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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1959
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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. . "
TheyH Do It Every Time
By Jimmy Hatlo
.ISTEB WAS FED UP
WITH THE BIG OTV TAX
QAPS-SO HE DECIDED
TO MOVE TO SUBURBIA ,
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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.
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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
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