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NOT GOOD BUSINESS
; By Charles V. Stanton
Oregon's coastal area, -which two years ajjo stampeded
the Oregon Legislature into acting like a highway depart
ment, is trying to repeat. And let me say quickly that
there's no harm in trying !
An inexperienced Legislature two years ago earmark
ed highway money for specific projects. .. The Highway
Commission was ordered to put certain allocations on the
Coast Highway, Highway 42 and a proposed bridge across
the Columbia River near Astoria. Discretion was taken
entirely out of the hands of the Highway Commission. No
thought whatever was given a long established formula for
the distribution of highway revenue or the predetermined
program.
It is questionable that a Legislature with as much ex
perience as is evident at this session will again be starn
neded. A bad mistake was made two years ago. It is
indeed to be honed it will not
islators apparently are being drawn in by efforts to stir
up distrust of the Highway Commission.
It is to be expected that the coastal area will seek a
bigger share of appropriations for highway building. We'd
like to see more money spent here, too. One-third of the
Pacific Highway in Oregon is located in Douglas County,
but do we get one-third of the money spent on Highway
09? You bet we don't! But, oh boy, how we'd like to get
that much!
Must Be Firm
Members of the legislature were given the "How-to-Make-Friends-and-Influence-PeopIe"
treatment when they
were entertained by the Coast Highway Association. Good
public relations is an important factor in any battle. Coast
al areas also made a gdod presentation, before the Legisla
ture, criticizing the Highway Commission and urging a big
ger personnel. A larger commission would stimulate com
petition and, by provincial agreements, would take the
whole highway program out of objective direction.
It is quite apparent that no one is happy with the
Highway Commission. I can't think of a job that would
cause more local unhappiness. Each of us believes his
road is the most important road in Oregon; that his prob
lems are the biggest problems; that he is the most neg
lected. Any highway commissioner or engineer who
doesn't agree immediately is the target of criticism some
of it mighty intolerant.
But unless we work with and through the Highway Com
mission we might as well toss
organized program of highway development is concerned
If the Legislature is to
of the hands of the Highway
don the Highway Commission and let political competition
reign supreme! If the Legislature hasn't enough confid
ence in the Highway Commission to permit it to direct a
program, then we'd better have a new commission.
Support Needed
It lis my opinion that we have a good Highway Com
mission. Sure, it's tough! It must be tough if it would
survive the bitter competition for funds, as compared with
the limited amount of money available.
Rather than joining in criticism and fault finding con
cerning the Highway Commission, it is my belief the Leg
islature should commend the Commission for what it has
done and what it is doing, and give it the same measure
of loyalty that a, private employee would expect from a
good boss. :
" The big problem facing our Highway Commission is,
trying to make a limited amount of funds spread over a
W area. Money isn't nearly ample to do the job that
iiecds doing. '
; ' The solution, I believe, is to be found in making more
jnoney available to the Highway Commission. Instead, it
is proposed o split off part of its revenue for a separate
department of parks. One of the proposals before the Leg
islature is that it authorize- highway bonds, said bonds to
pe used for road building in specified locations.
An increase in money for the highway department is
fully justified, in my opinion, either through bonds or
otherwise, but I think it is a mighty big mistake for the
Legislature, basing its action on political pressure, to say
Where the money should be spent.
- Highway expenditures are presently based on engineer
ing studies, proven formulas, population needs, etc., and
not on politics. To upset that program because of provin
cial pleadings 1s not good business. .-
U.S. Prestige Polls Bared
On Order Of New President
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Two gov.
eminent polls which said V. S.
prestige declined last year in some
parts of the world were made pub
lic Friday on orders from Presi
dent Kennedy.'
The studies released bv the V.S.
Information Agency had figured in
the I960 election campaign. Much
of the two foreign opinion sam
plings had been published by sev
eral newspapers before the No
vember election.
' Secrecy labels were left on simi
lar studios conducted in the past.
- One of the studies, datrd Oct.
10, 1960. says that people in most
parts of the free world believe
that the Soviet Union is ahead of
America in space achievements
and will lead in spare 10 years
from now.
