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54th Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1959 Pages 1-6 SpecSaD Wfoote IHloiuise Comramossooini Seeini Rs Necessary to Spur AnnerDcamis Om Br LOUIS CASSELS UPI Cor respondent Washington-flJPD- President Eisenhower believes- that Americans need something" be sides Communist competition to spur them on. His strong conviction that the nation re quires new incentives may re suit soon in the appointment of a special White House Com mission. ' , The commission would be composed of diftinguished Americans from every field of usefA activity educators, scientists, union leaders, cor poration executives, clergy men, bankers,- doctors, farm ers and so on. Its job would be to establish National Goals targets of peaceful achieve ment for the American peo ple o shoot at during the next five or ten years. This may sound like an echo of the "five-year plans" so dear to the hearts of Com munist bureaucrats. But there would be a profoundly significant difference. The Communist plans are dicta ted from the top by' political leaders. America's National Goals would be set by priv ate citizens, acting as the rep resentatives of a free people. Great Importance Eisenhower attaches great importance to this distinction. Although he first broached the idea of a commission in his State of the Union mes sage to Congress last Jan. 9, he has held up its actual ap pointment for more than eight months. The delay has been caused by his determination not to spend one cent of government money on the project. He be lieves it should be entirely financed by private funds. Several of the big philan thropic foundations have indi cated a willingness to under write the commission's ex penses, but the details of fi nancing are still being work ed out. - WhenNthat hurdle is clear ed the President is ready to name the members of the com mission. He has already pick ed, from a list of thousands of possibilities, a broadly rep resentative group of men and women who will be asked to serve. ' -" . ' Prodigious Feats The "President's thinking about the project runs along these lines: The American people have proved repeatedly that they can achive prodigious feats in wartime, when they are unuited by a common peril and spurred on by the know ledge that their homes : and freedoms are at stake. But in peacetime, Amer icans let down. They become complacent .about their high living standards 'and take freedoms for granted. Team work gives way to disunity, sacrifice is succeeded by in dividual and group selfishness: Difficulties which would be an inspiring challenge in war time become insurmountable obstacles to peacetime pro gress. Instead of dreaming and wording lor a oeuer woria, Americans start thinking of a shorter work week, a longer vacation, an easier life all around. .. , Tendencies Offset V The cold war with Russia, and the necessity of keeping up in the nuclear-missile-space race, have offset this tendency to some degree., But these stimuli are clearly not enough. The public's response , to the cold war alternates erratically between near-hysteria when the Russians beat us into space and national relaxation when we finally get one of our own rockets off the pad.. What America really needs is what a famous philosopher called "the moral equivalent of . war"-positive, constructive goals that will call forth in peacetime th same kind of all-out effort that the nation expends so readily in a hot war. . 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PROSPECT 'Play School' Planned Bt FRANCES RING Prospect - A meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Ray Maurer on Red Blanket rd Wednesday, Sept. 9, :o discuss the possibility of a kinder irarten tvoe "Dlav school" for Prosoect 4 and 5-year-olds. Mrs. Carol Drake, wife of the present music teacher, would be in charge ; of the school. It would be a non profit venture and not affili ated with the Prospect scnoois. The purpose of the school would be to help the children prepare for school by getting along with a group, sitting still for longer periods of time, and learning to follow simple directions. ' ' "' A . charge of 25 cents per child per day would go to pay for milk and supplies to be used in the school. Women present at the meeting were Mrs. Sam Beck, Mrs. Howard Bishop, Mrs. Eugene Burrill, Mrs. Ralph Parten, Mrs. Bob Owens, Mrs. George Ring Jr., and the host ess, Mrs. Ray Maurer.. : The Bloodmobile will be at the Prospect Community hall Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 2 un til 6 pjn. Donors are urgently needed as the quota for this year is high. Anyone car ing to donate may call Mrs. Mel Rochester at . U N i o n 9-2071. ... . . - . ..j Prospect Community store will be open Monday, Sept. 14, at the Community hall. Donations will be accepted there. . ' : , I Dee Neville and family of Los Angeles visited his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Nev ille recently. From there, they continued on their trip to Utah. Doe expected to fly to Minneapolis on a business trip before returning to Los Angeles with hi family. Clarence Neville, who has bean attending college at Cor vllis, visited at home recent lv. He left Thursday for Hood River, where he will teach shop-work at W y East High school. Mr. 