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Newspaper Page Text"Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi Tne MU Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 Norlh X1'-?'- Ph. 7711-8141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GRKV Advertising Manaitl HERALD T LATHAM. BUS MtT ERIC iW ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY f'HIPM AN Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Spuria Editor OLIVE SI ARCHEH Women'a Edttoi DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An IndeDendent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under aci oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES R Mail In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year 111.00 Daily and Sunday 0 moa 10 00 Dalit and Sunday 3 moa SXIU Sunday Only Ona year S5 00 Smile Copy (Malledl 70e hv 'utrif.. And Motor Route. Jillv and Sunday I year 121 00 Pally and Sunday 1 mo 1.75 Kunduv Onlv I mo 900 Carrlel and Vendors Copy 10c Olflrlal Paper of City ol Medford uillrlal I'aper ui aacason munt; United Press International 9 ull Leased Wire 0 P I Telephoto Newsplcturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: Nrpmripj Rf.RERTS At ASSOC1- iTK mtrrm in New York. Chi- man Detroit San Francisco. Los AncHis Seattle, fortianu Dcn'-nr NIWSIIIMI PUilUHIU ASSOCIATION HATJONAl IDITOil 7 W J m-iMHi.ii'.iiui Memner Callforni Newspaper Publliheri Aisocialion Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, I!'." (Saturday) Mercy Flights carried its 200th patient yesterday, a seven-year- old Medford boy who was flown to Portland. A total of 37 fire and police boxes have now been installed in Medford, City Superintendent Robert Duff has announced. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1043 (Sunday) Medford elementary schools issue total of 16,841 ration books, according to figures released by office of E. H. Hcdrick, su perintendent of schools. Leonard B. Mayfield, princi pal of Medford high school, named head football coach to fill the position left vacant by resignation of Lome S. Arnold. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1033 (Tuesday) Eugene Thorndyke named chairman of general committee for Medford Community Chest, and Jack Thompson and Larry Schade to serve as associate members. Medford City Council ap proves expenditure of $680 ex pected to be needed for liquor control when "dry" law re pealed. to YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1023 (Wednesday) Supt. Charles G. Thomson of Crater Lake National Park re turns to Medford from national parks meeting al Yellowstone Park. Adjutant General George A. White in Medford to make final inspection of local armory pre liminary to accepting it for the state. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 31. 1013 (Friday) Dr. J. R. Reddy, promoter of Grants Pass-Crescent City rail way, arrives in Medford to spend few davs here. Medford Elks Club plans ground breaking ceremonies for new $35,000 lodge hall at corner of Fifth St. and Central Ave. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ttn correct ft luptrtor; Sevan or sight li excellent; tlva or tix it good. 1. What present independent state within the British Com' monwealth was formerly called the Ould coast State? 2. Josip Broz known better by another name, lives in which city and country? 3. Is Ihe capital of Nebraska Omaha, Lincoln, or Hastings? 4. In which Asiatic country Is ah. Ararat.' 5. For what does the 22ri Constitutional Amendment pro vide .' 6. If you saw a dark cream colored bear in Colorado or Utah, what kind would it most likely be? 7. Who was known as the Man of Destiny? 8. A unit of weight for pearls equivalent to one-quarter of a carat is known as a g ? 9. Is Dale Carnegie most noted for his prowess in steel, speaking or farming? 10. People from which state say they are from the Beehive State? Answers: 1. Ghana. 2. Bel grade, Vougoilavla (Marshal Tito). 3. Lincoln. 4. Turkey. 5. No person (hall be elected President more than twice, etc. 6. Grinly. 7. Napoleon Bon aparte. 8. Grain, . Speaking. ID. Utah. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31. 19M 'Frills in During the recent heard much about the frills in education. What is an educational frill? You may say bus transportation is a frill, and that when you were a boy, you walked three miles to school and it didn't hurt you a bit. But to a high school student living on the far side of the Jacksonville hill, bus transporta tion comes pretty close to being an absolute necessity. ELIMINATE athletics, you may say. But your neighbor, who may be a mem ber of the Linebackers club, is absolutely con vinced that a good athletic program is a neces sary part of a well-rounded school program. Besides, he'll tell you, you'd better not fool around with the Back athletic program largely pays its own way. Ok, cut out music instruction. You'll hear loud yells from those who sin cerely believe that music our common cultural heritage, and that only in the schools, with