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Flight or Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the' 4113 'of Th
Mail Tribunt.10, 20,' 30, 40
end 50 yurt igo. j''"''.'
10 YEARS At)0 7" . '. ''':; '!
April 10, 1151 (Monday) :
Surveyor fromlhe city ert
gineer's department today
were completing- surveys for i
proposed Improvement of P
. blind curve on ' the East
Main st. . hill between Keene
way and' Eastwood drs, '
"Twenty -one Applegate farm
ers, have initiated an 'action
in circuit court here to retain-
a road rlght-ol-way they
claim they , and their prede
cessors have held since 1898.
YEARS AGO .' . '-.
, U 30, 141 (Wednesday)
3 ,'e first concentrated . t
pt to aell war stamp an
is here will start, fe or
'.3 '':V-";.';; i
. -n Arthur r --y SY
lu. it Pot" colurwl "A aui.
y .shows many. American
J ,Tiya would not hold up
panzer tank, in case of a
1 zl-j Invasion. In many in
a incea, the same goes for a
li rglng truck.". -, .j. ;
SI YEARS AOO'O ''.'
Jtorll 10, 1131 (Thursday)
i A big electric storm hit the
vrlley last night and at least
o Medford home was struck
t ' lightning; heavy rain fell
.rich was gratefully received
ty the farmers.
.- Medford quit the ' Rogue
r'ver Valley Baseball league
t la week after suffering four
consecutive defeats.
O YEARS AGO
.irll 30, 121 (Saturday) '
. .' The Medford Chamber of
Commerce has offered to
mediate a dispute between
the city council and residents
who object to rock crushing
activities on North Riverside
ave. f : ; " -
A raid In the Beagle dis
trict, yesterday yielded , one
bottle of whisky.
50 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1911 (Sunday)
; The census bureau has giv
en Jackson county a popula
tion of 25,756, compared to a
1900 population of 13,698;
most of the growth has been
in Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina m fan cotratt h tuMrier;
Hvait r aljht Is acalln; flva r
ix Is (eed. ' "
: 1. Was the purchase price
of the Louisiana Territory 10,
15 or 20 million dollars?
; 9. What was the Pharos of
Alexandria? ' c ' ;-
3. Railroad mergers are
considered by what federal
regulatory agency?
i 4. Before ' Herbert Hoover
entered public life, what was
his profession?
'5. The Solicitor General of
the United States is under
what cabinet officer? ,
i 6. Lead is the heaviest
known metal; true or false?
7. What Is metaphor?
' 8. '.The Big Inch and the
Little Inch were built during
W.WJI, what are they?
. 9, Is Dally Double used in
contract bridge, baseball or
horsoraclng?
;0. Are there five, six or
seven countries in Central
America?
t Answers: I. 18 million. 1.
Lighthouse. 9. Iniwiats Com
mere CommiMlea,' 4. Erni
neering. . Aliorner Osneral.
6. False- (Iridium). 7.. Nfre
of speech. I. Pip line, t.
HorirclBj. 10. ini Oust
mala, British Honduras,- El
Salvador. Hlcaraflua. CosU
Rica.
I V-ASSOCIATION
SUNDAY, APRIL 30. 1981
' ; Voluntary
President Kennedy was wrong dead wrong
-r-in the , Cuban invasion.
And -we think he is equally wrong in calling
for "voluntary censorship" of the news by the
newspaper industry, while at the same time re
jecting a new agency along the lines of the office
of censorship which operated during the war.
' Ini calling on newspaper editors to refrain
from printing news which is not in the "national
interest," he is asking them to do something they
are not equipped to do.
LIE DID say the administration would cooper-
-ate with whatever
present. And it certainly would do no narm, and
perhaps much good, to study the matter further,
with both news people' and government people
in on the discussions. ;'., .,
. But it would take quite a bit of talking to
convince us that, in the
war. voluntary censorship
thing, except to reduce the amount of informa
tion available to the people of the United States.
