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Medford and Jeckson County
History from the file of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vean ago. . .
10 YEARS AGO
AprU IS, 1151 (Monday)
: . A major change in Med
. ford'i city government was
. announced today; mayor D.
L. Flynn named Robert A.
Duff general iuperintendent
; of the city and of the water
oommUslon, effective July 1.
. A Prospect man hai plead-
1 guilty to the theft of about
t iht miles of copper wire
,i i t from telephone poles. .
; IT'TIAaO
:il it. 1H1 (Wednesday)
The League of Women Vot
ihu placed proposal be--e
tl.t t tbiord city council
-g that city restaurants
l -wte4. '
i Perry's "Ye
jV ' 'umn: "A con
. a r of the mase-
1 . i iri ltitiu.ioualy flahlni
and not catching ai many of
' the finny tribe aa anuci
' pated."
10 YEARS AGIO
April II, 1131 (Thursday)
A 40-cent charge for pear
arsenic Inspection has been
t Iminatod by the state board
i i. horticulture.
I. C. (Jerry) Jorome has
I en elected "Big Eruption"
t the Medford Crater club.
M YEARS AOO
a prU II. 1121 (Saturday)
' The Crater lake betterment
committee has arranged to
. raise $20,000 for improve
ments at the park in ex-
1 change for an option to pur
chase the concessions there
tor f80,000.
A temperature of 26 de
grees here last night brought
on the heaviest smudging of
' the season.
0 YEARS AGO
April IS. 1911 (Sunday)
The 461-acre Suncrest or
chards here have been sold
tor $265,000. , ;
Union carpenters at work
on the new Medford hotel
here have gone out on strike
in protest over the employ
ment of non-union labor.
Whips Your I.Q.7
Nina er Ha ceirtcf Is superior:
levee er leltt Is encellent) five or
all Is toed,
1. Napoleon Bonaparte was
defeated at Waterloo; was it
In France, Belgium, or The
Netherlands? ,
2. Is an amphibious plane
designed to take off from land
or from water? ;
3. He was the thirteenth
.President of the United States
a id bis Initials were M. F.;
name him.
4. Is chemically pure
saccharine 8, SO, or 650 times
sweeter than sugar?
8. If a heavy explosion oc
curs outside a building, will
the windows be blown out
ward or Inward?
0. From what Is casein glue
i derived? ,
1. In "the Roman numeral
iystem, MCMXXX indicates
what number? . v
S.Albert Einstein Is fa
mous for his formulation of
the Theory of R ?
9. In what major British
sport are the terms "bowler,'
"wicket," and "over" used?
10. la "barnyard golf
played with golf balls?
. Answers! 1 Belgium. 2.
Both. S. Millard Fillmore. 4.
ISO. 8 Outward 6. Skimmed
milk. T. 1930. 6. Relativity.
t. Cricket 10. No. (Horse
Don't Do It, Friends!!
Mf Honestly now. legislative friends ! !
What will it be like
go on daylight saving time, Salem stays on regu
lar time, Eugene goes DST, and Medford stays
standard .
That, or something
result if you give final
asinine bill to permit "local option" m setting the
time of day.
Holv mackerel it was to get away from this
very sort of confusion that the railroads finally
got together some 75 or so years ago and set up
standard time in the first place.
'
rOrf T, friends, be suckered in by a few Port
land big-shots who don't give a hang about
the rest of the state, just so long as they can
go along with Washington and California.
Don't forget that the
fall turned down a chance for DST throughout
the state. . ' ., ,
Personally, we don't
state stays standard or
it is, it ought to be all together on it. ' i
In short, legislative
fools of yourselves just
and a tew others. Don t
Well Done
The other day we said
a hearty "well done" to
if he would veto SB32,
tax-reduction bill. ,
So "Well done, Governor Hatfield."
We don't add the "hearty," because he didn't
come right out and veto
unless the legislature referred the matter to a
vote ot the people. .
