4 Tuesday, April 7, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1949 (Thursday)
Medford Safety council
members discuss possible for
mation of school safety pa
trols. Snow surveyors report
abundant water supplies for
Irrigation this year.
20 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1939 (Friday)
Street light poles on down
town Medford streets' are
painted green ,in connection
with the city's "clean-up"
program.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" "column: "Out
side of Moses Alford, ye city
recorder, running around aft
ernoons without his coat,
there are no prominent signs
of summer hereabouts."
30 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1929 (Sunday)
A slim chance for estab
lishment of a Congressional
district in southern Oregon
is reported.
Precipitation in.March was
only half the normal figure,
according to weather bureau
reports.
40 YEARS AGO
April 7, 1919 (Monday)
Republicans carry Michi
gan and vote dry.
The 1919 winter wheat
crop sets a new record.
50 YEARS AGO
April 7. 1909 (Wednesday)
Medford needs 14 miles of
new sidewalks, according to
a report from the city coun
ciL Central Point raises $1,000
for promotional advertising,
to be used by its new Com
mercial club.
What's Yonr I.Q.1
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or efcjht is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The first name of a fa
mous Italian tenor was Enri
co what was his surname?
2. Name the Spanish Queen
who aided Christopher Colum
bus. 3. Was it General Grant,
General Pershing, General
Lee or General Sherman who
said, "War is hell"?
4. What was the reason for
the "Klondike Rush"?
5. Is the island of Madeira
a Spanish, Portuguese, or Ital
ian possession? s
6. Correct the following:
"One of my shipmates were
helping me."
7. In the song "Sweetheart
of Sigma Chi," what color
hair did the girl have?
8. Is the port of Shanghai,
China in Nationalist or Com
munist hands?
9. A ladybird is a fish, bird,
mammal, or beetle?
10. The largest existing sta
tue in the world is in the New
York area; name it.
Answers: 1. Caruso. 2. Isa
bella. 3. General Sherman. 4.
Discovery of Gold. 5. Portu
guese. 6. "One of my ihip
mates was . . ." 7. Golden
hair. 8. Communists. 9.
Beetle. 10. Statue of Liberty.
OPEN TRADE TALKS
Cairo-flJPD-The United Arab
Republic and Britain opened
talks Monday aimed at resum
ing trade between the two
countries. Trade between the
two was stopped after the
1956 Suez crisis.
0
Unorganized
It remains to be seen
gon legislature will,
responsibility to provide the state with what
needs in the way of state services.
And what are these "state services"?
They, are a multitude of things which the
state does for its people,
unable to do them for
They include the
policing; them, of buildine prisons for convicted
felons, hospitals for the mentally ill, and training
schools for future doctors and dentists; of provid
ing the system of common schools required by the
constitution, and a system of institutions of higher
education; of caring for
age assistance. . These
THE state has done
over the years, the
them, and have shown
the taxes to support them.
This year, there is a serious question as to
whether these services are going to get what they
need to continue doing the job Oregonians want
them to do.
There is a serious doubt, for instance, that the
state will make the appropriation necessary to
continue state support
level. If it doesn t, it will
in local property taxes
of school standards.
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ANOTHER example is
"in approving a deficiency appropriation of
$1,200,000 for the welfare commission, when the
commission had said that $1,900,000 was needed
to maintain its standard
dependent children and
nor Hatfield had recommended the appropriation
be cut to $900,000.)
This is a cut which
m many a household in
This sort of thing prompts the Register-Guard
in Eugene to ask, "Where is the Tarty with a
Heart'?" referring to the majority Democrats
in the legislature, most
programs of improved
.1 i
least, tneir maintenance
ANOTHER example comes, to hand in the f orm
of a letter from District Judge Paul A. Thal-
hofer of Pendleton, who
m Umatilla county, and who as such is charged
with the job of committing mentally retarded
people to the Fairview
people to the state hospitals. .
, His long letter, written obviously m a state ot
acute irritation, not to say desperation, says:
"During the past year, every time I committed one
of these poor, unfortunate children to Fairview Home,
I found it a painful experience to inform the parents
that it would take approximately two years for their
child to work his way up the long waiting list into the
institution. When parents ask me why their child
must wait two years after they have made the big
decision to break up their family, I simply must tell
them that the state of Oregon has never made adequate
provision for the care and treatment of the mentally
retarded. They are not satisfied with this answer.
