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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
FLIGHT O TIME stdg hed
10 YEARS AGO !
ODec. 30, 1947 (Tuesday)
Fifteen thousand acres of gov
ernment surplus land at Camp
White advertised for sale to for
mer owners, veterans and other
priority holders by Federal
Farm Mortgage corporation.
F r ojti Arthur Perry's Ye
SmudgI Pot column: "The situa
tion ira Greece grows alarming.
It wilr become more so when
Greek generals with 37 letters
in their last names start showing
up in the news."
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 30, 1937 (Thursday) .
About 143 acres in Jackson
ville are already under option
to the Cal-Ore Dredging com
pany of northern California,
Marcella McCullough states.
The Western Thrift corner at
Central ave. and Main st. is the
busiest spot in town, according
to statistics gathered by the
Medford Motor Bus company.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 30. 1927 (Friday)
Edward Wilkinson of Medford
leaves for Portland to visit his
brother for the first time in 45
years.
L. A. Liljeqvist, assistant state
attorney-general, is here getting
evidence involving Terry A. Tal
ent, youthful prohibition en
forcement agent charged with
shooting a Trail creek rancher.
- 40 YEARS AGO
! Dec. 30. 191? (Saturday)
I At dinnQe for directors of
Farmers and Fruitgrowers
- league a movement is launched
! for a publicity campaign for
pear consumption.
The federal government is buy
' ing valley livestock for Indians
' of the Klamath reservation, ac
r cording to local farmers.
wiiars Tour i.ij.r
Nine or ten connect Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent: five or
six is good.
1. To what religious denomina
; tion did Calvin Coolidge belong?
' 2. Bible: How many "precious
: stones" were set in "The Breast
, plate of Judgement"?
3. Are United Nations confer
- ence meetings formally opened
by prayers?
4. Name the Army officer who
led the original bombing raid on
Tokyo. '
5. In the shade, dark clothing
of equal weight and texture is
warmer, cooler, cpr as cool as
white clothing?
6. The Mayo Brothers were
famous circus daredevils, clergy
men, or diagnosticians?
7. Does the wind in the whirl
of tornadoes sometimes drive
straws into solid boards, tree
trunks ana telegraph poles?
8. What is the difference be
tween a Oiisogynist and a miso
gamist? 9. Name the two mammals
which lay eggs and suckle their
young.
10. Is the nationaL flag flown
continuously from naval vessels
during wartime?
Answers: 1. Congregationalism
2. Nine. 3. No. 4. James H. Doo
little. S. As cool. 6. Diagnosti
cians. 7. Yes. 8. Misogynist;
hater of women; misogamist:
hater of marriage. Echidna and
duck-billed platygpus. 10. Yes.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
By ERIC ALLEN. Managing Editor
Buena Park, Calif. The two-year-old residential development
where we are staying seems to be on the direct air line between
Los Angeles International airport and Disneyland, that Never
Never land which gives evidence of netting its creator a million
or so dollars each year.
At any rate, a dozen or so times each day, a big helicopter
whirls overhead, serving as a direct passenger link between the
airport and Disney's absolutely fantastic emporium of entertain
ment. We must confess that we were not among the throngs who
were excited and pleased when this huge, colorful and gala amuse
ment park opened a few years ago. It smacked just a bit too much
of the contrived, the artificial, the "cute," to suit us as seen on
television, anyway.
But today, after spending much of yesterday exploring the
highways and by-ways of this unbelievable creation, we not only
have sore muscles, but an admiration for the imagination which
created it.
Disneyland provides a gaulimaufry of impressions, but the one
which has stayed with us is that of cleanliness. From the freshly
swept entrance road, through the six brightly painted turnstiles
into the acres and acres of parking, on through the entrance
and into the gay cities of the past, the future, and the story book,
things were clean.
A small army of white-clad men spend their days doing noth
ing but marching around, armed with hand-broom and long-handled
dust-pans, pouncing on gum wrappers, crushed out cigarettes,
and the tons of trash which happy people discard without thought
or care. Waste receptacles are everywhere even in the fairy
castle of Fantasyland. No fairy grandmother is on hand to wave
a hand and dispose of the garbage. It takes foresight, planning and
hard work.
