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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY, MARCH IS, 1861 MEDFORlUitoUBUW "Everyune in Southern Oregon Raadi The Mali Tribune" Published Dally except SiturdijF by MfiUrUKU rHlfllinu ,iv.i. 33 North Ml St.. Ph BP3-11 nnRKWw RUHL. Editor H15RB GREY Adveititlni Meniiel GERALD I LATHAM But MtT ERIC W AJLLEN TR., Mn JWltol EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAlJ.Tel.1 Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Ed tor OUVE STARCHER Women Editor DALE EKH-ftPU" wri.-w" a 'TnHanjtnrient riewfpsper r.,.r.H imnoni eleu milter Medford. Oreion under Act el ' By Mali - In Advance Copy I0e Dallv -nd Sunday 1 y Dallv and Sunday moe e on ; Dally and Sunday S mm 4 Sunday Only One year MJO, r Carrier In Advance Medford a..i.mi rvnti-sl Point Eafie p m Jackionvllle Onld H 11 Duly and Sunday-I ar aiBM . Da'lv nd Sundey 1 mo IJ Carrier and uej. ; '"'i. All Terms t "miLir -I-i a,i,i Paner" of City of Mr"" rifflrlal Papr of Jacliaon Coobr ftnlted Pren International Full Leased Wire O P I Telejotewapleturef Kfrn'HOF AUplTmEAO OF CtRCUL ATIONS i ,rt(.lTi"e RenreaentaHve: Wi!ST HOLIDAY CO INC Of lrr In Wrw York Chlcano De h-nit Sun FranrlKPO Las Angeles q,M. Portland St Loull At. vnc.uver BO WiV PUSUSHIIS m )J,A-JS0CAT0M NATIONAL E0ITORIAI A"gcgT,fN I Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 15, 1951 (Thursday) All but nine of Medford's 173 school teachers were re elected to their positions at a special meeting of the school board this week. The Medford Klwanis club this year won the achievement award in the Pacific north west district of Kiwanls in ternational. 20 YEARS AGO March 15, 1941 (Saturday) The Douglas county court today selected newspaper edi tor Harris Ellsworth as the new state senator and he took his bpbI In Salem with pros pects he would serve about nine hours before the end of the legislative session comes. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Col. Tou Velle of J'vllle slipped by another mile-post Thurs. He Is still as young as he ever was, but growing older." 30 YEARS AGO March 15, 1931 (Sunday) Emergency work programs on county roads ended yester day. ' . A Jackson county grand Jury has exonerated state law enforcement officers in the death of a man during a re cent raid on a moonshine still near Eagle Point. 40 YEARS AGO March 15, 1921 (Tuesday) The newly-organized Med ford YMCA Is planning a twilight baseball league pro gram. . . Rurelnrs blew open tne Tniont hank vault last night but got nary a cent for tholr troubles. 50 YEARS AGO March 15, 1911 (Wadnatday) Mann's Department store Is holding its first annual spring opening event this week. - Many persons locally are predicting war soon between the U.S. ana japan. What's Your I.Q.? Nina 01 ten corietl li superior! even or eight It eicalltnt) ilva ar Vx Is good. 1. Which U. S; President was nicknamed "the rail splitter"? 2. How old was Moses when he died? 3. Royalty, the press, or the legal profession, Is called the "Fourth Estate"? 4. Did the U.S. acquire the Virgin Islands from Den mark, Norway, or Sweden? 5. Name the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.' 6. Are the Hawaiian Islands north or south, of the Equa tor? 7. Name the American naval hero who is famous for the saying, "I have not yet begun to fight"? 8. What is a somnambulist? 9. Albany Ii the capital of which state? 10. Which King tent the Spanish Armada against Eng land in 1S58? Aniwerti 1. Abraham Lin' coin. 2. 120. 3. Tha prats. 4, Denmark. 8. Washington Irv' lno. 6. Norlh, 7. Jonh Paul Jones. 8. Slaap walker. 9, New York. 10. Philip II of Qggf The Irish and a great many others who like to think of themselves as Irish will be talking:, naturaly enough, of blarney and leprechauns, of Killarney and the fair city of Dublin, of the River Lifiey, and of counties Meath and (Jork. New York and Boston, and other cities with large Irish communities, with gaiety. And down there will be what President John J. Kennedy, the first real Irish-American to be elected to that office, calls "our own little celebration" when he receives a gift of shamrocks from the Ambas sador of Ireland, Thomas As always, St. Patrick's Day will be full of surmises and Daradoxes. Irish but it s also a great day tor i'onsn, Hun garians, Jews, or what you will. I AST year an enterprising reporter took down -4 the surnames of what he called a fairly typical rank of marchers in New York City's St. Patrick parade. The assorted Irish were: Mennit, Cam pagna, Neill, Goldner, Gillespie, Corbo, Cotata, de Prophets, Caughlin, Carney, Hall, and Janelli. At least two Chinese were among the paraders.. This figures. The influence of the Irish in this country, as Paddy's Day always demonstrates, is out of all proportion to their number. The U.S. Census Bureau hasn't even prepared working sheets on national origins indicated by the 1960 enumeration, but in 1950 there were only 504,961 natives of Ireland resident here, and only 2,396, 456 first-generation plus native Irish. Actually, Great Britain has