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Medford and Jackson County
History from the fllu ot Tht
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 20. 1952 (Friday)
Oregon state policeman
killed in the rugged, moun
tainous country on the Jackson-Douglas
county line while
investigating shots from a
cabin owned by a miner.
Robert Adam Christy, about
50, found dead in Bear Creek
by four children. Cause of
death not determined.
20 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1942 (Saturday)
' Net taxable value of Jack
son county property up $2,
174,280 over 1941; total now
$28,388,340.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
watermelon crop of the valley
is beginning to shape up but is
still too small lor promame
, stealing.
30 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1932 (Monday)
A. W. Pipes, former mayor
Medford. announces independ
ent candidacy for Jackson,
county judge.
State game warden reports
fish going over fishway at
Savage Rapids dam at rate of
five each minute.
40 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1922 (Tuesday)
Medford lumber dealer dies
in accidental fall from Chi-
caeo hotel window.
Medford baseball team de
feats Grants Pass, 25 to 2;
Grants Pass team becomes dis
couraged in eighth inning and
leaves field.
50 YEARS AGO
June 20, 1912 (Thursday)
Two supporters of Theodore
Roosevelt for the Republican
presidential nomination sub
mit their resignation to Jack
son county GOP central com
mittee because of dissatisfac
tion with national convention,
which nominated William
Howard Taft.
Medford Mayor W. H. Can
non announces the city coun
cil will consider an ordinance
regulating the maximum
speed of trains passing
through town to 10 miles an
hour.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten certact it superior;
seven or eight It ec llent; live or
six is good.
1. Two of every three ducks
produced commercially in the
U.S. arc raised on an island;
name the island.
2. Which State of the United
States lias the greatest area
3. With what New England
town do ynu associate John
Hancock and Samuel Adams
4. Which amendment to the
Constitution provided for di
rect election of Senators?
5. Are tariff duties imposed
on imported goods collected
by the Internal Revenue
Bureau, or by Collectors of
Customs?
8. Which is the highest
ranking position In the Presi
dent s Cnhinct?
7. Jefferson City is the capi
tal of which state?
8. All varieties of lizards
are venomous; true or false?
f). In what country ore the
Halls of Montezuma?
10. With what do you asso
ciate 1 lie Dow-Jones average?
Answers: 1. Long Island.
2. Alaska. 3. Lexington, Mast.
4. 17th Amendment. 5. Collec
tors of Customs. 6. Secretary
of Slate. 7. Missouri. 8.
False. 9. Mexico. 10. Stock
market.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 20. 1962
Meeting the
The challenge facing educators today is to
meet the increasing demand in an- individual's
educational process from the time he enters school
until he has received the background and knowl
edge to enter a highly complex society as a use
ful citizen.
It is a challenge which administrators and
board members of the Medford school district
faced. It is one which they will face in the future.
Last night's decision to construct a new 2,000
student capacity high school to relieve crowded
conditions in the present building was meeting
part of this challenge to provide a broad course
offering for students who will enter all walks
of life.
It was a decision to help prepare future gen
erations to be leaders, scientists, technicians,
businessmen and citizens of tomorrow.
THE decision didn't come easy. It came after
long hours of discussing ideas, plans, philoso
phies, future demands of education, and conflict
ing reports as to how effective large or small
high schools are.
In August, 1961, the Medford board accepted
a report by Drs. Keith Goldhammer and Clarence
Hines of the University of Oregon bureau of
educational research. In their study of the Med
ford district, they recommended two high schools
in this district with capacities ranging from 1,500
to 1,800 students.
To do this would mean some curtailment in
the educational proeram
would be uneconomical
sidered by Drs. Goldhammer and Hines.
BUT the question facing the Medford board
tiroes "WfMi if n orlinooKli t infai1 fVio
present proeram?
Superintendent Leonard B. Mayfield and his
statf continued to study the Mediord program
in an attempt to determine how to plan a pro
gram for two high schools
present offerings.
