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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20. 39, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 2949 (Thursday)
A box car shortage contin
ues to plague lumber oper
ators.
The . Jacksonville Grange
loins the growing revolt
against the policies of the
state grangemaster.
20 YEARS AGO 1
Sept. 29. 1939 (Friday)
From "Side Glances": "Leon
ard Mayfield getting all ex
cited about the football fes
tivities tonight, he being Just
as much concerned with the
big serpentine rally and bon
fire as with the actual game.'
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Sev
eral plutocrats' have brought
new autos to flee from the
flood of rumors If they, rise
any, higher.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29. 1929 (Sunday)
The first mail from Med-
ford's new airport is to be
dispatched ; by - plan this
week.
"Old Goid Outside Sugar
ed Sunshine Inside" is the
slogan being used to sell Bosc
pears on the Detroit market.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 1919 (Monday)
The city council Issues an
emergency call for pickers to
harvest the apple crop, and
schools are closed for a week
to proivde manpower.
Local sports enthusiasts
hear the White Sox have
decided edge over Cincinnati
in the world series.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. -29, 1909 (Wednesday)
A federal agriculture of
ficial urges Rogue Valley fruit
growers to plant all their
acreage to pears. -
Rogue River Bartletts sell
for a high of $4.25 a box in
New York.
What's Yclt I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or efcjht is exsafleirt; five or
sn is good.
1. Name the canal that
joins the Mediterranean and
the Red Sea.
2. In the rhyme, what did
Bobby Shaftoe wear on his
knees? '
3. Which of these rivers is
the longer-the Susquehanna
or the Potomac?. .
4. Magna Charta is medie
val Latin and means what in
English?
5. Name the composer of
"Alexander's Ragtime Band,'
and "Easter Parade." "
6. Did the thirteen original
states that ratified the Con
stitution include Maine?
7. What American river is
called the "Father of Waters"?
: 8. In what' South Dakota
town was Wild Bill Hickok
shot dead from behind by
Jack McCall?
: 9. Does Rumania have
ports on the Black Sea?
. 10. What causes the foam
on ocean waves?
Answers: 1. Sues. 2. Silver
buckles. 3. Susquehanna. 4.
"Great Charter.'' S. Irving
Berlin. 6. No, 7. Mississippi.
8. Deadwood. 9. Yes. 10. The
salt in the ocean.
FOUNDER DIES
Bridgeport, C"onn.-Brl)-Syl-vanus
Locke, 88, founder of
the Locke Steel Chain Com
pany died Sunday at his home
here, it was learned today.
MAIL TRIBUNE, MeoW, Or.
Tuesday, Sep. 29, 1959
Shocker
Within recent years the U.S. Forest Service
did a monumental job of inventorying American
timber resources. It published the results in a
many-paged Timber Resource Review.
- At the time, in 1955
widely acclaimed, as it
a truly giant undertaking.
But, it was far too
bother to read or study.
clusion of the report gamed very wide circulation.
.. -That was:
Timber is now growing at a rate faster than
we are using it. '
THIS is true, of course.
The statement was
associations to put additional pressure on federal
arid state agencies m this Pacific Morthwest re
gion to increase cuts of
. . . .
Ana some private owners noiaDiy vjeurgut
Pacific began cutting: at a faster rate
As noted above, the
was true.
. But, there's more to the report than that state
ment. TIMBER is growing in some regions of the U. S.
faster than it is being cut In this region it
is still bemg cut much faster than it is growing.
And privately-owned timber in this region is
being cut at a ruinous rate. If the rate continues,
private timberlands will be all but out of produc
tion in another. 20 years or so.
' This situation has been touched upon in recent
days in speeches lby J. Herbert Stone, regional
forester of the U. S. Forest Service, and by
George Weyerhaesuer, vice-president of The
Weyerhaeuser Company.
WHAT Stone and Weyerhaeuser are saying is
this:
The Pacific Northwest is not growing timber
as fast as it' is being cut There is not any chance
we can grow logs as fast as we are milling them.
A lot of sawmills are going to have to shut
down in the coming few years.
This may be a shocker to those who had re
lied too strongly on the single sentence condensa
tion of the TRR, and in that respect the TRR may
not have been the glad tidings we ounce thought
Bend Bulletin.
