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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
June 14, 1949 (Tuesday)
Frank C. Bash is the only
candidate to file for Medford
school district director.
.The new Medford garbage
dump near the Camp White
O sewage treatment plant is due
to, open soon.
20 YEARS AGO
June) 14, 1939 (Wednesday)
"A Medford physician re
portedly faints when a local
resident pays his medical bill
not once but twice.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Today
367 new laws go into effect
in this state. Be careful, and
don't- break . any more than
necessary."
30 YEARS AGO
June 14, 1929 (Friday)
Howard precinct votes to
morrow on procuring Med
ford water. , , ,
Sunshine renews farming in
the Table Rock district, but
heavy rains halt logging oper
ations in the hills. . 2
YEARS AGO ;
June 14, 1919 (Saturday)
The state highway commis
sion arrives to look over tne
work on Pacific highway
Small boys mistake a bear's
paw for a man's hand in the
brush along Bear creek and
stir a murder scare. ,';'-
50 YEARS AGO :
June 14, 1909 (Monday)
Central. Point is' nearly
razed by a rip started by chil
dren playing with matches.
Editors of the high school's
"Tin Horn" , accede to JKiss
Warner's request that they
not publish the proposed peti
tion asking the school, board
to reconsider asking her resig
nation. .
Vhsl's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten carreer is superior;
seven or eight is' excellent; five er
six is good.
1.. Name the famous nlant
breeder who lived in Santa
Rose, California. - r
2. If a child is amenable, is
the child stubborn, popular,
backward.or manageable?
3. Name - the French Em
peror who married Marie
Louise of Austria.
4. What omission is donated
by the apostrophe in the ex
pression "o'cloc?-"?
5. Who was Saul of Tarsus?
6. What metal is liquid at
ordinary ternperaf ures? .""";'
7. When Ponce de Leon set
out to discover the fountain of
youth, was he then an old
man? ; " ; - - ,
8. For what team was Casey
' (not Stengel) playing when he
struck out? ;-
9. Six flags have flown
over Texas; name them.
10. What-was Rapunzel's
hair used for? -
Answers: 1. Luther Bur
bank. 2. Manageable. 3. Na
poleon L 4. "of the." 6. Mer
cury. 7. No. He was about
52.) 8. Mudville. 9. France,
Spain, Republic of Texas.
U.S.. and Confederate States
of America. 10. A ladder.
The highest hill in' Berlin
is an artificial one composed
entirely of wartime rubble.
Named the Insulaner and now
covered with flowers, shrubs
and trees, the hill is 25 feet
higher than Berlin's highest
natural point
The Boarding House
Our farm editor waxed nostalgic the other day
about the boarding house,
which is now rare but still
He painted a picture
ment in Washington, where the proprietress was
noted for tier cooking, for tier mottierly interest in
her boarders, and for her spunk and hard work.
This is the crux of the matter, we maintain.
Boarding houses were (and, we presume, are)
good or bad because of the personality of the indi
viduals running them, and of their clientele.
"YUR early - day boarding house ; experiences
. were varied, and we met our share of admir
able individuals. But we find it difficult to be nos
talgic about boarding house life.
We recall the little white-haired woman with
the Scandinavian name who boarded a dozen
people in a big gray house on the Franklin street
hill in Astoria. Her meals were sumptuous. She
was a' gentle but imperious moderator to her
boarders mostly young men in the lower eche
lons of business executivehood.
(The price was right in those days $27.50
per month for room plus breakfast and dinner
six days a week.)
I7E ALSO recall three or four "rooming
V houses," distinct from boarding houses in
that the patrons "ate out." The only other true
boarding house we remember well was in Modes
to, Calif., where the patrons varied from 'heavy
equipment operators to bank tellers.
Our recollection of this establishment is va
guer than of the Astoria house, even though of
more recent date, which inclines one to believe
that the personalities involved were less vivid.
And the "rooming houses" fade in memory
because of the lack of human association. It is
difficult even to recall the sizes and shapes of
the rooms.
TTHE overriding memory of boarding house (and
1 rooming house,' too) life is of. loneliness.
About the only thing one had in common with
the other boarders was a common humanity, and
the accident of proximity. Sometimes the barriers
were broken with a card game, Or a tale-swapping
session. ':.
But. in the essentials of life, one was alone.
One's hopes and fears, one's sorrows and ambi
tions and desires, were held within, and were not
for the pleasant but basically unsympathetic com
pany. It is a lonely time, those first years away from
home, getting started in a business or trade; with
few acquaintances and fewer friends.
