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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
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10 YEARS AGO
March 29, 1953 (Sunday)
Residents observe Palm
Sunday.
i Oliver McNeel, Eagle Point,
named building Inspector In
that community.
20 YEARS AGO
' March 29, 1943 (Monday)
Meat purchases in the city
are average, dealers report,
as rationing starts; attributed
to fact that customers stocked
up over week end.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Praise
the Lord! Poultry Is not ra
tioned. It will enable the na
tion to proceed with the cook
ing of A. Hitler's goose, with
out using up all Its red stamps
In one fell swoop."
30 YEARS AGO
March 29. 1933 (Wednesday)
Evidence uncovered by
state police, city police and
district attorney's office shows
that ballot robbery was plot
ted seriously at meetings in
the courthouse a few days
. and hours before its commis
sion. Five men Indicted for ballot-stealing
plead guilty in
circuit court.
40 YEARS AGO
March 29. 1923 (Thursday)
With Copco begging for
workers and orchardisls busy,
there is no excuse for begging
on the streets, the chief of
police says; citizens warned
not to help professional in
digents. Chamber of commerce
votes to make Medford a con
vention city.
50 YEARS AGO
March 29. 1913 (Saturday)
New Bybce bridge construc
tion over Rogue river starts.
Councilman's attorney says
charges against client are
"greatest outrage since the
assassination of Lincoln;" the
councilman Is accused of tak
ing a drink in a rooming
house.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or fen correct is silverier;
seven or eight Is excellent! five or
six is good.
1. What two countries arc
concctcd by the Khybcr Pass?
2. Which Is higher in rank;
an embassy, or a legation?
3. Has any President of the
United Slates been married
while In office, since 1900?
4. A figure of speech Is
called a m ?
5. In what stale was the
Battle of Gettysburg fought
during the War Between the
States?
6. What alcoholic mixed
beverage has a name identical
with that for a motorcycle al
tachment?
7. Who wrote the poem be
ginning "When the hounds of
spring are on winter's traces
. . . ' 1
8. During World War II
there were news stories about
Big Inch and Little Inch;
what were they?
9. Which of these famous
men was born first: Thomas
A. Edison or Robert Fulton?
10. What currently-made
American automobile is
named for an Indian chief?
Answers: 1. Afghanistan
and Pakistan. 2. Embassy. 3.
Yts (Woodrow Wilson's sec
ond marriage). 4. Metaphor.
5. Pennsylvania. 9. Sidt car.
7. Swinburnt. 9. Pipe lints. 9.
Fulton. 10. Pontile,
FRIDAY, MARCH 29. 1963
Communications Problems
The day hes arrived
ing to postpone as long
longer.
It is the day when,
nounce a new and slightly more restricted policy
on "Communications." or letters to the editor.
Ever since we have been in charge of this
department, was have endeavored to print ALL
letters to the editor, save only tor tnose wnicn
were longer than our limitation of 400 words, and
those which were in what we considered bad
taste, or were libelous, or anonymous.
DUT, within the past several months, the num-
ber of Communciations has increased so
markedly that we no longer have space for all
the letters that arrive, plus the regular editorial
page features.
As this is written on the editorial desk is a
fnlrW pnntainino- dfi I vpr fnrt.v-sivi communica
tions submitted for publication. A number of
them are Dy the same writers, wno nave sud
mitted as many as four or five within the space
of a week or two.
Af tvmot vua non niihliali nnlv four nr fiv nr
six on weekdays, and about a dozen on Sundays,
Thus, the need for a new Communications
policy.
IT IS this:
1. We shall continue to print as many letters
to the editor as space will allow.
2. Preference will
short, legible, fresh, interesting and timely.
3, We shall endeavor
to it that no one individual will be accorded
more than a fair and proportionate amount of
space in the Communications column, although
this will in no way prevent "regular" letter-writ
ers appearing, but no more than at intervals of
about once a week at most.
4. We retain the right to shorten and con
dense letters, both for clarity and for space rea
sons. In some instances
the writers for the same
5. We retain the right to reject letters lor
the. reasons mentioned above, or for other rea
sons we deem good and sufficient, without acknowledgment.
THESE, then, are the new "ground rules" for
lofrni'c olnnn- unfVi fViQ VDirnlatlnnc ;l"UfV. huva I
lwlylili kJ) HlUllg TTlivll Vlls
been in effect all along.
