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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
Hltlory from the fllei of 'he
Mall Tribune 1020, 30. 0
and 50 veara ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 5, 1951 (Monday)
' With n railroad switchmen's
ulriko criDDling West Coast
rail traffic, the veneer plant of
the Medford Timber Products
company was forced to close
today, leaving 160 men tem
porarily out of work.
A $50,000 gold dredge car
rying $1,800 worth of gold
broke loose from its moorings
last, night neur Grants Pass
and was pounded to pieces by
the flooding Rogue river.
20 YEARS AGO "
Feb. 5, 1941 (Wedneaday)
Fourteen head of cattle, two
. calves and 25 tons of hay were
destroyed early this morning
when lire leveled a large barn
UownecV- by ; WlUlarnii Martin
about two miles south of Eagle
Point, a .
From - Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Frogs
In throats and mud puddles
urn olentiful . throughout the
valley."
30 YEARS AGO .
Feb. 5, 1931 (Friday)
' Tile city of Medford is con-
: aider ne Duucimii a ruuu iu uie
top of Roxy Ann as a means of
aI.iIhm Inrtol imnmnlnvmnnl
'problems.
1 The. West Side pharmacy
: was robbed of $142 last night.
40 YEARS AGO
Fab. 5, 1921 (Saturday) ' .
A Gold Hill moonshiner was
entenced to three months in
Jail yesterday.
Medford High school bas
kctballers defeated the Hill
Military Academy of Portland
: 15 to 13 yesterday.'
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 5, 19 U (Sunday)
Capt. M. F. Eggleston, a
member of the legislature
from Jackson county, died
early this morning in a Salem
hosnital.
J. C. Hall of Medford has
received a 10-year franchise
to bring top shows to Medford,
and has said tins assures me
city of having a new $40,000
theater.
Mai's Your I.Q.?
Nina or fen correct It tuperler:
even or eight il eicellenfi five ei
Is It good.
1. Is the term "Plimsoll's
line" a surveying, mining,
nautical, or medical term?
2. Is Perchcron the name of
a breed of swine, horses, or
cattle?
3. Which is the earth's most
abundant metallic clement?
, 4. Docs a biennial plant last
one, two, or three years?
5. Samuel L. Clemens used
What pen name?
a. was butter, sugar, or
meat the first to be rationed
during W. W. II?
7. Name the singer who was
called the "Swedish Nightln.
gale."
8. Who was the first Presi
dent to occupy Uie executive
mansion?
9. Does the male, female or
both sexes of crickets, pro
duce the chirping sound?
10. An absolute vacuum has
never been produced; true or
false?
Antweri: 1, Nautical term
2. Horses. 3. Aluminum. 4.
Two years. 5. Mark Twain. 6.
Sugar. 7. Jenny Llnd. 8. John
Adams. 9. Only lhe male. 10.
True.
ARBITRATION LAW
Canberra - The first nation
to make disputes between cap.
ital and labor a matter of ar
bitration in special courts pro
vided by law wsi Australia.
Fishers Come Back
More than three years ago, an editorial in-this
space reported on speculation that animals known
as fishers might be transplanted to the Cascade
country, and that they might be a potent force in
keeping the number of porcupines under control
The editorial said :
"... A group of lumbermen and foresters in this
area have an idea which might be worth considering
for a 'natural' means of control (of porcupines).
"One of them is O. K. Puckett, who has a lumber
operation in the Green Springs area. He recalls hearing
'old-timers' tell of the lime when a weasel-like animal
called a fisher was prevalent hereabouts. They have
. been gone for years, he says, but in the days when
they abounded, porcupines were much rarer.
"His story is corroborated by an article in the . ,
Journal of Forestry ...
"The fisher is a natural enemy of the quillpig, they
(the authors) say, and they cite instance after instance
of cases where the porcupines have been numerous un
til fishers moved in, then decline as the fishers in
creased. "Fishers once ranged the entire northern part of
the country, chiefly in coniferous forests, but their
range now is limited largely to New England and the
Adirondack country in northern New York stale. The
animals are about the size of a fox, and have the bodily
shape of a large weasel or a small wolverine. They are
tough and fast and suffer far less from porcupine quills
than most other animals. Puckett says they can even
swallow them and get away with it.
