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Try and Stop Me I 1 By BENNETT CERF A RICH DOWAGER, out to big some big game In Africa if it was the last thing she did, fired her riflsj one day, turned to her guide with a satisfied air, and declared. "There! I just know I hit something that time. Run and find out the name of the animal I shot." The guide was back in ' a few moments to report, "He say, ma'am, his name is Sylvester." Indulgent parent took their young hopeful to a, revival of an old film about darkest Africa. "What kind of an animal la that?" de manded the youngster at one point in the action. "I think," said the father, "if a jaguar." "How many cylinders?" was the youngster's next eolation. C ISM. by Bennett Cert. Diatributed by Xing futurei Syndicate In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In this space the other day, we quoted some words of wis dom proferred in Portland to the members of the Oregon Highway Lifesavers by Walter Q. Lundsford, Western repre sentative of the Auto Indus tries Highway Safety Commit tee. The members of the Ore gon organization (whose ob jective is safer highways) were gathered for their annual con vention. Mr. Lundstrom was there to address them. Among the subjects he touched on was whether to license teenagers at age 16 or at age 18. His thesis was that it doesn't make much difference. The big thing, he said, is to TRAIN THEM TO DRIVE WELL. If they are WELL trained, he said, the early age is prefer able. He added: "Where teen agers have received adequate training their accident rate has been reduced BELOW that of adults." It sounds like good common sense. BUT it isn't the purpose to rehash that here today. In the course of his talk on safe driving, Mr. Lundsford made this interesting statement: - "There is already ONE CAR for every two people in Ore gon. There are more auto mobiles per capita in Oregon than in ANY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION - including California." He forecast an even greater density of car ownership in Oregon in the future. . He attributed this high automobile ownership rate to what he called "Oregon's sub stantial middle class popula tion." I LIKE that. It is a tribut; to Oregon's really admir able way of life. We have here in this somewhat more than a century old state few people of GREAT wealth. We have almost NO dire poverty. We have no fantastically ex travagant estates. We have NO foul and teeming slums. As Mr. Lundsford said in Portland, what we do have is a substantial middle class population - which is reflected in the fact that Oregon has more automobiles per capita than any other state in the Union - a fact that I wasn't aware of until he came up here and told us where we stand. In making that statement he does us a great service. We've had too many crape hangers in Oregon In the past - too many among us who have howled mournfully about what Oregon DOESN'T have -including great wealth and correspondingly great pover ty. What we DO have is a way of life that would be widely envied if it were bet ter known. THANK you, Mr. Lundsford. You have done for us something that needed to be done. You have told us how for tunate we are. AND- " Let's add down this way What is true of the PHYSI OUR DEPENDABLE SERVICE IS NATION WIDE You need neuer entrust your loued ones to strangers If you ever have need of our service . . . CALL US COLLECT Our service will instantly begin in your behalf. Ask U About tha OREGON PUNEAAL INSURANCE heartily recommend and enderit. CAL state of Oregon is equal ly true of the STATE OF MIND that down here between the 40th and the 44th parallels of latitude we like to call the State of Jefferson. ALL ALONE Denver - IUPD - State Sen. Dale Tursi (D-Pueblo), after hearing numerous colleagues explain that a drunk driving measure under debate would in no way affect them person ally, commented: "I guess I'm the only drunk in this place." OF SMITH & MEN Bv Jack Smith (e ISIS Tlmei-Mlrror Syndicate Our new closet was deliver ed the other day. What a bless ing. We ordered it for Doug's room. That used to be my den. My den is now the master bedroom. That used to be my wife's sewing room. Her sew ing room is now the living room, which is also where we practice for the 1964 Olympic Games and major league hockey. We needed the new closet because when the house was built the den didn't have a closet. At that time the den was actually a single attached garage. ' A single attached garage is about as good for a person as an appendix. We