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Medford and Jaskson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1949 (Friday)
The Jacksonville Gold Rush
Jubilee queen contest closes
tomorrow and many young
hearts are fluttering.
Sen. Wayne Morse declares
members of Congress areout
of touch with the people.
20 YEARS AGO V
July 29, 1939 (Saturday) '
Roger Henselman, Medford
student, is awarded a full na
tional scholarship to Harvard
college.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
past week, as far as the heat
is concerned, has been a 'lulu,'
which is not what the more
virile cussers called it."
30 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1929 (Monday)
Railroad heads ; and local
fruit packers discuss freight
rates here.
Travel to Crater Lake so far
this month has broken all rec
ords. 40 YEARS AGO '
July 29, 1919 (Tuesday)
Forest . fires in Siskiyou
county grow serious. s
A big viaduct is to be con
structed east of Ashland.
50 YEARS AGO.
July 29. 1909 (Thursday)
A scheme for "Seeing Med
ford" by bus tour is proposed.
Suggestions in the Tribune
that the state of Siskiyou be
formed in southern Oregon
and northern California draws
strong support.
Vhtfs Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is tuperisr;
seven er eight is excellent; five of
us is good.
1. The Grand Army of the
Republic was organized by
veterans of which war?
When is Ground Hog Day
observed?
3. Which three of the fol
lowing are most closely re-
lated-mmng, southpaw, field
er, muff, bunt, rookie?
4. Was President Truman's
official yacht named Potomac,
Williamsburg, or Mayflower?
5. A seismograph measures
the velocity of light, intensity
of earth tremors, of the length
of daylight?
6. Does the term antarctic
refer to the North, or South
polar region?
7. If you had a Rocky Moun
tain Canary, would you feed
it bird seed, or hay as a steady
diet? -
8. The likeness of which
former U. S. President is pic
tured on the $2 bill?
9. From the lowest to the
highest, how do the suits rank
in Contract Bridge?
10. The natives of which
State are nicknamed "Tar
Heels"?-; ;
Answers: 1. Union veterans
of the Civil War. 2. February
2. 3. Southpaw, fielder, rook
ie. 4. Williamsburg. 5. Inten
sity of earth tremors. 6. South
Polar region. 7. Hay, it's a
mule. 8. Thomas Jefferson. 9.
Clubs, diamonds, hearts,
spades. 10. North Carolina.
OVERZEALOUS
Chesterfield, England -CPD
Union leaders ordered a new
election at Parkhouse Col
liery after a somewhat over
enthusiastic vote for union
officers. The number of bal
lots cast exceeded the num
ber of eligible voters by 162
votes.
4
Unwanted
Telephone calls which seek to sell something
unwanted, or which are of the phoney "quiz
variety, or are of several
calls, are real nuisances.
People have every right to be disgusted, irate
or upset by such calls.
plain. And we fully understand the sentiments
of the city council when
two weeks ago making
Nonetheless, . Mayor
when he vetoed the measure.
AS WRITTEN it was (1)--of doubtful consti-TiivrioliT-iT
(e nnoirnr) in onriliaf inn rxrr
VUlyAUXAClAXvJ' y aW J UMV
(3) unenforceable.
The city's jurisdiction extends only to the cijty
limits. There would be nothing to prohibit such
telephone solicitors from moving to Central
Point or Ashland or Jacksonville, and continuing
their nuisance calls without interruption or threat
of punishment, or even extra expense. And there's
nothing the city could do
The vetoed ordinance also sought to exempt
some people thus bringing it into the class
legislation" category.
THE ordinance had for its purpose the protec-
and nuisance type calls.
ineffective and questionable legislation.
The answer to the
has yet to be found.
We know how they
practically overnight. That is if everyone would
agree, tacitly or in an organized way, to refuse
to patronize anyone who used the telephone as
sales device. If that
economics would quickly
.But as long as a certain percentage of people
respond to such calls,
made. No ordinance will stop them. E.A.
Oregon's Police Defaults
There is no such thing as a "perfect" police
department.
But there are varying degrees of excellence.
