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MAIL TRIBUNI, MWfortf, Or. Sunday, Seat. 20, 1159 "Everyone u Southern Otmm Readg The Mall Tribune Published IWUy except Saturday, fay HJJJFOilD PRINTING CO : 83 North ffa St Ph SP 2-S14I ROBtRT W RUHL' Editor fJERB GR Advertising Manager GERAUJ LATHAM Business Mgi ERIC W JR. ladns Cdito? EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Edits RICHARD JKWETT 6 porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editor DALE ERJCTCjM'N Circulation May An Independent Newspaper Entered a aecand elaas matter al Medfon Oreeon under Act of Marffb 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' Br Mai. In Advance Coot 10. Dall- and' Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday S mom 8.0b Dailv am Sunday 8 mos 4JU Sunday Only One year 8420 - Bv Carrier In Arivsftse Medford A t hi and Central Paint. Hi it . Point Jacksonville, . Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Deil? and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.90 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Term Case in Advance Official Paper of City f Medfort Official Paper et Jack C treaty United Press International Pull Leased Wire "MEMBES OF ArjDlfHBTjRXATTT or cracuimTioN 'Advertising Representative: WEST HOUDA Y CO.. INC Of fices is New York. Chicago. De troit. San fVaneiseo. Los Ancales. Seattle. Portland St. Loins, At- lan't vanenrver BC 0T NIWSPAPlt FUIMSHEIS "ASSOtlATIOM WTIONAl EDITORIAL ASBbrUTlON 3 - U Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50. years ego. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 20 1949 (Tuesday) A total of 118 first-graders enrolled at Roosevelt school, and an extra teacher and re serve classroom are pressed into ' service. Three carloads " of Bartlett - pears addressed J " to ' Uncle Sam leave Medford, marking the end of the federal pur chasing program, :: . . ' 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1939 (Wednesday) The Rogue Valley Men's chorus meets in the Jackson county courthouse auditori um. '.:.. ' ' ' From Arthur Peary's ."Ye : Smudge Pot," ; column: "The Indian summer , threatened last week, has returned to the . reservation,"' and , screen doors, "flies, and electric fans are still problems of the Old- er Girls." f y, " ' 30 YEAR AGO ' "- ' v7 Sept. 20. 1929 (Friday) v ' Midway rd. is to be opened for traffic by Nov. 1. r Central Pointers voice dis approval of providing school bus service for children liv ing less than one mile from school. . 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1919 (Saturday) . Medfordites are thrilled by the stunt performance of a visiting airplane flier. Talent residents will vote on formation of an irrigation district next week. ' :" 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 20. 1909 (Monday) Four more cars of rails for the P and E railroad, exten sion arrive. ' Equipment is readied for laying more than eight miles of mains in Medford for the city's new water system. Whsl's Yc:r I.Q.? Nine er tea come is tnpei seven or eight it excellent; five er tix is 1. Fill in the letters to name these countries: F L - D and-R-E-ET 2. Is the dangerous quality of an electric shock the volt age or the amperage? 3. How many standard 'time zones are there in the U. S.? 4. The caliber of a gun re fers to -the distance the gun will shoot; true or false? 5. What is the most abun dant element ' in the earth's crust? ' : 6. In mounting a horse, should one ' first place the right, or left, foot in the stir rup? 7. What statue is on Bed loe's Island? f 8. Within the' boundaries of which three States does the ; Cumberland Gap National Historical Park lie? ' 9. Which book of the Old Testament tells of Solomon and the Shulamite maid? ' 10. What American General was nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers"? Answers: I. Finland and Greece. 2. Amperage. 3. Four. 4. False, (interior diameter of bore). 5. Aluminum. -ft. Left foot. 7. Statu of. Liberty. 8. Ky., Tenn., and Va. 9. The C-ng of Solomon (Canticles). 