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Newspaper Page Text4 Wednesday, August 13, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORDtWrKIBUNE "Everyone in Southern 'Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RtHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manaeet GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr BRIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 183'i SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Orslv One year M.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Taler.t. and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnitedPressFull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lanta Vancouver 3 C. NEWSPAPER V PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsTbcfATlfSN 7 U KJ Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 13, 1948 (Friday) Only evidences of this day's traditional evil are a burned house near Gold Hill and a fainting spell in a local de partment store. The list of applicants for extra parts in "The Last of the Wild Horses," being filmed locally, is presently being checked. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1938 (Saturday) Beavers from the Union Creek district are to be trans ported to California to help Uncle Sam in flood control by building dams. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "When the city gets through fixing and re-paving the streets, there will be no excuse for traveling less than 60 per." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 13, 1928 (Monday) A local "cocktail" cat re portedly insists on a daily nip, and devours two pounds of shaved ice and three bottles of ginger ale weekly. The Georgia Minstrel com pany will play at Central Point and Ashland this week. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 13. 1918 (Tuesday) Ashland police officials last month fined the Medford fire chief S5 for not having a state license on the fire depart ment's runabout he drives, it was revealed 'today. One hundred women and girls are reported picking 90 per cent of this year's pear crop. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the present British ambassador to Washington. , 2. According to astrologers, persons born between Oct. 23 and Nov. 21 are governed by what zodiacal sign?? . 3. According to the New Testament (Matt, xii, 40), how many days did Jonah spend in the belly of a great fish, called whale, before he was cast out, 4. Madagascar is a colony of which European nation? ' 5. In reference to the quo tation "Sugar and spice and everything nice," what are lit tle boys made of? ' 6. How long is a fortnight? . 7. Are spiders insects? 8. Was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation estab lished under the administra tion of Hoover, Roosevelt, or Truman? 9. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place; true or false? " 10. Do the pistons in an au tomobile engine come to a standstill before reversing their thrust. Answers: 1. Sir Harold Cac cia. 2. Scorpio. 3. Three days. 4. France. 5. "Snicfs and snails and puppy dog tails." 6. 14 days. 7. No. (They are arach nids.) f. Administration of Hoover. 9. False. 10. Yes. A New-Old Jacksonville The "restoration" of Jacksonville that is, the job of making- it look much as it did as a pioneer, gold-mining town of 90 or 100 years ago is much talked these days, particularly with the Oregon Centennial observance starting less than a year from now. If it can be done it could make the attractive little city a major tourist attraction. But to do it would .require whole-hearted co operation from Jacksonville's property-owners, from the city itself, and from organizations in Jackson county which have a stake in promoting the tourist trade. QTHER historic cities have benefited greatly from such action. One of these is Weaverville, Calif., west of Redding on Highway 299, in the "Trinity Alps area. It, too, was an old gold-mining town, and it, too, is a picturesque community. The difference is that Weaverville's citizens got together to capitalize on its attractions. The editors of the Jefferson Review, a week ly paper in the Willamette valley, recently visit ed Weaverville, and reported on it in an issue of their paper. The column said, in part : ". . . We reached Weaverville and drove onto Main street. It is one of the most charming small town Main streets in the west a color picture card from out of the past. "The downtown stores have been preserved as they were in the "good old days' probably much better and painted in eye-catching colors. We were fascinated by the outside spiral staircases of wrought iron painted a brilliant white. The hotel has two of these staircases, one on either side of the building. An office building across the street has one. "A long one-story brick building is painted barn red, with a cutout gingerbread trim in white across the top. The business names also were