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Newspaper Page Text4 A -InrToa la Southern Oroa T.. Mail Ttthiina11 VuMlshed Dally except Saturday by INO CO. M North fir St.. Ph. SP 1-6141 IDKL, Editor arrRB GREY. Advertlelns Manager CERALD T. LATHAM. Bui Mgr. ERIC W. AUXN JR.. Mnf. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor naf Mil (1U . ' Fllnl RICHAKD J I WITT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor PALI Eiucnaun, lircuiauon mgr An Independent Newspaper Enured ae second elui matter at Maolordf Oregon, unnor aoi oi . Man 3, 1897 arnuirarPTION RATES By Mall In Advanca. Copy 10c Pally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dally and Bundsy 8 moa. 8.00 -. Dally and Sunday moa. 4JJ Sunday Only One year M30 Ely Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, central Point iiiii Xl j.rk.mivlll.. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rome Rlv. TaiMit ami on motor routea. Dally and Sunday 1 rear $18.00 pally ano ounaay mu. ' Carrier and Dealera copy lOo All Tenne caan in Aqvmca "offlelal rapar el City el MedlorT Official raper ei aacason wun United PTeai International Full Leaaed Wire TJ J.l. Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of i. im vw vnrk. Chlcaeo. De. Seattle. Portland. St Louli, At- lanta. Vancouver, n.i;. NEWSPAPER PUtLISHEt ASSOCIATION RATION At I0ITOIIAL l,c6,lti; Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hlitory from tha files of Th Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ego. 10 YEAR! AGO Ma 14. 1IS1 (Monday) The Fbotlls-hteri. a valley rrfvle theater froup, have ac- , quired the former Cecil Ray More Window display laciory en Orchard Home dr., for use as theater building. Mlsi Jeanie Hobba was crowned queen of the third annual Phoenix May festival Saturday by Mayor Cliff : Wallace. , 10 YEAR! AGO Mr 14, 1141 (Wednesday) Although an army camp has been approved by the War denartment for Medford, construction is not expected ta atart immediately. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Bmudae Pot" column: A Sa lem man vlans to sow three acres ot dandelion seed. It Is hoped he has no bad luck, and gets more grass than dan deliona." SO YEAR! AGO ? Mar 14, ltJl (Thursdar) A New York fruit distrlbu- ' tlon magnate said in Medford today that he forsees an im proved market during the current year, but does not ex pect it will reach the level of the leap market. The midget golf course at . i . j.t i 1 .. cignin si. ana usow has opened for the summer. 40 TEAM AGO Mar 14, 1121 (Monday) The U.S. Supreme court has ' acaln upheld prohibition as being Constitutionally legal The flag on city hall will fly at half mast tomorrow : while two Medford service men who were killed at Cha teau Thierry . are brought borne for burial. 1 M YEARS AGO May 14, 1111 (Sunday) Forty-one colleges and uni versities are represented on the membership list of the recently-organized University . club here. 7h:l't Yc:r I.Q.7 Nine er tea eerr) la laperlarl aeve at alf M Is mtallmti five et m it fM. 1. Was the chief god of Ro , man mythology Zeus, or Jupiter? J. What Is the official language spoken In Cuba? 3. For the name of which agency of the U. S. do the Initials F.C.C. stand? 4. Of which religious de nomination was John Wesley the founder? 5. If an automobile uses a gallon of gas every 16 miles, what will be the cost for gas, t 29 cents per gallon, to go 80 miles? 6. Nam the American show man who was noted for his declaration, "There's sucker born every minute." 7. Does it require about two, four, or six, pounds of potatoes to make a single pound of potato chips? 8. If one is suffering from monophobia, would he dread crowds or solitude? 9. Both the rhea and ostrich are flightless birds; true or false? 10. Would you guess that there are more, or fewer morning than evening news papers published In the U.S.? Answer! 1. Jupiter (Zeus was Greek). 3. Spanish, 5. Fed oral Ceaamunlcatlons Com mission. 4. Melaediat. S. 11.23. . P. T. Baraum. 7. Fear. 8. Solihide. 8. True. 10, Fewer. SUNDAY. MAY 14. 1961 v Success From Failure? The article by Eric Sevareid which appears elsewhere on this page today, is one of the most cheering bits of reading about foreign affairs we have read in many moons. We hope he has read the signs correctly, that there is a resurgence of understanding for the United States among our neighbors to the south, and a growing revulsion for Fidel Castro's in creasingly insane regime. If there is substance to this, and if it is more than just a momentary trend, it could be one of the most significant things in hemispheric affairs in the past decade. ASSUMING that Sevareid is right, it is a bit ironic that Uncle Sam, the "colossus of the north," gains more sympathy and good will from Latin America by badly stubbing his toe than he ever has received as a result of foreign aid or friendly overtures. . But it is true that the invasion, bungled as it was, stimulated Castro into excesses which more truly revealed to his Latin neighbors the true tenor of his regime. , His declaration that Cuba is a "Soviet" land, and that he will call no elections as he once prom ised, has not yet convinced the Brazilian govern ment. But Sevareid believes it has convinced many Latin Americans that Castroland is, in deed, an outpost of the red empire, and consti tutes a 'real threat to the western hemisphere. ' .