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MESFORDjWrKIBUNK "Everyone in Southern Oregoo RumIi The Mail Tribune Published Dally except Saturday by MEUKOIIO FK11V. ilNU CU. 33 North Fir Jit.. Ph.772-B.41 ROBERT" W RUHL. Editor HERB GIIEY Advertising Manmer GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bun Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR., Mns. Editor EARL H ADAMS, Cliy tailor HAKRV CHIPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JKWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERlCKSON. Circulation Mfir An Iiidcoendent Newspaper Entered second class matter at Medtnrd, Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 1897 StlHSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year flYOO Daily and Sunday ft nion u.nu Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, "Iaienl and on motor routes Dailv and Sunday year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carnet and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advant-e Official IMpeirof City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnltecTPress International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Tejephoto NewKpicturcs "MEMBER of'audit BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Olfices in New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland, Denver 0 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medlord nd Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 ind 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1952 (Thursday) Sheldon Sackett, publisher of the Coos Bay Times and owner of three radio stations, announces he plans to file for television outlet in Medford. Call letters will be KMTV, Channel 4, V11F. W. B. Tucker, Jackson coun ty agriculture agent, has been designated clerk of the Paci fic International Hereford show to be held Oct. 4-11 in Portland. 20 YEAHS AGO Aug. 14, 1942 (Fridny) i.-f ;,au.H tnnnn civilians attend reactivation ceremon- Irs for 91st division at Camp White; division selects "Pow der River Lei 'er Buck" as battle cry. From Arthur Perry's "Yp Smudge Pot," column: "The wood for fuel situation Is be coming so acute in this gen eral area, it is feared there will be no woodpiles for kids to tip over come Halloween and politicians will have to quit alleging there is a color ed gentleman in one of them. ' 30 YEAR3AGO Aug. 14. 1932 (Sunday) John Douglas perry. iiogue River, is chosen by the Modi-1 BrtaTTcl Britain io tonnuLi spiu.il SCttlCO HI III!" ililiiv in.Ti.i -, tute tor ivionicai ncsoaicii. An extensive remodeling program begins at the Med ford hotel. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 14. 1922 (Monday) President Harding angered, lifts embargo on Southern Pa cific freight shipments; local fruit men acain allowed to , ship to canneries in Salem and ! California I L SO YEARS AGO I A7,1,4i9121W!,dne,1,V,,, ; Ashland men object to the, building of a new near Creek ! nrioge in nieoioia aim an- nounee ...a u.e.v may sue , .ro,,.,,.,, ( '. , ,Sf. contractor fur removing llie; old bridge without approval, j The Elk Creek hatchery an- i nounces that more than 10' million salmon eggs, 1 1 mil lion rainbow troul eggs and lOO.ntK) cullhroal trout eggs were hatched and liberated m Ihe Rogue river this year. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct it superior; even or eight it eicellcnt; five or lis ii good. 1. Is Fictz-Monn a method nf making steel pipe, con crete, cheese or fencing? 2. Is the use of private au tomobiles prohibited in Ber muda' 3. Wellington is most fa mous for his victory where.' 4. Beaufort's scale indi cates the temperature of the atmosphere, weight of pre-'., iht of pre-',, strenslh of einus stooes or strensth of wind'' 5. What is the name for the greal vein in Ihe neck' 8. What is Thespian signifi cant of? 7. How do Manx eats dif fer from other eats" 8. The. motto, "mountain errs are always free" belongs lo which state, known as the 'Coal Bin of Ihe World?" !) What is the plural of cup full" 10. Is the Amazon river in Africa, South America. Eu rope, or Asia" Answers: 1. Pipe. 2. No. 3. Waterloo. 4. Strength ol wind. 5. Jugular vein, 6. Ac fori. 1. They have no tails, t. West Virginia. 9. Cupfulls. 10. South America. TUESDAY. AUGUST 14. 