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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDtJltiTBIBUNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail TriDune Iublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. -17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 tJTRTTRT W PTTTTT. F.rfltor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor rim w AnAMC ntv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor K1CHAKD Jtwtn. apons uuwi OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Indenendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn j. ioi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday Six months 8.50 Daily ana unqay inc , iS' Sunday ijmy uim j, . By Carrier In Advance Medford. '.-t.. i -t Dn nt Fjpl 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 Carrier and ueaiers w All Terms Cash in Advance Sfficial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County " United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLUJAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIWVTLQN U J Hmiinifl'.H.'.IHl NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and JO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1946 (It was Friday) ' Residents of Talent school dis 'trict vote against merging with Phoenix schools, 43-32. . ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The army announces it will put on sale next Monday, .434,000 surplus washboards. No grand rush is anticipated, as washboards are more out of date than buggy whips. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1936 (It was Saturday) ".' John H. Fuller recommended for postmastership at Ashland to replace Fred D. Wagner,: whose term expires soon. 1 ' Jackson county court approv es, roundup of wild " horses in JJittle Applegate sfrea. . 30 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 22, 1926 . , - (It was Monday) Employees of Owen-Oregon Lumber company discuss im provements at plant at ' dinner meeting. 1 National drive opens to end six years of prohibition under the Volstead act. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1916 (It was Tuesday) Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. Brown open one of most modern soda fountains in state in Medford; known as Brown's. From Local and Personal col umn: Tests being made of the street lighting system of Med ford by the California-Oregon Power company , show losses of voltage on account of the wires being laid in ordinary water pipes instead of the regular elec tric wire conduits. . WhaFs the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1, Washington's salary as Pre sident was $25,000. He thought that about right, wanted more, suggested less; or wanted no sal ary at all? , 1 2. Failures of" small stores have been increasing, decreas ing, or staying about the same? 3. President Eisenhower wants present immigration restrictions tightened, loosened or left as-is? 4. Which of these Army ranks is the highest: Brigadier general, lieutenant general, major gen eral? 5 Which member of the Eisen hower Cabinet put in several years as missionary in a foreign land? -- 6. Which of these states gets the most revenue from horse rac ing: California,, Florida, IUinois, New York,? 7. A "half -gainer" is a term used in what branch of sports? The Answers: 1. Wanted ho salary at all. 2. Increasing. 3. Loosened. 4. Lieutenant general. 5.. Secretary of Agriculture Ben son (a Mormon). 6. Ne wYork. 7. Diving. ' The kangaroo family has more than 5505 members. Some are called by other names walla roo, wallaby, euro, and pademe lon. They range from the foot long musky-rat kangaroo to seven-foot red and great grays. EHftffil3 MAIL TRIBUNE Detention Home Site f On this page last Monday appeared a letter from a regular correspondent, the conscientious and thoughtful community service chairman of the VFW post in Shady Cove. He proposed that the long-postponed construction of the Juvenile Detention Home be started and that the third floor of the new courthouse annex be used as a site. It is a proposal which ha"s been offered by others, among them county officials. "THE use of the courthouse, either the third-floor jail in the old building or the thin'-f loor annex in the new, was pretty well thrashed out before the election ai which the proposed detention home was approved by the voters of the county. ' Before the matter came to a vote, it was pretty gen erally agreed that one of the chief values of a separate detention home is simply that it would NOT be in or near the jail, nor sniack of the cold institutionalism with which most governmental buildings abound. Indeed,' probably the chief benefit of a detention home is to give a reasonable chance to disturbed youngsters to get back on their feet again a chance which experience has proven is greatly lessened by the grim and jail-like surroundings chat even a courthouse presents. "IXTE DON'T envy the county court the job of select- ?ng a site for the new home. Members of the court have looked long, have inspected