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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 26. 1947 (Wednesday)
Otto Ewaldsen of Medford
Toastmasters club wins southern
Oregon district speaking contest
at Klamath Falls.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Food prices
during February increased 0.8
per cent. This is like finding a
haystack with a needle in it.
20 YEARS AGO
March 26 1937 (Friday)
Carl Y. Tengwald elected
president of the Medford Realty
board.
The new 4-cent stamps of the
army-navy series go on sale at
the Medford post office and su-station.
30 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1927 (Saturday) -
The Salvation Army of Med
ford is putting on its annual self
denial appeal. "
Recent chilly weather proves
beneficial to pear industry here,
It is reported.
40 YEARS AGO
March 26, 1917 (Monday)
Patriotic moving pictures in
support of Red Cross and army
and navy are on the program at
the Page theater today.
Hardy W. Campbeel, soil spe
cialist with Southern Pacific
company, lectures at armory.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nln or ten correct Is lupertor; sev
en cr lsht U icllent; llv t
stx ts good-
1. The modern Tel at Muquay
yar is held to be the site of the
Biblical Ur; true or false?
2. Was the famous Trinity
church of New York opened in
1697 or 1797?
3. Complete the quotation,
"Backward, turn backward, O
Time, in your flight, ..."
4. One of the U. S. Presidents
weighed 280 pounds; can you
name him?
5. Washington, D. C, has a
ftibway system for public trans
portation; true or false?
6. The century plant blooms
only once every hundred years;
true or false?
7. Persons born in the Virgin
Islands are citizens of the U.S.;
true or false?
8. Northern Spy apples are
sweet or tart?
9. Does the U.S. pay pensions
to retired Presidents?
10. "It takes a hundred men
to make an encampment, but
one woman can make a"
what?
1. True. 2. 1697. 3. "Make me
a child again just for tonight." 4.
William Howard Taft. 5. False.
6. False; it may bloom every few
years. 7. True; (if born on or
after Jan. 17. 1917, and subject
to the jurisdiction of the U.S.).
8. Tart. 9. No. (A bill to do so is
before Congress now.). 10.
"Home." Ingerioll.
Last Class in Series
For Officers Slated
The last class in the Oregon
regional police school will be
held Wednesday afternoon in the
council chambers in the Med
ford city hall.
Howard Patterson Julius Rice.
and Alvin Barton, special agents
for the federal bureau of inves
tigation, will instruct the class
in the officer in court.
Six classes in March were at
tended bv 55 county law enforce
ment officials.
How About a One-Party Press?
This is a strange time for the Republicans to deny
that Oregon has a one-party press.
In the first place trie eiecuon is over ana mere
won't be another for nearly two years.
So there would seem to be no excuse for playing
the ostrich act from a party standpoint.
More important it was so clearly demonstrated five
months ago that except below the Mason and Dixon
line, Oregon is journalistically the most 100 per cent
partisan commonwealth in the nation.
THERE were only two newspapers in the entire state
x for example, that last year supported Wayne
Morse for the U. S. Senate. There were not many more
who supported Bob Holmes for Governor.
Moreover the metropolitan press in the state, went
alr-out for the Republican ticket right down the line
as has been the case now for several years.
Our guess i3 there are more Republican dailies
south of the Mason and Dixon line than there are Dem
ocratic papers, above it.
So why deny what is so apparent?
Yet one of our up-state contemporaries hopes to
hear no more of that "phoney Democratic charge'
that Oregon is a one-party state. For proof it cites the
recent election returns, which added up to a Demo
cratic "sweep."
That is true the "sweep" we mean.
DUT not due to any newspaper support, but in spite
of newspaper opposition. The claim made in this
department, moreover, was not that there were no
Democrats in Oregon, they at present have a regis
tered majority but that there were practically speak
ing no Democratic newspapers. And there aren't.
AS BEFORE remarked this is a one-party state from
a newspaper standpoint. And in view of the facts
it is surprising that any newspaper, regardless of party
would dispute it.
THIS FACT was brought into sharp relief recently,
when the Dominican Republic "incident" came
up in the U.S. Congress.
The only member of the congress to take any note
of this miscarriage-of justice and demonstration of the
murderous tyranny that exists in this southern dicta
torship was the newly elected Democratic congress
man from Oregon, Charles O. Porter.
