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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ego.
10 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1953 (Tuesday)
Thunderstorm, just prior to
noon, drnchei Medford;
street lights r turned on;
hail reported In some areea
of the valley. ' . . ,
Work begins on 13,000-foot
trunk water-main being con
structed between the reser
voir and -the intersection of
Court st. and Mc-Andrews rd.j
main is 20-inch steel pipe.
20 YEARS AGO ' :" .
March 24. IMS (Wednesday)
Medford residents desiring
to plant Victory Gardens can
have their plots of ground
plowed .up free of charge by
the Coca-Cola Bottling com-
nanv. '
vrnm Arthur Perry'i "Ye
Pot" column: '"The
no a mine nuitiDkin is a fruit
They should squssh the rul
ing." , ; , .
30 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1(33 (Friday)
More than 185 citizens ask
that their names be with
drawn from the membership
of the Good Government
Congress. , L
Chamber of Commerce com
pletes plana for hog calling
contest to be staged tomorrow
morning. r '
40 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1923. (Saturday)
Medford now has third larg
est chamber of commerce in
the state with membership at
638.
Thornless raspberry plants
find favor among the valley
growers.
50 YEARS AGO
March 24, 1913 (Monday)
Police chase IB "moochers'
out of town.
Local Jitneys "must stop
running wild through the
street'' is police edict.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ten cerrect It superior;
even er aiht It eacellent; live ar
lis it good.
1. The statue of Abraham
Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chl
raso. 111., la the work of what
famous sculptor?
2. Was Standard time
adopted in the United States
in the 1880 s, 1800 s, or
1000's?
3. Was It Noah Webster, or
Daniel Webster, who compiled
the early American diction
Bry?
4. What is the protagonist
of a story?
5. In England, a faucet, or
spigot, is called a t ?
6. Who, as Secretary of
State tinder Monroe, was prin
cipally responsible for the
Monroe Doctrine?
7. Was Joseph Conrad a
noted writer, painter, or mu
sician? 8. The last name of what
contemporary musician (con
ductor and composer) sounds
like the result of placing a
beer glass on a hot stove?
I). Who prophesied that the
lion would He down with the
lamb?
10. Who was Charles A.
Beard?
Answers! 1. St. Gaudant,
2. 1880 a (11-1113). 3. Noah.
4. Tha one who laket the lead
ing part. S. Tap. 6. John
Quincy Adams. 7. Writer. 8.
Leonard-Bernstein. 9. Ittaiah.
10. American historian.
SUNDAY. MARCH 24. 1963
McNamara's Troubles
On the Senate side
pit Secretary of Defense
continuing to have his troubles.
It seems he no sooner got his differences
about the RS-70 with Uncle Carl Vinson (D-Ga.)
and the House Aimed Services Committee paper
ed over than he began receiving the attentions
of a' Senate Investigations subcommittee.
The result of the current hearings basically
on McNamara's decision to award the contract
for a Tactical Fighter Experimental plane (TFX)
to the General Dynamics Corp. rather than the
Boeing Company could determine the Secre
tary's usefulness to the administration.
THE TFX controversy shapes up something like
this: At stake is the largest tactical airplane
contract since World War II. Poduction orders
eventually would come to at least $6'!; billion.
Military advisers in the Pentagon wanted a
plane proposed by the Boeing Company. They
were overruled four times between January and
November, 1962, by McNamara, Air Force Sec
retary Eugene M. Zuckert, and Navy Secretary
Fred North.
The civilians instead awarded the contract to
General Dynamics in association with the Grum
man Aircraft Engineering Corp. On the surface
the Boeing bid would have saved the taxpayers
as much as $100 million.
McNAMARA says the contract was awarded
to General Dynamics because their plane
could be used by the
only slight chances in
greater "commonality than the isoeing proposal.
He savs also that placing the program with Gen
eral Dynamics in the loner inn will save as much
as $1 billion.
Through all the investigations there has been
a welter of political charges and countercharges.
On the one hand it is alleged that the hearings
were inspired by Sen. Henry M, Jackson (D
Wash.), who is up for reelection next year. Boe
ing is based in the state of Washington but
planned to build the TrX at Wichita, Kan.
On the other hand it is charged that the con
tract was awarded to General Dynamics because
it is based in Secretary
Worth, and Vice President Johnson's home state.
