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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
mrv m. 1949 (Sunday)
Medford city councilmen
approve drawing up an agree
ment permitting Central Point
to use the Camp White sew
age disposal system.
Medford residents approve
a bond issue and levy for
mnTefrnff the Hawthorne
park swimming pool by a
wide majority.
20 YEARS AGO
May 23, 1939 (Monday)
Pear growers and packers
report the elimination of un
desirable grades of winter
pears last year under a mar
keting agreement improved
returns to growers. '
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Cali
fornia is cursed with a deluge
. of ideas that are lame, halt
and nutty."
-
30 YEARS AGO
May 29. 1923 iweanesaayj
Jacksonville undertakes a
move to secure Medford
water.
The Jackson county court
decides to build a new Bear
creek span on Midway rd.
40 YEARS AGO
May 29, 1919 (Thursday)
Fruitmen plan a meeting to
discuss the labor shortage.
Ashland's July 4 celebra
tion is to feature airplane
flights.-
50 YEARS AGO
Mav 29. 1909 (Saturday)
Judge W. M. Colvig praises
: Col. TouVelle's alfa-berries
: before the Portland Commer
' rial rlnh.
The Royal Italian Grand
Opera company heads the list
I for next fall's entertainment
season presented by Charles
: D. Hazelrigg.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight b excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Mosquitoes are a com
mon pest in Alaska;- true or
false.
2. How many pairs of ribs
do human beings have?
3. Liverwort is a kind of
sausage; true or false?
4. Which is the "Lone Star
State"?
5. Unscramble the follow
names of the U. S. Presidents:
LERMFOIL, ROSHRANI.
6. For how long a term of
office is a Roman Catholic
Cardinal appointed?
7. When does the U. S. Gov
ernment fiscal year end?
8. Limburger cheese i s
named after a town in what
country?
9. In the nursery rhyme
"Hi Diddle Diddle," what did
the little dog do?
10. Is Peru on the east, or
west coast of South America?
Answers: 1. True. 2.
Twelve. 3. False. (Plant) 4.
Texas. 5. Fillmore. Harrison.
6. For life. 7. June 30. 8.
Belgium. 9. Laughed. 10.
West.
STEAL SUMARAI SWORD
Los Angeles -fflPD- A gold
plated and gem-encrusted Su-
: marai sword used in the coro
nation of Emperor Tiosho of
Japan has been stolen from
the Japanese Art and Cultural
Institute.
The FBI's Work
VTipn trip FpfiPVfll
buckles down to do a job, it does a thorough one.
This thought came to mind after reading the
FBI's renort on Richard Allen Hunt, in which it
was announced that Hunt
H Bi s Ten most wanted
lne document is just
and pi vps an intimate
who is wanted for the kidnapping of one Oregon
police onicer and the shooting oi another.
IT STARTS by giving
he is wanted : Interstate transportation of stolen
motor vehicle ; interstate transportation of stolen
property; federal firearms act; unlawful flight
to avoid prosecution (all leaerai oiiensesj, ana
kidnapping and assault with intent to commit
murder (state offenses).
It gives a minute physical description, a job
history, his prior criminal record, his likes and
dislikes in food, drink, sports and recreation.
It tells what work he has done, how he has
traveled, and many of his habits.
'
A LL THIS and more, too the FBI has com-
piled since it was called in to the case. Only
the resources of a well-financed, well-trained and
widespread organization could, have produced
such a detailed, document.
It is an indication of what the files on the
Mack Parker lynch case must be like.
It will be recalled that Parker, a Negro, was
jailed at Poplarville, Miss., on a rape charge.
He was dragged from jail by masked men; beat
en, shot and tossed in a river.
The FBI was called in on this case, and sent
a large number of agents to the area. They con
ducted a painstaking and detailed investigation,
finally determining that no federal law had been
violated, and turned their files on the case over
to the governor of the state.
,
THE CONTENTS of these files, of course, have
not been made public, but it is fair to assume
that they constitute a record of the case in detail,
naming names and giving circumstances.
The governor has stated he will turn them
over to the next regular grand jury which meets
next November. Bv that time, susnects in the
v
lynch-murder may have
ing what they know and believing the FBI had
discovered it.
