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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY. MEDF0RD!4t&TRIBlNE """Everyone In Southern Oreson"" Reads The Mail Tribune" ubilshYd Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 113 North Fir Jl.. Ph. 772-6141 " ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manam r.FRAI.n T LATHAM. Bui. Mir. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, Llty bailor HARRV CHIPMAN. Telee Editor JtlCHARD JEWETT. Spom Editor OLIVE STARCHER Womtn'l Editor DALEERICKSON, Clrculauon Mgr An Independent Newapaper Entered aa second claia matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. IB07 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year Sift 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moi. 10.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Single Copy (Malledl 30c By Carriei And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year S2I.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 7S Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier and Vendora -Copy loc Offtrlal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire TJ. P. I Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBER OF "AUDIT" BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ti ASSOC!. ATES Ofllcea in New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver. tr1 NEWSPAPfl FUIUJHf ASSOCIATION NATION A I I0ITOIAl Flight or Time Medford nd Jackson County History from fh files of The Mail Tribung 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1952 (Sunday) Newton Olson, a member at the Camp White Veterans Administration domicili a r y, today became the 100th pati ent to be carried by the Mercy Flights air ambulance service. The total number of regis tered voters in Jackson coun ty will probably be about 2.000 more than the all time previous high by the deadline at 8 p.m. Saturday, deputy county clerks have announced. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1942 (Monday) Lew Wallace, Democratic candidate for governor, and Edward D. Kelly, Medford, D e m o c r atic candidate for United States representative, to be honored at meeting here' . .... From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The frequent soothing comment of the times is 'After the war the meek will Inherit the earth.' If the meek are too meek to object It will serve them right." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1932 (Wednesday) Floyd Gibbons, famed war correspondent, addresses small crowd at Medford air port, during stopover here while en route to San Fran cisco. Some 200 Medford and Rogue valley football fans plan trip to Eugene to see University of Oregon -Santa Clara grid game. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1922 (Thursday) District Attorney Rawlcs Moore and Coroner John Perl Investigate accidental shoot ing of 18-year-old Tolo girl. Fletcher Fish, local orchard 1st, appointed federal fruil Inspector lor Ibis area. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1912 (Saturday) Section of Jackson street 1.200 feet east from Bear creek bridge to be graded; work expected to make street passable in winter months for first time. Medford traveling salesman seriously Injured when buggy tips over and goes over Siski you grade while trying to pass freight outfit. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ot ten correct ht superior; seven ot sight Is ncellant; fia oi il Is good. 1. Which President of (he United Slates was the first to habitually dress In long trous ers? 2. When an alien gets his first papers does he become a U.S. citizen? 3. Who led the Norman in vasion of England in 1006? 4. Between what years did Jong trousers come into vogue among the common people in America? 5. Which U. S. President is famous for the charge up San Juan Hill? 8. What instrument would you use to determine the den sity of a liquid? 7. What important fuel is the solid residue remaining from the dry distillation of bituminous coal? 8. Arc coach -whip snake, one-time terror of the South, harmful to man? 9. Which state is nicknamed Pine Tree Stale? 10. Hydroponics is the sci ence that deals with what? Answtrsi 1. Jamas Madison, 2. No. 3. William of Norman dy. 4. 1790-1800. 5. Thaodor. Eoosevell. 8. Hydrometer. 7. Cok. 8. No. 9. Main. 10. Raising crops without toil. 4 A- SEPTEMBER 21. 19S2 Another Candidate's Views Alexander Dumas, Republican candidate for the state house of representatives, has responded to the editorial invitation to state his views on the state's problems of finance and education. He is the seventh candidate to do so. His statement follows: To the Editor: The time lapse in my attempting to answer your editorial questions of July 31, 1902 Is not due in any way to my being delinquent, but caused by a real mental wrestling with what I consider the real issues involved. Your first four questions are all concerned with the raising of money for different pur poses, and my comments are directed to them in their order. 