Addtionally, we shall
tei-s from our own readers to those from else
where. We shall continue to permit letters to be
signed with initials, pen-names or Name on
X?r. " ki,f ,;il nnf n.iKlioV. lH-n.. ,mlora lira
I iiC) uui wc win nut jjuuudu a ii;ttci uiiiv.00 vvt
know the name AND address of its writer.
All this, boiled down,
cause of the volume of letters being received, we
are being forced to exercise a tighter editorial
control, and exercise a firmer editorial judgment,
over the ones which are
IT IS our firm conviction that the Communica
. tions column is one of the best-read parts of
the paper. It is our desire that it remain so. We
hope to continue receiving a goodly sampling of
public opinion of a wide variety of matters of
interest.
We hope that these few
rules will not discourage
Keep them short and
But keep them coming!
Can Johnny Use Logic?
Why can't Johnny read? Why can't Johnny
write? Why can't Johnny
Have you heard of these complaints recently I
Of course.
But it might not be as bad as reported.
The Seattle Annas recently ran a brain-twister
which, it said, is a "sample logic problem not
at all atypical one high school teacher recently
handed her algebra class.
IT GOES like this (and
of the Mail Tribune are invited to try their
hands at it as we sob ! did) :
Five men, each of a different nationality, lives In
a different colored house, drinks something different,
smokes a different brand of cigarettes, owns a different
animal.
Here arc the clues:
There are five houses In a row.
The Englishman lives In the red house.
The Spaniard has a dog.
The person who lives In the green house drinks
coffee,
The Ukranian drinks tea.
The green house is Just lo the right of the ivory
house.
The man who smokes Old Golds owns snails.
Kools arc smoked in the yellow house.
The man in the middle house drinks milk.
The Norwegian live? in the first house.
The Chesterfield smoker lives next lo the man with
a fox.
The man who smokes Kools lives next to the man
who owns a horse.
The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange Juice.
The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The questions:
Which man drinks water?
Which man owns a zebra?
"HE clues offered are sufficient for the solution
' of the problem. No tricks are involved.
Wp SWPMlcrl nvnr it fur lnnirni' than wo oavt
to confess, and also most solved it, but dinner
intervened. After dinner wi slunvpd it tn a 17-
year-old of our acquaintance.
bhe solved it, correctly.
Games, anyone? (The answer will be printed
lere in a few days.) E.A.
which we have been try
as possible, out can no
reluctantly, we must an
fro to those which are
(as in the past) to see
they may be returned to
purpose.
1 VUIUllUlii; It Mivtl nut v
give preference to let-
simply means that be
printed.
changes in the ground
letter-writters.
keep them interesting.
E.A.
think?
readers, young and old,
MLDFORD
"It Does Take Away A Little From
The Grandeur"
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial
for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
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 fr
paper, in fact the contrary is often the case.
Rights of the People
To the Editor: An editorial
in the Grants Pass Courier of
March 25 relative to the
transfer of certain functions
of the sheriff's office to the
state police should be read
and reread by all interested
in personal rights and liber
ties. If your voting rights are
not taken from you directly,
you are subtly deprived of
the same indirectly. The sher
iffs are elected by the people
while the state police arc ap
pointed. The same tendency
is noted in the federal as well
as the city, county and state
governments.
The U.S. Constitutional pro
visions of powers not delegat
ed to the federal government
nor denied to it are reserved
to the states respectively, also
the provisions that no money
should be drawn from the
treasury but in consequence
of appropriations made by
law, and a regular statement
and account of the receipts
and expenditures of all public
money shall be published
from time to time, are both
disregarded by Congress.
They are both supposed to
protect the rights of the tax
payers from wasteful spend
ing, also from a centralized
dictatorial government. The
utter disregard for the right
of the people to economy in
government is shown by the
many brain storms in Wash
ington as Alliance for Pro
gress, Peace Corps, New Fron
tier, foreign and farm aid,
etc. Also the junkets of Con
gressmen and their families
and friends, also the acting
as nursemaids to 95 countries
of the world. Also interna
tionalism in place of Amer
icanism.