The government of the United States should
have nothing to hide, rnothing of which to be
ashamed ' with the possible exception of cer
tain" cloak-and-dagger type of activities1 which,
we sadly concede, may be necessary in a. world
as upset and dangerous as it is today.
', -ft ''.."" '4 . '.'- ', '' '.'
PRESIDENT Kennedy is undoubtedly smarting
from the Cuban fiasco in making his censor
ship proposal. United States support of the in
vasion forces was an "open secret" for. months.
' '"Milch has been said
of our own intelligence' and military advice, and
more about the assistance which the American
ress, notably the magazine press, gave to Cas
ro's. intelligence officers. ;v" V
$ But the press's obligation is to inform its read
ers; It doesn't, always do
' fAnd we do hot believe
Units efforts to do so by
I.J-IJ' :.' i.-, 1- .11. ii
aeciue, iiui wneuier an item la news, uui waeuiei
it isf in the "national interest."
There is a place for
ment operations but
should begin and end. It
into the nation s newsrooms, which, unless they
print the, news, are not
' Space Colonization No Answer
.. ur. riarwu .ntkciiev is vice pietsiucui, w. vac
Thlokol Chemical company (rocket fuels) and
President of the American Rocket Society.
, we nope ne is a oetter cnemist man ne is, a
Satvemiucan or dembsrrapher. : '. iv r
(IIe was quoted fth other day. in discussing
foreasonB foi thfe" exploration- of space, thus:
. ': i.r , l .1 , .1 . ... . . ...111 .
" a ... ucucve wuv hid vuiitjucsb ui oyuu nm
, solve our problem of , population explosion, which will
have a serious effect on the human race within the
I next 30 years. We might run out of food and raw mate-
, rials, and thia would lead to a lower standard of living. ,
By . conquering space,' we can indefinitely delay this :
-situation." '.-.'',''" '"
'f Not so, Dr. Ritchey ; not so at all,
PRESUME, first, that the moon and Mars and
V Venus can support lumari life in any quan
tlty,' or eveh provide human food (which is ;not
a valid presuhiption but let it go). '
Then presume the world is capable of con
structing space ships big enough to carry 3,000
peopleroughly the number .of passengers which
can be carried on our biggest ocean-going pas
senger, ships., .
..s Xhira, presume tnat we nave enougn 01 tnem
to blast one off into space every day.
In one year, they could cany 1,095,000 people
off the earth.
MEANWHILE, in the United States ALONE,
" the population will
same year, by about a,uuu,uuu. . ,
i r On the earth as a whole, the population is
now about 3 billion, and is growing at the rate
of several hundred million a year.
: f Even if the ENTIRE resources of earth were
devoted to building and dispatching our hypo
thetical space ships, they couldn't come anywhere
near matching the population growth.
There are two alternatives to "solve" the
problem of the exploding population. One is
wholesale slaughter by nuclear warfare. The oth
er: is by widespread, perhaps even compulsory,
birth control.'
If there is a third alternative, we don't know
what it is., E.A.
"New Billboard Laws
:"- On previous occasions we have expressed our
disappointment with the current legislature.
This does not mean, of course, that it's been
all bad. Some good constructive legislation has
been enacted, although the overall score is some
where around a G-minus. v.
One Of the good accomplishments has been
the passage of two bills which will provide a
start ..on billboard regulation.
THEY ARE fairly mild, and only partly effica
. cious. But they are a start in the right direc
tion, and as the people of the state begin to re
alize their benefits, they can be broadened.
, Once more we should like to compliment the
outdoor, advertising industry for living up to its
promise last fall, to seek such legislation.
f The day is coming when Ahe industry itself
will realize it does itself more harm than good
in marrintr Oregon's scenic beautv. These two
laws bring that (lay closer. E. A.
I
Censorship
plans the publishers may
absence of a shooting
would accomplish any
about the ineffectiveness
this very well.
it should be hampered
asking editors to try to
i 1.-1.1
secrecy in some govern
that is where the secrecy
should not be extended
doing their jobs. E.A.
