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Can 't Please Everyone
Earl Miller, Chester Wendt and Ralph James,
individually, are as pleasant, friendly and-generally
competent men as you are likely to meet.
iney are nice guys all of them.
But put them all together in the same room
hang an official sign saying "county court" on
tne door, and these pleasant, self-assured, com
petent men go all to pieces. -
And they seem to think that a multi-million
dollar business such as Jackson county should
be operated on the principle of havimr its main
administrative agency succumb to the greatest
applied pressures not on wnat tney, as re
spunsiuie omciais, minK oesc ior everyone
.
THE SAD sight of watching their backing and
filling, their "consulting" with this and that
group, their teeling of the public pulse, their in
decision and fearfulness in connection with the
appointment of a new state senator, was enough
to mane a strong man cry. ,
The same sort of procedure has been notice
able in their consideration of planning and zoning
matters, in recreational deve ooment. and in
many other instances where a firm stand, based
on tneir own knowledge and intelligence, and a
ieeimg ior tne puoiic weitare, would have gain
eu mem universal respect, it not agreement
AND their recent performance reminds us a
Htfla nf fVio fokl U.. A it 11
.ittic uia iiic xaujc, uy -nesui-r, 11 we lecaii
correctly.
It's the one where a man and his wife were
making a journey with a donkey, and where he
was criticized wnetner ne rode, or she rode, or
Dotn rode, or ootn waiKed.
The moral was you can't please everyone
and if you try, you're, apt to wind up displeasing
everyone. ji.A.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15. 19S0 (Friday)
Wildcat railroad strikes In
the eastern part of the nation
have caused serious delays In
local post office service.
Field supervisors left Med
ford today after making a
two-week review of the case
load at the Jackson county
welfare department; a report
will be made publle at a later
date.
Good Question
20 YEARS AGO
Sec. IS, 1940 (Sunday)
The Medford city council
will further consider the need
for acquiring additional land
at the municipal airport for
expansion of airport services
when it meets Tuesday nigiu.
From Arthur. Perry's "Ye
Smudce Pot" column: "The
sidewalks were so slick yes
terday only a Rocky Ml. goat
or a lady in high-heeled shoes
could stand up.
30 YEARS AGO , " '
Dec. 15, 1930 (Sunday)
Coal from ' the new ' Roxy
Ann mine will be available
soon for local consumption.
Many of the unemployed
locally will find Jobs this
winter on stale and Jackson
county road building projects.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1920 (Wednesday)
The fire chief has warned
local residents against using
lighted candles on Christmas
trees.
Boxing shows will soon be
sliiccd in the attic of the Nlch-
ols and Ashpole building here.
SO YEARS AGO ,
Dec. 15. 1910 (Thursday)
Work on the Pacific and
Eastern railroad will be re
newed in the spring; the rail
road will be extended east
wurd to connect with the Ore
gon Trunk line.
The city council set the
city's lax levy at eight mills
last night, which Is less than
last year's city levy of 17.1
mills.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or Ian eorrael is supailer;
sqven or eight is escalltnf; five ei
in is good.
1, Which Canadian city has
the largest population?
2. How many cubic Inches
are there In one cubic foot?
3. The microscopic study of
living tissue is called what?
4. What would the follow
Ing description most likely re
let to: The West half of the
Northwest quarter of the
Northwest quarter?
5. Who were the "conqulsta
dorcs"? 6. What means of commu
nication uses Hie Iconoscope?
7. What is the common
name for the leucocytes in the
blood?
8. Where did Casey Jones
got his first name?
8. From what two essential
ingredients Is soap generally
made?
10, How was McGinly
dressed when he went to the
. bottom of the sea?
Answers: 1, Montreal. 2.
1728. 3. Biopsy. 4. Land desig
nation. 5. Spanish conquerors
of Mexico and Peru. 6. Tele
vision. 7. While corpuscles. I.
Kansas Clfy (K.C.). 9. Lye and
fat. 10. "Beit tuit of clothes."
A member of the board of directors of the
Medford Chamber of Commerce telephoned us
the other day, after reading a column written bv
Edd Rountree in the Ashland Tidings.
Rountree was fulminatintr against plans to
seek support for a new stadium in Medford.
Our .director friend commented somewhat as
follows;'
"On our agenda this week we have two requests
for support. One is for the proposed ski area on Mt.
Ashland. The other Is from the Oregon Shakespearean
Festival association. ' " . '
"We have supported Ashland projects In the past,
and probably will continue to do so in the future.
