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Newspaper Page Text4 A "verycauTif eVnitheni OrejaaT Iteana fhe Mall Tribune" KSIKSelTSItlj eacept fiturdty MIDFORD PRINTING CO II Norm Sir ll. FhBPlt fcrjfirtW HtmET ITt RU CRIV, Advertising Manager CEKAi-D I LATHAM Bin Mir. IRIC W A1XZN JR.. MPI Bill" caVCtS,.". RICHARD wm. upon. OLIVS STAUCKI. Womn: eVJlior An butepeneent Newspaper gjitered u eeoona elaa metier iter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of subicripti6n rati By Mall In Advance. Copy . Dalit and lunder I year I1J no 1JI11. ana Buno7 , nn 3I Ashland, Centre) Point f efie Point Jaeksonv lie Cold HIU PhoenlK, Shaor Cove. Rogue m er. Talent end i motor routes Dally nd Sunday! rear ! " Daily and Sunday 1 mo ' Carrier end Dealere copy 18" All forma Caeh In Advance "OTflelal Pater of eSTif MdlnrJ OfflclM Paper of Jacaeon County Unlud Prese International VruU Leaied Wirt t.P.l.Telephoto Newapleturee nSEiSCODITTItTRAtr OF CWCITLATIONS Advertising HeprwCTlerlvef" NILSOPf ROBERTS AMOCl. ATEi.OfMcee in New Torn, cm mo, Detroit, ian Frinciirn, Lot Annies. uie1rorui, uim NIWIPAPI1 UlUiHIM AMOCIAIIOM NATION At fOlTOIUl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fllti of Thl Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yaara ago. 10 YEARS AGO April IS, 1952 (Tuesday) ' Three Medford building of Ihe Pacific Telephone and TelegraDh company w e r e picketed as a labor dlipute which involved two union! oread to aouthern Oregon. A surprising lait minute "run" of blood donorl put the blood collection prof ram "over the top" yesterday. 10 YEAR! ABO April IS. 1141 (Wednesday) Grant Pas merchants pe tition city council to grant lironu tn rntin aeeklne bin service between that city and Camp White. Tfmm Arthni Perrv'a "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The wind blew all the leading fii rectlona including up during the past ween. 10 YEARS AGO April IS, 1932 (Friday) ' Jackson county officials plan extensive hunt for bodies of couple lost in Dead Indian irea during severe January blizzard. Forty salmon taken by fish ermen below Savage Rapids dam in beat tingle day'i fish ing in area in several years. 40 Years ago April IS. 1922 (Saturday) 'Jackson county court an nounces $30,000 of county market road fund will be used to improve highway to Butte rails. Medford motorist pays 12 to local Adventisl church after his car rum wild and knocks down tree In thurch yard. SO YEARS AGO April IS, 1912 (Sunday) Rogue Valley orchardlsts expect high prices for fruit after severe cold spell "wipes out" crops on east coast. Medford women plan elab orate welcome for Mrs. Rob ert M. LaFolletle during her visit here while on a cam paign tour of western states wilh her hushand What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar ten eerrocr la auparler; seven er eiahr la excellent; five or ali ia oee 1. Who wrnle Ihe poem. "Old Ironsides?" 2. Does a full grown lion wrught about '. li, 1. or 2 tons? 3. What was brought In Noah by a dove? 4. All decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court musl be by two-thirds majority; true or false? 5. What ll the plural form of the word vertebra? 6. Union pickets havt a right to prevent other work ers from entering a struck plant; true or false? 7. Generally a policeman may search a person walking down the street; true or false? 8. Was airmail service In the U.S. established In 1900, 1918, or 1f)28? 9. A Fifth" of beverage Conrists of approximately how many ounces? JO. How much area Is cov ered by the Great Pyramid of Egypt; 8. 10, 13, or 20 acres' 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1. One-fourth. 1, Olive branch. 4. False. S. Vertebrae. . False. 7. raise. 9. 1911. 9. Twenty-six. 10. Thirteen. SUNDAY. APRIL IS. 1863 Cracks in the Monolith Is there a real split between Russia and Red China? If so, how serious is it? And how can it best be exploited to serve the ends of the Western nations? What hazards are implicit in such a division in what once was thought to be the ' monolith of international Communism? These are questions which American policy makers and students of international affairs are asking these days. They are important and sig nificant questions. A RECENT article in by Zbigniew Brzezinski, director of the Re search Institute on Communist Affairs at Colum bia university, explores some of the ways in winch ne icels the west could peacefully pro mote and exploit some of the major new trends within the Communist He calls it "peaceful engagement," and de clares that it must avoid extremes, and con cludes: "The policy of peaceful engagement requires both firmness, based on American power, and elasticity, derived from an understanding of the changing situ ation In the Communist world. Some left-wing crit ics of American policy would abandon the element of power. The right-wing abjures elasticity. An effec tive policy requires both." UOW would Mr. Brzezinski- go about this ex- ploitation? He lists eight elements for an effective pol icy, and they contain much food for thought. Before listing them, however, he points out that an intensification will hardly tend to relax it ultimately may well accrue to the benefit of the West. And he also makes portant for America to keep its military power at a high point, to preserve the deterrence which it creates. UIS eight suggestions are these: 1. While maintaining firmness and yielding nowhere to Soviet pressure, it is desirable at E resent to adopt a policy of fraternization on the Bsis of firmness with Soviet leaders. He believes this would contribute to further differences in the Communist world. . 