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Newspaper Page Texto o o o A W. Juty 7, 1958 MAIBglBUKE, M6DF0RD. ORE. "Zveryone ta Southern ttfregoa Atblished Daily except Saturday by MZDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Py Mail In Advance: Copy loc Daily and Sunday I year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year M-20 By Carrler-In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes. Daily and unday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers capy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official paper or jacmon county United ress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, ban Krancisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. 3 C. NEWSrAPFt ruSlKHf 1$ ASSOCIATION NATIONAL i BITORIAL ,c5'8N ASSO vuuUU Flight re Time Mefod and Jackson County History ijrom the files of The Mail Tribun 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. WW 10 ffeAlS AGO July 27. 1948 (Tuesday) "No left turn" signs will be installed this week at the Main st. an, Sixth st. Inter sections of Central ave. A substantial decrease in truSc rates between the Klam frtlasin gnd the Rogue river vally is announced. 20 TEAlg AGO Julyf.il (Wednesday) Jjif htnin storm this after noon brfught new fire threats to local timber. From .rthur Perry's "Ye StnusL2ePot column: "Weath- erdHditions are now such the Oldtr 6 iris complain of the 0523 I crvold in thg morning and the jt &l th afternoon." bi AGO Jujy . 1321 (Friday) Herbert Hoover, presiden tial nominee, has accepted an invitation to spend Sunday night on the Rogue river with the provision that politics be taboo during his stay. A white-haired woman sci q entist is collecting fungi at Crater Lake. AO YEARS AGO July 27, 1918 (Saturday) The Dixie society of Jack son county is planning a southern fried chicken picnic in the park at Ashland. , The WCTU will hold its an nual election of officers Fri day with "a good program and social" to follow. What's Yaur I.Q.? Nina or ten scrrect is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er she is good. 1. The short full skirt worn by Greek men is called a pan- tanella, fustanella, or skirret? 2. Does the zebra have a black or blackish background with white or buffy stripes, or vice-versa? 3. A combination of mist and fumes, which reduces vis ibility to a few hundred yards is called s ? 4. Name the largest library In the world. 5. Which great dam is lo cated on the Colorado River? 6. In the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, who was wounded? 1 7. What is the name given to the food of the larvae of queen bees? 8. Which of these is NOT a variety of cheese: Edam, Cheltenham, Cheddar, Ca membert? 9. What sort of creature was Cerberus, the guardian of the entrance to Hades? 10. What country has the oldest parliamentary assem bly in the world? Answers: 1. Fustaiella. 2. Vice-versa. 3. Smog. 4. Li brary of Congress. Washing ton, D. C. 5. Hoover Dam. 6. Hamilton. 7. Royal Jslly. 8. Cheltenham. 9. Three-headed dog. 10. Iceland. BILL BECOMES LAW Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower signed into law Friday a bill to extend for another four years the agricultural conservation pro gram under which farmers re ceive cash subsidies to reim burse them for part of the ex pense of approved conserva tion practices. ; Water for the Future It's been a wet spring and summer in the Rogue valley. Looking at the lush fields and green lawns, it is a bit difficult to imagine that the time may come when water will be one of our most pre cious commodities. But it is already. And it will become more so. Steps are being taken to conserve it so that care less use, and destructive practices, will not for ever leave us in short supply. , Without abundant supplies of water, nothing is possible certainly not a highly developed civilization. JOHN Gribble, the "old forester" who is one of Medford's most' ardent conservationists, call ed us the other day to discuss the problem, which had been in his mind since reading a recent Mail Tribune story by a UPI correspondent. The story pointed out that water supplies are almost bound to be one of America's foremost problems within the next 20 years. Industrial use of water, a major use these days, has increased 11 times in the past half -century, and the rate of increase is goinsr up all the time both because of new methods and new techniques which require more water, and be cause of the tremendous expansion of industry. Municipal use of water has also increased, as the population has grown and as more efficient municipal water systems "THESE are only examples. But they serve to hint both as to the im portance of water and as to the future inadequacy oi the supply. And is anything being done about it? Yes, quite a lot although far from enough to meet the problem. One of the most important steps (and one little-recognized by the public at large) is the lm provement in logging