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INC Of wr-r.i rhlpaffo De- . trolt San FranclHCO' Lot Angeles c.iti. Purl and St Loull At. ' Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS(pKgTIJN Flight o' Time iViedlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 27, 1951 (Tueaday) Search operations are un- derway today in southeastern -- Arizona for two Medford men missing since last night on a flight from Tucson to El Paso. Thick acrid clouas or. smone -from several sawdust fires which blew across Highway 09 Just noi.h of Gold Hill yes terday were blamed by police for several automobile col lisions. ' 20 YEARS AGO Msrch 27, 1841 (Thursday) Col. Frank L. TouVelle of Jacksonville, former Jackson county judge, today gave the public assurance of permanent access to the Rogue river by the creation of a park lm- rmnrtlntnlv holnw Rvhee bridle on lie iviiawuy iu uwuu. eight miles from Medford; From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudne Pot" column: "The courthouse lawn Is again clut tered up with robins, who act as; if they owned the court house." ' ; 30 YEARS AGO . March 27, 1931 (Friday) Southern Pacific has lower ed freight rates for fruit prod ucts leaving the valley. A travel agent will visit here soon in an attempt to sell local citizens on a trip to the Orient. -40 YEARS AGO ? March 27, 1921 (Sunday) 3 A local man who holds the .mull franchise to Butte Falls ::has asked permission to con- ; tlnue use of the old Pacific !;and Eastern railway tracks The Chamber of Commerce ;;heie has voted against a pro posal to group charitable '.drives Into a large Community ! Chest. t S0 YEARS AGO ' March 27, 1911 (Monday) f Ashland voters Friday rc- "pcnled a council-passed ordi nance to close theaters on Sundays. Work is scheduled to start SOun on a new cement plant at Gold Hill. JrVhal's Your I.Q.7 'Nine or ten correct li superior; loven or eight It excellent! five or i'k it qood. ; 1. In Greek mythology, who was the husband of Penelope? 2, What two gases combine to form a very common llnuld? 3. "The Star Spangled Ban ner" legally became our Na tional Anthem under an act by the Continental Congress; rue or false? " J. Which boxer held the first heavyweight champion ship under the Marquis of Queensberry rules? -.-,'B. Will an electric motor oimrato in a vacuum? 8. Hiroshima was one of the Japanese cities that was atom bombed: name the other. V. Name the three primary plpmcnt colors. 8. "Sam Wcller" is a char acter in one of Charles Dick ens' novels; what Is the name of the novel? 8. Are American Indians, born In the U, S.p citizens of the U. S.? " 10. What cabinet position did Jesse Jones once hold? Aniwern 1, Ulysses. 2. Hy drogen and oxygen form wa ter? 3, False, 4. James J, Cor bstt. 9. Yes. 6. Nagaiakl. 7. Red, blue and yellow, 8. Pick wick Papers. 9. Yes. '10. Sec retary of Commerce. t' MONDAY. MARCH 27, 1981 Transcontinental Notes VI La Guardia field, once New York's major airport, is now largely confined to propeller- driven planes, leaving Idlewild for the jets. As a result it is not nearly as busy a place as it once was thouerh still busy enough. It is all torn up at present, as work progresses on a huge new terminal building the utility of which we couldn t quite determine, as the old terminal was almost deserted, with most of the activity occurring in the temporary quarters of American Airlines. After a wait occasioned by our over-cautious earliness, we boarded a Convair, and, after a bumpy flight through clouds and overcast, ar rived at the Washington airport about 2 o'clock. ''' TPHE contrast between New York and Washing- ton is startling, and in many ways. New York is a northeastern big city; Wash ington is a southern city. One' is a bustling com mercial center; the other is devoted, in' major part, to politics, memorials to the nation's past, and to the service of politicians and tourists. The atmosphere is far, far friendlier, the sur roundings more gracious, the hotel personnel more hospitable, and the prices a lot lower. x We felt, in fact, considerably bucked up and the gracious welcome we were to receive from friends and acquaintances confirmed that feeling. ' . THAT first evening in urifVi nlrl -Pi-ionrla Mr much of it in sentimental visitation to two of the nation's outstanding shrines, the1 Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. We had seen them before in daylight; by night, with their artful lighting, they are even more impressive, if that is possible. The maernificent figures, surrounded by gleaming marble columns and quotations expressing- their great ideals, which have become so much a cherished part of our heritage, oespeaic a rever ence for this nation's past glories, and a confi dence that its days of glory are not yet over. '. ' '.j OUR favorite is the ringing declaration which oiifr-nnnrla nlmnsr. aa a rricp.nr.ip Vinln. the bronze head of the huge, standing bronze figure of Jefferson. Inscribed within the temple in big