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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1969 "Zvaryona In Southtrn Oregon Rcada The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North FIT St., Ph 8P S-S141 ROBERT W HUHL Editor HERB GREY Advel-tiiing Manager GERALU T LATUAM UUI Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telei Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'e Editor DALE ERICKSON, circulation Mgr An Indenendent NewiDaDer : Entered aa aecond class matter at Medlord. Oregon, unoer aci or -' ' - March 3, 1887 RimSmrPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c uany ana ounaoj' i v- n.llv ami RundlV 6 moi. S.Ot Dally and Sunday 3 mot 4JJ ' Sunday Only One year J0 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point. Jiokionvllle. ooia run Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv mr T.int anil nn inntir routes Dally and Sunday 1 vear SlBno Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1. 30 Carrier and Dealara copy 10c All Tarma caan in aavanw Official Paper of City of "Medford' Official Papr of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire O.P.I. Telephoto Newaplctures 1 MEMBER OF AUDIT BtmEAtT" OF ClRCULATIOWa Arfvjirtttlnff Representative: , WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of ' flees in New York, Chloago. De. ; trnlt Ran Franelneo. Los Angelas. Seattle. Portland St Louis, At- larU. Vancouver, B.C. 0" NEWSPAPER M PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION i NATIONAL EDITORIAI c6T I miiriiM n i in Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 veara ago. -.' 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1950 (Monday) After a meeting with lead ers of 10 local industries yes terday, a member of the in terstate commerce commis sion said here that the boxcar : shortage in the Rogue valley next year should be less than it was this past summer. :. Jackson county selective service officials , report tliat next month's draft calls will Include men 10 years of age. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1940 (Wednesday) The annual Medford-Ash-land High school football clas sic will be played In Medford this year as the feature of the American Legion Armis tice day celebration Nov. 11. From Arthur Perry's :"Ye Smudge Pot" column: "An auto accident was narrowly averted on Sixth st., late yes terday due to a car going faster than the driver was thinking." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1930 (Thursday) Yesterday was the quietest day in history here In police circles without a single arrest or complaint. : A check shows that 10,085 Students are now enrolled in Jackson county schools. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1920 (Saturday) A new cement sidewalk on Sixth St., between Central ave., and Bartlett St., was opened to traffic today. Republicans will hold rally here on Oct. 27. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1910 (Sunday) The value of property In Jackson county Increased $10 million over last year to a 1910 high of $36 million Oswald West, state railroad commissioner and Democratic candidate for Governor, will arrive In Medford today for two or three days of cam' paigning. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior: Seven at eight Is excellent! five el ill is good. ' 1. What do the Italians call Naples? . 2. What President of the United States preceded Lin coln? V. 3. What would this be In Arabic numerals -MMCCXXXIV ? '! 4, What animal is the mas cot of the Naval Academy football team? ; 5. Who is the hero In the ."Merchant of Venice"? ,; 6. What colors are contain ed In the French flag? ' 7. What is the number of the Psalm beginning, "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want"? 8. Did the Roman Empire ever include Holland? ' 9. Who was the eldest son Of Adam? 10. Name the author of Ivanhoe. , Answers: 1. Napoll. 2. Jamts Buchanan. 3. 2234. 4. Goat. 5 Antonio. 6. Red, whit and blue. 7. Twenty-third. 8. Yes, 8. Cain. 10. Sir Walter Scott. RECEIVES AEC GIFT Tokyo 4UP The U.S. Atom ic Energy Commission pre sented two collections of - books and documents on atom ic energy to the Japanese Diet library Thursday. Each collec tion contains about 50,000 documents complied during more than five years of re search and development the U.S. commission, . by A Tribute In the midst of the mounting excitement and furore of the election campaign, let us pause for a moment and change the subject to the recent death of a woman widely known and respected in this area, Mrs. Callie Palm. We were not acquainted with her, and thus do not feel qualified to pay her a fitting tribute. But one of our readers who did know her wrote a few words, and we are glad to pass them along. They follow: "Callle Palm was not only a gracious lady, a de voted and sincere churchwoman, but as a true Chrls- tian, her religion embraced the animal kingdom. "In 1928, Mrs. Palm became a charter member of the Southern Oregon Humane Society. She served as director and vice president continuously for many years. Later she became president and served until the -dissolution of the Humane Society. "Mrs. Palm responded generously whenever the need