weren't in the house six months before the garage began to look like a war surplus store. It got so you couldn't open the door without it banging into a pre World War II sofa my wife was going to upholster some day. So we had to build a double garage and convert the single attached garage into a den. Today we can't even get a single car in the double ga rage because of the sofa, which remains un-re-uphol-stered, and many other price less relics of the ante bellum period. But the single garage was a good den while it lasted. I finally surrendered it to Doug for a bedroom because he wanted to sleep with his rail road, baseball bat, aquarium, stamp collection and dog and cat, which were in my den most of the time anyway. I moved my desk and file into the master bedroom, which was fine. I am for tunate In having a wife who sleeps quietly enough in the daytime that she doesn't dis turb my work. However, she likes to sew at night after I have gone to bed, so I had to move her sew ing machine into th living room. If there's any noise I can't stand it's a whir. I've never been able to figure out what she's been sewing at all these years, but I suppose some day she'll come up with i complete wardrobe for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ' kmtm nam MOtoAN - HAiout DAY Cat MGHT MEDFORD Hatfield's Dunes Leadership Hil Salem - IUPD - Rep. Rep. Thomas R. McClellan (D-Neot-su), said Thursday Gov. Mark Hatfield has failed to assert strong leadership for develop ment of the Oregon Dunes as a national seashore park. He said it was "extreme ly unfortunate" that the fed eral park proposal did not come up at Hatfield's state wide economic conference in Salem this week. He crticizad not only Hat field but other top state offi cials and economic leaders but gave no names. McClellan said a Dunes Park would attract five to seven million visitors a year and could produce $50 miliion in revenue each year. The Lincoln county legisla tor said the reason President Kennedy recommends a Dunes park at Point Reyes, Calif., instead of Oregon is because California's governor and its economic leaders "realize the economic potential of a na tional park and are actively working for Its location in California." He noted that Gov. Edmund G. Brown has offered to have the state buy the beaches if the federal government would make a national park out of the Point Reyes area. "I wish our Oregon leader ship were as visionary," he said. McClellan concluded b y saying that Sen. Maurint Neu berger (D-Ore.) ,was right when she said that if Ore gonians "did not actively work for development of the sea shore park, it would go else where." by William Shakespeare. The reason we needed the new closet is that Doug had to have a place to hang his clothes. For a time all the clothes he had were a T-shirt, Levis, swimming trunks, ten nis shoe's and a Robin Hood outfit, all of which we used to put out for the night, like the cat. Now, however, he has a Boy Scout uniform, a pair of hard shoes and a suit he has to wear when he visits his grandmother. He realizes they have to be hung up indoors, The closet It, four feet wide and two feet deep with slid ln& doors and two racks - one for garments and one for shoes. It's beautiful. The mov ing men left it In the living room. We have to leave It there until he makes room for It In his den. The railroad is gone. He sold it to a younger man making a neat profit on my investment. But now there is the draftlns; board, the labora tory, the Complete Works of A. Conan Doyle, the dog, tne cat, the reptllarium and the scattered pages of a social studies theme entitled "Why the Pirates Will Win the Pen, nant Again in 1961" by Doug las Franklin Smith. It might be some time be fore all this matter can be re arranged to admit the new closet. But in the interim the new closet certainly is not going wasted. I have found it an excellent place to put my golf clubs. My wife has filled the shelf with hats that either came from or are destined for a PTA rum mage sale, and the dog has taken over the shoe rack. He won't come out except to eat. FOREIGNERS UP NORTH Little Rock, Ark. - IDHI Emma Lou Shelton, t, turned off the television set and start ed to bed when a turbulent Civil War saga came on the screen. Her daddy asked her what program was on. Noth ing much," Emma Lou an swercd. "Just something about the Yankees and the Ameri cans." kmm Hie Cevrtfcevte iNoooiAss, fvmiAi iooe PLAN which we MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. From Oregon's