replaced the Unit ed States as the nation to which most Irish emi grateand Ireland loses about 25,000 young people a year, enough to offset the normal in crease in population. The peak representation of native Irish, like President Kennedy, whose for bears came from Wexford County in southeast reland, have roots going back more than one generation. e 1M0RE paradoxes and Day is a social but New York City, when most smart employers figure they're not going to gel; any work done anyway, so why not let the help have some fun? In Dublin it's a legal holiday, but all the pubs are closed. Reviewing the traditional New York parade will be, presumably (he doesn't enter the hospital for minor surgery until two days later), Mayor Robert F. Wagner, a Catholic but of German descent. Not since bumbling John r. (J linen won the mayoralty election of 1932 has Tammy Hall, the traditional political wigwam of the New York Irish had a true son in the top office at City Hall. (Bill O'Dwyer was Irish enough, born on the ould sod, in Bohola, but he owed little to Tammany.) THE feast celebrated by wearers of the gn on March 17 is sucoosed to be the 1500th niversary of the. death of St. Patrick. No one knows exatcly where Ireland's patron saint is buried, but most opinion settles on the graveyard of the Church of Ireland, a Protestant institution in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. A couple of years ago in Indiana. Pa., created auite a stir bv contending and these are his words, that Patrick was "firmly linked with the Protes tant Church of Ireland, not with Roman Catholic Church." And the notion of a paradox like that, faith, is enough to chill the blood of a Cenneidigh or any other self-respecting Gael. E.R.R. Tunisia and the Maghreb The fifth anniversary of Tunisian independ ence next Monday finds that nation reaching its ascendancy in North African diplomacy. Habib Bourguiba, its Western-oriented president, is act ing as the main intermediary between French President Charles de Gaulle and Algerian rebel leaders. It is no little credit to Bourguiba that he has the confidence of both sides to the Algerican dispute. To the French he represents an Arab leader who by and large has protected vulnerable French interests in Tunisia in the years following independence. The Algerian rebels remember that two days after independence had been won Bour guiba had declared that the Tunisian people "can not be truly happy . . . until their sister nation Algeria regains ner sovereignty." WHILE much of the Arab world has been drifted away from the Western sphere, Tu nisia has remained faithful. The London "Econo mist" notes: "President Bourguiba has always stood as President Nasser's chief Arab opponent, and he has lately been exerting himself to mobi lize the moderate nations of Africa as a counter to the more militant ones." He also has looked to the West, principally the United States, for the economic aid and priv ate investment Tunisia needs to save his already poor country from becoming poorer. Bourguiba'8 long-range goal is that of a "unit ed Maghreb" a political and economic federa tion or union of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. In a communique issued in Rabat, March 2, Bourguiba, King Hussan II of Morocco, and Fer hat Abbas, premier of the Algerian nationalists' provisional government based in Tunis, "reaf firmed their determination to build the Great Maghreb" when Algeria becomes free. Bourguiba is in a position to play a leading role in such a union; his nations economy is making heartening progress and his political leadership at home is virtually unchallenged. E.R.R. is K for ffe fr will bubble and blaze in Washington, D.C., J. Kieman. . it s a great day tor trie surprises. St. Patrick's not a legal holiday in een an a Presbyterian pastor please to remember Dennis the Menace 'ISNT IT ABOUT TIME TOG A Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial for publication is permissible. The Mail 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 fact the contrary is often the case. Reply lo Letter To the Editor: In regard to your letter, Virginia Card, I must admit that I agree with you in at least a few in stances, such as Bishop Pike being a wise man in step with universal evolution. It would be interesting to know what you use as your measure of truth, or false, realizing that most text books are revised from year to year. Personally I cannot see that we could safely use such in formation. I am sure that no one cares when you rest or shop or what you do in your private chambers, so long as it is within the bounds of man's law. Also man cares not for what you believe or think. I would like to inform you however that God is Love (John 4:8). In fact God loved you so much that He sent His only Son to die that you might live. God not only loved you who no doubt Is a good person, who does good for your neighbor and will one day be repaid for that goodness, on this earth. But also God loves the liar, the drunkard, fornicator, and even the murderer. Can any of us claim such love? God also has given you a free will to believe this or disbelieve this. And I am sure you shall never be coerced against your will. But I beg of you to use your human reasoning power, and ponder just one question. If Jesus Christ is false, and I have preached a lie, what have I lost? It would mat ter not because there would be no God to judge me any way. But if I have believed and preached the truth, what have you lost? Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the Life, no man cometh to the Father but my me." (John 14:6.) I know it is difficult for one who does not believe the Holy Bible is the Word of God to be converted, but if we be lieve In a truth or false, we must have some means to weigh the facts. "In Jesus Christ I put my trust, the Author and Finisher of my faith." The fear of God was placed In my heart when I was 10 years old, 33 years ago. The scripture says "The fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom." (Psalm 111:10.) Donald Ullom Star Route, Box 32 Eagle Point, Ore. Reviews Correspondence To the Editor: I've been reviewing some interesting correspondence from some of your readers. One gentleman tells me he spent six hours writing the letter I received from him. It was interesting, even though I cannot agree with him that Christ has come the second time and that the days of creation were 7,000 years each in length. Another writer wants to send me lit erature that she claims proves that there is no devil. Many of us have been en joying the "It Is Written" pro gram. Anyone can view this program without getting pro voked at the speaker even though his remarks might cut across preconceived ideas. I do realize that the re ligious organization which sponsors pastor Vandaman's "It is Written" program has In the past and eyen present been the subject of remarks and propaganda from some sources. I would like to quote a portion of a paragraph from a letter received this week from the Bible Study Hour, which is affiliated with Etern ity magazine. They are speak ing of the same group which sponsors "It Is Written." 1 quote: "We are delighted to do Justice to a much-maligned group of sincere believers, MEJF OHO MA COCOA BREAK?' name and address of tha writer. and in our minds and hearts take them out of the group of utter heretics ... to ac knowledge them as redeemed brethren and members of the body of Christ." The late Donald Barnhouse, a well known Presbyterian radio speaker is the one credited with the quote. Dr. Barnhouse went on to list "areas of thought with which most evangelicals would be in agreement," in cluding those who sponsor "It is Written." I give the list: 1. "The Old and New Testa ment, inspired by God, con taining the all-sufficient rev elation of God's will to men; the only unerring rule of faith and practice." 2. "The Trinity." 3. "The Deity of Christ." 4. "The necessity of the new birth." 5. "The resur rection of the just and the unjust." 6. "The second com ing of Christ, as literal, per sonal, visible." By the way, I understand that pastor Vandaman will make a personal appearance in Medford on Wednesday (today), March 15, at 7 p.m. at the McLoughlln Junior High gym. It will be interest ing to hear him in person. Henry Johnson Jr. 2315 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Gets Clarification To the Editor: Irl the Mail Tribune of March 7, I had a letter in regards to the stu dent -riots in San Francisco last May when the House Un American Activities commit tee was holding its hearings on Communist activities in California. In this letter I quoted from a talk by Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco to the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce and later broad cast over radio by Fulton Lewis Jr. To this letter Mr. Allen appended this com ment: "Mayor Christopher's views on the riots are a bit clouded by .the fact that he wasn't In town when they were taking place; he was at tending a luncheon in Bur lingame and did not return until the trouble had sub sided." (Christian Science Monitor Feb. 15, page 3). I sent Mr. Christopher the letter with the comment and asked for a clarification of the matter. I received the following: "Mayor Christopher has re quested that I respond to your communication of March 8 concerning the unfortunate incident at the City Hall dur ing the hearings of the House UnAmerican Activities Com mittee. For your information the mayor arrived fifteen minutes after the riot started and took immediate command of the situation by calling in student representatives and others involved. "I also wish to inform you that during the three-day dis turbance he was at all times in touch with the situation and Is fully aware of the cir cumstances leading up to this most unfortunate Incident that happened on the final day. "The Mayor wishes to thank you so much for the clipping that you enclosed with your comment, and thank you for taking the time to write him in this regard. "Signed: Joseph J. Allen Executive Secretary to the Mayor." Anna M. Strecd 36 North Peach st. Medford. Does Not Like Stamps To the Editor: Reading Vera Stewart's letter about a bill designed to regulate trading stamps now pending before the Oregon state legislature, I seized three postal cards and, for the first time in my life, wrote to state representatives, X TF.