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Newspaper Page TextPublished Daily except Saturday by : ntssrsn srw & wtn SlCf ALLEN JR Sn.(dlt EARL H ADAMS. City Baiwr . BARBY.CM J-iSSifc -S''",,. prfUo, DALE EKIUftDU" . ' An Independent NewspjP" Medio Oregon under Acl 0 ..... "".S'tm Lt Mail - In Advance. Copy loc Dally ""d Sunday l yi" 9 OC 8 0(1 4 29 Dally lq 5"""'' " Dally nil Sunday only n j. J3;.. ... ni.ri-r-In Advance Medford Mhlend Central Point E a 1 1 Point Jacksonville "old Hill E?",V Shady Cove RoR.ll i Rl v er Talent and on vtiotnr rou' Dtilv and Sunday-! veer .18 nc C:'lv and Sundr-v-t m ' r.-riar and Dekre-cop 10 C ill Terms Cart irAdvanM. -R,.-j;r Paw" fit Cltv of Mrdfnrd " Off'lal Pamr ot Jackon County " United Press International Full Leased Wire DPI TelenlipJoJ-wiptetiire TPMPn-or audit BtmsAw A"ri.rlT.Ttrr'Feoretntalive: WST HOl.mAV CO. . (NP Of wesi ""'i'j'-,1': ni. f cm in wpw V 4i. trolt San Frar,o i AlV Seattle. Pnrt5 ,J St tr" At Vancouver B d NtWSPAMft PUBnSHiM ASSOCIATION NATION At, EDITORIAL Sis CTIjN iivifiia.HiiiJ Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years aoo. 10 YEARS AGO March 24, 1951 (Saturday) More than 1,500 youngsters warmed over Hawthorne park today In search of iome 3,600 eggs at the annual Kl wanis club Easter egg hunt. Six of the 10 faculty mem bers of the Rogue River High school, including Superintend ent Alf B. Mekvold, have In dicated they do not wish to be reelected, listing salary con sideratlons as their reasons. 20 YEARS AGO March 24, 1941 (Monday) An Army convoy of 100 vehicles, heading from Call fornia to Ft. Lewis, Wash.. topped overnight last night at CCC detachment headquar ters here. From Arthur Perry'i "Ye muaKcrQi uuiurnu: amuuav ing has been the order of the last three mornings, causing strangers in our midst to re mark, where there is so much moke, there must be a bridge party." 30 YEARS AGO March 24, 1931 (Tuesday) Financing the clty'i airport has become a problem; city fathers are recommending that lt either be sold or leased, Construction started this week on the new $75,000 Washington grade school. 40 YEARS AOO March 24, 1921 (Thursday) The first frost warning of the season was Issued last night. The Medford Garden club flower show opens today. 50 YEARS AGO March 24, 1911 (Friday) The second floor of the Medford hotel is nearlng com pletion. A 10-acre orchard tract has been sold here for $2,000 an acre. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten corract Is superior; seven or eight it excellent) live) r l' it qood, 1. After which King were the Philippines named? 2. Ermine, the fur of royal ty, comes from which animal? 3. Were tomatoes, turnips ' or trufflei once called "love apples"? 4. Which of thorn li kind of bread: cheddar, pumper nickel, hohcnzollarn, vodka? 8. During W.W.I1 which army used "Tiger Tanks"? 6. The percentage of silver In the U.S. silver dollar ii 40, 60, 70, or 00? 1 7. Is the alcoholic content ; of beverages greater when ox- pres-cd by weight or by vol ume? 8. The Lincoln Memorial building In Washington, D.C., cntaint the tomb of Abraham Lincoln: true or false? . In which city Is the Army' Walter Reed General Hospital? 10. Do dlescl engines have P'rk plugs? Aniwtrst 1, King Philip II, of Spain, 2. Stoat. 3, Tomatota, 4. Pumnernickel, S. Oerman Army. 6, 90 per cent 7. Vol ume. 9. False. (SpringfUld, 111.) 9. Washington, D.C 10. No. EXPLANATION ASKED Washington -WPD- OOP con. gresslonal 1 a d e r t asked President Kennedy today to explain why tht United States voted with Russia and against Hi allies In support of the United Nations resolution on Portuguese Angola, FRIDAY, MARCH 24. 1961 Transcontinental NotesIV The Medford visitors, with three full days in New York before them, and with no more com mitments, proceeded to act like just what they were tourists. After breakfast, we walked east on 44th Street, past Broadway, and the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), to Fifth Avenue. Turn ing northward, we walked through the bright sunshine and bitterly cold wind, past the rows of shops and stores known throughout the world. We stopped and browsed at Brentano's, gazed in windows, gawked at the tall buildings like the small-town folk we are, and enjoyed the bustle of the crowds. CT. PATRICK'S Cathedral drew our attention, and we entered for and beauty and peace in the midst of the hurly burly of Manhattan. It is a beautiful church, modeled after the Gothic cathedrals of Europe, and with its stained glass windows, sweeping pointed arches, broad nave, delightfully intimate shrines, and flickering candies, it onereo ft welcome interlude, Back into the cold wind, we .continued to Rockefeller Center, where we watched the ice skaters under the statue of Prometheus, and made a few purchases at the French book store. A RRIVJNQ at 53rd. we turned west, and, find. 