1982 Moore Hamilton In every community more of themselves into public service than any one needs to expect. These are the ones who give of themselves for the public welfare, expecting in return only the reward that comes with knowing one has done one's part and a good bit more. Such a man was Moore Hamilton, who died Saturday at the untimely age of 58. Newsman, legislator, postmaster, civic work er, father, friend; Moore Hamilton was all of these and a good bit more. "THE work done, usually quietly and without fanfare, by men such as Moore Hamilton, is often too little noted, but it is what makes a com munity more than just an assembly of people. Both by public service and by example, the Moore Hamiltons of the world provide the ce ment that holds society together men of good will whose unassuming friendliness is the leaven in a world far too often bleak and humorless. Medford has lost a citizen, friend, and public servant of the first rank E.A. How High Is Up? How high is up? The old children's riddle takes on new mean ing in these early days of space exploration. Actually, for centuries the common law, based on Roman and medieval precedent, has held that a man's ownership of property extends into the space above it without mi . .1 l nat was line, in tne ciays wnen tne oniy cus-; mites tn arise mil. nf this theorv would involve I such things as the ownership of apples on branch es bending over a property line. TODAY, with space hardware whirling around the earth in increasing numbers, "ownership" of space takes on a different aspect. Maritime law has held, variously, that a three mile limit, or a twelve-mile limit, are the boun- i , 1 uauua ui iitiiniiicii wvci yet established a three-mile, or 100-mile, or what- ever, limit in the ocean ol space. As a matter of fact, mankind is still muddled in his thinking as to space age nomenclature. We refer glibly to "outer space," when in reality what we are talking about is barely the edge of earth's atmosphere. We have not yet stretched our minds sufficiently to grasp the immensity of space within our own solar system, let alone inter- ptclkll or inter-galactic space. b.A. Coast vs. Would yOll travel a to see some ol the most spectacular coastline in the world? Yes. Would you travel a couple of hundred miles to see a highway lined with billboards? No. That in essence is the crux of a dispute down along the Oregon coast, where the new Scenic Area Commission has proposed to establish sce nic strins to preserve some of Oretron's most be.ultjfu, views frQm billboiircl encroachment. Some of the area's businessmen, however, are!1? " f. V, sight, brain or hands and feet, ujijiudi. u tu ruui Clll WlUV.1, , ,,... , u.,.,.i. thorn mrmirvl:i v TPIIEIR opposition is, the best interests of you and me and the tourists but also against 1 their own best interests. .... , ,, . - . v. , , When we uo to the coast it is to emoy Nature s lullull WOl K, 1101 inai Ol I side tile retaliations still permit sufficient ad- .: 1 -Hi i . ir : .1 .1.. Vt'l-tismtf billboards to publicize the area S atti ac- tions and the tolll ist Service enterprises. It SOUllds to US as though the !rO-ljiltl)();ircl , . . , i 1 . ad vocates along the coast are simply begging to nave men llOSf'S Clll Oil . . . I'OUl'ageilieiU It) CMaiiUM! save the SCelllM'V. lvA. EI A motion picture entitled "El Cid" will be shown in Medford starting this week. It was our mixed pleasure and pain to have seen it a month ago in Portland. It is one of the finest films we have ever seen. It is one of the worst films we have ever seen. The pageantry, the costuming, the musical sound track, the sccnerv. the battles, the color all these are outstanding, ami are as stimulating as anything vou are apt to see in manv a long hour of llollywoo.l-produeed dreariness: ' ticulailv the dialogue, . ,- , " I r- i i -.ill'" l,,u anrnui'll l.i ine ms l'10 f"la' -'l'". 1U)l "'' 111 eXCIUCUltingly bad ones. We are loath to re- U1L 1 mal SCCUC, al f 1UU tllll.V 111 CXC1 UCiaUllg IV O.tll taste, hut are so corny as real as to he outrageous, he grotesque. If your mental screening eipapment is up to the task of filtering out the ing the breathtaking spectacle, it mav be that vou u-i'll nninv I In. film ' ' r.. .. l i : ... l .. l. bin oe cauiimicu anoiu uie iinai scene, w neie a dead-as-a-tloornail Cid, propped up and strap- , . i i i ii . ,i . ped to a horse, smgle-handly routes the enemy hordes and then gallops back to the castle where his dewev-evetl w ife awaits. The dawning sun , '. ,.. . , . casis in i i nun mi mini light, a halo of sanctity, a spiritual promisf immortality. We almost lost our dinner. E.A. there are men who put limit. l I .1 1 1 i. tj i i cignty. jjlu nu unt naa Billboards COliplc of hundred miles (Hill U V j.l UL1. c-mi,!; Ultll. to us, not only tii Inst the travelling public OSUT aim lVUMSei . i('-! lO spile UK'll laces. 