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Newspaper Page Text? TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Medfo UNI everyone in Southern Oregon Reads Tile Mail Tribune f-ubllshed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ERNEST .R GILS TRAP Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editur GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under A--t at March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 50 Daily and Sunaay one month 1-25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Mediord Ashland. Cettral Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15 00 Daily and Sunday one month 1-25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atianta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISH! tS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 29. 1942 (It was Wednesday) United States bureau of mines announces it will send engineers here to study coal deposits in Medford-Ashland area. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There are now gentle hints that the meat shortage, always somewhere else, is a "bum steer." 20 YEARS AGO July 29. 1932 . (It was Friday) Local orchardists, packers and shippers plan cooperative pro ' gram for unemployment relief in southern Oregon. County a s s e s s o r's survey shows total of 3,914 buildings of various "tyes within city limits of Medford. 30 YEARS AGO July 29. 1922 (It was Saturday) Man who was "lynched" by local Ku Klux Klan members returned here from southern California by law enforcement officers to give testimony before grand jury. Airplane to be sent to Med ford to be used for patrolling forested areas during fire season. 40 YEARS AGO July 29, 1912 (It was Sunday Combination of 96 degree tem peratures and cloudy weather sends humidity soaring in Rogue valley. Local growers arrange to ship portion of "largest watermelon crop ever grown in the valley" to California points by rail. CUPBOARD EMPTY, NO SUPPER Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Mary Emma Scott, a maid, complain ed to police that her employer, C. N. Parker, kicked her when he returned home from work to find no supper cooked. The maid claimed she had nothing to cook. Court Records . Bennett Bradner Lewis, expired ve hicle license. S3 Stanley Kent Peters, violation of basic rule. S10 bail. Lloyd Elton Hanscom. violation of basic rule. $10. . Clarence Ray South, violation of basic rule. $10 bail. Agnes . Hopkins Flanagan. violaUon of 1asic rule. $10 bail. Urmal Ardella Jenkins, failure to atob at red light. $5 bail. Ereddy Lawavne Mitchell, violation of basic rule. $10 bail. . Ronnie Vernon Sparks. Eagle Point, reckles driving. $25 bail. LaRue Morris, violaUon of basic rule. $10. DISTRICT COURT Grover Dewitt Atchley. overload. $132.50. . J. J. Myrick, overwidth. $7. ; Walter E. Matthews, overwidth. $8. Frank J. Simpson, overload. S68. Elvin W. Blankenship, overwidth. $10. Leo V. Thompson Jr.. overload, $45 50. Harold R Graves, overwidth. S6. Roy A. Ferrington, overwidth. $6. Marion David Reed, overload. $167.50. John Frank Harden, overwidth. $15. Alvin Lisonbee. overwidth. $6. James C. Sanders, no tail light, $5. . Coe E. Brown, defective muffler. $6. James W. O'Neill, driving while li cense suspended. S10. Kenneth D. Peavler. no clearance lights. $7.50. Samuel E. Swift passing with insui ffoenr clearance. $!0. Emanuel Crudup. Los Angeles. Calif., drunk in a public place. $15. CIRCCIT COURT Charles Albert Rowley vs. Louise F. Rowley, divorce complaint Dead Une Sunday Classifieds Is at a:ju p.m. ior roiiowing aay; iu a m Monday for Monday; noon Saturday 1S1 DEMOS HAD IN CHICAGO By ALICIA RUHL Chicago, July 25 (By Air Mail) "The Democrats," stat- led a delegate from California modestly, "have a little bit of everything." At 2:30 in the mor ning, hanging onto a subway strap with several hoarse dele gates and wilted newspapermen, I could only feel she had under stated the situation. For the day that had started out to be Nom inating Day, and had turned out to be after fourteen and a half noisy violent hours just a preliminary to it, had every thing to make a political orgy complete except an assassination and there were moments when that seemed just around the cor ner. ' But if it stopped short of as sassination it stopped just one notch short, for at an extreme ly critcal moment when Gov ernor Byrnes of South Carolina was. explaining just what his attitude was toward placing the names of Democratic nominees on his state ballot, a voice sud denly broke in over the loud speaker system, slightly louder than his own: "Let's not have any panici Let's not have any panic! They are putting it out! It's just a newspaper! Theae's two fire men and a policeman here! Stay where you are! Let's" not have any panic! No panic, please!" The only one who seemed to be panicky was the speaker, whose voice was rising in a cre scendo