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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) MedfordjTrebuni: Everybody0 in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Eusiness Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing toitor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWEXT bports tditor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor DALE E3ICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ot March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pv Mail In Advance: Per Couv 10c Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday Only One year j.3U. 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 ac 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 A J...4iiir DanfacontativP' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeies. Seattjp . Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL s i ASSO CH-AT LQN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o'Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 18, 1946 (It was Monday) Medford school district resi dents to vote on $500,000 bond issue tomorrow for school im provements. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls are anxiously awaiting the next combination stampede, smash through left tackle and Klondike rush for a pair of nylons. 20 YEARS AGO March 18, 1936 (It was Wednesday) Special committee formed to make recommendations on re surfacing several streets; to re port to Medford city council at next meeting. McAndrews ford and Bear creek bridges, PWA projects, nearing completion, County En gineer Paul Rynning, says. 30 YEARS AGO March 18, 1926 (It was Thursday) '. The first general smudging of the season done last night; little if any damage, results from frost. Vernon H. Vawter of Med ford named to committee of re gents of trie University of Ore gon to interview possible presi dent candidates. 0 40 YEARS AGO March 18. 1916 (It was Saturday) q Medford Commercial club and Jackson County Business Men's association to discuss possibili ties of extending Bullis Electric line to Blue Ledge mine. From Local and. Personal col umn: The work preliminary to installing the frogs in the cross ing of the Southern Pacific track on Main street by the Southern Oregon Traction company is proceeding rapidly. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Minnesota delegates to 1952 Democratic convention, after voting on first ballot for Sen. Humphrey, voted on the second mostly for Stevenson, Kefauver, Truman or Harriman? 2. Total population of the Arab states is about (a) 5,' (b) 10, (c) 15, (d) 25 or (e) 50 times that of Israel? 3. Much more than half the Business on the N.Y. Stock Ex change originates in N.Y. City, or about half, or much less than half? 4. The Holy City of Mohamme dans is Baghdad, Cairo, Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Jeru salem or Mecca? 5. Federal tax on transporta tion tickets is now (a) 5, (b) 10, (c) 15, or (d) 20 per cent? 6. The FBI is or isn't specifi cally authorized by federal law to tap wires in treason cases? 7. Leon Trotsky, Communist leader exiled by Stalin, was later assassinated in Moscow, Lenin grad, Warsaw, Mexico City, East Berlin or Peiping? The answers: 1. Mostly for Ke fauver. 2. About 25 times. 3. Mud less than half. 4. Mecca. 5. 10 per cent. 6. Isn't specifically 7. Mexico City. Steak contains about 17.3 per cent protein and milk about 3.5 per cent. MAIL TRIBUNE A Good Move by McKay The decision of Secretary of Interior Douglas Mc Kay to run for the Republican nomination for United States senator is good. It is good for the politics of this state, is good for the country, and in the long run it should prove good for Senator Wayne Morse. It is good for the people of Oregon because it will provide them with a clearcut choice next November between the forces of the public weal and the forces of the public be damned. This is, of course, assuming that McKay wins the Republican nomination, and that's almost a foregone conclusion. "THE DECISION is good for the country because it will get "Generous Doug" McKay out of his im portant cabinet post, where he has done more to dam age the economic advancement and good name of this region than any other secretary of interior within me mory. His replacement may not be much better; it can't be worse. And the decision is good for Senator Morse be cause it will remove any necessity of shadow boxing come November against the outpouring of millions of dollars from all over the country that will be sent into Oregon against him. He will be running against a known quantity in McKay and can draw the issues cleanly. McKay has a record, and that record is easy to criticize. J ET THERE be no misunderstanding about it. Wayne Morse is in the fight of his life this fall. This battle-scarred veteran of principled politics is the number one target of every Republican leader in the United States. Oregon can look forward to a dirty, expensive