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Newspaper Page Textt r N - . f . i . 4 V MAIL TRIBUNE, MeoW, Or. Wednesday, JuM 24, 1959 "Ireryooa tn Southern Orefoa Reada Th Mall Tribune . Published Dnilj except Saturday by . MJJ3FOKD PRINTING CO. 83 North tlr St. Ph. SP 3-3141 JkWUf w iip - HTRB GREK Advertising UaDMe IRIC W ALLEN 3JL. Managing Kditor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAJ) Teleg Editor -RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 gmagl rmvi'IOS RATES B M a I L In Advance. Copy 10c j Da 11- and Sunday 1 year $15 .00 Dally ana sunaay mo. TK;i surf ClinrlV3 RIM 8-00 429 v VWIJ muv - - By Carrier In Advance Medford. Asluana, central roirn, r. a a i ' tj;-,. tknv4ii flnlrf - Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- . , er. laieni ana on muwr uuw. Daily and Sunday 1 year 18 .00 Carrier and Dealers C OPT 10c Official Paper fifCity f Medford ... i . . I L. - nnnl Ali lerma caan in mviuct - United Press International Full Leased Wrre - " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION , WEST- HOLXDAY CO, INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago, Da- yuu, trail m i mwm.vi - - 7' Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C.- - NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION MATIONAl EDITORIAl ASSbCMTlCojN ZJ J ZJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The May I Tribune 10, 40." 30," 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 24. 1949 (Friday) - Lee Williams of Mediora is :' employed to supervise work on the new ity swimming pool. . , Medford traffic officials and truckers meet to set about a cooperative program to im prove truck-traffic conditions in the city. - - - - - 20 YEARS AGO Tune 24. 1939 (Saturday) Jackson county's ' civilian conservation corps enrollment quota for this summer is set at 18. From Arthur Perry's "Ye : Smudge: Pot'" "column: 7 'Med ford won. first place in the " safe driving campaign. " Ap pearances are still deceiving." 30 YEARS AGO June 24. 1929 (Monday) Many local residents saw a large meteor fall last night, and mistook it for a. plane. Local fruitgrowers ask gro cers to cease selling Florida fruit, as a precaution against the fruit fly. ' ' 40 YEARS AGO. June 24, 1919 (Tuesday) Miss Mollie Britt of Jack 'jonville returns from a visit o Portland. .Dr. E. G. Riddell of the "school board explains next year's budget. 50 YEARS AGO June 24, 1909 (Thursday Southern Pacific railroad may abandon oil for coal as fuel for its Oregon trains, and deposits on Boxy . Ann are eyed with new interest. , A California excursionist is grateful to Medford Commer cial club promoters for an eye opening ride through the val ley... .. ... ,. V.,' What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tan correct is superior; seven ii ekjht is excellent; five at six is good. ' 1. At the equator, twilight lasts a very short time; true or false? 2. Is beriberi a South Sea island, a tropical fruit, a dis ease, or an African shrub? - 3. Aden is a seaport on what Sea? 4. What famous poem be gins: "Aye, tear her tattered ensign down"? 5. What was the only vul nerable spot on the body of the legendary . Greek hero Achilles? ' ; . . 16. In the nursery rhyme, who ate bread and honey? 7. A cow is to a heifer as a mare is to a Colt, Filly, Calf, or Gelding? 8. Any object weighs less at high' altitude than it does at sea level: true or false? 9. What is the difference be tween a martin and a marten? lO.What is the only crime defined in the Constitution of the United States? Answers: 1. True. 2 Disease 3. Red Sea. 4. "Old Ironsides". 5. His heel. 6. The Queen in 7. Filly. 8. True. 9- the'parlor. 7. .Filly. 8. True. 9. Martin is a bird; marten is an anifhal. 10. Treason. . FRENCH WRITER DIES Paris MDP&- Boris Vian, 39, controversial , French writer and translator of -American works, died Tuesday of a heart attack. ' Steel and Public Interest The keen interest taken in steel wage talks on Capitol Hill reflects a general public wish to see a strike avoided in this,ear of economic re covery. It reflects, too, the central role of steel in the American economy. Steel is basic in almost every form of manu facturing. Steel magazine estimates that a six week strike would cause trouble for many users, while an eight-week walk-out , would result in mass shutdowns. Moreover, wage developments in steel vitally affect negotiations in other metalworking indus tries. Present wage contracts with major copper producing mines and refineries expire on June '30, the steel deadlineAluminum contracts expire a month later, on July 31. Both union and man agement spokesmen have indicated that they will take their cues from the steel talks. Aluminum is now the second most used metal, and new alumi num products are appearing constantly. HTHE talks now in progress pit union negotiators against representatives of 12 of the more than 75 companies producing steel. But these 12 