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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1960 4 .MEDFORD-S&WrHIBUNK "Kvcijuut IK auugicm Ureiion r. ... J- Til,. M.ll IMhuMn publliheifBally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir t., Ph 8P a-6141 """ROBERT "W RUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advel-tlslns Monnfer GERALD T LATHAM Bui MgT ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mn Edltol EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Tries Editor RICHARD JKWKTT Sporu Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation jjsr An Inrianenrlent Newspaper Entered af second claaa matter at Medford. 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Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAI 5rSl lAc6TQh Flight o' Time Mcdlord and Jackson CounlV History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 40 and 50 yearn ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 19S0 (Friday) Lewis and Clark college, Portland, trounced San Fran cisco State college 61 to 7 yesterday in the fifth annual Pear bowl game here. I A movement to ban the sale of what they claim Is im moral and obscene literature on Ashland's newstands has been launched by a citizens group including a Baptist minister and the chief of po lice 20 YEARS AGO . , Nov. 24, 1940 (Sunday) A Portland man told city police here today that a man and a woman slugged and robbed him while he was sleeping in his car near Rose- burg, then drove both he and the car to Mcdford before escaping. From Arthur Perry's "Ye SmudEo Pot" column: "The largest bomber In the world under construction for the U.S. army, is nearlng com pletion. It will be ready for test flights in six weeks, un less saboteurs saw off a wing in a mysterious manner." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1930 (Tuesday) A circuit court jury here yesterday found a California mm pniltv of the armed rob bery of a Central Point bank two months ago. A scheduled recount of the city vole for mayor has been cancelled and the final count gives E. M. Wilson a 14-vote margin. 40 YEARSAGO Nov. 24. 1920 (Thursday) Mcdford defeated Ashland 22 to 0 In the annual Turkey game today. The chamber of commerce booklet is almost ready for printing. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1910 (Thursday) Today is Thanksgiving and the Mail Tribune is moving Into a new building at the comer of Fir and Sixth sts., so there Is no paper. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ll superior: liven ot eight li excellent) five lis ii good. 1. What are the two poles of the horizon called? 2. Do mulberries grow on bushes or on trees? 3. What is the name of the chief mountain range of Mex ico? 4. Whut was the relation ship between Louis Fourteen th and Louis Fifteenth? 5. What letter represents one thousand In Roman nu merals? 8. What climatic zone lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn? 7. Who in England is com parable to the United Stales "Uncle Sain"? 8. What Is the chief river In Russia? 9. Solomon Grundy was born on Monday; on what day did he die according to the nursery tale? 10. In the event neither candidate In a Presidential election receives a majority of the electoral vote, how is the President chosen? Answers: 1. Zenith and nadir. 2. On trees. 3, Sierra Madre. 4. Grandfather and grandson. S. "M." 6. Torrid tone. 7. John Bull. 8. Volga. 9. Sunday. 10. By the House of Representatives. Thanks "We have vainly Imagined In the dcceltfulness of preserved us In peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. "We have vainly Imagined in the decitfulness o our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have be come loo self-sufficient to feel the necessity of re deeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." "THESE words of Abraham Lincoln's, quoted by UPI's Louis Cassels and printed in last Sunday's Potpourri column, are of particular im portance and significance today, Thanksgiving day. And, as Cassels remarked, this day has lost, to too many, the meaning it once had. Too often, in our pride and affluence, we think too little of those who have gone before, who have made possible the good life we lead, whose hard work and courage and faith in Some thing or Someone beyond ourselves has created the basis for those good things we enjoy. A ND, on this Thanksgiving day, it seems par "tieularly appropriate to offer thanks that the good Sisters of Charity of Providence have found it possible to keep their hospital open. The hurt, repentant, anguished outcry of many who had a real and personal feeling for the Sisters and their hospital, when they an nounced regretfully it would have to close, was a reflection of the thinking of nearly everyone in this community. Perhaps, in some way we can never know, those who did "feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace," and who were not "too proud to pray to the Cod the welcome announcement possible. E.A. Art Aspect of Freedom The Protestant