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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. A Sunday, March 6. 1960 Tveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail hmk.... Publ.iltLDally except Saturday by 83 North Fir St Ph RP9-ni ROBERT W bttSt" f ,),. iHI Advertising Mana GERALD T f.ATTTAM n. JRIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor STSs-f iiiir-al!'- IJ1IV Editor HARRY CHTPM4H TolM r-j. SSSS.iTT- sPrts Editor OLm: STARCHER. Women's Editor vig, r,mLKjiua, circulation Mgr n,trr?? I" second class matter at . ummioto. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SCTBSTTOTPTTOW PITT By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 . Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 ounaay only one year S4.20 7 a Ver In Advance Medford central foint Eagle olnt. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv , r. Talent and on motor routes, Daily and Sunday 1 year 818.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 i Carrier and Dealers copy 10c au renin cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford . Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International run Leased Wire TTJJ. Telephoto Newspictur MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: . WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ED (TORI At AS(pC0iTl(3 Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 6, 1950 (Monday) Two meetings will be held here to acquaint populace with soil conservation in preparation for March 22 ref erendum on whether a Jack son county soil conservation district should be created. . Local amateur entertainers are assembling at Craterian theater tonight to compete for appearance on "Original Amateur Hour" in Portland April 6. 30 YEARS AGO Local attorney taken to state prison today to begin two-year term for obtaining money by false pretenses. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The farmers and the merchants had a banquet last evening. The merchants told the farm ers how to plow, and the farm ers told the merchants how to weigh beans, and they both told the womenfolk how to cook." 80 YEARS AGO Former Medford waiter sentenced to two years in state pen for making moonshine. Governor Norblad irked by squabbles among sportsmen over fish laws on Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO Nearly 8,500 pounds of dy namite were exploded on Green Springs mountain yes terday to make cut for new road. Local Catholic leader de clares American men are be coming "effeminate" and looking to government for care and cash. SO YEARS AGO Patrons at the Medford li brary increased by 55 last month bringing total to 1,205; total books at library increas ed to 1,200. So many passenger trains from California are coming through Medford on way to eastern cities, because of track washout in eastern California, that local freight shipments are at standstill. What's Your 1.0.? MIm m m correct sunerlars avail or eight is excellent; fiva or n is food. 1. Was Peru once ruled by Aztecs, Mayans, or Incas? 2. From what high institu tion was Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, graduated? 3. Which of these are mam mals: bats, fish, whales, bees, pigeons, bears, horses? . 4. What U.S. president was a tailor by trade? 5. Do common house flies sting or bite? 6. What is the normal tem perature of the human body? - 7. Who commanded the ship 'Bon Homme Richard?" . 8. The boundaries of Okla homa touch six other states; name them. 9. What animal is known as the lumberman, engineer and builder of the animal king dom? 10. How old would an octo genarian be? Answers: 1. Incas. 2. West Point. 3. Bats, whales, bears. horses. 4. President Johnson. 8. No. 6. 98.6 degrees F. 7, John Paul Jones. 8. Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kan sas, Missouri, Arkansas. 9. Beaver. 10. Eighty to ninety. Does the Left 'Use 'the Right? We know a man who is thoroughly convinced that the Communists are "using" the extreme right in this country for their own ends. It may sound silly, at first, but he makes a good case. He begins ty quoting Lenin to the effect that "The left of itself cannot destroy the center; we will use the right to do this." In a private letter, he sets forth some of his further thinking. It may or may not be valid, but it is a sufficiently interesting thought (and one held by some other fairly tough-minded people) to justify quoting excerpts from his letter. w w m m w "1X7HAT ARE the major targets in Kremlin " psychological warfare?" he asks. "It is obvious tha this republic is number one on their list, but how do they go at it: And he continues: "They know that Britain and the U.S. control the United Nations. Therefore, while paying lip service to the U.N., Communism attacks it at all levels, here and abroad. The extreme right is very handy here. Without knowing it, the right, with the strings pulled in Moscow, has assaulted the U.N. all these years by presenting it as a communist conspiracy ... If we probe a bit more, it isn't hard to see that under a smoke-screen of 'anti-communism,' the extreme right is getting in some really murderous propaganda against