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Newspaper Page TextTHUHbUAY, JAWUAHf 5. 19S1 Mturuni; MAIL. 1H1JSUM1.. MLUl-uHU, Oftt.liUll MedfordJS$wTribunb "veiune in Suuuiern Oregon Head! Tho Mill Trlbuno" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. Ph SP 3-8141 ROBERT W "RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Arlvn-tlsinii Manager GERAiO T L.ATHAM BUI OTgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. MnB Edltoi EARL H ADAMS City Editor harrv r?HIPMAN Telee Editor niPHAnri JF.WETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. circulation rajr An 'Inri-nnntlent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Madford. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 1897 RTmcr-nTTJTTnN RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy lOo Dally and Sunday l year 15W Dally and Sunday a moi 80J nnllv and Sunday 3 mos 4.2s RnnHnv Hnlv One VCar $4.20 pn.pi-in Ariunnpf Med'crd Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville t.om nni Phoenl Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv mr Taiant ,l4 nn motor miltei Dally and Sunday 1 vear 118 no Dalv and Sunday I mo 150 Carrier and Dealers copy mc AnjTerma Cash Injwyane) "ofclil Paper of City of Medford Official Papr of Jackson CounW United Press!nternatlonal Full Leased Wire tJ.P.l Telephoto Newspictures "MEMBER OF" AUDIT BirREATj- OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of. flees In New York Chicago Be. trolt. San FranclHco. Los Angelesi Seattle. Portland St Louis A.t. lo-fa Vancouver B ASSOCIATION NATIONAl EDITORIAL .s$KfjTIjN A JannEnaauna Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha file ot The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vein !) 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 5. 1951 (Friday) A decision on whether Camn White will be reacti vated will probably not be made known until early Feb ruary at the earliest, accord ing to Sen. Wayne L. Morse. Wages paid plasterers and cement finishers in southern Oregon will go up under erms of new contracts, it was an nounced todny. 20 YEARS AGO, Jan. 5, 1941 (Sunday) Committee organization will be effected for the annual President's ball at a dinner meeting of volunteer workers in the Hotel Medford tomor row night. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "All of the soldiers and collegians, home for the holidays, have returned to camp or the campus." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 5, 1931 (Sunday) More than 400 county resi dents have registered for re lief road work; only 70 were accommodated. All roads to Crater Lake are now blocked by at least 54 Inches of snow. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 5. 1921 (Tuesday) - Little Butte creek rose sud denly during a period of heavy rain last night and muddied city drinking water. Turkey shoots are proving to be a popular sport in the Butte Falls area. SO YEARS AGO Jan. S, 1911 (Thursday) Cily Fire Chief Eugene Amann reported to the city council last night that the total loss from the 38 fires In the city last year was $1,400. Lumber and building ma terial sales in the city of Medford, according to H. A. Thicroff, manager of the Big Pines Lumber company, were 100 per cent greater In 1010 than In 1000. Vihaf's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior seven ol eight Is excellent! five of lis is flood. 1. In what city in Illinois is the home town local union of the United Mine Workers in which John L. Lewis holds his card? 2. During whose reign did the Israelite Kingdom become an Empire, ruling all the lands from Egypt to Eu phrates? 3. What are the natives of the Phlllplne Islands called? 4. What city In the United Slates Is called "the home of the bean and the cod"? 9. What Is taxidermy? 6. What Is an LST? 7. What great disaster oc curred In Japan In the year 1923? 8. Who was Totquato Tasso? g 9. For which country was Muscovy the ancient name? 10. What is batik? Aniwarst 1. Springfield. III. (Local 784). 2. David's reign. 3, Filipinos. 4. Boston. M?is. 5. Skinning, preserving and iluf.'lrj animals, S. Land ing Shio (Tanks). 7, An earth quake. 8. Italian Poel. 0. Rui. la. 10. Meihed of axecuting adored daalyns on fabric jrj" NEWSPAPi Calculated Risk We have been told, repeatedly, that the ONLY real reason why enter into a disarmament agreement with boviet Russia is because, since sians, we must insist on advance, to insure that the Russians won t cheat. This makros sense. There is. at lone last, reason to hope that, given luck, determination, and some skillful di plomacy, this is just what we couia get. A number of developments along these Snes have been reported, as isolated incidents, in re cent weeks and months. IN a little-noticed statement last November, Premier Nikita Khrushchev said, "If a decision is taken on general and complete ,4fomrmmw&, a decision to destroy s,e4tp(s, wa will them con sent to any kind of etrol." Vf he said it (it was not