( IT IS NOW generally conceded that the inva- sion was financed, planned, and in part led by the Central Intelligence Agency. It'is also generally (though not officially, of course) acknowledged that the invasion forces included a number of supporters of the infamous Batista. . It is also reliably reported that many of the Cuban invaders were poorly treated by the CIA. Tiiese iacis. couDiea mismanagement of the invasion, pretty well fore doomed that attempt. But what if it had succeeded f IF CASTRO had been toppled by an invasion of dissident Cubans, backed by U. S. money and nlanniner. Castro would have achieved a mar tyr's role, and never fully exposed himself as a Communist puppet or at least sympathizer. The Batista forces in the invasion would have been further evidence for the widely-held Latin theory that Batista was the U. S.'s man. ? And the tale of Yankee imperialism, so long a stock-in-trade item for anti-American senti ment in Latin America, credible piece of evidence in its support. . SO, IN THE long run, there is at least the pos sibility that our relationships in Latin Amer ica wilr eventually be the invasion than if none had oeen attempted. And certainly the evidence suggests that those relationships have a chance of being better, now than- if the invasion nad At least, this is the line of thinking suggested by Sev'areid's exceedingly interesting report. ' Let us hope his assessment of Brazilian sen timent is correct. E.A. The Freeway Arrives The solendid freeway which is lengthening between here and Portland is a delight to drive. It speeds traffic flow, increases safety, and saves both time and money for the traveler. , Also, since the Btate highway commission be gan to take beauty into consideration in its de signs and landscaping efforts, they actually have heeome nuite attractive as thev roll throueh the green countryside a hanced when the new billboard control laws be come fully effective. But what applies through the countryside does not necessarily ap ply to one slicing through a city. THIS NEWSPAPER fought as hard as it knew how a few years ago to prevent the freeway from following Bear Creek right through the middle of town. But we found ourselves in an apparent minority, with the merchant groups fa voring the mid-town route. ' So, when the battle was lost, we accepted by saying "Wait and see." mi. ii.: j -a i i ine waiung is over; The bulldozers have head freeway structure 117E ARE confident the highway commission will make every effort to make the freeway as inconspicuous, or failing that as attractive, as possible. Greenery and trees will help. It would also help if some of the blank brick and concrete walls,,which will now face the pub lic where once they were invisible, were "dressed up." (One hopes no one will succumb to the urge to turn them into garish; repellent billboards.) We might even take a suggestion from Weaver ville, Calif., where gay pastel paints enhance the town. If steps such as these authorities (specifically and the city, perhaps assisted by volunteer groups), the freeway may be accepted in good grace by the people of this city. If not, however, we might be instructed by the people of Eugene, who, alarmed by highway depredations, last week passed a measure pro viding that each expressway and freeway pro posed in the city must have the prior approval of the people in an election, E.A. wim me Duneunn anu would have received a better for the failure of succeeded. factor which will be en to a freeway stretching uie seeing is at nana. arrived, and the over is beginning to go in. are canned out by the the highway commission Dennis the ' He's not lAzy' He& just restm' up so he can men FOR BURSWRS TCMGHTj Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (o) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE PRESIDENT IN PARIS If, as is being said, there is a crisis in NATO, the issue is not the Atlantic AUiance ' itself, or any movement within NATO to surren d e r Berlin, and Germany, and Europe. The iv fjl I basic issues in Yi J NATO are 8 jTV f I strategy n d l ,&,M command. Can Uppmana the European members continue to rely for tneir defense upon the Ameri can nuclear deterrent under the command of the American President and an American General? This question can be ex plored but it cannot be set tled by the NATO foreign ministers at Oslo. Unless I am much mistaken, It will be the central subject of the serious discussions when President Kennedy visits President de Gaulle. These discussions will not be easy, and It . would be a great pity if the Administra tion built up any public ex pectation, which would almost certainly be false, that there are going to be settlements at Paris. The best that anyone has a right to hope for is that the