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Read! The Mail Tribune "
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herb obey. A'dviwi Mnnr ; TJ. S. Department of Labor has made the state
r.KRAI.D T LATHAM. Bin. Msr. . . ' ,, , , . . ,
tmc w ai.len. jr.. Mn. Eduor ime the cutoff for emplovment of Mexian nation-
EARL H ADAMS. City Edllnr 1 . , , .'
harry chipman. Tele Ed.inr als in harvest. Ilns is wholly irrational, say the
RICHARD JEWE1T. Sportu Edllnr , . J . .If
olive sTARCHER.women i Ednnr pear Growers. I here is w adequate supply of
DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. II i i i r u I I A. .
AiTindepndcnt N.w.papfr "j local labor. Mexicans have been used in the past
rnSdor" have been treated fairly. Why the discrimin-
StmscB7pT.oN8,i.7ATEs ation againsit Oregon?
&FJSi$?S' Already the politicians are in full cry. State
fLa!!v :SS luSd.yZS Sic.: SSSIKep. Carl Fisher, Republican candidate for Con
BvSrry7d7nrMVd?nrd.! press, has attacked the inline with vigor, calling
'?rtJ.f.SM,5L5,fii,if lit "arbitrary." And Sen. .Morse called denial of
.iJnfVndmor'iriiuse of Mexican labor in
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History from th fllei of Tha
Mail Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 years 0-
10 YEARS AGO
May 27, 1952 (Tuesday)
Bill McAllister, a graduat
ing senior at the Medford
High school and son of Mr.
and Mrs. William McAllister,
2015 Hillcrest rd., has receiv
ed honorable mention in the
nationwide Elks Grand Lodge
"Youth Leadership" contest.
20 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1942 (Wednesday)
Oregon ration boards pre
pare to accept applications for
home canning sugar "under
new liberalized plan."
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "V for
Victory and W for Weather,
Worry and Worms In the Wal
nuts." 30 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1932 (Friday)
Rogue valley berry and
vegetable growers urged to at
tend meeting to discuss plans
for combatting "a complete
breakdown of prices."
Unofficial information re-
ceived here states pay for men
fighting forest fires In this
area has been cut to 20 cenls
an hour under administra
tion's economy drive.
40 YEARS AGO
May 27. 1922 (Saturday)
Medford Mayor C. E. Gales
charges "politics" caused his
dismissal from state fair
board by Gov. Ben W. Olcott.
Court tells local woman
here "vile concoction nearly
killed two men in Central
Point" in sentencing her to
aix-mnnlhs Jail sentence and
$500 fine for bootlegging.
SO YEARS-AGO
May 27, 1912 (Sunday)
Sixty-year-old man arrives
In Medford on "heavily lnden"
bicycle en route to Portland
from Los Angeles on Job-hunt
ing trip
Thirty-four senior., largest '
ice in AlaHfnr J Ilirtlt eilii
class in Medford High school
history, receive diplomas In
commencement exercises al
Natatorium building; class
four limes larger than that of
mm
IUL 1? V I i
Wn3l S TOUT laljif
Nin. or ten correct ii iuprior;
!'.T '.rh '' """l
1. What have these In mm
iiinn: zioiy, drachma, rouble?
i. in wnai stale is Arling I
ton National Cemetery?
' dollars
Frame
3. What amount in
did the U.S. pay to
for Ihe Louisiana Purchase'
4. Whal President of Ihe
United Slates wrote his own
epitaph?
.V Whal man, renowned for
his wisdom, buill the fust
temple in Jerusalem'
fi. In what card game is
the Blackwood convention
used
,
7. If an airplane were fly- ,
Kl,A,,r Z m-pih 1"
"est wind of 100 m p h, how,
far off ii, course would it 1
be in one hour, assuming no
course correction were made'
m. now lar on course would
the airplane be if traveling
600 m p.h
ft. Who said, "Wilh malice
toward none, with rharitv for
all"?