10. Winfield Scott. Civil Rights Report The report -of the Federal Civil Rights Com mission to the President makes important, though unhappy, reading. It describes in- detail what every informed American should be aware of that large num bers of Negroes in the South are prevented from voting by methods which range from physical violence to legal trickery, that the Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation has been far from implemented and that racial discrimina tion in housing forces Negroes, Puerto Ricans and similar groups to provide disproportionate. per centages of the nation's slum dwellers: : No American who takes seriously the ideas of freedom and equality in this nation's heritage can feel anything but shame about the basic situation described in this report, even though progress has been and is being made civil ngnts to an. 1X7HAT can be done to eliminate these evils in yy our democratic society? The recommendar tions of the commission have already come under attack, particularly from those who benefit from the disqualification of many Negro voters in the South. But on the whole : the proposals and rec ommendations of the commission are moderate in nature and worthy of serious consideration by all men of goodwill. "' ' The proposal that temporary Federal , regis trars be appointed to take over in Southern areas where state and local officials prevent Negroes from voting has drawn immediate opposition from the diehards. Yet those who have begun shouting "state's rights" must answer the . grim story the commission's report tells of how many state officials in the South have labored to pre vent Negro Americans from voting. It is no an swer to say merely, as does Commissioner Battle in his dissent, that "present laws are sufficient to protect'' the right to vote. Too many Negro Americans are being denied the right to vote to take that claim seriously. : ' N HOUSING, the commission is constructive Win its emphasis upon the need for more hous ing and for "equal opportunity to secure decent housing." On education the three Northern mem bers of the commission should find a sympathetic reaction, to their proposal that Federal aid be withheld' from institutions of hierher education which. excludes students r We still have far to go to reach the idear in the civil rights field, but the commission's re port promises to help us make progress. And it is certainly to be hoped that the move begun in the Senate to continue the life of the Civil Rights Commission beyond next November will be suc cessful. New York Times. Our Quandary It's a good pulpit topic, or an interesting bull session gambit, to compare with chicking tongue Man's failure to progress in the arts of civilization with his speedy mastery Last week in Coos Keed College told a regional teachers' institute that he believes cultural gains-lag mainly because problems of men living together aren't problems in the same sense as are aren't simply because they involve the human element, a troublesome, unpredictable factor. In V - - 1 T-k T I J . ais own woras, ur. reiers saia : problems that confront the scientist ' can be. solved precisely because they are problems; the prob lems that confront the .humanist are frequently in soluble because they are not problems at all but pre- ' dicaments . . . Mankind has paid dearly for its failure to distinguish between problems and predicaments. CO AS to better distinguish the essential differ- ence between these, Webster's dictionary pro vides the information that a predicament js gen erally understood to be a complicated, perplexing situation from which it is difficult to disentangle oneself. Webster adds that either the words fix or pickle can be used as colloquial terms to des- crine uie same yexmg state or anairs. - The Coos Bay area teachers were told by Dr. Peters that our world is indeed in a sweet pickle. It'll be in a worse fix, he added, if the U.S., trying to match Russian production of problem-solving scientists,. fails to push the social studies which are our guarantee against compounded predicaments.; IT ALL seems to boil down to a dilemma, which Webster defines as equally disagreeable alternatives. If we don't keep up with the Russians in solving the problems i i i j ui science, we -may not retain ireeaom xo try to disentangle ourselves from our accumulated 'pre dicaments. ' , . : . If we don't work on our predicaments-and somehow prove to the Russians that these, are vital questions for them, too there mav one jlay soon be no one around to bother about the plight, of Mankind. Eugene Register-Guard. Winners of Contest The Rev. D. E. Millard, route 1, box 438, Eagle Point, won second prize in the 10th week of the Oil eHat-O-Rama limerick contest sponsored by the Jackson County Fuel Oil Dealers in conjunction with the Oil Heat Institute of Ore gon. - i :- , Eighth prize went to Helen L. Martin, 2767 Table