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Mad ford and Jackion County
History from the flits of Tha
Mall Trlbuno 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yan ago..
10 YEAR! AOO '
April a. mi (Tuesday)
An office hai been estab
lished' in the Medford hotel
for the purpoae of writing let
ten to varloui influential na
tional figurei In an attempt to
eecura the reactlvlation of
Camp White. 1
The sixth dot poisoning
sere in recent weeka was re
ported by state police yester-
ft YEAR! AOO -JjrUI.
141 (Thursday)
' The Medford Chamber of
Commerce la distributing lit-
-ture supporting Ita request
4 .it lru miinlcinil aimort be
c iignated wan Army air
Vrnni ' Arthur' Perrv'a "Ye
Smudge Pot" column; "The
Mew Deal has coma out again
for the Ever-Normal Granary
plan, as a step toward the
fuller life. It has appeal, and
lead eventually to the
Never-Empty gasoline tank."
tO YEARS AOO ' .
April 0. 1IU (Friday) J
The federal bureau of pub
lic roads has approved state
highway commission plan for
a new road to Oregon Caves
via Williams creek.
Rogue River area residents
have submitted a petition to
the county court asking that
permanent policy be adopt
ed of employing the unem
ployed for county roadwork.
' 40 YEARS AOO .
April 0, 1121 (Sunday)
- The Trigonla Oil company,
with more . than . 1,000 local
stockholders, has yet' to strike
oil In Fern valley.
A new Standard Oil com
pany service station at Sixth
at. and Riverside ve., is
Hearing completion.
80 YEARS AOO
April a, 1111 (Monday)
Hill railroad interests are
reported surveying the right
of way for a proposed Mia
ford-Crescent City railroad.
Page one headline: "Magic
. growth of city proven by
great strides made during
month."
IViiFt Yesr I.Q.?
Mbe M ten aarratt la aeaerlaf)
earn of olfM Is Mcetlentt five or
ant la f4. -
1. On what continent Is
Rhodesia?
2. Who was known as the
"Wizard of Menlo Park"?
a. "Jersey Lightning" is a
' slang name for what alcoholic
beverage?
4. Who wrote, "Oh, East is
Fait and West is West, and
never the twainshall meef'T
5. VandalUm damage to
non-business property Is de
ductible from Income for tax
savings; true or false?
8. Does a carpenter use a
rip saw to cut across the grain
or in the direction of the
grain? ';-
7. In which stadium In Call
fornia did Margaret Truman
make her debut as a concert
sinter? ,
S. How many male players
participate la basketball
game? - O,
0. Tha Iris, cornea and pu
pil are associated with what
organ of the body?
10. Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer heads what German po
litical party?
' Aaawam 1. Africa. 2. Thorn
a A. Edlsea. a. Applolaek. 4.
h vard Klpliaf I. True. t.
t. e frala 7. Holly,
w. k M. 0. Ten. a. Eye.
It. irir ,, D sons erst
"Talking" a Depression
Stupid. Uninformed. Heartless. Irresponsible,
These are four words we would use to describe
the reported testimony of Governor Mark Hat
field's Dublin utilities fommianinrior .Tnnpl Hill
at the recent conference
prouiems. .
- The conference was
for the laudable, nurnnsp
and possible cures for this state's sag in business
ana employment (wnicn have dipped to levels
even lower than the national recession). V
k JJill waa nnnteH as savincl ".The tranannrta.
tion interests feel that
oi a psycnoiogical recession,"
? ' He went on to describe it as a "Harvard recession."
IT IS shocking that such harebrained wisecracks
should come from one of Oregon's top appoin
tive officials at a serious public hearing "And
Hijl!s testimony was especialy irresponsible at a
tittle when Oregon unemployment was running at
a rate of 12 per cent nearly double the national
average. .-; yj:--tM-U-' b
More than 60.000 Oreeonians were iobless.
kYt Hill described their plight as "psychological''
and shrugged it off with a political wisecrack.
