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10 YEARS AGO
July 23. 19S3 (Thuriday)
This is mumps year in Jack
son county; go far there have
been 891 cases of the disease
compared to 34 for 1952.
A certificate honoring Med
ford for its 1952 pedestrian
safety record has been pre
sented to the city by the
American Automobile associa
tion; there were no pedestrian
deaths In the city.
20 YEARS AGO
July 23, 1941 (Friday)
Stage and gcrcen actor Paul
visits Camp White.
Frnm Arthur Perry's "Ye
miirlci Pot" column: "An.
other citizen reports lie dined
upon horse meat. His siean
he states was evidently cui
from the tender of an Espee
Iron-horse."
30 YEARS AGO
July 23. 1933 (Sunday)
Truck and bus bill and ped
dling bill hits valley truck
gardeners.
Oregon votes wet and
snows under sales tax in spe
cial election.
40 YEARS AGO
July 23, 1923 (Monday)
Thieves get $70 in cracking
of Farm Exchange safe.
Willow Springs section pre
pares county fair exhibit.
tO YEARS AGO
July 23, 1913 (Wdniday)
Ladles of Greater Mcdford
club plan gala fete at Golf
and Country club.
Mcdford National Guard to
send team to rifle competition
at Clackamas.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er tan carreer is superior!
even or eight It aacellent; live er
is is ioo4
1. A young mare is railed
a ?
2. A precocious child is one
who is bashful; true or false?
3. If your car Is stuck in the
mud, would you get more
traction if you further infla
ted the tires, or if you slight
ly deflated them?
4. Did the Seven Years War
from 17SS to 1763 extend to
America?
3. What colors are the silk
fibers In U. S. currency pa
per? 6. Who is the leading ac
tress in the movie "Break
fast at Tiffany's"?
7. By weight ts there more
copper in the human body or
a penny?
8. The Atlantic Ocean Is
saltier than the Pacific; true
or false?
9. Which two principal
powers fought "The Hundred
Years War"?
10. In Bible stories, what
did Esau sell?
Answers: I. Filly. 2. False.
3. Deflate. 4 Yes (French
and Indian War.) S. Rtd and
Blue. 6. Audrey Hepburn. 7,
Penny, t. True. 9. Britain and
Franc. 10. His birthright.
LOTS OF PROPACANDA
Tokyo (Wl Hanoi Radio
aid North Viet Nam pub
lished and distributed 334,.
000 anti-American books dur
ing last week's "Hate Amert
ca" campaign.
TUESDAY. JULY 23. 1963
Malthusian Urgency
Usually, when the "population explosion" is
mentioned, it is discussed in terms of the areas
where the growth is the
resources, or industrial
as in southeast Asia and Latin America.
But a newly-published book entitled "The
Population Dilemma"
does not lie wholly in such crucial areas, but also
applies to wealthy, industrialized America.
The book was published by the American As
sembly, and is a series
prepared for discussion,
Assembly.
O
NE OF THE book's
"When the demographic facts for the United States
are assembled they suggest that instead of smugly
patting ourselves on the back for escaping the impact
of the population explosion, we must realize that we
are participants. At present we are on a collision
course that could lead us to catastrophe, timed to
arrive only a very few decades after our sister nations
(if they too do not alter their growth rates) have
crashed on the Malthusian reefs. . . .
". . . It is difficult to escape the conclusion that
voluntary family limitation with each couple utilizing
means that it finds acceptable on religious, aesthetic
and physical grounds, ts the alternative to some much
more radical choices only a few years from now. . . ."
Unfortunately, there
manv neonle. very likely
have thought about the
sense of urgency concerning it. lo them tne
problem is either academic, or so far off that it
makes little ciinerence.
How to convince Americans of the reality of
the situation we as a people are facing, and its
urgency, is difficult, perhaps impossible. h. A.
Road Network Grows
The Del Norte Triplicate, published in Cres
cent City, put out a special edition last week in
celebration of the opening of the new Randolph
Collier tunnel under Oregon mountain, just in
side the California line on Highway 199.
The tunnel opening, interesting enough to all
of us in Southern Oregon, is more than merely in
teresting to the California
portant. That area is even more "isolated than
we are, and the tunnel opening is an event com
parable to the opening of the new freeway in
this area.
