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4 A SUNDAY. JULY 22. 1962 MtDKOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON "Everyone tn SouthVrtTbrpfon Beans The Mill Tribune Published Dally exrepf Saturday by MEDKOnO PRINTING CO S3 North Fir Jl.. Ph, 772-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GKRALD 1 LATHAM. Bus Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CH1PMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE EHICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance, Copv 10c Daily and Sunday I year $15 00 Dally and Sunday (I mos. 8.nn Dallv and Sunday 3 mos. 4 25 Sunday Only One year 14 20 By Carrier In Advance Medrord, Asr.li.nd, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. 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County grand Jury requests Information concerning the safety of the county bridge at Rogue River. 20 YEARS AGO July 22, 1942 (Wednesday) Medford city council re news pleas for additional gov ernment funds to he used for enlargement of city sewage disposal plant. From Arthur Terry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A ru mor, shaped like an enemy parachute, flew over the Al bany Corvallis area Inst Monday. Even If nimnr mongor doesn't, rumor should keep lis feet on the ground." 30 YEARS AGO July 22, 1932 (Friday) Members of American Le gion here start registering tor national Legion convention in Portland. Medford all-star "killon ball" team defeats Chiloquin, 1R to B; prepares to play Crater Lake stars. 40 YEARS AGO July 22, 1922 (Saturday) Special invesigalnr leaves Los Angeles for Medford to study Ku Klux Klan activi ties here at the request of Oregon stale officials. From the "Local and Per sonal" column: "Jerry Je rome, delegate from the lo cal Elks lodge tn the annual convention al Atlantic City, N. J., will return next week." SO YEARS AGO July 22, 1912 (Monday) Three-year-old girl found alive and well after being lost for 24 hours in Antelope area. Railroad gets temporary re straining order to halt con struction of brick building al Eighth and Fir sts. when freight cars knock bricks from the walls. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is eacellent; five oi sis is flood. 1. Who wrote "The Spv." "The Pathfinder." and 'Hie Drorslaycr?" 2. Adult mollis est clothes; true or false 3 Is the Postmaster Gen eral a member of thr Trcsi dent's Cabinet 4 Is a drum major s head dress called a heaver. shako, or fez 5 Is the Tropic of Cancer north, or south, ol the Equator- Whnt Is a prawn" 7. Which is the plural, oa sis or oases? fi. A person who is a vic tim of claustrophobia fears what fl. Is linoleum of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin 10. Was the Communist Manifesto originally written In English. Ci e r m a n, or French' Answartt 1. James Fine mora Cooper. 2. Falsa. 3. Yes. 4. Shako. 5. North. . A shrimpllka crustacian. 7. Oa ses. 8, Enclosed places. 9. Vegetable. 10. German, Brave Words On Berlin The United States is there; the United Kingdom and France are there; the pledge of NATO is there and the people of Berlin are there. It is as secure, in that sense, as the rest of us- for we cannot separata Its safety from our own . . . We cannot and will not permit the Communist to drive us out of Berlin, either gradually or by force. John F. Kennedy on a nationwide telecast of July 25, 1961. The President's brave Berlin speech reads somewhat oddly just a year after it was delivered. It is as if we were looking at Rerlin through the same glass as before, but as if the glass had been subtly shifted. A year ago the President was announcing a big military buildup. Now the 156,000 reservists are trickling homewards; all are expected to re turn to civilian life by late September. Little progress has been made on persuading our allies to build up their commitments to the NATO shield, although the end of the Algerian war could provide more French troops for West ern Europe. THE President promised "to let every citizen Iriit-Mir i'Unf cinnc Via nn r t at a iiif Vmnt Inlair t r j rv 1 1 v v . nai ollJi7 iiv- van mist iiiiwwu I protect his family in case of (atomic) attack." ;The result was 25 million civil defense booklets issued more than six months later limited to protection against fallout. The booklets' only detailed description of ef fects of a nuclear explosion have to do with a hypothetical five-megaton burst at ground level. This information would be of little help in coping with a 57-megaton device. The civil defense program the administra tion asked for started like a house afire. Congress on Aug. 10 voted the full $407.6 million requested for a start on a national fallout shelter program. This was in addition to $86.55 million already approved. A medical and food stockpiling pro gram also was authorized. DUT it soon become apparent that the President had stimulated what was rapidly become a runaway civil defense program. So the adminis tion began dragging its feet, and without prod ding from Downtown, the Congress soon follow ed suit. President Kennedy this year asked Congress for $695 million in new civil defense funds, and Secretary of Defense McNamara on Feb. 8 sent to Congress a draft bill for a shelter program that would cost $450 million in the next fiscal year. The House Government Operations Com mittee completed hearings on the measure June 12. The Berlin situation became more urgent last year with the erection, Aug. 13, of what West Berliners call the schandmauer the shame wall between East and West Rerlin. Then on Oct. 26 American troops and tanks drew to within a few hundred yards of Soviet troops and tanks at the Brandenburg Gate in a, showdown that lasted for several days. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin, subsequently disclosed that the American troop movement was "delib erately designed to bring a Soviet confrontation." fV LATE Berlin tension is rebuilding. The Communists on July 3, behind a screen of smoke and tear gas, began building a wall be tween West Rerlin and East Germany. Meanwhile, the words on Rerlin remain brave, though the spirit of "sacrifice" the President sought to invoke last July 25 seems to have dis sipated. The President told Soviet Ambassador Ana toly F. Dobrynin on July 17 that withdrawal of Western forces from Rerlin was f lately "non negotiable" and that the latest Soviet proposals were "totally unacceptable." E.R.R, Communist Kaffcc-K latch With a little luck, the student kaffee-klatsch the Communists are putting on in Helsinki could backfire again. The last of these world youth "festivals," put on in Vienna three years ago, may have represent ed on balance a Red plus, but it was hardlv the I whole-hearted peace - through - joy success its i sponsors had hoped for. j Reasoning, perhaps, that the awe-struck Aus trian government could be counted on to forestall any untoward incidents, the Communists allow ed the youth schmoos to be held for the first time this side of the Iron Curtain. jLJKLSIN'Kl apparently was chosen for its elose , ness to Russia. Also, because of new rail and 'air lines, delegates can be brought from India, i Asia, and Southeast Asia without being exposed to decadent (but comfortable) non-Communist countries. The Indonesian group, for example, s will go by ship to Red China, then by train through that country and Russia. THE bulk of the U.S. delegation is being fur- nished by the U.S. Festival Committee, which is understood to have the blessing of the spon ! jors. i But just as three year? ago, "dissidents" are making the trip under the auspices of the Inde pendent Service for Information, with head quarters in New York. This outfit, and others at Sanfntd and Yale, have been informing delegates of the Communist : nature of the festival and coaching them on ways of presenting the Western point of view at Hel sinki. Their activities have caused the U.S. State Department, which up until Vienna had lifour- , aged U.S. student from paitifivjt iflg in these I world conclaves, slightly to unbend. -F..R.R. , Matter of Fact lei New York Herald ABOUT THE PHALANX OF MARSHALS Washington-Nikita S. Khru shchev has just claimed an anti-missile missile which" hits a flv in outer space." Be tween this claim and the fortunate ab sence of a mis sile gap, there is a curious link which is perhaps worth o x p 1 o r ing. One must be gin at the be ginning, with Defense Ministry, which Marshal Malinovsky has presided over since the fall of Marshal Zhukov. It is the precise opposite of the Pentagon of Robert McNa mara, in the sense that there is no sign of civilian control of any part of this huge mili tary machine, except in the political department. The senior leadership of the Defense Ministry is still main ly composed of a phalanx of marshals and generals who led the Soviet armies in the last war; for the Soviets seem to have no rules about the retirement of senior mili tary officers. The scientists are mere appendages. Men in uniform also occupy every key post In the ministry, from Mnlinovsky's post downwards. T Y ITS very nature, this or J ganization of the Soviet defense effort means two things. First of all, especially because of the continuing pre dominance of older military officers, it must mean a high degree of conservatism in So viet defense planning. In par ticular, any attack on any well dug-in military vested in terest must always meet with the kind of conservative mil itary opposition that protect ed the Polish cavalry, for in stance, until the Polish horse men met Hitler's tanks in 1939. In addition, the scientists, being mere appendages, must be quite powerless to argue with the marshals. Even the civilian bosses of Ihe Soviet Union, including Khrushchev himself, must (ind argument with the marshals inordinate ly difficult. s OBVIOUSLY K h r ushchev " can Impose simple budget ceilings and manpower ceil ings, as he has done, thereby Incurring the marshals' open resentment. But no civilian can ever argue with the lead ers of any military caste