, lhe public utilities commissioner should know
that his state's basic industry is timber products,
and that industry is sick. Its sickness is not psy
chological but financialthe direct result of tight
money, high interest rates and eight years of Mr.
uiocnuuwci o iciuoai tu iccuiiiiiicuu ur accept a
realistic federal housing program which would
use inis state s lumDer and
I TNDOUBTEDLY this
w gon's plight is politically unpalatable to Mr.
Hill. But it was stupid and irresponsible to blame
the third Eisenhower recession on a Democratic
President who had just taken office and to
sneer at Mr. Kennedy's efforts to recruit the na
tion's best brains into government service. ; v
And whv. mav we ask.
for "the transportation interests"? He's supposed
to be regulating them not serving as their
spokesman.
in defining the duties of the public utilities
commissioner, Oregon law says "he shall repre
sent the patrons and users of the service and con
sumers of the product of any public utility."
HEAVEN help the patrons and consumers if
.Tnnol T-Ti 11 "a f natimtiMr urn a atmimf fllir flnt4
V WHt 4J.U1 D WOW4lkUlJljr
ed and if it reflects the
is supposed to represent
iranKly, we d preter
nedy's Harvard appointees. Oregon' Labor
He Had It Coming
: " - (In commenting on the Oregon Labor Press EdI- '
; torlal reprinted above, the Pendleton East Oregonlan
' bsd the following to say.)
Jonel Hill had this comine to him. we think.
and theh some.
Loner before the election of last November
many economists were saying that whether the
next President was John Kennedy or-Richard
Nixon he would find himself dealing with a seri
ous recession. They said that the nation had not
completely pulled out of the 1958 recession and
the causes of that one had worsened.
If responsibility for
placed, there'B only one place to put it. It has to
rest on the shoulders of the Eisenhower Admini
stration. The troubles that face the lumber in
dustry, the key to economic well-being in Ore
gon, nave been with us a long time.. They were
here long before President Kennedy announced
he would be a candidate
THE nation didn't talk itself into this recession
and it isn't going to talk its way out of it This
requires action action that the Eisenhower Ad
ministration of big business did not take. ' r
: iir ..I.- i t Tj t Tr i i 11
yv e miiiK r resiueiit
us out of it by the end
of something he did not create.
This isn't the first time Jonel Hill has nut his
foot in his mouth. We have wondered -Def ore
how he managed to get on the Hatfield team. He
doesn't measure up to the
ernor has established for members of his team.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
Strange Bedfellows
Few organizations have been under more con
sistent attack from the Far Right than the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has. from
time to time, defended
Witnesses,' foreigners, labor politicians,. Wallac
ites, Socialists, Communists, and those who have
taken the fifth. The Dan Smoot crowd has the
ACLU high on its list of
"un-American."
Now look who's come under the wing of the
ACLU. That venerable oriranization now oonoses
any congressional or legislative investigation of
tne controversial John Birch society, a group
made up of those who bitterly oppose the ACLU.
The John Birch society, wrote ACLU officials
to the California governor, is thus far operating
within the guarantees of the BUI of Rights. Even
ita "allegedly secret" character does not consti
tute grounds for an investigation. "As long as its
assembly is peaceable," wrote Edson Monroe,
executive director of the ACLU for Southern Cali
fornia, "any minority has the rieht to conduct its
business in private fashion." Eugene Register-
uuard. . . . 'V. ..
on Oregon's economic
; . ;
called by the governor
nf PYnlntHncr tVio naiiaaa
the nation is in the grip
piywooa. .
interpretation of Ore-
is Jonel Hill sneakinz
TT CAO OWV.U1 abiJT A vVl
calibre of the man who
and protect them.
any one of Mr. Ken
the recession must be
for the Presidency.
ivenneay is going 10 pun
of this year pun us out
specifications the gov
free thinkers, Jehovah's
groups that are somehow
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Dennis the
Wl W I ed
'JF1 WAS VU. A3 yjU.rVE'0
SEE rYHO WENT TO iSOf .
Communications
Letiars to tha Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although, under
certain circumstances the use of a pan name or Initial for publication is permissible.
Thm Mall TrUiuna tHiiiH tha risht la edit all letters wiih a view to clarlilcation and
condensation. Letters submlited for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this -column do not necessarily represent the views of the paperi In fact the
contrary, is often the case. . i!
