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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ' "Everybody In Southern Orefoa D I . Mail Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 Norta III at. Phone TT IVW ill. awww : HERB GREY Advertiain Manager -Z. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCHEB. Society Editor v a sits- I A IVC AM CianlV stHitiW GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot Marcn , ioi SUBSCRIPTION RATES r t a Cor- innv 10c Daily and Sunday-One year $12.00 -..:' i a Civ rrninth 6.50 y Daily and Sunday Threa mos 350 r Sunday uruy tw i; . : T A A,?-anr MedlOrd, y B" r Point Shady cove. and on motor rouiea. ,nn pail, ,d Sunday-One year 150 uauy ana '"-, i Carrier ana ukuci ,j Official Paper of the City oi "J"'"' All Terma i-mq " ""'"" Official raper pi : iTtoH Prwia FuU Leased Wire U1UICU M. w . .. "member OF AUDIT BUKAU Advertising "epr-jM-" Office, in New York. CWcago I & "Por&and! St Atlanta. Vancouver, g.i NATIONAL DTORAl assooa.14 s NIWIPAPIt PUBllHII ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 18, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Medford elementary and jun eioPhigh schools open with in crease of 12.7 per cent over last year. Teachers needed badly. From ' Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: H. Bridges, formerly of Australia, . whose labor tantrums stirred the Pa cific coast a few years back, has been ordained an American citi zen. He no longer enjoys the privileges of an alien agitator, and if he don't behave himself will have to stay in America. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1935 (It was Wednesday)"1 Rogue River National forest now has huge tractor capable of doing the work of 50 men in clearing a fire lane. Cocktail college started in Portland to. teach art of drink mixing. ; 30 YEARS 'AGO Sept. 18. 1925 (It was Friday) Jacksonville thinking of buy ing Barnum railroad running from Jacksonville to Medford. From the Local and Personal column: Water users in the third ward are reminded that water , was delinquent Sept. 15. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1915 (It was Saturday) Lights to be installed so night work can continue on dam con struction at Fish lake. Farmers and tax payers of Central Point organize Farmers and Taxpayers league to "pro mote xne general weuare." What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? . Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Repari 1. So-called "comic" books are read by one-third, one-half, two-thirds or 'more than two thirds of all children between 6 and 17? 2. Which of these has the highest net per cent annual pop ulation increase today: France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the U.S.? 4. The thyroid gland is in the, skull, .neck, upper or lower part of the torso? 5. About 140, 400. 1400, 4000 or 14.000 bills of public scope (not affecting only an individ ual) were enacted by Congress this year? 6. Has any man been elected President after marrying a di vorced woman? 7. The real surname of which notorious racketeer is Castiglia? The Answers:. 1. Mere than two-thirds. 2. U.S. 3. Is. 4. Neck; 5. About 400. 6. Yes, Andrew Jackson. 7. Frank Cottello. . Shady Cove Grange Shady Cove Grange met the evening of Sept 12 with Master Reed McKay conducting the meeting. Plans were made for Booster night Oct 29, and for other functions of the Grange for the remainder of the year. At the next Grange visitation Upper Applegate will go to Grif fin Creek, Sept. 22. The meet ing will be held in the school gymnasium. Ladies are reminded that the fruit for the sugar contest will be judged at the next Pamona meeting Oct 22 at Lake Creek starting at 10 a.m. MAIL TRIBUNE I 1 LUIIUIiai UI.GJUIIUGIIU II ' San Francisco. Calif., Sept. couple of days of rain everything washed clean including the President liner "President Cleveland' where greatly to their surprise and ours we saw the Orient. mi i ; (.nnarlv nf ford, (now of Carmel, California) have always been great travel ers but this will be their first trip west of Honolulu. Their first stop will be Japan where they expect to stay for two or three weeks, then on to China ana xnanana Deiuie u - o: rr.u,... v.ob- ctrmninsf for a week in Hawaii where they will visit their old now stationed there. The Aldriches Uvea in jvieaiuru xur a iCw - ..j onitiiro for the government. years, Jtsui niaiung a. oiuuy ui. i - --- with particular reference to horticultural pathology. He is now doing much the same ior me Only a short time before leaving Medford we discovered the Carpenters were sailing today, ana as xne uajueu- after eleven and it is usually around 1 a.m. before one can be iiij i i.ti Anht4 i-f is, a nuld see the President Cleve- land depart at noon. But we made it with time to spare and had a fine visit with our long-time irienas, mciuumg a wu. w. one of the finest and newest in the Far East service, including elevators, sunshine restaurants, presidential suites, ball