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SUNDAY. WEDFORDw.TRIBUNI "Lveryuna id Southern Oregon Published bally except Saturday NULue unu rwmwu 33 North Fir St. Ph SP2-6U1 nnnwDT UP BITUT WHItnr HERB GREY Adveitislng Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr JRIC W ALLEN JR Mng Edltoi nnu niitnutu TaIah IrMltnr OLIVE STARUHER Women's Editor DALE KR1UK5UN urcuiaiioii An Independent Newspaper Intered jecond class matter Medford. Oreuon under Act 01 March 3. 1887 B.mc'.mfTVrmN RATIOS ' By Mall - In Advance. Copy 10c Dally -nd Sunday I year S13 00 n-.il.. an QnnilMV 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4 20 By Cairler-In Advance Medt-rd AsMand Lemrai rum. - Point. Jacksonville Gold gill Phoenix Shady Cove, Rone Rlv er laieni uu w" -"- - Ddly and Sunday 1 vear 18 00 uaiiy nnn omnia.. -terrier and Deai-ra - copy 10c All JTerrns Cash In Advano rtHal raper'of City of Mrdford Official Papir of lackson County fTnTted Press International Full Leased Wire t) p I Telephoto Newspjcturee mbR of AimiT IjimiSAtr OICIRCUl.A'nONS JKirilifiw RenrVscntnllve: WP.ST HOI .in A V CC INC Of. 'Ices In Mew York Chlcacro Do- trolt. San Francisco Los Anseles Seattle. Portland St Louis At. - 't--Ma Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N ATI ON At EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from Ihe files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 26, 1951 (Monday) Influenza and colds contln. ued to cut into attendance at Medford and Central Point grade schools today, particu larly among the younger chil dren. I . A total of 450 persons from five counties registered here today for a one-day regional conference on children and youth. ' ,' . 20 YEARS AGO ' Feb,, 26, 1941 (Wednesday) Jacksonville. High's Red skins won their way into the state class B basketball tour nament last night by dumping Merrill High Huskies 35 to 30. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There Is considerable speculation among the natives, as to when 'the' war and the legislature will end, if ever." ' , 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1931 (Thursday) Medford has received $85,. ' 000; for post office improve, ments. . Fire last night destroyed the : Fir-Pine box factory on Chestnut st. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1921 (Saturday) The lumber freight rates from Medford ' have been re adjusted to conform with lumber rates in Klamath Falls and Weed. Stephen T. Mather, direc tor of national p a r k s, has pledged support "for the local movement to preserve Jack son' county scenery. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 26, 1911 (Sunday) P. J. O'Gara, government pathologist, '.has forecast good pear crop for this year, noting that conditions are ideal. The Industrial program for Medford during 1911 includes construction work amounting to several million dollars. V toil's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior.' even ei eight is eicalltnt) rive lie Is flood. 1. Who Is the President of France? 2. What is the law-making body of France called? 3. One of the Central Re publics docs not border on the Caribbean Sea; name it. 4. What are the names of the four phases of the moon? 5. Is Bagdad the capital of Saudi Arabia, Iran or Iraq? 6. Does (he Dominion of Canada pay taxes to the Brit ish Government? 7. Correct the following sentence: "The economic structure has been effected by World War II." 8. Who holds the long throw record in baseball, which Is 340, 395, or 445 feet? 9. Did the Army, Navy or Air Force receive the larger appropriation for the 1958 fiscal year? .. .. 10. Which state had the largest percentage population Increase between 1940 and 1950? Answers: General Charles de Gaulle. 2, National Assem bly. 3. EI Salvador. 4. New Moon. First Quarter. Full Moon. Last Quarter. 5. Iraq. S. No. 7." has been affect ed ". (. Son Crate (Minn. Millers)! 445 feet, 9. Air Force. 10. California. - FttlHUARJ- 26. 1961 Attention, Poets With a certain amount of trepidation, we an nounce the start of a new Mail Tribune feature. It is a "Poets Corner," and the first issue can be found across the way regularly appear on bundays, 11 all goes well. Our trepidation stems newspapers which have ing, it would appear, can a woman scorned, unless it is a poet whose work is rejected. TOR THAT reason, our previous policy has been to accept no "serious" verse, and to publish in "Communications" only light-hearted and occa sionally humorous pieces on timely topics. We did not wish to place ourself in the position of be ing a judge of poetry on its merits. Now, however, we have found a man with sufficient background and ability, not to say courage, to undertake sorting the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, and the poets from the versifiers. We found him in the person of Arnold Eugene Jenny, a recent arrival in the valley, who soon will take up residence at Rogue Valley Manor. LIE HAS undertaken the responsibility of screening all serious verse submitted to the Mail Tribune for consideration, and for selecting