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Newspaper Page TextrOTTH MEDTOHD (OMOOR) "Everybody In Southern Oregon ReadJ The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-S141 ROEERT 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 STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 - " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday-ne year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year . By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central f.J Jacksonville. Gold HOI. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: l1tm Daily and Sunday One year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ol the City of Medford Official Pacer of Jackson County TTnitrt Press Full Leased Wire -MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Kejraeu WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I . CV .rr .. NIWSMPlt PUBlltNIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 26, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Jackson county financial sta tus such that one-mill levy for reconstruction of county hos pital not necessary, county treas urer reports. , From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: After a ride over the C. Lake hgwy, a re turned GI complimented the log ging trucks. He stated he never saw a better job of pulveriza tion by the heavy artillery on the Italian front. 20 YEARS AGO June 26, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Rate reductions to European countries means $40,000 to $50,000 savings for Rogue Valley growers shipping fruit. Supply of irrigation water will meet need of valley, but lakes will be empty at season's close, district officers indicate. 30 YEARS AGO June 26, 1925 . (It was Friday) Oregon National Guardsmen leave on five special trains after 41-day encampment at Camp Jackson here. New $3,000,000 Copco plant on Klamath river near Hornbrook dedication announced for July 5. 40 YEARS AGO June 26, 1915 (It was Saturday) Contracts let for paving Sis kiyou highway; paving and' re pairing highway to California line to start soon. From Local and Personal col umn: Several farmers of the val ley have received offers of $8 a ton for their hay as it stands in the field. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research taper! 1. The San Francisco confer ence on U.N. 10 years ago ended with a speech by Winston Churchill, F. D. Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, Harry S. Truman or Alger Hiss? 2. Recent agreement of the Ford Co. with the union on an annual wage did or didn't carry flat wage increases as well? 3. Heart (cardiovascular) dis eases cause more or less than half of all U.S. deaths today? 4. The famous Monitor vs. Mer rimac naval battle was fought in the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War or War with Spain? 5. Many more men than wom en are color-blind, or many more women than men, or is it about 50-50? 6. George Washington is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, under the U.S. Cap itol dome, at Mt. Vernon, or at his birthplace in Wakefield, Va.? 7. The first talking movie fea tured Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino, Pauline Frederick, Al Jolson, or Douglas Fairbanks? The Answers: 1. Truman; 2. Did; 3. More than half; 4. Civil War; 5. Many more men than women; 6. At Mi. Vernon; 7. Jolson. 6lL RESERVES Ottawa Current oil reserves in Canada, according to recent estimates, amount to one-half tank car for every resident. MAIL TRIBUNE Slight Hope but, Some. If any hope of GREAT achievement at the forth coming "Big Four" meeting has been entertained in diplomatic circles, or any other circles, the speech by Foreign Minister Molotov in San Francisco should have reduced same close to zero. This does not mean Russia will cease to smile and drink Vodka toasts to sweetness and light, nor that the Kremlin won't make some tempting offers in the direc tion of world disarmament as it continues to sing the praises of peace on earth good will to men. But it does mean that the totalitarian vs. democratic conflict in purposes and policies, that existed before this gather ing can hardly help but exist thereafter, without fun damental change. For if Foreign Minister Molotov meant what he said and he usually does, there is no more chance of Soviet Russia opposing the entrance of Red China into the U.N. than there is of the United States fav oring it. By the same token there is no more chance of the United States abandoning the defense of Formosa, than there is of Russia coming out in favor of turning Formosa over to Chiang Kai-shek. Here are two issues in the "cold war," one of them very important, and unless some major miracle is performed at Geneva, they will remain as they have been, potential causes of war after the gathering and yet, less and less likely to