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Wc Carrier andVendora opy loo Official Paper of City of Mfdiord OIIiclalPaperotJaclnon County United Presl International lull Uaied Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBEFMDF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising R-pre"ienUtlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES OlMcea In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Ansel'". Seattle. Portland Denver. Nf WSMMt rumsHits ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL Memncr California Newspaper Publisher! Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and SO year! ago. JO YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1953 (Friday) A continuation of the PUC hearing on a proposed 20 per cent rate increase requested by the California Oregon Power company has been set (or Sept. A Medford resident living just north of Roxy Ann report ed today she had seen a strange luminous ball of green fire in the sky about 6:30 p.m. Sun day. 21) YEARS AGO Sept. 18, li)43 (Saturday H. H. Maybcrry, Ashland, named head of Malta Command' am Fi-nm Arthur Pcrrv's "Ye SmudRe Pot" column: "The past week brought some Indian sum' mer days, with reservations. 30 YEARS AGO Kmw ir m:t:t (Mnmlav) Free beer and lunch to be served at Jacksonville Saturday night. Lewis Ulrich to be manager of unemployment agency. 4ft YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1923 (Tuesday) Five mill levy asked for wa tnf hnurd pynensps. Work starts on new Palm building on North Fir st. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1913 (Thursday) Oregon State Medical associa tion starts meeting here. Lee Jacobs turns down ap pointment as mayor; much doubt still exists on council's choice. What's Your I.Q.? Id;-. n. n rArrarl It suB.rlor geven or eight ii excellent; tlva of iix It good. t. The sodium fluoride treat' mcnt is used as a method of preventing what? 2. What was the name of the first white child born in Ameri ca in colonial days? 3. Who was Booker T. Wash inglon? 4. Is the city of Leningrad in Soviet Russia located on the Dneiper. Don, or Volga River? S. Was John James Audubon famous as an inventor of hear ing devices, painter of birds, or designer of furniture? 6. In what city is the Univer sity of Michigan? 7. What is the I.O.O.F.? 8. What was the first name of President Woodrow Wilson? 9. What is the oldest known mechanical device for meas uring time? 10. Are members of the Presi dent's cabinet elected or ap pointed? Answers: I. TiMilh decay. I. Virginia Dare. 3. Famous Nrgrn educator, i. Volga. 5. Palmer of birds. 8. Ann Arbor. 7. Independ ent Order ol Odd Fellovn. 8. Thomas. 9. Sundial. 10. Appoint ed. Jones Acf Extension Hearing Scheduled WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next Monday on proposed legislation for ex tension of an amendment to the Jones Act, Sen. Maurine Ncu bcrger (D-Ore.) has announced. Tuesday. The legislation would pcrmll the continued use of foreign ships in shipping lumber from the U.S. to Puerto Rico. 4 A SEPTEMBER 18. MM The Ladder What is to be said throw a bomb into a Sunday school room? Anyone with a thread of deceny must be sickened at this awful crime. Even Gov. Wallace of Alabama not a man feelines for his darker revulsion at this. Obviously the perpetrator of this murder must be insane. Could anyone have done it? The mind AND yet . . . Is it not simply a A good man, a self-admitted tolerant man, still can refuse to permit a Negro to live in his neighborhood. Another man will restaurant. Another will object the same school with the Another would deny work. Another would deny Another would close Neoroes. Another would burn lawn. Another would shoot hack. And finally, one would throw a bomb among little children. THE difference is of degree, not of kind. All these things, from the man who prides himself on his "tolerance" (but still doesn't want to live next door to a black man), to the monster who blows up children, are all motivated by the same basic things fear, mostly, and prejudice, and a blind refusal to admit that it is what is inside, not the color outside, which is important. Each of us, no matter how pure we think our hearts, must admit that another of the rungs of which reaches clown into and murder. What is your place on the ladder: b. A. 