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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO .
May 7. 1SS3 (Thursday)
. A cut of approximately 42
per cent in the Jackson county
real property tax levy for the
fiscal year of 1953-54 was
revealed today by County
Judge J. B. Coleman.
The south section of HaW'
thorne park will be fenced
off this week end to accom
modate the tent city that
Portland Shriners will sot up
for the Pacific northwest con
ventlon here next week.
20 YEARS AGO
May. 7. 143 (Friday)
Medford sartor and block
leaders start calling on pri
vate homes to collect Infor-
(nation needed by the Civi
lian Defense council. .
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
government has now executed
a neat trick. It has frozen the
anli-freeze."
SO YEARS AGO
May 7, 1933 (Sunday)
; Medford i achoo 1 children
scheduled to take ' part in
health parade through down
town streets.
City to enforce ordinance
prohibiting dogs running at
large during May, June and
July.
40 YEARS AGO
May 7. 1923 (Monday)
Water restriction to go into
effect in Medford starting
Wednesday.
Federal court here holds
there Is no limit to amount
of whiskey which doctors can
proscribe.
50 YEARS AGO
May 7, 1913 (Wednesday)
Twenty-six girls and 18
boys in Medford High school's
largest graduating class i n
history to have baccalaureate
and graduation ceremonies
in Natatorium building "If
one or two do not fail their
final exams." -
County court Instructs
Civil Engineer J. S. Howard
to start survey for a new
wagon road across Slsklyous
to California line.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine at ten correct hi superior;
even or elaht Is excellent) five or
li It teed.
: 1. All U. S, nuclear sub
marines are equipped with Po
laris missiles; true or falser
2. The nickname of Henry
Clay was "The Great C "
or "P r"?
3. Do most Arabians claim
descent from Cain, Abel, or
Beth?
4. What was the color of
hair of both Columbus and
Balboa?
5. Do boas live chiefly on
mall mammals or birds?
6. Are the great Scria oil
fields In Borneo, Singapore or
Syria?
7. Is the proton the basic
constituent of all atoms?
8. Were Zicss camera lenses
originally made In Switzer
land or Germany?
9. What common commodi
ty Is measured by tin ream?
10. What form of energy Is
mentioned first In the Bible?
Answerst 1. False, 2. Com
promlser or Peacemaker. 3.
Selh. 4. Red. $. Yes. 8. Bor
neo. 7. Yes. 8. Germany. 8.
Paper. 10. Light.
V-ASSOCIAIION
EDITORIAL
i
TULSDAY. MAY 7, 1983
To Err Is
A paradox afflicts us in the late decades of
the 20th century.
We have developed an astonishing tolerance
of human frailty as it exhibits itself in individual
private lives even when that frailty leads to the
commission of crime.
But we show surprisingly little tolerance of
human mistakes and weakness when they crop
up in public life.
A DMITTEDLY the standards among our public
"men are intended to be high. If we are sensible
we do not deliberately put in position of author
ity our weaklings and misfits.
Yet even men chosen for their evident higher
caliber have their flaws. Moreover, they are
plunged today in a welter of problems whose size
and number are without any shadow of a pre
cedent. Why should it be assumed, as it evidently
is bv some, that American officials can out of
the blue quickly master the delicate, difficult
business of lending effective military, political
and economic aid to a small Asian land like South
Viet Nam, a -country which has only half a will
to help itself?
Jn our national lifetime, this is an en on total
ly new.
WHY is there such haste to demand great,
visible economic improvement in S o u t h
America, a continent that has languished for
centuries in poverty and political immaturity?
The Kussians, using
torial power ever amassed, have been trying to
lift their own millions out of the mire for 45
years and have not succeeded yet.Their massive
farm problem is unsolved.
Is there any reason we should not make mis.
takes when, in an unparalleled upsurge, more
than 50 nations suddenly appear on the world
scene and we try to cope
the rough job of nurturing their independence
in a world beset by aggressive communism. The
guideposts are few.
Spin the globe and note such other trouble
areas as Korea, Laos, Indonesia, India and, high
est in our thoughts now, Cuba. Each raises unique
problems. All can be labeled critical in vary
mg degrees and different ways. ,
Not even Franklin D.
II -had a daily agenda so staggeringly complex
as has confronted Dwight D. Eisenhower, John
F. Kennedy and their free world counterparts in
other lands.
