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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford. Or. Sunday, Up. 13, 195t . "Everyone tn Southern Ore oo Raada fh Mai Tribupr Published Dil except Saturday by MJJJFOftP PRINTING CO 33 North ffa St Ph SP 2-141 T" ROBERT W nVBL Editor HERB GR Advertinint Manager GEP.A1-D LATHAM Business Mfi IRK W X1XN 4B. M ana Kin k "alitor AR1 T &AWS city Editor HARRY cHIPMAN Telef Editor RICHAKD JWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHEB Womena Editor DALE EHiCKS N Clreulstleii Mag " Aa lndBnden Nawspaper Entereo a sewnJ elass matter al Med far Orrm under Act el Man-h 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br M a .m Advance Copy loe. . Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 . Daily and Sunday 4 moa. 8.00 . Dail an Sunday 3- mos 4 -31 r Sunday Only One year MAO By Carrier In Advance Medfors, ' Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. . Gold Hill - Phoenix Shady Cove- Rogue Riv er Taimi and on motor rouUs Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 n41v iut Sim.!avt . M - 1 Sil Carrier and Dealer c y lOe ! 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Plans are completed for the Jackson county aviation fair next week end. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 13. 1939 (Wednesday) Medford police remind mo torists of the municipal ban on parking cars on paved 'streets for more than 30 min- ;utes between 1 and 9 a.m. I tion. i From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "V. (Shotgun) Canon, a valley Democrat of long-standing, and considerable $ i 1 1 i n g down, is back from a vaca tion." . 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1929 (Friday) - Mayor Pipes has been asked to rescind the city's new ban minute parking limit in the downtown business district. ' Geprge A.' Hunt sells the 'Craterian and Rialto theaters to the Fox chain. . . . 40 YEARS AGO - Sept. 13. 1919 (Saturday) : The farm bureau -barbecue and picnic in the city park : draws hundreds of , hungry country people. ' ' ' Dedistricting of Medford ends overcrowding in the city schools. - . ., ... . .50 YEARS AGO , : " Sept. 13. 1909 (Monday) I :. Porter Brothers,: contractor for the P and E railroad ex tension sublets the work to H. N. Randall. . . : T Grand Army of the Repub lic vets hold a. reunion at :U1- rrrAirA " "i v '" )V- ' WhaPs Ycsr l.n,T Nine er ten correct superior; seven or eKjht is excellent; five at sis is good. 1. The city of. Washington- is, or is not, coextensive with Z. JJriea coconut meai,iram . which coconut oil is express ed, is known, as. what? large o fine crop called?.. 4. What Asiatic country -once held a mandate over the Marshall, Caroline and Mar iana groups of ramie is lands? i ' : .' 5. Does the State of Hawaii have one, or two, members in the U. S. House of Repre sentatives? . 6. In which city is the Bas tille? w 7. In what war did the bat tie of San Juan Hill occur? 8. Who wrote under the pen name "Uncle Remus"? Q t T what Hpntifif fiAlrl as. ' ' - w - is the name of Lee DeForest prominent? 10. What body gets be tween the moon and the sun to cause a lunar eclipse? Answers: 1. It is. 2. Copra. 3. Bumper crop. 4. Japan. 5. ri-e . 6. Parish - France. 7. Scenishi American War. 8. ' - . m. Jl Harris. 9. Wira. less telephonr. l& Brth? Parole - Good or Bad? The Oreeron state board of uarolp' and nrrw bation is in a touchy spot the hundreds, and over tne years, tnousands, 01 men wno1 have made good on parole, go largely unnoticed. But once let a parolee get into trouble after leavincr the nenitentiarv. and then there's hell to pay. The board is assailed as a bunch of soft- V. J lL..-'.i. J. Ill 1.-1.. i. J men loose in society. ' These criticisms, while understandable in view- of the lack of nublic the parole system works, ONSIDER these facts: ' A man under parole is a far smaller ex pense to the state than is one in prison. The form er requires a certain minimum of supervision; the latter requires feeding, housing, clothing ancLmeaical attention not to mention educa tion and attempts at rehabilitation. " The record of parolees is excellent, with by far the largest portion of them returning to useful lives in the community. The one who "goes bad" and is returned to prison, is the exception. - --.' THE man who. is under parole supervision is less dangerous to society than is the man who "serves his time," and is released with no strings attached.