The oUier, dated June 1960
states that after the collapse of
the Paris summit conference last
May public opinion toward the
United Stales declined in Britain
and France. But both America
and President F.isenhower contin
ued to stand fur ahead in esteem
compared with the Soviet Union
and Premier Khrushchev, who
also lost in public favor.
The documents were referred to
frequently In the 19HO campaign
argument over U.S. prestige
aliroari.
Kennedy said American prestige
bad plunged under Eisenhower's
A
Ore. Mon., Jan. 30, 1961
be repeated. But some leg
in the towel,' so far as any
take the highway program out
Commission, then let s aban
rule. Vice President Richard M.
Nixon said U.S. prestige had hit
a new hiKU.
Kennedy demanded that the
I'SIA documents be made public,
hut the Eisenhower administration
refused.
Officials connected with the
studies felt then and many still
feel that the reports should be
kept secret. They contend that
the studies are the Internal work
ing tools for the agency, needed
to help draw an accurate picture
of how others see the United
States.
They say that the value nt
many of the studies would be
seriously breached, and opinions
would be less candidly expressed,
if the results were opened to pub
lic scrutiny.
A third report which figured In
the campaign and was "leaked"
to the press was dated Aug. 29,
lfltio. under the heading "free
World Views of the U.S.-iT.S.S.n.
Power Balance." The secrecy re
striclion remains on that docu-
! nienl. .. '
I The I'SIA acted after Kennedy
I told a questioner at his Wednes
I day night news conference:
i "I do think that it would he
helpful to release the polls which
were discussed last fall." Kenne
dy also said be had no objection
at ail to releasing the polls, or the
results of the polls.
In The Day's News
Br FRANK
In this space recently, this ques
tion was asked:
Did Melba, one of the great
operatic sinters of all time, live
or period of her life in our
State of Jclferson in i.iniiviiie,
perhaps, or in Klamath Falls after
the chance of name?
The answer seems to be that
Melba never lived here, but her
husband and their son did. The
husband was Captain Charles IS.
F. Armstrong. He lived here some
where around the turn n the cen
tury. Their son was with him at
this lime.
Melba was born (about 1861) in
Australia, near Melbourne. Her
christened name was Helen Porter
Mitchell, but when she became
world famous she adopted the
name Melba, in honor of Mel
bourne. She is known in the rec
ords as Nellie Melba. She began
to study the piano at the ace of
three, and sang to lier own ac
companiment when she was six.
In 1887, she made her European
debut in Brussels as C-ilda in Itig
olelto. The records of the Metro
politan Opera Association reveal
that in 1888 she married a Charles
Nesbit Armstrong, -said . to have
been the son of an Irish, baronet.
She made her American debut in
the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York. She remained with the
Metropolitan at irregular intervals
during five seasons. Her last ap
pearance with the Metropolitan
was during the season 191011.
The impression among people
who knew Captain Armstrong here
in the early days of Klamath Falls
is that he had married Melba in
Australia and had financed her
musical education. They incline to
the belief that when she became
world famous he couldn't take be
ing merely the husband of a cel
ebrity and urged her to retire from
the operatic stage, which she re
fused to do.
It is known that they separated.
James Marlovo
Real Control In Congress
Is In Conservative Hands
WASHINGTON (AP)-That an
cient struggle between a president
and Congress sometimes oiled
over, sometimes quietly sullen,
sometimes raw and bleeding be
gan anew today. . '
Like windswept Robert Frost's
poem. President Kennedy's tidy
inaugural address was the disci
plined expression of a spirit which
showed itself both human and
humane.
Much that he said Kennedy can
carry out on his own through the
powers of the presidency.
But on the broad meat-and-po-tatocs
level of government there
is much he can't do without the
help of Congress which must give
approval for Doth spending mon
ey and starting programs.
So today in his State of the
Union message Kennedy had to
come face to face for the first
time as president with a Congress
where he himself served 14 years.
Because' he knows it well he
knows the endless struggle to get
action on what he wants. Con
gress can be led easily only in
moments of frightening emergen
cy, like war or depression.
Presidents Roosevelt, Truman
and Kisenhower could bear wit
ness to this.
