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Newspaper Page Textt MAIL TRIBUNE, MmfforJ, Or. I THMtfay, NOV. 17, 1939 METfORBtiWrRIBUNl "Everyone to Southern Oregon Published DhU except Saturday by MJJFORD PRINTING CO 33 North fli St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBIRT W RtJHL Editor ITERS GBXX Adrertirtrg Manager CEP-ALD LATHAM Business Mgt rRIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Hftitor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JKWETT Sports Editor OLIVE. STAR! "HER Women's Editor PAljc ERICKS N Circulation May An Independent Newspaper Entered at sennnd class matter at MedorH Orepon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 7 Maii In Advance Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year (15 00 Dally and Sunday -e mos. B in. Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Essie - Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenta Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on' motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year SI 8 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo i-su Carrier and Dealers copy lOe All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper City f Medford Official Paper et Jaehson County United Press International fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. iC" NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION RATION At EDITORIAL Flight '0 Time Medford and Jackson County History from the' files ot Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 17. 1949 (Thursday) A total of 724 persons, a local record, received chest x-rays at the Medford armory yesterday. The outbreak of diphtheria cases in xuectEord tnis last month, has risen to 18 today 20 YEARS AGO Mot. 17, 1939 (Friday) ; The estimated income from agriculture in Jackson county this year will be $8,080,000. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Will the gentleman who took my tan trousers from the seat of my coupe Saturday morning, either sell them back, or buy the coat?" SO YEARS AGO Mot. 17, 1929 (Sunday) Turkey thieves steal 83 birds belonging to Gene Wat- kins of Central Point. Work slackens on Pacific coast and employment needed by hundreds. 40 YEARS AGO Mot. 17, 1919 (Monday) Congress to hold final vote on peace pact Thursday. Phoenix citizen confident oil will be found in Fern val ley,' SO YEARS AGO Not; 17. 1909 (Thursday) Plans are being completed for ' four-story business block on northeast corner of Sev enth st. and Riverside ave. Gold Hill is only town in county with greater assessed 1 A.! At I A vaiua uou uust year over xasu Vhal's Yoarl.Q.? Nine or ten correct is suae nor; even or eight is excellent; five at Six a good. 1. Must new appointees to the President's cabinet be con firmed by the Senate? 2. What was the first indi cation Robinson Crusoe found that his island was inhabited? 3. What means of travel comes to mind when you hear the expression . "The Iron Horse"? 4. Which camels have two humps -Dromedaries or Bac- trians? 5. Which President of the U.S. was called "The Man of "Destiny" because of his rapid rise in political omce : 6. What is the central star in the solar system? 7. Are rickets caused by a germ, failure of secretory tis sues, or a dietary deficiency? 8. What are the young of frogs called? 9. Of which Mid-western gtate is Lincoln the capital? 10. Do the names Tommy Dorsey and Wayne King sug gest to you politics, music, or .;snc iv - Answers: 1. Yes. 2. A man's footorisi in the sand. 3. Rail- . roads. 4. Bactrians. 5. Grover Cleveland. 6. The sun. 7. Die tary deficiency. 8. Taapoies. 9. Nebraska. 10. music SETS JET RECORD Rome-(UPfl-An. American Jet airliner on a trial run set a new London-Rome record of one hour, 55 minutes Monday. The Trans World Airliner Boeing 707-331, which will begin regular service on the run Dec. 4, was not carrying any passengers. One More Chance We are awaiting' with interest, the second report of the Oregon committee on natural re sources with regard to the Oregon Dunes Nation al Seashore proposal. The first report, which gave a "unanimous" adverse recommendation tion proposed by Sen. served to put the government of the State of Oregon on record as shore area in the state. Later, after hearings Senator Neuberger conferred with Gov; Mark Hatfield, then worked out a revision in the bill to take care of most of the objections which had been raised to the first proposal, and was assured it would be given careful consideration by the committee. IT IS the report on the iTTill lnfovocf no VTA1A .Xll IvlOn It will be interesting, in particular, because the secretary of the natural resources committee, Dan Allen, who prepared port, was the author of of the Portland papers, posal once again. The letter was printed after the revision was announced, but presumably before he had a i j. ;i ! j ii j.; I l