(A rather feeble jape in
the plane not as TFX but
ESSENTIALLY the TFX controversy looks like
a pull between the civilian chiefs in the Pent
agon and the military.
One is reminded inevitably of a passage in
President Eisenhower's final radio-TV message
to the nation. "In the councils of government,"
Eisenhower iNvarned, "we
...:...- -r ..
uct-iuiDiwuii ui i unwaiiaiHuu imiueuce, wuewct
sought or unsought,' by the military-industrial
complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists 'and will persist."
Congress in this tug of war acts as a not nec
essarily impartial referee.
Congress the power to "raise and support armies,"
but nowhere gives it the power to select weapons.
r The Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 gives
the Secretary of Defense
reassign weapons systems development to one
or more brances of the armed services, ,
Whatever the military value of the TFX al
ternatives, the script calls for the buck to stop
short on McNamara's desk or else, improbably,
to be passed to the White
Ten Years of a Miracle
Poliomyelitis infantile paralysis is a rela
tive rarity today. In 1952, the year before the
development ot the balk
57,740 cases were recorded. In the decade pre
ceding the use of the vaccine. 30,000 to 40.000
cases ot polio were recorded in this country every
year. Last year, according to data made avail
able by the U.S. Public Health Service. 708
paralytic cases were reported out of a total of
889 cases.
Figures on immunology arc not entirely trust
worthy, but with this caveat the Health Service
estimates that as of last December, 90 million
persons had received some Salk vaccine.
As for the Sabin vaccine, some 40 million had
received lype 1, lo million Type 2, and 30 mil
lion Type 3. The Service now views the orally ad
ministered Sabin live vaccine as more practical
in mass immunization programs, but leaves in
dividual decisions to local health departments
ami pnysicians.
THE National Foundation the name was
truncated with the virtual 'disappearance of
infantile paralysis now
others in the projected Salk Institute for Biologi
cal Studies at San Diego, Calif.
His own work on killed-virus vaccines has
convinced Salk that there is no theoretical ob
stacle to the ultimate production of "a single,
absolutely harmless vaccine which, administered
early in life, might protect the individual aganst
1U, or 1U0 virus diseases.
. Meanwhile, the triumph over viruses con
tinues. The federal government is about to license
two types of measles vaccines. Measles is not the
killer and crippler that polio was 10 years ago
only 3S0 persons died of measles in 19(50 but its
incidence is much higher. In 19(51. 420.919 cases
of measles were reported
E.R.R.
of the Capitol Hill bear
Robert S. McNamara is
Army or the Navy with
the basic design it had
. .
North s home town, Fort
Washington designates
as LB J.) ,
must guard against the
i i :..i.. ...1. n...
The Constitution gives
authority to "assign or
House. E.K.R.
vaccine was announced,
is backing Dr. Salk and
in the United States.
"You Know What? Those Guyt Act Like They
Keally Believe that
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
fc 1063. The
McNAMARA AND THE TFX
After swimming around
for a while in the sea of tech
nical detail of the TFX argu
ment, I- em
erged drip-
ping with
facts and won
dering, since
there is so
much that I
do not under
stand, wheth
er there is
anything
which I am
entitled to write about. How
ever, while I have nothing to
say about the use of titanium,
of thrust reversers in super
sonic flight, or even about
high inlet ducts in the pro
pulsion system, there is, I
think, a simple and important
question at the heart of the
argument between Secretary
McNamara and his critics.
There' are, as I see it, no
villians involved, and .there
is not a shred of evidence to
show that the contract wont
to the General Dynamics
corporation because the Vice
President is from Texas, or
that Senator Jackson has been
doing anything improper be
cause the Boeing company is
from the state of Washington.
The crux of the argument is
not technical, military or po
litical, but economic. From
the beginning, Secretary Mc
Namara's conception has been
governed by his intention to
keep the defense budget,
which is already enormous.
from becoming uncontrollably
larger.