1 lie c , , ,,lv,,n ; . . . i , i till' iiiiLt'CLi Ml iM mm Cid however, and the acting, anil par- and most particularly"'1'1, ','!"" fa""lv i. i lin ' altenlion t. to he laughable, so un and so contrived as to evewash while absorb .... i. i i ;i gificmng nimuie in (if ) "I Love My Wife, COMMUNICATIONS tellers to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances for publication is permissible. The edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is oftoi the case. Making a Choice To the Editor: As I flipped the switch of the radio yester day morning a syrupy sweet female voice that would curdle your morning coffee greeted me on the Sherri Fink guvwu mi. un i bine abortion case. The female went " to say she would take the chance thus proving beyond a doubt the brain and voice went together Much has hrpn said nn Ihe ! topic both by the supposedly i learned psychologist and by j the religious fanatic who always willing to jump on the bandwagon, no doubt the same ones that objected to the use of sedation in childbirth. hi scuauuii in coin Those who have walked in the shadows and have had chii dren born blind, crippled or retarded, know the answer deep within their own hearts. I know for I have walked in the land of shadows with them as they made their heart breaking decisions to place their child in that so-called home for retarded children. I have gone to surgery nine times with a little boy who was fighting for his sight, only to lose the battle after all. I know a woman who is unfor tunate enough to have a fun dus infection on her face, inds and feet and I have atched People slare and whisper as she passed, for you see civilization is a thin ve neer and a very thin one al thai. Nothing is as beautiful in all this world as a baby with ten tiny little fingers that hold sn tightly, and ten tiny toes. This liny bundle from heaven is a never ceasing miracle. Nothing on earth is harrier to bear than the sight of a tiny baby deformed and destined helpless. Yes. I know Stein- metz was a hunchback, but Steinmetz had hands, feet, and -tiirt'V-i"'i ju' , die brain, and I don't think he chosen this if he choice to make. The religious fanatic claims that fl',us h;'s lifc;.,T'le"' may tell me. why a still born per- f,. i,,,bv has its own little pun in every cemetery and is ; n, vcr hurieri near a child or I adult that has lived ' For those I ; who have had the misfortune : ' t have children who are i1'''11'1. retif-cl or molfnrnn-cl. ; ; "ie sun will never be quite ! as bum f,. n.m. T,.,t(. pilt i answers, mil each in ms own llean would laee me met it be had to make the choice knowingly to bear such a answer would be child. The no, that is. unless you are planning on opening a freak show. (Name nn File) Pioneers and Posterity To the Editor The recent Pioneer Celebration at Jack sonville called to mind some thoughts on how nuieh import ance some people attach to their relation to noted an cestors. Will Rogers was reported to have said. "The trouble with family trees is tliev are : like potatoes, the best part is underground " I would like fiXu'lX unci mirlHlr iisn iim-c atA Aie. cant the little teii.ms And so. we like ones. We are loath member that some branehes have boroe nuts instead of peaches, or we i:lnss over toe rough spots In recent stu.des in Ameri can gcnralngv I found thai Squire Boone came to IVnn- syivama about oldlT brother 17 IK witli an and sister. v .-m. i" m a- ItllltlKe ...,l ... ....... J ... J II. ....... pines of ins son. n.miet. are n,"",'l'lHI! 11,11 httie is s.ud of his brothers and sisters somi, w,.,h. ,,, lnil lrs spectacui.w A1-' ' '"" " interesting item in a church record. It appears thai Sonne Boone was reprimanded hv die Church and pum.