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Newspaper Page TextFOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in boulhern Oregon Reads The MaU Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-814.1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALX) LATHAM Bunnell Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. CircuUtlon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ox March 3. la SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 350 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By 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 $ 13.00 Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County IlnlteTTPress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF L1KLULAI1U.1 WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver 8.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL -n r VV I I AS SSOCl-ATLQN mi n. s"l H M NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 5. 194S (It was Friday) Medford dairymen announced increased prices on dairy prod ucts, effective today at all dai ries. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There was a lot of Hell, West-and-Crooked' driving on the Fourth. Several were caught headed East in the same style. 20 YEARS AGO July 5. 1936 (It was Sunday) Rogue River valley people won two national prizes in the old timers discovery drive con ducted by the General Electric company. Albert Forman, Mail Tribune carrier, will start work tomor row as a salesman for the West ern Auto Supply company. 30 YEARS AGO July 5, 1926 (It was Monday) An incendiary fire took place in kitchen of Derrick's cafeteria on South Riverside ave. today, but little damage was done. Medford post office receipts for the month of June showed an increase over those of June last year. 40 YEARS AGO July 5, 1916 Six accidents but no serious injuries resulted from heavy traffic on the highway between Medford and Ashland yesterday. Telegraphic instructions re ceived by Captain Vance of the seventh company to recruit full war strengtn. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Most trading stamps are is sued in (a) 5, (b) 10. (c) 20, or (d) 25 cent denominations? 2. The U. S. now does or doesn"t have air bases on Ice land? 3. First real move in Conti nental Congress of 1776 for in dependence came from Massa chusetts, New York, Pennsylva nia, Virginia or South Carolina? 4. When some one has fainted, his head should be placed higher or lower than the rest of his body, or on a level with it? 5. Married men with $10,000 incomes are subject to much lower income tax in the U. S., Great Britain, or France? 6. Impeachment proceedings against a President are voted by the Senate, the House, both, or the Supreme Court? 7. A bushmaster is a forestry school graduate, guerrilla fight- .er, large snake, or man with thick eyebrows? The answers: 1. Most in 10 cent denomination. 2. Still has. 3. Virginia. 4. Lower. 5. The U.S. 6. The House. 7. Large snake. Grocer Badly Burned In Firecracker Explosion Mullins, S. C. (U.R) Rural grocer Ed Lockemy, 40, today was recovering from serious burns he received in an explo sion of a basket of fireworks in his store Wednesday. Lockemy's small son threw a burning match into the basket and Lockemy was burned about the chest, arms, back and face from the exploding fireworks when he tried in vain to retrieve the match. MAIL TRIBUNE Voting Disunity Within Parties You can't predict how a member of Congress will vote simply by finding out to what party he belongs. Even in this presidential election year, when each par ty might be expected to close its ranks, Republicans are found on both sides on many important votes in Congress, and so are Democrats. Perhaps that isn't surprising in the House, where one Republican or Democrat will represent an urban district and another of the same party a rural one in the same state. But on many key issues opposing votes will come from two Republican or two Democratic senators representing all the people of the same state. e COR INSTANCE, Sens. Payne of Maine, Flanders of Vermont, Martin of Pennsylvania, Bricker of Ohio, Capehart of Indiana, and Mundt of South Da kota voted for the natural gas rate exemption bill later vetoed by the President. Their fellow Republi cans from the same states, respectively Mrs. Smith, Aiken, Duff, Bender, Jenner and Case voted against it. Sen. Scott, North Carolina Democrat, voted for the bill; Sen. Ervin, North Carolina Democrat, was paired against it. Among Senators voting to let New York state de velop government pewer from the Niagara river were Smith (Me.), Aiken (Vt.), Case (N.J.), Bender (Ohio), Johnston (S.C.), Kuchel (Calif.). Among those against it were Payne (Me.), Flanders (Vt.), Smith (N.J.), Bricker (Ohio), Wofford (S.C.), Know land (Calif.). e AS FOR A house vote not involving economic is sues of 19 Republican representatives from Cal ifornia 13 voted to restore $600 million of the $1.1 billion cut from the administration's foreign-aid pro gram, but six voted against restoring it. Many Britishers argue that such subordination of party unity to individual preference is a weakness of the American political system as compared with the British. Many Americans would argue that this exal tation of personal conviction above party discipline is an element of strength in the American as against the British system. Senator Morse of Oregon would agree. - E. R. R. Colored Tennis Star Althea Gibson, the Negro tennis star, is doing the United States a considerable service abroad, whether or not she accomplishes her goal of winning the most shining laurel in women's tennis, the championship at Wimbledon. The tournament is scheduled to run through July 7. As other great U.S . Negro athletes have done be fore her, Miss Gibson is demonstrating throughout the world the rise of real U. S. democracy in sports. It was no surprise that the United States could produce Negro world's heavyweight boxing champions rang ing from Jack Johnson's seven-year reign a genera tion ago to the 15-year supremacy of Negroes from 1937 to 1952. But boxing to some is a brutish sport. In his severe ly critical study' of U. S. attitudes published only lit tle more than a decade ago, the Swedish sociologist Gunnar Mydal noted : Negroes cannot get into big league baseball and rarely have they been allowed into competitive tennis or golf games. They are generally kept out of competitive sports which require teams. 17"ELL, Jackie Robinson and a host of others have given Myrdal the lie on baseball, and Yale has since had a Negro football captain. It remained for Miss Gibson to establish the right to compete in per haps the most gentlemanly and gentlewomanly of all sports, lawn tennis. Her tour is being sponsored by the U. S. State Department and the United States Lawn Tennis asso ciation, wrhich despite a reputation for stuffiness ad mitted Miss Gibson to its tournaments m 1950. She has been playing throughout Southeast Asia and Eu rope, and has won a score of tournaments. Up until now, perhaps her greatest achievement was winning the Suzanne Lenglen cup in France. Weighing 140 pounds, Miss Gibson is 5 feet 10y2 inches tall. Her best stroke is her powerful service". Her game appears erratic in spots, despite her recent excellent form, but she seems to settle down in the crises. As the Wimbledon toumey opened, she was seeded fourth in the draw, ranked third in the betting odds, and in British circles considered the favorite. After all, though ranked only eighth in the United States, she had defeated in recent tournament compe tition the defending champion, Miss Louise. Brough, captain of the successful U. S. Wightman Cup team, and Miss Shirley Fry, first-ranking U. S. woman ten nist. A LTHEA, Now 28, was born in Silver, S. C, but rv moved with her family to New York City when she was a year old. Her father is a garageman; he has never seen her in tournament play. Having left high school before graduation, she originally had to turn down college scholarships based on her athletic abilitv she plays Softball and basketball too. But with the aid of two Negro physicians, both tennis players, she was later able to finish high school and graduate from Florida A and M with a degree in physical education in 1953. Already she had played at Forest Hills (1950) and Wimbledon (1951). The State Department's role in Miss Gibson's world tour is by no means unique.' In the past two years the Department has sent such top Negro track and field stars as Jesse Owens, Harrison Dillard, Gil Cruter, Mai Whitfield, and Bill Miller to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with notable success in promot ing good will toward the United States. E.R.R. TouTsiay. July 5, 1938 Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop MR. WILSON Washington Both as a human being and as a political pheno menon. Secretary of Defense Charles E Wilson is one of the most in teresting f i g ures in Wash ington, and his recent appear ances before the Senate Air Power Sub committee u&epb .isop nave naa a quiet drama of their own A few days before- Wilson testified, Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, the respected Chair man of the Armed Services Com mittee, called him a man "whose vanity and arrogance have been exceeded only by his inepti tude. Russell s bitterness, as Wilson must know, accurately reflects a general hostility on both sides of the Senate aisle. The