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2 form Mxsroiio (oitzoom Uc?c2fc,TiiBuxi "Xverybody in Southern Or (on oa da The Mall Trttmne" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. tl-29 Worth Jir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor B GRZV Artvrti.in lfanaaa B. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. Cit- Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor WCIUHO JEW EXT. SpOTtS EOllor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GTHAI.n LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at lledford. Oreton. under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Str Mail In Adnnn: Pr codt 10c Dally and Sunday On year $13.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 9M Dally and Sunday Three mom. tM Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Mad ford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Home River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 natiy and Sunday one monin i- earner and Dealers oe per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Madford Official Paper ol jacuson conniy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Arivflin RMrfamtitiTC: wr x.h rif t rh a v company. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Lea Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver.. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL fZ NIWgPAMI aaaVM rusiiSNits association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 10, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Two Klamath Falls residents and on Vancouver. Wash., man drown while on fishing trips at lakes near Medford over week end. From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Civilians will get more butter next month, the OPA promises. The way things have been working out, under food regimentation, there will be no bread to spread it on. SO TEARS AGO July 10, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Rumors that Bartlett pears hipped to California will have to be washed to remove spray residue prove unfounded. Jackson county relief expendi tures for first six months within ludget. 10 TEARS AGO fair 10, 1925 at was Friday) John Thomas Scopes Indicted for violating law prohibiting teaching of evolution in Dayton, Term., public schools; trial starts. Jackson county Jail trusties evalk away from court house yard; neither located within five hours. 40 TEARS AGO July 10, 1911 (It was Saturday) Blue Ridge Mine, larger cop per mine in Jackson county, ex pected to open soon with ore named iron valley by motor truck. From Local and Personal col vmn: The annual exodua of people to the hills on camping trips has begun and the season will be In full swing by the mid dle of next week. Many will leave tomorrow to spend a couple of days fishing. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? ' Ceer. 1955, Editorial Research Repeat 1. Is it legal or illegal to ship fireworks for sale from a state allowing such sale into one for bidding it? . . . - 2. The Septuagint version of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Old English or Aramaic? 3. The chances are for or -against Congress changing the Taft-Hartley act this year, or about 50-50? 4. Most so-called "Pennsylva nia Dutch" are of Dutch origin; right or wrong? 5. About 50, 40, 30 or 20 per cent of all Spanish-American war veterans are alive, or less than 20 per cent? -"-.. 6. Venice, Italy, is on the Adriatic, Black, Caspian, Aegean or Tyrrhenian Sea? 7. Frederick Austerlitz is the real name of which stage and screen star? The Answers: 1. Illegal. 2. Greek. 3. Against change this year. 4. Wrong: of German. 5. Less than 20 per cent. 0. Adria tic. 7. Fred Astaire. BIG RADISH Altamont, 111. (U.PJ If you like winter radishes, here's one that would make a meal. Joe Mardorf said he pulled a 8V4 pound radish in his garden. It measured 20 inches in circumference.-... Km mail tsxbtjke Where Is the Naturally Congressman express regret over the Talent project appropnation from $500,000 to $150,000. With another congressional election in the offing he could not be expected to approve. After all Talent has votes. But if and when he is speaking, and pledges himself to devote his influence and energies to restoring the $350,000, then we hope he will pardon an editorial " a a 70R what did the House of Representatives (of which he is a veteran and immovable member) do, when in conference with the Senate, it took this dras tic action, throwing the Talent project into the ash can? It merely followed out gressman has preached for lo these many years, and that the Republican administration adopted and has repeatedly upheld, namely: Government power is "creeping socialism." Yes it is un-American and contrary to the sacred principles of private initiative and enterprise, which have built this great country and must be preserved if the land of the free is to than death namely communism. For after all, com munism is merely socialism under another name, at least so Mr. Ellsworth has for