two Presidents wUl reach a preliminary understanding of each other, and can. there fore lay the foundations for those changes in the stratesy and structure of NATO which are necessary. - If I understand the problem after a number of careful talks in Paris, it is the conse quence of the change in the balance of power since the Soviet Union achieved nu clear parity. The NATO stra tegical doctrine antedates this historic change. The NATO military establishment, which was founded under General Eisenhower and is now com manded by General Norstad, has been regarded as the "shield." It was to hold the Red Army at bay while the United States wielded the de cisive weapon, which was then our monopoly, the "sword" which is the nuclear strategic air force. fpHIS strategic conception has been radically under mined by the Soviet nuclear missile forces. The most au thoritative European view is that since the Soviet Union is now capable of inflicting prohbitlve damage on the United' States, and absolute damage on the small Euro pean countries, the automatic collective defense, which NATO pre-supposes, cannot be counted upon. The French view, which is merely more articulate than that of the other Europeans, is that if nuclear war begins, no nation will commit suicide if it can escape it. An American Presi dent cannot be expected to sacrifice Chicago for Lyons or New York for Paris, This is the root of the French Insistence upon hav ing their own deterrents. They do not pretend that they can deter attack anywhere ex cept against French cities. Rightly or wrongly, the French Intend to have this nuclear power under their own command, not under the American President's com mand, the nuclear power to be able to destroy two or three Soviet cities if French cities are threatened. I shall be very much aston ished i! the President can ar gue General de Gnulle out of this view, or that he can in duce him to alter it by any. device for a collective con trol of missiles by NATO which leaves the ultimate and fateful decision In the United States. see Till IS is the crux of the prob ' lem. But, ot course, It Is MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Menace . not the whole problem. There is the exceedingly Im portant French insistence that in great affairs throughout the world - the Formosa Strait, Indo-Chlna, Iran, the Congo, Cuba-policy should be made by French - British - American agreement, and not unilateral ly by the United States. . Though I tried hard to un derstand just what this means, I am not sure I do. I am not sure how much of it is an appeal for consultation, which is so necessary and so desir able, and how much of it con ceals the principle of unani mous agreement, that is to say, the veto. It is true that In the field of political consultation, the Kennedy Administration has done better than Its predeces sor, and that communication between the two governments, both in Washington and in Paris, Is happily much more open. But it would be mislead ing to say that the atmosphere is as cordial as it needs to be, or that trust and confi dence between the two gov ernments have not in recent years been seriously Impaired, e . a e SEEN from our side, the rea son for this has been, of course, the great disagree ment with General de Gaulle over the military structure of NATO and over the independ ent nuclear bomb. Seen from the French side, there is not only a general sense of griev ance that France, as Compar ed with Great Britain, has been ignored. There Is not only a firm conviction that President Eisenhower broke his promise to support France in Algeria, and Instructed our delegation to abstain in the United Rations. There are also uglier irri tations of which I shall with some discretion cite two ex amples that I have verified. There is a specific case where an American manufac turer of missiles has been al lowed to give the Germans, but .prohibited from -giving Sevareid Sees Castro's Appeal By ERIC SEVAREID Sao Paulo, B r a 1 1 1 - The young Cuban Democrats who fell on the beaches of the Bay of Pigs did not die in vain, nor has United States leadership of the Latin American bloc of nations been wrecked by the double image of ag gression and that we pro- Several incomi'tence Jectcd in the tragic invasion affair. The more one travels, reads and converses, the more the evidence demonstrates that the mad defiant gesture of those youthful Cubans won the hearts of millions among the essentially humanistic peoples of Latin America. Great numbers, especially among the young, have turn ed furiously and definitely anti-Castro. The former pic ture of the overbearing Yan kee colossus bullying a weak nation Is fading, and now the dominating mental image is of a brutish, bullying Castro slavering over the anguish of his victims. By long condi tioning most Latin Ameri cans resent the top dog no matter his name or nationali ty, and Castro, not Kennedy, now suddenly appears top dog here in modernized, Indus trialized South Brazil. a I have observed the same back-lash against the Comrnu- nists I saw in