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o TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 unp.FHT w RTTHI Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKJ3Ur. lrcuiauonjw&x. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dally and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $350. 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 1.2a Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOcfi-ATLQN U O 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Rledford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 6. 1946 (It was Wednesday) Girl Scouts to observe ?9th year in Medford at ceremonies March 12. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Two upper Applegate prospectors, uphol stered with whiskers towned yes terday. They reported their fac ial adornment was for protec llonfirom winter's frost and wind in the high hills. They are not preparing to fight Russia, or get ting ready for a "Gold Rush" celebration in Jacksonville next fall. . 20 YEARS AGO March 6, 1936 (It was Friday) " Jackson county urt orders roundup of wild horses in Apple gate area on petition of 19 stock men; forest service to supervise roundup. From Side Glances by Tribune Reporters: Rawles Moore: "What the newsp?(gers should do is print more scientific stuff and a lot less crime news." 30 YEARS AGO March 6, 1926 (It was Saturday) E. T. Newbry elected president of the newly organized Talent District Fruitgrowers association. Medford High school defeats Ashland, 32 to 21, for district title and trip to Salem for state tournament. 40 YEARS AGO March 16, 1916 (It was Monday) , American Elm selected as tree to plant as a Shakespeare me morial on public library grounds. Edward Charles Root elected president of the reorganized Medford Band association. Whai's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Average instalment note in buying new cars is around $800," $1500, $2200, or $3000? 2. Most young babies can or can't be made immune to whoop ing cough? 3. Hell Gate bridge in New York is. over the Hudson River; right or wrong? 4. The U. S. i&ports , more wine or whiskey, in volume, from other countries or about the same of each? 5. State with largest propor tion of its land owned by the Government is Utah, Washing ton, Nevada, Texas or Florida? 6. The British House of Com mons recently voted in favor of or against the death penalty, or making fewer crimes subject to it? 7. From the starting line to the head pin on a bowling alley is (a) 40, (b) 60, (c) 80 or (d) 100 feet? The Answers: 1. Around $2200 October 1955. 2. Most can. 3. Wrong (East River). 4. More whiskey. 5. Nevada. 6. Against. 7. 60 feai. Lt. Cdr. C. O. Fiske, USN, now pilot with the U. S. Antarctic expedition, has tangled firsthand with polar baers, dropped into icy crevasses in polar glaciers, fallen overboard in arctic wa ters, and been involved in eight aircraftQ mishaps in the Arctic and Antarctic. MAIL TRIBUNE Barnstorming in the Parlor President Eisenhower as a 1956 candidate will not go in for extensive traveling and whistle-stop speak ing "normally ref erred to as barnstorming." The de cision, which surprised no one, was not dictated by his physical condition, apparently. He says that long be fore he "ever dreamed of a personal heart attack" he had made up his mind that he could not, as "Pres ident of all the people," conduct such a campaign. General Eisenhower approached the Republican nomination in the spring of 1952 with a "front porch" type of campaign. His advisers apparently were relying on his personal popularity. Usually front porch campaigns are the happy privilege only of front-runners. Marcus A. Hanna, the guiding genius behind William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, is credit ed by most historians with merchandizing that type of campaign. OANNA, a highly successful businessman, applied business methods to politics, "assessing" big firms for contributions and billing McKinley as the "advance agent of prosperity." In 1896 Hanna had McKinley stay at home in Canton, 0., meeting care fully selected delegations and addressing them in "front-porch" speeches. McKinley conducted the same sort of campaign in 1900, but with what is now called a "twist." While McKinley stayed at home, his running-mate for vice president, "Teddy" Roosevelt, traveled up hill and down dale, making 673 fiery speeches in 24 states. Richard M. Nixon, or any other Republican candi date for vice-president in 1956, can be expected to do the same. t A DVANCES in technology have had their weight in politics. Front-porch campaigns have given way to campaigns aimed at the parlor or wherever else the family television set may be located. For political purposes, television would appear to be an ideal method of communication. According to a survey published in February by the Brookings In stitution, the Democratic convention in 1952 reached a peak of 14,556,000 tuned-in TV sets; the Republi can convention went into a peak of 13,097,000 home sets. By the time of the 1952 conventions there were over 18 million sets in the United" States, mostly in homes, aggregating 39 per cent of all U.S. homes. As of Jan. 1, 1956, there were 37,100,000 TV sets, and' by convention time there will probably be three or four million more. "yiCE-PRESIDENT Nixon 'is a sound adviser on ' TV techniques. His apologia of Sept. 23, 1952 was tuned into an estimated 9,136,000 homes, the highest saturation of the entire campaign. Nixon on Sept. 15, 1955 gave a television industry gathering a few tips on the political uses of TV. They included: l)Aim for well-prepared, off-the-cuff remarks, avoiding written texts and prompt ers; 2) use frequent 5-minute talks and 1-minute spots to make a candidate's face and name familiar to the audience; 3) "be prepared to spend as much money on building up a program through advertise ments and organization work" as on the air time it self. E.R.R. Arms and the Middle East Israel Ambassador Abba S. Eban is trying to get the U.S. State Deartment to say "yes or no" within the next few days on the arms request submitted to the Department on Nov. 16. The arms are sought by Israel to counter weapons Egypt is receiving as a result of a deal with Czechoslovakia in August. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Feb. 24 told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Israel, "due to its much smaller size and population, could not win an arms race against Arabs having access to Soviet bloc stocks." Dulles did not exclude the possibility, however, of U.S. arms sales to Israel or Arab states "when it will preserve the peace." "117HAT has Egypt got from Czechoslovakia to up- ; set the Middle East arms balance? Israeli sources in Washington, with access to their own in telligence reports, refer to a London Times, dispatch of Feb. 10 as the best informed published account. The article, wired from Cairo, and admittedly based on "probabilities," lists these probabilities as: 75 Mig 15 fighter aircraft; "not more than 40" twin jet IL 28 bombers "much the most advanced strik ing weapon on either, side" a few Joseph Stalin Mark III tanks, mounting 122 millimeter guns; more than 50 T 34 tanks a match for the U.S. Shermans the Israelis have quantities of Russian artillery and small arms such as machine guns and bazookas. ' These are in addition to the arms Egypt had pur chased from Britain and Belgium, including 32 Brit ish Centurion Mark III tanks, "the most powerful armoured fighting vehicle in the Middle East." The Egyptian Navy has, as does the Israeli Navy, two fairly modern British destroyers. Egypt has a large number of Vampire fighters, and some Meteors. The artillery forces are well equipped with the "splendid" British 25-pounder, a howitzer roughly equivalent to an 87 millimeter gun. TTHE Egyptian-Czechoslovakian deal is generally agreed to have involved $100 million in arms, for which Egypt mortgaged much of its cotton crop. The "shopping list" Ambassador Eban submitted to- the State Department in November is estimated to have involved $50 million, with emphasis on F-86 jet fight ers and anti-aircraft guns. As for the disparity in population between Israel and the Arab 'states, Israeli sources call this a quantitative rather than a qualitative one. They point out that the United States, with 165 million people, has yet to yield military superiority to the almost 600 million of Red China, despite Chinese access to So viet arms. E.R.R. Tuesday, March 6, 1958 Pressure on Ike Mounting To Conduct Active '56 Campaign By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R).. The rec ord combines with political facts to make it a good bet that Presi- er will cam paign actively in this election year. Mr. Eisen hower based last week's public decision against whis tlestop cam- Lyie C. Wilson paigjning on considerations of both health and good taste. But political pressure now is developing for his ap pearance in states where the Eisenhower campaign would do the most good. smille SEATO Conference At Inopportune Time for est as Crises Arise By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent That Southeast Asia Treaty Organization conference in Ka rachi, Pakistan, could have come at a much better time. Foreign min isters of the eight "SEATO" nations opened their meeting there today. Secretary of State John ' Charles McCann osier . guiles, British Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Llcyd and French Foreign Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Che name and address of the writer ilthough under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune -reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Boy Wants Stones To the Editor: I am a mother of a lonely 11-year-old son, our only child, who wants to become a geologist when he grows up. His only interest in life is stones. But here in southern Florida there are no stones to be found, and he feels bad about it, and as a mother of her only child it breaks my heart to see my boy like this all the time. I heard that Oregon was a paradise for stones of all kinds so I thought I would write to you for help. Would you please print an item in your newspaper about our son? His name is Ronald Jedziniak, 8935 N.W. 35, Court, Miami, Fla. Maybe some of your readers would like to trade some Oregon stones for some of Flor ida's beautiful sea shells, sea horses, star fish, coral, and other specimens. I would also be will ing to send anyone anything if they would only send my son some nice stones such as ores, minerals, crystals, fluorescent stones, gem stones, fossils, even old Indian relics such as beads, arrow heads and so forth. My boy would also like to correspond with any one in your area. I would do anything sp that our only child could be happy in his new found hobby. Mrs. Marie Jedziniak, 893 N.W. 35 Court, Miami, Fla. Asks Honest Study To the Editor: Manyt things have been said both pro and con in this column in regard to fluoridation. It seems to me that the answer is really a very simple one. If every parent of school age or pre-school age