-.ie.t by tiie Council tor a nusrienif anor in connection w ith a wine deal But, Oh You Kid!" name and address of the writer, the use of a pen name or initial Mail Tribune reserves the right to No. he was not bootlegging. The wine deal was legal. But Squire was a little outreacn ing and his customers were thirsty. Squire upped I he price a few pence above the going rate. I wonder what our pioneers would do with the modern price uppers, liberal spenders and inflationists. No. our noted ancestor was not a bootlegger. But this brings us back to the potato Pi,teh where we are reminded tnat even the big ones usually need a little washing to be marie presentable. If we Americans would re member that the golden head ed gods we worship have feci of clay we would not be so easily led astray by the glow ing promises and schemes of those who clamor for our sup porting votes. A few years ago we at tended a Chautaqua series in an Oregon city not too many I miles from here. One of the most interesting numbers was an address by a brilliant Chi nese gentleman name Ng Png Chu. We will have more about him lalcr. I hope. That word limit. Rah. L. G. Weaver, 301 Haven st., Medford. Dogs and Cats To Ihe Editor: What has happened to the time when a dog was man's best friend? Nowadays dogs are the nearest neighbor's worst en emy. A dog is a fine animal if you'll keep him home where he belongs. The woes I've suffered from cats and dogs no tongue can I tell my blood pressure boils ! every time 1 think of these mangy curs. I can t stop think ing about them as the people won't keep them home. Although I am not an ama turc, these public nuisances a person has to put up with on one's own property, makes nie swear fearfully. Cats and dogs have caused a poisionous hate filling my heart with revenge when I sec them coming toward my house, their tongues hanging out and panting like they hart come miles just to reach my property. I hope tliev bring along with them their' funeral contractors for 1 have a thun- di-rinu lender when 1 see them arriving rhe do(,s .imc jlis( to do dirty work and scratch up my fmvc bed.s. The eats come at night and do their courting under my windows. Makes me sic'- to see peo ple mauling all over these meanaeing. public nuisances with idolatry love, baby tnlk ine. rubbing noses and kiss iog behind their ears all the while they arc breathing the staunchy. seenty. breath of lliese flea bearing animal Some of these nice people even eat al trie same al the same table willi their beautiful flufty eat. or their liille lap rianc ing dog. spending precious hours watching every move, they make wtlh ooh's and aah's. What do they hope to accomplish'.' I'm with Pearl of Jackson ville. I'd rather collect horse manure. It at least serves some purpose. E, Dvkes !' O. Box 53 Eagle Point. Ore. Aladdin's Magical Lamp l'o the Editor We w ish to rail attention to the Souvenir Brochure of the J;u ksoriv ille (.old Hush Jubilee spi-iisio'ed by the l.ions etun Appe.i' ing on the hack cover is an em line map showing le.nlie.g highways marked with cities ami tow ns o! tile county What appealed to us was the gold pan as a teeptaeie at Jackson ville, the lat-'e circle as the handle at Medlord; top center outline at Central Toint; vvrh a long poinud shaetd spout (or (..old Hit, The (our iMie represent the r:U:rt out'.int' ot l!ir iiMru'Ti; s .tn'.iqur t il lit nip with throe b'-ro.i(i a '! hudm: to buried troftirc nt the b.ie of Aladdin j nai: MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON European Setback, But Have Not Been Abandoned By K. C. THALER United Prest International London -IUPH- The ambi tious plan for sweeping Euro pean unification has suffered a severe setback. But it has not been abandoned. Britain, rebuked by her European allies earlier this month, has swallowed her pride. The Conservative gov ernment of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has decid ed to resume negotiations for entry into the Common Mar ket next fall. Her intention remains to secure membership in the six member European alignment of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Nether lands and Luxembourg, while staill maintaining her special ties with the' commonwealth. The United States strongly favors an integrated Europe, with Britain as a part of it. If the plan comes off, Eu rope would represent a uni fied market of more than 200 Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. MOTIVES Why do people enter cer tain professions or occupa tions? Sometimes because of 1 o v e - b u t i" 1 sometimes, I V I Jin forced to yi to think, for ? less worthy motives. -. I remember .'I an intern in a - . hospital some J years ago told mn that lio -iiv- turi nearly flunk ed his oral exams. One of the standard questions the board asked him was, "Why did you decide to become a doctor?" He knew that the official answer had something to do with "service toward human ity" and all that sort of cant; but, drawing a deep breath, he decided to be perfectly