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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Sunday, Sept. 6. 1959 "Everyone te Southern Oregon Rgada The Mail Tribune J Published D-dl except Saturday B bCDFORD PRINTING CO 13 North r St Ph SP a-6141 ROBI.HT, W RTJHL Editor HERB GRE1 Advertinlng Manage! GEPAUJ LATHAM Bustneaa Mgt ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Editor EAfcL H ADAMS, City Editor -HARRV CHIPMAN Tales Editor ' KICHAHU JKWETr S porta Editor OLIVE STARIHEH Women a Editor DALE ERiCKSQN Circulation May An Independent Newspaper Entered a seVnnd elass matter at Medfor Oreron under Act of March S 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a t v In Advance Copy 10c Da 11- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.0C Dally ax Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday OnlyOn year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cova Rogua Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year tl8 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo - - 1.90 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c aii Terms casr- tn Advance Official Paper of City 1 Medford Official Paper ot Jacfcmn county United Pres International Full Leased Wire J MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Renresentative : WEST HOLIDAV CO INC Of fices In New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco Los Anseles. Seattle. Portland St Louis. At- lan't vancowe B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASfebcUTRg Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO s.nt. R. 1949 (Tuesday) trnfa for work com pleting Medford's city park Kwimmine tjooi are w u eionoil trmicht. Movies of Bliss Heine's Juniors will be shown at a meeting of the Juniors' par ents. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1939 (Wednesday) Medford Mayor C. C. Fur nas Dicks the citizen members for next year's city budget committee. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The latest near nest threat Is named psylla. It don't sound fierce enough to be fought with paradichlorbenzene," 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1929 (Friday) The Chamber of Commerce urges a paved highway to Dia mond, lake. Double parking in Med ford's business district is pro hibited. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1919 (Saturday) Medford police arrest a man for transporting a calf on the running board of his auto. The forest service road from Prospect to Crater Lake is to be completed this year. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1909 (Monday) County Fruit Inspector George Taylor is busy gath ering fruit-damaging bugs for a display at the Jackson coun ty fair. - All rights-of-way for the P and E railroad have been acquired except for that across Walter Woods' farm. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five et six is good. 1. How many thieves do you associate with the name All Baba? 2. What Christmas decora tion grows as a parasitic plant? 3. In the story of creation in Genesis, on what day was man created? 4. Who is the only man in American history to have been both President and Chief Jus tice of the United States?' 5. Which is the northern most of the five Great Lakes of North America? . -- 6. What country controls the fortress of Gibraltar? 7. A person suffering from ailurophobia would have morbid fear of dogs, cats, horses, or canaries? 8. What industrial city in Ohio is famous as a center of the rubber industry? ' 9. Which" organ of the body controls all voluntary muscu lar action? - 10. In what show. was "01 Man River" a popular'-hit song? " Answers: 1. Forty. 2. Mistle toe. 3. The sixth day. 4. Wil- liam Howard Taftv 5., Lake Superior. 6. Great Britain. 7. Cats." 8. Akron. 9. The brain. 10. "Show Boat." k-WaaVJ-JI I Congress Adjournment Near Coneress is now making noises which sound as though the end of the Work on most major will be, completed. The rolling throughA few last-minute chores remain to be completed. Jhen there's no reason why the two houses can't adjourn. And everyone can then breathe a sigh of relief. It has been an interesting session, and its ac complishments are far from negligible, although, as always, there have been some disappointments. CCOMPLISHMENTS compromise on a labor reform bill, action to prevent the., highway down, statenooa ior nawau, ana a passen 01 less spectacular but highly important new enactments. Failures at least up cluded the lack of any sound approach to federal aid to education, and the lack of any improve ments in the civil rights field. - A bill limiting the powers of .the supreme court has passed the house, but-is now resting in a senate pigeonhole where we hope it will remam. FEW possible snags could delay adjourn ment until after the cormno- week end. One would be a fight on thexivil lights bill. Another may be the veto of the "compromise" housing hill nassed after the President vetoed the first version. Still another could be more congress- - 1 A l! 1 U i.t.' i- mVU administration