"The article concludes:
" 'Re-establishment of the fisher In areas of the
United Stales where porcupine control is indicated
might well solve, or at least minimize, the damage
caused by this obnoxious rodent. We feel that it would
be well worth a try.'
' "In this area particularly, where fishers oin-o were
numerous, it might indeed be worth a try."
THIS experiment, discussed more than three
vo'ira arm ia rmur hpinrr nlprAfl in pffppf.
Eleven fishers of an
recently in the Mountain Lakes Wild Area, west
of Klamath Falls. Details of the involved, cooper
ative project are told in a story elsewhere in
today's Mail Tribune.
It will be mterestmir
little animal will thrive
once lived, and if it will make any significant dif
ference in the porcupine population.
; If it dees hold down the number of porcu
pines, it will be a boon to
pig" does great damage to
And the fishers will
ping, despite the fact that their dark brown or
black fur, tipped with silver, is valued at up to
$125 per pelt. E.A.
' Appraised Timber Prices ,
. Are the federal government's appraised prices
for timber unrealistically high? And if they are,
L -a 11- - J i
is none oi me iaciois wnienis nuiung ute jumuer
mdustrvf -
. 'yMaylj.e' so,' as some'
figure out why.
Annraised nrices. of
actual Prices uaid ror
sometimes lag behind current market values. But
the Jag isn t veiv great.
Secondly, it s a rare
prices don't exceed appraised prices. Otherwise
the timber isn't sold.
THE OREGON Statesman reports that it was
Rill l-TotTnnof ain ovonntivo rf Hia Tnrlnei i'i nl
Forestry association, who
ing. Congressman Edwin R. Durno then asked the
Forest Service to look into the "cost-price
squeeze," and added that "it has been caused by
failure of the Forest Service to make realistic ap-
praisals of timber values. '
The Statesman comments :
"We find It hard to figure how cutting the appraisal
prices would put ninny men back to work. Federal tim
ber is sold on bid, and if the appraised price is too
high, loggers don't bid. Even so, there is so much lum
ber on the market, and plywood too, that prices are
depressed, and mills' margins of profit are narrow or
non-existent."
; It follows that, if the appraisal prices were ad-
justed downward, even
sold, the market further
J 1 i i I i i i
iinisnect iiimrjer wouici uiuspin aown even iurtner
The Coos Bay World puts it this way:
"... To blame the price of raw materials for
economic difficulties, and overlook the fact that the
niL-kct is in collapse no matter how cheaply one gets
the materials, is ridiculous , . . Unless there is a
demand for lumber and plywood, the Forest Service
could give the logs away and there still would be no
reason to mill them."
A COMMENT by our knowledgeable corre
" spondent at Table Rock, R. E. Nealon, seems
more to the point than
prices, in his column on if nday, he said :
". . . It seems that a real boost to the lumber busi
ness would be to get these huge piles of lumber in lhe
mill yards moving into construction where they be
long." And the only way to do that is to stimulate the
economy in general, and the housing industry in
particular.
The only ones who would benefit by lower ap
praised timber prices would be the big firms
which could afford to weather a prolonged period
of depressed juices. The "little guy," or the firm
which cuts its own stumpage, would be damaged,
perhaps irreparably. E.A.
Count Your Blessings
In any counting of blessings by those of us
lucky enough to live in the Rogue valley, a place
near the top of the list would have to go to
the weather.
It may be foggy here occasionally, and some
times it's too cold and sometimes too hot.