In his report to the board, Dr. Maylield said :
In almost every subject and department area, it ap
pears to me that our present high quality academic
program, along with many other educational advan
tages our students now enjoy, will be lessened. By
this is meant that both the number of offerings and
the length of offerings, such as three years and more
. of foreign languages, advanced mathematics, advanced
science, advanced commercial and homemaking in
fact, virtually in every area, will be limited. It will be
questionable whether such classes as now exist can
be held because of small enrollment and high per
student costs.
The board was in general agreement with
this.
But the Question of
more than once during the board's discussions of
another high school: could the board economical
ly justify leaving a "white elephant'' standing
with vacant classrooms while district jiatrons are
pavintr for a completely new high school which
offered a program equal
Members of the board felt that the present
program should not be
facilities should be expanded to help meet future
demands on education
program.
lhe question then was what should be done
with the present structure.
For weeks, board members discussed this, re
viewing various prospects, many of them iffy
ones.
a
THE proposal as approved last night is the out
come of all these discussions. The plan, basic
ally, is to build a new high school for 2,000 stu
dents, using the present industrial arts facilities
and adjacent classrooms as an annex and utiliz
ing the main high school
and special education classes.
Some unused student space will be left, but
this, if enrollment trends continue in their present
pattern, will be utilized by 1970, five years after
the new high school is
The proposal, perhaps, is not ideal. But it
appears to be the most feasible plan discussed by
the board in the past year or so.
IT IS a plan which assures continuation of the
high quality educational program now offer
ed. It is a plan with flexibility, and a plan easily
adaptable to an expanded program.
Advances in the educational process are nec
essary to heli) meet the
Unless school districts,
and eventually their elementary schools, continue
to expand their programs, they are not meeting
the challence of education today.
This challenge is being met bv the Medford
district in the plan approved by the board last
night. rJ.ll.A.
The Work Ahead
The decision to proceed with construction of
a new high school in
Medford is only the first in a series of decisions
on the school by the board.
Jt has yet to make decisions on what type of
educational plant it will be, the most economical
building material, and many more decisions, all
of which are as important as any other.
lhe hoard has at its disposal literature from
throughout the country on school buildings, in
cluding new ideas and recent developments. The
decisions made concerning the new nigh school,
we are sure, will not be made hastily.. E.H. A.
Challenge
now offered because it
sound. Ihis was con
without curtailing the
economic feasibility rose
to the one now offered?
sacrificed; if anything,
with an ever expanding
building for junior high
iirst used.
demand of society. And
through their secondary,
the northeast section of
"Read Me That One Again About The Bull
And The Bears"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
REFLATION AND
THE DOLLAR
There is under way the for
mation of a policy to stimulate
the recovery, which is now
sluggish, and
to sustain and
prolong it
against the on
set of another
rec e s s i o n.
Within the
Admini s t r a
tion this spe
cific program
of measures,
Lippmann parucul any
the timing and shape of the
tax cut, is still being studied,
and the final decision will pre
sumably be made when the
figures come in during the
next three months. But there
is general agreement, which
has wide public support, that
the American economy needs
expansive measures to make
sure that the present recovery
is not aborted.
There is agreement also that
in making the program of
measures this country is not
an island which can ignore
Europe and the opinion of
European bankers and invest
ors. We have become a deficit
country in international pay
ments, and foreigners have on
deposit in this country some
$24 billion for which they
have the right to demand pay
ment in gold. The question
which hangs over us is wheth
er, if we reflate our economy
by reducing taxes and thus
incur a larger deficit in the
administrative budget, the
Europeans will start a run on
our gold reserves by cashing
in their dollars.
THIS Is a very serious ques
tion, and we would Indeed
be caught in a dangerous
squeeze if it were true that a
program to restore full em
ployment to our own economy
could be adopted only at the
risk of provoking an inter
national panic over the dollar.
The answer to the question is
that there will be no such
squeeze unless the responsible
officials and private financiers
on both sides of the Atlantic
become suddenly imprudent
and reckless.
On the part of the Ameri
can officials there are certain
recognizable limits beyond
which they cannot prudently
carry the expansive measures
They cannot, as in the past,
make money cheaper here
than it is in the European fi
nancial market. Money must,
in fact, be somewhat dearer
so that there is no incentive to
take dollars away from the
United States and move them
to Europe.