He insisted that the state' department register a
vigorous protest and insist upon an investigation of
the strange disappearance of one of his constituents
in Eugene, Oregon, Aviator berald JVlurpny.
As remarked in this column at the time it was a
statesmanlike and courageous action to take. But did
Congressman Porter receive any praise in the Republi
can press of his honle state?
Not a word! -
The Republican papers in Oregon as a whole, eith
er followed the lead of the Republicans in the Con
gress, and condemned Mr. Porter for his impetuous
and ill-considered action, or completely ignored it,
THAT the stand taken by Congressman Porter WAS
both praiseworthy and newsworthy from any non
partisan standpoint was quickly attested by editorial
comment made by the New York Times, one of the
few genuinely independent newspapers in the coun
try and a very great one.
Here is a brief extract from the Times editorial re
garding Porter, quote :
It certainly looks as if credit for the State Department's
move must go to Representative Charles O. Porter of Ore
gon, who spoke up boldly rrd well in the House for his
constituents, the parents of Gerald Murphy. On that day no
Congressman came to Mr. Porter's support. On the con
trary, he was abused in unworthy fashion. His justification
has now come.
It is to be hoped, that the State Department will insist
on a satisfactory answer from the Dominican Republic and
its dictator, Generalissimo Trujillo.
Thanks to Congressman Porter's prompt and cour
ageous action the Dominican Republic while charac
teristically, refusing to date to make any explanation
or investigation has promised the parents of Aviator
Murphy an indemnity payment of $50,000.
Small recompense for the loss of a son, presumab
ly murdered in cold-blood, but better than nothing,
and but for Oregon's Congressman from the Fourth
District there would have been just that NOTHING
TT IS perhaps excusable to wonder, what action
would have been taken by the Oregon GOP press
if instead of Congressman Porter, Democrat, a good
Republican like Congressman Norblad, or former
Congressman Ellsworth had taken similar action?
It is not difficult to guess ...!!!
AS indicated above the matter is not of any great
"between-elections.
But this Porter incident does emphasize how over
whelmingly Republican the press of Oregon is and
for so many recent years has been, and what a handi
cap any office-holder bearing the Democratic labe'
suf fers, as far as a fair break in newspaper support is
concerned,' not only during but between elections
The one bright spot in the prejudicial and partisan
picture is the fact that has been so often demonstrat
ed, particularly in the last national election, namely
that while newspaper support is a helpful factor to a
candidate, it is not, when the voters become really
aroused, a determining one. R.W.R.
Bermuda Conference Assists
Amity; Difficulties Remain
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The Bermuda conference un
doubtedly has strengthened the
alliance between the United
States and
Great Britain.
President Eis
enhower and
Prime Minis
ter Harold
Macmillan met
as old friends.
Reports of the
conference re
flected an at-
rharles McCsnn m o s pnere oi
cordiality. The two leaders an
nounced agreement on a number
of big issues.
But it is likely that Britain
under Macmillan's leadership
will show a considerable degree
of independence in its relations
with the United States.
The breach in the alliance
which resulted from the British
French invasion of the Suez
Canal Zone was a serious one.
Breach Influenced Eden
It certainly had a great deal
to do with the resignation of
Sir Anthony Eden. Eden pleaded
ill health when he stepped down.
He really is in bad health. But
his condition was aggravated By
strain.
Eden's resignation, and Mac
millan's succession to the prime
ministry, constituted an impor
tant turning point in British
politics.
By Roscoe Drummond
RESOLVING PRESIDENTIAL
DISABILITY
Washington President Eisen
hower intends to present to Con
gress a detailed plan for a statute
and, probably, a Constitutional
amendment on Presidential disability.
Mr. Eisenhower s proposal win
go to the Capitol at this session
unless it appears that it would
hold up urgent legislation.
It shouldn't have that effect.
The President's concern is not
to press for hasty action, but,
rather, to give Congress and the
country all the time needed to
examine, aeoate ana aetermme
what should be done.
The reason something needs
to be done comes from this sen
tence in the Constitution: "In
case of . . .the (President's) in
ability to discharge the powers
and duties of the said office, the
same shall devolve upon the Vice
President. . ."