'Mr. San Francisco' Herb Caen is the brightest jewel in the diadem of the San Francisco Chronicle. And he has com pleted 25 years of turning out a daily column for that newspaper (with occasional lapses for vaca tions, army service, ana one sunt on me vnroni cle's arch-rival, the Examiner). The Chronicle, which reportedly pays him handsomely (five figures going on six) for his column, put out a special section the other day to commemorate the anniversary. It was full of laudatory comments from dis tinguished writing colleagues, puffs from adver tisers, and similar chit-chat and back-patting. ONE comment appealed to us. It was by Ian Fleming, the Secret Agent .007 man, who himself once conducted a daily column. It has its appeal to anyone who, clay in and day out, must fill so much white space with printed words which, hopefully, are intelligent, witty, cogent, germane, forthright, etc., etc. Fleming said : ". . . You must have ink in your veins. You really must love writing and communicating in order to sit down and write around 1,000 words a day in such a fashion that people will read them. And that is what a daily columnist has to do. "Every day, come hangover, come flu, come lack of in spiration, come ailing wife or brawling children, he must go confidently and with seeming omniscience on stage and show himself to the public in naked black-and-white. "No excuses! You are a columnist, and by God you've got to fill your column to the satisfaction of your readers and, though this may be rare, to your own." A columnist, despite this, has advantages over those who write other kinds of prose. He can be gay or sad, formal or resnectitul, sober or To do this, and do it type of mentality and talent one who is inter ested in virtually everything, and able to write about them with skill. William Saroyan says that Caen writes about: ". . . named cople, unnamed people, streets, fog, water, ships, the sun. the moon, the tides, fish, cats, dogs, restau rants, liars, creeks, winners, weeds, change, the dead, the aging, the newly-born, love, hate, mice, artichokes, coins, dentists, gamblers, politicians, garbage-collectors, sandwiches, pain, losers, marriage, lawyers, sneaks, cops, inventors, snobs, the imagination, gone stuff, new stuff, Zen, sen-sen, the mayor, the governor, the President and God." And he's about right. E.A. Ashland Airport Improvement We hope that Ashland's city fathers will find it possible to follow through on the proposal that Ashland's rather rudimentary airport be enlarged and improved. It would be desirable from a number of dif ferent standpoints. Most important as far as the rest of the valley is concerned, anyway is the fact that there are many days each winter when the Med ford airport is fogged in but the Ashland field is in sunshine. Having an alternate field only a few minutes away by the freewav would be ad vantageous, not only to the airlines and their passengers, but to private flyers, business flyers, Mercy Flights pilots, and all others who use the air. For this reason alone, not to mention the eco nomic and other benefits which would accrue to the Ashland area, the proposal merits approval. E.A. of Racism of a man ( ) who can noted for his charitable brothers protests his pretending to normalcy and heart protest. matter of degree? refuse him service in a to his children attending black man s child. the Negro the right to him the right to vote schools before admitting a cross on a Negro's Medgar Evers in the we belong on one or the ladder of racism the swamp of insanity or informal, impertinent occasionally spirted well, takes a particular "I'm no critic, mind you, but the new television season looks promising Ihe World Series, football, basketball. TV gets better every year!" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication fs permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right 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 represent the views of t.- paper. In fact the contrary is often What Do Voters Want? To the Editor: After reading your editorial, What Do Voters Want?" and your com ments in the last paragraph, I would like to make this sug gestion. Print a ballot in your paper asking your readers to express their opinions on other types of revenue if the referral is voted down. You might ask your pa per boys to make a house to house canvass to collect the bal lots or a facsimile of it. Sug gested questions: Do you favor a cigarette tax: If so, in what state depart ment would you like the revenue placed? Do you favor a sales tax.' If so, in what state depart ment and in what proportion would you like the revenue to be placed: Do you favor both a cigarette tax and sales tax? Where would you apply the revenue? Remarks John H. Holtz 2121 East Jackson blvd. Medford Editor's note: There is merit In the idea of attempting to as certain what the voters want. But "clip-the-coupon" types of polls are notably inaccurate and of doubtful value, unless there is overwhelming response, which is seldom the case. Skid Row Beggars To the Editor: This valley seems to be crowded with men and women that think that work is a disgrace and it is an honor to be a bum. The place where we have to meet the bus to White Center is the wino capital of the state. I have seen fruit men beg them to go out and pick fruit. No soap. They had rather go hungry and beg wine, and thev sure keep an eye on us old vet-, mill net a pension aim Hl.su A POX on them. Charles McKinlev