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and 50 veart "flO-
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 3, 19S2 (Tuesday)
University of Oregon Foot
ball Coach Len Casanova was
, the featured speaker at a ban
quet honoring the Medford
high football team last night.
Sustained winds of 25 to 30
miles per hour, with gusts up
to SO miles per hour, were
reported In the Rogue valley
by the weather bureau today.
20 YEARS AGO
Doc. 3, 1942 (Wednesday)
Sheriff Syd I. Brown an
nounces local law officers will
enforce war time speed regu
lations calling for maximum
of 35 miles an hour.
Frnm Arthur Perry's "Ye
KmnHc Pot" column:
questionnaire four feet long
was brought to Jigm ry con
gress this week. The same
day a federal bureau pro
posed the size of newspapers
be reduced to save paper."
30 YEARS AGO
Dac. 3, 1932 (Friday)
Residents of east Medford
requested to donate one ar
ticle of clothing to be given
to persons less fortunate than
they arc.
Medford Salvation Army
moves from old Methodist
church at Fourth and Bartlott
sts. to former site of minia
ture golf course at 32 South
Bartlett st.
40 YEARS AGO
Dac. 3, 1922 (Saturday)
Prohibition enforcement In
Jackson county during No
vember 1022, costs ?800.
President W. Judson Old
field calls annual meeting of
Southern Oregon Chautauqua
association in Ashland.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 3. 1912 (Mo.tday)
Army officer appears be
fore Medford city council to
request a p p r o p r I ation of
$1,000 to be used to help cov.
cr cost of armory seating
3,000 persons.
Whal's Your 1.0.7
Nina or tan correct U superior;
even or eight it aictllanti live at
tia U good.
1. What Is a Galling gun?
2. What President of the
U.S. broke the precedent for
bidding the chief executive
to leave the country while
In office?
3. Of whnt two metals is
bronze an alloy?
4. Which has the greater
number ot bones in Its skele
tal structure, an adult or
child?
5. From what plant is her
oln made?
0. Under what range of
mountains Is the Simplon
tunnel?
7. What American city
was nearly destroyed by nat
ural calamity In 1806?
8. What famous character
In literature signed a con
tract with the devil?
0. What instrument it
played by the "concert mas
ter" of a tymphony orches
tra? 10. What Is the English
name for Paternoster?
Aniwern 1. Early type
machine gun. 2. Woodrow
Wilton. 3. Copper and tin.
4. Child - lomt later futa
together. S. Opium peppv.
6. Alpt - 64,971 ft. long. 7.
San Fraajcitco. I. Fautl. 9,
First rioun, 10. Our Father
-Tha Lord's Prayer.
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DECEMBER 3, 196
Nuclear Diplomacy
(Editor'! note: America's most distinguished, and
respected columnist, Walter Lippmann, has been In
Europe for the past several weeks. Last Thursday he
spoke at the Anglo-American Press Association in
Paris. The following is excerpted from his talk.)
Since 1955 there have existed in the world
two rival and conflicting
nuclear weapons. They are in conflict at many
points on the globe. They distrust profoundly
each other's purposes. , . '
The essential and novel fact in the contem
porary conflict, which distinguishes it radically
from the great conflicts of the past as for ex
ample that between Islam and Christendom is
that the two coalitions possess nuclear weapons.
These weapons differ from all other weapons,
even those used as recently as the second World
War, in that they carry with them not only a
greater quanitity of violence, but violence of a
radically different order and kind.
In the wars of the pre-nuclear age which
ended with the bomb on Hiroshima a victorious
power was an organized state which could im
pose its terms on the vanquished ...
OUT after a full nuclear exchange such as the
United States and the Soviet Union are now
capable of there might well be over 100,000,
000 dead. After the destruction of the great ur
ban centers of the Northern Hemisphere, with
the contamination of the earth, the water and
the air, there would be no such recovery as we
have known after the two World Wars . . .
A war of that kind would not be followed by
reconstruction; it would not be followed by a
Marshall Plan and by a new NATO. It would be
followed bv a savage struggle for existence as the
survivors crawled out of their cellars, and all the
democracies would have to be converted into
military dictatorships in order to keep some
semblance of order ...
