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History from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Not. 19. 1949 (Saturday)
Medford cold storage plants
hold one half of all unsold
Dears on Pacific coast. '
Donations of $32.85 from
r students at Eagle Point school
brings air ambulance, fund to
$2,155; goal is $3,000.
20 YEARS AGO
Mot. 19. 1939 (Sunday)
- The Farmer's and . Fruit
grower's Bank will be closed
- - all day Monday, in respect to
. Delray Getchell, president,
who died Saturday.
'"' From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
"'city is fixing a number of
streets and gutters, where the
water was contrary and re
' fused to run uphill."
. 30 YEARS AGO ;
.Nov. 19, 1929 (Tuesday)
- Dr. Reddy, of Medford, tes
tifies in R.R. hearings that
lack of RJt. competition here
. :'is hurting Oregon's develop
ment. Santa Claus will arrive at
Medford airport by plane.
40 YEARS AGO
; Nov. 19. 1919 (Wednesday)
Oregon women urge Gov.
' Orcott to call legislature to
ratify women's, suffrage
- amendment. ...
YWCA may build a branch
in Medford.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 19. 1909 (Friday)
Total banking deposits in
Medford hit new-record of
$1,717,510.
Rogue valley is winning top
prizes at Spokane, Wash.,
apple show. : ;
BREAKS WRIST, JAILED
Birmingham, A 1 a. (UFD
John A. Evans, 63, broke his
wrist when struck by an auto
mobile Wednesday. Police
then jailed him for jaywalk
ing. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina r tea. correct is superior;
seven or ekjht is excellent; five at
six is good.,
1. What is the Italian spell
ing .of the name Rome?
2. Who organized the Ford
Motor Company in 1901?
3. What U. S. President
recognized the independence
of the Republic of Panama?
4. Did the famous Yalta
Conference occur in February
, 1944, 1945, or 1946? .
5., Does the football team
bearing the nickname "Wol-
i verines" represent Syracuse,
or Michigan?
'". .6. The Church of England
has two Archbishops; one is
i the Archbishop of Canter-
: bury; who is the other?
7. What is the name of the
State Department's foreign
- broadcasting service?
i 8. Under what sovereign
. was Disraeli the Prime Minis
ter of Great Britain?
9. Is the New York Stock
Exchange open on Saturdays?
10. Is a Doberman Pinscher
a hog, dog, or wolf?
Answers: 1. Roma. 2. Henry
Ford. 3. Theodora Roosevelt.
4. 1945. 5. Michigan. 6. Arch
bishop of York. 7. "Voice of
America." 8. Queen Victoria.
9. No. 10. Dog.
Morality and Legality
Is all that is Jegal also moral?
Is all that is immoral also illegal? .
Of course not .
But seldom have we seen this fairly obvious
conclusion demonstrated quite so well as by a
New Jersey school teacher.
In his classes,, the discussion turned to the
"rigged" TV quiz shpws. The consensus of the
students seemed to be that no laws were broken,
that the temptations were great, and so what if
some of the contestants did have the answers
given them? ,
THE teacher thought
A In his next class, he
or, in schoolroom parlance, a quiz. Grades, he
said, would go on the students records.
Three members of the class he asked to sit at
seats near his desk. Then he gave the test an
absolute stinker. As he gave the questions how
ever, he wrote the answers, and surreptitiously
placed them so that the three students sitting
near him could not avoid seeing them.
The quiz over, the
passed around for grading. Most of the class re
ceived marks of 30 or 40.
seen the answers got marks of 100.
- - .-.
XHEN they realized
T T bers of the class exploded with indignation.
Apparently a vocal, lot, they accused the
teacher of unfairness. Even those who benefited
by the answers joined in
At the height of the
"I know of no New Jersey state law prohibiting
me from giving out answers.
And, according to the
this had sunk m, he noted that 'f ollowing the
disclosures of the classroom rigging, discussion
of television quiz shows
far more critical, mature
And he added : 1
"Teachers all
home this lesson,
idea to me."
It was a good idea, and a'good object lesson
in the fact that what may be permitted by law is
not necessarily permitted
E.A. . -
Booze Bamboozle
aaBHaaaaaaj
Remember the chain letter? The get-rich
quick scheme which the
knocked on the head a
Well, it's raised that ugly head again, with a
new twist, in Portland and elsewhere in the north
ern part of the state.