the administration, the department of defense, the department of state and the central intelligence agency. "All this type of compulsive hatred belongs to the world of McCarthyism, and if you look back in the history of the last 10 years, it isn't difficult to see how McCarthyism has done, albeit unwittingly, man's work for the Kremlin in the field of psychological warfare. "Far from being a spent force, McCarthyism is becoming more adept at sowing hatred, suspicion and dissent against the President and the executive, the Senate and House, the Supreme Court and Judiciary, as well as specialized services in the government par ticularly feared by the Communists ... "The problem then, it seems to me, is to throw some kind of moral and psychological protection around our compulsive haters, to explain to them that since the cold war began they have been mercilessly manipulated by the very forces they fear, that they ' are being sucked in, in the name of 'anti-communism,' into the cold-blooded campaign to smear the executive, the judiciary, the armed services, CIA, State, and : more generally the whole American community . . . IN SCIENTIFIC parlance, an hypothesis is an A theory is a firmer phenomenon, supported which tend to corroborate Our friend's idea is tween an hypothesis and some facts which tend to true, for instance, that the wild-eyed, extreme right, in its Jew-hating, Nigger-hating, fascist minded "crusade" is, in fact, doing all it can to discredit this nation in the eyes of the world one of the prime objectives of the communists. - HIS POINT about the Moderate men of intelligence, leaders in both major political parties, take the position that the U.N. constitutes our one best chance for peace. The fact that the communists also "use" the United Nations does not a world forumthe only And when our home-grown right-wingers seek to discredit the U.N., complishments and potential, they are guilty not only of jeopardizing the U.N. itself as a potent factor for future harmony, but also are guilty of -i j , r ii. , giving aia ana comiort laiisus, wno Dy-pass me u.in. in uieir serious deal ings, while still paying it lip-service. Uur mend may have something. But it wouldn't be easy to prove. E.A. Shuffle in City Sizes Medford is still the fourth-largest city in the state, and there doesn't seem to be any immediate threat to that status. But from fifth-largest on down, the ranking has been shaken up as a result of a close election in Springfield last week. The election was on annexation of a, large area containing some 6,000 people. First reports said the proposal failed by a margin of three votes, 644 to 641. But it appeared that a few votes were thrown out because they had check marks instead of X-marks. The canvassing board decided they were valid after all. CO the PROPOSAL passed (although it still may be challenged in court) , and Springfield jumps up in population rank in the state. Just where it landed will have to await the outcome of next month's federal census, for there are several cities closely bunched around the fifth-largest spot Portland is an unchallenged first with 405.- 000; Eugene is next with lation ot 4i,S7U, since augmented by several thousand through annexation; Salem is third with 49,100, and Medford is in a secure fourth spot with 26,300. pORVALLIS has been Klamath Falls sixth, with 20,200. But Springfield's size in the official 1959 estimates was 14,270. And the population in the annexed area is "guesstimated" at between 5,800 and 6,500. So a good guess is fifth, Corvalis sixth, Klamath Falls seventh. Of course, if Eugene and Springfield ever consolidate, as has been seriously proposed, this would nut. the tipwIv enlarged citv wnv nnt. nf reach in second place, and would restore the size I "ranking" to where it is now. E.A. idea in explanation of a by observable facts it. Drobablv somewhere be a theory. But there are support his idea. It is United Nations is well alter this fact." It still is real one we have. and its significant ac to me communist unper- an "official" 1959 popu fifth, with 20,250, and v that Springfield is now Dennis the ..AM' MAKE MSA GTm fVTV Riirunr SO GOOD I VOHT HAVE Today Cr Tomorrow By Walter TELEVISION AND PRESS Recently, the President of CBS, Mr. Frank Stanton, made a speech arguing that in principle the government, which grants the licenses, has no ngnt t o concern itself in any way with the char acter of the broadcasts. He calls this "free television" and asserts that all forms Walter e Lippmann and account ability are wrong. What the country must have is "a vig orous, freely competing, un restricted television medium." This is probably the first time that anyone in a respon sible position in the television industry has claimed for it an unrestricted right, to set its own standards of conduct. This is certainly not the intent of the law under which Mr. Stanton operates. The intent of the law which was passed by Congress in February 1927, was expressed, as Mr. George Sokolsky recently noted, by ex-President Herbert Hoover, then the Secretary of Com merce. Mr. Hoover said that "the ether is a public medium, and its