In The Day's News
BY FRANK JENKINS
I suppose yo're at least causal
ly aware of the ruckus that has
risen over the alleged demand
of three U.S. senators that mil
itary planes be sent over to
bring them and their wives back
from a junket in Europe.
The point of it is that if they
ad returned by regular civilian
passenger planes the cost would
have been PEANUTS whereas
the cost of getting them home
by special military planes would
have to be reckoned in FOLD
ING MONEY.
where in a few years more they
will be SUPPLYING ALL THE
COTTON THE WORLD NEEDS.
In that event, all that would
be left to do with our cotton
surplus (above our domestic
needs) would be to pile it up in
government warehouses.
rpHE PENTAGON said the oth
er , day that special planes
had to be dispatched to Europe
to bring the senatorial globe'
trotters back at a cost of $20,-
000. Two of the senators say it
AIN'ToSO that they're return
ing to Washington on a reguiarly
scheduled military flight.
WHO'S right?
" I wouldn't know.
The senators could have call
ed for the special planes (which,
of course, would be a nice way
to return from Europe)' and
then, when they heard the po
litical uproar which COULD
threaten their political future,
they could have claimed they
- didn't do any such thing.
And
We must- keep in mind the
fact that our federal govern
ment has become so immense
and sprawling that no human
mind can handle all its details.
-Someone among the tens of
thousands who werk in the Pent
agon building could have pulled
an unintentional boner.
f ARKET news note:
Cotton future prices . broke
sharply on the New York cot
ton exchange, with some con
tracts down more than $7 a
bale in early trading.
Brokers said the severe break
followed a wave of selling on
the Liverpool (England cotton
exchange, triggered by authorita
tive forecasts of xising cotton
production in areas other than
the United States.
The International Cotton Ad
visory Committee said that if
foreign, cotton production main
tains its Dresent rising trend
THE WORLD IN A FEW YEARS
MAY BECOME WHOLLY IN
DEPENDENT OF U.S. COTTON
ITHAT is to say:
Continued high parity sup
port has kept American cotton
pricey so HIGH that foreign na
tions have increased their cot
ton production to the . point
T HATE to keep harping on this
farm price support string.. But
it is so TERRIBLY important to
the future of American agri
culture. If the political farmers succeed
in doing what they so obviously
have in mind which is to buy
farm state votes by the process
of pledging themselves to con
tinued high price support for
American farm products, regard
less of supply and demand
they will destroy our agricultur
al economy.
We can't go on FOREVER
piling up surplus ctops in gov
ernment wareshouses at taxpay
er expense.
TT ISN'T just a political Issue
in which the Republicans line1
up on one side and the Dem
ocrats on the other. Unfortunate
ly, there are Republican poli
ticians who are not above dab-
Win? their tres in this business
of selling the long-term agn
cultural economy to their coun
try down the river for a mess of
political pottage.
Mi. Shasta Survey
Contract Signed
Mt. Shasta, Calif . U.R) A
contract for survey and prelimi
nary engineering work on a pro
posed ski resort development on
Mt. Shasta has been signed.
The Heron Engineering Co.,
Denver, Colo., will make a thor
ough engineering survey of the
Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl terrain, in
cluding location of possible ski
lift lines, snow depth, slides,
weather conditions, and . other
data pertinent to construction of
a major lift in the area.
A $1,000 deposit accompanied
the contract, which was mailed
to the Denver firm last week
end. The money was raised by
the Mt. Shasta Chair Lift De
velopment committee from mer
chants in Mt. Shasta, Dunsmuir,
Weed, Yreka and Redding. Total
costs of the preliminary work
are estimated at $5,000, and
some $4,000 has already been
raised, according to George R.
Schrader, executive secretary
of the committee.
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Sen. Morse Has
First Grandchild
Portland !U.R) Sen. and Mrs.
Wayne Morse received word
here yesterday that they had be
come grandparents for the first
time.
The Senator got a telegram
from his eldest daughter, Nancy,
in Hartesville, S.C., which read:
"Dear Grandfather. How are
you. I am fine. Weigh seven
pounds. Mother, daddy and
grandmother fine. All my love.
Signed Melanie Campbell."
Mrs. Campbell, the former
Nancy- Morse, is married to a
pulp-and-paper business execu
tive in Hartsville. Morse said he
will fly to South Carolina in No
vember to see his granddaughter.
Is That So?
Many" popular notions about
the world around us have been
in circulation so long that we re
gard them as basic truths. To
dissipate some of , .these en
trenched old, guides' tales, here
another helping of ' facts vs fal
lacies. Fallacy: Snow is frozen rain.
Fact: Sleet, not snow, is frozen
rain. Snow., which is formed by
the condensation of moisture at
temperatures below freezing,
falls directly as snow from the
clouds.
Fallacy: In our northern hem
isphere, summer is warmer than
winter beccftise the earth is near
er to the sun. . '
Fact: Quite the contrary
we're actually nearest the sun
on Jan. 2, during the height of
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturjliit
winter. Because of the tilting
of the earth on its axis, the sun's
rays are more slanting and the
aays are shorter so we fail to
get the full benefit of the sun's
heat
Fallacy: A shark always turns
belly-up to bite its victim.
Fact: True enough, a shark
Wednesday, October 28. 1955
MEDFORD 'OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
often does turn over in order
to attack or grip its prey more
advantageously in its undershot
jaws but don't count on it it
can bite most effectively while
in a normal position. ; ; ,
Fallacy: Moss grows thickest
on the north side of trees.
Fact: Drugstore woodsmen to
the contrary, moss need not
grow on the north side of the
tree. Moss growth depends
chiefly on two other things: the
exposure of the land and the
direction of the prevailing winds.
Fallacy: The beaver frequent
ly uses its tail as a trowel to
carry mud end to plaster the
face of its dam or the interior
of its lodge.,
Fact: Although I have seen
artist's renditions, of this, it is
a wholly false belief. He does
no plastering with ' it and he
does not cull it ud under nis
body to carry loads. Nonethe
less, he does put the tail, to
many uses: 't is a rudder while
swimming, . a prop when stand
ing on his hind feet particul
arly when gnawing down tree;
pnd by whacking it smartly up
on the water, a signal.
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