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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ol The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 26. 1950 (Monday)
All six bids opened yester
day for the new Central Point
High school here are above
Hie $500,000 provided ay
bond issue for the project.
Mayor Diamond Flynn has
Issued a warning that the
city administration will not
tolerate the use of firecrack
ers within the Medford city
limits.
20 YEARS AGO
Juno 26. 1940 (Wednesday)
The chairman of the Ore
gon delegation to the Repub
lican national convention in
Philadelphia reiterated today
the delegation's pledge to
stick with Sen. Charles Mc
N a r y for the Presidential
nomination despite Gov.
Charles Sprague's urgings to
sunDort Wendell Wtlkic.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot column: tdi
torially, asks the esteemed
Oregon City Enterprise,
'Would we fight for Iceland?'
With the mercury flirting
with the 100 degree mark,
why ask?"
30 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1930 (Thursday)
South Pacific highway,
which is being widened and
otherwise improved, will be
kept open on nights and holi
days while construction
eoihH on.
The Oregon Journal has
characterized Ashland as, "the
town that came back."
40 YEARS AGO
June 26. 1920 (Saturday)
The E a d s Transfer com
pany warehouse on South Fir
, St., burned lust night result
ing in $100,000 damage.
Medford Judge E. E. Kelly
reports that a Texas oil com
pany, of which he is presi
dent, has struck oil.
SO YEARS AGO
June 26, 1910 (Sunday)
The Senate has overruled
the House and recommended
an appropriation of $10,000
for a survey for the Crater
Lake highway.
Construction will start this
week on a 4-slory 100-room
hotel at the corner of Main st.
Iind Riverside avc., which will
cost more than $100,000.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superli
seven ot eight is excellent five
sit is good.
1. Who wrote "The
Without a Country"?
Man
f0 NEWSPAPI
J0-'ASSOCIATION
2. What docs "K P." sland
lor In Hie U.S. Army?
3. How long is a fortnight?
4. What disease has been
called the "great white
plague"?
5. Does osculate mean to vi
brate or to swjrl?
(I. How many grains are in
the usual aspirin tablets sold
commercially?
7. Do the cells of a honey
comb have four, five, or six
sides?
8. Is George S. Kaufman a
singer, actor, or playwright?
B. What does the radio ab
breviation FM mean?
1 0. Where is Mam m o t h
Cave.
Answers: 1, Edward Everett
Hale. 2. Kitchen Police. 3.
Two weeks. 4. Tuberculosis.
S. No. To kiss. 6. Five grains.
7. Six. 8. Playwright. 9. Fre
quency Modulation 10. Ken
tucky. o
Judgment On Trujillo
The neace committee of the Organization of
American States has issued a denunciation of the
Dominican Government which is more important
as precedent that for what it says about the Tru
jillo dictatorship.
What it savs is that
ment has flagrantly violated the American Decla
ration of the Rights and Duties of Man as well
as the O.A.S. Charter. It accuses the Trujillo
regime of denial of free speech and assembly,
arbitrary arrests, cruel treatment of prisoners
and use of political terror.
All this was known
committee spent four months investigating. It is
not less well known because the committee had
to talk to exiles and others outside the Dominican
Republic, which refused to give it entry.
MEVER before, however, has the O.A.S. exco
Hated a dictatorship in this hemisphere for
its tyranny, despite ample opportunity. ihe non
intervention nrincinle was for long so sacred that
the republics resisted inspection of internal af
fairs. The peace committee itself had been inac
tive since 195b.
Yet in recent years, as dictatorships were
overthrown, it became clearer that tyranny could
hide behind non-intervention.
Fidel Castro's Cuba was one of the first to
demand action for human rights, and at the
O.A.S. meeting in Santiago last August, the peace
committee was reactivated. A Venezuelan request
sent it to work in the Dominican case, applying
a new theory.
