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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 10, 1951 (Saturday)
School Superintendent E.
w Hedrlck said today that
the voters will be asked to
approve a $400 cost of living
pay increase tor an iuu-wiie
school employees.
Medford's new aerial ladder
fire truck, which was to have
hofo lost wpele was
S1UU ... -
last seen in Ogden, Utah; it is
now scheduled to arrive here
Monday.
20 YEARS AGO
March 10, 1841 (Monday)
Roy J. Rogers, frost meteor
ologist for this section, Is
scheduled to arrive here
Thurarlnv.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" columni "The
First Lady of the land has
come out in her dally column
in defense of women's hat
styles. They sure need It."
30 YEARS AGO
March 10. 1931 (Tuesday)
Medford Garden club mem
bers plan to enter the Port
land garden show soon.
The 24th annual meeting of
Southern Oregon Presbyte
rian society Is now in session
in Ashland.
40 YEARS AGO
March 10, 1921 (Thursday)
The state highway commis
sion has given Its approval,
in principle, to a proposed
highway from Roseburg to
the California line.
The Medford Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor an
"Oregon Products Week" here
In the near future.
SO YEARS AGO
March 10, 1911 (Friday)
A cooperative exchange of
weather Information has been
arranged by forecasters in the
southern Oregon area.
President Taft lias an
nounced that the U.S. Army
and Navy will invade Mexico
at the "first necessary cause
for action" in aiding to sup
press the revolution against
the regime of President Diaz.
Vfhal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is luperlen
seven or eight li excellent, five er
is Is good.
1. What Is meant by the ex
pression, "the quick and the
dead"?
2. Approximately 84 years
ago, Thomas Edison announc
ed the Invention of the tele
graph key, the phonograph,
or the radio?
3. Name the man who cumc
to the U. S. from Scotland and
later founded the vast system
which is now the U. S. Steel
corporation.
4. The three wise monkeys
of Nikko are said to represent
what saying?
5. The human race is divid
ed into five colors; name
them.
6. A white global map on a
blue field is the flag of which
organization?
7. Which two seas are Join
ed by the Dardanelles and the
Bosphorous?
8. Lemons and bananas arc
piiKi'a wnen gici-n; uue or
fulsc?
A. What is the significance
of VIP as It refers to a person?
10. The Soviet Republic
claims to have recently
launched a rocket aimed at
what planet?
Answers: 1, The living and
the dead, 2, Phonograph, 3.
Andrew Carnegie, 4. Hear . , .
see . , , speak no evil. 3.
While, black, red. brown
and yellow. S. United Ne-
lions. 7. Black Sea and Medi.
isrraniin. a. irut, 8. very j
Important Ptnon. 10. Vau.
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961
Who Conserves?
The Medford Mail-Tribune "wholeheartedly"
agress with our recent favorable comments on
President Kennedy's natural resources message,
a statement that emphasized the need for con
servation of the nation's water, forest and rec
reational assets.
But the writer could not resist a gibe. Al
though it may have seen the light on the Ken
nedy natural resources policies, he wrote, "The
Oregonian (is) so conservative in other ways."
Conservative is an epithet of derogation when
when used by the Mail-Tribune.
CONSERVATION, conservative both words
come from a common source. Is it "good" to
want to conserve our rivers and forests? And
"bad" to want to conserve the values of cultural,
economic and political experience? Or vice versa?
Or is there any difference in principle between
the two?
We leave the answers
any others who make a practice of so glibly ap
plying labels like "conservative" and "liberal,"
usually without pausing to renect on wnat the
words really mean. The Oregonian.
Timber
The word from Salem
question is still way, way
Jockeying for position
a so-called "compromise"
have timber taxed so
i promising of Oregon's
its No. 1 resource, and,
legislation is adequate,
There is no need here to go into all the in
tricate details. But here's why the 1961 Legisla
ture should not adjourn until it has written better
timber tax laws into the books:
FIRST, present tax laws work to penalize timber
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annual "harvests" with the development of
equivalent regrowth.
Second, as representatives of all the people
of this state, it is incumbent upon the legislators
to see that "cut-and-get-out" practices are not en
couraged by our tax laws.