nassiing over uie unce-vetueu. puu lic works bill so important to so many constitu encies. But, by and large, Congress has completed its major work. The session has been marked by about the usual amount of partisan bickering, but by a far higher number of vetoes than in any prior session during the Eisenhower administration. Whether or not one agrees with the particular vetoes (and it so happens we disagreed with most of them) it is good to see the President actively working at his job. It reminds one of the comment a newspaper man in Washington made: "It's surprising how much better Eisenhower is at being President than Sherman Adams was." E.A. U Multiple Use Problems The concept of . "multiple use" as applied to our natural resources is a good one. More than that, it is a vital one, if we are to receive maximum benefits and achieve proper development. It has been applied 'by the forest service to the lands under its administration. It has been ap plied to water resource projects of the bureau of reclamation. And. increasingly, the ernmental agencies -such as the corps of engin eers and the bureau of recognizing the concept. . I IKE every good rule, and every good precept, "however, there are exceptions, where special circumstances call for a primary use to become the ole major use. For instance, - the Klamath district ot the Rogue River National forest has a multitude of resources, which are put to many beneticiai uses. , 'And yet, at Lake of the Woods, the primary use. is for recreation, and because of the circum stances, it has become the only one. Another example, the area, also nas many resources, out tneir use is limited by the "wild area" concept, which is a proper part of the overall "multiple use" idea. IN OTHER words, "multiple use" is a broad- gauge vjiiv,cjjiv uc apnv-u w c iwigw v. -, within which, however,' may -be special areas where one use does, and ml -i i ine national pans; service is one agency which does not, and because of its .special nature, should not, operate under this generally-wise philosophy. ; The park service, unlike the forest service or the bureau of reclamation, is dedicated to the reservation of areas as much as possible in a state of nature, with development limited largely A J. M?l? J. T- ' it- - - i. 10 iacmties to ennance tne enjoyment oi vissimjib. But this, too, is only a nationwide extension of the "multiple use" theory, which calls f or some smaller areas to be dedicated to one primary use. . .. " ALL this may sound highly theoretical. And " perhaps it is. ; . But it also creates a live and important and practical series of problems for the "men charged with protecting, administering and developing the natural resources of the nation. Recreation., lumbering, grazing, watershed nrotection these are all forests, which must be other. In water resource management, one must con sider flood control, irriaration. nower generation, fish and wildlife protection, municipal and indus trial purposes, and, again, recreation all valid uses, some or wmcn occasionally tena to coxunct. - -. . HTHE adjudication of claims for beneficial use is a delicate business. It calls for tact and skill, and for wide knowledge of the resources bemg administered. Paramount, of course, is the overriding inter est of the public at large, States, who are the ultimate owners of tne re sources. Special interests must bow to this larger interest, in case of conflict. " The criterion which the forest service applies is a good one : "The greatest good for the greatest niimber in the long run." E.A. session is in sight. legislation has, or soon appropriation bills are will include thermal program from . bogging to this point have in policies of other gov land managementr are , Mountain Lakes wild should, predominate. leeritimate uses of the balanced against each these sometimes-opposing the people of the United Dennis the Today & Tomorrow By Walter ON SUMMITRY : There seems to be some dif ference of opinion, or at least of emphafis, between London and Washing t o n abort when to hold a summit meet ingBut is this the time to de cide that ques tion? Will it not be better to leave the question' open until the sec ond Eisenhower - Khrushffhev parley, which will take place when the President visits Mos cow? For a summit meeting has come to mean a formal con ference of the heads of govern ment in order to negotiate and to make decisions on the great issues. On the other,hand, the Eisenhower-Khrushchev talks, like the MacmUlan - Khrush chev , talks" which preceded them last winter, like a de Gaulle-Khrushchev talk which could possibly ' i oUow them, are a freer form of diplomacy They are not burdened with the responsibility of making written decisions. They can be exploratory and tentative. For the present the talks are likely to b& better, to be more candid and more 'interesting, if there is no pressure of a dateline which has to be met. Su.ce there is no urgent neces sity for decisions in Western Europe, since there is nothing intolerable to either side