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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
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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
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MEDFOIID MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
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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.
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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
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