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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
Histoty from tha files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1952 (Tuesday)
Employment continued a
steady "seasonal" increase
during May, the State Em
ployment Service's Medford
office reported yesterday.
Rebuilding work on Foot
hills rd. from the Lone Pine
school vicinity to near the 401
orchard, and on Valley View
dr. from the Medford city
limits to Spring st. will be
started next week by a coun
ty crew.
20 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1942 (Weineiiiy
War Production board In
creases allotment of gasoline
for Medford area by 50 per
cent; order expected to nllow
sufficient gasoline for Cump
White and other essential
workers.
30 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1932 (Friday)
Capt. Lewis A. Yancey,
pilot on New York to Rome
flight, visits Medford to teite
pictures of Crater lake from
Aulogiro.
Secretary of state records
show 2,101 automobiles reg
istered to Medford owners for
all-time high.
40 YEARS AGO
June 3d 1922 (Saturday)
Medford city council votes
to provide hitching rack fa
cilities for farmers visiting
the city.
Lillian Russell, internation
ally known beauty, dies at
her home in Pittsburgh.
50 YEARS AGO
June 3, 1912 (Sunday)
Benton Bowers and S. A.
Carlton, both Ashland, file in
junction to stop construction
of East Main st. bridge across
Bear creek in Medford.
Highcroft Heights addition,
between Oregon Terrace and
Barncburg rd. and Oregon
ave. and Crown ave., sold for
$50,000; building in area to
be restricted to home costing
$5,000 or more "making it the
finest residence section of the
city."
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine fmr correct If auperiar;
seven or eight is eicellcnt; five or
six Is good.
1. Name the river that
forms the boundary between
California and Arizona.
2. What was the knighted
writing team that wrote the
"Mikado"?
3. Ill what season of the
year does Indian summer oc
cur? 4. What U. S. government
agency is charged with rail
road rate regulation?
5. Who commanded the
American Na,val forces at the
Battle of Manila flay in 18!B?
6. Is a female sheep a doc,
cow, cub. ewe or filly?
7. In what game is the term
snooker used?
B. Complete the names of
these trees: Horse ,
Slippery , Weeping
9. If you unknowingly ac
cept a counterfeit bill, will
the U. S. Treasury department
reiieem it for you?
10. Who has been called the
foremost ballerina in the
world?
Answers: I. Colorado river.
2. Gilbert and Sullivan. 3.
Autumn. 4. Intersiaie Com
merce Commission. 5. Com
modore George Dewey. 6.
Evke. 7. Pool or billiards. .
Chestnut, elm. willow. 9. No.
10. Anna Pavlava.
Propaganda
It was our privilege the other day to sit in
on a University lecture dealing with propaganda.
The lecturer pointed out that, prior to World
War II, there was an organization called the
Institute for Propaganda Analysis, which per
formed a useful function
name implies. (One suspects that there would
still be a good field for such an organization.
The Institute at one time issued a list of seven
devices commonly used in propaganda cam
paigns. THEY were these:
1. Name calling. (Call your opponent an ob
jectionable name which will discredit him with
his listeners, e.g., "pinko," "leftist," or "radical"
of right or left.)
2. Glittering generalities. (Make sweeping
-t: n.i iu: v, r;
Claims j.ur ur agaiiiM, suuieuini;, e.g., we rving-
Anderson bill will lead to socialized medicine.")
3. Transfer device. (Attempt to identify your
cause with something or someone eminently re
spectable or honored, e.g., "let us return to the
Constitution.")
4. Testimonials. (Get respected or well-
known people to speak out on your side.)
5. Plain folks. (Approach your subject from
the "common man's" standpoint: decry high-
falutin' experts and "outsiders.")
6. Card stacking.
endos, if necessary, that are difhcult to retute
without a lot of detail and documentation, e.g.,
"Have you stopped beating your wife?")
7. Bandwagon technique. (Let it be known
that "everyone s on our
go along with the cioowd. )
a
A FTER the lecture, a colleague went up to the
" professor and said, "That was a fine discus
sion of election techniques."
He was right, of course, for one or more of
these devices are used in just about every politi
cal campaign we've ever witnessed.
