10 Navy Plane
Crewmen Saved in
Pacific Ditching
Honolulu UFD All 10 crew
men of a Navy Neptune patrol
plane were rescued "in good
condition" early today after
they were forced to ditch their
burning plane in the Pacific
ocean 170 miles southwest of
Oahu.
The men were picked up by
the ubmarine USS Bream at
1:11 a.m., four and one-half
hours after they ditched the
two-engine plane and boarded a
life raft.
The Navy said none of the
crewmen was injured.
The plane, attached to Patrol
Squadron 23, was on a routine
training flight from Barbers
Point Naval Air station when
the right engine caught fire.
It ditched at 11:40 p.m. (PDT)
Thursday. Two submarines and
five search planes were imme
diately dispatched to the area.
An Air Force search plane
spotted the men aboard the raft
and circled the area until the
Bream could arrive to make the
rescue.
The plane was piloted by Lt.
J. F. Ahem, Framingham, Mass.
His copilot was Lt.- Robert E.
,Melhorn, Manchester, N.H.
The other crew members were
navigator Lt. (jg) Robert L.
Burns, Wall, S.D.; second navi
gator Ens. Adrian D. Joki, Red
Lodge, Mont.; and crewmen
AL-1 D. G. Stewart, Portland,
Ore.; ATAN P.J. Madigan, Red
mond, Wash.; AD-2 R. J. Hardes
ty, Wichita, Kan; AT-3 . G.
Boyer. Payne, Okla.; AOU-2
C. W. McCabe, Englewood,
Colo.; and AN T. H. Montague,
Kyle, Tex.
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No Promising
Replenish Lagging Television Comedy
By WILLIAM EW-ALD
United Press Correspondent
New York U.R) TV com
edy has reached a state of near
collapse. Such members of the funny
business as Milton Berle, Martha
Raye, Red Buttons and Buddy
i Hackett have popped out. Jackie
uieason and bid Caesar, both
giants, are floundering. There
are no really promising recruits
in sight.
Henry Youngman, a skilled
craftsman in the funny business
for more than 30 years, thinks
he knows why. Most TV comics,
he says, don't even belong in the
business. What's more, says
Youngman, the men responsible
for putting comedy on the air
wouldn't know a funny man if
they fell over one.
"Almost all of the guys you
see on TV now are just mechan
ics," said Youngman today.
"They're not funny inside. They
don't think funny. They don't
feel funny.
No Clown Inside
"There are a few exceptions.
Groucho Marx was always crazy
on and off stage. Benney's a nat
ural. George Burns is another
very funny guy offstage. These
guys stay in business not only
because they know what they're
doing, but because they know
how to handle success, they
know how to enjoy life."
Not so of the new breed, said
Youngman. "Sid Caesar is great
on TV," he said. "But inside he's
no clown at all. You sit down at
a table with him and he doesn't
even open his mouth. I
"Or take Buddy Hackett. He
just wasn't equipped for the job.
Somebody sees him telling a
couple 'of jokes he's r"?ked up
somewhere and they put him on.
But he doesn't last because he's
not funny.
"Or Sammy Davis. Everybody
keeps telling me how funny he
is. All he really is, is a mimic
doing the same thing week after
week with those two cornball
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uncles of his. There's nothing
new or fresh there.
"Or Gerry Moore. He's typical
of the new bunch. I don't even
know ' what his audience is
laughing about. All he does is
play games with them."
Hope Meets Approval
A few comics pass Young
man's inspection. "Gleason is
funny ' inside," he said. "Phil
Silvers knows what he's doing.
Coastal Shipping
Rate Cut Asked
San Francisco U.R) The Pa
cific American Steamship asso
ciation has appealed to the In
terstate Commerce commission
to hold hearings on a proposed
rate decrease on commodities
shipped between Pacific coast
points.
In a telegram to ICC Chair
man Owen Clark in Washington,
President Robert E. Mayer of
PASA said the "cut-rate freight
rate slash" would cut off Pacific
ports from American flag serv
ice to Canada 'and Alaska.
Mayer asked that Clark "per
sonally review" a three times re
peated refusal of the ICC to hold
a hearing on the matter.
He termed the refusal to even
hear the complaints "a complete
disregard of the need of Pacific
Coast communities for a contin
ued coastwise steamship serv
ice." Coastwise and interooastal
lines have opposed what they
term "loss-leader" rates on cer
tain commodities because extra
transportation costs are passed
on to other users.