'and Mrs; Cleo Brown ing and family of Sugar City, Idaho, visited his aunt, Mrs, Dave Neville, recently. The Brownings Yhtd been to San Francisco, where they . met their son, Larry, who had re turned from a three-year mis sion in China. SR Benford Ray Marshal, off the TJSS Wiltsie, visited Mr. and Mrs. Monte Ring last week. Ben had a 30-day leave and also visited friends in Ashland. He returned to Long Beach last week. , Mr. and Mrs. Jurl - Hicks and family returned home last week from spending the last few weeks " in . Missouri visiting relatives. : Frances Sharp visited her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sharp, in Dil lard, Ore., recently. The Bill Sharps visited his parents here the week before that. Mr. and Mrs. M. L Mitchem and family have moved from their home on Red Blanket rd. to Medford. Ashland Truck Driver Bound Over fo Jerry Grants Pass.- (DPD - Lewis Hen'-y ' Lively, 41, Ashland truck driver, has been bound over to the Josephine county grand jury here on two counts of negligent homicide. : . The charpes were filed in connection with the deaths of Earl W. Callahan, 70, and his wife Iva, 60, both of San Francisco. The couple died in the collision of their station wagon and a truck driven by Lively near . Wolf : Creek Aug. 25. - ; CAPITAL NEEDED New York-fUPD-Around $125 billion in individual and cor porate savings will be needed to finance the capital needs of customers, business and gov ernment by 1970, according to the National Commission on Money & Credit. The com parable 1957 figure was $65 billion. More Water For TID Seen Talent - Water for addition al land will be available dur ing the 1961 irrigation season, Walter Hoffbuhr, manager of Talent irrigation district, has announced. v The increased amount of water is the result of near completion of th Talent recla mation project. Petitions for inclusion of new lands must be filed, pro cessed and accepted not later than the spring of 1960, he said. Interested applicants are advised to file before the end of, this year, since only 5,000 acres can be included. . Applicants 'should have a description of the portion of their tract they wish to in clude for. irrigation, he said. If purchasing under contract, both the seller and buyer will be required to sign the peti tion, he added. . Petitions for inclusion will be available at the district of fice in Talent starting Sept. 21, he said. Further informa tion may be obtained at he district office. D. C. VOTING. APPROVED ' Washington-dJPD - The Sen ate constitutional amend ments subcommittee Friday approved 5 to 1 a proposed constitutional amendment to let District of Columbia resi dents v9te for president and vice president. The meaure would give the district as many delegates to the House as it would have House mem bers if it were a state. ' In his1 State of the Union message, Eisenhower put it this way: e "If progress is to be steady, we must have long term guides extending far ahead, certainly five, possibly even ten years. They must be goals that stand high, and so in spire every citizen to climb always toward mounting lev els of moral, intellectual and material strength. Every ad vance toward them must stir pride in individual and nation al achievements." ' The. President-believes that national goals should be estab lished in each major field of public activity. Here are- a few examples of the kind of problems that would be re ferred to the commission: Education U. S. schools are locally controlled and locally financed. They vary in quality from very good to very bad, and there is no accepted national standard of what a school ought to be. .Teachers' pay ranges from adequate to disgraceful, academic require ments from rugged to ludi crous. If there were clearly-de fined national goals, of educa tional excellence, the citizens of each community could the oretically measure their schools against this yardstick, and act accordingly. Living Sinndards-Although many Americans are enjoy ing relative prosperity, infla tion remains a constant threat to real incomes. And there are still grim pockets of poverty in this "land of plenty." The living . standards that prevail among migrant farm workers and on some Indian reserva tions, for example, are as low as any in Asia or Africa Chronic unemployment , per sists in many one-industry communities. Millions of aged people are pinching pennies because they have been forced by early-retirement customs into a leisure they cannot af ford to enjoy. - Productivity .To support and raise living standards for all groups of Americans, and at the same time meet mount ing demands for public: ex penditure on a r m a ments, highways, schools and hos pitals, the U.S. economy must steadily expand its produc tivity.. What output of goods and services will be needed ten years hence, , when the population will reach 190,000, 000? What public and priv ate measures are indicated to achieve this