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4 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1980 tun "Everyone In Southern Oregon d "rf. Th Mall THhunA" iublihed Daily except Saturday by Ulijjiurw i ..... . ... vj vj 33 worth Fir St., Ph SP 2-8141 BnRERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor EARL H Adams, uity Editor Siiinv CHTPMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE Etm-rvpm-'. wmmtmun mar An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second. class matter at Medford. Oregon, unaer net of Mnrch 3. 1897 RTmSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year eis.oo Daily and Sunday 8 mos 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.28 Sunday Only One year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor mutes. Dally and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.S0 Carrier and Dealers copy I0e All Terms Cash In Advance "Official Paper of City of Medforef OfflclalPapr of Jackson County ' United Press International Full Leased Wire PP.1. Telephoto Newaplctures MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago Do. trolt, San Francisco. Lot Angeles. Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOR! AS Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 9. 1950 (Wednesday) Medford's justice of the peace court will pass out of existence tomorrow with the establishment of a district court with W. P. Tucker as district judge. Lightning caused five fires In the Rogue River national forest last night, one of which is now under control. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1940 (Friday) The government gave its of ficial approval yesterday to a $120,000 improvement project st Medford's municipal air port to be done by the WPA. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: " 'Boy Government' week at Port land was a success. Else where throughout the world, government ranged from a sublime fizzle to just tolera ble." SO YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1930 (Saturday) Early action on the devel opment of a park on top of Roxy Ann has been predicted. Attendance at Crater lake Sunday was 3,581 - a new record. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1920 (Monday) Due to a rain and lightning storm Inst night the union services in the city park were called off. Hunters have been warned that hunting season docs not open until Sept. 1, and all vio lators of this date will be pun ished. BO YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1910 (Tuesday) A passenger train of the Pacific and Eastern railroad collided head - on yesterday with a work train just east of the Butte creek bridge. Slow speed is the only thing that prevented a bad smash-up. A New York man, who owns one of the largest in vestment companies in the Midwest, came to Medford for the first time yesterday, spent 24 hours here and then left with the statement that he would return as soon as pos sible, buy 40 acres of land and settle here. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five er lis is good. 1. What is cloture? 2. For what product is chi cle largely used? 3. Is coke made from miner al, vegetable, or animal? 4. Who customarily admin isters the U. S. presidential oath of office? 5. Who composed "Rhapso dy in Blue?" 6. David overcame Goliath armed with what weapon? 7. Is the modern birthstone for April a diamond, ruby, or emerald? 8. Is blue point a type of dog, oyster, or drawing? 9. Docs the Statue of Lib erty hold the torch In the right or left hand? 10. Obverse is the back or the front of a coin? Answers: 1. A method of eliminating debate in parlia mentary bodies; 2. Chewing gum; 3. Mineral, coal, which originally was vegetable met ier; 4. Chief justice of the U.S.; 5. George Gershwin; 6. Sling and stones; 7. Diamond; 8. Oyster; 9. Right 10. Front. At - The Recreation Explosion Joe Cowley's excellent feature story printed in the M-T Sunday, telling of progress in convert ing the new Howard Prairie Reservoir into a recreation area, bears out, factually and in detail, the same story we've been singing ior years. There is in this nation a "recreation expto sion." Peonle in treneral money, and more inclination to take to the out doors for their family fun. And they're doing it. In the process, th'ey are overrunning some of the nation's choicest recreation spots to a point where the very things they are looking for are being destroyed. IN THE course of a one-week trip, covering 1 nearly 2,000 miles, we saw some of the things of which Cowley s article warned. On everv mile of hiehwav. one sees a con stant procession of cars boaters. The cars may top, or they may be pulling trailers or boats. . At Manzanita Carrm Ground, near the head' quarters of Lassen Volcanic National Park (which is only about four easy hours drive from Medford, bv the wav. and well worth the trip), what once was a pleasant, well-policed, well-appointed