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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEH. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASjoc5T5w f" " "l!'IH NfWSPAMt PUlllSHIRS 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 24. 1945 : (It was Tuesday) . ' A proposal that Highway 97 be the state's main inter-regional highway, instead , of Highway 99, discussed with Pacific High way commission officials. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot' column: The post war auto will weigh and cost half as much and go twice as fast and far as the current mod els, a Standard Oil executive re ports." All this will enable a speed idiot to get to the scene of an accident before it can happen. 20 YEARS AGO April 24, 1935 , ' (It was Wednesday) Medford and Grants Pass fish ermen petition governor to close Rogue river to commercial fish ing. Several downtown businesses remodeling, among them old Jackson County bank building bought by Moty-Littrell, Inc. 30 YEARS AGO April 24, 1925 (It was Friday) The mayor leads a bicycle parade from Bartlett st. and Main st. to Washington school grounds. The state highway commission awarded $20,000 for market roads. 40 YEARS AGO April 24, 1915 (It was Saturday) From the Local and Personal column: Seventeen coaches were attached to south bound S.P. pas senger train No. 13 this morn ing, all crowded with passengers many of them tourists to the San Francisco fair. Jackson and Josephine county authorities unable to find clues to Rogue River bank robbery. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of tha 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rart 1. A great conference of Asian and African nations is being held at Bandung in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan or Egypt? 2. Still living are one, two, three, four or five defeated nom inees for President of the U.S.? 3. German measles in an ex pectant mother early in preg nancy could be very harmful to the child to come; right or wrong? ' 4. Very many of the largest manufacturing companies have more stockholders than em ployees; right or wrong? 5. New power for the North west is planned for Hell's Can yon on the Columbia, Snake, Salmon, Little Missouri or Yel lowstone river? 6. Winston Churchill left the British prime ministership as the oldest man ever to occupy it; right or wrong? 7. Which prominent movie ac tress had the real name of Norma Jean Baker? The Answers: 1. Indonesia; 2. Four: Cox. Landon, Dewey, Stev enson; 3. Right; 4. Right; 5. Snake; 6. Wrong; 7. Marilyn Monroe. Election of Officers Scheduled by NOMA E'.ectiori of new officers for the year will be held by the Medford chapter of the National Office Management association 3n MAIL. TRIBUNE tt 'Passing The We have a representative form of government be cause although the people or the information to rule . So they select representatives to do the job for them and it is fair to assume they select those they be lieve best qualified by knowledge, ability and experi ence, to do the job as well as it can be done. TTHE present legislature started their work over 3 " months ago, and No. 1 on the agenda was a solu tion of the state's financial problem, particularly de vising the best tax program, that could be devised, taking all important facts a balanced budget. There is no question about the hard work done in this long period by the representatives in both houses, especially the members of the tax committees. , . ' But to date they have failed. They have failed because they have been unable to decide what they believe to be the BEST solution of the state s financial problem. At least the latest report is there will be a "pack age deal" involving two and perhaps three solutions, leaving it up to the voters at a special election to make the decision, they were elected to make themselves. TPHIS "passing the buck" procedure isn't new, but it isn't representative government either. It is the evasion of responsibility which that form of govern ment imposes. The legislature should, as a result of all these months of study and deliberation, know the best an swers to the state's financial problem as far as taxes are concerned anil should include them in one meas ure not two or three, with their recommendation that the same be approved. HPHE answer to this from Salem has generally been "but what if the voters should not approve, should invoke a referendum on the one bill, and defeat it then there would be no tax measure at all. That is true. But under the Oregon system not only one tax bill could be defeated by a popular referendum, but two or three of them. Airy legislation can be defeated if the voters so desire. - - That is a "calculated risk" that has to be taken with legislative action. And under such circumstances a special session might have to be called. That has been done before. It could be done again. TT IS THE opinion of this department, however, that if the Legislature would decide upon the method of taxation they believed BEST for the people of Oregon at this particular time, and under the circum stances prevailing, giving their reasons therefor, that the people would accept their verdict as final and not invoke a referendum. That une's position at least. At any rate the members have then done their duty. And that would be something. In fact, a great deal. R.W.R. 4!