all the time. The delegate from California said that he was literally shaking, but this was more understandable when one was informed that the delegates were standing . at this time approximately two in the mor ning ankle deep in paper, The press, for the umpty-umpi time during the day, scrambled onto the wooden tables in front of them and strained to see just what was going on." Even from this vantage point it was impos sible to see the floor of the aud itorium, but one did see, after a moment, a slight haze of smoke drifting lazily up through the multicolored bunches of balloons toward the ceiling where starry. balloons clung clustered like bubbles against the glass of an aquarium. The excitement was over in a moment, but the nerve of the convention was somewhat shat tered. Some moments later a dele gate from the District of Colum bia asked for the floor. "I am willing to die for my country;" said he, in a voice heavy with weariness, "but I don't want to die tonight. I move that we ad journ until eleven tomorrow." The ayes had it, surprisingly enough, for up to that time there had been a heated parliamentary battle as to just whether they would adjourn, or whether they would not, the Stevenson group wanting to press on into the first ballot, the Kefauver Harriman group determined to forestall a vote at this hour when everyone was fatigue-happy, middle -of-the- road minded, and still impressed by the ob viously enthusiatic Stevenson ovation. Certainly the session had a "little bit of everything" sheer color, corn, and tumult, with emphasis on the tumult. The press section, under a cluster of loudspeakers, had more than their fair share of the noise and spent most of their time with their fingers in their ears - or staggering around with their balance mechanisms off-kilter. I personally will never feel the same about "Bob" Kerr, who may have "been born in a log cabin," who possibly can't help his millions, who may have "learned the Bible at his moth ers knee" but whose theme song was full of percussion and entirely responsible, I am sure, for that continuous buzzing in my head. Everybody had a good time. With thirteen or so nominees, most of whom had about as much chance of living in the White House as Winston Chur chill, there was ample oppor tunity to bounce up and down in time to the music, hum your favorite tunes off-key without your next-door neighbor being able to critcize, indulge in your suppressed impulses toward ex hibitionism, bat around stray balloons and sprinkle confetti into innocent wayfarers hair. Even the very snappy band had a good time, the brass sec tion playing catch with a ball oon that happened to drift into range, the leader - whom one would have thought would have been strictly non-partisan bursting forth in a coonskin cap during the Kefauver rally, the tail bobbing jauntily up and down in time to the music. The enthusiasm was uninhib ited and indiscriminate. Every rally brought forth an untidy mixture of Stevenson, Russell, Kefauver, Harriman, and Kerr banners I suppose their itchy . . . , , ,, u - feet just couldn t resist the Tuesday. -July 29. 1952 EVERYTHING CONVENTION rhythm. One character, whose matted beard and generally rugged appearance made a per fect setting for a coonskin cap, cheered loudly from the gallery for Kefauver, then appeared in precisly the same spot a few hours later with a huge Steven son button pinned on his cap and cheered loudly for Steven son. Like Pavlov's dog, the reflex es of the mob were so well trained that when the Governor of Indiana inadvertently ' men tioned Stevenson's name one third of the way through his nominating speech he had to spend the next ten minutes try ing to restore order. Adjectives were unbounded and monotonously unvaried. There didn't seem to be an "un distinguished," "un-patriotic," "un-outstanding" Democrat in the lot, and one began to wond er why so many were so out-of-temper with some of the South ern delegates. Before the eve ning was over, however, they too, were "distinguished," "out standing," and "patriotic." Also, for reasons unclear to me, pre cisely those candidates least likely to succeed were invar iably introduced, in booming crescendos as "our next pres ident of the United States" One of the least likely of nom inations was that of Paul Dev er of Massachusetts, who may be a very fine fellow but who is famous if . he is famous for anything outside of his own state for a distinctly unphot ogenic appearance, which tele vision audiences all over the country have had a chance to appreciate, and for a temper amental frog-croak voice, which is likely to crack,, turn falset to, or fail entirely. A speechless nominee might have its advan tages but it would make the presidental campagn a very un usual one. Nonetheless, there was three quarters of an hour of lively music and bobbing signs telling the world that Massachusetts owed its