Each sf them is, of itself, legitimate, with
the possible exception of name calling and card
stacking, and even these, if used without excess
or rancor or viciousness, can be legitimately em
ployed. Anyone who wishes can take this list of seven
devices and, with its help, analyze the tactics
employed in any given political campaign. We
saw all of them in use dui'ing the recent Home
Rule Charter election, for exluflple,, , c
THE fact tfiat these techniques are used is not,
they sometimes are applied. Politics is a rough
and tumble game, at best, but that offers no ex
cuse for dirty tactics.
The political arena is quiescent at the mo
ment, takinir a breather after the primary elec
tion. But it won't be long until avid candidates,
and proponents and opponents of th.e many
measures to be deckte! this fall, start warning
up again.
We suggest that a realistic. appraisal of can
didates and issues would be facilitated by an ob
jective examination of the techniques employed
not so much in determining what propagan
da devices are employed, but how they are em
ployed. E. A.
Americas Noble Titles
"No title of nobility shall be granted by the United
States; and no person holding any office of profit or
trust under them, shall, without the consent of the
congress, accept any present, emolument, office, or
title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or
foreign state."-From Article I, Section 9, Constitu
tion of the United States of America.
Americans, barred by the Constitution from
titles of nobility or royalty in their official life,
seem to take delight in bestowing them unoffi
cially. No blossom festival, no pea harvest celebra
tion, no rodeo or even nudist convention, seems
to be complete without its "queen" and "prin
cesses." "Kings" and "princes" are not wholly
unknown, either, usually youngsters of an ap
pealing age to touch maternal instincts.
In America's lodges, titles proliferate, from
Exalted Ruler on through the gamut of honorific
appelations to the cooties, lady bugs and swamp
lizards of the veterans auxiliaries.
WHY is it that Americans, who are so jealous
of their rights in a democracy, so dedicated
to the proposition that one man is as good as
another in the eyes of the law, and that special
privilege should' attach to none, why is it that
they are willing nay, eager to bestow high
sounding titles in their private affairs?
Why is it that they follow with eager interest
the doings of a Queen Elizabeth, a Princess Mar
garet, an ex-Queen Soroya, or the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor?
It is, as the King of Siam might say, a puzzle
ment. E. A.
Committee of One
I Our own Potpourri and the Corvallis Gazette
j Times editor recently discussed the proliferation
'of organizations, and discussed the possibility
j of setting up another one which would pass on
! the merits of all the others. But who, they mused,
; would have the courage to serve on it? Ami who
would pay any attention anyway?
i No, each person has to constitute himself as
j a committee of one to pass on the worthiness of
such groups, as they affect him personally, and
Ithen loin or not join as he himself decides.
I Its both easier and ploasanter to say "no"
I to one's self than to others. Also safer. E. A.
Techniques
in doing just what the
(Use half-truths or innu-
side," and "you'd better
"And Whatsoever House I Enter (Excepting
Those Participating In The Adminstration
Medicare Plan)"
Washington Report
By William
(c) United Featurs Syndicate
JFK'S FRUSTRATIONS
Washington-President Ken
nedy feels a worry and frus
tration over the gyrations in
wall street in
some ways not
tuiuguiuer un
like his reac
tions a year
ago to the lost
i n v a s ion of
C a stro Cuba.
The stock
market break
is bri n g i n g
him some anx
ious Havs this sDrine. as the
collapse of the effort of- the
Cuban patriots to oust Fidel
Castro brougnt to mm iai
spring.
The Breat difference is that
ih President readily accept
ed the ultimate responsibility
fift the Cuban misadventure,
nut hp rinps not now accept
n,iu hlamr. for the recent vey
'sharp declines on the stock
market. Indeed, he sees me
declines, to a point, as more
or less inevitable.
THIS judgment - wmcn ot
course would not hold
should the market go on
down and down - is based
on conclusions, in fact, shared
in part by some leading Wall
Street figures, including the
famous House of Bache and
company. Thatis, the Presi
dent agrees with most market
analysts that stock prices
simply had long been too high
anyhow relative to the return
to stockholders in dividends.
The President goes on, how
ever, to another conclusion
by no means so widely shared
within business itself. This is
that the investing community
has finally realized that in
flation has been halted and
accordingly is now betting
against any progressive
heightening in prices gener
ally. And, curiously enough, he
also agrees, in a wry way and
to a degree, with the asser
tion of many businessmen
that some of the troublci
springs from a "lack of con
fidence." e
THE President concedes that
a "lack of confidence" in
him does exist in some busi-
nncc .-irfloH Rnl thi vitnl His.
tinction is that in ?iis mind
this disturbed view of him
is wholly unwarranted. He
sees himself as being looked
upon by business as though
he were another Franklin D.
