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Newspaper Page TextMnraaU$TiiBinri 'ivefyonrin S"outhriT6ri(oii Readi Tht Mill Tribune" fubllihrd Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North rtrt,. Ph. Wi-tM ROBERT W RUHC'Editor HFRB GREY AdvertiiinK Manager OKRALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. F.R1C W ALLEN. JR., Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor nrrtHARD jewett. Soorti Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women'a Editor DALE ERICKaUW. circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Entered lecond cIrii matter at Med lord. Oregon, under Act at March 3. 18f)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy lOo Dally and Sunday 1 year 11V00 Dally and Sunday II moa. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford, AshUnd, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routea Dally and Sunday l year $18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. l .fO Carrie' and Dealers Copy 10c All Termi Cash lnAdvance "Vlfftrtal Piper of City of Medford Olflrlal Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U.P 1 Tele photo Newspictures ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offlcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland, Denver NEWS A PIS ILISHiRS SOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hlttory from the files ot The Mall Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July IS, 1952 (Tuesday) Frost damage to the Jack can spring grain cropi ia be ginning to show up; the June 12 freeze has resulted In blighted heads In much of the grain. "House of Mystery" asks $562,900 in damages from "Confustlon Hill" In Mendo cino county, Calif.; the suit charges plagiarism and pirat ing of ideas and methods. 20 YEARS AGO July IS, 1942 (Wedneiday) Three Rogue River men are among a group of 156 civilians captured on Wake island; to be interned by the Japanese at Shanghai. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "Stern Park Gardens, 111., changes name to Lidice, the Czech vil lage razed by Hitler In re prisal for the assassination of his prize trigger man. Mos cow, Ida., points with pride to its monicker, once mildly regretted." SO YEARS AGO July 15, 1932 (Friday) Medford'i H. Chandler Egan announces that he will compete this year in the na tional amateur golf tourna ment, a tourney that he won more than a quarter-century ago. 40 YEARS AGO July IS. 1922 (Saturday) Local bootblack arrested by police who find him with an open razor; he explains he was looking for his wife. Local merchants visit fair grounds and urge the immedi ate construction of a mer chants' industrial pavilion. SO YEARS AGO July 15, 1912 (Monday) The Graham Ginseng farm north of Prospect condemned by the health department when great numbers of insect pests were found there. Grants Pass takes advant age of an oak tree on the sidelines of the Medford base ball park to win a 8-4 victory over Medford; the tree con verts a Medford homer Into a double. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar tan cerract la superior; aeven or eight It excellent; fiva of sii It good. 1. Whal country on June 24 ordered an emergency aus terity program aimed at stab- , lizing Its monetary unit? 2. Is Alaska or Hawaii closer lo the International Date Line? 3. Is the Susquehanna or the Potomac river the longer? 4. Which nation is the lead ing manufacturing nation in the Middle East? V Name the composer n( "Alexander's Ragtime Band." and "Easter Parade " 6. Did the thirteen orginal stales that ratified the Con sli'utinn include Maine? 7. What American river It called the "Father o( Wa ters?" R In what South Dakota town was Wild Bill Hicknk shot dead from behind by Jack McCall? 9 Does Rumania have ports on the Black Sea? 10. Whal causes the foam on ocean waves? Aniwarti 1. Canada. 2. Alaska. 3. Sutquahanna. 4. Israal. S. Irving Barlln. (. No. 7. Mittltaippl. I. Daadwood. 9. Yet. 10. Tha salt In tha ocaan. NATION A I E D I TO RIAL SUNDAY. JULY 15. 1962 Leftwards Algeria Stendahl might almost have been thinking of Algeria when he likened politics to "the crisp shot out of the night." To attempt to predict who will control Al geria a year, a month, or even a week from now would be folly. Most certainly the military will decide; less probably the military will be respon sive to the will of the people. The people, or most of them, would appear to be loyal to Premier Ben Youssef ben Kherlda. At least a good portion of the 45,000-man National Army of Liberation is loyal to Vice Premier Mo hammed ben Bella. The Moslem people are utterly weary of slaughter and death sidling around the corner. THE conflict is almost as much one between in- ternals and externals as it is between person alities. Ben Khedda has been the politico-military chief of the Front de la Liberation Nationale (FLN) for Algiers, directing blind terrorism. Ben Bella, one of the revolution's nine chefs historiques, was a trainer of guerrillas, a leader of the All Saints' Day uprising in the Aures Mountains almost eight years ago, and, from 1956 until a few months ago, a prisoner in France di recting the battle. AS