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MAILTRIIUNK, MeeW, Of. Sunday, July 19, 19S9 Ki jooa la Southern Orecea Rea di i The lsaU Tribune 9iiUlahad IMly except Saturday by MJJ3FOHD PRINTING CO. S3 Worth fto St. Ph . BP ROBfcRT W RTJHL, Editor " KERB GRCY Aerrcrtlzinc Mananr GERALD LATHAM, Burin Ugt IRIC W ALLEN JK, M ana rise Editor KARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tela. Editor rmi a, on rtnci CJ . a VJlaMA KiLHiUUi af CiTTli Aa Dn ta StUlUl- OLTVE ST ARCHER Woman- Editor An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Medforrf Oregon amder Act e March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES K-r M a I Win Adrance. Cony 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday tnoe. 9J0U Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Oentral Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Bill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUav 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance fcfflclaJ Paper ef City a Medford Official Paper el iuemaam Kmni? " United Presa International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of. rices in New York. Chicago. De- . trr.it San Francisco. Loa AnCCles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver aC r" NIWSPAMR at? PUILISHIRS 'ASSOCIATION HATIOMAl COITOttAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file, of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yuan ago. 10 YEARS AOO July It. H5t (Tuesday) Water of tha Rogue river above the Bybee bridge area are considered safe for swim ming from a ianitation stand- point. , Beginning today the county recorder"! office will record all incoming documents on dual rolls of microfilm. One for reference in the court , house and the other . to be stored elsewhere. 20 YEARS AGO July 19. 1939 (Wednesday) Prescott park camp will be occupied again by the CCC this fall, according to letter received from the regional di rector of the national park service in San Francisco. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "CoL TouVelle of J'ville flashed forth yesterday in an 'Ohio duster.' This is a seersucker overcoat, worn in the 1890s by Mid-West preachers, poli ticians, and plutocrats to im press the 'proletariat. 30 YEARS AGO July 19. 1929 (Friday) J. C. Thompson, division manager for the California Oregon Power company, makes speedy air trip to Klamath Falls in 45 minutes. The lowly earwig is made the subject of a radio comedy to be presented by the Copco Players. 40 YEARS AGO Julr 19, 1919 (Saturday, Southern Pacific forbids any Derson with skin rash that may be smallpox from riding trains. Newly purchased aeroplane hv Medford comnanv is ex pected to arrive in valley from Sacramento. 50 YEARS AGO Julv 19. 1909 (Monday) City water mains are filled with water from Fish Lake ditch at the temporary intake constructed at Bradsnaw drop. Experts recommend that county buy cash registers. What's Your I.O.? fcl: - " I nuriAK nin, WW www r . even or eight b excellent; five or six is good. 1. What maiden did Robin Hood marry? 2. 'Mum" is a nickname for which popular fall flower? 3. What was the name of Rip van Winkle's dog? 4. The original Ku Klux Klan was organized during what period in American nis tory? s. To -what snort -. does "blood and sand" refer? a ft ni wr a hnroloffist- what articles would you be engaged in making and re pairing 7. In what State is Notre a universitv. Dame 8. Which two nations fought the .Funic wars: g Of what State is Talla hassee the capital? 10. What Is meant by "kill mA calf"? i Maid Marian: amww. ... , : 9 Chrysanthemum; 3. Wolf; 1 . .i-- uariad af. Jar W betwten the Stale. l-r-, S. Clock, and Bits and Pieces The weather of the cast 10 days or two weeks is not exactly "unusual," infrequent enough to cause a lot of comment. The most frequently heard one is "Hot enough for you?" Now how do you answer that? The hot days have been accompanied by almost impossibly beautiful nights, with the stars hanging close, and the waxing crescent of the moon snining almost as brightly as an ordinary full moon. It is reminiscent of the harvest moon, only a couple of months away now. It is mildly surprising that there have been no reports of either meteor showers nor of a showing of the aurora borealis. The latter are more frequent later in the summer, however. As for the former, they usually accompany such solar "flare-ups" as was reported earlier in the week, disrupting world-wide radio communications. We foresee no possibility of Medford losing its status as f ourth-largest city in Oregon. With 26,300 estimated by the city last week, it ranks behind Portland, Eugene and Salem. In 1958, these three were 402,300, 47,600 and 47,100 re spectively. " This year, for the first time (if the Medford estimate is upheld by the state board of census) , Medford will be in a new grouping, the 25,000 to 50,000 classification, along with Eugene and Salem. Klamath Falls, which ranked next to Med ford last year with 19,500, may have gained more than Medford proportionately