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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordvTeibukk "Iveryon m Southern Oregon Reada Th Mail Tnbun" FubluThed Daily Exeeot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 87-23 North Fir St Phone 2-9141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HT.RB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AiXN JR. Managing Editor FARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Societ Editor DALE ERICKSON Circula tion Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claw matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mail In Advance: Per CopT 10c Daily and Sunday One year 913 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sundav Only One year $4.20 By Carrier tn Advance Med ford Ashland Centra) Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove Rou River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.30 Carrier and Dealer 10c per copy A 11 Terms Caih In Advance GTrVtal paper of the City of Medford Offlctal taperof Jackson County United Press- Full Leased Wlre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troi t. Sa n FY a n cisco. Lou Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL f D I T 0 R I A i I A S $ O cfa TION Wijjunii u I u i O" NIWSPAPII PUIIISHEKS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The MaU Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1947 (Monday) A total of 256 cars with 1,026 skiers visit Crater Lake National park yesterday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Congress row faces the prospect of more anti-labor bills than there were strikes last summer. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1937 (Wednesday) Plans for annual President Roosevelt ball progress with ap pointment of chairmen by Por ter J. Neff, general chairman. - Greatest air mail year in his tory is recorded by Oregon in 1938 when 229,329 pounds of mail Is sent over airways, ac cording to Postmaster Frank DeSouza. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1927 (Thursday) Charles A. Adams, former po lice chief, is now working nights as a merchant's private patrol man or watchman. Ralph Cowgill and C. E. Gates, of Medford, return from Salem today with praise for Jackson county delegation to 1937 state legislature. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 20. 1917 (Saturday) Dr. F. C. Page has plans made for erection of two business blocks on East Main st. near Riv erside ave. W. G. Laidley, logging fore man for the Applegate Lumber company, says the company is getting railroad ties and bridge timber for extension of the railroad into timber areas. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nino or ten correct is superior; en or etcht Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Does the fiscal year of the U.S. government start on Jan. 1 March 4. or July 1? 2. Congress established an In dependent Treasury in 1840. Was the act ever repealed? 3. Did Christopher Columbus discover the mainland of North America? 4. Though the term "this fel low" is used in the New Testa ment, was it ever applied to Jesus? 5. Did ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany died in Germany? Luxembourg? 6. What was the nickname of Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chen nault's famous military force? 7. Fresh fruits contain virtual ly no, if any, protein or fats; true or false? 8. Which is the saltier: the Atlantic or the Pacific ocean? 9. Anticipate; hope; expect: Which of the three words is the strongest, insofar as it implies some ground or reason for a thine to happen? 10. "So for a good old gentle manly vice. I think I must take un with averice." Did Shake- snfarp or Bvron author the lines? Answers: 1. JuIt 1. 2. Ye. 3 No. 4. Yes. 5. No. Holland. 6. "Flying Tigers." 7. True. 8. At lantic. 9. Expect. 10. Byron. Yellowstone Park is the larg est national park in the United States It covers more than two million acres in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. The U. S. patent office not only is self-supporting but also usually returns an annual profit as well. MAIL TRIBUNE Politics Makes Strange Scenarios There is more to this deadlock in the state senate than meets the eye. There have been "deadlocks"' before. There have been long-winded debates on various issues, from time to time with no quarter asked or granted. But this impasse is something different It pro ceeds, we believe, from something new the inability of a party to forget and forgive an unexpected and decisive defeat. HTHIS has been particularly, noticeable in the Ore gon pi ess, which is overwhelmingly Republican. Usually when an important election is over and the verdict has been clearly and emphatically handed down, there is a general journalistic disposition on the part of the losers to let bygones be bygones, for get it all, and go on from there. DUT not this year. The polls had hardly closed before some of the more violent of the "Old Guard" press, resumed their sniping particularly in the direction of Senator Morse just reelected for a 6 year term, and Senator