THIS is why we think of boarding houses with a
dim sort of affection, and with some wry
amusement but without nostalgia.
Even an Army barracks in bleak northern
Texas is a place with more real comradeship and
friendliness, for there is more in common among
men undergoing common experiences.
And, in the first tiny, newly-wed, apartment
there, was more life arid affection than in all the
boarding houses put together; There was sorrow
and heartbreak, too. ,
But the loneliness, the aching loneliness
amid many people of the boardiner house was
gone forever. E.A.
Diminishing Returns
The economists have a phrase "point of
diminishing returns" which means, roughly, the
time in any endeavor where a unit of energy or
material put in no longer results in an equal or
greater return.
A farmer reaches this point when he exceeds
the optimum use of fertilizer on a field, and. the
resulting increase in the crop doesn't equal his
time and cost in spreading added amounts of
fertilizer. : -
Manufacturers of hula hoops reached it just
before they had so glutted the market with the
toys that virtually every child had one, and no one
wanted to buy any more. V
THE magazine Petroleum Week sees the day
coming ivhen the increasing number of cars
will create a point of diminishing returns in the
sale of gasoline. " ,
A paradox? Not exactly. It explains:
"A number of companies have found that the bump-er-to-bumper
traffic in some areas has become so frus
trating that . . . more and more, motorists are reluctant
to drive their cars during rush hours or in clogged
Sunday traffic, and thereby are cutting down on gaso
line sales." ,
And it adds:
"... Although city planners are stUl widening the
V network of highways, many have found that efforts
to alleviate the commuter problem by building more x
roads become self-defeating. Better roads only invite
. more commuters to drive their own cars Into town,"
WHERE will it end? V'" ; '
. No one is sure, although some cities may,
perforce, change themselves into monstrous park
ing lots, with shopping centers in between. .
; (If you've flown over a big city at mid-day
recently, and looked down on all the parked cars,
m every nook and crannny, and on many roof
tops, they're beginning to look that -way already.)
The other possibility, one now under active
consideration, is to revive mass transportation
from outlvinsr areas to downtown suctions n
means of transportation
-i-i j i - i ii
places ana aeaa in otners.
Suggestions run all the way from clear-lanes
for buses to fast-moving monorails, but no fool
proof answer has yet been found.
Until it is, congestion will be with us. E.A.
the old-fashioned kind
survives.
of one such establish
which is sick in most
Dennis the
SHHH' I'M PUM' HIDE 'N SEEK WITH DADDY i'
Matter of Fact j-
ON THE IMPORTANCE
OF BEING EARNEST
London Imagine the Am
erican Foreign Service being
so organized that every key
officer in ev
ery legation
and consulate
in all the Ar
ab lands, for
instance, could
speak fair Ar
abic. (In prac-
tice, almost
none of them,
either in the
A 1- 1 3
Joseph Alsop rap laiiua ot
any other uncommitted coun
try, for that mater, can rise
much higher than ordering a
meal in a restaurant.)
Imagine the United States
mobilizing for the struggle for
the world to the point where
we could provide huge, well
equipped camp-universities to
give special training for our
potential friends in the un
committed countries. (In prac
tice, the American fellowship
programs for overseas stu
dents and leading foreign per
sonalities are not only small
in scale; they are also con
stantly menaced with further
cuts by both Congress and the
Bureau of the Budget.) -
Imagine a foreign aid pro
gram so tough-minded yet so
flexible that its methods
would be tailored to each spe
cial situation, serving our in
terests in all cases without re
gard to political prejudice, pa
per work ules, or do-good
poppycock. (In this case, the
contrast between imagination
and practice is really too pain
ful to dwell on.) -
FOR us in the United States,
such things really seem
unimaginable. But they are
very far indeed from being
unimaginable on the Commu
nist side of the line that di
vides the world. All three sit
uations above-described are in
fact drawn from an eye-opening
study of Communist meth
ods in the struggle for the un
committed countries by Brit
ain's former Minister of De
fense, Brig. Antony Head.
It is tempting to devote a
good many thousand words to
the material that1 Brig. Head
has now accumulated. One
known training school for Af
rican Communists, for exam
ple, provides facilities in
Czechoslovakia for 3,000 men
and women drawn from all
over Africa. Another training
school for South East Asian
Communists, situated in Hu
nan Province in China, has
the incredible but well au
thenticated total of 30,000 stu
dents drawn from Indonesia,
Cambodia, Thailand, Malaya,
Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.
