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4 A KlSFOROtfWrillBUNI Everyone In Southern Oreiun Read! Tin Mali rribunej; itablished Daily except Saturday bj MEDFOKD PR1NTINO CO 33 Nrth Tu 81 Ph- 8F '61-il ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY AdverUiinf Mansei GEKA1.D T LATHAM But Mr EI1IC W (OXEN IR Mna Edltol EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Telei Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporte Editor OLIVE STARCHEH women'e Edl'.oi DALE ERICKSON, ClrculiUon MIt An Independent Newspaper Entered ae second eless matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3. 18B7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mall In Advance. Copy lOc Dally and Sunday 1 year $1:1 00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 8 uu Daily and Sunday 3 moa 4.33 Sunday Only One year 34 30 8y Carrier In Advance Medrord Ashland, rntra! Point Eaile Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shaay Cove Rogue R'V m Tlnt nf M motor route! Dally and Sunday 1 vear 318 no Dally and Sunday 1 mo ' IK) Carrtei end Dealers copv lOe All Terms caan lnAavance Official Paper of City it Medfori Orflrtai Paper oMacKsori County United P-ese International Full Leased Wire TJ P 1 Telepitolo Newspletures ""SlfMBFR OF Al7T)IT"Rt!R:AU or CIRCULATIONS AdvrrtTs'lnl Representative' NFl.hON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offices In New York. Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco. Los Anieles Seattle. Portland, Denver r' NIWIPAPIt PUBLISH ES ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL VN -"N A5(pCTION tmnflU'll'IHI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 veers ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 13. 19S2 (Tuesday) Mayor Diamond L. Flynn today vetoed the city coun cil's action oi last week which would have placed Medford on daylight saving time next Monday. 20 YEARS AGO May 13. 1942 (Wednesday) Floyd K. Dover, Grants Pass, concedes Democratic nomination of Edward Kelly, Medford, as candidate for con gress from the fourth con gressional district; only 18 per cent o county's regis tered voters cast ballots. From Arthur Jerry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The people poured out to vote to a man Friday, excepting, of course, about 10,000 souls of both sexes." 30 YEARS AGO May 13. 1932 (Friday) County Assessor J. B. Cole man states that the 1D32 pri mary election "Is the first in Jackson county in which I cannot predict that any one candidate is a likely winner." George Codding, candidate for reelection as Jackson county district attorney, de nies that he has refused to issue warrants on valid com , plaints; states "it is the policy of my office to conduct in vestigations before putting the county to the expense of trials." 40 YEARS AGO May 13, 1922 (Saturday) Oregon Governor Ben 01 cotl charges Ku Klux Klan backing for hl opponent In primary election shows "blind fanaticism, secret conspiracies and cowardly, hidden ha trcds." 50 YEARS AGO May 13. 1912 (Sunday) Oregon hackers for William Howard Tad claim Ills re' nomination as Republican parly's candidate for presi dent is assured: stale their candidate has 527 to 539 dele gates necessary for renomina tion. Oregon delegate to national Socialist party convention de nounces charges his party Is guilty of causing mob violence during labor disputes. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or aiht Is excellent; five or sis is food. 1. How many strings has a violin? 2. Which Slate of the U.S. ranks first in cattle raising? II. What is a Scotsman'! tartan? 4. How many petals are there on a buttercup? 3. Docs the minute hand on a watch move three, six, or twelve times faster than the hour hand? II. Between what city in California and what city in Missouri was the Pony Ex press inaugurated in 1860? 7. Graliann is a character in which of Shakespeare's plays? 8. In what Southern city whs the Confederate Slates of America formed'' fl. If you are a Thespian, what is your profes-sion? HI. Is the capital of Aus tralia Sydney, Melbourne, or Caliber a)' Answerai 1, Four. 2, Ttxas. 3. The plaid Identifying hit clan. 4. Flva. S. Twelve, 8. Sacramento and 8t. Joseph. 7, The Merchant ef Venice. 8, Montgomery. Ala. 9. Actor. 10. Canberra. NATIONAL SUNDAY. MAY 13. 1962 'Charter: Pro and Con There are, obviously, some perfectly honest and reasonable reasons for opposing the pro posed Home Rule Charter for Jackson county, on which voters will pass next Friday. For instance, those who believe that office holders should be representatives of a political party can reasonably object to the non-partisan feature of the Charter. As another instance, one can object (we do) to the fact that the chairman of the board of commissioners would be full time (and get only $7,200) while the other six would be part time (and receive $50 per meeting). THERE are other portions of the charter which could be considered to be defective to an honest appraiser, on the basis of political phi losophy or administrative practicality. In some such cases, opposition to the Charter has been based on such reasoned positions. But most of the opposition has been of the emotion al, unreasoning, or