Congress: Those Personal Letters
By FRANK ELEAZER
United Press Correspondent
Washington ttPi The
lighter side of Congress:
It's getting where a voter
hardly knows what to believe.
Everywhere the old standards
are crumbling. Take that per
sonal letter you got from
your congressman.
Well, it was a personal let
ter wasn't it. Sure looked like
It anyway. Typed, not mass
produced on a duplicator.
Your name's at the top, hot
off the same typewriter. And
if that isn't the congressman's
signature, he better see if
somebody else is cashing his
checks.
Maybe so. But before you
start trying to make charac
ter around the neighborhood
displaying your high - level
mail, consider the machine
age. Satellites aren't the only
things those scientists- have
been laboring at.
Congress has provided each
member not only a battery of
plain old-fashioned typewrit
ers and secretaries (neither
plain nor old-fashioned) to run
'em; it also allows the mem
bers their choice of other
handy office devices.
In the House, these may
cost up to $2,500 per mem
ber. The money can be blown
all on one device, or spread
around on half a dozen.
A current favorite -at $2,
165 will do everything for
the letter-writing member but
sit on his lap while he thinks
of something to say. Once he's
over that hurdle, a pretty
girl commits his effort to tape.
The tape runs through a
glorified or three-stage type
writer, orbiting off hundreds
of copies, stopping periodi
cally to let the girl who
doesn't actually have to be
pretty fill in names and ad
dresses as required.
along with your name on it.
But now, with atomic war
heads and all, he said it isn't
the one with your name on
it you have got to be worried
about, it's the one labeled "to
whom it may concern."
And that isn't the end. The
end, naturally, is the con
gressman's signature. And
that he may, or may not, af
fix himself.
The latest thing on Capitol
Hill is. the automatic letter
signer. The congressman
writes his name for the ma
chine once. Thereafter, it
takes pen in hand and signs
for him.
There is hope here. Eventu
ally they may invent a ma
chine to make speeches and
"extend" in the Congression
al Record speeches never ac
tually made. Then, can we do
away with congressmen altogether.
Like Rep. Clarence Cannon
(D-Mo.), who notes regularly
that war, while still hell, has
changed in other ways. Just
this week he told the House
it used to be that you didn't
have to worry about getting
hit, unfcl the bullet came
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And then there is Rep. Leon
H. Gavin (R-Pa.), who recent
ly visited West Berlin. There
local officials showed him,
with pride, their new Con
gress Hall.
Gavin, whose district is
perhaps best known as the
home of the Punxsutawney
groundhog, was not im
pressed. In his report to the
House he said the edifice,
built largely with American
funds, looked to him like a
ruptured butterfly.
"It would seem that the
design criteria came from a
white silk top hat, placed
crown down, and crushed in
the middle with a strong, ver
tical blow from a meat cleav
er," reported traveler Gavin.
Chairman John A. Blatnik
(D-Minn.) canceled his "sub
committee's hearings on tran
quilizers this past snowy Mon
day. Everything was too hectic,
he indicated.
Incidentally, the Blatnik
subcommittee has received
unofficial reports that the
drug industry may bring out
soon a new formula to counter
the widespread use of tran
quilizers. They plan to call it an ir
r i t a n t, the subcommittee
hears. ,
Medford Man Suffers
Wounds in Quarrel
Ellis Albert Thorpe, 1112
Sunset ave. Medford, was re
ported in fair condition at
Rogue Valley hospital Satur
day morning following a
family quarrel at his home
Friday during which he was
stabbed several times with a
paring knife, authorities re
ported. ,
Mrs. Helen Geneva Thorpe
is being held in Jackson
county jail on a charge of as
sault with a dangerous wea
pon, on request of District At
torny Thomas Reeder, accord
ing to sheriff's deputies and
state police.
Officials said Thorpe suffer
ed cuts on the face and stab
wounds in the chest.
549 Enrolled in
Adult Education
Classes in City
A total of 549 people are
enrolled in winter term
classes of the adult education
program sponsored by the
Medford school district, ac
cording to Lindsay M. Vinsel,
director of adult and voca
tional education at the school.
The largest number, 189,
are enrolled in general edu
cation courses, which include
Mathematics, conversatio n a 1
English, business letter writ
ing, typing, bookkeeping,
shorthand, public speaking
and Spanish courses.
Trade extension courses
have 106 students. Courses
include nurses' aide, blueprint
reading, mechanical drawing,
welding, elements of radio
and casualty insurance.
Homemaking. Courses
Eighty-six persons are en
rolled in homemaking courses,
Vinsel noted. The courses in
clude clothing, tailoring,
lampshade making, millinery,
and cake iecoration.
