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Newspaper Page TextI MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Sunday, March 27, 1960 HNS "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRIOTING CO 33 North Fir St, Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor ' PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newsoaner Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, tinder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy lOe Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point E a B 1 Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes, . Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. UO ' Carrier and Dealer copy lOe All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty .... United Press International Full Leased Wire UP J. Telephoto Newspictqree ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising ReDresentative: 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 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORI At AS(g)cgaiQr. Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History frofln the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 27, 1950 (Monday) More than 1,000 persons at tended a YMCA - sponsored square dance jamboree at Medford High school : gym Saturday .night. Missing private plane con taining four persons possibly down in Medford area. 20 YEARS AGO March 27, 1940 (Wednesday) Sen. McNary notifies local fruit growers that FSA has told him that limit on rehabil itation loans to Oregon fruit growers Is $5,000. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Dies committee threatens U.S. Communist leaders with im prisonment unless they di vulge names of spies in U.S. Next thing we'll know Com munists will be threatened with trips to Russia." 30 YEARS AGO March 27, 1930 (Thursday) Sams Valley wins Southern Oregon Normal school basket ball tournament. City council is considering a plea which would limit number of dances in city to one on any one night. 40 YEARS AGO March 27, 1920 (Saturday) Rogue river fish bill is set tled; seining to cease at the mouth of river. Rogue valley people con tribute liberally to fund for starving Armenians. 80 YEARS AGO March 27, 1910 (Sunday) Treasurer of Jacksonville lodge of Oregonian Pocahon tas Tribe is arrested and charged with embezzling $1, 100 to lodge funds. Pacific and Eastern rail road from here to Butte Falls Is nearly 75 per cent com pleted. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or fen correct is superior: evn r eight is excellent; five at (is I food. 1. What is the proper name of the mineral called fools gold? 2. The part of the skull that encloses the brain is known as the c ? 3. What color are the eggs of canaries? 4 On what island are Manx men natives? 5. In what country was Adolphe Menjou born? 6. What Governor of South Carolina ran for the Presiden cy on the States Rights tick et in the 1948 election? 7. What is the tallest ani mal? 8. A minor violation of the law, as contrasted with a fel ony, is known as a m ? 9. What Isthmus " connects the North and South Ameri can continents? ; 10. Is the bite of a tarantula often fatal? Answer: 1. Iron Pyrites. 2. Cranium. 3. Light blue or green, sometimes brown spot ted. 4. Isle of Man. 5. U. S. A. 6. J. Strom Thurmond. 7. Gi raffe, t. Misdemeanor. S. Isth mus of Panama. 10. No. K&y HSwA publishers i w..av J An Apology. We owe an apology Ail i 1 oi we uregon xsauonai is tendered herewith. An editorial in this accused the state of welshing on an agreement with the city and county, in the construction of the Medford armory. The armory was "sold" to the people of Med- 1 1 -w 1 1 , . iora ana jacKson county cilitv complete with all essary to make it usable :l i was cumpieieu, n uecame eviueiib uiai it coma not have such full use without adequate seating. TX7E WENT back through the old files of the T Mail Tribune and found that, when revisions in plans were made to bring the total cost down within the amount available, certain deletions were made and announced. 'At no time, however, was it announced that seating was to be eliminated the change which most radically affected the armory's potential for widespread use. We have since learned that when the seating was eliminated, it was with the full knowledge and consent of the city and county officials of that time Kodney Keating, then county judge, and Earl Miller, then mayor of Medford. "THEREFORE, the city and county have no com- plaint about the state's good faith in the mat ter. And that is the reason we extend our apology to the Guard. It is another example ducting the public's business in private. The in- formation that the seating was to be eliminated should have been made known. Because it wasn't, the public was kept in the dark, and wound up with an incomplete and cility, despite the fact that it had been promised a multi-purpose one, for its money. But that's water over the dam. The problem now is what can be done to bring the armory up to a standard where it will do the job it originally