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OF SMITH & MEN By Jack Smith (c) I960 Tlmes-Mlrror Syndicate Psychologists say that if you think you're losing your mind you're probably as sound as a nut. In that case I have nothing to fear. I should laugh at my symptoms. But lately I've been unnerved a couple of times. When I went out on the porch this morning for the paper, the sun was over the rooftops. I sat On the step for a minute in my pajamas and threw my head Back and shut my eyes. The sun warmed my eye lids. I pulled up my pajama legs to warm my kneecaps. I smiled. I drank in great gulps of morning air, windmilling my arms, to improve my cir culation. ' In this ecstasy I failed to hear the approach of two small girls coming up the sidewalk on their way up the hill to grammar school. I be came aware of them only as they were abreast of . the porch. "Thai's him!" said one. She delivered this intelligence in a stentorian whisper. "It is?" whispered her com panion. "He looks kookie, all right." "Sshh!" said the first girl. They exploded in muffled giggling and broke into a trot up the hill. So, I thought, I'm already the neighborhood eccentric. Kookie? I wasn't sure pre cisely what that meant. But I realized I was regarded as kookie, whatever it meant, and probably also a square, whatever that meant. I went back in the house feeling gloomy. I was too young to be the neighborhood' dingbat. When I was a boy that distinction was assigned to veterans of the Civil War or Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. I put on my old straw hat and lay down on the living room couch to 'read the news and shave. "Why the hat?" my wife said. "Because," I explained, "There's somebody in the bathroom and I can't get in to comb my- hear which keeps falling down in my eyes so I can't see to shave." "Oh," she said. She went in the kitchen, thinking. In a moment she was back. "But you're not using the mirror to snave, she said. "You're shaving with the elec tric razor and reading with your eyes. I was utterly annoyed. "How," I asked acidly, "can I read when I haven't got my glasses on?" They try to make you think you re crazy when you aren t. Nevertheless, I brooded all day about being thought kookie by the new genera tion. Maybe this was on my mind down at the office when,! put a piece of paper in the type writer and, not being able to see what I was writing, put on my earphone. I use the earphone to take notes over the telephone. As soon as I had put on the earphone I noticed that I couldn't see any better. Then I realized, of course, that what I really had meant to do was put on my glasses. I looked about. Apparently nobody had seen me. I was pondering this lapse of normal behavior when the telephone rang. I was glad enough for the distraction. I took off the earphone and put on my glasses and said "Hello." The line was dead. "Hello? Hello?" I repeated Then I realized I had my glasses on instead of my ear phone. I looked quickly about. A chap named Ames, who sits nearby and keeps an eye on me, was watching in speech less fascination. I took off my glasses and put on my ear phone. "Hello!" I shouted. The line was dead. They had hung up. I glanced toward Ames. He gave me a small compassion ate smile and looked away. He seemed embarrassed. I got up casually and went to the water fountain to sharpen a cigarett. LANDSLIDES KILL SIX Manizales, Colombia -IUPD-Landslides caused by a cloud burst in western Colombia swept away six houses in Cal das pr9vin.ee Monday night, killing at least six and per haps as many as lfi persons. ' fi ? i - F'4 Flwsf PREPARED TO FIGHT Homeowners Jack Klein and his a lawn like every other Westlake lawn. Klein angrily corn wife, Sally, stand in their yard in the Westlake subdivision pared The Organization with the Gestapo and the Soviets o San Francisco, as they prepare to fight The Organization, and said he is going to take the matter to his attorney. He The Organization Westlake Subdivision Improvement has has $300 invested in the ivy, and grass just will not grow in given the Kleins until Dec. 25 to yank out their newly- the yard, he said. planted ivy from their front yard. It must be replaced with (UPI Telephoto) Board To Consider Research Cenler Portland - (UPD- The State Board of Higher Education said Tuesday it would consid er at its January meeting a proposal to place the Oregon Forest Research Center at Corvallis with Oregon State college under the State Board of Higher Education. Board members generally indicated' favorable response to the proposal, made Monday by members of the State For est Protection and Conserva tion committee. The commit tee supervises the center. The proposal would involve action by the 1961 legislature. Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1960 PAGES 1 to 12 Back Stairs: Elaborate Preparations By WILLIAM J. EATON Washington - (UPD - Back J stairs at the White House: President-elect John-F. Ken nedy will benefit immediately upon taking office from elab orate emergency plans draft ed by the White House staff during the Eisenhower years. Under the current set-up, for example, the chief execu tive can be whisked off the White House lawn bv helicoD- THE FACE IS AMERICA... THE TASTE IS CANADA DRY - 'ijtn. --d.tr M&.mX 3 I ffl imwi It Thls man is a 8uesL He 0011,11 be a 2uest l.9l1Pn9 I I r iff 8M6ER At! SffvTvf GRAPEFRUIT bdlldUd Uiy I g s Club Soda Mi in your home. He's enjoying the highball you made with Canada Dry Club Soda. That means he'll enjoy the entire evening. ..the next day, too. Important points to remem ber about Canada Dry Mixers. They make a highball taste better. Blend smoothly with the spirits, never dominate. They help you feel better. Canada Dry's exclusive "Pin Point Carbonation" curbs unhappy mornings-after. Research proves it Always mix your highballs with any Canada Dry Mixer. Coast-to-coast-Canada Dry... America's First Family of Beverages ter within six minutes after an alert is sounded. Kennedy and his advisers will also inherit a sheaf of proclamations prepared for use in case of an armed attack or other war emergency. One o the lealures - pro visions for a 16-man press- radio-TV pool to travel with the president to a relocation cenler was inserted into plans at the insistence of James C. Hagerly, press secre tary to Eisenhower. Hagerty was surprised to learn that no provision had been made for emergency news coverage of the presi dent during the Truman administration. Uncooperative Stars Nominated Hollywood (UPD The Holly wood Women's Press club has announced it will resume its policy of giving mythical raspberry to uncooperative stars and promptly nominated five actors and actors. Nominees as the most unco operative actors this year were Elvis Presley, James Garner and Yul Brynner. The actresses tabbed were Marilyn Monroe and Debbie Reynolds. The club said nominees for the 19th annual Golden Apple awards to filmland's most co operative stars were Roger Smith, Jack Lemmon, Sandra Dee, Nanette Fabray and Janet Leigh. Winners in both categories will be announced Dec. 20. The group said its "Sour Ap ple" designation had been dropped in 1955 and revived this year. Portland-IUPlt-The Portland School Board has adopted a tentative budget of $34.3 mil lion for 1961-62 which would include salary increases of more than $1 million. He proposed the pool sys tem as a means of assuring the American people, through the familiar voices and names of White House correspon dents, that tho president was safe and the government was functioning. It seems certain that the Kennedy administration ' will continue this policy. Navy Capt. E. P. (Pete) Au rand, the president's naval aide, played a major role in shaping the emergency plans. The extensive use of heli copters by the chief executive on trips to Gettysburg, ' Pa., and to airports in Washington gave on-the-job training to crews which would be used in a crisis situation. To Assura Continuity For that reason, White House aides have suggested that the president-elect desig nate his military aides as soon as possible to assure con tinuity in this department. Col. William G. Draper, Air Force aide and White House pilot, is leaving soon lor a new assignment. He has been flying the president around the nation. The Army aide, Col. Robert Schulz, also served with the Chief Executive before he moved into the White House. Special Duliei Each of the aides has spec ial duties in addition to his ceremonial functions. Draper is a pilot, Aunmd coordinates emergency plans and Schulz is the president's man for such matters as buy ing clothes and other personal transactions. . Traditionally, each of the military services recommends three top young officers for the military aide positions. Then the president makes the final selection from that list. Eisenhower, of course, had long experience in the mili tary field and brought Schulz and Draper with him to Washington. ' iKL- la EASY 1 - "N ifly all-new selection of i'A BULOVA I JahSln "swell". ! ' vf! y ii ; jf.'? m ssi W $ f, t lady I Wk$ffl ' 1 feA ik1 in yellow or while fi?SMlHilJ . ! . - - 1 HI-SPOT LEMON dUININE WATER See "Walt Disney Presents" every week on ABC-TV Network Bottled by Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Medford A Reminder Christmas cards mail ed? All your shopping finished? Packages wrapped? Tree - trim mings checked? Well, take a deep breath, kick off your shoes, relax and . . . oh-oh-wait a minute! Check back over that list again. This won't take long and it's well worth it. Have you done somerhing about sharing your blessings with those who have less? 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