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4 Monday, March 16, 159 MAIU TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORL;TBIBUTfE "Everyone tc Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MJ.DFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBS.P.T W RTJHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing F.ditor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newsosner " Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Coov lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle .Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiH. Phoenix Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and SunJy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers e op; 10c All lerms Cash in Advance Official Papej of City f Medford tunciai t-aper or jacKson county United Press JTnternartjonal Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices tn Ne-w York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AScfATlfel Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 16, 1949 (Wednesday) Medford Mayor Diamond Flynn appoints citizens to ad visory committees for city charter revision and airport problems. Harry A. Skerry Jr. is ap pointed Ashland's new city at torney. 20 YEARS AGO March 16, 193S (Thursday) Medford citizens are asked not to molest parasitized ear wigs released in the area to destroy other earwigs. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A straw vote shows the metrop olis in favor of daylight sav ing, with only a few favoring knocking the daylights out of the plan." 30 YEARS AGO March 16. 1929 (Saturday) Signs of oil are reported in Central Point, together with rumors that drilling may be undertaken. Contracts are let for instal lation of air beacons in the valley. 40 YEARS AGO March 16 1919 (Sunday) Secretary of War Baker and General March pass through town on a train. Elbert Coleman returns from France. 50 YEARS AGO March 16, 1909 (Tuesday) An official Medford census of 5,330, just completed, raises Elks' hopes for a local lodge and charter. The Southern Pacific's "farmers special" demonstra tion train is due here next Monday. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. From what town in Eng land did the Pilgrims come to Plymouth, Mass.? 2. What war was won by using a wooden horse? 3. Correct the following: "The recipe calls for three spoons full of flour." 4. Does the earth's surface obtain most of its heat from the sun, or from internal heat? 5. Whom did Napoleon di vorce to marry Marie Louise? 6. Which of these fruits has the most calories per pound apples, bnanas, peaches, or avocados? 7. According to a much-told story, what was it the Gov ernor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Car olina? 8. If three candles were burning side by side, one red, one white, - and one green, what color would the light be? 9. What was the popular slogan of Americans during the Spanish-American War? 10. Is strontium 90 a clean ing agent, atomic fallout, or motor fuel? Answers: I. Plymouth, Eng. 2. Trojan War. 3. ". . . spoon fuls . . .' 4. Sun. 5. Josephine. 6. Avocados (1200). 7. "If a long time between drinks." 8. White. 9. "Remember the Maine." 10 Atomic fallout. We Ve Earned Leadership For too long we have let Europe beat its chest as the cradle of Western civilization. It's about time we began compiling our contributions to the world's progress. Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., of Harvard Uni versity, one of America's great historians, has begun the job with an article in this month's At lantic Magazine entitled "Our Ten Contributions to Civilization." i N SUMMARY, he defines them as: THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION: We were the first to put the "all men are created equal" doctrine into practice. From the French Revolution to the rise of the Republic of Indonesia, our revolution has been the inspiration for the fights for freedom. THE PRINCIPLE OF FEDERALISM: "It offered mankind a key to the age-old problem of reconciling legitimate local interests with the general good." THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED: "The under lying philosophy was not that the common man is all wise, but only that he can govern himself better than anyone else can do it for him." THE STATUS OF WOMEN: It was the women of the United States who first demanded, and achieved, their right to an equal share in government and so- ciety. THE MELTING POT: The world's peoples fused themselves into one whole in this vast land and gave the lie to those who said languages and nationalities could never mingle. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL: As part of the new con cept of self-government by the people, it was deter mined that all the public must be educated. This over threw the idea of privately-financed education for the upper-classes alone which had prevailed in Europe. FREEDOM OF WORSHIP: This nation has proved that "the separation of church and state did not in fact weaken either but strengthened both." VOLUNTARY GIVING: Our assistance to the world's poor, not only through governmental foreign aid, but through the donations of private individuals, is unequaled in the world's experience. TECHNOLOGY: Yankee ingenuity has produced material marvels for the masses and led the way to higher standards of living for the entire world. EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS: "One of our proud est achievements has been the creation of a system of controlled capitalism that yields the highest living standards on earth and has made possible a society as nearly classless as man has ever known." The mantle of world leadership has fallen on our shoulders not through accident, but because we have earned the distinction through these con tributions to the world's progress. We will con tinue to hold that position only as long as the world is convinced we believe in the principles we have created. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Situation Harry Truman, bless a news editor. That way, the real news in the newspaper and keep out the propaganda and "slanted" stuff. We're willing to help. cancy in the news editor spare chair. Any time the to drop around and work he's welcome. Each morning he'd watching it bud about noon, come into full flower early m the afternoon, and to work the next morning. Then he d start over. Sometimes he d feel as if away with him. DEFORE long .he'd marvel, not at the mistakes in news judgment, but that so often judgment was proved correct. He'd learn things he never knew before about the elusive nature 'of truth. He'd know how it felt to be almost suffocated with information. And at the end of a couple of weeks he'd find himself growing increasingly crabby when some body said he wanted to be a news editor so that he could get the truth into the paper. Eugene Register-Guard. ' State Takes Action Who's on the spot, Portland or the State Sani tary Authority? The state agency, weaiy of being stalled, has asked for a court order compelling the Rose City to stop polluting the Willamette and Columbia rivers with its sewage. Portland offic ials say they are helpless because they don't have the money to improve the sewage disposal system and the people have refused to vote bond issues for that purpose. The court can issue the order requested, but how can it be enforced? THE Sanitary Authority would be in a frustrat A ing position if, after getting the backing of the court, Portland, took the position that it just couldn't raise the money. That is, unless the law has sufficient teeth to force Portland to divert the money from some other area of municipal services in order to meet its obligation under the pollution law. Those living down river from Portland are firmly on the side of the Sanitary Authority. Smaller communities on both sides of the Colum bia have done their part in cleaning up the river by installing sewage treatment plants at consider able cost. They have no sympathy with the big gest city in Oregon when it pleads poverty as an excuse for continuing to be a public health men ace. La Grande Evening Observer Wanted his heart, wants to be he says, he could put We don't have a va slot, but we do have a former president wants with the news editor, till a brand new crop, die before he returned his tractor were running Dennis the THATS HOT TZUB! ffe'S BBEH TtiBRB ABOUT TEN MINUTBS. HOT 'ALLVAV'l" Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is again traveling in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) MEET HAWAII-50TH STATE Washington - There will soon be 50 states in the Union -100 Senators and one or two more members of the House of Representatives. It is more than 100 years since President Franklin Pierce suggested that Hawaii be incorporated into the Union. Now, after 22 formal hear ings since 1935, producing 6,400 printed pages of testi mony and exhibits, totalling some 3,000,000 words with 900 witnesses being heard in the Territory and in Wash ington, the state of Hawaii is being welcomed with open arms. For the first time in his tory the Senate interior and insular affairs committee un animously recommended a state for admission and Sen ate bill 50 will make Hawaii the 50th state with the not able high of seven Southern Senators joining in approval. HERE are the principal fac tors and facts behind this action: IS HAWAII CONTIGU OUS? Hawaii doesn't touch the continental U. S. but it is nearer to the main body of the nation