Roosevelt, whereas his own
estimate is that he is a thou
j sand miles away from Roose
velt In his real attitude to-
I ward business.
I He sees himself as distinct-
1 ly pro-business. And he snorts
i in tired derision at sugges
tions heard here and there
that there may be some "so
cialist vein In him. This, he
believes, springs from a high-
ly excited notion that because
I some professors are in lesser
places In the administration
, these professors must be run
ning economic policy. The
, P'esident makes it abundantly
i clear that they are doing
nothing of the sort. He pauses
i to observe with emphasis that
! his chief economic adviser is
! himself a Wall Street Ropubl-
lican who served in the Eisen
hower administration. Secre
tary of the Treasury Douglas
Dillon.
HE ALSO waves away as
excited nonsense the sug
gestions of sumo ultra-liberal
Democrats that some mysteri
ous "they" who are supposed
to control Wall Street are do
pressing the market in the
hope of defeating Democratic
concrrssional ennduiates this
fall. Silly Is the word for
this sort of suspicion, in his
view.
So, in the end. it all comes
to this: the President thinks
"luck of confidence" in a
time of high prosperity is an
irrational slogan arising r.ot
from facts but from vague
S. White
and unreal suspicious leading
to excessive timidity among
some business people. This is
where his frustration enters
- this and a feeling that some
times it is hard for a fellow
to win, either way, consider
ing that at this very moment
he is by no means the top
hero of organized labor,
either.
Whether Mr. Kennedy is
right or wrong in all of this,
this columnist does not even
pretend to know. But does
Mr. Kennedy himself really
believe it? Or this, oge who
taws lone to tne President
himself can have no reasog
able doubt.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From New York-At 8:15
PDT Thursday a.m., which
was 11:15 a.m. EDT. (When
you talk about time in these
days, you have to explain
WHOSE TIME.)
The stock market forged
ahead in heavy opening trad
ing with a DELUGE" of buy
orders spurring a further re
covery from the biggest drop
since 1920. Several stocks
opened more than $3 higher
on big blocks of ORDERS IN
HAND when trading opened
at 10 a.m. after the Memorial
13ay Holiday respite.
Brokers said buy orders
outnumbered SELL orders
three to one. One firm said
orders are pouring in from
foreign investors.
MORE from New York:
American Telephone op
ened at $115, up S6.50, on a
WHOPPING BLOCK OF 100,
000 shares.
rpo GET the full impact of
-.the transaction, multiply
100,000 shares by $115. It
comes to a lot of money-$ll,-500.000,
to be exact.
... Somebody had lot of con
fidence in something.
llfORE about the deal:
" Exery point up means
another $100,000 profit. Ten
points up and he has made
a million.
The other side of the coin:
Every point DOWN means
a LOSS of $100,000 and every
ten points down means the
LOSS of a million.
But who with nerve enough
to lay $11 V4 million on the
line would thiflk of a thing
like that at this moment in
history?
VOW one from Washingtan:
Kennedy administration
spokesmen go to Capitol Hill
to argue for an $8 billion
increase in the national debt
-which is now $300 billion.
Treasury Secretary Dillon
and Budget Director Bell are
likely to face, from the Re
publican lide of the house
ways and l.ieans committee, a
sharp grilling! on adniinistra-
I tion economit policies. The
emphasis may be on any pos
I sible responsibility for the
recent plummeting of the
stock market.
THIE Washington d i s pa t ch
adds:
However, the ways and
means committee, the house
i of r pr-ntativcs and the
; senate are expected ultimate
I ly to approve the debt limit
I increase. Congress has period
I ically increased the debt
j limit, always honoring treas-
m y requests made on the
' basis that without the leeway
ef a heightened ceiling the
i administration would have to
! resort to "awkward and cx-
pensive financial devices-or
possibly even LEAVE BILLS
UNPAID."
HMMMMMM.M.MM.
There is always the de
vice of SPENDING LESS.
But. In these modem days,
no administration could be ex
pected to think of an old
fashioned device like that.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(e New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
CHANGE IN THE EAST
There is not likely to be i
any serious controversy in this j
country about supplying food
to the hungry
Chinese.
There is a
great surplus
of food here
and the sto
ries of hunger
and misery
have aroused
i m mediately
the old Amer
ican feeling
Lippmann
for the Chinese people.
