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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 25. 1946
(It was Monday)
Copies of May 17 primary bal
lot for Jackson county go to
printers, county clerk an
nounces. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Portland is
somewhat excited about $1 hair
cuts, invoked by the tonsorial
artists recently. A man can't cut
his own hair, but his wife can
try.
20 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Jacksono county's quota for
Ked Cross flood funds raised to
$675 for assistance to eastern
states.
Earl J. Rogers, frost forecas
ter here, predicts frost and first
general smudging of the season
tonight.
30 YEARS AGO
March 25, 1926
(It was Thursday) '
Mrs. Gordon McCraken of
Ashland is candidate for state re
gent of the Daughters of Ameri
can Revolution of Oregon.
C. C. Clark named as new
manager of Oriental Gardens,
popular ballrooms in Medford.
40 YEARS AGO ,
March 25, 1916
(It was Saturday)
Passenger ship Sussex, with
25 Americans aboard, torpedoed
near the coast of France.
Mass meeting called to discuss
possibilities of building railroad
to Blue Ledge mine.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report
1. If a Presidential nominee
dies just before Election Day,
his replacement is named by his
party's national committee,
members of Congress, state gov
ernors or Supreme Court mem
bers? 2. News photographers are al
lowed to take pictures of trials
in federal court almost always,
frequently, or almost never?
3. A larger percentage of Ne
groes than of whites is engaged
in farming, or a larger percent
age of Whites, or is it about
50-50?
4. Average starting salary for
teachers in city public schools
is around $2,300, $2,600, $2,900,
$3,200 or $3,500?
5. Waterloo, where Napoleon
met his final defeat, is in France,
Prussia, Belgium, The Nether
lands, Luxembourg or Spain?
6. A well hit golf ball leaves
the club head at about (a) 25, (b)
75, (c) 125 or (d) 175 miles an
hour?
7. Which well known movie,
radio and TV star was origin
ally named David Kaminsky?
The answers: 1. National com
mittee. 2. Almost nerer. 3.
Larger percentage of Negroes.
4. Around $3,200 is average.
5. Belgium. 6. About 125 miles
an hour. 7. Danny Kaye.
CONSTRUCTION STARTS
Klamath Falls 0J.R) Con
struction of the $198,000 Nation
al Guard armory in Klamath
Falls began last week. The arm
ory is planned as a two-unit fa
cility, but i so designed that a
third unit may later be added.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Intra-Continental Chat
When the heads of state 'of the three North
American powers meet tomorrow at White Sulphur
Springs, the tone of their conversations is likely to
be serious but informal. President Eisenhower issued
the invitation to the Prime Minister of Canada and
the President of Mexico.
"We just want to meet for a chat, talk with these
two people," the President said. He noted that the
meeting would emphasize to the world "that the
North American continent is a continent that is
bound together by geography," that we have "com
mon aspirations, common policies." And also, that
we have "common problems."
DECENT dispatches from Canada have disclosed
ruffled economic relations between the two na
tions. Canada was disturbed recently when the Mary
land legislature voted to exclude from that state
brewing companies with less than 51 per cent of the
stock owned by U. S. citizens.
The bill was aimed at the Carling Brewing Com
pany, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of, Canadian Brewers'
Ltd., which contemplated erecting a $12 million brew
ery in Maryland. Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin on
March 19 vetoed the bill at the behest of the State
Department.
The Carling contretemps came as a Canadian
corporation with 51 per cent of its stock owned by
U.S. corporations was negotiating with the Ottawa
government on building part of a trans-Canada nat
ural gas pipeline. The government was disposed to
undertake the financing, but the Opposition, both
right-wing and left-wing, was strongly opposed.
AN EXAMPLE of smoothness in . U.S.-Canadian
relations, on the other hand, is the Permanent
Joint Board of Defense. It was the product of a rail
road car chat between President F. D. Roosevelt and
former Prime Minister MacKenzie King of Canada.
The result was the Ogdensburg Agreement of
Aug. 17, 1940, providing the mechanism for a far-
reaching program for the
The Board continued in existence after World War
II, as it was intended to. According to Deputy Under
Secretary of State Robert D. Murphy:
Today this program has great ramifications on both sides
of the border arid has guided the investment of hundreds of
millions of dollars by both countries in a joint defense sys
tem that is constantly growing in efficiency.
The U. S. and Canada
have had their differences. But in the United Na
tions, as elsewhere, they have tended to get along on
general broad policy. E.R.R.
