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Medford and Jaekton County
History from the fllei of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vearl ago.
10 YEARS AGO
fum. 13. 1950 (Wednesday)
The city council last night
cleared the way lor construc
tion of a multi-storied apart
ment house at Oakdale ave.
and 10th St., when It passed
an amendment to the zoning
ordinance regulating the
height of buildings.
""Theodore A. Penland, 101,
last commander In chief of
the Grand Army of the Re
public died in a Vancouver
hospital today.
U.S. "Anti-Clericalism "
A word which is little known, and even less
understood, in the United States is "anti- clerical
ism."
It is well-known in Europe, and particularly
in countries such as France which are preponder
antly Catholic, but in which the Catholic church
has little influence on governmental policies and
operations.
"Anti-clericalism" is used to describe the
feelings of Catholics and non-Catholics alike that
the church hierarchy had best not meddle in the
affairs of government, nor wield too much in
fluence outside its own realm of faith and morals.
SOME of Europe's most distinguished statesmen
c v m wcu uuwi guuu VCll'lJISilV.eS ai ill CLliW"
clerical" in their viewpoint. Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, president of France, is a good example.
Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of the Federal Re
public of Germany, is another.
No one could maintain successfully that either
de Gaulle or Adenauer is unduly influenced by
the Vatican, in governmental matters.
But it is being argued in this country, forcibly,
that because Sen. John F. Kennedy is a Catholic
he could not be true to his oath of office to sup
port the Constitution of the U.S., if elected.
e
"NE Washington correspondent, a long-time
observer of politics and politicians, puts it
tnis way:
"In the European political definition of the phrase,
Kennedy is an 'anti-clerical.' This does not mean that
he is not a good Catholic; he is a Catholic who believes
in the separation of Church and State, or as the dic
tionary puts it, one who would soft-pedal 'the in
fluence of the Roman Catholic clergy in public affairs.'
"Reporters have seen Instances of this, and it's on
, the record. On all the trick questions birth control,
parochial school aid, personal conscience Kennedy
has given a categorical reply.
"This reporter recalls one incident on a rainy even
ing last May, in a political rally at Portland Uni
versity (Oregon), a Catholic college. Answering a heck
ler on his religion, Kennedy firmly declared that the
Pope would never try (and In any event could not if he
did) to come between him and his Constitutional oath
for separation of Church and State, which, he reminded
his questioner, he would take on a Bible to God. The
undergraduates cheered this impressive reply, which
made all the more conspicuous the silence of a group
of nuns in the audience and the bank of faculty priests
on the platform, who probably didn't want to get out
on such dangerous ground.
"American voters have a right to vote for, or
against, Kennedy for his religion, but it might be
wise to understand the distinctions in the matter."
Dennis the Menace
IT SO happens that we are strongly at odds with
fVlA "nfflliol" fi!t!n. nf Dnmnv. f"n.Vi n It.
church on a numoer of issues.
These include the insistence that Catholic
20 YEARS AGO
s.pt. 13, 1940 (Ftiday) 1 families must send their children to Darochial
col. uoraon vouri... '". ., ... ,. , . .., .
suuuuis, Miai iJaiuciuai scnuuia tniuuiu receive
rjubhc financial surmort. that birth control is un
natural and immoral, that filmB and books which
are condemned by the Legion of Decency should
be banned, and so on.
These, we believe, are legitimate matters of
"faith and morals" in which the church is en
titled to state its own position, but in which it
West Point graduate, World
and Spanish-American war
veteran, pioneer valley or-
chardist and one of the most
distinguished residents of the
state, died early this morning
at his home here.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Many
of the 1941 autos have no
running boards. This reduces
the 'wind friction' and leaves
the driver no place to sit
down and hold hia head, after
. hitting the phone pole."
30 YEARS AGO . '
Sept. 13, 1930 (Saturday)
: Scores of Communist were
arrested in Portland during
the week end and face trial
under the Syndicalism law.
Deer season opens Monday
and local hunters are ready.
'Wanna hear us sound like a whoie
GANG Of IN0lANS,AAR.vVltSON?'
Washington Report
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 13, 1930 (Monday)
Jacksonville students will
attend Medford High school,
owing to the inability of the
school board to hire compe
tent Instructors.
The Army aviation base
here will be abandoned Sept.
