WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, I960
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History from the tiles ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28. 19S0 (Thursday)
Gov. Douglas McKay late
yesterday appointed Frank J.
Van Dyke, Mcdford attorney
and former speaker of the
state house of representatives,
to membership on the state
board of higher education.
Stanton Griffis, 63, the man
who will reopen full diplo
matic relations between this
country and Spain for the
first time in five years, is a
former Mcdford orchardist.
20 YEARS AGO ,
Dec. 28, 1940 (Saturday)
A replica of this year's
Christmas seal, in giant size
form, is the window decora
tion at June's Day Nursery
on East Main st.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "It
cleared off Friday and local
scientists and astronomers
thought . they might get t
glimpse of Cunningham's com
ot now hitch-hiking around
the heavens.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28. 1930 (Sunday)
Leaders of the county
Grange will be installed at
special ceremonies In the Mcd
ford Armory tomorrow night.
A man suspected of robbing
an Ashland store at gunpoint
last week was arrested yes
terday in Junction City.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28, 1920 (Tuesday)
A considerable amount of
enthusiasm was expressed at
yesterday's chamber of com
merce . meeting for the con
tinued exploration of possible
oil deposits In the Rogue val
ley. Miss Maud Corleis, a stu
dent at the University of
Washington, has returned to
her: home here to spend the
holidays.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 28, 1910 (Wednesday)
Leading citizens here con
fidently predict that 1911 will
sec the greatest development
and growth In the city's his
tory, breaking even those
growth records set In 1910.
The Willamette university
Glee club gave a performance
to a full audience last night in
the local Opera house.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior:
seven er eight is excellent; five er
ill is good.
1. In which European city
is Picadilly Circus?
2. "This at last Is the bone
of my bones and the flesh of
my flesh; she shall be called
" (what)
3. Under which department
is the U.S. Forest Service?
4. Oysters are bivalves; true
or false?
5. What sort of device has
been named a Mae West?
a. wnat is another name
for mercury?
7. Who was the predecessor
of Neville Chamberlain as
prime minister of Great Brit-
v-
. ain?
8. In what country is Mara
thon? 0. Do horses sleep while
standing?
10. Who was nicknamed
"the Little Flower"?
Answers: 1. London, Eng
land. 2. "Woman." 3. Depart
ment of Agriculture. 4. True.
S. Life-saving vest. 6. Quick
silver. 7. Stanley Baldwin. 8.
Greece. 9. Yes. 10. Fiorella
LaGuardia (former mayor of
New York).
Is Humankind All Alone?
Man's strides toward space are amazing.
Twenty years ago, only readers of science
fiction, and a few far-seeing scientists, ever seri
ously considered the proposition that men might
someday stand on the moon, or on Mars, or even
consider crossing the immense void which separ
ates our own little solar system from other parts
of our galaxy.
Ten years ago it was no longer considered wild
to think that maybe, some day, in a century or
two, science would progress to a point where in
terplanetary travel would become possible.
AND as recently as five years ago, it was an
"optimist indeed who foresaw a man on the
moon in this century.
Today, however, it is beginning to appear
likely that this could happen within the decade.
And as the accelerating rate of research, experi
mentation and speculative thought (all of them
prerequisites to space flight) indicates the neces
sary breakthroughs could
Once the first big
made, the technology that permitted it to happen
could also send terrestial vehicles to Mars or
Venus soon thereafter.
IIITH this preliminary goal actually in sight,
and who - knows - what sort of scientific
and technological breakthroughs in the offing,
some attention has turned to what will be found
when men reach toward
The "little man from
the rounds in recent years (they're old stuff to
science fiction buffs). But underlying them is
serious consideration and serious concern in sci
entific and theological circles.
The New York Times comments:
"What would be the result o our making
contact with other intelligent life in the universe?
. . . Now the topic has received the dignity of being
considered in a formal report prepared by the Brook
ings Institution for the government. This report raises
the question of whether our civilization could survive
if confronted by a superior extraterrestrial society.
At the least, the discovery of any kind of extrater
ristrial life would force the revision of many ideas
which lie behind traditional thinking."
IT WOULD indeed. '
1 Such revisions have been forced on men,
sometimes against their
Ihe flat world which was the center or the
universe ; the round world around which all crea
tion spun both of these ancient concepts went
down the drain with the discoveries of Coperni
cus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton.
