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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 28. 1953 (Saturday)
Red Cross fund drive
reaches $14,500.
Dog control law set to start
April 1 in Medford, residents
are reminded by chief of po
lice. 20 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1943 (Sunday!
Office of Price Administra
tion revises Its point values
on canned and processed
fruits and vegetables.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Chick
ens are playing hob with some
victory gardens, which made
the oft accused dogs bark and
leap."
30 YEARS AGO
March 28. 1933 (Tuesday)
Greatest snow depth In five
years reporiea ai v-rsrer taice;
depth reported at 171 Inches.
Local pear growers receive
first official report from
Regional Agricultural Credit
corporation of efforts to se
cure proper financing for
1933 crop.
40 YEARS AGO
March 28, 1923 (Wednesday)
Copco still short of labor
for two projects; transporta
tion to and from Jobs offered.
Three rural districts plan to
build new schools.
SO YEARS AGO
March 28, 1913 (Friday)
Star theater bills "Put On
Your Old Gray Bonnet" with
slides.
Slate grand lodge of Odd
Fellows to be held here next
June; expected to attract 1,
SOO visitors.
JUDGE DOUBTS LOSS
London - iuri) - A Judge
Wed ncsday granted Albert
Simpson a divorce because of
his wife s adultery with a 60
year-old chemist, but denied
his request for $2,800 dam
ages.
"I am far from satisfied
that he has lost anything," the
Judge said.
What's Your I.Q.7
Win or Hn corrtel It tutarlir;
vtn or iht it xctlltrtt) five
ill il 9000.
1. Mount Kilimanjaro is the
highest mountain on which
continent?
2. What is a prle-dlcu?
3. In the Battle of Chancel
lorsville what Confederate
Stales General was wounded
by his own men? ,
4. "Pie Plant" is another
name for what garden vege
table?
9. Fagln is a character in
which novel by Charles Dick
ens?
6. John J. Sparkman repre
sents which state in the U S
Senate?
7. What la the largest island
of the West Indies?
8. Which emperor was prob'
ably pictured on the 30 pieces
of silver Judas got: Caligula,
Nero or Tiberius?
S. Does Cheyenne, Wyo., or
Santa Fe, N.M., lie farther
West?
10. Were any persons burn
ed to death at Salem, Mass.,
for witchcraft?
Answers: 1. Africa. 2. A
kneeling desk for praytr. 3.
Stonewall Jackson. 4. Rhu
barb. S. "OiWer Twist." 8.
Alabama. 7. Cuba. 6. Tiberius
(others cam later). 9. Santa
Fe. 10. No (t number war
hanged).
THURSDAY. MARCH 2. 1963
What Medford Needs
What, we should ask ourselves occasionally,
does Medford need?
Progress and growth in any city comes rela
'Mvalv slnwlv whpn mpasiirerl acainst the fleet
ing experiences of the
appntnn ntpr rhanirp in
it almost unrecognizable
9 fpw vears.
Rnm nf th fhant?es
not all of them.
And a periodic self-inventory is a healthy
thing for any city, and for its citizens.
What then does Medford, at its present stage,
need for improvement?
e
T7 VF.R Yf)NR pan make his own list. Here is ours.
" Medford needs an air
nance with enough teeth in it to give us some
linnp that, the rlenrpssinir smorr and dirtv air with
which we must put up so often will eventually
be gone.
Medford needs an effective billboard con
trol ordinance, to prevent the elevated freeway
1 ; j! l: u:nu.,j il..
IlOm Decerning a UlHgUSUUg uuiuuaiu aucjr.
MpHtWri npprls a new eitv hall, one which
would reflect the essential beauty and integrity
of this little city, preferably located in the civic
center-park area, where the new federal build
ing will soon go. (Medford could also use a
county court more attuned to the- needs of the
pitv anrl nnp less hpnt. on decentralizing all its
functions to the fairgrounds, at great cost and
inconvenience.;
llfEDFORD needs more
1T arterial streets program, to keep the ever
increasing traffic flowing.
Medford needs a more attractive, spacious
downtown area, with more ample parking, more
elbow-room for customers, and with more new,
bright attractive store-fronts.
