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Sunday, Junt 28, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History front the files of Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
(fun 28, 1949 (Tuesday)
The new Butler Memorial
band shell in Ashland's Lithia
gark will be dedicated this
week.
The state highway depart
ment opens bids for landscap
n at the Big Y junction.
0 YEARS AGO
fun ft, 193 (Wednesday)
Vandals make regrettable
Inroads t the Girl Scout day
camp on Bear creek south of
town.
Irom Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Demo
critic statesmen have started
. monkeying with the money
again. Roughly, they want to
make money as plentiful as
cabbage leaves, and approxi
mately the same value."
30 YEARS AGO
Jung 28, 1928 (Friday)
The Medford city council
Imposes a ban on July 4 fire
works. v
The state highway depart
ment plans to reduce loads on
Crater Lake highway. .
40 YEARS AGO . ,
Juna 28, 1919 (Saturday)
v Cherry shipments from
Ashland this year are break
ing all records.
Harry Skyrman leaves for
Klamath county, where he
will work this summer in a
logging camp.
50 YEARS AGO
June 28. 1909 (Monday)
Klamath Falls may assist
in the battle to retain the
Crater" Lake road appropria
tion. Sn enterprising California
group motors to v Prospect,
then pack mto Crater Lake.
Vhat'o Tur I.Q.T
Win er tea aarrecr is superior;
levea r ajgg.t is excellent; five or
six is f oj.
1. During what season of
the year is the earth nearest
to the sun?
2. Are beavers 'fish eaters,
or vegetarians?
3. In which State were
women first granted suff
rage? 4. Does hail form princi
pally in summer, or in win
ter? 5. How are Supreme Court
Justices chosen?
6. In the French and In
, dian War did the French
fight against the Indians?
7. Are cattle subject to ra
bies? 8. Is .a Gila monster a
snake, turtle, or lizard?
9. Which of the five senses
does a panpmimist ignore?
10. Add the next three
numbers o the following
series: 11, 15, 6; 12, 16, 7;
13, 17, 8; -, -, -.
Answers: 1. In winter. 2.
Vegetarians. 3. Wyoming. 4.
Summer. 5. Appointed by
Pres. and confirmed by Sen
ate. 6. No. (British fought
French and Indians.) 7. Yes.
8. Lisard. 9. Speech. 10.
14, 18, 9.
Oklahoma City Noel
Loomis, famed western writ
er from Descanso, Calif., has
been awarded the Western
. Writers American award for
writing the best western novel
of the year.
Black Boycott
Emulating their racial cousins in the southern
United States, African nationalists are taking up
the social weapon of economic boycott. Starting
with a "day of self -denial" on June 26 on which
the African National Congress will urge its mem
bers in the Union of South Africa to buy nothing
and to go to no form of entertainment non
whites are asked to forego the buying of products
of certain listed companies.
The same weapon is
ish colony of Uganda. The Uganda National
Movement in April clamped down a trade boy
cott on non- African merchants. The London
Times about a month ago reported that the boy
cott had been directed chiefly against the Indian
traders but that it extended also to "such things
as European-manufactured beer and soft drinks,
and European-owned bus services." It was so thor
ough around the community of Kampala that bus
company receipts fell as much as 70 per cent.
The boycott led to the banning of the Uganda
National Movement by British authorities. But ac
cording to one American observer, the nationalist
organization continues to appear fin new guise
after guise."
DOYCOTTS in Africa, like other forms of Ghan-
dian non-violence, are both ambitious and
modest. For example, the All-African People's
conference at Accra, Ghana, last December
passed a resolution calling for a world-wide boy
cott of South African exports.' Tom Mboya, the
young nationalist agitator in Kenya, has been de
manding an embargo iij protest against the racial
policies of the white government of South Africa.
And within South Africa, natives are boycotting
potatoes in a demonstration against alleged ill
treatment of laborers on
On the other hand, the recent riots in Durban,
South Africa, were accompanied by less drastic
social protest. Africans in nearby Claremont put
into effect a boycott of municipal buses.
FRICAN riots understandably monopolize the
headlines. As the
points out, 'There is so much ground for general
discontent in African life that a small incident is
always liable like a spark falling on dry grass
to set off a devastating bush fire." .
And as dramatic as
boycott proposed at Accra may appear, it would
be virtually impossible of effective accomplish
ment. Localized boycotts, such as that in Uganda,
wiU be most hurtful in colonies of predominant
African population where purchases are made
from relatively few white merchants. South Afri
ca has a substantial white population, so a boy
cott there figures to be relatively less damaging.
