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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medfori, Or. A Sunday, March 20. 1960 II EDFUKE "Everyone In Southern Oregon D ,1 rm.. Mail TNVil, a&ibllshed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir -St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HEOB GREY Advertising Manager ijRALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. HwC W. ALLEN JR Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE ST ARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday l year sid.uu Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 ' Sunday Only One year $4.20 v Carrier Tn Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Paoenlx. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv y. Talent and on motor routes, $ady and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Jftaily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 arrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance iclal Paper of City of Medford MMicial Paper of Jackson County " Tnlted Press International Full Leased Wire WP.I. Telephoto Newspictures """SEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of in Kf-vtr York Chicago. De- -it. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, poruana. at. urau, i tmta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAl iSDCjTljOjh Plight o' 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 20. 1950 (Monday) American Fruit Growers' Oregon division has- an nounced a cut of 15 cents per box for fruit packing charges here. A large delegation of Med ford persons attended the dedication of the $135,000 municipal dock at Crescent City during the week end. 20 YEARS AGO March 20, 1940 (Wednesday) A $10,000 poultry plant which will be used to prepare turkeys for market is planned for construction on McAn drews rd. at Beatty st.; first of kind in Rogue valley. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This Js National Wild Life Restora tion week, and has nothing to io with frequent wild life manifestations behind the steering wheels." 30 YEARS AGO March 20, 1930 (Thursday) Local fruitmen will defend "acid wash" for fruit in court. Second trial of local weekly publisher on criminal libel charge should go to jury to day. 40 YEARS AGO March 20. 1920 (Saturday) Parents and teachers have called mass meeting here to discuss local school teacher situation. Talk here about joining a proposed new political party which will fight prohibition. 50 YEARS AGO March 20. 1910 (Sunday) Oregon Good Roads associa tion says it will build a mile of good highway in Jackson county for nothing which will serve as model to local road builders. Medford still has more cars per capita population than any other city in world, as car buying continues at rapid pace here. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. Is a boa constrictor a venemous snake? 2. To be eligible for elec tion to the U. S. Senate must one be a natural-born Ameri can citizen? 3. How many tentacles does a starfish have? 4. A court especially con cerned with a supervision of estates and wills is called a P Court? 5. What is a bissextile year? 6. What were the Protes tants of 16th Century France called? ' 7. Which of these standard U.S. coins contains the great er quantity of copper: five- cent piece, or one-cent piece? 8. What U. S. President was a Quaker? 9. What is Yom Kippur? 10. In what SDort did John ny Weismuller gain his great est fame? Answers: 1. No. 2. No. (May be naturalised citixen.) 3. Five. 4. Prehate Court. 5. Leap year. (With 366 days.) 6. Hu annate. 7. Five-ceni Diece 8. Herbert Hoover. 9. Jewish Xaat of Atonement. 10. Swim SIT m 1 1 "They" Don't Exist... Want to know who the most dangerous peo ple in the world are? The most dangerous people in the world are "they." "They" raise your taxes. "They" conspire to build unneeded and ex pensive schools; also,' oddly enough, it is "they" who vote against the necessary bond issues. It is "they" who advocate restrictive zoning and planning ordinances; and it is "they" who are planning to destroy property values by build ing a junk yard in a residential district CO IT IS that "they" faceless, nameless, un- known and suspect are responsible for the fears and prejudices and apprehensions of the many. What is needed to strip away this veil of mystery is to find out who "they" are. First, it is necessaiy to recognize that "they" are different in different cases. The "they" who support schools are not the "they" who vote against school bonds. Nor is the "they" who support zoning who also vote against it. -. ' "yHEY" are bogey-men. "They" don't exist. " What does exist is a multitude of people, who differ in belief and attitude, in philosophy of government, in conviction as to what consti tutes a good community and