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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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