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o o A FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, lSl MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON 1 WDFORDwTWBUNJ "Everyone in Southern Oregon ' t Beads The Mail Tribune hublished Dally except SaturdayTy MEDFORD PRINTING CO '83 North Ffr St. Ph 8P 2-6141 ' ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY AdvMtiilnil Manager CKRA1.D T LATHAM Bui Mgr IRIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor flARRY CHIPMArJ, Tiles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'e Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr f An Independent Newspaper Cntered as iecond class matter at - Medford. Oregon under Act 01 . March 3, 1607 SUBSCRIPTION RATES J By Mail - In Advanco, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 119 00 I Daily and Sunday 6 mo 8 00 1 Daily and Sunday 3 moa 4.JS Sunday Only One year 4 JO ?y Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle " Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv 2 er Talent and on motor routes , Daily and Sunday 1 year lf JO . Dallv and Sunday I mo I JO 1 Carrier and Dealirs copy 10c - All Terms Cash lnAdyanc totflclal Paper of City of Medford iQfflcUl Paper of Jackson County " United Press international ! Full Leased Wire J U.P.I. TelaphooJJewsplotures TlEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU XaVert!SnTReprejentaUve: "west HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of f flees In New York. Chicago. Do f trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles, ! Seattle. Portland St. Louis At. i lnta Vangoiiver B.C NEWS PA PI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAl EDITORIAL LIU Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1951 (Monday) ; A slate highway commis sion ruling has established iO miles per hour as the Beslgnalcd speed for the Med-ford-Jacksonville highway. I Mrs. Mary Reddy, widow Of the late Dr. John F. Reddy, tarry-day Medford resident, died in a southern California Bospital early this morning. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1941 (Wednesday) t The Medford city council (ook the first step toward im provement of the municipal airport last night when it voted to create an airport construction fund .into which both federal and local monies swill be deposited. 3ti i From' Arthur Perry g "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ob' servers at Salem report there Is no excuse for a long ses sion of the legislature. From accomplishments to date, (here is no excuse for any Session at all." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1931 (Thursday) J The slate legislature i has totcd to levy an additional one cent state tax on gasoline. ! A delegation from southern Oregon is in Salem this week urging the legislature to close the Rogue river to commer cial fishing. . '.,,'-.," 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1921 (Saturday) ; District Attorney Rawles Moore has set up new offices In the First National Bank building. ? The Rev. J. Randolph Sass- holt .of the First Methodist church here has begun a se ries of revival meetings, i 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1911 (Sunday) ' The Rogue River Fish Pro tective association failed to yield to the pressure of com' tncrcial fishing interests at i meeting here Friday, and has decided to stand firm in sup "port of a state law prohibit ing commercial fishing In the Rogue river. .-'. i The Onkdnle Tennis club, now" occupying grounds on Oakdale avc., hns taken steps to acauire a site for new tennis courts. tVkal's Your I.Q.? Nino of Itn correct is suptrlori Itvtii of tight Is ncslltntt fin Is Is good. 1. Adult moths do not eat clothes-true or false? . 2. What was Abraham's on- Jy son's name? 3. A drum major's head dress is called a beaver, shako, or fez? 4. Is the Tropic of Cancer north, or south, of the Equa tor? 5. In which country Is the famous Blarney Stone? ' 6. Carrots arc yellow due to the presence of chlorophyll or carotene? 7. Which U. S. President Is reputed to have said, "All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother? 8. What were Caesar's dy ing words, referring to the part played by Brutui In t plot to betray him? 9. Sponges are classified as nslnernls, plants, or animals? ' 10. Define claustrophobia. Answers: 1. True, 2. Isaac. 3. Shako. 4. North. 5. Iroland. 6. Carotene. 7. Abraham Lin coln, S. Ei lu (You loo) Brute, t). Animals. 