Rock rd., Medford. ' While this is the last judg ing for weekly Drizes. con- itestants may still send in en- in the area extending on racial grounds. ; of physical science. Bay, Dr. H. F. Peters of those in science. Theylit follows that he is prepared a predicament involving Listed by Dealers tries. They must be postmark- ed no later than midnight. Sept. 28, and received no later than Oct. ' 3. All entries ; wiU be judged for the 54 grand prizes, which include a fully- equipped power boat and a French-made sports) car. Win ners will be announced about mid-October. - ; : . -h There is nothing to buy and entries are unlimited. Entry blanks are being distributed by Jackson county heating oil dealers and furnace equip ment companies. ' 1 Dennis the Menace b 10HG, FEUOV5.' THANKS FOR LEARNW'ME TO SPTT TO TV&lWU&! , Today & Tomorrow By Walter AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB At the National Press club on Wednesday Mr. K. made it clear that the two biggest subjects he means to talk about are Ger many and dis armament. We must wait for the speech at the United Na a tions to know what he has to say about dis Waiter Lippmann armament. On Germany, he may have had, so I venture to think, quite something to say. What he said, however, was very gen eral and only the talks at Camp David next week: will show , whether he meant" as much as one might infer that he -did: Judging by his prepared ad dress, it is not a far-fetched inference that he was indi cating where in his view, lies the area of negotiation on West Berlin. He laid down two . propositions. The first was that "neither: the Soviet Union nor the German Demo cratic ' Republic (East Ger many) . . . has any claim to incorporate West; Berlin into the German Democratic Re public or of changing the so cial and economic scheme of things there." - . The second proposition; was that . "the independent exist ence of West Berlin should be insured by the most reliable- of guarantees known in international relations with or without the participation of the United Nations." From these two propositions to negotiate about "the most reliable guarantees ' of the independence of West Berlin. Our official position is that the most reliable guarantee is the presence in West Berlin of the Allied garrisons.-But we have already indicated that the size and the arma ments of these garrisons is a negotiable question, and there is no reason why we-should refuse to consider guarantees founded upon our own pres ence along with the participa tion of the United Nations'. There is no doubt that here is a field of negotiation, and surely in the series of meet ings here in Washington, in Moscow,. and at the summit, this field will have to be ex plored and plowed. V1 ; .. ' . Ff REGARD to "burying" us, it should hardly have been necessary for him to ex plain that be was not talking about killing us and digging our graves. It has always been obvious that he was expressing Try cmd Stop Mc By BENNETT CERF- MIMS JEMISON, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., sent me this very heartening storyt -. ; ' . . '. "Some years ago, a civic-minded merchant Dave Rosenau, proposed a cup to tne toosx useful Tuscaloosan.' Jim V Brier ton, wealthy industri-j alist, promptly proposed Dr. Obediah Dawson for the' ' honor, and his motion was - ' passed unanimously. , Dr. ; Charles Boyd was chosen to preside . at the ' ceremony.: s Attorneys Cliff Penick, was ; named to make the present tation speech, and Mose Coe appointed to ring the church' " bells summoning folks to . the meeting. Now hear this: Dave Rosenau is a Jew. . J. L. Brierton is a Catholic. . . ' . ? V '. -'Dr. Dawson is a Baptist preacher.- ; .:' The building chosen is the. Methodist ' Church. ; Dr. Boyd is a, Presbyterian minister. ' - C. H. Penick is an Episcopalian .vestryman. -. v, . And Mose Coe is an elder of the First African " Baptist Church." ; "'" - ' . -Bravo, Tuscaloosa! ''''' O last, Bsaaett Out SWrtbvUd fey Teatum BywaeaU. Lippmann his conviction as a Marxist that ."our society is in decline and will shrink : and that the Communist society is grow ing and will expand to para mountcy in the world. Thus, he says, Communism will re place capitalism as capitalism has replaced feudalism. This is an old Marxist for mula which gives to the true believer an enormous . sense of being the agents of historic destiny itself. But it contains a deep fallacy which has been demonstrated by the experi ence of the past