about the more complex choices presented hv an evnlvinp mil. itary technology, unless all ' the papers defining these choices also pass over the desk of the civilian In ques tion. F.ven then, as American experience shows, the civil ian's role is fur from easy. Consider, then Khrushchev and the marshals Jointly con fronting the choice they had to make when they success fully tested their prototype Intercontinental ballistic mis-! silc in t9 ST. Their "decision-1 making process" ins the so-i rinlngtsts now call ill must 1 have been influenced hv three main factors IIRST. there was budget 1 celling, for Khrushchev was then trying In hold down defense outlays. But tn view of the very nature of Ihe So virt defense apparatus, pay ing for ICBMs by borrowing from the ground forces' bud get or the navy budget ran hardly have been considered. Second, enormous outlays on another kind of missile, the Soviet surfaee - lo - air missile, were alreadv planned bv the Soviet Command, one Air Defense of the most is. i 4$$? f-j( mr f L,, " f - rtltop the Soviet powerful of sit Soviet mlli- can ' estahhshment." ti-e nen lary veiled interests In add! rral reposiiorv of nionry. tion. s medium - range of- brains and p.iwer fensive ballistic missile, much cheaper than ICBMs and c ; For 20 vears the Amen,-, pahle of threatening all of Western Furope. was atarly In production. I By Joseph Alsep Trlhune Svndlrate Third, the youngest child in any military family the new weapon that may com pete for appropriations with established weapons Is al ways regarded with extreme hostility by all military or ganizations. In this connec tion, one need only recall the bitter opposition of most of the U.S. Air Staff to the Von Neumann report, which be latedly made possible the U.S. ICBM program. The So viets' prototype ICBM must have aroused much the same emotions as the Von Neu mann report. rjtHE decision that was -t reached plainly reflected all these pressures. The So viet ICBM. probably lacking any powerful vested interest to promote it in the Soviet Pentagon, was not in the end put into expensive quantity production. Thus the missile gap, although foretold by President Eisenhower's own Defense Secretary, Neil McEl roy, did not materialize aft er all; and the course of his tory was quite probably changed thereby. As a compromise, great numbers of medium range missiles were built to threat en Europe. Meanwhile, that powerful vested interest, the Soviet Air Defense Command, was also authorized to spend five or even ten times the funds needed to create a mis sile gap. In order to strew the whole Russian land with many thousands of surface-to-air missiles at the very mo ment when the U.S. was get ting ready to phase out air planes for ICBMs. TT WAS. If you think about it. a very curious choice to make, though a choice di rectly reflecting the curious organization of the Soviet De fense Ministry. As for Khru shchev's new rocket that can "hit a fly In space." all ob solescent military vested in terests always try tn find new weapons that will justify their continued existence, power, and grandeur. This new rocket is that weapon for the powerful Soviet Air De fense Command. It is. there fore, so to say, Ihe end of the story. The trouble is. however, that antl - missile missiles will be more useful than the American Pentagon has be lieved until recently. The blind operation of military vested interests does not al ways produce the wrong an swers, unhappily. Advice: An Alliance By ERIC SEV AREID Since we enjoy in litis spending and the happy hec space what President Ken-; tic sellers' market of a world nedy at Philadelphia called if-"""" ! t h e ullimr yA 2 K.xury of g L - v ltr, vice we m ' aM. J ...m ,,,v, """"""J the ullimate'bad - things ol life giv-1 ad niav i4 sr arrln for the mis-dcveloprd people of the United States We won't call it a five-year plan because that carries over tones of fur hats, communal kitchens and massed choirs singing official odes to the be loved bulldozer. It will have to be an alli ance of federal, state snd lo cal gn ernintti :s. uniers.t:cs. foundations and ah oilier ma- Jor sectors ol tn.it snr.iw:ins entity now railed the Amen- people hsve been btithelv and hredle '. for- . 'n. idew stfv nd harkw srd Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmonn lei New York Herald Tribune Svndtcata CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT The defeat of medical care, which has come as the climax of a series of defeats, is bound to cause the Pre sident to reappraise his f Jtv f I relations with IV'WeSl Congress. mz 4. A What can he ITs-'s .it.JStt and what he in duce Congress to do? If we study the rec Lippmann ord, the an swer is, I think, that in the kind of Congress we now have it is not possible to get reform and innovation just because they appear to be de sirable and in the public in terest. They will be blocked, chewed up In committee, or rejected by majorities which are easily swayed by an or ganized opposition. IHE fatal