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r SUNDAY, WEDFORDvJWRIBUNI "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 NorthFir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager lifcKAjLD T LA THAM BUS Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor HICHARn JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indenendent Newspap'er Entered as second class matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 18B7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Hv Mail In Advance. Cop? 10c Dally -nd Sunday 1 year 1SOO Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8 .on Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Mill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. 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Approximately 3,000 per sons saw the Kiwanis Kapers and Minstrel show during its four performances last week, members of the club here esti mated today. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1941 (Wednesday) John W. Snider, 528 Penn sylvania ave., is among the 28 youths from this area who are to leave for Portland tomor row where they will be given their final check-up for a year of military training. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number of county courts of the state have started dis cussing weed control. They are looking for a way to con trol fungus growths without burying them beneath a serv ice station." 30 YEAHS AGO Feb. 19, 1931 (Thursday) The Jackson county court plans to tour county court houses in the. Willamette val ley preparatory to erection of a new courthouse here. The state legislature has called for a special election to vote upon the "intangible" tax issue. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1921 (Saturday) The Elks Minstrel show will be held at the Page theater tonight. A new law is in effect re quiring all Oregon brides to pass physical examinations. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 19. 1911 (Sunday) Representatives of a group of 200 members of the Inter national Workers of the World, who were ejected from a train near Ashland Thurs day night, told the Mail Trib une today they will proceed to their destination in Fresno, Calif., by foot, If they have to. By a vote of 18 to 12, the stale senate Friday passed the Pierce fish bill which reopens the Rogue river to commercial fishing. .... What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior! seven or eight is excellent; five ei us is good. 1. John Paul Jones did, or did not, serve in the Russian Navy? 2. Does the "ship of the desert" have wheels, a pro peller, or feet? 3. What does U. S. P. stand for on the label of a medici nal product? 4. Sound travels faster in water, iron, or air? 5. Which country is our closest Latin American neigh bor? 8. Which rank In the army corresponds to Ensign in the Navy? 7. Who wrote the book "I Chose Freedom"? 8. What sort of work Is done by a cooper? 9. The Frisian islands are off the coast of what country? 10. What is the Capital of South Carolina? Answers: 1. Did. 2. Feet (camel). 3: United Slates Phar macopeia. 4. Iron. 5. Mexico. 6. 2nd Lieutenant.' 7. Victor A. Kravchenko 8. He makes barrels, casks, etc. 9. The tj-h.-.i.-a. UV Cnlnmhlii. eg FEBRUARY 19, 1981 Any Reason While a new Administration is searching for new frontiers, the 20-year-old House Un-Ameri can Activities Committee is back at the same old stand, searching for new appropriations. One of the ironies of the November elections was that it produced a liberal President but a more conservative House. A realistic count of noses has discouraged plans by Representative James Roosevelt of California and others to in duce the House to abolish its gumshoe group. "It is still politically dangerous," Mr. Roose velt says, "for many members of Congress to express by means of a direct vote their innermost feelings about the committee." ASA substitute for abolition, the Calif ornian " hopes to get the House to examine and reduce the committee's appropriations. These have been running at ,T3z7,(J00 annually. In the last Congress, only two House com mittees received more funds, and they conducted major investigations of television scandals, among other business. The Un-American committee, by contrast, provided nothing really new in the way of sub versive activities investigations or legislation. It did provide documents for a private lirm to pro duce a defensive and twisted film called "Opera tion Abolition." And the private company has sold copies to the Defense Department, another branch of government. jyiR. ROOSEVELT has a public responsibility to ask whether such a committee deserves more funds than the essential committees on armed services, ways and means, education and labor, and agriculture. But the funds involved are not the main reason for examining the committee's appropria tion. The main reason is to oblige the committee to justify its demand for funds, and thus justify itself. Every legislative committee ought to have a legislative purpose. What is the purpose of the Un-American Activities Chief Justice Warren tion less than four years ago in the Watkins case. Holding that there was no legal power to expose tor exposure s sake, he asked, Who