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Medtord and Jackson County
Historf from the files of The
Vfcil Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
I Oct. 18. 1949 (Tyesday)
v Mayor Diamond Flynn re
ports to Medford's city coun
: cil on garbage collection
: methods.
Republican women of Jack
son county form a new organi
zation. 20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18 f939 (Wednesday)
The Medford . Active club
I backs the proposad for a new
I city park and recreational
area9. - x
i From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "This
; paper has new type. It is
I kfcder to the eyes, and gives
more room to read things be
X tween the lines than the old."
I m
I 30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18. 1929 (Friday)
i A Russian plane circles
Medford, en route from Mos-
cow to New York City.
- High school students hurry-
ing to lunch are fined in jus-
tice court for speeding.
? 40 YEARS AGO
Oci. 18. 1919 (Saturday) .
- Armstice Day, Nov. 11, will
be a holiday in Jackson
county. . ,
Frank Ray grows a cabbage
measuring 13 inches around,
in his patch near Tolo.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 18, 1909 (Monday)
All automobiles in the val
ley are to be photographed on
Main st. for the new Commer
cial club pamphlet.
The board of equalization
sits in Jacksonville to hear
complaints from taxpayers.
; What's Your I.Q.?
Nina a ten correct is superior
seven or eight is excellent; five ot
ix is good.
1. Name the Dutchman who
5 bought Manhattan Island for
5 trinkets worth $24.
2 2. " Is fine silverware dis-
1 tinguished by its lack of lus-
tre, hallmark, or engraving?
5 3. What is the abbreviation
2 for the word Admiral?
4. Who were the co-authors
J of words and music for the
Slight opera "HM.S. Pina
3 fore"? . - -C
3. Was Aphrodite the Greek
goddess of war, love, revenge,
or harvest?
2 6. Did the ukelele originate
in Hawaii, Portugal, or Spain?
7. The Achilles tendon re
7 f ers to what part of the human
: body?
f 8. What King of England
was . known as the "Merry
Monarch"?
e 9. What does the phrase
e "pro tempore" mean?
10. What is a peruke?
Answers: 1. Peter Minuii. 2.
f Hallmark. 3. Adxn. 4. Gilbert
and Sullivan. 5. Love. 6. Por
tugaL 7. The tendon to the
bone of the heel. 8. Charles IL
?9. 'Tor the time being." 10.
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Paper
.After too many years of lying quiet, and then
getting kicked around by the uncoordinated
fumbling of government agencies, plans for the
development of the Rogue River Basin's "water
resources now appear to be going forward.
It's going to take longer, to work out an ac
ceptable plan this way, but there is greater assur
ance that, if all interests can be satisfied Con
gress will accept such a project.
A well thought out, coordinated, and locally
acceptable project, with a satisfactory benefit-to-cost
ratio, stands an excellent chance of Con
gressional authorization.
OOWEVER, even as the agencies involved pro-
ceed with the further studies needed, a new
stumbling-block has arisen.
. We think it is an artificial one, and wouldn't
be a stumbling-block at all, unless people in
volved permit to become one.
We refer to the proposed Agate dam and
reservoir, which has received preliminary appro
val by the regional office of the bureau of recla
mation, and is now making its way "through
channels" to the national reclamation office.
The stumbling-block, if any, lies in the feel
ing of some water resource enthusiasts that ap
proval of the Agate project, outside of the over
all basin plan,-might hinder the chances of the
larger project being approved. --
'"THIS is a paper tiger.
There is no reason to believe, that approval
of the Agate project, which can stand on its own
feet, would threaten " future developments, any
more than the approval of the Talent project,
now nearing completion, has done.
Completion of a Basin plan is, at best, some
years in the future, and if the Agate project were
included, it would have little effect on the over
all worth of the big project. ' '
The Agate dam and reservoir proposal is now
in concrete form; basic engineering has been
done; approval of the bureau is near.
And, unless there is some unexpected delay,
it could conceivably be presented to Congress, if
not next year, then the year after. ,
1X7E KNOW of no opposition ; to the Agate
" project as such. What opposition there is
is based on the imagined threat.
The project is an excellent one. Read, for in
stance, the pertinent parts of the letter which
Lrov. Mark Hattield wrote to Secretary of the
Interior Fred Seaton in
"1. The project is essential to the continued eco
nomic well being of the Rogue River Valley Irrigation
district,- which provides water to a significant seg
ment of one of the most important agricultural areas
of Oregon, the famed Rogue River valley. It will
provide supplemental water for over 4,800 acres of
presently? irrigated lands .and will afford water f or , .
