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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Funeral services were held for
Benjamin F. Van Dyke, 75, long
time Jackson county resident
and former student teacher in
missionary work jn the Far East.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It rained
yesterday as if all the farmers
had hay down and lodge broth
ers were wearing three cornered
hats with ostrich feathers were
staging a parade in town.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Medford's Mayor Porter tip
points 24 Medford. residents to
. j.i i l . 4. Mr: .:
De on me iuuauui iur netoj-ic vio
lations. - -' c
Bob Hinman, Medford. high
school football player, receives
football scholarship to Univer
sity of Washington.
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13, 1925
(It was Friday)
DeAutremont brothers, sus
pects in Siskiyou tunnel train
robbery and murders, believed
hiding out in Ecuador.
Sporisors of group interested
in forming radio clubs through
out county - report that many
Medford area residents now have
radios.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 13, 1915
(It was Saturday
Spaniard driven out of Mexi
co by Pancho Villa lodged in
Medford city jail after being
chased from freight train by
brakeman.
From local and personal col
limn: Vernon Prigley, living on
North Grape st., Friday after
noon caught eight steelhead, ag
gregating 50 pounds in weight,
while fishing in Bear creek.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. The Pescadores islands lie
about halfway between Formosa
and the China mainland, much
nearer Formosa, or much nearer
the mainland? .
2. Draft registrants are placed
in Class II because of depend
ents, disability, occupation, or
conscientious objection to war?
3. More money 'is spent on
advertising in newspapers than
in radio-television combined, or
more , in radio-television than in
newspapers, or is it 50-50?
4. As many as one-fourth of
the cars on the road are at least
ten years old; right or wrong?
5. More trading in uranium
stocks takes place on the New
York Stock, American (N. Y.
Curb), Chicago, Salt Lake City,
or San Francisco Exchange?
6. Is the governor of Penn
sylvania a Republican or a Dem
ocrat? v
7. Genocide is, an attempt to
destroy an epidemic, racial dis
crimination, a whole race, one's
parents or the political opposi
tion? The Answers: l.Much nearer
Formosa. 2. Occupation. 3. Mueh
more on advertising in news
papers. 4. Right. 5. Salt Lake
City - Exchange. 6. Democrat:
George M. Leader. 7. V whole
race. ,7.7
MAIL TRIBUNE
Shirking Responsibility
We agree 100 per cent with Messrs. Corbett of
Portland and Belton of Canby, that if the state legis
lature should pass-the-buck to the people on a tax
program, instead of doing the job themselves, they
would be shirking their clear obligation, and dodging
the responsibility their election imposed.
We have a representative government. The tax
problem is an extremely involved and complicated
one. The people have not the time, nor the informa
tion to decide wisely on the various and sundry de
tails, of such legislation.
That is why they elect representatives to-do the
job for them. These representatives have the time,
have the information, and should have the courage
to do what they were elected to do.
IF LATER the people don't like what they did, the
people can invoke the referendum. But that is up
to them, not up to their representatives.
This business of "passing-the-buck" every time a
knotty problem comes up by referring controversial
measures to the people, has gone too far already.
Unless a halt is soon called representative gov
ernment in Oregon will be a farce, and its main
usefulness destroyed. .
I ET members of the Legislature do the very best
" they can, after long study and deliberation, to
solve the state's financial problem through a tax
revision program. When that is done let them go on
to other matters.
In the meantime, we would suggest they spend
less time on passing resolutions and memorials to
Congress of a partisan political nature they may
do no great harm, but they certainly do no good.
The reolutions may get printed in the Congressional
Record, but if so practically no 'one in Congress
pays any attention to them. Why waste the time,
energy and cost of printing when there is so much
of more importance to be
The answer is politics,
on important legislation can be traced in most case's
back to the fear of losing
votes.
It is to be hoped the
applied by Messrs. Corbett
World War
As we review the past
in Russia, the threat of World War III, fades farther
and farther into the distance.
The main cause ..for this optimism is the report
of internal trouble in Russia, and declarations that
the army group in that country is against war any
world-wide conflict in the near future, at least. .
