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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
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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.