; 1 :
have increased, in that
Dennis the
SOT ANVtHlNS TO HAT? I SET WNSfty
Matter of Fact
(o) New York Herald
AFTER THE
ABSCESS BURST
Parls-At about midnight last
Friday, when he was getting
ready for bed after attending
a gala , per
formance of
Racine's
"Brittanlcus,"
Gen. 1 Charles
de Gaulle first
received from
Premier Mi
chel Debre the
ugly news of
a military
putsch in Al
giers. The days of agonizing
drama which followed were
almost wholly dominated by
this man of deep faith and
Iron will. It now appears, for
Instance, that General de
Gaulle in person played the
largest part In averting the
parachute assault on Paris
which the junta of rebellious
military officers in Algiers
had planned for Sunday eve
ning. .
According -to .rather well au
thenticated reports, the air of
ficers on the scene in Algiers
were at first" uncertain about
the course they ought to take
-as well ,'tney might nave
been, since they were under
the guns of the military jun
ta's troops. But their minds
were made up when they saw
de Gaulle on television, a tow
ering figure in a towering
rage, and heard him give his
famous orders with all the for
midable force at his command
to "bar the road" to the in
surgents, -
Some 3,500 paratroopers de
ployed on the . Algiers air
fields that night, for the plan
ned descent on Paris. But the
responsible air officers "bar
red the road" most effectively,'
by the rather simple expedi
ent of leaving the paratroop
ers with no means of trans
port across the Mediterran
ean. .
A MORE curious instance
nf npnprnl rip naulle'fl
Impact Is the story of General
Gouraud. On Saturday, when
visited by the courageous Min
ister for Algerian Affairs,
Louis Joxe, this important re
gional commander swore un
dying fidelity to the govern
ment in Paris. On Sunday,
General Gouraud received
one of the junta leaders, Gen
eral Zeller, with full military
honors and at once rallied
to the junta. But after the
week end, having reflected on
what he had seen and heard
on television Sunday evening,
General Gouraud briskly ral
lied all over again, this time
to General de Gaulle.
It is easy enough to smile
at the effects on a weak man
of this terrifying and prim
ordial figure who leads
France. It is wiser to be im
pressed by the air force offi
cers, who were stirred to an
action of very considerable
courage by de Gaulle's ex
ample and command.
It is not good enough, ei
ther, to say what many peo
ple are now saying, that Gen
eral Challe and others failed
because they made all sorts
of miscalculations about the
mood of the conscript soldiers
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
FROM A LONG LIST of "definiUons" being circulated
surreptitiously In Washington's huge Pentagon Building:
A program: An assignment that cannot be completed by a
.single telephone call.
To activate: To make '
carbons and add more '
names to a memo.
Consultant: Any aver
age man more than fifty V
mil.. hnmn -
To Implement: To hire
more people and wangle
additional office space.
: Reorientation: Getting
used to working again.
Committee: The un
willing, recruited from
the unfit to do the un
necessary. .
. (Which reminds me of Vie
made by a committee.) .
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Menace
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
In Algeria- and other such
matters. The plain truth Is
that these miscalculations
would most probably have
proved extremely superficial,
without de Gaulle to "bar the
road" and order others to do
SO. .. .',:
rPO de Gaulle, therefore,
France owes an incalcul
able debt for the preservation
of her free institutions, and
to de Gaulle, so often an un
comfortable partner, all the
other Western allies owe an
incalculable debt for prevent
ing the kind of result in
France which might, quite lit
erally, have proved the be
ginning of the end of the
West,
So much is obvious. It is
obvious, too, that the neo-Fas-cist
abscess which history in
flicted upon the brave French
army has now burst for good
and all. The neo-Fascist mili
tary threat, which made all
Paris and all France tremble
over the week end, which has
repeatedly intimidated French
governments of every politi
cal coloration, will, not cause
any further loss of sleep to
anyone for a very long time
to come.
. That, In Itself, is a great
gain. But the aborted coup in
Algeria was none the less a
tragic business, because it
somewhat has .weakened Gen
eral de Gaulle's hand and has
somewhat restricted his pow
er of maneuver in his" deal
ings with those other' Alger
ian rebels who 'constitute a
far sterner problem for him,
the F. L. N.
