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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1960 MEBNMtf&SwriiBina "Zveryon tn Southern Oregon Rtar1a Thai Mail Trihtinn thiblithed Dally except Saturday by KinuMvnu r tun lm u uu 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ' - ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager I IfblUVLU T UlTHAM BUS lYlRr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor .' earl H ADAMS, City Editor . HAPRV rUTDMlN Tla FHItnr RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor r OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women'e Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation MgT An Indeoendent NewBDioer ' Sntared second claia matter at '. Medford. Oregon, under Act ox t March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mat) In Advance, Copy I Co Dally and Sunday 1 year Si 5.00 uiny ana Bunaay o mui. o.uu Dally and Sunday 3 mot. 4J8 Sundiv OnJv Ona vear 14.30 By Carrtar In Advance Medford Ainuina, v.tnui ruim o Point. Jackionvflle, Gold Rill Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue Riv er, nitni ana on uiuwr ui". Daily and Sunday 1 vear 918 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo i.oo Carrier and Dealart copy lOo All Terma caan in Aoyanc offfeliTPapar of City of Medforrf on i ciairap r or jacawon "un tTnlted Preia International Full Leased Wire TJ.P.1. Tclephoto Newspjctures "TSEMSEROf AUDlTBUREAtT" OF CIRCULATIONS 'AAfMfHmin r7nii tentative WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chtcago. De- San FrnnctKcn. Las Anffelei: Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At- lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION E0ITORIAI SCT,N JXI TIflfl'liTalBff' Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. High Drama ' Oct. 9. 1850 (Monday) Word has been received here that Marine Pfc. Ken neth A. Mudge, Central Point, died of wounds incur red during action in the Ko rean war. Two Medford residents claimed they saw an object of "unearthly sheen," resem- bling a newspaper, zipping up and down in the sky last viloht iB.. 2U l&njno Oct. 9, 1940 (Wednesday) . A public hearing on the ' city of Medford's 1941 budget, ' nrnnmed to be S232.309, will be held in the city council -phamhers tonight. 'i From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In order to get out of taking off - the window ana floor screens sly brute of a hus- hand yesterday raked tne lawn of autumn leaves, with out an argument. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 9. 1930 (Thursday) The state labor convention, meeting here yesterday, voted to oppose the proposed clos ure of the Rogue river to commercial fishermen. Mayor Pipes has demand ed that Medford's morning paper retract Its charges of graft in the city administra tion. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1920 (Saturday) The Phoenix Church Bro therhood was organized last Week. The county Republican cam paign opened in Rogue River last night with most of the major candidates delivering speeches at a rally. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1910 (Sunday) Work started yesterday on the Crater Lake highway when a crew of 25 men and 14 horses started clearing ernund around Florence rock. The outlook for auto sales In Medford this next year is good, according to local car dealers. Medford, which has more cars per capita than any other city in America, has long been recognized as the leading automobile city In the U.S. The highest drama on television these days is the cliff-hanger known as "The Great Debate." Will the Hero (and one of the fascinations of the show is that different people have different heroes) stub his toe and go down to ignominious defeat? Will the Villain (ditto) train an undue and uniair advantage r Will virtue (claimed by each side), probity luiLtu;, iruin icuiioj. aoiiny lamo) ana piw- .. a. t i m n xess iuiho; tnumpn or iaii : THE second in the series was on view Friday A more enthtralline spectacle we've never seen. Here were two razor-sharp, aggressive, am bitious young men, competing for the bteeest stakes 01 any "game" in the world. But it isn't a eame. The stakes are survival 1 hey are prosperity; They are progress, and hon esty and decency in the face of world imperial ism. They are strength and vigor, and moving tuieau iv mum uie man laeais wnicn nave maue this country the hope of the world. EVA.CH partisan watching the little box in the " parlor keeps his own score, and only he knows who is winning with him. And when he casts his vote for his winner next month, the great machinery of our oddly disjointed, sensitive, massive, subtle, blatant, ridiculous and sublime system of government by the consent of the governed will come to fruition. We say in the light of our own preiudices mac Kennedy won, hands-down and m spades Others, in their own prejudices, will disaoree, But the exciting thing is that no one will really jiivj vv unui me mgnt oi inov. o. tx.A. Dennis the Menace What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct Is luparlen seven er eight Is excellont; five er sis (s good. 1. Who was Noah's grand fattier? 