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I FOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) Medfordtribiwe "XveryOM in SouUieni Ore goo Red Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Ex cent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-2S Sorthrir St Phong 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAi.0 LATHAM Bujinema Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER Societv Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Inde pendent Newapaper - Entered a second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance; Per Copy lOe. . Daily and Sunday One rear $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moi 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Aihland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year 118 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealer 10c per copy Alt Terms Cash In Advance tiffirUl Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Represents tl ve : WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY ENC Offices In New York Chicago, de tro.t San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORlAi I ASSOCfATIfflN trwnniw.iHHi NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1947 (Monday) Out of town visitors are arriv ing to attend dedication cere monies for the Rogue Elk forest. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Upstate now has snow. It serves them right for the way they talked about valley weather last July, when the mercury went to 115. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1937 (Wednesday) A petrified nectarine dis played at the Mail Tribune office by its owner, M. J. Love. William S. Bolger is elected Big Eruption of the Crater club today. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1927 (Thursday) E. M. Wilson, CPA, completes audit of books of district school clerk. Miss Mildred F. Swearin gen. Circuit Judge C. M. Thomas re turns from Grants Pass after holding court there this week. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 13. 1917 (Friday) By vote of 17 to 8 farmers of the Gold Hill and Foots Creek district sanction creation of the Gold Hill irrigation district. C. W. McDonald, president of the Jackson county bank, elected president of the Commercial club. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior: -en or elfht is excellent; live er six Is good. 1. Were British postage stamps used in the American colonies? 2. Was Henry M. Stanley famous for Asiatic or Polar ex plorations? 3. Verses 8 15, 21, and 31, of the 107th Psalm have what in common? 4. Crows usually fly forward In a straight line; true or false? 5. During World War II did the U.S. maintain troops in any part of Canada? 6. Name the sculptor of the famous statue "The Thinker". 7. Is chinchilla a rare drug, a fir tree, or the name of a fur? 8. Is sewerage the contents of a sewer; the refuse matter? 9. Is sewage the contents of a sewer or drain? 10. When asked what hope is, was it Socrates or Aristotle who said it was "The dream of a waking man"? Answers: 1. No. 2. No. Afri can. 3. They are all exactly alike. 4. False. 5. Yes. 8. Rodin. 7. Name of a fur. 8. No. 9. Yes. 10. Aristotle. $200 Reported Taken From Tavern Cooler Approximately $200 was re ported taken sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning from a beer cooler at Hunter's tavern north of Med ford on the Crater Lake high way, according to sheriff's depu ties. The money was discovered missing at 8:30 a.m.. Friday, by Eugene Victor Hunt, owner of the establishment. Access to the tavern was ' believed gained through the front door, which was discovered open Friday morning. Investigation of the theft is still under way, deputies said. MAIL TRIBUNE Back to There appears to b 3 no reasonable doubt that So viet Russia has abandoned its "sheeps clothing," its reign of "sweetness and light" and returned to Stalin and Stalinism. The doubt is whether or not the rulers of the Kremlin ever really left In any modern or really civilized society, this would put Comrade Krushchev in a very tough spot In fact an impossible one. For listen to what the .Russian leader had to say about Stalin and Stalinism only a few months ago, quote : "Stalin discarded the Leninist method of convincing and educating. He abandoned the method of ideological struggle for that of administrative violence, mass repressions and terror. He acted on an increasingly larger scale and more stubbornly through punitive organs, at the same time vio lating all existing norms of morality and of Soviet Laws." TT IS difficult to think of a more severe and devas 1 tating indictment. But Krushchev continued, again quote : "Thus arbitrary behavior by one person encouraged and permitted arbitrariness in others. Mass arrests and de portations of many thousands of people, execution without trial and without normal investigation created conditions of insecurity, fear and desperation." - IT WOULD be difficult to think up a better descrip tion of what Soviet Russia