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Medford and Jcon County
History from th fil of The
Mail Tribur. 10, 80, St end
40 years ago.
A Second Call
Matfer of Fact b7 stewar, ais0P
10 "TEARS eVGO
Marsh 17. 1947 (tWay)
Pipe for n irrition-sprIn-kler
system for the new park
1 delivered, according to Tom
Higgins, park superintendent.
From A r t h u Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Southern
democrats charge the GOP Is
trying to steal the New Deal.
It was a good idea about 15
years ago, but its too late now.
20 YEARS AGO
March 17, 1937 (Wednesday)
State executive committee of
Disabled American Veterans will
meet at Eagles Hall to plan the
annual state convention at Mc
Minnvllle. A bond issue appears the only
immediate solution in financing
rehabilitation of Medford streets,
according to H. S. Deuel, Larry
Schade and C. C. Furnas, special
committee appointed by city
council.
30 YEARS AGO
March 17. 1927 (Thursday)
Boy Scouts of Troop 2 present
work and special exhibition
stunts at Woodmen lodge meet
' ing.
O. P. James has purchased the
Liberty Repair shop, on North
Fir st. and will be manager of
the store.
40 YEARS AGO
March 17. 1917 (Saturday)
Eight large clubs nd fifteen
smaller ones have been organ
ized in the county for the pur
pose of exterminating gray dig-
(fr squirrels, gophers, moles and
jacxraDDits.
The ogue river valley will
depend on home-grown products
if the embargo announced by the
Southern Pacific continues, it is
' reported.
What's Your I.Q.?
N or ten correct la u pert or;
en ct eljht U excellent; (We or
six Is good.
1. Were wire-ropes first intro
duced in the U.S. by an Ameri
can or Frenchman?
q 2. In what mountains Is the
Simplon Tunnel located?
3. Bible: God selected a
"Chosen Family" from among
the Ancients to fashion the
gprld's salvation through them;
true or false?
4. In war, what does the term
"open city" mean?
(f. Were Danlos and Black, or
t'ti$ Caries, the first to use radi
um to treai numans.'
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What is the gardener's rule
for depth at which bulbs should
bg planted?
7. Where
River?
8. Do sponges belong to the
animal, vegetable, or mineral
kingdom?
9. Does "alibi" mean "anoth
er gIace" c "any excuse"?
10. "Hell is the wrath of God
q His hate of what?
Answers: 1. American. John
. Roeblttig (1842). 2. Swiss
lps. 3. Tru. 4. An undefended
city. 5. Danlos and Black. 1901.
As deep as twice lheir
diameter. 7. In the Ukraine. So
viet Russia. 8. Animal. 9. An
other p3ce. 10. Sin. P. J.
Sailey.
is the Dnieper
As we have often remarked "You get just what
you vote for." A corollary to that might well be :
"If we refuse to work for a cause, there is not much
chance of its success."
WE ARE convinced a vast majority of the people
of Southern Oregon want teeth put in legislation
so the office of Public Utility Commissioner can have
SOMETHING to say about what the "Friendly South
ern Pacific" should do in the way of rendering decent
public service.
There are two bills presented by State Senator
Phil Lowry of Medford which if passed would go
far toward bringing about such a desirable condition.
They come up for a hearing before the Senate com
mittee on Wednesday, March 20.
The "S.P." lobby, always on the job, is flooding
the state with letters and propaganda opposing any
such action and some of its prominent shippers are,
on urgent request, giving their assistance.
MOW it is up to the people who want passenger
" service returned to Southern Oregon to do their
bit, get busy and let their representatives in the state
legislature know how they feel about it.
And this should be done so the information will
reach Salem before Wednesday, the 20th.
HTHIS is the second call. There won't be time for a
third. If the people of Southern Oregon don't care
enough about getting decent transportation service
to do something about it, one thing for sure, they
will NEVER get it! RWR.
Porter versus Trujillo
Congressman Charles Porter is a striking con
trast to his predecessor, Harris Ellsworth.
Congressman Ellsworth scrupulously obeyed the
unwritten law about House Freshmen being seen and
not heard.