Oui- disputes with the Com
munist regime and its viru
lent campaign of hatred have
covered, but they have by no
means extinguished, the sym
pathy, one might also say the
affectionate prejudice, that
goes back to the days of the
clipper ships and the mission
aries and the exchange of stu
dents. This country is able
and willing to help and few if
any among us are willing to
exploit the misery as a weap
on in the political conflict.
Mercy and charity, we feel,
are their own best reward.
There is, however, some dis
cussion as to whether we
should take the initiative,
I whether we should offer to
sell and give food to China,
or whether we should wait for
an invitation from the Red
Chinese government. The po
sition at the moment is that
at last week's press confer-
l ence the President all but
invited the Chinese govern
ernment to send us an invita
tion. His intentions could be
made clearer through diplo
matic channels. But the Presi
dent can hajdly offer food to
the mainland Chinese govern
ment unless he knows that the
offer will not be rebuffed.
This does not mean that we
would let the hungry starve
unless the Chinese govern
ment comes to us hat in hand.
There are other ways of or
ganizing relief which do not
require direct dealing between
Peiping and Washington. The
relief could be done by an
inter national organization,
perhaps by an agency of the
United Nations, operating
through the International Red
Cross, to which the United
States could contribute food
for the mainland as we are
already contributing food for
the refugees in Hong Kong.
TT MAY be that the agricul-
tural disaster and the in
dustrial slowdown are pro
ducing so much chaos and re
sistance that radical changes
in the external relations of
China will follow. We do not
now know enough about all
this to reach a reliable judg
ment, and it is only prudent
to assume that at whatever
cost in human misery, the
Red regime will ride out the
trouble.
It' is safest to suppose that
China is in a phase of its rev
olution similar to that which
Russia was in during the '20s.
If so, China will for some
time be hostile to all its
neighbors while it is engaged
in a ruthless struggle to make
its economy a going concern.
If this is correct, it is use
less to woo Peiping or to
threaten it. It will not be de
flected by the wooing and it
will only be made more vio
lent by being threatened. The
policy is to contain cRod China
to prevent it from expanding
and to avoid provoking it. It
may be many 3-ears before
China has evolved to a point
Respect For Medical
By ERIC SEVAREID
In 1936 I was a cub report
er covering a national conven
tion of physicians and sur
geons in Saint
Si
Paul.
One of
t h e
' pers ran a
t straw vote in
ithe conven-
tion hall, test-
ing the Presi-
oennai preier-
Jv,i ence of the
ijiijj medical pro-
f varria fession. The
result was so overwhelmingly
in favor of Alt Landon over
F D R. that when the national
vote was in that November.
I wondered if Landon. who
had called Social Security a
"cruel hoax." had received
ALL his votes from the medi
cal profession.
The convention panels and
lincheons bristled with de
nunciations of virtually every
thing Roosevelt was trying to
do in those dreadful years of
paralysis and fear At t h e
closing dinner. Dr. Will Mayo
j wis called on to speak The
I handsome old man shook his
silver head and gently warn
i ed his colleagues thai they
j must cease their blind nppo
'sition to social change. "Doc
j tor Charlie" Mayo was called
on. He cleared his throat, look
i ed at the floor and mumbled.
where a different relationship
is possible.
e e
OUR own China policy has
matured during the past
ten years.
For one thing, we have giv
en up the notion that main
land China is going to be re
conquered by an offensive
staged from Formosa. That
standing provocation has been
reduced to zero, and the ad
ministration has every inten
tion, I believe, of keeping it
at zero.
Secondly, we have learned
the lesson of Gen. MacAr
thur's disastrous march to the
Yalu river in the Korean war,
which is that the Red Chinese
will react violently and con
vulsively to the presence of
United States military power
on their frontier.
We are now applying what
we learned in Korea to what
confronts us in Laos. We had
scrapped the notion, long cher
ished in some Washington cir
cles, that Laos could and
should be made into an Amer
ican "bastion" up against the
Chinese frontier. We are now
ready to settle for a neutral
Laos, which does not mean a
Laos with a government that
is mathematically equidistant
between Senator Goldwater
and Mao Tse-tung. It means
rather a Laos which tries to
avoid entangling alliances and
to live a quiet life.
e e
THE changes in our own
policy are running parallel
with changes in the relation
between Red China and India
on the one hand and between
Red China and the Soviet Un
ion on the other. This change
manifested itself last autumn
in the UN debate about the
admission of Red China. We
had in it a comfortable ma
jority which felt as we do,
not on the question of seating
Red China, but on our refusal
to expel Nationalist China.
