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Newspaper Page Texte MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON 4 A "-Everyone in Southern Oregon toiunMUrrlbunn KbTlihed Daily except Saturday bj MEOrOHO PRINTING CO 33 North fit St., Ph. SP aj61l ROBERT W RUJU-. Editor HERB GREY AdverUtlnt Manage; GKKAUD T LATHAM Bui Mt ERIC W A1XEN IR Mn Edlloi EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Ed.tol OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Edi'.oi DALE ERICKSON, ClrculaUon My An Independent Neuripaper Entered u tecond clan matter at Medtord. Oregon unoer aci or March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Copy .Or Dally and Sunday 1 year ltd 00 Dally and Sunday a moe 8 Ou Dally and Sunday 3 mot 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medtora Aihland. tarntral Point Eaffle Point. Jaclnonvllle Cold Hlli Phoenix Shaoy Cove rtnRue H'v er Talent and on motor roulea Dally and Sunday 1 vear SIRlir Dally and Sunday 1 mo ' do Carrier and Deelere coP ,0p All Terma Cash In Advance "offirlarPaper of City of Mrdfnro Official Paper ofJachioii County United" P-eii International Full Leased Wire U.P!Telepoto Newaplctures MEMBElOuF" AUDIT BirREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOC1 ATES. Offices In New York Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco Loi Aneeles Seattle Portland Denver NIWtPAPIt FUILISHIII ASSOCIATION NATIONAL IDITOKIAl Flight o' Time Med ford and Jackson County History from tha files of Tha Mail Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yaars ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 6. 1852 (Tuesday) The Medford city council unanimously approved a change to daylight saving time today at a special meet ing of the council. "Peaceful picketing" has been in effect at Kim's res taurant, 2321 South Pacific highway, since last Friday; the proprietor is charged wth not "running a union shop," 20 YEARS AGO Mar 6. 1942 (Wednesday) Approximately 19,378 ap plications for sugar ration 1 books filed here; teachers and volunteer workers lauded for work during rcglstatlon. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "To day, a week before the pri mary, major virtues have started to stick nut like a sore thumb on all candi dates." 30 YEARS AGO Mar 6. 1932 (Friday) Jackson county political experts state "at present the voters are looking for a place to light and have not made up their minds." Total of 37,000 pounds of air mail carried between Med tord and other Pacific coast cities during April by tn motored transport planes and single-engined mail-passenger planes. 40 YEARS AGO May 6. 1922 (Saturday) Medford Mayor C. E. Gates agrees to attend Ku Klux Klan meeting if Klan will conduct full initiation tcre mony, if ail persons are not masked, it he Is given a list of members and a copy of the Klan by-laws and constitution and with the reserved right to comment publicly on any thing contrary to good citizen ship. SO YEARS AGO May 6. 1912 (Sunday) Medford city council calls for $20,000 bond Issue to pay city's portion of costs of now Main street bridge over Bear creek. Local residents warned by Medford doctors against eat ing fish caught in Bear creek. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct is superior; seven or eight tt excellent; five et sis. is good. 1. is a pint '4th, i.th or 16th of a gallon? 1 2. What ts the English 1 translation of the latin phrase "Anno Domini"? ; 3. What is the three-letter word for a wooden tray or trough In which a laborer car ries bricks and mortar? A r. D..l.l.l,... - l. ...... .J horses, cattle or swine' s. Does the human stomach j it would be to let the legislature ttf California i(TorrPtnt'' f h"t i -anfl 0,'Knn 100 1 ,,so 1,1(1 sa,11p sot of criteria for '6which "v. s. President their own salaries that they do in setting the invented the folding chair? I salaries of other state officials. 7. Which h e a v y weight I ,,, , ,. .. .. , , ... champion first fought with (Some of the opposition to the ( alifomia pay boxing gloves? raise stems from a liberal retirement system leg- BuUnV hold &ivoo'iSa.t"'-s tf"v cnjnv. There are no comparable 40,ooo, or 80,000 persons" , fringe benefits enjoyed by Oregon s leg it. Does alcohol expand or islatOl'S.) contract when It gets colder" . io. Would a specialist in u seeis to us that the ( alifiu nia proposal is rhinoplasty most likely per- outiageouslv o ut of line, even thouj.i there are fm plastic surgery on he ! jinnual sessions of the legislature. hand, ot, or nose o i O., . , 7, . Amw.nt 1. .ih.y in in L.v the same token, the present salaries for year of our Lord. 3. Hod. 4.; Oregon legislators are also outrageously out of Swine, s. Pint.. . Thornai ; ijnp .,n simii( bP corrected bv the passage of Jefferson. 7 John L. Sullivan. , .tin, 1 1 ,. ' , 8. 