The only trouble with Harris was that he followed
that procedure long after he had ceased to be a Fresh
man. In fact he was more or less a silent and inactive
partner in the business of government as a represent
ative of the Fourth district, throughout his many
terms.
He was very sincere and conscientious, answered
his letters promptly and was always willing to listen
to advice, but he was never one to stray from his well
beaten path of orthodox and approved G.O.P. philos
ophy, procedure, and behavior.
As noted above Congressman Porter is a very dif
ferent type. He had hardly taken the oath of office
and settled down in his seat before he proceeded to
get busy.
And nothing daunted, in a short time he took on
one of the most absolute, unprincipled and blood
thirsty despots in the western world, none other than
Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the strong
and ruthless ruler of the Dominican Republic. Porter
called him and quite accurately "the little.Caesar
of the Caribbean," a man who runs his country as 11
it were his private plantation, is permitted, again and
again, to outrage eveiy code of decency, trample be
neath his spurred boots every human right, and last
but far from least, he has the effrontry to send his
hired thugs to Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles and Miami to revenge himself upon his
personal and fugitive enemies.
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TTHE smug and humorless traditionalists in the Low-
er House were horrified at such persumption, and
flagrant violation of congressional mores. They were
also "regardless of party" scathing in their denuncia
tion of a behaviour some of them charged might lead
to senous international complications.
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TUT there is one thing about Congressman Sorter
" he isn't easily awed or scared. He refused to quit.
He came back, in fact, with more charges, asked
the House Foreign Affairs committee to investigate
the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jesus de Galin
dez, a professor at Columbia University in New York,
who just a year ago walked from the university to
the Manhattan subway entrance, and was never seen
again. He also suspected Dictator Trujillo of order
ing the murder of a fellow citizen of his, Aviator
Gerald L. Murphy of Eugene, who it has been claimed
was hired to fly the missing Columbia professor back
to the Dominican Republic and to his own death.
This only added fuel to the flames of denunciation
particularly among the Republican "Old Guard." But
going his way serenely, Congressman Porter declared
he was carrying a gun for protection against a similar
fate, whereupon loud were the repnmands, followed
by derisive laughter.
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arm reaches when it comes to his enemies, not only at
home, but abroad:
Well, according to the always reliable and objec
tive Editorial Research, here is a partial list of re
cent victims as claimed by his critics, quote :
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THE STOLEN SOUL
Washington There has been
a sudden spate of soul-searching
among the Democrats, with
advice and
admoni t i o n s
from A d 1 a 1
Stevenson,
Sen. Jack Ken
nedy, and les
ser luminaries.
The reason for
all this soul
searching is
simple. The
Stewait Alsop
party has lost its soul. The
Eisenhower administration has
deftly snatched it away.
The administration's "modern
Republicanism" has, in other
words, taken over the heart and
soul of the Democratic program.
so that the Democrats are left
with nothing to talk about. Con
sider three specific examples.
Secretary ol Health, Educa
tion and Welfare Marion Folsom
currently defending before
Congress a program calling for a
23 per cent rise m his depart
ment's expenditures, and includ
ing almost half a billion dollars
for Federal aid to education.
Secretary of Labor James Mitch
ell is defending a program, bit
terly opposed by some business
interests, for extending tne mini
mum wage to two ana a nan
million more wage-earners than
are now covered. Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Benson is de
fending a budget approaching $4
billion, including direct pay
ments to farmers of more than
$1.2 billion under the soil bank.
FEDERAL aid to education,
minimum wage, and the soil
bank were all Democratic ideas
in the first place. If the Eisen
hower administration had not
taken them over which it
would certainly not have done
phase the Democrats would be
having a fine time making is
sues for 1958 and 1960.
But now that the Administra
tion has kidnaped these issues,
and many others, what are the
poor Democrats to do? One lib
eral northern Democrat recently
gave this answer: "the Republi
cans have usurped the center,
and m tnat case tne opposition
can euner go rigni or leu. I
choose to go left."
When this answer to the
Democratic aiiemma is exam
ined in the light of the political
realities, two questions arise.
First, where is left?
