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Medford and Jackson County
History from trie files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 TEARS AGO
Jan. 22. 1949 (Saturday)
Moore Hamilton elected
chairman of the Jackson
County Democratic Central
committee.
Boy Scout Troop No. 5 is
distributing bird seed to any
one interested in providing for
the feathered population.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 22. 1939 (Sunday)
Patrons and patronesses are
named for the annual Presi
dent's birthday .ball.
From -Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot": column: "Na
,tives wintering in the South
land have started sending
.'postcards home, wishing the
addressee was there."
10 TEARS AGO
'Jan. 22.. 1929 (Tuesday)
' Phoenix residents .oppose a
petition to annex part of that
area to . the Medford school
-district.
;The valley's pears are prais
ed in the columns of , a Port
land newspaper.
40 TEARS AGO
Jan. 22. 1919 (Wednesday) ,
Citizens hope ..the P. Si E.
railroad can be kept m op
eration despite a' court order.
Thelegislature is considing
three bills designed to curb
"Hhe paving trust." . .
50 TEARS AGO - - -Jan.
22, 1909 (Friday)
TThe troupe to perform
"Brewster's Millions" here is
delayed by washouts down the
line in California. - - i.i
Some 200 freight cars will
be' required to bring the para
pbenalia for Medf ord's new
water system here.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nmi or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five at
six is good.
1 Bremerhaven is a port
of what country? . .
2: In baseball slang, what
is a1 "horse collar"?
3. Name the large group of
islands which are bounded on
the -east by the Pacific ocean
and; on the west by the China
Sea.
' 4. In which Psalm do these
words occur: "Thy rod and
Thy staff they comfort me?"
5. Who lost his shadow?
6. In American history, to
what territory did the cam
paign slogan "Fifty-four, For
ty or Fight," have reference?
7. What was St. Paul's
trade?
8. How many cardinal points
are there on a compass? -
9. Who wrote the music to
"The Lost Chord?"
10. Name the Polish pa
triot who had the distinction
of being the first general of
American cavalry.
Answers: 1. Germany. 2.
A time al bat without a hit.
3. Philippine Islands. 4. 23rd.
5. Peter Pan. 6. The Oregon
Territory. 7. Tent-making.
8. Four. 9. Sir Arthur Sulli
van. 10. Count Casimir Pul
aski. Baghdad, Iraq (DPD The
Iraqi government formally
recognized Cuba's revolution
ary government Wednesday.
The Baghdad press has de
fended the rebel executions
of supporters of ex-President
Fulgencio Batista.
Snap
Not long ago in this space there was a report
on progress in thermoelectricity " one form of
direct conversion "of heat into electric energy
together with a forecast that it would play an in
creasingly important role in the future, partic
ularlv for low-power needs.
Last week the government announced, far
sooner than any layman' could have expected, a
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significant new development in tnis iieia: uie
use of atomic power as a heat-source, applied to
a thermoelectric device, which works admirably.
THE UNIT only weighs about five pounds, and
generates about five watts'of electricity. It
has a useful life of somewhere around a year.
The government, said
to power radios, in artiliciai satellites, ana wouia
rln sn far more efficiently than batteries.
But practical applications are far more wide
spread than this one limited use. Developments
- m, .1 m 11 if
can, and will, permit tne use 01 sman power
packs" to run radios, warning buoys, automatic
weather stations or small household appliances
at distances from commercial power. . . .
Eventually it is not beyond the realm of prob
ability that they can be adapted to power automo
biles, thus furnishing an alternate source of
power to replace the world's rapidly-vanishing
petroleum resources.
THE DEVICE is called Snap III (Systems" for
Nuclear Auxiliary Power), and work on im
proved versions (called Snap I and II) is pro
gressing. American industrial firms are also at
1 1 1 M 1
worK on developing similar devices.
As reported earlier, the principle of .thermo
electricity is not new, but its application in work
able devices is relatively new. The Russians have
made significant progress, although it is not
known whether or not they have succeeded in
using nuclear power in this field.
