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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribune 'Everybody In Southern Oregon ReacU Tha Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. -2T-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JK.. Managing tailor F.AHI. H. ADAMS- Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, iaa SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three him. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Ail lerms asn in ftavdiiL-c Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: tJiroT-Hl-ltliriAV COMPANY INC. Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION vJ J gmiinianiiic O" NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and to years ago. 10YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1346 at was Tuesday) Phoenix city council passes ordinance governing construc tion of buildings. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Jack Frost, a valley caller lor five morn ings straight, was today accom panied by Jim Fog, another non member of the Better Climate committee of the Cham, of Comm. 20 YEARS AGO , Jan- 15, 1938 at was Wednesday) Plans and specifications of a proposed $130,000 expansion of Medford airport completed for Portland office of PWA. George A. Codding -announces he will seek reelection as Jack son County District Attorney. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1926 at was Friday) Al Smith, governor of New York, announces he will retire from public life next January. Grant Matthews elected presi dent of Riverside Community club; other officers are Clar ence Boyd, vice-president; Mrs. Maude Champlin, secretary; Mrs. eelma Wohl, treasurer; Fred O'Kelly and Charles Gray, directors. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1916 (it was Saturday) . Rogue River Canal company announces plans to construct highline ditch from Bradshaw drop to Bear creek at Talent. "A three-story summer hotel on Rogue river at Elk creek almost completed; being built by W. G. McDonald. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7T . V Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Repeal 1. Benjamin Franklin was born 250 years ago in Baltimore, Boston, New , York, Philadel phia, Williamsburg (Va.) or Eng land? 2. Re-marriage of divorcees comes, on the average, one, three, five or seven years after the divorce? 3 3. States now have or haven't the right to choose their presi dential electors by Congression al districts instead of by state wide vote? 4. Southernmost U. S. city is Son Diego, Brownsville (Tex.), New Orleans, Mobile or Key West? 5. Most Methodists reporting in a national survey do or don't consider Sunday golf-playing as sinful? 6. Slivovitz is the national drink of Russia, Austria, Switz erland, Hungary, Greece, Yugo slavia or Turkey? 7. "Ask the man who owns one" used to be an advertising slogan for which car still being made? The answers: 1. Boston. 2. Three years. 3. Have. 4. Key West. 5. Most don't. 6. Yugo slavia. 7. Packard. EWES) Minnesota produces 2,000,000 board feet of lumber annually. Illinois motor vehicle registra tion in 1955 through October was 3,300,300, which was 160,000 more than in all of 1954. -A MAIL TRIBUNE An "Iffy" Question According to all the important polls, if President Eisenhower should not be a candidate for reelection, Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren would be far ahead of any other Republican aspirants. But if Justice Warren should be foolish enough to yield to party pressure and agree to run, he would have to abandon any hope of getting (as "Ike" did) any electoral votes in the Solid South. That verdict of the Supreme Court outlawing segregation in public schools would tend to that , AS Justice John Harlan, grandfather of the present Supreme Court member of the same name, said in his dissenting vote back in 1896 when the Supreme Court upheld segregation, quote: 'The constitution is color blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among its citizens." THAT is true today in the North, but it plainly is not true in the South. Virginia demonstrated this and on the same issue there is little doubt that the follow ing 12 states of the South would follow suit: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina. These states would add up to quite a package of electoral votes, Mr. Warren. THERE would also be opposition to Justice Warren from the isolationist-reactionary wing of the GOP. This would probably be headed by Republican leader Senator Knowland who is as anxious to get into the White House as he is to get a 50 reduction in his in come tax. , x For ex-Governor Warren was a member of the Liberal Wing of the Republican party in California and even opposed the imposition of a loyalty oath in the University of California. The Knowland fac tion put him far over on the left wing for that exhi bition of common sense and enlightenment. So if Justice Warren should be foolish enough