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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mee'fere', Or. Sunday, Jan. 31, 1960 "Everyone la Southern Oregon Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St, Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREV. Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM, But. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Mng. Editor EARL H. AUAMS, City EOltOT HARRY CHTPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Womcn'l Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation MtX An Indenendent NewsDaoer Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ox March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES , By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Daily ana sunaay l year io.uu " Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Onlv One year $4.20 lv rarriir In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, - Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- er. Talent and on motor routes, Daily and Sunday 1 year 518.00 " Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms Cash m Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire P.P.I. Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of' 4. Maw Vrtrlr CMraPft. T) . ; Gam r,.nnto.n T Al1lH. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver, u.c NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E DITOR-I At lAC(MTl(OlN w w Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1950 (Tuesday) " President Truman orders the atomic energy commis sion to go ahead with its . work on the hydrogen bomb. ' Officials of Ford Motor Co., arrived in Medford from Detroit for a meeting of the .southern Oregon Ford deal ers. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1940 (Wednesday) Three meteorgraphs sent aloft in balloons from Med ford several days ago to re , cord weather data, were found ;by loggers near Bend yester- day. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column:- "There is still no candidate for burg- ". omeister of this fair city. Someone is needed to boss the council and present visit ing greats the key and key- " hole to the city." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1930 (Friday) Local weekly publisher is Indicted by grand jury for criminal libel as a result of articles attacking the city's dance regulation ordinance and appointment of dance matrons. Auto accidents accounted for 189 deaths in Oregon last year. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1920 (Sunday) Influenza is on the increase throughout the country; quar antine still holds in Medford. Local rumors of a smallpox epidemic are proved exagger ated. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1910 (Monday) A petition to recall Mayor Snell of Ashland has been signed by the necessary 230 persons and turned over to the city recorder. Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna, who has served southern Ore gon for 25 years on the bench, retired today after being hon ored in court by Bar associa tions of southern Oregon. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five er tin is good. 1. Is the male whale known as a buck, bull, or a ram? 2. The Philippines will re ceive their independence from the U. S. in- 1966; true or false? 3. What is the seat of the government of the Federal Re public of West Germany? 4. What is the capital of Maryland? 5. What Sea bounds the Philippine Islands on the west? 6. The name for the study of insects is - n o y? 7. Do more people in the world speak English, Chinese, or Russian? 8. The capital city of only one state, Louisiana, is locat ed on the Mississippi River; true or false? 9. Whose portrait appears on the ten-dollar bill? 10. What have the follow-, ing in common: Simplon, Mof fat. Holland? Answers: 1. Bull. 2. False. (Did in 1946.) 3. Bonn. 4. An napolis. 5. South China Sea. 6. Entomology. 7. Chinese. 8. False. (St. Paul, Minn, also.) 9. Hamilton's. 10. All names of tunnels. - SP's Earnings Up (What Else?) Southern Pacific's 1959 earnings were 25 per cent above those in 1958, President D. J. Russell reported yesterday. (Yes that's 25 per cent.) They climbed from $55,767,313 (or $2.05 a share) in 1958 to $69,750,206 (or $2.57 a share) in 1959. This resulted, President Russell proudly re ported, from "three factors: increased business over the year dsspite adverse traffic effects of the copper and steel strikes during the last six months; the greater efficiency produced by large capital improvement programs in recent years, and inclusion with SP earning figures of the ma jority portion of the net income of the Subsidi ary St. Louis Southwestern Railway Lines." NOTABLY missing in the SP press release giv ing President Russell's happy news was the note winch has marred so many reports in pre vious years a complaint about money-losing sections of the SP's billion-dollar system. At first one would be tempted to think that the SP has already abandoned service to all areas where its profit-and-loss statement is not in good, comfortable black ink. Not so, however. Not