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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
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Try and Stop Mo
-By BENNETT CERF
A MAJOR at a draftee camp discovered two squads of
rookies huddled anxiously around a cave-in of a big
trench. "Does your sergeant know this trench has collapsed?"
uciuaiiueu uia major. II
he doesn't," answered
one rookie, "we're sure
. gonna tell him when we
dig him out!"
"Most of tht successful
men in Wall Street," points
out "Elder StaUsmaa"
Bernard Earucb, "art men
who do more listening than
talking. If you choose your
company carefully, It's
worth listening to what
they have to say. You
don't have to blow out the
other fellows light to let
your own shine." -
A bridegroom followed his tootale-ple Into the shiny new kltch
enette. "What Is my snookums doing in here so long?" he in
quired. His worried bride explained, "I rinsed the ica cubes in
this hot water and now I can't find them."
f twi by Bennett Ctrl Distributed by Klnst features Sradlut
Washington Report
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
LONELY MEN
Washington -The two men
are now becoming lonely men
among the vast crowds which
follow them
about, amid
the swarms
of a d v i s ers
which sur
round them.
Each presi
dential candi
date now con
fronts the mo-
muni nt nil.
wait ' Near at hand
is the time when each must
make, all alone at the end,
the ultimate and irrevocable
decisions of his campaign.
The campaign is passing
from the overlapping first
and second stages of marshal
ling a political organization
and then exploiting its power.
These have been long spurts
of almost wholly collective
effort, of hundreds of consul
tations with spokesmen for
every sort of interest.
The third and climactic
phase now approaching is the
phase of personal and final
choice by each candidate. It
will no longer be what "they"
think ought to be done in the
campaign. It will now be
what, John F, Kennedy, the
Democratic presidential nom
inee, thinks John F. Kennedy
ought to do. It will now be
what Richard M. Nixon, the
Republican nominee, thinks
Richard M. Nixon ought to
do.
CAMPAIGNING - by - com
mittee is ending; campaign--ing
by and for the nominee
himself is coming in. A presi
dential aspirant will at the
start take counsel from Wash
ington, D.C., to Walla Walla,
Wash. But the last and decis
ive consultation goes on with
in his own hat and head. He
will decide: "This is what I
will do and say from now on;
not what they and I together
think I should do and say.
It is just such wholly per
sonal decisions which both
candidates are now making,
And they are finding the
process difficult under the
pressures of self - appointed
counselors whose intentions
are good but whose advice is
not necessarily of the same
quality.
Nixon is being told by some
Republicans - a good many
from the liberal wing who
used to criticize so his "tough
ness" - that he must "get
tougher." He could reply,
but will not, that if they are
so much smarter than he is
why is it he and not one of
them who has the Republican
nomination?
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Worlds
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'Around
By Lynn M. Watklns
TUT his . own private reac--
tions to their advice is
likely to be that they are urg
ing him to the one course
that would be most likely to
defeat him. The last thing he
can afford is to "get tough"
-if this means, as it seems to
mean, to begin shouting
around and waving his arms.
For there is from Nixon's
past an old impression - en
tirely justified or not - of a
tendency to get too "tough" al
together. Any cry that he had
"taken the low road" would
not need to be really justi
fied to hurt him. If it were a
general cry, justified or not,
it could destroy the whole
hope of his campaign - which
is to appeal as the candidate
of a numerically minority
party to dissatisfied Demo
crats and calm-minded independents-Most
of the pressure on
Kennedy is to turn the clock
back to the 1930s and the
Roosevelt New Deal - which
he doesn't want to do but
which the professional liber
als Insist he must do. Most of
this advice comes from doc
trinaire people who twice
helped Adlai E. Stevenson to
a massive defeat by Dwight
D. Elsenhower and will not or
cannot read the message of 10
years of election returns that
this la a moderate country
JUST as the public doesn't
want any raw, red meat
from Nixon it doesn't want
from Kennedy a" depression
era kind of liberalism as out
moded now as the blue eagle
of NRA days. The banks are
now long since open. The
soup-kitchens are now long
since closed.
What the public probably
wants, if recent political his
tory means anytning, is a
campaign closing as sensibly
as it opened -and geared to
the nroblems of 1960 - by
two capable and sensiDie ano
moderate young men. And
the final and lonely personal
decisions of these two young
men probably will make it
that kind of campaign to tne
end.
(Copyright, 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, inc.)
Cash, Bonds Taken -From
Albany Market
Albany - (WD - More than
$2,000 in cash and negotiable
bonds were taken from an
open safe here Monday from
the B&J Food market.
Police said the money was
stolen by a person or persons,
who walked into the market,
broke open a compartment in
the safe and took the money.
Counsel With ...
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
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Everybody Grows
The Snake Plant
The person who called the
snake plant, the "mothers-in-law's
tongue," must have had
a vivid imagination and a
flair for descriptlveness, even
though he was probably un
just in 'his insinuations.
No mother-in-law's tongue
could possibly match the long,
pointed leaves of this African
herb that has. become so well
established in American gar
dens. , Equally . ridiculous is the
common name by which ev
eryone recognizes the plant,
the snake plant, just because
the mottled or striped leaves
reminded smeone of a reptile.
It is exceedingly doubtful if
any other plant in America is
as well known or as widely
planted as sansevieria. There's
hardly a home in America
that doesn't have one or more
of these long-leaved perennial
herbs in its garden or grow
ing along the house side.