to yield to pressure, and answer the call to save his party's honor (assuming of course Ike would NOT) California's ex-governor would not find the nomina tion any easy sailing, or presented to him, as was the case with Justice Hughes many years ago, on a silver platter. In other words he and his followers would have a fight on their hands in the convention. But as things look today, Warren would score a victory over both Southern opposition and the Knowland hatchet-squad and with President Eisen hower's aid and blessing would, in this paper's judg ment, be a very hard man to beat. DUT all this is what former President Franklin D. Roosevelt liked to call an "iffy question" very much so. For as was remarked in this column over a month ago, there is little doubt that unless he should suffer another heart attack, or his doctors should explicitly advise otherwise, the President will yield to the tre mendous pressure of his party leaders and agree to make the race for another 4-year term. The Mail Tribune hopes he does. Not because of any sense of duty as stressed by self-seeking politicians of the Joe Martin type, but because he WANTS to run, FEELS like it, and the best medical advice he can get, sees no reason from a physical standpoint, why he shouldn't. That would be good news for all ! R.W.R. Good News for Russia It is not pleasant to think that the issue of states rights and "nullification" were not settled by the Civil War. ' - But quite apparently they were not. The Supreme Court decided on November 25, 1955, that segregation in public schools of the U.S.A. is unconstitutional. To "nullify" this decree Virginia, Georgia, Missis sippi and many other southern states plan to amend their state constitutions so they can in effect abolish public schools, and by giving financial aid to private schools, continue their system of segregation on the basis of the pigmentation of the students' sarins. A ND we have representatives of the South in con egress maintaining solemnly that for the govern ment to interfere with educational regulations within any state is unconstitutional.' So there we are back where we the people and Abraham Lincoln started from. OOWEVER we don't expect there will be any sur- prise attack on Fort Sumter, or any secession movement south of the Mason & Dixon line. For many years the constitution has been violated as far as negroes in the South are concerned, in some states, for a negro to mark a ballot today at any election would be to risk his life and perhaps lose it. So our prediction is no U.S.. troops will be sent to Virginia or anywhere else in the South to enforce the Supreme Court decision. The decision probably will stand, and be observed in the North but not in the South at least in most portions of it and time will march on. However, in due course we hope Father Time will make this a country of, by and for the people ALL the people regardless of the color of skins, in fact as well as theory. ' THE serious side of this, segregation question is not r so much. here at home as it is abroad, particularly in Asia, Africa, and way stations where Soviet Russia is working so hard and to date -effectively to gain politicakcontrol. . Here' surely is grist for the Kremlin propaganda mill presented on a silver platter to Bulganin-Khrush-chev, et al, by the southern half of the U S A. R.W .R. Sunday, January IS. 1956 Today and By Walter THE NATIONAL CONSENSUS There is an old rule in Ameri can politics that as the elections come nearer, the differences in what the two parties offer become small er and small er. The rule seems to be working now. In his State of the Union mes sage, which is a comprehen sive platform Republicanism, Walter Lippman of Eisenhower the President has moved very far indeed into the ground occu pied by the Democrats. It re quires an effort to say how the Eisenhower social principles and social program differ in any fun damental sense from what, after some 30 years of trial and error, remains in the New DeaL i , TI7HATEVER one may think of Y this or that feature of it, there has developed a national consensus which makes it very difficult to draw sharp partisan issues on the legislation before Congress. There is a consensus among the Eisenhower Republic ans and the pain mass of the Democrats on the principle of social security, otherwise known as the welfare state. There is a consensus among them also on the principle that producers and consumers shall be protected against the unregulat ed impact of the open market. There is no genuine party issue on the subject of the tariff. There will . be differences be tween Eisenhower Republicans and the Democrats from the farm states on farm relief. But both parties are committed to the same principle once regard ed as heresy of government in tervention with subsidies and controls into the free market for farm products. There is probably not a single member of Congress today who would stand up and argue that it