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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MeifordU!JSWribune Everyone in Southern Oregon ; Reads The Mail Tribune Published 'Daily Except Saturday by medtord ranrnijp co. 17-29 North Fir St. Phooa 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ZRNEST R- GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager EC FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JZWKTX Sport, tditor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society EdUor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail-In Advance: M Daily ana sunaay u ; Daily and Sunday montte 8.50 Daily and Sunday three moa. 330 DaUy and Sunday one month Xi . t. a A v m n e e Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point ftckSSnville. Gold BU. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes. .,nn Daily ana aunaayuu" .w i oi Uailv and Sunday one month All lUIUS " - . . r.h in AUtfanM Official Paper of the City Official paper oi j United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Reprtettve: Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troit San rrancisco. ixj Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta VancouverJB;C1J tiiTtniiAl miTOBIAL F 1 w - - " - i ASVOClrATfdN. w NEWSPAMt PUIUSHttS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the tiles tha Mail TribuM 10. 20. 30 and 40 vur ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 26. 1942 (It Was Thursday) ' Audience packs courthouse auditorium during water com mission hearing on installation of water meters; many alterna tives suggested to save ,5,000,000 gallons of water needed for army cantonment near Medford. f Arthur Perrv's Ye X 1 Ulll " " Smudge Pot column: Farmers complain that Deni grass, wrucn bends the wrong way, is bother ing them. 20 YEARS AGO March 26, 1932 at Was Saturday) Proposed April 1 opening of Crater Lake National park ex pected to be delayed by unusu ally heavy snowfall: reports from park state 104 inches has fallen during past two weeks. Norris Porter, Medford, takes contest at Pacific Coast confer ence fencing championships. 30 YEARS AGO March 26. 1922 at Was Sunday) " "Flivver" driven by Medford chief of police "almost over turns in wild chase after .speed er"; violator finally caught near Voorhies crossing. Medford woman sends letter of appreciation to Ku Klux Klan members after they anonymous ly presented her with $25. 40 YEARS AGO March 26, 1912 (It Was Tuesday) Thirty Medford men meet in Medford hotel to discuss forma tion of a National Guard unit here. Medford fire department drills for first time as paid organiza tion; Chief Gene Amann prom ises improved protection for high . buildings. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Powell L. Everett, overload. $36 50. Stephen O. Wilson, no motor vehicle license. S6. Gene W. Weitman. no red flag on extended load. $6. Morris L. Frink, overload. $116. Charles L. Frye. overheight load. $6. Carl S. Robbins. failure to stop at stop sign S10. overwidtn load. 7. Wayne K. Griffeth, passing with in sufficient clearance, slu. Earl L. Sands, no operator's license, court costs only. George W. Campbell, driving while operator s license suspended. iu. Lester Benjamin Simmons, petty larceny, $30. Carl D. Sample, no operator's li cense, court costs only. Gerald R. Albright, overwidth load. 115. Raleigh Matthews, drunk on public nignway. Charles E. Bennett, overload. $162.50. Arthur Harding, no operator's li cense, $10. CIRCUIT COURT - Olive Rae Kincaid vs. Charles Glenn Kincaid. divorce decree. Clara E. Bunting vs. Walter R. Bunting, divorce decree. Margaret Marie Bishop vs. C. R. ..Broughton and others, complaint in suit to quiet title. Katherine Seabright vs. John R. Seabright divorce decree. Mary Louise Miller vs. Archie Syl vester Miller, divorce decree. Georgeann Nilsson vs. Ralph H. Nilsson. waiver of defendant and divorce decree. Florence Bromley Love vs. Eugene H. Love, waiver of defendant and divorce decree. Norma Rosalie Akins vs. Richard Dale Akins, divorce decree. Estate of Joseph Ramony Da Bar be. setition. Estate of Joseph Ramony De Barbe, petition. Dead Una on Classified Ada: Monday for Monday: noon Saturday 9 -30 p m for (oUowlaa day; 10 ojb v (or Sunday. Editorial Correspondence v.. ;.,.. Maml, 99 Hsm aiv the weather-man his 01U siauuau -. a mnniii nf wnnrlprfiil davs however windy, cool, crisp and cloudless skies. ... - ... 