If anyone wishes to understand the American
position in the Cuban crisis and the American
attitude towards military power in the world to
day, he must remember that responsible Ameri
cans do not dare to forget the reality of the nu
clear age ...
DECAUSE nuclear weapons mean mutual
suicide, the paramount rule of policy in this
age is that, as between the nuclear powers, there
can be no important change in the status quo
brought about by the threat of force or by the
use of force. Thev cannot use nuclear war, as
war has been used in the past, as an instrument
of national policy. The Cuban affair has much
to teach us about the nature of diplomacy in the
nuclear age . . .
President Kennedy was able to prevail be
cause having the power to achieve a limited ob
jective, he had the wisdom to narrow his objec
tive to what he had the power to achieve.
Thus, he had the power to deter the Soviet
Union from attempting to
Soviet naval action and
nuclear missiles. But the President himself could
not use America's nuclear power to bring about
the overthrow of Castro and the liquidation of a
Communist regime in Cuba.
It was manifestly unthinkable to use nuclear
weapons against Cuba. They had no relevance to
the Cuban problem. It would have been an in
calculable risk to invade and occupy Cuba at the
risk of retaliatory military action against Berlin
action which could have
war.
WHAT the President did was to adopt linut
prl nhinetivna u-liw'li I'nulrl hp lichipvprl hv
limited means. He demanded the removal of the
Soviet strategic missiles. He did not demand the
removal of the Castro regime or even of the
Cuban defensive missiles.
The President was able to achieve the ob
jectives to which he limited himself. Soviet nu
clear jiower was neutralized by American nu
clear power, ami in the Cuban area, the United
States had overwhelming land, sea and air forces
which were quite capable of destroying or cap
turing the Soviet missiles . . .
Finally, and decisively, the United States,
which had overall nuclear and conventional su
periority around Cuba, was careful to avoid the
ultimate catastrophic mistake of nuclear diplo
macy, which would be to surround the adversary
and leave him no way to retreat.
WASHINGTON did not forget that while nu-
clear war would be suicidal lunacy, it is an
ever present possibility. Nuclear war will not be
prevented by fear of nuclear war. For, however
lunatic it might be to
power if it is cornered,
if it is forced to choose
conditional surrender is likely to go to war.
This is one of the facts of life in the middle
of the Twentieth Century . . . and it is a fact
which must be given weight in the calculation
of national policy.
It is a fact that was kept constantly in mind
in the calculation of our Cuban policy . . .
Those who do not understand the nature of
war in the nuclear age ; those who think that war
today is what war was in the past, regard those
careful attempts of statesmen not to carry provo
cation beyond the tolerable limits as weakness
and softness and appeasement.
There are a good many people in the West
who do not understand the "nuclear ago, and they
are forever charging us with appeasement . . . But
prudence in seeking not to drive your opponent
into a comer is not weakness and softness and
appeasement. It is sanity and common sense aid
a due regard for human life . . .
coalitions armed with
break the blockade by
by the threat of Soviet
escaladed into nuclear
commit suicide, a great
if all the exits are barred,
between suicide and un
MEDFORD
"I Can't Come Out And Riot Tonight
I Got To Study Civic"
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
People keep confusing
sometimes purposely au
thors with their characters
and quote a
statement by
the character
as p r o o i
mai, uie hu-
S i thor is ex
pressing his
own view.
One of the
most com
m o n exam-
Harm pies of this
perversion is the pnrase,
Whats In a name? Shake
speare is supposed to have
"said" this but actually it
was said by a 14-year-old
girl named Juliet, who knew
little about the world, and
less about semantics.
There is a great deal in a
name; sometimes there is ev
erything in a name. A rose
might smell as sweet if it
were called a pheffleburger,
but it wouldn't be mentioned
in so many poems and songs.
During tha last war, for
instance, that inimitable
phrase - maker, Winston
Churchill, in a radio broad
cast rochriitened tha Local
Defense Volunteers the
Home Guard, Now "Local
Defense Volunteers" is a
cumbersome bureaucratic
name with no emotional ap
peal; "Home Guard" stiffen
ed every Briton t spina and
made him proud to be a
member of it.