com panies account for 113,417,500 tons of the total steel industry 1959 capacity of 147,633,670 net tons. Some' if not all of the other companies pro ducing steel would be affected by any major work stoppage in the plants of the 12 major steel makers. Most will be directly affected by the eventual wage settlement. X FORTNIGHT before the strike deadline, few if any in .government were talking about government intervention. As long ago as May 18, Secretary of Ljabor James P: Mitchell had pre dicted a handoff policy. President Eisenhower on June 3 said that he "would have to wait" until a strike appeared imminent before deciding whether to use the cooling-off provisions of the Taft-Hartley act Nevertheless, Joseph F. Finnegan, director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation, is keeping an eye on the steel talks. He said on June 12 that he had scheduled informal meetings, with Presi dent David J. McDonald of the United Steel workers and Roger Blough, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel. This wasn't formal inter vention, Finnegan said; he just wanted to "take a reading' . - ". . ' - - - Back in April both McDonald and Blough testified before the Senate Anti-trust and Mo nopoly subcommittee Kefauver (D-Tenn.) Both opposed a bill spon sored by Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) which would authorize the Federal Trade Com mission to call for a publjc accounting , from major companies intending to raise prices of their products. ; - - Senate hearings on the O'Mahoney bill have been completed, and the House Government Operations Committee on June 10 reported a companion measure. Either a steel, strike or an inflationary wage settlement could put wheels under this so-called anti-inflation, bill, despite views expressed rather generally m industry and in some labor groups that its terms are over severe. And certainly a steel strike would bring on the kind of investigatory hearings by com mittees of the Senate or House or both that would tend to embarrass both, management and labor and tKus exert pressure for a settlement. E.R.R. Gen. Taylor Bows Out The retirement of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor on Tuesday, June 30 is being, viewed in some quar ters as a sort of Taps for the Old Army. "The last great captain of the old hunters the last of the Army's truly dashing commanders." Thus rhapsodizes ex-war correspondent, Pulitzer prize-winner William S. White in the June Harp er's. "He has fought a last, losing campaign to keep the Army's manpower base solvent." Thus does the eminent military historian and analyst, Brig. Gen. S. L. Ai Marshall, conclude his recent eulogy of "the Quiet Man.'-' ' Taylor, as chief of staff, has been a dedicated and formidable defender of the Army against the budgetary inroads of the other services. Over and over he has expressed his conviction that the greatest danger from Soviet expansionism lay in "situations short of general war." MORE than once, his view of the Army's role in the overall defense has brought him into conflict with superiors.Adm. Arthur W. Radford, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs, wrote Taylor sarcastically in 1956 concerning: a scheduled speech: "At some place in your talk, and most any place would do, you might like to mention the Army as a part of the United States armed forces team." .f Will Taylor's retirement erase the conflict? Probably not. True enough, his successor, Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, is primarily a staff officer, not a field commander. But his perspective, like Tay lor's, is sure to be colored by the Army's mission. For that matter, the tug-and-haul between the advocates of "maximum deterrence" and "lim ited war" is not one that .can be., permanently settled. As Henry A. Kissinger has pointed out: "The basic problem of strategy in the nuclear age is how to establish a relationship between a policy of deterrence and a strategy for fighting a war in case deterrence fails." Plainly, it is a matter of achieving an equilibrium, a balance ' not of awarding the franchise to one service at the expense of the others. KR.R. headed by Sen. Estes Dennis the I'll eer you can't find ouk Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE STRAUSS AFFAIR Adm. Strauss has suffered through a painful . ordeal which need never and should never nave have happen ed. The whole wretched busi ness arose from the fact that the Presi dent's political advisers at the White House failed to take account of the Walter Lippmann political situation in : Con- gress. ADM. STRAUSS'S five-year term as chairman 'of the Atomic Energy Commission expired on June 30, 1958. As this date was approaching the question of- reappointing him to another term was much de bated in Washington at the White House, in Congress, in the press. The most careful soundings 'were taken. The President did not reappoint Adm. Strauss, and