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4 The News-Review, tenburi, Ore. .TIiMfT,., Jen. i, 1955 Published Daily Except Sunday by the ; News-Review Company, Inc. Calm H aim Mat Mar 1, MM, at Ia fall Idea t imbm, Oram, M4ar aat to Marti t. tSIS. .; ' CHARLES V. STANTON, iajtr and Manager " Member ef the AtiaeUtw! tint, 0 raj on Newspaper Publishers '" Auocialion, the Audit lursau ef Circulations , . 1'praaabtaS r WIST-HOLLIDAT CO., INC., lllt. la Naw Tark, Cklaafa. Sa rtaseUoa, Ui Aatalaa, allla, rarUaa. Oaar SUBSCRIPTION ATES 1 Ore(a Br Hall rar Taar. IIS.Hi all manlai, S.M; v thru mutha, 11.11. 0tal Or.aa-Bj Mall rar Taat, IllHi alx auilki, 7.MI laraa maalki, MM. Br Nava-Harlaw Carrlat Far Talr, I1I.M (la alttua). laal tkia aa raw, par aamtfc, f 1.31. MORE SCHOOL BONDS ' ' .- '. ' By Charles V. Stanton ' Voters in the Roseburg school district will go to the polls Jan. 11th' to act on recommendations from the Board of Director that bonds be issued for construction of a new elementary building in the Hucrest area and to add need ed facilities at Joseph Lane Junior High School. . Desirability of both of these projects is obvious to any one concerned with the problem of adequate educational facilities.. Even with, the facilities made available through the proposed bond issue,' If approved, the district still will be lagging behind actual need. ' Recent figures released by the State Board of Health show Douglas County to have gained 24.8 per cent in popu lation since 1950. This is compared to an average of ap proximately 10 per cpnt for the state as a whole. Coos, Curry and Wasco Counties had a slightly higher precentage of gain than Doifglas County. These are small counties, however, and it takes fewer people to create a higher per centage rate. . Douglas. County's growth has been uniform for the past 10 years, and there is every indication it will continue to grow at not less than , the current rate for an other 10 years o'r more. . Coupled with continuing migration of settlers into the county is the exceptionally . high birth rate prevailing throughout the nation. The birth rate is creating a nation al school problem. This problem is doubly critical in Douglas County where heavy inmigration is an added factor. .' ' ' Citizen Committee Aids . . ; ;The Board of School Directors is not the only agency engrossed in a study of school facilities. A citizen's com mittee selected from among business, industrial and n nanoial leaders, made exhaustive studies. Conclusions by this committee were that the district's construction pro gram must continue until at least i960, i Further expansion of industrial resources could, of course, force additional construction after that date. But, if the Roseburg district is to furnish adequate educatibnal facilities for its children, it will be necessary to maintain a continuing building program for many years to come. Too many people are inclined td shrug off the demands of. our educational system. Money is being wasted in "frills.'' : Less expensive buildings could be erected. Super vision costs too much. Teachers are paid more than nec essary. These are assertions heard whenever a bond or budget proposal comes before the district. , It is true that we could give our children a less round , ed education. We could house them In log cabins and seat them on hewn benches. We could impair efficiency by re ducing supervision. We .could lower salaries. But we doubt kind of an education for their children. Nor do we believe that anyone sincerely interested in the future of our nation approves lowering dur educational standards. " Mounting Cost It Problem The welfare of our country depends upon an educated citizenship. Our public school system is one of the strong est protectors of Democracy. The American people have long recognized this principle. The church and the school moved with our frontier, often at extreme sacrifice. That residents of the RoReburg school district must make sacrifices, if school facilities are to keep pace with need, is obvious. . Supported entirely by tax revenues, schools are the first of public services to demand addition al dollars. ., If educational standards are to be maintained, tax costs must rise in proportion to growth and with the general economy, of the country, when inflationary condi tions are experienced. . In the Issues being submitted to district voters the Board of Directors proposes an absolute minimum of con struction program compared wth actual need. To meet the, full demands of the district,. additional facilities could