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MAIL TRtBUNI. MmlforJ, Or. Sunday, Arg. 23, 1959 MedfobbSTbibunb "Zveryone is Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Dnll except Saturday by MUDFOrtD PRINTING CO 13 North 1i St Ph SP 3-C141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRE Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business tip ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Klitor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teieg Editor RICHARD JKWETT SporU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women i Editor PALE ERICKSQN dreulation Mar An Independent Newspaper Entered at semnd class matter at Medlon Oreeon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bt Mai '-. in Advance Coot lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 4J mos 8.0C Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sundav Onlv One vear $450 Br Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casf in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Pape of jacKsoo connry United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Aivertiintf Renresentative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Aneeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis, At lanta Vancouver B.C.. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER! ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Thf Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. '40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aus. 23. 1949 (Tuesday) Teamsters local 962 signs agreements with wholesale grocers, cheese distributors and beer distributors. Mercy Flights, Inc., plans to file incorporation papers this week. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1939 (Wednesday) Medford city council adopts a complete and coordinated city traffic ordinance. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column (by Don Upjohn): "We understand that the world famous Labish on ion which beats a perfumed path to our back door, now has a feeble but well inten tioned . imitator in 'the valley of the Rogue." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1929 (Friday) The humane society Is thanked for curbing stray dogs. . Rogue River cannery will start canning pears next week. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 23, 1919 (Saturday) Prospect saved from being destroyed by a forest fire. Ashland protests against es tablishing oil storage tanks in the city. 50 YEARS AGO' Aug. 23, 1909 (Monday) Edgar Hafer has interested the Packard motor car com pany in participating in a try to set a new auto record to Crater Lake. Mines being developed in the Gold Hill area are re ported to be showing great promise. What's Your I.Q,? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five et sis is good. 1. In what sport is the term "dog-fall" used? 2. Was it Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Cqohdge, or Warren G Harding who was sworn into office as President by his fath er? 3. Name the sea mollusk whose muscle is the only part we eat. 4. Did Diogenes search with a lantern for a wife, thief, honest man, or a lost dog? 5. Why are some important messages sent to the Congress by the President called "state of the Union" messages? 6. From whom did the U. S. purchase the American Virgin Islands? 7. Cape Horn is at the south ern point of what continent? 8. A flag flown upside down is widely recognized as what sort of signal? : . 9, How many acute angles are found in every triangle; two or three, two, three, or one? 10. A sailboat is to a tiller as an auto is to a windshield, engine, steering wheel or brake? - Answers: 1. Wrestling. 2. Calvin Coolidge. 3. Scallop. 4. Honest man. 5. The Constitu tion calls for such a message from lime to time. 6. Den mark. 7. South America. 8, A distress signal. 9. Two or three. 10. Steering wheel. 3 Sears and "Downtown That was quite a remarkable welcome which the people of southern Oregon gave to the Sears Roebuck company when it opened its big new store here last Thursday. Despite the ram, thousands upon thousands of curious people turned up to look (and perhaps buy) at the shopping center. It was, in fact, a major event in the growth and progress of this community, and most people recognize this fact. It isn't every day that a major new industry opens up a multi-million dollar plant. IT IS natural that many of the merchants in The Sears company, serves of cash, its years of ence, its efficient methods, and its buying power, undoubtedly will make the merchants. But we have enough believe that no one enterprise like this, no matter how big, is going to force anyone out of business no one, at any rate, who is doing a good, prog ressive job of his own. A COMPARABLE situation occurred in Salem a few years ago when pany opened a big branch Friends in the capital indeed, put a few marginal stores out of busi ness. But the others, the better ones, although pinched a little for a few months, actually did better m the long run, for it forced them to 1m prove their own operations. And, as