. ,; -
1XE NOTE that Walter
" favorite state senator, referred to the Gov
ernor's action as "political blackmail." '
What utter hogwash I
Bv that one comment
himself (once again, it should be added) ,to be
irresponsible. He knows better or he should.
Long years in the state senate and in the state
treasurer's office should have given him a little
better understanding of the functions of the three
branches of government. - .
And it is just one more added bit of evidence
showing he's firmly in the
ness interests of the state who are out tor every
buck they can squeeze out of this legislature's
actions, and to heck with
TTHE governor very properly pointed out that
this bill would reduce highway revenues at the
verv time thev are being avidlv sought for count-
less needed projects: that the people resound
ingly defeated a similar
ago: and that tests to
much big trucks are responsible for high highway
construction costs are almost completed.
We think he had every good reason to veto
the bill. ., '
But his action in refusing to sign it, unless
it goes to a vote of the people, is the next best
thing. - 1
A quotation from Friday's UPI story from
Salem is revealing. It said: '
"Supporters of the bill fear a referral, because de
feat would virtually destroy any chance ot passing
such a bill In subsequent sessions."
Tn nr.ViAr wnvrls! ''TVia npnrtln Via rlftmnpfl! lot.'s
get the legislature to do
.Unce again, legislative mends, don t do it I
' E.A. (;.
Reconsideration Urged
After two negative-type . dissertations, let's
have one on the positive side.
We agree wholeheartedly with the Medford
planning commission that the new federal build
ing should be located in the area of the long
designated "civic center" area around the west
side Library Park. '
Way back in the 1930s, the then planners of
the city foresaw a time when this could become
an attractive, convenient civic center, with lawns
and trees in the middle, and most of the public
buildings handily adjacent to each other.
A DD to that the traffic count figures on River
" side and Central, near where the building is
now proposed for construction, as well as future
planning for arterial streets, it just plain makes
sense for the general services administration to
reverse its previous decision.
It is also reported that because of rising costs,
the projected building area will not have as much
parking area around it as was originally planned.
Thus more congestion.
This area isn't bleeding for construction work
so badly that we have
wiui our eyes ciosea. . :
I7VEN if it results in a delay of as much as a
year or two, we'd far rather have this planned
and coordinated,' with all agencies satisfied, and
the public served properly, than to jam it through.
Government buildings are not built for a day
or a week or a year. They'll be with us for a long
time. :
We urge this hastily selected site be recon
sidered. '" If a planning commission isn't for planning,
what is it for? EJL
if Portland decides to
close to it, will be the
passage to that utterly
people of Oregon last
, .
much care whether the
goes DST. ant whichever
friends, don't make utter
to please the Oregonian
do ltl Jtf.A. ,
Governor!!
we'd be bound to give
Governor Mark Hatfield
the inequitable big truck
it. But he said he would
'
Pearson, who is not our
alone, Pearson reveals
pocket of the big busi
the people.
move only a tew years
snow conclusively now
tine job."
to rush into this thing
Dennis the
4-gk we Uu.nuorEiixixM.iS ' ''''
'Weather: Bureau? When is
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
COL. THAO'S WAR
; Ben Tre, Kien.Hoa Prov
ince, Vietnam Nowadays,
when a Western' reporter
fisiwmn finds a corner
.a!. a of the world
$f which, posi-
W 1 1 v e 1 y . to
yfrrf . spires h.
l V'Sthe ,n,p
M 'w 1 to lin g
impulse
g e r
all
but irresist
able. That is
the real rea-
' Alsop s son, I sup
pose, why I have lingered in
in this amiable ; little delta
town, as the guest of the;
young province-chief of Kien
Hoa, Lt. Col. Pham . Ngoc
Thao.
The cops-and-robbers, good
guy s-versus-Communlsts as
pect of this visit to Col. Thao
has been pretty exciting ;and
decidedly pleasing, too, since
the good guys have been
coming out on top for once.
