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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
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excellent, and one less
agree. (She said, "This
Dennis the Menace
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I'll BUT MY
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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.