Snap Til uses a pinch (one eighty-fourth of an
ounce, valued as of today at about $30 million)
of radioactive polonium as a heat source. There
are other and cheaper potential radioactive heat
sources most of them by-products of nuclear
reactors, which up to this point have been a head
ache to dispose of.
(We have even read one forecast recently that
fission power would soon prove to be impractic
able because of the problem of disposing of the
radioactive "ashes." It is doubtful if Snap ni and
its successors will have sufficiently widespread
use to take care of the vast quantity of surplus
radioactive materials.) r
IN THE long run; it is probable that the devel-
velopment of thermocouples of the apparent
efficiency of those used in Snap IH is more im
portant than the application of nuclear heat to
operate them. ,
Low-energy heat sources are almost univer
sally available (the Russians are using kerosene
lamps to power some thermoelectric devices, and
a wood fire could conceivably be used for this
purpose, to say nothing of trapped heat from the
sun).
One thing is certain we will be hearing
more of thermoelectricity, and of other types of
direct conversion of one form of energy to an
other, more useful, one. E.A.
Oregon Advertisement
The January 12 issue of the New York Times
carried a full-page advertisement of interest to
Oregonians. .,
It was-placed by the Oregon department of
planning and development, and its message was
one of encouragement to industry to seek new lb
cations in Oregon.
; Here are some of the advantages Oregon can
offer, as listed in .the ad:
An abundance of pure water.
Lowest delivered electric power rates in the
nation. r
Plentiful natural gas as well as readily
available fuel oil, coal and wood wastes.
25 per cent of the nation's sawtimber sup
ply, '
22 per cent of all softwood lumber produc
tion. 62 per cent of the nation's plywood output.
25 per cent of the country's hardboard pro
duction. .
A. vast and rapidly growing electronics
industry. - -
A cash farm crop of some $400 million a
year. v -
Generally moderate climate..
And so on. '
THE AD also shows some recent industrial
-,f developments in the state, such as the big
new Johns-Manville plant near Klamath Falls,
the big Harvey Aluminum plant near The Dalles,
the new Georgia-Pacific pulp and paper mill on
the coast, and others.
It is an effective ad, well done and persuas
ive. And we agree that added industrial develop
ment, up to a point, is probably both necessary
and desirable for Oregon.
But we cannot restrain the uneasy feeling that
it would be too bad if Oregon ' ever became
OVER-industrialized.
And it also occurred to us that with growth
of industry and population virtually inevitable
here, we'd better get on with our planning and
zoning so that the growth will be orderly and as
little destructive to Oregon's present values as
possible. E.A.
III
that it would be used
Dennis the
'MtooYA 'SPECTMH T DO... tfUKWMYMVPS?
Matter of Fact
NIXON NOW
Washington - President Eis
enhower's second term has
just passed its middle-point.
Hereafter, un
der the anti-
Franklin
R o-o s e v e 1 1
constitutiona 1
amendm e n t,
the Vice Pres
ident can re-
place the
President a t
any time,
JoiDh AJsnn wunuui sacri
ficing his right to seek two
full terms of his own.
Furthermore, if the Presi
dent laid down the heavy bur
den of his office and retired
to Gettysburg tomorrow
morning, the vast majority of
Republican politicians would
be almost too overjoyed to be
polite about it. Maybe this is
one of those things that are
better left unsaid; but it is also
a cold, hard, ascertainable
fact of considerable political
significance.
Last year, only the frankest
Congressional and organiza
tion Republicans would admit
their hankering for the Presi
dent's voluntary retirement.
Today, there are very few
who are not quite open about
it, although only in their priv
ate talk, to be sure. The only
ones who would be really
grieved if the President ' de
cided to retire are the former
bitter-enders for Robert A.
Taft. The men of this small
band fear that the Vice Pres
ident would be a "spender."
Meanwhile, the Eisenhower
Republicans would be less
grieved than anyone else if
the President went off to
Gettysburg.