is, and has been, doing in Hungary, when that country only asked (and what at one time Stalin promised to grant), its freedom and independence. It should not be overlooked that this testimony is not from any enemy of Russia b one of its chief leaders and propagandists. He goes on: "The commission (Kremlin) has become acquainted with a large quantity of information from N.K.V.D. from the fabrication of cases against Communists, to false accusa tions, to glaring abuses which resulted in the death of in nocent people. It became apparent that many party Gov ernment and economic activists who were branded as "en emies" were actually never enemies, spies, wreckers, etc., but were always honest Communists." And yet that is the sort of thing to which, accord ing to all available evidence the Russian government, in which the witness has such an important place, is now deliberately returning. f")NE thing is certain, to-wit: There is no country in the world, except one under a communist-imperialistic dictatorship, where such an inconsistent, incredible and completely amoral condition could be allowed to continue, much less permanently exist. R.W.R. 772e "State of the Union" According to many reports from Washington, President Eisenhower did not want to read his "State of the Union".message in person. He thought it more fitting to have one of the reading clerks do it. He was, according to the same trustworthy sources, over ruled by his top-drawer "presidential advisers." Well the President's keen political instinct was, as so often is the case, far better than the professional dictum of his subordinates. e ZOOMING so soon after the "bomb-shell" warning to Soviet Russia, the "state of the union" offer ing was bound to suffer by comparison and even if it had had anything new to say which it had NOT it would have been pretty much a "dud" as well as an anti-climax. President Eisenhower had the right idea, "Why not let George do it?" MOT that there was anything particularly to criti ' cize, but it was all so routine, delivered in such a routine fashion, and was never, so to speak, brought into sharp focus. We heard it over the air, and read most of it later, but it is still difficult to say precisely what it all added up to, and what were its significant and salient points. THE final impression was that it was a succession of "Yes-buts." For example: "Yes" the nation is strong for peace, BUT the nation must be equally strong for war. The atoms-for-peace program must be empha sized, BUT there should be no let down in our mass production, not only of atomic bombs and weapons, but of flying missiles. We should continue our efforts- toward world disarmament, BUT take no risk of losing our strong position in that important international field, in case of trouble and trouble threatens. We should be careful to preserve and utilize every drop of water from the time it falls from the skies to the time it flows into the ocean, BUT we should beware of public power or any government competi tion with private enterprise, or taxpaying industry. (APPLAUSE!) OUR national prosperity is unprecedented, BUT we should follow the "hard money" line (which, ac cording to many observers, is making prosperity im possible for the "little man.") In this way only tan we steer clear cf that most powerful enemy of our prosperity, INFLATION. "Mutual understanding" is the chief buttress of human and civil rights, and we should be proud of our progress in this direction, BUT a four-point civil rights program should be at once adopted presum ably because there is something still to be desired in this direction and something needed to increase our pride. fE HAVE the richest, greatest, most powerful country the world has ever seen, BUT the time has come for a broad inquiry in the performance and adequacy of our FINANCIAL system. The present administration is strong for the con- Sunday, January 13, 1957 Stalin! 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 letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Fat, Soft and Afraid To the Edtior: Listening to the President of the United States, I was shocked and enraged by the statement that our secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, had, not long ago, publicly advised the Russians that they had noth ing to fear from us. (U.S. in cap ital letters.) This is an apalling statement. The Russian has gobbled up all the country that was handy, and the rest we gave him. With their filthy, lecherous spies and camp followers permeating the atmos phere with their lies and in trigue, within the boundaries of the United States, nothing could be more ridiculous! We find upon careful apprais al of the servants of the govern ment, in high places, that they are often weighed in the bal ance and found wanting. Many of them have never worked with their hands, most have created nothing. Fat, soft and afraid. They sit in one place so long and do so little that they are often carted off to a government hos pital at your exoense, to