Even more imDortantly, the
change is manifesting itself
in Southeast Asia.
The striking and extraor
dinary feature of the situation
there is that we are dealing
with the Soviet Union, which
is about as far away from
Southeast Asia as we are,
rather than with Red China
which is on the frontier. It
looked very much as if the
Russians were acting in this
area in order that they, and
not the Red Chinese, should
play the deciding role in deal
ing with us.
THERE is fair reason to sup
pose that the Russians are
working to prevent a Chinese
Aijierican conflict which could
lead to war. In such a war
they would be faced with the
choice of abandoning their
ally or of fighting the United
States.
In order to prevent such a
war they seem to be using
such influence as they have,
which is not omnipotent, to
further the neutralization of
L,aos, ana eventually or an
the southern borderlf.ends fac
ing Red China. It is not un
A u 1
a'lll(JUl laill, lb SCTC1113 LU lllc
that they are even preparing
to soil MIGs on easy terms to
India, which is struggling to
contain the expansion of Red
China.
I So it may not be going too
1 far to say that under the pres-
sure of Chinese expansionary
actions in the north against
the Soviet Union, against In
dia in the south, and against
SontheayA Asia there is
coming into being a de facto
coalition to contain the ex
pansion.
"What my brother just said
well, I agree with him." The
audience couldn't very well
withhold applause from the
Mayo Brothers, but it was
faint and frosty.
Since then I've had a hard
time believing that the A.M.A.
was a tight little politico-medico
bureaucracy misrepresent
ing the majority views of its
membership; and I've never
ceased to be puzzled by the
attitude of most doctors,
whose work is so intensely
personal, toward the public
place and responsibility of
their profession.
Having been ill or injured
in a variety of countries, I'm
sure they're the best-trained
doctors in the world. They
work with the suffering ail
day lone: they overwork them
selves for charitable purposes;
they did wonders during the
war.
a
They know perfectly well
what hospital costs are doing
to family life-savings in the
most tragic manner. Yet ev
ery time a political lrader
proposes a social answer to
what is clearly a general, eco
nomic problem, they slam
down an intellectual iron cur
tain, and propaganda replaces
the civilized search for solu
tions. There are doctors who
charge brutal fees, doctors
POTLUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Dear Earnest:
Well, things have been
pretty quiet around here since
the election.
The city and the county
have both completed their
budgets, and all that remains
is for them to be published,
and for the public hearings.
The city, as usual, just bare
ly scraped through wit'i the
amount of money available,
and the city manager warned
that it cannot go on indefi
nitely this way without either
finding new sources of rev
enue, or cutting down on city
services - such things as po
lice and fire protection, street
maintenance, and parks and
recreation and library serv
ices. The county, as usual,
squeezed every possible dollar
out of the budget, and wound
up with a healthy surplus,
despite the impassioned pleas
of some divisions and depart
ments for more money. They
also salted away a couple of
hundred thousand bucks for
future reference.
It looks as though the
health department is goingjo
get its clinic building, al
though there is some dispute
as to where it should go.
And the auditorium-stadium
business keeps popping up
again. Now if the two groups
ever get together, and work
out a combination plan, pos
sibly in conjunction with the
school district, which is going
to have to build a new high
school sooner or later, maybe
something could be done.
But don't hold your breath.
As you know, the ratio be
tween hot air and solid ac
complishment in this area is
about six billion to one. But
shucks, it's that way every
where, isn't it?
And besides, quite a few
good things have been ac
complished in Medford and
Jackson county over the
years.
ThS trees In downtown
Medford, in their neat little
pots, get prettier every year.
1&Y d. rads
-By BENNETT CERF-
HOWARD SMITH, Miami
had been manager of
got a chance to run a brand
third day he was there a
lady about to have a
baby was rushed to the
hospital in an ambulance.
She never mad it. Her
son a healthy, bcftincSng,
eight-pund baby was
delivered on the lawn.
A week later, the proud
father received a bill
which i.icluded this item:
Use of Delivery Room,
$50. "I won't pay," he
complained to the new
manager. "My wife never
got as far as the delivery
room.
The manager agreed that the fa'sier had a point, nd tore0
up the bill. But he sent a new one immediately. This one
read: "Green fees, $50." The father knew when he was
licked. He paid up.