All contribute to depriving
the people of the right to a
sound dollar by aiding in re
ducing the purchasing power
of thai dollar to 30 cents.
What has happened to the
assets accumulated 30 years
or more ago? The rights of t
tltc people to a stable dollar
have been abrogated and the
assets accumulated several
years back have depreciated
in accord with the deprecia
tion of the dollar.
One cure for the discrepan
cies and failures of our Gov
ernments to protect tile rights
ot the people is for (lie peo
ple to awaken to what is hap
pening lo their rights and lib
erties and pursuit of happi
ness, and do something about
the situation with a drastic
remedy. They have the power
to apply a suitable remedy
and can apply the same if 1 do not think you want it, use
they have the Intestine! forti-jthc freedoms you still cn
ludc. I joy. Accept Jesus Christ and
Ed Black
2573 Camp Joy rd
Grants Pass, Ore.
Auction
T, Ihp ITHitnr
success of the Crater Lions I God. redeemed souls who arc
Club's vcrv successful Tele- Precious. Let us live that way
vision Auction, recently pro-'and give thanks and glory to
duced by the facilities of I that one who had redeemed
Channel 5. approximately i us. Then also the other free
$2.00(1 was raised for the doms which we enjoy in this
club's Jackson Park Diving great country of ours will be
Pool project. . more precious to us.
We wish to take tins 00-j Albert I. Nickodomus
portunity to thank oil who t70 Siskiyou Blvd.
made purchases during this j Ashland. Ore.
auction and the business firms
which contributed lo this Ugly Knees
project. Especially do we wish To the Editor: I am so tired
to thank the Medford M:'il of looking at women's knees.
Tribune for their cooperation
in tile publication nf a full
page listing the auction items.
The success of this sale
could not have been possible
had it not been for the splen
did cooperation of all con
cerned. Wayne H. Safley.
President
Crater Lions Club
Medford
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
On Using Freedoms
To the Editor: Today I fin
ished an article in "Look"
magazine written by an Amer
ican reporter who was per
mitted to look around Cuba
and ask frank questions of the
people. To me this article
carries a lot of thought for
serious reflection. The author
apparently is showing us the
thoughts of the people who
are staying , and living in
Cuba. Previously I had read
mostly from those who left
Cuba because conditions were
so intolerable.
To me it was interesting to
note that many of the peo
ple are quite well satisfied
with their present system of
government. Really they don't
care much about it, as long
as they are being fed and
taken care of; and many of
the, people have as much to
day as under the previous
regime.
Many of those who remain
do not seem to mind too much
that they are losing some of
their freedom. Many of the
children live away from home.
Religious freedom is not dis
cussed. Perhaps that made no
difference to most Cubans, for
Cuba had but few practicing
Christians before the Revolu
tion. Now what concerns me is,
how many Americans would
not be just as satisfied under
a Communist system of gov
ernment as they are in a dem
ocratic form of government if
their standard of living would
remain the same? How many
of our people appreciate and
make use of the freedoms
which we enjoy in our coun
try? We have the privilege to
vote for our own government
officials, but if half the peo
ple who arc eligible vote in
an election that is regarded
as very good. We have the
freedom to attend the church
of our choice and to worship
according to the dictates of
our own heart, but on an
average Sunday only about 1
out of every 8 or 10 persons
will attend a church service.
And in Oregon the percent
age is even worse.
Many of our freedoms we
arc ready to trade in for a
subsidy or a handout from
Washington, D C. What is hap
pening here is not too much
different from what is taking
place in Cuba, except their
handouts come from Moscow
instead of Washington.
Maybe we arc more ripe
for Communism than we
would like to admit. If you
His teachings, which show us
that material things arc not
the most important part of
life. Notice that He shows us
I that we are not glorified ani
riwf to the mills, but we are children of
and would like to know when
the people who started this
, fashion are going to come to
j their senses and put those hem-
lines below the knees?
1 No. I'm not a religious fa
natic or a little ole lady.
It makes no difference how
attractive the dress, with
tho.-e ugly knees snowing it
spoils the whole effect.
Some women may have at-
OREGON
New 'Algerian-Type' War Threatened in
Rhodesia; U.N. Committee Hears Leader
BY BRUCE W. MUNN
United Press International
United Nations, N. Y.-OiPD-The
Africans are talking of a
new "A 1 g e r i a-type" war
against British control of
Southern Rhodesia.
