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MAIL TRIBUNE, MaJferf, Or. I Sua Jaw. iuant i "Everyone In Southern Orefoa neaaa i no insii i n Dun frubliahed Dnlly except Saturday by 33 North rlr St Ph SP 2-4141 ROBEHT W RtJHL. Editor HERB GRE'y Advertising Manager b&rjtuj LAtnAM, easiness Mgt W AJJUi Jit, Managing Kdrtor . EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAS Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snort Editor OLJVE STARCHES Women' Editor DALB ERiCKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newsnacer Entered a second class matter at Meaiorn uregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai I In Advance. Coot Me Da 11- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily n Sunday 3 moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Ear Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year 818.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c u lerms casn in Advance Official Paper, of City f Medford omeial paper of Jacasoa County United Press International run Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLJDAY CO.. INC. Of- flees In New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Lo Angeles, Seattle, Portland St Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1949 (Tuesday) Gov. and Douglas McKay . are guests of honor at to night's Shakespeare Festival opening. . The forthcoming log buck ing contest at Jacksonville's Gold Rush Jubilee creates great interest. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1939 (Wednesday) Medford City Councilman Thomas Roseberry is welcom ed back to active duty after several weeks' illness. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The tired bank clerks defeated the teamsters last night at softball, and put up a good fight both against their rivals, and my riad members of the insect world, some of which only live three hount and spend that brief span at a softball game." - 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1929 (Friday) A craze for women to wear pajamas on the streets reaches Medford, and causes a con siderable stir. Jacksonville's, post office is moved to a room next to Dor othy's confectionery. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1919 (Saturday) Applegate farmers urge that road work in their district be started at once. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1909 (Monday) The validity of a special court session to hear Med ford's condemnation suit against M. C. Hanley for a water system right of way is upheld. Col. Ray's cow swallows a small pumpkin, but is saved from choking by the judicious use of a mop handle. . Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is suparlar; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Was George Washing ington inaugurated as first President in New York, Phila delphia, or Washington, D.C.? 2. Which agency of the Fed eral Government regulates transportation and sale of nat ural gas in interstate com merce? 3. Which U.S. President was nicknamed "Silent Cal"? 4. It is unlawful in the U.S. to dun a person by postal card; true or false? 5. Fill in the missing word in the English nursery rhyme, "If wishes were , beg gars would ride." 6. Correct the following, "Neither of the boys are com ing to the meeting." 7. Was it Roger Williams, Capt. John Smith, or William Penn, who made the first set tlement in Rhode Island? 8. The father of which for mer Simreme Court Justice wrote "The Wonderful One Hoss Shay? 8. Is "Lassie," ' the movie dog, a Collie or Irish Setter? 10. In 79 A.D., Pompeii, Italy, was buried in the ashes of lava from what volcano? Answers: 1. Kew York. 2. Federal Power Commission. 3. Calvin Coolidge. 4. True. 3. "horses". 6. "Neither of the boys Is . 7 R9r wa liams. 3. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 9., Collie. 10. Vesu vius. 1 It's the Rogue, Charlie fThnrlio Pnrpr tho this district, is a fast man sometimes too fast witn a letter. Not long ago he saw ington Post which, more or less incidentally, said the Rogue river was named because "the roguish Indians living along the stream stole from the pioneers. "That ain't the way in a letter to the editor of H E WENT on: "It seems that the earliest visitors to this wonder ful country were French trappers. They arrived at one of those rare flood times when the water was not sparklingly clear but was muddy, a sort of red. So they called it 'rouge, which in French, as you . may have heard, means 'red.' . ,-. . "Then along came the more or less untutored pio neers who mispronounced 'rouge' by saying 'rogue.' "There may be rogues in Oregon, but this lovely river isn't one of them." ' Tut, tut, Charlie. You who have fished the Kogue. camped be side it, and who are attempting to harness it to man s better purposes, should know better. "YREGON'S foremost thority on the origin tnis state, was Lewis A. McArthur, whose book, "Oregon Geographic Names" should have a place in congressman sorter s iive-ioot sneii. ; McArthur's book says: "On December 20, 1904, Max Pracht wrote a letter to the Oregonian giving a well-known