AND hovering over these men today
" awful knowledge that error can be com
ed, in hours, into the near nuclear ruin of this
planet.
Surely those persons
perfect effort must have
their own to make Viet
Latin America toward booming prosperity, snuff
out all threat to Berlin and erase the last vestige
of Castro from Cuba.
Let's have the perfectionists plans right now.
Human frailty obviously has already cost us dear
ly. Klamath Falls Herald and News.
Contrast To
Countless Americans
into mental cases by preachers of the stem, fear-
generating concepts of puritanism, according to a
noted Catholic priest-psychologist.
Father James E. Royce, head of the depart
ment of psychology at Seattle university, states
that modern confessors and psychotherapists are
discovering that deeply imbedded puritanical be
liefs are the cause of innumerable mental illness
es. '
UIS findings are encompassed in an article en-
" "titled How nmtamsm rersists, appearing
in Insight, the quarterly review of religion and
mental health published in St. Louis.
"Despair, frigidity in marriage, hyperanxiety
about one's religious life, confusion on moral is
sues to the point of rejection of all morality and
assorted kinds of ascetical witch-hunting" often
stem from centuries-old puritanical ideas, Father
Royce maintains.
" 'The One who puts people in Hell' was the
only concept of God that
from one neurotic In months of regular weekly
visits," the psychologist pointed out.
IN SOME New England communities today, "a
housewife would not dream of hanging fe
male underthings on the clothesline unless pinned
inside pillow covers," he writes.
Father Royce said American youngsters are
beincr taught it is "bad" to smoke, use liDstick.
drink even an occasional
slacks in just about the same tones they are told
it is bad to murder, steal, lie or commit adultery.
"There is no real analysis of why these things
are wrong, just that they are forbidden."
e
FATHER Royce holds: "Most of us could use a
healthy dose of sacrifice in our lives. But in
the context of anxiety neurosis, guilt complexes
and marital frigidity, it is important to see that
God is not a sadistic tyrant Wnose only desire is
to see people suffer."
Father Royce closes his article quoting Piers
Plowman: "Chastity without charity is buried
in Hell." Catholic Sentinel, Portland.
Un - American
the most crushing dicta
with themr We have
Koosevelt in World War
is the
compound
unable to tolerate im
sure-fire proposals of
Nam securely free, turn
Puritanism
are still being turned
this writer could elicit
beer, or for girls to wear
"Freedom of speech and thought that's what makes
this country great. But someilmes it's difficult being
an American!"
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paper, in tact tne contrary Is otter) the cese.
A Christian Nation? .
To the Editor: Recently
there have been various an
swers to the above question in
Communications and Editor!.
als. Some state dogmatically
that we are a Christian nation,
others with equal finality that
we are not.
One of the important laws
of disputation is, "Understand
your terms. Unless the dis
putants can agree on the
meaning of the words they
use, their minds cannot meet.
Communists use this fact to
create confusion. When the
communist says "democracy"
he does not mean what an
American citizen understands
by that term. When Kroosh
sayi, "the will of the people"
he means the card carrying
communists that run the coun
try. When an American says
"the will of the people" he
means something quite dif
ferent. When we ask If America is
Christian nation, we must
seek in understanding of our
terms. If by Christian nation
you mean that every adult cit
izen Is a professing Christian,
an active member of a Chris
tian church, then patently we
are not a Christian nation. I
have never found even
church that could meet those
specifications. If you mean
that our nation is composed
largely of honest citizens who
believe In and try to support
the ideas and Ideals that har
monize with Christian Ideals,
then you are on your way to
your answer.
Was our nation founded by
Christian men? Again we
must look to the meaning of
our terms.
First we may state definite
ly, those men were not athe
ists. They were not all church
members, though some were.
They represented a variety of
political, social and geograph
ical areas, but they had one
common aim, to establish a
free, strong, united nation.
In the course of their delib
erations, when the results
seemed in doubt, Benjamin
Franklin arose and spoke In
part as follows: "Mr. Presi
dent, I have lived for a long
time, and the longer I live the
more convincing proof I see
of the truth that God governs
in the affairs of men. . .Except
the Lord build the house, they
labor in vain who build it. I
firmly believe this.'. ."