1,810 acres "of land which will be newly irrigated. :
All of these lands produce essential non-surplus agri
cultural commodities.
"2. The proposal is mentioned favorably . in all
. plans for the development of the Rogue River Basinj
Oregon, either by the U.S. Corps of Engineers or by
the U.S. bureau of reclamation.
"3. This proposal will not interfere with any plan
which might be adopted for the development of the
water resources of the Rogue River basin and is the
only project ready for immediate authorization.
"4. The project carries a most favorable cost
benefit ratio and is economically feasible. It is strong
ly supported within the area. , ?..
"5. When the Agate dam and reservoir are com
. pleted, they will be most valuable as an equalization
and regulation facility for the district. This is particu
- larly important during any year of water shortage. "
"6. When the project is completed, the average
time lag between an order for water and the delivery
. .. thereof will be reduced by approximately 50 per cent.
"7. The proposal will materially enhance recrea
tion, fishing and hunting in the Medford area."
..
LJALF a loaf is better than none, particularly
when getting the half loaf poses no threat to
obtaining a full loaf later on.
It seems to us the proponents of the Agate
dam have a job of "selling" to do, and that those
who are fearful of the paper tiger might well
reconsider their position.
Otherwise, this excellent project, estimated
to cost less than $2 million, may be a long time
acoming. E.A. y,.. ' ;
Golden Rule
Confucianism : .
What you don't want done to yourself," don't
do to others.
, . Sixth Century B.C.
Buddhism
Huil not others with that which pains thyself.
' ! . Fifth Century. B.C.
Zoroastrianism ' v , . N '.
Do not do unto others all that which is not
well for onself. .
Fifth Century B.C.
Classical Paganism -
May I do to others as I would that they should
do unto me. ' ' . . .
. Plato Fourth Century B.C.
Hinduism . , . r ,
Do naught to others which if done to thee
would cause thee pain. ' ,
Mahabharata -Third Century B.C.
Judaism
What is hateful to yourself, don't do to your
fellow man.
Rabbi Hillel First Century B.C.
Christianity
Whatsoever you would that men should do
to you, do ye even so to them.
Jesus of Nazareth First Century A.D.
Sikhism -; -
Treat others as thou wouldst be treated thy
self. Sixteenth Century A.D.
Pictorial History of Philosophy
Tiger
support of the proposal:
Dennis the Menace
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Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
Confusion in Steel
There should' be some red
faces among the President's
advisers as they read what
Dr. Taylor
had to say on
Tuesday. Dr.
Taylor is
chairman of
the board ap
pointed 1 a st
week by the
President t o
set in motion
the Taft-Hartley
Act. This
law, incidentally, is by com
mon consent unsuited to the
steel strike. But as it is the
only law we have, and as we
cannot think of what else to
do, we are resorting to it.
Dr. Taylor's embarrassing
remark was that "a settle
ment this week would be a
miracle of the No. 1 first or
der." Why would it be such a
miracle? Because 'our media
tion efforts are impeded by
our difficulty in nailing down
what the issues are. I think
it's .very distressing . at this
stage that we are stili having
trouble defining issues." It is
indeed distressing to allow a
strike in this country's basic
industry to run three months
without even clarifying and
defining what the strike is
about.
A month before the strike
began, at his press conference
on June 17, the President was
asked by Mr. Brandt of the
"St.. Louis Post Dispatch"
whether, since the unions and
the companies were using
"self-serving statistics," the
government could not bring
out some impartial figures "so
that people can understand the
issues and make their own de
cisions." The President replied
that the question was intelli
gent and that he would have
it studied.
e
TUT A month later, having
had it studied, he had been
told by his advisers to keep
out of the argument because
"all the facts are pretty well
known." He has now been told
by Dr. Taylor that the essen
tial facts are not known at all,
and that after three months of
propaganda by the companies
and the unions, it would now
be "a minor miracle" to get
the issues defined this week.
In short, the country is suf
fering from a costiy stoppage
because there is an industrial
war going on over issues
which nobody who is interest
ed will, which nobody who is
disinterested can, define
There may be all manner of
argument about what is the
prope role of the government
in a dispute of this kind. But
can there be any argument
that in a conflict of. such na
tional significance it is a duty
of the government to see that
the issues are defined? ;
- - .'-.-
IN THE general confusion,
. where there is no responsi
ble and reliable authority to
elucidate the truth, there is no
one who is representing the
national interest. Yet great
national interests are at stake.