We now know that we are inhabitants of
a tiny planet, circling a smallish sun, tucked way
off along the edge of a galaxy incorporating bil
lions of stars, and -which
lions of such aggregations of stars, planets, and
masses of gas and insterstellar dust.
IF, then, it were found that any substantial num-
ber of the billions of planets contain intelligent
life (and who can say they dont.') it would
force a major revolution in our earth-centered
thinking a change almost as shattering as was
the acceptance of the theory of human evolution,
which upset the theological world a little more
than a century ago.
If we do make contact with extraterrestrial
intelligence, superior to us in any significant de
gree, what will be the consequence?
(Jould we, proud humans, reconcile ourselves
to being "second best" to
Could we, steeped in
ogy, make the mental and emotional leap to
concepts with a far broader base?
These must be some
the astronomers are asking themselves as they
train their radiotelescopes on far-off stars, half
hoping and half-fearing to. receive the ordered
radiations which mean someone else is out there,
that mankind is not unique and all alone. E.A.
Camping Fee Proposal
We have been concerned, and so have the
United States forest service and a lot of other
state and local agencies,
explosion as it applies to outdoor camping.
For years, public agencies have been con
structing and maintaining public camps at no cost
10 me camping puonc, using general revenues.
More recently, this practice has been ques
tioned, on the basis that those who use them
ought to pay for them or at least pay a higher
proportion of their cost than those who do not.
THIS is one of the questions the county court
is nnw RYVPiih'no nupr in pnnnpntimi wrilVi fhn
camping facilities at Howard Prairie Lake.
And it is of concern to the Rogue River Na
tional forest particularly at such heavily-used
facilities as Lake of the Woods and Fish Lake.
The state some time ago began charging for
overnight use of its public camping facilities. The
National parks have long charged a modest fee.
In our experience, those who use these facili
ties are more than happy to pay a small overnight
charge (usually $1 per night) for clean and well-cared-for
facilities.
IN the case of the forest service a difficulty has
sometimes been in collecting such fees.
Congressman Joseph W. Ban- of Indiana, who
recently completed a nationwide forest service
camping tour, now proposes that $5 windshield
stickers for care be sold
allowed in any overnight forest service facility;
the receipts to go for their construction, main
tenance and upkeep.
It makes sense, and we hope it gets some ser
ious consideration. E.A.
come even sooner.
leap to the moon is
the stars.
Mars" gags have gone
will, a number of times.
itself is uist one ol mil
an alien race?
an earth-centered theol
of the questions which
about the "recreation
the purchaser to be
Dennis the Menace
"TheyU letya pet 'em.
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
SO-Plus Poem
To the Editor: So many
members requested this
"scribbliation" that I haven't
time to write it for them.
Thanks, and Season's
wishes for the very best for
you and yours.
Pearl F. Spackman,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Togetherness
When oldsters get together
As we have here today,
You know of what I'm
thinking
Of the words I wish to say.
Sometimes I forget about
Santa Claus
And good works he used to do,
But I'm sure I've memories in
common
With those of you and you
and you.
Our kiddies have grown and
moved away
Taking our grandchildren,
young and spry.
Of course some have few
memories
To help Old Father Time get
b.v:
But we, with friendship's
togetherness,
Have learned to know each
other well.
For we're Fifty Plus Club
members
Sharing Joys that naught can
quell.
Each smile we smile, each
message sent,
Each call voiced over the
'phone
Gives its added Season's Joy;
Makes us know we're not
alone.
Resolved: that no harsh words
escape us
No frown creeps 'cross a brow.
Let the clean-slated New Year
that's stealing in
Help us to keep this vow.
We've read, that Christ loves
children:
We've proof that he loves us,
too.
Or he wouldn't have let us
grow so "big.
I didn't say "old," did you?
As long as we live we ll Be
loval:
Good chcor will remain with
us.
We'll work, we'll play, we
will sing together
Every week at the Fifty Plus.
Old Soldier
To the Editor: Just a few
more words before the close
of 1960, then maybe I will
shut my mouth too. It is very
hard for a bunch of old fight
ing men to pick up the news
papers and reach such head
lines as: Laos War Threaten
ed, Nasser Threatens War,
130th Warning Marks Holi
day, Castro Makes Big Deal
With Nikita.