2. How many feet are in 60 fathoms? 3. Is a carillon a form of square dance, a kind of an tique cannon, or a set of bells tuned to play the full scale? 4. If the Ruhr In western or in eastern Germany? 5. What is the name of the highest mountain on the North American continent? 6. Osaka, Kobe and Yoko hama are large cities in which country? 7. Which floats more read ily, a fat or lean person? 8. Which country is called "the land of the Midnight Sun"? 9. Fit the proper word to "cither" and "neither:" or, nor. 10. Name the Nobel Prize winner who wrote "Main Street" and "Babbitt." Answers: 1. Methuselah. 2. 390. 3. Set of bells. 4. West ern Germany. S. Ml. McKln ley (Alaska). 6.' Japan. 7. Tat person. I. Norway. 9. Or. . . either; nor . . . neither. 10. Sinclair Lewis. Forestry Camps A suggestion which has been kicking around in Jackson county for a number of years is a woi'K camp lor bovs who aren't "bad" enoucrh to be sent to McLaren School, and vet who con stitute a serious problem for schools, police and juvenile authorities. Now we learn that Coos county ( which is smaller than Jackson both in area and in popula tion) is making firm plansfor such a camp. IpHE Coquille Valley Sentinel reports: "Plans are moving toward the establishment of a forestry camp for high school age boys in Coos county, with meetings last week of the Coos county court, the Bureau o land management and the Juvenile court advisory council discussing such a camp . . . "As a result of its investigations ... a committee was appointed ... to work on plans for such a camp ... "County high school principals met In June with' the advisory council and urged the establishment of a camp for boys. The investigations show that not only are forestry camps popular and useful, but when they are ones handling boys on probation, the claims are that 75 per cent of the boys who 'graduate from camp programs are in no further trouble.' California has 30 camps operated by counties and also six forestry . camps." ' TIE HOPE that the local discussions, which " have been little more than that, can be push ed to the planning stage. buch a camp here might not prove to be nec essary or desirable. But we'll never know until we make the studies to find out. We understand a sub-committee of the Jack son county juvenile court advisory committee has such a proposal under consideration. It might be well to consult with the Coos county people to see what their studies showed, in detail. E.A. Deaf and Blind County Judge Earl Miller was asked the other day for his views on Howard Prairie and its explosive growth as a recreation area. He replied, in effect, that the court is "consid ering" what to do to cet the area ready for use by fishermen, campers, picnickers, boaters, water sKiers and outooor-iovers generally, come next spring. Such development was urgently recommended Sept. 20 by the county parks and recreation com mission, which pointed out that unless it was done soon, weather conditions would prevent it Deing aone at an oeiore iisning season opens next April. T"HAT was almost three weeks ag6. 1 The court has "thought about" calling the budget committee to approve the necessary ex penditures (plenty of O&C money is on hand) and it has "thought about" seeing if other funds can be tapped for the $60,000 or so needed. When a few thousand fishermen show up at Howard Prairie next April, and find mud, no boat launching facilities, not enough campsites to go around, and a lot of other deficiencies, they'll know exactly who to blame. fXNE more word. Judge Miller was quoted Friday as saying : "We had no way of seeing these facilities would be so popular. And we've done everything within our power and limited resources to provide the needed recreational facilities." '," The court has sat on its overstuffed chairs and "considered" taking action. But nothing of vviiuvvjuviivv 1 VJ VI Vl about court 'Actually, n just a Head coiv. Birr you MienTSETMofiE CWKfcKAIION PKUM HIM IF YOU SAY ITS SADDU fSVeJt. ' Matter of Fact Joseph Alsop fit ' t-v j And as for having "no way of knowing" the "recreation explosion," maybe the snouia open its eyes and ears. We've been yelling about it for. years yells to which the court has been conveniently deaf. Maybe the 10,000 or 15,000 or 20,000 recreation-lovers in the county should get themselves as well organized as the farmers are. E.A. IS KENNEDY BREAKING THROUGH? En Route with Kennedy - On the eve of the second na tionwide television debate, the signs sug gest that Sen. John F. Ken nedy's Presi- i dential cam paign is close t o achieving the kind of major break through which is usually de- josepu AlHUF ". Kennedy's apparent surge forward can be stopped dead, of course, if he conspicuously fails, or if Vice President Nix on conspicuously triumphs on the second round of their joint struggle on television. It is also hard to calculate what effects will be produced by President Eisenhower's plan ned effort "to keep that Jack Kennedy from sitting in this chair," as he is alleged to have put it. The symptoms of a Kenne dy break - through are also spotty, as yet. On a fund raising foray into Indianapo lis, for instance, the Demo cratic candidate got a