New Glory for Trotsky? -
If Russia's new "collective" leadership wants to
rehabilitate the memory of
ther denigration of Josef
farther than the testament
In this Lenin warned
of Stalin too rude as
At the same time Lenin thus
rade Trotsky ... is distinguished not only by his excep
tional ability personally, he is, to be sure, the most
able man m the present Central Committee.
T ENIN did warn of Trotsky's "too far-reaching self
confidence and a disposition to be far too much
attracted by the purely administrative side of affairs.
He feared a split in the party arising from Stalin's
lack of "caution" in using: "enormous power" and
Trotsky's weaknesses.
Leon Trotsky, born Leo Davidovitch Bronstein,
was a Russian middle-class Jew who early became
imbued with revolutionary
Socialist he was a leader
1905, revolution. Twice he
twice he escaped.
The March (Kerensky) revolution of 1917 found
him in New York City after several years of exile in
Vienna and Pans.
TROTSKY arrived in Russia in May; he was ar
A rested by the provisional government in July for
his fiery agitation. He was released, however; he is
said to have remarked to Lenin, "Fortunately, our
enemies were not consistent enough and did not have
the courage to execute the two of them.
In September, Trotsky formed a military-revolt!
tionary committee and began to prepare the PetrO'
grad garrison for action.
president of the Petrograd
Nov. 6-7, Trotsky became commissar of foreign
affairs for the new Soviet
Then this fragile, unkempt journalist developed
a new, volunteer "Red Army" into a well equipped,
well trained force of more than 100,000 men which
succeeded in pushing back the advancing "White"
armies.
POR HIS gifts to the revolution, Trotsky was poorly
rewarded. He early quarreled with Lenin over the
New Economic Policy and Lenin's refusal to push
world-wide revolution. At Lenin s deatn, stann, Lino
vip.v. anH Knrnennv tnnV nwr
In 1926 Trotskv, still a
Zinoviev and Kamenov,
leadership, ueteated, he was expelled trom the party
and exnea to Turkestan,
DUshed out nf Russia artrJ
J. wwv - -
He moved on to Norway, was excelled for political
T1 11 r . 1 . 1 1 1
purposes, n many Mexico accepted mm on his pledge
to cease agitation. In 1940 he was assassinated.
What now of Trotsky, "dead and turned to clay?'
In a possible reference to Trotsky, First Deputy Pre
mier A. I. Mikovan told the 20th Soviet Partv Con
gress on Feb. 16: "Some persons were-arbitrarily
exalted (by Soviet historians), others got no mention
at an. &ven so, it's not likely the Keds will change
the name of Stalingrad to Trotskygrad. E.R.R. -
Sunday, March 25, 1956
defense of North America.
like the U. S. and Mexico
Leon Trotsky to the iur
Stalin they need go no
of the dying Lenin.
Bolshevik leaders to get rid
party general secretary.
assessed Trotsky: Com'
ideas. As a revolutionary
in the abortive October,
was exiled to Siberia, and
In October he was elected
Soviet. After the coup of
government.
world revolutionist, with
tried to take over party
in February, iyzy,.ne was
tnnlr 1m rpsidpnr.p. in Turkev.
ommunications
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not exceed 400 words.
She Asks Questions
To the Editor: In this fluori
dation discussion the arguments
of the pros fall into three cate
gories.
The first is the statement that
fluorine in our water will re
duce caries 35 to 65 per cent.
Nothing is said concerning its ef
fect upon other body tissues.
These questions arise: What is its
effect upon other organs? When
a known amount is ingested
what per cent remains in the
body? What are the signs of flu
orine poisoning? Are they con
cealed as hepatitis, carcinoma,
kidney ailments? What "experi
ments have been done on test
animals to answer these ques
tions? What is the maximum
amount that can safely be in
gested? Does anyone know? How
can we know if we are getting
this amount? This is important
because we are already ingest
ing daily, unknown amounts of
fluorine in our diet because of
its use in sprays, canned goods
prepared with water containing
fluorine, and animal products ob
tained from animals which have
ingested fluorine contaminated
food and water. Can any pro
fluoridation person answer
these questions?
Their second category is ridi
cule. This has two phases. The
first is name calling such as bird
brains, food faddists, and profes
sional agitators. The other is
character and professional stand
ing defamation.
Their third argument is: See
how many important organiza
tions are for fluoridation! So it
is not necessary to think! Only
follows the leaders! History is
replete with people who have
done just that to their destruc
tion. Hitler in Germany is a re
cent example. Should not the
question be settled on its mer
its? Proponents have exhibited
only one source of merit; oppon
ents have exhibited many sourc
es of danger not one of which
has been disproved by approved
laboratory methods.