If I mistake not, he then
moved that they begin each
day with prayer for divine
guidance. It was done. If our
Constitution was not ham
mered out on the anvil of the
ideals of Christian faith, then
every president from Wash
ington to Kennedy who placed
his hand on the Bible and
vowed to obey, enforce and
support the Constitution was
a liar and a hypocrite. Noth
ing would please the commu
nists more than for the Amer
ican people to lose their faith
in divine approval of our
Foundation.
L. O. Weaver
301 Haven St.,
Medford
Do Thej Know?
To the Editor: Do smokers
know what they are doing to
themselves by continuing the
worst of all bad habits? Is It
possible to smoke without
danger? The answer to this
question is given by the Anti-
Tobacco Center of America in
their comprehensive booklet
on the subject. Here are the
facts:
Every time a smoker draws
on a cigarette, cigar or pipe,
he is exposed to at least 44
different chemicals and poi
sons, 22 among the most dead
ly of which are: lutidln, rubl
din, carbolic acid, formalde
hyde, methalymlne, acreilln,
collidine, vlridln, arsenic,
formic acid, nicotine, hydro-
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE,
the name and address of the writer.
gene sulphide, pyrrol, furfur-
ol, benzpyrene, methyl alco
hol, prussic acid, corodln,
ammonia, methane, carbon
monoxide and pyridin. Quite
a lungful of deadly poisons for
just one puff of smoke!
Dr. A. H. Ruffo, a German
cancer-specialist, says that a
o n e-p a c k-of-cigarettes-a-day
smoker deposits almost two
pints of tobacco tars in his
lungs per year. His lungs are
constantly irritated, smeared,
coated and soaked by that
sticky substance identical to
that found in smokers' pines.
And it is in this glue that the
sinister benzpyrene, a violent
cancer-provoking agent, is dis
seminated. Tobacco stains on
the fingers are only a small
reflection of the appearance of
the lungs.
Dr. Clarence W. Lieb. who
dedicated his life to the study
of the effects of tobacco, re
porting on his experiments,
said: "A smoker's heart con
tracted 10,000 more times ner
day when he smoked than
when he stopped. One does
not need to be a physiologist
to appreciate the significance
ol such wasted energy, the po
tential damage to the heart!
Every mechanic knows what
will happen when a motor is
overworked."
Long firm against taking a
position, the American Heart
association finally released an
amazing report: "Death rates
from coronary diseases are
from 50 to 100 per cent higher
among smokers than among
non-smokers. Dr. H. Brooks
performed autopsies on 54
smokers in order to examine
their hearts. There was degen
eration of tissue in every case.
And this is not all. Dr. Bole,
gastrointestinal specialist, de
clares unequivocably that the
action of nicotine on the ter
minal blood vessels of the
stomach causes ulcers. In this
disease the stomach actually
devours Itself as the ulcer de
velops. Another leading au
thority, Dr. Alton Ochsner,
refuses to treat ulcer patients
at his New Orleans clinic, un
less they agree to stop smok
ing. He insists that it is im
possible to cure peptic ulcers
while the patient smokes.
There is a great deal more
to this, but the above evidence
should be sufficient to cause
every smoker to take steps to
quit the injurious smoking
habit.
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne St.,
Prescott, Ariz.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
IN HIS AMUSING autobiography, "What Time's The Next
Swan?" Walter Slezak tells how his father, the famous
opera star, Leo Slezak, was put on a strict diet when his
weight became alarming.
For a week he howled
that he was being
starved, then suddenly
btgan accepting his
meager fare with amaz
ing serenity. His dog be
trayed him by taking a
tand at Slezak's desk,
holding a rigid point, and
barking like mad. Mrs.
Slezak investigated and
found inside the desk a
two-foot-long Hungarian
salami.
rwimincARiv
At Toots Shot's: "I come from a long Una of boxers except
for an uncle who was a Doberman puncher."
At a sales meeting: "They had to delay the grand opening of
that new store on 42nd Street. Their 'Going Out of Business'
sign didn't arrive on time."
From a talk by Peter Ustinov: "Those who reach the top of
the tree do not hava the quallflcaUona to detain them at the
bottom." j
a e '
Banker Marvytl Carton defines peasimtati as the fellows who
loan optimists money.
