Poets' Cqrner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Pottry: Univtrial Truth Transmuted
, Poetry is emotionalized experience. It is universal truth
in thought or feeling, transmuted by the imagination into
lining images, and expressed in beautiful, and usuallv pat
terned, language. It is the perfect expression of a worthy
idea in measured language. It is the product when a brood
ing imagination finds in man and nature deep matter for
consideration and transmits its findings to others for their
delight and edification.
--Gerald Senders
O -Grass
Tall grass, fed by the early rains,
Now shoots its sunlit blades
Heavenward, but a mower will reduce
This windblown field to well-proportioned length.
But I, for one, dislike the thought
Of shaping nature's ways.
Too soon the blistering sun will sap the ground
Of all the winter rains, and then this field
Of greening, tossing-sunlight will dry and die
To amber foxtails in the dust of sun.
Now, as the grass is reaching heavenward,
My thoughts are forced to trim it to the roots,
Then nuture it up heavenward again.
How like the tall grass bending in the sun
Is my own reaching to the sky.
Lloyd B. Halverson
Medford
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Ants' Highway
The anls' highway is the pasture fence
When the grass Is tall; then the ants commence
To trundle their burdens back and forth;
Back and forth, from north to south and south to north,
In such confusion that I cannot find
The truth of whether an orderly mind
Is driving the ant to work so hard,
While I do nothing but sit and regard
His errands with a critical eye
On the pasture fence as he trudges by!
Ruth H. Cowley
Tigard, Oregon
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Auf Wiedersehenl'
When comes the hour to call the roll
Of saints redeemed in heaven's demesne,
The reading of the sacred scroll
Most surely will revel the name
Of each good soul we've known on earth.
And if our fortune finds us there
Among the host who've earned rebirth
By lives so lived that everywhere
Men blessed the day so we came their way
We'll ask to see that honored list
Of friends and neighbors, proud to say
That without them we might have missed
The way to that celestial realm.
A shout of joy will escape our lips
To find right at the very helm
Of our own ship to cross the Styx:
Bing and Louise of Manor fame
Rogue Valley Manor mark it well,
For far and wide that is the name
That friends and loved ones ever tell
About when folk begin the quest
For dignified, serene retirement,
Assured of comfort, peace and rest,
Without the cares of house and rent.
So let us join in loud acclaim
And heartfelt wish! Auf wiedersehen.
Louise and Bing! You'll e'er remain
Beloved of all the "Rogues." Amen.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Dedicated to Mr. and Mrs.
administrators, Rogue Valley
at the lareweii party tendered
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Letters submittea for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
No Place Fast
To the Editor: If it takes
you three hours to fly three
limes around the world and it
takes four hours to find you,
you ain't gcttin' no place fast.
Everett Acklin
Ashland. Ore.
P S -Try a Brush car.
Feeling Oats
To the Editor: In spite of
weather w'e oldsters are feel
ing our oats and there's no
shelf wide enough to seat us.
May 22, the Golden Age
Orchestra, led by William
Pickell played on Johnny
Linn's TV program. Members
received many calls of appre
ciation and praise for their
perfect timing.
Wednesday. May 23. Med
ford's Senior Center orchestra
held a rummage sale, helped
by their many music-loving
friends.
Thursday. May 24. their
larue croup - taught by Ed
ward C. Root played for sev
eral guests at the Senior Cen
ter. Friday. May 25. the month's
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Irving P. Beesley. assistant
Manor, and read by the author
tnem at the Manor, April 18.
birthday party was held at
Medford's Fifty Plus Club.
May's party table was beauti
fully decorated for the Taurus
born. Flowers and cakes
tenced in by merry faces
Every birthday of the year is '
remembered that way.
Yep. I'm an 1883 May gal.
All right, I no longer am, but
I was a "girl" once, I bet yuh,
even if they did call me a
tomboy. My A3 pounds have
doubled, but I'm sure I can
climb trees and play ball yet
even if I can't chin myself a
dozen times and climb the
Rockies.