Disneyland is huge. How many acres it covers we neglected
to inquire, but it must be hundreds. Yet imagination and planning
have kept it from being overpowering through sheer size. Build
ings are less than life size, and the entire compound has been so
carefully broken up that one hardly has a chance to grasp the
overall picture because of the many little pictures pressing for
attention.
Only those arriving by helicopter, or those patient people who
waited out the long line to ride the aerial tramway which carries
one in a bucket high overhead, could have a chance to see Disney
land all at one glance.
But after spending several hours walking, one comes by the
realization that one still has not yet seen all that there is to be
seen. And the public transportation provided tiny trains of sev
eral varieties, horse-drawn omnibuses, surreys and wagons, and
and ancient motor buses is for more than just show and revenue.
They serve a practical purpose for the footsore and weary.
There must be something for everyone at Disneyland even
.the super-critical who find rides modeled on the flight of Peter
Pan, or the ride of the toad from "The Wind in the Willows," too
special for sophisticated tastes. But the wonder of childhood re
mains at least a little, in us all. And most adults cannot resist the
attraction of a Mississippi river stern-wheeler, constructed to two
thirds scale and which circumnavigates "Tom Sawyer's Island,"
a voyage of a mile or more; or a jaunt by launch through the jun
gles of the world, complete with mechanical reptiles, animals and
savages; or, at the very least, a drive on the "Autorama," a pee
wee sized superhighway with pee-wee size gasoline cars to match.
There are these, and much, much more. One can window-shop
for, or purchase, Chinese glass, or record albums, or Spanish food
or Southern cooking; or watch flickering old movies in a penny
arcade, or go on a "trip to the moon."
Through Disney's creative genius, and the ability of the Amer
ican people to persuade themselves they are still kids, Disneyland
has become an authentic entertainment mecca. Driving through
the parking lot we saw auto licenses from so many states we lost
count. All ages, races and colors are represented in the crowds
attending, and all at least before bone-weariness sets in display
a combination of holiday gaiety and puzzlement, as they try to fig
ure out what their ticket books entitle them to see, and how to
budget their time and money among the beckoning attractions.
An old saying declares that if one stands long enough in Times
Square (or is it Picadilly or Grand Central Station?) that he will
see everyone he's ever known. This may not be true, and it may
not be true of Disneyland, but we did see another Medford family,
the L. W. Buonocores, and their three pretty daughters, and a
family of friends from Pendleton. We have a hunch there were
others in the milling throngs who we would have greeted with
glad shouts had we happened to spy them.
Another highlight of this trip) of a far different variety
was a long visit with a roommate of bachelor days, who we had
not seen for 11V4 years, and who is now a Catholic priest and as
sistant pastor at the old mission of San Luis Obispo.
A problem in our family arose when we were trying to decide
how to address this close friend of many years. Should it be
"Father George"? or just "George"? or, in the case of the girls,
"Uncle George"?
The girls solved it by making it "Uncle Father George," which
despite the genealogical inexactitude, seemed to satisfy everyone.
On our part, it resolved itself to "George" in informal circum
stances, and "Father George" when we remembered, or when
others were presnt.
We called on him in the rectory, a building only a few years
old immediately adjacent to the restored nave of the mission, first
constructed in 1772. Father George invited us to his quarters,
bade us wait a few moments while he completed a few pastoral
chores, and left us after introducing us to the pastor, a monsignor,
whose Irish brogue had the music, and almost the incomprehensi
bility, of a foreign tongue.
He insisted that our party join him in his quarters while we
waited, and with great deliberation, and with many an anecdote
and courteous question, proceeded to wash and dry glasses, and
pour the adults a "nip of Christmas cheer."
Later, after a festive dinner with Father George, and a reunion
with other friends of days past, we distributed token gifts of
Rogue River valley Cornice pears, and retired to our motel. In the
morning, Father George took us through the old mission, and its
museum of antiques and curios of days long gone, before we left
and, drove south again through the warm, bright sunlight.