Editor's note: Last week the Mail Tribuna printed an editorial entitled "Thoughts on River Use." In which cer tain ertors. both of faet and Interpretation, which have appeared in the Qrsnti Pats Courier, w e r a criticised. Herewith is the Grants Pais editor's reply. Further com ment appears unnecessary. -E.A. WE CAN HANDLE OUR HOMEWORK It's very kind of the edi torial writer of the Medford Mall Tribune signing himself E.A. to feel we need assistance with our homework" and that he can be of assistance. His objection to our having designated Dr. Durno as a senator stems from the fact he's the recent successor to Charley Porter as a member of the U. S. Congress, but it is very easy to remember Durno as a state senator in view of the very newness of his con gressional title. Roughly, too, the Talent project is a sort of "dam" endeavor In a broad sense even if the cost will run, for the overall thing around 25 millions. Maybe, too, it is nearing completion, but it's been so many, many years since the Rogue development program, upstream, was dis cussed and fought over that it just seems impossible any por tion could be nearing a finish. The Family Council Editor'! Note: The Family council comlitt et a judte, a psychia trist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each article Is a summary Of an actual cane history. The council reports on prob lems that have been dealt with by responsible asenctes and counselors. (Copyright 1SSI Oeneral Features Corp.) Erie G. He refuses our invitations to parties at our home. Claude G. I can't take hours of inane talk and dirty jokes. Eric G My wife and I are very fond of my brother and we want to Include him In our dinner-parties and cele brations. But If he comes, he leaves early on some pretext or other. Also he's refused to attend the last two get togethers of friends In our home. He's only 25 and maybe there's still a chance to keep him from turnng Into an In tellectual snob. He says our parties bore him because everybody shoots off not air, nobody knows what he's talk ing about and nobody's listen ing anyway. It happens that he's wrong about that. My guests are sub stantial business people and professional men with bright and clever wives. They know what the score Is. Of course, if Claude wants a seminar on Plato or Pluto at a party, he'd do better to go down to one of those Greenwich Village coffee houses. I admit that none of my friends talk Latin or Greek. But he can learn a lot of practical and common sense facts from thorn, and he'd be better off If he'd unbend and accept people, Instead of be coming so standoffish. Festival To Get Truck Promotion The Rogue Valley Pear Blossom Festival will be pro moted along the Pacific coast this month through the co operation of the Orcgon-Ne-vada-California Freight lines. Signs calling attention to the Festival will be painted on the side panels of an ONC truck. The Medford Pear Ship pers association will finance cost of developing and paint ing the panels, Shelby Tuttle, mnnager, said. Foster and Kleiscr Will pro vide labor and installation of the signs, according to Russ Jamison, publicity chairman for the Festival. The truck will be used on regular hauls along the Pa cific coast, according to Cliff Proctor of ONC. Additional Information on promotional plans and special events will be reviewed at a meeting of the association at 7 a.m. Tuesday, March 7. The Festival is scheduled the week end of April S. Camp Fire Girls Tour Mail Tribune Members of a Camp Fire Girls troop and their leaders, Mrs. Rod Miller and Mrs. Arthur Chipman, toured the Mail Tribune this week. Members who visited were Karen Chipman, Judy Moyer, Karen Gegner, Kathy Harden berger, Merry Miller, Carol Kagy, Wren Wlnnlford, Dana Holmstrom and Janet Warren The girls toured the news room, advertising, circulation, stereotyping, make-up depart ments and watched the press in operation. ORE. Apropos E.A.'s last "correc tion" of our "homework" to the effect that the whole up river project isn't about to take physical form but he hopes "devoutly" soon will, it Just seems impossible, again, that after all these years the project isn't beginning to take at least a semblance of physi cal shape, as we suggested and had hoped. We've been in this commu nity only about two years and when it is brought home to us via E.A.'s editorial Feb. 24 that the proposal to do some thing about controlling the Rogue River via dams across its upstream tributaries, dates back even "before the big fight of 1S48" we feel a bit