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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1946
(It was Wednesday)
Many residents of this area to
day report having seen a naming
object streak across the heavens
last night about 9 p.m.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: An eminent
ruiprn educator reports, "The
upturn of youth is now under
way." It's about time, so say we
all.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1936
(It was Friday)
Miss Ella Gardner, national
recreation specialist of Washing
ton. DC, and Mrs. ueriruoe
Skow Sanford, state specialist in
recreation, arrive in Medford
Saturday, according to Mabel
Mack, county home demonstra
tion agent.
Model Home tickets will be
redeemed at the Jackson County
Chamber of. Commerce from 7
to 9 p.m. next Monday. Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28. 1926
(It was Saturday)
Bill Ly diard, partner of W. A.
Gates in the grocery business, is
still on an auto trip with his
bother, Mrs. J. H. Lydiard.
About 135 candidates will be
Initiated by the Eagles, at 1:30
p.m. Sunday afternoon at Mer
rick's Oriental Gardens.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 28, 1916
(It was Monday)
Odd Fellows picnic and meet
ing of Southern Oregon Odd
Fellows association at Ashland,
Sept. 5, 1916.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Miss Ina Cochran spent the
week end at Eagle Point as the
guest of Miss Frances Heath.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 195S Editorial Research
Report
1. Has any defeated pres
idential candidate, renominated,
beaten the man who beat him
four years before?
2. After seven years the value
of a new car will be about 25,
1 7 2 . 10, or 2'2 per cent of its
original price?
3. Adlai E. Stevenson did or
didn't get many votes from Deep
South at the 1956 Democratic
convention?
4. The U.S. population is in
creasing every day byNabout
(a) 70. (b) 170. (c) 700. (d) 1.700.
ie 7,000 or (f) 17.000 persons?
5. Oldest U. S. synagogue is in
New York, Charleston, S. C,
Philadelphia, St. Augustine,
Fla., or Newport, R. I.?
6. The AFL and CIO while still
separate in 1952 backed Sieven
son tor president over Eisen
hower in that year; right or
wrong?.
7. The island nf Sardinia is part
of France. Italy, Spain, British
Commonwealth, Greece or Mon
aco"? The Answers: 1. Yts, Jackson
in 1828, W. H. Harrison in 1840,
Cleveland in 1892. 2. About 10.
3. Did. 4. About 7000 day.
5. Newport. 6. Right. 7. Italy.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Watch
It Is rather hard to believe. But the Oregonian is
not a champion and defender of the private utilities
in their effort to secure a monopoly of electric power
from atomic sources.
In its lead editorial of Sunday, at least, the highly
influential Portland daily takes a stand against the
private utilities as far as this source of power is con
cerned, that is nothing short of sensational.
Listen to this, for example, quote :
The recent defeat in Congress of the Democratic-sponsored
Gore bill, which would have accelerated federal re
search in the field of civilian atomic power reactors, is con
sidered a great victory by the nation's private utilities,
whose theories on power development the administration
has swallowed whole.
The attitude of the electric light and power companies
in this matter is quite simply explained. They want full con
trol over the production and sale of electricity produced
through the harnessing of nuclear energy. They want no
repetition in the atomic field of the TV As and Bonnevilles
resulting from federal experiments with hydroelectric de
velopment. What could be clearer or stronger, regarding con
trol of atomic power!
But that is precisely the attitude the private power
companies have always had toward federal competi
tion in the field of water power. And their highly ef
ficient and highly-priced
ever since the inauguration of President hisenhower
has been working toward two main objectives, one:
To prevent any extension of federal power (Hells
Canyon, for example) in this country, and two:
Work steadily toward the transfer of TVA and Bon
neville types of public power to private power control
as far as that is possible.
As the Oregonian continues :
This policy of course is not very attractive to the aver
age American, who likes to see his country in the forefront
of everything. So it has been necessary for American utili
ties to put on a public relations campaign to persuade us
that things really are coming along fine. '
RecenUy the St. Louis Post-Dispatch drew anguished
outcries from the power industry when it asserted editorial
ly: "Not a single commercial-scale atomic plant is being
built in the United States by private enterprise . . . There is
not even any such plant directly in sight. The only large re
actor going up in this country is government-financed."
