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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
II YEARS AGO '
eft, S, K (Friday)
' An exhibit of water colors
by students of Eugene Ben
nett, local artist, will open
tomorrow at the Medford Art
center, 315 East Main st.
-. J. C. Penney's Medford
tore will sponsor a Kiddies'
Kennedy Karnival at the Cra
terian theater tomorrow
morning.
' It TZARS AGO
See. 3. 193 (Saturday)
An enlarged roster of ex
hibits and record attendance
are predicted for Gold Hill's
sixth annual Northwest Jack
ton County fair next week.
Trom Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
city voted bonds in the sum
f $73,000 for fixing the
streets. Something, like 9,000
voters were too weary to ram
ble to the polls. The 616 souls
who fearlessly voted, for and
against, suffered no ill-effect.."
M TEARS AGO
leyt. 3, 1328 (Monday)
Young folks seeking a
quiet, secluded place to park
have resorted during the sum
mer to the yard of the Foots
Creek schoolhouse, and one
ear apparently drove right up
the' front steps onto the
porch.
Schools reopen tomorrow.
4t YEARS AGO '
ept. 3. 1313 (Tuesday)
. Ashland's canteen service
at the depot needs more fruit
to keep the troops passing
through town well-supplied.
Fifteen more county draft
ees depart for active duty.
Vhsl's Your I.Q.?
Mlee et ten carreer tt superior;
eaten Of eight is excellent; five ar
eta is td.
1. A thick glass when filled
with hot liquid is more likely
to break than a thin glass
under the same condition; true
or false?
2. "Private" was formerly
the lowest rank in the U.S.
Army; what is now the lowest
rank?
3. Which of the following
ve3e) not belong in the same cat
egory; Alimentary, Erie, Pan
ama, Suez?
4. Which countries' comprise
the members of the Arab
League?
5. Patagonia is on what
continent?
. 6. Appendicitic occurs more
often in males than females;
true or false?
7. Which is the taller, the
Empire State building or the
Eiffel Tower?
. 3. In ; history, who were
calld "prisoners of the Vat
ican"? : 3. Where are the ruins of
the Parthenon?
10. Is the capital of Maine
Bangor, Lewiston or Augusta?
:. Answers: 1. True. 2. "Re
cruit." 3. Alimentary. (The
rest ere ship canals). 4. Egypt,
Iraq. Lebanon. Saudi-Arabia,
Stria, Trans-Jordan and Ye
saeav 3. South America. 6.
True. 7. Empire State build
ing. 3. The Popes. 9. Athens,
Creece. 10. Augusta.
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Legion in Chicago
The American Legion convention this week
probably will serve to demonstrate a moderation
in regard to veterans pensions and bonuses that
has been developing slowly over the years.
John J. Gleason Jr., national commander, de
clared Aug. 14 that, contrary to some impressions,
the Legion is "unalterably opposed to across-the-board
pensions for all former servicemen." What
the Legion does want, he said, is expanded feder
al pensions for disabled veterans and for veter
ans' widows who have children.
e
COME groups within veterans organizations al-
ways will push for all-out pensions. The na
tional convention of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars oh Aug. 22, approved a resolution urging a
tax-free bonus up to $4,500 for all veterans of
World War II and the Korean War. But a more
moderate resolution adopted at thd same time is
said to be more representative of the thinking of
VFW leadership.
This resolution, instead of asking for a federal
bonus, opposes "a constant effort on the part of
various government agencies and bureaus to rele
gate the veteran, to the class of the non-veteran
for all purposes, and especially with reference to
compensation and other veteran benefits which
is not deemed to be in the public interest."
Another resolution asked for a separate, more
liberal program for World War I veterans inas
much as Congress "apparentlywill not consider
favorably any proposal to suDStanuauy liDerauze
the program for the entire group of 22 million
veterans."
CUCCESSIVE conventions of the American Le-
gion and of other
have been growing less piaytul and more preoc
cupied by national and international affairs.
Simple age may account for this.
The average age of all veterans, according to
the Veterans Administration is 40.3 years. The
averacre acre of World War I veterans is 64.2: of
World War II vets, 39.3; of Korean War vets
excluding those with double service (World War
II and Korean War) 27.3 years.