25.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 13, 1910 (Tueiday)
j The U.S. department of soil
aurvey has assigned six addi
tional soil experts to the
Rogue River valley to help
complete an exhaustive soil
survey of the valley during
the fall and winter months.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ar ten correct It lupetleti
even ar eleht la eicallenl; five ar
ill la good.
. 1. In what mountain! did
Rip van Winkle have his long
lumber?
2. What island in the Arc
tic region is famous for its
hot springs?
; 3. What word is used to In
fllcate the moisture content of
the atmosphere?
4. Name the two Tudor
Queens of England.
S. Whom did Moses appoint
Commander-in-Chief of his
army?
6. What was the name of
the bird that became extinct
because it was too dumb to
Hve?
7. whose sweetheart was
Ann Rutledgc?
8. Indian chief Pontiac or
ganized his "conspiracy" in II
linois, Pennsylvania, Michi
gan or Ohio?
0. "Charity to all, beaming
no malice or Ill-will to any hu
man being." Did Lincoln, J.
Q. Adams, or Garfield state
tills?
10. A Chief Justice of the
U. S. Supreme Court was
nicknamed "Silver Heels."
Who was he? .
Answarsi 1. Catsklllt, 1.
Iceland. 3, Humidity. 4. Mary
and Elisabeth. 5. Joab. I.
Dodo. 7. Abraham Lincoln. I.
Michigan. 9. J. O. Adams. 10.
John Marshall.
LODGE AN ASSET
Washington - The extra
ordinary and unwilling
thought is being borne in
upon the
pro fessional
p o 1 i t icians
that maybe
they know a
little about
politics up at
the United
Nations, too.
The patrician
Whit ' Lodge, the
Republican vice - presidential
candidate, is turning out to
be a distinct plus for the
G.O.P. And this is not mere
ly because as our U.N. am
bassador he had nearly eight
years of telling off the Rus
sians before television.
He is showing he knows
how to mix it with all. kinds
of people having all kinds of
attitudes, from Coney Island
to Back Bay in Boston - and
how to get away with it,
broad-A accent and all.
To the hard handed (and
hard-headed) old Republican
pros it is all astonishing. It is
as though their startled eyes
had suddenly fallen upon an
incredible spectacle in which
the most sheltered of all boys
In the fanciest of all Lord
Fauntleroy suits had suddenly
turned upon the other side of
town and was cheerfully
must not be permitted to dictate to those of other knocking down the toughest
faiths, or those of none.
DUT we do not believe it follows that a con
scientious Catholic candidate would submit
to any dictation from his church on such mat
ters, when they entered the area of government.
Rather, because of the extra burden of respon
sibility which he carries, as a candidate AND as
a Catholic, we believe he would lean over back
ward to avoid any color of succumbing to such
influence.
Discussiori of these questions is legitimate
insofar as they are conducted on a rational, fac
tual, unbigoted manner. Too often, however,
rationality goes out the window when religion is
brought up for discussion.
It is rather odd, however, that all the re
ligious issue" controversy has been aimed at
Kennedy, and little or none at Nixon, for his
Quaker upbringing which now seems to be mod
ified by attendance at Methodist and Congrega
tional churches.
Be that as it may, we continue to believe that
in the campaign of 10 religion is or should
be an extraneous matter. E.A.
How Much Help for Vets?
Just how representative of-American veterans
are the veterans organizations the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the other
smaller ones?
One measure is that of membership. There
are today an estimated 22,500,000 U.S. living
war veterans. And veterans organization mem
bership totals about 4,000,000 or less than one
fifth.
The figures were brought up by Changing
limes, the Kiphnger magazine, in which the
question is also asked, "Is the veteran who got
out of service unscathed entitled to a lifetime of
help that is denied to non-veterans?"
e
(UR position is, and always has been, that the
nation owes a great debt to veterans who
were disabled in the nation's service, and to the
survivors of those who were killed in service.
To them it owes care, and a decent compen
sation for their sacrifice and their loss.
It also owes a short-term obligation to return
ing veterans in the matter of readiustment and
training an obligation exemplified by the G.I.
Bill of Rights.