the community continued to grow, they capitalized on this, and attracted their share of customers. THOO, there is the fact store in Salem attracted more customers from a larger radius around fore did their shopping Portland. And the Salem share of these new customers dollars, too. We foresee a similar The Sears establishment tomers from Cave Junction, Grants Pass, and very likely from as far away as Klamath Falls, Yreka and Happy Camp. If the "downtown" area is smart enough and progressive enough, they'll get ' their share" They have already right direction such trees and flowers along and park" plan which soon, and a dressing up ments and more aggressive merchandising. In our view, Medford growth and progress. And there s no reason all cannot share m it. E.A. Rain The cool dampness of valley residents when they got out of bed Thurs day morning was mighty It was welcome to farmers with pasture crops. It was welcome to foresters as it dampened And it was welcome like the smell of wet earth and foliage, and the sound of rain splashing It was. also welcome autumn is about the nicest season of the year. For even though it's still that fall can t be far away. E.A. Stop The Deer Slaughter We're on the side of their efforts to get something done to protect the deer in the Green Springs area. lhe 17-mile Howard Prairie delivery ca nal has proven to be a hazard to the deer popu lation there. Many of them have fallen or jumped into it, ana many 01 tnem nave drowned, ine count of dead deer now Presumably the bureau of reclamation does not now have the funds sary to protect the deer, bridges, steps, or other structures. But the federal government has a real re sponsibility in this matter, and it is to be hoped that the funds for this can be found, even if it takes special action by THERE will be a half-year respite, for it is planned to empty the canal after this irri gation season, and leave it near empty until next April. But then it will become a death-trap again unless something is done. It seems only proper that the governmen should assume its responsibility, and not remain in the reprehensible position of being a deer- slaughterer on a mass scale. E.A. Anonymity Anonymity is a wonderful thing. Gee, all you have to Then you call the fire or police departments and report a non-existent bomb. Or you .call a sincere and well-meaning woman and threaten her with all sorts of fiendish actions. Or, you can write a signed, of course. Then you sit back and chuckle. That fixed 'em, didn't big and brave and adventurous, doesn t it? The best part of all, don t have to say who know what a slimy coward you are. h.A. with its tremendous re merchandising experi it difficult for some of faith in this area to Meier and Frank com there. city tell us that it did, that the Meier and Frank the city, people who be either at. home or in merchants got "their situation in this area. is going to draw cus too. taken many steps in the things as the pretty little Main street, the "shop we hope will catch on of their own establish is due for a future of . the rain which greeted welcome. .gardners and to many the dry woods. to those many who just on the roof. to those who think that August, the rain showed the Izaak Waltonians in stands at around 50. to do whatever is neces in the forms of fences, the Congress.; do is pick up a telephone poison-pen note un it? Makes you feel rea! of course, is that you you are, so no one wil Dennis the HOW TO Matter of Fact AS UGLY AS QUEMOYI Washington "I hope it doesn't turn out to be as bad as it looks. But I think we've got to be prepared for a ,Laos crisis as ugly as the Que moy crises." This autho ritative gov ernmental summary of the outlook .1 i Jns-ph AlstiD O U g n X tO bring up with a sharp jerk the huge majority of people who have hardly noticed the events in remote little Laos. What is going on in Laos is crude, active Communist ag gression. It not only seems likely to cause another spasm of the kind of acute international attack on Que- moy. it can also lead to even more unpleasant results. The chief base of the ag- gresssion is the Communist state of North Vietnam, es tablished in 1954 after the American government gave its blessing to the partition of Indochina. The secondary base is Communist China, which also has a long com mon frontier with Laos. AS ALREADY reported in this snare. nro-Pommiinist. Laotians have been invited across the North Vietnamese border; have been formed and trained there in military units; and have been infil trated back into Laos. .The first major infiltration into the Laotian provinces of Phong Saly and Samneua oc curred some weeks ago. The infitrating forces, numbering perhaps 2,000 men in all, were attacked by the small Laotian Army with some ini tial success. Some units have therefore retired again across the North Vietnam border, while others have fragmented into small guerilla outfits. If this were the whole story the outlook might not be so ominous. But there is a high probability that only a relatively small percentage of the