cutouts, painted white. Another white building had the store names in old-fashioned lettering, with each letter a different color. "Instead of allowing the old buildings to decay, or tearing them down and building new ones, the town businessmen have turned them into an asset. It's one small town a tourist doesn't drive through without stop ping." ly-EAVERVILLE today, with its bright colors and festive appearance, is probably a far more attractive place than it was dur,ing the days of the gold rush, when tough miners and frugal Chinese workers wandered the dusty streets. But the old town has kept, and accented, the architecture of the old days. If it is not an, exact and literal representation of its own past, at least it offers a clean and color ful face to today's traveler, who may well be surfeited with sleek, glass storefronts, with neon lights, with parking meters and traffic lights. rF COURSE Weaverville, alone on a highway and not overshadowed in some resrjects by a large neighbor (Redding is 45 . or so miles away), has more at stake in the tourist trade than does Jacksonville. The California town is more self-centered and self-sufficient than Jacksonville, which is, in ef fect, a sort of "bedroom" town, with most of the wage-earners working in Medford or other vallev towns, while keeping their residences in Jack sonville. . ' This may be one of a notable lack of enthusiasm for plans , to "re store" it. As things are, how would the residents benefit from such action? THEY wouldn't directly, viiyjyo tucic lciiu tu v rather than to the tourist tial. But if Jacksonville to serve as a far more than it is now, the entire valley, including Jack sonville, would benefit. And Jacksonville people could "cash in" through catering more directly to a tourist trade much larger and more enthusiastic than that at present. It would be a gold mine far more productive than the old shafts under were. E.A. Good The last few days have seen a number of de velopments which we classify as "good news." Item The bureau of public roads has ap proved the trans-Cascade highway by way of the Lake of the Woods for inclusion in the forest highway network, which means that improvement of this important new route is not too far away. Item The house and agreed on a compromise on the Klamath Indian Reservation timber sale bill, which means that final passage is a mere formality, and which in turn means that the Indians should receive a fair share of the funds due them from the sale, while at the same time the valuable timber stands will be preserved on a sustained-yield basis. ITEM The Main street-Eighth street one-way couplet, first major portion of the city's arter ial street program, opened smoothly and without incident, and minor jamming at peak hours will be eliminated by next spring with a new bridge across Bear creek; also, progress on other seg ments of the program is coming right along. Item The Army has of the old Housing Authority project area for a new $300,000 armory which is good news for local Army reserve units, wrho need a "home of their own," and for youngsters on the west side, who will benefit from a which may possibly be ready m time for next season's swimming. In a world where news is too often gloomy or chilling, it is a pleasure to note the good things. They DO happen, occasionally. E.A. v the reasons it has shown for the stores and - cilci lu lucdi icsiuems, trade, -actual or poten were to be restored, and potent tourist attraction the city's streets ever News senate conferees have agreed to purchase part swimming pool there, Dennis the Menace THAT PRETTY GOOD. Yoi) WAIT RIGHT THERE AND I'LL GO GET YOU A PEANUT.' Matter of Fact APPEARANCE AND REALITY Washington The appear ance of the next days can al ready be imagined. With Vm'manv a eran- Jdiose ad man's gesture, a (wssffS 'positive" American pro gram for the Middle East will be pre sented to the United Na tions. We shall Jos-ph Alsop u ociiiigni- eous. The Soviets will be in dignant. It will make a lot of headlines. But none of this will mat ter very much, beyond adding to the humiliation already suf fered by the Western Powers. It will not even matter great ly if, as seems likely, the "positive" American program turns out to be nothing more or less than Aneurin Bevan's old mustard plaster for the Middle East's deep cancer an American - financed, interna tionally managed Middle Eastern Development Corpor ation. None of this will really matter, because all this will be mere appearance. MEANWHILE, the place to look for the hard facts and rude developments that truly do matter will be in the Middle East. Judging by the reports now pouring into Washington, Gamal Abdel Nasser's already-garnered tri umphs are no more than appe tizers before the main courses are brought on. One such report, which is probably reliable, forecasts the federation of Saudi Ara bit with Gamal Adbel Nas ser's United