AGAIN, the program is
worked out in such elab
orate detail that pro-Communist
versions of the most ob
scure tribal myths are being
peddled in Africa in the orig
inal tribal dialects. Yet the
broad principles have been es
tablished with such ruthless
clarity that penetrable coun
tries are divided into three
classes: Class I, where jolly
cooperation "with the bour
geois" is desirable, as in Egypt
until recently; Class H, where
more .open , support for
the Communists Is permissi
ble, as in Iraq at present; and
Class IH, where all support is
concentrated behind the local
Communists, as in ' Vietnam
before the truce there.'
But the temptation to tell
Brig. Head's remarkable sto
ry in still greater detail must
be resisted. There are reasons
to hope that this exceptional
ly intelligent and original
minded Englishman will
shortly be telling his own sto
ry here in the United States,
as he has already told it in
the House of Commons. As it
is very much his story, com
posed of data which he has
gathered almost single-handed,
the job of telling it in full
must be left to him.
The foregoing facts are bor
rowed from Head, simply be
cause they art the best avail
I - 1
Menace
Alsop
able proof of the importance
of being reasonably earnest
about the vast struggle for the
world. As this reporter packs
for the return journey to
Washington, the thing that
sticks in his craw like a poi
soned chicken bone is the dan
ger of our ownjack of earn
estness. NIKITA Khrushchev may
smile and smile, between
gestures with his H-bombs.
Andrei- Gromyko may force
himself to be relatively po
lite. But all the while, these
men of the Kremlin and their
Communist collaborators in
other countries are in deadly
earnest, endlessly searching
for weak points in the armor
of the West, endlessly organiz
ing to exploit the West's
weaknesses whenever and
wherever these appear.
Khrushchev and Gromyko
and the rest of them are not
bored with the Geneva con
ference, for example, and they
are not complacent about the
outcome, either. They are just
as intensely interested, they
are just as lacking in compla
cency, as hungry, hovering
hawks.
Of course Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter and his
staff are not bored, either. On
the contrary, their vigilance
and stoutness at Geneva have
been altogether admirable.
But judging by the reports
from home, the mood in Wash
ington is flatulently complac
ent; and so it seems to be in
most of the Western capitals.
Yet if the West is beaten at
Berlin, and if the Communists
win the uncommitted coun
tries, and if other quite imag
inable defeats are inflicted on
us, lack of earnestness will be
the chief cause.
" (c); 1959 New York
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He's in Orbit
To the Editor: Some peo
ples ask me the kwaziest
kwestions, like if I'm going
to vote for the Democrats or
Republicans in 1960. I don't
know. Right now, I'm as-confused
as two monkeys in a
satellite, but if the monkeys
continue to improve in their
intercontinental ballistics and
interplanetary transportation,
then I'm a switchin' to mon
keys. All my life I've wanted
to fly to the moon with a back
seat full of monkeys in a sat
ellite, i
Everett Acklin,
Box 233, ( -
Ashland.
Great Snake
To the Editor: The time,
June 17, 1917, the place,
township 36 south, range 4
west and section 28. The fore
man at the Preacher Long
ranch (formerly the old David
Birdseye donation claim, and
later the home of the famed
prospector big Ed Schiefflin)
had some upland, oat hay cut
down and asked me if I would
shock the crop before the dig
ger squirrels ate up the grain.
Consenting, I used a light
pitchfork, the stubble ground
was well dried out and hard
as a flint rock, when as Eu
gene Field, the poet would
say, "I was seein' things."
One of the biggest bullsnakes
ever, fully 14 to 16 feet long".
It was a most shocking inci
dent too, for this huge rep
tile meandered a long time
before finding a hole big
enough to get under cover.
Afterward I was informed this
serpent had been seen a mile
away years before.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman, '
Medford.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Washington On the large,
green and infernally hot
grounds of the British Embas
sy here the
33rd birthday
of a remark
able young
woman has
just been cele
brated, as it
was in other
lands around
the globe.
Here, the oc
casion was a
sprawling garden party, at
times as decorous as a small
town ladies' tea, at times as
brittle as a big-town cocktail
hour. The celebrants were a
very mixed lot, politicians, of
ficials of the United States and
other governments, and all
sorts of private Washington
people who just like to go to
a party.
Some on hand were them
selves or British descent.