weakness of re - form and innovation that there is nn compulsion behind them. They may be very desirable, but they are not absolutely necessary. Even if the country would be better off with them, it can rock along without them. On the other hand, this same Congress has followed the President in the field of defense and foreign policy. There has been no trouble about the enlarged appropri ations for the armed forces. The Congress has voled for the radical trade expansion bill. With only a few eccen tric quirks it has voted for the foreign aid bill. Why? Be cause Presidential leadership in defense and foreign policy has an almost irresistible com pulsion behind it. The coun try must be armed. The un derdeveloped countries can not be surrendered to chaos. The United States cannot be left without the means to ne gotiate with the great new power of the European Com mon Market. rpHIS bears directly on the - decision which the Presi dent must soon make about tax reduction on the one hand and on the other tax reform to close loopholes. In view of the stagnant condition of the economy and the prospect of recession, tax reduction has become a necessity. The facts of the situation, not some thing dreamed up within the Administration, are pushing for a quick and very substan tial tax cut. It is not merely something which would he desirable and pleasant. Tax reduction is something which we must have if we are to avoid very serious consequen ces not only to business and employment and to our stand ard of life but also to our po sition in the world. Tax reform to close up the loopholes and reduce the in equities is in principle highly desirable. But look at what a hash Sen. Byrd's committee is making of the current tax re form bill. The fact is that no matter how desirable the key committees, those of Rep. Mills and Sen. Byrd, will al most certainly take a year to agree on any kind of lax re form bill. They are under no compulsion to hurry. But tax reduction cannot wail a year. All the indications are that if tax reduction to rcflale the economy is put off until next year the trouble will be so serious that much more dras tic measures will be needed. rpHE moral, it seems to me, is that the President should not wait anv longer I before calling upon Congress on the swelling tide of war I starved for Ihe good and Ihe party is over. Now : conies the hangover and we' focus our bloodshot eves to ! as w ell hiMir- discover that: W e have at t a t e to the least twice as many farms as 1 limit and pro. we need, with chronic ln.se pose what 's curlty for most farmers and 1 shocking- a malignant tumor in the fed ly obvious - 'eral budget; we have too a n Alliance ; many airlines, which are now for Progress ' facing bankruptcy after hav- ing helped bankrupt the rail- ! roads, the form of passenger transit of which we now have desperate need; we have de-, veloped. without plan or pur-! pose, the monstrous social ! sprawl called the mcgalopo-; lis. which is neither city nor country and is governed bv 1 i up to a hundred overlapping units of government, which is to say that the communities are not governed at all but merely administered, we hae allowed millions of our poor est, most unskilled people to drift from the south and ron- tcentratc. out of the te) for human cotnnay.ionshtp. in t!'eta Hsjr'.o( t.e)coiinlr e ar) 's .'? r b to move against the oncoming recession in the hope of get ting tax reform next year. In the kind of Congress he is dealing with the prospects of his getting a good tax reform bill next year are very poor. In any event, whether Con gress is or is not now capable of writing a good tax bill, it is certainly Incapable of writ ing any tax bill quickly. Tax reform, like medical care, aid to education, a farm bill, is In the category of those things which are desirable but not indispensable. To act now and adequately against recession is in the category of the In dispensable. see TF THE decision Is taken to is of the utmost importance that it be an adequate tax cut. It will be worse than Use less In nmnncB a rarinr-t inn ;whieh i an .malt ih. it win not do the job. That will merely discredit the medi cine without preventing the disease. If Dr. Salk says that a child should have three po lio shots, it is a foolish moth er who thinks that one polio shot will do. In the present state of the U.S. economy tax reduction will not reflate and revivify unless it is big enough to close the gap - the gap between what the econ omy can produce and what individuals and business firms and public authority are able and willing to buy. Among economists today the conservative estimate is that the cut should be at least $10 billion. There are some, who should be heard, who think that the right amount would even be $15 billion The $10 billion reduction could be had by reducing per sonal and corporate income taxes by four percentage points. (On personal income each percentage point is two billion; on corporate income tax each percentage point is half a