the reason was well known at the time. The Admiral had made- so many enemies in Congress that it waft doubtfur.whe.ther he could be. confirmed by the Senate'.' It was certain, more over, : that; if confirmed, he and the Atomic Energy Com mission would be in contin ual trouble.. After June 30,; '1958, the President assigned Adm. Strauss to various posts hav ing to do with atomic energy, all of them posts which did not require confirmation by the Senate. But in the early autumn, following the resig nation of Mr. Sinclair Weeks, the President appointed Adm. Strauss as Secretary of Com merce. The date of the ap pointment is significant.: It was October 24, abOut a fort night before the Congression al elections in ' w h i c h the Democrats won a huge ma jority in the Senate. THERE is no reason to think that the White' House took the trouble to find out what the majority - leadership, which was Democratic, would do about the appointment. This was a grave error. The White House was on notice since, the affair of the Chair-' manship of the Atomic Energy Commission that Adm. Strauss was a highly controversial figure in Congress. With a Congressional election pend ing, the White House should at the very least have held up the appointment to the De partment of Commerce until after the elections were ovej For only then would it have been possible to - obtain the "advice,'? as the Constitution says, of the Democratic lead ers as to- whether the . ma jority would "consent" to the appointment.. The failure to take this ele mentary precaution, which was required both by common sense and by courtesy, precipi tated the horrid struggle which ended last week. Had the White House sought the advice of the Senate before making the controversial ap pointment, the President might well have received as surances that Adm. Strauss would be confirmed. Or if the White House had found again, as it had found a few months earlier in regard to ' his ap pointment as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, that he would be fiercely at tacked and perhaps defeated, the appointment should never have been made. As it has turned out, it would have been better for all concerned, including Adm. Strauss, if he had not been appointed. - 1ITHAT is. the explanation of. " the failure of the White House to seek the advice of the- Senate leaders before seeking their consent? The main explanation, X. would 1 r.. Menace purse?' Lippmann guess, is that in October with a hot election campaign in progress, with Gov. Sherman Adams no longer at his post, the whole matter was fum bled Later on, when opposi tion begun to appear, the White House reassured itself wishfully with the thought that it is not right to oppose an appointment .to the Presi dent's Cabinet. This theory is a feeble one. It is true that the Senate has only eight times rejected a nomination for the Cabinet. But the Senate has very often - I do not know how often been sharply divided about confirming a nominee for the Cabinet, and nothing was ever said before that the ma jority who voted against were somehow violating the spirit of the Constitution. As a matter of fact, Roose velt's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Mr. -Harry Hop kins, ..was .opposed by Sen. Vandenberg, and Roosevelt's nomination of Henry Wallace was bitterly opposed by Sen. Taft. In both cases, the opposi tion voted against the nom ineej not because he was ac cused ,and convicted of any wrongdoing, but because the opposition disagreed with his political philosophy. That is the reason why Adm. Strauss was rejected. There were strong personal objections to him on the part of many. But the fight would never have been waged so persistently against him had it not been that there is be tween him and a majority in the Senate a deep ideological difference. - THE other day, at his press conference on June 3, the President was drawn into making some remarks, quite unrelated to the Strauss af fair, about the problems of a Government, like the present one, which is divided between the two parties. Mr. Eisenhow er said that he and Mr. Dulles had often talked about wheth er it would be better to have a parliamentary ' system in which the government stays in power only when it has the confidence of a majority of the legislature. . . They had decided, he went on to say, "to stick with what we have:" For my own part, I think they were right. For a parliamentary system, at tractive as it is when it works well, would be difficult, per haps impossible, to operate in a federal union on a' contin ental scale. But this does not mean that we should not un der our system do what we can to see to it that the Ex ecutive Branch has the con fidence of the Legislative. This is most particularly necessary when the govern ment is divided between the parties. Thus, if the Eisenhower ad ministration is to get along well,, the President needs a Cabinet which can count on the support of a Congression al majority v This would never have been true of Adm. Strauss. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Painting Sold For Record Price London -(DPD-.A London art dealer acting for a secret cli ent today -paid a staggering world record auction price of $770,000 for Peter Paul Ru bens' huge canvas "Adoration of the Magi." The dealer, Leonard Koet ser, averted a possible -governmental hassle when he an nounced that the canvas would remain In England. - Other single paintings have sold for more than $770,000 but in aU such cases, the deals were private. Today's record price was the highest ever paid at public auction. Q Wilson Says Congress Going Under New Ground Rules on Confirmations By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washmgton-flJHI-Old-timers around town will remember that Harry L. Hopkins and Henry A. Wallace were con- firmed for service as Secretary of Com m e r c e, the job for which the U. S. Senate has refused to confirm Adm. L e w i i' L Strauss. , LQJ Lyle C. WUson tenner Wal lace nor Hopkins had quali fications for that cabinet post S'- v Recess Provides Reds Assess U.S. Readiness to Fight By PHIL NEWSOM v UPI Foreign Editor "Brinkmanship" as prac tised by both East and West in these perilous times calls for each side to assess con s tantly the readin ess of the other to go to war. . So, it may be assumed that in the coming three weeks of cool ing off time before, the Big Four foreign ministers reconvene at Ge neva, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his foreign minister, 'Andrei Gromyko, will spend some time assess ing the West's" readiness to fight over Berlin. The previous six weeks at Geneva have produced dem onstrable, if largely negative results. .' In the same period ' Gro myko has had his best chance to date to size up his Western adversaries. The ' next three weeks will not be a time tot error. Erred In Korea ; Internationa com munism erred when it decided the West would not fight in de fense of South Korea, That error was laid at the door step of the Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. For that and other sins, Molotov today is Soviet ambassador to Outer Mongolia. ' Earlier, Soviet diplomacy underrated Western determin ation when the Reds support ed a Communist-led uprising in Greece. Each case resulted in a hardening of the U. S.-led Western line against commu nism. Meanwhile, a number of in teresting notes have emerged from the foreign ministers' conference to date. One was sounded by Khru shchev first and now is being taken up by Western diplo mats in Moscow. It is that the West pays too much attention to dates set by the Soviet Union. Deny Issuing Ultimatums Both Khrushchev and Gro myko blandly have denied they intended ultimatums either in the original Soviet demand that . the Allies get out of West Berlin by May 27 Or in their subsequent sug gestion that the Allies agree to be out some 18 months hence. Whatever the reason, the May 27 crisis date came and went without action and the Russians paid less attention to it than anyone else. Out of this also has come the clear indication that So viet eagerness to talk still is undimmed after six weeks of argument at Geneva in which each side succeeded in little more than stating for the record positions from which neither would or could yield. One of the latest proofs was contained in the joint Soviet-East German communi que which reiterated Commu nist demands on West Berlin but also renewed the call for a summit conference. Other Issues Involved President Eisenhower warn ed the Communists weeks ago he would attend no summit conference 'either under threats against West Berlin or without tangible progress first having been made by the foreign ministers. . i The question then irises on what evidence do the Reds base their confidence that a summit meeting will betheld. A guess may be that they believe there may be other means of forcing a summit conference. One instrument could be the Geneva nuclear confer ence running concurrently with the foreign ministers' meeting. HEMINGWAY HONORED Ronda, Spain -(DPD- Ameri can novelist and bullfight ex pert Ernest Hemingway, cur rently vacationing in southern Spain, received a gold medal from the mayor here Tuesday honoring the 100th anniver sary of the birth of bullfight er Pedro Romero. either by experience or point of view. Their nominations shocked the business commu nity. This shock was aggra vated by the belief that, in both instances, President Roosevelt was seeking to pro vide himself with a hand pickecf successor in the White House. Wallace got the cabinet nomination because he had been a good boy in the 1944 presidential campaign, mak ing ' powerful campaign speeches to the political left wing in behalf of the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. FDR had wanted Wallace to be renom inated for vice president in In the months the nuclear meeting has