in the status quo, an unhurried diplomacy, which is desirable, is also possible. v : ; . MIE INFORMAL summit parleys, as distinguished from the formal summit con ference, are a new develop ment in the diplomacy of the cold war. Until the past few months, until in fact Mr. Mac millan's visit to Moscow, the accepted theory of how to pro ceed was that the main busi ness would be transacted by the Foreign Ministers. They were the skilled lawyers; who would negotiate the contracts which their rich clients, the heads of. government, would sign when they advised them to sign. They were to scruti nize the fine print and the semi - colons before their clients met to sign the papers and to make ceremonial speeches and to drink the toasts. This theory suited President Truman, who has always felt, it appears, that as a freshman President in 1945 he burned bis fingers at the summit meet ing with Stalin in Potsdam. It also suited President Eisen hower as long as he had as his lawyer the dominating figure of John Foster Dulles. . But the theory that the lawyers, name ly the Foreign Ministers, could be the prime negotiators was workable only for the United States and only as long as Mr. Dulles was, in command. It was never workable for the Soviet Union where the For eign Minister is not even a member of the ruling oli garchy. It -does not fit West Germany where in foreign oolicy Dr. Adenauer is para mount and alone, nor does it suit France where Gen. de Gaulle is paramount, and it does not really suit Great Britain where the example and tradition -of Churchill, with his predilection for sum mit meetings, is so strong. . mHE POST-WAR American A theory that international contracts should be negotiated by lawyers in the office cf the Secretary of State had its last trial at the jeneva conference a few months ago. It proved to be an exercise in frustration and, even before it was con cluded, the President and Sec retary Herter had become con vinced that a new approach would have to be tried. Under the old theory the Foreign Walter LlDDmami Menace Lippmann Ministers negotiated contracts for the heads of government to sign. In the new approach the heads of government conduct parleys to determine whether they can fine ground on which they can instruct the Foreign Ministers to negotiate. Unless and until in these informal summit parleys a ground of negotiation can be found, there is no need to de cide about a formal confer ence at the summit. IN SAYING an this, I do not mean to argue against the idea of frequent summit meet ings which was first put for ward in the country by Sen ator Fulbright and in Europe represents the view of the British government. We should adopt, they say, the idea that summit meetings are a normal procedure in our dealings with the Sovist Union, and that since they are held frequently they will be come commonplace, prosaic, and businesslike. They will be deflated by familiarity and cease to Be so momentous and emotional. 4 . It is, it seems to me, a sensi ble idea, and it might well be adopted at the next summit meeting. But, whatever hap pens then, the - next summit meeting - itself cannot be de flated. It will arouse great ex pectations, and we should therefore put if off until in the informal parleys we are assured that the meeting will not be a failure. - . rpHE IDEA of frequent meet- ings at the summit, with the - momentousness of these meetings deflated, rests upon a philosophy of international relations with which many American disagree. They be lieve that diplomatic inter course with another govern ment constitutes moral ap proval of its record and of its purposes. The traditional theory is that the test of recog nition is not whether it is a good government but whether it is in fact a government, and then whether it is or is not committing hostile acts against the government with which it is exchanging Ambassadors There is a . section oi our people who feel that in receiv ing Mr. Khrushchev in this country, the nation is endors ing the record of the Com munist party in the Soviet Union. They find this morally revolting. But they are taking an inflated view of the signifi cance of the visit. All that we are endorsing by receiving Mr. K. ' is our own willingness, if he is also will ing, to look for paths which might lead to a truce in the cold war. Mr. K. will draw great crowds because there is enormous curiosity to see him and to see what he is like. But there is no need to exaggerate the importance of aU that. For Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A N ACCREDITED MEMBER gift to his favorite "babe' my gorgeous hunk of stuff I Well, maybe it ain't real mink but, honey, it sure was stole."' ''" Back from his fourth visit to Las .Vegas in two months, a Hollywood director indig nantly denied that he was. a confirmed gambler. "I just fly up there occasionally for laughs," he explained. Yeah,"- added 'his wife, "and so far this month he's laughed away our house,, our car, and his life insur- ance policy". . - 1 will describe that