At tnat, linns that have been put on the boy
cott lists of the African Nationalist Congress are
trying to 'convince nationalist leaders that they
are not supporting the government's racial policies.
In the long pull, the
effective in the overall
tionalism and independence than violence, parti
cularly the mindless, volcano-like violence of the
Durban beerhall riots or the January uprisings in
Leopoldville in the British Congo. But the boycott
could prove a weapon too
i?n
cans, sua relatively ingenuous m political man
agement. The ironic fact, especially in South Af
rica, is that the first to be laid off in slack times
resulting from a boycott would be the natives
themselves. E.R.R.
DeGaulle s First Year
Hours after Gen. Charles De Gaulle was in
vested on June 1, 1958, as the 25th and last lead
er of France's Fourth Republic, a violent thunder
storm broke over Paris, and a bolt of lighting
struck the Elysee palace where De Gaulle was
conferring with President Rene Coty and the new
cabinet. - .
One year, later, the meteorological prophecy
is yet to be ' fulfilled. The nation's economy is
strong than it has been in 20 years, and French
grandeur has been partly reestablished through
De Gaulle's personal eloquence and whipcord
tough diplomacy. But the Algerian problem re
mains as intractable as ever, and elections to the
new Senate in April disclosed that beneath the
Gaullist solidity the old divisions still linger.
TO SOME extent, however, France's friends
have been hoping for miracles that De Gaulle
himself never promised to perform. Concerning
Algeria, for example, he told a press conference
in Paris recently: "I believe that the destiny of
Algeria depends upon an immense task of long
duration. Before anything is definitely settled, the
efforts of a whole generation will be required."
If the Vest continues to wish for sudden solu
tions, it is because a generation is a long time and
De Gaulle is 68. E.R.R.
Education Show Attracts Attention
Portland - Attracting much
attention at the Oregon Cen
tennial Exposition booth of
committee on higher educa
tion is a color-sound motion
picture, "Higher Education
Key to Oregon's Future."
Problems facing , Oregon's
institutions of higher learning
are concretely outlined by the
movie. Script writer was
Dwigbt Fairbanks and Curtis
Reid was the producer. Both
men are members of visual
instruction staff at Corvallis,
where the film was made.
Film strips with synchronized
tape recordings for each of the
20 institutions represented on
already m use in the Brit
South African farms.
Manchester Guardian
the kind of world-wide
boycott may prove more
African surge toward na
sophisticated for Am-
.
the committee are part of the
exnibit also, according
Willard T, Thnmnsrm ai
Grant Cosgrove, cochairmen
of the exhibition booth. Col
lege students from Oregon
are staffing the booth
throughout the Exposition
100-day show.
COMMEMORATE TRAIN
Qakridge - ,An historical
marker commemorating the
Lost Wagon train will be
placed in Green Water park,
Oakridge, on July 4. The pub
lic is invited to attend the
dedication ceremony at noon.
Dennis the
1Hr MUD. J CAME THROUGH
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
NIXON'S MISSION
Washington - Vice-President
Rfchard M. Nixon looks
upon his forthcoming mission
to Moscow with the coolest of
private detachment.
He has disciplined himself
to hope for
very little -and
also to
walk a very
tight rope,
both a s the
President's
i emissary, and
in connection
with his own
1960 Presiden
tial ambitions.
He knows that there are
both opportunities and dan
gers to the West in his. trip. In
the lesser and personal sense
he knows, too, that while this
assignment could do him
much good as a politician it
also could do him tremendous
harm.
To hear Mr. Nixon's views
about this strangely challeng
ing job is to be struck anew
with the chill, rare objectivity
with - which, privately," he
looks at any political prob
lem, vast or comparatively
small. Approve him or not,
this is surely one of the most
self-contained and long-seeing
politicians of our era.
HE HAS no illusions that he
can produce any great
break in the cold war-which
he really thinks of as likely to
run on for a quarter-century.
He does believe there is some
possibility that his meetings
with Soviet leaders may re
sult in some rather negative
improvement. He thinks, in
short, that Nikita Khrushchev
may be less likely, after his
visit, to underestimate West
ern determination and thus
less likely to dare hot war by
miscalculation.
Humanly, moreover, the
Vice-President welcomes this
opportunity to test his poker
faced skill in head-on conver
sations with the Russians. Em
phatically, however, he will
attempt nothing in the way
of direct negotiations. All this
he will leave strictly to Sec
retary of State Christian A.
