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Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF McTAVlSH Sanderson and McSwervin were hauled into court on charges of being drunk and disorderly. "All right," said the judge sternly, "Where's the third man?" "What third man, your honor?" asked the arrest ing officer. The judge explained Impatiently, the one who paid for the liquor, of course." Paradise, noted a preach er one Sunday morning, is many things to many peo ple. To Bernard Shaw it is "A place where there are no third-class carriages and one soul is as good as an other." To Edward Fitzgerald It Is a wilderness "a book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou." To William Blake, "mutual forgiveness of each vice such are the gates of Paradise." Tj Thomas Moore, "the heaven of each is but what each de sires." And to Emily Dickinson, "Eden is that old-fashioned house we hvell in every day, without suspecting our abode until we drive away." O I960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Teiturea Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS For people who are willing to undergo the agonies involv ed in doing a little serious and constructive thinking, there's an interesting story in the news. It concerns the politicians (especially the Republican politicians) and Vice Presi dent Nixon, who at the mo ment looks like a shoo-in for the GOP nomination for President. Some of these politicians, the story says, are saying that Nixon "ought to identify him self as something of a liberal" IN ORDER TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY OVER A DEMOCRAT. A question: WHAT DOES NIXON BE LIEVE? My personal opinion Is whatever he BELIEVES IN is what he ought to STAND FOR. William Shakespeare, who lived and wrote some 400 years ago, put it about as well as it can be put when in Ham let he causes Polonius to say to Laertes: "This above all: to thine own self be true, "And it must follow, as the night the day, "Thou canst not then be false to any man." I ,J A A v PRETTY high - brow, you say? Wait a minute. How do you judge your friends, your neighbors, your associates, the people you come more or less generally in contact with? When you come to the conclusion that they MEAN WHAT THEY SAY, does your respect for them grow? Or do you re spect most highly those peo ple who merely say WHAT THEY THINK WILL BE MOST POPULAR? I'll offer a guess that If you amount to a hill of beans you have more confidence in sin cere people than in people who are not sincere. CO- Personally - I hope Mr. Nixon doesn't "identify himself as some thing of a liberal in order to win the Presidency over a Democrat." I hope he stands for what he believes in and lets the chips fall where they may. IN conclusion, a word about This newspaper printed a reasonably comprehensive resume of what he said to Congress Wednesday. I hope you read it, even if it was pretty long. But you should keep in mind how such docu ments are habitually put to gether. They are designed to contain a little candy for everybody. If Ike's message on the State of the Union was worth reading . . . and heeding . . . it was because President Ei senhower seldom says for public consumption anything he doesn't believe in. refresh by playing a now" SH3BS SS3 That tired nervous feeling van ishes when you sit down and play a few bars of music on the Hammond Organ. You will feel refreshed and more alive, because "Playing a Hammond Organ is pure relaxation and fun. And it's actually amazing how easy it is to play. Rich sustained tones and quick playing methods have you creating your own music al most immediately. Then the real fun comes when you explore the TCrsatility of the Hammond Or gan. Its thouamds of fascinating tones and special effects make it possible for you to play your own kind of music exactly the way you like it. Flaying a Hammond Organ is truly a wonderful new experience each time you play it liMiiln A krtut Our rlammsnd - " , Play Time Plan 12 High Schools Invited to Meet Ashland - Twelve Oregon high schools have been invited to the 12th annual high school speech conference at South ern Oregon college Jan. 29-30, according to Leon C. Mulling, founder of the conference and associate professor of speech at SOC. Schools invited are Ash land. Crater, South Eugene, Eagle Point, Grants Pass. Illi nois Valley. Klamath Falls. Medford. North Bend, Phoe nix. Roseburg and Talent. Mulling urged that parti cipating schools send in their entry blanks as soon as pos sible in order that speaking events could be scheduled, judging assignments made and programs prepared. Judges. Mulling added, will be chosen from the ranks of qualified townspeople and SOC faculty members who are interested in the subject. ifg ORGAN if O LESSONS YV U 30-Day Home Rental It & Instruction 11 fa Materials la FOR PURUCKER Music House HI No. Central - SP 2-5702 Ashland Fire Report Shows One Death Ashland - One person died and three were injured in fires here in 1959, according to the annual report complet ed last week by Ashland Fire Chief Charles Davis. The department answered 259 alarms, nine of them false, the report continued, made 554 inspections, issued 967 burning permits and re moved 169 fire hazards dur ing the past year. A breakdown of the fire alarms answered included dwellings, 30; flue, 61; bus iness, 10; trash and grass, 41; industrial, 5; apartments, 5 and miscellaneous, which in cludes smoke scares and gaso line spills, 99. The emergency resuscitator was used in seven cases, Da vis' report stated. Central Point Man 'Library Survey Is Commander Of Local Group Shows Book Types George M. Herbstruth, route 2, box 646C, Central Point, was elected commander of Medford barracks, Veterans of World War I, at a meeting at the Girls Community club last week. Other officers include Wil liam A. Hastain, senior vice commander; Thomas L. Ed sall, junior vice commander; Francis B. Oris, chaplain; Pat Graham, quartermaster; Alvin C. Lucas, judge advocate; and Thomas B. Lynch, trustee. District Commander Sandy Smith attended on his inspec tion tour. He was accompa nied by Elmer E. Curry, commander-elect of Grants Pass barracks, and Charles A. Kretchmer, quartermaster of the Grants Pass unit Auxiliary Officers Mrs. Shelva Hale was elect ed president of the ladies aux iliary. Other auxiliary officers elected include Mrs. G. M. Herbstruth, senior vice presi dent; Mrs. Wilbur Culp, jun ior vice president; Mrs. Doris Gunn, chaplain; Mrs. W. A. Hastain, treasurer; and