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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
dh YEARS AGO
W UUO All iJ1J V 4
Frank C. Bash receives 76
f the 77 votes cast for elec
tion to the Medford school
Soard.
Central Point residents vote
ga proposed city budget ex
ceeding the 6 per cent limita
tion. 30 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1939 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
considers licensing requests
for four pool halls.
- From Arthur Perry's ?Ye
v Smudge Pot" column: "Jack
rabbits are plentiful on the
country roads, and In the
glare of approaching auto
headlights,, run like they
didn't want to be-pulled out
of a New Deal plug-hat"
SO YEARS AGO
June 21, 1929 (Friday)
Haying is in full swing
throughout the valley.
Lottie Howard is closing
shop . after 20 years in the
millinery business n Med
ford. 40 YEARS AGO
June 21. 1919 (Saturday)
Another Army plane flies
over the valley and attracts
wide attention.
Crater Lake is to be ready
for tourists by July 1 despite
- wintry weather that now pre
vails.
50 YEARS AGO
June 21, 1909 (Monday)
A placer ground on Evans
creek Is bonded for $80,000.
The Shasta Limited passes
through Medford on its first
regular trip.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is food.
1. How many obtuse angles
can there be in a triangle?
2. "What is the mathemati
cal constant 3.14159265
called?
3. On what island is Tokyo?
4. Is Hong Kong the name
of a city in China?
5. What part-of the Army
is called "Queen of Battle"?
6. During which Presi-
d e n t's administration was
Florida acquired from Spain?
7. Who was the last bache
lor King of Great Britain?
8. Are there 16, 32, or 48
gills in one gallon?
9. Is Northern Ireland
part of the United Kingdom?
10. Of what state is Jeffer-
jn City the capital?
Answers: 1. One only. 2. PL
0. Honshu. 4. No. (Is an island
near mouth of Canton river;
Eng. colony.) 5. The infantry,
ft Monroe's. 7. Edward VIIL
(Now Duke of Windsor.) 8. 32.
9. Yes. 10. Missouri.
0 Central Poinf Man
Named Sales Manager
Central Point-Dale Throck
morton, son of Mr. and "Mrs,
Lester Throckmorton of Cen
tral Point, was recently made
a national sales manager with
the Chrysler Motor company
He will -work out of the home
office in Detroit. . -
Throckmorton and his fam
ily .will visit here with his
. parents in July. He is a grad
uate.of Eagle Point High
school and Oregon Stat col
lege.
Atomic Technicians Consult
The two conferences at Geneva the sub-summit
meeting of East-West foreign ministers and
the parley of political delegates working on a
treaty to ban nuclear tests point up the wisdom
of a remark attributed to a former Ambassador
to Moscow, George F. Kennan: "There are no ex
perts on the Soviet Union; only varying degrees
of ignorance."
They also give rise to the suspicion that if the
West is willing to go to the summit at all as
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Brit
ain, for one, ardently desires the subject for dis
cussion on the heights may not be Berlin at all,
but nuclear tests.
TIHEREAS the Russian stand on Berlin grew
" . progressively intransigent, if that be pos
sible, the atomic talks showed a Russian willing
ness to dicker. Indeed 18 points of a draft treaty
tentatively have been agreed upon, though these
do not touch-any of the key questions.
And on June 15, Russia accepted an American
proposal to call back scientific experts to study
detection of high-level tests over 30 kilometers
(18 34 miles) above the earth. The earlier con
ference of technicians last summer, which led to
the political discussions, had made no recommen
dations for policing high-level tests.
The scientists and technicians will examine
"any pertinent data." Presumably that covers
findings from the U.S. Project Argus tests made
300 miles up over the South Atlantic last August
and September. So far, however, the Russians
have resisted having the three-power study team
consider data on detecting underground tests de
rived from the Project Hardtack tests in Nevada
last autumn. These are incorporated in the so
called Berkner report made public here' and in
Geneva on June' 12 and transmitted by the Rus
sian delegation to Moscow.
TTHE scientists agreed at Geneva last summer on
the feasibility of a control system consisting
of a world-wide network of around 180 monitor
ing stations, equipped with seismographs, spaced
about 600 miles apart in areas subject to earth
quakes and about 1,000 miles apart where the
problem of differentiating between earthquakes
and nuclear explosions would not be likely to
arise. Ground and air, inspection also was recommended.