. And the passage of six months can dim things
beyond recollection in the minds of witnesses.
AS IT STANDS, it appears that this delay in
"Mississippi will thwart the ends of justice,
through the old saying that "justice delayed is
justice denied."
We wouldn t give a plug nickel tor the chances
of a successful prosecution after that lapse of
time. And it looks, now
ville murderers will remain free.
It must be aggravating to the FBI agents to
see all their work go
nothing at all. E.A.
, Please, Not Steaks!
Spray cans, those handy little gadgets which
spurt out a stream of their contents when a but
ton or spout is pressed, are really booming.
If we recall correctly, whipped cream was
one of the first products to be put up in this form.
Now a long list of liquid or semi-liquid pro
ducts can be obtained in them from toothpaste
to house paint. And the list is growing every day.
Soon, we learn from the magazine, Chemical
Week, one will be able to buy maple syrup, deter
gents, chocolate syrup, baby foods and vitamins
in the cans.
"OSMETICS, including shaving lather, hair oil
and hand lotions, now come this way, and
shampoos are coming.
One brand of instant coffee now is packaged
in a spray can, and other manufacturers are
watching with interest. If it is a success, they'll
jump in, too, and predict a variety which needs
no refrigeration.
And others under active consideration include
salad dressings, mayonnaise, jam and cheese dips.
QNE BRAND-NEW one, introduced only this
week, is a spray can that squirts a white foam
which, when applied to a charcoal bed in a bar
becue burner" and touched with a match, will
produce a hot, even flame to ignite the,coals,
rapidly and uniformly.
All this, we presume, is "progress," although
we're just a little inclined to wonder where it's
all leading to.
Let us all join in the fervent hope that sirloin
steak,v lightly charred on the outside and blood
rare within, is never packaged in an aerosol can.
E.A. -
, Irritant
The only thing more irritating than the nasty
anonymous letter (which goes into the waste
basket immediately) is the nasty anonymous tele
phone call.
What, we wonder, -do the people who make
them hope to accomplish? Maybe it puffs up
their meager little souls for an hour or so.
, But it also :
Brands them as cowards for being afraid to
give their names;
Irritates the recipient of the call to a point
where the message, if any, is totally ignored, and
Proves the caller's stupidity for thinking that
such a tactic can actually influence anyone, other
than to make him mad. E.A.
I
Ttoirpan nf Tnvestipation
has been placed on the
lugitives list.
over eight pages long,
nicture of the fugitive.
his name and aliases
, A
fled from the state, know
anyway, that the Poplar
for what appears to be
Dennis the
.5 -29
I got poufz. How mw box
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Later Than We Think
To the Editor: When the
first settlements were estab
lished in the Rogue river val
ley, and other parts of south
western Oregon, the people
were served by a seaport.
Freight was brought by mule
team from Scottsburg, at the
head of tide water on the
Umpqua river west of Drain.
Some freight was brought
from the head of navigation
on the Sacramento river.
Those were the 'good old days
of freight wagons and stage
coaches.
During the 1880's the Ore
gon and California railroad
was completed and the 'Gold
en Spike' was driven at Ash
land. Medford came into be
ing as a railroad station at
that time. The freight teams
were still required to deliver
freight from the railroad to
outlying settlements. In those
days there were passenger
trains. I remember coming
from the Willamette valley in
1908; the train was in two
sections. At West Fork, north
of Glendale, we met the north
bound train in three sections.
The trains passed by using a
siding. Those were the days
of Dennis McCarty.
The days of the passenger
train through the Rogue river
valley have come to an end.
The days of the freight train
are numbered. At the present
time we can boast of living
along the longest railroad
switch in the world. The
Friendly Southern Pacific will
have no further use for this
old road when there is no
more lumber to haul. Let us
give this some serious
thought.
The federal government is
building a harbor to serve all
southwestern Oregon at Gold
Beach. Let us find a way to
build a truck road to this port.
Our present terminals are
Portland and San Francisco.
From a port at Gold Beach we
can reach the markets of the
world. Let usj not delay; it
may be later than we think.