About a fourth of the nation's 22,727,000 vet
erans of all wars belong to, one or more of . the
300 active veterans organizations. Of the over-all
total, some 15,288,000 are World War II veter
ans, some 4,431,000 (again - excluding the re
treads) veterans of Korea; some 2,876,000 vets
of World War I; and some 132,000 veterans of
other wars and the "military establishment," i.e.,
peacetime service. r ',
The Legion, by far the largest of veterans
groups, puts its membership at 2,678,876, as
against the 1946 peak of 3,326,000. The VFW
claims 1,300,000 members as 'against 1,550,000
in 1948.
About 70 per cent of Legion membership
comes from World War II and Korea vets. The
VFW has an even lower percentage of World
War I veterans 14 to 20 per cent
THE BIG veterans groups, unlike the Grand
Airmr rvf tho "Rormhlir wnir"h fVv manv vPflrs
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after the Civil War was
nonpartisan in politics.
ana tne aiveis nave tenaea to ae conserva
tive for the most part; the American-Veterans
committee, left of center.
But Lee-ion conventions have often been the
sounding-board for partisan political oratory
for example, the convention in Miami in 1951 was
the stage for one of Gem MacArthur's bitterest
attacks on the Truman administration. b.K.K.
Revolution From Water
V "Water, water everywhere and each drop fit
to drink" could in the not too distant future
come time for. all peopTes along the shores of the
Seven Seas. That day will come when salt water,
now convertible to fresh only at considerable ex
pense (15 to 20 cents a 100 gallons) will yield
fresh water by relatively inexpensive processes.
"The ancient problem ... of the desalting of
water," President Eisenhower told the UN Gen
eral Assembly in his speech on Aug. 13, "is on the
threshhold of solution." That solution could
mean as much to the world, could, revolutionize
the old ways of national life as radically, as did
the splitting of the atom.
It isn't only poverty-stricken desert lands that
stand to benefit by cheap fresh water from salt.
In the United States and other industrial coun
tries a serious shortage of water is threatened,
not only for human consumption but also for in
dustrial production.
IN 1952 CONGRESS appropriated funds for
studying various methods of desalting sea
water, also the brackish water found in some in
land states. Among the many methods studied
are the electric membrane (electrolysis), vapor
compression distillation, solar distillation, criti
cal pressure, osmosis, solvent extraction, freez
ing. Now the various studies have progressed to
the point where the 1958 session of Congress vot
ed $10 million to build and operate, under Inter
ior Department supervision, five , demonstration
plants to test out the various methods. The Soviet
Union is known to be competing with this coun
try in the race to offer f or instance, to the Mid
dle East an economically feasible process of de
riving fresh from salt water. L.R.K.
veterans organizations-
f J - w. j vw
Republican, have been
The Legion, the VFW,
Dennis the Menace
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YOUll FiOaT,
WCTU Head Sees
Prohibition in
Nation Coming
Washington- (CQ) The leg
islative director of the Wom
an's Christian Temperance
Union sees the nation on the
road, to prohibition. .
"The jet plane will prove
to have started the nationon
the road to eliminating alco
hol from our national life,"
Miss Elizabeth A. Smart pre
dicted. WCTU lobbyist in
Washington, Miss Smart also
is a Phi Beta Kappa gradu
ate of Smith College, lawyer,
newspaper publisher and one
time candidate for Congress.
"The American people are
gullible but not fools," she
said. "They will soon realize
that you cannot take the
stresses of the space age un
less your system is physically
perfect and not irritated by
alcohol."
Sober Auto Workers
She claimed the only way
Henry Ford managed to de
velop mass production in the
auto industry was by insist
ing on sobriety among his
workers. "It takes an even
steadier hand to meet the in
dustrial challenges of the
space age," she said. 'The
people are beginning to real
ize this, despite the liquor
advertising. The thing that
has kept our nation alive 'is
our saving modicum of com
mon sense," Miss Smart con
tended. When will prohibition
come? Miss Smart refused to
predict the exact year, but
felt certain it would be with
in 50 years. "It shouldn't come
until the people are ready for
it. It must be wanted."
Miss Smart says these
things with earnestness and
conviction, almost softness.
Her fervor is not the brand
that sent women into saw-
dusty saloons singing hymns
and swinging hatchets.
