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Sunday, Jan. 31, 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. 31, 1950 (Tuesday)
" President Truman orders
the atomic energy commis
sion to go ahead with its
. work on the hydrogen bomb.
' Officials of Ford Motor
Co., arrived in Medford from
Detroit for a meeting of the
.southern Oregon Ford deal
ers. 20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1940 (Wednesday)
Three meteorgraphs sent
aloft in balloons from Med
ford several days ago to re
, cord weather data, were found
;by loggers near Bend yester-
day.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column:- "There
is still no candidate for burg-
". omeister of this fair city.
Someone is needed to boss
the council and present visit
ing greats the key and key-
" hole to the city."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31. 1930 (Friday)
Local weekly publisher is
Indicted by grand jury for
criminal libel as a result of
articles attacking the city's
dance regulation ordinance
and appointment of dance
matrons.
Auto accidents accounted
for 189 deaths in Oregon last
year.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31, 1920 (Sunday)
Influenza is on the increase
throughout the country; quar
antine still holds in Medford.
Local rumors of a smallpox
epidemic are proved exagger
ated. 50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 31, 1910 (Monday)
A petition to recall Mayor
Snell of Ashland has been
signed by the necessary 230
persons and turned over to
the city recorder.
Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna,
who has served southern Ore
gon for 25 years on the bench,
retired today after being hon
ored in court by Bar associa
tions of southern Oregon.
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five er
tin is good.
1. Is the male whale known
as a buck, bull, or a ram?
2. The Philippines will re
ceive their independence from
the U. S. in- 1966; true or
false?
3. What is the seat of the
government of the Federal Re
public of West Germany?
4. What is the capital of
Maryland?
5. What Sea bounds the
Philippine Islands on the
west?
6. The name for the study
of insects is - n o y?
7. Do more people in the
world speak English, Chinese,
or Russian?
8. The capital city of only
one state, Louisiana, is locat
ed on the Mississippi River;
true or false?
9. Whose portrait appears
on the ten-dollar bill?
10. What have the follow-,
ing in common: Simplon, Mof
fat. Holland?
Answers: 1. Bull. 2. False.
(Did in 1946.) 3. Bonn. 4. An
napolis. 5. South China Sea.
6. Entomology. 7. Chinese. 8.
False. (St. Paul, Minn, also.)
9. Hamilton's. 10. All names
of tunnels. -
SP's Earnings Up
(What Else?)
Southern Pacific's 1959 earnings were 25 per
cent above those in 1958, President D. J. Russell
reported yesterday.
(Yes that's 25 per cent.)
They climbed from $55,767,313 (or $2.05 a
share) in 1958 to $69,750,206 (or $2.57 a share)
in 1959.
This resulted, President Russell proudly re
ported, from "three factors: increased business
over the year dsspite adverse traffic effects of
the copper and steel strikes during the last six
months; the greater efficiency produced by large
capital improvement programs in recent years,
and inclusion with SP earning figures of the ma
jority portion of the net income of the Subsidi
ary St. Louis Southwestern Railway Lines."
NOTABLY missing in the SP press release giv
ing President Russell's happy news was the
note winch has marred so many reports in pre
vious years a complaint about money-losing
sections of the SP's billion-dollar system.
At first one would be tempted to think that
the SP has already abandoned service to all
areas where its profit-and-loss statement is not
in good, comfortable black ink.
Not so, however. Not quite yet, anyway.
A clipping: from The
Fe, has been sent us by
HERE are excerpts from the stoiy which will
"Southern Pacific Railroad says it will save) more
than 5800,000 a year by abandoning one of its rail
lines in southern New Mexico and Arizona . . .
"Southern Pacific's petition to the Interstate Com
merce Commission to abandon the line, which has
been in use some 40 years, will probably be heard
(in February).
"So far, there are few active protestants to the
petition, although there have been many complaints
that the abandonment of the line will force hard
ships on cotton growers, cattlemen, miners and other
residents of the area.
"Charles Boatright, rate expert for the New
Mexico Corporation Commission . . . says it appears
the state cannot contest the SP's claims, but wUl have
to attempt to establish that the line's operaion is a
public necessity. This would have to be done through
witnesses and testimony of those protesting the ac
tion ... , '
"However, he said irjany of the users of the rail
way have indicated reluctance to making formal
protests ..."
THE railroad, of course,
Vi Inoa n-f mrinav in
to justify it by declaring it will provide better
service (elsewhere), and that not too many peo
ple will be inconvenienced, etc., etc.