Furthermose, the Americans
who are managing the ex
pansive program must watch
very carefully so as to arrest
it when it begins to suck in
too many imports and to cause
a rise in American prices. The
managers will also have to re
sist rises in wages and prices,
as in the steel Industry for
example, because these make
our exports less competitive
and therefore increase the
deficit in our balance of in
ternational payments.
Above all, the managers
must fit the expansive meas
ures to the fact that their task
is to overcome a deflation and
that this will be achieved
when they have reached a
modest goal of no more than
about 4 per cent unemploy
ment. If they act in this con
servative way, there will be no
inflation, and therefore there
will be no rational reason for
a run on our gold reserves.
HAVING said that, it must
also be said that the gold
problem is not an American
problem alone. It is Europe's
problem no less. The problem
has been created since 19IS0,
that is to say. since the United
States adopted the Marshall
Plan for European recovery
and the Truman Doctrine for
the containment of Commu
nism. Since 19."i0 we have run
an average net deficit in our
international transactions of
nearly $2 billion a year. Over
the whole period this tus
amounted to a deficit of about
$24 billion.
I
In foreign capital invest
ment, in military expenditures
abroad, and in foreign aid we
have paid out $24 billion more
than we have earned. By
doing this, we have helped
the recovery and the defense
of Europe, and we have pro
vided the reserves on which
the post-war monetary systems
of the free economies rest.
IT IS obvious that a Europe
an run on the dollar, if it
became panicky, would shake
the monetary system of Eu
rope at least as badly as it
would shake our own, perhaps
more badly. Moreover, Euro
peans who are wise in the
ways of the world - having
lived through years of mone
tary instability - will realize
two things. One is that a na
tion as powerful financially as
is the United States can, if
driven to it, defend itself in a
great variety of ways. The
other Is that no strong nation
will sacrifice the control of
its own economic development
to unreasonable pressures
from abroad. When the United
States undertook the Marshall
Plan, which has been such a
brilliant success, it never
agreed to subject itself to the
opinions and prejudices of
elderly bankers in Zurich and
elsewhere.
THERE is every reason to
think that there will be no
panic. The machinery already
exists to protect the dollar
while the American economy
is being reflated. There has
recently come into being ef
fective cooperation among the
central bankers of. the West
ern world. It is reasonably
safe to assume that among
these central bankers today
there is a preponderant num
ber who were brought up in
modern economic teaching,
and will understand quite well
what it is that is going on
here.
Timothy Tugbutton
In Fearsome Rage;
Says 'Tain't Fair1
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington -I1IPU- The Hon.
Timothy Tugbutton stormed
into the newsroom today in a
fearsome
rage, striking
out with his
cane and hol
lering, "Tain't
right and I
ain't gonna
stand for it."
Whacking his
stick o n the
newsdesk, the
Pt,n,
tercd the tip. The ferrule flip
ped into the works of a news
wire teletype, jamming the
machine and delaying trans
mission of a red hot report
that the U.S. Treasury still
was in the red with no pros
pect of getting out.
Spending and Spending
"In the red," Tugbutton
shouted. "Of course we're in
the red. That's just what I'm
talking about. We're in the
red and when we have a
chance to save a few dimes or
pennies, the government is
looking the other way. 'Tain't
right, that's what it is."
Breathless for the moment,
the old man produced a news
clipping, slapped it on the
desk in front of G. Dillman,
the office drudge.
"What about that?" he de
manded. "Here is this Organi
zation of American States lay
ing out nearly $2.10.000 for an
Italian firm to study agricul
ture in Ecuador, and who
pays the bill?"
"I'll tell you who pays the
bill. The U.S. taxpayer, that's
who."
Dillman examined the clip
ping. The study had, indeed,
been ordered at a cost o(
$24!).(i(H) and It was to be
conducted, the story said, un
derQhe Alliance for Progress
t
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
Nehru May Be Changing His Mind
About Purchasing Russian Planes
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When word leaked out a
month ago that India was con
sidering the purchase of
Soviet MIG
fighter jets,
short - temper
ed Indian De
fense Minister
Krishna Men
on sna p p e d
that it was no
body's b u s 1
ness but In
dia's. Speak
Vv?f
SaaaWt
Newiom
ing in more
moderate terms.