than many other states, including California, were when they were first ad mitted. In travel and in com munication Hawaii is closer to Washington, D. C, than Boston and New York were when the Republic was found ed. Certainly the United States must control the sea and the air from Puget Sound to Pearl Harbor as long as there is a nation. CAN HAWAII PAY ITS WAY? It has a population of 600,000 people - larger than the population of any state at the time of admission, ex cept Oklahoma. Its population now is larger than that of Vermont, Delaware, Wyom ing, Nevada and Alaska. It has a strong economy and for years has paid into the U. S. Treasury more taxes than nine states of the Union. WHO ARE THE HAWAI IAN PEOPLE? At least 90 per cent -of them are Ameri can citizens. The population consists of approximately 37 per cent Japanese ancestry, 23 per cent Caucasian, 17 per cent Hawaiian ancestry, 12 per cent Philipino ancestry, and 6 per cent Chinese an cestry. They have a strong, stable, modern democratic form of government - offer ing the groping peoples of Asia a look into the parlor of true democracy. ARE THEY LOYAL? The late Sen. Hugh Butler, then Chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Interior and Insu lar Affairs, made this report after an on-the-spot study: "If there is such a thing as a supreme test of loyalty to an ideal, then a willing ness to serve in battle in sup port of that ideal is entitled to such a description." There were 426 Hawaiian boys killed in the Korean ac tion. Not one case of a Hawaiian soldier's desertion ., to the enemy was recorded. Not one case of a success ful Red "brainwashing" of a Hawaiian soldier was- re corded. OF THE 22 American serv icemen who went over to the Chinese Communists after the Korean armistice, there were turncoats from Texas, Georgia, Minnesota, Louis iana, Illinois, Virginia, Rhode Island, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi - but not one from Hawaii. WHAT ABOUT COMMU NISM? In 1950 the House Committee on Un - American Activities estimated that there were 90 known Communists in Hawaii. Later J. Edgar Hoover put it at 36. There are Menace no Communists in the Ha waiian legislature and when one sympathizer of Harry Bridges' ran for Mayor of Honolulu in 1956 he was ad ministered the worst defeat in Hawaiian history. WHAT O F HAWAIIAN POLITICS? The two - party system prevails. It has been traditionally Republican. In 1956 Hawaii elected its first Democratic delegate to Con gress since 1934 and re-elected him last year. Recently Ha waii has reflected the nation al voting pattern and since 1954 Democrats have con trolled the Hawaiian legisla ture for the first time. Hawaii is ready for admis-, sion and the nation is ready for Hawaii. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer ' tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Triljune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words To End Pollution To the Editor: You deserve praise of people of the Rogue basin for your editorial on Bear creek pollution of March 13. Yes, the people of Jackson county have permitted Bear creek to be operated as an "open sewer" even when they have state laws prohibiting this and when they have a county health officer who has the authority and duty to en force this law. Oregon Revised Statute 449.110 reads in part, "No person, or proprietor, opera tor, agent, superintendent or employee of any . . . sawmill . . . or slaughterhouse or any manufacturing concern . . shall cast or suffer or permit any sawdust, planer shaving . . . or other lumber waste or any element or chemical ex tracted therefrom, or other substances, which do or may render the waters of a stream . . . destructive of fish life . or any oil . . . or chemical to be . . . discharged, in any manner, or to deposit the same where high water will take or carry same into the waters of this state." O.R.S. 449.115 reads in part, "No person shall put or de posit in any of the . . . streams of Oregon, or any artificial canal or ditch in which the waters of such . . . streams . or waters run, any dead ani mal carcass, or part thereof, manure, sewage, putrid, de caying or deleterious sub stance, refuse, waste or pollu ting matter, or any matter which either by itself or in connection with any substance injures fish or corrupts or im pairs the quality of the waters of such . . . streams . . . for domestic or municipal pur poses, or places any such sub stance in such position that it escapes or is carried into those waters by the action of the elements or otherwise." O.R.S. 440.050 reads, "Pro ceedings to abate alleged pub lie nuisances created by pollu tion of waters of this state may be instituted at law, or in equity, in the name of the State