Automation and Jobs .
To the Editor: This writer
cannot quite understand the
active campaign to. hire the
handicapped, when more and
more able-bodied men are be-,
ins displaced by machinery.
Fewer men now can produce
more goods. The need is for
more jobs. ' -. .
If private industry cannot
supply them, the national gov
ernment should embark on a
program of huge public works.
Otherwise, the rich will get
richer and the poor will go on
relief.
1 David Frisch
' P.O. Box 292'
White City, Ore.
Pardon My Dust
To the Editor: . Residents
along the Medford Corpora
tion right-of-way from, Butte
Falls to Medford, who are not
sure what could result from
conversion- of the railroad to
a private, extra -heavy log
truck route, should take a look
at the flowering trees along
the Crater Lake highway
where traffic is temporarily
moving along a gravel stretch.
The trees are so covered
with dust, It is Impossible to
tell their color-ahd this on a
wide right-of-way, with roomy
shoulders.
What would happen to pas
tures, homes and gardens
along the narrow Medco right-of-way
if 100 big trucks trav
eled dally from Butte Falls to
Medford over the private
route? v 1 ' ' 1
AH this, and noise,-speed
and danger too!
Mrs. K. A. Carroll
: Route 1, Box 662
Eagle Point, Ore.
Wondering r; V
To the Editor: She found
out how it was with the Bible
when she went to college. It
was the first time she had
been away from the security
of her own home, her own
church, her own, friends. It
was the first time she 'had
known anyone would question
the Bible or ever say It was
not so, or would scoff. It was
an awful shock.
She too, began .to wonder.
There was science class. One
of the professors was an athe
ist. There was the general idea
that In the beginning every
thing started with an explo
sion. But she gave much
thought to the smallest living
organism. . There was too
much Intricate structure there
for there not to be a God
given plan and purpose. When
she looked at the heavens at
night she felt, despicably
small. '
For the first-time in her life
she started reading her Bible
at night before she went to
bed. It was such a comfort.
She was numbered among
those in church on Easter.
"Jane"
Jacksonville, Ore.
Sag-aclty
To the Editor:
This knowledge should out
judgement crown
In seeing fair our brothers:
To know we aU are broken
down '
But some sag more than
others! '
"Gold Hill Billy"
Gold Hill, Ore. V
Prefers Lincoln's Advice .
- To the Editor: In recent
weeks I have noticed at least
three communications com
menting on Bishop J. A.
Pike's articles In "Christian
Century."
I have just noticed an ar
ticle written by Kenneth H,
Woods of Washington. O.C.,
which comments on the thir
teenth and last article by
Bishop Pike enUUed "How
My Mind Has Changed." This
discloses that he no longer be
lieves in the virgin birth of
Christ, nor that God will
"limit salvation to a select
group who happen to have
heard the newt and heard it
Menace
I MEANT KSAUY
AS TAU.J
well," nor that Christ "ascend
ed into heaven" and that He
'sitteth on the right hand of
the Father." These statements
are "poetic rather than lit
eral." , , -
He no longer believes in the
doctrine of the Trinity. He de
clares "This 'three persons in
one God' terminology is prob
ably the best the philosophers
of the early church could do
to try to preserve the mono
theism of God as against the
natural tendency toward poly
theism in that day ... I see
nothing in the Bible, as crit
ically viewed, which supports
this particularly weak and un
intelligible philosophical or
ganization of the nature of
God."';' ;-
The reaction to Bishop
Pike's article was almost in
stantaneous. Some readers,
even ' ministers, praised his
stand as being essentially the
same as their own. But in
Georgia a group of his fellow
churchmen declared that he
should be tried for heresy. In
his own San Francisco,, dio
cese 100 laymen drew up and
mailed out 1,000 copies of a
statement . that asked, "Is
Bishop Pike undermining our
Christian - faith?" - They af
firmed that the bishop's
views, "Instead of making
spiritual progress . , . may be
retrogressing to ancient heresy."-
., , .,
"The real Issue is this: Bish
op Pike, like many other con
temporary theologians (among
them Paul TiUlch, , Reinhold
Nlebuhr and Rudolf Bultman),
believe. that the Bible is a
myth . . . Among Bible stories
considered 'myths' by today's
form critics are Creation,
Man's Fall in .the Garden of
Eden, the Flood, the, Trinity,
the virgin birth, the resurrec
tion of Christ, His second ad
vent and the general resurrec
tion ..."