White City, Ore. Boosters' Plans To the Editor: We of Ihe Jack sonville Boosters Club would like to remind all of you who arc interested in Jacksonville to remember our Trash and Treas ure. Food and Plant Sale that will be held in the Old Depot Building on Oregon si. in Jack sonville, Friday, Sept. 20. from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Satur day, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m. until sold out. c also would like lo ask it any of you have anything that , uf COUiSc. vou mav have ad-; you could donate to our sale. We vi)1K.e information. Perhaps the could use anything that you t;ovorm. has told you he will think that we can sell, rum-1 not can a special session of j mage, white elephants, baked tne legislature and thereby goods, jam, jelly or preserves, ; m.,ke jt impossible (or the leg-' garden produce, plants or any- j jsuUIC (0 replace the lost ' thing pertaining to gardening, ! ,ln,s such event, who is hand work, or time to help wilh j , bllimc (l. ,ho shortage? The the sale. Anyone having any of I Governor of course. Or perhaps these things is urged to call Pat j the lwin cVMS, tnc ouse Seak Skog, 8;-l;tS4; Jessie Matheny. I r. aml lnc senatc President. 8!M;M or Jean Clarke, 8!!l- h.,ve v0 (( that the leg- 1049. We will arrange for pick- isaUlro will not adopt anv other up. We will surely appreciate (orm o( laxPs. and will not re alty help that you can give us. IK,al anv o( ,10jr appropriations. : The proceeds from this sale will 1( either ol these is true it Ik- used lo help Ihe Booster Club is vour ,utv as news organ, ! City Development Study. t0 "u, the people that our (iov- Wo hope that all o( you are . on,or am our legislature have familiar with the plans of the j decided to let the education pro Booster Club to make a study .ram suffer rather thnn abandon of what we now hav e and of wnai our neetis wm oe in ine planned development for the fu what our needs will be in the ture growth of our city. A city whose growth follows a plan is a much holler city than one j whose growth is hit or miss, ! don't you think? Summed up, vou might say Ihe Booster Club ! is actually a development study propnation means nothing if of the city as a whole and is not t,,XOs are not levied to raise solely directed toward historical the funds. No. 2 The lcgisla research and restoration, as is ; ture could, of course, levy addi Ihe proposed plan of the Pioneer ! tional taxes of any sort. But Sites Foundation. Even though there is no assurance they these two organizations m a y j would, in the (ace of voter re have some of their work over-; jeetion of the current tax prob lapping, and there may be some ; lem; and if they do, the new work that they will be doing to- j taxes would again be subject gelher, they are not aiming for i to referral. .MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON '' tht case. the same goals entirely. One is truly city development-minded and the other is for historical restoration. Mrs. J. D. Skog Mrs. O. W. Matheny Mrs. R. A. Clarke Jacksonville, Ore. Tax Questions To the Editor: Please refer to your tear-jerking editorial, in your issue of Sept. 12, entitled "Education's Grim Prospects". You have covered two phases of imagined consequences of the defeat of the existing tax bill. First, as to the alleged cut of $15 to $19 million from the state-provided funds to local schools. Will you explain to your readers how this can hap pen when the funds have already been appropriated for the sev eral local districts; and the At torney General has ruled that the Governor has no power to reduce this appropriation to the local schools by one penny? Second; do you have inside information? You say: "If the tax measure is de feated there is no real alterna tive in sight to provide the budgeted funds" (for higher ed ucation). - Why could not a recalled leg islature replace the missing funds in either of two ways? First, the enactment of other taxes which would be accept able to the people; for example a cigarette tax. Why should not Oregon cigarette smokers line up with cigarette smokers in 47 other states? Why not make our tourist visitors pay part of the expenses (or the thousands of dollars of state provided facilities which they now enjoy free? When we go to enjov the facilities in Calilornia or Washington, we have to pay a sales tax on every dollar we spen( jn those states. Why not gc( some of It back .' The second source of revenue would be a budget balancing re-; peal of some of the absurd ap- j prupriations made last session, j Why must we have 1,810 more i names on the slate pay-roll, to j run the state in 11)64 than we had in 1;!? And if the schools j are so threatened, what about ! the increase in the pay of the ! legislators, from $15 per day, to $105 per day, based on an 80 day session? It is indeed surprising to see : y o u, a staunch Democratic . sheet, taking your