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Newspaper Page TextTEH MEDFORD (OREGON MAIL .TRIBUNE. - Xeryone la Boutnara OrefOO Beads The UaU Tribune Omiiy beeps Saturday Published by MESFORO PRIMIDJO CO. 17-39 North Fir St Pnone MM1 ROBERT W RUHU Rdltor - ERNEST R CILSTRAP Manager . HERB GREY, AdvartMna aim. E C FERGbSON. Managing Editat ERIC ALLEN JB City HARRY CHffJJANTelecrap i Edrtot RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHEa. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Or-nlattoo Mgr Aa Independent Nampaaar Entered aa second Clara matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES : By Mail in Advance: Daily and Sunday one year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday ia roon'! 8 90 Daily and Sunday three moa. A0 Daily and Sunday one month 1 33 y Carrier In Advance Medtord. Aihland. Central Point lajle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year 915 00 Daily and Sunday one month 12S All Tenua Cash in Advance OffMa Paaer at the city at Medferd Official Paper of Jackaon County United Irti Full Win MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: -WEST-HOLUDAV COMPANY. IMC Office in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francbco. Los Angeiea Seattle. Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. ; NATION At EDITOIIAl T NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medferd aad Jicluoe Ceant His tory free the file ef the Mail Tribeae 10. 20. 30 aad 40 years 10 YEARS AGO (There was no Leap Year's day in 1942.) ' 20 YEARS AGO February 29. 1932 (It was Monday) Representatives of Japanese and Chinese governments ac cept League of Nations proposal for armistice of Sino-Japanese war and peace conference among principal nations. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The spring run-off of snow and candidates is now underway. The. . snow runs off into the river but the luck of the public ends there. 30 YEARS AGO - (There was no Leap Year's day in 1922.) 40 YEARS AGO February 29. 1912 Mexican General Pascual Orozco severs relations with President Francisco Madero to join rebel forces; expected to take command of rebels attack ing federal troops in northern Mexico. - Strike of over one million British coal miners idles five million Industrial and railroad employees. Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital. Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. Q What do politicians moan by a "favorite son" Presidential candidate.? A A favorite son has the sup port of all or most of his state's delegation to his party's Presi dential nominating convention. He actually may have a chance of winning the nomination, or he may be a "stalking horse" to tie up votes until his delegation decides where it wants to swing its strength in the showdown. Q Who are the favorite son Presidential candidates at pres ent? i A As of mid-February, can didates being talked up, with or without their consent, as possible favorite sons were: Democratic Sens. Humphrey, (Minn.); Kerr, (Okla ): McMahon, (Conn.); Rus sell, (Ga.); ex-Sen. Bulhley, (Ohio); Gov. Stevenson, , (HI.): Vice-President Barkley, (Ky.); and House Speaker ' Ray bum, rr t Li: . i .At, ucyuuiiv-aiia jells. Ailll' sen, (TJL); Bridges, (N.H.); Fer- guson, (Mich.); Govs.' Warren, (Calif), and Driscoll, (N.J.); Gen MacArthur, (Wis.), and Gen. Wedemeyer, (Neb.) Q How much has it cost the government to support farm prices? ; A From its start in 1933 until last December 31, the " Agricul ture Department's Commodity Credit Corporation lost $1 billion buying and selling farm produce to suoport prices. This does not include the cost of administering the once support program. Q Is Congress going to in crease the unemployment and sickness benefits for railroad em ployees? A A bill to raise the benefits by about 50 per cent was intro- duced Feb. 11 by 18 Senators. ine sponsors saia iney ieii me new rates "could be financed by present taxes paid by the rail roads and no increases in taxes i Editorial Cor San Francisco, Feb. 27 Bright sunny days bring out the pansies and the pan-handlers in Union Square. Among the latter we ran into an investment-adviser. He wore a tattered overcoat several sizes too large for him, and a week's beard, but he also had a stock market manual with quotations running back ten years, and a great fund of interesting information, for example: "Do you know what I bought One-eighth. Yes, Sir, M bought at 18, cleaned up $143,000. It's Have heard no wiser saying HOW!". "Better watch out," we warned, "or you will get the Hoey committee after you." On the same bench was an poisons it seems meats are poison, canned goods. He is a follower of Brady. Like the former, he lives on fruits-and-nuts, and like the