arose. However, her greatest contribution was the atmosphere of love, mercy, kindness, gentleness and goodness she generated toward the lower orders1 of God's creation. - "Both Mrs. Palm and her husband were fond of dogs and for many years their car, with the well-carcd-for and well-trained Cockers, attracted much . attention when parked along Main street. "Attesting to her kindness is the fountain in the city park, with a watering place for dogs. , "Rowland Hill wrote: " 'I would give nothing for that man's religion whose very cat and dog are not better for it.' ' "So, with the many good deeds she sent before her, we know Callie Palm believed this, too." . - , ' E.A. Two It is a happy circumstance that, no matter who wins the election for state treasurer, the state of Oregon is assured of pared, universally respected official. . The contestants are: , Ward Cook, Democrat, a state senator from Multnomah county, about whom we have heard absolutely nothing bad Howard Belton, Republican, now serving as treasurer by appointment. A Canby farmer and businessman, Belton served many years in the legislature, as senate president, and on occasion, as actiner eovernor. He fully, for the treasurer's DOTH men, we are certain, are completely hon est, entirely dedicated to doing their best for the state, and are sincere in their desire to be of service. As far as we have only one real issue, and it is a relatively minor one, separates them. Belton reports that, by judicious use of his investment powers, he has substantially increased the state's income from interest. Cook declares that, while this may' be true, the investments were made out-of-state; that if they had been made in Oregon they would have helped stimulate the limping economy, and that any loss in income might well have been more than recouped by a resulting higher tax "take." f OOK is a moderate liberal; Belton a moderate conservative. Each is a sincere humanitarian (important when it comes to the operation of the state's institutions, handled by the board of control, of which the treasurer, is a member) ; yet each is alBO a realist and a hard man with the public's dollar. Either would do credit to the state in its third-highest office, and therefore we make no recommendatfon in this race. We will only add that, for largely personal reasons of respect, admiration and affection, our own. vote will go to Belton. h. A. Too ' A rbitary- Vote "No Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. retired in 1932 after serving 30 years on the United States Su preme Court. He was 91. The World Book Encyclopedia declares that he came to be regarded as one of the great jus tices of American history, and his being called "The Great Dissenter" gives evidence of this. George Rossman is generally regarded as one of the finest minds on the Oregon Supreme Court. He was reelected two years ago, after long and distinguished service. He is 75. THESE are only two samples of the reasons we are opposed strongly to Ballot Measure No. 9 on the general election ballot "Compulsory retirement for Judges. The age limit would be 75, but the legislature could lower that to 70. A judicial office is as the incumbent gams in maturity and experi ence and judgment and wisdom. And on these there is no arbitrary age limit. The proposed constitutional amendment in cludes a paragraph which also would authorize or require the retirement of judges for physical or mental disability, or any other cause render ing judges incapable of performing their judicial duties. CUCH a provision we could support, but not when it is tied in to an arbitrary, compulsory age-retirement provision. Aa it is now, the measure is the rankest age discrimination, and could well deprive us of some of the finest judicial minds in the state. We hope the voters snow this one under. We recommend a "no" vote on Measure No. 9. E.A. Good Men a high-caliber, well-pre and much that is good. also has run. unsuccess post in the past. been able to ascertain, not like others. It gains Dennis the Menace 'MOM! J FINALLY LEARNED Today & Tomorrow By Walter INFIGHTING The late John Foster Dulles used constantly to preach that the cardinal rule In diplomacy was, as he put It, to seek "to prevent war by preventing miscalculation by a potential a g g r e s sor. This, he said, V . icy o making t.axaa ,- ,, i Llvpmani t i 0 n in ad vance. . . . We have learned by hard experience that failure to make our position known in advance makes war more likely because then an aggres sor may miscalculate." He was thinking, of course, of the Kaiser in the first World War, Hitler in the second, and of the Soviet and its North Ko rean satellite in the Korean war. Why Is it then that during this campaign we are being told by Mr. Nixon's support ers that the opposite is true, that it is otten better not to draw the line at which you intend to fight, that it is otten bettor to keep the adversary guessing? This is the thesis which Mr. Lodge is propound ing and this is the position taken by "Life" magazine in discussing the lamentable Que- moy-Matsu issue. Was Mr. Dulles wrong when he called upon the country "to make clear our position in advance" of a potential aggression? What