N ORDER to keep military
spending within some limit,
it is necessary to sacrifice per
fectionism in the choice of
weapons. If money did not
matter, each of the three mili
tary services could be allow
ed to build for itself the
most perfect specialized tac
tical fighter. But since money
does matter, the Defense De
partment has to forego de
manding the best weapons
that unlimited money could
buy and to content itself with
the less perfect weapons that
will do the military job. Sec
retary McNamara s friction
with uniformed hierarchy
stems from his commitment
to the basic proposition that
if military spending is not to
run wild, the weapons chosen
have lo be fully adequate,
but less than perfect.
Thus, Secretary McNamara
has, as Mr. Rcston reminded
us the other day,, canceled
the nuclear powered airplane
and the Skybolt missile, he
has opposed the all-out devel
opment of the RS170 and
has given up two or three
LfDDmanD
"... and when tha enemiet of peace coma along,
wham, you bath 'am like that. You can tall . . .
they'll ba carrying clubtl"
Lippmann
Washington Port
other very expensive projects
which, in his judgment, are
not necessary military weap
ons, but military luxuries. In
the same way of thinking, he
has been insisting that for
the new supersonic tactical
planes,' which both the Navy
and the Air Force need, every
effort should be made to de
velop one tactical fighter
plane that can be adapted to
the needs of each service.
The whole controversy
turns on , this. The General
Dynamics proposal is very
much nearer to being one
plane for both Navy and Air
Force than is the Boeing pro
posal. According to Secretary
Mcwamara, tne Boeing pro
posal is in fact for two much
more specialized fighter
planes. The General Dynamics
proposal Is for "an airframe
design that has a very high
degree of identical structure
for the Navy and the Air
Force versions," whereas In
the two Boeing versions, "less
than half of the structural
components of the wing, fuse
lage and tail were the same."
To illustrate how wasteful
is overspecialization, Secre
tary McNamara tells us that
the Navy now has a large
number of aircraft out of on-
eration for lack of spare'parts,
wnne tne Air Force has
$2.2-billlon inventory of spare
parts that are "already obso
lete and practically worth
less."
. e
FHE judgments which See's-
retary McNamara is mak
ing in the choice of these very
expensive weapons are judg
ments which somebody has
to make. Congress has the
right and the power to hold
him accountable for them.
Congress is not qualified, and
it nasn l the time to make
those judgments Itself. Con
gress, also, has opportunity
to review the secretary's deci
sions. For these new comDli-
cated weapons systems take
years to develop.
But the kind of judgment
which Mr. McNamara is mak
ing is the kind of judgment
the Secretary of Defense is
meant lo make. That is one
of the main reasons why his
office was created. We know
from experience that it has
not always been easy to find
a Secretary of Defense who
was competent to do that. In
Secretary McNamara, the
country has a Secretary of
Uctonse who, in his training,
in his practical experience
and in his technical knowl
edge of production, is remark
ably, perhaps uniquely, quali
fied to pass judgment on a
problem like that of the TFX.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Matter of Fact
(el New YorJcJJerjJdmbuneiSyndlcaie
rmrc ns prurp?
Bonn-President Kennedy's
project for a multilateral nuc
lear force attached to NATO
wa a hastily
improvised at
Nassau, as a
quick way out
of the Skv
bolt squabble
with the Brit
ish. Yet this
hurried im-
pro visation
with bits and
Alcnp
pieces of old
long-nealectml Diane Hag aiiH.
denly acquired an enormous
potential, either for good or
evil. Either the President has
nail-unintentionally begun to
grope his way towards a solu
tion of the West's most rWn.
rooted problem. Or he has In
cautiously got the most dan-
gciuua on or oear Dy tne tail.
It is Quite certain that iho
President will find he has a
bear by the tail unless he is
willing to amend his project
rather radically As it
stands, the nuclear arms of
the surface shins nnHnr g,,k
marines of the muitiiataai
force will be controlled by a
committee 01 all the contrib
uting members. Each commit
tee member, consniminnetv in
cluding the U.S., will have a
veto on tne. use ol the force.
THE political handicap of the
" American veto needs no
underlining. But that is not
the only difficulty. Th nn
nation-one veto rule virtually
insures me neutralization of
the proposed force, even if the
U. S. should Wish tn
order to fire away. There is
reauy -no answer at all to the
argument made by German
Defense Minister Kai-Uwe
von riassel to the President's
special ambassador, Living
ston Merchant.
