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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1969 4 MEDFORD 5&&TRIBUN "Everyone in Souuiern Oreaoo Read; The Mill Tribune" FuEiTihe'd bally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North tti St., Ph SPa-BUl " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CREV Advntliint Kimi" GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR, Mnj, fdltoi : EARL H ADAMS City EdlM HARRV CHIPMAJO Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'e Editor DALEJIRICKSON CIrcullMon Mp. An indnMiirlanl Newipaner Entered ,econd elaae matter at Mrdford Oreeon under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mill - In Advene. Copy loc Dally end Sunday I year IIS 00 . Dally end Sunday moi on Dally end Sunday 3 mm ta Sunday Only-One veer By Carrier-In Advance Mediord Anhland Centra Point Eel Point. Jarktonvllle Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rnitue Rlv er Talent and on motor '""I" Dally and Sunday J veer SIB JO ' Cerrier and Dealera-copy too AllJerma Caah In Advanco "i'clal Paper of City of MedforiJ oiriclaifapql '?."!? United" Praia International Full Leaied Wire I) P I Telephoto Newapleturea "SreMTIFR OF AtlDltjlirREATT OFCmCUI-ATIONS jCdv-rililne RenreaentaHve: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Ot flcea In New York Chicago De trolt Ran FranclKCO Los Anelej Seattle. Portland St Louie At lanta. Vancouver. B.C NEWSPAPER PUIIISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E DITORIAI VV I AS(sbC(HTl(On Z J J Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from tht file ot The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 veera ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1950 (Wednesday) Nearly 50 residents oi the WImcr area In northwestern Jackson county protested to the county court this morning over proposed abandonment of the Wimer covered bridge and 435 feet of county road there. Mayor Diamond L. Flynn told city council members last night that the city will not be able to carry the heavy load of maintaining the municipal airport unless financial aid Is found soon. 20 YEARS ABO Nov. 22, 1940 (Friday) Tho roornrllnB and widen ing of the Pacific highway over the Siskiyou mountains has been completed; it saves five miles In distance and 30 minutes in driving time on the trip over the mountains, svmv. Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The weather turned oil cnniy anci citizens sleeping in haystacks crawled down deep last night." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1930 (Friday) The grand Jury will con Hi Investigation Mon day of a raid on a still near Reese creek during wnicn a man was killed. School Superintendent Hcd rlck has urged Immediate con struction of a new high school hiitirllnu Iipip In aid local business and relieve unem ployment. . 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 22. 1920 (Wednesday) Nearly $200 has been raised for (he local bleacher fund. Valley stockmen are pro- testing the con"' i of the local Southern i ucific stock yards. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1910 (Tutiday) Although women's suffrage was beaten down by Oregon voters at the pells, the Ore gon Equal Suffrage associa tion will urge the next ses sion of the legislature to ap prove It. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ot ten cornel Ii iupe-lor: even or eight it eicellent;'rlve el ix It good. 1. Is the source of the St. Lawrence river in Canada or the United States? 2. Arc there about 50, 150 or 250 islands that make up the Fiji Islands? v . 3. What numbers are need ed to complete the following scries: 5, 8, 6. 5, 11, 8, -, 12? -4, Who is popularly credit ed with first saying, "If this i.c treason, make the most of it".?: -.3; Is It possible to go from Chicago to New Orleans en tirely by water routes? r --6. About what proportion .of ,an iceberg remains under Water? .7.' Do stars ever appear in 3he-crescent of the moon? Which docs fire need To burn - oxygen, or carbon dioxide? 9. What is another name for the bore size of a rifle or pis tol? 10. Are deserts ever found In cold climates? Answers! 1. U. S. - Minn.i 2. 250: 3. 5 and 14: 4. Patrick Henry: 5. Yeei S. About teven eighths! 7. Not S. Oxygan; 9. ealiban 10. Yaa - vary oftan. The Presidency Last January, Sen. John F. Kennedy spoke to the National Press Club concerning his views on the Presidency. Since his election, it has become of much increased Interest, and provides a unique, pre-lnaugural glimpse of the President-elect's Ideas, The following are excerpts from that talk.' . ... The History of this Nation its brightest and its bleakest pages has been written largely in terms of the different views our Presidents have had of the Presidency itself . . . ; During the past eight years, we have seen one concept of the Presidency at work. Our needs and hopes have been eloquently stated, but the initiative and follow-through have too often been left to others. And too often his own objectives have been lost by the President's failure to over ride objections from within his own party, in Congress or even in his Cabinet ... The question is what do the times and the people demand