In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington the other morn
ing. President Eisenhower step
ped up on a platform, smiled his
irresistible smile and made one
oi his priceless informal talks.
- His talk was frankly political.
It was addressed to a national
campaign conference of the Citi
zens for Eisenhower Organiza
tion. He asked this group of citi
zens to work hard to continue
what he called his administra
tion1 GREAT MIDDLE OF THE
ROAD PHILOSOPHY OF GOVERNMENT.
WHAT U Ike s middie-of-the
" road philosophy? .
. This, I think, is it:
It Is steering a middle course
between the twin evils of big-government-do-everything
and
weak government that is domin
ated by selfish interest.
IN explaining this philosophy,
I'm afraid I'll have to go high
brow for a moment.
Finding the safe middle course
between menacing evils is one of
mankind's oldest dreams. It is
dramatized in the Greek myth
of Jason and his search for the
Golden Fleece. The Golden
Fleece lay somewhere beyond a
narrow strait. On a rock at one
side of this strait dwelt Scylla,
a monster with six heads; each
on a long neck and each armed
with three rows of sharp teeth.
On a rock on the other side
dwelt Charybdis. a monster that
thrice every day swallowed up
the waters of the sea and thrice
threw them up ag?in.
To gain the Golden Fleece
Jason and his Argonauts had to
steer a careful course between
these monsters. They did it.
THERE are things that govern
ment, meaning ALL of us,
can do better for the common
good than free private enterprise
individuals, competing with each
other, can do for themselves.
Roads, for example. Social se
curity, lor example. Disaster re
lief, for example.
We CRAVE thes things, as
Dental Tradition
Soysi
"Never Retire"
I have never done better
work than now and I have
no Intention of retiring.
Or. S. Ralph Dippel,
D.M.D.
Is That So?
For power-packed fury no oth
er wind on earth, except perhaps
the blast in front of a tremen
dous avalanche, rivals the tor
nado. Striking swiftly and unpre
dictably, perhaps 100 tornadoes
will leave their destructive
wakes over the land this year
and take the lives of about 250
people.
Although the entire life his
tory of a tornado is usually
compressed within 60 minutes
m any one of these 60 it can and
has wreaked $50,000,000 destruc
tion. Seldom is the path of a "twist
er" more than a quarter mile
wide and ten miles long much
more often, it is nearer 25 yards
wide and ten miles long. And as
it advances, it may demolish this
man's barn, rise and skip that
man's home, and then descend to
take away a third man's entire
set of buildings.
Neither month of year nor
state of the union is exempt from
its visitation. However, the time
of distribution is fairly predict
able: of the 100 tornadoes to hit
this year, an average of 21 strike
in May. .18 in this month of
June, 17 in April, 12 in March,
eight in July, five in both Aug
ust and September, three in Jan
uary, February, October and No
vember, and two in December.
Of the hours of the day, it pre
fers the middle or latter part of
the afternoon.
As for the areas in which it
will strike, Kansas will get most
But the smug belief that one
Jason and hjs Argonauts craved
the Golden Fleece. The narrow
strait through whicn we must
pass to reach them is menaced on
one side by the presently dom
inant wing of the Democratic
party that leans too far over to
ward Big Government Do Every
thing and on the other side by
the hard core of standpat Repub
licans who adhere to the philos
ophy of every man for himself
and the devil take the hindmost.
Ike and his modern Argonauts
believe it is possible to STEER
BETWEEN these monsters and
reach the goal of a society in
which government, which is
ALL OF US. can gain for us
these things we all want with
out becoming so big and so all
powerful as to MENACE OUR
LIBERTIES.
THAT, as I see it, is the sub
stance of Ike's middle-of-the-road
philosophy.
That is why I am for Ike. I
think it is why a lot of other
people are for Ike.
By EUGENE BURNS
Rangar-Njturalist
may be safe from tornadoes out
side of the "tornado belt," vague
ly located within the great Mis
sissippi Valley, somewhere
around Kansas, Nebraska and
Iowa, is an error grievous er
ror. True, in a 25-year period,
Kansas had 177 twisters, Iowa
124. Nebraska 72. while Pennsyl
vania had only 42, New York 37
IS THAT SO
and Massachusetts 10. But when
these frequencies are scanned in
terms of states' relative sizes,
then small Massachusetts with
its 10 tornadoes has more per
square mile than Nebraska which
is 9'i times larger and more
than half as many as Kansas and
Iowa! And as for Washington,
D.C., that tiny 69-square mile
area which has experienced 4
tornadoes in 34 years has set up
a tornado expectancy almost 20
times that of a comparable spot
in "cyclone-wracked" Kansas.