It is no wonder that the SP's earnings go up
and up at the same time the losses due to
service rendered in "uneconomic" areas go down
and down.
You can just bet that if ever its revenue from
the Siskiyou line through the Rogue valley ever
drops to a point where it isn't breaking even, it
will attempt to abandon it, too and to hell with
the people who depend upon it for their bread
and butter. E.A. : .
Regional News Page
The Mail Tribune tomorrow will inaugurate
a new feature, another step in a broad program
of improvements designed to bring a better news
paper to its readers.
It will be a "Regional News" page, which
henceforth will appear three times weekly Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Primarily it is designed for the benefit of our
subscribers outside Medford and the immediate
vicinity, but we believe it will be of considerable
interest to anyone in the Mail Tribune's circula
tion area of southern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia. PREVIOUSLY, news from the many communi-
ties which we serve has been prepared by our
correspondents in "column" form, and printed
that way.
Under the new plan, each news item will be
treated according to its news importance, under
a separate headline which will immediately iden
tify the subject matter.
We plan to keep this news lively, timely and
fresh, and we have enlisted the assistance of our
crew of eager and enthusiastic community cor
respondents to do this.
IN CHARGE of the page will be Bob Walters,
who has been riven the title "rerional editor"
for lack of any better name.
And this again brings up a minor problem
on which we would like suercrestions. Is there anv
good name for this area
In Lane county the Register-Guard has dub
bed its circulation area the "Emerald Empire."
Other areas have other names. But so. far we
have been unable to come up with any catchy,
handy designation for our area which includes all
of Jackson county, and good-sized chunks of
Josephine and Siskiyou counties. ...
"Ro t.hnr. ns it. mflV. wp hnnA vrm lflcp this re
gional news page, and
make it, and all other
better. E.A.
P.S. Would anyone object if we dropped
the "Stargazer" horoscope feature? E.A.
New Mexican, of Santa
a friend. The headline
in addition to claiming
V10 nnorof ?rm a Horn nc
we serve?
will continue working to
parts of the paper, even
Dennis the
Mcm, when Cbweoy 600 sihss 'Get a lohg uttlb dOGit',
DOCS We MEAN I SHOULD SET A OASUffQUWD?
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
OUR CUBAN POLICY
The official statement on
Cuba, which the President
made at his press conference
on Tuesday, Is
an approach
to a problem
of which no
one can now
know the so
lution. The
problem is
larger than
Cuba. It is the
problem of
what this
do about the
movement in
Walter
Lippmann
country is to
revolutionary
Latin America, of which Cas
tro's is a spectacular but by
no means the only manifesta
tion.
For what is going on in
Cuba today is no mere palace
revolution at the top, in
which one oligarchy has oust
ed another. This is a social
revolution involving the mass
es of the Cuban people, and
its aim is not to install a new
set of rulers but to work out
a new social order. -.-.
OUR experience, which be
gan . with the Mexican
revolution some 40 years ago,
has taught us that armed in
tervention or even economic
coercion by blockade, em
bargo, and economic repri
sals, do little good and much
harm. They do not protect the
legitimate American interests
which are jeopardized by the
revolution and they make it
very difficult to come to rea
sonable settlements when the
revolutionary fervor subsides,
and the time of reconciliation
and reconstruction arrives.
The President has based
his position on that experi
ence. It amounts . to saying
that for the time being our
policy is to sit it out on the
principle that this is the kind
of situation where it is better
to do nothing than to do the
wrong thing. This policy of
keeping our hands off and of
sitting it out will work as
long as only American prop
erty and American pride, but
not American lives, are in
volved. TN HIS press conference the
President said that "we
are concerned, and more than
that, we are perplexed" about
the savage attacks made upon
us by Castro and his govern
ment and the Cuban press.
Unfortunately the truth,
though very unpleasant, is
not perplexing. It is that to
attack this country is popular,
that it rallies mass support
not only in Cuba but in many
other countries in this hemi
sphere. If we really face it,
we have to realize that in our
relations with Latin America
we have, with notable excep
t i o n s, identified ourselves
with the support of the past
and as opponents of the fu
ture. The chickens are com
ing home to roost. To be anti
Yankee is to be popular and
progressive. -
Thus, our Cuban policy in
the face of the exasperating
provocations of Castro in
volves our relations with all
the progressive popular move
ments in this hemisphere.
Castro knows this and is ex
ploiting it fully.- At times
there is reason to suspect that
he is trying to provoke us
into an intervention in order
to rally his own people and
to arouse mass support in the
whole hemisphere.