"But It sure makes it tough to do so when that V
editor keeps trying to stir up trouble between the two
cities. Wonder why he does?" ;
Good question. E.A. .
A Matter of Taste, Mostly '
There is a larce nativity scene, nsintr nlasfar
figures, in place on the Mall of the State Capitol.
, One group, the American Civil Liberties Un
ion,. has objected to the use of state property for
the display of a religious scene.
We can't entirely go along with the ACLU,
believing that the story of Christmas is' a uni
versal one, appreciated by believer and non-be-
uever aiine (aitnough tor cliiierent reasons), and
that the use of the property, at no cost to the
state, is not a substantial violation of the consti
tutional separation of church and state.
but we do iind it possible to understand,
though not fully agree with, the ACLU's stand.
THERE are many Americans. who are not Chris
Huno Tim., U T,,, HI1 1
v.c.io. uicj uiujr ue acwa, luuiiamilieuiwis, 01
Buddhists, or aetheists, or agnostics.
10 tnem citizens and taxpayers like every
one else the use of state property for a Christian
religious display may be distasteful.
It is the rights of these minorities which the
the ACLU seeks to defend. We wish they had
reserved their protests for a more substantial
matter than a few plaster figures, which at best
give pleasure, to some, and at worst are in ques-
uunuDie taste, to otners. u.A.
Caveat Emptor- What?
A few years arro. the compact ears arriv'prl hn
the American scene. Among other things, they
iihu piain, simple, nat wincisnieids, much cheaper
than the bitr curved wrap-arounds of the hio- pars.
Because of this (and other factors) insurance
premiums dropped, some of them by 10 per cent.
So now what happens? Now the compact cars
are starting to put "tempered" class in the win
dows, instead of the shatter-proof variety.
This constitutes an added hazard, and as a
result medical and liability premiums are being
reconsidered, and may increase almost enoutrh to
offset the savings obtained by the simpler wind
shields. 'WfELL, we don't blame the compact car peo
" pie for trvintr to cut cost corners i although
they should, we think, point out such changes
to potential customers).
Nor do we blame the insurance companies for
boosting their premiums to coyer added antici
pated costs. 1 hey re not in business for their
health.
So about the only point that remains to be
made is that the old Latin motto, "Caveat Emp
tor" let the buyer beware applies as much now
at it ever did. But today it's sometimes harder to
know what to beware of. E.A.
Dennis the Menace
'NA3.NAG.NAS. lSURB FEEL 'TOR AIWU.'
Ecuadorean Rioting Follows Anti-U.S.
Pattern, But With a Different Motive
ii
By PHIL NEWSOM '
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Mobs shouting "Cuba si.
Yankee no," or "Russia yes,
United State no,"' are becom
ing a distress
es! Ingly familiar
i'W na.t nf tka
Latin Ameri
can scene.
Latest cen
ter in a brush-
fire series of
violent a n t i
A me r i e a n
demonitra-
Newiim "ons u Ecua
dor - but with a difference
There the mob action is
being stirred by the govern
ment. And the United States,
while a principal target, 'is
strictly a bystander.
Ecuador, about the size of
the state of Colorado, lies on
South America's west coast
between Colombia and Peru
Quito, its capitol, lies in the
temperate zone 10,000 feet
high on the slopes of the An
des Mountains. Guayaquil, Its
principal port, lies in the
4$
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Party Fight .
To the Editor: I, like many
other Oregonians, have been
sitting back and watching the
obvious split in the Democrat-
c party in Oregon initiated by
the ultra-liberal segment of
the party fronted by State
Democratic Chairman Robert
Straub.
Straub has attempted to
create the impression that his
group represents a vast ma-
ority of the Democratic party.
In trying to axe the election
of Democrat Senator Harry
Boivin as president of the Sen
ate he has been doing his ut
most to create this impression.
What Straub and his ultra-
liberals do not want, is for
the public to realize that even
though the Democrats control
20 of the 30 scats in the new
State Senate, Alfred Corbctt,
the candidate the left-wing of
the party proposes, has only
1 supporters among the 30.
Knowing this, Straub has at
tempted to exploit the point
that supposedly 11 Democrat
senators favor Corbett to S
who favor Boivin.
, The real reason he is against
Senator Boivin is the fact that
the Republican members of
Ihe Senate have pledged to
vote for Boivin as Senate
president. Straub, therefore, is
appealing for party discipline
as against the public interest
and the actual majority of the
Senate.
