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History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10. .20, 30 and
t0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1948
(It was Monday)
Sale of the Oregon Orchards
by John Tomlin to a corporation
composed of six Medford or
chardists and business men an
nounced. From Arthur. Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The first
post-war social lynching rever
berated Saturday eve on the
leading traffic lanes and resi
dential areas. It was a seven car
affair.
20 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1936
at was Wednesday)
Building permits totaling $50,
710 issued in first four months
of year, according to Frank H.
Rogers, city inspector.
Three petitions asking repair
. of Medford streets received by
the council.
30 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1926
(It was Thursday)
Charles K. Williams and Mr.
and Mrs. Close start operating
Riverside garage here.
Work of constructing new
$55,000 building of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph at
Bartlett st. and Fifth st starts
40 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1916
(It was Saturday)
The Medford Chorus society
Is to make its bow to the public
of the Rogue river valley on
Monday evening, May 29.
No dissenting vote seen in
$300,000 bond issue which is
asked for by enterprising citi
zens of Medford.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gat 4 of the 7?
Cap. 19SS. Editorial Research Retort
1. U.S. Senate Majority Lead
er Lyndon B. Johnson's victory
In the Texas primary increased
or decreased chances that south'
ern Democrats will bolt to a
third party in 1956?
2. In a two-for-one stock split
the stockholder gets two shares
or one share for each share he
owns?
3. Trie united States is or
isn't represented on the com
mittee that administers the in
ternationalized zone of Tangier,
adjacent to Spanish Morocco?
4. West Virginia voted for Eis
enhower or Stevenson in 1952?
5. U.S. Army scientists have
found the circumference of the
earth at the equator a half-mile
longer or shorter than previous
ly believed?
6. A man named Cotton rep
resents in the U.S. Senate a
Southern, New England, Middle
Western, Southwestern or Far
Western state?
7. Russian vodka is usually
distilled from rye, hops, pota
toes, or turnips?
I The answers: I. Decreased
chances of third party. 2. On
share. 3. U.S. is one of nine ad
ministering countries. 4. For
Stevenson. 5. Half-mile shorter.
6. New England (N.H.). 7. Rye.
Medford Jaycees Hear
Convention Reports
Ron James, 30, former presi
dent of the Medford Junior
MAIL TRIBUNE
Who Is a "Liar" Now?
If Wayne Morse had said the senatorial committee
investigating the Al Sarena case would make no re
port, no doubt former Governor McKay would call
him a "liar."
For that statement would not have been true.
Senator Neuberger, chairman of the subcommittee
making the investigation, has announced that the
report will be made public about June 1st, it has been
in preparation for about six weeks, and the delay he
ascribes to time allowed members who may wish to
make a minority report to do so.
.
"llf E HAVE no knowledge of what the report will
TT be. But in several of his speeches Secretary
McKay in defending the Al Sarena deal, did cite as
evidence of the legal and lily-white character of the
transaction, that a committe, hand-picked, he claimed,
for its hostility to himself and the present administra
tion after weeks of investigation, had found it all so
completely on the "up-and-up" that no report had
been made and he expected none would be.
"llf ELL a report will be made, and our guess is that
T T the contention of this department that the sale of
this timber was "within the law" but was a "give
away" as far; as the government securing the remuner
ation to which it was entitled is concerned, will be
upheld.
As so frequently stated it was a question of policy,
not of morals. The denial of the patent by the former
administration of the Department of the Interior and
upheld by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land
management should have been upheld also by the
McKay regime, and a proper law passed that would
have rendered this "shady" business of "minin? for
timber at $5 an acre" illegal.
TIE HAVE yet to hear of any convincing explana
tion of why Secretary of the Interior McKav did
not do this, or why his
matter.
We are sure it will be
$2,600 Will Support the Working Girl!
A working girl in New York City needs to earn
$2,615 a year, or $50.30 a week, to "keep up her ap
pearance, morale, and self-respect, and to compete for
and hold her job." This is one of the conclusions of a
new study made by the New York State Department
of Labor for the guidance of minimum wage boards.
In Rochester, her earnings must be slightly higher
s,ooo; ; in Jamestown tney may be lower ($2,422).
The average for the state is $2,593.