Arab Republic in a few weeks time. That, in it self, will be a main course for Nasser that would have been unimaginable not so very long ago. Only a year and a half ago, in fact, Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles was telling our British allies that King Saud of Sau di Arabia was to be the "key stone ' of the arch" of the brand-new. American policy that would surely cut down and contain the ambitious Egyptian dictator. Even so, the report concerning Saudi Arabia is not the most serious of the lot. As has been stated before in this space, the British have long cherished a plan to use the small, hot, sparsely popu lated, oil-rich sheikhdoms on the Persian Gulf, and above all the ultra-rich sheikhdom of Kuweit, as their hole card in the desperate Middle East ern game. The plan has been to hang on to these sheikh doms at all costs, and by mili tary occupation if need be, since they can produce enough oil to meet Britain and Western Europe's petro leum fuel requirements all by themselves. THE most serious report referred to concerns the meeting between the aging sheik of Kuweit and Gamal Abdel Nasser, which occured in Damascus after the coup d'etat in Baghdad. This meet ing is said to have produced an accord with Nasser that will temporarily protect the position of the Kuweit ruling house, the As-Subah clan. For this protection, however, the sheik is stated to have paid in two ways: by promising to contribute the lion's share of his fabulous oil revenues to Nasser's own Middle Eastern Development Corpor a t i o n; and by further agreeing to ac- cept some form of federation with Nasser's United Arab Republic. The sheik's action is under standable. If the position in Saudi Arabia has been cor rectly reported, the position in neighboring Kuweit will soon be utterly untenable. But the sheik's action, if correctly re ported, also means' that the moment of choice for Britain is already almost at hand. For if any such agreement be By Joseph Alsop tween the sheik and Nasser is carried into effect, the British hole card on the Per sian Gulf will be lost for good. What this means to Britain can be gauged, in turn, by two simple facts. Hitherto, under an agreement with the British Government, the sheik of Kuweit has already depos ited his surplus oil profits in London, for investment there. This Kuweiti surplus has in turn constituted at least 10 per cent of all the new capi tal annually available in Lon don for investment in the rest of the sterling area. And Lon don's position as the capital and center of the sterling area has always quite largely depended, and still depends today, on London's ability to meet the requirements for new capital in other sterling area countries. A S for the second of these two simple facts, it is the fact that ownership of the Middle Eastern sources in Ku weit and elsewhere currently saves Britain something like $1,000,000,000 a year on her always difficult balance of payments. The profits from the oil companies pay for Bri tain's entire oil consumption; and because of Britain's own ership of the oil companies, payments for the oil Britain consumes can be made in sterling. No one can suppose that these arrangements will continue, when and if all the oil sources in the Arab lands, including even Kuweit, are in the hands of Gamal Abdel Nasser. For just this reason, when he was last here, British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd asked for American support of the British plan ' to treat Kuweit and the other Gulf Coast sheikhdoms as a never-to-be abandoned hole card. The problem thus posed will be examined in another re port in this space, (c) 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' Foreign affairs: Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko says he believes the question of RECALL OF WESTERN TROOPS FROM LEBANON AND JORDAN is the most important question to be discussed at the forth coming special session of the U. N. General Assembly in New York. He made the state ment to newsmen at Idlewild airport in New York Monday morning when he arrived aboard a Scandinavian Air lanes plane with 28 Soviet aides. He added: "The Soviet government has considered and continues to consider that the withdrawal of American troops from Leb anon and the British troops from Jordan is a very serious question." T1HAT is to say: In the propaganda bat tle of the century, the Rus sians have again BEATEN US TO THE PUNCH. They have grabbed the pop ular side in the upcoming bat tle of words in the U. N. WHAT'S wrong with us? ' Why are we off on the wrong foot in this Middle East ruckus? I TVI AFRAID it's because we are pursuing a foreign policy that none of us have much faith in. W e seem to be trying to run the Midle East by force. Few Americans want to run the Middle East by force. We send troops to Lebanon. Few Americans want to send troops to Lebanon or anywhere else, unless