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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. JANUARY t. 1163 4 A UlDfORIWtiWrBlBUNI MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON "Everyone In Southern Oregon ResdsJTtie MallTrliiune" Published Dally except Salurdayby MEDKORD PRINTING CO. 33 North rixSt. Ph. m-tui ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertltlnf Maimer GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telej Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporu Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women ! Editor pLERICKSON.irculUonMgr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai becond class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Aot of March 3. 18B7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 yeartllj.OO Daily and Sunday moa 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 9.00 Sunday Only One year 15.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 200 By Camel And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 121.00 Dally and' Sunday I mo. 1.75 Sunday Only I mo. 50o Carrie! and Vcndurs Copy 100 offlela'l Paper of City of' Medford Official Paper of Jacktun County United Press International Full Leaied Wire U. P. 1 Telepholo NewsplMuree "MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU" Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI. ATES Of'lcee In New York, Chi cago. Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angelrs Seattle. Portland. Denver, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASBOCfMTItfN NEWSPAPER rUlLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackbon County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1953 (Wednesday) The Jackson County Chap ter of the National Foundation lor Infantile Paralysis ended last year broke, Harry Chip man, chapter chairman, an nounced. The entire city council at Eagle Point, including two new members, took tho oath of office at last Tuesday's meeting, according to Mayor Fred Brueggcr. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1943 (Monday) Total of 34 roll call votes falls to break deadlock be tween Dorothy McCullough Lee. Portland, and W. 11. Stei- wcr, Fossil, in election for Oregon slate senate presi dency. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Driv ing a motorcycle for pleas ure is banned by gasoline regulations. The ruling is based upon the assumption that driving a motorcycle is pleasure." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1933 (Wednesday) Residents of Ashland and Talent protest proposed relo cation of Highway 1)9. Speakers declare "Jackson county Is one the verge of anarchy and chaos" during mass protest meeting on steps of county courthouse. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1923 (Thursday) Mrs, M. A. Barron, a resi dent of the Ashland area for 70 years, celebrates 00th birth day as guest of southern Ore gon pioneers and their fami lies. Dr. Irving Vining, Ashland, speaker at Greater Medford club scholarship benefit program. SO YEARS AGO Jan, 9, 1913 (Saturday) Medford Police Chief Hilt son receives report from Rose burg that pair responsible lor series of post office robberies in RoRUe valley have been apprehended there. Station agent in Phoenix beats off four armed "high waymen" with umbrella. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct li superior; seven er eight is escellent: five or lit it qood. 1. The annual Blucbonnet Bowl football classic is played In which city? 2. What is the capital of Missouri? 3. Is the moon larger or smaller than the planet Merc ury? 4. Who was the famous woman saloon wrecker, who used the hatchet? 5. Which state was tho first to ratify the U.S. Constitu tion? 8. The boundaries of Okla homa (ouch six other states; name them. 7. Arc snowflakcs four, six, or eight sided? 8. In which stale do the Rio Grande and South Platte rivers rise? 9. How old would an octo genarian be? 10. Who were the first white men known to have seen the Mississippi River'1 Answers: 1. Houston, Tex. 2. Jefferson City. 3. Smeller. 4. Carrie Nation. S. Delaware. 6. Texes, New Mexico. Colo rado, Kansas. Missouri, Ar kansas. 7. Six, 8. Colorado. 9. 80 to 90. 