THIS theory is that tyranny which creates ex-
Eternal tensions justifies O.A.S. inspection. The
peace committee found that the Dominican situa
tion had disturbed Caribbean relations by hostile
nronaganda against nations harboring Dominican
exiles, and by reported
minican agents abroad,
thrive on external trouble, the connection bet-
tween tyranny in one country and tension around
it may prompt lurther U.A.b. inquiries.
The Dominican investigation establishes a
precedent for a possible
One country is a right
other leftist," and the two
as in the other freedom
crushed and criticism
rests are common. Moreover, Castro's Cuba has
unsettled hemispheric relations, and done it de
liberately. The concern lor human rights asserted
by Castro's delegation
the Dominican Republic, mignt easily oe directed
at him. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Billboards Or Dollars
Are the citizens of the state of Oregon will
ing to forfeit several million dollars?
Most citizens probably don't realize that the
states have only until July 1, 19(51, to enter into
anti-billboard agreements with the U.S. bureau of
public roads authorized by the Federal Aid High
way Act of 1958. .
The act offers a federal bonus of one-half of
one per cent to states which agree to regulate
billboards within (5(50 feet of rights-of-way ac
quired since July 1, 195(5,
system.
WHILE the percentage of such acquisition in
this state mav be small it should be remem
bered that the cash stakes are high as federal
contributions to state road funds are expected
to reach 40 billion dollars.
. Maryland. appears to
roadside control standards high enough to meet
present federal requirements; that state expects
to receive up to three million dollars in billboard
bonuses.
Technicalities in the
to confuse state legislatures and hinder passage
of legislation needed to qualify for the federal
dividend. Some of the legislatures may interpret
the federal standards too broadly for the bureau
of public roads.
THE federal standards sanction four types of
signs alon'g interstate highways:
Directional or other official signs and notices
required or authorized by law.
Signs advertising the sale or lease of prop
erty on which they are posted.
Signs permitted by state law which advertise
activities conducted ' within 12 miles of their
location.
Signs giving information of interest to the
travelinir public that are
and are consistent with the national policy oi
standards.
IT IS WITH a note of regional pride that we
recall the original billboard legislation was
offered by the late Sen. Richard L. Neuberger.
Ncubcrger led the drive to reward states that
comply with the proposed legislation rather than
penalize the states that tlo not.
The bonus factor should serve as an incentive
to states to enact the appropriate legislation al
though the avoidance of roadside clutter should
be incentive enough. La Grande Observer.
Lusk To Speak at NOMA Meeting
Glen Lusk, manager of Ihe
Eustside Rogue Valley State
bank, will be the guest Speak
er at the National Otflee
Management as.Oiclation area
meeting Monday, June 27.
Members (.j the Mcdiurd,
the Dominican Govern
long before the peace
illegal activities of Do
bince dictatorships otten
O.A.S. look at Cuba.
- wing dictatorship, the
are enemies, but in one
of the press has been
suppressed. Political ar
at Santiago, directed at
for the federal highway
be the first state with
federal act may serve
erected under state law
Grants Pass, and Ashland
area chapter. will meet at 7
p.m. at the Medford hotel.
Anyone ' Interested in the
NOMA chapter Is welcome
to attend, according to chap
ter official. O
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Dennis the
"... AND HE HAD THE TOASTER P1UGSE0 INTO YOUR LONG EXTENSION
CORD, SO THEY CtHILU HAVE A SftfCK' WHILE THEY rVR fUYWS
IN THEIR TREE -HOUSE '
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Sensible Discussion
To the Editor: There are
two things I will not argue
over, religion and politics.
However, a sensible discus
sion of matters pertaining to
either subject is sometimes
very reveaiing.
'The other day a gentleman
commended me through these
columns in what I had writ
ten regarding drunkenness. I
appreciate some of his re
marks. He went on to stress
the need of a revival in this
area. I believe we need a re
vival all right, a revival of
true Godliness in our hearts.