invasion force organ ized in North Vietnam was used for the first attack. The American analysts believe that . an additional force of 5,000 men is ready for further border - crossings. Most of these reserve battalions are in North Vietnam, but some are also thought to be in Communits China. Additional infiltrations on anything like this scale, car ried on in mountainous coun try devoid of -communications', will present the gravest sort of problem for the Laotian Army. Yet the signs suggest that the Communist high command means to continue the attack on Laos. y TOURING the past week an J arrogant official statement in Hanoi was followed by a crudely threatening blast from Peking; and the Peking blast, in turn, led to a Mos cow statement that support ed the Chinese-Vietnamese po sition in more moderate lan guage. In addition, the Viet namese Communist boss, Ho Chih Minh, was the guest of Nikita S. Khrushchev in Mos cow during the opening phase of the Laos invasion. The suc cessive statements and Ho's Moscow visit are pretty plain indications that what has happened so far is not a mere isolated incident, but the opening phase of a pretty big show. The nakedness of the new aggression also deserves to be noted. The infiltrating Communist units were not only organized and trained in North Vietnam. They are also using North Vietnam as a supply base at this moment, receiving ammunition and food by coolie transport over the mountain trails. And they are further stiffened by North Vietnamese c a dr e Menace MAKgttf C8S! Bv Joseph Alsop. and long experience of jungle fighting. The reaction of the Ameri can government to this new Communits aggression has been somewhat delayed by Secretary of State Christian A. Herter's absence in Chile. No decisions on the Presi dent-Secretary of State level have as yet been taken. But on the lower levels of the State Department, they are al ready pointing out that it will be very difficult, if not im possible, for President Eisen hower to receive Nikita Khru shchev as his guest while the attack on Laos continues. 7 TIPLOMATIC action in Moscow will almost cer tainly be the first phase of the American attempt to deal with the problem in Laos. At the same tune, plans are being perfected to strengthen the Laotian Army with rush de liveries of additional arms, in cluding helicopters useful for mountain fighting. Laos is fortunate in having both a stouthearted and able Prime Minister, Phoui Sananikone, and an extremely able Army commander, General Ouane With enough aid, they may be able to solve their own prob lems. Meanwhile there are two reasons why such deep con cern is already felt about this Laos business, at least in the inner government circles. First of all, since Laos has been receiving American aid, and has recently imported a smal group of American of ficers to help train its army,, the attack on Laos is obvious-' ly intended as a challenge to this country. Secondly, a Communist victory in little Laos would start a chain re action in Southeast Asia. But since public tranquillizing is the rule nowadays, the gov ernment has not yet communi cated its concern to the coun try. Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications ' Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name oi initial for publica tion is pe-missible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words More Monkey Business To the Editor: Ev'rett Acklin got us cacklin' How he stirred the poets' wit With one humorous tid-bit-When he made his English junky W'iting 'bout dat kwazy mon key. So, in spite of all the hecklin', Compliments to Ev'rett Ack lin! Gold Hill Bitty Gold Hill, Ore. Cubs Praised To the Editor: A group of boys from your, community were recent guests in our city over the past week end and during their stay here captur ed the state championship of the Oregon Junior Baseball association. I would like to make a few observations con cerning this team, the Crater Cubs from Central Point. It was evident from their attitude on their first day in town that they came here to play batt and to win. They did just that. It wasn't easy as they had tough opponents and hard, close games in aU three of their wins. They played to win but at the same time dis played excellent sportsman ship and courtesy both on and off the field. Game umpires rated each team in each game and their score for the tourna ment was 148 out of a possible 150 points. Their hustle in playing was the talk of local and visiting tournament ob servers. We are very proud to have been host to such a fine group of young men. The coaches, Don Miller and Keith Johnson, have set a fine example for the boys. In ad- Washington Report By WILLIAM WEEKS OF CRISIS Washington-These last, hot weeks of the 1959 session of the 86th Congress are weeks of decision for more than the great legislative issues now being debat 1 ed. They are weeks of cri sis also for two of the Democ ratic party's princi pal 1960 Pres idential possi bilities - Sen ators Lyndon WwwS S" B- Johnson of Texas and John F.' Kennedy of