Homecoming
Nothing but good can result from re-calling
Charles E. Bohlen from the Phillipines where he
had ' served, without special qualifications, as
American ambassador. In this country he'll serve
as a special state department assistant on Soviet
affairs." For that position he is admirably quali
fied. v - " -
Mr. Bohlen is one of
a diplomat who has spent a lifetime studying
Russia. He even knows the language. His talents
were wasted in the Philippines, to which lovely
islands he was Shanghaied -. to appease the Mc-
Carthyites. So few McCarthyites remain that it
is no longer necessary
deed it ever was.
With President Eisenhower's half of the
home-and-home series on
len s counsel; should be
fact, the strains of the
have been sufficient to
should have hired a Russian specialist long ago.
Eugene Register-Guard.
Stevenson
Change in
Attitudes
New York (DPD Adlai E.
Stevenson revealed today that
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev apparently has aban
doned his opposition to step
by-step control and inspection
of disarmament by an inter
national control body.
In -a copyrighted article in
the New York Times, the for
mer Democratic presidential
candidate ' described Khru
shchev's ' "fantastic" visit to
the United States as - a "hope
ful omen" for world peace,
He said conversations with
Khrushchev during the day
they spent together in Iowa
indicated a sharp reversal in
some of the Soviet Premier's
attitudes.
"I asked if he thought he
could satisfy our insistence
on adequate and simultaneous
inspection and control if we
agreed to his proposal for
complete step-by-step disarma
ment," Stevenson said. "His
reply was that he thought in
ternational control and inspec
tion adequate for each of the
phases envisaged by his Unit
ed Nations speech could be
achieved . . ..." .
Clear Understanding
"The replies left me with
the clear understanding that
in their view an international
control body should have the
power and facilities to control
and inspect each step of the
disarmament process to the
extent necessary to insure
compliance with that step,
such powers and facilities to
vary according to the needs
of each phase."
The former . Illinois gover
nor said this view threw new
light on Khrushchev's dis
and 1956, the work was
should have been. It was
large for most persons to
As a result, one con
''" '
used by some industry
publicly-owned timber.
: j -t
.statement from the TRR
those rare Americans
to appease them if in
the horizon, Mr. Boh
especially valuable. In
Khrushchev visit here
suggest that maybe we
Notes
Premier's
in Talks
armament proposals. Khru
shchev's U.N. speech, he said,
was generally interpreted as
offering full inspection only
after complete and total dis
armament had been made
over a period of years by both
sides acting "in good faith."
Stevenson said Khrushchev
told him the international con
trol body should have "free"
access to inspect all countries
for compliance once the proc
ess of total disarmament is
completed.
Students Suspended
In Effigy Hanging
Long Beach, Calif. - (UPD -Three
high school students
were under suspension today
for hanging Los Angeles
Mayor Norris Poulson in effi
gy for his remarks to visiting
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev. -
The suspensions were dis
closed Monday by Long Beach
Polytechnic High school offi
cials who said a conference
with parents would be re
quired for the youths' read
mission. "It doesn't take a hero to
insult a guest," read a sign
hung around the dummy's
neck. The dummy was found
hanging from a school build
ing. RACING IDOL DIES
Kassel, Germany -(lIPB Ger
man racing idol Rudolf Car
riacciola, 58, died Monday in
a local clinic from a liver
ailment. - -
Dennis the Menace
'Your kid.told me i should
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
SOME POLITICAL
BIOLOGY
Washington Only one re
sult of the visit of Nikita S.
Khrushchev is already clear
beyond argu
v i ment. He has
A : - a ai
-: impressed me
1 -whole of the
J United States
as a trulv
form idable
p e r s onality,
tough, untir
ing, quick
witted, oddly
Jot.ph Aisop iiKeaoie, dui
the very last man one would
i m y i
want as an implacable enemy
which of . course he is.
Many Americans have been
astonished to observe the sta
ture and power of this squat
little man, with his gold
teeth and his three facial
wens. But they should not
have been astonished. By our
moral standards, the Soviet
system is almost as unpleas
ant as the blood-drenched,
long-forgotten system of the
Aztecs; but as a practical mat
ter, the production of form
idable leaders is one of the
characteristics of , the Soviet
system. It would be astonish
ing, in fact, if Khrushchev
were not formidable.