The Democrats can, of course,
demand more money for the
farmers and the school children,
further extension of minimum
wage, and so on and some are
doing so. But asking for more
money when the Administration
has already asked for a lot is not
very dramatic. It is not even
very politically profitable, when
the main weight of political
pressure is all the other way.
And, at least in this time of pros
perity, the kind of massive Fed
eral intervention in the func
tioning of the economy which a
really sharp turn to the ' left
would' involve is just not prac
tical politics.
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.
Mc
OREOVER, if "the opposi
tion can go either right or
left," won t the opposition be
badly split? That is, of course.
exactly what is happening. The
split in the Democratic party is
no new thing, of course, but the
split these days is sharper and
deeper than ever. It has, more
over, taken on a new dimension.
For the sharp division on for
eign policy which has developed
among Democrats is an essenti
ally new phenomenon. Until re
cently, foreign policy was one
area on which northern liberals
in its earlier, more conservative and southern conservatives
The Arab Point of View
To the Editor: An increasing
number of confusing letters have
appeared in recent weeks in the
American press concerning the
Middle Eastern crisis. As a Mid
dle Easterner I would like to
make a few comments.
Forty years aeo Palestine was
thoroughly and completely an
Arab country. Ninety-five per
cent of its population was Arab,
and Arabs owned 99 per cent of
the land. There were only 50,000
Jews in Palestine. Most of these
were Arab Jews, that is to say,
Arabs of Jewish faith.
Today four-fifths of the land
of Palestine constitutes a Jewish
state, the state of Israel. Instead
OI me 50.000 Jews thero ro
today 1,600,000 Jews who have
come into the country from var
ious parts of the world. The .over
whelming majority of Arabs who
were in Palestine have been ex
pelled from their homes; a mil
lion of them are today refugees
in camps, living on international
charity at the rate of 7 cents a
day per person and subsisting on
i.duu calories a day.
"Sergio Bencosme and Andres Requena, writers, who
were shot to death in New York City; Pipi Hernandez, a
labor leader, stabbed to death in Havana; Mauricio Baez,
also a labor leader, who disappeared in Havana; Clemente
Savinon, farmer, who disappeared in Haiti; Luis Arias, jour
nalist, murdered in Haiti."
And now we have added to the gruesome list
Messrs. Galindez and Murphy. Far from criticizing
Congressman Porter for this frontal attack on the
Dominican tyrant, and packing a pistol as he roams
the streets of the national capital, we commend him
lor his courage, his initiative and his wisdom.
Had Professor Galindez taken the latter precau
tions as he entered the Manhattan subway a year ago
there is reason to believe he would not today be listed
among the "missing persons." R.W.R.
"What's the Matter With Oregon?"
A few days ago the Washington (D.C.) Post asked
editoriallv "Whats the matter with Oregon.'"
This excellent paper could not understand why
"the Beaver state" failed to wash its own dirty linen
instead of letting a U.S. Senate committee do it.
For an answer the Oregonian proceeded to chide
the Post editoriallv under the caption "Look who's
talking," and concluded as follows:
"One doubts that Portland is or has been any more cor
rupt or crime-ridden than other cities. What happened was
that due to a falling out among criminals tnis newspaper
was able to obtain evidence which blew the lid off. If the
publicity is bad, Portland will gladly pay the price to get
its house in order. And there is no more effective medium
than public knowledge to get the rats out of the walls. It
ill behooves the spokesmen for other cities and states, how
ever, to take a holier-than-thou attitude. Their rats are still
gnawing.
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THIS answer to the Washington Post s inquiry, in
nrnccDi
Why DID it take such a long time for officials
both in the city administration in Portland, and in the
state, to act?
Long before the Oregonian's "expose," the "tie
up" between crime and the Teamsters union was com
mon gossip.
In both state and national elections, vague rumors
of something rotten in Denmark and in Portland
were bandied about, but nothing was done about it
Nor was any wrong-doing specified.
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THE "Post" inquiry, 'we believe, was entirely war-
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are, or are not gnawing in the walls of the national
capital or elsewhere.