The evident reference was te the 100,000-kilowatt pres
surized water reactor being built at Shippingport, Pa. Since
this is under construction by the Western Electric company '
and will be operated by the Duquesne Light company, it has
been pointed to with pride as an example of private enter
prise at work in the atomic field. THE FACT THAT THE
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION IS PUTTING UP $80,
000,000 OF ITS $85,000,000 COST IS SELDOM MEN
TIONED. NEITHER IS THE FACT THAT THE AEC HAS
AGREED TO ABSORB ALL COSTS OF ELECTRIC ENER
GY GENERATED AT THE PLANT IN EXCESS OF EIGHT
MILLS PER KILOWATT HOUR IN ITS FIRST FIVE
YEARS OF.OPERATION.
Could the selfishness and hypocrisy of the electric
power combine, be brought into sharper relief than in
that uncompromising indictment?
And it is the judgment not of -the St. Louis Post
Dispatch but the conservative and strongly Republi
can Portland Oregonian, which we had always sup
posed perhaps incorrectly was the great friend
of the private power utilities and the sworn enemy of
such public power projects as TVA and Bonneville,
which their party and its leader so vehemently con
demned as "creeping socialism."
m
TJOWcome?
The Oregonian concludes by claiming its editors
are still worshippers of that GOP idol known as "free
enterprise," but it takes rather a contrived and comp
licated route to prove it. For example, quote :
"The federal government will not intrude further into
the power busines unless the congress so wills it. And the
chances of this it seems to us will be greater if the Ameri
can public gets fed up with the private utility tactic of try
ing to delay progress until it is convenient for its stock
holders to let it go forward."
X'E lack the Oregonian's knowledge of what the
' government will do either before or after Nov
ember 6th, we don't even know which party will
then be in control of the congress, but we DO know
this: as far as anything in life can be known in ad
vance and that is :
The private utilities will try to delay progress from
the standpoint of the general welfare as opposed to
the profits of its stockholders in the future, just as it
has dotie in the past; it will also try for the same rea
son and the same purpose, to secure, as the Oregonian.
maintains, a monopoly in the atomic Held as it nas
for decades tried to secure a monopoly in the field of
electric light and power. And the effort will con
tinue as the Oregonian indicates until the American
people get fed up with it and with them. And when
they DO, then brethern and sistern, "Watch Out!"
R.W.R.
Tydings' Wife Loses
Bid for Senate Seat
Baltimore, Md. U.R Con
tractor George P. Mahoney
political foe of ailing ex-Sen.
Millard E. Tydings today re
placed him on the Maryland
Democratic ticket to oppose
GOP Sen. John Marshall Butler.
Mahoney defeated Mrs. Elea
nor Tydings, the former sena
tor's wife, for the nomination by
a vote of 97 to 55 Monday night
in the Democratic Maryland
Central Committee.
Tydings barely defeated the
Baltimore contractor for the
nomination in a hard-fought
Democratic primary last May.
He withdrew from the race last
week because of a prolonged ill
ness.. His wife, a daughter of former
Tuesday. August 26, 185S
Out!"
lobby in Washington, D.C.
U. S. Ambassador to Moscow
Joseph E. Davies, announced
her candidacy in a surprise
move over the week end at a
meeting of Maryland Democrat
ic Women's Clubs.
Four of Baltimore city's six
districts and five Maryland coun
ties went for Mrs. Tydings. The
other 18 Maryland counties and
two city districts cast their unit
votes for Mahoney.
Mahoney pledged himself to
fight for a Democratic victory.
His victory climaxes an intra
party battle which broke into
the open with Tydings' an
nouncement last spring that he
was a candidate for the Senate
seat he lost to Butler in 1950.
Parties7 Civil Rights Planks
Seek to 'Bridge7 North, South
Washington CQ) Demo
cratic and Republican platform
drafting committees Builders of
the programs the parties will
take before the voters this year
have managed to construct a
pair of bridges over the chasm
between northern and southern
emotions on the school segrega
tion issue.
But will these few hundred
words of plank stand the strain
of 10 weeks' campaigning for
both southern segregation and
northern desegregation votes?
Already party workers are
sawing the beams of the opposi
tion's handiwork. A successful
demolition job by either side
will enhance its chances to win
in November.
Both Adlai E. Stevenson and
President Eisenhower are cove
tous of the votes of northern
liberals and Negroes and south
ern friends of segregation. Thus,
the giant straddle on civil
rights:
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In the upper echelons of the
Republican party in the pre
convention days of 1956 there
were two controversial figures
Richard Nixon and Harold
Stassen.