.
rpHE President and his ad
visors appear to be fully
aware of this, and the atti
tude they have taken is sure
ly the wisest and the most re
sponsible that is possible, in
the circumstances. It is wor
thy of full national support.
They have understood that
much more is at stake than
some property and that hard
words are just hard words.
There is at stake our ability
to convince our American
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neighbors and the world out
side that we are not the ene
mies but are indeed the
friends of the liberating, dem
ocratic, and progressive move
ments of our age.
To convince our Latin
American neighbors of this
will be, I take it, the Presi
dent's mission in his coming
trip to South America. We
should understand that this is
by aU odds themost difficult
trip he has yet undertaken,
and that the risks, the politi
cal, risks, are very consider
able! These risks would al
most surely become prohibi
tive, owing to popular resent
ment in South America, if in
his Cuban policy the Presi
dent had even flirted with the
idea or. intervention or eco
nomic coercion.
(c) 1960 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Communications
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paper; in fact the contrary is often
Only Candidate
To the Editor: The follow
ing is an open letter I have
sent to Paul Butler, National
Democratic party chairman:
Dear Paul:
As a delegate to the last
convention, I wish to inquire,
"Why was there 'no room at
the inn for Senator Wayne
L. Morse, at the Candidates'
Dinner, Jan. 23?"
In response to our plea, he
had formally announced that
he was a "serious candidate."
How can we call Nixon a
"picked pigeon" if we thwart
any serious contenders in our
own party?
I am concerned not only as
a matter of principle, but
from a practical standpoint.
It is virtually certain that
none of the" hopefuls that
spoke have a "snowbaU's
chance" to win. You must
surely sense that already-after
the convention it will be
too late to do anything about
it.
Our party will not return
to the White House until it
offers a courageous leader of
such challenging moral and
political stature as to give
the voters an unmistakable
choice. Nothing less than a
Morse ticket can provide that
choice.
At meeting after meeting,
here in Oregon, Morse has
demonstrated that he can con
vert those that came to scoff.
Call it "Morse Magic" if you
will, but he can "move moun
tains." He understands the present
and anticipates the future. A
tide of spontaneous support
arises for him as people are
permitted to discover his ab
solute integrity and dedicated
sense of justice based on the
Golden Rule.
Morse's unique strength
springs from that same EX
TRA DEPTH OF CHARAC
TER that has made Thomas
Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt
and Harry Truman immortal.
Make no mistake about it,
as of this date Morse is the
only candidate in the field
who can "Nix Nixon." Vic
tory or defeat in November
wiU hinge directly on recogni
tion of that fact at the con
vention. Jason Lee, - -.
495 State st.,
Salem, Ore.
New Miracles?
To the Editor: According
to authors of books on "fly
ing objects" we have had the
pleasure of reading in the
past 13 years, there have al
ways been unexplained "space
objects." In fact earthly crea
tures are in reality all travel
Matter of Fact ey JeMPh mmp
(The following article is
the fifth in a series of six.)
THE MISSILE GAP:
THE BRIDGE
Washington-The incredible
thing about the official ap
proach to the missile gap is
the Heedless
ness of the
hair - raising
risk that it is
being run. In
order to save
some hundreds
of millions of
doll ars, the
i s e nhower
administration
Joseph alsop is lit e r a 1 1 y
playing a gigantic game of
Russian roulette with the na
tional future.
These are strong statements.
They are also factual state
ments. Their coldly factual
character is at once apparent,
if you grasp why the Ameri
can Strategic Air Command
er, the man who knows most
about the problem, Gen.
Thomas Power, has now be
gun to talk about the Soviets'
opportunity to "wipe out" our
nuclear deterrent.
The TOTAL VULNER
ABILITY OF THE AMERI
CAN DETERRENT is obvious
ly General Power's first wor
ry. Here and overseas, there
are now about . 100 missile
bases and launching pads,
from which we can send nu
clear weapons against an
enemy. All these bases and
launching pads are soft tar
gets. "Soft," in Pentagonese,
means capable of being utter
ly destroyed by the five
pounds of blast-pressure per
square inch which is caused,
over a four-mile radius, by a
one megaton bomb explosion.
.
A CCORDING to General
" Power, three Soviet bal
listic missiles will give the
Kremlin a 95 per cent chance
of destroying any soft target.