FOR personalities, the West has little to gain. The choice would appear to be between a Nasser or Nkrumah and a Castro. Ben Khedda is certainly not a Communist, although five years ago he was willing to do Communiste Algerian. But he is an intellectual of Marxian formation, calling himself a progressiste. He has been the guest of Mao Tse-tung and Tito. On visits to the United States and Latin America he has railed at "neo-imperialism." He wrote Lhou-bn-lai ruary: "We fully realize the difficulties and the size of the struggle that remains for us against the forces of neo-colonialism and imperialism and for the consolidation of our independence and our economic ana social liberty. ""THE Soviet Union was quick to recognize the government headed by Ben Khedda. Yet the bourgeois, bookish Ben Khedda is regarded as a moderate as compared with the farm-born, light ly educated Ben Bella. A brilliant soldier for the French in World War II, Ben Bella quickly became disillusioned with the rewards of peace as offered to a Moslem. He directed the smuggling of aims from Libya until the declenchment of the revolution the Aures attack. But in 1956 on Oct. 22 a Moroccan civil airplane carrying Ben Bella and four other rebel ministers was pirated out of the air by a French fighter plane. The five spent the rest of the war in French prisons, and Ben Bella gained the po litical asset of martyrdom. a a a DOTH Moslem leaders are dur, tough, revolu u tionaries by faith. Both are men of action, of prodigious physcial courage. Both are men of principle so long as the phrase is not interpreted as including the principle of fair play. Ben Khedda preaches strict adherence to the Evian agreements and a client-patron relation ship with France. Ben Bella on July 11 denied that he was "against the Evian agreements or for the cult of personality." France, and the West, must hope that the Al gerians root their revolution without further let ting blood. The French base at Mers-el-Kebir is important to the North Atlantic shield, but more important to the West is the course albeit in evitably leftward of the new nation, so far self declared as non-aligned. E.R.R. The Navy Buys American On orders from the White House, the U.S. Navy is "Buying American." A contract for 2,000 tons of carbon steel for missile frigates will co to American producers, known to be a West derman and a Japanese steel maker. The decision, announced July 6, was made for "reasons of the national interest." The new policy obviously was inspired by White House annoyance at publicity given an earlier purchase j ol .v00 tons of high-grade armor plate tor guid ed missile frigates from "THE original Buy American Act of 19M was' adopted during deep depression by the lame-! duck Republican 72nd Congress. It did not set the amount of preference American producers for government business were to enjoy. President Eisenhower in December, lOfvl. or dered that business should go to foreign suppliers when their bids were (i to 10 per cent lower than those of U.S. competitors. But if U.S. orders would be placed in areas of heavy unemployment, domestic bidders were given preference of at least 12 per cent. More recent guidelines were 6 per cent and 12 per cent for small business and distressed areas. fEFENSE Secretary McN'amara's order of July 6 came after the Defense Supply Agency dis closed that it was expanding foreign purchases of drugs. DSA has been buying drugs abroad at one half to one-eighth wholesale prices here. The Kennedy-McNamara decision certainly won't be popular with our trading partners, nor even with ll-(Jt freo-tnxWi's here. But with U.S. product .. h.im)MB,jj jV.nvf ?t jut above flip 50-per-eent-of-cax'etT r!tr many weeks, it per haps was inevitable at len.aj politically. E.R.R. business with the Parti as recently as last b eb- though low bidders are West derman nulls. "We're Not THAT Anxiout To Balance The Budget" ' aM rim M4Hra fern- Washington Report By William (cj United Femurs Syndicate- MORALE IS FALLING Washington Democratic morale In this Congress is falling sharply - and so are c o n 1 idential may fare in the congres s 1 o n a 1 elec tions this No vember. There is now, for the first time, a privately ac knowledged Democratic fear that the Republicans might well recapture control of the House of Representatives. There is mathematically no real chance for an overturn of party control in the senate. But some Democratic seats there, too, may be lost. BICKERING, irresolu 1 1 o n, weariness and petulance are thickening over the capi lol amid indications that this session will still be in busi ness when Labor Day has come and gone. The most ex treme - and most foolish - ex pression of this atmosphere Is seen in the current sitdown strike on appropriations bills of two worthy but aged Demo crats, Carl Hayden of Arizona and Clarence Cannon of Mis souri, chairmen of the appro priations committee. They are boycotting each other because they cannot agree on procedure - meaning they cannot agree on which chamber shall defer how much and on what to the oth er chamber. On the merits of this case, parenthetically, the 84-year-old Hayden