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4. Sunday. December 14. 1951 MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Oregon, MedfordSTeibune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager ucxvfVLu ijLium. Diumeu iugr- EKHJ W AI.I.E.N JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsoaoer Entered as second class matter at - Medford Oregon under Act of Mar 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION PATES Bt Mail fn Advance. Cooy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $450. Bv Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hin, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv. er. Talent 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 City of Medford Official Paper of jacmon county United Press International FulT 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. B.C. NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHES: ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL c3T8N ASSO 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 Dec. 14, 1948 (Tuesday) Medford votes Thursday on a $685,000 school bond issue to provide additional class room space. Permission from downtown property owners for anchor ing - Christmas street decora tions to their buildings are slow in coming, according to one of Santa's helpers. 20 YEARS AGO, Dee. 14. 1938 (Wednesday) A prospective bridegroom Irked with red tape from Ore gon's new marriage license regulations declares he has "spent his last dime" in this fair state. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The need of the world, a noted cleric states, is 'religious unity in one church.' The Fletch Fish school of wisecracks would whittle from this a quip,, alleging religion is los ing its sect appeal." 30 YEARS AGO Dee. 14. 1928 (Friday) The Medford Chamber of Commerce sponsors a Christ mas yard illumination con test. Medford police may be mov ing soon from their present quarters in the old Jackson ville railroad depot on West Main st. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1918 (Saturday) ' The November circulation at the public library sets a new record. Traveling men stopping at local hotels show a tendency to get out of town as soon as possible when told they must wear flu masks. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. A group of female seals associated with a single male comprises a h ? 2. With which now-deceased star do you associate the song "Mammy"? 3. A men's basketball team has how many players? "' 4. What is a bassist? "3. A barrel of flour , con tains 96, 196, 296, lbs.? 8. Ostriches can outrun horses; true or false? t 7. Which one of the States of the Union has four a's in its name? 8. In 24 hours, an hour- triVinj clock would strike a total of 48, 64, or 156 times? 9. in straigui biuu. which ranks higher - a full House, or a . . ,t Cnnfh Pnlp how many compass directions are there? Answers: 1. Harem. 2. Al Jolion. 3. Five. 4. One who sings bass. 5. 196 lbs. 6. xrue. 7. Aiaoama. o. - Full house. 10. Only - r. The Senators' Differences We have known Senators Dick Neuberger and Wayne Morse personally ior many years. We like both, we admire many of the charac teristics of each, and we are convinced that each. in his own way, has done great and good service ior Uregon during ms years or. public me. The rift which has developed between the two did not particularly concern us for most of the time it was o-rnwinp fnr the twn men are both v o o independent, courageous illiti was lnevitaoie tnat on some occasions anierences would arise between them. DUT the most recent stories which relate an intemperate and in some respects petty ex change of letters between the two indicates that the differences of opinion have gone so far as to create a serious doubt that the two can ever work together again for the benefit of their state. We hesitate to give an opinion as to who is at fault in the heated and bitter exchange. On the surface, Senator Morse appears to be not only the worst offender but the first offender. Senator Neuberger's letters were more temperate, engaged in no personal vilification, and in each case held out the hope of reconciliation. BUT the letters are only unknown factors which blame rests equally on each side. We don't know. But we do know that two able, highly gifted nipn. whn have each won thp votes and confidence of a majority of Oregon's citizens, have engaged in a spat which would do little credit to ninth- grade girls. The causes are obscure, and one cannot, witn nnf mnrp details, makfi anv atterrmt to assess credit or blame. That's probably not important. Rut if thp snat is allowed to continue, every one stands to lose, the thp nponlp of thp state them to agree all the time, but let's have an end to personal animosity. b.A. Social Security Grows Wage-earners who are covered by social se curity are due for a cut in take-home pay on January 1. On that date, the payroll deduction tor social security