Herter and Mr. Eisenhower.
Mr. Nixon is proud of his cor
dial relationship with Mr.
Herter and will do nothing to
harm that relationship, in the
interests both of the United
States and of himself.
Too, he is determined to
say nothing publicly, in Rus
sia or after he returns here,
that could be called talking
out of school. On this journey
there will be no Nixon "leaks"
-major or minor.
SO MUCH or the Vice-President's
purposes as to the
Try and
William S.
Whit
By BENNETT CERF-
THHOMAS WOLFE, author of "Look Homeward Angel," made
J- heavy weather out of the most minute chore. He called on
his editor, the late Max Perkins, for lunch 'one day, and was
nanaea a copy or his latest
novel. "A friend asked me
to get this autographed for
him," explained Perkins.
"Please sign it while I get
my coat?'
When Perkins returned,
an agitated Wolfe was pac
ing up and down the office.
"I don't know what to
write,", he confessed. He
continued his pacing fully
five minutes longer, then
seized a pen and wrote on
the flyleaf of the volume,
"Yours hurriedly, Thomas
Wolfe."
..
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Menace
THE VACANT LOT
S. WHITE
larger part of his mission.
As to possible domestic po
litical effects upon his own
Presidential aspirations- the
following can be read with
confidence as representing the
Vice-President's own analy
sis: The unexpected circum
stance that he will be in Mos
cow while the Geneva foreign
ministers conference is on its
second and possibly fateful
round sharpens his problem,
He is fully aware that if there
should be a collapse at Gene
va or a weakening of the
Western position his simultan
eous presence in Moscow as a
Soviet guest would be very
bad news for him.
TIE IS aware, indeed, that if
the West, for illustration,
made undue concessions to the
Russians he might automata
cally be put down by millions
of voters, fairly or not, as "a
new Neville Chamberlain,
(Chamberlain, of course, was
the British Prime Minister ac
cused of "appeasing" Hitler
in the thirties.) There is wry
irony in this; for Mr. Nixon
has , held the copyright on
"toughness" towards commu
nism.
But Mr. Nixon also knows
this: a sound cold-war settle
ment to which he had visibly
contributed would do much to
break the challenge to his
Presidential nomination from
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York.
Finally, there has been un
derstandable speculation that
the presence in the Vice-President's
delegation to Moscow
of Dr. Milton Eisenhower
might indicate a White House
checkrein on Mr. Nixon. But
the facts are these: Dr. Eisen
hower, the President's broth
er, is going in this way only
because Mr. Nixon first
brought up the idea and issued
the invitation. The President,
when he learned later of this,
personally checked with Mr
Nixon to make pertain that
the Vice-President understood
that.it was solely up to him
alone as to whether he took
or did not take Dr. Milton
Eisenhower.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Civil Service Exams
Announced by VA
Civil service examinations
are now open for the positions
of firefighter (general) and
nuring assistant (medicine
and surgery) at the VA domi
ciliary, Camp White.
Information concerning ex
perience requirements may
be obtained at the local post
office or at the board oi U.S.
civil service examiners, VA
domiciliary, Camp White.
Stop Me
PLEASC,
AUTOGRAPH IT
Matter of Fact
Raid Into Ohio
Washington - In the grand
scramble for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, the
end of, the be
ginning is at
hand. Sen.
John F. Ken
nedy of Mass
a c h usetts is
very close to
making the
shy avowal
that . he may
just possibly
Jnssi aisod d e a canai-
date.
This is always a fine mo
ment when the first panting
runner blushingly admits
that he is running for some
thing more than the exercise.
If Kennedy's plan is not al
tered in the interval, the mo
ment will come for him after
a week end raid into Ohio,
where he is scheduled to have
a cozy chat with Gov. Mike
DiSalle.
The subject of this delight-1
fully friendly talk will be
Qhio s delegation to the Dem
ocratic convention. With 58
delegates last time, Ohio is
fourth in the list of states.
Furthermore, the Ohio pri
mary law requires Ohio dele
gates to stay hitched until
formally released by the can
didates they are pledged to.
It can be understood why
Kennedy wants the entire
Ohio delegation.
'
AS IT happens, Gov. DiSalle
also wants the Ohio dele
gation, at least for trading
purposes. Hence he has been
making n o i s e s, about the
shocking squalor of contested
primaries and the desirability
of keeping the peace among
Ohio Democrats. He is ready
to sacrifice himself in the
cause of concord by becom
ing Ohio's favorite son. There
are also indications that Gov.
