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O rear MzproB (Reooio mail tjiibuhe Officials in When Taxpayer Will Get a Break By CJ.YLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washin gton OI.R) There is disagreement among officials who should know best as to when if ever t h Ameri can taxpayer will get a break. More over, the officials who believe 'a tax cui may come relative ly soon are Lyi c. wuion outnumbe red and outranked by official who cannot see a tax cut coming for Tr long timeO PresidenLJasenhower is among O those whojbelieve government spending rriay continue to climb, and, if he is correct in that, tax O cuts are a long way off. Ir. Eis Oenhower is supported by Budget Director Pftfcival F. Brundage. q Treasury Secretary George M. O Humphry ns fearful that the President and Brundage may prove-' to beriht. Humphrey predicts ewaomit disaster for tlie tfliitrd States unless taxes and spending are reduced. He dot not forecast disaster tomor q row or next day. c 0 Humphrey's argument is that the long nnul United States, trend O of high taxes and big spending Will get tlt country into serious 0 trouble in time. Budget Director O q Brundfcg- estimates that tax re duction is tUree1 to five years cro o Norblad Only Northwesterner To Get in on c By A. SOBEHT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The only Pacific Korthwesterneie to get in on the red carjet treatment given the King of Saudi Arabia here this pa at week was Rep. Wal t e r Norblad, whe? d i i c o v- SJ7 ered the Arabs H would rather talk politics than eat. Attending a a. Roht. smith luncneon giv- Cen by Vice President Nixon for iris VJ King Saud, Congressman Nor blad T(uind the sheik he sat ' between trying so hard to get liim into a discussion of the Near ;istc crisis thaV, they hardly Tuucheo, their fod. JFillet mig 1 non. vet. O'orblad, who figured the rea son hewa invited is that he is (pn thfr' House Armed Services Committee, refused to be drawn Ointo th political powwow on intexiaUwiaW, delicacies. He'd ratfter" ant tbfcn talk politics. Clhe sTieik next, to him turned down baked Alaska for dessert and onhr ate a spoonful of rice and pK, saM the congressman. Qfe said it certainly Visn't be Many Govornor's Mansions Be Castles as Chicani (U.R) Many "first families" across the nation said today thaV theirCstate executive mansions, which look lik,e state ly castles r-to tfce" voter on the streetQ are tumble-down arch itectural monstrosities lacking in the basic? comfort of home. Most gMernors and their wives took a more 'diplomatic tack than Gov. Jans T. Blair Jr., of Missouri, who flatly balk ed at moving into the show-me state's wormeaten, 1870-vintage official residenqg. Plenty of Company But Blair ha plenty of com pany in misery, a United Press survey showed. Many governors thejr wives or aides told similar stories high ceiling rooms are drafty, walls are cracked, the paint is peeling, ejhe plumbing leaks. Patchwork repairs h.a v e been piled on (fctrwork repairs. The average age of the gover nors' homes is almost 70 years. The newest is Florida's $350,- Pric Fixing Indianapolis, td. (U.R) Pitman-Moore Co. has denied a congressman's charge that it and other manufacturers are engaged in fixing the price of Salk polio vaccine. John R. Jewett assistant to the president $f Pitman - Mdbre, issued the denial Sunday in re ply to a charge by Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis.). . Reuss has asked for a Justice Department inquiry into alleged price collusion among Salk ser um manufacturers. Reuss said 11 identical bids had been received in Milwaukee from four manufacturers and seven local distributors. He RED WAGON RIDER Glen Arbor. Mich. U.P.) The Glen Arbor Fire Department's latest addition to its staff is a firewoman." Mrs. Jack Rader, a nnrp will en out on call with the truck to care for fire vie- tims. Disagreement Over away. That is a long time, per haps time enough to put Hum phrey's theory to a test. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. (It Mass.) is one of those who ex pects substantial tax reduction soon. "It will come," he said recent ly, "because we will carefully screen our spending and elimi nate waste and extravagance." Martin has served more than 30 years in Congress. He is the Republican leader of the House, a former speaker, a powerful man. Martin should know what he is talking about, which may be some comfort to taxpayers, but, so should the President, Humphrey, Brundage and others know, too. Someone Obviously Wrong Someone is wrong about tax cut chances. That is obvious. Ob vious, too, is that Martin's' pre scription for careful screening to eliminate waste and extrava gance from government spending would accomplish wonders. There is no assurance, however, that spending will be so screened or that waste and extravagance will be eliminated. A better bet would be that waste and extravagance will be doing business as usual when all the individuals now talking and writing about taxes are long dead. Waste and extravagance are almost built into govern ment spending. That is partly because the spenders are using other people's money. Nixon's Party for Saud cause the Arab preferred ex otic foods straight out of the tales of the Arabian Nights, Nor blad felt sure, because 14 months ago he had dinner with King Saud in his palace at Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia. "That was strictly a meat and potatoes affair," recalled Nor blad, "not even music." Nixon's luncheon was strictly social in purpose, with the red- jacketed U.S. Marine band play ing string music in the back ground. Four hefty bodyguards flanked the king, but aides said their pistols contained only cer emonial bullets. All the king's food was tasted in advance by the royal food taster. Lady Finds Answers When the king and his retinue arrived in Washington, it was a blustering, freezing day for the men of the desert. This led to the inevitable question: what does a sheik wear under his bur noose? Leave it to a keen-eyed lady correspondent, Bonnie Angelo of Newsday, to find the answer. "They were wearing pin striped suits," she assured me when I expressed concern about the cold winds blowing off the Potomac across Washington's na tional airport. "And -one, I no- Seen by Voter 000, air-conditioned structure, built after former Gov. Fuller Warren - complained as he was struck repeatedly by falling plaster in his bedroom. Gov. Leroy Collins will occupy the spanking new mansion by mid March: New Jersey's is Oldest The oldest is New Jersey's 255-year-old colonial mansion, Morven, deeded to the state in 1954 by the late Gov. Walter E. Edge. It was renovated at a cost of $276,000 for incumbent Gov. Robert B. Meyner. Blair skipped out of Miss ouri's mansion after he and his wife stayed in it one night. He called its many stairs "cardiac hill" and said it was uncomfor table, cold, ill-liglTted and un safe. "It's a dump," State Sen. John W. Noble agreed. Indiana's Gov. Harold W. Handley said the mansion into which he moved in January was "in a heck of a shape" but he on Salk Polio Vaccine Denied quoted from a letter sent by Jewett to a New York distribu tor for Pitman-Moore who had submitted a lower bid and then withdrawn it. ' In the letter Jewett said "since you fail to abide with our price structure, it will be impos sible for us to make delivery.". Puerto Rico-Bound Plane Turns. Back New York (U.R) A Pan American Worid Airways DC6B with 58 persons aboard develop ed mechanical difficulties yester day shortly after taking off for Puerto Rico and was forced to return to New York. The plane was carrying 51 passengers, including two in fants, and seven crew members. Pan American arranged for the passengers to be transferred to another DC6B. All of the pass- engers continued the journey. Tuesday. February S. 1957 Other people's money is a lot easier to spend than your own. There also is a well-founded po litical theory that big govern ment spending reaps a harvest of votes. A notable figure in the Roosevelt administration once denied that he had been over heard to remark at a horse track that the New Deal system was based on this: ' "Tax and tax. spend and spend, elect and elect." A publication of "The Tax Foundation" of New York illu minates the tax bite on the av erage Joe like this: "The average S4.500 - a - year man must work two hours and 26 minutes of his eight-hour day to pay his taxes. More time is spent working for taxes than for food and other items." Shoes Sold, Bought The same source relates that the Air Force in 1955 sold near ly 100,000 pairs of gymnasium shoes and surplus goods for which the government had no more use. The Army some months later sold more than 7,000 pairs of what were de scribed as surplus athletic shoes. In the same general area of time, the Navy was buying more than 8,000 pairs of what were described as basketball shoes. Then, again, maybe they were. If so, somebody goofed and the taxpayer picked up the tab. Rep. Martin might start with something like that' in his screening process. ticed, was even wearing long underwear." The visit of King Saud has touched off what is probably the driest period of days this