rooms, etc., etc. Thought this quite adventurous and zippy on the part of the "Carps," who (along with a few others) are not as young as they used to be who is? but they claimed no special credit, merely v, ,.,nriH that nrnmises to be more and more important as time goes on, and - ii t,,, ..J iric more ux mc umci uuj o - - less their credit at the bank has disappeared, for as G.T. would no doubt agree foreign travel takes money. Tht taxi-man un from the ferry gave us some bad news taxi rTrivprq are alwavs full of it though he thought this news was good for he happens to be a Yankee Fan. The Yankees won and Cleveland lost, putting the latter only a game ahead of the many time champs too many for this department. But while there is life there is hope. If betting were not wicked C) years ago we would put our money on the New Yorkers to win the title and 20 on to beat Brooklyn! We don't know what it is exactly, but whatever it is, those "damned Yankees" always seem to play their best when the pressure is greatest and that is the "sine qua non" of all true champions in every sport. As usual we had to give the taxi man a lecture on Medford and Southern Oregon. When he mentioned the two days rain here he passed out the inevitable "but you folks are used to that, coming from Oregon!" We told him the average rainfall in Med ford is only about, half what it is here on the Golden Gate. He expressed surprise, and it was quite obvious from the way he said it, he didn't believe a word of what we said R.W.R. San Francisco, Sept. 16 Perhaps there have been periods when San Francisco has not been host to some convention, but we certainly were not present. The state doctors and lawyers are meet ing in convention here now, and next week there will be some thing else. The smog at L.A. may have something to do with this. At least we can imagine no one wishing to assemble in Los Ange les if such an ordeal could be avoided. The golden gate area in contrast has no smog and an invigorating all-around climate, this time of year, that is hard to beat. Conventions are just dandy for local hotels and business houses but we doubt if anyone else, out side of the delegates themselves enjoy them. (Imagine what it will be like when the Republicans hold their presidential convention here next year!) .. . . Another reason for the local congestion, particularly in the hotels, is the opening of the Grand Opera season. It is not only traditional here in-S.F. to give a dinner or dine-out before the opera, it is still fashionable the opera that is. The Chronicle this morning for example devoted four pages to names of opera goers in the upper social-brackets, with descriptions of the gals' gowns in detail and many artistic photographs. We noted the wives of four prominent S.F. .merchants were given. top billing.. We don't wish to imply there was ANY direct connection, but of course this. action should not HURT advertising! ; Among those present and pictured was Miss Dolly Fritz who is not only a $9,000,000 heiress but is young, svelte and at tractive. She was snapped with her favorite- boy friend Philip Stevenson. We don't know a thing about young Stevenson but imagine from his picture he isn't descended from the Robert Louis branch of the family once residents of Monterey. (No goatee, no mustache, no long hair, no Windsor tie!) ' . The old and excellent Palace hotel is now sporting a hyphenat ed name the "Sheraton-Palace." We trust the oysters .Rockefeller are unchanged as well as-the Palm Court salad. Last night the visiting lawyers held a "banquet there for themselves and the local bar. Lewis W. Douglas, former Ambassador to Great Britain, gave the principal address, and while he recently lost the sight of one eye, he has apparently lost none of his vision intellectually or politically for this was his opening statement, quote: "Co-existence is better than no-existence and two worlds are better than none." ', Senator McCarthy, we trust, being a member of the bar, listen ed in and will profit by it! ..'" '"'' The football season opens here tomorrow with Stanford play ing College of Pacific and SF State playing San Quentin. All the experts pick Stanford and SF State, but considering the require ments of the modern game and the prevailing odds, we would advise the smart-money boys to pick COP and San Quentin espe cially the latter. The Democrats had a $100-a-plate dinner the night we arrived but we were not invited. We doubt if Thomas Jefferson would have favored a $100 entrance fee to a party dinner. He lived very well and had two butlers (colored) but in those days we fear few of his contemporaries would have been able to round up more than $2.50 for a single meal no matter what the partisan pressure. T.J. might have invited a couple of guests for he like George Washington was pretty well heeled for those days, but he liked a crowd, and always had an eye out for the boys and girls in the lower-brackets. R.W.R. Today and By Walter ADENAUER IN MOSCOW There is no necessary connec tion between what was agreed to in Moscow and the spectacular drama of Dr. Adenauer's vis it to the Krem lin. For the project of es tablishing dip lomatic rela tions between Bonn and Mos cow has been in the works Walter Lippmann at least since the spring, since before the So viet government sent its public invitation to Dr. Adenauer. There were private talks, at first through unofficial channels, some months ago. And the basic decision of policy had been reached in Bonn, presumably also in Moscow, by the time West j Sunday, September 18. 