men who heard Wilson, moreover, had previously heard much expert testimony that the Wilson defense policies were risking national disaster. Strategic Air Command Curtis LeMay, for example, had testi fied that in a few years, under the Wilson policies, SAC would be so inferior to the Soviet strategic force that it might be destroyed altogether by surprise attack Under the circumstances, it was not surprising that Wilson sometimes seemed fendant at the bar. The im pression was heightened by the fact that the hearings took place in the old, hand some, semi-circular Supreme Court room in the center of Stewart Alsop the Capitol. The Senators sat in the throne-like chairs once occu pied by the justices, on a raised dias under a golden eagle, look ing down on the defendant-Sec retary below them. A big man, with white hair and a long stubborn, oddly boy- i-,h face, Wilson was clearly nervous and- who can blame him? He smoked incessantly, often with the cigarette dangling from his mouth as he talked (a little habit which has not en deared him to the Senate.) He talked deliberately, in his flat, no-argument accent, and one sensed that he was making a su preme effort to control himself, to avoid losing his temper. . IT WAS impossible not to feel a sympathy for the embattled Secretary, and a liking as well. There is an appealing simple ness about him. Once, in his dis cursive way, he volunteered that his mother had had him bap tized in the Tuscarawas river in Ohio, and one caught a quick glimpse of his long climb up from small town boyhood in the 90s to business eminence and national power. From time to time, one caught a glimpse of the special view of the world his arduous climb has given him. . Once, for example, he began talking about the Rus sians,' and remarked that it was "too bad they did away with the Czars completely." If only, he said, "some of them were still left in one piece of Russia." Then the Russians could hate their private collection of Czars, and "they would not be hating our people so much." This thought was offered solemnly, as a serious comment on history. It was a meaningful comment. For it suggested how little time, in his hard-working, brilliantly successful career, Wilson has had to devote to the real nature of such imperial power struc tures as the Soviet Union. SMMS like a de- Li.A &eJ Editorial Comment TIME OF DAY Eric Allen in the Medford Mail - Tribune is unsure about the time of day if someone teUs him it's 12:15 a.m. or 12:30 p.m. He assumes these people mean it is 15 minutes after midnight and 30 minutes past noon, but he can't be sure. In the case of 12:15 a.m., he reasons, the ajn. (ante-meridian) means before noon and the time is thus 12 hours and 15 minutes before noon or 11M5 p.m. And in the case of 12:30 p.m., he reasons (or perhaps "reasons" is too strong a word), the p.m. is for "post meridian" or after noon. Thus 12:30 p.m. would be 12 and a half hours after noon or 12:30 a.m. And 12:30 a.m. is really 11:30 at night, and so on. He's terribly confused, and thinks maybe the fog would lift if people would write those two times of day as 00:15 a.m., 00:30 p.m., and so on. He might also advocate more wide-spread use of the military's 24-hour clock in which 9 p.m. becomes 2100 hours and the lights are turned off at 2230. But we lived four desper ate years under this system and at the end of the fourth year we still looked at a "2145" time list ing and then subtracted 12 to note that what the people really meant was 9:45 p.m., after noon. Eric has lived in Oregon all his life save for the war and the normal number of trips to the big cities. Thus he can be sure that whatever the time of day, it's standard and not day light. Eugene Regijter-Gusrd. It is natural for a man of Wil son's background to believe quite sincerely that increased spending and taxes are a worse threat to the United States than Soviet nuclear weapons. Both Wilson and his closest cabinet collaborator, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, are fond of repeating Lenin's sup posed dictum that the Soviets would force this country to de stroy itself by over-spending. The fact that Lenin never said anything of the sort is beside the point he ought to have said it. It is also natural for a man of Wilson's background to resist stoutly and instinctively any suggestion that the Soviets can really challenge the United States in production to assume, as Wilson has said, that "most of their weapons, of course, really come out of the Western world." e fPHE estimates of Soviet ajr power, showing the Soviets surpassing this country by . a wide margin in every category except medium bombers, come from the "National Intelligence Estimates." These