Third, long-range best interests of the entire
state require that tax policies benefit the sustain
ed yield principle, even if they work to the dis
advantage of, timber operators who rely upon
minimal tax costs 10 stay
' ,
THESE facts remain
when the legislators,
rnargins, defeated a bill
oer taxes witn sound iorest management prac
tices. Now if the 1961 Legislature again fails to act
upon them, they will still be tine in 1963. in 1973.
or whenever the Legislature decides to face up
to them. But, in the interim, Oregon's chances of
perpetuating its position as our nation's No. 1
lumber producing state will have been reduced
by whatever extent tax advantages have accrued
to those doing the least to deserve them. Eugene
Register-Guard.
Boulwareism
; Boulwareism General Electric's tech
nique for conducting labor negotiations now
Comes under quasi-judicial review. The union
charges that the company has adopted a policy
of "bargaining by ultimatum," and the National
Labor Relations Board is holding hearings on this
and other allegations.
All the accusations go back to a three-week
walkout by 70,000 union members last autumn.
The settlement reached Oct. 22, though provid
ing a wage rise, was almost identical with GE's
pre-strike offer. The major differences were not
over wages; management s principal success was
in canceling a cost-of-living escalator clause.
FOLLOWING a bitter, company-wide strike in
1946, Lemuel R.- Boulware, then general man
ager of GE's wholly owned subsidiaries, was
assigned to labor relations. A marketing expert,
Boulware sought to apply to industrial relations
a customer-supplier relationship.
In principle, Boulwareism works like this:
Union negotiators state their position just as a
customer might request new terms and condi
tions. Then the company makes its offer. This,
GE contends, "contains all that the company be
lieves is indicated in the balanced best interest
of employees, owners, customers, other interested
businessmen, and general citizens."
DOULWAREISM is still the basic GE negoti
" ating technique, though its author is now re
tired from his company vice presidency. The
union complaint, as phrased by James B. Carey,
president of the International Union of Electrical
Workers, February 22, is against GE's "policy
of bargaining by ultimatum, or making a first-and-final
offer, in refusing throuchout the bar
gaining period to modify
proposal.
The central issue would appear to be whether
it's an unfair labor practice to hold fast tn an
original offer, making no compromise regardless
of what the union does or threatens to do. Or,
to put it in the company frame of reference, whe
ther it's necessary to go through the motions of
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Taxes
is that the timber tax
up in the air.
are forces which favor
bill, those who would
there could be no com-
future dependence upon
others who think present
for their own purposes.
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unchanged from 1959
by the barest possible
intended to equate tim-
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'SEE-, lU SURE BE GLAD
STUFF STANDIN'ONMV OWN
Argentina President
Unpleasant Political
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
With victory in the figiit to
restore Argentina's economic
health in sight, President Ar-
SPVn turo Frondizi
is facing an
unpleasant po
litical truth:
A u s terity is
good only for
the other fel
low. On May 1,
he reaches the
)a mm - point of
Newiom his six - year
term.
As result of his first three
years, he can point to a budg
et virtually in balance to an
end to runaway inflation, to
self-sufficiency In oil and to
the beginnings of a new steel
industry.
The Argentine peso is sta
ble and Argentina's interna
tional credit is good.
Last month saw continua
tion of a series of political
defeats for Frondizl's Radical
Intransigent party, ascribed to
a mounting protest against the
government's tough austerity
campaign,
Losing Ballots
Government candidates lost
out In two Buenos Aires elec
tions and suffered another de
feat in the election of a gov
ernor for Mendoza province.
The reasons are many.
The government measures
which balance the budget
If
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Washington Report
ly WILLIAM
GETTING. WORSE
Washington - No amount of
cherry flapdoodle can much
longer hide the raw fact that
things are get
ting worse,
not better, for
the United
States i n
Latin A m e r
ica. There was
much hope
here - and
also abroad,
White among those
who really support Pan-American
unity - that the new
presidency of John F. Kon-
nedy would improve Western
H e m 1 s phere relations and
blunt tl-2 strong subversive
thrust of international Com
munism. It has not done so, though
the President has gone out of
his way to be sympathetic and
helpful to the Latinos and
though both political parties
in the Senate have done the
same.
President Kennedy, to this
correspondent's direct knowl
edge, was deeply concerned
even before taking office to
offer every possible concilia
tion and assistance to the
Latin Americans. From the
very start he has given Latin
America the highest true
priority ever given to it bv
any White House - not exclud
ing that of Franklin D. Roose
velt In the "Good Neighbor"
policy.