-. f BaaaaaaaassaaalavMBB A Suprise Party The Bandung conference to date has been a big surprise party. The American view in non-white nations included, munists would pretty much But to date all the fireworks has been set off by the foes of communism, much to the indignation and disgust of Chou En-lai and Ceylon took the lead "colonialism and was followed by Turkey, the com bination making up one of the strongest indictments of what they termed this new and insidious form of "imperialism," that has ever been launched, in any formal gathering in recent IT NOW becomes clear, why at the start of the con- ference it was decided to make all final decisions unanimous, and why Nehru of India who really first conceived the idea of such a meeting and was re garded in general as its chief sponsor should have opposed controversial questions being placed on the agenda and suggested that discussion should be con fined to "general principles." He must have foreseen trouble and being a pacifist by nature and conviction, sought to avoid it. But obviously he failed? . . IT IS NOW hard to see how the conference can amount to much. , For that "unanimity provision" gives Red China a veto on anything it might oppose, and as the world exists today it is hard to conjure up any issue "of world-wide importance that isn't to some degree, at least, controversial and if anti-communist, China would not oppose. OOWEVER, perhaps a resolution against atomic . war might be passed on somewhat the same line that President Coolidge's minister was against sin. And a Monroe doctrine for Asia Asia for the Asians might also get by the barricades. But anything of genuine moment as far as the world situation and final action is concerned, doesn't seem to be in the cards as the situation now stands at any rate.- R.W.R. . Monday, April 25, at 7 p. m. at the Medford hotel. Nominations from the floor will be accepted prior to voting. Speaker will be Frank Bash, vice-president-treasurer of the California Oregon Power company; His topic will be personnel relations. Sunday, April 14, 1153 Buck" Again rule, they haven t the time DIRECTLY. into consideration, to secure would be the Mail Tnb of the Legislature would general was that with only Red China and the com have their own way. his sympathizers. in attacking communist years. Social hour will begin at 6:30 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. John Graff is president The American Cancer Society points out that the only ap proved means of curing cancer today are 'surgery and radiation by x-ray or radium. Matter of Fact MATSU, QUEMOY AND . POLITICS Washington Maybe there ought to be no connection be tween domestic politics and the crisis in the Formosa Strait But there is. The connection is very much on the minds of politicians in both parties. At 1 e a s t in part because this is bo, American in tervention in case of an attack on the offshore islands, which looked very prob able a few weeks ago, looks much less so now. Instead, an all-out attempt by the Administration to extricate itself from the Quemoy-Matsu dilemma s looking more and more in the cards every day. The attempt qould take the form of the kind of Anglo-American deal recently described in this space. Or it could be a simple warning to Chiang either to evacuate or to prepare to fight alone. Extrication may quite conceivably be the purpose of the sudden visit to Formosa by Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson and Adm. Arthur Radford, a pair it would be hard to accuse of appease- ment-mindedness. At any rate, one thing is cer tain there is strong and grow ing political pressure on the Administration to avoid a fight for Matsu and Quemoy. The Democrats are clearly begin ning to see the Matsu-Quemoy issue 'as, potentially, the "gut issue" to use against the Admin istration that they have so far lacked. And many Republicans fear they may be right. The Democrats are bitterly aware that the "peace issue" has been used effectively against them by the Republicans in the past. Many Democrats believe that the Quemoy-Matsu crisis may provide them with a golden opportunity to seize the "peace issue for themselves, mean while hanging the "war party" label on at least a section of the Republican party. In fact, politicians in both parties sense or think they sense a strong movement of opinion against