The record proves the case,
The true inventor of the sys
tem, Lenin, was -a political
thinker and leader of satanic
originality and fanatical bold
ness His collaborator, Trotr
sky, was as brilliant as he was
obsessed. Joseph Stalin was an
evil genius in the truest sense
of the phrase; for no ruler in
history has done more evil, or
shown a greater practical gen
ius than Stalin showed in the
industrialization of Russia.
.
ON A lower level, the best
judge of our era, John Fos
ter Dulles, regarded Vyaches-
lav Molotov as the most dan
gerous opponent one could
meet at a negotiating table.
And another exceUent judge,
former Ambassador to Russia
Charles E. Bohlen, considered
Georgi Malenkov one of the
very ablest men he had ever
seen in action. Yet Khrush
chev defeated and drove out
both Malenkov and Molotov,
Then too, compare Soviet
leadership with Western lead
ership in the last four decades.
In the Soviet roster, you find
no Winston Churchills, and
you also see the reasons free
dom is worth fighting for. But
in this Soviet roster, you do
not find those commonplaces
of the Western roster -the
squashy-minded, backward-
looking, comfort-loving men
who delude their peoples be
cause they delude themselves,
There are no Stanley Bald
wins among the Soviet lead
ers, if one may name an ex
ample far enough from home
to be non-controversial.
; '
THERE is an obvious reason,
too, why the leaders of
the Soviet Union are charac
teristically formidable, even
if they are too often horrible
as weU. They are formed and
chosen as Darwin discovered
that the species of living
things are formed and chosen,
by the natural selection of a
ruthless, unremitting struggle
for survival. In such a strug
gle, wicked men can and do
survive. But squashy-minded
and weak men are eliminated
early in the game.
In this grim struggle,
Khrushchev himself has told
us where he started. There was
something deeply touching in
his successive pictures of the
little shepherd boy; the illite
rate miner, and the rough
young Bolshevik suddenly in
jected, by some hazard of the
revolution, into a household of
old-fashioned upper class in
tellectuals. But Khrushchev-
stands where he stands today
because he did what he did
in the Ukraine and in Hunga
ry. And he survived the strug
gle because in 1937, at the
height of the purges, he spoke
as follows about the victims of
the second Moscow trial:
These miserable nonenti
ties . . . raised their treacher
ous hands against Comrade
Stalin . . . Stalin - our hope,
puxoHSxedovMYcm sob'
Stalin our desire, Stalin -
the light of advanced and pro
gressive humanity; Stalin-our
will, our victory."
TN ANOTHER generation, So-
viet leadership may be less
tough, less ruthless, less un
scrupulous, . less formidable
Even the men who will, come
after Khrushchev have not
been formed in quite as hard
a school as Khrushchev. As
the Soviet Union grows more
comfortable and more bour
geois, the grimness of its in
ner system of natural selec
tion will no doubt be further
diluted. But for the present,
for our generation, the Soviet
leaders have to be expected to
be men who respect only pow
er, who know how to use
power to the utmost, who have
no scruples about the ways
power can be used.
The meaning of this expec
tation is not inevitable doom
for the free nations. The free
nations, have already proved
their worth, when greatly led.
But men like Nikita Khrush
chev, with aU the resources of
the Soviet Empire at their
backs, can certainly hope to
win the struggle for the world,
if the free nations in general
and America in particular, ac
cept anything less than great
leadership. Greatness is some
times not popular at the polls,
and it is even more rarely
popular at political conven
tions. But nowadays, nothing
less will do.
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To the Editor: ,
Mr. Bulman, I'm glad to see,
Is one man at least who agrees
with me.
If there's one thing that makes
me see red,
It's when all the blame's on
a woman's head. - - ' ;
At most organizations that I've
been to,
It's the woman who's wrong,
through and through.
The man, oh, bless his little
heart,
Is angelic from the very start.
I believe there's a place for
what we wear,
Whether at home, or at the
fair.
I don't care for shorts worn on
the street,
think a woman should be
more discreet. -
So next time, my friend, that
yoapick a text,.
