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History from th files of Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 5, 1951 (Monday)
A drop from the Friday
total in number of absences
from city schools was report
ed today; 584 absences were
listed today, compared to 665
Friday, an indication that the
flu epidemic has leveled off.
20 YEARS AGO
March S, 1941 (Wednesday)
Available Medford factory
sites were shown yesterday
to a Portland representative
of a furniture manufacturing
company, who said his firm
was interested In building a
branch plant here.
From Arthur Perry's "Y
Smudge Pot" column: "The
rural pastures are reported
prolific with mushrooms, none
of which, as yet, have turned
out to be toadstools in i fry
ing pan."
30 YEARS AGO
March 5, 1931 (Thursday)
The city council has ap
proved vacation of several
streets in the areas of the
new Medford High scrfool and
Washington grade school.
The city budget committee
gave its approval to a unified
street lighting system for
Main st.
40 YEARS AGO
March 5, 1921 (Saturday)
Edson C. (Jerry) Jerome
has been elected exalted ruler
of the local Elks lodge.
Work has been resumed on
the improvement of the Pa
cific highway near River
Rogue River near Prospect
50 YEARS AGO
March 5, 1911 (Sunday) '
Col. Frank Ray, Medford,
of the Rogue River Valley
Electric company, has an
nounced plans to erect a $1
million power plant on the
Rogue River near Prosspecl
which will generate 24,uuu
horsepower.
A government engineer has
returned from a trip to Crater
Lake and predicted (hat me
road will eventually be kept
open year-round,
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten cotract la tuaailan
liven oi eight is actllanti Hva ai
e-ir It good.
1, Perpetual motion is me
chanically Impossible', true or
false?
2. Which former heavy
weight boxing champ was
nicknamed "Madcap Maxle,"
because of his frequent clown
ish tactics?
3. Helena ii the capital of
which stale?
4. Mala Hari was I noted
spy who ferreted out mililary
secrets for the Allies, or Ger
many during World War 1?
9. Ben Davis, Mcintosh,
Rome Beauty and Delicious
are names of varieties of
which fruit?
6. In which city, and on
What dale, is the Rose Bowl
football game played?
7. Name the chief river of
Ireland.
8. Where did the Civil War
between the Monitor and Mer
rimac occur?
H. The tongue of a wood
pecker is longer than the
bird's head; true or false?
10. In early colonial days,
Massachusetts drove Quakers
out of the community; what
was the penalty imposed If
they returned?
Answers! 1, True. 2. Max
Adalbert Baer. 3. Montana. 4.
Germany. 5. Apples. 6. New
Year's Day, in Pasadena,
Calif, 7. Shannon River. I.
Hampton Roads, Va. (, True.
10. Hangfpg.
PnSPUEUSHIKJ
J-ASSOCIATION
SUNDAY, MARCH S. 1961
Wheel-Spinning in Salem
Watching the news out of Salem these days,
one is tempted to believe that there is far more
partisan (and non-partisan, for that matter) bick
ering this legislative session than in some past
ones. ,
This probably is just an impression, for a
session of the state legislature is always an occa
sion for bickering, sniping and political maneu
vering. That's one of the penalties we pay for
having a free, open and uninhibited form of gov
ernment and it s a
But it does become
when so much of the
quentials, and done for
tage solely.
WE HAVE even been
lomslnfnrp
"Pass the billboard control bills, the anti
pollution bills, the necessary appropriation meas
tures, and then adjourn and come on home."
This, of course, is both- unrealistic and a bit
silly. But it is a temptation.
Actually, there are many sound and needed
measures before the legislators for their consid
eration bills which should be passed along
with all the frills, froth and stupidities,
)NE OF the marked characteristics of the cur-
rent legislature is the resurgence of the con
niving conservative wing
the group led by benators Walter rearson,
Harrv Boivin and Tom Mahoney.
Because of a variety of circumstances, which
includes the cooperation of a majority of the
Republicans, they are, in effect, in charge of the
state senate this year. Boivin (from Klamath
Falls) with much influence and power as presi
dent of the senate, Pearson (Portland), as for
mer president and now chairman of the state
and federal affairs committee, and Mahoney
(Portland), with his razor
can, between them, pretty nearly decide the out
come of much legislation.
Pearson's committee
Boivin to send bills which he does, or does not,
want passed. They can either be bottled up, or
favorably reported, at the whim of this group
and their supporters, and the rest of the senate
is virtually powerless to do anything about it.