will be increased from to 2y2 per cent. Employers' contributions on behalf of em ployees will increase by Salaried employees over $4,200 have not been paying this tax since their gross pay passed that point earlier in the year. The tax is levied only on the first $4,ZUU 01 wages so in effect they had a "raise" in take- home pay of 2!4'per cent at that time, and in January will have a "cut" of 2y2 per cent. Beginning next year, however, the higher tax will be levied on the first $4,800 of pay, rather than the first $4,200. - "THESE increases were approved by congress to help meet the added cost of increased bene fits, which average about ,7 per cent. The in- tii i ? -ri-i T l creases will- oegin wnn r ml t The increases, incidentally, win oe automatic, frrowt.h of social spcuritv has been a little slower than was envisioned when it was first enacted early in the Roosevelt administration. i i iiii Congress m some instances has been reluctant to boost either benefits or tax levels as called for in the original schedule. But social security has been probably tne most popular of the social legislation of the past half century, and despite some die-hards' charges of - . ... t I 1 T J J? "socialism is so strongly the American scene that it remain, and as the years' bulwark against old-age envisioned more than zu Wrong Criterion TViwn in OolH Bpach recently, the school board passed a ruling barring from high school students who are married. The board's ruling drew fire from some state officials,, who claim that under Oregon law one cannot exclude a student from classes solely on the basis of being married. The Coos Bay World, commenting on the dis pute, comes to the reluctant conclusion that the Gold Beach board was right, morally at any rate, in ejecting married students from school. WE DISAGREE. The Gold Beach board is wrong as a matter of policy, wrong morally, and worst of all, wrong because it is storing up grief for itself and others by passing a flat ruling on the matter, and establishing marriage or non marriage as a criterion of school attendance. And the World is wrong for encouraging the board. There are, obviously, some criteria which must be established for school attendance. Equally obvious in some instances marriage results in situations where those involved should not be in school. DUT it is an injustice to married students, to the schools, and to the community, not to make the decision on an individual basis. If married students maintain the required high standards of school citizenship, if they cause no undue disturbance or upset among their fellow students, and if their grades hold up, we see no reason why they should not remain in school. If the reverse is true, they should be asked to leave. A flat and unequivocal rule is fair to no one, and can mean headaches for everyone. E.A. - . and thoughtful, and it J one phase of a long and would show that the senators themselves, and of Oregon. No one asks the same amount. who this year received euruary eneews. ill 111 J J entrencned as pan oi is inevitable that it will go by, grow to be the nardsnip tnat was iirst years ago. Hi.A. Dennis the Menace St , fey ' J'M HI0IM' WS SO SANTA QMS WtfT WINK 1 HAVB TOO MUCH AlREAoy." - Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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 We Should Wake Up To the Editor: About the only correct statement we could find in your editorial, "Wake Up, Dreamer," (Dec. 10) was your closing state ment that you were dreaming. We certainly have no quar rel with West Coast Airlines but since you have cited it as being all that you claim we are not "young, vigorous. . . not afraid to spend huge sums in new and expensive equip ment," etc. may we call your attention to an AP dispatch from Washington, Dec. 3, which stated that West Coast Airlines will receive , approx imately $2,694,000 in subsi dies during the next fiscal year, this being its share of the record-breaking sum of $139,592,000 worth of "youth and yigor" being allocated by the Civil Aeronautics Board in air mail pay and subsidies. As to new equipment, Southern Pacific, a few weeks ago, announced purchase of 70 new diesel locomotive units, costing $13,500,000 and bring ing Southern Pacific's outlay for diesels during the past few years to $326,000,000. These will be paid for by rail road earnings. ' Just in passing, you might have noted that Southern Pa cific last month paid Jackson County $67,723 in 1958 prop erty taxes. This is 1.15 per cent of all property taxes paid in the county. We understand the three airlines serving Medford paid $6,662. Have you ever compared the payroll of the Southern Pacific company in Jackson County with other forms of transportation? Now that you admit you're dreaming, don't you think it's about time, you woke up to face some of the facts of the economy in which we are liv ing? ( Bernal S. Quayle, Passenger Traffic and Public Relations Manager Southern