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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30,. 40
nd 50 years ago.
-10 YEARS AGO-
'nrt n. 1949 (Tuesday)
Medford Mayor Diamond
-Flynn will report soon to the
ritv council on his recent sur-
ey of garbage disposal me-
. thods elsewhere.
.. Emergency repairs at Ash-
land General hospital are re
:ported nearly completed.
20 YEARS AGO
: Oct. 11. 1939 (Wednesday)
;f Final plans for a Red Cross
'regional conference here are
drawn up. :
; From Arthur Perry"! "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "To-
morrow is the anniversary of
I the discovery of America by
: Columbus. Some hold if he
had it to do over again, he
; wouldn't do it."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct-11, 1929 (Friday)
Dewey Hill of Prospect
breaks a rib trying to lift a
steer into a truck.
Fred Lichens reports coy
otes are more plentiful than
they have . been in the past
several yean.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11, 1919 (Saturday) '
High school students return
from picking the valley apple
crop to take up the three Rs,
Including perhaps a study of
Isaac Newton's famous apple.
A statewide movement is
launched to raise the pay of
school teachers.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 11. 1909 (Monday)
Judge H. K. Hanna sustains
the iniunction keening the
citv of Medford from laying
a gravity line on M. F. Han-
lev's ranch.
Forty thousand federal
brook trout arrive for place
ment in Lime Butte creeK.
f Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
r seven or eight Is excellent; f ive o
J ti& is good. , - .
1 Which of these States has
supplied the greatest number
.Ohio, New York?
2. On how many hills was
ancient Rome built?
t 3. Which President of the
U. S. was the first to die in the
t White House?
J - 4. How many Presidents of
the U. S. have been of the
.Catholic faith?
i 5. What was the name of
tthe Promised Land to which
-Moses led the Israelites?
;1 6. Name the place where
President Eisenhower and
.Chairman Khrushchev met
for talks just before his de-
'.narture from the U.b.
' 7. The waters of what river
1-are confined by Hoover
'.(Boulder) Dam?
V 8. What is the heaviest na-
"tiiral liauid?
9. What is the capital of
California?
10. What five letter word,
-containing the letter u twice,
"'means a oietail?
..' Answers: I. Virginia. 2.
I Seven. 3. William Henry Har
rison. 4. None. 5. Canaan. 6.
I'fMmn Tlavid. 7. Colorado Riv
r. 8. Mercury. 9. Sacramento.
IQ. Queue. . .. ..
Cultural Gap
Sir Charles P. Snow, an Englishman whose
career has been an -unlikely combination of
scientist and novelist, is concerned over the cul
tural division between the intellectual community
of science, and the intellectual community of
literature. ' ; " '
This division has been mentioned in these
columns before, in a discussion of the difficulty
of communication between scientists and non
scientists. As one of very few men who are equally at
home in each of the two communities, Sir Charles'
comments deserve respect. He has set them forth
in a book entitled "The Two Cultures and the
Scientific Revolution." .
H
IS book is reviewed
magazine, Scientific
The same issue of the magazine, which itself
is devoted to making science understandable both
to laymen and :, to scientists of differing disci
plines, gives ample proof that the world of sci
ence is becoming more and more isolated and
cut off from the mainstream of intellectual ac
tivity among non-scientists.
In the advertisements this is particularly no
table. "IN PAGE 7, for instance, an ad discusses
"fusion-alloy silicon transistors for large sig
nal, small signal and low-noise applications. Ad
vantages include low saturation voltage; 20 volt
BVEBO ; minimum change in characteristics with
temperature, current and voltage . . "diffused
junction silicon rectifiers in both wire-in and
stud types, welded, hermetically sealed. Noted for
their high forward conductance, exceptional re
verse recovery . . .": and "curcuit-paks of tran
sistors, diodes, rectifiers
offer better .utilization of
and extreme reliability.
sulated, complete subassemblies, such as phase
comparators, bridges, choppers and flip-flops are
available from stock or to your specifications."
How many people know what this is all
about? Not very many.