and cleanly camp ground is now a sea oi voicanic grime and dust, with campers parked cheek by i t i e T 1 II . jowi, in an appalling outdoor uansiem, sium. The pressure was so great, in fact, that we saw people gathering firewood along the road sides (strictly in violation of National Park rules) , and even in the better-kept, newer campgrounds at higher elevations,' desperate camp-seekers were carving their own campsites out oi the woods. AT LAKE Tahoe, California's spic, span, and " tightly-run state parks are protected from these ravages, but only away dozens, or scores, or hundreds, ot would be campers every evening. Also at Tahoe, a Forest Service campground, less exclusive than the California parks, was filled by late afternoon and turned away many campers after that. Privately-operated camps were overflowing (and a pretty sorry mess most of them were, too). The Forest Service camp showed the ravages of too many people and too few services odoriferous toilets, hacked-off limbs, thick dust, overflowering garbage cans. Oregon's state parks, are clean, well-maintained, well-run, with ample services provided to keep them so, and to satisfy the thousands who use them. But here, too, the "Sorry, No Vacancy" sign goes up regularly every week end, and frequently on week day evenings. QOWLEY'S feature article also said: "Outdoor recreation authorities point out that only a compartlvely small part of the overall population uses such outdoor areas . . . .Such recreation projects are not proven vote-getters so are not popular with many legislators. With increasing numbers using rec reation areas, this view may soon change." It's already changing. If we recall correctly, County Judge Earl Miller reported recently that the court has been under more pressure to in crease its parks and recreation program than for any other single thing, in recent months. And, if the sight of highways crowded with recreation-seekers, and campsites filled to over flowing night after night, are any criteria, those public officials in the parks and recreation busi ness (including state and federal legislators) could be impelled to do what is needed if only one in ten of them would take the trouble to tell his representatives about it. E.A. New Agency The Forest Service is a land and timber man agement agency. As such, it does its level best to employ the forests for the "greatest good for the greatest number in the long run." But, with the "recreation explosion," it has been swamped with such an influx of visitors that it can't begin to keep up with them. . After all, a district ranger, trained in silvicul ture and forest management, doesn't particularly like to devote much of his time to being a house keeper and janitor and wood-bearer for a horde of campers. And who can blame him? , X7E HAVE now the National Park Service and " the U.S. Forest Service, with a certain amount of jealousy between them over their roles in forest and wilderness administration. Perhaps a new category, somewhere between the two, is called for an agency which would administer the recreational aspects of federally owned properties below the caliber of National Parks, and essentially separated from the forest management jobs of the Forest Service. It could be responsible for the nation's wild erness areas (which have high recreational val ues), for the National Seashores so much debated, and for the forest camps and parks which the Forest Service is now struggling to maintain and expand with limited success. lf E CAN just hear the moans and groans arise ' at a proposal for a nqjy agency. And we can hear the bureaucratic grumbling if and when one agency is threatened with the loss of some of its functions. But after all, the whole purpose of govern ment is to serve the people. And in increasing millions upon millions, they are now calling upon their government to do something for then? something which neither "Mission 66"' of the Park Service nor "Operation Outdoors" of the Forest Service is getting done rapidly enough nor well enough. E.A. have more time, more carrying campers and nave luggage carriers on ! i .1 L. I L 1 at the cost of turning we are happy to report, Dennis the 'Pssst! Make that a hovdog 'steao of ham. An' KOOT ObBK 'ST6AU OF MILK I " Communications I.eiteri to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication it permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the light to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted ior pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necossarily represent ihe views of the paper; in fact ihe contrary it The Dunes Proposal To the Editor: On July 5, 1960, in the House of Repre sentatives, I discussed in de tail 'The Oregon Dunes in Perspective and in Detail . My comments also covered the recreation crisis at the sea shore and elsewhere. In my opinion the burgeon ing population in Oregon