roads to Paul Dever, that Dever was for the aged, and recommending "Dever For ever" a chilling prospect, and with the democratc reputation for staying in office, not a good advertisement. Some of the banners bobbing around, however, were pretty clever. Bob Kerr had one de scribing him as the "Greatest Elephant Hunter in the world. ' A banner draped from the bal cony proclamed the authors, "Madly for Adlai." Harriman rooters predicted it would be "Av-rell in November" some one quipped, "Yes, but who is it in July?" With a bit of poetic license, and a few more votes, it's probable It will be "Adlie" no one seems to know how to pronounce that first name any way. Russell's rooters were strong on reassurance. Everyone and everything was "safe with Rus sell." Your "homes were safe with Russell," the farmers were "safe with Russell," "business was safe with Russell," your sons were "safe with Russell," industry was "safe with Rus sell," and even labor "was safe with Russell" it would be pretty hard to convince the last two that both could be safe at the same lime. Barnes Chevrolet Firm Wins Awards The three departments of Barnes Chevrolet company, 227 Ninth street, were recently an nounced winners of a "Paul Bunyan" contest conducted among Chevrolet firms in the West Coast zone, according to Owner Larry Barnes. The win ners include the sales, service and parts departments. The parts and service depart ments . took first place, in com petition with all dealers in the zone, by going over their quotas which were among the highest in the area. As first prize win ners, the two departments will receive $1,000 each for distribu tion to employees.. The first place scored by the sales department entitled the four employees of. the depart ment to attend a "pay-off party July 29 and 30 at Gearhart. One of the group, which includes Sales Manager Cecil Nelson and Salesman Art Maggenti, "Doc" Wilson and Frank Robertson. will receive a new .Chevrolet car, along with cash and mer chandise awards, Barnes said New York City reaches nearly 100 miles into the lower Cat- skills for most of its water sup ply. Los Angeles depends large ly on Owens river water brought 238 miles by aqueduct, and draws one-sixth of its supply 392 miles from the Parker Dam on the Colorado river. ; - India's Dhauli Gorge" wind ing through the central .Himal ayas, gains 10,000 feet in eleva tion in 35 miles. Crosstown i," LITTLE SCOUTS "I forgot my bugle, but if we camp near a farmhouse, maybe I can borrow a rooster to wake the guys up with." Matter of Fact CHICAGO AND STONEHENGE Chicago The scene is the innermost of the great stone circles at Stonehenge, the time, perhaps three thousand years ago. By the stone of sacrifice, stands the chief Druid, and -all about, in eager, ordered ranks, are all the tribes of neolithic Britain. The races are over. The dancers have retired. The mo ment has come. The king of the old year is led to the altar, to be killed with the mistletoe dagger, and to rise again in the body of the king of the year to come. It may seem a bit odd to be thinking about these ancient ceremonies amid the sordid lit ter which the political conven tions have left behind here in Chicago. But American political conventions none the less strong ly resemble the great gatherings of the tribes, at which the old peoples of the past sought to in sure successful harvests and vic tory in war by cruel and tradi tional rites. Certainly there is the same spirit of elation, of collectively induced excitement which made the old people truly believe that the prosperity of the year de pended on the year-king. Cer tainly, there are human sacri fices, although no blood flows for television. And sheer bitter ness of disappointed ambition is the substitute for the mistletoe dagger. And the end purpose and result are certainly much the same. : I N FACT, in a queer way, one president is much like a year king, being held responsible, as the year-kings were, for giving the tribe both victory and plenty, and being doomed as well to something very like ex tinction when his term runs out. All of which is relevant at the moment because it seems to these reporters that the time has come to pay tribute to the Am erican convention system. These great quadrennial tribal gather ings of ours may be illogically organized, and no doubt are. They may be singularly sordid in many of their aspects; as to this no one would argue. They may have so little outward rhyme or reason that they drive foreign spectators almost mad with puzzlement, which is al ways a funny convention-time sight. ' . But the main fact about the convention system is that it works, like so many other out wardly illogical but effective and adaptable American politi cal institutions. Perhaps this is the American , political genius, to mingle pragmatism and tradi tion in just the right propor tions. We have" a good many political