for the next four years in the White House? They demand a vigorous propon ent of the national interest, not a passive broker for conflicting private interests. They demand a man capable of acting as the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Alliance, not merely a bookkeeper who feels that his work is done when the numbers on the balance sheet come out even. They demand that he be the head of a re sponsible party, not rise so far above politics as to be invisible; a man who will formulate and fight for legislative policies, not be a casual by stander to the legislative process. Today a restricted concept of the Presidency is not enough. For beneath today's surface gloss of peace and prosperity are increasingly dangerous, unsolved, lontr-postnoned problems problems that will inevitably explode to the surface during the next four years of the next administration: the trrowinir missile gap, the rise of Communist China, the despair of the under-developed na tions, the explosive situations in Berlin and in the Formosa Straits, the deterioration of NATO, the lack of an arms control agreement and all. the domestic problems ... Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the (Jhiel of the word. He must be prepared to exercise the fullest powers of his office all that are specified and some that are not. He must master complex prob lems as well as receive one-page memoranda. He must originate action as well as study groups. He must reopen the channels of communication be tween the world of thought and the seat of power ... If there is destructive dissension among the services, he alone can step in and straighten it out, instead of waiting for unanimity. If admin istrative agencies are not carrying out their man date, if a brush fire threatens some part of the globe, he alone can act, without waiting for Con gress. If his farm program fails, he alone deserves tne Diame, not nis secretary oi Agriculture . . . Under our covernment of "power as the rival power," to use Hamilton's phrase, Congress must not surrender us responsioniues. dui neiuier 1 11.1 1. "l TT 1.. .. !(. it. ,l.n snouia it dominate, nowevei large us snme m me formulation of domestic dent alone who must make the major decisions of our foreicn policy . . . And even domestically, the President must initiate policies and devise laws to meet the needs of the Nation. And he must be prepared to use all the resources of his office to ensure the enactment of that leerislation. even ... In the coming years, we will need a real fighting mood in the White House a man who will not retreat in the face of pressure from his congressional leaders, who will not let down those supporting his views on the noor ... . . . Legislative leadership is not possible with out party leadership, in the most political sense. . ... No President, it seems to me, can escape politics. He has not only been chosen by the Na tion he has been chosen by his party. And if he insists that he is "President of all the people" and should therefore offend none of them if he blurs the issues and differences between the parties, if he neglects the party machinery and avoids his party s leadership then he has not only weaKen ed the political party as an instrument of the democratic process, he has dealt a oiow to tne democratic process itself . . . But the White House is not only the center of political leadership, it must be the center of moral leadership a "bully pulpit," as Theodore Roose velt described it. For only the President repre sents the national interest. And upon him alone converge all the needs aiid aspirations of all parts of the country, all departments ot tne govern ment. all nations of the It is not enoucrh to timent: to follow McKinley's practice, as describ ed by Joe Cannon, of keeping his car so close to the ground he got it full of grasshoppers." We will need in the 60s a President who is willing and able to summon his national consti tuency to its finest hour, dangers and our opportunities, to demand of them the sacrifices that will be necessaiy. That speech promises an active, aggressive, confident and responsible administration for the next four years. During the campaign, Kennedy also said he believes in a President who serves no other master than the national interest, who takes no instructions but those of his conscience, and who "puts no personal interest, no public pressure, no political hopes and no private obliga tion of any kind ahead of his oath to promote the national interest." E.A. Executive in every sense procrams, it is the n-esi- if conflict results . . . world. represent prevailing sen to alert the people to our Dennis the HO. I OOAr THINK IT WOULD BE N'CE TO HAVE HIMCAU. MB VUCLB GBOfiB5' Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann Ii In South America. Rotcoa Drummond reports from Waihlngton in hit absence.) Election Postscript Washington-There are three aspects about the elections which deserve to be under lined: 1-The farm vote was de- sively conservative and Re publican. The predicted re volt against Ezra Taft Benson never look place. 2-Let's give credit to the public opinion polls. Gallup and Roper were not only good, they were practically perfect. 