'ing ourselves lh front of America House, where some of the nation'u outstanding textile, ceramic, silver and wood carving craftsmen dis play their work, entered for a quick look around, Then on, past several blocks were massive machinery is tearing down old buildings, and digging huge holes in the ground for new ones, through increasingly unattractive neighborhoods, to Ninth Avenue, where we joined friends from Mt. Kisco, in Westchester County, for lunch at the Brittany Uafe. This, as the name implies, is as French as it can be. Even the facade word can be used) has a Gallic look to it, and inside the smells of wine, jarlic, spices and seasonings could come only rom a French kitchen. The cafe, our hosts told us, is as yet "undis covered by those New Yorkers who can make a fad, an overnight commercial success, out of an unusually good restaurant, and as a result Is still unspoiled. But, nudging by the tomers, and the delicious won't be "undiscovered much longer. A FTER lunch we bid our adieus, and walked up Ninth to the. Coliseum, where the Flower show was in progress, then took a cab at Colum buB Circle and went through Central Park to the Guggenheim Museum the odd-looking, con troversial art eallerv designed bv the late and great Frank Lloyd Wright. It is a place of grace an open rotunda, a plashing fountain, quietness, and beauty. A great rarrm circ es up in a helix and leaving ings entirely open. The paintingB, all of them "contemporary but ranging from Impressionism to abstraction, are beautifully displays in light ed niches along the outside wall, THE family secretary of health, education and umlforn urVtn la Anmnntonf In fVila flalrt vo. ,TV.lll, ported the selection is adept at this must needs Is the comfortable way to view art. ; We found some of the paintings stimulating and exciting, some of them beautiful, and almost all of them "interesting that word so useful in applying to works of art when other adjectives fall, From the Guggenheim, we again braved the brisk wind to walk the few blocks to the Metro politan Museum of Art the "blockbuster" of all art museums, which houses art objects ranging from pre-history up to the present moment. One could spend weeks m this vast compend ium of mankind's arts and artifacts. Mere de scription of it would fill columns of type, thus we won't even attempt to highlight our visit, and rest content with the advice that one must see it, when in New York, if at all interested in cos tumes, statutory (ancient Persia to Calder mo biles), arms and armor, painting, tapestry; you name it, the Met has it. CORE of foot, calf and back, we left the Met and caught a cab for the hotel, where we eased our aching bones and muscles for a time, and then we went to Times Square for a light supper at the Automat, that quick, inexpensive and (at this hour) exceedingly crowded cafe where, if one chooses, one can buy a meal by dropping coins in a slot. Then, once agnin we braved the subway (be ginning to feel like veterans, and appreciate the fast and convenient, though crowded and im personal, transportation), and went down to Greenwich village for a performance of "The Threepenny Opera," the longest-running show in New York, having opened some six years ago. We didn't get much of the so-called "flavor" of the village at night, but we did enjov the un usual musical play, beat-known for its "Mack the Knife" theme song. THEN, once again weary, back by subway to Times Square, iU fantastic mechanical and automated advertising signs (including one which blows huge smoke rings), its lighted, moving current news Rlirn, its crowds and traffic. And so, as with Sam Pcpys, to bed. E. A. a few moments of quiet (if such an impressive red paint and gold-leaf number of luncheon cus quality of the food, It and unspoiled" very and airy charm, with the outside wal . r sin the center of the bull W WWII V ,IIIH 4IV,V, , V excellent, and one less agree. (She said, "This Dennis the Menace 01 J I 111 ' vvvivwi jjl I'll BUT MY AlOFtf THAN Communications Letters to tht Editor must br the nm and ddri of the writer, although undr lain clicumiUnoM th utt ol a pen nam e Initial tot publication if permissible. Tht Mill Tllbun rMryas tht tight It tdlt til Ullert with View to cUiifioation and andensttien. LtiU'i subrnttUtl lor publication must not Moved 400 words. Tha letters ptinltil tn thil ffllumn dg not ncetirily rtnresant tht Yiw f the paper; in fact the contrary ii ofttn tht Sptaktr Rourdough To the JSdltori Recently in your eolumn there appeared n open letter to me signed by "Malemute Slim", White City, Oregon, indicating that he had been a political sup porter of mine but disagreed with my position on capital punishment. I am grateful both for his support and for his honest expression of views on what is admittedly a con troversial subject. To the extent that residence in Alaska is a prerequisite to an expression of opinion on thli subject, I might say that I conalder myself to be a "sourdough" (depending somewhat on one's definition), and in any event am not a chechacho. Thera are those