hundred years since Karl Marx first formu lated the. dogma. The deep fallacy is to ignore the fact that capitalism is not a static society, as speaking roughly and broadly was feud alism, but is an evolving or der. Why is Capitalism an evolving order? Because at the In the Day's News By FRANK This is written in Portland, where the 100-day-old Oregon Centennial Expqsition ended in a. blaze of glory. The glory was The Oregon Story - the dramatic epic that yanked the Centennial but of its doldrums and ended it on a note of high achievement that sent . some 3,700 Oregonians home at midnight with a new. thrill of faith in their state whose glamorous history had so much to do with the expan sion of thevUnited States of America from the Atlantic to the Pacific and its rise from a struggling union of 13 little colonies to the rank of ' the world's greatest nation. FOR some three hours the great figures of the past strode the multiple stages and thronged the arena of the Ex position .auditorium. The packed audience - there wasn't even spare space for two additional feet to have stood, upon - watched: while Queen Elizabeth I summoned Sir Francis Drake before her and commanded and commis sioned him' to find the fabled Northwest Passage. He didn't find it but he found waters thronged with sea otters and other wearers of fabulous furs. 1 ;Furs then were WEALTH, t : . .. THEY saw the crowned . heads of Europe Russia, Spain'. Britain - lay their plans to get their share of this wealth. They saw Napoleon broach his crafty scheme to sell.: Louisiana to the infant U. S. A. and thus found (I I , A MOST I . USEPUL A II MiT(JSCAL00S4N jJI Matter of Fact ON KHRUSHCHEV WATCHING Washington On television or in person, a great many people will be watching and listening to Nikita Sergeyvich Khrushchev in the 'next ten days. Here, then, are some tips of Khrushchev-watching, bas ed on recent experience. . Remember, first of all, that this sport or pastime demands extreme prudence. 'Bear in mind the broken careers of Molptov and Malenkov, Kag anovich, Shepilov, Bulganin, and how many others, who have been Khrushchev's com petitors or power. Consider Marshal Zhukov, defeated and destroyed. . These men were also Khru- heart of ft is the greatest of all human inventions, the in vention of the art of inven tion. This, not the profit mo tive, is the progressive main spring of our Western society. It is the reason why the evolu tion of 'capitalism has con founded the prediction of the orthodox-and antiquated Marxists. e', e e . THERE is no reason to think that we have reached the end of the evolution of Ameri can r capitalism. On the con trary, there is every reason to think that we are on the verge of great progressive change, and that the present mood of 'the country is only a pause, while the new genera tion gathers its forces and takes over. One can, I believe, predict with confidence that, a period of change is in the making. It will be moved by the ac celerated tempo of technologi cal' change on the one hand and by the explosive increase of the population on the other. There is nothing in the Marx ist doctrine to account for all this. That is because the Marx ist doctrine was formulated before the evolution of mod ern capitalism began. If Mr. K. wUl look at the realities and listen to Russian scholars who know the, realities, he wUl stop quoting ancient texts. Thus he will protect his repu tation as a modern, and pro gressive man by burying the obsolete Marxists formula.. -Copyright 1959. New York JENKINS j nation that might STOP ENG LAND, Napoleon's foe. They saw President Jefferson com mission Lewis and r Clark to find the great,' River of ..the West and ? the path it might provide to the Western Ocean. . They saw a Yankee trader enter the Columbia and lay the foundation that eventual ly established America's law ful claim to the Oregon Coun try. " HPHEY saw the great arena crowded with; the wagons of land-hungry settlers and missionaries and Indians and fur traders and with adven turers of all sorts. And Later still They saw the discovery of GOLD in California and southern Oregon - the treas ure that turned the eyes of the world toward the Pacific Coast . . the gold that fi nanced the Civil War that set tled once and for all that the United States would be ONE NATION, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. TT WAS a. -wonderful story. : It . can't 'be retold here. But' it was--skillfully and thrillingly told mere in the arena of the Exposition audi torium. . It sent its Oregon audience home with a new understand ing of the greatness of the part played by their state in their nation's rise and with a new vision of its place in the future. , It was a fitting climax to the Hundred Days out of which a new and more vital and more' dynamic Oregon will be almost certain to arise. You can't stop a com monwealth whose people BE LIEVE IN THEIR DESTINY. The Oregon Story sent those 3,700 i Oregonians home BE LIEVING IN THEIR STATE and with new faith In its des tiny. .'