be most advantageously used. The bond issue would add slightly less than two and one-half mills to our school tax. Despite : the -.fact that school taxes already are exceedingly . burdensome, we be lieve the two proposals, being essential to educational ef ficiency, should be given approval. , Jlat d3oij(e Bv SAUL PETT . . For Hal Boyle NEW -YORK (. The new year is well into its first week but I'm. still thinking about the old one. ' Like a man cleaning out. his desk after new year's, I find myself cleaning out the cluttered drawers of my mind after the havoc of 1954.. .There are so many odds and ends left over, so many little bits of thoughts or phases once so dear but which somehow neYer made it. Mostly-they are thing! which couldn't Ret by editors or thing f the water In an expense ac- T"J YV. aSn 1 '."nK unt." 11 w, too late. Now thev are alnn tin. loved, unwanted, pitiful in their rejection, a little stupid looking iiu-e nicy nave oeen eui otl com ?l'J?ll tnm th ,U,er 01 lni "lOUgnl. I Almost every year I try to geCsavs, stop, now we got somrlhing In the phrase, "A man with an ! else. utterly resistible personality." wny couldn t i make it in 1954? There were so many fine oppor tunities. Rummaging through another drawer, I find. "There was ab solutely no news loday. None at all." Period. End stnry. When will I be able to say that? Sure, I know it's been overdone. I know the boss grabs his ulcer every time he reads It, But are (here many better wavs of start ing i story than "This is the story of. . ,"? Sad to relate, there are so many "buts" and "ands" left over. Why do editors cut them out so often? A "but" or an "and" is the kind of word an editor ran pounce on and eliminate with the thirsty test of a business manager remov- hire second rate, teachers at if many parents want that count. You'd think he had to pay or every letter of type himself. "But" can be one of the strong est words in the English language. ft ..... fk.t M... k. ...... 1.1. .Al this. It says turn left but not right. at Hi Hale nf lii inri limh II And the lovennie, harmless tu lle "and." "And" moves you along gently; it lets you know you're still in the same room, maybe just- facing another wall. It's a friendly word, inviting another look, another thought. Really, the world needs more "ands," And someday I'll get to write about a big operator, a diamond studded tycoon who made h'. pile In the Junk business. And, I hooe, the story will be?ln. VJor-a was a big man In junk." Neat, shnple, to the point. ... I know lots of writers and they all have beloved bits and pieces left over from 1954 and many years that went before. The lariv next to ma keeps wanting to write", "Ha started a brouhaha." She's not sura how to ipeii it but she PjaM i ' - ' ' : ' Long Session Is Predicted For Oregon's Lawmakers; Financing Poses Problem By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM I In every odd- numbered year It is customary at this time for leaders of the Oregon Legislature to tell about their hopes for a short session. They say that the lawmakers will buoklo down to business and get through in jig time. With the new session starting next Monday, they, aren't doing any talking about a short session. They don t have any hope. It looks as though the 1955 Leg islature will last at least as long as the 100-day session of two years ago. It might even be longer than In, record 116-dav marathon of mil. When I came here In 1937, the Legislature had just completed a 57-day session. We - thought thai was long enough. ..'. There are three factors that will make the next session a long one. First is the financial problem. The lawmakers will have to, bal ance a two-year budget that will be some $30,000,000 in the red. Tied in with this will be a bitter argu ment over a sales tax. The second factor is that there will be more controversies than ever before. Arguments take up lots or time. Third, we now have a two-parly Legislature for the first time since 1937. When you have two parties. Joseph Petersen Serving Sentence ALEXANDRIA, Va. on Joseph S. Petersen Jr. has begun a cev-en-year prison sentence for mis using government secrets entrust ed to him as a veteran employe of the hush-hush National Security Agency. U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan, who imposed sentence late Tuesday, said Petersen "deliber ately violated both tho confidence and the trust" placed in him by the government. A native of New Orleans, Petersen worked for the NSA and predecessor ajencies ior 13 years before his arrest three months ano. Petersen, 