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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Madford', Or. Sueeay, N.. 29, 19S9 "Treryone ta Southern Orecoa Rgads The Mall Tribune'' Published DhII? except Saturday by 5DJDFOHD PRINTING CO 13 North Pli St Ph SP 2-S141 HOBXRT W RUHL. Editor KERB GETV AdvertMng Manager GERALD LATHAM Business MT ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managua: gditor KARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAJJ Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHES WomfTl'l Editor DAT F ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as Miad class matter t Medlon Orecon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Sy Mall In Advance Copy 10e. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Dally and Sunday mos 8 OC Dally and Sunday 3 moi 4.23 Sunday Only One year 920 my Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Etele Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv- TmiMt mnA m motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year S18 00 Dally and Sunday 1 too 150 Carrier and Dealers copy lOe All Terms Cast in Advance ' Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press International v..n. Wire in Aw aiiiiit ottw.ATT OF CIRCULATION flees In Nei York. Chicago. De troit. San Frandaeo. Lea Angeles. Seattle, Portland St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPIt PUIIISHIRS "ASSOCIATION W AXIOM At EOlTOtlAl ' Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Vail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 yean 'ago. 10 YEARS AGO Km. 59. 1949 (Tuesday) Eighteen children receive fluoride treatment so lar in .uivnt HHv of Jackson County Dental society to pro- ... m 11 W . m tect teeth. 01 ail ivieaiora school children. Chinese Nationalists aban don Chungking to Commu nists. - 20 YEARS AGO Not. 29. 1939 (Wednesday) cirtnA Coulee dam should be completed by summer of 1941 at cost of SIZB.uuu.uuu. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The war news Is thrilling. The Germans Tuesday sank the iimt shin four times. . and wiped the British fleet off the seas, with their trusty type writers." ' SO YEARS AGO Mot. 29. 1929 (Friday) City police to start cam paign against reckless driving on West Main st. TrVirn rmintv rtava bountv for four coyotes the past month. 40 YEARS AGO Mot. 29. 1919 (Saturday) Newcomb Carlton, presi dent of Western Union, visits brother at Table Rock. Price of hotcakes to be rais ed to 20 cents in local restau rants. SO YEARS AGO Mot. 29. 1909 (Monday) High water ruins Elk Creek hatchery; - dam carried away by torrent. U.S. wjll invade Nicaragua If consul-general isn't return ed immediately. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five at sis is good. 1. Footballs are: covered with pigskin; true or false? 2. Of which Scandinavian country was Hans Christian Andersen, writer of fairy tales, a native? 3.- To whom is the quota tion, "Go West, young man, go West," attributed? , 4. What is the only metallic element that stays liquid at ordinary temperature? 5. Which of these has no seacoast: Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador,. Peru? -..; 6. Does the House of Rep resentatives hold its sessions in the south wing or the north wing, of the U.S. Capitol? 7. Is the South Pole in the Arctic or Antarctic region? 8. Which of these is not a type of furniture: Chippen dale, Sheraton, Wedgewood? 9. The lemon is botanically a berry; true or false? 10. In what war did the U.S-A. become a world naval power? - Answers: 1. False. 2. Den mark. 3. Horace Greeley. 4. Mercury. 5. Bolivia. 6. South wing. 7. Antarctic. 8. Wedge wood. 9. True. 10. Spanish American War. Tut-Tutting the "Civil War The Barometer, the at Oreeron State college, good sportsmanship including "vulgar insults," "indignities," and "rudeness" on the part of University of Oregon students during and after the "Civil War" football game at Oregon a week ago Saturday. A Page 1 story and a column, also on Page 1, say: Climaxing an afternoon sity students encircled the OSC rooting section, throw ing divots from the playing field and vulgar insults . upon the OSC students as they sang their Alma Mater ... "Once again Oregon State rooters traveling to Eu gene for the Civil War game had to suffer indignities at the hands of the host Eugene school. Oregon State should be proud ... of the conduct of the 2,000 Oregon Staters at the game . . . This childish action by the University of Oregon is not something new. It has been going on for years, and for years Oregon has been praised by the state's newspapers for their 'cute and original vandalism, or OSC has been condemned for instigating the near riots ..." "THE PAPER has a point. i But how seriously this "childish" behav ior should be regarded is something else again. Let us grant that the U of 0 students left a lot to be desired by their actions, and that OSC root ers generally were well-behaved and minded their own business. , And then, without condoning