VICE PRESIDENT Lyndon
' Johnson, too, has quietly
put much thought and effort
into the same objective. And,
at the request of the Presi
dent, the Democratic leader
of the Senate, Mike Mans
field of Montana, only last
month laid aside much urgent
work here to lead a Congres
sional goodwill delegation to
Mexico.
Mansfield and his Demo
cratic and Republican col
leagues could not really afford
to be absent from Washington
at the time the Mexicans had
picked for their inter-parlia
mentary conference. All the
same, they went - though they
would not have gone in like
circumstnnces had the invita
tion come from any one of our
major allies.
fctei PieAidAilL ajbtt isles, eAttL
Menace
WHEN I CAN REACH
FEET J"
have not yet extended their
benefits to the housewife or
the worker.
While prices now are stable
the cost of living Jumped 150
per cent In the last two years
without compensating increas
es in earnings. Also hard hit
were those persons living on
pensions or returns from real
estate.
Further complicating the
picture have been the numer
ous strikes called by unions
controlled either by the Com
munists or by followers of
former Dictator Juan Peron.
Hurt by Peronisls
A general strike called by
Peronists and pro-Communist
unions in September, 1959,
caused a production loss esti
mated at close to $30 million,
Anotner, in January, 1959,
was estimated to have cost
an astronomical $100 million.
The armed forces which
overthrew. Peron in 1955 are
determined that no Peronista
influence shall enter the gov
ernment and even more de
termined that there shall be
no return of Peron himself.
Most of the government cri
ses have sprung from the sus
picion that Frondizi's opposi
tion to the Peronistas was
weakening.
Now Frondizi is battling
time, gambling that by next
years elections, the benefits
of his administration will have
reached the people. Failure
could mean disaster.
S. WHITI
his special assistant, Arthur
Schleslnger Jr., into Latin
America on a mission of
friendly Inquiry. And he has
set up a distinctly high-level
board on Latin - American
policy under Adolf A. Berle
Jr.
N
-Ll ho
administration could
have done more, in a bi
partisan way, to give triple
plated proof of interest and
concern in-Latin America.
What has been happening,
however, has beyond doubt
rather chilled the scene. Mex
ico and Brazil, the most in
fluential countries in all Latin
America, seem determined to
show appreciation in reverse.
Not only do they refuse us
any shadow of assistance in
combating the pro-Communist
menace raised to themselves
and to all the Americas by
Castroism In Cuba. They now
actually give increasing com
fort to Castroism. The presi
dent of Brazil, Janlo Quadros,
has just treated Berle in Rio
with such obvious rudeness as
to draw criticism even from
the pro-Quadros press there.
MEXICO Is currently host
iT to a Communist line
"peace" conference In which
the main sports are denounc
ing the United States and cry
ing hosannas to Castro. True,
the moving spirit is not Presi
dent Lopez Mateos, but rather
a political rival, Azaro Car
denas. Doubtless, too, Lopez
Mateos dared not forbid the
gathering.
But what is certainly also
true is that both Mexico and
Brazil are seeking heavy U.S.
aid - and in such tones as to
suggest that we should con
sider it Is a rare privilege to
give them assistance, and pre
cisely on their own terms.
Everybody here wants the
friendship of the Latinos. But
even their best friends her
think It It past time for them
to realize one thing:
Even this most tolerant and
patient of all the great powers
cannot forever be the victim
of the Intolerance and Irre
sponsibility of lesser powers
which can - but to a point
only - afford lo be irresponsi
ble. (Copyright. 19(1, by United
F4lui Syndicate, Inc.)
MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE
Kennedy's
Pay Is In Sharp Contr
By LYI.E C. WILSON
Washington - IUPI) - The old
timer pondered the latest or
der from President Kennedy
to his top of
Ileitis and
thought of
that eminent
author, the
late Harry L.
Hopkins.
"Harry
wouldn't have
liked tills,"
the old timer
Wilson musea.
The President's order that
Harry Hopkins would not
have liked was this: That ad
ministration officials who
write articles or who speak
for pay shall contribute their
h o n o r a riunu to organized
charity.
That is a switch from the
way It was under Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Get it while you
can - that was the rule under
FDR. The late Stephen T.
