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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the file ol The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 veari ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1952 (Thuriday)
Mcdford merchants this
week are readying plans for
their annual Christmas open
ing Wednesday.
Walter Nunley, " Jackson
county district attorney-elect,
has announced that James V.
McGoodwIn, 27, P o r 1 1 a n d,
will be appointed as assistant
district attorney when Nun
ley takes office next Jan. 5.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 29, 1942 (Friday)
Lt. John Essman, former
Gold Hill school athletic
coach, dies of wounds receiv
ed while leading military po.
lice in attempt to quell riot
ins soldier at Phoenix, Ariz
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A
survey shows an Increase In
the number of lawyers. The
land will never run out of
'learned counsels,' beans and
2nd loots."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1832 (Sunday)
Mrs. Janice Holmer, Mcd
ford, rescues four year - old
son, Jackie, from Rogue river
after her car plunges over
40-foot bank into stream.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28. 1922 (Monday)
Medford High school foot
ball team defeats Forest
Grove, 41 to 2, in final game
of season.
Ashland residents stale that
n new $200,1)00 hotel will
be built in that city within
a year.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28, 1912 (Wednesday)
Solomon Under, who mov
ed to Jacksonville In 1851!
dies at home of sou in Med
fiiitt County Judge-elect F. L.
TuuVcllo confers with Gov.
Oswald West on Jackson
county road work.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct If superior
seven or eight is eicellent; five or
sis is good.
1. Who was the woman in
' The Tale of Two Cities" who
always knitted?
2. Name the capital of Kan
sas. 3. How many children did
Brigliam Young have'.'
4. Who was Ihe first wife of
King Henry Vlll?
5. What is 1 lie color of cor
roded copper?
ti. l)n what day did God cre
ate man?
7. What river flows through
Pa ris'.'
It, Who was Becky Thatch
er's sweetheart .1
!l. How many cups of but
ler in n pound?
in What kind of acid is
formed in milk when It sours?
Answers 1. Madam La
Farcjo. 2. Topeka. 3. Filly-six.
4. Catherine o( Aragon. 5.
Green. 6. The sixth day. 7.
Seine. 8. Tom Sawyer, 9. Two.
10. Lactic acid.
Columbia County
Sheriff Reelected
St. Helens -Ml- Columbia
County Sheritf Spencer
Youm-c, a Democrat, was re
elected In the Nov. 6 elec
tions, a recount showed. The
recount reversed what had
appeared to he a victory for
Iiepulilican liny S Wilburn.
In the recount completed
and certified Tilled iv. Younep
received 4.214 vol, i and Wil
burn 4.173. In lh- canvass
following the election, Wil
burn had led 4 -i.i to 4 17,1.
I
NOVEMBER 28. 1982
Ecumenicity
It probably will be years before the full sig
nificance and importance of the current Vatican
Ecumenical Council can be assessed.
It could result in a historic shift in the atti
tudes and directions of the Roman Catholic
church, or, conceivably, it could fail to achieve
anything; of substance.
The intricacies of the parliamentary maneu
vering and the subtleties of doctrinal debates
escape us. They are not being probably cannot
be reported in perspective in the daily press.
And even the magazines devoted to such matters
will have to wait weeks, months or years before
a verdict can be placed on the Council.
DUT one thing can be said on the basis of those
reports we do receive.
The church is far, far less monolithic than
most non-Catholics have been led to believe over
the years. There is room within the church, as
the debates have shown, for a considerable di
versity of opinion, even on doctrinal and dog
matic matters.
There are even "parties" within the church
not in the sense that we think of political par ties,
but groupings of church fathers who see eye-to-eye
on certain subjects, and in opposition to the
views of other groups within the hierachy.
IT IS not as widely known in this country as it
Blmiilrl ho tVinf- Amnripan Pnt-Vinli'plcm i in
many respects, quite different from the Catholi
cism one finds in Latin America, for instance,
or in Ireland, or in France.