during the past 12 months, because of the new Air Force base and Johns Mansville plant there, but it still would have quite a way to go to catch up. Others in the 10,00-25,000 group, in order, last year were Corvallis, 19,100; Pendleton, 15, 300; Springfield, 13,800; Albany, 13,000; Bend, 12,450; Roseburg, 12,200; Astoria, 12,000, and The Dalles, 11,560. Of these eight, The Dalles grew faster than all the rest between 1950 and 1958, registering a 50.6 per cent gain. Roseburg was next, with 45.5 per Incidentally, the smallest incorporated city in the state last year was Granite, in Grant coun ty, with a population of 4 in 1958. The town was incorporated in 1901, and in 1930 had a popula tion of 45. By 1940 this had climbed to 86, but in 1950 had dropped to 40. In 1957 the popula tion was listed as down to 3, climbing to 4 last year. There' should be a story in that, somewhere. The most recent Oregon the town's officials are and councilman; A. J. and councilman, and Otis Ford, treasurer and councilman. What do you suppose the other citizen does? Fire chief, maybe? To our eyes, the little trees in the big concrete pots along Main street, with flowers and shrubs at their base, constitute one of the happiest and most pleasant developments in Medford in many a moon. They must make a good impression on visitors, too. And they'll be even better in another year or two, after they spread but a bit more, giv ing a little shade and a lot more greenery. We saw Edith Eden downtown at the crack of dawn the other day, checking up on them, watering pot in hand. Yes, the Garden We could never put "something for everyone" to do) without the help helpful people in town. stretch enough to cover all the events which are newsworthy, and we depend on others in many cases 10 Dimg us reports are, disappointed. There are about a town, however, who do and for more than one organization. Each of them has shown a special aptitude for reporting, and as more and more organizations find, out about this, they' are given more and more reporting J'obs to do. The best of them turn in copy which lardly needs to be touched by an editors pencil, and almost all of them to be not only helpful pletely trustworthy. We Our office, after lo these many years of doing without, has finally received a reference copy of Lewis A. Mc Arthur Names." How we ever got along without it, we'll never know, for hardly we have occasion to wonder how such and such a place got its name, and would like to find out and pass the information There are many interesting names in Jackson county alone. Prospect, was named Deskins, named after its first post master, appointed in 1882. McArthur says, "The name was changed to Prospect on Nov. 9, 1889, because local settlers were optimistic about the future of the community." The Dead Indian is and was bestowed on area by some settlers dead Rogue River. Indians m some deserted wie- warns near the creek, Klamath Indians had killed them in a fight. Mc Arthur adds, incidentally, that the road extended only into the mountains for many -years, and wasn't pushed through to Pelican bay on Klam ath lake until 1870, when Captain. O. C. Apple gate and a band of Klamath Indians did so. McArthur's book both for reference, and reading. L.A. hereabouts. But it is cent. Blue Book reports that Albert Paulsen, mayor Perard, acting recorder of Eden" is an asset. out a paper which has (which is what we try of a lot of friendly and Our staff is too small to oi tnem. Ana we seldom dozen or so people in this on a regular basis, have shown themselves and dedicated, but com love em, every one. s "Oregon Geographic a week goes by but what along. for instance. Originally it another picturesque name, the creek, mountain and who, in 1854, found two and supposed that the is' highly recommended. for ordinary enjoyable Dennis the It's sure nice to have scmebov to talk to, gamopa . mom h gad get soffs if 1 wakb w&u up i Tovnsend .-'... I nfluence, One of the hardiest nostrums. ever .; urged upon Congress will come in for another round of publicity when the Town send Clubs of America hold their annual convention at Portland, Ore., starting to morrow. For a quarter of a century the Townsend move ment has been pushing one version or another of its fa- Today & Tomorrow By Walter ON DEALING WITH MR. K. In our dealings with Mr. Krushchev, the best rule to bear in mind is that he is a hard - boiled and calculat ing realist playing with out sentimen tality the game of pow er politics. By tradition and conviction he is, of course, aLeninist. Walter Llppmana But he is of another genera tion, and where Lenin taught that the Communist revolu tion would triumph only aft er a cataclysm of world war, Mr. K. believes that it will triumph eventually not by war but by the example and impact of the growth of Com munist states. The aim of his foreign poli cy is, therefore, to avoid war, which would arrest the growth of the Communist states and to promote the in fluence of the Soviet Union by a foreign policy based on measures short of