contraptions which look like inventions of Rube Goldberg yet produce immea surably better results than the carefully thought out designs of the political theorists. ' A LOT OF PEOPLE who think that politics ought to be logi cal have been talking, recently, about abandoning conventions for national primaries. But in the first place, the national pri mary would inflict on us the equivalent of two elections, hand-running, when even one is bad enough. In the second place, the national primary could nev er achieve the delicate adjust ment of regional viewpoints, personal and popular .interests, economic and social influences, which each political convention somehow achieves. And in the third place, it is impossible to imagine a national primary doing better than these last Democratic and Republican conventions,-which have given the country two such candidates for president as Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai E. Steven son. Nor are trading , and dealing and rumor-spreading and false promising by any means the By Roland Coe By Joseph and Stewart Alice truly important features of the convention process, although they often seem so important on the surface. individual motives may be cheap and self-serving, but the collective motive the purpose of the convention as a gathering of the tribes quite often takes on a quality of nobility. The in dividual delegates may be ven omously partisan, they may only want to get or keep 'jobs, they may be under the lash' of some petty boss or labor or business potentate. But when the tribes men are in their seats and com ing up to a ballot, the cheap nesses tend to cancel one anoth er out, and the strongest influ ence somehow becomes a genu ine collective care for the future of the country. jlOREOVER, every convert tion has its moments of in dividual generosity and high character which one remembers after all the anger and bitterness have faded. From the Republican conven tion, one recalls General Eisen hower's warm gesture, when he hastened to call on Senator Taft, and the fine courage in defeat that Taft showed in those hard hours. From the Democratic ral ly, one recalls the way Truman placed national interest above petty, personal irritations, to help put over Stevenson. And one recalls to the magnanimity of Averell Harriman,' who was not well served by some of his liberal supporters, yet who nev er failed to fight first for his cause and to think of himself only second. Altogether, if you think of them in the right way, these two conventions which are now con cluded have been inspiring ex periences. They have not lacked the customary squallor. There has been plenty of that. But they showed that America has a re markable wealth of - vigorous, patriotic and able, men in both parties. They exhibited the splendid vitality and adaptabil ity of our political : life. And they named two men of whom any American . ought to be warmly proud. The Druids could not have done as well. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Congressional Quiz Questions end Answers en What Goes en at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features Q What is the "escape clause" in connection with the tariff on garlic? A The ' Tariff Commission asked the President , to use the Reciprocal Trade ' Agreements Act "escape clause" it lets the U.S. hedge on international tar iff agreements when they threat en injury to American pro ducers to allow the U.S. to double the Italian garlic tariff. The President July 1 turned down the request in a move against Italian Communists. Gar lic is only a sideline in America, he said, but is vital to the liveli hood of many Italians. . Q If the President's April 8 steel plant seiture was unlawful, how could he seixe the industry under the Selective Service Act? A The April 8 action was based on his "inherent powers" as President, and on that basis was ruled unconstitutional by' Dr. Robert J. Urie OPTOMETRIST (Formerly Monahan & Wiggins) NOW PERMANENTLY LOCATED AT 28 South Central (Old Sub Post Office Location Across from Craterian) COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor mast bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letteri wltb a view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication mast not exceed 400 words. Hospital Head Lauded To the Editor: I hope the Mail Tribune through its Com munications Column will allow me to pay tribute to one of Med- fords outstanding citizens, a great lady, the Superintendent of Community Hospital, Miss Ruth Nelson, R.N. Having worked as a register ed staff nurse for several years under her direction at Commun ity Hospital, I think I am in a position to have some apprecia tion of her outstanding charac ter and qualities as an admini strator. I have worked in a number of hospitals, large and small, and I can truthfully say I never en joyed working for any superin tendent of