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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the act ever repealed?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
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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
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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.
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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.