The Oregonian quite properly takes credit for
breaking the "big news but the mystery to the Wash
ington paper, and to many others no doubt, is WHY
the big bust" did not come long before, and why so
little HAD been done in the direction of cleaning
house and convicting the culprits in and out of office,
since then.
The Oregonian thinks the fact the state legislature
was not in session until January of this year, and the
laws are "fuzzy," provides another "alibi."
UE CAN'T see it.
v All we can. see is No. 1: a general public
apathy in our state metropolis. A tendency to drift
and let well enough alone, politically; and most im
portant of all the fact that two key offices in the city
and county in the realm of law enforcement, that of
District Attorney and Sheriff (later Portland Mayor)
were occupied by gentlemen either in actual cahoots
with the underworld racketeers, pr at least, so in
volved and sympathetic with them, there was no
chance of any initiation of legal action.
We have no doubt, that the Washington Post
would be shocked into a clearer comprehension of the
Portland "mess," if it knew that the District Attorney
of Multnomah county, is now and for some time has
been under indictment for participation in this un
savory Portland scandal, and yet is still allowed to
exercise the all important duties of that office.
We can't believe there are many states in the
country, where any such effective road block to justice
and decency in government, municipal or state, would
so long be tolerated.
Instead of chiding the Washington Post for asking
"What's the matter with Oregon," the leading paper
of the state, and the one responsible for the disclosures
of corruption and crime, should, we think, have wel
comed the inquiry and proceeded to give a more com
plete presentation of all the facts, which make up the
answer. R.W.R.
Egyptian property. The Suez
Canal Company was but one of
those corporations with multina
tional stockholders. It was an
Egyptian company, operating un
der an Egyptian act of conces
sion and subject to Egyptian laws
and sovereignty.
In nationalizing the company
on July 26, 1956, the Egyptian
Government was exercising a
sovereign and legal right, a right
upheld by the International
Court of Justice. The same right
has been exercised by many
other nations, including Britain
and France. The contention that
the nationalization of the com
pany will result in interference
with its freedom of navigation is
evidently intended for confusion.
Egypt had always respected the
neutrality of the canal and never
interfered with its freedom of
navigation.
The charge that Egypt is al
ready interfering with the
freedom of navigation in the
canal by refusing the passage of
Israeli ships is false. Israeli non
strategic goods are allowed to
proceed without interference.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Being part Irish ourselves, w
jwern't quite sure whether to
laugh or be mad when we heard
this one. You be the judge: St.
Patrick is the patron saint of
Ireland, we are informed, be
cause he invented the wheel
barrow to teach the Irish to
stand on their hind legs.
See what we mean?
Sure, and 'tis a happy St.
Pat's day we're wishin' ye, nonetheless.
Israel has been maintaining a j n?v Israel-bound strategic ma-
policy of constant military ag
gression, it is the avowed pur
pose of the leaders of Israel to
expand Israeli territory and to
occupy the whole of Palestine
and Jordan.
Regarding the status of the
Suez Canal, the contention that
in nationalizing the Suez Canal
Company, the Egyptian Govern
ment nationalized or seized the
canal itself is utterly wrong. The
canal has nevr been interna
tional; it is and has always been
could agree. But this is no longer
so. The new tendency toward
economic isolationism in the
bouth, which is being spear
headed by the revered Sen. Rich
ard Russell of Georgia, has split
the party wide open in this area
too.
Of the 18 Democratic Sena
tors recorded in opposition to
the Eisenhower Doctrine, all
but three were from the South
or border states. Thes plit will
be further accentuated by the
forthcoming battle over foreign
aid. And the long bitter fight
over civil rights which is also in
prospect will of course further
dramatize the division in the
party.
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TN SHORT, the Democrats are.
divided on foreign policy, and
they have not. a single import
ant domestic party issue with
which to belabor the Administra
tion. It is about as unhappy a
situation as the Democrats have
found themselves in since the
1920s.
It is a situation, moreover, in
which the Republicans, if they
can hold together, have a golden
opportunity to make their party
again the majority party in the
nation. Those Republicans who
are muttering and grumbling
about the tisenhower adminis
tration's "modern Republican
ism" should surely bear these
facts in mind.