state and nation, and in theory as to how these may be obtained. One man's "they" is another man's "we." The world would be a somewat better place if everyone came to the realization that "they" are a fiction, and that, instead, there are people, singly and in groups, good, bad and indifferent. CO, WHEN you hear that "they" are going to do this or that or something else, and it is something of which you don't approve, forget about "they," and instead find out who is in volved. When this is done, when "they" are identi fied, and their motives discovered, it is surpris ing how many times one finds a group with entirely worthwhile purposes, and motives of the highest. There isn't any faceless "they" at all. There are flesh and blood people. And with flesh and blood people one can deal. E.A. ...But Rumors Do ' Almost as dangerous; as the non-existent "they" is the baseless rumor. For some reason we have never fathomed, Medford is a place where rumors are born and proliferate at an amazing rate. We can quote a number. ' In the past lVA years, Mann's Department store has been "sold" one believes the rumors. The Boeing Aircraft company has built a half-dozen manufacturing plants in Jackson county in the same period of time according to rumor. MEIER and Frank Co., is moving to town and Vine TnvViico1 YwrvYvfiT -rv o yiqitt of r.VO TTlO site is on North Central shopping center, and on town. So so the rumors the horse's mouth, from Usuallv a rumor is based on a possibility, and usually it gets started often through the misunderstanding of a specu lative discussion. - Such rumors do very little harm. It is the vicious rumor which is destructive, and fear producing, and damaging. It is also the one which almost never has any facts to support it. 1E HAVE received a letter which reports a " rumor, and asks about its truth. The letter, obviously from a sincere person, -says: "The Story is going around that Medford plans to 'import' a colony of Negroes to work in the local mills." How utterly asinine can rumor-mongers get? "Medford," as such, isn't planning any such thing. "Medford" is a community of some 26,300 people, of differing ages, jobs, beliefs and atti tudes. "Medford" is a place on the map. And "Med ford" is a city government which is too concerned with preserving the peace, protecting property, building streets and sewers, mnning an airport, to undertake any project as far-fetched as that - WHO, then? Our mysterious friends, "they"? Who are "they"? No one, that's wTho. The rumor is rubbish, and contrived rubbish at that. We suspect it was de liberately started simply to embarrass and make life difficult for the one. Negro family which re cently arrived in town, and who are asking only for a chance to live a decent, private life of their own, without interference or intimidation. If an American family isn't entitled to that, we might just as well give up all the ideals of liberty, equality and freedom of which our so ciety is justly proud. Let each ask himself: Shall I permit, a fellow citizen to live his life without interference? Or shall I, by. lies and rumors and slander, see if I can make his life so miserable he'll have to move? Let our consciences answer. E. A. about a dozen times if ave., and at the new Highway 99 south of all of. them straight from "a man who knows." in an innocent fashion, Dennis fhe V5ZY FUNNY! YOU PUT My CLUBS CLUeHOuSE.EH? HA- HA- HA. NOW, JJSi&f.ifWii9f.. . Today & Tomorrow By Walter FILIBUSTER AND SNAFU . The time cannot now be far off when the leaders in both parties and in both Houses of Congress must bring the civ il rights con troversy to a decision and a conclus i o n. The filibuster in the Senate and the snafu in the House are causing a degeneration of the debate. The moderates are being pushed aside by the extremists, rational men by the fanatics. If this goes on, the conse quences may well be tragic. For if it turns out that Con gress is impotent, is unable to make any substantial and sig nificant move to protect the constitutional rights of the Negroes in the South, we shall see an increasing mass move ment of resistance. We are al ready seeing the beginnings of such a movement. Surely, it must be our In tention to deal with the prob lem of race relations through the political process, through the courts, and by the educa tion of public opinion. Surely, it must be our hope that the problem of race relations will not be turned on to the streets and be trampled by scuffling mobs. Yet if Con gress makes a spectacular demonstration that it is im potent to do anything about the grievances of the Negroes, we shall be lucky if the worst that follows is only passive re sistance. For let us remember that passive resistance does not work passively everywhere. Walter I .Inpmanw In the Day's News By FRANK What