, There is the added fact that the new minister of
defense in Soviet Russia is Marshal Zhukov, once
demoted presumably because of his pro-American
sympathies -and his warm friendship for President
Eisenhower, -when they were upper-bracket buddies
in World War II. i
PUTTING these three
eAvmc trrrA iaoervn r
of Malenkov and elevation
make war more likely, as
less so.
Even if the new Khrushchev regime did decide on
war with internal unrest
opposed, it is highly unlikely any such move would
be actually attempted. Putting guns in the hancte of
3 or 4 million disgruntled citizens, is the last thing
that a canny dictator like Khrushchev or any total
itarian government would risk. The Russian deser
tions were bad enough at the start of war with Ger
many. What they might be today, if conditions in
Russia are as turbulent as believed,- might add. up to
a counter revolution. And that is the Kremlin's one
great and always haunting fear, the one thing above
all others that can't be chanced.
THERE are other minor items pointing inthe same
1 direction away from war. The Red Chinese are
talking tough, but it doesn't seem likely to express
it mildly that Mao would risk an all-out war with
the USA 'without a guarantee of 100 Russian sup
port. And certainly if the Russian army command -doesn't
WANT war, such support would hardly be
forthcoming.
Finally it vcan be put down as certain, that if
neither Russia nor China WANT war, there will be
none. 7
- Unless there should be some catastrophic blunder
on one side or the other, World War III never looked
farther away, or world peace nearer.
THAT qualifying adjective "WORLD" should be
emphasized, however: As far as small wars of a
local character, particularly in the Far East are con
cerned, this department enjoys no such feeling of
optimisim. Fighting indeed may go on in that part
of the world for many years, on a minor scale.
But the big fear is, and should be, a global con
flict, in which the two major powers would be
forced to engage in a war to the death a war ;of
mutual sacrifice and probably mutual destruction.
All wars should be outlawed. But that can't be
expected to happen today or tomorrow. If a world
war can be prevented for the present, and some rea
sonable distance into the future, then a great load will
have been taken from the minds of all thinking per
sons, and hope renewed that the human race can
in the interim create enough restraint and arouse
enough common horse-SENSE to prevent , its own
destruction ! R.W.R. rr " ' ' " -7 7 :
Sunday, February 13, 1SS5
done. .
just as the buck-passing
popularity and eventually
statesmanlike -leadership
and Belton prevails.
- K.W.K.
Less Likely
week and the excitement
items together, and there
VkalioirA fin of flia A otv nf 1 nn
of Khrushchev, does not
some have maintained, but
what it is, and the army
Matter of Fact
THE MEANING OF
KHRUSHCHEV
Washington The ruling fac
tion in the Kremlin has con
cluded that even a partial set
tlement with the West is out of
y " vSSil the question;
and tnat war
is probable if
not inevitable.
Soviet policy
is henceforth
to be based on
these grim as
sumptions. This is the
majority view
of those best
qualified to in
terpret the
Stewart Alsop
meaning of the events surround
ing the downfall of Georgi M.
Malenkov. There is all sorts
of evidence to support this in
terpretation. In the first place, there is the
nature of the difference between
Malenkov and N. S. Khrushchev.
Their well-advertised disagree
ment about the degree of em
phasis on arms production has
been only a symptom of a more
basic difference whether war
with the West or "co-existence,"
and a long period of stalemate,
is more probable.
There is no doubt where each
has stood on this question. There
was, for example, the extremely
belligerent speech wnich Khru
shchev made in Prague, in June
last year, much of its belliger
ent tone was carefully edited out
this at a time, of course, when
Malenkov was in the ascendant.
Or there was the conversa
tion not too long ago between
Malenkov, Khrushchev, and the
Moscow diplomatic representa
tive of one of the neutral pow
ers. Khrushchev announced in
his blunt way that if the Paris
agreement to rearm Germany
were ratified, then "there was
nothing more to be done." The
clear implication was that there
was no hope of. avoiding war if
West Germany were rearmed.
But Malenkov hastily interposed
that there was always hope, that
"there was always something to
be done," to avoid war.
This is not to suggest that
Malenkov was in any sense a
pacific idealist or a friend of
the West. The difference is one
of emphasis. But this difference
could be crucial. How crucial is
suggested by the decision sharp
ly to increase arms spending,
announced some" days before
Malenkov's downfall was made
public, but when Khrushchev
was certainly already in the
driver's seat.