Please don't." just pick on the
female sex.
Mrs. Delbert Casey,
' Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Patience of Job
To the Editor: This might
be called an open letter to
Judge Edward C. Kelly re
garding the current hearing
concerning the Eagle Point
Irrigation district and Ann
Todd.
Judge Kelly urges that pa
tience be used in this matter,
and to set an example, he is
going to use lots of it. But
after four or five years of the
district attempting to do busi
ness under a constant stream
of heckling, threatened law
suits, and out and out inter
vention, one would have to
have the patience of Job.
It is very easy for a judge
to maintain order, because in
the case of a tirade or some
other form of disturbance, all
he would have to do would
be to fall back on the dignity
of the court and declare the
culprit in contempt. He would
have no fear of trials, or in 1
Special Briefing
Sought by Foreign
Affairs Experts
By WARREN DUFFEE
United Press International
Washington (UPD Congres
sional foreign affairs experts
today sought information from
President Eisenhower that
would help them evaluate the
significance of his talks with
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev. Several senators and con
gressmen urged the President
to give them a special brief
ing on the current status of
the cold war.
Senate Democratic Whip
Mike Mansfield (Mont.) pro
posed that Eisenhower sum
mon leaders of both parties
here for a briefing. Assistant
Senate GOP Leader Thomas
S. Kuchel (Calif.) said he was
sure the administration, would
do just that.
Kuchel said the briefing
might be held by a high ad
ministration official, possibly
Secretary of State Christian
A. Herter. Herter was present
during much of the two-days
of conversations between Ei
senhower and Khrushchev at
Camp David, Md., last week
end.
Be Better Guided
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-
Conn.) urged that the Senate
and House Foreign Relations
committees be informed so
they would be better guided
in the future. He said the
Eisenhower-Khrushchev com
munique issued after the talks
was "vague."
Congressmen of both par
ties were inclined to adopt a
"wait and see" attitude in
evaluating the Khrushchev
visit.
The congressmen also dif
fered on the issue of a sum
mit meeting.
Rep. Frances P. Bolton (R
Ohio), a member of the House
Foreign Affairs committee,
commented: "I- don't think
there is any need for one at
this time. What could be dis
cussed that wasn't discussed
this week end at Camp Da
vid?"
Rep. Torbert H. MacDonald
(D-Mass.) saw "no great harm
in a summit conference" but
said he didn't - think much
would be accomplished under
such "highly formal and
protocol-ridden" conditions.
tne case of an acquittal, a
suit for false arrest. Yet
Judge KeUy suggests that this
should be handled through
the criminal statutes.
He suggested that the
Eagle Point city marshal be
called to attend all meetings
and maintain order. Suf the
city marshal also has other
duties. The Sheriffs office
and the state police take the
attitude that nothing can be
done by them until a crime
has been .committed, so con
sequently they will not send
anyone to merely, maintain
order. The district attorney
has refused to issue a warrant
on a charge of disturbing the
peace because he didn't want
to becom-! involved.
So it would appear that all
chances of criminal action are
closed, leaving only a civil
suit as a possibility for relief
from the existing conditions.
And yet, Judge Kelly
makes, the statement that he
thinks that the water users
of Eagle Point Irrigation Dis
trict are unduly aroused about
something that is minor and
if we all go. home and use a
lot of patience, the conditions
will cease to exist.
If anyone thinks for a min
ute that this is only miner,
let him attend just one meet
ing of the board of directors
of the Eagle Point Irrigation
district.
Don Geren,
Route 1, Box 338
Eagle Point, Ore.
Expresses Disapproval '
To. the Editor I should like
to express my complete dis
approval of the action of our
State Game Commission in
setting the opening date of
duck season in the middle of
the week.
This action is in complete
disregard of the convenience
of the vast majority of hunt
ers who are unable to take
time off when they feel like
it. This practice should cer
tainly be discontinued in the
future and the opening date
returned as usual to a week
end.
H. E. Bush,
P. O. Box 785,
Medford, Ore.
Attempted Break-In
Reported to City Police
A possible attempted break
and entry was reported over
the week end at the Pepsi
Cola company plant, 1209
Court st., Medford police have
reported. .