3-From the Senatorial re turns in the big industrial states, which the Republican party had to carry substan tially, it was the Republican liberals who made the out standing showing. THE BENSON, revolt never tnnlc nlncc. Obvious the farm vole docs not measure Mr.' Benson's personal popu larity. He wasn t running. But it . does show wide-ranging support for the Benson poli cies. Here is the evidence: All of the 23 Democratic members of the Mouse of Representa tives, whose seats were taken away from them by Republi cans, had either unanimous ly or substantially opposed the Benson farm policies. Al' most across the board it was the anti-Benson Congressmen who lost. In Iowa, Minnesota Wisconsin, and Ohio the only Dcmcoratic Congressmen de' fcated were those who had opposed Benson policies 1 on every key vote. Gov. Herschcl Loveless of Iowa, chairman of Sen. Ken nedy's farm advisory com mittee, was defeated for the U.S. Senate. Gov. Orville Freeman of Minnesota, anoth er strict-control, high price support advocate, also lost. HOW MANY times have you heard someone say with great sophistication: "Oh, I never believe in the polls." That's about as sound as say ing the Yankees won't win another pennant. Gallup and Roper were so right they could hardly believe their own findings. Two weeks before the elec tion George Gallup said that if the voting stayed as close as his figures indicated, he could not possibly predict the winner. In their final reports Gallup had Kennedy ahead by one percentage point and Roper had Nixon ahead by one percentage point in the popular vote. In the end only one and a half tenths of one per cent separated Mr. Ken nedy ' and Mr. Nixon. It's time to forgive them for 1948.- e IN CITING the decisive vic tories of such progressive Republican Senators as Case of New Jersey, Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Cooper of Ken tucky, and Margaret Smith of Maine, I do not mean that very conservative Republi can Senators do not also win - and sometimes with good majorities. What I do say is that only the Republican lib erals canv put their party in tho ascendancy in the popu lous states essential to nation al victory. These Republicans were able to reverse the Kennedy majorities. . Invariably they were successful in persuad ing pro-Kennedy voters to split their voles and support Republican Senators. While Mr. Kennedy was carrying New Jersey by 31, 000, Clifford Case was pil ing up the biggest majority ever given In a New Jersey Senatorial race. He won by the massive margin of 335,- 000. . While Mr. Kennedy was carrying his home slate of Massachusetts by 430.000. Re publican Senator Saltonstall was corralling many of these Democratic votes to win by a counter majority of 306,000. Menace Son. rnnnar won hv IfLS.nnn and Sen. Margaret Smith by 96,000. Both our parties are houses of many political mansions, containing a Goldwater and a Rockefeller, a Byrd and a Humphrey. I am not arguing it shouldn t be so. But I be' licve that unless the Repub lican Senatorial progressive - such as Javits, Keating, Scott, Bush, Carlson, Kuchel, Aiken, Wiley, Cooper, Salton stall, Case, Smith, and Allott - take the initiative and give their party a more humane national image, the Republi can party is going to get a permanent hold on its mi nority status. -' v (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribuna Inc. in the Days News By FRANK JENKINS What to talk about today? There's Castro. There's the situation in Africa, There are the Big Shot Communists, who are messing things up general ly for everybody. There's poli tics. There's the segregation problem. There s taxes. There's the problem, already becoming acute, of what to get Aunt Hattie for Christmas. Let's skip it all today. TTP IN Eugene, the Lane - county district attorney has dismissed a suit charging a bookseller with selling ob scene materials. The Register- Guard, one of Oregon's better newspapers, thinks the D.A is a PRACTICAL man, that in dismissing the suit he did the only Uiing he could do. It says: "One of the key facts in causing Mr. Frye (the Lane county D.A.) to dismiss the case was the necessity, under fiat of the suprome court, to show that the bookseller KNEW the book was obscene before he sold it. That is hard to do." TTARD to do? Willi high regard for the R-G, I wonder. A bookseller, of course, could sell an occasional off- color book innocently. But a TRULY OBSCENE book - that's another story. Among other things, the attention of the bookseller would be called to the book in question by the DEMAND for it. Not only by the NUMBER of people who came to his place to buy it, but by the KIND of people. If a book sold abnormally heavily, to a certain kind of people, he would naturally wonder why. His next step would be to read the book. QUESTION: What is OBSCENE? Well, Mr. Webster (our authority on words) defines OBSCENE as "foul; disgust ing; offensive to chastity or to modesty; lewd. A bookseller who couldn't apply that definition and by means of It spot an OBSCENE book wouldn't be much of a bookseller. THAT brings up something - eise. Let's put It this way: OBSCENE books can't be half as obscene . . . and dirty . . . and filthy , . . and nauseat ing ... as the PEOPLE who buy them and read them. SOMEHOW, I can't work up much enthusiasm for BOOK BURNING laws. I'm aware, of course, that I must be in the wrong. Bad things are bad things, and must) be got rid of, if possible. And I'm not about to propose a new law. But- I can't get away from the feeling that the READER of obscene literature should be punished more severely than the SELLER of obscene litera ture. That, I think, is a LOGI- Matter of Fact By Joiaph AIsop KENNEDY AND THE CONGRESS Washington There is a small but fatal flaw in the currently popular theory that administration .will be ham strung by a strengthen ed con seryative coali 1 1 6 n in Congress. The theory leaves history wholly out of account. To be sure, the Republicans have gained two seats In the Senate and more than a score of seats in the House. On paper, the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats has thus been somewhat strengthened. This might be significant, if John F. Kennedy were a left- wing version of Dwight D. Eisenhower. A passive, nearly hortatory President can alway be ob structed by Congress. But an active and determined Presi dent, so history shows, can usually count upon getting Congress to do what he wants in the end. e THE 80th Congress was to tally dominated by the late Sen. Robert A. Taft What President Truman real ly wanted from the 80th Con- gress-the profound reversal of American tradition which laid the foundations of the Western Alliance-was abso lutely abhorrent to Taft. But Truman secured the passage of the Marshall Plan and all the other great measures he most cared about, despite Taft's heavy Republican ma jorities in both House and Senate. The next Congress will have substantial Democratic majorities in both bodies, de spite the recent Republican gains. Whatever else he may be, one may be sure that Kennedy will be active and determined in the White House. And the simple fact that he will be in the White House, using all the resources of persuasion and pressure that belong to the White House, is far more significant than the superficial strength ening of the conservative coal ition. It is entirely possible, of course, that Kennedy himself may strengthen the conserva tive coalition in a really ef fective way, by misjudging his own situation. For in stance, the liberal wing" of the Democratic party with its strange passion for empty shibboleths, is already clamor ing for immediate revision of Senate Rule 22, concerning cutting off filibusters by. cloture. e e THIS is known to have been J- one of the key subjects dis cussed by the President-elect and Vice President elect at their get-together at Lyndon Johnson's ranch. What con clusions they reached, if any are not known as yet. But it is easv to know the Con fgressional situation, and how it will be affected by an im mediate assault on Rule 22. If Kennedy authorizes such an assault, all the Senaturs and Representatives from all the Southern states, including the states that voted for Ken nedy, will at once be solid ified into a rigid opposition bloc. Then the . conservative coalition may really count for something. But Kennedy is not much of a shibboleth man. Hence it seems much more likely that he will deal with the civil rights problem in a prac tical, factual manner. From the outset, in other words: he will use to the full the existing executive powers, which President Eisenhower has left quite largely unused. CAL feeling - for if there were no readers and no BUY ERS of obscene literature no obscene literature would be offered for sale. It is an an cient rule that merchants don't deal in commodities for which there is NO DEMAND. THE ideal way to punish the READER of obscene lit erature isn't necessarily to throw him In the clink. A bet ter way would be to OSTRA CIZE him ... to pass him by on the street with a look of disdain ... to let him know in all the ways by which it is possible to convey such knowl edge that he Isn't fit to asso- ciale with decent people. That system would be more effective in banishing obscene literature than all the laws that could be put into the books. Salem Senator Said In 'Good' Condition Portland-IVFD - State Sen. Robert F. White, (R-Salem), was in "good" condition today In St. Vincent hospital follow ing kidney surgery Monday. Doctors had planned to re move the kidney but found this unnecessary. A cyst was removed. The 44 year-old legislator and former Salem mayor will remain in tha hospital for iVitnai das aBRMHBaBBB)-9S1M JOSKIMI AI.SOP U.S. Shows Of Striking Force in By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Twice in less than a month the United States has felt compelled to demonstrate for the Fidel Castro government IUa srlAnrl an1 ' I strength o f its striking power in the C a r r ibbean. In late Oc tober, with a minimum o f advance no tice, it landed 1,200 marines at the U. S. naval base at Guantanamo on Cuba's east ern tip for what officially was described as a week end of rest and recuperation. As a show of force, its sig nificance was not lost on the Cubans. On Nov. 17, the United States responded speedily to a call for help from Guatemala and Nicaragua, dispatching