so many years, main- tamed. To be consistent he should object to even spending $150,000 when this is all government money and no partnership is involved, whether it be in this section of the state or any other. PUT the strange feature while Talent was denied thanks to Senators Morse granted, but the House denied; three new projects, also representing government power as opposed to private power and financed entirely by the former, were approved. These were Cougar and Hills Creek in Oregon and Ice Harbor in Washington. These appropriations stated that does not alter If government power democracy and a nose-dive anism, then why spend even a thin dime on prepara tions for such costly and suicidal ventures in un American radicalism? SO WHY the tears? Why AlUiaUf JT VTA. VUltlTTlWi If "TV A" is creeping socialism, if a high dam at Hells Canyon is "creeping socialism," not only is con struction of the Talent project by government funds alone "creeping socialism," but so are all other proj ects similarly financed. The but the principle is surely and wicked to spend $300,000,000 of the taxpayers money on Hells Canyon unassisted by local funds, then certainly it could not be RIGHT to spend 10 or 1 of that amount on Talent, under exactly same conditions? C " CO WHAT is Congressman Ellsworth complaining about? The action is in accord with his belief and actions. It just doesn't make sense. Just as the administration's approval of the billion dollar federal power project on the Upper Colorado, without the aid of "local funds" or so much as a penny from private power, fails Well, as far as that goes, politics doesn't make much sense these days, in But as things look now, next year s campaign promises to establish a new high in this regard or perhaps a new low" would be the more accurate term. R.W.R. Too Optimistic According to Senators Morse and Neuberger, quote: "In our opinion the partnership issue died in the Pa- , cific northwest when the Senate-House conference, com- mittee approved funds to start construction on 3 new federal dams. For partnership advocates have insisted , we must surrender operating facilities to private utilities because Congress would appropriate no more funds for federal dams. That argument has now been officially re pudiated. So let us all go forward now with the great ' Bonneville public-power program that has meant so much to Oregon and the northwest in the past" If consistency were the hob-goblin of the "big minds" in Washington, as Emerson once claimed was true for the "little minds," such optimism as above expressed, would perhaps be justified. But the "big minds" now in control in the admin istration have no fear of inconsistency, or regard for the reverse. . What they do fear is a liberalism that would place the public welfare, above profits to "private enter prise" in any department but particularly in the field of light and power. "What is good for General Motors is good for the country." .. . That is the philosophy of the Republican admin istration in a nutshell, and that rather than this action repudiating the partnership theory of public power, is the really significant fact, that must be faced. -. So we doubt very much if the . "partnership" idea which we believe originated with Secretary of the Interior McKay, has died, much less been buried. i' , . . e . a . a ..: ; . . IT WILL, we predict, be used again and again 1 when the conditions make it a politically feasible. For it "listens well." : , . Private power instead of government will put up Sunday, Mr 10. ItSS Cpmplaint? Harris Ellsworth should House action reducing the reduced to tears, politically smile. the doctrine that our con be saved from a fate worse of this business is, that what it asked and what and Neuberger the Senate were small, but as before the principle. means the end of our free into the abyss of totalitari the weeping and wailing, amounts are not identical the same. If it is wrong to make sense. any direction. some of the money, perhaps a considerable por tion of it and the taxpayers will only have to pay for the so called non-profit elements of the multiple project, such as flood control, transportation, irri gation benefits, fish ladders etc., etc. There will be no return on those latter millions, of course, as far as the tax payers are concerned, but there will be plenty to compensate, for the private companies will have a monopoly on all the profits of the enterprise for half a century at least, and ac cording to the financial experts, the total on an aver age project will run into many millions in fact bil lionslong before the time runs out. And then if the present political climate prevails there will probably be a renewal. a a a CO THE assumption that the "partnership" proposal has passed on we don't regard as justified. Like the report of Mark Twain's death we fear it is exag gerated. The same argument will be used as we see it, in.the future as in the past, and when ever it appears to be the best way to prevent public power