At the convention that ad
journed last week, the fortunes
of Nixon soared spectacularly.
Stassen's fortunes nose-dived.
T ETS deal first with Nixon.
Why is he a controversial
figure?
T'HAT question isn't easily an
swered. He is a personable young
man. He is courteous. He is
pleasant. He handles himself
with discretion. He has carried
out with striking success every
mission that has been entrusted
to him. Almost without excep
tion his former colleagues in the
house and the senate speak weU
of him. They do so without res
ervation. In their voices, when
they praise him, there is none
of that peculiar inflection that
indicates that the speaker's
words and his OPINIONS do not
necessarily coincide. ,
Above all, he has won the
unqualified approval of his great
chief. President Eisenhower.
And in this convention that has
just adjourned the support that
won him UNANIMOUS renomi
nation was not synthetic. It was
GENUINE. It wasn't just a deal
among the delegates. The
crowds were with him. Their
applause told that rather clear
ly. VET it can't be denied that
he is a controversial figure.
Why?
THE ANSWER is all the more
difficult to find because those
who say they are opposed to
him so seldom have a definite
reason for their opposition. They
are vague about it. For ex
ample:
Chatting at breakfast this
morning with the waitress a
pleasant middle-aged woman
with graying hair I started off
with the usual bromide: "How
did you like the convention?"
un, she said witn unmis
takable enthusiasm, "Isn't Eis
enhower wonderful? I just love
him. But that Nixon I can't
stand him!"
"Why not?" I queried.
As so many anti-Nixonites do,
she hesitated. "Well," she final
ly said, "he's so cocksure of
himself."
"That." I said, "doesn't sound
to me like a very good reason.
The vice-president of the United
States cant be wishy-washy.
When he acts, he MUST be sure
of himself."
QHE PONDERED a moment, as
if searching her own mind.
"Well," she finally said, "I sup
pose my real reason is that the
Democrats tell us working peo
ple we must vote for Democrats
because they are our friends and
the Republicans are our ene
mies. But I'm going to vote for
President Eisenhower anyway. I
love him. I have faith in him.
He's a good man. But I don't
know about Nixon. They say
he's against us working people."
WHAT of Stassen? What was
"he up to?
I wouldn't know. And I
wouldn't go so far as to say he
was wrong in what he did. This
is a free country. Any man has
a right to do as he pleases with
in the limits of the rights of
others. He had a perfect right to
oppose Nixon. But at this con
vention his popularity nose-dived
because of the way he han
dled himself.
When he saw the error of his
way and withdrew his opposi
tion and asked to be allowed to
second Nixon's nomination, his
request was granted. If he had
got up and laughed and said he
knew when he was licked and
was happy to make it unani
mous, he would have been re
ceived back into the fold with
enthusiasm. Instead, he took one
minute to make his seconding
statement and 19 minutes to de
fend himself unconvincingly for
what he had done.
That cooked his goose.
The Republicans "accent" the
Supreme Court's desegregation
decision and the Democrats
"recognize" the Supreme Court
and its work. The Republicans
call for "deliberate speed" in the
face of the "complex and acute
ly emotional problems" created
by the 1954 decision. The Dem
ocrats "reject all proposals for
the use of force to interfere with
the orderly determination of
these matters."
What is the reality behind
these carefully chosen phrases?
Where do the parties really
stand on civil rights questions?
The conscientious voter who
peers behind the platform and
examines the record of the last
Democratic and Republican Ad
ministrations and the views of
the' 1956 candidates will find:
1. In the past eight years,
generally Republicans in Con
gress have given more support
to civil rights measures than
Democrats. But neither party,
when it controlled Congress,
could pass a single major civil
rights bill.
In 1949, a majority of both
House Democrats and Republi
cans voted for an anti-poll tax
bill. It died in the Senate.
FEP Bill Dies
In . 1950, the Republicans,
against Democratic opposition,
pushed a voluntary Fair Employ
ment Practices bill through the
House but could not muster the
votes to end a Senate filibuster
against the measure.
In 1956, a majority of Repub
licans managed to tack an anti
segregation amendment to the
school construction bill, only to
see the amended bill lose--with
a majority of Republicans vot
ing against the final measure.
Also this year, a majority of
House Democrats and Republi
cans voted for an omnibus civil
rights bill. It went to the Senate
in the last week of the session,
never came to a vote.