8O.000. . attract. iorJn proposal on the ballot a week from rrulav. Now. u ESA. Charlie Shibitz Stadium It has been proposed that toe new stadium grandstand soon to be built at Medford High school be given the name, "The Charles Bradford Shibitz Memorial Stadium " It would be in honor of Good Old Charlie Shibitz. It's a splendid irleaj! o Now it may be that you have not heard af Charlie Shibitz. If this is so, we suggest you con sult the nearest member of the Senior class at MHS, for Charlie is one of that class's best-known and best-loved members. Charlie is a remarkable student. He has been on the honor roll, is a member of the honor so ciety, and yet leads the entire school on the ab sentee list. LIE IS the star of the football team, yet never has played a game. Despite his notoriety, it is rumored that some Senior class members have never actually seen him, though all have, of course, heard of him and of his deeds. He will graduate this year, and if his name is not called out for the presentation of a diploma, it will be a sad disappointment to many. You don't believe there IS a Charlie Shibitz? Oh, but there is, and we have seen his gradua tion calling card to prove He is also listed in the student directory: Shibbitz, Charles (someone put an extra "b" in his name), 1101 Red Spring 3-8111. HARLIE'S origins are w be sure. Medford High students first became acquaint ed with him during a football game in Red Bluff in I960. The following year, we are told, he trans ferred to Medford High, and immediately tried out for the football team, but some say he was ineligible to play because his parents were not residents of this school district. Details of his career down. And the sort of whom you ask. We understand that he has caused consternation among some substitute teachers when, in taking the roll, Charlie almost invariably turns up absent. ""HARLIE is the kind of y be all things to all men vivant, adventurer. We really would like to meet Good Old Charlie, for we suspect we'd like him just as, during World War II we always kept an eye out for the ubiquitous Kilroy, but always managed to miss him by a moment or two. In any event, Charlie is without question the most interesting and in some ways the outstand ing member of the class stand as representative of all high school students. We heartily second the suggestion about the name for the new seating stands. "Shibitz Sta dium." It has a fine ring to it! E.A. Legislators' Pay At the primary election a week from Friday. the voters of the state will pass on this proposal: "SALARIES OF STATE LEGISLATORS Purpose: To amend Constitution by providing' that legislators' salaries shall be established and paid in the same manner as the salaries of other elected state officials." This measure should pass. It is logical, and would be a step in the direction of good govern ment. The legislators' salaries are now set in the state Constitution which is perfectly silly in the first place. And in the second place, the amounts paid (?(i00 per year) are totally inadequate. 1E DO not believe that the members of the " legislature would, if given the authority to set their own salaries, be unreasonable or pro fligate. But it would give them a chance to set up a reasonable salary scale, which would make it possible for many able people who cannot now afford to do so to seek public service in the legislature. Oregon's legislators are among the worst-paid in the nation today. And we do not foresee the day when they would ever be among the best-paid. In ( alilornia, there legislators there receive ,i' , .-.,. 1 I;, 11 v'""' I'1' uu'iuii t.rii.inni ifi r;tij. Thev now receive just Oreeon legislators do. j would go to .$10,000, under the other to ?1 1.1250. DOTH proposals are in tional amendments. it. Bluff Way, telephone somewhat obscure, to are a bit difficult to pin bov he is varies with student who seems to scholar, athlete, bon of '(52. He could welli are two proposals that a boost in pay fro u ,, .. .. : m 10 times the pav that I'ndi'i - nnp nrminsnl tin's the form of Constitu- How much more logical Dennis the- Menace ! 5k I l V . r-v-M I 0 ' IfS A LADY. W WOULD VA Hck NOT TO MIL Ale ' HONtWUNCHV Matter of Fact (c New Ynrk Herald THE FOCUS OF ALARM Bangkok, Thailand -Rather soon, the focus of alarm is likely to shift towards this t r o ublcd re gion of the world. The reason is sim ple. In one way or anoth er, the Com munist pow ers are bound to respond to the challenge of the Amer Alanp ican commitment in South Viet Nam. This far-reaching commit ment has been made with a minimum of public fuss, and by deeds, not words. The American effort in South Viet Nam has been quietly but massively increased. Of this effort, the most formidable figure in the Kennedy admin istration, Secretary of De fense Robert McNamara, has taken personal charge, coming j monthly to Hawaii to plan the next phase. As though to prove the U.S. means business, American sol diers in the guise of "advis ors" have been ordered into combat in an undeclared war for the first time in history. All