If our ex-Soldier President
had forcefully warned that
long whiskered Ho-Bo long
ago to pipe down, things
would be different today. Now
every two - bit insurrccto
thinks that he, too. can slap
us and then run to his pal
Nikita for help.
The propaganda broadcast
to these countries is ridicu
lous, but we sit back and sigh.
As an ex-soldier, I think
that Ike is leaving the coun
try in a heck of a condition,
and as a Politician, I think
that he should have stayed in
the Army.
Happy New Year.
Malemute Slim,
White City, Ore.
"P-U" Said the Skunk
To the Editor: We read with
interest Mr. Widmer's letter
regarding smoke, liquor and
poisons. Some will argue that
tobacco is not a poison or in
jurious, even though it has
been proven injurious to lung
cancer and heart disease. If
it is not a poison then why
is it that government hospitals
that handle nicotine inmates
only have made arrangements
with tha tobacco companies
...if yaf& quc( enough
to use the nicotine which has
been brought out of the bodies
of these inmates through
steam baths and run into a
vat where it is then processed
into a spray called "Black
Leaf Forty" and labeled "Poi
son." If this spray kills in
sects, what will it do to hu
mans?
It used to be that hospitals
and doctors' offices would
have a sign "No Smoking
Please." But now it seems
there is no restraint. Probably
because so few heeded the
request. Some people will
even smoke in a sick room
without asking permission.
We did see one sign in a doc
tor's office that read "No
smoking please, it is offensive
to some and harmful to all."
If smokers wish to commit
suicide the slow way, it seems
they should have respect for
others, especially in a sick
room and not fill it with
smoke, but be courteous to
leave the room. Why should
hospitals have to put a smok
er and a non-smoker in the
same room? When it's diffi
cult to breathe and the room
is full of foul smoke, it doesn't
help the patient to improve.
Some hospitals have vending
machines as do other public
places, where even a child
can get ciragreties, yet it is
against the state law to sell
to minors. N
Yes, tobacco may have its
use for spray to kill pests,
but not for the benefit of
health for the human body.
A respectable skunk one
day met
Grandma smoking a
cigarette
One whiff of the odor
And he started to flee,
"P U" said the skunk,
"THAT beats ME."
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozier Lane
Mcdford.
Hospital Needs
To the Editor: Seven years
ago when we came to Medford
I first heard of Mercy Flights
and decided to contribute to
it as a very fine enterprise.
Mercy Flights has now con
tributed to me by taking me
up to the Veterans Adminis
tration Hospital in Vancouver
on election day and I much
appreciate the speed and ease
with which they worked.
George Milligan as pilot and
Hank Hart as co-pilot did a
perfect job and pleasantly
took me up on what turned
out to be a very nice day,
May I also mention the co
operation of Medford Ambu
lance Service, and was happy
to assist in routing their bill
through the proper channels
as I imagine they help out in
times of distress and often
have to wait a long time for
their return.
The hospital at Vancouver
is staffed by most capable
dedicated doctors and a
friendly group of nurses and
nursing aids. Except for the
fact that I was anxious to be
at home I enjoyed and cer
tainly benefited by the care I
was given. The physical thera
py was particularly helpful to
me and I am now planning to
install a bar in our house
(parallel, that is) so that 1
can continue the helpful exer
cise that did me so much good
Considering the fact that
two of us in my ward were
from Mcdford, two from
Grants Pass and one from
Coos Bay, one is inclined to
think about the possibility of
some day having hospital fa
cilities available closer to
their homes for southern Ore
gon and northern California
veterans. I can't help but
think of the empty, unused
buildings available at the
White City Domiciliary and
in my layman's thinking, hope
that soma day they can be
Gossip About Polities! Fukweot two
Kennedy
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - (UPI) - The po
litical word today is that
brother Bobby Kennedy will
have an es
cape hatch
from the Jus
t i c e Depart
m e n t if he
wants it.
It would be
a chance to go
to the U. S.
Senate in
1962. There
wilunn will uc a
ial 1962 Senate election in
Massachusetts for the final
two years of the term of President-elect
John F. Kennedy.
The president-elect resigned
his Senate seat last week.
