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Sunday, Jan. 10, 1960
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10. 1950 (Tuesday)
Extensive damage done by
rain, snow, and winds up to
75 miles per hour which hit
Medford last night; six air
planes turned over at airport
and two-car garage carried 30
feet off foundations.
Some congressmen protest
Truman's proposed budget of
$42V4 billion; say too high for
peace time.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1940 (Wednesday)
Prime Minister Chamber
lain declares that Britain will
give extensive support to Fin
land in battle with Russia and
that events in war with Ger
many so far are preliminary
when compared to what will
come.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A lo
cal bunco-artist is swindling
old people out of their money
Instead of their votes as oth
ers do."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1930 (Friday)
House backs Hoover's
pledge to support prohibition.
Boundary board decides to
cut costs of operating the
Butte Falls school as result
of controversial hearing.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1920 (Sunday)
Report on file stating irri
gation can be secured in val
ley for $125 per acre.
Victor Berger, socialist
from Minnesota, denied seat
in house.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 10, 1910 (Monday)
Medford one of most widely
known small cities on coast
because of apples and focus of
national attention on propos
ed new state of Siskiyou.
Several persons convicted
in the Sugar Trust scandals
last Dec. 17 sentenced to one
year in prison.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eifht is excellent; five or
six is
1. Who are buried in Pot
ter's fields?
2. With the perfection of
what instrument do you asso
ciate the name Sperry?
3. A pint of oil will cover
a water surface an acre in
area; true or false?
4. Does the United States
Supreme Court hold sessions
the year round?
5. Was the Declaration of
Independence signed in Phila
delphia in 1775, 1776, or
1777?
8. In which state is Cape
Cod?
7. Is the polar bear a warm
blooded, or cold-blooded ani
mal? 8. Who was Mary Todd?
9. What bridge do you asso
ciate with the height of sales
manship? 10. What crooner has been
called "The Voice"?
Answers: 1. Paupers. 2. Gy
roscope. (Also bombsight) , 3.
True. 4. No. 5. 1776. 6. Mas
sachusetts. 7. Warm-blooded.
8. The wife of Abraham Lin
coln. 9. Brooklyn Bridge. 10.
Frank Sinatra. I
Watchword
It's a little late, perhaps, for New Year's reso
lutions. But it's never too late for good ideas and
good thoughts.
Therefore, we reprint a quotation from the
noted architect and city planner, Daniel Burn
ham, which we found in The Argus, weekly pub
lication of public affairs in Seattle:
A
NEW YEAR'S
RESOLUTION
For All Men Who Are
Leaders in Civic Affairs
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to
stir men's blood and probably themselves will not
be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope
and work, remembering that -a noble, logical dia
gram, once recorded, will never die but long after
we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself
with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our
sons and grandsons are going to do things that
would stagger us. Let your watchword be Order
and your beacon, Beauty."
We commend this resolution to city and coun
ty officials, members of boards and commissions,
and all others who serve the public, in this first
year of a new decade a decade which will call
for imagination and thought and work if this
area is to fulfill its potential.
"Let your watchword
con, Beauty." E.A.
Tugman "Retires"
We (that's the "editorial we," meaning the
writer of this piece) cannot recall a time when
Bill Tugman wasn't somewhere around, writing
vigorous editorials, and flailing the dickens out
of anyone standing m
A list of his achievements and services to the
people of Eugene, of Lane county, of the Gardi-
ner-Reedsport area of the Lower Umpqua, and of
the state as a whole, would never fit within this
column, even in small type.
He has been, and still is, one of the state s
distinguished citizens.
DUT WILLIAM M. TUGMAN has retired. He
has sold the little weekly newspaper, the
Port Umpqua Courier, which he bought several
years ago to run while "in retirement," after
eavmg the editorship ot
Guard, a position he filled with distinction for
many years.
As he indicated m his
spirit is willing but the
conserve his strength.
His retirement is a loss to Oregon lournalism.
But, in his other spheres
plans to remain active. And these are many.
DILL TUGMAN is a
man, with a twitching, somewhat scraggly
mustache, and eyebrows which rival those of
Wayne Morse or John L. Lewis.
We still cherish our earliest memory of him
sprawled comfortably on a couch in our fam
ily home, slowly, almost drawlinglv, discoursing
on higher education, highways, parks, and a doz
en other subjects which his encyclopedic mind
found of interest.