40, pleaded guilty Dec. 22 to a charge that he unlawlully stored government secrets in Ilia Arlington (Va.) apartment. Included were mites from two documents classified as lop secret. The notes indicated that this coun ry had succeeded in breaking a Netherlands' code and had inter cepted North Korean security com munications. Two other documents found in the apartment bore lower classifications. Marriagcs Up. Divorces Decrease In Lot Angeles LOS ANGELES - Marriages increased and divorce suits de creased, both just a little, in Los Angeles County during 1954.. The county clerk's office issued 32,095 marriage licenses for the I year compared to 31,980 In 1953. j The total number of divorce, an nulment, separate maintenance and other domestic relations suits totaled 29,380 which is 596 fewer than in the prior year. ! It marked the first decline sinct 1947. thinks it means a flurry of activ ity or small riot. Nice word brouhaha. Another fellow has been frus trated all the 18 years he's been in Uiis business. Someday, we all hope, he'll be able to start i story beginning, "A human skull rolled out on the table." Still another lady writer com plains, "I'm an 'actually' and 'however' and 'on the othor hand' girl myself. When will they stop cutting tlwrn out?" But with all his te"der sensib ilities, a writer is m.v.lo durable by hope. Some day we'll all pet these things out of our system Some day I'll be able to say of a certain party, "He was never ion busy to say an Unkind word." No Room at the IniV that gives cause for more argu ments. The House will be split 35 Republicans to 25 Democrats, so most of the inter-party quarrels will occur there. The Senate will have 24 Republicans and six Dem ocrats. '. Ever since I came her.e, the Legislature has prided itself on the fact that it was non-partisan. That's true, but only because there weren't enough Democratic mem bers to make themselves heard. It won't be non-partisan now. The Democrats, elated over hav ing elected their first U.S. sen ator in 40 years, are out to make a legislative record to stand on during the 1956 election campaign. ben. wayne Morse will be up for re-election then, and he might run as a Democrat. As to the arguments next ses sion, the top one will be over the proposed sales tax, which the vot ers have defeated five times. , There will be some other good fights, too. - v For Instance, the Highway Com mission wants the gasoline tax in creased two cents a gallon so it can build more new roads. A difficult job, and one that will cause bitter debate, is the over hauling of the r "moloynient corn pension laws. Labor wants big ger unemployment benefits. The employers don't want to pay high er payroll taxes to make bigger benefits possible. In the meantime, tlu trust fund, which is financed by payroll taxes, is dwindling. Ben efits now are twice the amount paid in taxes. We'll have a power fight, loo. This will occur in debate over whether to ratify the Columbia Basin Compact, by which North west states would develop the re gion. Some supporters of federal development have . opposed the compact. There will be a hard-foughl battle over whether to make Port land State Collcse a separate in stitution. Now it's an extension renter. Some alumni and friends of the University of Oregon and Ore gon State College will battle Port land State tj the bitter end. We can expect a good donny brook over Gov. Patterson's pro posal to have a convention to write a new state Constitution. There will be the usual fight be tween railroads and the truckers, but It will be a little different. This time, the truckers are asking that the public utilities commis sioner be given power to put a floor under railroad freight rates. Those are just a few of the many subjects that will cause long and loud arguments. So get ready for a long session. We are. Portland's Temperature 'Remained Below 90 I ! PORTLAND i - The tempera i lure in Portland didn't rise above ! W degrees in 1954 the first time such a thing has happened since records have been kept here the l Weather Bureau reports, j The highest reading was 86 de grees on May 17. The entire summer was cooler ! than usual but for the year the mean temperature was 53.4. little more than a degree below the av erage of M.S. Prison Forgery Ring Has Been Cleaned Out MCALESTER, Okla. I - A state warrant forgery ring un covered behind penitentiary walls here has been "cleaned out," pris on authorities believe. An investication into the print ing of an estimated $15,000 in bog us warrants was reportedly nar rowed down Tuesday to