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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1969
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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.