the hi-jinks of the Oregon students, let us also concede that youthful high spirits have always been present, and probably always will be, at colleges and uni versities. .The Oregon kids, wjrile showing themselves up as juveniles, actually harmed no one which has not always been true in the past, here and elsewhere. . TOE FEELINGS of the OSC rally girls may have been ruffled when they were "kidnap ped" and tossed around the Oregon rooting sec tion (although we have a hunch that some of them actually enjoyed it). And being pelted with clods and "vulgar in sults" may be unpleasant, but hardly hurtful. As a matter of fact, the Barometer's holier-than-thou attitude, while justified in this one in stance, when judged in the context of past inci dents makes one recall the admonition "Let him who is without sin . . ." THERE WAS a day, not too long gone, when "youthful high spirits" on campus led to real riots, head-crackings, fire-hoses and expellings. There have been occasional outbreaks of vio lence, and such things as "panty raids," in recent years. The relative peace of the Civil War at the University this year is to be commended. - And perhaps the Barometer's tut-tutting and tsk-tsking will serve to channel collegiate ener gies into more fruitful channels in the future both at Oregon AND Oregon State. E.A. Sanitary Land Fill The announcement by the City Sanitary Ser vice company that it plans to begin operation of a sanitary land fill type of garbage disposal should be a welcome one to the residents of Jack sonville, and the rapidly-growing area between that city and Medford. The company's plans hinge upon the approval by the city of Medford of a 10-year extension of the firm's franchise. This is reasonable. For such a development will require a substantial investment, and the company needs assurance that there will be a sufficient time allowed for the investment to be paid out ... : IT IS APPARENT that the company has oper- ated in good faith, in its operation of the old dump south of Barnett road, in the White City dump, and in the more-controversial dump in the hills southeast of Jacksonville. That the latter caused hardship arid incon venience to residents nearby could hardly have been foreseen, although perhaps a more thorough study of the area and meteorological conditions would have indicated the drawbacks. But it has proven to be a nuisance, and ndw the company proposes to do something about it. TE LANDFILL operation is, in many ways, . the best manner of garbage disposal in an area of this population. But because of our pecu liar limitations of terrain and land use, suitable sites are fairly rare. . , ' It uses land not immediately usable for other purposes, and in the process converts it into use able land. It is rodent-free and odor-free, and does not contribute to air pollution problems. If it is done right (and one assumes the com pany has made sufficient studies of . other similar operations to avoid making mistakes of location and so on), it actually can become an asset to the entire community. In view of its record of relatively efficient op eration, and its evident desire to improve its acceptability to this area, the company should re ceive the council's approval for a franchise ex tension. E.A. 99 daily student newspaper complains of the lack of of vandalism, the Univer Dennis the Menace Tupjze van aop co riutr LIKE THEM: TWO BGQS ALL Washington Report By WILLIAM MORE TIME Washington-Though it is being played down here and in London, the plain fact is this: The summit conference that was going to be held no later than tnis spring is receding far ther and far ther into the distance. The West is no longer in a panting sprint to meet Soviet dicta William S. White Khrushchev. tor Nikita And every day means, a growing possibility that the summit may not come off at all. : . . - The odds are ' stUl that it win, though there is much un certainty in the prospect. But, meanwhile, there is, fortun ately, one hardening certain ty. If and when the free world's leaders do gather with old Nikita Khrushchev, they should gather in far stronger circumstances than had the meeting come' off on schedule. rpo HAVE met so early-that is, at any time within the next few months-would sure ly have been full of danger for us. The bald truth is that Khrushchev scored a monu mental propaganda triumph in his tour here some weeks ago. The bad effects-for us have yet fully to wear off. Many in both public and pri vate life were at first all too enthusiastic " about Uncle Nikita. They were about ready to sign any document offered by him without looking at the fine print. This happy view is slowly being driven out by the cold, cold facts of com mon sense. Ultimately, the facts may altogether have ov ertaken the unwise hopes of yesterday. Too, the essential power of the West has actually been on a decline rather than a rising arc. The West's one military shield, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is in a bad way. Its most