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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
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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.)
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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
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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
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'It is better to know us and not need-us
to need us and not know us."