to talk about today? That's easily answered. St. Patrick5s Day was last week. So let's talk about St. Patrick. WHO was he? He was a humble Brit on; born about A.D. 387. He was born (in a crude hut) at a place called Bannavem. Where was Bannavem? It isn't known. It. might have been somewhere in England. Or it might have been in Scotland. Anyway, it isn't on the present day maps. But it wasn't in Ireland. We know that because at the age of 16 he was captured some where on the BIG island of the British Isles by Irish pi rates. Following the custom of that early time, they made him a slave, and put him to work tending the flocks of an Irish chieftain in Ulster. SIX years of slavery made him a devoted Christian. He escaped to France and be came a monk. In 432 (he was then about 45) a vision led him to return to Ireland as a missionary bishop. He worked zealously in var ious parts of the island that is Ireland for the rest of his life. His labors were so suc cessful that he came to be known as "one who found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian." More than 300 churches were founded by St. Patrick, and more than 120, 000 people were baptized by him. - ' I1THENCE came the name Patrick? That, too, is fogged in the mists. His British name is said to have been Sucat. His labors for the church earned him the Latin name Patricus of which the English form is Patrick. What of the date, March 17? That, too, is lost in the fogs of antiquity. At any rate, Saint Patrick's feast day is cel Menace Lippmann It worked well in India. But passive resistance is not easily compatible with the violence and the impatience which lie so close to the surface in American life. . F ORDER to bring the mat ter to a decision, after a serious, not an artificial de bate, the Democrats and the Republicans ought to do what Sen. Lyndon Johnson" has wanted to do from the begin ning. They should agree on a bill which deals solely, but sincerely and effectively, with the right to vote. To be sure, there are other civil - rights besides the right to vote but there is none so fundamental or so important or so clearly beyond open challenge. The Northern Senators and Congressmen have, It seems to me, greatly underrated the historic significance of a bill which is designed to bring about the enfranchisement of qualified Negroes. To my thinking the effort to do this seems so significant that I find it hard to believe that it will not take a very long time in deed before a law to enfran chise the Negroes becomes generally effective. Instead, therefore, of com plicating matters by preparing a package containing other civil rights, our main preoc cupation should be to get the most effective voting bill that can be passed in the Senate now. The most effective bill will be one which commands a very large majority including some. Southerners who think as does Senator Johnson. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS ebrated throughout the world, wherever there are Irish peo ple. Whatever its origin may be, Saint Patrick's Day is ob served on the 17 th day of March. llfHAT of the snake legend It is one of the count less legends that have grown up around him. It is believed that Saint Patrick charmed all the snakes of Ireland down to the seashore, where they were driven into the water and drowned. That particular legend has become so firmly fixed in the minds of most children that the sight of a snake, when vis iting in Ireland, comes with something of a shock. About all we really know of Saint Patrick is contained in a.sort of autobiography, written in crude Latin. In it, he isn't very definite about the snakes. TITHAT of the shamrock that we wear in our lapels? It is the national flower of Ireland (Eire Land). Accord ing to legend, Saint Patrick planted the little plant in Ire land because its three small leaves represented the Holy Trinity. , " . The name Shamrock is Anglicized from "Seamrog," which means "three-leaved." It is given to a number of plants, but a small clover is usually considered the true shamrock. THAT'S about all we know . about Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. This we do know: The Irish have been a ' tragic people. They have been chivvied all over the world. In the course of this national chivvying, countless thousands of them came to America. We love them. We couldn't do without them - and their descendants have provided a wonderful strain in what we call our American blood. Matter of Fact by Joseph a!S0P DECLINE OF THE LIBERAL Washington-Barring unfore seen mishaps, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson wUl get al most exacUy what he set out to get from the civil rights fight. The Senate may first be driven to vote cloture twice over-an extra- joseph alsop o r d i n a r y event. Nowadays, however, Senate