can define the meaning of 'un-American'?" TO THIS day the committee has offered no "Inf in if rr Tn afoarl if Viaa nnm r lor? a voi-trwr! of insinuation and intimidation. Congressman Roosevelt reduced the commit tee's logic to this : the committee is anti-Communist; anyone who opposes it is anti-anti-Commu- nist; ergo, since two negatives make a positive, anyone who opposes the committee is pro-Communist." The House should ask its pampered inquisi tors to justify their expenses. In doing so, they ought to justify the committee's purpose and con tinued presence in days of new frontiers, so far removed from old mists of hysteria. St. Louis Post-Dispatch What Is the U.N.? The United Nationsas an idea and as an institution is an extension of the western ideas; of the western belief in the worth and dignity of the individual ; of western ideology ; of western parliamentary tradition. ern ideal of representative T 1 l. !l Al in snort, it is tnorougnty anti-totaiuarian. When one stops to consider the philosophical foundation of the United Nations, it is easier to understand why Premier Khrushchev pounds the desk in frustration. . . . So we must, I believe, cherish, preserve, strengthen this great experiment in international collaboration m these days of savage attack and severe testing. We should use it not as a device in this cold war, nor just in defensive reaction to Soviet initiatives, but affirmatively to advance its great purposes to liberate man from the scourges of war, poverty, disease, ignorance and oppression. ... It is a mistake, in my judgment, for us to see in the U.N. merely a desperate survival operation, without also exploiting its potential as a coopera tive search for belter answers to the overhanging questions, 'After survival, what then?' Peoples are best cemented together, after all, not by mutual fear but by mutual hope. From Adlai Stevenson's testimony before the Senate committee on foreign relations, prior to his con firmation as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Taming the Flu Virus Britain has been hard-hit with an Asian flu epidemic this winter and reports from' Japan tell of school closings in Tokyo caused by the same scourge. U.S. Public doubt that this country will experience influenza in epidemic proportions this year, even though a few cases are bound to be brought across the oceans. Flu normally comes in two- or three-year cycles, and the United States suffered an extra ordinary number of cases lation at large should have developed enough natural immunity to resist the virus this year. Nevertheless, flu immunization is recommend ed for certain "special risk" groups : persons with chronic diseases (especially respiratory), preg nant women, and all persons (55 years of age or Vivid, i lie HUW Vilv.v.HIL'K, illltl illll.lUHIUl.tS IrtlstJ much of the frifibi out of thew ord "fiu." EJwR. for Being? commodity surpluses and Committee? raised that same ques Its roots are in the west government. 1.1.. l! ! Health Service officials in 19(i0. Now the popu Dennis the Menace i i i i i i i i i i i i i "AwZWW HlS RANTS AF SO Today & Tomorrow By Walter CRISIS IN THE CONGO In the Congo, the U.N. and the U.S.A. now find them selves in the middle. They have tried and failed to paci fy the irrecon cilables on the Left and on the Right. On lVXI the Lumumb- al p r o v i nee, now led by an Lippmann a uthentic Communist, Gizenga, and op enly supported by the USSR. On the Right is the province of Katanga led by Tshombe, and supported by Belgium. The two warring extremes have several things in com mon. Both are opposed to the U.N. and both are demanding that the U.N. troops be with drawn. They want a field to fight their civil war. Both are opposed to conciliation and each believes in a civil war it has the most to gain. Both hate the peacemakers. Presumably the Left be lieves that with the help of the USSR and of the United Arab Republic and the other Casa blanca nations it can conquer the whole Congo. Presumably the Right believes that with Belgian support it can at least hold the rich and crucial prov ince of Katanga, and in the course of time draw the West, including the United States, into more and more active support of its cause. 1WE grim fact is that among It.. 1 -i ; uic vuiigutese ictuiiuns which have arms and some au thority there is none that looks to the U.N. for a solu tion. This is true of the Com munist Gizenga in Stanley ville, of the Belgian Tshombe in Elizabethville, and of our somnolent Kasavubu in Leo- poldville. There is indeed reason lo suspect, in view of the se quence of events, that the murder of Lumumba was per petrated when it began to ap pear that the Western powers were agreed on proposals for the pacification of the Congo including the release of Lu mumba. The men who mur dered him wanted not only to do away with Lumumba, whose hold on the masses was growing while he was in pris on. They wanted to establish the Idea that Ihe only way to dpal with the Congo is to fight out thccivil war. As against this, there is the n !! roimcai z - - 'Pitt, nlirnsp. "nnlitiritl hon eymoon" is being used every flay, but it ones not tit ine case. What President Ken- 1 nedy is enjoy i Ine is not the j usual per 1 o d of good mi ni o r e d toler ance automati cally accorded a new leader hv the fair s.vr.id mindc(i Amer ican people. He already pos sesses, because he has boldly reached out for it, something far more important than pa tient toleration from those who were against him and those who were skeptical. What struck me at once upon returning for a visit to this country was not so much the happy sense of confirmed judgment among those who had always believed in him, as the frankly volunteered admission by many of his natural political enemies that he has caught their fancy in spite of themselves. How long this simple, vis ceral response to Kennedy's strong lead will last no one can guess. So far, it affirms once more the observation of Woodxow Wilson, who said ija is . 