From the way people - even
informed people - are talking
in Paris today, you might sup
pose that the collapse of the
military putsch in Algiers had
removed the last obstacle to
rapid negotiation of an Alger
ian peace. In reality, however,
the outlook for early and
fruitful negotiations is fairly
discouraging.
The curious fact of the mat
ter is that the F. L.,N.'s al
leged moderates, the political
leaders including Ferhat Ab
mas himself, have become re
luctant to negotiate. Having
the bazaar bargaining insticts
of most Arabs, they see that
General de Gaulle is eager for
negotiations, and they there
fore hope for better terms if
they hold back.
Meanwhile those who wish
to negotiate are the supposed
hard-nosed types, the F. L. N,
military leaders like the leg
endary Kabyle, Krim Belka.
cem. They want peace be
cause they fully understand
the grim lot of the F. L. N.
guerrilla units still in the
field in' Algeria.
What ithls unexpected yet
highly logical political pat
tern may finally produce is
as yet unpredictable. But the
pattern at least indicates that
if negotiations are not soon
agreed to, the countless West
ern quarterbacks of General
de Gaulle will have to be pa
tient and to understand that
he cannot throw In his hand
In Algeria all at once if he
desires a bearable peace
there. .
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aT"
CAgtoNs
'7i
definition of a camel:
a horse
f"' 4"
Today
By Walter
(c) New York Herald
AFTER THE REBELLION .
On Thursday," the day be
fore the insurrection, the po
sition of Gaullist government
was that lor
France the Al
gerian ques
tion is decid
ed. ' The re
maining prob
lem was when
the Algerian
Natl onallsts
would find
enough unity
Upnmann among' them
selves to assume the powers
that would follow the inde
pendence which France had
decided to grant them. '
On Friday the Generals re
belled, and almost certainly
the government In Paris had
little or - no advance notice.
For 72 hours it was a ques
tion whether the government
of General de Gaulle had mis
judged its power.
During Saturday and Sun
day the rebellion had spread
widely in Algeria and by Sun
day evening, when General
de Gaulle spoke to the nation,
the mood in Paris was des
perate. One Cabinet Minister,
for example, was saying pri
vately that Paris was defense
less against the paratroopers,
that neither the Army, nor
the Air Force, nor the Secret
Service, nor the Police, could
be relied upon to defend the
government. Only the Navy
was reliable.
Sunday night in Paris was
an anxious time, what with
the reports that the paratroop
ers were already in their
planes and would be dropping
on Paris between 11 p.m. and
3 a.m. M. Debre, the Premier,
had told the French people
that , when they heard the
sirens announcing the inva
sion, they should take their
cars and drive to the airports
and argue with the paratroop
ers! This was a measure of
how desperate was the mood.
NEVERTHELESS,' during
that Sunday night the situ
ation-changed radically. For
reasons which are not clear
as yet, but can perhaps - be
Inferred, the paratroopers did
not start for Paris, or they
were recalled; From then on
the insurrection began to fail.
Earlier that day I had heard
Ambassador Gavin ' say that
nobody could judge the situ
tlon until he knew whether
there was- a strike against
Paris, it . lv' ' ' . ; '' ' "
The big "reason, I beHeve,
Why the attack on Paris failed
is' that the" pessimists around
General de Gaulle had under
estimated his personal power
and resourcefulness, When he
had said on Thursday that for
France the Algerian question
was decided, he was speaking
with the certainty that while
the dissidents in the armed
forces were strong men, the
Gaullist measures during the
past year or so had succeeded
far more than most people
realized, in weakening and
breaking up the solidarity of
the rebellious officers.
The second reason, and no
doubt a : smaller one-though
I do not know this for certain-was
that President Ken
nedy, acting on the advice of
General Gavin - who is a
mighty good man in a crisis
like this one-had rallied to
General de Gaulle, had offer
ed him help if it were desired.
