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Sunday, Nov. 22, 1959
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History from the files of The
viail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago. -
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 22, 1949 (Tuesday)
Enrol Fiynn and Princess
Irene Gica announce engage
ment; no date set.
A community Thanksgiving
service, sponsored by local
churches, "will be held at First
Methodist church.
20 YEAR'S AGO
Not. 22. 1939 (Wednesday)
- Jackson county free of gen
eral fund indebtedness for
first time since ,1927.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: -"The
weather turned off chilly.
However, it calls for no apol
ogy, except a blanket apology
for the early morns."
30 YEARS AGO
Not. 22. 1929 (Friday)
Three revival meetings now
under way in Medford.
Jackson county announces
road sign slogan "This is ' a
-Great Country."
40 YEARS AGO
Not. 22, 1919 (Saturday)
: Turkeys sell on local mar
ket for 45 and 50 cents per
pound.
State highway commission
er killed in Portland tavern
holdup.
50 YEARS AGO
Not. 22. 1909 (Monday)
Record rain is falling in
valley; appears to be breaking
all time record of seven inch
es for month of November.
; Rogue River Valley R.R.
company . trains are over
crowded on trips from Jack
sonville to Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five et
six is good.
1. Who, in American polit
ical history, was called "The
Boy Orator of the Platte"?
- 2. The tall fuf hat worn by
a drum major is called what?
3. Geoffrey Chaucer was a
poet of what country?
; 4. Was Francisco de Goya a
writer, painter, or musician?
5. Name the capital city of
the Dominion of Canada.
6. Which one of our Presi
dents was so poor at his death
. that he was buried at the ex
pense of his friends? -
7. Do the veins carry blood
to the heart, from the- heart,
or both?
8. Correct the following:
"The rifleman only had one
round of ammunition left?"
9. What American compos
er wrote the song "Over
There"? , .
10. What number, when
doubled, equals twice as much
as when squared?
- Answers: 1. William Jen
ings Bryan. 2. Shako. 3. Eng
land. 4 Painter. 5. Ottowa.
S. James Monroe. 7. To the
heart. 8. "The rifleman had
only one round . . " 9. George
M. Cohan. 10. The number 1.1
This Is Our Task
Is the world of today a "rocket-filled jungle"?
Is it a "dark, fearsome place"?
Are many of us "retreating mentally" from
the world because of its terrifying possibilities?
Maybe some of us are. Maybe too many. May
be, as the race of humans, we are not facing the
challenges and the opportunities, and, instead,
are scrambling for some sort of pseudo-security
in today's luxuries, gadgets and fripperies.
t
MAYBE.
1 But this has always been true, ever since
mankind stopped being a lone scavenger and
hunter, and started being a social and commun
al entity.
There have always been people who have
faced the challenges, looked to the future, done
the work of society not always well, not always
enough, not always wisely.
The societies of mankind have repeatedly
broken down into wars, famines, pestilences,
revolutions, civil strife. But always there have
been those who attempted, first, to avoid these
breakdowns, and when they happened, to patch
the framework together again.
THE WORLD of man today is threatened and
challenged as never before.
Many of course do ignore both lhe threat
(because they cannot bear to think about it) and
the challenge (because they either refuse to care,
or feel that there is nothing they can do).
But there are those who, while recognizing
the threat, fail to be intimidated into inaction,
and those who, recognizing the challenge, do
what they can to face up to it.
And it is to such that we must look for lead
ership today. As individuals we can do little.
But individuals, together, become a force whose
collective judgment can change the world.
CO, AS individuals, we
And what are they?
They are to be as informed as possible about
the nature of both the
and to form our opinions
They, are to think constructively (and this is
difficult, for mankind generally finds the task
of thinking a difficult one), and to find for our
selves roles which we
steady, but very real
world.
A ND LN this, the improvement of mankind's
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school district and state
as important as the task
now struggling with the
nuclear warfare, of explodmg population, of dis
locations resulting in overabundance here and
starvation there.
To read, to query, to
to vote these are our
And no mean responsibilities they are, either.
On them rests the possibility of our success as a
nation and as the race
Lack of Facts
Most reporters will
sort of story to write is one about a labor dispute
Each side is cagey, each is reluctant to talk too
much for fear of endangering his side and so
on.
