In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
At 7:01 Saturday morning,
a British jet airliner took off
from New Yorks Idlewild
airport from London on the
first commercial (fare-paying
passengers) jet flight from
the United States. It was a
British Overseas Airways
plane named Delta Bravo. It
carried 23 passengers in ad
dition to the crew.
At about the same time, a
BOAC sister ship named the
Delta Charlie took off from
London and headed for New
York. It carried about 40 pas
sengers in addition to the
crew. The two ships were ex
pected to greet each other in
mid-Atlantic. By radio, of
course. In pressurized jet air
liners, whizzing through the
upper air at half or two-thirds
the speed of sound, there can
be no such thing as the pas
sengers gathering on the
decks and waving to each
other as the ships pass.
In a way, that's too bad. It
does away with a colorful ex
perience. But one can't have
everything.
(tile bullet or exhaustion, he
had to hunt up another horse.
That made his time all the
more remarkable.
TACK in those days, in the
West as elsewhere, travel
TOOK TIME. Because travel
took so much time, people
traveled relatively little. It
was not uncommon in those
days for people to live out
the span of a lifetime with
out ever getting more than
50 miles from home.
The world is changing. The
time is not far off when those
who don't get ALL OVER
THE WORLD in the course of
a lifetime will be the uncom
mon ones.
''pHE eastbound plane, be
cause of prevailing fav
orable tail - winds, set its
wheels down in London in
about six and a half hours. It
was a non-stop flight.
Because of the prevailing
head-winds it must encounter.
the westbound plane took
longer. It made one stop in
Newfoundland.
That's pretty fast!
WHAT does it all mean?
" it means a lot of things.
It means for one thing,
that the wold is shrinking.
TN an effort to realize how
In an effort to realize how
much the world is shrinking,
let's drop back about a cen
tury when horsepower was
HORSE power. Let's forget
the rest of the country and
deal in terms of our own Far
West.
. One of the famous fast trips
of the early Far West was
made by one Juan Flaco
(Thin John, when rendered
from the Spanish into Eng
lish) who rode from the Pu
eblo of Los Angeles to Mon
terey in the reputed time of
a little better than four days.
General Kearney's expedition
had got into trouble with the
Spanish Dons, and was get
ting the worst of it. Juan Fla
co rode to Monterey for help.
He didn't ride one horse
all the way. At 1 least one
horse was shot from under
him. He wore others out. Each
time he lost a horse, by hos-
rpHAT brings me up to the
-- point I really wanted to
make when I started this
piece.
In the town of Riddle, in
Douglas county, in our own
Southern Oregon, they're put
ting French into the curricu
lum of the high school. It isn't
going to be j u s t BOOK
French. Gilbert Gordon, the
instructor, plans to teach
CONVERSATIONAL French,
so that in time to come his
students will be able to make
their way among French
speaking people. He points
out that nearly 80 million
people speak French as a
first language and more than
twice that many speak it as
a second language.
rFHE time will come when
Americans will travel
over the world as freely as
they now travel over their
own state. When that time
comes, they should be able
to speak the languages of the
people .they will travel
among..
It's high time for our schools
to begin to teach foreign lan
guages, and I'd like to con
gratulate the school authori
ties of Riddle on the progres
sive step they have taken.
I hope more of our schools
follow the example set by
up-and-coming Riddle.
Hunter Anxiously
Awaits Deer Season
Rockland, Maine -(UPD- Her
man W. Payson of Rockland
is eagerly awaiting the Oct.
21 opening of the deer hunt
ing season.
Payson said he was rabbit
hunting at Owl's Head over
the weekend when a deer
leaped from a thicket, stepped
on his foot and knocked him
down.
Pope Opposes
Plaslic Surgery
To Boost Charms
Castel Gandolfo, Italy-fllPD-Pope
Pius XII said in a
speech last week end that doc
tors have no right to perform
plastic surgery on women
wanting to increase their
charms "to induce other per
sons to sin."
The speech was delivered
Saturday to doctors attend
ing the 10th Italian Congress
of Plastic Surgery, and its
text was made public late
Monday. The Pope on Sunday
delivered another speech to
notaries from Latin nations.
"It is obvious, for instance,
that it is illicit to perform
a surgical intervention re
quested with the intention of
increasing one's power of se
duction and thus more easily
inducing others to sin," the
Pontiff said in his Italian
language speech.