The 150,000 square-mile
gold rich and fertile territory
is part of the Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
established by a 1953 act of
the British Parliament. '
Britain contends that it is
self-governing: London has
authority solely for the terri
tory's foreign policy.
Rhodcsian nationalists ob
ject to a Constitution promul
gated in 1961 on grounds that
it is a "white supremacy"
document. Their supporters
fn-r-pH throuirh last year's
Washington Report
By William
(c) United Feature Syndicate
END OF SERVILITY
Washington - The moment
of truth in which the United
States must decide once and
"! for all wheth-
' ; " 1 4 er cling
f ri & 3 to the absurd
- . .-.V.5 linn that thoro
should be "no
strings!' any
where on
American for
eign aid has
been long de
1 a y e d. But
whiu though common-sense
in this field com
monly runs a Perils-of-Pauline
race with arrant nonsense,
two current developments
give some hope that the show
down cannot much longer be
put aside.
One of these Is a calm,
clear-minded and adult series
of recommendations to the
president for putting complete
rationality into the aid pro
gram. These have just been
issued by a distinguished and
nonpolitical commission of re
view headed by Gen. Lucius
Clay. Among the great con
tributions of this hero of the
Berlin Blockade is a firm
warning that we must not con
tinue to extend aid "which is
inconsistent with our beliefs,
democratic tradition and
knowledge of economic organ
ization and consequences."
WHILE this document was
still being digested, the
United States government
agreed to give some $400 mil
lion in asistance, in the form
of 40-year loans paying 3A of
one per cent interest, to Bra
zil. This is the country which
persistently refused to join
the United States in any real
effort to isolate Castro Cuba.
This is a country which in
the very process of the loan
negotiations was denounced
by the state department itself
as having been Infiltrated by
communists in official posi-
tractive legs but they all have
ugly knees.
I believe if more women
could see what a person no
tices, sitting in a parked car
(all women like to see what
other women are wearing)
they would rush home and
lower those hemlines.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 1, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Loyalty
To the Editor: There is quite
a hassle over the milk situa
tion, in the local stores. It's a
sad day for our valley that
this should happen, but I firm
ly believe that all this pro
testing is in vain. There is
very little loyalty left in this
area.
I am a partner in a local
distributing company that has
felt the squeeze of the co-ops.
We have been in business
since 1949 and were the first
and only local company to
bring our type of service to
this area. We enjoyed a good
business at a fair profit until
United Grocers came to the
area. They recruited their
stores, then told them: "You
are now members of United
Grocers and your competition
is chain stores, non-member
stores, and other distributors."
Yesterday we were our cus-
! turners' friend, today we are
: their competitors. Does that
j make sense? The same can be
j said about our local dairies,
! about good solid citizens that
j have been the back-bone of
i the community before tax
. free co-ops were ever thought
jof.
I Has United Grocers helped
their members in the fight
I against chain stores? A local
i chain store is doing one of the
i largest volumes in the state of
i Oregon and is building anoth
i er store in Medford and one
j in Ashland. They have a new
' store in Grants Pass.
Some people make their
living working for local mer
j chants, but do all their trad
i ing at chain stores. Farmers
i will sell their' milk to local
dairies, yet trade at the chain
( food stores. Loyalty is almost
a thing of the past.
! Wi s Driskcil,
i 1H9 Clover Lane,
Medford.
eaiia
U. N. assembly a resolution
calling for a new document
guaranteeing the "one man,
one vote" principle. Only
Portugal and South Africa
voted no in the 81-2 ballot.
Britain refused to participate.
Current lion of the Afro
Asian group, which includes
an even half of the 110 U. N.
members, Is a stocky Rhodes
ian named Joshua Nkomo,
who wears a tribal headdress
of leopard skin and feathers
as he talks with diplomats in
the delegates' lounge.
Nkomo is head of the out
lawed Zimbabwe African Peo
ple's Union (ZAPU), Southern
Rhodesia's chief nationalist
party.
He came here to testify be
fore the assemby's 24-nation
committee on colonialism, a
S. White
tion. This is' a country which
on the very day the aid was
extended refused to put a fed
eral ban on a communist, pro
Castro "conference" to open
in Rio de Janeiro for a week
long contrived spasm of "hate
America" demonstrations.