Neuberger with four more years to go. One might think, under such circumstances, there would be, at least, an armed trace if not a complete cessation of partisan "politicking" for a year or two. But not for the "Old Guard", who as the saying goes, "may die but never surrenders." ""TAKE the esteemed Salem Capital Journal, for example, "than which there is none such." In a a recent issue it revived and repeated all the time-honored G.O.P. charges of the 1956 cam paign, namely, quote: "Wayne Morse's chief claim to fame in his 12 years serv ice is as champion filibusterer with the record-length ram bling speech of senate history he has been Republican, Independent, and Democrat in the past four years, no one knows what he will be in the next four maybe a socialist if the Demos don't nominate him He helped nominate Ike in 1952, pledged his support then suddenly deserted and campaigned for Adlai Stevenson." Doesn't that have a familiar ring? In could be called one of the theme songs of the Douglas McKay group in their effort to get Wayne Morse's seat in the US Senate and kick our senior sen ator out. But, as everyone knows, it completely failed. The people of Oregon went to the polls and reelected Wayne Morse by a surprisingly handsome majority. Then why not forget it until at least another national campaign approaches? We don't mean that Senator Morse should not be criticized for anything he may or may not do in this, his THIRD term. That is every editor's and every citizen's right. But we do mean that to replay the same old wheezy record, that was so over-played in the cam paign recently closed and the -voters at least a large majority of them so clearly and emphatically repudiated, adds up to a persisting partisan bias and consuming personal hatred, that borders on" the psychopathic. BUT the "Journal" refused to be content with this. resurrecting that old cliche regard Wayne Morse, comparing him to a Parisian roue in his political philandering. Senator Neuberger composed this piece for the "Frontier" magazine many years ago before he even had entered national politics or had more than nodding acquaintance with his present senatorial colleague. It means and meant nothing anyway. So How silly can we get? DUT that sort of thing is representative of the post election attitude of the Republican press in the state as a whole, and has been ever since the land slide defeat was suffered they still only half believe it, and try as they may can't seem to become recon ciled to it. What they want now presumably is some sort of revenge and as indicated above the deadlock in the state senate gave then an opportunity to get a bit of it. AT LEAST that is the only way we can explain another thing, the somewhat hysterical reaction of the Portland Oregonian to the vote in the Upper House which, because of the absence of one Repub lican, gave the presidency of that body to a Demo crat. Walter Pearson, for a brief 24 hours. This the Oregonian scathingly scored as a "shabby political trick" and "parliamentary lar ceny." Strong words! But WHY no similar. words for "Mr. Republican No. II" Senator Knowland who is trying to get the procedure regarding the filibuster changed so that a two-thirds majority of members PRESENT, rather than the membership of the senate as a whole would be required? That is all the Senate Democrats tried to do. The move may have been wise or unwise but it certainly was not WICKED. Moreover it was according to" the law in the opinion of Attorney' General Thornton. T TNDER normal conditions such a decision would undoubtedly have settled the matter. But not with. Republican partisanship at such a low boiling-point. Never! For their answer was the decision had no validity because the Attorney Gen eral is a DEMOCRAT. So according to one GOP stalwart, at least, the decision will not be accepted, but appealed to the State Supreme Court! So the merry and ridiculous war goes on. R.W.R. Sunday, Jimmy 20, 1957 Today and ' By Walter BLANK CHECK AND EMERGENCY Mr. Dulles has finished with his public testimony on behalf of the proposed Middle Eastern r e s o 1 u t ion, and he must now see what he can do in secret session. It is evident enough that the Senators are baffled, and that they are voting for things that are CD'S w alter Lippmann not being explained to them and that they do not understand. For Mr. Dulles has been using all the arts of a skilled lawyer to avoid saying anything pre cise and concrete about what is the policy which the resolution authorizes, and about how he intends to operate it when Con gress has voted the resolution. What he is asking from Con gress is a grant of power in terms of our military forces and of a considerable sum of money and along with this grant of power a free hand to use the power, and in addition a vote of confidence in advance. He is asking, I take it, that Congress provide him with all possible bargaining power in negotiating with the Arab states. The bargaining power he wants would consist first, of authority to use the American armed forces without further action by Congress; second, the authority to spend $200,000,000 