10. Name (he seven Presi
dents of Ihe U S. who were
war presidents. '
Answers: 1. All units of
money. 2. Virginia. 3. Fifteen
million dollars. 4. Thomas Jef
ferson, $. Solomon, 8. Con
tract Bridge. 7. 100 miles. 6.
100 mllei. 9. Abraham Lin
coln. 10. Madiion. Polk. Lin
iu. iiBuiaun. rum, Lin-
coin. McKini.y. Wilson, r. D.
Reoievell and Truman.
arcs.
SUNDAY. MAY 27. 1362
Want Mexicans to Pick Pears
Jackson county pear
, reason for secedine and
ination.
The difference between the two is that Morse
is in position to do something about it, and Fisher
isn't yet. Morse says he will take the matter up
with Secretary Goldberg; and it's a safe bet the
ruling will be modified enough to let the braceros
come to Oregon to pick pears. This will be a
chance for Goldberg to help Morse, and rectify
what appears to be discrimination.
THIS isn't all the farmers have to complain
a if fwav i In ! n era 1" ti U n cVi i n rri r i T'V. ni-o't! a
bill to restrict work on farms to children 12 years
of age or older. Sen. Carl Francis of Dayton led
a delegation of farmers to enlist Gov. Hatfield's
support in opposition to
One of its provisions would limit jobs for
children between 12 and 14 to those within 25
miles of their homes, which would interfere with
drawing on the pool of labor in Portland by farm
ers outside the 25 mile
Field work can be
dren than idleness; but it
supervision, with some
tation.
IT'S ODD, but true that the federal government
can set up standards of the Mexican nationals,
but not of Americans, unless it be for children.
This is because the Mexicans are admitted
under treaty and Mexico requires guarantees of
protection for its nationals before they can be
recruited and imported. Thus it has happened
that Americans were "second - class" workers
though they were "first-class" citizens.
Oregon has taken steps to improve the lot of
migrant farm labor, and has reason for pride in
its action. Instead there's the sniping at Commis
sioner Nilscn over Diaz-Infante. We hope the
pear growers can bring in the Mexicans if Cali
fornia growers can. We'd like it better if more
American nationals would turn out to do the
work and get off the unemployment rolls. Ore
gon Statesman.
The Great Outdoors
When the President
touch football, when the
water-skies, and when, among others, the Secre
tary of State relaxes by bowling, the Secretary
of Interior climbs mountains and skin-dives, the
Attorney General skis, and the oldest of the Cab
inet members, the Secretary of Commerce, drives
a fast sports car, it should come as no surprise that
there is a remarkable new interest in recreation
among Americans, most of it of the outdoor var
iety
The White House conference on conservation
last week, thus, like President Kennedy's conser-
vation message of March
hoc y. u ioui c iiini ,
"MJIDfcjLlNfciS for the discussions were drawn
"in the March conservation message to Con
gress and in an earlier report of the Outdoor Rec
reation Resources Commission, which had urged
CTr;ujon in the Interior
...
of Outdoor Recreation.
The President's message proposed that a Land
Conservation Fund be set up' to acquire new
property for recreational purposes. The fund
i.i u (;.,., .,,.,! i,.. ........ .,.!., ., j..
lii'lilll in- iiiwwHiw in jiiumun iiiiiii iuiiii.-v-mimi:i
to publiclv owned recreation areas and users fees,
In- divertiiiLr refundable
boat gasoline taxes from the Highway Trust
''""1 and by receipts
federal non-nnlitarv surplus lands. It would be
used to acquire park lands.
a nation that is frequently charged with
having forgot the pioneer tradition and be-
come lat and llabnv, we
u-ni-L- niwl 1,1.,,- A ,,".,ii
aw
door Recreation Commission indicated that 90
per cent of all Americans participate in some
form of outdoor recreation.
