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. . ..MomgW In fhe Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS In iti closing days-as men tioned In this space recently- ine 85th congress approved a project that is long overdue- pensions for ex-Presidents and their widows. The bill was passed by both houses, and President Eisenhower has signed it. It Is now the law of the land. Under it, ex-Presidents will receive a pension of $25,000 u long as they live. Their widows wil receive pensions of $10,000. In addition, there will be some trimmings. The trimmings include cffice space, free mailing privileges and a staff of as sistants. "FHE pensions are a splendid idea. They will have been EARNED. The President of the United States carries a heavier load of responsibility than any other person on earth. He couldn't be paid during his term in office enough money to recompense him fully for the responsibili ty that he carries on his shoulders. And- ' When he retires from his office- He occupies a peculiar po sition. He is an elder states man. From the day 'he goes out of office until his death, he is a part of the govern ment of the United States. As such, he is inhibited in the making of a living. There are so many things he CANT do and still live up to the tradi tions of the Presidency. The same is true of his widow after he dies. CO MUCH for the pensions 3 Let's look now at the trimmings. - - In its fundamentals, our government is sound and rea sonable. In these fundamen tals, there is little room for criticism. It is the TRIM MINGS that really cost money. "CVDR example: " A man is appointed to -do a job. If he is to do a job, - he must have an office. If he is to have an office, he must have a SECRETARY, i Custom (especially in Wash ington) decrees that. Let's start with the office. K must have a desk. It must have a chair for the man to sit in. There must be a chair for those who come to the office for interviews. So far, so good. But, as time passes, it' becomes evident that only ONE CHAIR is an indication that the man who has been appointed to the job ISN'T VERY IMPORTANT. If he were really important, more than one person 'would . be waiting to see him. So- A DAVENPORT is required to-make the man seem more important. In time, even a davenport doesn't imply enough importance. So a wait ing room is added to his office. The secretary sits in the waiting room. time Just ONE secretary doesn't seem to connote enough im portance. So the secretary gets an assistant. The assist ants to the secretary get other assistants. That calls for MORE ROOM. So the office with one waiting room is ex panded to a SUITE OF OFFICES. As time passes, a suite isn't eriough" to make the man seem important enough, so his quarters are expanded to include a whole floor. Eventually a WHOLE BUILDING is required to make the man who was ap- pointed seem as important as he ought to seem. The trouble with govern ment offices is that they PROLIFERATE. THE pensions for ex-Presidents and their widows are WONDERFUL. But I hope somebody keeps an eye on the trimmings. Especially the staff of assist ants. Otherwise, nobody can tell how far this new depar ture in government . might spread. Morse Galls Special Session Washington -flJPD- Sen Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Friday urged that Congress be called back into special session to pass on the question of whether American forces may be used to defend Quemoy and Matsu islands from Com munist attack. Morse argued that the Formosa resolution passed by Congress 2Vi years ago does not "authorize" their use for defending the islands. "The American people are entitled to the truth," he said in a statement. "They are en titled to have the President of the United States appear at a special session of Congress and present for the approval or rejection of Congress his defense of any proposal to de fend the Quemoy and Matsu islands with the lives of American boys." Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A SUNDAY SCHOOL teacher had just told her young charges the story of Adam and Eve. She now distributed sheets of paper and pencils and ordered, "Draw a picture of something you remember from the talk I've just made.' Little Robert's artistic creation proved reasonably puzzling: it depicted a long, black automobile with two passengers in the back, and a driver with a halo up front. "What's this got to do with Adam and Eve?" de manded the teacher. "That's them," declared Robert angrily. "That's Adam and Eve being driven by the Lord right out of the Garden xT Eden." One sure-fire way to cut the overhead in movie production today: produce a nudist film! One recently completed in Mexico showed a total costume cost of exactly two dollars and sixty three cents (for fig leaves). O 19St. br Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. News About Books From the Library Its been fun having patrons select whole armloads of books the past two weeks which may be kept for a month without renewing. The board wishes it might always offer unlimited numbers of books and longer periods of loan, as some libraries -can. In order to achieve the fair est distribution of 43,000 vol