now without having to say in advance how it is to be spent; and, third, the over-aU moral force of having, it known that all these proceedings have the blessings of Congress. HAVING tinkered a 'bit with the resolution, Congress will presumably in the end vote for it. When the Secretary of State, speaking for the President, says that the issue of war and peace hangs on his proposal, it is im possible for Congress to refuse. Under a parliamentary system of government, the legislature Editorial Comment- THEY STILL STOP The builders of today's multi lane, divided highways prefer to route them around population centers to avoid cross traffic, stop lights and pedestrians. This pleases the drivers of cars and trucks on long journeys, for to them towns and cities along the way are merely delaying obstacles. But it distresses mer chants in the bypassed commu nities; they feel sure many of the vehicles steaming along the perimeter freeway would have stopped, and some money would have gone into their cash regis ters, if the highway still were routed down the middle of each Main street. Do highway bypasses really mean lost customers? Recently the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, to help fore cast the economic Impact of the new national highway program, studied business experience in eight California communities re cently bypassed by new free ways. With few exceptions, mer chants in all eight communities, ranging in population from 600 to 6608, showed business gains. Other studies showed increases in land values along the bypass ed routes. Credit for these gains, it is thought, goes to the de crease in traffic congestion, mak ing shopping easier. These findings are somewhat at variance with those of a study made for the Oregon legislative highway interim committee of bypass results in Salem, Rose burg, Hood River, Sutherlin, Cannon Beach, Drain and Un ion. In the first six communities the highway change had little effect on total business income or activity. In Union, a town in which highway business was of major importance to commu nity income, effects of the road relocation were adverse. Generally speaking, it appears that chambers of commerce in most communities about to be skirted by freeways need have no fears for the future as a re sult. Few travelers, it may be assumed, stop to shop merely on sudden impulse. The motorist who needs gasoline, a meal, a motel accommodation or what-have-you usually makes his plans to stop long before the "city limits" sign comes into view. And he is more inclined to pause, and spend, if he doesn't have to battle through a com bination of local and through traffic to reach stores and res taurants. Rather than fretting about the possibilty of future losses, busi nessmen about to be bypassed might find it wiser to give thought to ho.w many customers they're losing now because trav elers who'd like to stop are swept along Main street in a traffic flood and find it difficult or impossible to do so. Port land Oregonian. asaaJtOftteki' Tomorrow Lippmann could reject the proposal if it dislikes it and could force the government to resign, bringing into existence a different gov ernment. But under our system, the control of foreign relations is in the hands of the President, and on a show-down Congress must support him when he cer tifies that his proposals are a matter of life and death. In this case, Congress is be ing asked for a big grant of authority of which one of the essential characteristics is that the use of this authority is not to be explained in advance. Nothing quite like that has, so far as I -can remember, been asked of Congress except, of course, in time of war. In the Formosa resolution, Congress took a commitment to defend Formosa and the Pesca dores, and it authorized the President to determine what should be done about the off shore islands. The Formosa reso lution was, therefore, a specific grant of authority. As for the Truman doctrine, the only pow er the President asked for was a specific power to aid Greece and Turkey; the global part of the doctrine was a Presidential declaration in which Congress did not have to play any practi cal part. THIS new resolution is a gen eralized grant of power. It is so general that not even the countries are specified to which it applies. The best argument for it is that the collapse of the British position has conse quences that are far-reaching and as yet incalculable. The old connections in the Middle East are, if not completely broken as in Egypt, then profoundly shaken as in Iraq. Among the Western nations only the United States is in a position to nego tiate with the Middle Eastern countries, and what Eisenhower and Dulles are asking from Con gress is a blank check in an emergency. The grant of free money, which seems to trouble Congress the most, is best explained and justified, I would suppose, by telling ourselves that it is to be used for loans and subsidies which are primarily political in their impact on the govern ments and on public opinion. These are not elegant projects which can be laid before Con gress in the form of blueprints supported by the testimony of engineers and technicians. They belong rather to the small change of international political trading. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Chou En-lai, red China's com munist premier (his first name is pronounced Joe) has been as busy as the traditional one armed paper hanger recently among the puppet communist rulers of Russia's satellites in Eastern Europe especially Pol and and Hungary. He's back in Moscow today to report on his mission to Warsaw and Budapest. The gist of his re port will be that the puppet communist rulers of Poland and Hungary will stand pat for MOSCOW leadership of the com munist world. WHAT is he up to? What has he been telling these Communist puppets? For 'an answer, let's turn to Benjamin Franklin's statement at the singing of the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." THESE communist despots, who sit in the seats of power and privileges and plunder in the communist-conquered coun tries of Europe and Asia, are un. doubtedly frightened by what has happened in Poland and Hungary, but they realize that if they don't stick together they're SUNK. AMONG other things, they're sticking together in bitter opposition to Ike's new Middle East policy which, I suppose, is the best possible evidence that this new move on' the inter national checkerboard is good for the free world and BAD FOR COMMUNISM. ApparenUy it looks that way to Texan Sam Rayburn, able and patriotic Democratic speaker of the house of representatives, who announces this morning that he's for the new Ike policy all the way. It's a safe guess that Mr. Ray burn, like all the rest of us, isn't happy over the world situation that makes such a policy neces sary and probably wise, but realizes that this is one of those times in history when firm and decisive action is better than fuzzy and indecisive action. WHAT we have to realize, whether we like it or not, is that Russia's over-all and un changing policy is to DESTROY US and take over the world for communism. Before the world can be taken over for commu nism WE must be destroyed, for we are the free world's strong est defender. Matter of Fact by jos.Ph ai. THOSE UNFALLING WALLS Moscow After a week in this drab, fascinating and singu larly mysterious city, this re porter is not in the business of giving firm answers about the Soviet Un ion. But at least one thing can be said with great firmness. The Kremlin's walls really are Joseph Aisop not falling down at the moment. It is a bit ridiculous that this rather simple fact should seem worth recording. Yet the disas ters which have recently over taken the policy and interests of the Western Alliance have in spired a very curious reaction in Washington and elsewhere. The highest American policymakers and their publicists monotonous ly chant, "The Soviets have their troubles, too," as though this excused our troubles. The impression given has been ludicrously exaggerated. TOUT while it is vital to note " that any current Soviet trou bles are highly unlikely to prove crippling, it is also vital to note that the Soviet troubles have been and are' very real indeed. Much the most serious, of i course,, is the trouble in central Europe, which seems to be ap proachiilg some sort of climax. Publicly, at least, the process began in Peking instead of Mos cow. The Chinese government on Dec. 29, issued its remarkable statement condemning Marshal Tito, attacking "small nation chauvinism," and above all em phatically recognizing the "lead ing position of the Soviet Union in the peace camp." The Kremlin itself, had previ ously announced the "fraternal equality" among Communist par ties. But the Soviet party now turned out to be more equal than the others. And this claim for the Russians was made by the Chi nese. Thereafter,, China's Premier Chou En Lai returned home post haste from an Asian journey and set out again for Moscow. Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders attended a Budapest meeting of Eastern European Communist leaders from which Yugoslavia and Poland were con spicuously absent. In Moscow once more, the leaders of the Soviet Presidium met here at length with Chou En Lai. fiN THE last day of this meet- v ing, although he had of course just seen Khrushchev and the others in Budapest, Hungary's harried Premier Kadar suddenly turned up in Moscow most probably to give Chou En Lai a first hand, personal account of the grave menace of "counter revolution" in Hungary. After this briefing, Chou En Lai went on to Warsaw, where he is al most certainly warning Poland s bold Premier Gomulka not to go too far on the road of liberal ization, and urging him to be ready to stamp out any "counter revolutionaries" who may show their ugly heads at the time of the Polish election on Jan. 20. And thence Chou goes briefly to Budapest and then returns to Moscow for a further confer ence. The pattern of complex jour neys and repeated conferences betrays the agitation which the ferment in eastern Europe has certainly caused. At the same time, the Peking statement (much more than anything which has been publicly