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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. AUGUST 25, 1960 "Everyone In Southern Orefoa nai me miu xriDune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-6141 ROBFRT W RTTHL,. Kdltor HERB GREY Adveitising Mintgtr GERAXD T LATHAM But. MgT. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mnf Editor ftHL, n AUAms, Jiiy bailor HARRY CHrPMAN. Telee Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women! Editor hale cmuKaoN, circulation Mgr An Independent Newanaoer Entered as second class matter at AieatoTd. oreron, under Act of March 3, U97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 415 00 Dally and Sunday 8 moi 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi. 4.39 Sunday Only One year 54.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rome Riv. er, Talent and on motor routes. DalJy and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo l.BO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City of MeYforT Official Paper of Jackson Cejwtv United Press International Full Leased Wire P.P.I. Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT BITnEAtT OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of flees In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louts. At lanta, Vancouver. B.C. MIWSPAPEt PMILISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fins et Tht Mail Trlbunt 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 19S0 (Friday) . Preliminary work on a new bridge across the Rogue river at TouVelle State park may tlart this fall, according to county officials. . ... , The First Presbyterian church in Ashland will cele brate its Diamond Jubilee on Saturday, Aug. 26.. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 25, 1940 (Sunday) The registration of aliens In the Medford area has been postponed, according to Post master Frank DcSouza, be cause registration blanks have not yet been received.v. From Arthur Perry.' "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Edi torial opinion seems to agree that when Wendell Willkie . is in the White House, it won't be like playing a slot-machine, trying to catch the First Lady of the Land at home." 30 YEARS AGO , Aug. 25, 1930 (Tutsday) , ' Plans have been approved for Copco to erect a power plant on the Klamath river. The local Lions club is setting as its goal a plan to ! provide a park on top of Roxy ; Ann. ' , . . 40 YEARS AGO ' Aug. 25, 1920 (Wednesday) ' Surfacing of the Pacific highway between Gold Hill and Rogue River is progress ing ahead of schedule. - Public schools here will open Monday, but students will be released for orchard work if they are needed. 50 YEARS AGO . Aug. 25. 1910 (Thursday) ' ' Ashland is out of danger from a forest fire today, but another fire has sprung up near Prospect, and is threat ening to engulf that little com munity. Forest fires in Jackson coun ty during the past week have done more than $2,'i million In damage with much more to be done before they are brought under control. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or Ian aarract la auoarfor: svan or eight it excellent; fjva or lis la good. 1. Pure water is never hard water; true or false? 2. Name tht capital of Nor way. . 3. Molten rock erupted by a volcano is called guava, Java or lava? 4. What is the minimum age requirement to qualify for the U. S. presidency? 5. Do the human body ol factory organs control the sense of touch, hearing, or smell? 6. Are drone bees hatched from unfertilized eggs? 7. Docs salt lose its flavor If stored for many years? 8. In 1800 did Spain con clude a treaty passing the property and sovereignty or Louisiana to France or to the U. S.? : : 9. Excise taxes are levied upon individuals, upon corpor ations, upon real property, or upon commodities? 10. Name the author of the book "The Good Earth." Answers! 1. Trua. 2. Oslo. 3. Lara. 4. Thirty-fir yaara. 5. Sons of amoll. I. Yaa. 7. No. 8. Franc, t. Commodities. lO.Potrl S. Buck, , - rsrx On ; Bearing In the little town of ister of the Gospel has trate s court and charged The crime? He had quoted a document which is falsely described as the Knights gree oath. When it was tne ' oath has been proven, time alter time, to be a libelous falsehood, he still refused to retract it for reasons best known to him. -.., THE only reason we mention this is the sad fact that this vicious, slanderous and untrue "oath" is now in circulation, limited we hope, in the Medford area. We have seen a duplicated copy. There are only two sorts of people who would circulate such a libelous document: L". Those who are incredibly naive and, per haps, somewhat bigoted to begin with; and 2. Those who, for whatever motive, would "bear false witness" against their neighbors. MO ONE now knows how the "oath" originated. ' Presumably