Pacific Co., 622 Pacific Building, Portland 4, Ore. Appeal From Hawaii To the Editor: Immediately after the Congress voted state hood for Alaska last June, I wrote you a letter asking edi torial support of Hawaii's at tempt to secure statehood be fore Congress adjourned. The results ' of my appeal were heartwarming indeed. But once again, in spite of the help we received,' we did not get to first base! So, start ing on Jan. 7, 1959, we must start all over again. We know' in our hearts that no territory seeking admission as a state has ever more com pletely fulfilled the require ments of statehood, or has been in as excellent a finan cial position to pay the costs and meet the obligations in volved. Nor has any territory been in a position to give more to the Union in terms of under standing of the needs of Amer ica for friendship and solid business relations in the entire Pacific area, and help in their accomplishment. We believe that is going to be increasing ly important in the years to come. ' National opinion polls, and polls conducted in their con stituencies by members of the Congress, as published regu larly in the press and in the Congressional Record, show that sentiment for the admis sion of Hawaii as a state is at an all-time high. The admission of Alaska, to which the press and the peo ple of the country gave over whelming and enthusiastic ap proval, has swept away, once and for all, the myth of non- contiguity as a bar to state hood. Prosperous, busy Hawaii, with a gross territorial prod uct $2 billion, paying more federal taxes than 10 states, and .earning per capita in come ahead of 25 others, will become a substantial member of the family of states when admitted. By an act of its Legislature, Hawaii first petitioned the Congress for statehood 55 years ago (in 1903). Since that time 21 hearings and investi gations into our readiness for statehood have been held. All of the reports have been fa vorable. Thrice has the House passed our bill; the Senate once, when it was combined with the Alaska .measure. In each instance, inaction by the other body caused our bills to fail. We now sincerely believe, in view of our long record of exemplary pupilage in the best American tradition, that there is no longer any valid excuse for refusing to grant full American citizenship to us. If you share this belief, won't you please continue to help us? Strong editorial sup port will surely help. Lorrin P. Thurston, Publisher, The Honolulu Advertiser, Chairman, Hawaii Statehood Com mission, Honolulu 12.T.H The . . .ators Have It To the Editor: I used to drive a one cylinder auto mobile around Medford. Up front it had no f itera tor, but it had a ventilator. The grasshoppers would jump through the radiator, then hop into the carburetor. There was ants in the com mutator, and bugs in the ro tator. It looked like a sweetper tater, with the speed of an alligator. In summer it was a per colator, in winter a refriger ator. In 1928, I went upstairs in an elevator. In 1929, 1 went to hell in an escalator. I ain't no prevericator, but I am an Aircraft Fabricator. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Place Changed To the Editor: The meeting for the dissertation on the Constitution of the United States previously arrange'd to be in the Auditorium of the county courthouse has been changed to the 'Little Thea ter' of the Hedrick Junior High school building on the ground floor at the west end of the school building. The public is invited, es pecially the lawyers and judges of Jackson County. No entrance fees and no contributions. Come and hear what is said. Col. W. H. Paine, whom everyone knows, will preside as chairman. Tuesday, the 16th, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Andy Unger 634 Pennsylvania .ave. Medford . , Rivers and Gold To the Editor: There is gold galore, enough to pay off the U.S. national debt, and plenty left over for to supply an adequate retirement income for every citizen over 60 years of age in America. Here is a brief summary. For nearly half a century be ginning in 1851, three rivers in southern Oregon, the Rogue, and two tributaries, the Applegate and Illinois rivers, have produced un known quantities of placer gold. One unofficial estima tion regarded as most likely to be near accurate, is $1,000, 000 a mile, providing there Today Cr Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann The Crucial Internal Question The statement of policy put out after last week end by the Democratic party's advisory council covers quite a bit of ground. But in one long passage deal ing with the growth of the American e c o n o my it has raised 41 1 Walter tue c r u c l a l LlDDmann a U e S tion on which everything else de pends defense, foreien pol icy, welfare measures, public services, and the people's standard of living. The state ment raises the question. It remains to be seen whether the Advisory council has found the answer, and that will require an intense and thorough public debate. In its essence, the question is whether the United States can afford to do the things which it needs to do. Can it afford to run successfully in me race of armaments? And can it also afford a foreign policy which sustains our al liances and helps to finance the undeveloped countries? And can it also pay for the schools, hospitals, roads, air ports, the reclamation and the conservation and the oth er public services and facili ties which our rapidly ex panding urbanized population requires? And can it also make it possible for the peo ple as private individuals to raise their personal standard of life? 