2. A policy of "differentiated amity and hos tility" regarding China, involves, for the fore seeable future, continued ostracism. 3. Recognition of Mongolia. He points out the Soviets nave pledged to bring Mongolia into the international community, while the Chinese have resisted this. Mongolia, once Chinese, is now a Russian satellite, and its recognition would "inevitably aggravate the Sino-Sovict relationship." 4. Leave Albania alone, since there is a split in the Red ranks there, might drive Albania should be avoided. MUCLEAR weapons should not be given West ' Germany. Brzezinski says, in his fifth point. If such weapons were the Eastern European for tightening links with intensify their fears. 6. The Toles and Czechs should be reassured about their frontiers, making their national se curity less dependent on the Soviet army. 7. Aid to the Eastern buronean nations should be increased, both to emphasise the "mag netic attraction of the West," and also to stress that the present division of Europe is unnecessary and harmful to Eastern European interests. "An Initiative of this sort would indicate directly the West's peaceful intention in East Europe, an area of great Communist vulnerability." 8. The West, particularly the United Mates, should increasingly discuss aloud the problems the Communist societies are facing, the Kcrts have no compunctions about discussing our fail ings; we should stimulate similar constructive criticism of theirs. IN expanding on this point, he says: "The West has tended to abdirnte discussions of Ihe future to the Communist.. . . Authoritative state ments by western leaders, Including the President nf the United Stales, on the future development of Com munistic societies, would obviously be rejected . , ., hut this rejection In itself would he a reflcclion of their sense of Insecurity and of their fear of an open dialogue wilh Ihe West. It would stimulate ureal In terest among the youth, and might have Ihe effect of destroying the greatest domestic asset which the Communist leaders now enjoy namely, that since they have a complete monopoly on policy making an on all sources of policy Information, opposition to them, in effect, means opposition In social develop ment and economic growth ... To he acainst Com munism is to he against everything and lo stand for nothing By opening up such a dialogue, Ihe West could change this." All this, of course, is easier said than done. But the suggestions arc provocative, and they do have the virtue of looking at the world as it is, not in the black-and-white of the simplicists. a IT would be foolhardy to ignore the fact that Communism, as practiced by both Russians and Chinese, is vastly dangerous to the West. But it would bo equally foolhardy to ignore the fact that the Russians and the Chinese have their own problems, not easy of solution. Red China has starvation, and the apparent failure of its "great leap forward" into industrial ization. Russia is in a state of flux, with now social trends pulling it in many different directions. There is both danger and opportunity in these facts. How well we use thrm to our advantage is the question. E. A. "The New Republic," bloc. of the Sino-Soviet split world tensions, but that the point that it is im and any action which back to the Soviet side provided, it would give Reds a useful argument the Soviets, and it would Dennis the ap4a iiejiAs HIAillAl Matter of Fact (e) New York Herald 1300 to 1800 Hong Kong For over three years, the simple, physical level of life of the Chinese peoplehas the three or four major po- E4 'fS? IHical prob P " ri lems in the iiiucii nuve uie patient, long- i a suiiering urn ' I n e e e massea AUnp sluing to eat,? Is the standard of nour ishment high enough to be en dured indefinitely, or it is. so low that the structure of the state itself must eventually be endangered? These have been crucial qustions ever since Mao Tse-tung's "great leap foreward" plunged the Chi nese masses into unprecedent ed misery. A dependable answer t a these long-standing questions is at last available. According to labor category, the Chi- u n A - .,,! neses masses are now receiv ing a nationwide average of 1300 lo 1600 calories per day. rp HERE are considerable variations from region to region and even from com mune to commune. A rich farm commune wilh good land may provide Its workers with a ration of 30 catties (or near ly 32 pounds) of rice per month; whereas a poor com mune in the next county may provide as little as 14 catties. Again, the