j. cnance to see 11. Ana me ummg cerxamiy suggests that Allen had prejudged the revised legislation without having studied F THE committee's second report is as strong- ly adverse as the first it will virtually doom any national seashore proposal for this state good, bad or indifferent. As nearly as we can equivocal opposition is t, ii : pie oi ine immediate coastal area involved and even there the sentiment is far from unan imously against the creation of such a park. (One of the strongest by the way, is William lisher of the Port Umpqua Courier, formerly edi tor of the Eugene Register-Guard, a life-long ad vocate of, and fighter for, sensible, practical de- velepment of Oregon s is also a member of the state parks advisory committee.) 'T'HE revised legislation, according to Senator Neuberger, goes as far as it can go to meet opposition . and still adhere to the standards which the National Park Service, quite rightly, insists upon in the establishment of nationally significant parks and seashores. So the committee has a chance to keep the proposal alive -r or it has the chance to kill it beyond hope of revival, at least during the pres ent state administration. Even those who are luke-warm on the pro posal, and who feel that it should be explored far more thoroughly than it has up to cow, should join in the hope that it will be kept alive to per mit such exploration. If the committee kills it, it will be dead a long time perhaps forever while othej less obdurate areas will win the benefits which go with national seashore status. E. A. Strange "There are more things Than are dreamt of in ' tio, f Shakespeare's comment on things unseen and not understood might well be the theme for a new book, entitled "Stranger Than Science," which is bemg published The author is irank mentator, who is fascinated by things arcane, ex otic and unexplained. The book, compiled radio broadcasts, leaves really DOES fall from if there really ARE sea monsters; if dreams real ly CAN foretell the future, or reveal the where abouts of missing persons; if other races from elsewhere in space really HAVE visited our planet. THE author claims adequate documentation for each of the happenings ' something the reader will have to accept or reject on his say-so, for he does not specify further than to say it is so. (The "Oregon Vortex stery," on Sardine creek ter in terms a little too observer who has visited Some of the happenings have been drawn from the past centuries, and can, presumably, be written off as tales which have been enhanced in the telling and re-telling. But others are happenings of the past 10 or 15 vears. and. erven the documentation the writ er claims, certainly do leave a puzzled and un easy feeling upon reading of them. - THE. book undoubtedly the testimony of their own senses, and who have had no personal experiences to give them pause. But, over the years, there have been enough incidents of a mysterious nature, which the best efforts of logic and science cannot explain, to permit the nagging thought that there are, in deed, things which the present state of science cannot explain away. ; , Tho book is a chronicle of some 70 such in cidents. It is fascinating reading, whether or not one accepts the premise that each could be ex plained, if enough facts were known. E. A. to the original legisla Richard L. Neuberger, opposmg a national sea on the matter were held, revised legislation which the original adverse re a letter appearing in one which assailed the pro it. , determine, die-hard, un largely confined to peo- i 1 1 i supporters in that area, Tugman, editor and pub economic resources. He highway department's Things ' in heaven and earth, Hora- your philosophy." Hamlet, Act. 1, Scene 5. today. Edwards, a radio com' from a series of brief one wondering if ice the sky in huge chunks; " or "House of Mys- is described in one chap exaggerated to suit an the Vortex.) will be pooh-poohed Dennis the Menace JM MOT LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. BurmHE'smmMVfoxsAU sign: ' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances' the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation.. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the caca. : Tobacco and Nutrition i To the Editor: As parents, we want to send our thanks, our vote of confidence,' and all the help and encourage ment we can give, to our law enforcement officers and school authorities, for caring enough about our Medford boys and girls and doing all in their power to keep them from developing a taste for tobacco until they are old enough to realize the disad vantages it has and the harm it can do. It has long been an Oregon law that minors are not al lowed to buy tobacco, but it has been hard to enforce be cause parents will not co operate. Friends visiting Medford have been amazed at seeing 11 or 12 year old children on our streets nonchantly smok ing. Let's do all we can to back our police and school authori ties in this step forward for the benefit of all Medford boys and girls. Some positive ways we, as parents, can help our chil dren, who will be our future leaders, are as follows: 1. Take your child to the Sunday school and church of your choice, and stay with them. 2. A maximum nutritional program, with plenty of pro tein instead of nicotine.. 