'T'HE obvious answer at the presenj time is that the pie is not big enough to be cut into such big slices. The issue, which is posed by the jjemocratic s t a t ement, is whether the pie can be made larger, more exactly whether the average rate of economic growth, which has been about 3 per cent a year during this century, can be raised to 5 per cent a year. it ine rate oi growth can be raised tp 5 per cent, then the country will be able to afford what it needs to do. If the rate cannot be raised, it will have to cut back - as President Eisenhower is try ing to do - on all the essential public needs, including de fense. QINCE the Democratic state ment was put out by ac tive politicians, what it says must be examined skeptically Without setting up as an ex pert in this matter, it seems to me that while the state ment puts the right question, the answer it gives makes ev erything sound easier than in fact it is. The raising of the rate of economic growth from an average of 3 per cent to an average of 5 per cent a year is a very formidable under taking. Over a ten year period (taking 1957 as a base for cal culation) it would mean rais ing the gross national product from 434 billions to 707 bil lions. It would raise the gov ernment purchases of goods and services from 86 billions to 153 billions. It would raise gross private investment to support the growth of the economy from 67 billions to 123 billions, and it would raise what is left for private consumption from 281 to 431 billions. The figures which I have just quoted are taken from was a sure and efficient method to recover aU the gold. The other three richest gold producing rivers in northern California are, the Klamath, Salmon and Trinity rivers. We foresee for the not too dis tant future a way will be de vised to siphon the water from one river in relays to another river that will permit the installing of portable chrome iron sluices and riffles for the recovery of all the gold dust and nuggets now not available to dredging opera tions. Our idea of "nature" doing the . work of sluicing most of the gold bearing gravel by a water siphon sys tem would greatly enhance the present day methods of fuel operated machinery and other power. Undoubtedly most of the heavier river gold lies wedg ed in the many bedrock crev ices, and providing the rivers' beds could be exposed to re veal the many gold-laden riffles, the great gold pro ducing west would soon again surpass the roaring days oi the fabulous past. There is an immense store of Dotential power locked up in the surplus amount of wa ter that flows back to tne mighty ocean that is capable of doing wonders every day and every year. The lure of the rivers' gold may yet un fold. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford " , what is known as the "Rocke feller Report" - one of the series of reports issued during the past year which has been financed by the Rockefeller Brothers fund. The question of increasing the rate of growth is not a partisan ques tion. It is the key question of policy in these times, and it is receiving the earnest study of serious students who can not by any stretch of the ima gination be labeled as "spend ers" or "radicals." Besides the Rockefeller Report, there is. for example, one by the high-; ly respected Committee for Economic Development, which sets its sights a little lower than the Rockefeller Report, and hopes for an an nual growth rate of 4 per cent. THE problem of increasing the rati nf rrnr ponnnmir growth is difficult and com plex. It involves the budget and the tax structure and credit policy and labor union practices and corporation price practices and many oth er things besides. But while all these things are debatable, one thing is certain. This country must solve the prob lem in the years ahead of us. If it does not, it will be in great danger and as a power in the world and as an exam ple of the free and democra tic society, it will enter into its decline. It is not at all an exagger ation to say tnat the grim competitive challenge with which we are contronted can be met only by a hard and sustained effort to increase the productivity of our econ omy. This is the way in which the Soviet Union is challeng ing us by their own hard and sustained effort over the coming seven to ten years to surpass