consoled that we aren't able to grasp in TWO years what has been going on Upstream and in the high terrains since BE FORE 1948 and "the big fight" our editorial writer talks about. We are not familiar with the big fight; seems ri diculous there should be a big fight, or a little one, either where the interests of the people of a valley such as the the Rogue s is concerned. But out here where the Good Lord evidently thought a lot of the people he had in mind would want to live, for one reason or another, He stretched forth His hand in no begrudging manner and we've a veritable natural beauty Claude G. I'm sorry, but I've had my fill of those windbags and backslappers. I can think of a dozen other ways to spend my evenings which would be more enjoy able and profitable and just as sociable, too. This has nothing to do with snobbery. Quite the opposite. In fact, I realize I know very little and I'm so avid for knowledge that I'll go any where to pick up a few accu rate facts and some authen tic enlightment. I'm always eager to expand by horizons. But what hapnens at Eric's shindigs? Someone starts talk ing about the Belgian Congo trouble, and just when one or two others begin to pool what they're read or heard and a real meaty discussion is com ing up, bang, some playboy says that reminds him of the joke about the woman saying, "when I was pregnant with my son, the Medicine Man.' Good talk is constantly sabotaged by people who can't Join In, so they end It with insipid and irrelevant jokes. The final hours then become a contest for who can tell the dirtiest story. I'd rather sit around with a couple of friends who can engage in lively conversation rather than just a lot of back room noise. The Council; As the Good Book says, there's a "time to weep, and a time to laugh, any many's the performer who wished his audience knew the difference. Here's Eric wishing Claude knew that party-time Isn't exactly "Sunrise Semester." We suggest that Eric be content to have Claude put in a polite,- token appearance at those parties, rather than ex pect him to enjoy them. Only an Abou ben Adhem, who loves all his fellowmen, can accept and enter into the spirit of hit-or-miss camara derle. An extrovert, a real outgoing person, has a good time in a luck-of-the-draw crowd. Claude is not outgoing and prefers to be with those who share his Interests. To some extent we commi serate with Claude on the deterioration of the art of conversation. The best talk I the outgrowth of reading, and contemplation which does not allow much time for par ties! But there are still people who are both sociable and knowledgeable, and Claude seems to know where to find them. With some forebear- ance, we venture to say, he may even find a few at one of Eric's ho-ho-ho sessions. To aid him In the pursuit, we submit Herbert Spencer's index to people at gabfests. He found that small minds discuss people ' and gossip; average minds, happenings and events; profound minds, ideas and principles. However, we join Eric in warning him not to dismiss people as "windbags" just be cause they retreat from a penetrating analysis of our Gold Reserve or the Laos Sit uation, while sipping after- dinner cognac. Many of them do know a great deal, and perhaps more than Claude on one or two subjects. But they're In the mood for tri vialities. And, as Sir T.Tax Beerbohm decided, "Good sense about trivialities is better than non sense about things that matter." Press spot. For it to be marred as God s creation set about to develop it, to take advantage of all the things placed within man s grasp, by factional bick erings seems a bit out of tune, until we realize that a crea ture in the original beauty spot of Creation stirred up a devil of a stink and got things all out of kilter for a while. There have been great dams, medium sized dams and little dams built back whore this writer once lived and worked - quickly and without any ado. We've seen huge cofferdams sunk across a wide expanse of valley, as rough as any in the Rogue basin, to pave the way for pouring of the foundation work for the great visible superstructure that controlled little streams to make a big stream form a magnificent lake and harness waters for the several bene fits of mankind. We've seen huge pipe lines, uphill, too, mind you, over mountains even, through which Irriga tion water was pumped at a minimum of cost to those in need, Maybe there have been long drawn out details and controversies over some of our mighty dams, but that docs not mean it