10. DeSoto and his followers. Pockets of Humanity Whenever civilization or, if you will, or ganized society or industrialized culture ex pands and encompasses new areas, there are always little eddies or backwashes, pockets of resistance, which for one reason or another do not immediately become part of the new culture, It may be that these will Gradually be ab sorbed, or it may be that they will die out. But often they survive for varying periods of time, anomalies, within the overall pattern. One example is given by the hill people of the Ozaiks and Appalachians, derived from early arriving Anglo-Saxon stock, who have retained medieval habits of speech and living. A NOTHER, more recent, example is given by "the Eskimos and Indians of the Arctic, in both Alaska and Canada. Because of distances, difficulties in transportation, climate, and tribal customs, these peoples still live in much the man ner their ancestors did. But changes are coming. The Seattle Argus reprints a little piece Irom the Fairbanks News Miner, giving news from Crooked Creek, which reads thus : "Most of the men of our village are out trapping. Some have taken their families, while others have taken only the older boys with them. We hate to see these boys out of school, but we realize that they must learn the ways of trappers if they are to survive in this area under present conditions. "These people are caught between two ways of life the old and the new and they will have to prepare for both futures. Sadly enough, there are young people here and elsewhere thus caught who are not prepared for either world." "THE current issue of the Scientific American pnnrwi'riH a faqpinatinn- ai'Unlo aKniif anifVim. . -' uw...t.V.. Ml HV.ll. uuuu aiiu.uvi such backwash in encroaching industrialization. These people are the BaMbuti Pygmies of the Ituri forest in the eastern Congo. They live primi tive lives in an area comprising some 50,000 square miles (more than half the area of Oregon). The article is by Colin M. Turnbull, assistant curator of African ethnology at the Museum of natural History, who has lived among and studied the Pygmies over long periods of time. The point of his article is that the Pygmies have developed a high degree of adjustment to their environment, and are physically, temper- memaiiy ana socially untitted tor any other form of life. THEY are living in a culture suited to their needs, and are entirely distinct from the near by villages, of the late-arriving Bantu and Su danic herdsmen tribes. The latter, despite the primitiveness of their life, are adjustable, and gradually are adapting themselves to a new way of life. But in some instances, the Rplrrians. wlipn they administered the Congo, attempted to bring TJirrrm Inn inin nlnHinliAH 1 . ? H1 U 1 "c 1 .rKiinwa iiibu ijiauiauuu Hie. x nc ti ucie ctuua . "The result was disastrous. Used to the constant shade of the forest, to the purity of forest water and to the absence of gorm-carrylng flies and mosquitoes, the Pygmies quickly succumbed to sunstroke and to various illness against which the villagers have some immunity. Worse yet, with the abandoning of hunting and food gathering the entire Pygmy social struc ture collapsed. Forest values were necessarily left behind In the forest, and there was nothing to take Uiclr place but a pathetic and unsuccessful Imitation of the new world around them, the world of villagers and of Europeans." SHOULD we concern ourselves with these by nuccnrl iinibj,lc V, tm..., tl .. ) lITfl-U i-L . Lilt Poo.i jjuv-ncwo ui iiuiuaiuty t vv 1111 intj Hill billy whose background, training and education do not suit him for life in today's urban society? With the Eskimo lad who must learn both the three R s and trappine: in order to have a chance for meaningful survival? For the BaMbuti Pyg mies, who survived wnen tneir ancestral Home land was invaded by the Bantus a half-millenium ago, but are now threatened with extinction? It is easy to shrug and say, "It's the price of progress. Sometimes, though, the price of proirress is too high. And we question a progress which would remake a whole culture's life unless and until it is shown we have the understanding and the tech niques to make their new life as satisfying and meaningful and productive as the old. pLOSER to home, there are pockets of human v"' ity, too, with which we had best concern our selves, if we are to continue boasting of our civil ization and our progress. There arc the slums in all great cities, and there are the incipient slums in smaller ones. There are the groups which arc by-passed, not be cause of distance or climate, but because of prej udice and bigotry and lack of opportunity. There are other "culturally cleprived"'groups where one would least suspect it. Yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle had a story which said in part : "The rich kids of Porlola Valley have been acting up again. This time ... it was burglary, housebreak ing, shoplifting and car boosting six solid months of it . . . And, Just as their predecessors did. the boys said they turned to crime strictly for kicks'." IT IS a sad fact that the civilization of which we are so proud has not vet learned how to take care of its own, whether a neglected rich kid from a "good family," or a BaMbuti Pygmy deep in his native forest who is threatened by "progress." Perhaps it never will learn to provide oppor tunities for all, opportunities which suit the in dividual ami his own special talents and needs. We have come a good way. We no longer take weaker peoples as slaves, and we have learned how to prolong and save lives with sanitation