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rOTO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEMXDvTRIBUNK "Everybody in Soutftern Oregon RmH T m Uatl Tnhma" Published Daily Except Saturday by MED FORD PRINTING CO. 7-29 North fir St. Phong 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. AD A11S. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. 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 S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months S.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 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 (IS. 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1J5 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 Advertising Representative: wrcT-nni : irAV POMP A NY INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco, LX Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 1, 1946 (It was Monday) H. F. Swingle reelected presi dent of the Trail Creek Cattle and Horse Raisers' association; J. B. Hannah vice-president, and J. B. Glow, secretary. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It is now April. Any showers during the month will make May flowers, and August pears. 20 YEARS AGO April 1. 1936 (It was Wednesday) Mercury drops to 21 in valley, heavy smudging continues. Cottages at Lake of the Woods damaged by heavy snow, according to Hugh Ritter, forest ranger. 30 YEARS AGO April 1, 1926 (It was Thursday) Vaccination of high and Roose velt school students for small pox starts; no new cases report ed since Tuesday. American Legion here launches drive for increased membership; M. N. Hogan, vice-commander, in charge. 40 YEARS AGO April 1. 1916 at was Saturday) From Local and Personal col umn: The Jackson County Sun day School association opened its institute at the Methodist church in Jacksonville on Saturday. A good attendance pleased the leaders of the work. March rainfall totaled 1.76 Inches, according to weather bu rea; average is 2.34 inches. What's tha Answer? Can You Get 4 of tha 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Senator Sparkman, 1952 Democratic vice - presidential nominee, did or didn' -5gn the recent manifesto by members of Congress against the Supreme Court's anti-segregation ruling? 2. Ulcers aggravated by worry are more common among men or women; or is it about 50-50? 3. In connection with Greek Turkish troubles on Cyprus: the U.S. has more persons of Greek or of Turkish descent, or about the same number of each? 4. The U.S. is or isn't the only country where harness racing is widespread? 5. A good golfer has about one chance in (a) 85. (b) 850, (c) 8,500, (d) 18,500 or (e) 81,500 of making a hole in one? A public house in Great Brit ain is a small hotel, place to bet on horses, what the U.S. calls a saloon, a house of prostitution or a small restaurant? 7. Saccharin is a mineral, veg etable or animal product, or a combination of the three? The answers: 1. Did sign. 2 More common among men. 3. More of Greek descent. 4 Is 5. About one in 8.500. 6. What the U.S. calls a saloor. 7. Min eral product. rn -Raw ;u.R Price of a -- J haircut will go to $1.7o per head in Coos Bav. L. E. Fletcher of v.orKor union said the 25 cent increase had been voted for all union shops from Gardiner in western Douglas county to Port Orford in northern Curry county. Shaves will cost An Easter Sermon . . We have known humiliation, we have known abu sive language, we have been plunged into the abyss of oppression, and we decided to rise up only with the weapon of protest. It is one of the greatest glories of America that we have the right of protest. "If we are arrested every day, if we are exploited every day, if we are trampled over every day, don't ever let any one pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn." We are indebted to Dave Shaw of Gold Beach, candidate for congress this year, for the above extract from a talk given in a Methodist church in Mont gomery, Alabama, by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a few hours after his arrest as a leader of passive resistance against color discrimination in the city bus lines. Naturally under such circumstances the emotional content was high but as an appeal to the true spirit and essence of Christianity on this Easter Sunday we can think of no better text for a most timely and impressive sermon. R.W.R. 