1 . J. J A Today there are a iew ciouas . i u lOOK ii&c 1 XHLt oxiu uiic uuu( ow.m miw " " -- Climatically probably all of us living on the Pacific coast are spoiled. We really don't know what bad weather is, compared with tne poor unionunaxes wno nave w uvc eas. uic awwcb. rs t Mis abpIiact VAnllAft1r.n i a trin tSv "hllUffv" to VUC Vi. ULU CEU 4.0 a.,vwvaw - a "J OOW Davis Junction, Illinois, to see one of Aunt A's farms which had been wrecked by a cyclone barn and house strewn all over the 400 acres, and a thousand dollars loss in livestock. A thousand dollars loss was noimng 10 iase m one s sinue or a smue in u days! No one killed or hurt, however. One odd and fortunate thing about Rockford, Illinois, a few miles north of Davis June- .a ti m x ' x tl. tion, there were cyclones an around tne iorest cixy norm, sou in, east and west, but never one within five miles of it. The C of C advertised this fact. Yesterday, being so nice and balmy, decided to take advantage of it by attending the hoss-races across the bay at Golden Gate Fields. Never again! there were close to 25,000 people who had the same idea and the place was like the N. Y. subway at 5 p.m. Usually the distaff member of the family has all the luck, but it was the other way around this time. Nothing to boast about, but the outdoor "sport of kings" was not as expensive entertain ment as it usually is. Those who attend hoss races for reasons other than entertainment, are as "easy-marks" as those who go to a political rally for factual information. But don't take them in under any circumstances, on week-ends. Even the entertain ment is then eliminated if the weather is OK. ' , $ Some new features since the "Salade" days at Agua Cali ente, Mexico. They advertise "inexpensive admission fees today," which in view of inflation prices has some validity. But if the place is packed, as it was yesterday, you decide to go into the "club house" another charge. But only reserved seats are avail able in the club house which takes another contribution. If your reserved seats are poor because all the good ones have been sold you are advised to get a "box". Before you get through finding a decent place to sit, your entrance fee has risen above the specu lators "cut" on Broadway, and club" before you try any more Recent experiences have reminded the. writer of a very old story. There was the ship captain who, back in New York after a long cruise, decided to "paint the town red," in the time-honored tradition of the sea. But after making a round of the refreshment parlors, 25 or 30 of them, until long after midnight, he finally departed for his hotel. En route he leaned against a lamp post (this was many years ago), and bursting into tears declared, "The whole world's rotten!" (The trouble with the captain was he had eaten a limburger-cheese sandwich early in the evening, and a piece of the exceedingly ripe in his mustache!) Well, if any visitor in San ing route this past week attended the movie at the State theatre on Market, then "The Rose Tatoo" at the Geary; followed by the Japanese movie classic Rashmahon at the Stage Door; the French movie winner "La Rande" at the Vogue; ending up at the peep hole murder trial at the Criminal ing the ship captain's example rotten!" AND WITH CAUSE. We feel compelled to admit New Yorker" that the press errs plorably or frequently as some but more frequently than should be the case. A friend in Medford sent us a copy of Owen Lattimore's statement before the Mc- Carren committee for example, and the case so different from that no one could believe they referred occasion. We grant, of course, requirements of time and space, render anything like a complete factual possible, only the highlights can lights usually are items chiefly interesting to the rank and file at the moment what is popular, what will make a headline. But in this case both the UP and the AP were guilty of giving an ab solutely INCORRECT picture of send out, practically excluding exaggerating the validity of the committee's accusations. They also made it appear Lattimore was a perjurer, when not even the most bitter critics of the Johns one. The time is coming if it isn't here now when the newspa pers of the country in their own SELF-INTEREST, must be more meticulous about their reporting those of a controversial political character. British newspapers, particularly the Manchester Guardian, set a good example in this direction which U. S. newspapers Another example, in a less ports of this "peephole murder" local press factually. The Chronicle, for example, maintained the defendant, Elbert Belote, took first degree very badly, turning and sputtering between clenched wrong!" . The Call Bulletin, however, dict without batting an eye, said, "Well that's that," and arose to follow his keeper back to his cell, with stoical self-possession, and commendable resignation. Who was right? We don't know, for while we looked in on the trial the final day we did not return for the verdict. On general principles we would go along with the Chronicle rather than the Hearst paper, but it may not have been true in this case. The ex ample, however, only shows: (1) how two mature, and in this case experienced people, can differ in describing the same incident and (2) how necessary it has become for the newspapers of this coun try to stop-look-and-listen, with special emphasis upon the need of a bit of house-cleaning in their OWN profession. Perhaps the Academy "Oscar" awards the other night in LA. could have been worse, but someone would have had to work overtime to make them so. Imagine, top-awards to "An American in Paris" and to Humphrey Bog art's ACTING in "The African Queen"! Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us what NEXT!! Vivien Leigh was OK in "The Streetcar Named Desire," but how in creation was Kim Hunter chosen over Marlon Brando? Accord ing to one report from Hollywood, Brando was disregarded be cause, quote: "Marlon isn't very popular in Hollywood" What in heck has personal popularity in Hollywood got to do with it? Or is that the tip-off? Does that explain WHY these Academy awards are going down hill so fast that they soon won't be taken any more seriously than the mimeograph outputs of the studio press-agents? Returning to news and news-treatment, we found under a small head on an inside page of "The Examiner" the following item: ' Tha Los Angeles County Medical Association has decided to proceed immediately against soma of tha 200 'CPS' member-doctors who hava baaa cheating that as sociation out of thousands of dollars by charging for op erations that were never performed, imaginary x-ray treatments and rendering bills for services never per formed. TWO HUNDRED of them! This is hard to believe, even in L.A.! But there is the item, and the Los Angeles Medical Association is quoted so it can hardly be another, attack on the profession certainly not along the reprehensible line of "socialization." Ho, hum the above we grant, isn't very, cheering guess we will have to join the ship captain who failed to get that piece of limburger out of his mustache! R.W.R. CORN YIELD BOOSTED Champaign, 111. (U.fD The University of Illinois college of agriculture reports a new record average corn yield of 107 bushels per acre on 21 experimental fields in 1951. The previous high was 102 bushels in 1948. Wednesday, March It. 1932 - w w - - 1 more like Fall than Spring, in me neavena, am , uucsn . hi mill ha nn r'VrT .OTJIT you vow you will join the "turt hoss races in Sunny California. limburger had become imbedded Francisco had followed the follow. Court, he would feel like follow and crying "the whole world's along with the magazine "The deplorably at times. Not as de of its prejudiced critics maintain. which 'gives a picture of the man given by the press reports, that to the same person or the same coverage of such a hearing inv be used, and naturally the high the situation by the news they did Lattimore's, defense and greatly Hopkins professor claimed he was of important events, especially would be wise to follow. serious field, was the news re case how they differed in the the jury verdict of guilty in the white as a sheet, shaking his head teeth: "It's unfair, it's bad, it's maintained Belote took the ver COLLEGE GETS RARE GIFT Ithaca, N. Y. (U.R) A rare 4,000 volume Brazilian library, including material printed at the time of the important Portuguese and Spanish explorations of the 16th century, has been donated to Cornell university. Crosstovn MISTER JOHNSQM "If I was a bachelor like you are, Mr. Johnson. I sura wouldn't let myself in for all this heavy gardenin'l" Matter of Fact CANDIDATE MacARTHUR Washington General Douglas MacArthur's statement last week was conned over, if not exactly nervously, at least with a faintly anxious interest, by the leaders of the campaign for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. And all concerned reached the same con clusions. First, General MacArthur must now be counted an active candidate, at least on a contin gent basis. Second, if Senator Robert A. Taft's campaign really collapses, as it shows some signs of doing, MacArthur will then become the spearhead of an all. out, last-ditch stop Eisenhower drive backed by the powerul "anti-me-too" wing of the Re publican party. It is not easy to define, of course, the precise point at which the Taft campaign might at some future date be said to have failed. Taft's definition would certainly differ from that of the Eisenhower men. Some of these are already, in fact. saying that "Bob Taft's all wash ed up, on the grounds that Taft's only real chance rested on showing unchallengeable strength on the first ballot at Chicago, and that this is now clearly impossible. A more sensible view seems to be that two tests must first be . applied, before it will be clear whether or not Taft is out of the running. The first test is obviously the Wisconsin pri mary on April 1. Even the Taft men agree that Taft has every possible advantage in Wisconsin notably including the fact that Eisenhower is not entered there and that Taft must win hands down in Wisconsin if he is to win at alL Taft's Wisconsin man ager Tom Coleman,, has predict ed that Taft will take all thirty delegates. He might drop two or .three to a second string candi date, Harold E. Stassen or Gov ernor Earl Warren of California, anrr still survive. But if Taft loses more than a handful of delegates, he almost automatic ally becomes a second string candidate himself. THE second test is in many ways more decisive. Taft's basic