Residents Reminded
Of Tax Installment
Portland Ralph C. Granquist,
district director of the internal
revenue service for Oregon, has
reminded residents, other than
farmers, that Wednesday, Jan.
15, is the deadline for paying
the fourth and last installment
on estimated Federal income tax
returns for the year 1957.
Granquist said those taxpay
ers who filed an estimated re
turn and have a payment due
Jan. 15 should have received a
notice by mail.
If residents have previously
filed an estimated return and
events occurring in the last quar
ter of 1957 indicate that income
will be substantially more or
less than the original estimate,
an amended declaration should
be filed Jan. 15. The declaration
should be marked "amended"
and should be filed with the
same district director of the in
ternal revenue service who re
ceived the original declaration.
A blank form for use as an
amended declaration is printed
on the back of the notice of pay
ment due which you received.
Monday, December 30, 1957
Dulles Said Astute
By Vice President
Miami (W Richard M. Nixon
and the man he defeated for the
vice presidency came to see the
Oregon Bowl football game but
got sidetracked Saturday in kick
ing around the merits of Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles.
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
started the clash by slapping at
Dulles "lack of foreign policy
leadership" and saying, "we and
the free world will be better
off the quicker we get rid of
Dulles."
Nixon, one of Dulles' top
cheerleaders, told a news con
ference that the secretary of
state is the "most astute diplo
mat" in recent American history,
whose skill at the international
bargaining table played a big
role in keeping the United States
out of war during recent years.
Nixon, obviously referring to
Dulles' "brink of war" state
ments, pointed to major crises
in Iran, Trieste, Guatemala and
Syria which he said could have
erupted into fighting. .
MUMS P'CWNG SR W AN WOltf G 'M IM HERE
Correspondents Look
Ahead at Headlines
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
United Press correspondents
around the world look ahead at
the news that will make the
headlines.
Decline
Friends of Sir Anthony Eden
are seriously worried about his
health. His doctors have an
nounced that he has recovered
from a fever which kept him
in bed on Christmas Day and
the day after. But tha 60-year-old
former British prime minister
does not seem to be pulling back
satisfactorily from his long se
ries of abdominal illnesses.
"Volunteers"
This comes from Moscow
through a. reliable diplomatic
source: Russia is prepared to of
fer Indonesia a corps of 8,000
"volunteers" if it tries to take
Netherlands New Guinea by
force. The corps is made up of
Moslems. It was formed during
the Suez Canal crisis, to be of
fered to the Arab countries if
war broke out. The Indonesians,
like the Arabs, are Moslem. The
"volunteer" corps, well-equipped
for combat, has been kept , to
gether. It has now been moved
eastward in Siberia to be handy
for dispatch to Indonesia or to
New Guinea.
Dulles and Herter
Washington insiders say Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles and under Secretary
Christian A. Herter, former gov
ernor of Massachusetts, are now
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Read this:
It rained for the 15th straight
day in Portland today and the
weather man says above-normal
precipitation is in store for Ore
gon FOR THE REST OF THE
YEAR.
Sounds AWFUL, doe? n't it?
WAIT a minute.
Before closing up shop and
heading for the desert, do a lit
tle countirig on your fingers.
The "rest of the year" is
ONLY FOUR DAYS.
Put that way, it doesn't sound
so bad.
IT ALL depends, you see, on
HOW THE NEWS IS TOLD.
When told sensationally, with
out proper backgrounding, it is
apt to scare us out oi our ooots.
The same news, when put
against its proper background,
doesn't scare us at all. We can
read it and go on about our
business.
HERE'S another example, cull
ed from the current offerings
of the teletypes:
Russia has made two more
scientific claims:
1. Radio Moscow reports Rus
sian scientists are developing
wingless, tailless jet planes capa
ble of VERTICAL TAXEOFFS.
2. A Moscow newspaper hints
that a projected new Soviet
bomber will be able, when per
fected, to FLY AROUND THE
WORLD WITHOUT REFUEL
ING. Makes your hair stand on end,
doesn't it?
BIT"
Again
WAIT A MINUTE.