The most popular activities are the simplest
and cheapest - pleasure
v. , i e i . '
,et 111 Ol der of poiilllai'ltV are games, SWimming, 1
sightseeing, hiewlmg. fishing, and picnicking,
,' . ,' , ' .' , '., . -,
And we have become a nation of sailors, with
mole than S million pleasure boats.
i;,,,..,,.., :,, ,1:1 :. f ,,.., ,,, Th M..t.
i
door ( ommission estimated consumer spending
for outdoor recreation on lhe order of $'20 billion
annually. Tourist espendilures come to $2." bil
lion a year. About SI ' .. billion a year is spent on
major sporting goods. Fishermen spend : billion
a year on their sport.
state parks, fores:.--., and
billion annuallv.
From quiet walks in
, , i r ,i it ,i
to touch football on the
door recre
,, I'v l -
1,p lnln 111 Ainciu an lite.
too. K.K.R,
trww'rjrs IvfVe another
joining Calif ornia. The
Oregon "unfair discrim
such a measure.
circle,
better for growing chil
n snoinu oe unuer propei
protection against exploi-
should be under proper
sails, golfs, and plays
First Lady rides and
J, emphasized outdoor,
Department of a Bureau
1
but unclaimed motor
from the annual sale of
do a lot ot out-ot-doors
,',L c,,,.v.m. f,. ll, n,il.
driving and walkini
1 ' "4
Visitors to feder;:
reservoirs lav out Sll
our remaining wilderness i
ii-i ,,
White House lawil, OUt-
would seem to play an indispensa-
i
An ever greater rol
Dennis the Menace
'YOU SURE GOT 9M NICE PfEUN' BANANAS HERE, MTtH' j
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I
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(e) New York Herald
THE GERMAN INTEREST
The vision of a Gaullist Eu
rope - the Western continent
led by France with the Eng
lish - speaking
nations on the
outside-would
be wholly un-
Trtf "f$
without the
p e r m a n ent
support of
West Ger
many. So far
as the vision is
I.lppmann
credible at all
it Is because of the relation
ship between Gen. de Gaulle
and Dr. Adenauer and the
success of the Common Mar
ket. For myself, I think that a
Franco-German Europe under
French leadership is an opti
cal illusion which will pass
away wilh the two venerable
figures who have created it.
For a closed, continental
Franco-German community is
contrary to the vital national,
political, military, and eco
nomic inlerests of the German
Federal Republic. The vital in
terests of the German nation
as a whole are bound up with
the wider association of which
the Atlantic nations are the
core.
I DO NOT think thai the fun---
damenlal issue will be de
termined by, or be much af
fected by. the personalities
and the frictions of diplo
matic intercourse. Gen. de
Gaulle is a towering figure
who plays Ihe game of inter-,
national politics as it was
taught by Machiavelli and ,
piayeo in oiner nays oy men j
like Richelieu and Talleyrand
He knows that we are not
a! odds with him over a trivi
al misiinrlnrsl anH inff rlnp In
laciiessness and bad manners.
We alP ' odds with him be-
j .V cUc i,io "f Vu 1
II I fmill llrtUll- Willi
our vital need to retain the
ultimate power in nuclear af-
fairs. We must have lhat pow-
er because we have the ulti-
mate responsibility. :
Gen. de Gaulle is playing j
for very grand stakes and he
will respect us most if we
play n mat way loo. lie will
not be moved by blandish-
ments, bribes, or threats, but
only by moves which affect
the balance of forces in t he
game he has chosen to play.
PHOSK moves will come
from Germany. If the Ger- !
mans lurn inwardly
lo a
Gaullist Europe, the
mav
com-
conceivably - just barely con-
ceivably - be able at great
cost and at great risk lo make
it a going concern. In doing
this they will be delivering
ering
win
a fearful blow at the Atlantic
iiminunily and at NATO
hich is their defense. If. on
"'"'r nn"fl. i.ermans
llrn outwardly, whirl, would
mean to insist on viable teems
for nntam and the i
onimon-
wralth, Gaullisl Europe will
be nothing more than an idle
dream.