But at least we don't have the sub-zero bliz
zards which have paralyzed the east for the past
few weeks. E.A.
eventual 20 were released
to see if this fast, tough
again in an area where it
foresters, for the "quill
small trees.
be protected irom trap
1 Li 1.1 1 U
; '. , ,
'claim, but if so we can't
course, are based on the
stumnace. and as such
timber sale where bid
got the controversy go
more timber would be
glutted, and the price of
i - i n... n
fussing about appraised
Dennis the Menace
" - -I
Y0U KNOW SOrMeTHIN0.Ate.iMrCHa FOR A MOMENT
THERE, YOU DOING THE CHA-CHA-OVW
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE VOTE IN THE HOUSE
When we- try to read the
meaning of the vote about en
larging the Committee on
Rules of the
House, we
must bear
mind that it
took place at
the very be
ginning of the
Kennedy ad
m i n istration.
The Kennedy
prog ram on
Llpnmann which the
House will have to act has
not yet been published, in
deed a great deal of it has not
yet been worked out in legis
lative form. All that was be
fore the House was the Demo
cratic platform, campaign
speeches of both parties, the
inaugural address, and last
Monday's message. These are
general, statements of purpose
and policy but they do not
contain specifications . about
the laws that will be asked
for or the money that will be
neeaea. rne task lorce re
ports, while they provide in
sight into the thinking of
Kennedy's advisors, ' are not
Administration legislative pro
posals.
Thus, the action In the
House was a reflection" of
what has gone before. The
vote was close as the election
was close. This vote does not
necessarily,-or even probably,
anticipate the future which is
likely to be very different
when President Kennedy has
begun to act, and to make de
cisions, and to propose not
merely policies but programs
and measures.
Presumably when he is be
ing the leader and not merely
talking about leadership, he
will continue to grow strong
er. Indeed he is already con
siderably stronger in his pop
ular support than he was on
election day.
-
rNE can, therefore, easily
"exaggerate the significance
of the vote. There is, however
no doubt of its practical im
portance. In effect, the House
transferred to Speaker Ray
burn from Rep. Howard W,
Smith the power to determine
what shall be the business of
the House of Representatives.
As the Speaker supports the
Administration and as Mr
Smith is opposed to it, the
parly which won the election
will have the power to have
tts program debated and voted
upon in the House. Had Mr.
Smith won on Tuesday, the
coalition of Rep'iblicans and
Democrats who lost the elec
tion would have captured
control of the House of Repre
sentatives.
But while the Democrats
have won the contest, the Re
publican party, it can fairly
be said, has been saved much
trouble and embarrassment. It
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF
NEWLY UNCOVERED Abraham Lincoln anecdote: At
the age of 24 Lincoln served as postmaster in the ob
scure hamlet of New Salem,
the princely annual sal-
ary of $55.70.
The postoffice w a 3
abandoned in 1836, but it.
was several years before
a federal agent arrived
from Washington to set
tle accounts with ox
postmaster Lincoln, now
practising law with in
different results.
The agent determined
that the sum of seventeen
dollars was due the gov
ernment. Lincoln opened,
an old trunk, and took
out a yellowed cotton bag containing exactly seventeen dol
lars. He had been holding- it untouched for all the years.
"I never use any man's money but my own," he said.
OiMlla Peed defines civilization as "a system under which a
man pays a quarter to park his car so he won't be fined five
dollars while spending a, dim for cup of coffee.''
I
lippmann
has been saved from being
identified as the party of ex
tremist reaction and obstruc
tion. To have been in the posi
tion where it was led by a
Southern reactionary like
Howard W. Smith would have
been embarrassing for the Re
publicans of the North. It
would have been embarrass
ing not only for Governor
Rockefeller but for Case of
New Jersey, Cooper of Ken
tucky, Javits of New York,
Margaret Chase Smith of
Maine and many others. It
would also have been embar
rassing to Mr. Nixon.
Why? Because, as Mr. Al-
sop has told us, Sen. Thrus-
ton Morton, the chairman of
the Republican National com
mittee, realizes that "Presi
dent Kennedy has preempted
the center. Had the Smith-
Halleck coalition won the
contest "on Tuesday, the Re
publican party would have
been unable to challenge
President Kennedy's command
of the center.
