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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MDFORI)TRIBUNX "Everybody in southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-29 North Fir St. Pbone 2-6:4,1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ox Alarcn a. icai SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday Ona year 12 ?0 Daily and Sunday Six months B jO Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only Ona year $3-50 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes'. Daily and Sunday One year S13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 Jo Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All lerma iasu in auvbule Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF cntCULallua WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. . Offices In New York Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angelea. Seattle Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL S I lAsTocfAUQN i u u O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO (It was Monday). A record breaking increase in loans and discounts handled by the United States National bank has been, announced by Allan F. Perry, manager of the Med ford branch. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Les L Taylor boy. Bob of Phoenix is rsix years old today and will pass the ice cream and cake to members of his own set. 0 YEARS AGO July 8. 1936 (It was Wednesday) rvnlv routine business is scheduled to come before the council at its regular semi monthly meeting in city hall to night. Former President Hoover and Arthur Hyde, former secretary of agriculture, after a days fish ing in upper Rogue river, de parted this morning for the Hoover home in Palto Alto, Calif. 30 YEARS AGO July 8. 1926 at was Thursday) Floating chain screens have been decided on as the best means of preventing further destruction of fish by turbine wheels on Savage Rapids and Gold Ray rams. Southern Oregon residents made a veritable invasion of Crescent City, Calif., over the Fourth of July. 40 YEARS AGO July 8, 1918 (It was Saturday) Bishop C. W. Nibley of Salt Lake Citv visited Medford this noon on a tour of inspection of the sugar fields of the valley. From Local and Personal column: Earl Obenchain of Cen tral Point is spending the day in Medford. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Increase in U. S. church membership in last 25 years has been greater or less than in crease in population, or about the same? 2. The MG is a Russian mili tary plane or British auto? 3. First state to give full vot ing rights to women was Maine, New York, Wisconsin, Massa chusetts, Texas or Wyoming? 4. Claustrophobia is fear of Jews, Catholics, foreigners in general, narrow spaces, women or physical exercise? 5. '"Happy" Chandler, former baseball "Czar," is now U. S. Senator from Kentucky, gover nor of that state, in private law practice, or head of a race track in Louisville? 6. Florida is pretty much de serted by vacationers during mid-summer; right or wrong? 7. A catamaran is a kind of wild animal, boat, malicious woman, helicopter or household pet? The answers: 1. Greater. 2. British auto. 3. Wyoming. 4. Fear of narrow spaces. 5. Gov ernor of Kentucky. 6. Wrong. 7. Boat. Salem (U.R) Delbert Bauer of Portland has been named Oregon's outstanding electrician apprentice for 1956. MAIL TRIBUNE "Everybody Likes Ike " When man bites dog, or Harry S. Truman if giv en a chance doesn't bite a Republican that's news. And that is exactly what f ormer President Truman did when he arrived in New York from his trip abroad, with an honorary degree from Oxford in his pocket. One of the dock reporters asked H.S.T. what he thought of "Ike" ? "I like Ike" was the prompt reply, "if I did not I would never have named him Commander-in-Chief of the US forces in France or head of 'Nato'. I hope he has a quick recovery and will soon be able to resume his duties as chief executive of the United States." "IXTELL, that just about makes it unanimous. "Every- body likes Ike." No one no one willing to be quoted today at least dislikes him, and this regard less of party. So as far as the presidential popularity contest is concerned, President Eisenhower wins hands down, and probably over any US President in the nation's history. Wherefore and to-wit: why not give him a second term by acclamation and thus save the time, expense, and strain on the eardrums involved in holding two major party conventions? The answer is quite simple, of course. While "everyone" LIKES "Ike" as a PERSON, everyone DOESN'T like him as a PRESIDENT for four more years, and it is a safe guess many millions in November will vote accordingly. Whether the record made by Governor Stevenson in noDular vote four years ago will be equalled or ex ceeded remains to be seen, but there is no reason to