OF COURSE, no Republican
politician in his senses
thinks that the President re
ally will retire, unless his
health 'takes an unexpected
and unhappy turn for the
worse. Dwight D. Eisenhow
er's pride, and the pleas of his
entourage, will keep him on
the job as long as he is cap
able of doing the job. When
the politicians talk of what
might happen if "Ike would
only hand over to Dick," they
really mean that they have
little hope of the Republican
party being reinvigorated by
the President's leadership. In
contrast, they feel the Vice
President might take the Par
ty into the battle of 1960 with
a fair chance to win.
In these circumstances, it
is ironical that the very same
Republican politicians are also
shaking their heads and mut
tering that "maybe Dick Nix
on won't be nominated in
1960, after all, unless he be
comes President before then."
Yet it is another cold, signifi
cant fact that Richard M.
Nixon's grip on the 1960 nom
ination is not nearly as un
shakable as it once was.
Try and
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-By BENNETT CERF-
GEORGE GOBEL invented a new egg-opener that cost only
$200 to make. When his wife Alice scoffed, Gobel re
minded her, "Okay, laugh. Every great inventor was laughed
at m his day. Look how
they laughed at Robert Ful
ton when he invented the
cotton gin."
"George," Alice reminded
him gently, "it was Eli
Whitney who invented the
cotton gin."
' "Whitney, hey?" mused.
George. "No wonder they
laughed at Fulton!"
Robert Q. Lewis boasted
that one of his newv pais in
Dallas was so rich he flew his .
own plane. "So what," scoffed
a Los Angelite. "Lots of peo
ple here fly .their own planes
Robert Q.
Overheard at the London opening of "My Fair Lady": "Is Rex
Harrison his real name?"
"Is Rex Harrison WHOSE real name?"
C 1839, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate,
Menace
By Joseph Alsop
ANE OBVIOUS reason for
" this change is the emer
gence of a major rival to
Nixon, in the person of New
York's Gov. Nelson Rocke
feller. The other reason is the
bad news for Nixon in recent
public opinion polls. Far too
much has been made of Rock
efeller's threat to Nixon; and
far too little has been made of
the threat from the pollsters.
Nixon himself has never
concealed his opinion that
"the poUs beat Bob Taft" by
making it appear that "Taft
was a sure loser.". Since Nixon
holds this view, he must have
been particularly impressed
by the recent Gallup poll that
ran him against Sen. John
Kennedy of Massachusetts,
The poll gave Nixon 38 per
cent of the vote and Kennedy
49 per cent, with 14 per cent
undecided.
In this paper race against
Kennedy, in other .words,
Nixon did worse than Sen,
Taft, on the last occasion
when the inquiring Dr. Gallup
ran Taft against a Democrat.
That was in June, 1952, when
the poll gave Taft 41 per cent
of the vote, against SO per
cent for Sen. Estes Kefauver,
with 9 per cent undecided. It
is early days, as yet, to be
worrying about polling re
sults. But if the pollsters go
on finding that Nixon is a
weaker candidate than Sen.
Taft was,, bad trouble can be
expected, especially ' if the
polls show Nelson Rockefeller
doing rather better than
Nixon.
NIXON has always said a
front-runner like himself,
being well known to the coun
try, is especially vulnerable
to bad news from the polls.
Politicians will not give the
front-runner the benefit of the
doubt. They tend to be more
merciful to other candidates,
because these candidates, be
ing less widely familiar, have
a better chance to come from
behind by intensive, nation
wide campaigning. If he de
cides to seek the nomination,
Nelson Rockefeller will no
doubt argue that he has a par
ticularly good chance to come
from behind in this matter,
because he came from so far
behind with such spectacular
success in his own state.
Add that the great behind-the-scenes
organizer for Nixon
has always been New York's
former Gov. Thomas E. Dew
ey. Add futher that Rocke
feller, not Dewey, will now
control the big New York del
egation, leaving organizer
Dewey without a home base.
Altogether, the last months
have dealt some very hard
blows to Dick Nixon. The odds
still favor his nomination by
at least two to one. But what
seemed an absolutely sure
thing before election is by no
means a sure thing today.
(Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Pow Wow
To the Editor: It isn't an
appropriate time to talk tur
key, but just the right time to
tell our friends everywhere
about the old red rooster, and
Oregon's big birthday party
this year. Let's get a few
crows in about expositions,
scenery, etc., and supplement
our inducements with chicken
and dumplings made from Or
egon's own roosters, red,
black, or any other color, sea
soned with enthusiasm, the
most potent ingredient in the
world, we are told.
The idea of making Med
ford beautiful is wonderful,
but would be insipid if it
lacks enthusiasm. We will aU
have to admit enthusiasm
leads in every success parade.
This is the time to accelerate
it.
Folks are writing they in
tend to come and are enthused.
The Grafton, N.D., editor men
tioned the Centennial in his
paper again and thanked me
for Medford's Chamber Of
Commerce sending him fruit.
That was undeserved credit,
but it pleased me immensely
that Medford reciprocated.
Don't forget, folks, to let
your friends know Oregon is
having a big pow-wow, and
all the trimmings.
Emma Lou Carpenter,
811 Sherman st.,
Medford.
True Dog Lovers
To the Editor: This is about
a letter to the editor that ap
peared in the Sunday, Jan. 18
issue of the Mail Tribune.
If the dog is man's best
friend, .1 would surely say
that there are many cases
where man does treat his best
friend very shabbily. For in
stance, where the mongrels
are allowed to breed and in
crease to the extent that they
run in flocks out in the "dog
patch" suburb districts of the
city, tipping over garbage
cans in search of food they are
starving for, because of ne
glect of the "man" they have
befriended by committing all
of the acts described by Mrs.
Etna Ragsdale in the Sunday
communication. I agree with
all she has said, but remind
her that she overlooked the
fact of the all-night howling
and barking at the moon, or
the shadow of themselves or
the other dogs. .
A true dog-lover would be
concerned enough about the
welfare of the . dog to keep
him at home, cleaned up,1 and
out of garbage cans, vegetable
gardens and off the neighbors'
lawns. '
There are many who have
the same thoughts as Mrs.
Ragsdale on this, but hesitate
to speak up for fear of being
ostracized by the Society of
Mongrel Lovers.
Everybody likes a dog, even
a cur or mongrel. The only
contention I am making is
that true dog lovers do not
let their pooches run loose
and wild, disturbing neigh
bors all over the community,
and I congratulate you Etna
Ragsdale, for speaking the
thoughts that are mine, as
well as many others. ;
Pat Graham,
175 Jeanette st.,
Medford. ,
Questions
To the Editor: A few ques
tions to the pseudo dogs lov
ers: Why have we needed a
dog pound? Why is it filthy
and overcrowded? Why is it
necessary to execute so many
every week? Do you prefer
turning them loose in the
country to prey on wild game
and livestock? Why do you
permit your pets to roam free
and cause ill will with your
neighbors? Is it because it's
so much easier?
We need a dog ordinance
strictly enforced. The dog
population is increasing and
so are the problems. What
have the true lovers of pets
done to have an ordinance?
It would mean greater safety
for them and much better
harmony among everyone. We
owe it to ourselves and man's
best friend. Let's increase the
dog tax to $5 for males and
$10 for females. Limit one
dog to a family in an area
under five acres. All dogs, all
ages kept on the premises by
an enclosure or on a leash at
all times and kept quiet. First
violation, a $50 fine. Second
violation, prompt removal of
the dog.
A well trained dog is a joy
to his owners and. a good
neighbor to everyone.
Mrs. Frank Kula,
1634 Grand ave.,
Medford.
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The Students Share
To the Editor: The children
of Mrs. Hohensee's room at
Lincoln school have won the
room count prize, of $2 for
the largest percentage of par
ents attending our recent PTA
meeting.
We feel that we have so
many treats and pleasures
that we would like to share
it with people from other
lands. For the past three years
we have been donating our
prize money to organizations
that help less fortunate chil
dren. This year we are going to
give it to UNICEF and CARE.
