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Newspaper Page Text4 MEDFORDvi&iWTlUBUNI "Everyone In Southern oreion Reads TheMllTrlbunei; Published Daily except" Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Adveitlsinit Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mm Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWF.TT Sports Ed tor OLIVE STARCHF.R Women'! Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oreion. under Act ol March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail - In Advance Copy 10c Dally -nd Sunday 1 year 1S00 Daily and Sunday mm .nn Dallv and Sunday 3 mo 2S Sunday Only One vear $4 20 By Carrier-In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Ra Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shadv Cove Hor.ua Rlv er Talent and on motor rn'i'es Daily and Sunday 1 vear I1J JO na'.lv and Sunday 1 mo I JO Carrier and Dral'rs copv IOC All Terms Cash in Advance o'"H"aTaper of City of Medfortf OfMrlalPan.r of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire rj P.I Tejenhoto Kewnplctures -MTMBFH OF AUDIT BimEAlT OF CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC Of fices In New York Chlcaeo De troit. San Franclsco Los Atijeles Seattle. Portland St Louis. At. lanta. Vancouver B C N ATI O N At EDITORIAL ,s)cQtiJ)n A Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hislory from tha files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 19, 19S1 (Monday) Aerial photography, a new wrinkle in properly assess ment, will be tried in Jackson county this summer if present plans are completed. Road tests on Medford's new aerial ladder fire truck were successfully completed last week, according to City Su perintendent Vernon Thorpe. 20 YEARS AGO March 19. 1941 (Wednesday) The city of Medford has called for a public hearing on a new sewer project to be fi nanced with WPA funds. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The lr-tfUtuture nnlv nassed 911 This is line work. and only sill too many, ine session lasted 62 days, a bet ter record for pondering tha ncfohlisliprl hv Esnee socllo crews engaged in fixing Main Stem crossings. ' 30 YEARS AGO March 19, 1931 (Thursday) Mayor Wilson has launched a program to stamp out care less driving on Medford streets. Roseburg has definitely been selected as the site for a new Veterans hospital, it was learned here today. 40 YEARS AGO March 19, 1921 (Saturday) There is a shortage of dress ed hens in the area since the unusually good egg-laying sea son has made farmers hesitant to slaughter their hens. The local hay crop is now nearly equal In valut to the pear crop. SO YEARS AGO March 19. 1911 (Sunday) Police Chief Hittson has In structed his officers to enforce the law which requires that vehicles drive on the right hand side of the street. Central Point voters yester day approved to change the name of their town from "town" to "city." What's Your I.Q.? Nint or ten correct ti superior seven or eight It excellent; tivt or lix is good. 1. The seed for most West Const oysters are Imnorlcd from Japan; true or false? 2. Literally translated, the title Messiah means what? 3. Was the author of "The Canterbury Tales" Long fellow. Chaucer, or Mark Twain? 4. With what sport do you Associate the names of Sam Snead, Lew Worsham and Bobby Locke? 5. Did President Kennedy place his private wealth In an Irrevocable trust fund, In his father's control or In govern ment bonds? 8. In normal times, which country other than China, Is the largest consumer of tea? 7. Which amendment of the U.S. Constitution authorizes the levying of Income lax? 8. What 1 the name of the Sur-con General of the Unit ed Slates? 1). Where Is the famous ."Flirtation Walk"? 10. In Army slang, what Is a'.'ov'lnll? Unsworn 1. True. 1. An rtJin'od. S. Chancer. 4. Golf. . Gv'i bonds S. Grtat Brl ilia. 7. Ilia. t. Dr. Luthtr L. Tarry, t Waal Polrtl, NY. 10. SooobjJ LWuaanaai rfL NEWSPAPIR (7 tff$ PUBLISHERS SUNDAY. MARCH 19. 1961 Spotlight Back on U.N. The spotlight has shifted back to the United Nations General Assembly, but the drama has been shorn of most of its stars. Widely billed in advance as the "Summit Session" of the As sembly because so many chiefs of government were in attendance, the session was on dead center when recessed two and a half months ago. And the stars had long since departed. Nevertheless, it had been quite a show while it lasted, and the undoubted star of stars was Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, who demonstrated remarkable versatility in shifting from low com edy to heroics to shoe-thumping villainy during the 25 days he spent in New York as chairman of the Soviet delegation. And he received loyal support from the Communist Party leaders of all the satellite states. The drama, it will be remembered, was not confined to the U.N. stage. Khrushchev almost seemed to carry the limelight with him, whether his motorcade was sweeping up to Harlem for a surprise call on Fidel Castro at the Hotel Theresa, or he was haranguing reporters and shouting, inexplicably, "Down with Gromyko" from the balcony of the Soviet headquarters on Park Ave nue, or exchanging quips and insults in street interviews. DRESIDENT