Hill To Submit Bill
On Barge Control
Salem -UIPD- Public Utility
Commissioner Jonel C. Hill
said Tuesday he will submit a
bill in the 1961 legislature
calling for abolition of state
controls over barge lines.
The law, passed 11 years
ago, was designed to nave
barge firms pay fees compar
able to truckers and railroads.
A 1951 federal court decision
said the state has no author
ity over barges on the Colum
bia river and the law now ap
plies to the Willamette river
only.
Hill said along with the Co
lumbia, harbors and the coast
are exempt and the law is
"meaningless" and should be
removed from the books.
The fee now collected by
the state for administering the
law is one tenth of one per
cent. A few barge operators
still are paying this.
Gun Handling
Promotion Lauded
Portland - IUP1I - The Stale
Game commission said today
that for the second year in a
row it has received an award
of merit from the National
Rifle association for its efforts
in promoting safe gun han
dling in Oregon.
Oregon was rated as one of
the top 10 states in the nation
for outstanding achievement
in hunter safety training dur
ing the year.
utilized for hospital facilities.
White City, or Camp White
as I know it, already has a
very good dental department,
an x-ray department, a fire
department and adequate wa
ter and sewer systems. Al
though it does not have a med
ical school in the backyard,
it is close enough to Portland
so that specialists and con
sultants could readily be
brought down by plane, per
hapes on a recurring system
if training were needed for
local personnel. It is my im
pression that the veterans
themselves actually prefer
resident physicians rather
than changing interns.
So in every way I feel that
a great service might be rend
ered in the opening of addi
tional facilities in ths area.
Veldon J. Diment
213 Portland ave.
Medford
Happy New Year?
To the Editor:
It was the day after Christ
mas and all over the
place
Employees were resuming
the 'Old Rat Race'.
The Boss man s greeted each
one with a sneer;
Gone was all the Merry
Christmas cheer;
Well might his secretary be
out of sorts,
Her desk was piled high
with reports and
reports;
Like it or not, she had no
choice,
She had to get out that an
nual invoice.
Even the jaintor was up on
his ear,
The once clean floors were
covered with smear;
When in came the errand boy,
whistling and gay.
As if il were still the glad
Christmas day.
The Boss man growled,
"What's wrong with you,
Mike?"
"Oh, sir," said the boy.
"Santa brought me a bike.
Now I can run errands in half
the time
And you won't say again
I'm not worth a dime."
The Boss man smiled, took
the hand of the lad,
"Well, good for you, and
for that I am glad."
The workers all smiled at the
happy boy.
They were glad to share
some of his joy.
The dreary day had somehow
grown brighter;
Each worker felt his task
had grown lighter.
Because of a boy who was
full of good cheer
And willing to help make
it a
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
L. G. W.
106 South Ivy st.
Medford j
Brothers Mentions aenatorship
Gov. Foster Furcolo of
Massachusetts named to the
vacancy 43-ycar-old Benjamin
A. Smith II, of Gloucester,
Mass. Smith was John F.
Kennedy's Harvard room
male. Furcolo acknowledged
in announcing Smith's ap
pointment that the pick had
been by the president-elect.
Kennedy is known to have
told Furculo bluntly that the
Kennedys did not want a per
son named now to the Senate
vacancy who would desire to
continue in the Senate beyond
1962.
Furculo May Run
This was stipulated to pro
tect Bobby from having to
run in 1962 - if he wants to
run - against an incumbent.
Furculo's announcement said
Smith had agreed to be a two
year senator, no more. Fur
culo also has said that he
might, himself, be a candidate
History Repeats: Mr.
Talk With
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
History does repeat itself.
Eight years ago in the last
week of December. President
elect Dwight
Else nhower
was preparing
to lake over
from Presi
dent H a r -r y
Truman.
Soviet Pre
m l e r Joseph
Stalm said in
a letter to the
Minim HOW I O r K
Times that he looked "favor
ably ' on conversations look
ing lowarci a meeting with
the new president to ease
world tensions.
IX.' ef I
Advice on Foreign
Policy Pours In To
resicienr -
By RICHARD SPONG
One thing President-elect
Kennedy will not lack ad
vice. He had a reputation in the
Senate for unusual diligence
in keeping himself informed.