1 MtDfOML) Mh.il 'IttlbUiic, McUiOMU, OHt. tiqhTW Ff?OG Lippmann fact that a collapse into inter national civil war in the Con go will involve most of Af rica in the cold war. If that happens, it will be a lethal blow to the hopes of the new African state for peaceable de velopment. Even if these states are not involved in the fighting, the big powers both East and West will have little time, en ergy, or money for assisting their development. For this reason the vital interest of the new African states lies in pre serving the United Nations. OUR best hope in Africa is i it.:. nt btttivt:u uii una mau. rui many reasons including our own Negro problem at home, the United States can make no military intervention in Africa without pushing popu lar sentiment toward the So viet Union. Only if our actions in Africa are not military, are technical and humanitarian, can we expect our, influence to be accepted. The bold spirits among us who think otherwise, and would like us to intervene in the primitive states of Africa, will have to learn that Rud yard Kipling and Queen Vic toria are dead, besides which they were not Americans. (C) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Youfhs Reminded of Draff Registration The Jackson county draft board reminded young men they must register for the draft on attaining the age of 18. The Jaw requires that every young man must reg ister on his 18th birthday or within five days thereafter. Members of reserve groups or the National Guard must also comply with the law. Men on regular active mili tary duty must register with in 30 days after discharge if not previously registered; or if they have been previ ously registered, they must report within 10 days of dis charge. Failure to register on time could result in the person being declared delinquent, re sulting in the possibility that he could be prosecuted or in ducted ahead of others. Reg istrants are reminded also to bring their birth certificates when registering. ii noneymoon Loes nor m waste that if a President "rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible." The deepest in stinct of America, Wilson wrote, "Is for unified action and it craves a single leader." The President is obviously aware of this; he knew by in stinct that the equally divided November vote did not mean one half the people preferred to cling to the status quo, the other half desiring action. It seemed to me at election time, and I so wrote, that the country did want to move, but was uncertain of the address it had in. mind. It is always for the nation al leader to identify the ad dress, and this Kennedy is doing every day. In the doing of it he has created a "honey moon" spirit in the country quite different from that en joyed by Mr. Truman, out of sympathy, in 1945, or that en joyed by Mr. Eisenhower, out of affection, in 1953. Kennedy and his unortho dox colleagues have created a true momentum, and it would be hard to exaggerate the importance of prolonging it. In at least twoi- and pos sibly three fields of policy the government is In the critical position of band of men ... Communications ... Letters lo the Editor must bear the nam and address of Ihe writer, although under certain circumstances ihe 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 ihe case. Something To Work On To the Editor: Medford High school is fortunate in having a fine athletic system. You -would have to go far to find athletic prowess on the whole better than ours! Just think what physical health, what mental giarits we would have if the students would go back to the bicycle! OOdles of cars are parked every day all around the school and believe it or not I only found two bicycles. I challenge and suggest the student body president, the student heads of the senior, junior, sophomore and fresh man classes get together and change the world-yes I mean change the world, or at least the United Slates. I feel sure an interested or ganization, or newspaper would cooperate and help, Take before and after pic tures. For instance now you have many, many cars around the school and practically no bicycles. After all bicycles and no cars. What a revelation, what a shot in the arm for the school and the city of Medford, with a little promotion on this by the heads of the students, by setting the example and riding the bicycles themselves. I really believe with a little slapstick promotion showing a skinny young man before and suddenly after riding a bicycle to school he becomes a young Charles Atlas that Life magazine and the United Press would put Medford, Ore., on the map.