and throughout the nation within the next 40 years will present us with problems we have not dreamed of. For example, by 1975, according to a study based on information avail' able prior to the 1960 census, Oregon will have 2,865,000 residents. Increased population, more emphasis on outdoor recrea tion, fantastic climbs in park attendance (National Forest areas' use rose 150 per cent) and the trend by Americans to travel point up the need for preserving seashore and lake areas. Did you know that Dr, J. Granville Jensen in a pio neering study of the economic impact of increased popula tion in Oregon estimates that by 1990 Oregon will have a tourist visitation of 7'4 mil lion as opposed to 3V4 million in 1957? There are many areas to be carefully worked out in the proposed legislation which would establish an Oregon Na tional Seashore. The writing of the legislation is not fin ished. Patient and careful analysis can bring the project to reality. I believe that here is a tre mendous opportunity for Ore gon and the nation to preserve and develop our unique recre ational resources. Charles O. Porter Member of Congress Washington, D. C. Going to the Dogs To the Editor: In an article "Enforcing Agencies Are Un prepared for Dog Control" In the Sunday, Aug. 7, issue of Mail Tribune, it stales "this apparent tendency to ignore the law is especially prevalent among members of Medford's city administration. "They must know they were not elected to ignore the law, and have the city of Medford "go to the dogs." For my part, I am sick and tired acting more each year as chambermaid to neighbor's dogs, who leave their dally deposit on my lawn and gar den, and nt the same time paw up the flower and vege table garden and the lawn. It is the exceptional dog that does not follow this practice. Furthermore what has coun ty dog control have to do with city dog control? Our family voted for city control, and not county control. County people need their dogs for police pro tection, and the dogs are kept more on their own farm prem ises. Also In the city of Medford, we voted for control of dogs running at large WITHOUT the added proviso of "unless the dog is muzzled." With lax enforcement of city laws, it Is very apparent why city resi dent property owners are sell ing and moving to the suburbs outside the city. This is forci bly brought to light in this year's Federal census. (Name on File) Medford Platform vs. Platform To the Editor: The political conventions are over and a study of the two platforms reveals the difference between the parties. The Democrats have again confuted them selves to a program in which artificial stimulus plays a vi tal role - they want every thing taken care of from Washington - everything com Menace often the case. mitted to a super-central bu reaucracy. On the other hand the He publicans have committed themselves to natural growth within the free-enterprise sys tem. They have again voiced their conviction that the fed eral governn-.ent should inter vene in the economic life of the nation only when emer- gencies demand It. They put their emphasis on creating op portunities to get ahead. This means reluctance to let gov ernment advance into new pa ternalistic programs such as are advocated by the Demo cratic party in the guise of "security" in disregard of the fact that they result in false security. About 25 years ago the Democrats set the stage for what has created a great wave of the "gimmies" which has been sweeping the land and a common belief that despite cost and debt the government can supply whatever any group wants. The Democrats listen but do not have the courage to say, "This is be yond our means" or to point out that the cost of constantly expanding programs will have to be borne by the taxpayers including those who are least able to stand it. The Demo crats have shown again that they are not only willing to tolerate this non-stop bureau cratic binge which recognizes no bottom to the public purse, but are promising to encour age it into new fields. Let us remember that when Washington mails out a dollar as a hand-out it must collect at least $1.30 in taxes. As the result of many years of this gigantic debt-creating binge about 70 cents of every dollar spent goes for taxes, direct and hidden. Has this been good business? One party wants to continue this danger ous and costly program, the other opposes it. When we vote let us show that we love our country and are not forgetting future gen erations. D. D. Jansen Elk River, Minn, Farm Cooperatives Receive Warning Berkeley, Calif.