This is the basis of General
Power's estimate of 300 So
viet missiles, half IRBMs, half
ICBMs, to "wipe out" the de
terrent. As previously noted
in this series, there is no
doubt.the Soviets already have
the intermediate range mis
siles. They will also have the
150 ICBMs they reguire with
the case.
ing on one of the millions , of
satellite planets in space or
bits.
Science claims all manifes
tations of phenomena are
moving in the celestial crea
tion. All natural elements are
mdestructable and are only
disintegrated and changed or
transmuted into other ele
ments or invisible atoms. The
general trend of the thinking
today , has greatly changed
from the superstitions pos
sessed by the "cave men" of
the "dark ages." One branch
of modern science hints that
a new sixth root race will
eventually manifest on this
whirling sphere called earth.
So, why not new miracles,
as recorded in the most an
cient Oriental teachings
on
Holy Writ.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford, Ore.
"Facts vs. Propaganda"
To the Editor: Again we
are going to look back to an
editorial page of the Mail
Tribune -- Jan. 21, and lay
the cards face up on the ta
ble, facts versus propaganda
Consider the two types of
economic analysts-those who
desire taxpayers put in more
in the waste column, increas
ed taxes and interest-really
tribute compared to the
newer type, cut down on
taxes, or eliminate them, and
use pay-as-we-go system, the
16th out and replace with the
53rd Amendment and get the
700 encroachments of govern
ment out of private business.
It can be done, an estimated
five million business heads
say so, but we need another
five million. Eliminate both
old political parties, and in
fact the entire U. S. Supreme
Court and aU. foreign interna
tionalists. We've already giv
en them 72 billions and that
should be enough.
Where do the facts come
from? First the Meador Pub
lishing Co., Boston; next
Wickliffe Vennard Sr., Hous
ton, Texas, also S. W. Adams,
author of Austin, Texas, who
wrote the crime of "Legalized
Banking." When many writ
ers and heads of the press
know these facts, and do not
publish them, they are at
guilty as the foreigners who
brought them into our great
USA.
"Yes, Mr., the citizen should
pay his taxes on his land and
assets, for the U.SA. but no
longer to the international
gang," and so says Mayor
Bracken Lee, who was perse
cuted for saying so.
Among other well-known
the equivalent of ten months
of capacity production of our
own Atlas missile plant.
THE LACK OF ANY
WARNING AGAINST MIS
SILE ATTACK is clearly Gen
eral Powers second worry.
At present, and until at least
the end of 1963, SAC and
aU the West's other nuclear
forces cannot count on any
warning against surprise at
tack with missiles. True, an
anti-missile warning system is
now being installed. But the
eastern sector of this BMtwb
system, as it is called, is only
just coming into operation.
The central sector is still far
in the future. The western
sector, which has to be based
in Scotland, has not even been
started. There will be no sure
warning until the whole sys
tem is completed.
THE COMBINATION OF
ZERO -WARNING AND
TOTAL VULNERABILITY in
turn adds up in General Pow
er's" (and in any other mind
capable of simple arithmetic)
to the likelihood of the Amer
ican deterrent being ''wiped
out"-if the. Soviets just have
or acquire the 150 ICBMs
they need. Right here is
where the game of Kussian
roulette begins. ,
''-.
AFTER two budgetarily con
venient downgradings, the
National Intelligence Esti
mates do not credit the So
viets with those 150 . ICBMs.
One must pray the estimates
are right. But no intelligence
service on earth can be abso
lutely certain that the closed
Soviet society, using all the
resources of the huge Soviet
economy, has not produced a
number of weapons equal to
a mere ten months of capacity
production in a single Ameri
can factory.
There is at least one chance
in six - the normal chance
when juvenile, delinquents
play Russian roulette - that
our intelligence estimates are
wrong, some say it may be
one chance in five, or maybe
even one chance, in four or
three, or two. And if the esti
mates are wrong by, a hair,
our power to resist the Krem
lin wiU be "nullified," accord
ing to General Power
THE MACABRE ROU
LETTE GAME IS NEED
LESS, however, because there
are. steps that can be taken
to solve the problem of the
American deterrent's total
vulnerability and its total lack
of warning. If we take those
steps, the missile gap can
probably be bridged. They are
as follows:
- A MAXIMUM AIR BORNE
ALERT is the most obvious
and urgent need. A plane that
is already m the air, with
bombs and fuel aboard, is not
vulnerable to a one megaton
explosion, or to a 100 mega
ton explosion. Before launch
ing his own attack, the enemy
must be ready to defend
against all planes on airborne
alert. Otherwise if there are
enough such planes, a Soviet
strike at us will invite the
destruction of the Soviet Un
ion.