3. Plenty of outdoor exer cise, where lungs are used for brisk air, instead of a smoke-filtering plant. 4. Know where your child is, who he is with, and what he is watching - in short, a good environment. God has trusted you with these chil dren, so live up to your re sponsibility. Mr. and Mrs. William Brawn 507 Kenwood Medford. . (And 11 other parents.) Cat Care To the Editor: Peopie who abandon dogs and cats must not be aware of Senate bill No. 120 which was passed at the last session of the Oregon legislature. 1 The report of the dog con trol board concerning the large number of dogs picked up and destroyed each month at the county pound, and our experience, of caring for un wanted and abandoned cats, proves how necessary such a law has become. There is a so - called "floating popula tion" that moves into a com munity, acquires a dog or cat, and when they move on leaves the animal with no pro vision for its care. - Then there are the people whose children bring home a puppy or kitten and when it becomes too great a care it is taken out and dropped by the roadside. The bill, as passed, reads: "Any person, who is the owner, keeper, agent of the owner or custodian of any dog or cat, and who wilfully aban dons or leaves such dog or cat without making adequate pro vision for the proper feeding and shelter thereof, shall be punished upon conviction by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500." Let us hope that this law will be vigorously enforced. Cat Care for Cat Welfare P. O. Box 3, Medford Phone SP 3-2335 Mary Schweiger, Sec. rlNY All 1 WANT Tfimw MAW? DAV Talent Show To the Editor: The ninth annual DAV Amateur Talent Tournament has been set for Dec. il this year. This event has' been conductedby Jack son county chapter No. 8, Dis a b 1 e d American Veterans, since 1951. It is not regarded as a fund raising enterprise by the DAV but as a splendid public rela tions project., , . , . The Rogue valley is one of the most productive, when it comes to producing entertain ment talent. The students of the several talent schools of the valley look forward to this annual event, as a chance to try out their acts before' an audience, " sponsored by the DAV Veterans' organizations are primarily for the purpose of rehabilitation of veterans, and welfare of their dependents, but each has a side-line of workine with youth. With VFW it's marble champion ships, American Legion, it's Junior baseball, etc. The DAV likes to promote the oppor tunities o f entertainment - talented youngsters. During the past eight years that we have conducted these annual amateur talent con tests in Medford, a few of our contestants have grown from amateur prize winners here to a spot on bigger time.! Because of the continuing increase in the number of acts booked , for our show each year (we had 50 last year), we have decided to have an audi tion performance. The audi tioning will be held in the Theater Building at Camp White, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. .27, just two weeks -ahead of the tourna ment proper, which will be in the Senior High school audi torium in Medford, Friday, Dec. 11, 1959. Admission price, 50 cents. The Camp White preliminary or audi tioning show, of course, is free of charge. Cash prizes are to be award ed in ffve types of acts, in cluding a top winner from among the five. Maximum age limit is 18 years, with a divis sion of 10 years and under as juniors, not required to com pete with the older group. Entrants may contact the undersigned.. Pat Graham, Chairman 175 Jeanette st., Medford (SP 2-4192) S.O.T.A. Commended To the Editor: In a day when we are all too hasty with criticism of young peo ple, I would like to single out a fine act. My wife, who teaches at one of the elementary schools, was about to depart for home recently when she discovered a flat tire on the car. At about this time a high school boy arrived and asked if he could be of assistance. After he had changed the tire, my wife offered to pay him for his service. He politely refused the remuneration; explaining the service to be - a routine courtesy gesture. on the part of members of the S.O.T-A. organization. I want, to commend this boy, Dale Carter, and the org anization, for their fine work. Don Stroh Hedrick Junior High School. Medford Editor's note: The S.O.T.A. is the Southern Oregon Tim ing association, an organiza tion of young automobile en