Yesterday I called one of our
drugstores to inquire if they
would mix a gallon jug of water
with 1.7 gm. of fluorine, which
was Dr. Exner's recommenda
tion. One teaspoonful daily will
give the child the protection rec
ommended by the Public Health
service, namely 1.0 mg. His an
swer was "yes." Therefore every
mother in the county can within
24 hours after reading this give
to her children the protection of
fluorine if she so desires.
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach St.
Medford, Ore,
Praise for Morse
To the Editor: The American
people, and especially the citi
zens of Oregon, have reason to
be pleased and proud of the fact
that we have in Senator Morse
a public servant who is dedi
cated to and serves conscientious
ly the cause of true democracy
While others may maneuver and
bargain for expediency, Senator
Morse has always symbolized
the fight for justice and judicial
proceedings under the due pro
cess of law. His speeches and
debates are not camoflaged with
double talk and he has demon
strated time and time again that
he is an excellent debator who
is well versed in the facts. He
knows the issues and problems
of concern to the American peo
ple in both domestic and foreign
affairs.
After a recent debate on a sub
ject of national importance,
members of the opposition made
the foUowing remarks: "That
was a magnificent job. No one
can say he did not keep it on a
high impersonal plane." "I have
seen a man of courage in action
today." "I told these people that
if he took the leadership in this
fight he would put it on a high
plane." "That was a powerful
speech."
These comments are well de
served because he is a man of
impeccable integrity who does
not indulge in nor resort to un
disciplined principles.
I have watched him on the
floor of the senate and followed
closely comments by the press
and I can arrive only at the con
clusion, that he is a man of des
tiny working for the benefit of
all who love and respect justice,
freedom and equal opportunity
regardless of race, creed or re
ligion. David A. Register,
3308 19th St., NW,
Washington 10, D. C.
Billboards and Water
To the Editor: On Wednesday,
March 21, in an editorial en
titled Billboards, you said; "Pub
lic opinion is the strongest force
in keeping the highways free
from distracting signs. And we
say, at the risk of being classed
as a dog-in-the-manger, that it
would be a good thing if the
public demanded that its yiew
of what can still be seen of Ore
gon remain unimpaired."
I feel the same way about
Medford's million dollar water.
Claudina M. Smith
1306 South Columbus Ave.
Medford, Ore. -
She Found the Facts
To the Editor: The idea that
we could improve our teeth by
diet seems like a good one, and
many of us are watching our
chidlren more closely now to see
that they don't constantly bathe
theirteeth in acid formed by
sticky candy and cokes between
meals. But even we adults re
fuse to change our diets because
pf some medical theory, no mat
ter how well accepted, unless we
are sick.
Is it any wonder that chil
dren spend their pennies on
suckers instead of stone ground
bread? Since there is no way of
changing the American diet ov
ernight, we will have to find an
other way of cutting down tooth
decay.
Reasoning isn't improved by
"scare" campaigns, and since I
wanted facts on fluoridation, I
obtained a copy of the Portland
City club's study of the problem.
They studied four reports the
layman can understand which
sum up data of thousands of sep
arate investigations. The reports
were:
1. Report of the Committee of
the St. liouis Medical society,
published in February 1954 is
sue of Missouri Medicine.
2. Report of the Ad Hoc Com
mittee on Fluoridation of Water
Supplies of the National Re
search Council, National Acad
emy of Sciences.
3. The Fluoridation of Domes
tic Water Supplies in North Am
erica, as a means of controlling
Dental Caries, Report of the
United Kingdom Missions.
4. Fluoridation, American As
sociation for the Advancement
of Science, Washington, 1954.
The committee also consider
ed testimony of Dr. Exner, a ra
diologist widely quoted by oppo
sition groups, and non-scientific
articles such as ilGo Slow on
Fluoridation," but neither saw
nor heard nor was able to find
any respectable evidence that
fluoridation at proposed levels
was any risk to health. It is re
markable that in the intense ar
guments of recent years no such
evidence has shown up.
After considering all evidence,
their committee strongly and
unanimously recommended flu
oridation, and concluded that
though some people oppose it
on religious grounds or personal
belief that nobody should have
to have fluorides in his water
unless he wants it, those people
should bear the burden of get
ting unfluoridated water for
drinking instead of making the
majority do without a safe and
effective health measure in fav
or of expensive and hard to con
trol substitutes that can't reach
the children who need fluorida
tion most.