trained teachers, can it be taught with sufficient understanding and skill to become a meaningful part of students' liveg. A LL RIGHT, then, cut out hot lunches. "Surely. And let the youngsters whose only decent meal of the clay is the school lunch (and they are not a few, believe it or not, in this fat and wealthy land) go hungry. Home economics? Shop? Drama? Choir? In each of these areas you will find adherents who believe that these subjects fill a very real need, and that to eliminate them would seriously deprive many children of instruction and train ing which they will desperately need in later life. Well, how about cutting down on some oi the electronic and mechanical tape recorders, loud speakers, movie projectors .' This would be short-range range spendthrifted, for ing easier and more effective, and, over the long pull, save money. LJOW ABOUT cutting down on the cost of new buildings? Why not make them more standardized, less expensive? There are two answers to this one. Ihe tirst is that buildings recently constructed in the Med ford system ARE pretty basic and relatively inexpensive. The second is that you're not going to save any really significant sums by cutting building costs, because they represent only a minute fraction of any school district's budget. Some slight economies can be etrected, oi course, by cutting cornel's and skimping on this and that. But the fact is that the biggest single school budget item is teachers' salaries. Any cuts there and effective instruction goes out the window fast. COME OF the increases in school costs have come about becau.se of inflation ; some of them come by upgrading of materials and sup plies and equipment; some of them come by bringing teachers' salaries up to a decent level. But the biggest reason, by far, is simply the fact that there are so many, many more kids now days to be educated. And Lxcept to a very minor extent, the question is not "How much shaU The real question is educate our children as E. A. Catholics and Calendars Every once in a while someone suggests that the human race tidy up some of its confusing methods of measuring things such as adopting the metric system in place of the wild assortment of distance, weight and volume measurements now in use; or adoption of the decimal system for British money; or even a new calendar. The British are moving closer to decimal money although slowly. The U. S. Congress has before it a perennial and slow-moving measure to convert this nation's measurements to the metric system. And now the Catholic church has approved, in principle, a tidying up of the calendar. DECAUSE of the way things are, we'd guess that the new calendar proposal has the best chance of the three of becoming a fuct with in this decade. Calendar reform has long been! needed, as practically everyone realizes, ami dozens of proposals have been put forward. Adoption of a new world calendar has been, and will be again, considered at the United Na tions. The action of the Ecumenical Council in voting its willingness to accept a new perpetual calendar will give this movement new impetus. Still, there would, be some objections, prin cipally from religious groups who believe that the present calendar has religious significance and shouldn't be tampered with. IT WOULD, of course, be a minor money-saver and conveniemee to most of u.v. But calen dar manufacturers could be expected to object. They'd just print one calendar for everyone, and no more would be needed, since every year would be the same. Too, it would eliminate some of the glossy, often beautiful, and sometimes sexy calendars which businesses distribute to their'clients and colleagues. So it may not -come soon, 'but, when it, does, eventually, ft will be a small step toward a more orderly (and less interesting?) world. v a Education election campaign, we Tornado. Besides, the is an integral part of teaching aids, such as economy, but long- these aids make teach the end is not in sight. we spend on schools?" "Shall we continue to we have in the past?" "We're Agreed, Then, The Front WMim if P CUBAN SLEEPER WASHINGTON - When Gov. Averell Harriman was in Mos c o w , Nikita S. Khrushchev twice assured him that all Russian troops would eventually be brought home from Cuba. "Why should we keep them there?" Khrushchev asked, and ; added that the men of the Red Army did not like being there, cither, because of the steamy Cuban climate. Soviet Foreign Secretary An drei Gromyko had made com parable statements to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. And these Soviet assertions are now worth recalling because there is con siderable evidence that Khrush chev is still being as good or almost as good as his word to Harriman. Whenever Cuba is the topic, to be sure, the American an alysts suffer from what can per haps be called the Sen. Keating syndrome. In other words, the analysts are very timid in the face of good news for fear that they will later be accused of gullibility and over-optimism. rphus no one is