Likewise, it was a stroke
of inspiration to call it the
Peace Corps. Had It been
called the Overseas Techni
cal and Medical Aid Asso
ciation, it would not have
captured the imagination of
so many young people.
3
2& J
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From New Delhi:
India and Pakistan agree to
seek an end to their bitter
quarrel over Kashmir. The
agreement will permit Indian
military forces to concentrate
on the Himalayan border con
flict with Red China.
The agreement with Pak
istan for a resumption of the
negotiations over Kashmir
will strengthen India's hand
in the event that the Chinese
resume their invasion of In
dia, which was halted by the
recent Chinese cease-fire.
Indian forces are being
pulled out from the Pakistani
border and concentrated on
the Himalayan front.
QUESTION:
How did the ruckus over
Kashmir get started?
It's a long story. It began
back in 1947, when the Brit
ish gave up their control over
their Indian Empire. Out of
that came partition of India
between the Hindu-control'ed
Republican of India and the
Moslem-controlled Dominion
of Pakistan.
In that division, the Hindu
mahuraja of Kashmir turned
Kashmir over to Hindu India.
Its population, however was
overwhelmingly Moslem. Hin
du India naturally defended
the deal that turned Kashmir
over to her. Even since then,
India has kept strong military
forces on the Kashmir bolder.
Pakistan has concentrated
correspondingly heavy forces
on the west border of Kash
mir to defend her claim to
the area.
It 'HAT llas hPIcncd is that,
' facing the threat of Red
Chinese seizure of ALL of
Kashmir, Pakistan and India i
have finally agreed to Join j
forces to stand off the Com-1
munist Chinese threat.
That's the story in a nut-i
shell. I
X
SO MUCH for a big tragedy. !
Let's now turn our attcn-'
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
n 9
1 ( jf
J. Harris
Hitler shrewdly recog
nised tha value of a nam
when ha changed hit from
Schikalgruber; and Stalin
(meaning "man of steel")
was a dramatic Improve
ment over the clumsy and
polysyllabic name the Rus
sian dictator was born with.
"Trotsky" was also an ef
fective nom da guerre.
Most propaganda thrives on
the judicious use of "colored"
name. If literal, factual, accu
rate words were used to de
scribe political positions and
principles, the masses could
hardly be roused from their
torpor every quadrennium. It
takes slogans, catch words,
and phrases loaded with bias
to stir the electorate out of
its customary apathy.
Ironically enough, the very
word propaganda is a glaring
instance of how much is in a
name. "Propaganda" began
life as a most respectable
word; it is from the Latin,
and signifies a college insti
tuted by Pope Urban VIII in
the 17th century to educate
priests ior missions.
Originally, it meant educat
ing for the propogation of the
faith. But in time the word
"propaganda" itself took on
an evil and ugly connotation;
when we say, "That's only
propaganda," we are giving
a disreputable name to some
thing quite useful and neces
sary namely, the propagat
ing of a belief by its adher
ents.
The word "dogma" has suf
fered the same verbal fate; it
means merely a code of tenets
or opinions but calling our
adversary "dogmatic" is a
means of rebuffing him with
out refuting his arguments.
JENKINS
tion a minor tragedy but a
tragedy, just the same. It is
described in this dispatch
from Washington:
IjMNDING his favorite lizard
" hunting grounds taken for
housing projects, 7-year-old
Scott Peter Turner of San
Diego took his pen in hand
the other day and protested
to President Kennedy. He
embodied his protest in this
hand-printed letter:
"Dear Mr. President:
"We have no place to go
when we want to go out in
the canyon, because they are
going to build houses there.
Could you set aside some land
where we could play? Thank
you for listening.
"Love. Scott"
OCOTT'S father, is an ac-
companying note, said his
son had gone to some previ
ously open land to hunt liz
ards, only to find that one
area was occupied by a field
restricted to ORGANIZED
PLAY, and the canyon had
been pre-empted by home con
struction. The father added:
"In building our progres
sive world of supervised play
and sterilized playthings, we
seem to have forgotten that
a youth needs trees and frogs
and earth with ants In it . . .
It's it nostalgically sad when,
in an era of seemingly intel
lectual advancement and
highly civilized progress a
little boy can't find a place
to play?"