'
rpHE " center In American
- nolitlnnl lif in an onnr.
mous majority of the .people.
and the party which controls
the center is virtually unbeat
able. The Republicans con
trolled it most of the time
from the Civil War to the
Taft-Roosevelt schism of 1912
The Democrats controlled it
from the great depression to
the Korean War. Eisenhower
had a chance to take command
of it and to inaugurate a new
Republican era. But he did
not know how to go about it
But this young man Kennedy
understands perfectly t h e
meaning of the center. He in
tends to lead it, and he knows
how to go about doing it.
He has only to resolve the
apprehensions of the Demo
crats who left the party on
the religious issue, and to
draw to his Administration a
large part of the Rockefeller
Republicans. There is no deep
doctrinal or Ideological differ
ence between the Kennedy
Democrats and Republican;
like Rockefeller and Dillon
and Case and Cooper.
TARRING a catastrODhe
" such as war, or an accident
like a panic or a scandal, a
combination of the center is
almost impossible to beat. A
victory of the Smith-Hallei'k
coalition would have made
life very difficult for the
Rockefeller Republicans and
would have promoted greatly
the formation by President
Kennedy of a combination of
the center.
So we can say that while
it had a close shave on Tues
day, the Republican party did
escape a victory which would
have been much worse than
the defeat.
(Copyright 1961 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Stop Me
I1J., for which he drew down
IM HEKB TO
COLLECT ir
BUCKS
Matter of Fact iy
A NEW CAMPAIGN BEGINS
Washington - By all the
signs, the White House re
gards the narrow victory in
the vote to
liberalize the
House Rules
Committee
only the be
ginning of
long, inevit-
a b 1 y bloody
campaign for
d e p e n dable
C o n g r e s-
Aliop sional support
for the Kennedy administra
tion.
This means that the long
established Republican-Southern
Democratic coalition is
going to have to withstand
a sustained assault of a type
the coalition leaders have nev
er experienced. The form can
be guessed from the intensity
of the effort that produced
the coalition's jecent defeat.
This was without any real
precedent since the titanic
struggles to enact Franklin
Roosevelt's great pre-war
measures, like the draft ex
tension bill which passed the
House by a single vote in
1941.
The real effort began in
the middle of last week, when
veteran Speaker of the House
Sam Rayburn realized that
he did not have the votes to
regain control of the Rules
Committee by enlarging it.
By then, it was almost too
late.
TTOUSE Republican
Leader
Charles Halleck had long
since taken the precaution of
putting the big stick of com
mittee assignments for new
members in his back pocket,
until the votes could be count
ed. Wily old Rules Commit
tee Chairman Howard K.
Smith of Virginia, the arch
conservative of the House
Democrats, had also prudent
ly persuaded most of the
Southerners to commit them
selves publicly, in ringing
statements to their home town
papers. But Rayburn had yet
to call the big battalions of
the White House into the fray.
On call, they plunged into
the fray with startling vigor.
In the first phase, the Presi
dent's Congressional liaison
man, Lawrence O'Brien, and
his political secretary, Ken
neth O'Donnell, got their
baptism of fire.
But even after O'Brien and
O'Donnell had used all the
new White House's ordinary
powers of persuasion, they
and Rayburn and his two
lieutenants. Reps. Richard
Boiling of Missouri and Frank
Thompson Jr. of New Jersey,
were still fearful of the out
come. Defeat was still ex
pected as late as Sunday, in
fact.
riN THE Monday before the
v vote, therefore, the Pres
ident himself, Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson, and At
torney General Robert Ken
nedy all took the field in sup
port of the Speaker. The old
device of the Presidential tele
phone call was used once
again-after how long an Inter-
val!-once without success in
the case of Rep. Harold
Cooley of North Carolina, but
with success as well.