billion.) yHY a reduction of $10 bil " lion? Speaking very broadly, and with due regard for the refinements of the pro fessional economists, it is reasonable for the layman tn assume that under present circumstances for each dollar released by tax reduction the effect on spending for con sumption, inventory, and fix ed capital is multiplied about two-and-a-half times. The S10 billion reduction would thus have the multiplied effect on demand for goods of S25 bil lion. The gap today be'.ween capacity and actual produc tion is about $30 billion. That is why a $10 billion tax re duction would be just barely adequate. To make no tax reduction now will mean, according to present indications, that toe gap due to unused plant and unemployment will be $60 billion next year, say twice as big as it is today. If so, the budgetary deficit will almost certainly be greater at the bottom of the recession tha i was the record Eisenhower deficit of 1958. On the other hand, if we art promptly to prevent the decline, il is certain that some of the revenue lost by tax re duction will he recaptured from the rise in incomes and profits. There will be a fair chance that by the middle of 19B3 the deficit afler a $10 billion tax reduction would not be greater than Eisenhow er's deficit without tax reduc tion. This, we should realize, would not mean much. But it would look better. But what really matters is to pre vent the oncoming recession. for Progress in U.S. alarmingly and jobs for the young are not to be found. With the swelling number of the unskilled at one end and the spread of automation at the other, wc are now con fronted with what looks very much like the certainty of permanent unemployment for several million Americans, this side of a vast public works program - hut that, of course, would mean planning and planning is a dirty word for the eight months of the year Congress sits. Those who enjoy the lux ury of offering free advice al. so enjoy the luxury of ask ing unanswerable questions. I and so some of us raise the plaintive query as to why America insists on a compre hensive national development plan in those countries reci-' pient of our aid. while refus ing e n to consider a rede velopment plan for the head quarters country on whose or der and well-being the recipi ent ra ions depend. r i o n ( mdi idi geea fa) j ta eetge 4. mnt ! t. e an .,, I BfjD i 'tvl POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) John E. Benneth in his col umn "Timberline" asks the question: "Should a timber faller sing out a warning when making the last cut through a tree when he is working alone?" Safety experts say yes, Benneth noted. And Al Minato. forester for Trail Creek Lumber com pany near Medford, illus trates why. A contract faller for Tim ber Products company, work ing alone, Minato relates, ne glanced around before starting a cut into a tree and was startled to see two Campfire Girls approaching him through the brush. Apparently attract ed by the sound of his saw in the previous cut, they had come to sell him a box of Campfire Girl cookies. Newspapers hare been mailed for years news re leases and allied material from the country's major in dustries and companies. Such was the case of one "Ben Mills." a fictitious .name perhaps, but one for our purpose to illustrate what can happen. The company had mailed news relases and allied ma terial to Mr. Mills on an average of four limes a month at an average total cost (including postage) of $1.83. This is a yearly cost of $12.96. Not a great cost, considering everything. B u t apparently every thing wasn't considered. Mr. Mills had been dead for six years. It cost the company a to tal of $131.76 to Inform one who had little interest in wordly things. a Some days things just don't go right at all. A voune mother decided to take her two children fishing in one of the lakes in this : The American Medical as area. j sociation - which, for obvious In her hasle. she locked the j keys of the car in the trunk But that wasn't too had. She left the ignition switch in the "on" position, so she could go anyway. En route home, however, the car had a flat tire (that sort of thing always happens, you know, at the most inop portune time), so the trunk had to be jimmied open any way. Her husband never let. her forget the little incident ei ther; that is. until a few days later when he received a traf fic citation. Sometimes things jurt don't seem to go right. Visitors in the valley have been many, and one of our staff members had some re-cently-two boys and their parents. The staff member and his wife also have two boys. And the little boys loved to play with the big boys. But occasionally, one of the lit tle boys wanted to talk to the big boys' father, who was paged thusly: "Where's those big boys, man?" Hairpins are known for their versatility. Sometimes women also are known for their versatility. This is the slory of one of the latter. Not long ago, an air condi tioner at the courthouse kept blowing warmer and