But I confess I have been far
more excited by the glimpse
of a new kind of political
warfare which I have caught
through Col. Thao's eyes, in
long talks with him in this
high, bare old house of a
French provincial administra
tor, in the calm intervals be
tween patrols,
To make Col. Thao's war
understandable, you have, to
understand him a little. He is,
then, a slander, wiry, pleas
ant-spoken, gentle -seeming
man, who has in fact been
hardened by nearly 15 years
of war, first with the Com
munists against the French.
and then with President Ngo
Olnh Diem against the Com
munists. HE still has relations in the
north. His father-in-law,
In fact, is an important Com
munist official who was my
polite captor when I blun
dered into a Communist-held
area in South Vietnam six
years ago. Because of his own
past and has present connec
tions, there was some grum
bling when President Diem
personally named Col. Thao
to his job. here after four
previous province chiefs had
failed to halt the rapid ad
vance towards total takeover
in Kien Hoa. At that time.
this lttle town was almost
literally besieged; all the
main provincial roads -were
perennially Impassable; and
the Communists ruled virtu
ally the entire countryside,
Kien Hoa Is certainly no
peaceful paradise today. The
Communists have a section of
30 to SO regular troops in
each of Kien Hoa's eight ad
ministrative districts, based
in heavily forested areas. Col.
Thao still needs to be a very
tough, resourceful anti-guer
rilla leader, which he is. The
war is unceasing, but at least
Col. Thao has gained much
ground since President Diem
sent him here.
By the personal orders of
the President and his broth
er Ngo Dlnh Niu. Col. Thao
began his work In Kien Hoa
by an action symbolizing his
break with the old French
way of fighting the Commu
nists, which has been too often
imitated by the South Vietna
mese in the past two years.
The provincial jail was bulg
ing with a thousand prisoners,
most of them held In mere
suspicion. He sifted out about
three hundred hard core
cases and let the rest go free.
He also burned the instru
ments of torture used by the
police in a public ceremony
in Ben Tre's main square.
'
BUT these bold innovations
did not change the fact
that the province chief's own
house was under rather reg
ular fire from the Communist-held
villages just across
Ben Tre's gently flowing
little river. First, Col. Thao
tried to bring back these vil
lages by putting in strong
points and filling them with
troops.
"It did less than no good,"
Cel. Xbaa remarked, "aa
t
Miilir'OriL) KiAiL TrllBUnri,
Menace
this rain sows to stop?'
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
there was nothing left to do
but go there myself."
With a small guard he
therefore moved, bodily into
the village of Phu Nhuan,
which Is really a straggling
peasant community of a good
many thousands of people.
For ten days, he talked to the
villagers individually and in
groups, actually interviewing
every family elder. He
learned about their griev
ances, about the chickens
stolen -by ithe army, the
tax money misappropriated
which should have built a vil
lage bridge, and so on. He
got them to chose a new coun
cil of elders, a new village
committee, and a new village
chief. And so he iook Phu
Nhuan back from the Com
munists. I can testify that he did so,
because I asked if we could
go there, and within IS min
utes we were strolling
through the cocoanut groves
and along the canals of Phu
Nhuan and its neighboring
village, An Hoi.
It was the kind ot Ideal
ambush country that gave
one a violent itch of localized
apprehension in the back of
the neck in the old days of
the war between the French
and the' Communists. But in
stead of the snick of a sni
per's bullet, , all we heard
were cheerful greetings from
the people who ran the hor-
ren.dous litle fish sauce fac
tory, and the many peasant
households, and . even the
aged lady who had been so
crossly pro-Communist be
cause the soldiers of the lo
cal guard post had liberated
all three of her beds."
"We cannot win with arms,
but we can win by dealing
wisely and well with the
people " .
rpHIS is the colonel's motto,
a. and on this' basis, Thao
and the junior officers who
are his district chiefs have
been repeating the' Phu
Nhuan experiment over and
over again. It has not been
smooth sailing by any means.
The people, said the colonel,
"must be convinced, and at
that, it is often easier to con
vince the people than to con
vince our own cadres, who
wish to win with guns."
