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Flight 'o Time
.Medford and Jaclcson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 24. 1948 (Thursday)
All three airlines operating
at Medford municipal airport
noted traffic increases in
. ccording to reports
Kt- Una B. Inch, county
$gHl chool supervisor, prais
43tsfl goint school district
0g Ho9 it solved its over
f.Iei classroom problem
be tiling buildings from Camp
& tTtlRl AGO
Jae J4, 1831 (Friday)
Crtter Lake National park
fir personnel were attending
a fir control school yester.
day nfar Ft. Klamath.
Brom Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot Column: "The
Portland mosquito crisis is
tthchflnf ed. The ' territorial
r jgh o mosquitoes are play
ir tgvoc with the no-socks
341 91JL1S AGO
June 24, 1924 (Sunday)
The Seventh-day Adventist
camp meeting which has been
in session at Jacksonville for
the past week will close to
night. From local a'hd . personal
column: "The Del Monte
beach dance band will play
in Medford Tuesday under
the auspices of the local
American Legion post."
40 YEARS AGO
June 24. 1918 (Monday)
The Catholic church has
raised $125 for a portable al
tar to be used for front line
Catholic chaplins.
From local and personal
column: "Westerlund or
chards will have Royal Anne
cherries at the public market
on Thursday."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; rive or
six is good.
1. Three score and ten are
how many years?
2. 9'hoowas known as the
Wizard of Menlo Park"?
3. "Jersey lightning" is a
slace name for what alcoholic
beverage?
Q. "Who wrote, "Oh, East is
(Past enS West is West, and
nevr the twain shall meet"?
3- Jetanus is another name
Sb arthritis, diabetes, or lock-
. A. carpenter uses a rip
8 t cut across the grain
9p in the direction of the
gfin?
. In which stadium in Cali
gbrnig did Margaret Truman
9nf fc her debut as a concert
Alr?
. How many male players
(rtici$at in a basketball
lm?
$. The iris, cornea and
(jiujil gre associated with what
(jfgtxi of the body?
10. Who is the Secretary of
Gor?
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&Srs: evenly. , 2.
Theme A. Edison. 3. Apple
jack. 4. gudyard Kipling. 5.
Locj9. 6. In the direction
of lhg grain 7. Hollywood
Bogl. 8. Ten. (five on each
team). 6. Eye. 10. James P.
Mitchell.
Maryland, Georgia, North
and South Carolina, Virginia
and West Virginia derived
tSeir names from former Brit
ish, miens.
Appalling Human Waste
" -
The "beat generation" is something we can
do without.
In common with most folk, we know of it
only at second or third hand, but thats close
enough.
If we get the picture correctly, the "beat gen
eration" is an element of our citizenry between
17 and 40 who have no home spiritual, moral,
or even physical.
They take everything "cool." Their ideal, as
we get it, is to divorce themselves' from life, to
seek a sort of cut-rate Nirvana where the only
stimulus is from "kicks" liquor or sex or dope.
They make pretense of intellectuality, and
wind up showing themselves as blithering slobs.
1
THEY are cowards. V"
They are afraid of "life" and therefore tend
to run away from all the things that make it worth
living, and they reduce it to the barest, inescap
able fundementals of survival plus "kicks."
They are afraid of discipline the self-discipline
which is the only thing which enables man
kind to overcome his essential laziness and ac
complish anything worthwhile.
They scorn moral values the very values
which set men aside from animals.
And they use their minds, not for creativity,
but again for "kicks" to bolster their own piti
ful egos. ,
AND pitiful they are.
Witness the case of the young girl from Port
land whose life was snuffed out uselessly and
stupidly in San Francisco recently.
Here was a girl who in her brief years accom
plished nothing, gave no promise of ever accom
plishing anything. Her death meant little or noth
ing to anyone as an individual.
But, the human condition being what it is,
her death is a symbol of the live "beatniks" who
survive, and is an even greater symbol oi unutter
able human waste. -
THE girl (her name doesn't really matter) was
tVi a nrnrlnni- rf on otivirnnmoTit Whlll Tins tirn.
duced other lost souls and which is, in effect,
an indictment of the society which permits it to
exist.
Others have come out of broken homes, and
juvenile delinquency, and made a life for them
selves. But more of them
failed. .
