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4 . -1 4 ; t -J ... V-" . .' : ...'I . i3 i 'M' J v. i- J V - -OUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 2, 1958 ;3 dfEDFOHDtWRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" .-Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor '-HERB GREY. Advertising Manager T; GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ..ERIC ALLEN". JR. Managing Editor I HARRY CHIPMAV. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor Z OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor -DALE ERICKSOX. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper In'ered as second class matter at - Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES -"Br Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. .- Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 " Daily and Sunday 8 moa. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 - Sunday Only One year $4.20 '.- By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle .roint, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. - "noenlx. bhady Cove. Rogue Riv. er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Z Daily and Sundav 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ' . All Terms Cash in Advance . ; Official Paper of City of Medford - uinciai"aperor Jackson connty .Vnited Press Full Leased Wire 2 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION vertising Rrrsentative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. i 4 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ' S I lAsTbcfATIN faptjjiin.a'.u.'.i.ua Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. Editorial Correspondence . . . By Eric Allen, Managing Editor Indio. Calif. About three years ago, the California divi sion of beaches and parks, using some of the millions of dollars received from off-shore oil concessions, established a state park on the northeast shore of the Salton sea. On the Sunday between Christmas and New Year's, it was crowded with sun-worshippers, picnickers, water skiers, boat enthusiasts, and just plain tourists, like us. The sea itself, about 40 miles long and 15 to 20 miles wide, is, we believe, unique. Its surface at present is just 220 feet below sea level. Between 1905 and 1907, waters of the ocean seeped in from the Gulf of Baja California, creating the Salton sea. Like the Great Salt Lake, its water is salty, and the lake, obviously, has no outlet. In this desert country its inlets are, of course, seasonal and limited, but we are told that the surface is gradually rising. It is a dirty body of water, scummy and yellowish near the shore. But looking out across it to the Santa Rosa range on the other side, rising in rugged majesty almost straight ud. the sea takes on a blueness and freshness one hardly exoects of the "Dead Sea of America." The park has only a few scrawny pepper trees, and the picnic tables, each equipped with a natural gas stove, are shaded by wooden latticework. There were more than 20 boats, ranging from two-seat speedsters to 15-foot open cruisers powered by twin 35-horse- oower outboard motors, when we counted, just alter noon. Many of them were towing skiers, but more of them were lined up with their bows on the sandy shore, waiting until their owners decided to take another spin. oQ o o2 Cr -- A.) o o no 'I INHALED! Matter of Fact To the northeast is the jagged escarpment of the Little San Bernardino. Orocopia and Chuckawalla mountain ranges treeless, lifeless and eroded into sharp ridges and gullies To the northwest is Mt. San Gorgonio, 11,485 feet tall, or just over the height of Mt. Hood. It had a dusting of snow on its barren peak. Across the pass through which we drove from Riverside is Mt. San Jacinto, 10,805 feet in height. It, too. had a little snow, but only on the north slopes which escape much of the burning sun of this dry and dreary desert land. r U OA-vsJIa AritT fi-nm Tnir, in fVio Raltnn P9 up hnvo th hichpst averasp vear-around temrjerature of any w city in the United States It was in the high 70 s as we drove through. SAD LETTER Paris Dear Stew: You want me to celebrate the New Year by trying to sum up my im pressions after 12 endlessly itinera ill months as a foreign cor respondent. It will be a pretty melan- 4C ' nWftittiif-- ttMA 1 -j? Joseph Alsop choly sort of celebration. The trouble is, simply, that I am frighten ed for the C 10 YEARS AGO M Jan. 2. 1948 (Friday) Generally optimistic as to '" the future, a note of caution 1 - aounded by representatives I of Medford banks in the an- r nual end-of-the-year survey and predictions for the com- lne year. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "There It a wide belief 1948, the 'Z new-born year, can't be any r -worse than 1947. no mater '.Z how hard it tries." Harbor, while the ' Japanese bombs thumped down on the blacked-out city. I was not frightened then as I am now. Of course I do not mean that I felt no fear for myself. I- 20 YEARS AGO - Jan. 2. 