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Newspaper Page Text4 A WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER (. 1SH "Everyone in tsouuiern Oi-eioa Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday b)f MKL': 'Jtiu rniniinu w. 33 North Fir St, Ph. 77H-SU1 ROBERT W RDHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising. Maiiaaer GERALD T LATHAM. Bus MfT ERIC IV ALLEN JR.. Mnt Editor EARL H ADAMS, uiry bauor harrv rHIPMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STA1U-MI.K women I fcaiw, DALE ERICKSON. Circulation MfT An Independent Newtpapei Entered si second class matter t Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Msll In Advance Dslly and Sundsy 1 year (II w Dally and Sunday rnoa 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mo. 5.00 Sunday Only One year MOO Single Copy (Mailed! JOe By Carrier And Motor Routo. Lially and Sunday 1 year Sll-JO rally and Sunday 1 rao. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. fOC Carrier and Vendors Copy 100 Official Psper ol City of Med'tero Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press "International JuU Leased Wire U. P I Telepholo NeKsplctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSOtf ROBERTS 4 ASSOC!, a tvb fWfioM In Hew Vorlc Chi cago Detroit, San rrancisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. Denver. NIWSPAMI UlUtHftJ ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITOKIAl Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tn files of Tha Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO vein ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1053 (Friday) Medford High's Black Tor nado football team tripped the Springfield Millers, 14 to 6. Oregon Sen. Wayne Morse will be a day-long guest at Southern Oregon College next Wednesday, it was announced today. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1943 (Saturday) Lester Beeson, Medford, re turns from hunting trip unin jured and attempts to run down rumor he was killed in accident, Miss Margaret Hubbard, 75. longtime Medford and Rogue valley resident, dies alter long illness. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 6. 1033 (Monday) C. C. Hoover starts a "J. C. Barnes for Icsislator" club. Hugh B. Rankin, sueprvisor of Kogue River National forest since 1920, announces plans to retire Nov. 30; will be suc ceeded by Karl L. Janouch. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1023 (Tueiday) State income tax measure passing by only 65 votes in Jackson county; holds scant 20 vote lead in state. Bill Isaacs wins first prize in Medford Harness Company's an nual sleclhead fishing contest. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 6, 1913 (Thursday) From Local and Personal col umn: Stanton Griff is is in the city today for the eastern foot ball scores and attending to bus iness interests. Capt. Milo Caton, 87, veteran of Civil, Mexican and Rogue River Indian wars and pioneer of Rogue valley, dies at home of daughter, Mrs. F. E. Furry In Phoenix. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct li superior; seven or eight it aicellcnt; five or lis is good. 1. Who wrote "The Valiant Years?" 2. What is oakum? 3. Excluding Australia, what is the largest isiand in the world? 4. What is the weight limit for a midleweight boxer? 5. What is the name of the southernmost city or town in the United States? 6. Which vitamin is supplied by cod-liver oil? 7. Prior to the advent of the dial telephone, what did we call the operator? 8. Is Costa Rica in Central American or South American? 9. The Brenner Pass connects Italy and what olhcr country? 10. The name of what com mon bean is identical with the name of the capital of Peru? Answers: 1. Winston Churchill. 2. Caulking compound. 3. Green land. 4. Kill pounds. S. Key West, I' In. 6. Vitamin D. 7. Central, 8. Central. 9. Austria. 10. Lima. Morse Amendment Approved by Senate WASHINGTON (UPI) - A foreign aid bill amendment sponsored by Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., was passed by the Senate by a vote of 42-40 Tuesday. The amendment cuts the de velopment loan fund authorize tion by $2S million to $950 mil lion., Scp. Maurine Ncubcrgcr, D Ore., voted against the amendment, Km Here and There, The meeting notices for this week's session of the tourist and convention committee of the Medford Chamber of Commerce told where and when the meeting would be, then added that the first person who said a up the check for everyone else. The meeting convened and there was com plete silence. The committee members smiled and nodded at one another, and occasionally passed a note back and But no one cracked; And each paid his own "Finest and friendliest meeting I've ever at tended, one of the Successful, too. If we at least we didn t go backward either. Why is it that similar events seem to come in bunches No sooner do we than we have several more. One major airplane crash is almost certain to be followed by others, A disastrous fire seems to be the signal for an other disastrous fire. A of the nation is followed And multiple births: the U. S., another set in eral sets of quadruplets, about a week and all against terrific mathe matical odds. Its leads one to wonder, a bit uneasily, if perhaps there was some tion in the air nine or ten Speaking of radiation and bomb testing and so on, we know several people who are abso