Eden had succeeded Sir Win- i dragged along by an American
ctr.n Phnrrhill nftpr havine been political kite.
ma uuwi lien i j.. TrmiirIo -nmmiininno it-
He carried on where Churchill gue(J after tee Eisenhower-Mac-
left off. millan talks spoke of agreements
But Macmillan's succession to on Mic" Ue Eastern policy. But
the prime ministry last Jan. 10 there remains wide divergence
marked a distinct break in the on some aspects of it.
continuity of British policy to- Britain still feels that the
ward the United States. right course in the Suez dispute
Resentment is still strong in is to get tough with President
Britain over the attitude Presi- Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt,
dent Eisenhower and Secretary It would be surprising if Ma-
of State John Foster Dulles took millan did not feel that the Unit-
toward the Suez invasion. ed fatates let Britain down on
Aimed at Ike. Dulles that issue.
Thprp spems to be feeling is uniiKeiy that President
among many Britons that the Eisenhower approves of Macmil-
President and Dulles went ouijians aeiKiiuuauou to reauce
of their wav to humiliate Eden, 1 the strength of British forces
aside from the fact that they assigned to the North Atlantic
made no attempt to conceal their ireaty Organization as an econ
antrpr over the British-French omy measure.
ar inn Events in the next few months
Britons seem to feel also that probably will show though the
for a long time their country Anglo - American alliance has
had acted as a sort of junior been strengthened it has not
partner in the Anglo-American been restored fully,
alliance.
The immediate effect of the
Suez dispute was to take Britain
closer to France. Another was
to weaken the reluctance of Brit
ain to tie its economy more
closely to continental Europe.
It will be necessary for Mac
millan to make sure that nothing
Cost-Price Squeeze
May Check Production
At Costly Properties
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In the last few days, we've
been hearing quite a lot about
k. ho rritir-i7Prf pither tne Richer scale for measuring
inside his own Conservative "le m earinquases. uu iue
Party or outside of it, as per
mitting Britain to be a tail
From Washington
theory that it's always interest
ing to know more about sonae
thig that everybody is talking
about .let's take a closer look at
this Richter thing while earth
quakes are stiu hot news.
Communications
Letters to the Editor mult bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a pen name or
initial for publication is permis
sible. The Mail Tribune reserves
the Tight to edit all letters with
an eye to clarification -end conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
BASICALLY, the Richter scale
is a iipppr for measuring
The unanswered questions are: iust how had an earthouake has
ID wno snail aecioe wnen a been. To that extent, it is some
President cannot discharge his thing like a recording thermom
duties? (2) How shall it be de- eter, which tells us just how hot
ciueu.- wi in me eveiu m ais- nt was yesterday or how cold,
ability short of death, does the After we've been through
Constitution mean that the "said terrifically hot day, or a fright
office" of President, or only the funy cold one, we like to know
powers and duties of the office just how uncomfortable we were
shall devolve upon the Vice Pre- and how near we came to dy-
siaeni. I ma of hpat rjrostration rr frepz.
ine to death.
TTTR. EISENHOWER has reach- it's much the same with earth-
prl hie num rlppiQinn nn fniAUnaW A ftn- nannlo Vii .... knnn
of these questions. He would through them they like to know
like to see an act of Congress how close a call they had.
which would establish:
That the Vipp Prpsirlpnt shall ' PHE Kltcner scale IS MUCH
. - I ........
become "actine President." tak- more complicated tnan
ine over the "cowers and thermometer. It operates on a
duties," not the office, in the logarithmic basis. It starts with
event of Presidential disability. 0,16 and 8oes UP from there. A
That a President may at his rfaQmg Vnree n "es as
own initiative delepate his pow- s as lwo "na "u mes as
ers to the Vice President in the stron8 as one. Four is ten times
event of disability, and recover as Ts'ronB " "'rfeAn? "V-
IT riiiTtA irsiii i nrtnrptl r ri ill 4hlr
them When ho riotormm l, i nuc juu uuu,.!..!. an mio
can resume Frankly, I don't It's beyond my
. . . , , mainemaucai norizon. bui u s
Inese two provisions would ,.,!, n r-u i tj;u.
. ..... ax,, I ""ofc J-'i wuanca Akii.iii.ci aoj-a
u ""iv. emer; and he's the man who invented
S y WUld meet the thing. He's one of the great-
Boston (U.R) The recent
sharp decline in copper prices has
made an important segment of
the nation's copper production
uneconomical, a top industry
spokesman said today.
