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Newspaper Page TextrOUB MEDPORD (OREGON) MedforivTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readt The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv Except Saturday by MiDtORD PRiSTING CO 27-2'J North Fir St. Phone 2-CMl HORKRT W. RUHL. Editor HTHB GKtY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Biuineu Manager EKIC ALLKN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.V. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clan matter at Alediord, Oregon, under Act oi . March 3, 18f)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily nd Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes- Dally and Sunday On year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month l.oU Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash in Advance Crfirial Paper of ihe City of Mrdford Official Paper of J ark son County U nlted Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Office in New York,- Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. L" Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCH-ATLQN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24. 1948 (Tuesday) Lewis Ulrich, manager of the local United States Employment office, said today that workers are badly needed in local pack ing houses and orchards. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A. M. Sut ton is enjoying a broken rib. (This isnt' his wife.) (Bear Creek Jottings) A country corres pondent gets funny. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 24. 1936 (Thursday) George T. Frey, manager of the Medford branch of the U.S. National bank, is named by the county court as a member of the 1936 budget committee. The Medford Gieemen will meet for the first rehearsal of the fall season tomorrow night at the Baldwin Piano Shoppe. SO YEARS AGO, Sept. 24. 1926 (Friday) Two fires within 12 hours caused damage estimated to ex ceed $28,000 in Jackson county last night and this morning. Six traffic violators paid fines today which totaled $105 in Judge Taylor's court. 40 YEARS AGO Sept 24. 1916 (Sunday) In order to aid the election of Woodrow Wilson, the Mail Trib une will receive contributions from the public in any amount from ten cents up. Sells - Floto Circus, Buffalo BUI Wild West champion shows of the world, will exhibit here on Thursday. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 24. 1906 (Monday) The closing services of the conference year were held at the M.E. church yesterday. From Local and Personal col umn: J. W. Perkins, the orchard ist, left for Portland last eve ning. What's the Answer? Can Tou Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research Report 1. In 1952 most nation-wide election polls gave Eisenhower a wida or a narrow edge, or Stevenson a narrow edge, or found it about 50-50? 2. The Ford Motor Company is or isn't a member of the Auto mobile Manufacturers Associa tion? 3. Minimum wage for work in interstate commerce is now by federal law 75 cents, 90 cents, SI. SI. 10 or $1.25 an hour? 4. Which one of these gen erals was once superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point: Robert E. Lee, U. S. Grant, J.J. Pershing, D. D. Eisenhower? 5. Did the Senate or the House sit for more hours this year, or was it about 50-50? 6. Which state of the U.S. con tains a city of over 10,000 nam ed Moscow? 7. In a famous poem there was no joy in Mudville because of the result of a football con test, horse race, prize fight, base ball game or quiz program? The answers: 1. Most gave Eisenhower a narrow edge. 2. Is (joined recently). 3. SI. 4. Lee. 5. The Senate sat longer (as usual). 6. Idaho. .7. Baseball 9S ("Casey at the Bar"). MAIL TRIBUNE Deserves Thanks State Sen. Phil Lowry is entitled to a vote of thanks from the people of southern Oregon. It has largely been through his efforts that the Southern Pacific has had to defend publicly its action of last year in leaving all of southwestern Oregon without railroad passenger service. With an assist from his state senate colleagues in Grants Pass and Roseburg although the burden has fallen on him most heavily he has forced them to bring their arguments out in the open where they can be scrutinized and seen for what they are. TTHE SP alleges that a deficit in one small section of its overall, immensely profitable operation justi fies it in forgetting about its moral (and perhaps le gal) commitment to provide this fast-growing section with passenger service and good service, at that. Whether or not one agrees with this, we should be thankful that Senator Lowry got up and made the powerful SP attempt to justify it. (And it should be pointed out that he did it without recompense other than a feeling of obligation to the area, much of the; time