has happened to make it a virtue to keep the adversary guessing about whether you will or whether you will not defend a particular territory? e INHERE is a strong case to be . made that John Foster Dulles was wrong in his doc trine. But that Is not what has brought about this reversal of the Republican doctrine, What has happened Is that Mr. Nixon has chosen to "ex-plolt"-the word Is from "Life" magazine - the very unconv fortable predicament in which, against our will and judg ment, we are trapped. In 1955, when we made the treaty guaranteeing Formosa and the Pescadores, President Elsenhower and Secretary Dulles refused to include Quemoy and Mntsu. They tried to persuade Chiang Kai shek to evacuate these islands, and when he refused, being supported by' powerful fig ures both inside the Adminis tration and In the Senate, President Eisenhower and Sec retary Dulles invented a for mula, deliberately vague, as a face-saving compromise. The formula was to satisfy Chiang and his friends who wanted a guarantee of the offshore islands, and It was to satisfy a majority of the Sen ate who did not wish to guar antee the offshore islands. This formula, however, vio lated the most cherished doc trine and principle of John Foster Dulles. He had to give In because Chiang Kai-shek and his American supporters were too strong for him. e qiHE WHOLE thing is a mon A umcnt to the failure of the Eisenhower administration to carry through its own policy, and to define candidly and openly the contmltments of the United States. The truth of the matter Is that for five years we have been stuck with these islands. We have been entangled with Chiang and unable to do what we believe in. All that Senator Kennedy has said about this Is that he would try once again to negotiate with Chiang in order to disentangle us, and he would try to do what the President himself wanted to do, to do what Mr. Hertcr has said plainly he would like to L. JOEY HOWTO USE MS DUKES' Lippmann do, to do what the principles and convictions of John Fos ter Dulles called for. He would like, If he can induce Chiang to agree, "to make clear our position in ad vance" of hostilities. It is slanderous to call this appease ment and surrender. ALONG this line of cam paigning there is some thing more to be said about Mr. Nixon's many references to "regrets" about the U-2. To hear Mr. Nixon talk, one would suppose Senator Ken nedy had said that the Presi dent should don sackcloth and ashes, and go barefoot and on his knees up the steps of the Kremlin. To hear Mr. Nixon talk, one would suppose that the formal expression of dip lomatic regrets about the vio lation of another country's territory was something that no loyal American and no genuine anti-Communist would ever dream of. Mr. Nixon' does not have, much diplomatic experience and he has very little knowl edge of the history and prac tices of diplomacy and no ac curate knowledge of the dip lomatic record of the Admin istration to which he belongs. For in, 1958, according to the "New York Times" of Feb. 2, the United States sent apologies to the Soviet Union because a United States Air Force jet made an accidental flight over East German ter ritory. In June 1958, when the Soviet Union shot down an unarmed American, trans port over .Soviet Armenia, the United States in a note to the Soviet government, denied that the transport had delib erately violated Soviet terri tory. But it added, "If, in fact, the aircraft . . . inadvertently . . . crossed the Soviet fron tier, the government of the Ma nic Campaign Ignores Complex Age By ERIC SEVEREID The final, or manic, phase of the political campaign has now seized the candidates and ancillary ora tors, the phase in which fre n e t i c politi cians regret only those state merits that lose them votes, whatev er the loss of their own dig- . ' -nity or of the country's flexibility of strate gy in a warring world. This brief period is always dangerous and often damag ing for men and for national policy. .This goes double for the present campaign in which, as we suggested weeks ago, a single remark could decide the outcome. Only mass euphoria obscures the sheer ghastlincs of a condi tion In which the Presidency of the United States may be decided by statements about the presence of Nationalist soldiers on those two off-shore islands - soldiers kept there by Chiang Kai-shek in a pri mary hope of ambushing America into war with Red China, weird as this may sound to those ignorant of what Chiang has been living for these past ten years. . In this phase of a Presi dential contest, as in a war, truth is hounded down, dis figured and tattered, by half truths, exaggerations, innu endoes, cut rate debating points, impossible promises and blatant re-writing of his tory that the editors of "Prav- da" must admire. In terms of the search for truth, it is as preposterous to compare the oral tennis matches on television with the Lincoln - Douglas debates as it is to compare Quemoy Matter of Fact y Joseph ai,op THE CHURNING-POINT St. Paul, Minn.