latter, turns somersaults every morning, the combination accounts, he says, for his marvelous physical condition. He was in his 60's, we would judge, and did look extremely fit, clear eyes and a deep tan. Explained the latter by the fact he lives far out on Geary and takes a dip in the surf early, EVERY morning. We have a hunch it he ate nothing but meat and canned goods, but continued that rugged regimen he would enjoy the same good health. As usual the "Stage Door" on current offering is called "Rasho-mon", a Japanese opus which won the 1951 Venice, Italy, Film award, as well as the "Best fore ign film" and the "Best directed film of 1951," by the National Board of Review. OK, these authorities SHOULD know. But we hope no one will ask us to see it AGAIN. In fact seeing it once to your correspondent was close to being too much, though we got through it without any audible outbursts of disapproval. We admit it was refreshing to patent-leather-hair and protruding-bicep low contralto voice, a lower this offering going back in Japan's history nearly 1.000 years was, to this department, in spite of good photography and tremendous physical energy, simply a painful bore. The Jap males were not so bad, particularly the priest, but the heroine, Michiko Kyo, struck us as being the most tiresome and absurd type of alleged "femme fatale", it has ever been our mis fortune to see and hear. "Rasho-mon" is one these cinematic demonstrations of crude,- primitive, untamed passions, in which "Kyo" had to suffer the well known "fate that is worse than death" in various degrees close to half a dozen times. Through it all she showed as much real emotion facially, at least as an un painted soup-plate. Her wailing and weeping, her writhing, seething and sobbing meanwhile literally tore the sound-track to tatters and at least one member of the audience also. Through it all she could have just as well worn one of those ! expressionless Chinese masks much better as far as attractive ness is concerned but she (and her director) insisted upon plac ing her impassive physiognomy into close-up after close-up which contributed about as much to the reality and impressiveness of the tragedy, as a few blackboard would have done! Oh well, it all adds up to the nor the play and can't figure out the latter did, the show has been a abroad, so the truth probably is there must be something of techni cal and artistic value in the offering which went over the too high forehead of your correspondent. . "fc .vma..5 u Ull oiiuuviV) 1VC1IV up W LI1C i-ta L Hill to see one of our favorite British, actors. Michael Redgrave in the crowning version." what a contrast and what a DEJ-.IGHT! Pnnnlri Wnurnrrl enn Via Inta nrA rrrAof1 .J T wim. v .v- niiu sAcaujr uiioocu A-rcaiits Howard, was one of the supporting cast and WHAT a cast! With the exception of the "feminine menace," who over-acted a bit or nerhaDS the tart was nvpr-writtPTW-parh anrf awrvniiA QTMTJT.V ERFECT.. And the entire performance one of those smooth re- ouaiutu, oiiu ucuhiw ui tuc res ir Hiuov muern-au movies oi a similar xype, wmcn nave to spell every thing out and then slap it in front of your face for fear some moron in the audience might miss it Again one of the painfully few movies we would be glad to see again and perhaps will. As stated, the nice weather is lame and otherwise. (We wonder rain their appeal might even be greater, but we can't recall ever having seen one.) One of the younger pan-handlers sidled up to us idM nigm ai me corner or roweu and O'Farrell. askine for a dime for just a cup o' coffee." ways 1TK trus department and for JJo you really want a cup of "Sure do," was the answer. "Then go down to Wilkes new and get yourself one for free." We the gala opening sign a few hours hot coffee for all, gratis. Glad we have no hat-enmnanv ctwlr Mam an. tv younger generation and manv - i hu. sir iiaucas, cially when the weather is decent It establishes what might be uultu " uc,":"" circie me less 1A llH a A amaa J AL t nave, ua me more nair you Wa& ,1-1 n J..!-- IT A A Vk .. ouuiu auviw n.uux-oieison-sona lme, if it isn't too late. NOW and then we run intn our sadly-missed "Smudee Pot." the late and ereatlv mi.wd Art " - - "' aiuuiu imq xiearsi "1C Ricoiest name in vooxa so smooth it takes your BREATH away!" We onlv tackled vodka fln-a they say that in spite of the universal hatred of Russia, a vodka COnCOCtion called "Vo1ea-nn-th.rnik I. tv. 1 1 j. , at the Stork club in New York. The SDOrts writirii mrm - ------- - a--. Big Leagues for the '52 wawnn u ever been rjght we can't recall TiQ II IIlK VXrA nrrti v Iy4 m-a-A ... A 1 r.;,,"r,, w 10 The circulation dfnartmant n 4u K . . ; the best Of all. 100 norfart - ' - ovureuimi serious musx nave happened to Jerry on this trip. Five days have passed and still not ,,rr. rr. . " " iweuiora contingent down here knows iTn u u .u cnancV keeP know aihetha h, t...i " " . ijiiiis Jackson's sulxiivision. "Without " SPEEDING THEN. TOO Boston (U.R) Arrests for "speeding" in sleighs were common here during the winter of 1852, city records show. would be necessary." The meas ure was referred to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Com mittee. Q Does the President want any changes in the Defense Pro duction Act whim' it comes up for extension? . .