this adds up, unavoidably and irrevocably, to an implied American commitment to re pulse the Communist attack on South Viet Nam at all costs. SINCE the intensification of the American effort began to be noticed, there have been many reports of the marked improvement in the atmos phere and outlook in South Viet Nam. Up to a point, these reports are undeniably cor rect. For the first time in years, the American political and military activities in South Viet Nam have intelligent, united, and energetic top-level leadership. At the mid-level, impressive, eombal - ready American officers have large ly replaced the ptissle-gulted re - treads whom t he U. S. Army so often and so strange ly selects to advise our allies overseas. At the operational level, finally, the new U. S. Com mander. Gen. Paul llarkins, is showing a refreshing and wholly novel grasp of the cen tral fact of the guerrilla war. This is the fact thai the war is mainly being fought in the boondocks - in the Viet namese provinces by (he civil guardsmen and the sol diers of the local militia, who had received no U. S aid whatever until very recently. e e 4 1.1. this adds up to solid progress 11 has brought a corresponding lifl of Vietna mese morale and fighting spir it. Nonetheless, this kind of progress will not insure vic tory, even when countless hel icopters, radios to give belter communications to the vul nerable villages, and other kinds of expensive hardware are cranked into ihe equation The truth is that the problem in South Viet Nam is not like ly to he solved in isolation. It needs to he considered as only one part, though the most important part, of the larger problem of Communist aggres sion in Southeast Asia. Here In .'hail.ind. there is another part of the same prob lem, which the V. S policy makers have also tried to solve in isolation. The Thai government is convinced that unless Ihe I' S alters its policy in neighborhing Laos, the end result will be handing Laos lo the Communists with a rod ribbon tied around it Some months ago. 'he dis quiet in P..uii:kok N9ime so acute that OVie Thais were on the verge of publicly pro clainO.ig thetr loss of faith in the IV S bv flatly refusing to attend further meetings of the q S sponsored SKATO 01 uanuation To he blunt About it. Ihe Thais were (hen lwMu;ht off The able Foreign Minister, i PliASB 7BL By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate Thanat Khoman, visited Wash ington, and brought home with him what amounts to a direct U. S. military guaran tee of Thailand. This is an other very big American com mitment, which very few peo ple have noticed. Because they now have their guaran tee, the Thais have ceased to oppose the U. S. policy in Laos. tEANWHILE, the Commu- J-T1 nists are using the oppo site of the piecemeal Amer ican approach. From the be ginning, the first target of their aggressive design in Southeast Asia has been Laos, the country least able to re sist their pressure and the I country wnicn is also on the road to both Thailand and South Viet Nam. There has been an uneasy lull in Laos, since the proclamation of a ceasefire and the beginning of the American drive, as yet fruitless, to install a "neutral Laotian government which the Communists plainly hope to control. But the lull may now be ncaring its end. The principal alleged "neu tralist" in Laos and Prime Minister designate of the "neutral" government. Prince Souvanna Phouma, has gone off to Paris for an indefinite stay. The "neutralist" mili tary leader, Gen. Kong Le, has been invited to Moscow. Soviet Ambassador Abramov i has also left Laos for Moscow, for prolonged consultations. It seems a fair bet, therefore, thai the Communist offensive in Laos may be resumed at the end of the rainy season, if the U. S. has not managed, in Ihe interval, to squash the Laotian anti-Communists into the "neutral" g o v e r nment , be suggested bv the American they rightly fear. ! commitment in South Viet ' Nam, plus the American com- TF THE Communist offensive mitment to Thailand, plus the in Laos is resumed and sue- S gravely weakened condition ceeds, its success will be due ! of Communist China. In prin to one factor and one factor ciple, there is no better rea only the flagrant invasion ; son to tolerate naked Com of Laos by North Vietnamese j munist invasion in Laos than ! army units. Thus far, this in- vasion hy North Vietnamese j ; h-kiiii- uoups nas oeen winK-j od at by the U. S. policy-1 makers, because of their total i I preoccupation with their long i shot bet on a "neutral" Laos. I liui now mat tne odds arc ! something like 50 to 1 against true Laotian neutrality, what ! : course will be adopted" ' The answer, surely, should '. Americans By kmc SEvtHtiD It may be a frivolous; minds and souls, not partic thnught, induced by the soft j ularly for international rea sniokes of spring, but t h e onns nf stale 1 sooner we l.w'"' a stnn worrying f '"' 5J about "the C ' 