- .. ..: , : IITHAT of the Centennial?. " - Well It didn't show a profit. It is probable that it will cost the taxpayers of the state maybe a couple of million' dol lars. But what's a couple of million dollars to a million and a half people if the enter prise financed by the two mil lions ,reinspires them with hope and enthusiasm? Divid ed up equally on a per capita basis, it amounts .to only a little more than a dollar and a quarter apiece. Out of the' Centennial, I think, has come a NEW knowledge of the romantic and fascinating and SIGNIFI CANT backgrounds of the State of Oregon that will be worth far more than a dollar and a quarter to each of its people. - - Bv Joseph AIsop , shchev-watchers, all but Zhukov,- studying Khrushchev's every move and glance with the deadly intensity of rivals; but they were not watchful enough. Remember these men's : fates. Then - look at Khrushchev on the rostrum, and you begin to suspect how it happened. , : e . e i TTHE SOLID, squat, gutta-percha-like figure is not outwardly impressive, despite the careful tailoring. There is nothing majestic or command ing, - nothing to intimate the fearful power the man wields. Reading one of his shrewdly prepared speeches, having a little trouble with his old fashioned steel-rimmed spec tacles, stumbling every so of ten with a difficult word, he looks like any prosperous, hard-working penny-pinching farmer who has reached the Chairmanship of the local School Board by the sheer weight of his own toilsome success with his fields. ' Better still, look at, Khru shchev answering ' or asking questions,, without the specta cles and the prepared manu script. He is all animation, all vivid gesture, and if the ques tion can be turned to humor, he is marvelously humorous, A great actor would be needed to imitate Khrushchev at the National Press Club, when he pretended to confuse Commu nist . China and America, to suggest that wetoo had had our Communist . revolution, and then to apologize most humbly for his error. At such a moment as this, you can imagine his rivals thinking of him, with easy," perilous com placency, as "Little Nikita, the Kremlin's favorite comic turn." e. PUT WAIT untU there is a question that angers or embarrasses him, about Hun gary, for instance, or about his own complicity in Stalin s crimes. - Then the heavy jaw juts; the powerful ? shoulders hunch forward; the little eyes flash dangerously; the pleas ant voice grows harsh. And suddenly, if you have been brought. up on "Horatkis; .at the Bridge,"-' ydu'iind'. your self recalling: . : "The i great wild boar, that had its den "Amidst the reeds of Cosa's " fen ' " ; ' - "And wasted fields, and slaughtered men "Along Albania's shore." No doubt Khrushchev did not allow himself these mo ments of self-revelation; when it -was needful to convince Malenkov and Molotov that he was only "Little Nikita, . the Kremlin's favorite comic turn.3 But now, in the pleni tude of his unparalleled pow er, with his Lunik landed on the moon's face, he can permit himself to be more forthright as a guest 'of the United States. And in these forthright flashes,' you may glimpse the danger and the strength-' and the dynamism of this strange human animal, . this ultimate product of an ; iron struggle for survival such as most Am ericans cannot even imagine. - QTUDY.'too, the inner mean- M ing of the smooth-worn phrases that he always uses. "The right of all peoples to choose the" system they live under" equals "What happen ed to Hungary and what is now happening in Laos, unless you others can stop it." And, 'Peaceful co-existence" equals You lie quiet while we do you in." Ann, "Banisning all threats to peace" equals "Western surrender at Berr lin." And so it goes, from start to finish, -unless the fog of double-meaning cliches is ac cidentally dispelled. The' fog was dispelled, in Washington, when Khrush chev was asked whether he had once said of the capitalist