responsible commanders have acknow ledged as much in private. NATO's whole strength has lain , in the promise that in that alliance it would be all for one and one for all. . , . , . A NY HURRIED sum m i t meeting would have been an unintentional dagger's thrust at this concept of the unity of the small with the large. For any summit con ference by definition must mean some degree of exclus ion of the smaller Western allies; the whole purpose of summit diplomacy is for talks only between the biggest of powers. " Again, therefore, the long er the fateful summit is de layed the greater the chance to consult adequately with, and possibly to soothe, our smaller allies. Moreover,, the West has other difficulties. Europe has fallen into two competing trade blocs. There is the com mon market group made of the inner six continental pow ers revolving around France. And there is the outer seven group, predominately Nor thern European, to which Britain has- now adhered. This is bread-and-butter com petition within the heart of NATO itself. For Europe is, of course, the heart. rpHE UNTED States,, for its part, is trying to check the sharp outflow of dollars by enforcing "buy American" restrictions on foreign coun tries that borrow our money for their own business pur poses. This is not any kind of "isolationism." And it makes a good deal of econ omic sense to people who will -rue uv f SHOOK UP'.' S. WHITE listen to what is being done instead of only to what their emotions tell them is being done. All the same, it has a dis turbing influence within the free world, just as does the rivalry between inner six and outer seven. The obvious need, there fore, is time before the West confronts Khrushchev at any kind of summit whatever time to restore our defensive military alliance. Time to try tidying up of the economic rivalries among the Western allies. Time, in short, to at tempt to bring the West up to its maximum potential strength before we begin ne gotiating with a Soviet East that has no trouble at all with its "allies," since-all are Mos cow's drearily docile stooges. (Copyright, 1959, f United Feature. Syndicate. Inc.) Matter of Foct . irh W THE TREMENDOUS QUESTION Hong Kong -One tremen dous question fills this report er's mind at the close of the most absorbing bout of in quiry in a long experience, Can the Chi nese Commu- -tmtj rusts carry n their ruthless 33 and terrible experiment to a successful conclusion? In the brief- Jospn Aisop est summary, the attempt is being made to transform ancient - agrarian China, under forced draught, into a military-industrial giant power. For this purpose, huge capital investments and other outlays are necessary. The Chinese peasantry are paying the bill; -and the hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants have therefore suffered a fear ful drop in their level of life. As has been suggested in previous reports, the experi ment is plainly patterned on Josef Stalin's forced indus trialization of Russia. Stalin succeeded. But the differences between Stalin's situation in 1929 and Mao Tse-tung's sit uation in 1959 are great enough to raise doubts about Mao's success. - If you draw up a balance sheet, Mao has one advan tage over Stalin - but only one. China's labor force to day is not merely vastly great er than the Russian labor force in the period . of the early Five-Year Plans. In quality, it is also a better la bor force, more teachable, more industrious, . and more easily deployed for great projects. It would be the height of folly to underesti mate what Mao can achieve by his almost military mobiliza tion of China's magnificent manpower. But it is almost equally foolish to underesti mate Mao's disadvantages, ail of which derive from China's poverty and over-population. . FORCED industrialization of a poor, heavily overpopu lated country, like China, is inherently far more difficult than forced industrialization of a basically rich, underpopu lated country, like Russia in 1929. The main cause of this difference lies in , the prob lem of the standard of life. In either kind of country, if the state takes more, the peo ple have to get on with less. Thus a drop in the living standard unavoidably occurs in the first phase of any pro gram of forced industrializa tion. It happened in Russia. It has also happened in China. But a sharp drop m the liv ing standard of a country al ready very poor, as China was poor, has consequences of a special character. I can recall nothing in history quite like the picture of the Chinese r . i Drummond (Walter Lippman is agsia report from Washington in hit absence.) MOSCOW'S SLEEPING PILL Washington - There is one thing we better get clear right off so that there is no doubt about it: The American government and the American people do not accept the Soviet propo sition that ending the cold war means closing off free speech. We do not accept the propo sition that every time the So viets want to soft-pedal a past and continuing crime and im mobilize the United