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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Playland of the West
In prior discussions of the Rogue Basin
project, which will involve the construction of
three dams, most of the emphasis has been placed
on two factors additional irrigation water
and on improvement of the quality of the wa
ter in the lower Rogue.
These factors are, of course, immensely im
portant, and will benefit the entire area.
Some discussion has been noted of the rec
reational benefits, too. But not, in our view, as
much as the potential justifies.
Anyone who has watched Howard Prairie
lake become one of the area s major recreationa
sites can understand this.
CO CAN those who have seen Detroit dam and
reservoir on the Santiam river. It furnishes
a play area for thousands upon thousands of
people on summer week ends and week days.
Howard rraine covers some 2,000 acres at
maximum height. Detroit reservoir, when full,
covers 3,580 acres. The Lost Creek reservoir of
the Rogue project will cover some 3,100 acres
half again larger than Howard frame, and
nearly as large as Detroit.
None of these are as large as the bhasta Lake
impoundment, but they are large enough to ac
commodate boating, water skiing, swimming
all the water sports which have become so pop
ular in recent years, and which provide the basis
tor any good recreational site.
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Flight o' Time
Medford ind Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 year ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27, 1953 (Thurtday)
The State Traffic Safety
division office in Salem re
ported it has received word
from Ashland that the south
ern Oregon city has complet
ed its third consecutive year
without a traffic fatality.
General rain with amounts
ranging from light to moder
ate fell over southern Oregon
last night and this morning.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27, 1943 (Friday)
Russian, German tank bat
ties rage in Ukraine.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A con
gressman fooling around
Wisconsin dairy farm was
chased by a bull and pursued
-just did make it over the
fence in time. The bull was
trying to get revenge for be
ing thrown so much by the
statesman.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27, 1933 (Friday)
City and county to be check
ed for blue eagles.
Annual Southern Oregon
golf tourney opens.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1923 (Monday)
Reginald H. Parsons to ex
hibit fancy stock at state fair.
Business on Pacific coast
shows steady increase. -.' v
50 YEARS AGO .
Aug. 27, 1913 (Wednetday)
Rich strike reported at
Kane creek mine.
Prosperous year predicted
for fruit growers.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it superior;
even or tight is aicellent; five or
sit ft good.
1. Which State of the Un
ion leads In the production of
Irish potatotes?
2. Is a road runner a bird,
squirrel, hobo, or painted
strip?
3. The land borders of
Korea touch China and what
other country?
4. During the War Between
the States, what group was.
Known as Copperheads?
5. In which state is Rocky
Mountain National Park?
6. In which state was Will
Rogers born?
7. Hair, does, or does not
grown on a body after death?
8. In what year did the Bos
ton Tea Party occur?
9. Are the Philippines near
er to Australia, Borneo or Ha
waii? 10. Name Dewey's flagship
at the Battle of Manila Bay.
Answers! 1. Maina. 2.
Bird. 3.. Soviet Ruttia. 4.
Northerners sympathetic to
Confederacy, S. Colorado. .
6. Oklahoma.. 7. Does not. t.
1773. .9. Boraeo. 10. Olyrtv
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INDUSTRIALIST DIESif t
Indianapolis, ' Ind. ' - (TO
Harper Ransburg. 77, Irtdjan
apolis industrialist who mtv
ed as-director of the CeArul
Indiana Council of Boy, $Qtn.Vs
for more than. 50 eam.' (fled
S u n A ay. FuaegftV. tJ'frW
were penaing.
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1XTTH THE completion of the Rogue Basin
project, Jackson county will have the poten
tial for one of the finest recreation and vaca
tion areas in the west.
In summer, it will have three maj'or lakes,
each with unsurpassed recreational opportuni
ties Howard Prairie, Lost Creek and Apple
gate to say nothing of the mountain lakes al
ready here. It will have -the Shakespearean Fes
tival, hopefully the Britt Music Festival, an im
proved Rogue river and again hopefully Bear
creek, as well as the scenic and natural beauties
already enjoyed.
In the wintertime, it will have the Mt. Ash
land ski area, now abuilding, which promises to
be one of the best in the entire west.
Given time, recreation could be our. major
industry.'" What's even better, we can enjoy
it too. E.A.