warmer air. A male employee, with an electrical engineering degree, vowed he would correct the situation after an expert glance. But he didn't. He couldn't find the answer. Well, one of the women em ployees of the same office, went outside. She found the in- istaller forgot to remove a submitted an over-all, long range plan tn rationale the morass of our transportation facilities. Rather, they threw it up for grabs and nobody grabbed. Senator Claiborne Pell has proposed a multi state pooling of power and re sources to make railroading work in the stifled and glm- ted northeastern stales. The ' hard-headed Committee for Economic Development hps come forward with a scheme for the "massive readjust- 1 ment" of agriculture, which 1 would mean, over a five-year ! period, the elimination of two and a half million separate ' farm units. Every Congressman mult know in his heart that all these things must be done if America in the immediate fu- ture is not to become a dizzy- ing Disneyland of clamor, crowding, waste and. for mil lions, sheer wretchedness. The President was wrong at Philadelphia The ultima'e luxury is not to offer free advice. It is to possess ve facts and the pow er and in do nothing with either. lO strinuted 19S1. hy The fl"' s9-'ne ca. lnr) plate which covered the duct through which cool air waj drawn. She also found the re frigerating unit had not been attached. It wasn't long until it was working fine, but we suspect the electrical engineer was somewhat taken aback by the simple ingenuity of the op posite sex. Last week, by the way. was National Domestic Rab bit week, This is National Farm Safety Week. 'Nough said. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Kennedy's pro gram of health care for the aged (Medicare) goes down in the senate by a vote of 52 NO to 48 YES. It was killed by the votes of 31 Republican senators and 21 Dpmocratio senators. President Kennedy immedi ately issued a statement, calf, ing the senate vote a "most serious defeat for every American family." TT ISN'T, of course. Any American family can start saving up for medical car if and when needed. Many ex cellent plans are available. ' This Medicare program waj not to be pie fro mthe sky or manna from heaven. Its cost was to he added to the cost of other social security and in cluded in the social security taxes that are withheld from the paychecks of workers. So cial security doesn't come for free, as you know if you get a paycheck. It is taken out of your check before the check ! is handed over to you. reasons, was opposed to the; Medicare plan - says in Chi cago that its defeat is in the public interest. The AMA adds: "It would have been in equitable to force wage-earners to pay substantially high er payroll taxes to provide) health care for millions who are able to take care ot them selves." PRESIDENT Kennedy urg ed voters to register their protest at the polls and "re turn in November a congress that will SUPPORT a pro gram like medical care for the aged." He added that a new bill will be introduced in the congress in January. By that, of course, he means that he is going to car ry his fight to the country, urging the defeat of members of congress who are opposed to his medical care program and the election of senators and representatives who fa vor it. That is a much better way to handle the important sub ject of medical care for the) aged than jamming it through the present congress. It will give the public time for ser ious and careful consideration of a proposal of such impor tance. TilA.IOR White rockets hie X15 rorket plane tn an altitude of 300,000 feet. - or 57.8 miles - which is higher than any winged aircraft was ever taken before. II wasn't a speed test. His plane was clocked at "only" 3784 miles, and he has made 4159 mph in other tests. It is ALTITUDE he is seeking. That prompts a question; What is the BIG objectiv. of the X15: The real objective is lo lake a winged and powered plan, beyond t h e earth's atmos phere and then BRING IT BACK AGAIN. If we are to travel nut into spare, we must learn how to GET BACK AGAIN. A T HIS news conference af- ground, he volunteered some information on a puzzling In cident. He said he saw a paper-like object tumbling through tnare mttiirlo Ih Y1S b. mitted that he didn't have the faintest idea what it was. H. said: "As I went over the top, I saw a couple of particles go bv the plane They were) 'small, flaky objects Then t I saw another object that look- j ed like a piece of paper about , the size of my hand." :TTMMmmm. D'ya reckon some space ! litterbugs are loose up there? ' Maybe the next time h. S UP he d better keep a sharp eye out for beer cans. PULP PIPELINE Bangor. Me-IFP-A seven mile pipeline recently com pleted at cost of $2 5 million moves sulphite pulp from th. pulping mill to the panermak ing plant of Great Northern Prfpcr company in northern Vyr) The roo-(f),ny had tr build a suspension hridse over snsjl rri&- to O pport t'ts) OlirtJ e a ? 0 s a t? o a o j ft 00 o o o e