it was dreamed up by a depraved and vicious, mind. But it has been kicking around, in one form or another since about 1912. Usually it is passed, surruptitiously, from hand to hand, or distributed in anti-Catholic meetings. cut in 1928 it was the Presidential campaign in which Al Smith," a Catholic, was a candidate. And it is being re vived again this year, when Sen. John F. Ken nedy, a Catholic (and its a sad commentary on America in 19bU that, througoT stupidity deliberate maiioe, the dirtiest form of lie would be used to blacken, not only one man, but sev eral hundred thousand of our countrymen. "WER the years a number of people have been fined, or jailed, or both, for printing and circulating the untrue and libelous document, The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic men's organization, has pressed tions (and quite rightly), and in other instances, by pointing out the falsity of the "oath", have obtained retractions, and promises to desist from its publication. If necessary, it will continue to do so. But let us htjpe that sanity will prevail, and that those who are responsible for its circulation in Jackson county will. prosecutions become necessary. , THERE'S one odd thing about this false -f'oath." T.i wir.ni- ,..w.,. ; i ; , .i.i :t 1 i j j.u must, .moca, wucie it la (juuusutu auu U1S- tributed, it has the phrase "From the Congression al Record" attached to iL , . . ; . ... This is true ithas appeared in the Congres sional Record. wnac is inu J. reported is that it was printed in the Record as an example of a false, vicious and libelous document, after a study of its origin by a Congressional committee way back in 1913. !' It has also been proven false in many courts of law, and by detailed investigations conducted by high-ranking Masonic committees, and groups of Protestant churchmen. IN 1928, the. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in an edi- fnrinl nn tVio r)!eAinrl!fr.rl "nofV, ". ooiJ " "The. oath is so vile and contains pledges of such malignant hatred and murderous intent, that no cit izen with a spark of decency would charge it against any other citizen. It is the product of a gangrened brain and is utterly unfit for publication. Several clergy men who read the oath publicly and several publish ers who printed It were convicted of criminal libel. The Knights of Columbus have offered from time to time rewards of from $5,000 to $25,000 for one lota of proof that any oath of this kind has ever been in the records of the organization or ever used in Its . ritual." . The reward has never been claimed. ' A ND, finally, the Supreme Court of the state of Oklahoma, in sustaining the conviction for criminal libel of a man for having printed the "oath,", had this to say: "It Is remarkable that In this country, whert freedom of conscience in religious matters was on of the chief basic doctrines upon which the govern ment was founded, people who hold themselves forth as possessing even ordinary intelligence would in dulge in this character of criminal conduct. "There are few, if any, intelligent people who can be duped by that class of writers who indulge in these vilifications and mis-representations of those who hap pen to disagree with them In church or fraternal matters ... "The charge that members of an honorable or ganization, .secret, religious or otherwise, subscribe to such an oath as that complained of or the doctrines alleged Is" not tolerable, and Is not permitted by law . . . The law is intended to, and does, protect the self respecting law-abiding citizen against calumnies, whether made against nn individual specifically, or class' of Individuals collectively . . ." ""THE Knights of Columbus fourth degree ob- ligation, the REAL one, follows: "I swear to support the Constitution of the United States. I pledge myself, as a Catholic citizen and a - Knight of Columbus, fully td enlighten myself upon my duties as a citizen and conscientiously perform them entirely in the interest of my country, regard less of all personal consequences. 1 pledge myself to do all in my power to preserve the Integrity and purity of the ballot nnd to promote respect for law and order. I promise to practice my religion con sistently and faithfully, and to so conduct myself in , public affairs and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon our Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory of God." This is an obligation which does, credit to the man subscribing to it. . There are, God knows, already enough causes of conflict political, religious and other in this nation of ours. . . , Let's keep lies, libels, and vicious falsehoods out of it E.A.. . False Witness West View, Pa., a min been haled into magis with criminal libel. of Columbus fourth de pointed out to him that widely circulated durine