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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"
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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