True, Congress is run by Ken
nedy's own Democrats because
they outnumber the Republicans.
But the real control is in the
hands of the conservatives of both
parties, as it has been for years.
Their policy is to move slowly,
If at all. Eisenhower learned that.
But he was a conservative, too,
and it is one reason he and Con-
OLCC Reports Revenues
PORTLAND AP) The Ore
gon Liquor Control Commission
reported Saturday that liquor rev
enues and liquor tax collections
in the slate last year total n,-
848.476.
The Cartoonist
JENKINS
There are some indications that
they were later reunited, but ap
parently the reconciliation ended
in failure and they scparted again.
It seems to have been agreed that
the son would be left with bis
father until he reached the age of
21, when he would be free to
choose which parent he wouid re
main with.
At any rate, he was with his
father here. He is described as a
frail youth, who needed the out
doors. The high, dry Klamath cli
mate seemed to be just what he
needed.
Captain Armstrong is described
by those who knew him here as of
the Lngnsn type, Dig, strong and
handsome. He was an amateur
boxer of great ability and spent
much time training his son as a
boxer. He is described as pleasant,
courteous, well-educated and "well
raised" a charming person. He
was generally believed to have
been an officer in the British army.
He was regarded as a man of
considerable means.
Interesting question!
How did Captain Armstrong
reacn Klamath country
There could be many answers
This fascinating region of our has
attracted all kinds of people ex
plorers. Indian fighters, gold seek-
ers, railroad builders, big business
people. But in this case there ap
pears to have been another reason.
Rex Borde, Uien owner of the
Borde ranch out toward Olene,
now owned by George Stevenson,
had apparently been associated
with Armstrong in the sheep busi
ness in Australia. That made the
Klamath country a natural place
to come. He was associated with
Mr. Borde in the sheep business
while he was here.
Anyway, that's the Melba story.
It is amply supported by many
people who knew Captain Arm
strong intimately while he lived
here.
gress got along so well.
Kennedy, despite his talk of
new frontiers, may turn out to be
no boat-rocker, either. He indicat
ed at his news conference last
week he intends to keep hands
off the inner workings of Con
gress. This may be taken to mean
he will avoid interfering publicly.
But he also knows that unless
he and his team pull the strings
behind the scenes his programs
will die in the cradle.
Since the war this country has
gone through two phases. It is not
clear yet whether the years ahead
will be a third one or a continua
tion of an old one.
The first was the postwar Tru
man phase which lasted eight
years. It was a turbulent time of
adjusting to peace, of labor strife,
inflation, industrial expansion,
trouble with Russia, even of sus
picion of the government itself in
the form of McCarthyism.
It was an era of transition from
terrible power, the atomic bomb,
to incredible power, the hydrogen
bomb. It was the time when
America finally abandoned isola
tionism for internationalism.
It was a period which cried for.
and got, innovations in the form
of foreign aid, military alliances,
and bases around Russia.
Kisenhower apparently looked
on himself not as an innovator
but as a restorer of peace at home
and a preserver of peace abroad.
He tried nothing really new but
America became prosperous and
there was no war.
His was also the time when the
world moved into the jet and mis
sile age. It was a time when this
country and Russia, while avoid
ing war, consolidated forces and
prepared for what might become
war.
At this point Kennedy steps in.
There is peace at home but the
world, still without war, is in
upheaval.
Savs:
Follow the Leader
Hal Boyle
One Million Operations Yearly
Performed By Surgeons In U. S.
NEW YORK (AP)-Things a
columnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
People take health for granted,
but the surgeon's knife still waits
for most, early or late.
We are 180 million people, and
about one million operations are
done a year, of which some 10
per cent are still for the removal
of tonsils or adenoids.
If your son objects to house
hold chores as "sissy," you can
tell him that ex heavyweight
champ Jack Dempscy, who threw
some of the fastest and fiercest
fists in boxing history, as a boy
helped his mother do the laundry.
Caution to cat or dog owners:
be careful of a "runny-nosed"
child in your neighborhood.. It can
infect your pet.
Food for the future: A Canadian
scientist has found that bees, like
beefsteak, are easy to prepare
and are highly nutritious. Well,
if you want a little more sting
in your omelet!