letters, it says : j ' "I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OP GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY AGAINST EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN." We confess to great emotion at seeing these temples to men who helped found, and save, the Upited States of America. And if, looking up at their likenesses, there was an excess of mistiness in our eyes, it is nobody else's business. Both members of the party slept soundly that night, for the first time , WITH only slight provocation, we could write pages about the fascinations of Washington. But these chronicles are In the morning we walked downtown, took a slight detour to gaze in daylight at the White House, glimpsed in its lighted grace the night be fore, and so to the National Press Building, where we had a good visit with A. Robert Smith, the Mail Tribune's Washington correspondent,, much of it shop-talk, but also touching on a book he has just completed about Oregon s senior senator, Wayne L. Morse. Publication is due this fall. Bob was kind enough to devote all of his morning to the visiting fireman, taking us to the splendid (and controversial) New Senate Office building, first. ' . There we sat in on a subcommittee hearing, at which Senator Morse was presiding, concern ing federal aid to education, and another, at which the Senate Foreign Relations committee was questioning Edward R. Murrow as to his nomination to be director of the United States Information Agency. 1MURROW fielded some loaded questions fr Aiken of Vermont. Hickenlooper of Io and Capehart of Indiana, plus some friendly questions from Symington of Missouri, Fulbright of Arkansas (the chairman), Humphrey of Min nesota and Mansfield of Montana,. Senate ma jority leader. Despite the grilling, some of it deliberately difficult, Murrow handled himself with poise, dignity and intelligence, and later won unani mous approval from the committee. But we must say he looked somewhat hag gard, tired and strained when the hearing finally adjourned as who wouldn't? . XE TOOK the famous new subway (on ' walls of which one Senator wants mural be painted, for heaven's sake) to the Capitol, and Bob showed us around. Capitol press gallery members are treated royally. Not quite as royally as Senators, of course, but they do all right for themselves, with their own comfortable quarters, couches, tele phones, typewriters, paper, all of them provided at taxpayers' expense. Press releases, from gov ernment agencies, Senators' offices, and the White House itself, are all available here. And a passageway leads directly to the gallery itself, where members of the press sit above the podium where the Vice President of the United States presides (at least some of the time) over the Senate. For more than an hour we sat in the trallerv in fascination, listening (Later we checked the Congressional Record for that day, and found the entire debate took uo 89 small-nnnt pages and following day.) E.A. Washington was spent anrl Mrs flharles Pnrf-or since leaving home. too long already. om Iowa the s to to a Senatorial debate. it continued into the Dennis the Menace f - ' - "STOP W"-"3 ER L'z.' to Communications Letters to the Editor must bear although under certain circumstances the use of a oen name or Inllal for publication Is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to 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 the pacer; in tact trie contrary is otten Heaven Crowded? To the Editor: A person will speculate about thing that are beyond his comprehen sion. Take me for example. My imagination is stagger ed when I contemplate the possibility of 100,000,000,000 (get in all those naughts) peo ple dwelling in Paradise. This figure takes into account all human beings born since the beginning of time and up to the end of time, whenever that will be. Inasmuch as man was cre ated in the image of God, it is safe to assume that we will look like human beings, only much improved. Would not heaven be a little crowded, or am I too optimistic? David Frisch i P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Sleep Tight To the Editor: Ken Johnson of Salem, Ore., seems to think we should go on sleeping dreaming and saying it can't happen here, it won t. Well someone was asleep ' In the Congo. Also in Laos, and ac cording to President Kennedy the Communists took over a large part of a neutral coun try and the Russian tanks be ing paraded in the streets of Havana could be a dream, but in my estimation It could turn into a nightmare. I also read an article by Billy Graham saying that Communism should be taught in our schools as a "religion.1 I have no complaints about any religion or anyone's dreams or hopes, however I have always had the idea that Mr. K. has no religion. He does have big plans and big ger hopes of carrying them out. I think his biggest hope is that we all sleep, or at least be a little drowsy, until he is ready to set off the