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Medford and Jaskson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
; 10 YEARS AGO
Sent. 13, 1949 (Tuesday) ,
i Smoke jumpers are used in
the Rogue River National lor
i est for the first time this year
'in combatting a fire on Whis
key ridge in the Appiegate
district.
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