campaign. It will parallel the 1954 senatorial races throughout the West when Republican candidates were backed by a conservatively estimated $10 mil lion in partially successful efforts to defeat liberal Democrats, primarily in Montana, Wyoming and Col orado. The smears and stench of that campaign, led on ward by Vice-President Richard Nixon, were just short of bad enough to demand investigation. TT SHOULD be even worse in Oregon. Wayne Morse is the pet hate of every conservative Repub lican in the nation. Not only is he an ex-Republican, but he has had the colossal gall to stand up and blow the whistle on give-aways and conniption and worst of all to doubt the sainthood of Dwight D. Eisen hower. But we think that Senator Morse, cast in the image of George Norris and other great independents of the past, will win. This much is certain, Oregon and and the entire nation cannot afford to have him lose. TOR McKAY, the decision to run was almost a ne cessity. With the death of Governor Patterson, Oregon Republicans were left without a "name" can didate to oppose the best known political figure in the state. McKay, as ex-governor and secretary of the interior, was the only logical Republican to make the race. Indications are he would' rather have stayed out of elective politics, but that when he was asked to run by General Eisenhower, he could not refuse. One can-imagine his reluctance. He is at an age when retirement entices most men after a long and prominent career. In addition, he has been one of the chief targets in the Eisenhower administration for blows from the opposition. jWf OST OF these blows, from our point-of-view, were justifiable. Examples were the giveaway of the Hells Canyon damsite to Idaho Power Co. for erection of a two-bit generating plant, the strange, strange Al Sar.ena case where some of the best tim ber along the Rogue River was given away from the price of a gold mine claim, and the systematic rape of the country's wildlife refuges for the benefit of a small group of oilmen. McKay was up. to his hips in each of these cases. All this will be brought out strongly in the com ing campaign, and this newspaper hopes to have a part in bringing them out. It is a good thing that McKay has decided to run. It is good for all of us. F.W.A. in Coos Bay Times. Non-Fatality Record Completes 814th Day By GEORGE C. LONG Chief of Police Written for United Press La Crosse, Wis. (U.R) We have completed 814 days in La Crosse without a traffic fatality and it has taken every one of us to keep up this wonderful record. , It is the common talk on the street. The longer it goes, the more jittery we get. Every time an ac cident occurs and a person is injured and taken to the hospital there is a silence and we wonder if "this is it." All we can say about how we've accomplished this record is that we've exercised every caution we possibly can. We have received fine cooperation from the citizens and "the motoring public, from various organizations, from schools and the School Boy Patrol, from the courts and from other law enforcing groups such as the Sheriff's Department and. the County Highway Police. The City Street Department has done a fine job during the winter months in keeping intersections well sanded and plowing snow from the streets. The La Crosse Tribune and radio stations have diligently warned the people to drive safely, giving them the weather and road conditions and also the number of days without a fatality. As a result, the people in the surrounding territory are all aware of the safety record in the city and are driving accordingly. The Police Department has cracked down on speeders and all moving violations. The use of radar has helped us consider ably, and so has the practice of putting all patrol cars on the street with one man to a car. We have put up four-way stops at dangerous intersections and eliminated right and left turns on downtown streets. Squad cars with amplifiers have been posted at downtown intersections dur ing shopping hours, warning motorists and pedestrians to abide by traffic laws. Officers are stationed at high schools to see that students drive carefully during the noon hour. There probably are other things ! haven't mentioned here. But briefly, we've tried everything in the book to keep this record. Sunday, March 18, 1956 Pti&t tQt Of FCJCt By Joe and Stewart Alscp STEVENSON'S PROSPECTS Washington Adlal E. Steven son took a bad knock in New Hampshire, without ever going there. Mavbe Estes Kefauver will take a bad knock, in his turn, in Min nesota, where Steven son's personal camp aign seems to have gone over p r e 1 1 y well. In any case, Joseph Aisop what has just happened sharply underscores the seriousness of the Democratic Party's present dilema. In Ke fauver, the party has a candidate with proven mass appeal, who enjoys the hearty detesta tion of the party organiz ations, both in the North and in the South. Even if he tri umphs in other