Lobby Technique
Instead, Miss Smart lobbies
for temperance legislation in
the rough and tumble atmos
phere of Capitol HiU through
face-to-face persuasion and
prayer. Her primary oppo
nent, the liquor industry, does
its lobbying by spraying the
town with public relations
men and hiring big name law
yers like Thomas E. Dewey
of New York. But she has
been doing it her way since
1940.. Now, as the WCTU
holds its 84th convention Aug.
29 through Sept. 2, the ques
tion arises whether Miss
Smart and the other temper
ance lobbyists are getting any
place. Their anti-liquor cam
paigns often make entertain
Try and.
-By BENNETT CERF-
CONTRARY. TO public opinion, insists Ernie Kovacs, in
v- magazine appropriately named Mad, waving a red flag at a
bull does not irritate him at alL Actually cows are the ones
who get irritated when a
red flag is waved at them.
The reason a bull gets mad
when a red flag is waved at
him is because he dislikes
being mistaken for a cow.
So now you know!
At a recent auto show, one
of the biff producers included
in its display a giant missile
it i turning out for the gov
ernment Mort 8ahl met a
lightly intoxicated customer
who circled the missile three
times, then mumbled, "They're
sure making automobiles look
different these days, but I think 111 buy one anyhow."
a
Three kiddies in Beverly Hills decided to play house. Said the
first, 'Til be the papa." Said the second, 'Til be the mama." Said
the third, 'Til be the lawyer."
$ llfclj by fiaaett CxL Distributed by Kisj; Tutmu 8a4iU. .
Wl HE JUST KEEPS SAYltiG
ing newspaper copy, but be
yond that, are these temper
ance voices being heeded on
Capiiol Hill?
Miss Smart and spokesmen
for the American Temperance
Society, Methodist Board of
Temperance and National
Temperance League do be
lieve they are . getting some
place, though slowly. Together
they represent about 11 mil
lion members, mostly church
people.
Victories Claimed
The temperance groups con
sider the stiffening of the
anti-obscene literature law,
restriction of bill board ad
vertising along Federally aid
ed interstate highways, more
money for alcoholism research
and less for the State Depart
ment's whisky allowance as
their primary legislative
achievements in the 85th Con
gress. They also believe pass
age of the District of Colum
bia law setting chemical
standards for determining
whether a driver is drunk
will inspire states to pass sim
ilar laws.
The two biggest legislative
goals of temperance groups
were not realized: laws
against serving liquor on air
planes and advertising alco
holic beverages in national
publications and over the air.
Neither of those legislative
proposals got to the floor of
either the House or Senate for
a vote during the 85th Con
gress. "No Backbone"
W. A. Scharffenberg, ex
ecutive secretary of the Amer
ican Temperance Society, said
Congress "did not have the
backbone to send the bills to
the floor for a vote. All we
asked for was a fair hearing
on the floor. But Congress
didn't have the guts to let the
bills get out of committee."
The temperance groups
also accused Sen. George A.
Smathers (D.-Fla.) of trying
to kill the bill to forbid serv
ing of liquor on airplanes
through a crippling amend
ment. His amendment would
have denied Federal money
to airports that served liquor.
Temperance groups said ' the
amendment was designed to
build up ppposition to a bill
that had passed the House
so easily in 1956.
Miss Smart and other tem
perance leaders take heart in
recalling it took a long time
to get Prohibition. They in
tend to keep pressing Congress
for temperance laws -whatever
the odds.
Copyright, 1958, '
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
Stop Mo
Maine Election Next
Of Both Parties' Political Strength
By RAYMOND LAHR
UP I Correspondent
Washingtn-fllPD-The Maine
election next Monday will
give politicians their most im
portant barometer reading so
far this year to judge , the
political climate in Novem
ber. .
It also will be the last time
that Maine wiU be jumping
off to a head start in the con
gressional elections. Under a
change in its constitution, the
state will join the rest of the
country in future years and
vote early in. November.
The vote Monday should
provide important evidence
as to whether this is a "Demo
cratic year"-as the Democrats
believe-or whether Republi
can strength is reviving-as
the GOP hopes.