orders from a Republican Ciovernor, and ad vancing the same phoney argu ,ic which he has advanced j ,helr plans. Then the people cn decide whether lo vote (or the lax or vote for a new Gov ernor and a new legislature. The Blanchards , IIM7 S. K. N St. ! Grants Pass, Ore. ! o Editor's note: No. 1 An an- Portugal Shows Few Struggle; Opposition By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst LISBON, Portugal (UPI) - With 40,000 troops in Angola and another 20,000 in other African possessions, Portugal today is the only Euro pean nation en gaged in armed strug gle. Yet metro politan Portu gal, and especi ally this ancient capital, scarce ly bears the look of war or -""'m tension. Citizens and tourists stroll the sun-swept boulevards or sip aperitifs at sidewalk cafes. In the Bar Galito across from in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The bombing of a Negro church in Birmingham was de nounced in the U. S. Senate by Democrats and Republicans who called for swift punishment of those responsible for the crime. It was described as a national crime, disgraceful, outrageous and utterly reprehensible. REPUBLICAN Senator Jacob Javits of New York demand ed a speed-up in Senate action on civil rights legislation as a result of the bombing. He said Alabama Governor Wallace can not escape some of the responsi bility for it (meaning that Wal lace was using it for personal political purposes). Senator Jav its touched off an angry round of reaction when he arose in the Senate to denounce the at tack. SENATE Democratic Leader Mansfield was more tolerant. The bombing, he said, was ut terly reprehensible, and there can be no excuse for an occur rence of this kind under ANY POSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES. But He added: "This outrageous action does not represent the feeling of a great majority of the citizens of Birmingham, of the U. S. A. as a whole. This is something that no one can condone and it has SET BACK the difficult course on the road of race rela tions." WHAT happened at Birming ham? This is Ihe probable answer: I R R E S P O N SIBLE HOT HEADS acted on their own. 'THAT prompts another qucs l tion: What happened at Fort Sum ter? This is the answer: Back in April of lRfil, a little better than a century ago. ir responsible hotheads took over on their own. The result was the War be tween the States with its more than half a million of the nation's youngest and best killed in action and its then staggering dollar cost of more than $5 bil lion. SOBERING thought: A little more time and toler ance back in April of 1861 might have averted the War between the States. Equally sobering thought: A little more time and toler ance and a little less AMBI TION FOR VOTES - might have saved this horror in Bir mingham. QUESTION: Who are the irresponsibles of today? I think this is the answer: The politicians who use the civil rights crisis to GET VOTES. Try and By BENNETT CERF- VrHEN THE GREAT Irish poet and dramatist, William " Butler Yeats, won the Nobel Prize in 1923, a group of his admirers in Dublin insisted upon rivinc a banquet in his honor. Yeats, a very shy, introspective man. writh ed with embarrassment as speaker after speaker sang his praises. He sank lower and lower in his chair on the dais, but suddenly revived when the chairman presented him with a check for 2500 pounds over ten thousand dollars in those days the gift of several wealthy men present. Ycata rose to his feet, stared at the check for a moment, then startled his audience by remarking, "2.100 damn little for all the lies I've Charlie Riff, no great admirer of committee, recalls the defi nition somebody ome coined for a mmel: "a hone desipned by a committee "; ro William Sumner's warning; "if you live in a town that is run by a committee, you had better be on it your self." Ru-e mims up: "Committee of twenty deliberate plenty. Committees of ten act no and then. But most Jobs ai done by committees of one." " A hermit in an obsolete jalopy apprehended driving at 70 Mile an hrj. The- charge, of course, wa retime dnvmp. the casino in Estoril there are nightly song fests to the ac companiment of mandolin and guitar. Oporto, traditional center of unrest, is quiet. So are Lisbon university students. Portugal continues to press its modernization program despite the heavy financial burden im posed by Premier Antonio De Oliveira Salazar's determina tion to hold on to Portugal's African territories. Across the broad river Tagus a new $80 million bridge is taking for.m, and eventually will be a counter-part to San Fran cisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The Ford and General Motors companies are building assem bly plants to participate in Por tugal's industrialization p r o gram. The picture is in sharp con trast to only a little more than a year ago when revolt flared inside the army and demonstra tors demanded an end