(c) The New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
teriais and Israeli ships are
barred from the canal, because
it should be remembered that Is
rael is technically at war with
Egypt, and Article 10 of the 1888
Convention regarding the neu
trality of the canal upholds
Egypt's action in this respect.
With reference to the position
of the Soviet Union I should say
that the Middle East is predom
inantly Moslem and the Moslems
believe that communism is a
replica of nazism with a touch
of tartar sauce. The first prin
ciple of Islam is the oneness of
God. This article of faith has
been the rallying point of all
Moslems. Belief in God and the
oneness of God is the heart of
Islam as is the submission to the
wiU of God. Islam and commu
nism are like oil and water the
two never mix.
Saifpour Fariborz,
1120V Stewart ave.
Medford, Ore.
The 1957 World Almanac,
worthy and helpful reference
book that it is, is not infall
ible, we've found out. Gregg
Milnes was thumbing through
it the other day and found
that in one spot the county
seat of Jackson county, Ore
gon, is listed as Nedford.
What's more, he wrote 'em
and told 'em, too, and they
wrote back and promised
never to do that again.
Bill Crowder, the local arm of
the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, nas a reputation as a
good and efficient agent, so the
story his boss told on him last
week is probably apocryphal.
Anyway, the story goes that Bill
drove to Portland for a confer
ence, finished the job, climbed
on a plane and got almost to
Medford before he remembered
he had driven his car there.
Mother Carey's Chickens
To the Editor: From a Euro
pean correspondent comes news
of the establishment of Rona
Nature Reserve in islands off
Scotland. This, to protect the
rare Atlantic Grey Seal in its
principal home.
What interests writer is that
a by-product of above is con
serving Leach's stormy petrel
These seabirds are what the
sailors call "Mother . .Carey's
chickens. (Mother Carey was
a sea-witch who caused most of
a tar's troubles.) The bird is
circumpolar and ranges south
to St. Helena in the Atlantic,
to Peru in the Pacific.
When "we-2" were birding in
the North Atlantic up the Polar
Ice Carrier North of Spitzberg-
en, we found this petrel used as
a candle on Faroe Island and
on Iceland. The bird is very fat.
When dried, a wick drawn
through the body makes a fairly
good candle.
C. M. Goethe,
Seventh and J sts.,
Sacramento 14, Calif.
From Washington
By Roscoe Drummond
BOTH PARTIES ARE SCARED
Washington Both the Demo
cratic and Republican parties
appear to be preparing for the
oncoming Congressional elec
tions confident that the odds are
against them.
This sounds paradoxical, but
the truth is that a good pessimis
tic case can be made for both
sides.
You can get a feeling for the
devastating size of the Republi
can residential victory only
when you look at some of the de
tailed voting results which do
not come out until months after
the election such revealing de
tails as these:
The Democratic Presidential
ticket won in only 918 counties
out of a national total of 3,068
and only 155 of these counties
were outside the 13 Southern
states.
The 1956 Republican vote top
ped 1952 in 32 states. Of the 16
states in which te Democrats im
proved their percentage of the
Presidential vote, only one
Michigan lay east of the Mis
sippi. As to the much-welcomed
"farm revolt," the Democrats
did improve their position in the
Middle West, but the improve
ment is hardly visible to the mi
croscope; that is, the Democrats
actually carried only 92 of the
area's 1,056 countries last fall
less than a fourth as many as in
1948.
All of this, of course, leaves
the Republicans with the agoniz
ing question: if they can't win
Congress when the Democratic
Presidential ticket is being
ploughed under in this manner,
what chance have they got next
fall when the Presidency is not
at stake?
BUT the Democrats are wring
ing their hands, too, and they
can cite evidence to justify their
tears. To banish wishful think
ing, the Democratic National
Committee has just circulated to
Democratic members of Con-
spare the bad news.
It warns against being enam
ored with the talk of "basic
party strength" as evidenced in
the Congressional victory, and
points to several factors indicat
ing that Democratic party
strength may be declining.