carried m my pu'ess dispatches daily newspapers we saw at the time, but the quotation recent magazines ), and is increasing evidence to is a most significant statement. A Russian willingness to accept "ANY kind of control," (and control implies inspection,) meets all the U.S. objections of any substance 0 constructive progress in A RELATED point is this: A f fho voia tho "Afnmi? pli.ih" ia ornuinrr .1.1.1 iillV AM- VV Wl V A. X (it now includes Russia, France, and Israel and join soon), the day is fast armament will be the nuclear "incidents" and We think with foreboding of someone like Khrushchev having atomic potentialities. Even the volatile French make us uneasy with their growing nuclear capability. How, then, would we feel if Fidel Castro, or Patrice Lumumba, or Abdel Nasser, or General issimo Truiillo, had a bomb-bay (or suitcase) full of atomic explosives? THE way to control arms is to control them. Trio iiar in rlicui'm ia in rlicarm A , J HAUL. ... And it cannot be a be universal, worldwide, or it won't do. We can't do it ourselves. We must start somewhere. The place before we have to deal 1 here is good reason sians, more and more, are particularly with Mao-tse capability with each day CO the Russians are intransigent. So we can't trust them. So we must be infinitely careful in feeling our way toward agreement with them. These things are true. But it is also true that, if some sort of dis armament, agreement and control-and-inspection agreement are NOT reached, we are in far more danger of worldwide atomic devastation than if we go as far as we can to achieve a multi-lateral, ironclad, worldwide end to the brandishing of weapons weapons winch, 11 touched oil 111 mad ness or by accident, will mean the end of every thing we value, and, for most, life itself. Either way is a calculated risk. -And the stakes are awefully high. On News This week the United into session for the 87th In two weeks a new takes office. Next Monday the Oregon legislative assembly convenes in its 51st biennial session. And thereby the perennial problem of the newspaper makeup editor is multiplied and com pounded. For news is relative. COME idea of the relative importance of news is conveyed, after a fashion, by the size of headline which appears over it, or Its placement. But this is not cannot be always so. And, with the great volumes of news which will be cascading out of m the next lew months, ent time would be placed justifiably at the top of Page 1, will wiiwl up 01 Inside pages. . A DD to this, too, tlw "friendly rirafry" fee tween the telegraph editor and the city editor, over the placement of the varieties of news whfek they handle, which complicates the problem. The telegraph editor, dealing almost exclu sively with news which comes over the wires of United Press International, is justifiably concern ed that it be given proper play. o And the city editor, who deals with citv coun cil, county court? school board, and similar stories of a more local nature, also is imbued with a sense of their importance. CO, ALTHOUGH most of the Jtict, we might PlaccinoitJ, and size of headline, given a story is not a reflection otuts "absolute" importance in the nature ofhings, but only the desk editors' estimate of its "relative" importance on the day it appears. And it's a quick decisitS at that. And, itiiardly need be lute and the relative importance of a story can. and not infrequently is, missed entirely. Some times newspapers are scooped by a magazine. And once in a while a really significant occurance isn't brought to public notice until it it is reported in a book. E.A. O 0 the United States can't we can't trust the Rus fool-proof inspection, in appears in a eouple of it he means it (and there show that he does), it disarmament talks.- VUIIUV VillJ - 3.vire, the U.S., Britain and God - knows - who - else may approaching when' dis only chance ot avoiding nuclear war. .... one - way street. It must and adequately policed, to start is with Russia with Mao-tse lung. . to believe that the Rus feeling the same way, lung closer to atomic that passes. E.A. "Play" States Congress went time. national administration Washington and Salem stories which at a ditter- readers are fn remind them : fully aware added, both the abso Dennis the Menace 'frankly.al.i'm paying for a vead horse . Communications Leller-s to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer. although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view 19 clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of rhe paper; in tact the contrary Is otten Year-End To the Editor: The year I960 ended in so many "lasts," I wondered if you could find out how often this happens the last day of the week, month and year. I don't remember it hap pening before in my time. If you would go further, it was the last year of the sixth deeade of the 19th century, P. J. March, Route 1, Box 407, Gold Hill, Ore. Editor's note: If our some what shaky reading