Mrs. Thomas L. Edsall, secretary. Retiring president, Mrs. Al vin C. Lucas, was elected trustee. Mrs. A. F. Johnson was elected guard, and Mrs. T. B. Lynch, conductress. Installation of officers will be held Jan. 20 in the Girls Community club with Mr. and Central Point-Books most frequently checked out of the Central Point Elementary and Junior High school library in dicate a strong preference for adventure and animal stories, George Johns, principal, has announced. Johns said a survey of the number and type of books most often checked out was completed recently. Girls stories and revisions of the classics ranked high as favorites, he noted. Johns add ed that about 300 books are checked out daily at the li brary. Mrs. Helen Caster is librari an, and receives assistance from members of the school library club, who card and shelve books, assist students in locating books, and run errands. Johns said students in all grades are encouraged to use the library as a center for both research and recreation al reading. The total number of volumes exceeds 6,000. Mrs. Lee Turner as installing officers. Bert Rostell of the Medford 20-30 club presented a film on the March of Dimes, and four girls in western style clothes "raided" the meeting with proceeds going to the March of Dimes. Previously, the "raid" was reported as occuring at a Veterans of For eign Wars meeting. Study to Control Mosquitoes On Log Ponds Is Outlined Portland - Plans for a four- year study of new methods of controlling mosquitoes which live m and around Ore gon log ponds were outlined last week by the state board of health. The 16-phase project will explore the feasibility of sev eral control techniques re portedly never before used in Oregon, including one to cover ponds with a thin chem ical shield to trap hatching insects. Dr. Richard H. Wilcox, who will become state health of ficer next week, said recent studies by Colorado state col lege have shown that mix tures of hexadecanol and oc todecanol, normally used to retard evaporation from res ervoirs, have ensnared and killed aquatic insects such as Mayflies and are consider ed promising as a mosquito control weapon. The compounds form a thin film on water surfaces which is immediately replenished, whenever broken, from sup plies of the flaked chemicals stored in floating baskets. Grange News Roxy Ann Grange Roxy Ann Grange will meet Friday, Jan. 15, with the lec turer's program being present ed by the Henry Moellers about their trip to Europe. Members who had birth days during the last six months of 1959 are asked to bring birthday cakes for the party. The study project will be conducted by state health board staff members and is being financed jointly by the health board and the Nation al Institutes of Health, a branch of the public health service. -Dr. Wilcox said the federal government has already al lotted 519,170 for the first year's study and has tenta tively promised a like amount for each of the next three years. Study findings will be dis tributed to all lumbering com munities throughout the na tion which use log ponds, he said. Fresh Wood Wastes One phase of the project will investigate the possibili ty that mosquitoes can be controlled by heavily saturat ing log ponds with fresh wood wastes or other materials. The connection between pollution and mosquito con trol was discovered somewhat by accident after insect spec ialists had noticed that long term residual type insecti cides frequently disappeared overnight after being sprayed on log ponds, apparently be ing neutralized by some chem ical in the logs. It was then found that some log ponds seemed to attract only mosquitoes which don't attack humans. This occurred, the health board discovered, whether the ponds had been sprayed or not. Invariably, however, these ponds were or recently had been full of logs, although a pond could be full of logs and still be swarming with millions of viciously biting mosquitoes. Stimulate Research The key which stimulated additional research was the discovery that only those ponds heavily polluted from fresh logs are free of mos quitoes which attack humans. The health board specialists already knew that the fresh wood, and pulp waste liquors, contain some element which repels the pests, just as it neutralizes the insecticides. It is hoped the mystery element will be isolated during the re search project. All work, they emphasize, -will be conducted in cooperation with the state sanitary authority to prevent pollution of streams adjacent to log ponds.. Another phase of the study will determine the feasibility of planting log ponds with types of minnows which live near the surface and are able to withstanding silting and wood chemicals. If the min nows can survive, they would feed on mosquito larva and thus control much of the problem. If the health board re search is successful, it could prove a major break-through in the Oregon battle against mosquitoes. Most communi ties in the state, Dr. Wilcox said, have at least one log pond in or near heavily popu lated areas. Up to now, the problem has been virtually uncontrollable, and has been so severe that mill produc tion has been cut drastically for short periods, and outdoor living at nearby homes has been next to impossible. There are about 33 known varieties of mosquitoes in Oregon which bite humans, and some can carry such dread diseases as malaria and encephalitis, although neither disease has been a major problem here during recent years. If the program is suc cessful, these varieties would be forced out of the log ponds and probably would die off, unless humans provided other attractive breeding grounds such as improperly irrigated land, open refuse dumps, out door bird baths or general yard litter which would hold water. Only the female mosquito I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. t Sunday, Jan. 10, 1960 attacks warm - blooded ani mals, and the blood meal is used in the production of eggs. A female lives about three weeks and can produce several batches of eggs dur ing her short life span, Dr. Wilcox said. With several hundred eggs to a single laying, he pointed out, an area can swarm with millions of mosquitoes after only a few days of favorable weather. The Oregon study will be conducted by La Verne S. Mil ler, health board mosquito control supervisor, and Rob ert A. McHugh. DON'T MISS RORFIELD'S WOMEN'S SIHIOE SALE LOTS OF GOOD BARGAINS "Southern Oregon's Oldest Shoe Concern" 221 E. 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