This time," however,
bottles (full), delivered
office will not allow whisky j to go through the
mails, and has ruled chain letters illegal).
i Eventually, you're supposed to wind up with
a cellarful of booze.
..
THERE are, of course,
; as there are to all something-f or-nothing (or
little) schemes.
!For instance, the more intelligent and more
conscientious of those who receive the "chain" in
vitation are going to toss it in the wastebasket.
And the chain will be broken in other ways.
So, as always, one or two or three sharpies
will be' swimming in hooch this happy holiday
season, and most of the rest of the suckers will
be out of luck. " ,
As for us, we're on the wagon. Don't bother:
E.A.
Dr. Erickson
Oregon will miss Harold M. Erickson.
For many years, he has been the head of the
state department of ; health,! and as such has
brought tjhis state to the1 forefront in matters of
public health. f "
Dr. Erickson is a quiet but effective worker a
leader in his sometimes-difficult profession, a
man who has been able to handle often delicate.
often important problems of public policy with"
finesse coupled with decisiveness.
His decision to leave Oregon, for a job of
greater responsibility in California, is a loss to
this state comparable to the departure of Dr. A.
Erin Merkel from the county health department.
It is in no way a detraction from their sue?
cessore to say that they did a good job, that we
will miss them, and that their departure is our
loss. E.A.
Imponderable Poll
;We didn't take a scientific poll. We didn't
even worry about the connotations of our ques
tion or the age, occupation and party registra
tion of our interviewees. But we asked people
we happened to see if anything happened to them
bad on Friday the "13th.
Everybody we questioned had a fine day
except one. All the rest got through the fateful
day even with the game or ahead of it. We found
one fellow who got a raise Friday the 13th. Anoth
er acquaintance was married that dav and he
insists this is good. Still another received a clean
bill of health from his doctor.
The onlv person who
was a friend whose treasured family cat was
killed. - .
It was a black one. It
a car. Salem .Capital Journal.
'
this over.
announced a quick test
papers were mixed and
But the three which had
what had happened mem-
the chorus.
criticism, the teacher said
New York Times, after
by students reflected
point of view'."
over the country are trying to get
I only did what seemed like a good
.by a moral conscience.
J
post: office department
few years ago?
it is played with whisky
in person (for the post
-- N
a few drawbacks to this,
didn't have a eood dav
ran across, the path of
Dennis the Menace
AgE Wll TRVM'fO TELL ME
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is again
reports from Washington in his absence.)
HOW TO DETECT
POLITICAL SOFT SOAP ,
Washington - (DPD - Nearly
everyone I know is pretty
certain we are going to listen
to almost uninterrupted polit
ical eyewash from here to
November next while we go
through the process of pick
ing the next President of the
United States.
I can't think of anything
more hurtful, more harmful-
and more perilous at a time
we are in the middle of a
contest with Communism for
keeps a Khrushchev Com
munism bursting and bound
ing with energy, a contest
which we ought to consider
made to order if we are ready
and willing.
We won't be ready and
willing to meet this Soviet
challenge if we are going to
waste the next 12 months
listening to soft words and
soft soap from Presidential
candidates.
TJAST precedents are not en-
couraging. Harding cam
paigned on normalcy and it
didn't last long. Hoover cam
paigned on prosperity and it
didn't last . long. Roosevelt
campaigned on a balanced
budget and cutting " federal
expenditures and that didn't
last long. Truman cam
paigned against a "do no
thing" ' Republican Congress
and got a "do nothing" Dem
ocratic Congress. Eisenhower
campaigned with a promise to
end "crisis government" and
we got eight years of unend
ing crisis.
What can be done to over
come this soporific vice?
. The only thing I can think
of right now is to form a club
-without dues, without by
laws, without officers, a vol
untary club whose members
will never meet collectively.
The purpose will be to
build up within ourselves and
among our friends such a vis
ible resistance to soft words
and soft soap from politicians
that in this pre-convention,
election-campaign period, the
candidates will have to talk
sense, talk honestly, and talk
candidly-or soon learn that
they are not goin to be lis
tened to.
.