Russia starts a shooting war. Sending troops to foreign countries is serious business. It's no way U.N. General Assembly, With Only Moral Force, Exerts Considerable Influence (Editor's Note:' What is the United Nations General Assembly? How does it function? What are its pow ers? What is its role in the current Middle East crisis? Here in simple terms are the answers to these and other questions that may arise in connection with the emergency session of the assembly.) United Nations, N. Y. (LTD The United Nations Gen eral Assembly, about to be given the task of solving the Middle East's problems, is a unique parliament with moral force as its only authority. Unlike a summit meeting of heads of government, first suggested to tackle the Mid dle East crisis, it commands no divisions to carry out its decisions. Unlike the Security Coun cil, where Russia's veto blocked Middle East action, it cannot issue orders nor call upon its members to provide trooos to enforce them. "The General Assembly," the U.N. charter says, "may discuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the present charter . . . and may make recommendations to the members of the United Nations or to the Security Council or to both on any such questions or matters." Nevertheless, the assembly, limited to the power of mak ing mere recommendations, has proved itself a formidable force for keeping or restoring peace in situations where the veto-ridden Security Council could do nothing. One Vote Each Eaoh of the U.N.'s 81 mem bers has one vote in the as sembly. Its decisions on any but purely procedural mat ters are taken by A two-thirds vote. There is no veto, that power being reserved to the Big Five members in the Se curity Council. This means that with all members voting 54 votes are required to carry any resolu tion put before the Assembly. But U.N. members are not required to cast simple "yes" or "no" votes. They have also the privilege of registering an abstention. Such abstainers are not counted in the over all vote, and thus each ab stention lowers the total re quired for a two-thirds vote. The United States hesitated before taking the Middle East question to the General As sembly. With the nine-vote Soviet bloc against it and many of the 28-nation Afro- Asian group opposed to the landing of American troops in Lebanon and British forces in Jordan, qualified observers frankly doubted that a two thirds vote could be mustered for any Western measure put before the assembly. , Form Public Opinion By the same token, how ever, it appeared impossible for Russia to gain a two-thirds vote for any proposal it might have. The result appeared likely to be a stand-off with the only harvest at first glance seeming to be propaganda benefits reaped from the rostrum. But the words spoken from the rostrum often go to form a weight of public opinion which has been known to sway the policy of govern ments even of Soviet Rus sia. Proceedings in the assembly are on the formal side. Dele gates have no microphones on the long tables at which they sit in their golden-sided hall. They must go to the rostrum at the front of the igloo shaped theater to make even a minor observation. Their words are simultaneously translated into the five of ficial U.N. languages Eng lish, French, Russian, Spanish and Chinese through head sets at each delegate's place. On a high dais above the speakers' rostrum sit the three men who run the assembly. Its president, currently Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, sits in the middle. On his right sits Secretary-General to win friends and influence people. Suppose some foreign na tion sent troops HERE. Sup pose some foreign nation had sent troopsMo Little Rock last year. Everybody knows what would have happened in that event. We would have dropped our own family quarrel over integration and would have GONE TO WAR with the na tion that sent the troops. Human nature is human na ture and in this Middle East ruckus we seem to have been going against human nature at every point. WHAT is a good f or eigny pol icy? Teddy Roosevelt had a pret ty good idea when he said "SPEAK SOFTLY, and carry a big stick." We seem to have been speaking HARSHLY at every turn. I Dag Hammarskjold and on his left Andrew W. Cordier of the United States, Hammar skj old's executive assistant who acts as the assembly's secretary, taking votes and keeping straight the speakers' list. Each country is limited to 10 persons on the floor. Five De Gaulle Victory Foreseen; Stable Government Hoped By ARTHUR HIGBEE UPI Correspondent Paris (UPD The momen tum that carried Gen. Charles de Gaulle to power last June 1 is expected to bring his strong - executive constitution into effect in a nationwide vote Sept. 28. It is also expect ed to sweep De Gaulle him self into office a few days or weeks later as the first presi dent of the Fifth Republic. Except for the Vichy re gime, theonstitution