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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. Sunday, Aug. 30, 1959 MEDFORDsTRIBU!(S "Everyone is Southern Oregon Beads i Th Mail Tribune1 Published Dtilj except Saturday by W JJVGttB PRTSxtNG CO 33 North 1i St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBtHI W BUHL. Editor EZRB GRE Advertising Manager GEP.ALD LATHAM Business M(T ERIC W ALLEN JR. Manaetng Kriitor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor R1CHAKD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLTVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter al Medfor Oreron under Act of March 3 1897 "SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mat in Advance Coo 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos tJOl Dail and Sunday 3 mos 425 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and SunOay 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c au terms casr in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Pres Internationa Full Leased Wire MZMBEU OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Retresentatrve wst nni miv rn nan n. flees In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St. Louis. .At las' Vancouver 8 C lO" NEWSPAPER Si i PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIA1 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 ind 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1949 (Tuesday) E. Roy Bashaw is one of two Medford men to success fully pass the state bar exam. The federal government en ters the pear market here. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1939 (Wednesday) Mrs. Effie Adams' Happy Hour kindergarten re-opens this fall with rhythm band in struction as a special new feature. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "By this time next week school will be underway, and sturdy two-passenger autos, with 14 kids on the running boards, will be enlivening things in the residential districts." 80 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1919 (Tuesday) A county turkey pool is planned for next month. - The Pacific highway from Medford to Phoenix, is to be widened. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 30, 1919 (Saturday ) The Greater Gold Hill club plans a dance tonight. The deer hunting season opens next week, and already the hills are full of hunters SO YEARS AGO, Aug. 30, 1909 (Monday) G. L. Schermerhorn and a friend spend an anxious after noon in the cold storage vault at Medford Ice and Cold Stor age company while other resi dents swelter in summer heat Over 13,000 persons attend Ringling Brothers circus here, What's Your I.Q.7 Nine er fen correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five et sis s good. . 1. How many signs of the Zodiac are there? ; 2. Which State is known as the "Everglade State"? 3. Which of these was not Vice President of the U. S. Theodore Roosevelt, Charles G. Dawes, Grover Cleveland, Harry Truman? - 4. Who was the "Lady With the Lamp"? 5. In what country is the lira a unit of money? 6. Is an epergne a dueling rapier, a table centerpiece, or a naval officer's shoulder ornament? x ' 7. If a length of rope was stretched across a railroad track and a train passed over it, into how many pieces - would the rope be cut? . 8. What is the name for the prepared and salted roe of the sturgeon? '. 9. Name the seven colors of the rainbow. 10. Are the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, or In dian Ocean? Answers: 1. Twelve. 2. Flor ida. 3. Grover Cleveland. 4. Florence Nightingale. 5. Italy. (L Table centerpiece. 7. Three. 8. Caviar. 9. Violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. 10. Atlantic L-W-JI I Persons to Persons A fnvii11 efflflrin re finrnTYllffofl Tl OfO Tl Q Q am. barked on a course that can heighten the vision, deepen the understanding and broaden the hori zons of every citizen of Medford. This course, already undertaken in 59 other cities across the nation, has been charted to let the American people communicate directly with those in foreign lands at a level where house wives and school children, merchants and mill workers can participate. Its title is the -"person to person" town af filiation program. Its purpose is to foster mutual understanding and trust among the citizens of cities all over the world. Its goal is Peace. T the outset, the steering committee led by Robert Baccus. citv councilman and DrinciDal of Wilson school, will be at the helm. The com mittee will be expanded as the project progresses. Once Medf ord's sister city is selected, how ever, and the first hands are extended across the sea, then the more citizens who take part the more rewarding the general experience will be. President Eisenhower, in endorsing the town affiliation program three years ago, commented: "If we are going to take advantage of the assump tion that all people want peace, then the problem is for people to get together and to leap govern ments if necessary to evade