A temporary restraining or
der, preventing institution of
the proposed rates, has been
issued by the federal court here
until the court hears the com
plainant's arguments as to why
a hearing should be granted.
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i Buttons is cute. Gobel has a
sense of humor. Carney is a clev
er man, but I don't think he's
able to work by himself.
"Bob Hope is pretty funny,
but he's the guy who stole my
style of short jokes. He stole my
writers, too.
"But you take Mickey Rooney.
He's an actor. He's "not funny,
yet he tries to do comedy. Ten
nessee Ernie Ford? He stinks all
around. Dick Shawn takes 40
minutes to get started. None of
these new guys have heart the
sort of thing a Bert Lahr has.
What we have is a world of
mediocrity."
A large part of the trouble,
said Youngman, lies in the men
responsible for programming.
"The advertising man and the
guys who put shows together
don't know 'what's funny them
selves. That's why .they're in
trouble all the time. There are
too many people in this busi
ness who don't belong in it.
"Now me, I enjoy my work
and I play 40 weeks a year. So
I've got no worries. And I'll tell
you, after looking at some of
these other guys on TV, I think
I'm a million dollar potential."
Ike Scales Down
Foreign Aid Appeal
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower made a strong ap
peal to Republioan and Demo
cratic congressional leaders yes
terday for passage of a foreign
aid program of at least $3,80,
000,000 for fiscal 1958.
Senate Republican Leader Wil
liam F. Knowland said after
the White House conference of
more than 90 minutes that Eis
enhower probably will submit
his detailed program to Congress
early iext week.
The President originally ask
ed $4,400,000,000 for the mutual
security program. Today, he
scaled it down to $2,800,000,000
for military assistant and $1,080,
000,000 for economic aid.
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The Medical Roundup
When To Go to a Physician
In a recent issue of the Ameri
can Journal of Medicine, there
is an amusing story by Drs. Bur-
well, Robin,
W h a 1 e y and
B i c k e lmann
about a 263
pound execu
tive who, for
years, had had
a tendency to
d r o p . off to
sleep at inop
portune times.
Alvarez What finally
caused him to go to a hospital
for strenuous treatment was the
fact that, while playing poker,
he fell asleep as he was being
dealt three aces and two kings.
When he woke and looked at his
cards too late to bid them
he decided that it was high time
he went to a doctor!
Years ago I had a patient
something like this one who
came to me when he had to
quit playing poker. His difficulty
was that whenever he got a
wonderful hand, he got so ex
cited that his face turned scarlet
and everyone at the table knew
enough not to bid!
The Need for Keeping
Family Record of Illness
Every so often when I suspect
that a patient's epilepsy or men
tal disturbance is based on an
attack of encephalitis or menin
gitis or brain .fever, I am unable
to learn if, in childhood, he ever
had any serious illness, with
severe headache and mental con
fusion, perhaps following an at
tack of measles. The patient says
he doesn't know, and his mother
may say that, with; eight chil
dren, she cannot remember what
each one had.
Similarly, if it looks as if the
few convulsions a man had might
be hereditary in nature, and I
ask him if there was anything
like epilepsy in his family, again,
he is likely to say "I don't
know." As I write this, in comes
a fine young man who is plan
ning to marry in the next few
months. There has been .a case
of what looks like epilepsy in
the immediate family, and the
young couple, both able and
highly intelligent college gradu
ates, are wondering if they
should have children. These
young people know much about
what their parents and uncles
and aunts were like, but they
know almost nothing about
their grandparents and their
great uncles and aunts. Without
the necessary information, it is
hard for a genetic counselor to
help them.
Week after week I get letters
from people saying, "Should I
marry my cousin, and if I marry
her, should we have children?"
Again, all depends on whether
there is hereditary disease of
any kind in the family. Often
the young people cannot answer
my questions, because they have
no family records. ,
Back in 1884, Sir Francis Gal
ton, one of the greatest men Eng-
a couple of blank-page books,
one called Record of family
faculties, the other, Life History
Album. He felt so strongly that
one of the great things that all
intelligent heads of families
should do . would be to record
in such: a book all that was
known about the illnesses and,
particularly, hereditary illnesses,
in tjie family as far back vas
information was available. Moth
ers should keep a record of the
illnesses sustained by their chil
dren, with notes on what the
doctor said at the time.