Medford needs a civic auditorium, to oetter
accommodate the wide
which now must make do
facilities. (How about buying the Holly Theater
building, using it as an interim auditorium, and
the offices to house the many varied functions
of community endeavor
associated with it?)
MEDFORD needs a stadium of some sort, more
extensive in nature than the limited-purpose
baseball diamond now proposed by a short
sighted county court.
Medford needs rapid development ot tne parK
area along Bear Creek, both to make the south
approach along the Freeway one of the most
attractive city entrances
offset in part the detraction trom liawtnorne
park caused by the erection ot tne r reeway viaduct.
It also needs the development, as rapidly as
is feasible, of the projected scnooi-parK plan, to
create parks in a variety
THIS is our list, at the moment. It could be
added to. But given these things, Medford
would be a far more attractive place in which
to live and work and raise children than it is now.
It is. of course, at least in part a matter of
money, and how much we, collectively, are will
ing to spend to improve our services and our
surroundings.
But even more it is a matter of attitude. It
we, as residents of Medford, really want these
things, a way will be found, provided we signify
our willingness to support them, and, ultimately,
to pay for them. E. A.
Daffy -Down-Freeways
The unpoetic types who write editorials for
the Salem Capital Journal were moved to quote
Wordsworth the other day, as follows:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.
The editorial was motivated by the fact that
some unsung genius in the State Highway De
partment has come up
daffodil bulbs along the stretches of Interstate 5
Freeway so far completed, that the flowers are
now in bloom, and that
"crowds and hosts of
IT IS amazing what these little patches of cheer-
ful yellow do to perk up the borders of the
freeway. It is a masterful touch, and adds much
to the generally excellent
scaping which the department is doing along the
freeway.
We understand that the department initially
purchased 20,000 daffodil bulbs. As the Capital
Journal points out, the blooms are somewhat
spotty this year, their first, "But they'll be truly
spectacular next spring."
It added :
"Must shrub and tree plantings are maturing
ennui to enhance the scenery. It strikes us that In a
frw years this likely will be one of the finest ex
amples of rural highway landscaping In the West."
IF THOSE there be who might crab at the rela
tively minor expense connected with this,
faugh iipon them.
What house is complete without drapes, or
pictures on the wall? What city is complete with
out a park? What building is so intrinsically
beautiful that it cannot be improved by decor
ation? And, over the rolling beauty of western Orc-
011, how fine are the crowds, tlie hosts, of golden
affodils in comparison, say, with billboards?
E. A.
t s:
day and month. But the
a eitv mav SimDlV matte
over a period 01 just
are for the eood. But
pollution control ordi
rapid completion of the
variety of attractions
with inadequate school
which logically could be
in tne nation, ana to
ot the city s areas.
with the idea of planting
they do indeed provide
golden daffodils.
and well-planned land
MLDFOHD
Audience Reaction Report
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of th
paper, in fact the contrary is often the case.
What's Happening?
To the Editor: What has
happened to our local prod
ucts on our grocerymen's
shelves? Has the groceryman
forgotten who has helped
him since the beginning?
The farmer, who has long
been the friend of local dairy
men, is now suffering great
loss, because of this out-of-town
movement. Dairy prod
ucts coming from distances
cannot possibly be as fresh as
from our local area. These
are not even purchased from
our local farmers.
Are we going to be rocked
to sleep and see our local
dairy men, farmers, drivers
and plant workers suffer be
cause of out-of-town shipping?
The local dairies do not
mind the competition, as long
as it's fair. Local dairymen
have done all within their
power to give quality prod
ucts to stores and consumers
at fair prices.
Out-of-town shipping tends
to lower our economy and
employment situation. We
need more, not less. Are we
so gullible that we are going
to sit idly by and be "swal
lowed up" by out-of-town
firms?
Think, Mrs. Consumer, are
you willing to forfeit quality
for price?
D.S.
(Name on file)
Medford
Mak Sense?
To the Editor: Can we look
forward to a promising future
under the present economic
and social order? The answer
Is obvious. There can be no
future with capitalism in view
of the fact that it is now suf
fering from many incurable
maladies, because, like pre
vious social systems that have
come and gone, it has now
outlived its usefulness.