but incorrect version of the origin of the name Rogue River, ascrib ing it to the French word Rouge on account of the alleged red color of the water during flood seasons. This letter was printed in the Oregonian for December 22, 1904, page 11. Harvey W. Scott (the Oregonian's famous editor) wrote a spirited reply to the Pracht letter, giving the real source of sthe name and print ing it on the same page with the communication. The reply is as follows: " 'This is fanciful, purely "so, though the "Rouge" story is old. There would have been reason for calling the Klamath River Rogue River, or Red River; for its waters are much discolored by the marshes of the lake basin which it drains. But Rogue River is one of the clearest of streams, and even in flood its waters are not red. An old French map has been mentioned though no such map is known to be in existence whereon the Klamath and Rogue Rivers are united and called Rouge-Clamet, or Red Klamath. But Rogue River, as an individual stream, has been known by its present name ever since white men first visited the country. Bishop Blanchet's account of the Catholic Church in Oregon says the French were the first to call it by this name. The Indians there were a pecu liarly troublesome lot; "hence," says Blanchet,' "the name 'Les Coquins' (the Rogues) and 'La Riviere aux Coquins' (The Rogue River) was given to the country by the men of the brigade." So far then, is it from the fact, that the Rogue River is a corruption or change from the alleged "Rouge" River of the French. The actual truth is that the French called it Rogue River themselves. Everything is against the assump tion that it once was "Rogue River"-changed by Mis sourians to Rogue River, on the theory that "them French couldn't spell".' McARTHUR gives other evidence, also, dating Company, the log of an dition, and the 1850 charting of the river by the U.S. Coast Survey. It is also interesting called the stream the "Trashit," and that for one year, 1854-55, by act of ture, it was called the Gold River." But Rogue it was. Rogue it is. E.A. Full Circle Bill Tugman, editor weekly Port Umpqua was editor of the Eugene He recalls, in his Reedsport paper, that he lived in Eugene 30 years ago, "when to speak a good word for a tree in heresy. Eugene had ants rid of nearly every tree it was ever thus in ern communities. "Cut down the darn trees," was tne watchword. Make PIE pattern has come increasing numbers, customers, are coming to ap preciate a tree in the downtown area. Jb or the customer it may partake of aesthetics. but for the merchant it's a matter of good business. A recent New -York city council is now considering a bill which would require compulsory tree property owners." This may be just a how things are going. CTUALLY, as the Times says, what is needed is probably encouragement, rather than com pulsion. And it points out that many forward looking merchants in New York are now setting out trees entirely on their own initiative and at their own expense paying $80 to $10.0 each. This is a reminder that Medford is more for tunate than some cities. It has a well-organized voluntary tree-planting program for its residen tial area; it still has many (though ever-fewer) of the magnificent shade trees in the area immedi ately surrounding the core of the downtown sec tion, and, more recently, it has the potted trees on Main street. Perhaps New York can take a tip from us. E.A. alprf. rnncrpssmnn frnm an article in the Wash I hoard it," Charlie said that newspaper. nay, almost only au- of the place names in 1841 United States expe , . to note that the Indians the Territorial Legisla Rogue it has been, and in Trees and publisher of the Courier, for many years Register-Guard. the business area was in its pants 'till it got in 40 blocks. small, fast-growing west way tor progress I full circle. Times reports that the planting bv the city's bit drastic, but it shows Dennis the Menace JUST TAKE A UOK IN rAKT Of HtZ ViHWf Washington Report By WILLIAM HOPE FROM HAWAII Washington-Republicans na tionally are feeling a small but genuine lift in hope in ' the breezes blow- ing in from far Hawaii The GOP pros certainly are not madly dancing in the strleets. But they are not quite so crlnnmir an million, s " white they had been since the roof fell in on them in their party's last test be fore the voters, November's Congressional elections. - For the Republicans are undeniably the net winners from Hawaii's recent election, its first as our new 50th state. True, the Democrats took two of Hawaii's three new places in Congress-its single seat in the House of Representatives and one of its two Senate seats. But the GOP captured the real prize, the governor ship. And Republicans took control of the Hawan State Senate, which will confirm the hundreds of appointments to state judgeships, boards and commissions to be made by the new Republican gov ernor, William F. Quinn. THESE hundreds will form the first entrenched politi cal and bureaucratic strong hold in Hawaii. They wiU be there for a long time; they will be influential