The church, while subscribing to the same
ultimate governance, takes on certain colorations
from the lands in which
customs and attitudes are
and in her congregations.
The Roman Catholic
fact, is probably the most heterogeneous in the
world, embracing, as it does, nuclear physicists
and illiterate Brazilian
logians and anti-clencal
religious and sophisticated politicians, and kings,
clowns and fools.
"THERE is still in this country, probably more
than in older lands, a deep strain of anti
Catholicism stemming from the bitternesses of
the Reformation. It is found not infrequently in
Medford, as a matter of fact.
The election of John F. Kennedy as President
of the United States probably did as much as any
single thing to temper this attitude, which in its
more virulent forms is nothing short of bigotry.
The Ecumenical Council may provide further
stimulus for the modification of anti-Catholic
emotions and attitudes.
"T'HE church changes slowly, but it does change.
No lonerer are Savonarolas or Inquisitions
sanctioned by the Vatican, and even the religious
persecutions in some Catholic countries are be
coming less frequent and loss bitter.
Inter-faith friction in
exists, but it is mostly rather sub-rosa, lacking the
"respectability" once accorded it in many pre
dominantly Protestant communities.
Religious wars, thank
past, and the bitter legacy they left to western
civilization is, slowly but surely, coming to an
end.
TE ARE doubtful that
" cil will lead to anv
inter-church unity. Rut it is entirely possible that
it will broaden the understanding and respect ac
corded by those of one faith (or none) to those
of another.
It has long been our belief that one of Amer
ica's strengths was her Constitutionally-guaranteed
freedom of religion, and the vast and chal
lenging diversity of faith Americans can and do
enjoy.
Increasingly, the American Catholic church
has come to recognize and respect this freedom,
for it is only with such freedom that a minority
church, such as the Catholic, can gl ow and pros
per. There are strong evidences that this attitude
is growing in influence and importance in the
Vatican, also.
"'E may differ sharply (as we do) with many
of the teachings of the Roman Catholic
church. One may reject it both as a way of seek
ing religious truth, and as an organization in
which to participate. One may deplore past
tyrannies and failures and excesses. One many
disparage the rituals, liturgy, clerical garb and
ceremony of Catholicism.
One may do all these things, and still know
that Catholicism is a positive force for good, both
in America and throughout the world, and is he
coming more so.
If the Ecumenical Council can help drive
home this lesson to the non-Catholic peoples of
the free world, it will have taken another long
stride in the continual search for amity, brother
hood and peace among men.
"yiUS is the Ecumenicity which is important to
the non-Catholic part of the world, and it may
have been, at least in part, what Pope .John Will
had in mind when he summoned the Council.
Intra-church unity is important to the church,
but it is inter-church amity which is important to
the rest of the world.
The last thing we would desire would be a
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standing, coo'icration and
i
she operates. National
reflected in her clergy
church, as a matter of
peasants, scholarly theo
dissidents, unworldly
the United States still
God, are a thing ot the
the Ecumenical Coun-
significant degree of
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K. A.
The Sacred Cow
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oaper; In fact Ihe contrary is often the case.
Music ai She Ii Spoke
To the Editor: in the nine
teenth century, Franz Liszt
broke piano strings until
something had to be done.
The concert grand of today
solved the problem.
The talk after the concert
of Nov. 25 will be, "We need
a piano." Yes, we need a
piano - but first we need a
concert hall.
Brailowsky came several
years ago and ear-dru.ns were
in danger. Now we nave
heard the orchestration of
Jorge Bolet which was be
yond description but hard on
car-drums.
Medford needs a place to
hear things - unless we can
all conveniently become
slightly deaf.
Mrs. Rawles Moore,
737 Stevens St.,
Medford
No Mora Doe Taga
To the Editor: I still con
lend that one deer of cither
sex in regular deer season,
with mandatory fine of $500
for any hunter killing a doe
and leaving it In the woods,
would control the doe popu
lation and conserve our deer.