She didn't knp.w what.tb do with her life, and
as a result, did nothing at all. '
Yet, somewhere within her was a spark. There
was evidence she had some rudiments of religious
faith, and perhaps even an affection for the "com
mon law" husband who died in a sordid fall i
few days before she was
COMEWHERE, in the
.something has gone,
been twisted.
All the appurtenances
not bad. Jazz is not, of
nor the combination.
And a cool, detachment toward life is not, in
itself, evil. And gratification of the desires of the
flesh is only human, and,
able.
,Non-conformism in
out as anvthinsr distressing:. A disinclination for
hard work, too, is a very
IT is none of these things that raises our wrath
about those who glory,
admit it, m being beat.
It is, rather, the fact
from society, have rejected all the values which
m a thousand generations have proven sound,
have lost contact with reality and have manufac
tured their own spurious
pattern of behavior which, in toto, is evil and
menacing and suicidal.
Perhaps, as in the case of the spineless, wit
less girl who died, they
fault. Perhaps they were so twisted, or brutal
ized, or coddled in their youth that they couldn't
recognize a moral problem, and solve it respon
sibly, if it hit them in the face.
'
THE truly vicious thing about the "beatniks,"
however, is not their drive toward self-destruction,
as much as it is the false glamor with
which, they can endow their calling, particularly
to young and unformed minds, who in natural and
human rebellion tend to see all things in. terms of
authority vs. liberty, and who confuse their own
struggle for independence with all forms of "protest."
The bearded and sandaled poet,, the "gone"
Jazz musician, the dour polemicist berating the
institutions of society without thought as to what
should take their place these all have an odd
sort of attraction to some young people; they're
"cool." , -
'
MUTS !. we say. And so says anyone with suffi
cient intelligence and experience to know how
false and shoddy and bereft of true glamor these
misfits and poseurs can be.
We can admire the true bohemian, the true
non-conformist, the true poet or painter or phil
osopher who cares less about surface appearances
than he does about his thoughts and his creations.
. But the pseudo-non:cdnf ormists of the "beat
generation," who are worse conformists than the
most Babbitty merchant on Main street, leave us,
pitying but appalled, with a sense of distaste and
frustration at the waste of time, talent and hu
manity. E. A.
r
have failed, as this girl
murdered.
lives of the "beatniks,"
- wrong, something has
of the "beat" pose are
itself, bad. Nor is poetry,
in moderation, accept
.
dress cannot be pointed
human failing.
whether or not they
that they have abdicated
brand, have created a
are not, of themselves, at
Dennis the Menace
' 1 FOOLED 1A, WOrT I ? YOU SAID J
WAS GONNA BREAK NVMBCKV ,
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Prophecy and Genealogy
To the Editor: Our family
tree has become one of the
signs of our times. No longer
are rumors of wars, great
storms and earthquakes the
sole indications that we are
living in the latter days. A
new sign equally as conclu
sive as the political and nat
ural upheavals in the world,
equally founded upon the un
erring vision of the prophets
Of old, is the vast interest in
all parts of the world in the
compiling of family histories
and genealogies, which is in
direct fulfillment of Biblical
predictions given by the
Savior and His Prophets. But
there is none more definite
and as easy to recognize than
the one given by Malachi the
Prophet in Chapter. 4. He de
scribes this day in which the
Lord is to come again to
Earth. He says it shall burn
as an oven and that wicked
shall be as stubble and shall
be consumed. But before this
dreadful day, he continues,
read his words. "Behold, I
will send you Elijah the
Prophet before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of
the Lord. And he shall turn
the hearts of the fathers to
their children. And the hearts
of the children to their fath
ers. Less I come and smite
the Earth with a curse."
There are two interesting
things about this prophecy.
First it has a definite time
element. He was to come be
for the great dreadful day of
the Lord and the precise pur
pose of his coming was to
create in the hearts of living
men and women an interest
in their ancestors.
Such organizations as the
New York Genealogical and
Historical ' Society with a li
brary of 25,000 volumes, and
the New England Historical
and Genealogical Society of
Boston, Mass., with ,0,000
volumes, are representative of
the wide-spread interest in
ancestry.