1. In our homes, In our businesses, and in our everyday Uvea we must anticipate, and accurately plan, what we can afford before we go out and buy what we think we need and must have. If we do not we are in trouble. Is there any reason that this same thinking should not apply to the operation of state government? If the budget requests of the last bien nium are not changed and we are shy the $33 million which existed previously In surplus, new revenue will have to be raised, or the budget trimmed. It would be my hope that the state would not have to Impose any new tax. As to how to raise the additional monies that might be necessary, I can only say that it would depend on how much would be necessary and for what purposes. I cannot fully give an answer at this time. But I do know that we can't have our cake and eat it too. 2. It would be hoped that new industry and higher payrolls could be the answer to raising additional monies for basic school support under the existing law. But, we know that our school age children are increas ing at a great rate. I might say that I am as deeply concerned about the high property tax rates as anyone and feel that we must look to some way for relief in this area. But, I do feel that the citizens and tax payers closely scrutinize school expenditures when they know how directly these increased costs affect them. The citizen-taxpayer keeps his eye out for un necessary expense and I think a discerning search of school expenses, always keeping In mind that our chil dren need and deserve a first rate education, is a key to both efficiency and economy. 3. Oregon's fine higher education system should be encouraged to continue to grow. We know that ad vanced specialized industry Is attracted to areas where the state systems and private colleges, as well, excel!. Such Industries are solely needed in this state today to help take up the slack in our employment problems and timber situation. It still takes X number of dollars to do X number of things, or provide for X number of services. Let's not pitty pnt; higher education for the high school citizen of this state Is essential, and it should be a first-class-sccond-to-none education. I would hope that the taxing requirements here could he made under our present taxing situation. It would also be hoped that with a first class system more funds would be allotted lo our higher education system from private sources in the form of grants, etc. 4. Let's hold the line on community colleges at least for now. We are going to have expense problems forthcoming under our present system of higher edu cation. There is no doubt In my mind that the Stale of Oregon will some day have a community college program, but I agree with Senator Ncwbry, that we must be sure we can adequately meet the financial re quirements of our present educational system before trying lo bring college to the students' back door. A too rapid step into the community college program without adequate planning might result in a costly and inferior system. 5. I am not so sure that any of the state services should be cut back, but I do think that some of the services have been subject to abuses which should be cut out. I feel that the welfare and general assist ance programs are important to this slate and desir able - but let's make It count where it docs the most good. By being cautious in this area, it seems to me that we might make the same amount of welfare funds now being used lo extend to more people in greater need. This would benefit Ihe really needy as well as the taxpayer. If I am elected, I will approach all of the financial problems In a business-like manner and to the best interest of our people in Ihe county and stale. Alexander A. Dumas, 2011 East Main si. Medford. E. A. The Bombs and the Weather For some years now, since the explosion of atomic devices began, the man-in-the-strcct has idly speculated about a connection between these blasts and the weather. Whenever it rained in August, say, or there was an unseasonable thundershower in January, or a dry spell in November, "Probably those bombs" has been an often-heard, half joking re mark. Now comes a scientist with substantial bona fides to suggest that there is more than half-joking speculation. He believes that nuclear explo sions, particularly those high in the atmosphere, do in tact influence the worlds weather. THE scientist is Dr. Irving P. Krick, president of a private weather-forecasting firm in Den ver, who earlier experimented in various forms of weather control (increasing snowfall, iirevent ing hail, and so on) including some locally. In an interview with The National Observer, Dr. Krick said he began to note peculiarities in weather all over North America last winter, and is now convinced that Russian and American nuclear tests are responsible. This is his theory in brief: Solar energy from space largely determines barometric pressures, which in turn determine weather distribution. the earth, such as results from a high-altitude nuclear blast, acts in much the same way as solar radiation. This causes a surge of cold air down from the polar regions. AS a result, Dr. Krick expects colder winters, cooler summers, fewer hurricanes. He also foresees the possibility of world-wide weather control. These conclusions he labels as "tentative," but he is sufficiently convinced that he is right to discuss them in detail. With a combination of high solar energy output, plus additional radia tion from new nuclear