In Jeremiah 23:1 (R.S.V.)
we read: "Woe to the shep
herd who destroy and scatter
the sheep of my pasture."
Abraham Lincoln said of the
Bible: "Take all of this Book
you can on reason and the
balance on faith and you will
live and die a better man."
I'm glad there are many
who still believe that the ad
vice of "honest Abe" Is more
dependable' than that of so
called "higher criticism" in
matters of Bible interpreta
tion and Christian conduct.
Harold J. Reith
113 Brlggs Bldg.
-: : y, Shady Cove, Ore.
Talking to Himself
To the Editor: WeU folks,
when a person talks to himself
they say that Is the first stage.
nui tney say when a person
starts answering himself it is
tne last and final stase.
So here is what I can't un
derstand: All of the articles
I have written which have
been published in the Mail
Tribune, has anyone written
une wore or protest tor or
against anyone of them? After
all, with accusations I made
against J. Edgar Hoover and
his stooges, as I called them,
I should think that someone
would have the courage to
either make me put up or shut
up.
I don t mean by rubbing
me out, as I happen to know
that Mr. Hoover would be per
fectly satisfied if they did. I
nave neard that Mr. Hoover
wrote a book. I wouldn't
swear that he did as I have
never seen or read his book.
I know that Webster wrote
a book called the dictionary.
I also know there is a pro
gram on T.V. called camou
flage. So you see I only write
from experience, not hoarsay.
You see folks, I am a person
who believes to getting to the
point and laying the cards
right faceup on the table.
I would like to know what
Dan Smoot meant when he
said on T.V "I know you
have tried" whom wasAhe
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOrORD. ORE
Foreian Noys: Red China Admission;
Gromyko
1
Br PHIL NEWSOM
DPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables: -
Kennedy-Macmillan
In his meeting with Presi
dent Kennedy this week,
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan is
e x p e c ted to
to press the
British vie w
that the way
now should be
paved for Red
China's admis
mlsslon to the
United Na
tions. Macmil
lan I. expect-
to warn ,. Kennedy- that
Britain mav be unable to sup
port any new U.S. Initiative
to bar the Red Chinese when
the U.N.? General Assfcnbly
reconvenes next fall. t-,' .
However, Macmillan almost
certainly will compromise If
Kennedy Insists he must have
more time. Britain then either
referring to? "The little old
wine maker, me?" Or me? -
' Please, folks, no. more reli
gious letters or letters want
ing me to join some organ
ized aroup. I have heard from
more groups now than Heinz
has pickles. I have . received
two cards of acknowledge
ment from . the Washington
Post at Washington, D.C., tell
ing me that they are sorry
they couldn't print the arti
cles I sent them at this time.
But that they hoped I
would try, them again. .Why?
Are they' gathering informa
tion' for Khrushchev, or are
they trying to keep President
Kennedy from finding out?
Maybe I am hitting too close
to home, or could it be that
they don't want the public to
knOW? :.v.:--v.v-w i-.-a-
- Leo J. Townsend,
; Route 1, Box 620,
Eagle Point, Ore.
' P.S.-As Jerry Colonna
would say, VWhatl Are you,
crazy or something?" All in
vestigating investigators wel
come, ... -,v- : ' ..
Falling Behind '; .;. ' ;,',
To the Editor: As you know,
the American Association of
Uni- erslty- Professors,
through its Chapters in the
institutions . of the Oregon
State System of Higher Edu
cation, undertakes a periodic
analysis and review of faculty
salaries in these institutions.