Burning the Stubble
We have our smudge smoke for a few
mornings in the spring, the mill smoke the rest
of the year, and slash smoke in the fall.
But we don't have the summertime pall
caused by the burning of grass stubblcfields.
This is a relatively new phenomenon in the
Willamette valley, but for the past ten or a doz
en years it has become a familiar thing.
Driving down the valley last week, we saw
pillar alter pillar ot dense smoke rising irom
burning fields. On windless days, particularly
when there is a cold-air inversion, the resulting
pall is a nuisance at best, and an eye-smarting,
cough provoking threat, and air and auto traf
fic hazard, at worst.
T'HE GRASS 'crop is valued at some $15 million
per year. It was almost wiped out about 15
years ago by a fungus disease. It is to destroy
this fungus, plus insects and rodents, that the
3,000 Willamette valley grass farmers burn the
fields some 100,000 acres in all. '
Air pollution control men deplore the
smoke, but there is little they can do. Agricul
tural ;.burning is exempt from Oregon's air pol-
ution .control law. And, according to the Lugene
Register Guard, little if any research is being
done to develop means other than burning to
sterilize the fields.
It's something else to live with in the name
of "economic necessity." E.A.
Freeways and Scenery
An editorial writer on The Daily Astorian
bemoans the loss of the pleasure of driving
through towns, now that the freeway by-passes
virtually every town along its length.
He has a point, of course. But then, no one
forces anyone to remain on the freeway.
A friend remarked the. other day that vou
"just have to get off the freeway if you're go
ing to really see Oregon." And that is true.
In some ways the ireeway has improved the
scenery, opening up new (and mostly billboard-
ess) vistas. But it also skims around and past
some beautiful and interesting spots.
AS A CONVENIENCE and as a time saver,
a. ,V. fc J V J, lie X-J 14 la Ji, lll'ly 111 Cl
hurry, one ought to get off it once in a while.
Ihe highway down the Umpqua river, par
ticularly between Scottsburg and Reedsport; is
one of the loveliest drives in the west. The.Mc
Kenzie pass, now by-passed by most drivers in
favor of the Clear Lake cut-off to the Santiam,
is another magnificent drive.
So is the length of the Oregon coast (ex
cepting, of course, the "20 Miracle Miles"). So
is the old Columbia Gorge highway. Route 97,
north of Madras, has a charm and fascination of
its own as it winds through sage and wheat, the
ghost town of Shaniko, and down to the Colum
bia. There are hundreds of parts of Oregon
worth seeing, but you have to get off the free
ly to see them. But, of course, often times the
fleeway speeds you to them. E.A. i
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Communications
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for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rloht to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily reoresenr the views of irm
paper. In fact the contrary is often the cue.
Responsibility
To the Editor: Perhaps be-
cause of its simplicity and ob
vious nature, you have ignor-
ed the responsible "Tax Alter,
natives (MT 8-23)."
During the last 140 day leg
islative assembly, some $26
million was cut from the over
all budget. Was the inclusion
of this vast amount responsi
ble? If not, there may be a
reasonable possibility of fur
ther cuts being justified.
Action on the part of the
state legislators concerning
the state budget was second
hand. The Ways and Means
committee made recommen
dations, they had to be taken
as being sound, and after the
legislators approved certain
expenditures it was only rea
sonable they vote for some
tax program to provide for
the expenditures. But the is
sue of the voters (those who
support the referendum), is to
take another, deeper, longer
look at the justification of the
expenditures, especially in ed
ucation. Jane Gallcspie said
it quite succinctly on "Public
Opinion" last week. As I re
member her thoughts - in the
past we've all voted to sup
port education, as parents we
are concerned about the edu
cation of our children. We
have voted yes and then taken
it for granted everything was
all right. But now it is time
to do a little more than take
things for granted. It's our
money and we should be sure
of the need when we vote to
have someone spend it. I hope
I have not committed an in
justice against Jane's posi
tion. I hope I have made the
same point as she did.
Along this same line - is
it sound fiscal andor educa
tional policy to argue such
things as bowling, or roller
skating, etc., are essential to
education? Can school build
ings be used for split-curriculum?