Joseph J. Hall,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Another View
To the Editor: Mr. Donald
Sweeney in his letter pub
lished in your May 26 issue
calls some statements made
by Mr. Roy L. Laurin "ridicu
lous".. I dare anyone to read
Paul Blanshard's famous
book, "American Freedom
and Catholic Power," and still
agree with Mr. Sweeney's
statements. Mr. Blanshard is
probably the foremost author
ity on the operations of the
Catholic Church which are
being carried on in the United
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
ANEW YORKER, eager to test his luck, flew to Las Vegas
arid taxied to a hotel on the "Strip." He handed the driver
a $20 bill and said, "I hope you can give me change for this."
The driver shot a scornful
look at his passenger and
explained, "Out here, Broth
er, a double-sawbuck IS
change."
An airline statistician has
traced the first recorded air
cargo fleet. In 990 A.D. the
Caliph of Cairo c rayed fresh,
cherries. The Vizier of Baal
bek, 400 miles away, seeking
a favorable treaty, heard of
the Caliph's craving, and ship
- ped the cream of his cherry
crop by air, neatly fastened
to the legs of 600 carrier
pigeons!
Did yon hear about the very correctly brought-up 6-year-old little
girl who wouldn't read Doctor Seuss' popular "The Cat in the Hat?"
Tm sure I wouldn't like it," she said primly. 'It's full of those
three-letter words!"
Q 1959. by Baanett Cert, Distributed by King F&Uua Sjnd, irate. ,
Menace
tops do we meov
States today and his book is
well documented and inter
esting. I believe that it should
be read by every thinking
American. If I am not mis
taken the author is one of the
leaders in "Protestants and
Other Americans United . for
the Separation of Church and
State".
For more history of the
Catholic Church that will not
hide all the facts see Henry
H. Halley's "Pocket Bible
Handbook", especially con
cerning the Popes who are
supposed to be the successors
to Peter according to Catholic
teachings. A contemporary
source of information would
be E m m e 1 1 McLoughlin's
"People's Padre".
Any of these books will
help a person get a realistic
appraisal of the Catholic
Church's view of Church and
State relationships and on
many other subjects as well.
I would like to take the op
portunity to suggest that .we
all return- to the simplicity of
New Testament Christianity
and these problems will re
solve themselves in the light
of the scriptures. If you would
like further information from
this view contact any Church
of Christ minister or evan
gelist.
Dorian F. Woods
Star Rt., Box 191
Prospect, Ore.
Memorial Day
To the Editor: On Memorial
Day tomorrow, let us express,
with our flag placing and
wreath laying exercises, a true
gratitude for a peace and our
continued freedom earned by
the young men who made the
supreme sacrifice for that
cause, and for the young men
who came back minus a part
of their health, who gave the
best years of their lives, still
amongst us, some older, some
quite old, but all were young
men at the time of going
away to war.
War is a cruel and demand
ing thing, wanting .' only the
cream of the nation's man
hood. When our national free
dom was jeopardized, only
the young, the strong, the
very best, were equal to the
task. But of these fine men
who went away, there were
besides the dead left on the
battle fields, after .World War
One, 300,000 who came back
disabled, handicapped or di
seased. World War II counted
disabled in hundreds of thous
ands, and the Korean War
added a lot more.
As a group, these disabled
veterans have been self-sacrificing,
counting the price they
Stop Me
East German Leader Tells Views on Berlin
Question in Interview with UPI Chief
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Man - of - the - week: Walter
Ernst Karl Ulbricht, 1st secre
tary of the East German
Communist Party and 1st dep
uty premier of
the puppet
East German
regime.
The place:
East Berlin.
The quote:
"There is no
valid reason
for the United
States to main
tain troops in
thousands of
Phil Jsewsom
West Berlin,
miles from their shores. No
body thinks of attacking West
Berlin, of foisting something
on the people of West Berlin
that they don't desire and of
meddling in West Berlin af
fairs." ',
There was more from this
man who prides himself on
his resemblance to Lenin and
whose cold thinking processes
Auto Workers Reported Closer
To Humphrey, Drop
Bv LYLE C. WILSON
Washington- (UPD -From a
counle of sources which have
special interest in Michigan
politics comes
the word that
the United
Autom o b i 1 e
W o r k e rs
(UAW) union
is warming to
to the presi
dential candi
dacy of Sen.