Mrs. J. Clark,
Central Point.
"What is Right"
To the Editor: This the people
of Oregon should know before
they cast their vote, there are
two attorneys and one general
want to be president, and one
attorney wants to be vice-president.
Every one of them are for
this supreme court decision.
If you vote for any of these
people, here is what you get,
No. 1, a Civil War, or if you are
a white serf, and a degenerate of
the white race, you get this
now read carefully: The Cali
fornia supreme court in a 4 to 3
ruling nullified a century-old
statute prohibiting interracial
marriages. The court directed a
county clerk to issue a marriage
license to a Negro man and a
white American woman, holding
that the state law against misce
genetic marriages violated the
anti - discrimination and civil
rights guarantees of the U. S.
constitution as upheld by the so
called supreme court. There it
is; now, just whom have you to
vote for? I suggest the Dixie
south and conservative Repub
licans find an American to vote
for that has guts enough not to
sell out his birthright for a
20,000,000 Negro vote.
I suggest also if this could be
done, an amendment be added
to the constitution that no at
torney could hold a government
political position, and only
builders of the country that have
built this huge industrial empire
by the sweat of their brows, men
that can know what is right,
what is wrong, what is bad,
what is good. No man that has
avoided toil is a fit man to be in
a directive position, as a servant
to his fellow man.
G., S. Reilly.
338 North Laurel St.,
Ashland, Ore.
Ashland Youth Injured
In Bicycle Accident
Ashland Herb Keenan, 13,
of 138 North Main st., was treat
ed and held overnight at Ashland
General hospital Thursday night
for treatment of injuries re
ceived when struck by a car
while riding his bicycle.
The boy received multiple ear
and head lacerations in a col
lision involving a car operated
by James N. Osborn, 679 Beach
st., according to Ashland police.
No citations were issued.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
The sports editor pointed
out this week that one of the
high jumpers On the Phoenix
High school track squad is
most appropriately named
Trott.
Soeaking of the snorts editor,
he was in Eugene during the
recent high school basketbaU
tournament.
At about 12:30 a.m. one morn
ing, when he was hard at work
at his portable in his hotel room,
writing a story for the paper,
there was a tan at the door and
it opened slowly. He looked up
to see a small, rather bewild-ered-looking
high school girl
standing there.
The girl looked at him, looked
at the number on the door, and
wheeled and fled.
v
A youngster we know spent
last week at home with a
"strep" throat infection. On
those nice sunny days, his
friends would come around
and ask why he couldn't play.
Finally, his sister, in some ex
asperation, replied to them:
"I've told you and told you
he has a slit throatl"
One of our news staff mem
bers had a birthday (we don't
know which one and it would
be as much as our life is worth
if we told if we did know). But
she received two beautiful cakes
from admirers. One was a large,
frosted angel food, the other a
nut bread sort of thing. Both
were delicious.
She had a bit of difficulty
getting them home, however,
what with other hungry staff
members gathering around, nib
bling and nibbling.
All of which leads to the
' subject of food generally in
the news room. We have
found that an occasional bite
to eat - improves our morale
and working ability, and do
ing it on the job saves time.
There are many and varying
tastes in the newsroom, and
at one time we have seen
pickled pigs feet sitting next
to a box of candy, pickles and
cake, chocolate eclairs and
salami. No place for a blind
man.
The weather bureau's five-day
forecast Friday predicted,
among other things, "occasional
days of rain."
We are indebted to 1 1 a
Grant, of the Bend Bulletin,
for the following chronology,
under the heading: Until
you've raised a puppy, you
haven't lived. That's what it
says here.
This is a typical experience:
11 p.m. Put -the puppy to
bed, and go to bed yourself.
11:30 p.m. Puppy starts to
cry. Get up and fix some
warm milk.
12:15 a.m. Puppy wants
out.
12:20 a.m. Puppy wants
in. He makes a bee-line for
the hall rug, and chews a hole
in it.
12:30 a.m. Puppy back in
bed again." Silence.
1 a.m. Puppy lonesome.
He starts to cry. Get up and
hold him.
1:30 a.m. Puppy back in
bed. Silence.
2 a.m. Puppy starts to cry.
Maybe he'd like something to
eat.
i 3 a.m. Puppy wants out.
3:05 a.m. Puppy wants in.
4 a.m. Puppy crying. Shiv
ering. Move him closer to the
furnace.
- 5 a.m. Puppy barking.
Hears an unusual noise.