can did, and replied Because I'm short, and I want people to look up to me." It was a close thing, he told me; ihe examiners were puzzled, hurt and shocked -and he squeaked by only af ter reassuring them that his motives included loftier ones as well. Yet there can be no doubt that the desire to play God is a strong fac tor in making such a decis ion. I am convinced that a dis like and contempt of wom en prompts a certain type of man to become a dress designer. Much of women's fashions seem almost a con spiracy against their femi ninity, a way of humiliating them and making them pay through the nose for the ex perience. And it seems evident that a lot of what passes for "Style" is a ruthless and purposeful exploitation of the women's masochistic de sires; else why would so many women rush to don ridiculous ar.d unilaitering costumes? It is impossible to threaten or bludgeon a man into wearing clothes he deems either uncomfort able or unfitting to his mas culinity. With a few exceptions, however, male designers of women's clothes seem to be expressing their repugnance for the female shape. And tiie fashion models employed by t h e m are scarecrow carica tures of women, with no hips, no breasts, no buttocks. They arc simply animated wire hangers. Looking through a maga- 7inf tlln filh.-.r .J-,.- tn f-,t I I u-i sir-,.,1.- h,. ;,' ,i. .-. '. n1rnl for !l1' telephone com- h""-. i'his a jnnng worn an cavorting on the beach with her children. What slop ped me was just the natural ness of the woman - she was half-turned toward us. mri she actually had a broad rear end. like most women who have borne children. This was the first model I had seen in years who resenibeld a real person. In my ou n profession, also, it seems clear to mi. that the people who become critics are the most critical-minded; ihey seek tile job not so much because they love lhe an as because they hav e an analytic and destructive turn of mind. and enjoy playing indue, jury and exerutmner. Having been a orama critic for 15 years. I i" not rxemp in. self from t h i s bar-h uidgmen!; but. knwtng it. 1 try tn temper it in practice j sonviitf . Orr. ier by rs h.Jvo stares ' a P'.c- nhsmed s.i:r.t- ( Anuvay. ir : t p! U: Sown F.e McdM:d Unificaton million people - an incompar ably better match for Russia than in her divided state and, together with the United States, a powerful barrier against the Reds. But whether the plan will come off now remains a big ger question mark than ever. France is the chief oppon ent, obstensibly for economic reasons, fearing that once the door is opened to Common wealth produce her own Euro pean agricultural markets would be swamped. But political considerations seem an equally powerful reason behind France's tough ening stand. President Charles de Gaulle to all appearances dreams of a Europe led by a revitalized France, strong enough to stand on its own feet inde pendent of the United States. He is believed to consider Britain a dangerous challeng er to French leadership, once she is a member of the Euro pean club. With Britain in Europe he In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Soviet Russia has put its third and fourth man into space. A Moscow dispatch says: "Some experts here have in dicated that they might stav up for a WEEK OR MORE if all goes well." We're all hoping. I'm sure, that all will go well. Not only are we concerned with the welfare of the cosmonauts. If men can stay out in space for a week and come back safe and sound, it will go a long way toward proving that men can stay out in space LONG ER perhaps long enough to reach other planets and COME BACK to tell the tale. rPHE first launching had a curious accompaniment. A few hours after the Rus sian cosmonaut had taken off on his momentous journey, the Soviet government issued an OFFICIAL appeal to t h e United States "not to jeopar- : tlize the safety" of the Russian spaceman by any high altitude nuclear tests. The U. S. government had already announced, some time:'""'1 "", " V fc! that it would make no high altitude nuclear tests without giving the world a warning at least four days in advance of the test. II is ap parent to anyone that the United States could make no worse blunder than to fire off a high altitude nuclear mis sile while the Russian cosmo naut was in orbit. A blooper like that would lose us the sympathy of the ENTIRE WORLD. The Krem lin must know that under no circumstances could we afford to do such a