'Who Killed Cock Robin?' It is not a matter of world-wide importance but we would still like to know what it was that per suaded ex-Governor McKay to change his mind so suddenly regarding title race against Wayne Morse for the U.S. Senate. Forty-eight hours before he decided to make the race he declared emphatically he would not make it. Obviously something happened in those 2 days, that completely changed his mind. What was it? "THE only incident reported at the time that could have changed his mind on such an important sub ject was a "call to the White House." But when it was stated President Eisenhower was responsible for his Secretary of the Interior resigning to enter the Republican primary, Mr. McKay showed signs of resentment and stated the "White House" had nothing to do with his decision. The ground swell from the people of Oregon, demanding that he come to the aid of his party, and save his state from the blight of a certain G.O.P. "apostate," who at one time was dean of the Oregon Law School, was the cause. FOR the time being that seemed to settle the $64 question. It was Oregon calling, not the White House. The former claim was supported by an "im partial poll" taken in some section of the state not specified, which showed the following result in per centages: McKay 47, Morse 42, undecided 11. This survey gave Oregon's former Governor a 5 advantage, but how about that 11 still undecided.' If they should decide on election day they don't want the Secretary of the Interior in the Senate, for six years, it seems fairly obvious he would not get there. BUT the mystery is how a exDerts. and showing: at best only a slight advantage for the Interior Secretary could have changed his mind, when all other pressures exerted both in Oregon ailU etSlllllgtUll CACeyt failed to do so. AND now comes Attorney General Brownell to add frt 4-!- w.-.rr,-.r Tv A rtmnn rr nnr "Ao cVnn rf nrt LU LUC illOlCIJ. -Ill nrresnrmdent. A. Robert retary McKay failed to satisfactorily refute charges of "give-away," he did directly and oy implication, support the claim that what changed Mr. McKay's mind was that "White House call." Mr. Brownell did not say exactly what happened that "White. House call" he would not SDill trio hpnna if hp. knew. But issued, he did know the M i t i-k Sherman Adams and Kepuoncan unairman nan on March 8th, to make the race and he did not deny that 'A or 4 hours thereafter, and onlv 12 hours after he had emphatically denied for the Senate he WAS ! CO WHAT? Well, as stated above, the matter is not of world shattering importance. Politics is politics. And what Secretary McKay is trying to do is quite obvious. He is trying as so many politicians try to do have his cake and eat it too. That is, he wants of course, the 100 White House endorsement, on one hand, he doesn't wish on the other to give his opponent the chance to follow the Kefauver technique, and maintain that the "Big Boss" in Washington, dictated as to who should rep resent the people of Oregon in the Upper House and who shouldn't. It involves quite a balancing act. It will be interesting to see how successful "Dear Doug" will be in making a success of it. R.W.R. Names Obtained for Reapportion Measure Bend, Ore. 0J.R) Giles French, Moro publisher, said here Saturday that 25,000 sig natures had been obtained on petitions to put a federal .re apportionment proposal on the November Oregon ballot. Proponents of the move to re apportion the state legislature j have until July i xo ODtain w, 000 signatures. French heads a statewide group seeking to reapportion the legislature on the basis of 36 senators one from each county with 60 members of the house of representatives elected on tee Sunday, April 1, 1956 poll of this kind, not state- Ulclt finite uuuoi. vnn Hig w vini ri uuui"6v Smith, that he ever said Sec he DID know the call was pressure put on McKay by i 1 yiti tt 11 he would be a candidate Husband Snatches Wife's Purse Grand Rapids, Mich. U.P Police who answered a purse snatching caU in a downtown store found the "thief was the complainant's husband. He said he took his wife's purse to prevent her from buy ing anything more. basis of population. There are now 30 members of the Oregon senate. If approved in the 1956 gen eral election, the new sysfem would become operative for the election of senators in 1958. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Who Are the "Experts"? To the Editor: The opponents of fluoridation evidently mis trust their own Jackson county doctors and dentists, as the "ex perts" they quote are always from some remote point. This is not peculiar to Medford in every area where fluoridation is needed, the opposition "experts" are shipped in. The people of Palo Alto, Calif., referred to them as the "Merchants of Fear" and requested they peddle their superstitions elsewhere. On examination we found the following: 1. None of these "experts" has done original research on fluor idation, and therefore must get his material from the same sources our own doctors and dentists use. 2. Few of these itinerant prac titioners can put an M.D. or any other degree after their name. One, a "Dr." E. H. Bronner is an escapee from an Illinois state mental institution; another, a Dr. Royal Lee is a graduate dentist but has never practiced, instead sells vitamin preparations for which he was indicted (March 11, 1945) by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for product misrep resentation. Dr. Leo Spira quotes himself as his own authority and maintains we're all being poi soned by cooking in aluminum pots and pans. Etc., etc. A few of the opponents' "experts" are deceased. Sometimes