who have been able to worm out of me the fact that I was an Alaskan far back as 1S39, It is impossible to debate the merltg of this subject in thii column; suffice to say that thera Is no evidence that the existence of capital pun ishment In any way results in decrease in capital crimes, This fact, coupled with the ever present and terrifying possibility of error resulting In tht execution of an inno cent man, leads me to prefer Incarceration rather than ex ecution in order to give the publle the protection to which It la entitled and which I, as a member of the public, ex- pect. 1 hope to meet "Malemut Slim" in perton before too many more mows, Robert B, Duncan, Speaker House of Representatives Salem, Ore, Itray Cat Problem To the Editon hve been faoed many timet wim me problem of the itray and hungry cat at my door, I have been very Interested In tht Cat Cart Society's en deavor to Improve eondltlont aim iinn a remeqy, It It In be hnnari Hot il. County Court will reoognlse mo importance of this Issua and not delay In giving their' approval of a board that will work towards finding a solu tion, , Mrs, K, A, MoQInty 10J King at, Medford. Economics and Tht Duntt To tht Editor) Many oppo nent! of the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore have med an eoonomlc argument i Justification for their stand, Tht argument runs some thing like ihlst Present policy tor tht dunes area allows multiple use resource manage ment ai wall as providing fur recreation. National Sea shore (18(111 would "look-up" valuable resources such as timber - all for the sake of recreation. Thus, an economic loss. Based upon tht authorita tive economic study of the proposed Dunes seashore area by the National Park Service, this argument seems rather silly - something likt a far mer refusing to quit farming even though then is oil un derneath his land. The fact Is that the real "oil" In the Dunes area is rec reation and Its resulting eco nomic Impact, not lumbering. manufacturing or agriculture. It li estimated that by the year 1090, under sustained yield practices, the annual timber cut In the Dunes Sea shore tree would be worth some $200,000. This compared to an txpectod tourist Indus try (without benefit of a Dunes National Seashore) worth about $8,000,000 annu ally. But If the National Sea shore was created, It is esti mated tourism would grow 0ABV SlTTeR CAN EAT WUR SASV SITT6KI , intq an annual ?2rl,ooo,ooo in dustry! The fallacy about multiple use (of the Dunes area centers in the fact that such manage ment would not realize the fullest economic potential from recreation, And recrea tlon Is where this area's eco nomic future lies. I think economic benefits of the proposed National Sea shore are of great importance. And certainly these benefits should not be distorted into reasons for opposition to the Seashore bill. Florence H, Euston 1922 North 10th it, Springfield, Ore, Pollution To tht Editor; The people of the State of Oregon owe it to themselves, to future generations, and to the people of tht rest ot the United Btalei, to force the Oregon State Legislature to give com plete power to the State San itary Authority In matters dealing with Industrial pollu tion of both air and water. If we let Industry have IU own way In matters of pollu tion we will lose our sport fisheries industry due to the river pollution which will an nihilate our salmon and steel head runs, At present, people come from all over the world to fish In auch Oregon streams S tht Rogue, Umpn.ua, allots;, Nehalem, Alsea, Sluslaw, and many others. Stream pollu tion will ruin this phase of the tourist trade, We will also lose our tourist trade due to smog. Who wants to vacation In a land with a stench like a paper mill? Furthermore, If Oregon will get tough in matter of air and water pollution, we can force Industry to do re search involving this problem which will benefit other in dustrial areas of the nation, In conclusion, I hope that YOU, tht people of the State of Oregon, will speak up and not let your state senators and representatives become victims of Industrial lobby ing, After all, these men rep resent you, the people of the state, rather than tht indus tries which want to move into tht stale, use our rivers as sewers, and pollute the fresh Oregon tir with the reeking fumes of their mllli. Robert S. Schmidt ISO Janney Lane Medford, Thorn and Bin To tht Edllori One of your readers up Prospect way has written me a very interesting letter, She asks mt this ques tiam "Why are you so con cerned about tin? Sin is the product of tht mind." She then goes on and says, "You should branch out in many subject in your M.T. letters. Your writing ability Is first class, expressive, sin cere, and enlightnlng". Thanks Mrs, T. C. Even though we do not agree on everything, I'm glad for open minded persons likt you. 1 have tried to express my sin cere convictions in all that I've written. And am grateful that some hava derived bene fit from