For one thing, capitalism
has been a predisposing cause
of war, even though those who
profit by it have desired
peace. Today the danger 01
war is all the greater be
cause arms spending on a mas
sive scale is now a vital prop
to the economy. There is no
doubt whatever that without
the huge and wasteful arms
program capitalism would
collapse like a house of cards.
Not so long ago an American
diplomat stated that if there
wcro disarmament and the
United States stopped its mili
tary expenditures abroad, and
if our trade with other coun
tries could not be increased
to take up the slack of these
military dollars, there would
be the biggest bust in the
world.
There Is also the following
to consider:
Under the present system
things are not produced to
satisfy human needs, they arc
produced lo be sold at a
profit. When the capitalists
: cannot sell what the workers
have produced, surpluses pile
up, production is curtailed,
factories close, and unemploy
ment spreads. Does this make
sense to any thinking person?
Lydla Burnham
RH Warne st.
Prescott, Aril.
Regulars
To the Editor: Evelyn W.
Relth's letter. "You give too
much space lo Arnold Eugene
Jenny." is to be commended
for lis brevity, but why
single out Mr. Jenny? Since
she gives no reasons for her
statement, one can only as
sume that her contention is
based on the frequency with
which Mr. Jenny s letters ap
pear in Communications.
Using that criterion, one
could fairly say that you also
give loo much space to Ella
Powell, Everett Acklin, Helen
Prcvo, Henry Johnson Jr.,
James K. Shafer, Floyd R.
McCabe, Pearl Spackman and
many other "regulars" who
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD,
rm ijarVrtMiTvt Pi
appear to enjoy seeing their
literary efforts in print. The
names of these manv others
escape me for the moment,
dui me usi includes, Yours
truly.
W. L. Stevenes, Jr.
S2 West Vilas rd.
Central Point, Ore.
Editor's note: Not in mpn.
tlon Mrs. Ernest Santo, F. J.
Clifford, L. C. Powell, John
R. Ring, David Frisch, E.
Dvkes. William ftirlriv vr R
Bulman, D. Ivan Fritts, Frank
Crum, Earl Clidewell, L. G.
Weaver, Bert Kissinger, C. R.
Burrill, Anna Streed, and the
most regular of all the "regu
lars," Name on File.
To the Editor: Re, Commu
nications, month of March:
Youth Vs. Age
Youth versus Age
Has always been
The controversial rage,
How now, how then
Whence experience came?
To learn, to live, to play the
game
Is youth's inherent right
To continue and uphold
This country's freedom
might, How now, how then
Whence experience came?
To do, to see, to serve
That is their rightful aim.
(Name on file)
Phoenix, Ore.
Wathrwis
To the Editor- Tlipo rfavs
of variable weather remind
me of davs on the farm a num.
ber of years ago, and experi
ences we had due to sudden
changes in the weather. It was
during an occasion of this
kind that I was prompted to
scriDDie the following poem,
while in due sympathy with
my neighbor farmer, whn
awoke to find his garden of
Blossoming peas blanketed in
snow.
A FARMER'S PHILOSOPHY
Yesterday the sun was shinin'
And it felt so warm and nice,
Hard to make a fellow believe
There could still be snow and
ice.
The hens were all a cacklin',
Then again they'd sing,
Anything to fool a feller,
To make him think it sure is
Spring.
Saw old Tige out there a lyin'
Where the shop leans to the
South. .
Just a pantin' like a lizard
With his tongue way out his
mouth.
When I split the wood for
Emmy,
My old duckin' coat I shed
And the sweat Just kept a
pourin
In big drops off my forehead.
Last night when I was comin'
From the pasture with the
cows,
I saw some silver pussies
shinin'
On the weeping willow
boughs.
Then I caught myself a lookln'
Just perchance there might be
up
A little meadow crocus or
A golden buttercup.
But today an East wind's
blowin1
With frozen rain drops in the
air.
Makin' me so mighty thankful
I ve kept on wool underwear
So if tomorrow's nice and
hal,,,,.
With atmosphere Spring-like
ana warm.
I'm gonna know it's not
Spring yet.
But another breeder for a
storm.
Mrs. O. T. Wilson
Central Point, Ure.