A T PRESENT the Strategic
Air Command has a 15-
mlnute ground alert, which
is useless in conditions of
zero warning. In the new
budget, the Administration
has reluctantly tossed General
Power some peanuts fof air
borne alert-$20.000,000 this
year, and $90,000,000 next
year. But this is the old trick
of token appropriations to de
lude the nation.
A maximum alert is need
ed, at least of General Pow
er's big B-52 bombers, which
are the only suitable planes
he has. Even a maximum
alert, of 25 per cent of his
600 or so B-52s, will give
him a dependable first strike
of only 150 aircraft. Even
after due aUowance for the
improvement in the bombs
carried, a first strike by 150
aircraft is a melancholy con-
American patriots, who refuse
to get into the controversies
and communistic ideas of the
the United Nations, are Wy
oming and Texas, which
passed the 23rd, now shortly
same type in Mississippi,
Michigan and Georgia. Foun
dation laid by Mr. Willis
E. Stone, Kent Court of In
dependent American, two out-
standing Americans, and
don't let the heads of the A.P.,
or Federal Reserve, or any
of their counterfeit bankers
tell you to the contrary.
Drastic facts, we know it and
are sure of it. -
Next you get Vol. No. 7-
Federal Reserve Hoax, by
Mr. W. Vennard Sr., and you
will no longer say a word re
garding the deception ideas
too widely written and read
by the majority.
Just a word from this sec
tion on today's broadcasts, re
party dinners. The mighty
Columbia now hat two chan
nels, still called (D) and (R)
with tome 100,000 dollars
thrown - lnta each channel,
matched by Rockefeller mil
lions, and we will be rele
gated to our Alaskan Siberia
and don't let anyone tell you
to the contrary.
George H. Holmes,
Box 2004,
Salem, Ore.
POTIUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
We have another case . of
mistaken automobile identity
today, kindly telephoned to
us by a reader.
A young man employed by
Harley's Texaco station was
summoned to the Groceteria
the other day to pick up the
car of an employee for a wash
job and for a full tank of
gasoline.
He arrived, received the
keys from the owner, plus a
description of the car - a
Pontiac.
He went to the parking lot,
found a Pontiac. got in, in
serted the key. started it and
drove away. He washed the
car carefully, and then filled
the tank, finding to his sur
prise that it took only five
gallons.
when the "owner" came to
get the car, she stoutly insist
ed it wasn't hers. The police
were called. Has a stolen
Pontiac been reported? Yes
it has. Is it of such-and-such
description? Yes it is. Well-
maybe you'd better come and
get it.
And so the car was return
ed to its rightful owner, the
young man was exonerated
of any car theft, and the only
things unexplained are how
he happened to tick the
wrong Pontiac and how it
happened that the key to one
Pontiac fitted perfectly an
other one.
Since 1960 is ah election
year, the word "politics"
will be in frequent use.
Thus arises the ancient
problem is it a singular
word, or is it plural? Let's
be of public service right
now by reporting that it is
either, and can take
both singular' and plural
verbs (though not, of course,
at the tame lime). So use
it the way it sound best.
"Politics is funny." "Politics
are funny." You're on safe
ground there.
Speaking of politics, the of
fice of county school super
intendent Is no longer a po
litical (elective) job. It Is non
political (appointive), . . ,
But, mainly because the
office is usually in the courts
house and because the office
once was political, many peo
ple still think of it that way
A speaker at a recent state
educational meeting recogniz
ed this fact, and tended to
blame it on the superintend
ents . themselves, when he
said:
"You fellows, moved right
into the courthouse in the be
ginning and became part of
the crowd associated with
big brass spitoons and cigar
puffer meetings. Now people
consider you just another set
of politicians." .
The newest thing in cos
metics, we read somewhere,
is a coffee-flavored, lipstick.
There must be some hidden
significance to this- some
where; it must be portent;
trast with the old SAC re
quirement, for a first strike by
about 1500 aircraft. The con
trast is all the more serious,
because of the recent Soviet
installation of a powerful air-
defense system based on mis
siles like our Nike-Hercules
But the maximum airborne
alert of the B-52s is the only
remedy . immediately avail
able, and it is a good remedy,
too. It would add about
$900,000,000 to the budget.