use must be for pub lic benefit. The use of a radio channel is justified only if there is public benefit." BE STANTON would, 1 suppose, say in reply that the greatest public benefit will come if we leave it to the unrestricted judgment of the industry itself what programs are in the public interest. To support this position Mr. Stanton argues that television stations are like newspapers, and that the government has no more right to concern it self with what is broadcast than it has the right to con cern itself with what is printed. This is a thoroughly false argument. A television station is not like a newspaper. It is like a printing press. It is a mechanical medium of com munication. Now, let us sup pose that in a whole region around some city there were only, let us say, three printing presses. They would have to print all the newspapers, all the magazines, all the books, there being no other way to get anything printed. Does Mr. Stanton imagine that un der such a condition of virtual monopoly, there would be no Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF ROLFE PETERSON", the life of every party in Salt Lake City in fact, in all Utah is in cahoots with a writ er of an advice -to -the lovelorn column named Pamela Cardiac. Here's a letter, adds Bolfe, Pamela re ceived: r "Dear Pamela: Ever since my husband saw a movie called Moby Dick, he has been driving me to distraction. The movie impressed him so deeply that he went right out and bought a harpoon. He waves it around all t the time hollering, Thar she blows!' The other night while I was watch- , ing TV he let go of the harpoon and knocked out oui picture tube. I'm afraid hell harpoon me next What can I do? (Signed) Landlubber.' Pamela answered, "Dear Landlubber: Here's how you can help. Some night when he's sound asleep, holler Thar she blows!' in his ear, rock the bed violently and empty a bucket of cold water over him. When he's fully awake I'm sure he'll have lost a good deal of his enthusiasm for whaling. Mean while, be of good cheer but don't let him have a clear shot at you. (Signed), Pamela Cardiac" Menace NO FUN 1' Lippmann public regulation of the print ing presses? rpHERE is an essential and - radical difference between television and printing, and Mr. Stanton should not pre tend that they can be or should be treated alike. It may be true, as he says, that "most metropolitan centers in the United States have more com peting television stations than competing mass circulation dailies." But Mr. Stanton has missed the point. The three or four competing television stations control vir tually all that can be received over the air by ordinary tele vision sets. But beside the mass circulation dailies, there are the weeklies, the month lies, the out-of-town newspa pers and books. If a man does not like his newspaper, he can read another from out of town, or wait for a weekly news magazine. It is not ideal, But it is infinitely better than the situation in televi sion. There, if a man does not like what the networks offer him, all he can do is to turn them off. - and listen to a phonograph.-. - Networks, which are very few in number, have a virtual monopoly of a whole medium of communication. The news papers of mass circulation have no monopoly of the medium of print. The situa tion being so different, the application of the principle of freedom is bound to be dif ferent too. Free speech is a cherished principle. But how it can be exercised depends upon where it is exercised. 117HEN we come to the ' question of how to protect and promote the public inter est m television, Mr. Stanton has more of a case. He has read the report of the Harris Committee, and he shrinks with horror from the idea of being regulated by a public commission. His horror is almost cer tainly exaggerated because the political commission will almost certainly be ineffectu al. For my own part, I do not think that public regulation has much promise of correct ing the deep faults of tele vision and it might well pro duce a mess of troubles. For that Teason, it has seemed necessary to go deeper into the problem. The root of the problem is that the tele vision industry, as organized in the United States but in no other civilized country, is run on the principle that the choice of programs shall be Matter of Fact By THE CARMEL COMPACT Washington-In semi-secrecy, at an inn in Carmel last week, the California Democratic iu mi mi- ,MvMi! i- j u - 1 J a meeting that perhaps decid ed the out come of the contest for D e m o c ratic Presiden 1 1 a 1 nomination. The hard joseph alsop bargaining at the meeting, which lasted almost two days, produced what may be called the Car mel Compact As expected, the whole of California's giant delegation win give first ballot support to the favorite son candidacy of California Gov. Pat Brown. Nonetheless, the compact's most notable feature is the large number of supporters of Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachustetts, and the even larger number of Kennedy sympathizers, in the proposed slate of 162 California delegates with 81 convention votes. Two powerful pressures ap pear to have