Eldon Alfred Vinson, 1524
Whitman ave., told police
that someone broke a three
inch hole in a window at the
plant. However, no entrance
was made and nothing taken,
police said. 1
Coal Miners Dramatize Problem
Facing
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Fifty thousand joal miners
marched through the streets
of - Bonn, West Germany's
capital, a few
days ago, dra
matizin g a
problem that
has risen to
i plague West
J
'If Germ a
JEL"I France
ny.
and
Belgium.
Similar
problems have
arisen in
Phil Newton
Great Britain and the United
States.
Miners are producing more
4
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A BROADWAY MANAGER was surprised when his waiter
in a side street beanery suddenly tapped him on the arm
and chuckled, "Remember me? Til bet you're surprised to
see me waiting on tables!"
Tm not surprised at aU,"
the manager remarked
calmly. "I remember your
acting."
Recalling the eccentrici
ties of the late Joe Frisco,
Peter Lind Hayes observed,
"One thing you had to say
for Frisco: he only took
money from people he real
ly liked."
Bing Crosby agreed, then
added ruefully, "He cer
tainly must have been
crazy about me!" ' ,
A prominent couple in Hollywood recently were blessed with a
paby, and proudly sent out this birth announcement: "Baxnum w&s
right There's a Zucker born every minute.
0 1959. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King- Features Synfllctta,
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
WASHINGTON REPORT stdg
Washington A new force,
one both disturbing and amus
ing to the pros, has strongly
entered Dem
cratic pre-con-vention
Presi
dential poli
tics. it now ap
pears fair to
say that the
s t r u g gle of
these newcom
ers against the
old party pro
fessionals will be hardly less
dramatic than the struggles
among the Presidential aspir
ants themselves.
This new group that is chal
lenging the old timers for con
trol of the , convention takes
the view that it is issues upon
which the Democrats must
depend mainly in 1960. The
pros, as in their long custom,
prefer to speak first of men
and much later of issues-if
at aU.
The new fellows like to
think of themselves as intel
lectuals or eggheads. They
speak in egghead terms. Spe
cifically, they describe them
selves, in multisyllables, as
'prog rammatic politicians."
By this they mean they are
more . concerned with party
programs than with individual
candidates.
THE. pros are already sorely
tired of hearing the word
"programmatic" in the vari
ous party meetings now going
on periodically about the
country. They call their an
tagonists,' simply, "the pro
grammatics." The programmatics have al
ready made significant gains,
especially in the Middle West,
by seizing control of several
local and regional Democratic
organizations. They are divid
ed as to who should be the
1960 Democratic Presidential
nominee. But they are wholly
united oh one point, at least.
This is that the nommee
must be "liberal" enough in
their definition and free of
entanglements with the Demo
cratic professionals. These
professionals are, on the
whole, the old "Truman men"
of the party, beginning with
Mr. T himself and going down
the list of his closest associ
ates. - , '
- -
PAUL BUTLER, the Demo
cratic National Chairman,
is himself a programmatic,
though he might not adopt
that term. For.the two leading
programmatics in the party
are Butler associates, and But
ler, in effect, is following their
ideological lead. These two
are Neil Stabler, the Michigan
state chairman, and Paul Zif-
fren, the Democratic national
committeeman for California.
Mr. Stabler is on record for
giving the Presidential nomi
nation to Gov. G. Mennen
(Soapy) Williams of Michigan,
who is the most-advanced
Democratic liberal now in
high office. Mr. Ziffren is gen
erally believed to hold Adlai
Stevenson as his first choice.
But also high in the affec
tions of the programmatics
generally is Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota. This
White
Industry in Countries
coal than the countries can
use.
Ironically, one cause of the
difficulties being experienced
by the three first named na
tions is the "Jron and Steel
Community" established in
1951 to break down national
customs barriers and to allow
coal users to draw on the
nearest source regardless of
international boundaries. '.