and medication. But we have not vet learned fully the meaning of justice, mercy, "honor, and equal opportunity. Until we do. perhaps our culture does tloes not really merit the term "civilization." E.A. "Last One In' An Old Obstructionist!" Another Turning in Congo; Tshombe Now Faces Limited Unattractive Alternatives By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Elisabethville, capital of se cessionist Katanga, today lies as somber and forlorn as would appear to be the fu ture of Katan ga's president, Moise Tshom be. Bullet scars pock the walls of villas andapartment houses. The jingle of cash s.wiom regj s t e r s in the cabarets is stilled. Elisabethville has been call ed a company town of the Union Minicre, whose tax funds lay at the root of Tshombe's power. The Union ooldville. For Tshombe, none of these is attractive. In black Africa there is not a single leader to whom Tshombe can turn. They re gard him as having sold out to white mining interests and are angered that he hired Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, Inc. WORDS REVERSE Everyone knows that words change over the centuries, and even over the decades. But wnat is puz zling, even to specialists in 1 a n guage, is the way In which some words change to mean ex actly their op. positcs. I thought of arris this the other morning, when my little girl remarked at breakfast that something was "crummy." A crummy" hat or a "crummy" game is one to be despised and disregarded; yet it was not always so. As late as the turn of this century, a British word-book defined "crummy" as "Jolly good." "She's a crummy wom an" meant a fine handsome woman, well-fleshed and ami able. The crummy part of bread is the fleshy or main part; it is the opposite of crusty, meaning hard and ill tempered. In his fascinating book, published last year, "Your English Word;," John Moor observes that a "casualty" was at one time an accident, and now it is used almost exclusively to mean the vic tim of one. "Painful" once meant taking pains; now It means giving hurt. "Scan," not too long ago, meant to examine minutely, or to look at searchlngly; but the word has now turn ed lopsy-turvy, and when asked "Did you read the document?", we reply, "Well, I only just scanned It." One of the most interest ing changes taking place right before our eyes, as It were, concerns the word "literally." In the past, "lit erally" meant the opposite of "figuratively") it meant actually, really. In a quite factual sense. , But nowadays people say "He was literally burned up about It," when they mean "figuratively" burned up about It; and I have little doubt that a few decades hence, literally will have pushed figuratively out of the dictionary, A "tobacconist" use to mean tile smoker, and not the seller of tobacco, as it docs today. A "typewriter," when the ma chine was first invented, meant the typist and not the machine itself. "Portly" used to mean dignified; now it Im plies a kind of laughable ro tundity. "Silly" meant bless ed, rather than foolish. And "awful" referred to the majes ty of God's works, rather than the modern sense of "fright ful" or "ghastly." Perhaps the most complete reversal of meaning In the English language, however, is Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (el 1083, The Washinlton Post sHaaiuJL Llnpmanu THE THIRD HOUSE The dispute about the Rules Committee, which will be the first business before the House of Rcpresenta t i ves, will bring a criti cal vote: shall there be IS mem bers of the committee, as there have been for the past two years, or only 12V The chairman. Rep. Howard Smith, wants to go back to 12. For he controls six or seven votes, which are enough to control a committee of 12. The administration wants IS members, because that will mean that there are eight or nine votes which Representative Smith does not surely control. The House will have to de cide in what measure Repre sentative Smith shall regain power to check and block legislation of which he disap proves. rl1HE CRUX of the issue is Wlieitlnr ilia Plllno rnm mittee of the House shall act as a third legislative organ, Whether It has the right to use its own Judgment on the merits of a proposed bill. This judgment on the merits comes after a bill has already been approved by the appropriate committee of the House and in many cases by the Senate as a whole. When a bill is controversial. when it is not routine or privi leged, like money bills. Chair man Smith wants for himself the power and the right to decide whether It may be put to a vote of the whole House. A study of Chairman Smith's statements on the question shows that, on the one hand, he denies that he has the power to block legis lation, and that on the other hand he asserts proudly the rigni as a matter of con science to block legislation. TU-IE DENIAL that he has the power to block is based on the fact that a majority of the House (218 