the letters. As an aid in answering the question about my concern over sin, permit me to use this illustration. For the past few days (be tween showers) 1 have boon busy training up our patch of Cascade blackberries. To add to the difficulty of the job it seems that every lateral has rooted and produced new plants. Hundreds ot them, too. Instead of just pulling the thorny vines together and wrapping them on the wire. one has to cut tht tip plant loose first. If It were not for the su '."orb flavored berry that Cas MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE Angolan Foreign Policy Decision May Be More Far-Reaching Than Congo Position By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Nws Amlysi President Kennedy's first great new departure in for eign policy may be more far fgiVfn reaching than the U.S. stand in the Congo. in v u 1 1 ii s aeatnst Portu- i'i fl gal and its NATO allies in favor of ac- Sr I tion on the P o r t u guese African terrl- Ntwiom t o r y of An gola, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson put into action Kennedy's policy slogan for "Africa for the Africans." When G. Mennen Williams brought criticism from Britain and other erstwhile European colonial powers for his "anti colonialist" remarks in Africa, it was not clear whether he W8fl praotioing policy or mere ly enunciating it or even talking off the top pf his head. But Kennedy backed u p cades produce I'd be tempted to give up, Those who know what the real wild blackberry is that grows over on the coast in the logged off land, know what I mean about flav or. Cascade is a cross be tween that wild one and log anberry. Come around when the wife bakes a pie and you'll know what I mean. Now let's apply the illus tration. Those vines have thorns. My burning scratched up arms are proof. To deny their existence or to minimize them does not do away with the fact that the thorns exist and cause trouble. Sin is the most potent, Sa tanic force that ever existed. Jt was born in the heart of Lucifer. It caused the down fall of our first parents and all of the ruin and degrada tion in this world ever since. Gvery funeral train testifies to its existence. Every cry of pain and woe proves its hei nous character. But thank God, we have a Saviour who overcame the evil one, Through a belief in the atoning sacrifice made on Calvary, we humans, who are otherwise doomed, can have aooess to a life free from in in Qod's tomorrow. Henry Johnson, Jr. 33 18 Highway 99 Aihland, Ore. "Abolition" Remarks To the Editor: I have read with interest the controversy in the communications in re gard to "Operation Aboli tion", I hereby submit to you a few remarks, but wish to in form you first that I have never traveled abroad nor reached the highest goals in education, but I am sure of one thing, that there are al ways two sides to every con troversy, This I learned in the old school of experience. I am informed that by a vote of 412 to 6 that the Con gress of the United States in Its house of representatives endorsed and defended its committee on un-American activities. I am also informed that the "Operation Abolition" has been endorsed by the mayor of Ban Francisco, The Ameri can Legion, the seven minis ters who were eye witnesses, and J. Edgar Hoover. I believe that J. Edgar's book, "Masters of Deceit," should be read by every "red blooded" American. James Dole 1758 Orchard Home dr. Medford Tht Medical Big Lie To the Editor: This is in answer to Herbert L. Hartley, M.D., and "The Big Medical Lie," My husband Is a World War II and Korean veteran. He Is totally disabled, has epileptic seizures. Since he was let out of the Army with this condi tion, the last seven years we have been on welfare. So I can speak from experi ence. There are no words in the dictionary that I could use that would describe the morals of medical doctors. My husband'i condition is not service connected. The Veterans Administra tion is controlled by the Amer ican Medical association and Wall Street stooges. I wanted to try to see a specialist for my husband, but I was told It would take $300 for him to bo examined. Ha was given $33 and an honorable discharge from the Army with this condition. The only doctor that ever treated my husband without money was an osteopath. If Dr. Herbert L. Hartley knows a specialist who will treat mv husband for nothing. and get in touch with the Mall Tribune I will gladly take him. (Name withheld) I "till Williams t a ntwi confer ence. And Stevenson's vote -against those of Britain, France and Turkey, from NATO, and China, Chile and Ecuador - made the policy clear. Actually, Stevenson did not get his instructions to vote against Portugal until the Se- In the Day's News By FRANK JINKINS I n Washington, President Kennedy aski for a drastical ly revamped long-term foreign aid program-the most weep Ing overhaul, he says, since the Marshall plan was started in 1948. His plan would in clude SEVEN BILLION, 800 million dollars