His scholarship was more gen
erally demonstrated in the
presidential campaign. And in
the interim between election
and inauguration he has been
receiving reports from his
"brain trust" on a wide range
of subjects, including national
defense, governmental organi
zation, depressed areas, and.
most importantly, foreign
policy.
Some of this advice is ex
tremely informal. For ex
ample, he will get a report
from three Democratic . sen
ators who recently completed,
in the company of Ted Ken
nedy, the President-elect's
younger brother, a tour of 16
African countries. Interview
ed on Dec. 21, they said they
would recommend a pro
Africa policy, including sup
port for an independent Al
geria and a stronger United
Nations role in the Congo.
Other Groups
Kennedy will also receive
foreign policy recommenda
tions from a dozen groups and
sub-groups on such concerns
as economic policy, including
the balance-of-payments and
gold outflow problems, for
eign aid, trade, the role of
U.S. Information Agency, dis
armament, and relations with
specific areas.
One example: Gov. G. Mcn
ncn Williams of Michigan,
designated Assistant Secretary
of State for African Affairs,
has been so busy with foreign
policy briefings, and with
term-end cares of state, that
he is postponing his planned
African tour until after In
auguration Day.
The appointment of Wil
liams, or at least its liming,
has raised some fears among
U.S. friends in Latin America
and Europe. Thai an assistant
for a specific area should he
named before Ihe top man or,
as it appeared, even before
the top man had even been
selected - led to the anticipa
tion that area would receive
undue attention (translated as
economic aid! to the neglect
of other areas.
Others Criticized
The same criticism was
made, in a sense, of oiher Ken
nedy appointments in the
State Department. Both Dean
Rusk and Under Secretary
Chester Bowles have concen
trated, diplomatically, on
Asia; it is feared they too
will be preoccupied with their
best-known friends. Choosing
Adlai E. Stevenson as Am
bassador to the United Nations
was taken in some quarters as
meaning that the world body
will play an even greater role
in future American diplo
macy, to the disadvantage if
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization and other regional
alliances.
! for the Democratic senatorial
nomination in 1!)K2, regard-
less of the Kennedys.
The idea of an escape hatch
from
the Justice Department
for Bobby does not connote
tha-t he might run for the
Senate in 1962 if he goofed'
in the cabinet as attorney
general. A cabinet officer who
flubs his job is not likely to
hazard further embarrassment
by seeking major elective of
fice. It is likely, however, that
the Senate is now and will be
in 1962 more attractive to
brother Bobby than a cabinet
post. He was always reluctant
to accept the attorney general
ship. Those lawyers who serve
as counsel in big-lime senator
ial investigations more often
than not develop a great de
sire to be senators.
Brother Ted, Too
The Boston Globe said last
New President
He also said he would co
operate in a new diplomatic
attempt to end the Korean
War.
"The U.S.S.R.," ho said, "is
interested in ending the war
in Korea." -
In eight years the world
has gone full circle and except
for a difference in names and
places this is where we came
in.
Hopes For Talks
Soviet Premier Nikita
Khnhchcv hopes for early,
close contacts with President
elect John F. Kennedy. Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromvko tells the Supreme
Soviet:
"I am authorized to slate
that on the part of the Soviet
si
h w a.
Of Ihe nuilliplicily of for
eign policy problems the new
administration will face, cer
tainly a chief one is the ques
tion of a summit conference.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev
has declared in favor of an
early meeting at (lie lop.
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan o Great Britain on
Dec. 20 lolcl the House ot
Commons Ihat he would dis
cuss a summit meeting in his
first exchanges with Ihe Ken
nedy people.
Response Cool
The response is hound lo
be cool. Kennedy repeatedly
in the campaign ruled out a
summit unless "there were
preparations . . . which would
give us reasonable certainty
. . . (of) some success." And
Dean Rusk had laid clown this
ground rule for any future
President mnnths before the
campaign began:
Summit diplomacy is lo be
approached with the wariness
with which a prudent phy
sician prescribes a habit-forming
drug - a technique lo be
employed rarely and under
the most exceptional circum
stances, witli rigorous safe
guards against its becoming
a debilitating or dangerous
habit. -
Seismograph Records
Quake Near Seattle
Seattle - UPH - The Uni
versity of Washington's seis
mograph recorded a "moder
ately strong" earthquake at
2:37 a.m. Tuesday, centered
about 330 miles Irom Seattle.