reputable men are misquoted; and some times, as in the case of the Smiths of Arizona, erstwhile op ponents are now proponents of fluoridation. Dr. F. B. Exner of Seattle has appeared in about every state in the union, and one wonders how his radiology practice supports this junketing without his pres ence. Dr. Exner's theories have been discredited from Florida to California. A well-known bio chemist in the latter state writes: " while most of the opponents of fluoridation are misguided. but honest, in their beliefs, I cannot help but feel from the way in which Exner distorts the facts that he is well aware of what he is doing." And, regard ing Dr. Exner's statements, '. . . there is always a point which he left out which entirely changes the meaning." The most questionable item regarding Dr. Exner is his "patient who died of fluoride poisoning," when the examining physician in Honolulu and the physicians who autop sied the- ease indicate the man died of pyelo nephritis with acute pyelitis, and had nothing to do with fluorides. In short, there are a handfull of medical opponents to fluori dation, a quantity of quacks, and some who simply have been frightened and misled by the former. Mrs. Edward Sickels, Chairman, Dental Health Committee, Jackson Co. Public Health Assoc. Claims Answered To the Editor: The dental health committee of the Public Health association has had occa sion recently to investigate the claims of those opposing fluori dation, and to check on the iden tity of their "experts". As most of these claims and many of the "experts" have been publicized in this column, a few of the findings may be of interest. Any one can obtain this information for himself by writing the American Dental association, American Medical association, the State Board of Health or to other responsible groups whose interest is the nation's health. The claims opposing fluori dation always seem to fall into these categories: 1. Material that is out-of-date, Example: A letter appeared in this column on March 7 con cerning blood clotting time rela tive to fluorides. It was practi cally a verbatim quote from a New Mexico bulletin, long since out of print, dated 1938, includ ing material dating back to 1889. The University of New Mexico writes concerning this bulletin: (March 15, 1956) "Such preliminary information is now hopelessly out of date and should be accepted by no one as authoritative. 2. Material taken out-of-con-text. Example: Statements listing fluoride as a poison, disregard ing the quantity involved. This is like running an ad warning that hydro-cyanic acid is poison and asserting that cabbage, and cauliflower should not be eaten as they contain cyanogens. 3. Material that is unsubstan tiated by scientific fact. Exam ple: Opponents have endeavored to connect the incidence of leu kemia with fluoridation. Both the American Cancer society and the Leukemia society write (March 16, 1956) that this charge is completely false. In conclusion, so far our re search has turned up no facts that discredit the advisability of fluoridation. The opponents have raised unsubstantiated fears in many towns among the gullible and those who didn't have the time to look into the matter themselves. The Health association's dental committee is endeavoring to do a research and educational program so that I the people of Medford will not be sold a bill or goods by the "merchants of fear." Dental Health Committee Jackson County Public Health Association By H. Dewey Wilson, Vice Chairman Who Will Profit? To the Editor: I am one of the lucky people who have deep wells full of wonderful water, but I do enjoy a swig of good cold spring H20 while shopping in Medford, and think it would be a shame to spoil it as this water is a well advertised draw ing card to Medford and really quite famous. I hear the expense of fluori dation is high and so much of this expensive water would be wasted in baths, floor scrubbing, garden and lawn watering and such a fraction ever goes through tha mouth for drinking purposes. If fluorine is not harmful, why do the latest tooth pastes which contain it make a point of say ing "not recommended for use by children under 6"? When I was small my mother bought an inexpensive bottle of lime water from the drug store and added a few drops to my drinking water. No taste and no smell. Probably fluoride can be bought that way for those who want it. Why inflict this stuff on all the children under 6 and all the many who do not care if their false teeth are soaked in fluori dated water? Some of the great wonder drugs have done miracles for a great many, while they have proven very harmful to others, even causing death. Think of who will be really profiting from fluoridation? Ana who will be the one to pay, pnd pay. Sincerely, Mrs. Ray Doran Table Rock Still Decayl To the Editor: Tooth decay is increasingly becoming more of a problem. I have a daughter nine years of age who already has four fillings. I plan well balanced meals each day for my