contributed to this result. On the one hand, just before the Carmel meet ing, Senator Kennedjrs de mon poller, the able profes sional Louis Harris, descend ed on California for one last test of statewide Democratic sentiment. THE exact results of the fi nal Harris poll of Califor nia are not known. But it can be said with some confidence that they did not differ ma terially from the results of a whole series of other polls re cently made in California. In other words, the Harris test showed Kennedy easily able to beat Governor Brown in a contested primary, and far ahead of other Democratic contenders as weU. Almost at the moment when Harris began industriously ringing doorbells, Democratic caucuses were also held in the California Congressional dis tricts. Each district caucus chose 10 local names for con sideration as delegates. The choices made at these cau cuses were so unfavorable to Kennedy that Lawrence O'Brien, the chief of the Ken nedy organization's political field force, at once flew to California. The original purpose of O'Brien's journey was to lay the groundwork for entering Kennedy in the California primary, in accordance with the Harris, findings. A nom inating committee has tofile its intentions on or before March ninth. The fuU slate of delegates would have had to be filed within a month there after. Hence O'Brien did not have much time to waste. ALL the same,' Instead of organizing a Kennedy nominating committee, O'Brien ended at another inn a few miles from the scene of the Carmel Compact. One suspects that he went there in response to the anguished pleas of Senator Kennedy's friends in the California Dem ocratic . leadership. State Chairman William Hannell and a good many others were warmly friendly to the Ken- determined by selling them to advertisers. The moral, intel lectual, and esthetic stand ards are, therefore, what will attract and hold the largest audience. This leads not only to corruption like that in the quiz programs but, with only some exceptions, to the much more serious fault, which is mediocrity and blah. ' THE economic organization of the television industry is in conflict with the intent of the law-which is to use this valuable and essential monop oly for the public benefit. It would be a great improvement over what we have if a way could be found, as in the Brit ish independent television system, of selling time on the air but not the programs themselves to the advertisers. But I have no great hope that such a reform, desirable as it would be, can be count ed on to work amidst the en trenched and pervasive com mercialism of the existing tel evision industry. For that rea son we shall be compelled, it seems to me, to establish alongside commercial televi sion, not in place of commer cial television, another net work founded on the princi ple of public benefit and moved by non - commercial motives. Such a network, which could be governed by disin terested citizens and operated by frustrated and unhappy profesionals of the existing networks, could become a powerful competitor, and by the competition of its example 'as a powerful regulator, of the existing commercial net works. Then, if such a yardstick existed, it might be safe to tolerate Mr. Stanton's sug gestion that his company should be an "unrestricted" medium. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ' Joseph Alsop nedy candidacy. Yet they wanted nothing less than a bitterly fought state primary, which would have torn to pieces the newly-reconstructed California Democratic or ganization. It seems clear, too, that the outlines of the Carmel Com pact were much influenced by the somewhat ominous neigh boring presence of O'Brien with all its implications of a possible plunge by Senator Kennedy into the California primary. At any rate, with the Dossible exceDtion of Ad- lai Stevenson, who had strong California support, none of the other Democratic con tenders could take much com fort from the list of men and women who were to get half a delegate vote apiece under the Carmel Compact. Meanwhile, at least one- third of the people on the list are thought to be reliable Kennedy supporters. And at least another third are thought to be in the group that can be pretty well count ed upon to plump for Ken nedy on the second ballot, or even to change their votes at the end of the first ballot, if the Massachusetts Senator has done well in Wisconsin and the other pre-convention pri maries. THE tentative delegate slate agreed on at Carmel was minutely studied by the Ken nedy field workers. Their study confirmed the analysis given just above, and Ken nedy decided to let more than weU enough alone. It would have been different if a name-by-name scrutiny had shown that much less than two-thirds of California could be count ed on to go for Kennedy on the second ballot, despite proof of Kennedy's voter ap peal in other primaries. In that event, Kennedy would have filed in California. Kennedy would have filed anyway, in the hope of get ting the whole loaf instead of two-thirds of a loaf, if he were not confronted with a united California leadership The participants in the Car mel Compact