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Maltese Seek Integral Role in United Kingdom Washington Malta, Bri tain' Mediterranean Crown Colony of rich tradition and stirring history, now seeks even stronger ties wltn the United I Kingdom by full representation in Parliament. The colony is famed for its eight-point cross, its gray cats, and its courage under World War II bombings. Malta itself is the largest of the Maltese Islands which include Gozo. Comino Cominotto and Filfla. The chain stretches 27 miles northwest to southeast, 'and is strategically lo cated between Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. Life in varying forms has existed on Malta from deepest antiquity. Pleistocene deposits yield remains of giant dormice hippopotami, and pigmy ele phants. Tombs and other arti facts are traceable to the Phoe nicians who colonized Malta VOTE 50 m CHARLES O. PORTEH fXT- m -it v.; I Elect PORTER To Congress Veteran Lawyer For: Progress Labor Give Morse and Neuberger Support Pd. PoL Adv. by Porter for Con gress Committee. 858 Pearl. Eu gene. Keith D. Skelton, Chairman. ages ago. The islands situation astride an ancient sea route attracted Greek, Carthaginian, Roman, and Arab invaders through the years. The Normans took over in the 11th century. The Knights of St. John, who introduced the Maltese Cross, held sway from 1530 to 1798. They were suc ceeded by the French and later the British. Valletta, Malta's capital since 1570, stands like Manhattan on a narrow rocky ledge. Disraeli said that Valletta "equals in its noble architecture, if it even does not excel, any capital in Europe." For Sir Walter Scott the city was "like a dream." It is flanked by Grand Harbour, often called one of the Mediter ranean's best, and Marsamxett Harbour. The British Mediter ranean Fleet has been based in Grand Harbour since the Napo leonic wars. Its extensive ship repair yards bolster the Maltese economy. Chief manufactures are jew elry, filigree ornaments and lace. Maltese farmers produce barley, corn, wheat, clover, tomatoes and such fruits as prickly pears, grapefruit, lemons, figs and apri cots. They are oppressed by drought and soil erosion. Stone walls and terracing are used to buttress the land. Wind mills bring water to the surface to be fed to the fields and oxen turn traditional waterwheels. The soil is rich in phosphates, permitting two or more crops a year. Having scant pasturage for cows, the Maltese rely on goats for milk. Driven from door to door, the animals are milked for individual customers. The sur rounding sea supplements diets with mackerel, tuna and dolphin. So conscious are Maltese of the sea that emblematic dolphins decorate many homes as door knockers. Fishermen go out in gaily-painted craft. The sea is close to the Maltese, but never more so than at the Festival of St. Paul Shipwrecked. St. Paul was shipwrecked there while on his way to Rome and during his stay founded the Church in Malta. A seven-hour religious service followed by a street procession commemorates the event each Februrary. t ' i P i' - ' CONTRAST Democratic presidential aspirants Estes Ke fauver and Adlai Stevenson presented this study in con trasts as they rode in the parade preceding the annual spring fair in Los Banos, Calif. Kefauver (right), dressed in a conservative business'suit, cruised down the street in a convertible, while Stevenson, decked out in dungarees and a 10-gallon hat, rode a horse. Wednesday, May 16, 1951 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL - TRIBUNE FITS Rocket Ranges Mark Off Paths Far Across World Democrats ELECT AS NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN C. GIRARD UebbyJ k leader in the fight to SAVE HELLS CANYON k Former Central Counsel, BONNEVILLE POWER ADMIN. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF INTERIOR (I946-I950) "Senators Moris and Neuberger need Jebby Davldton . at Democratic National Committeemen . . ." trie t. WArrs, Pd. Kit. DEMOCRATS K DAVIDSON Hrm" ChW ''"'. Klth Burnt, Sec'y. 130 Eqbltable tide., Porttonri See and Hear Your Friends and Neighbors on A. l-ik- 1 Big Republican Rally "Why we think may must be elected" Hear outstanding citizens from your own community tell why they are voting for Doug McKay on May 18th. DOUG McKAY will do the job you wont done Doug McKay has a 26-year political record of honesty . . . integrity . . . and the ability to get things done. He has the prestige and respect Oregon people want and need in the national capital. Elect Doug McKay your U. S. Senator. ti Ad. McK.t for Sftittcpe Cooniltr. W. l (") Ffci"P. Cktkmtm. ' 52o S. W. BrovWar. PonUnd. Or go a. Washington Tomorrow's ocean-jumping rockets and guid ed missiles even now begin to need test ranges that span thou sands of miles of earth's empty spaces. At least two such rocket routes already describe major arcs on world maps. Many oth ers cover lesser distances. Some depend on elbow room straight up. Some Florida southeastward, and across the loneliness of west Australia and the Indian Ocean, two great rocket routes are laid out today. Still a third range may lie somewhere in the heart of Asia. Atlantic Ocean Missile Track Firing from Cape Canaveral, Florida, near the town of Co coa, the United States and Great Britain since 1950 have built a long range proving ground for I guided missiles. It stretches 1000 miles down the Bahama Islands to Puerto Rico. In 1955, plans were announced to extend it to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, 5,000 statute miles away. Even that might be only a tracking station. "A missile star ting at Cape Canaveral," an of ficial said, "would travel 5,000 miles to Ascension, but then it could go on past Ascension -almost indefinitely all the way to the South Pole (with a slight turn) without threatening any inhabited area." From Ascension to the Pole is 5,750 miles. Australia's isolated Woomera rocket range spans 1,250 miles on land, another 1,500 ocean miles out beyond Christmas Is land. Woomera, the main town and firing site, lies 325 miles north west of Adelaide, capital of South Australia. At a place nam ed Emu Claypan, another 400 miles inside the range, at least two atomic explosions have been set off. Another shook the Monte Bello Islands off the continent's west coast. Laid across dry and ancient wastes, the Woomera range holds few attractions even for wandering Australian aborig ines. At best the red rolling salt bush plains can support only three sheep to the square mile. Temperatures soar above 110 de grees at noon, .drop below freez ing at night. A radio net warns the few cattle stations and desert camps in the range before each firing. ' Woomera" is an apt name for a guided missile site: it is the "abo" word for the crude stick used to direct wicked throwing spears. Rockets in the Hebrides A new rocket range, based on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides west of Scot land, recently was proposed by the British. South Uist's croft ers protested. But England went ahead by raising her flag over the unclaimed islet of Rockall, 225 miles out in the North At lantic. French scientists use the lar gest desert on earth, the Sahara to test their rockets. A main fir ing site is at Colomb Bechar near the Algeria-Morocco border on the edge of the Sahara. White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, and the Navy's Point Mugu range in California, are used mainly to test high al titude rockets. White Sands has a horizontal range of only about 100 miles. As one way of keeping spent rocket missiles or their debris from falling back to earth and thus permitting rocket tests almost anywhere some scien tists have recently speculated about missiles made of ice. Fir ed from planes at bitter- cold upper altitudes, these would arch high above the earth, melt ing as they shot back into the atmosphere. Around Hollywood By ALINI MOSBY United Praia Correipondenl Editor note: Aline Mosby If on vi eatlon. Today her column ii written by Celeste Holm, who sayi an actresi haa to learn to laugh at henelf. By CELESTE HOLM Written for the United Press Hollywood (U.R) I laugh ed out loud as I wiped the tears away after reading a review on my recent appearance in a "Cli max" play on TV. The bitter sweet words said Celeste Holm now is ready to take her place as a full-fledged star alongside "deep-drama" actresses like Bet te Davis and Barbara Stanwyck. Normally, such a review would set up a gal for days, but, as I said, I wiped the tears while laughing. The reviewer, bless him, apparently forgot that I won an Oscar in 1947 for a bit ot handkerchief ripping in "Gen tleman's Agreement." But I've been knocked down with a velvet glove before. You've got to be able to laugh at yourself in this racket or you'll wear, out more psychiatric couches than your budget al lows. Agent's Copy Accepted The trouble with too many of us is that we begin to believe our own press agent's copy. The more famous you become, the louder you should laugh. I know. I learned the hard way. I got one of the biggest laughs at myself while playing Ado An nie in "Oklahoma!" on Broad way. It was a fat part. I read the reviews and believed 'em. After the show one snowy night I took a walk, and when I got tired, looked for a taxi. There wasnt' a cab within skirt- lifting distance for 45 minutes. I was getting cold. Suddenly a newspaper truck pulled up and the driver heaved out a huge bundle or morning papers. Driver Queried On impulse, I asked the driver if he were going downtown. He wanted to know why. "Because I live on lower Fifth avenue," I told him," and be cause I can't