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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDig&TRffiUNE "Every body in Southern Oregon Head j. fie Man Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager iKl(J ai.i.fv jk. Managing rsmot EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph 'Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance: Per Codv 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 3.30 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Bv 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 earner 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 Advertising Representative: WT.ST.HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ljASTQN hmiiimnii'ima O" NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 22, 1946 (It was Monday) Robert Kyle Jr., 609 South Oakdale ave., returns home with discharge from Ft. Lewis, Wash., efter 18 months in Eu rope. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Earl Bigelow boy, Earl, who has been wearing khaki cn the Rhine, has landed in Gotham on his way home. 20 YEARS AGO April 22, 1936 (It was Wednesday) As part of an educational pro gram the Navy will have a dis play at The Toggery, 127 East Main st. Four mild cases of smallpox were reported today by Dr. L. D. Inskeep, city health officer. 30 YEARS AGO April 22, 1926 (It was Thursday) The annual city clean-up day will be next Saturday, accord ing to Fire Chief Roy Elliott. From Local and Personal col umn: The Daughters of Veter ans will meet at the armory at 7:30 Friday for a social and Grant's birthday party. 40 YEARS AGO April 22, 1916 (It was Saturday) A Woodrow Wilson club was formed in Medford Thursday. From Local and Personal col umn: The grounds of the new federal building are being cul tivated and beautified by the ladies, who are first to interest themselves in such matters. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Have either the Democrats or the Republicans ever renom inated a former President for President again? 2. Average earnings of U. S. factory workers these days are considerably more or less than $80 a week, or about $80. 3. One, two three, four or five defeated candidates for Presi dent are still alive? 4. Of all men and women "social" drinkers today, about one in every (a) 5, (b) 15, (c) 30 or (d) 50 will some day be al coholics, probably? 5. Egg stains are best removed by hot or by cold water, or will either do?" 6. Which one of these states doesn't now require poll-tax payment for voting: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas. Virginia? 7. Norma Jean Baker is the real name of which prominent movie star? The answers: 1 Yes, the Dem ocrats chose Grover Cleveland again in 1892 though he lost for reelection in 1888. 2 About $80. 3 Five Cox (1920). Hoover (1932). Landon (1936). Dewey. Stevenson. 4 About one in every 15. 5 Best removed by cold water. 6 Tennessee does not. 7 Marilyn Monroe. GOODBYE. GRIZZLY Cheyenne, Wyo. (U.R) The grizzly bear, long a symbol of the Rocky Mountain West, is al most a memory in Wyoming. The state game and fish depart ment estimates only 26 grizzlies are left in the entire state. MAIL TRIBUNE In Our Best Tradition . We have often, through the years, expressed satisfaction over the high quality of citizenship here in Southern Oregon particularly in the direction of unselfish and unremunerated public service. With very few exceptions there has never been a period of genuine need in this direction, when vol unteers have failed to come forward, some at the last moment, but when the bell rang there they were, ready to serve asking nothing as reward but the satisfaction of having contributed their bit to the bet terment of their community. Medford and Jackson County have, we believe, surpassed any other part of the state in this depart ment continuous and disinterested public service. TTO the long list of such deserving volunteers, the name of Mr. Alfred S. V. Carpenter should now be added, as he resigns as chairman of the County Public Welfare commission after a continuous ten ure of nearly a quarter of a century. fUR only regret is that more and longer absences from the valley, and more and more dissatisfac tion with the policies of the State Welfare Commis sion, should be the chief cause of such action. For county welfare administration is getting less and less a part-time job, and for satisfactory service cooperation with the state department on a friendly and sustained basis is extremely important. OOWEVER, Mr. Carpenter's record of over 20 years of devoted service, with so little friction with state or federal units, and so little criticism at home, shows what a policy of tact, human consideration and administrative skill, can do. As indicated above Medford has a well deserved reputation to sustain at this time. With such an exam ple to follow, we feel sure the right man or woman for the job will eventually be found. R.W.R. They Must Be Desperate Former Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay must have a sublime faith in the magic power of President Eisenhower's coat-tails. Otherwise he would hardly attempt to replace Wayne Morse on the basis that our senior Senator has been a "Do-nothing" representative of this state in the Upper House. That may fool some people in Oregon but it can't fool many. For those who know anything about this "anything to beat Morse" attempt, know that the real complaint against Senator Morse is not that he has done so little but that he has done TOO MUCH. Had our Senator been less active against the pri vate power interests, against monopoly, against such "give-aways" as Tidelands Oil and Dixon Yates, or the various and sundry attempts to ditch conservation in favor of selfish private exploitation Above all if he had been a good boy and stuck to the GOP when he no ciples or its leadership, instead of going over to a party in whose basic principles he DID believe, this frenetic determination to "get" him, rain or shine, good or evil, would not be one-half per cent as strong as it is today. In fact, after two creditable terms our senior Sen ator would under such conditions be a shoo-in for a third. But, as noted, Senator Morse proved to be too active, too alert, too busy ferreting out the facts in various propositions, and informing the people of his state and the country concerning them, to satisfy the Powers-that-be, or to fail to bring down upon his head the wrath, of ultra conservatives in both parties, but principally, of course, the GOP. TO SUSTAIN this "do nothing" charge our former wuveiiiur wim uie aia oi me liur Dureau ot sta tistics, cites Senator Morse's attendance records and also the large amount of legislation he introduced or endorsed and the small percentage that was passed. This reminds us of the attempt made many years ago to defeat Senator Borah of Idaho on a similar basis. e Borah like Wayne Morse had one of the best minds in the Senate, was unexcelled as a fighter and skillful debater. Not only did he admit he seldom introduced bills into the Senate, but noted that for six years past ne nad introduced none at all. He made no apology for this. He said he thought he could serve his state and nation better, fighting for the legislation he believed in and fighting against the legislation in which he did not believe, than in trying to set a new record for thinking up new legislation when there was too much half-baked legislation already. "Uf AYNE MORSE can't claim as extraordinary a record as that. But he could point to a truth which no one familiar with Washington would deny, that to judge a state representative's value to his state by his attendance record, or the number of bills bearing his name, would be like judging a horse's value in the derby by the colors of his jockey's cap. Such statistics have nothing to do with the point at issue. The point, as far as Oregon's senior Senator is concerned, is not how often he was in attendance, but what he said and did when he WAS there. And equally important is how often when he was reported absent was he doing yeoman service in committee work often a matter of utmost importance to the state and nation. e T'HE enemies of Wayne Morse and there are many 1 of them will have to think up something more effective than his attendance percentage, just as they will have to think up" something more effective than court action outlawing his membership in the Demo cratic party, if they expect to achieve their desire. R.W.R. Sunday, April 22. 1958 longer believed in its prin Today and By Walter THE FARM BILL VETO The President had no choice but to veto the farm bill that Congress sent to him. Had he signed it, he would have had to repudi ate not ' only his own public statements but the whole rec ord of his Sec retary of Agri culture and the actions of the Walter Lippmann two Republi can leaders in Congress, Sen. Knowland and Rep. Martin. Does it follow that the original program which he sent to Con gress in January was adequate and satisfying, and that all would be well if only Congress had accepted it? It does not follow. The Presi dent's own actions when he ve toed the bill recognized that the basic complaint of the Congres sional opposition to his original program was about halfway justified. Where the bill would have subsidized farm prices to the tune of about $1,000,000,000, the President, by administrative action, is going to subsidize farm prices to the tune of about $500, 000,000. He has vetoed very high and rigid price supports. He is going to put into effect high, but not quite so high, theoretically flexible supports. The issue between the Presi dent and the Congressional oppo sition is not really one of prin ciple. It is whether farm income shall be subsidized at the Con gressional rate or at the Admin istration rate. THE farm bill is in its details a very complicated business. But what has happened since the President's special message in January comes down, I think, essentially to this. In