explosions, he even fore sees the possibility of a "new ice age." This is all purely speculative, of course, and whether he is right or not remains to be seen. But those who think "those bombs" have affected the weather are in distinguished company. E. A. A radiation belt around MEDFORD Little Bundle Ml COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the nime and address of the writor, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all tellers with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The tetters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; in fact the contrary is often the care. Don'i Shool I week by county Keep Oregon To the Editor: A hunling we Green committees. The com- win go, noping we Kin a duck and not a doc. Some one said how about a man, that could be called an accident or thought he was a deer. There is no excuse to kill a doe unless it is said I thought she was a man instead of a doe. Don't shoot until you can count the points on the ant lers, as I believe it's against the law to kill a spike. Marshall H. Waggoner, 3487 Leanard rd., Grants Pass, Ore. Indian Policies To the Editor: American his tory does not always make happy, or comfortable, read ing. Consider, for example, how in "the march of prog ress" we often violated trea ties solemnly made with tribes of our original Americans. Oil companies, ranchers, power interests, even government agencies, and others, from time to time, succeeded in per suading Congress and our courts to deprive Indians of ancestral lands guaranteed lo them in perpetuity. Typical was the case of the Wy-ams of Celilo, removed from their ancient fishing grounds on Ihe Columbia to make way for the great dam at The Dalles. Five successive limes they were moved, and except for their fourth new village, they received no com pensation from the Govern ment for Ihe loss "f their homes. To many Indians, equally objectionable and a violation of our treaty obligations has been their forced "integra tion'' In a number of in stances, by "termination" of Government guardianship and protection, as in the recent case of the Klamath and other tribes of the area now com prising the Winema National Forest. It therefore was heartening to read an announcement of new Government policy, In the Christian Cenltlry of Sept. 26, from which I quote: "Greater emphasis by the U. S. government on economic development in its relations with Indian tribes was prom ised the National Congress of American Indians at its recent annual meeting in Cherokee, N.C." At this meeting. "Phil Ico Nash, commissioner of In dian affairs under the present administration, promised fed eral funds and additional help to tribal groups wherever they j are. . . Most welcome was the commissioner's annorxccmcnl that termination oi federal responsibility for Indian af fairs, which was pressed in a few instances hy the Eisen hower administration, would henceforth be decided entirely by the Indians; no tribe or group would be 'terminated' unless it was clearly ready and expressed this readiness in votes taken on its own in itiative. Since fear of forcible termination has been wide spread among the Indian peo ple, this new policy is reason for them and all Americans to rejoice." Amen' Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Vallev Manor .Medford Manners for Hunters j To the Editor: When the poet William Alliugham Jot ted off the lines In his stanza ton hunting, "up the airy ; mountain, down the rushy "glen." he may have been thinking of country such as that which thousands of Ore gon hunters will be prowling for deer at the opening oi' hunting season Saturday. Moved by the same poetic muse, Irv Luitrn of ' Wryer haeuser I'o . a member of thv Governor's Red Hat Days commmee. nas wrmen a mon-lout expenditure of tax mon-crn-day ode In hunters which ley " Is being distributed on flyers J How about It. Gentlemen to thousands of hunters this of the city council MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. From Congress mittee is conducting a pro- gram aimed at maintaining good conduct by hunters, many of whom will be bag ging their deer on industrial tree farms and other private ly owned forest land. The poem: If the lure of the woods is inviting, And you'll never deny its call; If the track of the deer is exciting, And you go for your buck each fall; Then, look to your conduct, Hunter. For a wood to tramp with your trusty gun, Is never a right, but a privilege won, With good outdoor manners. American Forest Products Industries 847 Piltock Block, Portland 5, Ore. Medford Shows How To the Editor: As a former resident of Medford and a graduate with the class of '57 from M.H.S., I was very proud to read the enclosed editorial from the Sanla Ana (Calif.) Register Ed Albright 744 West Maple st. Orange, Calif. The editorial follows: MEDFORD. ORE., SHOWS US HOW Regular readers of The Register know thai we have not been happy with the San ta Ana City Council's plans lo spend tax money to build a new football stadium. We have contended that the sta dium should be built and paid for by those who want and are willing to pay for it. City Manager Carl Thorn ton seems to have convinced the bulk of the city council that they have some sort of obligation to