- . The former is counseled, guided, helped to find useful work, and is required to observe cer tain rules of behavior. The latter is turned lobse with a few bucks in his pocket, the stigma of an "ex-con" upon him, poor prospects for a job, and little reason not to return immediately to a life of crime. ' The parolee is a man who has been studied while in prison, and who a board of intelligent, responsible men is willing to send back into so ciety as; a "calculated risk." The "time-server" has no such bona fides. Chances are that he is either a short term pris oner with no chance for parole, or a man who has been denied parole as a "bad risk." a " ' REGON'S parole system is soundly based on V; that provision of the state constitution which says: . ' .' '. "Laws for the punishment of crime shall be founded on the principles of reformation, and not t)f vindictive justice." , : A man in prison is of no use whatever to so ciety. He creates nothing; he pays no taxes; he buys no goods at the corner store. He is, instead, a tax-eater, an unwilling parasite on society. This is not to say that prisons should be abolished ' far from it. They are necessary evils, and will remain so as long as society is as imperfect as it gives every promise of remaining. DUT it is to the self-interest of each member of ''society to understand that punishment of criminals by imprisonment, as .punishment and nothing else, is a wasteful and unproductive en deavor...., ... . '' " ' Historically, imprisonment has had three ob jectives: (1) punishment a tooth for a tooth") ; (2) protection of society from a malefactor who may err again, and (3) reformation of the malefactor so he can again become la productive and useful member, of so eiety (rehabilitation). : i ? : ; v u-The: firsts onfr once ..was ivirtually the sole reason for imprisonment'. The second arose when ociety stopped mutilating or executing criminals tor all types of offenses. The third is a relatively recent concept, and is based both on the fact that an imprisoned man is an utter waste to himself and society, and on the ideal of the worth and dignity of individual human beings. . - ' CHOUtD Hugh D'Autremont have , been pa y roled?. :;rS " "' 'r : Should Ray D'Autremont be set free? , "Ct . Should Jake ' Pinson, cop-killer, prjsonf es capee and riot-leader, he paroled, fcow" that he has made an excellent prison record for the'past eight years? ; - ' - .. ; '';;v: ; "The answer, in bur view, is "yes" to each of these provided the men have ceased to become a potential threat to society, and the parole board is cpnvinced each will make good. " v Many-sincere people wilt disagree. They will feel that these men, who committed awful crimes, have riot yet "paid their debt to society." Other equally sincere people feel that each of ; these notorious three should .have been executed. DUT.at.what profit? : t Hugh' D'Autremont died shortly 'after his parole. , , '.r'--;- : . ... , . 1 v . .' - PSnson and Ray D'Autremont are - still, im prisoned, and are being supported by tax money. If they are ready for parole (and in this we must trust the judgment of thje parole board) , why not let them go, and become producing, tax paying members of free society again? If they are paroled, they will bear a heavy burden of responsibility, not only to themselves, but to the parole system itself, without which they would have died in prison; without which the Oregon ' state penitentiary, would have to double its size,; and without wlr.ch we would lack the assurance that many former prisoners are under supervision and trying, with help, to make good. E.A. - . Let not us, who dropped the first atomic bomb, . shudder ,1 too -much about the sins of Khrushchev who, although persistent, has been a retail killer. Sherman County Journal. informatinn about how are still unfounded. ' ("an eye for an eye and Dennis the Menace 'let's mm wnHouTSEr eetrs; I uke to Matter of Fact hu - IS THERE AGGRESSION! ; Tokyo - The Japanese pa pers breathlessly report that the United Nations is about to 'vVM"""sv i u n d e rtake a fSy7 1 solemn inves- fm ''' :' I tigation of the J ' .J Communist ag- 1 eression in La- a os. It would '! be hard to imi gme a more ironically su perfluous ven- - ,jnt pb - aisop xure. - In . order to see the bitter humor of this piece of high level international ithumb twiddling, you only have to stretch your imagination a lit tle: Imagine, for example, that the American administration that came to office preaching the "liberation" , policy had meant 'a word of its preach-ments.- I . Imagine, then, the Director of the Central intelligence Agency, Allen W. Dulles, coir lecting all the reasonably com bative Czechoslovak reiugees from Communism who are now teaching school, operat ing groceries, and otherwise earning honest, humble liv ings outside Czechoslovakia. Imagine, further, the CIA training and arming these peo ple as guerilla units in West, era Germany. ( FtAGINE, finally, the NATO forces in Western Germany breaching the Czech border defense. s, in order to turn guerilla units loose inside Czechoslovakia, where they would then raise as much heU as possible fe-r the shabby, time-serving Communist gov ernment in Prague. The imagination has to be considerably stretched to pic ture the peaceable Allen Dul les carrying out .' any such scheme as this. But . the. imagi nation is:not even needed to picture the consequences of this kind of "erious attempt to give meaning to the "libera tion" policy. - - The entire American press, with its most respectable, nti Communist lements in the lead, . would be in - full cry against such "flagrant aggres sion." The Senate would be ex ploding at quarter-hour inter, vals. The British Labor party would have reached "the stage of public apoplexy. Dag Ham marskjold and the U. N. Secre tariat -would vbe running around in circles, barfting like self-righteous dogs: Most im portant ' of all, , the- Kremlin would be getting ready to go to war.