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Medford and Jackson County
Historv from the files of The
-Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jun 11. 1947 (Wednesday)
County Agent Cliff Cordy esti
ma'es that from 25 to 90 per
cent cf valley's cherry crop is
damaged and cracked by recent
rains.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Calif
ornia legislature is still running.
So are individual members of
tli Oregon legislature, but not
officially.
20 YEARS AGO
June 11. 1937 (Friday)
Wage increases for 350 mill
employers at Medford corpora
tion announced by company of
ficials. Buttons to constitute admis
sion ii the 1937 Oregon air tour
and sky circus are received by
Medford chapter of national
aeronautic association.
30 YEARS AGO
June 11. 127 (Saturday)
Carrier pigeons of Sperry
Flour company which have been
in the loft at the Medford ware
house are given their first trial
flight.
About fiO per cent of night
motor traffic is equipped with
properly adjusted headlights, ac
cording to city survey taken on
South Riverside av.
-40 YEAM AGO
June 11. 1017 (Monday)
Billy Berrian, 10-year-old
Medford boy, withdraws savings
from Medford National bank and
buys S50 Liberty bond.
From Local and Personal col
umn: F. L. Klopes. of the Mail
Tribune, leaves Mcddford on va
cation to check some mining
claims.
What's Yoir I.Q.?
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even or elcht Is excellent; five or
ux Is CoM,
1. Was the first known map
of the Baltic drawn by an Egyp
tian, Greek, or" Roman?
2. In Spanish countries, is a
Short sleep at midday known as
a fiesta or a sic.a
3. Bible: Is "Jesus wept" or
"Jesus loves" the shortest verse
in the New Testament?
4. Mindanao is part of which
Tacific island group?
S Four Presidents of the
United States also served as gov
ernors of New York state: three
of them were Martin Van Buren.
Grovrr Cleveland and Franklin
D Rvscvclt. Who was the
fourth'
6. The compass has "4, 28, or
32 points?
7. Is it the hummingbird,
robin, or wren that is capable of
flying backward.
8 VTiich New York stadium
is know n as "House that Ruth
built"?
9 Is it proper to spell "some
time" in one word or two words?
10 "It is a misery to be born,
a pain to live, a trouble to"
do what? St. Bernard.
Answers: 1. Egyptian (Ptole
my, c. 15C). 2. Siesta. 3. "Jesus
wept." 4. The Philippines. 5.
Theodore Roosevelt. S. 32 points.
7. Hummingbird. 8. Yankee Sta
dium. 9. One word. 10. "die."
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence . . .
Rice Mountain Lodge. Paul Smiths, N. Y., June 6 Stopped
at Paul Smiths college on a lake about six miles from here.
As before noted, as a college Paul Smiths is unique in many
v. a;.s. It not only gives a degree in hotel management, but it runs
a hotel. Its buildings are close to the lake amid the spruces and
pines, and those that are not portions of the original Paul Smiths
splendiferous summer resort, were built of wood by day labor
employed by tne college with no assistance from arcnitects or
contractors.
Needless to say it is a wholesome, healthful life the students
lead, all of the 300 boys, but a dozen or so girls added for looks
and flavor.
It is also unique in that it has a fine gym but no baseball or
football team. In fact, no sports are indulged in but basketball
and skiing. They are now constructing a ski-run on a nearby
mountain of about a mile, and some of the skiers have qualified
for the next Olympic trials.
Paul Smiths college. like so many other things around here,
is reminiscent of the "Gay Ninety" past.
On the road to Saranac, for example, we passed a connecting
1 road marked " Easy Street" on
dwellings. It seems that around half a tentury ago when Paul
Smiths was the "Newport of the wilds." this is where the wait
resses at the "swell" Gay Ninety hotel of 500 rooms lived most
of them married.
The husbands, according to legend, spent their time smoking
5-cent cigars, reading the Police Gazette, and singing barbershop
harmonies. In short, they had it pretty soft and easy. So the street
they lived on was christened "Easy Street" and that is what it is
called today. Many tourists to this section like to have their
pictures taken with the "Easy Street" marker as a background.
i Up here in the wilds it has been the "wilds" to native New
! Yorkers for over 200 years only the French-Indian war and the
1 War of 1812 made any marks the Revolution and the Civil war
I pretty much passed it by. On the twisting road we take to Dick
j inson Centre where the three little blondes with bright blue
! eyes live there is an ' historic marker" which announces that in
'the War of 1812 on this road the colonial troops marched from
Lake Champlain to Lake Ontario.
j Well, having motored over it nearly every day for two weeks.