1955 15 A beautiful day here after a Leonard carpenters ou to we Vpritji Orchards east of Med- friends the Bill Aldnches, who are await Pmw they had never seen. More and chnnlf? follow their example, in- and hadn't been given up many Lippmann Germany joined NATO. Neither government came to its decision in order to do the other one a favor, and almost certainly there is no ground for the notion that the one had some thing valuable to sell which the other needed to buy. Bonn, hav ing recovered sovereignty, con cluded quite rightly that it ought to be represented directly in Moscow and that Moscow should be represented directly in Bonn, while the fate of Germany wag being negotiated. Not to have diplomatic relations meant that the Bonn government had to depend on what was reported by the allied ambassadors in Mos cow to London, Paris and Wash ington, and then relayed to Bonn. This indirect and awkward way. of doing the business that has to be done was bound to lead not only to inisunderstaiidlng and Rail Competition Governor Paul Patterson is tn rercivA a recom mendation from his transportation advisory commit- taa f Vi n f Vi n lnifTofrt J- f iic uiii-ioic oiuuies miu ways ana means 01 providing rail competition into southwestern Oregon and other area of the state where the Southern Pacific company now has a monopoly. The committee's 8 to 4 decision to advocate rail competition is an outstanding victory against tre mendous odds for Public Utilities Commissioner Charles Heltzel and his staff. The commissioner and his aides furnished the committee with such over whelming proof of deliberate transportation discrim ination against the State of Oregon, and particularly the non-competitive areas on the Southern Pacific system that the committee not only recommended official support for competitive operation, but gave the PUC a unanimous vote of confidence by con firming its findings. COUTHERN Pacific company officials put up a determined fight to discredit the PUC investiga tion, but could not overcome the weight of evidence, painstakingly obtained by PUC personnel and sup ported by photostatic copies of records, affidavits and other data. Clifford W. Ferguson, state supervisor of rail transportation, who has directed much of the investi gation, gave the committee point-by-point records in proof of discrimination. He proved that plants in competitive areas have been given ample supplies of cars during shortage periods, while mills in non-competitive areas were shorted. IIE ALSO gave the committee evidence that while shippers in competitive areas of Washington and California were receiving all the cars they required, many Oregon shippers were getting only a fraction of their needs. Not only has discrimination been general in the past, but it has continued in violation of emergency orders issued last August for equal distribution, the committee was told. Ferguson and his assistants cited as an example the Cascade Plywood plant near Lebanon, supplied by a subsidiary of northern lines, which had been given a consistent and complete supply of 50-foot, double-door box cars, while plants in Southern Pacific non-competitive areas were getting only about 40 per cent of orders. Santiam Lumber Co., for example, in the same general area, but dependent upon the South ern Pacific, had only a fraction of the cars needed. 17R0M May 24 to July mills, were sweating for told, Oregon Pulp & Paper and five other shippers in the Salem area, where the Southern Pacific has competition from Oregon Electric, received 100 per cent of their car orders. In from August 2 through 19, were filled. The Great Northern railroad is a com petitor, at Klamatn Falls. During the same period, Roseburg, Sutherlin and Grants Pass shippers were averaging from 45 to 70 according to Ferguson. PUC investigators did not confine their inquiries to Oregon alone. The Public Utilities Commission for the State of Washington reported in late August that railroads were complaining about investigations by Oregon commission representatives. The Washington commission furnished men to accompany Oregon in vestigators in later inquiries. ,,.. COUTHERN Pacific company Officials denied each -and every charge of discrimination, even chal lenging the figures of the advisory committee chair man that Oregon's car shortage averaged 30 per cent as compared with a national average of only three per cent. ; Figures gathered by the