children would make an honest study of the reports issued by the American Medical association, the Amer ican Dental association, and the United States Public Health service, I am sure that they could only come to the conclu sion that the fluoridation of our water supply should be accomp lished without delay. Many wild accusations shave been made as to why we should not fluoridate our water supply and all have been emphatically refuted by these RESPONSIBLE organizations. These reports are available to everyone through the Jackson County Public Health association. Fluoridation would mean bet ter health for the children of our community and consequent ly an increased income to the parents of these children through decreased dental and medical bills! It is difficult for me to conceive the parents of the com munity rejecting a dollars and cents proposition such as this. If the fluoridation program were brought to the vote of the people of Meodford, I am con vinced that it would pass by an overwhelming majority for the people of Medford have always been oustanding .in their will ingness to support any measure that contributed to the welfare of the children of their com munity. I am also convinced that they would avail themselves of the The record indicates that Mr, Eisenhower did not intend much if any active campaign in the 1954 congressional elections. Evi dence that the Republicans were likely to lose control of Con gress enabled Republican leaders to persuade him to go into the upper Midwest, the Northwest and the Pacific Coast. The party has congressional legislative trouble again, especially in the Senate. Moreover, Mr. Eisen hower seems now to be more convinced than two years ago of the advantages a Republican president might enjoy with Re publican majorities in Congress. No Medical Objection Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Sny der, presidential physician, told the United Press he foresaw at this time no medical objection Minister Pineau are among those present. They are discussing important problems affecting countries all the way from Pakistan to Japan. But the problems are all long range ones. There is nothing urr gent on the program, for .discus sion. Problems Elsewhere Meantime, problems of imme mediate urgency are developing much nearer home. Dulles himself will not be at home, if he sticks to his sched ule, until March 21. He plans to visit nine East Asian countries, in addition to Pakistan. Within a few hours of Dulles' departure from Washington Sat urday things started popping. Jordan abruptly fired Gen. John Bagot Glubb, commander of its Araba Legion. That action weakened the entire Western Allied situation in the Middle East. Moscow Visit Socialist Premier Guy MoUet of France, one of .the big three Western allies, announced he in tended to visit Moscow. French Foreign Minister Pi neau let loose a sensational blast against allied policy before he left Paris for Karachi.. "I am in prof ound disagree ment with the Western policy of the last few years," Pineau said in a speech., "We have com mitted enormous errors by re garding the problerj of security as the only one." What Pineau mesnt was that the Western Allies ought to pay more attention to economic problems, disarmament and the search for real peace to counter Russia's worldwide diplomatic and economic offensive. Negotiation Breakdown Within a few hours of Dulles departure from Washington also negotiations between Britain and Orthodox Archbishop Maka rios over the future of the Medi terranean island of Cyprus all but broke down. To make it worse there were new flare-ups between Israel and Syria over the week end, and between Israel and Egypt and Jordan. Prime Minister Anthony Eden is so worried over the Jordan situation that he is reported to be consulting President Eisen hower. He also has asked that French Premier MoUet to go to London for talks. With aU these things going on Dulles seems to be on a diplo matic sidetrack. Thanks to mod ern communications facilities, he naturally will be in touch with Washington while he is on his tour. But that is not the same thing as being personally in the capi tal. The Middle Eastern situa tion especiaUy is explosive. Dul les probably will wish many times during the next two weeks that he was home. He might con ceivably decided to go there. facts in the case and not fall prey to the "brain wash" they are now being subjected to by some opponents of the fluorida tion program. Alvin York P. O. Box 189 Medford, Ore. Logic To the Editor: The medical profession has "wasted a lot of their time fooling with a subject which apparently has become highly controversial. Let's give the legal profession a chance let's quit all the kid stuff and use logic which a good lawyer uses every day. Let's keep our good spring water clean, and close the argu ments. If they do succeed in contam inating the water I'll have to buy a barrell and go back and fill it before it reaches Medford. J. R. D. Medford, Ore. The Navy's experimental XC-7 steam catapult ; is able to propel a 15,000 pound plane from a standing start to 168 MPH in three seconds. It is cur rently under evaluation at the Naval Air Test Center,' Patuxent River, Md. to any physical exertion by Mr. Eisenhower within reason. "He wiU adjust himself to pressures as may be necessary," Snyder said. In last week's telecast, Mr. Eisenhower declared himself fit to serve and stated the limita tion on his physical activity. It meant, he said, that he would not "engage in extensive travel ling and in whistlestop