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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDvTRIBU?fE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads I tie Mail i ribune Published Daily Except Saturday by 7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Cltv Editor HARRY CHIP MA T Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport tdltor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday Only One year $3.50. 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 S15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All lento casn in fiavancg Official Paper of the City of Medford' Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAliow AJ..A-;lrt Danraconlative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY rNC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL j ASO cfATLN iO1" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS a ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 15, 1946 (It was Monday) Team of Janet Horsley, Bill Moffat, Glenda Fields and Jerry Igo take third place for Medford High in debate at state speech tournament. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The meadows were dotted over the week-end with epicureans pick ing mushrooms. No toadstools crept into the pail all reports in dicate. 20 YEARS AGO April 15. 1936 (It was Wednesday) Philip B. Lowry of Medford, William Leevers of Ashland, Sidney Thurston of Central Point and Patricia Thompson of Phoenix win scholarships to state universities and colleges on basis of good high school grades. Seven wild horses corralled during week in Applegate area, according to Lee Port, forest ranger. 30 YEARS AGO April 15, 1926 (It was Thursday) Work costing $54,000 to start soon in Crater National forest according to Hugh B. Rankin, supervisor. Building outlook for year said to be god by Building Inspector Rinabarger. 40 YEARS AGO April 15. 1916 (It was Saturday) Warnings for spraying issued by C. C. Cate for pears, apples and other fruit. Prospecting for tungsten ore becomes popular in Jackson county because of good price. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Total population of Monaco, new home of Grace Kelly, is about (a) 20,000, (b) 120,000, (c) 200,000, (d) 520,000 or (e) 1,200,- 000? 2. Many more U. S. homes are heated with gas than with oil, or many more with oil, or is it almost 50-50? 3. The U. S. is or isn't a mem ber of the so-called Baghdad Pact? 4. Most Southern Democratic leaders are favorable or hostile to Gov. Harriman of N. Y. as 1956 presidential nominee, or are neutral toward him? 5. British colony of Hong Kong is on the Chinese seacoast, an island just off the coast, or an island just off Formosa? 6. Khrushchev, . top man in Russia, is of Great Russian, Po lish, Caucasus, Ukrainian or Si berian origin? 7. Which stage and screen star was originally named Em manuel Goldenburg? The answers: 1. About 20,000. 2. Almost 50-50. 3. Isn't. 4. Most are hostile. 5. Island just off the coast. 6. Ukrainian. 7. Edward G. Robinson. Tokyo (U.PJ Communist East Germany has presented North Viet Nam with equipment for a 500-bed hospital, a 16-class school and two mobile dispen saries for rural areas Radio Peiping reported. MAIL TRIBUNE Don't Forget April 26th There is no doubt about public sentiment in Med ford and Jackson County regarding the Southern Pa cific. The people consider its treatment of this section of the state, particularly in view of the profits en joyed in freight operations, a shame and a disgrace. They bitterly resented the abandonment of all passenger service north and south on the fallacious claim of losing money when on their total opera tions the S.P. was not only making money but break-ino- nil rprwds. And thev were 100 behind the ef fort of Public Utilities Commissioner Heltzel to force the railroad to resume service. yHERE have been so many delays and postpone ments however since the order against this action was issued that many people have lost interest in the controversy and many more have forgotten that a hearing on the question will be held here in the court room at the Federal Building on April 26th which is only about ten days away. ELL this is written to AnH it. is also written tn noint out that the oeo- ple themselves have a vital role to play in this effort. If there isn't more public interest shown in this hearing and the transportation problem in general this year, than has been true in the past then the "billion dollar corporation" which advertises its friendliness on the bill boards, and for years has shown nothing but hostility to the ,people of this sec tion of the state, will win as usual, virtually by de fault. pOR if the people don't care enough about the re- sumption of railroad passenger service to this sec tion of the state to make a fight for