lutely convinced that the "unusual" weather we've had for the past year and more is the result of such fooling around with the atmosphere. The storm of Oct, winter; the long damp spring and summer all of these were sufficiently remarkable to per suade many people there must have been a reason for them. And what more "logical" reason than upper-air radiation, which could affect the things that affect the weather 7 Irving Krick, the non ologist, thinks so. So, so You're in good company. Washington, D. C, newspapers have a little box each day which lists the activities of the President of the United States for that day. London newspapers print something similar. It is' called the "Court lished under the heading in the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post. Here are some excerpts from a recent issue : BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Oct. 23 His Excellency Mr. Abdul Rachman Al-Bazzai was received in audience by The Queen this morning and presented his Letters of Credence as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Iraq to the Court of St. James . . . Sir Harold Caccia (Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), who had the honour of being received by The Queen, was present and the Gentlemen of the Household in Waiting were in attendance. Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Cheshire had the honour of being received by Her Majesty upon his appointment as Air Alde-de-Camp to The Queen. Her Majesty held a CdUncil at 12:40 o'clock tills afternoon. There were present: The Viscount Hailsham (Lord Presi dent), the Right Hon. John Boyd-Carpcntcr, M.P. (Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General), the Right Hon. Sir John Claydcn (Chief Justice of the Federa tion of Rhodesia and Nyasaland), the Right Hon. Robert Carr, M.P. (Secretary for Technical Cooperation) and the Right Hon. Anthony Barber, M.P. (Minister of Health). The Right Hon. Sir John Claydcn having been appointed a Privy Councillor on January 17th, 1963, was sworn in a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council . . . CLARENCE HOUSE, Oct. 23 Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. I. Rome, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, this morning had the honour, of being received by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Colonel-in-Chief of the Regi ment, on relinquishing his Command. Lieutenant-Colonel G. R. Saltonstall also had the honour of being received by Her Majesty on assuming his appoint ment as Commanding Officer of the Battalion. One may be amused or offended by this sort of thing, but one thing about it: They do it in style. We wish it were possible to understand what goes on in the mind (?) of someone who finds pleasure in vandalism in the deliberate and Knowing destruction of property. What kind of warped and twisted person ality is it that fonds satisfaction in breaking, smearing or cutting? All of us at one time or another, no matter how well balanced and self-controlled, have felt like lashing out and hitting something or someone. And probably that is the answer to vandalism, a violent release of frustrations. Still, it is difficult to imagine, the combina tion of frustration, hatred, mob spirit and lack of self-control and self-respect which leads to deliberate destruction of the property of others. Often, in a discussion of the population explo sion and the threat of overcrowding of the earth, someone comes up with the idea that space ex ploration and colonization will solve the prob lem. Just ship off enough people to the other planets, and that s that. There's a difficulty, though. At the nresent rate of uomilation increase in the world, it would be people into space each to keep the population stable. The Population Reference Bureau says that, at the current estimated .!.! I.. ... passenger, mis woi ks oui day. E.A. This and That word would nave to picK forth. no one said a word. meal check. members reported later. didn t make any progress. have one mine disaster gas explosion in one part by another. a set of quintuplets in South America, and sev all within the space of peculiar type of radia' months ago. 12, 1962: the long dry - governmental meteor can you if you wish. . Circular," and is pub of ' Court and Society necessary to send 7,000 hour, 24 hours per day cost of $3 million per i. l l rr I- : 1 1 J 10 aooui $o uhuuii pei laws "Rockefeller It cute and Goldwater Is to handsome I don't care who gets the nomination. I love 'em both!" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must certain circumitancet the use ol pea name or initial for publication it permissible. The Mail Tribune reterves the right to edit ill letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Ltiiert submitted tor publication mutt not exceed 400 wordt. The letters printed in thit column do not neceuirlly lepratent the views oi the piper) in fact the contrary it often the cat. PFFT? To the Editor: Poetry and rhythm tie This world together You and I And flora, fauna Firmament Good earth and God All His intent. But if this Plan We fail to see How we must dwell In harmony All loving all High forms and low In gracious union Pfft! we go. Thelma Carson Star Route, Box 60 Prospect, Ore. Taxpayer!' Woes To the Editor: I have sent this letter to Jackson County's legislators: We would need no more taxes if our