Looking for something to cele
brate? How about the 85th anni
versary of the first U. S. silc,
built in Maryland in 1876?
Our quotable notables: "We
suppose there is hardly a man
who has not an apple orchard
tucked away in his heart some
where." Christopher Morlcy.
College Education At Cost
The high cost of higher educa
tion:. Bennington College, a Ver
mont institution, puts this price
tag on your daughter's learning
for one year $2,650 a year.
Whether you can afford it or not,
that is what it actually costs the
college.
Feel overworked and under
paid? The average wage in India
Criticism Made At Coast Meet
False, Says State Road Engineer
SALEM (AP) Oregon Highway
Engineer W. C. Williams said Fri
day criticisms made against the
state Highway Department at a
recent Oregon Coast Association
sponsored meeting in Salem were
false.
Williams answered the criti
cisms point-by-point at the request
of the state Highway Commission
at its meeting today.
In reply to stale Sen. R. F.
Chapman, D-Coos Bay, Williams
said that the Highway Depart
ment did furnish correct cost esti
mates on Coast Highway construc
tion from Brookings to Gold
Beach.
Chapman had said that the
Highway Department had told
him $3.4 million was available,
Western Nations
Warned To Heed
Freedom Spread ,
CHICAGO (AP)-rThe president
of the U. N. General Assembly,
Irish Ambassador Frederick Bo
land, said Friday night that West
ern nations are "sometimes loyal
to one another at some cost to
the common cause."
Sneakine at a meeting spon
sored by the Catholic Conference
on Working Life, Boland said the
whole future of human freedom
and civilization as we know it will!
be determined largely by what
happens in the coming years in
Asia, Africa and Latin America.
He said, "We in the west should
give closer attention to tne tact
that in the Afro-Asian world the
spirit of nationalism is not only
local but continental.
The indifference of some West
ern democracies in regard to Al
geria's straggle for independence
is as strongly resented in Jordan
and Beirut as it is in Cairo and
Baghdad.
'Western support of 1'orluguese
colonial policies inevitably dam
aged the prestige ol the western
democracies in the eyes of Africa
and the Afro-Asian world as a
whole
is 50 annually.
We re not sure
just what this
proves, but the Hotel Edison here
found that its men guests spent
more time on the phones than did
the women. (Our conclusion: The,'
Ul.ll fiatblltllB III WUIIICU.
Next to the common cold and
its buddies such as the flu di
gestive ailments keep more peo
ple from their jobs than any ma
jor disease. The toll is hard to
stomach: 50 million lost working
days each year.
How much does your medicine
cost you? The price of the aver
age prescription today is $3.
Here's something new to brood
about if you're tired of old wor
ries. Some researchers feel that
gravity, the force that holds the
world together, is getting weaker,
(and who isn't?)
More Wom.n In Jobs
Woman's work is but begun: In
1900 only 14 per cent of American
women between the ages of 35 to
64 years had jobs outside the
home. Today well above 40 per
cent do.
Memo to the younger genera
tion: We are informed that the
name of a truant officer in an In
diana town was Mary Will
Ketchum.
It is healthy to be friendly. A
psychiatric study found that even
so-called normal people some
times show marked neurotic
symptoms after as little as three
hours of isolation.
No one can truthfully call us
"dirty capitalists" This country
makes 2,300,000 bathtubs a year.
It was Arthur Wing Pinero who
observed, "Those who love deep
ly never grow old; they may die
of old age, but they die young."
but that another $12.6 million was
needed to build the Coast High
way from Brookings to Gold
Beach.
After the legislation was passed
for bonding at $12.6, Chapman
said, the Highway Department
came up with ap $18 million total
cost estimate.
Williams said the first request
for a cost estimate on the project
came Feb. 25 from Vern Ayers of
the Coast Association.
Williams said the Highway De
partment replied Feb. 27 that it
would cost an estimated $18,340,
000.
He said the bill was introduced
in the House April 25 for the bonds
and the detriment gave the
chairman of Uie House Highways
Committee a detailed breakdown
of the $18 million figure at that
time.