strength has always rested with the regular organizations in the non-primary states, nota bly in the South, where dele gates can be delivered more or less at will by a few profession als. By and large, the profes sionals have been for Taft, in part simply because they sym pathize with his views. But especially among Southern Re publicans, ideas are far less important than being for the winner. A rush of the profes sionals to Eisenhower, as the probable winner, would of course spell Taft's doom. The Eisenhower leaders claim that at least a biggish trickle has already started. They are coy about names, for obvious rea sons, but they are saying that they have been approached by numerous previously pro - Taft professionals from Florida, Ken tucky, and other southern states. The alacrity with which Gover nor Driscoll of New Jersey jump ed on the Eisenhow bandwagon after New Hampshire, and the current effort of the Warren supporters to identify their man with Eisenhower, at least make these claims sound believable. If Taft does poorly in Wis consin, the trickle will tend to become a flood. Then only Gen eral MacArthur might stem the flood, given the determined sup port of the large numbers of powerful Republicans who have no stomach for the foreign policy of which Eisenhower is a is too easily forgotten that. at least judging from the voting I record in Congress, these Re publicans are an actual majority in the party. Ever since the death of Senator Arthur Vanden berg, well over half the Senate Republicans, including nine of the thirteen freshman who stand this year for re-election, have rather consistently followed Taft on foreign policy. Eisenhower's nomination and election would be something like a death-kneLu By Roland Cot r Stewart Aba for this wing of the Republican party. AND this wing of the party is certainly not going to ac cept sentence of death . without a struggle. If the Taft candidacy clearly fails, a MacArthur can didacy will give the anti-me-too Republicans a chance to match military glamor against military glamor. And MacArthur is noth ing if not anti-me-too, on domes tic as well as foreign issues. The tone of his recent statements and speeches in one of which he went so far as to warn that creeping socialism even threat ens professional football places MacArthur well to the right of Taft. The question remains whether an active MacArthur candidacy could restrain the nervous pro fessionals, if the Taft candidacy bogged down. Since Eisenhow er's extraordinary personal popu larity is clearly his central asset, the answer largely depends on whether MacArthur really has the huge popular following his supporters claim for him. If this following is really great as it seemed to be just after Mac Arthur's dismissal he might be able to stem the Eisenhower flood. If it is largely a myth as it seemed to be in the 1948 pre-convention campaign, and as it has sometimes seemed to be since then nothing on earth can stop Eisenhower if the Taft can didacy collapses in the next few weeks. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Officials Free To Go Ahead With Stale Bond Issues Washington CU.fO Federal Reserve Governor Oliver S Powell said Wednesday state of ficials now are free to go ahead with state bond issues for such things as veterans bonuses if they deem them essential. President Truman asked De fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wit son Monday to remove regula tions covering borrowing by state and local governments but urged the subdivisions to limit themselves to essential bor rowing. Borrowing Screened Under Powell's supervision, private investment bankers have been screening proposed public and private borrowing to weed out programs deemed not "essen tial" to national defense. Powell said his National Vol untary Credit Restraint commit tee will comply with the presi dent's request He said "it will depend on state officials" wheth er bonds to finance bonuses and other "non - essential" projects are issued. Under the voluntary restraint program, 67 state and local bond Issues totalling $300,795,000 have been postponed voluntar ily, including issues in Oregon, Montana and West Virginia which were to be used to finance veterans bonuses. Vast Oil Empire In Canada Outlined Calgary, Alta. (U.R) A vast oil empire will be pioneered in western Canada by American capital in the not-too-distant fu ture, an American banker said here Tuesday. E. O. Buck, vice president of Expert Watch Repairing Reasonable Prices 0 All Work Guaranteed All Watches Electronically Timed! iriUATJ JEWELRY CO. 229 EAST MAIN PHONE 2-2935 j In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I'm sure you must have fol lowed, as I have," the dramatic story, of the cougar dogs that were, trapped., on a dangerous ledge on the snow-swept side of a mountain up north of Seattle. MEN braved the mountain's wintry hazards to ' SAVE THE DOGS. They arrived too late. The two animals marooned on the ledge were dead victims of cold, not