C IMS. r await Cert Blatmmtea by Klaf Features tradkat
MEDFORD, OREGON
Nasser Gets New Start Toward
Vision of
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Analyst
When from Cairo's Kubbeh
Palace the three leaders of
Egypt, Syria and Iraq an
nounced their
ambitious plan
to merge in
a new United
Arab Repub
lic, Algerian
Premier Ah.
med Ben Bel
la dispatched
a happy mes-
., sage. It was,
he told Egypt's
President Gamal Abdel Nas
ser, "The most wonderful
day of my life."
The flag of this new repub
lic would have three green
stars against a background of
red, white and black bars.
For Nasser it was- a new
start toward accomplishment
of his lifelong vision of an
fcgypt at the center of the
three circles - the first Arab,
second African and third a
Moslem unity which would
exert its influence throughout
tne world.
Single Arab Nation
These were explained in
the only book Nasser ever
wrote. In it he saw a "role,
wandering aimlessly in search
of a hero." He never has left
any doubt he considered him
self suitable for that role.
The new UAR would estab-.
lish a single Arab nation ex
tending from the Persian Gulf
to the Mediterranean.
It would form the nucleus
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
THE FORMOSA STRAIT
AGAIN .
Washington - The "return
to the mainland," so long and
so often proclaimed, may
really be at
tempted this
year by Gen
eral I s s 1 m o
Chiang Kai-
shek. There is
considerab 1 e
danger 1 1 a t
this explosive
p o s s i b ility
will be pooh
Alsnp
poohed, until
the attempt is actually under
way, ine Generalissimo and
his government have been
talking about reinvading the
mainland ever since 1949. Bv
now, the talk tends to go un
heeded, like the cries of
"Wolf! Wolf!" of the little boy
in tne story.
But in the first place, some
fast -talking American per
suasion was needed to avert
at least one earlier attempt.
And in the second place, the
indications from Formosa this
spring differ quite sharply
from any in ihe past.
There are no boastful, em
pty proclamations now. In
stead there are serious prepa
rations. For example, besides
building landing craft in the
Taipei shipyards - which the
U.S. government knew about
the Nationalist have also
b e e u having landing craft
quietly built in apan - which
the U.S. government did not
learn about until recently.
'THEN, too, the Nationalist
- armed forces have been
training hard for amphibious
operations, ironically enough
with American advice; for
help In this special training
was part of the bargain, when
the Generalissimo agreed to
give up his earlier plan for
re-Invading the mainland.
Finally, the tone and tempo
of the Nationalist leadership
are tne most serious Indica
tors of all. The Generalis
simo's advisors who were
formerly on the side of cau
tion, and above all against
getting too far out of step
Egypt as Three-Circle Center
of the first circle and its mere
announcement was enough to
send Nasserite mobs into the
streets of Amman, capital of
neighboring Jordan, to worry
tne Saudi rulers of Saudi
Arabia and to rouse concern
in Israel.
With a first . step behind
him, Nasser this week was
considering the second.
In Algiers he was the guest
of Ben Bella.
Nasser helped Algerian
rebels with money and wea-
pons during their seven-year
war against France and Ben
Bella is amung Nasser's great
est admirers.
Ben Bella looks toward
North African "magreb,"
union of Algeria, Tunisia and
Morocco. With Libya and the
U.A.R. the sum total could be
an Arab federation extending
irom tne Atlantic to the Per
sian Gulf.
It would be the second cir
cle In Nasser s vision,
But even as Nasser landed
in Algiers, things were
coming unstuck at home,
Kay Positions
In Syria, a smoldering dis
pute between the Baathists,
members of Syria's largest
political party, and Nasserites
led to mass resignations from
the Syrian cabinet with the
Baathists in control,
Baathists, standing for Arab
renaissance, hold key posi
tions in both Syria and Iran,
roimcauy, they share with
the Nasserites an enthusiasm
for Arab unity and "Arab so-
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
with the U.S., are now.strong
ly in favor of making the re
invasion attempt this year.
Thus those who tipped the
scales on the side of prudence.
like the able Vice-President,
Chen Chang, and the veteran
War Minister, Yu Ta-wei, are
now casting their weight on
tne other side of the balance.