This way faculties have
to be duplicated but not fa
cilities. Wouldn't this reduce
costs?
So much of what the edu
cators and their spokesmen
(often arrogantly), plan, takes
on the semblance of frightful
urgency! After all, when a
baby is first conceived and
makes his presence known
there is cause for great joy
and anticipation; but the sit
uation is not urgent until the
water breaks and the mother
is still 25 miles from the doctor!
Be a little more sympathet
ic and a little less extreme
toward the level of intelli
gence of your readers, Mr. Al
len. This tax referendum re
flects the electorate practicing
the highest dedication to re
sponsibility, not as you say,
the opposite.
Robert J. Howard
702 Beekman st.
Medford.
Alarm System
To the Editor: An item In
your paper August 20 stated
that the Capital Improvement
committee had recommended
the installation of a fire alarm
system to replace the present
"obsolete syssem." "
This system was installed
after we had voted $40,000 in
a bond issue for a fire alarm
system. It was obsolete when
it was installed and was made
from discarded guard call
boxes at Camp White. Now
the $40,000 is Sone. and we
must install a lire alarm sys
tem. . .
The following Is from a
communication that I mailed
you about 10 years ago, and
you printed:
"So, we have an alarm sys
tem at a savings of $30,000.
Do we have thfc $30,000 that
was saved? If not, we have
saved nothing. Merely spent
the money w.thout getting the
system recommended by the
Portland consultant.
"The guard call boxes they
installed do not even bear the
stamp of approval of the Un
derwriters Laboratory. In case
of storm they can be rendered
useless.
"Our local fire department
was without outside commu
nication one time, due to a
storm, until an emergency
line could be installed.
"The recommended Game
well system would have auto
matically switched to an
auxiliary generator in case of
power failure.
"Any school, hospital or in
dustrial building having an
automatic sprinkling system
could have been connected
with the system, which would
have flashed the alarm the in
stant the sprinkling system
went on, even though no per
son had seen the fire, to turn
in an alarm.
"If the Council feels they
have invested our fire funds
wisely, why have they failed
to ask for a rerating of our
city? The consultants' plans
had a rerating in mind." (This
would have meant a savings
in fire insurance).
Such stupidity is the reason
for your high property tax to
day.
In January, February and
March we were notified that
the assessed value of our
properties had been increased.
Our home was increased 25
per cent. We were told in your
paper that the city and county
budgets were figured on the
old assessed value, but we
will have to pay according to
the new assessment. It seems
to me that they will have this
extra 25 per cent to spend,
though it is not in the bud'
get.
If the taxpayers do not
voice their objections to the
high tax, they surely cannot
complain.
Mrs. Cleo Canoose
55 Ross Court
Medford.
Mid-East Border Clashes Could Result
In Major Conflict; Nasser's Role Eyed
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In the trigger-quick emo
tional state which is habitual
in the Middle East, any
long drawn
awsoas
out series of
border i n c i
dents between
Arabs and Is
raelis could
be the begin
ning of a ma
jor conflict.
And t h a t ex
plains why
both the Unit
ed Nations forces in the Mid
dle East and the UN Security
Council in New York are mov
ing as quickly as possible to
halt the latest series of inci'
dents along the Israeli border
with Syria and Jordan.
The Israelis have accused
Syria of climaxing a series
of aggressive acts with t h
ambush slaying of the two
19-year-old Israeli farmers re
turning from work near the
Sea of Galilee.
The Syrians have denied
that such an incident even
took place and have accused
Israel of sending armored cars
into the demilitarized zone
north of the Sea of Galilee to
shell Syrian defensive posi
tions.
Thus both are attempting
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsep
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
(Joseph Alsop is on vaca
tion this month - and gath
ering material both in this
country and abroad for fu
ture columns. During his
absence, top members of
the staff of the New York
Herald Tribune will sub
stitute for him.)
By ROBERT J. DONOVAN
Unconquerable Force
To the Editor: The follow
ing is a "Statement of Faith,"
its author anonymous, but not
unworthy.
I have faith to believe
that, despite the failure of ad
ministrators of our depart
ments of government, our
country will stand forth un
scathed if only her people re
main true to their colors.