They range from departments which are police
agencies in name only, to
with adequate personnel,
Most of those m Oregon range somewhere m
between the two extremes. Lt.. Bard Purcell of
the Portland Police department recently con
ducted survey of the 36 sheriff's offices in the
state, and 39 city police
indicated that the bulk
.
1I7E ARE indebted to the Salem Capital Jour
' nal for a partial list of Lt. Purcell's findings
We reproduce it here,
note how the Medford
In 52 of the 75 surveyed departments sal
aries averaged less than
Medford, police salaries
with the average somewhat less than $380.)
Departments generally hire officers with
out sufficiently investigating their backgrounds
(In Medford each applicant is screened for a
prior criminal record and for character.)
Most; departments give no regular or pe
nodic pay raises. (Medford policemen receive
merit pay raises on a regular basis.) '
MO DEPARTMENTS use psychiatric or psycho
logical screening devices in weeding out un
suitable applicants. (We
Lt. Purcell -means by this, but applicants here
receive IQ tests, and a special emotional stability
test, administered by the
Most departments
priate college training as being a consideration in
hiring or promotion. ( Such qualifications are
taken into consideration in Medford.)
. Fifty-nine departments fail to maintain
acceptable training
(Here again "acceptable"
Medford. rookie policeman undergoes training.)
- -
JUJANY departments are so-short of manpower
that no night'patrols are maintained. (Not
true nere.)
m Nineteen departments don't even require
a high school education for patrolmen. (Medford
requires either a high school diploma or a certifi
cate of equivalency.)
Only three of the 75 departments have a
regular training program beyond the recruit level.
(Medford has four types of training for experi
enced men: regular in-service training conducted
by the lieutenants; regular firearms training;
special training for selected patrolmen at schools
and academies as available: and the regional
advanced schools, conducted cooperatively by
law enforcement associations.)
THIS review, though far
rates among the three or four best in Oregon.
Yet the Capital Journal's points in reviewing
these data are still valid. It says:
"Oregonians are too tight to pay for vigorous and
enlightened departments.
"Chiefs and sheriffs generally are too fond of their
security to fight for what they must knowgis the right
course.
"City councils are too afraid of the controversy
change brings to risk hiring youthful -and progressive
police executives ... '
"How can anyone wonder that crime increases
when so little value is put on its prevention and appre-' -hension?"
Perhaps it is only local pride to believe as
we do that the most severe of these criticisms
do not apply to Medford and Jackson conntv. T5nr.
the fact remains that Oregonians in general are
unwilling to pay for the best in police services,
and are suffering from an increasing crime toll
as a result. E.A. ..-
Phone Calls
other types of unwanted
-
They have a right to com
it passed an ordinance
such calls illegal.
John Snider was right
V VAX AAA . ULfiACUVlVlli U11U
about it.
'
But it would have been
nuisance telephone call
could be ended, however,
happened, the laws 01
end this practice.
they will continue to be
well-organized agencies
training and equipment.
departments. His survey
of them rank rather low.
and in parentheses' we
Police department rates:
$380 per month. (In
range from $330 to $410,
don't quite know what
Medford school office.)
don't recognize appro
programs for recruits.
is not defined, but each
from complete, would
Dennis the Menace
I 7-29 -.s ,
I WAS GONNA Ifcll HER IT WASN'T A MAL SHRUNKEN
HEAD-ONLY I DIDN'T HAVE TIME' .
Newsom Finds U.S.-Russian
Relationships on Two
. By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
On the lower level, the
U.S. exhibition in Moscow ap
parently is a success.
On the upper level it has
served primarily thus far to
point up at
least two pri
mary difficul
ties in United
States and So
viet Russian
attempts to
reach any
kind of an un
derstanding.
On the low-
Phil Newsom ) er level, we
have the ordinary Russian
housewife showering courte
sies upon Mrs. Richard Nixon
when she visits the big Mos
cow department store, GUM.
They greet her as an out
sider with whom they would
like to be friendly.
Experience Typical .
Friendliness , is a basic com
modity of the Russian people.
And so it has been exhib
ited at the U.S. Exhibition.
- One not usually taken into
consideration is the Russian
language itself.
A Rich Language
It is a rich language, many
of whose words have no exact
translation into- a single Eng
lish language synonym.