Hubert H.
lyc. wuso. Humphrey (D-
iviiiiu.;..
If true, that report should
be marked down as a prime
political fact of life. UAW s
head man is Walter P, Reuth
er. one of the smartest of the
left-wing operators who dom
inate the Democratic Party in
the North It was Reuther, in
the 1956 Democratic national
convention, who broke a dead
lock and brought about the
almost instant nomination of
Adlai E. Stevenson.
It is no reflection on Reu
ther, the UAW or the State
of Michigan to report that the
U. S. Communist Party keeps
an especially keen eye on
Michigan politics. The Com
mie weekly publication, "The
Worker," usually contains a
Detroit column which often is
quite well informed. This col-
are paying as a debt they
owed and have paid off to the
nation.
On Memorial Day it is fit
ting and proper that our
thoughts not only be with
those who were killed in bat
tle, but that we remember
those who were disabled in
freedom's cause, and that we
should dedicate ourselves to
the principle, for which they
exposed themselves so willing
ly, and to the principle that
disabled combat veterans,
shall not have been wounded
in vain.
Patrick Graham, Commander
Dept. of Oregon, DAV
Medford.
Poll Watcher
To the Editor: Boy, do I
feel dumb. For quite a few
years now, I've been voting
regularly, but the recent
Phoenix election on consolida
tion with Talent, was the first
time I have been aware of a
"Poll Watcher."
Regardless of which side of
the fence you were on, or the
issue at stake, I'm curious,
not only for the past election,
but for knowledge in the fu
ture. Can someone tell me
What is a Poll Watcher? What
are his duties at an election?
Who authorizes him or is any
one or all eligible?
Is he allowed to sit at or
near the election board table,
and how close is he allowed
to the voter while he is mark
ing his ballot?
I've talked to many friends
but all are as curious as I and
as uninformed.
My feeling at first was that
it was an insult to the intel
ligence of our capable elec
tion board - but surely there
is a good answer somewhere.
' Mrs. A. A. Zundel,
2548 Starlite lane,
Medford.
Editor's note: The following
is an excerpt from Oregon
election laws, ORS 250.430
(2):
"The election board shall,
if requested, permit one per
son authorized by each polit
ical party to be at the polling
place for the purpose of chal
lenging voters, and shall, if
requested, permit any candi
date, several candidates or a
political party, to be present
to watch the receiving and
counting of the votes. . .Per
sons permitted to be present
to watch the counting of the
votes shall not absent them
selves until the polls are
closed.'
i
have been compared to those
of a mechanical brain.
Interviewed by UPI President
His remark came in the
mist of an interview with
Frank H. Bartholomew, presi
dent of United Press Interna
tional. In the interview, there
came also for the first time a
hint the Communists might re
ject even an interim agree
ment on Western occupation
of West Berlin, pending a
peace treaty.
Here were other key quotes
from East Germany's No. 1
Communist:
"All ways of access to West
Berlin, which lies within the
territory of the German Demo
cratic Republic and which is
itself part of the territory of
the GDR, come under the sov
ereignty of the GDR which is
a sovereign state . . .
"Everyone knows that a
war for West Berlin, for part
of a city, would also drag
into it all the other great
cities of the world, irrespec
tive of on which continents
umn recently said that Michi
gan's Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy)
Wililams no longer had UAW
backing for the 1960 Demo
cratic nomination, "if he ever
had it."
Humphrey or Douglas
UAW, according to "The
Worker," was leaning to
Humphrey or Sen. Paul Doug
las (D.-I1L), with Sen. John
F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) favor
ed for vice president. This
word is likely to give Ken
nedy strategists chills and
fevers. They are running their
boy . for president, no less.
Kennedy must have labor
backing to win any nomina
tion. '
A kindly political writer in
Detroit checked on the Hum
phrey - Douglas - Kennedy re
port and came up with this:
At an early spring meet
ing of Democratic Midwest
ern leaders, a UAW spokes
man representing the Wisconsin-Minnesota
area said firm
ly that Humphrey was the
UAW candidate. UAW head
quarters in Detroit countered,
however, that the internation
al union had taken no posi
tion on the 1960 nomination,
although UAW leaders in
Minnesota and Wisconsin
might well be for Humphrey.
