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I 0 0-i O O O O c-i: CI J o r'J O P o o O O 0 n O O o o f! o 3 0 o 5 o o O O O o roun MroroRD (Oregon) MedforbTrib UNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Keacj Trie JVlaU Tribune published Daily Except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager K. 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 of March 3. 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES lf-ll A l m nn& DaP Cnntf 1 Of Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday oix monws o Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville- Gold Hill. Phoenix. q Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent Daily and Sunday One year $13 00 Daily and Sunday un monu Carrier and Dealers oc per iwj. 111 J.CHIU ' Official Paper of the City of Med ford - omciai raper oi " TTni toH Prs Full Leased Wire MMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ( Advertising Representative: Overusing neprracnuiuvc. ...voi- um t tViav rnMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco, ixm 1",K"f Seattlo. Portland, St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL NIWSPAPf I PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. !0 YEARS AGO August 16. 1945 (It was Thursday) A total of 6,174 items pre pared this summer by Red Cross Jeep" shop kids for wounded soldiers. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column (taken from Corvallis Gazette-Times): Oregon editors have a new style hot wat er to get into. Returned ser geants, mentioned as corporals, demand justice and corrections. 20 YEARS AGO August 16, 1935 (It was Friday) Will Rogers and Wiley Post killed in Alaska air accident. C. M. Brewer elected county Chamber of Commerce president. 30 YEARS AGO August 16, 1925 (It was Friday) Table Rock grain harvest termed "exceptional." Seventy bushels per acre reaped in some places. Two forest fires still out of control in Crater Lake National forest. Chandler Egan, former nation al amateur champ, and others leave for golf team match with Eugene. 40 YEARS AGO .August 16, 1915 (It was Monday) Amy and Pottenger building on Main st. being remodeled for armory. Bucky Rathburn wins riding money if? Butte Falls Buckaroo. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The 48 states as a whole are collecting in motor fuel taxes about one-third? one-half, or two- thirds more than five years ago? 2. President Eisenhower ac cepted or rejected the Tariff Commission's plea for higher tariff duties on foreign watches? 3. Natives on the British-held Island of Cyprus want independ ence, Dominion status, union with Greece or an alliance with Russia? 4. A score of oyer 200 at duck- pins is made often, occasionally or rarely? Ten i 5. "Al" Smith was placed in nomination before the 1928 Dem ocratic convention by Jim Far ley, Cordell Hull, Bernard Ba- ruch, F. D. Roosevelt or Harry 0 Truman? 6. What was the name of Mos O cow before the Communist revo 8 lution of 1917 in Russia? G 7. Who in the Bible ate grass O as an ox: Shadrach, Samson, G Nebuchadnezzar, Methusalah, or f Herod? O The Answers. 1. About two- thirds more. 2. Accepted. 3. Un Q ion with Greece. 4. Rarely. 5. F. D. Roosevelt 6. Moscow. 7. Neb uchadnezzar, o LUMBERMAN DIES O Portland U.P.) Albert Her mann, 63 one of the founders q and directors of the Western Pine association research labora tory, died at his home yesterday. Hermann, during his 30 years with the research unit, develop ed new methods of processing hardboard. and a solvent season ing now widely used in the lum ber Industry. mail tribune Should Sec. McKay Resign? Palmer Hoyt publisher of the Denver Post, and former hard-hitting editor of the Portland Oregonian, wants Secretary of the Interior McKay fired. He doesn't say he is the worst Interior Secretary since Albert Fall, but he does say, in effect, he is a mill-stone around the Eisenhower administration's neck and should be allowed to return to Salem and his . General Motors agency where he belongs, and from whence he should not have departed. The Mail Tribune seconds the motion. B UT the Salem Statesman doesn't. Former Governor Sprague, editor of the States man, who naturally has a kindly feeling for his old friend and neighbor, as well as gubernatorial col league ascribes the enmity of the Denver Post chief ly to the non-passage of the Upper Colorado develop ment measure,- one of the Post's pet projects. The Statesman also in refutation calls attention to the fact that the Denver Post does not question f ormer Governor McKay's personal integrity, patriotism or his abilities as a politician, but condemns him for taking a "sentimental journey" to European battle fields, when the fate of the cherished Colorado de velopment bill was at stake. "THIS Editor Sprague seems to think is not quite Icnshpr. Tf that, wpvp the Post's such criticism might be justified. But it wasn't, far from it in fact. For example we quote the Denver paper: the administration has pursued no dynamic selling job on western development. That has been historically the function of the Interior Department. But Mr. McKay has failed either through ignorance, indifference or a cal culated compromise engineered