Beyond that, service in the armed forces in
time of war is a matter of patriotic performance
of an obligation. It shouldn't be a free meal-ticket
for life, as some veterans groups maintain. We
imiiK uiai mosi veterans wouia agree. &.a.
kids in the neighborhood.
piAB" - as he is not known
except to a few bold
spirits who knew him when,
that is, when he was in the
Senate - is developing into the
most unexpected personal suc
cess of this political year.
When, back at the G.O.P.
convention, Richard M. Nixon
picked Lodge as his running
mate, many crusty Republican
bosses murmured among
themselves in unbelief: "What
has got into Dick?" For when
ever they had thought of
Lodge at all they had pictured
him as doing some doubtless
necessary but surely dull
double-dome Job up there at
the U.N. He was a man with
even , more striped pants in
his closet than those fellows
down at the state department.
It was widely believed that
Nixon had not actually taken
leave of his senses, but that
certainly he had taken a
desperate gamble. Lodge, it
was thought, would be useful,
if at all, only as a rather aloof
figure who had "stood up to
the Russians" In the U.N. but
who would hardly send the
voters in Dubuque or Denver
or Dallas.
A NY notion of Cabot Lodge
" campaigning In a city
slum, before a factory gate or
in a mldwestern corn field
was enough to send the pros
off Into sadly ironic laughter.
The assumption, in short,
was that Nixon had walked
into an enormous calculated
risk; he had accepted a run
ning mate who might lo well
with a relative handful of
foreign policy sophisticates
but would surely contribute
little In that vast stretch run
nlng from the Allcghcnics to
just short of the Pacific Coast.
The old pros were unaware,
however, that here, as In all
other Important political de
cisions, Nixon had not moved
without the advice of his slide
rule. He had made private
soundings before the conven
tion. These had indicated to
him - to the frank astonish
ment of some top Nixon ad
visers - that Lodge would run
vastly better than anybody,
Including Nixon, had thought.
r' WAS discovered that a
very large - and not a com
paratively small - number of
voters was familiar with
Lodge's work in the U N., and
really liked the U.N. What
was not even then unearthed,
however, was that, wholly
apart from foreign matters,
Lodge apparently had a cer
tain political "it" that no
body - least of all Henry
Cabot Lodge - had suspected.
This latter discovery has
only come as Lodge has begun
to amble about the country,
his collar-ad face abeam and
his long frame moving with
equal ease over boardwalk or
country club grounds.
Most Republicans party
workers in the beginning
would have bet 3 to 1 that
Lodge would be active only
in a comparatively restricted
area and only on the "peace"
issue. Otherwise, he was Just
going along for the ride. Now
nobody would bet much that
he won't wind up as the
G.O.P. campaigning terror of
the stockyards - along with
the stock exchange.
In politics you sure never
can tell - can you?
(Copyright, 19B0, by United
Feature Syndicate-, Inc.)
Russians Hit Berlin 'Button' in Cold
War; Disagreements Span 10-Year Period
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
In a push-button cold war,
the Soviets apparently have
punched the button labelled
"Berlin.'
The heat is
on the divided
city again in
a move which
seems more
than coinci
dental t i fri
ed with Niklta
K h rushchev
ni-i-liral In. th.
phil neu'so.m ope nlng ses
sion of the United Nations
General Assembly in New
York.
Berlin is one of the oldest
of the cold war problems.
When Khrushchev step
ashore from the Soviet ship
Baltika in New York next
week, it will be almost a year
to the day since his last U.N
appearance in which he de
manded ."general and com
p 1 e t e disarmament" within
four years.
It was also in September of
last year, during a temporary
cold war thaw, that President
Eisenhower and Khrushchev
announced in a joint commu
nique they had agreed to re
open negotiations on Berlin
'with a view to achieving
solution ... in the interest of
the maintenance of peace.'
Into the Freezer
That hope went back into
the deep freeze at Paris last
May.
September anniversaries on
the Berlin question go back at
least 10 years,
On Sept. 14, 19S0, the Unit
ed States, Britain and France
found it necessary to warn the
Soviet Union that they would
"treat any attack against the
Federal Republic (of West
Germany) or Berlin from any
quarter as an attack upon
themselves
On Sept. 20, 1955, the So
viets announced they were
granting "sovereignty" to
East Germany and turning
over to the East Germans con
trol of traffic to and from
West Berlin, except for U.S
British and French military
personnel and freight.