OREGON
De Gaulle
Talks; He
By JOSEPH W. CRIGG
United Press International
Paris -UPD- Resumption of
United States-Soviet talks on
Berlin in Washington finds
French President Charles de
Gaulle once again in his now
familiar odd-man-out role.
France Is taking no part in
Matter of Fcrcf By Joseph Alsep
(c) New York Herald
THE FRENCH
QUESTION MARK
Paris - During Gen. de
Gaulle's triumphant visit to
Germany last summer, there
was a solitary
moment of
plain talk. All
the other Ger
mans were un
derstands bly
too pleased
with the Fran
co - Germ a n
reconciliation
to get down
to hard cases.
Alaop
But this was not true ot Pres
ident Luebke.
The small, genial President
of West Germany thought it
his duty to warn the towering,
glacial President of France
against being misled by the
warmth of his German wel
come. Germany, said Luebke,
was first of all loyal to its
alliance with the U. S. And in
addition, he continued, Ger
man policy was squarely
based on NATO and was
aimed towards an outward-
looking Europe including
Great Britain.
The German official named
to act as Gen. de Gaulle's es
cort on his tour received the
full impact of Luebke's w;rn-
ing to de Gaulle. In the motor
leaving the German ' Presi
dent's house, de Gaulle did not
trouble to mince his words.
...
WHAT he had heard from
President Luebke was
very "shocking," de Gaulle
said. If this should prove to be
true, he went on, he would be
forced to re-examine the
whole basis of his policy."
Everything, in fact, would be
called into question.
But a little later, de Gaulle
recalled the comforting fact
that the German constitution
gives the President almost no
power. And a little later still,
he was receiving the plaudits
of a gigantic crowd; and Lueb
ke s warning was an put tor
gotten. This episode from the past
is relevant at present, because
the time when Gen. de Gaulle
may be "forced to re-examine
the whole basis of his policy"
is coming nearer and nearer.
The odds are very heavy in
deed, in fact, that the Gen
eral's European policy is
based on a misconception
about Germany.
.
FRENCHMEN who ought to
know are quite forthright
about this. Gen. de Gaulle ap
parently believes that in the
final crunch he can always
persuade the Germans to fol
low him-or at least prevent
the Germans from opposing
him too forcefully, as was the
case when he vetoed British
entry into the European Com
mon Market. This belief is
based on his special relation
ship to Chancellor Adenauer,
plus the warmth of the wel
come he received in Germany.
But although contrary hopes
are still cherished in Paris,
Chancellor Adenauer is all
but certain to be replaced by
the end of the summer. Fur
thermore, those loud German
cheers for de Gaulle were not
cheers for Gaullism. They
were cheers for Franco-Ger
man reconciliation, which is
quite a different thing.
The great mass of Germans,
of all three leading parties,
want precisely the kind of
German policy that President
Luebke outlined, with such
sharp though temporary ef
fects on de Gaulle. In fact,
both of Chancellor Adenauer's
most likely successors, For
eign Minister Schroedcr and
Economics Minister Erhardt,
have let it be known that al
most immediately on taking
office, they will say to de
Gaulle all the same things that
President Luebke said last
summer.
...
THESE facts arc crucially
significant in turn, for two
obvious reasons. As Gen. de
Gaulle himself admitted, he
will then have to take another
look at the bases of his policy.
This will be unavoidable in
turn, because Gen. de Gaulle's
power to bend the Europe of
the Common Market to his
will entirely depends on his
power to bend the Germans to
his will. Without them, he
will be too isolated.
Even now, with Chancellor
Adenauer still in office, the
French are experiencing
rather sharp disappointments
in Bonn. They have an over
riding Interest in the comple
tion of the Common Market's
common agricultural policy,
which will favor French ag
riculture at the expense of
non-European agricultural ex
porters to the Common Mar
ket, such as the United States.
Still 'Odd -
Still Simply Ignores
the talks. De Gaulle Is not
even an interested spectator.
He simply is ignoring them.
That has been de Gaulle's
posture for at least 18 months
where East-West talks with
the Soviets are concerned
There is no sign of his chang
ing in the near future.