The other day a friend
asked me what I thought of
Home Rule. I am not in poli
tics, but I once heard of a
club that chose a small group
to be leaders, and some of
them got important right
away. They indulged in back,
biting, personal spite and
scandal. They gave that club
a bad name, then outsiders
heard about their rumpus
raising, Now our Fifty Plus club is
different. It was formed for
the recreation of old people
in and around Medford. We
are not interested in politics necessary, ne saia. to octer
or trouble making nf anv kind I "'"rrs from cheating on their
Just a large group of oldsters. 'i,xl'5- Sherwin was convicted
happy people who will get j dodging $16.394 in taxes
along together always, for we
will do as we'd be done by. corner of Fifth st. and Oak
That's the one true rule for i dale ave. Fridays at noon,
being plainly nice to know Pearl Sparkman
Hope to meet you there, NF. Jacksonville. Ore.
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By BENNETT CERF-
'jV'ANCY FAGG, spectacularly
L ' gal in Houston, Texas, has a
Meredith who heard the word
two schoolmates of Mex
ican extraction. "Mum
my," inquired Meredith
one evening, "exactly
what a plaza?" "A
plaza," explained Mrs.
Fagg, "is a square."
Meredith considered
this information judici
ously, then announced,
"The new principal in
our school is sure one big
old plazal"
Quotes:
Georga Jean JTathan: "I
don't know much about medicine, but I know what I don't like."
Ovid: "Chaste is she whom no one has asked."
Kin Hubbard: "The hardest thing to disguise is your faelings
when you put your mother-in-law aboard a train for home."
Oscar Wilde: "Duty is what one expects from others."
Austin O'Malley: "A gentleman is a prevaricator who never
heard his jruest's favorite new story before."
Fapa Shrecklich wasn't too impressed with the girt Junior
brought home for dinner. "I thought you said your girl's less
were without equal,' ha jeered while she was out of the room.
"Not at all," hedged Junior. "I said they were without parallel."
O 1963. by Bennett Cert. Diiuibuted by King Features Syndicate
THE WEEK IN
Explosion
Patrolman
By United Press International
A fuel explosion and fire
wrecked an Intercontinental
Titan Missile and its under
ground launching silo near
Chico and sent 63 men to a
hospital for treatment of
smoke inhalation.
Five men were trapped
underground for a half hour
when dense smoke blocked
their exits. All but seven of
those hospitalized were re
leased after brief treatment.
The explosion occurred as
civilian workmen tested the
installation prior to turning j
it over to the Air Force for
operation.
The Titan was installed in
a 160-foot deep silo, with a I
heavy door on top. The S2 mil
lion missile was 97-fcet long
and weighed 110 tons. Re
placement cost of the silo was
estimated at $20 to $30 mil
lion. Air Force Investigators
swarmed over the missile
complex in an effort to deter
mine what caused the explo
sion. Elsewhere, there were these
developments:
Patrolman: A
wounded
California Highway Patrol
man shot and killed his at
tacker in a blazing gun battle
in the coffee shop of a plush
hotel near Btirlingame. But
the officer, Dale Krings, 32,
of Redwood City, died two
hours later. Several witnesses
st?jd they heard the attacker.
Edward Lang Hargrove, 48,
of San Mateo, state "I hate
cops." Investigators theorized
Hargrove shot Krings because
of his dislike of law enforce
ment officers. The two had
never met.
Chapel: California State As
semblyman Charles Edward
Chapel (R Palos Verdcs) was
was fined S600 and sentenced
to serve two months in the
Sacramento county jail for
making a false report of an
explosion aboard a March 15
United Airlines plane. But
the sentence was suspended
and he was placed on six
months probation.
Sherwin: Alameda County
Superior Court Judge Marvin
Sherwin was sentenced to one
year in prison and fined
$1,000 on a federal income
tax evasion conviction. U.S.