It would be well for all
deer hunters and ranchers to
write the Game Commission
and insist on no more doe
tags.
I do not hunt any more but
would like to sec some deer
left for my grandchildren.
and not become extinct like
our buffalo. I believe the cat
tle men are behind the drive
to kill off our deer They eat
a few leaves which cattle will
not cat.
C. W. Corey,
Phoenix, Ore.
SOC Commuter's
ToSponsor'Four'
Ashland - Versatile folk
singers. The Brothers Four,
will be sponsored by the
Southern Oregon college com
muter's chili in a concert at I
Ihe Medford Armory at 8:30
p.m. Dec 8. Kaye I'almcrton.
Rogue River, general chair
man for the event, has an
nounced. The Brothers Four have had
two records with sales of
more than a million each, in
cluding the popular 'Green
fields" and "Green Leaves of
Summer.'' have tinned the
United Stales, Japan, Spain,
and Fiance: appeared on
many national television ami
radio shows: and have been
termed "sensational" In their
many campus performances
across the nation.
Funned in 1958 by four
University of Washington fra
ternity Inothcrs, Mike Kirk
land, Hob Flick, Dick Foley,
and John Paine, they audi
tioned for an engagement at
the Scuttle Colony club as a
result of a prank phone call
by one of the university rally
squad girls and were prompt
ly hired.
Tickets for the concert are
on s.ile al Piiruekcrs. Med
(oui. and at Ihr SOC Brut
Student center, Miss Palmer
ton said.
Dave Elliot, l.akcwew. is
in charge of publicity; Gary
Marlatt, Eugene, staging, and
Denme H e 1 1 e r, Ashland;
Rand v.. Clark. Central Point:
! and Sanu Pntehard. Medford,
- in charge of ticket sales.
APPROVES SALE BAN
Washington - in - The U S.
Public Health Service said
Monday the New Yiv k City
ban on the s.ile of radium dial
! pocket watches "nM makes
good sense " A PUS spokes
man said the action of the
i city's health department Mon
day "is consistent with the
widely accepted position of
scientists everywhere that any
radiation that ran be avoided
nhould be avoidtvi.'
Whal'i the Difference?
To the Editor: Well, Mrs.
Doran, I'm glad yoa brought
the H20 subject up, because
I personally was very angry,
and all I could see was red.
And as for you Mr. Editor,
"a rose by any other name
still has the same smell." Just
to keep the records straight
I'll clue you in on something
I'm sure you already know.
Chlorlne-a poisonous green
ish yellow gaseous chemical
element, used in bleaching
and disinfecting. It is very
irritating to the nose, throat
and lungs.
Fluoride - chemical com
pound of fluorine and an
other element or radical.
Fluorine-a poisonous green
ish yellow gas, one that is
a very active element similar
to chlorine.
So, what's the difference?
Mrs. Irma Henderson,
729 Dakota ave.,
Medford
What Wa Nc d
To the Editor: What this
country needs wuz someone
to invent a typewriter what
will write over butter without
skiddin'.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Fish and Hook
To the Editor: The Game
Commission says that they
have to raise some more mon
ey somehow. I know just how
they can get it without rais
ing anything, especially fish.
A hatchery man told me that
it costs $1.50 per fish to put
them it: the rivers at 6 inch
size. I know a man that raises
them to 10 inch size and lets
tile public catch them for 50
cents. They cost him about
25 cents. The Game Commis
sion should be able to raise
them for about 10 cents, a
saving of $1.40 per fish. Add
ed up against several hun
dred thousand fish this makes
a pretty slippery sum.
I am sure that they could
contract the raising of fish at
less- than half the cost. There
is something fishy about this
mess. And 1 wonder how the
G C. can worm their w ay off
the honk.
Georce Brown,
Box 25!).
Prospect, Ore.