And they certainly went all-out to celebrate
it, with three full days
parties and general whoop-te-do.
rpHE FABLED Winnemucca-to-the-Sea high-
I ... 1.. -1 1 L
-- way, oniy a aream a
now a reality. It is readily
now, and with the completion of the Lake of the
Woods road before too long, it will be even better.
Reports from east of
that the Lakeview to Winnemucca section, start
ed by Lake county and the state of Nevada, and
completed by the two states, is not receiving as
much use as had been predicted. Very likely, this
is simply because the route is new enough so that
it isn't well known, and usage will increase when
more publicity, and newer maps, bring it to more
people's attention.
Eventually, then, the
mountain route Winnemucca and Crescent City
will be the biggest beneficiaries.
DUT THE way points Lakeview, Klamath
Falls, Medford and Grants Pass also
should benefit in a material way as tourists and
shippers discover the advantages and savings
made possible.
Medford, in particular, should benefit, for it
is now the hub of a network of roads and high
ways in three states which will enhance its im
portance as a distribution center.
Transportation today, as much as in past eras,
shapes the whole direction of a local economy.
E. A.
Eclip,
We followed the advice of the experts last
Saturday, and did not look directly at the sun
during the eclipse. Instead we took a couple of
sheets of cardboard, punched a hole in one and
let the sun shine through
cardboard a foot or so away.
Rather to our surprise, it worked. The image
of the sun, small but
as did the progressive
. . A... A
moon passing in ironi oi it.
It wasn't a tremendously impressive show
here, and if it had not
warning, few people indeed would have noticed
anything different. The sun might have been
shining just a bit less brightly tha n usual, but no
more so than on a normal hazy day.
A LL THE advance publicity about the eclipse
and its potential danger to the eyes probably
was good and necessary, and presumably averted
most eye damage. But some reactions to it were
a bit odd.
Some people apparently got the idea that it
wasn't even safe to be outdoors. Others got the
idea that it was dangerous to look at the sun
during the eclipse, but that it is OK to do so
when there is no eclipse.
Actually, of course, the sun is dangerous to
view directly at any time, but most of the time
there is no reason to
warnings were put out,
fastest and the natura
development, are the least
declares that the dange
of background papers
plus the findings of the
authors has this to say
is reason to believe that
a majority, even if they
matter at an, nave no
north coast. It is im
of barbecues, dinners,
snort; lew years ago, is
negotiable all the way
the mountains indicate
two ends of the cross-
se
the hole onto the other
distinct, showed plainly,
bites taken from it by the
i li
been for the advance
do so. that is why the
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"How Long Is a Boarding-House Reach?"
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Jlmenei
To the Editor: The United
States has always had great,
overwhelming pride in its tra
dition of political asylum.
Right now we are giving a
protective home to over 100,-
000 refugees from Castro s
Communist rule. At one time
we gave asylum to Castro,
himself. Then when he over
threw Batista, former ruler of
Cuba, we gave asylum to Ba
tista. Nobody that I know of
has ever been turned away
from our shores, not even the
infamous Bolshevik, Trotsky.
In 1948 Perez Jimenez, an
a n 1 1 - Communist Venezuela
army officer, overthrew the
alleged Communist, Romulo
Bctancourt, ruler of Venezu
ela. And we gave asylum to
Betancourt. By 1956 Mr, Bet-
ncourt's Communist connec
tions become so objectionable
to our government that he
was arrested, on information
supplied by the FBI, expelled
from the U.S., ana denied re
admittance (Cong. Record,
2-7-63). Still he was not sent
back to Venezuela and placed
at the mercy of Jimenez, but
was allowed to live in Puerto
Rico.
It should be pointed out
here that Perez Jimenez,
while president of Venezuela,
gave that country the best
government it ever had, and
made it the most prosperous
country In all Latin America.
Further more, Mr. Jimenez
was decorated by President
Eisenhower for his staunch
support of the United States,
and for his leadership in the
fight against Communism in
this hemisphere.
In spite of this, in another
revolution, Leftist groups in
Venezuela overthrew his gov
ernment, and Bctan court
again came to power there.
Then Jimenez, the great South
American antl Communist
leader, sought asylum in
America. But what did we do?
We put him In jail. And now
our State Department is pre
paring to return him to Betan
court in Venezuela to be ex
ecuted, undoubtedly a crush
ing blow to all antt-uommu-nists
in Latin America. Never
in all U.S. history is there an
Instance where a rctugce
president, or ruler, of a for
eign nation, against every
warm hearted, generous, and
decent Instinct of the Ameri
can people, has been sent back
to his political enemies to De
butchered.