THOUGH all are Democrats, they wear the
rQilir lal-ial nnhr fm f,nnvonionrp,(i aulro CVUa
Coos Bay World calls them Republicrats.)
And through their actions they are seriously
damaging the prospects of the Democratic party
in elections to come. They seem intent on making
a political game out of what should be serious
state business.
Largely as a result of this (although there
are other factors, too), the legislature has clone
little of any real note so far, and the prospects,
as they begin their eighth week tomorrow, in for
a continued spinning of wheels, and sound and
fury signifying nothing.
The state deserves
than this. E.A.
Quote . . . Unquote
"I do not think that it (the Oregon Dunes
area) possesses the scientific or historical or
scenic grandeur that we should have in our na
tional park system."
Congressman Edwin R, Durno.
"The area (the Oregon Dunes) is adjudged
to be of national importance, not only for the
manifold opportunities for seashore recreation
but also for the inspirational worth of the re
sources to the American citizen. The many su
perlative values found here are of such high im
portance as to warrant permanent preservation
for the nation as a whole."
. From Recreation Survey of the Pacific
Coast, prepared under the auspices of
the National Park Service.
Well which one
Must Be Contagious
Watching with increasing wonder,
Op'ning letters by the score,
We find verses by the dozen
Hardly any one a bore.
Can it be the Gold Hill ozone
That promotes this busy muse?
Or does Arnold Eugene Jenny
Stimulate these rhyming view's?
Can the chlorine in the water,
Or the drifting cement dust,
Have an influence on writers
Who must versify or bust?
"Communications," "Poets' Corner,"
These are forcing us to rhyme.
But we promise that the habit
Will not multiply with time.
Anyway, we heed the challenge,
Pluck the gauntlet from the floor,
Offer verse just plain defensive
At the risk of getting more.
This our first, is what we offer
For the year of 'til.
Saying which we now retire.
Having proved it could be done.
4 E.A.
minor penalty, really.
wearisome, particularly
hassling' is over inconse
personal or party advan
tempted to advise the
of the Democratic party
mind and razor tongue,
is a handy place for
better of its legislature
is right? E.A.
Dennis the
'DlDYA HAVE TO CALL fticNOWl I'M EATW' DINNER!
OOM'T YA HAVE MMANMRS ?'
Matter of Fact
ON GOVERNMENT,
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
Washington - The public
Information policy of the Ken
nedy administration is so curi
ous, and may
prove so im
portant, that
it cries out
for analysis.
It is curious
because of the
b e w 1 ldcring
con trast be
tween the ex
treme open
ness of the
Alsop
White House Itself, and the
cloistered, almost harem-like
withdrawal of most of the
other government depart
ments. Nothing quite like this
contrast has been seen before
in political Washington.
The openness of the White
House is a calculated policy.
Shorlly after President Ken
nedy took office, he and his
press secretary, Pierre Sal
inger, and other leading mem
bers of his staff discussed the
pros and cons of the kind of
rule that would have closed
the place up for good. Under
the proposed rule, all White
House staff members would
have had to ask for special
permission, as in the Eisen
hower era, before talking to
any reporter.
rl H E President recognized
that such a rule would
close the White House. He de
cided that this was undesir
able. As a result, reporters
now swarm through the While
House staff - offices, briskly
asking questions and even
quite frequently getting an
swers about every imaginable
subject of public interest.
By the same token, the
President himself, instead of
playing the role of a remote,
hleralically Immobile Byzan
tine ruler, has been constant
ly on view, both formally and
informally. He has appeared
at his televised press con
ferences, In special television
shows of the most un-Byzan-t
i tie character, and in all sorts
of other ways. The effects of
this While House openness
and Presidential accessibility
can be seen in the most recent
Gallup poll. Kennedy-the-Presidenlial-personality
has
had an immense impact.
Yet the Democratic Con
gressional leadership and the
White House Congressional
liaison bolh rather glumly ad
mit that this personal impact
of President Kennedy has
hardly produced an added
vote for his program In the
H o u s e of Representatives.
Somewhere there is a break
In the traditional chain of
communications, from Presi
dent, to voters, to the Capitol.
ONE place to look for the
break in the chain is in
(he government departments,
Defense, Slate, and the rest,
whose continued cloistered
reticence contrasts so sharply
with the new openness of the
While House. Nothing could
be less like the Eisenhower
White House than the Ken
nedy White House. But (the
Defense Department under
Kennedy, for instance, is ex
actly like the Defense Depart
ment under Eisenhower, only
perhaps rather more so.