intervention to save Quemoy and Matsu. Con gressional mail on the subject has not been heavy. But it has been steady, and anti-intervention by a wide margin. The press has also been surprisingly anti-intervention. , And experi ences like that of Minnesota's Sen. Hubert Humphrey have im pressed other politicians. HUMPHREY recently Invaded California, home stamping ground of Sen. William Know land, chief advocate of the view that the offshore islands must at all costs be defended. Hum phrey made a whole series of speeches opposing intervention. He even committed the near sacrilege of proposing that Na Is That So? A sleepy dog circles before lying on the rug in front of his master's hearth; a horse shies be fore a wind-borne autumn leaf; a cow gets up hindquarters first while the horse gets up on its front legs first; a donkey can be persuaded only with the great- est difficulty to -cross a shallow run of water; a cat plays witn a live mouse. Why these curious habits? let s look at them, one at a time. Take the gentle horse suddenly shying and unseating its careless rider. Since time gone by, the horse was a plains' animal. Its eyesight, appropriately, was for far-away, level vision. As a re sult even today's horse is far sighted, it cannot see much above the horizon and its backward vision is .extremely limited. Quite naturaUy then, when it hears a sudden rustle in the brush or a wind-borne autumn leaf it swerves suddenly away and in doing so, it hearkens back to ancient life-saving reactions which kept its ancestor from being struck by a poisonous snake or pulled down by a lurk ing man-eater. More difficult, perhaps, is to explain why the horse gets up on its front legs first upon being disturbed while cattle rise on their hind legs first. The same answer, perhaps, accounts for the cow's cud-chewing, or the ex traordinary length of the colt's legs and the amount of milk a cow gives. As said before, horses were plains' animals, used to covering long distances, and shifting often from place to place. Cattle, on the contrary, were animals which lived in the marginal land be tween forests and grasslands. Not swift of hoof as the horse, they hastened out to the feeding grass lands, bolted a huge amount and then hurried back to the protec tion of the thickets and trees to Joseph Abey By Stewart Alsop tionalist China should be re placed by India on the United Nations Security Council. Humphrey has reported to fellow Democrats that he was enthusiastically received every where, even by audiences he had expected to have Knowlandish views. This sort of thing leads politicians to suspect that they have found that pearl beyond price a winning issue. It has also led many Democrats to com plain privately that they made a terrible mistake when they did not fight the Formosa reso lution, as former President Tru man urged when the resolution was being debated. For the Formosa resolution makes any effective exploitation of the issue difficult. The reso lution committed the Democrats in advance to rely on the Presi dent's judgment the more partisan declare that they , were "mouse-trapped" into approving whatever the President might do. : Moreover, if the Democrats adopted an outright party posi tion against intervention to save the islands, as some Democrats now urge, the party would cer tainly be accused. of softness on communism. It would be ac cused, with more justice, of ex tending to the Communists an open invitation to attack. Yet if President Eisenhower subse quently decided not to intervene, his hand would be strengthened, and Democratic criticism fore- stalled. In this political dilemma, the most effective formula seems to be Adlai Stevenson's charge that Administration bungling has given the nation a "choice between another humiliating re treat or else the hazard of war . . unleashed not by necessity . . " Neither retreat nor Am- necessary war is particularly popular politically. A LL this is not to suggest for a moment that either Demo cratic criticism of the Adminis tration's Asia policy, or the Ad ministration's increasingly vis able tendency to back away from intervention in the face of this criticism, are wholly politi cally motivated. There are hon est arguments, which have nothing at all to do with domes tic politics, both for and against defending the offshore islands. Men's motives are always mixed, and patriotism and even simple common sense are by no means unknown in either party. Yet it is no use pretending that the Quemoy-Matsu dispute, and indeed ,the whole crisis abroad, are not deeply charged with domestic political mean ing. In this situation the danger is clear. The danger is that both parties will begin to compete feverishly for the "peace party label. This is by no means a startling new idea both major British parties were competing for the same label during the Munich neriod. The end result was, of course, the old Hobson's choice between surrender and fighting a war of despair. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist feed their young, hidden in thick ets, and in peace chew their food, regurgitated cuds. Helped To See Enemy Deeply ingrained habits re sulted. The horse as it rose got up front legs first which helped it' see its enemy which had frightened it; the cattle, living and hiding under low-growing trees, got up hindquarters first so they could see under the low growing trees. Likewise, their offspring var ied. The colt had to stagger after its mother soon after birth and run early in life to avoid ene mies so its legs were long; the calf, which lay hidden away in the thickets during the infancy, had no need for these long legs its legs were much shorter, proportionately speaking. And what of the milkings? The mare gave her foal many short, quickly digestible,' nips during the day while the cow gave her calf very long drinks at a time only when she came back to the protection of the for est, chewing her own food con tentedly while the calf butted her sides and drank and then rested. ' . The donkey's unwillingness to cross even the smallest run of water more than likely reaches back to the dry desert days when he had his beginnings. What of the dog's shaking fur iously when he comes out of water?, Or the regularly fed pooch burying his bone? Or turning round and round on the hearth-rug? Wolf Ancestors The latter of course goes back to the days of his wolf ancestors. Before lying down, he searched the grass for deadly reptiles and then made a comfortable bed. As for burying his bone, his an cient close-relative the fox still does that today hoarding for the next meal. And the dog shakes the water out of his coat because his wild forebears did just that and still do, to avoid freezing into a ball of ice when temperatures drop below freez ing. , . Although the fat tabby does not have to hunt for a living to day, yet see how she delights in catching her own mouse and then, ever so solicitously, bring ing it home to her kittens to train them in long-remembered !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At the Asian-African Confer ence in Bandung, Indonesia, the prime minister of Ceylon arose in his place and delivered a blast at colonialism IN ALL ITS FORMS including that prac ticed by .Soviet Russia. He said: "All of us here, I take it, are against colonialism. But let us be equally unanimous and equal ly positive in declaring to the world that we are unanimous in our opposition to ALL forms of colonialism." He added: "Think, for example, of those satellite states under Commun ist domination- in Eastern Eu ropeHungary, Romania, Bul garia, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. "If we are united in our op position to colonialism, should it not be our duty openly to de clare our opposition to SOVIET COLONIALISM as "much as to Western imperialism?" . fTHEY seem to have some pret-- ty good minds down there in spite of Nehru's fuzzy friend liness for Communist China and Communist Russia. Maybe the situation in Asia isn't as bad as it looks . rJ A rather interesting little npwsnanor- foatiira 'that licfc what happened when, it is men tioned that on April 22, 1950 five years ago Charles Wilson, then president of General Motors, got some $600,000 in salary and bonuses from his company. Pretty soft? Wait a minute. What the item fails to men tion is that out of his $600,000 income in that year Wilson had only . about $60,000 left after paying his federal taxes and out of that he had to pay his state and local taxes. - BACK in 1950, Wilson was working for General Motors as its president. Now he s working for Uncle Sam as secretary of defense. Question: When he was working for a big corporation and getting $600,000 a year and kicking back some $540,000 of it in fed eral taxes,' wasn't he working MOST OF HIS TIME for Uncle Sam? Another question? Didn't the government maybe lose money on the transaction when it took him over as secre tary of defense? Another question: . Didn't the government maybe lose money on the transaction when it took him over as secre tary" of defense? BUT let's .drop the subject of taxes and talk for a moment about another curse of modern life SMOG. . . Dr. John T. Middleton,. a Uni versity of California plant path ologist, says there is increasing damage to vegetation from smog. He adds that in 1953 smog caused a crop loss of $3,- 000,000 in the Los Angeles area alone. This compares, he says, with a crop loss of only $500, 000 in the same area in 1949. That is to say, SMOG DAM AGE TO CROPS IS INCREAS ING rather rapidly. WHAT to do? Here's a thoueht: Instead of concentrating everything in the big over grown cities, which causes the smog and at the same time pro vides a top target for an atom bomb, why