said in Mos cow) reveals the theme of all these meetings. The theme is that no nonsense will be tolerated. At all costs, Communist re gimes will be' maintained in Eastern Europe. For Westerners who have not smelted the Moscow air, it is es sential to note .that this no-nonsense policy causes no inner moral embarrassment to the So viet policymakers. Those who wish to understand their mood need only go back to Queen Vic toria's letters at the time of the Indian Mutiny. The old lady was unshakably confident oJ the beneficence of English rule in India, and her main fear was that her ministers would be too soft in teaching the mutineers a les son they would remember for their own good. FOR GOOD or ill, the Western nations have largely lost the Savings Bond Sales Show Decline in County Sales on series E and H bonds in Jackson county in December totaled $46,459, compared to $238,209 in December, 1955, ac cording to George W. Mim naugh, state director. Sales in Jackson county dur ing the year totaled $1,157,770, compared to $1,263,951 in 1955, he said. Oregon sales during 1956 to taled $40,699,421, which is the second highest amount of sales in more than 10 years, Mim naugh said. As nearly as can be judged from the utterances of compe tent military authorities, we are PRESENTLY stronger than com munist Russia and could destroy her if it came to all-out war but in a few years more Russia MIGHT catch up with us or even PASS US in modern mili tary striking power. If that is true, now ij; the timt for a show-down. kind of ruthless self-confidence that Queen Victoria displayed. But that has not happened here. It is a hundred to one bet that the Soviet leaders talk among themselves about the problem in Eastern Europe, and even ana lyze the problem of Eastern Eu rope in the innermost recesses of their minds, in the peculiar language of "Pravda" editorials. Their hardness of will was re vealed to the foreign community here by Marshal Zhukov, after the dangerous crisis in Poland that brought Gomulka to power. It will be remembered that there were troop movements at that time. Afterwards, as has already been reported in the New York Herald Tribune, Marshal Zhu kov frankly stated to diplomats here that a real counter-revolution could have and would have been rapidly crushed, if anything of the sort had occurred. The popular Washington theory, that the Red Army is more tolerant of "counter-reolution" than oth er sectors of the Soviet hierar chy, is in fact the purest non sense. Since this is the approach, Hungary may endure a long agony, but will not be permitted to get out of hand again. A greater danger is an election time explosion in Poland; yet the Poles have had their warning, and very stern anti-explosion de vices are clearly prepared. (C) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 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 conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Remodel Capilol? To the Editor: Word came to me via a farm publication clip ping by a Medford resident of economic mind, that tells of a face-lifting for the capitol build ing in Washington, D.C. A man by the name of Stewart regards the big domed structure as very unesthetic and should be redone, It so happens that the critic is a building contractor, as reported, which may be just a coinci dence. But congress seemed to have gorie along with him to the tune of some $5,000,000 to make the historic old thing more beau tiful, or modern, or something. Then congress pungled up an- other sum, quite in keeping with times, of $12,000,000. None of it seems to have been spent as certain of the congressmen are very much against it, one re marking, "the building needs that like we need holes in our heads," or words to that effect. Without legislators at their wit's end trying to find less painful ways of raising tax dol lars, it would seem that such controversial sums of money spending as described, could be put to much better use, say a "nibbling down of the national debt, as has been mentioned A few letters to our congress men might be of some help. F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st. Medford, Ore. Hungarian 'Invasion' To the Editor; Well, the Hun garian invasion of the United States is hitting close to home already. After pounding the sidewalks -all day trying to ob tain some gainful employment for myself, without much suc cess, I go home to rest my weary tired feet, and read my evening Mail Tribune. So what do I see right on the front page? Well, it seems like one of these Hun garian gypsies has already got lob here, and he hasn t even hit town yet. HoW about that? Or perhaps I'm not a good Pres byterian. "Unemployed" (Name on File) Welfare Office Hit To the Editor: There are men, women and cniidren wno are going hungry every day because the people that are elected to do a job are worthless. They should be kicked out of office and some one put in that can do the job according to the laws and stand ards that we the people vote in. These that are put in the offices of the Welfare departments are there to carry out the laws that we the people