members) can override the Rules Committee and bring a bill onto the floor with a discharger petition. This means, says Chairman Smith, that the majority can rule and that the legislation the floor of the House? The candid answer is, I sup pose, that there are represen tatives who would not dare to vote against a controversial measure and are happy to have the committee block the bill and save them embarrass ment. This is particularly true, I should imagine, of the mar ginal members of the South ern Democratic - Republican coalition who come from two party districts. A LONG with this denial that he has the power to block controversial legislation, Chairman Smith declares that. "When I am asked to pledge aid to the passage of any resolution or bill in this House that I am conscientiously op posed to, I would not yield my conscience and my right to vote in this House to any person or any member or un der any conditions." Thus, in his view, to let a bill go to a vote is to "aid" the passage of the bill, and if he dislikes the bill, his duty is to do his best to block it. This amounts to saying that the Rules Committee is not a com mittee on rules but another branch of the legislature. Having said all this, I has ten to add that in any legisla tive body, especially in a very big one like the House of Representatives, there must be some kind of authority to determine the order of busi ness. It has sometimes been said that the function of the Rules Committee should be that of a traffic director on the legislative highway. HPHIS Is a confusing meta-- phor. The traffic director docs not decide who shall go first and who shall go second on the highway. But in a legis lature, someone must do just that. Otherwise, more impor tant bills may be crowded off le road by the less important bills. After all, 15,000 bills nd resolutions are Intro duced in each session, and never more than 1500 of these are passed. The really substantial issue is where the power to deter mine the order of business shall be lodged. At this time, if the House does not pack the committee by enlarging it to 15 members, the power to check, and in fact to prevent wnicli is Blocked by the com- legislation, will be in the mittee docs not in fact com- hands of Representative Smith mand a majority. But then, of Virginia and the five or six wliy block it in the commit- others who vote with him. Not tee? If it is bad and has no absolutely, but virtually, this majority behind it, why not, would give the Southern let it be killed by a vote on 1 Democratic - Republican coali tion a veto on "controversial" legislation. the word "maudlin," which now describes a certain sort of self-pity iiiK drunk, liable to burst into tears. The word comes from Mary Magdalene (pronounced "maudlin" in England) who anointed Jesus' feet. It is worth keeping in mind that most words change (or the worst over the years, and that a "cunning villain" used to mean merely a peas ant of honest skill. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF TF YOU SHOULD chance to stroll on 23rd Street between - Ninth and Tenth Avenues in New York, you might give a thought to Clement Clark Moore, wealthy professor of ureeK, wno lived there way back in 1823. The name of his home was "Chelsea," later applied to the whole district. The good professor tired of his Greek long enough one evening in 1823 to dash off a little poem. He called it "A Visit from St. Nicholas," and the meter of the verse (Twas the night before ChristmasWhen all through the house, etc., etc.) was suggested to him, opines Clark Kinnaird. by a jingle of sleigh-bells a sound long since replaced in that neighborhood bv the zoom of jets overhead and the melancholy toot of giant ocean liners like the tjuecn Eluabcth inching away fiom then docks, , If the committee is again packed to make 15, the veto will be diluted, and the result is likely to be a scries of deals and compromises. WHAT then would " rl be the I glit solution. In my view, the administration - any administration - should have the right of priority in bring ing its measures, as approved by the proper committees, to a vote. There is no good rea son that I can sec why the Committee on Rules should interpose itself between the administration and the com mittees of the House on the one hand and the House itself on the other. The administration should, I believe, have the right of priority even when the other party controls the House. This is In no sense a surrender to the executive branch. The administration measure will still be approved by the com mittee of the House and by the committee of the Senate, by the House as a whole and by the Senate as a whole. The House will not have yielded to President any right to legislate. It will have con ceded to him only the right to have Congress accept or reject his legislative proposals. This would seem to provide a moderate but necessary de gree of orderly cooperation between the two coordinate branches of the government. 