IT IS. indeed.
But. that's what happens
when everybody in a whole
big country WANTS TO LIVE
IN ONE PLACE-which is
what Is happening in South
ern California.
About all I can think of
to suggest to Scott is that he
come up here where there are
paces that are still wide
open.
Come on. son. We'll do our
best for you.
Foreign News: Optimism for Declining
Tensions
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Jfotes from the Foreign
news cables:
Declining Optimism
President Kennedy warned
Americans not to become
overly-optimistic over the So-
vietagreement
to remove
its
missiles from
Cuba. And
other Western
statesmen ad
vised the Pol-
lavannna nnt
I VfjS! I to work their
aLA49ll nPes 0 n'gn
tBBaatV.avlteBBtl over n nn-ssi.
Nawiom ble change of
heart by the Kremlin after
Cuba. Now 1he realities are
beginning to sink in. Indica
tions reaching Western capi
tals from Moscow in the wake
of Nlkita Khrushchev's Cuban
backdown show no inclination
so far on the part of the So
viets to make any note
worthy concessions. In Gen
eva, too, the Russians to date
have remained as unyielding
as ever on disarmament and
a nuclear test ban. The only
note-worthy development at
present is the absence of any
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann tt In Europe. Roieot Drummond reports from
Washington in hit absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune ln.
HOW KENNEDY
STANDS IN EUROPE
' London There is new re
spect, trust, and reliance for
the United States throughout
Western Europe today.
If Western Europe's polit
ical leaders and people ex
cept the Communists were
called upon to register a vote
today, John F. Kennedy
would be elected head of the
free world alliance. ,
It would be a clear verdict,
a decisive vote of confidence
in the President of the Unit
ed States not just because
the U. S. has the power to
lead, but because of the wise
and effective use of that
power.
This is the visible fruit of
the President's confrontation
of Khrushchev over Cuba,
which most of Europe feared
when It began, but which it
now welcomes with a huge
satisfaction and lift.
The effect of this new atti
tude, evident wherever I have
been travelling in London,
Paris, Bonn, Berlin Is to
give Mr. Kennedy larger lat
itude for Initiative and action
if he wants to use it.
There are two reasons why
leadership opinion and public
opinion have a new degree, a
very marked new degree, of
trust in the President.
He used American power
prudently and called into use
no more force than was
needed.
It was successful.
The Europeans liked it.
They respected it. There is
now a remarkable Increase of
confidence in the President.
THIS wasn't true at the be
ginning of the Cuban
blockade except in West
German and in West Berlin
where the almost universal re
action was "At last."
It was particularly not true
in Britain where the govern
ment was cautious and non
committal immediately after
the President's Oct. 22 speech
and where the London press,
with the single exception of
Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Ex
press, was wringing its hands
and crying, "Oh, dear, don't
do this to us!"
But the change in British
press opinion was almost
equally total. It is revealing
to note how sharp and com
plete that change was once
it became clear that America's
resolute confrontation was
causing a Soviet retreat.
Before Khrushchev capitu
"Why. li t . . . Ne, it can be . .
Richard Nixon . . . t"
Fades; French Cabinet slated
. . a-li ft -t D-J fL : n
real pressure for a Berlin
settlement, and even on this
one Moscow gently needled
the West again last week in
notes to Washington, London
and Paris. Khrushchev still
may be making up. his mind
on the next phase of the cold
war and how it la to be pursu
ed. But the optimists who
have predicted a new era of
good will In Soviet diplomacy
are beginning to be less opti
mistic. French Government
The word from Paris is that
French Premier Georges
Pompidou's new government
to be announced Dec. 6 is un
likely to show any startling
changes. Key posts such as
those of foreign minister, in
terior and finance will be
filled by the same men who
held them before a rebellious
parliament toppled the gov
ernment and forced President
De Gaulle to go to the people
for an overwhelming electoral
victory.
Guerrilla Warriors
A couple of months ago,
heavy weather forced a
strange rubber-flotilla into a
remote corner of Hong Kong,
lated, the Daily Telegraph
(Conservative) said that the
presence of offensive Soviet
weapons in Cuba was "not
enough" to allow the U. S. to
take the world to the brink.