Nations, all it has to do is raise its hand in mock pain and say: "Oh, no, you mustn't discuss that matter, that would vio late the 'spirit of Camp Da vid." " We do not accept the propo sition that, just because we welcome Mr. K's taking the pledge against future inter ference in the internal affairs of other nations, we thereby accept as fixed and unchange able the consequences of Mos cow's past interferences in the internal affairs of other na tions. Mr. -Khrushchev knows what he's up to and we better be onto, it. What Mr. Khru shchev wants is some tangible gesture by which the U. S. appears to accept as perma nent the Soviet domination of the satellite states and, if he can't get that, he aims to coax from us some intangible gesture which he can make over tb look tangible and use against us so that whenever we raise a voice in behalf of freedom in the satellite world he can accuse us of violating the rules of "peaceful co-existence." THAT isn't what peaceful co-existence means to us. My own feeling is that Am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge brilliantly and- decisively nipped this Soviet tactic in the bud at the United Nations this week. The whole incident was a very good case study of how the Soviets aim to turn "peaceful co-existence" Into a massive sleeping pUl for the whole non-Communist world. countryside today, that Is graduaUy built up by inter rogating the wretched people who have gone through the wringer. In the end, you be gin to think of Mao's peoples' communes, not just figura tively but quite literally, as: ".' .-. prisons, where with multitudinous griefs, ' "China's peasants sick and sunless, all a laboring race repines, "Like a race In sunken cities, like a nation in the mines." By the same token, when you hear the peasant escapees describing their former work- hours and rations, you cannot avoid asking yourself how long this can go on. Will not something give somewhere, you wonder, before the grand aim of China's full industrial ization can at least be attain ed? This question has also been asked, and on a very high level, in Peking. "The rightist - inclined opportun ists," who are now under such vicious attack, are simply Chinese Communists leaders who have dared to ask this question. WHATEVER gives, of course, it will not matter much as long as the Army stays loyal. -But fears about the Army are evidently felt, and again on a very high level, in Peking. Otherwise, it would hardly have been neces sary to instaU the former Chief of Secret Police, Gen. Lo Jui-ching, as the Army's new Chief of Staff. Looking at Mao's China, in short, one cannot help recall ing the China of Ch'in Shih Huang Ti. That almost legen dary tyrant also reunited and remade his country- He fur ther transformed China into a great power, stronger by far than any the world had known before. But the burden Ch'in Shih Huang imposed was too heavy. The Chinese people, at a given moment, decided they had had enough. The Ch'in empire, founded in 221 B.C., collapsed into ruin ahd nothingness only 15 years later. Remembering Ch'in Shih Huang is no answer, to be sure, to the tremendous ques tion I have posed. They best answer to it was given, I think,. by one of the wisest men in this city, who told me "Anyone who says the Chi nese Communists will surely succeed in what they are do ing is a plain fool; but so is anyone who says they will surely fail." And to this must be added the further fact that any decisive failure in China is only too likely to provoke Soviet intervention, on the Hungarian pattern. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Reports traveling abroad. Roscoe Dromond Here is the way it went: A year ago the U. N. di rected Sir Leslie Munroe, for mer President of the General Assembly and former head of the New Zealand delegation, to gather information of what was transpiring in Hungary in view of the fact that the Communist regime in Hun gary had ignored all U. N. resolutions and in view of the fact that executions, terror, and repression were known to be continuing. (Moscow and Budapest soberly assured Sir Leslie that nothing like this was taking place and so con fident were they of the truth of their statements that they wouldn't let 'him go and find out for himself.) Sir Leslie prepared his re port from a variety of diplo matic sources inside and out side Hungary and from refu gee and intelligence sources. The proposed withdrawal of Soviet troops has not taken place. Executions continue and others are in prospect, in cluding teen-age youths who have been imprisoned for three years so that when they are executed they will be of age. (That will be nice for them.) Sir Leslie asked the Gen eral Assembly to schedule a debate on "the Hungarian question" in the hope that it may stay the hand of the exe cutioner. AND WHAT was the posi tion of the 'chief Soviet delegate to the U. N., Vasily V. Kuznetsov? Well, Mr. Kuz netsov showed how the So viets want to use "peaceful co-existence" as a means of quashing even