On Page 10, a magnetic tape manufacturer
tells how its product provides "a clear, unclouded
memory supplying data for calculation at the
unimaginable speed of over 500,000 signal bits
or 90,000 characters a second."
fXN PAGE 18,' a "two-channel, servo-operated,
recorder'' is advertised. It declares, "Plug-in
input chassis are interchangeable to provide
various recording characteristics. Chart motors
are easily changed for additional speeds. Range
is adjustable from 0-9 mv to 0-100 mv on the
basic input chassis. Zero can be set anywhere
across the chart. And being a poteniometer
recorder, the G-22 has
to serve a wide variety
This machine, which
potentiometer measuring
times more sensitive than
On Pages 20 and 21, a company declares,
"Today in a new field,
. . . scientists and engineers are creating systems
which collect, compress, code, index and store
graphic or textual information for automated re-
tneval and display in an instant . . .
fXN PAGE 39, we learn that a certain brand of
manometer "and associated data acquisition
systems, incorporating semiconductors," pro
vide information on how blood pressure reacts
to various levels of anaesthesia.
On Page 42, we read about a "new idea", in
the reactor fuel business, a precision glass mold
to hold reactor fuel elements. The tube is 17
inches long, and is "precision shrunk . . . to bore
diameter of 0.1475 plus or minus 0.0005 in."..-. .
Regularly hold bore to plus or minus 0.0001 in.,
can go to plus or minus 0.00005 in. Also control
o.d., taper, concentricity, length . . ."
And on Page 47, under a picture, we read,
"When a slow degradation rate, or ablation rate
can be established in a plastic at temperatures of
5,000 degrees farenheit or above, the plastic then
has potential use in missile applications. Here, a
man simulates some" of the erosion conditions
existing in the venturi of a solid propellaht
rocket. This calculated sacrifice of a limited
mass; in exchange for heat energy, will serve to
insulate, critical missile parts from destructive
heat."
HTHERE are others. n ' ' -
. But perhaps these examples are sufficient
to prove the point that even in cases such as
these where science is being applied in tech
nologies, tiie vocabulary and the concepts are
way over the head of the average person.'
How much more this is so in the realm of
theoretical science, and research on the very
limits of man's ; knowledge where mathematics
and philosophy overlap, and where vocabularies
are so esoteric that perhaps only a half-dozen
men in the world can understand the concepts.'
Too bad? Yes. But lacking some system to
permit the human mind to absorb learning pain
lessly and continuously, this gap between science
and its specialties, and the everyday, world, will
continue to grow. E.A.
Knowing that' some TV; contestants were
supplied with answers makes us think perhaps
we aren't as dumb as we thought at the time. On
the other hand, it puckers one to know he has
ttnon hurl Titr a "fiverl chnw "Wvocflinrr n-P nnnyca '
is different, orjallis
in the current issue of the
American.
and other components
space, ease of assembly
These compact, encap
the necessary sensitivity
of recording needs.
costs $975, with its
circuit, is "thousands of
a galvanometer.
information technology,
.Gazette - Times , . . . I
Dennis the Menace
' J
I COULD fWA PENNWOW AN
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
IN THE LION'S DEN
To expose himself to a press
conference at this moment, as
Secretary Herter did on Tues
day, was the
rough equiva
lent, of walk
ing; into the
lion's den.
Mr.. K. has
c o m e ; a n d
I gone.- Mr. K.
a I has : been to
Peking. The
great issues of
life and death
Walter
Lippmann
have been talked about, and
the main agreement reached
has .been that there shall be
more talk and more negotia
tion, talk without time limits
and without precision, with
out threats but without prom
ises. This basic agreement re
quires; the use in public of
vague formulae, in which no
body' has to dot his i's and
cross his t's. ' .
Diplomacy of this kind was
invented before the modern
press conference, and it takes
very adroit evasive action to
protect such diplomacy in a
modern press conference. Mr.