ministers of this area, if they want to, are perfectly free to call upon their flocks to make purchases on days other than Sunday. It's their privilege. It their llocks (and ignore that advice, on the premise that it's none of the ministers' business, that's their privilege. If the stores want to their privilege. And if they want to. remain open to serve the people who like the convenience of Sunday shopping, that's their privilege, too. IT'S a free country so far. And if we were to stick our neck out and make a prediction, it would be that a good-sized majority of those people who like to buy their groceries on Sunday will go right ahead and buy their groceries on Sunday, mentally suggesting that their ministers stick to their own business. Some people, obviously, have conscientious scruples about doing business on Sunday. And that's their privilege. We honor them for it. But for ministers, on an organized basis, to attempt to substitute their advice for the indi vidual consciences of their congregations is, just a tiny bit, reminiscent of those political pastors who tried to tell people how to vote earlier this month both here and in Puerto Rico. ' IE MUST grant that, if they want to work for Y Sunday closing, they've chose the best really the only way to go about it. They are open and aboveboard about it, plan no economic "sanctions" against any merchant choosing to re main open, and are not asking for legislation to close stores on Sunday, in outright violation of that freedom of religion for which we are .all Thankful, today and every day. Almost two years ago, for instance, the banks of the state were engaged in a fight, some trying tc force all banks to close on Saturday, others attempting to forestall such a law. The legislature, encouraged by most news papers in the state, refused to make Saturday bank closing a legal requirement. Since that time, changes in top personnel have made it possible for the banks to get together, and just this week they announced that they would all close on Saturdays on a voluntary basis. NE may criticize the banks for this decision. (The Coos Bay World, for one, does so. It says: ("Banks hold a whip-hand over business and peo ple in most cases. In many states they've used this whip-hand to set their hours of business at a minimum and their days of closing at a maximum. We are now on that road in Oregon. ("Many bankers will no doubt not agree, but bank ing should be a service to the public instead of a favor doled out to a dutiful and undeserving public at the will of the bankers. ("Are Oregon banks in the business of serving the public? Not on the record of their banning Saturday banking service.") However one feels about the banks' action (and it will certainly cause some inconvenience for those who find it difficult to bank on days other than Saturday), they went about it in the proper manner. EGISLATION to force banks to close Satur-- day (or stores to close on Sunday) is abhor rent in a free country. Special legislation, providing that no em ployee shall be forced to work seven days a week, is entirely appropriate. But to name a particular day, to the possible violation of the religious convictions of some citizens, is in out-and-out conflict with the Consti tutional guarantee that "Congress shall pass no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Mandatory closure ib a limitation of freedom ; voluntary closure is an exercise of freedom. E.A. that made us, made everyone else) want to close on bundays, that s Dennis the c : ; r- 'CbULOl PLEASE HAVE SOMB Matter of Fact bv Joseph auop THE HERITAGE Washington - These words are written In an interval of packing before a flight to Berlin, that place of sa cred Western trust which is still directly d continu- Ux Jul o u s 1 y men aced by the Soviets and their East German pup pets. JOSKPH Al When this journey ends, the new American Adminis tration, will be largely form ed, and the old adminis tration will be waiting, with increasing impatience, for its cue to depart from Wash ington. It seems a good time to try to estimate the nature of the heritage, the condition of the estate, which Dwight D. Eisenhower will transmit to John F. Kennedy President Eisenhower's own estimate of his stewardship is well known from persons who have seen him recently. He Is bitterly indignant, to the point of frequent out bursts of barrack-room lan guage, about the outcome of the election. He thinks his record ought to have been overwhelmingly endorsed by a big vote for Vice President Nixon. He genuinely believes that he is leaving the nation's affairs in far better shape. rpHE country as a whole - quite clearly does not share this hopeful Presiden tial estimate. A growing un easiness grips a substantial majority, including large numbers of Rockefeller-style Republicans who voted for Nixon. The ferment -tartcd with the brutal disillusion ment of the first Soviet satel lite launching. By now, the feeling that all is somehow not as it ought to be has penetrated