alarm. Well, Mr. Johnson, sleep tight, but for me I like to sleep with one eye open. I am sure that 142,000 casualties In Korea should keep us awake for some time to come. However, one thing we do enjoy is a right to express our opinions and an editor that helps us do so. But I still firmly believe that what we say and do should be for the good of our country, not against it, Helen B. Townsend, Route 1, Box 620, Eagle Pont, Ore. Eye-Opener To the Editor: I read Mr. Floyd R. McCabe's letter ex pressing his doubt as to the constitutionality of Jackson ville's ordinance on firearms. If Mr. McCabe really wants to get "shook up," let him take a look at the way elec tions are handled in Jackson ville. That would be a real eyc-openerl Tim J. Horn Box 148 White City, Ore. One By One To the Editor: Hey, parents and farmers! 1 1 Do you want your children and livestock killed one by one?? If Medco converts to their proposed truck road through this agricultural and residen tial area, this may well be the case!! How about getting behind the Home Owners Protective association and letting Medco know how concerned we are? Interested party (Name on file) Medford. Why Not Ceter To the Editor: Why does the phrase "stray cat" make ears go deaf? I have become increasingly interested In tills problem and It seems to me that there Is a great deal of confvistion in what should be a very simple procedure. Other cities In which I have lived consider t cat In the WM-UZA8e7H!' the name and address of the writer the case. animal category, why are Medford cats denied this dis tinction? Stray cats, because of their affectionate nature, are much more of a menace to our children than dogs. Despite this there are no provisions to remedy this situation. Would someone be kind enough to tell me why? Mrs. B. J. Splcer 718 West 14th st,. Medford. The Difference To the Editor: Mrs. Spack- man asks: "Why in the world would anyone want to sit on top of a cash register full of $5 gold pieces?" WELLI It's better than sitting on top of a cash register full of 5 dollar paper bills worth $2.40. There's a difference of $2.80. Everett Acklln i Ashland, Ore. Church and State To the Editor: I would like to comment on the editorial "Church and President," tak en from the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, which you pub lished March 20. I quote from this editorial "The President was right when he pointed out that 'the Constituion clearly prohibits aid to parochial schools . Would someone tell me just exactly where in the Consti tution this can be found? I wish President Kennedy the writer of the editorial had been more specific and quot ed chapter and verse on this for I spent about two hours today reading the Constitu tion without being able to find any clear prohibition. There is Article VI, Section declaring that "no religious test shall ever be required as qualification do any office or public trust under the United States." And there is the First Amendment, to which the above mentioned editorial re fers, but this states: "Con gress shall make no law re specting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." These are the only men Hons of religion in the Consti tution, President Kennedy has also implied that the Constitution allows federal funds for col leges and universities under religious auspices, but it is the religious grade and high schools that are excluded by the Constitution. There is not a word in the Constitution that distinguishes religious colleges from reli gious high schools and gram mar schools - specifying that one is all right and the other all wrong-when it comes to dividing up the public's money. This editorial is typical of the emotional and irrational approach to the subject. This not a religious conflict-it Is a problem of citizen's rights. What about the Con stitutional provision that guarantees equality for all citizens before the law and prohibits discrimination on re ligious ground? Isn't it an act of discrimination forbidden by the Constitution to exclude 8.800,000 pupils from federal aid because they do not at tend a public school? The welfare of this 14 per cent attending non-public schools is no less important than that of those attending public schools. I contend that such help Is not an aid to religion as such, but an aid to students and their parents (who are also paying taxes to foot the bill) and who should not be treat ed on a less equitable basis than any others. To quote Russell Shaw, "By denying education benefits to Catholic parents and children who patronize parochial schools, the state is putting a price tag on the exercise of religious liberty. It Is as if MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE Foreign News: Commonwealth Strains; German Labor Short By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Aanlyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Commonwealth Strains The Union of South Africa's walkout from the British Commonwealth has not re lieved