The forbears of these had also
been a mixed lot, in our dif
ficulty with Britain in the
American Revolution. Some of
these forebears had fought for
and some against that person
age to whom ax Briton now
refers with a smile as "the
bad George," meaning George
HI. And many of the guests
were as "British" as O'Kelly,
or Cuccio, or Furstenburg, or
Oberg.
THE one in whose honor the
party was being held, Her
Brittanic Majesty, Queen Eli
zabeth, was of course not pres
ent. Her presence, however,
was felt, for reasons that
were never fully apparent and
never could be adequately ex
plained. It was a presence felt
aUusively, most of aU in the
fact that everything . was so
"typically British," so casual
and even a bit mixed-up, like
the guest list.
For example, a slight puz
zlement as to the choice of
date for this affair was felt by
one onlooker. "But Queen
Elizabeth was born on April
21, was she not?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, of course," said a
British informant. "But," the
questioner went on, "you are
celebrating her birthday in
June?"
"Quite so; by aU means,
yes," he replied, completely
confident that this had surely
cleared it all up.
BUT, yague as it all was on
the outside, it was quite
plain on the inside. This party
WUltat
White
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
DEMAGOGUES AT WORK
There is a strong probabil
ity that after aU the investi
gations and the big talk this
Congress will
fail to do any
thing about
t'h e regula
tion of labor
unions.
If this hap
pens, the rea
son will not be
the opposition
Walter ux xiui-ia auu
Lippmann John L. Lew
is. The reason wiU be that the
Senate, which was set to enact
a very useful bill, was stam
peded by political dema
gogues who want an issue and
not a bill. The result is that
unless the mischief can be un
done in the House, a brilliant
oppotunity will have been
lost.
The gist of the matter is
this. In April, after prolonged
hearings and study, the Sen
ate Committee on Labor , and
Public Welfare reported out
a bill which the majority of
the committee believed would
"drive criminals from the la
bor movement" and "deal
with breaches . of trust and
other shady transactions"
which are incompatible with
a strong and honesUy run la
bor movement. The biU was
remarkable in that it pro
vided powerful remedies and
yet had the support of the
AFL-CIO.
ONE basic principle of the
59 -page Committee bill,
usually referred to as the1
Kennedy bill, is that a re
form of the abuses disclosed
by the McClellan Committee
on Racketeering must be
founded on comprehensive re
porting and disclosure of the
financial transactions of the
unions. That this is of great
practical importance is at
tested by the fact that in the
section dealing with reporting
and disclosure the Kennedy
bill is substantially the same
as the bill introduced by Sen
ator Goldwater on behalf of
the Administration. The dif
ference between the two bills
lies in the penalties imposed
for a violation, although both
bills caU for criminal penal
ties if union officials do not
make full and accurate re
ports. The Kennedy bill provides
S. WHITE
without a message had a mes
sage all the same, though no
body ever mentioned it. Part
of this message was that while
maybe there had been a "bad
George" a little matter of
two centuries ago, there was
now in Britain a very good
Elizabeth.
Indeed, there is. The young
woman now holding the scep
ter holds one that is increas
ingly lieht in palpable weight
but increasingly heavy in
symbolic weight. She is, as the
saying goes, quite a person.
Those who were wartime resi
dents of England will remem
ber her as a teen-ager who
looked neither especially ro
bust nor especially regal.
Now, she still does not look
markedly either.
But she has about her pre
cisely that blend of qualities
most required by tnis age or.
the second Elizabeth. There is
a touch of the kindly shyness
of her late father, George vi,
but a greater touch of the
Scottish no-nonsense of her
commoner mother. She is, in
short, the third of history's
great British royal matriarchs.
And England has fared well
with matriarchs.
.
FOUR centuries ago the first
Elizabeth, daughter of
cruel, gusty Henry VIII, made
England what England was. A
century ago, happily imperi
alist Victoria spread far tne
England that the first Eliza
beth had made, the England
of Rudyard Kipling. Now,' in
the far slope of the 20th Cen
tury, this second Elizabeth,
the daughter of a gentle man,
has a job that is certainly no
easier.
. She is presiding over the
accelerating liquidation of the
empire, over an era in which
Kipling's '"recessional"
is being played out in sober
truth. But she is presiding
also over the slow formation
of a free but powerful com
monwealth to take the place
of empire.
It is not imperiousness that
(is needed now. It is charm
!and skill to meet the harsh
demands of history, the grace
to give up much of the old
good in order to preserve all
of the old best.