- A President Truman . Febru ary 11 renewed his past requests for atronger controls to extin guish possible "new inflationary fires." He called for the repeal of three amendments added to last year's act Ths amendments include cost increases in price ceilings, guarantee ' pre-Horean percentage markups, and ban slaughtering quotas. He also asked for an increase of $000 million in federal lending au thority to increase defense out put The present act expires June 30. rridar.rabravr 2 mm respondence International TfltT in 1933 at? 8,000 shares for $1,000, sold out easy if you know how!" since we arrived li you Know expert dietician. His hobby was so are cheeses, crabs and all Bernarr McFadden AND Dr. Mason has a prize movie. The see a pnze-movie, without any hero, nor any heroine with neck - line and a shady , past. But signs with chalk marks thereon, fact we didn't LIKE the gal why the experts liked it. But financial success both here and ami so mucn more eiiecuve tnan bringing out the heeears ' blind. why they never come out in the The young, able-bodied ones al once we had a quietus. coffee?" we asked. cafeteria on Market and Rrant had hanoenerl to hav- nntirai before, and the place was packed "J w w... ... v. ,au tnuiC MIC tv. MJo. . you wear a hat the more hair .a a nave tne less you wear a hat . a . et at to edge into some other an "ad" that a.a-a. . t- t -". vca m uian in rnnHnctod fn, .A . 1 Pamr rn. ... 1- i j - -J - a AaiJlc, UI HHHII we note me lonowing: Smir- that ana ....U T..1J. Well they can have it a -- wuuiuuj-uaia in me . .44. . 4v- . . the year. In fact, if wiowned a t a picjtea ior e wo. 1 spot-it-s TV. ar.11 , -" arioune is usually hut .tui- . . . ' n touch with "Little Daisy" or w . . J guu, or waier-poio out on General the M. T.-oXLit'. ail ma.,, '. . . R.WJt Japanese Stragglers Asked To Surrender Manila. P. I. U.R) Two Jan- anese newsmen will trv to ner. suade an estimated 15 to 20 Jap anese noiaouts of World War U on Lubang island to surrender, iv was announced Friday." - Former Japanese Army Col onel Nohuuiko Jimbo ew low over the island last week and appealed to the stragglers inrougn a loudspeaker and drop ped leaflets but got no response. ne len ior home. . . Hitoshi Yamamntn nt th mmn. paper Mainichi, and Yutaki Tsuji oi me Asani, who came here to cover the reparation talks, will make the new attempt Olympia 0U0 An Initiative to prohibit daylight saving time, except by proclamation by the governor. or if established na tionally, was on file with Secre tary of SUtt Earl Cue Thursday. Crosstovn "She named only 33 items Is that sufficient Red Propaganda Gets Test at Panmunjom By PHIL NEWSOM U. P. Foreign News Editor According to Communist propaganda, it would be incon ceivable that a man once ac quainted with the joys of liv ing under a Communist itate ever would choose anything else. The idea is getting a se vere test at Panmunjom. There United Nations and C ommunist truce negotiators are deadlocked on the question of voluntary repatriation of war prisoners. The Communists are so re luctant to put their propaganda claims to a practical test that there is some danger the peace talks will break down entirely. The Communist stand is both discouraging and cynical. The Allies hold something over 132,000 war prisoners. The Communists admit to holding about 11,000 prisoners, includ ing 3,100 Americans. Right of Choice Insisted It is the American negotia tors who are insisting that freed war prisoners shall have the right to determine where they will go. after release. The Amer icans have added they never will back down from that stand. The Communists have com plained it is an entirely new concept of international law. The answer has been that freedom of speech also once was a new idea. Indoctrination Possible It would appear either that the Communists do not believe their own claims or that a large percentage of their people still require considerable "indoc trination." The cynical nature of the Com munist stand appears both in the light of their conduct during the Korean War and in the Rus sian treatment of war prisoners after World War IL In Koiea, it is believed the Reds hold approximately 100, 000 South Koreans who