this country in per capita productivity. The Com munists will win this compe tition unless our productivity is raised rapidly beyond what it is now. T"HE real challenge which A confronts us cannot be met by balancing the budget at a rate of production which is far below the country's po tentiality and by cheese' paring on defense, and by cheese-paring on the develop ment of under-developed na tions, and by hugging the il lusion that Communist China and Communist Russia and Communist East Germany are all going to disappear it we dig in where we are and make grim faces at them. In the real world, we are up against great mass socie ties of powerfully disciplined people, and unless we can re store and concentrate our own energies to outdo them, it will not matter at all how many adjectives we hurl at them in the battle of words. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Oregon's glamorous young governor - elect, talking in formally the other day in sunny Honolulu at a gather ing of local Republicans and community leaders in general, gave out with some advice on how to get elected to office even though a Republican. "Get out among 'em," he is quoted by the reporters as having said in effect. "We got out . of headquarters and got out among 'em. We broke out of the hallowed halls of the Republican party. We went out to meet the people." And - he told his hearers, although he didn't say it in such blunt' words - WE GOT ELECTED. I HOPE our charming gov ernor - elect isn't getting what in polite circles is re ferred to as a case of inflated ego. In an effort to prevent an unfortunate development of that sort, I'd like to point out some circumstances that con tributed to his victory. In the campaign that result ed in his election, he profited by some mistakes made by his Democratic predecessor. The Democrats, led by Governor Holmes, threw a conniption fit over the individual income surtax that had been saddled on the people by a Republican legislature. Governor Holmes called on the legislature to cure these Republican-inflicted ills. The lawmakers wound up by imposing what amount ed to an even higher surtax. That didn't sit too well with taxpaying voters. THEN In the closing hours of the' 1958 gubernatorial cam paign in Oregon maverick Senator Morse launched a bit ter, poisonous, unprincipled and utterly uncalled for per sonal attack on Mr. Hatfield that for personal spleen and aU-around poor taste has sel fOTLUCGC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The mayor of Medford has many duties and responsibili ties. In addition to occasional city business away from home, he is on the board of directors of the League of Oregon Cities (which calls him for meetings sometimes), the League's highway commit tee (ditto including a recent trip to Boston), and is on the Oregon Centennial commis sion, and several of the com mission'! subcommittees, (also ditto) to say nothing of the fact tht he is a successful businessman, with business trips to make once in a while. All these things keep him on the move more often, in fact, than he, or his family, or his friends, or his asso ciates, quite like. They're thinking of chang ing his middle name to Foster - John Foster Snider. A young married man we know reports that most of the books on how to make a success of marriage ad vise young people to avoid the use of the word "al ways" wlien referring to the faults of . one's spouse. He added that one young wife has gotten around that nicely instead of "al ways" she says "A hundred million times." Members of the Medford Kiwanis club are busy mafc ing arrangements so that youngsters of this area can "telephone Santa Claus next week." Jimmy Bolton (whose par entage was Russian and who has never quite gotten rid of his pleasant accent) is in charge of the project, and Dr. Ab Clark (whose south em drawl is thick enough to cut with a knife) is helping So if you have a youngster who wonders why Santa speaks with a speech a little different than that usually heard, simply assure him that Santa is universal and that the wide membership of the Kiwanis club has nothing to do with it. This has no reference to the above - mentioned and worthwhile civic club, of course, but a man we know not long ago was talking about another organization. "Il's like perhaps 90 per cent of the organizations in this country,"- he said, ".neither very good nor very bad just unneces sary." Up in Lebanon, the little town a few miles east of Al bany, an oil-drilling rig is at work,' and they've struck what they hope may turn out to be oil - bearing sands of commercial potential. And we learn by papers of that area that if you are send' ing a card to people in Leb anon this Christmas, it would JENKINS dom been equalled. The Morse attack made thousands of votes for Mr. Hatfield. Without it, he MIGHT not have been elect ed. In any event, it helped him greatly. SO MUCH for Oregon. What of California -which includes a part of