included Fred Dutton representing Governor Brown; chiefs of the state or ganization like Paul Ziffren and Roger Kent; leaders of the legislature and assembly and selected California Demo cratic members of Congress Those who. favored Kennedy were as anxious as those who opposed him to have him stay out of the state. . The leaders of aU factions agreed, on the basis of giving every faction "a fair shake," as one of them put it. No one was left in a position to play king-maker, as is indicated by. the fact that Governor Brown reportedly has only eight state officials on the long delegate list. These are the facts behind Senator Kennedy's firm de cision to stay out of Califor nia. This bargain among the California Democratic leaders and the Kennedy camp's re action to it could be a major event. Most of California go ing to Kennedy on the second ballot could be decisive, in fact. . (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Voters of Jasper county, in Texas, are to decide whether a 67-year-old clock that was removed" during recent re modeling of the courthouse shall be reinstalled. The clock is now stored in' the basement of the county jaiL Cost of reinstallation is esti mated at $15,000. Old timers say they miss the ancient timepiece fright fully because for decades they were accustomed to checking it to see how long it took them to get to town. Younger residents of Jas per county contend that the $15,000 could be spent more effectively on other improve ments. AH, ME! What a lot of prob Iptyic ara vrannA iiv in WW M. S W V Am M those questions. When the old clock was in stalled on the cupola of the Jasper county courthouse 67 years ago.it took a LONG time to get to town - even for those fortunate characters who were able to afford a red wheeled top buggy and a team of three-minute trotters. Now the youngsters get there almost before they get started. And . . . besides . . . these youngsters have on the dashboards (pardon the slip; INSTRUMENT panels is the proper term in these days), of their long, slinky convertibles clocks that they need only to glance at to see how time is passing. If the clocks are no longer running," as is usually the case with modern auto mobile ' clocks, there is . al ways a watch handy on the modern wrist. r'S LITTLE wonder; these Texas Icids think the $15.- 000 could be spent in better ways than fixing an old clock. How? Well, from the standpoint of these modern youngsters, a IPOTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Pretty sneaky, that's what it is! First of all, the letters "HFR" in newspaper talk stand for "hold for release." They are used on news arti cles which are prepared for a number of different newspa pers, and mailed out in ad vance. Such a mailing, with a dated HFR, constitutes a sort of gentlemen's agreement that newspapers will not, without good reason, use the article before other newspa pers do. So it was with some chag rin that we noticed another daily newspaper in Jackson county "jumped" the release date on a story last week, printing it Thursday instead of Friday, as specified by the "HFR." This would be easy to for give, ordinarily, for some times one can overlook a re lease date. But in this case we're just bit suspicious that it was done deliberately, for the page on which is was printed was labeled "Friday, March 4," while every other page in the paper said "Thursday, March 3," except one which said "Thursday, March 2, and another which didn't have any date at all. Oh. well. It's all In the game, we suppose. The pa per is the same one which, in effect, called one of our reporters a liar, without checking the facts, and has so far failed to print a re traction or an apology. A group of pesrgrowers got together not long ago, and were explaining to an outsid er their costly trials and trib ulations. These, they emphasized, certainly kept them out of the "CadUlac class." Just about that time a packing house operator drove up, in his Cadillac. It was hastily explained that this was not the current model, but was purchased several years ' ago. And the driver chimed in, too. He is a horticulturalist, not a pear grower, he said, and added that this means he makes his money in town and spends it in the orchards. A peargrow- Editorial Comment NOT BY DOLLARS ALONK Many organizations make it easy for the lazy editor. They prepare editorials for him and don't require that he indicate the source of the editorials. One of these is the Nation al Association of Manufactur ers. In the day's mail is an edi torial prepared by the NAM, It's well written. But we don't agree with its conclus ion. The editorial says: "Some one goofs in the Air Force and the small matter of $5,- 000 is spent on a manual which tells officer's enlisted 'aides how to mix cocktails and wash dogs. From the out cry, you'd think the Russians had painted a hammer and sickle on the Statue of Lib erty." (The editorial doesn't men tion it but there were other Air Force manuals, one scor ing the right of the people to know what was going on in their government, and an other charging that churches were infiltrated by Commun ists. These cost $11,000 ch.) The