His interest in everything and anything of
significance has persisted
He is also the one
Register-Guard's masthead the statement that "a
newspaper is a citizen of its community" a
statement the R-G still carries proudly there, and
one which is proloundly
llTTH THE death recently of Robert W. Saw
yer of Bend, and with the retirement of Bill
Tugman, Oregon's newspaper fraternity has lost
two of its most respected members.
We are profoundly
loss is in that field only, and that he'll be around
many more years, working for more parks, bet
ter roads, a higher standard of political honesty,
and boosting Oregon and the Lower Umpqua for I
all they're worth. E.A.
Disaster Planning
Police agencies and fire departments are our
first line of defense in disasters.
But in a major disaster, such as the one which
blew a good part of Roseburg off the map last
August, they will need help.
And, it appears, help would be forthcoming,
both from official agencies, and non-go vemmen
tal sources.
A conference on just such a. problem last
week revealed that about the only thing which
is needed is (a) a table of organization to show
who would be in over-all charge during a major
disaster, and (b) a mutual understanding of he
roles the various agencies would play, and whose
orders they would take.
MO ONE can say what would happen in the
event of a disaster, for such are, by definition,
almost always unexpected and unpredictable.
. But last week's conference showed that police
and firemen, civil defense personnel, communi
cations people, the Red Cross, utility executives,
city and county public works agencies, the Na
tional Guard, have all given thought to their roles
if disaster should strike.
We pray nothing of the kind ever happens.
But if it does, there is assurance that a lot of peo
ple will know exactly what to do and how to do
it What is still lacking is a plan for centralized
direction and responsibility. E.A.
and Beacon
be Order and your bea
the way of progress.
the Eugene Kegister-
farewell editorial, The
flesh is weak." He has to
of activity, Bill Tugman
lean, almost cadaverous
throughout the years.
who first placed on the
true.
grateful that Tubman's
Dennis the
6ee wmz; Do I take youR pipe to&cco ?
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer.
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Rain, Dams and Fishing
To the Editor: What a lifter
upper is the gusty beat on
roof and window-pane by the
"good gray rain," as Ben Hur
Lampman of the Oregonian
used to so beautifully weave
it into singing words. Yes, the
good gray rain, the first soak
er since last March 30, has re
newed hope, and hope is but
a prayer that the atheist, if
such there really be, must ad
mit has smoothed away the
worried wrinkles from many
a brow here in southern Ore
gon and down across the bor
der California way.
"But why worry at all?" has
been the querulous question.
What can you do -about it?
Admittedly very little. But
this drywell, no stock-water
drouth, does give us a most
grim measuring stick that
rightly admitted and used can
resolve the time-consuming
differences in uses of Rogue
River water, its waters now
too late to welcome the wait
ing salmon to their spawning
beds upstream.
With a high dam at Lewis
creek holding back cool sur
plus waters, some could be
released at the proper time to
bring the steelhead and sal
mon upstream, and thus pre
serve their annual cycle run.
Surely, with knowledge gain
ed of space travel and nuclear
war sufficient to make life im
possible here on earth, a sim
ple device could be contrived
to lift the frustrated salmon
below the dam to freedom
above.
But an organized, stubborn
minority blocked the building
of the Lewis dam, quite the
same as an organized stub
born minority of construction
engineers with union strike
power delayed the Talent
project a full year, leaving
Emigrant dam unfinished and
low-level water runoff lost.
The same 'sportsmen' resist
ance was used at TVA Muscle
Shoals dam site. But a lucky
quirk in Congressional horse-
trading got the dam built, and
now for a 50-cent price, for
yearly license, the holder can
fish at the dam, above the
dam, below the dam or any
other dam place on the long
TVA watercourse, catching all
the fish he can lug home.
And may we add, with ed
itorial indulgence, that no
such fishing has been had
hereabout within memory of
the oldest inhabitants.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point, Ore.
Panther Story
To the Editor: One of our
former old prospecting and
mining friends told me that
some 60 years ago now, while
hunting in the "Fiddlers
Gulch" area two miles south
of Rogue river he had an es
capade with a big cougar. This
was the way it all happened:
Instead of walking around
a long cluster of manzanita
bushes, he and his smaU track
ing dog meandered under
neath the bushes on a varmint
trail. About half way through,
a big panther that evidently
had been asleep jumped over
him and the dog. He said he
never did know which were
the more startled.