pres sure on many of the other members for economic or other sanc tions against the Capetown gov ernment. In Britain, the pressure is in Newiom the other di rection, a search for ways to maintain traditional trade and financial links with South Af rica, even though the consti tutional connection has been broken. Some Commonwealth countries, particularly the Afro-Asians, may interpret this as an attempt to nullify the break, a development which In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A big question: What will happen in Laos? THE only answer apparent as this is written is that much will depend on what RUSSIA does. President Ken nedy defines the situation thus: 1. The U.S. SUPPORTS WITHOUT RESERVATION the goal of a "neutral and in dependent Laos, tied to no outside power or group of powers, threatening no one and free from any domina tion." 2. If there is to be a peace ful solution of the crisis, there must be a cessation of the present armed attacks by EXTERNALLY SUPPORTED COMMUNISTS (meaning com munist meddlers in Laso, who are SUPPORTED BY RUS SIA). If these attacks do not stop, those who support a truly neutral Laos will have to consider their response. He warned at his news con ference that the U.S. has ob ligations under the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to deal with aggression in Laos "and no one should doubt our resolution on this point." 0 UR President warns that our country has obliga tions under the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) to deal with aggres sion in Laos. Who are the members of SEATO? They are: The United States, Brit ain, Franch, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines.. SEATO's military advisers, meeting in Bangkok, in Thai land, issued a communique charging that communist sup port of the communist rebels in Laos has created a DAN GEROUS situation. A dis patch from Bangkok says: All indications are that the other SEATO members will wait', for the United States to lead, and will EX PECT THE UNITED STATES TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF ANY INTERVENTION IN LAOS." As was the case in Korea, 17IACING this situation, Pres- dent Kennedy acts im mediately. He puts the bee on Russia. He issues an appeal to Mr. Kroosh for a peaceful solution of the crisis. In ef. feet, he draws a line in the dust and dares Russia to cross it. Why put the bee on Rus sia? James Reston, of the New York Times, suggests that our government may regard Rus sia as LESS RECKLESS than Communist China. As to that, time will tell. LET'S leave it this way: The last thing in the world President Kennedy wants is a war such as we would be into up to our ears if this Laos crisis should end in a war that would be certain to make Korea look like a skirmish participated in by a couple of infantry battalions. It is to be presumed that he is acting on the principle that the way to handle a net tle is seize it boldly. the slate were to say to Catho lics, 'Certainly, you have re ligious liberty, but you'll have to pay double for your children's education If you choose to exercise it.' " Roxanne Hallquist 202S Suzanna st. Medford. O Editor's note: This letter is an excellent statement of one side of the argument. The oth er side, boiled down to its briefest essentials, is this: Church schools are estab lished so that their students can receive religious instruc tion as a part of their educa tion. Otherwise, there would be no reason for them. There fore, taking tax money paid by members of other churches, or of none, to sup port these religiously-oriented schools is an injustice, and. in effect, a violation of the con stitutional ban on "establish-lng"-in this case asslsting- rcliglous Instruction. 1$ could threaten Common wealth unity. So the British must move carefully. South Africa itself is ex pected to drift further into a siege economy. Since the Sharpevllle shootings a year ago, the world has been less ready to Invest in South Afri can goods. Big business in South Afri ca is controlled almost entire ly by the English speaking community. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd holds pow er from the Afrikaans-speaking farmers. If they suffer from the breakaway, they could team up with big busi ness and push Verwoerd from power. Manpower Shortage While the United States struggles to reduce unemploy ment to somewhere around the 5 per cent level, West Germany is searching desper ately for manpower to ease Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A MORTIFIED LADY motorist was hauled before a vil lage justice of the peace by a motorcycle cop who an nounced, "Judging by the way this here woman handles a car in traffic, I don't think she can see very well" The justice didn't look too surprised. "We'll just give her the little old eye test," he said. "Lady, please read the third line of that chart on the .wall." Without hesitation, the lady spelled out "Y-M-P-J-C." "Perfect," approved the justice. "Now