and its many, many friends." We have no doubt which item mentioned has in the opinion of the Post, factor m this "failure," U.S. utility industry pressure. And we might add "ignorance" or "indifference. It proceeds from Sec retary McKays strongest political conviction, namely: that what is the best for the the United States, just as he believes that what is best for his own General Motors is best for the United States. That is the corner stone of his political philos ophy as it is of so many of his colleagues in Wash ington. We don't question the Secretary's sincerity, we do question his conception of democracy. To quote the Post further: "Why doesn't Douglas McKay follow Mrs. Hobby in retirement from President Eisenhower's cabinet? Mr. McKay has been anything but an asset Mr. McKay hasn't helped the Eisenhower administration articulate a water and pub lic works policy that makes sense. He has been Of little help in passing legislation that would strengthen the Republican partys record in that field. Nor has he dramatized the na tional investment values of reclamation and the use and re-use of water for the benefit of the West, whence he entered high office, or the nation he is supposed to repre sent. He has no enthusiasm for the role of championing the economic expansion of a region which now as always relies upon the Department of the Interior for cooperation. And he has evidently been touted away from that feature of his responsibility by the slickest and best-heeled touts of that never resting gang known as the "Washington Lobby." It is also known as the "Private Power Lobby." As the Sacramento Bee recently commented re garding Oregon's unfortunate contribution to the Ei senhower -cabinet, Mr. McKay may well be best and longest known as the member of the present Eisen hower cabinet who did more than anyone else to "stymie or even destroy public power." The Bee then agrees with the Post, and concludes even more forcefully, as follows, quote : "Mr. Eisenhower would be wise to send his Secretary of the Interior out of the country for the duration of the 1956 campaign year. And he would be wiser still to name a Secretary who would and could use the prestige of a cab inetship to defend and promote the legitimate invesfment functions of the central government." HTHE Sacramento Bee and the Denver Post are not 1 only strong supporters of the Republican party and President Eisenhower, but are tremendously in fluential in California and Colorado politics. Does the above indicate then that the opposition of the Denver paper proceeds only from personal pique or resentment over the fact that one of its pet projects did not pass the House? Hardly! In fact the Eisenhower administration did every thing it could to get the Post's power measure enacted, and if Secretary McKay did not approve 100 per cent it's the first time he has failed to do so regarding any thing with a GOP "ok" on it. In other words wasn't that trip to Europe, as the movies say, coincidental? X7ELL at any rate the growing opposition to Sec retary McKay does not proceed from any per sonal prejudice against the man or wounded local pride nor any doubt of his essential honesty. It proceeds solely from the conviction he is WRONG 100 wrong it proceeds from realiza tion that Secretary McKay like Secretary of Defense Wilson is not interested primarily in advancing the general welfare of the country and its people, but in advancing the interests of Big Business in general and General Motors in particular. The Denver Post concluded: "The people of the US need a Secretary of the Interior who will act boldly in the demonstrated PUBLIC INTER EST one who will not retreat behind the fatuous double talk' about "socialism," the preeminence of. local interests or that frightfully abused phrase "free private enterprise" which is touchingly symbolized by what the late Mr. Ickes described as "the barefoot boys of Wall Street." Tuesday, August 16, 1955 nnlv or chief argument. by the US Utility industry been the chief motivating it is No. 3, of course, the this doesn't proceed from Utility combine is best for R.W.R. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop ALL PASSION SPENT Paris "The French people do not wish to be troubled or upset. They wish only to be entertained and kept inte- yHf si rested. That is the present mood of France, and Mr. Faure un derstands the mood very well. That is why, bar the worst k in d of crisis in North Africa, his gov- Stewart Alsop ernment should last through to the elections in the spring." The speaker was a high official in the government of Prime Min ister Edgar Faure, who is prob ably France's cleverest politi cian. The Faure government has no intention whatsoever of troubling or upsetting the French people, if it can possibly help it As a result, most observers here agree that the Faure government has a better chance of survival than any French government in a long time if only the trouble in North Africa can somehow be dealt with. Except for North Africa, all the passion of- French politics has suddenly been spent. When this reporter was last in France two years ago, France was en gulfed in a great wave of strikes, and two tremendous issues