He was carrying the muzzle
end of his rifle backwards
and the whole incident only
took seconds. The big cat dis
appeared before the hunter
could reverse- his gun and get
aU set to shoot.
Another time when he was
only 17 years old a mother
bear kept him up an oak tree
for two hours over on Birds
eye creek.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.;.
. Medford.
Menace
Editorial "Appalling"
To the Editor: Your editor
ial in the Jan. 7 Mail Tribune
was appalling-. You refused
to meet Mr. Stone or to at
tend any of his factual lec
tures. Mr. Stone spent almost
16 years digging out these
facts. You say, "Superficially,
he makes a logical case." If
you had attended any of his
lectures, or had taken the
trouble to discuss with him
personally, you would have
realized the merit of Mr.
Stone's proposed 23rd amend
ment to the federal constitu
tion. Another quote, "This ut
terly wild-hair notion," was
endorsed by two Democratic
states, Wyoming and Texas,
with Democratic governors
and legislatures. Would they
have approved any "wild-hair
notions"?
Many of the finest people of
this community took the time
and effort to hear Mr. Stone,
and your statement that this
proposal is "Silly? Absurd?
Asinine? Unthinkable?" is a
reflection upon their intelli
gence. Many of those who attended
said it was the most powerful
and enlightening discussion
on a national question they
had ever heard. This state
ment could be made because
so much of the real truth of
our news is withheld by the
news services and its editors.
Mrs. G. S. Jennings,
. 218 Saginaw dr.,
Medford.
' Mrs. E. M. Wallin,
2109 E. Main st.,
Medford.
Editor's note: Mr. Stone
could not have convinced us
personally, if he could not do
so in writing. The "meat of
the coconut" is not in what
he said; it is in the proposed
amendment itself, and in what
it would do to this country.
From Forester
To the Editor: I would like
to take this opportunity to
thank you and your staff for
another year of excellent co
operation.
The year 1959 was one of
the toughest fire seasons that
we have encountered". This re
sulted in a great deal of ac
tivity to be reported to the
public. We, as a public agency,
feel the public should be in
formed of our activities at all
times. Without your help we
could not do this.
Due to the extreme pres
sure of fire activity, we realize
that it was sometimes quite
difficult for members of your
staff to contact one of us and
get the complete story in time
to go to press. Through it all
you were most patient and
kind; and we are most grate
ful to you.
Curtis Nesheim,
District Warden
State Department
of Forestry
Table Rock rd.,
Medford.
Taxi Fares
To the Editor: In order to
clarify some misunderstand
ing regarding increased taxi
fares we wish to express the
foUowing facts:
During the hours of dark
ness on the nights of Dec. 18
and 19, fares to outlying dis
tricts were increased and va
ried from 25c. to a: dollar.
Those districts having few
street - lights and no yellow
lines down the middle of the
road or curbs had the great
est increase. . ,
Dec. 18 and 19 the U. S.
Weather Bureau recorded ze
ro visibility during the hours
in question. ' ' .
Runs that normally would
take 8 to 12 minutes would
take 26 to 35 minutes.
To the best of our knowl
edge all fares were notified
Matter of Fact
EISENHOWER'S QUEST
Washington - The Presi
dent's message to Congress
merely c o n
firms his pre
v i o u s an
nouncem e n t.
"The quest
for p e a c e,"
in his own
phrase, is to
be the grand
theme of the
last Eisenhow-
joseph alsop er J'ear 111 the
White House.
But what kind of peace is
the President -seeking, on
what terms, and with whom?
These uncomfortable ques
tions are rather insistently
raised by the peculiarities of
the Administration's handling
of the disarmament problem.
Here is the peace problem,
after all, which everyone
agrees is absolutely central.
Here is a problem, too, which
representatives of the Eisen
hower administration have
been continuously discussing
since the first meeting at the
summit in Geneva. It might
have been supposed that the
Administration must know its
own mind about disarmament,
after talking about it in the
United Nations, in negotia
tions with the Soviets and
elsewhere, from 1955 onward.