not spread things out into the smaller communities where LIFE IS BETTER? WHAT IS CANCER? Cancer is defined as an "un- controlled growth of cells." If detected early,-this can be cut out by surgery or destroyed by radiation in most cases, the Am erican Cancer society says. V methods of hunting,, an activity which has lost its meaning in our apartment dwelling days. And yet those kittens too know how to play with that mouse stalk ing and grasping, and tossing it These - instinctive promptings in our domestic animals are in born, ready-made, and they re quire no .learning. Apparently they are pre-established linkages between ' certain nerve-cells and certain " muscle-cells" and when ever the trigger is pulled, the be havior a re-kindling of a hun dred thousand years follows. And so horse shies, dog. circles hearth, cat plays "with mouse, cow gets up hindquarters first. (Copyright 1955, by Eugene Burns Released by McClure - Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editi-i of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader, who sends me the best question on nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Last year about 75,000 Am ericans were saved from dying of cancer. This figure could have been doubled if every case had been properly treated in time, the American Cancer Society says. POT . (By M-T Staff ; MEMO TO STAFF . APRIL 22 This is PoUuck day and con tributions are expected from staff members on or before 4 p. m today. Poiluck Editor. Dear PoUuck Editor:, Having had the flu all week, and havingJ iaiien down stairs lasi nigm ana suffered various bruises, , con tusions, abrasions, sprains and near-fractures, - and furthermore having had to read four full days of telegraph news report in -the last two nights, besides regular duties, it is respectfully request ed that our potluck contribution be omitted this week. Yours re gretfully, Staff Member. ."' To Staff member: No excuses, please.; Potluck must go on. Pot luck Editor. , And there you are. So here we go. Photographer Carl Landis, who last week announced a contest to find the most pho togenic Medford woman aged 75 years reported a large num ber of calls after a story about the project appeared in the Mail Tribune. One spry lady appeared at the studio in person to inquire about the contest "I'm really 82." she said, "but I think I could pass for 75. don't you?" A reporter last week was as-' signed to get the facts on what effects DST (in California) might have here. His story appeared in Friday's paper, and it tells the story. But we have a hunch that the following, written while he was in the midst of his re search, is about as good as the correct story itself: Starting Sunday at 12:01 a.m. it will be Saturday at 11:01 p.m. or Sunday at 1:01 a.m. Residents of the Rogue valley are reminded to move their clocks back an hour or forward an hour or not at all because of Daylight Saving Time. .In line with the DST time changes, most network radio and television shows will .be 'moved up an hour or back an hour. Some airplane flights., will be earlier than usual and some will be later. . Some bus line and airplane, scneauie maters nave given up completely and have made out entirely new schedules. This is. a good idea. " COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under, certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Against Sales Tax To Editor: Since our state legislators have found them selves confronted with contem plated expenditures far in ex cess of the visible income we have heard and read much de bate as to the better way to raise the needed revenue an in creased income tax or general sales lax. since progress exercs greater demands for which revenue must be raised we must expect our taxes to keep or forgo some of the desired improvements. A just tax is based upon ser vice . rendered or a privilege granted (by the government. Federal or local) and levied in a manner proportionate to the individual's ability to pay and therein I find my chief objection to the general sales tax. I am personally, and I feel, justly in favor of an increased income tax for in most cases there is but one income to support the family and the larger the family the greater the needs for itenis subject to sales tax and without a proportionate increase in ability to pay, one may be justly taxed for the privilege to earn a living but not taxed for living. To make my point more clear, I have a friend whose income about equals my own, but where I have a wife and one child my friend has a wife and five child ren thereby creating a greater living expense without the bene fit of an increased ability to pay, which, under a sales tax inv re ality penalizes him for rendering one of man's greatest services to his country, that of raising a family, while on the other hand the preson with the greater in come has also the