1938 (Sunday) The holiday weekend got '.Z off to a bad start in the num- 1- ber of auto accidents though -no fatalities nor serious in Juries were reported in this .Z area. Medford firemen see smoke I at home of Mrs. Martha F. t Spooner, 435 North Bartlett St.; go to it before alarm founds. 90 YEARS AGO Jan. 2, 1928 (Tuesday) Origin of the bulbous blue grass in Jackson county is a matter of considerable local controversy. Judge Harry Belt of the aupreme court and J. A. Churchill, president of the Southern Oregon Normal school to speak at association meeting of law enforcement officers. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 2. 1918 (Wednesday) The first open house New Year's day celebration ever held by the local Elks lodge vas reported as a success. December with 2.75 inches of rainfall fell - below the average of 4.25, according to official statistics. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tan correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six if good. . Z 1. If one is said to be - "gumshoeing," what is he do- 3 Ing? 2. Bible: Name the apostle '. " establish the fact that Christ- ianity is a distinct religion in - Itself, rather than a sect of -; Judaism? -C 3. Correct the following: !- "His bride would have liked to have gone with her hus- : band." Z 4. What is the middle name ; Of Herbert C. Hoover? 1 5. Where is Bedloe's Island? 5 6. On what day in 1918 ; was the Armistice that ended . ; World War I signed? - 7. A famous plant breeder Z lived in Santa Rosa, Calif- - ornia. Name him. - 8. Why is there an apos " trophe in the expression I "o'clock?" Z 9. When Edward VIII ab ; 2 dicated the British throne, ; who succeeded him? - 10. Does the common house-fly have a proboscis? Answers: 1. Moving about Z stealthily. 2. Paul. 3. "His Stride would have liked to go -with her husband." 4. Clark. -5. In New . York harbor. ;6. November 11. (5 a.m. Paris jlime, Monday 11. 1918). 7. Lu Elher Burbank. 8. The apos ; trophe denotes the ommis Ision of the words "of the." -9. His brother, who became -King George VI. 10. No. (It :cannol bila or suck). I This is the "peak" season for this desert, which is part nlavprmind. rjart farmland and Dart emntv barrenness. The date-harvest is in full swing at present, and many first time in my life. I can re of the date plantations, with their stately palms planted in member lying on the floor in neat rows, also cater to the tourists, offering illustrated lec- inKy aarisness in jtiong js.ong, tures on the "Sex Life of the Date," date "shakes," and gift straining my ear against a packages of dates of all varieties. ruined radio tnat was oareiy The California Date Growers Association, a cooperative, wmspermg xne news oi i-ean maintains what it claims is the largest date plant in the United States and perhaps the world at Indio. It is easy to believe this boast, for the plantations, set in square blocks amidst surrounding sand and sage, are not only beautiful but huge and numerous. Other crops hereabouts are cotton (though not as much is grown here as in the plains around Bakersfield) and some The sound of bombs dropping truck crops (although the Imperial valley, to the south ot affects me exactly as it af- the Salton sea, is better-known for vegetaoie raising. fects the next man. I mean rather that I did not feel even .The key to all this burgeoning growth is, of course, water. a lingering doubt about the Until the first deep wells were drilled, bringing in their future of our country, the f u precious and remarkably soft and pure water, this was a ture of our civilization, the wasteland, good for nothing but small desert animals and future of human decency and reptiles. Today it is a rich area. And much of its wealth human freedom. No such" comes from the pressing millions of people a hundred miles doubt has ever before crept way across the mountains, on t;:e plains-around Los Angeles, into my mind, even although Palm Springs is an example. We drove slowly througn we Americans have com the desert spa Sunday afternoon. "Fabulous," and "unbe- mitted great follies and have hevable were adjectives which came immediately to mind, gone through some very But as we kept driving, and watched the flossy motels, ex- rough patches in the quarter pensive restaurants and exclusive homes going by, a sort oi century of my working, life inverted snobbery came into play, and we wonaerea just Maybe I have ben making wnat sort oi a sense oi vames wouia una an ims gmiuuiuus and important. Swimming pools are everywhere. Even the second-rate motels must have them to stay alive, and the third-rate motels which do not have them are reduced to catering to the honest poor who come for a glimpse of the sun, and Tn vpars as a ITS. Naw cannot hope to afford the expensive facilities which might petty officer, Ed had imbibed give them a chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of a "name" firm convicti0n that no personality from Hollywood. one on earth couij teat the We saw the largest trailer-park in our limited experience TT R fjavv The British Naw. in i'aim springs, pacKea to capacity wim Huge uouch h he aiso regarQed as .' a re "mobile homes," as their owners prefer