Neither am I." . .
JUDGE THALHOFER
for the Fairview Home ;
provided for 400 additional beds soon to be
ready; that by the time
pied the waiting list will still be more than 200
persons, and it will continue to grow as Oregon's
population grows.
He estimates the need
between now and January 1, 1963, and unless
they are provided for, this year, the waiting list
will continue to grow. He adds :
"However, it is distressing to note that . . . only
215 additional beds have survived the economy axe.
If the present legislature makes provision for these
215 beds only, as is now indicated, then, there will be
a waiting list of approximately 600 by January 1,
1963 ...
"How about the many retarded children and some
adults who must be taken from their homes for their
own good and for the good of their families? How
about the pathetic little children who will never be
able to adjust to a normal family' life nor to a normal
social environment? How about the retarded" persons
who must be institutionalized for their own protection
and for the protection of society? What in the world
are we going to do about them?"
MOW 'Judge Thalhofer is only one man, one
judge, and he is in a position to be principally
concerned over the one problem.
Yet his informed opinion is an example of the
reality, in terms of real people and real situations,
of the need for the "state services," which sound
so impersonal when phrased that way. '
Other and equally pertinent and even moving
arguments can be made for the other "state serv
ices" which, apparently, are going to be stinted
or ignored this year school support, .welfare
aid, higher education, badly needed buildings,
and so on.
DE(5PLE good, honest and conscientious peo-
pie who believe that these things are impor
tant, and who are willing to pay their cost, are
subject to the age-old cries of "do-gooder" and
"bleeding heart."
Well, so be it.
If having an honest concern for the welfare
of one's less-fortunate fellows be they retarded
children or persons on old age assistance or
youngsters who are faced with a less-than-stand-ard
education is being a "bleeding heart" or a
"do-gooder," there are a heck of a lot of them.
Perhaps members of the legislature . would
be well-advised to take note of this fact. And
just because they aren't organized into pressure
groups doesn't mean they can't think for them
selves at election time. E.A.
(Do-Gooders'
whether or not the Ore
this year, face up to its
simply because they are
themselves.
building; of highways, o
the elderly through old
are only, samples.
all these things because
people have demanded
they are willing to pay
...
for schools at the present
mean either an increase
for schools, or a lowering
the legislature's action
of grants to older people,
others m need. (Gover
will cause real hardship
the next few months.
of whom campaigned on
services or, at the very
i i i i
at nooiesser a levei.
handles probate matters
home, and mentally ill
goes on to point out that
that the 1957 legislature
they are ready and occu
at 806 additional beds
Dennis the
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ALARM CLOCK IV4S
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
THE CHINA THREAT
Washineton The stoutest
defender of one of the most
truly rational of foreign poli
c l e s of t h
E i s e nhower
Adminis t r
tion is leaving
office just as
events are
proving ho
right he has
been al
along.
Walter S
wi,it . Robert son
is resigning as Assistant Sec
retary of State for Far east
ern Affairs amid new and
overwhelming evidence of the
brutality of the Chinese Com
munist regime in peiping. The
Chinese Communists h a v t
driven the voung Dalai Lama
the eod-kine of Tibet, from
his homeland. They are bay
ing at him like fierce hounds
in the refuge granted to him
in India by Prime Minister
Nehru.
Mr. Nehru has spent years
righteously tutt-tutting our
absolute refusal to make any
deal with Peiping. So, un
happily, have most of our
allies, though in a less pom
pous way. Perhaps he is now
learning that there has been
more to the steadfast Ameri
can policy of non-recognition
of the bandit regime in Com
munist China than mere stub
born wrong-headedness. For
the implacable Red neighbors
toward whom he has been so
very "reasonable" are increas
inely unreasonable with him
for sheltering their chosen
victim.
IT IS sadly possible, how
ovpr that it will reauire
vet another really big Chi
nese ag-gresion. similar to
their aggression against our
own , troops and those of all
the United Nations in Korea,
to convince the well-meaning
that you can't do business
with Peiping.