governments to work out not one method but thousands of methods by which people can gradually learn a little bit more of each other." CELECTING a sister city requires careful con sideration. It calls on the one hand for imag ination, on the other for judgment. The suggested limits to this choice are that the foreign city be comparable to Medford in size, in geographic situation and in economic interests. But even with these points in view, anyone who glances at a map of the world can see a whole firmament of possibilities, and the shape of a stimulating challenge. For if the program's purpose is understand ing, should we not choose from among the peo ples we understand least? And if its goal is Peace, should we not look to those not already firmly allied to our government? IX7HAT about a city in Africa, or in the Middle East? In Latin America, or India or else where in southeast Asia? Here we would find people who not only speak a different language and wear different clothes, live in different homes and eat different food, but people whose skin is a different color. Here we would find ourselves communicating with people whose spiritual and political outlooks may vary greatly from ours. These people, whom we least understand in today's troubled world, are they not the ones we need to understand most? A ND as for working toward Peace, we are in " formed no other American city in the pro gram so far has affiliated with a city behind the Iron Curtain, or the Bamboo Curtain, or any oth er stifling curtain that shrouds the Communist dominated world from the light of freedom. What about a Polish city, an East German city, even a North Vietnamese city? What better way could there be for demonstrating what America is really like and dispelling the dis tortions of Communist propaganda? .-: IF MEDFORD does establish a town affiliation, we are also informed, it would become the smallest U.S. city yet to do so. This in itself is a certain distinction. It also provides a challenge, since our search for a sister city in some parts of the world at least may not be as easy as it would appear at first. In the underdeveloped Asian and African nations especially, a city the size of Medford may have nowhere near the same degree of economic, social and cultural development. Simply to be the smallest U.S. city in the pro gram is at best a limited distinction, however, when so much more is involved. The smallest boy on tne tootball team does not achieve prominence ordinarily just because he's small. He must be good, too. And likewise, Medf ord's real success would be measured in no small part by the degree to which we set and meet the challenge of an affiliation that would most promote understand ing and Peace. WHATEVER the eventual choice, the affilia tion's success will also depend greatly on how many citizens of both cities participate. The possibilities for visits, letters, art and hobby exhibits, informative literature and the like, and for developing friend ly relations between school children, Boy Scouts, members of civic groups and service clubs, senior citizens and others, are infinite. . - Basically, a "person tion really a sum of the affiliations of numer ous individuals each seeking; to enlarsre the scope of his experience and peaceful world. While statesmen meet meet among the f oothills and who's to say for certain which will accomplish most? E.W. exchanging personal to person" town affilia increase the hope for a at the summit, we can Dennis the Menace '3.I rgAW)yW.6uTI DON'T 8if&2 A 'GREAT BIQ BASIS SWOOPED DOWN AND SWIPED THE STEAK'. WHERE'S RUFF? Matter of Fact WHAT IS COEXISTENCE? Tokyo-What is coexistence? This will be the true central theme of the talks between 1 President Ei- a vi sennower ana WiKita d. K h r ushchev. Berlin and Laos are only episodes, 4 though very Ft sodes. which Li : ii raIse question losepb aisop about the meaning and possibilty of co existence. If President Truman were in President Eisenhower's place, it is hard to believe that there would be any op portunity to discuss this vital topic. For if Truman had ask ed Khrushchev to the White House, and the acceptance of his invitation had then been foUowed by a naked Commu nist attack on a position of American interest, even in re mote Laos, Truman would have disinvited Khrushchev at once. But Eisenhower is not Tru man, and the power position of the United States in 1959 is altogether unlike the power position that Eisenhower in herited in -1953. So there is little likelihood of disinvita tion, although the Communist aggression in Laos amounts to a public expression of Khrush chev's contempt for the Presi dent and the country he leads. The vital topic will still be discussed, in a little more than a fortnight, by the two chieftains of the East and West. . - rpHE MEANING of "peaceful A coexistence" to Khrush chev and his subordinates and satellites can be easily sum marized. They mean by "peaceful coexistence" play ing the game of the world power