of Oregon, upon rela tion of the Sanitary Authority, the Attorney General, any dis trict attorney of any county or the city attorney of any municipality affected. A few months ago I went to Jackson county health of ficer and reported that the two slaughterhouses on Bear creek below Medford were dumping their sewage into Bear creek. I asked for en forcement of law. I also took' up the matter with State Sanitary Authority's . repre- Washington Report By WILLIAM CAT BEING SKINNED Washington - An Israeli di plomat here put the case with great plainness. "There are no Middle Eastern e x -perts," he said. "There are only ob servers ' with differing d e grees of ignor ance." "As for me," this Isrs pli j . William S. friend went white on with a smile, "I come from a land where prohpets (mean ing the ancient Hebrew pro phets of the Bible) have been much honored over the cen turies. But personally I feel no desire to attempt to be come a modern prophet about the Middle East." No one in the Washington diplomatic community most directly concerned pretends to understand each and all of the implications of the re newed churning of events from the top of the Nile to the Persian Gulf. Premier Abdel el-Kassem of Iraq, where less than a year ago a kingly regime was destroyed by a murderous pro-Communist uprising has now himself put down a re bellion. This one was a revolt by Iraqi officers in sympathy with, if not necessarily di rected by, the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) of Gamal Abdel Nasser. NOW, Colonel Nasser, who dreams of an Arab em pire, is crying out against the Communists in Iraq who more closely surround Kas sem. But Nasser himself has gained his own power large ly through Kremlin support and Communist - supplied weapons. It is, therefore, a case of a very sooty kettle, the United Arab Republic, shaming a pot, Iraq, for being black. It is no doubt many other things as well. It may mark the beginning of a new chaos in the Middle East that would serve the world aims of the Kremlin as every such in stance of chaos has served, no matter who started it or how it might end. It is even possible that some elaborate Russian double play is at work here to set off more sentative at Grants Pass. They were both already aware of this pollution. To date this pollution has not been stopped. Killing of steelhead in Bear creek by dumping of orchard spraying materials in waters running into the stream is nothing new. Paul H. Weiland, 2431 East Main st., Medford. Porter On Cuba To the Editor: Senator Morse and I agree as to the importance of due process of law. I do disagree with his contention that there have been mass executions in Cuba without fair trial, although I recognize that many of the trials do not . reach the stan dards of Anglo-Saxon juris prudence. However, as I have pointed out before, Castro and his men are not bloodthirsty but are decent, moral people. Furthermore, there has been a free press in Cuba ever since Castro took over and not one allegation has ap peared in the press, to my knowledge, that an innocent man was executed by the Cas tro soldiers. The accused war criminals are men on whom evidence has been gathered for a long time. They are po licemen, members of the no torious Masferrer "tiger" army, whose terrible deeds match those of the Nazis. As the American public has become better informed about the extent and depravity of the tortures, they have under stood better the importance of these trials. I want to make it clear that from the very first I have urged Castro and his ministers to improve their procedures. Most recently I have protest ed the retrial of the 43 airmen in Santiago accused of "gen ocide." I have great respect for Senator Morse's leadership in Latin-American affairs, a re spect shared by Latin-American leaders everywhere. His protests as to the procedures carried great weight and had much to do with the improve ment in procedures. Where we disagree is as to the implications of the pro cedures used and from my personal observations on two trips to Cuba I am convinced that Castro is acting in good faith. Charles O. Porter, as sy? 3 Times Faster Relief Certified laboratory tests prove BEtl-AHS tablets neutralize 3 times as much stomacn acidity in one minute as many leading digestive tablets. Get BELL-ANS today for the fastest known relief. 