situation is espe cially terrible In the poorer regions like northern Man churia and Shantung prov ince; whereas the lot of the masses is considerably above average in rich areas like the great rice lands along the lower Yangtse river. Nonethe less, the 1300 to 1800 calorie average can be regarded as crudely representative for China as a whole. This is the level of nourish ment, mind you, not of clerks in offices, but of farmers who have to till the fields nine or ten hours a day, seven days a week, and even to coal min ers. The miners' response may be Judged from the nation wide coal-famine. IN terms of calories alone, It is therefore no exaggera tion indeed it is an under statement to say that the Chinese Communists have re duced the Chinese people to a state of creeping starvation. But the calorie intake is not the end of the grisly story. About 90 per cent of the ra tion is pure starch, rice in over half of China and grain in the north, rolishod rice is almost never issued, and the main vitamin supply of the people In the rice areas there fore comes from rice cortices. Resides their starch allow ance, the people are now getting only a few pounds of vegetables, a coupe of ounces of oil each month, and per haps a few ounces of sugar. Protein has all but vanished from the diet of most of the people of China. Kinnlly. the standard oT nourishment'' and the "stand ard of life" are now almost Interchangeable terms in the people's paradise Besides their rations, the Chinese masses get almost no other re wards lor their toil. Cloth, for Instance. Is rationed at the rate of three or four feet per year! 'IM1E black or "free" market now flourishes and is even officially approved, except that stringent measures are 'taken to prevent free market transactions in staples like rlre. But a single chicken coats ; about one-fifth of a heavy urban workers monthly wage, and one wadded envcr : let costs a month snd a half J i wages. I It is not to believe that otu.fe a situation, la. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Menace " By Joseph AUop Trlbuna Syndicate dured without open protest by the Chinese masses. There la a good deal of medical testi mony that such a diet-level Is not Indefinitely endurable. But hard facts are hard facts, and they have to be believed, even if the powers of endur ance of the Chinese people do not conform to much Western medical theory. The above-given calorie averages are as hard facts as modern statistical analysis can provide. They are square ly based on methodical, scien tific computation of the ration figures reported by great numbers of the refugees from the mainland who continue to pour into Hong Kong at the rate of thousands a month. As was unavoidable, more than half of the persons In the very large sample were refu gees from neighboring Kwan tung province. But the aver ages were weighted to allow for this fact. Correct weight ing of the averages was in turn assured by the more than 40 per cent of persons in the sample who came from other provinces all over China. . . e TN the years since "the great leap forward," immense progress has been made In sci entific sifting of the first-hand evidence brought from the Chinese mainland by the refu gees. If first-hand evidence means anything at all and it is the only evidence worth having the grim figures herein reported must be ac cepted as reliable. The worst of It is that these hrlnk-nf.famlne figures on the food intake of the Chinese masses Include the supple ments to the rural diet which the generous Peking regime now allows the peasants to grow on tiny private plots. This being the case, the fig ures raise the question wheth er Communist China is not caught in a remorselessly de scending spiral from which a vast upheaval of some sort Is the only likely means of escape. De Gaulle By ERIC SEVARE1D Most great political leaders have only one great role, ac complishing one great task. Gandhi s task was the free ing of India. Churc hill's was the phys ical preserva tion of British society. But in our time his tory moves in geometric ra tio. One man's life, even one leader's incum bency, if It Is unusually long, may encompass more than one epoch. So Franklin Roosevelt performed two historic tasks - - the renovation of American economic society and the ad ministering of coup He grace to the world Fascist conspira cy. a For the same reason of pro longed tenure. Charles de Gaulle has already performed two tasks fundamental tn his country - preserving a place for France at the council ta ble of the victorious powers after World War 11, and ba sically altering the relation ship of France to the countries that composed its former em pire. He la In his 70s now and his plsre in the long his cured But the atonishing thing, the thing that most casual observers hsve not un derstood, is that Pe Gaulle, with no pause whatsoever. Is .saw anting out upon a third Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (cl New York Herald Tribune lyndlrale PEKING AND MOSCOW Four years ago, when inter viewing Mr. K. for the first time, I