accepted by the committee evidence of continuing discrimination. The PUC has repeatedly insisted in statements to the committee that competition is the only long range solution to the problem of discrimination, ine committee, which includes a majority of very con servative members, has, by its report, accepted the PUC viewpoint. Here in Douglas County we've been aware of the solution for a great many years. It has been hard, however to obtain recognition for our need. The facts now are out in the open. Official action may follow, although it's too early to get optimistic. Roseburg News-Review confusion but also to more and more secret and semi-official contact with the Soviet Union and with East Germany. We may be sure that Moscow also had its reasons for wishing to establish direct relations with Bonn. By no means the least of these reasons must surelv have been that the two embassy staffs will nave unofficial official talks that are unchaperoned. by the foreign office and the state de partment. - , x "fipiAT has now been accom- plished in Mosctow at least publicly and off icially is all that was planned for or expected when these negotiations beean some months ago. It was prob able from the beginning that there would be a concession on the Drisoners. and that the real issue would be how much prestige the Kremlin would let Dr. Aden auer get out ofthe concessions, how much prestige it would re serve for its satellite government in East Germany. At the level of substance, not of politics and of public rela 1, while Southern Oregon cars, the committee, was the Klamath rails region, it was stated, all car orders per cent of their orders, . - PUC staff, however, were as supplying indisputable tions, the reunification of Ger many was not an immediate and urgent subject of negotiation. That is because there is no way now of coming to an agreement on the eastern frontier of Ger many. If Moscow were to say, which of course it will not, that Dr. Adenauer can have the entire East German state, plus rearma ment Plus the alliance with NATO, Dr. Adenauer still could not sign a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. For Dr. Adenauer cannot agree to the loss of the territory beyond the Oder-Neisse line. - Moscow for its part cannot now give up to Dr. Adenauer that territory or any part of it To do so would wreck Soviet re lations with Poland. For this reason, a lot of water is going to have to flow under the bridge before German reuni fication can be taken much be yond the most tentative begin nings. " - DIPLOMATIC relations could have been established with out the visit, and at the official In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs stuff: What of Germany? WiU she stay on our side? Or will she (eventually; not right away) go over to Russia? Or Will she go NEUTRAL? T WOULDN'T know. As of now, Russia has an ace in the hole. SHE HOLDS EAST GERMANY. She can tell the Germans: "Come over on our side and we'll give East Ger many back to you." Germany wants to be reunited, just as wed want to be reunited if somebody had split our country apart TtCUCH depends on Adenauer. He's a grand old man. He has courage. He has patriotism. He has righteousness. The Ger mans have faith in him. But he's OLD nearing 80. There is so much for him to do and he has so little time left. rpHE POLITICAL fanners (who farm the farmers for votes in stead of farming the land for crops) are doing a lot of talking, today. Democratic Congressman Har old Cooley of North Carolina, chairman of the house agricul ture committee, says: "Farm in come has droDned 30 Der cent in the past seven years. The sit uation in agriculture today is a frightening parallel to what hap pened in the years before the great depression of the 1930s." He adds: "A farm recession vi creep ing again over our land." T ETS take a sharp look at this J-i "frightening paraUel" he's talking about. The drop in farm income "in the years before the great de pression of the 1930s" began to BITE HARD about 1925. That was about seven years after World War I. .The, present drop in farm in come began to bite about 1952 That was seven years after World War IL THIS IS the REAL parallel: - - WAR, which stimulates con sumption of agricultural prod ucts, results in a farm boom. During wars, agricultural pro duction is greatly expanded. when the war ends, overproduc tion results in declining farm prices. It always has been that Way, and it always will be that way, TN WORLD War I, the Demo- crats, were in power. The Re publicans followed them. So, in the 1920s, the Republicans were held responsible for the farm slump. In World War II, the Democrats were in power and again the Republicans followed them. AGAIN the Republicans are being held responsible for the farm slump. If the Republicans had been in power in World War I and had been foUowed by the Demo crats, they would have charged that the farm slump of the 1920s was brought on by the Demo crats. It would have been the same if the GOP