Harpo Marx, who talks-and very eloquently, too offstage,
tells about an indignant member of a Palm Springs golf club
who spluttered, "The Board of Directors just offered me five
hundred dollars to resign. I told 'em to go climb a tree." "You're
absolutely righ"approved the man who used the adjoining
locker. "Hold out another two weeks and I bet they'll offer
you a thousand!"
"What this country needs," insists a hard-pressed family head
Jn Schenectady, "is a good five-cent fallout shelter." 0
1963, by Bennett Ccrf. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate
Profession Ebbing
who evade their taxes, doc -
tors who, while arguing that
"socialized medicine'' will de
stroy the intimate "physician
patient relationship," run
I their own patients through
Otheir consulting rooms at as-
! sembly-line speed Yet the
j generality of medical men are ; alone were truly exercising
I not getting rich and I fail to : their minds and mastering a
i observe that as a class they j discipline: but I am afraid
l are any more selfish and the j that, In their immersion in
' rest of us. I demanding technical studies,
If their organized lobbies I they were the ones who failrd
i confined their efforts to the ; to become educated in t !i e
enlightened self-interest of the 1 deeper and more universal
profession, as they see it, they sense of tlft term. Far too
; would be a little easier to many or them simply lacked
take. But they insist on affect- the opportunity or the iucli
ing the role of philosophers nation to read the time on
of the whole human condition. history's clock.
, They profess to see in a given I The doctor has always dealt
legislative bill on health costs in mysteries, to the gratitude
an act of treason to the Found- and awe of his helpless neigh
ing Fathers, sabotage of the bors. and since frontier days
1 Constitution, loss of the Cold American doctors have been
War. the end of the Republic the most respected class of
. and the sure erosion of indi- j citizens in our common life,
vidual character. j Perhaps they cannot be blam-
' ed for acquiring a tendency
How can they arrogate to toward the Augustan and the
themselves such Perirlean oracular,
wisdom with such ease" I But I wonder if they are
think back to my university going to retain, as a class, the
days and wonder if tlf?s spe- high degree of respect they
cial state of mind does not have always enjoyed; and if
beiin with the educational I were a doctor I would re
process. The medical school card the slowly changing pub
hoys seemed contemptuous of lie attitude toward my pro
those immersed in the liberal fession with some concern,
arts "snap courses" on philos (Distributed 1962 by Tha Hall
ffhy. history, sociology anc;1 Syndicate. Inr, I
. political science. Few of them , (All Rights Reserved',
Of course, some big, beauti
ful, fully-grown trees get
chopped down every so often,
too, for what reason I can't
for the life of me figure out.
Here we knock ourselves out
to make this a green and pret
ty town, and at the same time
some people go out of their
way to chop down some of
our greatest assets.
Howard rVairie is n snlM
success. Thousands of people
are going there every week.
If the conntv rnnrt pvpr a-t
ally went up there to see what
goes on, they might feel a
little differently. The presi
dent Of the Hawaiian state
senate dropped in to the office
tne otner day to see the boss,
and told him that Howard
Prairie was the ereatesl fish.
ing lake he'd ever seen. And
hes seen a lot. Well, you
know the old saying, "A
oroDhet is not without
save in his own country."
The freeway construction
job is moving along pretty
rapidly. Our handsome young
governor opened up a new
stretch of it near Grants Pass
Friday, and parts of it through
the valley will be in use by
the end of the summer or,
rather, they will be unless an
other construction strike holds
things up.
The monstrous elevated
section through town is al
most done, and looks about
as bad as feared, but we'll
learn to live with it.
And the weather has been
fine - for the ducks. We've
had a few days of sunshine
(including Memorial D a y),
but mostly it's been cloudy
and rainy.
Let us know how things art
on Pier 3. As always,
The Potluck Editor
P.S. - Oh, yes, I almost for
got. Since it's now June, ev
eryone is hoping the "orchard
heating season is all over. It
should be. And it wasn't too
bad this year, either, either
in dirtiness or in length. f
course ther're a couple of mills
which carry on where the
smudge pots leave off, but we
can't have everything, can we?
Slop M
savant, tells about a man wha
a big golf layout and suddenly
new, sixteen-story hospital, Th
1 caught fire in the general in-
tellectual conflagrations of the
thirties when imminent war.
Fascism, and the re-making
of the Americ.Oi society ex
cited our minds. (
They affected the postiOe
i of young men who felt they
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