practices. Forested land holds water; it prevents ero sion; it tends to limit floods, and release water throughout the year. Forests which are cut ever, lose those properties. Land erodes, floods can result, and what is be a parched area the next. On federally-administered lands, now, and in creasingly on privately-owned lands, good prac tice requires reforestation, care to prevent ero sion, and other methods which minimize or eliminate the dangers. "OREGON is a pioneer sources. , It was the first state to code, and name a water board has been hard at now, studying water utilization and conservation. They don t have all are finding many of them. tions, Oregon still has a tremendous water re source to call on. With the start the state has, the chances are good that much or most of it can be saved for use at its maximum potential. K COME people feel that the state's entering into this field constitutes an invasion of. individual rights that it has no right to tell people what they can or can t do with the state. Once when people were few and water abundant this attitude no longer. For water is vital to child in the state, and than one way. And the supplies for the many benefit of the few. " Therefore, rivers must be studied to deter mine the extent of the resource, and the greatest beneficial uses. In the process, someone is going to be limited in his use of water. This must be so if the right of the majority is to be protected. A LSO, the state's "ground water" code was en " acted to protect the wrater tables from deple tion. Tf sav. nnp man drills a number of wells. thereby lowering the water table so that other men's wells go dry, he is robbing those other men just as surely as if he'd sneaked into their house and stolen a wallet. It is a vastly complicated study, and, those who are working on it tell us, a fascinating one, and one which still has a long way to go. A FINAL mention should be made of efforts Tirtiir ntiflor Tii7 rr tan fnr Vmmnn nsp. thp nnp. inexhaustible source These waters, now unusable because of their salt, are the ultimate source of If we can bv-uass the our water from the ocean do it sufficientlv inexpensively to make it practic able, one of our greatest We cannot do so yet. ant experiments, coin by government and by private companies, are being performed. They show progress, and hints of ultimate success. Particular! v when available in large quantities, and inexpensively, the nroblem. both of converting sea water to fresh, and pumping it should be solved. E.A. have been installed. indiscriminately, how a mudrfield one day can in the study of water re enact a water resources resources board. The work for several years the answers yet, but they And, with some excep the God-given water ot made sense. But it does every man, woman and to most of them in more state must step in if the are threatened for the of water the oceans. all our water. evele of nature to obtain directly, and if we can problems will be solved. atomic energy becomes to where it is needed, ; Dennis the Menace 7-26 e.iiiuii 'NOW CALM DOWN, HIPS. WAV& . AND WtiTS TD JOIN OEMS' NUDIST COIOHY? ffff" MUtJlST CQUOWZ-J Matter of Fact WHERE WE STAND NOW Washington This is a mo ment when it is important to know just where we stand now; and for this purpose, it is essential to note . the great gap at the very cen ter of the pic ture. We have troops in Leb b a n o n. The British have Joseph Aisop i troops in Jor dan. But the United States and Britain do not have a Middle; Eastern policy ; This Is the only way to sum up the unhappy results of widespread inquiry in author itative quarters. You cannot get an answer to the question: "Where do we go from here?" or rather, you only get vague ly mumbled prayers that somehow or other, some day or other, the combination of the Marines and special Am bassador Robert Murphy will achieve a political compro mise in Beirut. A good many people seem to believe that this is a work able Middle Eastern policy, fit to compete with the cruel ly shrewd, arrogantly bold policy of Nikita Krushchev. But this widespread belief is only a testimonial to the Ad ministration's success in blur ring or concealing all the facts that count. TT IS hard to believe that President Eisenhower pur posely misled the Congres sional leaders, at the July 14 meeting when he first re vealed his intention to send troops into Lebanon. A Presi dent who leaves the entire, day-to-day task of policy-making to his Secretary of State can quite easily misconceive the choice he has to make, wjien- he must suddenly make a very hard choice with great speed. At any rate, the mis representation of the Middle Eastern situation was begun by the President himself, at this first moment of dis closure. Three different kinds of false impression were con veyed to the Congressional leaders. The President first of all said that he had re ceived an "ultimatum" from President Chamoun, threaten ing the effective abdication of the