Reopening of Tied 'Cords'
Men keep writing to say that
years ago, because of a wife's
illness, they . had a vasectomy;
which means they had their
tubes cut and tied the tubes
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der. This operation does not
bother a r,v, in any way. Now,
the man has ludrried again and
his new wife wants greatly to
have a child. Can the tubes be
opened up again? It is possible,
but able urologists, to whom I
have talked, say the -operation
seldom works, and so they hate
to attempt it. Similarly, I get
many requests from women who
once had their fallopian tubes
cut and tied and who now want
them opened again. Gynecolo
gists tell me that this operation
is hardly worth attempting.
Compassion for the Dying
A hundred times, when I have
wanted to give some morphine
to a dying person who was suf
fering greatly, the devout fam
ily objected; they were so afraid
that the sedative might shorten
the person's life even by a day
or two and then they, would be
responsible before God. Always,
in these cases, I have told the
family what I feel sure is true,
and this is that medicine that
relieves pain is likely to length
en life; suffering can only short
en it.
Now, I am so pleased to read
that the Pope a kindly man
who has always had a good
understanding of the problems
of medicine has said that it is
all right for doctors to give
opiates to the dying. This pro
nouncement from the head of
the Catholic church should do
much to strengthen the hands
of physicians when they want
to help suffering people.
Dr. Alvarez hopes his readers
will understand that it would
be impossible for him to an
swer requests for information or
to attempt to diagnose by mail.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate. 1957)
Father, Son Drown
In River Tragedy
Grundy, Va.-U.PO--A father
attempting to rescue his son
from the waters of the Levisa
river drowned with a boy Thurs
day. A girl the son had play
fully pushed into the water,
touching off the tragedy, was
revived with artificial respira
tion: The victims were identified
as David Blankenship, 34, and
his son, Thurman, 14, of nearby
Har'man, Vai'
Police said the two were fish
ing along the river when Lydia
Endicott, 14, and Bertha Mul
lins, 14, began wading nearby.
Young Blankenship playfully
pushed Lydia into the water and
then fell in himself. When David
got into water over his head,
the boy's father dived in to save
him.
A passing bus driver rescued
Lydia but the bodies of the fa
ther and son weren't found for
a half hour. They were locked
together. '
Primate of Poland
Visits Vatican CityT
Vatican City (U.R) Stefan
Cardinal Wyszynski, primate oi
Poland, began a round of vishs
today to various Roman Catho
lic groups, and fellow cardinals!
Vatican sources said he prob
ably would not be received by
Pope Pius XII until early next
week because of the Pope's
heavy schedule.
They said the Pope probably
would bestow the red hat signi
fying the office of cardinal 6a
the Polish primate before their
private conference. '
Cardinal Wyszynski was ele
vated to cardinal in 1953 but
did not come to Rome for the
ceremony for fear he would not
be permitted by the Communist
Warsaw government to return
to Poland.
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House Voles Raise
For State Officers
Salem (U.R) House bill
649 raising the salaries of top
state officials passed the House
by a narrow 32-27 margin late
Thursday as the House handled
42 bills, a record for the session.
The bill, which now goes to
the Senate, raises the governor's
salary from $15,000 to $17,000 a
year and provides him with $400
a month in expense money.
Salaries of the secretary of
state, state treasurer and attor
ney general all would go from
$11,000 to $12,500 and the com
missioner of labor would get
$11,500 instead of $9,500.
Objection to the hikes was
voiced by Reps. Robert Stewart.
Keating, Democrat, and Jc
Rogers, Independence Democrat.
Stewart said this was not the
time to raise top salaries due to
the financial condition of the
state.
Rep. Vernon Cook, Gresham
Democrat, supported the in
creases on the theory they would
attract high caliber people into
state government. He advocated
pay increases of at least 50 per
cent for all elected officials.
Approves Budget
Ashland The Ashland city
council Tuesday night approved
Sl,094,595 ,city budget for 1937
58 which calls for an overall in
crease of $82,369 in expenditur
es as compared with last year.
The proposed budget seeks an
overall tax increase of $5,104.
The $105,199 to be raised by
taxation includes $54,932 gen
eral fund inside the 6 per cent
limitation; $15,000 bonds of in
terest; $3,370 band; $5,618 ceme
tery; and $26,279 park funds.
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Order of Eagles, will hold its an
nual Mother's Day program at
1 p.m. Sunday in the hall at 219
West Main st. Past President
O. H. Bengtson is chairman of
the program. Assisting him are
Annmae Ford, Nelda Heath and
Loleta Bennett.
Following the program re
freshments will be served in the
auxiliary hall. Catherine Teets
and Bill Rogers are in charge of
refreshments.
Dr. Clifford Miller of South
ern Oregon college will give the
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