The estimated cost of living for a single woman
employed in the state of Washington the Pacific Coast.
as last determined in 1954,
Washington in 1952, it was
price index has not risen appreciably since those de
terminations were made.
The above figures contrast sharply with varidus
budgets prepared in the mid-1930s by the Works Pro
gress Administration. The WPA "maintenance" bud
get for the family of a worker with two children add
ed up to only $1,261 a year; the "subsistence" budget
to only $903. One item in the New York working girl's
budget that did not appear in the WPA budgets is
$727 for income taxes, insurance, and savings.
E. R. R.
Powell Amendment
The Powell amendment still hangs heavy over the
bill to grant federal. aid for school construction. Vir
tually all other differences were ironed out last year
and Speaker Rayburn announced in December that
the bill would be acted upon by the House as the first
important business of the 1956 session. He now says
it may be taken up on the floor in June.
I he delay results from
Clayton Powell, Democratic member from Harlem,
has not been dissuaded from offering an amendment
that would deny federal money to any school district
still resisting racial desegregation. He was not moved
by a personal letter from President Eisenhower last
June which pointed out that
regation rider could get by
debate in the Sinate; that
merely block badly needed legislation without ad
vancing the cause of race equality.
THE NEGRO congressman now charges that the
school bill is being witnneid until the Democratic
leadership can be sure his amendment will not get to
a yea-and-nay vote. He has no doubt that it would be
adopted by a substantial majority if members were
forced to go on record in this
The process of avoiding a record vote on matters
of hieh controversy is illustrated by what happened
to an nti-discrimination amendment offered, by Rep.
Marcantonio m the election year 194. Un a non-record
vote, it was swamped 119 to 40, and when the
yeas and nays were demanded there were not enough
seconds.
Demands in the House
amendment defeated by a teller vote must be second
pd bv one-fifth of the members present. If enough of
- ' .
its lukewarm supporters can De persuaaea to Keep
their seats, the p r e v i o u s showing stands and the
amendment is dead. E. R. R.'
Chamber of Commerce, was el
ected vice-president of District 6
at the Oregon State Jaycee con
vention at Astoria recently.
In his capacity as vice-presi
dent, James will- be adviser for
Jaycee clubs , in the district,
which includes most of southern
Oregon. He will visit the clubs
and keep them informed on state
and national Jaycee activities.
Sunday, May 20. 1956
predecessor didn't for that
done eventually. R.W.R.
was $2,664. In the City of
$2,219. The consumers
the fact that Rep. Adam
no bill carrying a deseg
the barrier of unlimited
his amendment would
election year.
for a record vote on an
1 1 1 2. 1
At the Tuesday night meeting
of the Medford Jaycees reports
were given on the state conven
tion by the 15 local delegates.
Following the business meeting,
members saw two Air Force
films on develop: nt and opera
tion of the B-47 Jet Bomber and
on aeronautical research. The
films were shown in connection
with Armed Forces day.
Matter of
TWO SIMPLE FACTS
Washington Sen. Stuart
Symington's armed forces sub
committee on air power is in the
process of
demonstrating
two simple
facts.
Fact one is
that the Soviet
Union is even
today marked
ly ahead of the
stewart Aisop mem oi tne in
tercontinental ballistic missile.
Fact one has already been
largely established, in the testi
mony of Gen. Curtis LeMay,
chief of the Strategic Air Com
mand. But it will certainly be
hammered home in future testi
mony. So will fact two.
THE method of hammering
home these two fact's was
astutely worked out in advance
by Symington and his able sub
committee counsel, Fowler Ham
ilton. Other than the President
himself, the real key figures in
air power policy are Secretary
of Defense Charles Wilson, Adm.
Arthur Radford, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary
of the Air Force Donald Quarles,
and Air Force Chief of Staff Na-
than Twining. But these men
have not yet been called. Their
turn will come at the end of the
inquiry.
By that time, Symington and
Hamilton will have constructed
a solid groundwork of fact by
Questioning, largely in secret
session, the men with operational
rather than policy-making re
sponsibilities LeMay; intelli
gence chief Allen Dulles (who
gave the committee the agreed
national estimates of Soviet air
atomic capabilities): the air de
fense chief, Gen. Earle Partridge
(whose still unreleased testi
mony is in some ways more dis
turbing than LeMay's); The Air
Research and Development chief,
Lt. Gen. Donald Putt; and
others.
THUS when the turn of the
policy-makers comes, the sub
committee will be in a position to
ask them, not for opinions, but
for facts. And, unless the policy
makers wish to question the hon
esty of the official national esti
mates, or the veracity of such
men as those listed above, facts
one and two will be publicly ad
mitted and established.
One would have thought that
a public acKnowieagmeni mat
the Soviets had surpassed us in
ballistic missile development,
and were soon to surpass us in
strategic air power, would have
an explosive effect. Actually,
certain factors are operating to
Today and
By Walter
By WALTER LIPPMAN
"Paris It is a bold man who.
coming from the outside, pre
sumes to talk about the French
p r o b le m in
North Africa
For myself
cannot see far
into this prob
lem, for which
there is not, eo
far as I know,
any example
anywhere else
of a successful
Walter Llppmann solution.
Yet it is plain enough that a
crucial test is about to begin.
In about four weeks the French
government in Paris will have
deployed in Algeria the military
forces about 400,000 men
that it judges to be necessary
to pacify the country and to con
tain the active rebels m their
mountain fastnesses. When that
has been done as now planned,
Paris plans to hold elections.
From them there are to emerge
Arab leaders willing and able to
negotiate a peace. The terms of
that peace are not published
but they are based on the con
cept of autonomy for the Alger
ian Arabs within the framework
of the French state.
There are some, as good judges
as any, who believe that this, of
ficial policy will have been
tested by the autumn.
A VISITOR soon learns to re
alize that he must not think
of Algeria as another in that
series of countries to be evacu
ated in the series which began
with Lebanon and Syria, went
on to Indochina and has recently
come to include Tunis and Mor
occo. In a sense that these other
countries never were, the French
think of Algeria as a national in
terest. That is because at least
one-seventh of the people of Al
geria and Frenchmen. Algeria
is not an economic asset. Indeed
it is a liability: It is to the large
community of Frenchmen that
the French at home feel them
selves bound. There are signs of
a mounting popular will to stand
by them and not to let them be
come a helpless minority in a
sovereign Arab state.
In the months to come there
will be put to the test two ques
tions: Can the rebellion be sub
dued by a dense concentration
of troops in the main populated
areas? If they are subdued, can :
the Arabs be induced to partici
pate in elections and, shutting
their ears to Cairo, to negotiate I
fi ft.
lit'
"Iff
Fact By Stewart Alsop
reduce almost to the vanishing
point the impact of the fact be
ing established by the Syming
ton sub-committee.
For one thing, this is an elec
tion year, and Symington is an
often-mentioned possibility for
the Democratic nomination.
Thus it will be easy for the de
fenders of the Administration's
air power policy to brush off the
whole issue as "just politics."
ANOTHER factor is the secur
ity system, which makes it
possible to muffle or suppress
entirely much of the solid, sup
porting evidence. A third factor
is the boom. Politicians of both
parties attest that the American
people, in these pleasant, pros
perous times, just do not want to
hear about such unhappy, far-off
things as Soviet bombers and
missiles and nuclear weapons.
But the most important factor
of all is, of course, the military
reputation of Dwight D. Eisen
hower. It is not difficult to im
agine the almost earth-shaking
effect of testimony by a LeMay
that Soviet strategic air power
would soon surpass our own, if
a Harry S. Truman or an Adlai
Stevenson had been President.
Yet the LeMay testimony
caused hardly a ripple, largely
because the country has an al
most unassailable confidence in
the Presdient's leadership where
defense is concerned. Even so, if
only for the history books, it
would be interesting ' to know
just how it was decided to per
mit the Soviets to overtake this
country in aV-atomic power, the
one field in which we have here
tofore enjoyed superiority.
WAS the issue squarely faced
by the President, and debat
ed at length in the National Se
curity Council? Were the agreed
intelligence estimates of future
Soviet progress placed side by
side with our own production
schedules in the missile and stra
tegic air fields? Did the Presi
dent himself decide ,after pray
erful consideration, that permit
tine the United States Stragetic
Air Command to become second
best was a justified calculated
risk?
Or was the future level of our
air-atomic power determined
more or less nugger-mugger,
without careful debate, in the
face of the pressures for a bal
anced budget in an election
year? The evidence clearly sug
gests that this is what really
happened including the re
markable fact that the Air Force
has never even been asked to
estimate the cost of matching or
surpassing the Soviet air-atomic
effort.
Copyright, 1956,- New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
for something less than sover
eign independence?
rriHE prospects of a negotiated
settlement on the French
terms are, it may be said, not
very bright. At the least, assum
ing there is no overwhelming
and crushing defeat of the re
bellion, the Paris government
would have to offer extraordin
ary concessions at the expense
of the vested privileges of the
French community in Algeria
One can doubt whether the Paris
government is strong enough to
impose a military victory on the
Arabs and at the same time a
political settlement on the
French community. It is this
weakness of the government, by
the way, which accounts for the
Browing amount -of talk about
drastic constitutional reforms.
But, though the prospects are
not bright, it would be a mis
take to suppose that the unsuc-
cess of the present policy would
lead to abandonment and evacu
ation. So at least it seems to me
here in Paris.
.
THE French interest Is real.
The French armv mieht fail
to pacify all of Algeria but it
cannot be defeated. There is not
now an organized army opposing
it, as there was in Indochina. If
the official policy does not suc
ceed, the issue might well be
come one of holding more firmly
the coastal region where the
French community is predomi
nant, rather than of pacifying
the Arab hinterland.
There is no great likelihood
of a clear solution and a full
settlement. There are too many
Frenchmen settled among too
many. Arabs for that, and in cer
tain ways the basic problems of
racial equality, cooperation and
co-existence are even more re
fractory than , they are in our
own deep south.
(C) 1956. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Ma7 Clerks Indicted
By Federal Grand Jury
Sacramento, Calif. U.R)'
Two Santa Rosa, Calif., mail car
riers have been indicted by a
Federal Grand Jury on charges
of stealing from the mails.
Glen O. Pickering was charged
with the theft of one letter and
taking $1.50 from another letter.
Kenneth Hood was accused of
stealing $3 from one letter and
$2 from another.
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Great Decisions
To The Editor: We don't feel
that any program could have
had better publicity than the
Great Decisions program of 1956
received at your hands.
Although not as much group
participation in the program was
evident as might be hoped for,
it is felt that a substantial major
ity of the citizens of Jackson
county now know what the
Great Decisions program
Most people consulted feel that
the program is excellent and
should be continued.
Donald Hansen
Chairman of Great Decisions
Temporary Committee
School Taxes
To the Editor: An election will
be held Monday, May 21, from
to 8 p.m. in the rural school dis
tricts to raise the 6 tax limita
tion. There is an Oregon law
that no higher than a 6 levy
can be put on our property un
less the people vote it. If this el
ection was held at the time
our regular election, this addi
tional tax would be voted down
but it is slipped through and
very few know of this election
and go and vote. Our taxes have
mushroomed out until we can
not pay them with this extrava
gant school spending.
We have a small piece of prop
erty on the South Fork of Little
Butte creek. The 1954-55 valua
tion was $158: taxes were $1.87
in 1955-56 the valuation was $1
640 and the taxes $24.15, and
now we get a post card the val
uation for next year is $2,160,
These taxes wiU be raised to 13
times as much as they were
three years ago. This will raise
the school tax accordingly. We
spent $106 for material only on
improvement of this place
those three years. Wake up, peo
ple, to what is being done to you
Get your neighbors together and
vote against raising the 6 tax
limitation and our taxes and
higher. Stop this waste of tax
money.
Dorr is Scheble
Koute 1, Box 413
Medford, Ore.
Reshuffle the World
To the Editor: So-called great
decisions are comparatively sim
ple if you look at them from the
standpoint of plain justice. But
in that case, you yourself might
have to give up something. How
horrible!
Anyone with half a mind
could foresee the results of chas
ing a million Arabs out of homes
that had been theirs for two
thousand years and planting
Jews in their place. The Jews
needed a homeland desperately
but England and the United
States of America didn't have to
chase out Arabs to give it to
them. But that cost England and
the U. S. nothing only the
Arabs. England ha3 no room on
her island. Let the U.S.A. give
the Jews one of our 48 states for
their own, independent country
say- California or New York.
Give Oregon back to the Indians,
wnom we treated as badly as
ever the Jews were treated. Let
the Indians have Oregon for
their country. Chase out white
people there are still 45 states
where they can go. Give Texas
back to Mexico from whom we
sroie it in tne iirst place re
member? We also stole Cali
fornia from Mexico but might
has always meant right to us,
As for divided Germany, she
or he (remember Der Vaterland
und Deutschland Uber Alles?
asked for it. Let Germany stay
divided. Maybe next time she
or he won't be so anxious to
start another war.
Let the Deep South secede
from' the Union if they want
they've been a pain in the neck
ever since the Uncivil War. Let
Boers from South Africa trek to
the new Confederate States of
America and live with their own
kind in the Deep South and
keep their White Supremacy;
with an all-white population they
would have to do their own dirty
work. We could setUe the mal
treated Negroes in northern
states. Those who wished could
emigrate to land left vacant by
Boers.
Australia screams for Immi
grants chase Europeans out of
Africa, maybe to Australia. May
be Formosans could go there or
to Africa those whom Chiang
hasn't already massacred. No
body asked Formosans what they
wanted when Chiang grabbed
their homeland. After native
Formosans are safely off, sink
Formosa with Chiang and his
rabble on it. There won't be any
question of which China to seat
in the United Nations. If Chiang
and his cohorts had been decent
they would - probably still be
bossing China.
Let every country into the
U.N. and make the U.S.A. mind
its own business, not everybody
else's.
Then the rest of us might
have peace. -
Mrs. Edith Ingle, .
338 Bessie St., '
Medford, Ore.
Memorial Suggestion
To the Editor: A little over a
year ago, the executive commit-
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Eight-year-old Michael Bort-
olazzo, son of Mr. and Mrs
Mario Bortolazzo, Route 1, Jack
sonville, went fishing on the
Applegate near McKee bridge
with his father the other day
despite discouraging reports of
poor fishing" from the river,
Mike had never caught a fish
before,
The elder Bortolazzo didn't
get a bite. But Mike landed
10-inch trout AND a 27-inch
steelhead weighing 5W pounds.
To prove it, here's a picture of
Mike and the steelhead. Mike
is the one on the right.
Things were in stato of con
fusion around the Mail Tri
bune office Friday night, as a
score or more workers labor
ed to collect, tabulate and
broadcast election returns.
' At one point, about 11 p.m..
a box of hamburgers was
brought in for the rapidly
firing and hungering workers.
As one of them was polishing
off his first sandwich and
reaching for another, he was
struck by a thought it was
Friday. ' Ha was taken aback
for a moment, but then an
nounced loudly that ho had
just switched over to daylight
saving time, that it was now
tee of the Oregon Heart associa
tion agreed that all memorial
contributions to . the Oregon
Heart association would be ap
plied to research projects involv
ing cardiovascular disease.
During 1955 the association
has allocated more than $13,000
in memorial contributions to this
great work and in the first quar
ter of 1956, $7,022.24 has been
received and designated. Nat
urally those of us working with
the association are hopeful that
the amount of funds available
for research will continue to
increase during the coming year,
While this memorial program
certainly nas received an ex
cellent response from all parts
of the state, the records clearly
show that most memorial contri
butions are not continued be
yond the initial remembrance.
With Memorial day approach
ing, I would just like to suggest
that this Memorial program of
the Oregon Heart association is
an excellent way of remembering
those who have been claimed by
disease of the heart.
Marina S. Gates,
Memorial Chairman
- Oregon Heart association,
. Medford, Ore.
More About Myrtle
To the Editor: In reference to
my recent letter on the Oregon
myrtle and also in reply to "E.
M. F.," who seemed to disagree
somewhat with what I had to
say:
I stated facts only, and those
are, m my belief, the final an
swer to any question.
I was born and raised here in
Southern Oregon and have made
an intensive study of dendrol
ogy (that part of botany pertain
ing to tree identification, etc.)
and I know whereof I speak. E.
M. F. says he has read about the
myrtle tree for years. Has he
ever considered reading books
written by recognized authori
ties on the subject, or does he
figure it more informative to
take the word of "chamber of
commerce" circulars?
The most beautiful and largest
specimens of the tree are, as a
rule, found here in Oregon, for
which we can be proud, but the
tree is considered by botanists
as a "spill-over" of the tropical
flora and grows practically
throughout the state of Cali
fornia. It certainly does not in
Oregon.