Lebanese government if the Marines were not sent within 48 hours." In reality, President Eisen hower had long since prom ised President Chamoun to send troops, to Lebanon, if the Lebanese government desired him to do so. Now Chamoun had simply requested Eisen hower to keep his freely given promise. He had also warned that the seismic shock of the coup d'etat in Baghdad would quickly destroy the government in Beirut, unless the American promise were quickly kept. Being on the naked brink of immediate de feat, he had , asked for the American answer within two days.This was the Chamoun "ultimatum." SECONDLY, both the Presi dent and Secretary of State briskly threw Allen Dulles to the wolves, by in timating tha- they had been taken by surprise by the coup in Iraa. Hence the Senate is now busily investigating the C. I. A. But in reality the President and Secretary of State had long been warned that indeci sion about Lebanon would lead to a coup in Iraq. The warnings had come, not only from the C. I. A., but also from the murdered Iraqi lead er, Nuri Pasha, from the gov ernments of Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, and from many other sources. All the C. I.' A. failed to do was to say: "On this particular day, in this particular regiment, a' mili tary coup will be organized." - - i SAY THAT ASAlM. MXR3AR&T By Joseph Alsop Thi was the extent of the "surprise," and this much "surprise" all governments must expects Finally, and perhaps worst of ail. the President also indi cated to the Congressional leaders that the American problem centered in Lebanon, rather than ' in Iraq. It was true, of course, that he had to make an immediate choice be tween keeping his promise to Chamoun or dishonoring this country's word. That was the first part of the problem, which could only be solved as it was solved. DUT the heart of the prob lem lay, and it still lies, in Baghdad rather than m tsei rut. The British and Ameri can governments jointly de cided not to attack the heart of the Droblem in Baghdad The consequences of this de cision must be faced, there fore, before the two govern ments can fill the great gap in the center of the picture which is their present lack of any real Middle. Eastern Dolicv. The first consequence con cerns Lebanon and Jordan No matter what compromise is reached m Beirut (and a sucessful compromise seems unlikely) it can only afford a pretext for the withdrawal oi nur trnnns After Nasser's tri umph in Iraq, no government in Lebanon can survive nis nressure. once the Marines go out. By the same token, King Hussein cannot survive m TnrHan. if the British para troops depart. And Saudi V . . . ., rt .If r -4- n;l Arabia ana xne tjuu v-uasi u Sheikdoms are also sitting birds for the next conspiracy Nasser chooses to hatch. In these circumstances, only three courses of action deserve the name of a Middle Eastern policy. We can defy Khrush chev and deal sternly with ttasspr himself. Or we can Hefv world oDinion. and get ready to hang on by our Toe nails to the oil in the fairly onsilv defensible Persian Golf area. Or we can take the bold and ' tiainful measures inside the Western alliance, which may protect the West against the worst effects oi msser nationalism's onward march. Those are the choices. Take your pick. (C) 1958 New Yoric neraia Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of tha 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. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. It's a Tanager To the . Editor: Perhaps a birdwatcher can tell me what kind of birds are at my place. The bird has a beautiful yel low body, black wings with three white stripes on a scar let red neck and head, larger than a sparrow. (Name on File) Medford (Editor's note: Our bird watcher informs us the bird is a Western Tanager.) Illinois Man Named GOP Group Chairman Washington (UPB Spencer T. Olin, Alton, 111., indus trialist and banker, was nam ed Friday to be chairman of the Republican Finance com mittee. His selection was announc ed by GOP National Chair man Meade Alcorn. Olin suc ceeds Charles S. Thomas who resigned July 2 to become president of Trans World Airlines. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann DEAD END STREET As things stand at this mo ment, the notion of a sum mit meeting in the heart of New York City has the c haracteristic of one of those nightmares in which one feels c o mpelled to do what one d e s p erately does not want to do. At this Walter Lippmann time, a public confrontation between Eisen hower' and Khrushchev would be a ghastly spectacle, almost certain to poison the air still further with charges and c o u n t e rcharges. Moreover, there are great risks that the local police would not be able to maintain perfect law and order during the visit of a man who has in the cosmo politan city of New York so many embittered enemies. Be yond that, there does not now exist as between Washington and Moscow a basis for nego