1 Miniere, Katanga's rich supply central government of Leo- oi minerals and Tshombe's lavish spending for his Katan ga troops and white mercenary ies, made possible Elisabeth ville's continued existence as one of Central Africa's gay est cities. There has been another turn of the wheel In the Con go, although it still may be too soon to say that Tshombe is nearing the end of his se cessionist trail. It is unfortunate that a mil itary victory seemed finally the only solution to the Katan ga problem, an unhappy mile stone in the history of an In dependent Congo in which nei their the Katangese nor the central government always have acted with honor. If it is to be a victory of the U.N., it also will have ex posed U.N. weaknesses. U.N. resolutions, vaguely worded to avoid a veto, forced upon the secretary general indepen dent decisions which were de bated only after the fact. Tshombe faces limited al ternatives: He can attempt to carry out his previous threat of jungle warfare "with traps, with poisoned arrows and spears" and scorched earth. He can attempt, as he suc cessfully has in the past, to talk his way out of his pres ent jam. He can invite U.N. forces in to Kolwezi without the ne cessity of fighting and perhaps retain a status of provincial president answerable to the white mercenaries to kill blacks. His strongest African sup porter has been Sir Roy Wei ensky, white prime minister of the Central African Feder ation whose white supremacy policies have made him a spe cial object of hatred for black nationalists. "You'd think they'd recognise a lost cause eventually. But after Cuba, I'm kind of glad they don't give up so easilyl" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although undef certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. A Sorrowful Sign To the Editor: Protestant America is regarded the strongest of all Christian na tions. Distressing indeed must have been the wonder of all true Christians reading your UPI disclosure of the Chris tian Herald's acceptance and publishing of a full page con traceptive ad in its January issue. This most influential Protestant magazine is be come Pharisaical in thus wil lingly e x c o m municating its publisher, Dr. Dan A. Poling, and possibly its staff, spirit ually from Our Lord Jesus for a few dollars worldly re ward. John Steinbeck is our most honored modern working with words. Yet - on receiving his Nobel Prize for literature - he asserted man has now usurped many of the powers ascribed to God. "Fearful and unpre pared," he said, "we have as sumed lordship over the life and death of the whole world and of all living things." And ALL artificial birth control is part of this terrible presump tion, for in this act man of fends the very Spirit of Life for a few moments pleasure. A few years ago the Church of England sorrowed Chris tianity by voting for birth control. Some other denomina tions followed this awful fal lacy. Last week the British Press readily admitted Britain had lost its world prestige, and now looked anxiously to these United States to lead the West! And just how long do you suppose the God of our Country will allow us to lead should more of our Protestant brethren follow the spiritual debacle of Bri t a i n and of our Doctor Polings? Analyzing the Emko contra ceptive ad in the Christian Herald, we are awed by its calm assurance that "Tens of millions do not know of the newer aesthetically-acceptable methods of birth control now available," and that "millions of couples do not know they can effectively plan their families." The advertisement ends assuring all pleasure- bound couples they may se cure their unnatural safety at any drug store - without pre scription! Further denomina tional sanctions will surely in crease the desirability of this antl population product among impressionable high school and varsity sets. One paragraph of propaganda at tempts the seduction of Pro testant ministers and lay lead ers in urging mass distribution of the contraceptive as a charitable and worthy social activity. Inasmuch as much modern religion is become but an empty form of Godliness wherein man debates the words of God without love or knowledge of the Word, it is time that all true Christians -renouncing all the unholy modes of modernity - pray for guidance that the Holy Spirit conduct them Into the true spiritual security and Sanctuary founded by Christ Himself on the person of Peter. William Thomas Cuddy V. A. Domiciliary White City. Ore." There are 10 different types of women. The first class are from the same ingredients as the swine. She is a glutton at the table, unclean in person, sloppy in dress and housekeeping, and her home is no better than a dunghill. The second class are the same material as a fox. She is a noticeable female, and has the insight into everything whether good or bad. Some