Try and Stop Me
; By BENNETT CERF
CARL GOERCH, of Raleigh, tells about a riiial school
master who gave one of his gangling pupils a richly de
served thrashing for disobedience. The next day the boy's
burly father collared the
schoolmaster, bawled
him out for five minutes,
and concluded, "If you
ever lay hands on my boy
again, I'll give you such
a licking your, own
mother won't recognize
you.
The schoolmaster, a
Judo expert, calmly
pinned the father's right
arm behind his back, and
announced, "One . more
word from you, you old
fossil, and I'll stuff that
miserable brat of yours
down your threat.
The father remarked meekly, "Aw, shucki Now you've
gone and let yourself git,mad!" ,
..
A visitor asked a. bright-eyed little boy, "Wifoe, how do you
like school? Willie answered, "Closed." -
0 1939. by Bennett Cwt Distributed by Kinr Features Syndicate.
Washington Report
y WILLIAM S. WHITE
DANGER SIGNS?
Washington A new and
drab reality of increasing
danger to the Republicans
in 1960 is rising while Pres
ident Eisenhower travels the
globe for the
shining ob
jective of
peace.
No sensible
man would
try to alter
i the P r e s 1
dents priori
ties. An end
tn the cold
WwmS' war is surely
the highest possible necessity.
But is there wisdom in the
1 President's decision to go out
personally all over the world
in search of this prize?
For this, too, cannot be
denied: there is a still-faint
but spreading cloud over this
country's economic skies.
And if this small darkness
overhead is allowed to grow,
it could change the whole
condition of next year's pres
idential campaign - quite
apart from being very bad
news for us all.
Profits and employment
are high, it is true. Some able
business forecasters see 1960
as a year of fabulous boom.
But even a layman, with any
recollection of the past, can
see that there are distinctly
soft spots in this happy pic
ture. Farm income continues
down. By mid-November it
had fallen to the lowest in
19 years. The cost of living
continues to go up. An ad
ministration which had de
clared a halt to inflation to
be its supreme domestic goal
is simply not coming close to
that goal. Inflation is a grow
ing rather than a lessening
peril.
AND THE present schedule
for prolonged Presidential
absences from this country
in the months ahead-first, the
current world tour, then the
various near-summit and
summit conferences means
one thing for certain: the
boss is not going to be around
to mind the store, the store
of our domestic affairs. The
burden will now fall upon
secondary administration
figures. However able, they
haven't the power to act de
cisively or quickly in the ec
onomic field.
This means, in turn, that
the domestic programs which
ought to be made soon at the
level of the White House it
self will not be made soon, if
at all.
The farm situation pecul
iarly illustrates the great
emerging problem for the Re
publicans, both in . terms of
1960 election politics and in
terms of the country's basic
welfare. The administration's
unchanged policy for reduced
farm subsidies may be abso
lutely "right" as an academic
economic matter. But, on all
past experience, it simply
will not work, either to keep
the GOP in office or to keep
national prosperity high.
A new school of experts,
to be sure, contends that the
farm vote, and the farms' in
fluence on total prosperity,
is less and less important be
cause of a shrinking farm
population. They tell the
GOP that it need not be driv
en by fear, political or ec
onomic, to placate the farm
ers. ALL WHO wish to embrace
this theory are welcome
to it. But all who put their
money on it would be less
ready to do so after even an
hour's examination of polit
ical history.
We Give
GREEN STAMPS
CENTRAL REXALL DRUG
Main and Centrjt
' There is an almost-unbroken
relationship between GOP
victory and high farm prices
and GOP defeat and low farm
prices. Even if the strictly
farm population be consid
ered now to be only 10 per
cent of the total, 10 per cent
can mean the difference be
tween success and bankrupt
cy in any enterprise, includ
ing any political enterprise.
The President has no in
tention to adopt a more . at
tractive farm program. If he
also continues not to be in
position to give real direc
tion to domestic policies in
general, this may be predict
ed: the Republican President
tial ticket of next year, who
ever is on it, may point in
vain to the "peace" the GOP
has won - if it has actually
won that peace.
Indeed, it may turn out
that there is something, after
all, to this notion: that a
President's place is in, Wash
ington . where he can '. keep
daily and hourly in his own
hands all the complex skeins
of the infinitely complicated
job of national leadership.
- (Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
MEMORIAL SERVICE
Portland -flJPD - A memorial
service is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Dec. 10 for the late Judges
James Alger Fee and Claude
McCulloch in the courtroom
of Federal District Judge Gus
Solomon. Judge Solomon will
preside at the session in mem
ory of the two federal judges
with whom he had served.
North Platte, Neb. (UPD -Keith
Neville, governor of
Nebraska when he was 33,
died Friday at the age of 75.
Neville, a Democrat, was gov
ernor from 1917 to 1919. He
was defeated when he ran
again in 1940, and lost a bid
for the U.S. Senate in 1954.
EAGLE POINT
Permits Necessary
By DOTTIE HARBISON
Eagle Point - Jake Brown,
building inspector for Eagle
Point, reminded residents that
a building permit is necessary
before any type of construc
tion or improvement tcan be
started on property in Eagle
Point. This includes remodel
ing, building, ,re-r o o f i n g,
painting, construction of sep
tic tanks or work of any type.
No charge is made of work
being done under $50 but a
permit is still required. In the
future, he said, inspections
will be made.
Bill Hunting was sworn in
as city councilman Tuesday
night at the regular council
meeting by City Recorder
Mrs. Marian Vannice. Hunt
ing replaces Jack Fortin, who
turned in his resignation Tues
day.: A : representative of an . en
gineering firm in Salem talk
ing the general work of en
gineering in connection with
construction of the new" Eagle
Point sewer system.