WE WILL need some guide-
lines, some wavs of
screening out the eye-wash
and double talk, not whether
a candidate is right or wrong,
but whether he is worth lis
tening to. No doubt some use
ful tests will occur to you; if
so, let me know and I'll pass
them on to fellow members.
Meanwhile, here is a begin
ning.
Candidates Not Worth Lis
tening To-Ignore these like
poison:
The candidate who sug
gests that if you elect him,
everything will be all right,
that you can sit back and re
lax. The candidate who devotes
most of his time to attacking
his opponent or criticizing
what's being done.
The candidate who is very
forthright about stating the
problem but tongue-tied
about saying what needs to
be done.
The Candidate who thinks
Communism is a horrible
danger but says we can't af
ford to do what is necessary
to deal with it.
The candidate who neglects
the big issues and speaks out
decisively, only on the minor
ones. ' .
CANDIDATES W o r t h Lis
tening To-When you find
them, listen to them, write
to them, give. them encour
agement. Tell them that,
while you may not have yet
made up your mind for whom j
you- are going to vote, you
want to hear more of what
they have to say.
The candidate who says,
llllfll I' 11 J
Ate. WILSON WANT? T??. M0V OK
Reports
traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond
that the future and safety of
the United States rest in our
own hands.
The candidate who tells us
what sacrifices we are going
to have to make to counter
the Khrushchev challenge of
competetive co-existence.
The candidate who says
the same thing to,both labor
and management, that there
must be voluntary discipline
in today's kind of world or
there'll be compulsory disci
pline.
The candidate who is de
termined to deal with the na
tion's problems, not neglect
them with the sly suggestion
that some other arm of the
government ought to, do the
job.
It seems to me that so far
several Presidential candi
dates have talked quite a bit
of sense. But we are, going
to need to encourage them
because if we don't, we'll lose
this contest - for - keeps with
Communism without ever
getting into it.
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Poisons
To the Editor: I have found
many articles on the editorial
page very interesting, yours
on cranberries and cigarettes,
the answer by Mrs. Bosworth,
comments by the Eugene Reg
ister-Guard, the Brawns, and
many others, including a news
item, "The Senate restaurant
has scratched cranberries
from its menu."
I did not know many chil
dren ate at the Senate res
taurant. The world OK's
poison for humans over 18,
but forbids it for those under
18. If this is right for liquor
and tobacco, why not for
cranberries? I doubt if liquor
and tobacco is forbidden in
the Senate restaurant, yet
these two are Ihe most dead
ly poisons known. The world
accepts them, with all their
dishonest advertising, but de
nies the teenager the bissful
joy their use brings.
The teenagers are bad, the
adults are ten times worse,
for permitting the false ad
vertising that leads the teen
agers astray. Advertisers of
poisons should tell the whole
truth. The advertisement that
tell the joys of a cirgarette
should give the number that
fall by lung cancer and other
diseaeses because of its use.
The advertisement that tells
the joy of beer m wine and
other liquors should be forced
by law to tell some of the
sorrows this poison brings.
Dr. Ivy, chairman of clinical
sciences, University of Illin
ois, says: half a million per
sons per year are becoming
alcholics. Do you know what
this means? I do. My father
was an alcoholic. Many times
I was beaten by the hand
that was poisoned with liquor.
Tribune headlines recently
read: Man beats wife, throw
ing her down stairs to her
death. He was intoxicated
(poisoned internally). Colli
sion kills nine, driver in first
car had three beers (poisoned
internally).
Enough poison in cranber
ries to kill a rat in three
years, enough poison in one
cigarette to kill a cat in ten
seconds, enough poison in
three beers to kill nine- peo
ple in one second, so I have
read. If these poisons are so
good for adults, why deny
our children their good? Why
not be an honest example?
As we sow, so shall we reap.
F. E. Beverly
634 Crater Lake ave.
Medford.
Tiny U.N. Force Still Keeps
Peace in Israeli-Egypt Area
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
On a lonely sand spit near
the tip of the Sinai Peninsula,
a special United Nations force
stands guard three years after
Britain, France and Israel in
vrfded Egypt.