been in existence, progress has been painfully slow and so small as to be microscopic. But progress has been made and so far it has been the one contact between Matter of Fact By 'Joseph Alsop HERTER'S FINAL TEST ' Washington - Christian A. Herter has come home from Geneva -in the situation of a remark ably promising stu dent who has only one mqre test to pass before getting his degree with high hon ors. At Geneva, in other -jos.pb Alsop woras, xne new Secretaray of State has already proved his capacity to lead the Western team, and to negotiate calmly and shrewd ly with the Soviets. Here in Washington, however, Herter has yet to prove that he can persuade the President to make' painful but necessary policy adjustments. That will be the final test. Painful policy adjustments are now necessary and even urgent, in order to remove the main obstacles to success at Geneva. Despite Herter's negotiating skill, the first phase at Geneva has ended in failure because ' Nikita S. Khrushchev plainly - regards the Western allies in 'general;' and Dwight D. Eisenhower in particular, as fakes, frauds, and phoneys. Quite-obviously, Khruschev does not think that Eisenhower means a word of what he says about "not giv- I ing an inch" at Berlin. Quite probably, Khrushchev . -be lieves that Eisenhower , will give away -Berlin itself, JI he is exposed to . the right com bination of crude threats and smooth talk. -c UNLESS Khrushchev can soon be persuaded to take an altogether different view, the next phase at Geneva will also end in failure with po tential consequences of the most dangerous character. Hence determined steps are needed to show that the Presi dent is" in earnest. 1 At the outset in Geneva, only a smaU minority of the Western : diplomats and ex perts feared thaj Khrushchev was not taking the President seriously. At the close, a sub stantial majority had been re luctantly convinced. In the final Western offer for an ac commodation at Berlin, Her ter and his colleagues reveal ed their "fall-back" position. If they sweeten this offer much further; the Berlin po sition will cease to be tenable. Yet this final offer was scorn fully, even arrogantly reject ed by the Soviets . One is forced to conclude that the Soviets expect to get a great deal more than the final Western offer. The opin ion that the Soviets even hope to get Berlin itself, of course under the decent veil of some sort of fraudulent "compro mise," is rather authoritative ly credited to the able Ameri can ambassador to Moscow, Lewellyn Thompson. r T WILL not be difficult to persuade the" Soviets that these hopes are excessive, for the reason that the President actually has been faking about Berlin. Even among our al lies, and especially the Brit ish, there are . grave doubts about the sincerity of the President's proclaimed deter mination not to surrender at whatever cost. But those who have been able to talk the matter over at length with How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do four false teetb annoy and em barrass by supping, dropping or wob bling when you eat, laugh or taUt? Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH today a any drug counter. JaU 1944 but the Democratic Na tional Convention would not have him. Could Have Bolted Wallace could have sulked or bolted the Democratic ticket but he stayed on the team. FDR made room for him in the cabinet by firing Commerce Secretary Jesse H. Jones, a financier with ample qualifications for that post. "Henry is entitled to what he wants," FDR told Jones and that was that. The nomi nation went up on Jan. 21, 1945. In his autobiography, Jones recalls: "The suggestion sent to Congress by President Roose- Time to the two forces where posi tions have not been fixed in advance. Progress toward disarma ment would make it difficult for any Western leader to re fuse a meeting at the summit Eisenhower' are quite clear that he really has made his decision after peering into the abyss. They are sure he has decided that anything is bet ter than surrender, even risk ing an H-bomb war. This report of the Presi dent's state of mind fs in turn confirmed by the close, day- to-day watch that he kept on the Geneva negotiations. Far from urging Secretary Herter to go further in the direction of compromise, the White House even balked at one or two minor concessions which Secretary Herter had been inclined to regard as harmless In short, the President seems to be every bit as firm as he keeps saying he is. Yet Secretary Herter's prob lem is very difficult indeed, because of two deep-rooted Eisenhower .traits. Because of his own faith in human na ture, the President finds it hard to imagine that anyone else can suspect him of fals ing, even including Khrush chev. When he- declares he will "not give an inch," he expects to be taken literally, In addition, the President has a particular horror of what he calls ''alarmist" talk or action. Vet this is just the