an aircraft carrier and de stroyers to Central American waters with orders to seek out and prevent" any inter vention by Communist-led forces in the internal affairs of the two countries. Communists Outraged The howls of outrage from Havana, Moscow and Peiping were to be' anticipated. But even among the Unit ed States' friends there were misgivings. Latin American governments generally re trained from comment. Oth ers were not so reticent. In Colombia, where the governments wastes no love on Castro, the influential Bo gota newspaper El Tiempo said the move "disturbs us greatly." The news is alarming," it said, "because it appears the action was taken without tak ing the Organization of American States into account and without even consulting other governments of this hemisphere." The Times of London said the action "might seem like snatching for a sledge ham mer to crack peanuts. That is how a great many Latin Americans probably will re gard it." . , Even Guatemala's President Ydigoras Fuentes expressed some misgivings. His request, he said, had been misunder stood. He said Guatemala did not need protection against attack. What it did need was advance warning of attack. Worth, the Gambia Since the swift U. S. action was certain to recall unpleas ant memories of former U. S. "big stick" diplomacy in Latin America, It must be assumed that President Eisenhower and his advisers decided in advance that the emergency justified the risk of mis understanding, When the Guatemalan reb els seized Puerto Barrios di- Tectly across from Cuba, it appeared obvious they ex pected help from that direc tion. The Cuban regime made it equally obvious it sympa thized with the rebels. Supporting the U. S. posi He will also use to the full the moral authority of the White House, which President Eisenhower has left almost wholly unused. Great progress can certain ly be made in this way. If the resulting progress is un satisfactory, legislation can be requested. And if the existing Senate rules then prevent passage of that legislation, it will be time to think about amending the rules. TIIEANWHILE, It is also im 1U portant to note the signs that steps will very probably De laKen to break the con servative coalition's death grip on the House Rules Com mittee. A change of a single Democratic member of the Rules Committee, which can be voted by the House Demo cratic caucus, will be enough to break the death-grip. Such a change, if made, will more than nullify the effect of the modest Republican gains in House and Senate. In one form or another, all but one of the prime items of the Kennedy social pro gram have already passed the Senate. Even Kennedy's pro posal for1 medical care for the aged under Social Secur ity was only beaten in the Senate by a hair-line major ity. The conservative major ity in tile House Rules Com mittee, and the threat of an Eisenhower veto, are the only reasons why these measures are not already on the statute books. These reasons will not exist in the next Congress. Even so, unfortunately, the really crucial question is still unanswerable. It has little to do with the election results or. the Kennedy social pro gram. It is the question whether the country will re spond with energy and cour age to a true picture of the national situation, when Ken nedy is able to present the ugly facts from the great rostrum of the White House, (c) 1960. Naw York Harald XaJ&u&ai j7. Speed and Power tion and its firm declaration that Castro will not be al lowed to export his revolution elsewhere, was the State De partment's disclosure of the mammoth arms shipments re ceived by the Castro govern- Communications Letters to tha Editor must bast iha nam and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances tha use of a pan nama or initial for publication ia permissible. Tha Mall Tribune rasarvaa tha right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub. lication muat not axcaed 400 words, Tha letteri printed in this column do noi necessarily represent tha views of tha paper: in fact tha contrary l often tha case. Oddities To the Editor: Some oddi ties of the recent campaign: The poor Republican candi date accusing the rich Demo cratic candidate of advocating the welfare state. After waging the most gru elling campaign in political history, and holding up very well the Democratic candidate is challenged by his opponent to take a physical examina tion the day before election day. Tire Republican candidate announces his intention, u elected, to request our three ex-presidents all past three score years and ten, one of them 85 years old to make a good-will tour abroad. Wheth- er together or separately, I do not know. It is no fun being an ex-president. As for the election ltsen, the remarkable thing about it is not that Kennedy's plural ity is less than 300,000 votes, but that Nixon's margin was not by at least 3,000,000 votes. David Frisch, P. O. Box 292, White City, Ore. Pat Paava To the Editor: Although your paper does not feature "net peeves" by name I have one: , Compositors and others who do not use capital letters at the beginning of proper names the idea, of course, is a gim mick to attract attention to advertising . This