I we can say "without fear of successful contradiction," that the road
has been changed very little since that time.
It runs from the main highway to Malone across the mountains
none higher than Roxy Anne to St. Regis Falls and it is
nothing but a thin frosting of "black-top" on a dirt country base.
That black-top helps just as the frosting on a chocolate cake
HELPS but the fact remains it is a "one way" road, open to
double road traffic. When you meet a car that doesn't turn out
you have to turn out practically into the ditch to avoid a smash-up.
We have found to our sorrow that nine out of ten of the cars
don't turn out. particularly for a modest "Drive Yourself" Chevy.
However, by always slowing down and turning out when an ap
proaching car is sighted, we have escaped disaster, to date. (Hit
on wood here!)
On this primitive trail one often sees signs too that this section
of the Adirondacks revives the old Gay Ninety song "She may
have seen better days."
The Adirondacks HAVE seen better days. There are ruins of
sawmills for example once upon a time this was a great and
what was then considered inexhaustible supply of gigantic white
pine (many of the trees over 200 feet high) but now, alas, al
though the entire country is thickly wooded, our guess is the
average height of the trees doesn't exceed 40 feet, and the great
majority is just brush and seedlings. There are many abandoned
railroad tracks entirely grown over and neither rails nor ties in
sight the highway from here to Saranac covers a portion of the
Delaware & Hudson that once ran all-Pullman night and day
I trains to Boston and New York.
There are also remains of iron smelters there are spots of
rich iron hereabouts now but U. S. Steel with its super-mass
production soon forced them to quit. So it is, except for the tourist
crop, mostlv a case of from overalls back to overalls again, for
the COMMERCIAL side of the picture. R.W.R.
Saranac Lake. N. Y., June 7 Came over here a 30 minute
drive to check certain matters concerning the "Drive Yourself"
car.
Meanwhile the Weather Man is overdoing it a bit. Last night
he put on an hour's thunder storm not nearly as bad as the
performance in New York, however and today there are leaden
skies and that north wind right off the shady side of the North
Pole. The Saranac river was dotted with chunks of ice reminding
one of that famous painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware."
(Only G.W. could have jumped across this one.)
Our guess is there are more deer killed here by automobiles
out of season than by guns in season. At least yesterday afternoon
a boy came running up to the lodge out of breath and asked if
he could use the phone, explaining that he had seen a dead doe
on the highway and the law required an immediate reporting to
the state police.
He phoned the police, explaining the doe jumped directly in
front of his car. was killed instantly, the only damage to his car
being a smashed headlight. The boy seemed relieved when the
police said they would pick up the carcass.
"Is that all I do?" he inquired still somewhat breathless.
"That's all." was the reply.
No doubt the police will have a venison banquet tonight.
There are fresh deer tracks around the Lodge road every day
but to date we have never seen one. The explanation appears to
be the deer keep working hours we don't keep. They get up around
sunrise, look for salt and blueberry blossoms, retiring to the
forest primeval before your correspondent has breakfast. Then in
the twilight around 7 p.m. when we sit down to dinner the deer
wander down to the lake for a temperance "night cap," and like
Mr. Pepys "so to bed."
Then is the lime to get your deer, they say, but there is a law
against hunting them by car headlights. It seems deer have the
same weakness to lights at night that do moths and gnats.
Across the road from the lake there is a good imitation of a
Louisiana bayou, small trees and bushy shrubs growing out of
clear dark water with the faint trace of a brook winding between
like a huge snake. It looks like wonderful fishing but the "Master-of-the-Inn"
says no nothing but frogs and bullheads.
Judging by the bull frogs croaking when we walked down
there, an energetic fisherman with a red flannel on his hook,
could get enough frogs legs in a day to supply the Waldorf for a
week. According to the same reliable source however, bull frogs
are avoided. They might be O.K. in one of Mark Twain's jumping
contests, but they are TOO muscular in short, their legs are large,
but tough. New Yorkers like theirs medium and tender.