In those p:aces where snow
covers the ground for some
period during the year, one
or more snake plants will be
growing in a window-box or
in a vase hanging on a wall.
Sansevieria has been the
one green plant in offices
stuffy with tobacco smoke or
near floor registers where the
dry heat of a furnace would
have killed a less hardy mem
ber of the plant kingdom.
The snake plant in many
sections has escaped from the
garden and gone wild; under
favorable conditions the plant
will grow with reckless aban
don. Offtimes in warm cli
ates, the leaves may reach
the length of several feet, and
the plant will form itself into
colonies and will actually cov
er acres of ground.
There are several varieties
of sanservieria, but all are
characterized by the long,
slender, blade-like leaves with
markings, edgings and mot-
tllngs of white. The leaves
of the plant contain a series
of tough fibres that run
lengthwise of the leaf; these
fibres are used for many pur
poses, one of which in Africa
Is a bowstring. Hence the
other common name of "bow
string hemp."
Blossoms Infrequently
The fibres also lend them
selves to the making of nets,
fish lines and various kinds
of cordage.
The blossom of the snake
plant occurs infrequently on
a long stalk containing many
small, simple white flowers
that open at night. They have
a slightly sickish odor and at
tract the so-called hawk moth
that flies during the hours of
darkness.
The underground roots of
the snake plant are usually a
bright orange color. They are
very heavy and thick, capable
of storing great quantities of
plant food and moisture. A
long continued drought that
could cause most plants to
wither and die affects san
servieria not at all; it lives
and thrives, even in a steam
heated, smoke-filled office. It
seems to tolerate with bland
unconcern a, smoke - miea
room."
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1950)
Back to School
Night Scheduled
Happy Camp-According to
Herbert Sonneborn, principal,
the Happy Camp Eelementary
school will have Parents
Back to School Night on Oct.
18 at 8 p.m.
For approximately one hour
teachers will explain to par
ents what is being taught and
how the class is taught.
Teachers in grades four
through eight will run through
their regular departmentaliz
ed program using the parents
as their students. Class bells
signaling changes in periods
will be cut to 15 minute pe
riods thereby giving parents
a complete program that their
own students would experi
ence in an ordinary school
day.
Sonneborn r e c o m m ends
that parents having students
in both the upper and lower
grades plan on one parents
visiting the upper grade pro
gram, and the other visiting
the lower grades. 9
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HISTORY REPEATED - Abraham Lincoln's campaign for
president a century ago was highlighted by the spectacle of
hundreds of fires burning along the banks of the Wabash
river as he toured Indiana. Mrs. Chauncey B. Baldwin,
left, shown with Bob Baldwin, turned back the pages of
history by spear-heading the movement of lighting the fires
along the Wabash in behalf of the Nixon-Lodge ticket
(UPI Telephoto)
Central Point City
Council Meet Held
The regular meeting of the
Central Point City council
was held Oct. 4, at city hall.
Councilman L. J. Bigham pre
sided as acting mayor, due to
the continued illness of Mayor
Freeman Mason.
The unexpired term of Hol-
lie Chisum, who has moved,
was filled by the appointment
of Roy Kelly, as temporary
councilman.
Plans for the construction
of a bowling alley were sub-
muted to the council for ap-
p r o v a 1 by the Dahayman
Corp. The structure, which
will house 10 lanes initially
Is to be located on Manzanita
st. between First and Second
sts. on property now occupied
by a furniture warehouse. Al
though the Individual council
members commented favora
bly on the desirable aspects
of the new enterprise, no de
cision was reached until
study of the materials, and
specifications could be made.
First PTA Meeting
To Be Held Tuesday
Lone Pine - The first meet
ing of the Lone Pine P.T.A
will be held Tuesday, Oct. 11
at 7:30 p.m. in the school
gymnasium. '
Richard Michaelis, presi
dent, has announced a 15
minute film will be shown,
entitled, "He Acts his age,"
put out by the health depart
ment. A short business meet
ing will follow. Refreshments
will be served in the cafeteria.
All parents are invited to
attend.. -
Six Illinois Valley
Students in Eugene
Illinois Valley - The Ore
gon High School Press Con
ference is being held in Eu
gene today.
Six Illinois Valley students
are attending the conference
for staffs of school publica
tions. Students are Cheryl Frie
tas, Leroy Barrows, Marge
McDermotl, Sonia Heald, Eliz
abeth Denning and Joetta
Castleberry. .
Eight Bucks Brought
In On Second Week
Happy Camp - Eight bucks
were validated at the Happy
Camp Ranger Station the
second week of hunting season.
Rudy Negherbor of Mart
inez killed two bucks at Cold
Springs, one having four
points and a smaller buck
with two points on one side
and one on the other. Wesley
Bennett of Bolan Park shot
his buck in the Cade Creek
area. It had four points on
one side and two on the other.
Occie Bowers brought in a
four-pointer from the Win
gate area. Albert Attebery got
his four-point buck in the
Baldy Mountain area.
L. E. Van Buskirk shot his
four-point buck in the Cade
Creek area. John Palmer
brought in a four-pointer
from the Doollttle area.
All hunters with the ex
ception of Negherbor and
Bennett were from the Happy
Camp area.
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