believe, at this stage of the game, that the lowly don key won't at least make a race of it, and thwart the determination of the proud and mighty pachyderm, to transform his traditional opponent this year into a 30-cent hamburger without mustard. The Wall Street odds, however, are about 3 to one, at the present time based of course on the assumption Ike will run. And far be it from this department to take issue with Wall Street when it comes to making election odds though the wise boys were 100 wrong eight years ago. However, as has often been remarked, ' there is often a slip between the cup and the lip, and even the self-confident GOP would be unwise to count their chickens before they are hatched. MEANWHILE, even President Eisenhower can't have his cake and eat it too. That is, he can't be one of the most popular Presidents in the nation's his tory, and not have to pay a price for it. Judging the present and future by the past, that Drice will be a minor place in the list of great Presi dents it listed at an. ine American historv have been without exception the most abused and the least sidering both the support and opposition. FROM Washington to Abraham Lincoln and on through Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and the two Roosevelts, the country was during the administra tions of each pretty well divided between those who swore by the President" and those who swore AT him. This is not true of "Ike." While only a minority bow down before him as a "Second Messiah," prac tically everyone LIKES him, and few if any, ever,ques tion the man's complete devotion to what HE regards as the best interests of his country and the free world. Only there are many and before the campaign ends there may be many more, who don't agree with General Eisenhower as to what IS best for the country and the free world, especially the former.. In fact, the very circumstances' and personal qual ities which have made the President so tremendously popular, form the basis of this opposition to his being given a second term. This opposition is not based upon what the Presi dent has done so much as what he has failed to do. That failure, in a word, is supplying active and ag gressive leadership, in the realm of domestic politics, particularly. ..They don't think following the Dale Carnegie technique of "How to Win Friends and Influence Peo ple" is quite enough, even when implemented by Rob ert Montgomery's highly successful instructions in elo cution and pronunciation. They believe the next four years will be critical ones in the nation's history, and the great need in the White House will be, not for a program of concilia tion making friends and avoidance of making en emies, but a willingness to enter the lists and if neces sary make enemies even of members of one's own party, when the principles in which the chief execu tive believes are threatened. R.W.R. Tammany and the Nomination Gov. Averell Harriman of New York has returned to New York City from a three-day "speaking tour" (that is, quest for delegates) in Iowa, Minnesota and North Dakota. That area is especially prone to pon der the Governor's close political alliance with Car mine G. DeSapio, leader of Tammany Hall, in assess ing Harriman for the Democratic presidential namin ation. A Tammany partnership might not really handi cap a candidate among Middle West local leaders. These, after all, appreciate what a political organiza tion must do to get out the vote. But they in turn have to know whether "Tammany" is to most of their voters as much a dirty word as it proved in 1928 when the late Alfred E. Smith was the Democratic nominee. Smith never tried to belittle his debt to "The Hall" in his rise from the sidewalks of New York, and his presidential nomination was a Tammany triumph on the national level. But Franklin D. Roosevelt was Sunday. July 8, 1958 truly great rresiaems in popular while in office con Today and By Walter STEVENSON LEADING There is general agreement among seasoned political corre spondents that Gov. Stevenson has recovered from the set b a c k he suf fered in Min n e s o t a and, barring acci dent, is virtu ally certain to be nominated. The opposi tion, which Walter Lippmann Came from two directions, has failed to raise an issue a g a in s t him and is fading away. Senator Kefauver's case was not based on anything more sub stantial than a claim that he was a better vote-getter, and that claim was refuted in the Cali fornia primary. The Harrmian candidacy has fed on the -hope that Mr. Tru man would move actively against Stevenson. His candidacy has made no progress. Why? Be cause the Democratic leaders and politicians in the North and in the South are opposed to the Harriman strategy which is to gamble on splitting the party, to drive the Southerners out by taking extreme positions