family, have the children brush their teeth regularly. Still tooth decay! Let's have fluoridation and children with pretty smiles. A smile takes you a long way, so let's keep them as attractive as possible! A Concerned Mother, Bettie (Mrs. Wm. E.) Ruffner 2512 Lyman Ave., Medford, Ore. Effective snd Safe To the Editor: In- "Communi cations" for Sunday, March 25, a correspondent asked questions about water fluoridation for the purpose of cutting down tooth decay. In all fairness, her ques tions should be answered. This information is available to any one who is looking for the an swers. The United States Department of Health, Education and Wel fare's report of "Medical Aspects of Excessive Fluoride in a Water Supply" on a controlled 10-year study comparing Bartlett, Tex., (which nature has fluoridated with eight times the recommend ed amount) with Cameron, Tex., (which has a fluoride lack) dis closed no significant differences in death and disease rates from cancer, kidney and other ail ments except that there was a slightly higher rate of cardio vascular abnormalities in Cam eron and a mottling of teeth in Bartlett because the water had so many times the recom mended amount of fluorides. A report in the February, 1954, issue of Missouri Medicine by a committee of the St. Louis Medical Society says that the ideal daily dose of any substance is the amount which will pro duce benefit without doing harm. For fluorides, the ideal dose is about 1 milligram per day which is achieved by human use of drinking water containing an average of 1 part per million. This intake is calculated as the proper addition to the small amount contained in various solid foods. In the ideal amount fluorides are not stored in the body except for the very small amount that enters into the hardening of enamel of develop ing teeth. The rest has been proved in scientific experiments measuring ingested and excreted amounts in animals and in humans. The margin of safety with higher than ideal amounts is so wide that no ill effects have been found even in residents of Bartlett, Tex., which has used eight parts per million for sev eral generations. Dogs were fed daily (by a sci entist named Largent) 65 milli grams (65 times recommended dose) o sodium fluoride from age 11 months to after 5V4 years. No noteworthy changes were found in microscopic examina tion of organs and bones. Similar studies have been carried through several generations of dogs without discernible effects on their health. The amount proposed to cor rect Medford's fluoride deficien cy is 1 part per million, which POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A group of beauticians from one of Medford's better establish ments for the improvement of feminine good looks . make a practice of attending tke North west Beauticians' Trade show in Portland. Last vear when they attend ed, they had a room at a hotel near where a fire broke out. And on the way home, their car caught on fire just south of Roseburg. This vear. brave souls, they ventured north again. There was no hotel fire, thank goodness, but just south of Roseburg, in almost exactly the same spot, tneir car caught fire. Wonder if they're looking lor- ward to next year? J. B. Gosselt, of the Cargill Court apartments, was work ing on a wall there recently, and tucked away, apparently undisturbed for many, many, years, he found an eld "ice card," printed way back when, maybe 1915 or so, by the Medford Printing company, which in those days did Job work. It had a dial (remember em?) for telling the ice man how many pounds of ice the householder wanted that day. and it invited everyone to call the Jackson County Creamery, telephone Medford 51. Col. W. H. Paine, one of Med ford's most-resDected citizens, admitted the other night that he's just a bit behind in nis Grange dues. He said he thinks he is one of the earliest Grang ers hereabouts, having joined tne organization in 1888. But he stooDed paying dues two years later, and now figures that he s just 66 yean in ar rears. The colonel has been a dues paying member of the local chamber of commerce, how ever, for something like 30 years. The board of directors tried to make him an honor ary member the other day. but found they couldn't. He already was one. A local elected official, who shall here be nameless, dozed off during a talk at a meeting in Medford last week. He was inlted awake, though, when the speaker concluded a portion of his talk by asking: "Isn't that so, judge?" An intense interest in the mysteries of science was noted among the young and single female population last week when the GM Parade of Pro gress was In town. Lecturer: for the parade are all young, single and male. And they're under contraci to stay that way during the tour, too single, that is. A young man we know (young, personable and single) was fam iliarizing himself with the out skirts of the city recently, and dropped into an eating and eating and drinking establish ment. When he left he inad vertently left