President Kennedy could
stop this shameful thing. Sec
retary of Slate Dean husk
could stop It. And both may
possibly do so, if we bury tne
While House and the Stale
Department, Washing ton,
D.C.. In an avalanche ot pro
lestlnu letters and telegrams.
The eyes of a brave and de
cent man have turned to you
as his last hope of life. Can
you take lime out to write
those two letters? Or wouia
vnu rather endure the shame
of turning him down, and of
having the whole worm iook
upon your President and your
Secretary of State as Beian
court's hangmen, the cxecu
tloners of Jimenez. Latin
America's greatest antl-Com
munlst?
L. C. Powell
316 SE Eighth St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
The Hereafter
To the Editor: The most In
triguing subject of the cen-
tury is life hereafter. This
new life could be confusing
for a while, because every
thing would be so different
All bald-headed men would
have a heavy head of hair
the toothless would nave
mouthful o( teeth (not plates)
the near-sighted would have
perfect vision; the overweight
would be properly reduced
and those too thin would be
filled out. As I said. It would
take time to get reacqualnted
1
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
tha case.
When I meet my ancestor
of 10,000 B.C., I wonder what
we will talk about! For one
thing, would there be a lan
guage barrier? It might be
quite a chore finding him
from among upwards of one
hundred billion souls.
David Frisch,
P.O. Box 292,
White City, Ore.
Pip Fitter's Plaint
To the Editor: After read
ing Mr. May's letter in the
communication about Local
418 of the Plumbers and Fit
ters Union, I think that I will
say what I think and let the
chips fall where they may. I
have been a member of the
Plumbers and Fitters Union
for the past 23 years, and a
member of the AFL for the
past 30 years. In that time I
never knew that a Union
could get by run like this one
here in Medford.
When I joined the union
back in 1926 wages were low
and we were told of all the
benefits we would get if we
would become a member of
the union. About that time
Westbrook Pegler was fight
the unions of all kinds. I
laughed at his writings.
Since moving to Medford
four years ago and finding
how Local 418 is run, I have
to admit Mr. Pegler was right.
The Oregon Plumbing Code
states that a plumber must
pass the state plumbers' exam
ination and get a state compe
tency card before he is al
lowed to install plumbing. The
plumbing is all the sanitary
piping, fresh water lines, roof
drains, septic tanks.
After the plumbing is done
and there are steam lines, air
conditioning, oil and gas lines
to run, the plumber says on
and does this work, and ac
cording to the union they
have that right. It doesn't say
that a pipe fitter can't work
these. The union has a consti
tution that all members will
abide with like the govern
ment. In article 61 it states
that the business manager or
agent shall find employment
lor the members.
I believe in live and let live.
It the plumbers are installing
work that a pipefitter has a
right to do and there are pipe
fitters to do it, I think it is up
to the Union to see that the
contractors hire pipefitters to
install the pipe as long as
there are fitters on the bench
So far this year I have worked
three days.
If the plumbers were Union
men at heart they would let
us two fitters here in Med
ford work at least enough to
draw unemployment, while
they make up to $11,000 t
year.
Maybe this letter is un
union, 1 might even get fined
for saying the mean things I
have said.
There is a quotation that
noes something like this: "I
don't agree to what you say
but I'll defend with my life
your right to say it."
Leslie L. Valerians
(Member of Local 481
Mcdford)
Route 1, Box 333AA
Central Point, Ore.
Fantasy
To the Editor: Sunday's edi
torial (7-2 1-63). should have
read "Eric Allen's Attack.'
Drivel such as the above, de
signed to drive a wedge into
the Republican party is on
the Increase; and your edi
torial may only be another
worn patch on the already
threadbare quilt you have
been piecing together. The
overall pattern Is already
Identifiable, and the principa
raw material used is politica
nonsense. So what if It has
proven to be effective. Its
nonsense nonetheless.
Purportedly, the RepubU-
I
Matter of Fact y joPh a.mp
c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
WHAT ROCKEFELLER
FEARED
Washington - Practical,
solid, though unmentioned po
litical developments undoubt
edly spurred
Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefel
ler to launch
his strong
counteroffen
sive against
Sen. Barry
Goldwater ten
days ago, and
to renew it,
with mixed
results, at the Governor's con
ference.
