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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of Tht
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
tnd 50 years ago.
,10 YEARS AGO
;Aug. 16, 1949 (Tuesday)
' A man and woman are to
Jappear in Medlord municipal
, court today to answer the first
;two jay -walking citations in
the city's newly - launched
Jcrack-down on that offense.
. Sixty acres ate burned by
"two fires in the Foots creek
district said to bethe work
"of a firebug.
20 YEARS AGO
.Aug. 16, 1939 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
'cotes to abandon the old Jack
sonville railroad right-of-way
rbetween the Medford and
.Jacksonville city limits.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
' Smudge Pot" column (writ by
Fletcher T. Fish, of Phoenix):
"Twenty-one consecutive days
I running concurrently, with
. the temperature running
above 100 degrees had sweat
running down the necks of
'fishermen running for the riv
er which is still running to the
ocean, though feebly."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 18, 1929 (Friday)
: The Medford airport is to be
;ready for all planes within 10
days. .
The county picnic is to be
theld at the Elks grounds Labor
"Day.
"40 YEARS AGO
:Aug. 16, 1919 (Saturday)
' The Medford youths who
swiped mileposts on the road
to Oregon Caves are forced to
put them back.
, More workers are needed to
harvest the pear crop here.
50 YEARS AGO
:Aug. 16, 1909 (Monday)
. Jack True with a 16-man
crew is improving the road
from Central Point to Bybee
bridge via Agate.
A total of 2,000 persons
have visited Crater Lake so
"far this year.
Yhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excciiem; trve ea
sis is good.
1. Unscramble the following
.'names of States - Thadotak-
,ron, Danidroshel.
2 What river ' forms the
boundary between Ohio and
.Kentucky?
- 3. Does an average child, six
years old, measure about 34,
44, 54, or 64 inches in height?
4. Name the man recently
'rejected by the U. S. Senate
.as Secretary of Commerce?
' 5. Into what body of water
"does the Jordan River empty?
. 6. What sort of animal is a
"Kerry Blue"?
: ,7. Which of these is the
Jeast used letter of the English
Alphabet - z, n, x, or q?
8. Is the Atlantic terminus
tf the Panama Canal east, or
west of the Pacific terminus?
. 9. The Comptroller General
"fit the U. S. heads the GA.O.;
what is the GA.O.?
10. To what does the term
"Fulton's Folly" refer in
American history?
Answers: 1. North Dakota,
.Rhode Island. 2. Ohio river.
3. Afc-oui 44 inches. 4. Lewis
L. Strauss. 5. Dead Sea. 6,
Dog. 7. s. 8. West. 9. General
Accounting Office 10. First
sitajnbeat - CMraeau
What to Show Khmsh? 1
Upon his arrival in the United States Sept,
15, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev will
spend three days in Washington and .another 10
days on a tour of the country."
What do we show Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev? To some extent the Soviet Commu
nist party boss has answered the question for us:
we snow him what he wants to see. It is known
he has made certain. definite specifications. He
wants to visit Washington, naturally, and New
York, Chicago and San Francisco always a fa
vorite with foreign visitors.
Less specifically, he wants to go to Califor
nia, Texas, Florida, and some farm state in the
Middle West. And he would like to see some
thing of small town life say President Eisen
hower's boyhood home of Abilene, Kansas.
Other stops on the itinerary will be worked
out between the State department and the Soviet
embassy in Washington. So many invitations
have been tendered that this intrinsically un
wanted guest begins to appear a social lion. Foy
D. Kohler, the veteran Foreign Service officer
given the job of "coordinator" of Khrushchev's
tour, is scarcely to be envied.
IfHRUSHCHEV'S desire to see an example of
American agriculture could well be satisfied
by an invitation to the Coon Rapids, Iowa, farm
of Roswell Garst, who has twice visited Soviet
Russia and says of Khrushchev, "It's his turn to
come to our house." The Soviet Premier will see
America's farms at their booming best, despite
the brakes of government controls. He will see
lush fields of high-yielding corn, cattle at a rec
ord peak in numbers, hog production at a peace
time high, bins crammed full of surplus corn, the
most highly mechanized grain harvest in the
world.
Khrushchev also wants to see U.S. industry,
and the State department is considering two of
the nation's heaviest industrial complexes, the
Pittsburgh and Detroit areas. Here again he will
see capitalism booming, with industrial produc
tion at a new peak at mid-year 65 per cent
greater than the average of the three years im
mediately prior to the.Korean war. A settlement
of the steel strike would make a welcome addi
tion to the picture of overall prosperity.