and his Senate committee are in fact right and the R.l-ycar-old Can non and his House committee are wrong. a a BASICALLY, the almost neurotic inferiority com plex of the House - because the Senate has been more ele vated in the public mind and gels so much mote publirity and prestige - explains this Impasse. The House is trying in the wrong way, at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons lo "get hack" at the Senate. It is a good deal like a pointless jurisdictional strike called by an overalled union (the House Appropriations committee) against a manage ment In custom-made suits (the Senate Appropriations committee). And as is usual in strikes, the helpless suf ferers are the country and the Democratic party, which will be heavily blamed by the public if this nonsense is not soon ended. Indeed, some responsible Democrats are muttering that every day the thing rocs on their parly will lose another sent in the House this fall. They fear the people will con clude that the Democratic party does not know how to run an orderly Congress. 'PIUS is perhaps an exaegera ' lion, from understandably exasperated men. Rut the ex istence of disarray in Con gress, of which the llaydon Cannnn contest is only a rather theatrical symptom, cannot be denied. The reasons are complex and human. First, President Kennedy continues to ask too much loo soon. Next, the Democratic leadership Sen. Mike Mans field of Montana and House Speaker John W. McCormack of Massachusetts are expe rienced men but not quite the men they succeeded. Of the 1 old Texas twins who so dnmi-j nated previous congresses.' Speaker Sam R.ivhiirn Is gone, in death. And former i Sen. Lyndon Johnson is guie, ' upstairs to the vice presi-; dency. ll'HKRE Mansfield and Me " Cormark are able leaders, devoted to the White House. Johnson and Rat burn were If, , J Democratic es- I: '" ' timatcs as to I us hw the parly mi S. White brilliant leaders who would have told the White House what would be attempted and what not, rather than the other way 'round. Where Mansfield and McCormack are in no sense weak men, Johnson and Rayburn were exceptionally strong men. And they were, when the need arose, as tough as the hide of a mustang left out all winter on the open range. Moreover, though they were liberal Southerners, they were Southerners all the same. And though many people heartily dislike it, the unalter able fact remains that South erners as a class are the un doubted master players of Congress. When Johnson and Rayburn went out of the con gressional lineup, Mantle and Maris went out of the Demo cratic batting order. In fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Moscow, Old Kroosh comes up with a foxy new scheme to get us out of Berlin. Let's skip it. TELSTAR is still the big news. WHAT really happened? Well, in Maine we tossed a picture of Old Glory up to Telstar, which was orbiting the earth. Telstar rebroadcast the picture. It was seen quite clearly in France - where viewers said it seemed to come from only 20 miles away. It was seen only fuzzily In England. The explanation of that, presumably, is that for some reason the French equip ment worked better than the British equipment. WHY was the picture seen abroad only in France and England? The answer is simple. It was because special antennae had to be constructed to re ceive Telstar's signals, and only in France and Britain had these special antennae been provided. ITEEP this In mind: Telstar is a RELAY sta tion, operating far out In space. It picks up signals and rebroadcasts them. Television signals travel nnlv tn a straight line and can't BEND with the curvature of the earth. So the picture broad cast by Telstar can be scon only on a PART of the earth. Before a nictiirp run V, seen ALL OVER THE EARTH there must be enough Tele- stars in orbit to cover the earth from all angles. That will come in time. When the time comes, TV pro grams can be viewed approxi mately simultaneously a I 1 over the earth. 1) EM EMBER this also: ' Telestar isn't just for TV. It makes possible instantane ous and relatively inexpen sive telephone conversations all around the earth. It hast ens the time when you will be able to pick up your phone and dial your son or your daughter or your Aunt Emma in Addis .Ababa, or Irkutsk or Afghanistan as easily as ynu now dial your husband at Ins office to tell him to pick tip a pound of butter at the groc ery store on his way home. Why the relative economy? Kor one thing, it will make unnecessary the provision of billions of miles of telephone wire. ONE more thought: This Telestar achievement is free enterprise So tar, the dispatches tell us. it has cost American Telephone & Tele graph Co, about .SO million dollars, which is only a drop In the bucket. It 111 cost hundreds of millions more whtrh, of course. ATAT and its stockholder! hope to get MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON West New Indonesian Hands by (Editor's not: Conversa tions between Indonesia and the Netherlands on the West New Guinea problem may be resumed soon at a secret location near Washington.) By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON JR. Editorial Research Reports Washington - West New Guinea, last remnant of the vast colonial realm once held by the Dutch In the Far West, seems destined to fall into Indonesian hands through either force of arms or a diplo matic settlement negotiated with American help. To bring pressure on the Dutch to yield the territory at the conference table, the Indo nesians since mid -May have dropped around 800 para troopers into West New Guinea. Dutch military lead ers claim to have captured or killed nearly half of the in filtrators, but the c o n s t a n t pressure, made possible by massive military aid from the Soviet Union, has had the de sired impact on public opin ion in the Netherlands. Accept In Principle Both sides in the dispute have now accepted in princi ple the proposals advanced by Ellsworth Bunker, a former United States diplomat who has been endeavoring to me diate the dispute as the repre sentative of U Thant, Acting Secretary General of the United Nations. The Bunker plan, presented at a first round of Dutch-Indonesian talks last March, calls for recognition of Indonesia's claim to sovereignty over West New Guinea. U.N. of ficials would replace the Dutch for a time, but by the second year Indonesians would take over the adminis tration. After an unstated per iod, possibly as long as 10 years, the Indonesians - by then fully in control - would give the region's 700,000 na tive inhabitants a chance to vote on their own future. Although the Dutch have reluctantly accepted this vague face - saving device, President Sukarno has hesi tated to take them at their word. U Thant has informed Sukarno twice that in his Judgment the Netherlands has met the conditions imposed by Indonesia for a resumption of conversations. However, even as prospects of a negotiated settlement have seemed to brighten, Sukarno has still been pictured as convinced that Indonesia can gain pos session of West New Guinea only through military action. Role of United States The role of the United States as a mediator in the dispute is, as President Ken nedy noted at his April 11 news conference, "not a hap py one." Robert H. Estabrook of the "Washington Report" reported from The Hague re cently that "Some people (there) feel strongly that Hol land is being pushed by the United States into a sellout." Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D- Conn.) has said that in press- back many times over in added business that makes it possible to pay better divi dends to its shareholders. In much of the rest of the world including ALL of the communist world-making a profit is regarded as a sin. In the United States of Amer ica, thank fortune, it isn't YET regarded as a sin for an American person-or an Amer ican corporation, which is a group of American persons to make a profit. Reason, Mutual Necessity Now Succeeding By ERIC SEVAREID Only those deaf to the sound of history can fail to be excited by the French-Gcr- m a n rip pro p h r - ment and the steady movo- mrnt toward j t h e "making r I of Europ e,'1 which can cool the an cient fire-bed from which western wars periodically arose. Historically, political union over so great a space came only from conquest or from the yprend of a common cul ture. Where, in modern times, Napoleon, Bismarck. It i t -1 e r and Stalin failed, reason and mutual necessity are succeeding Reason is man's last resort. Western Europeans have turned to reason because no other avenue remained open after the blood loss and spir itual defeats of two world wars (it required one of the bloodist of all civil wars to seal conflicting sovereignties within the comm. n Amc.-ican civilization, toot and because the Soviet enemy is physical ly too close and the A"terican friend physically too far avu- What u beginning to arise '..-a-"':.. Srvarrld Guinea Destined to ing for a settlement calling for transfer of West New Guinea to Indonesia the United States is "turning it over to a government which, of all the governments in the non - Communist world, runs perhaps the greatest chance of falling into communism be fore the decade Is out." Washington clearly is wor ried about the danger of ex panded war in Asia. More over, the basic aim of Ameri can policy in the matter is to keep Indonesia out of Com munist hands. U.S. officials are represented as believing that Indonesia might emerge from a war with its former colonial ruler as a virtual ap pendage of the Soviet bloc. Arouses Keen Anxiety They feel that it would be to this country'a Interest to have West New Guinea re moved as one of the Commu nist world's "common bonds" with the newly independent nations. The dispute has aroused Virus of ECHO Group May Cause Stiff-Neck Illness By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York - IUPH - Exciting news from virology is that a viral strain, long a candidate for inclusion among the ECHO virus es, is not only about to make the grade but may auu mm i out to be the long - sought stiff-neck vir us. This is peios smith the "C a 1 d- well" virus strain first isolat ed in Kansas City in 1955 and associated with many minor ills of the central nerv ous system. So far no virolo