Pattern Establishad
The 1950 and 1955 dates es-
M after of Fact y josPh Aiiop
THE POLITICAL DOUBLE trot, and the more and more
STANDARD contemptuous Kremlin prob-
Washington - Among thejing. And the same causes can
reasons for choosing Costa ; also be counted on, alas, to
Rica for the recent meeting produce other, equally dam-
of the Organ-1 aging situations later on.
In Brazil, for instance, it is
entirely possible that the elec
tion there will soon install
another Castro - like govern
ment, in another Latin Amer
ican country more remote but
vastly more important than
Cuba. But there is no use
enumerating all the danger
spots. They now exist in every
strategically significant region
if y
1 ization of Am
erican States,
there was one
reason which
was as ugly as
it was grimly
revealing.
The Ameri
can policy
makers con
Joseph alsoF eluded that
Costa Rica was the only Carib
bean country the secretary of
State of the United States
could visit, except under the
heaviest armed guard, with
out serious risk of being mob
bed, spat upon, stoned or oth
erwise endangered or humili
ated. All the other possible coun
tries were either politically
unsuitable, like the Domini
can Republic. Or their govern
ments were unable or unwill
ing to control the Communists
and non - Communist sympa
thizers with Fidel Castro, who
were organizing to protect the
attempt to discipline Cuba at
the OAS meeting.
mUESE fads will no doubt
be denied in mis election
year, Just as some of the more
unpleasant facts concerning
the Japanese disinvitation of
President Eisenhower were de
nied. But they are facts, none
theless. They give a fair meas
ure of the progressive decline
of American and western
prestige, the spreading rot in
foreign areas of key import
ance to this country and the
West, and the increasing con
tempt for the United States
that is being displayed by the
Kremlin, in the form of bold
er and bolder probing and
trouble-making.
Wise and realistic men. even
within the Eisenhower admin
istration, now agree that the
three parallel processes above
listed are reaching an acutely
critical stage. The crisis is not
advertised as such, because
it is widespread and seeming
ly disjointed. The news froii
Cuba is not connected with
the news from Laos. The ap
palling news from the Congo
is not connected with the in
tensely disturbing news from
Berlin.
IN REALITY, however, there
are close connections be
tween the expulsion of the
pro-American government in
Laos, the establishment of a
pro-Communist government in
Cuba, the catastrophe that
seems to impend in Leopold
villc, and the arrogant East
German threat to free Berlin.
All arc part of the same pat
tern. All are ultimately trace
able to the American and
western decline, the spreading
of the globe
The fault does not lie with
Allen W. Dulles and his Cen
tral Intelligence agency. No
secret service can operate as
an effective substitute for
forceful national policy, which
is what the CIA has been ex
pected to do
mHE fault does not lie, ei
ther, with Secretary of
State Christian R. Herter. The
chickens of the earlier years
are simply coming home to
roost on the unlucky Herter's
shoulders. Although the chick
ens all look like vultures,
they are not of Herter's breeding.
They were bred, to begin
with, by the complacent and
Inadequate defense policies of
the Eisenhower administra
tion, persistently pursued
since 1953. Any high school
freshman knows that no ce
plays offensive games with a
boy who is both very strong
and not a bully. The same
rule holds true in the world
as in school.
Add Madison avenue policy
making to 74 years of com
placency about defense. Add
slumberous inactivity in in
ternational fire prevention ex
cept when fires have openly
broken out. You have the
main reasons for the Ameri
can and western decline, with
out which the other two nox
ious processes that are now
at work all over the world
would never have started at
all.
rPHERE is a melancholy con-
A trast. In this resDect. be
tween this election and the
election that brought Presi
dent Elsenhower to power. In
1952, the party then in office
was blamed for every mishap
and misfortune, from the loss
of China downwards. In 1952,
the late John Foster Dulles
even assured the country that
anyone who aid not believe
the U. S. could "liberate" the
nations under the Communist
yoke was an Immoral, passive,
perhaps subversive cynic.
In 1960, however, the few
people who want to face the
facts of our greatly deterior
ated national situation are ac
cused of "selling America
short." By the same token,
wher Alger HUs was used as
tabllshed the pattern which
has been in effect ever since
and is the key to today's de
veloping emergency.