What might, indeed,
shchev would be a flight over one of our great
industrial areas, with thousands and thousands
of automobiles workers automobiles packed
tightly inside plant parking lots.
Secretary of Defense
on Aug. 6 that he was eager to show the Soviet
premier some U.S. bomber bases and missile test
centers to inform" him of the nation's military
capabilities. But Khrushchev already has indi
cated that he has no interest in visiting bases.
INVITATIONS continue
lets, from villages, and from counties as well
as from cities, many of
Commerce inspired bv
plea has been made by Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger (D-Ore.) that Khrushchev be shown
tne gentler, more compassionate, and more hu
man side of America."
Neuberger says he
leader would be more moved by American school
children or by an American seeking an answer
to the grim riddle of cancer than by a "pano
rama of American weapons and factories." To
those suggestions could be added many other
kinds of individuals and groups who make up
j; it xi .
uur inverse society iaDor unions in uie meeting
hall, Granges, PTA's, college students in the
healthy frenzy of a football rally. The list is end
less; only the brevity of Khrushchev's time here
imposes the discipline of selectivity. E.R.R.
Tito and National Communism
The 10th anniversary today of the diplomatic
break between Yugoslavia and the USSR finds
Tito still very much the Fallen Angel of a Com
munist "Paradise Lost."
Tito's initial crime was dissent from Stalin
ism, but Titoism quickly became the heresy of
national communism. For a time after Stalin died
it looked as if Tito might be brought back into
liie fold. Thai was during, the halcyon "separate
roads to socialism" days of 1955-56. Then came
the Poznan riots and the Hungarian slaughter,
and Tito once again was consigned to outer dark
ness. , -
MOW the process may
than a month ago, during a visit to Poland,
Premier Khrushchev told the Plawace Collective
near Poznan : "Every nation has the right to act
according to its national characteristics, customs
and social peculiarities."
In Red China, too, there appears to be a sec-
uu cuiiening up m prospect, in June, rao unu,
Communist leader in Kwangtung province,
swung back toward the discredited "hundred
flowers" doctrine, saying: "We should allow
everyone to air his views freely as long as the
views are based on the spirit of promoting Social
ist construction."
Yugoslav and Hungarian experience, .how
ever, suggest that the bloom of tolerance withers
with the first frost There is still no reason for
discarding Joseph Schumpeter's incisive obser
vation, in "Capitalism, Socialism and Democra
cy," that "The religious qua'dty of Marxism . . .
explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox
Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any be-
ucve. m a miw, uie opponeni is not merely, in
error but in sin." E.R.R. .
most impress Khru
Neil H. McElrov said
to come in from ham
them from Chambers of
local Dride. At least one
believes the Communist
be repeating itself. Less
Dennis the
Airmail! W He wasn't 6vbm NURBW?
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
The President's Adventure
In less than two weeks the
President will be off to Eu
rope, on the first stage of
an extraordi
nary adven
ture in person
al diplomacy.
We have seen
no such dis
play of energy
and initiative
since the ear
ly days of his
first adminis
tration. For
Walter
Lippmann
years the present Eisenhower
has been quiescent, as it were
submerged. But what we see
now is not a new Eisenhower.
This is the old authentic Ei
senhower with his liking for
large gestures which sweep
aside the concrete details that
more worldly statesmen and
professional diplomats worry
about.
This authentic Eisenhower
has for years been throttled
down by diffidence, by a lack
of confidence in his own polit
ical know-how, by his illness
es with their aftermath in a
kind of regulated invalidism,
and by the authority of his
advisors. The worid has been
surprised now because he
looks so well, because he is
so active, and because he so
much enjoys being on his
own. No doubt he is himself
as agreeably surprised as are
the rest of us.
But this is by far the most
difficult task he has ever un
dertaken. At Gettysburg yes
terday he did his best to play
it down and make it seem un
important. But he cannot
make the exchange of visits
unimportant in fact. They
mark a new phase of the cold
war, and he is the central
figure of the drama. He will
not have an easy time.
AS SUPREME Commander
during thi World War ht
had to work with a coalition
of. allies and their strong-mind
ed generals. But it was war
time and his bosses were
Churchill and Roosevelt. Now,
he is the leading figure in a
coalition composed of .nations
which have many, often di
vergent, purposes besides
wanting to win the cold war.
However, he is not dealing
with a suicidal maniac like
Hitler but with a practical
politician of great resourceful
ness who is operating from a
powerful ideological and an
enormous material base.