Eisenhower addressed the As- sembly on Sept. 22, presenting an American program to settle world problems through the U.N. Even Khrushchev called the speech "con ciliatory." But for the most part, President Eisen hower remained in Washington. Indeed there was some criticism that the United States was missing a diplomatic oppor tunity while Khrushchev was playing the. host for neutralists and even greeting U.N. Secretary Gen. Dag Hammarskjold and U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth at his private reception with sort of bear-hug Castro received in public. There was no confrontation between the President and Khrushchev, Prime Minister Har old Macmillan of Great Britain acting as prin cipal go-between. Jke did meet with the neutral ists Nehru and Nasser in New York, Sept. 26, and afterward had brief talks with Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker, Cambodian Premier Noro dom Sihanouk, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco, and Ethiopian Deputy Premier Aklilou Abde Wold. Subsequently, in Washington he re ceived President Sukarno of Indonesia and King Hussein of Jordan. ANDREI A. Gromyko leads the Soviet delega fir,M of tVio vnaiiinarl cnocinn Rnf rhur. rlnncn't necessarily rule out a Khrush. On Feb. 27 the time heard speculation ntfpnrl i.hp vpnpwpfl AsKPinh v spssinn when hlfrh ly edited films of two 1 ni'nca fnnfoi'onf'fia U'prp vision. Commented an American correspondent: "It would be unusual if such the public's mind unless it As for President Kennedy, it was reported early, last month that he would make a major address and practice his own brand of personal diplomacy at the U.N. Castro? No word yet, but a "Cuba will go to the U.N." speech of Feb. 13 sounded as if the Cuban who went would be Fidel. E.R.R. Jubilee For Camp Fire Girls Wohelo is a special watchword for some 600,000 American girls and for more than 4 million women who have participated in the program of Lamp 1' ire symbolically descriptive; it's composed of the first two letters of "work," "health," and "love." Since last November the Camp 1 ire Girls have been celebrating their 50th anniversary. The or ganization was founded in 1910 by Dr. and Mrs. Luther H. Gulick and a group of their fellow educators and was incorporated two years later. Gulick was founder of the National Playground Association, or, as it has since, become, the Na tional Recreation Association. THE golden jubilee began with a national con- vention in New York, at which time Camp Fire Girls were honored with the issuance of a U.S. postage stamp bearing their insigne of cross ed logs and flame. During January groups throughout the country got together for "thank-the-comnuinity" pot-luck suppers. The rami) fire program is a good deal like that of Scouting, and it's perhaps significant that the Boy and Girl Scout associations got started at about the same time. Among the Gulicks' as sociates in starting Camp Fire Girls were two pioneers of Scouting, Ernest Thompson Seton and Daniel Carter (Uncle Dan) Beard. pAIMP Fire is open to girls of all races, religions, and economic backgrounds. Groups are kept small; 20 is the usual limit for Blue Birds and Camp Fire groups, U0 for Horizon Clubs. National dues are only $ 1 a year. Part of the "law" of Camp Fire Girls may seem inordinately stern: "Glorify Work." But, with what appears to be a characteristic balance, this admonition is followed immediately by the simple phrase: "Be Happy." K. R. R. Rocky's Daughter To New York dim-Mary Clark Rockefeller, 22-year-old daughter of Gov. and Mrs. Nelson A. Rockefeller, was to marry her society beau, Wil liam Justice Strawbridge, Jr., today in Riverside church. Miss Rockefeller, who works in tha alate Civil Defense com return engagement for Soviet public for the first that the Premier might of President Kennedy's ulmun in thorn fin t.plp- an idea were put into were going to happen." Girls, Inc. lhe word is Wed Boyfriend mission as assistant rooiiliiia tor (or women's activities. Is a granddaughter of the late Joint 11. Rockefeller, Jr. Strawbridge, 24. a Navy He serve ensign now on active duty, is the son of Mr. and Mrs, William Justice Straw bridge of Havei lord, ra. Dennis the Menace 'Try an' act like mb, Joey. I'm not 'fraid Of HOWN' 'CBPT A FEW THINGS. Matter of Fact NIXON-MITCHELL, NIXON-GATES Washington-In the political community, it is now the fash ion to comment, whether dole fully or gloat ingly, on the difficult polit ical plight of former Vice President Nix on, There is a lot of solid logic behind the fashion, too. Aisop Nixon can- not easily run for the Gov ernorship of California in 1962 without solemnly prom ising not to run for the Presi dency in 1!)B4. If he does not make the Gubernatorial race, he may later suffer by com parison with New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who should win re-election in a walk. He has no convenient rostrum. His title to party leadership has been flatly and even rather angrily rejected by the Republican leaders of Congress. And so it goes. All these more or less fa miliar points are being re hashed again because of Nix on's recent decision to asso ciate himself with a Los An geles law firm, and his simul taneous hints that he does not want the California Governor ship. One point of rather vivid interest has been wholly overlooked, however. As one means of keeping his political show on the road, the former Vice President has been quiet ly but fairly boldly making himself felt in certain stales. His aim is to promote a Re publican revival in 1 !)