to the war in Angola. The revolt was small, ineffective and quickly crushed, but it was the first in the more than 30 years of Sala zar's rule. Salazar's effective security po- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris lei Field Enterprises, inc. "FACTS" Sitting in a restaurant the other day, I overheard a man remark to his friend in the rnnrco nt a nn. sSWSa? versation: "It's a fact that wom en own 80 per cent of the wealth in Amer ica. I read it somewhere just a while back." "Youdon't say so?" H i s Harrl" this nugget friend accepted of misinformation with delighted surprise, not for a minute daring to question this impressive statistic. It seems to me that our native disinclination for philosophy has plunged us to the other extreme that of credulously grasping any statement that seems to be hard, specific, factual and couched in terms of percentages. Take (he field of public health, for instance. Every week the American public is bombarded with "statistics" from different sources, none of them agreeing, but all of litem readily believed by (he mass of people who think that anything with a number in it is a "fact." We arc (old that one fourth of the nation's population is overweight; that 80 per cent of school children have trouble with their eyes: that one out of every four persons in Ihe United States will be hospital ized this year: thai 25 per cent of cold symptoms are due lo allergy; that more than 20.ono.000 Americans suffer from impairment of hearing. Each of these figures is given by some "authority" and each conflicts with the the figures given by other au thorities. We rarely look for the face behind the fact to determine whether it is the face of an objective tabulator, a social propagandist, a huck ster, or simply an Irresponsi ble doctor seeking some per sonal publicity. Nothing can be more danger ous than a fact that is improper ly understood. When a health organization tells us that 750,000 persons will die of heart disease next year, which is about half i of all deaths expected, we for S get that this figure includes Stop Me -illlz-t .1 6P pounds, eh? I must say that's had to listen to this evening!" .ini-t )M I Signs of African To Regime Quiet lice quickly crushed the 1962 manifestations and a wave of ar rests discouraged other would be agitators, including the coun try's estimated 7,000 to 9,000 Communists. "What has happened now," explained one American in Lis bon, "is that the country real izes it is in for a long pull, and even Salazar's opposition feels that the nation's very identity is at stake. Today & Tomorrow By Walter (c) 1963. The WHITHER VIETNAM? After a number of false starts and altogether too much talking, the administration seems to have come to the conclusion that in Viet Nam the only practical policy is to wait and enn T( ie a J nvJ sound conclu sion, iiu Uld- matic solution is d o s s i b 1 e. Lippmann There is no way to make over Diem's govern ment in Saigon or to produce a new government which will be so beloved by the people that they will fight and die. for it. There is at the same time no way in which Washington could disentangle itself in South Viet Nam and continue to subsidize and support Diem's government, exercising such influence as we can. And so. while I have : .avs thoueht it was a mistake in h. come engaged in Southeast Asia, while it is evident that we have made many mistakes in dealing with Diem, we must, I believe, stay with him and his family for the indefinte future. The United States cannot re nounce unilaterally our commit ment. We must hold on and wait wait, I should imagine, until there is a fundamental ; change in the power politics of ooumern Asia. TF I MAY venture to say more 4 specifically what it is that we must wait for, it would be the opening up of the rift, which already exists, between North Viet-Nam and Red China, between Mao Tse Tung and Ho Chi Minh. In other words, just as the security and peace of the Bal kan peninsula in Europe be came possible after Tito's break with Stalin, so the pacification many persons over 70, whose heart failure is induced by old age. In our passion for the "cold facts" we overlook the most im portant fact: namely, that a fact is no good, and downright harmful, unless you know how to interpret it, and how to make it fit into a general pattern of knowledge. When a man throws a fistful of facts at me, I am almost always sure he is defi cient in understanding. Will Pierre fVi Play Ball? fVJ By Arthur Hoppe ,f J J I see the Recreation Depart ment in Washington has yielded to pressure. And it's at last appointed three commissioners to supervise Ihe new Federal Touch Football league, which plays Saturday afternoons on the lawn just south of the White House. All of us, I'm sure, hope these men of high repute can clean up this scandal - ridden sport. Now a few naive fans mav refuse to believe that touch football in