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Newspaper Page Text4 A - SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9. 19BJ MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON ""Evefyone In SoutherrTOref on Reada The MatTrlbune" P ublishd Daily exctpt Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North rtr St.. Ph.77J-6141 ROBERT W" RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising ManaKWf GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mar ERIC W Al.LEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Spurn Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Msr "An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medford. Orejjon. under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year $1 0(1 Dallv and Sunday moa 10 00 Daily and Sunday 3 moi. S 00 Sunday Only One year U "0 Single Copy (Mailed! 20c nu rarnpi And Motor Roule. Daily and Sunday 1 year 00 ''Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. I U .Sunday Only I mo. Wlc Carriei andVcndors Copy 10c Official" Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire tl. P I Tclephoto Ncwsplcturea "MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Ot'lcea In New York. Chi cago, Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattla. Portland Den-er. ft NfWSPAPI PUHIIKIM ASSOCIATION NATION Al f DITORIAL g.mnri.'li'.ioa "3jr Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from tha fllai ot Tha Mail Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 v ts ago. 10 YEARS AGO Doc. 9, 1952 (Monday) The post office in Medford Is beginning to shift over to lis stepped-up Chrlitmn schedule, Postmaster Moore Hamilton has reported. An increase in residential power rates totaling an est imated $136,51)0 annuany win he soucht by the California Oregon Power company dur ing a hearing here tnday. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1942 (Tueiday) Local draft board starts reg istration of 18-year-olds for induction Into armed forces. ?rom Arthur Pery's "Ye Sriudge Pot" column: "The treasury reports every per son In the land has $110.17. Many rejoice to know they have 11, though they haven't R()l it." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 9. 1932 (Thursday) Temperature) drops to four degrees above zero In Meci lord; water pipes reported frozen throughout the valley. Residents of the Llllle Ap plcgate area start collection of wood to be donated to needy Medford families. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1922 (Friday) Jackson County Amuse ment company offers to pay expenses of Medford High school football team if it is able to obtain a post-season game with Scott High school of Toledo. Ohio, for mythical national title. Jackson rounty court fixes tax lew for 1B23 at 26.7 mills. SO YEARS-AGO Dec. 9. 1912 (Sunday) Candidate for mayor of Medford receives beating on downtown street; candidate and assailant tell police at tack "was Just caused by a misunderstanding." Medford cannery destroyed hv fire; firemen estimate damage at $8,00(1. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct II auperiorj aeven or eight li eictllent) five at lis. U good. 1. What is meant by the flanking privilege which is held by Congressmen? J. The names of how many Riales contain the word 'New"? H. Is the shorter direct ocean route from New York to Singapore via the Panama or Sue. Canal" 4. What are lh first three letlers of the Greek alpha-hi'i" A. What territory did Ihe j W'OI'K. United States acquire from' Denmark? rpo THOSE who live in more than one h Name the author: of the i 1 ,i; i i , . , , four gospels ot the New! di.-tru't in .IncKson county, and alniosi Testament of the Hiiiie. 7. What is another """' ; Noi'walk, Coilll. for Ihe writer, William Sid- , nu , i t t , nev Porter.' j lie city is made up of a half dozen or so t.".x- fi The Cold Coast is in , ing districts, resulting from annexations over the Ah ica, where is the Ivory pasl j.,..,,,. It's ,.,,.,,. , t.onlplit..Uo( ,0 ,ptai, n. in rhess. what piece anUi!iderstaiid fully, so an example will suffice, moves in three different man- The N'oi walk city hall is rented. The city hall TnZ;' !f.1,K'1,t(,i iV.nl owned by one of the coinmun- hi. The tendency of a piece ; !Uos annexed to Noi walk proper. Instead of giv of lumber to absorb moisture j ing up ownership at the time of annexation, the Z"2"JZ !"' ;antpl to keep it. and now rents it to Hon to take place' ;1"P I'U.V f Nol'Walk. Aniw.ri: l Right to fr.. There also are a couple fire taxing districts, maihnq prmltqe. 2. Four , ... . , : Naw J.r.ay. York. Mexico iln(l ,tW0 St 'i,laU' H)hco departments 111 the City. and Hampihire. 3. Suai. 4.! It sounds pretty complex, and must be, but the .ma nniiipsnirv. o. sun. , Alpha. Baia crnm.. s vir- nin Iilandi. 