Tribune Syndicate
YET the Germans have al
ready balked at the pro
posed arrangements which are
intended to lead, by slow
steps, to an eventual common
cereal price for Europe. The
question of the common agri
cultural policy has already
been put off, in consequence,
for at least two months. The
German delaying tactics,
which this reporter forecast
from Bonn, have in fact begun
already.
Thus the question already
has to be asked: what will de
Gaulle do when his miscon
ception of the position in
Europe becomes inescapably
clear, and he is forced to make
the reexamination he talked
about after seeing President
Luebke?
The chances are that he will
do nothing much beyond "re
tiring into his chagrin, as one
French official put it. In other
words, having failed to trans
form the Europe of the Six
into a personal instrument, he
will downgrade the Common
Market once more to a "petty
commercial treaty" - which
was how he once described it
to the French representative
at Brussels, Robert de Mar-
jolin.
N THIS case, there may be
a period of deadlock. The
French will hardly consent to
go forward with preparations
for the "Kennedy round ot
external trade negotiations,
while the completion of the
common agricultural policy is
blocked.
The way out of the dead
lock mav then be a package
deal, already being discussed
at Brussels, combining prog
ress on the agricultural front
with arrangements for freer
external' trade. All this can
happen within the "petty com
mercial treaty" framework.
It has to be admitted, how
ever, that this is the forecast
of an optimist. A much more
pessimistic analysis nas 100
much chance of being right to
be ignored, and it will be of
fered in a further report.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
c Field Enterprises. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
It is always easy to tell
when a man is too small for
his job - he gives his sub
ordinates a great deal of re
sponsibility, but no authority,
so that he can take credit for
the right decisions, and blame
them for the wrong ones.
The money on gets for
selling one's soul is always
spent in deadening the con
science, so that the net gain
at the end of a lifetime Is
no greater than if the dia
bolic bargain had not been
mad.
Most of what we call "hist
ory" is gossip in top-hat and
tails.
...
America, more than any
other country today, is a
land where boys refuse to
grow up. and where girls
grow up too soon; whatever
the stated cause, I am con
vinced that the majority of
divorces occur because the
woman has attained a level
of emotional maturity that
, the man does not even as
pire to.
And should anyone ask
what this vague and tantaliz
ing phrase "emotional matur
ity" means precisely, I refer
him to an analcct of Con
fucius: "What the superior
person seeks is in himself;
what the inferior person seeks
is in another. ,
Most parent of any af
fluence give their children
too many lessons too early
skating lessons, swim
ming lessons, dancing les
sons, riding lessons, piano
lessons which merely rob
the children of Initiativ
and turn out "well-rounded"
mediocrities who can
do many things fairly well
but lack the passion and
drive to do any en thing
supremely well.
A puritan is too often a
person who thinks he has to
make a hell out of this world
in order to enjoy heaven in
the next.
...
Those many among us
who overestimate the good
effects of education would
do well to ponder the obser
vation mad by Addison
more than two centuries
ago: "Learning, like travel
ing and all ether methods
of improvement, as it aug
ments good inst, so it
makes a silly man ten thou
.
Man - Out'
Since the end of 1981 de
Gaulle has refused any part
in negotiations with the Rus
sians. His hostility even to diplo
matic "probing" on Berlin
blew up into a crisis in the
North Atlantic Council in
December, 1961.
It was settled only by a
compromise arrangement that
the United States and Great
Britain would go on talking
with the Russians and that
France, though disapproving,
would not veto the talks, but
simply would take no part.
De Gaulle has taken the
same stand on disarmament
and nuclear test ban negotia
tions. He has boycotted, even
ignored them. But he has not
sought actively to block them.
The stubborn old French
leader never has gone for the
"talk rather than war" argu
ment. To begin with, he is firmly
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In Washington the other
day, a government press of
ficial was being fried out in
the pan by a congressional in
vestigating committee be
cause of a statement he is al
leged to have made recently
to the effect that the govern
ment HAS A RIGHT TO LIE
in order to defend itself.
The incident had lo do with
the situation that arose back
in the grim days when we
were telling the Russians to
get their missiles out of Cuba
OR ELSE. The "or else" is be
lieved to have been an ultima
tum to get the missiles out or
face nuclear war.