Projects Argus and
doubts about the effectiveness of this system. But
the Berkner report indicates that improved instru
ments and the establishment of unmanned posts
m addition to the 180 manned posts would bring
accuracy back to or near the level originally
conceived. .
The U.S. study warned, however, that cheat
ing on underground explosions was far easier
han the international
had believed. New "decoupling" (muffling) tech-
niques'increase greatly the difficulty of detection.
For this reason the Russian reluctance so far to
spread on the conference record the new data on
underground explosions is discouraging.
Semyon Tsarapkm,
Geneva on a test ban, is as clearly manipulated
by the puppet-strings from Moscow as is Foreign
Minister Andre A. Gromyko. But in Tsarapkin's
drama the puppet-masters do not seem so dis
posed toward a fast curtain. E.R.R.
New City Income Taxes
Five committees in Ohio and one in Kentucky
have recently joined a growing list of municipal-
ties imposing their own
per cent levy went into
Ohio. Proceeds will be
pairs and capital improvements. Kesidents ot
Zanesville, Ohio, begin
Julyl.
Other new recruits to the movement are the
towns of Deer Park, Franklin, and Whitehall in
Ohio and Hopkinsville in Kentucky. In addition,
St. Louis, which has had a city income tax off and
on since 1948, has just received permission from
the Missouri legislature to double its rate to 1 per
cent. ,
SPECIALISTS in municipal finance have long
looked with favor on the local income tax as
a means of reducing dependence on property
levies. The later taxes are slow to adjust to infla
tionary pressures, and the more closely a city
treasury is bound to them, the more susceptible it
is to the revenue-expenditure squeeze. In addi-
uon, tne city income tax is cneaper to collect tnan
a general sales tax and less likely to hurt local
business. ,
Despite these theoretical advantages, the local
income tax has enjoyed great vogue in only two
states Ohio and Pennsylvania where all ex
cept a handful-of some 670 adoptions have oc
curred. Apart from resistance by taxpayers in
come levies are probably the least popular of all
taxes the major obstacle is the fact that city in
come taxes are of doubtful legality in most states.
However, six jurisdictions in Kentucky and two
in Alabam have avoided any constitutional trap
by putting the levy in the form of an "occupation
al license tax" under city licensing powers.
E.R.R.
IN CLASS HOUSE
Hartford, Conn. UPD -Rep.
Evelyn S. Fisher had good
reason to be mortified for be
ing one of eight absentees on
the opening day of the 279
member State House of Rep
resentatives. Mrs. Fisher, who
was sick, said woefully, "and
I , campaigned on my; oppo
nent's poor ' attendance record."
Hardtack raised serious
technicians last summer
the Russian delegate to
local income taxes. A 0.6
effect June 1, in Marion,
used mostly for street re-
paying a 1 per cent tax
London - (DPD - The British
government has announced it
will continue financial help
to newly-independent Malaya
for fighting Communist rebels.
Cuthbert J. Alport, undersec
retary for Commonwealth re
lations, told the House of
Commons Thursday that Brit
ain would grant its former
colony $7 million in 1960 for
combatting- Communists.
Dennis the
'I stipe ws sum&Di
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
BASIC ARGUMENT
Washington The argument
now going on between Con
gress and the President over
so - called
spending bills
is not really
over "econ
omy" as such.
It is not basic
ally an argu
ment between
Democrats
and Republi
cans. And the
Wwhi8' fact that this
is a divided government, with
a Democratic legislature and
a GOP chief executive, Is not
the fundamental point, though
it does sharpen the struggle.
The true heart of the matter,
instead, is a dispute which
pits Democrat against Demo
crat and one set of political
tactics against another.
The Democratic Congres
sional erouD in control thus
far is headed by the party's
moderate Texan leaders, Sen
ator Lyndon B. Johnson and
House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
But it numbers many others
not unduly moderate. Some
are conservatives, some lib
erals. But the group is not
built on ideology: its one truly
common factor is that of an
association of skillful profes
sional Congressional politi
cians, most of them veterans.
rpHESE professionals believe
1- that the highest necessity
of this Democratic Congress is
simply to perform to' get
housing bills and the like
nassed and signed into law,
even if these bills must be
smaller than they would like.
They want the half loaf if the
alternative is no bread at all.
And in nearly every case, this
alternative would be no bread
at. all. .
For the Democrats simply
could not pass any bitterly re
sisted measure over a resi
dential veto. It takes a two
thirds majority and the Demo
crats have not got two-thirds
and could never raise it. ex
cept possibly through occasi
onally tricky deals with anti-
Administration Republicans.