Apprentice courses attract
ed 43 students, there are 46
in college extension courses,
and 79 in hobby classes. Ap
prentice courses are brick
layer, carpentry, inside wire
man, optical technician,
plumber, power lineman and
sheetmetal, and college exten
sion courses are juvenile de
linquency, school law and or
ganization and audio-visual
aids.
Hobby classes are radio
workshop, art appreciation,
photograph, rocks and min
erals and driver training.
The beginning typing class
has 51 students, the greatest
number enrolled in any one
class, while Spanish I is sec-j
ond with 31 students. Stu-'
dents in other classes range
downward to two in optical
technician.
EAST EVANS CREEK
Sunday School Has Party
By NELLIE BERGMAN
East Evans Creek-Meadows
The young people of the
Meadows Sunday school had
a class party at the Amos
Maplesden home recently.
Valentines was the theme.
Saturday evening visitors at
the Lloyd Beers home were
Mr. and Mrs. William Daws
and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yocom
of Medford and Mr. and Mrs.
Stafford of Walla Walla,
Wash.
dren in the Sams Valley
school. x
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bergman
visited Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy
Wehl and family of Trail
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Sting
ley visited Mr. and Mrs. Pearl
Stowall of Eagle Point recently-
,
B r y o n Coultesis feeling
better after a recent illness
of two weeks.
Floyd Estes of Shady Cove
visited Wednesday in the
Meadows with friends. He
formally lived here.
- Mr. and Ms. Paul Mattison
and daughters, Carolyn, visit
ed in the Meadows Sunday.
They are from Grants Pass.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Canady
and children of Ashland and
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Forten of
Eagle Point visited Mr. and
Mrs. G. E. Patterson of An
tioch rd. Sunday.
Milo Hanks of Lakeview,
Ore., is the new owner of the
Brim property ,in the Meadows.
Mr. and Mrs. William Har
ruff of Drew and Mrs. Harry
Downey visited at the Carl
Bergmans recently.
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ander
son of Gardena, Calif., have
purchased the Jim White and
Savard properties and have
moved in, and have their chil-
706 Students at
SOC from Jackson
Ashland Figures on the
over 1,000 enrollment at
Southern Oregon college ac
cording to geographical distri
bution show that a total of
706 students are from Jackson
county, of the total, 454 are
men and 252 women.
A total of eight students
are attending from foreign
countries, including one each
from Arabia, Chili, Germany,
Korea, Philippines, and Yugo
slavia and two from Japan.
Other states and territories,
including Alaska and Hawaii,
have contributed 24 students
to the 1002 enrollment;
Oregon students number
970, revealing that the bulk
of the student body has been
attracted from this state, and
more specifically from Har
ney, Josephine, Klamath,
Lake and Lane counties.
Vacation visitors in New
Hampshire spend an estimat
ed 200 million dollars an
nually the State Planning' and
Development Commission reports.
Sunday, February 23, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNETHREE
Traveling Teacher Sets
Visit at Phoenix High
Phoenix Ernest Spafford,
orte of 10 traveling science
teachers, is scheduled to visit
Phoenix High school during
the week of March 3 to 7,
school officials have an
nounced. Spafford will present five
lecture - demonstrations dur
ing his five-day stayat Phoe
nix High. He is to set up his
equipment in one room and
classes will come to the room
to see the demonstration, offi
cials said. They said this
would be the only" school in
Jackson county visited.
About - 300 . students will
view the demonstrations, each
taking notes upon which they
will be quizzed, officials ex
plained. Math and science
classes will be given first
chance to take part in the
special classes.
Program Sponsored
The program is sponsored
by the National Science Foun
dation and the Atomic Enger
gy commission. The gas, oil
and station wagon used by
each teacher is donated by
private industry.
Each one of the 10 traveling
teachers spent about-one-year
in training before "going on
the road". Most of the equip
ment used in the special class
es have been built by Spaf
ford while studying at Oak
Ridge last summer.
Spafford will give' demon
strations on space travel,
atomic structure, solar ener
gy, fission, math investigation,
force, properties of matter
and combustion, officials said.
The Phoenix Parent Teach
ers association will be given
a demonstration by Spafford
on Thursday, March 6, at 7:30
p.m. in the high school and
the Phoenix Lions' club will
be given a demonstration on
Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Reserve Enlistments
To Close March 7 y.
Effective March 1 all en
listments in the Army Reserve
will be closed, according to
William H. Naylor, command
ing officer.
He said men wishing to en
list must do so before this
date. Information is available
by calling SPring 2-9295.
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Subject for Meeting
Portland Plans for the
British Columbia centennial
will be discussed at a lun
cheon March 15 at the Uni
versity club here.
Willard Ireland, member of
the centennial board, will
speak. He is expected to make
several suggestions on the
Oregon centennial in 1959 at
the meeting.
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