The result is often
an unintentionally inaccurate, story.
(As an example, the
started more than three months ago, and threat
ens to resume after the 80-day "cooling off"
period but still the issues are hazv. and perhaps
not even understood by
many intimately involved).
OOW MUCH more difficult, then, is getting at
the facts involved at a strike against news
papers, which effectively control the major dis
semination of public inf ormation.
Struck newspapers, when they continue pub
lishing as is the case in Portland at the moment
are suspected of printing only their own side
of the dispute, or at least slanting the news to
favor their own side. ,
Maybe they do ; maybe they don't The temp
tation to do so would, of course, be terrific. Ob
jectivity and impartiality are hard to come by
when one is party to a dispute.
. . ;
A NY WAY, wre wonder if many people know
" the basic and factual issues involved, which
may (or may not) be more than those listed in
the statements by the publishers. We certainly
don't.
Rumors are rife in Portland, with charges on
both sides becoming increasingly Bitter. And the
truth is, as a result, ever more difficult to come
by, as the two parties seem to get further and
further away from a settlement. ,
On the face of it, the newspapers have the
better of -the argument. But on the other hand,
all the motivations and views of the striking
stereotype union members, and the other union
ists who observed the picket lines, have not been
obtainable at this distance, principally because
the papers themselves are the chief sources of
news in Portland.
We can say, however, we hope the strike is
over soon, for too many
ing, or being mightily inconvenienced. E.A.
have our responsibilities.
threat and the challenge,
as to both.
can fill m the slow, un
march toward a better
is, in its own way, just
of the world statesmen
threat and challenge of
ask, to think, to work,
responsibilities.
of mankind. A.
testify that the toughest
an incomplete, or even
nationwide steel strike
most people, including
people are either suffer
Dennis the Menace
'WHY NOT? VZY0I7S in MS
BLOCK IS TKIN' TO SELL HIS HOUSE'
Matter of Fact
NG TIM AND MME. ;
DE BEAUVOIR
Macao At barely 20 years
of age, Ng Tim is already
work worn. For the last
month, she has been earning
her living for herself and a
baby as an
earth carrier
on a local con
struction proj
ect, where she
is paid the
equivalent of
about ten
American dol
lars a month
She owes
Jospb aisop this great im
provement in her lot to an
imprudence committed by one
of the Communist cadres of
her former people's commune,
which is not far from this
city of refuge. The cadre gave
a senior farmer a communal
sampan, with orders to go up
the river for a load of some
sort of supplies. Ng Tim and
two younger farmers were
sent along to help.
The five of them-for Ng
Tim had taken her baby into
the fields with her-were hard
ly in the sampan and out of
the cadre's sight, when they
decided to seize the chance
to "run away from starva
tion," as Ng Tim put it. They
slipped down river, paddling
desperately all night. They
barely eluded the Chinese
Communist patrol boat, and
they reached safety in Macao.
AS THEY described their
former existence in the
commune, one could under
stand why they risked their
lives, left their families be
hind without a word, and
abandoned the homes they
were born in, for nothing bet
ter than the poorest coolie
wages in this city. No South
ern chain gang ever worked
12 to 16 hours a day, seven
days a week. No Southern
chain gang s convicts were
ever forced to do their work
or a few daily bowls of
starchy mush, without so
much as a little additional fat-
back and greens. But just this
had been the situation of Ng
Tim and the others until they
escaped.
The story of Ng Tim is not
exceptional, either. With some
variations in the quantity of
poor rice and bad sweet po
tatoes in the diet, the worse-than-chain-gang
life is the
standard life of the people's
communes, as - described . iy
the refugees and escapees here
and in Hong Kong. But this
raises a major question, which
is symbolized by the flat con
tradiction of poor Ng Tim, a
humble, work - worn young
Chinese peasant woman, by
the famous female leader of
French intellectual life, Si
mone de Beauvoir.
If you read Mme. de Beau-
voir's glowing account of her
Chinese journey, "The Long
March," you cannot even be
lieve in the existence of Ng
Tim. Indeed, you can hardly
believe in the existence of Ng
Tim if you read the many oth
er reports on China, which are
not marked by Mme. de Beau-
voir's exceptional combination
of fatuous self-satisfaction,
gross credulity, and compla
cent ignorance of China and
the Chinese past. Where, then,
does the truth lie?