-With only three weeks to go, the Presi dential campaign seems to be as far as ever from the turn' ing point-one would expect. Instead' the campaign ap pears to have reached what may be called a chur n l n g point. This was the impres sion con veyed, at any rate, by' a long, intensive day of door bell ringing in the Twin ci ties by Eugene Newhall and Gene Malott, of "The St. Paul Pioneer Press" and "Dis patch," and this reporter. We talked, altogether, with 105 voters in two quiet lower middle-to-mlddle income dis tricts, number 8 in Ward 11 of Minneapolis, and number 10 of Ward 11 in St. Paul.. The striking feature was the total absence of strongly crystallized, widely held opin ions. There was nothing even remotely resembling the set patterns of response that pre vailed in the Eisenhower Stevenson campaigns. Almost from the start of those cam paigns, almost all Eisenhower voters emphasized the Presi dent's niceness and goodness, while , all Stevenson voters either took their stand as loyal Democrats, or admir ingly spoke of Adlai Steven son as a "high-type" intellec tual fellow. United States regrets that fact." This year, moreover, the Eisenhower-Nixon administra tion expressed its "sincere re grets" to Castro's government because a private plane of Castro's Cuban enemies had taken off from American ter ritory, eluding our airport pa trols. , WHAT is the point of making such a fuss about Senator Kennedy's point that he would have liked to settle the U-2 affair by expressing the regrets which are normal diplomatic practice? Mr. Nixon talks as if, by not expressing regrets, we had avoided an "intelligence gap," had protected ourselves against a Pearl Harbor. But have we? The U-2 flgihts have been suspended and, more over,' now that the whole af fair has been blown up to an u n f o r g ettable importance, they can never be resumed. In the spy business, the Ad ministration, including Mr. Nixon who was never at the center of things, acted like amateurs in a panic. Had the President disavowed personal responsibility, as in espionage all heads of government al ways do, and had he tried to close the incident with con ventional diplomatic regrets, our standing in the world would be better than it is to day, and our intelligence ope rations would be no more constricted than they now are. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. with Berlin in terms of the search for -world safety. A spectacle of volley and count er volley in which neither man concedes a single point or admits a single error, past or present, by himself or his party, is merely an exercise in point scoring, a travesty on the debating institution in its academic or parliamen tary sense. Truth is neither turgid nor neatly package able; it is elusive, many-sided, a harvest gathered only with patience, humility and lar gesse. On and off television the hailstorm of selected facts and claims, exaggerations, lies both little white and big black, is lashing the crop, filling eyes, ears and nose with dust and chaff. - No doubt a desperate plain tiff or defendant (to complete this mixed grill of metaphors) testifying from a witness chair perched on a soap box in a shouting courtroom can not be regarded as full pos session of his faculties, so a mistrial is not apt to be called after Nov. 8 on grounds of perjury. But, in the absence of the recording angel, let us perform the functions of the court reporter and jot down a few of the non-truths so far loosed upon the jury. Considering first those of an apocalyptic nature, reason whimpers in pain at Mr. Ken nedy's accusation that Mr. Ni:fn is trigger-happy, as it does at Nixon's solemn asser tion that loss of the rocky ridges of Quemoy and Matsu would lead us into world war three. It was Ike, not Dick, who cut his palm showing Mamie how to fa a six-gun; and Khrushchev's game is blackjack, not domiMcs, fall ing or otherwise. And if Nixon s observation if JOSEPH ALSOP AT THIS late stage in this campaign, in contrast, only the rock-ribbed Repub licans continue to speak of Vice President , Nixon as "more experienced" and Sen a tor. Kennedy .as "imma ture." If the television de bates have done anything, they have blunted the ."ex perience" issue. But only the rock-ribbed Democrats speak of Nixon with distaste and welcome Kennedy as the "man to get the country mov ing again." In between, you may run into anything, at all, from a conservative Catholic small businessman who "no longer leans to Kennedy" because he "promises too much," to a Republican Lutheran school teacher who has concluded that Nixon is "wishy washy and Insincere." On the issues the candidates have tried to make, and on the personali ties of the candidates them selves, opinion is now churn ing almost aimlessly and quite unpredictably. Only two phenomena are really well marked. Senator Kennedy is certainly gaining former Republican votes among the Catholics, but even in big, relatively cosmo politan cities like these, Ken nedy is also losing votes be cause of anti-Catholic preju dice among industrial work ers and others who might be expected to support the Dem ocrats. Close to one person in ten in our sample was influ enced by anti-Catholic feel ing. As to tne second well marked phenomenon, it is Vice President Nixon's con tinuing inability to command anything like the support that was given to President Eisen hower. This