(J2, and simultaneously to strengthen himself, by backing likely winners of key Governorships now held by Democrats. MIE current, hotly fought Jl N contest offers the most inter esting case of this kind of activity by Nixon. The candi date for Governorship favor ed by the majority of the stale organization leaders, Sen. Walter Jones of Bergen Country, might well have hoped for Nixon's backing, or at least for his neutrality. By the same token, no vast amount of love has recently been lost between Nixon and former Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, who is back ed for the Governorship by Sen. Clifford Case and other Republicans of the progres sive group. Yet Nixon holh urged Mitchell to get into the fight for the Gubernatorial nomi nation, and promised active aid after Mitchell had an nounced his candidacy. The aid has been forthcoming, too. Two close Nixon associates, former Republican Chairman Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A MINOR. AUTO MISHAP brought a traffic cop on the run. He found an irate male motorist jawing away with the even more State female driver of the other vehicle in volved In the accident. The cop pulled the male motorist aside and whis pered sympathetically, "It I was you, Bud, I'd set tle hero and now. After all it's just your word against thousands of hers!" How many alar, inci dentally, are Identified by ono great song hit they in troduced at some point in their career! Ksamplea: Kthel Merman and "I Got Rhythm"; Kritzl SehetTand "Kiss Mo Again"; Mary Martin and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"; Sophie Tucker and "Soma of These Days"; Al .lolson and "April Showcra"; Rudy Yallee) and "Your Time la My Time." Tlilnpt get so quiet In the summer In western TUinnls, mourns .Toe E. Lewis, that tho Mississippi River runs only thtvt times a week. O 1961. by Bcaatlt Cart. DuUibutad by Klo raaluraa SjadKala MEDFORD MAIL By Joseph Altop Leonard Hall and former Am bassador to Belgium, John Clifford Folger, have been raising campaign funds for Mitchell outside New Jersey. By no coincidence at all, Mitchell has also been the beneficiary of Gov. Rockefel ler's encouragement and sup port. It now seems likely that Mitchell will defeat Jones in the primary and win the Gov ernorship on election day. If this happens, the question will then be which friend-in-need the Governor likes the best. O doubt Nixon counts on being preferred, since a Nixon-Mitchell ticket in 1964 would make an ideal geo graphical combination, a s well as placing a Republican Catholic on the ballot for the Vice Presidency. Geography rules out a Rockefeller-Mitchell ticket, so the New York Governor must rely on Mitch ell's feelings of kinship for a man whose views he shares. Returning to the present, clear signs of Nixon activity are also disccrnable in polit ically crucial Pennsylvania. Here he has made efforts to persuade former Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gates to run for Governor or Senator, and preferably the former. Gates is now weighing the choice between an important bank presidency and the more exciting but less remunerative task of seeking the Pennsyl vania Senate seat now held by Joseph Clark. But he has ruled out the Governorship. Hence another intervention by Nixon, this time to urge Rep. Scranlon of Scranlon, Pa., to seek the Governorship, is a good possibility, . rPHE Pennsylvania and New Jersey cases are enough to show the general style and aim of these behind-the-scenes labors of the former Vice President's. But they by no means complete the list of states where he may well seek to exercise his party leader ship. In Michigan, for instance, Nixon tried last time to get (lie president of American Motors, George Romney, to become a candidate for the Governorship. That effort was a failure, although Romney came within an ace of stand ing for the Senate. Romney is now telling his friends he will not be a can didate for any office in 1962. But in view of the Republican disarray in Michigan and the importance of the slate, an other Nixon plea to Romney can probably be expected. In sum, Nixon may seem to be on the sidelines for the moment, but this appearance is deceptive, (c) 1961 Now York Herald Tribune Inc. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear tha name and address of the v"'"i although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial (or 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. Offers Suggestion To the Editor: To whom It may concern: In view of the objections of many of our county's residents to the re moval of the Pacific and East ern Railway tracks, currently used by Medford Corporation for hauling logs from Butte Falls to Medford, may I make a suggestion? That is, that Jackson county and any other individuals, who may be in terested, purchase right of way, rolling stock, rails, etc.. and operate this railway as a common carrier and take such action as is necessary to ex tend same to Ogdcn, Utah, to connect with Union Pacific. Jackson county should own a controlling interest in the venture and remaining stock should be sold to any inter ested persons. I am sure ail in terested parties could make a profit on the investment. How much capital would be necessary, is, of course, a question I am unable to an swer, but it seems to me that, if common carriers such as Southern Pacific, Great North ern, Santa Fe and other rail ways can make a profit, the same could be true for the people of Jackson county. A special election should be called to determine if the peo ple of Jackson county would favor negotiating for control of same. Naturally, Medford Corpor ation would provide a consid erable bit of the business but any others who were logging in the Butte Falls area or points between Medford and Klamath Falls would be elig ible to have their logs hauled to Medford or Klamath Falls or way points. This approach to the prob lem would also take a great deal of truck traffic off our highways. My suggestions may be ridi culed by some but they should be O.K. Anyone with objec tions is welcome to answer, I'm very much interested in the idea, both pro and con, Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star route, Butte Falls, Ore. Discrepancy of Views To the Editor: It seems a shame there is a discrepancy between the views of Episco pal Bishop Pike of California as told in E. A.'s column and of T. M. Sletlen, Rogue River. Mr.- Sletton seems to misun derstand the Bishop, who says much of the Bible Is commun icated by myth. Mr. Sletton does not note that Bishop Pike strengthens his statement and corroborates the Bible when he says ". . . myth-not in the sense of an untrue fable, but in the sense of a form used to express complicated and diffi cult truth." What better way to show that he stands for the Bible? Jesus used the term para ble, rather than myth, which the dictionary says is a fic titious term from which a spiritual truth is drawn. What docs the Bible leach, primar ily? Is is not the things of the spirit, which are unseen and difficult to get into concrete form? Every Sunday school child learns that Jesus comes into the heart. Is this literal? We arc sure Mr. Sletton believes it isn't. It is a thing of the Spirit, and how else could it be put into words? The Bishop would call it myth, no doubt. There are those who believe the story of the Garden of Eden, as Mr. Pike says, is not Two Worlds Fail To By ERIC SEVAREID The jet plane has made travel sudden transition, a blow to the brain. One week I was in the cramped, grey towns of Eng land, where thousands of the educated refuse to un derstand that the external C o m m u nist threat is dead- S.T.r.id ,y re a . ,he next week I was in the wide, bright towns of the American Middlewest. where thousands of the uneducated refuse to understand that the internal Communist threat is really dead. On a street in Kansas my host stopped his car to point to a new office building. "He owns that, and a lot else be side," my host explained. "He's got money and Influ ence. He couldn't tell a Com munist from Robert A. Taft, but he's trying to got his crack pots onto the school board and a lot of us are worried." "He" is the local boss of the John Birch Society, one mani festation of the rank, posthu mous after-growth of McCar thyism. now spreading its weeds among the grass roots in Main Street country. "They organize in task forc es." my host went on. "They call school teachers and local college professors in the mid dle of the night and denounce mm literal, but to be applied spir- itually. Whatever the inter pretation, it was a time of loss of the awareness of God's presence. Bishop Pike does not say the Bible is a myth. He says the Gospel is largely commun icated by myth. So did Jesus communicate by parables. E.A. says the Bishop believes that myths speak to the heart. and understanding rather than to a historical recounting of events. The Samaritan woman at the well, St. John 4, had the same misunderstanding when Jesus said he would give her living water. She told Jesus he had nothing to draw water with. Jesus said, ". . . but the water that I shall give him shall be in a well of water springing up into everlasting life." He meant the spirit of God awakened within the hu man being through believing, repentance, and acceptance. Jesus goes on with another parable (myth) of explanation when he said, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of-lo do the will of Him that sent me." The Samaritan woman and many more Samaritans finally acknowledged Jesus as the Saviour of the World. The Bishop says he does not re ject the meaning Bible myths arc meant to communicate, but values them. Mrs. William Zicgler, Jacksonville, Ore. Only Two Words To the Editor: I wish to ex press my appreciation to Mrs. Newbry, secretary and wife to Senator L. W. Newbry, for the booklet on House Bill No. 1569, also the Quick Facts pamphlet about HB 1569 the use of trading stamps. Then, too, my friends, and