The GOP abandoned its old
charge, "As Maine goes, so
goes the ' nation," in 1936
when that state was one of
but two to give their presi
dential electoral votes to Al
fred M. Landon, the Republi
can nominee. In percentage
terms, however, the Maine
vote does reflect national
trends.
Jn 1956, the September vote
in. the once rock-ribbed Re
publican . state foretold the
Democratic strength revealed
in congressional elections in
the other 47 states two months
later. But it misled Democrats
who thought it foreshadowed
a Democratic presidential vic
tory. Close Races
The GOP in 1956 lost one
of three House seats in Maine.
It won another by a bare 29
votes and took the third
easily. Democratic Gov. Rob
ert S. Muskie was reelected.
Since Muskie was on the
ballot and President Eisen
hower was not, his personal
popularity presumably drew
votes for the Democratic nom
Matter of Fact
QUEMOY: WE ASKED
FOR rr (
Washington-Thus far, the
American government ' has
sought to treat the Chinese
Communist threat to Quemoy
and the Mat
sus as a minor
matter. The
P r e s i d ent's
eager depart
ure for his
golfing vaca
tion in New
port ii only
one example
of prevailing
Josspa Also
business - as
usual attitude,
In fact, however, the threat
to these little islands in the
Formosa strait is a desperate
ly serious matter, with Far
Eastern echoes of the crucial
Berlin blockade. .
There is this difference,
however. For all sorts of psy
chological and political rea
sons, free Berlin was and is
a key position in and of it
self. The importance of Que
moy and the Matsus, in con
trast, may be described as
hand-made in r Washington.
The story of how this hap
pened has to be understood,
before the problem itself can
be understood. .
IN BRIEF, the Ilrst gesture
of the Eisenhower adminis
tration's "dynamic new for
eign policy" was the so-called
unleashing of Chiang Kai
shek. When the Generalissimo
was so dramatically un
leashed, Quemoy, the Matsus
and the other offshore islands
were in Chinese Nationalist
hands. But almost no regular
troops were then stationed on
the islands. At that time, in
fact, the little islands were
regarded as Indefensible and
therefore as expendable by
the Formosa government.
Apparently, however, the
American policy-makers de
sired to give some color of
reality to the famous unleash
ing. Hence the severest pres
sure was placed upon the
Generalissimo to occupy the
offshore islands in serious
force. Chiang Kai-shek bitter
ly resisted the pressure. He
pointed out the islands ex
treme vulnerability. (Quemoy,
for instance, lies in Amoy
harbor almost in the way that
Staten Island lies in New
York Harbor.) He further
pointed out that his authority
in Formosa itself might well
be undetermined, if hi- stacked
his prestige on holding these
islands and then failed to
hold them.
In the end, the Generalis
simo's resistance was over
come by determined Ameri
can arm-twisting. Quemoy,
the Matsus and the Tachen is
lands, more remote from For
mosa and further to the
north, were all occupied in
force by regular units of the
Chinese Nationalist Army.
THE unwisdom of this move
move soon became appar
ent. Almost immediately after
the phony peace in Korea was
concluded, a threat to the
Tachen Islands developed on
a pattern remarkably simi
lar to the present threat to
inees for Congress. The GOP
polled 51.4 per cent of the
total vote, compared with 55
per cent in 1954 and 66.9 in
1952.
Two months later, Eisen
hower" poUed 70 per cent of
the presidential vote in Maine.
Nationally, he polled about
57 per cent of the two-part
presidential vote while GOP
candidates for the House
polled only 48.5 per cent. Thus
the spread between the presi
dential vote and the con
gressional vote was greater in
Maine than in the nation as a
whole."
Muskie is running this year
against Sen. Frederick G.
Payne, a staunch Eisenhower
supported first elected in
1952 when he polled 58.7 per
cent of the vote. A close vote
is expected this year.
Some Adjustment
Whatever the outcome, an
interpretation of the result
may have to be adjusted to
account for the fact that
Muskie like Eisenhower-has
shown himself to be stronger
than his party in Maine. He
received almost 60 per cent
of the vote wjhen reelected in
1956.
A Muskie victory would be
a crushing blow to Republi
can hopes for regaining con
trol of the Senate. Those
slender hopes do not allow
for loss of any of the Senate
seats which the Republicans
now hold.