This year, the results of that
analysis have lea us to en
dorse the salary request of
the State Board of Higher Ed
ucation. On Thursday, Feb. 23,
we presented a statement in
support of that position to the
Joint Ways and Means Com
mittee of the Legislative As
sembly. ; --. .- v ,
The statement attempts to
establish the following three
sets of facts:
(1) In our competition with
other institutions, for avail
able academic staff members,
we have been falling steadily
behind. Thus, our average sal
ary, which was only $66 be
hind the competition In 1997,
is now $712 behind.
(2) The relative economic
status of the academic profess
slon, which had fallen behind
other occupations and profes
sions between 1939 and the
early 1950's, has failed to
show the significant improve
ment necessary to attract and
retain the qualified people
needed to meet rising enroll
ments in our coUeges and uni
versities. - - '
(3) The State Board request
for a -17.8 per cent salary Im
provement fund for the next
two years, which we endorse,
will probably do little more
than maintain ; the present
$712 differential between Ore-
son and its competition.
. Beginning in 1957, Oregon
chose to have its public col
leges and universities ' corn
pet . In the "major leagues."
We feel that the results to
date have justified that choice.
But our relative .position is
slowly slipping. If this trend
continues we will nave -to ad
just back to "minor league"
status.
We feel that the State's rel
ative income position and the
traditional value placed on
education in . Oregon point
both to the possibility and to
the desirability of retaining
the high standing to which
we cling.
Robert Campbell,
University of -
Oregon, AAUP,
Eugene, Ore.
Call of the WUd
To the Editor: Since our
last missive written to the
M. T. communications, con
cerning "a mountain lion
screamed," I was given more
information by two long-time
residents of southern Oregon
including the Coos Bay area.
The couple, Mr, and Mrs. A.
W. Ellison, both heard the
sound of "the caU of tha wUcr
Envoy?; Uranium Lessening
' .;'... MiniaiM- An-1 Uranium For Atoms
might go along with the Unit
ed States "just one more
time," or abstain in the U.N.
In any case, the .China issue
will be high on Macmillan's
agdenda for the Washington
talks. -
Ambassador Gromykot
Soviet diplomats in' Berlin
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
J K. GALBRArrH, witty professor of economics at Har
. vard, explains in hi. book. "The Affluent Sode"The
ri . w,-t has an engaging flexibility.nln
ordinary intercourse it is
an improper advantage .
enjoyed by a political
minority to which the
speaker does not himself
belong. When the speak
er enjoys it, it ceases to
be a- vested interest and
becomes a hard-won re
ward. When a vested in
terest is enjoyed not by a
minority but by a ma
jority, it , is a human
right" ,
ay he's stingy-It's just that hla pocketa are Unad In tootty
pine." . ' . . ; '
W. C. Fields always defined a light drinker as one who doestft
start drinking until it's light '
, C by Bennett. Cert JJtatrlbntea- by King features Syndicate -.
Washington Report
By WIIUAM
THE VANISHED ISLAND
. Washington - The last nonl
combat area in all. the Ameri
can political terrain is no
longer an open
city-no longer
a neutral bil
let to which
the embattled
troops may re
tire sometimes
on rest -leave
from the cam
paign in g at
i j n . .
of the quite lesser but still
poignant meanings of the fact
that the required 38 states
have now ratified a constitu
tional amendment to permit
citizens of the District of Co
lumbia' to vote for President
and vice presidents
' For 161 years the people of
this federal city have sat on
the sidelines, non-voting non-
participants in the process of
choosing the national leader
ship. But now, by grace of the
23rd amendment, they will go
to the voting booths In 1964
along with all other Ameri
cans.
BEYOND doubt this is sound
and historic progress. And
It is understandable that the
welkin now rings with glad
cries from local press and pub
lic that the bad old days of
when each was young, one liv
ing in tne Butte : Falls area
and Coos Bay country during
the early nineties, s v
Another instance of bands
of coyotes attacking bounty
hunters on horse-back some
50 years ago In the Butte
Falls district has also been
told me. My informer related
that a pioneer woman, once a
resident of Jacksonville,
hunted down and shot ravag
ing coyotes for the bounty on
scalps, paid by Jackson coun
ty court. The woman was a
crack marksman with two six
shooters from a trained sad
dle horse. -
. Bert Kissinger
- .- Boardman st.