This momentous German
decision docs not depend on
the personal feelings of
Adenauer and on how assi
m.siy he',, adulated 'tr
iv.hinoin i ...
'""tn. so f.u a, e
tile personal feelings of Dr.
ss id u-
om
-rP
Germans must not be to their
vanity or to their nnde but to
,. ......
meir common sense
Dr. Adenauer, we must re
member, is now a very old
man, who hail been away
from home a loiii: time when
1 lie exploded on May 7. and
is not in close and intimate
and continual touch with the
orvriniiiiiriii 01 i,ei man lor
eign policy. We must renicin
her, too. that with the end of
h!" r,;c""?i "0"' '"k"
sip (or the" succession has
begun Hi, power to commit
c.erm
for
lb futur ;
alMuit liko thri; (if an Vurn
ran Prr.Mprt m th ((a
months of h!l term. ,
Lf
71
MXDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Lippmann
Tribune Syndicate
THERE is no reason In think
X
that the A d e n a u e r-de
Gaulle axis against the Anglo -
Saxons will be the cenler of
the policy of Dr. Adenauer's
successors. Already Dr.
Schroeder, the Foreign Minis-
rea,izeab,e,er. has announced that Ger -
many would press for the ad
mission of Britain.
A Franco-German axis Is
contrary to German interests.
In the first place, it Jeopar
dizes dangerously the United
Stales military commitment
on the continent of Europe.
After Dr. Adenauer realized
what his first angry interview
in Berlin had done, and when
he had read Gen. de Gaulle's
recent press conference, he
said in another interview,
"We must under no circum
stances release the United
States from the defense com
munity. Without the United
States we are lost."
TN THE second place, ihe
Germans will realize that
a Gaullist Europe assumes Ihe
continuing partition of Ger
many. A Gaullist Europe will
oppose any opening to Ihe
F.ast which In the course of
time might bring about the
reunification of Germany
The hard line that France
takes about Berlin and the
Soviet Union is founded, we
must be sure to understand, on
a basic French national de
termination not to have to
live wiih a large reunited
Germanv. At hnltnm ihe Imi-H
poj(.y is directed not against
lhe Russians but against those
Germans who want to make
an opening to the East. Its
purpose is to make any de
parlure from lhe present po
sition seem un-German and
unpatriotic.
Germany's real interests
cannot include Gaullist gran
deur. Germany's real inlerests
wi,h lhr Atlantic commu.
nean em-intv nnr. nnniinh n
.',,';:' , r,,,.
pean peoples on Ihe other
LiH(, f ', ,.,,;
mnlp his witpr cnmmu.
njty is ,p way , savp Bcr.
ljn. it is the way lo reunite
Germany, it is the way lo
unite Furone. it is Ihe wav
to confront peaceably and sue-,
cessfully the Soviet Union.
The Time
By ERIC SEVAREID
An important weather-'
cnange is laKlng place in all
our alliances in r.urupe.
rTV-vT J South Asia,
IMJyit-Kl Mid-Kt and
jF aiS") La,in A 111 0 r"
!l ' u'a - and the
1 4k V climate is nev-
er again going
lo he quite lhe
( same. The 1
United States
government is
going to speak
srvarriii mote sharply -
and publicly - about the fail-
and misiudcmenls of its
various allies msi as they
have always spoken about our
sins. This change in diplo
matic style has been brewing
for some tune, was always in
evitable, and has now been
signalicd by President Ki
deliberate public rebukes
both IV Gaulle and Adenau
He has let them know and
in the process ha, let the gov
ernments of the Southeast
Asia l'n
Organization and
the I.attn gmernmcnts in the
Alliance for Progress knon-,
that in those places and ts-u -s
where American men and or
resources are involi1. we
shall speak our policy piece
freely and fully. What is even
more important, he ha warn
ed allied and client govern-
mpnt.t that th prrscni'p
.virl
hr!p of ,ur r-ntrrt S'.vr
no liMir t' iakrn fm
I
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Matfer of Fact By
(e) New York Herald
THE HONG KONG BORDER
Washington - The pathetic
and terrihle scenes being en -
acted on the Hong Kong bor -
der have a po -
j i i icai mean.