In advance of the elections,
Democrats have made no rash
claims. Payne, too, has shown
much personal strength in
Maine. As a retiring governor,
he unseated the veteran GOP
Sen. Owen Brewster in the
1952 primary.
Maine may show whether
there were any political
repercussions at the ballot box
from the Sherman Adams
ease. Payne has admitted that
By Joseph Alsop
Quemoy and the Matsus. The
American government, -which
had twisted the,. Generalis
simos' arm to get him to oc
cupy the Tachens, now began
a new campaign of arm-twisting
to secure the evacuation
of .the Tachens. At the last
instant, -alter the most ex
posed island of the Tachen
group had already fallen un
der Chinese Communist at
tack, the Generalissimo gave
way. Thus the Tachens were
evacuated.
. The Formosa resolution,
authorizing the President to
use American forces, for the
defense of Formosa, was a
by-product of this first off
shore island crisis centering
around the Tachens. During
the crisis, Secretary of State
Dulles flatly promised form'
er Chinese Nationalist For
eign Minister George Yeh
that if theiTachens were evac
uated, the U. S. government
would give a public and un
equivocal promise to defend
Quemoy and the Matsus un
der the Formosa resolution.
This Dulles promise was over
ridden by the President, how
ever. .
Thus the policy of "keep
ing (the Chinese Communists)
guessing" about Quemoy .and
the Matsus was adopted-con
trary to all the previous
Dulles prescriptions for draw
ing a clear line that the
enemy would know he must
not cross. After the warning
of the Tachens, certain feeble
efforts were made to persuade
Chiang to abandon the Mat
sus and Quemoy. But the Gen
eralissimo now insisted that
his own government on For
mosa would not -survive this
further blow to his prestige.
And he instead continued to
strengthen his positions on
the islands, using U. S. mili
tary aid for the purpose.
SUCH is the past history. It
means first that the fu
ture of Formosa itself may
depend, by the Generalis
simo's own testimony, on the
future of the Matsus and
Quemoy. The Generalissimo's
view on this point is support
ed by the high personages in
the State Department and the
Pentagon who advocate de
fending the offshort islands
at all costs. i
But this history has an
other, even more important
meaning. For good or ill.
American prestige in Asia has
been engaged on the offshore
islands, just as much as the
Generalissimo's prestige on
Formosa. According to 'of
ficial State Department fore
casts, Communist capture of
the islands-will be an earth
quake shock in every non
Communist country of Asia,
Thus there is no cheap escape
from this corner we have so
strangely painted ourselves
into, unless the Peking gov
ernment "guesses" that the
President's departure for New
port means that our inten
tions are martial, and chooses
not to run the risk of a fight
for the. islands with the U. S.
forces engaged.
(Copyrighted 1958, Mew York
Herald Tribune, Inc.) ,
Monday Seen Test
he also accepted some favors
from Adams' friend, Bernard
Goldfine.
To indicate increased na
tional strength in the House
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Church for Birth Control
To the Editor: The action of
the Episcopal and Anglican
bishops in approving birth
control as a means of easing.,
overpopulation is of world
importance.
At the recent Lambeth Con
ference in London, 310 arch
bishops and bishops from all
continents, including 89 from
the United States, issued an
encylical letter containing this
statement:
". . . There are many lands
today where population is in
creasing so fast that the sur
vival of young and old is
threatened. . . In such coun
tries population control has
become a necessity. Abortion
and infanticide are to be con
demned, but methods of con
trol, medically endorsed and
morally acceptable, may help
the people of these lands so
to plan family life that chil
dren may be born without a
likelihood of starvation. . . "
This positive religious sanc
tion of conception control as
an effective means of solving
one of the most critical prob
lems of our time overpopula
tion is remarkable because
not long ago the Anglican
church opposed so-called arti
ficial birth control as vigor
ously as the Roman Catholic
church. This revolutionary
change of attitude is proof of
the gravity of theVorld pop
ulation situation.
. . .. .
world population is now
growing by 5,400 every hour
or 47,000,000 a year and the
rate is accelerating. World
population will more than
double and reach six or sev
en billion people in the next
40 years.