projects inaking headway. The -fundamental purpose is to secure ultimately a monopoly of all profitable ven tures in this field, under the control of that great American institution known as private enterprise. Whether that will succeed or not, remains to be seen. R.W.R. Today and By Walter THE GARDEN PARTY At the Fourth of July party Mr. Khrushchev complained to Mr. Walmsley that the Western press was spec u 1 a t i n g . too much about why the Soviet Union was tak ing a new line: "They pay' lit tle atten t i o n to what, we say and prefer to read tea Walter Llppmana leaves." That is not quite true. We are paying the closest attention to every word they say. But what they have not yet said is why they have changed, why they now think their new "decisions" are, as Mr. Khruschev said at the garden party, "the. only right decisions." And, at last but not least, they have not said why he and the other dignitaries talk big politics at garden parties. It was never like that before. I may be paying too much at tention to the tea leaves but it seems to me that there is a dif ference between Mr., Molotov, opening up a bit as he did when he was in this country, and Mr. Khrushchev opening up when he goes to a party.. Mr. Molotov's new ways fitted very well the theory that there is a new tacti cal policy in the Kremlin. He was more open that he had ever been before but never so wide open but that he could close up again at any moment. With Mr. Khrushchev it does not somehow seem like that. Mr. Molotov, besides being an old Bolshevik, is a highly trained diplomatist in the old Russian Byzantine style. Mr. Khrushchev, by contrast, plays himself rather than a role. He acts as a man might .be expected to act if he had been immersed in the in grown life of the Communist party who is unused to dealing with foreigners and is not much aware of how things look to for eigners, who' has no habit of sub tlety or complication, and who goes out to get what he is out to get a e . a rpHE contrast between Mr. Mol otov and Mr. Khrushchev has brought to my mind a talk I had with the late Mayor Reuter of West Berlin. It was in the early spring of 1953, a few weeks after the death of Stalin, and Mayor Reuter, who had once been a Communist leader and was still in contact with Communist officials in East Berlin, was quite certain that there would be a great change in the Soviet Union. With Stalin gone, said Reuter, there is no one except Molotov left of the generation that made the Bolshevik revolution of 1918. The men who will now be the rulers have crown un in the So viet Union. They Know what war cost the country. They are proud of what the Soviet Union has won as a result of the war. They look inward, and they pay only lip service to the old evolution ary ideals. I know many7 of them, said Beuter, and they are material ists in a literal way that the old Bolshevik crusaders and conspir ators never were. This new gen eration wants to develop the country, and to make money, and to enjoy personally the material pleasures of better living. They do not want to die or make sacri fices for the sake of the comrade in foreign countries. This is not a literal report of what - Mayor Reuter said that evening in Washington. But it is the point of what he said. I was deeply imprssed when I heard it because it corresponds so closely with the fact that in other revo lutions the original revolutionary deal has almost never, if ever, outlasted the original generation of revolutionists. v The present ruling oligarchy in Moscow belongs to this new generation; If Renter's - theory wis right; they would be "more n a n - Tomorrow Lippmann materialistic, more isolationist, more turned inward, less adven turous, less conspiratorial, less zealous, than the generation of Lenin and Stalin. a a a READING the tea leaves some more, I am reminded of a talk which I had almost two years ago with a high European diplomatic official who knows Russia before and after the revolutionas few Westerners have known it. He too thought the death of Stalin opened up a new chapter, and' he predicted that in the'Russian revolution as in so many others the army offi cers would be the successors of the original revolutionists. Why not the hierarchy of the Communist party, I asked him. Because, he said the Party will lose its original revolutionary zeal, which is what has bound it together, whereas the army, which is covered with glory from the war, will be the focal point of the national feelings of the Russian peoples. And what, I then asked him, does that mean for the West? I think it will mean, he said, that they will take no serious military risk in order to expand the Com munist orbit and that they will make no concessions which di minish the strategic security that they gained from the war. fR. KHRUSHCHEV at the gar- den party seemed to me to be saying something of that sort when he told Mr. Walmsley that something would come of the Geneva meeting . if the West talked "to us honestly and sin cerely as equals." He