nurses as I did for Miss Nelson. She has created an atmosphere of genuine friendli ness and homelike-ness in the hospital, and has done more than anyone I know of to make it a real community project. Pa tients have often commented up on this gratefully to me. Miss Nelson has a real talent for good personnel relationships. She consistently maintains an attitude of expecting employees to do their best, and she is rare ly disappointed. She is not afraid to give freely any well deserved pats on the back and words of praise. Her public relationships have been equally successful. Few people have a realization of the multiplicity of problems and contacts a hospital superintend ent encounters. Miss Nelson is well loved by doctors, patients and patrons alike, for her genu ine and sympathetic interest in so many people, from humblest to highest. She has kept abreast of devel opments in the hospital field and has conducted a continuous campaign for building improve ments, for new and adequate equipment and supplies. Every member of the local District Nursing Association is gratefully aware of Miss Nel son's efforts to secure fully qualified nurses to serve at Com munity Hospital and to encour age their membership in this professional organization. N o one has been more generous than she in assisting with meet ings and in throwing open her apartment at the hospital for their use. It will be a sad day for Med ford if ever the administration of our Community Hospital is entrusted to the cold, "all-busi- ness"-like qualities of some new and uncertain hand. "We need Miss Nelson's personality, her skill, educational background and broad humanitarianism. Let us not forget that it is "human-ness" and capacity for service which makes institutions of healing outstanding. It takes good human beings and good leadership to make good institu tions. This community owes much to Miss Ruth Nelson for having provided that good and wise leadership in its hospital. (NAME ON FILE) Gulfport, Miss. (U.R) Billy Green, mailman, says what hap pened to the mailbox at a cer tain apartment here is "for the birds." A pair of bluebirds built a nest in the box and the apart ment's tenants told Green he'd have to deliver their mail to the door until the young ones hatch. the Supreme Court. However, under the Selective Service Act, the President has the right to seize any plant that "refuses or fails to fill direct orders placed by the Defense Department with in the period of time prescribed by the President." Q What is "Senate Rule 22" the Democrats argued about at the . convention? . . . A It provides for ending de bate so opponents of a bill can't "talk it to death" by indefnitely delaying a vote. Under present rules debate can be halted only if two-thirds (64) of the 96 Sen ators so vote. The issue now is "hot" because a rules change next January might open the way for Senate voting on civil rights. Civil rights advocates say without a change in Senate rules, "civil rights pledges mean nothing." Q Just how many of Presi- Farouk's Abdication Dates Back to 1948 War With Palestine By HOMER JENKS United Press Correspondent To find the reason for King Farouk's abdication, you have to! go back to the Palestine war of 1948. Egypt, the biggest and most powerful of the Arab Middle Eastern states, sent her army against the Jews in Palestine with banners flying and hopes high. Egyptians Hurled Back But smaller Israeli forces not only hurled back the invading Egyptians in almost every en gagement; they even raided 35 miles into Egyptian territory. Egyptian soldiers and officers in the field complained bitterly they had been given bullets that would not fit their guns and ar tillery shells that didn't explode. Almost all their equipment, they said, was obsolete, faulty -or in too small quantities. Israeli military pressure final ly forced Egypt to agree to a truce Jan. 7, 1949, and the fol lowing month she signed an armistice which gave her only a thin coastal sliver of Palestinian territory around Gaza instead of the big chunk she had hoped to grab. Troops Bitter Egyptian troops returned to their homeland bitter and clam oring for revenge. They blamed their downfall on profiteering senior generals, politicians and even palace associates of Farouk who they said, had bought 'in ferior equipment at bargain prices and pocketed the rest of the huge defense appropriations. One 13-month investigation re sulted in the government order ing Prince Abbas Halim, a cous-1 Employment in State Near Levels of 1951 Salem (U.R) Employment con tinued at about 1951 levels through mid-July although ef fects of the prolonged steel shut down were beginning to show up in metals, ship repairing and other lines, the State Unemploy ment Compensation Commission said Monday. Totals Close lo 1951 Tabulation of more complete reports from employers showed non-farm jobs in June to be al most exactly the same as the 468,700 listed a year before. Current totals are expected to remain very close to the 467,600 figured for July, 1951. Whether this approaches the all-time rec ord of 480,400 in August, 19o0, depends on the trend of the next few weeks during Oregon's bus iest producing season. With settlement of labor dis putes in lumbering and food processing, these industries ac counted for more than 25,000 of the 30,500 increase in employ ment between May and June. Return of workers in transpor tation and utilities helped bring their totals up to last year's levels. But contract construction dent Truman's legislative pro posals won Congressional ap proval? A Congressional Quarterly's boxscore on the President and the three Congresses elected since he took office shows that 464 times he asked lawmakers for legislative action (the figure includes some requests repeated each year) and Congress carried out 199 of his plans. His batting average for the six years (1947 1952) thus was 42.9 per cent. Q Did the President's record of success in getting Congress to carry out his ideas for new laws get better or worse through the years? A The percentages of his legislative proposals enacted by Congres dropped each year for the last six, according to the Congressional Quarterly Box score. In 1947, Congress passed 47.6 per cent of his requests. In 1951, the Truman batting aver age fell to 40.3 and this year it skidded to 34.8. (Copyright 1952 Congressional. Quartely) Qualified to Serve... o Through the years our experience in giving sympathetic counsel and easing the burdens of the grief-stricken has qualified us to guide you. In your time of need call upon us for friendly, sympathetic service. PERL FUHERAL HOME 44 YEARS OF HUENDIY SERVICE in of Farouk, and 12 former high ranking defense officials held for trial in a $5,000,000 arms buying scandal, but nothing came of it. However, the army thought its day of revenge finally had come last March when Naguib El Hilaly Basha became Premier and promised to route out cor ruption in high places. Farouk's Friends Tapped The trail led not only to wealthy supporters and high of ficials of the majority Wafd party, but reached into the ranks of Farouk's personal friends. The alarm bells were sounded. Hilaly was eased out as a re sult of Wafd pressure July . 2. and Hussein Sirry Pasha made Premier. But this apparent sur render to the profiteers brought angry mutterings from army of ficers and Hilaly was brought back July 20. Farouk was insistent, how ever, on keeping control of the army. He persuaded Hilaly to put in as war minister Col. Is mail Sherin Sey, the King's brother-in-law. Final Blow To the disillusioned young army officers, that was the final blow. Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib, Army Commandant for Cairo and a thrice-wounded hero of the Palestine war, and his as sociates decided to take things into their own hands. Naguib and his army follow ers seized control of the country last Wednesday with the avowed aim of prosecuting Army and government "traitors" who had betrayed their trust and estab lishing a corruption free, stable government. picked up only a few hundred to 26,300, about 3500 short of last year and 5100 under July, 1B50. More than 7100 persons found temporary canning jobs, pushing food production well above both last season and the year before. Some Gains Shown Finance, trade and service lines gained slightly over both comparable periods while gov ernmental jobs slackened off slightly but at 66,700 were 1500 above last year. With the ex ception of the metals, rails and ship repairs were more or less affected by the steel shortage. most industrial lines held theif own or improved during June. Insured unemployment was increased somewhat in recent weeks over the low point early last month. Claims crept upward to 9253 during the third weele of July as compared with the 1952 low of 6892 and with 7909 a year ago. Nearly 20 per cent of the claimants were from food processing while 24 per cent came from construction or woods jobs. Job openings slackened considerably, although the mid summer lull was not so pro nounced as a year ago. Chinese Boy To Tell Citizenship Story Portland (U.R) U. S. District Court Judge Gus J. Solomon has issued an order directing Secre tary of State Dean Acheson to prepare travel papers to permit a 16-year-old Chinese boy, Louie Kyle Fale, to come to Portland for court proceedings in his suit to be declared a citizen of the United States. Fale claims citizenship , be cause his father, a Portland cook, is a citizen. The American consul at Hong King, backed by the secretary of state, has refused to allow Fale to leave China. Solomon contended that an American citizen has a right to appear in court in his own be half to prove his right to citizen ship and the government can't keep Fale in China while it makes up its mind on procedure.