As for the Generalissimo him
self, he Is past 70; he is de
termined to make his attemp!
to return to the mainland
while he still has time; and
he considers the time is iripe
ln loco
... t.uo,
fPHERE is, in fact, no doubt
A at all that Chiang Kai
shek and his government at
present intend to make the
landing attempt early this
summer, or perhaps in the
next favorable season, in the
autumn. Initially, they cannot
put onshore much more than
a division. Their air force,
which comprises only about
300 planes, is outnumbered
more than 10-to-l by the Com
munists.
nut they remember that
tneir pilots scored better than
30-to-l against the Communist
pilots in the Quemoy crisis In
1958. They count, quite pos
sibly with reason, on scoring
as well now. And they also
believe that there is ennunh
disaffection in the Commu
nist army, and more than
enough disaffection in the
Chinese countryside, to insure
a landing on a relative small
scale acting like a liehted
match in a dry haystack.
The question therefore is
not whether Chiang Kai-shek
seriously intends to attempt
nis landing in 1963. The truth
is that 1963 is already being
rather, opened described in
high government circles in
Taipei as "The Year of the
Return."
TNSTEAD, the ques t i o n Is
whether or not Chains Kal.
shek will act on his intention
in the end. The answer to this
question is virtually certain
to be in the affirmative, more
over, unless President Ken.
nedy can persuade the Gen
eralissimo to change his
mind.
Persuasion will be'tried. at
any rate. Even' the American
officials who believe a return
to the mainland may some
day succeed are strongly con.
vinced that any attempt now
would be suicidally ill-timed.
tor one thing, there is a
clear possibility, if not a
downright likelihood, of an
open break between Commu
nist China and the Soviet
Union before another 12
months have passed. A Na
tionalist landing im...enselv
diminished by a Sino-Soviet
break, after which Moscow
will cease to be a factor In
the equation.
FOR another thing, a slightly
hpttpr hatva lat
and the simultaneous, almost
complete abandonment of
capital investment In industry
have combined to allow the
Chinese Communist leaders to
give their people a little more
than they have received until
lately. The improvement is
unlikely to be enduring. De
spair will recur. But there
does not seem to be enough
despair today to make the Na
tionalist plan work.
For these practical and local
reasons, as well as for many
other reasons rooted in the
world situation, the General
issimo's plan constitutes a
serious new problem for the
President.
cialism," but with a greater
degree of parliamentary rule.
They recall Nasser's sup
pression of the Baathists dur
ing the ill-starred Egyptian
Syrian merger of 1958-61.
And their fear now is that
so-called collective leader
ship in a new UAR quickly
would deteriorate to one-man
Nasser rule.
For the Arab word, more
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fcl Field
FLEXIBILITY
Some friends were discuss
ing, in puzzled tones, the re
cent labor disturbances in
Great Britain
in which thou
sands of t h e
recently u n-
employed
staged a dem
onstra t i o n
that, for plac
id Eng land,
was nearly ri
otous. 'What's
Barnr the excite.
ment about?" said one. "The
unemployment rate in Great
Britain is only half that of
the United States, and we
haven't had anything like that
here.
I suspect that what is fright
ening to the British workers
is the sudden appearance of
change in a land of stability
and tradition. In America, we
have always had a mobile la
bor force; men changed occu
pations and locales almost as
frequently as they changed
automobile models.
t
In England, a job has
been something a man ex
pected to do all his life. He
often inherited it from his
father, who himself inherit
ed it from ihe medieval
guild system. Dozens of
English names, in ' fact,
came directly from these
crafts - Taylor, Turner,
Webster, Wheelwright, Ba
ker, Miller, Skinner, Smith,
Weaver, Chandler. Cutler,
Mercer, and many others.
Moreover, a stratified so
cial system, such as obtains
in England and most of Eu
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Mishmash in the news;
Did you read the story the
other day about the "fellow
back East who fed false infor
mation into a computer in the
employment office of the con
cern for which he worked in
order to get himself a better
job than his qualifications en
titled him to?
Wirra! Wirra!
What a world we're living
We can't even trust the ro
bots any more.
SUPPOSE you've read or
heard of the Plaine des
Jarres, which bobs up so often
the news of the weird
fighting in Laos, over on the
other side of the world where
Americans are fighting in a
war in which they have little
or no direct interest.
The term is French. That
area of the world, as you will
remember, was once a part
French Indo China. It
means the Plain of Jars, or
the Plain of Pots.
TJOW did it get its name?