'f American 48 ! ft ! image to the v "i world" - or at least tfet the ;;4 idea into per- r-. a . . v, 7 s p e c t I v e ''fl -'the easier it jJ will he to srvjirrlit live with our selves as well as with friends, clients and enemies ahroad. Hollywood has been offi cially scolded for exporting films on crime, sex and gen eral high-jinks that "harm our ininge" among eloigners; the newspaper publishers con vention has been warned that papers overplaying sensation- al and sordid events give a .imaging picture of Ameri can life to other peoples. I would not dismiss this general proposition ou0 of hand, but the more I have( traveled abroad the morcalu bums have I become about it I - Mil those who would like to s e e less teehnieolored t.Twdnness from Hollyu-ood, and since I have been intox- H ated all my life with the perfume of newsnrint I feel a senstO,,f personal loss every time I pick up a paper that is smeary with sex and crime I would like In see all this im proved, hut (or domestic reP Drummond Reports IWalter Lippman is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) Id 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. COMMUNISTS RUN I are being held less frequently. FOR COVER I Great care is used in the , Washington - More than communication of messages, j ever Communist party in j 3Tne , is streamlining the United States is trying fo Hs orgarlizationa, structure t0 bury its identity-and increase ; (ry , C(U dwn ,tg ,jabimy us influence. Iunder (he Internal Security I will be well to be aware ; Act. Some committees are of the latest tactics. eliminated, others reduced in Its primary purpose is to numbers or altered in corn avoid the coils of the Internal .position. Security Act. which requires 4The Communists are in that the Communists for- creasingly using "umbrellas," mally identify themselves ) that is, front organizations, to and their propaganda as i do its work. This is an old Communists if they are to ; party technique. When the enjoy the rights of free speech i party wants something done, in the American political a front executes the job. If arena. ; a front doesn't exist, one is The law. stipulating that formed. This shields the party the Communists must stand ! from direct DartictiDation and up and be counted, has not yet reached final adjudication in the courts. But it is appar ently breathing down the back of the party with in creased heat. The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the or der of the Subversive Activi ties Control Board that the Communist party is an agent of a foreign government and by a 5-to-4 decision has held that the party must register- as does every other agent of a foreign power. On the basis of these two supreme court decisions, the Justice Department indicted on six counts Gus Hall and Benjamin J. Davis, the assert ed top leaders, for failing to register the party. The max imum penalty would be five years in jail and $10,000 fine on each count. ' THIS is the point at which the leadership of the Com munist party is taking double quick steps to conceal its op erations and camouflage its leadership. The once openly avowed ieaders of the Com munist party suddenly are no longer "leaders" of the party. The pattern of its tactics is evident. Here is what's hap pening: 1 - Party leaders such as Hall. Davis, and Elisabeth Gurley Flynn are no longer publicly identifying them selves as either party mem bers or leaders. To do so would make it easier for the government to produce evi dence that they hold leader ship positions. At present, for example, party leaders are making many speecnes around the country. When they do, they identify them selves as "spokesmen" of the party, not by title. If they are asked specifically whether they are party officials, they refuse to give any title. 2-The Communist party is currently very security con scious, doing all they can to destroy or conceal member ship and other records which could be used by the govern ment against it. Extreme care is exercised in holding party meetings. Only trusted members are invited. They in South Viet Nam or Thai- land. In practice, the risks are mucn reauceo oecause ine added strain of any serious Chinese external adventure will almost certainly touch off an internal explosion which can perhaps occur anyway In sum, this is the moment to be firm, if the U.S. really means business in Southeast Asia. Are, After All, Human Beings sons concerning our own por ., thine. Ihe vices nf our society, however over blown, are real, and we can't hide them from others with out pretending to hide them from ourselves. In fact, we couldn't hide them. America swarms with foreign writers and film makers from both friendly and hostile societies, many of them dedicated to portraying the Teal" Amer ica, by which they mean the grimy sides of our life. Their words and pictures are prob ably more influential with their home audiences than our own productions, and most