ing which al-
most everyone ,
seems to be
missing. This!
tolerated mass ,
m m'n nit
r h i Tn r e n
China can
, . ' .
that the re -
gime of Mao Tse-tung is on
the verge of a major internal
crisis of the most convulsive
sort.
Th other explanations
which have been offered
London, in Hong Kong, and
here in Washington, are all
equally silly. Consider the
most persuasive-lhat the Chi
nese Communist government
wants to prove to its people
that Hong Kong is not a pos
sible refuge, and thus to kill
the mass impulse to take
flight which has increasingly
disturbed Southeast China.
In the first place, the Chi
nese Communist authorities
could not possibly have fore
seen how the Hong Kong gov
ernment would respond, when
the rigorously strict Commu
nist border controls cither col
lapsed, or were overwhelmed
1 or were relaxed. In the second
place, there has been a pro
portional, all but overwhelm
ing influx of Chinese refugees
into the little Portuguese city
of Macao: and here the refu-
jW have not been turned
back
THERE are comparable ma--1
jor flaws in all the attempts
to show that the terrible
scenes on the Hong Kong bor
der do not imply a terrible
crisis on the Communist side
of the border. Meanwhile, the
plain facts speak for them
selves. The fads are:
First, although a tiny num
ber of exit permits have been
granted by the Communists,
the great mass of refugees
who fled from Communist
China have always risked
death lo do so. Until just the
other day, an immense and
unrelenting effort was always
made to prevent unauthorized
flight; and Ihe land borders
between Hong Kong and Ma
cao were especially rigorous
ly patrolled.
Second, the Communis! con
trols of the land borders have
now been relaxed, or they
have been overwhelmed
(which is equally likely) the
police and army units involv
ed have lost all stomach for
their task. Whichever the case
may be, the development is a
sure symptom of acute inter
nal crisis. Communist govern
ments do not relax their bor
der guards, and Communist
border guards do not abandon
I their posts, except in circum
stances of acute crisis.
THE cause of the crisis can
he Identified wilh virtual
certainty. For over three
years, the peasant masses of
China have been condemned
by their own rulers to a con-
jditinn of creeping starvation
According lo an authoritative
computation based on first
hand evidence from newly ar
rived refugees, this winter's
fond intake of Chinese adult
li-nrlrnr. f.-rt. tlilOll
tit
!
. , ' " ''position we expressed at Ge-
1.H00 calories per day, accord-1
lnR 10 laoor category.
Even the hardy Chinese
Is Late; Plain Speaking Needed
For the last two or three
years, this wnler has felt
sure, ann nas so sain in 1111s
space, that such a posture in
Washington was a fundamen
tal necessity. It is necessary
not only to check the growth
of domestic right wing "fed-up-ness."
but to give these
tangled arrangements around
the world a hetler chance of
accomplishing what they
are
supposed to accomplish,
,
Eor a decade or more the
right of "plain speaking ' has
been mostly a one-way exer
cise. As the unspoken rules nf
lhe game gradually developed
by usage, it was considered
fair for Pe Gaulle to grandly
re-arrange the world and our
place in it; it was fan- f ir
Adenauer to reach agreemen-.s
with Washington and then
summon a news conference to
publicly stamp the agreement
with his own interpretation of
it, knowing full well it was
his alone. It was fair for the
British Eoreisn Office lo leak
severe attacks on American
policies to its tavored press
while protending officially
tl'.at al! was harmony It was
fair for any one of a number
of I. a' lo Amertc.in govern
ments to publu-ly hi. one W'asiv
tngton for jheir dome,v ills
while refusing collect i e!y to
do anvihmg anmit tlioe ills
thenisel os
I- w 'ol 'i r ' -r V"" ,, a
A-i p h :i ivn'rc
Nearly ilwayi thrpt.:out ,
o
O 4
Joseph Alsop
Tribune Svndleat0
i cannot survive and do their
, work Indefinitely on this
, cruelly low level of nourish-
1 ment. Moreover, southeast
lCnin, ha, nnw rf.arhprt tn.