thusiasts and racers. . Their code of ethics, as is the case with similar groups, calls for courtesy and helpfulness on the streets and highways. Matter of Fact Bv Jaseoh Altep BUY A SHARE IN THE . MORNING STAR! Macao - in a long and mis spent life, this reporter has acquired a good deal of in- v'-jyi formation but VV'g'vlf not much ab l f - - v solute knowl- ' .edge.' - anocK l n g i y I m o r e over, a large share of the items I re gard as abso 1 u t e knowl- Josph Aisop edge concern the cheapest places to buy luxuries. For instance, there is that back street of Indian shops in Bangkok where you can get palace emeralds the size of gumdrops for very nearly the price of gumdrops. I might mention others but will not. This' rather personal pre face seems to be required be cause here in Macao, on a journey made to interrogate recent escapees from Com munist China, I have just stumbled across the biggest, most luxurious bargain I can remember. It was better, really, than my best yet, the superb early Chinese bronzes I got in the war years in North China for hardily more than twice the cost of their weight in metal. - THE FIRST step in giving tins in haraain hunter ic to indicate the right address, especially if the place is a bit out of the way. You go, then, down to the part of Macao by the bay, where all the strip of land between the road and the seawall is covered with the. sad makeshift huts and the minutely tilled little vege table patches of the peasants who have run away from Drummond (Walter Lippman is again OSS) reports from Washington in his absence.) HOW TV COULD DO IT Washington - No reform of TV programming yet pro posed by any official of the networks or government comes within sight of what needs to be done. To correct rigging of the quiz shows is only the obi- ous. minor reform. It does not reach the heart of the problem. What has happened is that, with the acquiesence of the networks, the sponsors have, in effect, seized possession of the limited channels of tele vision transmission and have used - and abused - them for commercial, selling purposes to the sacrifice of the public interest. . The candid fact to bear in mind is that it is the spon sors , the advertisers, who fill up nearly au the best view ing time of all the networks with entertainment for which the prime objective is to ac quire . the . largest possible mass audience to sell to by catering to the lowest com mon denominator , of public taste and morals. This is the reason the prin cipal diet of television today is murder, mayhem, and me diocrity. LET me illustrate the nature of what's happened. Sup pose publishers permitted the advertisers to acquire control of the principal content of the newspapers and suppose, thereby, they conceived and printed the worst possible comics, many of them degrad ing, in the first 20 to 30 pages of your newspapers and allowed a few news reports to appear among the want- ads. That would be the equiv alent of what the sponsors and the advertisers and the net works have allowed to hap pen on TV. If there were only enough newsprint so that the gov ernment could license only four , national newspapers. with a few local papers, pub lishing a little local news, scattered across the country, you would have in the news paper business wnat you Cranberries Off Menu in Senate Washington -(DPD- The Senr ate restaurant has scratched cranberry sauce from its menu. The restaurant, for sena tors and office workers, fea tured roast Maryland turkey on its printed menu Monday. Cranberry saace was scratch ed out. Inserted in its place in ink was raspberry apple sauce. The Justice department also isn't taking any chances. A menu for a special Thanksgiving dinner was placed on every table in the department's big cafeteria. One item was neatly crossed off in pencil cranberry sauce. 1,499 national or regional companies each invested $25, 000 or more in daily news papers last year to tell con sumers about 3,784 products. Chairman Mao's new paradise on earth. Note them well, for they have something to do with my bargain. Some of the refu gees are even living in the same poor sampans they used for their flight, having, drag ged the little crafts ashore and roofed them with mats Almost no'refugee family has more than the equivalent of ten or eleven U.S. dollars a month yet they think them selves immeasurably better off than they were. Just.across the avenue from the thickest conglomeration of refugee hovels, there is the big School of, the Morning Star. Ring the gate-bell. The old gardener opens the gate, shoos away a surging, wel coming crowd of clean, plump, wonderfully gay little girls, and shows you to the school's immaculate, bare re ception room. Here, after a brief pause, appears the Rev erend Mother Maria Tolmira of . the Order of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Hf OTHER TOLMIRA is very ATX tall, very slender, dressed in spotless white robes, with beautiful work-worn hands and a face of such ascetic beauty that you ask yourself at once who should paint her. (Jan van Eyck might be up to the job, you decide later on.) With gentle graciousness, the Reverend Mother arranges to find the newcomers in the squatter colony; she knows them all. 