dozens of possible sites, and rejected them all for one reason or another. - Some are too far away from population centers ; some are too costly; some neighbors object to; and so nn and so on. And fust when the court had found a site it thought satisfactory, freeway may go through the "THEREFORE, we sympathize. " , Nonetheless, the court is under obligation to find a satisfactory site. And it has been almost a year and a half since the proposal was approved. The problem which the home is designed to alleviate is not getting ny less pressing. Youngsters are still being housed m the jail, with the result that of successful rehabilitation is that much retarded. Possibly even more serious, the courts and juven ile officers have sometimes custody children who might benefit, from it, simply because they felt this was T7HE court, despite its efforts, seems to have little ocuoc uj. nigonvj in xuiuiiig a iu-auuu auu getting construction under way. We wish they would put a higher priority on the project. The people of the county, who have approved the home with their votes and provided the construction funds with their taxes, are;entitled to know that ef forts are really being madefo carry out then-mandate. .--;--. ? . -:: ,;i : - ' E.A. Small Black Dog There is a spot beside the reading chair at home where a small black dog used to lie. Occasionally he would lift his head for a pat, or a scratch behind the ears. For the eight years of his life, this was his happy custom during the evenings. During the day he would follow the family secretary of health, education and welfare from room to room, or outdoors while she hung up the washing. - "VN OTHER occasions he would lie in regal state in the front yard, surveying his domain. At still other times, he would romp gaily with the youngsters. Always he was a loving, devoted, loyal compan ion. His deep brown eyes turned trustingly on mem bers of the family his gods. In illness he was uncomplaining, and as he bade us farewell forever last week, one somehow got the feel ing that he knew our love and aff action would always follow him. v All of this will make no sense whatever to those unfortunate souls who have never loved a dog. But those who have mourned the death of a beloved pet will understand our grief as the small black dog left us. E.A. - ' '- Fluoridation Decade Some 22 million persons in 1,123 U.S. communit ies are already or soon will be drinking water enriched with fluorides. The supporters of this measure to re duce toolh decay among ch.il dren have just received additional evidence to back their claims. The well known 10-year study in Newburgh, N.Y., has ended with clear confirmation that fluoridation protects the teeth without ill effects. New York State public health officials examined the teeth and general health of 476 children in New burgh, which has treated its water for 10 .years, and 405 youngsters in Kingston, a nearby "town on the Hud son River which does not fluoridate its water. In the six-to-nine age group Newburgh children, having drunk fluoridated water all their lives, had 58 per cent fewer cavities than children of corresponding ages in Kingston. Those who were born before fluori dation started benefited less. But even 16-year-olds in Newburgh had 41 per cent less tooth decay than their counterparts in. Kingston. j None of the teeth of Newburgh children examined were disfigured by mottled enamel. -In skeletal matur ity, height, weight, bone disorders, hemoglobin con tent and red-cell count there was no significant dif ference between the children of the two towns. State Health Commissioner Herman E. Hilleboe concluded : - ; "Fluoridation is safe, and it is effective." . Scientific American Wednesday, February 22, 1956 it is learned that a new property. in each, instance the chance refrained from taking into better than jailing them. Political Instability Foreseen As Result of Greek Elections By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Greece seems to face a period of dangerous political instabil ity. . - ; ' . Pro-western Premier Constan tine Karamanlis came out of Sunday's election with a slim " - majority in the 300 -seat single - cham ber P a r 1 i a ment. But the seven opposi tion ' parties which ganged up on him won a plural ity in the pop i Charles McCann uidr vote. The campaign was a bitter one. The opposition coalition parties are bitter over Kara manlis' victory. They accuse him of fraud and demand a new election. It looks, in all, as if Greece will be a headache for the United States and its allies for months to come. Greece is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation. Karamanlis is all for that alliance. But he faces a difficult situa tion both in internal and for eign affairs. Realignment of U.S. Political Parties Seen as Coming Trend By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) There were no political parties in the modern sense when' George Washington twice was elected pres i d e n t of the United States toward the end of the 18th