getting up on the' roof to cheer because no less than 1,800 Soviet troops are known to have gone home from Cuba within the short space of one recent week. The conservative response to this rather massive r e-deployment is explained on the ground that the troops sent home may later be replaced which is entire ly possible of course. All the same, despite the el- feet of the Keating syndrome j on the analysts, their figure for the number of Soviet personnel j in Cuba has been shrinking con- tinously and impressively. From an estimated peak of 21,000 j Russians, the figure has now j dropped to 5,000 to 8,00(1; and! tne reduction appears lo oe con-; handouts is mounting continu tinuing. i ouslv. and not lust because of Parallel with this reduction i (he devastation wrought hv the has gone another process. Cuban units have been trained to use the arms and other equipment of the Russian untis formerly stationed in Cuba, and as the Russians have been phased out, they have handed over (heir materiel to the Cubans. solutelv excluded, hut now. al- IN THE case of the most im- j though not cvk-iIv predicted, it portant remaining Russian is no longer ruled out equipment, the SAM-U anti- j All this is both deph inter airerafts rockets, the handover esting in itself and full of do has been incomplete. The SAM-' mesne political uiloreM, too 11 themselves are still cmplaced The Republican who have as before, but their most ad- made such a pl.ij with Cuba, vaneed electronic control! mech-. will suffer proportionate!;, it anisnis have been returned to ' there is an abrupt change there, the Soviet Union, presumably ! And even it there is no change, because the Soviet do not wish , thev will not be able to make to leave behind such highly secret equipment. This does not mean that the SAM-IIs have ceased to be cap able of shooting down the U. S "kl be -D iln lr nf thr aaa. iii 0, q I lh I (II PLEASE j lij. 1 for unicef hi rTI MEDFOIID MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON That The Senator Is Runner" fst w -'r '.; Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop le) New York Herald Tribune. SvnHUif aircraft thai continue to fly over Cuba each week. But it does mean, presumably, that the SAM-IIs are eventually des tined, like the rest of the Soviet military material, to be handed over to the Cubans. The first question, therefore js how far this Russian rede ployment out of Cuba is going to go. The cautious answer cur rently favored here is that ihe Russians will finally cut the number of their troops in Cuba down to the level of a smallish training mission like an Amer ican MA AG. The members of this training mission will then be described as "technicians.,, Whiie promis ing to bring his troops home, Khrushchev has always reserv ed the right to leave "tech nicians" in Cuba; and thus he will fulfill Ihe letter of his hnr- Bai"' rpilERE is another question, furthermore, which also de serves examination. Reports from Eastern Europe persist that the Soviets. Czechs, and other Cuban trading partners in the Communist bloc have decid ed to be much less generous in their future dealing with the Castro government. These re ports are given some color of probability, by the niggardliness of the first Soviet otter of post hurricane aid to Castro. Khrushchev offered only the equivalent of Sim. nun on the lust round. When .Mao Tse-tung then came tnrmign wun an oner oi SI million the Soviet nfler was amplified with a grab-hag of extras. Vet the first offer does seem to indicate the clnil of Soviet thinking about handouts to the Castro regime. - Meanwhile. Castro's need for hurricane. The Cuban economy is in rums. Misery is mounting. Under Ihe prick ol want, sisns are beginning to appear that Cubans are tar Irom ideal raw material for a Communist stale The possibility oi a sudden change in Cuba used to be ab- much further pla with Cuba if Ihe Russian contingent in Havana is finalh reduced to a mere 2.0OO to ;t.HKi adusorv personnel rMrnnr tmlie;il right : China's Need for Aid Seen as Possible Clue to New Non-Aqqressive Statements By PHIL NEWSOM UI'I Forelin Newt Analyst Some odd sounds have been coming out of Peking lately. Among tnem nas oeen tne seemingly (rank announcement that "it may take a few more years" before China is ready to explode an atom bomb. This ' would suggest a delay until at I least iut7, with another 10 years necessary alter that lor mass production and construction of a delivery system. Accompanying that disclosure by Red Chinese Deputy Pre mier and Foreign Minister Chen Yi was the admission that Chi nese industry at the moment simply is not up to the job. It would seem a galling ad mission of weakness by the nor mally boastful Communist Chi nese leadership, and a question arises as to why make it at all and what is to be gained by it. I But there is more. ! Last September, Liu Shao-chi, president of Communist China ' and chosen successor to Mao ; TseJung, said in North Korea ! that "it is impermissible for I any Socialist country to be