"I have faith to believe
that, neither depression at
home, nor peril abroad shall
be able to reduce our country
in honor or strength, if only
her people remain independ
ent in spirit, and strong at
heart to battle for the victory
whatever the terror.
"I have faith to believe in
the final triumph of Liberty
in all places if but the peoples
of the world shall take Lib
erty itself to their hearts, and
cleave to Justice with all their
minds. For these are the im
perishable, the unconquerable
forces among men every
where, always and forever."
"Contributor"
(Name on file)
Medford.
Writers' Club Sets ,
Meeting Wednesday
Persons engaged in the
writing profession are invited
to attend a writers' club meet
ing at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
at the home of Helen Bartley.
3478 New Ray rd.. Central
Point.
Plans for fall activities of
the club will be made. Those
wishing additional informa
tion about the group may eali
Mrs. Bartley at 664-18:4 or
Mary Lou Skinner at 482-3993.
IMPRESSIONS OF THE
FAR EAST
Washington - All of the
surprising number of Ameri
cans who are wandering about
the Far East this summer will
bring back their reflections on
the teeming civilization be
yond the Pacific. My own,
having just returned from
random vacation travels from
Indonesia to Japan, are a med
ley of impressions which, an
noyingly, refuse to fall into a
convenient pattern.
Certainly, a prodi g I o u s
amount of human energy is
being expended on the mo
dernization and, in many out
ward aspects1 at least, the
Westernization of Asia.
The air in Bangkok is gray
with ' the dust of new roads
arising out of canals that
from ancient times carried
the commerce of Thailand.
Women are doing heavy work
along with men for $1 a day.
In Indonesia, troubled
though its economy may be,
the busy highway from Dja
karta to Bandung is a reveal
in gscent of mile after mile of
pleasant houses being built
with red brick walls and
thatched roofs. In Djakarta it
self a vast new ultra-modern
hotel looks out upon- an em
bankment where cattle graze
in the sunset.
WITH deep introspection,
the Japanese, led by their
Emperor, have just, for the
first time, memorialized their
war dead on the 18th anni
versary of V-J Day. According
to the Tokyo press, however,
half the people paid no heed
at all to the national moment
of prayer. Instead they went
about their daily work in a
country that is miraculously
clear of all -vestiges of the
devastation of 1945. '
The highways leading to
Mt. Fuji are jammed with
tourist buses and motorcycles,
and on every one of the piti
fully few vacant lots around
the cities an eternal sandlot
baseball game is in progress.
The clatter of heavy con
struction in Tokyo with the
Olympic Games only a year
off is distracting. This is par
ticularly true of the new sub
way construction. The plank
ing on the streets enables the
Tokyo taxi drivers to keep
their customers not just on
the edge of their seats but in
mid-air as well. Many Ameri
can chiropractors should reap
the benefits this fall from
their patients' ride from the
Hotel Okura to the Ginza.
The Japanese are Inveterate
television watchers. Even in
remote "areas one walks down
a village lane at night and
sees the glare of television
screens on the walls of the
dingiest shack. These remote
areas are reached, incidental
ly, on trains whose comfort,
service, speed, and punctual
ity convinces one that Ameri
can railroads should go back
to the days of the Golden
Spike and start over.
IT WAS surprising to see the
boys and girls of Bangkok
by the thousands carrying
home much larger brief cases
than American school chil
dren are burdened with. Un
fortunately, I am unable to
offer evidence as to the mean
ing of this phenomenon
terms of the comparative
merits of the school systems
here and in Thailand. Without
intending any comparison,
however, I must confess to
having been struck through
out by the gleam, the fresh
ness, good nature, and good
manners of the youth of the
Far East.
Another thing that was
striking was the personal
cleanliness which per sists
amid the squalor still abound
ing in many parts of Asia
Words cannot describe, for
example, the squalor of the
floating markets in the jungle
like canals in Bangkok. How
clothes can be washed white
along the slimy banlfg of those
muddy streams defied under
standing, yet the white shirts
the men and boys were wear
ing looked as if they had just
come from the laundry.