struggle according to the strange prevailing rules, and thus avoiding any serious risk of major war. The rules they play by, although we have largely accepted them, are rules made in the Krem lin. These rules permit Khrush chev to tear up the most sol emn Soviet commitments, giv en only a few years ago, be cause these commitments do not any longer "correspond to the facts"-meaning the facts of the greatly changed world power balance. They further permit Khrushchev to indulge in the crudest military threats to Berlin, after repudiating the agreement on Berlin reached by the Soviets and the West ern powers in 1949. The result or these actions, moreover, is not American mobilization, but an invitation to Khrush chev to drop in at the White House. - . AGAIN, these Kremlin rules also permit Khrushchev, even when newly invited to the White House, to sponsor a naked Communist military ag gression. The aggression is duly fuzzed up and disguised a little, of course, as a "popu lar" guerrilla movement. But under the rules, any position can be attacked in this man ner, where the attack seems safe and the aggression seems likely to pay off . This is what is happening in Laos. In other words, Khrushchev looks at the current state of the power balance, and espe cially at the deterioration of the American deterrent. He looks at the mood of the Presi dent and the rise of peace-at-any-price feeling' in London and elsewhere. After calculat ing these factors, he then looks for a vital position which he can grab for, without un due risk of a general confla gration. And he promptly grabs for that position, in lull accord with the rules of the game as he understands them. It is bitterly ironical to re call that an attempt to change those rules was once made by President Eisenhower, who came to power with a pledge to "liberate" the free peoples enchained by Soviet imperial- Bv Joseph Alsop ism. In his confirmation hear ings, former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles even suggested that it was down right immoral not to believe in the liberation policy. . TN THE last seven years, one must remember, the oppor tunities for a serious libera tion policy nave Deen very great indeed. The situation in Eastern Europe reached the potential explosion point in this period, because of . the death of Stalin and the post- Stalin disillusionment. Twice, in fact, great explosions have actually occurred in Eastern Europe, in East Germany in 1953, and in Hungary in 1956 If we had such an explosive situation on our side of the line that divides the world, it is easy to imagine what the Kremlin would do about it. What we did about it was to eat the phoney words about "liberation" as soon as they were taken seriously. All the resources of the CIA were used to help the Soviets damp down the East German rising of 1953. Our reaction to the Hungarian tragedy, by the same token, was too unpleas antly impotent to bear think ing about. - TN THIS manner, the West has tacitly accepted the Kremlin's rules for coexist ence. These are: (a) that we cannot even support a legiti mate government struggling to be free, as in Hungary, on their side of the line that di vides the world; and (b) that the Kremlin can freely attack any conveniently vulnerable position on our side.. of the line. If these rules . for coexist ence are now approved by President Eisenhower in his talks with Khrushchev, and if they are then confirmed by the President's successor, the predictable outcome is the West's final and total defeat in the cold war. That is the fact now glaring us in the face. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Washington Report By WILLIAM CHANGE ON CHINA Washington - The unequal sides in an old argument over how we should deal with Communist China are mar shaling ior a new struggle with the ar rival of Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. Both the leg islative and executive branc h e s of the United States Government are mas sively and repeatedly commit ted to nonrecognition of the Red regime. Indeed, the House of Representatives, in antici pation of new pressures for recognition, for the 14th time has just resolved, by 368 to 2, against any such course. The Senate time and again has done the same, and will again if a similar resolution is pre sented there before the ad journment of Congress. The State Department seems more than ever op posed, if this is possible, to giving the slightest interna tional respectability to the Chinese Reds. This is notably true of those American diplo mats most directly responsi ble for the remaining free areas of Southeast Asia. These men are saying that to recog nize Communist China now, at the very hour Communist pressure is being applied to our friends in Laos in what used to be French Indo-China -would be catastrophic. "Unimaginable disaster" is the phrase used by the ablest in this diplomatic group. To William S. White Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor 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 tact the contrary is often Green Quartx To the Editor: This is stUl the age of miracles, in fact the wonderful period of the past 100 years has produced fantastic discoveries. According to Ecclesiastes, Chap. 1, v. 9, there is no new thing under the sun. That re minds us some 60 years ago some prospector on Green's creek in Josephine county found a green quartz boulder weighing nearly 100 lbs. Upon examination there was no more green quartz found. The specimen yielded consider able gold, being distributed all through the rock. The as sumption then among the min eralogists was the single chunk of green quartz had been carried by a former gla cier drift. However there are a number of instances of green quartz having been found in Jackson county .and when such carries gold, it is always of a high grade. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. Back To School To the Editor: I have been re-reading your "Back to School"- section and find it very interesting. Dr. May- field's message, the pictured new administrators and the plans for pre-school training seem to bode well for the new school year. I have a great ap preciation for our teachers and am glad of this chance to say so. Incidentally, outfitting the small girls called for a bit of shopping and I was happy to note that it was done with a representative number of lo cal merchants. Veldon J. Diment, 213 Portland ave., Medford. Mother's Plaint To the Editor: Barking dogs, 'fighting kids, ' Wax the floors, everyone skids Dirty handprints on the wall. Wished for. summer, now pray for faU. Where are the grapes? Who ate all the plums? Don't clean the house and company comes. Come and get some dry clothes on, It IS her turn to water the lawn. What time is it? Have you been fed? Keep those fish hooks off the bed! My Father's BIGGER. Yeah? Your Father's dumber. My, aren't we having a lovely summer? A pile of clothes, and greasy "keds," Aren't they darlings ... in their beds. Who is that hag looking in the mirror? September's becoming nearer and dearer! Maurine Rydlek, Route 1, Box 105, Gold Hill, Ore. Secretary, Jackson S. WHITE make any deal with the Com munists, he says, would shake every free world position left in Asia. EVEN so, though Washing ton would thus appear practically unanimous against any accommodation with the Chinese, this is not the abso lute end of the thing. Down underneath, primarily in the Senate, there is some growing insistence for a complete re assessment, at least, of our policy. This demand, though cau tiously put by men who are not "appeasers" and naturally don't want to be called that, is not inconsiderable. And it could become actually sub stantial. It rises mainly from Western Senators with per fectly good anti-Communist records who are interested not sof much in ideology as in trade with the Orient and in facing reality as they see it. Sen. Warren Magnuson of Washington has long been concerned in a trade revival eastward. Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming is another who would like at all events to see a re-examination of our pol icy. Ironically, and. import antly, so is the successor to the man who more than any other symbolized absolute op position to any conceivable arrangement with Red China, former Senator William F. Knowland of California, an orthodox Republican. The man who replaced Knowland here, Sen. Clair Engle of California, a moder ately liberal Democrat, has been calling for a "critical re examination'' of the position the Slow Progress Noted To the Editor: With our concern over air pollution and the smoky haze which so often hangs over our beautiful valley, we have neglected to publicly express our appreci ation and gratitude to the M e df o r d Corporation. On their own initiative, and with out public pressure, they have taken the lead in reducing to a minimum the smoke from their mill. Elk Lumber Co., I believe, will run a close second. Mr. Flanagan informed me they were purchasing a "hog" this winter, and by spring the smoke from their one burner would be almost nonexistent. The only waste to be burned would be large chunks of wood which the hog is unable to handle. Mr. ; Flanagan very gra ciously took me on a tour of their power generating plant, explaining its operation to me in detail. I'm sure he would welcome, anyone who would care to see it. I. know you would find it a fascinating and informative experience as I did. We also wish to thank Tim ber Products for stopping the open burning which had been disturbing everyone living in that area. Mr. Oliver told me they were now shipping ALL their chips, which amount to eight carloads a day. They have' three burners going day and night, but hope to cut it down to two in the near fu ture. Slowly, but surely, prog ress is being made in ridding our valley of excessive smoke. Mrs. Leonard Matheus, 1124 West 10th st, Medford. v Opposes Consolidation To the Editor: Just a few lines why I am not in favor of