completely phoney (not to say hysterical) variety. "Don't let them take your vote away!" has been one cry. This is a phoney. Nobody is tak ing anyone's vote away. The charter would sub stitute votes for seven commissioners for those for eight elected officials as at present. TAKE surveyor, for example. What earthly reason is there to vote for county surveyor, when not 1 person in 100 ever sees him during the year, darn few even know what he does, and even fewer care? Or county treasurer. This is, of course, an important position, responsible for handling big sums of money. But being good at getting votes is no qualification for keeping a clean set of books, or investing money properly. A well- qual ified person, acting under bond, serving under appointment, and subject to immediate discharge if things go wrong, would safeguard our tax money better than some personable politician with an engaging personality and no money sense whatsoever. The same goes for the other elective offices (except, of course, judge' and commissioners). The clerk, assessor, sheriff, and so on, have few if any policy-making functions. AN ELECTED commission of seven men WHT TT .Y Vii-i q i ifivi o 1.-1 n T l-rrl r Vi a r II V J M-llS liC CV JJVllV.J' -1I1CIW11 KIJ.i J e 1 Jl V Jf would be directly responsible to the voters for ALL the functions of the county. They couldn't pass the buck from one office to the next. And if they displeased the electorate, the people can tell them directly and effectively what to do through hearings and direct contact, or through the initiative, recall or referendum far more easily than is possible to do at present. ihus, a vote lor a county commissioner is a far more potent and important vote than one for surveyor or assessor. . The charter would rob no one of a vote; rather it would make a person's vote a more val uable one. THE MOST ridiculous tor come from those suspicious of any change whatsoever; those who think that planning, zoning, "Metro" government and intergovernmental cooperation are part of a plot by which they the country, and those good, clean, efficient and close to home, are dictated by the Kremlin. How silly can we get Most people, even those who oppose the pres ent proposed charter, agree that some changes are needed. What changes? Well, the Home Rule Charter study commit tee has spent almost two years interviewing coun ty officials, past and present; many others who by study anrf training and experience are knowl edgeable in the field, and with just plain, ordi nary voters. The result is the present charter. It embodies the suggestions and proposals on which commit tee members could, ny and large, agree. IT IS, as it must be, a compromise. 1 But it does represent a stej) TOWARD more direct voter participation and power in county government; AWAY FROM domination by a !0 mcmber legislature, meeting o n 1 v every other year 250 miles away; TOWARD effieient'admin lstration; AWAY FROM buck-passing and offi cial non-feasance. Finally, only through the adoption of a Home Rule Charter can county government be changed in any way. Without one, the same old outmoded forms will be retained indefinitely. With one the count y government can be changed and adapted to new and changing conditions at anv time the riOOPLE (and ONLY the people) see fit. DO not really expect the Charter to be " approved this Friday. The changes proposed, while not terribly drastic, are substantial enough to scare off many people. If it is defeated, no immediate or lasting dam age will be done, other than delaying until some future date any chance of obtaining the benefits the Charter would bring. But with this opportunity before us, it would be a shame to muff this chance to bring our gov ernment closer to us. If you are one of those who has still not made up his mind, our suggestion ; that you cast your vote for the charter, and in so doing vote to 'give yourself a bigger and more potent voice in vour own government. E.A. objections to the Char- who are automatically are going to take over who think attempts at responsive government, Dennis the ....an" his Mother askep m to come back on his next 0irjhday, but w 8f0rt!' Matter of Fact lei New York Herald THE LOST THUMP Berlin With tears in his eyes, with the band playing 'Alto Kameraden, Gen. Lu cius D. Clay has left Ber lin. H 1 s sen ior old com rade, Chancel- lj lor Adenauer, has also de- I parted, after 1 . a e n o u ncing the U. S.