"Suppose," said von Hassel,
"the next British Prime Min
ister is Harold Wilson who is
close to being a unilateral
nuclear disarmer. What use
will this force be then, with
the veto rule? The fact is, at
least one veto must always
be expected - in such a com
mittee, no matter what the
provocation may be."
This is why Gen. de
Gaulle's nuclear advisor, Gen.
Pierre Gallois, has called the
multilateral fnma "m, tri
lateral farce." As the project
now sianas. m truth, it is one
of those Madison Ave. gest
ures for which American
policymakers have always had
a weakness.
1
THE Germans and other
-- Europeans, w10 are being
asked to pay a large share of
the very heavy costs -of; the
force, are not going to lay out
so much good money for a
Madison ave. gesture. Yet the
failure of the Presirinnf. re
ject at this time will be down-
ngni catastrophic.
Such a failure will ho ta,
as a great nprsnnni iri,imk
by Gen. de Gaulle, and will
actea on Dy him as such.
As for the Presirioni h
not afford another grandoise
start piddling out into noth-
ng. rns power to lead the
West can be fatally Impaired.
The Simnlp ron.ar1 U
been proposed .meanwhile, by
the Germans. They want ma
jority control of the multilat
eral force, not right away,
uui at a aaie some years hence
when the force is nnmin. ii
being and becoming opera
tional. Majority control will
President
By ERIC SEVAREID
This is a sort of "position
paper" for the President's
eyes about his imminent move
from the Glen
Ora estate
1 n Virginia
lo his new
house, acres
and pond
on Rattle
snake moun
tain nearby. I
should have
gotten this off
stvirrid to him earlier,
but I kept thinking that David
Lawrence or James Reston
would step in to advise Mr.
Kennedy about his new home
place, as we would call it in
that back country.
Reslon probably figured
that since his place has a run,
not a pond, and is away over
near Hume, he couldn't ad
vise with authority; and while
Lawrence's acres near Ccn
trcville are within line -of-sight
of Rattlesnake, the
President's record of follow
ing Lawrence's advice is thin,
which probably discouraged
Mr. Lawrence. So, since I
know both Glen Ora and Rat
tlesnake and my cabin and
pond are not far off, the duly
obviously falls to me.
To bcain with nf rnitrp
you know, Mr. President, lh.it
you got stung on the acrease
Drice. hut we all rin thp firct
lime we try to haggle with
country-slickers. Ten years
from now you'll laugh about
it.
Now ahntit th riam fh.t
county agent over at Culpepcr
will eHvisf. nn th rnntlrnn.
tion and figure the drainage
area. Ha won t charge you
h
1 '-Vtjftf?!
By Joseph Alsop
both make the force militarily
useful and remove the polit
ical curse of the persisting
U. S. veto.
it c accAntance of the Ger
man proposal will do much
more than this, however.
r,,.a mninritV f-nntrol IS COI1
ceded, the multilateral force
will automatically become the
first sten towards a truly
European deterrent.
TN THS way, the Germans
A have offered President Ken
nedy a very great opportun
ity Th fact must be faced in
Washington It should have
been faced long betore mis
that the U. S. cannot nope m
retain fnrever a virtual mon
opoly of the effective nuclear
striking power of me weai.
Any other view of the matter
is silly wishfulness.
Economically and political
ly p.imiw has lonn since cast
off its dependence on the U. S.
Europe will not therefore rest
content forever, any more
than the British or oen. ae
cinii. have rested content,
to depend on the U. S. for the
supreme means or seu-ae-
fense.
If the Americans do not of
fer a solution of this problem,
the Europeans, consplciously
Including the Germans, will
soon or late attempt a much
more unpalatable solution of
their own. The German
amendment to the multilater
al fnrc offers a remarkably
acceptable solution, as well as
a wav to avoid a grave for
eign policy defeat.
For these reasons, the Presi
dent should welcome It warm
ly.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
There's NEWS today.
In a campus address to the
students of the University of
Costa Rica, President Ken
nedy said:
'The Soviet Union MUST
and WILL get out of Cuba . . .
What we cannot accept in
Cuba Is the yielding up of
SOVEREIGNTY to the Soviet
Union and transformation of
that island into a base from
which Russia seeks to EX
TEND ITS EMPIRE to the
shore of this continent."