had been in power during World War II. The Republicans would now be charging the Democrats with responsibility for , the present slump in farm prices. rTHAT'S THE way political farmers work. They farm the farmer for votes instead of farm ing the land for crops. Keep this in mind: . When what is presently wrong with agriculture is cured, it will be cured by sound economists and able-minded dirt farmers. level the visit did nothing, as was to be expected, about a Ger man settlement. Yet almost cer tainly both governments thought that the visit was useful and that they bad something to gain by it. Dr. Adenauer was able to do away with the charge made by many of his German opponents that he is disqualified to negoti ate with the Soviet Union. The Soviet . government . has now treated the federal republic as a European power. . Moscow, on the other hand, will new have an embassy in Bonn. It will be able to make contact not only with the Ade nauer government but with the more or less dissident members of the government coalition, and with the Social Democratic op position. ; ,, We need have no fear that any secret understanding was reached in Moseow. Dr. Adenauer is a man of his word. The situation is not ripe for negotiations about the big issue. It is not ripe on the Soviet side, neither is it ripe on the German side.- For neither can now settle the territorial issues. The best they, can do now is to deal with issues, like the prison ers, like cultural intercourse and travel, like trade, which are solu ble within the existing territorial situation. . T . - Copyright, 1955, New York - Herald Tribune, Inc. Brazil's Senate building in Rio de Janeiro once was one of the show places of St. Louis, Mo. Ornate Monroe Palace, named for the fifth President of the United States! housed Brazil's ex hibits at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. It was disassembled, moved to Rio, and reconstructed there facing Floriano Square.. POYILUCGC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Stephen Swedeburg, son of Mrs. Daniel Bulebar, 1123 Court st., who is stationed with an Army weather squadron, sta tioned with Jhe Air Force in Japan, was in. on the forest-fire doings hereabout recently. A radio operator, he picked up reports of the Rogue River and Klamath National forest fires as they were relayed by amateur operators in this area. One of the Mail Tribune's "country correspondents" used her head while" writing a column of local doings she mailed in recently. Several of the names in her story were highly unusuaL and rather than leaving the editorial staff ' to wonder if they were spelled correctly, she put the follow ing right after the paragraph telling about them: "(These names sound and look funny, but are correct)" We've forgotten whether or not Oregon is classed as a "com munity property" state, but ap parently there's at least one hus- band-and-wife who feel that it is. She was overheard to remark to him, as she started to write an address at a post office desk, "You'd better let me have your glasses, dear." Jack Woods, supervisor of the Rogue River National for est, spent a lot of time in the woods during the forest fires recently. One such trip was to inspect the huge Haystack fire which for a time threat ened to slop over -.into the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. . , Log Truck Danger? i To the Editor:' I thought it weU to tell you of a trip my wife and I made to your city last month, why we made it, and our reaction. For quite some time we had been hearing good re ports about Medford as an ideal place for one to live in retire ment As we enjoy vacationing in the west we decided this year to go to Medford as another place to look at in our study of desirable places where we might some day want to settle. The surrounding county is beautiful as is practically aU of Oregon, but to enjoy the beauty is difficult because of the speed and recklessness of the loggers. We were warned to be on the lookout for the loggers because in Oregon they evidently have the right-of-way on the high ways. Of course, we never had any idea that the loggers would not be controlled on speed when hauling such loads but we found we had to be on the lookout for them at all times. After seeing one close accident after another and realizing that the accidents in practically all cases were avoided only by the alertness of the passenger car drivers, we decided to leave that part of the country as soon as possible. which we did and will have no desire to return. In discussing the recklessness of the loggers we were told that they are paid by the load and consequently they are more in terested in making money than in protecting lives.. It was also mentioned to us that no doubt some of the state officials are interested in the lumber business and consequently they are not attempting to slow down the loggers to protect lives. That, of course, is hard to believe. But, in view of the number of acci dents in which loggers