-dlPD-Amer- ica's farmer cooperatives were warned Monday that they must readjust their organiza tion to cope with explosive change In technology and the economy. The warning was issued by E. H. Fallon, manager of the Cooperative Grange League Federation, Ithaca, N.Y., in an address before the opening session of the 32nd annual convention of the- American Institute of Cooperation. About 3,000 delegates from throughout the nation are at tending the three-day conven tion. Fallon said farmers must integrate their own business to prevent other commercial interests from gaining control of agriculture. He said the co operative movement has not kept up with industry In Its growth. FREE OPEN TO EVERYONE! SENIOR CITIZENS RALLY FOR $173 PER MO. SOCIAL SECURITY AT AGE 60 FREE MEDICAL CARE - LOW-RENT HOUSING CAL PARNER, Ass't Organisation Director, N.L.S.C. Will Talk Q an Organisational Work and Social Security MEDFORD - AUG. 10, WED., 7:30 P.M. GIRLS COMMUNITY CLUB, 229 NO. BARTLETT ST. Co-sponiored by United Social Security Orqanisatien, Inc.. of Oregon, and Gorg. Mclain. President NATIONAL LEAGUE OF SENIOR CITIZENS, 1031 Se. Grand Avenue, Lot Angeles IS, Calif. Washington Report By WILLIAM THE "MACHINE" Washington To be given a close look into the inside of the Nixon campaign organiza tion and stra tegy is rather like peering through glass- sided panels into a giant, smoothly turn ing engine. The interest is not, of course in the mere fact that here motor equipped with such and such and this and that. The interest rather is in observing how each of these parts fits so precisely into the whole. Now and abandoning forth with all mechanical metaphors here is the way it looks within the Nixon opera tion: riiriiiKl:; are two top men, next to Republican Presi dential Candidate Richard Nixon himself. One is old-pro Leonard W. Hall of New York, a former Republican national chairman. Hall is general chairman of the Nixon strategy board. His main func tion, apart from acting as pre siding officer over all, is strictly traditional. It is to work among . the orthodox. the regular, Republicans who are estimated to make up 40 per cent of the nation's regis tered voters. In a high-level way and subject, of course, to all man ner of state and local G.O.P. organization cooperation Hall's job is to hold every last cherished one of the vot ers the Republican ticket al ready has. Let the smallest smoldering trouble appear among the faithful and the cry will at once go up: "Tell Len about it!" He must rally these faithful to give their all, throughout the campaign and on election day. He must also do much of the total GOP fund-raising ef fort. And this task, this time, is no pretty one. The Nixon people are genuinely and probably rightly concerned that the Kennedy-Johnson Democratic slate may have an appeal to wealthy contributors which no Democratic ticket ever had before. TOP MAN NO. 2 is young nrr Rnhprr. Finr-h nf Cali fornia. For some time he has been Nixon's chief adminis trative assistant in the vice- presidential office. Now he is Nixon's personal campaign di rector as well. Finch's life in politically dipsy-doodle Cali fornia long since taught him that many "registered voters" can change their party as readily as their shirts or their hem lines. So his main job is to work among the 12 per cent of the country who are described as "independents" men and women with no automatic or emotional commitment to either party. His closely relat ed assignment is to move among all those Democrats who are now or might be come unhappy with one end or the other of the Kennedy- Johnson slate. Finch is a calm, stocky, la conic political "natural" at 34. He sometimes calls himself "the poor man's Bobby Ken nedy," in smiling jest at Rob ert Kennedy, who also at 34, is chief campaign aide to brother John Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee. So much for the structure of the Nixon organization. Now for its plans: TpiNCH'S recent journey to " New York has produced an invaluable and now a truly all-out Nixon ally in Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller, it is understood, has agreed to put his popu larity among the urban-liberal Republicans on the line for Nixon in the big and pivotal states of the North. New York itself. Pennsylvania. Michi gan. Illinois. And so on. The leader of the opposite right-wing of the party, Sena tor Barry Goldwater of Ari zona, will be heavily used in the conservative South. So, too. on present planning, wftl be President Eisenhower him- helf. And so, too, will be the vice- presidential candidate, Henry Cabot Lodge. It is believed among the Nixon people that Lodge will be surprisingly helpful in the South for two very different reasons. One is that he is from a very old family, if a New William 8. White is a great S. WHITE England one; the South is still attracted by the old-family tradition. The other reason is that the South is "tougher" to ward Russia than any other section. Lodge, as our ambas sador to the United Nations, has repeatedly and on tele vision before the whole coun try "stood up" to the Soviet representatives. (Copyright, 1960. by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop "Intensify, Accelerate, Increase?" Washington - The