feudalistic northeast Brazil. For the first time in years, the local Reds are openly, even physically, challenged. For the first time, Matter of Fact y joPh ai,op (e) New Vor'k Herald Tribune Syndicate EXPLANATION OF A CRIME Hong Kong-The scene Is the bleak office of one of the numerous agencies in Hong Kong which help the piti ful ref u gees who flood in to the city from Commu nist China at the rate of thousands ev ery month. Two neighbor ing mainland Aisva- villages, sit at the end of the table answering questions. "You say the ration for a hard working man was hard ly more than half a pound of rice a day, with no supple ments. Did people faU ill on this ration?" "Of course," says the first farmer, a wiry young fellow who quickly points to his ankles. "At least one in every three people in the village had swellings here. After this great weakness sometimes came, and for some death." a a a AT THIS classic description of the course of berl berl, tne second young farmer vig orously nods his assent. But in his village, he says, "only one man In every four" show ed the ankled swellings. He adds that the population of his village had dropped "from 1,700 In the days when we were well off" (by which he means the last years of Chiang Kai-shek) down to 1,900 today. His friend re cords a similar drop of more than 10 per cent in his vil lage. -This reporter and all the others who have made It their business to talk with large numbers of the more recent Chinese refugees know that the foregoing macabre frag ment of dialogue is routine stuff. The same story is re peated, over and over again, by those who have fled from every part-of China. Nor is this surprising, since a grim creeping famine has gripped the entire Chinese country side ever since Chinese agri culture was militarily organ ized In people's communes In 1959. Since that time, rural China has rather closely resembled the prison camp of the men who built the bridge over the to the French, highly secret although non-nuclear-technical information. This kind of thing is poisonous in an alli ance, and there is reason to hope that it and similar cases are being studied and will be reformed. a e a. rpHE other case is very dell- cate because it Involves the C.I.A., which is so generally beleaguered. But our people have a right to know this. The reason why the French government has not really ex culpated the C.I.A. of encour aging the Algerian rebel gen erals is that It was already so angry with the C.I.A. for meddling in French internal politics. The French griev ance, justified or not, has to do with recent French legis lation for the French nuclear weapon, and the alleged ef fort of C.I.A. agents to inter fere with that legislation. The President will need to know about these things be fore he goes to Paris. anti-Communist students and intellectuals are organizing. After the expected Commu nist march on the American consulate here, students broke up a Red rally. Elghteen hundred of them signed an anti-Castro statement. Lead ers of a hundred labor organi zations signed another. High school boys marched into the USIS offices demanding pro American films to be shown in their schools. A band of law students began shaping plans to organize other stu dents in every Latin Ameri can country for a continental anti-Communist congress, and from the tire in the eyes of those I met I believe they will do it. a a a Castro blundered in making a Roman circus of his cap tives. He has made a more far reaching blunder in formally proclaiming Cuba a member of the Communist bloc and re fusing elections. By this move, as the "Jornal Do Bra sil" has put ft, "Castro burned his ships." Four leading papers in Sao Paulo Immediately endorsed the Kennedy proposal for joint Latin American sanc tions against Cuba, and great numbers of individual liber als, land reformers and gen eric anti-Yanquis are getting off the burning ships as fast as they can. Like the C. Wright Millscs and Kenneth Tynans and other "Let's be fair to Cuba" first guessers in New York and London, they cannot defend the regime In Cuba now, unless they are equally ready to defend the regime in Hungary or Czechoslovakia. XL River Kwal. The conditions, if anything, are a bit worse than they were In the harsh est Japanese wartime camps. The hours of work are as long or longer, except for the very young and very old. Such are the facts which are no longer seriously challenged by t h e few competent experts, since the continually accumulating mass of eyewitness refugee testimony is now much too great and too consistent to be attacked. a a a THE question Is not whether this unspeakably horrible situation exists in China. The question is why it exists. The answer is somewhat confused by the fact that China has ex perienced two successive bad harvests. These have even driven the Chinese Commu nist government to buy grain abroad to feed the army and the show-case cities like Pe king. Yet there cannot be much doubt about the basic an swer. The Communist masters of China have condemned their people to misery and