gist has identified its family connections positively but the chances are It's one of the large, tricky and troublesome ECHO group. Four virologists of the viral disease laboratory of the California Department of Health revealed that 16 virus strains isolated from persons with central-nervous-system disease since 1955 have turn ed out to be immunologically identical to the "Caldwell" strain. Neutralize California Strains By this they meant that antibodies produced in labo ratory animals and in tissue cultures by "Caldwell" vi ruses neutralized all 16 of the California strains. The latter had characteristics of the ECHO group, of which there are 28 identified types, which made the presumption strong that the "Caldwell'' and the California viruses are the same and are ECHO. Furthermore, their evi dence indicates that this virus is a cause if not the cause of aseptic meningitis, a usu ally benign disease whose prominent symptom is the stiff neck. Other things can put passing stiffness into necks, of course, but a virus stiffener has been long sus pected. Indeed, the whole big fam ily of enteroviruses have been suspects. The ECHO vi ruses ere among them, and so are the Coxsackie viruses which are of 29 types divided into two groups. And so are in Europe is not a "third force" in the sense of a mili tary show-down, but a third force in the political, econom ic a n d psychological senses, so strong a force that the for mal, arms-length "partner ship of which the President speaks, now becomes a neces sity for America as well as for Europe a a A long period of time may pass before a true "Atlantic Union" hinds both sides of that ocean; hut in the mean time various grandiose ideas and dreams will die away. One. the past-war idea of the "American Century," seems dead already; it died in lfl-lfl when the Soviet Union can celed our atomic monopoly. Another, the idea of "world government," will remain in a comatose state for the indef inite fu'ure, for world gov ernment is not possible with out world law. and world law is not possible without a structure of values and prin ciples commop'y accepted on a world wide basis. The Com munist structure is not going to pre ail in the West and the Western structure will not prevail in the Fast so far as we can see ahead. The ' Pax Americana" last ed a very short time, indeed What we have instead is a Pax Atomic warhead, a bai anctng of power in the sense that power is frozen, no mat - NaSfj. J One of Two Ways keen anxiety in Australia, which administers the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. If West New Guinea becomes a part of Indonesia, Australia and Indonesia will have a common frontier. Australians view Sukarno's aims with suspicion, although he has specifically disclaimed any territorial ambitions be yond West Irian, as the Indo nesians call West New Guinea. The winner of West New Guinea may lose more than he gains. The territory's ex-ports-mostly oil, wood, copra and a few crocodile hides -amount to less than $5 million annually and the Netherlands has been spending about $30 million a year for education and economic development. Indonesia has drawn up plans for extensive develop ment of the territory once it comes into its hands, but dif ficult problems in Indonesia proper give rise to doubts about the country's ability to take on successfully the added the polio viruses. Enterovirus es, so called because they multiply in the intestines, are the causes of a host of human ills. The California scientists were Drs. Edwin H. Lennette, Nathalie J. Schmidt, Robert L. Magoffin, and Anna Wie ner and they reported their news to the New England Journal of Medicine. They got their 16 strains from as many individuals, two of whom had no symptoms of illness. Find Previous Infection The 14 sick persons were cle rly suffering from asep tic meningitis. Of the 14, 12 were children. The two well persons who harbored the viruses were family contacts of the sick. The scientists also found evidence of a previous infection with the virus in four other contacts. The scientists had sought the "Caldwell" viruses in the body excretions of many per sons but found it only in per sons with aseptic meningitis or their parents or brothers and sisters. Always there was a close relationship in time to the presence of the virus and of the disease. This strongly pointed to cause and effect. Their work focused more light into the murky field of which entero - viruses cause what illnesses among people. The symptoms of aseptic men ingitis are sometimes diag nosed as "non-paralytic po lio," indicating a polio virus is the cause. The California work promised to shift all re sponsibility to a member of the ECHO family. Comedians Overseas Felt Unnecessary Washington-IUPII-Rop. John P. Saylor (R-Pa.) doesn't think it's necessary to send American comedians overseas on goodwill trips. "Foreign nations already are laughing at America's for eign aid program," Savior said in a statement. He referred to the recent controversial trip to Afghan istan by a troupe of entertain ers led by comedian Joey Adams. ler how many nations possess the war heads. Nevertheless, the