In addition, outside support
of all sorts was successfully
mobilized, sometimes from un
expected sources. For exam
ple, four Republican Senators,
John S. Cooper of Kentucky,
Clifford Case of New Jersey,
Jacob Javits of New York,
and Hugh Scott of Pennsyl
vania, besought members
from their states to vote with
Speaker Rayburn instead of
Republican boss Halleck. And
so, in the end, the veteran
Speaker won his victory by
five recorded votes, with six
more votes on call if he really
needed them.
The pattern of this victory
dictates the kind of campaign
that the Democratic Congres
sional leaders and the White
House are now jointly begin
ning. There were 22 Repub-
l vSri
Two Programs for the Cold War Future
By ERIC SEVAREID
The world is lining up to
watch another act in a famil
iar pantomime.
Moscow and Washington
are edging towards one an
other, across
the stage. The
former holds
j out the carrot
in one hand,
the stick bare
ly discernible
in the other
hand behind
its back; the
latter extends
the olive
branch, fingers tightly clench
ed around it for quick with
drawal at the first false move.
Everyone in the audience ob
serves the same actions and
reactions. But to one-half of
the audience they mean quite
different things than they
mean to the other half. The
spectators have come in
through different doors and
they were handed different
programs to rend in advance
and prepare their Understand
ing of the drama.
Perhaps the simplest way
to illustrate this is to take
two advance programs written
Joseph Alsop
licans who voted with Ray
burn. Since every vote counts
in this closely divided Con
gress, right-voting Republi
cans like these will be gen
erously encouraged, in the us
ual ways, by the Democratic
administration.
MORE important, there
were 62 House members
from the old states of the Con
federacy who voted against
Rayburn. At least 40 of these,
and probably 45, constitute
a hard core of men who can
not be talked to. But the rest
can perhaps be talked to. Win
ning the maximum number
in this group is the main ob
jective of the new rampaign,
State by Southern state, all
the members who voted with
Rayburn (rare as hen's teeth
except in Texas, Alabama,
and Louisiana) and all those
who now want to make their
peace with the White House,
will find all doors opening
to them, all good things avail
able to them. The members
of the opposite persuasion
will instead be met with
chilly, unfruitful politeness.
The methodical organiza
tion of the new campaign
is distinctly impressive. Not
only Cabinet members and
heads of agencies are to be
warned to be discriminating
in the persons they do busi
ness with. Personnel directors,
and other officials Congress
men and Senators must also
approach on business, are to
get the word too. When play
ing politics, in short, the Ken
nedy administration plays for
keeps.
There will be outraged cries
no doubt, since Washington
has half-forgotten what it is
like to have an active po
litical leader in the White
House. But political leader
ship is a traditional Presi
dential function, and one
which John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy evidently enjoys.
,(c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Kennedy is re
ported to be committed - rain
or shine - to legislation de
signed to -
1. Increase and expand the
minimum wage.
2. Provide permanent aid
for communities with chronic
unfimployment.
3. Stimulate housing.
LET'S PUT it this way:
The big question in the
case of No. 1 is will it in
crease or DECREASE employ
ment? The minimum wage
applies chiefly to unskilled
labor. In the case of unskilled
labor, will there be jobs at $1
an hour, but NO JOBS at
$1.25 an hour?
IN THE case of No. 2, might
it not be belter to move the
unemployed from places that
are chronically depressed
"(that is; where there is chron
ic unemployment) to places
where there are employment
possibilities?
In areas where there is
chronic depression, resulting
in chronic unemployment,
there is usually a reason.
Lumbering may have been the
principal industry in the days
when the community was do
ing well. Due to over-cutting,
or unwise conservation prac
es, or no conservation prac
tices at all, the timber may
all have been cut off, so that
the community's basic re
source has been exhausted. .
OR IT MAY have been a
coal town, and all the coal
has been taken out of the
ground. Or a copper town, and
all the copper ore has been
mined. Or a town that was
making wagons and buggies
when the truck and the auto
mobile came along and took
by two distinguished men of
equal good will and compar
able alarm at the world's
drift. Both yearn for- peace
and the flourishing of Western
values and .'nstitutions. Each,
so it happens, has written his
interpretation of the forth
coming performance in terms
of advice to the new President
of the United States.
