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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
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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
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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
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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