BUT IN July, 1959, when
the oncoming visit of Ni
kita S. Khrushchev gave re
newed urgency to disarma
ment, the President appointed
a new commission headed by
the distinguished Boston law
yer, Charles A. Coolidge, to
study the disarmament prob
lem and come up with a solu
tion. At the Paris meetings of
the NTAO Council and the
Western heads of government,
disarmament was barred from
the agenda by the American
participants, on the specific
ground that they would not
know what to say about it un
til the Coolidge Commission
had reported. Now, at last, the
Coolidge Commission has re
ported. After comment and perhaps
amendation by the Defense
and State Departments, the re
port will go to the National
Security Council. There, by
the middle of this month, the
NSC's majestic machinery
will turn out a final "position
before entering the cab or told
when calling by telephone ex
actly what the fare would be.
Your taxi-cab driver works
on a commission basis there
fore, we are sure that most
folks would not want or ex
pect the driver to work under
these extreme hazardous con
ditions and not receive a fair
return for his night's work.
Many, many people have
expressed their gratitude that
we continued to operate dur
ing these two nights.
In answer to several tele
phone inquiries, there has
been no general increase in
taxi fares.
Food for thought for those
who were critical of the in
crease for two nights-the peo
ple of Medford enjoy the low
est taxi fares on the West
Coast.
Yellow Cab Company
By Carl F. Kellenberger
145 North Central Ave.
Medford
Two Suggestions
To the Editor: Here is a
suggestion for each of two cur
rent local problems:
The first one is for City San
itary Service. Why not get
property for a sanitary fill on
Roxy Ann? It could be hidden
from the road and be far from
any habitation. I believe Roxy
Ann is made of earth and it
might be the right type. .
The second suggestion is for
the Mail Tribune. I'm glad you
mentioned the water shortage
in your news columns and
thus started it raining. Now
I feel it behooves you to edi
torialize as to just what and
where we need in precipita
tion. Thus you will continue
your record of guidance to
this area.
Veldon J. Diment, ,
213 Portland ave., .
Medford.
Move the Locomotive
To the Editor: Saturday,
Jan. 15, as I understand it, is
the deadline for the park
committee to give its report
on the Jackson park loco
motive. Let's hope they have really
looked at it in the eyes of the
residents so closely involved.
Have they asked themselves
how they would like to look
from their front room window
each day, or many times a
day, and see nothing but the
Big Black Iron Horse"?
Granted, we do not live in
an exclusive residential area,
but after all, it is our home
and we had planned on living
here for some time. Now it
looks as if we'll be here from
now on, as who would buy
a home with a locomotive
parked in their front yard?
Please, Mr. and Mrs. Park
Committee, vote for the train
being moved to another part
of the park so we may enjoy
the view too.
Mrs. E. L. Pidcock,
744 West McAndrews rd.,
Medford.
Bv Joseph Alsop
paper." Thus the govern
ment's mind will be finally
and unequivocally made up.
Secretary of State Christian
Herter, and the hew Ameri
can representative on the ten-
nation Disarmament Commis
sion, Frederick Eaton, and the
President himself at the sum
mit, will then be ready to talk
about disarmament with full
self-confidence.
A LL this seems odd enough.
It is still more odd that
all these voices of the United
States, while able to talk
about disarmament, are not
likely to be able to talk about
a great deal of disarmament.
This is indicated, at any rate,
by what transpired in the
Coolidge Commission.
The Commission was re
quired to come up with some
thing "constructive," so that
the United States could "take
the lead." But almost every
influence within the Adminis
tration also discouraged the
Commission from tackling the
real core of the disarmament
problem. This is, of course,
nuclear disarmament.
There were two reason for
this. The most important rea
son was the prevailing theory,
largely originating in budget
mania, that the Western na
tions are morally, politically,
and above all economically
powerless to stand up to the
"hordes" of Russians and Chi
nese, if both sides are depriv
ed of nuclear weapons. No one
has explained why the West
ern nations, which used to
maintain large conventional
forces, have become so inca
pable of doing so today. But
this is accepted Administra
tion doctrine.
