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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.