state government would stop this relenUess race to see what department can spend the most money. There is no need lor guards for the Governor worthless trips for parties in Hawaii; unnecessary running around In Government cars: lawn watering crews along free ways (we counted 65 men wa tering lawns between Medford and Portland on one trip). There is not one person in 750 who can tell you if there are any trees or lawns along the free way, or where they are. If you don't believe this just ask the people. We also counted as many as seven state cars on single construction jobs with one man in each car. What's the necessity of this? Can't they travel together? We had business which took us to some of the state offices in Salem. One of the offices had 11 women employees in it out of those 11, three were working, the others were fixing their hair, or their fingernails, or just plain loafing. And we, the taxpayers, were paying their salaries. Taxpayers have to work long hard hours to foot the bills for this waste. Why not cut out these unnecessary em ployees? These are just a drop in the bucket of the added ex penses of the taxpayers. rut a stop to an state eieciea men from running around at the taxpayers' expense to further their own political ambitions. I am sure private employers would be tickled pink to pay their employees and (amines their expenses to Hawaii to get themselves better jobs. Allow state employees reason able wages not excessive ones, and limit their expense accounts. I will never set up a business here on account of the inventory tax. That is the most discourag ing tax there is, as businesses are oenalired for having a stock of merchandise to supply cus tomers with parts when tney are needed. This could be handled by a sales tax when the mer e-hand se is sold to tne customer. Several businesses here have their head office in some otner state, and others have been looking into other states with the same thing in mind, includ ing me. The main thing my entire family and I feel you should do is: Spend W the energy you put out trying to find ways to spend money in uylng to save it. men we would have a $60 million surplus instead of needing $60 million more. Cut out all state taxes and put in a state sales tax this will get everyone, plus the tourists from our neighboring slates who collect from us when we go into their states. You want to slice something, try slicing your own wages, be cause that Is what you are doing to the taxpayer. Larry F. Starks 'P.O. Box 993 Central Point, Ore. Gas Prices To the Editor: I think the fol lowing would be an interesting MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO, OREGON btar the nam and addroti of subject for your readers. I would like to see it entered in the letters to the editors col umn. Open letter to our legislators: Discrimination: I wonder if you realize how you, the people of Oregon, and the service sta tion operators of Oregon, have been discriminated against. For instance, the people and the service station operators of Eu gene are paying higher prices for their gasoline than the peo ple of Springfield, is this dis crimination? It seems that the major oil companies give subsi dies (lower prices) in any area tney see tit. I think you will find the people of the eastern part of our state never benefit from these lower prices. Do you imnK wis is discrimination? Evidently there is too great a prolit tor the major oil compa nies, but I am sure that they will deny it and claim that their retail operations are losing money. I think this is true, but where they make their money is in production and the 27V4 per cent depletion allowance, wnicn has to be spent within five years or it will revert to the government. This is one of the reasons you sc such large increase in very elaborate service stations in our area. This also makes it almost im possible for the largest percent age of service station operators to make a living. Yet. if vou wui cnecK ine iinanclal pages of your newspaper you will al ways find that the major oil company stocks pay a good divi dend even though they lose mon ey at retail. Did you know that approxi mately 30 per cent of the ma jor oil company service stations are successful, 30 per cent are marginal and require extra lone hours of labor to eke out a liv ing and that 40 per cent of the service station operators GO UNDER EACH YEAR. It is rare that you hear of any of the w per cent group going bank rupt. The reason is that the major oil companies require trom $2,000 to $6,000 capital to take over a station, but when their capital is gone, after work ing extra long hours, they are replaced by another sucker, sorry, I mean operator. The ma jor oil company representatives are very convincing in selling a new operator that the previ ous operator hadn't been han dling his customers right, and they always know the new one will be a winner. Discrimination we have the situation again in the Spring field area. A so-called Independ ent from a national chain open ed some time back and passed the word around that they were going to undersell the other In dependents in the area by one cent a gallon. The major sup pliers of these other Independ ents advised them to go along with this . . . DISCRIMINA TION. There is a very simple answer to this: The wholesale price of any product should be the same to ALL retailers, with freight differential based on a central delivery point, which is gener ally Portland, with stiff daily penalties as long as the whole saler continued to discriminate. I am sure that with the legis lature re-convened this would be a very simple law to pass to eliminate DISCRIMINATION against the people of Oregon. Roy Copping. 