The sad part connected with
many revivals is that along
with the excitement and emo
tion, many people profess a
new religious experience and
yet go on in the same way
as before.
Many expect God to exhibit
His healing power while they
go right on defiling their body
temples. I believe in miracles,
but my Bible tells me that
at the final day two classes
of people will come before
our Lord. One class has pro
fessed religion, even had mir
acles wrought, but are told
to depart and are called
"workers of iniquity.
My understanding of God's
will is that in His great love
for us he wants us to be obe
dient. This has always been
God's plan. Satan chose other
wise and has been warring
against God's righteous stan
dard ever since. God has a
divine law and if Satan can
succeed in deluding men so
they no longer believe in
God's law, then he has won a
point.
Just think for a moment
what would happen if some
one were to arise and declare
the laws of this land null
and void. But how much a
greater insult to our Creator
to have so-called men of God
declare the claims of God's
law are not binding. A Chris
tian's freedom does not ex
clude him from being obedi
ent. He, of all pel-Sons, should
live in harmony with God s
law.
1 wonder if Christ himself
were to come to Medford to
hold a revival, how would He
act. Would we find Him down
at the tavern drinking in mod
oration and smoking perhaps
only a little? To me moderate
drinking is the school in
which men are receiving t
drunkard's career, if my Sa
viour ever drank fermented,
alcoholic beverages, I should
be happy for the references
Drunkards will not inherit
God's kingdom.
Henry Johnson Jr.
2-100 Highway tB
Ashland, Ore.
Sacrificial Moment
To the Editor. I know it
to be a sacrificial moment in
my life, although I know
someone Is going to have to
make that sacrifice sooner or
later, and It might as well be
mine. The sooner, the better,
and the earliest possible time
is now. It's this: to all intents
and purposes the Allies
(America carrying the bigger
load) lost World War 1. In
what respect? Simply this: it
spawned Russia in its begin
ning. Similarly, the Allies lost
World War 11 because it
cleared away the last remain
ing butter stale, or govern
ment, capable of restraining
Russian advance. Everybody
knew what they were after.
The Germans were seeking
expansion, probably a revival
of a form of the earlier Holy
Roman Empire, sans the inter
vening power of the church.
The Russians were reaching
out, exploring, car (fully
Menace
weighing their chances. The
Allies were only half aware
of the big stakes. In the even
tual sum total, the results to
date show that the Allies have
consistently lost, that the Rus
sians have equally well won
their struggles.
Are we to go on playing
in their hands? It is to be
supposed that during those
eventful 11 days following the
end of hostilities at the clos
ing of World War II the gen
erals in the field, and the al
lied governments at home, de
cided this question in the af
firmative. Thus, Russia was permitted
to move in and consolidate
her gains, while the Allicsl
dallied until the Russians had
attained her objectives. In the
end, of course, the Allies won
nothing but trouble.
Fee Clifford Esleb
Box 1022, Medford
Expresses Thanks
To the Editor: To the Drs.
Meyerding, a surgeon par ex
cellence, Stevenson, a wonder
ful physician, Hansen, who
put me to sleep (with anes
thetics), and the wonderful
nurses at Sacred Heart hos
pital, I should like to express
my gratitude and a king-size
thank you for your kindness
and skill before, during and
after my operation.
Thanks to all of you, a
dreaded operation turned out
to be durned near an enjoy
able experience.
Mrs. Vivian Spencer
294 De Barr,
Medford, Ore.
Goodbye'
To the Editor: Kishl cabinet
ratify treaty yesterday. Kishi
resign today. Kishee treaty
goodbye tomorrow.
Everett Acklin
Ashland
Seeks Assistance
To the Editor: I lived In
the cily of Medford for some
12 years and our son gradu
ated from high school there
I was in and out of the Rogue
River valley some years be-
for that.