To say that the Holy Land tree
and the Oregon tree are one and
the same does not contradict me
at aU! It disputes the findings of
men of science who devote their
lives to the study of this subject.
M. F., if you're ever in Sac
ramento, please visit the capitol
grounds. On one side you will
find an umbellularia Californica
(our myrtle) on the other side
you'll find a specimen of the
Holy Land myrtle. Take one good
look and smell a crushed leaf
from each one. There'll be no
more question as to their being
separate species.
Eugene L. Parker,
128 Chestnut St.,
Medford, Ore.
Mf If iTlh&i
r? toll A .
past midnight, and everything
was all right.
One team of election returns
collectors, venturing forth in the
dark and rain equipped with
writing pads and flashlights,
searched long and hard for one
particularly obscure voting
place. At last they spied a house
with a light in the window, and
behind the window a group of
women seated around a table,
intent and busy. Aha!! our work
ers thought, the counting board!
They pounded on the door,
only to find they'd broken up a
bridge game.
e
The Southern Pacific railroad
Is just a teeniy bit sensitive
these days about references lo
its non-existent passenger
train service on this rout.
However, they went along
with advance publicity about
a special excursion train which
went through here Saturday
morning.
The SP's San Francisco of
fice even went so far as to
send out a news story on the
event which proved how big
corporations can sometimes
get fouled up about their own
holdings. The following is
quoted, verbatim, so help us,
(except for the capitaliiaion)
from that news release: 1
"Saturday, the special train
will wind through the colorful
Siskiyous on SP's original
main line through Ashland.
Medford, Grant's (sic) Pass
and Roseburg, THEN run down
the green Rogue River Valley
to an overnight stop at Eu
gene." No further comment.
Headline in the Journal:
"Talent Nine Repeats Again."
Again, and again, and again?
We have it on excellent
authority that there is a farm
in the valley which has a
horse which thinks he is an
automobile.
He has the run of the place,
we are told, including the
yard in front of the house,
- where he is helpful in keep
ing the grass trimmed.
In the mornings, instead of
being in the barn where a .
good horse should be, he
frequently is found standing
in the garage.
Three men, a German, a
Dutchman and a Scot . planned
to have a party. Each was to
bring something. The German
brought the drinks, the Dutch
man brought the food, the Scot
brought his brother.
A Medford Ambulance ser
vice attendant drove, his ve
hicle to Prospect last week on
business. While he was up
there, someone in Prospect
called lo Medford for an am
bulance for a logging accident
victim, and was assured an
ambulance would be sent at
once. Meanwhile, someone else
in Prospect found the ambul
ance that was already there,
and sent it to the scene of
the accident. It arrived about
10 minutes after the first call
had been placed.
"Boy." said the man who'd
called Medford for an ambul
ance, "boy, I'm sure glad I
didn't ride up here with you."
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195
Congressional Quarterly)
Q The predecessor of the
postwar foreign aid programs
was a project the Lend Lease
Act under which the United
States sent abroad a steady
stream of material' supplies
worth more than $49 billion. The
U.S. entered the war in Decem
ber, 1941. In what month and
year did Congress pass the Lend
Lease Act?
A March, 1941, nine
months before the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Q Total grants and loans
made by the U.S. to foreign
countries in the postwar decade.
1945-1955, are closest to which
figure (a) $25 billion (b) $50
billion (c) $75 billion?
A (b) $50 billion. Through
Sept. 30, 1955, according to
the Department of Commerce,
the net total (including repay
ments) exceeded $52 billion
slightly.
Q A European Recovery plan
of economic aid to help Europe
rehabilitate was proposed June
5, 1947, in a famous speech by
which of the following: (a)
George C. Marshall (b) Dean G.
Acheson (c) Harry S. Truman.
A (a) George C. Marshall,
then Secretary of State. ERP
was popularly called the Mar
shall Plan. i
Q Who is the current admin
istrator of the foreign aid pro
gram? (a) Harold E. Stassen (b)
Paul G. Hoffman (c) John B.
Hollister.
A (c) John B. Hollister. His
title is Director of the Inter
national Cooperation Admin
titration. . -u
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