should take so tarnation long to get one started. Neither does the fact we've been talking and talk ing about the Upper Rogue River Basin project, excuse the delay in getting something done. It doesn't excuse the factions that hamstrung the project so long and it doesn't redound to the credit of any one or ones having a part in delaying the program. And there isn't any excuse in dragging out a thing like this except the machinations of politicians and factional groups, whom, we many times fear, would rather not see Josephine County get any benefits. Neither should it have taken all these years and the "plugging away month after month and year after year" of any group in terested in getting the basin project under physical way When we came on this post, we immediately became aware of the group of intelli gent men interested in furth ering the basin development plan. We worked with them to the best of our humble abilities, intent only to do any thing we could to promote the work they were doing and still are. But we've seen, time and again since, little, stinking, bickerings and differences that didn't amount to a hill of beans as compared with the importance of the overall job at hand. We've seen politician and basin development per sonnel cross swords over tech nicalities that of themselves only stumbled and slowed the job; we've seen and heard Charley Porter, the then con gressman from this district, lambasted and we've been In agreement and disagreement, with those who did the pum- mellng; sometimes it looked like anything Porter wanted to do didn't suit the group so vitally interested In the river plan and sometimes it looked like the then congressman didn't want to "hoe corn" with the proponents of the plan, but he did, Now Dr. Durno is in the saddle where Porter used to bounce and jounce and weave only to straighten and ride high back of the pommel with his feet braced solidly in the stirrups. Durno knows, ac cording to the way he talked to us before he went to Wash ington for his first session of Congress, that his political life depends on his constitu ents; he seems to realize very seriously the job he's under taken at the Instance of the voters and In straightening NOW- ACME HARDWARE Hlti yau IMPROVE tr REPAIR yeur heme is EAST CREDIT TERMS! NO CASH DOWN! IIP TO 24 MONTHS TO PAYI SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS that tit TOUR Mittl If vsu'rt l bit shirt it cull . . , tiki advantai it thli CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN. luy ANTTHINS yiv START NOW I It Cotts LESS Than You Think I 241 $. Central at 10th free, Easy Parking out a delay in allocation of funds for further surveys, or tests or whatever the techni cal job upstream is termed. It is to the best interests of all concerned, NOW, that our con gressman keep a keen ear to any groundswells from back home to see that as far as he has to do with it, no further little bickerings and delays in the upstream development program are permitted. We feel he will do the job right and well. And if the men pro moting tne project, the Rogue River Flood Control and Wa ter Resources Association, will taKe a new girding of their loins and stick solely to the Job at hand rather than try to tioaic around with the Merlin Irrigation project and the much discussed Copper Can yon proposal, much good will be accomplished in bringing to completion the too long drawn out upstream develop ment and control job. Too much riming to and fro does- n t tend to accomplish much. We've yet to understand why so often someone remov ttlETRECAL OltlART FOR WEIGHT CONTROL THE EASY, SCIENTIFIC WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT ONE DAY'S DIET Vi-Va. can . . 79c One Week's Diet 3V2-lb. can $4.98 For Relief of Cold and Sinus Miseries! DRISTAN Helps drain all EIGHT sinui cavi- Reg. 98c ties. 3-layer tablet. 24's 66c 100 Tablets Reg. 1.23 BUFFER.!! Twict ti fait at Aspirin doein't upset your stomach THOREXIN The Guided Antitussive 1.25 size.... .79c r NEW! PREPARATION H I SHRINKS PILES I WITHOUT SURGERY ! Relieves "ee pain! 69 jJNCLUDES APPLICATOR j CIGARETTES tie. Site... Klnf Site... $1.69 ..Cln. t 1 70 ..Ctn. I? II I VI Add Federal Excise Tax en pub Mfrvin KIWI 86c EGSfll FRISOtlMIONT SPietALiiTiA 63S FRIDAY. MARCH 3. ed from our actual valley, some ones who should have no reason to be jealous that we get something here in Josephine must stick their nibs In when we set our minds and hearts on jobs for our benefit. 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