quite yet, anyway. A clipping: from The Fe, has been sent us by HERE are excerpts from the stoiy which will "Southern Pacific Railroad says it will save) more than 5800,000 a year by abandoning one of its rail lines in southern New Mexico and Arizona . . . "Southern Pacific's petition to the Interstate Com merce Commission to abandon the line, which has been in use some 40 years, will probably be heard (in February). "So far, there are few active protestants to the petition, although there have been many complaints that the abandonment of the line will force hard ships on cotton growers, cattlemen, miners and other residents of the area. "Charles Boatright, rate expert for the New Mexico Corporation Commission . . . says it appears the state cannot contest the SP's claims, but wUl have to attempt to establish that the line's operaion is a public necessity. This would have to be done through witnesses and testimony of those protesting the ac tion ... , ' "However, he said irjany of the users of the rail way have indicated reluctance to making formal protests ..." THE railroad, of course, Vi Inoa n-f mrinav in to justify it by declaring it will provide better service (elsewhere), and that not too many peo ple will be inconvenienced, etc., etc. It is no wonder that the SP's earnings go up and up at the same time the losses due to service rendered in "uneconomic" areas go down and down. You can just bet that if ever its revenue from the Siskiyou line through the Rogue valley ever drops to a point where it isn't breaking even, it will attempt to abandon it, too and to hell with the people who depend upon it for their bread and butter. E.A. : . Regional News Page The Mail Tribune tomorrow will inaugurate a new feature, another step in a broad program of improvements designed to bring a better news paper to its readers. It will be a "Regional News" page, which henceforth will appear three times weekly Mon days, Wednesdays and Fridays. Primarily it is designed for the benefit of our subscribers outside Medford and the immediate vicinity, but we believe it will be of considerable interest to anyone in the Mail Tribune's circula tion area of southern Oregon and northern Cali fornia. PREVIOUSLY, news from the many communi- ties which we serve has been prepared by our correspondents in "column" form, and printed that way. Under the new plan, each news item will be treated according to its news importance, under a separate headline which will immediately iden tify the subject matter. We plan to keep this news lively, timely and fresh, and we have enlisted the assistance of our crew of eager and enthusiastic community cor respondents to do this. IN CHARGE of the page will be Bob Walters, who has been riven the title "rerional editor" for lack of any better name. And this again brings up a minor problem on which we would like suercrestions. Is there anv good name for this area In Lane county the Register-Guard has dub bed its circulation area the "Emerald Empire." Other areas have other names. But so. far we have been unable to come up with any catchy, handy designation for our area which includes all of Jackson county, and good-sized chunks of Josephine and Siskiyou counties. ... "Ro t.hnr. ns it. mflV. wp hnnA vrm lflcp this re gional news page, and make it, and all other better. E.A. P.S. Would anyone object if we dropped the "Stargazer" horoscope feature? E.A. New Mexican, of Santa a friend. The headline in addition to claiming V10 nnorof ?rm a Horn nc we serve? will continue working to parts of the paper, even Dennis the Mcm, when Cbweoy 600 sihss 'Get a lohg uttlb dOGit', DOCS We MEAN I SHOULD SET A OASUffQUWD? Today & Tomorrow By Walter OUR CUBAN POLICY The official statement on Cuba, which the President made at his press conference on Tuesday, Is an approach to a problem of which no one can now know the so lution. The problem is larger than Cuba. It is the problem of what this do about the movement in Walter Lippmann country is to revolutionary Latin America, of which Cas tro's is a spectacular but by no means the only manifesta tion. For what is going on in Cuba today is no mere palace revolution at the top, in which one oligarchy has oust ed another. This is a social revolution involving the mass es of the Cuban people, and its aim is not to install a new set of rulers but to work out a new social order. -.