famine, for the sake of the new Mammon of our times, forced industrialization. They have done the same thing that Stalin did when he launched the first, five-year plan, and with the same aim. The bad harvests have merely made an inherently terrible busi ness into an absolutely ghast ly business. ' All sorts of indicators point to this conclusion. One such is the sharp difference be tween the countryside and the towns, where the rations are generally better and heavy industrial workers are posi tively well fed. Another Is the really violent contrast be tween the state of agriculture and the progress of industry. While the countryside starved last year, Chinese steel pro duction rose by no less than 18 per cent and general in dustrial growth was also dra matic. Precisely the same indica tors should have warned the world what Stalin was doing during the first five - year plans. Stalin's brilliantly suc cessful crime (for surely forced Industrialization at a cost of over 18,000,000 human lives must still be called a crime) in fact went almost undetected until after the second World War. But when the Chinese Communists set out to do precisely the same thing, we ought to be able to recognize the Imitation of Stalin. a a '. rpHIS imitation, though mon- strously cruel, Is not irra tional. The vast mass of Chi na's primary producers, --the peasants, are being remorse lessly squeezed In order to pay for industrializing China, just as the Russian peasants were remorselessly and suc cessfully squeezed to pay for industrializing Russia. It worked for Stalin. It may work for Mao. Because of the bad harvests, the tempo of Chinese industrialization has been slightly slowed this year. But If the next harvest is even moderate, one can pre dict that the old tempo will be resumed and the peasants will be no better off. One would unhesitatingly predict final success for Mao, except for one troubling fac tor. In Russia, almost every The same phenomenon ap parently is occurring in every major South American city. As of right now, Castro is not splitting the Latin bloc he is pulling large parts of it together. Himself he will pull down sooner or later. He is bound to by the uncontrol lable drives of his own psyche, even If outside pres sures do not touch him, for his is unmistakably the psyche that can exist and feel alive only in crises and drama, that cannot plan or build or toler ate peace and normalcy, and that has within it the mar tyr's drive and death wish that forces such a personali ty to pull down the temple upon himself. He has the emotional structure of the late Joseph McCarthy - bril liant, fearless, bulldozing, heedless, utterly reckless and without plan, and Impervious to the feelings of others, a a e The other night I at In a Brazilian patio with a Cuban lawyer who had gone to school with Castro. He told me the story which I cannot relate In its full, maniacal flavor of 16-year-old Fidel and the mountain: "So the Professor said to me you go and talk Fidel out of this crazy notion to climb the mountain. So I went to Fidel and in 30 minutes he had talked me into joining his expedition. So two of us rode the train with Fidel three, four hours. We got off at a village. 'Where is the moun tain, Fidel?' we asked him. 'This way,' he said. 'Just fol low me.' So we walk, we walk all night. In the morning Try and -By BENNETT CIRF RH. PEARSON, of Denver, Colo, tells of a Cornish a miner named Jan whoso pal, Bill, was missing: onsj morning at the mine. "Where's BilK" asked the foreman. "Bill's got hisself a broken leg," reported Jan. "How did he get it?" asked the foreman, "Blamed If I know," admitted Jan, "e didn't get it 'ere, so I ffgger it must 'avo been broke afore 'e left "ome." Another time this same Jan fell into a puddle in one of the mine shafts. "I was walkin.' along mindin' my own busi ness," he explained, "when I come to this 'ere puddle. I stepped on the plank to cross it and the plank wasn't there, so down I went, plank and all!" , A Montreal newspaper reports the arrest by unappredative cops of a peddler without a license who Was selling; neat signs reading, "No peddlers allowed." - C 1961, br Bennett Cert Distribute by King Features Syndicate PTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Out at Ping's Garden the other day, the Crater Lions . club was meeting in one room) the Medford Minis terial association In an ad joining' room. Which prompted one cynic to re mark, "Hal Are they throw ing tha Christians to the Lions?" This week (or rather, in this context, these weeks) start out with a bang, since today is Mother's day. But behold. We are also getting into Let's Go Fishing week, National Frozen Food week, Letters From America week, National Girls Club week, Soil Stewardship week, National Cotton week, Foot Health week, National Moth proofing Month, National Pickle week, and Good Car keeping week. As Harry Golden , says, "Only in America ..." a a By means of a lypogiaph- -ical error, wa managed to coin a new word - quits a good one, too - tha other day. Tha word "scapegoat" came