primaries as he has trium Stewart A Is op phed in New Hampshire, it is hard to see how Kefauver can win the Democra tic Presidential nomination in the teeth of so much organiza tion opposition. In Stevenson, on the other hand, the Democrats have a uni versally respected candidate who has also ingratiated himself with the party organizations since the 1952 election. But Stevenson is not only a one time loser; in addition, he seems to have lost some of his original appeal to the general mass of voters during the last three and half difficult years. Otevenson's problem, essentialy, is how to attact the attention of the country; how to arouse the voters and impress them with his personality. The prob lem has been, and is, compli cated by the conviction of Stev enson and his political managers that he is a mile ahead in the race for the nomination, which indeed he still is, despite New Hampshire. Fear of jeopardiz- ing this lead in the intra-Demo- cratic race has caused Steven son to play it cooney in all sorts of ways. Playing it cooney is. perhaps the right pre-convention strategy for Stevenson, although it seems likely that the Democrats would prefer a candidate who has stir red and excited the country to candidate who has been merely moderate, literate and inoffen sive. . But this year, the real elec tion campaign is to endure for only about seven weeks. It is almost impossible' to see how President Eisenhower s enor mous present lead can be over come in this short period by a Democratic opponent who has played it cooney right up until convention-time. For this reason the Stevenson camp is now ra ther sharply divided on the pro blem of strategy. fine group of Stevenson's ad- visors, who probably consti tute the majority, want him to carry on as before. Another group has been pleading for an altogether novel approach. They say that with the exception of the farm issue, every domestic issue has been smothered by the country's booming ,prosperity. Therefore the real issues, accord ing to this second group, ought to be foreign and defense policy. They want Stevenson to stop nib bling at these Issues, as he has been doing to date, and to make them principal themes of his campaign. In time of apparent peace, with no immediately visible foreign threat, no American Pres idential candidate has ever tried to do quite what these Stevenson advisors are now urging. Yet their argument for this bold new departure is at least logical. The world situation, they say, is now very obviously deteriof at ing at a frightening rate in every area of serious importance to the United States. The country has thus far accepted the sooth ing re-assurances of the Eisen hower Administration, and the voters are therefore unaware of the growing danger abroad. But this very fact, it is argued, only makes the Administration doub ly vulnerable, first for failing to ward off the danger itself, and second for not telling the country the truth about it. Approximately the same line of argument is applied to the defense problem. The absolute necessity- of a determined, un remitting atack on both the fore ign and defense issues is further urged, on the ground thsft the Presidency wiU not be worth having if no such attack is made. The next President, after all, will have to deal with the world situation that is now taking shape. And if Candidate Steven son does not make a clear and forceful record, of warning against the world situation's growing dangers, then President Stevenson in the samewhat un likely event of his election will b held personally responsible when our troubles begin to come to a head. TV) date, the result of the de bate in the Stevenson camp has been a rather uneasy comp romise. When he appears before fcimfnaifc ffiiif 1 wS the American Society of News paper Editors in April, Steven son is now slated to make a full dress, searchingly critical speech on foreign and defense policy. One other such speech, again be fore a national audience, is also planned for a fairly early date. But this , of course, is altogether different from the much more difficult strategy of making the foreign and defense issues the really dominant themes of the whole Stevenson campaign. All the same, Stevenson is likely to be driven to make fore eign and defence policy his main theme before aU is said and done. For it really is very hard to see any other themes which have the remotest chance of making a dent in President Eisenhower's personal popularity, or even awakening the interest of this prosperous and contented country. Today and By Walter THE ABSENT SECRETARY As Mr. Dulles finished his lat est tour, it is more than ever necessary to ask him to consider whether these long absences from Washington permit him to carry out the real responsib ilities of his office. While he has been traveling in South Asia and in the South Pacific, the situation in North Afr- Walter Lippmann ica and in the Middle East has been deteriorat ing