tiation. Both have talked themselves into extreme posi tions from which it is most awkward to make any con cession. Yet the fact is that the President has been pushed and pulled by the British govern ment, and by widespread pub lic opinion in Germany, in Scandinavia, in Japan, and elsewhere, to a grudging ac ceptance of the idea of a sum mit meeting on the Middle East. Why, we must ask our selves, do Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles find themselves between the devil and the deep blue sea, between having a conference which would now be dangerous and refus ing to have one, which is dan? gerous too? THEY find themselves in this dilemma because they have no Middle East policy and have therefore lost the diplomatic initiative. The right and effective answer to Khrushchev's caU for a sum mit conference was not to refuse it and leave it there, was not to accept it and to be entangled from there on The right answer would have been to propose the terms of a , settlement which included but extended beyond the withdrawal of the Marines Such a proposal would be something substantial to talk about in place of the talk about where and when to talk. Unfortunately, we do not have negotiable terms of set tlement to propose. The An glo-American intervention in the Lebanon and Jordan was carried out to prevent their collapse. But this was a hur ried reaction to the unexpect ed news from Iraq. It was not a deliberate act of policy. We find ourselves, there fore, in a dead end street. The presence of our troops not only does not promise a settlement of the revolution ary condition which caused us to send them in the long er the troops stay, the harder it will be to withdraw them without precipitating the dis aster they are meant to pre vent. THUS, it is true that neither the Lebanon nor Jordan can be stabilized and made secure without a wide settle ment beyond their frpntiers. There is a school or. tnougnt both here and in Britain which argues that the only settlement which is accept able and which wiU really set tle anything will be one which followed a restoration in Iraq and the, elimination of Nasser. They would do now what Eden and Mollet at- temDted to do at the Suez some two years ago. They are prepared to defy the Soviet Union and they would by force of arms establish a Brit ish-American protectorate in the Middle East. . . There is a kind of logic in this view. But those who hold it t are living in the wrong century. Relatively speaking, particularly in the Middle East which borders on Rus sia, the Sovie Union is in comnarablv a" stronger power than was Czarist Russia in the 19th century. The Arab revolution, of which Nasser is the most conspicuous but not the only champion, did not exist at all in the imperial davs of the last century. More over, and this must not be overlooked, the democracies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must be consid ered. They cannot be counted upon to go all the way in case of a military showdown over an Arab country in the Middle East. IF, THEREFORE, the day is nast and cone forever when the Middle' East can be sta bilized by Western military nnuer. we must seek an ac commodation with the new powers in the Middle East namelv with the Soviet Un ion and with Nasser's Con federation. What other line of policy is conceivable? None, unless it can be called a policy to do nothing but dig in where we are in Lebanon and in Jordan, and for the rest to trade insults with Nasser and Khrushchev. We shall get the worse of the exchange of in sults, in that it is always easier to denounce interven tion than to defend it. Let us have no illusions then that we can dig in, and sit it out hoping that something better will turn up. Unless there is a reasonably prompt settlement in the Leb anon with the Marines with drawing, their continuing presence will embarras us everywhere in the world. They were sent in in order to prove -to the Turks and the Pakistanis and others that our military promises will be honored. But if the Marines stay on and become an army of occupation, there will ' be some serious second thought not only among the nations guaranteed but also here among ourselves who must provide the guarantees. TI IS, therefore, a very great interest, one might with out exaggeration call it a vital interest, of the United States to work out by negotiation an honorable exit for the Ma rines. This may be impossible, given the revolutionary char acter of the Nasser movement. But it may not be impossible, if it is seriously and thorough ly attempted, given on the one hand the military weak ness of the Arab states and on the other their great need of the West in the oil busi ness and in their economic de velopment. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Washington Report By William S. White COURAGE, DECENCY AND NECESSITY Washington The courage and decency and harsh ne cessity : of the Allied inter vention in Lebanon and Jor dan is being submerged in a 1 sea of collat- erai argu ments and val id complaints that the future is far from bright. It is plain, that legiti mate ques tions but Willam S White secuuuaijr questions all the same are causing many to lose sight of the central problem. This problem was and is simply the salvation of the Middle East from an ugly chaos that would lead in time to the en feebleme'nt, if not the destruc tion, of the free world. The problem is not whether intervention will settle' every thing; nobody ever supposed it would. It is, regrettably, not even whether the uninvolved world likes what we have done. And it is not of con trolling significance whether the chaos was being prepared on direct Moscow orders or by what is called by the curi ously soft' term of Nasser "Nationalism." WHOEVER was preparing it, was demonstrably just what President Eisenhower said the other day it was "Violence, murder and terror. ism as instruments of interna tional policy." This may be the new "na tionalism" that movement so atWactive to so many in their recoil from "Colonialism." But in a less sophisticated time it would have been called in plain truth by another name. That name is gangsterism. Even those who have most ably opposed the landings in Lebanon and Jordan have not offered much alternative apart from one form or an other of diplomatic negotia tion. While talking things over is a useful and civilized de vice, it has its limitations. Even in the United Nations. The dead bodies in the little palace of Iraq might well have been followed by dead bodies elsewhere if President Eisen hower and Prime Minister McMillan had not sent troops rather than notes. But the heavy pressures on Macmillan by the British La bor party and the undoubted ly strong and high-minded public pressures on Mr. Eisen hower here are clearly weak ening Western will. Many including this correspondent in a small way had long criticized Mr. Eisenhower for not acting in the world drift. - MOST of these critics now upbraid him for the ac tion he has taken. This does not prove that they are wrong now. But it puts a burden upon them to face up to the real, the central, issue and not to speak as though there had , POTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) 7 The word "catskinner" is so admirably descriptive and flavorful that it has come to be fully accepted in these parts, where the big crawler tractors are seen so frequent ly, and play so large a role in our economy. But it is a bit baffling some times to newcomers. One such, a young man on our staff, was overheard the other day diffidently asking a col league if it was a usable word, and just what it meant. The meaning became plain when the parallel with "mule skinner" was outlined. The word seems solidly en trenched, probably to the mixed pleasure and pain of the Caterpillar Tractor com pany, which makes every effort to protect its trade marked name (insisting that the word "Cat" be capitalized when used to mean its variety of tractor), but which cannot but profit from the notion that all crawler tractors are "Cats." Glenn Jackson (whese nickname of "General" is used by his friends both descriptively and respect fully) was probably the proudest man in town last week, when news of the ar rival of Glenn Jackson Ford, Grandchild No. 1, was announced. It was, to his relief, a boy bringing the family odds down to something like seven lo three. Presumably the youngster could start out as "Corporal" and work up from there. County Judge Rod Keat ing, whose mane of gray- been all the time in the world to make a tidy response in the Middle East. . It is being said of the troop landings, "well, yes, perhaps they did have to do it but what is the policy now?" There is a rhetorical pseudo logic in this question. But there is a plain answer: "We "don't ye,t know just what the policy will be. Let us have some cha"nce to prepare one For the moment, at any rate, our plan is very clear. This is not to allow the plotters or the aspiring nationalists, if you prefer to sink the West ern position. For the moment, we have kept our young friends from drowning. Don't require us just now to plan their future through college." Those who demand a total "plan" in crisis overlook this fact: war or, as in this case, a somewhat convulsive de fensive military movement . never was a final solution, and nobody ever claimed it was. Yet is an act of desperate necessity to "avoid imminent defeat while one maneuvers as best he can to bring off some tolerable . victory, some tolerable conclusion, some where ahead. THEN it is said that our pol icy lias "the smell of oil." Of course it has. Middle East oil is not merely desirable to our European allies; it is in dispensable to their lives. And oil is really not inherently evil. Like coal, or sugar or food it is neither moral nor immoral. It is only necessary. And, indeed, it is true that certain large oil corporations may have their interests pro