seems to have a new rule: "Johnson's will be done." If Johnson succeeds, the country will have reason to rejoice. A civil rights bill in suring progress on the most vital single front, the voting rights of the Southern Ne groes, will be successfully passed without undue bitter ness. Such a bill, if seriously enforced, will go straight to the heart of the. matter. If he succeeds, moreover, Johnson will also have rea son to rejoice. He will have gone within a micromillimeter as far as he could possibly go, towards making himself an available Presidential can didate in the North without leaving his large herds of Southern convention dele gates. If Sen. John F. Ken nedy of Massachusetts then stumbles along the road to Los Angeles, Lyndon Johnson will be the true front-running Democratic contender. rpHE Johnson phenomenon is not only remarKaoie in ii- self. It also offers the best text for a badly needed ser mon on the plight of Ameri can liberals. Our political lib eralism is semi-officially rep resented, at present, by the Senate's 18 liberal Democrats. Numerically, they exactly bal ance the Senate's 18 South erners. And if Johnson wins his predicted victory in the civil rights fight, one may be sure there will be more an gry liberals than angry South erners. This capacity for outraged indignation when they are given half a loaf is only one of the more peculiar liberal traits. In the present instance, the civil rights half-loaf might have been improved in every way, if the liberals had chos en to fight for this objective. Instead, they made their cus tomary choice. They fought for the whole loaf, which was the legislatively unattainable Title III of the old civil rights bill. Thus, in reality, they aided their enemies. The choice was made, early in the struggle, at a meeting convened by Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Jo seph Clark of Pennsylvania. The vote in the meeting was symptomatic-nine for fight ing for Title III "on princi ple"; seven for fighting for the best bill that was prac tically feasible; and two ab stentions. . rpHE vote meant, in effect, that a narrow majority of the Senate's liberal Demo crats were less interested in the dusty legislative process than in striking noble, popu lar postures. This preference for posture over process is, in fact, the main cause of the Senate liberals' decline. The great figures of the Liberal - Progressive p a s t George Norric, the two La Follettes, Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Wagner, bitter, witty old Couzens of Michigan, and the rest-were almost aU men who took a passionate, prac tical, detailed interest in the business of law-making. Nor- ris, for instance, looked like a saint, and sounded like a particularly high-minded saint when he took the floor for a speech. But no lone wolf Sen ator has shown more legisla tive craft than the saintly seeming Norris. Craft was indeed In order to topple Speaker Cannon with a perfectly-timed reso lution changing the iron-clad rules of the House of Repre sentatives. Craft was needed in order to stave off, all through the .'20s, successive Republican Presidents' at tempts to sell Muscle Shoals, the heart of TVA, to private power interests. Good, hard, detailed home work and craft were both needed, in order to be ready with the TVA bill when the election of Franklin Roosevelt gave George Nor ris his long awaited chance. NOWADAYS, despite the high average ability and high average purpose of the Senate liberals, there is not a man among them who has made a single problem pecu liarly his own. None of them has a new TVA, for which he has been fighting doggedly, through bad times and good. In truth, none of them is the Senate's acknowledge master of any particular subject, as the late Robert A. Taft was master of half a dozen sub jects, or even as John F. Ken nedy was master of his sub ject when he was fighting for his labor bill. This concentration is just as necessary as craft, for any lawmaker who wants to get things done in the teeth of a passive, or indifferent, or hos tile majority. The great figures of the lib eral-progressive past were not great because they made fine speeches or stood forward in fine attitudes. They were great because, from time to time, after infinite hard work,. they got things done. The good statutes enacted, the medi ocre statutes amended, the bad statutes blocked, were their monuments. They deserve modern study. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. (Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do views of the paper; in fact the The Lord's Intentions To the Editor: I just want to say "Amen" to Mr. Wil son's letter. Maybe you should move where the Negro race is prevalent and see your wife and daughter forced to walk out in the street because these "citizens" didn't have the hu man instincts to let them by on the sidewalks. That was one of the main reasons for moving to our fair valley, so let's keep it that way. I think if the Good Lord intended for us to mix he would have made us all of the same color. Donnie C. Taylor, 4290 Hamrick rd., Central Point, Ore. An Opportunity To the Editor: I would like to point out to the Medford citizens what an opportunity they are about to have, by having a superior representa tive of a dark colored race live among them. About three quarters of the human race are of a dark skin w We pale faced people are apt to f ofget that in truth we are in the minority. I person ally feel, that the rich mellow tones of color between white and black skin are the most beautiful but everyone has his preferences; in hair and eyes color too! - My family and I recently moved into a completely in tegrated neighborhood in the hills of Berkeley, California, I was delighted to hear there were five Negro families liv ing across the street when we decided upon buymg our house. They are all college trained and professional peo ple, and one could not find nicer people or neighbors any where. The children play to gether indiscriminately and I feel this is something I want very much in the training of my children. The real estate values have not been affected in the least in this neighborhood. As a matter of fact it has made the neighborhood more selective. As my next door neighbor said to me shortly after my moving in, "All the undesir able, bigoted, small minded people in the neighborhood have moved out. Consistently higher calibre families are moving in." When one becomes person ally acquainted with a fine person from another race, re ligion, or country, ignorant emotional prejudice dies. The next generation needs to ex perience this, and the forma tive years are the most desir able time. Medford has been given an opportunity. Mrs. Charles Gilbert, 1077 Cragmont ave., Berkeley 8, Calif. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF; THERE have been lots of reviews of D. H. Lawrence's con troversial novel, "Lady Chatterley's Lover," but none even vaguely comparable to Ed Zern's tongue-in-cheek com mentary in Field and Stream Magazine. Noted z-ern: xms ucuonai ac- count of the day-by-day life of an English game keeper will have con siderable appeal to a male reader, containing as it does interesting pas sages on pheasant raising; ways to control vermin,' and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortu nately, one is obliged to wade through many pages about illicit love and passion to discover and savor the sidelights on the man agement of an English shooting estate. It is doubted that this book can replace J. R. Miller's "Practical Gamekeeping.' Oliver Herford defined winter as the season when suburbanites struggled to keep the house as hot as it was in August when they complained about it. Julius Tannen had another definition for winter: a time when gentlemen befur blondes. Q 1360. by Bennett Cert Piateftuteg fey ZLag Fettaru fiytflfcat pnuei! (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We hope F. J. Clifford read the story in Friday's Mail Tribune about the swallows at Capistrano. If we recall correcUy, he has objected, over the years, to the old legend about their returning to the mission each St. Joseph's day, because he knew it wasn't entirely true. So, this year we asked the United Press International to not necessarily represent the contrary is often the case. Alvayi In Der Vay To the Editor: The latest news says: "Another U. S. Rocket blows up and hits the ground." Don't Ve have troubles? Ve can't shoot der rockets into der vide open spaces. Ve try, but der vorld alvays gets in der vay. Everett Acklin, -Ashland, Ore. Schools and Taxes To the Editor: I am very much concerned about the issues on school consolidation. It looks like Medford is try ing (or already has) to get all the outlying school dis tricts into one happy family so that they can scream "overcrowded." How is this done financially? The same old way; raise taxes on aU property and business own ers. Why should they always carry the load? Why if the schools have to be built don't they build them in the community where they are now located instead of buying new buses, more maintenance costs to haul the students all the way into Med ford? Medford may have one of the highest ratings in the nation for its schools, but who is paying for this great honor? Another thing, why is it possible for a family to move into this area, live here six months, and have a sayso whether we should or should not build new schools? Take for instant the migrants (and we have quite a few) who are here six months, a million dollar bond comes up, it means work for them, so they vote yes on it and just as soon