-'BlKE, !EI?POBt). ORE UPI Corre Bothering By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPI) It was just like old times when the President smiled his recogni tion of UPI's M e r r i m a n Smith and be gan answering the newsman's press confer ence question The Presl dent's answer wouldn't parse. The Pres- Wilton ident was handsome young John F. Kennedy. The old times were those of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The occasion was last week's Kennedy news conference when Smith asked a question which has been troubling Washington news men. The White House has been receiving a great deal of mail protesting the deportment of reporters who put questions to the President. TV viewers, being wholly uninformed of news conference tradition, be lieve the reporters are too di rect, or abrupt with their President of the United States that they do not accord him proper respect. Plenty of Respect Nonsense, of course. Respect is accorded in full measure to the man and to the office he holds. There is a scramble, however, for recognition. Re porters leap to their feet, there is the noise of their rapid movement. But no disrespect. That is what Smith asked about last week, whether the President felt himself abused or disrespected. "Mr. President, I'm sure you're aware, sir " was the way Smith began. That "sir" is the reporter's salute to the presidential office, that and a courteous tone and manner. expressing my views. I do not - repeat, do not - like trading stamps. To my mind, they are a waste of time, space, patience, energy, and money. They are a whelming nui sance; they take up kitchen drawer space, clutter my pockets, and sift through the cracks in my wallet; they choke the vacuum cleaner, plug the washing machine, and give my child indigestion. When, finally, I struggle down to the premium store, clutching and counting, I find little that I really want. And pillow cases are on sale down town that week for less than the $2 to $3.50 value of the stamp books, anyway. Then, I have a quarter of a book too little, or three-fifths of a book left over. Here, the pages are stuck together, because I had to use glue when the stickum wouldn't stick, and there, I somehow missed two whole pages, and can't get what I had chosen, after all. The whole concept of trad ing stamps is an insult to my Intelligence, thrift, self con trol, and common sense. Vera Stewart cannot have checked prices carefully or inclusively. She does pay for those stamps. Many housewives are willing to pay for them; it is the easiest way to sneak money out of a household allowance. I would rather save my own time, space, and money, and spend them without the re striction imposed by what someone else thinks I might want to do with them. I do not know, of my own knowledge, whether the bill in question is designed to regu late trading stamps, as it states, or to eliminate them, as Mrs. Stewart insists. Per sonally, I am for it in either case, but there are doubtless many to whom it would make a difference. E.A., could you clarify this for us? Betty House 19 North Orange st. Medford O Editor's noter Following are excerpts from the Bill Digest, page 86, on the trading stamp bill: "Comprehensive act licens ing and regulating sale of trading stamps. Administered by corporation commissioner who must approve prices charged. Requires stamps and books to list value and other data to be redeemed In money or merchandise at option of stamp holder . . , Stamp com pany required to issue stamps to any merchant who can pay for them within 60 days of application." The bill also pro vides for trading stamp com panies to be bonded of be tween $25,000 and $100,000, depending on gross Income. How About 'Demorepi'? To the Editor: I have no ticed in recent editorials a disposition .to refer to errant Democrats as Republicrats. Come, come - do you think this Is quite fair? If Republicans are to re ceive the credit for Demo cratic mistakes then justice demands that Democrats re ceive the reward of Republi can boo-boos. If you are going to persist in this, how about referring to Republicans who step out of your line as Dcmorcps? Ilene Hull 7 Eastwood drive Medford spondent Newsmen The President replied: "Well, you subject me to some abuse but not to any lack of respect, I don't I must say that I do not know that there are any difficulties, but if, and I know that it places bur dens on members of the press to have to stand up, particu larly when I'm not able to recognize them. "On the other hand, if it were changed, and one mem ber stood up, then, perhaps, that would not be a satisfac tory device. So that I think that along with the old saying about 'don't take down the fence until you know' why it was put up,' I would say that we should stay, with what we now have." Dr. Syntax would