Matter of Fact bv Joseph aiSoP
The Countryside's Agony
Macao - Gnawing hunger,
made worse by chain gang
work conditions, now prevails
in every re
gion of the
Chinese coun
tryside from
which direct
, evidence can
be obtained.
All the eye
witness v testi
mony indicat
es that this
Joioh Aisnp situation nas
already endured for eight
months to a year, depending
on the region. It began short
ly after the organization of
all Chinese agriculture in the
vast ; super-collectives called
people's communes, according
to the eyewitnesses. In short,
the main result of the com
munes has been a cruel drop
in the already cruelly low
level of life of, the Chinese
peasantry.
There is no sign, either,
that the summer harvests
have brought any improve
ment. On the contrary, the
reports of those who have
fled the communes within
the last month are more dis
tressing, if anything, than the
reports of those who came
out in late spring or during
the summer. Thus the ques
tion arises, whether the Chin
ese Communist government
does not intend to keep the
peasants living and working
on the same grim level for an
indefinite period. 4
A TOTALLY different pic
ture of the condition of
the countryside has been
painted by the Peking gov
ernment. This picture has in
turn been largely confirmed
by the foreigners who have
been given guided tours of
China. Thus it is necessary tq
choose between this rosy pic
ture painted by the Peking re
gime and confirmed by the
guided tourists, and the dark
and macabre picture painted
by the wretched people who
have actually gone through
the wringer.
- The choice has complex as
pects, which must be discuss
ed in a separate report. It is
enough to say here that ,the
writer believes the eyewit
nesses, without much hesita
tion or qualification. For just
this reason, an effort to col
lect a solid, representative
body of eye-witness testimony
was made here in Macao by a
team composed of two highly
qualified Chinese newspaper
men, Richard Wu and Y. H.
Chen of the "Hongkong Stan
dard" and this reporter.
FORTY-FIVE persons were
interrogated who had fled
to this city of refuge on dates
ranging from the end of last
May to the first week of this
month. Nine turned out to
have been townspeople, main
ly from Canton; or fisher
folk, whose inherent mobility
gave them certain privileges;
or persons suffering from
some permanent disability,
such as blindness. The rest
were all able-bodied farmers,
whether men or women. Fur
thermore all of these came
from the two rural classes, the
hired' farmworkers and the
landless sharecroppers, who
are supposed to have benefit
ted most richly from the Com
munist regime.
The fisherfolk and former
city dwellers had enjoyed
strikingly better conditions
on the mainland than the
farmers in the communes. But
even these people were voci
ferously glad to be in Macao,
living and supporting families
o n incomes averaging not
more than 11 American dol
lars a month. As for the farmer-escapees,
their attitude was
nicely summed up by a touch
young peasant who fled his
commune by sampan on Nov.
3. He is now getting his bed
and board, without a penny of
wages, by working for a Ma
cao dealer in the great local
delicacy, snake meat.
"Why do you ask if I'm bet
ter off?" he said, with a bitter,
guffaw. "I'm one day here, I
get more oil and more meat
than I got in three months by
working 16 hours a day, seven
days a week for the com
mune." I
T SAYS that much this man
and thousands of others
like him have fled .the com
munes at genuine risk of their
lives. It says much, too, that
the escapees who have not
managed to get themselves to
more prosperous Hong Kong,
are still delighted to be living
in hovels on the poorest coolie
wages in this rather economi
cally depressed little city. An
alyzed scientifically, the evi
dence of these eyewitnesses
gives the grisly reasons. The
analysis necessarily comes in
steps.
The place is called Sharm
El-Sheikh, and from its Egyp
tian coastal guns once barred
Israeli shipping from the
narrow Gulf of Aqaba.
The Israeli wrecked the
guns in the invasion of 1956,
and the otherwise deserted
First, no grpup in China
except perhaps the inmates of
the slave labor camps is re
quired to do heavier- labor
than the peasantry. Twelve
hours of work a day, with no
time off for men or women
except in cases of disabling
illness, is the alleged norm in
all communes. In actuality,
many communes evidently re
quire 16 hours of work a day
for at least half of each
month. Several cases were
found of peasants being driv
en to work 24 hours a day for
twovto four days on end dur
ing the harvest and other
work-heavy seasons.