The departure of Mr. Rob
ertson, therefore, raises spec
ial problems, apart from its
istoric irony. His role,
though a sturdy one, could
well be overstated; he was
not the initiator of nonrecog-
nition, but only its faithful
executor.
Basically, it has been the
policy of Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and also
of a great majority of both
political parties in Congress.
All the same, Robertson, a
Virginia banker in private
life, had a degree of political
Drotection which his foreign
service career-officer succes
sor, J. Graham Parsons, can
not hope to have. As the
voice of Dulles, Robertson
had in Dulles a backer who
was the most powerful mem
ber of the Eisenhower Cabi
net. He had the support, too,
of the dominant conservatives
in both parties.
(True, he was supported
also by ultra-conservative ex
tremists who did much to
alienate reasonable opinion
from a policy that was sound
in itself but suffered, as other
policy has done, from some
of its friends.) . . . .
THUS, the whole domestic
nnlitiral understructure
for maintaining nonrecogni
tion is now twW weakened.
First, there was the incapaci
tation by illness of Mr.
Dulles. Now there is the exit
of Mr. Robertson, who also
is in poor health.
No one here pretends to
know exactly what is in the
mind of the monolith of ter
ror that is Communist China.
But many fear that Peipkig,
which for years has been try
ing to shove or shoot its way
into the United Nations, may
try again before many
months have gone.
Certainly, the times will be
evilly ripe. A spirit of ac
Menace
JW7S ?
S. WHITE
commodation toward Soviet
communism is spreading, in
the understandable and gen
eral Western hope that some
decent cold war armistice
can be struck at the summit
conference.
Any outbreak of Commu
nist-inspired trouble in Asia
would be a most - damaging
distraction, and there would
be temptation to buy it off.
Indeed, it probably would be
unwelcome even to the Rus
sian leaders, because they
need a summit settlement
There is, however, increasing
doubt among highly responsi
ble intelligence sources here
that Moscow can necessarily
control Peiping. The Red Chi
nese have already put in a
slave system so vast and
coldly wretched, so totally
denying the human personal
ity, as to frighten the Rus
sians themselves.
It will not be surprising if
the eastern branch of inter
national communism seizes
the opportunity to put on
more pressure for recogni
tion, perhaps bloody pres
sure, while all are preoccu
pied with the summit, i
It is possible that some
such estimate underlies the
fact that the United. States is
preparing to deploy a naval
and Marine task force to the
western Pacific.
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Other Factors Told
To the Editor: Your recent
editorial concerning the pro
posed national park near
Florence failed to take into
consideration several factors.
This is understandable for
nearly all of us are in favor
of public parks where there is
a need, or where it does not
impose a burden and a loss
on a great many fellow citi
zens. The citizens in this com
munity for the most part are
not opposed to a national
park.
What we object to stren-
ously is the proposed bound
aries which would take away
Siltcoos and Woahink lakes
and a large tract of forest
land reaching several miles
inland. According to the an
nounced plans, this area
would be allowed to go back
to wilderness.
There are many homes
around these lakes and farms
along the river bottoms. If
the owners are forced to sell
at a price fixed by the buyer
without considering the po
tential worth and if they payj
income taxes, and then have
to lease the property back, in
case they wish to remain, you
can readily see that they are
going to suffer quite a loss.
According to the announced
policy of the National Park
service these owners would
be urged, from time to time,
to move out. The methods of
persuasion could be very un
comfortable for the home own
er.
In addition to .many hun
dreds of citizens having to
give up their homes to allow
this area to return to wilder
ness, the local public schools,
the fire and hospital districts
would lose a big percentage of
their taxes at a time when
these units are having a diffi
cult time making both ends
meet.
Every situation is different.
Here there are no restrictions
to the public. Many public
roads lead to the beaches, the
lakes and the sand dunes. Only
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
Editor's Note: Walter
Lippmann has just return
ed from Europe, where he
has taken a first-hand look
at the Berlin crisis. This is
the second of a four-part re
port on the situation.