his favorite cig arette ' lighter there. A week later the friendly bartender ad vised him he'd found the light er, but had left it at home that day. If the young many would come back next day, he said, the lighter would be there. The young man arrived, but the lighter was still at home . . but if he would drop in Sunday evening . . . This. continued for nearly two months until it dawn ed on our young man that this was a new type of sales promo tion. The same bartender, by the way, extinguished a fire in the front seat of a Cadillac after one of the waitresses spent considerable time circulating through the crowd asking quietly, "Does anyone own a red Cadillac?' A local family has a pet goose, which has learned to knock on the door for attention. The other day the lady of "the family was making a hasty dash through the house without bene fit of clothing, en route to a bath, when she heard a knock ing at the door. She hid in a corner of the living room for quite a time, afraid to go past the window, before she discov ered the knocking was being done by the goose. Jimmy Dunlevy, manager of KYJC, arrived late at police headquarters for his part in a weekly driving program rec ently, and admitted he'd been delayed when he ran out of gas on route. APPOINTED CARETAKER Washington (U.R) The White House Friday announced the appropriately pre-Easter ap pointment of A. E. Rabbitt as caretaker of President Eisen hower's putting green. trace amount has been proved safe and effective in reducing tooth decay. William J. Thompson, O.D., 209 Fluhrer Building, Medford, Ore. Matter of Fact by mp THE NSC SYSTEM Washington The National Security Council, the nation's top policy-making body, was 1 formed for the soundest of r e a s ons and has often per formed most usefully. Yet it is time to ask whether, on balance, the whole govern mental system Stewart AIsod wnicn nas grown up around the NSC has not proved a dangerous failure. The laudable purpose of the NSC was to provide the govern ment with a single, coherent policy, instead of half a dozen insanely competing policies. The idea was that the principal policy-making officers would meet regularly to hammer out policies on the major issues, for submission to the President. The idea worked weU at first. But as the years have passed, certain unanticipated conse quences of the NSC system have become apparent. pi THE first place, the Council has tended to become an in strument, not for reaching hard decisions, but for reaching the lowest common denominator of indecision. President Eisen hower, as in the matter of Que moy and Matsu, will occasionally take matters into his own hands and over-rule the NSC. But, like President Truman before him, and for understandable reasons, he heartily dislikes "split papers." Thus the NSC system generates a heavy pressure for unanimity at all costs. Unanimity often boils down to gassy generalities many NSC papers these days are re liably reported to consist of meaninglessness couched in im peccable governmentese, . and nothing else at all. And when real decisions cannot be' avoid ed, unanimity is almost always achieved simply by splitting the difference. Do we, for example, make a major effort to overtake the Soviet lead in missile de velopment, or is it more im portant to balance the budget? In the NSC, difference is split. The missile effort is stepped up somewhat, but not enough to throw the budget out of whack or to catch up with Soviets. This difference-splitting is about as useful as building a bridge half way across a river. rPHE NSC system has, more- over, seeped relentlessly down through the whole gov ernment. Inter - departmental committee is piled on inter-de partmental committee in a vast squirming pyramid, so- that de cisive action is impossible, and officials at all levels waste their weary lives away at committee meetings, with no time left to think or act. The results were neatly summed up by Dr. Wal In The Day's I'm a little surprised to find this morning in the editorial col umns of one of our most estim able and most respected Western newspapers this statement: "We are certain that a good many loyal and reflective citi zens will be somewhat disturbed by the government seizure of Communist party property, in cluding that of the (New York) Daily Worker, on back tax claims." That seems to me to indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of the ruckus between our gov ernment and the Communist party and its New York news paper, the Daily Worker. The facts in the case are about like this: THE government says the Daily Worker owes $46,049 in in come taxes for the years 1951, 1952 and 1953 and HASNT PAID IT. The Daily Worker says it ac tually LOST MONEY in those years, and so doesn't owe any tax. In answer to this contention, the government says: "How come? If you were losing money, how did you go on operating? It takes money to operate a news paper, just as it takes money to operate any business. Where did the money come from?" TO THIS, the Daily