greater .ability to pay and his beefsteak costs no more. This is only illustrative of many cases so widespread as to demand consideration in view of the burden a sales tax would impose upon a larger number of people because those in the lower income bracket are in the majority. A sales tax could be detrimen tal to business in that it would tend to lower the purchasing power of so many and lessen the chance, of a standard of living needed to promote good health. I am not a tax expert but hope I have, in my humble way, made my point clear and that others will come forward with views on this subject for this is the, peo ple's baby and they will be call ed upon , to care for it at the next election. C. R. Burrill Rt 2,Box80A Central Point LUCK and Contributors) . We've heard of smokers, but think it might be fun to go to the "potluck sinner" which a .contributed news item told about last week. - A reporter for The Mail Trib une and a lady who attended the Episcopalian diocesan convention Tuesday morning met Just before the auxiliary luncheon Tuesday and the meeting left theii both confused. ' The reporter was busily tak ing down the names of the new officers from the outgoing presi dent amid a vast crowd of wom en, when the lady walked up to him,, tugged his coattail, smiled and said 'Tm Mrs. ..." Reporters m set a. lot of peo pleand she did look vaguqiy familiar, so the reporter smiled, nodded, and hopefully waited for her to give him some indication of who she was. "You've had my reservation for two weeks," she said with a smile. The reporter, still taking down the names of officers, looked blank. "My reservation you do have it don't you? she asked, getting worried. Still trying to catch the names of the new officersthe reporter tried to explain the lady had the wrong party. "Oh, you're not Mr. . . . are you?" she asked. "No," said the bewildered re porter. "But you do have my reservation, don't you?" the lady asked. "Just a minute," the reporter said, as he tried to get the spell ing of one of the officer's names.' But when he looked up, the laiv was gone. We hope her reserva tion for what ever it was turned out to be aU right. Awed by an especially vivid and colorful rainbow "Yurs day. a staff member noted that the inner bow had the colors in one order, and that the outer bow had them in precise- -ly the reverse order. She caUed . the weather bureau to seek an xplanation from one of the meteorologists. "Can you explain it in words of one syllable?" she asked hopefully. - ' It turned out that the ' meteorologist could explain it but NOT words of one syllable. The staff member, after hang ing up, had the impression that it had something to do with re flection, or refraction, or both or something. Dam Plan Opposed To" the Editor: Senate Bill S-500 passed the Senate on April 20. Tius bill authorizes the con struction of six large water stor age dams and 33 participating projects in the upper Colorado river basin at a cost of $1,456, 000. There are 142 potential dam sites in this basin. One of the first dams plan ned for construction under this bill is the Echo Park dam, three miles below the junction of the Green and Yampa rivers, both of which are within the boun daries of the Dinosauer National Monument a unit of the national park system. This monument was created in 1938 to preserve this wild and scenic area in its natural and unmodified condition for the use and enjoyment of all the people of the nation for all time. This dam would flood the can yons of the Green and Yampa rivers for 100 miles and to a depth of 500 feet The annual draw-down would expose 40 miles of lifeless silted bottom lands as well as muddy canyon walls 200 feet wide above the low water line; recrea tional development would be im-r- prac tic able; its construction would establish a dangerous pre cedent; plans already exist to build dams in 11 other national parks and monuments. There are other alternate sites avail able. Conservationists throughout the country are working to have the Echo Park site deleted from the bill when it comes up for consideration in the House of Represenatives very soon. The support of groups and in dividuals interested in saving our national parks and monu ments is solicited and urgently needed. v Among your readers should be many who would like to help if familiar with the serious situ ation; They should telegraph or write air mail letters to as many congressmen as they can at House of Represenatives, Wash ington, D. C, expressing their viewa.v ; Ernest P. Leavitt (Retired) Representing National Park -Service and - s National Parks Association V Rt, 1, Box 230-A I Central Point, Ore. First reports of an American Cancer Society study of some 187,000 men between 50 and 70 years old showed' the death rate among regular cigarette smokers was 52 per cent above the rate for men who never smoked.