Williams said the bill passed
the House May 2 and then passed
the Senate May 10 providing for
the Bonds.
The Highway Commission Dec
6 approved the remainder of .the
needed funds for the highway
from Meyer's Creek to Burnt Hill
so the stretch can be completed,
Williams said. He 'added that in
the light of bids, it appears the
construction will cost slightly less
than the $18 million estimate.
In reply to criticisms that right-of-way
had not been purchased
from Cape Sabastian to Meyer's
Creek, Williams said it had been
purchased and construction wis
neaiiy 10 per tent vuniLueieu.
Yule Cards Being Sent
To Incorrect Address
GRANTS PASS (AP) Mrs.
Mary Waters of the Grants Pass
area hasn't been receiving some
of the used Christmas cards
which have been sent to her from
throughout the nation.
That is because of confusion
about her address.
She lives on Pleasant Valley
Road, about eight miles north of
Grants Pass. Some persons have
mailed bundles of Christmas
cards to her at Pleasant Valley,
Ore. a community in Eastern
Oregon's Baker County.
Mrs. Waters makes over the
old Christmas cards every year
and sends them to veterans hos
pitals. Mrs. Waters said she has re
ceived many bundles of cards ad
dressed simply: Christmas Lady,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Reapportionment Only
House Stumbling Block
ONTARIO. Ore. (AP) Speak
er of the Oregon House of Rep
resentatives Hubert Duncan, 1)
Medford, said Saturday that the
stale legislature is 2'i weeks
head of where it was at the last
session.
Duncan was in this Eastern
Oregon city to address a banquet
celebrating the inauguaration of
President Kennedy.
He said the only stumbling
block he could forsee was the
question of reapportionment.
Other guests at the banquet in
cluded W. E. Drevlow, lieutenant
governor of ldahoo, and Idaho
Land Commissioner John Wal
ters, chairman of the Idaho Dem
ocratic Party.
First World War Pilot
Succumbs In California
PALO AI.TO. Calif. (AP) -Claire
P. Holdredge, 65. an en
gineering geologist and one of the
first airplane pilots to enlist in
World War I., died Saturday af
ter a long illness in the Veterans
Administration hospital.
He led expeditions into Vene-
'""' s'liumu niu-i nun? air. Morgan, one nf the voung
search of raw rubber resources ! mrn who restored the Democratic
and into the Belgian Congo as a i p,rty to vigor in Oregon, natural
member of a diamond mining or-v is suspect in this appointment
ganiration. Br advocates of privately owned
Holdredge was a native of Go- power development. He "is a ded
shen. Ore , and a graduate of the'icated foe of "private monopoly"
I niversity of Oregon. His widow, ! and an enthusiast lor federal and
Helen Holdredge, is a San Fran- j local public power developments.
Cisco author. (The FPC licenses and to an ex-
Editorial
BEWARE THE BEAR
WHEN HE SMILES
Eugene Register-Guard
Tka rlramalie retum Of tWO
American airmen who have been
jn Russjan prisons since July may
ib re.ardcd as a "peaceful step'
L. f ihe Kremlin. And
, he But we should not
h Heeeived. The Russian return
of these two men is but a step in
the cold war. Coming as it did in
the first week of a new American
administration, the release of the
prisoners may be regarded as a
buttering tip of Mr. Kennedy and
his ofticial family. Americans
should not forget that we have
been buttered up before.
What the Russians were saying,
without quite putting it into words,
was that Russians are really nice
fellows who are willing now to be
friendly as all get out with the new
administration. It was the old ad
ministration that they were mad
at. Now, the Russians are saying
in effect, we can an ue nsnu
again and Uncle Sam can slop
being so vigilant.
Beware the bear when he smiles.
All the evidence, in the United
Nations and elsewhere, suggests
that these fliers were illegally im
prisoned in the first place. Return
ing them to America is not a
favor to them or to America. It
is what should have been done
months ago. That they are now
being returned is less a sign of
Soviet agreeability than it is an
admission that the Russians were
wrong all along.
And how about the other four?