two long termers. The arrest nf a recently re leased convict last week in -Oklahoma City with $900 in warrants on him led to the disclosure. In The Day's News (Continued - from Page One) old heads for- counsel. He'll be 73 tomorrow. He has been in congress for 42 years, and has been speaker of the house twice before. -He knows his way around. Veep Baiklcy's back again. He was born in 1877. He was elected first to the 63rd congress. The one now assembling is the 84th. There's a new congress every two years. Except for time 'off while he was vice-president, Barkley has been in every congress since the 63rd. He too knows his way around. There is interesting financial! news in the papers these days. On the first business day of 1955, the stock market went on a bender that was reminiscent of 1929 when the country first went hog wild on speculation and went from there into a tailspin that, ushered in the Great Depression. ... It scared the Federal Reserve Board, wmcn promptly raised "margin" requirements on secur- itv nurehnacB (rtm SO na frnrtt In 60 per cent. That is to say, the Federal Reserve' Board required the purchaser of securities to put up 60 per cent- of the purchase price in cash instead pf the 50 per cent previously required. That was Tuesday. When the market opened Wed nesday, there was an early rush of selling that forced stocks on the New York exchange down a max imum of four points. A general re covery then set in and at the hour of writing this average losses bave been cut to around two points with GAINS of as much as three points in favored issues. The bulls on the market are still full of vim and vigor. What's in the wind? I wouldn't know. But let's put it this way: The proper function of the stock market is to provide capital for American industry by the sale of "shares" in industry to people who have money to invest. As long as they perform that function soundly and efficiently, stock exchanges are a useful and essential element in our economic system. Our vast industries require a vast amount of capital and this capital can only be provided out of the savings of the people. As long as people with savings to Invest are willing to bid up the slocks of our important corpora tions for no other reason than their belief that these stocks are wise and sound investments it is a good good sign. But- If our people begin to buy stocks in the hope of GETTING RICH QUICK out of purely speculative gains, it is a danger signal. Let's leave it there. Young Father Charged With Beating His Son PORTLAND A young fath er. charged with beating up his in fant son in h'ind rae, was in jail here this week on a charge of attempting to kill and the child was in "poor" condition in a hospital. Willis L. Russell, 22, who came here with his wife and their son, Willis, Jr., 18 months, from Clarkston, Wash., Dec. 31. 'old sheriffs deputies he lost his tem per when the child wet his pants Monday night. Mrs. Russell, 19, in a statement said her husband, for no apparent reason, also had given the child a beating Jan. I. Russell was discharged from the Army in October and lived a! t'larkston until moving here where he planned to take a technical school course under the GI bill. Hospital attendants said the child, although in poor condition, was not listed as critically hurt. The child was cut and bruised and hair was torn from his head. Democrats Combine Efforts To Pass Multiple Dam Bill Including Hells Canyon By- A. ROBERT SMITH I News-Review Correspondent ' I WASHINGTON Oregon's two senators in the new 84th Congress, Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neu berger. are expected to be project ed to the forefront, of the dominant political fight now shaping up as far a the Antli-A wptt is concerned tilht far nnntml nt Ujlla PanvAn nri tha fiitiir nf western reclaim, tion development. Thi i oeenreri lw the nuti-nme oi a secret meeting nelO dere last ween uy uie invuiriijig Lemvcraut chairmen of the Senate and House interior committees, ben. James E. Murray of Montana and Rep. Clair Entile of California Murray and Jungle agreed on a plan to tie together four big irriga tion-power projects into one major reclamation omnibus bill. Hells Canyon dam, long designed by the Bureau of Reclamation ' for construction in the Snake River, is one of the projects. Object of the Murray - Engle agreement is to gain as united a front as possible among western solons for legislation - that would include projects which in them selves might never be authorized separately due to sectional strife concerning uiem. Neuberger and