6. Malhaw, Mark, Luk. and John. 7. O. Hanry. Hanry. . Africa, g. Pawn. io. . Warping. j Cross-Country Notes (Edilor'i note: Tha following ii anolhar larlei of travel notei by iha Mail Tribune'! city ditor. Earl H. Adami, who racantly retuinad from an aaitam trip to Impact ichool facilities.) In the midst of one of the most progressive educational systems in the country is the basic democratic form of government, a carry-over from colonial New England the town meeting. This is the form of ington, Mass. 1 he town and we were informed out each year. It is at residents express their plaints, decide issues, and conduct any other city business necessary, including adopting the school budget and school building proposals. In the larger communities where town meet ings are held, it is the representative town meet ing, that is, the people elect others to represent them at the town meeting. IN THIS modern day, the town meeting form of government seems out of place, but it works quite effectively in some of the northeastern com munities where it has been established over the generations. In Lexington, too, colonial New England look. City ordinance there requires that the exterior architecture of new buildings be of colonial style. It has been very effective in retaining pearance of years past. Along with this architecture go the tall, nar row church steeples, shining white among the grey-limbed bare trees. steeples and the fronts i i i ....... i ' luminaien, presenting a unique inrisimas earn appearance. Within a short distance of this preservation of the past is a modern six-lane highway, lined with modern electronic plants which have built up during the past few years. I J Mt(, wnen Hying or telephoning cross country, is an irrelevant thing. It takes as much time to service a Boeing 707 jet in Chicago as it does to fly in the same plane from Kansas City to Chicago. Since time is altered by flying, distance and places are less irrevelant when considering side trips on the way home, someone a few hundred pened more than once of the party took a side route home. Calling cross-country you give the operator the code area and number you're calling, the telephone 3,000 miles away is ringing, and the party being called is answering. Flying cross-country by jet, and telephoning cross-country, are the which the average person can utilize and exper ience a technology so complex it is almost incom prehensible. It is fascinating to realize it takes only a few seconds to contact someone 3,000 miles away, or that you are travelling at speeds exceeding (iOO miles per above the earth. PROM the speed of jets to the speed of the North Shore Line in the Chicago area is an interesting study in transportation facilities for the moving American. The North Shore Line is an old line, and so are the cars. Many of us wondered if perhaps the railroad cars weren't tied behind covered wagons. It's a commuter line, a line, too, which has attempted to go out of service. The commuters themselves, We Were lOICl, tialKCrl, ailll actually contributed a little extra out of their pockets to keep the thing going. . Well, they kept it going, all right, and it's still Hmii;. run we u wager uku one oi mese nays, tne equipment falls apart on 17E'1,L wager, too, that a locker in a Los Ang- elos air terminal building never had as much stuffed into it as it edueators was en route During a two-hour or so wait between flights, the 10 members of the party crammed their brief cases, cameras, coats, hats, and other nuseeP laneous items into one locker. Nearby Travel Aide attendants, unknown to most of the group, watched with considerable in terest. Apparently they one docs, there is an .-..itini., j.i i u,i lt'liiiii ., ,11m Kill I HI , IHIl II city seems to operate all ritrht, although we ditln ,i, ffj,.;,. ,,, r i . 1 1 ' P r, t lp,u lhp Operation. II" . , M1.' ppopip in i oi'w a ik appear K.H.A. city government in Lex meeting is held annually, that a good crowd turns the town meetings where opinions, register com the city has retained the the New Lnglandish ap In the evening, the of the churches are il- . . m i i or to stop off and visit miles away. This hap in fact, two members trip to New Orleans en is the Same. Ry the time ; two prime examples in hour, five to six miles the track. did while the group of east. didn't think it would taxing every- encouraging word from dn't uir i' n'l at ion, I lit' to he satist ied with it. "Shut Mah Matter of Fact (e) New York Herald 'THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY' Washington - The predicted Republican flirtation with Sen. Barry Goldwater's "Southern strategy" has already start ed. The temp tation of the Rcpub 1 i c a n gains in the South in the last election is proving to be very strong indeed. Hence strategy's pros Alsnp the Southern and cons will certainly be the main topic of the Republican National Committee meeting here. This is one of the rea sons why the Republican Na tional Chairman, Rep. Wil liam Miller, has announced in advance that the committee meeting will bo held behind carefully closed doors. Closed doors are desirable for a discussion of the South ern strategy, at least by North erners, because it is basically a segregationist strategy. The ugly word is not and will not tie USed. (if CniirsP Pn,i;n,.fnl admiration for states' rights win re professed instead. Rut this amounts to the same thing m the present circum stances. The idea, long advocated by sen. uoidwaler, is that most Southern Democrats are deep ly disillusioned with their own party, and will change parlies for good if the Repub licans make the correct sym pathetic noises about slates' rights. This is now a portman teau phrase, into which is packed the notion that the Su preme Court has been wrong about desegregation. 