Wiliiams one sentence," volunteered the He's a perfect gentleman from c UHb r SwmU Cert BUtributcd.ly Ki&g rettarei Matter of Fact HOW THE GENERAL GOT THE NEWS Samneua, Laos, Sept. 1 (de layed) - Only a few hours ago, while he was having a coffee f 1 y"1snd waiting f fSme' for his plane L. - . at Vientiane, It - ' I the command- l3 ''-"v er of the Laos A v m v flan Ouane Rathi- ,'1 koune, got his first hint of the massive new attack on Laos by the North Vietnamese Commu nists. ! . An ex-Foreign Legion pilot, Capt. Leopold Marold, was telling the crowd at the bar that his plane had been fired on when he tried to land sup plies at the Samneua province border post of Muong Het the day before. Gen. Ouane was asked about trouble at Muong Het. He snapped an order to his aide de camp, who came back a few minutes later with the reassuring word that the message center General Staff had received nothing of in terest. But this reassuring word was only another prooi mat Gen. Ouane's communications are rather worse than the com munications of Harold of Eng land, who at least heard of William the Conqueror's land ing news at Pevensey in less than 48 hours. The General's cheerful mood lasted only as long as our flight to Samneua. THERE was the hair-raising approach, twisting between mountains, to the little air strip. There was a jeep 'ride to the provincial headquar ters. Here, in a big, bare room, the Samneua commander, Gen. Amkha, briefly greeted us; and then took Gen. Ouane aside for five minutes of rapid, harsh explanation. With an odd gesture, as though he wished to brush away misfor tune, Gen. Ouane then turned to those of us who had come from Vientiane with him and announced briefly: "The enemy have attacked everywhere. AU our posts have fallen." After this chilling announce ment, the General s, their aides, the astonished reporters, and the worried American military attache, Lt. Col. Joel HolHs, all trooped together in to the map room. The maps, with their heavy, newly cray oned scarlet arrows indicating Communist attacks, told the ugly story. In symbol on those 1 maps, one could read the fall of the four border posts oi Samneua province; the intru sion of at least three and per haps five new battalions of enemy troops from North Viet nam, and the determined en emy .offensive in other areas under Gen." Amkha's com mand. rpHE HUDDLE around the A; maps continued for per haps half an hour: The attack had taken place on Aug. 30 at 6 a.ml at aU four border posts. a t In the Day's News By FRANK The foreign: news today is meaty. India, for example. : The Chinese communists seem to be HOLDING BACK their military forces on the Indo-Chinese border. At the same time, communist - spon sored riots are breaking out in big cities in India - Cal cutta, notably. WHAT, DOES that mean? " Here's a guess: ' The commies are realizing that in India FORCE isn't the answer. It would tend to turn Asia's ancient colonial hatreds AGAINST COMMUNISM and thus would tend to take the heat off the West. ; That would be bad. So the communists are turn- when it is aU over, and when it is the morning after, the co1 T hard job of concrete ne gotiation wiU stin lie ahead of us. (c) 1959 New York Herald - Tribune Inc. Stop Me of the mob sent a birthday '- with this note enclosed: send this genuine mink "For stole. ; boy I was out with last night in pert junior from Smith College. the word 'Stop,'" 5 -"-r- Bv Joseph Alsop Gen. Ouane was now hearing about it at 11 a sa. two days later. Yet this stocky, tough, hard-seasoned, man, veteran of nearly 15. years of war and against the French and with and against the Communists, merely asked his questions, made his notes, and from time to time made a suggestion to Gen. Amkha. 1 Suddenly the aide-de-camp came in, with the news , that "the notables" were outside on the porch of the Headquar ters. The Generals led the way. Four scrawny, wiry lit tle villagers greeted the two Generals: ; One had a severe leg wound. They had walked in from Muong Het and Xieng kho, 61 and 70 kilometers re spectively. The two from Xiengkho had been ambushed by the .way; , they had been four at the outset, but two were killed in the ambush. , , These men, Muong Het's headman, Kham Pheng and his partner, and Xiengkho's headman, Phia Sai and Ills number two, told their story to the Generals in little bursts. The details were all the same and all consistent-the dawn attack, the heavy weapons, the battalion surrounding the village, the people who did their best. At Muong Het, the 50 boys in the village school fought the defenders, and in the headman's little strong point of foxholes he saw three men killed. ALL four vehemently agreed that the main attackers were Vietnamese. The Muong Het pair also dated the new border crossing. After the first invitation a month and a half ago, the government forces evacuated the east bank of the Nam Ha River, as inde fensible. This strip right along the border then became an empty no-man's land. But on Aug. 26, a patrol across, the river by the Muong Het mili