Since Hitler required his
people to prove their Aryan
birth by genealogy, Germany
has literally become a land
of researchers. The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints bears witness to the
World that Elijah the Prophet
appeared to the Mormon
Prophet, Joseph, Smith and
his associate in the ministry,
Oliver Cawdery, in the Kirt
land Temple on the third day
of April,, 183 6 in fulfillment
of Prophecy. 4: 5-6.
John F. Peterson
1113 South Oakdale Ave.
Medford
Humane Bill Killed
Tojhe Editor: The Senate
Agriculture committee has
again refused to let a decent
humane slaughter bill past its
barrier. Men who vote .to pre
vent our country from reach
ing civilized standards long
prevalent in our fellow de
mocracies are not fit to sit in
the United States Senate.
But the fight for humane
slaughter legislation can still
be woii this year. It depends
on you and the countless other
Americans who feel as you do
about unnecessary cruelty.
Please write now, and urge
everyone you can friends,
acquaintances, members of
your church, club or other
organizations to write both
Senators from your state ap
pealing to their decency and
honor. Ask them to:
(1) Vote against the amend
ed humane slaughter bill re
ported out by the Agriculture
Committee. It is a .humane
slaughter bill in name only.
(2) Vote for the measure as
passed by the House when it
is amended back to its original
form on the floor of ..the Sen
There is a tremendous de-
1 (
mand for this legislation.
Please do all you can to in
crease this demand. This is
a major popular issue because
it is a major . moral issue.
Make sure your Senators
know the facts.
Madeleine Bemelmans,
President
Christine Stevens, s ;
Secretary-Treasurer
Society for Animal .
Protective Legislation
745 Fifth Ave., Room 812
New York 22, N.Y. ,
Highway to the Sea
To the Editor: In your June
20th issue, was very happy
to see that Nevada is going
ahead letting a contract for
the proposed road from Win
nemucca to the Sea, a project
that I do believe would be
the making of southern Ore
gon. Also Sunday's publica
tion, June 22nd, stating that
Governor Holmes got the go
ahead on surveys to connect
Highway 62 with Klamath
Falls, making it possible for
the highway from Winnemuc
ca to Highway 62 to be built
(a wonderful job).
My suggestion would be for
Jackson, Josephine and Curry
counties to get together and
try to continue the surveys
to the coast. There are two
likely routes, one from Selma
through the Chetco Pass,
across " Tincup Creek to the
mouth of the Chetco. Another
route would be up Josephine
creek and down Lone Ridge
to the mouth of the Chetco.
They would both end at the
same place. Harbor, or Brook
ings, Oregon, where the Gov
ernment built a North and
South Jetty at the mouth of
the Chetco, could be made a
wonderful harbor for a lot
of shipping, and would only
have to be dredged. This
should not be too costly to
maintain as the river should
keep the entrance clean.
Would like very much to see
our Chamber of Commerce,
also Josephine and Curry
counties, help to develop such
a project.
You have published articles
for me for the past eight
years on this subject for which
I have been very thankful
Such a highway would be
wonderful for the country as
a whole. Mainly we need in
dustry and industries need
transportation. We need in
dustries beside lumbering,
which could be developed
such as mining and steel
plants, also development of
the nickle industry. Southern
Oregon has all the minerals
that are required for such in
dustries. Shorty Hibbard
1302 Saling Ave.
Medford -
Providence Nursery
To the Editor: Thanks for
printing the excellent letter
by Mr. Jay Elliott on the
Christy Home for Girls.
I, too, was fortunate in
being able to tour these Ore
gon United Appeal agencies
with this fine group of Med
ford citizens.
The agency that particu
larly impressed me was the
Providence Nursery. It was
extremely rewarding to see
the delighted smiles on the
youngsters' faces, at our visit
At this adoptive home, I can
assure you, 'the children were
given the very best of care.
We were surprised when sev
eral youngsters ran up to us,
calling, "Daddy, Daddy". The
explanation of this was quite
interesting. A group of Port
land business men take time
from their jobs twice a week
to play with these children,
and help furnish the loving
care that young children need
so much.
A little boy blind from
birth . particularly, captured
the hearts of us all. All in all,
Matter of Fact
By Joseph AIsop
The Uncashed Check .