of hcm are naturally contcnt to look AT the Amor- ican. people, not WITH them " Often, they see only what they came to see. When one of the better British reporters made his first visit to Chicago he iurnoi aside suggestions alvit the museums and uni ver'.ics and went straight for the old Ciponr headquar ters building In a certainfjro fessional sense, he was right. So, no doubt, was Ian Flem ing, the British novelist, do ing a series on the world's cities, when he headed for the wackenes of Las Vegas, a place most Americans also have never seen and also re gard with some alarm. Abjective rejjorting aside, the twth is that denigration helps cover the identity of party officials and members. NONE of this means that the Communist party is less active. It is simply doing everything it can to disguise its members to avoid the law which is slowly beginning to close in. Its leaders are work ing under new designations, Gus Hall as "party spokes- j man," Daniel Rubin as "asso- ciate editor of New Horizons for Youth," Herbert Aptheker as "editor of Political Af fairs." The Internal Security Act does not outlaw the Commun ist party, nor make member ship illegal. It simply re quires that, as with other for eign agents, it register its members and officers, disclose its finances, and identify its propaganda. It will then be free to function without run ning for cover. There is no doubt that At torney General Robert Ken nedy will be prosecuting the Hali and Davis cases with vi gor and ingenuity. In the Day's News By FRANK This modern world tale: In Dcs Moines, Iowa, in our own U. S. A., Charlotte Pe ters, age 22, mother of a four year old son, estranged from her husband and on relief, found a while back that she had more pinto beans and cornmeal and rice than she could use. So she packed up her surplus and mailed it to a friend's elderly and impov erished mother in Tampa, Fla. SHE didn't pack the bundle securely enough. The sack of beans broke open. The Tampa postmaster saw it. He did his duty. He reported it to the U. S. postal inspector at Atlanta. The Atlanta in spector wrote the postal in spector at St. Louis. The St. Louis inspector wrote the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Whereupon, the Depart ment of Agriculture sent a let ter to the Iowa Welfare De partment in Des Moines. In the letter, it said: "It is imper ative that a thorough investi gation of this matter be made in order to establish the re sponsibility therefor, and to obtain restitution for the val ue of the commodities so di verted." WHAT'S all the shooting about? Let's go back to the begin ning. The package contained sur- plus food. It was labeled: "For I distribution to needy families. NOT TO BE SOLD OR EX CHANGED." It had been exchanged. A regulation had been bro ken. of the United States has be - come an obsessive, reflex ac- tion in segments of the intel- ligentsia in almost every for- eign country. When challeng- ed. the answer usually is. "Oh no, it's just American policies we object to" - which is a polite evasion. The thing is emotional in nature, has to do with jealousy more than le- gitimate fear, and is quite understandable, however try - ing. and Pakistanis are yearning It would make no differ-' over the fate of undernourish-' ence to these groups if we cd kids in West Virginia min were the cleanest, wisest, ing towns; that Africans who most just society on earth, live intimately with beggery. except that they would dis- leprosy and dark superstitions 1 like us all the more. C. P. i are offended bv news thai the Snow senserilthis when, in his recent Saint Andrews Uni- versitv speech he sjid. "How many Englishmen under- stand. OR WANT TO UNDER- STAND that during the past 20 years the United States has done something like SOoper cent of the science and schol- cirship of the entire Western world I suspect it is these small ! this story. But that's about all. but influential groups that Beyond that, it is a matter our leaders have in mind between Americans It's sur when they lecture us about prising how many people in our "image" in "world onin- other lands understand, even ion'' the groups we can t do ' if we don t. that Americans much about. are also human beinss. seek- Or dn our worried monitors ing but rarely finding God really feel that ordinary in their daily lives. The gen Frcnchmcn. husily bombing oral principle that it is better and shooting other French- to seek than to play God prob mcn. are shocked bv the six- ably still holds gun violence of fictive Dodge City; that Germans whose bor ders are lined with electrified IPOTLUCK (By M-J Staff nd Contributors) ii wen !. ) oif.n.1 -'.