Morse, who arc the stoutest advocates of a hiffh fedcrrl dam instead of three low head dams as proposed by Idaho rower (Jo. in He lis canvon. lave already announced they have plan ned a joint drive to get the big dam approved. Congressional au thorization of the project would block the Boise power company from getting the license it seeks from the Federal Power Commis sion for the low dams. Besides hioh Hells Canvnn dam. the projects agreed on by Murray Murray-Engle plan is implement and End, who are now the two ed. it would give Hells Canyon ad- most powerful members of Con- ' n.n. ,n ,v.ni. Ci.ln Ktcaa ,1, Mien lieu. me. 1. Upper Colorado storage In- through with their drive for enact volves oower and irrieation devel- ment of the bill but they are opment for Utah, Colorado, Wyo- min. New Mexico and Arizona, Has support of administration and Republican solons of mountain (J3ruce Trial by jury has been an ac cepted part of the legal fabric oi the English-speaking peoples for many centuries. It probably should not be necessary to have to defend it. But occasionally it is. Perhaps inevitably, a highly publicized, mysterious affair like the Sheppard murder case stirs a good deal of emotion and argu ment. One cannot help but be a little surprised, however, that at 'the end this involved the worth of the jury system and the compe tence of this particular jury. The most astonishing argument which turned up suggested that because a jury is a body of or ' dinary citizens and not a "panel I of experts," it should trust Us emotional judgments rather than ; try to weigh all the evidence in arriving at a verdict. Whether intended or not, this is an assault on the jury system, since It assumes that jurors can not In fact do what in theory they are supposed to do. Yet is it really fair and proper to assume , that? . For one . thing. . the argument ! contains more than a hint of intel lectual snobbery, with its luegas ! lion that only lawyers, enforce ment officers, criminologists and j other such experts are competent i to weigh evidence, i Any sensible person would have to dismiss this notion as nonsense. A jury does not pass on points of law. And though it can consider evidence ef motive as one element in a circumstantial chain, the jury- does not have to find proof of mo tive in a murder case. Nor does it bave to probe generally into the mind of a defendant. A jury's job is to try to ascer- tain facts. Whet happened? did this man kill his wife as the pros ecution says? Or did he not? What story does the evidence tell? Tn making this determina tion, a jury of 12 ordinary indivi duals of normal education let them be railroad foremen, grocery clerks, typists, housewives, sales- Youths Indentify Father As Beater WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. W) A 6 foot, 175-pound farmer was held in default of $5,000 bond today after his two sons ovorcame their fear and blamed him for a near-fatal beating. The youngsters' ability to dodge and to absorb the blows, doctors said, apparently saved 'hem from death. Esco Proffitt, 42. was charged with malicious striking and w .und ne with a ceadlv weaoon with in tent to -kill. Officers said they be lieved the weapon was a tree limb l'i inches in diameter and 8 feet long. Proffitt said he was "not guilty." His sons John. 16, and Coy, 12, first claimed they were attacked by an unidentified man while gath ering wood near their mountain borne nine miles from here. Brought from a hospital at Jclli co. Tcnn.. the brothers repeated the story at a court of inquiry. But officers, who surmised they were afraid to talk, treated the boys to meals and new clothing, and the brothers admitted later they knew their assailant. RECEIPTS 1! MILLION PORTLAND I Receipts for the Portland post office last vear totaled Sl1.25S.978, Postmaster Al bert Hodler reported this week. That Is a J per cent increase over Ihe previous record et in 1953, he said. The post office bandied 1.299.949, held open the- cab door. Orr! Shevak also testified that Hor pounds of airmail in 1954 compared climbed out hut the door slammed mel put the cigarettes above the with 1.265,263 the year before. Thill shut and cut off the tip of Vogel'iisun visor of his convertible and also is a record, Hodler reported. I right index finger. Orr was unhurt, drove away. . states; despite big fight from con servationists who oppose Echo Park dam which would partially flood Dinosaur National Monu ment. Even Sen. Eugene Millikin (R-Colo.), outgoing chairman of Senate Irrigation subcommittee. could not push' the bill through this Dast Congress. 