This second Elizabeth is the
lady who can do that, and is
doing that. And this was the
rest of the message of a birth
day party that had no message
at aU.
(Copyright, 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Lippmann
criminal penalties for at least
six other abuses: the embezzle
ment of union funds, tamper
ing with or destroying union
records, bribing employee rep
resentatives, corruption in un
ion elections, and in the so-
called trusteeships.
QUITE evidently, the bill re
ported to the Senate is in
no sense a soft and timid af
fair. Yet it had the support
of Mr. George Meany, the
President of the AFL-CIO. It
is not often that a powerful
special interest will be found
supporting laws to regulate
itself. It is not often that a
powerful special interest in
vites public disclosure of its
intimate and internal affairs.
When such an extraordinary
thing occurs, one might fairly
expect Congress to seize the
opportunity to get the agree
ment signed, sealed, and rat
ified. But this is not what hap
pened. On the floor of the
Senate, without hearings or
study in committee, amend
ments were added containing
bits and pieces of a so-called
BiU of Rights. These rights, as
Mr. Meany has pointed out,
are all of them legitimate
rights and are, in fact, includ
ed in most union constitutions
and by-laws. But what the
amendments would do is to
make these rights enforcible
in the courts. In Mr. Meany's
view, this opens up the pros
pect of endless law suits and,
therefore, he is now opposing
the amended bill,
i
1I7HETHER the amendments
" are good,' bad, or indif
ferent, is not the main point.
The bill, before it was amend
ed, was the strongest bill that
could count upon real support
within the trade union world.
No doubt, it is not the best
conceivable bill. No doubt, -it
is not a panacea. But it com
pels real reforms and it is the
best bill that it is possible to
enact. '
It would be a great pity if
Congress passed up the chance
to enact a good bill in order to
give itself the pleasure of try
ing to write an even better
one. It would be a great pity
if the President and those who
support him are so insistent
that the Kennedy bill be
strengthened that they pre
vent the very significant la-
B",aaMBelBWBasBMBiB2g5
(By M-T Staff mJ Contributors) 0
It must be almost time
for the state highway de
partment to send its street
patching crews into town,
one of our more-or-less cyn
ical reporters commented
the other day, after observ-
ing that the city is nearing
completion on the job of
painting the traffic lanes in
town.
..
The Jackson county 4-H wa
gon train continues to attract
considerable attention along
its route of travel, as it did
here before leaving.
There's something about
this wagon train travel. The
"On To Oregon" , cavalcade
now nearing Idaho has been
getting rousing receptions ev
erywhere it has gone, some
times with thousands and
thousands of spectators turn
ing out to watch them rumble
by.
It certainly is a far better
promotion than anyone would
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At a big fund-raising dinner
in Washington the other night,
Vice-President Nixon told his
hearers (who had paid $100 a
plate for their meal):
"To be frank about the
whole thing, the Republicans
can't win without the sinews
of war."
TECHNICALLY speaking,
he is right. Elections can't
be won without campaigns.
Campaigns can't be waged
without money to finance
them.
But
As of now, the Republican
party needs more than cam
paign tunas, it needs a
CAUSE. A cause in which it
believes so fiercely that it is
willing to stake its future on
the, outcome of a battle for it.
Not just POWER.
Not just the officers that go
with power. .
What the Republican party
is going to need in 1960 is an
issue in which it believes with
the kind of faith that wins
battles and saves nations.
rpWICE in its history, the Re-
publican party has had
such a cause once in 1860,
when its sacred cause was the
end of human slavery, and
again in 1896, when it waded
into battle against Bryan's
funny money issue.
In neither campaign at the
beginning was it believed to
have a chance. But that made
no difference. It went to bat
tle anyway. It went to battle
because it believed in its
cause.
It won both times. It won
because it believed in the just
ness and the rightness and the
wisdom of its 'cause.
IlTnat is the issue now?
" There is every reason to
believe that again as in 1896
the issue is SOUND money,
Money that people can have
faith in. Money that will buy
as much tomorrow as it buys
today. To. have that kind of
money money that will be
good all over the world,
money that is stable enough
in value to hold our costs and
our prices in balance with
foreign costs and prices our
government must quit spend
ing every year more than it
takes in and borrowing the
difference.
If properly dramatized, that
is an issue that people can get
their teeth into.