of the per petual calendar in the World Almanac is correct, the year, month and week have all end ed on the same day seven times in this cenlury-1910, 1921, 1927, 1938, 1949, 1955 and 1960. Correspondence To the Editor: This Is be ing written because of some Interesting c o r r e s pondence that has been coming my way for six months. This is not to belittle anyone, not even preachers. I will have to ad mit I've run into some very interesting ministers at dif ferent times. Well, some of the interest ing correspondence has been postmarked Chcmult, Spo kane and Medford, mostly the latter. I'd write direct to this "friend," but I understand over a month's mail is already piled up at his Medford ad dress. His last correspondence, although signed with a fic- tiuous name, is most unusual especially from one who has formally signed "Reverend before his name. He has asked me, and I quote, "please have printed the recipe of how one can become so stupid and de spicable . . . you are Satan's twin brother, so it sceins, if he could ever stand your com pany." "Have read many of (your) letters in the paper and nearly all are actually until for young folk to read. He then places me with the old age pensioners. I didn't know a 39 year old person In Oregon could be on old age pension. It's news to me. In former correspondence my "friend" has been trying to figure me out. In one let ter lie says, "I sec you as a stupid fool that fs a detri ment to the Catholic or Prot cstant faith." Another one, "It is exceeding easy to spot you as one of the Paulish re ligious sect that went 'under ground' by moulding Into other religious sects" . . . "A blotting paper Christian soaks H'P scriptures mi-ckward." Well my "friend", if yo I'end these limes rcH assi-wedi I he-Id no 111 fceings. My pray o?s wi'M be thai Gad. wiM cpon yem eev-es bctors- it's Ins liite. BfKwy Joluwn fa, 23.1S Highway Ashland, Ore. Ferrer Turfed Officials Guilty Yassiada, Turkey -IWP- For mer Turkish Premie)- Adnan Me'leres and ex-Foreign Min ister Fatin Zorlu were found guilty today of ejyouraglng the anii-Greek riots five years ago. Court sources said punbV ment would range from six months to two years In prison. lie court trying members of irre deposed government for alleged treason acquitted for- JTLZ Seven othex defendants were declared Innocent. EDITOR DIES Troy, N. Y. - ilTP - Joseph F. Durrah. 70, telegraph edi tor of the Troy Times Record for nearly 40 years, died Wed- t ireiday. 'Art nemtremi HSiMeApONYl' the case. Why No Benches? To Che Editor: I was grati fied to find that someone voiced their opinion on the "no bench at the bus stops situation, as I read the Com munications column yester day. I used to ride the bus occa sionally. But after waiting, time and again, for the bus. either in the hot sun or cold weather, with no place to sit down, after many weary steps shopping and with arms full of packages, I decided it was n't worth it. I have been com pletely cured from riding the local bus. So I ask along with Mrs Mary Jones, why doesn't the city provide benches for wea ry shoppers who wait for the bus? Mrs, Ruby Rogers 1425 Thomas rd, Medford. Morning Plaint To the Editor: It's time to lace in the new: 'Mong things that dash the smiles impressed On shining morning faces: Are strands that failed their final test, Worn and weak shoelaces H. W. Robertson 103 North Central ave. Medford. Is This Justice To the Editor: Is it possible in this country that we have absolutely no law pertaining to justice for children? I read about the little girl who was molested in one of our local stores last week and also of the amount of punishment given to her attacker, which I think is very slight and insufficient. Anyone running a red light or violating a basic rule or even a person becoming intoxicated in pub lic is forced to pay a bigger fine or to sacrifice more than this person. As far as the child is con cerned, she was absolutely innocent of anything as inde cent, immoral or sadistic as this must have been, I am the mother of two young girls and had this been one of mine I am sure I would not want him to get off so easily; or had the attacker been a juvenile, he would have been rapped, but good. It looks to me as if payola speaks in other places be sides television, and anyone with enough money can prac tically buy their way out of any situation. God help our girls if peo ple are actually set free to molest and attack them at will. Mrs. Gail Waterbury, 331 Kennet St., Medford Try and ONE OF THE MOST luxurious sets rtf whisk'ers in tlw literary world is sported by Author Riibert St. John, who blithely explains, "I go about lecturing a great deal, and the beard makes it casycor welcoming com- mittces to spot me at air- I ports aSU railroad sta tions." o Mr. St. John got his come-uppance in Mil waukee recently. He found himself sharing-a parlor car with fifty bc whiskered orthodox rab bis. Arriving in Milwau kee he remained undis covered by