The difficulty of nuclear
control, even if centered on
the means of delivery, was
the other reason why a plan
of nuclear disarmament was
not attempted. Obviously, rea
son two gained great added
force from reason one above
Together, they left the Cool
idge Commission under the
necessity of adopting the su
perficial approach to the dis
armament problem. This is
Today &
By Walter
INGLORIOUS ENDING
The steel strike has been
called off in a way which
leaves the public without any
means oi de
ter mining
whether the
result is just
or unjust,
wise or un
wise. It is evi
dent that the
companies
lost the
c r i lr a Tint
Lippmann there does not
exist any impartial and de
pendable report on the issues
which enables anyone, from
the President down to know
whether the companies have
conceded more than they
could afford to concede. For
the President has steadfastly
refused to countenance offi
cial fact-finding as the basis
for a settlement. As a result,
no one really knows what
the Nixon-Mitchell settlement
means. ,
The President, so he said
last July, has been acting on
the notion that there must be
no government intervention
because "we have got thor
oughly to test out and use the
method of free bargaining."
We have now had the test
What happened in the test?
What happened was that the
government intervened m
the person of the Vice Presi
dent. He used the carrot for
the union and the stick for
the companies. He coerced
the companies into yielding
not all but most of what the
union was fighting for. More
over, it would appear, he in
duced them to agree that they
will not raise steel prices at
least until after the election.
The strike was not settled
by "free bargaining." It was
settled by a political fix.
rpHE PRESIDENT, whose
-- mind has no doubt been
on other things, seems never
to have realized that in this
struggle the process of free
bargaining was exhausted
very early in the day-almost
certainly by July when the
strike actually began. It was
evident from the beginning
that the two great monopolies
were committed to a test of
power, not to a process of
bargaining. The test was
which of them could hold out
the , longer against the other.
In July when the strike be
gan there were reasons for
thinking that the companies
were stronger. Their custom
ers had large stockpiles. La
bor unions were unpopular
as a result of the McClellan
exposures. The public was op
posed - fo another round of
wage-price increases. And
there was some question whe
ther Mr. McDonald was in
solid control of his union.
But as time went on the
balance of power began to
favor the union, chiefly be
cause, I imagine, it was in
creasingly evident that if Con-
?TlUeC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Sometimes we wish we had
one of those tiny tape re
corders which can be used
without anyone knowing
about it.
If we did, we'd hide it in
the newsroom some Friday
known as "testing Russian
bona fides," by trying out
just a tiny bit of disarmament
as a start.
rpHE FIRST test considered
was Gen. Lauris Norstad's
plan for a common Soviet
Western warning and inspec
tion system in Central Eu
r o p e. Some reductions of
troop strength were added to
give the Norstad plan a dis
armament flavor. It was then
pointed out, however, that
this was only thin-out under
another name.
At these grim words other
tests were sought. The test of
good faith now recommended
is reported to be a general,
controlled reduction of nu
merical troop strength by the
Soviet Union, the United
States and their allies. In any
case, the plan with which the
United States is supposed to
take the lead" seems all but
certain to be cumbersome
without being very bold.
But if we dare not lead!
boldly, why pretend to lead
at all, except for political-advertising
purposes? Why not
say to Khrushchev that we
want disarmament just as
much as he does, but how
does he propose to go about
it m detail? And u we can
not consider nuclear disarma
ment, where is the quest for
peace supposed to end? In
these circumstances, is it not
more important to seek ways
to close the missile gap? It
may be crude to raise these
points, yet they are points of
substance,
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. -
Tomorrow
Lippmann
gress had to intervene to set
tle the strike, it would not
be very tender with the com
panies. It is significant that
the Nixon-Mitchell interven
tion succeeded because they
were' able to threaten the
companies with the certainty
of Congressional, action.
CJO WE have come to a crude
and embarrassing ending
to an inglorious and misman
aged policy. I have reason to
know that it is denied in of
ficial quarters that the strike
could have been settled any
earlier. But I think it is argu
able from the record that a
settlement on the Nixon
Mitchell terms could have
been had at any time. All
that was required was to give
labor the carrot of the con
cessions and then to do to
the companies what. Mr. Nix
on did to them, to use the
big stick of a threat of special
legislation in Congress lead
ing to some kind of compul
sory arbitration.
If the President had real
ized that the period of free
bargaining had ended even
before the strike began, the
second strike could have been
handled by measures which
were rational, which protect
ed the public interest, and en
lightened public opinion. By
July there should have been
an official fact-finding report
on the issues and official rec
ommendations for the settle
ment. When that report had
been debated, and a predomi
nant public opinion had been
formed about it, the next step
would have been to enforce
the findings by calling on
Congress to grant the power
to do so. .