century. That's school boy stuff. Only the thoughtful adult, however, is aware that, by any .realis tic, definition of Lyle C. Wilson the term, there are no political parties in the U. S. today. A fair definition ; of . ' a - political party would be: A nationally organized group of voters seeking the election of federal office holders who would be inescapably committed to the basic principles of the organized group. The Communist Party would qualify under, that j definition., Neither the Republican nor Dem ocratic party could '' make the grade. The briefest examination s - , Editorial Comment AUTOMOBILES - I am wondering why it is that the American automobile manu facturers are concentrating so in tently on making it easier to roll up the windows and ''adjust the seats, but doing nothing about making it easier to change a tire or open a trunk? In fact, I have quite' a few beefs to register about the cars we drive nowadays. The wrap around windshield, which gives a nice appearance to the outside of the car, also brought about a condition known as "football knee" in all drivers, not just ex gridiron heroes. That projection under the back edge of the wind shield is just right to crack your knee on every time you get out of the car. And I can't see that it improved the vision any. Just moved the glass and then made it necessary to hang a rear view mirror up there where you can't see around it. Oh well, we all drive 'em and brag about 'em, anyway. But I'll be glad to see built-in jacks in stead of automatic window con trols, clocks that run, cigaret lighters that don't fall out, radios that stay in adjustment and windshield wipers that take off road film. Maybe I'll live so long. Bill Jenkins in Klamath Falls Herald and News. PARK REHABILITATION PROGRAM The compelling need for the Mission 66 program of the na tional park service a 10-year $786,000,000 rehabilitation proj ect designed to bring facilities at our run-down and over-crowded national parks up to date is il lustrated by the facilities prob lem at beautiful Crater lake - At the very time the tourist travel department of the Oregon state highway department ' was running beautiful color photos of Crater lake in page ads in the national magazines, - Max Gil strap, chief of the central news bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, ran a half page critique of facilities he found at Crater Lake National park last fall. Gilstrap, who has been doing a series on our national parks, gave full credit to the beauties of the Crater lake area. But he also' made it brutally clear that this beauty is dimmed by run down facilities for visitors, de spite the efforts of concession aires who took over in 1954 and who are attempting to rehabili tate "the severely run-down plant." The ' problem Gilstrap de scribed at Crater Lake National The chief issue in the foreign field is the Greek demand that Great Britain surrender' its col ony of Cyprus' Because of that, Greek relations with , both Brit-1 ain and Turkey are bad. . Britain refuses to give up the island, which is becoming the biggest military base in the Mid dle East. Twenty per cent of the people of Cyprus are of Turkish origin. Turkey is quite willing to see Britain keep the island. But it does not want Greece to get it. Domestically, the Greek eco nomic situation is bad and get ting worse. The parties which combined against Karamanlis in the elec tion ranged from the extreme right to the extreme left. They included the so-called Union of the Democratic Left, which rep resents the outlawed Commu nist Party, and the fellow-travelling Democratic Party of the Working People. Karamanlis' victory, close as it was, was something of a sur prise. Strong Personal Appeal There is some indication that he won it with the aid of the women, who voted for the first time in a Greek election. That is partly because of Kara of basic congressional roll caHs would prove that. , ' What passes for a major polit ical party today In the United States . is an assortment of big and little pressure and minority groups. They are held together sometimes -by compromising among themselves, often at the expense of principle and-or party policy. . . . . Powerful Personality Controls Sometimes these political mixed pickles are kept in their jar by the force of a powerful political personality. Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of those. He presided over an assortment of right and : left wingers- who'd have been at each other's throats, but for him. The political party, as it is sup posed to be, must have begun to fade in' 1920, although none seemed aware of it at the time. It is a fact; however, that in every presidential election since 1916 with '.the possible excep tion of theN1948 thriller the winner has been chosen by an overwhelming margin, a real landslide. The independent, or uncommitted bloc of voters, was park is not unique. It is all too common to our ; national park system. Concessionaires operat ing lodges, restaurants and other facilities in the nation's parks are faced with a short season, heavy overhead and maintenance costs. But with the tremendous in crease in visitors at most of our national parks it's more than 50,000,000 a year now some thing must be done about catch ing up on long neglected im provements to them not only the housing and feeding facili ties, but park roads, bridges, trails and camping areas. The national park problem now being tackled by Sec. of In terior McKay and the park serv ice grows out of almost 15 years of neglect. Thanks to the CCC, which as signed some 30,000. young men to our national parks during the depression and spent. $25,000, 000 a year on improvements they were brought up to their aU-time peak about. 