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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
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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.
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