Dist. Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli
said a prison sentence was not
necessary to deter Sherwin
from further crime. But It was
VttHWU
on the
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGO
Stop Me
- easy - to - Iook - at newspaper
7-year-old daughter named
"plaza" used frequently by
CALIFORNIA
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Wrecks Titan, Silo;
Kills His Attacker
for 1954-56 by failing to dis
close $37,000 in income.
Construction: Talks aimed
at settling the $3.5 billion
northern California construc
tion dispute resumed between
employers and the laborers
union. Meanwhile, one con
tractors group called for an
appeal to Labor Secretary
Arthur Goldberg. The strike
was in its fourth week. The
union began picketing several
building projects May 1. and
the contractors later retali
ated by ordering a general
shutdown.
Muslims: Nine members of
the Black Muslim cult indict
ed by the Los Angeles County
Grand Jury for their part in
an April riot in which one
Muslim was killed and a dozen
others injured, were sched
uled to be arraigned in Su
perior Court. The grand jury
indicted eight men on charges
of assault with a deadly weap
on. Five policemen were in
jured. All nine Muslims were
charged with resisting arrest
by use of force and violence.
The indictments came at the
end of a week-long grand jury
hearing into the riot in which
an estimated 50 members of
the anti-white sect battled po
lice outside of a downtown
Los Angeles Muslim temple.
Bakers:- A strike against
six major southern California
wholesale bakeries was set
tled and some 2.200 employ
ees returned to their jobs
after a one-day walkout. But
by the week's end the dismito
had extended to the Snn Fran
cisco Bay Area, idling some
500 bread truck drivers and
salesmen. A strike also was
threatened in Sacramento.
Tobriner: Gov. Edmund G.
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Bill Stoppi
In Field Cr
By YVONNE FRANKLIN i
Mail Tribune
Washington Bureau '
Washington (Speciali-A hill
providing that pre - teenagers
can't pick fruit and vegetables ,
for Din monev :
this summer is
providing a
major irritant
to some Ore
gon voters.
6 W 1 Jne 'pS'sla-
n-- f tion, designed
to protect the
c h i 1 dren of
migrant bihnr.
rr""" ers from bouis ,
exploited, has produced a
flurry of mail from protesting
uregonians wno want ineir
youngsters to have a work ex
perience during school vaca
tions. nop. cawm it. jjtirno w as
indignant and also distressed
I at the possible impact this bill
I might have on the farmers of j
; Oregon if it Is combined with I
possible action by the Secre
tary of Labor in barring Mexi-
can nationals from work north
I of the California border.
I "From the time I was 10
Brown nominated Justice
Mathew O. Tobriner, 58, of
the First District Court of
Appeals In San Francisco, to
serve on the State Supreme
Court. The nomination went
to the Commission on Judi
cial Appointments for expect
ed approval. He would fill
the seat vacated by Associate
Justice Maurice T. Dooling
Jr., who is retiring.
Exhausts: Road tests of ex
haust control devices began
in an effort to assure state
approval on at least two pro
totypes by next year. Three
devices accepted by the Cali
fornia Motor Vehicle Pollu
tion Control Board were in
stalled on 75 cars for testing
and a fourth device will be
placed on another 25 vehicles.
Two Accidents Are
Reported in City
Two non-injury accidents
Involving vehicles were re
ported to Medford city do! ice
Thursday. One driver was
cited, police said.
Vehicles operated by Harry
tugene Rose, 78. of 700 Chest
nut St., Medford, and Andrew
Jackson McCleary, 18, of 255
Beatly St., Medford, collided
about 10:25 a.m. at Fifth st.
and Central ave. Rose was
cited for making an improper
left turn.
About 5:04 p.m., a car driv
en by Evelyn Florence Hcr
rin, B0, of 503 Hamilton St.,
struck a parked motorcycle
registered to Laddie Darrell
Livingston, 115 Jcanette st.
The mishap occurred on East
Sixth St., police said.
