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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.?
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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
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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.