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Mr 14, 1141 (Wednesday)
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Mar 14, 1121 (Monday)
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being Constitutionally legal
The flag on city hall will
fly at half mast tomorrow
: while two Medford service
men who were killed at Cha
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borne for burial. 1
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May 14, 1111 (Sunday)
Forty-one colleges and uni
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the membership list of the
recently-organized University
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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.
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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.
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