Glenna Eisenberg,
Mrs.. Hohensee's
Sixth Grade,
Lincoln school,
Medford. 1
Confinement Necessary
To the Editor: Anyone who
permits a dog to roam the
streets is committing an act
of cruelty. Its lot is eventual
death under wheels; agony or
death from spoiled and poi
son food from garbage cans;
infestation with fleas andor
lice and a carrier of other dis
eases. Certainly, not a safe or
clean pet to be in contact
with children.
The dog license" drive was
a small step in the right di
rection, but a raise in fee to
$5 or more, if necessary,
would provide funds to sup
port and maintain a dog
pound in high style with ade
quate personnel empowered
to handle complaints and take
proper control measures.
Medford has passed the
"little, country town" stage
and it should be the duty of
our officials to see that pro
tection is furnished to the
children, the animals, and the
minority of frustrated people
who are trying to maintain
attractive and desirable neigh
borhoods.
Our own dog has always
been properly confined to our
premises, duly licensed and
lovingly cared for. In other
words, we haye tried to set
an example of consideration
for our neighbors in an area
where the lawns and school
yard are overrun by "packs"
of roaming "pets.'.'
Mrs. Frances Piatt,
1540 Oregon ave.,
Medford.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In his annual economic re
port to the congress, Presi
dent Eisenhower paints for us
first a bright and hopeful pic
ture.
The nation, he says, has
SNAPPED BACK STRONG
LY from last year's recession
Production, he adds, is UP,
unemployment is DOWN and
there is reason for confidence
that business will show fur
ther improvement in the
months ahead.
But-
He then warns-
"U. S. economic health is
jeopardized by an upward
spiral of wages and prices that
continued even during the re
cession."
He appealed to congress, to
consumers, to businessmen
and to labor leaders to "join
in a relentless war against
this creeping inflation."
SO MUCH for the political
side of the picture (we
must remember that every
thing that happens in Wash
ington is dominated by poli
tics). Let's turn now to a
strictly BUSINESS view of
what is going on.
In its Business and Eco
nomic Review for January
1959, the First National Bank
of Chicago says:
"Non-farm employment in
November increased slightly
as employees previously in
volved in labor disputes re
turned to work. (Employment
usually declines in November,
so a rise this year is a favor
able sign.) Personal income
rose almost 1 per cent above
the preceding month to a
RECORD annual rate of $360
billion. Increased wage and
salary payments accounted
for the $2.4 billion rise as sev
eral durable goods industries
resumed production following
reduced output in October.
"Consumer income for the
full year is estimated at $353
billion, a new HIGH despite
the lower over-all level of
business activity."
NOTE, please, that up to this
point the Chicago bank
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE MORNING AFTER
Mr. Anthony Nutting, writ
ing from London on Mr. Mi
koyan's visit, ; has succeeded
in demonstrat
in how hard
it is for- even
the friendliest
nations to un
derstand one
another. Mr.
Nutting re
ports that it
is being "seri
ously debat
Walter
Lippmann
ed" in London
whether the United States is
moving towards "a two-power
deal" with the Soviet Union.
After a long report on how
much our motives are sus
pected in Europe, he proceeds
to lecture us on what we must
do to make our EuroDean
friends feel better about us.
What we must do, accord
ing to Mr. Nutting, is pre
cisely what in fact we have
been doing day by day, name
ly, to make "a full and reas
suring report" to all our
NATO partners, and to dis
cuss arid agree with them "on
future policies and proce
dures.' A failure to do these
things which we are doing,
says Mr. Nutting quite sol
emnly, "would be playing
Russia's game beyond the
point of safety."
If this is the kind of unin
formed suspicion which exists
in London it is enough to
make anyone despair of the
effectiveness of a free press.
Here are two allies, both
speaking the same language,
both enjoying free institu
tions, both able to print and
to read whatever they choose,
both committed to the same
international ideals, and yet
a writer with connections in
official quarters in London
suspects us of being so foolish
and so disloyal that we are
contemplating a two -power
deal at the expense of Europe.