poorer airport crowd in that large city than in little Utica, N. i. Despite this spottiness, how. ever, the break-through symp toms are too strong to be ig nored. CONSIDER, for instance, Kennedy's receptions in Minnesota, St. Louis, Mo., and southern Illinois. - the areas where he has made really ma jor efforts on the present sa fari. In Minnesota, to begin at the beginning, he went into a state that has been rated close though leaning to him, and a state where the religious issue has also played a sig nificant role. A good reception was to be expected, in view of the ex cellence of the Minnesota Democratic organization. But the reception that Kennedy got both amazed and delight ed Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Gov. Orville Freeman, and the other local Democratic big wigs. Humphrey later said he had "never seen anything like it" since he entered Minne sota politics. Humphrey's opinion was confirmed by the flood of volunteers into Ken nedy's Minnesota headquar ters which followed the short Kennedy tour of the state, In St. Louis, a couple of thousand people waited hours at the airport for a mere dis tant, momentary glimpse of the candidate; and there were other, comparable indicators. But the most interesting of all these tests was in strongly Protestant southern Illinois. Here the Kennedy campaign was supposed to be far enough behind to insure a Nixon vic tory in this key state. ... YET AT Carbondale and Belleville and in other small southern Illinois towns and cities, crowds that ranged from good to overwhelming received Kennedy with wild acclamation; and generally these people had waited -several hours for the purpose. It was the waiting that was so impressive. Dusk had long since fallen, for instance, and Kennedy was a full two hours late at the little airport at Herrin. But there were still 1,200 to 1,500 people, patiently standing on the asphalt under the flicker ing arc-lights, in order to hear Kennedy speak for a mere five minutes, and ' then to cheer him wildly as he boarded his plane for Springfield. The southern Illinois tour was organized by veteran speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Paul Pow ell. He also organized the com parable tour by Harry S. Tru man, which was one of the de cisive episodes of the 1948 election. After the final elec tric rally in Springfield. Pow ell commented that this "was as good as 1948, or even bet ter." Having predicted defeat only a week ago, Powell now forecast a Kennedy victory in Illinois. The campaign-time opti mism of local politicians is a hardy perennial in American politics. But even if vou make all the necessary discounts, it Is hard to avoid the conclu sion that Kennedy has begun Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann Walter Linonuuia ONLY THE FIRST WAVE It is too early tq be sure, but .there are signs that the first wave of Mr. K. s diplo matic offen sive has pass ed its crest. There is no doubt t h there will be a second wave b u t . it may be that it will not come immedi- ately, and that there will be an interval of comparative quiet in which to assess the situation. If this proves to be correct, we can say that while Mr. K has failed to conquer or to wreck the U. N., he has staged a powerful and significant demonstration against tne status quo. His campaign is not over. Indeed it is just launched. And there is no time to be wasted in prepar ing our minds and our poli cies for the long conflict of which we have seen only the beginning. fN MONDAY, in the most v revealing of all his speech es at the U. N., Mr. K. made clear what is behind the up roar he has been creating. It is that "the structure of some United Nations bodies which was "normal," 15 years ago. "is now out of date. In 1945. when the U. N. was founded, the assumption was that the U. N. would be led by the five victorious big powers in World War II, that is to say by the Soviet union, Kuomintang China, Great Britain, France, and the Unit ed States. Since 1945 the So viet Union has become a very great power, Kuomintang Chi- to capture the imagination of a great many voters. This cap ture of the electorate's imagi nation and Interest is, of course, the very essence of a break-through in any Presi dential campaign. ... REPORTS from the safari of Vice President Nixon in turn tend to confirm the evi dence observable on the Ken nedy safari. The Vice Presi dent is apparently receiving numerous warnings against "doing what Dewey did." He is also said to be abandoning his former plan to visit each of the fifty states, in order to gain time for more intensive campaigning in the key states. These things would not be happening if the Republican high command-were satisfied with progress to date. In all probability, therefore, the present instant has crucial importance asapotential point of no return. For it is difficult to imagine President Eisenhower giving his Vice President a sort of piggy-back ride to victory, after a decisive Kennedy break-through. But it is not at all difficult to im agine the Vice President mak ing his own break-through in the second television debate. In that event, the already detectable Kennedy surge will soon be matched by a Nixon surge. And the final outcome will again be utterly unreadable. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. -la has collapsed on the Chi nese mainland, and a billion people, formerly under colo nial rule, have become inde pendent. The U. N., he asserts, re flects the power structure of the world in 1945 and not the power structure of the world today. His grievance is that in the Security Council and in the Secretariat, the new powers that have risen since 1945 are not fairly represent ed. His object is to reform the U. N. - or more specifical ly to reform the Security Council and the Secretariat- in order that they may reflect the facts which are, he as serts, that "not only law and justice BUT FORCE TOO is on the side of the Commu nist orbit and the neutrals The United States and its Western allies are, he asserts, still preponderant in the U.N But they are no longer pre ponderant in' the world. rkNCE again, as in his top v rent of Insults after the U2, Mr. K. has overplayed his hand and has played it badly. For he has directed the brunt of his assault not at the undoubted weaknesses of the U. N. structure but at its strongest and most pro gressive and most inspiring success. This is the emergence of the office of Secretary Gen tral under Mr. Hammar skjold's brilliant direction as an indispensible protector of the peace among small- na tions. Mr. Hammarskjold is not out of date, but the composi tion of the Security Council is out of date. The bloc voting in which we have had so conspicuous a part has been abused in such matters as the Chinese representation, the election to the Presidency of the General Assembly, and the election of non-permanent members to the Security Council. MR. K.'s mistake has been to attack the U. N. where it is least vulnerable, a n d because of that his support in the Assembly is small. He has in fact been repulsed, and apparently he knows it. For he is not pressing his demands about the Secretary General. But, if he care about the future, let us not think that Mr. K.'s mistake has been our success. Let us not sink into torpor and. complacency until Mr. K. launches, as he surely will, the next wave of his campaign. The uproar in the General Assembly which evoked more sympathy among the delegates than they found it useful or expedient to ac knowledge, should be treated as an alarm bell. It should warn us that the old Ameri can hegemony, of which Mr, Lodge loves to boast, is about over. The time is now at hand when a statesmanlike reform of the U. N. will be impera tive. The hurricane which Mr, K. brought to New York has not blown the roof off the house. But we had better mend the roof. For the storm is not over. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. PTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Because of overwhelm ing popular demand (two letters, one poem, one tele phone call, two off-hand comments, and one toler ant shrug). Potluck returns to this page today. ... The nicest one of these was a short letter, which said: "Pardon my dumbness for not missing the past two Sun days' Potluck column, until I read about its omission last Sunday. I regret to report my recent absent mindedness. "A little bit of humor now In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you've read about our new Courier satellite that is now in orbit. It is getting big headlines. It is a communications satel lite. It drops no bombs. It launches no rockets. It is designed primarily to receive and record high-speed radio teletype and VOICE messages, to relay these messages to another post (somewhere on the earth) when told to do so by a coded signal. It is believed to be the fore runner of a practically JAM PROOF communications sys tem. In war, dependable com munications are immensely important. That goes for cold war as well as hot war. BUT British Labor Party Said Killing Self . t .. voir erw k tj rTr . .... . . By ERIC SEVAREID In the United States the great debate centers on how to make America stronger against the riptides of Com munism. In Engl and this week the great debate has been on whether to make Great Britain weak er and. if so. s.v.re.d what steps should be taken to begin the surrender to Russian power There is really no other way to describe the ferocious fight in the dank Yorkshire citv of Scarborough, where the British Labor party, teen- nically representing very nearly one-half of United Kingdom voters, has been eauerlv destroying itself in its showdown argument over defense. . By thg time these words appear the party conference will have decided - whether Ri-ltnin shMllri stav in NATO and keep American nuclear weapons in Britain wnuc ceasing. the costly effort for an Independent British nu clear arsenal, or get out of NATO e) get American bases out of Britain and throw away Britain's own nuclear weapons, or a variation of either theme. But. however the vote goes, the issue itself will not be decided in the ranks of Labor. If the vote goes for unilateral British disarmament, the Labor party stands officially self-branded as a neutralist - Indeed, a pacifist - party, the leader ship will probably quit, its members of Parliament