Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 18, 1960, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Text5 In Ihe Days News By FRANK JENKINS Big news: COMMON HORSE SENSE VANQUISHES B I G GOV ERNMENT DO - EVERY THING NONSENSE. THATS the headline. Let's -- now get into the meat of the story. It began some three years ago when a baby girl was taken into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Combs in Oak Bridge, New Jersey. There appears to have been some question of Mrs. Combs' health at the time, so they delayed adoption proceedings. Time passed. Mrs. Combs' health improved. Two daugh . ters of their own arrived on the scene. Meanwhile, they came to adore the little girl they had taken in. So they moved happily to adopt her. A T THAT point, the STATE stepped in. Somewhere along the line, it had been discovered that not only was she a darling but . that she had a near - genius I.Q. of 138. So The State of New Jersey, through its Board of Child Welfare, said to the foster parents: "NO, you can't have her. You aren't good enough for her. You're just common TV-watching nobodies. She's a GENIUS. She belongs to the world. The STATE must take her and do right by her. She must be placed with a family of superior intellectual and financial resources." FORTUNATELY, t h e story . got out. There was an up roar from the public. The sit uation got so hot that the State Board of Child Welfare had to pull in its horns. It put its concession this way: "We feel that few things are more damaging to a child than to be fought over by its parents in the courts, in the press and over the air waves. . We have therefore decided to ALLOW Mr. and Mrs. Combs to adopt her if they wish." The board had the grace to add: '"It is our sincere hope that the Combs, the public and the press will allow the child to grow up in a normal home atmosphere." This newspaper joins in that hope and hereby pledges, in its small way, that it will have nothing to do with mak ing a holy show of little Alice Marie. That would spoil everytning. j,et s nope our brothers of the press feel the same way about it. TIMBER A Here Is a GROWTH SOIL-CONDITIONER MAIL TRIBUNE, MedW, Of. Friday, March 18, 1960 A o HEALTHIER SHRUBS 0 GREENER GRASS o FINER FLOWERS KEEPS SOIL LIGHT & FRIABLE Three inches of FOREST LOAM mixed well with the soil allows spading with practically no effort. HELPS TO PREVENT WEEDS An application of about one inch of FOREST LOAM on top of the soil will help to pre terit weeds from growing in vegetable gardens, flower beds, shrubbery, flower bewes, and rose beds. It will also give your flower beds a neat appearance and at the same time protect plant roots from early frosts. CLEAN AND EASY TO APPLY FOREST LOAM, due to its composition, is free of offensive odors and is easy to ap ply. Being free of dirt it makes your garden a cleaner and more enjoyable place in which to work. Make Your Timber PropSts Company MEDFOftD VsS' OREOM Relatives, Miami - IUPD - "Flight 710. Cancelled." : The neat white letters stood out sharply on a black board at the Northwest Orient pass enger desk. For almost an hour this was the only word 15 rela tives and friends of passen gers on Northwest Flight 710, which had crashed killing everyone aboard, knew of their fate. Then a tight-lipped 57-year-old man walked through the little crowd. "The plane is down," he said. The speaker was Andy Frain of Chicago. He had just telephoned a Miami newspap er and learned that Flight 710. bound from Minneapolis to Miami, had crashed at Tell City, Ind. Frain's wife, Lillian, 49, was aboard. "I had a feeling all day something was going to hap pen," he said. "I know my wife is gone. There's no doubt about it." Notify Relatives It was 7:45 p.m. when the airline began calling relatives into a private office to tell them what they already fear ed. Mario Gentile, Baltimore, was waiting for his wife, a singer and dancer who used the name Ronnie Lane, 24. He said the airline told him 710 would be 10 minutes late, then 30, then an hour. Final ly, he said, he was told the airplane had turned back be- This little girl and her foster parents are entitled to live their lives in their own way. ONE more word: Mr. and Mrs. Combs aren't John Steinbeck char acters, as the original action of the New Jersey Board of Child Welfare seemed vaguely to imply. They live