for many years to come. So, the Democrats have won most of the honors, but the Republicans have won most of the spoils. Hawaii proves that the Democratic mastery of Congress, which has been evident since 1954, is on a still-rising arc. . There is prac tically no chance, ' looking realistically at the news from Hawaii, for the Republicans to regain either house in 1960. There is, however, an obviously better chance now for the Republicans in next year's struggle for the Presi dency. The party which controls the statehouse nearly always goes into any Fresiaential election in better shape than its opposition. This is so if only because the statehouse normally is the political pow erhouse across the state and more or less controls the hand ing out of jobs, public con tracts and the like. Alaska, the 49th state, went Democratic all the way. But Hawaii has gone Republican where it counts the most. "PUBLICLY, of course, par 's- tisan hurrahs and counter- hurrahs are in much different tones. But all the foregoing is an accurate summary of what politicians here in both parties actually believe, and privately say. What is also privately ad mitted is this: Three or four years ago all concerned thought Hawaii would go practically totally Republican once she became a state. Three or four months ago, all concerned assumed it would go practically totally . Demo cratic. THE probable reason most discussed is that President Eisenhower's . "anti-spending" crusade has done the Repub licans more good than most ever thought it would. In con fidence, several Democrats concede that it looks that way. One authentically partisan and liberal Democrat, Sen. Richard Neuberger of Oregon, concedes it out loud. Neuberger's view may well be conditioned by the fact he is supporting the President onvone of his pay-as-you-go demands, a rise in the gaso line tax to help pay for the national highway building program. Neuberger, in one sense, is a "spender" and doesn't deny it. But he is also a "taxer," and ha doesn't deny j &! IT'S THE PlOTeST , S. WHITE that, either. He says the bulk of his fel low Democrats are fooling themselves if they believe the President is not making some headway in picturing the Democrats as a little reckless with money. His evidence? His mail is running four to one in favor of-rather than against, as might be supposed -a gasoline tax increase. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What to talk about today? Let's talk about WORDS. That thought is prompted by the fact that up to the time this is written the news today is JUST WORDS - words put together . to fill space so that we who make newspapers may have something to . fill them with. HOW about SERENDIPITY? It's a word that has bad quite a bit of play in these parts here in the dog days, when there isn't much of moment to write about. IT WAS sprung first locally by Bob Chandler, of the Bend Bulletin. It was picked up and given a whirl by the Eugene Register-Guard, which mentioned several recent users of it - among them Sen ator Richard Neuberger of Oregon. Senator Neuberger, back in Washington, spotted it and explains in a letter to this writer: "I have read with interest and profit your recent column about 'serendipity. I believe the word was originated by Sir Horace Walpole. He took it from a famous old proverb about the three migratory prmces of ancient Serendip, which was Ceylon. Wherever they went, they had a happy faculty of making auspicious discoveries, always by acci dent. "I applied the word to my own ordeal with cancer be cause this entire experience frightening as it has been-has helped me to become a more effective and influential ad vocate of the medical research which is needed to save so many human lives. I thought the beginnings of the word might interest you." CHARLEY S PR AGUE'S Salem Statesman wasn't caught napping. It, too, was aware that the comer of ser endipity" was Sir Horace Wal pole, fourth Earl of Orford, who lived and wrote back in the 1700's. Incidentally, in his "little Gothic castle," as he described his residence at Strawberry Hill in Twicken ham, he set up a printing press on which he printed several of his own works. That's one way to get books published The Statesman adds: "The word really fits edi tors who often stumble un expectedly on ideas that make good grist for their Under wood mills. Walpole's corned word, however,- seems to us a good example of what Herbert Spencer in his essay on Style calls the 'immense pomposity of sesquipedalian verbiage." TJMMMMM. Another form of what Herbert Spencer so aptly terms "sesquipedalian verbi age" is what is coming to be called EDITORIALESE, which is a form of written speech that sounds pretty, like the tinkling of a brook, but car ries no punch. When a newspaper writer falls into the use of editor- ialese, it's about time to send him to the showe-s. 0CTAVUS ROY" COHEN, whose un-Walpolian and un-Spencerian style was far from editorialese, was fond of having one of his down-to-earth characters retort scorn fully to another character who was indulging in high- flown language: "You says words, but they don't mean nuffin'." Matter of Fact THE ROCKEFELLER CANDIDACY New York - Former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, State Chairman Judson Morehouse, and Republi can National C o m m i ttee m a n George Hinman are advising Gov. Nelson Rocke feller to get out and work more actively for the Re- 4os.pb aisop puDiican pres idential nomination-of course without becoming an avowed candidate. It will be' a political devel opment of the first order, if Governor Rockefeller takes the advice of these other lead ing New York Republicans. They want him to abandon his self-imposed rule against appearances outside his own state, and to make a series of speeches in other key states during the autumn months. The purpose, inevitably, is to stimulate stronger support for a Rockefeller candidacy. It is already political news of considerable significance that former Governor Dewey is among those who have prof fered this advice to Governor Rockefeller. Whether Rocke feller sought the advice, or Dewey volunteered it, is not known. But in either case, by the simple act of giving such advice, Dewey would appear to have made what amounts to a commitment. A Dewey commitment to Rockefeller has much poten tial importance, in turn, be cause of the former Governor's intimate knowledge of the Re p u b 1 i can organizations all across -the country, and his wide net of connections with party leaders in other states. Given the fact that Dewey is a New Yorker, the thing was probably inevitable. But be fore the great surprise of Rockefeller's election to the Governorship, Dewey was quite solidly committed to the rival candidacy of Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon. Indeed, Nixon was counting heavily on Dewey to help organize his pre-convention campaign. Behind the advice given to Rockefeller by Dewey and the others,, there is the following rather simple reasoning. FIRST, Vice President Nixon is already as close as any man can be at this stage, to having the nomination really sewed up. Second, however, Nixon's apparently impregnable posi tion is. still very vulnerable, because of the exceptionally poor showing of the Republi cans in the public opinion polls. The i allup poll has just given a Democratic ticket composed of Adlai Stevenson and Sen. John F. Kennedy a whopping 56 per cent of the vote, against a .Republican ticket composed of Nixon and Rockefeller. But this is only -one example. More such bad news, and worse news, is ex pected. Third, Rockefeller is at pres Ml Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of th writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often th cae. Lights and Tusic To the Editor: Thank you so much for your title line to my letter upon Congress man Porter's "Tram Lift" idea. Naturally, there are many, many additions which could be added, and I would suspect yours would be a good contender with the best of them all, "Tram Lift". By the by, what colored neons" would you prefer, and how about 'heavenly music'? Heavy landing, but lucky. Fee C. Esteb, P.O. Box 1413, Medford She's Appreciative To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the wonderful peo ple of the Rogue Valley, and my sponsor, Mark Norton of Norton's Lumber Co., and his fine staff, who so graciously supported me during my can didacy for queen of the Gold Rush Jubilee. It was a wonderful experi ence and something I will cherish always. Thank you one and all. Only because of your generosity I can say in years to come, "I was one of the four princesses of the Gold Rush Jubilee in 1959." Barbara Gysin, (Phoenix High School) Route 3, Box 198, Medford Show 'Em Our Smoke To the Editor: That was an excellent series on air pollu tion by Allen Long and I hope it may stimulate some local action. The county court has decreed that voluntary rather than enforced control is to be the means this county will pursue. After listening to the woes of the producers of the obnoxious stuff I concede they Bv Joseph Alsop ent unable to exploit Nixon's weakness in the polls because he has done no better himself. Through the spring and early summer, his showing was even worse than Nixon's - a fact of which the Nixon high com mand has made much. Yet Rockefeller has the power to change his own standing in the polls very greatly, by showing his remarkable cam paigning talents to the country at large. What is wanted, in fact, is half an issue of "Life" magazine, full of pictures of Rockefeller engulfed by his admirers, with some such headline as: "Rocky Wows Them in Dubuque." Fourth, if Rockefeller can draw ahead in the polls in this manner, he will at once be able to use the "Nixon-can't-win" slogan, which he is now barred from using. A rise of a few percentage points will be enough for his purposes, even if he still runs well be hind the Democrat s; for Rockefeller can also point out how he came from behind to defeat Averell Harriman. Fifth, Rockefeller must act soon, because it will be too late if he waits to take this kind of action until after the New York Legislature meets next