would be technically bound to fol low this line, and for more months to come our strong est ally would continue to be convulsed by nationwide ar gument as to whether it is to quit the alliance in an il lusory run for safety -an ac tion the government and a majority of the people, in cluding labor voters, are now against. If the vote is for Britain's remaining a nuclear power within the alliance, the argu ment will be muted, but only for a time. For . the heart muscles of the Labor party are driven by doctrine, not pragmatism. This matter is a matter of faith with its left- wing, as is the matter of na tionalization of industry, and dreams are unadjustable. Either way, Britain will con tinue to be distracted by this corroding argument over her proper role in the nuclear age, UnliSs some magical prog ress is made toward East- West disarmament, this in cessant controversy is fairly sure to weaken Britain's Wei to remain dug in at the front line of the Western alliance. The befuddled, inchoate yearning for Island safety, rid of the dreadful bomb, is bound to cat into the souls of more and more Britons who know that their tiny par cel of this earth could be carbonized in an hour. - I fall to see how it could go otherwise, and with it will go a spreading anti-Americanism, already more prevalent than most Americans compre hend.- The East-West stale mate is hardening, not thaw ing, and as long as this con tinues, the spirit of British cialists cannot tolerate dolav nm,(..ll.m A nt.,a jn I in tV.1.. .. . . J neutralism - "A plague on both your houses!" - will grow. It grows perceptibly every time Washington mak es a blunder or an apparent blunder. These days America is getting the benefit of the doubt scarcely any more often than is Russia. America's tawdry welcome of Khrush chev at the East' river dock seemed to annoy Britons just about as much as Khrush chev's naked grab to make the Congo a Communist base. The image being created in Brit ain of Eisenhower and Khru shchev is that of two men equally stubborn and wrong headed. .... All that the present world. naked of trust possesses to hold the peace is the mutual deterrent, ghasUy makeshift though it be. The Western de terrent, in the present .tech nological stage, could be gravely weakened without Europe - that is, without nu clear bases in Britain. The time is coming when this would not be necessarily so, when quasi - indestructible hard fuel intercontinental missiles will nest under American and Russian soil and when quasi . inviolable missile - equipped submarines will roam the seas. At that point, a decisive surprise at tack by either side would be impossible. Then deterrence wiu De complete vw.ess man goes mad, and then small na tions like Britain can begin to think about unilateral nu clear disarmament, doubtful though it is that this would save them if the mad broke out. But left-wing British So- in this, any more than they can tolerate a working class prosperity that did not happen iu come aDout Dy their meth ods and under their aegis. The om sirain of British Puritan ism survives in thpnv th thus believe that Spartan - mat is, snaoc-y - living is good for the soul and that by their moral example they can per suade the Communist lion to e aown with the lambs After all, they were the people who voted against Heavier armaments for Brit ain almost on the eve of "ona war u. Marxism is dead in West Europe, and be cause European socialist par- re semi-Marxists, still yearning to give the Kremlin me oenent of many doubts, they are dying as true opposi- tion parties. Like the riinn. saurs oi tne Jurassic age they can no longer cope with their environment. But give the dedicated left-wing British Socialists their due-they are ending not with a whimnor oui a Dang. Let this also be the pnrf fit the patronizing European complaint that the two Ameri can political parties are too drearily alike and provide no true philosophical (i.e.. class- based) alternatives. European peonies, too. are being forced into a basic con census on prosperity through regulated capitalism- based on the scientific revolution. In popular politics as in popular culture, the much de rided "American way of life" remorselessly spreads. ' (Distributed I960 by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) For the moment Let's forget war. Let's for get diplomacy and statecraft, This new c o m m u nications satellite of ours has some abilities that are interesting in other fields. For example: Circling about 800 miles above the earth at a speed of 20,000 miles per hour, it dem onstrated in action its capaci ty to MEMORIZE and TRANSMIT, within the space of ten minutes, wordage equal to the 773,693-word standard version of the King James Bible ... or a 50-page news paper supplement! TIRIVOLOUS question: Do you suppose an ordi nary human being could be equipped with that jigger? If so, Ira a prospective cus tomer. ' Imagine being able to read three quarters of a million words in ten minutes . . . and REMEMBER it . . . and then TELL IT! If that could become possi ble, think how r a p i d 1 KNOWLEDGE could spread. HY should that be impor tant? Well, Francis Bacon told us some four