"DETTER WARNING can be
-- provided within 18 months,
in all probability,- by larger
investment in the . highly
promising Midas, missile-seeing
satellite. Within 18 min
utes warning from Midas,
General Power could greatly
increase, the strength of ;his
first strike. . The , Pentagon's
kept scientists say that, it is
still a gamble to invest the
extra .$200,000,000 needed to
buy an operational Midas
warning system immediately.
But the Midas-builders say
it is a good gamble. It should
be taken. '
LATER DANGERS CAN
BE REDUCED TOO, by buy
ing more Atlas and Titan
missiles for the perilous year,
1963. These late-coming mis
siles will be in "hard" pads.
Being' hard targets, each of
these American ICBMs will
add something like 25 Soviet
ICBMs to the Kremlin's mis
sile requirement, at the very
time when the Kremlin's mis
sile program is quite sure to
be in highest gear An in
creased effort to close the
far end Of the gap in this
manner might cost a little
more than $1,500,000,000.
These sums are not trifling.
But surely it is not worth
playing Russian roulette with
the national future, to. save
a total amount no bigger than
the invested capital of "a sin
gle American charitable" foun
dation. Copyright 1SB0, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
an omen; an augury. But of
what we don't know. May
be our philosopher friend.
Bert Kissinger, can tell us.
Dick Jewett Is our sports
editor and is known as DJ for
short. Olive Starcher is our
women's editor, and is known
as OS for short.
DJ and OS were working
late-ish one evening last week,
and, as DJ wound up his
tasks he mentioned he'd call
home and get Mrs. DJ to
drive down and pick him up.
Whereupon OS said she had to
get her car (which was park
ed a short, therapeutic dis
tance down the street), and
that she'd be glad to stop by
the office, pick him up, and
drive him home.
OS departed and D J waited.
And waited. And waited. And
waited.
Finally he got tired of it,
called home, and Mrs. DJ
picked him up.
OS, it developed later, had
gone to her car, driven
straight past the M-T building
and home - and didn't remem
ber she was to have picked
D J . up until she was some
what forcibly reminded of
the fact the following morn
ing. "There was ice on my
heels," DJ says.
We know a fellow who
figures that if he continues
to save money at his pres
ent rate, by the time he is
65 he'll owe about $300,000.
The Roseburg News-Review
is our authority for reporting
that an orniscopytheobiblio
psychocrystarroscioaerogene -thliometeoroaustrohieroanth
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is
a "deluded human who prac
tices divination or forecasting
-by means of phenomena, in
terpretation of act3 or other
manifestations related to an
imate or inanimate objects
and appearances."
That's the kind of guy we
should sic onto coffee-flavored
lipstick, among other
things.
-
Note to linolypist and
proofreader: Be sure lo spell
that word right. Someone
might notice if you don't.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
TRIVIA in the news:
, Albert P. Armour, said
to be the inventor of the deor
on telephone booths, dies at
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
He was . reputed to have
sold his phone booth patent
rights for three million dol
lars when he retired in 1929.
That's what an IDEA can
do.
AFTERTHOUGHT:
I'll bet it never occurred
to him that the time would
come when phone booths
equipped with his gadget door
would be used . to see how
many college students can be
crowded into them.
AFTERTHOUGHT No. 2: ,
How long has it been
since you read of a phone
bo o t h - cramming incident?
Quite a while, I'll wager.
You may NEVER hear of
one. again. Fads come and go
like epidemics of the measles.
M ORE trivia:
Elmer F. Lovejoy,
ln-
ventor of the automatic ga
rage, door opener and credited
with helping develop the bal
loon tire and the automobile
steering knuckle, dies in San
ta Ana at the age of 87.
THE AUTOMATIC garage
rfnor onpnpr a nntMitial
boon to lazy modern man,
failed to revolutionize the
world because it costs too
much for most of us to afford.
but the balloon tire and the
automobile steering knuckle
- well, we couldn't get along
without either of them.
A lot of credit for the
GOOD LIFE we lead is due to
smart minds that thought up
the gadgets that help to make
life good. Also a lot of credit
is due to smart business minds
that thought up ways to make
these gadgets at prices we can
afford to pay.
FROM Washington comes a
i . n . 1 -f t .1 J
Senator Kennedy's forces are
comintr around to the tvplief
that Senator Lyndon Johnson
of Texas may be the Massa-
enusetts senator s chief rival
for tiie Democratic nomina
tion for President. Senator
Johnson, it can be added here,
comes as near to beinr con
servative as anybody in poli
tics mese aays can afford to
be.
Hmmmmmmmm. ..
Do you reckon conserva
tism might be getting respec
ts Die again? , ,