Herter, having ; gone down
among the lions, has returned
with no, bad injury and with
only one, so it seems to me,
scratch, --i- ' ". t
f. ;
HE allowed himself to be
drawn into a line of ques
tions about Mr. K's visit to
Peking, about the relations of
Russia and China, and about
our views of where Russia
stands in relation to China.
These are among the most in
teresting questions in . the
world for table talk and for
irresponsible newspaper writ
ing and for private official
consideration. But the one
man who cannot speculate
about them in public is the
Secretary of State. For- there
is nothing he can say which
does not do more harm than
good.
As we have no relations
with Peking and no influence
in Peking, it is not seemly
for us to issue official public
commentaries about Soviet re
lations with Peking. These
commentaries cannot possibly
soften the Chinese position,
They cannot fail to embarrass
the Russians. Surely the right
official policy is silence, and
the utmost reserve and dis
cretion.
APART from this Chinese
' scratch, . Mr. . Herter did
extremely weU, most parti
cularly with the question of
Berlin. The crucial problem
of Berlin, which was not
solved at Geneva,' is how to
find a basis of negotiation
which insures the security of
the community of West Ber
lin. Except,- it would seem,
for Mr. Acheson, there is a
general ; recognition that the
situation is abnormal. It is ab
normal for half of a city to
have a different social order
from the other half,' and it is
abnormal or a city to be situ
ated 110 miles inside the ter
ritory of a state with which
it does not have official di
plomatic relations.
This abnormal situation has
to be mantained in substance
until the two Berlins are re
united ar.4 become the capital
of a reunited Germany'. But to
maintain this abnormality for
a long period of j time, per
haps for a generation, we
cannot stand pat upon the old
texts of the occupation period.
These texts did not foresee
anything like the present situ
ation enduring for a whole
generation.
We must move forward to
the formation of a new inter
national statute which de
fines the rights of West Ber
lin and of the two Germanys
and of the four occupying
powers. -
-.'
THE negotiation of such an
international statute is the
goal. It is still on the distant
horizon. But it i visible. It
A niNPBNtilESA ViSSKT
Lippmann
is the goal to which we must
hope that our talks with Mr.
K. will lead. We do not know
that they will lead there. But
they might. And it would be
a mistake not to try.
In this negotation the
Western powers must be free
to be firm on the substance
on the security of West Ber
lin as a community but flex
ible on the formulae of the
guarantee and the arrange
ments. A new international
statute will, for example,
have to be ratified by the East
German state. This is un
avoidable. But offically at
least it" is anathema in Bonn,
With the crucial German
election of 1961 ahead of him,
it will not be easy for Dr.
Adenauer to be flexible at
aU. But it will not be impos-
silbe for him. to follow along
if it is manifest there is firm
and friendly leadership , in
Washington which knows the
score in Germany and : in
Central Europe. . ' .
. A good friend, as we are to
the Germans, does not always
say: Me too. There may be a
time when the duty of a good
friend is to nudge his ally
and help him to recognize the
facts of life,
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Porter "Ineffective"
To the Editor: Early in the
past session of Congress, Con
gressman Charles O. Porter
declared in a speech, "It is
easier to defeat an incumbent
that it is to fill his shoes.
This belated confession was
of course no news to his con
stituents, because his prede
cessor. Mr. iJuswortn, was
outstanding in ability and in
fluence.
Using the confession as a
point of departure, Mr. Por
ter intensified his preoccupa
tion with Latin America. Find
ing a kindred soul in Fidel
Castro, Porter, and the - er
ratic Adam Clayton Powell,
were the only legislators to
swallow the bait of an invita
tion to visit Havana and par
ticipate in Castro's victory
celebration. How ' any one
could be sufficiently naive as
to go overboard about a new
Latin American strongman is
difficult to comprehend, bear
ing in mind the usual formu
la: (l) liberator (2) dictator
(3) plunderer (4) fugitive. The
bewildered idealistic Castro is
now in the second phase, al
ternately asking for billions
in loans and saying the same
things the Communists say.
And Mr. Porter still says that
he thinks Castro is a great
man, : but . that he has made
some mistakes.