American music of all kinds
simply permeates the Far
East night and day. Those of
us who grew up in the '20s
and '30s could scarcely step
into a hotel, bar, or restaurant
without hearing over and over
dance tunes we had long for
gotten. Old Black Joe" was
being piped to the passengers
in one train I boarded, and
sightseeing boat on Lake
Ashinoko in Hakone National
Park set off on its journey to
the strains of "America the
Beautiful."
ABOARD a small vessel in
Hong Kong harbor one
evening a young member of
the . crew politely asked Tne
why Americans were treating
Negroes so badly. Throughout
the Far East the racial dis
turbances in the United States
are daily given conspicuous
display in the newspapers.
Not through malice, I believe.
but because of the skimpy
amount of news space, the
Negro problem in America is
receiving one-sided treatment,
Asians are getting the story
of the Negroes complaints
but little of the story of the
Negroes' gains. It was doubt
ful to me whether the toler
ance and sympathy that is
manifest among such a large
number of whites in the
United States today are wide
ly understood in the Far East
It is astonishing the num
ber of Americans, mostly Call
fornians, who are prowling
remote places of the western
Pacific and Asia. Standing
outside a temple in the Japa
nese city of Nara I overheard
an American college girl com
paring the relic with some
thing she has recently seen in
Tasmania. If you have not
been to Tahiti, you are a stay-
at-home.
The inter mingling will
grow with the years, and one
fine day, I suspect, we shall
all be surprised to discover
how widely the cultures of
East and West are influencing
one another.
WM
"Come on in, gang but remember, the hrsi one whe
tells one of those baa1 integration joke, out ha goeal''
to establish positions from
which to win a favorable deci
sion from the United Nations.
Although the Israelis have
fought the Arabs twice and
came out on top both times,
they have had to face contin
ued Arab hostility.
On the other side, among
the suspicions and intrigue
which tear at Arab nations, a
single unifying factor has
been a common hatred for Is
rael. And this makes interesting
a somewhat cynical view held
by French sources with long
experience in the Middle East
and close ties to Israel.
This view places the re
sponsibility on Syria but holds
it is more from a desire to
put Egyptian President Gamal
Abdel Nasser on an uncom
fortable spot rather than any
desire to stir up a major fight
with Israel.
Therefore the French dis
count the possibility of a ma
jor conflict.
The reasoning goes back to
the now defunct plan to join
Syria, Iraq and Egypt in an
expanded United Arab Re
public. The plan fell through be
cause the Baathist party
which - is in control in both
Syria and Iraq refused to ac
cept the supreme leadership
of Nasser, insisting instead
upon democratic procedure
and full equality of member
nations.
Both side presumably stand
for Arab unity and socialism.
But in the three months
since the grandiose plan was
announced in Cairo, relations
Egypt and Syria have worsen
ed steadily.
Nasser not only has re
nounced the merger but has
called the Syrian Baathists
"fascist murderers" and Mich
el Aflak, a founder and secre
tary general ot the Baathist
party, a "coffee house theore
tician." The Syrians have accused
Nasser of enslaving his peo
ple and squandering their
money on conspiracies against
other Arab states.
In this atmosphere of sweet
harmony, the current Arab
Israeli dispute broke out and,
according to the French
theory, the Syrians put Nas
ser in the middle. He could
oppose the Syrians or he could
support them. Either way he
lost some of his claim to leadership.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney i. Ha.ris
(el Field Enterprises. Inc.
Harris
EQUALITY AND LOVE
The frightful and ignorant
arrogance of modern man i!
nowhere more clearly re
vealed than in
his contemp
tuous attitude
towards the
words of his
progenitors
He accepts
what he finds
comfort-
able, and re
jects what he
does not un
derstand.
To take two of the most
simple and obvious examples
our forefathers reminded us
that "all men are created
equal." Now, evidently, all
men are NOT created equal
they are different in height,
weight, background, mental
capacity, moral character, and
dozens of different ways. No
two men anywhere on earth
are exactly equal in such
ways.
When modern man points
this out, does he imagine that
Jefferson and Franklin and
the American Revolutionists
were such idiots as to believe
that men were created equal
tn such ways? Nobody above
the mental level of eight
would think that. So, obvi
ously, the Founding Fathers
meant something quite differ
ent, and much deeper, than
these "equalities." But we do
not bother to discover what
they meant.