which would be supposed to pull in Negroes, labor, discontented farmers in the north. This strategy is imitated from Truman's in 1948, and is meant to be a gamble at long odds for the Presidency against the heavy popularity of Eisenhower. But the Democrats in Congress and the Governors in the State Houses have no interest in gam bling for the Presidency at the price of dividing and confusing the Democratic Party. IHE Democrats, who are dis satisfied wtih Stevenson have usually said that as a "moder ate" man he has raised no fight ing and winning issue against Eisenhower. Behind these com plaints there is the assumption, quite unexamined I venture to think, that fighting and winning issues could be raised by a bold stand on the farm problem, on labor legislation, on desegrega- tion, on national defense, on for eign policy. There must be something wrong about that assumption. For not only have the Congres sional Democrats and Gov. Stev enson failed to raise such issues, Sen. Kefauver and Gov. Harri man have done no better. Sen. Kefauver has promised a little more and Gov. Harriman has de nounced a little more. But what are the great issues against Ei senhower that they were going to raise? The reason that there are no issues of this sort is that the President has made it his par ticular political business to de flate the issues. As soon as there has appeared to be a grievance which looked as if it meant votes the President has made a con cession which took the heat out of the discontent. His method, to change the metaphor, has been never to leave the Democrats a target at which they could keep on shooting. Does it appear that they have the aim on a political buU's eye? He has shifted the target, usually to the left, caus ing them to miss. TS THERE discontent over farm income? He has vetoed the farm bill and then conceded so much of what it promised to the farmers that it is no longer ob vious how much smaller is the Republican subsidy than would have been the Democratic. Is there feeling in the Northwest about the give-aways of natural resources? He replaces Mr. Mc Kay with a Secretary of the In terior whom the conservation ists like and trust. Is there complaint about for eign policy? He lets most of the steam out of the criticism by recognizing that in a measure at least it is valid criticism. The critics are vindicated. But the opposition is frustrated, and finds itself lunging fiercely at something that is no longer there to be hit. QOV. Stevenson has shown wis dom and great political good sense in not Trying to pretend there is any radical difference . A. considered anti-Tammany in New York state politics. His rise meant Tammany's eclipse by the Flynn or ganization, pro-Roosevelt, of the Bronx Borough of New York City. JN 1952 most of the New York state delegation at the national convention first voted for Harriman, then Mutual Security administrator and not taken too seriously even as a favorite son. Soon Harriman help ed to put Adlai E. Stevenson across by diverting the Harriman votes to him. Tammany was more often a major factor in na tional politics in the early days of the Republic than after the Civil War. It was in favor with Jackson and Van Buren ; helped to get the presidential nomin ation for Polk in 1844, for Cass in 1848, for McClellan in 1864, also for Seymour in 1868. But the choice of Tilden in 1876, Hancock in 1880, Cleveland in 1884 and 1892, Bryan in 1896 and 1900, Parker in 1904, Wilson in 1912, and Roosevelt in 1932 were out-and-out Tammany defeats. E.R.R. Tomorrow Lippmann between the Eisenhower Repub licans and the Democrast on these specific problems. For the paramount question before the voters this year is not this "is sue" or that but continuity in the administration of the gov ernment. The country would like to re-elect Eisenhower and to have him continue. The question is can he continue, and if he cannot, who will replace him. It is to this question that the Democratic leaders in Congress and with them Gov. Stevenson have addressed themselves. They have set out to prove to the people that they can take over responsibility affectively. With Stevenson and with the Con gress, as proved by its perform ance, the Democrats have a for midable alternative in Eisen hower. They are in the best pos sible position to appeal to the Eisenhower Democrats who, al most certainly, hold the balance of power. THIS does not mean that Stev- 1 , i -V..i enson wouia ue a LJlJil copy of Eisenhower. Though they are not far apart on immediate problems, such as the farm, the desegregation, defense, foreign policy, there is a difference be tween them about the future. If there is a case against Eisen hower, it is that he lives too much in the immediate present, deciding issues only when he has to and when they are brought to him by his staff, but is not alert to anticipate the future and to prepare for it. As he grows older, this case against him is likely to become stronger. and for many a voter this will be a decisive consideration. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. In The Day's Sen. Charles Potter of Michi gan suggests in Washington that Congress suspend the 10 per cent excise tax on cars for the next six months. He says a serious emergency exists in Michigan because of the layoff of more than 200,000 auto workers. These workers have been laid off because the automo bile industry has recently pro duced more cars than the public is willing or able to buy. tie ngures that more cars might be sold if the tax were suspended. TTE'S probably right. I'll go him one better. If Congress suspended ALL TAXES, the people would have a lot more money left in their pockets and would undoubtedly be able to buy a whale of a lot more cars. MORE of the same: The state of Washington's Congressman Thor C. Tollefson proposes that flour ground at mills in the Pacific Northwest be used in the country's foreign aid program. In a letter to the de partment of agriculture, he says he has been advised that flour is being sold under the program authorizing disposal of surplus agricultural commodities over seas. He wants Pacific Northwest flour given the nod. TI7ELL, that would be nice. ' If Pacific Northwest flour were given away to the hungry and the needy all over the world, the result would be a rather prompt emptying of the flour warehouses in the Northwest. With the warehouses emptied, the Pacific Northwest's mills could turn in and grind up a lot more flour. The wheat required to make the flour could be taken out of the bulging wheat ware houses including mothballed ships in all the harbors and as soon as they were empty the wheat growers could grow a lot more surplus wheat and thus fill up the warehouses (including the mothballed ships) again. That would give us a brand new start. BUT There's a FLY in the oint ment. Suppose that Congress SHOULD decide to suspend ALL taxes, so that the people would have more money left in their pockets with which to buy Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop STEVENSON. NIXON AND HEALTH Washington Adlai Steven son s strategists are using the bandwagon technique to a fare- thee-well. There is. thev sav with careless confidence, no longer any ser ious question about the nom ination Stev enson can probably have it on the first ballot if he wants it ou&epti Ai&up that way The real questions now, the Steven son men say, are the Vice Presi dential choice and post-conven tion strategy. The bandwagon technique is a very old one, of course. But the confidence expressed i n the Stevenson camp sounds convincing and most observ ers agree that it is probably justified. .The Stevenson men sound a Stewart Alsop good aeai less convincing when they claim that, having been nominated, Steven son can also be elected. But their version of how the thing can be done is worth describing. They claim that the South, including Texas, but probably excluding Florida, will return to the fold this year. In that case, Stevenson only needs to win the normally Democratic border states, plus a handful of North ern industrial states Pennsyl vania, Michigan and Massachu setts are cited as examples of states in which Stevenson should have a good chance. BUT the Stevenson men assume that the Republican ticket will again be Eisenhower-Nixon, News by Frank Jenk ins MORE of the things they want, thus creating a fabulous new prosperity. In that event, where would the money come from with which to pay the tax-financed subsidies to the wheat growers while they were filling up the warehouses again with more surplus wheat? T SUPPOSE or at least I HOPE A that Senator Potter and Congressman Tollefson aren't kidding anybody (much.) If we aren't hep to what they're up to after all these years of screwball- ery and demagogism, we ought to be. They're much too smart to ex pect that the Congress might fall for their proposals to benefit THEIR OWN STATES by special legislation. They know there isn't a chance of that. What they DO expect is that their schemes will tinkle pleas antly in the ears of the voters of THEIR states who will thus be induced to go to the polls and mark an X before the names of Potter and Tollefson on the gen eral theory that they are good- hearted guys who at least TRIED to do their home folks a favor. That's modern politics. 