How about the one who died and
whose body was returned? And
how about the three, the three
whose fate is unknown? If the
Russians are really so agreeable,
will they explain that? And, if
everything is to be so friendly now,
how long will it take for the Rus
sians to put some pressure on the
Chinese for the return of Ameri
cans imprisoned in China?
We've been soft-soaped before
by these people. It was only a little
more than a year ago that Khrush
chev himself was over here being
the jolliest fellow in America. We
were not yet back to that spot on
the calendar before he was har
anguing the United Nations in a
display of beastly temper and Ma
chiavellian disregard of human dig
nity. The frown and the smile are
quickly interchangeable, as witness
Ihe attitudes toward summit con
ferences, as witness Berlin, as
witness the history of more than
40 years of Communist machina
tions.
We're Elad the boys are coming
home. We're fllad for them and
for their families. But we cannot
forffet the other four, nor the ones
in China, nor the whole story of
Russia's flip-flop from war-time
allv to cold war adversary. We
shall relax and smile with the
Russians only when they have
smiled long enough to show that
they have ceased to regard brief
humanitarian episoaes as weap
ons in a cold war.
NAMES IN THE NEWS
Saltm Oregon Statesmen
The new administration is mov
ing to fill in the slots in the lower
echelons of autnorny. luesuay
came announcement by Secretary
of the Interior Udall of the se
lection of men to administer of
fices of genuine importance to the
West. Fortunately they are men
who know and are known by the
West. Karl S. Landstrom a native
of Lebanon, has been named di
rector of the Bureau of Land Man
agement, one of the biggest divi
sions in the department. Landstrom
is a "career man in government
A graduate of the University of
Oregon (M.A. 1932), he was first
employed in the U.S. Department
of Agriculture. Alter tne war ne
worked in the BLM office in Port
land as regional chief of lands and
minerals, leaving there in 1953 to
join the staff in the Washington
office. The BLM administers the
public domain lands and the O&C
revested lands. He succeeds lid
ward Woozley who was appointed
to the position by the late Doug
las McKay.
Another Interior department pos
ition goes to Charles F. Luce, Wal
la Walla lawyer, to be adminis
trator of Bonneville Power. Luce
was on the BPA legal staff in the
1940s so has had experience in the
work of mis agency which distrib
utes power from federal projects
over the Northwest.
Still unfilled is the critical pos
ition of Commissioner of Indian
Affairs. Vie note that Secretary
Udall has named W. W. Keeler,
executive vice president of Phil
lips Petroleum Co., as a special
consultant on Indian affairs. Keel
er is a principal chief of the Chero
kee Indians, though the tribe was
dissolved over half a century ago.
He is highly esteemed bv the In-
dians and has been very success
ful in business. He will be an ex
cellent adviser to Secretary Udall
in charting the policy of the depart
ment in maian mailers. Keeler is
a member of the study commission
on rights and responsibilities of
the Indians, of which this editor is
a member. He has been a verv
valuable member of this cominis.
sion which is now in process of
concluding its work. This is a pe
riod of transition for Indians. How
they may lie directed and aided on
the path to acculturation with the
surrounding society, with an up
lift of their economic, social and
physical health, is central to the
work of the Interior department
and to Congress as it legislates
on Indian matters.
MORGAN COULD HELP
Portland Orogonian
The moans nf shock, anguish and'
pleasure which have been Oregon's
response to the appointment of!
Howard Morgan to the Federal
Power Commission give some in
! dicatinn of the significant role that
I government agency has played
and will play in Oregon's economy.
The vigorous opposition to Mr
I Morgan also may forecast a fight
'asunst his confirmation by the Sen
' ate.
Mr. Morgan, one nf the
Comment
tent regulates both private and lo
cal public power projects, and
thus gets into such controversies
'as the Washington PUDs' applica
; tion vs. Ihe private Utilities' appli.
cation for conflicting licenses to
I build Nez Perce and Mountain
j Sheep dams.
As a legislator, Democratic stale
chairman and Oregon public ulil
I ities commissioner, Mr. Morgan
sometimes left the impression that
he was conducting a political cru
sade against private enterprise.