Recently we acquired some
old books and among them
was a 64-page book published
by the Medford Commercial
club in 1910. It has pictures
of the fruit industry and Med
ford Main street. It also shows
the Rogue River valley of that
time and gives figures of the
value of Ihe fruit of that time.
It is one of the most in
teresting booklets I have ever
seen, and I wonder if the
Commercial club still exists
in Medford or any of the or
iginal club members are still
around there.
I would like very much to
get in contact with some of
them.
Hillcrest orchard is pic
tured as it appeared in 1909
as well as Bear Creek or
chards and some of the names
are familiar to me such as
John Gore and J. A. Wester
land, but many are not.
1 would appreciate any help
you can give me.
Charles J. Winters
1334 37th St.
Sacramento 16, Calif.
SHIP WANTED
Hollywood tl'PO - Producer
A. Ronald Lubin gdes to Eng
land this month to negotiate
with the British navy for per
mission to photograph scenes
of Herman Melville's sea clas
sic "Billy Budd" aboard Ad
miral Horatio Nelson's old
flagship Victory. With Robert
Ryan and Peter Ustinov al
ready set for two of the star
ring roles, and Ustinov as
sexned to direct, the film is
scheduled to go before the
cameras late this year,
O
Today Cr Tomorrow
By Walter
THE COMING
REAPPRAISAL '
In the short time remaining
to him there is still one great
work which the President is
uniquely qual
i f i e d to do.
This is to pro
mote and pre
side over the
una voidable
r e a ppraisal,
which must in
many ways -to
use the
wnrHs nf Tiihn
Uvimlnn Foster Dulles
be agonizing. The uprising
in Tokyo, which went far be
yond mere rioting, and the
highly significant demonstra
tion in Okinawa, are unmis
takable signs that we must
reappraise theory that in or
der to contain the power of
the Soviet Union and of Red
China the United States must
establish forward bases on the
frontiers of the Communist
orbit.
The strategical policy of
encircling communism with
military bases on the periph
ery was conceived immediate
ly after the second World
War, in the late '40s, when
the United States still had a
monopoly of the atom bomb
and was not only invulnerable
itself but irresistible on the
offensive. In 1949 the Soviet
Union broke the monopoly,
and in the years that followed
acquired a nuclear stockpile
and the airplanes and missiles
to carry nuclear bombs. Then
the strategical policy of per
i p h e r a 1 containment was
bound to become increasingly
unworkable. This meant that
the time had come for a re
appraisal of the strategical
poiicy which rested on our
lost monopoly.
IiHE reappraisal was not
made, and accordingly, the
State department and the Pen
tagon addressed themselves
to the task of persuading and
cajoling the peripheral coun
tries to eschew neutralism in
the cold war, to line up with
us and against Russia and
China, and to grant us mili
tary bases. A few countries,
notably India, refused to par
ticipate. But all around the
rim of Asia, encircling the
Russian and the Chinese
heartland, we made alliances
and established bases.
To our surprise we found
that as we established our
selves on this dangerous per
iphery, we became increasing
ly unpopular, and the more
arms and money and person
nel we pumped in, the more
the masses of the people and
the intellectuals to whom
they listened became neutral
ist and anti-American and lei-low-traveling.
IT WAS stupid of us to be
surprised, and very stupid
to allow ourselves to think
that these ungrateful people
would be loving and loyal if
it were not for the Commu
nist agitators from Moscow
and Peiping. We refused to
look at the stark and dom
inating fact that once the
Soviet Union had become a
nuclear power, the peripher
al countries were defenseless.
They could not be defended
by "massive retaliation" be
cause neither our European
allies in NATO nor Canada
and ourselves in North Amer
ica were in a position to de
fend them against boviet
counter retaliation.
We may not like to say it
out loud, or even to see it
at all, but there is a profound
weakness in a strategical pol
icy which rests on bases that
are indefensible. However
much we may choose to ig
nore this brutal fact, the peo
ple of Japan are very much
aware of it. So are the peo
ple of Okinawa, who could
be knocked out with one hy
drogen bomb. A policy which
puts allies in such a position
has to be reappraised. For
bases are no good in a coun
try which is terrified and in
rebellion because of the dan
ger they create.