DiSalle wants to do his trad
ing vith Sen. Stuart Syming
ton of Missouri- These indica
tions make the thought of
Gov- DiSalle's proposed self
sacrifice especially painful to
Sen. Kennedy.
In short, what is in pros
pect in Ohio is a repeat, on
a much larger scale, of the
fairly dramatic scene that
took place last week between
Kennedy and Maryland's
Gov. Millard Tawes. Tawes
was also making favorite son
like noises. Kennedy there
upon told him pretty straight
out that if he could not get
a solid pledge of the entire
Maryland delegation, he
would enter the Maryland
primary to fight for it. As
Tawes is friendly to the Ken
nedy cause, the scene in
Maryland ended with n o
blood on the floor.
'
WHERE Tawes was friend
" ly, DiSalle is at least
cool towards the Kennedy
candidacy, if not downright
hostile. Furthermore, the
stake in Ohio is vastly bigger
than the stake in Maryland.
This time it is pretty hard
to envision even a pretended
happy ending. And it is
known that if DiSaUe proves
obdurate, Kennedy means to
say good-bye to the Gover
nor, and announce forthwith
that he will enter the Ohio
primary "if he becomes a
candidate." Saying you will
enter a primary if you are a
candidate, is pretty close to
unblushing office-seeking.
The ritual pretenses of our
political system lend these
complex transactions an air
of comedy. But behind the
t r a ditional posturing (un
avowed candidate into half
avowed candidate into un
blushing office-seeker) there
is the grim reality of political
combat. If Kennedy carries
out his Ohio plan, the combat
is likely to be very grim
indeed.
As Governor, DiSalle con
trols a massive patronage
roster, which he has used
with considerable efficiency.
Bucking this kind of state
organization in a primary
fight used to be thought the
quickest way to political sui
cide. But it has been done
successfully nonetheless, and
Kennedy evidently thinks he
pan do it again. His plan is
at once a mark of his strong
confidence in his popular
support, and a revelation of
his fear that he cannot win
at the Democratic convention
unless he exploits his popular
support to the utmost.
THE projected Kennedy raid
into Ohio is also one more
proof of the Massachusetts
Senator's present position as
the front-runner in the Demo
cratic race. It must be added,
however, that the Kennedy
lead has been challenged in
recent weeks. For example,
since Senate Majority Leader
Lyndon Johnson has empha
sized his availability, a sur
prising number of Northern
and Western politicians have
begun to argue that a candi
date's personal stature ought
to count more than his state-of-origin.
Again, Sen. Hubert Humph
rey has lately scored a con
spicuous success in putting
together a rather impressive
organization i n Wisconsin.
Six of the state's ten district
leaders, including Milwau
kee's powerful Chris Sera-
By Joseph AIsop
phim has signed up to help
Humphrey fight the primary
there; and Humphrey has
also won significant farm and
labor support. If Humphrey
and Kennedy join battle in
Wisconsin, all the advantages
will certainly not be oh Ken
nedy's side.
In short, the projected Ken
nedy raid in Ohio should be
taken as an indication of the
excitement of the Democratic
race, and not as a. pointer to
wards the outcome.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
I n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A London art dealer, act
ing for a secret client, has
paid a staggering world rec
ord price of $700,000 for
Peter Paul Rubens' canvas
Adoration of the Magi."
Other single paintings have
sold for more than that, but
in all such cases the deals
were private. The recent
price was the highest ever
paid at public auction.
THE SALE of the Rubens
has another interesting
sidelight. .
It HAD to be sold, along
with 87 other paintings, to
pay off the massive inherit
ance taxes on the estate of
the late Duke of Westminster.
The Dukes of Westminster
Park Officials
List Program
Medford parks and recrea
tion department officials have
established the following gen
eral schedule for activities
and events during the summer
months.
Special events will be an
nounced as arrangements are
made. The program represents
for the most part the coopera
tive efforts of city officials
and Medford school district of
ficials.
Hawthorne Park:
Arts, crafts arid playground
games 1 to 5 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
Meet near Hawthorne street
parking lot. No registration
fee. Daily projects.
-Union Street Park .
Arts, crafts, playground
games, Wednesday only, 1 to
5 p.m.
Tips in Sports
Radio broadcast KYJC 5:25
p.m. Monday and Thursday.
Interviews with famous sports
personalities. ."