Nixon failure is illustrated by the detailed break-down of our Twin Ci ties sample. ' THE QUESTION is, quite -- simply, whether the Re publican fall-off in the urban areas will be enough to over come the Eisenhower major ity in 1956. It is a particularly acute question, here in this- state, because the so-called religious issue seems to be producing a kind of stand-off in the Protestant rural areas, despite bitter farm discontent. Tbe outcome in Minnesota is anyone's guess, because the Elsenhower majority here was far from gigantic. But in this reporter's opin ion, the primary reason why the outcome is unpredictable is the central fact already noted, the strange fact that the campaign has only reached a churning-point. The churning is bound to stop. The turning-point is bound to come, either because of the next television debate, or because of the vast, last minute campaign of religious prejudice which is reportedly planned, or because of Ken nedy's success in meeting the campaign, or for some other reason. One can be sure opinion will crystallize before Elec tion day, but one cannot be sure, alas, exactly how this will happen. (Copyright, 1960, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) that three Democratic presi dents led us into war means that they acted arbitrarily, we find ourself troubled by his claim - while defending Ike in the first TV argument that Presidents only do what the people demand. He might also now rewrite his St. Louis speech of years ago in which he praised Truman's courage for the Korean intervention. We note down, but with invisible ink for sheer em barrassment, Truman's claim that Nixon "never" tells the. truth, Nixon's sanctimonious concern that Truman's racy language will corrupt our young, and Kennedy's claim that seventeen million Ameri cans go to bed hungry every night. Our trust in American technology is quite firm enough to discount the prob ability of jammed locks on that many gleaming white re frigerators. No amount of butter on burned political fingers can account for a grasp so inse cure as to "lose" an object as big as China or even one as small as Cuba, and we can not accept Nixon's claim that Washington mislaid the first or Kennedy's claim that Wash ington mislaid the second. Nixon's statement that American prestige has never been so high, while Russian prestige is slipping, approach es Hitler's Big Prevarication In dimension, if not in inten tion, by its sheer audacity, so we are obliged to record it with lamentations. In awareness that politics is the art of the impossible, we re cord Kennedy's balancing acoE) tn LWdlyjittacking the Eisen hower pcSsormance while tim idly refusing to attack Eisen hower. With a sigh of the weariness born of familiarity we note POTILUClX (By M-T Staff and Contributors) WHOOO-EEEE! What a week. The politicians were on the march, in force, and when politicians start marching, the work-load of the news paper staff goes up, too. The politicians' march led most of them, among other places, into the' newsroom, to renew acquaintances of two, or four, or even six years ago some of them to ask for edi torial support, others to hint they'd like it; others just coming in to say hello. By actual count, 14 office seekers, at the state, district or local level, dropped in (the bulk of them on Thurs day), and several others called. We were glad to see them We like politicians. We be lieve that politicians (as a group) are unduly maligned, and that the vast majority of them (with a few exceptions) are sincerely seeking to serve their, community, county, dist rict or state to the best of their ability. And my! what a beating they take! Not only do they take it from each other, but also from constituents and voters (not . to mention newspaper editorial writers) for their acts of commission and omis sion, for what they say and for what they don't say, for what they are and for what they aren t, " , A hardy breed, politicians. Our hat is off to them ALL of them, whether we happen to agree with them or not- A lady campaigner (not, herself, an actual politi cian) from Roseburg was here to make a speech on behalf of a candidate the other day.. A woman we know attended, and when she got home her husband asked, "And did she make her usual Gaddes burg ad dress?" " The following contribution may, perhaps, be recognized by the distinctive style of the writer. Try it: And there were the mighty hunters from Eagle Point way who went after some winter time provender in the high Lake Creek country. Some four of 'em, each with an.iual notches on their shootin' irons, more or less, took off for the higher places. No luck; no buck. Getting back bushed and beaten, they found the one little woman teetering nervously against the car fender, not sure what to do next, for to one side lay a fat buck deer. Seems liek she had decided it wasn't the thing to do to go a-scram- bling up the mountains, when lo, or even more n that, here comes a band of deer traips ing down from . where the mighty hunters had gone. She dimly remembers lifting her rifle onto a likely-looking antlered one, pressing the trigger, and whomp, she had one. All of which is remindful of: Lodge's "pledge" to put