the first to use nuclear weapons un J der any circumstances . . ." ! On Oct. 1, Peng Chen, mayor of Peking, said that a world ! war could be averted through united effort and "concerted struggle" by the peoples of the I world, including the United I Slates. Together, they seem to add up to a reversal of Peking's 1 traditional stand that force is the only means of settling dis- ! pules with the western world. Then in Moscow mis weeK, a Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (cl Ficid Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES What many employers fail to understand is that a subordin ate who never finds fault with his superior is cither a fool or a hypocrite; if a fool, he is useless: if a hypocrite, he is dangerous. Some orators are so unre mittingly solemn for fear that if they encourage the audi ence to enjoy a smile at the right place, they may finally he unable to prevent the audi ence from laughing al them, nl the wrong place. Speaking of humor, there is a sad and sardonic quality about Old World wit that younger (and luckier) nations iike ours have not yet grown up to like that marvelous ! Yiddish proverb I ran across recently: "If Ihe rich could lure oilier people to die (or (hem. Ihe poor could make a wonderful living." Nothing in the world is easier than to be radical j when you have little (o lose and conservative when yon have a great deal to lose; c should pay carelul atten tion only to those wnose views seem In cut across the grain of (heir immediate self-interest, for (hen we may he reasonably sure that the personal equation is not the j determining (actor. The basic frustration of the statesman and politician in the atomic age can hardly be com prehended by those standing on the outside; (or Ihe states man has los( his ultimate tool. the threat of war (which now becomes simply the promise of mutual suicide), and his whole traditional mode of behavior is compelled to change thus, the vacillations of modern gov ernments are not a sign of weakness, but of quite rational fear A man is always the same man anil, on Ihe whole, wants only lo lie Ihe same man. with a few improvements: hut a woman would like to he a rloien di((erenl women, a part n( every attracUve woman she sees: and there fore her insatiable need (or more and more clothes can he understood not as Ihe liile joke it lias become, nor as a matter of greed, but as her way o( trying out differ- fin personalities anil salisly- ing i however temporarily) her deep desire In assume " '. " "lr " Feminine. All seeming "victories over Nature are Pyrrhic victories lor mankind; ,ature returns in more sunue or potent lorm and takes it revenge msecti - onles create a stronger breed of insects ii is taiiioiis sentimental- ity to expect, or lo ask. pro- plr to like one another more: .ill we hae a right to ask is mat tne y act hinner to Ihnse they don't particularly like: and unless riviliiation ran learn thai kindness is in our power, while like as nol, nothing hul catastrophe awatu ti. Red Chinese delegate to the 13th Soviet trade union congress, went even farther. Red China, he said, favors peaceful co-existence and con tinued friendship with the So viet Union. He added that: "Atomic arms are terrible and for this reason we have to forbid them." It came close to an endorse- ment of the partial nuclear test i ban treaty which has been un - der unceasing Peking attack, j rather than through govern-1 Therefore it is to her ad Just what lies in back of the i ernments. vantage to play down tern Chinese statements must be a Chen Yi also disclosed an- j porarily both her potential as matter of speculation. But there j other year's delay in Red Chi-: an atomic power and as an ad are a number of interesting na's five-year plan. For it, he ' vocate of violence. ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen narne or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact the contrary is often the case. Blame Satan To the Editor: The writer is one who is thankful that he lives in America. This great country was founded on the principles of religious liberty. Our founders came to these shores to seek refuge from the political and religious tyranny of the old world. True, they failed to always practice what they preached. Above all the turmoil and strife in this old world, God still rules. Many deny this fact. Christianity, sad to say, is divided into many factions. This was not God's original plan. And it is unfair to blame God for the unsound conditions existing today. It is difficult to reason with those who deny the existence of God and also say there is no devil. When the Bible with all of its truths are assailed my heart is made sad. How thinking individuals can even deny the proofs so evident everywhere is beyond me. To your frequent communicant over Arizona way I will say, Lydia, why do you downgrade your Creator and Saviour so much? The very fact that you are alive is ample evidence of a God who still loves you. Why do you spurn that love? If the God we -serve were a God of hate you would not be alive today. You may think that this life here i.s all there is. What are your thoughts as you gaze on a loved one's still form in an open casket? The Christian at these times looks above and beyond to the glad reunion day. Its not goodby, but good night, I'll see you in the morn ing." Lydia, don't blame God. Put the blame where it belongs. An enemy has caused and is causing all the trouble and heartake. Thank God. some day soon this reign of sin will be over. Eternity with God what a theme to contemplate. It may appear on the sur face that Christianity is a dis mal failure. Satan delights to give a false coloring to his de signs. Instead of blaming Christianity, let us blame Satan. He is the one who makes professed Christians fail to wit ness as they should for their faith. If and when God's people awake to their responsibilities, those who deny God will see that there is something to Christianity. Henry Johnson Jr. 2315 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. School Deficiencies To the Editor: In a recent is sue of M.T. there was a letter directed at a local citizen, and myself, for our criticisms of the present system of educating the children of this area, and the cost of same. The writer of (his letter was a Mr. Randolph of . . r . . the Mark Antony Hotel in Ash land. This letter was typical of cer- lln r,n.,nU !n..mnl, it tain rukiic. maaiiiuiii as il lull- tained a loi of "I think" and "I question" type of things, meant. I suppose to make any person critical of certain situations seem stupid. He questioned the amount of education I had received. I never received a high school ed ucation. This makes me a fool? However, I have four children, all in school. Two in grade school, one in junior high, and one a sophomore in high school. Now whether Mr. Randoloh 1 believes i( or no(. 1 know a ; little bit about what is going on i jn our modern schools. First. I know, manv valuahlp ; nours are wastea eacn aay. not , iso much by the pupils, but byj . the teachers. I also know. that. while there are many good ; teachers in our schools, there are many more that are only i passing tor teachers, and notioi his convictions 1 even doing a good job of that Also, a great deal of money , is being wasted, that could be! used lo nelp improve our school system. Now if Mr. Randolph thinks . that he can visit any school for a nay, ana una prooi mat 1 am wrong, let him come visit me. and I will elaborate a little, by naming names, and instances, and schools in a face to face manner, that will substantiate some of my criticisms, and cer - avenues of approach. The Red Chinese deputy pre mier and foreign minister ac companied his admission of Chi nese atomic unreadiness with a firm declaration that China never would knuckle under either to Nikita Khrushchev or the United States. This would suggest a strategy by-passing Khrushchev and an ! attempt to promote Sino-Soviet ; ties on a peopie-to-peopie Dasis tainly cannot be disproved. I can only say that, things are not as they should or could be, but I do not have the answers to these problems. Some sug- gestions, maybe, but someone smarter and with much more authority than I. will have to come up with the answers. A suggestion, I believe worth considering, would be to make the teachers teach, and pay them for what they do, not for what they are supposed to do. Cut down on activities concern- ini th,in8s other than necessary education. G. L. Murray P.O. Box 904 Central Point, Ore. No Sail To the Editor: I must warn you'uns that that salt business is simply superstition. I took salt along all right, but though a buck showed me which end his tail wuz on, he wouldn't stay still for me to put salt onto it. I got me a brand new second hand thirty-thirty from Bob Kennedy and it was patented 'way back in the early eighties before I er I mean, before I wuz born, and it has a ham mer an' everything. Guess I'll go fishing for bull heads next; they are so easy to undress and I like fishes. All you folks who write to pat me on my back and want me to write a column to exer cise my pen in don't need to write for I shall be miles frum In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, President Kennedy's foreign aid program came tip tor senate debate with 0n Tut,sdiiy, 0ct. 29. on Page an adminstration spokesman! . warning that any drastic cuts j .Abou. ,- c,,,)plcd chi,drpn might endanger national scc-may nol receive"cal.e al lhe. , ' ! University of Oregon Medical At the same lime, a powerful i Schoo next vcari because of Democratic senator denounced v()t,r ,ulTirovvn of the Legisla "le,b!" s SHOCKING WASTE I lllrc-s tax mpasul-c, thc tal(, and a body blow to the most Board o( Highel- Educa(ion vva, vital defense weapon the Amer-1 tod tocjav ican people possess - namely, j is vey, hard for ths lax. (heir own economy. p;)yc, o undc,.sland, wncn- lhp The administration spokesman state is always so short of was Senator J. W. Eulbright, of i mnnev, how si.2 million could Arkansas, chairman of the Sen-1 be iosl, so tnat they were able ate Foreign Relations commit- j t discover it tee. The powerful Democrat who i This shorlape of lmds did nol opposed the bill and called for kcen the legislators from going drastic cuts in (he amount it , n....