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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordwTribune "Everybody in ooatnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-89 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, (Advertising Manager K. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of Marcn 3, SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 j Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 3 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 o Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance s. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire . MEMBER OF c AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION A J...i m Dancaianlatilia' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. tO" NIWSPAMR PUBllSHItS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASSOCfATllON Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb 6, 194S (It was Tuesday) Mrs. Mae Richardson, Cen tral Point; Mrs. Margaret Mann, Bellview, and Mrs. Edith Thomp son, Phoenix, to be discussion leaders at meeting of Jackson County Primary Teachers coun cil. . " From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The legis lature will tackle the big truck bill this week. The trucks are now so big, it makes no differ ence if they do tie with the loco motive at tne crossings. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Mrlforrl citv council accepts bid for widening of East Main st. at Bear Creek bridge. , , OTAAaI. liien jiaoncK amwuiucs ing of Rogue Snowmen to dis- cuss plans ior iurui-uiimiS spring carnival. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1925 (Xt was Friday) "Page corner," at Main st. and Riverside ave.. subdivided and building to be constructed as soon as plans can be maae. Dan Watson defeats Chris Bot- lieb in Medford city billiard championship tournament. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 6, 1915 z (It was Saturday) Mollie Towne, Phoenix, only woman member of Oregon state legislature, wins victory when bill giving women teachers same pay as men. Josephine county officials ob ject to use of state money for work on Siskiyou highway. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. New chairman of the Sen a t e permanent investigating ("McCarthy") subcommittee is Sen. Johnson (Tex.), Flanders (Vt.), McClellan (Ark.) or Mundt (S.D.)? 0 2. Farmers do or don't have a later deadline in 1955 than non-farmers for fourth-quarter payments on 1954 income-tax? 3. The Southern Presbyterian churches have voted for or against merging with the North ern Presbyterians? 4. The Railway Express Agen pv is owned and oDerated bv the railroads, is an independent concern, or is part of the Ameri can Express Co.? 5. More menothan women in the U.S. are considerably over- ii . . ii weignx, more women man men, or about the same number of each? 6. U Nu is prime minister of Burma, Ceylon, Indonesia, North Korea, the Philippines, or Thai land? 7. An actuary is apt to .work in the theatre, for labor unions, in holy orders, for an insurance company, or in a laboratory? 1. Sen. McClellan. 2. Farmer, do. 3. Against. 4. Is owned and operated by the xailroads. 5. Many more men than women. 6. Burma. 7. For an insurance company I Almost three times as many deaths from automobile acci dents odcur between seven and eight in the evening as occur between the hours of seven and eight in the morning. I3Su MAIL TRIBUNE "No Alternative to Peace As far as results are concerned war resembles Mark Twain's weather. There is a great deal of talk about it, but very little done. General MacArthur was not only eloquent on his recent birthday regarding his chosen profession, but 100 correct. Said he: "We should now proclaim our readiness to abolish war in concert with the great powers of the world. The result would be magical. The public opinion of every part of the world would be the great denominator which would insure the issue each nation would so profit that it could not fail eventually to comply." IXAR modern war is outmoded, out-of-date. As " an item of national policy it should be aban doned for it no longer works. It can't work in this atomic age or be MADE to work profitably at least even for the victor. As President Eisenhower recently said on two occasions in this modern age "there is no alternative to peace." There is none in the sense of any desirable alter native. There is just as much reason for the civilized world to tolerate war, as to tolerate a return of the black plague. ALL of the above is true and generally acknowl " edged by all thoughtful people to be true. More over, we have in the United Nations an organization designed for one main purpose, through action by a concert of powers to prevent war. VET what sort of a situation does the world face 1 today? More money is being spent for waging war, more weapons of wholesale destruction are being pro duced, especially by the world powers; fear of war, particularly in