This departmental reticence,
il must be added, is not a cal
culated policy. It is a natural
consequence of the face that
nothing has been done about
the innumerable established
customs, rules, and prohibi
tions all Intended to prevent
tree communication of facts
to the public.
They are all being observed
as usual. They are all being
taken for grunted, as q.iite
proper customs, rules, and
prohibitions, which are Indeed
badly needed to safeguard the
delicate electorate from an un
settling How of public Infor
mation. IN REALITY, of course, this
cloistered character of the
government, thii government
(Ml
Menace
By Joseph Alsop
al sheltering behind a barri
cade of classification stamps,
is an enormous, recent innova
tion in the American political
system. Until the second
World War, the whole Amer
ican government was com
pletely open.
In 1939-'41, a 'lime of dan
ger, President Roosevelt ac
tually stimulated a double
flow of public information, in
order to secure support for his
great pre-war measures. Even
in the first Truman adminis
tration, the American govern
ment was still largely open.
And the resulting massive
flow of public information
was what secured support for
the Marshall Plan and the
other great Innovating meas
ures of that remarkable era.
In these past periods of ac
tive government, in other
words, there was no attempt
to prevent the nation from
learning about the problems
confronting It. There was
even an active effort to ac
quaint the nation with all the
details of those problems.
Therefore, when the govern
ment was ready to act, the
nation was also ready. But in
the more recent years of pas
sive government, there was
an opposite effect - an effort
to conceal the mere existence
of national problems.
MOT wishing to take action,
' any passive government
naturally wishes the elector
ate to feel no need for aclion.
Concealment,' in these circum
stances, is quite logical.
But' the habits formed in
the years of passivity, though
now deep-rooted in our offi
cialdom, are not logical any
longer, when the President
so clearly wants the govern
ment to be active again. What
was sauce for the goose, in
this case, is plain poison for
the gander.
This is one of Kennedy's
basic dilemmas. If he resolves
the dilemma by restoring the
old, traditional government
openness, he must pay the
price of the numerous em
barassmenls that always af
flict open government. Yet
some of those around him
are urging payment of this
considerable price, because
they see that no American
government can be success
fully active without being
open.
(c) 1!)61 New York HeraM
Tribune Inc.
Sevareid:
By ERIC SEVAREID
When the appointment of
G. Mennen Williams was first
announced, weeks ago, I said,
Jmi -v1 somewhat flip-
fii .' Z3 'tl uanllv. In this
space that
,sjs 1 incw ueaier:
Ko out In the
VSV-I" African sun
i New Dealers
VN.vvVy but I did not
w Tkfw Mcct polili
g$K 9 (9 cal sunstroke
mSA m m l0 ,it Mr. Wil
aiTartia ,iilms BJ soon
as it did, with his somewhat
obscure "Africa for Africans"
statement that produced an
angry answer in the British
House of Commons from
Anthony Fell, a conservative
whose ebullience equals that
of Mr. Williams.
Mr. Williams' misadventure
serves a purpose; it reminds us
all how extremely delicate is
the President's task in at
tempting to direct a fresh and
Idontifiably American ap
proach to the miseries and the
dangers of the black and
white continent. Mr. Kennedy
learned this himself several
years ago when, with the con
siderably less official respon
sibility of a Senator, he spoke
out for Algerian independence
and evoked a fury in tht
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE SICK ECONOMY
There is as yet no evi
dence, unless it be In the
behavior of the stock market,
mmm that recovery
from the re
.vtI cession is un
i m ,., . i
Wm lht. Unem-
gm y i u jriuejlL is
continuing to
increase, steel
llAl 1 is operating at
TVJ nalr capacity,
fcfc&a l-M the automo
Llppmana bile business
is very poor.
All in all there Is a grow
ing disposition to ask whether
the extremely moderate mea
sures proposed by the Presi
dent will be sufficient to turn
the tide.
The President's task force,
which was headed by Profes
sor Paul Samuelson, the Presi
dent of the American Eco
nomic Association, advised
Mr. Kennedy in January that
the first measures might not
be adequate, and that if the
upturn did not come by April,
stronger measures would be
needed.
pROFESSOR SAMUELSON
does not hold any public
office. But in many ways he
is the economist to whom the
Administration economists
listen most closely. He has
just written an article for a
Japanese newspaper the "Ni
non Keizai Shimbun." The ar
ticle discusses the Kennedy
program as it has been formu
lated to dale. Professor Sam
uelson thinks that "when you
come to add up in quantita
tive terms what the whole
package of programs can be
expected to accomplish, you
realize how limited the total
package really is."