single-handedly and ranged against a high-powered battery of SP attorneys.) AS to the SP's justification attempt, it may satisfy some" people. But it won't satisfy those who be lieve that a public utility has some obligation to serve the public in ways other than making a lot of money. The most amusing thing about the whole hearing last week, in our view, was the naive comment of the SP's chief attorney in Oregon, Frank C. McCulloch. He was quoted in the Mail Tribune as saying: "One thing that seems to be forgotten in this case is that Southern Pacific is not the only railroad serving Klamath Falls." That is the ONE thing that people in this area have NOT forgotten. For if Southern Pacific were "not the only railroad serving" Medford, how long would it take SP to get passengers back on the track .' About the length of time it takes to say "competition." "NE other comment may be appropriate. A number of people were interviewed by an SP official, who reported at the hearing that the "general reaction" was not adverse to the abandonment. This statement, quite properly, was stricken from the rec ord. Speaking as one of the individuals whose opinion was lumped in a "general reaction," we are moved to believe the SP man in question either has a bad mem ory or can't understand English. Our "general reaction" is that Senator Lowry and his colleagues have done a great service in putting up a fight against the SP's action, win or lose. E.A. - Cascade Highway Nearer The road frpm Medford to Klamath Falls by way of Lake of the Woods The No. 3 priority project for southern Oregon highways is negotiable now, we discovered with interest last week. Considerably more than half the route is now paved and in good condition. The rest of it about 20 miles is forest road. But as forest roads go, it isn't baH at all. We can't recommend it to the average driv er, however, because it is now heavily traveled by logging trucks, which are not exactly pleasant to see coming at one around a curve on a narrow road. . THE route has a number of advantages. It would be ail-weather, and could be kept free of snow more easily than the Green Springs highway. The grades are considerably less than on Highway 66, and the total distance traveled through snow is far less. Here's how it goes: From Medford to Eagle Point via Highway 62; east from Eagle point through Brownsboro and Lake Creek almost to McAllister Soda springs (it is about here the pavement ends) ; then up Little Butte Creek to a point just west of Fish lake, where it joins the road coming south from the Butte Falls area; then along existing forest roads to Lake of the Woods, around the north side of the lake, joining with the Klamath county road (paved almost to Lake of the Woods) which goes to Klamath Falls along the west side of Upper Klamath Lake. pOR years the stretch between McAllister 'Soda springs and the junction near Fish Lake was im passable, although before the war the state had start ed construction of a good road along the route. Re sumption of construction depends on a number of things agreement between the Jackson and Klamath county courts and the highway commission, and the availability of federal bureau of public roads funds. Discussions are now under way toward this end, and the optimists involved think that work can begin not later than next spring. Such a highway would open up more than a bil lion feet of ripe timber; it would make a trip to Klam ath Falls little more than a hop. and a skip; and the recreational facilities of the mountain country would be much more readily available. We hope the optimists are right. E.A. Potato Growers Due Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department will offer a subsidy this fall to potato growers who agree to hold low quality spuds off the market. The subsidy will be 50 cents per 100 pounds for better grade potatoes sent to starch factories, flour mills and livestock feed lots through Dec. 31. The aim is to bolster retail prices by re ducing supplies of potatoes for food. The subsidy will drop to 40 Monday, EipUmbu 24, 1958 To Receive Subsidy cents per hundred pounds from Jan. 1 through next March 31. It will be 30 cents from that date until the program closes. This will be not later than next June 30. London (U.Pj A man who wanted to sell his 1933 car plac ed today the fouowing adver- tisement in newspaper: "Start haggling about 40 pounds ($112) Bring own. beer," this may take time, .