Other Surgery Wrong
The same, he said, goes for
plastic surgery carried out
"exclusively in order to shield
a criminal from justice," or
for operations "affecting the
regular functions of physical
organs" or "desired out of a
mere whim of fashion."
On the other hand, the Pon
tiff said, surgical intervention
is legitimate or even advisable
in a number of cases.
These, he said, include
cases where "some deformi
ties, or even mere imperfec
tions, cause psychic troubles
in the subjects or hamper so
cial and family relations or
prevent them from carrying
out their activities, especially
as regards persons who con
cern themselves with public
life or art."
News Analyst Has
Brush With Death
La Grande, Ore. -(UPD-Am-erican
Broadcasting company
news analyst William Winter
had a brush with death Mon
day when a mountain slide
suddenly buried Highway 30
just 200 feet in front of his
car.
Winter, of Los Angeles was
en route to La Grande to de
liver the key speech to tea
chers at an Eastern Oregon
education conference.
The slide occurred about
20 miles northwest of here
at 2:45 p.m. (PST).
Highway crews cleared the
route in about 45 minutes.
Winter said it seemed "like
half of a mountain" fell in
front of his car.
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Vatican City -(UPD- No of
ficial of the Roman Catholic
church can temporarily ex
ercise the full authority of
Pope Pius XII while the Pon
tiff lies incapacitated at his
villa in nearby Castel Gan
dolfo. Routine Vatican affairs con
tinue to be administered by
the secretariat of state ' or
the various sacred congrega
tions of the church.
Decisions Delayed - '
But decisions which are
within the province of a pope
alone must be delayed pend
ing his recovery or, in event
of his death, the election of
a successor.
Such powers cannot be del
egated to anyone no matter
how long the Pope might re-
Modern Grandma
Sheds Shawl
Chicago - (UPD - The retiring
president of the National Fed
eration of Grandmother Clubs
of America said Monday night
the modern grandmother has
shed her shawl in favor of the
sack.
Mrs. Thomas Stalcup, 69,
Akron, Ohio, said before the
federation was formed grand
ma's place was in the rocking
chair and baby sitting. She
said grandmothers now don't
have time to rock because
they're too busy taking part
in community affairs through
social and welfare organiza
tions. And, she added, "we don't
let our children push the
baby sitting chores off on us
all the time." Mrs. Stalcup
said not only have some
grandmothers abandoned their
gray hs-Y and shawls, they
"have gone so far as to wear
sack dresses and tint their
hair."
The federation, holding its
20th annual convention here,
received a message Monday
from President Eisenhower, a
grandfather.
"As homemakers, mothers
and grandmothers you have
an important role in- directing
and building the character of
our citizens," the President's
message read in part.
Ship Officers
Call Off Strike
New York (UPD Merchant
ship officers called off their
six-day strike Monday night,
freeing an estimated 60 ves
sels. A spokesman for the Unit
ed States Lines said the liners
United States and America
would sail on their next
scheduled departure dates,
Oct. 16 and Oct. 23.
The' strike was ended
through the good offices of
AFL-CIO President George
Meany, who stepped in as ar
bitrator of-the dispute, be
tween the International Or
ganization of Masters, Mates
and Pilots (AFL-CIO) and 20
major East and Gulf Coast
ship operators represented-by
the American Merchant Ma
rine Institute.
The dispute is not yet re
solved, but the parties agreed
Monday night to the issues
which Meany will decide as
arbitrator and the union- an
nounced that picket lines
would be removed immedi
ately from the ships. Meany
set Oct. 21 as the date of the
first arbitration session.
At issue are vacation, over
time and working condition
demands primarily. The union
announced it had agreed -to
withdraw a demand that mas
ters of four of the largest
steamship lines be hired
through its hiring halls.
Long Island Said
Gradually Sinking
Washington -(UPD- Long Is
land. N.Y.. is sinking into
the sea but there's no cause
for panic.
Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, re
tiring president of the Inter
nal Council of Scientific Un
ions, disclosed Monday that
Long Island now is going
down two feet every 100
years. It was sinking only six
inches a century before I960.
Berkner said the reasons
are not completely clear to
science, but most of the con
tinental United States is sink
ing with only land north of a
line drawn between Boston
and Chicago gradually rising.