I hungriest part of th year
tne "me Def01"e the mid-June
harvest
If the Communist managers
made the mistake of setting
lt I
f ,T "u
may now be almost bare. If
j ..it i"""1'01 '
1 ernments have now exhausted
their grain stocks, they would
, , , , , , ,
then cease to be able to pro
vide even this winler's miser
ably low ration. An acute cri-
! sis would automatically re-
suit. This is in fact the most
rational explanation of the
scenes on the Hong Kong bor
der. Indeed it is the only ra
tional explanation yet offered.
TT MAY be, of course, that
the current crisis is local
ized in Kwantung province.
.
which includes both the Hong
Kong and Macao borders. The
provincial granaries could
well be exhausted, while the
rest of China could still he
struggling forward, in the
grip of no worse misery than
what has now become cus
tomary. It is more probable, how
ever, that the scenes on the
Hong Kong border betoken a
generalized crisis. Despite
careful cross-checking during
the years, no dramatic differ
ence has ever been discovered
lZZ
tung province and the state
the rest of China. Further
more, if a general crisis has
not already begun, It Is likely
to do so before many months.
The truth is that China now
seems to be in the grip of a
remorselessly descending spi
ral. There is no sign that the
next harvest will bring re
lief, any more than the last
harvest, or the lasl-but-one.
There are manv signs on Ihe
other side of the ledger. But
that leaves the question,
whether a crisis lhat has lis
origin in grave, prolonged
food shortage will turn, in the
end, into a political crisis.
This Is the question no one
can answer, except to say that
in the Chinese past crises of
this character have always
produced political upheavals.
Khrushchev Pledges
Laos Peace Efforts
Moscow -(BP!)- Soviet Pre
mier Nikila Khrushchev Fri
night pledged continued Rus
sian efforts to keep the peace
in Laos.
The premier, in a radio and
television address to the So
viet people, said U.S. actions
in landing troops in Thailand
were aggravating the Laotian
problem.
He said the West must
blame itself and Laotian Gen.
Phoumi Nosavan for the cur
rent state of affairs there,
however.
Khrushchev said it could be
nnled that neutralist Prince
Souvanna Phouma had recent
ly expressed the desire to
:r . . " . 'in . i
I comply with the agreement to
set up a coalition government aco tliat weightlessness doesn't I .
'H Lais- i bother too much. Astronaut MOR.K trlvla:
"This coincides wilh our Carpenter confirms this find-j . Ihls business of whirl
opinion. That is why the So- ing. I lnR ar,Jnd Ihe earth in outer
VlPl l'nion urill aHhltro in Ihe U'hal l urnichllnecnccl 11 iSPaCe i.S SO NFW lhat fho
......
ncva and in our talks with
Prcsjctct Kennedy
1 mier said.
the pre -
; this long period, the official
w a s h i n g t 0 n stance went
about like this: We have to
understand how perilous and
direct an American mistake
is to these countries: we are
the responsible power in the
final analysis, we must be end
lessly patient and not vield
to the pleasant temptation of
scolding them.
Washington is not likely, in
J spite of Mr. Kennedy's Irish
: temper, to reduce the dialogue
Af ,1,- .IN . r.i.