One of these men is William
R. Mathews, the Arizona edi
tor, whose advice is printed in
the Atlantic magazine. The
other is Salvador de Madari
aga. the expatriate Spanish
scholar, whose advice has ap
peared in the Neue Zurchcr
Zeitung. What Mr. Mathews
says, in effect, is, "Let Mos
cow pluck the olive branch
from your hand and you will
find that the stick behind the
back will be dropped."
What De Madariaga says is.
"But put away the olive
branch and free both hands to
take up a stick of your own."
Mr. Mathews, as I read him.
is one of those who. like so
many European intellectuals,
believe that both sides are
equally at fault in preventing
the peace the world desires.
Ha tells tha President that
POTLUCGC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Jewett Elementary school
in Central Point is located at
Tenth and Manzanita streets.
This bit of information is
for the edification of those
Central Point citizens who
don't know. And it appears
there are quite a few of them,
judging by the fact that three
visiting teachers were direct
ed to the Central Point Ele
mentary school, rather than
Jewett, by one resident, and
only escaped leaving town
without getting to their meet
ing at all because someone
at the rural fire department
knew where Jewett school
was.
Meanwhile they had spent
nearly an hour waiting at the
wrong school.
Others attending the meet
ing also had similar difficulty.
Happily, it all turned out
all right, with some 135 peo
ple finally arriving at the
meeting.
"Quality operation with
dignity," is ihe boast of
one local radio station. The
claim usually is made just
before a commercial which
starts out with a silly fe
male voice chanting "Poop-pcop-a-doopl"
.
Our women's editor, who
gets upset quite easily, got
upset last week by a refer
ence to Ham, the chimpanzee-astronaut,
as "who," in
stead of "which."
She was not alone In her
concern, apparently, for we
read in the Eugene Register
Guard that staff members on
that worthy paper spent some
time debating which pronoun
to use.
But that was all settled by
an authoritative editoral writ
er, who declared:
"We don't know what the
grammar experts on the desk
will decide, but if we had a
vote, we'd say that any crea
ture, monkey or not, which
(who) has had an adventure
like that to his (its) credit is
entitled to the dignity of
WHO."
the place of wagons and bug
gies. In such cases, it seems more
Intelligent for the unemploy
ed to move elsewhere, where
jobs are to be had, than to re
main in a chronically depress
ed area and accept what
amounts to soma kind of a
dole.
AS TO No. 3 -There
is dependable evi
dence that in VERY many
areas - even In our rapidly
growing Southwest - there
are already more houses than
tenants.
Why promote more empty
houses?
Is that good business?
It doesn't seem so.
HERE in Oregon and in Far
Northern California, the
lumber industry, including
the building materials indus
try in all of its variations that
include materials tracking
back to trees, is our mainstay.
When it flourishes, we all
flourish. When it isn't doing
loo well, the rest of us are
apt to be doing not too well.
But -
Over the long pull
Is it good for our lumber In
dustry, and for our towns that
depend on it as the source of
their payrolls, to subsidize the
building of still more houses
at a time when there is de
pendable evidence that in the
areas where we find our mar
kets there are already (for the
time being, we hope) more
houses than tenants?
It seems to me these three
proposals deserve a lot of
thoughtful study.
while the American people are
prepared to make war, they
are poorly prepared to make
peace. They have been condi
tioned against inevitable com
promise as acts of "appease
ment" he says, believing we
are always right, the other
side always wrong and that if
we don't achieve victories we
are bound to achieve defeats.
He believes American as
well as Soviet sincerity is now
at the test: That the Kremlin
will respect our primary in
terests in Latin America, Ber
lin, Korea, Japan, Formosa
and the Philippines if we re
spect Russia's primary inter
est in Eastern Europe. In
other words, Mr. Mathews ap
pears to believe that negotia
tion can end the cold war.