January. If Rockefeller sticks to his original time schedule, in fact, Nixon's posi tion wUl become too strong to challenge, whatever the polls may say. SUCH is the reasoning to which the New York Gov ernor has been lending a far from inattentive ear. As po litical analysis, it is hard to challenge. Indeed, it is also the analysis of the intimate group of Nixon strategists. They make no secret of their belief that their man's rival can dramatically strengthen his position by a little cross country "bloviating," as War ren G. Harding used to call it. The difficulty is to find a pretext for this bloviating and baby-kissing, after Governor Rockefeller has said so much about keeping his i.ose to the New York State grindstone. In American politics, the conven tions governing these matters are as powerful as they are illogical. Some way for Rocke feller; to observe the conven tions, yet to get out and speak, has yet to be found. But finding a way to do this should not be overly difficult, since the sort of effort that is being considered is reaUy modest. If he decides in favor of an active policy, the Gov ernor will merely make a small - number of speeches, spaced out in time, as strategic points outside his own state. The forthcoming Governors' Conference could quite easily afford the necessary pretexts for this kind of speaking pro- cram. As yet, Governor Rockefel ler's decision is impossible to forecast. " He keeps insisting, "I'm relaxed, I'm completely relaxed." But if he takes the stump in October, it wttl not be at all surprising. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. " : have their problems of waste disposal. The daily , "open" burning of sawdust on Sage Road with its smoke wafting over the city was explained as a temporary measure cre ated by an emergency. As a newcomer to the area I can only judge by the observation of the daily burning for the past few months. My neigh bors inform me the so-called "emergency" has been going on for at least seven years. If voluntary measures are to be the order of the day I submit that one way to help both the polluters and the polluted is to engage the as sistance of the U.S. Weather Bureau which can predict from meteorological informa tion well in advance of a pe riod of air inversion. During this period there would be a temporary ban on open burning as well as incinerator burning in other than approv ed smokeless types. As tem perature inversion is normal ly not a continuing thing, burning would be resumed when deemed appropriate by the weather bureau staff. Tempertaure inversion, the one thing we cannot control is normally cyclic, which will work in our favor. This plan is simple, incurs little or no cost other than enforcement, and yet enables the lumber industry to dispose of its waste without undue annoy ance to the local populace. As a means of information as to when a ban is and is not in effect, liaison of each radio station with the weather bureau announcing through out the day, along with a forecast of the time the ban wUl be lifted, would allow planning and preparation to resume burning. - How unfortunate we are that wt must wait until life POTHUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) "If Patrick Henry thought taxation without represen tation was bad," comments a cynic, "he ought to see it WITH representation." We had something to say in this space not long ago about horse-cars. And in our own maundering way we added some observations about street cars. Now street cars are with us again. At least we think they're street cars, although we have a sneaking suspicion that they're really cars au tomobiles, that is that are usually driven on the street Anyway, they come to us in the form of an article from the Southern Oregon Timing Association, the respected "hot-rod" organization here which, in telling about a new classification of racing cars, says: It "will be for all hopped up street cars ..." Since the next sentence re fers to "Ford flat-heads" (pre sumably with no reference to the personnel of Crater Lake Motors) we assume that the street cars do not, after all, run on rails. But one notes that all of them must have "360 degree safety shield around the bell housing just as any other gas machine." Well, our gas machine doesn't. We're not even sure if it has a bell housing what ever that is. ( We keep insisting that some of the most vivid re porting these days is done by the young 4-H reporters who submit news to the pa per. Like the frank report the other day about a meet ing out of doors, where much of the time was spent "cooking over an open fire. : . washing dishes in cold wa ter, swimming, hiking and , sun burning." - . There were two apparently unrelated stories in the paper the other day. : , . On page one an article re ported how the laying of some 10,000 square feet of carpet ing is progressing at the new Sears Roebuck store. ; On another page there was a story about police searching for a quantity of carpeting and limb are at stake before we are prompted into action If the orderly growth: of this community and its