!, 2
W $k -.1
ng Children's Work
eates Many Protests
years old until I was old.
enough to work in a saw mill I
at 17 I picked hops or logan-;
berries." Durno declared. He
added that his daughters when
teen agers had worked in the j
fields at harvest time "for pin j
money" and "their primary
reason was to heip the indus
try, because the industry is'
what keeps the Rogue River .
valley alive." j
He pointed out the difficul
ties in getting farm labor just
at the precise moment it is ,
most needed - when the crop
is ready and must be picked.
Durno has protested to Gold
berg about the hardship that
a prohibition of Mexican
workers would have on the
Oregon economy, and expect
ed a reply shortly.
Rep. Edith Green's office
produced a file of some 50 let
ters received in April and
May from the McMinnville,
Dayton, Amity area. The let
ters were for the must part
long, thoughtful, well-written
and friendly, but all protested.
Value of Earning
The parents wrote that even
very young children who
work (often with parents) are
taught the value of earning
and handling money. They
pointed out that a youngster
learns responsibility, and most
all of the letters mentioned
the value of work in prevent
ing juvenile delinquency. One
teacher said it helped pay her
way through college and she
was pleading for those now in
their early teens to have the
same opportunity.
S.1123 has passed the Sen
ate and is expected to be
called up in the House after
the Memorial Day holidays on
the consent calendar - which
means that one dissenting
voice can quash the bill and it
"lays over" until the next call
of the calendar.
The bill provides that a
youngster may work if he is
employed by his parents on
the home fnrm; or if he is 14
years of age or over; or if be
tween 12 and 14 and works
within 25 miles of his perma
nent home with his parents'
consent. It allows the Secre
tary of Labor to make regula
tions barring certain hazard
ous employment for children
up to age 16.
Telegrams from Hatfield
Durno and Rep. Walter Nor-
hlad had telegrams from Gov.
Mark Hatfield which said that
the measure would compound
an already serious problem;
that there was no evidence of
misuse of youngsters; and if
problems should arise, action
could be taken by the state to
protect the interests of the
children.
Wiley Clowers, president of
the Oregon Farm Bureau Fed
eration, had called on all par
ents, farmers and small busi
nessmen to write their con
gressmen opposing passage of
S.1123. Clowers stressed the
importance to the economy
("worth millions") and that
retailers would be affected be
cause of the material goods
which the wage-earners buy.
He said work was a character
builder and preventive of
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juvenile delinquency.
Norbald, who opposes the
bill, said he had ben getting i
telephone calls as well as mail j
against S 1123.
Amount of Work
"I think the kids do a tre-,
mendous amount of work in j
the Willamette valley towns ,
picking heans and strawber
ries, etc." Norblad said. "AH
the kids go out to work in the j
summer: it is just a family .
thing to do to earn school and ;
movie money. It is hard to
gel stoop labor these days, and
it is a tremendous benefit to
the farmers."
Norblad predicted the bill
probably won't pass.
Greg Janson, 6342 N. Com
mercial, Portland, wrote to
Mrs. Green: "I am a boy of 13
and just heard of S.1123 and
don't like what I have heard.
I am sure that you have heard
that Kennedy is all for physi
cal fitness, and berry picking
is a good way to keep fit."
Ashland Sets Plans
For Memorial Day
Ashland - American Legion
activities on Memorial Day
and the week end preceding
it Include preparation for the
service in Mountain View
cemetery when all Ashland
patriotic organizations unite
in the traditional service at
11 a.m.
Wreath making for the ob
servance Is scheduled Tues
day, May 29, at 1:30 p.m. in
the Legion hall on Winburn
way. At that time members
of the auxiliary will meet to
make five memorial wreaths.
Workers are asked to take
their own scissors, wire and
other materials.
Following the Memorial
service May 30 the annual all-
patriotic groups covered dish
dinner will be served in the
Legion hall at 12:30 p.m.
Members of the auxiliary
and junior members were on
the streets early Friday sell
ing the red poppies made by
disabled veterans. The Poppy
Days continued through Sat
urday. Nevada is the driest slate
with an annual average nf
just 8 B Inrhes nf rainfall,
based on a B7-yer record.
PRINCE
GARDNER
Burniifiid Mahogany
Polished Cawhldt. Alio
available In tan, black.