5:30 a.m. Silence.
6 a.m. Puppy crying. More
warm milk.
6:30 a.m. Alarm goes off.
Get up and fix breakfast. Feed
puppy.
. 7:30 a.m. Prepare to leave
for work. Take a look at the
puppy. He's fast asleep.
8 a.m. (at the office) so
are you.
The specialized terminoloev
of the newsrjarjer world snmp.
times leads to odd-sounding
statements. Thus one staff men
ber was heard saying to another
last week, "You've just lost two
heads. Do you feel all right?
In newspaper parlance a "head
is short for headline.
Tryoufs for Play fo
Sfarf Here Tuesday
Tryouts for the play "Good
Housekeeping" will be held at
8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday
in the fairgrounds theater, the
Footlighters, civic theater
group, has announced.
The play concerns an imagin
ative mother who sets out to
make everyone happy with the
aid of a big psychology book.
Director of the spring pro
duction will be Rudi Vest. He
has been recommended to the
group by Richard Graham,
Angus Bowmer and Jerry Mc
Dougal, all former Footlighters
directors.
Everyone interested is eligible
to tryout for parts in the play.
Additional information may be
obtained by calling Medford
2-5096. "
Today and
By Walter
THE FOREIGN AID TROUBLE
This is the time when each
year the President has to go to
Congress, asking it to vote Am
erican money
for the use of
foreign gov
ernments. Congress is
always reluc
tant to do this.
But it has ne
ver been so
reluctant as it
is now. There
Walter I lnntnann are not Onlv
those who do not want to give
away American money. This
year, there are also those who,
though they have been support
ing foreign aid, are auite unhaD-
py with the way it is now work
ing.
The administration will, it
seems to me, do better if, in ar
guing its case, it takes Congress
more clearly and candidlv into
its confidence. The central facts
in the whole business are that
the old policy of foreign aid has
to oe thoroughly reannraised
and drastically revised that
these changes cannot be worked
out before June 30 when the
time for appropriations expires
and that Congress is reaUy be
ing asked to keep the flow of
funds going while a new policy
is Deing worked out.
Thoush almost nothing of the
sort is said nlainlv in the Presi
dent's message, this is what is
implied in the request for erea
ter "flexibility."
Congress is. in fact, being ask
ed to give the adminstration
time and opportunity to work
out the changes in foreign aid
wnicn have become necessary be
cause of the great changes in the
world situation. The administra
tion, though it is aware that the
policy has to be revised, is not
now able to tell Congress what
the revisions will be.
Yet is not safe to cut off the
old program, to stop the flow of
funds, and then to start all over
again later on when the revised
policy has been worked out. I
would suppose that to argue the
case this way would anneal to
the common sense of those who
are not ODDOsed to foreign aid
in principle but are unhappy
aoout much of what is now hap
pening.
fur post-war foreign aid policy
V was originally conceived at
the time of the Marshall Plan in
I947-'48. Since then there have
been verv great changes in the
world situation. Then we' still
had a monoooly in nuclear wea
pons. We now have arrived at
a balance of power which has
produced a militarv stalemate.
Furthmore. when the United
States foreign aid policy was
first adopted, the Soviet Union
had not yet emerged from its
economic isolation to become
competitor in the economic
world. There have been other
great developments, such as the
economic recovery of Western
Europe, the reappearance of
Germany and Japan as big
powers, tne rise of China as a
great power in Asia, and a very
large increase in the power of
the people of South Asia and
North Africa.
We have come to the end of
the time when the non-Com
munist world is willing or is
compelled to look solelv to Wash
ington for economic aid. We are
living in a time when almost
ail of the countries which have
been receiving aid from us feel
that we have a competitor in
me soviet Union, and that they
are now m a position to bar-
gam with both of the two super
powers.
The military stalemate is hav-
ing a profound impact on the
whole business of military aid;
wnica is of course, the preDond
erant part of our existing pro
gram. In all the countries which
do not themselves have nuclear
weapons, there is a deep ten
dency to down-grade their in
terest in military defense. This is
plainly visible in Germany, in
France, and in Japan, and there
are signs of it even in Great
Britain.
The fundamental strategic
fact of the world situation that
there are only two powers with
truly modern armaments has
produced, as it was bound to
produce, various forms of mili
tary neutralism in the countries
which do not have nuclear arm
aments. It seems almost certain
therefore, that our emphasis on
military aid will have to dim
inish. The administration's fore
ign aid estimates to Congress do
not show this change of empha
sis. But there are already signs
of the change in the way Mr.