country will shortly learn whether there is anything real in the new direction set for the Re publican par ty at Chicago by Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon with an assist from Gov Nelson A. Rockefeller. special session of Congress reveals about this matter will be immeasurably more Im portant for the future than all the oolitics the Demo crats will undoubtedly play. The test will be whether the national defense effort is promptly "intensified, accel erated and increased," as the Republican platform says it ought to be, in accordance with the Nixon-Rockefeller compact. But this vital matter must be settled, not in Congress but between the Vice Presi dent and the President. The President not only has the responsibility of asking for added defense funds. He also has the power to freeze any additional defense appropria tions which the Congress may spontaneously make. He froze the extra appropriations made at the last session as soon as they were made. THIS was why Senate Ma ioritv Leader Lvndon B. Johnson recently wrote Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates to ask whether added appropriations would again be frozen. Both Johnson and Sen. John F. Kennedy strong ly believe in the increased effort that both party plat forms call for. But Johnson and Kennedy agreed at Hy- annis that there was too much business before the special session to permit the empty, purely political gesture of ap propriating funds which were doomed in advance to be frozen. There is no mere matter of Republican policy or Demo cratic politics, either. The gravity of the decision that must ultimately be made be tween the President and the Vice President is only too clearly indicated by the true story of Secretary of State Christian R. Herter's special journey to Newport on the Tuesday before the Republi can convention. The Secretary went to New port to warn the President that the whole tone and char acter of Soviet policy had now changed in a deeply dis turbing way, Herter put Ei senhower on notice that he must now consider the possi bility that the Kremlin is planning a warlike showdown in the election year. But he did not stop there. HERTER also asked the President to take imme diate action, to sober the Kremlin policy-m a k e r s, by showing that the United States is still strong, alert and far. from paralyzed, even m an election year. In the present super-charged polit ical atmosphere it will prob ably be denied. But it can be stated as a fact that a request to the special session for a major increase in defense ap propriations was the first ac tion which Herter courageous- KvBftkm. mil Counsel With. MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 North Holly Street Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is en vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington In his absence.) THIS RECESS CONGRESS Washington - Something new is happening in Washing ton. With the recess session of Congress this week, the United States will be experi menting with something very near to the parliamentary sys tem of government. The essence of the parlia mentary system is that the executive officials of the gov ernment are drawn from the parliament, remain members of the parliament, and are di rectly responsible to parlia ment. Now, for the first time, the alternative future executive leaders of the American gov ernment will be active parti cipants in Congress during a legislative session. As Vice President, Mr. Nix on will be presiding over the Senate and as the nominated leader of his party will be shaping Republican policy and directing Republican Congressional strategy. As the Democratic presi dential team. Senator Kenne dy and Senator Johnson will be the floor leaders of their party in the Senate and in association with Speaker Sam Rayburn will be vastly influ ential with the Democratic leadership of he House of Representatives. This will be the first time the Democratic and Republi can presidential nominees have ever faced each other on the floor of Congress. Since ly suggested to the President. It is hard to imagine any suggestion that would be more unpalatable to Dwight D. Eisenhower, yet it can be fur ther stated that the Presi dent's initial response to this proposal of a defense increase was quite surprisingly favor able. The train seemed to be on the rails. Seemingly, It got off the rails again, because the President was so annoyed by the Nixon-Rockefeller com pact and the Republican par ty's resulting implied demand for a change in the Eisen hower defense policies. The President was appar ently able to consider request ing a defense increase on his own motion, as a riposte to a new pattern of Soviet behav ior. But he was much less willing to consider making such a request after "that egomaniac" (the President's phrase for Nelson Rockefel ler) had joined in jimmying a statement of the need for a