was con cerned with the notion in the West, which Mr. Dulles has been advertising, that Soviet Union is leading from weakness. Being talked to as an "equal" means to him, it would seem, being talked to on the assumption that both sides are very strong, and that their over-aU war-making powers are equal, that is to say that they are in balance. If would be better for our cause if Mr. Dulles resisted the temptation , to boast about our superior strength, and if instead he acted upon the assumption that there is a balance of power. Then the negotiations could pro ceed on the principle that there must be two equal sides to every bargain, and that for every quid there must be a quo. a a a . ' THESE" are not obvious and easy matters to judge to know whether something gained here is really worth Something given up there. But in the field of armaments, whicti will be a principal subject of the later ne gotiations, the risks can be kept to a minimum by putting aside for the present the notion of limiting the' size of the military establishment , and of concen trating at first on-the problem of their deployment and their mo bilization. It is one thing to re duce forces at the point of high est tension in the world, and quite another thing to 'disband these forces. . It will be possible to negotiate with more confidence and with more boldness about the regula tion of armaments if at this stage nothing decisive and irreparable is done toward actual disarma ment. (Copyright. 1955. Mew York Herald Tribune Inc.) Profitable Harvest Due Northwest Peach Growers , . Spokane (U.PJ Pacific North west peach growers will have an excellent crop and profitable harvest this year, according to Department of Agriculture of ficials ; Washington, Oregon and Idaho expect -better crops of peaches than last year, the officials said. A crop of 2,500,000 bushels was forecast for Washington as compared with 1,500,000 last year. Idaho's crop wag estimated at 400,000 bushels Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop THE POOR RUSSIAN LADIES Moscow The visiting Ameri can here can make some kind of contact with the Russions on three levels with officials, with people encoun tared purely by chance on the streets or else where, or with such semi official per sons as inter . preters and guides. But Stewart Alsop the reporter soon learns that it is highly dan gerous to draw large, striking conclusions on basis of such tenuous contacts. A rather astonishing example of official contact between Americans and Russians was provided by the Fourth of July party- given by the American Embassy here. The party was certainly a success. All the most important Russian leaders at tended, despite the absence of Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen. A French diplomat here attri buted this triumph to the fact that "the entire Presidium is in love with Mrs. Bohlen;" and cer tainly Mrs. Bohlen was the heroine of the occasion. The contact established at the party, moreover, was nothing if not close, since the crowd around the great men approxi mated mob scenes. At one point, I found myself held as in a vice between the bulky Mr. Bulganin and the massive Mr. Khru shchev, with powerful Mr. Ka ganovich pressing hard on the flank. Yet this East-West con tact, close as it was, was not reaUy very revealing. Indeed, the- conversation .be tween the Russian rulers and Western diplomats oddly re called the talks at the first "grown up" party I attended well over a quarter of a century ago. There was the same agoniz ing attempt to think up small jokes, the same nervous laughter;- the same lone, embarrassed pauses. , There was even the same tendency of the boys a role queerly played in tins case by the Russians to wink and poke at each other. Aside from the fact that the Russians were so obviously de termined to be nice, even if it killed them, there was only one really significant moment at the party. This was just after Mr, Khrushchev had made his smaU speech about how the Russians were not going to Geneva "on our knees." ; , . a a ' a "JifR. KHRUSHCHEV was wax- AT-B ine rather vehemently, ees turing violently with his short, thick arms, when he seemed to catch a warning glance from the oeeue-browed Mr. Kasanovich He broke off and said: "I moke with Bulganin. before we came. and we agreed that I should say this. Right, Bulganin?" Surely Mr. ruirushchev s obviously ex tempore remark lustifie. a fair. ly formed conclusion that . this state, incredibly - enough," really is run on a "committee system." . As for the kind of casual con tacts you can make on-" the streets, they would seem onlv to justify the conclusion that there is an underground not a pro- American underground, but a pro-jazz underground. I had an entirely typical street conver- sation the other night . with a couple of twenty-year-old boys. The conversation went shout as follows: "Know Frank Sina tra?" "No ... but you look a bit like him." (He did. .a little.) Much laughter, obvious pleas ure. "Know Dorsey? Know