-i Sinkiang Build-Up May Result In Future Sino-Russ Conflict By CARLES M. MCCANN United Press Correspondent A vaft development program which some day may treaten the Russian Far East has been lW"S almost ignored at the Chinese C o m m u n ist party Con gress. The threat is the build-up of S i n k i ang Province. That Russia is aware of it can hardly be doubted. Sinkiang forms the northwest corner of China. It is China's largest province. It is bordered by Outer Mongolia, now a Rus sian satellite, and the Soviet re publics of Kazakh, Kirghiz and Tadzhik. Not many years ago Russia had a strong foothold in Sin kiang. It was for years a dream of both the Czarist and Bolshe vik regimes to take over the area. Now the Chinese Communists are pouring men and money in to the Sinkiang on an amazing scale. The territory is completely under the authority of the Chinese Red government. Foothold Gained Also, Red China is now getting a foothold in Outer Mongolia. China for centuries exerted formal, if loose, control over Outer Mongolia. Abandonment of this claim, and recognition of Outer Mongolia's "independ ence," came finally only in 1945. It is quite possible, if not probable, that China may be come agai.i the dominant power in Outer Mongolia. Considering that China, with 600 million people, needs more territory, it is quite possible also that some Chinese, includ ing the Reds, may dream of tak ing over some of Russia's under Cbailes M. UcLann Matter of Fact jo. THE STEVENSON FORMULA Washington Adlai Stevenson and his vast entourage have been in and out of Washington during this past week, ex u d i n g confi dence at every pore. Politi cians, to be sure, especial ly u n d e r dog politicians, ex ude confidence as instinctively as cows give milk. But in this case the confi dence seems genuine at least to the extent that Stevenson and his advisers really do believe that he has a chance to beat Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a pretty good chance at that. Moreover, they have a shrewd ly fashioned formula for achiev ing this uavia-ana-uouam mir acle. The first part of the for mula call or Stevenson to stage as a his torian in his entourage put it, the most en e r g e tic cam- 1 p a i g n in the V 3 history of the American pres- . 1 idency." f I From here on out, Steven- Stewart aisop son will be here, there, and everywhere, following a staggering schedule of speech-making, hand-shaking, and fence-mending. These days, moreover, Stevenson seems ac tually to enjoy the man-killing task of campaigning. Whereas in 1952, he was much given to ask ing plaintively "do I really have to do that?", he is now a bear for punishment, according to his aides. The purpose of this fierce ex penditure of energy is not only to get Stevenson's views to the people. It is also to present a contrast between the vigorous Stevenson and the relatively sedentary Eisenhower, thus subtly underlining the health issue. And another purpose is to identify Stevenson to the maxi mum extent with local Demo cratic candidates, and thus with the Democratic party. I?OR the Stevenson strategists citing the three-year Demo cratic trend culminating in the Maine victory, are .certain that on a straight party basis, the Democrats have the Republi cans on the run. "We'll take both houses, J'm dead sure of that," one top Democrat re marked. "The only question is whether Ike can survive his par ty's defeat." By the same token, every ef fort wiU also be made by Ste venson and the astute Stevenson propagandists to identify the President with the Republican party. Another part of the Ste venson formula as applied to Eisenhower is to bear down hard on the "part-time Presi- j dent" line, and, of course, to I center the attack on Vice Presi dent Nixon as the President's ; potential successor. The Stevenson formula also calls for making full use of the Democratic party's ambassadors ! ITS y ' J to special voting groups, in,! which the Democrats are rich, j I populated Far East in the years to come. Russia began penetrating Sink- j iang Province long before World War II. In fact, for some years there was joint Chinese-Russian control over the province. The Chinese Nationalist government got control of it during the war. Russia still had hopes of domination. Both the Chinese Reds stopped Russian penetra tion. Sinkiang covers 66.500 square miles of territory. Until recently its population was only 4 mil lions. Now the Reds are planning to move millions of people into Sinkiang. About 200,000 men who fought for the Nationalists in the Chin ese Civil War and later went over to the Reds are acting as pioneers in the development program. Railrpads Built The Chinese Reds are con structing a railroad through Sinkiang to the Sovit Union border. They also have com pleted, in cooperation with Rus sia, a railroad which runs from Peiping through Outer Mongolia into Siberia. The railroads are accepted as evidence of Chinese - Russian Communist friendship. In the Communist Congress in Peiping, Red Chinese leaders swore ever lasting friendship to the Soviet Union. But China and Russia are natural rivals in the Sin-kiang-Outer