was supposed to do. OERE the state is doing, and is willing to do, everything it can to help. The sum of $8,000, budgeted for seating for the armory, is being made available, and it is estimated it will provide seating for some 1,200 people which is a good start. An additional $800 is available for basket ball backboards, so that the local National Guard team will be able to play its games in the armory, instead of elsewhere. Maj. Gen. Alfred E. Hintz, the adjutant gen eral, says that consideration will be given for ad ditional seating in the budget for the' coming biennium. ALSO, he reports that treating the armory acoustically, so that audi ences can hear what is going on at meetings, without being deafened by echoes. The county, under the leadership of Judge Earl Miller, is cooperating in this study. The prospects, in short, are good that the armory will, some day before too long, become the multi-purpose public facility which the county needs, and which it helped pay for. The governor's office has become interested in the matter, and "is in complete accord with the county representatives in wishing to proceed as rapidly as possible in making the facilities serviceable for the community." And this is good news. E.A. .... . .And Some Answers There was another issue involving the Na tional Guard to which attention was given in this space. This was the matter of the construction of a new headquarters office for the 41st Division at the Portland Air Base, and the remodeling of the commanding general's residence at Camp Clackamas. We asked some questions which we thought deserved answers. We have received the answers, and here they are : ' - "... With the exception of certain electrical and heating work that was beyond their skills, the re modeling of the office was performed by the staff of the military department. The cost of renovating and remodeling the home at Camp Clackamas was done at the personal expense of the adjutant general with the exception of the painting, wall papering, and minor carpenter work which is normal maintenance for this type of building ... " . . . No monies were taken from (state-owned armories) in remodeling the division headquarters . . . Building remodeling was for the purpose of housing the division headquarters for the entire state. Form erly, the headquarters had been in an old two-story barracks that was entirely inadequate." - XE ACCEPT this explanation at its face value, recognizing that in making executive de cisions, a. certain leeway, . The heed for the work, and the style in which it was done, and the: justifiability of the use of funds for these purposes, is something we can not judge. We are glad to place the answers "on the record," and leave to other appropriate authority the decisions as to whether wise use was made of tax money made available to the military de partment. E.A. to the state headquarters . 1 i uuara, an apology wnicn space a few weeks aero . v ' as a muiu-purpose la the annurtenances ner in that manner. After it - :j i. j.1 l i i-i of public officials eon- only partly-usable fa - a study is under way to is necessary. Dennis the mmw it vnr-vnsit BL 1 h 1 Mill HOWD OU LIKE TO FALL TLfiTOH OfJK FACB FK3KT IM THE MIDDLE OF7M4T?0 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 40Q words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily repesent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Sandy's Stock Market To the Editor: "What did the stock market do to-day?" That question has been asked me many times, but never before by a 5-year-old girl- I have been working In Medford for the past several weeks and I usually eat my noon-day lunch with the par ents of this little girl, and her little brother. Sandy and Dan ny are the names of these alert youngsters. Sandy is 5 and Danny is 3. Sandy spends a great deal of her spare time asking ques tions, a great many of them about the stock market. "What did the stock market do to-day?" "Why do they have stock markets?" "Why don't they have stock markets on television?" I hope she don't ask me, "What is the stock market go ing to do to-morrow?" One day I . asked Sandy: "Sandy, do you have any money to invest?" "YES! I got some money in my piggy bank, but I don't think I got enough to buy the stock market," she re plied. After we have finished our lunch, Sandy brings me the Wall Street Journal. "Read it out loud," she says, "I want to know what the stock market did today. Right now, Sandy is work ing on a big deal to get the stock markets on television. Danny hasn't, as yet, shown any interest in the stock mar ket, but I wouldn t be sur prised if he ask me: "What is the latest quotation on Unit ed States Steel and Caterpil lar Tractor?" Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. - Country Beyond To the Editor: It seems that everywhere there are signs of spring. From sweet scented blossoms and green clad mead. ows to the warbling song birds, we are reminded that the best season of the year is here. The overcrowded highways on the weekend testify to the fact that we humans like to get out and enjoy our beau tiful countryside. In spite of all the good things so abundantly bestowed upon us, we are constantly being made aware that all is not well. Day by day our news headlines herald some new disaster or tragedy. A plane explodes in mid-air. Scores of human beings are hurled into eternity. The earth caves in and the heart rending cries of wives and children show that daddy won't come home from the mines anymore. A crack of a gun resounds and a life that only God has power to restore is snuffed out by a wanton killer. World leaders plan and work constantly - toward a peaceable solution to man kind's ills. In spite of it all, mankind for a large part seems dissatisfied. We humans seem to be rushing on in a mad race to see who can get there first, make the most money, with the least effort. And what then? This morning as I walked outside and breathed in some of our mountain fresh air, my mind was drawn upward. As I gazed at the snow clad sum mits of the Siskiyous, the sun was gilding their white with its first rays. . My thoughts turned to the realties of the beyond. Many know scorn -the idea of a hereafter. Yet to me the only real hop that -mankind can Menace ever have is centered in the promises of our Creator and Redeemer. The following lines from the pen of one who has had a close and living experience in Christian living came to my attention. '"In the Bible the inherit ance of the saved is called a country., (Heb. 11: 14-16). There the Heavenly Shepherd leads his flock to fountains of living waters. The tree of life yields its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the na tions. There are ever-flowing streams clear as crystal, and besides them waving trees cast their shadows upon the paths prepared for the ran somed of the Lord. There the wide spreading plains swell into hills of beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty surnmits. On those peace ful plains, beside those liv ing streams, God's people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home." ; Henry Johnson Jr. . 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Political Poll " To the Editor: Recently the American Problems class of St. Mary's conducted a politi cal survey. One hundred and fifty families, both on the East and West sides, were polled. The main purpose of this survey was to determine the extent of the political knowledge of the people of Medford, in comparison with that of the average American person. Some of the questions asked concerned Oregon politicians, the Civil Rights Bill, and Medford's views on the Negro issue. Nine questions were asked. The poll was conducted by two members of the class, each of whom contacted seventy-five families. The major ity of the families called upon were very co-operative. Enclosed are the results of this poll, which we hope you will find interesting and in formative. David Hanawalt Tom Hersant 341 South Oakdale ave. Medford. Editor's note: A condensa tion of the results of the poll mentioned above follows: 1. Who is the mayor of Medford? Result: 82 per cent knew John W. Snider is the mayor, 12 per cent did not.. 2. Who are the four U.S. representatives from Oregon? Result: 15 per cent know Wal ter Norblad (1st district); 9 per cent knew Al Ullman (2nd district); 33 per cent knew Edith Green (3rd district), and 45 per cent knew Charles O, Porter (4th district s o u t fa west Oregon). 3. How do you feel about the civil rights bill? Result: 42 per cent favored; 5 per cent opposed; 23 per cent were undecided, and 30 per cent gave no answer. 4. Who is the main aspiring Republican presidential can didate? Result: 91 per cent knew Richard M. Nixon, 9 per cent did not. 5. Who are three aspiring Democratic Presidential can didates? Result: 12 per cent knew none; 18 per cent knew one; 20 per cent knew two, and 50 per cent knew three. 6. Who are the present U.S. Senators from Oregon? Re sult: 69 per cent knew Wayne Morse; 52 per cent knew Hall S. Lusk. 7. Are you a registered voter? Result: 78 per cent said yes, 22 per cent said no. 8. Who is the governor of Oregon, and with what party is he affiliated? Result: 88 per cent knew Gov. Mark Hat- Matter of Fact by LYNDON JOHNSON'S ARGUMENT Washington-For Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, a turning point is raoidlv ap proaching. The strange but fruitful civil rights fight is now nearing the end he planned. After that will come the big test of what the josepb alsop s t o ckbrokers call the "growth possibilities" of Johnson's Presidential can didacy. Almost all the members of the Johnson inner circle free ly admit that the test may end by being academic-if Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massa chusetts performs successful ly in both Wisconsin and West Virginia, for example. John son's pre-convention strategy has been extremely subtle and long-headed; but it has also been flawed by one bad fail ure of foresight. Johnson did not foresee what stature the Kennedy