What Straub really is pro
posing is that a minority
group of the Oregon Senate
(11 Democrats) elect the new
Senate president over the de
sire of the majority of the
Senate (19 Democrats and Re
publicans). Straub may con
sider himself the leader of the
Democratic party machinery
in Oregon, but what he pro
poses is not very democratic
and I doubt that a majority
of the Democrats In Oregon
subscribe to this theory of
power politics proposed by the
left-wing of their party. To
be specific, Straub is just the
front man for the real ultra
liberals, Alf Corbelt, Monroe
Sweetland and Vern Cook.
It should also be noted that
Straub, already critical of
Governor Hatfield's proposed
budget for the next biennium,
would like nothing more than
to maneuver an ultra-liberal
in as Senate president so that
the free-spending liberals
could harass the Governor's
program for the next two
years. Yet little more than a
month ago the voters of Ore
gon, both Democrats and Re
publicans, endorsed over
whelmingly Governor Hat
field's two appointees, Secre
tary of State Howell Appling
and State Treasurer Howard
Bellon who both ran on a' rec
ord of fiscal responsibility. It's
apparent then, that the will of
the majority or the interests
of Ihe people are at least sec
ond best to Mr. Straub's politi
cal power thinking.
Wilbur Bishop
10500 S.W. Cook lane
Tignrd, Ore.
Must Continue
To the Editor: After reading
the editorial, "More Than One
Danger," and a letter, "The
Enemy Within," by Bettv
House, on the same page of
Tuesday's paper, I attended
the showing of the film "Ope
ration Abolition" at the Med
ford High school in order to
see what all the fuss was
about. After the show I re
read the editorial and letter.
Frankly I'm kinda confused.
I can go along with most of
what you wrote and with near
ly all of Betty's letter, but
where in the, film or in the
part not shown is the distor
tion of facts and the lying
propaganda? I gathered, from
the film, that Its purpose was
to show how communists were
able to direct the "expression
of the rebellious students" and
the like in such a manner as
to disrupt completely the law
ful operations of the HUAC.
If what was shown is democ
racy in action I'm glad that
we are a Republic nation.
I see no reason, although
some was indicated, for the
film to have documented the
fact that opposition ' to the
committees' lawful investiga
tions by other than commies
and students were in evidence
t that particular meeting
when enemies of the HUAC
have never ceased in their ef
forts to have the committee
done away with since its in
ception in 1937.
At most public meetings
and approprition time when
its budget is being voted on,
the attacks come to break up
the meetings or the commit
tee. The attackers? Way-out
left wingers, fellow travelers,
the Roosevelt clan, subversive
organiations, liberal papers
ana magazines and people
who have been convinced by
the above that the committee
is a bad deal. And one more
group, people such as E.A..
Betty House and at times, me.
Seems as though 'we wonder
about some of the methods
used, in the past, to Bet results
and enhance the power of the
committee and some of its in
dividual members.
The committee's nresent
method of operation is much
more democratic than in the
past and should not be ham
pered by mistakes of individ
uals who are no longer with
it. Regardless of who was in
volved, demonstrations of the
kind shown in the film cannot
be condoned bv anv innri
American. The HUAC must
continue its lawful activities
in order that we are not "cov
ered over" by the people who
are most concerned v with its
abolition.
William Doernbach
143 Mace rd.
Medford.
Go Slow
To the Editor: I have sent
the following letter to Gov
ernor Hatfield, with copies to
omer state officials and news
papers:
Dear Governor:
The press reports the state
land board is negotiating with
the Shell Oil company a pro
posal to grant that company
an exclusive lease to the oil
rights on all of Oregon's off-
snore lands extending the full
lengtn of the coast and total
ing some 600,000 acres.
Needless to say. these lands.
probably the last of Oregon's
original vast endowment of
natural resources, should not
be squandered, as happened
in the past to parts of our
wealth too precipitately dis
posed of. Certainly, with the
world's present enormous pe-
iroieum production so badly
out of balance with demand,
probably more so than at any
lime during the last 20 years;
with potential producing
areas, both proven and pros
pective, greater than at any
recent time: and with the use
of oil for conventional power
soon to be greatly restricted
by the increasing availability
of atomic fuel, it Is not the
opportune time to put these
lands on the block.