the poems which he feels He will have a completely free hand in mak ing his selections. Depending on circumstances and his judgment, they classics, or little-known submitted for publication. We hope that a suffi cient number or works gory will be received to Those wishing to submit poems for Mr. Jen ny's consideration should keep them relatively short up to about 80 short Jines or half as many long lines (space is a consideration). DOEMS submitted should, if possible, be type- written, double-spaced, and on one side of the paper only. They should have some real merit as poetry, technically as well as to ment, not just anything words. They may be addressed to "The Poets Cor ner, Mail Tribune, 66 North Fir st., Medlord. They will then be forwarded to Mr. Jenny for his decision. All serious submissions will be acknowl edged, and rejected works returned. Mr. Jenny hopes that column can be varied from week to week, and that the subject matter can be wide without undue empnasis on any single tTU"E WILL continue to accept non-serious verse " for publication in the Communications col umn. If it is of sufficient be forwarded to Mr. Jenny tor consideration. , In any event, his decision will be conclusive with regard to poems to be published in the poets corner. . . . This is, very frankly, an experiment. We have been warned against it by editorial colleagues who have attempted it before. , But we hope that it will prove to be an inter esting addition to the Sunday: issue of the Mail Tribune, and that it may serve as an outlet to those to whom poetry is a serious means of dis ciplined self-expression. It will be continued so long as it is accepted, so long as the problems involved do not become insuperable, and so long as Mr. Jenny's good na ture and willingness persist. E.A. Substitute for an Auto In recent days, our "Communications" column has contained two letters one of them advocat ing the use of bicycles by high school students; the other approving bicycles, but also advocating the use of an even more traditional means of loco motion : Shank's mare. -, Both suggestions came as a result of informa tion to the effect that physical fitness and aca demic ratings of students suffer from the overuse of automobiles. In advocacy of these points of view, we are able to present a personal report direct from the University of Oregon campus, as the result of a recent visit. DECAUSE of restrictions against indiscriminate use of cars at the University, students now: A. Walk. B. Ride bicycles. x - This change in a way of life has been accom plished without a great deal of furore. It is even possible, we discovered, to ride a bicycle with a certain decorous eclat. The same flair can be achieved when walking, it has been discovered among the student cog noscenti, by the use of the umbrella. THE umbrella is a terrible instrument in the Vtanrla n-P a woman nn u winrlv vnimr rlav But a black one, tightly rolled a la Neville Chamberlain, swung in a properly jaunty man ner, or carried aslant across the shoulder, can do much for a young man's morale. 1 It's almost as good as a swagger stick in the hands of a Marine colonel or a Coldstream Guardsman. And what a fine substitute for an automobile ! E.A. . on Page 5, where it will from the experience of published poetry. Noth compare with the fury of merit publication. may include familiar works, or original poems of merit in the last cate justify the column. subject matter and treat versified," in Mr. Jenny's the content of the poetry topic. '-.., merit, it may, however, Dennis the Menace ' I 6EEM wn'to tell Doey WHAT amkbs ah airplane WORK, you WANNA EXPLAIN KfcAW&V Matter of Fact. ByJo,ePh "ADVENTUROUS AND CAUTIOUS" Paris-One of the dividends of getting married is a flood of letters of friendly congratu lation. If you have passed the previous three decades as an inter mittently rov ing reporter, fur thermore, the letters come from all over the world Alsop and from peo. pie of all sorts and condi tions. : In this reporter's case, the accident of timing transform ed this flood into a test of the first foreign response to the Kennedy administration. Some letters in fact seemed to be written with.' congratu lation as a mere pretext,- and with the real purpose of ex pressing a strong political emotion provoked by a great change in America to an in terested American. From an important policy maker of a major Western na tion for instance, came a near ly full length essay on "the great satisfaction I derive from the prospect of your country at; last playing the part which its qualities have fitted it to play" To .this the writer added: "Although as you know I am inclined by nature to avoid taking a very serious view, I feel twice as confi dent about the future with your new leaders in the sad dle. The , Inaugural address was not just a masterpiece; it also showed the first signs of greatness and vision that have been seen on our side for many years.", pROM a senior statesman in a key neutral country there came another letter on the same note, welcoming "the fresh wind of youth