candidacy could at tain. All the same, suppose the test for Johnson is not academic. What then? The answer to this question in the first place depends up on the validity of Lyndon Johnson's own argument for his candidacy. To political leaders whose support he has been seeking, he has lately been making this argument quite directly, in his. usual re sistless, torrential manner. He has also made the argu ment, more indirectly, in pub lic. JOHNSON simply argues . that the proof of the pud ding ought to be in the eat ing. The pudding, of course, is the record of the Demo cratic party in Congress in the last six years. This has been, predominantly, a Lyn don Johnson record. It has been, in other words, a middle-of-the-road record, not un duly stained by partisanship for the sake of partisanship, constructive but far from ex treme. Just these qualities in the record of the Democrats in Congress have earned John son the detestation of many persons in his party's liberal wing, especially in the North ern states. But if the proof of the pud ding is in the eating, then this same record ought to have earned for Johnson the gratitude of the Democratic party as a whole. Adlai Stev enson sought to please the lib erals, and lost disastrously, Lyndon Johnson followed an other road, and the Democra tic party gained House seats and Senate seats hand over fist, in every section of the country. Ergo, says Johnson, -this kind of record is what the country wants. Furthermore, Johnson continues, a candi date who stands for this kind of record will command the country's support. T OGICALLY, it must be ad -"mitted, this is a remarkab ly hard argument to answer. Tactically, however, it is im prudent to expect logic in American politics, which is a cliche-ridden business infest ed with persons with the rea soning powers of hens with their beaks on a line. At least until now, ' the Johnson argument has receiv ed very little consideration by the Northern Democrats. Al most everyone's attention has instead been concentrated on the powerful cliches, about Johnson-the-Southerner, John-son-the-friend-of - the - oilmen, and so on. Senator Kennedy will have to stumble pretty badly be tween now and the conven tion, in order to liberate Sen ator Johnson from the handi cap of these cliches. But if Kennedy really stumbles, this reporter ventures the condi tional forecast that the John son candidacy will swiftly take on massive momentum. There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, Johnson has an absolutely invaluable hidden asset. In the North as in the South - perhaps even more in the North - most lead ing - Democrats agree that Johnson is their party's big gest active figure. Carmine DeSapio and Davil Lawrence of Pennsylvania, Hubert Humphrey, and many other Senate liberals, even many of the intellectual Democrats of 1 1 a. i t ine aievenson stripe, an snare this opinon. Most of them also say, ."You can't nominate him, because you can't elect him." But they still admit, Johnson is the biggest man we've got." i IF A Kennedy failure leaves a kind of vacuum, this wide spread belief in Johnson's bigness will become very im portant indeed. If you are go- field and 12 per cent did not; 85 per cent knew he is a Re publican; 15 per cent did not. 9. How would you feel if a Negro family moved into your neighborhood? Result: 54 per cent were favorable; 19 per cent were unfavorable, 13 per cent were undecided, and 14 per cent ftve no answer. is " " '" 1 " A Joseph Alsop ing to bet on a long shot any way, you may as well bet on a horse you really like and admire. Just that reasoning will aid Johnson, especially if Senator Kennedy seems likely to accept second place on the ticket. This reasoning will be re inforced by the Johnson argu ment above-cited. It will be aided, too, by another argu ment of a rather neculiar character. In brief, nothing quite like a Democratic nom ination of Johnson has ever been attempted before. There fore the results of the experi ment are inherently unpre dictable. - One can predict that John son would do better in the South than any other Demo crat.; But what would happen to a Johnson-Kennedy ticket in the North? What would be the losses on the left wing swings? What would be the gams on the middle-of-the- road and conservative round abouts? Would the gains be greater? Or the losses be greater? No one on earth at this juncture can possibly say. One can only say that if Kennedy unexpectedly falls behind in the race, Johnson will probably go to Los Ange les as the real Democratic front runner. (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Today & Tomorrow By Walter UNPLANNED SUMMIT On Tuesday Senator Gore was surprised and worried when Secretary Herter told him that there is no agenda, no under standing about what is to be talked about at the summit meeting in May. Instead of a planned n e g o tiation, the four heads of government are to hold "two or three days" of con versation, some of it so pri vate that not even their For eign Ministers will be pres