environs is to continue, some respite from this problem must be found in other ways than a five year plan whose goal is so vague as to offer doubtful definitive improvements. - The prevailing wind being from the north we could blow the stuff when the lid is off right down to California, and that's a good place for it They at least are trying to lick the problem. Let's show them our smoke, both figuratively and literally. " Ray Lamberg, - Route 2, Box 420-K, Medford Feature Corrected To the Editor: Elsie Hix, in "Strange as it Seems,-" had better get her facts straight. In the Mail Tribune July 28, it said, " "A rattlesnake will not pursue a person who is outside its striking range." Well, that is an outright falsehood. When a rattlesnake is blind, it will chase a per son from as much as 30 feet away, just by sound. Then again, I have been struck at and missed, because T was too far away for it to reach. caU that being pursued when out of range. Wrong statement No. 2: About the gold dust window. Mostly the facts are right, but the name of" the bank is the Grants Pass branch of the First National Bank of Ore gon, not Portland. Clyde Melvin, Box 263, Prospect, Ore. Try and By BENNETT CERF- CASKIE STINNETT once let his old boxer dog, Punchy, share a bedroom with him aboard the Chicago-bound Broadway Limited. The Pullman conductor took a dim view of the pro ceedings. "Keep your door : tightly closed," he said, "so that dog doesn't wander down the corridor. She might bite somebody." "She doesn't bite," ob served Caskie haughtily. "She's got teeth, hasn't she?" countered the con ductor. Only after he had shut the door did Caskie realize he should have an swered, "So have you." Next morning, as he left the train, Caskie spotted a Pullman conductor and de cided to redeem himself. Fixing the conductor with a level gaze, he snapped, "So have you!" The conductor looked blank. Stinnett decided later it was a different conductor. Chartes King complains that one thing that never turns out as you think it should is the automobile in front of you. - C He. 7 ajU Cetf. Distributed b Kins Fsaiores Sradicatt. which had been -stolen from the Medford hotel. Hmmmm? , After a few days of 80-' some-degree respite last week, the heat returned Thursday, Friday and yester day. Which reminds us that the week before, during the earlier hot spell, one of our reporters was vacationing along the coast, and told us later that it was so chilly he had to return to Medford to get out of the cold. Not only has there been heat, but there was one (rela tively) chiUy morning on the floor of the valley. It was on ruesday. But that was nothine reallv Our correspondent informs us mat wniie union Creek resort recently had 100-de?ree weather, on Tuesday water pipes were frozen at Diamond lake, flowers were ruined in many yards in Prospect, and tnere were lawns covered with ice where sprinklers had been running all night. Note, left by a mother for a daughter (who'd been feel ing badly the night before): "Jean clean your room aft er you feel better if you feel bad." Dirn it! We found a story In the pa per last week with a couple of real fine typographical er rors, and, gloating slightly, we said to ourself this time we'd beat that man in Phoe nix in commenting on it. But, inevitably, the next day brought the usual, neat ly-typed envelope, and the in evitable clipping plus com ment. The headline was written to say "Paris' Follies To Appear in Las Vegas." What it said when it came out in the pa per was "Paris' Fillies to Ap pear in Las Vegas." And the body of the' story referred to the 50 chorus girls as "lovelies," only it came out livelies. 1 So, rather sadly, we record the remarks from Phoenix, as follows: "Here's this one that some body horsed around with. Maybe he or she assumed that equines were involved be cause the show is to run indefi nitely. Incidentally, they do have to be lively to do that, don't they?" " As we said, "Darn it!" ..' We once traded a bag of marbles for a pocket knife, and thought we were smart. But Evalyn Watson, our Shady Cove correspondent. records the doings of Max Wopschall, who lives near He-Haw hill on the Crater Lake highway. " Here is her report: "Onetrade Max made re cently started out with $45 worth of tile he traded sight unseen for a horse which waf out at pasture. When it wat finally located after three weeks on a high meadow, it had a colt. The two were traded for a gentle child's po ny, the pony for a Jenny bur ro, the Jenny for a stock sad dle, the. saddle for a hereford heifer, and now he'd like to trade the heifer for a nice 2-year-old colt or a good pack horse." She also says Max once traded a half a pig for a rifle, a sow and piglets for a power saw, and a logging harness for two geese. City employees recently were a bit excited about a record-high attendance at the municipal swimming pool-or at least they were until an M-T reporter track ed down the fact that the big figure resulted when someone had added the number of gallons of oil used in the heating plant to the number of swimmers that day. Stop Me