in a pleasant house, in a pleasant neighbor hood. Mr. Combs, aged 25, is a sheet metal worker. His present weekly paycheck amounts to $120 - of which, presumably, he contributes to government in the form of withholding somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 per cent, thus bearing his share of the burdens of modern life along with the rest of us. The Combs family sounds like REAL American people the kind of people from whom some of the greatest of the world's greats have sprung. It's a pretty safe bet they'll do right by the gifted little girl they are being "permit ted" to adopt. PRODUCTS CO. INTRODUCES SCREENED BARK MULCH - ENCOURAGING, ORGANIC That Will Give You Yard the Envy of the Sage & Mc Andrews Road SP 2-8086 Friends Told of Plane AIRPORT SCENE This scene was typical at the Miami airport as relatives of the cause of a storm and the flight was cancelled. He learned the news from Frain. "What am I going to do?" he moaned. Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Flem ing, Pompano Beach, Fla., were waiting for their daugh ter, Lois, 19. When Mrs. Flem ing heard Frain she put her hands to her head and sobbed. Daughter, Grandchild Killed Mr. and Mrs. Harry Misch, Highland Park, 111., learned of the fate of the airliner the same way. Their daughter, Mrs. J. W. Wells, 29, of Engle wood, Colo., was aboard with their granddaughter, Karen, 5. "God take care of them," Mrs. Misch cried. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Solo mon, Libertyville, 111., visit ing in Homestead, Fla., were waiting for a life-long friend, Marion Dufault of Chicago, 111. "Is her name on the list?" she asked a reporter. The reporter said he did not know. s "I told you there was no hope," said her husband, lead ing her away. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Prosser, Boca Raton, Fla., were wait ing for their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Webster Drummond Sr., Del Rapids, S. D. Prosser said, "This was only her third trip on an airplane." "They are dead, they are all dead," his wife said. LONG LASTING, ENRICHES SOIL FOREST LOAM not only loosens the soil but it enriches it as well. Its effects as a mulch are known to last years longer than ordinary mulches. This is due to its high percentage of lignin which is highly resist ant to the decaying action of organisms. CONSERVES WATER Since FOREST LOAM is capable of absorb ing five times its dry weight in water, you can readily see its value as a moisture saver, thereby eliminating much unneces sary watering. Due to its insulating proper ties, FOREST LOAM keeps moisture in the soil which would . otherwise evaporate through the action of heat and wind. Neighborhood DELIVERED PRICES (Local 100 CU. FT. TRUCK LOAD 300 CU. $7.00 200 CU. FT. TRUCK LOAD $12.00 r Y ' , :1-L v " iiif;' w jy CRASH VICTIMS Stewardesses Connie Butler, 24, left, and Barbara Schreiber, 23, were among the five crew members killed Thursday when a Northwest Airlines plane disinte grated in the sky near Tell City, Ind. Both women were from Minneapolis. (UPI Telephoto) Benson Refuses To Washington- (UPD -Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son refused Thursday to en dorse Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination but said he believed Nixon would make a "good president." "I have generally not en dorsed anyone before the con vention," Benson told a news conference. "I have indicated previously that I believe he (Nixon) would make a good president." Benson flushed and answer ed testily when asked if Nix on had conferred with him since Jan. 1 on the details of a farm program which Nixon '" Also Available for Pick Up at TIMBER PRODUCTS FUEL YARD Crash victims were told that a Northwest Airlines plane had crashed, killing all aboard. (UPI Telephoto) Endorse Nixon might back if he wins the GOP nomination. Nixon is un opposed and no challenger is in sight. "This whole discussion is getting pretty thin," Benson told his questioners. "I have discussed farm policy with legislative leaders many times. The vice president has been there-I don't know how many times." He did not reply to a direct question as to whether he and Nixon had conferred alone on farm policy. However, he said he had had several contacts with Nixon's office on farm policy.. Area) FT. 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