Yet nine villages out of the
province's 115 have been re
captured by political action In
the last two months. They
have been strategically cho
sen, too. For instance, the
rich river mouth villages
were among the first on the
list. "They cost the Commu
nists a couple of million pia
stres a year in taxes on the
fisheries, and we gained back
as much," said the colonel.
"The economic war is just as
important as' the political
war."
A kind of encircling ad
vance against the two Com
munist forest-hidden bases is
in fact going on in Kien Hoa.
Many, villages not specifically
worked on show the effects
of the political war. Mean
while, a school to train new
village elders, chosen from
the best of the school teach
ers, is In its second month of
work. A new administrative
headquarters, designed to be
squeeze-proof because all the
offices are completely open
to the public view, is going
up in Ben Tre town. The
roads are all repaired. The
bridges are mended. A kind
of quasi-normal life has re
turned to Kien Hoa. "In a
year," says Col. Thao, "I
Ulink we can win this war
here."
Saying farewell to hint, It
was natural to wish him luck.
ENLISTS
Miss Bonnie J. Tully, 18,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George L. Tully, 420 South
Central ave., enlisted in the
Women Marines last month
for a period of three years.
She Is presently undergoing
recruit training at Parris Isl
and, S. C.
Prior to her enlistment. Pri
vate Tully attended Medford
McDf OAO, OHEGON
Drummond Reports '
(Walter Llppmann Is in Europe. Roicoa Drummond reports from
Washington In his abince.)
WESTERN GAINS
Washington Presi
dent Kennedy's summit con
ferences with Prime Minis
ter Macmillan and Chancellor
Adenauer are producing more
results than appear on the
surface.
The communiques have
seemed rather empty because
these meetings are not nego
tiations; they are consulta
tions explorations of each
other's thinking.
The dividends from these
meetings are not apparent in
the communiques but in
future action. -
' ' . -
THESE significant dividends
already flow from the
Kennedy-Macmillan and the
Kennedy - Adenauer confer
ences: -
1 The two senior Allied
leaders have established a re
lationship of trust and candor
with the new President of the
United States. While their
personal' relationship does not
have the comradely intimacy
as prevailed with Elsenhower,
it is evident ' that Mr. Ken
nedy won his spurs with the
elder Allied statesmen and
that the three can work to
gether easily and cordially.
"2 British Prime Minister
MacmUlan Is determined to
heal the menacing economic
rift between the . European
Common Market (led by
France and Germany) and
the Outer Seven (led by Bri
tain herself). It now appears
probable that Britain's way
of ending this trade threat to
European unity will be a dra
matic and historic turn in
British policy an offer to
join the Common Market.
President Kennedy made it
clear that the U.S. would wel
come this step as the most
valuable contribution Britain
could make .to strengthening
all of Western Europe.
3 G e r m a n Chancellor
Adenauer was profoundly re
assured by Mr. Kennedy's
word that' the ,U.S. would, If
anything, increase military
support for NATO and has no
intention of withdrawing a
single soldier from Europe. In
the economic field both Mr.
Adenauer and Mr. Macmillan
made it clear that their gov
ernments will devote to the
aid of under-developed coun
tries the same amount of their
resources as does the U.S.
0
jP THESE three ' develop
ments, the most hopeful
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Space travel by-product;
Astronauts (including nas-
sengers, . when that -time
comes) won't be allowed to
use tooth paste.
WHY NOT?
" Tooth paste. If it is to
do its job efficiently, requires
water. And the sudsy water
resulting from brushing your
teetn woman t be fit to be
REPROCESSED for drinking.
Out in space, you know,
there's no water. And no air.
And space'on space ships will
be precious. There will be no
room to take along a water
barrel. Every drop of water
will be indispensable. It will
have to be used over and
over again.