Prime Min
Nehru con-
ister Jawaharlal
firmed that the MIG jet deal
not only was being consider
ed but probably would go
through.
The supersonic MIG 21 was
less complicated than Western
models, he said, and was
rugged.
Another factor was that the
Russians offered to build a
plant in which the Indians
could manufacture their own
MIGs.
This week it appeared that
Nehru might be changing his
mind and that Krishna Menon
erred when he said the deal
was India's business alone.
Behind In Air Power
India's concern over the
state of its air force sprang
from two sources.
Her old French and British-
9 East Germans
Nabbed by Police
Berlin -fflPt- Communist po
lice have arrested at least
nine East Germans who at
tempted to crash a stolen
truck through barbed-wire
fences' into West Berlin, the
East German news agency
ADN reported tonight.
ADN alleged the mass es
cape attempt, late Saturday or
early Sunday, had been pre
arranged with West Berlin
authorities. It said nine men
were arrested when the truck
neared the East-West city bor
der. The report of the new
escape attempt came in the
wake of these other develop
ments: - East German Communist
leader Walter Ulbricht said in
a speech released today that
President Kennedy "is mov
ing toward positive recogni
tion" of the present borders
dividing Germany. Ulbricht
made the speech Sunday.
West Berlin police erect
ed sandbag and earth shelters
as protection against the bul
lets of ..Communist border
guards.
- The Soviet Tass news
agency denounced forthcom
ing U.S. troop shifts between
West Berlin and West Ger
many as "a new military dem
onstration."
program in which the United
States is to invest billions of
dollars in an effort to raise
living standards in South and
Central America. The study
is to be carried out under the
super vision of technicians
representing the Organiza
tion of American States.
"What's wrong with that,
Tim?" Dillman inquired.
"Seems like a good idea, a
study like that."
"A'course it's a good idea,"
Tugbutton replied, getting red
again in the face. "But why
an Italian firm? The U.S.
handed this Organization of
American States S6 million to
help along the Alliance for
Progress. That's where that
study money will come from,
the study money that is being
exported to Italy.
"That young fella in the
White House, wasn't he saying
just the other day that our
trouble in the U.S. wasn't in
flation or big government de
ficits or the like o'that? He
said our trouble was too many
dollars escaping from the
USA. like these study dollars
are escaping to Italy.
"What I want to know is
who made the deal to give
this $6 million to this Organi
zation of American States
with no strings attached about
spending the money In the
U.S. if what was wanted was
available here. That's what I
want to know.
"We spend so much money
on our Agriculture depart
ment that we can't raise It by
taxes and the department has
so many employees you can't
count 'em. And who does this
farm 'study in Ecuador? The
Italians, that's who.
"That don't make no sense
to me." Tugbutton said an
grily. "It ain't the only thine
in Washington that don't
make no sense, either."
built et lighters were no
match for the 12 U.S. F104 jet
fighters with which Pakistan
was supplied a year ago. For
years India has been feuding
with Pakistan over the status
of Kashmir.
India was concerned also
over her border quarrel with
Red China, and for that rea
son, too, wished to expand her
fighter strength. The Russians
offered to supply 32 planes for
two squadrons.
Pressure against the deal
came from both the United
States and Britain, and prob
ably also from inside the In
dian air force itself.
Not helping India's case was
her utter refusal to permit in
Indian - occupied Kashmir a
plebiscite in which the Kash
miris would have the oppor
tunity to decide their own fu
ture. There was, in addition, a
general lack of enthusiasm for
Krishna Menon, a man who
never seemed to lack an opin
ion on world affairs and whose
opinions more often than not
seemed to lean to the Commu
nist side of the argument.
Aid in Question
Finally, on the United
States' side, there was another
consideration.
One was that U. S. aid to
India, already spent or ap
proved, is approaching the $5
billion mark, more than four
times as much as India has re
ceived from the Soviet Union.
India, unlike Pakistan
which receives U. S. military
aid under both the CENTO
and the SEATO treaties, has
refused all forms of military
aid. But it would be hard to
convince Congress that U.S.
economic aid at least indirect
ly also would finance the new
MIGs.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
From time to time, readers
write in to accuse me of being
too "psychological" in my ap
p r o a c h to
problems. I
was beginning
to wonder
whether or
not this might
be true-until
I took a few
c o r r e c -tive
tennis
e s s o ns last
Harvls
week.