a K.C.), is a candidate. or unthinking hate or some of these prosecu stop it before criminal Dennis the I NO WACAnaes'l ;,;jP . ! fx Tar 'THE TV ISN'T BROKEN, SONNy.V&U HAVE 70 PUT IN A QUAPTef?. BUT nor r O'CLOCK IH THE JWNINGr Matter of Fact A CHINESE-RUSSIAN BREAK? Washington According to persistent reports from MoS' cow, the Central Committee of the Soviet C o m m unist Party has been circulat ing, a highly explosive special letter on R u s s ian Chinese rela tions to all party organ' izations, both at home and abroad. The reports, though not ab solutely confirmed, are re garded as reliable. One of them compares the Central Committee's new encyclical to the famous letter of the Cen tral Committee, passing on the news of Nikita S. Khrush chev's secret speech denounc ing Josef Stalin; Most, thougn not all, of the reports agree that the new encyclical was sent as a re sult of the Bucharest meeting, which aired the bitter though somewhat mysterious Sino Soviet ideological dispute about the possibilities of peaceful co-existence. If this is correct, the circular must have been approved by the meeting of the Soviet Central Committee just subsequent to the meeting in Bucharest. On this assumption, the sending of the circular was not a recent event. Yet the mere news of Its existence has caused a perceptible in crease in expert speculation about an eventual open rup ture between Peking and Moscow. IN the words of one expert, "the volcano has been rumbling horribly for some months." The news of the circular letter from the So viet Central Committee is like the sudden sight of smoke belching from the crater. In the circumstances, the pos sibility of an actual eruption really has to be thought about. The volcano's rumblings, It must be added, have been distinctly more ominous than has yet been realized by all but a few people here. Con sider the all but incredible, hitherto unpubllcized ex change that took place on Aug. 13 between the official Izvestia in Moscow and the equally official "P o p 1 e's Daily" in Peking. Not much wisdom is needed," "Isvestia" trumpet ed, "to assemble and some times distort quotations and to repeat over and over again that imperialist wars are in evitable until socialism tri- umps . . . Such people . . . Lenin called 'leftist' phrase mongers. Lenin ridiculed their theories of prohibiting the Soviet peaceful relations with capltalis countries and steoDing un' revolutions. "Therefore, for those who HI OSKPB ALSOP Try and Stop Me -ly BENNETT CERF A PAUNCHY GRADUATE was sitting in the foyer of the Harvard club when the author of a current non-fiction best seller asked to be introduced. Naturally, the grad was flattered, but felt com pelled to ask, "Are yow sure you're not mistaking mo for someone else?" "You'r th fellow I want, all right," the fa mous author assured him. "For three afternoons in succession now I've seen you sound asleep in that chair with a copy of my new book open on your lap. What's it worth to yon to switoh to som Uutitf !?" o " JMtn Dotr hM rwrtrtfl n atorr of Um urn tn Rye who bought a million 190T catondoro tor penny apiec. "What on earth aro yosi fotof a do wNh fenf ho wu uked. "It'i rather a long duHusav" b idmitttrl, "-bat. eh be sf arm 1A5T come bock, I'D Menace By Joseph Aliop wish to (replace) the develop ing, living teachers of Marx ism-Leninism with a dead dogma, it is a blasphemy to reler to Lenin. T ike the blast from "Inves tla," the counter-blast of the "People's Daily" is full of words and phrases in un explained quotation marks. These words and phrases should probably be interpret ed as actual quotations from the Soviet Central Committee circular. If so, the Soviets must have been very sharp indeed, as can be seen from the following "People's Daily" passage: "As for the modern revis ionists and their followers who have gone so far as to take their cue from the U. S. imperialists in vociferously affirming the slander that China is 'belligerent,' that it 'wants war,' that it 'does not want peaceful co-existence,' (but) attempts to 'push for ward the world revolution by means of war' - all this amounts to nothing else than throwing themselves into the position of apologists for im perialism . . . "The 'Chinese people hold all this blasphemous talk in contempt!" Each side, then, has openly called the other "blasphem ous." It is now pretty well es tablished, moreover, . that the Soviets at least ordered a symbolic withdrawal of Rus sian technicians from China some time before this brisk exchange of charges of blas phemy. THE evidence on this point is now so strong that the burden of proof plainly lies on the minority of experts who still hold that no techni cians were withdrawn. At least two Western embassies in Peking have sent unquali fied reports of organized de partures of large groups of