In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
The Oregon legislature is
In session. It la beginning to
look like it might wind up
with an authorized total of
appropriations slightly in ex
cess of 300 million dollars.
To Oregon's approximately
IVi million people, that looks
like quite a chunk of money
and spent for governmental
purposes.
The California legislature
is in session. Its authorized
appropriations will probably
run up to a total somewhat
above two billion dollars.
Even to California's 13 or 14
million people, that isn't hay.
rpHESE sums look big to us
because they are CLOSE
to us. The closer things are,
the bigger they look.
Try this:
Take a silver dollar be
tween your thumb and your
forefinger and hold it up say
three or four inches in front
of your eyes. It will look BIG.
Now take the dollar across
the street and stand it on
edge on a post. Go back
across the street and look at
the dollar.
It will seem SMALL.
It will seem small because
It is farther away.
CJO much for Oregon and
California.
Let's take a look now at
the U.S.A. In Washington,
the Congress is expected to
authorize spending of around
77 BILLION dollars. That
really IS a lot of money -
even to the 175 million
people who make up the pop
ulation of the United States
But
Because Washington is a
long way off, it doesn't SEEM
so big. It's like the dollar on
the post across the street.
T ISTEN:
The 77 billion dollar total
spending the congress in ex
pected to authorize REALLY
IS BIG. And our share of it
comes out of our pockets just
the same as our share of our
state taxes. When looked at
In its proper light, our
SHARE of it is big.
For example:
California's share of the
federal total, according to
figures vouched" for by the
non - partisan, non - political
Tax Foundation, will be about
7V4 BILLION dollars, or ap
proximately three times the
total spending contemplated
by the California legislature
for California purposes.
Much smaller Oregon's
share of the federal total will
be about 670 MILLION dol
lars, or somewhat better than
twice the total spending con
templated by this year's Or
egon legislature.
THAT is to say:
For every dollar Call
fornians pay in taxes to Sac
ramento, they pay THREE
dollars to Washington.
For every dollar Oregon
lans pay in taxes to Salem
they pay approximately TWO
dollars to Washington.
VET x
Although two -thirds of
our total tax dollars go to the
federal government and only
one-third to closer home gov
eminent
We incline to the belief that
heavy federal spending is
GOOD for us whereas heavy
close-at-home spending hurts.
Senate Hearing Final Action
On Space Agency, Fund, Draft
Washington -(LTD The Sen
ate hoped to complete action
today on a supplemental S48
million space agency appro
priation and on a four-year
extension of the draft.
The space program author
ization was characterized by
Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.)
as "sound and well con
ceived." It is for the balai.ee
of the present fiscal year and
would be followed by an ad
ministration request for fis
cal 1960 of more than $485
million.
About half of the supple
mental appropriation is ear
marked for "Project Mer-cury"-the
program intended
to put a man into space.
The House-passed extension
of the draft law appeared cer
tain to win speedy Senate
passage. It would extend for
four years beyond July 1 the
authority to draft men in the
18 to 26 age bracket and in
duct physicians and dentists.
It also would continue a
suspension of pre-Korean ceil
ings on military strength. The
Senate Armed Service Com
mittee approved the adminis
tration - supported extension
Monday almost without
change.
Chairman Richard B. Rus
sell (D-Ga.) had favored some
Progress Noied
In Health Care
Oi Aged Persons
Washington - (UPD - The
American Medical Associa
tion informed Congress today
that it is making "solid prog
ress" in its effort to improve
the health care of America's
aged.
The report, in effect, was a
response to a drive by the
AFL-CIO to expand Social
Security benefits to include
what would amount to a
paid-up hospitalization and
medical care program for per
sons 65 and over.
The AMA contends such a
program would be a major
move toward socialized medi
cine. Carrying Oui Policy
In a letter to Rep. Wilbur
D. Mills (D-Ark.), chairman
of the House Ways and Means
Committee, the AMA said to
day that state and local medi
cal societies are acting
promptly and decisively" to
carry out an AMA policy dec
laration. That declaration, adopted
unanimously last Decembers
by the AMA's House of Dele
gates, urged that the nation's
physicians expedite develop
ment of an effective volun
tary health insurance or pre
payment program for the
group over 65 with modest re
sources or low family income
It also urged physicians to
agree to accept lower fees in
order that such insurance
plans could be offered at a
reduced premium rate.
We tend to vote FOR the
heavy spenders in congress
and AGAINST legislators and
city councilmen who advocate
spending what we regard as
too much.
It's a strange complex.
modifications in the military uled cuts in Army and Ma-
reserve program but said a
"time of crisis" over Berlin
seemed to be no time to make
them.
Other congressional news:
Foreign; The Senate For
eign Relations Committee
went behind closed doors
with Acting Secretary of
State Christian A. Herter for
an up-to-date report on Ber
lin developments and other
world trouble spots. It was
Herter's first session with the
group since he took over tem
porarily from John Foster
Dulles.