DOES a reappraisal of the
obsolete strategical pol
icy mean a retreat before the
expansion of Communism,
and abondonment of our al
lies, and the withdrawal of
American military power as
a deterrent force inside Rus
sia and China? The answer
is that it need not mean any
of these things, and It should
not mean them if the reap
praisal is penetrating and
thorough, if the action that
follows is bold and is wise.
Let us leave aside Europe
where the situation is radical
ly different because of the
political and economic ma
turity and the inherent
strength of the old nations
In Asia, in the presence of
the two Communist giants,
the normal and natural policy
of a non-Communist country
is to be aligned in the cold
war. As long as there exists
a balance of power among the
giants, this is the best defense
of the small and the weak
against conquest and against
intimidation.
o
lippmann
Neutralism, with American
approval, makes also for good
will and influence. India and
Burma, and I think Egypt
also, show that if we do not
try to force these countries
to become our military satel
lites, they will welcome our
help and advice in their in
ternal development and their
resistance to Communism.
Parallel with the evolution
of our policy away from peri
pheral military containment,
it is the task of the Pentagon
to find substitutes for the ob
solete and essentially inde
fensible peripheral bases.
There is no real doubt that
this can be done, and accord
ing to Mr. Louis Kraar of
the "Wall Street Journal"
who has been at Quantico for
the recent meeting the mili
tary planners are working on
the problem.
Rome, as the saying goes,
was not built in 'a day, and
our outdated Asian strategy
will not be revised in a day.
The rebellion in Asia against
our peripheral strategy is un
doubtedly mounting. To give
the State Department time to
reappraise and revise and re
adjust its relations, and to
give the Pentagon time to im
plement a new strategy, the
most effective thing to do
would be for the President to
put himself at the head of
the reappraising. This alone
offers some hope of reducing
the virulence of the rebellion,
a virulence which has its
roots in the terror of being
the victim of a more' horrible
Hiroshima.
FOR obvious reasons, the
President is uniquely able
to take the lead, and to make
the reappraisal and revision
his validictory service to the
nation.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Matter of Fact
CATCHING THE BIG ONES
Washington-At last Satur
day's meeting in Sacramento
of the giant California dele
gation to thef
D e m o c ratic
conv e n ti o
Brown c a m e
within an ace
of abandoning
h i s favorite
son presiden
tial candidacy
in favor of
sen. jonn i . josiph alsop
Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Gov. Brown, was narrowly
dissuaded from this dramatic
- and decisive - step by the
brisk and witty Democratic
Senator from California, Clair
Engle. Sen. Engle argued
that the step the Governor
desired to take was prema
ture and would hurt Brown's
prestige. He further said it
would distract attention from
the real business before the
Sacramento meeting, which
wa3 dislodging California's
Democratic National Commit
teeman, Paul Ziffren.
Two days ago, moreover,
there was a repeat of the
same debate between Gov.
Brown and Sen. Engle, this
time by long distance tele
phone between California and
Washington. Once again, Sen
Engle narrowly prevented
Brown from coming out for
Kennedy. He had rallied most
of the Democratic Congress
men from California In sup
port of his view. Their opin
ion, as transmitted by Engle,
impressed the Governor.
.
NONETHELESS, Sen. Engle
has bluntly warned the
senior Democratic politicians
who are hoping to stop Ken
nedy that Gov. Brown will
join the Kennedy camp soon
er or later. He may do so
before the convention opens,
perhaps when the California
delegation holds its last grand
rally on Sunday, July 10, or
perhaps even earlier.