1941. Then came the war and all im provement work stopped. Park funds totaled only $5,500,000 in 1945. And even after the war we were wining to spend only about $9,000,000 on our park system and did not get it up to $34,000,000 until 1951. Last year, with gradual increases, the park system budget was up to around ' $50,000,000, but park personnel still was below 1941 levels, despite acquisition of new parks and expansion of others. What Mission 66 involves is a stable, 10-year improvement pro gram, one that the park service can count on from year to year, one flexible enough to permit continuing improvement con tracts. ;'" And hearings now being con ducted by the House appropria tions .committee indicate great interest in the program, so great, in fact, that the committee .is recommending three times cur rent construction expenditures on park construction projects. Included is $381,500 for Crater Lake National park. Another problem for which a solution must be found involves concessions such as the one at Crater Lake. Congress has been understandably hesitant to go into the . park hotel and restau rant business in competition with private enterprise; But in parks which pose such serious problems for concessionaires that visitors are penalized, a new policy may be indicated. Fifty miUion national park visitors deserve a better break. Oregon Journal. - ' manlis' personal appeal. He is one of the most handsome men in Greece. He is tall and dark, with a profile and a physique which have been compared to those of the ancient Greek sculp tures. At 48, he is one of his. coun try's youngest prime ministers. A lawyer, he entered politics in 1935. He held posts in seven cabinets before he was made prime minister last Oct. 6 after the death of Field Marshal Alex ander Papagos. King Paul personaUy picked Karamanlis, who was serving as minister of public works in the Papagos cabinet. Karamanlis had won a name for efficiency in all of his cabinet jobs. But he was not a top-ranking politi cal leader. Papagos, on his death bed, had asked that Foreign Min ister Stephan Stephanopoulos be named his successor. There was considerable com plaint against the king's action. This , did not help Karamanlis, naturally. At least, in the election, the Communists did not get a foot hold in the government, as they would have done if Karamanlis had lost. , But Greece is likely to be a political hot-spot for months. being born and getting its first political experience. It is a big bloc now. Personalities have come to bulk as large or larger than parties. That is what makes Dwight D. Eisenhower . the overshadowing figure among Republicans. He proved four years ago that he could pull the disorganized party together and get the independ' ents in, as well. - There is no agreement among Republicans that any other man can achieve that this year.. There is much fear that the Republican Party . would- splinter badly if Mr. Eisenhower refused a sec ond term. . Democrats Worse Off . The Democrats are worse off, if possible. The race issue has bruised party wounds unhealed since; the , angry 1952 national convention and the bolt of sub stantial numbers of Southerners to the Republican ticket. The Democratic splintering . process began in 1948, three year's after FDR's, death, when a States Rights ticket held four southern states from the Democratic pres idential nominee. The South could be solid again in this presidential year, or di vide, as in 1948 and 1952. That probably willf depend largely on the party's' presidential nominee. Strangely enough, some southern conservatives believe the South would be solid again this year if Adlai E. Stevenson were nomi nated, although some southern states bolted him four years ago. Whether Gov. AvereU Harriman of New York or Sen. Estes Ke- fauver of Tennessee could hold the South together is more open to question. What seems to be taking place in the United States is a re alignment of parties which,' in time, will come up with two op posing groups of nationally or ganized voters, , each actually committed and sticking to cer tain basic principles. . Newbry Won't Seek '. : . ' - ' ,:; Seat in Congress Salem (U.R) Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, once considered a possible congress ional candidate in " Oregon's first district, . said today he would support