umes among a possible 63,000 volumes, however, the loan policy has been formulated on a two-week, six-book basis, with a renewal privilege. The 7-day loan period for newest publications is in almost uni versal practice among public libraries, its purpose to give the pleasure of reading these books while they are new to the greatest possible number of persons. It has nothing to do with the number of pages in the volume. The library was increased by 363 volumes during Au gust, of which 97 were gifts. Donors of books this month were John Reter, William Hart, P. J. Gorman, and anon ymous donors residing in Cen tral Point, Gold Hill, Talent, and Jacksonville. Seventy-one new titles were added to the children's collection and 129 to the adult shelves. The lat ter included: Science and Technology: The Steel Square, Siegele; Everyday Automobile Repairs, Crouse; Popular Mechanics Aviation Album, Throm; How to Use Portable Power Tools, Reid; Ideas, Inventions, and Patents, Buckles; The Bird Bi ographies of John James Aud ubon; Guppies, Axelrod; Cloud Study, Ludlam. Home Building: How to Re model Your Home, American Builder; How to Estimate for the Building Trades, Town- send; House parpentry Simp- Prices To Farmers Drops One Per Cent Washington - (UPD - Prices farmers received for crops and livestccli fell 1 per cent in the month ending Aug. 15, the Agriculture Department repordte Friday. The department's monthly farm price report also showed that the cost of production and living supplies purchased by farmers fell one-third of 1 per cent during the month. Farmers' returns in mid August averaged 83 per cent of parity, the same as in mid July. The parity ratio in mid August a year ago was 84 per cent. m Parity is the "price needed to put commodities sold by farmers on a par with the cost of things they must buy-theoretically a fair return for their products. 200 Fires Started During Storms Portland Dry lightning storms last Sunday and Mon day started approximately 200 fires in the national forests of the Pacific Northwest Re gion, according to Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone of the forest service. The number of fires started by the lightning so far in 1958 has been approximately three times the average num ber of lightning fires up to this time of year during the previous 'five-year period. The forest hardest hit have been the Willamette, Wenat chee, Siskiyou and Umatilla. Also reporting fires were the Deschutes, Mt. Hood and Ok anogan forests. Only a few of the 18 national forests in Oregon and Washington es caped the latest storms. More than four million persons, or six per cent of the U. S. working population, are engaged in some form of sell ing. - lified, Burbank; Book of Mod ern Bathrooms, American Builder; How to Plan a House, Townsend. Sports: The Standard Book of Hunting and Shooting, Stringfellow; Golf at a Glance, Gaskill; The Death of Mano lete, Conrad; American Sport ing Dogs, Connett; Handbook of Outboard Motorboating, Henry; Dog Training Made Easy, Duncan; The Conquest of the Horse, Benoist-Giron-iere. History: Private, Atwell; First Blood, Swanberg; West ern Sheriffs and Marshals, Penfield. House and Garden: The All Italian Cookbook, La Sasso; Date Bate, Loeb; How to Make Your Own Slipcovers, Hardy; Pruning Made Easy, Stefak; Handbook of Hardy Border Plants, Genders. Reference: Concise Diction ary of Holidays, Jahn; Ameri can Historical Fiction, Dickin son; The Observer's Book of Ships, Dodman; The Observ er's Book of Automobiles, Manwaring; Personnel Admin istration in Libraries, Steb bins. Literature: A New England Girlhood, Hale; The Crowning Privilege, Graves; Five Dia logues of Plato Bearing on Po etic Inspiration, Plato. Fine Arts: American Sym bols, Lehner; The Louvre, Bazin; The Negative, Adams. Business: Preparing the Manuscript, Olsen; Writing for Television, Seldes; The Suc cessful Speaker's Handbook, Prohnow; Effective Speaking in Business, Huston; How to Get That Part Time Job, Fein gold. Biography: Three Wise Vir gins, Brooks; Mr. Baruch, Coit; Baa, Baa Black Sheep, Boyington; The Autobiogra phy of Benvenuto Cellini, Sy monds; Clarence King, Wil kins; The Little Professor of Piney Woods, Day. Travel and Adventure: Dig for Pirate Treasure, Nesmith; Newman's European Travel Guide, Newman; The Long March, Beauvoir; As Far'As You'll Take Me, Whishaw; Vermont Tradition, Fisher. Philosophy and Religion: Selected Papers on Philoso phy, James; New Guideposts, Peale; Guideposts for Grow ing Up, Hurlock; Light From the Greek. New Testament, Blackwelder; Strengthening the Spiritual Life, Ferre; The Living Faith, Douglas; Yan kees in Paradise, Smith, j. Other Non-Fiction: Recrea tion for the Aging, Williams; Cortina's Russian in 20 Les sons, Senn; Cortina's Conver sational Japanese, Abraham. Serious Fiction: A Friend in Power, Baker; Once to Sinai, Prescott; The Sibyl, Lagerk vist; The Voyage Home, Schnabel; The Riddle of Gen esis County, Doyle; Theme for Ballet, Baum; The Blanket, Murray. Adventure Stories: The Brides of Solomon and Other Stories, Household; Ordeal, Prescott; Beyond Wind River, Savage. Romance: A Glass Rose, Bankowsky; The Dud Avo cado, Dundy; The Snow