All the scores of refugees I
have talked to, and the great
majority of the tens upon tens
of thousands of refugees and
escapees in this city of Hong
Kong, come from only two
Chinese provinces, Kwang-
tung and Fukien. Being just
opposite Taiwan across the
Formosa Strait, Fukien has to
feed a very heavy concentra
tion of the Chinese Commu
nist Army. Kwangtung has to
provide a large part of Hong
Kong's food, which is Com
munist China's biggest single
hard currency export. Thus
there is a case for the view
that food requisitions in these
two provinces are especially
cruel. The fact must be noted,
Bv Joseph Alsop
because this case is argued by
intelligent observers.
VET the case does not really
- stand up, so far as one can
learn. On the one hand
should not have dared to pre
sent the evidence of the few
scores of escapees I have in
terrogated myself, without
checking to make sure that
their evidence was broadly
representative. It was possi
ble to check, because machin
ery exists for systematic, con
tinuous refugee interrogation
on a big scale. I have been as
sured that my own results do
not differ from the results ob
tained by this machinery.
On the other hand, while
most of the refugees pro
cessed by this machinery come
from Fukien and Kwangtung,
some regularly come from
other Chinese provinces, in
cluding even the northern
provinces. The stories of the
people from other provinces,
though much t less numerous,
are significantly similar to
the massive data from Fukien
and Kwangtung. In short,
where you would naturally
look for . evidence that the
Kwangtung-Fukien conditions
are exceptional, . you find in
stead evidence that these con
ditions are general. In the
circumstances, one must there
fore conclude that the picture
painted by these unhappy
people here in Macao and
Hong Kong, is the true pic
ture of the present situation
for all the hundreds of mil
lions of people in rural China.
As to the contradiction be
tween this fearful picture and
the picture painted by Mme.
de Beauvoir, it should not
trouble those who remember
the recent past. The late Be
atrice Webb, another intelli
gent female goose rather bet
ter equipped than Mme. de
Beauvoir, made Stalin's Rus
sia sound like a people's para
dise at the very moment when
Stalin was murdering 15,000,
000 of his own people in cold
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The news dispatches tell us
this morning that colleges
from coast to coast are pro
testing the loyalty oath re
quired by the National De
fense Act of 1958 from stu
dents seeking federal loans to
pay for their education.
The affidavit included In
the loan application states
that the student does not be
long to, believe in or support
any organization that believes
or teaches the overthrow of
the U.S. government by force
or violence or by illegal or
unconstitutional means.
THE protest, of course, is
based upon intellectual
freedom that is, the right to
believe whatever one chooses
to believe.
But
This particular situation in
volves some rather unusual
circumstances. The student is
applying for a loan to finance
his education. The loan is
from the PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES,' who pay
the taxes that provide the
funds out of which the loan
is to be made.
It seems to me that the peo
ple of the United States, who
put up the money, are entitled
to know how the student who
is applying for the loan is go
ing to use the education that
will be financed by the loan.
I
S HE going to use it to ad
vance the cause of free gov
ernment in the United States
of America? Or is he going to
use it in the service of organi
zations that believe in and
teach the overthrow of the
U. S. government by force or
violence?
These are searching ques
tions. They go to the very root
of preservation of our way of
life. It appears to me it is
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is again
reports from Washington in his
U.S.-CASTRO'S SCAPEGOAT
Washington W h e n e v e r
something goes sour some
where in the world, there is a
tendency among some Ameri
cans to wring their hands and
exclaim: "What have we done
wrong? What can we do to
correct it?" 1
In .Cuba the United States
remains the target of the most
vicious anti-American attacks
deliberately inspired and
spread by the Castro govern
ment.
In the Republic of Panama,
where just about everybody
is getting ready to run for
resident,, tne de Liauuaraia
government permitted a mob
to invade the Canal Zone
and do extensive damage
without raising a finger to
preserve order.
And some will ask: "What
have, we done wrong? What
can we do to correct it?"