speaking, normally referred to as barn storming." He added that he had made up his mind before any thought of personal illness that as presi dent of all the people he could not engage in such a campaign. This implied rebuke to former President Truman's 1948 cam paign tactics may not, however, bar Mr. Eisenhower from the political sore spots. The usual Republican cam paign train probably wiU not turn a wheel this year. But air planes are handy substitutes with no whistlestop connection. Senate Republican Leader Wil liam F. Knowland, California, and National Committee Chair man Leonard W. Hall are urging that the President be more ac tive in October than seems likely now. Their anxiety is well founded. Sixteen of the 37 Senate seats up this year are Democratic now. Seven of these are in the solid South and hopeless so far as Re publicans are concerned. Fpur are in border states which nor mally return Democratic. Party strife in Kentucky, however, of fers the Republicans a better than usual chance. The others are Arizona, Nevada, New York, Oregon and Washington. Republicans could lose in any of a dozen of the states where that party must defend Senate seats this year.' The winners in Ohio, Connecticut, Maryland, In diana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, California, Colorado, Ida- ho and Wisconsin, for example, surely are in some doubt. Sfumpage Price Hike Proposed Says McKay Washington KU.R) Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay said today that stumpage prices for ponderosa pine, larch, douglas fir, and other species of timber have been proposed for the Schoolie logging unit of the Warm Springs Indian reserva tion. The proposed ' stumpage hike would be effective April 1. Don C. Foster, area director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, esti mated the increase would mean from $150,000 to $200,000 annu ally would be added to the Warm Springs tribal income. The proposed price raises would move ponderosa pine stumpage from 30 to 39 per cent on the lumber index. Other spe cies would raise from the pres ent 8 to 23 per cent. Portland, Klamath Base Funds Approved Washington (U.R) Two air force installations in Oregon were included in an appropria tion measure of $2,000,000,000 for military construction passed by the House Armed Services committee yesterday. Included in the bin was $13,508,000 for the proposed new air base in the Portland area and $1,130,000 for the Klamath FaUs air base. Completion of the first phase of construction at the Klamath Falls base is scheduled for this spring with the first two units scheduled to arrive this summer. About $12,000,000 already has been authorized for the Klamath Falls base. No site has yet been chosen for the new instaUation in the Portland area. Meat Cutters Talk Strike in Portland Portland (U.R) A threatened strike of meat cutters was re ported today. Amos R. Buck, secretary of Meat Cutters Local No. 143, told the Central Labor Council last night that negotiations with em ployers are in a deadlock. He said a strike might occur March 15 if no contract is agreed upon by then. A strike vote will be taken tomorrow night. Buck said 800 retail butchers were asking for $96 a week in stead of $87.50. He said whole sale butchers now make $96 a week. A deadlock also exists on Sunday meat and health and wel fare, he said. Japan Socialists Ask Bomb Test Half Tokyo U.R) The Socialists, Japan's second largest political party, asked the United States today to cancel its spring and summer hydrogen weapons tests at Bikini, Kyodo News Service said. Socialist leaders made the re quest through the American embassy. They contended the tests will contaminate air and sea currents and fish with dan gerous radioactivity. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Americans who are thinking of driving into Mexico and it looks like about half of our na tion is thinking of doing just that will be interested first of all in the condition of the Mex ican highways. So far as the west coast is concerned, there is nothing to worry about. Highway 15, lead ing down from Nogales, is good all the way to Mexico City. It is excellent as far as Mazatlan. In the state of Sonora, the farthest northern state, it is splendid. HPHE Mexican highways, of course, are a little narrow by American standards. But they are wide enough. Traffic on Highway 15 is relatively light. In Mexico, cars cost about twice as much as in the states. That is because of the duty, which is about 100 per cent. Mexico has a budding car assembly business, and proposes to pro tect it. Then car ownership isn't uni versal in Mexico as it is in our country. Only the upper echelons of Mexicans can afford them. As a result car ownership is low by American standards. So their roads aren't as crowded as ours are. "C'OR the visitor, this has its advantages. In more than 2,000 miles of driving in western Mexico, I saw only one acci dent. About halfway down in Sonora, a trailer truck had jackknifed and turned over. The speed limit on open, straight road is 100 celometers, or about 62 miles. . With reasonable care, driving on Highway 15 is perfectly safe. rpHIS west coast road has been -1- well engineered. There are long, straight stretches many of them 30 to 40 miles without a curve between the border and Mazatlan. As a result, excellent time can be made with safety. Below Mazatlan, there are more curves and the surface of the road isn't so smooth. But there is nothing to worry about, and good time can be made. WHAT of the cops? They are