'Then, to make con versation, you ask about her own work. Mother Tolmira is Polish, it appears, and she was driven to Macao after a quarter cen tury of missionary labor in China. She thinks now that this sudden exile was "almost Reports traveling abroad. Rosco Dromond have in the television busi ness. ; This is why the first step toward adequate reform is for the networks to require and for the sponsors to be willing to ' accept the proposal of Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc., for "Hands-Off- Entertainment Code." Until such a code is a standard part of the sponsor -advertising agency-network contract for the purchase of TV and radio time, we can know that the networks have not learned their lesson, that they like things just as they are, that they are not prepared to take responsibility for their own industry, that no adequate re form is in prospect. TJUT this is only the begin- ning of reform. This would only mean that the networks would be re-possessing the control of their own industry which they never should have yielded. What counts is what they do with this authority in behalf of better programming after they reacquire it. I cannot escape -the convic tion that just so lonS as tne exclusive source of income for the television industry is from the sponsor, whose main objective is to acquire the largest mass audience to sell to by catering to the lowest common denominator m taste and morals, there will be lit tle prospect of adequate re form in programming. It seems to me that the principle on which newspa pers operate should be applic able to at least part of the TV industry. That principle is that the newspaper readers pay part of the cost of the product. rpHIS is the case for pay-as- you-see television and me case is t stronger today than ever. Is . there any reason why networks couldn't provide both sponsored and pay-as- you-see television? I nave never seen any persuasive ar gument which shows it im practicable. Then viewers could take their choice. Then viewers who wanted something better could get it by paying mod estly for it. I see no reason why there should not be ap propriate commercials o n pay-as-you-see television just the same as there, is adver tising in the newspapers for which readers pay. This might not guarantee better programs but it would increase the prospect of get ting them. And it seems to me it would be a better first step than going into the Amer ican ' equivalent of government-sponsored television as in Britain and Canada. . (c) 1959 Now York Herald Tribune Inc. Husbands! Wives! Get Pep, Vim; Feel Younger Thousands of couples are weak, worn out, tired, exhausted because body lacks iron and Vitamin Bl. For a ?ounger feeling after 40, try Ostrez 'onic Tablets. Contain iron and high-potency dose Vitamin Bi for quick, new younger pep, vim. "Get. acquainted'' size 69f. All druggists. Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE POLITE DEATH-GRAPPLE Washington The Nixon Rockefeller contest for the 1960 Republican presidential nomination is becoming one of . the most po lite death grapples in the history of .3 AmoTMnon Tl ltlCS. These calm i and able young men are trying to pat each other on the back vigorously as to fracture the spinal cord. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in vades Richard M. Nixon's home, state of Calif ornia - and then tells the customers what a sign of God's grace," be cause she has found so much to do in Macao. Many of the refugees have children. Many of the children are hungry. All need education. And all the girl children -of all the refugees in Macao are Mother Tolmira's special task and province. "Years ago we began our school in bamboo huts," she says gravely. "What else could be do? They needed us. Then Doctor Lobo (the chief Macao millionaire) said he would build a real school and asked me to draw up the plans. He did not really expect me to plan anything quite so big, I'm' afraid" here what can only be called a glint of cheerfully predatory humor is briefly visible in the Rev erend Mother's clear grey eye - "but he approved in the end, so here we are, with 780 girls in the school and not nearly room enough for all we ought to have." The poorest children, the Reverend . Mother explains, get free food and education. About 600 whose parents have the best jobs by Macao stand ards, pay the magnificient sum of 35 American cents a month for their schooling and a big daily meal of bread and rice and milk. "It is not much but it is