In a Medford speech, Por
ter is reported to have said,
concerning delay in the Rogue
Basin, project, "I ' can bring
pressure to bear. s
This is ridiculous. Before a
Congressman can apply "pres
sure" on any government de
nnrtment on bureau, he must
be on a powerful Congres
sional committee, or have
demonstrated on the floor of
Hnnffress that his word and
influence have sufficient
weight to initiate and pass
measures which he sponsors.
During the debate preced
ing the passage of the foreign
aid bill Congressman Porter
offered four amendments All
four were promptly slapped
down by the overwhelmingly
Democratic Congress.
Preceding his much publi
cized horseback ride down
the Illinois river to the ocean,
Mr. Porter said that he was
zninz to make the trio every
year until the road ii built.
Matter of Fact
AFTER IKE, THE DELUGE
Washington - As expected,
the Soviets have triumphant
ly fired another moonshot.
The Pentagon' response
was automatic. One
of the administration experts
f 1 m the manu
facture of
soothing syr
up, . Dr. , Her
bert York, ha
stened to an
nounce that
this country
and the Soviet
Union were
still "essen-
-Vsph Aisop uauy m me
same position" in the develop
ment of ballistic missiles.
It is probably useless to say
so. Yet it should be noted for
record that Dr. York's state-,
ment is an offense against
public decency - at least if
you believe that public de
cency requires officials to
give the country a reasonably
accurate picture of the na
tional 'situation. Here is the
best Official forecast of what
Dr. York means ; by "essen
tially the same - position" in
the true years of the missile
gap, which lie just ahead. ;
1960 - U. S. 30 ICBMs vs.
U.S.S.R. 100 ICBMs
,1961 - U. S. 70 ICBMs vs.
U.S.S.R. 500 ICBMs
1962 - U. S. 130 ICBMs vs.
U.S.S.R. 1,000 ICBMs
1963 - U. S. 130 ICBMs vs.
U.S.S.R. 1,500 ICBMs
THE foregoing table con'
trasts the official U.S. esti
mates, the "national esti
mates," of Soviet missile capa
bility with the missile pro
gram presented to the last
Congress by the Eisenhower
administration. Over bitter
An excellent idea, although
judging by comment on our
almost complete lack of effec
tive representation in Wash
ington, he will be making
those journeys after '60 as
just another vacationist, sans
pictures, sans headlines.
Then there was the effort
to recognize Red China, ("I
am willing to write off the
Nationalist regime on Formo
sa"), his aligning himself with
James R. Hoffa by his vote on
the Landrum-Griffin labor
law, and his insertion of page
after , page of '"back scratch
ing" in the Appendix of the
Congressional Record at $81
per page. ' ' '
John Q. Stewart
933 NE 12th st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Marine Band Coming
To the Editor: A very fine
community project is under
way in Medford which, in my
opinion, rates the hearty sup
port of alLof us. I refer to the
sponsorship of vthe World
famous U. S. Marine Band of
Washington, D. C, by our own
Medford High Band.
Mr. Mirick, as director of
instrumental . music in the
Medford school system, re
ceives many offers to present
outstanding musical programs
in the community, and until
this year, has turned them aU
down. This year, however, he
and his band felt they owed
the hometown audience an
opportunity to see and hear
one of these - a world re
nowned organization. So our
High School Band is sponsor
ing the U.S." Marine Band in
two concerts on Friday, Oct
16 at Hedrick Junior High
school auditorium. A student
matinee will be presented at
2:30 pjri. and full evening
concert at 8 D.m.
It is interesting to note that
the U, S. Marine Band is au
thorized, by an Act of Con
gress to go on concert tour
nine weeks out of each year,
but at no expense to the tax
payer. Band expenses are re
alized out of the proceeds ol
concerts in each communixy.
The Band travels in buses.
Our Medford High School
Band, such an outstanding
remesentative of southern Or
egon at the East-West Shrine
game in San Francisco eacn
year, concluded that by pre
senting the great ' Marine
Band, they could help defray
their own expenses for tneir
ninth .annual appearance r in
San Francisco, Jan. 2, 1960.