10. Fear of en closed placer , . Who Will Could any American who is patriotic and a believer in this nation's magnificent destiny and potential fail to be stirred by President Kennedy's inaugural address - Could any man who and fruitful futjure for mankind fail to respond to his summons to duty? Could any human who has thought seriously about tne choices to De made fail to be moved by the President's grasp and reach, by his cour age and aspirations, by the odd but convincing u; ..' f n : i : , - - j , a cumuiiiituuu ui jiuiiuiuy VES, there w21 be some who will snigger and pooh-pooh what this young man says; who will deride his emotion-packed and exciting call for action; who' will carp and complain.. But, in all truth, President Kennedy's success, as he himself acknowledged, will be measured in large part, not so much by what he does, as it will be by the nation's, and the world's, response to what he says. - ' If the response amounts to a fraction of the ideals and hopes expressed by the new Chief Executive, he will go down in -history as a great leader. If, however, he does not stir men the world around to share in the building of a new peace and a new kind of world, he will have failed. . WHAT he is seeking is nlrl irlpnls The ideals of liberty tunity for all men, of new. They are the very cornerstone on which America was built. Can they be combined with new knowledge and made to meet new challenges I Can they be extended to men everywhere? Can America, and the which made her great, recapture the imagination of the world?. : America's great documents of freedom, her tradition of liberty and ward justice and humanity, Kindled the sparK which has now. set half the .world aflame with undisciplined but hopeful rebellion. Can America's sense of sober responsibility, which must go with these flaming ideals, also be made contagious? . ' THESE are the questions which face the new arlmiriisrrnriniv a rift in nn smalW measure, the )eople young John F. Kennedy has set himself to He has issued an invitation to greatness, and issued it in ringing, challenging terms. The great question is wneuier America anu iter menus, yes, even her enemies, will respond. v ' On our own; individual answers to this ques tion depend the future of America, freedom, and humankind itself. E.Ai. Something Unique i A presidential inauguration, particularly when it marks a change in administration, and even more particularly when it marks a change in party responsibility, is a fascinating thing. There mav be more hoo-raw and hub-bub than is absolutely necessary. And the natreantrv and display which goes with wnicn is ..unique in sen neaceful. orderlv transler This may well be something which totalitarian nations cannot understand, and don t wish to, FRIDAY'S was marked by good will all around. Everyone was gracious and friendly, not only the winners and the lame ducks, but the losers too. I v This is one of the things which has made America great the peaceful settlement of differ ences at the ballot box, rather than the forceful settlement of differences by rifle and bayonet. We hope those school children in this area which were privileged to watch the proceedings on television gqt the message. It is something to remember always, and something to be prouct of. i E.A. Begin Now that the pageantry of the Inaugural is over, we settle! down to the long pull, the job which President Kennedy says "will not be fin ished in the first one hundred days nor ... in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. "But," he said, "let us begin." The road ahead will be full of frustrations, perhaps of personal sacrifice, of disappointments and delays and' backbiting and wrangling. RUT President Kennedy has picked a top-flight " team to work with him: has shown energy and vision and decisiveness, call for help in doing the job. We class ourself as something of a cynic when it comes to uolitics and nolitical pronouncements. liun-of-the-mine political speeches can be tedi ous. This was no run-of-the-mine speech. It was the message of a statesman. And now comes the difficult decisions, the political jockeying, the diplomatic discussions, which are necessary to convert ideals and aspirations into accomplishment. The words and the beginning. But they were Respond? has hones for a neacefu auu eu-coniiuence ( ... a new world .built upon ' ' and of equality of oppor law and justice, are not hopes and aspirations law, her aspirations to But it is understandable. the tormality and tne it signifies something - governing countries a of Dower. the Job and has issued a stirring hard, gruelling work, the pageantry were only a a splendid beginning. U.A. Dennis the Operator j Hex why didn't Margaret (-Ail- Mfc iMs SHE SAIP By Walter EISENHOWER'S FAREWELL WARNING President Eisenhower's fare well address will be remem bered and quoted in the days to come. Ris ing above the Issues which divide the I ties and were the material of the election campaign, he U3M dwelt on s question, nev er before dis cussed public- Llppmann ly by any responsible official, which is of profound impor tance to the nation's future. The question on which he has been brooding is how in the presence of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry" the su premacy of the civil power is to be maintained. "In the councils of government," he said, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarrant ed Influence whether sought or unsought by the military- Industrial complex." Surely, It is Impressive that the old soldier should make this warning the main theme of his farewell address. Yet he was in the great tradition. Washington made the theme of his farewell address a warning against allowing the Influence of foreign govern ments to invade our political life. That was then the men ace to the civilian power. Now Eisenhower, speaking from his