are in volved and also that there are so many close accidents doesn't it seem strange that the citizens are not up in arms about it? Or are they? If the state officials are attempting to do something about it there is not much evi dence of it on the highways in the way of patrol officers. By this time you well know our reaction, to - living in the neighborhood of Medford and we certainly feel sorry for its citizens who are apt to have their lives snuffed out if they venture on 'the " highway. IsnH it time for your newspaper and the citizens to do something about it? It is hoped that this let ter might help just a little in any possible attempt to slow down the loggers and give some protection to your citizens. . . W. J. Wilkings, 2939 15th Ave., Moline, 111. Placing Responsibility To the Editor: In practically each issue of every publication mention is made of the increas ing problem of delinquency among juveniles. Children, or juveniles, arernimics and as such copy your conduct and mine. We choose to ignore the laws and caught berate the law and attempt to wheedle a low fine or suspended sentence from the court and are sometimes sucess- f ul in securing an acquittal even when the facts indicate guilt Is it any wonder then that the children, or juveniles, exhibit Rogue forest He got back from the trip and arrived at the Forest Ser vice warehouse on McAndrews road Just in time to find a grass fire burning merrily across the road.. The blase was extinguish eel by foresters, armed with shov ed. '.'.'- A staff member who used to b a stenographer, and who was something of an expert on a stenotype machine, recently was asked if she would be will ing to loan the machine to some one else. t She looked and looked all over the house, but couldn't find it. Suddenly she remember ed she'd taken it to "Your Of fice Boy" some time ago for repairs. She called Sam Colton and asked him to check to tee if it was there. He did and caUed back: "You can pick up your ma chine any time. It's been ready since June of 1953." A couple of sports fans (spectator variety) on the staff . were speculating about the pos sibility of big-time football in Medford. They thought that what should be done would be to get Southern Oregon college moved from Ashland to Medford, boosted in enroll ment to about 5.000 or 6.000. and re-named University -of Southern Oregon. The plan was dropped, how ever, when they discovered that it would probably become known as USO. an utter contempt for our lftr enforcement agencies? In too many instances if a child, or juvenile, ft brought before a court of justice he is admonished, then released to custody and control of the per sons who have already demon strated they cannot or. wiU not exercise gooift influence over him. O Parents and legal guardians are basically responsible for the proper conduct of their children and must realize this fact. It is the duty of law enforcement officers to bring violators 'be fore a court and to furnish evi dence pertaining to the alleged offense. We must insistQhat the judges in our courts of justice render their decisions fairly and without favoritism to any per son or group. It is possible that the'follow ing plan can assist in reducing misconduct and crime among our junior citizens: That upon establishment of guilt full publi city be given regarding the name , and address of the parents of the offender also that a state ment, as to their whereabouts and activity at the time of the offense be made, and further that the legal guardian or par ents be held equally liable un der the law for the offense com mitted. If this plan were adopted it would strike fear into some people, maybe even enough to cause them to become good par ents, and if adopted it would have to apply to aU not just an unfavored few. The above plan cannot harm any good family group and it has 'been clearly demonstrated that the plans adopted thus far have not served to decrease de linquency. Dan F. Krotz H, Chairman for Community Service, Steelhead Post 6881, VFW, Shady Cove, Ore. Smith Reportedly Fired From Post n Virgin Islands Washington ' (U.PJ Nolle R. Smith was reported Saturday to have been fired as insular. affairs commissioner for the Vir gin Islands. Smith had refused to resign. A. T. Lausi, director of the Interior department's office of territories, said Friday Smith was discharged by acting Gov. Charles K. Klauhch. Smith was named to the post by Archie Al exander, who resigned as Virgin Islands governor this summer. Gordon Nominated President Eisenhower has nominated Walter A. Gordon of Berkeley, Calif., to succeed Al exander. Lausi said Klaunch had requested the resignations of all officials named by Alexander as courtesy to Gordon. Current island law provides that appointees of the governor may serve at the wiU cf their ' chief or until a new governor is named and qualifies for the post :- - - . Lausi said Smith refused to resign because Gordon has not yet been confirmed by the Vir gin Islands legislature.