It is nice to be up here not only far from the maddening crowd
but still farther from the mad rat-race known as party politics.
We have received extracts, however, from the Congressional Rec
ord reporting the war dance cries of the GOP leaders in the
Upper House, as they enjoyed a cannabilistic feast after tying
Wayne Morse to the stake for his remarks about President Eisen
hower. We haven't been able to determine EXACTLY what our senior
Senator said, but our guess is the substance was contained in one
sentence, to-wit:
"I can see no difference in principle, in Dave Beck putting his
hand in the pockets of his union members, and the present ad
ministration putting its hands in the pockets of the tax payers "
If that is correct, then why all this hysteria and intemperate
Nullification as if such a charge "in principle" were something
entirely new and inexpressibly shocking? Except in the realm
of semantics, this is nothing new and startling. Wayne Morse has
said much the same thing many times before.
We don't happen to agree with this diagnosis. We believe there
is a material moral difference. Dave Beck misappropriated union
funds for his personal aggrandizement and profit. We don't be
lieve even Senator Morse would accuse the President of any such
wrong doing, or question his high sense of honor and devotion to
what HE believes best for the country.
The only trouble is President Eisenhower honestly believes
"what is best for General Motors IS best for the country," and a
Tuesday, June II, 19S7
which there were a few modest
SlB THEY'RE FIGHTlN Ut'S
Professional Lobbies
Given Quiet Reception
To Regulation Plans
Washington (CQ) Lobby
ists themselves so far have given
a quiet reception to the new pro
posals to regulate them.
The day in and day out pro
fessional lobbyists representing
trade groups expressed little
protest about the law when sur
veyed by Congressional Quarter
ly. As a spokesman for the Am
erican Farm Bureau Federation
put it, "Congress can make the
lobby law as strenuous as it
wants. We have nothing to
hide."
But there was a much cooler
attitude on the part of public
relations firms who would come
under the lobbying law for the
first time. Publicly, they said
they were still studying the bill
and could not comment. Pri
vately several expressed con
cern and indicated they were
looking hard for loopholes.
'Dodging' Discussed
There is little doubt that sev
eral lobbyists will try to dodge
the new law if it is enacted. Al
ready there is talk among law
years on how to get around it.
The proposed law, for example
would cover lawyers who re
ceived S300 to carry on direct
communication with Congress to
influence legislation. But, some
are asking, couldn't a lawyer
get around the provision by el
iminating any mention of such
communication in his contract
with his employer?
And as for such indirect lob
bying as a public relations cam
paign, it would be covered un
der the law only if it cost S50,
000 or more and a "substantial
portion" of it was "intended,
designated or calculated to in
fluence legislation." What, pub
lic relations men ask, constitutes
"substantial portion?" And
wouldn't it be hard to prove that
a newspaper campaign to "edu
cate" the public on an issue was
"intended, designated or calcu
lated to influence legislation?"
Reaction Told
Some public comments on the
proposed new regulations:
Miles D. Kennedy of the Am
erican Legion: "I don't see any
thing to be disturbed about.
There's no reason not to include
indirect lobbying under the lob
by law."
Clarence Mitchell of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People:
"I think the administrator of
the new lobby law should set
aside a period for educating the
people about what is expected
of them under the Act. I like
the idea of having an adminis
trator because under the present
vague law nobody knows the
right thing to do."
O. R. Strackbein of the Nation-Wide
Committee on Indust
ry, Agriculture and Labor on
Import-Export policy: "I see
some extremely difficult legal
ground in trying to cover indir
ect lobbying."
J. L. McCaskill of the National
Education Association: The new
law "sounds like a distinct im
provement." John H. Sharon of the law
firm of Clcary. Gottlieb. Friend
ly and Ball: "We have been for
the strongest type of lobby law
j and would support the proposed
bill."
Some Decline Comment
Spokesmen for the public re
lations firms of Bozell and Jac
obs. Carl Byoir and Associates,
Hill and Knowlton and Newmyer
Associates declined comment on
the ground they had not studied
the bill thoroughly enough.
Sen. John L. McClellan (D
Ark), now head of the special
Senate committee investigating
i improper activities in the labor
and management fields. intr
product of this belief is his indifference and lack of leadership
where political NOT legal immorality is concerned, such as in
the Dixon-Yates and Idaho Power company quick write-off deals.
