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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?"