When the proper time does
come for their exploitation.
such a huge area should not be
leased on any blanket basis.
but should be split up into
parcels to permit of bidding
by as many as may be inter
ested. Under the carefully.
worked out plan followed by
both Alberta and British Co
lumbia, bidders have been
amply protected for their fi
nancial risks of development
without aacrific of the public
interest. Any oil leases made
by Oregon should follow the
same plan which has been so
successful and profitable to
those two provinces. A nego
tiated lease, particularly a
blanket one covering the area
of a principality, cannot be
expected to have equally good
results.
We do not know if anything
of a dubious nature has trans
pired but the proposed deal
is much too large and impor
tant to the people of this state
to be handled in any such off
hand manner as this appears
to have been. No one knows
or has any conception of what
possibly enormous values may
be involved. They could be
stupendous, and the lands
should not be encumbered at
this time in any manner at all.
Nothing should be done until
the matter, has been thorough
ly thrashed out and the pub
lic made fully conversant with
all angles. ;
Buell C, Nelson
304 Pearson Bldg.
Portland 4, Ore.
Not a Wast
To the Editor: By no stretch
of the imagination could I
consider money raised for a
Pearl Harbor Memorial a
waste. .
Of course money is needed
for medical research and it
is collected by many founda
tions, but that has nothing to
do with the fact that a thous
and men were buried with
nothing to mark their inter
ment but a flag on a wooden
platform.
Am I correct, Mrs. Fitzsim-
mons, in surmising that your
last will and testament does
now or will read, "All my
money is to be given to medi
cal research, throw my body
in the nearest hole. Please
omit casket, marker and flow
ers?"
I'm not saying this may
not be a good idea for people,
and a noble gesture, but it
happens in our civilization
people prefer to leave some
indication that they once lived
and were loved.
(Name on file)
Medford.
midst of the streaming tropics. I admirer of Fidel Castro.
130-Y.ar-Old Fight ; Ecuador's largest labor un-
Its present quarrel, in real
ity, is with Peru and dates
back 130 years.
It is over a huge, triangular
territory larger than Ger
many, Switzerland and Italy
combined east of the Andes on
the headwaters of the Amazon
River. Its inhabitants almost
exclusively arc wild Indian
tribes.
The two nations fought over
the territory almost from the
moment Ecuador was pro
claimed a republic in 1830.
The dispute finally appeared
settled in 1942 when both na
tions signed a treaty in favor
of Peru. Guaranteeing the
treaty were the United States,
Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
On Sept. 1, President Maria
Velasco Ibarra announced in
his inaugural address that Ec
uador would no longer recog
nize the 1942 treaty.
Illiteracy and Poverty
The stirrings of discontent
across- the whole of Latin
America have not skipped Ec
uador. And in Ecuador the
same basic elements are pres
ent, illiteracy and poverty.
As elsewhere, there also are
the added elements of Castro
ism and the new interest of
Moscow and Peiping.
The head of , Ecuador's
chamber of deputies was an
ardent campaigner for Vel
asco and also is an outspoken
Mr. Jigqs Is Dead
To the Editor: To those of
you who knew him, Mr. Jiggs
is aead.
On Dec. 2 our Boston Bull
puppy wandered onto South
Stage rd. some time between
8:30 and 7:15 a.m. The pave
ment was damp but no skid
marks were in evidence to
show the driver might have
even attempted to stop.
The puppy was not run
over, just struck and knocked
out. We know the driver
would have been perhaps 5
minutes late arriving some
where had he stopped to bring
the pup in, or even to advise
us what had happsned. The
puppy should not have been
there, so the driver could not
have been held liable for the
hit. However, from the evi
dence we believe he is re
sponsible for the animal's
death because of his neglect
in stopping. When we did
find the puppy there was still
a flicker of life, but his lying
on tne cold pavement for ap
proximately half an hour In
an unconscious condition made
us too late.
The real question raised is:
So long as he could keep go
ing, would that driver -have
stopped no matter what he
hit?
Tony Glidden,
243 South Stag rd.,
Medford
returning to a more reason
able position. The very first
outspoken opinion on this, the
critically tensioned racial' is
sue, this writer has found, is
in the U.S. News and World
Report, Dec. 19, page 1 col. 1,
where Washington State Su
preme Court Judge Joseph A.
Mallery assailed what he call
ed a Negro "crusade" for
"compulsory togetherness" of
races.
The iudee said the Neero
race, led by the National As
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People, seeks to
deprive white people of their
right to choose their associates
in private life.", .