-. OUR experience, which be gan . with the Mexican revolution some 40 years ago, has taught us that armed in tervention or even economic coercion by blockade, em bargo, and economic repri sals, do little good and much harm. They do not protect the legitimate American interests which are jeopardized by the revolution and they make it very difficult to come to rea sonable settlements when the revolutionary fervor subsides, and the time of reconciliation and reconstruction arrives. The President has based his position on that experi ence. It amounts . to saying that for the time being our policy is to sit it out on the principle that this is the kind of situation where it is better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing. This policy of keeping our hands off and of sitting it out will work as long as only American prop erty and American pride, but not American lives, are in volved. TN HIS press conference the President said that "we are concerned, and more than that, we are perplexed" about the savage attacks made upon us by Castro and his govern ment and the Cuban press. Unfortunately the truth, though very unpleasant, is not perplexing. It is that to attack this country is popular, that it rallies mass support not only in Cuba but in many other countries in this hemi sphere. If we really face it, we have to realize that in our relations with Latin America we have, with notable excep t i o n s, identified ourselves with the support of the past and as opponents of the fu ture. The chickens are com ing home to roost. To be anti Yankee is to be popular and progressive. - Thus, our Cuban policy in the face of the exasperating provocations of Castro in volves our relations with all the progressive popular move ments in this hemisphere. Castro knows this and is ex ploiting it fully.- At times there is reason to suspect that he is trying to provoke us into an intervention in order to rally his own people and to arouse mass support in the whole hemisphere. . rpHE President and his ad visors appear to be fully aware of this, and the atti tude they have taken is sure ly the wisest and the most re sponsible that is possible, in the circumstances. It is wor thy of full national support. They have understood that much more is at stake than some property and that hard words are just hard words. There is at stake our ability to convince our American 4lo Menace Lippmann neighbors and the world out side that we are not the ene mies but are indeed the friends of the liberating, dem ocratic, and progressive move ments of our age. To convince our Latin American neighbors of this will be, I take it, the Presi dent's mission in his coming trip to South America. We should understand that this is by aU odds themost difficult trip he has yet undertaken, and that the risks, the politi cal, risks, are very consider able! These risks would al most surely become prohibi tive, owing to popular resent ment in South America, if in his Cuban policy the Presi dent had even flirted with the idea or. intervention or eco nomic coercion. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted- for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often Only Candidate To the Editor: The follow ing is an open letter I have sent to Paul Butler, National Democratic party chairman: Dear Paul: As a delegate to the last convention, I wish to inquire, "Why was there 'no room at the inn for Senator Wayne L. Morse, at the Candidates' Dinner, Jan. 23?" In response to our plea, he had formally announced that he was a "serious candidate." How can we call Nixon a "picked pigeon" if we thwart any serious contenders in our own party? I am concerned not only as a matter of principle, but from a practical standpoint. It is virtually certain that none of the" hopefuls that spoke have a "snowbaU's chance" to win. You must surely sense that already-after the convention it will be too late to do anything about it. Our party will not return to the White House until it offers a courageous leader of such challenging moral and political stature as to give the voters an unmistakable choice. Nothing less than a Morse ticket can provide that choice. At meeting after meeting, here in Oregon, Morse has demonstrated that he can con vert those that came to scoff. Call it "Morse Magic" if you will, but he can "move moun tains." He understands the present and anticipates the future. A tide of spontaneous support arises for him as people are permitted to discover his ab solute integrity and dedicated sense of justice based on the Golden Rule. Morse's unique strength springs from that same EX TRA DEPTH OF CHARAC TER that has made Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman immortal. Make no mistake about it, as of this date Morse is the only candidate in the field who can "Nix Nixon." Vic tory or defeat in November wiU hinge directly on recogni tion of that fact at the con vention. Jason Lee, - -. 495 State st., Salem, Ore. New Miracles? To the Editor: According to authors of books on "fly ing objects" we have had the pleasure of reading in the past 13 years, there have al ways been unexplained "space objects." In fact earthly crea tures are in reality all travel Matter of Fact ey JeMPh mmp (The following article is the fifth in a series of six.) THE MISSILE GAP: THE BRIDGE Washington-The incredible thing about the official ap proach to the missile gap is the Heedless ness of the hair - raising risk that it is being run. In order to save some hundreds of millions of doll ars, the i s e nhower administration Joseph alsop is lit e r a 1 1 y playing a gigantic game of Russian roulette with the na tional future. These are strong statements. They are also factual state ments. Their coldly factual character is at once apparent, if you grasp why the Ameri can Strategic Air Command er, the man who knows most about the problem, Gen. Thomas Power, has now be gun to talk about the Soviets' opportunity to "wipe out" our nuclear deterrent. The TOTAL VULNER ABILITY OF THE AMERI CAN DETERRENT is obvious ly General Power's first wor ry. Here and overseas, there are now about . 