Presumably, it would not
have been necessary to go as
far as to call Congress into
special session or to use the
powers if Congress were
called and the powers were
granted. The Nixon-Mitchell
deal shows that the threat to
do all these things would
probably have been sufficient.
IN ACTING in, this fashion
the Administration would
have stood on the solid basis
of an impartial report, and
this report would have had to
deal with the crucial ques
tion that Mr. Nixon has left
up in the air.
,This question is whether or
not the concessions to labor
are inflationary in that they
justify and require a rise in
steel prices. If the report had
found that the concessions
were inflationary but that
smaller concessions would
not be,-the union would have
been forced by the threat of
compulsory arbitration to ac
cept the lower terms.
All in all, we can be glad
that the strike is not to be
resumed. But there is nothing
else to be glad about,
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc. .
(that's the only time when the
news staff in full is usually
here) and record some of the
conversations.
Here is a partial list of the
subjects which were dis
cussed, more or less, this past
Friday, amid the clatter of
typewriters:
1. Oysters.
2. Scallops.
3. Peanut brittle.
4. Coffee.
5. Poker.
6. Diets.
7. Children.
8. The 2 3rd amendment
(proposed).
9. Certain other
pers.
newspa-
10. How long the "lead" to
a story should be.
11. Style in newswriting.
12. Weather.
13. 10-year-old Mail Trib
unes. (On January 11, 1950,
the paper carried a picture
of some airplanes which had
been turned upside-down by
guests of wind. Several hun
dred copies of that edition
were printed before it was
discovered that the picture
was put in the page upside
down, thus making the planes
right-side-up. This incident
has a certain notoriety in the
newsroom.)
14. The temperature inside
and out.
15. The poetry of T. S. El
liott and e.e. cummines.
16. Colds (the common va
riety).
17. Radio programs.
18. .The problems of local
hospitals.
19. The problems of local
irrigation districts.
20. Some things about man
aging editors (Ha! They didn't
know this one was over
heard!).
21. Sports cars.
22. Vacations.
23. The people who write
letters to the editor (general
ly favorable).
24. Time-copy and overset
(this is purely shop-talk).
And so on.
The amazing thing is that
so much work gets done. But
it does, somehow. And life
would be far less interesting
for everyone involved if it
weren't for some of these dis
cussions. There are only 305 shop
ping days until Christmas.
There is a theory about the
'power of the press," and
whether or not it is really
powerful or not, and how,
depends on who's talking.
Now, however, we have
learned about another power
ful influence in society, the
clergy.
To prove our point, we
quote from "The Church
man," the publication of the
Episcopal Diocese of Oregon,
as follows:
There comes a time when
the church must stand up
against our secular society.
The clergy at St. Mark's, avid
fans of the Medford High
School Black Tornado foot
ball team, had planned all
season to attend the champi
onship game in Portland.
The week before the game
was to be played a petition
was sent by "several" citi
zens in Medford complaining
about the game being sched
uled in Portland on Friday
night, claiming that a Satur
day night game would enable
more Medford people to at
tend. The argument was that
the Friday night game would
take people away from their
work.
Many church people would
be affected by the change to
Saturday night, to say noth
ing of the clergy. After sev
eral long distance telephone
calls, and a telegram from
members of the Medford Min
isterial Association, the "pow
ers that be" decided to keep
the game on Friday night.
The Church Triumphant, in
cluding the clergy, enjoyed
watching the Black Tornado
beat Jefferson High school of
Portland.
We have a faint suspicion
that there's more to the fol
lowing verse than meets
the eye. We think, but
we're not sure, it was writ
ten as a commentary on the
actions of certain people
now active in politics. Any
way, here it is:
"Women, Women;
"What a blessing -
"They show their sex
"Without undressing!"
And, finally, here is a com
ment on New Years, presum
ably written the morning af
ter New Year's Eve:
The Old is out, without a
doubt.
The New is here to stay,
Until it too will rendezvouz
With years now passed
away.
Ahead of us, 'midst joy and
fuss
We'll wait New Years to
come
Shrug old ones off, greet
new ones in. '
Ho Hum! They're bother
some. "