war. .The calculation of these measures is done. in terms, not of ide ology, but of the balances of power politics. F. R this reason the West- era statesman wno is most -A. A. 1 l. likely to impress Mr. K. and even to do business with him is one who is competent and willing to talk to him in terms of the balance of power. If, therefore, the President when he sees Mr. K. talks about our moral and religious ideals, he will get nowhere. In fact, he wUl probably rekindle the suspicions of Mr. K. who is quite incapable of believing that great states ever act on anything but their interests, as rightly or wrongly they conceive their interests, and within" the limits of then power. If, on the other hand, the President talks to Mr. K. as an old soldier who knows what the last war was, who realizes what a , next war would be like, there is a good chance that they would have a meeting of minds. There is no telling how far they could go towards agreement. For there has never been enough realistic talk between men in both countries who are at the top and who actu ally know the facts about the situation of military and eco nomic power. s BY the same - token, visits like that of Mr. Mikoyan and Mr." Kozlov, though of some value, are not of any de cisive importance. In these vis its there is plenty of hustle and bustle and almost no real talking. The same could be true of the forthcoming visit of the Vice President to Mos cow. It will not be important if, as on his other voyages abroad, Mr. Nixon acts as if he could build up the influ ence of the United States abroad by behaving as if he were running for office at home. Mr. Nixon's visit wiU be taken in Moscow as a recog nition that we regard the U. S.S.R. as an equal power. But whether it will mean more au;-'- Menace .. w Planners Generate Not Leg islation jiiliar universal pension plan on Capitol Hill. The scheme - called origin ally for pensions of $200 a month for aU citizens 60 years of age or over, the payments to be financed by a 2 per cent transactions tax. The 1959 version is more modest, despite the inroads of infla tion. One of its legislative Lippmann than that will depend on whether Mr. Nixon and Dr. Eisenhower can find in their own private talks with Mr. K. a basis for useful talks later on by -the President himself. M UCH has been said in con-: affair about the need to con vince Mr. K. that the Allies are united and are not bluff ing. This is certainly desir able. Indeed, it is imperative. But if it is to be done, it must be done in language that Mr. K. . understands. The language he under stands is the language of the measure and calculation of military and economic power. In these terms, he almost sure ly believes us when we say that we will fight back if he allows West Berlin to be blockaded. The West is capa ble' of fighting back and, though it would hate to have to do it, it is irretrievably committed. On the other hand, when Or. Adenauer says, as he did until recently, that we cannot allow East German officials to operate the control points on the access routes, Mr. K. know that the West will never go to war about that. Nor wttl it go to war if he makes a separate peace treaty with East Germany. Nor will it go to war about measures which are short of war. To talk as, if the West would go to war under these conditions is in fact to be bluffing. . THE moral of this is I Re lieve, that we shaU do bet ter the more concrete and specific and candid we are about what we will and can insist uppn and about what we are willing to compromise. In Allied quarters there is considerable grumbling about the concessions which we have made. We have made conces sions. But we have conceded nothing that the West has ever been prepared to go to war about. What has been hap pening is that our original position is being whittled down to the hard core which the reality of power will sup port. What they will not sup port, will be regarded as bluff no matter how vehemently we assert it. The Western tactic in Gen eva could, but for Dr. Aden auer, have been reversed. We might have started out witn a plan for the provisional statr us of West Berlin, which in cluded the concession we have made, and was designed to re concile the security of West Berlin with the Soviet "de mand and the Soviet need for a greater acceptance, to use ex-Gov. Harriman's word, of East Germany. We could then have stood by this plan, ne gotiating only on details, with a reasonable hope that the Russians would rather have" the plan than take the risks of any alternative open to them. In this tactic we would have made our necessary and in evitable concessions at the outset. Thus we would have avoided the' unpleasant and somewhat embarrassing effect of having those concessions squeezed out of us. (c) 195 New York . Herald Tribune Inc.. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS BILL! Washington In August, 1957, at the stern insintence of two Democratc from Tex as, the Con gress passed the first civil rights biU since the Re cons traction era ended and the South was effectively re admitted t o Union. instBh AIsod m AUKUSt, 1959, the Congress can be ex pected to pass still another civil rights bill, moderate yet substantial like the last one. Once again, the prime mov ers in the matter, the true authors of the action taken, will be Senator Majority Leader Lyndon Bains John son and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. The signs are now plain for all who can read them. Early in the week, Chairman of the House Judiciary Com mittee, Rep. Emmanuel Cel ler, and the Committee's sen ior Republican, Rep. William sponsors, Rep. John A. Blat nik (D-Minn.), estimates , that it would provide primary benefits of $130 to $150 a month. Uniform Benefits This would be accomplished by repealing or suspending various provisions of the So cial Security' Act in regard to old-age and survivors and federal disability insurance. In their place would be insti tuted uniform benefit pay ments to all U.S. citizens over 60 years of age, to aU totaUy and permanently disabled per sons between 18 and 60, and to female heads of families with dependent children un der 18. The program would be fi nanced by a federal gross income tax of 2 per cent on all monthly personal Incomes over . $250 and on gross re ceipts of companies and cor porations. The monthly tax collections would go into a special Treasury account. Aft er deduction of administrative expenses, the remainder would De divided , equally among beneficiaries. . There are certain other re finements. For example, above the amount of $75 a month, adult beneficiaries would lose $1 for each $2 per month earn- ea in excess of $50 in em ployment or self-employment, Buying power Factor The Townsend plan, depres slon-born, is advocated not only as an old-age security measure but also as a busi ness stimulant and stabilizer The idea is to -increase the buying power of the aged and thus to encourage increased production. Opponents insist that the scheme would have no effect on buying power but merely take a substantial part of the income earned by people under 60 and transfer it to people over 60. In any event, the Townsend plan has proved to have heavy-duty, long-mileage po litical sex appeal. Twelve House Democrats and nine House Republicans are mem bers of the Townsend plan executive committee. Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the movement, claimed the 1958 congressional elections a "tremendous Townsend vic tory" with 82 per cent Town sendites candidates recom mended by Townsend state and congressional district councils-elected. Club. Active Townsend clubs are active at the state and local level fighting for increased pen sions and privileges for the aged, particularly in states like California, Florida, New York, and Oregon, where the membership is large. But the big operation is logically on Capitol Hill. While the Plan has yet to Try and ; By BENNETT CERF- A YOUNG ACTOR with a name five syllables long got a big part in a new movie and promptly had his name changed to Flash Upton. The picture was a smash, and the actor won rave notices and a new con- ' tract. Ensconced in his new 14-room penthouse, he gave a great house warming party, and thoughtfully named his elderly mother the guest of honor. Everybody showed up but mamma, and the actor was frantic with worry. Finally he went to the lobby to speak to the doorman. "You didn't see a little eld lady come in here at any time?" he asked anxiously. "There . was one," recalled the door man. "She's been sitting- patiently over in that corner for about three hours now." She was his mother all right "Mamma," he cried, "you've had me in a state! Why didn't you come up to my apartment?" "I wanted to, my son," she told him with tears in her eyes, "but I couldn't remember your new name'" C 159. 7 Sastt Ctrl. Distributed pjr Kins Features Sjrndieata, M. McCulloch, emerged from executive session to, tell the world that they would report a biU by the end of next week. . - MORE important stiU, the Constitutional Rights Sub committee of the Senate Ju diciary Committee voted 4 to on Wednesday to present a clean bill" to the fuU com mittee. The Judiciary Com-! miltee Chairman, Sen. James O. Eastland of Mississippi, can still be expected to fight a long and bitter rear guard ac tion. But the Chairman of the Sub- Committee, Sen. Thomas Hennings of Missouri, has the votes on his side nine of them to be specific. Majority Leader Johnson wiU further provide ample time for argumentative com mittee meetings. Providing time to let Senator Eastland talk himself out is the real purpose of the day s recess that the Senate is expected to take next Monday. Other Sen ate business is in fact to be subordinated to the grand, central task of getting the ju diciary Committee to send a bill to the floor. It hardly matters what bill is reported. Last week, Sena tor Johnson sent a messenger to the House side, to beg Rep. CeUer to report President Eisenhower's civil rights bill without altering a comma, if this was needed to secure the