the Far East, is greater today than it has been since the end of World War II. And irony of ironies, each and every nation claims it is increas ing its war potential to the limit of capacity for one reason and one reason only to PREVENT war. Or if it can't be prevented to wage a war solely of self defense against some aggressor some other nation always being the aggressor. IT does border on the mailt. But what can be done about it? It is OK to TALK about proclaiming our "readi- ness to abolish war, out Wiiu is ljUiJNii to do ANYTHING about it including ourselves? We wish General MacArthur had given his answer to this question. What Is Cooking Anyway? Chiang Kai-shek in his first public announcement in some time, declares the invasion of the Chinese mainland is not far distant. We quote : "Formosa has entered a state of war. The day for launch ing a counter-attack on the mainland is drawing near." Whereupon three waves of his bombers attacked Red China invasion "build-ups" in the Tachens and it was announced Chiang would not evacuate his troops from that island, until he had a solemn and binding pledge from the United States that he would receive all-out aid in defending Quemoy and the Matsus. 1X7HAT is going on here anyway? ... YV According to a London dispatch in spite of Red China's spurning of a "cease fire," the effort to secure a cessation of hostilities has not been abandoned, and it was believed the Chinese Reds would agree if they were given certain mainland islands now held by the Nationalists. AN'T the chief participants in the China sea area get together and come to some sort of an under standing, as to what is cooking and what isn't. Certainly the Chinese Reds don't intend to sign any cease fire agreement, and Chiang Kai-shek doesn't if he says his attack on the Chinese mainland is imminent. Yet according to London the effort for cease fire Jias not been abandoned! Someone is off base here badly. Moreover, according to reports from Washington, President Eisenhower has refused to make any pledge to aid Chiang in the defense of the mainland islands, other than that implied in his original statement that whenever he believes Formosa is threatened, he will do whatever he then considers necessary to remove the threat and save that bastion of U.S. defense. This, it is stated, doesn't satisfy Chiang Kai-shek. VLL of which is as clear as mud. The only clarity in the situation in fact is that the war in the China sea is getting hotter by the hour, and the. dangers of U. S. involvement more and more threatening. AS before stated here is a situation made to order "for the United Nations. . As there seems no chance of the "cease-fire" ef fort succeeding why not put the Formosa crisis, as a whole, on the U. N. agenda, and do it now? Talking the problem over from every angle might not completely solve it, but at least it might prevent the present war from becoming a World War. And that would be something in fact a great deal. Far better a war of words than a war of atomic weapons. - AS we see it, if the UN fails to act, and act quickly, if and when it is apparent no "cease-fire" can be arranged, its greatest opportunity to date to perform the service which it was organized to accomplish, will have been tragically missed! -R.W.R. Sunday, February 8, 195S 99 absurd, the ridiculous and R.W.R. Oregon's New Senator Gives Good Impression To Newspaper Writer By ROWLAND SAWYER of Christian Science Monitor Washington About this fel low Neuberger, the new senator from Oregon: Washington isn't quite sure. Here's a man who says what he thinks. Literally. Don't senators say what they think? Well, let's not be too literal. Sometimes a senator or a congressman says what some body else wrote. A New England senator is reported to have re marked in a moment of candid exasperation at the height of a recent campaign, "The things they put in my mouth for me to say." But nobody puts things in Dick Neuberger's mouth nobody, that is, except Mrs. Neuberger, Take this Formosa affair and the President's message to Con gress. What did Dick Neuberger think about that? The senator was sitting before an open fire in a Washington living room. His hands were wrapped around his knees and his head was bent down. He rocked back and forth a moment. Well, he said, the newspaper boys knew a lot more about that than he did. They'd been around Washington; he'd 'just arrived. The senator just ; didn't know what to say except that he wanted to think about it awhile. Some people in Washington say the junior senator from Ore gon has said quite enough al ready for his freshman year. When at the congressional din ner of the Woman's National Press club he said that he thought politicians should prac tice the Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandment in their campaign speeches, Wash ington was surprised. Congress men and senators usually don't say things like that, except on the floor of the House or Sen ate, where it is