S'
Air Force dentists are
working to develop antibodies
to fight germs that cause
tooth decay the idea being
that astronauts (and their pas
sengers in distant future dec
ades) will be so germ-free that
Quadros Is
By ERIC SEVARIED
Brasilia, Brazil - This re
porter has seen at least a
thousand 1 television perfor
mances by a
thousand pol
iticians, but
never any
thing like
Janlo i Quad
ros' bobbing,
weaving,
shouting and
growling ex
hortation, his
second broad-
Savarald
cast call to the Brazilian peo
ple to hold together under
the pains of economic auster
ity or see democracy in Latin
America's keystone country
wrecked on the reef of infla
tion. It went on for an hour and
a half. The 44-year-old Presi
dent, the unknown X factor
in hemisphere diplomacy who
interests the Soviets very
much and worries Washing
ton very much, offered his
people nothing but sweat,
toil and tears. If they will
not or cannot accept the bit
ter cup, there will be little
point in worrying whether
Janio is antl- or pro-Ameri
can at heart, whether this
angry ex-professor is a poten
tial dictator or whether he
wlU take our steadiest Latin
American ally into the neu
tralist camp, as some ot his
statements and his invitations
W XUdbj NasiEX nd, 2iehUi
mpaeearaai
gain for the West Is the pros
pect that Britain will be loin.
ing the European Common
Market.
This is not an easy decision
and the British government
would be taking a bold and
courageous action, Not that ft
would be against British in
terests, but it will be a rever
sal of a long British tradition.
Britain has long kept de
tached from the continent
and, In the main, has played
a balance-of-power role be
tween France and Germany,
lest either get too strong. .
But a new British policy is
needed to fit new events. It Is
now in Britain's interest to
help tie West Germany into
the European community.
The need is to pool and ex
pand the strength of Europe
as an economic entity and to
develop a political federation
to match this economic' inte
gration. . This is what Britain is now
at the point of deciding and
there can be no doubt that
the Macmlllan-Kennedy talks
contributed to that end.
1
PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S
meeting with Gen. de
Gaulle in Paris will be far
more complex . and uncertain.
It may not turn out well at
all.
At a time when Macmillan,
Adenauer, and Kennedy are
acting to strengthen NATO,
President de Gaulle for vari
ous reasons withdraws mili
tary forces from the NATO
command, demands unUateral
control of nuclear weapons on
French soil. The effect is to
force Allied air power from
France. His recent blast at the
U.N. further lacerates U.S.
French relations.
Gen. de ' Gaulle is doing
much to give France a new
sense of unity and purpose
and to enlarge her role in
world affairs. This is a boon
to France and to her partners.
We have every reason to
hope that-his wise and bold
effort will resolve the Alge
rian war.
But NATO cannot be made
to. contribute more to France
than France contributes to
NATO. It is in these circum
stances that Mr. Kennedy
faces his severest test in per
sonal diplomacy when he
goes to Paris next month.
(c) 1961 New York Herald.
v - , . Tribune Inc.
JENKINS
they Won't need to brush their
teeth to head off decay.
. They are reported to be
lieve they may be able to de
velop an' inoculation serum
that will protect space travelers-from
harl tonfh ...n.
with other diseases. ;
It will mean ONE MORE
SHOT to be taken before leav
ing for a week-end on Mars
or Venus or Betelgeuse!
QTUDYING chewing habits,
J these dental researchers
are mounting tiny transistor
radios In the dentures of their
assistants. First findings from
these instruments show that
the number of times a person
clicks his teeth together in
the course of a dav varies
from 500 to 15,000.
Am t science wonderful?
THESE dental researchers
are overlooking no bets.
Realizing that it may be
impossible to develop a serum
that will keep teeth perpetu-
Best Hope for Brazil's Future
suggest he. may;
On paper Brazil is bank
rupt. She already owes for
eign creditors nearly two and
a half billion dollars,' more
than half of it to the United
States. During the three au
tumn months the roaring
presses printed 30 billion cru
zeiros. Shortly, at this rate,
the cost of printing a 10 cru
zeiro note will exceed the
value of the note.-The small
denomination bronze coins
disappeared long ago; the
more recent aluminum coins,
issued in replacement, have
virtually " disappeared. The
current government budget
of $2 billion will be at least
50 "per cent in the red. Sev
enty per cent of the $1 bil
lion in foreign trade will be
on the deficit side. .