Soviet technical personnel. One such report, rated as en tirely reliable by the sender, spoke of a whole trninload of 200 to 300 Russian techni cians and their families. This was an extraordinary person nel movement, quite different from the ordinary, piecemeal movement that would be pro duced by the completion of a project. There hav been other strange signs, loo One such, exclusively reported in the New York Herald Tribune, was the suppression in me Soviet Union of the two Sino Soviet magazines, "Friend ship," and "China." Another sign, not previously disclosed, was the non-appearance of the Chinese delegation at the im portant Congress of Oriental ists which began in Moscow about ten days ago. Such are the collected signs. Each man may reaa them as he chooses. (c) 1960 Now York Herald Tribun Inc. Tokyo Observers Discount Importance Of 'Rift' Reports on By CHARLES R. SMITH Tokyo -IUPD- Forget all this talk about a rift between Rus sia and Communist China. It just isn't so-yet. That's the studied opinion of some of the most informed observers of Communist China and of Sino-Russian re lations. Disagreement, yes. But a se rious rift, no. Even the disagreements that arise occasionally-or per haps frequently-probably are no more serious than the dis agreements that occur fre quently between the United States and some of her closest allies, such as Great Britain. The dispute between the two countries over the inter pretation of Marxist- Leninist dogma bears some signifi cance and may be the seeds for future serious disagree ments. But at the present time it is not nearly so important as some Western quarters have appeared to make it, ac cording to some students of Sino-Soviet affairs here. Today fir Tomorrow By Walter THE U.N. AND MOSCOW The overriding problem in the Congo is nowhere near a solution but one thing about it is becoming much clearer. It is that the problem is in soluble unless both Washing ton and Mos cow will sup port the U.N. For the U.N. is engaged in the extremely of trying to Walter Llopmaim delicate task maintain law and order in the whole country without parti cipating in the civil conflict between separate parts of it -between Lumumba's central government at Leopoldville and Tshombe's dissident gov ernment in Katanga. This task cannot be carried out as long as either of the Congolese factions believes it can appeal over the head of the U.N. mission - Lumumba to the Soviet Union, Tshombe to Belgium and NATO and the United States. With the support of Great Britain and the United States Mr. Ham marskjold has been success ful in cutting off Tshombe's right of appeal to Belgium and NATO. The Belgian troops will be out of the Con go in a few days. But Lumum ba's appeals to Moscow have not been cut off. Indeed, within cautious limits, they have been encouraged. And as long as Lumumba can ap peal against the U.N. to Mos cow, the authority of the U.N. is gravely impaired. WE DO NOT know for cer tain what are the inten tions of the Soviet Union in the Congo. It may be that they will encourage Lumum ba to go the whole way. This would be to order the U.N. to withdraw. If Lumumba did this, the legal basis for the U.N. presence would disap pear. The Soviet Union could, we must assume, supply Lu mumba's government with technical aid and supplies in cluding arms which might en able Lumumba to muddle along In that part of the Con go where he has some sem blance of authority. But the Soviet Union could not send troops into the Congo to sup plant the U.N. troops, much less to conquer Katanga prov ince for Lumumba. That would be wholly unaccept able, and it would involve the Soviet Union in a dangerous military entanglement in the Congo and with the rest of us. It may be, as against this, that the Soviet Union will go no further than to keep the pot boiling, making it very difficult for the U.N. to suc ceed but not compelling it to fail. The profit of such a policy would be to make Mos cow appear as the champion of African racism, of which Lumumba is a conspicuous apostle, and at the same time to downgrade the prestige of the United Nations. The Uni ted Nations, though it is a scrupulously neutral organi zation, is unavoidably West ern in its fundamental con ception of international and constitutional law. The dis advantages of such a policy would be to identify the So viet Union with an African racist, and to downgrade the U.N. which so much of Africa and Asia must look to for leadership and help. The Soviet policy lies some where between the first hy pothesis, which is tomove in and take over the Congo, and the second hypothesis, which is to conduct a spoiling oper ation. .,... IN ALL that has been said about tht collapse of the summit, tht question to which j I The reported mass exodus of Russian techniques from Communist China may or may not