in five year loan authority "to meet the crucial decade of development abroad." The President put no over all price tag on his program. But officials figured the five year total would run SEVER AL TIMES the $7.3 billions he proposed for economic de velopment overseas. Let'i put lt this way! If we had tht kind of na tions to spend it on that we had In the case of the Mar shall Plan, I think we'd all be willing to tackle It again -probably with enthusiasm. The nations included in our Marshall Plan help had been our comrades-in-arms in a great war - in which human freedom was a stake. Hitler Ism, if it had won, would have been as bad as commu nism. In this mutual struggle to preserve our free way of life, our comrades had suf fered far more deeply than we. The Marshall Plan was designed simply to help them to get back on their feet again. Present-day foreign aid is quite a different matter. M ORE moonshine In the news: St. Petersburg, down on the Gulf coast of Florida, is get ting ready to MAKE ITSELF OVER. In the past, it has been a retirement haven. Its equip ment for handling Its senior citizen population has inclu ded 3400 benches-all of them painted olive green. It has been known as "the city of green benches." All that is to be CHANGED, The change is a part of a pro ject of the newly-organized Suncoast Advertising club -whose purpose is to "alter the image of St. Petersburg." No more shall the city be a re tirement haven. Hereafter it is to be a beehive of industry. How? Well, the first step will be to change the color of the 3400 benches. Olive green will give way to pastel colors - sunshine yellow, Gulf blue, sandrift brown, bay green and ocean coral. HMMMMM. It sounds won derful. Right off the bat, that is, But the soberer e c o n d thought suggests that if the people of Saint Pete have been retirement minded while sitting on olive green bench es in the past they won't be changed much by sitting on pastel-colored benches in the future. Now " Another one frnm Wash ington. President Kennedy appeals to labor and management to keep the NATIONAL interest In mind In their disputes. If they don't cooperate for the general good, he warned, "an Impatient federal government will take a greater hand in getting the two sides togeth er." TIE WAS speaking to his 1 new 2l-man labor-man-agement-publle advisory pan el, which Includes such fig ures as Henry Ford II, George Meany, president of AFL-CIO, Secretary of Labor Goldberg and 18 others. He added: "We are breaking new ground. I intend to get a look at this situation before there is a crisis, I do not want the White House to come In on a wage-price inflationary spir al at the last minute." COMMENT? He's on the right road. Do you remember the an cient cartoon of tht two mules? They stood between two fat shocks of hay. Thev were HALTERED TOGETH ER. Every time one hungry mule would start toward a shock of hay, the other mule would pull against him. It went on tnd on, They got hungrier and hungrier, Then one mule whispered In the othcr'i ear. The other whispered back. They both grinned. Then . , . they trot ted over TOGETHER to a shock of hay and polished it off and then trotted TO GETHER to the second hav- shock and polished it off. That Just about tells the story. curlty Council was meeting. He had lupported the new course. The decision for the vote was the President's unappeal able order. Just as last December's deci sion to abstain on a pie-ln-the-sky resolution supporting in dependence for remaining co lonial territories was Presi dent's Dwlght D. Elsenhow er's. There was no appeal then, even though the U.N. delegation opposed the de cision. The United States was on the losing side in the Angola cast but the results of Steven son's vote immediately started to become evident. Portugal, a small but strate gically important ally, was furious. Russia Disappointed Britain and France were non-plused. China, singled out for op position by Stevenson with out explanation, was hurt. Russia, lying back with a Washington Report By WILLIAM CRUEL BLOW TO REDS Washington President Kennedy has hit the interna tional Communists a subtle and cheerful ly cruel blow - right in the middle of their syntax, so to speak. He has or dered the post office people to end forth with an old wmta poticy oi in tercepting Communist papers and magazines upon their ar rival in this country from all the Iron Curtain Edens, from Moscow on down. For the first time since 1948, therefore, this incom parably dreary stuff is to be allowed to come In here in all its dreary bales, But this seemingly tolerant concession to the Communists will turn out to be Intolerably damag ing to them in the end. It will be an unexampled case where an apparently "soft" line toward them will be very hard on them, Indeed. "ClOR the wider their propa ganda booklets and pam phlets are circulated in this country - in all their enchant ing stylistic grace and with all their fascinating disclos ures about