world, "We will bury you." There was a trace of the in gratiating old peasant oiling his ways over an indiscretion; there was a momentary sketch from a Turgeniev short story, when he . sweetly explained that he really did not want to bury us all physically. But there was an amazing ring of confidence and belief and fi nality in his trumpeted procla mation, "From feudalism, cap italism was born, and capital ism buried feudalism;. f rom capitalism Communism has been born; and I think I know the end." V - - Thus you know that this is a man who believes, deeply believes, . in the system - that has produced and aggrandized him. And thus you see bow the belief has justified the horrors, and how Nikita Ser geyvich Khrushchev quite' surely thinks of himself as a highly moral man. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. $4,470 TRAFFIC FINE New York -DPB- A 32-year-old liquor salesman was fined $4,470 Friday for ignoring 111 traffic summonses over a two-year period. Magistrate James E. LoPiccolo accepted a $900 down payment from Frank Sarnataro of Valley Stream, N. Y., a New York City suburb, and ordered him to pay the rest . by Oct. zu. I (By M-T Staff This past week has been a busy, and . sort of exciting, one in the M-T newsroom. Two things contributed to this, . and were discussed in an editorial Friday - the Communications Letters to the Editor mast bear the name and address of the arrltei although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name ni initial for publica tion is pe-missible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letter submitted for publica tion must tint exceed 400 words Wishes Be Known To The Editor Ladies-let your wishes be known! If anything concrete is to be done about air pollution it's up to us. Robert .Van Sickle, one. of our councilmen, has recommended that an anti-air pollution ordinance be passed. He also asked that we call or write our respective council man urging them to take ac tion on this problem, as he alone speaking in our behalf is not enough. They must all be aware that the citizens really want something done. If they don't hear from us, they may con sider our group to be in the minority and might feel they don't have to be too concern ed with it. We must not let that happen. I dont like to keep repeat ing myself, "but sometimes repetition is . necessary to im press others of the serious ness of this problem. We should aU be deeply concern ed with air . pollution, if not for ourselves, then for -the health .and welfare - of our families. We all want our children to live and grow under the best possible con ditions within our. power to give them. And it is within our . power to improve on their living conditions. Air and stream pollution are to be on the agenda at a meeting of our city officials next Thursday, Sept. 24 Please take a few minutes of your time to call or write your councilman before Sept. 24.' If you don't know his name, caU city hall and they will, give you this" informa tion! Mrs. Leonard Matheus V 1124 W. 10th. Medford,5 Ore.;, j - :- -. v vs '"; What Goes Now?, , To the Editor!! What Ijoes now? Is the head hatchet-man of the Russian Kremlin, here for a huddle with President Eisenhower to change the cold war and frantic fear of a hot- war into a production war? Sure looks like it. Just the day before the coming of this popularly un wanted guest, our. home news paper, carried an '. announce ment of a presidentially ap pointed committee , to outdo the Russian 7-year produc tion plan . and Red China's Great Leap Forward plan by some sort of super-duper Jup iter High Jump forward in the creation of more eatables, greetables -T and supposeable usables that Union labor now has high-priced beyond the reach of ordinary people, de spite the fact that garbage disposal of" the junk has the handlers at their wits ends trying to find places to dump it. ". .:.- Our country-today is stud ded with towering elevators and warehouses, our harbors and river hide-aways . with outmoded, - .unwanted, -. unus able ships, crammed with farm - surpluses ; too .