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Newspaper Page TextrOTfH HEOTORD OREGON MAIL TRIBUNB "Everybody in Southern Oregon Kead The Mau rnoune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-611 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation tig- An independent rewipapgr 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 Baily and Sunday Three mos 3.S0 aily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, l. . nAA Will Phnnix- Shady Cove". Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AU Terms casn m Aavance Official Paper ot the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coupty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIUPI mvcT.trni i miv rriMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, uot rtiu?ue. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASodhATllON J jrjyjAAa NIWIPAHI PUBMSHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 3. 1945 (It was Tuesday) Reginald A Stagg, civil direc tor of Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, named general chairman of United National clothing collection drive for area. From A r t h u r Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Geese were heard honking overhead and at two prominent railroad cross ings late last evening. 20 YEARS AGO April 3, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council passes ordinance calling for $10 annual license fees for "marble games" operated in local business estab lishments. Boy Scouts receiving merit badges at Medford court of honor include Shirrell Doty, Lorin Croucher, Warlow Purdin, Bob Nixon, and Irwin Doty, v . 30 YEARS AGO April 3, 1925 (It was Friday) William N. Warner reappoint ed to serve as postmaster for Medford. Joyriders steal Dr. Gitzen's Maxwell automobile car from in front of his home. FORTY YEARS AGO April 3. 1915 (It was Saturday) Roger S. Bennett announces plans for construction of new apartment house at Main and Quince sts. Much local interest reported in heavyweight championship fight in Havana between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copt. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. General Motors so far this year has put out many more Pontiacs than Oldsmobiles, or many more Oldsmobiles, or about the same number of each? 2. Chairman of the Senate committee that's been studying the Stock Market is Sen. Cape hart, Watkins, Fulbright, Doug las or Humphrey? 3. The prime minister of Italy is named Fanfani, Togliatti, Scel ba, Lasagna, Tito or Luce? 4. Gen. Gruenther, Allied Commander in Europe, says a Russian attack there -vould now succeed, or be repulsed, or have a 50-50 chance? 5. Live lobsters are or aren't shipped out of water for consid erable distances? 6. It has been more or less than 40 years since a new state was admitted to the Union? 7. Billingsgate is foul language or a" fish market in London, or a former city gate there? The Answers: 1. About the same number of each. 2. Ful bright. 3. Scelba. 4. Would be repulsed. 5. Are. 6. More than 40 years; last was Arisona in 1912. 7. All three. TWO NOMINATED Washington (U.R) The Sen ate had under consideration Sat urday nominations for two Ore gon postmasterships made by President Eisenhower. Jack' R. Bailey was nominated for Scio postmaster and John P. Ivers at Oceanlake. The spice trade designation for bark of cassia is 'quflk." The Knowland Mystery In his last week's press conference when the mat ter of Admiral Carney came up, the President was asked if he considered reprimanding the Admiral for his unauthorized statement regarding a Chinese at tack on April 15th or thereafter. The President said "no" but he added, quote: "Anyone of my subordinates has a right to hia personal oonvictions. "But such a person can not utter them properly if he if going to create difficulty for his administration, for his commander-in-chief, or in violation of any announced policy of the administration, because then he doesn't belong as a member of the team.". IITE CAN imagine no more obvious reference and rebuke to Senator Knowland of California than this. Knowland has repeatedly made announcements regarding the administration's foreign policy particu larly regarding the Far East, which have been clearly in violation of the President's policies. So clearly that the latter has had to repudiate them, time after time. " Yet the California Senator is not only apparently still in good standing with the administration but con tinues as the minority leader in the Upper House and official spokesman for the White House. It is very hard to understand. ' "THIS is in fact one of the major mysteries of the administration. We can understand the President's strong desire to preserve harmony within his party, but we can't understand how he can regard opposi tion to his policies, as rendering a subordinate ineligi ble to his team and still keep a member so often in opposition, as one of the important members of that team. It just doesn't add up. It doesn't