The second and thus-far out
numbered Democratic Con
gressional group is made up
mainly of advanced liberals.
It really wants Issues for the
future more than the half-loaf
kind of action. Its purpose is
to force the Democratic lead
ership into a whole series of
no-compromise positions re
sulting in Presidential vetoes.
which this faction Itself knows
could not be overturned.
npHE theory is that there
A should be no negotiation or
bargaining with the President.
The theory is that the duty of
a Democratic Congress is not
to pass compromise bills but
rather to draw up a 1960 cam
paign indictment against the
Republicans.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
BILL GOLD tells of a Washington couple who had a hard
time finding a baby sitter for their 6-month-old twins,
finally had to settle for the 12-year-old daughter of a neighbor.
baby-sitting, and the anx-
ious mother had' a parting
instruction for her new em
ploye. "Here,'' she said, "is
the formula for the boy, and
here is the one for the girL
If you have the slightest
trouble, phone me at this
number."
The sitter called at nine.
"I've got the formulas all
ready," she reported.
"But why did you phone
me?" asked the mother.
There was a brief silence;
then the baby sitter asked
weakly, "Please, Mrs. Jones: which baby is the boy?"
Two African, savages ran smack into Anita Ekberg. "Just our
luck," muttered one despairingly, "We have to.be BEAD hunters!"
C 1938, bTBseaett Cert Distributed tar Kkss restore) fcra4ta j
Menace
Wflg nxm He m a sy
S. WHITE
This second set of Demo
crats is being strongly support
ed in fact, constantly egged
on by Chairman Paul Butler
of the Democratic National
Committee and in general by
Democratic politicians, most
of whom hold no elected of
fice. ,
The National Democratic
Advisory Council is attacking
the party's Congressional lead
ership almost as severely as it
is attacking President Eisen
hower. Butler is head of this
body; its most significant
members are Harry S. Truman
and Adlai E. Stevenson.
The implications of all this
far outrun present legislative
issues. For what is really
going on is this: The largely
unelected Democratic politi
cians outside Congress are try
ing, along with the minority
advanced Democratic liberals
in Congress, to force a revolu
tionary change in the conduct
of the party's Congressional
leadership. -
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THIS is being done at the
risk of discrediting that
leadership before the country
and the Republicans are not
unhappy thereby. The policies
of that leadership have been
three times vindicated in the
election of Democratic majori
ties in Congress in 1954,
1956 and 1958.
. The advanced liberals sin
cerely believe, however, that
these policies will not be suc
cessful in the 1960 Presiden
tial election. The more conser
vative party leadership be
lieves exactly the reverse.
The no-compromise-w i t h
Eisenhower people have on
their side the natural appeal
of the man who cries, "Get in
there and fight!" Their record
forw inning elections, how
ever, is not good.
And the compromise-for-the-sake
- of-present - performance
people have one tthing their
opponents do not have. They
have the responsibility for
running the present show.
(Copyright, 1959. by Uniled
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Ray Reter to Attend
Seattle Convention
Raymond R. Reter, president
of Reter Fruit Company and
chairman of the board of di
rectors of the International
Apple association, will be one
of several industry leaders
from the area to attend the as
sociation's annual conclave in
Seattle July 19 through 21.
Reter, who is also immedi
ate past president of the asso
ciation, is district vice chair
man for the convention.
Scheduled during the con
vention in addition to national
speakers are activities for the
wives and a boat trip and sal
mon barbecue on P u g e t
Sound. .
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Raising Children
To the Editor: I was listen
ing the other, day to a pro
gram on which was a lady
answering questions on rais
ing and managing children.
She was supposed to know
more about it than the r,est of
us. She was saying "when I
spoke of using my authority,
I didn't mean spanking. One
should not . spank after five
years old," she said.
Now I think she is all wrong
from a humane point of view.
Five , years old is still a
very sensitive age. If a par
ent hasn't shown by kindly
firmness who is boss by that
time, that is the time to use
some more positive means of
correction.
I see and hear so much
about the beating of mere
babies, that it makes me sick.
Of course. I am not imply
ing that this is the usual atti
tude of young parents; but it
does happen too often.
For examrles: I know of a
few young mothers that don't
want to be. bothered by their
first-born, so they sDank them
to sleep, and expect them to
spend the most of tne day in
their cribs. The child being
from nine to 18 months old.