vote in, and not to make' their own laws. I would like to hear from a few that can't get assistance from the Jackson county welfare. The welfare told me I couldn't get welfare because I only had two children. So I wrote to the state office in Portland and they told me that there is no regula tion to the effect that families with only two children are el igible for assistance. They say all assistance is given according to law on the basis of financial need, and that any persons who have no other recourse with which to meet their essential needs are eligible for sme form of assistance. The state office also told me that it is usually their intent not to have an applicant dispose of things that interfere with his cm ployability, and Jackson county told me I had to sell my- truck which 1 use to make a living with. Now does that sound like we have proper people working for us in Jackson county offices? Let's do something about it. H. Franklin, Route 1, Box 117, Talent, Ore. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A truckdriver was wheeling his big rig across the Green Springs highway the other day, when he saw a car ahead of him, weaving from one side of the road to the other. Now our truckdriver once was in a bad accident, and is a par ticularly careful man. But as the erratic car approached, he didn't quite know what to do. Finally, he let go a loud blast on his air horn. The approaching car jerk ed the other way, went off the road and into a ditch. Hie truck driver stopped, got out and ask ed the other driver: "What's the matter? You drunk?" "Well," replied the man, visi bly shaken, "I WAS." A man we know answered his ringing telephone th oth er day and a woman asked if th number was a hospital. Ha said it wasn't, and that he must have dialed th wrong number. "No I didn't." ha replied cheerfully. "You answered the wrong phone." An out-of-town couple Were houseguests of a Medford family one night not too long ago. The visiting woman went to the bath room for a bath in the evening. Soon frantic sounds were heard. She couldn't turn eff the hot water, and couldn't Unlock the door, and because the water was running couldn't hear the shout ed directions from outside the door. Finally figured it out, though. A big post office truck wheeled post the newsroom window last week. It bore a large sign saving: "Shop and Mail Early." Well, there ARE only about 280 shopping days until Christmas. Grandmother was called In to stay with the kids recently when a Medford couple took a week's vacation, and despite the money left for the purchase of groceries, she, like grandmoth ers everywhere, insisted on buy ing them herself. The couple got back and, as Grandmother was about to leave, they tried, unsuccessfully, to get her to accept reimbursement. Finally they cooked up a scheme to slip a $5 bill into her purse. Soon she checked her . purse, found some extra money, and insisted on giving the $5 bill back. It worked out all . right, though, because unknown to each other, father and mother had EACH slipped . in a five spot. A man we know heard about an appointment made by Got. Bob Holmes last week. It was his wife's cousin who got the job, io ha called to tell her that (ha now has "an 'in' with the governor of Oregon." "Who IS the governor?" sha inquired innocently. ' The M-T sports editor (who used to be church editor a long time ago) asked to borrow the present church editor's type writer one day last week. Why? Because he couldn't sdell "Naza rene" on his own machine. Congressional Quiz fCopyrltht. I95 . Congressional Quarterly) Q In March, 1956, Sen. Hen ry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) propos ed a duel between Nike and Ta- los. Was he talking about: (a) settling a guided missiles dis pute; (b) selecting an armed forces fencing team; (c) settling an argument between two NATO staff members? A (a). Jackson said tha re lative merits of the two mis tiles ihould be demonstrated before Congress appropriated any more money for the mis tile program. Nike was devel oped by the Army. Talo was developed by the Navy and Air Force, but Is now control led by the Army. Both are an tiaircraft weapons. Q In 1956, Congress gave the Air Force almost $800 million more than it asked for. Secre tary of Defense Charles E. Wil son said the money would "go into, the bank to be used as needed. This angered some Mem bers of Congress. Why? A Congress had directed that the money be used for in creased production of heavy bombers. Q On May 17, one of the Presidential c a n d i d a tes had enough delegates pledged to him to assure his nomination, even though his party's nominating convention was about three months away. Who was the nom inee, and how many delegate votes did he have? A President Eisenhower had 666 delegate votes pledg-' ed to him; 662 of the 1,323 convention votes were needed for nomination. Almost three months before, on Feb. 29, the President said ha would be a candidate for re-election. On June 8, the President wai hospitalized with an intesti nal obstruction and underwent urgery; on July 10 Mr. Eisen hower said he still was in the race.