rapidly. There is an almost desperate need of clarification and of decision about Western policy in North Africa, Cyprus, Palestine and the Persian Gulf states. What Mr. Dulles had been doing is to argue the Administra tion case to be a kind of travel ling Voice of America in Kar achi, New Delhi, Colombo and Jakarta. That would be all very well if Mr. Dulles were two men, and if the more important one of the two were in Washington making policy about North Africa and the Middle East. As it is, Mr. Dulles has spent his time talk ing when he is most urgently needed in Washington for the grave business of deciding. rphis visible evidence of all this - is that in each of the disputed areas in French North Africa, in Cyprus, Palestine, as regards Egypt and Saudi-Arabia we find ourselves antagonizing both sides. Our Consulate m Tunis is wrecked by Frenchmen who suspect us of supporting the dis sident Arabs. In Cyprus we have provoked the British and we have annoyed the Greeks, in Pal estine we are distrusted by the Arab states and were are scold ed by the Israelis. It is true that in international affairs a great power cannot ex pect to please everybody, and at times to please anybody. But in the nresent situation the plight in which we find oursel ves is not that we are In the moderate middle but beween two extreme factions. We are not m the middle. We are in a muddle. That is due to the fact that our central policy is no more than an attempt to avoid decisions and to get by without displeas ing anybody at home or aboard too much. Time has just about run out on the policy of drift and muddle. What can be done about it? What can be done about it is to make up our minds as to where we stand and what we can and what we will support. In French North Africa, we and the British consult seriously with France. We should then decide what we shall regard as a settlement that we mean to support wholeheartedly. We should give Francebur full sup port if France will offer the Arab population the full mea sure of freedom' which liberal French opinion already favors. In Palestine we'should convert the 1950 declaration into a firm international guarantee against aggression by either side, and we might then take our stand for the neutralization of Israel with in frontiers that have been mod ified and rectified by interna tional arbitration. We should face up to the tac tics of Saudi-Arabia in using the profits from oil from subversion by corruption and bribery and propaganda throughout the Mid dle East. In dealing with Saudi Arabia is more dependent upon us for the exploitation of its oil than we are on Saudi-Arabia for the right to exploit it. If ever it was true that appeasement is an unworkable policy, it is true here.. precisions of this kind are grave " and momentous and they cannot and chould not be made except with the full attention of the highest responsible officials of the government. The truth of it is that with Mr. Dulles away on his travels, there is no one in Washington who can and will take decisions of this magnitude. The, President is certainly not fully at grips with the issue. Mr. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Potluck Custodian Medford Mail Tribune Sir: Sure now an 'tis bad enough for ye Orangemen to be mak in' jokes about the Irish, but faith and bejabers, me good man, let's not be after changin' the date of St. Pat's Day. When the town's leadin' news paper tries to tell us Friday the 16th is the big day for cele bratin,' shure 'tis enough to make a self-respectin' Irishman take down his lace curtains and move outa the valley. And since you're after men tionin' Henry VIII in the very same joke as March XVII, I'm hopin' Henry will be given a Ball for the likes of all of ye, for that's where you belong Tomorrow Lippmann Herbert Hoover Jr. cannot take such decisions. If decisions are to be taken, they have to be taken by Mr. Dulles with the ad vice and consent of the Presi dent. Mr. Dulles should come home, he should stay home for a con siderable time, he should stop making so many speeches. He should stop trying to be the voice of America, he should stop trying to produce a campaign platform for the Republicans, and he should put his main at tention on the business of being the Secretary of State. Copyright 1956 New York Hearld Tribue Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The United States Chamber of. Commerce is prodding the congress (and the administra tion) to DO SOMETHING about the year-old Hoover report rec ommendation for reducing the cost of government housekeep ing- . NOT necessarily the cost of national defense. NOT necessar ily, the cost of a sound farm pro gram to get American agricul ture back onto a reasonable sup ply and demand basis. NOT necessarily the cost of keeping up with the expanding economy. Just reducing the day-to-day HOUSEKEEPING cost of our federal government by cutting out the waste and the inefficien cy. "pUT it