I know of a case where a
young father was annoyed by
the crving of a three-day old
infant. He told it to hush. Just
as if it would know what he
said. Naturally it didn't stop
crying, so he struck it. And
it didn't cry any. more. He
savs. "Now you see." Any of
us wouldn't make more noise
if we had the wind knocked
out of us. This is unbelieve
able but true.
Only this summer my men
folks came home from fishing
and told of a family they saw
a little distance from them.
The parents had given the
little boy and girl each a stick
with a string on it, so they
could pretend that they were
fishing. A. little while later
they saw this couple beating
up on them. As the little girl
turned to get m thenar the
man kicked her. And then
spanked her some more be
cause she cried. She wasn't
more than three years old.
A small child can be trained
according to its comprehen
sion without knocking it about
worse than most people do
their dog.
Perhaps we should have a
"Be Kind to Babies ,Week."
It is a sad thing when a
baby, expecting love, gets
acquainted with cruelty in its
tender years. (IncidentaUy, I'll
never believe 61 children got
into that many plastic bags
aU by themselves.) The news
said today that facts were to
be investigated from now on.
A -three or five months old
infant could not get m one
bv themselves. We haven't
stopped making matches be
cause children often get them.
Mary E. Atkins,
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford.
Still Kwaiy
To the Editor: Suppose we
spend 20 billion dollars to
land a few monkeys on the
moon and then find out they
can't live there. Wouldn't that
make a monkey kwazy?
, , Everett Acklin
Box 233
Ashland
Albino Chipmunks
To the Editor: The spring
during the early depression
days of 1933 when a. minor
ity of the log camps in Klam
ath and Deschutes counties
folded up, some logger in the
latter forest areas discovered
a species of albino chipmunks.
Soon after trapping a few of
the albino rodents, word got
around and the small.pet shop
proprietors were soon receiv
ing demand from their custo
mers to supply them with a
pair of the unusual freaks..
One pet shop owner in
Klamath Falls where we saw
the first off color chipmunks
said the price was $50 then
for a pair. -
We have often wondered
after a period of 26 years if
the species has survived or has
been exterminated. We surely
would like to know. . .
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman
Medford
Contract Awarded for
Grader for County
Feenaughty Machinery com
pany, Portland, was awarded
the contract for a grader by
the Jackson county court last
week. The company bid $17,
148, including a trade-in.
Seven companies submitted
bids. The next lowest bidder
was Loggers and Contractors
company at $18,295. Other
bidders were Crater Lake Ma
chinery, Medford; Howard
Cooper, Medford; Haupert
Tractor company, Medford;
and Columbia Equipment
company, Eugene,
Matter of Fact
THE AMERICAN PROMISE
Washington In a degree
that very few Americans rea
lize, the other Western allies
long for bold
er, more imag
inative, more
dynamic
American
leadership. In
a way that
3 Americans
I a I envision,
I VS (this country
4osenh Alson
too wm. suuer
look to us in
if our allies
vain. -
These gloomy facts would
not be worth recording, if
they did not have their own
enormous silver lining. The
silver lining is the subject of
this report, which was origi
nally conceived at Geneva.
Despite Secretary of State
Christian A. Herter's admir
able performance as a negotia
tor, any serious American ob
server there was bound at
first to be deply depressed.
The almost total sterility of
our policy, its warmed-over,
left-over character, its purely
defensive intention, were al
together too apparent. So was
the great increase in Commu
nist confidence in future vic
tory. The causes of this Com
munist confidence the grave
decline in the Western world
position, the substantial im
provements in the Soviet po
sition were not easy to for-
get either.
FI these circumstances, since
our country alone has the
power and resources to reverse
the trend, America loomed
very large from the shores of
Lake Leman. As one thought
about it, everything seemed
to depend more and more com
pletely on a great jet of new
ideas in this depressing city,
where any idea at all at pres
ent arouses deep suspicion if
not outright hostility. Could
Washington again recover the
wonderful fertility, tne re
markable inventiveness that
no strongly marked Washing
ton in the past? This was the
question one asked one's self.
The result was a theory of
the course of American poli
tics, which is at least hopeful,
and may at least give wiser
men something to knock
down. If this theory is correct,
the last quarter-century of our
political history is devisible
into two quite distinct periods.
The first period, beginning
with Roosevelt's first election
and ending at the close of the
first Truman administration,
was marked by the greatest in
novations and changes that
have taken place in American
politics since the Civil War.
The second period, from 1948
onward, had not produced
even one major new idea, but
has achieved the adjustments
and consolidations that were
badly needed after aU the pre
vious new departures.