IF YOU'LL stop and thinK, you
may recall that MONTHS
AGO an interesting demonstra
tion was held on the Pentagon
grounds. In this demonstration,
an American bomber stood on
its tail on a launching platform.
At a given signal, it rose
STRAIGHT UP, leveled off,
flew around the Pentagon area
and then turned its nose up and
settled down on its tail on the
platform from which it was
launched.
And
Only a few days ago we were
told of a new American bomber
that will use exotic new chemi
cal fuels and will be able to
fly around the world without
refueling at speeds in excess of
2,000 miles per hour.
pulling well together. In past
months, Herter felt that Dulles
didn't give him enough to do.
There was speculation that he
might quit.' When Herter went
to Washington, he was regarded
as an understudy, ready to step
into the top job if Dulles stepped
out. The latest report about
Dulles is that he may toy with
the idea of resigning when he
reaches his 70th birthday, Feb.
25. But the feeling is that he
will stay on and that Herter
will stay with him now that
their relations are better.
Farmers
A congressional sub-committee
will predict, in a report due in
January, another 10 years of
rough financial sledding for
American farmers. The forecast
will be based on the continuing
increase in production, despite
crop controls, and the difficulty
of finding markets for the in
creased output.
Eye
Keep your eye on Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He
may play a big part in any move
toward a conference between
Russia and the western allies.
Nehru would do anything he
could to bring the two sides
together. He is to confer next
week with British Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan, who ar
rives in New Delhi Jan. 8 . to
begin a Commonwealth tour.
Nehru may have some idea for
Macmillan to relay to Washington.
JENKINS
HHHE coincidence is . striking
enough that a cynic might
suspect that the Russkies had
listened to our reports of jets
that rise straight up, soar around
and then come back down and
land on their tails and to our
projections of bombers now on
the drawing boards that will be
able to fly around the world at
speeds better than three times
the speed of sound.
The truth, undobutedly, is
that we and the Russians are
working along the same lines
and that we both have good sci
entists which doesn't upset us
particularly.
But the same set of facts,
when SENSATIONALLY told,
gives us the teeth-chattering jit
ters and scares us blue. ,
OOUND advice:
Let's keep our shirts on and
refuse to be stampeded by the
sensationalists.
Anti-Red Refugee
Program Stopped
Gettysburg, Pa. OP) Presi
dent Eisenhower Saturday or
dered termination of the emer
gency program for admitting
Hungarian anti-Communist ref
ugees to the United States, ef
fective Dec. 31.
At the same time, the White
House announced that Mr. Ei
senhower will renew his request
to congress to grant permanent
residence for 32,000 Hungarian
refugees now in this country on
a parole status. This request was
turned down at the last session
Under the emergency pro
gram which started after Hun
gary's freedom revolt 14 months
ago, 38,000 refugees have come
to the United States, about 6,
000 of them on regular immigra
tion visas but the remainder
under the parolee system set up
by the justice department.
The White House said it now
is possible to end the program
because o the "effective work"
on the problem by various in
ternational agencies, plus the ef
fortsof 35 other countries in
granting asylum to the refugees.
San Diego, Calif. ttPI Twenty
three tuna clippers carrying 3,
500 tons of fish were tied up
here Saturday after they failed
to find any buyers for their car
go in either San Diego or San
Pedro.
Former President Harry Truman
To Keynote
By LYLE C. VILIO
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Former
President Harry S. Truman is a
friendly man who likes to re
visit the scenes
of yesteryear,
splash some
branch water
in a dollop of
Jack Daniels
and chat.
HST will be
back in town
in a few weeks
as honoree at
Lyle c. wussa a t e s timonial
banquet from which the Demo
cratic party will raise from $100
a plate up. The date, just an
nounced, is Feb. 22.
The former President that
night will be keynoting the 1958
Democratic congressional cam
paign. The occasion will give
Truman scope for the kind of
give-em-hell operations in which
he delights. Some of his nostal
gia for his former Washington
haunts, however, will be unap
peased. Mr. T., for example, probably
will not revisit the Senate cham
ber in the north wing of the
Capitol where he rose from ob
scurity to the vice presidency of
the United States. The former
President has some personal
rules of conduct and one of them
is that he will not enter a room
in which Vice President Richard
M. Nixon is present.
Nixon Avoided
On a visit to Washington some
years ago the former President
was about to enter the Senate
chamber to sit at his old desk
for old times' sake when he
paused just outside the barrier.
