SUNDAY, OCTO&R 16, 1860
10 A
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
OF SMITH & MEN
By Jack Smith
(c) 1960 Tlmei-Mirror Syndicate
Our neighbors the Daltons
have sent their young son
Eric to a private prep school
In an idyllic valley some'
where near Santa Barbara,
. Calif., to harden his head lor
Stanford.
He is an only child and
so of course they are begin-
, ning to notice his absence in
many subtle ways.
: For one thing, the water
level of the Dalton swimming
pool has gone down. Eric him
self displaced about 117
pounds deadweight. He was
a permanent fixture in the
pool. The Daltons even went
to the trouble of devising a
floating tray to feed him egg
sandwiches during hot spells,
His mother got a nice tan just
by wailing on him.
The reason they sent him
away to prep school is that
Stanford has raised its re
quirements since Dalton went
there and they have to give
the boy extra thrust.
The Daltons obviously miss
the lad, but he warms their
hearts by writing now and
then, when he needs some
thing.
Mrs. Dalton rushed over the
oilier morning to show us one
of his first communications.
It was addressed "Occupant."
Eric apparently didn't want
to let on to the boys in school
that lie hud a mother and
father. At his age parents are
regarded as a social stigma.
In the letter itself, how
ever, he recognized the rela
tionship, beginning with the
salutation, "Dear Folks."
Then he went at once to
the heart of his problem.
"Didn't you got my letter
asking for that stuff?" he
wrote. "So far you haven't
mentioned it. Maybe by the
time you get this it will be
here. I don t want to seem
Local Students
Named to Group
Three St. Mary's High
school students have been
named to a high school advisr
ory committee to the attorney
general on crime prevention.
They are John W. Snider
Jr., Mary Jo Batzer and Fred
erich Burich. Sister Cecilia
Mary, principal of St. Mary's,
win serve as faculty advisor.
Similar advisory commit
tees have been named at Cen
; tral Catholic in Portland, For
est Grove Union high, St.
Francis in Eugene, Spring
field High, and Illinois Valley
High in Cave Junction.
Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton said the first duties
of the student committees,
working with teacher advis
ors, will be to enumerate the
agencies in their communities
engaged in crime prevention,
and evaluate the agencies In
terms of effectiveness and
prevention of crime and de
linquency. The committees will aid in
the attorney general's exDerl-
mental program for the pre
vention of crime. The program
is the first of Its kind in the
country and was Inaugurated
last spring after a statewide
crime conference.
The high school groups will
be a part of the citizens ad
visory committee on crime
prevention. Recommendations
of the committee will be co
ordinated and put Into action
by a crime prevention di
vision in the stale department
of Justice. '
Idaho Woman, 43,
Traffic Fatality
Ontario, Ore. - IUPI1 - Mrs.
Helen Alpha Ball, 43, Weiscr,
Ida., ' was Injured fatHlly
Thursday in a traffic accident
during heavy fog while en
route to work in Huntington,
Ore. She died In a Weiser
hospital.
Molalla FFA Youth
Speaking Champion
Kansas City-(DPI-Dennls H.
Wood, 17, of Molalla, Ore.,
Wood, 17, Molallo, Ore., won
the National Future Farmers
of America public speaking
contest Thursday night dur
ing the annual American
Royal program.
ungratful, but I'm getting des
perate.
"What is it the boy wants?"
I asked Mrs.' Dalton. "May
be it's something we could
help with. Pencils? Note
books? Slide rule?"
"Read on," she said. "Read
on."
"In case you didn't got my
other letter," he wrote, "here's
what I would like you to send
me.
"Fizzles (lot's of them). Gum
(not too much). Tang (one jar).
Cookies (one package). The
ones you sent up before are
all gone. They were good.
"I will be pretty well set
if you could send me these
things. You probably already
have. I have about a B aver
age. Ou est le petit grateau?"
"What's that mean," I ask
ed? "ou est le petit grateau?"
"Isn't that wonderful?" said
his mother. "He's learning
French already. It means
where are the little cookies,
I think." ,
"Big deal," I said. "Appar
ently he hasn't learned that
the possessive apostrophe
doesn't belong In the word
lots, in reference to Fizzles,
whatever they are."
"They're little things that
go with the Tang," she ex
plained. "That's instant or
ange juice."
"It's none of my business,"
I told Mrs. Dalton, "but it
seems to me you're indulging
the boy. Let him deny him
self for a change, learn how
to live with austerity."
"Listen," my wife said. She
had been fishing through her
mementoes and had a yellow
scrap of paper with the bold
letterhead of the Fourth Divi
sion, U.S. Marine Corps. Ap
parently it was some little
something I had written her
during World War II, in a
moment of weakness.
"Ou est le petit grateau?"
she read. "Us men are getting
desperate."
War is hell.
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The Office of the County As-
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ministration and apraising.
Ray J. Schumacher, incumbent
Assessor has had specialized train
ing and is qualified by experience
in administration, accounting and
appraising.
He has a record of mora than
30 years of successful business ox
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reputation of Honesty and In
tegrity. '
Through .his efforts and plan
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recognized as one of the most
progressive in the State, with an
objective program to equalize as
sessments. Re-Elect Ray J.
SCHUMACHER
Democrat
County Assessor
Paid by Jackson County Democratic
Central Committee, Sec. Hazel Mc
Mahan, P.O. 1223, Medford, Ore.
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