-,-:' VET A MUCH worse case has A now occurred in Laos, be yond any possibility of argu ment except, by the type of English and French officials who remain in Vientiane, a couple of hundred miles from the front, and discount all re ports from that uncomfortable area because the reports neces sarily come from "natives." In the first instance; on July 15 to 18, something like five batallions, of pro-Communist Laa refugees, trained and armed in North Vietnam, were seen across the frontier by regular units of the North Vietnamese army. The latter thenretired. A great deal of nonsense has been and is being: written about the consequences of this first attack. The country at tacked was small, primitive, and had been left divided by the Geneva partition of Indo china sponsored by. the U. S. government in 1954. The northern provinces of Laos were then Communist-occupied. Only a little more than a year ago, Laos still had a mixed government in which Communists were the domi nant figures. F THESE circumstances, it was extraordinary that lit tle Laos, on the very brink of final disaster, abruptly orga nized a government of nation al independence. It would have been downright miracu lous if Laos had been able to root out aU Communist infil tration in the remote villages. It would havt beta super i 2 !r LA A. miraculous for Laos to train a fully efficient modern army in about . 14 months. The Lao ar my has no more than 25 bat talions, which were already fully occupied in July with the remaining internal Commu nist underground. In July, the Communist high command un- kquestionably expected that five battalions of border-cross ers would be enough to tilt the balance and thus spell the ena oi iaos. ? Despite the odds on success, the first Communist operation quite largely failed. The north ern provinces of Phong Saly and Samneua did not rapidly give in. Tne carefully coordi nated guerilla attack in the rest of the country did not at. tain its aims. Hence on Aug, 30, as first reported by this correspondent, the Commu nists launched another inva sion that was really massive by ho standards. fWO additional Communist -- battalions drove into Phong Saly, where the . origi nal invaders had been aU but routed. At least seven battal ions drove into Samne,ua, where the government forces were just going over to the offensive. The new invaders from North Vietnam, more over, were not just Lao Com munist refugees. The Lao refu-1 gees were a small element, compared' to guerilla trained tribespeople of . North Viet namese origin. In all the new invading battalions, at least at the outset, the stiffening was also supplied by regulars of, the North Vietnamese Com munist army. , The parallel with the imag ined Czechoslovak case is ex act, except that Laos was im measurably more vulnerable and -the Communist aggression was immeasurably more nak ed than the supposed aggres sion organized by Allen Dul les. i - But Instead of running around in circles, self-right-eously barking, Dag Hammar skjold' is wearing that judi cial, doubting air which he? reserves for Communist ag gressions. More important, in stead of ordering mobilization, as the Kremlin would be doing if Czechoslovakia had suffer ed this sort of incursion, the White House is ironing its best ingt'on By WILLIAM DELICATE TASK r Washington-At first glance the- United States Govern ment seems not to have taken out much insurance against the possibility of an outright tpropagand a UilUUU A. U f Nikita Khru shchev in his forthcomin g swing through this country. Happily, how e v e r , Washington ic Tint ca un Wtlliajn S. " , wwto prepared - or so relaxed as appears on the surface. Our government is anxious not to - suggest that we are ready to go into a pro-longed,- running, shouting match with Mr. Khrushchev. This far, indeed, we really are not prepared to go. -Nevertheless, certain pre cautions have been taken, pri marily on ' the suggestion of that expert in dealing with Khrushchev, Vice - President Richard M. Nixon. We will not let the Soviet Premier run away with the show. HENRY CABOT LODGE is; in fact though not in form, nominated to protect the American side in that part of the Khrushchev visit which wUl be before the public eye and ear and thus largely a propaganda contest. As the head for years of our delega tion to the United Nations, Lodge has exchanged millions of words with Soviet spokes- Today & Tomorrow By Walter In dealing with the Laotian affair, the first action of the Security Council has been re sponsible, skillful and ad dressed to the right objec tive. This is to find out what is reaUy goin on in Laos general ly, and in the border re gions touch ing Commun ist Vietnam in Walter Uwnuu particular. We have the Com munist Version of the affair expounded by Mr, Sobolev, the Soviet delegate to the Se curity Council. But we do not have an objective account from any Western or neutral source which explains in any hdetail what has been happen ing during the past years in Tiaos, how the civil war orig inated, and how big is the in tervention in that civil war of Communist Vietnam. In