tried at one point to draw him out about China. It was already evident that and in conrer- sations with Soviet jour n a 1 ists there Lippmann was much talk about the con flict. Talking to some students, It was plain that as between the Russians and the Chinese in the university there was a great deal of prejudice and racial antagonism. Even then, four years ago, it was plain that there was deep ideolog ical and emotional conflict be tween the two big Communist peoples. But Mr. K., naturally enough, was determined not to tell me about it and in stead, when I pressed him with questions, he delivered a lecture on the inability of one who is not a Marxist to understand the international solidarity of the Soviet camp. The cause of international conflict, he asserted, is capi talism, and when capitalism hag been abolished there can be no conflict. OINCE then, this beautiful theory has had a collision with the ugly facts, and there can no longer be any doubt at all that a great conflict of interests exists. What kind of conflict is it? It is at bottom, I am con vinced, the same conflict which existed when the Em peror of All the Russias and the Emperor of China were still on their thrones. It is a conflict of national Inter ests between the Russians and the Chinese which has gone on for generations, and it is due to a collision between the Russians, expanding across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean, and the Chinese, expanding northward into Manchuria and Mongolia, across the path of the Russians. Though this conflict is now carried on by two Communist states, though it is encrusted with Marxist and Leninist slogans, it Is the same historic conflict which has been going on for generations between the empires which are ruled from Peiping and from Mos cow. There is now a frontier between these two empires which runs some 4,000 miles into the heart of Asia, and it is a highly unstable and in secure frontier. Along it the vital interests of both coun tries are engaged. TpHE existence of this con- - flict has begun to affect importantly the whole inter national situation. While we cannot as yet see clearly all the effects, it is already rea sonably clear that Moscow is reacting according to the clas sic Russian formula, which is never to hecome vitally en gaged in a conflict on two fronts. This promises to lead to accommodation over West Berlin, on the one hand, and also to some sort of dlsen gagement from a conflict with the United States in Southeast Asia. There are signs, so I ven ture to believe, that the So viet Union is helping Com munist North Vietnam just '' TiVl trouble be A, I tween Peking . I and Moscow, Lhrd Attempting Third Great Task great task Most Americans, and per haps most Europeans, have assumed that once the monu mental mess of Algeria was cleaned up, France would re turn to "normalcy," its regime would subside into domestic concerns, very much like the British governments following VE Day and the liquidation of the greater part of their em pire. We have assumed that France would be a "good ally," release men and mate rials for NATO's purposes, play a more cooperative role in the United Nations, feel less uneasy about Britain en tering the Common Market. We have thought that France, with the Algerian bleeding cauterised, would feel confident enough to wel come, not block, moves toward European political federation; that, with the neuroses of her officer corps healed, France would be more inclined to give up her independent nu clear effort and welcome both the general disarmament ef fort and the pooling of nuclear j and the pooling of nuclear w arheads under NATO com mand. There is a special I strength In the weak, a well as a special strensth in the shameless (Khrushchev has re peatedly demonstrated the ! latter), and in dealing with his allies De Gaulle hat turned the weakness of distracted France to strong account to oppose If not tn propose )ut aa he did during Ihe war. enough to keep It out of the hands of the Chinese and not so much as to precipitate a conflict with the United States in Laos and South Vietnam. As this is an optimistic es timate, it must, of course, be treated with great skepticism and reserve. But Just as we must not Jet our wishes and our hopes deceive us, so also must we not let ourselves be misled by a lack of self-confidence. What is happening between China and Russia is not what Marxism predicts. But it is what a student of history would expect. THE fact that the Russians and Chinese both profess the secular religion of Com munism is no reason why they should not fall into a vital conflict. We should not forget how ferocious have been the wars of religion within Christendom. We who have, we hope, outlived those wars, need not be surprised to see them break out among the Communists. We are in the process of readjusting our thinking and our policy to another great change In the outer world. Since the middle 'fifties we have been readjusting our minds and our policy to the fact that we no longer have a nuclear monopoly, that we have to live in a system of nuclear parity. Now we are adjusting ourselves to a new and more agreeable develop ment, which is that Commun ism, which has spread so far in Asia, is disunited, and that it does not face us with a solid front. In the Day's News By FRANK Far East sidelights: Japan, consisting of four main Islands and some 3,000 tiny islets, is roughly about the sire of California slight ly smaller in area, In fact. Japan's population in 1960 at the last census, was 93,410, 000. It is probably about 94. 