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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.
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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. Laura May Noble, Eagle
Point, received a red ribbon
for her entry in the 4-H pho
tography contest at the State
fair.
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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
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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. In this case the male
hormone from the twin
messes up the growth of the
sexual organs of the female
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calf, so that she is born sterile
and "intersexual."
The doctors from Balti
more say that in cases of
doubt the child should be
raised as a girl. Also, they ad
vise doctors not to give the
powerful progesterones (anti
ovarian hormones) or and
rosterones (male hormones)
to a mother in the first 16
weeks of her infant's develop
ment, before the sexual or
gans are well differentiated.
B.C.G. 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.
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, 1953)
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