ONE may ask one's self
whether- President Eisen
hower could not have prevent
ed the serious deterioration of
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
STALEMATE AT GENEVA
Although, as this is writ
ten, the Geneva conference is
not yet concluded, it is In a
stalemate with little prospect
that the stale-
mate will be
broken. This
is not much.
But it is some
thing. And it
is about all
Jus A
V,
J&. I nat there has
ever- been anv
SjT laenn in ovnort
As early a s
March . it had
Walter
Llppmano
become plain enough that, on
the one hand, Russia would
not attempt to expel the West
ern garrisons by force and
that, on the other hand, the
West would not use force if
East. German officials re
placed the Soviet officials.
'This is the shape of the
stalemate, which leaves the
situation in status quo. What
Geneva has been unable to
do is to build upon it, to reach
an agreement on how long the
existing situation is to be
maintained. For neither side
has felt any immediate com
pulsion to work for such an
agreement.
.
TlfOREOVER, it has begun to
"look as if the stalemate
includes more than Berlin,
more than the two Germanys,
and that for some reason Mr.
Khrushchev is less urgent
than he was to bring about a
summit meeting. Certainly he
has not been willing to pay
any substantial price for such
a meeting. If this is the fact,
it must mean that he thinks
that he can wait because his
position in Germany is im
proving and that time is on
his side.
As respects West Berlin,
this is unhappily only too
true. The Western allies who,
on this issue have accepted
the leadership of Adenauer
and de Gaulle, have success
fully and unitedly stood pat
By Joseph AIsop
the Western position that has
taken place during his tenure
of the White House. But no
one can argue that, he has not
performed an immensely use
ful service, by presiding over
a successful political adjust
ment and consolidation after
a time of unsettling change.
The proof of Eisenhower's
success in this respect is very
clear indeed. You can see it
in any morning newspaper, in
the innumerable stories about
the almost numberless Presi
dential candidates of the two
great political parties.
This multiplicity of ex
tremely able men, all of whom
are good bets to do a good job
in the Presidency this free
choice between Nixon, Rocke
feller, Lyndon Johnson, Ken
nedy, Humphrey, and several
more has no precedent at all
in the past quarter-century. In
all elections from 1932 on
wards, there were at most
two men, and quite often
there was only one man, who
seemed likely to be able to do
the biggest job in the world.
The reason for this past
scarcity, in turn, was not a
sudden shortage of able, ener
getic men. The reason was,
rather, that most of the able,
energetic, men available had
not achieved their own adjust
ment to the immense changes
that had been made and were
still being made. They would
not and could not say, "Here
we are, and this is how we
ought to go on from here.
They wanted instead to row
back up the river of time,
which is impossible. Robert
A. Taft, one of the biggest
and finest men of his genera
tion, is the most conspicuous
case in point.
contrast, all the current
Presidential . hopefuls, both
Republican and Democratic,
are briskly saying, "Here we
are, and this is how we ought
to go on from here. They ac
cept what has been done. They
do not want to undo it. They
merely want to improve on it.
. Nor are these men gripped
by the kind of attachment to
the past that made so many
surviving New Dealers go on
parroting Franklin Roosevelt
for so long, with, such un
fruitful results, in fact, ex
cept for Stuart Symington
who partly represents a con
tinuation of the Truman group
in the Democratic Party, none
of the Presidential hopefuls
has any real attachment to the
past for no one can suppose
that a Nixon administration
will be a mere continuation
of the Eisenhower years.
Whether you are a Demo
crat or a Republican, you can
not help being impressed by
the demonstration of Ameri
can political dynamism pro
vided by this milling horde of
impressive candidates. And in
them lies the hope for the
great jet of new ideas, the
bold rush of new departures,
which the cause of the West
so desperately needs.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Lippmann
and have stood firm. They
have stood pat and they have
stood firm not only on their
right to be in West Berlin but
also on the whole juridicial
and poltical basis of their
rights. But they have failed
to provide West Berlin with
any kind of promise, much
less a contractual guarantee,
of its future as part of the
capital of Germany.
And if West Berlin does
not have that promise, it has
a very uncertain future in
deed. Even if there is no
blockade or overt act against
West Berlin, this uncertainty,
this being in a blind alley,
given the horrible geography
of the city, is a dangerous
form of insecurity. In a West
ern capitalistic economy, such
as that of West Berlin, confi
dence is indispensable and a
belief in the future a neces
sity. AT GENEVA, the Western
allies, being committed to
the policy of standing pat and
standing firm, have left the
initiative for the future to the
Soviet Union. Geneva is not,
however, the end of the story.
