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12 A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 111(13 MEDl'ORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Columbia Treaty Left-Handed Society Combats Right-Handed World's Demand Called Critical OTTAWA (UPI) Canadian- By A. E. HEFFERNAN United Press International MOBILE, Ala. (UPI) - Left handed Robert T. (Bob) Cowlcs American negotiations on the . comnlains its the wrong hand Columbia River treaty appear-(and that this world was made ed today to have reached a ' for the right-handed. critical stage that could threat en the proposed project s very existence. While spokesmen- (or both governments refused to go be yond the normal "constructive and useful" latitudes, authorita tive sources indicated closed door discussions which opened Monday were building to a de cision "one way or the other." One way obviously would be an inter-government agreement on the final outstanding issue of downstream benefit prices which, in turn, would clear the way for the Canadian govern ment to submit the three-year-old treaty for final parliamen tary ratification. The other was the threat that the long negotiations could break down altogether, with the So, he's organizing "The Left handed Association of America." At present, Cowlcs is presi dent and only member but in spare time from his printing business he prepares letters, mailing pieces and other propa ganda for a campaign to get 21 million other left-handers in the country benefits they deserve. Cowlcs listed a few: re-design ed watches, tools, outboard mo tor pull cords, guns, egg spat ulas and can openers. "The way I figure it," said Cowlcs, "money spends just as well in either hand and I believe the manufacturers could stimu late a great new boom in the economy by catering a little to the southpaws." Cowlcs said as he grew Horn United Stales possibly seeking ' childhood he began to realize Its own means lo meet some of the objectives now proposed through joint development. The key issue remained agreement on the price Canada would receve for selling its 50 per cent share of any power generated in the United States as a result of joint development. Freighter Salvage Contract Awarded : ASTORIA (UPI) - Pacific Inland Navigation Co., Vancou ver, Wash., has been awarded the job of salvaging the strand ed freighter C Trader and its cargo of 2.4 million board feet of lumber. The firm's lug, Peyaka, with two barges and a crane arrived at the vessel this morning lo begin preparation. The lug Sal vage Chief has been retained lo continue to hold the half-submerged C Trader while salvage operations begin. The vessel was stranded near the mouth of the Columbia Riv er after running into trouble off the coast last weekend. Some of the deck load of lum ber washed away and beach combers in the Fort Stevens area have salvaged much of it. the world was made for right- handed persons and he would just have to adapt. Cowlcs Adjusted "I adjusted to being left hand ed and maintained a fairly good disposition until World War II," said Cowlcs, 3!), married and father of three, who was draft ed into the infantry. , "First 1 had to go against my better judgment and salute with my right arm," Cowles COTTON'S BY-PRODUCTS SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) The by-products of cotton in clude ingredients that go into cosmetics, paints, soap, linol eum, explosives and phonograph records, according lo the Cali fornia Council of Growers. Kennedy Judgeship Choice Approved By United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Senate Judiciary Committee to day approved one of two still pending controversial federal judgeship nominations made by the late President Kennedy. The committee sent to the Senate the name of Detroit Po lice Commissioner George C. Edwards Jr., whom Kennedy picked to be a judge in the 6lh Circuit Court of Appeals. The circuit covers Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee. The Tennessee bar opposed the nomination because Ed wards was arrested as a sit-in striker in the early lfjlSO's and served a short jail term. The American Bar Association held that Edwards was qualified. Still lo he acted on by the committee is the nomination of David Rnbinovitz, a Sheboygan Wis., attorney, to be a fed eral judge in the Western dis trict of Wisconsin. said. "Someday I'm going to have that little trick changed so the lefty if he so desires can salute with his left arm. "The crowning glory of army life came when a big burly sergeant told me I would have to (ire my M-l rifle from the right shoulder. At this point I put my foot down and made it all the way to the regimental commander before I was allow ed to shoot from my left shoul der. I explained lo him lhat it would be my life lhat might be lost. I survived the war much to my delight." When To Switch Cowlcs said he had done ex tensive research about left handedness and found that 11 per cent of people are left handed. He said an aim of the left- handed association would be to gather information on left-hand-edness "to determine why we're left-handed and if we shouldn't be that is make left-handers switch to the other hand in babyhood. "Another very important aim is to make the general public aware of the difficulty of a left handed person living in this right-handed world. "But," Cowlcs vowed, "the most important aim of this asso ciation will be lo contact manu facturers in this country and get them to manufacture and mer chandise articles that don't fit and appeal strictly to right handed people." hands and let me know their ideas and suggestions." "are asked to raise their left "All in favor," Cowles said, Test Seen For White Minority By WILBUR G. LANDREY United Press International NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) -When Kenya becomes indepen dent, il will be African