tected if we continue to pro tect the higher general inter ests of the West itself in the Middle East. It may even be that their profits will be sus tained. If so, then it could be said that the producers of every strategic necessity whatever aircraft, tanks, ships, as well as oil have al ways had their profit. Gener ally speaking, this has seemed the best way to have the strength required. ' Finally, it is said that we are looking under the bed for Communists; that the Nasser Arabs really only want their own way of life. While it is not necessary to prove'an im perialist Communist connec tion to justfy action against government by homicide, plenty of evidential proof of such a connection is, in fact, at hand. Professional Western and pro-Western military men not "politicians" and. not "propagandists" have files full of documented informa tion of Soviet and Soviet-bloc arms, officers, technicians, trainers operating in Nasser's group of countries. If these are not placed to serve Rus sian interests, Moscow has been generous to a fault. (Copyright 1358, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) white hair is one of his most distinguishing characteristics, probably got a few new white ones the other day when,-flying back from a conference in Montana, the plane's two en gines both quit over rugged mountain country. Happily the pilot got them started again (he'd inadvert ently switched to an empty luei tank). But Rod says that everyone aboard, including the dead - pale but self - pos sessed young stewardess, was real shook up. "I began to think that si 9 i a spent on air-trip insurance was the best buck and a quar ter I'd ever paid out," he said, mopping nis brow at the mem ory. Ever have fried al fresco . for dinner? We suspect you haven't, but that's what an . M-T story recommended the other day inadvertently, . of course, in a story which said, "If you haven't tried fried al fresco dining, you may be missing a lot of eat ing enjoyment ..." And. speaking of errors, tha M-T gave a Talent woman a shock the other day. She thought she'd lost several days out of her life when she picked up a paper and saw "bunday, July 27" in camtal letters on page one. What had harmened was this: - Each week the "date lines" for the paper for a full weeK are set into tvne. then each day the printers pick out the right one for use that dav. Last Tuesday one of them picked ud the wronz one. dropped into place without checking it carefully enough, and no one noticed it until several hundred papers had come off the press and some of them carted away by carriers. The error was caught and corrected for most of the cress run but we wish to apolo gize to the lady who had that sinking feeling that Tuesday to Sunday had vanished, and to any others, similarly dis comoded. Well, it's been hot lately. And there have been a lot , of thunderstorms. .Some people swear they haven't seen weather like it for 30 years. A newcomer to the valley observe ,' ?Y ou know, I've never been any place yet where people .will admit that the present poor weather is the usual and expected thing." . Tradition requires that when a youngster IcKes - a tooth, he must place it under his pillow at night so "the fairy'' will come during the night and exchange it for a dime. (It used to be a nickel, but inflation, you know.) One local mother recently sneaked into her daughter's bedroom to "play fairy," and left a dime under the pillow, cen though, fumbling in the dark, she couldn't find the tiny tooth. The next morning the child happened to mention that she'd "hidden the tooth from the fairy" to save it to show to a playmate. Whereupon the mother hastily and secretly returned to the bedroom and retrieved the coin for later use. "Life," our sports editor remarked wistfully the oth er day, "is just a bowl of Cheerios." Two of Medford's busiest men one a businessman, the other a public official took off for the high country re cently undecided as to wheth er to snend one day, or two, or even three at a mountain lake. After the first day the busi nessman said to his friend that they'd better decide whether to go back to town. The public official looked at him wearily. "Don't bother me," he said. "I don't even want to think. Just tell me what we're going to do, and we'll do it." That man's been working too hard. We have been told about the small foreign car which dashed into the street be tween two pedestrians, and was damaged. . We've also been told, this time on the level, about anoth er small car with a Canadian license plate, which was parked in a service station. Annther vehicle drove ud be hind, but was prevented from getting to the gasoline pumps because the small car was in the way, and its driver re fused to move, even wnen courteously asked to do so by the attendant. WhereuDon the attendant looked at his assistant, nodded his head, and the two of them lifted and rocked the littlt) car so that it just rolled away from the pump.