blowing full blast" In Washington. "Even in this remote and not easily moved part of the world," this man remarked almost wonderingly, "people feel brighter and more hope ful. The longing for Ameri can leadership has been such everyhere." Such were not untypical re actions to the new Presi dent's stirring debut and in particular to the Inaugural address (which was even read aloud in chapel at the French convent attended by this re porter's step-daughter). It was extra interesting, therefore, to come abroad Just now. when this first fine frenzy of excitement Is being replaced by a more mature judgment of Kennedy-in-action. The standard set by the de but is clearly going to be very hard to live up to, as is prov en, for Instance, by the French response to the choice of Gen. James Gavin as Am bassador to Paris. The new Ambassador, after all. is one of the leading Americans of his generation-an authentic hero, a man of great charm, and above all a man of pro found and original intelli gence. Yet there has been just a little grumbling here hecause Gavin is not fluent in Frcnch-whlch suggests the expectation of all but unearth ly perfection. TECAUSE of this high start " ing-standard, there has cer tainly been some letdown abroad since the Inauguration. The current attitude of the intelligent man in the street Is to wait and see, but with considerable optimism and a refreshing readiness to give the new American govern ment the benefit of the doubt. Meanwhile opinion Is already beginning to crystallize among the most significant group of professionals, the leaders and officials of the other western governments. The best summary of the (rend In this group was prob- MEDt'ORD Alsop ably to be found in an article in the London "Times" about President Kennedy's plans for future dealings with Ni kita S. Khrushchev. "The ap proach,"; said "The Times," "is both adventurous and cau tious. There can be no doubt about its realism." Behind this judgment, there are several different, interacting factors. There is deep relief because of the cessation of diplomacy-by-gesture accompanied by loud moralistic pronouncements about the wickedness of "the world Communist conspira cy." This particular American diplomatic style, while effec tive for domestic-political pur pose, long ago wore out its welcome among the Allies. ' . THHERE is deep relief, too, be- JL cause a President of the United States has again taken personal, direct charge of the affairs of the Western alli ance. The long meetings with State Department and" other experts at the White House have conveyed the Impression, of a careful hand constantly on the tiller of the storm tossed ship of the West. And this impression has been rein forced by the careful concur rent consultations with the French, British, and other Al lied governments. Altogether, the beginning has been very good indeed de spite the slight let down. The former hunger for a renewal of vigorous American leader ship can be deduced from the two letters quoted abqve. This' hunger had become a painful, absolutely general phenomenon, in all the West ern capitals, long before New Year's day of 1961. President Kennedy's debut was acclaimed with genuine emotion, precisely because it held out the hope that the hunger for leadership would at last be satisfied. The hope has not been discouraged by the mingled "adventurous cautious" style of his first attempts to get to grips with the appalling problems he has inherited. In short he has a glittering opportunity to en ergize the Western alliance. But in the end, very obvious ly, he will be coolly judged by the hard, practical results of his exploitation of this op portunity. Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Sevareid Senses American Renaissance By ERIC SEVAREID In a week of mobile re discovery of ihe American interior this reporter has had talks with hundreds of students, teachers and administrators in private and public colleges of a half-dozen states, and the process has Drod u c e d a levareta dawning real ization that the United States is undergoing a profound sea- change in its community life. It is not only that the fi nancial and facilities prob lems of the universities are, commanding incessant atten tion from the President down to the rawest and newest of the state legislators; it is not only that the post-sputnik struggle to raise intellectual stnndards is conscientiously continuing and in places al ready producing measurable results; it is not only that the passion for higher educa tion seems universal and is going to make the generality of American citizens perhaps the most reasoned and re sponsible mass society history has known. It is all this but more. For one thing, it seems to me, the local college or university in a great number of citiea ii be MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, Today & Tomorrow By Walter FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION Despite Senator Goldwater, who has just declared that Federal aid to education is "unconiti tutional," the p r a c t ice of Federal aid