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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
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POT
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; 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. "
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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.