Only in very minor degree
is all this the fault of the
United States, In spite of the
familiar spread of anti-yan-keeism
here. Not from any
promptings of guilt feelings
must we help, but because we
are the only country that
CAN help; and because, if 65
million Brazilians founder
into economic and social an
archy, the tragedy of com
munism in Cuba will seem,
in comparison, as sounding
brass signifying nothing, in
the wreck of our over-aU
Latin American policy.
We have to support Janlo
Quadioit therefore, whether
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff
' Sex rears Its ugly head in
the most unexpected places.
One is prepared for it in a
copy of Playboy, say, or even
in . publications more staid.
But we'll confess we never
expected to find sex in a press
release from the American
Forest Products Industries.
But, there it was. The re
lease began:
"This is the time of year
when the trees are mating."
And lt went on to give aU
the intimate details of the sex
life of the Douglas fir tree.
Is NOTHING , sacred any
more?
Questions we've never
learned the answer toi Why
does a flag fly in front on a
standard in the sidewalk in
front of Crater Lake Mo
tors just about every busi
ness day? We like it, what
ever the reason.
'
We have been taken mildly
to task for calling a skunk a
civet cat. The latter designa
tion was used in a story re
cently, telling - about how
such a beast became involved
in the air conditioning mech
anism at Rogue Valley Manor.
The note we received in
structing us on the matter
went into further detail, and
since it came from a man who
should know, we pass it along,
aj follows: . ,
"...Either your zoology got
mixed up a bit, or you were
too squeamish about giving
the critter its real name.'The
varmint warn't no civet (and
'civet-cat' is obsolete anyway)
but a plan, ornery skunk
more potent in both odor and
delivery! And that durned
beastle was wanted for a 'pet
by one of our loveliest young
waitresses, not by the house
man who got it for her and
was 'got' in turn. And the
young lady adores her new
pet presumably thoroughly
deodorized and rendered safe
by now ...
"The efficient ventilating
system of the Manor has long
since sweetened the atmos
phere, but the event continues
to be a lively topic of conver
sation and, no doubt, of cor
respondence, in a variety of
versions.
"P.S.-NOW I'm told the
beastle has escaped to its na
tural haunts,".
- A man who read a series
of travelogues which ap
peared on this page recent-
ally In perfect condition with
out tooth paste, these docs
are working currently with a
couple of guinea pig men who
are sealed in a space cabin
that reproduces the conditions
that would prevail on a trip
out' into space.
Their experiments on these
volunteers are designed to
find out what effect brushing
teeth with ONLY PLAIN WA
TER will have over an ex
tended period of time. The
plain water, you understand,
could be REPROCESSED over
and over so that it wouldn't
be wasted.
ONE effect, if It turned out
that brushing teeth with
plain water would be fully
effective in heading off cavi
ties and such, would be to
cut down the market for tooth
hygiene preparations.
Grim thought in this busi
ness: It would CUT DOWN AD
VERTISING, too. It's a par
lous world we're living in
these days.
we like him or not. And he
must . remain on speaking
terms with Washington,
whether he like us or not.
This is why his emissary,
Salles, finds a friendly cli
mate in Washington, as of this
writing, in his negotiations
for a half billion dollar addi
tional credit; and it is why
Janlo, In spite of his gesture
toward welcoming UN debate
on admitting Red China, his
recognition of Bulcaria. Rn.
mania and Hungary, has also
pointedly told his people that
Brazil belongs to Western
culture and has never at any
time since his election made
a public attack on the United
States. Domestically, the
temptation to attack us must
be great - he does not control
his congress, and this is a
period when the extreme left
wlnsr and the pvirm. rioht
wing nationalists find com
mon ground in antl-yankee-ism
.