This good news is hope sus
taining for me. For it has been
my carefully studied belief,
often expressed, including
letters-to-the-editor, that such
court judge opinion would
eventually be announced, rivi
eted down as it was by the
log-cabin logic of Abe Lin
coln, who reminded us that
all the people cannot be fool
ed all the time.
Also hope sustaining is the
reporting by Carlton F. Wil
son in the Mail Tribune Dec.
12, the women fighting to
hold the segregation at schools
in New Orleans are described
by policemen controlling them
as the Cheer Leaders . Re
porter Wilson continues, re
ferring to a Mrs. Andrews
with four grown children and
six school-age grandchildren,
who said, "We are going to
win-we've got to. "Thank
God we have a governor who
is sticking with us . . . She
attends a Roman Catholic
church, but said, "I don't put
a nickel in the box. She op
poses church efforts for de
segregation. Mrs. Vesta Alex
ander, with daughter and
granddaughter, said, "We are
not getting equal rights."
Said Miss Betty J. Clement,
Mixing is definitely wrong.
Negro schools are newer and
prettier than the ones for
white students and the (Negro
students) will take over all
the schools if we integrate."
She opposes interracial marriages.
All of which proves, as ad
vancing science reveals, that
the female is more funda
mental, more primordial en
during than the "Johnny-
come-lately" male. For, as all
can see, it is the white moth
ers of the South leading the
fight in the protection of their
daughters to continue the
race as a white race, even if
they may not see it in its age
old urge.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F, .
Central Point, Ore.
ion, the Confederation of Ec
uadorean Workers, is Communist-influenced
if not Commu
nist-controlled.
Velasco was not the first to
voice Ecuador's simmering
discontent.
In 1955, Ecuador accused
Peru of massing 30,000 troops
for invasion of Ecuador's fron
tier. In 1959, she accused
Peru of exaggerated rearming.
The charges were not borne
out but they were indicative
of things to come.
In the past four years, Ecua
dor has been the recipient of
U. S. or World Bank loans to
taling around $50 million, but
Velasco frequently has been
harshly critical of U. S. Latin
American aid policies.
Last week, t h e United
States joined with Argentina,
Brazil and Chile against Ec
uador's renewed demands for
the disputed territory and an
outlet to the Atlantic via the
Amazon, "
Then Velasco turned this
mobs loose against the United
States and, a la Castro, his
foreign .minister announced
that if necessary:
"We will ally ourselves
with Russia."
Matter of Fact ai,0I
ON FOLLY
Alulers In this tragic city
like a giant hornets' nest that
has been poked by a fool, one
is driven to
reflect on the
powers of un-
ro, enn In thf
?Sf f i affairs of men,
-" i.-lfl Mpn and wom
en have died
here, and sole-
-1 ly because so
many people
have been an-
Aisop ', grily biting
off their noses to spite their
faces.
As these words are written,
it is not clear Whether the
end of the tragedy Is in sight,
this reporter believes, oi
whether -many more have yet
to die. Enough has happened
in any case, to make one wish
to join the rather special po-
licital party of the heroine of
the Greek wartime resistance
who once announced she was
an "extreme centrist." On be
ing asked what this meant
she replied crisply, with an
air of stern purpose:
The extreme centrists are
the sensible people like me
who would like to - shoot
everyone on the extreme right
and extreme left.
IT1HE trouble in Algiers be-
gan with the youna fools
who were sent to shout their
heads off on the Rue Michelet
by the older fools of the Front
of Algerie Francaise. The idea
and what an idea! was
either to undermine the
French army's loyalty or to
intimidate Gen. de . Gaulle
himself. The effect was to re
duce, quite measurably, the
chance that the French people
in Algeria will be able to play
their ' necessary role in this
unhappy country's future.
The silly shouting on the
Rue Michelet, led by imper
ceptible stages to sporadic
conflict between the French
and Moslem communities. The
Moslem hotheads, whose peo
ple have everything to gain
by calm, began their own bout
of shouting and flag waving.
Many died. And a yet deeper
gulf was opened between the
two communities, which must
somehow manage to work to
gether if the Algeria of the
future is to work at all.
It is not especially consol
ing that the vast majorities
of both communities have
quite .visibly regarded the
whole business as a night
mare.' In no group, it seems
are the members of the great,
relatively reasonable mass
willing to make the efforts to
control "their own s. o. b.'s in
the old, coarse but accurate
phrase.
.
FIOR consolation, in fact, one
can only recall vignettes
of recent days, which prove
that the folly of the mass does
not always infect all the in
dividuals in the mass.
