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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.
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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.).
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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-
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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."
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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
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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
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