In condemning the administration in the realm of "POLITICAL
immorality" that is, placing private profit above the public wel
fare we agree entirely with our senior Senator, we don't agree
with him as far as the Beck analogy is concerned.
Here, however, we would return to the oft-quoted remark
attributed to Voltaire, namely:
"We disagree with what you say but would defend with our
life your right to say it." R.W.R.
A SOLDIER, ISN'T HE ?
duced the new lobby bill May
31. He said it was unanimously
endorsed by his special commit
tee that investigated lobbying
last year after Sen. Francis Case
(R-S.D ), reported the offer of a
S2.500 campaign contribution
while the natural gas bill was
under consideration.
The idea oehind the new bill
is to put more lobbying in the
goldfish bowl built by the exist
ing act. Only the full-time pro
fessionals would have to regis
ter as lobbyists before they tried
to influence legislation through
direct contact with Congress.
Others would just tell where
their money for influencing leg
islation came from and how
it was spent.
Amount Spent
The test for determining
whether spending reports must
be filed is the amount of money
spent to influence legislation
through direct communication
with Congress. Any person or
organization that pays out or
receives S300 in a calendar quar
ter for that purpose would have
to list everyone who gave S100
or more to the lobby campaign
and everyone who was paid S50.
In addition, such indirect lobby
ing as letter and telegram bar
rages at Congress, and public
education campaigns about a
pending bill would be covered
for the first time.
The spending reports filed by
individual lobbyists or organi
zations now end up in file draw
ers in the offices of the Secre
tary of the Senate and Clerk of
the House. Nobody is respon
sible for seeing that all the re
quired information is there or
to warn Senators and Congress
men about big pressure cam
paigns. McClellan's bill would make
the Comptroller General the ov
erseer of these spending forms.
His General Accounting office
could as'c groups for more in
formation on the forms filed and
report those who refused to file
at all, or filed falsely, to the
Justice Department. He would
also warn Congress about indi
rect lobby campaigns.
(Copyright, 1957. Congress
ional Quarterly)
Editorial
Comment
THAT MAN AGAIN
Despite the fact that he is one
of the brightest and one of the
fairest minded men in Oregon,
former Gov. Charles A. Sprague
is an outrageous punster. And
he uses his otherwise respectable
Oregon Statesman as a vehicle
for these attempts at funniness.
Last spring, when Dag Ham
marskjold was conferring with
Nasser, Mr. Sprague predicted
successful talks. If skjolding
doesn't work, he said, Dag can
use his hammar.
Now this punster asks us to
be sorry for the bakers' union
boys. After all, he said, they may
have kneaded the dough. Eu
gene Register-Guard.
TO EACH HIS OWN
Fort Polk, La. HP The
Army's laundry code system has
run into double trouble because
regulations require GIs to mark
clothing with their last names
and final four digits of their
serial numbers. The trouble
popped up when the Army dis
covered that Sgts. William R.
and Russel A. Wilson have iden
tical last four digits. Tne solu
tion? The sergeants will have
to use separate laundries.
Lebanese Election Latest in
Series of Defeats for Nasser
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Preii Correspondent
Lebanon has inflicted the lat
est of a series of defeats on pro
Russian, anti-Western President
Gamal Abdel
Nasser of
Egypt. The
pro - Western,
anti - Commu
nist govern
ment of Leba
non has won
19 out of 22
seats contest
ed in a nation
al paruamen- rnarir siecana
tary election. This follows the
successful victory of King Hus
sein of Jordan against the left
ist elements who, with Nasser's
backing, plotted to overthrow
him.
It follows also the meeting I
in Karachi, Pakistan, which
greatly strengthened the anti
Communist Middle Eastern
Treaty Organization the so
called Baghdad Alliance that
Nasser bitterly opposes.
At present, Egypt and its fellow-traveller
Syria are very
nearly isolated in the Arab
world.
Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and
Saudi will have refused to fol
low Nasser. The remaining coun
tries of the nine-nation Arab
League, Yemen, the Sudan and
Libya, are giving Nasser no
support.
Further, the pro-Russian gov
ment of Syria is meeting in
creasingly strong resistance by
anti-Communists in parliament.
It has long been apparent that
Nasser's hope of making him
self the leader of the Arab
countries has been shattered.
King Saud of Saudi Arabia
had a great deal to do with that.