shudder, Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE RELIGIOUS PEACE On. March 3 Archbishop Alter of Cincinnati issued a statement on Federal aid to education. He the Adminis trative Board of the Nation al C a t h olic c o n f e rence which speaks in the name at?W nf the Roman Lippmann Catholic bish ops of the United States. The statement says that "in the event that there is Fed eral aid to education we are deeply convinced that in jus tice Catholic school children should be given the right to participate. Respecting the form of participation, we hold it to be strictly within the framework of the constitution that long - term, low - interest loans to private institutions could be part of the Federal aid program." This opinion on the con stitutionality of such loans differs, as we know, from the expressed views of President Kennedy. The difference is very important indeed. But the different is not so impor tant that it should be allowed to prevent the enactment of the Presidents program to give Federal aid to the public schools. Whether, as the bish ops contend, there should also be Federal aid to private schools, is a separate question. It is a question that can be settled conclusively only by the Congress and the Supreme Court. In the first instance the Congress must decide whether as a matter of national inter est it is willing to grant long term, low-interest loans to pri vate schools. The President, it is fair to assume, would not veto the bill if Congress pass ed it. Then the Supreme Court would probably have to pass on its constitutionality. OVER this practical solution of the controversy a cloud has been cast by the final sen tence in Archbishop Alter's statement. The sentence says that "in the event a Federal aid program is enacted which excludes children in private schools, these children will be the victims of discrimina tory legislation. There will be no alternative but to oppose such discrimination." This seems to say that If Congress refuses to authorize the loans to the parochial schools, the bishops will seek to defeat the Federal aid pro gram. If this is what they mean, then with great respect It must be said that they are entering upon dangerous ground. V THIS ground is the assertion that to use public money for the public schools and to deny it to private, schools is discrimination." Why7 Be cause the Catholic parent, or for that matter any parent who sends his child to a pri vate school, is paying twice over - once as a taxpayer for the public school which his child does not attend, and once as tuition fees to the private school which his child does attend. Whether It is fair to de scribe as "discrimination" such double payments for edu cation can best tested by ask ing what would be the situ ation if private schools were supported by the taxpayer. In that case the parent whose child goes to the public school will be paying twice over - once to support the public school which his child attends and once to support the pri vate school which his child does not attend. The charge of discrimina tion cuts both ways and tt can not illuminate, it can only obscure, a very difficult ques tion - that of the relation be tween church and school - which has troubled the Wes tern world for many cen turies. ON' this question there is an j v American doctrine, enact ed In the First Amendment and in all the state constitu tions, which holds that re ligious freedom can most sure- r Asks JFK Question in TV Conferences if he were still alive, to read those two paragraphs. That Is the way Ike used to talk in news conferences. The egg heads who listened to or read Eisenhower were saddened. "His syntax," they would com plain, "is atrocious." Now comes the new Presi dent with news conference re sponses that simply will not parse. What to do? Best thing to do is to consider what meaning the President sought to convey. His crack that the newsmen did subject him to some abuse was facetious, ob viously so. The reporters do not do that. Neither are they disrespect ful. President Kennedy made that fact clear enough. Nor does the President want any Lippmann ly be combined wilh religious peace by making it unlawful to grant public money to the churches. This venerable American principle has never been Interpreted harshly. For the churches and their edu cational Institutions, though they are debarred from re ceiving public money dirctly, enjoy the privilege of tax exemptions. The origin of the First Amendment is in the contro versy of 1785-1786 over the Virginia tax levy for the sup Dort of the established (Epis copalian) church. It was then ! that Madison and Jefferson made articulate what is now the American doctrine. This doctrine is, as the Supreme Court held in 1947 in the Ever son case, that "no tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any re ligious activities or institu tions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion." TlHESE words are quoted from the majority opinion of the Supreme Court handed down by Mr. Justice Black. The majority spoke these words in a decision