; Medford
The Reason Why '
To the Editor: Several neo-
ple have asked me: "Why did
I sit on top of a cash regis
ter full of $5 gold nieces." I
had several reasons. In the
first place we didn't have any
piper money. I had better
reasons than a person sitting
on top of a chimney, a flag
pole or a cottonwood tree. I
couldn't sit in a bathtub like
you do today and answer the
telephone. 1 couldn't get the
darn telephone, off the chim
ney. Of course, I could have
put the bathtub under the
telephone, but it wasn't high
enough. I could have put a
sack of potatoes on top of the
bathtub and reached the tele
phone.
I wuz only 13 years o)d
and I couldn't pad- a hundred
pounds of potatoes, so I
dunntt the easy way. The
cash register wus here, so
why not use it? I could stand
on top of the counter and
reach the telephone. I could
lean over with my right hand
on tha chimney and pick up
the receiver with my left
hand, then sit down on the
cash register. I'm glad I did
it. If I did it today, I'd be
the only Republican sitting in
Alcatraz with Al Ci-pone.
I had one other reason for
sitting on top of the cash
register. The . reason wuz,
"DYNAMITE." To be contin
ued. Everett Acklln.
iv ' Ashland, Ore."
..... . 1 ... ... . ... ... -
say -that Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko may be named
ambassador to Washington.
It's all up to' President Ken
nedy. If Kennedy indicates
he would like to have Gro
myko in Washington for ne
gotiations, tha Kremlin will
Oblige. ..1: . ;
Stop Mo
S. WHITI
"second-class citizenship" 1
ending forever.
This correspondent, howev
er, is not wholly able to share
the common rejoicing. He sees
it as not absolutely an unmix
ed blessing. It is yet another
proof that the most wholesome
possible reforms for the many
are apt to bring a certain pain
to the few.
For as a -political writer
here, since -the shooting war
overseas ended - in 1946, he
and many of his coUeagues
and many national politicians,
too-have always found .Wash
ington a happy thing to keep
in mind during the months of
cannonading out on the active
political fronts. When the
thing became . altogether too
much, one could always, com
fort himself with this realiza
tion: . '
SOONER or later he could
slip back into Washington
for a few days of Compassion
ate leave. Much as officers in
Normany could once see the
vision of illegal but wonderful
trips in civvies to neutral Dub
lin, via London, for a short
holiday from the shooting.
To come back to Washing
ton from national congression
al election campaigns falling
every two years, or from the
big . presidential wars every
four, -was a salutary experi
ence, indeed. You, had been
long on the hustings In Indi
ana, in California, in New
York, all over. All your days
and nights had been filled
with endless campaign ora
tory; with endless cardboard
ham sandwiches and very cold
and very tired fried chicken
dinners; with endless foul-ups
at this or that air field; with
clack and clack and clack. .
You got onto a plane or
train and first thing you knew
here was Washington, calm as
a country lane in the summer
time, and quiet, quiet, quiet.
YOU did not find the people
here uninterested in how
the batUe was going in the far
places. But, because of their
long apartness from it they
could take it or leave It alone.
And this attitude, in all the
circumstances was surely not
unwelcome to the fellow re
turning on furlough.
It used to be said that if
Geneva in perpetually neutral
Switzerland had not existed,
the world's warriors , would
hsve had to Invent It, If only
because a breathing-place, as
well as a breathing-space, sim
ply hM to be available some
time. ?' .
This Is what Washington so
long has been in the nation's
political wars, a breathing
place and a breathing-space to
which aU committed to the
action could return, in time
and season, to repair the per
sonal ravages 01 the conflict.
As John Donne once put it,
no man Is an Island to himself.
And now that Washington is
falling into the theatre of con
flict, Washington, the last is
land, will be an island no
more.