Early was Mr. Big's press sec
retary. Steve clinked glasses
Facing An
Truth
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial
for publication is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters
printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in tact the contrary Is often
Ba Informed
To the Editor: I am not In
the habit of answering letters
printed in your column, but
the one published in Monday,
March 6, issue by Mildred
Engman, I feel needs an
answer.
Some people might believe
what she has written.
From her letter it is ap
parent she Is not informed,
and persons without informa
tion should not write on a sub
ject as important as the Mexi
can national workers.
If one Mexican can do the
work of three white men in
California, why should a
grower employ three men
with all the book work,
The Mexicans of L. A.
county are not nationals un
der contract to the U. S. Gov
ernment. Also the camp maintained
for them and migratory white
worKers) is above the stan
dards set by the government.
How many boxes of pears
has the lady picked? How
many times has she watched
her fruit ripen on the trees
and no pickers?
As I said, before one writes
let them know what they are
writing about.
Vella Wilson,
Route 4, Box 457-E
Medford
Is It Physical?
To the Editor: A thought in
spired by Mr. Kissinger's en
try "Myths of March 5.
True, anything not subject
to proved existence, empiri
cally speaking, is myth and
allegory.
How much, if any, actual
matter constitutes an elec
tron? I know that the electron
is practical, but is it physical?
Other than by its effects, can
the physical existence of its
force be proved? Let us as
sume it cannot.
If electrons whose material
existence cannot be prove.
constitute atoms which theo
retical scientists tell us make
up the building blocks of our
universe - how do we know
that existence exists?
Perhaps existence is the
myth and allegory!
None-the-less it is a grand
illusion -If- it doesn't go to
one's head.
Thelma Carson
Star Route, Box 60
Prospect, Oregon
Has Heard Lrerything
To the Editor: Now I've
heard everything! "Every man
whose nose runs and feet
smell, was created wrong end
to."
Now a Communication has
likened mere man to, a "crick
et." I was one of the female
critters who once believed
that the more I taw of men
the better I liked my gold
fish, but since I Joined the
Fifty Plus club that meets Fri.
days from noon until 4 p.m.
at the St. Mark's Guild Hall,
Oakdale at Fifth St., I've met
so many real gentlemen mem
bers that the only he people
I shall belittle hereafter are
those who sneerlngly blat
'woman driver."
No sir, I am not a "widder."
have the best husband in
the world. Of course, there are
times I'd run Mm around and
around the house if I could
get 'im scared. He doesn't
scare.
I'm getting so near the cen
tury mark that I can't repeat
anything I hear verbatim
but there's something about
men that goes like this:
How much men are like ol'
shoes
For instance, both a soul
may lot (sole)
Order Co
with your correspondent many
a time during the Roosevelt
years and was always saying
that he was about to do a
magazine piece.
"The boss told us right off,"
Early once said, "that we were
free to pick up some extra
with our typewriters."
Profits to Horses
Steve didn't take much ad
vantage of that, or any, al
though he used to be a news
paperman, himself. When bur
dened with a free afternoon,
Steve went to the horse track.
Harry Hopkins also was a
horse player. He was a social
worker and reformer by In
stinct and training and with
out experience in the art of
writing. But Harry had a
liking for and a need for
money. So, he wrote. Collier's,
a magazine, was Harry's pig
eon and the late Tom Beck,
boss of that and other publi
cations, was his angel.
Beck used to relate that the
going rate for one of Harry's
magazine pieces was $2,000.
"But if you really make it
hot, Harry," Beck would tell
his author, "we'll pay three
Brand." ,
Harry had the fire to make
it hot. Sometimes ne neio
high public office by FDR's
aDDOintment. Sometimes he
the case.
Both are made to go on feet
Both need a mate to be
complete.
Both have ties and both in
cline When polished, in the world
to shine.
Both are trod upon and both
Will tread on others, noth
ing loath.
Some shoes are black, some
men are, too.
Some men have eyes (and
how!) some shoes do.
Both of them are oftimes
sold.
Both in time turn to dust
and mold.
With shoes, the last comes
first.
With men the last ends ap
petites and thirst.
When shoes wear
they're mended new.
When men wear
they're men dead, too.
out
out,
' Over the air comes the
grand news that in Montana a
city is planning a factory of
some kind that will be owned
and run by seniors.