Two places to look for
those developments, it is now
clear, are the two large, Mid
Western Republican - leaning
industrial states, Ohio and II
linois.
Ever since the Goldwater
Presidential candidacy began
to be taken seriously, it has
been a truism that the An
zona Senator could never get
very far without the support
of the convention delegates
from one or more of the big
Industrial states. Moreover,
Senator Goldwater's brand of
politics has far less appeal in
these states than in the South,
Southwest, and Rocky Moun
tain area. Hence, the need for
industrial state support look
ed like the hurdle Goldwater
could not overleap. But long
before the Rockefeller state
ment denouncing the "radical
right, the surge to Goldwater
was showing alarming power
in both Illinois and Ohio.
npHE situation in Illinois Is
much more favorable to
Goldwater but also much
more disorganized than that
in Ohio. Here, the Cook Coun-
t y Republican chairman,
Hayes Robertson, whose con
stituency ought to be less fav
orable to Goldwater than
most, is nonetheless waving
Banner in the Goldwater
vanguard.
More impressive still, the
sole announced Gubernatorial
candidate, Charles H. Percy
of Bell and Howell Co., is go
ing to great lengths to con
ciliate the Goldwater support
ers. "There's no doubt." he
says, "that Barry has the
strongest kind of support in
Illinois." As Percy used to be
regarded as the younger pro-
can party is divided. The fan
tasy runs something like this:
"Rockefeller, or someone like
him, 'ain't nothin but a houn
dog' as far as the (nebulous):
radical, extremist, lunatic (no
tice the moderation in your
choice of labels), right is con
cerned. On the other hand
there is Goldwater - not a
racist, but . . . genial, but .
vote getter, but . . . handles
himself well, but ... in short,
everything desirable in a fine
leader, but ... So, the Liberal
Establishment, through its
numerous editors, commenta-
o r s, educators, politicians
etc., have pinned the Senator
hopelessly (they hope), to the
grossly unwholesome (non ex
istent), far right.
You know Mr. Allen, that
until a few years ago the
Liberals denied the existence
of a threat from the left
'Everything is under com
plete control , so the story
went. It wasn t until citizen
groups in increasingly large
numbers rose up across this
country, calling for a return
to the sound principles of
our Founding Fathers, that
the Liberals suddenly decided
there was not only a threat
from the left, but also from
the right. But how could the
left be threatening? The es
tablishment has been spend
ing millions trying to con
vince the people they (the
left), was over there not
here." But this new grass
roots movement. Ah! here was
a legitimate threat to the Lib
eral's continued abuse of gov
ernmental powers. Like pres
to man! Automatic crisis:
Since the establishment in
reality docs not believe in
the one (the left), and have
constructed the other (the
Tight), largely out of their
own imaginations, they have
not, to date, had the courtesy
lo define either one. To de
fine the left, they would have
to repudiate themselves for
the past 30 years. To define
the other would leave them
naked to their newest false
hoods. So, just continue
smearing the "rightist'' la
bels (its always worked be
fore). If the establishment can
drive a wedge into the Repub
lican party it can be weak
ened. If the wedge can be
designed to do injury so criti
cal as to insure a Democratic
victory in the next presiden
tial race, well then, good!
The falsehoods will have been
Justified. This point is clear.
A united Republican party
could win the presidency.
And this nation would see a
fabulous, a real campaign in
the process! A divided Repub
lican party however, is as
much political joke (and
tragedy), as the Liberal's fab
ricated "left-right" sloganiz
ing. Robert J. Howard,
702 Beekman St.,
liadioxd (
tV'
Mi
gressive model of an Ideal
Eisenhower Republican, his
pro-Goldwater gestures speak
volumes.
To be sure, the Illinois Re
publican nomination for the
Governorship will almost cer
tainly be contested; and the
betting at present favors the
veteran Secretary of State in
Illinois, Charles Carpenter.
The Republican Governor, if
nominated and elected, win
have the most to say about
the Illinois delegation. Thus
the Goldwater breakthrough
In Illinois cannot yet be re
garded as final.
N OHIO, the same rule
holds true with even great
er force, were, tne DreaK
through centers in a group of
big business men who used to
finance the campaigns for the
late Senator Taft. More than
one of them is now a leader
of the national Goldwater
movement.