never have been accounted for. Some undoubtedly have been drafted forcibly into the Communist army. Others probably are at work as slave laborers, helping in the hazardous job of supply ing the Red army. Others are dead. Yet the Reds never have men tioned them, nor admitted their existence at Panmunjom. Parallel la History There is a parallel in the his tory of prisoners held by the Soviets after World War IL On May 4, 1950, the Soviet Union announced it had repa triated 1,939,163 German war prisoners and only 9,717 crim inals and 14 hospital patients were left West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer imme diately rejoined that the Rus sians had admitted holding 3,500,000 Germans at the end of the war and still had not ac counted for 1,500,000. In July of 1951 a UN com mission on prisoners of war opened an inquiry into the fate of 2,500,000 servicemen and ci vilians who disappeared in the Soviet Union at the end of World War n. The Russians ignored the investigation, as they did Hedy Lamarr Back In Romantic Whirl Hollywood (U.R) Hedy La marr, who filed suit to divorce her fourth husband only two weeks ago, was back in film land's romantic whirl again Fri day, according to gossips. The actress went for a round of nightclubbing Thursday night with a handsome Army lieuten ant colonel. Ken Hogan, but her agent said he doubted if the dat ing spelled serious romance. mm I'hil tit torn By Roland Cot out of the 67 in the purse. identification?" another such UN investigation just a couple of months ago. Clue to Fate A clue to their fate might appear in a Shanghai dispatch oi Dec. 17, 1946. The dispatch quoted a story in the Russian paper, "Irkutsk Pravda" Truth. The Russian story said: S "Nazi and Japanese dreams of meeting in Central Asia are be ing realized as Japanese and German prisoners of war in Si beria work on railway and high way construction." It said about 2,000,000 prison ers from the western axis pow ers and about 800,00 Japanese were involved in the work. Commissions in WAC Available to Women Portland The Department of the Army has authorized issu ance of commissions as Regular Army second lieutenants to qualified women college seniors and graduates between the ages of 21 and 27, it was announced today. The deadline for presenting applications for these commis sions is March 13, according to Capt. Maryon E. Toole, Wom en's Army Corps procurement officer here. Assistance in mak ing application can be obtained at Room 108, U. S. Courthouse, Broadway and Main street, Port land, or at Army and Air Force recruiting stations. Klamath Falls 4I.PJ Lorenzo Weeks, 35, Beatty, was held Thursday on a charge of second degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of an itiner ant Mexican. Russell Southerners' Lever To Keep Truman From Being Reelected By LYLE C WILSON Washington (U.R) Southern ers have taken the final essen tial move in their three-ply pro gram to get President Truman out of the White House. The most direct method would be to prevent his re-nomination next July at Chicago. To that end. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia Thursday accepted what was in effect a southern draft to become a candidate for the Dem ocratic presidential nomination. Slim Chance Known But the chance f beating Mr. Truman in the Democratic na tional convention is slim. Russell and his supporters know that So he has a second important function. Russell will be urged to accept a Jeffersonian Demo cratic nomination for President if the regular convention names Mr. Truman again. As. of now the senator is not committed on that Russell would be a strong can didate in the south. J. Strom Thurmond was the anti-Truman, State's Rights southern candidate in 1948. He took 39 of the south's 128 electoral votes. House Holds Advantages The States Righters had hoped to prevent either the Republican or Democratic candidates get ting a majority of the 1948 elec toral vote. -That would have thrown the election into the House of Representatives with large advantages to the south. But Mr. Truman had a long lead over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican candidate, and an ample 1948 majority. , The third southern weapon against Mr. Truman would be a bolt to the 1952 Republican presi dential nominee. If Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is nominated a very substantial bolt is likely. The southerners could swallow Ike when they might choke on a life-long Republican. . Would Go With Ike The Russell movement prob In the Day's Hem By FRANK JENKINS From London: The funeral of King George VI cost 58,000 $162,400. . . . The government presented the bill to Parliament today, ask ing it to vote the necessary money. . The total cost (of the