As a minimum, the stop-
Kennedy forces are now ex
pecting Brown to make his
move immediately after Cali
fornia has given him his fa
vorite son vote on the first
ballot at Los Angeles. Fur
thermore, it is now accepted
that when and if Brown
makes this expected move,
Kennedy will get a solid ac
cretion of California dele
gates, despite the state's
strong sentiment for drafting
Adlai Stevenson.
These facts, obtained from
undoubted sources far from
friendly to Sen. Kennedy,
have important meaning in
themselves. They mean that
unless something happens
very soon to change Gov.
Brown's mind, Kennedy can
hope for the kind of break
in California that may well
gain him the nomination with
out further ado. And Ken
nedy's prospects in California
are made even more signif
icant, because of the chang
ing outlook In Pennsylvania,
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- 4 mf . 1
IPOTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
There was real consterna-
tion in the house when the
dauehter (age 13) discovered
she had gained a half-dozen
pounds in the few days since
school let out.
Her mother, also weight
conscious, also climbed on the
scales and shrieked to find
that she, too, had gone up on
the scale.
There was a flurry of talk
of diets, of exercise, of cloth
ing problems until it was
discovered that the other
daughter (age 6) had been
playing with the scales and
had managed to readjust them
to read six pounds higher
than they should.
Summertime (which ar
rived early last Tuesday,
right on schedule) is a time
of school vacations and of
Kool-Ade stands.
Last week there were a
couple within one block of
each other on East Main
street, and no doubt others
scattered throughout the
whole valley.
One of our young men,
out with his young woman,
patronized one such stand
during a lop-down jaunt
through the valley last
week. So delightfully warm
was the weather, so cute
the kids dispensing the
cooling liquid, and so en
trancing his companion's
company, that our young
man reported that, after in
vesting in ihe 3-cenis-per-glass
beverage several
times over, he "had Kool
Ade coming out my ears."
What a difference a few
vpara makes!
We know a young man who
used to take his wife to the
coast, or to Crater Lake, or
some other cool scenic spot
By Joseph Alsop
HE
ERE the key figure is
Gov. David Lawrence,
whose authority in his state
is far greater than Gov.
Brown's. Lawrence has al
ways been the biggest of the
Democratic grandees in the
officially uncommitted group;
and he has always been cooler
to the Kennedy candidacy
than anyone else in this
group. For these reasons, he
has also been the key figure
in every project for bringing
the Kennedy bandwagon to a
grinding halt.
Now, however, the most im
portant of Lawrence's feuda
tory chiefs, Philadelphia lead
er William Green, has begun
to give clear indications of
a preference for Kennedy. If
Green follows through, it will
be a sore loss to Sen. Stuart
Symington of Missouri, who
has counted for months on the
Phialdelphia vote.
It will not be surprising if
Green follows through, either.
Gov. Lawrence, who also
leaned to Symington at first,
has lately confessed to more
than one of his Democratic
bigwigs that he is sadly dis
appointed in the Symington
candidacy because of its com
plete failure to get off the
ground.
IF THE Governor rules out
Symington, he is still the
oretically free to turn to one
of the two Democrats who he
most admires, Senate Major
ity Leader Lyndon B. John
son of Texas or Adlai Steven
son. But it is known that
Lawrence met with rebuff of
the sharpest kind, when he
recently canvassed the possi
bilities of Johnson's candid
acy with Pennsylvania's lead
ers of the Negroes and organ
ized labor.
As for the project of draft
ing Stevenson, it is also
known that Gov. Lawrence
feels a successful draft is im
possible, except in the highly
unlikely event that Sen. Ken
nedy himself goes to the con
vention platform to plead for
Stevenson's nomination. Law
rence has in fact passed on
this doubly discouraging
judgment to Stevenson him
self.
ffHE Pennsylvania picture
thus recalls the old song
about the blue bottles hang
ing on the wall. And at the
moment, it is beginning to
seem that Kennedy will have
the best chance of being that
"last blue bottle" which bar
choristers always wail over.