At this noint. ticket sales
to the evening concert are dis
aDDointing.' and our young
MeBford Bandsmen, who ; do
such an excellent community
iob during the year, are ap
prehensive of the success of
their venture. Being an ardent
booster of our High School
Band, I hope "that a letter
printed in your communica
tion department would help
our voung musicians and show
them that the community; is
really behind them.
We trust the readers of
your column will rally to the
cause and buy out the 2,500
capacity hoUse on " Friday
night. Oct. 16. The Medford
High Band can promise them
a never-to-be-iorgotten musi
cal experience. Tickets, tax
free, are available at Barker's,
Swem s, Emerald Music Co.,
Puruckers and at the Medford
High school.
- Jennings Pierce,
A friend of the Band,
34 North Central ave.,
Medford. .
JlsssCijiMHk
By Joseph Alsop
protests from the Administra
tion, the Congress provided
sixty additional Atlases in
1962, and the same in 1963.
The Congress also insisted on
stepping up the time schedule
for the solid-fuelled Minute
Man ICBM, in order to get the
first of these missiles in 1963.
. There is a simple reason
why the original ' Administra
tion program is given above,
instead of the somewhat better
program voted v by Congress.
Funds to finance the added
ICBM production will have to
be provided in the election
year budget. The signs sug
gest that- the Administration
will follow its usual budget
first rule, over - riding Con
gress and cutting back missile
output to its . original pro
gram. Even if Congresses riot over
ridden, moreover, the Soviet
superiority - in . long range
missile power will still be
very great for a long period.
The critical period will extend
from 1961 until-about 1966,
when we shall begin to have
a serious, striking force of
the Minute Man missile.
.
rpo THESE grim facts, there
-- is more to add. In brief,
besides the old missile testing
base at Kapustin Yar in the
bend of the Volga,: the Soviets
have now established a new
base to the north of the Aral
Sea. From the new base this
summer, two full range ICBM
shots were-f ired to impact in
the; Pacific. This is 'a depar
ture from the Soviet practice
of testing their ICBMs with
such heavy instrumentation
aboard that they impact after
a flight of only 3,500 miles.
The shots this summer knock
ed out the complacent argu
ment of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs , of Staff, Gen.
Nathan Twining, that the
Soviets probably did not have
ICBMs capable of going the
fun intercontinental range, i
In these circumstances,
powerful influences in the
Pentagon are actually launch
ing a campaign to write down
the intelligence estimates once
again. The pretext is the rela
tive smallness of the Soviet
ICBM testing program - only
about 30 Soviet ICBMs have
been fired in all. The real aim,
of course, is to cut ICBM ap
propriations; in order, to make
room for' Army ; and 'Navy
spending of other types. For
tunately the "CIA: Director,
Allan W. Dulles,, seems likely
to resist this new exercise of
self-delusion. -
ii - ,i& seu-aeiuaing, in any
- case, , to use. the national
intelligence estimates as we
are now using them. They are
not and cannot be sacred and
absolute measures of Soviet
performance. The estimating
machinery has certainly been
much improved in the last
couple of years. C.I.A. Direc
tor Dulles and his staff have
worked endlessly to eliminate
the defects that produced the
often - repeated former -errors
on the optimistic side,, Ye it
is admitted by the estimators
themselves that they have al-
Mrs. Roosevelt, 75
Today, Still Busy
Eleanor Roosevelt - in the
contraction of style required
by Who's Who. in America
describes herself - simply ' as
"active in ednl. sociol. and
polit. affairs." Except for the
characteristic modesty,' and of
course for her role as mother,
grandmother and great grand-
motner, the description' ap
pears pretty well to cover the
present activities of the widow
of President Franklin D. Roo
sevelt, who seems to be going
out of her way not to celebrate
her 75th birthday anniversary
today. .
