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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
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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
!
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at the cost of turning
we are happy to report,
Dennis the
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Communications
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A.