which up held the right of the State of New Jersey to spend public money to reimburse parents for the bus fares of their chil dren attending parochial schools. The dissenting Jus tices argued that bus fares are unconstitutional, so strong was their feeling that what Jefferson called "the wall of separation" between church and state must not be lowered. In effect, the bishops main tain that despite the strong language of the Everson case, the court would hold that long-term low -interest loans to private schools are, like bus fares, constitutional. Whether the bishops are right in their views on the constitution can best be tested by submitting the question to Congress and, if Congress agrees with the bishops, to the courts. TN candor it must, however, - be said that the chances of Congress and of the courts up holding such a loan bill ap pear to be very small. The chances would not be in creased by threatening to de feat the measures to give Fed eral aid to the public schools. The defeat of the Presi dent's program under such conditions would have grave rentllry consequences for it would in-; rTJR own George Washins- troduce into the center of American public life the pro foundly troubling issue of clericalism. Under the rule of the First Amendment we have been happily free of this issue. We have been free of it, thanks to the principle built into the constitution by Madi son and Jefferson. If we are to maintain the religious freedom which we enjoy, we must preserve the religious peace and tranquil lity which is the air that free dom breathes. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A FTER A KNOCK-DOWN, drag-out fight with his wife, T . u hus?a,nc with a low burning point was in such a rage that he cried, "I m throughl This is the last straw. I'm head ing out of this place and do what I've always wanted to do. Me for the wilds of Africa where I can track down lions, tigers, cobras and canni bals!" He strode determined ly to the door, flung it open, then ran quickly back into the living room. "Lucky thing for you," he muttered in a strange ly subdued voice. "It's drizzling!" dtoTTn rl; 8?,rei',roat lndd went ' tto home of a Jn JL? The d00r waa Pi y t" doctor's deleter DP taRUd'ble croak' the man "ii"1". "I" an.' m Whlaper' "I" low, the doctor's wife answered, "No. Come on In." changes made at this time In his news conference routine. This assay would serve its purpose if the TV viewers would read the President's scrambled words and consider the meaning of what he said. The ill-informed TV critics of newsmen are trying to ap ply to the news conferences their own childish TV formu la the good guy (one) and the bad guys. Silly, isn't it? h the D:y's Kcvs By FRANK JENKINS Text for today: Douglas William Johnson, the man who found the money bag on a busy Los Angeles street. It had fallen out of a Brink armored car. The driver hadn't noticed the loss. Nobody had seen the bag fall out. It contained $240,000 in crisp new greenbacks-none of them marked. The finder himself hadn't noticed the printing on the bag, which stated the contents. When he did notice it, the thought ap parently never occurred to him that here was an un exampled opportunity to SKIP THE COUNTRY and live the life of Riley from that time on. He took immediate steps to find the owner. WHY? The answer is simple: He is an HONEST man. TT WAS quite a story. " The radio newscasts pick- ! ed it up and made a feature of it. The newspapers front paged it. J. B. Allen, general man ager of Brink's division, was in Houston (Texas) when he heard it and shortly after ward saw It confirmed in nrint. He grabbed a plane and rushed back to L.A. Describ ing his emotions, he says this morning: "I spent a sleepless niht. All I could think of was HOW COULD WE FIND A WAY TO EXPRESS OUR THANKS TO A MAN LIKE THIS? "What could we possibly do to properly express our gratitude and our respect for his integrity?" TTE ADDS: "I thought, of course, of giving him a MONEY reward. But - THE TAX WOULD TAKE A SIZEABLE PART OF IT. Besides, he has been Betting .along without help for 50 years. The chances are a man like him doesn't need money now." TTIS decision? iA It was a good one. A LIFE JOB FOR JOHN SON, and a collese education for his oldest son, a boy of 16. AS FOR Mr. Johnson, the finder, he can say to him self with sincere conviction: HONESTY is the b est policy. He will be right. rvUESTION: v1 Who coined the nhrase: Honesty is the best policy? The earliest recorded user nf U was MWtiel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, and creator of Don Quixote, the raeupd knlht. and Sancho P a n z a, his wise - cracking smilre. He wrote back in the 16th " "n. In his Farewell Ad- dres to his countrvmen. pick ed up Cervantes' advice in thee words: "I hold the maxim no less aonlieable to public than to private affairs, that honestv is ALWAYS the best policy." Bfff To Eliminate Youth Group Boat Fees Salem-IUPD-A bill eliminat ing boat fees for small boats used by youth groups was ap proved Tuesday by the House. The measure now goes to the Senate. .6