-So-v i e t talks Aliop about Berlin as "unsuccessful" and poten tially "dangerous." In addition, the Chancellor in effect described the Anglo American scheme for interna tional control of the Berlin access routes as hopelessly un sound; and he broadly hinted that Dr. Grewe, his soon-to-be recalled ambassador in Washington, was an innocent victim of American wrong headedncss. Throughout this performance, Chancellor Ade nauer's ancient saurian eyes glittered, not with tears, but with a grim, sardonic twinkle. The conjunction of these two performances by these two most remarkable men teaches a sharp lesson. Gen eral Clay la a symbol not - l - merely of the American staunchness at Berlin in the dark days of the blockade, but also of the old American ap proach to Adenauer's Germa ny. WITH General Clay, as with . other veterans of the old days like John J. McCloy, Chancellor Adenauer is still affectionate and frank. Be fore leaving, Clay took ad vantage of this happy rela tionship to give the Chancel lor some useful advice. One item was a suggestion that Dr. Grcwc ought to be re placed, regardless of any cur rent difficulties, because he could not communicate easily with the new men in Wash ington. Another item was a warning to the Chancellor not to lament that President Ken nedy could not be trusted as the late John Foster Dulles could be trusted, at least at large meetings of German party leaders who instanta neously, with delighted mal ice, passed on the Adenauer laments to the U. S. embassy. I Mow the Chancellor ic jSpondrd to General Clay's art I vice is not recorded. In any 'case, General Clay was speak j ing in the context of the for j mer German-American rela tionship, whereas the Chan Icellor's public remarks hre indicate a current German American relationship of quite a different kind. The blame for the deterior ation of the old, close part nership between Bonn and Washington appears to be about evenly distributed. Of ficials in Washington, stung to the quick by many recent irritations and misadventures, have begun rnmplainitu: bit terly about the behavior of the German leaders. But con sider, for instance, the history of the scheme for internation al control of the Berlin ac cess routes, which brought the German-American pot to the current boil. 'HF.N Chancellor Adenauer last visitea Washington, jinc uroan inea oi imernauon-1 iV&l . i J hi coniroi was nisiussea wun . to wonder if Communist ex him, and he approved it in perls in sabotage and pevrho principle. But no word was ' political warfare are watch said, then or for long there-; ins for any guidance as to after, of the detailed scheme ( what methods produce what ! adopted by the V. S. govern-: results and at what levels of ment. This scheme fir.st of all In cluded' the East Germans in the proposed international control body - an arrange ment which the West Ger mans were bound to dislike In addition, by providing an authority with five Western otos. five Communist votes, and three tn-utral votes, the American scheme effectively transferred responsibility for the fiajrlin access routes to the Swedes and the Suiss an arrangement which any think-1 Menace By Joseph Aliop Tribune Syndicate ing Westerner ought to think more than twice about. In short, the U. S. scheme was controversial If not down right dubious. Yet this scheme was communicated to Bonn for the first time on a Tues day morning, with a some what arrogant request for the endorsement oi the German government by Thursday night at the latest. The effect was like stirring a hornet's nest, as might have been ex pected. Out of the hornets nest, as might also have been expected, came the leak of the scheme which so infuri ated the Stale Department. In the past, the Adenauer government sometimes quiet ly submitted to this kind of cavalier treatment by Wash ington because of the intima cy of the old partnership. But the intimacy has vanished; and the old trust in the Unit ed States has been replaced, moreover, by a new trust in Gvn. Charles de Gaulle. AS FAR as Chancellor Ade nauer himself is mnnnrn. ed, the acceptance of the de Gaulle viewpoint now seems to be almost complete. He has not stopped at taking the de Gaulle line about the U.S. Soviet negotiations on Berlin. He is also reported to have swung round to General de Gaulle's view that it will be unwise to allow the British to enter Europe as full mem bers of the Common Market. There is something ironical about all this. When Nikita S. Khrushchev touched off the Berlin crisis, he plainly hoped to divide the Western allies. But he can hardly have fore seen that kind of division which is now taking shape. A close and powerful Fran co-German partnership, dedi cated to the construction of new giant-power Eurone with its own nuclear deter rent, must be even less to Khrushchev's taste than to President Kennedy's or Prime Minister Macmillan's. But that Is the alignment that is now emerging. It constitutes a di vision of the West for two reasons. First, It increases the m-nace of General de Gaulle's opposition to British entry lnio turope. Second, it means that France rather than the united States now speaks with the loudest and most authori tative voice in Bonn. The German-American part Algerian By ERIC SEVAREID It may be that we shall all have to think very hard about the ghastly work of the white ex- IrAmii-l. in Al fS- g e r i a with n their exnlod- i ' e x e r ii t ions and rivers of gasoline - and with more than Alpena in mind It is too soon to assunio that they will not he successful in their aim of setting race against race In bloody anarchy. These cruel men are using tactics as I frightening in nature if not 1 i in scope as any that Commit-1 tusts have ever used. And it i not necessarily naive tension self and group con trols break down. A new and useful chapter in their con stantly updated manuals on the destruction of social fab ric could come out of the Algerian phenomenon. Mao's lessons in g.ionilla warfare, ricliverci by both word and repealed deed, have finally been absorbed by the western world which is al long last learning how to ap ply tlirni. But the O A S. op. eratien in Algeria is not a i Savarrid MtUf OHU MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Drummcnd Reports i (Wjlttr Llppman it in Europt. Rotcot Orummond rtporti from Wjihington in (lit absenca.) 