to have them called). SDectable force, but that end- MOSt OI tnem gave evidence OI permaueiiue w eim-i;ciiiici- nence as they arrived to spend the winter months . Palm Springs, which the map shows as being in the 10,000 to 25,000 population classification, probably exceeds verses those first terrible that at this time of year, and probably is closer to the smaller nt th war rc,r alas figure in the summer time. But there is no doubt but that tne japanese news was only it nas grown iremenaousiy in xne past iew years, ivxust uj. 0Q rue lllc UUllUUito die uiaiiu ucn. iuc fluwuiwo, vnt x-m. the mistake of Ed Gingles, the superbly brave old man who was our leader in the prison camp where the Japs put me for awhile after Pearl Harbor. ed Ed's list of serious fight ing forces in the world. Hence Ed flatly refused to believe the Japanese news of our re- . . .. .. . , ,( 1 1 ,, them that, for the entire town resemDies one nuge suourD, TlyTAYBE, in other words, are mosuy composea oi ramer smaii, iwu- miu un cc-ucu - i.Tx should have begun to room, Iiai-iuppeu iiuuiea u an ummuiuiicu Uu J feel doubts about OUT future ueseri resiuenis say inai in uie suiiiinci, aij. Luuuiuuuuig is the difference between living and existing. The more expensive homes, some of them truly palatial, and virtually all of them with the inevitable swimming pool, are higher on the slopes of the ravines above the city itself, many on private roads or drives. Water, here as in agriculture, is the key. A desolate stretch of rock-studded sage borders immediately upon an emerald-green, landscaped golf course; a sand dune is pre vented by a drift-fence from encroaching on a date-palm grove which in season is flooded six inches deep. Water, in the desert, is life. 7 Our visit to the Los Angeles metropolitan complex has, thus far, been relatively free of the well-publicized smog. But returning from the desert in the late afternoon and evening yesterday, we ran into a seizure of it. It is as bad as reputed. The stars and new moon were visible overhead, but street lights only a block away were faded and blurred in the dirty haze, and our eyes smarted from the fumes. But as this is written (in the back seat of the car, and to the accompaniment of "Watcha doin', mister?" from small fry of the neighborhood, and as the wheels of domesticity turn in the house), the smog has gone, and the sun is shining hot through a faint overcast of honest water vapor. We may get to the beach this afternoon, if our desert sunburn isn't too sensitive. Deep Snow Slows Hillary in Race Wellington, New Zealand (IP) Unexpectedly deep snow slowed Sir Edmund Hil lary today in his race to the South Pole and gave new hope to his rival, Dr. Vivian Fuchs. Hillary was reported about 100 miles from the pole but deep snow has halted his snow-cat halftrack vehicles and cut deeply into his gaso line supply. A message filed from his Scott Base depot after nearly a week of smooth, fast run ning, said "at one time it looked like the end of the road for us." The suddent rough going gave new hope to a British party lead by Fuchs, which long before this. But you and I have always assumed that if the American people just understood the problems con fronting them, they would manage to solve those prob lems somehow.. So we have been called pessimists, be cause we have insisted on the seriousness of the problems, whereas we have been opti mists, because we have be lieved the problems could successfully be solved. If I feel doubts about our future now, moreover, it is not because I have been con verted to the. view that our basic problems are insoluble. I am plagued by doubt, rather, because it seems to me that the American response to the supreme challenge of the last year has been so sadly inadequate. What has been this chal lenge? Essentially, it has been a sudden, brutal confrontation with the consequences of five years and more of self-indulgence. We were lullel by leaders who sometimes re set out from the opposite side fused to believe the intelli- of the Antarctic continent. gence and who sometimes Fuchs and his men were simply lied about it. So the still more than 300 miles American nation allowed its short of the pole, making slow progress across an ice field criss-crossed with trea cherous crevasses. It is coun try never touched before by a human foot. Hillary was expected to get to the pole at least a week be fore Fuchs. But the setbacks caused officials here to vise their timetable. re- CHECK THAT, WATSON Doncaster, England OP) Sherlock Holmes has been fined $14 for stealing $3.80 worth of coal. Holmes is a 37-year-old laborer. Dower to be overtaken and surpassed by the power of the Soviet Union. That was the central lesson of this last year's turbulent events. WHEN Allen Dulles was at last permitted to make an honest presentation of our real power-position to the leaders of Congress, I am told that Sen. Byrd's only question was, "When are they going to hit us?" But I do not think there is much danger of our being directly hit by the great nuclear striking power the Soviets have acquired. We By