tia ran into a sharp fire fight; The border crossings must have begun then, about six days ago. The Generals and the head man were calm but grim to gether. Detail by detail the story was filled out. Finally, the news was gathered. Gen. Ouane made another curious gesture, as though to say life must go oh, and suggested that he had, better lunch.? But on the . way down the hill to the mess, we .ran . into . a , little group of men and boys, car rying burn guns. They had hurried from the village near est to Xiengkho, carrying back the arms the government had given them, because they knew they were too few. A tiny 10-year-old had his fath er's gun. - . "Go back, tell your father I am grateful," said Gen. Ou ane to the solemn child, giv ing him a coin. And that was the way the Commanding Gen eral of the Laos Army got the news . of the new attack on his country which may per haps make history. ; (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS ing (for the moment, at least) to the basic communist doc trine of boring from within. They aren't giving up in India. They're just switching their tactics. WHAT IS HAPPENING in " India is confirming the cynical track that you can't play with a skunk without get ting befouled. Nehru must be getting an inkling by this time oj. that fundamental fact. ' WHAT OF LAOS? It's worth- watching. But Keep; this in mind: Laos is a part of the former French colonial empire, in Asia. If we intervene on the side of the Laotians, we'll be raising the old question of COLONIALISM and giving the communists a chance to play on the old colonial ha treds. We'd better stay out. WE COME now to the meat "of the coconut: HOW'S IKE DOING IN EUROPE? It's hard to escape the conclusion that he is doing a marvelous job': ': ' - For. example: . . - . v The Labor party - minded London Daily Herald says: "Last night (at the Macmillan Eisenhower fireside telecast) the millions who have heard the. look-how-weU-we're-doing story In party political broad casts wanted to see what sort of a fellow the fireside nee is. Now they know. He is an hohest,.earnest, dedicated man of peace. He is a great guy!" Coming from a British La bor party newspaper, that just about tells the story. ..". TKE'S JOB is to BU I L D "UNITY in the Western al liance. United- we stand, di vided we faU. If we don't hang together, we'll all hang sep arately. All that is too true to be pleasant. Mr. K's job is to divide and conquer. That's about the long and (By M-T Staff and Contributors) ' Roseburg people, who went through the big explosion and fire last month, are still a lit tle jumpy. And who can blame them? Last week Roseburg's Am erican Legion junior baseball team was playing in a sec tional play-off in Bend. Thein opponent was Las C r u c e s, N.M. Bob Cecil, a Bend fire captain, was rooting for Las Cruces, and to assist in the noisemaking he sounded a si ren and bell, loudly. Roseburg residents, follow ing the game by radio, heard these noises, their minds flash ed back to Friday, Aug. 7, and some of them panicked.. . Listeners swamped local ra dio stations and the newspaper with calls, some in protest, some in fear. Mothers com plained that their smaller children refused to go to bed alone. And the Roseburg News-Review summed it up: "Rose burg people . . . have had enough of, sirens for a while," An anonymous reader of the Mail Tribune's commu nications column sneaked this one onto our desk the other day: "Monkeys aren't kwaxy, "They are just sore, '"Cause their cotton pickin' relatives "Still are waging war." So there, Everett. Some people claim they have a special way of forecast ing a change in the weather. Their corns hurt, they say, or their bones ache. And there are those who say that wild animals are far better than humans at forecasting weather changes. , But now comes the United Press to report something that goes this one better. - "Birds left the scene of the Montana earthquake the night of Aug. 17 several, hours be fore the disaster struck' UPI quoted a geologist as saying. : He also reported that water fowl and other birds did not return to the scene until sev eral days after the main quake, when the after-shocks had subsided. ' Until it clouded up Friday, it might have been appropri ate to quote a Salem col . umnist, to the effect .that "These are the times thai dry men's soles." . ' ' One 'of our staff members the other day ran across- a "finer" (that's one of the han dy litUe paragraphs used to fill up .the bottom of a col umn when the news runs a few lines r short) - which , said Letters to the Editor must bear' the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia. for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right re 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 fact the contrary is often Toastmistresses To the Editor: How many of your readers are Interested in gaining additional poise and an alert mind in carrying on conversation, whether it be in social groups or with the person one meets casually? How many would like to im prove