Roy H. Glover, chairman of
the Anaconda Co., warned that
the present cost-price squeeze
may result in drying up produc
tion at high cost properties.
Copper prices have tumbled
from 46 cents to around 32 cents
pound over the past year.
30 Cents a Pound
Glover told the Boston Secur
ity Analysts Society that a re
cent analysis of 1956 production
showed that 150,965 tons, or 13.9
per cent of domestic production,
cost 30' cents a pound or more
to produce.
He said 245,484 tons, or 22.6
per cent of last year's output,
had costs of 28 cents a pound
or more and 359,451 tons, or
33.1 per cent, had costs of 25
cents per pound and higher.
'The production with costs at
29 cents per pound and higher
and representing 22.6 per cent
of our domestic production is
indispensable to our economy
he said.
Nevertheless, on the basis of
present prices there is not a suf
ficient margain of profit in this
production to justify mining
risks. Unless we head into a per
iod of greatly slackened indus
trial activity, the inevitable re
sult of the relationship between
present costs and prices will be
to dry up production at the high
cost properties until there is
again a period of scarcity with
the resulting increased prices."
Substantial Period Required
He warned that copper produc
tion cannot be turned on and off
like a water,faucet. He said once
production is suspended "it re
quires a substantial period of
time to bring it back."
The Anacoda chairman attrib
uted the decline in copper prices
over the past year principally to
inventory reduction by custom
ers. Glover said consumers have
looked to their inventories for
approximately 25 per cent of
their monthly requirements since
last September. He said it now
appears that "in many places in
ventories are becoming danger-
I ously low."
Matter of Fact
est living experts on upheavals
Defends Mayor Schrunk
To the Editor: I have just read
in The Oregonian a reprint of
your editorial on vice and poli
tics in Portland.
After taking us to task for a
general apathy," you state that
the posts of district attorney and
sheriff were occupied by gentle
men either in actual cahoots with
the' underworld racketeers, or,
at least, so involved with them
that there was no chance for
any initiation of legal action.
May I remind you that neither
the district attorney nor the
sheriff has yet been convicted of
involvement with these forces?
May I further remind yoii .that
the sheriff, now mayor of Port
land, was not even indicted by
the grand jury which heard these
charges last fall?
Long before The Oregonian s
so-called "expose" many of us in
Portland knew there was pro
tected vice in the city. Why that
newspaper did not call for elimi
nation of Portland's "own" has
long been a mystery. Its cam
paign has been directed against
the Teamsters who were alleged
to be attempting to break in to
a well established program. The
1956 election of Mayor Terry
Schrunk was a repudiation of all
lax-law enforcement in the city
of Portland and unless he is
destroyed in the trial by head
lines, to which he has been sub
jected since last April, Portland
will succeed in ending protected
vice.
Mayor Terry Schrunk was
elected to his office by 112,942
citizens after being subjected to
the most vicious political cam
paign which it has ever been
my opportunity to witness. The
only road block effective law
enforcement in Portland now is
the determined effort of some
people to destroy him.
I suggest you review the situa
tion In Portland prior to his elec
tion when we had a mayor who
appointed Teamster Clyde Cros
by to the powerful E-R commis
sion and who refused to dis
charge or even suspend his chief
of police, Jim Purcell Jr., when
Mr. Purcell was indicted by the
grand jury for malfeasance in of
fice. You might also profitably
review the news reports and
editorial stands taken by The
Oregon Journal which has con
sistently given Portland objec
tive reporting on this situation.
Fern Hilson
Editor
Sellwood-Moreland Bee
Portland, Ore.
.The great gain would be that of the earth's crust, which is
it would make . certain that a what parthrmakps amnnnt tn.
Vice President could not seize Informally, the figure 10 is
the office of President even used as the- top, but that is just
while temporarily discharging its a stake to sight on. Theoretical
powers. This would reduce, per- ly, quakes with a magnitude of
haps entirely overcome, the dis- 100 could be recorded on the
inclination of a disabled Presi- Richter scale. The point is that
dent to free himself of his duties there haven't been any that bad
lest he never get them back. since man started recording
This is no theoretical problem, them. So 10 is high enough for
After being seriously wounded the PurPses the scale.
by an assassin. President Gar- mHAT raises a mipstinn-
H,! rp.W,.U9,.,J?le v"? 1 How bad was this latest
duties for 2V4 months, but his c
staff was unwilling to allow him Tt was rpasrnahiv P110Pt1 Th.