- Students, this you can do yourselves and receive glory and rewards galore but it mainly takes the place of the intestinal fortitude (guts) that us fathers lack in denying you folks automobiles. No bitterness, just trying to help. Bill Launne, 396 Pierce rd., Medford, Ore. P.S. Maybe the teachers and businessmen and doctors could completely solve the parking problem by riding bicycles to work. Come on students lets work on this. Stand Solid, United To The Editor: Way, way back the Kaizer's legions were ripping their "der tag" across the face of Europe and the ghastly first im pact of airplane warfare, as predicted by dishonored Billy Mitchell, was being rained on weeping farm, city and village folk of Norway, Holland, Den mark and other lands, bend ing over the blasted and bleed ing bodies of loved-ones, rais ing their hands and faces to God Almighty in Heaven. Why all this should be? ' A year or two later, my own personal affairs were be ing hurried into shape so my dear one could take over in providing for our two small children as grim notification had come for me to be ready for over-seas duty. Solemn faced middle-aged men were being assembled in the square of the upper Columbia river country of north central Washington. They were being briefed by Spanish War Veter an Frank Thompson, (many years gone now) of Ashland, administrator of the Butler public relief fund for the Elks Lodge there. "You men," my old time Till-i-cum told them, "have volunteered for last desperate home-guard duty as many thousands of others are doing. Dedicated as you are for the sacrifice of your last ounce of treasure and life if need be. You have honored me to be the CO for the time being. Now, it does not matter in the least what you think of Frank i r tvi" trying to push a heavy, stalled vehicle over a rise in the road. If they get it to the top, it will coast in the clear and its engines will pick up again. If their strength, their levers and pulleys fail, the vehicle will not remain where it is, but will roll back upon them, careening and wrecking with increasing speed and damage. One such vehicle Is the do mestic economy. As employ ment creates more employ ment, so does unemployment create more unemployment; and one has the feeling that this recession is very near the critical point after which it will rapidly feed and grow, if it is not checked now, on its own poisonous, self-generated fuels. The second such vehicle is the Atlantic alliance. It is not merely spinning its wheels in stationary position-it is defi nitely slipping downhill under the gravitational pull of dis integrative forces, too com plex and numerous for ex planation here, but which in clude the spreading phychol ogy of European neutralism, the impasse over nuclear strategy, and de Gaulle's re sistance to further unification until France is in a position to lead the new Europe,,, an Thompson. He may be just a yellow dog in some of your estimations. But the hard fact remains that in choosing Frank Thompson as your CO, you place him as a living sym bol of the colors your flag bearer holds aloft. So when he gives orders, it is the flag of your country speaking to you, which you must carry out to the best of your abil ity." So today, as our majority choosen CO, John Kennedy shoulders the heavy burden of presidential duties and must alone make the many fi nal and fateful decisions, we must, regardless of how we may disagree with his policies and promises, stand solidly and unitedly with him to our last ounce of treasure and life if need be. For as he warns us, our sur vival as a nation is at stake. And our best weapon of de fense, it seems to me, is to present a united front to the enemy wherever he be, that we are dedicated to the cause of freedom of a government of the people, by the people, for the people that shall not perish from the earth. F. J. Clifford. Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Lucky Monkey To the Editor: We put a chimp into a nose cone of a rocket and shot him into the air. He sure wuz a lucky mon key. He never went where I said he wuz going. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Asks 'Equal Time' To the Editor: Lately, there seems to have been a number of letters of a religious nature appearing in the Communica tions column. I have no quar rel with the Mail Tribune's ed itorial policy in this matter, and ask only for "equal time." In his letter, appearing in the February 14th Mail Trib une, Mr. Henry Johnson Jr. takes issue with a certain min ister and his radio station. In this letter, Mr. Johnson states, All of us do not have a radio station on which to air our views or questions." Is one to assume then, that Mr. Johnson would proceed to air his views if he were possessed of such a facility? This writer does not partic ularly agree with the radio evangelist, or with Mr. John son either, for that matter. Neither do I appreciate the musical taste, or lack of same, displayed by this station s pro gram director. It seems a pity that the management of the station has not discovered the wealth of truly beautiful re