sending a committee of four to study the Lv.otian sit. uation, the Security Council may have slowed down, even if it has not . brought to a standstill, the actual fighting. In any event the committee can, if it does its work thor oughly and fearlessly, pro vide the ground, which is now lacking, for effective action. As things stand now, any pos itive action, military or even diplomatic, by the U. N. or by SEATO, would be a leap in the dark. " - TSE kingdom of Laos, which became independent after the liquidation of the French imperial power in 1954, is far from being a unified na tional state. It is an artifi cial construction in which one part of the country, where the fighting is now taking place, had a separate army of its own and was avowedly Com munist in sympathy. The orig inal arrangement was for a synthetic unity of the .two armies and the two Ideologi cal parties. It was a hybrid state which was to be lightly armed and. neutral in policy, which was to exist outside the cold war by the forbearance of the two coalitims. During , the past year this synthetic arrangement, which never looked as if it would be' ; workable, has., broken down. The Laotian 1 govern men, with our moral and ma. terial support, has taken in creasingly s tr on g action against the Communist' army and the Communist party t and they in their turn have vjicioubtedly been seeking and obtaining material and moral support from Communist Viet nam. THE basic problem for the ,U. N., and for us ' as a member the U. N., is how Laos can be unified, and how it can then maintain its na tional independence. The civil war poses the primary prob lem, and unless the civil war can be ended, there is no form of intervention which is not linen and' polishing its new bought vodka glasses in prepa ration for a joljy week end visit from Nikita S. Khrush chev. . (c) 1959 New .York Herald . Tribune Inc. rt S. WHITE men. Before - that, he was. a member of the Senate, an other place where men learn how to grapple effectively in the oratorical clinches. Officially, Lodge is desig nated simply to accompany Khrushchev on . his tour, to extend this country's formal greetings, and so on. Unofficially, his assign ment is far more significant. He wiU be found ready, if ne cessary, .to do more than speak the nice, conventional welcomes. He will be found ready to reply to Khrushchev from the same rostrum when ever and wherever the Soviet boss tries to use-a public oc casion for ' extreme Soviet propaganda. 171CE - PRESIDENT NIXON himself ; would have been the logical man for this job, considering his recent exper iences with Khrushchev in the Soviet Union. It was for rea sons of protocol that Mr. Nixj on did not take on the taski He has made it a policy not to accompany any foreign visi tor, not even the Queen of England, in any visit to this country outside official Wash ington. This he has 'done to avoid setting an example that would commit the office of Vice-Presidency to such tour ism for all comers who might be heads of state. Thus, Mr.' Nixon recommended Mr,. Lodge. . .' And Lodge, though no Nix on in the kind of infighting in which the redoubtable Khru-1 .m I f Repo lippmann likely to cause more trouble than it cures. For an attempt to seal off the civil war against infiltra tion from Communist Viet nam would probably mean a prolonged and indecisive jun gle war. An intervention to end the civil war by attempt ing to defeat the rebels would be a miserable way to engage American force in a most in accessible place. - What the U. N. has to aim at is a political solution of the Laotian civil war. In seeking, such a solution it should make use of all avail able diplomatic channels, the good, offices of the Soviet Union, the good . offices of India, the Sub-Committee of the Security Council, and, it may be, of the International Commission which was set up at Geneva in 1954. IITHILE there does not exist ' ' as yet any trustworthy ac count of the situation and how it has developed, we know enough already to see that there is a fairly long his-, tory which goes back oj the new Eisenhower-Khrushchev exchanges: The trouble . in Laos was not stirred up by Mr. K., as some weird the orizers have suggested, in or der to show his scorn' of the President.' Nor was the trou ble stirred up by Red China to spoil the. exchange of vis its. For the trouble began long before the visits were even considered. , What may have happened and this is a. most tentative and hesitating hypothesis -is that as the anti-Communism of Laos grew stronger, and as its neutrality gave way to alignments with the United States, the . Red Vietnamese went to Peiping and to Mos cow 'and, pointing out that American military power was approaching their frontier, asked for permission to repel it. The strongest argument for this theory is our experience in the Korean, War. We learned there, after we had crossed the 38t& parallel and were approaching the Yalu River, how violently Commu nist states react to any mili tary approach to their fron tiers. A recent dispatch from Mr- Joseph Alsop shows that the Laotian government it self knew this and warned us to expect trouble if Laos be came an active