The problems which the
President has now undertaken
to discuss with our allies and
with our adversary arise out
of confrontation of vital in
terests. There could be no
greater illusion than to sup
pose that these problems can
be solved by the techniques of
public relations, of advertis
ing, of propaganda, or of elec
tioneering, yet it is discon
certing to see how many there
are among us who think that
if only Khrushchev sees with
his own eyes our skyscrapers,
and how many automobiles
there are to make traffic jams
in our streets, and all the
things that can be bought in
shops, and what large factories
we have, he will be so im
pressed that he wUl give in
to us on West Berlin, German
reunification, Formosa, Korea,
and what not. v
e
NOR SHOULD we imagine
that Mr. K. does not know
about the military power of
the United States, that he does
not know that if he seized
Berlin, there would be a war.
Mr. K. has no doubt many il
lusions atout who pulls tne
strings inside the United Stat
es. But his illusions do not ob
scure the fact that the United
States is a great military pow
er and that it is quite capable
of being provoked into be
coming fighting mad.
Soviet foreign policy is not,
I believe, based on the notion
I that if we art threatened with
Menace
C5rd
Uppmann
war, we will give in and give
up. Soviet policy is based, as
I understand it, on the calcu
lations of what is possible by
measures that are short of
war-on measures that, while
they are politically effective,
need not be imposed by war
and cannot be resisted by war.
VlfHAT we need in West Ber
" " lin is a new agreement
which guarantees the security
of West Berlin. But we do not
know whether such an agree
ment can be obtained and, if
so, at what price. There is no
public evidence that Mr. Gro
myko ever answered these
questions at Geneva. What we
do know is that if a new
agreement can be had, the
price will surely capitalize up
on the obvious strategic in
feriority of the West in rela
tion to West Berlin. The price
will, therefore, be higher than
Dr. Adenauer, who has thus
far controlled Western policy
about Germany, has ever been
willing to agree to.
The President will be in
Bonn for a day and that is
much too short a time to work
out with Dr. Adenauer a ne
gotiable position on Germany.
This will make it difficult for
the President to enter into se
rious talks about Germany
when Mr. K. comes to Wash
ington. If the President has
to talk from the same brief
that Secretary Herter had at
Geneva, the German problem
will remain frozen. '
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
TICKING PACKAGE
Washington - Nikita Khru
shchev's forthcoming journey
here is being approached by
most elected
p o 1 iticians as
though it were
a ticking pack
age arriving in
the mail with
foreign writ
ing on the
wrapper.
True, some
powerful men
WwwS' " in both the
Senate and House have un
hesitatingly welcomed this
new cold, war diplomacy.
These for the most part, how
ever, have been in two cate
gories: (1) Those who felt that
their positions, or sense of
public responsibility, simply
required them to back Presi
dent Eisenhower in this enter
prise. (2) Those whose consti
tuents include no overwhelm
ing numbers of the nationality
groups, primarily the Poles,
which have most suffered
from Soviet tyranny.
It is true, too, that Vice
President Richard Nixon's
part in arranging the Soviet
Premier's exchange, of visits
with Mr Eisenhower is look
ed upon as a brilliant political
strike, certainly for the short
run. As of now he has meas
urably improved his chances
for the 1960 Presidential
nomination. But the real con
sensus among the pros has
another and a little-known
side. This that Mr. Nixon has
taken the greatest risk ever
run by a Presidential aspirant
in tying himself so closely to
high-level cold war conversa
tions he can never for a mo
ment shape or control.
THE Vice President himself,
this correspondent can tes
tify, was aware of at least
a great element of risk before
he went to Moscow.
The ' real responsibility, of
course, is the President's. But
Mr. Eisenhower is leaving of
fice. If things go wrong it
will be the man nominated to
succeed ' him who must bear
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
More on the Khrushchev Visit
Washington-The President's
invitation to Nikita S. Khrush
chev is such a great event
that every ex
planatory de
tail has true
historic inter
e s t. Here,
then, is anoth
er w e 1 1-a u
thenticated in
stallment o f
the back
ground story.
loi-pb Alsop f res laeni
Eisenhower himself, it can
now be stated, was the first
to think favorably of a visit
by .the Soviet leader. He had
of course known for many
months that Khrushchev want
ed a personal meeting with
him. He seems to have become
inclined to give Khrushchev
what he wanted rather early
in the Berlin "crisis.