Tennis:
MHS courts, 8-11 a.m., Mon
day through. Thursday. In
struction, practice, . matches.
Registration fee $1. ,
Swim
Daily general swim, Haw
thorne park pool, 1 to 9 pjn.
Baseball:
Monday through Thursday,
8:30 a.m. MHS field. Instruc
tion. practice, games.
Registration fee $1. Sand-
blowers age 9-10; peewees 10
12, intermediates 13-14, cubs
14-16. .
New Trailer Park
Opens in Valley
Applications are now being
accepted for occupancy of a
new 23-unit trailer park, the
Aldrich Trailer ranch, 4425
Jacksonville highway, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford M. Aldrich,
owners, have announced.
The park, which includes
swimming pool, badminton
court and a children's play
ground, features large con
crete patios and sidewalks to
each unit. Entrances are mark
ed with individual lamppost
and name marker, the Al
drichs said.
Other features of the ranch
include landscaping,, under
ground wires and cables and
individual underground gar
bage disposals. Telephone
lines are connected with each
unit, and there is a public
telephone.
The bath house joining the
swimming pool is fully
equipped with rest rooms,
showers and laundry room.
Soft water is used in the bath
house. -
The Aldrichs have lived in
this area about nine years;
and operate Miss Pat's kinder
garten and nursery school as
well as Miss Pat's Dance
studio at the Jacksonville
highway address.
The trailer park, the Al
drichs said, is for permanent
occupants.
Fuchs Now Citizen
Of East Germany
Berlin - (UPD - Atom spy
Klaus Fuchs, who was releas
ed from a British prison last
Tuesday, has become a citizen
of Communist East Germany,
the East German News
Agency ADN has reported.
Fuchs was flown to East Ber
lin from London after serving
nine years and three months
of a 14-year prison term for
giving Western atom bomb
secrets to the Soviets while
working in Britain.
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
A Hornbrook residence is
the scene of the following:
"The use of the back door
has had to be all but aban
doned temporarily while a
mother robin, hatches her
brood in the vines on the back
porch. The rose trellis over
the. steps leading to' the ga
rage shelters a nest, just at
trace clear back to the Nor
man Conquest .in . the 11th
century.
How the great have fallen!
This once mightiest of the
dukedoms is reduced to the
extremity of having to sell
off its possessions to pay its
taxes.
Time marches on!
1VHO WAS Peter Paul Ru
" bens?
His is an interesting suc
cess story of the Middle Ages.
His father was a lawyer who
was exiled from his native
Flanders (now a part of Bel
gium) because of his religion.
When his father died, his
mother moved to her native
city of Antwerp. Thee young
Peter Paul got a job as a page
in a wealthy family and be
gan his art education.
His rise was rapid. In his
early twenties, he went to
Italy and entered the service
of the Duke of Mantua, for
whom he made many paint
ings. A decade later, he went
back to Antwerp. He was al
ready famous. Pupils flocked
to his studio and princes vied
with each other for his
friendship.
He lived in luxury in a
great mansion filled with
masterpieces . of ancient art,
Marie de Medici next after
Catherine, the most famous of
the Medicis - invited him to
paint a series of paintings
representing scenes from her
life.
By then he had it made.
HE WAS more than
painter.
Under the Duke of Mantua,
he got a good schooling in
diplomacy, and in his middle
years he was sent by the
ruler of Flanders on a diplo
matic mission to the court of
Spain. A year later, he was
appointed Flemish envoy to
the fcourt of Charles I of Eng
land. In that job, he succeed
ed in patching up a peace
between England and Spain,
and was honored with titles
by the ruler of both king
doms. . Although much hampered
by sickness, he lived in lux
ury all the rest of his life, but
continued painting. His
wealth never stopped him
from working. If all his paint
ings could be assembled in
one spot and sold at one time
at presently prevailing prices,
the sum would stagger even
a modern tycoon.
THIS PIECE begun on a
light and pleasant theme.
Let's end it on a grimmer
note.
A year and a half ago, in
January of 1958, a red-headed
youngster and his girl
friend went on a two-state
crime spree back in the Mid
west, in the course of which
they killed 11 persons.
The girl friend is now
serving a life sentence for her
part in the rampage, and a
few minutes after midnight,
the red-head died in the elec
tric chair in Nebraska.
WHAT shall we say of it?
' . Well, the death penalty
will NOT, stop crime. Thous
ands of years of history at
test that fact.