Mongolia-Manchuria-Siberia area. Speakers at the Communist Congress mentioned almost cas ually that Sinkiang was includ ed in the big program of agri cultural and industrial develop ment under the new five-year economic plan which starts in 1958. It is somewhat doubtful that two high-ranking Communists ever . trusted each other com pletely. It is exceedingly doubt and Stewart' Alsop and the Republicans notably poor. The chief ambassador to the farmers is, of course, Estes Kefauver, whose popularity among farmers is a striking if somewhat mysterious phenome non. Before the campaign ends, Kefauver will have displayed his special brand of folksiness in just about every important farm county in the country. T'HE chief ambassador to the -- Catholics, who have in re cent years shown a strong ten dency to shift their allegiance to the Republicans, is Sen. John Kennedy of Massachusetts. Ken nedy's speaking schedule is al most as staggering as Steven son's. He will get an assist, of course, from such other impor- t a n t Catholic Democrats as Mayor Robert Wagner of New York and Democratic leader Pat Brown of California. Chief ambassador to the mi nority groups will be Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose popularity among Negroes and other minorities is another re markable phenomenon. Mrs Roosevelt already has accepted engagements to speak for Ste venson in a whole series of key areas. ' To counter the immense po litical advantage which any in cumbent Republican enjoys, Ste venson also has had the sup port of a whole series of new Democratic governors an asset he lacked in 1952. His chief pre convention rival. New York's Gov. Averell Harriman, is pitch ing in manfully, and even Ohio's Frank Lausche, who has held himself carefully aloof in the past, is working hard for Ste venson. QJTEVENSON also has far more ' enthusiastic and energetic labor support than he had in 1952. Finally, Stevenson himself will key his whole campaign to presenting himself as the "cham pion of the people. He is well aware, as he was not in 1952, that incomparably the greatest asset of the Democrats is the image of the party, among im portant voting groups, as the party of the "little guys against the big shots." If being the champion of the people requires a mite more demagoguing than in 1952, so be it. Add the inherent advantages which any Democrat enjoys, no-' tably the Southern vote, and the Stevenson victory formula looks rather formidable. The popular President is still unquestionably the front runner, but not to the point where the Republicans can afford to- sit back happily on their haunches. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Take Along Plenty of GRUB On Your HUNTING TRIP! SAVE AT . . . ful that the Russian and Chinese Red leaders completely trust each other. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS During the week just past, the White House announced four specific actions by the govern ment's home financing agencies which are designed, the an nouncement indicated, to stim ulate the low-cost, housing field. 'T'HE federal housing adminis- -- tatinn mit frnm 7 1r s rfr cent the minimum down pay ment on houses appraised at S9.000 or less. At 7 per cent. the minimum down payment on a new house costing $9,000 or less has been $630. At 5 per cent the down payment will be $450. That is, the minimum down payment has been lowered by $180. The federal home loan bank boosted from 10 to 12V4 per cent of their share capital the limi tation on borrowing of member institutions. That means that if the savings and loan institutions FEEL IT IS SAFE they can loan a little more money for building new houses. The federal national mortgage association, in effect, raised the price it will pay for mortgage by 1 per cent. It did this by decreasing the discount at which it has been buying mort gages. The result of that is to increase the interest rate which, presumbly, will bring more mortgage money into the market. The FNMA also agreed to issue advance commitments to buy home mortgages at prices more favorable to the seller. TKY was' this done? 11 T., Let's be brutally frank about it. Home construction has been slipping off in recent months. This reductioniin home building has been affecting un favorably the market for build ing materials, home furnishings, etc. There is strong pressure to make more credit available, so that more new houses will be built. This is an election year. In election years it is highly de sirable to the administration in power to keep business bovming. SHOULD it have been done? That is a debatable ques tion. Home ownership on the part of our people is undoubt edly desirable. American fam ilies should be encouraged to build all the new homes they can pay for and so far the payment record