This correspondent has lis
tened many times while a
Russian translator searched in
vain for the English counter
part to a word or phrase- in a
Russian speech.
The second misunderstand
ing, if so it can be called,
Russians pore over the Sears
Roebuck catalogue. They ar
gue the merits of white versus
colored tiles in the home.
American 'automobiles fascin
ate them. They seize upon the
opportunity to talk ' with bi
lingual guides. -
But the differences also are
basic. -
arises from a total lack of
trust on both sides. The Unit
ed States recalls with justi
fied bitterness the failure of
past understandings with the
Soviets where the Reds have
Search Starts for
California Arsonist
Northridge, Calif. -(UPD-'Ar-s
o n investigators reported
Tuesday the small fire Sunday
night in .boxing promoter
Jackie Leonard's home was
deliberately set.
The $1,000 bedroom blaze
was probably set by a match,
said investigators. Fire de
stroyed drapes, furniture and
scorched walls and ceiling be
fore it was put out.
A search was underway for
the arsonist.
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
IN 1904, after a fruitless attempt to find a job in every news
paper office in metropolitan New York, the late Irvin Cobb
sent this letter, special delivery, to all editors: "Sir: I am the
best writer, and the ablest
editor that has ever come to
New York, and yet nobody
has jumped at the unparal
leled opportunity of hiring,
me. This is your last chance.
I'm weary of waiting in
your anteroom and a modest
appreciation of my own
worth forbids my doing
business, with your head of
fice boy any longer. Unless
you grab me right away, I
will leave your paper flat on
its back in the middle of a
hard summer and your
whole life hereafter will be
one vast, surging regret'
This must have been a novel approach in 1904, because Cobb
notes that his letter produced five offers of jobs!
.
"If you're unable to get away for a vacation," counsels Ray Black
man, "you can get the same feeling by tipping every third person
you meet"
1859, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kiss Festarss Syndicate.
used every legalistic loophole
for their own advantage.
Explains Geneva Conference
It is this which is one of
the current sources of disa
greement between the United
States and Britain. Britain,
anxious for a summit confer
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the eae.
"Black Powder Days"
To the Editor: The Mult
nomah Muzzle Loading Rifle
club is looking for the best
muzzle loading gun experts,
collectors and shots in the
West to jsin them in the big
"Black Powder Days" Cen
tennial event, to be held in
Banks, in Washington county,
on the first two week ends
in August, and extends a cor
dial invitation to anyone in
terested in the old guns to at
tend this celebration.
On Aug. 1 and 2, shooting
matches will be open" to the
public to give as many par
ticipants as possible an oppor
tunity to handle and actually
shoot the old rifles and guns
used by the early settlers who
opened the West and brought
Oregon into the Union in
1859. The club plans to have
20 matches a day for the two
days of the public shoot, and
prizes of merchandise will be
awarded the winners.
The West Coast. Trophy
matches, to find the best
shots in three Western states,
will be held Aug. 8 and 9.
This shoot is open to all who
wish to compete, with the con
dition that participants must
provide their own black
powder firearms. These may
include muzzle loading pis
tols, flint locks and military
rifles. Medals will be given
for the top three scorers in
10 events, and an aggregate
score is eligible for an award.
A carnival and fair, featur
ing displays of historic Ore
gon, will be neld simultan
eously with the shooting
matches. A buffalo, donated
by John Day, Central Point
rancher, and a member of the
Oregon Historical society
board, will be pit roasted and
served on Sunday. A thresh
ing exhibition, with an old-
time steam thresher; a water
fight between rival fire com
panies, a pig and Ford race
from Tillamook county, a
parade and the coronation of
the' Sunset Mother, and
square dancing also are on
the program.
We hope your county will
Eisenhower Reverses Position .on Third
Term Amendment; Personal Reason Seen
By LYLE WILSON
Washington (DPD If the
Eisenhower administration has
switched positions on repeal
of the 22nd
Amendment to
the U. S. Con
stitution, per
haps there is
a good per
sonal reason
The 22nd
Amendment
was proposed
by the 80th
Congress in
yle C. Wilson
1947 and ratified by sufficient
states in 1951. The amend
ment was an expression of ill-
will toward Franklin D
Roosevelt.