it, no one else will. And the only way they can now show they do care will be to appear at this hearing in force. And while there either themselves or through their representatives make their wishes known. DOTH the Ashland and Medford Chambers of Com merce have passed resolutions supporting the state in this action and will be represented at the hearing. It is hoped not only such organizations and busi ness firms, but the people as a whole will be repre sented as well. Public sentiment at this stage of the proceedings can do more than any other one thing to get the sort of transportation service for Southern Oregon that its increased population and productivity deserve. SO IT is not too early to start to see that when this hearing opens on April 26th at 10 a.m. the "SRO" sign is pinned up a short time thereafter. The SP and its staff of high priced attorneys will be there of course, the more its passengers or for mer passengers who gather to listen to their story and present their own, the better the chances of jus tice being done, and the SP being forced to do what by the terms of its original charter it should have done voluntarily. R.W.R. "She Likes Ike " There is one citizen in Medford who likes Presi dent Eisenhower too much to vote for him. In fact this person is going to vote for the Demo cratic candidate whoever he may be on the theory that such action will do as much as ONE individual CAN to allow "Ike" to enjoy a well-deserved and greatly needed vacation. "The President has done enough for his country as the heroic leader of World War II and as President of the United States for four years" maintains this voter "and while I suppose nothing can beat him, I am going to do what I can in that direction and if .1- 1 1 T i i 1 1 i i 1 possiDie give mm wnat i tnmK ne wants ana deserves a quiet life on his beloved Gettysburg farm, free from stress and strain, relieved of a job he doesn't really like, and responsibilities which he should not be called upon longer to assume." THE above is not entirely a figment of the writer's imagination. At least one other staunch Republi can has expressed similar sentiments, although our guess is when it comes to election day he will find the political habit of years too strong to resist we can conceive of him NOT voting for Eisenhower but it is hard to conveive of him voting for a Democrat. Our guess is he will take a walk. LIOWEVER that may be, there is more sense to such 1 1a position than most Republicans will admit, and there. is no doubt of the Democratic judgment that such a decision would be sane, sensible, national and humane! There is little doubt also that off the record "Ike" would frankly admit that if he should be beaten there would be tremendous personal compensations. The defeat would hurt his pride of course, but he would have the satisfaction of at least being able to do what he really wants to do, and at the same time feel there has been no shirking of responsibility, that he had not quit the fight, but had gone down with chin up and flags flying, as "a good soldier" should to the end. THERE is another point to consider. The more this prevailing adulation of President Eisenhower, es pecially among the women voters, grows the more likely this one sentimental voter will be joined by others. The Republican National committee better sic one of its best feminine psychologists on the problem, before it is too late ! This somewhat fantastic method of serving Ike might spread. R.W.R. j Sunday. April 15, 1956 this greatly needed public remind them. Concerted Effort Designed To Get Out Record Vote in 1956 Washington (CQ) The Big Question of 1956 will receive a 64-Million-Vote Answer if regis-tration-and-vote drives currently being launched prove successful. Political parties and citizens' groups will use every technique of persuasion from the doorbell rung by the precinct captain (three times between now and election) to the commercial sung by a Tin Pan Alley trio (24 times a day, if the station per mits). And all for one purpose: To lure, entice, embarrass or shame every eligible citizen into the polling place next Nov. 6. Non-Parlisan Drive The big non-partisan drive again will be spearheaded by the American Heritage Foundation, which sparked a similar cam paign in 1952. That year more Americans 11 million more voted than ever before. The total fell from 61 million to 42 million in 1954, but still set a record for non-Presidential election years. This year the American Herit age Foundation and its partner, the Advertising Council, have enlisted more than 100 grass roots organizations in the reg istration - and - vote campaign. Everyone's in it, from the Amer ican Legion to Zonta Interna tional. The Foundation has a three phase program, including reg istration and primary election voting, publicizing issues and candidates, then the final drive for a big vote. Advertisements in newspapers and motion-picture theaters, on radio and tele vision will tie in with commun ity drives by the 100 or more participating groups. Parties Not 'Idle While this is going on, the Republicans and Democrats will not be idle. The parties favor voting as an exercise in civic virtue, but their concern with the size of the tally also has a frankly partisan basis. Both GOP and Demorcats stra tegists proceed on the assump tion that the bigger the vote, the better off their party will be. They can't both be right, but there's no way of knowing until Nov. 7 who guessed wrong. The big-vote strategy of the Republicans is a repeat of their 1952 formula, but a departure from earlier procedents. During the New-Fair Deal years, the Democrats scored heavily in the big-vote Presidential years, the Republicans staged comebacks in the small-vote non-Presidential election years. Stay-at-Home Appeal In 1952, the Republican strat egy board decided, with Mr. Eisenhower's concurrence, that the "Me Too" campaign, aimed at the independent or liberal vote, could not win. What was needed, the GOP strategists agreed, was an appeal to the 45 million stay-at-homes. The re sults confirmed to the Republic- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer ilthougb under certain circum stances the use ot a Den 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 Dairy Prices To the Editor: Dairy farmer and dairy products every day on the radio over KMED we hear about the dairy farmers receiving only 45 cents per hour, and judging from my experi ence on a farm that is setting it high. But there is no mention ing of dairy products company employees wages in comparison If I dare say they are from three to five times or even more, than the farmer receives. I received a St. Paul Pioneer Press from Minnesota dated of April 3, 1956, and in it I noticed an ad of one of the super mar kets in St. Paul. Two quarts regular homogenized milk 27 cents, XA gallon; and coffee, two cents a quart or 45 cents, two And at the same time here in Oregon the retail price is 23 cents quart or 45 cents, two quarts, Vi gallon. There is a dif ference of 9 cents per quart or 18 cents per one-half gallon. I would like for some one of the dairy produce industry to explain the cause or reason for such a large difference. The winters -in Minnesota are longer and a .lot more severe than in Oregon. Name on File Talent, Ore. A Rose Without Thorns To the Editor: As a reader nf Medford newspapers for almost a half centurv before and evpr since the advent of The Medford Mail Tribune, may I congratu late you on 50 years of service? The Medford Mail Tribune has broueht to its readers an pvpf. increasing abundance of local, state, national and world news; all quite comparable to many lareer citv dailies. It kppnc nc abreast of affairs at home and abroad. And editorials, on varied and sundry subjects, have been of high quality and eauitahlp well on a par with practically any u.b. daily newspaper. Keep up tne good work. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. ans the wisdom of their choice. One party leader estimates Mr. Eisenhower received three fourths of the new votes lured to the polls. In 1954, the GOP again played for a big vote, but this time fail ed to get it. The falloff in the vote was as deadly to Republic an hopes as an A-bomb fallout. The Republicans ; dropped 13.8 million votes from their 1952 Presidential total. The Demo crats dropped only 5.1 million. The difference cost the GOP control of Congress. The 1956 problem as seen by the Republicans is this: To draw as big a vote from a country contented with the Eisenhower Administration as they obtained from a country dissatisfied with the Truman Deal. "If those who appreicate the peace and pros perity don't vote," one Republic an leader says, "we'll be beaten by the doctrinaire Democrats and and the small pockets of discontent in the country." Matter of Fact NO BEAUTIFUL BLONDE SPIES Washington It is strange how the highest Administration officials stubbornly disbelieve what their own intelli gence experts tell them. Take, for ex ample. Secre tary of De fense Charles E. Wilson's re cent testimony before the Stewart Aisop House Appro priations committee No national myth dies hard er than the notion that the Sov iets are technically backward, capaDie only of slavishly copy ing what the West has already produced. But it is really very odd that Secretary Wilson, after more than three years in office, snouia sun Deiieve in this com fortable myth. For throughout those three years, "Wilson has been literally deluged with evi dence pointing in precisely the opposite direction. "THERE IS, moreover, nothing particularly m y s t e rious about the great bulk of this evi dence it does not come from beautiful blonde spies. Most of it comes, instead, from such items as a long, profusely illus trated book called "Aviation Gas Turbine Engines," by G. S. Sku- bachevski. Mr. Skubachevski's formidale work was published in Moscow last year, and it is freely available in technical bookshops in the Soviet Union. When it arrived in Washington recently, it caused quite a flut tering in the intelligence dove cotes. It contained, for one thing, numerous cutaway drawings of something called a "split com pressor engine." The split com pressor system is used in the most advanced American jet en gine design, and all diagrams and performance data are top secret. Yet here was a mere textbook, distributed to mere student engineers in the Soviet Union, containing numerous de tailed diagrams of the split com pressor engine. "THE NOTION that "they get it all from spies," which is a companion myth to the "back ward Russians" myth, does not hold up in this case either. The text of the book contains not dn- ly a highly sophisticated discus sion of the split compressor en gine, but a number of jet en gineering techniques new to American experts. Soviet spies could not have stolen these ideas from us, simpley because we didn't have them. Reliable information on Sov iet weapons progress from such overt, non-cloak-and-dagger sources as Mr. Skubachevski's book,' is not as impossibly diffi cult to come by as it is often cracked up to be. Last year, for example, the magazine "Avia tion Week" published excellent photographs of the mass flights over Moscow of the new Soviet heavy bomber, the Bison the same plane which Mr. Wilson had previously opmed was a fake, or a mere hand-made pro totype The publication of these pho tographs . caused horror in the Pentagon, and the editor of the magazine was called on the car et to explain where he got such "top secret" material. He ex plained that he had called the New York representative of Sov foto, the Soviet propaganda agency. Sovfoto had happily of fered him as many excellent photographs as he could use, and motion picture films of the overflights as well. THE NOTION that aU informa tion about Soviet weapons developments comes from beau tiful but highly untrustworthy blonde spies is one reason why such officials as Wilson do not really believe their own intelli gence. Another reason is that men like Wilson and Secretary Democrats wholly disagree with his analysis. They regard the 1952 election as a "freak," believe Democrats successes in the last three years indicate their party again is the majority choice. State and local Demo cratic organizations are in top shape, the leaders say, and are ready for a major campaign effort. - Both parties have placed emphasis on precinct work door-to-door or telephone can vasses to locate every potential voter of the right persuasion, be sure he's registered and then see that he votes. The GOP has a "Republican Recruit" plan, designed to double the precinct working force. The Democrats have set up a special division in the National Com mittee to work on the absentee vote. Both parties have more tricks up their sleeves. For the average citizen all this effort means one thing: It's going to be down-right hard to avoid voting this year. By Stewart Alsop of the Treasury George M. Hum phrey tend to regard the intelli gence experts as impractical longhairs: Secretary Humphrey, for ex ample, recently became much ex ercised when he learned from a British steel tycoon who had made a tour of the Soviet Union that Soviet steel mills were as good as the best in Britain. As a member of the National Se curity council, Humphrey had been repeatedly told exactly the same thing in intelligence brief ings. But he only really believed it when the learned it from a fel low businessman and payroll- meeter. A third reason is that the Cen tral Intelligence agency is pro hibited from making compara tive estimates of Soviet and American weapons development. so that the estimates lack mean ing and impact. But there is also another reas on why high officials tend to disbelieve or disregard their own intelligence experts. Believing them would inexorably suggest all sorts of highly expensive and highly inconvenient action. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Mrs. Tummers Returns From Portland Meet Mrs. Alex Tummers, Mon De- sir dining inn, returned last week from Portland where she was honored at a Portland Sym phony champagne ball where chefs de cuisine received rec ognition of. their culinary arts. The event was held at the Mult nomah hotel. Mrs. Tummers was introduced and recognition was given to her- and to the dining inn. The inn also has been selected for the "restaurant of the month" for the May issue of the Oregon Food and Beverage mag azine, edited by Gene Rossman, who did the selecting. The mag azine also is the official organ of the Associated Restaurants of Oregon, the Chef de Cuisine of Portland and the Portland chapter of the International Stewards and Caterers associa tion. Otto Spitzer, editor of the Chefs and Stewards publication with national distribution, also has featured Mrs. Tummers in an early issue. Beekeepers to Hold Public Classes Here Rogue River Valley Beekeep ers association will sponsor two public classes in beekeeping this month, it was reported Satur day. Provided in the two night sessions will be pointers for be ginners as well as general Infor mation on beekeeping. Chief discussion leader will be Dr. W. P. Stephen, assistant professor of entomology at Ore- Editorial Comment NEITHER NEW NOR COMPLICATED For the third time the people of Marion county,- on May 18, wilL vote on county' zoning. For the third time the Capital Jour nal supports it. The first time the question was voted on, in' 1952, it was quite decisevly defeated and the second time, in 1954, only narrowly so. This time it should win with a good majority. County zoning frightens many voters because it sounds . com plicated, and as if some group of men, called a board or com mission were going to have dic tatorial power to change the way of life of the people of the county. Even if such a commis sion had dictatorial ideas it would have the county court standing as a bulwark against any .injustice. The commission will be only advisory to the county court. After adoption of zoning, or land use regulations by the court the commission will administer POTLUC (By M-T Staff Overheard in the office one day last week: "My husband, b 1 e s his heart, bought me a lovely bou quet of wildflowers, and now I have poison oak." Newspaper offices can, indeed, be pretty hectic places some days. One such day was last week. There were at least a half dozen visitors to the office, bringing in news, or voicing complaints, or just talking to the busy staff members.. Telephones were ringing. The teletype was chattering away in its own clat tering gibberish. The deadline was approaching. Then, as the paper went to press, one of those inexplicable and sudden moments of quiet descended. The visitors vanish ed. The telephones and the tele type hushed. In the midst of the odd silence, the elevator door opened and out came a delivery boy with a box for the society editor. It evi dently contained a corsage. The shock of the silence and of the innocent visitor without story or complaint, only a gift was too much. The staff broke into irrationial laughter. The delivery boy looked con fused, and who can blame him? And who can explain just what the laughter was about, either? V Elsa Maxwell, the portly professional part y -giver, is quoted as saying: "Flattery is one thing I can eat up. It is not fattening." Today and By Walter The U.S.A. and the U.N. The main line of American policy in the Palestinian dis orders has been clarified very con siderably by the state ment that the President, i s sued from Geo r g i a. We shall work primarily with and through the United Na tions, relying Walter Lippmann in case of big fighting in Palestine upon the Security Council to determine who is the aggressor, and who is the victim to be defended. rTHIS is, I believe, a better line -- of policy than the alterna tive, which would be for London and Washington and Paris to make themselves the sole judges of aggression and to as sume the whole responsibility for intervention. This alterna' tive line, which would make the Tripartite Declaration of 1950 rather thanthe Charter of the U.N. the sovereign documc-it, has two very serous disadvan tages. This first disadvantage is that it asserts a Western jurisdiction in the Middle East which is con trary to the facts of the actual situation and also to the spirit of the times. The second disad vantage is that an Anglo-Amer ican attempt to pacify the Mid dle East would carry with it the incalculable risk that the Soviet Union would then have a free hand to throw its weight around, TPHE great advantage of -- working through the U. N. is that it seeks the collaboration of the Soviet Union in working out agreements to prevent war, and it fixes the fact that the Soviet Union has., a solemn responsibil ity for the prevention of war. It is the part of wisdom not to have the Soviet Union operat- gon State college. Dates of the meetings will be announced next week. Attendance was reported good at two similar classes sponsored by the association last year. them, not adopt them as a law. Only the county court may en act subdivision regulations, zon ing or planning ordinances and only after public hearings. Something to remember as you go to the polls is that a county zoning ordinance does