our mythical State of Jefferson? What happened there? H1 ERE, I think, is the an swer: In California last spring, the GOP bigwigs got together and decided just who should be ALLOWED to run for what office. The people of the state weren't consulted. The Republican leaders fixed it all up among themselves. What happened was exactly what might have been ex pected to happen. The people of California resented it. Their resentment was reflect ed in their voting come No vember. They voted heavily for Democrats. GETTING back to our Ore gon governor - elect, Mr. Hatfield said in Honolulu, as quoted by the press services: "The trend is away from Republican CONSERVATISM of the past ... I think we had definite millstones around our necks in the way of candi dates ... I think we had too many men who don't know we're in the 20th century." ????? " Let's put it this way: We DON'T want to go back to the standpat Republican ism of the Mark Hanna days, when everything that IS was sacred and ANY CHANGE was regarded as a mortal sin. But- If in these days the GOP drops the mantle of intelli gent conservatism arid decent regard for the lessons of the past and goes all-out in an be just as appropriate to send i "Get Well" card. One man we know showed up at the Goose Tatum basketball game last Tuesday, walked right by the ticket - window, right past the ticket laker and into the auditorium. The ticket-taker chased him and asked if he had a ticket. "Ticket?" was the reply. "I'm here to vote!!" We understand he came back the next night to cast his ballot on off-street parking. We almost forgot our week. ly whisker report, that is, the count on M-T employees who are growing whiskers for the Centennial. Chief (and perhaps the only) addition to the hairy roster this week was our busi ness manager, whose late starting stubble passed the disreputable, unshaven stage. and began to look like some thing until he shaved Satur day, giving a variety of weak excuses. One ' promising beard in the circulation department has vanished, leaving two im pressive ones. In the newsroom, the count is just the same - but the facial adornments are longer. The photographer could now get a job in the movies, play ing sucn characters as Fran cois Villon, D'Artagnan, or similar swashbucklers. And a bit of unsolicited ad vice (meant, we are sure, in a kindly manner) comes from the Applegate area, where subscriber asks if anyone has tried Vigoro as yet. "Mean while," she adds, "eyebrow pencil gives a really impres sive effect for those making a first attempt and becoming discouraged with lack of re sults." Yes. How well we know. A young, unmarried em ployee (female) in the court house is reported to have secured a clump of mistle toe over the door to her office, and to have affixed a small bell to it. The office philosopher says he sup poses that, after bussing the unsuspecting males that come through the door, she reaches up and rings the bell in triumph.- And he adds that he supposes that this is sort of the equivalent to cutting notches in her lipstick . casing. The obituaries which are printed in the Mail Tribune each day usually are furn ished by the various funeral homes. But we found a different kind of obituary on our desk the other day. It read as fol lows: OBITUARY' Charter amendment for off- street parking, a newcomer in the lair city or Mecuora, died quietly at the city hall on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 11 p.m. It had been in ior some time, having suffered a se vere stroke at the time of the general election in November. Earlier that day, long queues or citizens leit ineir busy desks to stand in line for hours in silent tribute at the polls. Interment will be at city expense in some spot in the downtown business area. Pall bearers will be members of the city council. The mayor will offer a short prayer, and the eulogy will be by the city manager. A brief message will be offered by Eric Allen of the Mail Tribune. Please omit flowers., Con tributions, should be sent to your favorite merchant mark ed "Parking Lot Fun." The epitaph will read: ' The council's pride That up and died. Coos Health Officer OHOA President Portland-flJPD-Dr. E. E. Berg, Coos county health officer, Friday was elected president of the Oregon Health Officers' association at the windup of the organization's three -day conference. He succeeds Dr. Leonard Kalh of Clatsop county. Dr. P. H. Rozendal, Benton county health officer, was elected vice president. Associ ation secretary for 1959 will be Dr.. Gordon C. Edwards, state board health officer. CHESSMAN PERSEVERING Los Angeles - (LTD - Con vict-author Caryl Chessman esterday worked in his jail cell on documents which he plans to present to the U.S. Supreme Court in his contin uing fight to avoid execution in toe state's gas chamber. effort to outdeal the New Dealers, may the good Lord have mercy on us. Our country will then be 500 horsepower automobile WITH NO BRAKES. jioruu