liquor- logged capital has seen in a long time. The king, who has more la dies in his harem than he can count, is strictly a goat's milk drinker. No hard liquor for him when he wants to live it up. Nor cigarettes. When they were all drinking toasts to one another at a dinner given 'by John Foster Dulles, the waiters filled the glasses with orange juice. Wait 'til' the Russians come to town, and even things up with vodka by the barrel. Maybe the king's visit will help the poor cattlemen who have been complaining lately about depressed beef prices. The king's six-year-old son. Prince Mashhur Saud, even with all the king's millions, usually dines on lamb and camel meat back home. "He seems to love steak," said a royal aide. "All he wants is steak and more steak." Having discovered America's luxury meat, who with a $300 million annual income would go on munching camelburgers? Found Not To on Street didn't want to stir up too much of a fuss. "I can hold an umbrella over my head while I read a news paper if I have to," he told news men. Termites, neglect and ravages of time have nearly accomplish ed what the Yankees failed to do to South Carolina's historic old "Governors House" on Arsenal Hill in Columbia. Gov. George Bell Timmerman Jr. and his wife moved out last fall so the state could build a new roof, replace rotted rafters and termite-riddled floors. New Utah Mansion In Salt Lake City, Gov. George D. Clyde asked the 1957 Utah Legislature to appropriate funds for a new house. The Leg islature turned the former man sion over to the State Historical Society in 1955 after former Gov. J. Bracken Lee complained it was too big and drafty. The Kentucky Finance De partment declared last summer that Gov A. B. (Happy) Chandl er's massive, white-pillared man sion was in dangerous condi tion and approved expenditure of S42.300 for emergency re pairs. A legislative committee reported the building was a ramshackle firetrap. Nebraska 's Gov. Victor Anderson refused to move into the state's old mansion when he was inaugurated two years ago. Now the state is building a S200.000 home. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Bank Holdup Man Signs Confession Portland (U.R) Martin Talbert, 32, Portland, Sunday gave police a signed confession that he staged the daring holdup of the SW 6th ave., and Morri son St., branch of the First Na tional bank of Portland last Fri day. Talbert was arrested Saturday on a drunk complaint after po lice had been searching for him in connection with the $930 rob bery. In the signed statement, Tal bert said "ie thrust the holdup note he had written on the back of a bank counter check through a cage window, then grabbed up a handful of $10 bills when it appeared the woman teller was stalling. At the time of his arrest Tal bert did not have the money and told police he had spent part of it on liquor and lost the remainder in a gambling game. 23 Catholic Missionaries Said Still in Red China Rome iU.R) Only 23 Catholic missionaries remain in Commu nist China today and seven of them are in prison, according to the Catholic news agency Fides. The agency noted that perse cution of the church by Chinese Communist authorities had wit tied the number of foreign eclesiastical personnel in China from 5,506 in 1948 to a bare handful today. Sweet Home (U.R) Thieves broke into the Elks club here Sunday and stole $1200. "Coke' to a reaistmd tid-mrfc. ft ? M - . I i wm. J . - . . ... A I 1 ll.l ir t! - -i i Mfc i flin.tfinm.inir I ttlllirtllrtuffl H W i if llp pj Regular-Slza Medical Profession Told To Watch Step BY DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Even the most useful of the so-called "mir acle drugs" can do unforeseen, complicating and occasionally fatal things to body chemistry. Two doctors have just told the profession to watch its step with j cortisone. What cortisone can do is stymie the body's chemical de fenses against infection-causing bacteria and so permit death dealing mocroorganizims to take over. Every doctor must know of the possibilities but it has never been sufficiently "em phasized" in medical literature, said Drs. Frank P. Smith and E. A. Cleve. They gave it no little em phasis in reporting six cases of theirs in which this very thing seemed to have happened, with fatal results in three. They also cited a little-known recent, ex periment with rabbits which demonstrated rather clearly what could happen. Rabbits Died The experimenter was Dr. L. Thomas. He injected living streptococci into rabbits which are naturally "resistant" to those bacteria. The site of infection became inflamed, showing