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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.