Saud's influence in the Arab
Communications
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Protests Graham Editorial
To the Editor: I seldom feel
called upon to answer an Editor
ial but in the case of the editor
ial comment in Friday's paper
on Billy Graham I feel impelled
to protest.
Where editorial comment has
as much place in molding public
opinion and especially the opin
ion of our young people as it
does, I feel that it is a complete
betrayal of that trust when an
editorial writer makes such an
attack. I respect such an opinion,
even if it differs with mine, if a
straightforward line of reason
ing is set forth. But when Billy
Graham is called a fakir, not
having a sincere, honest con
viction, of being a phony and a
fraud, not giving a hoot about
principle and only for money,
then the writer admits that he
has not heard or at least attend
ed one of the meetings. His com
ment seems to be based on a pre
judice, which he also shares for
Richard Nixon, not on any rea
son. I do not feel that a man
who has accepted responsibility
to try and mold opinion should
do so on prejudice alone.
I happen to know of one prom
inent movie star and radio sing
er who was living a life of de
bauchery and came under the
preaching of Billy Graham.
Afterward he couldn't sleep and
called Billy at 3 o'clock in the
morning to come and pray for
him. Billy came but refused to
pray unless he would promise to
give up his way of life and try
to live right. As a result his
whole life was c h a n ged and
straightened out. I also know of
another man, who was on his
way to join a Chicago gang, that
repented and went straight be
cause of the preaching of Billy
Graham.
Therefore I don't feel that
editorial comment of this cal
iber based on prejudice has any
place in our local paper.
Lawrence Leonard
Box 722
Central Point, Ore.
AEC Approves Bill
To Control Power
Washington v The Con
gressional Atomic Energy Com
mittee has approved a bill giv
ing Congress greater control
over the peacetime development
of atomic power.
Although the measure had
been interpreted as a check on
the power of the Atomic Energy
Commission, AEC Chairman
Lewis L. Strauss expressed him
self as "very well satisfied" with
it.
The bill viould require con
gressional authorization before
the government plants except
military reactors and small ex
perimental types.
In addition, the AEC would
be required to get the commit
tee's approval on contracts with
private industry for its demon
stration reactor program.
The bill also would establish
a review procedure for prices
to be paid by the AEC for the
production of atomic fuels as
by-products in power plants and
the waiver of use charges on nu
clear materials.
world certainly is equal to Nas
ser's. Saud's visit to President
Eisenhower last January and
February maiked an important
turn o( Arab countries toward
the West.
Nasser's setbacks, of course,
mean a setback also for Soviet
Russia in its persistent attempt
to penetrate the Middle East.
Correspondingly, they consti
tute a victory for the United
States and especially for the Eis
enhower Doctrine against Com
munist infiltration in the Arab
countries.
Pro-Naiser Platform
The opponents of pro-Western
Premier Sami el Solh in the
Lebanese election campaigned
Matter of Fact b, jo..Ph ais.p
SEAGER IN AMMAN
Amman In this sunbaked
little desert citv, one of the real
ly decisive tests of the Eisen
hower admin
istr a t i o n ' s
courage and
power to make ,
national policy I
is now in prog
ress. Outwardly,
what is hap
pening is the
very opposite
Joseph Alsno of dramatic.
Calm and King Hussein now
reign in Jordan. There is no out
ward tension while the talks pro
ceed between representatives of
King Hussein's government, the
local American Embassy staff,
and the visiting American offi
cial, responsible for the foreign
aid program in the Middle East.
The name of Cedric Seager
can hardly be known at home be
yond the narrow circle of his
private friends and regular offi
cial contacts. Yet this man who
has been sent to Jordan to look
into the matter of American aid
for young King Hussein's new
pro-Western regime is in fact
playing an historic role.
A wrong decision by Cedric
Seager, or rejection by his su
periors of sound recommenda
tions from Seager, can quite
easily lead onwards to a decisive
and fatal Western defeat in the
whole Middle East. A right de
cision cannot be guaranteed,
alas, to save either the Middle
East or Jordan. But at least a
right decision will be an im
portant step on the long, rough
road toward a safer situation in
this strategically vital area.
INHERE are two sets of reasons
for the portentousness of the
role which history, perhaps a
little ironically, has suddenly
conferred upon this blameless
but obscure Washington bureau
crat. The first set of reasons relate
to Jordan's new position in the
general Middle Eastern scene.