THE TWO GERMANYS
AND BERLIN
II
In yesterday's article I said
that the present German cri
sis centers upon the fact that
the reunifica
tion of the two
Germanys i s
now recog
nized a s im
possible with
in' the f oresee
a b 1 e future.
This is the
hub from
which, like the
the spokes on
a wheen, radiate all the cur
rent German problems, includ
ing the future of Berlin.
For reasons which I shall
sketch in this article, an un
derstanding of this momentous
historical fact is essential to
the formation of a workable
Allied policy.
UNTIL last November, when
when the Soviet Union
precipitated the present crisis,
it was the official assumption
on both sides of the Iron Cur
tain that Germany would
eventually be reunited with
Berlin as its capital. As late
as the summit meeting at Ge
neva in 1955 the Russians
were still endorsing the idea
of German reunification. It is
only since November of last
year that Russia has openly
and explicitly announced that
its policy is to have two Ger
man states.
We would underestimate
the weight and impact of the
Russian action if we treated
it as a mere example of Mr.
Khrushchev's impulsiveness or
as a case of bluff. Nor is it
correct, so it seems to me, to
regard as the main reason for
the Russian action such inci
dental and subsidiary factors
as the contrast between the
brightness of West Berlin and
the drabness of East Berlin, or
the embarrassment of the refu
gee movement to the West, or
even the irritation caused by
Western propaganda and sub
versive agencies operating
from West Berlin. The Soviet
Union has lived for years with
these things, and the Soviet
Union could go on living with
them.
EAST BERLIN is primarily
a working class district
and the standard of life has
always been notably more
drab than in West Berlin,
which has always had a large
middle class and many rich
people. Moreover, the Rus
sians, having drained tast
Germany for reparations in
the years immediately after
the war, fairly recently have
reversed the process and are
makinug big investments es
timated by our economists as
having reached a total of
$400,000,000. The rate of in
dustrial growth in East Ger
many is believed now to be
about 10 per cent per annum,
and there are competent
American observers who say
that the standard of life of
working men and ' farmers is
no longer radically far apart
in the two Germanys.
Nor should we regard the
flow of refugees as a major
element in the Soviet initia
tive last November. Traffic
between the two parts of the
city of Berlin is quite free. If
the Soviets thought it import
ant, they could certainly re
duce, even if they could not
wholly stop, the migration
from Communist Germany to
democratic Germany.
.
I AM DWELLING on this be
cause I am persuaded that
if we overemphasize the nuis
ance value of West Berlin, we
shall miss the chief signifi
cance of the Soviet Policy. By
about 20 miles of the Oregon
Coast is privately owned. The
county, state and National
Forest have provided numer
ous fine parks and camping
sites.
So you see it isn't as simple
as it appears on the surface.
We people in this area hope
that if a national park is es
tablished it will be confined
to land already in public
hands and will not take away
our homes and ruin our econ
omy. It doesn't seem to be asking
too much to urge our fellow
Oregonians to look into the
facts before they give this
project their unqualified ap
proval. John S. Parker,
Route 1
Florence, Ore.
Chairman,
Information Committee
Western Lane
Taxpayers Association
BANKING FIGURE DIES
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banking circles for half a cen
tury, died Sunday.
Walter
Lippmann
Lippmann
seizing the initiative and mak
ing the indefinite perpetuation
of a divided Germany the ba
sis of their policy, the Rus
sians have a chance to accom
plish two large objectives.
One is to stabilize the East
German state and the satellite
orbit by extinguishing the
hope of adherents to the West.
The other is to confound and
confuse Dr. Adenauer's West
German state by a spectacu
lar demonstration that his pol
icy is at a dead end, and mat
it has led to the partition of
the German Reich.
The two-Germanys policy
which the Russians have
adopted rests finally, of
course, upon their military
power. They cannot be forced
out of East Germany at any
calculable military price. But
we would be deceiving our
selves if we thought that the
division of Germany rests
only on naked force thwart
ing the will of Europe and of
the Western world.
The truth, I believe, is that
for a variety of reasons the
prolonged division of Ger
many has very wide support
all over Europe, both East and
West, and also within Ger
many itself. It is not merely
that Hitler's war is still a liv
ing memory in Europe, and
that the fear of a rearmed and
reunited Germany exists in
London and in Paris and even
in Bonn as well as in Warsaw
and in Moscow.