112 E. llth St., Eugene, Ore. Nationality and Race To the Editor: No event of recent times has provoked more people then the race and nationality belonging to a su perior race and everv thins great in the history of the world has been accomplished oy tnem. Mnce we are dealing with mature people, it s neces sary we should take recoeniiinn of these claims. Tht (act Is. Cease-Fire Throws Spotlight on r PHIL NEWSOM UPI rorelf n News .Analyst Col. Houarl Boumedienne is a blond, lean, mustached man who has been called the lance- head of the Algerian revolution, Backed by his army of 40,- 000 men, he put Algerian Presi dent Ahmed Ben Bella in power and he has kept him there. But from time to time there has been speculation that Bourn' dienne might tire of his second' ary role and make his own move lor Dower. In recent days tne speculation has been renewed by the se quence of events which acconv panied the cease-fire agreement along the Algerian Moroccan border in the Sahara. The cease - fire agreement lh writer, although under and facts speak for the m selves, how did these' misinter pretations come between the nationalities and races? No thinking man can pass this crisis of civilization without be- coming affected. The worldly system of thought that is upon us today has sprung from desperation and lack of understanding. Civilization of mixed races or unmixed are of service and value or God would not have made it so. Simple ignorance, imagination and double contempt are the cause of the inability and willingness to act like grown up individuals. Those who call themselves Christians act like monsters and dragons and are far from being free of wickedness and willful distortion ol God s cre ations. The colored man has devel oped a certain degree of im munity to the ignorance of the white man. Still they shiver and grow cold when presented be fore this sophisticated ignor ance. Their infantile jealousy and bad sportsmanship is their virtue. The white man has a more mixed nationality then the Ne gro ever thought to have. There are very few white men living that are all of one nationality. At best their true identification could only be partial. The Ne gro is Negro. The Negro did not participate in the development of sin. It was passed on to them by white folks. Instead of condemning the colored people and discour aging their nearts, ana damning their souls, try the culture of friendship, help them learn law, to read and write and behave like a human being before the scientist again claims we all come from apes. E. Dykes 2412 Spring St. Medford. Pet Shelter To the Editor: Please allow me to thank you for using a Sunday magazine (see Family Weekly, Nov. 3, the inside cover page) which is interested in compassion. I hope your readers will not miss this poignant article cap tioned "Are you cruel to your pet without knowing it?" by the executive director of the Ameri can Humane Association. in particular 1 would direct attention to the first paragraph. which states, in part: "Putting the cat or dog out at night is so common most of us think it is richt. The truth is, millions of animals spend winter nights huddling for warmth in frozen corners. . . Your pet deserves a place in your home. Fencing him in is not cruel, but turning him loose, away from your pro tection, is." An animal on a comparatively short chain (out doors, in winter) is a pitiful sight. He is lonely and miser able and he cannot even keep himself warm through exercise. Take pity on him! Also note paragraphs 4, 5. (remember what happens at Easter) and 6. I have seen so many cruel cases of tight (and unnecessary) confinement outdoors since be coming a resident of Oregon, that the first paragraph really strikes home. In the absence of a fenced area, or the available funds to create one. why not an overhead wire with sliding ring and chain, or a stake and chain? This may do during the day time. But at night please gave your four footed friend shelter in your home. Please! Ethel L. Marley Rogue Valley Manor Medford. Look Around! To the Editor: 1 have been in terested in reading about the proposed plans for the area around Bear Creek. Medford seems to be growing up, but Bear Creek is the same dirty little creek it always was. We visited Chico, Calif., over Violation signed in the Mali capital of Bamako by Algerian President Ben Bella and Morocco's King Hassan II was to have taken effect at midnight Friday. But live minutes alter It began mortar shells began falling around the Moroccan border town of Figuig, Figuig is an old fortress town of around 10,000 population from which the French once fought the desert Arabs and the Berbers. It lies within admit ted Moroccan territory. Each side blamed the other for the cease-fire violation but the evidence, as gleaned by newsmen who later went into the town, seemed to be against tne Algerians. Ben Bella himself seemed of be surprised by the action and so the finger of suspicion pointed at Boumedienne who at the age of 38 combines the jobs Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris - (c) Field