The second example
comes from the Bible,
where we are commanded
to love our neighbors and
love our enemies appar
ently, as Chesterton said,
because they are to often
the tame pertont.
Along comet modern man
and attertt that nobody can
be "commanded" to love
anybody. Love to ut it an
emotion, a feeling, and it
cannot be turned off and
on, it cannot be directed
and channeled. Love, like
the wind, bloweth where it
litteth, and nobody can be
told whom he should love.
How can anyone in hit
right mind imagine that this
it what the wise men who
wrote the Bible meant
when they informed ut that
Cod commandt ut to love
our neighbors? Didn't they
know at well at we that
people are bundles of likes
and dislikes, attraction and
repultiont, affectiont and
aversions? Doet anyone
think that the priests and
the prophets were to stupid
thai they thought this kind
of love could be ordered,
even by God?
misguided. All we have to do
is to ignore the significance
of what is said. Modern man
has no trouble whatsoever in
doing this.
in the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This space today will be de
voted to the story of Vern
Owens, Don Kirkpatrick and
the Little Old Lady.
I think maybe you'll like it.
rpHE Little Old Lady lives in
New Zealand and, like
many of us, she has an itching
foot. And she wanted to see
the U.S.A.
So
A little while back, she
took off.
CHE came by ship to San
Francisco. From San Fran
cisco, she came by stage to
Klamath Falls. The stage
paused here for a brief rest
period, so she took off for a
walk on Main Street.
And
In the window of Vern's
store she saw an electric ap
pliance that was just what she
wanted. It was a fry pan with
a coil in the bottom and an
other coil in the lid. She went
in and Vern demonstrated it.
It was just the ticket. The
minute she saw it, she knew
she wanted it.
1UT
She was starting on a
long trip. And the fry pan
would be bunglesome to carry.
So, reluctantly, she passed
it up.
S o, obviously, something
else is meant. The kind of
love" we are commanded to
have in the Bible is not (at
least, at first) a "feeling" or
an "emotion." It is an act of
will, it is a turning toward the
object in a way quite different
from the way in which we
turn to our beloved sweet
hearts or sons or daughters.
Notice that we are not com
manded to "like" people: we
are requested to "love'' them
which is both easier and
harder. We cannot decide
horn we will like: but in
some peculiar way we can
learn to "love" even those we
may not like. Unless we un-
derstand this, the whole Bib
lical mesage eludes us as. in
different way, the whole
Declaration of Independence
ludes us, if we fail to ErasD
its meaning of "equality.'"
It is easy to prove that the
past was wrong, stupid and
UROM here she went by
1 stage clear around the
perimeter of the U.S.
tut
D She still wanted that
fry pan. She simply HONED
for it. And it couldn't be had
in S.F. So she TOOK OFF
AGAIN FOR KLAMATH
FALLS.
And, as soon as she arrived.
she headed for Vern's store.
Meanwhile, however. Vern
had sold out of the fry pan
gadgets. But Don Kirknatrick
had one in stock, and Vern
knew it.
So, as a good merchant
should, he sent the Little Old
Lady down to his competitor
and Don closed the sale.
THE Little Old Lady then
hastened back to Vern's
store to thank him for his
courtesy and to tell him how
proud she was going to be
when she got back to New
Zealand and showed her
friends and neighbors what
she had found in her travels.
At this point, it occurred to
Vern that in New Zealand
their electric current is differ
ent from ours as many an
American has discovered to
his sorrow when he first tried
to shave with the foreicr.or's
electricity. So he explained
the situation to her.
It didn't feaze the Little
Old Lady. "Oh,'' she said, "my
electrician can fix that in a
jiffy. But it's nice of you to
tell me about it. You Ameri
cans are wonderful."
She then hastened back to
the depot, caught a stage back
to San Francisco and from
there she caught a ship for
New Zealand.
11,'fcLL. if EVERY tourist
' wh
if
ho pauses in Southern
Oregon were treated as cour
teously as Vern and Don treat
ed this Little Old Ltdy from
New Zealand, it wouldn't be
long until we were stoppinej
MILLIONS of tourists here in
our amazingly beautiful area.
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