2. The last two Presidents
Democrat Harry S. Truman and
Republican Dwight D. Eisen
hower used different tactics
but were equally and complete
ly thwarted in their legislative
civil rights programs.
Truman launched his 10-point
program in 1948and each year
thereafter sought unsuccessfully
to have it enacted. Mr. Eisen
hower waited until 1956 to pre-
Matter of Fadt By
CONTRASTING THE PARTIES
San Francisco There was one
virtue, at any rate, in having the
Republican
Convention begin
just as the
D e m o c r atic
C o n v e n tion
ended. It made
the contrast
between the
two p a r t i e s
singularly vi
vid and immel-
d i a t e. Y o ia
could see th e
.ii,:md aimju sirengins an a
weaknesses of each -with stereiv
scopic clarity.
For example, one of the great
strengths of the Democrats is
their rich riot of competing
per sonalituis.
Chicago crawl
ed with Demo
crats of note
and stature.
There wire
two front Krnk
c a n d i d a tes,
Adlai Steiren
son and Ave-
11 U...m..n
Stewart AioP inere was
another, Lyndon Johnson of
Texas, who is highly likely too be
a front rank candidate four years
from now. The strength o the
second level was displayed in
the exciting Vice Presidential
race. And among the group of
political organizers there were
plenty of big men, including the
important new face of Adla'i Ste
venson's able manager, James
A. Finnegan.
IN CONTRAST, the most obvi
ous weakness of the Rapubli
cans is the fact that they have
now become a one-man party.
Dwight D. Eisenhower y no
means typifies the Republican
viewpoint as Robert A. Taftt used
to do. A great many of the dele
gates who screamed thetnselves
hoarse for him in the Cow Pal
ace very sharply cfcagrae with
many of his policies. If He ever
makes" a really bold attempt to
implement the foreign affairs
sections of his acceptance
speech, for instance, trav Presi-1
dent will surely be opposed by j
most of the Republican Senators
and Congressmen who aire now
so desperately anxious to ride
back into office on his coat-tails.
But the Republicans are, a
one-m?n party just the same, be
cause Dwight D. Eisenhower is
the only Republican candidate
with a tinker's chance of win
ning a national election
After four years in control of
the White House, in fact, the Re
publican party has i become
poorer, not richer, in. notable
personalities of national stature.
If Eisenhower wins a,gjain, the
greatest Republicau problem
will be to develop men who can
carry on where he leaves off.
And it will not be an easy
problem.
TUT it is the Democrats who
are poor, and the Republicans i
sent a mcure modest two-point
program, that it, too, foundered
in the Senate.
3. Both . Presidents made use
of their eccecutive authority to
lessen discrimination in areas of
federal control. Truman can
claim credit for, initiating some
moves; Mix Eisenhower for push
ing them to completion.
Both stught with some suc
cess to reduce discriminatory
practices by private firms with
government contracts. Both set
up agencies to protect federal
civilian workers from prejudi
cial action. Mr. Truman began,
and Mr. Eisenhower completed,
the desegregation of the armed
services.
4. Under both Presidents, the
Department of Justice went into
the courts on the side of persons
claiming; infringement of their
civil rights.
Truman's Justice Department
argued in 1950 for an end to
segregation in interstate railway
diners and Mr. Eisenhower's
Justice Department sought in
1954 bo end all segregation on
trains and in stations.
The last Democratic Attorney
General. James P. McGranery,
and the present Republican At
torney General, Herbert Brown
ell Jr filed briefs with the Su
premo Court urging it to do what
it ultimately did order an end
to segregation in the public
schools.
Ike. .Adlai Similar
5. The stated views of Presi
dent Eisenhower and Democrat
ic Prresideritial Candidate Adlai
E. S'tevenson on civil rights are
so close they could read each
other's speeches without embar
rass'jnent. S tevenson pledged in his ac
ceptance speech to "press on . . .
toward the fuller freedom for all
our' citizens which is at once our
party's pledge and the old Amer
ican promise."
Irtr. Eisenhower, in his 1956
Strife of the Union message,
called for "an expanded effort
on every front ... to assure our
citnzens equality in justice, in
opportunity and in civil rights."
Both reject the use of force to
inlpose desegregation and both
opposed the addition of the anti
seigregation amendment to the
scfliool bill.
(Copyright 1956.