Republican vote in CeUer's committee and in the House Rules Committee. Pry a bill loose first, and rewrite it later if need be, is the strategy in both House and Senate. THE task of bUl-prying will . be considerably hard er in the House, where the Chairman of the Rules Com mittee, Howard W. Smith of Virginia, has a close, ally in the new House ' Republican Leader, Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana. Even so, the mam drama will be in the Senate, where Southern filibusters have beaten every other civU rights bUl except the act of 1957. This time, it is safe to predict that there will be no true filibuster. The token fili buster of 1957 may not even be repeated, It is also fairly safe to pre dict the new civil rights bill s final form. The measure ap proved by the Sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee forecasts the end re sult. The first main provision, borrowed by' Lyndon John son's civil right biU, extends the lif e of the Civil Rights Commission by another three years. The second main pro vision is borrowed from the President's bin. It greatly strengthened ,the Attorney General's existing authority to safeguard Negro voting rights .in Federal elections, by giving the Justice Department legal access to voting records and other data needed to prove a .denial of voting rights. QUCH a measure will not sausiy the Northern ex tremists. They say they want what would amount to a force bill to impose school deseg regation (and would faint with alarm if such a bill actually passed). But such a measure will constitute another im portant step down an agoniz ingly difficult road. The credit will of course make progress in Congress, the movement has had an ob vious influence on Social Se curity and other measures af fecting the aged. Old-age and survivors payments under the 1958 liberalizing amendments now range from $33 to $116 a month (except for a retired woman of 62, who may receive as little as $26). The average old-age benefit of about $75 a month may be far from the Townsend goal, but with 75 million persons covered by Social Security and 13 million receiving benefits, the idea of "pensions for all" is nearer reality now than one might have predicted 25 years ago. -(Editorial Reiearch Reports. Stop Mo ewnuccc (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We know a couple who like to cool off with a glass of beer these hot days, after work and before dinner. - The other day the wife went shopping, and when she came home she said, "Dear, I bought a new brand of beer today." "Oh?", says he, "what kind?" "Near Beer," says she. The heat bring, problem, to everyone including .ome ef the gal. at the . courthouse. Good report ha. it that they've been pad ding around in their .tock- Communications . Letters to tha Editor must bear the name and address of tha writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rifht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must nt exceed 400 words Business and Labor To the Editor: As of now a big steel strike is on, and from it a great ioss. Big busi ness does not care what it costs, only to break up our labor unions so they can hire men at low wages. Let me take anyone back 64 to 72, years ago when the whole east was building most everything by hand. You had to work by the hour, some maybe got $1 per 10 hours. Then nearly all firms raised their price on their products, then started to cut the price on the piece, which made it hard for workers to live. Al so remember this, if you were hurt or sick, bosses did not pay your doctor bill or pay if you were killed. Our unions have brought about all this, care must be taken. I was in a carriage shop 65 years ago, learning to build buggies and wagons, Head men there got $1 per 10 hours. Then when I finished trade, it cost me about $3.00 for wood working tools, boss es furnishing very little. Piece workers could hardly live. Unions were started every where. Many "men invented machines to" do work but the bosses took the patents. As I had any one of seven jobs at my trade I turned them all down. I would not work r $7.50 a 60 hour week. So I left the east for Minnesota and South Dakota I got a millwright job for $5 for 10 hour day. Of course before that I went to school and took up architectual en gineering so I got away from the slaving work. Big business would like to keep workers , slaves. As I have put in 68 years in the industrial world, in many states and for the U.S, government in the Canal Zone, I have always figured big newspapers never seemed to care about the workers that built this great nation of ours and if I could go into de tail I could tell you more than any news reporter that ever wore 6hoes. I have done contracting also head foreman for one of San Francisco's con tractors. At that time he had 800 carpenters on his payroll. With: him several years. I was several years on the Canal Zone designing large apart ments for U.S. government. I do not care to write about myself, only so readers can see I have been around some. So much