In Ohio, however, political
power of the big businessmen
has declined. The key figures
are now the able National
Committeeman, Ray Bliss, the
Republican Governor, John
A. Rhodes, and Senator Tatt's
highly promising son, Rep.
Robert A. Taft, jr. For vary
ing reasons, all three appear
to lean on an Ohio delegation
initially committed to Gov
ernoor Rhodes as the state's
Favorite Son.
Thiss is where the Rocke
feller counteroffensive has
had the real effect. Pre-Rock-
efeller, it might have been
very hard for the advocates
of a Favorite Son delegation
to stand off the pro - Goldwa
ter pressure. Post - Rockefel
ler, it is bound to be much
easier. And the same effect
will be felt in Illinois, if a
Republican Governor is elect
ed there, and he too wants a
Favorite Son delegation.
The other side of the medal
was observable last week end,
however, in the agitated poli
tics of the state of California.
The strongest Republican in
the state. Sen. Thomas Kuch
el, was already a leader in
the fight against the "radical
right" when Governor Rocke
feller was still carrying wa
ter on both shoulders. On Sat
urday, he met with friends
and supporters from all over
the state, to discuss ways and
means of preventing the John
Birch Society and its allies
from capturing the California
delegation to the Republican
Convention.
AT THE meeting, Kuchel
made it very clear indeed
that he would fight hard
against any attempt to win
the California delegation for
senator Goldwater. This does
not mean, however, that Ku
chel favors Governor Rocke
feller's candidacy at this time.
In fact; many of those at
the weekend meeting voiced
the opinion that a Favorite
Son delegation pledged to
Kuchel would have a better
chance of beating a Goldwa
ter pledged delegation than
a Rockefeller -pledged dele
gation supported by an active
California campaign by the
Governor.
Historically, Favorite Son
delegations are always handi
capped against competition
with pledged delegations.
Yet this handicap was widely
considered to be outweighed
by the handicap of Governor
Rockefeller's remarriage.
In short, Governor Rocke
feller's counteroffensive has
had some of the results the
Governor hoped for. But its
effect on his own Presidential
prospects is still far from
clear.
A LIVING DOLL
York, England - (Wll - Po
liceman Brian Senior thought
he saw something odd in the
clothing store window: A
clothing dummy that was
breathing. Railwayman Clif
ford Scott. 20, was fined 50
pounds (S140) Monday
for
shop-breaking.
"Aha! Se. Ih blacks ar
pink, Ih Supreme Court
thing it financed by New
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Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(ci Field Enterprises. Inc.
THE IMMODEST "I" .
Because the word for "my
self is a single letter In Eng
lish, it is capitalized as "I.
And because it is tall and thin
and stands
alone, it pre
s e n t s a psy
chological trap to the
author who
writes about
himself.
This Is not
the case in
other Ian.
Harris guages - the
French "je," the German
'ich," the Italian "io," and
almost all others do not capi
talize and isolate the subjec
tive ego. It ts a pure accident
in the English tongue.
Thus, writing about oneself
in English tends to arouse
some irritation if the page is
spattered with the obvious
I. It is so self-assertive, it
leaps out of the sentence, it
almost strikes the reader
physically with its unique
presence.
Because of this peculi
arity, soma writers with an
overpowering sense of
modesty have used the im
personal pronoun, "on."
But this is weak, and sounds
almost prissy In our time.
It is not a man speaking,
not a personality, but an
attitude: who can imagine
saying "On loves you," or
"One would willingly die
for one's country"?
The abrasive quality of
Ih first person singular in
English was remarked by
Charles Horion Cooley a
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk today about guns.
It's always an interesting
subject, and a particularly in
teresting old gun find has
just been made over in the
Snake River country. The
finder is Jack Gallagher, a
biologist with the Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries.
There were ten of the old
weapons, and he came upon
them by the purest accident.
He was SCUBA diving in the
Snake River in search of
metal salmon tags - that is,
aluminum tags attached to
the fins of hatchery salmon to
enable the fish biologists to
trace more accurately the mi
grations of the fish after their
release from the hatcheries.
HE OLD GUNS were dis-
covered in a mud-filled
eddy between Swan Falls and
Walters Ferry on the Snake,
about 45 miles south of Boise.
James Brinda, of Ontario,
traced their history and identi
fied them as:
A Spencer carbine, caliber
.50.
A "Kentucky repeater,'
possibly made by Burnside or
Whitney.