national ism's big test. It also will be the big test for 72-ycar-old Jomo Kcnyatla, the first prime minister of indepen dent Kenya, who was released only last year after nearly eight years in jail and restriction un der the British on a conviction of being implicated in Mau Mau terrorism. Kenya will be the 3t4h indc nendent African slate (not counting white-ruled South Afri ca), preceded a few days by the island of Zanzibar which be came 3,'lrd on Dec. 9. In African eyes only a few more states re main lo be "liberated. The test here will be Ihe fate of the white minority and the larger Asian minority under black government. Never be fore in Black Africa has an Af rican government taken over a country where the minorities are so large. The next targets oi Airican nationalism Southern R h o desia, Portuguese Angola and Mozambique and eventually South Africa have larger white populations than Kenya's They, and the world, will be watching what happens here. At midnight, Dec. 11, Kenyatta pulled down the Union Jack for the last time in the presence of the duke of Edinburgh as representative of the queen The lust bit of British red is gone from Ihe map of Easl Africa. when you I think of think gWEISFIELD'S of a land Christmas I Bulova watch I MOSl SlYttS 10 CHOOSt IRuM . MORI QUAlllY FOR YOUR M0NIY 4.00 A MONTH .Mini 111 fl m. Ml ML m m W YaVi Ml Alii fl pi pi! Jill p m m 17-JEWEL 'MISS AMERICA Youthful, (cminina and low-priced with shock-resistant movement, unbreakable mainspring, yellow gold color case and matching expansion bracelet. 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Thousands of whites have gone and many more will be going in the next few months as Africans lake over civil ; service jobs. Whether the exo- j dus becomes a flood will dc-1 pend on Kenyatta, the men around him, and luck. Kenya's population consists of i about 60,000 whites (the figure i once was 66,000) more than 8.5 I million blacks, 18,200 Asians, j mostly Indians, and some 40,000 ; Arabs. Among the Africans, ' there are nearly 1100 different tribes, some hostile to each Other. Kenya's African politicians know and arc sensitive to the fact that the elements are here for "another Congo." They are determined to pre-! vent it. And diplomats expect them to succeed. Kenyatta, the "Burning Spear" of Kenya African poli tics, has not, in the words of one British official here, "put a foot wrong since he became prime minister" last May fol lowing the victory of his Kenya African National Union (KANU) in nationwide elections. ; He has sought to assure the doubters among Europeans and Asians that tliey will have a i place in independent Kenya. J "Forget the past," of white colonialism and Mau Mau, he says. "Harambcc!" The thou sands which come to hear him thunder "Harambcc" in return. He is trying to make lhat the slogan of Kenya's independence. In Swahili, it means "all pull together." Tm going to stay, said one prominent farmer in the "while highlands." Farmers Slay "They need us and I'm going lo lake them at their word. I've worked for what I've gol here and people depend upon me." Kenya, in large part, does dc-; pond on the between 3,000 and : 4,000 while farmers who will remain in the former "w h 1 1 c 1 highlands." 11 is llicv who have contrib uted over 80 per cent of Ken ya's exports coffee, sisal, tea, wattle bark, meal and dairy produce, wool and cotton. Ken ya's main resources arc agri cultural and will continue to be. The whites have two years in which to make up their minds whether to become Kenya citi zens or not. Alter that, if they stay, they will have to accept Ihe disabilities that come from being foreigners. The choice for Kenya's and all Kast Africa's Asians is even more poignant. They came originally as laborers on the railway. And they multiplied. Control Commerce Today they control much of Ihe commerce. They make the wheels go around in Ihe civil service. They arc the artisans and skilled workers. They arc landlords. And they are afraid, because there is resentment against the trader and landlord. Africanization means that Alri cans will move up Ihe ladder of jobs. Kenyatta. with the economic future' of his country in muni, has been so "moderate" la dirty word in Airican nationalist pol itics) that there have been some grumblings among his own peo ple. Only his tremendous pres tige has restrained many, and he lowers over all other Afri can leaders here. Even so, there have been se cret oathings by a now terror society, Ihe Kamau Maithori, sometimes translated the "Weeping Smiths." another oft shoot, like Mau Mau and the j land Irrcdom army, o( Kcnyat ' la's Kikuyu tribe. South Airican farmers, among others, have been trekking south out of Kenya complaining about the security situation and Kikuyu squatters moung with out hindrance on to their lands. Other South African farmers, of course, hove slaved. i eSStiTL mm rjrj t ni 1 I "AG ldz I- X A wry:-- VILLAGE BLANKETED The Christmas Village in down town Ogden, Utah, is blanketed with snow in the wake of a storm that moved through Utah. Dominating the scene is a giant missile tree, featuring a Minuteman garlanded with more than 8,000 lights. (UPI) Oregon Spectator Said First Western Paper OREGON CITY, Ore. (UPI) The first newspaper published west of . the Rocky Mounla'iis was tiie Oregon Spectator which hit the streets for the first tima Feb. 5, 1846. Some students of western his tory say, however, the first newspaper was the longhand ed ition of the "Flumgudgeon Ga zette and Bumble Bee Budgct' which appeared a few months earlier. Narcotics Charge Is Dismissed by Judge SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI). Superior Court Judge Ray mond J. Coughlin dismissed a narcotics charge because a fed eral agent watched the suspect take a dose of the drug. 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