ent. Senator Gore did not seem to realize how much things have changed in Washington since the death of John Foster Dulles, who used to insist that . the Foreign Ministers ought to agree, or to be in virtual agreement, before the heads of government are . al lowed to meet at all. Since the President has taken charge of foreign affairs, he has reversed this doctrine completely and has put his main faith in direct personal contact with the heads of all foreign governments. This is not the only reason why, as Mr. Herter admit ted, there is no plan for the summit. The other reason is that for the time being at least the President is not the leader of the Western alli ance. He is unable to bring about an agreed Western pol icy on West Berlin and Ger many, or indeed on any other substantial issue. For Bonn and Paris together have a veto on Western policy, and they do not want any nego tiation on the German ques tion. . , THIS veto was first used af fectively in October, short ly after the Nixon visit to Russia and the Khrushchev visit to the United States. The veto was used to prevent a summit meeting in December or January for the purpose of preparing the way for ne gotiations over Berlin. Both Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Ade nauer were determined to avoid a summit meeting until the momentum of the Soviet American conversations had been dissipated. So the date of the summit meeting was put. off from January until May. During this interval dip lomatic contact between Mos cow and Washington was re duced to a minimum. At the same time pressure was ex ercised on the President to tie his own hands before he went to the summit meeting in May. This pressure campaign reached its climax in Dr. Adenauer's recent visit to this country. While he was not wholly successful-in that, as Secretary Herter told Senator Gore, the President can still talk about anything at the summit - the campaign had succeeded in preventing any serious negotiation of an agreed Western position at the summit. There is none of -the "planning" that Sen ator Gore would like because our French and German part ners do not want any plans. They want to stand pat on the status quo. -. llfHY? Because any genuine ' negotiation about Berlin, even though it guaranteed the freedom of the city, would in some form or another require an increased recognition of the East German government. At present, the East Ger man government inspects and controls the civilian traffic Walter LrlopmanB IFOTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A subscriber called us the other day. She sounded just a hit desperate. . If a bunch of quail is a bevy, she inquired, what's a bunch of pheasants? Comments here last Sunday led to a family discussion, she reported, but no one could re member the word for pheas ants. We think that the word she wanted is "covey." Actually, our dictionaries indicate that bevy and covey are almost in terchangable, and can both be applied to groups of quail, partridges, women, girls and females generally. ' Last week we also sug gested that a group of wis ards is a bliisard. Not so. says Bob Frasier. editorial writer on the Eugene Regis- ter-Guard. A group of wis ards is an ounce of wixardi. usually abbreviated and spelled "ox." We have been favored with a copy of The Lamar Demo crat and The Sulligent News, published in Vernon, Lamar Lippmann between West Germany and West Berlin. It does not, how ever, control allied traffic This traffic is controlled by the Soviet Union. A new agreement which guaranteed freedom of access to West Berlin would almost inevit ably have to bring in the East German government. This is the concession which Dr. Adenauer wants at all costs to avoid, especially be fore the German elections in 1961. He insists upon, preserv ing the fiction that the East German state does not exist and is untouchable and un mentionable by the Western allies. In this stand France. for its own reasons, supports him. - ;- . - . . IlfHEN he spoke at the Na " tionax -press giub m Washington Dr. Adenauer in dicated why he thinks there is no risk in refusing to nego tiate with Mr.' K. about Ber lin. It is -"my firm : convic tion," he said, "that Khrush chev . . . does not want war . . . and will not risk his en tire work, the development of the Soviet Union and the sev en-year plan." Convinced of this, Dr. Ade nauer does not fear the threat which Mr. K. has made about Berlin. The threat is to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and then to let the East Germans and the Allies argue with each other about the right of access. For m Dr. Adenauer's view, if the East Germans did in fact in terrupt the traffic of the Al lies, the Allies would push through the obstacle, and the Soviet Union would not go to war about it. This is the calculated risk which Adenauer and de Gaulle are prepared to take. I think the calculation may be justified, especially if we think of the East Germans attempting an actual blockade and not merely a perpetual and varied harassment. Even