He added:
"We will never be secure
in our hemisphere until the
Soviet Union goes the way of
George III, the Spanish con
querors, Maximilian and Wil
liam Walker.
rpHAT's plain language-not
diplomatic gobbledygook.
It can only be interpreted as
meaning that if the Soviet
Union doesn't GET OUT of
the Western Hemisphere we
will THROW IT OUT.
In order to make his langu
age unmistakably flat and
plain, President Kennedy
cited three historic occasions
on which we have USED
FORCE to keep FOREIGN
RULE out of the .Western
Hemisphere:
1. George III.
2. Maximilian.
3. The Spanish. conquerors.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S
citation of the case of Wil
liam Walker is particularly in
teresting under the circum
stances.
Walker was an AMERI
CAN. He was a military ad-venturer-a
filibusterer. In
Kennedy's
anything, even if he drives
over on his day off. For good
ness sake, don't try to build
the dam yourself. Ed Murrow
did, and it went out in the
first flash flood gave him
an extra furrow in his fore
head. You'll want a dock.
Make it oak or locust, the pil
ings well creosoted. Get hold
of a fellow named Stanley
Brown; he can build anything
and he's very reasonable.
Time magazine must be
wrong about your putting
perch in the pond. Keep it to
large-mouth bass and blue
gills, and don't even dream
about trout in that mud bot
tom. For an acre and a half
pond, I'd figure, say, 150 bass
fingcrlings to 1.000 bluegills.
You can get application forms
from the Interior Department
and they will send the fish in
milk cans from the hatchery
on the West Virginia side of
the Blue Ridge. It won't cost
you a cent, because the gov
ernment in Washington wants
us to impound more waters
against erosion, and encour
age protein feed supplies for
poultry. There's a manual you
can get free from the Agricul
ture Department which
proves you can harvest more
pounds of food per acre of
water than of soil.
a .
In a year or two start fish
ing the pond hard as you'll
have nothing but stunted fish
from overpopulation and will
have to drain the pond and
begin all over again. When the
bass are lunker sizc-you may
as well face this-you'll never
catch them except, with luck,
on live frogs. Up to about
June 13, the bluegills take dry
or wet flies well. (I don't
1
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THINGS YOU WOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT IF YOU
HADN'T READ THEM HERE
Whan Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, ha
didn't know that be was alto inventing tha juka box . . .
Smokey the Bear has been arretted for arson at laatt
three times . . . Iron does not nacettarily contain spinach
. . . World War III will probably ba fought in angar . , ,
Newton's law, as it was first written, stated, "What comaa
down mutt'va been up." . . . "June Bride" sounds fina
but "June Groom" doesn't . . . People who stand en their
heads to watch Route 66 are still talking about tha last
episode of Route 99 . . . Soma doctors feel that feet ara
tha probable causa of bunions and corns .
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR
A pretty famous Indian Chief once said of Portland,
"It's a great place for scalping and fun for conventions but
it would be a heck of a place to live." This opinion is
evidently not shared by some 400,000 odd (meaning more
or less and not what you think it means) who live quietly
on the banks of the First National but continue to scalp
each other and lo hold conventions.
TAXES ON THINGS THEY HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF
YET BUT WILL
New babies at tha rata of a dollar a pound.
A dollar assessment for each time you mow your
lawn and two dollars for each time you don't.
A fresh air tax for people who think they're too good
to breathe whatever else it is that tha rest of ui ara
breathing.
NAMES MAKE NEWS
Edmil Knee, Rue Thstark, Dikmoo Dee, Fran' Quilson,
Bentrow Bridge, Jereep Ollis, Guilt Oomy, Joaf Legal, Luba
Ates, Huge Ennings, Jawnma Futt and R. Cheapears.
A LETTER FROM A HEADER'S DIGEST STAFFER:
Dear J.W.S.: :
Someone from tha Digest's' publicity department has
just deposited on my desk a dog eared clipping which
turned out to be your column with tha 'kind words about
me. Thanks so much. I couldn't have improved on tha
santimants myself and I don't understand how you have
kept up with my whole sordid saga by such remote control.
Who are you, J.W.S.7 I have been away from Medford
so long I have no idea that anyone remembered me. I
thought the few survivors of my misspent years there
would be doddering around or would ba hopeless Geritol
addicts by now.