hunger, veteran woods men of the region said. That is a minor matter. The big story is that American men risked their lives to save the lives of the dogs. THE story speaks (mistaken. ly, I think) of their VALUE. Let's not fool ourselves. It was no property consideration that led those men up that icy moun tain. The Good Book says (John XV, 13): "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Those mountaineers up in north ern Washington didn't actually lay down their lives. But they LAID THEM ON THE LINE. They were WILLING to die in an attempt to save the lives of their canine friends. rPO ME, that highlights one of - GREAT mistakes we've made in our foreign policy. Our lead ers have permitted us to be pic tured to the world as cold, hard, DOLLAR-CHASERS. It isn't true. We aren't that kind of peo ple. WE'RE WARM-HEARTED AND SENTIMENTAL. Those men who climbed the mountain up north of Seattle to try to save a couple of dogs are TYPICAL Americans. We're built that way. The dollar-chasing picture has been conjured up by our enemies. It's a lie. ' But our leaders, by their in eptness, have permitted it to be HUNG ON US to our great harm throughout the world. As a result, our leadership in world affairs has been discredited 'in the eyes of BILLIONS of people who FEAR us instead of admir ing and trusting us. That is little short of catas trophic llTHAT'S wrong with us? That's a big question, but I'll try to answer it according to my own convictions. When we say that Americans are warm hearted, sentimental folk, cher ishing ideals for which they are willing to give their lives if need be (as witness this attempted rescue of canine friends trapped on a storm-swept Washington mountain) we mean that AS A RULE they are like that. But NO proverb is more universal in its truth than this one: THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS TO ALL RULES. There are exceptions to the rule that Americans are warm hearted, sentimental, kindly people. There are Americans who are hard and cold and grasping. Americans who are willing to BETRAY THEIR TRUST to line their pockets. They are exceptions. There's another proverb that says "ex ceptions prove the rule." IfERE'S what I'm getting at: We've permitted these excep tions to GET INTO POWER. We've permitted it by our care lessness in choosing our leaders. We've permitted our judgment to be warped by demagogues who have appealed to our baser instincts and our hatreds and our suspicions. The result is the fix we're in now. T THINK we REALIZE it We're groping, blindly but eagerly, for leadership that we can TRUST. Leaders who will lead us in the right direction The direction we really want to go. That explains what has hap pened in New Hampshire and Minnesota. We have a feeling that we can trust Eisenhower. It is an instinctive feeling. Hence our willingness to accept him on fatih. Anyway, I HOPE I'm right If we really do feel that way it is a groundswell. If it IS a groundswell, it must mean that the people - of the United States of America are in the mood to take over their government and see to it that they get the kind of leaders they feel they can trust That would be great the National Bank of Com merce, Houston, Tex., said indi cations pointed to Alberta, Sas katchewan, Manitoba, Montana and North Dakota becoming a sprawling oil empire rivalling the fields in eastern Texas. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication 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. . . ... Tha Swallows Again To the Editor: I was so in hopes that we could get by this spring without that Capistrano swallow myth barging into the press. But here comes Frank Jenkins in his Sunday Mail Trib une column: "Hot Story Upcom ing on Big Surprise of the Year Swallows Fail To Return To Capistrano." Cripes, they seldom do arrive on schedule as the old Mission promoters and California gener ally would have us believe they do. How could the swallows ar rive on any given date? They are flight feeders, would starve to death if the ground was cov ered with insects, as they did several years ago in the deep south when a sudden freeze killed off insect life. But the tourists do flock to the ancient Mission on March 19 to gaze raptly at cock sparrows and swifts (do they know the difference?) quarreling over nesting right. And the pretty, scantily clad guide girls are there to trail them through the old hide and tallow workshop in back and discreetly vanish when they arrive in the well stocked souvenir room. It is discouraging. I have fought the thing in newspapers and magazines from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. But it persist ently pops up every springtime. There are people who prefer to believe what they prefer to be ieve, regardless of facts and logic. These are the ones'' the Kremlin cuties are aiming at with their phony claims of pri ority in all inventions; that we started the mess in Korea and are now dumping disease carry ing spiders, flies and lice on the north