then I believe we could live with it. It is not because I fear the physical blockade of Berlin that I think we ought now to attempt a serious negotiation about its long term status. VP? AT I fear is the decline the Western position as compared with the grow ing power, not only the grow ing military power, of the Communist world. It is going to take more than a few bil lion dollars put into missiles and a better air lift to right in our own favor the over all balance of power. It is going to take a national re vival in this country which only the more far-sighted among us . are beginning to talk about, a national revival which is far from having reached the point where it is being translated into popular language and political action. The Western position In Berlin is not likely to grow stronger. It is already fragile and precarious. It will become more so the more the people of West Berlin realize that they are not likely to see in their lifetime the liberation of West Berlin from the mili tary trap in which it lies, and its restoration as the capital of a united Germany. Our position in West Ber lin, like so many of our bases overseas, is a wasting asset If it is a grave mistake to negotiate except from a posi tion of strength, it is also a grave mistake not to ' nego tiate while you still have real strength from which to nego tiate. (c) I960 New York Herald Trutana Inc. , county, Alabama. The "traffic report" is printed on Page 1, and among the offenses listed is one which we wish were more fre quent. During the week, the paper reported, there were two cases of wreckless driv ing. A young man we know wa carefully driving through the parking area at the shopping center the oth er day, when a woman walked right in front of his moving car. He slammed on the brakes, and restrained an impulse to yelL "Wassa matta. lady, you need glasses?!!" He continued to watch as she strolled into the Columbia Optical com pany office. The meetings of the county budget committee, held each year in preparation of the county's spending plans for the following fiscal year, often give some pretty fine insights into the problems of conduct ing county government. There are some odd twists, some times, too. Last week the proposed budget of the county health department was up for consid eration. (Incidentally, th is county has the reputation of having one of the finest coun ty health departments in the nation, and it was one of the first organized in this part of the country.) As the time approached, a reporter saw Dr. Clarence Drummond, the public health officer, on his way to the meeting. He was wearing a bright plaid bowtie. In re sponse to the reporter's ques tion, he explained it was the plaid of his Scots clan- the one traditionally put on just before battle. Some of the problems of the public health nurses came up at the meeting. The commit tee was told that these nurses spend a large portion of their time showing mothers how to care for their babies. Doctors, these days, either don't spend enough time tell ing the mothers as much about pre-natal and child care as they used to, or else mothers don't read the pamphlets the doctors give them. Our reporter concluded that we need either more talkative doctors, or more literate pa tients. Ward Spats came into the office last week, during that pell of bright, warm, spring weather. "I have a front page story for you," he said. Pointing, to his hat he said it was the first straw of the season. Sorry, Ward. Our wire editor has been wearing a straw for weeks, now. We don't exactly know what the "power of the press' is, although it has a nice sound to it. But maybe there was a clue the other night. Several weeks ago the M-T printed one small story about a wom en's physical fitness class.-. The first meeting was held the other night, and Bob Ha worth, of the parks and recre ation department, was hoping that as many as 20 people might show up. When regis tration was over, 150 women were enrolled. A Pichiciago is a small ar madillo, native to South America. OK? So here we got The Pichiciago hasn't much brains. And he doesn't wear any clothes. When the tempest brews a stormy scene. He curls up and buries his nose. He doesn't need much of man's know-how. And he hasn't harnessed the sun. Nor has he mapped the dark of the moon. And he can't subtract on from one. But don't go selling Pichi ciago short. Of all things, he isn't sap. Like man, who invented the atom bomb To blow himself off of the map. -; And that leads naturallv into a silly story which we ran across in the Pendleton East Oregonian: New York City underwent a nuclear bomb attack. After it was all over a fellow dug his way out of a pile of rub ble. He wandered through the cy lor aays and could find nothing alive. He concluded he was the sole survivor. The more he thoueht about this the less he liked it, and finally he decided to commit suicide. He climbed to the top of the tallest building left standing, and jumped. as ne Hurtled oast tne 40tn floor, ho heard a telephone ring.