County Awards
Vehicle Contracts
The Jackson county court
last week awarded contracts
to lowest bidders to provide
the county road department
with one business coupe, one
three - quarter ton pickup
truck, one lVi ton truck and
one two ton truck. Bids were
opened by the county court
June 10.
Crater Lake Motors, Med
ford, received the contract
for a business coupe at a bid
price of $1,806.59 and a two
ton truck at a bid price of
$2,187.29. DeLeigh Motors,
Medford, was awarded the
contract for a three-quarter
ton pickup at a bid price of
$1,646.58. Courtesy Chevrolet
received the contract for the
IVi ton truck at a net bid
price of $2,118.17.
Four bids were submitted
on each of the vehicles.
bor reform that is now possi
ble. , It is still conceivable that
the labor reforms can be
saved if the leadership in
Congress and if the President
in the White House want to
save them. But they must
reckon with the demagogues
who do not want a bill be
cause it would deprive thm
of an issue to beat their
breasts about,
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Tribune Inc.
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have believed in the days
when it was getting ratheuP
begrudging and lacklugt9
support throughout the
We predict they'll bfj welcom
ed back with far greater W
thusiasm than was ibo
when they left.
In its own way, too, fee
4-H youngsters are getting :
a lot of attention. Their pij
tures have appeared i a
number of different papers
throughout the state, both
on their route and tlsAp
wnere. ...
Perhaps the thine that Is "
most striking about this H
jaunt is that it reinforce in
our minds the length of time
it took during the pat cen
tury to get places in the st
Today's businessman thin
little of climbing into an sir
plane, flying to Portland,
transacting several hours of
business, and returning to
Medford in time for dinner.
And in an automobile it is
easy to get to Portland one
day and back the next, with
plenty of time for business or
pleasure inj-the city.
The wagoneers, however,
are forcibly reminding us that
it wasn't too long ago that it
took up to two weeks to trav
el the length of the state. And
the kids will be the better for
knowing it, themselves,
tnrougn personal experienced
And it will be something
they'll remember the rest of
their lives.
If the wagon train runs
out of practiced tegm driv
ers, they can 'always cgl on
the membari of the Jack
son county court gay of
them. Each has had experU
ence in driving four-horse -teams,
end one. Commis
sioner Chet endi, knew :
about those vehicles of song -and
story, bandwagons.
When he was younger, he
played a bass horm, add
once had to drive a lean)
pulling a bandagon dur
ing a communiff celebra
tion. Our farm editor advises
that, under condition of to
day, the pioneers - a hardy
but generally impecunious lot
- probably couldn't have af
forded to "come to Oregon;
not, anyway, if the pricfl of
horseshoe nails had' been then
what it is today, $3.86 per
box. .
,
Here's to the Rhesus .
Who flew past the breeses.
Polio, colds and other dis
eases. Where space turns around
and does as lr pluses.
Where no one has snifflfji
and no one has fhtji
' es, 4
Where wide open space in
creases. Poor Rhesus! !
A group of officials made
an inspection tour of the gar
bage dump near Jacksonville
last week. It turned out that,
while the dump hgi its ob
vious irritations, the general
area has nostalgic connota
tions for some residents.
One of the, officials noted
that not far away he and his
girl friends of days gone by
used to wander up the trail,
hand in hand. And another
thereupon suggested that ev-
eryone get out of the car and
inspect the trees for carved
initials. -.-
j Other things change, too.
We are informed that one
of the best dance halls in
the county, once an exceed
ingly popular entertain
ment center, is now a barn
near Jacksonville, which
still has its good maple
floor, now covered with
several tons of hay.
.
Innertubes for rent?
Surely, and obvious, Wat
son. A store in the ApplegateQ
rents them. They're used by
young swimmers for floating
along the Applegate rre.
At a recent meeting of
one of the county's nurr
ous official groups, one
member jokingly renfkf Ic
ed, "When I se you coming. ,s
I'll bake a cake." Whereup- f
on the other m e m b e rs,
knowing of his wife's coow
ing ability, unanimously
voted to hold their next
meeting at his house.
One of our reported good
snoopy scribe that he is, on
Friday saw a group of people
filing into the county court of
fices, and promptly, thinking .
a story might be in the mak
ing, he followed them. q
He asked the county juage
what was going on. The judge
invited him to come in and
find out, then introduced him
to his family, there for s visit.
"Folks," said the judge, "J'd
like you to meet the man
that's with me morning, noon
and night."
The red-faced reporter left
hurriedly, after the introduc
tions had been made.