antt-commu nist and Ho longer a neutralist state-on the frontiers of China and North Vietnam, p- ;'i k - Be that as it may what the Security Council t has done was the wise thing to do: It is the most and it is the leaat that can be done until the fog in which the whole affair1 is shrouded has ; been cleared away. : (c) 19S9 New York Herald " Tribune Ine. " shchev is very good, indeed, is aiso no amateur, From the viewpoint of the top leaders of this govern ment, .the Khrushchev visit poses two quite separate prob lems. One. is the .public prob lem, that is, the Soviet Pre miers travels and meetings with the American public. On this, our leaders wish Mr. Khrushchev to see what scenes and people he -wants to see. They wish him to have free dom to argue his case but not freedom to distort history beyond recognition .as over and over he tried to do with Nixon in Moscow.' ' THE second problem in the Khrushchev visit lies, of course, in . the highly private talks which President Eisen hower will have at the end with his visit. Lodge's respon sibility, therefore, is this: . 1. To go along, with the Khrushchev . party , wjth the obligation to be a good host but not so good a host as "to let Mr. K get away with-murder," as the expression goes. 2. To bring Mr. Khrushchev back here, for his climactic confidential sessions with the President, a w a r e of the strength and fairness of the United States. Nobody wants the visitor to be treated roughly. Nobody wants him to return here fatigued and em bittered by endless hot debate with Lodge. But nobody wants him to return here for these vital talks with the President in the attitude of a conquering hero who just won (an Amer ican election, ; '', AU those in power - nota bly, Mr. . Nixon are fully aware of the immensely deli, cate nature of this operation. Every top . Republican poli tician - again notably Mr. Nixon - knows this, too: the sweet, reasonable air of "peace" now sweeping the country with such benefit to the Republicans could , turn sour indeed if this visit re sulted either in a complete failure to ease the cold war or in unwise American con cessions to Nikita Khru shchev. ; (Copyright, 1959, by United . , Features Syndicate, Inc.): (By M-T Staff and Contributors) School starts tomorrow. When we were a grade school pupil, the year always "started" when school opened, and January 1st was nothing but a holiday a week after Christmas. Our mental calendar was a circle, with Christmas at the top, a long open gap at the bottom representing school vacation, and a big mark at the start of the circle going up school. And, despite the fact that we now operate under a con ventional calendar, that old school days mental picture sticks with us. Tomorrow, though it is in the middle of the ninth month, is 'still the beginning of the broken circle, sweeping up . toward Christ mas, down into spring, and vanishing again as vacation- time arrives. We have no idea where that mental calendar came from. It operated counter clockwise, incidentally, for no good reason . Remember Ihe election to decide whether or not Phoenix and Talent school districts should consolidate which was held last spring? Communications Desert Minerals To the Editor: According to all available information, in dications are that any major mineral" discoveries in the future will be concentrated in the area of central Oregon. A vast amount of hidden wealth awaits the coming boom in the interior of "a little known sage land," al though underground water courses have been known to exist there for a long time. Several years ago a cattle man of near Prineville told me that in his younger days while riding range near OdeU and- Crescent lakes he chanced to find an' outcrop ping of a peculiar mineralized ore. It being quite heavy, he was attracted eaouch to take along a generous sample and send some of the ore to a Denver, Colo., assaying com pany. In due time received a very good report in gold run ning in the amount of four figures. But being in a wild and remote area he never re turned again. -: This is only ... oner' Instance where ..mineral r has -been found: The interior of the state from Ashwood, Jeffer son county to the California Nevada line has been known to be mineralized, but due to the lack of real adventurers roads into a mysterious re gion, a desert of sand and arid wilderness, was isola tion. Now that the jeep and hell copter are fast becoming a modern factor in travel, it will shorten and speed the prospector to . search more diligently in the future. ; , Bert Kissinger 520 Boardmau st. Medford , . Truckers' Contribution To the Editor: My purpose in writing to you is to teU you of a series of contribu tions to the success of the Ore gon Centennial celebration. I am referring to the very substantial assistance given to the Centennial by the Oregon trucking industry through its trade association, the Oregon Trucking Associations, Inc. No single promotion proj ect of the Centennial attract ed as much nationwide atten-, tion and did asr much to stimulate interest in the Cen tennial, in my opinion, as the "on to Oregon" wagon train. And a most essential factor in this wagon train was the