the war in Indochina and the re armament of Germany were troubling and upsetting the French people. Now France is calmly pros perous. Production stands at 176 per cent of pre-war. In the last year wages have increased by eight per cent while living costs have held steady. In contrast to England, there is no monetary crisis. All in all, although basic dislocations in the French econo my still exist, France is better off now than the most dreamily optimistic Marshall aid planners dared hope a few short years ago. And now. the tremendous is sues of two years ago no longer even interest France. As for In dochina, that unfortunate coun try has simply ceased to exist in French eyes. The process of total abandonment began at Dien Bien Phu, continued at Geneva, and was completed this spring, when the United States insisted on backing the violently anti French Premier Diem. A S one French official rather to shove a knife in our backs, you can hardly expect us to help Communications Letters to -the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis rible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The Same Old S.P. 10 the Editor: What I am about to write may be ancient history but I think that it is note worthy in that it may help to prove the adage that "a leopard never changes its spots". Back in the 1860s Congress granted the usual alternate-sec tion rights along a 20 mile strip to any company that would agree to build a railroad from Portland, Oregon to' the Califor nia border, and also to any com pany which would agree to build a military wagon road from Eugene, Oregon in the Wil lamette Valley, to Coos bay on the- southwest coast. The Oregon and California Railway Com pany was formed, accepted the offer, and took the rights to both grants. The present Southern Pa cific Railroad company suc ceeded to the rights and the duties of the Oregon and Cal ifornia railroad. Congress had stipulated, how ever, that the taker of the grant could not sell these lands except (1) to actual settlers, (2) in tracts of not more than 160 acres, and (3) for a price of not more than $2.50 per acre. The Southern Pa cific violated all three condi tions, selling to timber specula tors as well as actual settlers, sometimes in acreages far ex ceeding 160, and sometimes at prices well above $2.50 per acre. Complaints became howls, and about 1912 the United States be gan a suit to restrain further sales by the Southern Pacific, and to forfeit the grants. The Supreme Court restrained the sales with most of the lands still unsold, but left up to Congress the disposition of the grant. In 1916 Congress revested, or ordered reconveyed, the unsold lands to the United States, the Southern Pacific was later paid off, and the lands were placed under the Dept. of the Interior. There they are today, known by the tongue rattling name of the "Revested Oregon and Califor nia and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagonroad Grant Lands." Their short and convenient title is the 'O&C" Lands". Perhaps the Southern Pacific Railroad didn't amass their com plete assets with this one ven ture, but I would risk a wild guess and say that it didn't hinder their progress or for that matter cause them to loose their spots. Ken Corliss 1564 Myers Lane Medford you push it in. Now Indochina is your baby, and we wish you joy from it." The process of handing over the baby is proceeding apace. French troops are being withdrawn at the rate of 10,000 a month, and by January next there will be left hardly more than a corporal's guard. From top to bottom, the French have written off Indo china as lost already. This re porter, whose French is halting and most inelegant, asked an other high official whether he thought Indochina was "foutu," and impolite word which means, more or less, "all washed up." No, he replied, smiling, Indo china is not "foutu," but "fichu" a more polite word which means exactly the same thing. At any rate, the French nowa days do not want to have to think about Indochina or talk about Indochina, which is per haps not surprising. But it is sur prising that they do not want to think or talk about the rearma ment of Germany, which was not long ago the most passionately debated of all issues in France. German rearmament is now ac cepted as an accomplished fact. Strangely enough, nowadays the French are not even much disturbed by the prospect of Ger many maintaining a bigger army on the Continent than France. Partly this is because the French have at last begun to believe in the Anglo-American commitment in NATO. Partly it is because they have come to realize that, in the nuclear age, the balance of power can no longer be measured in numbers of divisions. But mostly it is because, especially since Geneva, the French simply do not believe in war any more. This is the most striking as pect of the new mood of France. It is not optimism, exactly any sensible Frenchman would furiously resent being called an optimist. It is a "relaxation of tensions" so complete as to amount to a condition of total nervelessness. THIS nerveless complacency is known as "the spirit of Ge neva." The spirit of Geneva re cently found appropriate expres sion when the