Joseph A'sop still have enough power to hit back, to make this parti cular and extreme kind of danger quite remote and un real. The real and present danger is much more complex. It shows up in the greatly in creased boldness and aggres siveness of the Kremlin, in the Middle East, for example. It shows up in our own greater timidity (for who has heard Secretary Dulles talk ing of massive retaliation lately?) And it shows up in the visible loosening of the vital bonds of the whole West ern alliance. A cataclysm, ending life on earth, is not what these signs portend. But they very clear ly point to a series of local de feats and local surrenders which will gradually impair the strength, undermine the economy and encroach upon the borders of the free world. In the thirties, Hitler took half of Europe by piecemeal nibbling and grabbing opera tions, in which he was always protected by the fear inspired by his superior power. That is just what the Kremlin is ex pecting and preparing to do, on a world scales, in the late fifties and, early .sixties, i AT THE end of the thirties, the British and French awoke to the fact that they could not hope to survive in a Europe dominated by Hit ler. I do not think that islands of remaining freedom in America and Western Europe can hope to survive either, in a world dominated by the Kremlin. Hence I now fear for our future for the first time. But I would not be afraid, if I could only see a new, vigorous and wise American leadership telling the honest truth to our people, seriously mobilizing the vast resources of our country, and sternly preparing to discharge Amer ica's heavy but glorious re sponsibility as the last, best hope of freedom in the world. As ever Joe. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS New Year's Eve note: In New York the hot shot night clubs were prepared to handle big crowds. The going tariff was reported to be about $37.50 per person. What was that talk we were hearing aboulfa recession due to tight money? TN SAN Francisco, the Fair mont hotel asked revel ers in its plush Venetian room $15 for food, paper hats, ser pentine and rattles. Liquor was extra. 30 you write your own ticket. Who furnished the aspirin was unspecified. JjROM Sacramento: uamornians drank more last year than they did in 1956 the state board of equalization says in its 1957 year-end re port. Using actual figures through October and estimates for the final three months, the board's research and statistics division set the apparent con sumption of beer at about 206 million gallons this year Liquor was estimated at 23,- 500,000 gallons while wine was set at 28 million gallons, A year ago, Californians drank 195 million gallons of beer, 22,527,000 gallons of liquor and 28 million gallons of wine. This amounts to an increase of 11 million gallons of beer and a million gallon hike in sales of distilled iquor. Wine consumption remained stationary. T SOUNDS pretty bad. I But As so often happens, the news isn't as bad as it sounds. For example: The board of equalization points out that since 1950 consumption of beer and liquor has increased by only 27 per cent while the state's population has increased by about 33 per cent. That is to say: PER CAPITA consumption of beer and liquor in Califor nia is actually DECLINING instead of increasing. v gOME good advice: When you hear what sounds like disturbing news, dig in and get the WHOLE picture. More often than not, when what sounds like bad news is put against its proper back ground, it turns out to be not quite as bad as.it sounds. Per sonally, I bfe a notion that if the wholeV picture were properly presented and understood by everybody our defense situation wouldn't be as bad as it is being pictured. Unfortunately, we humans tend to pay more attention to bad news than to good news U.S. Appears To Be Near Full Membership of Baghdad Pact McCann By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States appears to be edging toward full membership in the Middle Eastern Treaty organization, The State Department has said that there is no plan for the United States to join "M E T O" the so - called Baghdad pact "at this time." That un doubtedly is true. There are good rea sons why the United States should not en ter fully into the alliance right now. One is that Allied relations with Eg ypt, which opposes the pact. are improving. The decision of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to attend the annual meeting of METO foreign ministers at Arjzara, Turkey, on Jan. 27 seems to be another of sev eral moves which the United States has made toward full membership. The Baghdad Pact was con cluded in 1955. Its members are Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Paki stan and Great Britain. It links the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organ ization to form a chain of al liances against Communist ag gression extending from arc tic Norway to the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. Sponsored by U. S . The United States was the chief sponsor of the pact but did not join it. It took the