out "scrapagoat" -which motived That Man From Phoenix to remark that "A scrapagoat is a charity customer who sits in circumstance favored Stalin, yet he ended by sacrificing nearly one-tenth of the exist ing Russian population on the altar of the new Mammon. In China, almost every circum stance is deeply unfavorable to Mao. China started on a far low er level, with a far smaller Industrial base, and much less margin of every kind. In Chi na, successful forced indus trialization will therefore take longer and cost much more than in Russia. Human sacrifices, of the sort already indicated by the eyewitness evidence, may well be re quired on a scale unprece dented in human history. And there are some other symp toms too which make one wonder whether Mao is so sure to succeed. These will be examined In a subsequent report. Fading there is no mountain, Just follow me,' Fidel said. We walk all day. At night there is still no mountain so we have to sleep. 'How do we sleep here in the jungle?' we ask Fidel. 'We have these tents," said Fidel. We strug gle with the tents and say, 'Fidel, how do we make the tents work?' And he shrugs his shoulders and says, 'How do I know about tents?' So we lie on the ground with the canvas over us like blan kets. In the morning we have no more food and Fidel says, 'We find food some way, I guess.' So we eat some fruit on the way, but we are very hungry. We walk all day again and sleep the same way, hungry, all bitten by mos quitoes, filthy, but we find the mountain." "Did you climb it?" I asked. ' a a a "Of course we climb it. You cannot stop . Fidel, you cannot argue with Fidel. We climb it, and the Fidel Castro expedition gets in the papers and everything, but the thing was; when we get down, we find there Is a smooth road right from the railroad to the foot of the mountain and we could have found the moun tain In three, four hours of walking. What a leader! .This Fidel he gets where he Is going, but I tell you, he never know how, he don't care how, to make plans is a bore to Fidel. He just goes, goes and you got to go with him, or too bad." (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate, Ine.) (All Rights Reserved) Stop Mo as a guinea pig for student barbers to practice on at Barber college." ' A camel, a wise man once said, is a horse put together by a committee. Committees have been damned and teased, but sel dom praised. And, it is almost a truism that no committee ever succeeded in creating a work of art. But, like all truisms, there have been exceptions. For in. stance the King James ver sion of the Bible was trans lated and put into magnifi cent English - a true work of art - by a group of men who in effect constituted a com mittee. And, if further evidence is needed, we ran across a poem the other day which appears to have been written by a sort of committee. Anyway, the poem, entitled "Spring Is Here," and printed in tha most recent issue of the Hoover Hi-Lite, is credited to Mrs. Black's Second Grade. And, for a poem which has been written by a grade ' (which makes it sort ' of a committee), it's a creditable job. Here It is: , a a a Tha robin sings a happy song When the days grow long. All tha grass is turning green. Some new flowers may , ba seen. Spring sunshine Is vary bright And I avan ilka tha chilly night. I could play outside foi hours, Evan during April showers. It is a time for work and play. In fact, I'd rather ba out side today. a a a The Hoover Hi-Lite also re ports on a most worthwhile project which has been under way at the school: a tree and shrub planting project. It's a real cooperative endeavor. One wing of the school is being graced with rhododen drons, another with camel lias, and another with azaleas. ' Yew trees are being planted. Room 5B, according to Re porter Larry Six, gave up ice cream for three days, and donated the money to buy one of the yew trees. And the class is saving money for other bushes and trees. A number of parents have do nated trees or shrubs, or the money to buy them. Girl Scout Troop 52 do nated a rhododendron. Mrs. Brostad's third" grade room earned money for azaleas by collecting pop bottles and selling them. Julie Casterllne, in the fourth grade, reported that her Brownie troop, which won the grand sweepstakes in the Pear Blossom Festival Parade with a float depicting Dutch children, donated $10 of the prize to buy yew trees and camellias. We agree with Greg John son (Grade 5B) in his belief that Hoover has a reputation as "one of the best" schools In Medford. a e a American Forest Prod ucts Industries puts out a weekly news letter called "Timberllne." Last week they reported that Kogap Lumber Industries of Med ' ford has a unique adjunct to a sawmill. It's a musie room. e e e They add that it Is home base for "Lausmann's Lousy Loggers," a loose-knit group led by concertina squeezing Tony Lausmann, and includ ing Duke McQueen (drums), Jerry Lausmann (base). Glen Duysen (violin) and Clyde Lees (trumpet). Probably the only lumber company in the world which boasts its own-er-orohestrs. iV r.