I am .not suggesting that
every . American policy and
every American action is
right, that we don't make our
fair quota of mistakes. But I
am suggesting that everything
somebody else gets sick, we
don't need to rush to the hos
pital.
rnHE Castro revolution is
sick and there is no cure in
Fidel Castro's prescription
that the United States take
the' medicine.
Most Americans warmly
welcomed the overthrow of
the Batista dictatorship. We
earnestly hoped that Fidel
Castro, a brave and popular
revolutionary, would prove
that he had more than the
ability to seize the govern
ment, that he also had the
ability to govern democrati
cally and constructively.
Jules DuBois, the veterap
Latin American correspond
ent of the "Chicago Tribune,"
who was close to Castro and
who covered the revolution
from his side, was convinced
that Castro was an idealist
who . believed deeply in the
democratic process.
Now DuBois is being spit
upon and his life threatened
by Castro followers because
he has written that, now in
power, the Cuban leader has
forgotten his ideals, is using
many of the methods of Ba
tista, and is showing' no evi
dence and no interest in giv
ing political freedom to the
Cuban people.
The Cuban economy is
grinding to a halt. Unemploy
ment is mounting. Havana s
hotels are nearly barren of
tourists. The regime has
seized property without due
compensation. Castro is in
serious difficulty.
Naturally he blames the
United States. He has lost the
suDDort and the respect of
most of the moderate, demo-cratically-m
i n d e d political
leaders of other Latin Ameri-
blood. The Russian experience
established the rule, 'Believe
only those who have gone
through the wringer and got
away to tell about it." It
seems to me that this rule ap
plies to China today,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
quite reasonable for the peo
ple of the United States, who
are putting up the money, to
require from applicants for a
loan to finance their educa
tion a properly supported
statement as to how they ex
pect to USE their education
when it is acquired.
KNOWLEDGE is POWER.
It is hard to believe that
the people of the United
States want to provide more
power for those whose pur
pose is to tear down the gov
ernment and the institutions
of our country.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
MARK TWAINs vacationing upstate, decided to take a
drive one evening, but told the stable boy he did not'
have to wait up for him. "Just lock up," ordered Twain,
"and put the key under
this mat by the front -door."
When the humorist re
turned home, however,
there was no- sign of the
key. Exasperated, he
woke up the stable boy
who speedily reassured
him, "Don't go losing
your temper, Mr. Mark.
I found a much better
place to hide that key!"
.
A famous, egomaniaca!
film producer was holding
forth on the futility of pro
ducing fantasies under prevailing market conditions. "The public
won't go for that kind of stuff," he announced categorically. One
intrepid listener demurred. "How about 'Here Comes Mr. Jor
dan'?" he said timidly. "That was pure fantasy and it netted a
clear profit of $600,0001"
"All right," conceded the producer, "it made 5600,000. But if it,
hadn't been a fantasy it would have made six million !"
C MM. by Bennett Csrt Distributed br Kinr Futures Syndicate. - -
Reports
traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond
absence.)
can countries, including the
distinguished President of
Venezuela, R o m u 1 o Betan-
court, who have been grie
viously disappointed at what
has been happening.
rBVIOUSLY Castro needs
v a scapegoat and tne Digger
the scapegoat the easier for
him to think he can escape
responsibility for his own mis
deeds. For his purposes there
is little to be gained from
ranting at his neighbors, but
he can, for a time at least, stir
up the dust by ranting at big
bad United States and blaming
us for the troubles he has
brought to Cuba and the dif
ficulties he has brought on
himself.
Perhaps we could make
some kind of accommodation
with Castro which might tem
porarily result in cutting back
his anti-American propagan
da. But this would be very
short-sighted. Better that .we
should stand, as I believe we
are standing, for non-intervention
in the internal affairs of
another country though our
sympathies are with represen
tative democratic government.
Better that we should demand
respect for property rights
based on international law
(no seizure without due com
pensation) and demand, as we
are demanding of Panama,
that a government discharge
its duty of maintaining law
and order.
What we should avoid and
what we are trying to avoid is
any action on our part which
will contribute to propping up
the Castro government or
bringing it down other than
by its own weight."