this way: The more waste and ineffi ciency we tolerate in the every day operation of the routine af fairs of our federal government, the higher the cost of govern ment must be. The higher the cost of gov ernment, the higher the taxes must be. The higher the taxes, THE LESS THE PEOPLE HAVE LEFT IN THEIR POCKETS TO SPEND. That's the long and the short of it. TN conclusion: A The congress will never cut the housekeeping cost of gov ernment until the voters begin to check up on their representa tives in congress and VOTE AGAINST those who spend too recklessly, with too little regard for what is obtained with the taxpayers' money. Over the long pull, economy in government is Up TO THE VOTER. SPEAKING of government op erations, what do you know about civil defense? What is it aU about? Is it worth what it is costing? IF you're anything like me, you Hnn't tnnw anvhinir ahnut it in which event this little tale that has just come off the tele type will be interesting to you: CONGRESS has just been told that most of the money spent for civil defense is WASTED. The statement comes from Otto Nelson, who directed "Project East River," an extensive study of civil defense, what it costs and what we get in the way of returns for the money we spend for it. His opinion is contained in testimony he has prepared for the house government oper ations subcommittee, which is considering legislation on the subject. He says that funds now going for civil defense are largely wasted because our present non military defense program is so ineffective and fragmentary that it is WORSE THAN NO PROGRAM AT ALL. He adds: "As a major goal of civil de fense, 30 per cent of our gross national production should be scattered OUTSIDE . OF THE METROPOLITAN ' TARGET ZONES.! TiHAT makes sense in an age - when a "few well-placed hy drogen bombs could destroy the entire population area of ANY of our largest cities. Behind the VIII Ball. Shamus Dunlavey. Shure, now an' that same Shamus was not only wearin' of the green yesterday he was almost shmothered in it, he was. Aye, and 'tis a sad, sad day for all of us, lads of Erin of all nations, when Shamus must depend for his good luck on horseshoes instid of an hon est green shamrock onlyl Before we leave the subject of St. Pat's big day, we were hon ored last week when a chap by the name of Bill Mulligan (sure ty' dropped in to the office to show us a document about nine lads who were convicted of trea son against her majesty, Queen Victoria, in the troubles of the year 1848. Good lads, all, too, but sentenced they were to die by hangin.' To make a long story short, the queen, motivated by passion ate protests from all over the world, commuted the sentences to transportation, and off the lads were packed to Australia. Nearly 30 years later, the queen questioned what had hap pened to those nine Irish lads, and their records showed this: One was governor of Montana, two were brigadier generals in the U. S. Army, one was gov ernor general of Newfoundland, one was attorney general of Australia, and another one suc ceeded him; one was a member of parliament and minister of ag riculture for Canada, and one was a prominent politician in New York and a father of a mayor of that city. Bill Jenkins, over the hill on the High Desert, comments in his column in the Herald and News about the difficulty . of how to address a letter to a woman when she gives no hint as to whether she is a Miss or a Mrs. He records, however, the so lution of a man he knows who has taken to addressing such letters thus: Dear M's Jones. This, he says, can be either Miss of Mrs. and is darned handy but he wishes women would be more considerate. A Medford couple, married a year, visited Portland the other day and stopped at a hotel which was nearly filled up. They had only one vacancy left the brid al suite, which had just been redecorated and still smelled of fresh paint. . A beautiful suite it was, too, they report, lovely furniture, nice kitchenette, lace tablecloth and so on. But, in the bedroom of that same bridal suite, they found twin beds. Definitions: ' An engineer: One who knows a great deal about very little, and goes on knowing more and more about less and less until he knows practically everything about almost noth ing. An attorney: One who knows a little . about a great deal, and goes on knowing less and less about more and more until he ' knows practi cally nothing about - every thing. - A newspaperman: One who knows everything about ev erything, but ends up know ing nothing about nothing due to his association with engineers ' and lawyers. . A week ago Thursday morn ing, a conscientious Man iti une reader called and said: "Yesterday, the date on the paper was Wednesday, March 7, and it was March 8. I thought you might want to know so you wouldn't make the same mistake again." A staff member assured the woman, that the day was Thurs day, March 8, and "t h a t the March 7 date on the day before was