let's hear the line at the very bottom." "I would like to purchase," read the lady, "some tickets for the Policemen's Pageant and Field Day." "Better still," boomed the justice of the peace. "How many?" Overheard at the marriage license bureau: "My girl and I would like to know when this license expires." - O 1961, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Matter of Fact AIRPORT THOUGHTS Idlewild Airport In an hour or so, the big Jet will engorge its passengers bound for Tokyo, for Bangkok and and even, in this reporter's case, for Laos In the charac teristic atmos phere of a great airport. half agonizing boredom and Aiiop half desperate bustle, it is not easy to see events with clarity. Yet it seems quite clear, all the same, that the Laos crisis has been the first gen uinely revealing, truly telling episode of the Kennedy Ad ministration. Here was a mess inherited by the new President from his predecessors, and a mess, too, which America's chief allies were begging the new President to wash his hands of. His advisors told him that if he washed his hands of Laos, all of Southeast Asia would go down the drain thereafter. His own instincts told him that if he risked war for Laos, and war came, he and his party might well go down the drain In 1964. How then did the new President respond? TTIS response, to begin with, "was the opposite of im pulsive. Events may prove, In deed, that it was overly cau tious and prudent. Last Tuesday, the President at length made his odd, char acteristic gesture of final de cision briefly tapping his desk, as though to summon luck from the wood and an nounced his readiness to send American troops to Laos if the Soviets persisted in refusing a negotiated settlement. Yet this climatic Instant was not reached before every other imaginable alternative had been exhaustively studied at an interminable series of ear lier White House meetings. The meetings began, indeed, the day before Inauguration, when Kennedy went to the White House for a final brief ing by his predecessor. In the presence of President Elsen hower, former Secretary of State Christian A. Herter then warned President Kennedy that the Laos crisis might eventually require American military intervention. Even then, in fact, the outgoing administration had reached the view revealed by Presi dent Elsenhower, when he ap proved President Kennedy's harsh Laos decision at a brief press conference In Palm Springs. a a TN THE long interval be 1 tween Jan. 19 and last Tues day, a long sequence of other expedients had first been test-l a labor shortage. There are 340,000 foreigners working In West Germany now and an additional 360,000 will be needed in 1961. Finding thsm is hard enough. Housing them Is an even greater problem. West Germany has been in building boom since the end of the war, but adequate hous ing even for the Germans still is not available. Test Ban Chances for East- West agreement on a nuclear weap ons test ban seem as far away as ever. But diplomats at Geneva, where talks have been resumed, say that even without agreement, the con ference has worked out well for the Russians. It has pre vented the United States and Britain from testing nuclear weapons for the last 29 months. For that reason, the Soviets may wish to prolong the talks as long as possible. By Joseph Alsop ed. "Neutralization" of Laos had been indorsed. Through the U.S. Ambassador to Mos cow, Llewellyn Thompson Jr Nikita S. Khrushchev had been directly approached. Al most at the moment when Thompson was meeting with Khrushchev, urgent measures to 'strengthen the local anti Communist forces in Laos had been ordered and prepara tions for American interven tion had also been set on foot. Yet until the beginning of last week, when the Com munist Army in Laos won further key points, the prep arations to intervene were merely precautionary. The deterioration of the local sit uation was what forced the final decision; and even after this decision had been taken, Kennedy still moved with prudence and caution. There was caution in the President's last-minute accept ance of the British scheme to negotiate a Laos settlement at an enlarged conference, In cluding the Chinese and North Vietnamese Communists as well as several neutrals. The gesture had to be made to secure British and French sup port for the American deci sion. The gesture also offered the best hope of a positive response from the Kremlin. rpHERE was caution, too, in the President's final, per sonal revision of the draft of his press conference statement on Laos which had been pre pared tor mm by Charles E. Bohlen, and MacGeorse Bun- dy. Their draft, he thought, was almost too crisp and clear, and might therefore sound bellicose. It would suffice for the Kremlin, he believed, to send the ships and troops quietly on their way, and to make a quiet but earnest statement of warning. And thus he sounded his warning in words so cool and colorless that the occasion's drama all but