few and far be tween. Often you drive for hours without seeing one. They are uniformly courteous and help ful, and you soon come to re gard them as your best friends Almost without exception, they speak good English. If you get lost, or have trouble of any sort, just hunt up a cop. He'll set vou rieht. and will do it so pleasantly that you'll go on your way rejoicing. ' The cities are full of one-way streets, and it's amazing now easily you can go the wrong way. But the cop usually smiles good-naturedly and motions you to get turned around and head in the other direction. ITHAT of the gasoline? " That's another story. In the state of Sonora, ethyl is quite generally obtainable. But south of Sonora you're just plain lucky if you stumble into a pump with high test fuel. The ordinary grade known as Mex olina is pretty far down the scale. In modern high compres sion cars it clanks and knocks and you think your car is going to fall to pieces as sure as shoot ing. But it doesn't. Somehow you keep going especially if you learn the trick of gaining speed gradually instead of shoving the pedal down to the floor boards. Older cars,' with lower compres sion ratios, of course, handle the low grade gasoline without trouble. f ASOLLNE is measured by the liter instead of by the gal lon. So the pumps show liters instead of gallons. There are roughly four liters in a gallon. The price will be in pesos, and it varies with the grade, but it will always be somewhere be low a peso per liter. You'll soon get the hang of knowing how to pay for what you get. The price of high test gas runs slightly less than in the United States. The price of low grade fuel is considerably less. 1T7HAT do you do with your par? In general, you lock it up and leave it in the street, except in the very big cities. In western Mexico- cars left m the streets are quite safe if locked up thoroughly. Turn To Pages 8 and 9 FOR ADRIENNE'S BIG LIQUIDATION SALE ANNOUNCEMENT For Action, QUICK and EASY! Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 Internal Revenue Bureau Critic Faces Tax Charge Boston (U.R) Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D.-Mass.) one time crit- ic of the U.S. Internal Revenue department's investigation into tax delinquents, today faced charges of tax evasion. . Lane was indicted by a fed eral Grand Jury here yesterday on charges of evading $38,543 in income taxes from 1949 through 1951. No date was set for arraignment. . False Returns Claimed According to the indictment returned by Federal Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr., the evasions were committed by fil ing "false and fraudulent" joint tax returns. - The congresman's wife, the former Jane R. Mifrphy of Law rence, was not named in the in dictment. The government aUeged that Lane paid taxes totaling $16,896 during the three-year period al though he owed $55,440. The in dictment charged that Lane filed returns showing income for the three years as $66,259 when he "well knew" the total was $151,166. From Private Practice Justice department officials said the tax evasions resulted from the congressman's private law practice in Lawrence. Three years ago Lane criti cized the Internal Revenue bu reau's Boston office for con ducting a door-to-door canvass for delinquent taxpayers. Lane charged . in August, 1953, that the canvass was "un warranted" and might constitute a "violation of the sanctity of the home." He and two other Massachusetts congressmen had promised a full investigation. However, the inquiry did not materialize. Adlai, Kefauver Cross in Minnesota Minneapolis (U.R) The cam paign trails of Adlai E. Steven son and Sen. Estes Kefauver crossed in Minnesota today, witk both urging re-doubled efforts for peace. The two candidates for the Democratic presidential, nomin ation united in accusing the Ei senhower administration of in eptness and indecision in the quest for peace. q Stevenson, in an Alexandria, Minn., speech last night, said "Peace never comes on a bar gain counter." The nation must "work, sweat, pay and pray for peace," he said. Kefauver attacked the admin istration on the same front be fore flying to Minnesota. He said in Rochester, N.H., last night that President Eisenhower has failed to make "great decisions" and "the American people are being lulled by the siren song of peace and prosperity." Kefauver came to Minnesota for a four-day stumping tour just as Stevenson was winding up his five-day barnstorming swing through the state. Westinghouse Okays Mediators' Proposal Washington (U.R) Westing house Electric Corp. today ac cepted a proposal by mediators for settling a 142-day strike by the AFL-CIO Electrical Workers Union. The union, however, still had no answer on the "package" set tlement proposal submitted to both sides Saturday. The company announced its acceptance of the proposed five year contract at a meeting with a team of federal and private mediators today. The company said that if the union accepts the proposal, the strikers can begin to return to work tomorrow. Some 44,000 workers at 30 Westinghouse plants have been on strike since last Oct. 17. . The strike is the longest major walkout in about 20 years . MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN Most every month a customer slips and falls on our walk or in our store, hurts himself on a display or finds some other reason . to claim damages. Would storekeeper's liability insurance save us the embar rassment and expense of handling these claims? ' MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 r