Dulles has recently begun to
talk about the Manila and Bag
dad pacts.
Tine emergence of the Soviet
- Union as an economic power
in the world will require deep
changes in our conception of
foreign aid. We have thought
of that aid as at bottom a contri
bution to consolidate our allies,
and to prevent inflation and
economic collapse which Com
munists would then be able to
exploit.
This conception is still, broad
Tomorrow
Lippmann
ly speokine. valid in the coun
tries that are whoUy dependent
upon us in South Korea, For
mosa and South Vietnam. But
m India, the rest of South A
in the Middle East anrl North
Africa, the situation is radically
different. These countries are not
dependent upon us because they
now have an alternative supplier
of capital and technical aid. The
emergence of the Soviet Union
as "a competitor is one of the
great historic develoDmeuts of
our times. It is altering radically
the position of the Unted States
and of its European allies, and
it is enhancing enormously the
power of the native peoples who
were once part of the old Euro
pean empires.
It is necessary to adaDt our
foreign aid policy, and in fact
our foreign policy, to a situation
which no one took into account
when post-war foreign aid was
first conceived about eight years
ago. This is that the uprising
against the West, which has been
smoldering, has now gotten the
backing of the great power of
the Soviet Union.
11e have to adapt our foreign
' " aid to this comDetitive situa
tion, which means, among other
things, that we shall not be able
to attach many military and
political strings to our contribu
tions. Yet we shall have to go
on with foreign aid. For we can
not refuse to campete, leaving ,
to the Soviet Union by default
a monopoly in the under-developed
countries of South Asia
and North Africa.
The President savs iri his mes
sage that his program of foreign
aid "is a demand of the highest.
priority on our resources," and
as tundamental to our own
security and well-being as the
maintenance of our own armed
forces." This is, of course, true
and it is an essential reason for
continuing foreign aid.
But it is not the sole reason.
Beyond the urgency of abvious
self-interest, the United States
has, I hold, a moral obligation
to th- less fortunate people. We
cannot justify the enjoyment of
oufhigh standard of living with
out helping other countries .to
proceed along the same road.
Without our help, the gap be
tween the richer and the poorer
countries is bound to widen.
A lthough our. obligation is hu
manitarian, it is not only
that. We have a deeper moral
obligation. With less than 10 per
cent of the non-Communist
world's supply of such t funda
mental materials as petroleum,
rubber, iron ore, manganese and
zinc. In 1950, we were consum
ing 10 per cent more materials
than we produced; in another
25 years the percentage will be
far greater.
At the very least, we owe it
to the world to return in some
form and in some part the re
sources which with our greater
power and wealth we have been
able to command from the under
developed regions of the world.
Copyright 1958 New York
Hearld Tribune Inc.
Phoenix Schedules
Annual Festival;
Proceeds fo Club
Phoenix The eighth annual
Phoenix Festival will be held
May 26, with proceeds to go to
maintenance and improvement
of the Phoenix club building.
The date was chosen at a re
cent meeting of Phoenix Com
munity Club and Youth Center,
Inc., which is sponsored by 19
clubs, organizations, schools and
churches of the community.
A meeting to plan the festival
will be held Monday at the club
house, March 26, at 8 p.m. when
coordinator and festival commit
tees will be selected.
Earlier in the evening a chair
man of the board and other of
ficers will be elected by the
board of governors.
Board Members
Members of the board include)
Mrs. Warren Haggard, Phoenix
Thursday club; Mrs. Leonard
Carlson, Phoenix Lady Lions
club; Paul Hartsook, Phoenix
Lions club; Mrs. George Bourne, .
Neighbors of " Woodcraft and
Thimble club; Arthur MacKin
tosh, Boy Scouts; Mrs. Jack
James, Girl Scouts; Mrs. Chris
Wolff, Phoenix Garden club; M.
E. Norton, Phoenix Grange No.
779; Leo Furry, Phoenix Fire
men; Mrs. Leo Furry .Firemen's
auxiliary; John Stewart, city
council.
Earl VaulL Senior Gun club;
Karl Hayes, Junior Gun club;
Mrs. H. C. Sloper. Phoenix Parent-Teacher
association; Sharon
James, Phoenix Youth group;
Charles O. Swingle, 4-H club;
Ernest James, high cshool; John
Meyers, grade school; and Mrs.
Ray Claflin, Presbyterian
church.
Highest local average annual
rainfall is recorded at Wynoo
chee, Wash., at 150.73 inches.
This is based on a 13-year record.