is not the duty of the federal government to at tempt, to protect the farmer's standard of life. WHERE are, it may be said, dif- ferences between the two par ties as to how these principles, on which they are agreed, are to be applied. In such matters as housing, power, the development of resources, health, education and highways, the Eisenhower Republicans prefer to work through measures to subsidize; to help and to protect private en terprise. The Democrats are more ready to use the govern ment itself in such undertakings. But even here the issues tend rather to cut across- than to run with the lines between the parties. Some, seeking further for dif ferences, have argued that the Eisenhower Republicans stand for the welfare and protective measures within a balanced budget; that the Democrats do not mind deficit spending. As a matter of fact, both parties are Editorial Comment LIES ABOUT RED CROSS None of the agencies that dedi cates itself to helping people in need suffers the abuses heaped upon the Red Cross. Until we had served three years ago as county Red Cross membership drive chairman we had not real ized the extent to which delib erate lies about the Red Cross were circulated. We wanted (and still do) to hang by the heels the authors of all the vicious stories that are told about the organization. This editorial from the Astorian-Budget hits some of the liars in the teeth: When Astoria had slides and the Red Cross came to the aid of local citizens; there was a widespread belief, disseminated by irresponsible gossip, that, the Red Cross required recipients of its help to pay back the money granted them. Apparently the Red Cross was victimized by similar malicious gossip when it came to the help of New England flood victims last year. No doubt similar tales are being spread in California and '" southern Oregon, where once again this year the Red Cross is helping those impover ished and made homeless by disaster. The current Red Cross news letter tells how New Haven, Conn., citizens killed the vicious rumors that the Red Cross was selling its services and supplies to flood victims. A group of leading New Haven citizens simply placed a large advertisement in newspa pers offering $500 reward to anyone who could prove the charges against the Red Cross. There were of course no tak ers. After five weeks, the escrow BROWN RESIGNS Klamath Falls (U.R Law rence Brown, manager of the Klamath Medical Service bur eau, Saturday announced his resignation effective as soon as a successor is found. Brown came here in 1948 from Portland where he had. been manager of the industrial Hospital associa tion. He did not state future plans. Tomorrow Lippmann now committed to the same fiscal doctrine, which descends from Keynes the doctrine of the com pensated economy under which in times of 'boom the Jpudget should be balanced with a sur plus, in good times it should be balanced without a surplus, in times of recession, it should be unbalanced with a deficit. We are now in a high industrial boom and quite properly the Eis enhower administration is in fa vor of balancing the budget with a surplus. But let there be a recession, if the unemployed begin to ap proach say five millions. The treasury and the Federal Reserve Board will reverse the engines in order to have the federal gov ernment spend more money than it takes in. THE real contest and conflict in our modern politics is not about legislative measures. It is about the administration of the government. It is about the way farm policy, the military estab lishment, fiscal affairs, the wel fare and protective measures are in fact conducted and operated. That is why the Presidency has become so paramount in our sys tem. For the Presidential office is the fountainhead of adminis tration. This may also be the ex planation of why the investiga tive power of Congress, which has to do with administration, has tended to become 'so much more controversial and impor tant than the legislative powers of Congress. It is also the reason why it is virtually impossible these days to think about any national ques tion without coming back very quickly to President Eisenhow er's unresolved problem. Until his decision has been made, the whole political system is held in suspense. QINCE the President was strick- u en in septemDer, we nave been made to realize as perhaps never before how extraordinary is the role of the President, in our affairs. We have been forced to think not only of what hap pens if a President dies in office but more particularly about what happens if he is not weU enough to perform the duties of his office. It was an accident that the President became ill at a time when Congress was not in ses sion and it was, therefore, feasi ble to postpone big decisions and to let the government machine run on its own inertia. It would have been a very serious busi ness indeed if the President had not made so good a recovery be fore the political season opened, if at this time of year he were incapacitated for three months. " There is a gaping hole in the usages of our constitutional sys tem in respect not so much to the death as to the disability of the President. This, as the Presi dent indicated at Key West on Sunday, is a prime consideration in the decision he must make. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. agent holding the $500 gave it baci to the citizens who offered the reward. And the rumors died out. This was a simple and effec tive way to give the lie to gossip mongers. The same thing could be done in Astoria, should we once more need Red Cross help and should falsehoods about it be disseminated again. Pendle ton East-Oregonian. (Editor's note: There were lies and rumors about the Red Cross during the recent flood, period in southern Oregon too, as ihe Astoria suspected.) Safety Council Sets Dinner Meet The annual dinner meeting of the Medford Safety council will be held Friday, Jan. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Jackson hotel, with Stater Sen: Mark Hatfield as main speaker. He is the dean of students at Willamette uni versity, Salem. -R. L. (Bud) Palmer, who has served out the unexpired term of the late Alan Cameron, will be installed as chairman; Aubrey Loper as vice-chairman; Mrs. Ruth Ragsdale, secretary; and Medford Police Sgt. Clyde Ficht ner, treasurer. New directors are Dr. William Thompson, Emerson Anderson, and John Childers. Awards will be made for out standing contributions to indi vidual, institutional and indus trial safety during the past year. Claude Haggard, safety engineer for the California-Oregon Pow er company will make the awards. - LeRoy Williams of the Med ford fire department received last year's individual award and the California Pacific .Utilities the industrial award. " Entertainment will be provid ed . by a string ensemble from the Medford senior high school, directed by John Drysdale. The public is invited and reservations may be made by calling 2-6504. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use at a oen name or initial for publication is permis fible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit ail letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for oublica- I tion must not exceed 400 words. The Need for Blood To the Editor: There has been much activity recently in the Medford area regarding con struction of a new and larger hospital to replace the Commu nity hospital. The brochures in dicate a desire to make Medford a medical and surgical center, and if sufficient medical and surgical skill is available there is little doubt but that our hospi tal population will increase. Many cases now being sent to larger and more adequate cen ters could stay in this area. It is understood by this com1- mittee that the need for blood rises in direct proportion to the increase of beds in a hospital ca tering to the general needs of an area. . The people of Jackson county furnished less than 60 per cent of the blood needed by our pres ent and admittedly inadequate hospitals in a recent four month period. This 'is arrived at from the anticipated needs of and ac tual donations to the Red Cross Blood program during the past two visits of the Blood-Mobile, the figures being taken from the news columns of our paper. There has been no indication that our residents will furnish an increased amount of blood should the new hospital be erect ed, but it is So our best interests that we do so. We cannot expect the people of other areas to shoulder the responsibility that is our own. A breakdown in the present program can only result in going back to the old system of paid blood donors which would cause a large increase in the cost per transfusion. Do the people of our area care so little for the lives of their feUowmen that they re fuse to support the blood pro gram? Transfusions, when need ed for accident victims and sur gical patients, materially short en the recovery period and fre quently are the deciding factor in saving lives. y The pint of blood you can giVe may be returned by another donor when it is needed to save your life. Dan F. Krotz H, ' ; Chairman for Community Service, Steelhead Post) VFW, Shady Cove, Ore. Article Said Misleading To the Editor: An article en titled "We Licked the Veteran Problem," which appeared in one of our nation's leading mag azines late last fall and which has caused many misconceptions, of the situation, should, in our opinion, have been entiled, "We Licked the Veterans." Judging from the expert twist ing of. words, the use of . half truths, -and we think, in some places, the deliberate use of un truths, the author seems to con sider himself as having delivered a KO punch to the cause of dis abled veterans. A sample of the inaccuracies contained in the article is a table showing compensation pay ments to 100 per cent service- connected disability , cases. He calls it pensfon and, we believe, not un-wittingly. The