cause war war on a world-wide scale at least. Not because such differences particularly over Formosa COULD not cause armed conflict, but be cause neither side, in our judgment, really wants them to not now at least. And when on neither side there is a desire for a fight, there is between nations as individuals not likely to be one. TN OTHER words we see no more chance of Soviet JL Ttncaio ovpr sioninor nn urrreemenr. nn the dotted line AVMUWAM w l-" V at Geneva or anywhere else that would satisfy the United States, than of the United States taking similar formal action, that would satisfy Russia and Red China. tensions or no tensions. The two groups are too far apart, their differences too fundamental. e DUT, AS before stated, we do see a chance of a superficial improvement in relations particularly as far as Russian manners and protocol are concerned, and we also see a chance of preventing World War III, as far as the Formosa and the near-future are concerned. That isn't bringing on it is some improvement in the world situation a far greater one than seemed possible only a few months ago. R.W.K. The Disarmament Hoax Everyone favors disarmament, just as everyone favors peace. But we have to face the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. And one does not have to make a world-tour de luxe to realize that there is acute hostility between the communist and democratic nations nurtured by mu tual hatred, suspicion and fear. CO LONG as this condition exists there will be no disarmament of any consequence though there may be a few gestures in that direction as there have been in the past. For the truth is armaments don't cause wars, it is the hostile war spirit that causes armaments. Somehow, someway that spirit has to be removed, or at least materially modified, before disarmament talks will amount to anything more than that just conversation. , But because of the general popularity of disarm ament, Soviet Russia as usual is getting the jump on other nations in the realm of propaganda, by pretend ing to be the one champion of it, with the war-mon-gering nations headed of course by the "belligerent USA," the only obstacle to prevent progress and eventual fulfillment. ' This would be comic if it were not so tragic. For propaganda is secret weapon No. 1, in the game Russia is now playing, and to date the free world has devised no effective propaganda weapon against it. It is to be hoped that an effective form of counter attack will be devised, before the sad signal of failure is raised again under the dismal heading, of "too little and too late." R.W.R. Democrats Also Like Ike! The recent vote in the House of Representatives upholding the Dixon-Yates contract clearly demon strates, with reverse English, that the Democrats also like "Ike". At least enough of them do, to overcome the nominal majority the Democrats enjoy in the lower House, and give the present administration what it demanded, namely: Endorsement of this private power contract and a k.o. punch in the direction of TVA, on the familiar and well-worn ground of "creeping socialism" versus "private enterprise." This was the chief argument at least , that put Dixon Yates over and public-power under. The Senate may reverse this decision, but accord ing to report in Washington it doesn't look likely. . LIOWEVER the proponents of government projects 1 1 of the multiple type should not lose heart. These national issues swing back and forth, on the general Sand?, June IS. 1135 the millenium exactly, but Matter of Fact sy st. u. Br STEWART ALSOP PEACE AND THE -WEIGHT LIFTERS Moscow "I hope," said the first English-speaking Russian encountered by this reporter, "that you will write the truth about my country." The same suspicious hope has been repeat edly expressed since. Alas, after fully four days in Russia, this reporter still does not know the truth about this strange country. Instead of telling the truth about Russia, it may be worth describing a couple of incidents which occurred on my first day in Moscow. The incidents had no importance at all but they stick in the mind like burrs, and they may have, at least, the simple, photographic value first impres sions sometimes have. The first episode was really hardly anything at all. After wandering vaguely around what I wrongly thought to be Red Square, I had gone down a side street, when suddenly it started to rain. I t6ok shelter under a wooden awning. There were al ready a few Russians under the awning, and very soon we were packed shoulder to shoulder. OUR little crowd was cheerful enough. There was an old Russian peasant woman in a shawl, looking so much like an old Russian peasant woman in a shawl that you had to pinch yourself to believe she was true. There were two or three soldiers, in the dashing Russian uniform, one a very handsome fellow who