2. TrinltV RlVer - San Luis COnV bined Droiect involves provid - ing added water for California's Central Vallev Droiect. Like Colo- raao project, u . nas wiue uur i.mg. mm. miuu.,. publicans say they won't support it nntesa California pets behind their Upper Colorado project. - 3. Yellowtail dam a Montana- Wyoming border dam designed to give central Montana more irn- gated farmland. Just as Trinity River is Engle's pet. this is Mur ray's favorite item in the package. Agreement to wrap Hells Can yon up in this package bill is ex. pected to boost the chances of con- gressional approval of the . high dam to a new mark. Ironically, the high dam was first introduced in a package proposal in 1950, too near the end of the 81st Congress to have any chance of being con- sidered by both houses. It ran into juiisuiuiiuiiai uihuic a..iv.i Democrats in the Senate. Also it was handicapped by opposition to a Columbia Basin account system, which was part of the package bill ana arew snarp lire irum neu. Guy Cordon (R-Ore.). It came up again in 1952, when the House Interior Committee held hearings. But again time ran out before a vote was taken. During the recent Republican 83d Con gress, bills authorizing the high dam were never dealt with by committees of either house. If the vocates the full two-year length nf- the filth f'nnorBoi tn earrv v. ... w.-n. - j planning to turn on the speed in hopes of heading off a possible i FPC decision in favor of Idaho 1 Power Co. (J3io5Sat - men, or whatnot is every bit as competent as any 'panel of ex perts." Neither Nature nor training sives the specialist superior abil ity to choose between conflicting testimony as to what, in fact, hap ' pened in a particular case. Basic intelligence is what counts, and jurors must be presumed to have that unless the process by which they were chosen has broken down completely. For the impaneling procedure is designed to. eliminate not only prejudiced persons- but mental incompetents. Not only is a jury thoroughly qualified to weigh the evidence. but it has a positive duty to - do so. Millions of words of testimony and perhaps hundreds of physical exhibits are not presented merely for the benefit of appeals court judges who later will try to decide wnetner a jury "guessed right That is a quaint distortion of our jury system which in fact sub verts it. The whole theory at work in the courtroom during a long trial is that le'monv is being of 'for the Jury to study, and that the jury is quite capable of ar-a'.vzing it. . The jury in the Sheppard case showed by its later remarks that it fully understood its responsibil ities. The verdict of guilty may be wron or right. The key point is that Ihe jury arrived at H by time-honored method of carefullv reviewing all the evidence in de tail, and acting on the basis ef what it believed were Ihe clear indications of that evidence. Many Interesting Things Predicted About Formosa TAIPEH, Formosa W-If current predictions in Chiang Kai-Shek's capital are correct, a lot of inter esting things affecting Formosa are going to happen in 1955. It seems just now that the most the Nationalists can hope for this year is to play a successfully defensive role against the Reds. The first real tests will come if the Communists launch amphib ious attacks on any of the island outposts Chiang's forces hold off the Red China coast. The Nationalists admit the Reds possess the capability of delivering such assaults. Whether thev will be deterred by fears of possible American intervention remains a big unanswered question. It would surprise ipi-n ii were not answered in the present year, The feeling that 1955 will be a year of trial for the Nationalists persists everywhere in Formosa. President Chiang, in his New Year message, summed up by saying the Communists a.tacks on Quemoy and the Tachens were "overtures to the battle of the Tai wan Formosa Strait" and predict ing that "a fullscale war break out at any time." Man Wasn't In Accident But Proves Only Casualty LONG BEACH, Calif, t He wasn't involved in the motor ac cident near his home but Arnold Vogel, 61, was the only casualty, nevertheless. Vogel was standing In front ofi.mt u,n,i .mni, i, u his home 'Tuesday when a lumb er truck lipued over in the street and trapped the driver, Charles urr of complon. V'ocel rushed to Orr's aid tnd ' Major Issues , Facing Congress Are Itemized WASHINGTON HI - Major is sues faring the 84th Congress con vened Wednesday included, these: iLlitary manpower: ihe presi dent' draft' law expires in June, and Is up for