100 missile bases and launching pads, from which we can send nu clear weapons against an enemy. All these bases and launching pads are soft tar gets. "Soft," in Pentagonese, means capable of being utter ly destroyed by the five pounds of blast-pressure per square inch which is caused, over a four-mile radius, by a one megaton bomb explosion. . A CCORDING to General " Power, three Soviet bal listic missiles will give the Kremlin a 95 per cent chance of destroying any soft target. This is the basis of General Power's estimate of 300 So viet missiles, half IRBMs, half ICBMs, to "wipe out" the de terrent. As previously noted in this series, there is no doubt.the Soviets already have the intermediate range mis siles. They will also have the 150 ICBMs they reguire with the case. ing on one of the millions , of satellite planets in space or bits. Science claims all manifes tations of phenomena are moving in the celestial crea tion. All natural elements are mdestructable and are only disintegrated and changed or transmuted into other ele ments or invisible atoms. The general trend of the thinking today , has greatly changed from the superstitions pos sessed by the "cave men" of the "dark ages." One branch of modern science hints that a new sixth root race will eventually manifest on this whirling sphere called earth. So, why not new miracles, as recorded in the most an cient Oriental teachings on Holy Writ. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. "Facts vs. Propaganda" To the Editor: Again we are going to look back to an editorial page of the Mail Tribune -- Jan. 21, and lay the cards face up on the ta ble, facts versus propaganda Consider the two types of economic analysts-those who desire taxpayers put in more in the waste column, increas ed taxes and interest-really tribute compared to the newer type, cut down on taxes, or eliminate them, and use pay-as-we-go system, the 16th out and replace with the 53rd Amendment and get the 700 encroachments of govern ment out of private business. It can be done, an estimated five million business heads say so, but we need another five million. Eliminate both old political parties, and in fact the entire U. S. Supreme Court and aU. foreign interna tionalists. We've already giv en them 72 billions and that should be enough. Where do the facts come from? First the Meador Pub lishing Co., Boston; next Wickliffe Vennard Sr., Hous ton, Texas, also S. W. Adams, author of Austin, Texas, who wrote the crime of "Legalized Banking." When many writ ers and heads of the press know these facts, and do not publish them, they are at guilty as the foreigners who brought them into our great USA. "Yes, Mr., the citizen should pay his taxes on his land and assets, for the U.SA. but no longer to the international gang," and so says Mayor Bracken Lee, who was perse cuted for saying so. Among other well-known the equivalent of ten months of capacity production of our own Atlas missile plant. THE LACK OF ANY WARNING AGAINST MIS SILE ATTACK is clearly Gen eral Powers second worry. At present, and until at least the end of 1963, SAC and aU the West's other nuclear forces cannot count on any warning against surprise at tack with missiles. True, an anti-missile warning system is now being installed. But the eastern sector of this BMtwb system, as it is called, is only just coming into operation. The central sector is still far in the future. The western sector, which has to be based in Scotland, has not even been started. There will be no sure warning until the whole sys tem is completed. THE COMBINATION OF ZERO -WARNING AND TOTAL VULNERABILITY in turn adds up in General Pow er's" (and in any other mind capable of simple arithmetic) to the likelihood of the Amer ican deterrent being ''wiped out"-if the. Soviets just have or acquire the 150 ICBMs they need. Right here is where the game of Kussian roulette begins. , ''-. AFTER two budgetarily con venient downgradings, the National Intelligence Esti mates do not credit the So viets with those 150 . ICBMs. One must pray the estimates are right. But no intelligence service on earth can be abso lutely certain that the closed Soviet society, using all the resources of the huge Soviet economy, has not produced a number of weapons equal to a mere ten months of capacity production in a single Ameri can factory. There is at least one chance in six - the normal chance when juvenile, delinquents play Russian roulette - that our intelligence estimates are wrong, some say it may be one chance in five, or maybe even one chance, in four or three, or two. And if the esti mates are wrong by, a hair, our power to resist the Krem lin wiU be "nullified," accord ing to General Power THE MACABRE ROU LETTE GAME IS NEED LESS, however, because there are. steps that can be taken