'IMIE corollary of this basic 1 Idea is that the Republi cans are Impractical fools to worry about Ihe Northern Ne gro voters, because nothing will tempt the Negroes from their solid Democratic alle giance. The idea' glittering aim, finally, is an election in which the Republicans will lake just about all the South ern electoral voles, nine enough above the Mason and '!?,'."" ,TK"'" ,hP IW "f I N Vloung' gave a color or practicality to the I. oldwater idea, as did the vote for Republicans in the South. Hence the Northern Republicans who would be most damaged by adoption of I I, - ..i i.iacni", javits and' Kenneth Keating of New York, are al ready crying out in anguished warning. Meanwhile, lh, ficpuhlicans of the extreme right have held a rally in Chicago, conspic uously attended by the ultra segrcgationist fuel oil sales man, James 11 Martin, who came within a hair of taking Ihe veteran Lister Hill's Ala bama Senate seal. The lines, in short, are beginning In be drawn. If there were plenty nf lime in hand lor 'hp Republican de. eision. one could be pretty confident f the ultimate re lection of the (bildwater idea, at least in its extreme (orm Kxcept (or the worst of the extreme right wingers, there are very lew Northern Repub licans who can (01 gel that the Southern sttalegv has moral implications as well as ptac tical temptations. ... rMIK difficulty Is, however. 1 that a preliminary decision will have to he made by the opening of the next Congres sional session. The fact is that the change in the House rules, enlarging Ihe Southern-dominated Rules Committee . lapses at the end of tins tear Heme a line mips fuht is unavoidable Mouth" By Joseph Aliop Tribune Syndicate The Northern Democrats, with White House encourage ment, seem likely to sponsor a change In the rules more radical than mere enlarge ment of the Rules Committee, The scheme now being bruited is a rule permitting a mere majority of the House to bring any bill to the floor after the Rules Committee has sat upon it for 21 days. This would ef fectively break the Rules Committee's ancient power over legislation. Renewed enlargement of the Rules Committee is the obvious compromise measure. Even for this compromise, however, Republican votes will almost certainly be essen tial. On the previous occasion, the change in the rules car ried by a majority of five, with 21 Republicans voting for it. This year, a minimum of 16 Republicans will be needed, according to Demo cratic leadership calculations, IN the last session nf the oul pninff Cnnocecc ninst nf tho Republicans who voted for the rules change were subsequent ly transformed Inlo mere robots, under the command of House Republican Leader Charles Halleck, grand author of the Republican - Southern Democratic coalition. If the Republicans in the next House vote as solidly behind Hal leck as they were doing a few months back, the rules change will not carry. Defeat of the rules change, in turn, will be a major initial triumph for Ihe advocates of the Goldwater idea. It will be so advertised by all the Northern Democrats, from the President on down. It can be the sort of episode, in fact, that almost constitutes a Re publican commitment to the Southern strategy. The answers to two ques tions must therefore be await ed wilh eager interest. First, will all the Republicans in the next House continue to follow Halleck, which means taking the Goldwater line? And second, will the other Republican Presidential hope fuls, and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in particular, con tinue to stand aside from this fight, whirh has so much meaning for the party's fu ture? The Role By ERIC SEVAREID In a demoi'rary thai works, the hi:. icst atiamnhlo roh! for t ho master ro is JuM short of absolutism. The titan is permitted the status of a benevolent ty- rant no more - and always provided we can count on fresh benevo- lenees. Since liobert Moses farrirl I fell (a3M of New York had, at any iv- himself in his own lifetime en point, done some thine for and has the temples and nionu us lately, and has still to ments to prove it. is not a cap his career with Ihe forth-j man to genuflect before the coming World's Kair. his