What we have to take ac
count of is the fact that in the
14 years which have elapsed
since the Allies occupied Ber
lin and abolished the Nazi
government of Germany, the
two Germanys have grown
apart. The Soviet Union on
its side, the Western Allies on
their side, have developed
powerful, indeed compelling
interests in maintaining the
division of Germany.
THERE is reason to believe
that Mr. K's action last
November had its origin in
the uprisings in East Ger
many, in Poland, and in Hun
gary. They occurred after the
summit meeting at Geneva in
1955 when the Soviets still
spoke of reunification. Almost
surely the uprisings convinced
the Kremlin that unless they
held tightly to East Germany,
which is like the cork in the
bottle, the whole satellite or
bit would liquidate itself.
Parallel with this develop
ment in the East, there have
been developments in the
West which point to the same
end the continuing division
of Germany. One of these is
what is called the movement
"to make Europe" which
means the movement to inte
grate economically, and event
ually politically, the West Ger
mans within Western Europe.
This movement has great eco
nomic vitality on the conti
nent. And there is reason to
think that on the political
side it is for many in the
younger generation the one
most attractive ideal that has
been offered to them.
TUT in this West European
community there is no
comfortable place for the East
German state, which would be
very left wing if not Commu
nist. It is no accident, but
quite logical, that the leaders
of the European movement
are not enthusiastic for Ger
man reunification. In their
hearts they are in fact op
posed to it.
And then there is NATO.
Its strategical structure rests
on the deployment of the Al
lied armies in Western Ger
many, and on their reinforce
ments by a West German
army. There is really not any
way by which this military
structure could be preserved
in any conceivable form of a
reunited Germany. Since all
the Western allies regard the
NATO shield as indispensable
to their own security, they
must in fact and they do in
fact oppose any German set
tlement which would disman
tle the military structure in
West Germany.
I do not wish to labor the
matter beyond making the
point that beneath the official
surface Mr. K.'s policy of two
Germanys finds great reson
ance in Western Europe. It is
in this context of a general
consensus that reunification is
not now practical politics
that Berlin has become a new
and special problem. In this
context a new and special so
lution of the Berlin problem
has become necessary. It is,
I believe, possible to work
out such a solution.
(To be continued.)
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SUCCESSFUL TEST
Washington - During the
past week, the Western Alli
ance has been tested on the
grave problem
It I of Berlin, with
excellent pre-
1 i m i nary re-
results.
Two simul
taneous but
quite different
tests were con
ducted, both
of them here
4osoh Alsoo 1" Y a a u iu6-
I TIT . . 1. mrr.
ton. The more conspicuous
was the tenth anniversary
meeting of the NATO Coun
cil. At this meeting, some peo
ple expected the Scandinav
ians and other smaller NATO
powers to press for a softer
Western policy in the Berlin
Crisis. There was no such
pressure. , On the contrary,
there was' striking unanimity
that surrender at Berlin would
lead on to surrender every
where. The more important test,
however, was a series of dis
cussions of the Berlin problem
by the spokesmen of the three
nations that have directly
guaranteed the threatened
city, Britain,. France and the
United States. For obvious
practical reasons, these talks
between British Foreign Sec
retary Selwyn Lloyd, French
Foreign Minister Maurice
Couve de Murville, and Act
ing Secretary of State Christ
ian Herter were more than
once expanded to include the
German Foreign Minister,
Heinrich von Brentano.
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THESE talks were the more
important of the two tests
for rather obvious reasons.
They included the men with
the heaviest responsibilities.
They concerned the right line
to adopt at the May Foreign
Ministers' meeting in Geneva
and the ensuing Summit meet
ing - and this is now the key
question needing immediate
answer. Finally, these talks
were the first place to look
for serious symptoms of dis
unity in the week's grand as
sembly of the West, since this
was where British Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, chief
ly said what he had come to
Washington to say.
Far too much can be made
of the divergence between the
British view and the Franco-German-American
view. The
British Government has never
at any time advocated the
abandonment of Free Berlin,
although rather important ele
ments in Britain have gone
almost this far.