the response of their chemical defenses, and there was prompt healing and recovery. But when injections of streptococci were preceded- by injections of cortisone, the re sult was quite different. For a few days the rabbits seemed healthy. Suddenly they KIng Bottled CatvHaM ItH TSe Cm-Gala in Use of died. Microscopic studies re vealed that their bodies had been "converted into living cul ture mediums" for streptococci. Pretty much the same thing had happened in the six human cases, the doctors said. The six occurred in the Gor gas Hospital in the canal zone where the doctors are staff members. Dr. Cleve is a colonel in the Army's Medical Corps. Their re port was given wide circulation in the profession through the New England Journal of Med icine. Cortisone is a hormone of the cortex of the adrenal gland which is made synthetically in chemical laboratories. It has a number of man-made deriva- WOULD BAN HAREMS Rabat, Morocco (U.R) The weekly magazine of the powerful i .Moroccan Independence party urged today that harems and polygamy be banned irom Mor rocco. "We want full equality between men and women, and we want the abolition of poly gamy, which is a worn-out con ception of the family," said an article on the women's page. Val Disere, France (U.R) France's biggest ski resort here reported today it will install the latest in ski lifts a helicopter. The whirlybird will be used to whisk expert skiers to altitudes untouched so far by conven tional lifts. It will be used on a trial basis when the spring ski season opens Feb. 20. I want you to have my Souvenir Record from Coke Time" I'M WALKING BEHIND YOU LADY OF SPAIN : ' DOWN-HEARTED only - Slz under authority of Th Coca-Cold Compony by COCA-COLA BOTTLING .. Cortisone tives, and the doctors specified that they were talking about all members of the "cortisone fam ily." - Cortisone and its derivatives are widely used in the treatment of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions and their temporary effect sometimes is miraculous. The reporting doctors pointed to the absence of evidence that they ever get at the cause of disease and bring about a cure. "Rather," they said, "corti sone modifies the response of the host to the disease, and this may be of advantage in certain situations. But it would be expected that modification of the host's reac tion might also suppress certain beneficial defense mech amisms." This, they said, had been demonstrated by animal experi ments, by their six cases, and by a scattering of similar re ports in the literature. There fore, "emphasis" was needed and caution. MEETING LONE PINE SCHOOL FRIDAY, FEB. 8th, - 7:30 P.M. For the discussion of legal action required for the annulment of the annexation to Medford of that part of the Lone Pine Distrftt extending from Buckshot Hill Road, North to Roberts Road and from Spring brook Road East to Brookdale Road. Attorney Kelly will address the meeting. WISH YOU WERE HERE OUTSIDE OF HEAVEN f"LL HOLD YOU IN MY HEART YOURS THIS EASY WAYI Six favorites you've heard Eddie sing on "Coke Time" now on one record. You'll want to play them and hear them again and again! And you can! Purchase Coca-Cola at your favorite store and get the special coupon for this offer on every package. Fill it in and mail it with 25(. Your . record will be sent to you promptly ... a prize addition to your collection. "Bring home the Coke!" . . . and Bend for your record today! Standard RCA Victor extended play 45 rpm 7-inch record not available in music stores. "BRING HOME THE COKE" 'Nothing like that real great taste, that bright little lift, to put you at your sparkling best! 50 million times a day somebody . . . somewhere ... pauses for refreshment . with Coca-Cola. Family-Six Morse-McKay net Third Mosl Ceilly Washington (U.R) The Morse - McKay campaign for the U.S. Senate was the third most costly Senate campaign in the nation. The election cost $363,879, a Senate elections subcommittee has reported. The report disclosed that $149,104 was spent for Morse and $214,775 for McKay. The expenditure for Senate races in Oregon was only top ped by those spent in New York and California. The committee report also said that the Republican campaign organizations received d 24 con- tributions in excess of $500 from Oregonians, while only 13 such contributions were received by the Democrats. Hollywood (U.R) : Jerry Prod, 19, got into trouble with a motorcycle officer Sunday while shaving. Prod, racing to work, was ticketed for reckless driving for trying to steer his car and shave with an electric razor at the same time. i CO. of MEDFORD t
