Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
I7ATHER KELLY was an enthusiastic, if erratic, golf play--
er. Approaching a guarded green one afternoon, he was
dvised by a caddy to use a number three iron. "I think I
can snake it with a num
ber four," decided Father
XeHy. m take a full
swing-i-and pray."
The ball plopped into a
trap short of the green.
T guess," .sighed Father
Kelly, "the good Lord
tlidn't hear my prayer."
"Could be," said the
caddy, "but in church,
when we pray, we keep
our heads down."
. Ike collector of taxes la
ft Westchester community
saerts that, from a politi
cal point of view, bis family most be the most mixed up m the.
country. Tm a Republican, he explains. "My wife's a Demo
crat, my kid's wet, my coWs dry, and my cats on the fence."
A. reigning movie queen awoke one morning wiik Z ringing ia
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, the govern
ment operations committee of
the house of representatives
of the U.S. congress has just
completed its annual inven
tory report which lists all
the real and personal property
owned by the federal govern
ment. The personal property, run
ning all the way from type
writer ribbons to multi-multi-million
dollar bombers and
navy ships, totes up to the
not insignificant sum of 193
billion dollars. The real prop
erty, ranging from vacant lots
here and there to the millions
of acres in the public domain,
is valued at 71 billion dollars
and a few odd cents.
.
THAT is to say:
You and 179,300.000 share
holders in the United States
of America own real and
personal property whose in
ventory value is $264,000,
000,000. In case the ciphers
are more than you can count,
the figure is 264 billion dol
lars. As one individual, your
share of it comes to $1,472.39.
Sounds pretty good, does
n't it?
TUT wait a minute.
Those figures are for what
you, as an individual. OWN.
Let's take a sharp look at
what you OWE.
rpHE FUNDED debt of the
-- federal government alone
mounts in rounded -off fig
ures to 290 billion dollars, of
'which your share as an in
dividual is $1,617.40.
So
You see
As a shareholder in the
U.S.A. you own $1,472.39
worth of real and personal
property, but you OWE, as
your share of the funded debt
of the federal government,
the sum of Sl.617.40.
PUT in that light, it doesn't
look very good. In fact,
looked at in that sharp, cruel
light, it suggests the uneasy
thought that as a nation we
are BANKRUPT.
Which, raises the question:
How did we get that way?
FOR an answer, let's turn to
the legend of the Pied
Piper of Hamelin.
The village of Hamelin was
plagued by rats. The Piper,
clad in a gay, parti-colored
suit, appeared and offered to
get rid of the vermin. His
offer was accepted. He play
ed his pipe gaily, and the rats
followed him out of town.
...
IT WAS wonderful.
But
The rats came back.
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THE PIPER came again.
Again he played his gay
and carefree tune. His tune
was so lilting that this time
the children followed him out
of town. He led them to a
mountain cave where all dis
appeared save two one
blind, the other dumb.
IF YOU will substitute for
the Pied Piper and his gay
lilting tune the SPENDERS -from
John Maynard Keynes
on down - and their siren
song of TAX AND TAX AND
SPEND AND SPEND, you
will perhaps get a glimmer
ing of how we got the way
we are.
Isn't it about time to quit
following the siren song of
the spenders?
Personal Income
At Record Level
Washington-flJPD - Personal
income hit a record high in
December as factory produc
tion surged ahead to recoup
steel strike losses.
The Commerce Department
said Monday incomes advanc
ed about 1 per cent last
month. The gain, large for one
month, lifted total personal
income to an annual rate of
$390,700,000,000. ' ' .
For all of 1959, incomes
wages, salaries, rents, profits,
dividends and other payments
to individuals totaled a rec
ord $380,100,000,000.
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Sonic Booms
May Be Used To
Loose Avalanches
Spokane-(DPD-The Air Force
may have found a use for the
sonic boom, usually consider
ed by civilians a nuisance if
not an outright menace.
Negotiations are under way
between the Air Force and
the National Park Service to
set up a program under which
Air Force flyers will create
sonic booms in hopes of set
ting off artificial avalanches
in Glacier National Park,
Mont.
Avalanches Cosily
In the past, the Park Serv
ice has lost both men and
equipment to avalanches in
opening going-to - the Sun
Highway, the high mountain
road through the park, for
spring travel. The service
hopes that if the Air Force
can create avalanches before
park service men enter the
area, the danger of natural
avalanches will be lessoned.