Professor Samuelson does
not say this in criticism of
the Administration program.
As a matter of fact the cur
rent Administration program
is about what his task force
recommended last January
before the President was in
augurated. But the advice at
that lime was accompanied by
the warning, which President
Kennedy himself passed on to
the country, that the first
measures might have to be re
inforced by a second set.
It is a fair inference from
Professor Samuelson's article
in the Japanese newspaper
that he is now rather expect
ing . that a supplementary
package will be needed.
THESE ideas stem from the
belief that the present re
cession, following upon a poor
recovery from the recession
of 1958, and coming at the
end of several years of slug
gish economic activity, is
much more serious than Con
gress or the mass of the peo
ple who are not unemployed
have yet realized.
"It is well," says Professor
Samuelson, "to have no illu
sions about the magnitudes of
the proposed (Kennedy) mea
sures." Even, he says, if the econ
omy begins to turn up the
middle of the year, "there is
little reason to think that the
end of the year will find us
with unemployment much bel
ter than at the present time."
What Is more, a quickening
of economic growth to the
American average rate of 3V4
to 4 per cent, "will have to
wait until the sccfri and
third years of President Ken
nedy's term of office."
rpilESE are hard judgments
-- oj a cool and expert mind.
They will be unwelcome to
many. They will be unwel
come to those who take the
view that with words of con
fidence and optimism a reces
sion like this one can be talk
ed away, and that the somber
No Time for Indiscretions
French Assembly and the
Quai d'Orsay. His vision was
right, as intervening events
have shown, but he never
publicly returned to the
theme.
For many years the Ameri
can political writ in Africa
must still run through Lon
don and Paris, and not since
the war has this been so sov
erignly true as it is right now.
The principle reason is the
present critical condition of
the Atlantic alliance. There is
a direct connection - in the
current embarrassing inci
dent, a direct disconnection,
alas - between the explora
tory tour of Averell Harrinian
to European capitals and Mr.
Williams' exploratory tour of
Africa.
The last thing this alliance
needs right now is an extra
strain in the form of offend
ing the conservative wing in
European governments. Most
particularly in Great Britain.
(With the Belgians our diplo
macy is covered by the UN
cloak of many colors and na
tions.) The truth, so little realized
by most Americans. Is that
the alliance lias drifted into a
whole series of baffling blind
alleys. A its military itrue-
tura and at-ategy hav moft
Lippmann
truths should be glossed over
and suppressed.
The more Innocent among
them go so far as to say that
this recession and this slow
down are being prolonged, in
deed made worse, because the
Kennedy administration is
telling the country that the
economy is very sick.
There is everything to be
said for keeping up the con
fidence of a sick patient. But
an essential ingredient of that
confidence is that the patient
be convinced that the doctor
is not deceiving himself. If, as
seems so probable, we face a
long hard effort to revive the
American economy, the con
fidence of the people will best
be sustained by convincing
them that the economic doc
tors are not treating nice
words as a substitute for real
actions.
(Copyright 1961 New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Havana: '
A diplom-.tic source here
reports thai the Castro re
gime has guaranteed other
Latin American governments
that it will not "export" the
Cuban revolution throughout
the Western Hemisphere.
The source, a Latin Ameri
can ambassador who asked to
remain unidentified, said the
pledge was contained in a
memorandum from Cuban
Foreign Minister Raul Roa
to Western Hemisphere for
eign ministers.
It was delivered, he said,
to Latin American ambassa
dors in Havana.
HMMMMMMMM.
How much, do you rec
kon, is a communist'a word
worth?
This is the answer:
NOT MUCH.
THIS one's from Moscow:
"Jazz has always been
considered here to be a sign
of capitalistic decadence, an
evil import from across the
Atlantic. Today that has all
been changed. Leonid Osipo
vilch Utyosov, writing in the
magazine Soviet Culture, says
jazz is good, honest music -that
probably the Russians IN
VENTED it and that maybe
Dixieland existed in Odessa
before it did in New Oreleans.
Jazz isn't a synonym of im
perialism, and the saxophone
wasn't born of colonialism."