to solve the problem of the American deterrent's total vulnerability and its total lack of warning. If we take those steps, the missile gap can probably be bridged. They are as follows: - A MAXIMUM AIR BORNE ALERT is the most obvious and urgent need. A plane that is already m the air, with bombs and fuel aboard, is not vulnerable to a one megaton explosion, or to a 100 mega ton explosion. Before launch ing his own attack, the enemy must be ready to defend against all planes on airborne alert. Otherwise if there are enough such planes, a Soviet strike at us will invite the destruction of the Soviet Un ion. A T PRESENT the Strategic Air Command has a 15- mlnute ground alert, which is useless in conditions of zero warning. In the new budget, the Administration has reluctantly tossed General Power some peanuts fof air borne alert-$20.000,000 this year, and $90,000,000 next year. But this is the old trick of token appropriations to de lude the nation. A maximum alert is need ed, at least of General Pow er's big B-52 bombers, which are the only suitable planes he has. Even a maximum alert, of 25 per cent of his 600 or so B-52s, will give him a dependable first strike of only 150 aircraft. Even after due aUowance for the improvement in the bombs carried, a first strike by 150 aircraft is a melancholy con- American patriots, who refuse to get into the controversies and communistic ideas of the the United Nations, are Wy oming and Texas, which passed the 23rd, now shortly same type in Mississippi, Michigan and Georgia. Foun dation laid by Mr. Willis E. Stone, Kent Court of In dependent American, two out- standing Americans, and don't let the heads of the A.P., or Federal Reserve, or any of their counterfeit bankers tell you to the contrary. Drastic facts, we know it and are sure of it. - Next you get Vol. No. 7- Federal Reserve Hoax, by Mr. W. Vennard Sr., and you will no longer say a word re garding the deception ideas too widely written and read by the majority. Just a word from this sec tion on today's broadcasts, re party dinners. The mighty Columbia now hat two chan nels, still called (D) and (R) with tome 100,000 dollars thrown - lnta each channel, matched by Rockefeller mil lions, and we will be rele gated to our Alaskan Siberia and don't let anyone tell you to the contrary. George H. Holmes, Box 2004, Salem, Ore. POTIUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We have another case . of mistaken automobile identity today, kindly telephoned to us by a reader. A young man employed by Harley's Texaco station was summoned to the Groceteria the other day to pick up the car of an employee for a wash job and for a full tank of gasoline. He arrived, received the keys from the owner, plus a description of the car - a Pontiac. He went to the parking lot, found a Pontiac. got in, in serted the key. started it and drove away. He washed the car carefully, and then filled the tank, finding to his sur prise that it took only five gallons. when the "owner" came to get the car, she stoutly insist ed it wasn't hers. The police were called. Has a stolen Pontiac been reported? Yes it has. Is it of such-and-such description? Yes it is. Well- maybe you'd better come and get it. And so the car was return ed to its rightful owner, the young man was exonerated of any car theft, and the only things unexplained are how he happened to tick the wrong Pontiac and how it happened that the key to one Pontiac fitted perfectly an other one. Since 1960 is ah election year, the word "politics" will be in frequent use. Thus arises the ancient problem is it a singular word, or is it plural? Let's be of public service right now by reporting that it is either, and can take both singular' and plural verbs (though not, of course, at the tame lime). So use it the way it sound best. "Politics is funny." "Politics are funny." You're on safe ground there. Speaking of politics, the of fice of county school super intendent Is no longer a po litical (elective) job. It Is non political (appointive), . . , But, mainly because the office is usually in the courts house and because the office once was political, many peo ple still think of it that way A speaker at a recent state educational meeting recogniz ed this fact, and tended to blame it on the superintend ents . themselves, when he said: "You fellows, moved right into the courthouse in the be ginning and became part of the crowd associated with big brass spitoons and cigar puffer meetings. Now people consider you just another set of politicians." . The newest thing in cos metics, we read somewhere, is a coffee-flavored, lipstick. There must be some hidden significance to this- some where; it must be portent; trast with the old SAC re quirement, for a first strike by about 1500 aircraft. The con trast is all the more serious, because of the recent Soviet installation of a powerful air- defense system based on mis siles like our Nike-Hercules But the maximum airborne alert of the B-52s is the only remedy . immediately avail able, and it is a good remedy, too. It would add about $900,000,000 to the budget. "DETTER WARNING can be -- provided within 18 months, in all probability,- by larger investment in the . highly promising Midas, missile-seeing satellite. Within 18 min utes warning from Midas, General Power could greatly increase, the strength of ;his first strike. . The , Pentagon's kept scientists say that, it is still a gamble to invest the extra .