either John Steel- hammer of Salem or ' Eugene Marsh of McMinnvUle for t he post now held by Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Orel.) -.: Newbry said he had just been "interested in getting a good candidate for the Republican nomination. He did not refer to William Healywho served for years as his assistant secretary of state and who worked in Newbry's campaign for the gub ernatorial nomination in 1954. Heaiy has filed . for the GOP pommation as first district con gressman Norblad willNseek the party'; nomination for govern or. . " Neither - Steelhammer nor Marsh, both veterans of Oregon legislative service, has yet filed for Norblad's seat. But Steel hammer said only Marsh's fil ing would prevent him from running; ' Steelhammer is a house of representatives and Marsh is former senate presi dent. Others who have announced for the post are R. F. Cook, Sil vefton Republican, and Jason Lee, Salem Democrat. , COLD CASH Aberdeen, S.D. -UU.R) The pop cooler in George Ziegler's service station was "hot." On two successive week ends, Zieg ler hid his receipts in the cooler. And on both occasions, thieves broke into the station and into the cooler. . : ' Com munications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and, address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves ihe right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. ' , Nutrition Emphasized To the Editor: Considering the intensity of the controversy over fluoridation, our common sense should warn us to proceed with great caution. Since literature contains articles by authoritative professional and scientific pei sons in opposition as well as in favor; who is to say which is right? All doctors and dentists do not favor fluoridation. I know personally many who actively oppose it. Proponents state there are absolutely no harmful effects. Since courts have awarded judgments against alu minum plants for fluorine pois oning to livestock and crops, damage suits . have been filed against food ' manufacturing companies for loss of animals due to fluorine poisoning, I can not believe such statements can be made with absolute surety. "He didn't know the gun was loaded" has led to many trag edies. I consider good adequate nu trition as the fundamental basis of. good health and sound teeth; however, I would not deprive any child the benefit (?) of fluor ides if desired. I agree heartily with Dr. F. B. Exner, M.D. of Seattle who writes in Northwest Medicine, "There is a safer, cheaper, more effective alterna tive method of administering fluorides." Any druggist can easily add 1.7 gm. (about two cems worth) of sodium fluoride to one gallon of water of which one tvaspoonful daily will give an accurate measured dose of 1.0 mg. which is recommended by the Public Health Service. It is ssfe to have around as the entire gallon contains less than half the lethal dose, says Dr. Exncr. Dr. Exner asks: "Since one child may drink twice as much water as another, how can it be arranged to have each r child drinK the right amount of water to get the right amount of fluor ine?" How can it- be assured the fluorine' will be mixed with the water to deliver the correct dilution at the tap? Less than the right dosage is said to be not ' beneficial, more will cause mottling of teeth. - With the above method, each child is as sured, the right , amount and everybody shouloV be happy. Also every child for whom 'it is desired could benefit, not just' those who drink public wa ter. - Is . there any ; really good rea son why this individual method should not be used? The cost, even if provided as a public ser vice, would be but a fraction .of the cost of public fluoridation. Flourine has no acute : toxic effects but rather, fluorine is a dumulative poison slowly ac cumulating in the body with In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In a previous installment of this series I spoke of the tragedy of the cotton industry in the American Southwest, where an underground water supply that has taken' thousands of years to accumulate is being depleted in a few decades to grow cotton to be stored away in government warehouses. From the . viewpoint of south of the border, let me now give you a glimpse of the other side of the picture. SOUTH of Nogales, through snmp 150 milps nf what, is chiefly desert country, the sides of the road are strewn with tufts i of cotton. These . bits of snowy fiber blow from the ve hicles in , which the cotton is brought loose from' the fields after being picked. Along the highway, there are 'cotton patch es in the alluvial 'flats where a little water is available. But no stored cotton is to be seen. Yet, obviously, cotton is being hauled SOMEWHERE. Presumably to market. ., Where? . "; Who' is buying this cotton? AT THIS point, I'd like to bring into the picture a resi dent of the Mexican state of Sonora. He is a new resident: He came down from the states a couple of years ago, or such a matter. I fell into conversation with him at a gasoline station in the rapidly . growing agri cultural town of Obregon. He come in to get some gas for his truck, and he. was standing near the pump. This isn't a very busy season of the year for him, he said, and he added with a grin that he likes to come into town and chew the fat with the 'Americans whose cars are filling the high ways as their ; owners -seek warmth and sunshine. I WASN'T too sharp yet at this business of liters and pesos instead of gallons and dollars, and he stepped in to help me get unsnarled. When, with, a com mand of Spanish that is only two degrees above a vacuum, you try to cope with unfamiliar units of measurement and unfamiliar money, you're apt to get all wound up like a kitten in a ball of yarn. After he got me straight ened out, I asked him howr he continued use. Some of the more serious effects may require 25 years or more': to develop. Con sequently use after the time when its effects are desired in volves unnecessary and useless hazard. Celia M. Massie,- RN, 231 N.W. "C" St., Grants Pass, Ore. Growth of Communism To the Editor: I would like to submit my views and answer to the M. T. Editorial of Feb. 14, "Hard to understand." Why Communism is growing so fast, that is! There are many reasons why we as nations and races do not get along well together. World peace has proven to be a most elusive thing. Efforts have been made in many fields to reach this goal. But the selfish interests of so many diversified groups always seem to interfere. Certainly ne of the most import-; ant things in this regard is that the Christian people regardless of - denominations shall them selves be willing to live the prin ciples of the Gospel of Christ. But the denominations differ so widely on their acceptance of these principles. Every Christian will admit that Christ and his gospel is the only hope of the world. But what is the Gospel? And who has it? ' ' To, bring about world unity there should be some form of unity among Christians. Will Christians become willing to ac cept the Bible as a euide to a I true knowledge of Christ. Some do not even read the Bible. Christians today worship a variety of gods. Some worship a God without form of any kind. Others believe that God is merely body parts or passions: They say there are three names or expres sions of this God. And that their names are Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Others say that God is a real person. That he is our Father and that Jesus is his di vine Son and . our elder brother and redeemer and that the Holy Ghost is a third personage of the God-head. All . three being dis tinct and separate from the other. Since Christians do not have a united concept of God they do not have a united concept of doc trine in other matters. Each .one is zealous of his own views. This zeal has resulted in massacres and murder in the name of Chris tianity.. Would such tactics lead to World Peace? - - - Communism will grow and be a curse upon the world until we shall learn to live the teachings of the Bible in its fullness and not jusf" a verse here and there and put a private interpretation on the rest. John F; Peterson . - Box 71 - Talent, Oregon - News was doing. "Oh," he said, "things are go ing pretty good down here, thanks to you Americans who are keeping prices high espec ially ' cotton prices with your high parity supports. We aren't doing so bad." "By the wav." I asked him. "where is all this cotton around here being marketed?" Why," he answered, "in the UNITED STATES, of course." '"THAT answers the question A raised, by. the tufts of cotton along Mexico's new Pacific High way. It is being hauled to the states to be used, there in the place of the - American cotton that is being stashed away in government- warehouses at guar anteed high prices. But it raises another question: Under our system of political farming, where is American agriculture headed? I'm afraid it's headed for an awful mess. - T'D LIKE to add a few words about this growing Sonoran town of Obregon. It is the trad ing center for some 200,000 acres of . rich irrigated ' land wi'th a 12 months growing sea son. In a couple of big new dams, it has storage capacity for a two years supply of water. Water costs $4 an aire per year, and you can use all you want. .. - When you need labor Well, I supporse. the less said about that the better. But a day's pay down here commands about the same number of pesos as a day's pay in dollars in the U.S. And a peso is worth eight American cents. "P AETHER south, in the state of Sinaloa, they're develop ing a new irrigation project that makes one's eyes bug out. I don't know the statistics of it. When, in a country that speaks Spanish, one possesses only a handful of Spanish words, information isn't easy to come by. : But it is vast. One drives for miles alongside huge irrigation canals. These main canals cross the highway at intervals of about a miles, and wherever they cross a new bridge is under construc tion, compelling a detour. Let's put it mildy. These de tours become tiresome in the course of .an hour or so.