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-By BENNETT CERF-
T THE GRAND CANYON, there's an old trapper who hangs
around El Tovar hotel and sells tourist pictures of himself.
He also tells some mighty tall tales of all the wild bears he's
killed. "You must have had
some hairbreadth escapes,"
said an admiring woman
from Gloucester, Mass. "Tell
us about a few."
"Ma'amJ said the trap
per with some disgust, "if
that's been any hairbreadth
escapes around here, them0
b'ars had 'em!"
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Th late Alben BarWey told
th story of a certain minister
who was fired summarily by
Iiis board of deacons, and put
tip a powerful protest. "Didn't
I argufy?" he demanded.
"Didn't I magnify? Didn't I
glorify?"
"Yes," admitted the deacons, "You argufied, you magnified, and
you glorified real good, but you never told us wherein. And we'ra
ut to get us a preacher who will0tell us wherein."
O 1959. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features gsrndleata.
Sackett Asks FCC
To Reconsider Sale
Washington (DPD - Coos Bay
(Ore.kjWorld Publisher Shel
don i . Sackett has petition
ed the federal communica
tion commission to reconsider
its approval of the sale of
Oakland, Calif, radio station
KLX.
Sale of the station for $750,
000 by the Tribune Building
Co. of Oakland to Crowell
Collier Publishing Co. of New
York City was approved by
the FCC on May 6. Sackett's
petition was filed last week.
, The Tribune Building Co. is
part of the publishing enter
prise owned by the Knowland
family of Oakland. Sackett
named Joseph R. Knowland
and his sons, former fen.
William F. Knowland and J.
Russell Knowland, in his pe
tition. Sackett is p resident and
publisher of the World, and
operates 13 weekly newspa
pers in California. He filed
Assassins Miss
Cuban Diplomat
" Port-au-Prince, Haiti -4UPD -Assassins
in two automobiles
drew up to Cuban Ambassa
dor Antonio Rodriguez Echa
labal's car yesterday and rid
dled it with bullets.
The diplomat escaped un
hurt but his chauffeur was
hot in the head and stomach
and a passenger, sugar pension
fund director Celestino Fern
andez was wounded in the
arm. O
Police said that judging by
the placement of bullet holes
in Rodriguez car the assail
ants were armed with ma
ebineguns. Meanwhile in Havana, Cu
ban Foreign Minister Roberto
Agramonte cabled Rodriguez
to return to Cuba at once to
give a personal report on the
shooting.
The Cuban foreign office
announced that an extra po
lice guard has been put on
the embassy and' consulate of
the t Dominican Republic in
Havana following an incident
Friday .night at the Cuban
embassy in Ciudad Trujillo,
Dominican Republic, when a
Cuban exile was shot fatally.
The exile and a group of
Cubans had stormed the Cu
ban embassy to avenge the
wounding of one of their
comrades.
his petition as a citizen "for
the public good," Dut noted
that he planned to start a new
daily newspaper in Oakland
in competition with the Trib
une. .
Transfer 'Fraudulent'
Sackett alleged in his peti
tion that, transfer of the ra
dio station from the Tribune
Publishing Co. to the Tribune
Building Co. in 1933 was
"fraudulent." He contended
Jhe purpose of the transaction
was to give the Knowlands
control of the radio station.
He said records showed That
tl3 Knowlands controlled the
building company, but equal
ly shared ownership of the
publishing company with the
heirs of Mrs. Hermina Peral
ta Dargie, widow of the news
paper's founder.
Sackett alleged that the
transfer resulted in a change
of control in the radio station
that was never reported to
the FCC, and on that basis
was illegal. -
'J He. asked the FCC to. bar
the sale to Crowell-Collier, to
revoke the Tribune rfuilding
license to operate the station,
and to send the facts to the
justice department for inves
tigation. FCC officials said the peti
tion would be studied. It
could be denied or investigat
ed further, possibly including
hearings on the allegations.
Sackett also sent letters
about the- case to President
Eisenhower, Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, the securi
ties & exchange commission,
Attorney General William P.
Rogers and federal and local
officials in the Oakland area.
Street Trees
Broken, Fixed
Two of Medford's down
town street trees were broken
early yesterday morning,
Medford police reported.
The trees, in concrete plant
ers, were situated on north
side of Main st. east and west
of the railroad tracks.
The patrolman who discov
ered the damage reported re
planting several plants that
had been, pulled from the
planters and thrown on the
sidewalk. .
The damaged trees were
splintered yesterday, and
there was hope they would
survive.
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McElroy To-'Offer Man for Missiles
Washington - (DPD - Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy re
turned from Geneva yesterday
ready to crack down on the
angry Army-Air Force missile
row which has been plaguing
the Pentagon.
His chief weapon for set
tling the dispute is an air
defense "master plan"1 which
he will submit to Congress
later this month. It will spell
out for each service its role
in defending the nation
against possible enemy bomb
er attack.
McElroy confirmed that the
plan will advocate use of both
the Army's Nike-Hercules and
the Air Force's Bomarc as
defense missiles.
He -also acknowledged that
the joint chiefs of staff, who
prepared a rough draft of the
plan for his study, still were
in disagreement on some is
sues. He said, however, that
they were not far apart on
the main policies and indi
cated he should have little
trouble ironing out final de
tails in the next few weeks.
Blunt Orders .
Before leaving for Geneva,
McElroy had issued blunt or
ders to Mie two services to
stop their public bickering.
He said they were alienating
"our good friends in Con
gress." He had conferred on
the controversy . with Presi
dent Eisenhower.
The acid dispute has been
growing in recent months
with the Air Force deprecat
ing the Army's Hercules mis
sile and the Army scoffing at
the Bomarc as a defense
weapon;
, Confusion over the rival
claims has already been re
flected in Congress. The
House- has voted a sharp cut
in funds for the Nike-Hercu
les; the Senate armed services
committee has recommended
the Bomarc program be whit
tled. '
For Mid-June
McElroy's final answers
were promised for mid-June.
Thus far Eisenhower has
maintained a waitand-see at
titude. It is likely the plan will
recommend a reduction in the
number of both the Hercules
and Bomarc missiles which
had been scheduled for instal
lation. Some critics have no
ted that since both are de
signed as anti-aircraft wea-
ROUNDTABLE TOPIC
Presbyterianism, its origin,
its form of government, its be
liefs, and its contemporary
contribution to the world
scene, will be discussed to
day on the Minister's Round
Table 1 over radio station
KMED at 8:05 a.m. Moder
ator will be the Rev. James
Neely of First Baptist church.
Speakers will include Dr.' D.
Kirkland West, First Presby
terian church; the Rev. John
pons, they probably will be
obsolete in the near future
when intercontinental ballis
tic missiles rather than man
ned bombers are the weapons
of attack.
O. Reynolds, West minster MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oa.
Presbyterian church; the Rev.
Bruce Weber, First Presby
terian church, Central Point;
and the Rev. King K. Jones,
Sunday, June 7, 1959
First Presbyterian church,
Jacksonville.
Robert DeLorme, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Announces Removal of
, His Office to the
Century Building
(Formerly Community Hospital)
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