Residents are also remind
ed that speed is being check
ed by radar within the city
limits of Eagle Point and the
streets are posted for a 25
mile speed zone.
Eagle Point High school's
junior class is preparing its
production of "Our Miss
Brooks." Scheduled for 8 p.m.
Dec. 16, at the Eagle Point
Grade school gymnasium,
"Our Miss Brooks" is a play
for everyone to enjoy.
The cast includes Jackie
Hume as Miss Brooks, Bill
Pfiefer as Principal Wads
worth, Rod Snyder as Coach
Hugo Longacre, Ronelle Huff
man as Jane, and Tom Per
due as Ted.
The District 9 Classroom
Teachers association will hold
its December meeting at Ea
gle Point in the school cafe-,
teria at 4:15 p.m. today.
Among items to be discussed
will be the final arrange for
the annual Christmas party,
reports from committees, and
reports from two delegates
who attended the fall confer
ence in Eugene recently.
The Eagle Point Lions Aux
iliary will have its potluck
Christmas party at the home
of Mrs. G. Lee Hayes, 18 W.
6th st. Monday, Dec. 14, at
7 p.m. There will be a gift
exchange. .
, The Cub Scouts of Pack 48,
in cooperation with the Veter
ans of Camp White, are col
lecting toys year-round for re
pair and distribution to needy
families . Re sidents with
broken toys that have good
parts or. can be mended,
please contact a Cub Scout or
leave them at the Eagle Point
Fire hall on Main st. or in the
music room at the Eagle
pPoint Grade school with Keith
Krambeal.
Among students home from
Oregon State to spend the
Thanksgiving holidays with
their parents were Larry
Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Meyer, Ball rd.; Fred
Jossy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Earle Jossy, Crater Lake
highway; Bill Hubbard, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hub
bard, Brownsboro rd.; Dick
Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Brown; Mr. and Mrs.
John ' Forbes, the former
Cathy Carroll, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Carroll,
Brophy rd.; and Arthur Gard
ner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vic
tor Gardner, Yankee Creek
rd. . ' .
The second polio clinic
will take place Saturday,
Dec. 12, in the Eagle Point
Grade school gymnasium
with all shots being offered
again. Either first, second,
third or booster shots may be
obtained.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Barber
and children, Betty and Rob
ert of Tillamook, were holi
day guests of her sister and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Simmons, on C st. While here
the Simmonses, Barbers,
another sister Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon Monia and daughter
had a family reunion at the
home of their father, C. E.
Wilhite, in Butte Falls.
Mrs. Vernon Monia enter
tained the family at her home
in Medford for Thanksgiving
dinner.
daughter Louise, of Suther-'
iin; a grandson and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Warner
and daughter Pamella, Myrtle
Creek; a daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Cliff Roush, Medford; a
son, Ed Putman; a daughter,
Mrs. Christine Linder, and
sons John and George, who
all live, at home, and a son,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Putman
and daughters, Diane and
Celia, also of Eagle Point.
Mrs. Christine Linder pre
pared dinner for the family
and a reunion was held later.
Jerry Warner took pictures of
Dad Putman with his chil
dren and grandchildren.
Dad Putman, who recently
had a stroke, will be confined
to- his bed for the next six
months and will be celebrat
ing his 88th birthday in February.
Quotes From the News
: By United Press International
New York Adlai E. Stevenson, expressing concern that
President Eisenhower's current 11-nation tour might establish
a precedent: . r '
"I think it would be a great mistake if we converted
the off ice. of the president . . . into , a traveling salesman."
Washington Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), dismissing
fears that President Eisenhower's strenuous trip might en
danger his health:
' "You know, getting away from conditions -in this country
may be a real health tonic." . "
;. New York Democratic National Chairman Paul M. But
ler, stating that no discussions of personalities in the com
ing campaign went on during the week end meetings of
the Democratic Advisory Council:,
"Of course, I suppose there may have been just a little
politicking over . cups of coffee and 'a beverage which was
made legal under a Democratic administration and Congress."
Mr arifl TWrc AJoU T3allai-4
.... -vr j Harnish, and ' visiting other
and family, Reno, Nevada, relatives ,nd. The
spent Thanksgivmg with her Ballards. are former Eagle
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Ray Point residents.
Thomas Jefferson was an
enthusiastic - book collector
and ' assembled three exten
sive libraries. --
A GOOD REASON
Levittown, N: Y. (UPD - Vir
gilio Molle; 23, disregarded
signs warning that the tem
porary house trailer office of
the Franklin National Bank
was protected by a burglar
alarm system. He told police
MAIL TRIIUNE, Medfera, Of.
Monday, Dec. 7, 1959
who answered the alarm and
arrested him that the trouble
was he came over from Italy
three years ago - and can't
read English.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Sinsel
and son, Allen, of Idlewild
Park, and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd
Dunford of Creswell, spent
the holidays with Mrs. Sen
sel's and Boyd's mother, Mrs.
Mildred Dunford, at her
home on 113 W 5th st.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Y.
Marshall of Brownsboro left
Nov1. 22 for Charleston, Ore.,
for a week of fishing, resting
and camping with their trail
er house along the coast. The
Marshalls returned Saturday
evening. '
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mar
shall, Brownsboro, celebrated
their Thanksgiving dinner
Nov. 22 with their son, Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Marshall,
and daughter Karen, Eagle
Point; a daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Colley, Medford; a
cousin, Mr. and Mrs. T. A.
Tibbetts, Lake Creek; Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Scott, Central
Point, and Ron Olson, Medford.
A family reunion was held
at the home of George Put
man on North C st. Nov. 26.
Dad Putman had all of his
children home for Thanks
giving with a daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Donald Hinson, and
children Arlene, Lorraine,
and Bill, of Espanola, New
Mexico; a daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Olive . Putman, and
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