Enterpriseg, Inc. TOWN & GOWN A university does m-eat things," wrote Cardinal New man a century ago, "but there is one thing it does not do: it does not intellectualize its neighborhood." Little has changed In the in tervening years since he penned his famous book, "The Idea of university." We send our children to college, in increas ing numbers; and they return home, presumably educated to a greater or lesser degree. But nothing happens to the neigh borhood. I visit dozens of colleges during the year, many of them situated in small or middle sized towns. In most of them, there is an absolute minium of contact between town and gown; what goes on at the school rarely affects the towns people, unless sex or drinking are involved. One of the purposes of a university is not to turn out technicians, like a trade school, but to change the cli mate around it, to permeate the surrounding atmosphere with some of Its attitudes and values. But what Is the point of sending a young person to col lege if the world he returns to has no continuity with the world he has just been gradu ated from? It only serves to make college seem frivolous, irrelevant, and "academic" in the most sterile tense of the word. Of course, colleges put on plays and hold art shows and offer lectures to the public; but these are just the cultural trappings for parents and alumni and possible donors. "Look how well the children are doing," such projects seem to say. "Don't they de serve a pat on the head?" And one reason that college students do not take the insti tution seriously (except for get ting passing grades and a diplo ma) is the isolation in which the university exists: a make- believe world for four years. sealed off from "reality," and to be visited only on Class Dav, if at all. This is not the students' fault, nor the townspeople's. The uni versity itself seems afraid of propagating ideas, of challeng ing accepted beliefs, of involv ing itself in the actual life of the larger community. Rather than a preparation for life, col leges too often seem an avoid ance of it; as a result, students are graduated not only ill-ore- pared in their subjects, but also totally unequipped to cope with reality. If universities cannot intellec tualize their neighborhoods, at least to some degree, then their influence on the social current is negligible, and their preten sion to significance is absurd. If they refuse to exercise their force on society, then society will sweep them awav disdain fully in times of crisis, as the Nazis swept away the proud ruins of German scholarship with contemptuous ease. Labor Day week end. It is a pretty town of about 15,000 peo ple. A few blocks from the cen ter of town is Bidwell Park, con sisting of 2,400 acres. In the park is an enormous free mu nicipal swimming pool, made by damming up a creek about the size of Bear Creek. It has a cement bottom and cement sides and ranges from diving depth to a cnaineo area for little tots to wade in. Trees and grass border it on one side and bath houses on the other. Why can't Medford have some thing like that? Why let smaller towns snow us up with their imagination and initiative? Ash land has its Lithia Park and Klamath Falls has its Moore Park. Just look around. Let's make Medford something for visitors to talk about back home. Dolores (Mrs. V.-N.) Bell 37 Quince St. Medford. in Border Algeria's of defense minister and army commander. French sources closest to both sides had two possible ex planations. One was that the Algerians, whose noses had been blooded in early stages of the desert con flict, regarded Figuig as good spot to counter Moroccan pres sure on the cases of Hassi Beida and Tinjoub. Figuig is on the border, which at that point juts into Algerian territory. Deliberate Violation Possible The other explanation was that, bolstered by Communist built planes, tanks, heavy guns and other war material ship ped from the United Arab Republic and Cuba, Boumedien ne might deliberately have vi olated Ben Bella's orders. He is the one man in Algeria who might do so with impunity. Boumedienne is about as far left politically as they come in Algeria without belonging to the outlawed Communist party. He once told interviewers he We Americans Are Unquestionable By Arthur Hoppe WILTON PARK, England It's high time I got back to telling you what an international conference is like. And you'd like it. It's a lovely life. We have breakfast at 8:30; read the newspapers; have tea; attend a two-hour morning ses sion; eat lunch; chat, stroll or play tennis; have tea; attend a two-hour afternoon session; and chat and drink until 11. It's not only pleasant, but stimulating. Because if you've never attend ed an international conference before, you've got a lot to learn. Like how to ask questions. Nothing's more important. You see, they send truly bril liant experts down from Lon don for each session ministers, scientists, economists and the like. The expert opens the ses sion with an hour-long extem poraneous address. And then the Warden of Wilton Park, Dr. H. Koeppler, who is kind of our den mother, invites us to ask tne expert questions. And while our Warden is not only a highly intelligent but very kindly man. he dearly loves us to ask ques tions. Or else. Unfortunately, when his eve lights sternly on me, the only question I can think of putting to the expert might be phrased: "What, Lord