practice, and the use of trade and professional jar gon, must be very confusing to students of grammar, and make the subject doubly dif ficult to all concerned; and this isn't enough, T.V. is now using "beat-nik" double-talk slang, for added amusement to those who can enjoy it. un convention nullifies much good teaching. Gene Maltby, 4069 Pacific Highway South, Medford, Ore. Har Opinion To the Editor: Here is another voice to speak against the Electoral College. I wish something could be started to do away with this now, not to wait until election time again. I'd like to see everyone do as the Sandens stated, write to senators and congressmen to try to see it's done. We elected them, let's give them food for thought on what we want, all of us, not just a chosen few. Does any one ever stop and think what a real E.A. the Tribune has? In almost all his editorials he uses common sense. I don't believe any pa per has a more common sense editor. I can't say that about the sports editor, as it has already been stated: Medford is "it" in his eyes. Probably if truth was known he must have been a big wheel from Med ford. We all didn't go to Med ford High, nor have any of my children. So naturally our interests aren't with Medford alone. In fact It makes one think less of them seeing their names planted on every article. Marshfield is a larger school than North Bend, yet my two that went to Marsh field are no smarter than the one that graduated out of North Bend, or the other five that will go through Crater Try and Stop Me ' -By BENNETT CERF "T COME FROM COMMON STOCK," confessed Grouchq J- Marx, "and furthermore, in the 1929 Wall Street crash, common gtock made a bum out of me." Groucho recalls "the most sincere compliment" ever paid him. A stout, pleasant faced lady (he never had laid eyes on her before) buttonholed him on a Chicago street and told him earnestly, "Don't die, Mr. Marx. Go on living. While you live, I'll live!" a . The girl friend of a far out beatnik singer burst In on him unexpectedly and and caught him playing "Stardust" on hla guitaT. "For Zen's sake, man," aha Implored, "don't go commercial! You'll wind up being Just another Perry Como!" e Do you know what an AAAAA Is? None other, avers Bill Kennedy, than an alcoholic who belongs to tha Automobile Asso ciation of America. O I860, y Bennett Cert Distributed by King retturaj Sjndlata Caribbean ment from Russia and Czecho slovakia. They included MIG jets, nearly 100,000 submachine guns and other equipment ranging from rockets to flame throwers. High, without something changes and they go else where. Why not be broad minded, too? Lucille Campbell 5113 Table Rock rd. Central Point, Ore. Editor's note: For the rec ord, our sports editor graduat ed from Central Point High school (now Crater High). Good Gray Rain To the Editor: People young in years, tears and joys, who qualify for a steady job with its economic protecting high wage, can hardly know tha relief from worry brought jy the Ben Hur L a m p m a n "good-gray-rain". But to we old-ones (in years) that fence out our earning value to near minus with doubling 'and trebling costs of taxes, insurance and demands of surgery and hos pital that make serious in roads into our hoarded sav ings, listened to the steady patter of rain on the roof last Thursday night week, like music from Heaven, which in a way it was. It takes considerable livin? to know that the grim laws of survival apply today, as they always have, and always will, till the inevitable super-nova changes it all. But, thanks be, we are privileged to be here and to make the most of what we have and to survive the best we can. There were a lot of worried toilers of the soil here in this mountain-rimmed valley who turned hopeful eyes to every appearing cloud. For the cos's of fall sowing of winter-pe a and oats is considerable orchard mulching and ma of hay come summertime, too have done this with t e ir a f 1. s t f "lower-forty", on the ad of others who also warnet the risk of dusting in sow For if the coming of rain v too late, then freezing m' ruin it all. But the magic germination is progress and seed rootlets are seeki i the nourishing earth, so hope is enduring. For we have struggled man fully, yes by light of out" satelite moon's cool light, to change the dry rustle of cfi. n and sorgum leaves to growing greenness, to feed our layirg hens and maybe a fattenirg calf or two. But air warnings, that told of water-level in our well down to suction intake level, demanded we let better than half of the planting re turn to the desert. With raids of happy gold -eyed Brewer and red-wing black-birds, each to his own in Nature's immutable law of segregation that alone makes for race sur vival, left us a poor half of harvest. And, despite the weather bureau assurance that the summer precipitation was near normal, the grim fact remains that it was too scattered to be of plant grow ing value, some not even dust laying, and where it did reach down a bare inch or more we had to frantically break the crust to hold down the moisture we had put there. But thanks be, tha ended. nigh Vh month crop drouth seems ended. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore.