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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ol The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago..
10 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1346
(It was Monday)
Dial telephone service to be
installed in Grants Pass some
time in 1947. telephone spokes
man announces; total cost will
be $300,000.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The harv
esting and processing of the
mighty pea crop of eastern Ore
gon is now underway, full blast.
There will be enough peas to
feed the world without mixing
them with carrots and keep all
the political and circus "3-pea
games" operating on a 60-hour
week.
20 YEARS AGO
June 24. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Talent considers re-allocation
of Pacific highway through
town; alternative route would
be 3.2 miles in length, cost $130,-
000, and eliminate ten curves.
Fifty members of Jackson
County Food and Beverage Dis
pensers' association pledge de
termination to work in close co
operation with -state liquor
board in attaining and main
taining a high-class standard of
service.
30 YEARS AGO
June 24. 1926
(It was Thursday)
Bids for bridge across the
Rogue river at Gold Hill to be
opened by state highway com
mission in August; cost about
$65,000, with Southern Pacific
paying $10,500 and state and
county paying the rest.
40 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1916
The Rev. Alfred J. Hogg, pas
tor of the East Side Presbyter
ian church. Stockton. Calif., has
accepted the call to the Medford
Presbyterian church.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 77
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research
Report
1. Sen. Theodore F. Green
(D-R.I.) is older than ony other
U.S. senator in history; right or
wrong?
2. Fulton is a county in
Georgia, a city in Missouri, a
fish market in New York, an
early American steamboat op
erator?
3. Which three of these states
joined the Union after 1900:
Arizona. Nevada, New Mexico,
North Dakota. Oklahoma, Wyo
ming?
4. It took (a) 50.000 gallons of
paint, (b) 150.000. (c) 300,000,
or (d) 1,000,000 gallons to paint
the big new aircraft carrier
Saratoga?
5. Huks is the name of a tro
pical disease, a towel fabric, or
a guerrilla fighter?
6. The U.S. pays more than
any other nation toward UJf.
expenses; second largest pay
ment comes from China, France,
Britain, or Russia?
7. A man who dies in his
76th year is 76 years old; right
or wrong?
The answers: 1. Right (Green
broke the record June 17, at
age of 83 years, 8 months, and
15 days). 2. All four. 3. Arizona.
New Mexico, Oklahoma. 4. 300,
000 gallons. 5. Philippine guer
rillas (Hukbalahaps). 6. Russia.
7. Wrong (he's 75).
Opposition Is Explained
"Even right here in Southern Oregon, there is no incen
tive for electors to support and help finance a Federal
Hell's Canyon dam which, would benefit, primarily, the Co
lumbia area valley area." Grants Pass Courier.
Ever since the hey-day of Senator Joe McCarthy
and "McCarthyism" the editorial policy of our es
teemed neighbor to the north has been somewhat
puzzling.
But perhaps in the above there is a partial expla
nation. The Courier doesn't deny that a Federal proj
ect at Hells Canyon would benefit the Columbia
Eiver valley and its people.
But that,, it thinks, is no reason why the voters of
Josephine County should
a e
THIS pronouncement of
Unless there is some tangible and direct benefit
to Grants Pass and its environs, then there is no in
centive to support ANY suggested public work or im
provement Carrying this reasoning to its logical conclusion
would mean the Grants Pass paper should oppose the
Talent irrigation project, for it, too, is a federal and
therefore socialistic development, which will benefit
"primarily" Jackson County, and would offer there
fore no reason for the Grants Pass "electors" to sup
port it. a a . a .
IT IS hard to believe the Grants Pass paper is serious
in this contention which we supposed had gone
out with the covered wagon, but we have often sus
pected a satirical touch and then discovered later
that none existed it was all in deadly earnest.
Our neighboring contemporary has perhaps re
nounced, among other of its pet aversions, the Cham
ber of Commerce axiom that what benefits one sec
tion of a state benefits all, just as what benefits one
section of the county or country benefits all.
If this is correct that would explain a number of
things. K.W.R.
How About a
We are surprised to see
swallowing the private power propaganda regarding
newspapers. We don't mean
there should, as we see it,
The line taken is a familiar one namely:
If it is desirable to have power plants owned and oper
ated by the government then why not have government
owned and operated newspapers?
At this suggestion the editors are supposed, pre
sumably, to scream with
their arms, and faint.
But as far as we have
And for this refusal to be intimidated by such a
horrorif erous suggestion, there are, we believe, a num
ber of reasons.
MO. 1 IS there is no popular demand for such action,
' and in the foreseeable future will be none. The
American people want a FREE PRESS, not a govern
ment owned press, whether one major party is m
control at Washington or the other. Where the people
don't want a thing, the possibility of having it forced
on them is, in the U.S.A., thank the Lord to say
the least, remote.
On the other hand there IS a popular demand for
public power, or the TVA's, Bonnevilles and Grand
Coulees would never have been built. They were
bunt
Not to drive out private
and as far as we know,
power now controls SO per cent of the nation s eleo
trie production, is exceedingly prosperous and stead'
ily growing. Federal power projects are favored only
to serve as a check and balance, prevent excessive
rates, and threat of a monopoly, and where multiple
projects are indicated, supply collateral public bene
fits which the private companies will not, or can not,
provide.
AS SENATOR Morse pointed out when in Oregon
last week, he has no quarrel with private power
projects, where multiple power projects are not in
dicated, only where they are, and. as on the Snake
river where private power companies insist upon do
ing what the government could do better, from the
standpoint of promoting the public welfare. .
When one realizes what a limited area there is in
this county where multiple projects ARE feasible, the
cry of "save my child" proceeding from the private
power interests, really sounds rather silly.
B
UT the "line" continues :
'This Is communism, or socialism, the terms are synony
mous. It is an alien philosophy, it means the death of pri
vate enterprise and the American way of life. Now is the
time for everyone to come to the aid of the party, etc. etc."
Interesting if true. But it just doesn't happen to
be true. .
Russia has communism which is the dictatorship
of one man or a few, with the people having no more
to say about how they should be governed or by
whom than the unfortunates in the Soviet slave labor
camps.
England is partially socialistic. The principle of
public ownership and operation has been consider
ably extended over there, but the people have ulti
mate control and they can reduce this socialization
or get rid of it entirely whenever they or a majority
of them so desire.
THE latter is, of course, even more true in this
country. The people have it in their power through
the ballot box, to determine at any general election
how they should be governed and by whom and in
a few months that will be determined for at least
another four years. Such a situation no more resem
bles socialism, communism, or any other "ism" than
it resembles paganism. .
How silly can we get? R.W.R.
Bandar, June 24. 19S6
support it.
policy seems plain enough.
Gov't Press?
so many editors in Oregon
many of them have but
be none.
horror, promptly lay down
observed none has.
power (that can't be done
no one wants to) private
Republicans Dominant in East
But Face Democratic Challenge
Washington (CQ)' Repub
licans still hold the upper hand
in the industrial East, but they
face a serious challenge from
Democrats in the approaching
campaign.
In 1952 President Eisenhower
swept the six New England
states, plus New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
and Maryland. Only West Vir
ginia, of the 12 eastern states,
went to Stevenson. At the same
time. Republican representatives
were elected in 80 of the East s
129 Congressional districts.
But in 1953 the wind began
to shift. Democrats proceeded
to oust Republicans as gover
nors first in New Jersey, then
in 1954 in Maine, Connecticut,
New York and Pennsylvania.
Also in 1954, Democrats captur
ed nine more House seats, mak
ing the current line up read:
GOP 71; Democrats 58.
Senate Seats Up
This year, the parties will be
fighting not only for the East's
153 electoral votes and 129
House seats. Six Senate seats
are at stake, five held by Re
publicans.
The GOP is concentrating on
ousting the lone eastern Dem
ocrat whose term expires Sen.
Herbert H. Lehman of New
York. But Democrats are be
lieved to have a better-than-
average chance of knocking off
Sens. John Marshall Butler
(Md.) and James H. Duff (Pa.).
Republicans are counting on
President Eisenhower's wide
popularity to bolster the party's
position in the close Senate
races, as well as in the con
tests for 23 House seats GOP
candidates won in 1954 by less
than 55 per cent of the vote.
By contrast, only a dozen of the
Democratic-held districts in the
East are similary classed as
"marginal," and seven of these
were won from Republicans in
1954.
Some Strength Shown
The extent of Democratic
strength in the large cities of
the East New York, Philadel
Today and
By Walter
THE DOCTORS AND
THE PRESIDENCY
The President, it appears, is
taking it as a matter of course
that the country is expecting
him to decide
once more
w h e t h er he
will run again
It may be
useful to re
in i n d our
selves that the
s i t u a tion in
which he finds
himself is pe
ep alter Uppmann culiarly diffi
cut for him, for the dactors who
must advise him, and for the
press which must keep the peo
ple informed.
The root of the difficulty is
not so much medical as it is con
stitutional. The President is the key fig
ure in the American system;
without his active guidance and
control the system does not
work. The President is elected
for a fixed term of four years,
and if he becomes in some meas
ure incapacitated, there is no
one to take his place. When,
therefore, the President has had
a serious illness, the crucial
question is not his life expect
any. If he dies, the system pro
vides the Vice President take
over. The crucial question is
whether he can count on his en
ergy and personal powers over
a period of four" years.
a
pOR the system, as now estab
lished, makes no provision
for invalidism or for failing
powers. This is what is in the
back of people's minds when
they listen to the medical opin
ions of the doctors. They are
waiting to be reassured about
the President's health for the
next four years.
It is here that a misunder
standing, such as it is, has arisen
between the doctors and the
public. The doctors have been
talking about the President's re
covery from his heart attack and
from his operation. The politi
cians, who are playing for very
high stakes, have been treating
what the doctors say as an ex
pert verdict on the President s
fitness to carry the burden of
the Presidency for a second
term. These are not one and the
same.
Owing to the fact that the
President has a fixed term of
office and that there is no one
to substitute for him if he can
not carry the burden, the doctors-are
being pressed to make
a prognosis which must in the
nature of things be highly specu
lative. They are expected to say
not only whether he has recov
ered from his heart attack and
is recovering from the ileitis, but
really whether he will be m full
vigor during a second term. If
this were a parliamentary gov
ernment on the British model,
this question would not atise.
The head of the. government
would not be committed to a
phia, Boston, Baltimore, Pitts
burg is underscored by Con
gressional Quarterly's study oi
the 129 eastern districts, part
of CQ's continuing analysis bas
ed on .the 1950 census.
President Eisenhower got 55
per cent or more of the vote in
71 of these districts, while Dem
ocrat Adlai E. Stevenson carried
29 districts by similar margins.
The remaining 29 districts were
carried by less than 55 per cent
of the vote 21 by Eisenhower,
eight by Stevenson.
On the average, the 29 pro
Stevenson districts gave Mr.
Eisenhower only 36 per cent of
the vote. AU but four of the
29 were in cities 14 in New
York, four in Philadelphia, two
each in Boston and Pittsburgh.
Negroes averaged 13.4 per cent
of the population of these 29
districts, while the foreign-born
white population averaged 17.3
per cent. '
In Other Districts
By contrast, the 71 pro-Eisenhower
districts gave the GOP
candidate 63 per cent of their
vote. These districts averaged 61
per cent urban, which is close
to the national average. Negroes
averaged only 2.8 per cent, and
the foreign-born 10.3 per cent,
of the population in these dis
tricts. Averages for the it
marginal districts fell between
these two groups.
The contrast in the proportion
of foreign-born is even more
marked in a breakdown of New
York State's 43 districts. Presid
ent Eisnerhower carried eight
of the 22 New York City dis
tricts and all 21 upstate districts,
but averaged only 33 per cent
of the vote in the 14 city dis
tricts carried by Stevenson.
In the latter group of districts,
the foreign-born averaged 24
per cent of the population, com
pared with 10 per cent in the
21 upstate districts. But in the
eight city districts also carried
Eisenhower, the foreign-born
averaged only 2 per cent,-'
Long Way to Go
Republicans are making strong
Tomorrow
Lippmann
fixed term, and therefore it
would not be necessary to do
any medical guessing about
what wiU happen in the future
over a period of years.
a a
rPHE question does arise here,
-- and in the case of President
Eisenhower, given his age and
his medical history, it is a mo
mentous question. The Ameri
can system, as it works now in
practice,! cannot do wrth a sick
or a failing President. 1 -
It can be said that the system
is more defective than it needs
to be, and that some of the worst
features of it as they were ex
hibited when Garfield and Wil
son were disabled could be
remedied. It should become the
established practice that when
the President is ill, the Vice
President takes over until the
President recovers. There is lit
tle doubt that this is what the
authors of the Constitution in
tended. Any sick President it
might have been Eisenhower
himselfcan put this constitu
tional arrangement into effect.
He can invite the Vice Presi
dent to sign official documents.
let the action be challenged in
the courts, and have its validity
tested promptly in the Supreme
Court. The Vice President would
not, of course, be sworn in as
President. He would remain the
Vice President, temporarily dis
charging the powers and duties
of the President.
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rPHE alternative is the device of
regency, as operated by Mr.
Sherman Adams during the two
illnesses of President Eisenhow
er. This device has worked well
enough because the President
has not been badly incapacitated
for a long time. The device
would not work at all well in
case of prolonged disability,
such as invalidism or the failing
powers of age. For the country
would not long like the office
of President administered by
men who have not been elected
to any office.
But when all has been said
and done about remedying the
gross defects of the system, it
will stUl be true that there is no
substitute in a Presidential sys
tem of government for a strong
President in full possession of
his powers. This truth is the
point of reference for the de
cision that must be made by the
President, and, if he decides to
run, then later on by the coun
try.
From what the President said
when he was making his first
decision we know that after the
doctors have said all that they
are able to say, he has no choice
but to reach his conclusions by
applying his conscience to his
common sense, informed by. his
experience of the office of Pres
ident.
. The country wiU have to
make its judgment in the same
way.
Copyright 195B New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
efforts to attract minority goups
in the cities, but they have a
long way to go. In 1954 GOP
Congressional candidates aver
aged only 27 per cent of the
vote in New York City's 14
strongly Democratic districts. In
the six city districts which elect
ed Republicans to the House,
five of the winners got less than
52 per cent of the vote.
Democrats are hopeful of
further gains in the East this
year, especially in certain New
England and Pennsylvania dis
tricts suffering from chronic un
employment. However, this ex
pectation may boomerang if the
Democratic-controlled 84th Con
gress adjourns before acting on
President Eisenhower's request
for $50 mUlion for giving a hand
to the so-called "depressed are.
(Copyright 1956,
Congressional Quarterly)
In the Day's News
Yugoslav President Tito sign
ed agreements in Moscow pledg
ing cooperation with the Soviet
Union in party and government I
affairs "on a basis of equality.
Following the signing, Tito pin
ned on Soviet Defense Minister
Zhukov's bosom Yugoslavia's
highest decoration. It was quite
love feast.
Zhukov struck an attitude and
said Yugoslavia will fight
shoulder to shoulder with Rus
sia in any future war and Tito
was quoted as predicting that
his country will march arm in
arm with Soviet Russia from
now on.
Tito evedently thought that
one over and counted up on his
fingers the amount pf money
the United States has shelled out
to him during the years when he
was making faces and thumbing
his nose at Moscow. At any rate,
he later denied the "arm in arm
with Russia" crack.
He said the reporters had mis
quoted him.
W1"
T of Tito?
Personally, I wouldn't trust
him any farther than I can
throw a Hereford bull by the
tail. He's communist and the
communists STICK TOGETHER.
rpHAT brings up the case of
a former Hungarian ranch
owner who is now living in the
United States. During World
War II in the general ruckus
down in the neighborhood of
Hungary the U.S. army seized
22 of his horses and eventually
shipped them to the United
States, where they were sold
He claims now that the United
States owes him $180,000 for
the horses.
His claim came up yesterday
before the house of representa
tives, which referred it to the
state department and the army
for advice. Both the department
of state and the Pentagon ad
vised the house judiciary com
mittee that the horses are legi
timate war booty and that vot
ing compensation for them
would open - up a FLOOD of
similar claims all over the
world.
WHY
bring that up here?
Well, It's what we newspaper
people call a man-bites-dog
story. That is to say, it's, un
usual.
It's unusual enough when one
gaverument department in these
days issues an opinion based
on common everyday sense.
When TWO departments join in
such an opinion, it's EXTRA
ORDINARY. ,
THAT cynical crack is prompt
ed by a Washington dispatch
that followed the story about
Tito and Zhukov and the love
feast in Moscow. The dispatch
reads:
"In Washington, state depart
ment officials said there are in
dications that the Russians
in such things as the Zhukov
remark had tried to embarrass
Tito in his relations with the
West.
"These officials said the Unit
ed States plans to continue eco
nomic aid and some military
assistance to Yugoslavia."
T RECKON that's enough cyn-
x
- icism for one day.
Selah.
COMMUNIST REWARDS
Washington A 1954
defector from Russia told the
State Department how the USSR
maintains "high standards of jus
tice." An old Communist spent
12 years in prison, the defector
said, and on being released "was
paid the 'entire salary he would
have earned . . . and given a
complete sej. of false teeth to
replace those knocked out by the
secret police.
ARGENTINE PAYMENT PLAN
Buenos Aires U.R) Finance
Minister Eugenio' Blanco an
nounced Friday night that the
cabinet has ratified the multi
lateral Commerce and Payments
Accord with 10 European coun
tries. Blanco said the payments
system would be put into effect
July 2. The accord was negoti
ated with Austria, Belgium, Den
mark, France, Italy, Holland,
Norway, Sweden, Britain and
Switzerland.
POTLUCtC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Clipping Department from
the Eugene Register-Guard:
"RAISED EYEBROW
"Summer students at the
University of Oregon may take
an English course described as
follows:
"Studies in Romance; hours
to be arranged; Friendly
HaU."
see
Last week a feminine reader
telephoned the Mail Tribune
news room (as many people do
when they want information) to
inquire whether or not the style
of dinner invitation she planned
to use was correct according to
Emily Post.
The office expert on such mat
ters the society editor was
busy on another telephone, so
our friend discussed the matter
with a male staff member. He as
sured her that, in this easy-going
day and age, circumstances de
termine whether or not a dinner
invitation is correct. He also as
sured her the type she had in
mind was, in his opinion, the
best under the circumstances.
This apparently comforted her.
for.her final remark was, "Well,
if they say anything, 1 can say
'The man said so'."
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Looking over at the lumber
company that lives kitty-corner
acioss the street from the
news room, we are struck with
one of the more useless differ
ences between a business firm
and a woman: A woman would
never have a sign saying "Es
tablished 1908."
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More Clipping Department,
this time from the Pendleton
East Oregonian:
A frend said to us the other
day, "My you must welcome the
summer letdown in news." We
asked, "what letdown?" and she
explained, "oh, things just seem
a lot slower in the summer.
People make the news, and
they make it without regard for
time. The newspapers report it
and, much as they'd like to, they
can't regulate the flow of it.
This summer people will con
tinue to get married, have ba
bies, kill and maim themselves
in auto accidents, steal, commit
suicide and murder, play games.
Matter of
WHAT WILL TWINING SEE?
Washington In defense and
intelligence circles, the most hot
ly debated question currently is
this: Will the
Soviets show
off their inter
mediate range
ballistic mis-,
s i 1 e to Gen.
Nathan Twin
ing and the
other Western
Air Chiefs
now gathering
in Moscow for
Stewart Alsop
the Soviet air show? The Ques
tion is a meaningful one. As first
reported in this space, the Unit
ed States has "hard" intelligence
that the Soviets have been regu
larly testing supersonic ballistic
missiles in ranges weU over a
thousand miles. These ranges
are four or five times those yet
achieved here for comparable
missiles.
What is not surely known is
whether the Soviet missiles are
operating weapons, equipped
with hydrogen warheads, and ca
pable of being guided accurately
to target, or mere experimental
prototypes. Moreover, there is a
vast difference between intelli
gence reports, however "hard,"
and the actual display of such
new weapons.
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FTHE Soviets choose to show
off thplr miccilo Ihav win An
so as much for the benefit of
British Secretary for Air Nigel
Birch, French Gen. Paul BaiUy,
and the other NATO airmen as
for General Twining. For the
display of an operational Soviet
intermediate ballistic missile
will have a simple meaning for
the European air chiefs. It wiU
mean that their air defense is or
soon will be. totally obsolete, and
that their entire land area will
thus soon be subject to an oblit
erating attack - against which
they have no defense.