Birch, Mantley; The Daughters of Jasper Clay, Fletcher. Other Fiction: Heartbreak Street, Butters; A Treasury of Short Stories, Kielty; And Four To Go, Stout; The Aling ton Inheritance, Wentworth. Tub Viilarje DAIRY-SMITH East Mailt St. Jesus said, "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." , New Testament. I I I Special Orientation Sessions Slated at Medford High School A series of special orienta tion sessions for last June's Medford High school gradu ates planning to go to col lege has been prepared by the high school faculty. The special sessions were initiated last year, and the program met with- favorable response from participating students. It was on the rec ommendation of those stu dents who took the program last year that the program was continued this year, school officials said. This year's college orienta tion sessions will be held at Hedrick Junior High school in the speech room adjacent to the auditorium. A panel of college students has been arranged for one of the ses sions and will discuss topics which the group feels of par ticular value to the new col lege freshman, officials said. College Students Listed Included in the group of college students will be Mira Frohnmaver. Jav Mullen, and Nancy McKeown, represent ing the University of Oregon; Test Score Reports of Merit Program Mailed Evanston. 111. The Na tional Merit Scholarship Cor poration has announced that it has completed the mailing Of test score reports, measur ing the educational develop ment of 478,000 students to 14,400 public, private and par ochial high schools through out the U. S. and possessions. The examination, called the National Merit Scholar ship Qualifying Test, was given April 29 to nearly .a half million youngsters, about 31 per cent of all students who will be seniors this fall. It is believed to be the larg- Oregon Holiday Drivers Cautioned Salem - (UPD - Oregon's Labor Day holiday will begin with more than 50 deaths al ready reported during Au gust, the Department of Motor Vehicles said today. This is the highest death toll of any month so far this year. Drivers were reminded to be especially careful during the early evening hours to night and again en route home Monday night. These are the crucial hours in any holiday, the officers said. State police planned to cancel all days off over the week end in order to have more officers on the highways to deal with expected heavy traffic. The governor pointed out that last year's . Labor Day toll of 7 fatalities and 290 in juries in 461 accidents made the late summer holiday pe riod the most deadly of the three summer holiday pe riods. , Meanwhile, in Chicago, the National Safety Council predicted that 420 persons will lose their lives in traffic accidents during the three day holiday. . Success of Atlas Said Step Forward Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UPD-The intercontinental Atlas that shot "right down the rifle barrel" has put the Air Force another step ahead in de velopment of the massive mis sile which is scheduled for a full, 5,500-mile flight soon. A spokesman for the. firm which makes the Atlas- guid ance system said 30 minutes after the 80-foot missile roar ed off late Thursday night the flight was a "giant stride forward" in the nation's ICBM program. The Atlas was the third equipped with all three of its engines, which ultimately will enable it to travel up to 6,200 miles and drop a hydro gen warhead on an enemy target. ' IT'S HONEST WORK Norfolk, Va. -(UPD Judge Walter A. Page tossed out an anti-fish peddling" ordinance Thursday and agreed with wo accused violators that fish mongering is "an old and hon- I ored profession." L at Genessaa J I I Ken Arnold, Bryan Schroe der and Meredith Huggins, representing Oregon State college; Ann Garner and Greg Milnes, Willamette uni versity; Bruce West and Joyce Gregory, Lewis and Clark college; Pat Leek and Ed Albright, Southern Ore gon college; and Jane Barker and Diana Getchell, repre senting out of state colleges. Dates and times for the ses sions are: Sept. 4, and Sept. 5, panel, college freshmen, six college sections; Sept. 8, Miss Delie Whisenant, entrance ex aminations, English and mathematics; Sept. 9, Mrs. Edna Stewart, vocabulary; Sept. 10, Miss Whisenant, en trance examinations; and Sept. 11, Mrs. Stewart, vo cabulary. All sessions will be held between 7:30 and 9 p.m. Students whose transcripts and records have been for warded to a college have been invited by special mailed invitations. Any other student is welcome to attend the sessions, officials pointed out. est number of students ever given the same test on a sin gle day. The three-hour bat tery of tests was devised, graded, and reported by Chi cago's Science Research Asso ciates, a national educational testing organization. About Oct. 1, the top scor ing 10,000 students will be chosen and notified that they are semifinalists 'in the com petition. The highest scorers in each state are chosen, with each state's quota dependent on its population. The semifinalists will take a second examination in De cember to further substanti ate their high ability before being named finalists. Finalists will compete .for at least 735 four-year college scholarships with stipends ranging from $100 to $1,500 a year, depending upon indi vidual need. Colleges will benefit as well, receiving un restricted grants to help them in educating Merit Scholars. Besides the Merit Scholar ships, hundreds of other scholarships are given to the high scoring students by col leges, universities, and other scholarship - awarding agen cies. The total estimated value of awards is about $5 million. Canning Exhibit Gets Red Ribbon at Fair A canning exhibit dis played by Linda Cornutt of Gold Hill at the Oregon State Fair in Salem received a red ribbon, according to fair offi cials. 