was holding hands with a dumpy girl with whom he was obvious ly very much in love. There were several civilians, dressed in dark suits with square shoulders and sailor-wide trousers. This reporter, in a light tan gabardine suit, could hardly have been more conspicuous if attired in a ballet costume. There was no uncultured staring by the Russians, but there were a good many nudges and side glances at the peculiar animal from the other side of the moon. Then somebody addressed a polite, incomprehensible ques tion to me. I shook my head and said "Americanski." There were murmurings in the crowd A man in a dark suit said "peace," and smiled and I said "peace" and smiled too. Then we all smiled and nodded our heads reassuringly at each other and then the rain stopped and we all went our ways. The great Russian scientist Pavlov would no doubt have ex plained this episode in terms of the conditioned reflex, and cer tainly it does not encompass the truth about Russia. Nor did the second incident. fFHAT same evening I crashed a reception given bv the ec tion of Heavy Athletics of the committee of Sport and Physical Culture of the Union of Sovipt Socialist Republics in honor of a team of American weight lift ers. The most consDicuous Amer ican weight lifter was a prophet without honor in his own coun try Paul Anderson, of Georgia, an amiable Gargantua, whose arms are so enormous that he carries them at a sharn ancle from his vast chest. In the United States. lifting is largely concentrated in the area of York, Pa. In the Soviet Union, weight lifting is nigniy popular, and the com petition had drawn stanrlinir. room-only crowds. The Russians had won, but Mr. Anderson had saved the national face by break ing all known records. The Section of Heavy Ath letics of the Committee of Sport and Physical Culture nut nn quite a show. There was a sing er, wno looked as though she could have lifted a few herself (she was actually yery gooa, according to a competent judge of such matters) and a sleight-of-hand artist, and a won derful Uzbekistan peoples dancer and an enthusiastic male vocal ist. The big-muscled weight lifters listened politely, although one had a feeling that the Americans, at least, might have preferred Marilyn Monroe. But the really memorable moment was the con versation between the Russians and American weight lifters. Except for their muscles, they might have been a different species, the Russians in their square - shouldered suits, the Americans tough, casual and oddly innocent in their sports shirts and openwork shoes. At first, they seemed shy of each other. Then, through random interpreters, they began to talk about weight lifting and sudden ly they were all weight lifters to line of action and reaction, sea. The defeat of the Democrats after 20 years in of fice marked the ebb of the sooner or later, that will opinion will form and flow When it does the popularity of multiple power projects financed by the government, will return, and force political action accordingly, not because of any move to the left, or prise, per se, but because m valleys where the larger rivers flow, do the job BETTER from the standpoint of contributing to and advancing the public welfare, than private enterprise can, at least .WILL-io. gether. A small attentive group of weight lifters gravitated to Mr. Anderson, the man who had lift ed a greater weight than any weight lifter had ever lifted be fore. The talk was professional, and a little hard to follow. Asked by a Russian about a weU known American lifter, Mr. Anderson remarked sadly that he was still pretty good but that he had lost his speed. WHEN this was translated, " there was on every face a hint of that ancient tragedy the tragedy of the passage of time and the loss of speed it brings to all men. For that mo ment, it seemed, all the weight lifters together were of the same race of men. After the concert, a high of ficial of the Section of Heavy Athletics recited a somewhat lengthy address, with emphasis on the comradeship of peoples, and then there was a buffet with vodka and caviar. But the golden moment was never recaptured. Walking after ward in Red Square (the right one, this time) it was tempting to believe that peace was as sured because everybody under a wooden awning wanted peace or because weight lifters share a common humanity and a com mon interest in weight lifting. But alas, there are also such dreary matters as the world bal ance of power and the frighten ing difference between social systems. This difference in no where more obvious than here. (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS In San Francisco yesterday Russia's Molotov presented to the United Nations a preview of the terms Russia will lay before the Big Four heads-of-state con ference to be held at Geneva in July. These terms included: 1. A BAN on nuclear weapons. 