It forbids a President to
serve more than two wnue
House terms. This prohibition
was a KepuDiican project
which seems to have back
fired. The prohibition is the
law of the land and chances
are it will remam so long
enough, at the least, to pre
vent - the Republican party
Levels
ence, would accept Kussian
verbal promises that there
will be no intereference with
Western rights in Berlin so
long as the subject' is under
conversation.
The United States says, put
it in writing.
be represented by its best
muzzle loaning snots, and we
are looking for the county
sending the greatest number
of experts to enter the shoots.
If there are entrants from
your county, we would appre
ciate them listing their names
with our co-sponsor, the Ore
gon Historical Society, Port
land, Oregon.
We are looking forward to
greeting . you in Banks on
Aug. 1 and 2, and on Aug. 8
and 9.
John W. Klinker,
President Multnomah
' Muzzle Loading
Rifle Club
co Oregon Historical
Society
235 S.sW. Market st.
Portland 1, Ore.
Alaskans and Pride
To the Editor: Mr. Arthur
E. Tropple, in your Communi
cations column, would leave
one with the impression that
I am not proud to be an
American. Nothing could be
farther from the truth, Mr.
Tropple. I was proud enough
to have served 5Vz years in
World War I and 2 years, 4
months in World War II, en
listing at the age of 47 years.
There are many people in
Alaska, Mr. Tropple, who be
lieve as I do, that Alaska was
not ready for statehood. An
other five years, with the
privilege of electing our own
governor and with voting rep
resentives in both houses of
Congress, would have better
prepared us for statehood
status.
It could be, Mr. Tropple,
that I am too proud to
knuckle down to a . vodka
drinking, cotton picking goof
like Khrushchev ? )..'('! And
other things.
Thank you Mr. Tropple.
. "Malemute Slim"
Owen C. Gearhart Sr.,
Camp White, Ore.
Who's Crazy?
To the Editor: Here is an
other reader who would ap
preciate a new record put on
for a change. The editor made
his big mistake when the first
letter was put in print.
What puzzles me now is,
who is crazy? Me for reading
this stuff, he for writing it,
or the editor for printing it?
There is an old saying,
"Great minds run in the same
channels." If that is true, it is
quite possible that minds of
monkeys do too. Who knows?
Bill Breuster,
Box 100,
Trail, Ore.
Three Counties Adopt
New United Effort
Portland -(UPI) The name of
the United Fund is bemg
changed to United Good
Neighbors i n Multnomah,
Clackamas and Washington
counties.
The United Funds of the
three counties adopted the
name change here Tuesday
and agreed to consolidate
campaigning and budgeting.
Officials said this was the first
step toward possible merger
of the three organizations.
from nominating for President
next year its most popular
public figure. This popular
figure is, of course President
Eisenhower.
Ike Now Opposes Repeal
Attorney General William
P. Rogers has informed Con
gress by letter that the ad
ministration opposes repeal of
the ban on third terms. Chair
man Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.),
of the Senate Constitutional
Amendments Subcommittee
remarked that the administra
tion had reversed its position
on this matter.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Leningrad (Russia):
U.S. Vice-President Nixon
said he and Premier Nikita
Khrushchev agreed during
their talks (in Moscow) that
"differences between nations
must be settled AT THE CON
FERENCE TABLE AND NOT
ON THE BATTLEFIED." .
So
He added:
"My message to the people
of Leningrad, from the peo
ple of the United States, is
PEACE FOR ALL THE
WORLD".
M
R. AND Mrs. Nixon and
(Kozlov is the Soviet vice
premier who recently made a
tour of the United States)
flew from Moscow to Lenin
grad in a Russian TU-104 jet
airliner.
They were welcomed by a
crowd of some 1,000 persons,
who gave the Nixons and the
Kozlovs a CORDIAL greeting.