-ii ,i, ... ealls for u-ac Sonatftr ll'mnn Morse, of Oregon. r.-,,,r- THE debale ls expected to continue most of the week, with other foreign aid critics joining Senator Morse in a drive to cut the program to the S3. 5 billion approved bv the House. ine House action lopped SI billion from the $4 5 billion sub mitted by President Kennedy for thc fiscal year ending next June 30. The Senate Foreign Re- I aliens committee then raised tho antnn,-iv:ilmn li, Cl -1 k,ll,nH the authorization to $4 2 billion. which Senator Fulbright says is in line with the recommenda tions of a Presidential commit- i . , ... . . . 'e,e .noaaca t'cnel al Luclus nREGON'S Senator Morse V wl ho is a member of the Sen ate Foreign Relations commit tee, criticized the bill as "a hodge - podge of meaningless compromises and said US adoption "will perpetuate shock- ing waste and gross inefficiency which has characterized for years the administration of American foreign aid, both mil- i itary and economic I He added bitingly ine .American taxpayers are , being ROOKED bv our world- "'"v-iiuns luieisiiaiu piogia.ii. ftOOD for Senator Morse. He seems to be returning to the solid common sense that : lormerly characterized so many 'HAT of foreign aid0 " Well, back in tr the Mar- shall Plan davs. it was wonder- ful. It amounted then to sharing with our comrades-in-arms who in a bloody war had suffered more greviously than wo. in recent years, it has seemed to amount to nothing more than an effort to BUY FRIENDS or j to buy off enemies j All human experience tells 1 us that that never pa s blamed withdrawal of Soviet aid, the U. S. blockade - and natural calamities. And therein may be the key to Red Chinese utterances so at variance wilh past performance. Chinese agriculture is improv ing but for both agriculture and industry she needs help which must come other than from J either Soviet Russia or the ; United States. And it must come irom tne west these diggins till the middle of i November if this ol' jalopy I squormates, and E.A. wouldn't ' issue me a column nohow. He thinks I'm nuts, I bet you. Ain't it the cat's pajamas how as tots learn to say "NO" ; when Mom tells 'em to do something, and they keep it up through their teens; come 21 tell 'em how to vote and that "NO" habit has stuck for sure! Oh, well, iffen we cut some big salaries, teach economy and make menus plain 'grits' Ore gon will make out. It always has. That naughty man who lolcl me where to go I ain't goin' there! It will be cold, but I'll don more sweaters and shiver. We oldsters shiver for exercise, 1 anyhow, If I get snowed in over thorn it will be because the car is as big a boondoggler as 1. but I'll take a shovel and cross my fin gers on its bald headed end. Pearl Spackman Rogue River, Ore. Two Items To the Editor: A former edi tor 'of your paper once asked where I got so much informa tion. I told him a lot of it came from your paper. The following two items from your paper make interesting reading. Taken from your Wed nesday, Oct. 23, paper: "Ralph Miner of the Finance i and Administration Department said an unexpected si.v minion balance from last biennium's basic school fund had been, dis covered, and that the mpney was being applied to ease wel fare cuts, rather than to reduce the expected S10.8 million cut I in mis Diennium s oasic scuooi allotment." 1 . '.- pense I am sure that they could have taken the vacation at their own expense, after the unusually large pay increase ; they voted themselves, j (if course, the taxpayers who voted for them to set their own 1 salaries cannot complain about . that Cleo Canoose 55 Ross Court Medford. Million Dollar Breakfast To the Editor: Senator Me Clellan has spent many months investigalin' to find out who ate breakfast with Secretary Korth on Feb. 19. l2. The breakfast cost us MO. but it's gonna cost us a million dollars to find out who ate it. Everett Acklin Ashland. Ore. Corrected Version To the Editor: The master of Ilnner Annlnnalo r.rantio fill the ceiling last night when he read in the Grange News that . . . Booster night is open to all newcomers of the area and grangers " He calmed down when I howerl him the nrioinal it..m as sent In vnn u-hirh cf-ilnc iv,,c L ,i, i l.i.i..'. ; get - acquainted meeting and '(he) extends a special invita- tion to all new comers to the area, on behalf of the grancc, lo attend". ' Tne fact is. even- one is in vited to the potluek supper and program on Nov. 9. and 1 promised the master I would ask vnil in enrrnrt vnnr v,.rmn of the item sent, Please do Actually, we greatlv appre- ciate vou'r cooperation "in print- ing our news and would like to take this oportunitv to pubhclv thank vou Nell Ramsay Publicity Chairman I'pper Applecate Grange, No IM O O (5) 4 4 O'