,
wife s squabble. We will keep
went on. the patient-father
posture had become less and
less effective. Eat her began
to lose respect until the time
came when he was in danger
of losing his own self-respect,
exactly as happens in any j
family when the parent never
spanks and rewards impertin
ence w ith a higher allowance.
In alliances in which we
cannot he the boss, but only
the first among sovcrrisn
equals, prrhar much of this
could bo lived with. But nne
serious by-product of al! this
cannot hp lived with, and
:h,it i the refusal of oihfr in
the- arraneenipnt.'i lit vvvp
'. ho: r i ut propor ' ion nf the
i'oi's and thp r'k Why can
Krira:n refiup to ni,.- a ---out
P'O'ary c'V r-nu' iom in
t Gerr-anV W-v ran
('j-'aHa rnrn and j .rHe 0-;r
efforts to contain Caribbean!
o
O
OTLUCK
(By rfl-T Staff and Contributors)
An Army convoy rumbled
through town Thursdayour beautilul Valley and I
afternoon. It was composed of
big canvas-covered trucks,
each pulling a trailer. On the :
i tailgate of the last trailer in '
! inc' mcone had written a
, '"W chalk message. It said:;
Arately, this was ,he
' "ay that Navy Commander
, s Carpenter whirled
! around the world three times
! , , i, ,u.
I ill H33 iiiiic iiicii ii mun uic
convoy to move from Port
land to Medford.
A headline in the first
edition of Thursday's Mail
Tribune said 'Buck Dear
Season Set Tentatively."
Dear deer.
A cub reporter for an un
named newspaper was given
his first major assignment,
covering a flood.
Anxious to make an im
pression on his first big
break, he wired back the fol
lowing lead to his editor:
"Tonight, God is sitting on
a mountain, surveying a
scene of horrifying devasta
tion . . ." and so on and on.
11 1 s editor immediately
wired back:
"Forget flood. Interview
God. Get pictures."
We received a card in the
mail the other day which
said, "One consolation since
the election is over. 1 can
now open my Mail Tribune
and don't have to look at
's mug in it."
Another subscriber (name
on file) took note of the tele
phone company's changeover
from "SPring" to plain old
"77," and wrote a letter, as
follows:
Dear Pacific Northwest Bell
Telephone Co.:
In these days of reckless
waste and constant change, it
is wonderful to be able to
count on strong, steady Com
panies like yours. I'm sure
you sometimes get un-think-ing
complaints about your
splendid service to the public.
However, I want to con
gratulate you for your firm,
reliable Corporate Image. De
pendable. Always there.
Friendly and helpful to all
at all times.
I am prompled to write this
when 1 see lhe bright green
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written, Astro
naut Carpenter has just passed
over Cape Canaveral for the
second lime, and has been giv
en the green light to go
around ONCE more. It has
been reported that he COULD
go around seven times.
Why only three?
The reason given is that
three times around will drop
him into the Atlantic in the
area covered by the ships that
have been deployed lo pick
him up when he comes down.
Seven times around would
have dropped him into Ihe Pa
cific, involving deployment of
more recovery vessels.
t STRONAUT GLENN dis
; a covered some three months
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is the delicate balance be-
tween the outward pull of
: centrifugal force and the
jdownwa rd pull of earth's
I Communism
within Cuba?
I Why can other members of
SEATO shrink from sending
.soldiers to help us protect
Thailand? Why could wealthy I
Germany stall for years in the '
general economic effort for
underdeveloped countries'
All these and other refus-
a.s and failures were made
possible, in the final analysis,
not in spite of our patient
forbearance, but hecause of
it. In each of these predica -
ments each of the allied gov-
ernments concerned has
; knmv fnr surp jt wm,1(f
not have In act hecause the
United States would. They
knew, furthermore, that the
United Slar would not even
try to penalize them for their
failure.