almost every where, except perhaps to such retreats as the locker-room of the Augusta National Meanwhile, the harsh facts indicate that the national sit uation is very much worse than the uneasy members of the general public suppose. The threat to Berlin is only the culminating symbol of what has happened to the American and Western pos ture in the world since No vember, 1952 In those years, most of them easy-g o i n g here in America, the Soviets have made Important gains In the Middle East. They have made Immense gains In chaotic Af rica. They have maintained unrelenting pressure on Southeast Asia. And even in Latin America, they have now established a major po litical base in Fidel Castro's Cuba. a IjMGHT years ago, anyone J gloomy enough to predict these developments would have been handed over to a psychiatrist. But today, the Kremlin's Influence Is power fully felt, not just along the borders of the Communist empire as In 1952, but up to 90 miles from the shores of the United States and in ev ery other strategically vital area of the globe. Nor is that the end of the story. Neutralism is growing in the bosom of the Western alliance itself, and especially in Britain, the second of the Western allies. With Berlin under threat, NATO is in deep disorder. Despite the smug proclamations of the Pentagon, the world balance of power is still deteriorating. And after eight years of na tional policy-making wholly dominated by the idea of a "sound dollar," the dollar is alarmingly weak on the inter national exchanges, and the American economy itself is stagnant or worse. In sum, the estate that Kennedy will Inherit shows a somber balance sheet. Fur thermore, the fault does not lie with Ambassador A's fol Menace CATSUP OH MV TURKEY ?' lies in country B; the balance is not so bad because Secre tary X unwisely insisted on policy Y. The trouble goes deeper than that. ' THE trouble is that the vast struggle for the world continuously demands the ut most in American vigor and imagination and national power. We cannot duck out of or elude that struggle, any more than Britain was able to duck out of or elude the struggle with Hitler in the thirties. The struggle is not of our making; it is inescapable and survival depends upon the outcome. And we have lost so much ground in this strug gle in these last years be cause we have been comfort able rather than vigorous, conservative rather than imaginative, and because these attitudes have led to grave neglect of the world power balance. The progressive, general ized loss of ground has not yet reached the kind of point-of-no-rcturn that was reach ed, in the thirties, at Munich. By a great effort, which may demand considerable sacrifice, much' of the lost ground may yet be regained. It is clear that Kennedy senses the need for such an effort. It was the whole theme of his campaign. But Kennedy's specific Ideas of how the effort ought to be made have not yet been revealed. And above all, it remains to be seen how the country will respond, hen suddenly acquainted with the true state of the national bal ance sheet, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Inventory of City Property Half Done Purchasing Agent Norman Croy said Wednesday that an inventory of all personal property owned by the city of Mcdford is now just half complete. Croy has been working on the inventory most of the lime since he was hired by the city two months ago. Croy said it is probably the first complete inventory of city personal property to be taken in many years. It is sched uled to be completed in about another month. Croy and City Manager Robert Duff said an Inventory of city real property (land and buildings) will be made following completion of the personal property inventory. When Croy has finished with the inventory, all city property valued at $5 or more will be listed on a mas ter file so the city will at all times know just where a given item is. Croy is also attempting to establish the value of each piece of personal property owned by the city. The real property inventory also would attempt to set a value for each building and piece of land owned by the city, Support Lacking At Cannon Beach Astoria - tl'PD - The pro posal before the state high way commission to close a portion of the beach at Can non Beach to vehicular traf fic during the summer months received no support at a hear ing held at the Cannon Beach city hall Tuesday night. Victor D. Wolfe, adminis trative assistant for the high way commission, conducted the brief meeting. The small group that attended included members ot the Cannon Beach city council and planning commission, Clatsop County Judge Guy Boyington and County Commissioner Verne Stratton. ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must beai the name and sddress of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper in fact the contrary is often tnt case, All the Answers To the Editor: If any of your readers would care to know what the situation will be in this country six months after the new administration takes office, a card to me at this address will bring that information promptly. We have over 950 political commentators at our domicili ary, who know exactly what the situation is at all times. They know what the new President will do and what are his plans. If you have any doubts on any subject, let me contact one of our wizards and send you the solution to the prob lem. Nothing too large or too small. Knowing just what is in the soup Jeaves little to the imagination and slightly spoils the taste, but on the contrary, this knowledge tells me whether or not to send out my laundry! You are very welcome. Malemute Slim White City, Ore. Music and Rummage To the Editor: All right, girls, I'll dig out that pen again, but I warn you that I'm too sleepy to "think fun ny." We, the Senior Citizen's Or chestra, played at the Girls' Community club Monday, Nov. 21, to help greet new comers'. Met many very nice people. Also, we made a big noise in the Armistice parade, we thought - but woe is me: Those two carpet - cr - I mean "street sweepers," right behind us made such a racket that nobody could hear us at all. Oh well, riding high up on that big truck was fun and better than being shelved as oldsters used to be before the Fifty Plus Club turned time back for us. We are going to stage a rummage sale in a few days and we'll be glad to make music for your gatherings if you'll rustle up your white elephants for us. Just call our leader, Edward Root, SPring 3-2623, and he can tell you who will pick up your ele phants and herd era to our hideout. Watch for our ad vertisement in the Tribune, and help us out, will you, huh? Yesterday, I saw two pups wrestling like school boys. A door opened, somewhere, and one ran north and the other south real fast. Those purps thought they were people, and they looked so innocent that a dog catcher wouldn't have believed they'd ever left their own yards. Aren't puppies cunning? Pcari Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. Domiciliary Hygiene To the Editor: Business mat ters recently brought me to Mcdford and 1 took advan tage of this to pay a long over-due call on a few long time friends now living at Camp White. I was shown the grounds and found them very fine In deed. There is however at least one condition existing inside the building that should have immediate attention. The width of a hallway, approxi mately four feet, is all that separates the main dining room and kitchen from a large and well patronized men's lavatory. Immediately adjoin ing this lavatory is a smaller private dining room for the use of certain staff members including a few doctors, nurs es, etc. Food, some 3,000 meals per day, is served cafeteria style, and to either enter or leave the lavatory each user must perforce break through the slowly moving line of men awaiting their turn to enter the dining room. This placing a lavatory in such close proximity to both kitchen and dining rooms is a shocking violation of every fundamental or basic rule of sanitation or hygiene. How it can be that the man agement and medical staff members cither ignore or tol erate such a condition is be yond my understanding. I spoke of this to one friend and asked if he had ever made mention of this situation to the management and he an swered, "Buddy mine, I live here . . . and I never did know of a junior in either private business, or the mill tary, that ever endeared him self to his seniors by inti mating they didn t know how to run their jobs, or simply didn't care." 1 asked him what he thought the net result would be if he had anything to do with the operation of an Army encamp ment and a wandering inspec tor found a set-up where a lavatory, while not actually in the mess hall, was as close as this one. He replied that he would probably be given a short but effective brushlng up course on camp hygiene, and then would probably be given a spot promotion and re-asslgned to some fascinat ing duty such as opening and operating a one man recruit ing office in Aitu or Adak. I learned later that the po licing of the lavatory was ap parently a part time function of at least one member on detail as a 'Food Service Worker.' With the 'Staph bug' on the rampage throughout our coun try, the ever-present risk of serious contamination Is too great to ignore. T. B. Wilcox Jr. 2728 S.W. Greenway avc. Portland, Ore. The Promise To the Editor: Thanksgiv ing is here. For many, this joyful day brings thoughts of the bounty-laden table. I fear many of us realize too late, after the dinner, that less could have been eaten. As grand as the feast is and as joyful as the meeting of friends, do we, I wonder, really realize how thankful we should be? The other day I chatted with a young mother, their first baby was only a few weeks old. Her husband lay on his sickbed in a local hos pital. As I understand it, un less God intervenes there is no hope. All around us we see sickness and death. Yet amid it all, surely we must find something for which