The picture at the top of your column doesn't furnish
much clue to your identiy. Just those tleely eyes gating
out accutingly. I once knew a girl in Medford whole
initials were J. W. S. but I detect no hint of false eye
lashes in your abreviated portrait so I presume you ara
not a girl. Despite the flinty gaze, your sentiments ara
downright benign and your subject matter couldn't ba
improved on. - r
It was also nice being bracketed with Seely Hall and
Editon Marshall, although they might not enjoy that sort of
guilt by association.
Cordially,
John Reddy
(Wa don't know what Reader's Digest pays but we pay at
tha rata of 1 cent per word and we have tent Mr. Reddy
our check for $2.07 and our thanks from a hometown vary
proud of his many accomplishments.)
1850, he came to California
to hunt gold. Three years
later, he assembled a regi
ment of soldiers and tried to
conquer Lower California and
the state of Sonora, both in
Mexico. His ' attempt failed
and he was tried by Ameri
can authorities for violating
our neutrality laws.
He was freed, and the fol
lowing year he tried to gain
control of Honduras, but
failed and was executed by
the Hondurari government -
with no protest from the U. S.
Presumably, President Ken
nedy cites Walker's case as
New Home-Place
mean to intrude on family af
fairs, but if Mrs. Ethel Ken
nedy wants to practice, better
lend her a knock-about fly
reel. She used by Hardy reel
last summer in Colorado and
it's been frozen since.)
Be careful about live bait.
True minnows are okay, but
any rough fish like baby cat
fish will wreck the pond if
they get loose and breed. A
snapping turtle or two will
keep the pond free of dead
fish, but it ocurs to me that
Miss Caroline may want to
keep ducks. In that case, no
snappers.
About the garden You'll
probably have lo spray out
the honeysuckle,- although I
know Miss Rachel Carson
won't like this. Don't confuse
it with Virginia creeper. I ex
pect you won't want the for
mal gardens they have at
Glen Ora. Roses and wild
azalias are naturals in that
soil on Rattlesnake. Mrs. K.
might want to begin with
laurel; she can transplant the
wild bushes which she will
find on the north slopes in the
shade. She should look for
the kind that flowers.
m
If you like quail around,
here's a tip when the Rural
Electrification people come
along to cut out the trees and
brush under the power line,
see that they replant the scar
with bird food and cover like
lespedeza and red-top.-Check
Fish and Wildlife Service on
this; actually, you ought 'o
subscribe to the monthly mag
azine of the Virginia Conser
vation Department.
I almost forgot you won't
need a county license to fish
on your own property, but if
you do put in federal fish,
assurance that NEVER will
Americans be permitted to
interfere with the affairs of
our sister states in the West
ern Hemisphere.
INTERESTING question:
Does President Kennedy
really MEAN BUSINESS in.
his flat statement in Costa
Rica that if the Soviet Union
doen't get out of Cuba it will
be THROWN OUT-presum-.
ably by the United States?
If he does
And if he stands pat
It will be one of the Great
Decisions of American his
tory. any taxpayer is legally en
titled to fish your pond. You
will meet some pretty nice
back-country folks this way,
and if you drop a polite hint,
they won't leave empty beer
cans on the dam.
It won't take you long to
get to know the best places to
do your trading. Of course,
for any heavy stuff like trac
tors, you'll want to start off
right. Fred Wayland, on th
Warrcnton by-pass, is always
reliable and can arrange
terms.
If Miss Caroline and Mrs.
K. keep horses up there, I
think any copperheads around
will soon disappear; still if
Caroline runs round in the
high' grass, I'd see that she
wore boots, at least for a
time.
Next to honeysuckle, your
greatest problem will ba
groundhogs and what they
may do to your stone fences
and outbuildings. I guess
you'll just have to find out
about that as you go along:
one of the real rewards of tha
back-country is learning as
you live.
One thing, though no mat
ter how long you live there,
you will never master lha
whippoorwill problem. On
hot nights, when you can't
shut the windows, they're just
going to cost you your sleep,
that's all, unless you can use
those earplug things. I find
them too uncomfortable, and
Just doze, reminding myself
that auto horns and sirens are
worse evils, anytime, than the
call of the whippoorwill.
(Distributed 1963. by
The Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Referred)
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