is in fact older than the con s t i tution. As early as the Land: Ordi nance of 1785. the Confeder- Llppmann ation provided that the 16th section of each township or one-thirty-sixth of the acreage in the public land states should be granted to the states by the national government for the benefit of the common schools. - Ever since the Federal un ion was established it has been giving aid to education in a large variety of ways, and it is sheer deception to declare that what has always been done is "unconstitution al.", While Federal aid has been given since the founding of the nation, what has never been done has been to set up Federal control of education. It is indeed quite contrary to American principles and prac tices for the Federal govern ment to control what is taught in the public schools, how it is taught, who teaches it. The control of education is re served to the states, and no one engaged in the present dis cussion is proposing to tamper with that principle. The Ken nedy program is unequivocal and scrupulous in reserving to the states the control of education. Thus in the proposed con tribution to public elemen tary and secondary schools. the Kennedy program leaves it to each state to -decide whether the Federal contri bution shall be used to build schools or to raise teacher salaries. The loan program for college housing and for academic facilities is operat ed by local initiative. The four-year program for schol arships is to be "state-admin istered." VUHY, then, with such' care- fill rPStlPPt fni- etulae rights, Is it necessary to bring in the Federal government at all? The answer is that the num ber of children and youths who have to be educated has outgrown the resources which can be raised in a very large number of the states. The American nation can quite well afford to educate all its young at least at the level of the most advanced states, for example, California. It is nonsense to argue that the United States is too poor to educate its children. But it is not educating them prop erly, and almost certainly it cannot and will not do so if the whole task of raising the necessary funds is left to the 50 state legislatures and the local school districts. Here Is the essence of the Kennedy program. It has nothing to do with the con trol of education. It does not propose to have the Federal government pay all the costs, supplanting the states and local cities. It does propose to supplement state and local coming the central, the dem inant and characterizing as pect of the community's life. It is still a struggle in many states to get sufficient funds from hard-pressed, rural dom inated legislatures. But the old divisions and antipathies are dying away - those be tween "town and gown," those between the business men and the professors. No longer is the "city club," pri vate haven of the financially powerful, the true repository of community authority and respect. Not any more does a professor invited within those precincts feel ill at east. Not any more does the "hard fist ed business man" feel bellig erently alien in the company of those he once thought of as "visionary theoreticians." Never before has the "downtown press" paid such informed and Imaginative at tention to the local classroom and laboratory as a rich source of exciting "hard" news. The college is no longer simply a traditional, respect ed adornment for occasions of official local pride and Chamber of Commerce bro chures. The colleges have en tered into the' daily life of the cities and states and they into the daily life of the col lcgcs in a degree remarkable to one whose memories of col lege life were fashioned in the thirties. ORE. lippmann funds with a comparatively small contribution. THIS supplementary support - has become necessary be cause of the spectacular in crease in the school popula tion which began after the second World War and seems certain to continue for the next ten years. The cost of educating this growing number of children is rising and will continue to rise, according to the esti mates of the highly reliable and conservative Committee on Economic Development. Even if prices remain con stant, even if educational standards are not raised, the costs per pupil will rise by almost half during the '60s. For teacher salaries will have to rise in order to .keep pace with earnings in other profes sions. A larger part of the pupils will be in high schools, where the cost per pupil is much higher than in the ele mentary schools. As against this, state and local taxes are, as Beardsley Ruml put it, encountering stiffer resistance. As tax bur dens become heavier, the rec onciliation of opposing views about taxes becomes increas ingly difficult. One reason for the slower growth of state and local revenues is the neces sary reliance of those govern ments, especially the locali ties, upon the property tax. The smaller geographic units of government are forced to rely upon immobile tax bases which cannot move to other jurisdictions to escape taxation. Although the fiscal capacity of the states is not