ligious and secular music writ ten by such composers as Han del, Bach, Schubert, and many others. Of course, it is just possible that the station man agement may not wish to ori ent its programs toward peo ple who would enjoy that type of music. Such listeners might not be so readily per suaded to send in "free will gifts and offerings" to a sta tion which is being operated as a commercial enterprise. Oh yes, indeed, the station docs have commercials. But, I digress; the point I wish to make is simply that most radios come equipped with a little knob. . . W. L. Stevens Jr., 1208 Saling ave., Medford, Ore. Why the HUAC? To the Editor: I have been a steady reader of the Mail Tribune for some lime now and in general think that it is a fine paper. I especially find the Editorial and Com munications columns interest ing and informative. r r: n outcome still years away' at best. ' A third such precariously situated vehicle may well be, not U.S.-Russian relations in general, for which no smooth highway is even in sight, but the mutual U.S.-Russian need and desire to begin on con trolled disarmament. Success in this must be desirable in and of itself, illusory as it is to assume that a success here must lead to further successes in liquidating the worldwide cold war. In the first two of these efforts it seems certain, and in the third it seems likely, that unless the Kennedy mo mentum is maintaincd-and for months ahead-the relative de cline of Western power and influence will not only be ar rested but will precipitously increase. We will all have to remind ourselves from time to time as he makes mistakes in his haste-as he surely will-that haste is by no means imposed upon the government solely by the President's nature but by the disintegrative nature of the West's present condi tion. (Distributed 1961 By The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) However I have been dis turbed by your comments per taining to the House Un American Activities Commit tee and their investigation into the Communist conspi racy in this country. Without a doubt this House Commit tee has made mistakes and may continue to make some, but let us realize that the United States is making the same mistake now as in the past if we think we can ap pease this thing called Com munism and continue to live as free men and women. Lenin, Communism's first dictator, wrote, "Marxists have never forgotten that vio lence will be an inevitable accompaniment of the col lapse of capitalism and of the birth of a socialist society". The Communists have planned well to destroy the House Committee of Un American Activities, they call it, "Operation Abolition." They make no secret of the fact to discredit this commit tee or the F.B.I, and its direc tor J. Edgar Hoover. Ycu have stated that this Commit tee is an insult to the Ameri can tradition of Freedom and an ugly misuse of the powers of Congress. With this I can in no wise agree. My question is this, if .this Committee is abolished, who or what is to replace it and do the job of ferreting out the Commu nists in this country today? J. Edgar Hoover writing in his book, "Masters of Deceit," states that as long ago as 1919 when he was Special Assist ant to the Attorney General of the United States, he was assigned to prepare a legal brief on the newly formed Communist Party and nt that time in this brief he conclud ed: "These doctrines threaten the happiness of the commu nity, the safety of every in dividual, and the continuance of every home and fireside. They would destroy the peace of the country and thrust it into a condtion of anarchy and lawnessness and im morality that passes imagina tion." In the passing years since 1919 the horror of Commu nism has become a realty to many millions. God help us to see that our very civilization is threatened by this criminal conspiracy Please print this in the Communications column if you have the space available. Thank you for your time. Hugh M. Van Dewalker 404 Wilson rd. Ashland, Ore. O Editor's note: See the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial elsewhere on this page. All that Mr. Van Dewalker says about communism is true. Our objection to the commit tee stems from the fact that it has been virtually useless in ferreting out commu nists," with one or two ex ceptions; that it uses methods at odds with American tradi tions of freedom, justice and decency; that it gives Ameri ca a bad name, and that it is an utter waste of time and the taxpayer's money more than $300,000 last vear. Let the FBI and the courts do the job. They're trained for it, and employ acceptable metnods. Pleasant Surprise To the Editor: On Feb. 3, ioi, a leuer irom me was published telling of my feel ings about Gold Hill, etc. Now I had no idea how far- reaching it could be, but in my mailbox Feb. 9, 1961, I had a most pleasant surprise. There was a letter addressed to me with a return address of San Francisco. I was rather puzzled and thought that probably one of our friends we had known in Portland moved down there. After opening the letter and reading a few lines. I learned that this wasn't from anyone I knew, but from a wrman who had read my le'itrr " -ay down there." She expl"i--a'i that she and her