recorded for publication in the Congressional Record. Mr. Neuberger, before he had hardly unpacked, had the cour age or the temerity, depending upon one's viewpoint to make a long speech on campaign morals before many high gov ernment figures. He used plain words, like Mr. Peepers of the TV whom at odd moments he slightly resembles. He said he thought it was time to end "campaigns of character assassi nation" and that this was the way to do it. The circumstances created quite a furor. Some of Mr. Neu berger's anecdotes exposed him to criticism on the grounds of taste, which added to Washing ton's uncertainty about the new Matter of Fact WE ARE NOT THEY Taipeh, Formosa Here is one point, at any rate, on which President Eisenhower and Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek ap pear to be in agreement. Judging by the soothing s t a t e m ents emanating from Wash i n g t o n, the American Ad ministration is convinced that the Chinese C o m m unists Will nnt. nrpcc Joseph Alsop the Formorsa crisis to a warlike conclusion. The Generalissimo also believes that the Commu nists will even refrain from at tacking Quemoy and the Matsu Islands if they are firmly and clearly told that this will mean war with the United States. Thus high level judgment may be said to be all on one side. It is at least worth rioting, however, that the visible hard facts, of the situation are all on the other side. No single piece of tangible evidence . discoverable by this reporter supports the official judgment in Washington and Taipeh. This judgment of the Formosa crisis has been reach ed, very evidently, by calculat ing what we would do if we the Chinese Communists ruling in Peking. But it is always well to remember that we are not they. This was forgotten in 1941, for instance. The American leaders were then chiefly con scious of the strong opposition at home to any involvement in th war. Therefore they could not believe the Japanese would commit the folly of forcing America into the war. But the Japanese were chiefly con scious of the American naval threat on their Pacific flank. They could not believe they could move southward with safety without eliminating this American threat. And here, and not in any silly talk of plots, was the real explanation of Pearl Harbor. "THER disastrous examples might be cited of the same error, such as Gen. MacArthur's "home for Christmas" attack to ward the Yalu. And in the pres ent instance, the conviction that the Chinese Communists will senator. Had the "Mr. Smith" of the movies ("Mr. Smith Goes to Washington") arrived and was he telling folks what was wrong? Or was it an inappro priate time and place for Mr. Neuberger to attack in only slightly veiled language the campaign conduct of the Vice President of the United States who was sitting beside him as another head-table guest? What ever the verdict, Washington is likely to see quite a lot more of this shrewa, appealingly home spun "Mr. Smith." The junior senator from Ore gon believes other things around Washington should be changed. He's discovered that quite a few members of Congress, and ad ministrative officials, don't write their own public statements. What, the senator was asked, was so surprising about that? Mr. Neuberger, rising from his sofa, turned the tables on the questioner. Did correspondents allow dispatches which they did not write to go out under their names? Well, no . . . hardly. Then why should a senator say something he didn't write. Well, a United States senator is a busy man. The freshman senator from Oregon shook his head; it all seemed very strange. Mr. Neu berger is, of course, an eminent journalist in his own right and penning a speech may not be difficult for him. Obviously the impact of this senator on the gray, somewhat cynical community of Washing ton is going to be interesting. There's likely to be a test of strength between this able pub licist of the tall timber and the customs which seem indelibly established in the veneer-paneled drawing rooms of the Cap ital. Just now the senator lives alone at the Congressional Hotel. Mrs. Neuberger has returned to Oregon for the winter where she has her own political job to fulfill as a member of the state legislature. There are 3,000 miles between this excellent husband and wife team. To hear Dick Neuberger talk of his wife on a quiet Washington evening, gently, with restraint, and yet with meaning, is to know that she is his mainstay and prime support. It's a good bet that Oregon's "Mr. Smith," this man of decep tive talent, will be a prod for good works and new concepts in Washington for some time to come. If he should not be under estimated, the thanks, he would tell you, must go to Mrs. N. By Joseph Alsop not risk war over Formosa is based on what we think will best serve Red China's interests. But those who hold this convic tion somehow manage to over look both Red China's warlike preparations and warlike decla rations. These preparations