experience and looking ahead, Is concerned with a contemporary threat to the supremacy of the civilian power. This is a problem rare ly discussed in public but if it were not a real and serious problem, General Eisenhower would not have devoted to it so much of the emphasis of his last official message to the nation HE DID not mean, of course, that civilian supremacy can or should be upheld by reducing the military power ol the military establishment, And as we know, the Ken nedy administration Is com mitted to an increase In the military power of the military establishment. How then can the danger of unwarranted military influence - or to use an old phrase for it, the dan ger of militarism - be prevent ed? Only by making civilian Influence greater, not by re ducing military power, How Is that to be done? Es sentially, it can be done by appointing to the civilian posts of decision in the Pentagon, the State Department, and the National Security Council, civilians with some military experience of their own who have had personal experience in public life and possess a trained nd educated intelli gence. These civilians must work with, they must not de fer abjectly to, the profession al soldiers. One reason why President Eisenhower has seen the mili tarist danger grow is that with the exception of the last one, he never had a Secretary of Defense who was the In tellectual equal of the profes sional soldiers he had to deal with. ONCE the civilians have the self-confidence to exercise civilian supremacy, they can and should impose a strict civ ilian discipline nn the state ments and speeches Issued by the Chiefs of Staff and by lo cal commanders throughout the world. The talkativeness of Ameri can military men, most of them reading jpeeches written by professional speech writers who are paid by the govern ment, is an International scan dal. Throughout the world it causes i trfculSe. it causes greatOoB f rrjQMtC W '9t Menace SHfc (MS V' & Tomorrow lippmann fidence. Anyone who travels about the world talking with the leaders, be it behind the Iron Curtain or on this side of it, will find himself con fronted constantly with the loud talk of some Admiral or General. There is not any oth er military establishment on earth, except perhaps in small disorderly countries, which permits a running commen tary on critical affairs by its Generals and Admirals and the Colonels down the line. The true solution of the problem that President Eisen hower warned the country against is to be found in civil ian appointees who are confi dent and willing to command. When such civilians are in office, it will be possible for the Administration to wean the Congress and portions of the press from their undue re liance upon the military es tablishment as the true source of the true American policy. For then those who have to deal with our problems will learn by trial and error that the true source of the true policy is among the civilians who make the policy. , WITHOUT pretending that everything.is perfect, that every selection is ideal, and that everything is sure to be right, there is, I am convinc ed, solid ground , for confi dence in the Administration which Mr. Kennedy has or ganized. It is not an Administration led by corporation executives. It is not an Administration composed primarily of pro fessional politicians, although the head of it is, among his other aptitudes, a professional politician of the first order. It is not an Administration made up of professors drawn out of an academic life of scholar ship and research. It is, for the first time In history, an Ad ministration manned primari ly by professional public ser vants - by men whose pri mary careers have long been me public service. They will need public sup port. They will need a lot of luck. But I do not know of any Administration in our time in which the level of competence has been so high (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Sevareid's By ERIC SEVAREID The American social-worker mentality that regards the world as our sick oyster has probably done more good than bad. But I am relieved that President Ken nedy is trying to get his ducklings In a row before dispatching t h e proposed "peace corps" nf . a a n r itvirsid youngsters to work among the mud huts of Africa and the tin can shanty towns of Latin America. , It Is faintly possible that they can accomplish some thing, although It will have nothing to do with peace. To the restless and large hearted young, of course, dis tant misery is always more attractive than misery close to home. I have Just met the lovely daughter of a British statesman who is setting sail to do social work In the West Indies. Ten blocks from her London home, thousands of West Indians live in the sordid tensions of North Kensington. 