Curmudgeon, in hell were you talking about?" rnis would be very bad form. It's not so much the question. It's the way I put it. The pro per method is to begin by tell ing me expert wnat you think. Like: "There is a considerable body of opinion in East Peoria, Sir Jocelyn, as confirmed by 16 Gallup polls, a WCTU survey and the entrails of a love-sick sheep, that . . ." And so forth. And if you go on for at least ten minutes, you can then ask him what the hell he was talking In the Day's News By FRANK The news could be more v. citing. But, in its way, it is inter esting. AN THE strategic Berlin free-way (which the Germans call an autobahn) the Russians sloped another of our Berlin bound convoys. They claim they have the right, whenever they choose to exercise it, to order U. S. troops to get out of the trucks and line up along the highway to be counted. Our story is that it is OUR SIDE that has the right to de termine under what circum stances we will order out troops to get oui ana oe counted. WHAT'S it all about? " It's a good guess that the Russkics are TESTING US OUT to see how far it is safe to go in ine way ot stirring up an other Berlin ruckus. If they think they have us scared, there will be no limit to how far they will go. THERE'S a new water diver sion program In the wind. The general manager of the Los Angles Department of Wa ter and Power is urging con struction of a 519-mile aqueduct 10 tap -surplus ' water in the Snake river, a tributary of the Columbia. The water would be taken out of the Snake at a point 20 miles northwest of Twin Falls, Idaho, and would be carried southward to Lake Mead, near Las Vegas. Nevada, and dumped into the Colorado, whence it would be delivered to Southern California. He claims the water, from Idaho could be delive(,'d to Southern California tar approx imately $32 in acre-foot, where Conflict No. 2 Man' has no objections In k.:.J labeled a "Marxist, Socialist ort Among Ben Bella's fnllnui.... I he has been the one most im J patient to carry out promises to aerie lanu irom me lonner Eu-I ropean setuers and divide it I among nis own ragged soldiers. miijt o4iuum uieoe lormer co-l lonialists stay rich while my! inaoaiii. auuy men, wno lought and died for seven and a half years, stay starving , rags?", he has' been reported as demanding . Boumedienne is a man who has been used by Ben Bella but kept carefully in the back ground. Whether his soldiers wouiu ioiiow mm against Ben Bella is anyone's guess. But ha is supposed to be U.A.R. Pres ident Abdel Gamal Nasser's no. i man in tne aen Bella gov ernment. And Nasser, an avowed enemy of Hassan, has no wish to see a Hassan-controlled Mo- rocco prosper., about. Because nobody will bt listening. Including the expert. Who will use his turn at the micropnone, anyway, to make a point he forgot to make in his speech. Such as the increased egg production in western Ox- torasnire. Of course, how you ask your ten-minute question depends on your nationality. If you are Spanish, you must include a aerense of Spain s economic de velopment. The Portuguese are different. They must include a defense of Portugal's colonial policy. The Italians just get emotional ana never, ever mention sta tistics. The French are nre. cisely the same except they're very belligerent about it. The Germans, on the other hand, must ao notning but cite fig ures in their ten-minute oues- tions. Which invariably take 20 minutes to ask, due to the length of German verbs and tlia requirement that any public statement in German must be soporific. As for the British, they don't care what they say as long as they phrase it pro perly. That leaves us Americans. Well, we just kind of bumble along, asking brief ouestions out of native curiosity and usu ally unintentionally offending one group or another. Honestly, wiui uie way we conduct our. selves at these international conferences, I can't understand how we Americans could poss ibly have a friend left in tht world. And -yet every nieht at tha bar after the sessions our Eu ropean friends gather warmly around us. Such surorisinolv forgiving people! Really, it's a privilege to keep on buying mem arinks. JENKINS as water from Northern Cali fornia would cost $44 per acre foot. WHAT would Idaho think of " the project? Well, so far, that doesn't seem to have been even con sidered. The idea appears to be just to go up in Idaho and take it. One suspects that Idaho's opinion of the project might not be printable. INTERESTING question: -1 Who owns the water? QUT HERE in the arid West, v we long held the idea that the states own the water within their borders. But the idea ap pears to be growing that the federal government owns the water and can do with It as it pleases. Which is to say: If the federal government owns the water and can do with it as it pleases, it can shift water from one area to another, regardless of what may happen to the areas from which the water might be shifted. , T'HE controlling theory, in lhat event, would be the great est good to the GREATEST NUMBER. Under that theory, populous Southern California might eventually be able to lay hands on all the "surplus" wa ter in the Pacific NorthwcsL Up in this corner of the na tion, we think that prior owner- snip of the water that falls from the skies in the form of rain and snow should rest in the hands of those whi ara NEAREST to the natural wa. ter supply.