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W i The New Oral Medicine For Diabetes Dr. Rachmiel Levine of Chicago recently discussed the , present status of the remedy for diabetes that is now being taken by mouth. After reviewing the results ob tained in the cases of 7,147 p a t i ents, he said the "side jvrei reac 1 1 o n S " have been mild. In only 2.8 per cent of cases have there been serious complications, usually an eruption in the skin. A few persons had trouble with their stomach. Only 0.18 per cent had trou ble with their blood, and this is the important point. It seems now that the drug works by stimulating lazy beta cells in the pancreas to produce more insulin. That is why the drug does not work in children; in their cases the beta cells are underdeveloped or have been destroyed by the disease. Some men are asking what will be the long - term effects of the drug on the beta cells. No one knows. We do know, however, that in per haps one in 11 cases, dfter some months of using the drug, the person's beta cells refuse any longer to be stimu lated, and then insulin may have to be taken. Some 75 per cent of those persons whose diabetes shows up after the age of 40, can be helped by the new drug. As Dr. Levine says, many of them could get by well enough with diet. Many should stop eating so much, and should reduce their weight by 20 or 30 pounds. He thinks this would be the best thing ' they could do. They really do not need a drug but they prefer the medi cine to the diet. All diabetics who are now on the new drug, should know how to use insulin, in case they should suddenly run into a crisis, not controllable by their pills. What physicians hope is that now, with the knowledge gained with the help of the new type of drug, more and better medicines for diabetes will be found. Sexual Mix-Ups in Children Occasionally I hear growls from people who resent the columns in which, as a phy sician who looks at the prob lem from a medical point of view, I ask for mercy for the girl who, because of a slight congenital malformation of her body, and the resultant mistake by the doctor who brought her into the world, was brought up as a boy-a "boy" who kept protesting all the time that something was very wrong. Good people seem to think that any dis cussion of these very distress ing mix-ups is "dirty;" and every so often, our courts show their dislike for these OF PACIFIC. FINANCt ACIFICINDUSTCIAL Phone SP 3-5308 Manager Roundup Emeritus Consultant In Medicine. Mayo Foundation Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Mayo Foundation unhappy persons, so gypped by nature, by sending them to state's prison. Now, I read a very impor tant paper .by Drs. Lawson Wilkins, H. W- Jones, Jr., G. H. Holman and R. S. Stemp fel, Jr., of Johns Hopkins University Hospital, who re port that they are now seeing an abnormally large number of cases of pseudo-hermaph-rodism in which an infant girl looks so much like a boy sexually that a mistake could easily be made. The difficulty is that new and very powerful anti-ovarian drugs are now coming on the market, and these are being given to women, just pregnant, who( look as if they might miscarry. The anti ovarian ' drug goes through the woman's body and into her baby's body, where it causes its sexual organs to be partly those of a female and partly those of a male. Similar effects have been produced in animals by giv ing them hormones, and they are sometimes observed in a "free martin" which is a fe male calf born with a male twin. 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Vaccine Against Tuberculosis Many years ago two able research workers named Cal mette and Guerin devised a vaccine made from a live but weakened culture of bovine tubercle bacilli, to protect in fants from tuberculosis. It has been tried out extensively in many parts of the world, but in spite of many favorable re ports, most health officers have looked on it with doubt and some fear. They have feared that in some cases it might give the vacinnated child tuberculosis. Recently three investigators studied the results of vaccin ating 1,500 children of Am erican IndiansAnother 1,500 were left unvaccinated to serve as "controls." Now, 20 years later, the unvaccinated are found to have had 68 deaths from tuberculosis as against only 13 deaths in the vaccinated group. Dr. Alvarez hopes his read ers will understand that it would be impossible for him to answer requests for infor mation or to attempt to diag nose" by mail. 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