defense increase into the party platform, i 'THIS does not mean that no action will be taken on the basis of Secretary Herter's Newport warning. The Presi dent has already taken cer tain quite significant actions. Redeployments calculated to sober the Kremlin have been ordered. A third aircraft car rier has been sent into the Mediterranean, for instance. But the main recommenda tion, for a defense increase, now seems likely to be reject ed. Instead, the extra funds appropriated by Congress for certain vital projects like the airborne alert, which had been promptly frozen by the budget bureau, will now be grandiosely unfrozen. And this will be presented as a defense increase - which, of course, it is not. Equally of course. Vice President Nixon believes com pletely in the language which he so dramatically forced in to the party platform. He has always believed in the need for greater defense spending. remaps present indications are wrong. Perhaps Nixon will persuade the President, in the end, to follow Herter's recommendations' to the full. Why this may be almost a matter of life and death-why mere unireezing of already appropriated funds will not give the services "all they can usefully spend," as so loudly alleged-will be shown in another report. (c) 1960. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Mr. Insurance Introducing Mrs Gfr oud Davidson, the Agency's new Office Manager. Mrs. Da vidson iis well quali fied to take care of your problems when Mr. Brennan is away from the office. Serv ice will always be friendly and court- Ph. SP 3-7343 1 the results of this session of Congress will bear directly on the outcome of the election, it will be an important con frontation. The only basic difference between this situation and the parliamentary system, as practiced in Canada, Britain, Germany, and Scandinavia, is that Mr. Nixon and Mr. Ken nedy cannot be unseated as the consequence of an adverse vote. PARTY discipline is not as strong under the American political system of divided powers as under the parlia mentary system. There is dan ger of a breach in the ranks of both parties in this session of Congress. If President Eisen hower and Vice President Nixon do not agree on Repub lican policy, this will show up very soon on the floor of the Senate. An Eisenhower veto of any measure which Nixon has favored would im pair the Vice President's cam paign. Undoubtedly, powerful southern Democrats will op pose some measures which Senator Kennedy will want to see Congress enact, including a strengthened civil rights law and a federal aid for teachers' salaries. Such a de velopment will inevitably im pair Mr. Kennedy's campaign. Since the public image of both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Nixon as effective political leaders will be at stake In Congress this month, it is hard to see how one or the other can fail to be hurt. 1JIACH will try to outmaneu-- ver the other in order to head into the election under circumstances he deems most advantageous. Senator Kennedy will want to see his party authorize greatly increased federal spending for projects prom ised by the Democratic plat form even if these measures invite an Eisenhower veto. He can then go to the country with the appeal that only by electing him can the nation be sure of getting what his plat form has pledged to produce. Vice President Nixon will be willing to have his party, with some needed liberal Democratic support, press some civil rights legislation, as senators Keating and Ja vits of New York plan to in troduce, knowing that these measures will bring the Sou therners to the floor ready to filibuster. Nixon can then go to the country with the ap peal that only by electing him to the presidency and more Republicans to Congress can the nation get what the Re publican platform has pledg ed to produce. There will, however, be one restraint upon these partisan political tactics. If these ma neuvers are allowed to frus trate urgent public business, measures which cannot safely be delayed, they are likely to annoy more voters than they please. i There is need to re-examine the defense appropriations and to pass workable compro mises on federal aid to educa tion, medical care for the aged, and an adequate econ omic aid program to which both nominees are committed. The leadership and the par ty which puts first things first and politics second will, I believe, be most rewarded in November. (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Colombia Bandits Kill Dozen Farmers Villavicencio, Colombia -IUPD - Bandits killed a dozen farmhands in a raid Saturday on the village of Carmen in Colombia's eastern plains, long a scene of outlaw activ ity. . Gov. Ernesto Jara Castro of Meta province set police and troops on the trail of the raid ers, but at latest reports they were still at large. Fred Brennan 1 Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A.