The idea of a Khrushchev
visit was very much in the
President's mind, at any rate,
long before the tragic death
of former Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles. After Dul
les had retired from the State
Department, but when he was
stiU well enough to give ad
vice and counsel, the Presi
dent talked to him more than
once about the desirability of
inviting Khrushchev.
Dulles was properly con
scious that final responsibility
had passed to Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter. He
refrained from taking an ex
treme position. Yet he always
disliked summit meetings of
any sort, and he particularly
disliked the kind of two-man
summit that is now to occur.
The plain truth Is that he
thought the President alto
gether too good and high
minded for face-to-face nego
tiations with the crafty and
unscrupulous Khrus hchev.
Hence Dulles gently but rath
er firmly discouraged 1 the
President from asking Khrush
chev to visit this country.
PERHAPS Khrushchev
would not now be coming
to America if Dulles were still
here to function as the Presi
dent's special advisor. Yet it
seems more probable that Dul
les would have responded, as
Secretary Herter responded,
to the subsequent develop
ment of the problem. Herter
had concurred with Dulles' ad
vice to the President, when
this advice was given. He was
forced to change his mind by
events.
- To be specific, H e r t e rs
mind was changed by the in
terminable first round of the
Foreign Ministers' meeting at
Geneva. As will be recalled,
this was advertised as the pre
lude to the larger, more for
mal type of summit meeting
that -was held in 1954. But
Dulles, and Herter after him,
had repeatedly laid down the
rigid condition that the For
eign Ministers must provide
"justification," before the
President could take the sum
mit road. And instead of of
S. WHITE
the heat. And if this nominee
is Richard Nixon he will be
wholly unable to avoid the
consequences. He is associated
both with the decision to deal
with Mr. Khrushchev and the
arrangements that brought the
visit about.
Even those politicians who
believe we simply had to
break . the ice with the Rus
sians are just as happy that
they were not the ones to
break it. For they remember
two facts of life. One is that
the public may first strongly
cry support for a bold and
dangerous foreign policy and
in a moment turn bitterly
upon the leaders who did
what the public first wanted.
ANOTHER is that no real
or alleged political sin has
been punished so savagely as
the sin of being "wrong" in
world affairs. No one could
have believed it after the op
position had turned its guns
upon "Truman's war." But
Congress almost unanimously
approved when President Tru
man first sent forces into Ko
rea. So did the public, as the
Congressional mail of that pe
riod made plain.
But later, when the casualty
lists began to mount and the
war to widen, all this changed.
The Democratic' party itself
was then repudiated. So, too,
of course, was Mr. Truman
who was leaving office then,
as Mr. Eisenhower is now'. But
so, too, was ! Mr. Truman's
nominated successor, Adlai E.
Stevenson.
Again, Franklin Roosevelt's
Yalta meeting with Josef
Stalin was not widely de
nounced at the time. But in
that meeting-and it, too, was
an effort to "get along with
the Soviets"-some nationality
groups became convinced that
they had been betrayed. Pri
marily, it was, again, the
Poles, whose gallantry in the
war was exceeded only by
their incredible sufferings as
a people.
?OREIGN policy is a thou-
gind times trickier for
fering "justifying" concessions
at Geneva, Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko
stonewalled from start to fin
ish. . a
MACMILLAN had always
insisted that the Western
nations could not proceed to
the final, terrible test of will
and strength over Berlin, with
out one last attempt to find
a way out at the summit. Ber
lin could not go along, he had
said, if war was to be risked
without first trying what talk
could achieve. Therefore Sec
retary Herter, having little
hope of further progress by
the Foreign Ministers, was
forced to make one of three
choices:
First, he could prepare to go
it alone on Berlin, defying
Khrushchev on Berlin without
the support of Britain.
Second, he could prepare to
eat his own words about the
need for "justification," and
then satisfy Macmillan and
Khrushchev too, by consent
ing to a ; 1954-style summit
conference.
Or third, he could find an
other way out, which escaped
the danger of the first choice
and the humiliation of the sec
ond. Since an informal, two-
man summit had not been
considered except by the
President, it had not been
hedged about with require
ments for "justification." It
could even be presented as a
kind of joUy week end party.
It was the best way out, and
the President, already inclin
ed to invite Khrushchev, took
this way out as soon as Sec
retary Herter advised it.
TJERTER further decided to
make an empty .exercise of
the second round at Geneva,
by sending the President's in
vitation to Moscow before the
Foreign Ministers reassem
bled. The purpose was to avoid
the appearance of inviting
Khrushchev in panic and un
der duress, when the second
round was breaking up in
failure. This decision was
shortly justified, when Prime
Minister Macmillan began
pressing Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd to sponsor an
"interim agreement" on Ber
lin that was as full of holes
as a colander.