For General Twining, it will
mean that the American strate
gic air bases in Europe and else
where will be similarly indefen
sible. It has been officially esti
mated that writing off the for
ward air bases would mean los
ing between half and two-thirds
the retaliatory striking power of
Gen. Curtis LeMay's Strategic
Air Force.
. In the circumstances, it is easy
to understand why the show at
the Tushing air field just outside
Moscow, which is scheduled for
Sunday, is being awaited with
rather breathless interest. It is
also easy to understand whv
Gen. Twining has chosen to ac
company him such experts on
the new weapons as Lt. Gen.
Donald Putt, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Development, and Lt.
Gen. Thomas Power, Chief of
the Air Research and Develop
ment command.
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PARTICULARLY among the
- civilian political a n a 1 y sts,
there is a minority view that the
Soviets will carefully refrain
showing the intermediate missile
become ill, have political argu
ments and attend meetings and
conventions. There never has
been any evidence around a
newspaper office that they do
those things with any less deter
mination in summer than in win
ter.
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A golfing friend of ours
claims that the only place a
golfer will always keep his
head down at the proper lime
is on the 19th hole.
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One of our favorite subscrib
ers dropped us a line the other
day in a mild sort of protest to
something our syndicated col
umnist, E. V. Durling, had writ
ten.
Oh, well," she said, "Ex nihil "
nihilo fit (or is it Ex nihilo nihil
fit?)"
Not being blessed with a prop
er classical education, we were
at a loss until Webster came to
our assistance. We can now as
sure her that her mJid thought
is correct as to the Latin, and
that her message (Translation
for others without classical edu
cation: "From nothing, nothing
comes") applies to more than
casual columnists.
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What, we wonder, did the
man have in mind who wrote
the sign we noticed for the
first time when walking down
an alley after work and looked
up to about the 18-foot level
on the brick wall at the back
of a tavern, and read: "No
trespassing on This Roof "?
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Possibly significant sociolog
ical note:
One popular make of automo
biles last year sold more light
blue cars than any other single
color. So far in 1956, however,
the same firm has sold more solid-black
cars than any other col
or. Second most popular this
year is dark gray.
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or other new weapons. The civil
ians argue that it is Soviet pol
icy for the present to avoid any
appearance of hydrogen bomb
rattling. - - "
Therefore, according to this
theory, the Soviets wiU content
themselves with showing off
their jet transport plane with a
seating capacity of 170 persons.
Tupolov, the brillian Soviet air
engineer, boasted about this
plane when he accompanied
Khrishchev and Bulganin to
London, and if his boasts were
accurate it is certainly a re
markable achievement, which
Western plane designers have
failed to match.
But most of the Air Force
specialists doubt that the Soviets
wiU confine themselves to dis
playing a civilian plane. "They
didn't invite Nate Twining
over there to play parcheesi,"
one expert remarked.
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rHAS even been suggested
that tho Snvipta mlffhr inwta.
Twining and other Western air
chiefs to either their Arctic or
Ukrainian missile range, to let
them track the flight of a 1,500
mile ballistic missile. The pur
pose would be, of course, to con
vince the Westerners that the
missile was the real thing, and
not a fake or prototype.
It would certainly be surpris
ing if the Soviets gave the West
erners a first hand look at their
secret missile installations. But
since the Kremlin recenUy per
mitted a group of Americans to
inspect in detail the great new
nuclear research center at Bol
shoya Volga, such surprises are
not to be ruled out.
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THE Soviets may, of course,
have other tricks up their
sleeve. They might display a
supersonic bomber, to which
they have given the highest pri
ority. (The comparable Ameri
can bomber, the B-58. is still on
the drawing boards.) They might
demonstrate their long-range
turbojet plane, the, Bear, air-
refuelling the heavy jet bomber.
the Bison, thus dispelling the
hopeful notion that they have
not mastered air refuelling tech
niques. Or they might display
one of their new ground-to-air
missiles, said to make the much
advertised Nike look like a
child's toy.
In any event, Sunday's show
at Tushing should serve to re
mind the West of a simple, un
doubted fact. While smiling
broadly and preaching peaceful
co-existence, the Soviets have
been training every nerve to
achieve the means to threaten
the existence of the West,
whether or not they choose to
put those means on public dis
play. Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
WEATHER
By United Press
Northern California: Fair
Sunday but morning fog near
coast. Warm Sunday.