There is the national interest
in resuming ' top production.
There is the interest in arriv
ing at a settlement which in
terms of wages and prices is
compatible with the health of
the economy as a whole. For
the settlement of , the steel
strike will set a pattern for
wages and prices which other
industries will follow.
But who has authority to
represent the national interest
in the steel dispute? The an
swer is nobody. We are, it is
said, demonstrating to man
kind the virtues of "free bar
gaining." It might be added
that we are demonstrating to
the world our failure to grasp
the hard realities of a deep
evil in our society, and to
deal with these realities lu
cidly and firmly.
M
Y OWN view is that for a
constructive solution of
Waiter
Lippmann
660 wordsi
Lippmann
what is a very complex busi-
ness, it is essential for the na-
tion through the Congress to
make a fundamental decision
of. national policy. This would
be to assert that in the great
industrial conflicts involving
giant monopolistic corpora
tions and unions, the national
interest is paramount. It is
paramount in that differences
must be settled without strikes
,or lockouts. It is paramount in
that the wage-price conditions
of the settlement must be ben
eficial to the whole national
economy.
The national interest being
paramount, in the last resort
the government should have
the power to require compul
sory arbitration, and to en
force observance of the ver
dict. In my view, if this power
exists and is intelligently exer
cised, it will rarely have to be
invoked. For with the exist
ance of the reserve power, the
government will be in a strong
position to urge labor and
management to bargain free
ly if they can and if they will,
or else to accept voluntary
arbitration.
i
DR. TAYLOR, for whom I
have great respect, says in
an interview published in the
"U. S. News and World Re
port" that he is in favor of
voluntary arbitration but that
compulsory arbitration is "ter
rible." I submit that to draw
the distinction so sharply-is
an oversimplification. For, so
at least it seems to me, the
existence of the power to in
stitute compulsory arbitration
would act as a strong, and in
deed as a necessary method of
promoting voluntary arbitra
tion. There is more likely to
be voluntary arbitration,
which plainly is what the steel
conflict now needs, if in the
background there exists the
power to compel arbitration. .
" The dividing line between
"voluntary" and "compulso
ry" is not absolute and sharp.
A lot of laws are observed vol
untarily by many people be
cause if they are not observed,
there exists the power to en
force those laws. '
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
- Today's subject:
People in the news.
PEOPLE make the news.
. People ARE' the news.
Without people, there would
be no newspapers. No maga
zines. No radio. No television.
NO -PRESS. Without people,
there would be no news. With
out.news, there would be no
press.
And-
' People are funny. They do
strange things. As a rule, the
stranger the things1 they do
the more news they make.
Like a man biting a dog.
ALL this is suggested by the
heart failure death of Er
rol Flynn. HE was a strange
character. He did everything
that people shouldn't do. He
had no morals, in the accepted
sense , of the term. Wine, wo
men and advanture were his
gods. He went through money
as if it were water-NEVER
treating it as a prudent man
should. He smashed through
accepted moral standards as a
bull smashes through a fence.
All that, in his peculiar pro
fession, made the money roll
in. Extravagant as he was in
his peak years of success, he
couldn't spent it as fast as it
poured in on him.
HIS business? It was enter
tainment. People will pay
ANYTHING to be entertained.
Is that a characteristic of
this modern world? NO! It
always has been that way. In
the decadent days of the Ro
man empire, the people got
everything tl) at was BAD
Matter of Fact
IN A GREEN SHADE
Tokyo - Great beauty, long
enduring, ought to be more
noteworthy than public folly,
p" ""1 lonS persisted
y! in. So there
lit- will be no
fl , a'pology here
A V yl for writing
gfi ing about the
I Garden of the
)t "f" Moss Temple.
It is certain
ly the most
beautiful gar
den in the
Joseph Alsnp
world. It must also be one of
the half-dozen oldest gardens
in the world, having been laid
out over six centuries ago.
Discovering it is almost like
seeing the Parthenon for the
first time without 'advance
warning - if one can imagine
such a thing. Hence the im
pulse to share the discovery is
irrestistible.