Cuba is bigger than Castro
and we must keep in a posi
tion so that, when the time
comes, we can demonstrate
our friendship for .the Cuban
people. One way to do so is to
refuse to appease Castro and
to refuse to be driven into an
anti-Cuba state of mind by the
anti-Americanism of its gov
ernment. (c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Bond To Be Prize
In Memorial Plan
A $25 Savings Bond will be
awarded to the person whose
plan is sleeted for a proposed
memorial to the veterans of
all of America's wars, Victor
David, Veterans Allied Coun
cil president, has announced,
The memorial will be
placed in the old city park at
West Main st. and Holly st.
David has appointed a com
mittee to plan the memorial.
Serving on the committee
wUl be Pat Graham, chair
man, Ira D. Canfield, A. Har
ry Birch, Melvin McElhiney,
Clarence Mathes, Frederick
Kerby, Charles J. Myers, Jer
ry Bianconi, Col. William H.
Paine, Col. Sergeant Camp,
Col. Ted Hopkins, and Ed
ward Branchfield.
The contest is open to any
body, the only requirement
being that the plan itself
must be a sketch from which
plans can be worked should it
be chosen. Selection will be
made by the committee.
Home Destroyed by
Shady Cove Fire
Shady Cove - Fire Friday
morning destroyed the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Cooper, Tiller-Trail highway,
while members of the family
were away. Besides all house
hold possessions, two automo
biles were destroyed in the
blaze, according to reports.
Cause of the fire was be
lieved faulty wiring since
there had been no fire in the
stove, according to reports.
Cooper, a logger, was at his
job and his wife is visiting in
California. Their children, Al-
den, Neil and Darrell,.were
all in school at? the time.
Stop Me
IPOTIkUCEC
(By M-T Staff
We can't resist a couple
more comments about cran
berries.
The fellow who wrote un
der the title, "Thanksgiving
Lament," last week:
"Alas, no berries in our bowl
Because of aminotriazole."
this week found that there is,
after all some hope. He came
up with this one:
"Last week's lament was
premature.
They found some berries
. plump and pure.
But if you eat them, don't .
forget
There's still that pesky
cigarette!"
For those who like cran
berries, and who also are a
little spooked by the amin
otriazole flutter, may take
heart from the word of the
magazine Chemical Week,
which reports that one
would have to eat TWO
QUARTS of cranberries
EVERY DAY for 23 years
to reach the feeding test
levels which affected the
..laboratory rats.
. Are cranberry growers the
only ones suffering these
days? Evidently not, accord
ing to Ila Grant, columnist on
the. Bend Bulletin (who once
served a vacation stint on the
M-T).
"Things are bad all over,"
Ila declares, and goes on to
say:
"Paper hangers are up
against the wall, Septic tank
people are going in the hole.
Crop dusters are up in the air.
The , masonry people are on
the rocks. Stockmen are beef
ing. Buttermakers are all
churned up.
"Engravers are trying for a
good Impression. The products
made by rug makers are tak
ing a beating. Dentists, have
a tough grind. Laundrymen
are in hot water. -
"Bakers knead dough. Book
publishers are in a bind. Com
mercial fishermen are in deep
water. Wool growers are get
ting fleeced. Morticians say
business is dead. Upholsterers
are getting down to brass
tacks.
"Restaurant operators are
in a stew. Orchardists are put
on a limb. Garbage collectors
are in the dumps. Poultrymen
are an rowiea up. rueciricians
are - shocked. Masseurs are
j rubbed the wrong way.
And," Ila concludes (for
tunately), "the cranberry bus
iness is bogged down."
We have two (2) typo
graphical errors for you to-'
day, friends. The first was
sent in by guess who in
Search Finds Man
With White Gas
Grants Pass ' A man who
was sold a gallon of poten
tially explosive white gaso
line by mistake touched off a
frantic search by city police
and California Oregon Power
company personnel here
Thursday morning. 1
The man, who thought he
had purchased a relatively
harmless gallon of kerosene,
was finally traced to the
Sams Valley area near Gold
Hill by the Copco officials,
who told him what was really
in the can.
The gasoline was sold in
error to the man, A. A. Gos
nell, Wednesday night by a
local service station but the
mistake was not discovered
until Thursday morning. Af
ter it was reported, radio sta
tions began broadcasting
warnings to the purchaser and
local police asked Copco for
aid.