quite so limited as that of the localities, the political organ ization of many states does not permit adequate use of state financial resources to supplement the v resources of the localities. Urban areas are under-represented in the gov ernments of most states. The rural - dominated legislatures will not enact the statewide taxes necessary to support the higher educational costs and aspirations of the urban areas. It is entirely unrealistic po litically, Ruml insisted, to ex pect to achieve a major break through in American public education by operating one at a time upon the 45,000 school districts, or even upon the 50 state legislatures. , TN ALL this we must not fall into the mistake of'thinking that this is a proposal to tax the rich, and supposedly more public spirited, states, for the benefit of the poorer and less energetic states. The truth is that the poorer states are on the whole making a greater effort to support their schools than are the richer states. Thus there are 31 states with an income-per school child which is below the national average. Yet they are spend ing 3.6 per cent of their per sonal income on schools, whereas the 18 richer states spend only 2.75 per cent. The richer states can afford better schools with less personal sac rifices. . In advocating a larger use of the Federal power to raise money for education, the Ad ministration is dealing not with some fancy theory but with the hard practical fiscal problems of the states and the localities. Those who oppose the program in principle have almost certainly not under stood the problem. Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. It is not only the flowering of the scientific revolution and the consequent need of corporations for the school and vice versa that has done this. Bad as so much of our secondary school preparation indubitably is, one senses a slowly gathering contagion of the excitements of the intel lect in the middle and lower middle levels of our economic strata, in spite of the honky tonk vulgarities that afflu ence has smeared across our landscape and our surface. . It is all .this and yet more. American intellectual isola tionism and provincialism (long exaggerated by Euro peans persuaded that Europe was the world's center) van ishes like April snow as thou sands of faculty people go abroad each year on their various grants for foreign study, as more thousands of students make serious sum mer pilgrimages overseas, and as hundreds of distinguished foreign intellectuals settle into American colleges as "scholars in residence." Something else is happen ing. It seems to me highly probable that the flourishing of the universities is rectify ing the sad geographical im balance in the intellectual and artistic life of our country. There was a time, for ex ample, when Chicago and San Francisco were distinct IPOTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Last week, be it noted, Pot luck was absent from this space for reasons which are of no particular importance . But, do you know what? It was MISSED. At least TWO people told us so. And, at the same time, we also have evidence that our readership has risen from 7 to 9 - at least - not count ing members of the Potluck editor's, family, who have to read it or run the risk of his going into a pout. - This increased readership is gratifying. So is the list of our contributors and cor respondents. Here is onet Potluck, you have one more reader than you thought you had - I missed your col umn last Sunday! Matter, of fact, I've intended to write for weeks to let you know that I turn to that page first on Sun day mornings - even before the funny paper or Olive Starcher's column or the always-interesting first page of the Society section. Maybe you're running short of ma terial for Potluck? "After watching 'Edge of Night soap opera Wednesday afternoon, in which Sara Karr (the heroine) died a dramatic death, I turned with tongue in cheek Wednesday evening to the obituaries in the Trib une. Maybe a mention of this dramatic event would be more fitting in the Potluck section? I'm sure there were hundreds of tearful women in front of their television sets that after noon. To my amazement, I often hear otherwise sensible and even educated women 'catching up' on the current happenings of 'Mike and Sara' after missing a few programs. "Don't you DARE use my name or initials - my story at home is that I NEVER watch soap operas during the after noon!" Your secret ie safe with us, ma'am. We wouldn't let on who you ar-e for the world although we may get calls from a dosen or so husbands who suspect you may be THEIR wife. Inci dentally, we understand that a substantial percent age of the feminine students at MHS showed up at school somewhat red-eyed Thurs day. Last week was Washing ton's hirthdav. and another of our readers (who also re quested anonymity - a request we hasten to observe) sent us a story for the occasion. It seems that a, small coun try boy, a vigorous and im pulsive little chap, had to pass the family privy every day going and coming from