Senate Committee on National Defense voted over whelmingly to reduce the term of conscription from 18 months which the NATO experts have long regarded as inadequate to sixteen months. The wisest American observ ers here believe that Geneva was a net plus for the United States as far as France is concerned, for one simple reason. Geneva knocked into a cocked hat the almost universal French image of American policy as inflexible and warlike. This is a real achievement, but nerveless com placency in America's pricipal Continental ally may in the end prove a high price to pay for it Yet there is one subject which still causes French nerves to jump and jangle. The subject is, of course, the mounting crisis in North Africa. The French re action today to the North Afri can crisis is oddly reminiscent of the passionate paralysis which was the French reaction to Indo china six or seven years ago which is one reason why this re porter will soon fly to North Africa for a first-hand look. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Pipeline Construction Delayed by Holdouts Ontario, Ore. (U.R) Con struction of the Ontario to Her- miston section of the Pacific Northwest Pipeline corporation's transmission line to the Pacific Northwest has been held up for at least 30 days by several land owner holdouts two mile's north of here. Superintendent G. E. Beavers of Fulghum Construction Com pany, said prices demanded by the land owners amounted to a refusal to grant right of way for the pipeline across their land. He said delay of at least a month would result as the con tracting company must start con demnation proceedings in order to lay the pipe. Many of the 250 workers who were posed to start work yester day will be placed in a poor fi nancial position by the delay, Beavers reported. Industrial Production Sets Record in July Washington U.R) The Fed eral Reserve Board's index of industrial production hit a rec ord high in July. The board said the index reached 140. This was an ad vance of one point from June on a seasonally adjusted basis and a jump of 14 per cent above the index figure for a year ago. July was the 11th straight month in which an advance was recorded. In another development on the economic front, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported new housing starts declined 11 per cent in July. The drop was prin cipally due to a voluntary tight ening up on mortgage money as a result of competition for loans of all types. Domestication, of musk ox for farm use is being tested near Huntington Center, Vt., says the National Geographic Society. Back Stairs: Ike's Offices Get By WARREN DUFFEE United Press Correspondent Denver, Colo U.R) Back stairs at the summer White House: President Eisenhower is trav eling lighter on his work-and-play vacation this year a smal ler staff of office workers and a smaller press cadre. The Denver White House staff is smaller by a half-dozen this summer, largely because the President stayed in Washington long enough to clear up the leg islative work Congress left for him. The press corps is smaller because Mr. Eisenhower hasn't scheduled the side trips he took last year, and there is no con gressional election campaign to add to the interest in the chief executive's every word and vis itor. Twenty-five reporters and photographers from Washington are here this. year. The President's offices get smaller and plainer as he ac quires each new one. His office By FRANK JENKINS Lessons of history note: Police throughout England have been alerted to watch for an armed band of about 20 men who raided a British barracks near Reading and seized a quan tity of ammunition and arms. The raiders, some of them wearing British uniforms, were identified as members of the out lawed Irish Republican Army. The outlawed Irish army is pledged to fight the political par tition of Ireland, where six northern counties are still a po litical part of Britain. TT MIGHT be a good idea for -- the big boys in the Kremlin to take a day off some time and read up on the situation of which this Irish Republican1 Army is the modern hangover. It got stared back in the 12th century when England's Norman conquerors stuck their noses into Ireland's affairs. They inter vened in the first place in behalf of a deposed Irish king, but that was only an excuse. What they wanted was IRISH LAND. The ruckus that started then has been going on, in one form and another, ever since. The af fair in Reading was just an insig nificant incident in the eight centuries of turmoil that fol lowed the first Norman invasion in 1171. IN THE closing weeks of World War II, the Russians grabbed the eastern part of Germany They are still hanging onto it, It is probable that they will hang onto it as long as they can. Ireland has been a hot potato. and over these eight centuries there have b een many times when the English have wished they could drop it and be done with it. It isn't at all improbable that the Russians will find Ger many an equally hot potato. IHEN one speaks of potatoes. " one thinks naturally of the Irish. How come? Well, it's a' long story. The Norman-English invaders of Ireland were feudal lords Following the pleasant feudal custom, they