1 know true believers in Washington, D. C, who travel t(4 thousand (jjilrs to be Ill In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Frigid Canadian air broke out of its pocket in the Dako- tas and rampaged southward. It swung to the east and BROUGHT UP TO EIGHT INCHES OF SNOW TO THE NATION'S CAPITAL. On Friday, the snow had stopped, but the wind was bitterly cold. UNUSUAL? None! Of our 43 inaugurals since 1789, bad weather has marred at least half. William Henry Harrison took the oath of of fice in 1841 in a steady down pour of freezing rain. The old soldier, refused to wear an overcoat, and insisted on read ing his 8000-word address. It took him an hour and 45 min utes. A month later, he was dead of pneumonia. A T Grant's second inaugural it was so cold that West Point cadets passed out while passing in review before the stands. By night-, it got so cold that champagne for the inau gural ball FROZE SOLID In the bottles. Sleet pelted James Monroe Snow blanketed James Gar field and Grover Cleveland, Rain fell on Polk, Lincoln. McKinley, Hoover and FDR during their inaugural cere monies. HST and Ike were lucky. Truman had a cold, but sunny, day. Ike had bluebird weather for his first inaugu ral and at his second mild showers were scattered by later sunshine. WHAT to do? Move the capital to Los Angeles, maybe. Or, perhaps, to the State of Jefferson, where we are hav ing bluebird weather. THE Washington area was jammed to the bursting point by citizens who came from all over the nation to see the inaugural spectacle. EVERYTHING was filled up even Annapolis and Balti more, 30 to 40 miles away. That isn't unusual. On the day of Andrew Jackson'a in auguration in 1829, a reporter mused: "Where the multitude slumbered last night is incon ceivable, unless it were on Mother Earth, curtained by the unbroken sky." Hmmmmmm. Back in An drew Jackson's day, sleeping in a haymow was a prime so lution for overcrowding-even in well - to - do homes. Many people still living can remem ber sleeping in the haymow when the family home filled up with guests. It was regard ed by the small fry as a lark. It s OUT now. Among other reasons, there are no more haymows. rpHOMAS Jetferson was the first President to be in augurated in Washington Things were simplor then. After the inaugural ceremony, Jefferson walked from the Capital to his boarding house nearby. It was lunch time, arid he took his usual place at the foot of a table set for 30 regular boarders. Nostalgic thought: It was Jefferson who said "That government is host which governs LEAST. Would that there were more like him today! TJACK to William Henry " Harrison. He too believed in simplici ty. Coming of an old and dis tinguished Virginia family, where the head of the house was the head of the house, he Caveat onTeace Corps' Plan moved by the sufferings of the black men Dr. Schweitzer is trying to help, but who never set foot in the Negro ghettos of southeast Washington. On their way to black Af rica the young American corpsmen and corpsgirls will pass hundreds of African boys and girls heading for Europe and America for study and work. Many of them will be equally selfless, but many others of them intend never to return If they can help it, or to return equipped to make as much money as fast as they can. African society, 1 would guess, is the most profoundly materialistic on earth. , The young American Ideal ists arc going to be shocked to find a high percentage of their black counterparts in African colleges totally Inured and In different to the sufferings of their own countrymen and in terested in freedom, not as in dividual freedom, but as the political reshuffle that will give them the Jobs, big houses, cars and servants, their true goals in life. The "peace corps" recruit ers must rule out two types at the start the romantics and the eager avers. Both will simply get their hearts broken and return as cynics, a posture took his duties seriously, He believed the people wanted him to get rid of Inefficient government employees, and It was his custom to walk through the federal offices, observing the employees at their work. He took his responsibilities as manager of the White House very seriously and in sited on doing the marketing himself. He would rise early in the morning, take a basket on his arm and walk to the vegetable markets. One chilly March morning he went to market without an overcoat and caught a cold. The cold developed into pneumonia, which caused his death - just a month after his inau guration. AH, me! A lot of water has gone under the bridge since those simple days, mates. Matter of Fact ay j0,ePh aioP KENNEDY'S LEGACY Washington - The tradition al festivities of the Presiden tial inauguration hold the headlines. But future histori ans are unhap pily likely to give more space to a meeting that took place not long ago at the American E m bassy i at Manila. Alsop There was nothing dramatic abopt this gathering. Second level American diplomats had been called .together from all the Far Eastern and Southeast Asian Embassies, for one of the regional rallies which are now part of the American dip lomatic routine. . Indeed, the meeting's only interesting as pect was its unanimity - and there is nothing dramatic, of course, about a total absence of disagreement. But a surfeit of drama can be expected in the future, if the men at this meeting were not unanimously wrong in their estimate of the Asian situation. For they primarily agreed on the near-fatal to fatal consequences in Asia of a successful