the reception committee until the last rafti had vanished irom sight. V In Budapest, a Hungarian told his fr!end, "1 have it on indis putable authority that the Russians have pcrftctcd a device ta take them to the moon." "What?" rorllfd the friend ecstatically. "All of thfm?' IM4 by Bauilt Cart, DutribuUd by King ruturu Syndicate Algerian Tension Mounts As De Gaulle's Plan Hears Climax By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst The shrill cries of Arab women urging their men to violence echoed across cash ban rooftops in Oran, Bone and Algiers this week. Algerian Rebel Premier Ferhat Aobas called on Al gerian Arabs to "thwart the designs of the enemy" in the "sham refer endum" called by President Charles de Gaulle to start Newsum Algesia sn tn-e way to independence or c tinwed ties with France. Reto-fsrsosl , Fro-nch toofflps msved up i reply ta reports that Arab extremists were stockpiling bottles, stones, clubs and knives In aoticipa tion of violence. Bleeding Wound This was the far from peace ful setting as De Gaulle mov ed into the climactic stage of his plan to close the wound which annually costs France one billion dollars, drains it of its young manhood in a war which has dragged on for more than six years, and pre vents France from carrying out its NATO pledges for the defense of Europe. Some 30 million Frenchmen and Algerians are being ask ed to vote yes or no this week end on De Gaulle's two-stage plan to restore Algerian peace. The first step would be to! "Algerianize" local Algerian governments and remove """if Matter of Fact FORECAST FOR 1961 Washington T h e gravest problem confronting Presi dent-elect John F. Kennedy is the same prob lem that con- fronts an over-burdened housewife with a huge and hungry family soon coming home to dinner. It is in fact, the simple of time. The reason was suggested in a previous report, in brief, the vast, revolutionary, po tentially destructive forces of our -era are now very close to getting wholly out of control Furthermore, these forces are now operating to undermine the American and Western world positions in a score of different places, and in score of different ways. After years of supineness, therefore, the American gov ernment will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous often risky action on dozens quite literally dozens, of dif ferent fronts. Everything to be done is complex and difficult, yet almost everything is to be done at once. pERTAIN very grave local situations are now de veloping with such speed that weeks, and even days have clearly begun to count. The future of Southeast Asia, for example, will prob- aoly hang upon the fate of distorted little Laos. But if anything at all can be done to prevent a final disaster m Laos, it must be done Imme diately, without a moment's delay. The same rule may well apply in the Congo where the Egyptians are flag rantly nursing their contin gent in the United Nations Congo force to strengthen the pro-Communist rump regime of Antoine Gizcnga. Even the situations that do not now look very urgent will urgently demand the most painful kind of policy dcci sions before the year 1961 draws to its close, ior ex ample, although no one seems to have noticed it, this coun try cannot again count on mustering a United Nations majority against admitting Stop Me Ss35S,, l Atsop problem thern from European domina - tion. The second would be a plebiscite in which the Al gerians would vote for total independence, for a continua tion of their present role as a province of metropolitan France or for semi-independence inside the French Afric an community. At hnmp. Dp Ganlip has h tKo asritft-A tarn i ah 4 rsf his own immense prestige be hind his plan which he says is the only roadoto peace. He has issued a thinly veil ed warning that failure to a ci Stale Coffee Seenv As Good as Money, If it Isn't By DICK WEST Washington -fUPD For some reason which only a psychia trist could explain, I have de veloped a re markable fa cility for re nt e m b e ring things that I had Just soon forget. Just now. for instance, my brain waves washed west up an article I read years ago in the Read er's Digest about the vicisi- tudes of a poor but dishonest widow who was left with a large family to feed. ane put a coiiee can on Joseph Alsop Communist China. So what Is to De aone aoout tnis un pleasant fact, caused by the admission to the UN of so many other new nations? .... A GAIN, the talks about dis armament and the control of nuclear tests have dragged wearily onwards for years on end, with no special urgency. But the third French atomic test and the mysterious Israe li nuclear reactor are indica tors that this absence of ur gency is an illusion. The intelligence forecasters ex pect the worst, namely a Chi nese Communist nuclear bomb-test, within the fairly near future. If this ominous problem is not to slip out of control by the United States, and one must add, by the So viet Union, decisive