000,000 now or roughly half the population of the United States. Which is to say: If California were as densely populated as Japan, the present population of Cali fornia would be about 95 mil lion! T ET'S put it another way: J Japan's area is 147,690 square miles. There are 640 acres In a square mile, whicn means that japan's land area is about 94,600,000 acres. In other words: If Japan's total land area were divided up equally among her people there would be about ONE ACRE for each person. THAT, however, doesn't tell the whole story. Only about 18 per cent of Japan's total area is arable, which means that she has only about 14 million arces of agri cultural land with which to feed her present 94 million people or a little better than a sixth of an acre per person. That helps to explain why every acre of her agricultural land is so Intensively culti vated. Every possible foot of land that will grow food has to be put to use. rpHE food problem In ALL A OF ASIA is acute, t Now It is becoming clear even to the unsophisticated that De Gaulle Intends to use the renewed strength and self confidence of France quite ruthlessly, in his diplomacy, as he used the weakness and disunion of France in the past. He Is setting out to accom plish the third great task nf his massive life. What is It? It is surely to place France at the undisputed head of a new Europe not a feder ated, but a CONfederated Eu rope of independent "father lands" which would be a true third force in the world, one that would remain im placably anti-Communist, but one that could do without American strategic leadership and the American military presence, as well as being a force that would be strong enough to Immunize Soviet pressures from the east. a a In view of some observers, Including Peregrine Worsth orne, who Is, in my book, the most incisive thinker among the new generation of English political writers, De Gaulle feels that Europe has always had the physical capacities to become a third world entity of first rank power, and has lacked but one thing thetlon of British policy. It also WILL tn do it. This he him self, he alone, intends to sup 1 ply In whatever remaining I year the Lord has reserved 1 for his life. Of hi nersonal wilt, hu "life force." there ran be no doubt: with the possible exception of Adenauers, It IPTLUlX (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Who is Gene Rossman, the man who has been persecut. ing our Good Mayor? Why is he persecuting him? This is in the form of a "now it can be told" story, at some risk of violating confi dences. But In all charity, it must be done. Gene Rossman is the head of the Portland Housing Au thority. He is (we understand) a Good Democrat and a strong Kenned) supporter. He is a relatively young man, with the normal quota of am bition. So one dav not too long ago, he received a telephone call. The polite young iaoy in oulred if this was Gene Ross man, the administrator of the Portland Housing Authority. Yes, it was. "One moment, please, the White House is calling," she said. e Although we didn't wit ness the scene, we can see in our mind's eya, Rossman paling and quivering, e , . i After a short pause, a man came on the line, a man who spoke In the Boston-Harvard twang now so well known to us all. And, If our secret in telligence is correct, spoken somewhat as follows: "Mr. Rossman, I have heard good things about your work. Congresswomen Edith Green has spoken well of you. JENKINS There is the British crown colony of Hong Kong. It has only 400 square miles of total area, of which even a smaller proportion than Japan's is ag ricultural. There are about four mil lion people in Hong Kong and more coming every day. That means only 100 square miles for each million people. Oregon has more than 90,000 square miles for fewer than two million people. IN ASIA the problem Is to get food enough to feed the people. In the U.S.A., our problem is to find markets for our vast surpluses of food. Common sense tells us it ought to be possible to balance off the immense food surpluses that are breaking our backs against the food shortages that threaten starvation In Asia. TT SOUNDS simple. But it isn't as simple as it sounds. If we are to find a market in nungry Asia ior our im mense surpluses of food, we must first find a way for the hungry Asians to PAY us for the food that we have in sucn abundance. Since most of Asia's sur plus products are either man ufactured articles or raw ma terials that we already have In abundance, their accept ance In payment for our sur plus food would bring mem into