Imagine, . then, a country
road meandering into a litUe
Japanese village that nestles
at the foot of Kyoto's craggy,
tree-clad western hills. The
Saihoji stream, a clear, swift
rushing brook, runs along the
road. There is a simple bridge.
Beyond the bridge there is a
low gate. Pass through the
gate, and you enter the en
chantment which is so strong
that you feel spellbound even
as you walk. .
T7VERY great garden has its
Li peculiar associations. The
Red Fort at Delhi is a Mogul
miniature painted by a heav-
enly hand. Lenotre's triumph
at Versailles is Racine's alex
andrines translated into ver
dure. But the Garden of the
Moss Temple makes you think
of music, for it is symphonical
ly organized.
The first main theme is the
moss carpet that covers every
inch of ground in this garden's
few and secret acres. The moss
is plush-like, silk-like, felt
like, fur-like, and velvet-like;
the moss is silver, emerald,
olive, or greyish-green or the
bitter green of young rice
shoots or the black green of a
maUard's neck. The theme in
deed is ever varied, but it
runs through the whole com
position.
Trees are the second main
theme. Huge, ancient' crypto
merias, dark-foUaged and se
vere; delicate maples with fo
liage like tender green lace;
stern piites and taU bamboos
like huge, yeUow-green os
trich feathers waving on jade
stems - these and scores of
others make the canopy above
the moss carpet. This theme is
infinitely varied, too, by the
contrasts of trunks, contrasts
of foliage, ' contrasts in the
ways the sunlight pours down
upon the moss.
LICHEN, silver upon the tree
trunks, bright gold upon
the rocks, is perhaps a third
and minor theme. : But the
wonderful enclosure of space
and light between the ever
changing' moss carpet below
and the ever-varied toliage
canopy above is what makes
this carden magical.
The 'magic is musicaUy or
ganized in another way, too
The entering alley, dark,
brief, and severely - planned
yet seeming to lead into the
heart of a mystery, is tne over
ture. The first movement is
the lower garden
Here milky-clear water in
a chain of little lakes, each
with its miniature Islands of
the Blessed, makes a counter
point with the main themes.
The second movement is the
steep hill-slope. ,Here rocks
great and small, disposed with
from the decadent emperors
who were their rulers-poverty,
oppression, loss of their
liberty. ,
But they put up with it be
cause of - the ENTERTAIN
MENT provided for them by
their decadent rulers in the
form of circuses.
ERROL FLYNN had a boon
companion and a fellow
sybarite in John Barrymore,
Olympian actor and fabulous
imbiber. Not long before his
death, Flynn told of one inci
dent of their companionship.
He said:
"Once Jack stopped by my
house for an evening of drink
ing - and STAYED THREE
WEEKS."
' Errol Flynn was lucky. He
died in time. He was aging,
to be sure. He was getting fat
and tubby. But the glamor
hadn't ALL worn off.
Barrymore lived too long.
. Luck failed him. r .
LET'S turn to a contrasting
personality, the OPPO
SITE of Flynn and Barrymore
and all their breed - Queen
Mary of England, widow of
King George V, whose biogra
phy has just been published.
She was the apogee of life as
it should be lived according to
the best moral standards. As a
Queen, she lived up to the tra
dition of British royalty that
those who wear the crown
must be a model for all the
people.
She was generally looked
upon as a grim character. She
pitilessly and sternly CON
DEMNED her wo, King Ed-
I 1
Bv Joseph AIsop
a wonderfuUy artful appear
ance of naturalness, make a
new counterpoint. And the
coda is the short descent, still
through the same greenly lu
minous moss-and-tree-enclosed
space, from a last little spring
with its neighboring "rock of
meditation."
In this garden, there is none
of that prinked and fussed
over look that is the bane of
too many Japanese gardens,
wonderful as they are. In a
very ordinary hotel garden, I
have seen the gardener liter
ally pruning a pine needle by
needle. But that has never
happened here. This is simply
a place designed for "a green
thought in a . green shade";
but here the thought is intend
ed to be about God and eter-
nity-which may weU be the
source of the magic.
rAT FACT isN inherent in
the garden's story. The
little lakes of the first move
ment perhaps date in part
from the time when Prince
Genji and the Lady Murasaki
lived and loved.: But the gar
den as a whole was laid out,
at the behest of a chieftain of
the great house of Fujiwara,
by the 14th century Buddhist
mystic, Muso Kokushi. To
help weak man see through to
the eternal was Muso's aim.