pattern of distribution and control of the warheads will strenuous ly affect the cross-Atlantic partnership - nwr" seriously, it now appears, than the pat terns of the trade and mone tary competition which al ready poses gigantic new problems for the United States. a a a This whole question of who controls what atomic push button under what circum stances is now so utterly snarled by conflicting politi cal and strategic pressures that, as with the world dis. armament question, no one sees a promising way out and there is some danger of drift and the paralysis of boredom. DeGaulle's insistence on French control of French warheads is confused with the position of Britain. Brit ain has an independent nu clear arsenal, but it is inde pendent only in theory; by practical an dngements. her weapons are interdependent with ours and neither Lon-1 don nor Washington could I press those buttons without 1 the consent of the other. The French argue, alternately. ; that America might (ail tn . come in if France were di rectly threatened or struck land that America might force a strike 'gainst France by a Fall Into responsibility of modernizing one oi ine world s most primi tive regions. Live In Ignorance The indigenous Papuan peo ple of West New Guinea live) largely in ignorance of the) debate over their future. About 400,000 of them Inhabit areas that have been brought under Dutch administrative) control; most of the remaining 300,000 have never seen a white man. In those parts of the interior that have had no contact with modern civiliza tion, the stone ax may still be found in use. Headhunting and cannibalism have been, repressed by the Dutch author ities only with difficulty. Most educated Papuans say they oppose Indonesian rule. Their leaders have pointed out that Jakarta has shown a ten dency to forget about the needs of Indonesia's outer is lands. Nicolaas Jouwe, a Papuan and vice chairman of the New Guinea Council, told reporters in New York on May 31: "Wa don't want to be handed over from one colonialism to anoth er .. . We want to choose our own future and decide our own fate." As fast -moving diplomatic and military events testify, Papuan aspirations for inde pendence may have been voiced too late. Communications Letters to tha Editor must beai (he name and address ot the wrltei although undei cer tain circumstances the use ot a pen name ui Initial for oubhea tion is oermissinle The MaU Tribune reserves tha right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters suhmittea for publics. Uon must not exceed 400 words Wants Information To the Editor: lama healthy hearty man of 78 from Long Beach, Calif., where we hava several nice clubs for Senior Citizens. Rented a house and expected to move here to beautiful Oregon about Aug. 1. Friday, July 6, I dropped in for a while to look over a local club that meets In a church recreational hall, and am very confused as to tha purpose and intent of it and would appreciate being set straight. A slight, little man with snowy white hair and mus tache got up with some papers in his hand and told the club that an amendment could ba added to their by-laws to ex empt them from taxes and they would be stupid not to vote for it. Also it would ba read to them the following two Fridays and they could vote on it on the third Friday. Everything seemed all right on the surface but when I re turned to my nephew's home and told them about it, he told me it had already been done, arranged for by their Past President and signed by the present President in the name of the Club and sent in to the Tax Authorities by a Mr. Lewis. He also insisted that I must not have heard right, but I have good hear ing and would like to know (perhaps like others) if I am, or am not correct. I understand this club haft been a purely social one for old people since 1958. Why take their money, try to fool and trick them and try to evade an honest debt? What kind of hocus-pocus ti this' "God giveth and God taketh away." .1. R., Long Beach. Calif. unilateral initiative. But, also hypothetically, Americans argue that De Gaulle's insistence can mean France, as the fourth nuclear power, silting it out were America directly threatened or struck, or France forcing America into a war against her choosing by a French ini tiative. a There is a certain weird unreality about the argument, because actual use of the wea pons hy any nation means ita actual suicide. These wea pons have meaning only aft deterrents, but even within that limited context, the dis position of their control is major key tn the course of the cross-country partnership. A European political union would mean little of the ulti mate power of deciding whe ther it fights - and dies - is going to rest with Americans; Americans can hardly live within the partnership if their life-or-death lies under the fingertip control of Euro peans. Atlantic interdependence cannot coexist with nuclear sovereignties. A solution to the dilemma ot the weapons is now the first order of busi ness if history is to continua to sound the music of rea son. (Distributed 1962 by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)