relieve their miseries. When a man gets soft and fat and" has no strength he becomes afraid. The Russian and the people of Asia watch carefully for signs of weakness. We have seen the signs. Timidi ty, vacillation, and a plea to be allowed to give away our money and our men's lives, to strength en our so-called friends. It is well to remember that the beg gar does not like the. alms giver. He may bless you with his mouth but in his heart he will curse you. Abraham Lincoln said it best. "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong." It is time that men of courage and men of strength replaced the cowards and weaklings. Men who look, act and talk like men. Not those who whimper, "you have nothing to fear from us." It is time to inform Russia and anyone else who thinks we are weak that they do have something to fear from us. They should .be informed that they may well dread the wrath of the United States. The only way to make a bullying criminal treat you right is to make him afraid to do otherwise! We have a chance often to send men to Washington. Not fat and cowardly weaklings. Let us send men who will look the demagogue in the eye across the Pacific and damn him for his treacherous thinking, and slap him back in the putrescent slime from which he crawled. Pete Logan Dark Hollow rd. Medford, Ore. Project a Success To the Editor: The Medford Lady Lions wish to express their deep appreciation to all the indi viduals, clubs, lodges and other organizations who were so gen erous with their time and money for their help in making the an nual Christmas project a suc cess. Without the help of all it would not have been possible to complete the project. Because of the fine coopera tion we received it was possible to make over 600 children of Medford and vicinity happy at Christmas time. Medford Lady Lions, Mrs. Joseph Tomjack, President Practice What You Preach To the Editor: I have never written you before but this grip ing about the way the boys wear their hair is just too much. Look at some of the styles the girls have but they are fine you never hear of them being ex pelled from school. And believe me they are just as ridiculous as the way the boys could dream up. As for Elvis Presley, the "duck tail," or whatever it is, was here long before he was ever heard of. I say let the kids wear their hair as they like it. They outgrow all these fads. They are only teen-agers once in a lifetime. If adults tried to set a good example for our kids, they wouldn't have so much time to criticize them. They see their parents and teachers smok ing and drinking so they -think it's O.K. for them. My policy is. don't do any thing you wouldn't want your children to do, or practice what you preach. Yes. I have two teen-agers, a daughter, 19. and a son. 17. Mrs. L. H. Tibbits Eagle Point, Ore. servation of our natural resources, BUT only through a tri partite "partnership" of Federal, State and Local Authorities whatever that means. CO ONE might go on and on. We don't say it was a poor speech, as such speeches go, nor deny that many of the points made were well taken, but it was so full of generalities, so constantly qualified, so Sprinkled with phrases which listened well but were so in need of further clarifica tion, that the net result, at least as far as this depart ment was concerned, was one of disappointment and considerable confusion. R.W.R. Complains About "Welfare" To the Editor: This concerns the Jackson County Public Wel fare department and others in this state. I am able to work, but there are no jobs to be had that I can do, and I would like to get a lit tle to get along on. I am self employed when I can find work, so they tell me I have to sell my truck which I use in the summer months to make my living. People go to Jackson Coun ty Welfare and tell a pack of lies and get help immediately, and come out telling how stupid they (the welfare) are and how easy it is to get it. But when you need it you can't get it. One more thing that burns me up, a poor old lady sent her grandson to the Jackson Coun ty Welfare (Jan. 2 1957) to tell them she was moving to Cali fornia and wanted to notify them so they wouldn't keep sending her checks. She thought she was doing what was right and not getting money under false pretenses and they didn't have decency enough to tell her that she could draw welfare in another state for one year. A poor old lady that can't hardly get up and around. Section 11 in Chapter 459 Oregon laws, reads as follows: Any recipient may move from one county in the state to an other or to another state and on such removal shall remain eligible to receive assistance in accordance with the rules of the State Public Welfare Commis sion. Two years ago I went to the health board and told them I couldn't feed my two children and asked them what I should do about it and they just laugh ed at me and said they didn't know. By the way folks, if you only have two children you might as well forget about getting wel fare in Jackson county (although