The American presence in the
Mediterranean of the air
forces of the Sixth Fleet,
which were quite capable of
intercepting an invasion, may
have done something to dis
suade the rebels from taking
s aVit.
Castro High, U.Se Low, In Latin
'Recife, Brazil - as these
words are written in the
capital of South America's
most blighted,
potential 1 y
revolution ary
region - half
starved feud
alists north
east Brazil -aU
the evi
dence avail
able here sug
gests that
President
le-arel
Kennedy's newly launched
Latin American policy has
been badly gashed below the
waterllne on the Cuban reef.
Castro's prestige has . been
enormously Increased every
where. The left wing is jubilant. In
propaganda terras they have
carried the day. However re
mote Washington's responsi
bility for : the invasion at
tempt, the well-meshed Com
munist propaganda apparatus
operating out of Mexico City
and Havana has successfully
shouted down Washington's
disclaimers. Scarcely a news
paper below the Rio Grande
has come to the defense of the
United States, and here In
Brazil I have not encountered
a single important politician,
however anti-Communist, will
ing to speak out publicly In
fir Tomorrow
lippmann .
Tribune Syndicate
off for Paris. It was widely
remembered in Paris on Sun
day night, and perhaps also in
Algeria, that on a previous oc
casion when the paratroopers
were threatening Paris Presi
dent Eisenhower had rallied
to General de Gaulle with an
offer of American help.
I repeat that I cannot prove
this but I believe that the
American presence in ' the
Mediterranean was a factor,
and that Ambassador Gavin's
visit to General de Gaulle late
Sunday evening marked an
American decision in which
we can take a certain quiet
satisfaction.
.- .
THE prospects of an Algeri
an peace have almost cer
tainly been Improved some
what. General de Gaulle has
now had a showdown-hither-
to something he has avoided
-with the sworn enemies of
his policy. In the aftermath,
he will presumably take stern
measures to break the back of
the armed and organized mili
tary rebels, including that of
the' foreign , mercenaries
among' them, and then will
have a free hand to impose
the terms of a settlement-if
one can be agreed upon.
We must not, however, go
overboard. A settlement in Al
geria is exceedingly difficult.
For nowhere in the world has
any Imperial power, succeed
ed in creating a workable bi
raclal independent state.
The British, with all their
success in liquidating their
empire, have never succeeded
in doing this in their colonies
where there are two different
religious and racial communi
ties. This problem of the dual
communities extend s.from
French Algeria down through
to British Central and East
ern Africa to South Africa.
If General de Gaujle can now
succeed in establishing an in
dependent Algeria, he will be
a pioneer in international re
lations.. . .
'
TTlOR us, bewildered and be-
set by e v e n t s in Laos,
South Vietnam, and Cuba, this
French affair should be a salu
tary reminder not to lose our
perspective in world, affairs.
By that I mean that we must
continue to keep our primary
attention fixed on what is cen
tral and crucial and not be
come divided, distrar-ted, and
.engaged in the periphery;
1 ' Reading "the "clippings after
being away - for a month, I
am astonished at the number
of responsible men who want
Co use the Marines and the
American paratroopers all
over the world. They want
to use them in Laos, in Viet
nam, and Cuba. In my view,
they have let their pride, their
frustration, and their impati
ence exaggerate fantastically
the importance of these small
peripheral countries. This ex
aggeration is at the expense
of a clear and steady and reso
lute view of the strategy of
our great adversary.
I cannot imagine any course
of action better calculated to
lose the cold war than to be
come engaged in the jungles
of Indo-China or in an . occu
pation against the guerrilla
forces of Castro. Let. us never
forget that the armed forces
of the Soviet Union are not
committed in any of these
peripheral countries. It is our
paramount duty in the strate
gy of the cold war not to be
come committed in costly
little -Wars which cannot be
won easily, if they can be won
at all, while the Soviet Un
ion and China have their
hands free. : .""".
Have the addicts of these
favor of either the U.S. or the
refugee Cubans. Fidelismo,
which does not mean Commu
nism to millions of Latin
Americans, but a symbol of
land reform and a living
wage, has spread too far and
too deep..