The Nixons were officially
welcomed at the airport by
Chairman I. V. Spiridinov of
the Leningrad committee of
the Communist party, who
said to them:
"Our people want to live
in peace and friendship with
all peoples ESPECIALLY
AMERICANS. I hope your
visit will serve for a better
understanding between Russia
and the American people,
which we all ardently desire
From the bottom of my
heart, WELCOME.'' '
TTMMMMMMMM,
" It sounds (on the surface.
at least) like the celebrated
Nixon-Khrushchev spat might
have had some good results
17ROM Havana:
Fidel Castro, swept back in
to the Cuban premiership, as
expected, by an enormous pop
ular demonstration, served
notice Sunday night that he
will be friends with the United
States ONLY IF THE UNITED
STATES DOESN'T GET IN
HIS WAY.
Well ....
We'll stay out of Castro'i
way IF HE'LL KEEP THE
COMMUNISTS OUT OF
CUBA.
A S ANOTHER Simon Boli-
--var, or another Benito
Juarez, we will WELCOME
Castro.
As ANOTHER . COMMU
NIST such as Ulbrecht in
East Germany we'll have to
be against him. We can't toler
ate communism in the West
ern Hemisphere.
That's about the long and
short of it.
Corps Says Fish
Can Pass New Dam
Portland - (UPD - The 100
foot head of Washington's Ice
Harbor dam is the steepest
of any other dam on the Co
lumbia river but the Army
Corps of Engineers feels mi
grating salmon should pass
over it with the greatest of
ease.
The corps made the predic
tion on the basis of steep lad
der tests during the last three
years conducted at the Bonne
ville dam laboratory by the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice. The fish in the tests showed
a minimum of fatigue in
climbing the steeper fishway.
On the north side of Ice
Harbor's 100-foot head, the
fishway will ascend one foot
for every 10 feet of length as
compared with the normal
ratio of one for 16.
Because the new fish ladder
is steeper, it aiso is snorxer
and will save the' corps at
least $500,000 in construction
costs.
At other Columbia river
dams, migrant fish climb 66
feet at Boneville, 88 feet at
The Dalles and when John
Day dam is finished, the climb
will be 95 feet, still five feet
short of the uphill pull at Ice
Harbor.
The Ice Harbor ladder ex
periment is the first of its
kind, the corps said. The dam
is due for completion in 1962.
Don't NtgLct Slipping
FALSE TEETH
Do Islss teeth drop, slip or wobbls
hen you talk, t, lsugh or sneeatT
Don t be annoyed and embarrassed
S such handicaps. FASTEETH, aa
italine (non-acid) powder to sprin
kle on your plates, keeps false teeth
more firmly set. Glres confident feel,
lng of security and added en-rfors.
No gummy, eooey. nast7 taste r- reel
ing. Get ?ASTHTH today at mom
If so, Eisenhower may have
ordered the reversal because
he had been struck by a terri
fying idea: If the amendment
were repealed quickly he, Ei
senhower, might be eligible
for renomination when the
KepuDiican national conven
tion meets next year. Such
speed would be unlikely, but
it would not be impossible.
So, maybe Ike is taking pre
cautions against a draft. It is
astonishing but not unreason
able to suggest that a man of
Eisenhower's age and medical
history might be summoned
to a third presidential term.
It is astonishing because it
does not make any sense.
Third Term Precedent
But it is not unreasonable
because politics more often
than not do not make any
sense either and, besides, the
precedent would be for Re
publican strategists to run Ike
again if they could. He would
enter the White House for a
third term in his 71st year.
It might kill him? Perhaps
it would. That is the way it
happened to Roosevelt back
there in 1944-45. It is the phy
sicians against the politicians
in the dispute whether insid
ers knew FDR was dying
when he sought and won a
fourth term.
Washington Report'
By WILLIAM
MUSCLE IN DANGER
Washington-Though it may
sound like a stuck needle on
a dull phonograph record, it
is necessary to
report it
again: The
guts of Ameri
c a n foreign
policy, the one
true source
o f American
and Allied
s t r e ngth in
this world, is
in neril of
wwS wasting away.
This is what is commonly
called the foreign aid pro
gram; more exactly, it is the
Mutual Security Program by
which alone the West has been
kept in some kind of collec
tive economic and military
health.
Most of the West, and in a
way the United States most of
all, seems determined to cling
frantically to the. pleasant fic
tion that talking will bring us
safely through with the Rus
sians. Talkingthat is, in mis
sions to and from - Moscow,
and in endless foreign minis
ters' conferences.
THIS kind of talking would
surely be sound if it were
backed up by rising -Western
power. But in the present re
alities, it is largely conversa
tional moonshine. For palav
ering with a ruthless antago
nist has rarely been wise or
safe, unless the peace-lover
had an oiled and loaded shot
gun behind his door.
Our shotgun is the foreign
aid program. It is not yet an
empty and rusted weapon. But
there is great danger that it
soon may become just that,
Congress has now made an
authorization of up to $6.5
billions to carry foreign aid
forward for another year. It
is not a Rood bill. This the
foreign policy leaders of both
narties-and. indeed, the Eisen
hower State Department-weii
know. It is. at best, a tolerable
bill-and at best tolerable only
for the short run.
Inadequate as it is, it yet
must race another obstacle
course: The Congressional Ap
propriations Committees in
due time . will bring out an
entirely separate measure to
provide whatever actual mon
ey is to be provided.
. -
THE story of action thus far
on this matter - and "this
matter" is nothing less than
the muscle rather than the
endlessly talking voice of the
West-is a sad one. It is sad
to all who believe that while
balanced budgets are fine, col
lective security is even better.
It is sad to all who are aware
that not a dozen summits can
keep in the field the military
forces of freedom, whose
strength lies in the economic
SERVING ALL
WHO CALL
Recognized as a leader
in the funeral profes-
C M. Llrwiller
sion, Litwiller's hat served
Constantly striving to bring
and ambulance service at
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chapel
Hwy. 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. -Main
. ASHLAND
We Never Close
The files . relate that just
before the 1944 elections, Vice
Adm. Ross T. Mclntire said
FDR was in good health and
without "organic difficulties
at all" although underweight.
James A. Farley and others
are on public record that it
was widely known among po
litical leaders that Roosevelt
was a dying man when he was
renominated in 1944.
Aide Says FDR Was Dying
Jonathan Daniels, a White
House secretary, wrote that
FDR was dying in 1944 and
that some of his associates
knew it. Henry A. Wallace
was deposed from second
place and Harry S. Truman
subbed with the warning
word that the 1944 convention
was not nominating a vice
president but a President of
the United States.
Edward J. Flynn's Inside
memoirs remarked in 1947
that FDR had slipped mental
ly and physically but that the
group surrounding him were
pressing him to make another
1944 campaign."
The Democratic politicians
wanted to win. ' Republicans
are not much different. And,
it is a fact that Republican
Party political prestige is fad
ing whereas Ike seems to re
main the U. S. favorite son.
S. WHITE
and political power of the
free countries.
For foreign aid's bipartisan
friends in Congress-and fortu
nately there has been no two-
bit partisanship in this-have
again been unable to make
foreign aid a rational, busi
nesslike and long-run enter
prise. For this failure, Presi
dent Eisenhower himself is
most of all to blame. He with
drew from the program's oth
er sponsors his own backing
for the kind of long-term leg
islation he himself first pro
posed two years ago.
He di dthis at the insistence
of his budget advisers, to
"hold the line" against spend
ing and inflation. Now, iron
ically, the President'! own
special Foreign Aid Advisory
Commission has again recom
mended to him just the kind
of long-range financing he has
refused to support.
. -
BUT there have been other
failures, too. The Foreign
Aid Administration has refus
ed in the past to face up to
plain facts. These are that the
program has been far from
perfectly run, that there is
waste in it, and that It will
do nobody any good to go on
denying it and refusing to help
clean up the situation.
The Comptroller General of
the United States, Joseph
Campbell, is surely not anti
foreign aid, and he is surely
not anti -Eisenhower. But
Campbell has officially stated
that a "pattern of loose, lax
administration runs through
the entire complex" of the
program.
The new head of foreign
aid, James Riddleberger, is in
no way to blame for past un
tidiness. But he will need to
act fast and candidly, and bru
tally if necessary, to end it.
The best friends foreign aid
ever nad in (Congress are
themselves not blameless. The
disillusion of men like Sena
tor J. W. Fulbright of Arkan
sas has led them to play a
rather slack, dispirited game.
They need to pull up their
socks, for though it is late,
the great contest is not yet
wholly lost.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
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