divided the con quered land up into vast feudal estates and these estates were bestowed by the sovereign upon his nobles. The people, being mere serfs, went with the land. As the centuries passed, they rose from the lowly estate of serfs to the somewhat higher one of tenants. As tenants, they paid what we call "grain rent." And, as time passed, the rent was steadily RAISED on them until after paying their rent they didn't have enough left to feed themselves. t TTERE is where the potato " psmn in The potato was first discov ered by white men in South America, and from there it was taken back to Europe, where it was improved enormously in size and quality. In time, it reached Ireland, whose cool climate was well adapted to it. The Irish took to.it in a big way, and used it as a substitute for the grain that was taken away from them by the land lords. They also learned how to make from it a peculiarly potent whiskey, which helped to dull the sharp edge of their woe. That is how Irishmen and po tatoes came to be associated more or less indissolubly in the public thinking. THERE'S one more chapter. Tn thp 1840s there was an almost total failure of the potato crop in Ireland which resulted in terrible famine. Thousands died of hunger and hundreds of thousands emigrated. That was when the big Irish emigration to America started an emigration that added a priceless strain to our national blood line. From those Irish immigrants came some of our best citizen ship. YOU KNOW Considering the present state of the potato market Which in considerable part is the result of declining per capita consumption of potatoes I can't help wishing we could get another BIG immigration of potato-eating Irish. In the Day's News at Lowry Air Force Base here is about half the size of his White House office and furnished only with a small desk, a few chairs, a side table and a rug. His new est office, on the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg, Pa., is about one-third the Lowry size, about six-by-eight and furnished with one small, unpainted desk, one chair, one lamp, one scatter rug and three wall book shelves. The President won't be cramp ed for living quarters on this Colorado trip, but those who travel with him are running in to some new competition on this score. Traveling earlier than they did last year, the Presi dents' party is hitting the peak of the Rocky Mountain tourist season. In addition, the new Air Force academy, located tempor arily at Denver's Lowry AFB, has brought a host of new resi dents to the area. And at Fraser, where the President does his fishing, workers on a major con struction project are using up much of the available living space. None of the Washington gang will have to tent it, though. Back in Washington, where it's hotter, newsmen for the Brit ish Broadcasting Corp. had an idea which would have cement ed Anglo-American relations for decades to come. One of their number brought up the notion of buying an air conditioner for the President's news conference room out of the "hardship" funds that BBC men receive for work ing in our steaming capital city. On The Side (Distributed by King What organization in this country having "and Sons" in the firm name has the most sons actively engaged in the business? Sam Sene and Sons, Chicago, specializing in tuxedo and full dress suit rentals, includes Sam, the father, and six sons. Can you top it? Among the Married The majority of American hus bands consider ability as a home manager, the most important of a wife's talents. After that a pleasant disposition and loyalty. Or, so I note it claimed. I cannot agree that housekeeping ability should be rated tops in selecting a matrimonial mate. The best type of wife is a sympathetic girl with a sense of humor who has had some experience in the business world. If a wife can be sympathetic, gay and reasonably careful in handling money, many of her faults as a cook or house keeper can be overlooked by discerning men of experience. the husband who wants hotel service in the home is 'usually no bargain as a matrimonial mate. Losing Weight Note it said that Don New- combe, Dodger twirler, lost 12 pounds pitching one game on a hot afternoon in St. Louis, Brings to mind I once lost 14 pounds one hot October after noon playing in a football game in Hoboken, N.J., against the Stevens Institute. Before the contest I weighed 190 pounds, lifter 176! In a Few Words It was Mark Twain, who said "Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Dr. Samuel John son observed: "A second mar riage is a triumph of hope over experience." Salvador de Madar lago said: "A drunkard is a man who wants to get rid of himself and can do so by no other means Asking Queries from clients. Q. How long has Ronald Coleman been m films? A. Thirty-eight vears First appeared in British films, ms iirst American film was "The White Sister," in which he was leading man for Lillian Gish. ... Q. In what year was the song titled "Whispering' written? A. In 1921 bv John Schonberger, Richard C o b u r n and Vincent Rose. It may inter est you to know that "Whisper ing" is referred to by Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic. who have been