the sewer systems in Omsk and Tomsk -the more repellent the whole So viet bag and baggage will be come to any literate reader. Without firing a shot, with-, out calling the cabinet into crisis session - even without asking Congress for a special foreign aid appropriation -the President is on the way here to at least one long-term victory in the cold war. For even if Soviet propa ganda is theoretically capable of academically persuading some typea of mind here, there are very few minds in all the United States which can long abide the homicidal assaults upon language of So viet writing style. RECALL, if you will, the most crushingly boring television documentary you ever saw, say on a rainy Sun day In the early days of the electronic miracle. Perhaps it was an intimately descriptive program upon the subject of how they make screen for window facings in Lima, Ohio. Whatever it was, however unbearably tedious it may have been, it would be the very model of limpid grace compared to the descriptive artistry of most any Soviet booklet, Now, the Soviet Russians may be ahead of us in missiles. Perhaps they are even ahead in "developing" - in their own inimitable way - those well IB Try and Stop Me : By BENNETT CERF LIGHT VERSIFIER once whipped up this little poamt "When late I attempted your pity to move, What mac" you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs?" Now who would you select as the author of those lines? Ogden Nash? Dorothy Parker? Sam Hoffenstein? Not at alll The poet's name was one Isaac Bickerslaffe, born In 1735, and dead and gona almost two full cen turie ago. During the course of an endleai and incredible ban quet In Kansaa City recent ly, uia old windbag who wu acting u muter of ceremonies unwittingly not the audience Into a vapor-clcarin gaie ot laughter. "The next speaker," he bumbltd, fumbling wltn nu notes, needs no Introduction because he didn't show up." C br Bennett Cart Distributed bj Ktng Features ByadieaU full - blown denunciation of U.S. policy, had the wind taken put of its sails, The Africans were over Joyed. Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shu kalry, a leading spokesman for Palestine's Arab refugees, wondered aloud If Washing ton's new policy would extend to that case. Good neighbors Chile and Ecuador, normally solidly with the United States In U.N. votes, were upset. Their dele gates had indicated a leaning, too, to voting against Portu gal, but abstained possibly he cause that was the traditional Western position on such ques tions. It might be a good Idea to play them so close to the vest the Russians don't know the. trick until the card Is played. But it Is probably a better idea, even the beat of the U.N. pokerfaccd diplomats agree, to let your backers - in this case, Washington's Western frlenis - know what is in your hand. S. WHITE known "underdeveloped areas" of this earth. They may be outspacing us in space; they may be running far ahead In physics, and even in the matter of the politico scientific production of pota toes. BUT one thing is sure and certain. They can't write as is already well known, to borrow one of their memora ble phrases - and they can't edit, by western standards. This is one contest they are going to lose - and the mora their written efforts come in here the quicker they will lose It. Once long ago, when tha Senate was in bitter debate about the fall of China to Communism by way of Rus sian help, a politician said in private what he thought it not prudent to say in public. "Well," he observed, half se riously, "maybe taking over China will serve the Russians right in the end. Maybe in 20 years there will be some ques tion of who has really swal lowed whom." There is more than one way to skin a cat - or a Russian bear - apart from the more serious fact that it is good to see this country refusing to be afraid any more of tha most appalling gobbledegook ever inflicted upon civilized mankind. (Copyright, 1961, By United Features Syndicate, Inc.) EP School Bands To Present Concert Eagle Point The Eagle Point Grade school band un der the direction of Keith Krambeal will present several selections at a Red Cross ben efit concert Sunday, March 26. at 2:30 p.m. in the grado school gymnasium. Miss Donna Millard will sing a couple of solos during intermission. She will be ac companied by Miss Georgia Weidman at the piano. Donald Carnes will play two accor dion selections. The Eagle Point High school band under the direction of Charles Martin will present the second half of the concert. Robert Heffernan, Jackson county fund chairman will in troduce Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, for the presentation of the gift certificates. Approximately 30 veterans of the White City domiciliary will be guests of the Red Cross, each having received complimentary tickets. Heffernan and Mrs. Norris Porter, secretary, will bo available following the con cert to answer any questlonJ concerning the Red Cross.