(Copyright 1911. by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
TRUST MATCHMAKERS '
, Seoul -(CPD A poll of this
year's graduates of Seoul's
E w h a Women's university
showed the coeds prefer mar
riage arranged by matchmak
ers rather than love. The re
sults of the poU released Sun
day said 73.4 per cent of the
girls desire to have match
makers find ' their husbands
Instead of selecting them
themselves. . ,
Uranium For Atoms , '
Uranium deposits in the
Erzgebirga Mountains in East
Germany near the Czech bor
der are near the exhaustion
point, Reliable v sources - say
only, a few pits sun are open
and these are expected to close
shortly. Last, year, the East
Germans shipped about 2,000
tons of uranium ore to the
Soviet Union, compared to
4,000 tons in 1989. Commun
ist iesoers now are ousy snip
ping' 1 about -160 . thousands
workers from the site to new
mines -in Saxony and Thur-
ingla-. ':;:. ;
V ' 1 1 . .: v
German tJ-Boati ' . . ,.
, West German? will commis
sion the world's most modern
conventionally, powered sub
marine some time late this
year, r The Germans quietly
have been ; designing a new
type , submarine of 390 tons
displacement over , the past
years.. Construction was but
off several times to incorpor
ate latest technical features
but. finally was begun some
months ago. Present plans are
to build 12 of the new subs
but the number may be in
creased. '?'-:.
Norway has seen the secret
designs and has said she wants
to buy two or more. The U
boats will operate at speeds
hitherto unattalned . by con
ventional .submarines. '.They -are
' designed to guard , the
Baltic's western approaches
through which Soviet subma
rines ad surface vessels must
go to reach the Atlantic.! i
Asia Spy Ring vj'i -j
Word from Taipei is that
Nationalist Chinese security
aLents .may announce soon the
cracking of a big Communist
spy ring on Formosa. The
Taiwan Garrison command al
ready has announced the ar
rest of a young couple in con
nection, with espionage activi
ties. But that is said to be
only the beginning, with sub
sequent! arrests, making' . the
roundup one of the biggest in
years. ''- . ., '.'..'?'..';?''
In the Day's News
; PRANK JINKINS
' J;
- As this Is written, the Laos
situation appears to be getting
less inflammatory. The word
from Washington was that
U.S. officials are awaiting the
Soviet reply to the British-U.S.
call for a cease fire, but are
coming 'to the belief that when
it is received it will be neither
a YES nor a NO but a "hedged
acceptance" that will require
careful study for hidden quail-,
fications and pltfalls-whlch la
official language for what in
private conversation we term
jokers. . '. . . .. -
Our state department offi
cials say the-, .shooting must
stop before any International
conferences can be held to
"neutralize" Laos, but' it' I
said to be understood in Wash
ington that an INFORMAL
TRUCE would be sufficient to
set the negotiation machinery
in motion.
A LSO-1
XV
A meeting of what is term
ed the Warsaw pact nations
(meaning Russia's Eastern Eu
ropean satellites) has come to
an end and a communique has
been issued. It is described as
"the most moderate document
of its kind since the Warsaw
pact was signed in 1955." It is
said to 'leave the door open"
for East-West negotiations and
a further easing of world ten
sions. Diplomats ' noted its
brevity and the absence of
threats and rocket rattling. .
0???????;'T T
Well, maybe neither side Is
spoiling for a fight ,1
ANYWAY, let's hope so.
I'm pretty sure most of us
will agree that the last thing
in the world we want is to get
embroiled In another shooting
war In Asia. , - .
THIS, of course, we have to
admit: ; ; -
." We mustn't run. If we run,
the communists will all take
Out after us. Then the fat will
be In the fire., -
PROM Washington:
" After 100 years, residents
of the District of Columbia
hive the right to vote for their
President. President Kennedy
has hailed it a "step in the
right direction." But, he add
ed, the 23rd Amendment to
the Constitution by no means
gives District dwellers home
rule-that Is, direct control ov
er their own governing body.
He added: v.
"I am hopeful the congress
. .'. will act favorably on leg
islative proposals to be recom
mended by the admllstratlon
providing the District with tha
right of home rule."
WHY did the Founding Fa
" thers deny residents of the
District of Columbia the right
to vote for President?. The an
swer is rather simple. They
were afraid the capital city
of Washington, with its aura
of politics and politicians,
would come' In time to RUN
THE COUNTRY.
There are times when we
wonder if the Founding Fa
thers weren't as wise in that
respect as they were in nearly
all others.