role Communications LettAs to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Hatfield May Yet Run for Governor Salem (IP) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield today left the door open on the possi bility that he may yet file for the Republican nomination for governor, even though tstate Treasurer Sig Unander has ai ready announced his intention to seek the nomination. Hatfield has, so far, declined to say flatly that he would not oppose Unander for the nomi nation. While remarking that he could not "conceive" of cir cumstances that would cause him to enter the race, he ad mitted that his position was orjen to reevaluation. State Sen. Lee Ohmart of Salem revealed that he was conducting a personal poll of Republican members of tne Legislature on preference for Hatfield or Unander for the nomination. Hatfield said "A strong showing of sentiment for me in this rjoll could move me to revaluate my position, parti cularly if I were convinced that it represented the views of members' constituencies." He added. "This is some thing on which, in the final analysis, I'll have to make up mv own mind personally. I have always faced such issues without regard to primary election opposition." Unander made his an nouncement New Year's eve. A LOVER SCORNED Turin, Italy HP) A spurned lover sent 19-year-old Carla Musso a bouquet of roses on New Year's Eve. Carla pinned the roses on her dress before going to a party with another suitor. But she never made it. She passed out for 16 hours. The roses were chloroformed. Congress To Open With Series of Hearings Slated Washington (IP) The in coming Congress will leap back into the investigating business with up to seven separate House and Senate inquiries slated for hearings in the opening week. The House has five hear ings starting after Congress convenes Tuesday, and the Senate will begin at least one and perhaps two. Two House subcommittees announced Wednesday they will begin public hearings next Wednesday, the day aft er Congress convenes. Three others scheduled hearings earlier. In the Senate the prepared ness subcommittee is expect ed to continue hearings next week on the nation's missle program and the Rackets Committee may also resume sessions during the week. Slum Clearance Due Latest House hearings scheduled deal with the De fense Department's airlift op erations and the nation's slum clearance and urban housing programs. Other opening week house hearings: The Ways and Means Com mittee stars a review of tax laws Monday. . An appropriations subcom mittee starts looking Wednes day into the Defense Depart ment's request for an extra $1,200,000,000 mostly for missiles during the pres ent fiscal year ending June 30. The Armed Services Com mittee will begin Jan. 10 an investigation of missile and other defens programs. The lasttWo hearings will be closed public. to the press and Stops Heart Gas 3 Times Faster Certified laboratory rests provt BELL-AM! tablets . neutralize 3 times as much stomach acidity in en minute as Jtany leading digestive tablets. Get BELL-ANS today for the fastest known relief. Ii Oregon "Sucker" State? To the Editor: Here is an other raise in living expenses that is now scaring industry from locating in Oregon the auto insurance rates will be raised. First gas, milk, food and now this indiscriminant raise in insurance rates Oregon is sucker state an industry such as utilities, food, etc. can raise prices mi no one wants to live here. Also, you will notice this so-called Insurance Commis sioner came to his conclusion by data" given (slanted ob viously) him by insurance people. John R. Scott, Box 199, Jacksonville, Ore. of observor at METO meet ings. However, the United States has joined three committees of the alliance. After agree ing to take part in the econ omic and counter-subversion committees, it accepted mem bership, in the military com mittee last June. As the danger of Soviet Russian peneration in the Middle East became serious, and the threat of open ag gression arose, the United States came up with the Eis enhower Doctrine. This doctrine was worked out by Dulles, and approved by Congress. Under it the President is authorized to use the armed forces of the Un ited States if necessary to combat Communist aggres sion against a Middle East ern country. Rated Stronger As a warning to Russia, the Eisenhower Doctrine was stronger than the paper METO alliance. But the United States has had little thanks and much criticism for its sponsorship of the Baghdad Pact and its declaration of the Eisenhow er Doctrine. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt bitterly op posed the participation of th Arab countries in the Bagh dad Pact, partly because it clashed with his desire to make himself Mr. Big in the Middle East. Iraq, one of the Arab nations, did join it. But Nasser thwarted an attempt to get Jordan in. Today & Tomorrow By Walter LIppmann "Coward!" To the Editor: To person in black four-door Buick: We came to your fair city for a short visit. You ran over our little dog, Ming, at the corner of Fourth and North Oakdale about 8 ajn. today (Jan. 2). You didn't even have the decency to slow up or stop this in a school zone! It could have been a child. Would you have stopped then?! L. J. Budge, 149 Hillside, Klamath Falls, Ore. Falls City Fire Levels Business Buildings Falls City, Ore. (IP) A big grocery and appliance store just east of here was de stroyed by fire Wednesday night with loss estimated at $75,000. A food locker plant also was lost in the blaze. Firemen from Dallas and Rickreall helped fight the flames. RUMORS AND DENIALS At the week-end, Mr. Hag erty, no doubt on instruction from the President, came for ward with a denial of the rumors that the country is now in dan ger. Those ru mors arose from what is supposed to be said in the Walter LIppmann highly publi cized, but secret Gaither report. They found a wide audience because it is known, or at least it is not denied that the Gaither report calls for an increase in defense ex penditure of many billions of dollars a year. The President and Mr. Hag- erty will do well to study care fully the reaction to Mr. Ha- erty s denial, xne reaction can be described as one of great skepticism as to wheth er the statement, which deals with national security and is put out by the White House is more than a part of the truth. It is no doubt true that at the present time the older deterrent weapons, which we possess, are still more power ful than the newer weapons in which the Russians have a lead. But the grimmer part of the truth is that the-Soviet rate of progress in. military technology is faster than our own, and that is the truth which is causing such deep anxiety among those who know the facts. Mr. Hagerty's half truth will not dispel this anxiety What it will do is to increase the skepticism with which Congress and the country will read the President's forth coming message on the state of the Union. TN THAT message the Pres- A ident will "give his esti mate of the military strength of our country as it is now and what has to be done in the future to continue that strength." The great question is whether the President's es timate wil be so candid and so convincing that the coun try will accept it whether his estimate will become an agreed basis on which the Congress can act. There will, of course, be partisan attacks on the Pres ident's estimate no matter what it is. But there is an in formed, concerned, responsi ble and influential body of opinion in both parties which will decide whether or not the Administration's estimate is the substantial and signifi cant truth. It is to this body of opinion that the President's message will have primarily to be addressed. UNLIKE Mr. Hagerty's statement on the weekend. which was addressed to the uninformed, the President's message must, if the coming session of Congress is to be orderly and constructive, be addresed to that informed minority who are capable of judging these highly technical questions. The President, in other words, needs to deliver not so much a popular message as an expert message. Only an expert message will in the -present mood of the country be popular. Nothing done in the manner of the President's two post-Sputnik speeches can produce anything but trouble in the next session of Con gress. IN PREPARING the message the White House will need to realize that at the political center of the post-Sputnik cri sis inside this country, there is a grave impairment of con fidence in the judgment of the Administration. There is evidence, which has not been denied and is generally be lieved, that intelligence re ports on the real position in the race of armaments have somehow been ignored by the President or suppressed be'' fore they reached him. v As a result, the intellectual credit of the Administration has been seriously damaged. If the President is to estab lish his leadership in the next Congress, his most important task is to restore faith in the objectivity and candor of the official judgments. Much, therefore, hangs upon the character of the message which is to be delivered on Thursday of next week, (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribuen Inc. Natural Gas Rates Up in California San Francisco (IP) The Pacific Gas and Electric Com pany raised natural gas rates today to compensate for an increase put into effect by the company it buys natural gas from. The Federal Power Com mission Tuesday granted the EI Paso Natural Gas Com pany temporary permission to raise the rates it charges PG&E. However, the federal order required El Paso to put up a sufficient bond to refund all the increase if the commis sion disallows it. The California Public Utili ties Commission gave the PG&E permission to raise its rates to make up for the in crease from El Paso Natural Gas. The increase will add about 30 cents a month to the aver age householder's bill. Arctic sled dogs can travel up to 100 miles a day. -hzL S May the Peace which comes of Faith, The Courage that's born of Hope, And the Joy which dwells in Love, Be with you now, and through 1958 IT hapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass, Funeral Directors SI