centuries ago that KNOWLEDGE IS POWER He went on to say: "Reading maketh a full man, confer ence a ready man, and writ ing an exact man. . . . Histo ries make men wise; poets (make men) witty; the mathe matics (make men) subtile; natural philosophy (make men) deep, moral, grave; log ic and rhetoric make men able to contend." Given KNOWLEDGE enough, we can lick the socks off the communists - Khru shchev and China's Old Mao combined. rUVEN the abilitv tn rparf " three-quarters of a million words in TEN MINUTES and then REMEMBER it and then TELL IT, there would be no limit to the knowledge we could acquire. ims new satellite of ours is interesting . . . and challeng ing. Building Activity In City Is High Building activity in Med ford last month was at its highest peak in history for the month of St.itember, accord ing to the city building de partment. lotal valuation of the ill building permits issued by the department last month was SJ54.520. That was S57.RR3 above the previous record high of $296,657, set during oepiemDer, iaa8. Last month's total so ex ceeded the SSH.S'OO total val uation recorded during Au gust oi tms year. However, September was a long way from being the rec ord building month in Med ford's history. That mark is neia by July, 1959 when the total valuation of permits is. sued was S5.277.607. That was tne month in which the ner. mit to build the Rogue Valley manor was issued. The largest single cateeorv of construction lasl month was in new DusinestW where six permits having a total valua tion of $181,500 were issued. New residence construction was next with 12 permits val ued at $136,000 being issued. The building department made 1.029 inspections during September and collected total fee in the amount of $2,032. and then is relished by tha wisest men." That's nice. Real nice Makes you know who your friends are. " . . Sign seen on a palch of trampled grass: "Go away I want to be a lawn." (Bet the youngsters won't get that one.) ... One of the deeper political thinkers In the office has come up with the idea that political independents could do worse than adopt as their symbol the cow. The Elephane (GOP) may eat peanuts in the zoo, or per form tricks in the circus, he says. Meanwhile the cow pro. duces food, without fuss or feathers. The donkey ' (Democrats) may make a jackass out of himself in a Grade B western movie. Meanmile the cow gives milk and cream. And, for the traditional minded, the cow antedates both Elephant and Donkey In this country, having come over in the Mayflower (DAR memebrs please note), and perhaps even along with Columbus. As a clincher, our friend points out that long before man ever dreamed up a round-the-moon missile, tha cow beat 'em to it, and jumped over the blamed thing. And he quotes Mother Goose to prove it. Ws feel a sort of sympa thetic kinship for the man who puts out the Jackson County Employees Associa tion Bulletin. In the Octo ber issue he says, "The man who prints this sheet and your editor have fi nally reached a fair divi sion of responsibility for the mistakes in this sheet. He will be responsible for all of ihem." , ... Our courthouse reporter, who sometimes has a flair for the macabre, reports that the county parks and recrea tion commission is consider, ing the use of light-weight, portable sanitary facilities for use in county parks and recreation areas. They 'would have a hoolt in the top so they could be hoisted onto a truck by a crane, and moved aS tha need arises. Our reporter notes pessi mistically: "Unless a careful inspec tion is made, some unwitting tourist may get a short trip around the park." ... The same staff member also remarks, philosophic ally, that it somehow seems sort of appropriate that a woman has been elected chairman of the county home ' rule committee. When it comes to home rule, he suggests, what else? . And he adds (yep. the sama one; he recently became a fa ther for the second time, so maybe he can be excused) that politicians are like babies in diapers. wny? Well, he ODines. thev crv for a change, but the change doesn't last too long. And if they're too quiet, you can ex pect a big mess pretty soon, ... The North Bend News, in a political editorial, de clares that Maurine Neu berger is "thrice blessed", by her name. Quick work, eh Fred? . . Yes, that was a tvpo. Which reminds us that That Man n Phoenix checked in during the absence of Potluck to comment about a headline which said "Means of Keep ing Children Out of Pool Are Sought." His suggestion: "Leave a few cakes of soap lying around the edge of the pool. The sight of soap and water is repugnant to kids." ... Best news of the yean The Hoover Hi-Lite has re sumed publication after the summer lay-otfl Second grader John Black- hurst drew a picture and said: this is my doe Buttons, just a puppy. He bites but it doesn't hurt. He jumps when he is excited. He has freckles on his nos? and sleeps on the couch. I love nun." S5f We used to think of the United Press International as a sort of Imperonal machine-like organisation. Mo more. Not after see ing a story which came over the wire the other day. It said, and in full: (o) New York W0 Where do we go from here?"