Whether or not it leads to a
summit meeting, it will surely
be followed by negotiations in
one form or another at the
highest level.
Mr. Kozlov, First Deputy
Chairman of the U.S.S.R.
Council of Ministers, is com
ing here early in July. The
Vice President and Dr.. Milton
Eisenhower are going to Mos
cow. What they aU might be
doing is to work out ways by
which the heads of govern
ments can exchange views
and negotiate without bom
barding each other with pub
lic tirades or setting up an
international circus.
If it is true, as it appears
to be, that Mr. Khrushchev is
not impatient and urgent
about a face-to-face meeting,
it might be much better if a
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
. Contributors)
Today is the first day of
summer. . ,
But for most valley resi-.
dents, summer started in mid
week when the temperature
went into the upper 90s. We
say most valley residents, be
cause we know at least one
die-hard who believes that
since nothing can be done
about it, why qpmplain about
it
This kind of weather is
swimming, . mountain hik
ing, and lake boating
weather.
There's on person in the -valley,
however, who won
ders about recreation, espe
cially where it concerns
boats. One slant to the rec
reation idea, this person
claims, is the man who re
fuses to go on a fishing trip
because he's . making pay
ments on a new cruiser and -has
to get his money's
worth by using it on week
ends.
And there's the person
who puts more money into
a boat, which is used during '
the warmer months, than
the family automobile,
which is used all year.
.
Jackson county's 4-H mem
bers are in Corvallis now,
after .traveling by covered
wagon.
But no one will know how
many unaware motorist it sur
prised as it creaked along the
highway. Our summer report
er said that on his way dow
here he almost drove into a
ditch when he found himself
face to face with a covered
wagon on Highway 99.
He recovered, however,
when he got some friendly
waves and wide grins and if
we can take his word for it.
"Even the horses looked hapr
py." A good guess would be
that the wagon train members
have a potful of new friends
for Jackson county.
From the farm desk this
week. comes an interesting
note:
"Goats aren't the only
i animals reported to eat al
most anything. Dr. James
Wadsworth, Vermont exten
sion service pathologist,,
tells of a bull which really
took eating seriously.
"When the animal was
slaughtered, they found in
his stomach: a set of gold
. bridgework, half an inner-
tube, two plastic bags, nine
; pennies, a rubber doll, a
toy . wristwatch, a fishing .
. spinner, five clothespins,.
six can lids, a four-inch
Stack of bobbypins, 24 bot
tle caps, two earrings, two
hypodermic needles, assort
ed small arms cartridge cas- '
ings, two men's rubber
. heels, five coffee can bands;
i one key chain, a broken
pop bottle, safety pins, a
gold watchband, and 18
nails." , -'..-
Why, hfi could have open
ed a department store had
he not gone off his feedl
Mr. Saturday came early
yesterday at the M-T news
room. But he had a reason. -
Usually, he doesn't come
until about 11 o'clock in the
morning; yesterday he came
about 9 o'clock. As he ex
plained it: "I had to come
early if I was going to come,
because I'm going to the
Rooster Crowing contest and
I have another engagement
at noon!"
There's a certain popugg)
polo in south Medford.
Each summer, the oceft
pant of an automobile tosiQ
out what looks like a nacis
age of cigarettes tf .
pole. A. whilat later, aaolt4&
vehicle approaches,
and the occupant . A tl8$)
ene picks up the ctefe.
till leter, the secost T$
hide returned, tojsae egD
' a half-empty Pct
which, in turn, is Bicftftt fj
by the eccujenl of th Agf)
The incidents, rfort9
secoasl e thirdPhftni, $f)
least intriguing
Chuckle from th coun)
agent's office:
After conversation concern
ing ' characteristics of c$n
grown here fn the vallfy, onjf)
agent was heard to run$
that a certain type of MUf)
is definitely not bearded slfti
during Oregon' CentMnjg)
year.
Quote from ms4pl0Bf
the younger generate
whose father is promiaeg)
in sports reporting Ut tljp)
area:
"Around here (hoe)
now, it's 'pop go& the
measles'."
Reason: First the bofgpt
them, then his sistgr, tbsa
'his brother, all during
two-week period or so.
meeting at the summit were
postponed while discussions
and negotiations at the high
est level were carried on. -(c)
1959 New York Herald
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