thing. CO- Why the appeal? I suppose the answer is that nobody knows why commu nists do the things they do. CPEAKING of weird propos- al they aren't confined I., ii.. n ,r .,', ', ' : ! Vandenberg sprawls for thou- .nVuTPa7chaLhd;si,nds of ac.rcs. . ington The U n i t e d S t a t e , ha, I IT,.POES NO,T' at firsl' '""k limit-In a n,j 7 . , elevilion nu.Prtab hopes, will help to brine edu- cation lo under H,inj countries The rii,t, ,.r the project is the Agency for! International nrvrl.inmeni. I which signed a contract in i June for the sets Last week. Dr. Gerald F. Winfielri. chief of the organi zation's communications re sources division, described the project to a house of repre- senlatives subcommittee. He told the committee's members "'at in 80 countries now ceiving U. S. foreign aid there arc 250 million children not in schools and 500 million adults. The objective of the educa tional television plan, he ex plained, is to teach these peo ple agricultural methods, home-making and other sub jects designed to raise their standard nf living, They would learn all this-, he said, by watching their TV sets. THE members of the subcom- mittce took a dim view of the proieet. One of them point ed out that in these countries there is an acute shortage of electricity. Without el ectrici- ty. lie asked, how- would these people be able to make use of their television sets Dr. Winfield had an answer. The sets, he s u g e e s t e ri. coci.d be powered by little children p l a y 1 n c. on merry- g o- rounds: VT THIS point. Rep. Tortcr Harriv -hairman nf lb, Hardy, chairman of the subcommittee, broke in to say "That's the biggest piece of foolishness I've seen in my time ' I ir sure we can all acrec with him Plans Suffer Bad apparently feels the United States also would retain its in fluence on the continent. Brit ain is a firm backer of NATO and of the Atlantic alignment with the United States. This is why some diploma tic observers fear Britain's chances for entry into the Common Market remain slender. Matter of Fact Icl New York Herald By DAVID WISE Joseph Alsop is on vaca tion. During his absence his column will be written by reporters expert in national and international affairs.) THE BELL OF HIROSHIMA Washington - In Hiroshima a few davs ago. a girl named Junko Matsuoka tolled the "peace bell" during ceremon ies reminding the world of another day in August 17 sum mers ago. The atomic age is the only one Miss Matsuoka has known, for she was but a few months old when the flames and horror came and took the lives of her parents and 78, 000 others. During the recent ceremonies at Hiroshima, the names of those who have died in the past year from the ef- fects of that blast 17 years agu were piaceu iiisiue a sioot- j memorial arch. There were j 125 names on the list. Not unrelated to the tolling of the bell in Hiroshima was the explosion by the Soviet Union of an atomic weapon on the island of Novaya Zemlya, the start of a new lest scries. The first blast was estimated at equal to 40 million tons of TNT. The bomb that exploded in Hiroshima was equal to 20 thousand tons. In Geneva, this August, the lost-ban negotiators for East and West are sparring again, as they have since 1958. They have hot made much progress. On Johnston Island, the Unit ed Slates is repairing a uiuncoing pan inai may DeimniH Ho h..riiir,n used to set off a high-altitude nuclear blast. A a unci- .u I i . GAINST this background, .1 might be an appropriate Miss Matsuoka's parents was dropped by a lumbering plane called the "Enola Gay." To. day, both sides have missiles. Yet, 'a missile in the ab stract does not mean much. It must be seen to be believed. A TV screen fails to convey its awsomeness. But how many people have ever actuanv SEEN an intercontinental bal listic missile? Last spring, on a trip to California, those of us who cover Ihe White House had a chance to see the latest and best in United States missiles, during a tour by President Kennedy of Vandenberg Air Force base. It was late in the after noon when we arrived, and the sun was hanging low over the Pacific. The sky was clear, and the sparkling water lilnrinrt acajou the chnrn iThoro iw nu r..i i "' ""'" j line a missiic oase. 1 lie un- eJduIaUng srcc hm. r0 gcnt. I ly upward from the sea. al - uniiinoi uees. ii migni'.'vrai sea at i.vura lam. ! be a l-olf course, or an Eng- 11 ntd,"-c-rePl 'r- nere a,ld hcrc- a R'impse of a strange-looking blockhouse, a New York. Chicago and Dc slab of concrete, or a gantry j troit. and its men, women and which give the place an un- children. earthly feeling, as it an out- That is Ihe measure of how sider had suddenly landed on far man has progressed in tha the moon. j vear of our Lord, 1962. There- The visit began with the fir- inS of an Atlas missile lor the resident. The voice of the Try and By BENNETT CERF- 4 TYPEWRITER concern received this unusual complain! - recently: "Gentlemen: Several bays ago I dought one ol your poruicne typewriters. As "D' are interchangeb. 