Korean Reds. Didn't someone once remark; "what fools ye mortals be"? F.J.Clifford, 1319 Old Stage road, Medford, Ore. Wildlife Federation To the Editor: The Wildlife Federation is a league of state groups and organizations having as their objective the conserva tion and wise use of our natural resources. It is a non-profit, non political organization. Help us restore, protect and conserve your outdoors. The primary purpose is to educate the adult and youth in the necessity of conserving our natural resources for the bene fit of all citizens of the United States. Stop polluting our river systems and endangering aqua tic life and public health by proper sewage and waste dis posal treatment. Stop erosion of valuable top soil by proper soil practices and treatment. ' Stop depletion of forest timber from fires mismanagement and. dis ease by scientific forest man agement. Help provide America's wild life with adequate food and shelter for its survival. Conserve and protect the environment that wildlife requires. Conserve, protect, restore America's na tural resources. Marilyn J. Gast, Upton Road, Central Point, Oregon Credit Cards To the Editor: Several years ago some person bought gaso line at a filling station in Tilla mook, using a credit card which had my name on it. I have no idea how this person acquired my credit card. Anyway, the purchase was billed to me and I refused to pay it. The oil com pany took the loss. ' Since then I have received many credit cards, all of which have been immediately torn up and thrown away. Now credit cards have been extended to in clude restaurants, motels, cloth ing stores, jewelers, and even an optometrist in San Francisco. An enterprising crook able to Your Mortgage Problem Jackson County Federal SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD : - "Growing with 'Jackson: Courtly Sine 1909" get hold of somebody's credit card could take a trip all over the western states, buying new clothes, jewelry, new glasses, and what not at the places listed in the membership directory and -could charge it all to the person whose name appears on the credit card. Therefore, I ant offering this free advice to any. body who wants to take it: Un less you are planning to take a trip and use the credit card your self, tear it up and throw it away. Charles L. Coyle, M.D. ' Medical Center Bidg., Medford, Ore. Thanks for Orchid To the Editor- Just a note to tell you how pleased we were to see the mention you made of airlines employing femmes in connection with your editorial on "Railroad Adds Feminine Touch" in the Medford Mail Tribune on March 18. Naturally we take this for an "orchid" and thank you for calling this tc the attention of the public. I am sure all the women who read this editorial will be as grateful to you as I am for your giving credit to the women who have had to battle for their sex since Carrie Chapman Catt Mary M. Blake, District Publicity Manager United Air Lines, , Seattle, Wash. Hells Canyon Dam Hearings Started By Subcommittee Washington U.R) A House interior subcommittee started hearings Wednesday on a bill to authorize the spectacular and controversial Hells Canyon dam on the Idaho-Oregon border. Secretary of Interior Oscar L. Chapman was the first scheduled witness in support of the dam, which would be the highest in the world. Reclamation Commis sioner Michael W. Straus and other Interior Department offi cials were to follow Chapman. Seven Days Allowed The subcommittee on recla mation and irrigation is allowing seven days for testimony on the $404,000,000 project. Top opponents scheduled to appear next week include T. E. Roche, president of the Idaho Power company, and S. V. Sharp, president of the Southwest Idaho Water Users association. The power company has proposed five smaller dams in the same gorge of the Snake river where the government dam would be built. Site Northeast of Baker The site is some 60 miles north east of Baker, Ore. The dam would be about 20 feet higher than Hoover dam on the Colo rado, now the highest. It would impound 4,400,00 acre feet of water and have a 900,000 kilo watt power capacity. A much smaller power plant in. Scriver creek in Idaho is part of the project. President Truman - asked for authorization of the project, and an $8,000,000 appropriation to get it started, in his 1953 fiscal year budget. He said the dam was needed to help meet power demands in the Pacific North west. DEFENSE SPEEDED UP Waltham, Mass. U.R The Raytheon Manufacturing Co., has thrown a high-frequency "shake" into the salvage of essential metals for defense. A new ultra sonic vibrator shakes vital metals free of insulating materi al, doing the work of 10 people under former methods in less time. For the soundest, most re liable counsel on your finan cial problems, consult Mr horn loaa uepaitnient. Wo have earned ear enviable reputation in this commu nity by giving prospective borne owners and home own ers advice and guidance on all mortgage problems. Con sult us at any time. i