estimates are formally approved by the 'Na tional Security Council, and thus by Wilson as a member of the council. Yet Wilson is not really disturbed by the frightening esti mates he himself has approved, partly because he is not accus tomed to thinking in terms of the world balance of power, and partly because he does not really believe them. His Senate critics picture Wil son as a devious man, deliber ately deceiving the country. This is unfair, for Wilson's" perform ance on Capitol Hill leaves a clear impression of a simple and honest man. But it also leaves the impression that, as a defend ant before the bar of history, Wilson may be found guilty of deceiving himself, which, in a man of Wilson's position, can be a cardinal sin. Copyright 1956, The New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Ellsworth Details Appropriations for 4th District Work By HARRIS ELLSWORTH -Congressman, 4th District Washington (Special) I have frequently pointed out in these weekly letters, you never can tell for certain -what the amount of an appropriation for any project is going to be until the bill has been finally acted upon in both House and Senate and sent to the President. This year the final figures for projects in our Fourth Congres sional District are, as follows: Amazon creek (Eu gene) $ 100,000 Chetco river harbor .. 225,000 Coos Bay 300,000 Cougar Flood Control dam 1,650,000 Green Peter Flood Control dam 200,000 Hills Creek Flood Control dam 2,125,000 Holley dam 100,000 Savage Rapids dam fish screens 208,000 Talent Irrigation proj ect 2,400,000 Willamette River Bank Protection .... 300,000 In addition to the above ap propriations for specific projects by name the bill carries funds for flood control surveys, reha bilitation money for two of the older irrigation districts in the Talent project, harbor mainten ance money and funds for small projects to be aUocated by the Army Engineers. POLICY VACUUM Joe Alsop, back from his tour of the Middle East, is severe in his criticism of the United States for lack of policy regarding that important area of the globe. Our embassies there do not know what our overall plan is, or if there is any. There is therefore no coordination among the out posts of diplomacy in that re gion. And Walter Lippman, noting the return of Lester Pearson to Ottawa with no gain from his visit in Washington as the head of the committee reappraising NATO, reports: "The net result of this month's diplomatic coming and going has been to put on public display and disunity of the Western Alliance on the crucial question of how to deal with the Soviet Union about Germany." In both cases the criticism may be overdrawn; and most anyone can write the excuse: the Presi dent has been ill; Secretary Dulles is unwilling or unable to lay down policy in the absence of the Chief. With all our sym pathy with Mr. Eisenhower, it must be admitted that the public business has suffered in the past nine months of his two illnesses. The country is entitled to clear assurance of his ability to carry the burden of the presidency for another term before his party is asked to renominate him or the people to reelect him. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Shepilov's Of Middle Appears as By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Dmitri T. Shepilov's first big tour as Soviet Russia's new for eign minister appears to have been an embar rassing failure. S h e p i lov, who suc ceeded veteran Vyacheslav M. Molotov in his post on June 1, has just visited Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Charles Mccann Greece. In none of the four countries did he accomplish anything, so Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. 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. Gold Mine Tale To the Editor: This saga is not just another "lost mine" episode, but one of the few remaining almost-forgotten gold exploits to be retold by the old timers to the writer, nigh on 50 years ago around Wood ville (now Rogue River). It was shortly after the South ern Pacific built from Sacra mento to Ashland around 1886. The older pioneers recalled viv idly how three young French men every summer, for three successive years, shipped three pack horses from San Francisco, and outfitted the three with four five-gallon cans to each pack saddle and stocked with grub at the local store. The old miners' pack trail led north to Douglas county, and headed for the Umpqua range. After three seasons of shipping their sum mer cleanup by Wells Fargo express, the three miners never returned to go back to their well secluded workings. An old map given to one of their friends at Woodville, then clearly marked a trail to a spring of water on Cedar moun tain where the three men did their final washing of gold dust. Also a trail led to what is known as the "Bear Wallows" about two miles beyond Cedar mountain. - From there on, no more description was ever re corded on the map. The consensus is, that it was more than likely a rich deposit, commonly called a pocket, and had been kept well hidden from ordinary observation by later searchers in the rugged terrain of southern Douglas county. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st., Apt. 1, Medford, Ore. Beware of "Piggy Back" Bike To The Editor: Just a word of caution to those with responsi bility of little ones, big enough to beg rides on the back of bi cycles. Our small granddaughter and her brother came to stay with us Saturday evening for the night, the parents being away on other affairs. She was out in the back playground with some budding young-people and final ly begged her brother to give her a ride on the back seat of a bi cycle. It was all a new experi ence for her, maybe taking ad vantage of indulgent grand-par-, ents. She hooked a small foot against the rear guard brace to keep her balance and of course, it slipped off and was caught be tween the spokes and sharp me tal guard brace. The sneaker sole took most of the squeeze but the back of her left heel was cut severely, bruised, and badly sprained, no bones broken but the pain was something heart- rendering to all of us. We took turns walking the floor with her in our arms, after a light pres sure gauze bandage had been ap plied, as that is about all one can do. The grim lesson learned is that youngsters should not be al lowed to ride in back unless a metal or wire screen guard has been fastened over the back fender sides so a small foot can not get into the spokes. It makes one shiver to see the chances bicycle riders have to take to get about on their own affairs, but it is just one of those things we must make the best of. We called the family M.D. who told us we had done all that could be done, that such injuries though all too cqmmon are sel dom serious and that the pain would diminish in an hour which it did. Her brother had wanted to go with his friend to another apartment to see a favorite pro gram, but she wanted him with her. At last in bed, and not beat ing the pillow as she had been, she voiced words of mature wis- dom in one not yet four that ; brought tears to our eyes when ; she said drowsily, "you go on up ! Bobby an' see TV I'll be all i wite now". (Old grandpa is fix-1 ing up a pair of small crutches j this early A.M. A sorry and un- j wantable task). i F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main it. Medford, Ore. I iiiiiiiTrri-ffi-'"'-- Big Tour East Area Failure far as can be seen, to step up Russia's penetration of the Mid dle East. He concluded no agreements of any value to the Kremlin, and he met with some rebuffs. Disappointment was expressed in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon be cause Shepilov refused to pro mise the Arab nations full sup port against Israel. . In Greece. Premier Constan- tine Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff re jected an invitation to visit Rus sia. They also told Shepilov that Greece would stand by its treaty obligations with the Western Al lies despite their anger over the Cyprus situation. It was noted also that not Inn after Shepilov left Egypt, the Egyptian supreme military court sentenced 40 Communists to pris on terms ranging up to seven years. They were accused of plot ting to overthrow the regime of President' Gamal Abel Nasser. Shepilov, a powerfully -huilt six-footer, was hailed as a dip lomatic ball fo fire when hp ceeded Molotov after having servea as editor of the Com munist party newspaper organ Pravda. As Pravda's editor, Shepilov visited Egypt last year and set in motion the deal by which Rus sia arranged for Communist Czechoslovakia to send Egypt millions of dollars of war mater ials of all sorts. A Grand Tour His recent visit was arranged before he took over the foreign ministry. He decided to make it a grand tour by extending it to the other countries. Shepilov offered Egypt a big long-term loan to help finance the building of the great Aswan dam on the Nile river. PrpmW Nasser refused to commit him self. Nasser also seems to have made it plain that he intends to keep Egypt on its present " tralist" course as between West and East. In Syria likewise, President Said El-Kuwatly told Shepilov that Syria intend? to stick by a policy of strict neutrality. In Lebanon. Premier Sahri TTI Assali tried vigorously to get bnepilov to promise the Arah countries full support against IsraeL He, and Arabs eenerallv were openly displeased when bnepilov