Turning to his escort of friends,
Truman snapped that he would
not enter if Nixon were there.
The vice president not only
was absent from the chamber,
he was outside the continental
limits of the United States on a
mission for President Eisenhow
er. Being assured of that, Tru
man entered and had a hig time.
His feud with Nixon goes back
to the 1952 and 1954 political
campaigns in which the vice
president wounded the feelings
of most Democratic party lead
ers with his frank discussion of
Communist infiltration of the
U.S. government.
Truman has made no effort to
conceal his dislike for the vice
president. His feelings towards
President Eisenhower are less
well known. Truman's friends,
however, get the impression
now that the man from Missouri
is no more willing to meet with
Eisenhower than with Nixon.
Campaign Talk Accepted
Eisenhower campaign talk has
not upset his predecessor. On
the contrary, Truman occasion
ally has spoken of the President
Rough Treatment
Seen over Foreign
Policy, Defense
Washington (IP) The Sen
ate's second-ranking Democrat
has indicated that the Eisen
hower administration faces
some rough treatment, in the
coming session of Congress over
its handling of foreign policy
and national defense.
Sen. Mike Mansfield (D.
Mont., assistant Senate Demo
cratic leader, made use of a
television interview Sunday to
attack the administration rec
ord in those fields.
He included President Eisen
hower in his criticism by say
ing the President "ought to ex
ercise more aggressive leader
ship" in foreign policy.
Challenges Assertion
Interviewed on NBC's tele
vision program "M e e t the
Press," Mansfield challenged a
White House assertion that the
United States "at this time" is
not militarily weak when com
pared with the Soviet Union.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said at Gettys
burg Saturday that some news
paper accounts of the so-called
Gaither report have given a
false impression that this na
tion is in a weak military posi
tion. Hagerty said the report "says
just the opposite."
Open to Question
,But Mansfield said Hagerty's
remark is "open to serious ques
tion." In fact, he said, he thinks
that nation has been "out
maneuvered, out-witted and pos
sibly out-flanked by the Soviet
Union."
The Montana Democrat, a
member of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee, demanded
"new ideas and new policies" ;
for U.S. foreign aid. j
He charged that the admini
stration was still operating with
"old Democratic policies which
many of us have felt have out
lived their usefulness."
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198 DemoCampaign
and his problems in a friendly,
,rA Vita nrnhlomc in a fr lonnlv
sympathetic way but not re
cently. What seems to irk Truman is
that there has been no White
House call . on him for advice
and counsel. Eisenhower has
paid Truman no discourtesy but
he has paid him no attention,
either. Whatever the offense
may have been, it was great
enough to break what began as
a beautiful friendship.
Capt. Harry S. Truman, the
Robert Smith Named
Ambassador for State
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Newspapermen
should never get involved in
partisan politics for or against
anyone, T's is a maxim to
which all re
porters should
swear, as phy
sicians swear
to the code of
Hippocrates, if
the term free
press is to have
any meaning
for the readers
of a democracy.
But there is
A Robt Smith
a time and a place for every
thing, one supposes, and this is
one of those times. For I am
about to become officially parti
san in behalf of the state of Ore
gon for at least the next year
and a half.
Certificate Delivered
Just delivered to me is a beau
tiful certificate which certifies
that "Mr. Robert Smith is duly
appointed a member of the gov
ernor's staff as Oregon's ambas
sador at large."
Me, without a cutaway. Not
even a fancy red cummerbund
to hold my middle in.
My commission is "to serve
the Great State of Oregon by
advising the people of your na
tion of the One Hundredth An
niversary of the Oregon Coun
try which will be commemorat
ed in 1959."