find a cab." "Naw," he replied. "I'm going west. Say, who do you think you are anyway?" "Oh, I'm Cel . . . I'm nobody," I said. As the driver turned the corner I got a look at the pro motion ad on the truck. It read: "Next Sunday in full color Ce leste Holm!' My name was in letters six feet high. I laughed so hard a police car stopped and the offi cers asked if I was all right, and incidentally, to give me a lift. I've been laughing at myself ever since. Money that I might be spending on couch rentals I use for hats. It's cheaper be lieve me! GIRLS POLY PRINCESS Portland (U.R) Evelyn Gross, 18-year-old Girls Poly semor, was named Portland's second Rose Festival princess yesterday. There is sufficient land in Brazil to accomodate one-third to one-half of the world's population. Farm woodlands in the U.S. have an area equal to that of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Italy combined. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Spokane New York Gov. Averell Harriman, on "boom times" claimed by the Republican administration: "President Eisenhower talks of prosperity but for many of our people this is a cruel myth. The farmer is having hard times and small business is growing weaker or being forced to quit." Slant. Va. "General" John Sailing, Confederate rtieran cele brating his 11 Oih birthday: . "I feel miserable. I'm in awful shape, an' achin' an' a'palnln' everywhere." Seoul, Korea Again victorious President Syngman Rhee, on election day in his third presidential campaign: "I hope a good, righteous man is elected." Washington Gen. Nathan F. Twining, on disclosing to the United Press that the Air Force now has H-bombs that can be car ried by light bombers: "They are not too big." Clinton, 111. James P. Duty, on being released after 17 years in prison: "I saw my first juke box today. It's quite a thing." Honolulu Indonesia President Sukarno, on his way to Amer ica on a goodwill visit: "There is one important thing and that is very important. That is the closest of friendship between the United States and Indonesia. If I can establish that, or improve it, I will be rtry happy." Washington Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, on why a Navy commander instead of an admiral was given a particular job: "I have never noticed that one star more or less made a man any smarter." Case Continued in Circuit Court Here ' The case against William L. Foreman,. 22, Portland, charged with burglary not in a dwelling, was continued in circuit court yesterday pending a pre-sentence report Foreman had previously plead ed guilty to an indictment on the charge. Jimmy Glenn Martin, 18, 841 Stewart ave,. Medford, was re leased .on his. own recognizance this, morning on a charge of grand larceny. Martin and a 17-year-old Medford boy were ar rested by state police last night in connection with an auto theft. William E. MEALY for Secretary of State "ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS." Paid Adv. Jerry S. Lausmann, Chairman Jackson County Healy for Secretary of State Committee. Who Did D.A. Investigate? (Art Editorial) . . Early In the summer of 1 953, District Attorney Walt Nunley went to the county officials and asked ,for fundi to pay a private inves tigator , : j I . , On June 13, 1953, The Mail 'Tribune quoted Nunley as saying he wanted to hire an undercover man to investigate dope peddling presumably to Medford high school children. " " . i Inasmuch as Nunley did not refute the quotes, we assume that the daily published in Medford was right. Nearly three years have passed. Politics has reared its ugly head end, as usual, things are coming out that perhaps would have re mained hidden. Nunley now says the undercover report dealt with general crime conditions in Jackson county. He told The Times that during his term of office there have been ,only two jisolated dope cases in the county. People, who supposedly know,: say the confidential investigation was aimed at conditions in. the Medford police department and the county sheriff's office. . The fact remains that no one has seen the confidential report ex cept Medford ministers. Nunley chose to show it to them. Why? It would seem to us that a confidential report on crime conditions in the county should be revealed' to the men whose job it is to police the county the State Police, the Sheriff's office; the chiefs of police of all of the towns in the eouhty. That this was not done only lends credence to the report that Nun ley did aim the investigation at the police bodies themselves. Nunley spent $2,8Q0 of tax money to make the Investigation. He said he was going to investigate dope. If, instead of dope, he investi gated police and sheriff activities, he obtained the money through subterfuge. 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