Part ol Highway
Slides Info Canyon
By United Press International
A 400-foot section of High
way 20 two miles cast of
Newport slid into a deep can
yon Tuesday. The slides clos
ed off traffic on the artery
between Corvallu and .New
port. llichway officials said a
150-toot s-cctmn broke off
Tuesday morning and the re-t
gave w ay about noon Tr i'f
was detoured on an old r.iad
Highway 30 near Westpnrt,
closed for the past several
days, wa expected to ho ooeil
ed lonuht.
A slide on tile Sunset High
way 22 mile-: west of Port
land closed one lane of the
two-lane higiiway.
Slides also eloi d ooe l.uu
of Itatlie on the Nell.ilcii.
Highway hc'.wron Mist ,ind
Vcnioiua and Alsea Higuvay
about 18 miles .,;t of WaM
port, and tlv Sa'inon liier
Highway, 11 m.lcs wr--t ol
Valley Junction.
Plan To Open Bonk
j Temporarily Approved
Vrtj-hiiiKlon -IN- Flans to
open a national bank in
lu'thrl Oanclio, Ore . near Kit
Hone, Tursday nvnvcri pit
linunary approval from thr
: nniiptroIliT of Xre ouriTncy.
Jamrs J. Son.
The new h.tnk. to W railed
F m e r a 1 ri National Bank,
would Ii.tvp 5-40.000 initial
(capital funds KcnntMn P. Gtl
hrrt of Fust-tiff ropiornt the
I ortani;er.i.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
American
To Germans, Despite Lack of
BY PHIL NEWSON
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Berlin-A flag flies in front
of the home of U. S. Berlin
brigade commander Gen.
Frederick O.
Hartel, com
ing down at
night and go
ing up again
in the morn
ing. To West
Berliners it Is
a reassuring
symbol and
Newiom they watch it
closely.
If on any day it did not ap
pear, panic might ensue.
For General Hartel's flag
Is one sign of what Is called
the American "presence" in
Berlin.
Matter of Fact By Joseph Aliop
lei New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
YOO HOOS FROM THE
KREMLIN
Washington - The wires
from Moscow, these days, are
burdened with amiable "yoo
hoos from
a .1.. iii
H ramparts, all
d e n t K e n-
nedy. Accord
ing to report,
the Presi
dent's private
letters from
VtAJ Nikita S.
Aimp K h r u shchev
are also full of friendly ex
pression. The current Kremlin line
was probably best summed up
by a long, obviously authorita
tive article in the official
Izvestia by Nikolai Polyanov.
Although Polyanov is the
leading Moscow analyst of
German affairs, he did not
even mention the never-ending
Berlin crisis. Instead, he
listed other outstanding ques
tions, like the nuclear test
question, and added:
"Probably the world has
never been near such an im
portant turning point as today.
The ending of the Caribbean
crisis could also become the
beginning of the end of other
disputed problems."
TN addition to writing to the
President, Khrushchev has
been dropping the same sort
of hint all over Moscow, with
his usual elephantine delicacy,
both on social occasions and
in private talks with Western
diplomats. Having caught the
muggers before the prepara
tions for the mugging were
quite complete, in fact, we
are now being invited to take
lea with them, with the gar
rote tactfully hidden under
the tea table.
In exchanges between na
tions, it is almost as foolish
to give way to righteous indig
nation as to expect enduring
gratitude. Therefore, the fact
that an exceedingly Machia
vellian international mugging
Training Plan for
Retarded Grows to
Regular Program
A training and activity pro
gram for menially retarded
tcenaged children, which
started two months ago hy
parents of the children with
mothers serving as instructors
in their homes, already has
developed into a regular five
day a week project with a
volunteer qualified teacher.
Through the auxiliary to
the Medford post of the
American Legion, the classes
now are held in the auxiliary
room at the Legion hall.
I Hours are from 9 a m. to
! noon.