$200,000,000 needed to buy an operational Midas warning system immediately. But the Midas-builders say it is a good gamble. It should be taken. ' LATER DANGERS CAN BE REDUCED TOO, by buy ing more Atlas and Titan missiles for the perilous year, 1963. These late-coming mis siles will be in "hard" pads. Being' hard targets, each of these American ICBMs will add something like 25 Soviet ICBMs to the Kremlin's mis sile requirement, at the very time when the Kremlin's mis sile program is quite sure to be in highest gear An in creased effort to close the far end Of the gap in this manner might cost a little more than $1,500,000,000. These sums are not trifling. But surely it is not worth playing Russian roulette with the national future, to. save a total amount no bigger than the invested capital of "a sin gle American charitable" foun dation. Copyright 1SB0, New York Herald Tribune Inc. an omen; an augury. But of what we don't know. May be our philosopher friend. Bert Kissinger, can tell us. Dick Jewett Is our sports editor and is known as DJ for short. Olive Starcher is our women's editor, and is known as OS for short. DJ and OS were working late-ish one evening last week, and, as DJ wound up his tasks he mentioned he'd call home and get Mrs. DJ to drive down and pick him up. Whereupon OS said she had to get her car (which was park ed a short, therapeutic dis tance down the street), and that she'd be glad to stop by the office, pick him up, and drive him home. OS departed and D J waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. Finally he got tired of it, called home, and Mrs. DJ picked him up. OS, it developed later, had gone to her car, driven straight past the M-T building and home - and didn't remem ber she was to have picked D J . up until she was some what forcibly reminded of the fact the following morn ing. "There was ice on my heels," DJ says. We know a fellow who figures that if he continues to save money at his pres ent rate, by the time he is 65 he'll owe about $300,000. The Roseburg News-Review is our authority for reporting that an orniscopytheobiblio psychocrystarroscioaerogene -thliometeoroaustrohieroanth -ropoichthyopyrosiderochpni -myoalectryoophiobotanopego -hydrorhabdocrithoaleuroal -phitohalomolybdoclerobeloa -xinocoscinodactyliogeolithop -essopsephocatoptrotephraon eirchiroonychodactyloarithst -ichooxogeloscogastrogyrocer -obletonocen&scapulinaniac is a "deluded human who prac tices divination or forecasting -by means of phenomena, in terpretation of act3 or other manifestations related to an imate or inanimate objects and appearances." That's the kind of guy we should sic onto coffee-flavored lipstick, among other things. - Note to linolypist and proofreader: Be sure lo spell that word right. Someone might notice if you don't. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS TRIVIA in the news: , Albert P. Armour, said to be the inventor of the deor on telephone booths, dies at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He was . reputed to have sold his phone booth patent rights for three million dol lars when he retired in 1929. That's what an IDEA can do. AFTERTHOUGHT: I'll bet it never occurred to him that the time would come when phone booths equipped with his gadget door would be used . to see how many college students can be crowded into them. AFTERTHOUGHT No. 2: , How long has it been since you read of a phone bo o t h - cramming incident? Quite a while, I'll wager. You may NEVER hear of one. again. Fads come and go like epidemics of the measles. M ORE trivia: Elmer F. Lovejoy, ln- ventor of the automatic ga rage, door opener and credited with helping develop the bal loon tire and the automobile steering knuckle, dies in San ta Ana at the age of 87. THE AUTOMATIC garage rfnor onpnpr a nntMitial boon to lazy modern man, failed to revolutionize the world because it costs too much for most of us to afford. but the balloon tire and the automobile steering knuckle - well, we couldn't get along without either of them. A lot of credit for the GOOD LIFE we lead is due to smart minds that thought up the gadgets that help to make life good. Also a lot of credit is due to smart business minds that thought up ways to make these gadgets at prices we can afford to pay. FROM Washington comes a i . n . 1 -f t .1 J Senator Kennedy's forces are comintr around to the tvplief that Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas may be the Massa- enusetts senator s chief rival for tiie Democratic nomina tion for President. Senator Johnson, it can be added here, comes as near to beinr con servative as anybody in poli tics mese aays can afford to be. Hmmmmmmmm. .. Do you reckon conserva tism might be getting respec ts Die again? , ,
