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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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