Brasilia under Janlo Is cur
iously like Paris under de
Gaulle. No one pretends to
know what he is really think
ing, who he will see, what he
will do next; no one dares
make any commitment in his
name. Foreign Journalists, so
far, find him equally impos
sible to Interview. Like de
Gaulle for France, he dreams
great dreams of grandeur for
Brazil. And, just as there is
little point in worrying over
and Contributors)
ly dropped by with a sug
gestion! If you want to lose
weight, swear to yourself
to eat only eecargots for
one week. He says the idea
of eating snails three times
a day would be a lot more
effective than Metxecal.
There was, a UPI story in
the usually reliable M-T last
week, describing President
Kennedy's rocking chair, and
saying that he had done more
for the rocking chair indus
try "than anyone since Whist
ler's mother."
This gave us pause, for if
our recollection was correct,
the painting known as "Whist
ler's Mother" (the real name
of which is "Arrangement in
Black and Gray," with the
alternate designation of ''Por
trait of the Artist's Mother")
showed the dignified lady sit
ting sedately in a straight
chair.
A check with a reference
book showed our memory
was,. Indeed, correct, and we
quickly dispatched a nasty
letter ("What did Whistler's
mother do for the rocking
chair?") to UPI.
We await a further expla
nation with interest.
News from England la to
the effect that women work
ers at a London shampoo
factory went on strike the
other day because the com
pany tried to (top them
from snitching one of the
ingredients of the shampoo
at tea-time. The ingredient?
Beer. The company had to
give in and dispeni free
beer in the employee's can
teen, v
There's a beer-trouble story
out of Cuba, too, where Senor
Castro's brave new world has
resulted in an acute shortage
of the beverage.
Cubans, who ordinarily
down'some 700,000 bottles of
beer each day, found that
every bar, restaurant, grocery
store and recreation ' center
was completely out.
Ob, there was plenty of
beer in the country all
right. But the nation had
run out of bottle-caps.
A Medford man, the head of
a one-car family, has an ar
rangement with his wife
whereby the sole set of car
keys (save for an emergency
set which he keeps in his
wallet) are traded back and
forth,' depending on who
needs the car when.
The other day he had to
go to Los Angeles, and was
picked, up early in the morn
ing, before anyone else in the
household arose, by a friend
with whom he went to the
airport.
On arriving at the L.A. air
port, he was standing waiting
for a taxi, and idle jingling
the coins and keys in his
pocket. KEYS? Yes, keys.
And he had that sudden sink
ing feeling when he realized
his car was safely in the ga
rage at home, and completely
unusable by his wife.
He cringed all through the
day whenever he thought of
the greeting which awaited
him on his return.
Oddly, however, there were
no recriminations, which, he
thinks, speaks highly of his
wife. Actually, he learned
that her first reaction on dis
covering her husband's lapse
was one of concern.,
"Oh, dear, he'll be so upset
when he discovers he has
them," she said.
We predict a long and
happy marriage for this couple.
de Gaulle's interferences with
NATO, his cynicism toward
the United Nations or his tam
pering with the Common
Market - until the massive
Algerian crisis is settled and
an effective France exists -so
there is little point in wor
rying over Janio's "neutral
ism" or his brusqueness with
American envoys or his at
titude toward Castro (which
is by no means enthusiastic)
until this terrifying crisis of
Inflation is settled and an ef
fective Brazil exists.
.
Nothing else really mat
ters here. And no one else
besides Janio Quadros really
matters, the little man with
the wide mustache and the
blazing eyes who whanged
his desk with both fists be
fore the TV camera and
shouted at his countrymen
the scornful challenge to work
at least six or seven hours
a day since he puts in 12 or
13 himself.
The next morning, not long
after daybreak, he was in his
office, standing over the telex
machines as his daily stream
of orders and inquiries buzzed
out to government offices all
over the country - Janio's
daily injection of adrenalin
into the semi-torpid body of
this wakening giant called
Brazil.
(Distributed 1961, by The
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
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