A pile of the State Depart
ment's new pamphlet con
vincingly demonstrating Cas
tro's total betrayal of his own
revolution lay on the desk of
one American official in Bra
zil. I asked him if he planned
to give them to local Brazili
an editors. Bitterly he an
swered, "I wouldn't have a,
hope of getting a line of It
printed!" Brazil means nearly
one-half of South America's
land, nearly one-half its peo
ple. Brazil was our firmest
ally south of the border, the
first in Latin America to join
the Allies in both World Wars.
But Brazil will not help us
with the Cuban menace, how
ever clearly its leaders recog
nize that Castro means to in
stigate revolution in many of
the hemisphere's South Amer
ican countries.
For years Brazil and other
governments argued against
unilateral United States ac
tions in Latin America and in
favor of multilateral action
through the orgnization of
American States. Now they
are telling us, Handle Cuba
yourself. ,
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Contributed: . .
"Gone are the days when
a fellow could indulge in a
bottle of that good, old-fashioned
beverage called Birch
Beer without being consid
ered an extremist.
"I suppose Welch's Grape
Juice is next on the road to
oblivion.'?
a
It is said these days (not
entirely accurately-but not
without some accuracy,
either) that tax-financed
schools can hardly afford
to flunk anyone out. At a
result, some report card
systems strain to see that
each student gets a passing
grade and some helpful
comment., The height of
something or. other, in the
latter category, was report
ed recently on a note at
tached to a rather poor re
port card. It said. . "He con
tributes nicely to group
. singing by helpful listen
ing." .
-
A tvnn , nnntn-
plished what a husband
couldn't. sIt made a woman
remove her flower-bedecked
hat, and stick ' to : slightly
more conservative styles. .,
She was listening to a ser
mon in a Jackson county
church when the bee in ques
tion flew, in through the win
dow, and lit on the flowers
on her hat. A tap on the
shoulder by a fellow church
member warned her. of -the
bee in her bonnet..,.
She snatched it off, nar
rowly missing getting stung,
and at last report hasn t worn
it to church again. '-' ' '
. It is not unusual that
someone who has been ar
rested for tome offense or
other asks the paper- not to
publish hit (or her) name.
These requesti are not
little wars stopped to think
what a little war in Indo
China would be like? If not,
let them study the British
experience in Malaya where
It took ten years and a very
large army to subdue these
Chinese guerrillas. Have they
thought what a little war in
Cuba would be like after the
Marines had captured Havana
and a few cities and had then
to govern a revolutionary
peasantry? " -" -- "
fYUR people have'to fix it In
v' their minds that the world
wide upheaval which' has
come to Laos and to Vietnam
and to Cuba,- which will prob
ably come to Iran and to cer
tain countries in South Amer
ica, that this world-wide revo
lution cannot be stopped and
settled by the United- States
Marines, great fighters though
they are. . ' .
American armed engage
ments n these peripheral
countries, with the Soviet
Union's power uncommitted,
would be the height of strate
gic folly. These peripheral
countries, including Cuba,
cannot pose a vital threat to
the security , of the United
States, and we must not ex
aggerate their importance.
What is vitally important
to the future of the United
States is the central bastion
of Western power. This is
what checks the central
power of the Soviet Union
and preserves the peace of
the world against a great war
In this Atlantic bastion France
is a key country, as our ac
tions in the past few days
have testified.
For domestic reasons they
dare not do otherwise, and
their paralysis of will is likely
to make the May meeting in
Quito pf the hemisphere For
eign Ministers a critical epi
sode and turning point in the
whole history of hemispheric
relations. The Cuban Embassy
in Rio De Janeiro is very big
and intensely active among
the university students, where
not only Fidelismo but Com
munism itself is rapidly
spreading.
.