funeral) includes 8,000 ($22,400) for en tertaining royal and overseas guests, hiring cars and railway expenses. Biesest item of all (in the cost of the funeral) was a bill from the armed forces for 35,750 ($100,010) for the troops who took part in the ceremonies. The bill doesn't include their pay only the special costs re sulting from the use of tne troops in the ceremonies accom panying the funeral, transporta tion, food and such. THE solemn ceremonies are over. The king has been laid to his rest There remains only the detail of PAYING THE BILLS FOR THE FUNERAL. After alL you see, the great ones of this earth and the small ones of this earth have much in common. THIS, I'd say, would be a good time for Englishmen and Britishers generally to re-read Kipling's Recessional especial ly the J3cond stanza of it, which goes: "The tumult and the shouting dies, The Captains and the Kings de part; Still stands thine ancient sac rifice, An humble and a contrite heart." r" WAS his "humble and con trite heart" that endeared George VI to his people. He wasn't a great warrior. He cer tainly wasn't a great conqueror. Instead of adding to the British empire, he ruled during the pe riod when the British empire, which had been built up by war riors and conquerors, was rap idly melting away. But his peo ple said of . him: "He was a GOOD man." They wept as they said it. Mayhe this universal respect for a GOOD man will hold the British together during the dif ficult years that lie ahead and will help to preserve the great ness of their nation, which now certainly seems endangered. YOU know, OUR position isn't as impregnably sound as it once was. We have world-wide commitments which, if they all came due AT ONCE, could strain even our great resources. Our eeonomy has been weak ened by reckless fiscal leader ship, which has run us heavily into debt in the years when we should have been getting out of debt We need GREAT leader ship perhaps as much as we have ever needed it at any time in our career. At this moment, let's not for get that it isn't just a superman that we need. We need a GOOD man to lead us, and we need GOOD men to back him up. The time is returning to the world when GOODNESS means something. More POWER is no longer everything. ably would fade if the Republi cans named Eisenhower. But if some other Republican is named and Mr. Truman is renominated, look for a sturdy third party, anti-Truman movement in the South, probably led by Russell COMMUNICATIONS Letters la tka Ml car stint tear (fee aaaia aa6 aSSress at taw wrttn altkeugl) aatfer ccrtala eirraav staaces tka asa at a pea sum ar laltlal tar aallraUoa la rmhv siale. Tka Mall Trlaane reserves the right ta eelt an letters sritb a view ta clartfteattea aaS ceaSea satlea. Letters sabaituei far ant Heattea araat aat exteeS 4M varts. Remembers Old .Engine To the Editor In Tuesday eve ning's edition of the Medford Mail Tribune I read the article about the little wood-burning engine. The train was purchased by Bill Barnham, who sent back east for it He operated the passenger line from Medford to Jacksonville with the help of his two sons. Later, about the time of World War I, S. S. Bullis bought it for a switch engine. It was at that time I operated it hauling logs from Owen. Ore. (now Medco) on the Southern Pacific line, switching on to the old line by Crater Lake Motors, to go toward Jacksonville to the Bul lis Lumber mill. I did my own firing and to this day carry a scar under mv right eye where I cut it on tht corner of the cab. Was certainly sunrised to read about it, presuming It dis- manuea long ago. I believe it would be fun lust to run it once more. - Walter Floyd Charley, , P. O. Box 604, Central Point, Ore. - Babson Businessmen By Roger W. Babson i Babson Park, Fla. (Special to Mail Tribune) A few years ago, the Pacific Northwest was suf fering a most difficult read justment Un-precedent-ed wartime ex pansion seemed likely to end in complete col lapse. U n em ployment had reached serious proportions. Active shipyards, giant aircraft factories and war fabricating plants shut down. In these weekly articles I sel dom single out any one section for specific mention. Our Amer ican economy is interrelated to so great an extent, that every section is leargely dependent on other sections. However, I think that there is a lesson for all sec tions to learn based upon the re cent statistics and experiences of the Pacific Northwest Prior to 1940, the region was almost entirely dependent for its prosperity on selling its raw ma terials. Its products were mostly shipped eastward in a raw state for processing and distribution to more profitable mass markets. Here was an important lumber district, but all its lumber was shipped East in the raw state, Rich