the admin istration's mind the crucial and fundamental "problem is" as the President said in his veto mes sage "price depressing sur pluses," caused by "wartime in centives too long continued." From this it follows that the basic principle of a sound farm policy is to reduce productoin in order to reduce the surpluses. THE opposition in Congress, consisting of the Democrats and most of the Republicans from the farm states, is primar ily concerned with the decline of the incomes of the farming population. Their total income from farm and non-farm sources has declined 26 per cent since 1947 while the total national in come has increased by 36 per cent. e THE Congressional opposition recognizes that there is a problem of surpluses. It does not accept the view that it is the only or the paramount problem. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Aboard the City of San Fran cisco, headed East. This famous train is beginning to show signs of age. It was the earliest of the Western streamliners, and one of the earliest in the country. But that was quite a while ago. And railroad equipment ages, just like newspaper presses and type setting machines. New and mod ern passenger cars are hard to come by, and traffic has been growing as the nation grows. Because of all these things, some of the original cars are stiU in use. They seem badly out of, date in comparison with the new, last-word ones. For those of us who come off the spic-and-span Shasta Daylight, one of America's most modern trains, the City of San Francisco suf fers by comparison. BUT all this refers to phyical equipment. The staffing of the City of San Francisco is above reproach. From the train's topmost brass clear down to the newest porter on the run, the service is cheerful and friendly and hospitable. That goes a ONG way. The Union Pacific has gone a long way also in smoothing up its roadbed. You walk down the aisles without being thrown from side to side. You read without discomfort. You can even type without missing the key you aim at by more than two keys which is something us poor dev ils who have to travel with a typewriter hung around our necks, like the Ancient Mariner and the Albatross. THE route of the Union Pacific is rich in history. In its east ern reaches it is the route of Lewis and Clark, and the physi cal trail that was blazed by Lewis and Clark followed the trail that was imagined by Presi dent Jefferson when he came to the definite conclusion that the infant U.S.A. must spread first to the Mississippi and then on to the shores of the Pacific. When Jefferson started the two captains on their epochal trek, he was looking for a water route to the. Western Sea. Belief in the fabled Northwest Passage was fading, but it was still possi ble that by going up the Missouri to its headwaters and perhaps portaging for a few miles, the headwaters of a mythical Great Tomorrow Lippmann The paramount problem is the decline of incomes which may be due not only to the war-time supports, but to the technologi cai revolution which has in creased so enormously the pro ductivity of agriculture. The administration, its eyes fixed on the surpluses, has been interested primarily in the soil bank, which is a device for re ducing production. ' The opposi tion, its eyes fixed on the fall in the income of the afrming popu lation, wrote a bill which used the income of the farming popu ing out larger subsidies to the farmers. The President, though he has vetoed the biU, has tried to go about halfway as far as the bilL rtf the long run, it may well be that the character of the Presi dent's veto marks the accept ance of the principle that, in the great transition through which agriculture is passing, it is a na tional obligation to cushion the effects on the farmers. There is a stern theory that prices should be set in the market and that in this price structure the more efficient farmers should survive and the less efficient farmers be forced out of farming. But no public man could or would think of acting on this theory, no mat ter how many times he has made speeches about free enter prise. The hazards of farming during the technological revolu tion now in progress have be come a social obligation, in prin ciple akin to the Social Security System which deals with unem ployment and old age. The day will come, let us hope, when we shall have a farm pol icy based candidly on this prin ciple of social security. The enormous increase of agricul tural productivity in this gen eration, even more than the high parity . supports, is producing the great price destroying sur pluses. To eliminate these sur pluses, miUions of acres now in wheat, corn and cotton, will have to be taken out of produc tion. This wiU mean that several minion farmers will have to go off the farms. It is to slow up, to soften, to aUeviate this pain ful human readjustment that the social security principle will have to be applied to farming. WHEN it is applied, then it ' will no longer be necessary tn maintain artificially high farm prices. For the artificial prices are only an lnaireci ana cumbersome way of subsidizing farm incomes. It will be better to support the incomes of the farmers, as we do those of the industrial popula tion, on the principle of social security, and to let prices be come genuine as determined by the markets. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. News River of the West could be reached, and down this river boat traffic could be carried on after the manner of the Ohio and the Mississippi, which were then our main arteries of interior com merce. Captain Lewis and Captain Clark found this Mighty River of the West all right, and they fol lowed it to its mouth, where it discharged its waters into the Pacific. But in between the source of the Missouri and the source of the Columbia they found a staggering mountain range that was toq tremendous to be portaged. That ended once and for aU the dream of a water route to the Pacific and made it clear that communcation with the Far West must be by land and not by water. TT WAS the Union Pacific rail road that first bridged this gap and made possible commer cial communication in a big way between the Far East and the Far West and thus made possible a UNITED States of America reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. LET'S skip the staggering job of building a railroad through these vast wide open spaces with Irishmen and wheelbarrows and mules working all the time be hind a screen of soldiers who fought off the Indians with guns while the builders worked with their shovels. Let's glance for a moment at the task of FINDING THE MONEY at a time when Ameri cans were so busy with the job of taming a raw new continent that they had no time to save up their money for investment. We had to go abroad for a LOT of the money Europe was then sending its money to America just as America is now sending its money back to Europe. There were scandals galore including the Credit Mobilizer. If Senators Morse and Neuber ger had lived then, they would have had something to talk about in the way of "give-aways." And the politicians of those days DID talk. And protest. And howl to high heaven. But, at long last, the job was done. And in the end it paid off. The land that was granted to the railroad made possible- the BUILDING of the railroad and the building of the railroad made Matter of Fact by josPh aisoP GAMAi, ABDEL NASSER Cairo The new ruler of Egypt, the embodied symbol and acknowledged leader of the new surge of Arab n a t i onalism, Gamal Abdel Nasser, is not an easy man to read. Certain of Nasser's quali ties are obvi ous enough. He has the warm, Joseph Aisop natural charm that often goes with inexhausti ble vitality. With all the charm he alsi has iron nerves, great boldness and solid strength of character. Furthermore, he is a dedicated patriot, a strict Mo hammedan, and a man immune to aU the ordinary temptations, who lives just about as simply as' the virtual dictator of Egypt as he lived when he was an ob scure colonel in the Egyptian army. But although I have been lucky enough to see Col. Nasser twice since I have been in Cairo, and although he has talked at length and with apparent free dom on both occasions, I can not even dimly guess what his intentions really are. The best guess I can hazard is that Col. Nasser himself is at a crucial turning point, considering differ ent alternatives with aU their fateful implications, and waiting to decide which course he wiU choose. ONE alternative he has already resoundly rejected. He will not enter any exclusive alliance with the West, such as he would have been forced to enter if he had accepted the invitation to join the Baghdad Pact. The defense of the Arab lands, he said to me as he has said so many times before, should be "independently organized by the Arab peoples themselves." That means, of course, that the defense of the Arab lands should be organized under Egyp tian leadership. Although Col. Nasser stoutly denies any ambi tion to be the pan-Arab leader, it is hard to believe that he would reject the role. Yet I do not think that this is the real cause of his passionate opposi tion to the Baghdad Pact. The real cause, I believe, is the conviction of Col. Nasser and almost every other Egyptian that an exclusive alliance with the West would once more re duce Egypt to a semi-colonial status of a new kind. On this point, his suspicion is constant, his fears are ineradicable. "Brit ain," he says, "is always going out the 'door and then coming in the window." SPHERE is a curious ambiva lence in Col. Nasser's atti tude towards the British, who are being sharply distinguished from the Americans in the pres ent phase in Cairo. On the one hand, he is obviously alarmed as weU as angered by the attacks on him and his regime that have recently been heard in London. On the other hand, Col. Nas ser is clearly voicing his honest conviction when he predicts (with great probable accuracy) that the serrti-colonial positions BritaLi still holds in the Middle East are doomed in the long run. "In the long run," he told me, "they cannot stand against the power of Arab nationalism. Today there is only one impor tant Arab government . support ed by the British, the govern ment of Iraq. Already in Jordan, nationalism has proved stronger than Britain. In Iraq it will hap pen too, not today, but tomor row. They say we Egyptians conspire to make the national ists succeed, but I teU you Arab nationalism succeeds because it is strong in itself." Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permis nble 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 Use of the Rogue To the Editor: I am enclosing a clipping from the San Diego Union of last Sunday. April 15. I have written a comment to the editor on the misnaming of the Rogue River, called in the ar ticle the "Rouge." I would like to say, however, that had the Rogue sportsmen and others, who so vigorously fought the building of the Lewis Creek dam when it was proposed several years ago. been k little more farsighted in lookins to ward Southern Oregon tourist business, Medford and the Upper Rogue might now be a destina tion instead of a stop-off on a motorlog. True, it is always sad to see progress at work on beauty spots, but what has happened at Shasta to make it a stomping ground for tourists, so to speak, might have valuable aU the rest of the land. And it MADE the West. Other transcontinental rail roads' fol lowed and when transportation was provided the West began to grow. It has never stopped growing. A r" And to this he adds (again with great probable accuracy) that: 'You in the West should remember that the real alterna tive to true nationalism in the Arab lands 'is almost sure to be Communism. Here in Egypt, until we of the army rose and took control, the Communists were gaining strength each year because the people thought they represented the national spirit. That is the choice for you in the West, between the Arab nation alism, and Communism disguis ed as nationalism. You must make the choice soon." i LL these themes Col. Nasser developed at great length during my firs call on him. I asked to see him a second time heranse T wished to ask him what the Western allies, would have to do in order to come to terms with, in order to make friends with, the new Arab na tionalism. Part of the answer was of rnnrse obvious. The minimum requirement is for the United States to persuade Britain to liquidate the semi-colonial posi tinns Britain stiU holds out here The minimum requirement for nersuadine Britain is for the United States to guarantee Brit ain, to reinsure Britain, as it were, against the losses tnat the British fear wiU result from concessions to Arab national ism This cannot be escaped. But if nationalist aspirations were satisfied, would Col. Nas ser guarantee the West the pre cious oil that the West needs for survival? Could the West be sure that the triumphant Arab na tionalists would not soon launch a revenee attack upon Israel? And if the West insisted on these two vital conditions, would Col Nasser then incline towards an exclusive alliance with the Kremlin, which might open the door to a new form of colonial ism even more rapidly than an exclusive alliance with the West? TD THE first question, about oil, the Egyptian leader an swered that he "recognized the West's vital interest" and that "good relations were the best guarantee of the oil." Yet his press and some of his subordi- nates have sometimes talked a rather different language. To the second question, about Israel, the Egyptian leader re plied that "Egypt would never attack Israel unless Egypt were first attacked, in fact until Egypt was attacked on Feb. 28, 1955, we were neglecting our army and spending all our money on internal development. It was only after that that we began to look for arms and we bought them from the Russians because you would sell us none." Yet on this subject too, Col. Nasser's press and some of his subordi nates often talk a very different language; and Col. Nasser him self would not seriously discuss any positive settlement ' with Israel. JJIINALLY, to the last question accepting further aid from the Soviets, the Egyptian leader replied that the Soviets had al ways been "perfectly correct" with Egypt, and that "no Mid dle Easterner had any experi ence of Soviet imperialism." Those answers, quite obvious ly, define the hard choice that lies ahead of Col. Nasser. Any Westerner is a fool who does not see why Nasser and Egypt are today in doubt about which road to take. And Western statesmanship wiU surely miss another last chance if Nasser and Egypt are not aided, by all means possible, to make the choice that best serves the long run interests of Egypt and the West alike. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. been compensation to Medford and surroundings, pinpointing instead of by-passing for tourist publicity. Also, the disastrous flood this year might have been prevented. One other thing southern California is growing more water hungry each year. The tapping of the Feather River is now on the agenda and approaching the beginning stages. Even that wiU not aUeviate the water shortage too much, as people keep pour ing into this country. I even heard a suggestion on a radio program of tapping the Rogue. Everyone up there had better hope this does not hap pen, and make sure it doesn't by some plan to utilize the Rogue waters for Southern Oregon, not Southern California. Carma McCarty, 690 Lincoln St., El Cajon, Calif. Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195S Congressional Quarterly) Q What is the biggest dollar value crop grown and marketed in the United States? (a) corn; (b) wheat; (c) cotton; (d) tobacco? A (c) Cotton. According to preliminary figures of the De partment of Agriculture's mar keting service, cotton led the field in 1955 with a total value of $2.6 billion. Wheat cam next POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Say, those Medford boys get around. Remember Carl Landis pic ture of the lads in the bermuda shorts strolling jauntily down the streets of Medford? It was on Page 1 of the M-T. Well, it was sent to Portland. and appeared in both daily pap ers there on Page 1 of the Ore- gonian. The Associated Press wirephoto network picked it up, too. An incomplete list of places where it had been printed, so far reported to us, includes Seattle, San Jose, Calif.; Houston, lex.; Hawaii, and one or more service papers, including one near Paris and the European edition of 5tars and Stripes. A man we heard about has ' a telephone on a four-party line. The other day he -was trying to get the line, but two women were -talking. Time passed. He got more and more anxious, and dropped several noisy hints to them to let him have the line. No luck. Finally, he lost patience, and said firmly: "Excuse me! Don't hang up. Just call a taxi for me." Three young men (healthy, outdoor types) dropped in to the office Friday to report kill ing what they thought might do the first rattlesnake of the season. They ran across our junior distaff-type reporter, who's a darned good reporter, mostly, but who refused to take their story until they put that horrid old rattle away. A family in town has two tiny fruit trees in their back yard. An operative tells us that between the two tiny fruit trees is a tiny smudge pot. A staff member (male) is a budding camera fiend, and another staff member (female) has a husband who's an old camera hand. The male staff member (just for fun, we'll call him Earl) ask ed the female staff member (we'll call her Olive) what kind of a camera her husband had. Olive had forgotten, but said she'd find out. She did, and re membered it all the way to the office and told Earl or so she claims. But Earl can't remember what, if anything, she told him, and by the time this all came to light she couldn't remember what kind of camera it is. They plan to start all over again, from the beginning. We know one taxpayer who figured out and filed his fed eral return good and early, and was delighted to learn he would get a refund. Than he sat down and figured out his state tax, and found that the 49 per cent surtax this year would require him to pay the state a fairly substantial amount. He hopefully waited for the federal refund so it could be used to help pay the state tax. When did the refund arrive? April 17, of course. Spring, by George, really IS here! Even if it weren't for the pear blossoms we could telL How? By the flies that come in the open windows, and the discussions as to whether the air cooler should be on or off. A man we know drove to Portland a few weeks ago. En route home, he travelled through a small town just a bit faster than the law allows, and the law caught up with him and issued him a ticket. Well, back in Medford, the thing slipped his mind, and by the time he remembered, the deadline for posting bail or appearing in court had pasted. Slightly worried, he went to a lawyer in town (professional courtesy forbids the use of his name) to get him out of this small jam. The attorney wrote a long, professional-sounding letter to the justice of the peace in volved. The other day a reply ar rived. It said, in part: "From your letter we are unable to determine whether you are pleading guilty to the charge . ." A woman who sometimes goei to rummage sales attended ono recently, much to her happiness, found a couple of porcelain fig urines made in Germany in the roaring 20s, and portraying girls of that era, cloche hats and aU. She picked them up for a nom inal price which she refused to reveal, thinking she could re sell them to some collector friends at a smart profit. Her profit vanished on the way home a day later when she dropped the sack and smashed the figurines into a million pieces. at $1.7 billion. Corn, the largest dollar value croD. is used rhipfiv for fodder, not sold in the market