Beirut, Lebanon The cen
tral but still' half-concealed
feature of the Lebanese situ
ation is what amounts to an
uncasnea certmea cneck in
desk of Presi
dent Camilie
Chamoun. Fig
u r atively
speaking, the
check is mark
ed "good for a
ijs landing of An
' SSl -t - . ;
gio - American
military
forces to de
1 T -1
Jos-ph Usop a e " a Lieoan
on s independence. it was
written by the British and
American governments, after
only 24 hours of agonized con
sulfation, at the very outset
of the Lebanese civil wan
At that time, a major con
dition was 'attached to the
check. Before it could be
cashed, the Lebanese govern
ment was required to com
plain to . the United Nations
about the attack upon its in-
dependence that has been or
ganized by Igypt's Gamal
Abdel Nasser and his Syrian
viceroy, Abdel Hamid Serraj
Lebanese President Cha
moun and his stout old Prime
Minister, Samy El Splh, were
and are reluctant to cash the
check.
.
rpHEIR reluctance was suffi
- ciently indicated by the
very long interval between
the outbreak of fighting in
this unhappy little country.
and the presentation of Le
banon's complaint to, the U.N,
Security Council.
The equal reluctance of the
British and American govern
ments to have the check cash
ed was indicated by what then
transpired in the U.N. Secur
ity Council. One wonders, in
deed, whether thie Swedes
were not stimulated to pre
sent their resolution, calling
for U.N. observers to go to
Lebanon.
By any sensible test, this
kind of U.N. intervention is
highly unlikely to produce
any good result. Maybe the
personal diplomacy of U.N
Secretary Dag Hammarskjold
will bear some sort of fruit, al
though this also seems unlike
ly. The point is that the for
eign interference in Lebanon's
affairs has already occurred
The arms, the money, and
something like 2,000 Syrian
and Egyptian officers, sol
diers and trained specialists
in terrorism nave aireaay
crossed the Lebanese borders
U.N. border control is hardly
feasible, and it can only limit
the problem and can not pos
sibly solve it.
THE American and .British
governments must have
understood all this very clear
ly when they so eagerly ac
cented the Swedish resolution,
They must , have wanted to
buy a little more time during
which "something might turn
up." The spirit of Mister Mi'
cawber was behind this move,
in fact.
Here in Lebanon, mean
while, the American and Brit
ish Embassies have been try
ing ' to make something turn
ud while simultaneously seek:
ing to delay the cashing of
the check.
The efforts to make some
thins turn ud have chiefly
taken the form of direct and
indirect appeals to the Le
banese Army commander,
Gen. Shehab, to make a more
the work being done by this
agency is typical of the excel
lent work done by all the
State child care agencies. I
consider it a great compliment
to the people of Medford that
their support of the United
Medford Crusade assists the
work of these Oregon Unit&d
Appeal agencies.
Herb Partridge
Y. M. C. A.
Youth Work Secretary
Expanding Brain
To the Editor: Well, well,
here is some wisdom. A top
British scientist in askinjt
"how good is your brain?"
says there's room for perhaps
10 billion pieces of informa
tion there. There are 10 bil
lion nerve cells in your brain.
and each is capable of storing
at least one bit of information.
Trouble is, nobody has the
time to fill them all. If you
read and absorbed 25 bits of
information every second, it
would take eight hours of
study every day for 40 years to
fill our brain. But who can
absorb 25 facts a second?
(Townsend National Courier.)
Now, I think, why did the
patriarchs of old live to be
900 years old? They just had
to, because they were or had
to be original thinkers and
philosophers. One school of
thought suggests a natural
born genius brings a certain
amount of knowledge into the
world with him at birth. All
of which may be taken for
granted. If the universe is ex
panding, why isn't the mind,
too?
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.
Medford. ' -
Senate Passage of Alaska Bill
Seen; Threat in House Told
By GEORGE COFFEY
UPI Correspondent
Washington (UPI) Sen
Henry M. Jackson said today
statehod for Alaska could be
frustrated by an "almost un
believable" parliamentary sit
uation in Congress.
The Washington Democrat
said Alaska's admission still
could die in the House of Rep
resentatives even though the
House already had passed a
bill to grant it statehood.
In a prepared Senate
speech, Jackson called for
Senate approval of the House-
passed statehood measure
without amendment. He said
if the Senate makes any
changes the bill could be bot
tled up in the House where
it would have to be returned
for further consideration.