be true and it may bear some significance. But to at tach great significance to it and interpret it as a sign of a widening rift between the two Communist giants is going too far afield. Some reports say the Com munist Chinese are getting ready to challenge the Rus sians for the leadership of the Communist bloc. But there are few firm signs to back up this speculation. There is lit tle doubt anywhere that the Chinese would dearly love to take over the leadership of the Communist block and that some day they may try it. But today is not the day. The con sidered opinion of some of the closest observers of the China scene here is that this day still is far off. In fact, hardly a day passes that Communist China does not publicly concede the So viet Union the position of leadership. "The East wind continues Lippmann we most need the answer is how much the high policy of the Soviet Union has turned against the kind of co-existence which prevailed in the year before the summit meet ing was to take place. For a year or more before May 15 Moscow, while re nouncing nothing of its ap peal to the people in the old colonial empire, was patient with and tolerant of the diffi culties of the transition from colonialism. This was con spicuously the case in Mr. K's abstentation from the Alger ian conflict and in his moral support of Gen. de Gaulle's policy. But it was also true that in the other disturbed parts of Africa, the tempo of the Soviet propaganda and infiltration was moderate. Since the summit crisis in May the tempo has been greatly increased in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The Soviet Union, with China playing some part, is now in stigating by all means short of war uprisings against West ern, and particularly against United States, influence. WE ARE faced with the fact, which no serious per son can deny, that our own power to hold and to gain influence is doclming as com pared with the Soviets. How to restore our power and in fluence is the para mount question before the country. It is such a momentous question that we cannot af ford to let it become confused and fudged in the campaign. But it does become confused and fudged when we pretend that American power and in fluence can be restored by de bating with the Russians. It cannot be restored by making speeches, and those who re gard the problem of standing up to the Russians as stand ing up to them in a debate do not understand the problem of standing up to the Russians. The real problem, as the affair of the Congo illustrates, is to achieve enough power and influence in the world to induce and to push the Soviet Union into overcoming the rupture of diplomatic rela tions and to restore the com munications which were broken off last May. For the world is too dangerous a place if there is no communication among the great powers. c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Foresters To Train Military Personnel Portland (UPD Forty-three foresters from the Pacific northwest will be transferred to California this week to train military personnel in firefighting, the regional of fice of the forest service said here Wednesday. Clarence Edgington of the forest service said the men, from 11 national forests in the northwest, would be sent to the Mendocino forest near Ukiah and the Sequoia forest near Bakersfield. Edgir.. ,n said they will be used to train military personnel who are on "standby" to fight forest fires during the critical Cali fornia fire situation. Edgington said the men would remain in California until Sept. 10, and would be joined by other firefighting specialists from the two east ern regions of the forest serv ice. FOREIGN FILM Ashland-'The Rocket From Calabuch." starring Edmund Gwenn, will be shown at the Varsity theater in Ashland as part of the foreign film se ries, "Festival Matinee-Curtain at Two." The film will be shown it 3 p.m. Friday. Russia and to prevail over the West wind and the forces of peace over the forces of war," Red China broadcasts blair out almost daily, "and the Socialist bloc under the leadership of the mighty Soviet Union is smash ing the imperialists, led by the United States, at every turn.'J'' Occasional Russian Slurs There is no doubt that the Communist Chinese leaders are perturbed-if not angered by occasional Russian slurs on their efforts to communize China, particularly such digs as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's reference to the controversial people's com munes as "old fashioned." But such things as this are not likely to drive a wedge between two such powerful nations who need each other as much as the Russians and Chinese need each other. There is little likelihood in the near future of Russia turning on China or China turning on Russia as they both have on the Yugoslav "re visionists" In spite