Now, tennis is an extremely
physical game: a game of
stance and motion, of stroking
and footwork. I have been
playing the game, in my own
fashion, for more than 30
years, and thought it was time
I learned something about the
fundamentals.
To my vast: surprise (and
also to my delight), the tennis
pro spent more time on my
head than he did on my feet
or my arms. His approach to
this "physical" game was as
"psychological" as could be.
Most of my playing faults,
it turn out. are mental in
origin, and cannot be cor
rected merely by changing
my posture or my timing of
shots. I have an anticipation
of failure. I am ashamed to
look awkward swinging at
a ball, and, most of all, I
suffer from middle-age in
ertia - which is a slate of
mind rather than of body.
In a narrow technical
sense, my strokes are good.
But what is basically wrong
with my game is my atti
tude toward it. I wait for
the "ideal" ball to come
along, and if it doesn't, I
make only a half-hearted
attempt to hit it properly.
Again, like most players
below the expert class. I am
afraid both of hitting the
net and of hitting lhe ball
out of the court - and these
two fears operate to make
me hit many more balls
into the net and out of the
court than I otherwise
would.
Of course, what is true of
my tennis game is true of
your golf game an his swim
ming prowess and her skiing
- and anybody's attempts to
master some "physical" activ
ity requiring skill and co-ordination.
The merely physical
part is the easiest to learn, as
a kind of automatic reflex ac
tion. When big - league baseball
players fall into a batting
slump, or when crack golf
ers return to a pro for some
remedial lessons, they are
really trying to overcome a
mental block in their play
ing - and overcoming a men
tal block means to stop think
ing consciously and to begin
acting instinctively, in a free
and natural nanner.
The lessons have improved
m; tennis: more than that,
they have reaffirmed my con
viction that the psychological
approach is fruitful not only
in the realm of ideas and
feelings, but also In what we
wrongly think of as purely
physical activity.
'J
In May. the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee rejected
a proposed $90 million in
crease in aid commitments to
India and let the figure stand
at last year's $727 million.
A charge that Khrishna
Menon sought to orient In
dia's air force toward the
Soviet Union is both doubtful
and hard to prove. Not hard
to see was the fact that an
Indian deal for Russian MIGs
might be far more expensive
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Up in the edge of Portland,
the little town of Damascus
(population 200) is holding a
World Fair. It is something
new in the way of World
Fairs. Most of them, including
Seattle, look forward to the
fantastic future.
Damascus is looking back
ward to the past - backward
to Century 19, instead of for
ward to Century 21. Instead
of a Space Needle, with a re
volving restaurant high up in
the air, it features a horse
power contraption, modeled
after the ancient merry-go-round.
And so on.
HOW'S is doing?
Well, it got. off to a bad
start when its Grand Opening
a couple weeks ago was rained
out. Undiscouraged, Damascus
held a second Grand Opening.
This time it hit the jackpot.
It drew an attendance of
25,000.
NE of the fascinating facets
U of
which Is BIG business in these
days - is that one can never
tell what will hit the tourist's
fancy, causing him to STOP
OVER instead of burning up
the pavement to FAR
PLACES.
You've heard, of course, of
Portland's mother e 1 e phant
and her baby. They are turn
ing out to be one of the BIG
successes in the way of STOP
PING the tourist.
In order to accommodate
the curious, it has been found
necessary to provide special
busses from the down town
Portland area to the zoo.
Seattle-bound visitors are stop
ping over by the hundreds to
get a look at the elephant
mother and child.
AT the Century 21, the state
of Oregon has a special ex
hibit planned as a part of
Oregon's 1962 tourist pro
gram. What is it?
Basically, it is a REST area.
It is amply provided with
comfort able chairs where
visitors may come to rest their
tired feet. The walls are
covered with pictures of Ore
gon's entrancing scenery. The
idea is that people will come
from all over the country to
Seattle to see the wonders of
the future. Drawing on the
experience of the past, it was
taken for granted that these
people would GET TIRED -and
how!