It could be the result .of
steadily rising sea levels be
cause of melting flaciers or
an increasing load of silt on
earth, Berkner said.
THEATER FIGURE DIES
New York -(UPD Herman
R. Maier, 68, an official of
the Stanley-Warner motion
picture threater chain, died
Sunday at bis home.
main incapacited.
Vatican sources said there
is no known precedent for a
situation in which the head
of the church is alive but un
able to discharge his duties
for long periods.
The Apostolic Constitition
does provide for the position
of chamberlain (camerlengo)
who would, upon the death
of a pope, assume charge of
the administration of the
church and organize the con
clave to elect a new pontiff.
First Business
But Pope Pius XII never
named a camerlengo. Should
the present pope die, the elec
tion of a camerlengo from
one of their number would
be the first order of business
for the College of Cardinals.
This most likely would be
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant,
dean of the Sacred College.
Similarly, if the Pope is
fully incapacited for a long
period of time, a committee
of cardinals including Card
inal Tisserant would in all
probability have to carry on
the general administration of
the church.
But in no sense would their
authority aqual that of a pope.
They could not, for example,
issue a new dogma or name
cardinals or create new
saints.
Covering Pope's
Illness Difficult
Castel Gandolfo (UPD
Newsmen reporting the ill
ness of Pope Poius XII agree
that the importance of their
assignment is rivaled only by
its difficulty.
When President Eisenhower
was ill, for example, frequent
and detailed medical bulletins
were issued and correspond
ents were permitted to meet
with attending doctors to get
answers to further questions.
Not so with the Pope. Med
ical bulletins are generally
vague rather than specific.
Newsmen are kept from the
grounds of the Papal palace,
unable to reach the diagnos
ing physicians.
Issued Through Office
The official' bulletins on
the Pope's conditions are is
sued through the Vatican
press office headed by Lu
ciano Casimirri, a layman
who is a popular figure with
the entire Roman press
corps.
But the press spokesman
can usually do little more
than issue the information or
prepared bulletins given him
by higher Vatican authorities.
The official bulletins or an
nouncements generally tend
to be optimistic with the re
sult that a development min
imized in one bulletin is
wholly confirmed in the next.
Pope's Illness Not
Reported in Russia v
Moscow -(UPD- The Pope's
illness has not been reported
so far in the Soviet Union.
Radiation Levels
Declared Safe
Washington -(UPD- Radiation
levels in air and water within
the United States are well
within the safety mark, ac
cording to Arthur S. Flem
ming, Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare.
Flemming said Monday
that none of a continuing se
ries of surveys of radioactiv
ity in rivers near Atomic
Energy Commission projects
has shown radiation levels
"close to the maximum per
missible concentrations."
The welfare secretary pro
vided the information to re
porters today in response to
a question that had been
asked at his Sept. 22 news
conference.
Flemming said the service
is conducting a continuing
study of radiation levels in
the Ohio river below Shipping
port, Pa., and in the Savan
nah river near the AEC's big
South Carolina project.
In addition, a radiation in
spection was made of the Co
lumbia river near the com
mission's Han ford, Wash.,
plant.
"None of the studies," Flem
ming declared, "has shown
levels close to the maximum
permissible concentrations."
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, October 7. "51 I
Skeleton Found
In Harney County
Burns - (UPD - Sheriff Eldon
Sitz of Harney county report
ed today that the skeleton of
a former Drewsey ranch hand
was found last week end by
two hunters in the Blue
Bucket Creek area near the
Malheur river.
The skeleton was identified
as that of Manuel Martin, who
worked at the Arley Acton
ranch at Drewsey in January,
1955. Sitz said the man had
not been reported missing and
that he terminated employ
ment at the Acton ranch on
Jan. 13 three years ago.
The hunters who discovered
the skeleton, still clothed,
were Glenn Tuttle of Prairie
City and Harold Baumgartner
of Nyssa, the sheriff said.
Bandits Rob Drive-in
Theater at Portland
Portland (UPD The Sandy
Boulevard drive-in theater
was robbed of about $240
Monday evening by two ban
dits armed with a rifle.
Army aviation set a record
for safety in 1957. Army pilots
Lad only one accident for each
2,300 hours of flight.
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