and de clarations are the hard facts what the Marxists call "the ob jective evidence." The prepara tions have been going on apace Ifor at least two years. By extendmg existmg air fields and building new ones, the Chinese Communists have built up one great jet airbase complex in the Yangtsze River delta, in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces, within easy range of the Tachen Islands and Okin awa They have also built up a secondary but wholly adequate airbase complex in the region directly across the Formosa Strait, within easy range of Quemoy, the Matsus and For mosa and the Pescadores. Great efforts have been made to stock these airbase complexes with large reserves of all kinds of supplies. At present, the main Communist air force has already moved from Manchuria and the Peking area into the Yangtsze delta airbase complex. It can move south again at will. Meanwhile, an army of 200, 000 men has been assembled at the jump-off point for an attack on the Tachens. An equally large force threatens Quemoy and the Matsus, which are held by less than 40,000 Chinese combat troops. And the assault on Yikiangshan has already re vealed careful Chinese Commu nist training for triphibious operations. THUS the forces for an attack are in place. Meanwhile, the Peking government has been promising its people to take For mosa this year at the top of its voice. The Peking leaders have also been assuring leaders of neutral nations, like Burma and India, that they mean every word they say about taking Formosa. Finally, there are excellent reasons to believe that Chou En lai had exact advance knowl edge of the contents of Presi dent Eisenhower's message to Congress on the Formosa treaty. If there was any lingering doubt about the American military guaranty of Formosa,, that mes sage should have removed it Communications Letters to the Editor must 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 letters with an eye t clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Honest Review Appreciated To the Editor: As a member of Footlighters I read with much interest your review of our current play, "A Bill of Di vorcement." May I take this op portunity to thank you for your honesty in reporting what you felt to be the truth about the production. It always takes more courage to write unflat tering criticism than it does to praise a performance. Your fine comment commend ing our presentation of the comedy-drama "Morning's at Seven" last fall, and the generous space and consideration the Mail Trib une has given the Footlighters has been sincerely appreciated by the entire group. I think you might have been gratified to overhear the re marks of the cast on the second night performance of "A Bill of Divorcement." Gathered in the dressing rooms before curtain time, the discussion naturally centered around the review. It is not easy to play to a small audi ence. We all knew what effect the review would have on the size of our house for each of the four remaining performan' ces. We had worked hard for six weeks, rehearsing, learning lines, constructing the set, and doing all the other chores that go into getting a show "on the boards." Then there's the mat ter of royalties! But in spite of the disappointment, spirits were high, and there 'was nothing of bitterness nor condemnation in the way the review was writ ten. The only dissenting opin ion voiced by the cast was that a reviewer cannot honestly judge the production as a whole on the performance of the first act alone. In your article, of course, you pointed out that you had done this. We are looking forward with eager anticipation to a steady growth in membership and in showmanship in our new loca tion. Our great and sincere de sire is, of course, to bring to Medford and the Valley good theater., The great majority of our shows have been warmly received, and to our great pleas- ure we've played to completely filled houses even to turning people a way. We know the Mail Tribune is sincerely inter ested in our future growth, and we are keenly aware of our civ ic responsibilities. We know we must, produce good entertain ment in order to survive as a theater group. As happens on Broadway with the very best of professional taljnt, not every show is a hit, but the actors don't quit. The Footlighters, too can rise above justly-deserved criticism and go on to more suc cessful plays, and we hope to justly-deserved praise. "The play's the thing!" Mrs. Ivan (Frankie) Burton, 26 Richmond, . Medford, Ore. Footlighters Profit To the Editor: As president of the Medford Footlighters (whose recent production, "A Bill of Divorcement" played for five nights at the Fairground theater) I have been besieged by both the indignant and curious to "answer" the review of our play by Eric Allen which appeared in Wednesday s paper. While often "the truth hurts" we realize it is only by facing up to objective, unvarnished ap praisal that the performer can get true perspective