taking part in a solemn
international act which would
preclude it forever, and could
have no other result than
drive the German people to
despair."
The Westerners know, of
course, that their package
plan is not going to be ac
cepted by the Soviet Union
and they know too that the
reunification of Germany is
not possible in the foreseeable
future. Moreover, it is no
secret that in the Western al
liance there is powerful op
position to German unifica
tion, and that, as one French
man has put it: "It is like this.
We all pray to go to heaven
but not too soon."
Nevertheless, the Western
powers are right to insist that
nothing be done at Geneva or
at the summit to PRECLUDE
the idea of eventual reunifi
cation. Thus, M. Couve de
Murville is undoubtedly right
m saying that if the Allies
accept partition it would drive
the German people, or at
least some of the boldest
among them, to despair. The
ground will be prepared for
clandestine conspiracy be
tween West German and East
German nationalists. Out of
that might come anything - a
German civil war, or a Ger
man deal with Russia. But in
any event it would mean the
end of Western influence in
a reunited Germany.
-
ONCE the Geneva confer
ence has established the
principle that there will be
no "solemn international act
which would preclude it (Ger
man reunification) forever,"
the prelude wiU be over. The
time will have come for ne
gotiation about Berlin. Here
there appears to exist a ser
ious problem of Allied policy.
There are those who believe
that the West should stand
firm on the status quo, refus
ing any change of any kind.
They regard any change as a
change for the worse. They
do not believe our position
There are many practical
reasons why small plot peas
ant farming is undesirable in
Hungary, which has always
been farmed in large estates.
The state is naying heavily to
make the new collectives suc
ceed. For these reasons, the
re-collectivization does not
seem to foreshadow another
general plunge into misery in
the Stalinist manner.
All in all. three years after
the young boys fought the
Soviet tanks from street xo
street, life in Hungary goes
on with most of the outward
appearances of normal life in
other countries. The trouble
is under the surface. The
trouble, in fact, is the total
absence of belief, witnout
commanding a certain meas
ure of belief, at least among
its own cadres, no government
can put down permanent
roots. That is Janos Kadar's
problem - which is directly
linked to the Berlin crisis ana
the current meeting at Geneva
to talk about Berlin.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune, Inc..
Lippmann
can be improved but only that
it can be weakened. This is at
least the first attitude of the
Bonn and the Paris govern
ments. They profess to think
that if we stand firmly on
the absolute negative, Mr.
Khrushchev wUl give up and
give in. v
This is an arguable posi
tion. But it can be argued
better if it is not accompanied
by the innuendo that the Ber
lin and the Americans, who
want to negotiate with the
Soviets, are less brave and
less noble and less realistic
than are the Germans and the
French. It would serve the
cause of Allied unity greatly
if the innuendo were omitted
from the off-the-record brief
ings. THE OTHER point of view
holds that the Western
position in West Berlin is
weak and needs to be streng
thened, and that it should be
a prime object of Western
policy to strengthen and im
prove the position in Berlin.
The weakness of the Western
position is notorious. West
Berlin is an island within a
Communist state, and this is
land is defended against in
vasion and conquest by the
threat, which only the United
States could carry out, of
waging a total nuclear war.
.. This is an adequate defense
against the conquest of West
Berlin. But it is not a defense
at all against harassment -
just enough to become intoler
ably annoying and not enough
to justify a total nuclear war.
The morale of the people of
West Berlin cannot be count
ed upon to endure forever
harassment for which there is
no remedy.
The Weshas, therefore, a
vital interest in negotiating a
new statue for Berlin, one
which spells out its rights of
access and reaffirms Its right
to a military presence In West
Berlin, and is the formal com
mitment of the Soviet Union
and of the East European
states.
TN MY view, we shall miss
the bus if we . do not get
a new agreement about .Ber
lin. If it is possible, this agree
ment should be worked out
before there is a summit meet
ing, or at the, least there
should be a good concrete
private understanding that it
will be worked out at the
summit. v
Moreover, It should be our
object to get an agreement
on Berlin before the Soviet
Union makes a separate peace
treaty with East Germany,
The agreement should exist so
that before there is; any peace
treaty it is already an inter
national obligation of East
Germany as well as of the
Soviet Union. If Mr. Khrush
chev wiU negotiate such an
agreement now on the way
to the summit it will be an
impressive demonstration that
he means to negotiate serious
ly when he gets to the summit,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. '
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Odd note in the news:
Cannibals in the Purari
Hills area of New Guinea (far
down in the South Seas) raid
ed the village of Matuari and
killed and ATE Patrolman
Obu, the village policeman.
, We have municipal prob
lems here in the U.S.A. But,
thank fortune, that isn't one
of them.