-The kindly political writ
er, however, is convinced that
the UAW high command ac
tually is quietly backing
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In Washington a delegation
of what the correspondents
describe as "some farmers and
some congressmen" made a
four-pronged proposal to aid
the poultry business. They
urged that the Department of
Agriculture take these steps:
1. Buy up egg-laying hens
to reduce the supply of eggs.
2. Purchase shell eggs for
(free) distribution to the
needy.
3. Buy broilers for (free)
distribution to the school
lunch program.
4. Provide export subsidies
to promote sale abroad of
American hens.
LET'S do some supposing.
Suppose these proposals
had been adopted (fortunately
they weren't; the agriculture
department turned them
down). But ... if they had
been adopted . . . here's about
what would happen:
1. Poultrymen would start
raising all the hens they could
to sell on a SUBSIDIZED
market. That would UP the
poultry supply.
2. Poultrymen would start
producing all the eggs they
could to sell to the govern
ment for' SUBSIDIZED dis
tribution to the needy.
3. Poultrymen would start
raising all the broilers they
could for sale to the govern
ment for SUBSIDIZED dis
tribution to the school lunches.
4. Poultrymen would start
raising all the hens they could
for sale abroad under a SUB
SIDIZED export distribution
program.
THE eventual result?
The eventual result would
be ruin of the poultry busi
ness andor impoverishment
of the taxpayers depending
on which happened first.
ALL THIS sounds like a
slam at American poultry
men. It isn't so intended.
Poultrymen are just as good
citizens as anybody else.
But
If such a program were in
itiated, the poultrymen would
HAVE TO GO ALONG WITH
IT just as the wheat grow
ers have had to go along with
a similar program of subsi
dized overproductin which has
stuffed the warehouses with a
they are. Nobody in the world,
certainly no American, either
wants or needs to die for West
Berlin . . .
Mixture of Talk
"The major impediments to
a peaceful solution of the Ger
man question are the atomic
armament of West Germany,
the rocket bases and the
revanchist (revenge) policy of
the federal government. This
policy is furthered by the
presence of foreign troops in
West Germany and West Ber
lin . . ."
Thus Ulbricht's words were
a mixture of Communist
tough talk and the honeyed
words about a "free" Berlin
which first came out of Mos
cow last Nov. 27 when Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev first
announced his ultimatum to
the Western Allies to get out
of West Berlin.
Contained in the words also
were the veiled threats once
referred to by President Ei
senhower as Communist-brand
"atomic blackmail."
The 65-year-old, Leipzig-
Williams
Humphrey, although not very
actively at this time.
A further opinion is that
Reuther is not likely soon to
go on record; that, more like
ly, he will be silent until the
Democratic presidential situa
tion is clarified considerably.
Reasonably enough, Reuther
would like to back a winner.
Never Committed to Williams
-The UAW high command
never officially has commit
ted itself to Go Williams.
Williams' 1960 chances, are
becoming increasingly dinu
Reuther is not likely to give
the governor a hand unless
that trend is changed in a
big way.
-Here's the summary from
Detroit of current Williams
political strategy: "The Wil
liams camp in Michigan has
been making some definite
moves to disassociate itself in
the public mind from Reu
ther and the UAW. Some top
Democrats here (in Detroit)
have been grabbing every out-of-state
newsman who stops
by, trying to plant the idea
that Reuther is not now and
will not in the future back
Williams for the 1960 nomi
nation."
Reuther and the UAW
might not be big enough to
nominate Humphrey, but they
might be big enough to stop
Kennedy. Kennedy's job how
would appear to be to woo
Reuther and to woo him good
JENKINS
vast surplus of wheat that
hangs over the markets of the
future like a dark thunder
cloud. T ETS put it this way:
If a similar proposal were
made as to newspapers and
the newspapers were silly
enough to accept it, it would
n't be long until America was
stacked three feet deep with
surplus (subsidized) copies of
newspapers.
We'd just let our presses
run . . . and run and RUN.
We wouldn't want to. But
we'd HAVE to. Under the
circumstances, we couldn't
afford not to. . '
In the long run, it would
ruin our business. And . . .
we love our business. Other
wise, we wouldn't be in it.
We'd hate to see it ruined.
surpluses would
eventually ruin us.