kind of action that is needed to give reality to the President's pledges on Berlin.' TiHE situation of the Western alliance is bad enough. Western Germany is riven vby internal political rows. France is openly at odds with NATO and this country over atomic weapons policy. Britain is far from convinced of the need "not to give at inch" at Ber lin. Yet it is very much worse that this country, the citadel of the Western allance, has been treating the Berlin crisis almost as a casual matter. The country has not been plainly warned of the poten tial gravity of the crisis. The Administration has disap proved the obvious psycholog ical measures, such as partial evacuation of the thousands of Western dependents in Ber lin, which was recommended by the embassy in Bonn. With even greater sternness, the Administration has disap proved the obvious military measures, such as reinforce ment of the NATO ground forces and a partial air-borne alert of the Strategic Air Com mand. - ' For these reasons, the Presi dent has not seemed serious in his response to the threat to Berlin. Hence his verbal firmness has not been taken seriously. By sedulously avoid ing "alarmist" talk or action, with all its admittedly disa greeable consequences, the President has in fact invited the Soviets to carry out their threats. There is the problem Herter now has to solve. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) THE SYMPATHETIC TOUCH That means so much when sorrow comes. Serving all who call with faithful personal attention. With dignity and rever ence, we consider it a trust to served the departed your loved one. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND Wt Never Close than to Posts velt that Wallace, who pos sessed odd and mystic notions about business and finance, should be placed .in cnarge of the government's lending agencies, which were dealing in billions of dollars, startled the country and shocked Con gress. 'Congress immediately took ' steps to assure that, what ever else Mr. Wallace got hold of, he wouldn't get his hands on Uncle Sam's check book." Jones as Secretary of Com merce also had been Federal Loan Administrator FLA). That included supervision of xne Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its subsid iaries. How Congressional Re publicans and Democrats alike felt about Wallae in that kind of clover was in dicated by the vote in the House to separate the FIA from the Commerce Depart ment. The vote was 400 to 2. Ran For President The Senate Commerce Committee-voted 15 to 5 against Wallace's confirmation as Secretary but he finally was confirmed. Finally, also, ha ran for President. That was in 1948 as the nominee of the Progressive Party, which w invented, operated and bally hooed by the Communist Party of the United States. Hopkins was nominated for the Commerce Department in 1938. Some days before Vc nomination was made Gallup pollsters put this question: "Would you approve Harry L. Hopkins' nomination fctf Commerce Secretary?" Thj returns: Yes, 34 per cent; No? 66 per cent. Harry the Hop, as FDR call ed him, was confirmed, how ever, and served an undis tinguished cabinet term. In furtherance of his White House ambitions, Hopkins planned to buy a farm 'in his native . Iowa and joined an Iowa Methodist church. Noth ing came of that. The Wallace, Hopkins, Strauss incidents suggest that . the Senate is working under new ground rules on confir mations. CAP Conducts Jest Search in Area a 3 Cadets and seniors from the Medford squadron and the Medford cadet search and rescue team participated in a CivU Air Patrol training mis sion last week end in northern Oregon. The two-day mission was a statewide training exercise for CAP pilots, ground radio operators, and ground rescue teams. The week end "prob lem" was a light aircraft pre sumed ' d o w n e d between Camas; Wash., and The Dalles, Ore. CAP aircraft combed the mountainous area, approxi mately 10 miles long by 50 milts wide, and located the aircraft early Sunday morn ing. A representative from the U. S. Air Force observed the mission. search and rescue mis sion Is held once a year to familiarize CAP units with the problems of an actual search. This year's exercise involved 15 aircraft, 17 mo bile radio units, and 78 sen ior personnel. Mitchell Honored By Retail Clerks Los Angeles-flJPB-Labor Sec retary James P. MitcheU and his 85-year-old mother, the oldest living member of the Retail Clerks union in New Jersey, were honored Tuesday by the union. Mrs. Anna DriscoU Mitch ell, of Elizabeth, N. J., was given a gold withdrawal card and plaque in recognition of her 1896-59 membership. Mitchell received a gold hon orary membership card, the fourth the union has present ed in its 71-year history. Mitchell was guest speaker at the Retail Clerks Interna tional Association convention currently going on in Los Angeles. Mrs. Litwiller Q 'It is better to know us and not need-us to need us and not know us."