I I have never been able to VyHAT does ail that mean?
understand how- this could means that when w
continue without some kind have acquired a lot more
of crack-up in these alliances. , knowledge of space navigation
My impression is that the ' wp will attempt to assembln
President has the same gen- . SPACE PLATFORMS out in
eral altitude. 1 hope he is not j the wild yonder. We'll send
now too late, for the crunch them up in sections. We will
is on. everywhere: The shape I '"en attempt to put the see
of the new Furone is being tions together out there,
forged NOW. ihe fight for " and when they are a
the immense ru-hi s and popu- seiuhied. they w ill be used as
I.Hion of Sout'ic.st Asia is WAY STATIONS for further
on NOW. l.a::n America is explorations in space Maybo
farng its las: rtitrh chance for something like repair shops
economic a--d po'. .' u ,-i oMrr who- ,. P v, ft cr, ran ,tpp
NOW'. for K'rvicrs
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.blanket of spring spread over
: want you to know that I
think it is thoughtful of you
to have given us SPring as a
telephone prefix. It means a
lot. Has a bright sound to it.
Gives a good impression of
ou7
I have Just ordered our sla-
tionery for the next five-year
period and have had the
, cp. (:., uu
.wt j..wi, vui in UU1C1,
capital, embossed print. And
this time, we are putting our
phone numbers on the en
velope backs also. The call
ing cards and direct-mail bro
chures will all feature our
phone number and the 13 week
ad series in "Sunset" will
carry the lead, "It's SPring in
Medford, Ore.!"
I'm grateful to you. We all
are.
Yours in SPringtime.
a
Well. If it's any consola
tion to anyone, you can
STILL dial SPring, Just at
well as 77. and get the same
results at least you can
until they lake the letters
off the telephone dials,
which will probably be the
next step. Until thai time,
you can also make success
ful calls on this exchange
by dialing PRovidence,
RSvp. SRavaka and
PShaw. A SPlendid oppor
tunity. Now that National Moth
proofing Month has arrived,
the weeks in May have almost
run oul. Oh, to be sure,
there's National Pickle Wcelc
(that's a 10-day week, May 24
to June 2, giving lots of tima
to celebrate Pickles), and
American Merchant Marina
Book Week. But that's jus
about all.
It's pretty grim, all right.
Ah, but there's hope ahe.id.
June is almost here, and Junn
is buslin' out all over with
weeks and months.
To begin wilh, it is National
Ragweed Control Mont h,
Dairy Month, and National
Recreation Month, nol lr
mention Portable Radio
Month.
And do you know what
starts next Sunday, a week
from today? National Humor
Week, that's what! ! Let joy
be tincnnfined.
JENKINS
gravity. If you could achieve
this delicate balance in your
living room, you would float
around in the space between
your floor and your ceiling
along with the furniture and
such.
A STORNAUTIC trivia:
In his space voyage,
Scott Carpenter will go threo
times from daylight to dark
ness and vice versa. He will
go the same number of times
from late spring in the U.S. to
late autumn in the neighbor
hood of Australia. He will go
around the earth every hour
and a half.
Page Jules Verne, who fic
tionally senl a man around the
1 earth in 80 days.
i '
lvn,n asuonaut isn t in
eluded in the current edition
of Webster's intercollegiate
Dictionary.
QUESTION:
Where does "aslronaut"
some from?
It derives from lhe Greek
"aslron," meaning star, and
the Greek "nautikos." mean
ing of or pertaining to sailors,
navigation or ships. Which is
to say: An astronaut is onn
who sails around among the
stars.
CE'EN minutes after his
& take-off. Astronaut Car
penter oriented his crafl in
such a manner as to enahin
, him to see the empty booster
' that after pushing him nut
; into space had dropped off
. and had gone into orbit.
W hy lhe detail?
Weil, his flight is part of a
test to determine whether
pilots can estimate relative;
positions of ohioct.s in order 'n
perform COUPLING OPER
ATIONS when space rendez
vous techniques are attempted
in later flights
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