make sense. There must be something in the official picture not visible to the naked eye. Or at least not visible to the bifocals in this department. A RECENT report from Illinois may throw some " light on it. As reported in the press a group in that state who claim to be conservatives of the "Abe Lincoln type" have joined with that great LINCOLN ESQUE figure of Wisconsin, Senator Joe McCar thy) to prepare for the 1956 convention, and their favorite to lead the drive against the renomination of President Eisenhower, it is reported" is Senator Know land of California. THIS may or may not be correct. But the members rt fViio inmmi'ffaa V.Ira TWr!irfVitr or a all nrrnaor1 fr Ul UUO UlilllllllV lints AfAUWUi J A,., Ull UJUUVU the administration's policies particularly in the for eign field, and what they like to term "the trend to ward internationalism and socialism." One might think this would only render the demo tion of Knowland .more imperative. But that doesn't appear to be the Eisenhower way. "Ike" is a fighter by profession, but when it comes to politics, he seems to prefer the role of peace conciliation and compromise. So it may be Senator Knowland is retained as a quarterback on the presidential team not because the President likes his attitude but because the President thinks he can do less harm there than he could in opposition. Time undoubtedly will tell. R.W.R. Pulitzer and McCormick It would be hard to name two more dissimilar f igures in the realm of American journalism than the two prominent editors who departed this life over the week-end Colonel Robert McCormick of the Chi cago Tribune, and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. - As the two men were direct opposites in character and temperament so were patch, one of the most progressive, public-spirited and truly liberal journals in the country; and the Chi cago Tribune, one of the most autocratic, mercenary, and reactionary newspapers in the land. a POLITICALLY Joseph father, was always devoted to the public welfare, always lighting tor a square deal tor the average citizen, always on the hunt for crime and wrong and corruption, and when he he had whether it hurt the or the Republicans under his father, a born crusader OLONEL McCormick was never a great editor. He was rather a great individualist, a man of force and courage running a newspaper. He was eccentric and original, with a political and personal philosophy resembling that of Louis the XVI, but probably slight ly to the right of it. He, even more than journalistic experts who claimed personal journalism ended with Colonel Watterson of the Louisville Cour ier Journal. (Some even Dana.) But there was never nalism than that of the Chicago Tribune so long as the Colonel was in charge of it. and determined its policies, he WAS the paper. He claimed with characteristic egotism it was the greatest newspaper in the tures and news coverage it always did rank high, but in what might be termed its spirit and viewpoint, it was great like the dinosaur ed in the realm of cerebration, to a similar era of the distant journalistic past. 11HAT of the future of "T Our prediction would be the Post-Dispatch will go. on along much the same line for the present and probably for many years to come in the estab lished Pulitzer tradition. But' somehow we can't Sunday, April S. 1935 their papers. The Post-Dis Pulitzer, like his famous found them hitting with all Democrats under lruman, Harding. He was again like a great editor. . Pulitzer, confounded those wentNback to Greeley and a more PERSONAL jour He not only ran the paper world, and in its many fea only in size and belong these two papers? see the Chicago Tribune Matter of Fact THE ROOTED AND ROOTLESS Saigon, Indochina The weak ness of Coueism as an instrument of foreign policy is currently be ing proven here in Indo china. Every thing has not "got better and better" just because the American policy makers kept saying it was getting better and bet ter. It has in stead -got Joseph AJaop worse. ; The Droof is the crisis of the sects, which have now erupted into armed rebellion. Even be fore open fighting broKe out, and despite his strong American backing, President Ngo Dinh Diem proved virtuaUy impotent in the face of determined pres sure from the local political-re ligious war lords who are the leaders of the southern Indo- Chinese sects. As these words are written, it is still barely possible that some sort of compromise settle ment might be patched up. If so, the life of the Diem govern ment may be prolonged. But meanwhile a government which has far too little authority al ready will have lost a good deal of the authority it possesses. President Diem, who has never yet been able to govern in the true sense of the word, will be still less able to govern in the future. IN these unhappy circumstances, curiously enough, it is hard not to feel a sneaking sympathy for these sect leaders who are substantially increasing the al ready considerable probability of an eventual Viet Minh victory here in Southern Indochina. What they are doing, in an absolute sense, is of course un pardonable folly. Equally of course, their primary motives are the very opposite of disin terested. President Diem's pro gram has threatened their feudal domains and interests. The pay for their private armies, form erly provided by the French, has just been cut off. After years of fighting among themselves, they have therefore united to save their money and their skins Yet consider the difference between these men and Presi dent Diem. Diem has one im portant negative virtue. He is conspicuously not a French pup pet (although he is now danger ously close to being regarded as an American puppet). He also has two positive virtues rare in Vietnamese public life. He is wholly honest and an undoubted patriot. "N the other hand, this descend- ant of a great Mandarin fam ily is narrow, obstinate and petty. He is so unwilling to delegate authority that in Indo china's death agony he deals per sonally with the issuance of pass port visas. Above all he is com pletely out of contact with the broad mass of his people and the political realities of his country. The positive virtues of Diem may be lacking in- such sect leaders as Gen. Bai Vien of the Binh Xuyen gang that controls Saigon; the "Pope" and generals of the Cao Dai sect; and old Tran Van Soai and war-drunken Ba Cut of the Hoa'Hao. But in their different ways, these are all ex ceedingly able, tough, and astute men who have risen out of the peasant mass by their own ef forts. . Brothel keeper and gam bling racketeer though he may be, Bai Vien is probably the most capable single politician in Southern Indo-China. The roots of Diem, moreover, are in the dead and done court of Hue. In modern- Indo-China, except for his connection with the small Catholic minority, Diem is effectively rootless. The sect leaders, on the other hand, are strongly rooted in their native earth. For good or ill and alas mostly for ill they are able to do what Diem has so far sadly failed to do. They are able to compete with the Viet Minh in controlling the peasants of the villages. HENCE the sect leaders feel themselves far stronger than Diem. There is not a one of them who is not bewildered by the American view that the way to fight communism is to back Diem rather than to back the sects. They say, and with some justice, that they have already proven in their own domains that they can take on and defeat the Viet Minh, whereas the Diem government has shown no sign of doing so. For the same reason that they are strong, because they are still in a sense Asian primitives, the sect leaders do not see their own folly. They do not understand the larger, non-local issues which make their feudal answer to the Viet Minh ultimately hopeless. going along without the Colonel in the Tribune tradi tion at least along the line that has been maintained so long under his personal dictatorship. For as McCormick was almost literally , the Trib une, so with his passing the Tribune will, we fear, pass on with him. ' . At least we can see no other outcome from this distance, and incidently we can think of none that would really please the Colonel more!R.W.R, By Joseph Alsop But just because the sect leaders do not have this kind of under standing, the American policy makers are not excused from the effort of trying to understand the sect leaders. ' In this respect, there has been a lamentable failure. Think for example, the shouts of joy in Sai gon, the pointing with pride in the State Department, when the Cao Dai general Trinh Minh The "rallied" to the Diem govern ment at a reported price of around twenty million piastres. The price was paid. But Gen. Trinh Minh The is now a conspic uous figure in the anti-Diem "Presidium" of the sects. And the best excuse he has been able to offer American officials is that he wished to exercise "a moder ating influence," which has not been visible to date. THERE are other things about the sect leaders : that want understanding too. For example, the Cao Dai "Pope," Pham Cong Tac, has already made public gestures of conciliation towards the Viet Minh in the North. When the heat is on, it is only too prob able that some or many of these Indo-Chinese warlords will make the same kind of compacts with the Communists that many Chi nese warlords hastened to make. To encourage this useful prac tice, the warlords who made com pacts are still being conspicu ously cherished in Peiping. It is a melancholy business, of course, facing unpleasant facts such as those set forth in this re port. But the lesson of the sect crisis in Saigon still remains. In the long run advertising slogans and Coueism are a poor substi tute for fact finding. , (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Eastward from aanta Fe, on the Los Vegas (Las Vegas New Mexico, not Las Vegas Nevada) road, there is a rugged pass known as Apache Canyon. It is one of the dozens of hot canyons traveled by Coronado and his armored knights and gentlemen in the course of their years-long search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola some four cen turies ago. Up toward the top, in a nar row defile known as Glorieta, there is a well. It is said to be the oldest well in the United States. Coronado's men drank from it and in that dry coun try I'll bet the cool water tasted good. Who wouldn't relish a drink of cool water after a day in the saddle in the hot sun, bearing up all the long and tedious hours under a suit of steel armor? "DUT it isn't of Coronado that I wish to speak today. It is of an event much more recent in our history an' event that may have, been of immense sig nificance. I'm referring to the battle of Glorieta, fought in this pass be tween soldiers of the North and soldiers of the South, in 1862. It is a Civil War battle to which little attention has been paid. T ET'S go back a little in his- tory. In 1862, the South still held hieh hones of winning the War between the States. But the Northern blockade of the South's" ports was beginning to hurt. So an expedition into the Southwest was conceived. If successful, it would add the ter ritory recently acquired from Mexico to the South. - It involved an even larger gamble. If successful, such an expeditionary force might bene trate clear to the PACIFIC COAST, opening up such a har bor as San Francisco bay, where the South might receive munitions of war. THE .! expeditionary force : was recruited chiefly in Texas. It was placed under the command of General Sibley, a capable and experienced officer. It started up the Rio Grande. At a point near the town of Socorro New Mexi co it was met by a much smaller body of Union regulars taken from the garrison of one of the forts watching the Apaches. This force was badly defeated by Sib ley's Texas volunteers, who pro ceeded on up the Rio Grande to Sante Fe and thence on into Apache Canyon. At Glorieta, it was met by a body of Union volunteers hastily collected in Colorado. These men had received little military training, because the emergency was grave and time was pre cious, but gathered up from the Colorado mines they were a tough and rugged lot. They stopped Sibley's column and turned it back. It was a bloody and rugged battle. Losses on both sides were heavy. I won't go into the details of it here, for this isn't a history les son, but if General Sibley , had GOT THROUGH to the Pacific Coast the course of our history Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalitt . MAMMALS RANGE FROM TINY SHREW TO WHALE Although there are today, roughly speaking about 3,000, 000 species of creatures in, the animal kingdom worms, in sects, spiders, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, etc. '. 'only a tiny fraction of these are mammalian species less than 4,000. Yet this tiny . minority is the pre dominant form of life on earth. Many and, wonderful are the differences among these 4,000. Some, like, the bats, have taken to the air; others like the monk eys have taken to the trees; some like the whales have left the land and gone to sea; others like the mole have burrowed underground. , In size they range from the tiny shrew that weighs less than a used 25 cent piece a frac tion of an ounce to the gigan tic sulphur-bottomed whale which may weigh 300,000 pounds! Yet, despite the tremendous diversity, because they are mam mals they have many things in common. First off, as the Latin word mamma implies breast all are milk-suckling during infancy, although two, the duck-billed platypus and spiny anteater of Australia are without breasts, the milk supply oozing out of a general area and following the hair roots when the young lap it up. Also, except for this primitive pair which lay eggs, all mam mals bear their babies alive. Some young like the agouti of South America can be weaned the first day and may survive; others like the porcupine may need only a week of the mother's care; others like the walrus may nurse for three whole years until its tusks grow long enough for it to rake up mollusks from the sea-floor. Variation of development at birth, likewise, is enormous among these mammals: Some rodents remain sightless for more than six weeks; some hooved animals, like the pronghorn an telope, can race 25 miles an hour within as many hours. Size at birth also varies tre mendously from the oppossum's "living abortion" which is de livered from 10, to 13 days after mating and a dozen could fit into a teaspoon to the whale which may whelp a 25,000-pound calf within a year after mating All mammals are backboned and have four legs, although bats and seals are hardly four-footed in the ordinary sense of the word; in the former the limbs have developed into wings for might have been considerably changed. I mention it here because so few of us realize that the Civil War ever got as far West as New Mexico. THE old well and the site of the Glorieta battle are now private property. A trifling fee admits one to look into the old weU and to view the relics pick ed up from the battlefield over the years. An old boy collects your money and at each point of interest he pauses, looks off into the distance and chants the story in a sing-song tone, much as the French minstrels must, centuries ago, have chanted the Song of Roland. THE Civil War! Ah, me! The countless dead and gravely mangled who littered its battle fields. It was fought for a sacred cause the cause of hu man freedom. If there is any cause for which men are justi fied in dying in agony in battle it is the cause of human freedom. But. If only a little more time had been won in which men might have come to their senses and freed the slaves WITHOUT WAR! JT COULD have happened. It MIGHT have happened. It seems to most of us now that if only the shooting hadn't got started at Fort Sumpter or somewhere else it W O U L D have happened. What a tragedy it all was! AGAIN we're in a period akin to that preceding , the war between the American states. Tempers are hot. On our -ide, the ties and the insults of the Communists are hard to take. But If the shooting gets started again, what happened in our tragic , Civil war won't be a patching to what will happen this time if the war dogs get loose again. SO let's hope that SOMEHOW' the shooting can be staved off long enough to give time for men of courage and good will to seek a way out of the present tension without letting the shoot ing get started again, POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Know what gobbledegook is? Here's a sample: "Effective this date, recruit ing detachments are authorized to communicate direcUy with Air Force Bases, designed in paragraph 33a (6), Section G. Chapter 3 and paragraph 45a(6), Section G, Chapter 4, AFM 39-9, dated 1 December 1954, regard ing a direct assignment to a TD or TU vacancy within units lo cated on those bases for prior service enlistees and reen- listees." That is the first of four para graphs of an Air Force letter re ceived recently. It means: Men with prior service can en list for service with any Air Force base they wish, so long as there is a vacancy there. why tell me why doesn't the Air Force just say so? Know what hot money is? It's money that has baan in a cash box sitting by a heater as was the cash box at a plant sale held here last weak. A 50 cent piece given in change to a staff member was hot, and led to complications (finally straightened out) when sha re ported tha "hot money" to a couple of police officers. Through the unbeknownst courtesy of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and the Klamath Falls Herald and News, we now have the last word in synonyms for group. For what it's worth, here it is: "A flock of ships is called a fleet; a fleet of sheep is called a flock; a flock of girls is called a bevy; a bevy of wolves is called a pack; a pack of thieves is called a gang; a gang of angels is called a host; a host of por poise is called a shoal; a shoal of fish is called a school; a school of buffalo is called a herd; a herd of seals is called a pod; a pod of whale is called a gam; a gam of lions is called a pride; a pride of children is called a troop; a troop of partridges is called a flight, in the latter they have become flippers. And as for the hind limbs of the whales, dol phins and porpoises, they no longer emerge from their bodies. In the whale, they are only a pair of small rudimentary rods buried deep in the body, not even hooked up to the spine. AU mammals are warm-blooded, with a four-chambered heart which pumps blood through a double circulatory system, con sisting of arteries veins- and capillaries. Yet the blood tem perature among mammals may vary and, , in ; fact within the same individual during the year may undergo a 65 degree change. In hibernation, for example, it may dangerously drop from 100 degrees to near-freezing below freezing the animal dies. To go with this highly de veloped circulatory system, which gets oxygen into the blood stream and carries away poison ous carbon dioxide, all mammals have a chest which contains the heart and lungs, and this is sep arated from the abdomen, con taining the stomach and other organs, by a thin sheet of muscle called the diaphraghm. Needless to say, all mammals breathe air even a whale will drown if it cannot surface regularly to draw life-giving oxygen into the lungs and expel carbon dioxide. To help maintain its - warm temperature, every mammal has hair ranging from a few stout bristles to very fine and some times, expensive fur. Even the whale has a few scraggly thin whiskers. Another mechanism unique to mammals which helps to regu late their temperature is sweat glands, although in some animals like the camel they are exceed ingly few to conserve bodily moisture in deserts. Add all these, and you have the mammal. And besides in nearly every type, a creature of exquisite beauty and grandeur of form. (Copyrfght, 1955, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClura Newspaper Syndicate) FREE: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on mature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Pleases address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care this paper Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. SOC Spring Quarter -Registration Climbs Ashland Spring quarter reg istration at Southern Oregon col lege, although dropping below that of the winter term ,has con tinued to increase over that of last year, according to Mabel Winston registrar. At the end of the second day of the second week the total en rollment was 623, approximately 16 per cent over last year at the same time. Included in this total are 360 men and 263 women. A total of 172 veterans are en rolled . this term, Mrs. Winston added. covey; a covey of beauties is called a galaxy; a galaxy of ruf fians is called a horde; a horde of rubbish is called a heap; a heap of oxen is called a drove; a drove of blackguards is called a mob; a mob of worshippers is called a congregation; a congre gation of theater-goers is called an audience; an audience of pea cocks is called a muster; a mus ter of doves is called a flight; a flight of larks is called an exalta tion and if they are starlings, it's murmuration; a murmuration of bees is called a swarm; a swarm of foxes is called a sulk; a sulk of pigs is called a stye: a stye of dogs is called a kennel; a ken nel of cats is often called a nuis ance." A local golfer, .who had , mentioned to his wife tha de- . sirability of showing out-of-town people here for last week's tournament how hos pitable Medford folk are, in vited three of the players to his home for cocktails Friday ".' evening. When they left he " invited them to return Satur day evening for mora of the same. Saturday afternoon his wife, ' thinking sha recognised one of tha guests among the three some just leaving tha ninth green, bustled up to inquire how his game was going. The -player acted a bit cool, sha thought, but sha excused hia grumpiness as probably being -due to his having three-putted No. 9. So. still trying to be ""friendly, the Medford lady said briefly, "well, good luck . and IH see you tonight." At this the golfer, looking a bit startled, hurried abruptly to the next tee. , Later in the day the lady t discovered the man she . thought she knew was not her -husband's guest at all. She's still wondering what ha must have thought of such unusual friendliness from a perfeet I stranger. Accident Injures Four Young Men Saturday Morning Four young men were confin ed to Community hospital Sat urday after a sedan driven by one of them' smashed into a light nnlo at th intercept inn rtt CnufVi ' Riverside and Stewart aves. ' nuuuici JUULU.. wo iCiCdacu ' trom ine nosmtai alter examina tion. The wreck occurred about 4:50 a.m. ijisiea Dy city ponce as serious ly hurt in the accident were Bobby Lee Whisenant, 23, PO Box 252, Phoenix, driver of the car, ana jesse veiner opeaKS, zu, PO Box 313 Ashland. Also hos pitalized were Alton J. Warner," 21, Weaubleau, Miss., and Ray Labonne Cummings, 18, of 931 South Central ave. The other, passenger in the sedan was John William Whisenant, 19. PO Box 252, Phoenix. They were taken to the hospi tal by Medford Ambulance ser- vice andQity police. Fuel Pump Trouble Officers said they were told that v the car developed fuel pump trouble starting near Tal ent and that Cummings was rid ing on the left front fender, working on the pump, and sig nalling directions to the driver at the time of the mishap.. Speaks was reportedly in the" front seat with the driver and John Whisenant and Warner ; were sleeping. in the back seat. No citations were issued, po lice reported. Bobby Whisenant and Warner were listed as Navy men. State police reported that Lew is A. Birkland, route 1, box 290, Central Point, suffered minor in juries when the car he was driv ing left the road and hit a tree at the junction of Kirtland rd. and Old Highway 99. The car turned over, and the driver was taken to a relative's home by a passerby, police said- The acci dent occurred at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday. Three Instructors Due at Police Class A class on governmental func tions, in the advanced police training schools sponsored by the Oregon Association of City Po lice Officers and the Oregon State Sheriffs association, will be given by three instructors here tomorrow. ..They will discuss the func tions of their agencies in connec tion with local law enforcement The instructors are Thomas J. Sheridan, assistant administra tor, Oregon Liquor Control com mission; Capt. A. P. Oakley, Ore gon Military District, U. 5. Army, and Harold Sexton, Unit ed States Marshal, District of Oregon. BACK FLUORIDATION Portland U.R) The city club of Portland Friday by an overwhelming voice vote adopt ed a committee report which recommended fluoridation of the city's water, to help reduce tooth decay.