Two Air Masses
What produces this giant vacu
um sweeper of the atmosphere,
this destructive monster of
winds?
To make one there must be
two highly contrasted air masses
a warm layer from a mile to
two miles thick underlying a
cold air falls steeply and at the
point where it makes contact, it
sets up an eddy much the same
as an eddy is set up in water
where two currents of different
speeds converge.
As the gyration increases, a
partial vacuum forms within
this great eddy adding im
measurably to its destructive
power.
Every tiny whirlwind darting
across a field, swirling up dust,
picking up leaves, twisting tum
bleweeds, however innocent-ap
pearing, is in itself a miniature
whirling tornado. And, : too,
something of the innocence of
this little dust-devil seems inher
ent in the funnel shaped cloud
of a full-grown tornado. At a
distance it appears so beguilingly
fragile. Yet. as it comes on, that
great writhing rope -colored
black, greenish or purple be-
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Slow Moving
A tornado's approach may be
60 miles an hour, but that is
seldom. More often, it moves no
faster than 20-30 miles an hour,
permitting people to run out of
its path, hurry to a storm cellar,
or rush to the southwest side of
the building which is safest, or
seek safety by outspeeding it in
a car. If not that, to lie flat in a
depression.
As the revolving vortex spins
in closer, its destructive power
becomes increasingly apparent,
and once caught in the center
victims state that its force is ap
pallingexemplified by straws,
sand, gravel, and splinters which
whirl about in its heart with
the speed of bullets. As it ap
proaches a barn or house, the
roof may lift and the walls
flatten out from within, literally
exploding.
Part of that lifting roof along
with pieces of steel, wood, cat
tle, humans and chickens may
be whirled high aloft like match-
sticks in an updraft which it is
estimated may attain a speed
of 15.000 feet a minute!
Befitting the devastation, there
is an unforgettable stentorian
roar.
Prodigious deeds done rail
way trains hurled from tracks,
heavy steel bridges lifted from
piers, entire roofs of frame build
ings carried for miles, straws
driven into oaks, chickens
stripped naked-11 done within
seconds. A fresh breeze sup
plants the tornado when it has
gone, never to retread the exact
route of its destruction.
What was the total power of
that wind within the tornado?
Because no instrument has yet
measured that force, estimates
vary. But by its very deeds, a
tornado proclaims that its in
ternal speeds must often exceed
375 miles an hour but taking
185,000 Car Workers
Among Unemployed
Washington (U.PJ The La
bor department reported Satur
day that 185,000 auto workers
were unemployed last week an
increase of 18,000 since the prev
ious week.
There were 20,000 new layoffs
in the week that ended May 26,
the largest weekly layoff since
March 1, the department said.
However, 2000 employees laid
off previously were recalled to
their jobs.
The department said 107,000
of the unemployed were in Mi
chigan, with 69,000 at Detroit.
Indiana had the second largest
number with '27,000 laid-off
workers. Ohio was next with
nearly 21,000.
Sunday, June 1, 195S
MiDFORD (OREGON) MM, TRIBUNE FIVS
that figure, when translated into
"force" means that the tornado
packs a wallop of 25 times the
strength of a 75-mile-an-hour
hurricane!
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Firms Report Rush
From Eastern Market
Portland U.K The ply
wood 'industry here reported a
flood of orders from eastern and
midwestern buyers hoping to
take advantage of last week's
price slump. Spokesmen for the
trade said the new low price of
$76 for index ply grade may
not last another week.
Mills already were refusing
orders at the low prices for de
livery past June. They predicted
a price increase to about $80
within a short time.
Lumbermen also reported a
firm market and attributed the
trend to federal court cismissal
of a petition that would have
sustained the "slow freight"
practice of lumber marketing.
The buyers had apparently been
waiting for the court decision be
fore deciding to buy from tran
sit shippers while prices were
low. .
Transit shippers said they
were adjusting to the Interstate
Commerce Commission order
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were going on a "firm order"
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Answer Boy Alarm
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men hurried to a downtown in
tersection but found no fire.
One of two youngsters stand
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fire Capt. Ott Wright, "I put my
hand on it and something went
round and round and made a lot
of noise and then the fire trucks
came."
Wright explained the opera
tion of the box, gathered his
equipment and men and left.
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June 4 to June 7.
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