competition with our manufactured products and the raw materials that we al ready have In our own coun try. That would raise a howl in the U.S.A. The world, you see, Is full of problems. has no equal In the western political world. In the De Gaulle vision, the rise of this new, coordinated, truly powerful Europe will, sooner or later, convince the Kremlin, not only that further efforts to divide Europe are useless, but that this new and mighty aggregation of power must not remain under the domination of the Kremlin's single-minded opponent, the United States. At that point, particularly if it coincides with a crystallized fear nf China, the Soviets (so De Gaulle apparently believes) will be prepared lo offer the grand settlement wilh Europe and will not consider the scut tling of the East German caricature-state too high a price to pay for the security of Rus sia's western flank and the retreat of America from Eu rope. Then would come "dis engagement" and the balanc ing power at a lower level of armaments, if they are to come at all. a a This seems a fair reading of the dream of Charles de Gaulle. His vision Is a long vision, and Its fulfillment re quires not only long years for him, not only the reorienta. requires that the mercurial politicians nf France retain De Gaulle In power, which Is hy no meana the least of the uncertainties now just ahead. (Distributed 19S2. by The Hill Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) wonder if vou wouM ha interested in an appointment as - - 'Caroline! 1 1 Caroline, atnnt Sorry, Mr. Rossman, I'll have to call back . . ." And the telephone receiver slammed down. e Although we didn't wit ness the scene, we can see. In our mind's aye. Rossman paling and quivering. It may not have hnnnon. just exactly this way, but '.hat It happened, we have no doubt. And we also happen to now that Mayor Snider has friend who la a ri t mimicking President Ken. nedy, and . . . So Rossman's feelinsa if not fully justified, were un derstandable. So he Invenlert the key gag. And if anyone aoesni Know what the key gag Is bv now. thev if haven't been reading the pap ers, it is a minor work of genius, in the practical joke line. e The P 0 1 1 u e k editor, through fortultious circum stances, has one sal of the keys in question. What lo de with iham Is the prob lem. There was some talk of lending them to the White Houie and asking that they be returned in the appropriate stationary, but other dreams are being dreamed. Perhaps Earnast M. Caniwright . . . Speaking of Good Old EMC, we were glad to wel come him back to this column last Sunday. He may be pois on to some, but we also have received considerable fan mail on his behalf. Perhaps he can write again occasionally, as his Increas ing experience, maturity and opportunity allow. a Some thoughtful soul sent ui a picture clipped from the Christian Science Manl ier, which shewed how Italians protect new blos soms from irosls. They take eld egg shells, hollow out -one end, and' place them carefully over the bloiaoms. Our benefaeter has scrib bled on the clipping, "A tip for pear ercharda." Yes, we can sea it now - no more orchard healing, no more smudge smoke, no more expansive burning et ell (or, In some Isolate cases, old tires), Instead, a oorpi of clean your- high ichool boys ruahing through the night gently placing empty egg shells over lha tender pear blossoms. It's an In spiring thought. Come this summer, as has been recorded In the Mail Tribune's usually reliable pages, we will lose the SPrlng prefix to our telephone num bers. It is a sad thought Wherever the change has been made from names to numbers, revolt has simmered. We understand the plight of the well-intentioned tele phone company, so we can't complain too bitterly, al though we have become at tached to Spring. It is much prettier than plain 77, which will succeed tt. One man In San Francisco has the answer, however. When someone called him and asked his telephone number he answered (translated to a local number for Illustration) thus: "This is telephone number seven million, seven hundred and twenty-six thousand, one hundred and forty one." Now that's a real telephone number! a We are Informed on re liable authority thai some school youngsters, instead of being fol.owed te the school bus by a faithful dog (or even by e little lamb, as Mary was reputed to have been), are followed Is the bus by a big, 18-pound white rooster, who sees them off, and then, in stale ly grace, italks home agstru The sight is visible, five dayi a week, en Ihe Old Staga Road. Or so we are told. e Hey! Today Is the last diy of National Noise Abatement Week. It certainly wasn't ob served very religiously around the M-T newsroom, what with all the banging and clanging of the carpenters st work. Well, the results are begin ning to become evident. The newsroom is bigger and soor. will be more convenient and (perhaps) even more efficient. (Somehow, w doubt this.) Coming up are Bike Safety Week and Green Candle of Hope Week. And may you all have nlee green randies, and ride your bikes In safety.