to be thankful. Just last week I stood be side a fresh mound in a palm fringed cemetery in the Sac ramento valley. One of our loved ones had met an un timely death. A wife and three children were left. The young est, an active little chap of only 5, especially caught my heart's attention. The cry goes up everywhere from human hearts, why? Yes why? Some question God's mercy. As I stood beside that fresh mound my mind went ahead to that glad reunion day com ing soon. Our Lord's unfailing promises will soon reach their consummation. It is written in Holy Writ that a grand day is soon to come. Let us take His word and truly be thankful. These promises to all mankind are no fantastic day-dream, but the world's one a n d only hope. Don't take man's ideas but study and learn from the Holy Scriptures what is In store for all who love our Blessed Lord. Let's really be thankful as we keep looking up and beyond this vale of tears. . -Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 68 Ashland, Ore. Mrs. Nye Criticised To the Editor: Regardless oi tne criticism that I may receive for Writing this let ter, I feel it is more impor tant, that the people of this county know how some of us feel about the new prospec tive replacement of the state senate. She has placed her mis fortune of the last election to what she refers to "the hatchet man." Of course her past record had nothing to ao witn ner defeat! I would further like to en lighten some of you who may not know of her keen abilities in using her own hatchet. She has made questionable state ments which reflected upon the integrity and abilities of professional (Republicans and Democrats) business men. She admitted to me personally that she did pull such blunders and that 11 was based only on a rumor, yet her memory was so short that she could not even remember the source of such a rumor. I sincerely feel there are many good qualified Republi cans who can serve and rep resent the people of this county with dignity and re spect then the present nom inee who draws her conclu sions from gossip and rum ors. Edward M. McGii'.'.y 103 King st. Medford. Editor's note: Writer of this letter was the unsuccessful Democratic c a n d i d a t e for county surveyor. Primaries To the Editor: Subject, Presidential primaries. For the past SO years I have watched the farce of se lecting our presidential n didate in a convention where about 10 or 15 so called boss politicians tell 180 million people whom their candidate is going to be whether the people like it or not. Now when the voters know a year ahead as they did this year whom their nominees are going to be, we cease to have free elections. True they have picked two very good men this year but the voters are lucky when they do. There is no reason why the president and vice-presiHent cannot be selected in the pri maries the same as our sena tors and congressmen. Per- haps it would take a little space on the ballot, but then everyone would participate as Americans in the selection of their leader for the coming 4 years. I have spoken to many po litically active persons here and about my home town on this subject and find very much support. I am writing this letter hop ing that it will help to arouse the voting public to this press ing problem. Charles A. Robinson 429 Tuxedo Blvd. Webster Groves 19, Mo. Censorship To the Editor: Frank Jen kin's column was good, plain and honest. Personally know ing some of the said censor board, I made it an urgent means to appear and have a few words. Not that it is in my interest to uphold any lewd books or magazines, they are cold, lifeless words and pictures, not forced upon anyone decent, but, some of your sons and daughters are real live flesh and hot blood that are not put away on shelves. On beaches, in parks or ever so many places they go through acts and motions that will outdo any of these books or magazines in suggestive lust and lewdness, such as your dogs' can be carted to the pound and put to death for, because of doing such things before the public's eyes. Oh yes, there is much in the Douay, Rheims, Vulgate and King James versions of the Holy Scriptures that could not be copied and sent through our mails legally. I much doubt if the Wy cliffe translation of the Johann Gutenberg , Bible could so be sent by mail as is. The Rev. A. Gilman 322 South Riverside ave. Medford. Gifts for Christmas To the Editor: The Jackson county chapter of the Oregon State Mental Health associa tion is having the annual Christmas Gift Drive for 6,000 children and adult patients of the state hospitals for the men tally ill and emotionally dis turbed. This year gifts on the "wanted list" Include musical Instruments, new clothing for all ages, cigarettes, games and cards, craft supplies, toilet ries and cosmetics, costume jewelry, and all kinds of pack age mixes. Donors are requested not to wrap gifts, but Christmas wrapping materials are need ed so the patients may partici pate In this Christmas activi ty. If donation is preferred, please