2. Seating of Red China in the UN. 3. Surrender of Formosa to the Chinese Communists. THESE were his hottest items. To them he added another sticker: Abandonment by the United States and other major powers of ALL OVERSEAS BASES. THAT ONE, if we agreed to It, J- would LEAVE RUSSIA AS CLOSE TO THE UNITED STATES AS THE UNITED STATES IS TO RUSSIA. As of now, WITH our over seas bases, WE are closer to Russia than Russia is to US. If Russia starts something, we can HIT BACK QUICK. Without our overseas bases, we couldn't hit back so quickly. That would give Russia the advantage the ag gressor always has. e e TMOLOTOV added some minor window dressing, by way of trading stock, such as withdraw al of United States, Russian, Brit ish and French troops from both East and West Germany, termi nation of "war propaganda" everywhere, and ending of "dis crimination" in international trade and economic cooperation Russia could give up all these Doints without losing either "face" or military advantage, see WHAT is the HARD CORE of " demands Russia will prob ably stand pat on at Geneva? Here's a slant on that: India's Nehru has been in Mos cow, conferring with the Krem lin. He left yesterday. Just before he left, the terms of a declara tion which he and Soviet Pre mier Bulganin SIGNED were made public. The terms included: 1. A BAN on nuclear weapons. 2. Seating of Red China in the UN. 3. Surrender of Formosa to the Chinese Communists. THAT, apparently, is to be IT, 1 Russia will dicker on all the rest, but these three she will stand pat for. For whatever, it may mean, India's Nehru has ap parently joined up with her on these points. T ET'S put it this way: 1 We have had and still have superiority in nuclear weapons atom and hydrogen bombs and the bombers to carry them and the overseas bases from which to deliver them quickly on Russian targets if Russia starts something. That fundamental sit uation has KEPT THE PEACE during these 10 years since the much as do the tides of the "general welfare" tide, but run its course and public in the opposite direction. opposition to private enter such projects, particularly K.W.K. . Communications Lettera to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer slthouxh under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis tible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rixht to edit all lettera with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Our Golden Age To the. Editor: We live in a golden age. Especially for the very old who no longer nurse their chimney corner jitters or busy with knitting. Nope,, they are down at the dance haU, swishing partners that heal old hurts and some times make new ones as they do the "I do" with the wrong one. Happily fortun ate are those who choose the right one. Romance never dies in the human heart. Love, unburdened materially, is ever young. And the very young ones, pro tected by child-labor law they run free till nigh too old to learn to work. No more do they wait for second table when vis itors come. A Canadian lady told how the young-ones loved to see Uncle Charley come visitin.' He whacked off a nice big cap from his breakfast egg for that was all the kids got till they learned proper manners to eat with older people. Now kids are served first with first of everything, not able to realize how "lucky" they are. With still great areas of virgin forests, free lands of open prai rie, snowy mountains, lush val leys and lonely stretches of sea shore strand, unprofaned by any sound save the pounding of surf and call of sea-bird, there is full opportunity to "get away from it all." And in our own chosen free way of life with freedom of movement, speech and assembly quite unknown in any land or time, we can denounce anyone from president on down to dog- catcher, everything, everybody well no, not a labor union when a member, for that may bring economic disaster or worse. But for all that, this is still a land of liberty and independence. A day or two back, a house wife hanging her snowy wash on the clothesline remarked, "Golly, think of it, just 90c for three tubs of soiled clothes all done as I sat and read a book." Over on a south slope of Little Roxy are the flagstones where Grandma Taylor carried her wash water from the spring be low. And by the old back-door, the stones are scattered that were once her own bee-hive shaped bake-oven. Long gone is the old ash-leach that furnished the lye for soap making. Now, bread comes baked, wrapped and sliced. Packaged soap powder can be had for a few cents. What a change. F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main St. Opposes Slate Cigaret Tax To the Editor: I am not a smoker and do not sponsor smok ing, yet I am wondering if it's on the square to penalize people because they smoke. The Oregon State