THIS' decision is, compared by
experts to Josef Stalin's de
cision to rearm at all costs after
Munich f it is a sign that the
Kremlin now, as then, expects
war. Similarly, Molotov's tough
speech .after Malenkov's resigna
tion is compared to Stalin's
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS -
The BIG news:
No shooting YET in the For
mosa area. , '
S
OOTHING news:
President Eisenhower and
Treasury Secretary Humphrey
took off for a week end of quail
shooting in Georgia. There are
two reasons for the expedition?
,1. Ike needs the relaxation.
2. The fact that the President
of the United States and his
secretary ,of the treasury can
take off to go quail shooting as
sures the people that the situa
tion is well in hand.
THEY will, do their shooting
on what in the still ruggedly
American West we would call
Secretary Humphrey's RANCH.
The correspondents, living
and working in the fantastic and
unreal atmosphere of Washing
ton, call it Secretary Humph
rey's ESTATE.
WHY does Ike need relaxa-
tion? '
Here's why:
We little people, handling our
little affairs, can afford a reas
onable number of mistakes, be
cause our errors of judgment
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Thanks Expressed
. . To the Editor: In behalf of the
Labor Unions who co-sponsored
the "Bucket of Bucks" dances, I
wish to voice our appreciation
to the management of Walker's
Dreamland ballroom, Buck and
Sunny's Rogue Valley ballroom,
the Jackson hotel, the YMCA
and the Jacksonville Corfmunity
hall for the generous donation of
their dance floors for the "Buck
et, of Bucks" dances. The Mu
sicians Union and the manage
ment of the -restaurant conces
sions should be highly com
mended for their equally gener
ous contribution to this worthy
cause. I
'l Because of the unselfish atti
tude of these people several
hundred dollars were donated
for the fight against polio which
would not otherwise have been
made available to the Jackson
County chapter of the National
Polio foundation.
Vaughn C. Keyser,
- : President Medford
77 Central Labor Council.
6 Ji
By Stewart Alsop
speech immediately after the end
of the war, in which Stalin clear
ly foreshadowed the "hard"
policy towards the Soviet
Union's war-time allies.
For what consolation it may
be worth, this switch to. a "hard"
policy based on the expectation
of war comes as no great sur
prise to the American govern
ment. As noted in this space
early last January: "When Am
bassador Charles E. Bohlen re
turned to Moscow recently, he re
ported back that the sense of
tension had measurably increased
there in the few days since he
had left."
Thereafter, Bohlen reported
that the "sense of tension" de
rived from a power struggle
which was centered on a basic
policy disagreement; and that
Khrushchev, the proponent of a
tough policy, appeared .to be win
ning this struggle. The evidence
suggests that the power struggle
began to come to a head in the
late autumn, soon after Khru
shchev returned from his trip
to Communist China.
This trip, it is believed, con
vinced Khrushchev that the Chi
nese Communists were prepared
to take major risks of war. On
his return, he took the position
that the Soviet Uni nn har? tin
alternative but to support China
11 it came to a showdown, and
that the Russian arms industry
must therefore be reatlv ex
panded -at all costs.
Khrushchev had been fighting
for more arms nroduction and a
tougher policy even before he
t fi- ...
ieix, 01 course, but the beginnings
of the China crisis strengthened
his hand. So did the German re
armament pact. The army final
ly sided with Khrushchev it i
believed, and the issue was actu
ally settled in his favor in late
uecemoer or early January.
rpHE triumph of Khrushchev
A does not mean that the
Kremlin is getting ready to start
a woria war tomorrow. On the
contrary, there is solid evidence
that, even since Khrushchev be
came the real p o w e r. in the
Kremlin, Moscow has tried to re
strain Peking from eoine tnn
far in the Formosa crisis. Bohlen
and other experts are still con
vinced tnat the Kremlin does
not want a war.
Yet all-out rearmament, and
a "hard" policy based on the
assumption that war is probable,
obviously in itself increases the
danger of war. According to
one experienced policy-maker,
what hds hardened in Mnmu
has multiplied the risk of . war
Dy a lactor of about four. In
the circumstances it is strange
but true that there is an.
parently no disposition whatso
ever ijj the administration to
have a ' hard new look at the
state of "our own defenses.
. Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
News
were comparatively inexpen
sive. ' '
The executive head of the
greatest nation on earth, with
the lives and the fortunes of a
billion people (in our own coun
try and elsewhere in the world)
hanging on his decisions, can't
afford mistakes.
They are too costly.
THAT'S what we caU respon
sibility. In every waking moment of
his life, crushing responsibility
rests upon the shoulders of the
President of the United States.
ORE significant news:
In New York the stock mar
ket raced ahead at the opening
from its new all-time high base
established Wednesday. Gains
went to between one and two
points in leading areas. Losses
were small and infrequent.
In Chicago, wheat advanced a
little, but all other gains slip
ped off. Selling pressure in ce
reals other than wheat wasn't
unusually heavy, but it was
enough to cause fractional de
clines with every limited de
mand in all pits. The firmer
tone in wheat followed a sharp
break in the closing hours of
trading. .
WH
!Y is that significant?
This is why:
Stock prices tend to FALL
when it looks like war is immi
nent. Grain prices tend to RISE
when war seems near.
I7hy are security and commo
' dity prices MORE signifi
cant than what high-up people
in government SAY?
WeU, high-up people in gov
ernment are apt to say what
they think OUGHT TO BE
SAID. People who buy and sell
on the great bid-and-take stock
exchanges and commodity mar
kets back their judgment WITH
MONEY. ; " '
Money ' talks and" when it
talks it TALKS TURKEY.
The state of New York col
lects more than $2,000,000 a
week in state-imposed gasoline
taxes.
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Is That So?
By Eugene Bums
Ranger-Naturalist
The concern insect mothers
bestow- upon their offspring
varies greaUy among the hun
dreds of thousands of insects.
To us, some appear shamefully
negligent; others are much more
indulgent.
Some insect mothers drop
their eggs at random, wherever
they find themselves, with no
regard whatever for the needs
of their young. For example,
a mother walking-stick casual
ly lets her eggs faU like rain
from her tree-twig promenade
and that completes her matron
ly duties. She leaves it .up to
her babies to find their way up
the tree.
Some moths do not seem
overly bright. They, sometimes
leave their eggs on stone walls,
where they perish. -
Grasshopper mothers are
slightly more concerned. At
least they place their eggs in
the soil which gives them some
protection although the little
hoppers are left to work their
own way to the surface to find
food.
A step up, there are thousands
of insect mothers who are care
ful botanists and search until
they find exactly the right plant
on which to lay their eggs so
that their young will have ex
actly the right food near at
hand. Anyone who has had any
thing to do with cabbages knows
only too weU how the newly
hatched cabbage worms make
themselves right at home where
the mother butterfly; deposited
the eggs. Perhaps -other garden
ers are more familiar with the
depredations of the corn ear-
worm -it has been placed with
in a couple of wiggles of the
luscious, milk-fiUed grains.
Close Relationship
In this connection, the yucca
moth always lays her eggs in
the yucca where the young can
eat the seeds. The relationship
between the moth and the plant
has grown so close that today
neither one could survive, with
out the other. . - v .
It's this way. The yucca, a
curious plant of our southwest
with sharp bayonet-like leaves
pointing in" all directions, bursts
into bell-haped ' blossoms early
in spring, ' at night, when the
yucca moth : is' active. These
creamy white,, bell-shaped blos
soms are constructed so. that
only: the : peculiarly-built yucca
moth can fertilize them. It does
so by trawling around and over
the stamens of the yucca blos
soms and in doing so gathers
a load of. pollen. Then it goes
to another flower where it de
posits the pollen which it has
gathered at another place to ef
fect the cross-pollination. While
doing this, it serves, its own
interests laying one of its own
eggs into the flower.
Feeds Upon Seeds
In time, the egg of the yucca
moth develops into a larva
which feeds upon the yucca's
seeds and.curiously, this larva
is unable to feed on any other
kind of seeds. Fortunately many
more seeds have developed than
the larva can eat. And so yucca
and moth are" perpetuated.