there -are probably several fam ilies getting it). But that is an other excuse they gave me. The family that has three or more children are entitled to live, but the rest of us are cast down to possibly starve. The people that go in and tell the truth (and in some cases are easy to handle) and need help, they usually come out with out anything. If the case is actu ally starvation then they put you off till the next two days till they can make a house call, and that takes them two weeks sometimes to make, and I have waited as long as a month. H. Franklin, Route 1, Box 117, Talent, Ore. Little Country To .the Editor: Under, Com munications in Tuesday's Trib une, Edith Y. Ingle of 338 Bessie st., writes under the heading "God Save America." I agree with her on that point, yes, God will save America. If we have guts enough to stand up and fight for it. The very first line for defeat is fear. And the first line of offense is spreading of fear and then the terror. As to Edith Ingle, it's just too bad she was not born 4000 years ago in Egypt for the learned embalmers to take care of her after she died. She would be worth some money by now. I still have the clipping from the Tribune she had a communica tion before Christmas, praising the old Egyptians as the good embalmers, the Arabs for the algebra. May I ask, do the Egyptians of today still understand the em balming of old, or did the Rus sian beat them to it? How many of the average Arabs today do understand algebra? I do not un derstand it myself, but I always can understand the state of mind from the writer, whoever she or he many be. To Edith Ingle, Nasser of Egypt is the great man of today. All the Eng lish, French and Israelis are bad, condemned. Even our Presi dent Eisenhower is on the wrong track and probably should be fired like a "Red Herring" took care of McArthur. There is a little country in the heart of Europe with les than 16,000 square miles, 5,000, 000 population. It too was in vited to join the dis-United Na tions at its start, it declined. They are determined to uphold the everlasting neutrality they have sworn to. I have a letter from over there, that the peo ple over there are more con cerned about the future during Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop THE STATE OF THE PRESIDENT Washington Now that the President has given his report on the state of the nation, a report on the state of the President seems in or der. The state of the Presi d e n t, accord ing to those who should know, can be summed up ft " . - i - Stewart Alsop very briefly. It is good. Take the state of the Presidential health first. No President, and probably no man in history, has ever had his physical condition subjected to such careful and continuous scru tiny. His doctors brood over him like a dozen hens with one chick. Almost every day, his blood is tested, his blood pres sure taken and his pulse felt. The mildest of complaints a headache or a stiff shoulder is treated like a federal of fense. Aside from this daily testing and probing, and the occasional big ceremonial hospital exam inations, the President is also very regularly subjected to searching check-ups at the White House. Only a few days ago, for example, Dr. Thomas Mattingly. the heart specialist, performed a thorough examination, and gave the President a clean biU of health. THE President grumbled a bit at first over aU this fussing over him. But there are certain compensations. Before his ileitis operation, he used to have stom ach cramps mostly mild but occasionally very painful much more often than was gen erally known. He has not had them recently, and in this sense. bar recurrence, he is better off than before his operation. There are other compensa tions. His doctors have decided that regular exercise is not only good for the President, but es sential to his well-being. At Get tysburg, recuperating from his operation, the President was de nied all exercise, and he brood ed, and stubbornly refused to gain weight, which worried the doctors more than they cared to admit. But as soon as he got a golf stick in his hand, his weight began to come back, and the President now again has to keep a watchful eye on the scales. The President goes to bed early, usually by nine, gets up early, usually by seven, and works hard all morning. But every afternoon he knocks off work to exercise, with the un clouded conscience of a man who is only following doctors' orders. He gets in some golf almost every fair day, and a swim is a regular afternoon oc currence, rain or shine. He swims in the heated White House pool, sometimes alone, sometimes with a grandchild, and often with his boon com panion George Allen, perennial friend of Presidents. TTIS relaxations are mild- Western movie (the only kind he likes), .a whiskey and soda or sometimes two (also or dered by his doctors); and bridge. most often with Allen, Gen. Al fred Gruenther, and William Robinson, President of the Coca Cola Company. Under this regimen, accord ing to those who