men passing politician, and so as the Last Angry Man was permitted to continue to his 74th year. There never was any evidence that his head lay uneasy, though he wore eight crowns at once, all of them of the thorny variety, as Gov ernor Rockefeller discovered when he reached to pull one of them off. Kor the benefit of outland ers innocently assuming that the most powerful man in the n.it ion's biggest metropolis is its mayor, it should be said that save for the chronically bedridden theie are no New Yorker now alive who have not sat m Moses parks, numi fiom Mose's hearhf, driven oer or through Moe s Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann U in Europa. Roscoa Drummond report! from Washington in hit abienca.) () 1962 Naw York Herald Tribuna Inc. WHERE WAS THE LEAK? Washington - The leaking of National Security Council informatioin to President Kennedy'! closest newspaper friend, including confidential exchanges among the Presi- dent's advisers in the Cuba i security is allowed to go un crisis, is an appalling spec-: detected and unpunished? tacle. It Is rightly causing the gravest public anxiety. Whether It embarrasses or even impairs the standing of Adlal Stevenson, U.S. Ambas sador to the United Nations, is trivial compared to the way it undermines the security of the National Security Council and calls into question the trustworthiness of one or more of Mr. Kennedy's most intimate official associates. No one, including several members nf the Cabinet and those in the inner circle of the White House staff, who was privy to the secrets of the National Security Council Ex ecutive Committee throughout the Cuba deliberations, can be free of suspicion of leaking some of the most highly classi fied data of the government -and of leaking it irresponsibly and purposefully. BVIOUSLY the President yJ of the United States can not himself violate security because he alone has the right to declassify any of the secrets of his own security council. But there are those in Wash ington who, despite denials, continue to believe that Mr. Kennedy either participated in or condoned the giving to two Washington writers, Charles Bartlett of the Chat tanooga Times and Stewart Alsop of the Saturday Eve ning Post, an account of the confidential views of the President's advisers during the Cuba crisis and which the authors incorporated in their magazine article. As soon as the Saturday Evening Post was on the news stands, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger de nied parts of the article, re pudiated the report that Am bassador Stevenson had urged a soft line in dealing wilh Soviet missiles, and asserted that Mr. Kennedy had full confidence in his UN Ambas sador. Most people will, I think, accept this denial substantially at face value, but the denial that the President neither wanted nor condoned this leak of NSC confidences will be more persuasive if Mr. Ken nedy demands lo know the high official (or officials) in the Admin istra lion who breached security, and even more persuasive when he is able to act on the Information. IN the wake of the Bartletl Alsop article, the White House itself stressed thai the different opinions a d vanced by members of the security council must remain in con fidence and unpublished "in order to permit access by the President to the frankest ex pression of views." They have not remained secret, they have not been held in confidence. The secret, discussions of Ihe most classi fied, highest-poli.','.- aim of the government - the National Se curity Council - have been discussed wilh one of the President's closest newspaper friends. Mr. Bartlett. They of the Masterful Individual bridges and tunnels and sped along Muse s superhighways, while viewing Muse's golf courses to the riylit and Mose s Hams and reservoirs to the left. L'nlike his senpt ural namesake, Moses did not pev- ! form as mere intermediary in the provision of this manna in the former wilderness of briek shaeks, where this Moses also labored a full 40 years, A man who has this much handiwork to survey and lias invariably pronounced it good, a man who has immortalized when Rockefeller asked for one crown. Moses handed him five, thorns and all. keeping his three municipal chairtnan i ships, including the World's Fair Job. (One is not techni cally a chairmanship, but where sits Moses, there is the head of the table ) Master egos like Robert Moses and Admiral Rickover never fail to fascinate this observer. Their biographer will be temped to say that their supreme arrogance, their furious intolerance of all op position, develop only after ears of proving and re-prov-ing that they can do the inh and others can t o will the fools and foot rir aEgets plea j t have been published. Only a limited part of the account has been called inaccurate, How can innocent members of the NSC feel that their ad vice to the President will be confidential if this breach