Defense: President Eisen
hower was reported standing
firm against Democratic de
mands that he cancel sched-
House Education
Group Postpones
Bill on Entrance
Salem-dJPD-Action on a bill
that would require students
to be admitted to institutions
of higher learning on the
basis of strictly determined
standards only was postponed
by the House Education Com
mittee Monday for further
study.
The bill would require ad
mittance to be made after
tests and interviews with no
regard to race, color, creed,
personality traits or other
non-academic requirements.
Rep. Vernon Cook (D-Trout-
dale) said the bill was aimed
at professional schools such
as the medical and dental
schools where, he said, other
conditions such as finances
also were considered in
screening applicants.
Entitled to Entrance
He said that all taxpayers,
rich and poor, supported the
institutions and were entitled
to entrance if they qualified
even though they had to work
on the side to make it.
Cook said, that while he
could not verify it, he had
heard that some minorities
were being discriminated
against at the schools.
John Miscoe, representing
the Oregon State Medical So
ciety, opposed the bill on
grounds that there were many
more applicants for medical
training than could be han
dled and some had to be weed
ed out because of what the
examining board felt to be
unfavorable personality traits.
The committee will give the
bill more study. A similar
measure was introduced at
the last legislative session, but
failed to pass.
rine Corps strength. Republi
can congressional leaders said
there was no evidence that
the President had been sway
ed by the arguments. They
said the proposed manpower
reductions will proceed as
planned. The issue touched
off a long Senate debate Mon
day when Senate Democratic
Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
announced that the armed
services preparedness subcom
mittee would reopen hearings
Wednesday on defense readi
ness and space progress.
Spending: Sen. Harry F.
Byrd (D-Va.) said Democratic
sponsored airport and hous
ing legislation is outside Con
gress annual appropriation
control and "makes a sham
bles of orderly efforts to keep
the budget in balance."
Labor: Two Republican
members of the Senate Rack
ets Committee called for
sweeping labor reforms to bar
"rashly called" strikes, coer
cive picketing and secondary
boycotts. Sens. Karl E. Mundt
(S.D.) and Carl T. Curtis
(Neb.) appealed to a Senate
labor subcommittee for ac
tion.
Distressed Areas: Two big
farm groups joined organized
labor in backing legislation
that would set up a big pro
gram to help the nation's eco
nomically distressed areas.
The National Grange and the
National Farmers Union join
ed the AFL-CIO in supporting
the "point four" program in
testimony before a House
banking subcommittee.
;
French Track Down
Killer of American
Algiers -(UPD- French troops
have tracked down and prac
tically annihilated the Mos
lem rebel band that ambushed
and killed American photogra
pher Homer F. Kellems, the
French Army Command re
ported today.
It said one member of the
band was taken alive and ad
mitted the rebels shot Kel
lems and his two companions
as they shouted "We are
Americans."
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EMPTY CHAIR Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan sits in Ventura,
Cal., courtroom, trying to maintain her composure after
her son, Frank Duncan, vacated his chair (foreground)
in tears. Frank Duncan broke down and left the court
room as confessed slayer Luis Moya told the brutal de
tails of the killing of Frank's wife Olga. Mrs. Duncan is
charged with hiring Moya and another man to get rid
of her son's wife, of whom she was jealous.
i Snark Missile
Completes Trip
Down Atlantic
Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UPD-The
Air Force sent a second
hand Snark missile streaking
down the Atlantic tracking
range early today and brought
it back to the cape intact four
hours and 20 minutes later.
The swept-wing Snark, the
nation's only combat - ready
intercontinental missile, glid
ed in with its tail low onto
a skid strip at the missile
center. The landing appeared
to be smooth.
Two manned jet fighters
accompanied the guided weap
on on its return.
1500-Mile Trip
It was believed that the;
bright-red, 69-foot-long Snark
made a flight of about 1,500
miles down-range after its
two solid-fuel boosters hurled
it into the pre-dawn darkness
at 1:01 a.m. (PST). i
The Snark, which cruises
with the power of a turbojet
engine after jettisoning the
boosters, already had made
one round-trip flight. It could
be flown again if it was not
damaged on landing.
The Snark, actually a pilot
less bomber capable of carry
ing a hydrogen warhead, is
considered ready for firing in
anger. But the Air Force is
continuing to test the weapon
to increase its reliability.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, March 10, 1939 5
Oral Vaccine for Polio Being Tested
Minneapolis -UPD- The Min
nesota Health Department
said today a study has begun
to determine the effectiveness
of an oral polio vaccine aim
ed at giving immunity from
all three strains of the dis
ease in one swallow.
The study is being made
among 65 student families at
the University of Minnesota.
The object is to learn if
the "triple-threat" vaccine is
as effective as three separate
inoculations of Salk Vaccine,
each of which provides, im
munity against only one type
of polio.
The cherry-flavored vac
cine contains weakened virus
of all three .types of polio.
It can be given safely to day
old infants.
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