leaving District 6C and joining with Rogue River. First, their representatives say our taxes will be lower, Maybe they will be for one year, but what about next year when their new school will be on the tax rolls? Also, the few students that they will gam would not help their district half as much as the taxpayers they would gain to help pay their debts, Another reason I do . not of having nothing whatsover to do with the China regime. All this, then, briefly, is the domestic scene. As to the in ternational scene, Mr. Khru shchev has already let it be known that among the things he will talk about here with President Eisenhower will be American recognition of Com munist China. rFHERE are some officials here, who work in for eign intelligence who doubt that Khrushchev is really very keen to bring about this recognition. They reckon that Soviet fear of the emerging and ghastly giant in China has already overtaken Soviet satisfaction at seeing that va.t neighbor communized. They believe, in short, that Khrushchev is talking big for recognition mainly so that the Red Chinese can overhear and thus . credit him with working in their behalf. Finally, in this estimate lies the sole possibility for any real change in the American attitude toward recognition. It is conceivable that we would slowly move toward some form of recognition if but only if it became plain that such an act could well and truly detach the China mono lith from the Soviet mono lith, and so weaken imperi alist communism. It is hardly possibly moral ly at any rate, it is surely not politically possible to defend recognition on any other ground or for any other reason. Neither the Adminis tration nor Congress has for gotten what some have for gotten: The Chinese Reds made aggressive and thus far unrepented war on us and on all of the United Nations in Korea. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Morses Plan To Leave Today for Germany Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Morse were scheduled to leave Se attle today for Germany where they will tour the country for two weeks as a guest of Volkswagenwerk. Morse is Medford Volkswagen dealer. They are part of c group of 30 Volkswagen dealers who are making the trip. Similar trips are being held for deal ers throughout the country. (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Not all the mistakes get into print dept: Our summer reporter (not dreaming, he claimed,-of the fact that he's leaving shortly) turned in a story last week about vandals who struck at a local home while the owner was on vacation. The vandals "propped open her freezer door and let her dogs loose," he wrote. "What sort of dogs are these?" the city editor want- want to send my children to a small high school of between 150-200 students, when we are already in a district where the high school has approxi mately 700 students. This would be the same as trading a whole loaf for just a slice. I believe it would be to Rogue River's advantage if they would consolidate then high school with either Crater high school or Grants Pass. Personally, our children will never go to Rogue River schools, even if we have to pay tuition to keep them in our district. Arthur H. Boye, Route 1, Box 193, Gold Hill, Ore. j Sale Success . To the Editor: I would like to express my thanks on be half of the 4-H Empire Build ers to everyone who made our 4-H, FFA sale such a success this year. -' Without the help of so many wonderful buyers, many members would have gone in the hole and perhaps been un able to continue 'with their project next year. I would especially like to thank Dr. B. B. Bartels, who in his free time, called many people about the auction and then bid on animals for those interested. . Thanks again to everyone who helped support one of the best auctions Jackson county has ever seen. I hope your interest and enthusiasm will continue in the future years to support a really great or ganization. Sharon Coffman, Secretary, Jackson -County 4-H Empire Builders Council, Route 1, Box 251, ; Central Point, Ore.: Them Days To the Editor: Is there any medium from the hand of man that takes us back to scenes of other days as music? Takes us back so vividly that we seem to be there once more in old familiar sur roundings. This was brought to. mind in quite a hefty gathering of devotees of gold-pan, pick and shovel, the, Northewestern Mining Council, held this last Sunday at TouVelle park, tables loaded with eatables, garnished with very fine en tertainment. Like the trio of young male singers, fiddle and guitar with impromptu singing. . It was especially interest ing to hear, "Haven't heard that one for nigh 50 years or more," as a medley of tape recorded old-time tunes came over the public address sys tem. Words were sung by those with graying hair and surprisingly, too, by quite a few teenagers, which means that the old tunes and songs are not yet on the way out. It brought to mind an in cident at Browning, Mont., some 10 years