seeped away. For those who studied Ken nedy In action when he was seeklnff the nrplrfnrv thlc pattern is wholly familiar. Be fore he made his crulcal de cision to enter the Wisconsin primary for Instance, there was a period when he seemed to be absolutely bogged in in decision. But In this period the seeming hesitation mere ly concealed a cool, method ical, painstaking canvass of all the different risks of each possible course. The canvass revealed that the risk in Wisconsin was the most limited risk that gave real hope of victory. Then the decision was taken, in one swift pounce. And after that, no energies wasted for any purpose execpt to minimize the risk and win the figh. (c) 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. i Washington Report By William S. White THE ANGOLA VOTE Washington-President Ken nedy has no slightest intention of following any automatic pro-African" line against the vital inter ests of our old western Euro pean allies in Africa. In any ulti mate moment of - truth, h e considers the western alli White ance under tne worm Atlar o Treaty organization to be the Irreplaceable heart of our own security. He does not, how ever, propose to have the United States side, inevitably and In advance, with each and all the so-called western "co lonial powers" on each and every issue involving "colo nialism" that may arise in the United Nations. IN SHORT,, his actual posi tlon, it may be stated on the highest possible authority, ts a middling one. It stands about midway between the old Eisenhower policy of almost never voting against a west ern ally and the constant thirst of the neutralist and Communist nations to convict the western powers In advance In any argument with any African independence move ment - sound and responsible, or fraudulent and pro-Communist. The President is well aware, of course, that our recent vote In the United Nations, along with the Soviet Union, for an investigation of Portugal's co lonial policies in Angola has upset the Portuguese, and other western allies. He knows, of course, that this reluctant association with the Russians did not put him in the company he would like. For it put us against Britain, France, Turkey and Free China and cast us into a less-than-happy light with other old friends. It is this correspondent's im pression, however, that the President is somewhat sur prised at the depth of allied feeling the incident seems to have aroused. He does not see it as having vast or final sig nificance. AND it is this correspon dent's firm impression that the President has already taken steps to give full reas surance that Angola sets no inevitable, rigid pattern for the United Ctates. He will re peat these reassurances later, in a more direct and personal way, in coming meetings with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, French President Charles de Gaulle and others. Mr. Kennedy considers that the Angola resolution was moderate and that the United States had no alternative to supporting it. He is quite de termined to put this country into friendly and continuing sympathy with legitimate as pirations of the Africans; of this there can be no doubt. This does not mean, how ever, that because we voted against Portugal this time we are necessarily going to vote next time against, say, France or Belgium. The American delegation to the United Na tions will be under instruc tions to consider each case -each collision between Euro pean powers and African na tionalists - on its own indi vidual merits, INHERE is no intention of be- - ... . .i 6 ausuiuieiy ana emotionally "pro-African" -certainly not in the sense that the Russians and their associ ates would like to see. Thus the facts seem in avm small support to those who naa iaKen tne Angola vote as evidence that th Ttnii. States was seeking new inenas in Atrica at the ex pense of old ones in NATO. Whether the President is right or wrong in his policy only time can tell. This com mentator, who has nut hn-n elected to run anything, fears) mat. ii goes too tar in a world where one Belgulm Is surely worth 20 federated Congos. tiut, at any rate, it is u. sible already to be certain on one point: right or wrong, the President's attitude does not retiect in the smallest way any feeling that NATO is able, to any degree whatever. ror tne fres dent - notwlth. standing such hopeful innova tions as Peace Corns U il bottom a pro-power man. And that is what NATO is - pro power. (Copyright 1961 by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 96 Korean Orphans Arrive at Portland Portland - (UPD - A group ot 96 Korean orphans arrived at Pnrtlnnrl't airnnt-f latK ci day, bringing to 2,267 the nunioer wno nave arrived 'n this country via the "bahvllfi" of Creswell farmer Harry Holt. All have been adopted by residence of this country. KNOWS THE JOB Bell, Callf.-m-Krls Krin gel has been named chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Christmas street decorating committee for 1961. i