a lot of money for us, and every month 50 or 60 cannot .pay," says Mother Tolmira. "Then God has to provide. He al ways does, somehow." THERE, in effect, was my bargain. Who could resist the chance to educate a child and keep it fed and healthy too for a total outlay of $7.20 per annum? I bought three dozen chances on the spot. The Reverend Mother's thanks were sweet, indeed But there was a certain some thing in the way she looked at the check, and a certain something too in the way she began to talk about how she wanted to build an orphanage for 200 homeless refugee chil dren for a mere $7,000 - yet to be located. "Get it built," she added placidly, "and then God will provide the orphans' keep as well." This certain something that Mother Tolmira commands is downright mesmeric. As earl ier, less worthwhile, bargains Had, been heavily depleting, I hastily promised to make my purchase of a share in the work of the "Scuola Stella Matutina" into an annual af fair. On the way home, I told the story to my friend the Spanish Jesuit, Father Ruiz. Father Ruiz laughed so hard he aU but fell off his motor-scooter. Joseph," he said, not per haps very flatteringly, "for her poor children Mother Maria Tolmira could get money out of the devil him self." (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 1 William S. -White Counsel With ... Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish ' Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. a very fine Republican the vice president really is. Nixon's friends in Rocke feller's home state, New York, are repaying this considera tion with an elaborate out ward courtesy which covers a fist of steel. This is the exact if unstated purpose of the formation of "New Yorkers for Nixon." Nixon's national associates publicly take the line that those nice fellows up in New York simply did this on their own. T)UT( these amiable mutter "ings from Nixon headquar ters will fool nobody. And, of course, they are not really in tended to do so. The creation of "New York ers for Nixon" could readily be seen as a tit-for-tat retort to Rockefeller's, foray into Nixonland in California. This is not quite the case. Or, ra ther, this interpretation both understates and oversimpli fies the New York purposes of the Nixonites. Actually, they are going far beyond any mere tit-for-tat business. They have set up in New York a Nixon lodgment that is meant to suggest that the nominating game is over already. ("New Yorkers for Nixon," by the way, also has a strong WaU Street flavor. This is to re mind various people that not all of Wall Street is neces sarily pro-Rockefeller.) "New Yorkers for Nixon" stoutly deny any plot what ever to "corral delegates" - that is, to wrest nominating votes at next year's GOP con vention away from Rockefel ler in Rockefellerland. They are, they say, "simply provid ing ' a platform from which New Yorkers can express and mobilize their support of Dick Nixon. This is only another way of implying that there just is no need to "corral delegates" in New York -that Nixon is as good as nominated now. So the only real question now, it is suggested, is to rally for Nixon's 1960 campaign against the Democrats. t TT IS also another way" of -making it difficult for Rockefeller openly to contest with Nixon for convention delegates in California. When the front-runner grandly dis dains any designs on Rocke feller's home state, why should not Rockefeller show equal magnanimity? Moreover, old political, cus tom makes it bad manners, for one presidential aspirant, to go into another's home state in naked rivalry. Rockefeller has come very close to just that by his California sortie. Organization Republicans (who also are mostly pro Nixon Republicans) will in creasingly deplore this sort of ' thing. The "neutral" GOP Nation al Chairman, Senator Thurs ton Morton, has already, ex pressed pious hope that Rocke feller won't push the thing to a "disruptive" head-on con test with Nixon in California. Morton is "neutral" in fa vor of Nixon. He adds sagely that while, of course, he has no partiality, "Vice President Nixon's substantially ahead of Rockefeller." A skeptical onlooker might even say . that this Nixon Rockefeller minuet is not so genial on the inside as on the outside. All the same, the minuet's decorous form is steadfastly maintained. The Republicans make many mistakes. But one mis take they leave solely to the Democrats: They don't allow fighting among , themselves to get so out of hand as to make the opposition party the only possible gainer. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) IT'S THE BERRIES! And we don't mean CRANBER RIES. We're referring to our Package Program that enables you to carry all your policies in fewer contracts with premiums budgeted for convenience in paying. Check on it now. ygg H 5 . ' - 3' 4 ' Bill Fish v. - t ' ' .