as the bmlaing is com pleted off they go to a new area leaving to whom may I ask to carry the load? And it's getting pretty doggone heavy. This also includes rent ers who do not pay this tax. We were told recently that the approximately 40 new stu dents coming in from an out lying area to Medford would be no burden on our present schools. Who's kidding who? Raising taxes has got to stop pretty soon or we will be forced to turn our prop erty and businesses over to the State for failure to meet tax payments. This may seem funny now but there will come-a day when it fails to be funny, if you think not, what were your taxes a few years ago compared to your present taxes, then jump ahead another ten years and your smile might just fade away. If the taxpayers will all get out March 29 and vote NO on this MILLION DOL LAR bond you needn't worry, they will find another source of revenue to pay for the needed schools, such as a Sales Tax where everyone can lend a helping hand instead of the load always falling on the tax payers. John D. KoelmeL 1856 Ross Lane, Medford. . oJo&D assign a man to get the real low-down on the swallows with the result that A. J. St. Amant, a UPI reporter, was assigned to go there and fin the facts. The facts, as Mr. Clifford has said, are that the swallows DO return to Capistrano (a well as a lot of other places) at ABOUT this time of year. But all of them don't arrive on St. Joseph's day, although over the years a great many of them have arrived on that one particular day. Anyway, it was a sort of nice old legend-at least until it was made into a treacly sort of song years ago, which almost spoiled the whole thing. Correspondent St. Am ant's story was interesting, too, in that it pointed out how modern science kas changed the other half ef the legend-lhat the swal lows fly south again oa St. John's (or San Juan's) day. Insecticides have spoil, that, he reports, becau4 they clear out the bugs s the swallows have to lea-we sooner than they use to to find something to eat. Every so often, It seems. those who earn their living by tossing the English lan guage around get interested in collectives, and set about dreaming up new ones. This begins when someone starts with a flock of sheep, or a bevy of quail, or a school of fish, or a gaggle of geese. Then they go on to more obscure ones-like a pride of lions. Then they start making them up. Some recent ones include a shrewdness of apes, a barren of mules, a wing of plovers, a busyness of fer rets and a tittering of mag pies. Up in Eugene, Bob Fraz ier of the Register-Guard sug gests that a group of witches be named a prevalence. But he leaves open the question of what to call the male of the species. We suggest a blizzard of wizards. The problem of what to call a group of monkeys is hardly solved by calling it a barrel. But, if we may be permit ted, we'd like to suggest that the language might be en hanced by use of the phrase, a screaming of teen agers. Headline of the week, in the Oregon Journal-Ore- gonian: "President Gives Pat To Nixon" They surely both must ap preciate that The Republicans, according to GOP state publicity chief Wally Hunter, ought to be able to field a pretty good basketball team between now and May 20. His team would include State Sen. Edwin Durno, M.D., a candidate for con gress, who was the U of O's first All-American eager in 1921; Marshall Hjelte, St. Helens, candidate for the leg islature, who was an All American at OSC in 1922; Sam Dement, candidate for the legislature from Coos and Curry counties, who was on the OSC championship team of 1942; Tom Hansen, Salem, candidate for the legislature, who was an All State choice when he played for a Port land high school team, and Roger Todd, state senatorial candidate from Coos county. Wally says he doesn't know whether Todd ever played basketball or not, but at 6 feet 8 inches tall, who cares? w m m The Wall Street Journal reports on one of those lit tle happenings which usual- line which says "Signs oi the Times," or something ( like that. The WSJ reports that Southern Pacific rail road detectives followed a Ion? extension cord leaning into an idle boxcar, ami found a hobo sleeping un der an electric blanket. A local radio announced the other morning described a car which had been report ed missing, and concluded by saying, "... telephone the state police if you known the whereabouts of this car or this station." English is a funny tongue. Mulling Receives Doctor's Degree Ashland-Leon C. Mulling, director of the Southern Ore gon college speech and kear ing center, has been award ed a doctor of philosophy de gree from Stanford university in the field of speech pathol ogy Dr. Mulling is presently on leave to visit speech clinics in the United States and Eu rope, and will return to Ash land this fall.