SPEAKING of problems:
Dr. Paul Benton, an Okla
homa child psychiatrist, told
a pedriatric society meeting
in Memphis the other day that
we need to turn back the rear
ing of children to parents in
stead of giving them so much
"expert" advice.
He added:
"You can't rear children by
a book of rules. Every child
is an INDIVIDUAL."
GOING literary for a mo
ment, George Noel Gor
don, Lord Bycon, said a cen
tury and a quarter ago in his
Don Juan:
"The antique Persians
taught three useful things
"To draw the bow, to ride,
and SPEAK THE TRUTH."
Whether he draws a bow or
rides a horse I don't know.
But I'm inclined to think that
in his talk to the Memphis
pediatrists Dr. Benton was
speaking the truth. Children
can't be reared successfully by
mass production techniques.
The communists tried it in
the early days of the Bolshe
vik Revolution. They took the
children away from the par
ents and put 'em . in institu
tions. They had to give it up
and bring parents back into
the picture. Since that was
done, .Russia is going ahead
faster.
POTLUCK
(By M-T. Staff and
Contributors)
Our society editor warn sTl
wet Friday afternoon.
we mean this litpraiw
with no disparagement.
A small but heavy thimnVr.
storm passed over the down
town area snortlv before a
o'clock. Rain fell in buckets.
And, due to a defective drain
pipe, it started coming
through the ceiling right over
OS's desk, pouring down in a
veritable torrent, and splash
ing an over ner.
A hastily organized nna
squadron of fellow workers
grabbed tyDewriter. tahl nnz-l
chair and rushed them to an
adjoining room. wastebasket
were pressed Into use to con
tain the worst of the flow,
lights and heaters were
switched off to avoid short
circuits, and the Biles anrJ
piles of papers, magazines,
books and assorted potpourri
on Potpourri's desk wera hur-
rieaiy removed.
Desks and boolrr-asa
shoved aside and, as the tor
rent slowed.
were brought out and things
uoiea up. .
OS, in her forced but tem
porary exile from the familiar
corner, looked on the cheerful
side of it. It offered a chance
to get her stuff sorted out and
the excess thrown away, she
declared.
H. P. Jewett. the veteran
school superintendent in
district 6C, recently was
honored for his long and
faithful service by a com
munity celebration in Cen
tral Point, A few days lat
er, on a shopping visit in
Medford, one man com
mented on his "Centennial
celebration." Mr. Jewett did
one of the longest double
takes on record, not realix
ing until a day or two later
that he was being congratu
lated on 100 years of serv
ice. . .
Consistent readers of this
column know of our addiction
to the Hoover HiLite, publica
tion at Hoover school. We
find in it some of the freshest
reporting hereabouts.
In the current issue, John
Knope, a scholar in grade 3R,
writes as follows on "The
Moon":
"Do you know what is our
nearest neighbor? It is the
moon, about 239,000 miles
away. Did you know that the
moon travels around the earth
could throw a ball farther, in
fact you can throw a ball six
times farther than on earth.
Nothing happens there - no
rain, no plants, no nothing.
And there is no noise, and
that's why my mother would
like to live on the moon."
- Here's another one, this
ope by Mike Leever, of -grade
2C: "My family and
I went to the cabin on the
Rogue river. I swam in the
walerdog pool. We had so
much fun there, and we
laid on the bear rugs. We
got to eat marshmellowc.
We went fishing in the riv
er. I catch lots of fish.''
And one more. ' . '
This is by Martin Browne,
in grade 3R:
itml .1 - M j : n T
j. lie xuak aajr uj. vacauuu x
will call up my best friend
Timmy Root. Then we might
go up in the wood or dig a
fox hole. We might climb a
tree and put a bird feeding
tray there, and we might
make a boat. We might play
army and have a war.",
v m
One of our young men
has been' reading all the
stories about Bear creek
pollution. He looked pen
sive for a while, then sat
down, wrote the following,
and handed it to us without
comment: "Bear Creek
Fools wade in where an
glers fear to tread."
A reader who calls himself,
for these purposes, "Old
Snorter," is amongjhat group
of readers which finds itself
in recurring disagreement with
our editorial cartoonist, Her
bert Block. He expressed him
self on the mater thus:
Come, come Herblock, give
us a change.
There are worse outlaws on
the range.
Industry can t be all to
blame, . ' ,
Some unions bring us great
er shame.
Their wage demands, fringe
benefits
Give us the jim-jams and
the fits.
Inflation fever, jobs that
stop
Ruin hopes and plans with
strike dry-rot.
Sign spotted on private
land during the hunting
season: "No Trespassing.
Survivors Will Be Prose
cuted." .
A gossip is one who talks
to you about others.
A bore is one who talks to
you about himself.
A brilliant conversational
ist is one who talks to you
about you.