What she refuses to make a
fuss about her friends will. So
a ou-minute television Salute
to the Eleanor Roosevelt In
stitute for Cancer Research is
slated for Oct. 25. Technically,
the program is supposed to
have nothing to do with Mrs.
Roosevelt's birthday, and she
will not be among those on
hand,' but -it's a birthday ges
ture all the same. The cancer
institute is to be built at the
American Medical Center in
Denver. : -
Eleanor Roosevelt, who
plans to spend Sunday quietly
at her Hyde Park "cottage,"
will be thinking and planning
ahead if she stays within the
stereotype the public ; has
formed of her, but she could
be forgiven for taking as well
a retrospective glance or two.
It's been a long, busy passage
in ideas and associations as
well as in years, for'she en
tered life asr an Oyster Bay
Roosevelt, a child of New
York Society. In one of her
autobiographical accounts she
has described that life:
"You were kind to the poor
. You accepted invitations
to dine, and to dance, with the
right people only. You lived
where you would be in their
midst. You thought seriously
about your, children's educa
tion, you read the books that
everybody read, you were
familiar with good literature.
In short, you conformed." -
Eleanor Roosevelt since
aha reached maturity - prob
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
L ''"-M""?':w'"n'--'' y""tryTt:"'a; 4fT
A pick-up truck, the front aameplax of which it shown
above, sits on the car; lot across the street from the Mail
Tribune. Newsroom speculation last week centered oa what
automobile manufacturer produced ii. Ii was finally decided
that it must have been produced south of the Mason-Dixon
line, where some people aren't fussy about the letter "R."
and sometimes give the letter
Marvin, the office boy, came
back' to work the other day,
after serving his hitch in the
Army.
Great to be in "civies"
again, he says. " -; -
It takes a little readjust
ment, though, as every -ex-serviceman
knows,! but Mar
vin figures he's got it made.
"I passed the acid test the
other day," .he reports. "I
passed an officer on the street
and didn't salute. Now I
KNOW I'm a civilian again."
Noting - Senator Hubert
Horatio Humphrey's, initials,
one is inclined to comment
that this farm-state senator
(Minnesota) may not be a
4-H man, but certainly is a
3-H'er. :
. .. '
! Writing headlines is not the
easiest thing in the world. It
may LOOK easy. But not only
do you have to give an idea of
what the story is about, but
you also have to do it in very
few words, and in the arbi
trary amount of space pro
vided in one or two or three
columns. - -
A "perfect" headlineywhich
is clear, concise, descriptive
and which fits-is a satisfying
most no protection against a
Soviet deception plan. They
are especially vulnerable to a
deception plan aimed to make
us under-rate Russian ICBM
power until a grand surprise
can be sprung- and a brutal
ultimatum can be set. - -
v The Soviet interest in such
a deception plan is obvious,
Even if there is no such de
ception plan, and even if Con
gress is not over -ridden for
budget -first reasons, the mis
sile gap is due to be very seri
ous indeed in the years from
1961 through 1965 or 1966
On this point, the figures
speak for themselves. It is also
necessary to remember the ex
traordinary, arrogance Nikita
S. Khrushchev has. so often
shown in the last 18 months.
If this is how Khrushchev
behaves now, how will he be
have when the U.S.-U.S.S.R,
long range missile ratio is ten
to one in favor of the Krem
lin? Apparently the Adminis
tration's answer to this ques
tion is: "After ' Ike, the del
uge!" .
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
ably never has been accused
of conforming. Even her mar
riage in 1905 was in a sense
unconventional, for Franklin
was her cousin from the Hyde
Park branch of the family.
She. was not a born, but a
self-made politician - she was
shy as a young woman and as
a matron but she was active
in New York Democratic
circles by the early 1920's and
an advisor to the National
Committee - by 1928. Today
she's a member of the Demo
cratic Advisory Council, an
influential adjunct of the
party, for all its egghead as
pects.
As First - Lady, Eleanor
itooseveii was .into every
thing. She held office only
briefly - as assistant director,
Office of Civilian Defense,
1941-42 - but her influence on
F.D.R. and within the admin
istration was profound. And
she was so. peripatetic that she
became a world figure in her
own right. .