In their excited voices, one
caught a glimmer of hope for
Gen. de Gaulle's great bet on
eventual peaces in Algeria. In
the little policeman in the
Clos de Salembier this morn
ing, one caught a glimmer of
hope for the human race. This
is a poor quarter, where there
had been communal conflict
ending in the flight of the
Europeans the night before.
Truckloads of French para
troopers, just about the finest
troops in the Western world
but not the most polished
politicians, were going into
the Clos de Salembier to as
sure order about 9:30 a.m.
Other troops of the normal
security forces were there al
ready. Everything was quiet
enough, except for an oc
casional ten-year old whs
shouted a Moslem slogan. .
Most of the people in Ihg
Clos de Salembier live In the
bleak but decent new housing
which has been constructed in
Algiers in recent years for the
poor. But there is also a hide
ous, surviving hut settlement.
From this sordid warren, as
the paratroopers arrived,
there shot out a wild-eyed
young harpy of about 20. , u
.
SHE was all but frothing a
the mouth with longing to
start trouble and she had
.the means to start trouble In
her hand, in the form of a
large F. L. N. flag. There was
a frozen moment, while she
screamed and waved her
flag, and the paratroopers
gaped in anger and astonshf.
ment.
Then the paratroopers, who
do not easily tolerate the
sight of the flag they are or.
dered to fight against, moved
forward to seize the few yards
of bunting from the young
woman's hands. A crowd col
lected. An ugly growling start
ed. Several of the young para
troopers began fingering their
weapon;. ,
But now, apparently spring
ing from the ground, there ap
peared the tubby, middle
aged little policeman of the
quarter. With a furious be
low, he caused the harpy to
disappear.' With another furi
ous bellow, he made the
crowd begin to scatter. And
then he turned on the soldiersi
who were naturally thinking
of patrolling the warren of
shacks, with a final bellow of
comical but effective indigna
tion: . .-.
"I'm in charge here. Order
here is my responsibility.
While I can assure order, you
gentlemen had better keen
out!"
"I
THE paratroopers, grinning
chr.Ar,icl-,1, i-nHt-arl ami AV.
der was indeed restored by the
little policeman-which would
not have been the result if- a
military patrol has further in
flamed the emotions of the
moment.
One is inclined to think of
Gen. de Gaulle as the heroie
version of the common sensi
ble policeman of the Clos d
Salembier. During the rioting;
a small French shopkeeper.
one of those who really be1
lieve their way of life is com
ing to an end, said to me al
most tearfully, "There was
only one man with bronze
guts (he used a less polite
word unsuitable for family
newspapers and. by God,
Old Bronze Guts de Gaulle is
on the other side."
But if there is any good of
even bearable outcome In Al
geria, it will be because of
those guts of bronze. -
-. (e) I960 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Pendulum
To the Editor: At long last.
the great pendulum of human
affairs seem to have reached
the end of its outward swing, j home,
14 th Roseburg
Blast Victim Dies
Eugene - fOPD - A 16-year-old
boy who had been in a coma
from the effects of a four-
inch bolt that pierced his skull
died in a nursing home
Wednesday - the 14th victim
of the explosives blast in
Roseburg Aug. 7, 1959.
James Fred Siles, whose
skull was pierced with tht
bolt when a truck carrying
high explosives blew up in
downtown Roseburg, had
never regained consciousness.
He died at Pleasant Valley
Nursing Home where he had
been since May 13. He was
brought to Sacred Heart hos
pital here from Roseburg the
day of the blast and later
transfered to tht nursing
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A CASPER MILQUETOAST came home jubilant from his
latest salary discussion with the boss. "No vague prom
ises this time," he told his wife happily. "I definitely get
njr iise wnen neil
raise
freezes over."
Elmer Le term an, one of
the busiest of insurance
salesmen, has a tip for
young men who would like
to emulate his euccess:
"The man whose pants wear '
out before his shoes is mak
ing too many contacts in
the wrong place."
Never - th - twain - shall
meet department:
Notice to candidates for
final examinations in medi
cine: In London: Candi
dates must writ on only on side of th paper. In Edinburgh -Candidate,
mutt writ, on both .idea of tht ntM """"" : .
- .. .... ; '
i..!11- ,CV?UW" unconscious for several hours after they plckeJ
Wm out of the wreckage of his runabout, but finally was able t
P.l. !i!'!1J,1?pw,d: 1,1 invt tnrou8n two red light '
They were on the back of a big truck."