erect a new sta dium in a former peat bog in the southwest part of the city, despite the fact the cost will be higher than to re build at the present site at Sixth and Flower Sts. Most of the council mem bers have indicated that the only dispute is as to whether it will be financed by direct taxes or by a bond issue voted by the people. The city "fa thers" don't seem to have any faith that it could be built voluntarily and without tax money at all. . But we are sure it can be built voluntarily. And we have some evidence to sup port our contention. Just last Friday night the people of Medford. Ore., ded icated a $100,000 4,000-seat grandstand for Medford High School. And, according lo the Medford Mail Tribune, t h e grandstand was financed with out expenditure of tax money. Bulk nt the financing was from sale of more than 800 five-year season tickets at SI ill) each which the school bowler organization promot ed as a means of financing the stadium. Now we realize that $100. 000 will not build the elab orate stadium which City Manager Thornton and the I council are proposing. But if ! a city of 25.000 can raise ,$100,000 to provide stadium seats for 4.000 why could not the city of Santa Ana with more the 100.000 population raise at least $400,000. We don't know whether it would provide 16,000 seats, hut we suspect it would provide all j ,hl), rc nccdcd And the people of Santa Ana could hold their heads high with self-respect and cm ulale the fine people of Med ford. Ore . who say with Justi- ! fiablr stand pride. "This grand- being financed with- OREGON Mao Still Undisputed Despite Failures in Farm and Factory By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst If nothing succeeds like success, then consider the case of Red China's spiritual and physical lead er, Mao Tse tung. As the Chi n e s e Reds wind up their 13th year in control of the mainland, three succes sive years of Nawsoaa crop failures and mismanagement have left Washington Report By William (ei United Feature Syndicate ON STANDING ALONE Washington - A new and involuntary form of creeping Isolationism is arising in the free world. This is a gath ering spiritual 1 s o 1 ation of the United Slates from most of its western allies and most of Latin America, in the matter of Castro Cu ba. Tihs country in effect is not only being forced to stand substantially alone in dealing with the Soviet Union's mili tary penetration of this hemi sphere In Cuba. We are also being lectured in a rather su perior tone by our allies about the foolishness of becoming "too excited" about Cuba. Much of western Europe thinks it knows more than we do about the degree of danger in our own area. Much of Latin America will not see the danger at all -not yet. It is in the comfort able position of being able to refuse any real cooperation with us in full awareness that when attempts are made to export a bit of Sovietization to its own soil, we shall move in as protectors. 11HE plain truth is that the United States has never been put in a more galling position. And even some of Principals To Meet On Campus at OSU Corvallis-The Oregon Asso ciation of Secondary School Principals will hold its 34th annual fall conference at Ore gon State university Oct. 8 and 9 with "Science and Mathematics In the Modern Secondary School ' as the theme. More than 300 junior and senior high school principals are expected to participate. It will be the first time the association has met at OSU. Maurice Burchficld. Shasta Junior High school, Eugene, is president of OASSP this year. Max MeKinney, princi pal of the Corvallis Highland View Junior High school, is program chairman. Guest speakers will Include Dr. Max Beberman, Director of the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathe matics, and Dr. Hall Taylor, program director of the Fel lowships section of the Na tional Science Foundation. Demonstration classes will be included. Discussion topics will in clude new programs In secon dary schooi mathematics and science, the role of the prin cipal in the modernization of the science program, the so cial studies teacher in Oregon secondary schools, and teach er certification regulations. mi Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF JOHN MASON reports this exchange of notes between a finicky traveler and the manager of a posh Miami Beach hostelry : "Dear Mr. Manager: Please reserve the same suite I had last year for the week of February 17. But please have some body remove that darned stuffed bird from drawing room befor check in. Its beady eyes stared at me and ruined my appetite all during my last visit. Sincerely "Dear Sir: I'm sony iiid disturb- I'm afraid "J our stuffed bii ed you but you'll have to take the bittern with the suite. Please The manager of a drive-in-movie was show in his setup to a stranger while n "rpic" was unfolding on the screen. "See that green sedan in the fouith row over these? ". a.krd the nianager. "It contains the only married couple here tonight. Hou can I tell? It's the one car facing the picture." Grandpa Haas called his daughter Pal en the phone recently to ask innocently, "lm womicung. my dcr, if could leave your children with your hiwband and you juat for this one even ing ? W J're invited to dine with