The Spaniard also pleads
with the new President for a
new vision, a new faith-but
it is faithful acceptance of the
grim view that everything
since the rape of Czechoslo
vakia should have taught us,
namely that for the Russians
negotiations are only a form
of warfare, that the Soviet
Union means war, not hot war,
but hard, relentless cold war
every where possible. Let
thera be no more illusions, he
"Do you believe in clubs
for women?" "Yea, if all
else fails."
We are happy, happy
happy to be able to report
that in addition to being tha
sixth week of A.D. 1960 (and
third of the "New Frontier"),
it is also:
American Heart Month,
Catholic Press Month, Nation
al Sickroom Needs Month and
American History Month.
Nature's Snack Time runs
from Feb. 1 to April 30; Len
ten Cheese Time (a little
more modestly) runs from
Feb. 1 to March 31, coinciding
with Good Breakfast Months.
Feb. 3 to 8 is Take Tea and
See Week: Feb. 5 to 11 is
National Children's Dental
Health Week, and it is also
Advertising Week and Nation
al Electrical Week. Boy Scout
Week is Feb. 7 to 13.
Will anyone join us in pro
claiming National For Heav
en's Sake Don't Be So Darn
Silly Week? .
And now, friends, left lei
the youngster! take over
the rest of the column. We
herewith present excerpts
from four very excellent
elementary school newspa
pers, the Rogue Rider Re
view of Roosevelt School,
ihe Jackson Journal, of
Jackson school, the Hoover
Hi-Lite of Hoover school,
and a new one (Vol. 1, No.
1). the Blue and Gold, of
Hornbrook school. Here we
go:
Reporter M a r g o Finnell,
fourth grader at Roosevelt,
reports:
"These last twelve weeks
our room has been doing soma
very hard work.
"We wrote a letter to a
relative thanking them for a
gift. On Friday we walked
to Keene Way and Main to
mail our own letters. We
learned how to tell when the
mailman would pick up let
ters. It was fun and we en
joyed our walk. Happy New
Year to all! I !"
Kenny Phillips, a poet in
Mrs. Watson's third grade
clasa at Jackson, writesi
The winds all blow,
' Down comes the snow.
Hockeyl Hockeyl What a
gamel
You need a lot of ice all
the same.
There is a snowman over
by the fence.
Here comes a snowball,
my eyes sense.
Look at the mountainl
See the cloud?
I feel like yelling right
out loud. ;
The winds all blow. !
Down comes ihe mow.
Kathy Zanotto of the Horn-
brook school has this to re
port: "A while ago, Pat and
Kathy Zanotto went to Port
land. While there they want
ed to go on an elevator. They
got in,, and supposedly went
downstairs. When they got
there, they were up on the
top floor. Then, they got back
in and pressed for upstairs
and went downstairs. When
they got downstairs, they took
an elevator to the floor their
room was on, and went in
Room 34. But it was not their
room. Their room was 43.
They finally got home."
And finally, Michelle
Hicks, in 3R at Hoover
school, gives us our thought
for the week, thus: "Long,
long ago, in your great,
great grandmother's time,
there were Indians that did
everything for themselves.
There were no tools, and all
there was. was wood and
tone. Think how lucky you
are now." s
says, about an understanding
or a compromise. Let us ac
cept the challenge, organize
the free world for the fight,
if necessary establishing a
new free United Nations if
the Russians succeed in de
stroying or making unimpor
tant the present one.
r
Surely, there has been
enough evidence these many
years for all intelligent adults
to know which interpretation,
which program they believe
in. Yet not many do, with
clarity and conviction.
If I were to add footnotes
to the programs, as a guide to
the audience, one would have
to be the recent declaration of
the World Congress of Com
munist Parties. Its basic theme
and determination was stated
in these words:
"Peaceful coexistence of
countries with differing social
systems does not mean con
ciliation of the socialist and
bourgeois Ideologies. On the
contrary, it implies INTENSI
FICATION of the struggle of
the working class, of all the
Communist parties, for the
triumph of Socialist ideas."
(Distributed 1961 by The
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)