Washington is scandal-ridden. But if not, I ask, why appoint a commission to crack down on what his here tofore been a suspicioi ' loose run athletic endeavor? Oh. I know the lovely picture the New Frontier has presented of ladies and gentlemen playing two-handed touch on the grass these autumn afternoons. But now we millions of sports fans are demanding to know: What's Been Going on Behind the Scene? (Behind the Scene: Pierre (The Immovable) S,, who is known admiringly to his (ellow teammates in the White House as "Cosa Nostra," is sitting im movably behind his desk. A secret panel in the wall opens and Bobby iSnakehips) K., star scatback of the Justice Depart ment Rams, slips surreptitiously in I Pierre (immovably): Excuse me for not getting up. but I'm in training. Got to stay in shape, you know Bobby: That IS a shape. But Pierre, boy, what I came to talk about was tomorrow's crucial game between the White House Wildcats and us Rams. Frankly, "international pressures ac tually have strengthened the re gime." Asside from support from the military, one of the secrets of Salazar's success has been his determination to protect the lit tle man, peasants and workers, from high food costs. So there remain strict controls over es sential food prices, such as for milk, meat and bread. Lippminn Washineton Post of the Indo-Chinese peninsul depends on some similar dev elopment in North Viet-Nam. For if ever North Viet-Nam be comes, like Yugoslavia, no long er the satellite and agent of a great Communist power, there will be opened up possibilities of a negotiated settlement in Southeast Asia. Quite evidently, there has been no such break between Mao Tse Tung and Ho Chi Minh. But such a break is possible. There is an historic fear in Viet-Nam of Chinese occupation based on the experience of many centuries. Such ancient national feelings can at times prove to be more potent than the rather recent ideological bonds. It is an important interest of tha whole non - Chinese world, not only ourselves, but also thu Russians, the French, the Brit ish and the Indians, to do what we can but to do it very dis creetly to induce a of front in North Viet-Nam. fF ALL forms of prophecy, the most foolish that a news paperman can indulge in is to guess when something is going to happen. As regards the Sino Soviet break, the pace of events in Asia has been much faster than any of us, even though wa have long expected the break, had dared to hope. In these mat ters it is possible to be too tim id. It may be that the trigger which would release Titoist na tionalism in North Viet-Nam would be a large-scale Chinese aggression against India. For this would precipitate a mili tary adventure which would leave Peking with little surplus energy and power to hold Viet Nam in line. It may well be, indeed it is probable, that China, though it is preparing to invade India as Mr. Joseph Alsop has reported so circumstantially, may pause. For it must be known that tha United States, and possibly Mi0 Soviet Union, too, would inter vene. But as long as Red China is mobilized and poised for a large attack on India, the other border states, including North Viet-Nam, have a certain free dom of maneuver. We must not expect too much too soon, and in the meantime we had better go on holding not only President Diem's hand, but also that of Madame Nhu. While this may not be a very satisfying or attractive thing to be doing, we must leave it to the historians to decide how we got there and whether the trip was necessary. our squad looks lousy this year. Ethel keeps trying to produca her own team. Whizzer White can't cut to his left in his new black robe. And J. Edgar won't talk to any of his teammates to the left of the center. So tomor row the White House Wildcats are going to c 1 o b b e r us. Un less . . . Pierre (suspiciously): Unless what? Bobby: Well. Pierre, boy, there's a lot of dough riding on this game. The Mafia's down for ten gees. The Syndicate's anted up 20. And the Clan's down for 100. Now a smart boy like you could pick yourself up a nice hunk of change by making sure the score goes our way. Pierre (aghast): I will never sell my loyalty for crass money! Go and never darken my door again. Bobby: Okay. But first you might want to see this secret FBI report. Before I make it public. It solves the two-year-old mystery of what happened to Caroline's hamsters. And in what river. Pierre (blanching): You win. Tomorrow afternoon, when our White House Wildcats take to the field. I will do what I have never done before in order to insure your victory. I'll play. Well, you may find that un believable. But the only other explanation is that Our Leaders can't go out and toss a football around without creating a new Federal organization, and ap pointing a new bunch of Fed eral commissioners to establish a whole mess of new Federal rules and regulations. And who'd believe that? O Nj