Armstrong?" "Sorry, no." Pause, then suddenly and loudly: "Jawnee. Jawnee. Oh! how you. can lawve." Much laughter, reaching almost hys terical pitch. There was some desultory conversation, friendly enough. but limited by the fact that the boys' English was restricted to lines from jazz lyrics, and I had no HUBsian at all. They refused the offer of a beerv (Russians are friendly but many are still leery of being seen , with Americans unaer intimate , circumstances) and finally they wandered off. All Americans here have had such fleeting, casual and pecu liar contacts. But they don't seem to mean very much, excent possibly that a good jazz band wouia nave the same subversive effect on Moscow as the Pied Piper had on Hamlin. x There was one other ttnv episode which seemed to have a larger meaning. After a Ions set tour, I asked an in tourist guide a rather dumpy woman, weU Into middle age, wearing a fussy . print dress to have a glass of beer. She refused .the oeer but sat down and asked why America had surrounded Russia with a ring of air bases. I tried to answer seriously, talking about the Berlin block- aae, aggression in Korea and the size of the Red Armv. But the mask of smug incomprehension instantly descended. There was a pause. I 'pointed ' to a well dressed woman walkinz bv. and said, for conversation's sake, "Look at the -foreigner. I won der Where's she's from." SHE caught the tactless impli cation rieht awav: ''You mean the foreigners are dressed so much better than us Rus sians?" I smiled and said "yes," IPOYUUJCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The Medford riost office staff is in Detween unrisunas tusun at the moment, but they are still having their troubles with the way people address mail.' Wednesday was a particularly bad day. First came a letter addressed to: "Table Rock Chamber of Commerce Table Rock, Ore gon." On a hunch, they sent it the the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in Medford. and sure enough, that was the right spot." Then there was the letter which wound up on the desk of Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Jack son county clerk. It was addressed to: Mrs. Bereth Jackson Josephine County Clerk Medford. Ore Son. This week's mail also brought a letter to The Mail Tribune, this one properly addressed, from a former resident who recently moved to Houston. Texas. He comments on how fond Texans are of praising the vir tues of their state, and men nas this to say: "Since I've been here I know of at least four Deonle who have hit oil wells, and - two others uranium mines in New Mexico Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer tl though under certain circum stances the use ol a pen name or initial for publication is permia rible. The Hail Tribune reserves the risht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Our Biassed Valley To the Editor: About a year and a half ago I left Oklahoma and came to Medford to be pas tor of the Temple Baptist church on 794 Lozier lane. At that time I was thrilled at the wondrous beauty of Rogue . River valley. Since then I have seen and ex perienced things that have made me more appreciative than ever of this country. I have made two trips back to Oklahoma since I came, and have gone over four different routes. I have seen beautiful farm lands and orchards be tween here and there. I have vis ited nationally advertised scenic spots and parks. But there was no plaoe and -1 ? mean "No Place"-i-that compares to .the scenic places, . orchards,, and farms around Medford and in the Rogue River valley. : r '. Another thing I noted in our valley we have no strong winds that almost blow you down as you go down the street, no winds that fill the air with sand and dust that gets into the tightest of houses. . Neither do we suffer from extremely high tempera tures in the summer, nor terrible low biting temperatures in win ter.' We have no, tornadoes that work havoc and' leave destruc tion in their oath. ; Surely with such wonderful climate and . such a beautiful prosperous place, we can say that God has richly blessed the Medford valley as-a land that "flows with milk and ' honey. There ought to rise from each of our hearts in this valley adora tion to God in words and actions day by day, and we should wor- shm Him in God's house eaen Lord's t day lest with our un gratefulness, indifference, and sm, our prosperity De taxen away, and our beauty become as a fading flower. Floyd H. Yeats, 794 Lozier Lane Editorial Comment PLANES FOR SHAKESPEARE The Oregon Shakespearean Festival, touted as an event of international renown, held its premier at the week end for this year's schedule of offerings. Shakespearean plays are rare; the Ashland event which con tinues for a month, is something of great importance. The plays are well , produced and acted. Members of the cast are profes sionals or college students. Unfortunately for Bay Area people,. Ashland is just a bit too far away to visit without an overnight stop. The plane sched ules do not