peaceful discus sion of unpalatable Soviet ac tions. He blandly argued that any discussion of Hungary "would be against the spirit of Camp David," that it would "turn the clock back" and "undo" the good things Mr. Khrushchev was doing to end the cold war. Ambassador Lodge was not taken in by this purposeful ef fort to turn "the spirit of Camp David" into American acceptance of Soviet aggres sion in Hungary.. ' "Nothing happened at Camp David" (the scene of the Ei senhower-Khrushchev talks) he said, "which requires us to condone evil. "Nothing happened at Camp David which requires us to pass by in silence on the other side of the street when a bru tality has been committed. ' "Nothing happened at Camp David to prevent us from act ing like human beings." If the United Nations ever swallowed the pill which the Soviet delegate was prescrib ing, n would put the whole free world to sleep like Rip van Winkle, (e) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS ' Thanksgiving Day got its start 338 years ago when Gov ernor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony proclaimed December 13, 1621, as a DAY OF THANKS. What did the Plymouth Col onists have to be thankful for on that raw December dav a third of a millennium ago at tne beginning of ANOTHER rugged New England winter? They were thankful thev were STILL ALIVE. In his proclamation of the first Thanksgiving Day, Governor Bradford specifically stated that as the reason. If you're a nseudo-evnic who likes to ask WHAT HAVE I GOT TO BE THANK FUL FOR IN THESE DAYS, you mieht remember nor Bradford and be thankful you re alive. Maybe you don't even deserve to be. A NOTHER oiiesion- A- Day get to be a NATIONAL holiday? TT'S a long story. A Like so many long stories, it starts with a woman. The woman ' was Sara Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book. She worked for 30 years to promote the idea of a na tional Thanksgiving Day. She wrote editorials, and she wrote letters to the various Presidents. Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln issued a proclamation setting aside the LAST Thursday of November of that year as a day of na tional thanksgivig. He issued a similar procla mation in 1864. Each year afterward, for 75 years, the President of the United States formally proclaimed that Thanksgiving Day should be celebrated on the LAST Thursday of November. The governors of all the states also called on their people to give thanks on that day. THEN In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a great innovator and a strange and many-sided PTILUeC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) : Isn't it fortunate that cold turkey is just as good as (some say better than) hot tur key? And isn't it fun picking the carcass for those tasty tidbits which elude the most skillful turkey-carver? And isn't that cold dress ing good, coupled with cran berry sauce, for a . late-evening snack? And won't you be glad when it's all gone, and you can. return to beef ahd ham and spaghetti again? - One of our more erudite young men pasted us a note early last week which said: '. "Despite all the amino-, triazole scare. 111 bet there will be. plenty of Meleagris gallopavo and Vaccinium oxycoccus on our bill : of fare come Thursday." Don't fret, child. What he meant was that, despite the fuss about cranberries, there would be plenty of those AND turkey come Thursday. We'll wager he was right. 1 too. - We heard from our friend in Phoenix last week - the man who scans the Mail Trib une for typographical errors which he considers worthy of comment, and then mails them to us. This time, though, he sent no typographical error-simp- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the write) although under cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name ni Initial for publica tion is permissible. Tbe Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Weather Augury To the Editor:" As a casual reminder, one of the most re liable weather lore omens in foretelling the coming three winter months every year, is the brand of weather the first three days of December. The first day will be the forerunner, of weather for December. The second day ap plies to kind of. weather for January and the third -day of December indicating , Febru ary weather. t ; Bert Kissinger, 4 520 Boardman st., Medford. character proclaimed Thanksgiving Day to be cele brated one week earlier. His purpose, he said, was to help business by making the shop ping period between Thanks giving and Christmas longer. Some governors refused to follow his example, and their states celebrated Thanksgiv ing on the traditional day. There was great controversy. Finally the congress ruled that after 1941 the FOURTH Thursday of November would be observed over the nation as Thanksgiving Day and would be a legal holiday. : A THOUGHT: X1- In 1863, and again in 1864, what did President Lin coln have to be thankful for? What did our nation have to be thankful for? We were at the most hopeless