-m""Uym I O S? rSZ We are overwhelmed with weeks and months this week and month. It is, for example, Be Kind To Animals Week. And the Be Kind To Animals people sent us the picture above, which we found so softly and sentimentally appealing that we couldn't resist printing it. Today, appropriately enough, is also Humane Sun day, when people are sup posed to treat animals at ieast as well as animals treat people which, by and large, is pretty well. This is also National Hospi tal Week (a worthy endeavor indeed), not to mention Na tional Family Week and JENKINS HOW did it happen? Well, Mrs. Peters (whose kindly Impulse started it all) receives state payments as aid j to dependent children, thus making her eligible to receive free food commodities. This is her explanation of why she did what she did: "I couldn't possibly use all the beans, rice and cornmeal, and rather than have the wee vils get into the food I tried to help someone who needed it." R H WPi Whitlatlatch, Iowa welfare director, says: "We don't feel it was an attempt to defraud the gov ernment because the postage probably cost Mrs. Peters more than the food was worth. But it was a MISAP PROPRIATION. We might have to suspend her from the commodity distribution for a time." SUMMING it all up: Nobody did anything wrong. Mrs. Peters thought she was doing a kindly deed. The nu merous inspectors and gov ernment officials all along the 1r 7 iZ ""'"igood bait for the fishermen, ' ' But In the final wind-up, a lot of time has been spent in j wind'nE and unwinding great reels of red tape. Time money because it COSTS money. And -- The poor woman in Tampa is still hungry. ' fencing and police dogs, re- prove us for our occasional police brutalitv: that Euro- peans generally, beset by their own rising tide of juvenile 1 delinquency, are losing sleep over this dark spot on the American portrait; that mil- lions of Latins who have nev- er known an honest govern - ment are sarilv shaking their heads over news of political ! corruption in an American city; that half-starved Indians muscle tone of American kids is declining and that many American Johnnies can't read e We CAN set an example to the world in terms nf strenuth economic prospei ity. political order, personal freedoms and steadiness of policy toward other regions .ind we ran toll (Dutributed 1962 by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) Goodwill Week and National Music Week. Everyone should be just plain bursting with amity and melody, this week. Home Rule Charter people will be kissing Anti-Home Rule Char ter people on both cheeks, just as the Democrats will patch up all their differences, and tell each other what fine fellows the others are. How else should we act on Goodwill and Music Week (combined observance)? Be sides, its springtime. And Janet Sullivan, In tha third grade at Hoovtr school, welcomes the spring" about at well as anyone can with !h following of fering, printed in the cur rent issu of the Hoovar Hi-Lite: Winter is gone with all its snow. Springtime is here, gentle winds blow. Winter is gone with all its ice, The flowers in Spring smell very nice. Yes winter is gone with all the cold weather, Springtime I think is real ly much better. We're on your side, Janet. We're on the side of Mimi Stong, too. Mimi, in the second grade at Hoover, wrote: . Spring is here, Let's give a cheer For after the cold The flowers unfold. Meanwhile, back in tha prose department, Jeff Bol ton (Grade 2S) writes about insects. Jeff lays: I like the bees best of all other insects because they make honey and I like honey. But I hate cornborers because they eat corn and I love corn. But I like the praying man tis because they eat corn borers. I like lady bugs be cause they eat insects in the garden. Grasshoppers are like me. la the spirit of Ba Kind. To Animals Week, we are glad to reproduce tha as say of Joyce Casterline (Grade 3B) whose topic it "My Pets." Joyce wrote at follows: 1 have a pet dog. Its name is Josie. I got her when I was five years old. Then she wa just a puppy. When you call her name she will come. She will sit when you want her to. She likes to be scratched on her stomach. She never has bit a j Derson- We ,a'so nave a ca'' Her name ' Jetta. She is black 1 and Js'e 's too. I like our cat ver' much. Whenever we open ollr back door she 1 comes She always goes . int0 my bedroom. We got Jetta about two years ago. Every Spring she has a batch 01 Kittens, then she has a oaten in summer. She has three or five kittens in one batch. Sometimes they look like Jetta. Jetta likes lo chase after birds. Josie is a watchdog. We have a bird. too. Its name il JCV It can roll over. We are teaching her to talk. And so. friends, don't forget lo tots your hatt in the air in celebration of National Insurance Wojn en't Day (next Thuriday), and fVll be back, Djo Vo- lenle. in time to celebrate Foot Health Week. Fish and Wildlife Fynds Made Available Portland -ITIi- The Interior Department Friday announced it will make SI. 7 million available to five northwcstO states July I for fish and wild life restoration, o The sum inrhtrir ttnit ojn O.ir Oregon. Sfiu snn for AtasO ka. S2;6.3ni for Idaho. S3S.1,. ISO for VQitana. and S2W 04H Iq Washington.