action will at least have to be start ed before the end of 1961. Quite obviously, President elect Kennedy is well aware of these countless coming challenges. He has tried to prepare to meet them by the simplest and best expedient by bringing into his adminis tration a really startling num ber of men with outstanding gifts. The staffing of the sec ondary ranks in the hierarchy has been especially impres sive. John J. McCloy, for in stance, is one of the great pub lic servants of the last two decades. He was President Eisenhower's first but aban doned choice for Secretary of State. He rather contemptu ously refused a later Eisen hower offer of the secretary ship of defense. But now, though a Republican, McCloy has agreed to serve Kennedy in a post which would repel any normally ambitious man, as chief negotiator in the field of arms control. AGAIN, the deanship of Harvard tlnivprsilv is nnt a trifling job, at least when occupied by MacGeorgc Bundy. In addition, Bundy has rejected more than one first rank university presi dency. The most recent was the presidency of the Univer sity of Chicago, which was of fered him with the promise of a mountain of gold to make Chicago the wonder of the educational mid-W est. Yet Bundy, another Republican, has preferred to serve in Washington as Secretary of the National Security Council,, just as Ch-arl-es S. Beloa hs appar-e.n!y pre-tcrrorf to serve as the new President's chief 'f iet expert instead of grasping the highest honor ever offered a man in his po sition, the Embassy in Paris. But wile this new adminis tration, thronging with such men as these, organize itself rapidly enough to do all the things that need to be done in the very short time that will be allowed by an un kindly providence? On one's answer to that question deO pends one s fortfiet for lflil This reporter's fomKt, for the fe' vho be inter'V- ed mt fsa,c'ul eioisvately optitaMM. ?.. MBit up)lat- able chwasMa WMt arilv be avoidct) i thj yr of Jhe turning point. CoisideringMhe numbs.' of arius where posi tive Tiisastcrir are already probable, a few misfortunes seem unavoidable. But the trend, which has been down for so long, ought to turn up before the next new year. (c) 1961. N.w York Herald Tribune Inc. TO Otept his plan, or to approve it by only a lukewarm margin, could lead to his resignation, leaving France to its own fate as he did in 1946. An opposition leader is Jacques Soustelle, a hero of the French resistance move ment, frequently mentionSi as a possibility for premier and once one of De Gaulle's strongest supporters He predicts approval of De Gaulle's plan can lead only to bitter civil war involoving the Arabs, the, Berbers of Al geria and the Settlers. Spent the kitchen shelf and toH the kids it contained money for a rainy day. To the children, the can became a security symbol and they would go hungry rather than let their mother open it. It was not until they had grown up that they learned the old lady was lying to them. There actually was nothing in the can but coffee, which must have been rather stale by that time. Neverthe less, it had served its purpose. I don't know why this little tale stuck in my memory box because it was one of the most . forgettable magazine pieces I ever read. But I was somehow reminded of it this week as I was looking over a press release issued by Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa.). Kearns announced that he was about to introduce a reso lution calling for the appoint ment of a congressional com mittee to count the gold in Fort Knox. The purpose of this, he said, would be to determine the "actual amount" of bullion on deposit there. He noted that no body of elected representatives had "ever entered the sanctum of any of our mint institutions" to check on "the validity of inventories which have been taken by appointed people." To the naked eye, Kearns' proposal would seem to be rife with implications, the most obvious one being that some sort of skulduggery had been taking place in the vaults. , Kearns, however, stipulated that he was not acting out of distruct of personnel charge of the gold, "but rath er to reassure the public as to the safety of their securi ties." Be that as it may, I can't seem to get that magazine article out of my mind. I keep remembering how that poor widow told her children there was money in the coffee can. Suppose, I say to myself, the committee that Kearns wants to create found out there actually isn't any gold at Fort Knox . . . that Uncle Sam has only been using it as a security symbol. If that were the case, we would be like the widow's children. We would be better off if we didn't know it. There is a moral in the widow's story which can be applied to the entire mone tary system. The moral is: Stale coffee is as good currency as long as you don t try to spend it. Editorial Comment MORE GROWTH FOR PP&L The pending merger of California Oregon Power Co. of Medford with Pacific Pow- t Light