Legislature passed a bill which would collect a three cent state tax on each package of cigarettes sold in the State of Oregon. The estimated annual tax collected by the state on the sale of cigarettes would exceed $10,000,000. The penalty tax on each individual smoker would amount to not less than $4 per annum. I see no reason why "people who smoke should pay a state tax on cigarettes when the Ore gon state sales tax bill was de feated by the Oregon state legis lature. Donald Rader, General Delivery, Medford, Oregon. Editorial Comment DREGS GO WITH GAMBLING Via the Ashland Tidings we pick up remarks of the city man ager of Las Vegas made in Hon olulu. He said this about legal ized gambling: "Gambling is overestimated as a tourist attraction, and with aU the money it brings, it also brings hoodlums, easy money men, and small-time crooks." He should know because police protection is costing his home city $1.5 million per annum. Ashland is interested because of a proposal to locate a dog rac ing stand near that city. Both the local ministerial association and chamber of commerce have adopted resolutions in opposi tion. Salem. Oregon, States man. end of World War II. If we admit Red China to the UN and surrender Formosa to the Chinese Reds, we will deliver our FRIENDS, the Nationalist Chinese, over to butchery by the merciless Communists. That would convince all the rest of the world that the friend ship of the United States is val ueless, because in the pinches we are willing to throw our friends to the wolves. TITHAT shall we do at Geneva? " Well, let's talk and talk and talk, with friendliness and courtesy and patience for talk ing is cheaper than shooting. But let's keep our guns loose in their holsters. Above all, let's not permit our selves to fall into the delusion that the Russian leopard has changed its spots. That would ba lataL . IPQTlUCEt (By M-T Stiff and Contributor) A meeting was held at the studios of radio station KYJC last week to discuss problems of annexation, and what ser- ices, such as water and sewer service would be provided by the city. Drinking fountains in the studio had signs above them saying, "Do Not Drink This Water." t Two wells which furnish KYJC with water h a e be come contaminated, and the water can be used only for ir rigation. Mrs. Jesse Linton, 274 Mace rd., was outside on her place one day last week, picking some clover for her chickens.. Working industriously, she was intrigued when she found a four-leaf clover. Then she found one with five leaves. Then one with six leaves. A little more searching brought up two clover stems with seven leaves. And, to top her search, she fi nally found one with eight leaves. One father we k n o w .of didn't get his intended present last Sunday, Fathers' day. His wife and small son went shopping the day before to find a present for him, and finally selected a cup and sau cer they thought were particu larly attractive and appropri ate. The mother,- not quite trust ing her 8-year-old son to carry the precious gift, insisted on carrying it herself. While cros sing a street, however, she fell, smashing the cup and saucer to smithereens, and suffering a nasty gash on her chin which required two stit ches to repair. . The Mail Tribune news staff has received Civil Defense Emergency identification cards, On the cards they are assigned to duty as "Public Information." One nt trio vmmerer staff mom. bers inquires how he is to go about becoming a public infor mation. e The other day an unknown contributor suggested a foot . note to Fathers' day. He (or she) suggests that most fathers agree that a big platter of southern fried chicken would be a welcome change from' "cold shoulders" andi "hot tongue" on Fathers' day. (On second thought, we're pretty sure that our unknown contributor is a man.) Progress . . change . . what ever you call it anyway, it's evident all around. Not too long ago news staffers could watch the steam locomo- Brannan May Run Against Millikin Portland (U.R) Charles F. Brannan, who was Secretary of Agriculture under Former Presi dent -Harry Truman, Friday night indicated he would enter the Colorado Senate race against incumbent Republican Eugene Millikin. However, Brannan said he would not make a definite com mittment "yet" as to his enter ing the senatorial race. He did say he was sure he could beat Millikin if he entered. Brannan took time out from a trip to Yakima, Wash., where he was to address a farmers' con clave, to criticize the present ad ministration's farm policies. He said businessmen in small communities were coming to realize that they, as well as farm ers, "are suffering under the farm policies of the Eisenhower administration." BPA Contract Goes To Corvallis Firm Portland (U.R) Bonne ville Power Administration said Saturday it has awarded to the Witzig Construction