I Mrs Clyde Richardson, who
j has taught and worked with
I retarded children, instructs
; the pupils as a group in crafts
1 and other activities. She
j works individually with them
in educational subjects.
! Mrs. Hichardson volunteers
i her services and mothers still
assist in the project, particu
! larly in the transportation,
i Four Students In Class
i At present, there are four
! students ranging in ace from
i 14 to HI years, and it Is ex
' ported that more students
will join the group. H is
; hoped that m the fiitur-:- an
activity center and school will
tie established and eventual
ly a workshop where ttie pu
; pils may be Ir.iincd in self
- supporting work.
The group is now working
on Christmas decorations for
; the Kairvicw home for retard
' cd children in Salem.
The school is sponsored by
! Ihe Jackson County Associa
tion for Retarded Children,
which was organized 13
months ago and is headed by
Woodrow S:oiih. president.
Mrs V. K Waters is chair
man of the a-.-oeiation's vo
cational leh.itnlit.iiion work.
A non-denominational Sun
day school cl.tss for retarded
tcenaged children of the area
is conducted raeh Sund.tv at
9 30 a m in the Medford
First Methodist church.
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Presence
Altogether, this presence
comes to about 12,000 Ameri
cans, about hall of whom are
dependents-women attending
social clubs and children at
tending schools much as they
would at home.
tney provide daily reas
surance to the German people
that Americans stand side-by-side
with them in this city
deep inside Communist terri
tory, i
To the Germans, the women
and children here are almost
as important as the American
troops-not as possible front
line hostages in case of attack,
but rather as proof that free
dom is fredom anywhere and
that Americans will defend
it as quickly here as at home.
As a military assignment
Berlin is unique.
was attempted in Cuba by the
Soviets should not debar this
country from exchanges with
Moscow that promise a useful
result.
The mugging must be borne
in mind, however. So must
the fact that the super-Machiavellian
cover and decep
tion plan led Khrushchev him
self to send a grossly, flagrant
ly untruthful personal mes
sage to the President of the
United States.
OINCE the 16th century, there
has been nothing between
chiefs of state quite like this
Khrushchev message that the
Soviets would never implace
in Cuba weapons capable of
"reaching American targets."
It was sent after work on the
Cuban missile bases had al
ready started. And the junior
Soviet diplomat with New
Frontier friends, who was
charged with carrying the
message, was even required
by both Khrushchev and
Mikoyan to write the very
words in his notebook, in
order to make them seem
more convincing.
It is known that this episode
of the false message has left
a strong mark on President
Kennedy's thinking. This is
certainly one of the reasons
why there are few signs, in the
inner group of American policy-makers,
of the extremely
woolly response to the happy
outcome of the Cuban crisis
that is rather widespread else
where. As we have just prevented
Khrushchev from doing great
harm to us, so the woolly
argument runs, it is urgent to
be very nice to Khrushchev,
no doubt as balm for his nat
ural feelings of frustration.
When simply slated in this
manner, the argument an
swers itself.
HERE is also a more sophis-
argument, that we must be
nice to Khrushchev, in order
to strengthen his hand against
the cross, frustrated Stalinists.
There is enough in this line
of reasoning to justify the
attempt that is now going on,
to find some formula which
can be claimed by the Soviets
as a final settlement of the
Cuba question, without in
cluding the iron-clad "no in
vasion" pledge that we can
not give without on-site veri
fication in Cuba. But even this
line of reasoning must be
taken with a large grain of
salt.
In the first place. Khrush -
clicv is still, quite evidently.
in solid, unchallenged control
of affairs in Moscow. In the
second and more important
place, there is no doubt at all
that the Moscow hardliners
and warhawks are precisely I
tiie people who have been
most disconcerted and weak-!
ened by the Cuban episode.
If the attempted mugging had
succeeded, it would have been ;
their triumph. Its failure has
disproven their central argu-i
mcnt. that the United Slates'
is weak of arm and will, and j
therefore safe to posh around.