outcome of the ar rogant Communist interven tion -in remote, obscure, and disordered little Laos. NEUTRALIST, Soviet-orient-. ed nations like Indonesia, strongly Wester n-oriented countries like Thailand, na tions heavily depending on Western aid like Nationalist China and Korea, were all in cluded. The softer the local situation, of course, the dark er was the forecast for the future. But none of these Asian countries, not even Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa, was expected to be immune to the shock of a Communist vic tory in Laos. The unanimous forecast of a kind of political earthquake in Asia was strictly condition al at the time of the Manila meeting. The Communist-supported, Soviet-supplied attack on the government of Laos had not begun to pay off as it now seems to be paying off, when these on-the-spot Ameri can observers gathered in Manila. Today, however, the forecast is becoming less and less conditional. "The goose," in one man's words, "is near ly cooked." Omitting the obscurities of Laotian geography, the sit uation can be summarized as follows. The pro-Communist forces, assisted by an open Soviet air lift of supplies, re cently seized the offensive. They quickly occupied the key area of central Laos from which the little country's roy - the young carry off but awk wardly. I suggest the administrators seek counsel, as far as Africa is concerned, from Ernest Montgomery. Ernest is a red headed, easygoing boy from Connecticut, still in his twen ties. On the grassroots, back woods level he was the most effective representative of America I've run across in years. Until the government lost hlm-alas-to the Rockefeller outfit in Ghana, he was, as in formation officer, the only official American among the millions of Ibos in eastern Ni geria. There he was America, all by himself. He never preached, he nev er tried overtly to improve the people. He never expected gratitude or even results. So he often got both. I lived a week In his comfortable bach elor house in Enugu and every night It was the gathering place for Ibo politicians, Jour nalists, doctors or just friends who wanted to play his rec ords and shuffle around in the "benue" or "high life" dance steps. He was the type who could drift around the coun tryside in a statiffn wagon equipped with sleeping bag and digest the native food. OoJ one trio this lanky youngsttW PTILUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) One of the Kennedy sup porters in the M-T newsroom made others a bit jealous (and brought snorts of derision from ex-Nixon supporters) on Friday morning by wander ing around with a transistor radio plugged Into his ear. He had to work, but, by jingo! he wasn't going to be deprived of listening to Presi dent Kennedy's Inaugural ad dress which, he suspects, may become one of America's his toric speeches. We leave our politically minded readers to guess which staff member it was. Last week wo wondered idly about congressional bills bearing iho names of t h 1 r sponsors (a.g the Morse-Coad bill, iho Mason Dixon bill). Vie Freyor of the Capital Journal in Sa- al capital, Luang Prabang, can be directly threatened. HPHE LAOTIAN government tnen struggiea 10 mount counter-offensive. This was conspicuously but somewhat ridiculously assisted by the transfer of four American training planes hastily equipped to carry machine guns and rockets. No more makeshift military expedient has -gained comparable pub licity since the Paris taxis were commandeered to rein force the French front in the force the French front in the first World War. And the trainers were not as effective, apparently, as the "Taxis of the Marne." As nearly as can be judged from this distance, the Laotian government's counter offen sive has come to nothing, at least not yet. Meanwhile, a second offensive by the pro Communist forces has won a series of other small but cru cial positions. As a result the Laotian administrative capital, Vientiane, is also threatened. Barring miracles, the Laotian situation will probably not be saved unless Thailand sends in its army - which Thailand will not do without open and active American military par ticipation. In short, the first item on the agenda that President Ei senhower is leaving .to. Presi dent Kennedy is a chpice com parable in political impor tance to President Truman's choice in Korea, but very much uglier and more diffi cult than the Korean choice. THERE is no exaggeration in this comparison. The reason Truman re sponded to the Communist challenge in Korea was the certainty that Communist vic tory in Korea would cause a political earthquake all over Asia - and the situation in Asia was then much better than it is today. But when Truman made his Korean de cision, he could count on a whole series of favorable fac tors, ranging from the large and fairly effective South Ko rean army to the American near-monopoly of nuclear weapons. Kennedy, surveying Laos, will not have these fa vorable factors on his side. The Louis Johnson-Harry Truman disarmament policy, started in the era of total nu clear monopoly, produced the challenge in Korea. The same sort of policy-making began again