company, of Corvallis, a $76,402 contract for construction of the 6.3 mile Res-ton-McKinley 230,000-volt trans mission line. The line will start about six miles west of Reston and term inate about six miles east of Dora. Energization of the new line is scheduled for 115,000-volt op eration in 1956 and 230,000-volt operation by 1957 when the Al-vey-Reston line is completed and an interconnection with Copco at Reston is made. Further plans call for a 230, 000 to 115,000-volt stepdown substation near McKinley to aug ment BPA's service to Pacific Power and Light Company, the Coos-Curry Electric co-op, Doug las Electric co-op, the city of Bandon, and the Central Lincoln PUD. JUICE VARIETIES Miama Canned citrus juices have soared by more than 1,500 per cent since World War II, while consumption of oranges and grapefruit has fallen off 20 percent.. ----- tives chugging up and down the SP tracks, viewed from the east windows. So it was with a start the other day we heard a more re cent acquisition to the staff re mark, with some slight wonder and excitement, "I saw a steam, engine on the tracks today." See what we mean? . Firemen recently reported that City Fire Marshal Tru man Nelson inspected "on circus grounds." Staff member remarks he's glad they're so specific, because there are so many circus grounds in and around Medford. Noticing that the School Dis trict 6C budget election a few weeks ago attracted a total of only 133 voters, a suspicious staff member made a quick check with the county school directory. It showed that District 6C teachers, and their wives andor husbands, total approximately 148. Now, he asks, which ones didn't vote. And worse yet, who were the 44 who voted "no?" We should perhaps draw the veil when it comes to inquiring about the total number of teach ers in connection with the sctefJ. board elections held more recent ly in 6C, Medford and Ashland. Medford votes totaled 59; Ash land 41, and 6C 22. A tall farmer we know ran over a skunk while driving in his station wagon Friday night. He had to take off his clothes before his family would let him in the house after he got home. And the station wagon isn't fit for use Mystery Driver Hinted by Defense In Oveross Trial Salem (U.R) Reports that Ervin Kaser was watched by two men in a car some days before he was shot to death last Feb. 17 were hinted Friday in the first degree murder trial here of Casper Overdss. r Stopped in Front of Home Defense Attorney Bruce Wil liams told the jury in the court of Circuit Judge George Duncan that the defense would show that an unidentified driver stopped in front of ther Kaser home near Silverton, got out of the car and continued on home between the time of the fatal shooting and the arrival of Harley R. De Peel, Silver constable. Williams closed his opening statement with the admission that Oveross was one who had a motive. He said: "The motive was there; we are not denying it Cap Oveross had a motive. We do not deny that. It is certainly true, too, that he is not guilty' Oveross had blamed Kaser for breaking up his home. To Show Ownership The State, with special Prose cutor Charles Raymond of Port land making the opening state ment, said it would prove every charge in the secret indictment returned against Oveross by a Marion county grand jury. Ray mond said Oveross would be shown as owner of a' rifle which the state says was the murder weapon. Constable De Peel was the state's first witness and the only one to testify yesterday, after the jury had visited the Silver- . ton area home of Kaser where he was shot to death as he sat in his car in the driveway. - Dr. Balcomb Speaks At Methodist Meet Eugene (U.R) Dissatisfaction with present-day burial and fun eral practices was expressed here Saturday by 80 per cent of Methodist ministers in Oregon . attending the annual Methodist conference. Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb, Medford, chairman of the con-, ference committee on social and economic relations, said that by a persistent educational efJjrt "we believe that current prac tices can be made more nearly Christian." He reported that the average funeral in Oregon today costs between $450 and $500.- The conference yesterday! authorized establishment of a; permanent conference business office in Portland under the" direction of a full-time treasurer.; A benevolence budget of $150,318, a record high, was adopted by delegates and the; appropriation for the board of missions was increased to per-j mit founding four new churches within the conference. ANNUAL SNOWFALL ' Ottawo About 40 to 50 inches of. snow falls in the far-north Mackenzie district of Canada; whirh i nnlv ahrtnt nnoJtalf the average annual fall for the re-j gion of the Great Lakes district Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday fori Honday; otter days 3Q nerttsja day.