a Negro in the Cabinet; Nixon's idea of using a weary, aging, powerless ex - President as world peacemaker, globe-trotting style; both candidates' belief that they'- can solve the totally unsolvable farm problem; both men's genu flexions before that hoary children's crusade - prevent ing the rapacious federal gov ernment from "telling teach ers what to teach." (Fifty ma jor federal acts on education since George Washington have not yet produced that horrendous result and one simple clause in forthcoming legislation could prevent it, in any case.) . The final entry in our little Notebook of Judgement is a large black question mark, a block to arrest for further ex amination the candidates' most basic pretensions, their implied claims to a mystique which, far more than any stated "policies," ought to make up the national mind. One is Nixon's theme that he is preeminently and wisely mellowed in the ways of this revolutionary, unprecedented world. The other is Kennedy's implication that he is another F.D.R. ready to loose a re pressed floodtide of brilliant ideas and bold actions that will remake America's life and re-grasp America's world leadership. We do believe that HE be lieves this and that he would try, Sadly but deeply do we doubt that the early sixties will even faintly resemble the early thirties. The great sim plicities of Roosevelt's prob lems are gone; the old elbow room Is gone. The Age of Complexity Is upon us. (Distributed 1960. by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) A hundred years or so ago There came to forests here, ' A man with powder In a gun To get hisself a deer. But how such things have changed about, The male does best he can, -The "dear" puts powder on her face And gets herself a man. While in poetic mood, here's one we swiped from the Klamath Falls Herald and News: A boy who swims may say he swum, - But milk is skimmed and never skum. And nails you trim, they are not irum. A nose is tweaked, and can't be twoken. And what you seek it never soken. If we forget, then we've forgotten. But things we wet are never wotten. And houses lei cannot' be lotten. The goods we tell are al. wayt told. But feart dispelled are never dispold. And what you small if ne'er dispold. When young a top you oft taw tpun ( But ever was a grin just grun?, Or a potato nearly skunT Last week, there was a story in the good old M-T, part of which went like this: "Each contestant is re quired to wear a housedress, bandana, flat shoes and her own skillet, 'nine inches in diameter." (This is the event, if wa understand the situation cor rectly, where Jerry Scannell and his election opponent, Alan Holmes, are to vie in pursuits other than. political.) - Anyway, the story was clipped out by one of our er admirers, shall we say. who said he was Intrigued by the quoted portion. Referring to the house- dress, he asked, "Whom . . ." please note - "Whom" - not just plain old "Who"?) . . did you expect? Nudists, maybe?" And after that non sequl- teur he inquired, "And just where did you expect her to wear the skillet, on her head . . . ?" Well, now, Roland . . No, as you suggested, skip it. Karla Sanders, In the third grade at ' Hoover school, writes in the Hoo ver Hi-Lite: "When we came to school our first room was in the gym. We got so we liked it very well, Some of us still wish we were in the gym. But I like our new room most of all. It's got a new smell and that new smell smells very nice. So I think that Is why I like our new room." A friend of ours, who Is blessed with a reportorial ability akin to Karla's, re cently attended a bull fight in Mexico. He wrote us a de scription of it, and we are proud to share it: 'Next stop, a bull fight.-. It was like a football game. I bought a program outside from a small boy ("Senor, you can't tell the bools from the fighters without a pro gram"). When I got inside I discovered I had bought a program a year old. Whole families, handsome DeoDle mostly, all living it up with peanuts and beer. A crazy looking band playing beauti ful music one connects with bull fights . . . Then the de lay while they waited for the chief judge to arrive ... "The opening was filled . with color and everyone jumps up and yells 'Ole' when their favorite toreador enters. Then they start yelling for Toro. I felt kind of foolish because I was the only one who stood up and cheered when old Toro came into the ring. As you know he has been speared some to make him angry. In fact, I'd say ha looked darned mad. "The fighters execute some fancy steps and avoid him for while and then the Picador rides in on a horse ... He gouges the bull some more and by this time, the blood IS streaming from the bull's back- Then the bull fighter is handed his sword and kids the bull around for a while and then attempts to send the blade into the bull's back and into his heart. When he succeeds, tne bull pauses with an obvious look of huit on his face and starts to gush blood from his mouth. Then the crowd roars and the bull is pulled away by three horses. "I left after the third one. I just couldn't take it." Our friend is no Ernest Hemingway. Which, we think, is a fine and good thing. We'll take football. If we have to choose.