Second, therefore, . China's
farmworkers very clearly
need a heavy laborer's mini
mum ration." The minimum
grain ration for heavy labor
ers was set this year by the
Peking government itself at
53.5 catties of rice or .the
equivalent per month. This
amounts to- 17.83 Chinese
ounces, or about 1.9 American
pounds per day.
Third, all communes from
which evidence was, available
were falling far short of meet
ing the officially established
minimum grain ration for
heavy workers. ' There was,
however, a wide variation
from commune to commune.
This resulted not only from
variations in land fertility but
also from variations in the
ambition-quotient of leading
cadres. Conditions might be
bad in a commune with good
land, because the leading ca
dre had set a particularly
high . target for crop deliver
ies to the state.
"FOURTH, about one-quarter
of the cases we interroga
ted came from communes
where the grain ration for
heavy workers was within
two-thirds to three-quarters of
the official minimum, in the
range of 11 to 13 Chinese
ounces per day. No doubt be
cause of the fearfully heavy
work required of them, even
these people, whose experi
ence had been so much more
fortunate than the rest, said
they had been "starving"
when they fled. All also said
they had gained weight living
as poor coolies in Macao.;
Fifth, half of our cases fell
in the median range, having
received rice or rice and
sweet potato rations of about
half the official minimum, or
3.5 to 4.5 Chinese ounces per
meal at two meals a day. The
average was eight ounces of
rice, or less than an Ameri
can pound of pure starch
daily.
Sixth,-the bottom quarter
of our cases had received ra
tions which would have been
almost incredible if they were
not so well attested. The
worst was 2.6 ounces of rice
per day with a couple of
bowls of rotten sweet pota
toes. AH cases in this lowest
range had been receiving ra
tions of one-third or less of
the officially established min
imum for their working cate
gory. Seventh, the grain rations
reported for heavy workers
in the comunes are, in them
selves, g r o s si y misleading.
Children, old people, and of
ten even the women who are
required to work just as hard
as the men, receive much low
er rations than the top grad
ed male workers. Thus only a
single man with no surviving
parents could count on eating
his entire ration. All others
were forced to share their ra
tions with their families" in
varying degrees.
EIGHTH, the inadequacy of
the general grain ration
was actually only one part of
the ugly picture. Judging by
the unanimous eye witness
testimony, the Chinese peas
antry are now being required
to live on a daily diet of al
most pure starch and not
enough of that. For example,
after the communes abolished
private vegetable plots, there
had been no vegetables at all
except sweet potato tops. Ev
en after private plots were
again allowed this summer,
commune work demands
were to heavy to permit many
vegetables being grown. Nu
merous cases of grass eating,
bark eating, and leaf eating
were reported.
Ninth, as for fats and pro
teins, these were mere dreams
of the past in the communes.
No case was reported of a ra
tion of cooking oil above two
ounces per month. The stand
ard was a monthly ration of
one ounce. In one of the com
munes where the rice ration
was 'highest, the oil ration
was only four-tenths of an
ounce per month. A few of
those interrogated had re
ceived a small issue of pork
for Chinese New Year, but
most of them had tasted their
first meat in a year or more ,
observation post now is occu
pied by small contingents of
Norwegian and Danish troops.
They and their fellows are
symbols of a religious and
territrial conflict which has
kept the Middle East in a state
of - uneasiness since 1949 and
at times, such as in 1956, has
contained the seeds of a war
involving all the great world
powers.
'It was three years ago this
month that the United Nations
General Assembly voted to
set up UNEF (United Nations
Expeditionary Force) to "sep
arate" the forces of Israel and
Egypt. It was not to engage
in combat.
This force is a little more
than 5,000 strong. It occupies
the Gaza Strip, a 26-mile fin
ger of land jutting into Israel
along the' Mediterranean
Coast, and is strung out along
the Negev from Rafah to
Aqaba along the Israeli-UAR
frontier.
Represented are forces from
India, Canada, Yugoslavia
Sweden, Brazil, Norway . and
Denmark.
UNEF comes to .attention in
this dispatch, not because of
a three-year anniversary, but
because the question of UN
forces at Sharm-El-Sheikh has
been brought up again by a
spokesman for King Saud of
Saudi Arabia.
The king, according to his
spokesman, believes the
troops should be withdrawn.