The garden has acquired its
own place in history in its
six centuries of life. It was
first restored by the dilettante
Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa,
the builder of the Golden Pa
vilion. It was restored again
by the fierce warlord, Oda
Nobunaga. ' W h e n the still
fiercer warlord Hideyoshi
turned against his favorite,
Sen No Rikyu, the originator
of the tea ceremony took ref
uge here. So did one of the
underground leaders of the
Meiji restoration that produc
ed the new Japan.
Now the Japanese tourists
stream through the magic
place (for the garden has been
made famous by mention in a
popular romance). In the de
cay of the temples, two pleas
ant little married priests, the
Fujita brothers, care for the
place with the help of a few
trousered old women paid out
of the tourists' entrance fees.
Parts of the music are miss
ing already - a waterfall that
Muso planned is dry now, and
the hungry bamboos, are en
croaching. Maybe, in the end,
the most beautiful garden in
the world wUl fall victim to
the 20th century. But thus far
the beauty endures; the beau
ty still endures. And that,
really, is the Moss Garden's
lesson.
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How Many Friends?
To the Editor: Do you know
who your friends are and how
many you have? We didn't
until we had a death in the
family Sept. 22. Never have
we seen so many flowers at a
funeral nor received so many
sympathy cards and remem
brances. Friends and' neigh
bors brought food and served
it during our time of sorrow
so we wouldn't have to worry
about getting meals for rela
tives and friends who came
from out of town to the
funeral.
We are simply awed by
their thoughtfulness, and so
very grateful that saying
thanks is a very poor way to
express our feelings. If all
people were so kind we doubt
very much that there would
ever, be anything but love and
peace in the world. -
Anyway, we wisn to thank
each and every person that
helped us in our time of need.
, Sincerely and gratefully,
- Irene Johnson,
Charles Martin and
Frances Johnson.
P. O. Box 397,
Central Point, Ore.
Values Up. Taxes Down
To the Editor: A number of
letters have appeared lately
on your editorial page charg
ing that property owners in
the vicinity would be greatly
damaged if my bill for an
Oregon Dunes National Sea
shore Park becomes law.'
I think it is significant that
the total assessed valuation
of land in Dare County, N.C.,
was $11,156,752 in 1950. In
1958, after the Cape Hatteras
National Seashore Park had
been established, a revalua
tion was made of beach prop
erty near the park. County
values soared to $25,130,457
an increase of 125 per cent.
At the' same time, tax rates
in the locality were lowered
from $1 to 80 cents per
ward VH, when he abdicated
his throne to marry the wo
man of his choice and live the
life of an international play
boy. But through the rest of her
life she wrote him heart-broken
letters addressed to "Darl
ing David" and signed "ever
your loving mama, Mary."
It takes all kinds of people
to make a world.
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
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Excellent, excellent, ad
vice, Lucy!! .
Which is by way of point
ing out' that this is National
Newspaper Week (Oct. 15-21)
and if, like Charlie Brown,
you don't have a newspaper,
SUBSCRIBE to one!
They come in handy in
many ways wrapping fish,
starting fires, killing spiders
. . .The list is endless.
One can also READ a news
paper, if so inclined, and get
the news of the day, informed
comment on a variety of top
ics, entertainment, and, far
from least important the
messages, from our advertis
ers, an excellent guide to you
in planning your purchases.
A newspaper is a bargain,
Charlie Brown.
'.--
At least some members
of the Medford Junior
Women's club presumably
are going around these dayi.
reciting to themselves the
old verse, "Thirty days hath
September, April, June and
November .: . ." They
brought out . their handy
little memo calendar toe
other day, and it has an
extra Tuesday, which the
calendar says this year falls
on Nov. 31. It backs up a
day on the next page, how
ever, and December gets
started on Tuesday.
This being the hunting sea
son, we should, perhaps, pass
along a recipe for "Hunters
Punch," which a thoughtful
friend provided us.
The ingredients: -2
drops gun oil
1 drop tetanus toxoid
2 anti-coagulant, pills
" 1 tsp. brewer's yeast
Whisky to taste (45ths of
a gallon, usually)
The friend adds, "Some add
carrot juice, I'm told, to as
sure they won't . get blind
drunk. Otherwise, this potion
is reputed to ward off heart
attacks and to keep huntsmen
happy ; 'til , they get theirs
(buck or bullet)."
We plan to let someone else
try it. So had you.