and hence improve his work. So we are not angry, but grateful. We feel it is a compliment that a busy editor of The Mail Tribune has taken in as many of our productions as he has and genuinely enjoyed the majority of them. It is equally flattering that he considers the Footlight lighters mature enough to accept constructive criticism (however devastating) rather than expect such tongue-in-cheek praise as one would deal out to small children. I am proud of the attitude of the cast and Footlighters mem bers over the review. The gen- Yet the Chinese Communist Prime Minister having this knowledge, at once reaffirmed the Chinese purpose to take Formosa this year. ,, It is really hard to see why the brilliant Chou En-lai should thus engage Peking's prestige to the very hilt, if the threat to Formosa is a mere vainglorious maneuver, intended to extract some other concession from the West. In fact if Washington and Taipeh are right about the real Communist intentions, you have to conclude that Chou En-lai is a mere boastful muddler. Such is the conflict of evi dence. This reporter's opinion, which is worth little, is that the thing is an even bet either way (for this year). But a Commu nist grab for Formosa is a vir tual certainty next year or the year after that, if we do not strengthen our shockingly weakened defenses on this side of the Pacific and if we fail to find some better Asian policy than piece-meal retreat. ....... (Copyright. 1955, . - New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Statesman Oh Talent Failure of the federal budget for the Talent reclamation project authorized by the last Congress gave Senator Neuberger an opening. He promptly took advantage of it to assert that the authorization was window-dressing for the Cordon campaign. Rep. Harris Ellsworth bristled at this statement and replied that the ommission was a mistake which was being rectified. Glenn Jackson, Medford's fireball promoter, has been back in Washington turning on the heat to get a provision for Talent in a supplemental measure. At this distance it looks as though there was poor coordination in Congress, the Department of bureau. Checking further into the bureau has been critical all along gation features of the project. It Department of Agriculture which put a cost of $708 per acre on the development and said the return would be-only 1.7 per cent on the investment. The saving feature of the project however is the power plant for whose electricity California-Oregon Power Co. has made a firm offer. The local office of the Reclamation Bureau which has had charge of surveys on the Talent project, has gone over its esti mates and revised its projections of realizable benefits. One thing which the Area Engineer, Lee McAllister, inds, is that present index of construction costs permits a reduction of $1,100,000 in former cost estimates. According to his present revised figures the benefit-cost ratio for the irrigation side of the project whose estimated costs is $10,855,000 is $9,685,000, the ratio is 1.45; for the ratio is 1.30. The congressional authorization contemplated a payout by water users in 60 years. The in 50 years. This plant would electricity so that in the longer and continuous. If after receipt is taken by the budget bureau though the authorization was merely a political gesture. We do not believe that was the intention of Senator Cordon; and do not believe Congress will now fail to fojlow up its authorization with appropriations first for planning and then for construction. Editorial in the Oregon Statesman, Salem. Seventh Fleet Ready After Long (Editors Note: The United Press Manager for Formosa William Miller, has joined the U.S. Seventh Fleet in prep aration for the anticipated evacuation of the National- eral opinion expressed was that all should profit by the con structive suggestions both in the matter of future play selection and production. So what if the props were knocked out from under us mo mentarily? Let's face itwe have to move our building any way. From the present prone position into which Mr. Allen has landed us, it will be easier to start rebuilding from the ground floor up. Speaking of rebuilding, our new expansion plans involve not only the theater itself but vastly increased membership. We want and welcome all in terested in any phase of theater activity to join us. For informa tion call 2-5096. So, Mr. Drama Critic, don't hit for the hills. Stick around and help us rebuild a bigger and better civic theater. May we ac cept your membership? Medford Footlighters By Lavetus Wimmer, President 'Til Noxt Time, To the Editor: Mr. Eric Allen, and our many kind friends who were perhaps dismayed by his frank appraisal of our current production, would have been readily reassured to overhear the comments Wednesday evening in the dressing rooms of the Foot lighters' Little Theatre. We quite generally agreed that we prob ably got no worse than we de served. We're gratified to know