see him often the President is in an excellent state of mind as well as health. He still blows up from time to time, about small matters. When he found that he had signed a proclamation fixing the date of Thanksgiving on the day fixed by Franklin Roosevelt, rather than the traditional date, he al most blew the roof off the White House. When irked, he likes to fix members of his staff with a basilisk eye, and repeat an old army saying: "No explana tions are required, because no the Hungarian rebellion than anytime during both World wars, when their little country was entirely surrounded by war ring nations. They took in 10, 000 Hungarians that escaped from their homeland. They are housing them in their army bar racks. But those people do not look for possible protection from a dis-United Nations. Due to the Hungarian revolt, its whole ar my this coming year will be equipped with the most modern weapons and the girls and ladies to take army training to learn to shoot and shoot fast. So if ever the big overgrown black cat with its white stripes down its back, that has a hide mind of a rhino should start on a rampage, overrunning one country after another, they'll be ready for it, to give it a great reception, but probably not to their liking. That black cat with its white stripes down its ''back has already overrun too many little countries with their flow er gardens and everything they held dear trampled down and its smell not only left behind, they still staying there. Yes, I stiU think President Eisenhower sees too what that little country ac cross the sea has seen. Xavier Widmer Route 3, Box 186 Medford, Ore. explanations will be accepted." But he is a great deal calmer in spirit than he once was. He still likes to get away, but he no longer regards the White House as a prison. Above aU, though he still hesitates to use the full power of the Presi dency, he has a sense of inner assurance he lacked in his first years as President. r"pO THIS optimistic report on - the state of the President, two warning footnotes must be add ed. First, obviously, there is no way to insure a man with the President's medical history against accidents. Second, less obviously, the President's enor mous prestige is, in a sense, a positive danger to him. His staff members and most of the other men with access to him are scared of him, less because of his peppery temper than because he has come to seem somehow larger than life. There is hardly anyone now who is willing to stand up to him, to argue with him, to criticize his policies, to point blunUy to the dangers, and difficulties ahead. The Democrats, cowed by the Eisenhower political magic, hardly dare t breathe a word against him, while the President is more immune from press criticism than any of his predecessors without exception. Even before his first election, Eisenhower used to teU friends that the great danger was that he would be transformed into a kind of miracle worker, who could supposedly solve all prob lems with a wave of a wand. That danger is now very real. and it is a danger which must be taken most seriously in a Democracy. Meanwhile it is good to know that the state of the President is good. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Varied Rainfall Noted In Illinois Valley Cave Junction According to records kept at three different weather stations in the Illinois valley, annual rainfall varies more than 30 inches from the south end of the valley to the north, a distance of about 25 miles. At the Redwood highway in spection station, rainfall totaled 88.86 inches in 1956. The weath er station at the Illinois valley ranger station. Cave Junction, showed a total rainfall of 48.55 inches, while at M. A. Sprague's station at Deer creek near Selma rainfaU totaled 54.85 for 1956. Today and 'By Walter CLARITY AND DELIBERATION Mr. Dulles in his public state ment did little to clarify; and make concrete the new Middle Eastern plan. This unclear ness is due, I think, to the fact that what is really new and of practi cal importance in the plan is something which it is dif ficult to talk Walter Llpomana about in advance. This some thing new is the authority and the means to negotiate and to bargain with the unaligned Arab states. I may be mistaken but I am supposing that Mr. Dulles is hop ing not to have to show his hand before he plays it. His way of getting Congress to vote the authority, the men and the mon ey, without his having to show his hand is to talk very loudly about something else, about the need once again to warn the Soviet Union not to attempt to conquer the Middle East by war. There are in the plan two re lated yet separable parts. One is the warning to the Soviet Union or to a Soviet satellite, if there were one, not to commit overt military aggression. The other is the request for bargaining power to induce the Arab states not to become satellites, not to go overboard for the Soviet Union. It is this second part which has a certain novelty. It is on the first part that the