No one knows. It is a
fairly wide, flat, plain, and
at one point it is covered with
huge 'stone jars, as tall as a
man's shoulders. More than
100 of these stone nots are
located near one of the stra
tegic air fields in Laos.
WHO chiseled them out-and
" why? It's a mystery. They
have been there some 20 cen
turies. Countless wars have
surged around them - most of
these wars, probably, as mean
ingless as the present war in
Laos. '
It's a strange world.
It always has been a strange
world.
"PROM Washington:
Representative Jamie L.
Whitten (D-Miss.) expressed
fear that the federal food
tamp program will DE
STROY THE INITIATIVE of
persons who are capable of
DOING THINGS FOR THEM
SELVES. Congressman Whilten is
chairman of the House Agri
culture Appropriations Sub
committee. Testifying at a
hearing the other day, he
said:
"No one can be against
some such provisions being
made. In a country such as
ours, with the production that
has, for a reasonable stand
ard of living or certainly a
reasonable diet for all."
DUT-
He added -
It seriously concerns me
that we may get into a na
tional program that will
pread until It reaches the
Lifelong
disunited than united,' it L
a many times told tale. Mu
tual aims brought the Baath
ists and Nasser together. Mu
tual suspicions bid once more
to split them apart.
Nasser has proved himseli
a persistent man but the cir
cles which place Egypt In
the center of an Arab world
may yet prove to be Illusory
bubbles. -1
Enterprises. Inc.
rope, makes it much harder
to change and adjust.
America's weakness has
also turned out to be its
strength. Because we hava
not had so long a history,
because we were a frontier
country, and because we
have lacked a long tradition
of craftsmanship, our stand
ards of service and work'
manship have been inferior
to most of the Europeans.
When we complain about
this, however, (as we increas
ingly do), it must be remem
bered at the same time that
this lack of a tradition has
enabled us to be economically,
socially and industrially flex
ible - to make rapid shifts
in demands and supplies of
the labor force. A society that
is . inflexible cannot meet
rapidly changing needs.
The British are more fright
ened by automation than we
are, because the proportion of
the working class population
is so much greater. Here, in
our own time, there has been
a shift away from the labor
ing forces to the service class
es, just as there has been an
enormous shift from the rural
type to the urban-complex so
ciety - and all without any
serious dislocations.
Tradition is a two-edged
sword: it gives a sense of
continuity and excellence to
a pursuit, but it also retards
necessary adjustments to meet
changing conditions. What
the British laborers are pro
testing is lack of jobs today -but
also, more importantly,
lack of prospects for tomor
row and tomorrow. '
JENKINS
point where it will result fn
the destruction of initiative
and effort on the part of those
who are capable of taking
care of themselves." ' "
WELL, he might have been
thinking of the BREAD
AND CIRCUSES that destroy
ed the initiative of the people
of Ancient Rome.
Gibbon tells us it was the
free bread supplied for their
sustenance and the free cir
cuses provided for their enter
tainment that sapped the initi
ative of the Roman people
and started the downfall of
the Roman Empire.
Four Students in
Portland Contest
Medford High school will
have an entry in the Ply
mouth Trouble Shooting con
test in Portland Saturday,
May 11.
Four boys from the auto
mechanics classes, taught by
Lloyd S. Lyda, will enter
along with students from 15
other schools of the area. In
the Medford entry are Jim
Sevcik, Walter Conner, Jon
Inskeep and Charles Smith.
They will be accompanied
north by their instructor. ,
The boys will be required
to find and fix nearly a score
of malfunctions concealed in
new cars by expert technici
ans. They will be allowed to
use only a minimum of tools
and testing equipment in the
contest.
Winners at the Portland
contest will go to Detroit
June 24, 25 and 26 to com
pete against outstanding auto
mechanics in the 1963 Nation
al Championship Trouble
Shooting contest. The prizes
will be $9,000 In scholarships
with which the students may
continue their technical train
ing.
The Portland contest will
be held in the Lloyd Center
west Mall.
Applications Being
Token for Welders
Applications for the posi
tion of -welder are being ac
cepted by the Civil Service
Commission, L, B. Nelson, ex
aminer at the Medford post
office, has reported.
Application forms are avail,
able at the post office. The
applications may be turned in
here or to the Board U.S.
Civil Service Examiners,
Corps of Engineers, 628 Pit
tock Block, Portland S, Ore.
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