expansion? Health Americans are al ready spending millions on medical research and hun dreds of millions on medical care. But there are many na tional health problems whose surface has barely been scratched. More and better facilites are urgenty needed, for example, in the field of mental illness. Alcoholism, with 5,000,000 victims, is a still-spreading blight about which little is being done. Civil Rights What can and should America accomplish during the next ten years to wards the elimination of raci al discrimination? What steps are needed to .safeguard tra ditional American liberties and to arouse greater public awareness of how precious they are, and how easily they, can be eroded unless vigilant ly protected? The foregoing list merely suggests some of the areas of national concern that prob ably would attract the com mission's attention. There doubtless would be many others. Once the national goals are estbalished, ' Eisenhower be lieves, public opinion will compel progress toward them. The very fact that the goals are voluntary set by private citizens, with no hint of gov ernment compulsion will make them, in the President's opinion, far more acceptable to the American people than any official '"five-year plan" drawn up in Washington. We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main - and Central Firefighter's Body Is Found ' Chiloquin (DPD rhe body of a 32-year-old bulldozer op erator missing since Thursday in an 8,600-acre forest fire north of here was found in a burned area Saturday after noon. The victim was Clifford E. Dav, of -Chiloquin. Oregon state highway de partment Chiloquin manager Roger Wright said the body was found about one-half mile northeast of where Daw abandoned the tractor Thurs day when flames swept be hind him, .cutting off escape. Daw was with another fire fighter when they were en circled by the flames. The companion, Ben Foster, for est service employee from Klamath Falls, made : his way out of the trap , after Daw leaped from the . bull dozer and went another way. Foster was uninjured. A search headed by Kla math county sheriff Murray Birtton was launched Friday and resumed Saturday for the missing Daw. Bloodhounds and prisoners from the coun ty jail were deployed in the hunt. , The fire broke out Thurs day when sparks from the Chiloquin city dump spread to a nearby stand of trees. Hundreds of firefighters con tinued to battle the blaze Saturday afternoon. South Dakota, Utah, Alas ka and California account for 74 per cent of the total do mestic production of gold in the U. S. Buffalo, N. Y. (DPD - Police had a very helpful clue in a recent case involving a two car hit-and-run accident. The sought-after auto left its front license plate at the scene. Sharks have one to four rows of teeth in actual use and another two to seven rows in reserve If one tooth is lost, a reserve takes its plaec in less than a week. It' is estimated that at least five or ten out of every 100 Americans suffer an ellergic reaction from penicillin, a drug second only to aspirin in daily use. New York (DPD - Industriali zation has pushed up Aus tralia's gross national product from $4.9 billion 10 yean ago to $13 billion in 1958, accord ing to Newsweek magazine. ,'Thuaxj iiMattaU neither a offer krmawMx&etiaticntj offer tobimt of th tjtim&lattQriftm m 0 the f ormatien off a new home owned Oregon legal reserve insurance company INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA offers t-iny,e3tmertOT.-&: limited number of--r " ' 1 - ' -4 -t , -t ? - ' ! muijtmiru w7 wsru i - I I Oregon Underwrite, Inc. J ' P. O. Box 151, Salem, Oregon I Gentlemen: Please send me a copy of the Insurance Company of America prospectus. I understand I am under no obligation. NAME '' ' ' ' ' " A ADDRESS. I CITY.. . .STATE. OWN STOCK IN OREGON'S NEW COMPANY An Announcement oj interest to invery one . i J S BETTER MEALS BUILD BETTER FAMILIES Beginning September 14, this newspaper and newspapers all over the country will begin a con certed two-week drive to focus attention on one of . the basic necessities of your lif er-food. Food manufacturers, distributors and local retailers will be cooperating in this nationwide movement identified by the symbol shown on this page "Better Meals Build Better Families." The desire of your daily newspaper and people in the food business is to emphasize the importance of the family meal as the traditional gathering place for the family. The fccmily meal rather than meals on the run is not only more nourishing but it makes for a better, more cohesive family relation ship. A closer family is a better family. . Your daily newspaper is spearheading this . drive, because the newspaper is the number one means of food communication. Food is news and the newspaper delivers this news daily through its food pages and through the advertisements of re-. . tailers and manufacturers. You will be reading all about the "Better Meals Build Better Families" campaign in the days to come. Look for announcements in the pages of your "Total Selling" medium the daily newspaper. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