h f a fv!e "V0 Viue ?resi" worst mor' the one that came
dent Arthur for fear the latter just before noon, was measured
would decide to retain them. t s Tv,Q , i
During the last 17 months of c..' JL.. J:. j
, . ..... LmmiUdV mux 11 1 11 K ICKiaicxeu
his second term President Wil- 4.2S. Tle 1906 quBake, which
mZZn$wt w 6 ma" and started the disastrous fire, was
numerous White House decisions 8.25 in intensity. The most pow-
Zt -io? v y t u erful Juakes ever recorded ANY-
,pi s knew. Later, when WU- WHERE have, been about 8.6,
t J, 94 Secretary Lans- according to Dr. Perry Byerlv
nghad suggested a cabinet meet- University of California seismol-
mg to consider whether Vice ogist
President Marshall . should take '
over temporarily, Wilson fired QJO, YOU see, it was quite a
Lansing for "disloyalty." O shake. People down in the
If a President knew that he city were justified in being
could recover his powers if he scared half out of their boots,
once delegated them it would But were they?
help remove the temptation to You can draw your own con
cover up disability. elusions from this incident that
has iust been reDorted on the
'THERE remains the other un- teletype:
. F?solved question. Who TOTT,AVC .. ...,
snould determine Presidential ti x ."""i"1
disability when a President in s a n irancisco caugnt
makes no move to do so himself' Gene Hoffman (of the American
It has been suggested that it Pient Lines) dictating in his
be decided by the cabinet by offlce- He was ln mid-stride of
the Supreme Court, by the Vice an imPrtant sentence when the
President and by a Congressional jig one came. He was thrown in-
commission. lu uls y s '"V ana men
All of these proposals and rolied tne noor'
others are now before Mr Eisen- Just tnen tne telePnne rang,
hower for his study. He has not Somebody wanted to talk to him.
reached a final conclusion, but He heard his secretary say: "Will
mv understands i th.t !, yu talk a little louder, please?
favors something very near to We. "e havi8 an earthquake
Then she added: "Oh, yes. Will
you wait a minute, please, until
Mr. Hoffman gets up off the
floor?"
He got up off the floor and
what the Washington Editor of
the Saturday Evening Post. Bev
erly Smith, outlined in his art
icle this week.
Mr. Smith proposes a Presi
dential Disahilitv Pnmmicelnn nf
nine members to comprise the flswered the cal1, . and that was
i:mpr .merino anH tvia trA mat.
u..u tn,. ...u KU1U1
members of the Supreme Court.
the two highest-ranking cabinet
members, the Majority and Min
ority Leaders of the Senate, the
nPHE Top o' the Mark, as you
must have read in the pap
ers, swayed like a bird's nest in
a tall tree, but only two people
Speaker and Minority Leader of ieft the room. The rest stayed
me xxouie. and ha(i another one and talked
lis auxnonty would be to the situation over,
decide on its own motion bv a -
two-thirds vote in writing when WHY this casual insouciance?
a President was "disabled" and " It must have been because
when he was "recovered." people have confidence in
The reason a solution like this modern "earthquak-proof" con
appeals to Mr. "-"senhower is that struction. Their confidence seems
it enables all branches of the to have been justified. No build-
NASSER AND BERMUDA
Washington President Eisen
hower and British Prime Minis
ter Macmillan no doubt accom
plished many
useful t h ings
in B e r muda.
But as far as
their central
problem in the
Middle East is
c o n c e rned,
they came face
to face with a
stubborn fact,
stewait Aisop which has
been summed up in the sadly
facetious remarks of a British
diplomat and an American
official.
The British diplomat: "The
only thing Nasser really has to
worry about is that' maybe we
shan't remember him in our
prayers." The American official:
"There's no short hair growing
around the Suez Canal.
The great powers of the West,
in other words, are left without
truly effective means of threat
ening or rewarding Egypt's Pres
ident Gamal Abdel Nasser, and
thus without effective bargain
ing power.
The usp of direct force the
last resort was ruled out when
the British and French invaded
Suez and the United States pres
sed them to withdrawwith no
commitments whatsoever from
Nasser. Any worry on Nasser's
part that the United State might
ultimately resort to force was
dissolved when the President
said that the United States had
no intention of "shooting its way
through the Suez Canal."