will be the least liberal that France has had in nearly a century. The key clauses give the president the right to pick the premier (whose job will be re duced to that of executive of ficer rather than chief execu tive), to dissolve the parlia ment as often as once a year, and to take over executive and legislative functions in time of national emergency.. Fear Power Abuse Who decides if an emer gency exists? Under De Gaul le's draft, it was the president himself. But ex-Premier Paul Reynaud persuaded De Gaulle to leave this up to a constitu tional court. "It is not Gen. De Gaulle we are afraid of," Reynaud said. "He would never, in my opinion, abuse the powers granted him. But I have told him we are not making the constitution for one man." He is one of the few men who can talk to De Gaulle so bluntly. Reynaud, 79, is the premier who brought Brig. Gen. De Gaulle into the gov ernment in 1940 in a too late attempt to stop the Nazi Pan zer divisions. Reynaud's reform, and others, have eliminated some of the most-criticized features of De Gaulle's projected con stitution. But people like ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France still say that if it ever goes into effect,- it will mean "a figure head cabinet and a parliament that is only a facade." Despite such criticisms, De Gaulle is expected to win through. The world is fed up with the spectacle that France has made of herself in the past 12 years. Frenchmen Fed Up But nobody could be more fed up than Frenchmen them selves. They have had govern ment by whim of parliament up to here. Many of them feel that nearly any change toward sta bility would be a change for the better. There will be many who will argue that the new constitution gives De Gaulle the powers of a dictator. Becky Heads West Oyer Atlantic Miami (UPD Tropical storm Becky, gaining momen tum in its westward march over the Atlantic, swirled to ward Puerto Rico and the Vir gin Islands today with winds up to 55 miles per hour. Gale warnings were ordered up in the leeward islands for "winds up to 50 miles per hour in squalls beginning af ter 5 a.m." Weather men said the storm may reach full hur ricane force as it moves into warmer waters today. The San Juan weather bu reau in Puerto Rico said late Tuesday "if the storm con tinues its present direction and rate of motion, it is ex pected to pass about 100 to 125 miles north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands during the forenoon." A late weather advisory said highest winds were esti mated at 55 miles per hour in the heavier squalls, and the storm was moving west . to west-north-westward at an ac celerated speed of 20 miles per hour. It was expected to continue moving in the same general direction for the next 12 hours with a "slight in crease in size and intensity." Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With More Comfort FASTEETH. pleasant alkaline (non-acid) powder, holds false teeth more firmly. To eat and talk In more . .. ltt.t.u FAS- WUiJUib, jua djju" trgc liu .mi. nlatiac NO PlimUlV. gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Cneclcs plate ocnr I aenturv diwj ' -FASTEETH at any drug counter. delegates sit with five alter nates or advisers ranged be hind them. Some countries have many less than the maxi mum of 10 on the floor at one time. Got Big Boost The assembly's prestige in war-and-peace questions re ceived a big boost in 1950. There will be more who will argue that it does not or that, if it does, it is preferable to the circus of the past dozen years. De Gaulle probably will win. That leaves a couple of questions unanswered: What other Frenchman but De Gaulle would be entrusted with such powers, and what will happen when he is gone. More immediately what about Algeria? The present constitution, on paper, provides stable govern ment. But it did not stop every French government in the past years from coming to grief over the Algerian rebel lion. In the long run, unless this issue is solved, it may bring a quicker and more vio lent end to the Fifth Republic than it brought to the Fourth. Communications Letters to the Editor 'must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary is often tha ras Smooth Cut-Over To the Editor: Please ac cept the thanks of the city administration for the excel lent publicity given by the Medford Mail Tribune on the adoption of the one-way traf fic pattern for the Main and Eight street couplet. The map and various news articles con tributed immeasurably to in forming the public of the cut over which I am sure is re flected by the smoothness in which this was put into effect. The motorists accepted the plan with a minimum of con fusion which indicated that they had adequate knowledge of the change. Thanks again. Robert A. Duff Medford City Manager The End of the World To the Editor: Why the end of the world? It is very sim ple, because the world is over