Debate Begins
"These are the legislative
facts of life," he said.
The Senate voted late Mon
day to begin debate on the
bill which passed the House
May 28 over vigorous obiec-
ions of a group headed by
Rep. Howard W. Smith (D.-
Va.) chairman of the power
ful House Rules committee.
"If the bill now before us
is sent back to the other body
serious effort to repress the
rebellion. The massiveness of
the foreign intervention. dIus
the large number of centers of
revolt, have quite possibly
combined to make a problem
that is beyond the resources of
Lebanon's 9000-man ' Army.
All the same, a suspicion that
Shehab is not making an in
tense military effort is surely
justified.
AN Sunday, for example
" When the fiehtinff here in
Beirut looked like it was Bet
ting out of hand, the able
American Ambassador, Rob
ert McChntock. had to eo to
the General's country villa to
find the Army commander
and ask his intentions. When
he sot there, the General
greeted him with the amiable
explanation that "Sunday was
a day of rest." By the same
token, after the rebels in
Beirut had looted and burned
the house of Prime Minister
Samy El Solh. a few short
rounds landed on the fortress
like house in the old city that
is occupied by the leader of
the rebels here, slippery Saeb
Salam. Saeb Salam's tele
phone is in full working or
der. He used it to telephone
the Army Chief of Staff and
to protest,- apparently success
fully, against the breach oi
etiquette from which he had
iust suffered.
Hence it seems improbable
that Gen. Shehab will lead a
major charge against the rebel
barricades. All the same,
American and British influ
ence has been steadily applied,
throuehout the past week, to
defer the cashing of the check
that President Chamoun
holds.
The first indications that
the Lebanese government was
considering an. appeal for Anglo-American
military inter
vention were received over
the week end. when the fight
ing in Beirut city took such a
sharp turn for the worse.
Since then, the question of
the uncashed check has been
under almost continuous dis
cussion. President Chamoun has
been given official assurances
bv the American Embassy
that the check's immediate
aliditv has not been affected
by the U.N. presence here. So
the check can still be cashed
at any time It 4s payable on
demand, unless of course tne
hesitations and delays finally
nrnducp a situation in which
President Chamoun is actually
unable to present the check
at the bank
. (c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Longer Expected
To Be Nominated
Bismarck, N.D. (UPI) Re
publican Sen. William Lan-
ger, who conducted a "lone
wolf" campaign for renomi-
nation, was expected to score
another victory today in
North Dakota's primary elec
tion. -
Political observes said Lan-
ger, 71, "maverick" through
out his 42-year political ca-
reer, appeared headed for his
fourth GOP nomination for
"U.S. Senator despite charges
he is "weak and sickly."
About 160,000 voters were
expected to cast ballots in tne
election which pits Langer
against Lt. Gov. Clyde Duffy
iei the GOP senatorial battle.
Dlosquiioes and Flies
Dcn't be chewed to bin by these blood
thirsty pests. Just burn a little BUHACH
wherever yon want peace and comfort.
Be Sure T 11 II II A II
you Get DUUHbll
Easy To Uf Economical
for conference or for concur
rence in Senate amendments,
there is the possibility that it
will end up in the Rules com
mittee and will die there,"
Jackson said.
Sees Long Sessions
"If the Senate truly wants
statehood for Alaska, we
must make certain that the
will of the Senate shared by
a strong majority of the other
body shall not be over
turned by a small committee
Lawsuit Test Slated
On Political Uses
Of Dues Paid Union
By Congressional Quarterly
Washington (CQ) Can
a working man who must pay
union dues to keep his job be
compelled to pay for the un
ion's political and lobbying ac
tivities? Or is he liable just for his
share of the union's collective
bargaining expenses?
Those are the key questions
in an important new lawsuit
that could vitally affect or
ganized labor's role in the
legislative and political are
nas. In April, the unions lost the
first round on the case, when
a Mecklenburg County, N. C,
Superior Court jury found
against them. Lawyers are
now preparing the appeal that
will be arged this fall before
the North Carolina Supreme
Court. From there, the case
could go directly to the U. S.