correct. She said: "Well, my calendar has today as Thursday, March 9." Staff member asked, "Are you sure you have 1956 calendar?" The woman said it was a 1956 calendar. The staff member checked the calendars in the office all six of them a n d again assured her that according to them it was Thursday, March 8. "Well," she said, "I guess it's just my calendar. Thank you." . . We started out with Shamus Dunlevy, so we might as well end up with him. Anyway, he dropped in to talk to our gal , whose husband is a Russian who served in a Scotch regi ment of the Canadian - army.' He offered next March 17, to buy her a drink of Irish vod ka. Man Shoots Former Wife on Public Bus Whitfield, Miss. (U.R) Cecil L. Gilmer shot and killed his former wife on a public bus Saturday while other passengers looked on in horror. Gilmer, 35, pumped three shots into Mrs. Wynell Gilmer Foy, 32, . who remarried after divorcing Gilmer. He forced the driver to stop and fled into the woods. Vacation Packets Guide to Oregon Tourist Vacations A vacation packet containing information about southern Ore gon for distribution in motels and hotels, has been developed by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce tourist and con vention committee, it was an nounced Friday. The special packet will In clude information about the Jacksonville museum, a points of interest folder, a map show ing where to take good photos, likely fishing spots, information about lost gold mines and direc tions to hunting grounds for ' rock hounds. Direction Signs Another project of the tour ist committee is the placement of about 20 colorful signs teUing the location of the Chamber office, where visitors can ob tain visitors' information. The tourist committee plans to continue to place small tour ist ads in publications in the Los Angeles area. Recent com mittee activities were approved by a chamber of commerce board meeting last . week. Mrs. Bert Pree has been chairman of the tourist com mittee for two years. She has been active in chamber of com merce work for the past four years, serving on the greetera committee, membership commit tee, and was the first woman elected to the board of direc tors. Other members of the tourist committee are Irean Grigsby, Bill Keenan, Ron Gandee, Ed Barnett, Don Arant, Chuck Johnston, Bob Dames, Robert Holmes, J. Vernon Marshall, George Potucek, Ken Macdon ald, John Lister, Martin Raftery, Pauline Dunlap, John Pletsch and Grace R. Smith. . Woodcock Elected As BPOE Exalted Ruler Walter D. Woodcock will head the Medford Benevolent Protec tive Order of Elks lodge, as ex alted ruler, members decided at their election - meeting March 15. . : . Other newly elected officer are Galen R. Knox, esteemed leading knight; Budd Gail, es teemed loyal knight; Herbert G. Robbins, esteemed lecturing knight; Donald D. Davis, secre tary; Allan F. Perry, treasurer; and George W Howard, tiler. .Lew G.. Miles will, serve a'fiye- year term as trustee and C. Au brey Sander is the alternate delegate. Ernest L. Scott, who has serv ed as secretary of the lodge for 23 years, declined to run for reelection because of poor health. Donald P." Adams, . for merly of Klamath Falls, . has been appointed club manager; CHAMBER TO 32 Chamber to Urge More Active Participation Washington (U.R) John S. Coleman, new president of 'the U. S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday night he will urge businessmen to take a more ac tive part in politics and public affairs. - ' r Coleman said another chief goal during his year-long ' tefrn will be to promote increased for eign trade. The 58-year-old president of Burroughs Corp. of Detroit was elected as head of the chamber by the 58 member board of di rectors Friday. He will begin his term May 2. Following his election, Cole man, who was born in Charles ton, W. Va., told a news confer ence that businessmen, as indi viduals, "owe it to their country and the nation" to be active in politics "if this democracy is to survive." The chamber also elected Clarke Bassett, vice-president of the first National Bank of Min neapolis a vice-president. Other vice-presidents were re-elected. Licenses Required For Warehousemen Salem (U.R) State ' Agri culture Director J. F. Short haa warned warehousemen that li censes were required to handle public grain under the new warehouse licensing and inspec tion act. Short said department inspec tors wished warehouse opera tors to be familiar with three phases of the 1955 law most fre quently violated: 1. Anyone receiving grain, in cluding dry peas and beans, for public storage must have a state license from the agriculture de partment. 2. Warehouse receipts lor grains, peas and beans must be obtained from the . department's grain inspection division in Port land. 3. It is unlawful for a ware house to issue or have printed itst own receipts for grains, peas or beans Private receipts may bt used for other commodities, however, the department said.