But
WHAT ARE WE GOING
TO DO WITH PEOPLE OF
THE TYPE OF STARK
WEATHER? In the case of a rabid ani
mal, we know the answer.
We put it OUT OF THE WAY
and take no more chances.
That's about all that can be
said.
Bids Called for
Howard Road Work
Camp White-Bids have been
invited by the bureau of recla
mation for surfacing operat
ing roads serving the Howard
Prairie delivery canal in the
Talent division.
Bids will be received by J.
A. Callan, project construc
tion engineer, box 386, Camp
White, until 10 a.m. July 16.
Specifications may be ob
tained at that address or at
the bureau of reclamation of
fices in Boise.
Items of work include pre
paring 21,000 feet of subgrade
for operating roads, furnish
ing and applying 50,000 gal
lons of water, and 13,400 cubic
yards of surfacing for operat
ing roads.
Completion time is 100 cal
endar days.
eye-level, of five squirming
hungry, at-the-ugly-stage, bf,
by sparrows
"This results in a circuitoif)
route on tiptoe to gain access
to the garage, and in the eve
green to the side of the front
steps, a linnet and her off
spring have established squaf)
ter's rights.
"Sunday morning, a robin.
in passing, caught sight of a
piece" of. rope tied around thai
small lower branches of 4
birch tree.. He descended o
the rope with every intentiom
01 mying off with it to line
his nest. But the rope didn't
give. For a half hour, robim
and rope fought each othtvs)
round and 'round the, tre.
The robin was alternately
tugged and jerked clear o
his feet, then skidded alonr om
the seat of his little f eatherafj
britches. -
"He left for a time, that
returned with reinforcement
Together the two of the -tackled
the problem briey,
but number 2 was an esef
quitter and soon left.
"Another brief, wicked bat
tle with the rope f (Slowed,
until, faced with utter frur
trauon, he had to call thg
whole thing off, and leav
with his mission not accom
plished. '
"And Monday, a pair ot
purple martins, in between
spells of love-making on th
telephone wires, contemplated
a ledge over the kitchen win
dow as a building site."
When Fred MacMurray's
movie son turned into a
shaggy dog, it provided tel
evision commercial mater
ial for a certain automobile
firm. Now, locally anyway,
it has gone further than
that. Painted on a windo
in downtown. Medford Is a
dog, and these words:
"Dogs don't drive Plym
ouths." ......
A staff member1 wonders
what summer would be like
without dogs and little boys.
For example, a couple of
youngsters were busily squirt
ing ' themselves at a public
drinking fountain during a hot
afternoon last week when 4
harassed gentleman hurried
over and asked them to stop.
The kids were ready to run
to escape a bawling out, but
it seems the gentleman only
wanted to ask a favor. Would
one of them hold the faucet
on so he could collect a hand
ful of water for his little dof
The boys obliged, the gen
tleman cupped some water0i
his hands, and little Fidej
lapped it up thankfully.
The gentleman then went
'on his way, and the boys re
turned to their squirting.
What would summer be lika
without dogs and little boys' '
James Dunlevy, ai a Fri
day afternoon council meet
. ing discussion on the Medce
locomotive, said:
"Why don't you sell tic
Is to children. Let them
stand along the right of)
way. You know, a lot o?
children around here hate
never seen adults riding 09
a passenger train."
A certain female attorney
in the southern part of tht
state has been receiving fan
mail from the northern part
of the state addressed to the
Loverette building, or so wm
are told.
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One staff member is al- -ways
looking for ways of
making the weather forecast
as brief as possible. So he
has come up with the idea
used by the operators of the
Diamond lake resort.
It's simple enough. Eact
week, on cards they sent
out is a forecast something
along this line:
"Last week: beautiful.
Next week, nice."
Y Camp Scheduled
At Lake Next Week
The Medford Young Men'at)
Christian association ha ap
family camp scheduled fot
next week end at their camfj)
on Diamond lake.
Families will be arriving i
the camp on Friday, July s
and staying until Sunday cli
Monday. Some of the familitsj
will be taking their owaV)
equipment for the week ens$
However, the YMCA wijg)
have tents, boats, and sleea)
ing bunks set up for the cam J.
Families, will be expected t8)
furnish their own transporta
tion and food, but they will
be able to use the cooking
facilities at camp.
Some of the activities at (
the camp will be fishing, boat
ing, swimming, badminton,
volleyball, hiking and canoe
ing. Anyone interestgd in going
to the family camp is asked
to register by calling the
YMCA at SPring 2-629
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