Presi dent and Mr. Dulles have thought it expedient to focus attention. THIS may be a good public re--- lations device for dealing with Congress, which is, of course, quite willing to take a firm stand to warn against aggression, but is reluctant to sign blank checks. The device is to make one pack age of the warning and of the blank checks. Congress is being told that only if it "quickly dis pels doubt" about our determin-; ation to resist the "piecemeal conquest of the world by war," will it have done what is neces sary to preserve peace and free dom. But is this good public policy? Would it not be better to sepa rate the warning from the bar gaining power? The warning" could be adopted promptly and with something very close to unanimity. The short resolution being circulated by Speaker Ray burn would do very well in deed. It would be a declaration by Congress that "the United POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) One of our spies was in Eu gene last week end, and hap pened into a cemetery, there espying a large marble monu ment on which was engraved the following: "I was once what you are now. "You will soon be what I am now." Below this, someone had care fully inscribed: "I doubt it, I don't know which way you went!" While browsing through a 1347 file of the Mail Tribune. we ran across the feature "Strange As It Seems" (which is still carried by this news paper.) On of the items in that nine-year-old cartoon was ' the statement: "Why is it fatal for a plane to reach the spead of sound? Normally, sound sends a warning ahead and -the air moves aside at over 700 miles per hour, no warn-', ing is sent, and the plana smashes into solid air!" Things change fast, don't they? A certain anonymous fellow we heard about went to Pasa dena for the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl game. Had a fine time, too. But during the parade he reached for his camera to re cord forever the scenes he'd travelled nearly 1.000 miles to sej, and found he'd left all his film in the glove compartment of his car, safely parked 25 mil es away at his motel. A certain stale police of ficer, in the course of his duties recently, stopped a woman driver and handed her a citation for violation of the basic rule. Later the same day, while off-duty, he went shop ping down town, and we are reliably informed he actually blushed when he noticed the clerk who was waiting on him . was the same woman he'd ar rested not long before. - e A couple from Trail, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barber, recently at tended a television show while on vacation in Hollywood. An alert public relations man asked them to fill out cards about their visit, and on the cards was a space to give the purpose of their visit to Los Angeles. The answers were, on her card, "Get in the sun," and on his card, "Get out of the rain." Tomorrow Lippmann States regards as vital to her in terests the preservation of the in dependence and integrity of the states of the Middle East and, if necessary, will use her armed force to that end." Such a resolution need not. and in my view should not, be come a "substitute" for the reso lution asked by the President. Congress should give him author ity and the means to negotiate in the Middle East. But Congress should act with deliberation and should avoid giving the impres sion that it thinks war is immi nent and that it is being stam peded into signing away its con trol of the armed forces and of .the expenditure of money. THERE is good reason for think ing that by breaking up the package and by taking the two parts separately, Congress would help to make the overaU plan more likely to succeed. For one of the great defects of the Eisenhower-Dulles approach has been that it seems to imply that in ac cepting, our assistance and our guarantee, the Arab states are aligning themselves with us against the Soviet Union. Certain of the key countries are unlikely to do this. It might be better, therefore, to deal with the warning to the Soviet Union in one resolution, and with the authority to bargain with the Arab states in another resolu tion. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Siskiyou Grand Jury Gives Report Yreka The 1956 grand jury for Siskiyou county last week . submitted a list of recommen-. dations for improvements on several county phases, including . schools and jails. The recommendations includ ed a priority system of road im provement, hiring of a school . building inspector, salary in creases for the county school superintendent and county audi tor and a job classification sur vey of county employees. '; The report also noted over- -crowding and lack of adequate ' playground facilities as common : deficiencies in county schools. 4 Facilities of several jails in the county, especially women's and juveniles' quarters, were deemed 1 "deplorable." ! North Dakota's state capitol j building at Bismarck is of sky- , scraper construction and a sec- j tion of it rises to a height of ; 18 stories. j