not regulate lands used for graz ing, agriculture, horticulture, or for growing of timber. It will at tempt to regulate in cooperation with the county court, the de velopment of residential, recre ational, commercial and indus trial areas for the protection of the individual and his neighbors. County zoning is not new. Some Oregon counties already have it. We have a commission, appointed some years ago by au thority of law, which has done a lot of basic work. It now needs some administrative authority. Marion county, with residen tial plats, promiscuously lo cated industries, and trading cen ters mushrooming past the city boundary lines, needs zoning regulation. Capitol Journal,' Salem. and Contributors) Only above the neck, Elsa. One of our volunteer infor mants writes to tell us that a lo cal radio commentator last Wed nesday, talking about Ex-President Truman's forthcoming trip to Europe, was debating the question of whether Mr. Tru man would travel as an "elder statesman" (something Harry denied). Leading up to his story, our man said: "Mr. Truman, accom panied by Mrs. Eisenhower, is planning a trip to Europe In May." We know of a girl who look ed at the scales not too long ago, and decided to shed a few pounds. She went on a diet, which included a ban of most sweets, including chewing gum a favorite habit of hers, and one which, of course, is ban ned at the school she attends. Last week the authorities at the school decided to lift the ban in certain classes for spe cial reasons. Our friend is now madly searching for a non-fattening variety of gum so she can chew in school legally. A Medford housewife was ask ed by a friend to visit to receive a gift prepared for her. She went to the friend's home, and found the gift a cake with three can dles. . The friend had remembered her 33 13 birthday her thlrd-of-a-century mark. Tomorrow Lippmann ing, so to speak, from the out side and with a free hand, pub licly accountable to no one. An Anglo-American attempt to act outside the U. N. and with out consultation with the U. N. could go a long way to giving the Soviet Union a moral right to exercise a free hand of its own. The Soviet Union ha3 en tered deeply into the Middle East and, as she is a principal power in the U. N., she now holds the keyss to war and peace. The threatening Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the United Nations is designed to prevent. There are no great powers directly involved. The United Nations recognizes in the veto provision the fact that if the great powers themselves are in direct 'and vital conflict, the U. N. can do nothing more than attempt to conciliate. But where only small powers-are involved,' it is possible to limit if not to prevent war, provided the Big Five concur. A PALESTINIAN Avar can cer tainly be limited and prob ably prevented if the Big Five concur. The Soviet Union has already concurred in the deci sion to send Mr. Hammarskjold to Palestine. The American pol icy is surely right in assuming that the next step is to seek more of that collaboration on the implementation of Mr. Ham marskjold's recommendations. It Is not feasible, it seems to me, to take the alternative line, which would leave the Soviet Union on the outside releived of responsibility under the Charter. A unilateral Anglo-American in tervention in Palestine, which ' ignored the power and the re sponsibilities of the Soviet Un ion, as well as the opinions of the rest of the United Nations, would be subject to all the risks of Soviet intervention. Palestine is not right up against the Chinese frontier. Nevertheless Soviet interven tion in the Middle East by in filtration, by propaganda and by arms running could not be pre vented. This might not lead to a world war. But it might well lead to a long, indecisive and frustrating guerrilla war. rpHE keys to peace are, I say again, in the hands of the Soviet Union. If Moscow speaks the word in Cairo and we speak it in Tel-Aviv, there is everv reason to think that war can be prevented. The word that needs to be spoken in Cairo is that the Soviet Union is opposed to war as the way to settle the Pales- tinion conflict. The word that needs to be spoken in Tel-Aviv is that Israel, while defending itself against these provocative raids, must not forfeit the sup port of the U. N. and of Britain and America by going on with the policy of big retaliatory blows. The word should be spoken everywhere through diplomatic channels and publicly through the information services that this is not only a test of the U. N. but its greatest opportun ity. For it is committed to pre venting a war which the U. N. can in fact prevent. All that is required is the concurrance of the great powers, everyone of which has vowed that is is a peace-loving state. Copyright. New York Herald Tribune Inc.