Medical discoveries and re
cent widespread advances in
sanitation have improved
health and prolonged life
spans in Asia, Africa and Lat
in America. This has lowered
death rates without chang
ing birth rates. " 1
As a result, hundreds of mil
lions of people in the world
are hungry. A report by the
U.S. Department of Agricul
ture finds that population
growth in the Far East is out
stripping the jise in food pro
duction. Food per capita is
less than pre-war.
. These millions are ill cloth
ed and housed and generally
dissatisfied with their lot. In
their desperation they are
susceptible vto Communist
propaganda and infiltration
and may be enticed to violent
actions by. ambitious dema
gogues. I
. But improvement of living
standards in underdeveloped
areas is impossible without a
slow r d o w n . in population
growth.
Today the "population
bomb" threatens to create an
explosion as dangerous as the
explosion of the H-bomb, .fid
with as much influence on
prospects for progress or dis
aster, war or peace. But while
the H-bomb is only being
stockpiled, the fuse of the pop
ulation bomb is already light
ed and burning.
Hugh Moore,
'51 East 42nd st.,
' New York 17, N.Y.
Mineral Dilemma
To the Editor: Since the
controversial mining and min
erals bill recently was defeat
ed before the 85th Congress
that adjourned, the state of
Oregon now more than ever
needs the proposed highway
connecting southwest Oregon
with a seaport on the Curry
county coast, so all the state's
southwest minerals may be de
veloped or processed and ship
ped by way of water transpor
tation to find a competitive
market.
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We Never Close then to need us and not know us."
elections, the Democrats need
to reelect Rep. Frank M. Cof
fin and to unseat Rep. Robert
Hale, the Republican who
squeaked through in 1956.
name and address of the writer.
the use of a pen name or initial
centennial commemoration an
niversary, Oregon should be
well represented as an indus
trial state as well as a tourist
attraction. The most hard to
answer question to new visit
ors is, why if Southern Ore
gon has potential mineral re
sources, these several min
erals are not developed yet.
There are always a bookful of
excuses to the dilemma that
needs to be solved.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford.
Garbage, and Bear Creek
To the Editor: I like to read
your editorials, they are
thought provoking and fair. I
imagine they do a lot of good.
We all like Medford and
I'm glad to see it growing in
so many ways. We've made
improvements in sanitation.
But two things bother me.
One is the Ciiy Sanitary
Service. In five years here
we don't believe they're very
sanitary nor give very good
service. Our complaints in
clude: They leave the lid off
the can, never pick up any
thing they spill, leave , the
backyard gate open, never
quite get all the papers out
of the can, etc. This happens
all the time and when I called
them the boss blamed it on
his help. I suggested a train
ing program, but this went
over with a dull thud. He ac
tually said he had no control
over his help. We had no con
trol over their selection and
are pretty tired of the firm
and its slovenly practices
which we believe are the re
sult of no competition.
Then we are concerned
about Bear Creek. We've had
more mosquitos this year than
usual and I wonder how long
our city will have to put up
with the stagnant mess the"
creek is. There must be health
laws governing such things. If
the water is diverted from the
creek, it would seem it ought
to be flushed out occasionally.
Potentially this creek could
be a thing of beauty. We're
100 per cent behind you in
any improvement campaign
you suggest.
Veldon J. Dimerit,
213 Portland Ave.,
Medford. -,-
Eugene-Springfield
Bus Service Halts
Eugene-(UPD-City bus serv
ice in the Eugene-Springfield
area was at a standstill today.
City Transit Lines owner
Louis Soukup said that union
driven "courtesy cars" were
taking away 50 per cent of his
business and he could not op
erate in the face of such com
petition. " ;
Soukup said his firm could
not operate after Tuesday
until .further notice.
He had previously asked
the Eugene City Council to
recognize a franchise held by
the City Transit firm. City
Attorney John Pennington
Pennington said af, a meeting
of councilmen and Soukup
last week that a pending
bankruptcy suit of the tran
sit firm voided the franchise.
He indicated a suit would
have to be filed in Circuit
Court to determine whether
City Transit Lines actually
did have a franchise.
Portland Mayor To -.
Attend Conference .
Portland - (CPU - Mayor
Terry Schrunk said today he
would attend the annual
United States Conference of
Mayors Sept. 10-13 in Miami
Beach, Fla.
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