as soon as the Korean war was ended, and the result is the challenge in Laos. This challenge, moreover, is only one part of the legacy to Ken nedy. H i s performance as President will have to be judged by the nature of the i legacy took to demonstralinc the hoola hoop in village squares, and created adoring pande monium everywhere he went. He knew more about what was really happening In that big section of Nigeria than any foreigner there. In another African district there was another young American, a highly trained so ciologist and social worker. Hs was full of drive and ideal ism. On houslnff nrnhlpmc far example, he harried the local authorities, demanded action nauy, cried aioua at tne built in corruDtion. sloth and irwif. ficiency, and ended up dis- iiKca ana isolated and useless. He was an eager beaver. He also happened to be Negro, himself. The "peace corps" adminis trators must realize that it takes a very special kind of foreign youth to become ac cepted in any backward, in grown, semi-primitive society They must also realize that it takes years for any Individual to accomplish anything worth accomplishing. A system built on brief tenure and rotation will, I freely predict, become an expensive Jolaj, i .qucl to "The Ugly American." (Distributed 11 T The Halla Syndicate, Ins,) (AH Rights O Reserved lorn was inspired to go fur ther. He said: With this thought in mind, why don't you and I turn to our own legislature now in session and see if we can't turn up some needed legisla tion with appropriate spon sors? For Instance, a bill to rnaks It tougher on fathers who skip out of state to avoid paying support money to their fami lies , could be sponsored by Sens. Melvln Goode and Don ald Husband. It would be known, of course, as the Goode-Husband bill. . And you would like to sug gest a poultry feed control law to be sponsored by Reps. Winton Hunt and Grace Peck -to be known as the Hunt Peck bill? Very good. Next, I would like to pro pose a bill that would give teachers greater leeway in tha spanking of school children. It would be authored by Reps. Beulah J. Hand and Carl Back. We will call it the Back Hand law. You like the idea of a bill regulating restaurants, you say? To be sponsored by Sen. Vernon Cook and Rep. Carrol Howe and known as tha Howe-Cook bill? Not bad. Well then, how about a law regulating locksmiths? This one would be sponsored by Sen. Lloyd M. Key and Rep. Wayne Turner and would be known as the Key-Turner law. You don't like that one? You can do better? You would like to suggest a bill governing the price that barbers can charge bald-headed customers? It would be sub mitted by Sens. John D. Hara and Walter Leth? And would be known as the Leth-Hara bill? You win, sir. Wo ire fond of quoting xcerpts from school news papers and school columns in this space. Hera is ont, from tha Phoenix Grada school, for today! "In Mrs. Alice Swingle's first grada room wa are finding out about winter weather. We found out we can tall what the weather it by looking out tha window." Would that all budding sci entists learned this lesson in forthright simplicity.- We know Bob Church's crew uses such things as ther mometers, anemometers, ceil ometers, and a bunch of other ometers and other esoteric equipment. But do they ever look out the window? Wall, That Man From Phoenix chocked in last week. Ha enclosed a clip ping (from tha M-T, natch arly) which bora a headlina saying "Mooshinori Go Underground." His com ment, unavoidable as it was, taidi "Cowed by tha Intern al Revenue Service," Speaking of the Internal Revenue Service, we noted with some envy the fact that the first Oregon income tax refund check was mailed last week. We wonder what well-or ganized, meticulous, eager- beaver soul mailed in a re turn before January was half over. Most of us, we suspect, will be doing well if, gaunt and haggard, we make it to the post office mail slot by 11:59 p.m. on April 15. Happily, that's a Saturday. Incidental intelligence of no particular value: Friday tha 13th occurred in Janu ary. The only other time during 1961 that will hap pen will be in October. A man we know ambled up to us Friday and said, "Wouldn't you know? Here we've had week after week of cold and fog and rain, and on the first day of a Demo cratic administration, we hava the first good weather sines way last fall!" The same was true in Washington, of course. Tha last few hours of the Repub lican administration saw a record - breaking snowstorm and bitter cold. But as tha new President neared his In auguration, the skies cleared, and the sun shone. One Democrat in the Capi tal, watching the pre-lnaugu-ral blizzard, remarked "Tha GOP dies hard, doesn't it?" And back to the Sunny Rogue valloy for our last one: County Treasurer Karl Janouch Is used to handling large sums of money without difficulty. Usually It's the smaller amounts that giva him the most trouble. Like last week when offi cers of the law brought hlin 5174.50 which had been con fiscated from some pinball machines raided earlier. The $174.50 was all In nickels. That's a lot of nickels 3,490 of them - and he hod to use a pickup truck S taka them to the bank. O O