The distpalch goes on:
"There was a day when
that would have been heresy.
But anyone who dines in ma
jor restaurants here knows
that jazz has taken Moscow
by storm."
f ? ? ? ?
Could It be that the com
munists have come to the con
clusion that "if we can't lick
'em we'd better JOIN 'em?"
If so, it would be interest
ing. 1M-IIS one comes from Glas-
gow:
"S c o 11 a n d is producing
Scotch whisky at the rate of
70 million gallons a year
which is more than DOUBLE
present yearly sales all over
the world."
How come?
It just MIGHT be that if
Scotch were CHEAPER peo
ple over the world would
consume more of it and thus
lake the distillers off their
present hot spot.
WHAT suggests a question:
1 Why do we have a reces
sion every two or three years?
nPHlS may be the answer:
We may have developed
the capacity to produce MORE
THAN WE CAN CONSUME
and more been cast in the nu
clear weapons mold, both in
terms of hypothetical deter
rence and of actually waging
war if one came, the domes"
political pressures in small,
crowded countries within easy
Russian range have become in
tense, especially those from
the neutralist-at-heart left
wings. Can atomic arms be
given to Germany? Can De
Gaulle insist on American-British-French
direction of
NATO as the Germany mili
tary contribution, even with
out atomic arms, becomes
more important than the
French? Docs NATO itself be
come a "fourth nuclear pow
er" under the Norstad-Herter
plan for turning over Polaris
missiles?
If we are to look forward
to a "downbuild" of nuclear
weapons in Europe, will the
European allies face the cost
in terms of conventional weap
ons and uniformed manpower
-pledges that most of them
have failed to honor In the
past, one reason for the grad
ual swing to a nuclear system.
Neither Americans general
ly nor Europeans generally
realize that the time has come
when Washington, if it ii to
exercise the "stronger Isfcd"
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Amazing, isn't it, how
one thing often leads lo
another? Last week in this
space we ran the anony
mous confession of a Med
ford housewife concerning
her secret habit of watch
ing an afternoon TV soap
opera. This week, by jingo,
we got a note from-guess
who?-her husband. Hera it
is:
"Potluck, you have unex
pectedly yet one more read
er. "Yes, yes, she just couldn't
keep it to herself. Her ego
was so elevated at having her
communication printed in
your most worthy column
that she just HAD to show
it to her husba.id!
"I've always wondered why
the Sunday edition is crum
pled open somewhere besides
the front page or the sport
section, and now I know the
cause.
"Of course, I knew anyway
that she spent many after
npons in front of the TV, but
I was never able to get her
to admit it. Now, I realize
that at the moment this may
give me the upper hand, but
I am only a man, so, of course,
this will NOT be the last
word.
"Signed,
"P.S. I doubt she would
appreciate you using MY
name, either."
It would be sort of inter
esting, we think, to be a lit
tle mouse in the corner,
watching what goes on In
that household this peace-
Communications
Chuckholes and Siberia
To the Editor:
Little holes cause big
chuckholes,
In roads made from
petroleum;
And big chuckholes get
vaster holes,
And so ad infinitum.
Tn these times of high taxes
and higher expenditures, we
realize mat me county oiucei;,
do not always have the funds
or available equipment to
patch chuckholes as quickly
as they might wish. However,
this does not excuse an obli
gation for protecting the au
loist from unnecessary, tire
replacement. When one sud
den ly and unsuspectingly
drops into a hog wallow, such
as the one that has recently
developed in the middle of
Lozicr lane, it isn't hard to
understand the desire to ar
range a quick trip to Upper
Siberia for tne responsmie
persons.
Granted, the road people
cannot always stand by with
rake and tar pot; but, warn
ina ciffna and lanterns are
not difficult for an alert coun
ty administration to come by.
Surelv. a temDorarv warning
sign, here and there where
needed, would go a long way
to mollify the well-taxed mo
torist. H. W. Robertson
103 North Central ave.
Medford.
AT EXISTING PRICES. So . .
we have to slow down in our
buying every second or third
year until we can save up
enough to buy the things we
Want.
Which is to say, if we could
find a way to REDUCE
COSTS, so that prices could
be reduced, it would help in
staving off these recurring
depressions.