Here was the Clay commis
sion earnestly admonishing
against allowing American
generosity to repeal Ameri
can self-interest. And here
was Brazil coolly insulting its
American benefactor at the
hour of its benefaction. No
two episodes in all the history
of foreign aid have more
clearly illustrated the long di
lemma for the United States.
ONLY those who have not
thought it all through
really believe we should de
mand total submission, every
day and on everything, from
the recipients of our assist
ance. For foreign aid, to the
degree that it stabilizes con
ditions and avoids chaos which
sometimes is followed by com
munist take-over, is, indeed,
in American interests.
But if it is not necessary for
us to be liked, it is absolutely
necessary for us to be respect
ed. And only the incurably
naive believe we should con
sistently subsidize govern
ments which consistently take
up positions contrary to those
American interests.
Such people, however, do
exist in the United States-as
General Clay learned in the
shrill winds of criticism now
blowing from the American
left because he dared to raise
the slightest question of those
one-way aid policies in which
we are graciously permitted
to pay for the privilege of
being abused and obstructed.
CJTILL, the fact is that the
Brazilian loan and this
predictable tumult against
Clay from the old ladies of the
left are more likely to be con
structive than otherwise in
the end. For reasonable people
-and this definitely includes
a great majority of both par
ties in congress - are simply
not going to stand much long
er for this sort of thing.
This sort of thing will has
ten the day when public opin
ion will force one of two great
decisions: either a cleansing
of foreign aid of servile un
willingness to make any de
mand whatever upon its re
cipients: or the destruction of
foreign aid Itself.
If the Clay commission
recommendations are ulti
mately ignored, it will be for
eign aid itself which will fall.
But because foreign aid - ra
tional foreign aid, that is-
simply must not fall, the ad
ministration at last must rid
itself of this servility. And the
hero of Berlin will once again
have served all the West even
though the old ladies of the
left-whose vehemently un.
critical "support" of even the
most indefensible forms of
foreign aid is the program's
worst enemy - will shriek
against him to the end.
"We've seen the regular
what they couldn't show
group that looked like a ple-in-the-aky
creation when the
world parliament created it,
with a strong push by Russia,
two yean ago.
The committee welcomed
Nkomo with open arms,
rhetorically speaking - as one
often does here. I
Nkomo denounced British
policy, called for reforms and
from a distance of 3,000 miles
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
le Field Entcrpritcs, Inc.
WHY SAMMY RUNS
"Why does he want more
money?" said my friend at
lunch, about a third man we
both know.
"He's got far
more than he
n e e d f , and
he'll just kill
himself try
ing to double
his fortune."
This is f com
monplace en
ough s 1 1 u av
ium' tion. And, of
course, it is obvious to any
one that money itself is not
what the man wants: it is the
"game," the "thrill," the grat
ification of "winning" that
makes Sammy keep running
long after he has any need to.
What I think Is less under
stood, however, Is that a chase
of this sort is essentially a
substitute experience. And a
substitute is always some
thing that we can never have
enough of.
The man it really looking
for self-esteem, and he
seeks to find it by winning
the esteem oi ethers. In
other society, the fattest
and surest way to do this is
by amassing a great deal ef
money. So the money be
comes a substitute, a sym
bol, for iht esteem.
But in the deep chem
istry of the psyche, things
do not work out this way.
Getting the esteem of others
does not give us self-esteem!
worthiness comet from the
inside, never from the out
side. This it why a substi
tute experience always
leaves us hungry for more.
Money It only one ox
ample. Sex, of courte. it
another. The man who
chases women (like the one
who chasei money) can
never have enough, can
never be satisfied, can
never teitle down to one
possession. The compulsive
Lothario it perpetually at
unsellable as the compul
sive driver in the market
place. For the same motives oper
ate in this area. When sex be
comes a substitute for love,
it can never be gratified, but
must go on from dizzying tri
umph to dizzying triumph
(and each triumph ends in a
kind of' internal exhaustion
and defeat, convalescence and
continuation). The libertine
can never find what he thinks
he is looking for, any more
than the acquisitive man can
ever have "enough" money.