Massachusetts. Johnson and Kennedy are being put painfully over the barrel. They must confront and resolve questions pecu liarly involving their own 1960 prospects, their party's prospects and, of course, the interests of the country it self. The third and fourth mem bers of the Senate's field of Presidential hopefuls, Sena tors Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Stuart Syming ton of Missouri, are in no way so severely affected. In a gen eral sense what this Congress does or does not do will, of course, vaguely touch their fortunes. But neither is so ut terly tied to that record. For neither is in personal com mand of a major issue. Nei ther, thus, can be so hurt or maybe so helped - by con gressional action or inaction as can the Texan and the man from Massachuetts. HUMPHREY'S one possible chance to win the Presi dential prize - and his own people admit it is a long chance - is not as a man of Congress. If his candidacy is to "go" at an, it wiU be be cause he has declared himself the champion of a non-Congressional and- extremely lib eral wing of his party. This wing wants a Presi dential nominee in the image of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a nominee standing not on. a Congressional record, good or bad, but on the policies and, need, the memories of the New Deal. The Humphrey backers are not the Congressional people. They are weU typified by the identity of his campaign man ager, James H. Rowe Jr., a Washington attorney who was White House assistant to FDR. Symington's main chance- and this must be conceded even by his critics to be a very considerable chance also will not really rest on what he does or doesn't do in the Senate. He is the indicat ed champion not of the Roose velt New Deal but of the Tru- man Fair Deal. The "Truman Today & Tomorrow By Walter BEFORE PARIS The President has been put on notice by Gen. de GauUe's Prime Minister, M. Debre, that his visit to Paris is not go i n g to be a holiday." M r . Debre made a speech last Sunday which, to speak mild ly, is disturb ing. For what is it that caus ed t h e Prime Minister of France on the eve of a visit by the President of the United States to make a speech in which he says, al 1 u d i n g to the Eisenhower Khrushchev visits, that "to avoid being crushed by agree ments between very great powers, a nation like France must be in a position to make itself heard and understood." We may perhaps pass by the words "crushed," which taken at face value would mean a Soviet - American criminal conspiracy at the ex pense of France. Possibly the word is a mistranslation, prob ably it is a tactless rhetorical exaggeration. But is is very disconcerting to learn that the Prime Minister's distrust of our loyalty and of our friend ship for France is so profound and so pervasive, indeed so pathological, that his mind dwells on the crazy idea of a Soviet - American pact at the expense of France. Someone who has his ear should tell M. Debre that this is not the way to think about or to talk to the United States and its President. rj THE meantime, we must assume that the voice of M. dition to the team's "good" at titude they were weU coached in fundamentals and theory of the game. Your community can be weU proud of the new state champions. Dean Brown, President, Eugene Boys Athletic Association Eugene, Ore. 4T twmiinsWaliaa Walter I fpnnunn S. WHITE Democrats," headed by the former President himself, are the chiefs of the Symington movement. These are symbol ized by the old pros of the big city Democratic organizations who are not now, and never were, closely connected with Congress. JOHNSON and Kennedy, however, are both strirtlv men of Congress. Their strength and their hopes .must rest in the end at the capitol and on the legislative record made there. Upon Johnson, as the Senate Democratic leader, presses day by day and hour by hour the weight of ulti mate responsibility for all that Congress does and leaves undone over the whole legis lative field. Kennedy has long since elected to rise or fall upon his". one big issue, that of labor reform. Thus the pres ent maneuvering to find an acceptable compromise be tween the varying Senate and House versions of a labor bin are of critical meaning to him. But so are they, too, for Johnson.- He has, moreover, another especially delicate is sue to handle, that of civil rights. For the truth is that neither can afford to see this session end without a labor reform bill. Too, both wUl be far more comfortable if a civil rights bill is put upon the books now. The second and final session of this Congress wUl meet in 1960 in the acid ly political atmosphere of a Presidential election year. If rational and acceptable ac tions cannot be taken now on passionate subject like labor and civil rights, the 1960 ses sion of "the 86th" will surely provide an even more tricky forum. . QO, circumstances have put J Johnson and Kennedy per- petuaUy on a firing line where no troops come to their relief. The other Presidential aspirants are in comparative shelter, none more so than the fifth distinct Democratic possibility, Adlai E. -Steven son. Our of public office, Mr. Stevenson can remain far from the battle. So, too, or at least com paratively, can both Repub lican aspirants, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Mr. Nixon is little seen around the Senate. His Mos cow mission and the like largely removed him from the bear pit of national domestic issues. Governor RockfeUer's posi tion has, of course, done the same for him. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Lippmanr Debre is not the voice of Gen de Gaulle, and that all the opinions of M. Debre are not also the real opinions of Gen. de Gaulle. This is a necessary assumption. Otherwise, it is hard to see how our two gov ernments are to understand each other on the most diffi cult subject of the coming talks, which is the rebellion in Algeria. If M. Debre's speech means what his word say, he is de manding a free hand in Al geria based on the unqualified support of France's allies. "It is for a renovated France to make her allies understand that she has the right to de mand from aU their most com plete support . . ." This is going pretty far. We are to sign 'a blank check which would then be filled in at will by M. Debre's government. THIS is quite impossible, and all true friends of France and of the ancient alliance be tween France and America are in duty bound to tell M. Debre what are some of the realities of the problem. The crucial one is that this country cannot and will not give its "most complete support" to a war which is conducted without consultation with us by M. Debre's government in its un easy and clandestine relation ships with the extremists in Algiers. For this war is capable of spreading to Tunisia and to Morocco and of bringing about an irreparable break between the West and the predomi nately friendly Moslems of North Africa. We are bound to keep our independent posi tion and to avoid being en tangled in a political policy and in a military strategy which seems to be dictated by pressures upon the govern ment in Paris. MOREOVER, there are not, I think, any responsible Americans who believe that the rebellion can be ended by military victory plus welfare measures. They believe that Ithe rebellion in Algeria, like In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS There's NEWS as this is written. Big-news-it's RAINING Glory be! WHY IS THAT big news? John B. Bogart, who was city, editor of the New York Sun from 1873 to 1890, ex plained it this way: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that IS news." Around these parts, rain hasn't been happening very often. PracticaUy since the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the con trary thereof, the' precipita tion total for the stream year. wmca uegau fast ucraDer i, has stood at about 5.8 inches. That's hardly enough to see. . CONTINUING in the lyric vein- ; " Back in May of the year 1901, Harper's Magazine print ed a lilting little poem entitled April Rain. It was written by Robert Loyeman, and it start ed off like' this: "It is not raining rain to me, "It's raining daffodils; "In every dimpled drop I see "Wild flowers on the hills." HERE in the high desert, we can share Poet Loveman's vision of wild flowers on the hills. But, now that it is rain ing at last, we can see more than that. We can see (in our mind's eye) lush fall pastures, with cattle wading around in grass maybe up to their knees. We can see F I L L E D-UP WATER RESERVOIRS. Over here in the high des ert, water is GOLD. No placer miner ever valued the nuggets in the riffles any more highly than we value the liquid nug gets that faU from the sky when the elements are in a kindly mood. VESTERDAY the world was less bright. If we sang at all, after seeing our monthly water bin, we were inclined to chant the ribald song that goes: "Oh, 'tain't gonna rain no mo', no mo', "Oh, 'tain't gonna rain no mo, "And how in the heck "Can I wash my neck "If 'tain't gonna rain no mo'?" " Today we can wash our necks. every similar rebellion for the past half century, will end onl when the French govern ment does what the British government has learned to do, to recognize the genuineness of the demand of the rebels for a new status. We do not believe that France can pacify and retain Algeria by a policy of military paternalism. For these reasons, the de gree of our support of France in Algeria is bound to depend on whether France adopts a policy which, as we see it, promises tar work. Until there is such a policy which we can believe in, the most we can do, and the most that France should expect of us, is an at titude of benevolent neutral ity and of discreet abstention. ALGERIA, though it is the thorniest question, is by no means the only one which troubles Franco - American re lations. One of the others is the French view that we ought to share our nuclear secrets with France as we do with Great Britain, and thus spare the money and the trouble of developing her own nuclear weapons. The President may find that here he has