It was only at this point,
finally, that Herter told the
other allies that -Khrushchev
would probably be coming to
Washington. Contrary to pre
vious report, they had not
been consulted in advance;
but they approved the action
taken with varying measures
of good grace. Like Herter,
they had no better alternative.
' (c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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On Saving Time
To the Editor: I note in
your editorial for this evening
that we the people must vote
on "Daylight Saving Time"
(better expressed as Confusion
Time or Fools Time). -
It seems the proponents of
said "Daylight Saving Time"
haven't the intelligence to
understand from the ballot
count of past elections that
the majority of us prefer to
leave things as they are.
I've been told by some pro
ponents that by using "Day
light Saving Time" that they
get more daylight. Of all the
idiotic nonsense! There are
exactly 24 hours in one day,
no more, no less. If the lazy
so and so's want more day
light they need only turn the
alarm back and forget about
that extra "40 winks."
Personally I intend to leave
the clock alone.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star Route
Butte Falls, Ore.
American politicians than any
and all domestic issues. For
in this melting-pot country the
wishes of go-called "minority
groups" are properly heard
and necessarily heard, too, if
only for strictly political rea
sons, by those at the top.
This is not to suggest that
this should not be so; on the
contrary. A moving personal
wartime memory is of friends
in an all-Polish armored divi
sion attached to the Canadian
First Army. The Poles fought
with incomparable , courage
and with incomparable lack
of reason even to go on living.
Among them were men who
had had no single word in
five years of those they had
loved and forever lost in
Poland.
So it is that the large and
general public is stirred at the
approach to these shores of
Nikita Khrushchev. This is
understandable and perhaps,
it is hoped, well-founded. But
this new road of diplomacy
is a road of immense danger
-not solely of immense oppor
tunity, should all go well-to
every politician whose foot is
Dlaced unon it.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
m If a. V
Feature Syndicate, IncJ
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Piano playing has its ups
and downs in places other
than the score sheet.
Last week a tunesmith at
one of the nicer liquid librar
ies in town got up and left his
piano-bar to the two sports
fans whose chatter about base
ball finally drowned out his
music. -
He returned shortly and sat
down but once again his songs
couldn't be heard over the,
conversation about who'U win
the pennant, so he got up a
second time.
The next time he sat down
be laid it on the line.
"Look, gentlemen," he said.
"One of us wUl "have to stop
making noise. Can't I enter
tain you with a request?"
"Sure!" came the inspired
answer. "Can you play 'Take
Me Out to the BaU Game?' '
Whoops, there he goes
again.
:
A local theater by gro
tesque coincidence last week
was showing a move that
began with a gigantic, big
ger - than - life, technicolor
forest fire. .
We left after the first
scene, partly because the
movie gave promise of be
coming a cinemonstrosity
(as Time magasine would
say) but mainly because we
had the real thing just down
the road a piece.
..
Or, as we heard someone
remark, "Now you know why
they call it Ash-land."
.
A local attorney, we're
told, was chatting with an
incorrigible punster.
After a lengthy exposi
tion by the attorney, said
punster asked, "I notice you
used both the words "un
lawful and 'illegal What's
the difference?"
"Oh. there 'is none" the
attorney said. "I was using
them to mean the , same
thing'
"That's funny." said the
punster. "I always thought
that 'unlawful meant
'against the law' but that an
illegal was a sick bird.
And we always thought that
a sick bird was a tern for the
worse.
And turning to verse, we
present a poem with a mor
al (with apologies to Joyce
. Kilmer):
the name and address of. the writer
mt cae.
Disgusting Habit
To the Editor: We were
glad to see an expression from
some one come out against
the disgusting and dangerous
habit of some of our curiosity
strickened citizens, as voiced
in Mr.. von der Hellen's let
ter of Aug. 11.
His letter concerning the re
cent disastrous fire in the
Ashland vicinity, and the
trouble wrought by curious
onlookers blocking traffic and
hindering those combating the
fire, voiced my opinion exact
ly: and my ire had raised to
a very unhealthy pitch while
listening to officials and news
men pleading earnestly for on
lookers to stay back; the
mere fact that grown up peo
ple had to be told was bad
enough. .