fit an evening per formance although it certainly would be' nice if West Coast, fresh from its recent publicity as the peoples' airline, would ar range a special trip or two tor the cultural lovers. Coos Bay Times. for there was nothing else to say. She smoothed her . print dress with her hand it must have cost her many hundreds of rubles and said quietly: "Oh, the poor Russian ladies." , In those five words tnere seemed to me an echo of all the sadness of the war and of the long years of simple longings unsatisfied and hope deferred again. Perhaps this was mere sentimentalism, and' certainly the hard facts which I had tried so futility to explain remain un changed. But I shall remember the', words, and the look of the woman's tired face, long after the memory of being squeezed by Messrs. Khrushchev, Bulga nin and Kaganovich fades. , . ' Convriaht..iaS5 New York Herald Tribune iJa "One' close friend of ours sat in a room aoout two weeks at, with a uranium prospector and listened to . a proposition, he wanted $10,000 backing to check a claim he had staked. They thought it was a rather wild scheme. The prospector was in sulted when they refused to back him. His parting statement was 'I'll get backing someplace and you'll regret not getting in on this deal.' ' " .' "He did and they did. He sold the claim 10 days later for $5, 000,000." Maybe there's something to what the Texans have to say about their state after alL With two elections going on at the same time Tuesday, and what with hearings on this, that, and the ether thing in recent weeks, some voters apparently were more than a little confused about the issues on which they were to vote, Tuesday's vote inside the city limits was on whether she city should adopt a general fund budget $66,510 in excess of the 6 per cent limitation. But city officials said some Medford residents believed they were voting on whether N trees and bushes should S-; taxed. ; - ' J. The late Arthur Perry, who kept close tabs on Rogue valley rumor mills, would have been proud of the crowd that watched Friday's fire at Medford Furni ture company. The crowd had no less than six rumors at once as to how the fire started. Fire department officials and others who have to deal in solid facts can put an end to all of them. As of Saturday morning, the cause of the blaze had not been definitely determined. As far as is known, which' is pretty well, no member of the Mail Tribune staff Is e? practicing nudist. ; ' Therefore, it's probably Just . as well that the plans of those' sponsoring the recent nudists-' convention, held last week end; somewhere near Medford'' didn't go quite right. . They had planned to give the newspaper staff advance, . warning i of the convention? and Invite a press representa iWe to be present. The usual; stipulation is that the news-, hound (or newshen) assigned to such an event dress (or vice versa) In the same manner as ; . the rest of the conventioneers. ; , It would have been real in-, teres ting, trying to wish that, assignment on somebody. ' Last Year Third f Highest for State j " Salem 0J.R) Payments to Oregon's unemployed during the benefit year that ended June 30 reached $20,406,000, third high est in the state's history, accord ing to State Unemployment Com pensation Commission. . -But the number of those look ing for work declined to 22,400, lowest in nearly two years. And the count of weekly claimants at local offices dropped below 8000 for the first time in nearly three years. ' . ... With a steadily expanding labor force, summertime employ ment, throughout Oregon,. was deemed certain to establish new highs over the next few months. Unemployment Lower All of the local office with the exception of Baker reported fewer persons without work than at last mid-year and only three areas had more unemployed than last June 1 when 27,700 were counted. A year ago 38,900 were looking for jobs but at least 3400 of them were involved in the lumber labor dispute that lasted until September. Biggest decline in unemployment came from As toria, Eugene, Hillsboro, Milton- Freewater and , Toledo. Late berry harvests in the Wil lamette valley and delayed farm , work in other sections were ab sorbing many of the workers but most of the recent gains were in lumbering,; construction and other seasonal activities. Truman Sends Photo To Police Commissioner Philadelphia U.R) Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gib bons has a prized photograph in scribed: "Kindest regards and many thanks to Tom Gibbons, who is always kind and courte ous to unemployed visitors.'' The likeness of former Presi dent Truman was delivered to Gibbons, who headed police se curity escorts on occasions when Mr. Truman visited the city both as president and after he left office.;,... ; . - FIRST CAN ALT Dedham. Mass. 01Jn This town Cjlaims the site of Ameri ca's first canal. A tablet says the canal, known as Mother Brook, was built "before 1640.T The canal, now unused, connecta the Charles and Neponset Bivertv Payments