has been good. On the other hand, if more homes are built than are need ed, or can and will be paid for, the resulting situation wiU be bad. But While new home construction since the end of the war has bordered on the fabulous the demand for new homes is amaz ing. There are indications that this demand will continue for some time to come. The census bureau, for example, estimates that between 1955 and 1957 TWENTY MILLION more households may be added in the United States due to the present rapid rate oi increase in our population. That would require a lot more houses. NOW for the $64,000 question. WiU what has been done work? There is a lot of talk about "tight "money. That suggests a realistic question: Why is money tight? THIS seems to be the answer: The demand for new money to build new houses, to build new factories, to purchase new. mechanical equipment, to build new highways, etc. is IN CREASING FASTER THAN SAVINGS. This fact is fumdamental: Be fore a HARD dollar can be loan ed, a- dollar must be saved up by somebody. So If more money is to be avail able for investment more money must be saved by the people. That is the only sound way in which money for investments can be provided. At this point, the realistic-minded people of Ore gon deserve a pat on the back. In August of this year they bought more E and H govern ment bonds than in an August since the 1945 war days. That is a good sign. Italy has a coastline of 2,270 miles. On the peninsula no place is more than 60 miles distant from the sea. f MARKET 1 E 1202 North Riverside ) OPEN EVERY L $ NIGHT TIL J MIDNIGHT yflf Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all fetters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Back to George Chamberlain To the Editor: A recent article, on attempted $70,000 bribery to defeat Oregon's Senator George Chamberlain in 1908, so coincides with what I've just recread in Introductory to Loot ing of The Public Domain li brary book that I'm offering it as a sequel. Among other pierc ing statements Mr. .Stevens says: "Practically all arrangements for this immense plunder origin ated among unscrupulous resid ents of distant parts ... in the ranks of the devout moneyed aristocracy, and it has remain ed for the honest manhood of Oregon to redeem the common wealth from the stigma of dis honor ... by the polluted hands of Eastern commerical greed. "Careful analysis . . . indicates most of these stupendous schemes of plunder were con cocted in the cunning minds of those who had made a life study of the subject." . . . From Min nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan came the offsprings which pro duced a Jim Hill, a Weyer haeuser, a Thomas B. Walker, a C. A. Smith, "and a host of others responsible for present conditions." "It is noteworthy . . . that this volume furnishes an object lesson in support of the idea that there is a remarkable similarity in all fraudulent enterprises and that the scheme of looting the public domain is merely a by product of the general scheme of plunder running riot through out the country. The same tools are used upon all occasions where it is found expedient to rob the people. The same courts are tampered with, the same members of both branches of Congress, and the same beads of departments in Washington are polluted each time, until it has come to be regarded as certain that vast interests have fattened on the life-blood of the nation by process qf having a veteran force at their command . . . and they have developed a vein of activity . . . that has its parallel in the history of the downfall of the Roman Empire. . "No nation can long survive the reign of corruption that has characterized the speculative craze existing in America the past decade. It has permeated all branches of public service, and the history of the land frauds of the West is the history of corruption tactics in other di rections. Corruption is a hydra headed monster of hideous mien, and the fact that it has been exposed wholesale . . ..in Ore gon and San Francisco . . . and retail in other states and cities, Housing Code Gets Enthusiasm Portland, Ore. (U.PJ Ore gon building and financial cir cles Saturday expressed little en thusiasm for the federal govern ment's reduction from 7 to 5 per cent in FHA down payments for houses under $9,000. John M. Dickerman, executive director of the National Associ ation of Home Builders, said in Portland, "We are glad to see the administration taking at least a step in the right direction." But, he added, "It will take more drastic action to bring hous ing into competition with other demands for money. The present situation is hitting the low-income housing group hardest and the middle-income group next." Builders and mortagage men both said it was interest rates and