My grandson was driving a
lowboy loaded with fire fight
ing equipment to the scene of
the fire, and said he had never
experienced more difficulty
getting through traffic, and
only because curious people
would not stay out of the
way.
My husband remarked it
was too bad mere couian i
have been a bill, among the
600 the legislature recently
passed, that could force the
curious, following fires, to
help combat the fires or be
placed under arrest. This
might do some good.
Mrs. O. T. Wilson
431 North Second st.
Central Point, Ore.
No Valid Excuse ,
To the Editor: It may be, as
Potpourri suggests in her
Tuesday column, that some
still find solace for guilty
consciences by offering as an
excuse for dropping the atom
bomb on Hiroshima the fact
that we were at war- with
Japan. To such individuals
war, whenever it exists, ai-
ford a valid excuse for every
species - of savagery, but to
many : thinking people, there
is no valid excuse for war.
As old-time Quakers phras
ed it, (it is) our unshaken
persuasion that all war is
utterly incompatible with the
Dlain nrecepts of our Divine
Tjirfi anrl L,aweiver. and with I
the whole spirit and tenor of J
I think that I shell never
gaze
Upon a sight like Ash
land's blase;
It burned up all the trees
it could
And left a bunch of
blackened wood.
Poems are made by fools,
you see;
But what is he who'd
burn a tree?
A couple of exuberant boys
hooked a trout from a bridge
over the Rogue up on the
Crater Lake highway.
I got one! I got one! the
boy with the pole cried.
rll net him! Don't lose
him!" shouted the other, and
he took off down the river
bank.
Bring him in closer!" he
yelled when he got down.
"Do you have him yet?" the
one on top screamed.
Reel in some more! I can't
reach him!"
"DO YOU HAVE HIM?"
VI CAN'T REACH HIM!"
After five minutes of noise
like only ten - year - olds can
make, the trout was flipping
weakly in the net.
Our theory is that the trout
wasn't caught. We think it
was screamed to death.
And speaking of young
boys, don't think we would
n't like to be one again. Last
week a sack of wheat fell
off a truck driving down
Fir St., just under our news
room windows.
The sack split and the
wheat spilled out.
There were a handful of
carrier boys on the sidewalk
and we watched them
watching the spilled wheat.
One finally walked out in
the street and picked up a
handful of it.
Then the seeond en did
the same.
Then they all. made a
dash and in a minute the
wheat was gone from the
street and was distributed
in a number of small clench
: ed fists.
And then came the big
problem: what were they
going to do with it?
They couldn't throw it
away after all the fuss they
went to getting it.
' And they certainly had no
use for it.
So mothers, if a handful
of wheat spilled out of your
son's jeans when you went
to wash them, there really
: IS an explanation for it.
Boys will be noisy; boys
will be curious. But most of
all, boys will be boys.
We suppose a sick bird could
also be a blue jay.
Camera To Probe
Depths of Ocean
Boston - (Science Service) -An
automatic underwater
camera that can withstand
pressures of eight tons per
square inch and take photo
graphs at depths up to six
miles has been developed by
the scientific instrument firm
of Edgerton, Germeshausen &
Grier, Inc., here. Housed in a
tempered steel casing, the
camera can take up to 500
photographs at 10-second in
tervals and record the time at
each exposure directly on the
35mm film.
His Gospel, and that no plea
of necessity or policy, how
ever urgent or peculiar, can
avail to release either indi
viduals or nations from the
paramount allegiance which
they owe unto Him who hath
said 'Love your enemies'."
It was disturbing to discover
in the .current issue of Read
er's Digest that Pearl Buck
should have been willing to
lend the prestige of her name
to the perpetuating of the
military myth of the necessity
for dropping "the bomb," and
of the alleged fact that it
shortened the war and thus
saved many lives.
Even this recently after the
deed, contemporary history
has established the contrary
and all our efforts at ration
alization are futile.
Grace N. Pearson,
Route 2, Box 50,
Jacksonville, Ore.'
Praises Department T .
To the Editor: The Prospect
fire department truck, driven
by Billie Grieves, is certainly
due a lot of praise and con
gratulations for the way the
fire at our mill camp was
handled this past week.
The fire had gained such
headway before it was dis
covered, and the mill cabins
of such dry lumber, crowded
together as they are, made the
job look like almost an im
possible one to save a one of
the cabins. Yet the fire de
partment's Billie Grieves got
here and held the fire to the
one cabin.
I wish people could drive
out here and look at this, they
would surely realize what a
fire department is worth.
Mrs. Paul Struck,
Molston Mill,
rrospect, ore,