35e at druggists. Send postal to BELL-ANS, Orangeburg, N. Y for liberal free sample. S. WHITE trouble in the Middle East just as the crisis over Berlin aproaches climax. rkNE dreadful thing, howev- er, is perfectly clear. whatever the Russians are do ing or not doins in the Mid dle East. This is that whatev er now happens will not be in tne western interest. Any major disorder will inevita bly become a distracting fac tor to our side, and especially to the British. They could not long tolerate any cutting off of Iraq oil. They could not long live with any widening vacuum into which Soviet power could readily move against worldwide British communications, in this swinging gateway between East and West. For the plain truth is that the Soviet Union has two sticks with which happily to beat us in the Middle East. One is, of course, the conven- tional trouble-making sub versive apparatus of interna tional communism. The other stick is Colonel Nasser. Though he now seems to be threatening a break with Moscow there is great doubt here that he could go through with it even if he chose. HIS regime is infiltrated by Soviet "technicians"; his power rests on Soviet-bloc arms. But even if he could and would part with the Rus sians his capacity for making a continued difficulty for the West would hardly decline. For what Nasser represents, at bottom, is a determination to drive the last of Western influence from the Middle East. This is precisely the Kremlin's own purpose. The job could be done just about as well by a "new" Nasser shouting curses at Moscow every 15 minutes, so long as he was simultaneously de stroying Western positions in the Middle East in the name of "nationalism." There is, as the old saying goes, more than one way to skin a cat. And the skinning of our cat in the Middle East was begun long ago. It was begun when we took up the great postwar clamor against "colonialism" and assisted in driving all Western power, notably that of the British, from the Middle East. For this, we got "self-de termination" in the Middle East. And for this we got "na tionalism" in place of bad old colonialism; we got Nas ser's kind of "nationalism. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS We've been reading and hearing of the JOY -UNRE STRAINED with which the people of Hawaii greeted the news of their admission to the Union as an American state. It seems not long ago when we were listening to similar outbursts of joy from the peo ple of Alaska - for the same reason. WHY are they joyful? In an effort to answer that question, let's do a little supposing. Suppose we hadn't bought Alaska at the right time. Suppose we hadn't annexed Hawaii at the right time. LET'S do some more sup posing. Suppose Russia had KEPT Alaska. Suppose Russia had- swept down into the mid-Pacific and had TAKEN the Sandwich Islands. WELL In that event The people of Alaska and the people of Hawaii WOULD BE FAR LESS HAPPY NOW. They would have very little to be happy about, for they would now be a part of the communist system. As a part of the commu nist system, they would be little better than slaves. THE boiled-down conclusion: The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS A PRETTY GOOD PLACE TO LIVE. It's little wonder that the people of Alaska and the peo ple of Hawaii are so happy. WHAT of Hawaii's history? The Islands are gener ally supposed to have been discovered by Captain James Cook. Captain Cook was a famous English navigator. He mapped the Saint Lawrence river and the Newfoundland coast. Then he tackled the job of mapping the South Pacific. In the course of this job, he theorized that there must be Do FALSE TEETH Rock, Slide or Slip? FASTEETH. an improved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly In place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy eooev. pastv taste or feeling. FAS TEETH Is alkaline (non-acid) Does cot sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. Matter of Fact MOLOTOV'S OLD PLAN Washington - A short year ago, any major defeat for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser would have delighted the great major ity of Amer i c a n policy makers. To day, however, there are very long faces indeed in the govern- 4ospb Aisop mental inner circle, because of Nasser's serious defeat in Iraq. As the reports from the scene have been fragmentary and confusing, it may be well to summarize the story of this defeat, before trying to ex plain the long faces it had caused here. In brief, the Iraqi revolu tionary government of Brig. Abdul Karim Kassem has been increasingly Communist influenced, if not Communist- dominated, since the first set back of Iraq's pro-Nasser group last summer. Nasser is pledged to expel all foreign influence from the Arab world. Hence he has reacted boldly and rather sharply to Iraq's transformation into a Soviet bridgehead. LAST WEEK, moreover, propaganda was abandon ed in favor of overt action. Egyptian agents had previ ously established contacts with the brigades of the Iraai army stationed m the north, around the oil town of Mosul. At least one and per haps two of these dissident Iraqi army