purpose as we see it is to cause the pub lic to think every veteran will receive, upon becoming 65 years of age, an automatic pension amounting to more than a 100 per cent service-connected com pensation. Even more, because he has mis-stated the- amount of compensation . that the S-C veteran with wife and kids draws, by about $1,644 a year too much. . . In speaking of .the general cost of rehabilitation of the vet erans of our wars, this author fails to recognize that a sizable portion of the overall cost of veterans' benefits is for educa tional aid and. training, as well as other assistance - programs which have a definite termina tion date in each case. Those who fight the wars, and those who cause them, come from different sections of the population. If the group who hate so to see the good money that was accumulated via the war boom spent on care for war veterans no longer able to care for themselves because of having fought the war, will refrain from another war long enough, the cost of veterans' benef its will be appreciably re duced by elimination of the temporary assistance programs' during transition from G.I. to civilian. When it comes to pensions for the aged, ailing veterans with non-service disabilites, the author of the article ignores the fact that the government maintains an income limitation of $1,400 a year for such vet erans who have no dependents, and $2,700 for those with depend ents. Social security, private pensions, several private retire ment plans, are all counted as income to report against the non-service pension limitation. Another wrong inference in the article is that all a war vet eran has to do, upon reaching the age of 65 years, is to notify the VA that he is of that age and ready to commence drawing the non-service pension. This is POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) It must have seemed like paramnesia. Gal staff member early last week attended a wedding held in the Jackson county jail the first such she'd, ever at tended. Later in ihe week the at tended a play, "Cry the Be loved Country," in which one of the scenes depicts a mar riageconducted in a jaiL A "rather tall, nice-looking" lady has been distributing chick feed in the flower beds at Haw thorne park this winter, for the birds. That's the report of an other Medford woman who, her self,- likes to put out food for birds, and thinks the park lady deserves recognition. Our informant, who like to watch the antics of the birds as they go after the food, suggests that placing a box of such tid bits for the feathered residents near the bedroom window pro vides good entertainment for a sick person or other shut-in. Another Medford woman re cently picked . up a prescrip tion at a drug store. She didn't check the bottle too . closely, and had taken ' most of the medicine contained in it before she discovered that it had someone else's name' on . it. Whatever it was she was taking didn't seem to bother her particularly, for tunately. . v When you're working with lines of type, such as are used in the publication of a news paper, fcdd things can sometimes happen. Like last Sunday, for instance, when, as a matter of routine, this paper carried a lit tle boxed notice labeled "Sub scribers." It called attention to the number which can be called to report improper or non-de livery of the paper. Then, there was a paragraph which, after one line of type had been dropped out accident ally, read: ' "U regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special mes '. The. sports department has confessed the real reason why the Medford High school bas ketball team lost its pre-con-ference game with Cleveland High of Portland. . For most of the season, the sports editor has used a red and blue pencil to keep , spe cial notations during Ihe cov By FRANK JENKINS This modern world note: A special advisory group that has been studying the problem reports in Washington this morn ing that the' nation's . airways are becoming so crowded that there are now, on the average, four reported near-collisions in volving the commercial airlines every day. i The committee recommends that a prominent person should be appointed immediately to Jiead a review of all aviation problems and ' draw up with as little delay as possible a 20- year aviation facilities develop ment plan. " , THAT is to say: It is beginning to look like the airways are going to be as badly crowded in the future as the highways are now. TT ISN'T true, of course, that the actual air itself is becom ing so crowded that there is no longer room for the plane's to get through it without hitting each other. The trouble lies in the big cities, where the bulk of the air traffic originates. They haven't enough airports to ac commodate safely and expedi tiously the planes that need to land and take off every day if the traffic is to be taken care of. . That is basically the 'trouble with our highway system. Out in the open country cars and trucks