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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.
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