The press officer (his name
is Sylvester) is supposed to
have been asked by the re
porters if the nuclear threat
had been made. He is sup
posed to have denied it. Ac
cused later of having LIED,
he is supposed to have stated
that the government has an
inherent right to save itself
"when It is going into a nu
clear war."
HE told the investigating
committee yesterday that
the remark (to the effect
that the government has a
right to lie under certain
grave circumstances) was
taken out of context and was
a "kind of shorthand." He
said that on the one hand
there is no right of the gov
ernment or any of its mem
bers to lie."
But, on the other hand, he
said, "I believe in times of
extreme peril it is incumbent
on the United States govern
ment to save itself through
the means necessary."
S he right?
t Or is he wrong?
LET'S put it this way:
Suppose our government,
for reasons that it considers
good and sufficient, Is plan
ning an assault (of whatever
kind) on an enemy. Suppose
it is asked by the reporters
what it has in mind to do. If
it tells the truth, the whole
truth, it will tip off the
enemy.
sand times more insuffer
able, by supplying variety
of matter to his impertin
ence, and giving him an op
portunity of abounding in
absurdities."
It takes a husband a long
time to learn that it is use
less to argue with a woman
for if she is right, she will
overwhelm you with facts,
and if she is wrong, she will
undermine you with feelings.
For every evil that is
perpetrated out of vice, a
hundred ar committed out
of boredom; most vicious
ness is not so much an act
of the will, as a lack of
will, a restless uncreativ
ity, a negative rather than
a positive gesture toward
the world.
"As long as the American
want to test thtir cars and
thought we'd mak it look
in Berlin
Them
convinced the Russians will
not attack the West in
Europe and thus provoke a
nuclear showdown with the
United States.
He believes the periodie
Berlin crises touched off by
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev are largely bluff. Hs
believes Khrushchev is seek
ing to threaten and scare the
West out of Berlin but would
not risk use of force.
De Gaulle does not rule out
East-West talks for good.
He believes a time will
come when the Russians will
be ready for genuine negotia
tions - without threats, bluff
or duress - about their rela
tions on a world-wide basis
with the West.
But that time may be a
decade or more away, de
Gaulle thinks.
Meantime, he is unlikely is)
put in an appearance at the
East-West conference table.
JENKINS
Deception is a vital element
in war. If the enemy can be
deceived, he can often be de
stroyed. The Battle of Hast
ings is an outstanding ex
ample of that fundamental
fact of war.
ALL through the long and
historic day back in 1068,
Duke William of Normandy
had hammered at King Har
old's line. The wall of Saxon
shields was impenetrable. A
Norman knight, Ivo Taillefer,
made one of the spectaculaf
passes of history. He rode up
and down the Saxon line,
tossing his sword and his
lance into the air and catch
ing them as they came down.
Then he smashed into the
lines of shields. He penetrat
ed several ranks deep, but the
Saxons closed around him
and killed him. They closed
the line before the Normans
could breach it in force.
rTHEN
Duke William tried t
stratagem. He called for the
ancient trick of a feigned re
treat. His men turned and
rode down the hill in seem
ing disorder. That did it.
Harold's Saxons, believing
the enemy beaten, BROKE
RANKS and followed in wild
pursuit.
The disciplined Normans
then turned around and
DESTROYED THEM.
That was the end of Saxon
England.
SUPPOSE King Harold had
been tipped off that the
retreat would be a feint.
His ranks would then have
been PREPARED. They
would have stood fast.
In that event, Duke Wil
liam's attack would have been
a failure, and England would
have remained Saxon. Great
events can hang on STRA
TAGEMS. This is the point:
If a lie is necessary to
CONFUSE AN ENEMY, and
thus save a nation from pos
sible defeat, a government il
justified even in lying to the
reporters.
Plane Passengers
Stranded by Wind
Portland - OJPD - Passengers
aboard a Hawaii-bound Pan
American jetliner were
stranded for a couple of hours
during Wednesday evening's
windstorm here but they
didn't seem to mind.
Airline officials said the
plane was unable to take off
from the end of the runway
because of gusty winds that
also were too strong for the
motorized unloading ramp.
The passengers dined in lux
ury aboard the plane.
automobile manufacturers
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