Most who know him well give him
credit for sincerity. It seems to be
his nature, however, not to credit
the sincerity of opponents. He has
made enemies not only by attack
ing what he believed to be wrong,
but in the way he did it. He has
a knack for insulting people.
Regardless of Mr. Morgan's rec
ord of controversy, we fail to see
that his membership on the FPC
will make that autocratic body
more high-handed than before. The
FPC blows with the political wind
of the presidency, with a sharp
eye to Congress. Perhaps its worst
fault is its refusal to take into
consideration the broad require
ments for regional water use and
its narrow dedication to the cost
benefits ratio of the project before
it. Surely, it may be hoped that
Mr. Morgan will at least be
aware of the imperative need for
consideration of the many uses
of water besides power, and of
power sources alternative to hydro
electricity. He could perform a
great service for Oregon and Ihe
nation by helping to broaden (he
Federal Power Commission's out
look on water resources.
LIGHT IS TOO SLOW
Salem Oregon Statesman
Communication via stationary
satellites above the earth has run
into unexpected difficulty.
Satellites orbiting above the
equator at the same speed as the
earth is traveling will appear to
remain stationary in the sky. Tele
phone and radio messages could
be bounced off the satellite, pro
viding a dependable means of long
distance communication. In order
to make the satellite "stay in one
place" it must be 22,500 miles high.
At that distance, a message would
be in transit about half a second,
travelling at the speed of light.
Scientists experimenting with
conversation delayed in this man
ner, found themselves stumbling
over one anotner veroaily. it re
I suited in an awkward, halting in
Iterchange of speech. The half
I second intervals interfered with
i free flow of thought.
It soon became obvious that the
speed of light, at which the mes
sages travel simply isn't fast
enough for the purpose. Now
there's a challenge for our scien
tists. Let's beat the Russians by
being the first to break the light
barrier.
White House Office
Takes Informal Air
WASHINGTON; (AP) - Presi
dent Kennedy is going in "tor less
formality in his White House of
ficelogs burning in the fireplace,
flanked by two comfortable sofas,
with a coffee table in between.
Kennedy has had the oval presi
dential office repainted from pale
green to off-white . and ordered
pictures of George Washington
and other historical predecessors
removed in favor of stirring naval
battle scenes.
Reporters got a weekend look
at the executive office after Ken
nedy vetoed the green walls which
had. just been freshly redone for
him in the same color favored by
former President Dwight D. Ei
senhower. Kennedy has on his desk some
bookends left over from Eisen
hower. They feature gold eagles
mounted on a navy blue base with
five gold stars the insignia of a
general of the army. The book
ends hold a copy of the Bible, a .
world Almanac and two books '
written by Kennedy himself.
On Kennedy's desk are the be
ginnings of what looks like a com
fortable permanent clutter: a co
conut shell war memento, a fa
vorite pair of daggers paper
weight and an ash tray to service
his occasional cigars.
The coconut shell, encased in
plastic, is the, one scratched with
an SOS message which Kennedy
sent with a native for help when
he was marooned on a Pacific
island after his PT boat was cut
in two by a Japanese destroyer
during World War II.
Photographing Practice
Nixed By NLRB Order
S4V VP a vricrn i ax A
National Labor Relations Board
examiner Friday recommended a
citation of unfair labor practices
against Harvev Aluminum nml
General Engineering at The
imies, ure.
The Dnitprt StlpMuirtrlri'i-a lTninn
haH aerilciH iho fi,-m nt nhnln.
graphing, or appearing to photo
graph, employes as they were
receiving pamphlets from the
union while it tried lo organize
the plant from 1958 to 160.
Harvey officials contended that
the distribution of the literature
slowed traflic at a train crossing
and they took the pictures for
evidence in the event of a damage
suit.
Examiner James R. Heming
way recommended the firm he
ordered to stop the practice. He
said he believes the company
mild hava lrnnn.lt lh& nf
photographing would create in the
minds of employes an apprehen
sion of surveillance.
HEMORRHOIDS
(Piles)
and oihr ono-rectal disorders
corrected by the latest oo
proved electronic techniques.
Descriptive booklet on request.
E. R. REYNOLDS
N.O.O.C.
Practice of Proctology
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tuieno, Orefon