we are considered sufficiently objective to withstand and turn to good use the city editor's well intentioned comments. Theatre arts, by their very nature, would be non-existent without an audience. Yet the art ists involved are often prone to forget the audience in their own somewhat self-indulgent pleasure of expression. This is as true of the commercial theatre as of our more modest one. It's just that it's possibly easier to postpone the rude awakening when our bread and butter doesn't depend on our success postpone, even to the point of extinction. It is, therefore, good indeed to have a gadfly in the vicinity who takes enough interest in our en deavors to "stick out his neck" so far in our behalf. (May I add that I consider the vocation of gadfly a noble one?) Thank you, Mr. Allen. I hope that next time you can stay through all three acts. There will be a "next time," won't there? (Mrs.) Lenore Zapell, Rt. 1, Box 482, Talent, Ore. (Editor's note: There will in deed. The review in question, among other things said the Footlighters "should have a bright future as a community enterprise, and deserve the good wishes of all who feel en couraged that people are will ing to work as hard as they do for the enjoyment of them selves and their friends." E.A.) Likes Reporting Job To the Editor: I have received a newspaper clipping of your report on the state tax discus sions held in Medford last Sun day. Let me congratulate you on a very fine summary. This is the best newspaper report we have had to date on any of the meetings which have been held. Robert M. Hall ., Blyth and Co., Ine. Portland, Ore. Comments Fund Lack to include any appropriation among the Oregon delegation the Interior and the budget matter we learn that the budget of the economics of the irri has relied on estimates from the 1.39; for the power plant, costing flood control, costing $387,000 power feature would be paid off still be useful for generation of period returns would be increased of the revised estimates no action or the Congress it will look as Practice ist Chinese garrison at Tach en Island. In the following dis patch he describes fleet prep arations and says it is "easy to see that the fleet is ready for anything that might come.") By WILLIAM MILLER United Press Correspondent With "the U. S. Seventh Fleet Off Formosa (U,R) The Unit ed States Seventh Fleet has made practice "dry runs" for the long delayed evacuation of Tachen Is lands. Veteran Navy pilots have swarmed off American aircraft carriers north of Formosa in carefully planned sorties design ed to give maximum air cover age for the withdrawal of Nat ionalist troops. Each ship down to the smallest destroyer escort and support vessel has an as signed part in the operation. No Orders Received And these plans have been closely knit with the wing of American F86 Sabrejets now stationed in Formosa. The actual composition, posi tion and immediate mission of Adm. Alfred M. Pride's Seventh Fleet was a strict military secret today. Pride himself, however, . had told reporters the fleet could move in "a very few days" to help evacuate Tachen, if the ord ers came down from above. That was two weeks ago and Pride's ships were still maneuv ering in Formosan waters. Jets Sweep Skies Adm. Felix B, Stump, Pacific naval chief, had pinned it down even further and said the fleet could be ready to go "within six hours." Aboard the carrier Yorktown Saturday it was easy to see that the fleet was ready for anything that might come. Banshee.Cougar and Panther jets were almost constantly in the air, sweeping wide areas of the fog - shrouded seas for "enemy" intruders. Aboard the warships themsel ves life was routine for the offi cers and men of the world's best Navy. "We are doing just about what we would be doing off the coast of California or North Carolina," cracked one Navy flier. That was the repeated practice, drills and alerts over and over again which kept the fleet at razor sharp edge ready for any emer gency. You get the impression here with the fleet that no one was particularly looking for a war most were mainly interested in getting back to the West Coast of the, United States to waiting families but if war comes the Seventh Fleet is ready. DA Seeks Order for Destruction of Slots Newport, Ore. (U.R) Dis trict Attorney William Hollen Saturday sought from the Lin coln county Circuit Court for an order authorizing destruction of four slot machines seized a year ago at a private club m Toledo. Toledo Justice of the Peace Wally Tindall had refused to issue a destruction order on grounds the machines had been seized illegally. Tindall con tended the raiding party had' no right to take the machines be cause the officers had no search warrant. . However, last week. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton in an opinion said a search warrent was not necessary in -rich cases. , It was on the att3-y general's- opinion that- 'Ushen filed his action in Circuit: Court