In this connection, the total ;
cessation of the old hard-line
talk about Berlin is highly
significant. This talk had been
getting uglier and uglier. But
since the Cuban crisis there
has not been a whisper of it.
Vpn up all these
lions, and the r
considcra
sult (if the
sum is very iiitcrestinng in
deed It is not urgent to be
nice to Khrushchev. It is not
prudent to forget that mes
sage to tiie President. It is
pe--feetiy idiotic to suppose
th.it tiie Soviets w ill nol gouge f
our eyes out at Berlin, if and '
when they ever think they
can do so with impunity.
That is one-half of the sum. j
But the other half of the sum j
is that the Soviet hardliners ;
have undoubtedly been riimin- j
ished and discomfited, while
the Kremlin's respect for the i
United States has been pro- '
portionally increased.
These last features of the
situation strongly favor East
W c-t regotiat' ns alnnit out
standing questions, so long a?
i!i neco'iatious are entered
into with rib damp-handed:
eagerness to be "nice." hut j
w iih a serious purpose to find j
mutually beneficial solutions. '
in Berlin
For Americans in Germany
it is the most sought-after post
because housing and living
conditions are the best and be
cause Berlin itself is a beauti
ful city.
Militarily, it is the only
American post totally sur
rounded by a potential ene
my. Since Berlin is deep inside
ememy territory and is a key
communications center, they
do not expect to be attacked
with nuclear weapons.
The most likely tactic, they
believe, would be attack by
communist-generated mobs.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(ci Field Enterprises. Inc.
FOOT-IN-MOUTH
What Richard Nixon called
his "last press conference" ad
mitted him to full membership
in the Foot-in-
the - Mouth
Club, an or
gan i z a t i o n
com posed of
politi c i a n s ,
generals and
titans of fi
nance with
i m p r e s sive
records of
Harris
verbal absurd
ity. The last full-fledged mem
ber of the club, as 1 remem
ber, was Maj. Gen. Harry
Vaughan, who was President
Truman's senior military aide,
until in 1951 he turned down
an invitation to make a Me
morial Day speech in New
Jersey, explaining that press
ridicule had forced his retire
ment from the field of public
comment.
It is astonishing how one or
two injudicious state m e n t s
can turn the public sentiment
against a man - or, for that
matter, against a measure.
Mussolini's comment, when
his car ran over a child,
"What is one life in the affairs
of state?," did nothing to en
dear him to the world, or to
his own people.
And America's entrance
Into ih first World War
was surely quickened by
Belhmann Hollweg's char
acterization of the treaty
guaranteeing Belgian neu
trality as "a scrap of pa
per." In recent years. Sen. War
ren Austin took top honors
when, as mediator between
the Israelis and the Arabs,
he opened a conference by
saying, "Now let's all try to
settle this matter in a true
Christian spirit."
Many local politicians are
celebrating as life members
of the Foot - in - the - Mouth
Club. The lata Mayor Kelly
of Chicago could usually be
depended upon as when,
in his nominating speech for
a vice - presidential candi
date in 1940, he called his
nominee "a man who be
longs ts no thinking
group."
Jimmy Walker, when may
or of New York, told an in
vestigating committee that
he was "more or less shock
ed" at disclosure that vice
squad detectives had framed
innocent women for shake
downs. This debonair attitude
j cost him considerable votes.
j More innocent was the
gaffe of Mayor Hylan, who
when informed of Manhattan's
! "ime wave, said blandly,
"The police are fully able In
j meet and compete with the
j criminals."
Blunderer cum laude,
though, was a late governor
ot Minnesota, who appeared
to make a speech to the con
victs at Stillwater peniten
tiary. "Fellow citizens " he
began, and they laughed.
"Fellow convicts " he start
ed again, and they roared.