myself, wish to thank Mrs. V. S. for taking the time and trouble for the information she gave on the subject. B. H. does not have to accept the stamps in the first place - that would solve all your problems. You only have two words to say to the clerk or attendant, "no thanks." I'm sure no one has or will force the stamps on you. The heading on the pam phlet Quick Facts about HB 1569 is: A bill to regulate the use of trading stamps; not prohibit them. Now, on the very back in real dark print and very last part states: HB 1569 would permit stamps but would eliminate the evils that have developed in the industry in the absence of regulation. Says the Oregon Business Council: "If the stamp com panies will not accept this reasonable regulation of their business practice, the alterna live is to completely elimi nate trading stamps." Mrs. Irma Henderson 729 Dakota Ave. Medford, Ore. Seeks Answer To the. Editor: In some of the smaller streams in Alaska, I have had the opportunity to watch salmon spawn. I have also seen the male fer tilize the roe. I have watched the female die after spawn ing; die so slowly, that the flesh decays and falls off in chunks, exposing the bones, yet the fish was alive and struggled against the current, up stream. I have also read with in terest the discussion about them as Communists. They re cruit kids as spies to take down classroom remarks of their teachers. They plant peo ple in public lectures to ask loaded questions. They try to get their idiotic films and maps used in the high schools. Maybe It's hard these days to get a man smeared in Wash ington or even in Hollywood, but in a small city like ;V'j where people live awfully close together, it can still be done." The maps show every coun try in the world in the color red, except a few such as Spain, Portugal and the Do minican Republic. All the neu tralist nations, all those like Britain or Sweden with anv degree of public ownership are Red. These are the people who think of Chief Juslice Earl Warren as a Communist, of so cial security, income taxes and minimum wage laws as planned stages to Communism. ... This phenomenon is not that most frightening of all things, ignorance empowered, as was McCarthyism; it can hardly make a dent in the col lective sanity of any large and sophisticated community. But it is beginning to strain the nerves of intellectual leaders in the middle cities that pos sess the social evils of the great cities and none of the simple virtues of the small town. The soil was always prepared for Main Street Mc Carthyism, for these are the IPOTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Almost every time the state legislature convenes, some group or organization gets the idea that daylight saving time really saves time. Despite the fact that a state wide daylight saving time pro posal was defeated in last November's general election, a bill has been introduced into the house which would allow local option daylight saving time. Local option allows, by unla arw rniinlv. ritv or Oth er political subdivision of the state to operate its clocks an hour ahead of standard lime. Althnuoh nnl nrobable. sev- eral possible complications could result: Residents of the Medford cnlmnl district COUld VOte in daylight saving lime, but the official time in the cny oi Medford would remain stan dard. Or suppose residents of vii, ritv Watpr district wanted daylight saving time. They could have it by approving it l an nlnrtinn. Vet. the rest of the valley would remain on standard time. Rural fire protection dis trict residents could do the same thing, or anyone of Jack s o n county's incorporated areas, or the county residents could approve it, and the cit ies could still remain on stand ard time. See what we mean? If passed, it would only add confusion to - ah - ah - a timely situation. A state of utter confusion would have been just as well!! What really tops tho day light saving lima proposal is tha second lection of tha bill: ' "This act being necessary for tha immediate preserva tion of tha public paace, health and safety, an emer gency it declared to exist, and this act shall take effect upon its passage." Glancing over a reporter's shoulders the other day, we noticed the following type written on a sheet of paper only the following, and noth ing more. "Nothing has been final ized." It is a ray of hope that per haps legislators will read be tween the lines before taking action on the proposed day light saving time bill. The vernal equinox this year on lhe Pacific coast is at 32 minuiea after noon to morrow. Theoretically, we can ex pect warmer days, balmy evenings, taller grass, more weeds. high dams. It seems that there will always be the problem of fish ladders, to allow the salmon to get up stream to spawn. The higher the ladder, the greater the problem. I have never seen a fish ladder, so maybe I should keep still, but, I have read where they have stationed fish counters at some of these lad ders to count the fish that suc cessfully negotiate the lad ders. My question is. do they also have fish counters to count the number of salmon that fail to negotiate the ladder and what eventually happens to these