the Governor." O ISO. b- Rsnnttt Cerf. Distributed by King rtaturve 8adKat the Chinese people hungrier than ever, the great leap for ward in industry is at a stand still, there is an estrangement with the Soviet Union, and a threat of war with India. Most of these can be laid directly on Mao's doorstep. Yet the image of Mao re mains untarnished, his leader ship so long as he lives ap parently secure and the cult of Mao still growing. i The Chinese press and ra dio still refer to him as "like the sun . . . the Chinese cham pion, whose thoughts are the supreme combination of Marx- S. White our good friends, human na ture being what it is. are not too unhappy at seeing the powerful American eagle's tail feathers being pulled. We are not, however, the ones who will be most hurt in the end by this, our involun tary isolation. We can take care of ourselves in this hem isphere. Indeed, long since we could have done so. We would have tossed Castroism out of Cuba as a tin of annoying rub bish from our backyard but for our desire to avoid allied criticism and anguished howls of "intervention" from the same Latin-American nations we are safeguarding from the; very real "intervention" of the Soviet Union. The true sufferers, unless soon our western allied friends and our Latin neigh bors decide to give us at least a minimum cooperation, will be those very western allies, those very Latin neighbors. qiHl a HHE British, the Norwegians nd others, who thus far refuse the patiently determin ed appeals of Secretary of State Dean Rusk to halt ship ping to Cuba, are givng many fine legalisms for withholding even 111 i.-, tepid act of sup port. After all, they say, no body is at war with Cuba; free trade is free trade, and so on. But they can awake one day to find that in main taining their "right" to this tin-pot trade with Castro they have, so to speak, lost a much bigger customer, the basic good will of the people of the United States. The Latin Americans, in hanging back from any joint plan genuinely to seal off Cuba in this hemisphere, can awake and find they cannot forever play both sides. The multibillion - dollar American aid in the alliance for prog ress does not come from the pockets of the reformist types who are so oddly understand ing of Latin-American hem ming and hawing. It comes from the American people, through the American con gress. And the American con gress is already dangerously fed up with the elegant so phistries of can't-do allies and Latin neighbors. Already, for eign aid in any and every form is in trouble at the cap itol. The time may come when it is in deep and irreparable trouble. w HAT profit to our allies and Latin neighbors if they win their little argument about precedents and all that, but really do force us to go it alone? They would all be wise to make some effort better to understand the actual mood of congress and country. Cuba may be trivial to them. But to congress and country, it is far from that; and the present mood of bewildered arger can, without much more prov ocation, become ugly indeed, from their viewpoint. n-tr jj, J wire instructions , - e I re, aV I JieTl. J'V i a J e aA Boss of Red China, ist Leninist universal truth and the Chinese revolution . . . the pioneer of natural science . . . the superlative politician, philosopher, economist and military expert." Yet those who have known Mao describe him as almost totally ignorant of science, poor at mathematics, possess ing only a second-hand knowl edge of the world outside China, and a bad administra tor. Mao appears in public in- ! frequently now, and. reported- ly, his speech has lost some oi us conerence. His years as a guerilla fighter and the "long march" of 1934 in which his armies retreated 6,000 miles to escape encirclement by the forces of Chiang Kai-shek have taken their toll on his health. But Mao has been the un disputed leader of Chinese communism since 1927. He crossed with Stalin when he ignored the latter's advice to seek his support among the workers of the city, and went instead to the peasantry Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, lne. PIPE FANATACISM What with all the ominous medical talk about the cigar- et-and-canccr link, I have been toying with the idea of taking up a pipe. That is, I was toying with the idea, until I began to snoop around my pipe - smoking friends. These Hams chaps need more equipment and resources than a corps of combat engi neers in the field. It is not merely a matter of buying a pipe and sticking a fistful of tobacco in the bowl. Any pipe smoker caught doing this is considered a bounder who would probably shoot a grouse sitting. The real sport in pipe smoking is making it hard for yourself, in setting up almost insuperable handicaps to pipe smoking enjoyment. It is real ly a rigidly structured form of asceticism, more than a pleasure. The gentleman -pipe smok er, first of all, has to hunt down a special esoteric brand of tobacco that is sold only in a little Ken tucky village on an outpost along the Hudson Bay. Then he imports ihe stuff at fab ulous prices, by secret code number like X-38, Private Stock. If he finds it can be eas ily bought in Ihe city, all the fun goes out of it, and he has to look around for another bilious