King Saud expressed the
prevalent Arab view that the
Gulf of Aqaba is composed of
Arab waters. With UN troops
at its entrance, Israel is able
to use the gulf freely for ship
ping originating at the port of
Elath at the head of the gulf
into the Red Sea.
The problem is made the
more complicated because it
also involves the question of
Israeli rights to use the Suez
Canal and Arab claims against
Israeli-held Palestine.
The forgotten men of UNEF
apparently have a life-time
job. The state of war between
Israel and the Arab states
exists and apparently will
continue to exist. Tens of
thousands of refugees throng
the Gaza Strip and neither
the Arabs nor the Jews show
signs of yielding.
when they ate their first meal
in Macao. Some communes of
fered their workers small
quantities of fish each month
- which was generally avail
able only to the strongest
workers, with extra pay for
labor credits, since the fish
had to be bought at high pric
es. Other communes offered
them no fish at all. And the
ancient protein staple of the
Chinese poor, beancurd, ap
peared to have vanished alto
gether. F- SUM, these Chinese peas
ants we interrogated had
been working and living in
their; communes on a level ra
ther worse than Mediterran
ean galley slaves, who were
at least given issues of onions
and cheap wine with their
bread. They had 'all but shar
ed the experience of the In
dian slaves whom the Spanish
Conquistadors condemned to
the horror of the mines.
Further reports will exam
ine the degree of reliability
of this kind of eyewitness tes
timony, and will inquire into
the Chinese Communist gov
ernment's possible motives
for treating the huge peasant
majority of their own people
almost as the Conquistadors
treated the Indians of Mexico
and Peru,
(c) 1959 New York Herald
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DAY OR NIGHT
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
From London:
West German Chancellor
Adenauer arrives for three
days of talks with the British
leaders that are expected to
gain him a pledge that Brit
ain will not SELL HIM OUT
TO RUSSIA.
The talks are expected to
end months of strained rela
tions between the two coun
tries. The strained relations
have arisen out of German
fears that Britain might be
planning to DUMP THEM
OVERBOARD in dealing!
with the Russians.
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11 What's the background
of these fears?
Are they justified? Or it
Herr Adenauer unduly alarm
ed? TN AN effort to answer thest
questions, we'll have to dig
back into history.
For long centuries Britain -a
little island not much bigger
in area than the state of Ore
gon - was able to dominate
the continent of Europe. In
these centuries, Britain's for
eign policy was based on the
principle of never letting any
European power get big en
ough to threaten Britain.
In carrying out this policy,
she shifted her alliances re
lentlessly. Whenever any Eu
ropean power threatened to
GET TOO BIG, Britain allied
herself with LESSER POW
ERS in order to check the
growth of the nation she
feared.
rVER the centuries, Britain
" has been allied with near
ly every power in Europe and
has been at war with nearly
every power in Europe. Ad- '
herence to this policy gained
for her the term Perfidious
Albion, which was first coin
ed by Jacques-Benigne Bos
suet, who was attached to the
court of Louis XIV of France.
Herr Adenauer ' apparently
fears that Britain may be
cooking up another switch,
based on the fear that Ger
many might get too bfg.
THAT brings up German
history.
Germany is presently dis
membered and weak. But . i .
at astonishingly frequent in
tervals over the centuries . . .
Germany has been big and
united and powerful and lit
tle and disunited and weak.
But always, like the fabled
joint snake, Germany's pieces
have COME BACK TOGETH
ER AGAIN, and she has re
sumed her place of power.
Britain obviously fears that
is happening again and is in
clined to watch West Ger
many as a rival in the badly
disturbed world of today.
THIS DRIVE FOR POWER!
What TERRIBLE mis
eries it has imposed upon the
world.
Combined Firms
Bid on New Base
Walla Walla - (BPD - Appar
ent low bidders for a contract
to build a Titan Intercontin
ental Ballistic Missile facility
at Moses Lake were MacDon
ald, Scott and Associates of
St. Louis, Mo., and Morrison
Knudsen company. Army En
gineers opened bids Wednes
day. The joint bid was $31,600,
722. The government estimate
was $32,51,415.
Construction of the ICBM
facility, first of its kind in
the Pacific Northwest, is to
begin about Dec. 1. The facil
ity will be completely underground.
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