., More . socially minded insect
mothers, such as the mud-daubers,,
place their eggs in specially
constructed nests provided with
food. If you were to examine
the cells, of one of them, you
would find-that each one con
taining an egg is crammed full
with preserved fresh meat in the
form of spiders caught and para
lyzed and sealed in by the moth
er against the day that her off
spring needs the kept-alive food.
And more. The food is exactly
sufficient to nourish the groub
until it emerges as an . adult
wasp.
Chamber in Cells . ,
In somewhat the same class,
the worshipped Egyptian scarabs
make a chamber in the soil for
each of their young and provi
sion it carefully with a molded
ball of cow or sheep dung.
Some of the cockroaches, kin
to 'the . termites, take their
motherhood a step farther: they
carry their eggs in neat little
purse-shaped packets until they
are nearly ready to hatch. Ear
wigs, some beetles and several
true bugs remain with their off
spring as well as with the. eggs,
thereby setting up something
of a -family relationship.
Finally, among a tiny group
of social insects say about
6,000 and consisting of ants,
some bees, some wasps, and the
termites there are mothers
who remain with their eggs and
feed their young, who in turn
upon maturity, co-operate with
them in . caring for . additional
broods. Among : these, family
groups arise in which there is
a definite division of work: the
mother doing the egg laying, the
offspring doing at least bulk of
the foraging for food nest build-
POT LUC K
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Medford Safety council mem
bers have suggested that a "care
less jaywalker" program be
started,, with" one person delib
erately jaywalking on a certain
day each week. Passersby can
then, under the plan, assist any
jaywalker- and ask him if-he's
the "careless jaywalker." If; so,
they get a prize. If not, the
bona-fide jaywalker gets embar
rassed and mends his ways. So
goes the theory. ;
There are some interesting
possibilities in this. !
For example: What happens
if an ordinary jaywalker decides
to pose as the official jaywalker,
and sends questioners to local
stores to pick up television sets,
new cars, or whatever,, as prizes?
Or: What - happens if the of
ficial jaywalker gets run over
while officially, jaywalking? It's
a poignant scene, and we can
almost see it; the poor guy gasp
ing out his dying breath and
saying to the motorist who hit
him, "Yes, I'm the .careless jay
walker. You have just won a
pint of ice cream."
The Medford police depart
ment keeps lrack of where ac
cidents occur in the city with
a large map on the wall. With
each accident, a new red pin is
added to the map.
Down below, in big red let
ters, is the message: "Keep
Smiling."
This is about a school bus, ...
It seems one ran out of gas
early one morning last week. It
was stranded for about a half
hour while the bus driver's wife
got a can of gasoline and came
to her husband's rescue.
Meanwhile, an observer re
ports, the disconsolate driver
leaned unhappily against his . ve
hicle while the busload of stu
dents, in the gayest possible
spirits, : cheered.
A local girl whose boy
friend is in Korea got to
worrying last week because
she missed writing him a let
ter one day. Her callous
brother - in - law remarked.
"That's all right. Write him
two today."
"That's just what I'm going
to do,"" she replied. Then
thoughtfully, she added, "111
date one Saturday and en .
Sunday." .
Absentmindedness isn't con
fined to professors. A Medford
insurance man drove by the post
office for his mail on a recent
mQrning, parked across , the
street, came out of the building
and continued on to his office
afoot. Wishing to7 use ' his car
for a trip to Yreka later in the
day he was surprised and wor
ried when unable to find if in
the downtown parking lot he pa'
tronizes. -
Hoover Report Gives
Startling Picture of
Federal Government
By JOHN L. CUTTER - ' 7 1:
United Press Staff Correspondent 777:
-Washington U.R) A startling picture of the federaLgov
ernment soon will be displayed to American taxpayers by: the)
Hoover Commission on government reorganization. ' '
The commission, headed by former President Herbert Hoover,
will send its first report to Congress on Monday. This one will
deal with the Civil Service. This and other reports to come will
reflect the most comprehensive ' study ever made of where tax
money goes; .-.w.-rf v--- . -.
There will be about 20 reports by the time the 12-member bi
partisan group, set up by Congress in 1953, closes shop on May
31. ' . .7:':;7. - , : , . -
Some will highlight the .most, controversial issues of. the day
such as public versus private power, and government spending and
lending policies. J t -
Could Save Millions .7.'., ' : , , 7
Advocates of the. study believe it could' save billions of dollars
if some functions were abolished and efficiency and economy
were imposed on others., ..; ',. ;
The 1947 Hoover commission, even within its limited sphere,
submitted recommendations, estimated to save $4,000,000,000 if
completely adopted. About 75 per cent were accepted.' :
If search of ways to save money and make the government
more efficient, the commission sent "task forces" digging into
virtually every governmental activity.
Here are some samples of their findings:
Lending: There are 104 federal agencies which to some ex
tent lend money directly or guarantee loans by private institu
tions. The potential liability
ly to be an actual loss exceeds
Surplus: The government has accumulated almost $30,000,
000,000 worth of real estate and personal property which is sur
plus to its needs or is obsolete. It
warehousing and taking care of
Competition: About 1,500 federal activities are in direct comp
etition with private business.
Paper Work: The government
year spawning a flood of 25,000,000,000 pieces of paper in forms,
questionnaires, etc. This includes the income, tax blanks which
bring in the money to pay for it all.
Reclamation: Spending up to
land which, when reclaimed, is worth no more than $170 an
acre- one-tenth of the cost of improvement.' Some of the 'task
forces have completed their search for facts and are in the pro
cess of. writing reports on which
recommendations.
Schools: Chairman Lister Hill
committee will begin hearings next Wednesday on President Eis
enhower's school construction program. The first witness will be
Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare.
ing, protecting the colony, and
caring for succeeding broods, c
As for the mother-father rela
tionship, that is usually brief
and to the point. He isusually
a loafer, his only: purpose being
to fertilize, the female; , Then,
quite often he is turned out. In
fact, withT the praying mantis,
who has a voracious appetite for
Finally locating his machine,
he dashed to the neighboring
California town to have a cer-
tain doctor complete an insuiv-
j
ance uaun lurui, ana men re
turned to his office only to dis
cover he had left his briefcase
with the insurance papers in the
doctor's office. -
The canned messages avail
able through Western Union
for special occasions have al--ways
held a special horror for
us. Some are worse than
others,' if possible. . .
We have inspected a seleo :
tion available for Valentine's
Day. After long study we have
selected our favorite. It says:
"You're ih derest to me
of all your sex."
"All I can say i X X X."
OoofI
A prominent Republican at-
to write various distinguished
GOP characters, to invite them
to send greetings to be read at
the annual Lincoln day dinner
last. week.
Among those to whom he
wrote was State Sen. Elmo
Smith, president of the Oregon
senate. .
Our attorney was more than
a little embarrassed when he
found out Senator,7 Smith was
scheduled to be the speaker at
the dinner.
Staff member was calling
around last week, to find out
what would be open and what
closed, on Saturday, Feb. 12,
Lincoln's birthday, which is a
legal state holiday.
- The post office replied there
would be no change in opera
tion that day. V
"That's just a state holi
day' the man said, perhaps a
bit wistfully. "Well never get
a national holiday on Lin
, coin's birthday as long as there
are southerners in Congress."
. We know a lady whose cher
ished possessions include a home
freezer and a large, dog.
" The dog recently was playing
in the utility, room, and in the
course of his . shenannigins
pushed a . box around until it
hit and " unplugged the ' electric
cord which furnished the' freezer
its power. " ''
The lady, didn't discover this
for a day or two, and when she
finally went to the freezer for
auuicuuug, sue uistwveieu gxeuu
quantities of food which had
thawed but and which had to be
used immediately. . , 7 v '..
" The family; had" roast' turkey
that night planned for use in
the future and several neigh
bors benefited by large dona
tions of hamburger, meat which
the lady unhappily distributed.
of which only a fraction is like
$250,000,000,000.
spends millions a year just for
stuff it doesn't need. '
spends about $4,000,000,000 a
$1,700 an acre to irrigate desert
the commission will make its
v ;
(D-Ala.), said the Senate Labor
fresh meat, he is frequently de
voured after mating. "'"'
, (Copyright, 1955 7
by Eugene Burns) . .
(Released by ; V;
McCIure Newspaper Syndicate)
7 San Diego de Alcala, the first
California "mission, was blessed
on July. 16, -1769.