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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
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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.