- high of iced to sell and other coun tries on a root ho or die pro duction basis refuse - us the privilege of giving the stuff! away. . But desolte all this, our still loved president wants to and has been wanting to lor a long time, appoint a commit tee of high pressure salesmen to get the populace aU het up and high up on their hind lees to produce more. With no urge to be a prophet, it is my humble opinion that this lat est brain-child of President Eisenhower and his advisers will eet a cooler reception by the U.S-A citizenry than that very pointedly one-given nis invited guest from Russia. Come to study it more aeep- iy, Ike's production might be quite all right if in some ob scure way it would rid the world of 'this cold-hot-war fear. Here in Jenkins' State of Jefferson we have a natural in the waste problem.. Crater Lake. No less. Not quite as deep as at first probed, but still deeD. AlTwaste dumped into it would be out of sight for generations to come, is this' idea any crazier or more rejectable than some of those from our national capital or the U. S. Supreme Court, for that matter? . . F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. and Contributors) change-over to putting out two editions each day instead of one, and the addition of the United Press Internation al Telephoto service. : Both involved considerable changes in routine experi mental procedures, and some hurried decisions by various of our editorial staff. The new systems haven't? jelled down into a routine, yet, either, although by the end of the week they prob ably will have done so, and the things which now seem new will be old stuff. Such is the way of habit and routine. " This is pun. sonz Labor leaders may soon be real izing that illusions of gran deur are just the prelude io allusions of a grand Jury. Frank Pinnock, the knowl edgeable young man who has been a Shakespearean actor, radio announcer and news man, rnd now is city editor of the Ashland Tidings, re veals some secrets about the Shakespearean Festival in a recent column of his. ' ' His piece is devoted to those "asides" - the bits, of by-play when actors are sup posed to get together away from the center of the stage and pretend to be in em anated discussion about what's , going on among the princi pals. - Do they really talk? And if so, what do they really say? These are the questions Trank discusses. The answers: Yes, they do really talk. And they talk abou' almost anything. Frank says: - "Reportedly, the on-stage. conversation covers every thing from the number, of spectators in the house, and what to do after the perform ance, to radical updating of "the -script in question. An other favorite on-stage pas time is a concentration-busting game which could be called 'Can yeu break me before I break you?' Fortu-.- nately, this is usually prac ticed between actors who are reasonably certain their ad versary is unshakable . . . One actor challenged his op ponent by facing him and frantically operating a yo-yo out of sight of the audience. Still another was consistently handed an ornate drinking cuP which contained small toys or anything else handy. . All this was - completely masked, the production un hindered or unmarred in any way." Our favorite of the stories Frank tells, 'though, must have really challenged the equanimity of the victim. One actor, he says, had a costume which included a big cowl surrounding and hiding bis face. He came up to another actor and poked his head in front of him. Across his fore head, in big lipsticked letters, was the phrase, "Kiss me!" The Esquire theater has now become the Medford ETartgelical Center, and one of our young men. who ponders about such things, finds a certain significance - to the fact that the old neon sign has been blacked out. in part, and now reads: "quire ' e . e" e ' Rprt Kissinger frequently nrritc. rnmrnunications to the Mail Tribune, recounting ex- ploints of old-time miners ana prospectors. The other vaay ne wrote one about the possibility of developing the - mineral po tential of the central uregon desert, by the use of jeeps and helicopters. W-hlch prompted our proofreader to this effort: e Take off your gloves and blue-suede spats, There's lots of gold in them thar flats. Lots of loot that's ours to keep, ' - If we can get a 'copter or jeep. : e e Perhaps the reason that the grass on the other side of the fence looks greener is that they take better care of it. e - Air travel, we are told, is becoming more popular all the time. Which prompts one of the house organ magazines to comment that maybe train and automobile travelers will be able to see the scenery better than ever. .It explai-os: The billboards will all be laid flat on the ground. ' e .e e ; A Navajo Indian was be ing inducted into the Army. "Do you speak any foreign "Yes." he replied. "Eng. lish." languages?" he was asked,