I can write about but not in 400 words, as I am long over four score years, and it does not matter today here in our country how good you are in character and in your work and you are old and not able to work and your money's gone you are nothing. A man with money can buy your friendship. Maybe some day we will plow old people under, who knows. William Ross Sharp, Gold Hill, Ore. , belong to many men. Senator Hennings, for example, took 57 solid hours of testimony in his sub - committee and he made three previous tries to complete a bill before the fi nal attempt that succeeded. But if a civil rights bill pass es as now seems almost cer tain, the rock bottom reason will be the decision of Senator Johnson and Speaker Ray- burn that such a bill must pass. Cynics will say that sena tor Johnson's loudly disa vowed Presidential candida cy also has something to do with it and no doubt this will be true. The passage of another substantial civil rights bill will of course greatly in crease Johnson's availability for the Democratic nomina tion. But Johnson also be lieves in what he is doing. And in any case the caracter istic of a good political sys tem is to produce good re sults from a mixture of mo tives. (c) 1S59 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ing feet to wait en custo mer.. And, while there are plan, afoot to air condition the district court, it hasn't been done yet, and one help ful official auggosted that Judge Roy Bashaw keep a tub of ice under his bench to soak his feet in. National Farm Safety Week starts today. Our farm editor says that most accident on a farm are n't funny. But he also tells about a curvaceous young farm woman who owned a Boxer puppy, who had a con tinuous feud with the neigh bor's cat. One day the pup started to scurry under an electric fence into the pasture after the cat. The young woman made a dive under the lowest strand of the fence, and caught the small dog. But then, every time she tried to get back out from under the fence, she would wiggle enough so that she'd get a charge of electrici ty right where smaller girls get spanked. Several unsympathetic males went into near-hysterics watching her until a gallant mailman came to her rescue and pulled her out. k Condensed hisloryt First the Atom; Then came Adam; Then Adam snot the Atom at 'em. Unacclaimed heroes, that's what they are! Here's the story: "What makes plants die?" the voice on the telephone in quired of the county agent. This rather general question was boiled down to a discus sion about the dying plants of a family on vacation, which were being cared for by a high school boy. He was wor ried. Agent: Do you have a car? Boy: No. v Agent: Do you have a bi cycle? Boy: No. I have a broken ankle. Agent: I'll see if I can get out to the house sometime to day to look at the plants. - Boy: But I want to be there.' When will you come? Agent: I didn't think you could get there with a broken ankle. Boy: I'll hop. So the agent went out, and the boy hopped over, cast and all, and they inspected the plants. It was too much am monium sulfate. - The boy and the agent did their respective duties, but the agen't commented wryly, "And people wonder what I do with my time!" . ' One of our community correspondent, report, that, at a recent bridal shower, the comments of the bride were secretly recorded as she opened the gifts. It turn ed out well, too, but our : correspondent got to think ing that such a stunt, under differ ent circumstances, could launch the newly weds into enough family feuds to burn up every branch on the family tree. On July 9, the Mail Tribune ran a picture of a juicy, brown steak. Under the picture the caption talked about a "des sert offering." . We were taken to task for this by some of our joshing friends, and plead guilty to a boner. But, on second thought, we know a lot of people who would prefer a tender, rare steak to anything else for des sert. e During the Bear Creek pollution inspection trip Thursday, the feet of some of. those unaccustomed to long tramps probably took something of a beating. And an observer comments that this is where the ex-military men in the Izaak Walton league have a distinct ad vantage. There are a lot of good, fresh fruits and vegetables on the grocery shelves these days, and our farm editor, who is conscious of such things, suggests it would be a good time to cut down on the food bills. But, he added, it can't al ways be done. He says ne knows of one woman who has been invited to so many pot luck picnics recently that her food budget was knocked com pletely out of kilter. Reporter, sometime, have difficulty in reading back tha notes they take while reading a slory. But, it ap pears, they're not the only ones. One puzzled clerk called County Commissioner Chester Wendt to ask him if .he understood him cor racily when he mentioned (and she jotted down in shorthand) the construction of a "virgin" dam acros. the Applegate. Chet scratch ed his head, thought, and decided that what he'd real ly said was "diversion" dam.