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. Why No Flags? To the Editor: For shame! For shame! From Oakdale to R.R. tracks on Main st. (2) two flags were displayed, to-wit: Valley Fuel and Maury's; south on Grape (2) two flags displayed, Patriotism? Some times I won der. We of W-W-l that gave our all and then to see or rather not see OUR FLAG displayed on this of all days is beyond my com prehension. J. C. ADAM, GeBauer Apt. P.S. Sometimes 1 wonder wonder! J.C.A. Two More Men Join Police Department Two new patrolmen have been hired for the Medford po lice department, according to Police Chief Charles Champlain. Gene Melvin Depuy, 231 A Old Pacific highway. Talent, as sumed his duties Friday and Lewis Merland Tycer, route 1, box 630, Eagle Point, will begin Monday. Depuy, 25, is a graduate of Rogue River high school and at tended Southern Oregon col lege. He served four years in the Navy medical corps. During two of those years his unit was attached to the Marines. Depuy is married and the father of one child. He and his family plan to move to Medford in the near fu ture. ... Tycer, . 21, is a graduate of Eagle Point High school and at tended the University of Oregon from 1953 to 1956. Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith has designated July 9-14 as all Oregon Products Week. It- v hi iS rf JV 1 1 in ;u 1 and they agree that, in order to win the needed handful of North ern industrial states, something effective must be done to counter the Republicans' great central asset, the President's remarkable personal popularity. The "some thing is summed up in a slogan which will be much heard in months to come "A Vote for Eisenhower Is a Vote for Nixon." The slogan neatly wraps up in one package the "health issue" and the supposed unpopularity of Vice President Nixon among muepenaents and others. The Stevenson Dost-convention strategy is largely based, in short, on hammering home tho Nixon-health theme. Indeed, the hammering will start in earnest at the convention, which is be ing carefully planned for maxi mum emphasis on the importance ux uie vice residency. The Democratic National Com. mittee has proposed a plan to this end. The balloting for the Presidential nominee, according to this plan, would end on Wednesday, August 15, followed by an interim day to build sus pense, with speeches by former President Truman and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. The high light of the final day, Friday, wuuia De tne vice Presidential nomination, and the acceptance speeches of both candidates. HPHUS, for once, the Vice Presi dential nomination would not be an anti-climactic afterthought. There is no unanimous enthus iasm for this idea in the Steven son camp, since it is feared that Stevenson's acceptance speech on Friday night would be un heard by voters bent on week end holidays. But Stevenson and his advisers strongly agree on the need for emphasizing the Vice Presidency at the conven tion, and centering Democratic fire on Nixon thereafter. , Stevenson himself will do his share of the firing. Stevenson heartily dislikes the Vice Presi dent. "If there's anyone the Gov ernor's emotional about," one Stevenson adviser has remarked, "it's that guy. If- Nixon tries to play the high level stuff, the Governor will needle the hell out of him, and he'll soon come down to earth." This seems a shrewd apprais al of the high partisan instincts which Nixon has always dis played at campaign time. But the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate- will have the main Nixon-needling assignment. This is one reason why Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts is cur rently considered the leading contender for second place on a Stevenson ticket. ITENNEDY is an able' and at tractive campaigner. He is also a devout Catholic with a strong anti-Communist record. He is thus considered impervious on the "Communist issue," which Nixon has used repeatedly against the Democrats. It is also felt that Kennedy would attract back mto the Democratic column many of the normally Demo cratic Catholic voters in the big industrial states, who strayed to Eisenhower in 1952. Kennedy's vote against high rigid priority in the current ses sion is the main talking point against him, since the Stevenson camp is also relying heavily on farm disaffection. At any rate, the Vice Presidential candidate will certainly be chosen with great care and a maximum flour ish, and with Vice President Nixon very much in mind. But the heavy emphasis on the Nixon-health theme in the Stev enson campaign planning also suggests how hard put the Stev enson camp is for other winning issues. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q True or false? The Consti tution provides that if the Presi dent is unable to discharge tne powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall take over. A True. Article II, Section I says. "In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the fame shall devolve on the Vice President . ." Q A number of bills are pending in Congress to define more clearly the procedure for transferring the responsibilities of the Presidency when the President is incapacitated. The precedent most frequently cited is the President who was so gravely ill that he was unable to meet with his Cabinet for seven months, but whose illness was concealed from the public. Who was it? A Woodrow Wilson, who was stricken in his second term of office. He did not meet with his Cabinet from Sep tember, 1919, until April 13, 1920, and was only partially recovered when his term end ed in March, 1921. Salem flJ.R) More than 400 sheep are expected to be en tered in the 1956 Oregon State Fair her Sept. 1-8. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Overheard, a disrespectful county resident on new public officials: "They do just fine until they've been in office a while and learn the ropes." The Fourth of July passed this year and we didn't hear one un organized firecracker explosion the whole day. Signs of mem ories of the independence we remember were: 9:15 a.m. Our across-the- alley neighbor mowing the lawn, stopping, picking up ,a rock in front of his mower and angrily pitching it over the fence . . . continuing mowing. 12 noon Main street stretch ing out for a short rest with a sigh while all the feet and rub ber tires were away to the hin terlands. 1 p.m. A shirtless man climb ing down the ladder leaning against the side of the house which was slowly but fairly sure ly receiving a new coat of white from the paint bucket in his hand. 3:30 p.m. Our neighbor's TV set turned up full blast, roaring at us through their open frontf door. 4:15 p.m. A little girl, mav- be five years old, prancing down our sidewalk as proud as George Washington at having found a recently dropped fir cone. 7:40 p.m. The hills south of Ashland looking spotty as the sun went down behind facing mountains and peeped through a batch of gathering clouds. 10:50 p.m. Our bedside clock alarm hand ... set at 6:30. That's all. And it was a fine day. Two of our younger staff members went boating on th3ir day off and after rowing around a lake and napping beneath a beautiful bright sun, they were only able to say as they sat bolt upright in their chairs the next day, "A sun burn is more than skin deep." If you are one who reads this column through the bottom part of a pair of bifocals, you'U ap preciate the following item: One of the three Women In Our Office was talking over the phone to a lady one day last week when the conversation turned to eye glasses. Our wom an herself is a veteran member of the "head-bobbery." (Those who wear bifocals and don't give up typing). She was bewailing the plight of glasses-wearers when the lady on the other end of the line said, "Yes. And I think I'm going to have to get me a pair of glasses pretty soon. My arms are getting too short." Our sports editor is gen erally about the bounciest per son in the office. But THurs day, we. found him yawning and rubbing eyes with a be draggled droop io his cheeks. We asked where he'd been over the holiday and he said to ' a nearby resort where "there were 12 people in our cabin ... and a rat." SmaU wonder droopy cheeks. Recently, the news staff chip ped in $1 apiece and bought it self a new hot plate. The old one had a history of despair mixed with spilled cof fee. It was not made to do all the chores demanded of it heat when the button was pushed "on,-' cool when it was pushed "off"; sit under pots of boiling water, stewing coffee, and sim mering chop suey (Saturday deadline special); survive tum bles onto the floor, Webster's in ternational dictionary dropped upon its topside, and sunoca tion by piles of newspaper, copy papers, waste papers; and after all that, keep clean. The new one looks pretty,,, sharp in its suit of chrome and tungsten. But we're waiting. We haven't seen one yet that we couldn't defeat in time. The United Press reported a "monstrous fireball" had been sighted by an airlines pilot last Friday night when he was fly ing over the Columbia river. It was thought to be a meteor. This paper carried the story Sunday, and below it a para graph explaining that someone from Prospect had seen a bright, meteor-resembling object the same night. By Monday, the skies were still not clear in our newsroom. A reporter was told by a man at a local lumber company that he had sighted the same fireball around 10 p.m. last Friday. Our reported typed up the story thus: ". . . said he noticed a bluish-green baU traveling about 3,000 miles per hour in a northeasterly direction leaving a trail of bright orange. He esti mated it was 15 to 20 miles above the earth when he saw it." Well sir, progress has been made. But somewhere there is a gnawing at our conscience and - a longing for the days when men could glance into the sky, see a blazing streak, and be so excited that they wouldn't bother to take speed ometer, altimeter, and com pass readings before calling the newspaper to say they'd seen a flying saucer.