Little Jordan is the real key to
Iraq and Iraq is in turn the key
to all those countries of the
Middle East on which the
strength of the West depends.
Let Jordan fall into the hands
of the Egyptian-led Arab ex
tremists and their Communist
allies, Iraq and the oil Sheikh
doms of the Gulf coast and even
Saudi Arabia will successively
go the same way too.
Jordan's internal situation con
tains the second set of reasons
for waiting for Cedric Seager's
verdict with a certain breath
lessness. As yet the fact had
better be faced young King
Hussein's brilliant victory over
the pro-Egyptians and their Com
munist allies is both temporary
and precarious.
A large majority of Jordan's
present population is composed
of Arab refugees from Israel and
the people of the province of
the West bank of the Jordan
River that formed part of Pal
estine before Israel was created.
Among these naturally embit
tered people, the Egyptian, Syri
an and Communist agents find a
warm response. If you wonder
why so many are responsive, go
look at the filthy shanty towns
here in Amman where many
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frankly on a pro-Nasser plat
form. In the voting which took place
Sunday, the pro-Nasser candi-
dates won just 2 of the 22 seats
! at issue. The government would
I have won 20 instead of 19 seats
had not an independent candi
date taken sufficient votes in
one district to defeat Solh's man.
The remaining 44 of the 66
seats in Lebanon's single-chamber
parliament are to be con
tested in a succession of elec
tions in other parts of the coun
try on the next three Sundays.
There is no reason to believe
that the leftists can do any bet
ter than they did in the first
one.
thousands of refugees eke out
the customary existence of this
population of the living dead.
THEN too, besides containing
this huge potentially explo
sive element, little Jordan is a
poor country with an impover
ished government. Even the
famous Arab Legion, the essen
tial support of King Hussein's
throne, has always been paid
for with foreign subsidies, first
British and now in theory Arab
subsidies. But of the legion's
total annual cost of about S35,
000,000, King Hussein can now
only rely upon getting the $14,
000.000 share of King Saud of
Saudi Arabia. The Egyptians
and Syrians are still talking
smoothly about paying their
promised shares. But in fact,
they are Kin& Hussein's enemies.
For the Arab Legion alone,
therefore. Jordan has an annual
deficit of over 520.000,000.
In addition, if King Hussein
is to be given a real chance of
maintaining himself over a long
period, a large-scale works pro
gram is urgently needed. Jobs
must be provided for the jobless
in order to "draw off some of
the pus of human misery," as an
American official put it. For
this, another $25,000,000 a year
is certainly a minimum require
ment. BY THE standards of the
American aid program and
budget, the addition is piddling
not more than about S50.000,-.
000 a year of new money for
Jordan. But by the standards of
Jordan these figures that are
now being presented to Cedric
Seager add up, quite simply, to
life or death.
Worse still, the American gov
ernment must change its ways if
the money is to do any good.
Arab susceptibilities are too in
flamed. Arab fears of "imperial
ism"' are too intense. If the usual
nursery governess rules for for
eign aid are insisted upon, any
American money spent in Jor
dan will end by doing harm rath
er than good. So the money must
be provided with no strings, no
military aid group or teeming
offices of civilian administrators.
This will surely be the most un
palatable part of Cedric Seager's
report.
Yet right here, in this un
noticed negotiation concerning
sums of money absolutely trifling
by American treasury standards,
the fate of the Middle East may
perhaps be decided.
(c) 1957 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Crop Dusting Plane
Snared in Power Line
Quincy. Wash. W A low
flying crop dusting plane be
came snared in a 115-thousand-volt
power line near here just be
fore noon yesterday.
Bonneville Power administra
tion officials in Portland said the
tangle interrupted the Columbia
Moses Lake Power line for one
minute.
Wenalchee Flying Service of
ficials said the plane was not
damaged, nor was the pilot ap
parently hurt, and the plane con
tinued through the afternoon
with the dusting job.
Today's Dollar only buys
half as much at a buck did
back in the Thirties, but
homes now costing almost
double can soon vanish in
smoke and flames leaving
the Uninsured in serious
trouble.
IT PAYS TO INSURE ON
TODAY'S VALUE!
Bill Fish
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