make remittance pay able to the Mental Health As sociation of Oregon and send to me at the address below. The gift collection depot is Room 2 of the Medford High school, 815 South Oakdale ave., and if you would like to have the gifts picked up, call SPring 3-2360. Your participation in this worthwhile project will be greatly appreciated. Mrs. Harry Watson Christmas Gift Chairman Mental Health Association of Oregon 2715 S. Pacific Hwy. Medford. "Stone's Review" To the Editor: Reading your paper and column, there are some things I haven't found there, one the "Stone's Re view," a segment of our gov ernment set up to disqualify as many of our boys (veter ans) as possible. Reason: ob viously - money. We are so poor, we can do so little for our aged, the Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A PARK AVENUE psychoanalyst was driving peacefully - on the N. Y. Thruway when a speed maniac rammed him from behind. The analyst leapt from his car waving nis iisi ana screaming, "You idiot! You numb skull! You rat!" Then, suddenly, he remembered his profession, and added, "Now tell me why you hate your mother." There is no reason for a banquet chairman to writhe when a speaker pulls a boner or says something way out of line. As the late William Collier used to point out when he was act ing as toastmaster, "It's my job only to introduce the speakers: not guarantee them!" A big movie star, handsome, dashing and dumb, was accorded a reception in Japan. Suddenly called upon to speak, with not a ghost writer within hailing distance, the big star floundered, "Er, hello out there! Er I want to tell you that your flu haj caught on real big in the U.S.A.!" OUea bj BenwU Cert. Dlsuibuud by Kiaf features Syadjeata next step down would be cut off the veterans. Dear Mom; I wondered it you knew, your boy could die in the Stones Review." Cause Uncle Sam needs mon ey to put a man into space, lor foreign aid and the missile race. So if your boy's blood wasn't shed overseas or on the ocean blue, It may )e shed now in the "Stone's 'Aa view." It all adds ui n the course of time, seems men's lives aren't worth a dime. They can be shot down on a foreign sod, to be re membered by their own and God, or they can cut their throat by a slick cue, and it's going on now in the "Stone's Review." Cause Uncle Sam needs money to put a man into space, for foreign aid, and the missile race. So Mom, I wondered If you knew -your boy may die in the "Stone's Review." It is true, Mr. C. A. Kel schmer, (letter Nov. 9) World War I veteran. The boys marched to Washington, D.C., and one was shot and blood was shed, because men were hungry. There was a depres sion, but we had no work men! compensation. Now we have workmens compensa tion and a recession, both came under a Republican ad ministration. Things look brighter now with a Democratic president. I believe a president, while in office, should have all the necessary means, of money and equipment, to execute his duties, but when retired, he too, should be cut off like "veterans who escaped un scathed" from their battle of nerves. Many veterans return ed "unscathed" with a bad heart condition, and greater nervous irritably, unable to work. And being cut off means starvation. Ex-presidents have money and do not have to worry about starving. A lot of people made more money at home during the .war than veterans, and were quite happy to be 4F. A lot were very happy because their job was such they were not "compelled" to leave home. Personally, I do not believe any veteran returned "un scathed." Thelma Glad, 1427 Lawnridge, Medford Good Boys To the Editor: May I ex press my sincere appreciation to Mary Shaw for her thought ful, understanding letter re garding the Medford High school football team. Dick Jewett also painted the pic-, ture very clearly in his Fan fare column (Nov. 22), re quired reading for those who speak of overconfidence!! In view of publicity during the season, it has been some times difficult to remember, that our "football machine" was composed of hardwork ing, conscientious boys who were deeply concerned about ever "letting Medford down." Strange as it may seem, this old machine was nibbled by assorted flu bugs, developed mud in its gears and resisted heavy pressure from all an gles. In previous years several service clubs and interested groups have arranged post season parties for the teams who went to state play-offs. This season they are showing their appreciation in the same manner and the boys are pleasantly surprised. Perhaps a game was lost but they have won the knowledge that loyal friends are always ready to reward outstanding efforts. Lillian Connolly 523 Newtown st. Medford. A WEIGH WITH BIRDS New York - IUPII - A group of 35 New York butchers will be doing the Thanksgiving turkey trot soon - right into markets department or magis trates court hearings. The butchers were charged with short-weighing their birds in incognito purchases by a team of 40 markets department in spectors Wednesday. 2f I"' & i