fish? "Malemute Slim", White City, Ore. Understand Threat centers where "they" means the government in Washing ton - alien, far away, always threatening the nest-eggs long "scrimped and saved" for. The phenomenon is not new; indeed, it pre-dates Joseph Mc Carthy by m:'ny years in its esscnl ::-irit. My own initia tion Into the weird world r - ;e in the mid-thirties when, tor the purpose of a newspaper expose in a Midwestern city. I spent weeks in prim parlor meetings of the "Silver Shirts," listening to pinch faced retired clerks, account ants, corner merchants ex plaining how the Communists were about to seize the coun try. The memory is vivid of one elderly host leading me, with mysterious looks, down to his cellar to show me the food hoard he had accumulated against the coming siege. He even knew the precise date -the next October 15 - for the nationwide Bolshevist upris ing. Education has failed such people, or they have failed education. America is pre emi nently the land of change and any kind of change bewilders and upsets them and they must seek simple answers. They cannot tell the difference be tween a spy for the Soviets -i the only real internal danger. ' which police specialists must: deal with - and an old-fashion-ed socialist or a garden vari- eiy pragmatic liberal. They cannot understand that their own leaden are not conserva And no matter where the hands of the clock are, the number of daylight hours will naturally increase until the summer solstice, or un til 7:30 p.m. PST. June 21. That spring is not far away will not be doubted. At a school board meeting last week, the pear-shaped conference table was decorat ed with a daffodil and camel lia centerpiece arranged by administration office stall personnel of flowers grown by the superintendent. ... Not too long ago, two members of the fairer sex, reluming from a trip north, found themselves in soma what of a predicament. Their car ran out of gas, it was night, and on a lonely section of highway. Starting along the high way, they decided to accept no help unless it was from a truck driver. That they got, but not without some embarrassment. The relief truck driver, who had been sleeping, got down onto the seal to see why the truck stopped. When one of the fairer sex opened the truck doors there he was-sitting in his shorts. Result: a screech, a scram ble. The two fair sex memberi were taken to the next town, however, got gat and were taken back to their stalled car by a stale police man. The incident, however didn't seem to frighten them. They had armed themselves with what they could find in lhe car. One of them armed herself with a plastic baseball bat she had purchased for her chil dren so they wouldn't hurt themselvesl Behind the scenes: Telcylpe machines, like alt machines in this modern age, need an occasional feeding. The other afternoon, a note of instructions to change tha box of paper under one of tha machines was left with one of the junior editors. The nolo was read, acknowledged, and the note writer assured it would be done. The junior editor placed tha note on his desk, covered it, and forget it until the next morning, when he noticed the machine without one of its vital parts. The wire editor's only com ment was: "I don't mind the machina running out of paper: it's read ing the news off the roller that gets me! "It takes so much time!" . It's not the first time lhat's happened, though. But what is worse, ac cording to our wire editor is trying to transcribe pic lures off the roller on the Unifax when it runs out of paper. ... Some morning if you're try ing to beat the sun over Roxy Ann, drive along East Main st. and watch the pheas ant family on its morning walk. We appreciate them. It'.e about the only wildlife we see in an otherwise materialistic week. And the pheasants don't care whether it's standard, daylight saving, or Pacifie Confusion lime! tives but anti-Constitutional radicals. There is. it seems to me. a certain inverted kinship be tween these uneducated Amer icans and the often highly edu cated neutralists and unilater al disarmers of Europe. Neith er group comprehends the damaging confusion it sows. The first does not know that the Soviets are delighted with any movement that creates distrust and disunity among Americans and transfers our attention from the real world menace to a fictitious domes tic menace. The second does not know that the Soviets are delighted with any movement that prop agates the misleading notion that the Russian quarrel is with the United States alone, the wish-belief that Hie ,-nrM is at peace, a peace that would be universally serene if only the Soviets and the Yanks -equally dangerous - would cease irritating it and reach compromise on specific issues. The European neutralists who see a potential settlement under every cold war issue are doing far more damage than the American Know-Nothing.i who see a Communist under every bed. The American Un ion is not going to drift anart, but the Western alliance can drift apart. The cold war can oe lost on the world scene; it can hardly he iost on the Main Streets of Kansas. (Distributed 1981, by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved;