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Newspaper Page TextSTf22 -Everyone in Southern Oregon iteada The Mail Tribune fiikliihcd Dally except Saturday by 31 North Mr St., Ph 8P 2-8141 B?5H5rT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advntlilni Manager GEKALD T unnftm oui mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnf Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Tele Editor pTr-HAnn JKWZTT SoorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'e Editor DALE ERICKbON. nrcuiaiion mgr An Inrlsnenrfent Newioaner Entered aa aecond data matter et Medford. Oreron. under Aet Of March 3. 1897 RTmACRIPTlON RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday fl mof Jim Dally and Sunday 3 moa 43S Sunday Only One year 4.20 Tn AilwanrA Medford Aihland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Core. Rogue Rlv er Talent and on motor rnutet Dally and Sunday 1 vear 318 no Dally and Sunday 1 mo I 80 Carrier and Dealert copy 10c All Terrna Caah In Advanc "6lelal Paper of City of Medford . official PPof JacJcon Couniv " " United Pre" Internationa) Full Leaaed Wire Tl P.1 Telaphoto Newiplctures "TSEMPER Of AUDIT BtmEXtT OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising R"epreentajive: ' WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC Of fleet In New York. Chicago De trolt. San Prandneo. Loa Angelea. Seattle, Portland St. Loula. At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County Hlttory from the filet of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO veart ago. 10 YEARS AGO . Nov. 27. 1930 (Monday) Six thefts or attempted thefts from autos were re ported to city police during the week end. Most city businesses and professions have purchased their 1951 businesses licenses early, according to to City Ll ' cense Collector Lynn Brown. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 27. 1940 (Wednesday) Hundreds of persons gath ered at the Oregon-California border yesterday to wit riBM the dedication of a new section of the Pacific high way across the Slsklyous From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Mr, , -Hitlop has decided upon a hnnrlit off oollcy' In Greece, if he had It to do over again, in the light of military events, no doubt Mussolini wouia now be for a 'nose out' pol Icy." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 27, 1930 (Friday) The school board has called a special election Dec. 16 on " a proposed school building expansion program, A man was sentenced to 15 years In prison here yes terday after being found guilty of the armed robbery of a Central Point bank two months ago. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 27. 1920 (Sunday) A heavy, penetrating fog and near freezing weather has settled like a blanket over the valley. The local chamber of com ' merce has begun an all-out campaign for more members. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 27. 1910 (Sunday) George H. Kyle, one of the west s top road building en' aineers. arrived In Jackson' ville today, to begin locating a road for the Rogue River Valley railroad from Jackson ville to the Applegnte section What's Your I.Q.? Nina or (en correct It lupetlen even or eight la excellent! five ei tlx la good. ' 1. What Is meant by the franking privilege which Is held by Congressmen? 2. The names of how many States contain the word "New"? 3. Which is the shorter dl rect route from New York to Singapore, via Panama or Suez canals? 4. What are the first three letters of the Greek alphabet? 5. What territory did the United States acquire from Denmark? 6. Name the authors of the four gospela of the New Testa ment of the Bible. 7. What Is another name for the writer, William Sid ney Porter? 8. The Gold Coast is In Africa. Where Is the Ivory Coast? 9. In chess, what piece moves in three different man ners according to circum stances leading to the play? 10. The tendency of a piece of lumber to absorb moisture more readily on one side than on the other causes what ac tion to take place? Answersi 1. Right to free mailing privilege. 2, Four New Jersey, York, Mexico and Hampshire. 3. Suet. 4. Alpha, Beta, Gamma. 5. Vir gin Islands. 6. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. 7. O'Henry. S. Africa. 9. Pawn. 10, Warping. I Pannb Here To Stay The motion picture iun-page advertisement in "Editor & Publisher," the major trade magazine of the newspaper busi ness, letting its readers know the movie industry's views on a variety of subjects. A recent one was rarents. And it said: "Some people apparently think motion picture theaters should add baby sitting to their functions. " 'The movies should be run,' they say, 'so we can . send our children there any time. And the Motion Picture Production Code shouldn't give a Seal to films we don't want our children to see.' "That's their opinion; we must disagree. "Certainly there are films not suitable for chil dren. They are publicly identified by the PTA, the Protestant Motion Picture Council, the Catholic Legion of Decency, and numerous other Interested groups. "It's easy to find out about movies. There's hardly a newspaper or magazine or publication in the United States that doesn't tell about movies in advance. This enables the public to choose its film entertainment. "But the Production Code never was Intended to replace parents. It never was Intended to make every film appropriate for a junior matinee. It was and is intended to assure that motion pictures of many kinds, made for many audiences, are kept within rea sonable moral bounds. That is what it does. "It leaves bringing up children to parents which seems to be what parents are for. "We think this is right. "We hope that in this country parents are here to slay." THAT'S a pretty good statement. We 'agree with most of it. Maybe it's because there are so many pres sures on both youngsters and parents, these days, but the fact is that in too many cases parents leave the major responsibility for indoctrinating and training their children to others. They leave it to the schools. To the" churches. To the YMCA or the Boy and Girl Scouts. To the neighbors. Even to other children. And while most of these do, or attempt to do, a laudable job, they simply cannot replace the good influence of parents on their own children, through precept and example. DARENTS influence children no matter what they do or don't do. The parent who ducks his responsibility is influencing his child just as much as the one who exerts every effort to in culcate proper attitudes and habits. The two mtluences, directions. But they're positive and negative. And the two varieties every economic and social level, too. The mother who spends too much of her time playing golf or bridge with her socially-elect friends at the country club is just as culpable as the mother who leaves her youngsters to spend a few hours at the corner tavern. Maybe more so; theoretical ly, she should know better. A LL the ills of the world would not be solved " if parents, en masse, decided to assume their full responsibility lor the dren in morals, in attitudes, in education. But the ills, of the world would be far fewer, indeed, if this were to come to pass. Lacking this, society still must continue to cany at least part of the load. But we see no reason why the failure of so many parents to serve as true guardians of their offspring should be taken as an excuse by self- appointed censors and attempt to impose their own standards on every one else. E.A. .Rewriting Oregon's Constitution On Nov. 8, the voters gin a proposal to empower the legislature to re' vise Oregon's constitution, if it so elected. The .Oregon Journal might be accomplished, committee, composed of considerable representation of non-legislator members from many fields, including the law, be empanelled to draft a proposed new consti tution for submission to a later legislature. We don't think the legislature, torn is it is with factionalism and burdened down with some 1,500 bills each session ing with insufficient pay is in any position to do a competent job of rewriting the constitution during a regular session., DUT an interim committee, well chosen, could u serve as sort of a "little constitutional con vention," and present its which then could adopt, If it annrovprl it. Iw a houses (not an easy thing to get, these days) it would tro to a vote of the V ' . the state s basic charter. If they, in turn, approved it, it would become And we need one. The United States Consti tution takes up 7 pages in Oregon's takes up 21 pages. It is cluttered, not only with a lot of obsolete provisions, but also many "special interest" provisions placed there (by vote of the people) paigns. This sort of thing not in the Constitution. DUT it will be found that rewriting the Consti- tution will not be an easy job. There will be objections voiced to many proposed deletions, and there will be inevitable suggested additions for "special interest" type legislation. But if a good interim committee can come up with a draft Constitution good enough to meet with approval of two-thirds of the legislature, it would have to be a good one. In such a case, a majority of the people prob ably would go along with it. E.A. j industry regularly places a headlined, "Let's Keep obviously, are in contrary influences, noije the less, of mtluences occur at training ot their chil moralistic tut-tutters to approved by a big mar now suggests how this lis idea is that an interim both legislators and a to say nothing of serv work to the legislature, reject or amend it. two-thirds vote of hnth people. ....... ... the Oregon Blue Book: after aggressive cam belongs in the statutes, MEOFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Dennis the Menace 'Wasn't thata pretty good Drummond (Walter Lippmann it in South America. Roicoe Drummond report! from Washington in hit abtence.) ' WHAT, NO FIFTH DEBATE! Washington - Is President elect Kennedy already prepar ing to back out of any cam paign "debates" in 1964? One might have thought that the man who so much wanted this year's fifth "de bate," would be eager to re schedule it as the first debate of the next campaign! But Bobby Kennedy is strongly hinting that the an swer is no-no more debating now that the great debater has become President. And when Bobby Kennedy speaks, we have found he usually knows what his brother wants said. What Bobby Kennedy is saying in effect is: 1 - The debates were a big factor in winning the election. 