blend that must be brought from Nome by dog pack. In the Day's News By FRANK Some interesting figures: Last year (1961) an average of 11 persons visited Oregon state parks for every dollar spent on maintenance and op eration. This compares with a national average of just over four visitors per main tenance and operation dollar. Oregon's cost per visitor for maintaining and ODeratine its state parks last year was nine cents. This compares with a national average of 22 cents per visitor. In Oregon last year, each bark operation or maintenance employee car ed for 52.500 visitors, as com pared with a national average of 16.800 visitors per em ployee. Oregon ranked tenth in the Union last year in total park expenditures, and far out stripped the other nine in per visitor cost. The states near est to Oregon in pcr-visitor cost were Michigan and Wash ington with 17 cents each, as compared with Oregon's nine cents. THESE statistics are taken from State Park Statistics, publication issued by the National Park Service. Com menting on them. Forrest Cooper, Oregon state high way engineer says: "We aren't short - changing the public on our traditional Oregon State Park cleanliness to achieve this favorable fig ure, nor are we offering fewer facilities. A major factor in reaching these figures is the heavy use of each park area." THERE is another factor. -1 It Is this: In Oregon, the state parks are under the jurisdiction of the State Highway Commis sion. This results in many economies. State equipment can be used in the parks at times when it might other- of the countryside. He battles now with Nikita Khrushchev for the role as chief interpreter and spokes man for Marxist-Leninist the ory. And, although he shuffled millions of Chinese as help less pawns in his determina tion for the "great leap for ward" in Chinese industry and agriculture, he so far has es caped public blame for its failure. The giant communes which, beginning in 1958, took over the lives of more than 500 million Chinese, have been broken down into village brigades. As the daily rice ration in the communes fell from 12 ounces per day to four or five, peasants are being allowed small plots for their own use. Industry has been told that it must make do with machin ery and manpower now avail able, without new invest ment. Any new gains must come from the workers themselves. Some 20 million city workers have been shuf fled back to the farms. J. Harris Vary often even this does not satisfy the real con noisseur, and when the to bacco arrives he adds lo it his own mixture of stale cabbage leaves, chopped-up rubber bands, a dash of pap rika, and passes it around proudly to his pipe-smoking colleagues. Sometimes ihey curl up and die on the spot. But this is only the begin ning. It is necessary to have at least IS pipes, all spe cially constructed, of course, by a firm in Calcut ta, one for each day in the week, as well as holidays and mornings-after. a These pipes must hang in a sanctified container and any woman of the house who dares to stick the Monday pipe in the Friday rack is faced with instant dismember ment. Talk about religious fanatics. We must not forget the reamer, the tamper, the scrap er, the poker, the mesher, and the dozen or other mys terious gadgets that are close ly guarded in a locked drawer. Overhauling a pipe, I gather, is something like taking down the rear end of a car, and soon becomes a life work, like building ships in bottles. Despite these delicate and loving operations, the pipes have to be taken to the to bacconist's every three months to have their valves ground or something. And when they come back, bright and shining, they stink as out rageously as before. But to a pipe smoker, this odor is Nir vana in its purest form. Boy, bring me a pack of those cancer-laden cigarets! JENKINS wise stand idle. The same economics apply in the case of personnel. As a result, maintenance costs can be held down. It is a good system. It has come under attack from time to time in the past, but so far common sense has prevailed and the parks have remained under the jurisdiction of the highway department. "OREGON'S state parks have " grown steadily in popular ity. In 1948, total day use attendance was 2,157,480. By 1960, total day usage had in creased to 10.942,800. It is estimated that by 1985 it will have increased to 14.381.800 About a decade ago, Oregon began to provide overnight camping facilities at selected state parks. This experiment arose out of belief that Ore gon's outdoors provide the state's chief attraction for tourists - especially tourist families. It has been highly success ful. In the first year, over night camping attendance in the parks where camping facilities had been provided was 44.112. By 1960, attend ance had risen to 595.023 -more than 13 times the first year's usage. It is estimated that by 1965 attendance will have risen to 1.079,500. ATTENDANCE figures at Collier State Park, just north of Klamath Falls, are of interest as indicating the growing popularity of Ore gon's state parks. For the past four years, the figures arc: 1958 105.675 1959 183.591 1960 205.413 1961 249.850 Figures are not yet avail able for the 1962 season, but it Is anticipated that the total will pass 300,000.