Prof. Frank Neurhnn. uni
versity scismologi.-t, said the
quake "probably" was an un
derwater temblor
West Coast.
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-3y BENNETT CERF
PLAYWRIGHT HARRY KURXITZ, on an Atlantic cross
- in.g. once occupied a deck chair next to the great George
Bernard Shaw. Shaw had his nose buried in a. book tha
first two days, however,
and Kunntz was too
over-awed to interrupt
him, although he was dy
ing to know what book
it was that engrossed
Shaw so thoroughly.
Finally, Kurnitz saw
his chance on the third
morning. Shaw put down
the book and set forth on
a walk round the deck.
The moment he was out
of sight, Kurnitz picked
up the book. It was "Vol
ume IV of the Collected
Plays of G corse Bernard Shaw"!
,
Royniond M-ley tells about a small-town minister who reluct,
antiy conducted funeral services fur a consistently sinful brother.
He concluded his brief remarks with a heartfelt, "We ail hope
the deceased is now residing where wo know he ain't!"
m .
Dot Rose lias found the perfect name for the new dog pound
in an ur-sUtc city. She calls it "Chock Full O'Mutts."
C lW, by Bainclt Cert. Pistribu'.eil by King Features Syndicate
; week that brother Edward-
(Tea) Kennedy woum D9:
I named assistant U.S. attorney:
1 in Boston after the first of thafe
year. The Globe said brother!
Ted wanted to run for the;
U.S. House of Representatives
in 1962. ;
There have been rumors;
that Ted had his eye on that
Senate seat in 1962. If so. ha.
would just s(iieak by on age,;.
if he actually would be 011-
giblo. Ted is 28 and senators;
must be 30. The House
eligibility minimum is 25
years. " '
The New ' York Times re-,
ported from Boston thai some
Massachusetts Democrats were
sullen about Ihe Smith ap:
pointmcnl. Some of them,
promised Bobby or Ted a real,
fight in 1962 if cither sought:
"the Senate seal. That could be'
quite a shindy, what witrt
Irishmen involved, and all. '
government there Is , full"
readiness to promote the all
around betterment of Soviet
American relations."
The. Asian hot war today
exists in Southeast Asia whera
Russian air drops and arms
flowing overland from Com
munist North Viet Nam- feed
ihe pro - Communist Laotian,
forces of Capt. Kong Le and:
the guerrilla fighters of tha
Communist Pathet Lao.
India especially fears that
Laos, whose pro-Western ele
ments are being aided by the
United States, could develop
into another Korea. U.S. ob
servers do not believe that
Russia will let the Laotian
situation go that far.
Pressure Play
One theory is that (he Rus
sians and the Red Chinese are
exploiting the Laotian situ
ation as a pressure play to
force the new United Stales
president into an early meet
ing with Khrushchev and pos
sibly Red Chinese leaders.
In any event, the Reds are
well prepared to foment
Irouble below the "great south'
Asia divide" which separates
areas of Chinese and Indian,
cultures.
Early in 1953, only a few'
weeks after Eisenhower took.
Office! Ihp Vtnd Ptiiiifitfo an.
nouneed Ihe establishment ot
me inai peoples autono-.
nous government" in tha.
southern part of China's Yun
nan province.
People of the Thai race pre
dominate in Laos and Thai
land and also live in Burma
and northwest Viet Nam.
Thus Red China sel up a
natural springboard for in
filtration through the whola
of Southeast Asia.
Msdford Men Gets
in a mi. m
MzmpAh iimh.or
Yreka - John W. Bralton.
Medford. was named high bid
der in the recent sale of 315,
000 board feet of limber in
the Upper Barkhnuse unit.'
Klamath National Forest.
total advertised value was
S5.005.50, and the value based
on the highest bid was $7,461.
Timber volumes included
Pondcrosa pine, 135,000 board
feet; Sugar pine, 32.000 board
feet; White fir, 3,0110 board
feet; and Douglas fir, 145,000
board feel. '
CHEAPSKATE
iew York - IITH - The New
York Mirror today published
mi- uMuivviiiK icuer signeu
"Emptyhanded. N.Y.C.":
"To that cheap little bum
who broke off with me just
before Christmas to avoid buy-,
ing a gift: Please come back.
I have a present for you a
your
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