2 - Let's have no more of them. Now, if you believe that candidate s campaign - even a president's campaign - is entirely his own business and that the voters should have nothing to say about it, then this Kennedy view is quite tenable; that is, since these debates have accomplished their purpose, away with them. From this viewpoint Robert Kennedy can' argue that you can't expect the President of the United States to share his potentially greater audience with his opponent and by so doing raise the challenger to the level of an equal. Franklin Roosevelt wouldn't debate Wendell Willkie and in 1944 would hardly admit that Thomas Dewey was running. BUT there Is another way to look at these debates. As I see it, these debates are not primarily the possession of the candidates, to be used or de nied as best suits their tactical advantage. The debates belong primarily to the voters who are entitled to demand that the nominees appear Jointly so that they can be viewed and judged face-to-face and their claims examined back-to-back. This may or may not be good for candidates under all circumstances. Does it matter? It is one of the best means thus far achieved to enable the vot ers to choose the President. It is not provable that the dc; bates won or lost the election. What is clear is that they heightened public Interest in the campaign, brought out constantly larger crowds at the rallies, increased the total vote, and, in my judgment have an unrealized and great potential for political educa tion, Can you imagine what Sen ator Kennedy would have been saying if Vice President Nixon had refused the Invi tation of the networks to ac cept free time for joint ap pearances? Well, after four of them, Mr. Kennedy wanted more and after Mr. Nixon had four times debated the issues, Mr. Kennedy argued that the Vice President was running away, was afraid to debate be cause he sidestepped a fifth debate. Can President Kennedy se riously contend that candidate Kennedy's own argument-lhat he who won t debate is a "fraidy cat" - wouldn't be valid in 1964? T AM NOT suggesting that the format of the debates should be unchanged. These joint appearances were experi mental. There should be nu merous ways to improve them. One hour seems too short. two hours too long. An hour and a half would be about right and then some of the issues could be discussed more meatily. I would like to sec at least one of the debates conducted without any panel at all-just a moderator. The candidates could take one or even two main subjects and, in addition to direct argument and rebut xlllj vcm ron a umE kid? Reports tal, could ask each other ques tions. Furthermore, it seems to me that one of the mistakes was to look at the debates as "quiz shows" and insist that the panel "surprise" the can didates with their questions. I would favor serving advance notice of what the questions will be - as in the question period of the House of Com mons. We want the candidates' considered answers, not their off-the-cuff indiscretions. In compensation for serving no tice of the questions, the pan el should be free to ask the most probing follow-up ques tions. I hope that in this Instance Robert Kennedy is not speak ing for his brother. I would hate to see President Kennedy desert the New Frontier of campaigning. If the voters want these de bates, I think they can suc cessfully insist upon them, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF A DIGNIFIED GENTLEMAN was picking his way ginger ly along an ice-covered side street in Manhattan when his hat was deftly knocked off by a perfectly aimed snow fa a 11. The gentleman wheeled about with sur prising agility and col lared the culprit a thinly-clad boy. "You're a menace to the neighborhood," he chided, "and besides, you will catch your death of cold out here without a coat. Why aren't you in school anyhow?" The boy explained, "I've got the measles." An elderly farmer re luctantly accepted his daughter's Invitation to spend a week with her husband and her self in Chicago. When he got back home he reached happily for his overalls, pipe and slippers and explained to his wife. "What I like least about the big city is that the minute you step out of the house, you're away from home." C 1060, by Bennett Cerf; Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate Leprechaun's Dream By ERIC SEVAREID If wishes were white horses, the social critic, if not the beggar, would ride at the 'W3r,SrWI head of the Inaugural pa rade down P e nnsylvania Avenue; and if, the crank handle of the White House mimeogr a p h machine were a magic wand, we would sing as we spun out executive or ders. Behold the wondrous transformations to which our ink-smudged paper tablets would command the country: Beauty we would order, and the people would have again the legacy their fore fathers committed to their care the American land- scapc-with the scabrous bill boards, the idiot eyes of neon signs, the junk yard carrion heaps all vanished like a nightmare and the spacious glory of the land reborn. We would summon from their hiding places those arch itects who knew all the time that a box of glass and metal is scarcely a work of art, that the human eye wearies of straight lines, that only the natural substances of wood and stone and clay ac commodate time and twilight and the shine of high noon, and that not ivy but ulcers are the only living things that grow on aluminum and glass. We would order the ease' Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE THREATENED CITY Berlin - No place on earth conveys a more vivid sense of America's world-responsibility than this brisk, brave, bustling, im perilled city. Coming here again, in the second year of the second Berlin crisis, is a sobering experience, yet It is ex- too. especially if your first memory of Berlin is the Berlin of 1945 - a city all in ruins, with demobilized Red Army soldiers hopefully harnessing stolen horses to stolen farm carts in the Tier garten, for the long drive back to Russia. As the plahe glides downwards over the Berlin rooftops, you think of that for gotten time, and of the heroic moment of the airlift, and of the big men who have repre sented America In Germany in the years since the war. Then, quite suddenly, through the windows of the admirable Mercedes taxi, the city confronts you. Not only are the ruins gone. Not only is the grim, pinched bleakness of the city besieged nowhere to be seen. In these last two years, while daily threatened with a renewal of the seige, Berlin has acquired a curious, northern beauty all its own, adding a new solid handsome ness while, further brightening its hard won glitter of pros perity. TO THIS free city, you cart not help but think with pride, we in America have made our contribution. And then you discover, with some amazement, that every politi cally minded Berliner, from Mayor Willi Brandt to the por ter at the hotel, is now joy fully quoting a statement by President-elect John F. Ken nedy which has not even been heard about in America. The history of this state ment - the sternest made by any Western leader since the second Berlin crisis began -is interesting. It was part of a heavily copyrighted inter view, in the form of written answers to written questions, of daily living that our space and our wealth imply. Vfei would dispel the modern plague of mechanical beetles, end the cowardly abandon ment of our cities to the au tomobile, and make our great communities cities of man once more. People would travel by fast interurban pub lic transport as God intended the commuter to travel, bump less through the field of finest print in the leisurely morn ing paper. The edifice engraved upon our paper currency would not be the Treasury building but the Supreme Court of justice, symbol of our new Income tax system which would provide no more escape hatches for the business owner than it does for the wage and salary workcr-that is, none at all. . We would not merely sing but shout for joy as we spun out the orders stopping the bequest of trust-fund deduc tion gimmicks whereby the very rich may hoard master pieces of art and educate their children at virtually no cost to themselves whatever. We would boldly assert that human flesh wears out at least as rapidly as a steel tractor and permit a one-per ccnt-a-ycar deduction to every worker by hand or brain after the age of 40, under tax form line A-l - "human deprecia tion." We expect to stay with this Justice binge, champagne glass in one hand, all through In auguration night and to hell' hilaratine Mli- which was granted by Ken nedy to a European news agency, just before the elec tion, for publication in case he was elected. With no qualifications what ever, Kennedy stated in this interview that the defense of Berlin's freedom was essen tial to the security of the whole free world. There was no real difference, he suggest ed, between defending Berlin and defending Paris or New York. And still without the smallest qualification Kenne dy added, no doubt with an eye on Nikita S. Khrushchev, that everyone ought to realize that the United States would certainly fight for Berlin if need be. mHE TEXT of this Kennedy statement ought to be re leased, without copyright, for American publication. The contrast is sharp with the most important of President Eisen hower's statements on Berlin, which greatly upset Chancel lor Adenauer. This was the circular formula offered by the President at the Paris N4TO meeting: that the sacri fice of Berlin was "unthink able"; but that Berlin could only be defended if we were willing to go to war for it, which was also unthinkable, It was something of a shock, for a professionally assiduous American newspaper reader, to hear this quite different Kennedy statement for the first' time from the lips of Mayor Brandt. After the last two years of hoping for the best without preparing for the worst while the Berlin crisis dragged wearily onwards, such sternly straightforward language from the new Presi dent put