Although Democratic candi
dates for Congress did better
last fall than they did in 1952,
they did worse than they did in
1954. The Democratic party got
52.6 per cent of the Congres
sional vote in 1954, only 51.3
last fall.
There are 20 so-called "swing
states," that is, states which
pretty regularly move from
party to party. Of the 314 Con
gressional seats in this contested
territory the Democrats won
only 145 in 1956. The 24 states
in which the Democrats won
Congressional majorities last
year account for only 212 elec
toral votes; it takes 266 to elect
a President.
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AT THIS point the Democratic
rpsparrhp-rs rnm in tfipir
most painful finding the steady
and sharp declme in urban sup
port for the party over the past
decade.
In the 20 critical "swing
states" the Democrats last fall
won a majority of the Presiden
tial vote in only 16 of the 118
most populous counties. When
you compare that with what hap
pened in the three earlier Presi
dential elections you see why the
Democrats call it "ominous." In
1952 they won 30, in 1948 they
won 83 and in 1944 they won 80
of the 118 most populous coun
ties. The reason this development
scares the Democratic leaders is
that it means that bloc-voting is
passing from the American po
litical scene and the Democratic
party has been the largest bene
ficiary of bloc-voting from 1932
to 1948 the urban labor vote,
the farm vote, the Southern
vote.
This seems to me a good thing
Former State Rep. Ed Mann,
who visited his old haunts in
the Capitol in Salem recently,
is authority for the story that
one representative got up on
the floor and in the course of
a speech referred to "this au
gust body." Whereupon an
other member jumped up and
asked if he was talking about
the kind of members in the
house, or predicting when
they'd finish and go home?
Following the recent reorgan
ization of the Medford police de
partment in whith a captaincy
and a couple of lieutenants' posts
were created, and a slew of men
were upgraded, someone was
heard to remark that the title
"chief of police" hardly seemed
sufficiently impressive any
more.
"Maybe," the thoughtful one
pondered, "we should change it
to 'admiral' or even 'commander
in chief."
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Speaking of the police,
there was a training school for
officers here recently, and
our photographer, happening
by, called the office to ask
"Shall I lake a few shers al
the police school?"
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This younger generation!!
At a certain Medford school
the other day, a group of girls
was to see a movie about what
used to be called the facts of life.
Prior to this, one brash young
man approached one" of the girls
and, in a fit of daring, said
"What's sex?"
The young lady, rather star
tled for a moment, recovered to
reply:
You can find it quick in th
yellow pages."
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A typewritten story recent
ly (which was corrected before
it got into print) told about the
"Siskiyou Knife md Cork
club." In that version, it
sounds like an interesting or
ganization, anyway.
Officers who won substantial
sums of cash Friday night while
compiling evidence for an arrest
for pinball gambling had a ready
(but hardly believable) explana
tion for their success: "Begin
ners' luck."
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The following two tales are
from Conrad Prang's "Comes the
Dawn" column in the Oregon
Statesman:
A local photographer swears
to this one. Says he saw a guy
standing on the Capitol steps the
other' day in 'deep thought. He
tells the photog he came to town
to help quash a bill in the Leg
islature. Asl what he can do.
Well, says the shutter-banger, go
into the committee room, get a
copy of the bill,' put it in your
pocket, take it home and tear it
up and that'll take care of
that. The guy dashes into the
building, comes out a minute
later with is hand in his pocket
and a smile on his face . . .
A bulletin from someone
who has looked into the situ
ation says that atomic fallout
is less harmful in the city than
in the country. Because in the
city the air is hotter, rises
faster and carries away the
fallout quicker. In that case,
the Capitol area should be the
safest place in Salem these
days ....
gress a study which doesn't 'because it means that large
groups of Americans are voting
for objectives larger than their
immediate interest. Certainly
the Eisenhower administration,
did not win the majority of the
labor vote, as it did last fall, by
being a "labor administration."
If both parties face next year's
fight for Congress aware that
the other can win, this means
that either can win.
(c) New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Gross value of the catch by
Australia's five whaling stations
In 1955 was S4.4 mUlion, slight
ly above 1954's mark.
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