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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
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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.
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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.)
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