Congressional Quarterly)
Job and Stewart Alscp
who are rich. In the other signi
ficant area of politics, the area
of issues. This happy situation
(the Republicans owe to the singu
lar political astuteness of "Dwight
D. Eisenhower. If the party as
represented in Congress had
been left to itself, it would quite
certainly have spent its time
generously manufacturing issues
for the enemy, in the manner of
the 80th Congress. But by wise
and moderate action in many dif
ferent fields, from social welfare
to the administration of the labor
fields, from social welfare to the
administration of the labor laws,
Dwight Eisenhower quietly cap
tured the Democrats' issues.
Except for the health issue
above all, plus the regionally im
portant farm and public power
issues, the Democrats now have
no straw left to make electoral
bricks with. And while one must
always recognize politician Ei
senhower's primary responsibil
ity for this Democratic misfor
tune, it is also necessary to note
that the Democrats have them
selves to blame as well.
Many people have pointed out
that their long experience of
opposition left the Republicans,
particularly the Congressional
Republicans, sadly unprepared
to act as a party in power, but it
is also true that this long experi
ence of power and responsibility
left the Democrats sadly unpre
pared to act as an opposition.
Specifically, they forgot that
political issues do not lead an
independent, God-given exist
ence of their own. They did not
realize, any longer, that issues
have to be made, and made in
particular by the opposition. And
they neglected to make several
of the most important issues, for
which there was ample raw ma
terial lying about, because the
task of making issues is almost
always unpleasant and contro
versial at the outset.
THE classic example in our
time was Winston Churchill's
handling of the issue presented
by the rising menace of Nazi
power. Churchill had to undergo
years of ostracism and abuse be-
cause he insisted on the vital
importance of that issue. But in
the end. because he stood the
racket when the going was
rough, he was the sole, inevitable
Prime Minister in' England's
darkest hour.
The Democrats did not have
to be Churchills to make very
great and stirring issues in the
areas of defense and foreign
policy. For instance, they only :
had to have some knowledge of
the problem, to show some guts
in discussing them and to ham-:
mer away until the country
turned its attention to the prob- ,
lems. But they did not do any of
this because it would have been j
initially uncomfortable. '
And so today, while Adlai Ste- I
venson frankly regards the de- j
fense and foreign issues as far I
and away the most important of (
all, he has said with rueful frank- :
ness
that he does not think 1
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Lily D. Blackwood
To the Editor: Last week one
of the Rogue valley's oldest
churches laid to rest a life-member.
Lillian D. Caldwell was born
at Buckhorn Mineral Springs,
southeast of Ashland, and spent
most of her almost 93 years at
Phoenix. Her husband, Richard
T. Blackwood, helped construct
the old church building, erected
in the pines near the cemetery,
and dedicated in 1875. In 1926,
Mrs. Blackwood turned the first
shovelful of ground dedicating
the building site of the present
edifice.
Flowers were a gift hallowed
in her heart. For 30 years and
more she cultivated and lov
ingly carried them to the house
of the Lord. Gladiolas being her
favorite flower, and her passing
occurring at "glad" harvest,
Mrs. Bert Stancliffe decorated
Sunday morning's sanctuary
with pink and white blooms.
Vivian Stancliffe Jackson and
her husband, George, were here
from southern California for this
service. On Monday, the memori
al day, a band of "glads" was ar
ranged back of and flanking the
casket. A cross of white "glads"
was placed at the right of the
bier.
Offerings of asters, delphini
ums and other seasonal flowers,
brought by friends, were a love
ly contrast as they graced the
altar rail.
The daily "walk" and be
havior of this person was in my
memory a benediction, even if
there had been no eulogizing by
pastors. The Reverend Mr. Clark
and Mr. Volkman spoke with
heartfelt comfort. Mrs. Gene
Thanos, acquainted with "Aun
tie" Blackwood since her tiny
girl days, gave the vocal selec
tions. Mrs. Hale Loofborrow was
at the organ.
Some friends who had cared
for her with loving hands follow
ing an injury about 20 years ago
surely felt mixed emotions at this
sacred service.
This, to us remaining, is more
than the passing of a pioneer.
We've committed her soul to
God gladly yet with sorrow.
She was most precious to a wide
circle of friends. "
Mrs. Nellie M. Poling
Route 3, Box 201
Medford, Ore.
Commends The MT
To the Editor: I congratulate
you for your excellent editorials.
Especially for the one in the Aug.