populated. Of course there are people without children, but every country has more chil dren than it can feed and bring up. The people are too selfish, do just what they want. Margaret Sanger travelr ed all the way to China and Japan and had some success, for we like to live as long as we can on this earth. There comes an end to this earth life, that is to say to the temporary form oif body, but never to life. That is ever lasting. The three gods are yet alive after thousands of years, so is the devil, so is all life. And these innocent children are suffering forever. But what do the parents care? They had their fun. Any doc tor can save them from suf fering and themself from mis ery. The world can be made much happier, not to have to kill each other and to steal each other's possessions, love each other instead of hating, copying God instead of follow ing that lying Satan with all his so-called religion, hate and sin, who through jealousy of God and his truth, has ruined this world and made unhappi ness and wanted to bring it to an end, and has nearly succeeded. Can this be stopped? Only by the people who helped the devil, who gave him more power than they gave the good Gdd. Can we get the truth? Yes, for some just got it, but we Serving All Who Call With sincerity and deep respect to the departed, Litwillers have served faithfully for 22 years, at prices exceptionally moderate. c. M. Litwiller Remember . . . We are Ashland's only locally owned funeral home. We have no branches. We devote our full-time to give the finest funeral service, at less cost than obtained elsewhere. LITWILLER Funeral . Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 83 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Then, realizing that the U.N. effort in the Korean War would have been killed by Russia's Security Council veto, except that Russia was injudiciously boycotting the council at the time, the West took steps to cope with such a situation. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was engineer and John Foster Dulles, as a mem ber of his delegation, the fore man, in the- construction of the "uniting for peace" resolu tion adopted by the assembly that year. That resolution provides that whenever the Security Council cannot act because of disagreement of the five per manent members, a vote of any seven council members can order an emergency ses sion of the assembly, which "shall" be called within 24 hours. That is the procedure being used to transfer the current Middle East turmoil from the council to the assembly. Without it, the assembly is strictly forbidden by the charter to discuss any dispute which is before the council. With it, the assembly in 1956 condemned Russia's bru tal supression of the Hungar ian revolt and established the U.N. Emergency Force now on duty in the Gaza Strip which made possible the with drawal of British, French and Israeli forces in the Suez war of the same year. must want it very bad. Then He will help in everything that is good. He is' the only one, although three, who has the full and only truth and can save this world yet, if we are wise to get it yet. He is all wise, has real love for everyone who loves him, but is willing to follow him. J. M. van der Mass 328 North Riverside ave. Medford Why They Hunt Doves v To the Editor: This is an answer to the person t lia t wanted to know why mourn ing doves were on the game list in this state. ' As I, too, had some doves in myyard I became interest ed in the subject. An attempt to close the sea son was made a couple of years ago, principally through the efforts of some of o u r Granges. It might have suc ceeded but the sportsmen fought it tooth and nail. They placed petitions in the sport stores and everyone was ask ed to sign them. The net re sult was that we still have a month's open season on doves Sept. 1 through Sept. 28. I read in a sportsmen's mag azine that the reason hunters like to shoot doves is because their erratic flight when flush ed make them a difficult and challenging target. However, hunters have informed me that they do not fly any dif ferent than any other game bird. I am told that the real reason they are hunted so vig orously is that the dove sea son precedes the pheasant season and gives the hunter a chance to practice up on his shooting and also to poach a few pheasants. There is no more to them than there is to a robin so they are not shot primarily for the meat. There are only two alterna tives that I can see to keep the mourning dove from ex tinction and those are, get them placed on the song bird list, which will automatically protect them, or, get the game commission to move the dove season back of, or along with, 'the large bird season. Hunters will not shoot doves if they have a better game bird to shoot. (Name on File) Medford Mrs. Utwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, than o need us and not know us."