of How can the Pentagon jus tify preventing correspon dents' talking alone with De fense officials if members of the National Security Council can with impunity leak con fidences for publication? How is the President going to maintain the principle of "executive privilege" - which protects his advisors from having to testify before Con gress about advice given to the President - if one or more of these advisers are free to make parts of this advice pub lic elsewhere? Some commentators dismiss this thing as a politically toler able - or a politically indecent - vendetta against Ambassa dor Stevenson. That's the least of it. If the President did not wish it or did not condone it, then he must be dismayed at this ap palling breach of confidence and security at the highest level. He may already.be act ing - in secret; that would be fine. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The United Slates and Russia told the United Na tions the other day that they will WORK TOGETHER on three big space projects communications, weather spotting and mapping the earth's magnetic field. A world-wide television hook-up could be one result of such an arrangement for peaceful cooperation. With such a set-up, all the news of the world, in pictures as well as text, could be instantly available to everybody in the world. World-wide weather spotting would make it pos sible to avoid much of the death and damage resulting from hurricanes. With instantaneous access to all the news of the world, many of the misunderstand ings that result in war might be avoided. IN Berlin, East German Communist Leader Walter Ulbreicht suggests that it might be possible to reach a peaceful agreement on the Berlin problem. He says: "Under conditions of the lough conflict of two world systems it is necessary to PREVENT WAR with the help of peaceful coexistence . . . It is not enough just to TALK in general terms about peaceful coexistence. One has lo be aware that peaceful co existence is bound up with compromises on both sides." WHAT to think of it all? Well, Virgil, in his Aeneid, warned us to fear the Greeks when they come bearing gifts. If we are wise, we will fear the communists when they start talking soft. TROM San Francisco: Mayor George Christo pher decided to let Governor Edmund G. Brown and other state employees celebrate Population Day by them selves. Governor Brown officially proclaimed Monday. Dec. 31. as a holiday to commemorate stay Ihe liell nul of the way? But tiie ecu was there to becin with and if something like paranoia develops instead nf the mellowness of success, that, too, was incipient and shouldn't bother ns too much provided the tyrant remains a titan and his handiwork good. No, their working environ ment didn't make Moses or Rickovor what they are; it was they who worked upon their environment, since thev were always what they are. Tin question, of course, is whether they could have done what they have done, how ever brilliant, dedicated and honest they were, without these attributes of anger, im- i which keep an organization patience and callousness. I alive by feeding on its own think both have to be given i flesh but which cannot rec the benefit of the doubt, be-Agnize or push to fruition a cause neither man held a po-i big idea. sition of final political power with the weapons that go with such pos i t io n s . Both work ed in essentially bureaucratic surroundings. Hither they con quired their surroundings or the surroundings would con quer them. I incline to think that under such conditions hnlliarue. honesty and dedication are not enough not nearly enough for a man w ho is a little lat ter than life to reach his full growth. I have known nf many occasion w here tu finest men were totally Q pi "You've got a itova, a refrigerator, a washing machine, an electric toaster. Tha trouble with you ii you don't know how to be happy .. .1" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nme and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves tha right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter! lubmitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letter! p. inted in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tha paper; in fact the contrary is otten 'ha case. Thicka, Slinking Fogga ,ation in Oregon in our local To the Editor; In 1577 Sir j papers is both interesting and Francis Drake was advised by the Queen of England lo ex plore along the Pacific Coast. Drake sailed north along the coast between the 38lh and 48th parallels, which covers present day Oregon. He reported encountering the "most vile, thicke and stinking fogges." Wonder if he inadvertently sailed through the Rogue Valley. Art Chipman 2251 Ross Lane Medford. Broadway Theater To the Editor: The board of directors of the Broadway Theater League of Medford was gratified to watch the cur tain rise recently on the first play of the 1962-19B3 season. We were