VTASSSER, to be sure, might
fear that the Western pow
ers may cause the United Nations
forces in Gaza to be withdrawn,
and thereafter in effect give the
Israelis a gren light to attack
again. But an incident which oc
curred while the Bermuda con
ference was in progress should
also reassure him on this point.
Information reached Washing
ton, just after Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles had left for
Bermuda, that French Defense
Minister Bourges-Manoury had
encouraged Israeli Foreign Min
ister Golda Meir to believe that
French support would be forth
coming in case of a second
round. On instructions from Dul
les and the President, Under Sec
retary of State Christian Herter
called in French Ambassador
Herve Alphand and politely read
him the riot act. Since then, the
French have hastily backed
away from Bourges-Manoury's
offer, amidst a spate of diplomat
ic denials.
tseiore tne Bermuda con
ference, the British were toy
ing rather half-heartedly with
the idea of reverting to a boy
cott of the canal and other mea
sures short of force, as proposed
by Dulles before the invasion
But the idea has now in effect
been dropped as impractical. A
poll of the major shipping na-l
tions has indicated that none of
them except possibly Den
mark, and conspicuously not in
cluding the United States
would join the British in a boycott.
In these circumstances, it is.
hardly surprising that Nasser
should be tempted to go for
broke to demand total control
of the Suez Canal traffic on his
own terms. If Nasser demands,
and gets, total control of the
canal he will have won the ball
game. After all, the British join
ed the Israelis and the French
in attacking Egypt just because
the prospect of control of their
canal life-line by the intensely
hostile Nasser seemed to them
intolerable.
By Stewart Alsop
In these circumstances, the
Bermuda recipe for dealing with
the canal crisis was summed up
by one official as follows: "We
just have to go on hoping that
Dag Hammarskjold can persuade
Nasser to be reasonable. That
hope remains stubbornly alive.
Nasser is under some pressure
from his allies, notably King
Saud, to be reasonable about the
canal. He is also under real in
ternal pressure to make a settle
ment which would free the
blocked Egyptian a c c o unts in
London, Paris and New York.
And he knows that, if he is un
reasonable, great efforts will be
made to find ways to by-pass the
canal.
Even so, it is surely a strange
situation when the great powers
of the West must rely on the
doubtful reasonableness of the
Egyptian dictator, rather than
their own power, to get an ac
ceptable settlement of the vital
Suez Canal issue. The situation
arose because blind folly on both
sides permitted the Western Al
liance to come apart at the
seams. Perhaps the Bermuda
meeting- will at least make it
unlikely that the same thing will
happen again.
(c) 1957, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
New Consulates
Set Up in Africa
Washington (U.PJ The Un
ited States is stepping Op its
drive to swing Africa firmly into
the free world camp with estab
lishment of seven new consu
lates on the once dark contin
ent. State Department spokesman
Lincoln White disclosed the plan
Monday.
At the same time. Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon gave
President Eisenhower an "infor
mal report" on his 22-day Afri
can tour and visit to Rome.
Nixon gave the Chief Execu
tive a country-by-country report
on his personal conversations
with leaders in the area. White
House Press Secretary James C.
Hagerty said it also would be
"fair to say" he stressed the need
for strengthening U. S. diploma
tic and information activities in
Africa.
Nixon plans to make a follow
up written report to the Chief
Executive within the next week
or 10 days. It presumably will
be made public by the White
House.
Establishment of the new con
sulates would be in addition to
the State Department's previ
ously - disclosed intention of" es
tablishing a new post of assistant
secretary for African affairs.
Congress still must provide the
funds for the post, however. ,
New York U.R) The New
York Post has announced that
its price will go up from five
to 10 cents Tuesday.
government to share in a deci
sion which vitally affects the
whole nation.
(c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
ings were shaken down.
So
Modern progress REALLY IS
PROGRESS. It saved San Fran-
I Cisco from another disaster.
THE, canal will be open on
April 10 or thereabouts. The
moment thereafter when a Brit
ish ship arrives at the canal may
be a historic moment. For if
there has been no prioi agreed
settlement, and the British ship
pays its canal tolls, cash, on the
barrelhead, on. Nassers terms,
Nasser will have won his ball
game.
Mr. Insurance
FRED
BRENNAN
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