of these females are virtuous, some vicious. The third class are of canine particles. They are scolds, al ways busy barking, snarling at everyone who comes near them. The fourth are of earth, are sluggards, passing time away in indolence and ignorance, hovering around the fire in laziness all winter. Their only business is eating. The fifth are made of the sea, having an uneven temper, sometimes all calm and sun shine. To the perfect stranger, she's all smiles, smoothness, even tempered and humored. In a second, looks and words change to furious outrage, a noisy hurricane. The sixth is composed of an ass, the beast of burden. Naturally slothful, love to be bullied around by authority of husband, doing anything to please him. The seventh are of cat ma terial, are forward, repugnant to offers of love, and will fly into the face of their husband with their claws. They are known to commit little thefts, to cheat and pilfer. The eighth are of ingredi ents of the mare, never bro ken to toil, no regard for husband, passing away their waking hours bathing, per fuming and dressing, tossing their hair into the nicest curls. A pretty thing for a stranger to see or for any husband who only wants a toy. The ninth are of an ape, so ugly and ill natured. rid iculing everything good about others, running down every thing that belong to others. The tenth is of the little bee. She is faultless, blame less and her family flourishes by her management. She loves her husband and he loves her. She brings him wonderful, virtu'.us children and is sur rounded by graces. She never sits among the women of loose talk to while away her time. This is the best of all wives which God bestowed man. E. Dykes Box 58 Eagle Point, Ore. upon A Commentery on Woman To the Editor: God made woman with a body and soul. Thanks To the Editor: "Thanks for everything, everybody." May we through Communi cation thank our nt.ghbors. friends and our Red Cross! Unity. St. Mary's young peo ple. Bruce Bowers, for all they did for us in the Dec. 2 flood, for getting us out of bed. one ill, to face the black water, and evacuating our dogs and us. May the state and city find why our natural drainage was channeled. We all love Med ford but our spirits a-e damp cned by overflows. The Red Cross can't stop floods, but they do try to relieve where needed. Thanks to the Medford spirit Mr. and Mrs. Elgin Kinkade, 2440 Crater Lake hwy., Medford Substantiation To the Editor: We were par ticularly gratified to note tha article about Mr. Daniel W, Fry of Jan. 6. The reason for this is wa had a similar experience, and have been reluctant to dis close ii, in fear of being ridi culed Early 1961 - the date is most vivid in our minds, be. cause of this unusual, and at times terrifying, experience, by a visitation from AH-LAN. On this date, the four of us were having an early din ner, and Mr. Peterson, look ing out towards the pasture, noticed a strange apparition, which definitely didn't belong there. Before we could even investigate we noticed a man on the front porch (dressed in casual clothes) ready to knock at the front door. Mr. Peterson went to the door, and asked the man what he wanted. He replied he was looking for a Mr. Daniel W. Fry of Merlin, Ore. Mr. Peter son informed him he was about 30 miles, as the crow flies, from this point, but that none of us knew a Mr. Fry. We were naturally most curious as to what the object was in the pasture. He said if he might step in for . few minutes he would explain. So we asked the man in. Thereupon he introduced him self as AH-LAN, from outer space. After realizing that AH-LAN ana the space-craft was a reality rather than a hoax, we invited him to din ner, feeling that we could all gain invaluable knowledge of his origin. Unfortunately, we learned very little from this point on. because our earthly fare would not meet his bodily re quirements. We asked him if there was anything in the room he considered edible, it so he was most welcome. Thereupon he proceeded to cat with relish the candles, eandlcholders. some artifical flowers and their containers, one empty serving dish, plus the silver spoon. Up to this point Mrs. Peterson had had no objections, however, when AH-LAN arose and said he would like some dessert and started nibbling at the crystals on tlie chandelier. Mrs. Peter son became most disturbed and asked AH-LAN to leave. He left in a huff and said he was most disappointed by our inhospitality and most certainly would never return. We saw him go swiftly to wards the pasture. w':erc he disappeared inside his strange craft, which immediately floated very rapidly Into the wild blue yonder. Gives the four of us great pleasure and relief to sub stantiate Mr. Fry's article dated Jan. 6, 1963. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Peterson, Route 4. Box 386. Medford Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Dowson, Route 4, Box 460. Medford