the outlook in a new perspective, as Mayor Brandt remarked. If Kennedy has indeed reached the absolutely final decision he is quoted as hav ing reached in the European interview, it explains his ad vocacy, during the campaign, of an immediate airborne alert of the Strategic Air Com mand. Without this minimum measure of mobilization, the American will to defend Ber lin at all costs will hardly carry conviction. It also means many things. In particular, it means that there are likely to be some pretty breathless mo ments while Khrushchev and Kennedy test each other's wills. THERE will be some at home, and there will be many in London and elsewhere, who will not like the apparent cold finality of Kennedy's decision, Here in Berlin, however, It is easier to sympathize with this finality than it may be else where. It seems hardly credible, but this city, while under daily threat, has made great progress - and not just in self beautification. Unemploy ment, which was still serious at the time of Khrushchev's 1958 ultimatum, has now been replaced by a labor shortage. Production has reached new records. So has the city's pros perity. Berlin, in truth, is a marvelous monument, show ing how much men can ac complish against heavy odds by courage and Industry and common sense. It remains for the future to show whether the monument will stand, and if this is the outcome, what the cost will be. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune) Inc. of a New with the red-eye or red-ink .hangover, till we fix things so an American Negro no lohger has his private expla nation of why the Goddess of Justice is not only blind but white, and until a hospital room for a child with menin gitis no longer costs as much as a suite at the Waldorf for a company vice president with an expense account. When we start waving our magic crank handle over the federal bureaucracy - hold your hat-we will equip every "in" and "out" basket in Washington with the moving floor mechanical principle and eliminate both bafflegab and gobbledygook as the local tongues, replacing them with the one other people know as plain English. The prefixes "inter" and "co" will die out of the language as we mow down superfluous committees. We will install Big Brother is Watching You television screens in every office of State, Defense and Atomic Energy, after which any more contradictory policy state ments' from officials in these three establishments will mean instant exile to Santiago de Cuba. In the realm of world pol icy we will cause simple Truths to dawn at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue in a blinding double sunrise of common sense, to-wit: That "closing the missile gap" is not the real security problem. The real problem, pending a start on mutual j POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Horse-trading used to be an old and honorable (?) voca tion in this land of pioneers. Perhaps we would all benefit if there were still some of it locally on a governmental basis. For instance, our staff ex pert on county govern ment recently attended a meeting of county officials upstate, and reports that com missioners of a southwest Washington county were con fronted with a problem of how to eradicate a driftwood jam on a beach. They worked it out nicely -traded the driftwood to a contractor in exchange for his building a better road into the beach area. Now, about those snags in Hyatt lake. . . . "But Mama," laid the little girl to her mother, who was threatening a spanking despite the com pany in the house, "these people don't want to hear me cry!" Editor, Potluck Dear Sir: About a year ago, I wrote you a serious, scien tific letter, describing the "Side Hill Gouger," and how his scream is sometimes mis taken by the uneducated as the cry of a cougar or moun tain lion. For some unknown reason, you decided it was "funny." Of course I was insulted, and have been sulking ever since. After spinning my prayer wheel for guidance and nine months of meditation, I have decided to ignore you (I can be pretty ignorant at times) and send you the enclosed historical data on an early Rogue Valley resident, my heretofore unexposed Uncle Gladys. Sincerely, Tim J. Horn Box 177, Jacksonville Editor's note: For lack of space in the Thursday paper, which is the one which usual ly carries scientific and his torical information, we re produce Mr. Horn's story, en titled "Uncle Gladys," below, slightly condensed: Thirty-five years' ago some things were different. - I was nine then, Ma had given me permission to look through the old family pic ture album. (Ma was busy sorting raisins' in preparation for tomorrow's pie baking. The raisins had been used by Baby Sister in a game of Bingo which she had been playing in the back yard. She had spilled them a couple of times, and put them all back in the sack. We had a sheep ranch, so you can see how hazardous it would be, baking a pie without sort ing the raisins.) I came to a picture in the album of a child of six or sev en, with long curls and dress. I thought it was a girl, but the notation on the corner of the picture said "Uncle