Why didn't Medford think
of that? Kennedy intends to
try it out. The promoters who
do, will find men and women
with long life's experience and
training, ready and willing to
get into the harness again. I
believe that 80 per cent of
the seniors had rather earn
their own way.
I can almost take dictation
in longhand, am a tireless pe
destrian, but was turned down
taking census because of my
age.
Hurrah for Montanlans! An
angel must have whispered to
their leaders that oldsters
have to eat.
Mrs. John Spackman,
P. O. Box 33,
Jacksonville, Oregon
Waiting To Sea
To the Editor: We are wit
ness to the taking measure of
man by powers that be
which may have profound ef
fect on our way of life. A multi-billion
dollar bill is taking
shape in Congress for govern
ment aid to state school edu
cation. In its wording, and
possible passing, lies the fate
of separation of church and
stale.
John Kennedy, In his cam
paign for election as presi
dent, promised repeatedly and
we hope, honestly, that he
would use his high office to
that effect. Many Protestants,
believing him, helped John
Kennedy to the presidency
Today, we are witness to
members of his church in a
concerted drive to compel him
by various arguments and
ways to violate his promise
One way to get around the
Constitutional declaration
against such practice is to
have a portion of the govern
ment aid to education In
'long-term" loans. The viola
tors of the Constitution pro
ponents plan for Kennedy to
go along with them and still
not violate his promise to the
electorate.
This involves the intent. Is
It an effort to defraud or not
to defraud? The measure of
John Kennedy, duly elected
president of the USA, Is the
vital issue here. Will he re
tain that most precious pride
of achievement, self-respect by
vetoing any deceptive meas
ure that lessens the safety of
our public school from church
influence?
We are waiting to see, wait
ing to know if this is still a
government of the people, by
the people and for the peo
ple, free of any organized par
ty pressure, religious or other
wise. F. J. Clifford
Route 2. Box 200F,
Central Point, Ort.
ncerning Outside
asttoFDR
was just a friend of the Presi
dent, living in the White
House and advising on poucy,
high and low. Tom Beck
knew that and so did tht
readers.
Officials Viewpoint
cn u,hpn Honkins express
ed a point of view In Beck's
magazine it had almost the
impact of a presidential siaie-
ment. Harry and FDR seem
ed to think very much alike.
Not always, of course. Harry
shook up the public consider
ably In one of his pieces tor
Brlr when he suseested that
the wartime housing shortage
be eased by quartering some
Try and Stop Mo
-y BENNETT CERF
JAMES JOYCE, author of "Ulysses," Was quite a gay blada
in hit younger days in Dublin, and he and a jolly doctor
friend cut many a caper together In tht wee hours of tht
morning. One flay iney
were, escorting two busty
blondes when their way
was impeded by a big
crowd, gathered round a
man prostrate on the
roadway. Joyce steered
the tipsy doctor through
the crowd, and watched
him take the stricken
man's pulse, while every
one waited with bated
breath for the verdict.
"Well?" asked Joyce
finally. "Well," answered
the doctor firmly, "th
poor fellow's dead, but I'll see what I can do
1 Hollywood icribe Herb Stein Interviewed actor Jose Ferrer re
cently la the sUr'a home. Ferrer apologized for the absence of
his wife, Rosemary Clooney, saying she was upstairs caring for
their five children.
"What are their ages?" asked Stein. "Five, four, three, two,
and one," smiled Ferrer, "dolly," aaid Stein. "I hop I'm not
keeping you."
C 161, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate)
West Finds Rabbit
'Imprint';
Declines More Punch
By DICK WEST
Washington -WPD- This hap-
oened several months aio. I
had been to a stag party in the
neighbornoo a
and as I was
walking home
I had a feeling
that I was
being follow
ed.
The punch
my host had
served made
me bolder
west man usual, so
instead of breaking into a
sprint, as I normally would
have done, I whirled around
and prepared to defend my
self.
When I did that, I almost
stumbled over a baby rabbit.
It might have been just the
night wind playing tricks on
my ears, but I thought I heard
the bunny address me as
"mommy."
Considerably unnerved by
the experience, I aroused my
sleeping wife.
"Listen," I whispered. "I
don't want to alram you, but
An Open Letter
To the Editor: An open let
ter to our veteran friend,
Malemute Slim.