Between a reproduction of
the famous Oregon pioneer sta
tue and an artist's conception of
the Buck Rogers era of tomor
row, the certificate goes on to
say:
Largest Markets
"The western states of the
United States have become one
of America's largest markets for
import products. Twenty - four
million people reside in these
western states now.
"Oregon believes it incum
bent upon itself to encourage
international trade and a major
feature of our Centennial cele
bration in 1959 is an internation
al trade fair. It will be viewed
by millions of American con
sumers and all of the principal
traders involved in export and
import traffic of this huge area
of North America.
"We encourage participation
by your friends and those com
panies and agencies of your
country which may wish to es
tablish their good name, their
products and their services in
the great Pacific Northwest,
Oregon, and the City of Port
land, in this western region of
the United States of North
America." -
Bipartisan Appointment
Politically speaking, this is a
very bipartisan appointment.
The signatures on the certificate
are those of Gov. Robert D.
Holmes, who admits to being a
Democrat, and the chairman of
the centennial commission, An
thony Brandenthaler, who is
proud to be regarded as a Re
publican. So I reckon it's safe
to accept it. '
Jakarta, Indonesia HP)
Foreign Minister Subandrio Sat
urday indicated Indonesia might
turn to the Communist bloc for
arms if it is unable to get them
from the United States.
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Qrfi1lAmfrvifn . tit i T i-
artilleryman of World War T.
has a soft heart for soldiers, es
pecially generals, barring, of
course, Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur. Eisenhower relates in his
"Crusade for Europe" that in
1945 Truman looked him in the
eye and said:
"General, there is nothing
that you may want that I won't
try to help you get. That defi
nitely and specifically includes
the presidency in 1948." Times
have changed considerably since
then.
It will be no hardship to be
partisan in behalf of so beauti
ful a state as Oregon. Every
Oregonian I have ever met trav
eling here in the east has dem
onstrated that in full measure
by his lyrical praise of his home
state.
The state, of course, has plen
ty worth praising. Some speak
longingly of its scenery, Crater
lake, the beaches, snow-capped .
Mt. Hood. Some think of the
Pendleton Roundup while away
from Oregon. Some even men
tion the Oregon rain in loving
fashion.
With such plentiful potential
to praise, is it any wonder that
all Oregonians away from home
become, if you'll pardon the ex
pression, Oregon's ambassadors
plenipotentiary?
Technically, however, they
are ambassadors without port
folio, unless the governor and
the Centennial chairman give
them formal apppintments and
issue each traveling Oregonian
his ambassadorial credentials.
Every Oregonian who loves his
state would then have the com
mission he manifestly deserves.
Governtment Hikes
Real and Personal
Property Holdings
Washington (IP) The U.
S. government has boosted its
property at home and abroad to
at least $250 billion worth
$15 billion more than a year
ago.
A congressional committee,
reporting this, said the govern
ment owns 409 million acres of
land in the continental United
States and 363 million acres
abroad. This, it said, is equival
ent to all the states east of the
Mississippi river plus California,
Oregon and Arizona.
Real, Personal Property
The House Government Oper
ations committee report covers
both real and personal property
and includes everything from air
bases to plants in the botanical
gardens.
The committee's third annual
inventory, which it said was on
the conservative side, listed to
tal federal property holdings at
$250,029,591,000 as of June 30,
1957. This was an increase of
$15 billion over the same date
in 1956 and $43 billion over
1955.
The committee noted the lat
est total was still below the
national debt of about $274 bil
lion. Grounds Valued ,
Some years ago the District
of Columbia assessor valued the
White House grounds, not in
cluding the buildings, at $23,
623,000. The committee said the
ctual worth of the Presidio
grounds in San Francisco is es
timated at $50 million.
In this country, government
land holdings range from 6,000
acres in Connecticut to 61 mil
lion acres in Nevada.
Military real estate was val
ued at nearly $25 billion, $2
billion increase over 1956. The
committee said nearly 70 per
cent of the hike was in Air
Force properties.
AT PERL'S every family
may make funeral ar
rangements which are In
keeping with its means. A
selection of services for
every price range is of
fered to satisfy individual
preferences and to meet
all financial circumstances.
Convenient Terms?
Certainly!