Co. of Portland is a natural in several ways. It will integrate the already interconnected systems of two Oregon companies, forming a 1.5 million kilowatt power pool which will automatically increase the usable power ca pacity of the merged systems. It will provide a broader utility base for financing the doubling of the current S570 million plant inveslment of the tv companies in the next 10 years. It will help fore stall additional rate increases based upon inflated costs of operation. And it wiljj bring together me two companies which Paul n f . i." , . . B. McKee, now chairman of, me rri. Doarn, ns helped develop since he started in the utility business with Copco in 1914. Several months will bp re- qufed to effectuate the PPL Copco merger under the gen eral agreement already reach ed by the two boards. Fed eral and state reRulaiQv agencies and the 61.000 stock holders of the two companies will have to approwthe com mon stock exchangcGft a ratio of 12 shares of PPL lor 1 share of Copco. W'hcn the meraer Is com pleted, however. PPL wjrrt) be come the fourth larBesri'Sti. vately owned electric utilily in n i be Western states with j Oisi income of approxi-1 (. , In the Day's News B. FRANK JENKINS What will the new year b' G like? general It will be what we make it. Economic progress doesn't; just happen. It is MADE TO HAPPEN. 11HE economists tell us that human beings cannot live without food, clothing and shelter. Here in Far Southern Oregon, and Far Northern Cal ifornia we have ALL of these fundamentals. From our ricll soil we get food, in vtida vs riety. We get fibtr for cli! ing. For shelter, we 9rt IsM-ll ing materials frssa tas ; Anst ; In artd-itM We have WATCT. Waw r atourHte-aoe - if wo handle it wisely aiwl s-reveit ite theft by others who covet it. Water sot only Hourielies our crops, including our troos. It pro vides us with power for the processing ai our raw nials rials. SO, YOU see Here in Far Southern Or egon and Far Northern Cali' fornia we have ALL the basia essentials - plenty of crops and livestock for food, plenty of fiber for clothing, plenty of building materials for shel ter, plenty of power for proc essing our raw materials. And Not only do we have enough of these essentials for OUR OWN USE. We have a vast potential SURPLUS of them for export and sale to others. It is out of export and sale of what is in surplus in ona place to what is wanted and needed in other places that opportunities for trade and commerce arise. IS ANYTHING else needed? Well We could use more MAR KETS. B UT Our markets are EX PANDING. Already there are 15 million people in Califor nia. The population of South ern Arizona is expanding ex plosively. The whole South west is growing. Much of this growth is due to RETIRE MENT. Retired people want to get away from winter. Re tired people produce little and consume much, The Southwest is a natural market for Far Southern Ore gon and Far Northern Cali fornia. We'll get the markets if we can produce what the markets want at a price they are willing to pay. E HAVE another resource tourists. Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern California lie midway between the far south and the far north of the Pa cific Coast. The Southerners travel north in summer and the Northerners travel south in the winter. Tourists spend a lot of money. It is NEW money in the areas where it is spent. Our problem is to stop them as they go through. VO REGION in the West has brighter prospects for growth and development than Far Southern Oregon and Far Northern California. But it won't just happen.' It is our job to MAKE it hap pen. Let's keep that in mind in looking forward to 1961 ana all the other new yearl I that follow it. matcly S90 million and an an nual payroll of $13 million. This doesn't rate PPL with such utility giants as Pacifia Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison, with grosses of S583 million and S280 mil lion respectively. But it will rate PPL ahead of the all Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming; companies and next to Colo rado Public Service Co. which grosses S102 million annually. In short, PPL has come a long way since it was formed from four tiny Oregon and Washington companies 50 years ago, later acquiring tha properties of Inland Power Light, Northwestern Electrio of Portland, Mountain States and several smaller systems. Its projected investment ol another half billion dollars in plants and facilities in tha coming decade will make it a major factor in the economia growth of ie great North. westOregon Journal, Port liOid. o Bill T&Oppose Welfare Change Poitiand-'IPli-Rep. Grace O. Peck (D-Portland) said Wed nesday night she would Intro. iVce legislation next weelc which would prohibit move ment of the Sta (.Public WeP fare CQimissiorMfrom Port land to hflli. Such move has been or dered by Gov. Mark-Hatfield. ah to muster "quite .-(3H3y of Vpstate ppart lot herbffl. mrs. reck said shiVfad been