16 issue, headed "More Al Sar
ena." It is the most truthful, fair,
broad-minded and Democratic
appraisal of this controversial
act I've ever read. I heartily en
dorse every word of it. Particu
larly where you say that the
"Al Sarena Deal" was undoubt
edly "within the law." It reminds
me of an old saying, "It isn't the
poor itinerant who steals a loaf
of bread because he is hungry
who endangers mankind so much
as the man who has education
money, power and attorneys and
accomplishes his questionable
aims within the law .
I live near Portland where
public thought and opinion is
largely influenced and formed by
our two ultra reactionary Re
publican papers the Journal
and Oregonian. Indeed, I would
be surprised to read an editorial
in either casting a shadow of
doubt on the worth and legiti
macy of anything sponsored by
ex-Senator Cordon, McKay, Pres
ident Eisenhower or the Repub
lican party. So it is truly re
freshing and encouraging to read
your editorials and know that
others share like opinions and
ideals, and have the civic in
terest and moral fortitude to ex
press them.
In regard to our present cam
paign, it appears that we have
two distinct philosophies, and
they are not as so many big Re
publicans claim Socialism ver
sus freedom and private enter
prise, but rather The welfare
of the majority of the people
versus the welfare of the few.
(Hap) Guy Lake
31 North Orange it.
Medford, Ore.
Not a "Bum"
To the Editor: I just read
what is to be done with the
"Stranded Transients."
About three years ago, along
in winter, late in the' evening, a
man came up to me on the cor
ner of Front and Main sts. and
asked if I knew where he could
get a job, that he was broke, and
had not eaten all day, and no
room for the night. It was storm
ing something terrific. I thought
I would not want my dog to be
out on a night like this. So I
there is much mileage in them".
And Stevenson is right, no
doubt, because issues cannot be
made at the last minute either.
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Tribune Inc.
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gave him $3 to get something to
eat and a hotel room. He asked
me to give him my name and
address, which I did. The next
day, I went to the hotel to see
if he had found a job, and I
learned he had not even stayed
the night before.
So I laughed about it. "Just,
another bum," I thought.
Well, a year later one evening
I got a phone call. I asked who
it was, and all they would say
is "a friend," and wanted my
wife and I to meet him up town
and go to dinner. We went and
to our surprise this previous
"bum" was a gentleman. W
had a very nice dinner, he gave
me my $3 back, and said he had
used the money for a bus ticket
to get out of town, and that he
had wired his sister for some
money. And due to the storm
did not get an answer.
You can see how I Jelt after
my saying "just another bum."
(Name on File)
Medford, Ore.
From CD Chief
To the Editor: I have had the
pleasure of reading the July 20
and 22 issues of the Mail Tribune
and note the detailed reporting
of the- national exercise. Opera
tion Alert."
Particularly effective was
your method of reporting the
chronology of events to the pub
lic by summarizing the messages
as they were received at the
county civil defense control cen
ter. Congratulations on your en
terprise in developing the news
potential in Operation Alert,
which would have affected every
phase of human activity, if it
had been an actual attack.
Val Peterson,
Administrator, Federal
Defense Administration,
Washington, D C.
Why Apologize?
To the Editor: Anent your ed
itorial of Sunday, Aug. 26, titled
"Let Oregon Decide," please be
advised that you have put the
right man in the wrong place.
By the right man I mean that
Mr. Ralph T. Moore has express-'
ed so righly the thinking of most
of us Oregonians who have to
apologize for Wayne Morse. But
convinced that there are, in our
fair State, enough intelligent vo
ters who are tired of these apol
ogetics, we look forward confi
dently to rectifying our position
come election day this Novem
ber. By the wrong place I mean
that I know, of my own know
ledge, that Mr. Moore is no habi
tue of Club cars, Country Clubs
or cocktail parties, as you insin
uate, but rather their diametric
opposites. If, on the contrary,
you were to search for him in the
Presbyterian church or the Ma
sonic Lodge, I am confident that
you would find him in one place
or the other. .
John C. Smith,
127 South Keene Way Dr,
Medford, Ore.
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Washington U.R) The U. S.
Geological Survey is testing an
electronic device called "Sur
wac" that may ultimately re
place the human brain in com
puting streamflow data on the
nation's principal rivers.
But Geological Survey Direc
tor Thomas B. Nolan said today
the 250 persons now engaged in
this work will not be fired. In
stead they will devote more at
tention to interpreting the data
turned out br the electronic
computer.
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