Two Henry repeaters, one
with a brass receiver, pat
ented in 1860 and 1866.
A Springfield flintlock
muzzle-loader, U. S. Army
Caliber .69.
A Sharps percussion car
bine caliber .54 round barrel
buffalo gun patented in 1859
and another caliber .50, pat
ented in 1852, with an octag
onal barrel.
A Winchester 1866 lever
action caliber 44.80.
A Colt slide action Light
ning repeater, caliber .44.
A USN Springfield single
shot percussion breech loader.
JUDGING BY the condition
of the wood, Mr. Brinda
estimated that the guns had
been under water for a period
of between 65 and 80 years
The metal, he reported, was
in surprisingly good condi
tion. Where they came from
is a mystery.
I Mr. Brinda surmises
that
reds. Ih Whit Houi it
is color-blind and the whole
York Jewish bankers!"
J. Harris
generation ago, whan h
observed:
"The chief objection to
the frequent use of 'I' is
that it is always a vivid
not, somewhat perturbing
because it awakens a self
in the reader, harsh if it
fails to be harmonious.
There is something conten
tious about in the sens of
self; it is born of opposition)
and when a man writes 'I'
emphatically, he puts a
chip on our shoulder, h
starts a quarrel with us, un
less he makes us feel at tha
same time that we are on
his side."
Goethe, for example, wrota
freely in the first person, yet
even though he had a well,
developed ego, his work does
not sound self-centered in tha
German; if translated into
English, his personal works
(not, of course, poems lika
"Faust") would disconcert us
with "I" sticking up in every
paragraph to remind us of his
singularity.
The English m i s t r u s t of
egotism, even when it is
genial and harmless, is re
garded as amusing and rather
pompous by people of other
nationalities. The well-bred
Englishman does not (or did
not) speak about himself; yet
only in his language is the "I"
given such orthographia
prominence.
In German, the writer capi
talizes "you" ("Sie"), and in
Spanish he does the sama
("Usted"), while the pronoun
referring to himself is in tha
discreet lower-case. English
is a strong and supple lan-guage-but
hardly a courteous
or modest one.
they might have been lost
when a trader's boat capsized
in the Snake. Or, he says,
they might have been part of
a shipment of guns from tha
Silver City mines.
WHATEVER THEIR history,
therp mttel ka a fnP;nt.
ing story back of their loss-
some three-quarters of a cen
tury ago if Mr. Brinda's esti
mate of the length of tima
they have been under water
is reasonably accurate.
Does any reader of this
newspaper know whv thesa
old guns were dumped inlo
tne &naKe river back in what
must have been the early
days of the West?
THAT BRINGS UP another
In 1872. when the ModoS
Indians retired into the fast
nesses of what is now tha
Lava Beds National Monu
ment and stood off a U. S.
army for weeks, their sharp
shooters hidden in the cracks
and seams of the lava beds,
picked off a considerable
number of the attacking
troops.
Legend has it that the troop
ers' rifles were picked up by
the Modocs and carried back
into their stronghold. Tha
story goes that these rifles
were put in a cave and tha
cave was roughly walled up.
TllANY YtARS AGO, Peter
Sconchin told this writer
that he was a boy of seven or
eight years at the time of tha
battle and that he remem
bered quite clearly seeing tha
guns put into the cave. Ha
said he believed that if he
could go back and make a
careful search he might be
able to recognize the spot.
He confirmed the story of
the walling up of the cava
containing the guns. He said
the wall was roughly built of
lava blocks and fragments,
and might have gone unrec
ognized over all the interven
ing decades.
We made several appoint
ments to go down to the Lava
Beds and carry on a search,
but something always inter
vened to cause a postpone
ment. Before we could get
around to it, Mr. Sconchin
passed away.
PRESUMABLY, the old guns
are still there - waiting
for some observant searcher
to find the wall that closed
the cave containing them.
If so, it would be quite a
find.
Swayless Satellite
Launched by Navy
Washington -1TPI- The Navy
has put a satellite into orbit
with an ingenious stabiliza
tion system that keeps the
same face of the moonlet to
ward the earth.
The device, involving a long
boom and a springlike "yo
yo." takes the sway out of
the satellite as it spins around
the earth, the Navy said Mon
day. The value of the device
is to make radio communica
tion easier and, in the case of
weather satellites, to keep tha
cameras aimed earthward.
The Navy did not say when
the satellite was launched.
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