Gladys." "Hey, Ma! How come this here girl's picture says 'Un cle Gladys?' It looks more like a little girl." "Well, Son," says Ma, "It's a sad story in our family, but I guess that you are old enough now to hear it." Grandma was a very busy woman, with her 11 boys and 1 girl. She didn't have much time to waste on unimportant America disarmament which is still far off, are preventing sur prise attack or accidental war and the spread of atomic weapons to other nations. That we won't even begin to penetrate the dangerous mysteries of Communist China until we can talk with her. That the United Nations is the "parliament of man" only in terms of debate, not of legislation, and that assem bling representatives from all governments, including many of the most corrupt and ig norant on earth, does not transform the institution into the "conscience of mankind." That an over-all "settle ment" with world revolution ary force is a contradiction in terms. Well, - we could spin the magic wand for hours yet. But sparrows are starting to chatter in the back garden. A milk wagon Just rattled past on Pennsylvania Ave enue. We will stack the paper windrow of wishes on the real President's desk, fountain pen beside it, then swing down from1 the Truman balcony, scuttle across the Eisenhower putting green, and like a leprechaun (who else under stands the Irish?) hide in the nearest magnolia to discover if the new President, unlike his defeated opponent, swears on government time. (Distributed 1960 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER H7, I960 things. When her 13th baby was born there was nr. Iter,,. sene for the lantern, so the only light In the room was from a rag burning in a can of bacon fat. The doctor had mm. tM tend a sick hog. Grandpa had paid him with a gallon of his famous Mountain Dew Aa long as the doctor was there. ne volunteered to stay until Grandma should have her baby. To while awav th ,m Dr. Myre had sipped on his fee, and accidentally broke his glasses while he mH Grandpa were practicing In- aian wrasslin. Dr. Myre was awful tnui-. sighted, and almost hlinri without his specs, so when the baby was born he made a mistake In the dim light and said "It's a girl!" Like I said, Grandma was awful busy, so she never no. ticed that the child was a hn, They named the baby Gladys. Gladys had a happy, nor mal childhood until the age of six. One Sunday the whola tamiiy went down to the val ley community and 1oinoH in the fun at a revival and pic nic. Gladys was nlavinr with a valley girl his age, and, since it was warm, thpv want swimming. What with one tning and another, Gladys came running back to Grand pa, crvine that he was sort nf different from other little girls. Grandpa was startled, but comforted little Gladvs hv getting him store boughten overalls. Later that summer Gladys was missing for a few days. Nobody worried because he had a habit of wandering around in the forest, playing house in a bear's den, or soma other childish amusement. Grandpa was cooking off a batch of Dew. He had 21 gallons made and was reload ing when he noticed some thing blue at the bottom ot the mash vat-Gladys's store boughten overalls. Grandpa was terribly shak en. No one could console him for his loss. He didn't feel that he could sell the 21 gallons of Dew to any of his regular customers. There could be something poisonous in the dye they use in store bought en overalls. Finally he remembered, "There is a fellow in Ashland who has a Brush car!" Grand pa contacted him and sold the 21 gallons of Dew. Grandpa was very pleased when the man reported get ting 31 miles per gallon. Grandpa never tired of tell ing people how proud he was of Uncle Gladys and how glad he was that one of his children had gone so far in the world. For no reason that we can determine, that story reminds us of another one about the Tibetan house wife who imelled something burning, and rushed into the kitchen to open the oven, crying, "Oh, my bak ing Yakll" Our old stand-by, the Hoover Hi-Lite, arrived on schedule last week. But in ad dition, we also received a copy of another fine publica tion, one we had not had the opportunity of seeing before, the Lone Pine News. It is, in the words of the unknown Potluck "fan" (that's FOUR of them!) who sent it to us, "an up and - coming school paper." And our anonymous friend pointed out in particular a Thanksgiving poem by fifth Grader Betsy Jahn, which goes this way: On Thanksgiving I am thankful, And well I ought to bel For our land and for our freedom And for grass and flower and tree. I am glad I have two parents, And like things they do for me. On- Thanksgiving I am thankful, And well I ought to be, Thank you, Betsy. Well said. We hope your turkey was an especially good one. Meanwhile, back at Hoover school, the second grade has been studying about Olympic lk. Linda Pollard reports that "The elk climb snowy mountains in the spring. Elk fight with . each other. The father elk have antlers. They fight with antlers." And she drew a picture ot one of the father elk, who, with three antlers, is particu larly well-equipped for that fighting. Here it is: