FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday. April 10, 1955
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
A Poor Showing
If the Governors of Oregon and Washington wish
to fight public power in favor of private power that
is their privilege.
But at least they should present arguments that
make sense. Up to date their arguments have not, as
far as the Hells Canyon hearing is concerned.
Governor Langlie, for example, spent half an hour
reading his opposing brief but never touching on the
main issue, which is : whether a federal project on the
Snake River would give more power at less cost to
the people of the areas concerned and therefore
greater development than the Idaho Power com
pany's project, or the reverse.
INSTEAD he accused the public-power proponents
of playing politics and claimed their proposal "a
phoney", when all he did was to play politics himself
and present the phoniest arguments this controversial
issue has produced to date.
He detected the public-power proposal, for exam
ple, a conspiracy on the part of California to get
water that belonged to Oregon!
When asked how California could do this via the
bill under consideration, he sidestepped that issue
entirely, and gave a long discourse as to the greater
cost of the higher dam over the 3-small power com
pany dams, and claimed the former would have no
value in flood-control or irrigation anyway.
Matter of Fact
By Stewart Alsep
10 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Ralph Sweeney Medford, in
stalled as grand commander of
Oregon Knights Templar at con
clave held in Portland.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The April
weather continues nothing to
brag about. It is hardly worth
a civic cussing.
20 YEARS AGO
April 10. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Statue, pool and drinking
fountain, presented to Medford
by late Charles W. Palm and
Mrs. Callie Palm, to be unveil
ed and dedicated in ceremonies
at library park.
Norman C. White, assistant
superintendent of Rogue River
National forest, returns here
from Arizona after six - weeks
sick leave.
30 YEARS AGO
April 10, 1925.
(It was Friday)
The Rev. F. R. Leach resigns
as pastor of Medford Baptist
church.
"Oregon" Jones, southern Ore
gen badman and prison escapee,
captured at Sacramento.
40 YEARS AGO
April 10. 1915
(It was Saturday)
Elmer T. Foss announces plans
for formation of rifle club here.
Local cigar manufacturing
concern announces that, hence
forth all Medford - made cigars
will sell for five for a quarter
instead of six for a quarter.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of in 7?)
Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Bernard Baruch told a Sen
ate body recently that stocks
were or weren't too high, or that
he didn't know?
2. Which of these nations were
not represented at the Yalta con
ference in 1945: France, Nation
alist China, Italy?
3. The postal deficit in this
administration has increased or
decreased from that in the last
full year under Truman, or
stayed about the same?
4. You are more likely to fall
a victim to diabetes if you are
over weight; right or wrong?
5. Pearls worn next to the
skin need cleaning more or less
often than those not so worn, or
just as often?
6. Jose Ramon Guizado is the
ousted president of Costa Rica,'
Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua
or Panama?
7. Consumption of beer per
capita is higher or lower in the
South than in the North, or about
the same?
The Answers: 1. H didn't
know; 2. All three; 3. Decreased;
4. Right; 5. Mora often; 6 Pan
ama; 7. Lower.
TOO EFFICIENT
Madison, Wis. (U.R) The
board of education, while laying
plans for a cornerstone celebra
tion at the new Crawford
Heights school, was told there
would be a hitch in the sched
ule. Bricklayers, it seems, filled
in the gap where the corner
stone was supposed to be inserted.
TRRIGATION and flood control are, we grant, minor
factors in Hells Canyon. It is essentially a power
project. But wnat would the 3-small dams proposed
by the Idaho Power company contribute in this direc
tion? The answer is absolutely nothing, yet the Gov
ernor of Washington is going all out for that proposal.
It doesn't make sense.
THE total cost, of course, would be greater in the
larger project. But so would the service rendered
and the area served be greater. And that cost, as
neither Governor Langlie nor anyone else can deny,
would all be paid back eventually to the people
through their government. These federal projects are
all self-liquidating as Governor Langlie knows. So
why make costs the chief issue? The chief issue as
stated is what is best for the country that portion,
that is involved.
OVERNOR Patterson didn't make such a spectacle
of himself, but he certainly failed to make a case.
In fact he didn't oppose Hells Canyon on the basis
of wicked federal power or "creeping socialism", but
evaded that issue entirely. He merely said he was
against not federal power, but the high dam bill as
written for he couldn't see "MUCH benefit" in it to
the people of Oregon.
Assuming the people of Idaho would benefit more
we believe they would does our Governor mean
that he would want the federal project defeated, and
those benefits to a neighbonng state denied because
Oregon would only get the lesser share? It is hard to
believe our Governor is serious in taking such a selfish
dog-in-the-manger attitude. If he is, then how can he
be for the Idaho-Power company proposal? That
would not give Oregon ANYTHING?
.
A LL in all rather a sorry mess, as far as the Gov-
ernors of Oregon and Washington were con
cerned. .
If either of them had come out frankly and clearly
against public power and for private power, stating
their reasons for such a stand they would at least have
been on solid ground and entitled to a respectful hear
ing, whether one agreed with them or not.
But to straddle the issue as Governor Patterson
did, and to misrepresent it as did the Governor of
Washington, certainly .reflected no credit upon the
chief-executives of 'these two important .northwest
states, and can't have helped the Idaho-Power com
pany cause before the Senate committee, as appar
ently they hoped. R.W.R.
A Question of Fact
The Oregonian oppose Hells Canyon dam because
it claims it would throw a "rpad-block" before the
orderly construction of dams on the Columbia, and
take too much time to complete. Also an appropria
tion would have to be authorized first no funds are
available at present.
These same arguments were offered in the recent
campaign. Apparently the voters did not think much
of them.
Well, they shouldn't.
TO BUILD any federal dam the money has to be
voted of course. And to build any high dam a con
siderable time must be consumed Defore the switch
can be pulled, and the wheels turn. There wouldn't
be a federal power dam in the country today if such
arguments had prevailed.
The point, as has so often been stated, is whether
a high dam built by the government utilizing to the
full potentialities of the Snake should be built, or the
three low dams by the Idaho-Power company, which
admittedly would not do the job as well or as completely.
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TIME is a factor of course, but not a vital one. For
these dams, if built, will be built for all time, not
for a few years but for generations; not for a party
convention or for any one administration. And if the
small dams on the Snake are constructed, the high
dam of course never can be.
So, on the basis that whatever is worth doing is
worth doing right, the opponents of the Idaho-Power
company project favor the federal program and that
is why the recent Senate committee hearings have
been held in the northwest to find out how the people
THE OLD MAN
Washington The dinner at
10 Downing Street the night be
fore Sir Winston Churchill re
signed as Prime Minister of
Britain, must
have been a
moving occa
sion, in a pe
culiarly Brit
ish way. Ac
cording to one
of those pres
ent, who has
described the
occasion by
overseas tele
phone, the high
Stewart Alsop point of the
evening came just after the old
Prime Minister had drunk his
toast to the Queen, to "the sacred
causes and wise and kindly way
of life of which Your Majesty is
the young, gleaming champion.
When the old man sat down
the guests were surprised to see
the Queen rise, lift her glass, and
in a simple speech, toast "the
health of my Prime Minister.
The toast had a special, very
English meaning. For as the
young Queen noted, no reigning
British monarch has ever before
thus responded to the traditional
toast to the occupant of the
throne. To the tradition-minded
British, the gesture was no doubt
more meaningful than the offer
of any number of dukedoms.
The transfer of power is al
ways a sad and moving spectacle,
but especially so in the case of
the great Churchill. Yet Sir Win
ston, it should be said, has no in
tention of quietly fading away.
it is not in his nature.
To be sure, he intends to make
a special effort not to seem to
overshadow his successor, Sir
Anthony Eden, for whom he has
a genuine if somewhat puckish
affection. After his return from
his month's vacation in Sicilv.
Churchill may appear on tele
vision two or three times, to cam
paign for the Conservatives in
the election, now believed cer
tain to take place in late May.
But he will do what he can to
make sure that the new Prime
Minister, rather than the old. is
the central figure in the cam
paign.
T-l i
.me conservatives are ex
pected, rightly or wrongly, to
win the election by a comfort
able margin. This is the main rea
son why ChurchiU at length
cnose this time to step down.
Until recent weeks, he had in
tended to stay on until about Oc
tober, in the hopes that in the
meantime the "meeting at the
summit," first proposed by him,
might take place.
1UT CHURCHILL is nothing if
not a loyal party man, and he
was persuaded at length that the
split in the Labor party presented
tne Conservatives with a golden
opportunity which they could
not afford to miss. He had al
ready agreed that he should step
down before the election, to give
Eden a chance for a clear popu
lar mandate. So at last, with the
infinite reluctance of a man who
loves power, he let it be known
that the time of departure had
come.
The departure is real in the
sense that Churchill will never
again participate in a British
government. Moveover, contrary
to some reports, he has no intent
tion of taking part in a meeting
at the summit, which now looks
very much more probable than
when he first proposed it. He
knows that Eden's position, to
put it mildly, would be almost
impossibly difficult if he were
to participate in such a confer
ence. Moreover, to go to such a
meeting as a mere adviser and
secondary figure would be a
weak anti-climax to his career,
and Churchill is not fond of anti
climaxes. For a time, Churchill will
spend most of his days at Chart
well, painting, building things
(he is the original exponent of
the do-it-yourself cult), feeding
his beloved goldfish, and com
plete writing a three or four vol
ume history of the English-speaking
peoples. The history project
might be enough to occupy the
time of most eighty year old men.
But not Churchill. As he himself
is said to have pointed out with
some asperity in recent days, he
may have said farewell to the
Premiership but he has most de
cidedly not said farewell to Parl
iament or public life.
TN SHORT, the last has by no
means been heard from the
great old man. His beloved Parl
iament will give him the plat
form from which to speak on the
subject which now almost ob
sesses him to the exclusion of all
others the quest for peace in
the nuclear age.
It will be well worth waiting
to hear the results of Churchill's
musings on this subject, in the
intervals between goldfish-feeding
and history-writing. Five or
six years ago, when the atomic
age was young, Churchill was
heard to remark half to himself
at a small luncheon that he had
known war was coming from the
moment Hitler took power he
felt it in his heart. "But," he con
tinued, " I do not feel it in my
heart now."
So far, he has been right
again and again the spectre of
world war has loomed up over
the world, and then receded. And
it is a little reassuring, at least,
to learn that even now, in the
infinitely more menacing shadow
of the hydrogen bomb, the old
man still doe not "feel war in his
heart." At any rate, citizens of
the civilized world he helped to
save will join in the hope that
his brave old heart will continue
to beat for a very long time.
(Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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tion must not exceed 400 words.
B7 FRANK JENKINS
Among the minor items of a
roundabout excursion through
the Southwest are the frequent
stops at California and Arizona
bug stations to have your bag
gage frisked for noxious pests.
If by chance your route leads
you down Highway 395 through
Reno and Las Vegas and thence
south to Phoenix, you seem to be
crossing a border of California or
Arizona about every ten min
utes. Each time, you stop and go
through a routine that soon be
comes as familiar as lighting a
cigarette.
"VTOU pass the sign in the road
A instructing all cars to Btop
You pull over into the station,
most of which have been made
over into quite attractive places,
well- supplied with rest rooms
and other facilities of the road.
A neatly uniformed and prac
tically without exception pleas
ant and courteous representative
of the state department of agri
culture steps up, pad and pencil
in hand.
You soon learn to stop the
engine, .throw wide the doors of
your car and unlock the baggage
compartment and raise the lid,
Grateful Patient
To the Editor: Recently I spent
several weeks at the Community
Hospital and I would like to take
this opportunity to thank the
nurses and staff members who
were so kind in caring for me,
also for the many visits and love
ly cards and letters from my
friends and neighbors.
May I say thanks to each and
every one of them again.
Orin W. Train,
Trail. Ore.
Complete Bible Used
To the Editor: In reply to Mr.
Santo's letter: Mr. Santo is de
liberately giving a distorted
viewpoint about what Jehovah's
witnesses believe.
The Bibles that Jehovah's wit
nesses use on the doorsteps of
the peoples homes are 99 King
James and 1 American Stand
ard. The complete Bible is used
and studied and all are encour7
aged to do the same.
Anyone believing in a new
birth puts himself in a mighty
responsible Dosition before Je
hovah God. His feet must con
stantly be kept in a Christian
course of action, which means
to show forth the fruits of the
Spirit. (Gal. 5:22,23) Anyone la
boring in the works of the flesh
which is 4'hate of brother" then
John's words apply to him. '"If
anyone says I love God and hate
his brother he is a liar and a
liar does not .have eternal life
abiding in him." (1 John 4:20,21;
John 2:4; 1 John 3:15). The
Watchtower publications defi
nitely support a new birth for
those that inherit Jehovah's hea
venly Kingdom.
As for proselyting: The evi
dence is set before each indi
vidual to make up his own mind.
Christ Jesus is separating the
sheep from the goats. He knows
the heart-condition of each one
and when this "good news of the
Kingdom" has been preached
world-wide for a witness then
the end of this system of things
will come. Whether one is a goat
or a sheep is an individual choice.
Jesus did not preach a "rock
ing chair" salvation. Who ever
won a fight sitting down? Paul
said to "put up a hard fight
for the faith." If one lived at the
time of Christ and wanted to be
a Christian would he sit in a pew
of a synagogue and listen to a
Pharasee or clergyman expound
or would he preach at the ex
pense of being hated, persecuted
and imprisoned because he up
held true worship of Jehovah at
the cost of his life?
Yes, " indeed, America offers
freedom of worship even though
some have tried to stifle for
some individuals, what Old
Glory stands for. But freedom
even in America has had to be
fought for otherwise Jehovah's
witnesses would not have had to
take 47 cases to the Supreme
Court of the United States to
keep religious liberty open.
When a minority's freedom is
gone so is our Constitution.
"... if this work be of men
it will come to nought but if it
be of God ye cannot overthrow it
jjaikLiX satisfactory ap-
proach to the situation is this:
"No fruits, no roots, no vege
tables." The attendant gives your
baggage a cursory look, says
"Thank you,v scribbles a few
cryptic marks on a printed slip,
hands it to you with a smile and
that's that.
Among other things, it pro
vides you with the stretch that
is so relaxing about every 100
miles or so.
SWINGING around through the
Southwest, you cross back
and forth over the boundaries
of California, Nevada, Arizona
and New Mexico much like an
ant strolling around over a
checkerboard.
Nevada and New Mexico pay
you no heed. You roll into them
and out of them with as little
formality as you go from one
room to another in your home.
I suppse Nevada being Ne
vada and New Mexico being New
Mexico they see eye to eye on
this business of bug interception,
probably shrugging it all off
with the casual thought that if a
new bug enters into their wide
deserts it does so at its own peril.
CALIFORNIA and Arizona are
something else again. Both
have a lot of cotton and a lot of
fruit and a lot of vegetables. In
that kind of agricultural econ
omy; a new bug can raise a lot
of Cain. I reckon the bug sta
tions must justify themselves. At
any rate, the taxpayers of both
states go on pungling up the
money to keep them going.
IF one wanted to smuggle a
bug into California or Arizona,
it would be a cinch. But I reck
on nobody wants to.
A few years ago there were
dark, suspicions that Florida
would just LOVE to smuggle
into California the bug that
causes Florida grapefruit rust.
on the general principle that if
Florida has to put up with the
grapefruit rust pest California
ought to have to go along.
There were a lot of cynical
cracks about that, including the
well known one to the effect that
if California grapefruit ontract-
ed the Florida rust it might
make the darned things fit to eat,
Since then, of course, the Texas
pinks have come into the market
in a big way and are so much
better than either Florida's or
California's that nobody seems
to care much about the grape
fruit bug any more.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
MO fSS jM
sSSd
E. M. Tucker, president of the Tucker Sno-Cat corporation.
is a man of many hobbies and enthusiasms. One of them is old
cars.
His latest venture into this field it shown above. It is a
1910 model White steamer, which he found jacked up in a Jack
son county garage not long ago, and purchased. ("I won't tell
how much I had to pay for it I'd be ashamed to admit how
much it was," he said.)
He wanted it particularly because he had another White
1910 when- he was 18 years old, his first car. He's refurbished .
it, repaired it, and got it back in running order again, and takes
delight in wheeling through the streets of Medford. Except for
repair parts, it's all the original car.
Tucker points out that in running the complicated steamer
mechanisms, there are 54 separate things which have to be done,
and he's as busy as can be when driving around. It takes a book
of instructions to operate the vehicle.
Maybe he forgot one of the 54 things to do Friday as he
drove away from in front of the Mail Tribune office for the
car stalled in the middle of the intersection . of Fir and Sixth
streets, and Tucker and two volunteer youngsters pushed it
away.
Department of Information Which Might Come In
Handy Some Time:
The , Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation dis
tricts, between them, own the irrigation waterworks above
Little Butte Creek, including the Fish Lake and Fourmile
Lake reservoirs. The MID owns 9,57614,500ths of this
property, and the RRID owns 4.92414.500ths.
A sad commentary on the fashions in women's hats or a
good one on the politeness of Medford people was demonstrated
Friday by a brave female member of the news staff.
She wore her brown hat, with a huge green ribbon pinned
on it by one of the office jokesters, throughout her noon hour.
The ribbons, originally on a bouquet of flowers and now slightly
the worse for wear, had been lying around the office for the
past three years collecting dust.
She reported getting nothing but compliments on the hat,
and one acquaintance asked if she was "going to church" But
to the men in the office it looked just plain weird.
The return of spring brought' this comment from one
well-known Medford resident: "I don't want any more yard
work than my wife can handle comfortably."
-This is the orchard heating season. It is called the orchard
heating season at the urgent request of the orchardists who use
heaters and the officials who assist them. They have a prejudice
against the word "smudging.
A reporter one day asked one of -the aforesaid officials for
some information on past orchard heating seasons, and the offi
cio! obliging had it looked up in the file. : '
It was filed under "S for smudging.
One city official, concerned about the Increasing diffi
culty of parking in the downtown area, was overheard to
remark that he can remember the day when the only
parking problem was getting the girl to agree to it.
in the districts concerned feel about it.
If the people don't want the public-power project,
certainly no one is going to force it on them.
If they do, a bill has been drawn, which will pro
vide same at the earliest practical moment.
All this talk about costs, power precedence and
the time factor is merely a smoke screen to divert
public attention from the real issue which is this: from
the standpoint of the public welfare and the industrial
development of the Snake river area, which is best
a federal project or the program of the Idaho-Power
company. -
It isn't a matter of partisan politics, it is a matter
of fact what is true and what isn't.
. And in the final analysis the people should de
cide, and undoubtedly will R.W.R.
THERE was a time when the
California bug stations were
manned by attendants who to
put it as mildly as possible
were by no stretch of the imag
ination Lord Chesterfields.
They were nearly all brusque,
and some of them were snooty.
In the long distant past, there
was one at Yuma that took the
cake for lack of tact and court
esy and what has come to be
known as the talent for winning
friends and influencing people.
He left all comers weak with
rage. His method of inspecting a
car for bugs was to require the
occupant to take all his baggage
out and line it up, whereupon
this inspector would lift the lid,
straddle the bag, and empty it by
the process of pawing all the
contents out after the manner
of a dog digging for a rabbit.
He'd then issue the ticket and
leave the tourist to repack the
stuff.
Those were in the bad old
days, which are gone where the
woodbine twineth. The bug serv
ice has been thoroughly over
hauled and the process of in
spection has been made painless
and almost pleasant.
The world, you see, IS getting
better.
'Rosy-Fingered Dawn'
lest ye be found fighting against
God" (Acts 5:38:39).
Lynn Wisham
P O Box 1173
Medford, Ore.
CHANGE IN CONCORD
Concord, Mass. (U.R) Histo
ric Conqord has changed its form
of town government for the first
time in 320 years. Voters have
decided to instaU a town , man
ager system beginning in 1956.
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer. Extension Division
Oregon Higher Education System
Early one summer morning a
few years ago, I was awakened
by the hum of a passing air
plane. Shortly afterward in the
nearby firs I heard the hesitant
twittering of awakening birds, a
suggestion that day was break
ing. Over the eastern hill-fringed
horizon there was the merest
hint of the gray blush of early
dawn. In this glow one lone star,
bright Capella, twinkled lazily.
Our little city in the deep blue
darkness of the valley, well be
low our hillside observation
point, was visible only as rows
of artificial lights
Those of us of indolent incli
nations seldom realize the inspir
ing beauty of the early dawn, for
the lovely "rosy-fingered" god
dess "who makes the world
young every new morning, ne
glects the indifferent.
Astronomical Dawn
Dawn is the specific name giv
en to the twilight of morning
Astronomical dawn begins when
the sun is 18 degress below the
horizon; civil dawn, when six
degrees below. The duration of
this "herald of day" varies with
the date and the latitude. Dur
ing the longest days astronom
ical dawn at the equator last
1 hour 15 minutes; at San Fran
cisco, 1 hour 56 minutes; at Port
land, Ore., 2 hours 35 minutes.
At about the latitude of Van
couver, B.C. and northward
there is twilight in June along
tne nortnern norizon all night.
In northern Alaska, the sun does
not even bother to set during
the entire 24 hours.
The ancients taught that after
sunset old Sol was slowly fer
ried around the great northern
ocean to the place of sunrise.
This belief seems reasonable
since those living fairly weU
north see the summer sun set
toward the northwest, and the
following twilight move farther
northward.
Centered in North
By midnight, the twilight
now ready to become dawn
is centered in the north. From
there it swings toward the north
east. At Seattle the sun at mid
night (June 21) is less than 19
degrees below the northern sky
line.
The dawn light is due to the
reflection of sunlight from the
higher atmosphere. The air from
which the first hints of daybreak
come is about 50 miles above the
earth's surface. It appears to be
right on the horizon, but actual
ly comes from very far distant
air, so far beyond the sky line
that the terrestrial curvature
drops the earth's surface 50
miles lower.
Were there no atmosphere,
there would be no dawn! The
sun then would very nearly
"come up like thunder" in a
blast of sudden light out of a
dark sky, that would change
night into blazing day.
Fortunate indeed are those
whose daily tasks take them out
under the colorful skies of day
break as "the bird awaketh and
the shadows flee." There is a
poetic grandeur in the advanc
ing dawn which is constantly
repeated for the one who is
favored with clear skies and
who knows how to look.
550,000 Suit Filed
By Used Car Dealer
Portland (U.R) Delbert R.
Williams, Portland used - car
dealer, Friday filed a $50,000
damage suit for his mistaken ar
rest for violating Portland's ban
against selling cars on Sunday.
Williams named as defendants
the Automobile Dealers Associa
tion of Portland; Braley & Gra
ham, and private investigator L.
M. French. The sum asked in
cludes $25,000 for general dam
ages and $25,000 for embarrass
ment and injury to his reputa
tion.
Municipal Judge John J. Miir.
chison dismissed trip rharsaa
against WUliams after the arrest
ing officer, the private detective,
was unable to identify him. The
judge ruled it a case of mistaken
identity..
Williams and about 20 other
dealers also have broken with
the Oregon Used Car Dealers As
sociation. The split was for the
purpose of fighting the Sunday
ban against car sales.
The Castro House at San Juan
Bautista was built about 1825
by Jose Castro, governor of Cal
ifornia, 1835-36.