school. On Feb. 22, on his way to chnnl hp could not resist a long-time impulse, and pushed it over, and it went tumonng down the hill. He skipped mv mounted the school bus, and continued to school. That afternoon when he got home, his father was waiting. "Son," said the father, "did you push the privy down the hill today?" Thp hnv rpmemherinff what he'd learned in school that day about the nattier of nis coun try, replied, "Father, I can not tell a lie. I DID push it down the hill." , , "Son," said the father, "I m going to whip you." literary centers and "schools." In this sense they atrophied as New York more and more sucked in the bright new tal ents in writing, in the thea ter, in the visual arts. This trend to centralize monopoly has been equally true in France and England, with Paris and London the centers for everything fresh and new. Only in Germany, with Berlin shattered and its writ ers and artists and actors and painters scattered to Munich and Hamburg and Dusscldorf, have we s e e n a large-scale movement toward regional redistribution in this genera tion. I have a feeling now that this can happen in America and is beginning to happen. It is the universities with their own new theaters and orchestras, their "writers in residence" and their vigorous local painters that will bring this about and restore creative adventure in the vast inter ior stretches of the land. It may not be "regional ism" in the end products of the new creativity; that dqcs not matter so very much. In all Its forms, the enduring art is universal art, and it is a universal America that we witness now, flourishing be fore our eyes. (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved.) ' "But Dad," said the boy,("I told the truth, just like George Washington did. And he did n't get whipped for chopping down the cherry tree!!" , "Yes, son," was the reply, "but George's father wasn't in the tree at the time." Now why do you suppose she didn't want her name used? It must be nearly spring. Not only did Katherine Chapman (Mrs. Hornbrook) tell us about the heron's ar riving at their nests near the cemetery there (the poor things got blown out in Fri day's storm), but we saw a daffodil in bloom the other day. The grass is losing its winter-time drab brownness. A willow tree, the weeping variety, is showing traces of green all along the long, drooping switches. And one of the more vig orous young men in the office mowed his lawn on his day off last week, Joke: "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Richard Milhous." "Richard Milhous who?" End of joke. (Sounds partisan to us.) And here's another one wo got in the mail the other day: "LETTER TO THE EDI TOR: "Please cancel my subscrip. tlon, "I cannot stand description "And there's a spelling er ror on page six. "You say you give the news "But you don't follow up my views "And the metaphors you use are quite a mix. . "Suggested editor's note: "Just for once I'd like some praising "Couched in sentimental phrasing "And a chance to dump my critics in the Styx., "For I'm tired to death of carping "And my errors ever harp. ing- "And Iwish you were for ever in my fix." r '.' We didn't follow orders and cancel her subscription, because if we had, we might have lost another Pot luck reader. Beside, it was labeled "just for fun." Whew!! We're going to re member that editor's note, though. Might come in handy some day. Ever hear that the news papers print "slanted" news? We have. And, looking at two of the Portland newspapers last week, we began to won der all over again. Each carried a story, almost identical (although from dif ferent press services) about the Kennedy family's personal staff pledging not to write about what went on in the privacy of the household. The Oregonian's headline said: , "Kennedys "Ask Privacy" The Journal's said: ' "JFK's Staff " 'Muzzled' " See what we mean? Honor) to the Oregonian on that one. Oh, and if anyone wonders what the M-T headline said, it was "JFK's Personal Staff Pledged To Keep Secrets." OK? . i We heard a story (a true one) about a dog whose sell ing price suddenly went way, way up. It goes like this: A Medford man and his wife were sleeping quietly one morning not too long ago. Unknown to them, a cigarette, dropped by the wife when she fell asleep the night before, had smouldered all night long on the box springs below the mattress. The room was full of smoke, but both slept on, oblivious. The next thing they knew, their dog, a collie, was whin ing and pawing at the wife's leg. (Later it proved to be rather badly bruised and scratched.) She awoke slowly, and shook her husband. He opened his eyes, but both of them had breathed in so much smoke ' they were groggy. They believe that in another few minutes, neither could have awakened. ' They got out of bed. He opened a window to let the smoke out, and as the air blew into the room, the mat tress burst into flames. They dragged it into the yard and doused it with a hose. "And you know," he told us later, "the price of that dog went up tb about a mil lion dollars right then."