1c) 1962 Ntw Yorkcrald Tribune Inc. BROKEN SHOW-CASES Washington - I wonder if more people in more coun tries, whose lot has been mis erable in the past, are not beginning to doubt what the Communists most often claim -that communism Is the wave of the future. If you look at several of the Communist "show-win dows" today, what you aee is broken glass, broken backs, and broken promises. I am not suggesting that In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS British and French builders are planning to bring out jointly a Mach 2 transport plane by 1968. The Russians are also in the picture, re portedly working on a Mach 2 craft to rival the British French effort. Our own air Industry and our government people have been looking at a much later date for such a craft. But the British and French activity, along with reports of Russian interest, is said to be causing our people to take a look at a much earlier date than had previously been considered. QUESTION: What's a Mach 2 plane? The answer is that it is technological language for a plane that can fly at twice the speed of sound-or about 1300 to 1400 miles per hour In other words, a passenger plane capable of crossing the U.S.A. in about hours. rlMlAT brings up something else. Because of the Mach 2's 1400-mile-an-hour speed and changing time zones, trans continental travelers leaving New York at 11 a.m. East ern Standard Time would have the dizzying sensation of arriving at San Francisco or Los Angeles at 10:30 a.m. They would have the aston ishing experience of arriving at their destination, by stand ard clock time, a HALF HOUR BEFORE THEY STARTED. UITE an achievement? Yes, but let's carry it a little farther. Assuming that you were this Easterner making a hur ried trip to SF or LA and that you were in a hurry to get home . . and assuming that by then Mach 3 planes -which will be capable of traveling at three times the speed of sound, or about 2, 000 miles per hour, and which are regarded as event ually quite as feasible as Mach 2 planes, were by then available-you might just FLY ON AROUND THE WORLD. GOING west from the Pa cific Coast, you would reach and cross the Interna tional Date Line. Thus you would lose a day out of your life. Flying at 2.000 mph (and dependent, of course on the size of your plane's fuel tank and the number of times it stopped en route) when you got back home you would come darned near getting there BEFORE YOU START ED. nership was the trump that was supposed to take the French ace, in case of trouble with General de Gaulle. But this trump, so long relied upon, seems to have Rot lost somewhere in the Berlin shuf fle; and It may be hard to find again. Horrors May Spread military operation, even in Mao's terms. Could It be that what Is being shown to the world, however unformulated the technique may be, is the development of a combination of nerve-and-flcsh domestic warfare, best suited to urban concentrations, and conducted by tacticians in mufti who will one day be reterred to by a common term such as "civil guerrillas"? There is nothing entirely new under the sun, and his tory Is full of variations of the Algerian phenomenon; but (he nacging thought per sists that we may see a re finement and systematizing of the O A S. strategy and tactics and their application else where, pcrhnp.i beginning with .l,h.Gal,.. If.!... , , ' "" ;tin-. ii nui in one or more Latin American nations where popular feelings are increasingly envenomed There is a widespread no tion that Moscow has given up on black Africa, or is inertly waiting to see which way the "winds of change" will blow in several areas. If the facts in a new book .Hist being published in Eng land aie true, this eomlort ahle nouon is false. It is by Tieter l.r-ing. an anti-apartheid Smith African, who has pursued the hidden trails of Communist infiltration all over the dark contino: and whose Intimately documented j account of the procrR raises the hard struggle to protect and extend the boundaries of freedom is ncaring an end. Indeed, as communism be comes less appealing to more people, the greater the temp tation to the Communists to turn to violence. What is encouraging is that the truth about communtsm and what it doesn't do for the welfare of its captives-is beginning to catch up with the fictions which the Com munists have spread so skill fully. It becomes increasingly dif ficult to persuade people that communism is the wave to a future brave, new world when Communism presents such a learful, ugly present. SHOW-WINDOW I - Red China. Here is the second power center of the Commu nist bloc. Here Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-Iai have been proclaiming their title to co leadership with Nikita Khrushchev of the Commu nist world and have been warning Moscow that "peace ful co-existence" is undesir able. But