Yet the British Government
has been more reluctant than
the French, West German or
American Governments to
commit itself to determined
measures for the defense of
Free Berlin, if that grim need
arises. And the British Gov
ernment has been much more
eager than the other govern
ments to "ease tensions as
they keep saying, by giving
the Soviets, if not of the main
cake at Berlin, at least a big
bagful of fairly desirable
cookies.
rpHE issue between the Brit
-- ish and the three other
allies in the talks here in
Washington was whether to go
to Geneva with a bag-full of
cookies for immediate Soviet
consumption. In other words,
the British wish to open the
Geneva meeting by offering a
program of concessions, which
would allegedly create a com
mon ground for fruitful dis
cussion. .
The concessions the Brit
ish have been thinking about
are known to be: first, some
sort of de facto recognition of
the status quo in the Eastern
European satellite area, in
cluding East Germany; second,
some sort of symbolic change
in the status of Free Berlin
and of the Western garrisons
there; and third, the injection
of the United Nations, in one
way or another, into the com
plex Berlin picture. i
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But British Foreign Secre
tary Lloyd, instead of arguing
for this program, point by
point, was required to debate
a quite different issue. In
brief, the American and
French Governments made the
point, with West German as
sent, that every negotiation
with the Soviets is a session
of super-Oriental haggling.
Begin the Geneva negotiation
by offering concessions, they
said, and you are then certain
to be asked to make a great
many further concessions of
a much more serious nature.
Therefore, they concluded,
good tactics require the West
ern Powers to go to Geneva
with the simple intention of
defending Western rights,
leaving the problem of con
cessions to be considered on
the spot if necessary.
.
IT IS hard to decide whether
Foreign Rprr-etai-ir T l ...i.
3" J S-MJJ WOO
convinced by the logic of this
argument, or whether he was
simply impressed by the unit
ed front of the other chief
Western Allies. At anv rat.
he accepted their argument.
No doubt the Western negotia
tors will go to Geneva with
a general idea of their maxi
mum fall-back position. But
they will not concede their
fall-back position at the out
set, because of the certainty
that they would then be asked
to fall back much further.
In this manner, the Western
Allies have safely eot throutrh
what may be called the trial
rounds before Geneva. It re
mains to be seen now the Al
liance will meet the fare more
severe tests that are sure to
come, when the threat to be
countered will be immediate
and concrete, rather than
hypothetical and still remote
in time. ,
(c) 1959, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Editorial
Comment
INVITING INITIATIVE
By its record thus far, the
1959 Legislature may very
well go down in Oregon his
tory as the Pigeonhole Legis
lature. We do not readily re
call a session in which com
mittees have been so loose
and free with their power to
kill a bill without granting
consideration by the entire
Legislature.
One such burial without
honors was accorded the other
day to the measure designed
to keep billboards from lining
the Oregon sections, of the
new Interstate Highway Sys
tem. A majority of the Senate
Highways Committee appar
ently was more impressed by
the arguments of the outdoor
advertising industry and or
ganized labor than with those
of the Oregon Motor Assn.,
the Oregon Roadside Council,
the Grange, garden clubs and
architects, who advocated the
roadside beautification meas
ure. This is an important public
issue which Is before every
legislature in session this year
by virtue of the permissive
act passed by Congress to
encourage billboard regula
tion along the freeway net
work. It will not down. The
Senate committee's act invites
billboard leglislation by ini
tiative. Proponents could
write their own ticket in such
a measure, giving reasonable
assurance that the result
would be much more distaste
ful to opponents than was the
tabled bill.
-Portland Oregonian.
FIRE DESTROYS MILL
Lincolnton,, N.C. -OJPD- The
Long Shoals Cotton Mills
were destroyed by fire Mon
day. Flov Jumper. 35. a part-
time photographer for a Char
lotte television station.
dropped dead of an apparent
heart attack at the scene.
SPORTSFA1R
As a couple of good Sports
who believe in being Fair
we'd like to remind you
other good Sports that
you'll have more than a
Fair "time at the Lion's
Sportsfair this week end.
Bill Fish