After Khrushchev backed
down, it said: "The great
thing is that we are now back
from the brink and this we
owe to the power of the Unit
ed States and the persistence
of its President."
The first response of the
Daily Mail (Conservative) was
to call the President's action
a "profound mistake," but
later, as Khrushchev was step
ping back, it concluded that
the blockade was "justified
and inevitable unless the
President was to shirk his
responsibilities."
Before Khrushchev re
coiled, the Guardian of Man
chester (Liberal) declared
there was "no shred of ex
cuse" for what the U. S. did
to the Soviets in Cuba, but
after Khrushchev recoiled it
found there was a difference
between NATO bases' in Tur
key and Soviet missiles in
Cuba. -
For a week the Tribune
(far-Left Labor) attacked the
American action and later
candidly and handsomely ad
mitted that it was wrong.
And so It went with 98 per
cent of the British press, at
the outset bemoaning the risk
and the praising Its success
. '
BUT THE British press was
out of touch with the Brit
ish people, or, at least, failed
in any way to reflect British
public opinion. Well before
Khrushchev gave in, that is.
within two days after the
American action became
known, the National Opinion
Poll found that 58 per cent
of the British people endorsed
the American action and 66
per cent wanted their govern
ment to support the United
States.
Today British official and
public opinion are united and
the British press has come
around.
Today the highest officials
of the British government, as
on the continent, are high in
praise not only of what the
U. S. did, but the way it did
it. They credit the President
with great skill, resolve, and
prudence, and feel that he
brilliantly used the tools of
power, diplomacy, and prop
aganda to counter aggression
the way Khrushchev uses
them to promote it.
Aboard were 44 young Chi
nese men in top physical con
dition, expertly trained in
guerrilla warfare and carry
ing a full complement of
portable weapons. Their orig
inal destination had been the
Washington Report
By William
(ei United Ftaturt Syndicate .
THE REMEDY
Washington - The Ameri
can . foreign a l d program
needs a hard-boiled examlna-
f". tion of a sort
1 it has never
11 a u uewi c.
Away with
those kind 1 y
re-surveys by
its friends, of
which it has
had so many
and from
.aitJJl so little has
White come, txtra-
ordinary as this sounds, It re
quires now to undergo a
clinical probe from among its
enemies, who will look at its
faults more in anger than in
sorrow. . ' . '
' Running foreign aid has be
come the hardest and most
thankless job in Washington.
This, in a bleak sentence, ex
presses the chill inheritance
which now befalls David Bell
as the newly appointed for
eign aid administrator.
He follows a long line of
men, sturdy characters on the
whole, who came in here de
termined to straighten up the
shop in three months but
found that the task had neith
er beginning nor end. The
latest of these is the retiring
Fowler Hamilton.
mo David Bell, this column-
ist offers a decent sym
pathy and also two recom
mendations which, though
seemingly frivolous, are
meant with total seriousness:
1. That as, his first act he
stimulate a new look at for.
eign aid by a committee of
the crustiest bankers, bureau
crat-haters and anti- foreign
aid people he can find. From
this panel he should auto
matically exclude any person
who ever remotely favored
the program. Thus when the
verdict from the new inquest
does come in, it will at least
be free of any public sus
picion that the jury was load
ed. This would appear a dan
gerous recourse to. doubtful
cures. But the fact is that the
program, for all its manifold
short-comings, has, in the past
certainly, been enormously
useful to the Free World. This
correspondent believes a
strictly hostile inquiry Into it
would anyhow establish that
1 T-T
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, '
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial
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edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters
p.inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha
Daper: In fact the contrary is often the cate.
Shelter for Animals
To the, Editor: With' the
coming of cold and often
freezing weather, owners of,
and those resnonsihle fnr nn.
imals are particularly warned
mat local law requires mat
such animals be provided with
shelter that is both nrnnpr anH
adequate. This means warm,
ary ana sunicientiy large.
Penalties for disregard of
this law are fiO ftavs in iail nr
$100 fine, or both. This abom
ination for rhany of these
animals are smooth coated
dogs, short chained day and
night and therefore unable to
keep warm through exercise
Is the result of either a oH
lack of humane education or
just plain indifference.