editorial proceeds to suggest that this stuff is pea nuts. That we should have oureyes on bigger things, things that are costing the taxpayers much more mon ey. We do agree that our eyes should constantly be on, all waste in government. But we are unable to classify wrongs in government according to the cost of those wrongs, as the NAM would have us do. Seems to us this case of im proper use of public funds by the Air Force is every bit as important as a Teapot Dome scandal. It is because there is more than dollars in volved. Some crackpot in the Air Force is trying to brain wash men in the Air Force. Some wrongs in govern ment can be judged strictly on their cost to the taxpay ers. Some by other stand ards. We don't want to be tied strictly to the NAM dol lars standard when we judge those wrongs.-Pend!eton East Oregonian. public swimming pool would beat an old courthouse clock all hollow. The oldsters who miss the clock because it helped them to check on the time it took them to get to town probably look upon pub lic swimming pools as sinful ly extravagant modern luxur ies. In their day, a deep hole in the creek was good enough for anybody. It will be interesting to see how the Jasper county elec tion comes out; er makes his money in the orchard and spends it in town, the explanation con tinued. Oh. Peargrowers DO have their troubles, though. And. like some others we could name, sometimes take their troubles to their banker. One of the latter reported ly pulls out his handker chief and starts dabbing at his eyes as soon as he sees one particular peargrower come through the door. Paul Culbertson is a pear grower. (Please understand, gentle reader, that this in no wpy should be taken to con nect him with either of the tales told above.) He also tells a pretty mean story, once in a while. He told our farm edi tor one that goes like this: The black, gumbo-type sou found in some parts of the county is known as "the big sticky," and it often provid es a headache for farmers and others who .have to deal with it. Once, however, it was help ful. Back in prohibition days, one of the more enterprising residents of the big sticky country was supplementing his income through the use of a still, which was discovered by certain of the local "rev- enooers. They smashed the still and its appurtenant equipment, causing a goodly amount of fermented mash to flow out onto the ground. The proprie tor's hogs, with much commo tion, quickly gobbled it all up, and as a result became monumentally intoxicated. They became inordinately frisky and, Paul claims, the only thing that kept them from taking off across-coun try was that "big sticky" mud had balled up in their tails so heavily that it anchored them where they were. Or so says Paul Culbertson. Last Tuesday, workmen had finished installing a dishwasher in a Medford home. Just as it was started for the first time, there were two loud explosion like sounds. The family, which had been watching the new machinery inlent - ly, cleared the -room in nothing flat. After some commotion, they discovered the dishwasher was blame less. The sounds were "son ic booms." That Man in Phoenix, who apparently lay fallow for some time, is back in his old vigorous form. Second week in a row we've heard from him. . This week, he takes up with us a subject which has been dealt with before in this col umn, whether a horse-car ac cident is an accident involv ing a horse-car, or one in volving a horse and a car. What brought it up again is that one of our reporters, who presumably is too young to know what a horse-car is (or, rather, was) and who joined our staff after" the last go-round about the sub ject here, wrote a story about an automobile striking a horse, and referred to the ac cident as a horse-car collision. Well, you can imagine what our Phoenix Friend did with such a situation. If a little child falls over a doll-buggy, is this a baby- buggy accident? he asks. If a locomotive hits a sta tion wagon, is this a wagon train accident? If a fireman rescues a cat from a telephone pole, is this a pole-cat incident? That sort of thing. Sigh. Oh yes. To go back to his first example, if it isn't a baby -buggy accident, pre sumably it is a buggy-baby accident, in which case a good insecticide apparently is indicated. The last of the Centennial beards (at least those with which we are familiar) has gone. It belonged to a member of our staff who was - well -attached to it, you might say, and who kept it after the Cen tennial year was gone. Well, he took it in his head to shave it off the other day, and did so, without telling anyone. Now you might expect everyone to make quite a to do about this, but he reports it iook his wife about 10 min utes to notice that he'd shaved after she returned nome And another staff member( who, himself, had sported a beard last year, and should be con scious of such things) never did notice it, for about 20 minutes, until someone else happened to mention its dis appearance. - Anyway, we're all clean shaven again at the M-T news room. A couple of the newer members of the staff can't even remember back to the time when we were before.