and most tragic hour of the most tragic war of our history. President Lincoln HAD FAITH. He had faith that the time would come when we would again have something to be thankful for. His faith was justified. NOW back to Sarah Josepha Hale. . In 1822, her husband died, leaving her practically penni less with five children to sup port. She took up writing. She wrote of women and women's interests and ideals. She was so successful at it that she attracted the atten tion of Louis Antoine Godey, who in 1830 founded the first woman's magazine in Ameri ca, calling it the Lady's Book. He chose Sarah Josepha Hale to be the editor of it. ONE might ask what, in , 1822, did Sarah Josepha Hale have to be thankful for? Well, she too HAD FAITH. And, in time, she had PLENTY to be thankful for. She had faith and she was eager to work. People who have faith and are willing to work are the salt of the earth. They nearly always wind up with plenty to be thankful for. IN conclusion Sarah Josepha Hale has an honor that is not too wide ly known. She was the author of Mary Had a Little Lamb probably the most parodied poem in our literature. One parody goes: Mary had a little lamb, She stood it on the shelf, And every time it switched its tail It spanked its little self. - ly a headline which caught his fancy. It said: "6-Man Grid .. ' Toga "Won Bv Sisters" The headline was perfectly correct. It was over a story which told how the six-man football team from the high school at the little town of Sisters in Central Oregon won a state championship. But our friend liked the head anyway (so do we), and said: , "The feminine invasion of baseball, basketball and wrestling has apparently' been topped by a family of Oregon Amazons. Don't let Washing ton get them away from us the U of O needs them!" ; If it were true, how true, ; We have another friend (which, in this case, prob ably should be spelled with out the "r") who has work- - ed out a plan as to what he will give his wife 1 for Christmas. You know the old gim mick about giving her a set of car keys,- and letting her rush out of the house to see the new vehicle in the driveway. Well he's going to give her some new keys,-all right. No new car. Just new keys. 1 f In police circles throughout the nation there is a certain excitement arising out of a new development in the art of taking fingerprints. It was introduced at a re cent meeting of the : Inter national Association of Chiefs of Police in New York City, and has spread like wildfire since. Actually, it is only a push button spray can containing a liquid ingredient which is sup posed to do a far better job of bringing out latent finger prints at the scene of a crime than ' the graphite powder which has been. used for this purpose for years. Well, the Medford ' police department obtained a can of the stuff recently, and have been experimenting with it. . First they found you have, to shake the can, hard, for a long time, before it will spray at all. Next, the liquid spurts out, not in a-fine spray as ad vertised, but in gobbets and globs. " -- s And finally, when sprayed on anything, it covers every thing within a radius of sev eral feet with a black, gooey mess which comes off only with liberal applioations of carbon tetrachloride and el bow grease. . Is. there any chance you got the wrong kind of can, fel lows? . . Our wire editor ' tele phoned the United Press International Newspicturet office in Portland last week, to request photographs of -the Medford-Jefferson foot ball game Friday night. . He said, "Can you get us several shots of the cham pionship in Multnomah sta dium Friday?" The UPI man he - was talking to replied, "Yeah, sure can. Who's fighting?" . - Out-of-town headline of the week, from the Salem Capital Journal: "Savage Gets'" Council Post'' This, fortunately, reflected no editorial opinions as to the character of the new council man. It was just that his last name is Savage. ;' We have two new report ers on our news staff. One of them is married and the father of a son (not, it should be added, a daugh ter, as a story mistakenly and unforgivably said last week.) The other is single. After he arrived he obtained a small bachelor apartment, moved in, and ordered a telephone installed. The first morning after -the telephone was in place, it rang, at about 7:30 a.m. Groggily. he answered. A youthful feminine vole said, "Is Cathy there?" ' Too sleepy to think of an appropriate reply, he mum bled something about a wrong number and hung up. It wasn't until later that he thought of what he SHOULD have said: "Just a moment, ' I'll look and see." The followinc mornin th telephone rang again, and again ne answered sleepily. 11 was a leminine voice again, this time somewhat older than the one th ing before, asking for Eleanor., Again ne mumoied sleepily and hung up. But he s Dlannin? fa .t t.; alarm clock for an pari;.- hour -in the. future. Whn knows but what a ha, friendship could be born via ! 1 , . ' wricyuuiie, eariy in the morn ing, he says.