Our genuine needs are self
confidence, self-esteem, self-
sacrifice. These can be
achieved only by giving, not
by getting. When something
in the psyche blocks us from
expressing and gratifying
these genuine needs, we turn
to substitute ones. But no
liquid can quench our thirst
except water Itself.
Not only can the substitute
not satisfy us; it also con
tains its own law of diminish.
Ing returns like the dope ad
dict who needs more and
more of a "shot" in order to
maintain the same level of
euphoria. Finally, he needs
massive doses simply to keep
alive, to keep reality at arm's
length. Sammy runs because
if he ever stopped, he would
drop dead at the mere con
frontation of his real needs.
Whit House tour. Left tea
us on TV1"
issued a 48-hour ultimatum to
imperturbable R. A. Butler,'
Britain's deputy cabinet chief
who It seeking in London a
way out of the Rhodesian
puzzle.
Southern Rhodesia, he said
at the height of his peroration,
is "moving fast toward an
Algeria-type situation."
The reference to the eight-
year war that drained France
and cost thousand ot African
and French lives in the strug
gle for Algeria's independence
was intended as the ultimate
horrific inducement for anti
colonialist support.
The committee members,
unreluctant to take a crack at
Britain, stood with Nkomo,
Even the United states joined
in. with Ambassador Sidney
R. Yates observing that "the
turn of the political wheel has
given the reins of government
to a party which seemingly
favors maintaining the great
est extent possible existing
social and political relation
ships." Yates warned Britain
against granting Independence
to Southern Rhodesia until
there is a more satisfactory
situation.
In the Day's News
y FRANK JINKINS
From Washington:
Secretary of Defense Rob
ert S. McNamara has told
senators he believes ONLY
HARM can come from their
stormy investigation of the
TFX warplane contract
award.
He added:
"There is a lot of harm that
will accrue from this investi
gation. I can not see ANY
good that will accrue from it.'
IF YOU are an average,
every-day citizen, not too
familiar with the technical
ities of politics and legisla
tion, you may wonder what
this TFX business is all about.
Let's see if we can offer a
little clarification.
TFX is one of these fancy
alphabet terms that Washing
ton is so fond of. It means
TACTICAL FIGHTER, EX
PERIMENTAL. This TFX is
a fighter plane so designed as
to be usable by both Air
force and Navy.
, The idea back of it is that
such a plane would have an
immense amount of money
and if properly designed and
built would be just as effect
ive as SPECIAL planes built
for each service.
It's obviously a good idea
if such a . plane can be pro
duced. J Proposals to design and
build such a plane were in
vited. Two proposals were re
ceived. One was from the
General Dynamics Corp., of
Fort Worthi Texas. The other
was from the Boeing Co., ot
Seattle.
After exhaustive investiga
tion, the job was awarded to
the General Dynamics Corp.
THAT'S where the ruckus
started.
It is a $6.5 BILLION job.
That's a lot of mony. It rep
resents an IMMENSE indust
rial development.
THE General Dynamics
plant at which the planes
will be built is located at Fort
Worth, Texas. The Boeing Co.
has plants at Seattle and at
Wichita, Kansas. Boeing had
announced that if it won the
contract it would build the
planes at its Wichita plant.
Presumably, Its Seattle plant
would have benefited mater
ially by the making of parts,
and otherwise.
Naturally, Texas was acute
ly interested in getting an in
dustrial development of such
magnitude. So ... in the ac
cepted American manner , .
it called on Its delegations in
Washington to give their ut
most to get the $6.5 billion
Job for their state.
Both Washington and Kan
sas were equally interested in
getting the job for their
states. So the Washington
and Kansas delegations in
congress came into the battle
in a big way.
rWAS an epochal fight.
Defense Secretary Mc
Namara was the umpire.
He ruled for Texas and the
General Dynamics Corp.
AS EVERY base b a 1 1 tan
knows, the umpire has a
tough job.
Secretary McNamara has a
tough job. He is quoted as
having said to the chairman
of the senate sub-committee
that held the final hearing
and made the final decision:
"Last night when I got
home at midnight, after pre
paring for today's hearing,
my wife told me that my own
12-year-old son had asked her
how long It would take for
his father to prove his hon
esty."
SO THERE'S the story of
this TFX ruckus that has
been filling the nanir And
clogging the air waves tor all
these weeks.
It's quite a story, isn't it?