refused. In Greece, it was made evir?pnt to Shepilov that Greeks had not forgotten the encouragement Russia gave Greek Communists in the long, bitter civil war. An Athens newspaper said ed itorially that Greece has a firm friend in the United Ktafpe friend who aided Greece "when Russia was planning our1 de struction" and "like a vulture was swooping down to prey on us." Shepilov's invitation to Pre mier Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Averoff to visit Mos cow was reiected as "m-mi. ture," and not calculated to be "constructive" at this time. A highly-placed foreign diplo mat in Athens called Shepilov's visit a complete failure. Congressional Quix (Copyright, 195S Congressional Quarterly) Q Only one President prior to Dwight D. Eisenhower linrlpr. went major surgery during his term of office. Do you know who it was? A Grover Cleveland, who on July 1, 1893, was secretly operated on for cancer of the .jaw aboard a private yacht in Long Island Sound. The operation was kept secret be cause the country was in the midst of a financial panic. Cleveland recovered, died in 1908 of other causes. Frank Morgan V "'ti't lit -I ' --V11 CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONt; 2-8030 MEDFORD In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A gigantic purge is reported under way in the revolt-torn Po lish city of Poznan, and thou sands of Polish (communist) troops are sealing off the East German border to intercept flee ing "rebels." Meanwhile thousands of (com munist) troops and (communist) security agents are making door-to-door searches in Poznan. Trav elers reaching Berlin say the population is terrorized and that police questioning appears to be going on night and day. WE HAVE a lot of tommyrot " in our election years, when we are deciding which party will hold the reins of power, but I'm unbelievably glad we have the TWO - PARTY system. When there is only ONE PARTY its leaders are too much inclined to kill off everybody who disagrees with 'em. That's what is going on in Po land now. TN THESE days (in our own uuumryj we near a ioi aooui public relations. There's a good example of GOOD public rela tions: Up in Seattle, the Washington Natural Gas company is building a pipeline to distribute the rk- tural gas that is being piped down from Canada. According to the survey, the pipeline was scheduled to eo rieht unrlpr a tree in which, a ten-year-old boy and his pals had built a tree house which meant that the tree would have tn (-(YMF. DOWN and the tree house would have to come down with it. When the eas comnanv's field engineer heard about it he re drew the plans. As a result, 600 feet of the pipeline will hp moved four feet to one side and the tree will be save and the tree house will be saved along with it. ' THE basic law of PERFECT public relations is: "Do ye unto others as ye would that others shall do unto you." If that law were universally followed, there would be no ruckuses. QUR whole nation is shudder v ing today as it gets the grisly details of the double airliner crash in the Grand Canyon of Arizona. It is the worst in com mercial history, claiming the lives of 128 persons. It follows on the heels of another disaster in which 74 persons perished. Why are air disasters growing in magnitude? That question is easily answer ed. As planes get bigger and big ger and carry more and more people, the crashes get more ter rifying.' A 'little plane carries only a few people. So, when it falls out of the air, it kills only a few people. A big plane carries more people, and when it crash es disastrously -more people are killed. - , T'HIS crash, which is presently believed to have been the re sult of a collision in the air, car ries a disturbing implication. The dispatches this morning say the tragedy in the Grand Canyon "focuses greater atten tion on the problem of traffic control over the nation's air ways." Earlier this year, a spe cial government, advisory group reported the air lanes are becom ing so CROWDED and so inade quately regulated that airliners have brushes with disaster an average of four times daily. The federal government has al ready embarked on a five-year program aimed at alleviating the situation. fpHE highways are already crowded. We hope to better that situation by spending bil lions on multi-lane highways, thus making more room for cars. (Oregon's highway engineer Sam Baldock estimates that a four lane highway will handle eight times as much traffic as a two laner.) We can't build mnrp xkvwave of course, because there is only so much sky. What we will havtp t odo is to provide tighter con trols and more regulation. that is one of the penalties of growth. Harold Snodgrast 1 KING STREET !