brigades revolted last week. Supply lines for the rebels were reportedly opened from Nasser s Syrian province; for a "Free Mosul" radio was set up on Syrian territory, where it broadcast until the rebellion was quashed. The rebellion none theless failed, because com- a new CONTINENT some where in the South Pacific region. It wasn't until a cen tury later that discovery of Australia proved him to be right. IN 1776,, he tackled the fabled Northwest Passage job and proved by his explora tions that there was no direct route by water from the Pa cific to Hudson Bay. It was on his return trip to England that he stumbled onto the island group that has just be come the State of Hawaii. He named it for Lord John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Hence the name Sandwich Islands. He then headed for home. ITHAT Cook is generally " credited with the discov ery, it is fairly certain that a Spaniard named Juan Gae- tano was the original discov erer. He was wandering around out in the Pacific in 1555 - some 200 years before Captain Cook's day. He is believed to have sighted the island group that has just become an American state, but he had learned by then that the Pacific Ocean was speckled with islands, and it didn't seem likely to him that there would be any GOLD there - in those davs Spain (like a lot of people now) was chiefly interested in the Quick Buck - and there seemed to him to be little like lihood of any Quick Bucks in the form of gold on the vol canic islands that loomed up off the bow of his Spanish Galleon. So he made an entry in his diary, and went on his way. Reasonable Funeral; (Priced for Everyone) l 25 tip FRIENDLY, Bv Joseph AIsop panion-uprisings did not take place as expected, in the Iraqi army brigades in other parts of the country. In short, Nasrer has now made a final, fairly desperate gamble on unseating Kassem, as predicted in this space; and Nasser's gamble has gone badly wrong. The Iraqi re sponse has been ultra-violent. Nasser was even hanged . in effigy in the streets of Bagh dad. Equally, Nasser respond ed to his own failure by mak ing the most brutal and di rect attack on Kassem and the Iraqi Communists that he has ever made, in a speech at Damascus. OUCH, THEN, was this grave & defeat of Nasser, which has caused so many long faces here. One reason for the long faces is the simple fact that Nasser, as is his habit, will probably go all out for a quick, cheap victory, to com pensate for his defeat. Rela tions between Nasser and brave young King Hussein of Jordan have lately been im proving rapidly. It is possible that the victory will take the form of some sort of associa tion between Jordan and Nas ser's United Arab Republic. In view of Nasser's new anti Communist stand, such a de velopment would cause no pain herej It is rather more likely, however, that Nasser will seek his victory nearer home. Neighboring Libya is tiny, close to chaos, and lately proven to be rich in oil. Hence Libya is a tempting prospect. Equally, the polit ical balance in the Sudan has been shifting in Nasser's fav or; and an association of the Sudan with Egypt is one of Nasser's highest priority ob jectives. A Nasserite coup, whether in Libya or the Su dan, would create grave prob lems. Yet the main reason for the long faces in Washington , is the effect of Nasser's defeat in Iraq itself. The Communist influence in Baghdad has now been boldly challenged by a military uprising. The Com munists have met and over come the challenge. Thus the lingering hope that Brig. Kas sem would somehow free him self from the clutches of the Communists has now dimmed to the absolute vanishing point. LONG AGO, the honeymoon period of the Soviet-Nazi pact ended because of a dis cussion of the post-war divi sion of the expected spoils of Britain and France. Molotov then staked" out a Soviet claim to Iraq, Iran, and the head of the Persian Gulf, as a sphere of Soviet power and influence in the Arab lands. This claim Adolf Hitler thought excessive - and well he might, since the Soviet claim comprised most of the proven Middle Eastern oil producing areas of that per iod. Nasser's defeat too plainly means the realization of the first stage of this old Molotov plan. The bridgehead of Com munist power in Iraq will in turn permit a great intensifi cation of the pressure on Iran - which is under severe pres sure already. Pressure on the oil sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf will no doubt begin later on. We have reached an odd stage of insensitivity, when such a major Communist tri umph in the most strategical ly vital part of the world attracts so little attention and causes such limited concern. (Copyright, 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE n