Both the Pennsylvania and
California pictures also sug
gest the enormity of the dif
ficulties the s t o p-Kenncdy
forces will have to overcome.
As previously stated in this
space, it would already be
safe to predict the early col
lapse of the stop-Kennedy
movement. If its real leader
were not that proven polit
ical magician, Sen. Johnson.
(c) 1960 New, York Herald
Tribune Inc.
almost every week end dur-
ing the summer.
A colleague, whose chil
dren were youthful and whose
home had a yard and a lawn,
stayed home to take care of
these responsibilities.
But now, four or five yean
later, Young Man No. 1 has
small child, another on the
way, a house, lawn and yard.
He stays home on week ends.
Man No. 2, however, has
children who are sufficiently
group up either to go along or
stay home without super
vision, and a yard sufficiently
matured to take care of itself
for a day or two at a time.
And he takes off for the week
end whenever he can.
One of our local - mer
chants has a method for de
tecting economic recession
that is sure fire, and just
can't fail, so he says.
AU you have to do it
keep an eye on the maca
roni market. When timet
are good, he says, everyone
eats well. But when the
pockeibook starts to pinch,
then noodle sales go up.
Perhaps the M-T should
start quoting fluctuations in
spaghetti along with the ,
Dow-Jones slock averages.
The 1960 National Rooster
Crow in Rogue River last
week is history now, but we
noted this comment from the
Salem Capital Journal by Vie
Fryer, after reviewing back
ground and the contest's out
come: "There was no report on
the disposition of the winners
but for the sake of posterity
(human posterity), let's hope
that the rules specified that
all roosters that crowed more
than once would be consigned
to a pot of chicken and dum
plings and that all roosters
that refused to crow be re
turned to their flocks for
the sake of chicken pos
terity." Whenever there Is a hu
man element, there will be
what are called "boo-boos."
Such was the case one
afternoon last week at the
Oregon Shakespearean Fes
tival rehearsal when a
usually stately actress con
vulsed the whole Festival
cast with a classic.
Shakespeare wrote the -.
line: "Forward men to the '
bridal dinner!"
But before a full stag
of companion actors and a
scattered audience, the
line came out: "Forward
men to the bridal chamber!"
The Festival opens July
25. We're waiting to see
how it comes out then.
That 18-month-old sure had
a rough week!
He fell down concrete steps,
rooting his nose in the dirt;
later the same day fell in the
driveway, rooting his nose
again; the next day fell
against the coffee table, al
most swelling one eye shut
and partially blackening it;
and the next day put his
chubby little hand on a warm
stove burner, searing the
skin.
For a while he looked like
he had Ingo fever.
One consolation: he sleeps
all night.
Which reminds us that
not long ago ihe younger
set of another staff mem
ber's family fell out of a
highchair, knocking him
self out.
That resulted in an ob
servation trip to the hospi
tal, some anxious moments
(as is true in any young
family), and a heartwarm
ing smile before the tears
were dry.
College students are re
puted for not having any
money. Whether this is true
of two vacationing in the val
ley this summer we don t
know.
Anyway, they had a rather
tasty dinner tor just 25 cents
the other night, although we
can't condone the possible
moral question involved.
It took a package of dried
soup mix, and a trip to the
local butcher. The latter re
ceived the sad story of how
the students had adopted a
stray cocker spaniel-Labrador
retriever puppy, who indeed
was just dying for a nice
juicy bone (preferably a soup
bone, but they didn t tell the
butcher that).
Sure enough, that evening
they had 25 cents worth of
the best tasting soup in the
valley, they say. And they
had a couple of quarts left
over for lunches.
(If they boil It down even
further, they might have a
very ritzy cold consume.)
HOTTER THAN HADES
San Bernardino, Calif.-flHTJ-When
the temperature reach"
ed 104 degrees here, the Rev.
Fred Hays posted the follow
ing sign on the bulletin board
in front of St. Paul's Method
ist church:
"So you think it's hot
here!"
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