husband had subscribed to the Medford Mail Tribune because they have chosen the Medford area as the place they would like to live in the near future. Through reading my letter, she said, they're convinced they haven't made a w.ong choice. Now, you see what our Chamber of Commerce could do? Do you see what even you, an individual, could do? I'm now in the process of writing an answer to this new friend. I want to tell her many things. First, I want to impress on her mind all of the good points, advantages, opportun ities, etc. To tell her how much we'd love having hr and her family here in our city. Let her know how peace ful it is, how very picturesque and beautiful. How, when one looks up at the silent master fully colored hills and ?s the delicate white clouds lazy ing around in the soft, gentie blue of the sky, you can ac tually "feel" God nlace His I loving hands on all you see, smell, hear, touch and "feel." How one can go up into the) hills and survey a most breath taking sight below-our city! Then, too, I mun tell her of the things that, at present, do not seem to be too good but will be better when the right time comes for them to be im proved. We were planning to leave here-but we can't. One reason is that we're happier here than we've ever been. Anoth er is that we evidciUy haven't finished the work we were meant to do here. We all have a purpose for being here. Did you know that you're living in Gold Hill because this is where you want to be? Mrs. R. P. Corona, 904 - 5th Ave., Gold Hill, Ore. Her Banners Wave To the Editor: In the letter of Feb. 9. titleri "Homo wri To Be Done," entered by W. Keece, challenging a state ment in the letter of Poh ? titled, "It Is Very Late,"' he accuses the playwright of mis casting the hero, (in this case Uncle Sami. in the rolf, nf -a judge to dispense equal jus tice in an economic, cultural or racial controversy," be cause of his cultural nature I had maintained that he could do this, but it would have to begin at home. In the light of prevailing world circumstances, the dra ma cannot be rewritten to "fit" the actor. True, I carry a torch for victory. Because, like Presi dent Kennedy, I believe that, "On earth God's will is in l ho hands of men." And because, mere is too much apathy and not enough will. I a aware nf Unrip Ram'. cultural heritage, and the dis- advantages ol some of its cul ture complexes - especially -capitalism, isolationism, and, directlv affeetinir the npnnlo- sociology's boomerang - the social "group" ideology. A culture trait can be. and often is an asset. But when a complex such as "group" consciousness pvtenHs itspiP beyond the line of beauty and amy to encompass the very thought processes, such con firmity becomes a sort of self imposed tyrnanny. In other words, "We The People" have inherited and nourished, a stepchild of iso lationism named expediency. And meanwhile have created and Cultivated, a wiriosnrparl modern custom called, pack aged thinking. Together, they offer a kind of amoral haven of false security, out of which the bottom is falling! My conviction is simply that-U. S. ("us," in this in stance) is actually "made of better stuff. Times and conditions have altered radically. Yesterdav's rnld become today's Frankensteins. wny not appraise our atti tudes and prejudices and un leash originality, courage and fortitude. This will give Uncla Sam something lo work with. With a revamped cultural nature he may be able to lake the 'lead' and play the part like a "trouper." Meanwhile, my banneri wave. Thelma Carson, Star Route, Box 60, Prospect, Orel One Mors Question To the Editor: Just ona more question, please. Tell me how the engineers tested the formations at each end of the Emigrant Damsite before con struction was started? Personally, I do not believe that there was any such testing made, like there has been made on the several Rogue River plans. I spent sev eral days watching such oper ations, crews of men and equipment worked for months drilling in solid bedrock here and there spending many thousands of dollars, and Ihey are slill testing. Camps were made at different locations, roads were built into the grounds, and water was piped for great distances for such testing in some areas. I never could get a man or an engineer to walk a block to look at the great crevasses which sunk into the mountain and canyon near the dam where rotten bedrock had parted between spots of clay .-.nation along the adobe i ail !ess than a block from the il. .,i site. Now if they dis covered these crevasses or even knew about them, I have never seen or heard of an in vestigation which looks to me like the "Devils Kitchen" at Yellowstone National Park. The only exception is that these crevasses are in general adobe location, which in my opinion, the cast wall of the dam is joining such formation. I would greatly appreciate having disinterested govern ment engineers investigate. E. M. Tucker, President, Tucker Sno- Cat Corp. Medford. O (Editor's note: See pictures and text concerning Emigrant dam on Page 2 and 3B of to day's Mail Tribune. FARM STATE Nashville - About 75 per cent of all Tennessee's land is in farms and upwards of 60 per cent of all Tennessee's people are engaged in agriculture.