Worker re plied in effect: "We lost money on our news paper, but our friends GAVE US MONEY to keep on going." The government then says: "Well, that was INCOME. You must report it. You must report how much it was and WHERE IT CAME FROM." , THE Daily Worker refused to report it. So the government cracked down on the Daily Worker's property just as it would crack down on this newspaper if it re fused to report essential facts about its income. That's about the situation. HERE'S the rub: SUPPOSE THE COMMU NIST PARTY OF RUSSIA, WITH HEADQUARTERS IN THE KREMLIN, HAD TO PUT UP THE MONEY TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER GOING. Or at least a part of it. It would be EXTREMELY em barrassing - to the Communist ter Dornberger, creator of the V-2, when asked why American industry had fallen behind in missile development: "The industry has to convmce at least 200 different people in twenty different offices and committees before a new proj ect can start. Most of these peo ple change every two years. They have different opinions and they have to be convinced again. Too many people, too many ques tions, too many answers." These consequences of the NSC system are serious enough. But there is another conse quence which is very much worse. The system has tended to cut off communication be tween the American government and its real masters, the Ameri can people. A wall of sacro sanct immunity has been built around the NSC, so that govern ment officials tremble and turn pale, as though a blasphemy has been committeed, when they hear the august, unmentionable initials pronounced. T)OLICY decisions of the Na . tional Security Council," one member of that body has loftily stated, "are not a fit subject for public discussion." This is another way of saying that policy decisions of the American government are not a fit subject for public discussion. For the NSC is the government these days. The Cabinet, already shadowy under Franklin Roosevelt, has become the merest shadow of a shadow, since all real power has passed to the NSC. But when the Cabinet was the principal policy making body, it never occurred to anyone to suggest that its policy decisions were not a fit subject for public discussion. They were discussed freely and heatedly, inside the government and out, in accord with the tra ditional American system. Almost without anybody noticing, the NSC system, of secret decisions secreUy arrived at, has been replacing the tradi tional system. Obviously there is an area of the government's policy-making process which i properly secret. But the NSC system goes much further than that. It is a system in which the government's policy on the great central issues is regarded as none of the public's business and, increasingly, none of Con gress's business either. SURELY THE NSC system ex plains at least in part the queer public apathy which has greeted the many authoritative warnings that the world balance of power is shifting rapidly In favor of the Soviets. . What to do about this sort of curity is, according to the NSC system, not a fit subject for public discussion. So the public can hardly be expected to get very excited about it. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inci News Daily Worker to have to confes that. But I think as Americans we are entitled to know where the income to support this Commu nist newspaper, the Daily Work er, comes from. We are spending our treasure and in Korea and elsewhere we have spilled our blood to defend the free way of life against the encroachments of Communism. T CAN see no reason why the Communist Dallv Worker. which operates in the United Sstates of America, shouldn't be required to reDort the facts about its income just as other news papers and other businesses in our country are required to re port the facts about their income. can you? Editorial Comment LET'S KEEP IT CLEAN The Portland-Salem freeway returns some of the pleasure to what used to be called pleasure driving. It is uncrowded and un cluttered. There are no eyesore roadside stands, no rusting car bodies, no shanties 10 feet from the shoulder. But there are a few billboards and prospects for more. The freeway is one of the 18 roadways in Oregon classified as "throughways," and as such the law prohibits billboards more frequently than every 1,000 yards and specifies setback. In that open country signs so placed would be visible by the dozen from almost any point. One advertiser took a look at his board and promptly ordered it removed to preserve "the beauty of our native state." We are going to add our up state voice to that of the Port land Journal and ak that other companies follow suit. That highway's beauty still can be preserved. There's a place for billboards. It's in cities and towns which already are marred by neons and irregular buildings and all the other jumbled paraphernalia of commerce and industry. Al bany Democrat-Herald. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Mostly fair through Sunday.