Mao's "great leap forward" is showing itself to be almost literally a disas trous leap backward. The at tempt to industrialize Red China has fallen so massive ly short of its objective and has wasted so much of the resources and manpower of the nation that it has to be halted and cut back. Agricul ture is disorganized. Millions of Chinese are gravely under nourished, many near starva tion. Some 200.000 Chinese a year are fleeing to Hong Kong. The official news release in Peiping about the three week Chinese Communist party congress openly admit ted that Red China has been so gravely weakened econom ically that Its leaders are hav ing to patch up their differ ences with the Kremlin and make whatever amends are needed to get more Soviet help. The end for Red China is not in sight, but what is in sight does not evoke the ad miration of other people still free to choose their own way of life. CHOW-WINDOW II - Red Cuba. Here js the Krem lin's show-window in the Western hemisphere. What is it showing? It is showing a regime which came to power by deceiving the Cuban peo- Try and By BENNETT CERF ON THE SPACIOUS GROUNDS of former Ambassador GuRgenheim's Long Island estate there is a picnic area, with one of those rotisseries for cooking chickens that the Ambassador likes to turn by hand himself. One evening a dis tinguished guest buoyed up by at least a dozen cocktails, wandered ra ther unsteadily over to his host, and observed him with growing con cern. "Harry," he announced finally, "not only is it impossible to hear a single note you're playing, but it looks to me like your monkey's on fire." e There are seven ways, maintains Shirley MacLaine, "for making' an eligible man say 'yes': 1. Find him. 2. Fascinate him. 3. Fondle him. 4. Fuss over him. 5. Flatter him. 6. Feed him. 7. Frame him. If none of these seven works," adds Shirley, "forget him!" al least a few hairs on the nape of one's neck. The stories of labor union and student group infiltration show standard Communist techniques. It is the shuttle servire between Africa and the Communist nations that gives one to think. The fact that Ghanaian, Mali and Somalian military cadets are being trained in Russia for return to their re spective armies is well known. But Lessing tells us that the Chinese, to compete with Russia, began some time ago to shuttle individual Af ricans, including South Afri cans, in and out of training schools in China. Lessing says he has seen the training man uals, which are divided into three parts. The first is on sabotage work with the new explosives, the second on the j use of modern automatic w eapons, the third amounts to political indoctrination in the justice and purpose of "wars of liberation." The graduates return and vanish into anonymity "as farm workers, or street sweepers, house servants or bus conductors. " To meet this Chinese coun ter, the Russians then re countered by opening two "schools for partisans" of the same stripe, one at Housika, near Prague, the other at Ber nan, nea:Dresden. The Algerian terrorises con tinue, we S'e told, nnlv be- j cause they 6n) at least tl POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Mr. Earnest M. Cantwright Pier 3 San Francisco, Calif. Dear Earnest: Are you all right? have not heard from you in some time, and since some of your previous adventures sounded sort of precarious, everyone is wondering how you're do ing. Things are hopping around Medford these days. There's an election coming up this week, you know, and my, you should hear all the yelling and screaming. Perfectly nice people are saying simply horrible things about each other, and some innocent folk seem to be con vinced that the Home Rule pie, by posing as an enemy of dictatorship, and by prom ising to hold free elections and establish a democratic government. The Cuban peo ple took Fidel Castro at his word, and Fidel broke his word. He admitted conceal ing his Communist intentions, he barred elections, and he put himself in the pocket of Moscow. Both Mr. Khrushchev and Fidel Castro are in a predica ment. Castro docs not know how long the Soviets arc go ing to tolerate him, and the Soviets cannot yet see how they can make a show-case out of such a chaotic failure as Cuba is today. But the saddest predicament is the lot of the Cuban people. a SHOW-WINDOW III - East Berlin and East Germany. A Communist regime exists in East Germany today be cause East Germany is under massive Soviet occupation-22 divisions. The Ulbricht gov ernment would not last a day without the presence of So viet troops. For 14 years this Communist regime has been practising communism and the end result is a standard of living and a way of life so grim, so poor, so repulsive to people who have known freedom that thousands were fleeing every week to West Berlin and West Germany. Here is the Communist show-window which had to erect a prison wall around its own people to keep them from breaking the glass to escape. It is not a pretty sight. But communism has never been a pretty sight. Stop Me Elsewhere passive support of thousands of ordinary citizens. There are other places, such as Kenya and Tanganyika, where racial majorities might support civilian "partisans" with plastic in their hands, should it come to that, with constitutional breakdown. There are still other places whore tribalism substitutes easily for racism. In several shaky Latin American countries, intensify ing class conflict in the in creasingly congested big cities is hardly less worrisome than racial or tribal conflict in Africa. We know that hun dreds of young Latins from various nations are being tun neled in and out of Cuba every month, many of them vanishing by air in the gen eral direction of East Europe. 