of their basic disagreements. They In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The U. S. Health Service has announced grants to two Oregon communities to help pay for sewage disposal proj ects. The communities are Nyssa, in far Eastern Oregon, and Woodburn, in the Willa mette valley. The Nyssa grant is for $42,- 500, and the estimated cost of the project for which the federal grant is made is $141, 840. The Woodburn grant is for $18,090, and the estimated cost of the project is $60,300. The federal grants in aid amount to about a third of the estimated total cost. IT SOUNDS wonderful, doesn't it? Kind old Uncle Sam coming to the aid of his nephews and nieces out in Oregon and helping them to pay for needed fapilities to make their towns healthier and happier and more mod ern. And . It WOULD be wonderful if Nyssa and Woodburn were the only towns in the U.S.A. receiving such favors. In that event, the whole contribution from Uncle would come for free. It would be manna from the Washington heaven. BUT Unfortunately It Isn't quite that simple. Other towns in the U.S.A. want sewage disposal plants and such. They too go after Uncle for a gift. And . . . having set the precedent . . . Uncle has to come across. Over the long pull, this is the way it works out: While everybody else will have to help Nyssa and Wood burn pay for their sewage disposal plants NYSSA AND WOODBURN WILL HAVE TO HELP EVERYBODY ELSE PAY FOR THEIR SEW AGE DISPOSAL PLANTS. It's a case of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Everybody gets his back scratched. But, in the final wind-up, everybody has to do more scratching than if he had scratched his own back in the first place. That's about the long and the short of it. haftd ' M&Uuavjf tmtm km rtw Cwmtiwn PttNX MOMAN . HAOU SNODtHAM, rVNHAl DStKTOM DAY O NIGHT Ask us about tha OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN which wa heartily racommend and tndorso. China need each other too much for that. Certainly, many observer here believe, this is not likely to happen before American recognition of the Peiping regime. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a Sen name or initial for publica on if Dermisslble. The Mail Tribur reserves the right to edit ah tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submittea for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Thii Is "Trepidation"? To the Editor: After hark, ening to Mr. Walters' column on letter writers, I find my. self embarking on an epistle anent the 'improvement' of Hyatt lake with some trepida tion. Mention is made of the snags, which now, sayeth E.A. ". . . mar the beauty, utility and safety of the lake . . . " Such opinion is ot necessarily a matter of gospel truth. Utility? I've been fishing Hyatt lake for night unto 30 years, and from the first visit to the last, I can recall no oc casion when any or all the snags in any way interfered with my pleasure. I suggest that before E.A. makes such statement, he confer with an old bass fisherman or three about where the bass best like to hang out. Safety? Whose safety? It is true that the power-boat idiots might find themselves some what discommoded at Hyatt; I suppose it is possible that a high wind might fetch down a limb, or even topple a snag. But I can't believe that the an swer to traffic accidents or in advertent electrocution is to junk all the automobiles or chop down all the unsightly power poles. The plea is made to pre serve some of nature un spoiled, and then, out of tha other side of the selfsame, mouth, comes the comment that: 'the state game commis sion is actively interested in the (Hyatt) lake'. Well, so am I, Mr. E.A. So are many, many fisherman, who were introduced to fish ing via the prolific, easily. caught, good-eating crappie. Bluegill are no better suited to such waters than are crap, pie. They are more finicky as to bait, are harder to catch, and if not fished vigorously, have exactly the same capa bilities of cluttering the laka with jillions of stunted fish, which in their turn will prob ably be condemned as trash, and possibly be replaced with something as practical as Sia mese Fighting fish or Conger eels. Howard Prairie lake still af fords much opportunity for the combers and curriers and viewers-with-repugnance. Leave us uncurried slobs have our crappie fishing, our elbow room to take a small boy out where he can be prac tically assured of catching a fish which makes a tremen dous difference to small boys, I assure you, in case you ve forgotten and please, let's have just one small puddle where some durn fool won t come roaring up in a cabin cruiser with 70 horses on the stern, haul to a boiling, bank washing halt atop your bob ber, and bawl with comradely enthusiasm, Having any luck?" Verne Athanas 81 Alida ave. Ashland, Ore. HONf J 2-0