extension or replace ment. Reciprocal trade: The Presi dent's power to negotiate trade agreements ends in .June; he wants it extended three years. Farm prices: The Issue here is 1 whether to retain the present flex. I ible price support program or re- turn to the former rigid support jiou Taxes: Present corporate and excise tax rates expire in April; the President wants them contin- ued. Many members want income i taxes cut. Housing: The controversy is over the scope of the federal program of public housing construction. Labor: The President is expect ed to seek revisions in the Taft Hartley law and will request a boost in the minimum wage law. Pay increases: Ail government workers, and probably members of Congress, are likely to get pay raises. The controversy will be over how big the raises should be and whether postal rates should be hiked. Highway construction: The Pres ident wants Congress to embark on a long-range program of high way construction. ' Health: Congress will be asked to encourage private companies to expand their existing health in-, surance programs. Investigations: They will cover a wide range of subjects, with "se curity firings" and the Dixon-Yates power contract likely to hold tha limelight. . Military Planes Crossed Oceans Over 9,000 Times WASHINGTON Wl The' Mili tary Air Transport Service (MATS) has reported that it sent planes across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the rate of one every 54 minutes throughout 1954. Every hour during the year a MATS plane lifted into the air an average of 56 military passengers, five patients and more than 20,000 pounds of priority cargo. Lt. Gen. . Joseph Smith, . com mander of the nation's largest air line operation, gave these figures in a year-end summary. He said MATS planes: 1. Crossed the Pacific ocean 5, 810 times, carrying about 250,000 passengers and patients and 33, 600 tons of cargo and mail. 2. Spanned the Atlantic about 4,000 times, with 250,000 passen gers and patients and 49,300 tons of cargo and maii. 3. Airlifted 90,000 passengers and patients and carried 8,476 tons of cargo -and mail on its Continental division, extending to Alaska, Canada, the Caribbean and South America. These brought MATS total oper ations since its establishment June' 1, 1948, to 44,300 flights across the -: Pacific, 20, 788 across the Atlantic and 1,348 in the North Pole area.' MATS also claimed the longest "aerial mercy mission in history inf me movement ot more than 50o French troops three quarters o the way around the world, front Indochina to France. , ., Live Ammunition Nuclear Weapons Will Be Tested : .By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON lifl-The intensify ing emphasis on nuclear weapons for the battlefield may bring "live ammunition" tests of atomic war heads fitted to guided missiles dur ing the approaching series of shots at the Nevada Proving Ground. Although Atomic Emcrgy Com mission and military scientists have proof-fired the Army's 280 mm cannon with a nuclear shelly there has been thus far no known trial of a nuclear guided missile or rocket. ' Announcements by the military that several types of missiles and rockets are capable of. carrying atomic warheads apparently have been based on tests of dummy war heads of shape and weight identi cal to nuclear charges but with' out either the explosive charge or. triggering mechanism of ac'.ual weapons. . Among the missiles and rockets which the Pentason has designate ed as caible of mounting atomic warheads are the Army's Honest John bombardment rocket, ihe" Corporal guided missile and the still developmental Redstone missne; tne Navy Regulus mis- slle; and the Air Force's Matador missile. The Armv has announo-d it is sending Honest John batteries 1 10 r.urope and tne Air r orre ready has several Matador missile outfits in Germany. Bass Fiddler Testifies Hormel Bought ' Reefers LOS ANGELES UV-The bass fid dle player in George Hormel IPs night club trio has testified that he and Hormel paid a parking lot may i attendant $20 for a roll of mariju j ana cigarettes. It was Hormel's money, added the fiddler, Robert (Iggy) Shevak, .15. - ' He testified for the prosecution In the Superior Court jury trial oi Hormel, 26, Jazz pianist and meat packing fortune heir, on charges of possessing marijuana. Shevak testified that last Sept. 19 the night club parking attend ant, Mark Lamb, 21, gave him one marijuana cigarette and he Hormel then aave him the $20 and they bought a roll of the cigar ettes from Lamb and divided it. Hormel getting approximately 13 eiirarettes