1 I was very calm about this I at first, dm the longer ! I tneb to type with it. the ! mabber I got. If you 1 bon't bo something adout , this bamn machine quick. I am going to dring it to your heabquarters. dash bovvn your Presibcnt's boor, and bump it on his confounbeb besk.' c' who has genius for feii.l- P -n ing with six cntus. eight stars, ami eleven authors anl ttireetnis at the same time, iri siste't that one number in a neve mumcal tiv .ng out m Boston b (l.mmateil forthwith. "It s awful." he ne-l The ii iti-nr n,i . . Pr disagree... " think." Ihey .tare.) nr.; ; , the funniest . number in the show." Finally, the pro.) a er aiie-.ved in-m rr ; leave t!i number in w hen the snow- mme.t on to rhilsdeiphii. i "18 USt to shut vou un ' he evnla r.l "Ti.. , .1 - , . - ' - - l''!..'!!1 II ."'III. lauch once But the a-i-t;enre DID laugh. In fact, it ill but fell in th- a;s. The nu'.ncr rushed trumrhant.y to the producer wi rien-.r.""!, ' Po you hear then howling? The producer can.e up -. J'.epp-r ef t!-e month. H- gruv.KM. - Trey don't n,-ar. it." " C 1X3. Seonftt Cerf. DutrlSuted by Kir.c rtur Synii-tt The pause may help to clar ify and smooth things. But there are those who fear that existing divisions may in fact become deeper, with France trying to sway the oth er members and to raise the price for British membership beyond what Britain can af- I ford to pay. By Joseph Alsop Triiiune Syndicate man giving the countdown floated downwind so that ha could be clearly heard. "Three-two - one - blastoff-'1 The huge missile, bigger than I a lucuiiiuuve, wiucu oaa only la second be.-ure stood gleam ling like a silver bullet in ths sun, belched flame and slow- ! ly roared upward. It arched jout to sea, overhead, spewing white fire and then was gone. Moments later, the Air Force announced that the Atlas had landed on target, thousands of miles away, near the Pacific island of kwajelein But only when we had gone ! further, to a windy hilltop overlooking the sea, did tha meaning of Vandenherg be come clear. There, we wera permitted to inspect the silos that house the Minutuman, s solid-fuel, second generation j ,CBM ( which js L.onsidered al most invulnerable because it rises from the ground s Pola ris rises from the sea. rPHE missilemcn, the n e w - elite corps of the Air Force, were there - blue-uniformed colonels in hard, white hats. They explained that Minulcmen were being installed in similar under ground silos at bases all over !the country. The silo, really a monster hole in the ground, a giant gun barrel embedded in the earth, looked to be 20 feet across. Its yawning mouth was like no other sight in this world. For out of its jaws tain of metai tipped with an a(omjc warncad , ,5 min. utcs' more or lcss. il could land in Kicv, Leningrad, or MoscoWi to snufr out lhe ljve3 of perhaps a million men, women, and children After that we saw the Tilan complex. Titans, like Minute men, are buried below tha ground. They musl be elevat ed to be fired. The double doors of the great concrete hatches open slowly, and tha missile rises between them, reaching for the heavens. In ; front of the blockhouse, clean cut young technicians in spot less white coveralls lined up for inspection. They might have been working at the cor ner service station, except that they were the firing team for an ICBM. AS THE SUN slipped lower into the ocean and the light faded into dusk, the wind grew cold and cut through to the bone. But it Was no more chilling than tha experience of an afternoon at Vandenberg. There is onlv one thing even more horrendous than !"ar t lhe ,bla rwlhof la M'nuteman silo. That is tha ' knowledge that they are ab- solute v ncccssarv. . forsomewhere in the vast .Russian heartland, east of tha WW 'know, and elsewhere, there are Soviet bases with similar missiles poised to destroy fore, ask not for whom tha ' bell tolls in August at Hiro- :shima. Stop you can see, the "B" and tha v-j