President Janio Quadros Is
surely going to recognize the
Soviet Union. This wUl mean,
among other things, a big
Soviet consulate here in Re
cife, Soviet agents and agita
tors will swarm all over this
northeast region, where' the
Communist powder train has
already been laid by the rapid
spread of the Peasants'
Leagues, the first serious re
bellion in four hundred years
by the landless plantation
workers against their Asiatic
conditions of life.xConditions
of death would be the more
accurate phrase. If they sur
vive the Gastric diseases of in
fancy, they can expect to die
by the age of thirty.
Northeast Brazil was a
sleeper in . the world's con
sciousness. It is an immense
area with some twenty miUlon
people. What is now going on
o 4
granted, except In extra--,
ordinary cases. With thia,'.
-preface we can recount the-
' case of the man who asked "
district court official! to'
withhold hit name from',
publication in the court rec
ords. Judge Sawyer had one
of hit clerks call the man's-,
home to explain thai his;
name couldn't be withheld-
After talking to the man's.,
wife for a few minutet, the
clerk discovered the wife'
was the reason for the re-
quest, '.., T
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This has been quite a week"
for altercations of one sort
or another.
There was the heated
fearing on the proposed -build,
ing code for the county. V
Then there was the one
about the . proposed Talent
wrecking yard. ..
And the one about the
Barnett road area, and which,
school district it should be iru
Between times were the
county budget he art n g s,
which are usually orderly,
but which sometimes break!
out in displays of irritation
as one budget or another
feels the axe. : . .
- ' rx" :
, At the school district;
boundary hearing. Lawyer
Richard Cottle, represent-;
ing the Phoenix school dii-"
trict, wat heard to remark-,
that It it rumored the Med
ford tchool dittrict doesn't
particularly want Rogue
Valley Manor became therej
are no football players up
there. , -j
- e e . -;
The reporter who covered
several of these meetings, ob
served that they could have
shut off . the central heating
in the courthouse because
the hearings generated
enough heat for everyone.
tie said two men offered
to punch a planning commis
sioner in the nose, declaring,
a will only cost us $125 in,
court, and it might be worth
it!"
And he also said that wives
of participants were . kept
busy keeping their husbands
under, control. ' ,
a . .'..v
Well, this it democracy v
in action, and in a way it'a
a, good thing, even though
. people. do. sometimes, say..
, and do. things they'll he"f
This week end marks the
beginning of National Baby
Week, Mental Health Week,
National Home Demonstration
Week, and National Invest-irr-America
Week.
Does anyone see a subtle
connection between these, or
is it just the Potluck editor'
warped sensibilities?
And a juicy bi'.l-of-fare be
gins tomorrow, which Is the
kick-off for the following:
Butter With Corn-on-the-Cob
Time, National Foot
Health Month, White Bread
Sales Month, Clean-up, Paint
Up, Fix-Up Month; Better
Hearing Month, National Orn
amental Iron Month, National
Tavern Month, National Ra
dio Month, Personal Affairs
Month, National Home Im
provements Month, National
Water Systems Month, Spring
Milk Campaign, Cream Cam
paign. Boys' Kite Day, Child
Health Day, National Correct
Posture Week, and American
Camp Week.
Whew! .
What a sad, sad waste of
time, talent, money, and, in
this case, newsprint.
Lands
here is literally a race be
tween long delayed economic
development and a prairie fire
grass roots political move
ment that is thoroughly Com'
munist. In leadership, ideas
and oratorical accents. It is a
complicated story of which I
expect to write in further
columns.
But let it be said at once'
and plainly, that in spite of
Brazilian official demurrers
there Is in the making a pos
sibly violent test of whether
the Brazilian union Is going to
survive intact. The Brazilian;
northeast is to the prosperous
southwest, what our economi
cally exhausted ex - slavery
states were to the North iri
the period that followed the
Civil War. In our case the
passions were spent; here they
are just beginning to gather.'
In this powder train Castro is
the distant hero, the Yankee
imperialist is the distant
enemy. Preposterous as this
devil theory is, on the factual
record the recent events In
Cuba have made Castro even
more the hero, the U.S. even
more the viUain, here in the
sad and ugly setting of what
may well be the next great,
revolutionary convulsion in,
the western hemisphere.
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.The Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
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