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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
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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.
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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.