Of course he is "not blood
thirsty." He just wants to do
unto others as they have done,
which includes "murder, stab,
strangle, shoot, beat the head
in, etc." He, it seems, would
like to set himself up as a
trinity which would include
Judge, jury and executioner.
What a wonderful chain re
action such a set-up would
create! Even the heathen in
The Congo could do better.
But to whom would Slim send
at Christmas time his mes
sages of "Peace and Goodwill
to Men?"
If Slim likes so well the
way "justice" is meted out in
the largest state in tht Union,
why does he return to a lesser
state to enter one of our very
fine veterans' domiciliates?
I'll bet they don't have one or
a reform school, or a corps of
psychiatrists In the entire bar
ren waste of his largest of all
states.
I seem to have read some
where that "Vengenct is mine.
I will repay, salth the Lord."
but I don't seem to have read
anywhere where Ht desig
nated this duty to Slim. Also I
believe In another place it
says, "Whosoever among you
is without sin, let him cast the
first stone."
Mildred Engman,
1107 East Main st.
Medford
Seeks Aunt
To tht Editor: I would like
your help in trying to find
an aunt of mine. I do not
know her married name but
her maiden name was Brooks.
She is a sister of the late
Laura Catherine Brooks Sta-
pleton from Sneedsville, Tenn.
Anyone having any infor
mation please write to me.
Andrew Stapleton
1221 S.E. Court St.
Pendleton, Ore.
of the homeless on those with
homes.
That one probably cost Beck
three grand, and worth It, too.
The late Harold L. Ickes
became a columnist while in
the Cabinet. His column never
came to much. Ickes' feelings
were hurt when the editor of
a Washington newspaper re
turned from vacation to find
that his paper had bought and
was printing the column. The
editor promptly threw it out.
Ickes was angry. He didn't
need the money because he
was not a poor man. But the
editor had stabbed Ickes'
pride.
But He
there's a baby rabbit out there
who followed me home."
"Okay, Harvey," she said
soothingly. "You had better
get to bed now. And don't for
get to take off your shoes."
Wife Ignores Incident
The next morning the rabbit
was gone. My wife tactfully
avoided any mention of the
incident and I tactfully re
frained from reminding her
that my name isn't Harvey.
I might have passed tht
whole thing off as a midnight
hallucination had I not read
Just now a learned tract pub
lished by the National Geo
graphic Society on the subject
of "imprinting."
Imprinting, the Geographic
says "Is nature's way of tell
ing a baby animal who its
mother is." A baby animal, it
seems, doesn't know its moth
er by instinct, but is imprint
ed with a maternal image
through early experience.
Furthermore, if you remove
the real mother during the im
printing period, the baby can
get a substitute imprint, lend
ing to some strange mix-ups.
Adopt Strang "Mothers"
In one case, for instance,
some geese got the impression
that their mother was a foot
ball. Some other goslings
adopted a boat for a mother.
"An Australian naturalist,
Konrad Lorenz, learned that
geese and ducklings will ac
cept him as their mother and
follow him around," tht Geo
graphic says.
"Quacking vigorously, Lo
renz imprinted mallards with
the sound of his voice as well
as his visual appearance. They
would come whenever ht call
ed. "Another investigator. Dr.
Eckhard Hess, of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, became the
adopted mother of a red jung'e
fowl. As an adult, the fowl ig
nored hens of Its own species,
but went Into its courtship
dance when it saw Dr. Hess."
The experiences of Lorens
and Hess explain, I believe,
what happened to me the
night of that party. There are
a lot of rabbits in the suburbs
nd I must have passed one
at Imprinting time.
It is a relief to me to have
this matter finally cleared up
in a scientific manner. But
just the same, I'm not having
any mort of that punch.
Meany Raps Deal
To Pay Union Man
Washington - H'PO - AFL-
CIO President George Meany
Thursday called a deal to pay
Bakery and Confectionery
Workers President James G.
Cross about $250,000 in re
turn for his resignation, "le
galistic highway robbery."
The proposed p a y m t n t
would settle a federal court
suit accusing Cross of misus
ing union funds. Tht union
was expelled from the AFL
CIO in 1957 for refusing to
oust Cross for his alleged use
of union funds for personal
spending.
J,