The Copco office here had
no record of Gosnell so the
request was relayed to the or
ganization's main office in
Medford.
Nehru Rejects
Red Buffer Zone
New Delhi-UPD-Prime Min
ister Jawaharlal Nehru today
rejected Chinese Communist
Premier Chou En-Lai's Nov.
8 note demanding a buffer
zone along the Indo-Chinese
frontier, and an immediate
meeting with Nehru to settle
their border dispute.
Nehru said no meeting
could be held until the Delhi
and Peiping governments had
reached some "interim under-standing'-including
the with
drawal of Red Chinese troops
from Indian border towns and
villages.
Nehru's stiffly worded note
followed his statements to the
Parliamentary Consultative
Committee in New Delhi
Thursday that any Chinese
Communist violations of the
borders of Sikkim and Bhu
tan will be tantamount to war
against India. India is charged
with protecting those two
Himalayan kingdom.- .,
and Contributors)
Phoenix. He sends a clip
ping which says that so-and-so
was "indicated" on a
criminal charge by a grand '
jury. And he adds, "The'
grand jury put the finger .
on him? However, as one
of :our local disc, jockies
would put a, he has not.
yet been 'arranged' in
.court."
The other one (happy day)
appeared in the classified seer
tion, and was called to our at
tention by another close read
er and friend (we hope?) of
the M-T..
It advertised "Coo Bay
Property To Trade."
Our friend suggests it prob
ably was a dovecote.
WelL as we always say.
we're not the only one to
make mistakes. Only Thurs
day the Oregournal (or is it
Jourgonian?) made one
-which we hesitate to print
in a family-type newspaper..
But the highly respected,
and usually meticulous.
Wall Street Journal, made
one in a story which told of
the speed with which win
ners will be named in the.
upcoming winter- Olympic
games. Instead of taking
hours, the Journal reports,
the speeding up process will
result in their being named
"two months" after the.
vent is over. ,
A mother and high-school-
age daughter were in conver
sation the other day. This is
how it went:
Mother: "What are you
studying in health class these
days?Y - - -
Daughter: "The same old
stuff; Dating, courtship, n-
gagement, marriage and sex.
Mother: "In that order, I
hope!" -
. Shucks. A couple of more
cranberry stories, and then;
we'll quit. We promise.
A Salem woman went Into
a market the other day and
asked if they had any cran
berries. .".
"Cranberries?'; s.a i d ' the
clerk. '
."Cranberries," said the
woman.
He looked around, then
sneaked into the back room
and came back with a couple
of packages of berries.
Sort of reminds one of boot
legging days, doesn't it? " -
- . t
And of course there's the)
man who-had the solution to
the whole business - filter
lip cranberries.
;
The old watchword of the
collegiate group, "Live Dan
gerously," isn't heard much
any- more.
What other way is there,
these days?
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Sweeping Up Treasure
To -the Editor: One of the
greatest and most important
discoveries to be made in the
near future will be the recov
ery of all sunken, hidden or
lost mineral treasures on or
in the floor of the lakes, seas
and oceans of the world.
It is known that there is
enough buried wealth under
seas,, when located and ex
tracted through modern meth
ods, to pay off all indebted
ness of every civilized coun
try in the world today. De
velopments have been under
way for a number of years
that soon will make it possi
ble for salvage operators to
sweep the ocean beds as eas
ily as using a vacuum sweep
er, in this present age of mir
acles. Bert Kissinger,'
520 Boardman St.,
Medford.
Congratulates Club
To the Editor: I would like
to congratulate the Jackson
ville Lions club and Mrs.
Matheny, on their proposed
project of a Youth Program
for Jacksonville.
Your ideas and project
have been needed for a long
time, but as you say it takes
cooperation from all the citi
zens. This proposal is not new to
me, but it would be news to
see and hear of it being ac
complished, as most of these
ideas never get beyond the
planning stage. Just hope and
pray the community gets be
hind the program wholeheart
edly and works toward ac
complishing the goal of help
ing the teen-agers.
Mrs. Jessie Pfaff,
624 West Valley View rd.,
Ashland, Ore.