ATHOUGMT:
If we could reduce the
cost of GOVERNMENT, it
would help us to reduce the
cost of everything else.
many Europeans themselves
cry for. ! obliged to adopt a
much .inner line with the
A" : themselves. Not only on
ixATO military obligations
and co-operation, but the need
less but rapidly widening
trade split in Europe between
the common market six and
the "outer seven" which car
ries in it the seeds of an out
right - and disastrous - trade
war,
The President's assignment
is distasteful and difficult, but
it is also, unfortunately, the
first order of American busi
ness in holding the Western
peoples together in the face of
spreading Communist influ
ence. There is much that
America can do on its own
in Africa on the educational
and technical lew.. But in the
present order of political pri
orities the historic move to
ward European unification
comes first. The forces now
threatening to reverse these
15 years of forward motion in
Europe are strong. This is the
poorest time possible tor the
United Slates to add to their
strength, even by indiscre
tions. (Distributed 1961 by The Hall
Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Right Rnterved) 4
ful Sunday morning.
Wouldn'l it?
Here's another:
"Hornbrook What March,
came in like in Hornbrook
was neither i lion nor a lamb
unless it was a small lion
with a very small growl.
"The soft, warm rain that
fell most of the day and into
the night was the kind Shake
speare must have had in mind
when he wrote about the
"quality of mercy" that "drop,
peth as the gentle rain from
heaven upon the place be
neath." "Briefly, early in the after
noon, the very small growl
of the lion turned into a
mighty howl, when a stiff
wind sprang up and belted
its way through the valley.
"But, all in all, March
made an entrance more lamb
like than leonine. And if the
old saying is true, "In like a
lion, out like a lamb," then
look out! -The opposite may
be true, and the end of March
will go roaring out like the
lion it didn't come in like.
"From your OTHER Pot
luck fan."
In a little note accompa
nying this, Mrs. Hornbrook
said, "I love letting my hair
down and doing things liko
this to the English language
once in a whilel It makes
me feel to nice and orderly
and in the groove when I
get back to straight copy
again." Shucks, that looked
pretty orderly to US, Mrs.
H.
Speaking of the English
language, one of our young
men was ruminating on what
can happen when there's just
one little, bitty slip of the
finger when typewriting a
story. Sometimes, he says, the
error may be more the truth
than the "correct" story. Like
these titles:
Soil Conversation districts.
Southern Oregon Conversa
tion and Tree Farm Assn.
Eagle Point Irritation dis
trict. U.S. Bureau of Recreation,
And, of course, the old one
that always gave us trouble
until the United Medford Cru
sade came along-the Commu
nist Chest.
One of our favorite radio
announcements is the one in
the morning, when the an
nouncer says the "unoffi
cial rainfall prediction is
for a 3 per cent chance of
rain today" when, of
course, it is pouring cats
and dogs outside.
We learned rather mors
about guppies than we ever
knew before when we read
the most recent issue of that
excellent paper, the Hoover
Hi-Light. The article was writ
ten by Robert McCamant of
the sixth grade. Here is what
Robert has to say about gup
pies: "Guppies you may not con
sider to be very amazing, but
they really are. When you
consider their ability to re
produce their kind they are
fabulous.. As you know, put
two guppies in a jar, and be
for you turn about you have
hundreds. This is due to sev
eral reasons-a female can pro
duce 1500 babies in a year
(125 a month). This seldom
happens because the female
must be full grown, and sel
dom do they reach maturity.
"Guppies are very hardy,
and can stand conditions oth
ers cannot, The male is very
vivacious and spends most o(
its time courting. He must do
this because he is very scarce
in nature, and because his
bright colors make him easily
seen and caught.
"They are very Interesting
to watch, and because of their
great mating characteristics
you won't very often end up
with les than you started
with."
Ned Sickels in the third
grade at Hoover is a young
man with an eye on the fu
ture. He writes: "If I am
busy il will mean for me a
good education and a good
job. We have to be ready
for almost anything that
comes up." Right you are,
Ned, right you are.
For the next two Sundays,
Potluck will be done by oth
ers than the usual Politick
editor; that is, if it gets done
at all.
The Potluck editor is taking
a trip.
His wife is going too.
They are going by jet.
His wife is nervous.
And excited.
So, if the truth were known,
ij the Potluck editor.
But, as Ned says, we have
to be ready for almost any
thing that comes up.
Finally, ai a farewell ges
ture, the Potluck editor de
cided that if that E.A. fel
low across the page can do
it, 10 can he:
A couple that started a trip.
Began with a wonderful lip.
They flew through the sky
Without once asking why.
But returned at a tub tonis
clip. t.