ago when this writer was recording on tape early life of the plains Black feet by old Chief Bull, with his singing of the hunting, love and war songs, whose guttural monotones is far from what we class as singing. But an old woman nearby, tears coursing down her dark ly weathered and wrinkled face, sadly remarked, "It is so good to hear those dear old songs again. We hear them no more. The young ones sing the strange white-man songs." So, like most everything else, it all depends on what we are used to. The one time so popular sad tear-jerker songs seem to be on the way out. Can it be that life is less sad today? Life has never been consistently sad for me. But those sad old things did have a tearful appeal for me. Like when old John Jacobs made his bi-annual rounds and of an evening, sang at the old melodeon that brother John and I had to kneel to and work the pedals to keep up air pressure in the leaky old bellows. But when singer Jacobs swung into, "Oh, Dear Minnie, I have heard the angels callin', I have seen the golden shore, I will meet you in the morning, where the shadows come no more," I was lost in a flood of tearful joy until brother John's lusty kick got me back to pumping duties. Them were the days.' F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point ed to know. "And who keeps dogs in freezers anyway?? No, no, . our reporter ex plained, there were two sepa rate acts. The vandals turned her dogs loose and they also propped open the -freezer door, he said. Take it from there. The news staff came up with six teen puns within two minutes. ("Hot dogs" and "cool cats" don't count.) , Our girl Friday (and Thursday, loo) can always be counted on to help out with a potluck paragraph. She asked if we heard about the family who lost all the water in their swim ming pool when a horse jumped into 11. No. we hadn't. How did it happen? - "Well, they had to puU the plug out," she said, dis appearing - rapidly - around the corner. ' One more while we're talk ing about' animals in diffi culty: There was the fellow whose cat got run over by a steam roller ... He didn't sav jinv- thing; he just stood there with a long puss. The Medford weather bu reau modestly denies thai it really had any influence in breaking the summer long drouth, but herewith we present the true story. The staff of the Medford station held its annual pic nic on Aug. 19 and threat ening clouds arose during the evening. The weather men weren't caught in any humiliating shower but in the early hours of the following morn ing the local area had its first rain in 54 days. -. A member of the news room staff recently had a birthday which went unnoticed by the majority of the reporters. Another reporter, slipping out of the office for a quick trip to the bank, on her re turn mentioned that a friend, who is employed by the bank, also celebrated her birthday that day. "She was treated to a lunch eon at the country club and had a pink and white carna tion corsage and a basket of flowers on her desk,'.' , she said. . - The staff member, whose birthday was that day, grum bled. -' ' '' ' '- ' -T But, so she wouldn't be completely . ignored, a single birthday candle was stuck in an ashtray, lighted , and then placed on her desk. : The reporter who "received the "birthday gift" - asked, "May I have a wish before I blow out the candle?" "Certainly," the staff said. "Okay," she said, "I wish I worked for 1 the First Na tional Bank!" . . Faithful readers will re call that last Sunday we reported a bat trapped un der the hood of a local car. Here is act two: . A Medford bomemaker was called outside last week by her husband to look at the motor of their car. "Honey, you know I don't know anything about mo tors," she said stepping out side, "why should I--ech!" Yes, sir. There was a dead cat wrapped around the water pump. Whodunit? Skeptics will say that the cat crawled in to get warm one night and was conked over the head by the fan when the driver started the car up the next morning. . But we wonder if that bat hasn't been at . work, pro tecting its lair from prowl ers. - Strange . things are hap pening ... Somewhere we picked up a matchbook with a recipe for shepherd's pie on the in side. The recipe calls for, among other things, lVfc cups cooked left-over string beans, ..IVi cups cooked left-over carrots, and Vi cup left-over gravy. The question that comes to mind, of course, is whether you can make shepherd's pie out of fresh food. Come to think of it, though, the Army used to serve a lot of shepherd's pie. ' Maybe THAT'S why it tasted as it did. - At the bottom of the recipe it said, "Tear off and save." Obviously, ; for when your recipe calls for left-over matchbooks. And we'll never forget the roadside diner we stopped at somewhere, som stopped at somewhere, someplace. The menu boast ed of steaks smothered with onions, hamburgers smoth ered with chili, potatoes smothered with gravy, and so on. . All we ordered was cof fee. We were just too chok ed up.