The Iron and Steel Commu
nity was set up by West Ger
many, France, Italy and the
Benelux nations, Belgium,
Luxembourg and The Nether
lands. It was the first of a long
string of similar agreements
S. WHITE
is hardly surprising, at. that,
For programmatic politics ac
tually was developed by the
Humphrey people in Minne
sota, especially the Demo
cratic governor, Orville Free
man.
rpHE trouble with the pro-
1gramm atics, however, is
their inability to date to agree
upon anything other than the
generalized goal of nominat
ing an advanced liberal. Sena
tor Humphrey, for example,
would thoroughly ' ful that
bill. Stevenson actually would
not. He is far more conserva
tive than Mr. Humphrey - -
though this inconvenient fact
does not bother many of the
programmatics. They are sim
ply enchanted with Steven
son, logically or not. And this
enchantment is tending to
paralyze the Humphrey can
didacy.
If Humphrey is to 4'go" at
all he must first have the
practically undivided backing
of the advanced liberals. Oth
erwise, the old pros are very
likely to prevail in the end-
and quite possibly with Sen.
Stuart Symington of Missouri.
Symington, who . is Mr. Tru
man's choice, has been mov
ing up since the adjournment
of Congress. This is the esti
mate of Democratic scouts
who are not on his side.
Sen. John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, who is the
front-running aspirant, is also
consolidating his already con
siderable power for the con
vention.
The programmatics, there
fore, must soon make the hard
choice before which they are
so reluctant. They must de
cide not merely what sort of
liberal they should back but
exactly and precisely what his
name is to be. They, too, must
turn from "issues" to a man.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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which now include Euratom
and the West European com
mon market
The iron and steel commu
nity accomplished its purpose
but was not entirely an un
mixed blessing.
Strikes in France
Early this year, 30,000 min
ers in Belgium's Black Belt
went on strike protesting the
closing down of uneconomic
mines. In France, there were
strikes as workers were laid
off to permit industry to re
tool for stiff er competition.
Both Belgium and Fran-e
had to go to the community's
governing authority for help
in resettling and finding new
jobs for miners thrown out of
work by the streamlining
process. -
In spite of various protec
tive measures, West Germany
swiftly is ' approaching the
same situation.
There were two other rea
sons for the German difficul
ties. -
One has been the rapid
growth of the oil industry,
bringing a high energy fuel
to West Europe from the Mid
dle Eastern and Sahara fields.
Another is blamed upon
West Germany's mining in
dustry itself. - . -.
They are accused of taking
advantage of a seUer's market
immediately after the war
and hiking prices to the point
where it was cheaper to im
port coal from the United
States than to buy the locally
produced product ;
Established Duties
This year, over the protests
of the United States, West
Germany established import
duties designed to cut off the
scheduled import of about
nine million tons of U.S. coaL
It stood to cost U.S. producers
some 75 million dollars. - ,
In addition, the West Ger
man cabinet now proposed to
levy a t a x on aU imported
fuel oil, amounting to about
one-third of present wholesale
prices.
Despite government efforts
to slow it down, the oil indus
try is leaping ahead. One 20
million-ton per year capacity
pipeline already is in opera
tion in Germany, another of
similar size is being built and
a third is being planned.
King coal is in for a real
run for its money.
Desi Arnaz To
Appear in Court -
Hollywood (UPD Wealthy
producer-star Desi Arnaz has
been ordered to make a com
mand appearance in court to
answer charges of being
drunk.
Municipal Judge Charles
N. Cams refused Monday to
accept a plea of guilty offered
by Arnaz legal stand-in, At
torney John Cohan. The law
yer told Cams that other per
sons would miss work if Ar
naz had to go to court
"Just look around you
these people work, too" Cams
said. "What right has your
client to special privileges?"
Arnaz, husband of Comedi
enne Lucille Ball, was arrest
ed on a Hollywood street
early Sept. 19.
AUTO PREDICTION
Detroit (DPD Automotive
News said today the first auto
plant shutdown because of the
steel strike would occur Oct.
20 when Chevrolet plans to
halt its assembly lines if no
more steel is available before
then. The industrial tjade pa
per said same General Motors
fabricating plants will be
closed this week because of
shortages.
Quebec province in Canada
normally supplies more than
70 per cent of the world total
asbesos output. ' -"'
HAND-KHRUSHCHEV
With all this COLD WAR
talk it's advisable to carry
a HAND-KHRUSHCHEV for
the Big' Blow. Ifs also ad-'
visable to carry adequate :
INSURANCE.
Bill Fish