happily married for 33 years, as "our sone." In lact, the orchestra was playing that tune when Guthrie pro posed to Katharine on the roof garden of the Pennsylvania (now the Statler) Hotel in Manhattan. Utner songs on the 1921 hit parade were "April Showers." Athletic Beggar Receives 30 Days Newark. N. J. (U.R) Detec tive Benjamin Zager said he arrested Harris Brent, 47, of Nashville, Tenn.. when he saw Brent spring athletically onto a bus while carrying some braces. Zager told a judge Monday he had seen Brent a short time before the arrest, begging on a Newark street while wear ing heavy braces on his legs. The judge gave Brent 30 days to think it over in Newark jail. JAPAN FISHERMEN DROWN Kushiro, Japan (U.R) The Maritime Safety Office reported today that 156 Japanese fisher men have drowned and 234 are missing so far in the north Pa cific salmon and trout season. During the season, which began Mav 1 and will end m late August, 35 boats have been sunk or are missing and 37 have Deen damaged. Smaller o It was so hot in the room during the last pre-vacation session that when an usher announced "193 on the floor" (to indicate the number present), one newsman asked if he meant the tempera ture. The President has also had some things to say about the need for air conditioning, but still no air conditioning. The White House, of course, is air conditioned. But the news conferences are held on the third floor of the old State, War and Navy building across the street. The President's whereabouts are of interest to the whole world, and of particular interest to the groups who want him' to be where they are. The desire to" have the chief executive visit one's club, convention or city can be so feverish that some times people start imagining things. The other day, in the short space of an hour, the White Hause had. to deny reports Mr. Eisenhower was headed for Mi ami, Chicago and San Frencisco. Mr. Eisenhower has taken a rain check on one ladies break fast invitation. Without knowing it in advance, the President was the first man out on the links at the Gettysburg Country Club's ladies' day last Tuesday. The la dies were just sitting down to, a club breakfast when he finished his first nine holes, and they in vited him in for a doughnut and coffee. The President said he had to play on and get back to work at his farm. By E. V. Durl.ng o Foftire Syndicate. Inc.) "I'm Just Wild About Harry," "My Man," "Second Hand Rose," "Three o'Clock in the Morning" and "When Frances Dances With Me." Get it Right "You refer to Ross Young, New York Giant outfielder, of the past. No man of that name ever played for the New York Giants. Want to bet?" So writes a Baltimorean. What the gentle man has in mind no doubt is that the great Giant outfielder's real name was Royce Youngs. However, his argument is with out much sense. It is the same Q as saying there never was a film actress named Mary Pickford be cause her real name was Gladys Smith. Designers The leading British corset de signer is a husky six foot war0 veteran named Denis Brigham. Why is that the most skillful designers of foundation gar ments are men? It could be be cause the male approach toothe design is . scientific rather than decorative. The male designer's chief aim is to make the gar ment tn. to accomplish what it is intended to in the battle of the bulge. The feminine corset designer probably thinks too much as to how the garment is going to look. Hells Canyon Group Voles Court Fight Portland U.R) The board of directors of the National Hells Canyon association voted yester day to carry the fight against private development of the Hells Canyon area to the U.S. Supreme court if necessary. James T. Marr, president of the four-state group, said direc tors decided their first move would be to file with the Federal Power Commission a mntinn fnr rehearing of the case. The FPC recently granted Idaho Power company a go-ahead for three low-level dams in the Hells Can yon reach of the Snake river. The NHCA wants federal de velopment of a high dam. Marr said that in event of a denial of a motion for a rehear ing, the association would take its case to court, either the Dis trict Court of Appeals in Wash ington, DC, or the Ninth Cir cuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Milk Producers Ask For Higher Prices Eugene (U.R) Oregon Milk Producers met here yesterday and decided to gc along with action taken by Grade A Milk Producers in the Portland area last week by asking distributors for a 46-cent increase per hun dred pounds of milk starting Sept. 1. Manager Lester Adams said the increase was needed to meet rising costs and prevent more decline in milk production. He said many dairymen would be forced out of business unless the increase is granted. Volcano Entertains ourists in Sicily Catamo, Sicily (U.R) Etna volcano threw pieces of redhot rock 500 feet into the air Mon day night in a spectacular dis play for thousands of holiday tourists. Visitors to Taormina and other towns for the Ferragosto holiday watched as the rocks and lava poured from the crater. Experts said there was no dan ger to the villages on the slopes. tna has been in a state of inter mittent eruption for 48 days. O f