Once again, by interference
with Western traffic to West
Berlin and by demanding spe
cial passes for West Germans
seeking to enter East Berlin,
the Communists are attempt
ing to assert their control over
the entire city.
But there is a difference,
and perhaps a healthy one.
The Allies have reminded
Khrushchev and East Ger
many that they too, can retal.
late. The first step was to im
pose restrictions on East Ger
mans seeking travel to the
West. The next might be a
boycott on goods shipped to
trade-hungry East Germany.
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contrary is often tna cast.
Snafu?
To the Editor: Your issue
of Sept. 1 had a story in
which spokesmen for Elmo
Smith blamed "misinterpreta
tion of election laws" for his
failure to comply with the
deadline for voters' pamphlet
material.
What misinterpretation'
Secretary of State Appling
said he issued five notices to
candidates, the last on July
29, warning that the deadline
was 5 p.m., Aug. 29. This
seems a simple enough in
struction.
Smith's decision to go into
court to make up for his snafu
leads to only one conclusion
either Elmo Smith or his
Republican Secretary of State
can t count to 70 backwards,
the deadline date specified by
the Nov. 8 election.
Frank Christian
Talent, Ore.
Editor's note: The supreme
court ruled that Smith s ma
terial should be used.
Tha Command to Teach
To the Editor: Having read
some of the letters in regards
to the "preachers itch," we
would like to add more. We
enjoyed Mrs. Wyatt's letter
regard to the command of
Jesus (Matt. 10-8) about freely
receiving and freely giving.
Very few ministers keep
this command due to their
love for money.
We find some are quick to
reject the Bible to collect
tithes due to this money love
Yet, if they hope to be saved
they will be required to keep
the commandments. How
many will reach heaven
since they don't?
It is the duty of each per
son to preach and teach the
Bible. What Jesus said to
those disciples, He said to all,
and to all nations, and every
creature. If we do not warn
others, God will require their
blood at our hands. There is
no respect of persons with the
Lord. So we should uphold
others for teaching God's
word instead of condemning.
We are commanded to ask
God for our wisdom that
way. No one is required to at
tend a college for wisdom,
since men's wisdom is enmity
to God, and just-foolishness to
God. Why?
Because God s words are
spiritually discerned. So the
Holy Ghost is essential since
our natural or carnal minds
are enmity to God, and not
subject to him.
When one has this Holy
Spirit as the Disciples had it,
we need no man teach us, for
this spirit will guide us into
all truth.
So why waste time and
money for men's carnal-mind
ed foolishness a n d preach
contrary to the Bible because
of it?
Each one must keep the
commands and teach ' and
preach the Bible or else be
lost. It is much less embar
rassing to know what the
Bible really says before we
express ourselves.
We are not Jesus friends
even unless we keep his com
mands, and only doing our
duty when we do.
It is impossible to keep the
ommandments and not
preach or teach.
Mrs. G. C. Cunningham
748 Maple st.
Central Point, Ore.
No Dictation
To the Editor: For egocen
tric reasons, or reasons of tre
mendous trifles, some people
will vote for Richard Nixon
for president of the United
States, the same Richard Nix
on who has helped in making
motn-eaten policies for the
last eight years, the policies
that have eaten holes In the
nation's economy.
That man whose only claim
to eminence is his "experi
ence" in bickering with
foreign potentate, whom he
could convince of nothing
The foreign potentate already
knew far more than anything
Nixon could reveal, the whole
thing -staged for home con
sumption.
So Nixon should, they
think, qualify for the presi
dency simply by his effort at
talking down communism, or
by stalking the specter of
communist dictatorship in
government.
While thus Nixon has been
standing in the front door,
high wide and handsome, lev
eling blasts at his apparitions
he has opened the back door
wide to scores of giant merg
ers, combines and super cor
porations headed by virtual
industrial dictators.
Dictators of industry, who
have plowed under the little
fellow, and are in the process
of plowing under, who are in
firm command and not just
an ogre of Nixon's imagina
tion, they have handed down
the decree, and with as much
finality as any dictator in the
world, that you as an em
ployee are through-not to be
hired at the age of 45. They
have dictated you into the In
dustrial ash can. What dicta
tion could touch your life
more devastatingly?
Beyond his narrow scope,
ideas Nixon has none, only his
status quo, with the tide run
ning backward.