Supreme Court, for final de
cision. Background Given
Here is the background on
this suit:
Back in 1951, Congress
amended the Railway Labor
Act to permit union shop con
tracts in that industry, even in
states where risht-to-work
laws forbid such contracts
generally. Under a union shon
contract, all workers must
join the union within 60 days
after they start work.
The Supreme Court unheld
the validity of the Railway
Labor Act amendment in the
1856 Hanson case. But in do
ing so, the Court said:
"The only conditions to
union membership authorized
by. . .the Railway Labor Act
are the payment of 'periodic
dues, initiation fees and as
sessments' . -The financial
support required relates.
therefore, to the work of the
union in the realm of collec
tive bargaining. . . If 'assess
ments' are in fact imposed for
purposes not germane to col
lective bargaining, a different
problem would be presented.
. . This judgment will not
prejudice the decision in that
case.
Questions to Jury
Down in North Carolina, a
man named Allen and some
20 other employees oi the
Southern Railway, who had
been fighting a legal battle
against the Southern's union
shop contract with the rail
road brotherhoods, picked up
the cue the Supreme Court
seemingly dropped in the Han
son decision.
They said they shouldn't be
compelled to pay union dues,
because the union would use
some of the money "for pur
poses not germane to collec
tive bargaining" specifical
ly, for lobbying and politick
ing.
When the Allen case came
to trial, a jury including two
union members was asked by
the judge to determine wheth
er the brotherhoods used dues
money for lobbying, "to influ
ence votes" and "to make con
tributions" to political candidates.
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of the other body." " "
Jackson echoed the major
concern of statehood advo
cates as the Senate dug in for
what was expected to be a
lengthy debate on' the Alas
kan question. Sen. Mike
Mansfield (Mont.) the assist
ant Democratic leader, said
the Senate would meet early
each day and "into the night
if necessary to get action on
the bill this week. He predict
ed its passage by the Senate.
The jury answered "yes" to
each question, and also found
that these activities were not
"necessary or reasonably re
kited to collective bargain
ing." On the basis of these find
ings, Judge J. Will Pless Jr.
ordered the unions ncU to
collect dues, from Allen and
the other plaintiffs until the
unions showed exactly what
portion of their budget was
spent on collective bargaining.
So far the unions have not
made this analysis, so Allen
and the others are working
without paying any union
dues.
Fight Over Evidence
As the case goes up on ap
peal, the lines of argument
have been sharpened.
The unions concede they
spent members' dues on lob
bying. Officially, various rail
road labor groups reported
spending more than $151,000
last year to influence Con
gress, according to a Con
gressional Quarterly study.
But they contend this is a
necessary part of their collec
tive bargaining job, because
Federal regulations establish
many of the working condi
tions in the railway industry.
The jury disagreed.
" The main fight centers over
the jury's finding that the
unions spent members' dues
o n political contributions.
While the Allen case is a civil
suit,, a similar- finding by a
criminal court jury could con
vict the unions of violating
the Corrupt Practices Act.
The evidence presented was
this: Railroad brotherhoods
contribute, indirectly, from
their treasuries to Railway
Labor's) Political L e a glu e
(RLPL) and to the AFL-CIO
Committee on Political Edu
cation ' (COPE). These two
groups, in turn, make" contri
butions to political candidates.
In 1956, their reported spend
ing totaled $774,000.
Political Funds
Therefore, the plaintiffs ar
gued, dues money ends up in
political campaigns.
Union officials denied this.
They said a strict separation
was maintained between the
dues money and the dollars
contributed voluntarily by
union members to RLPL and
COPE. Only the Voluntary
dollars, they said, are used
to make contributions to can
didates for public office.
Efforts by the workers to
obtain COPE and RLPL fi
nancial records from the un
ion officials in the case were
unsuccessful, and no try was
made to subpena them di
rectly. Thus, the jury . was left
without direct evidence on
which to determine the cru
cial question of whether dues
money was, in fact, used for
political contributions. But its
verdict apparently meant it
found the workers' descrip
tion of the financial trail more
convincing than that offered
by the union officials.
(Copyright 1958, Congresional
Quarterly Inc.)
NOW IS THE TIME! .
Between the two, you'd
better buy,
INSURANCE when you
should,
Than wander why,
You didn't buy,
INSURANCE WHEN YOU
COULD. '
Bill Fish