Try and Stop
By BENNETT CERF-
rpHE FORMIDABLE wife of a hen-pecked worm told an
-L insurance salesman, "Let me be sure if I've got this
right. You say that if my husband dies within even one
year, I'll get the full fifty
thousand dollars men- ...AW if MET CiE?...
tioncd on Page One of t?
this policy?" "Absolute- W
ly," the salesman as- '
sured her. "And within
even a month? " "Yes,
ma m." "And if he dies
the day after I sign up?"
"Then, madam," said the
salesman, snapping shut
his briefcase, "I am con
fident you'll get the same
50,000 but they won't
be dollars; they'll be
volts."
A stranger stopped his car to watch the odd behavlnr of a.
fisherman on a river bank. First he hooked a big pike, h it threw
it back. Thrn he landed a beautiful, lar-ee trout, but t!:riy it
bick, too. Finally he reeled in a tmv perch, tnd with a crur.t
of satisfaction, deposited it in h:s b.ig
T:ie alranser couMn't resist ca'.hnc out, ""Why en earth rf'.i
you throw tiiose two biff ones back an.i ke,-n thj l v cr,. : ' The
Iishermajt explained tersely, "tfmaU fr,u- pi.-..-
Gene Fowler once caught W, C. FV't. th wer bu;
trascib'.e comedian, kicking violently a r.s c-jsr. .n .-..s garden.
Bloom, darn you," Fields aa muuenng.
C -362. by Btnactt Cart. E. unrated bf a.ai xaaturoa Srzkau
Reassuring
Numbers
These mobs would pour
through breaches in the Communist-erected
Berlin wall,
probably to be followed by
the East German army and
police forces in an attempt to
take over Western portions of
the city.
Hence, American troops
here are experts at mob con
trol. "And," says General Har
tel, "if the Communists do try
to come over the wall, we'll
have two and a half milion
West Berliners fighting with
J. Harris
"You know what I mean," h8
explained. "I am glad to sea
so many of you here." The
place fell apart as the warden
led him out to the open air.
In Ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Havana:
In a farewell radio and tel
evision address to the Cuban
people, Soviet First Deputy
Premier Anastas Mikoyan
said:
"Cuba Is listening and
GIVES ITS SUPPORT when
Fidel Castro speaks, and thu
Soviet Union docs the same
thing when Fidel Castro
talks."
UMMMJIMMMMM.
We do likewise. But w
put it in different words. Wa
say:
WHAT WILL THE CRAZY
DOPE DO NEXT?
17EEK END traffic note:
' Five persons died in
traffic accidents in Oregon on
Sunday. THREE OF THE
FIVE DIED IN HEAD-ON
COLLISIONS.
The grim moral:
Death lurks on the other
side of the center line.
T'HAT brings freeways into
-" the picture.
Oregon's State Highway
Commission says they are
safer-MUCH safer. Its traffic
engineering section keeps a
close tab on death and acci
dent rates. It has published a
200-page book of accident sta
tistics on every section of the
Oregon highway system. Tha
study cites these figures:
In 1961, the accident rata
on freeways was .99 per mil
lion miles of travel. On non
freeways, the accident rato
was 5.46 per million miles.
Last year, 330 persons were
killed in accidents on the Ore
gon state highway spstcm-but
only 16 of these were on free
ways. The report adds:
"When you drive on a free
way, your chances of having
an accident are less than ONE
FIFTH as great as on other
types of highways."
TIIORE interesting
lnforma-
111 tion:
A report by the Oregon
state department of motor ve
hicles shows that of the 484
persons killed in ail Oregon
auto accidents in lflfil-incluri-ing
both state highways and
non-state hishways-IRR died
in collisions between two cars,
and 134 died when cars ran
off the road, .
rFHE report includes another
-"- interesting statistic. It
says drivers in 471 of these
484 fatalities were males.
That tends to put, a dent in
the widely held theory that
men are better drivers than
women. It leads to the conclu
sion that if you want to stay
alive, you'd belter let your
wife do the driving.
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