presence of a truck and trail er, a "rolling barn," to follow the wagon train from Inde pendence, Missouri to Inde pendence, Oregon, carrying feed, supplies,, spare parts, equipment and t much other paraphernalia necessary to keep the wheels roUing. The truck and trailer, and aU expenses were contributed by the OTA. ' ? In addition the industry hauled aU of the wagons from Oreeon back to Missouri, then hauled them from Inde pendence, .Oregon, to Port land for exhibition at the Centennial; again at no cost. Another major contriou- tion by OTA was the furnish ing of a truck 'and trailer and aU expenses for the Van of History, the pre-Centennial nromotion nroiect which toured the state carrying his torical treasures to virtually every community in Oregon. The total contribution of. all of these projects repre sented an amount close to $100,000. The trucking industry nas performed a notable public service for the citizens oi Or egon. Anthony Brandenthaler, Chairman, Oregon Centennial Commission, It venerated auite a lot of heat, what with letters-to-the- editor and what not, on both sides of the fence. Now -there's another . elec tion on the same auestion com ing up next Wednesday, and so far, hardly a peep. Curious about this, we ask ed some people who might Know the reason, and one of them said it might be the re cent change in school district boundaries, which moved a portion of the Phoenix district into the Medford district. . It's f unny how a little boun dary change can change a per son's attitude - particularly if it results in a change in taxes, or changes in a youngster's educational opportunities. : We have a hunch that the consolidation will be approved this time, but, following a cus tom of long standing, don't plan to place any wagers on it. "I once have heard it stated, "Though it may be just a gutts. "That we see the faults la 1 others "That we ourselves possess." . a . . t One of our summertime young men recently wound up his duties here, and left to re turn to school, although he planned to visit his home in Los Angeles- after getting established in Eugene. We received a letter from him (which also contained his key to the newsroom which he'd forgotten to return), and we'd like to share parts of it (the letter, not the key) with you, as follows. "It was raining in Eugene, of course, when I arrived. I suspect it has" done so con tinually since I left there last June. The flight from Eugene to San Francisco made three stops. - to wind the rubber band, I think - and the longest was in Medford. We waited so long I almost came back to work" for a day. ' ': "The flight t- Klamath Fall was sort of trough, and three people got sick. You mi'sht pose the -question of how the stewardesses can weave down the aisle with, a SMILE on their faces while they carry those horrid paper bags. "I found out the pilot used to be a yo-yo champion; after we went up and down in Sac ramento, we finally arrived in San Francisco, where I lost my baggage and took a differ ent plane than the one I was scheduled totOf 'course? in California they're more organ ized, and we non-stopped it right down the coast. I think that points up the difference between the two states. Here (California) they're more ef ficient, but. somehow the per sonality is gone. "I finally arrived in Los An Beles. At least. I THINK I did; the smog hasn't .lifted enough for me to tell for sure. But the lady who fed me last night looked familiar, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was my mother. "Anyway, I was pooped. Who said it was relaxing to fly?" . Unhappily, another letter which recounted the misad ventures of a young girl 'making her first flight alone got swept into the waste paper basket th other day, or we'd pass that one along, too. It was to the effect that the youngster was scared . stiff, and that no one seem ed interested in giving her much of a helping hand. That's unusual or airlines. Most of the time the people are as' nice and helpful as can be.' She made the flight, incidentally, only because the friendly SP doesn't want the patronage of unaccom panied children any more a fact which was discussed on this page a day or two ago. What are kids sup posed to do walk? From the Sa'em Capital Journal: You know how seeing Ni- agra Falls is supposed to re mind vou that you forgot to turn the bathtub off before leaving on vacation, or seeing, the monkey cage at the zoo makes you wonder what the neighbors' kids are doing at the moment? Things like tnat. Well. West Salem firemen were called out on a grass fire just before noon t'uther day and Fireman JacK jonnson was working his way down a slope toward the blaze wnen suddenly he yelled, "Ohmy gosh! My beans!" ' " Fortunately a friend t and neighbor was watching near by and she volunteered to go to the station and turn down the heat under the noon meal pt the fire station while Fire man Johnson took care of the problem at hand. 'v Like the time the family we know best started on a long-awaited camping trip, drove to the city limits,' ask ed themselves, as families will,' "Have we forgotten anything?" and came to the sudden realisation that they . had - the sleeping baaK:r