Many of the victims are
hunting doss who. in common
decency, deserve better treat
ment consiaenng tneir serv
ices to their owners.
If you see such neglect, first
warn wait a few days for Im
provement, then rennrt tha
case to the Humane Society or
to the police. Please!
tthel L. Marley
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
Fair Criticised
To the Editor: On rw a tha
State Fair Commission has
scheduled a meeting, presum
ably to discuss storm damage,
future nolicies. huHooi anJ
who is to be next year's fea
ture entertainer.
Urscl Narver. rnmni,.i
- vii1II30IVI1
Chairman, has recently m..
some interesting remarks in
me omem statesman i Saf
ety Valve". He sound a inn.
like someone who believes
that once he has said some
thing on any subject, little or
nothing more remain. k-
said on the subject.
I believe that a ereal tri
more might ha um ti.
statute creatine ih (,. i. ....
,e out
dated and tn manv wavt. aV i
plain foolish. It presumes, and
in 1962 mind you, that Ore-
coast of Red China. But for
the unexpected storm, these
nationllst Chinese agents
would have wreaked their
havoc on the Communists and
the world would have been
none the wiser.
S. White
much and moreover would
have the great virtue of clear
ing the air once and for all.
JPIOR if every Instance of
waste or overspreading or
foolishness could be put out
on the public record, by men
not open to the faintest sus
piclon of pro-aid bias, a be
ginning could be made to.
ward the real problem. This
is to salvage all that is good
and kick out all that is bad.
2. That Bell take a decision
to deal in Congress hereafter
to the farthest possible extent
more with aid's enemies than
with its friends. These friends
are in combat fatigue. They
have so long heard so many
reproaches against the pro
gram, sound or unsound, that
they are now very defensive
men, no longer really reliable
either as its allies or as good
potential critics.
In this the new administra.
tor would have nothing to
lose - and just possibly some,
thing to gain. Speaking gen.
erally, the program's enemies
are the tough types within
the House and Senate Appro
priations committees who for
years have had to pony up
the money for a policy they
have never really understood
and never liked because it has
largely been in the hands of
the Foreign Affairs commit
tees. COME of their hostility -and
it Is this hostility
which is the vital factor in
the whole business - rests on:
these simple facts. Admitted
ly, there is not the slighest
assurance that when they un
derstood the program better
they will be any more gener
ous toward it. Still, there is
always the possibility that
they will. For, show them a
good investment - and strip
away from it all do-gooding
talk and considerations - and
they just might respond.
The point is that unless and
until they are "sold," to use
a plain, bald term which
these fellows well understand,
and convinced that this nation
is getting Its money's worth,
this thing is going to be an
endless headache from which
the patient will surely die in
the end of chronic migraine.
If the remedy is desperate,
then so is the disease.
gon's nearly two million peo
ple are uneducated, unsophis
ticated, and more than a littia
bit back-woodsy. Nothing
could be farther from the
truth.
Enough has been said about
the potato peelers, pari
mutual, massage chairs and
general filth, so I needn't go
into that here. The Commis
sion last year put close to ona
hundred thousand dollars into
the most uninspired fair build
ing I have seen anywhere on
earth, little realizing that the
same materials, labor and
paint, could, with imagina
tion build an interesting struc
ture even for horse view
ing. ; .
If, as Mr. Narver has said,
the Commission welcomes
comments and suggestions for
improvements, I would like to
make the following general
ones:
1 Gct active, experienced
people to get out and promote
all phases of the fair the year
round.
2 Find some younger peo
ple with timely ideas. Believa
it or not, fresh ideas cost no
more than stale ones.
3 Gear to a competitive
basis with other selling and
entertainment attractions.
4 Offer greater incentives
for professional people and
large firms to display.
5 Get rid of the idea that
once you have seen the faif
you needn't go again, or that
it's just Salem's fair, not the
State of Oregon's.
6 Study the possibilities of
using the grounds for some
other purpose the other 50
weeks of the year a com
munity college for instance.
If the CommUsion cannot
find ways tn do these things,
People should b found who
can. Otherwise, close th
place up and bury the dead
hortc.
Jeb Stewart
330 High st. SX.
Salem, Ore,