some smaU room for negotiating a kind of token concession. But we would de ceive ourselves if we thought that Congress, which has the last word, is going to change the law in order to promote France to the rank of. a nu clear power. In this respect Congress will have the over whelming support of Ameri can public opinio n, which thinks that three nuclear pow ers are more than enough, and to go on from here to include France, West Germany, and China, would be very much worse. ' The best prospect, it seems to me, is on the third point which troubles Gen. de Gaulle. This is the fact that we do not consult him before taking ac tions like those around the offshore islands of China and the landing in .Lebanon. It might be a good thing, in my view, if we offered France and Great Britain a pledge always to consult them, unless we are the victims of. a surprise at tack, before taking actions which could lead to war any where in the world. This would te a recognition of the fact that France and Great Britain are world pow ers in the sense that there can be no war anywhere in which they are not involved. Because of this fact they have a special right to be consulted and to participate in the great decis ions not only within NATO but all over the globe, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) An intriguing fish story is making the rounds, and since we got it fourth or fifth hand we won't, vouch for its relia bility. It was twighlight - the spooky hour-and a fly caster whizzed his bait toward a dull murky lake. A bat shot out of the dusk and grabbed the fly in mid air. The fisherman was startled but he reeled in the faneer! creature and tried to free it. It was difficult to see in the darkening light thoueh. m he toook his gear over to the car ana turned on the head lights. . J He unhooked the bat but instead of flyine awav it crawled through the grill of nis car. That's aU we heard. But our imagination is working overtime. We're afraid that bat is stiU under the hood of his car. And lately we've heard strange and eerie tales about Jackson county. We've heard that in the evenings, on dark nights with no moon, a large metal thing swoops and flies through the air, preying upon smaller creatures. We've heard that four Isettas have disappeared and that tiny Volkswagens shiver with fright when they're parked outside overnight. Many motorcycles have left the valley. Power mowers can no long er be heard. But then again, maybe the fisherman just opened up his hood and then went back and caught his limit. ' Our Droofrearler. a nVilln. sophical sort, says, "Astrolo gers claim that people born during the month of August re very impatient, l sup pose that's because thev didn't want to wait around until La bor Day." We overheard a couple of native Montanans dis cussing the Yellowstone ' earthquake and listened to them decide that quakes ' generally are infrequent up that way. It reminds us-by contrast : -of a California mother's advice to a young child: ' "Remember now, when you go outside be sure to hold on to something!" ' We understand the Russians are telling this joke: " "There are two kinds of people in the United States: optimists and passimists. The optimists are teaching their children Russian; the pessi mists are teaching them Chi nese." So THAT'S why we can't understand the kids anymore. Like crazy. - And you know that misery loves ... A week ago a group (said to be too old for that sort of thing) was driving back from a hike up Mt. McLaughlin when they came across a car stopped with a flat tire. They were pooped but the gentleman with the flat had on a clean suit so they stopped and offered assist ance. "Thanks," he said ruefully, "but I guess I can handle it." They drove on and sure enough, ten minutes later they had a blowout. Did we mention that they were tired? At any rate, they climbed out to survey the damage just as the gentleman with the now-dirty suit drove by. "Need any help?" he asked. "No," they said ruefully, "we'll take care of it." Moral: the pioneer days are past but two thing a man will still take care of himself are his flat tire and his hangover. And of course, the bats he catches when he's out fishing. It is entirely possible that there won't be any "centen nial" beards left at all after a while. But one still spots an occa sional sort of lonely one on the street. And we're still pretty well fixed for them at the Mail Tribune. Our city editor still has his, and it's getting pretty well along down his chest, now. Our pho tographer likewise has a beard", but he's started trim ming it occasionally, and he no longer has the mustache that once went with it. Down in the printing de partment there are, at last count, only two beards left both very impressive. Sic transit gloria hirsute. TRUMAN AND BENNY Hollywood - (DPD - A widely known amateur musician, for mer President Harry Truman, will team up with another amateur musician of note, Comedian Jack Benny, Oct. 18 on television. Truman will be a guest on Benny's show on the Columbia Broadcasting System TV network.