FOR my part, I do not expect
us to be understood or
trusted ' in Moscow. But we
have, I submit, earned the
right to be trusted by our
closest allies. We do not be
tray our friends, and the sus
picion that we are so gullible
that Mr. Mikoyan can "sell"
us into betraying our friends
is an affront to the honor of
America and an insult to its
intelligence.
The public part of Mr. Mi
koyan's visit seems to me to
show that between the Com
munist world and ours there
can on the great issues be lit
tle free and open communica
tion. We live in very different
worlds. We see things with
very different eyes. We judge
them with very different
minds. The best we can do
is to negotiate cautiously
more or less at arm's length.
But the kind of full under
standing is needed for politi
cal cooperation is a very long
way off. It is, therefore, ab
surd to invite Mr. Mikoyan
paints a bright picture, as does
the President.
It then adds-
"However, prices have in
creased SOMEWHAT FAST
ER THAN INCOME with the
result that purchasing power
DECLINED SLIGHTLY IN
1958."
THAT is to say:
We're getting MORE dol
lars. They BUY LESS.
That's inflation for you.
F CONCLUSION:
In principle, we're against
inflation.
In practice, we're for it.
That's why inflation is a
tough problem.
Avow from th
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Lippmann
to subject himself to a public
exhibition like "Meet the
Press" and it is absurd for
Mr. Mikoyan to accept the
invitation to do that. The
show on Sunday was as useful
as an attempt to mate a whale
which lives in the sea with
an elephant which lives on
the land.
Those who have studied
carefully the problem of com
munication between the So
viet Union and the West know
that the communication can
not be general but must be
specialized. The mathematici
ans and the physical scientists
can communicate with one an
other. So can the engineers or
the agriculturists. So can art
ists. So can experienced and
sophisticated statesmen. So
can ordinary tourists, meeting
ordinary people. But Mr. Mi
koyan cannot talk to . the
American people in the mass
nor could Mr. Nixon talk,
even if he had the freedom
of the Soviet radio, to th
Russian people in the mass.
AS TO the results of Mr. Mi
'fi koyan's tour, they cannot
be measured by the crowds
and the headlines, by the
curiosity of the people who
saw him or by their courtesy.
The results of the visit will
be tested as we see whether
or not we are moving towards
negotiations on the whole
German question. For surely
that was the real objective
of Mr. Mikoyan's visit, as it
is the objective of the Soviet
gambit in Berlin.
His purpose cannot have
been to enter a popularity
contest, for which he is as
little qualified as he would
be for a beauty contest. If
the purpose of his visit was
to open up the German ques
tion, he is not going home
empty-handed. For the Presi
dent and Mr. Dulles have
shown that they hope to make
the German question negoti
able if Moscow is seriously
interested in negotiating.
Copyright 1959. New Yorfe
Herald Tribune Inc. .
Vandenberg Delays
Launching Attempt
Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
-(DPD- The Air Force prepared
today for another attempt
"soon" to launch the first sat
ellite in the "Project Discov
erer" series.
The long-awaited initial
shot set for Wednesday had
to be postponed for technical
reasons. The Air Force said
another launching attempt
would be made soon but de
clined to specify a date.
Project Discoverer is the
program in which mice and
monkeys eventually will be
used to blaze the trail for
manned satellites into space.
The initial launchings,
while they will be "firsts" in
having a satellite fired from
the West Coast will be the
first man-made moons to go
into polar orbits, will not in
volve animals.
BATISTA ASKS ASYLUM
Paris-ITD-President Charles
de Gaulle's government has
received a request for asylum
from former Cuban President
Fulgencio Batista and will
give it careful consideration,
informed sources said today.
Batista is living in exile in
the Dominican Republic.
PIANIST COLE ILL
Burbank, Calif. Pianist
arranger Buddy Cole, 42, ya
reported in serious condition
today at St. Joseph's Hospital
where he was taken Wednes
day following a heart attack.
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