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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."
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Syndicate, Ins,) (AH Rights
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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.
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