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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,
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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
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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
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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.