JT was further assumed that
they would welcome a place
to sit down and rest, and that
while resting their attention
could be drawn to the lovely
Oregon scenery, as depicted in
pictures easily visible from a
soft and comfortable seat.
It was further deduced by
Oregon's tourist planners that
the pictures viewed from a
comfortable chair, would lead
a pleasing number of tourists
to want to see these attractive
places on the way home.
It seems to be working out.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
ACCORDING TO Russell Austin, a well known beerrnakef
loved to man his flourishing brewery with hulking fel
lows who could down incredible quantities of the ambei?
fluid. "You see that fire
bucket hanging on the
wall?" he boasted to one
visitor. "Fritz here can
fill that pail with beer
and drink it down with
out pausing for breath.
Nicht wahr, Fritz?" "Ja,
mein Herr," bellowed
Fritz, "but would you
excuse me for a minute?"
He retired momentar
ily, returned to fill the
bucket with foaming
brew, and downed it in
one long draught. The
awed visitor asked why
he had left the room first. "I didn't know for sure I could
do it," confessed Fritz, "so I just went outside to try it first."
e
An oculist had prescribed expensive new glasses for a ricli
patient, and, meeting him soon after at Carnegie Hall, asked if
the change had proved helpful.
The new specs are just fine," beamed the patient "My wifa
likes the frame, they fit well behind the ears, and for distance,
they can't be beat. There's just one tiny flaw I might mention,
however. I atill walk off the wrong end of ferryboats."
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There's a Very Important Gentleman in St. Petersburg, Flor
ida, who will think twice before he demands again an unlisted
number for his telephone. Ha was on a business trip to Xe
Vork and wanted to call his home for some essential information.
He was told that his unlisted number had been chanced". When)
he asked Information for the new unlisted number, they refused
to give it to him.
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Screwy Idea
To the Editor: Mr. Galli, I
think your idea is rather
screwy. If Chiang Kai-shek
were to run the Keds out of
China, where would those
poor fellows go?
No one would have them
except good old Uncle Sam.
(Name on file)
Phoenix, Ore.
America's Two Faces
To the Editor: Two faces of
America.
Of all the nations on earth,
only America is afflicted with
this phenomenon of caring
less for their own citizens.
Pick up any newspaper.
There for ail to read is tha
threat if $75 million isn't
promptly paid to the Philip
pines, our key bases in tha
Philippines might be taken
from us. America must pay
for the damage done by tha
Japs. Approximately $2,200,
000,000 has been paid to
Tito's Yugoslavia in military
and economic aid. South
America must be built up and
cared for. Africa must be sup
ported and England hasn't
paid her debt for World War
I.
We are told by the propa
ganda machines that we see
things in the sky that aren't
there, we are all millionaires;
in short, a neurotic race.
This on top of the storm
brewing over the King-Anderson
bill on health care for the
aged. The average check for
Social Security is $138 rT
month which pays for tha
basic needs for the aged. How
are these people going to pay
$20 per day for hospitaliza
tion or buy health insurance?
The disabled veteran must
travel 300 miles by bus to
reach the nearest veterans'
hospital, and upon arrival go
into a hassel as to whether
the disease for which the vet
eran is being admitted is serv
ice connected or not. If not
service connected, then the
veteran must sign a pauper's
oath.
When the AMA blasted the
veteran last year, not a voice
was raised throughout tha
land. Congressmen, Senators,
Presidents and ex-Presidents
have Bethesda Naval hospital
to go to and the ex-Army
Walter Reid in Washington.
Their medical problem is
cared for.
The peasants of America
are beginning to question the
pompous propaganda coming
out of Washington, and we
find that our federal prisons
are falling apart at the seams
and high unemployment is all
about us. We are beginning
to wonder hadn't we better
keep our own house in order
before trying to rebuild and
replace a civilization that is
happy with their way of life?
The Marshall plan started
out to help the war ravished
countries, and the American
taxpayer ends up supporting
the world. It is called hu
mane to see that the foreigner
has food, clothing, housing
and medical aid, but to aid
an American makes him a
human leach?
Genevieve Briggs
Whitewater Ranch
Wilderville, Ore.