their ability to give an occasional talk before their club or church group with a minimum of nervousness, ap prehension, and forgetful ness? Or who would like to learn how to plan and devel-: op either a formal or infor mal speech or talk? ' Would some of your readers like to learn how 'to properly, per-- form as ah officer of the or ganizations of which they are members, whether it be as secretary, treasurer,. presi dent or a special 'chairman? Would they like to Joiow the protocol rules to be used when; there is : a special din ner and honored guests? w All . this and much more may be learned as a member of the Medford Toastmistress club. One may enjoy, in ad dition, . t he friendly atmos phere of interested members. One is given., not only con structive criticism, encour agement, and advice in one's endeavor., for improvement, but is taught how to evalu- the short of it. .-"..' IN PARIS, Ike is getting into the tough part of his job. In pe Gaulle, he has a strange character to deal with - all the stranger because he is .un doubtedly a patriotic French man ..... -.1 But He wants (perhaps above all else) to see France regain her former GREATNESS. He may have doubts as to whether that can be accomplished within the framework of the Western alliance. Therein lies the problem Ike faces in Paris. that the total weight of the earth's mass has been estimat ed to be approximately 6 sex- ' tillion, 600 quintillion tons. He commented, "However ; much that is!" . ;' Easy. It's 6,600,000,000,000,- ooo.ooo.ooo. . ; Our farm editor is sympa thetic with the difficulties" encountered by the pear or-, chardists. He reports: "After being troubled by pear de cline, insect pests, a rapidly -changing market, and a picker shortage, the pear growers are now facing an other threat dove hunters have been pockmarking the pears with birdshoL" WelL anyway, there hasn't been much hail this season. A young man of our ac quaintance recently took his family out to dinner, and, in an expansive mood, decided to buy a cigar while paying the eheck. - What brand of cigar do you ; recommend?" he asked the . cashier, a grandmotherly look-; ing woman. The same brand I smoke." she replied. He bought one, lit up, and immediately decided the cash-. ier was a lot more rugged than she appeared. The first puff nearly knocked him over. There are all sorts of traf fic hazards these days.-One of them noted the other day was a couple of planes which, in the process of. ' spraying pear orchards, were climbing, turning, then -swooping down over the or chards again. It backed up highway traffic for blocks as the drivers watched the road with one -eye and the planes with the other. One of our young men re-' turned from vacation recent ly. While away from work he painted a house. During this ' process, he became acquainted with a quite, que young. neighborhood boy. During one luncheon break, ' ' the little one told our painter ., aU about "mumble bees." Mumble bees, he reported, fly , around department stores and sting mamas, the boy said,' reasoning from the fact thata daddy is always saying mama . gets stung when she buys a new hat. , Another time the conversa-. tion turned to cars, and the . lad reported his father . had. two . a sedan and a. station wagon. Our painter, teasing a '' bit, asked if that station war 1 gon didn't mean that daddy was an important man? "Oh, no," the youngster quickly re plied. "He's just a daddy." ' the ate the performance ofthers. Opportunity is given to exer cise one's talents whether it be in the way of planning meetings, dinners, table dec orations or speaking. In oth er words the Toastmistress club.pr o vides leadership training. The Medford Toastmistress g, club is interested in women of all ages who are concerned with these features : of self improvement and self-expression. For information call Mrs. Elmer Ness, SPring 3-4308. Mrs. Ellen A. Lynner, 2495 West Main St, .Medford. Prospector's Luck To the Editor: One of the chief handicaps to prospect ing the hills and mountain tops of southwest Oregon in the summer and early fall is the lack of water for panning purposes, unlike the desert prospectors, who depend upon tracing by the float method. . Another unique way of testing samples is to observe the "core drillings" of the badger and digger squirrel holes. Which reminds us of two ' brothers who were "pocket hunting" and in a time of excitement of having receiving a large amount of gold coin for their gold dust decided to bury part of the coins, when imbibiiQ too freely in John Barleycorn. According to : the fates that play tricks sometimes to the unwary at .various times, the two old prospectors never failed to remember that only a part had been recovered. After a lapse c. 20 years, the two;, were quite surprised when 'a digger squirrel hatt' unearthed a gold coin, reveal ing the location of the re maining cache of several hun dred dollars in $20 gold pieces only a few feet from their cabin. Just one time a prospector's luck. Bert Kissinger, ... 520 Boardman St. Medford.