President Truman in , De
cember 1945 appointed Mrs.
Roosevelt to the U.S. delega
tion to the United Nations, and
for the next six years she was
a devoted diplomat, notably
as chairman of the U.N. Com
mission on Human Rights. Re
signing with the election of
President Eisenhower in 1952.
she's since then become if any
thing an even more energetic
traveler, shuttling about from
India to the Soviet Union and
points between both as journ
alist and representative of the
American Association for the
United Nations.
She continues her newspa
per and magazine writing. In
the past three decades she's
saved out time enough to
write or edit more than a doz
en books, from "A Trip to
Washington with Bobby and
Betty" to "India, the Awaken
ing East." :
And at 75, she seems to be
cramming more than ever in
to the jam-packed hours of
her famous Day. - (Editorial
Research Report.) ,
O long sound.
thing for the writer. One that
misses can be distressing
That Man in Phoenix saw
one in the M-T the" other day
and, as is his wont, he clipped
it out and mailed it to us with
his comment. 'U
The headline said "United
States To Go Ahead With For
mation of Development Ban."0
The story was about plans for
banning ' nuclear bomb-test
ing; , ;;
But, standing alone, it mo
tivated TMP to say, "That's
one way to put a stop to a lot
of nonsense. Stay tuned for
anguished screams from Por
ter and Dick."
Often members of the
newsroom staff communi
cate with each other by
writing notes. Sometimes
they write notes to remind
themselves of things or
ideas. And of course they all
make . notes to use wher?
writing a story. Notes all
over the place. One staffer
wrote I noti to himself
which consisted of one
wordt "Dogs." He left it ly
ing on his desk overnight,
and in the morning found
that some thoughtful soul
had added one word to the
note: "Arf."
Another staffer wrote -himself
a note the same week,
which said 'Take a bath." '-'It
was to remind him of a story
he planned to write-and never
you mind what kind of story.)
Anyway, somehow or - other,
it got mixed up with the
papers of another news staffer.
- The latter found it, added
a few words, and returned it
to the first. The addition:
"Take one yourself."
One reason American
workers will never become
Communists is because
when they hear someone
shouting. "Workers arise!"
they thing the coffee break
is over.
,". '
In Bend, Oregon, there is a
firm which manufacturers
toys from wood, including an
assemble - it - yourself model
airplane... .
A woman in Parsippany,
N. J., bought one, and started
to put it together. She got
along fine, putting wings, tail
and fuselage together in fine
shape, but the final instruc
tons bothered her.
Down at the bottom it said.
"Bend Oregon.?
And she couldn't find an
Oregon anywhere so she could
bend it. - -
' Sample of dear-eyed re
porting from the Hoover
Hi-Lite: "Dixon brought a
rabbit to school. He didn't
name it because he didn't
know if it was a girl or a
boy rabbit. Ii is a white
rabbit. It is a big rabbit. It
looks like a nice rabbit."
Prom "the Salem Captal-
Journal:
A couple of Salem women
gave the husband of one a
real problem last week. A car
trunk load of poison oak to be
exact. . !
It seems that they went out
looking for fall colors for the
house and saw some colorful
brush with lots of red and
gold in the leaves. You can
guess the rest.
So his problem was to get
rid of the stuff. Burning it is
not so good as the smoke car
ries the itching agent with it.
You can't just throw it out
where someone else will get
mixed up with it. He finally
solved his problem by wrap
ping it heavily" and dumping
it in the garbage can. And he s
not particularly allergic to the
stuff so he wasn't bothered
with it. ' '
That's not the end of the
story. The women still have
their problems. How can you
possibly scratch all over at
once with only two hands?
After a recent golf lour-o
namenl, one of the "older
boys" came home feeling
better than he had in a long
time. He not only outplayed
a group of younger men.
but also, when he asked if
he could have one of the
electric golf carts, he was
told he couldn't, because
they were reserved for
players over the age of 50.