,
The Ventura County Star
Free Press has a regular fea
ture, entitled . "Beg Par
don," in which it runs all
its apologies for mistakes
made in previous issues.
This probably is a good
idea, but it certainly is an
admission of fallibility
(who isn't) and probably -shouldn't
even be mention-
hundred. . ' 1 " --'
An economic report prepar
ed under the direction of Dr.
J. Granville Jensen of Ore
gon State : College,, pnet)f our
state's eminent geographers,
has stated: "If the proposed
Oregon Dunes National Sea
shore were established, such
accommodations as motels,
hotels, restaurants, filling sta
tions, sporting goods stores
and grocery stores, plus living
accommodations for the serv
ice forces needed to operate
them, would develop outside
the area. As the demand for
such businesses and residen
tial areas developed, the value
of land and improvement
would develop accordingly. A
further factor contributing to
increased, property values
would be the improvement of
local markets, which could in
fluence the development of lo
cal wholesale outlets." -
National parks in other
states are almost universally
popular. At the recent hear
ings Jerry O'Callahan, legis
lative assistant, to. the distin
guished Senator Joseph C.
O'Mahoney of Wyoming, de
clared that their two great
national parks-Grand Tetons
and Yellowstone-are assets to
Wyoming and that they wish
ed they had an area suitable
for a third such park. Why
should so many people in Ore
gon, even those in high places
of responsibility in govern
ment, seek to deny a new sea
shore national park to our
state? As a native son of Ore
gon and as a Senator from
Oregon, I simply do not un
derstand the situation.
' Richard L. Neuberger,
United States Senator
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NEWSPAPER!
ed during National News
paper Week.
We 1 earn from the sam
newspaper about a man whose
car overturned while wa
driving. He told the investi
gating policeman that his at
tention was distracted when
he was talking to his dog.
We wonder what the doa
had to say AFTER the acci
dent. A family was moving to
the Medford area the other
day, and the wife was driv- .
ing along with a car loaded
down with all their posses
sions which included a
couple of mounted deer
heads. And (yes, you"
guessed it) she was stopped
by a state policeman - who
was somewhat chagrined to
find the "deer" didn't even
NEED tags.
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We all know how cumber
some county government can
be, don't we? How there is no
clear line of authority, lack
of coordination and effective
communication?
Well up in Lane, county
they finished building a big,
modern new courthouse . this
year. The grand jury met for
the first time there last week.
Among other things, it issued
a critical report about tht
courthouse because it didn'l
have a grand jury room whert
they could meet in private.
This report got into thej
Eugene Register-Guard, and
the architect who designed thsj
building was shocked. It did
too have a jury room, he de
clared. After some fussing aroiSnd,
it developed that there was si
grand jury room, all right,
but someone had forgotten
to tell the district attorney0
about it. ; - - '
' And THAT'S what we meftn
about county government. :
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Then there's the one
(true) about the president
of t h e local service club -who,
last week, got the dat
of the week mixed up, and
had a leisurely lunch at a
downtown restaurant while
his club members wondered
: why he wasn't presiding at
the country club. Q,
A grade school youngster
reports that sometimes, dur
ing his health and physical
education class, the instructor
has them pick up paper and
other trash on the school
grounds.
That isn't PE," he com
mented. "It's PU."
.'
We wouldn't be a cham
ber of commerce . manager
for all the diamonds in Af
rica.. You have to work for
600 bosses, and rush hither
and yon, trying to improve
community relations, at- O
tract beneficial industry,
promote business, and boost
other civic activities. The
life is noisy, harried and
ulcer-producing. . But- otir
own Don McNeil lakes it
with a philosophic calm.
On the wall of his office ife
a large red button labeled, e
in large black letters, "Pan
ic Button." He has sympa
thy for others in the calling,
too, and recently sent to
Frank Tucker, the C of C
manager in Klamath Falls,
a phonograph record enli-
tied "Six Minutes of Gold
en Silence," When itft is
played, there is utter si-
lence three minutes dn
each side.
Ever been pestered by tel
ephone solicitors?
In Salem, a lawyer got a
telephone call from a woman
who said, "Congratulations!
You have just won a prize."
Without batting an eye, the
lawyer replied, "Wonderful!
Will you please send a pho
tographer out right away? I
want to get my picture) in thg
paper. This is the first time
I've ver won anything."
There was a spluttering
sound at the other end. Then
she hung up. And' he never
did find out what the prize
was.
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