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SUNDAY. MAY 27,
The Family Council
Editor' not: Th Family Coirrl rnmiiti of a Juttx.
phvrhlatrtM Ihrre rlrn.vm.-n, thrre ft. ton and a wnmrn't editor,
Kath artirlr if a iin.nnry of a famil divagrrrmr nt presentfd In Lha
Cminrtl. The I'nunril draU with problrim, ma (or and mlnni,
fnroiinirrpd bv iuidnrf rmimHurt and wil workers, Edited by
Mri. Alma Dtnnry. (Copyright by General feature Corp.)
Mrs. H.V. - If she won't
mind Larry 1 can t visit my
daughter. i
Winda V.-llow tan I watch :
over a wild teen-ager?
Mrs. H.V. - We have a mar-'
ried daughter living out West,
a married son living a hlock
away and a 15-year-old son j
liviuK ti iiuuit- hum ua. wlj
daughter expects her second
child soon and is counting on
me to stay with her family
while she's in the hospital, and
for a few weeks after her re
turn. What can be more natural
than for me to send my young
est over to his brother's house
for the month or so I'll be
away? I can't leave him home !
with my husband. They gel
into terrible arguments and
when I'm not there to keep i
them apart. I shudder to think !
what could happen. I figured j
he'd have some respect for ;
his brother and especially for
Wanda, my daughter-in-law,
who's new in the family.
But Wanda says no, ab
solutely no. She wants me to
take Larry along.
...
Wanda V. - My mother-in-law
considers herself a pro
gressive mother where her
baby boy is concerned. He's
never been disciplined and,
as a result, Is a wild kid. He
won't take orders from me,
I'm sure. He doesn't act
friendly to anyone in the
family except his mother and
me. Making me responsible
for him would ruin our friend
ship. The boy is an adolescent
and too much for me. He
flares up easily if crossed.
Maybe it's all right for him
to practice on his trombone at
all hours in his own house.
My in-lows own it. But we're
just tenants in ours and if he
behaved the way he does at
home, we'd be evicted.
Frankly I have enough of
a job taking care of my hus
band, her other son. She'll
have to figure out some other
solution for this one.
The Council: As Confucius
might put it: She who seeks
hospitality for child must
raise child to be. gracious
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A 5
guest. Larry's behavior may
be the kind that "only a moth
er can love." If so, Mrs. V.
is not free to run off and
leave him with anyone else,
certainly not with her young
daughter-in-law who is not
long out of her own adoles
cense. Parents with "theories" on
child raising are entitled to
test out their ideas to their
heart's content. But, unless
their methods produce a civil
and civilized youngster, they
can t expect to "inflict" him-half-baked,
half-shaped-upon
kindly friends and relatives
who must assume he knows
the routine, basic "rules" of
social conduct. Thus, if Larry
flaunts authority and can ba
managed only by his mother,
Mrs. V. must stick around.
There must be something
wrong with his bringing-un,
or with the home situation, i
he can't be left with his fnth-
And Wanda's no mother-
substitute for a brother-in-law
only a few years younger than
she. especially one with mora
than the usual teenage prob
lems. There are two possible
courses for Mrs. V. which
come to mind. One is to take
Larry along on the western
trip. Perhaps the stork will
hold off till the end of the
school term. If not, some ar
rangement may be worked out
whereby he can join his moth
er and sister and the latter's
family immediately after his
examinations. Out there ha
can be enlisted to help with,
the older child, to run on im
portant errands and be other
wise useful. Away from his
old haunts and stultifying
cronies, a new and charming
Larry may reveal himself. At
least in letters home, Mrs. V.
and her daughter will prob
ably depict a Larry whom
Wanda won't recognize - able,
willing and a real "Jack Dal
ton of the Marines". Nothing
like a change of climate for
some kids.
Otherwise, Mrs. V. should
postpone her visit. She must
choose between doing right
by her daughter's baby or her
own baby. When her own i.
more mature, or can be left in
ithe proper hands, she can
skip town.
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