northwest farm lands sup plied a large part of America's fruit and grain, but often at a loss. Copper, zinc, lead, silyer, gold and antimony were scooped from its mines and shipped else where for refining and fabricat ing. ' Fishing, especially for salmon, was big business. But, manufacturing industries were badly needed for lasting strength. War Needs Expansion Stimulated Industries Expansion for war needs stim ulated manufacturing industries temporarily. Aircraft factories mushroomed overnight. A full blown aluminum industry sprang up, and there was a new Pluton ium plant at Hanford. Ferroalloy and other electro-process war in dustries were started. Huge power requirements pushed ahead hydro-utility construction population growtn kept pace with industrial expansion. People rushed in from adjoining sec tions to get employment. There could have been a very bad slump when the war ended. There were no established peacetime products or markets to which the industries and workers could return. However, instead of a slump, the area has forged ahead to new heights, due to the enterprise and cour age of its business leaders. Labor today is even scarce in some lines and net migration into the area has continued high. Raw Materials Now Becoming Finished Goods Aided by extensive 'research and these few business men, their raw materials are now go ing into finished goods. Prewar, no aluminum was produced in the Pacific . Northwest; today nearly half of all our aluminum comes from this area. Food pro cessing has been emphasized to ft FAMOUS SAUSAGE SUPPER Gold Hill Grange DELUXE DINNER ECONOMY PRICED Whole Fig Sausage made in our own kitchen! You'll bo proud to bring your friends, lulk Sausage available to take home. ENTERTAINMENT WHILE YOU EAT Complete Dinner Adults $1.00 - Children 75c SMORGASBORD Featuring Home taked ffam, Turkey, Fish, Swedish Dishes, Beans, Salads, Pies All You Can Eat! Dancing - - - Spectators , CAtLIKS Carias Kershaw, Nana HiNyer, Da Naif, Miany NMeraseyer, Gary Ceersd, Jack Craaaa, Jim ami Joe Haak, $1J0 per plat - Serving 6:30 to 9d Includes dinner and dance Dancing 8:00 fJA. take advantage of the area's growing output of agricultural products. Its hustling business men are making it the center of the new frozen foods industry. They are starting new flour mills, new canning plants, and other industries to employ nearly twice as many workers as in pre war 1939. This proves again that every community depends upon the ability and courage of about 5 per cent of its people. - Furniture production has be come a ig industry utilizing the region's lumber resources. Paper and pulp industries have ex- panded 50 per cent since 1940, while the chemical industry is being doubled. Other industries have been induced to move into the region to decentralize oper ations, and be closer to raw ma terial supplies. Electric power output, despite tremendous growth, is being further in creased. Business Financed By Forward Citizens New stores, laundries, filling stations and restaurants have been financed by forward look ing citizens before they were really needed. This has all oc curred in an area which seemed on the brink of a depression only some five years ago. Don t let any community, where this col umn is printed, get discouraged under any conditions. No one examining the situa tion in 1947 would have been willing to forecast such a rate of growth. Today, similarly, there are other regions, as well as in ventions and ideas, which stand on the threshold of most rapid growth. Our frontiers never really pass; the experience of the Pacific Northwest shews that the brightest opportunities often lie where the prospects seem least promising. Carrier Princeton Collides With Tanker San Diego (U.R) The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Princeton collided with the tanker Navasota during naval maneuvers off San Diego, but the vessels were only slightly damaged, the Navy reported Fri day. The Navy said the accident oc curred February 25 during re fueling exercises. There were no injuries, and the Princeton, an Essex class carrier, continued flight operations. The Navasota is en route to Long Beach, Calif., for repairs, the Navy said. The Princeton is scheduled to sail to San Fran cisco for repairs at the conclusion of the maneuvers. NAME CARRIED ON Agawara, Mass. (U.R) Seven teenth century Massachusetts residents would be surprised to look at today's map and find Agawam in Western Massachu setts. In 1633 Agawam was in Essex county, about 100 miles east of here. Then Agawam changed its name to Ipswich and the name Agawam years later was given to the town which still bears it. SAT., MARCH 1 Starting 5 P.M. DINNER and Square Dance Saturday, March 1 at the GRIFFIN CREEK SCHOOL