not down payments that have curtailed building and caused a slump in the lumber industry. In terest rates on FHA and VA housing loans are frozen at 4-and-one-half per cent while other loans collect from five-and-one-half to six per cent interest Herb Cox, of lumberman's buy ing service in Eugene, said the re duced down payment require ments "will be of little assist ance to the average home buyer and no material help to lumber and other forest products." RICE OVER CONFETTI Deptford, England (U.R) The rector of the parish church here has requested wedding par ties to throw rice, not confetti. Church workers have to sweep up confettie, he said, but birds will take care of the rice. DR. ROBERT L. HARLAND OPTOMETRIST Announces with pleasure the Opening of his Professional Office for the practice of Optometry in all its branches. AT 213 EAST MAIN STREET Medford, Oregon Practice devoted to examination, analysis and rehabilitation of the visual functions. BY APPOINTMENT Telephone 2-2210 Office Hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Letters submitted for publication must should never be accepted that it is dead beyond all power of resurrection." John E. Gribble, . 139 Kenwood ave, Medford, Ore. She Resents TV To the Editor: Well, I know one sure thing, if I wanted an excuse to leave Medford I'd sure have it, trying to get some fun out of your TV station is enough to drive a person nuts. Does KBES-TV think we are abso lutely crazy over steel, tin cans and repeat programs? Your sta tion acts like they are all dead down there. As long as you peo ple sit there and take those pro grams tney will push it on you. After all you're the ones that buy the things they are tryinf to sell. I've lived In several towns and I've never seen so manv steel pictures, poor singing shorts, or have I seen so many oreaxaowns. ivery day "trou ble here." it's on the screen now, on a steel picture too. They art gradually getting rid of all the good shows. If they don't want to run a decent station why don't they sell it and let some body run it that, knows how and will buy some decent equip- ' ment. Don't anybody bother to write in and say they are doine a swell job, because they aren't If you think so find out how many hundreds of good pro grams there are. They wiU tell you they have to take what they get. I don't believe it They will sit there and make you believe they are doing their best Oh, yes, with that smile. And now football every night. Once a week is enough. . . Everybody you mention this station to says, "Oh, that sta tion." Well come on, do some thing about it. You're the only ones that can do it. And you sponsors wake up. Women won't buy your products when you sponsor a duU, boring program. They just leave the room. Don't you forget it, KBES-TV. You need the public's money for you to pile it up. Wake up! The kids are even disgusted, the same Disneyland over and over and over. If they ever get that cable this far that gives you all the Portland stations you'll wake up. Mrs. H. E. Johnson, Route 1, Box 648, Medford, Ore. The Al Sarena Punle To the Editor: Would you and the people of Jackson county like to have the facts about the Al Sarena mine business? Then listen to this: One Martin- Applegate discov ered mineral not far off Elk Creek. He located thereon, and name"d the mine the 'Buzzard', a name it carried for many years. He did this about the year 1900. Applegate worked this mine until in the year 1912, when he closed it down as "worked out' Nothing further worth while could be found. During the time he bad it he found two leads going out from the original shaft. One was a very small vein of almost pure silver. It was at its largest about two fingers in width. And was varying in size throughout its entire length, but was worth working until the vein 'petered out' This drift was about one quarter of a mile in length. The other was gold in a crys talized state with the gold run ning in rough cubical shape and with some joined in a curious angle form, which was exceed ingly rare in this metal. This vein ran in the opposite direction from the silver vein and in a semi-circle, as did the silver vein. The gold vein paid very well for Mr. Applegate. During the time it was in op eration a full crew was em ployed. Then Applegate abandoned the mine as not further worth while, and after a lapse of a number of years, the McDonald brothers either dealt Applegate out or filed on it as abandoned, which is legal. One of the broth ers became disgusted and quit the whole affair. It truly would be a fine way to acquire a fine stand of tim ber if it worked. And at prac tically no expense. Uncle Sam being the fine gullible old man he is as McKay very nearly proved, and maybe has proved. A. L. Unger, 634 Pennsylvania Ave, Medford, Ore.