Already we have receded to
a point where we need a
Moses to lead.
Kennedy has the wisdom
the sagacity to lead up and
forward, with the support of
the people.
As sure as it is true that no
body wishes to be forcibly rel
egated to the industrial scrap
heap at any age, by anybody s
dictation, they will help turn
the tide with Kennedy.
. Sulen Drangen
417 Lane st.
Yreka, Calif.
Question
To the Editor: In a recent
editorial on the campaign
you say the religious issue Is
false one. Let us see just
how false. What church a can
didate belongs to I see no rea
son to care-save for the one
church which has its supreme
ruler (its Commande r-ln-
chlef, so to speak) in a foreign
country over which the U.S
has no control. May even
have for an enemy some day.
Most Catholics have been
raised from Infancy under
the rules and teachings of
the church. Taught to revere
its priests, bishops, cardinals
and, above all-its Popes. Do
we expect "Smiling Jack" to
disregard his obligations to
his church and allow it no
Influence on his Presidential
acts?
Jack is for federal aid to
public education. What says
his church? "The right of the
Roman Catholic Church in
the teaching of youth comes
before the rights of the
State." - Pope John XXIII,
Scranton Tribune, Dec. 31,
1959. ,
And what of Catholic
church influence on Jack's
legislative, appointive and
military activities? Remem
ber he would be commander-
in-chief of all the military
forces of the U.S.A. "First-
The Roman Catholic is to
wield his vote for the purpose
pretext for the charge that
the whole American govern
ment was riddled with Com
munists, the much more dam-
aging pair of defectors from
the National Security agency
are treated as Just a couple
of mixed-up kids.
. Among respectable and con
servative persons, in short, a
political double standard has
now been accepted, with sin
ister consequences for the na
tional debate. As yet, Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
has not subscribed to this
double standard. Tha most in
teresting unanswered question
of the campaign is whether he
will or will not subscribe to
it.
(c) 19S0. New York Herald
Tribune Inc. i
of securing Catholic ascend
any in this country (U.S.A.).
Second-all legislation must
be governed by the will of
God, unerringly indicated by
the Pope." Father Hecker,
Catholic World.
Of Jack's Senatorial record
I know little. It has not been
so outstanding as to have
come to my attention. Most
voters, I believe, will agree
that his opponent has had
more political experience than
any vice president up to his
time. There is a vast differ
ence between qualities neces
sary for senator and those for
President of the U.S. A boat
man capable of handling a
skiff on the millpond is not
necessarily qualified to pilot
the big U.S. ship of state
through the rough waters that
now surround her.
This is not religious preju
dice. Were I the rankest of
infidels I should be just as
strongly opposed to a Catholic
president. But suppose Jack
ignored the wishes of his
church. Would he be more
loyal to his oath of office
than his church vows? Ques
tion. Jack Finel
3710 Hilsinger Rd.
Medford, Ore.
Editors' note: See comment
in Editorial column.
"It Doesn't Pay"
To the Editor:
Take my advice and read
this,
It's wrote as you will note,
ao mai even you can understand,
So now please don't rock tha
boat.
It's about a thing we should
all know well,
But we never give it much
tnought,
Most of us learn it the hard
way
As we are too stubborn and
don't want to be taught.
Now, an automobile Is a
wonderful thing,
How it runs when we give it
tne gas,
Whether we want it to go
just slow,
Or whether it be quite fast.
But it's just like so many
other things,
It can easily be over done,
We step on the gas when
we are in no hurry,
And we think it's a lot of fun.
Sometimes we think, as wa
see the wrecks
All strewn along the road,
But we forget it again as
we speed along
And we never seem to learn
the code.
But there's an old saying
that all of us know.
'Every dog must have it's
day."
And when our turn comes
and we are In that wreck,
It will be too late, then, to
know it doesn't pay.
John P. Gascon,
Route 1, Box 310-B, .
Central Point, Ore.
Try and Stop Me
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accused of stealing a taxicab. The drunk. hnvw.p. vaa
not a bit worried. Cheerfully he nulled out of We wket a.
card, which he presented
to the lodge. It turned
out to be an advertise
ment of the taxi company
and read, "When you've
imbibed a bit too freely
to drive your own car.
tofce one of ovr cabs."
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