can manage to get along without, becoming completely bogged down. It is in the big metropolitan cities that the trou ble comes. So many people are collecting in the big cities that there just isn't room enough to move the cars (and trucks and buses) that need to be moved. ' THAT'S where the bottleneck is. Everyone who drives rea sonably long distances is aware of this fundamental 'fact. In spite of the congestion, it is possible to make fairly good not the case. To be awarded the pension, any veteran must be totally and permanently disabl ed, and that means unemployed at gainful occupation. It is also conditional that the physical disability is not due to the vet eran's own misconduct Pat Graham Adjutant and Service officer , Jackson County Chapter Disabled Amercian Vet erans 1515 North Riverside ave. Medford, Ore. in Ihe Day's News erage of the game blue for one team, red for the other. In every case so far the team for which the blue end was ; used has won. In a mad rush -to get away from the office to make the trip to Grants : Pass for this game, however, the pencU was left behind. A little man appeared t a. tavern not too long ago, and slumped on to a stool at the end" of the bar. The bartender a man dedicated to his profession, inquired about his order. "I jus wanta bowl of shilly . . he said, and dropped his head on ms arms in apparent slumber. The bartender, sensitive to this insult food being mention ed in such a place and sensi tive to the respectability of his establishment, ordered the man out. The fellow collected himself wim .an effort . and made his way out the front door. Moments later fio through the back door, slumped v" oar siooi ana said, "I Jus wanta bowl of shilly . . . The bartender escorted him none too gently, out the back door, closing it sharply behind him. He returned to his post umy Denina the bar. In the front door came the little man again, streeline fthat's we just made up it's half -way uewcen sir0u and reel) toward uue oar. The bartender forestalled him however, turned him around! and shoved him out the front door. Then, wiser from experi- ums ue uasnea io me DacK door to await the little man's reap pearance there. . The crowd in the place of business watched tensely as the bartender kept his post at the back door. Almost unnoticed, the little man slipped in the front door, made his way to the bar, slumped on to a stool," and an nounced "I jus' wanta bowl of W. J . . . , We never did learn how the story ended. We are reliably Informed xnai u you want to get longer life from a. light-bulb, you should buy bulbs designed for 130 volt current, rather than ' the standard Copco 120 volt. We don't know the reason for this, but our informant, an engineer who could be ex pected to know, says it has something to do with bulb capacity and current fluctua tions. They won't be quite as bright but they'll last longer, he says.'; . : time, without too great a hazard to life and limb, out in the open country and - through ' what we call the "country" towns. It is when; one hits a Bigtown that that the trouble . begins. -- The -shining example of that in the West is Los Angeles. If you're headed .say, from. Palm Springs to Santa Barbara, or from Bakersfield to San Diego, and feel that von mnrf jium through Los Angeles, you're in zor trouble. You might just as well shrug your shoulders and say you'll take a half dav nff to get through the Big Burg. You'll do well if you're de layed only a half day. WHAT to do about Ml " T TtrrailsJmM. ' But I can offer a saeeeMtm If more of us were willing to uve in tne smaller cities and fewer of us insisted up in the big metropolitan cen ters, there would be less trouble with, our transportation both by land and by air. TTERE'S another suggestion: If more of our indusrtrfM were willing to locate in the smaller cities and fewer of them insisted on crowding together in our congested metropolitan centers, life would be better for everybody. - - , We're reaching the Doint in America where we need to do a lot more intellieent thinkine? on the problem of decentraliza tion. Bids on Wafer Mains Will Open Tuesday Bids will be opened Tuesday, for construction of about 5,500 feet of four, six and eight inch, water main and installation of seven fire hydrants in the re cently annexed portion of Laur elhurst district. Construction of the new mains will give direct service to all houses in the area except for a few along Crater Lake ave.- where water mains will be installed before July 1, accord ing) Robert Lee, assistant city water superintendent. All houses in the area will also be within 500 feet of a fire hydrant. Construction is to start with in three weeks and be com-: pleted by April 15. . Tentative plans have been made for installation of water mains in the area southeast of Medford where an annexation eleclon will be held Jan. 16. Pipe and material for construc tion in that area have been or dered subject to cancellation, Lee said. ,