W
HEN will all this silliness
end?
Not
I think
Until the voters begin to
vote against the subsidy spend
ers. .
Yreka Man Reports
On Washington Trip
Yreka -United States con
gressmen are aware of the
need for increas : funds for
U.S. forest timber sales to al
low cuts of maximum sus
tained yields, according to
Michael T. Hennessy, Yreka.
Hennessy returned this
week from Washington, D.C.,
where he appeared before the
senate committee on interior
and insular affairs. He was a
member of a four-man dele
gation headed by State Sen.
Randolph Collier, Yreka. The
group presented northern Cal
ifornia's cases for, increased
timber sale appropriations.
Hennessy said "we should
know in the next couple of
months whether our presenta
tion will have any immediate
effect," and added that "the
long range effect is bound to
be good."
born Ulbricht has proved him
self an able political gymnast,
respected even by those with
in his own party which dis
like him thoroughly, includ
ing East German Premier
Otto Grotewohl.
Ulbricht has been described
as a man who asks neither
adulation nor affection, only
obedience, as a man without
intimates, without visible joyi
or sorrows.
He prides himself on his
physical fitness and in a rare
moment of impulsiveness has
been known to' plunge into
the chilly Baltic and outswim
younger companions.
East Germans may snicker
at him as a stuffed marion
ette but they fear the Russian
divisions at his back and his
Moscow-trained security po
lice. Ulbricht settled in Mot
cow in 1937 and returned to
Berlin with the victorious
Russians in 1945. He has sur
vived both intrigue and vio
lence and, especially, he has
shown himself an able voice
for Moscow. , '
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Over Economies;
BookDustersOK'd
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington (UPD We can
quit worrying about those
dirty books in the Library of
Congress. Our
lawm a k e r s
have acted to
clean 'em up.
You prob
ably saw
where the li
brary, the
world's biggest
advised Con
gress the other
Frank Eleazer aay n now is
up to 37 million items on its
shelves and down to two
$3;200-a-year helpers to dust
them. .
Dr. L. Quincy Mumford, the
librarian, said this resulted, in
a "sub-minimal" cleaning rate.
What he meant was, each
book on an average could ex
pect to get dusted only once
every 66 years.
The House Appropriations
Committee, after considerable
deliberation on this and other
problems entailed in Con
gress' own $130 million budg
et, now has told Dr. Mumford
he can hire , two additional
cleaners.
Cuts Down Spending But ...
The librarian believes this
should enable him to give each
volume the once over lightly
as often as once in a decade.
Thus the Appropriations
Committee, as penurious an
outfit as you are likely to find
in Washington, has demon
strated once again it knows
where to draw the line when
it comes to cutting down gov
ernment spending.
The place to draw it turns
out now and again to be when
Congress' own budget is being
considered. However, it
wouldn't be right to jump to
any conclusions.
In approving the House
share of the legislative budget,
plus congressional items
shared jointly by House and
Senate, - the committee hat
knocked one big spending in
crease right in the hea d.
No Tree Surgeon Increase
Capitol caretakers had pro
posed to double their staff of
tree surgeons, from one to
two. They sought to justify
this on the ground many of
the 2,500 big trees on the Cap
itol Hill are old and ailing,
and that somebody better look
out for rotting limbs and the
like.
The committee, reporting
the money bill to the House
Thursday, obviously spotted
this for a case of empire
building. It struck out the 100
per cent boost in tree sur
geons, and said this will save
us $4,000 next year.
That wasn't the only place
where the lawmakers found
and stamped out potential
waste.
Green Light For Lights
The Capitol architect want
ed to spend $70,000 for better
lights in the underground ga
rage where the members park
their cars out of the inclement
weather, and spend another
$25,000 repainting ceiling.
No sir, said the committee.
Go ahead with the lighting
job, it told the architect, and
we'll see about the paint job
when that's done.
There were other savings,
like on the members' allow
ance for office supplies. This
had been budgeted at $1,800
per member. The committee
caught this one right afway,
pointing out that permanent
law authorizes only $1,200
per member and that the
House so far this year hasn't
passed the kind of resolution
it did last year, raising the al
lowance by $600. '
Wait till it's passed, the
committee said sternly.