1 don't want to get lurid and I have no special, private information on this subterran ean level of the cold war. But when all these facts are considered together and when a committee of the Organiza tion of American States for mally warns Latin govern ments that they are alarm ingly ignorant, casual and in active about local Communist strategy. I cannot help but wonder if "plastiquer" may not soon find its idiomatic equivalent In Spanish and Portugese. (Distributed 1962. by The Hall Syndicate0 Inc.) (AH Rights Reserved) Charter is a nefarious clot hatched by Nikita Khrush- - chev and the American Mu nicipal Association for tha eventual slavery of Jackson county. Ah, well. The tern porary madness which itrikes during election time will pass away toon enough. Say. remember the desk you had when you were still working as a cub reporter at the Mail Tribune? The ons over In the corner where tha Managing Editor could keep his eye on you? Well, all that is changed now. The bov who is doing the work you did has a spot right In the middle of the newi room where all the people who have giant eggs and big turnips and odd- shaped potatoes can get at mm. The room is little bigger, too, and no longer do we have to stumble over each other's feet to get from one end of the place to the other. The telephones are all scrambled around, and until we get used to the sounds, we can't bo sure which phone is which when one rings. The Managing Editor has his own little private office now, and everyone is delight ed, for it keeps him out of the way. Now the rest of us, once in a while, can have an innocent little private conver sation without getting a scowl from the old slave-driver. Oh, yes, the coffee pot has been moved into the next room, too. And, say. Art has come to the good old newsroom. No, Art isn't the name of a re porter. I mean Art - like painting and sculpture. It all started when the M. E. brought in a couple of crazy, far-out paintings and a bun dle of wires that he calls a sculpture. He's proud as punch of them. Wonder what he'd say if he could hear the remarks of some of the others in the office when he isn't lislening? Well, this got the Women's Editor started, too. She brought in a piece of wood that looks like a scrunched doughnut mounted on a flat car, and put it right in tha middle of things where no one can avoid seeing it. Sheeeess!! Next thing you know the City Editor and Wire Editor will be painting murals on the wall, or some thing. The whole gang is in pretty good shape these days. Tha Church Editor is taking a few days of vacation, but every one else is working like mad. The Cily Editor and Manag ing Editor both cringe when a candidate walks in the door -and there are so many of them these days. Well, wa won't see many after next Thursday night. The city council seems to be behaving itself these days, and in general, things are pretty quiet around City Hall. But it will warm up soon, after the budget committee gets to work. The Courthouse Reporter has been having a ball cover ing all the county budget com mittee meetings. He says he gets a big kick out of watch ing them argue for five hours) about whether to spend S25 for a new piece of equipment, and then without a word slip a couple of hundred thousand dollars Into a carry-over kitty for next year. That's the way it goes. The City Editor continues at his steady pace. And you know how fond he is of those two cute boys of his? Well, he's been going around telling about how he kissed one of them good-bye the other mor ning, and the boy wiped off his mouth. "You got too much kiss." he explained to tha C. E. Orchard heating season is almost over with. With luck there won't be another smudge this year. There's a lot of speculation as to why there hasn't been much smudging this season, and the concensus seems to be that with all the hot air the poli ticians have been spouting, they don't need the smudge pots. Well, that's about all thi news there is to report, other than what you can read in the paper anyway. And now I ve got to hurry and get ready tn celebrate National Frozen Food Week and Let's Go Fishing Week, both of which started yesterday. I was a little late getting the celebra tions started, but they're go ing to be something. Today I also have to get going on Sen ior League Week and Girls Club Week, and tomorrow is the start of National Cotton Week and Letters from Amer ica Week. On Tuesday, Na tional Mothproofing Month begins, so you can see I'm going tn be awfully busy for the next several days I such a responsibility. Happy Mother's Day, Earn est, and drop uo line when you can. Aloha, as you jailor-Q hoys say. Very Sincerely. I Tha Potluck Editor. O o 1 o O