not all individually pleased with the play itself, but we were collectively de lighted that we are again able to bring Broadway plays to Medford. Our success can be credited lo the efforts of interested people in the community. We wish to thank you for your wonderful cooperation with our money -raising projects. You helped us achieve success. Mary Jane Casterline Secretary Broadway Theater League of Medford 45 South Modoc Medford. "Deerslaying" To the Editor: Discussion of the deer, elk and bird silu- California's becoming the nation's most populous stale. But Mayor Christopher check ed and found the extra day off found the extra day off would cost the city an extra S;i0,0l)() in holiday pay rates for those who would have to work regardless, such as fire men, policemen, sireet. ear employees and maincnance and repair crews. "It would be nice." the mayor said, "hut we just can't afford it." H MMMMMAIM. boom for Mayor Christopher for President? We need some thinking like that back in Washington. trapped in the Kalkaian jun gle of bureaucracy, in pri vate business as well as in Rovernnienl, and had to re sort to the meat axe to cut a way through. Those who couldn't lay hands on an axe simply got out. Tiie careers of men like Moses and Rickovor suggest that we may be coming full circle in the oiuani?ational life. We are goin from the era of the masterful indiv idual back to the masterful indi vidual, after passim; through a delusory period of infatua tion with the "science of man agement." with its tables of organization, channels of com niand and all the other Rube Cmldbergian eontr i v a n c e ? You can beat City Hall, b.d you had better be a Moses if you are going to try. Since most men are not, they fol low the precept of joining what they can t lick That would never do for a Robert Moses, certainly not at ;!ie apex of his career, If he can t lick 'em, he leaves 'em. and it s a neat question which one is out in the co'd. he or tiie governor. iDiMnbutH 1 962, by Th Hall Svndicatt. Inc.) (All RtghU Ritervtd informative, Most all really Informed and interested hunters (both deer, elk and bird) have di gested and redigested Ihese ar ticles looking for something concrete and positive being done to remedy the situation that now exists. What the Oregon hunter really wants is not just these articles, but action . . . action to protect his hunting interest and his son's hunting interest. The Oregon Slate Game commission is not perfect . . . and certainly has had terrific pressure applied . . . but with out this commission there would be no regulation (or deer and birds) , . . period. Let's forget about making our Chambers of Commerce happy and the quick tourist buck . . . and get behind our Oregon Stale Game conimiS" sion and let them know how the hunters feel . . . about tha deer and elk herds and the pheasant population. With proper information to our game people regarding hunting conditions . . . better management will be attained and the Chambers of Com merce will not be kidding when they say hunting in Oregon is ' excellent." Twelve items for hunter consideration will be submit ted and also means for getting things accomplished through the hunter himself. P. K. Watson Merrill, Ore. Ways That Are Dark To the Editor: -A late News week item states that China, as of now. possesses and is able lo manufacture all types of nuclear arms and is not de pendent on Russia whatso ever. But China has no oil . supply jn its own soil. Which makes one think, could it b that China made this push, aiming In reach Ihe far east nil fields? It is a long way lo go, bul with a steady pres sure and feeble opposition, tha Chinese will reach their goal. The only power who could slop them is Uncle Sam. However, that would brinj! about what Mao wants, ac cording to all reports. He, like Stalin, did want a final showdown with Capitalism. At any rate, if il is not oil in particular that China seekJ with its strike, it is just simply that il seeks a way lo light the atomic fire. An old saying - "For things that are queer and for ways that are dark, the heathen Chinese is pe culiar." John K. Ring. 1(14!) West 11th st., Medford In a Hurry To the Kditnr: Seems lik folks are sure in a hurry. .lust ran t wait for anything, any mniT. Wn rat Thanksgiving dm nrr a week ahead Betb start jingling hefnid the first good frost. And how m Hip world cart a feller buy a '63 model nf anything in 'fij? Well, guess that's about all, except one thing. Seems that now we have such a yearning for the 8 o'clock whistle, that we final ly decided to blow it at 7. Paul F. Wilson, HIT Sixth st . Ashland. Ore. Plymouth. Kngland -l"PT - A letter which blew away he: l-i days ago turned up recent ly on the roof of a building" in South MnRon. 47 mil. a awav. pot Office officials aiff PurTird a to how the letter managed to cros 3 range of LVHilO - foot hill again" northrtly wind that wat blow ing that d a . I.