May Test Idea
First test of the idea may
be made this month, officials
at Giger Air Force Base here
said today. The 498th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron from
Geiger is expected to continue
the "booms" periodically un
til April.
The unit flies F-106 Delta
Darts, which recently set a
world speed record of 1,525
miles per hour more than
twice the speed needed to set
off a sonic boom.
Bristol to Seek
State Senate Seat
Grants Pass-Fayette I. Bris
tol, Josephine county repre
sentative to the state legisla
ture for the past two terms,
has announced he will be a
candidate for the Senate seat
being vacated by Don Camer
on. Sidney Bazett, president of
the Valley Finance company,
Grants Pass, said he would
seek Bristol's former post in
the house. Cameron has an
nounced he will not seek re
election to the state senate.
All are Republicans.
Bristol served as Republic
an minority floor leader in
the house, and was the only
Republican on a committee
of four, the tax conference
committee. He also served on
the house tax committee, the
education committee and the
committee on forestry and
mining.
Bristol has operated the
Bristol Silica company at
Rogue River for the past 25
years, and has been active in
civic and national affairs
especially pertaining to na
tural resources.
Bazett is past president of
the local chamber of com
merce and is a director and
treasurer of Industries De
velopment, Inc. He is a mem
ber of the Josephine County
Industrial Park commmision,
the state park advisory com
mittee for the state highway
commission, and a member of
the executive committee of
the Redwood Empire associa
tion. Central Point Has
Few Fires in '59
Central Point - The lowest
number of fires ever reported
in the city of Central Point
was recorded last year, ac
cording to Fire Chief Don
Turner.
Turner noted that popula
tion in Central Point has in
creased about 21 per cent in
the past five years. Adding
to last year's record, he said,
were more residences.
The fire chief expressed ap
preciation for residents re
porting fires as soon as they
are discovered. He said it is
better to find a fire extin
guished when they arrive
rather than to have the per
son take a chance, and the
fire get out of control.
Two calls last year were
mutual aid calls, one at Tolo
and the other at Camp White,
both assisting the Central
Point Rural Fire Protection
district.
Of the 24 city calls, nine
were flue and trash fires, nine
were dwellings .with other
causes, one was a car fire,
two were industrial and three
were commercial fires, Tur
ner said. Fourteen fire inspec
tions were made in homes
with five corrections recom
mended. HITS BOMBER DELAY
New York - (UPD - Gen. Carl
Spaatz. former Air Force
chief of staff, has termed "in
comprehensible" the Eisen
hower administration's deci
sion to delay development of
the B-70 bomber. "Equipped
with air-to-ground and air-to-air
missiles, it (the B-70)
could frustrate any anti-aircraft
defense system . . . like
ly to be devised in the fore
seeable future," Spaatz said
Monday.
Steel Screw Bounces Out of Truck;
Idanha Veneer Plant Forced To Close
Idanha, Ore. (UPD The loss
of a 150-pound screw shut
down a veneer plant here for
a time Monday.
Green Veneer, Inc., and its
25 workers were slated to get
rolling again, however, be
Philosophy Student
Describes Meeting
With Carole Tregoff
Los Angeles-(UPD - Donald
Williams wishes he never had
taken that college course in
philosophy because today it
had him right in the middle
of the Finch-Tregoff murder
trial.
Williams, 21, was a child
hood friend of red-haired Car
ole Tregoff who is accused
with her lover, Dr. Bernard
Finch, of slaying the sur
geon's brunette wife, Barbara.
Williams also was a fright
ened young man on the wit
ness stand Monday and he
probably will be even more
shaken after cross-examination
on his story he helped
Miss Tregoff find a man cap
able of murder for hire.
Man Forgot Deal
The N state charges Finch,
with Carole at his side, did
the job himself with a gun
after the man in Las Vegas
was paid $1,400 for the killing
CAROLE TREGOFF
Asked About Criminals
but squandered the money and
forgot his end of the deal.
Mrs. Finch was shot to
death outside her Los Angeles
home July 18.
There was almost a brother-
sister relationshiy between
himself and Carole, Williams
testified. She was three years
older and lived with his fam
ily from the the first time of
his memory until she went
on her own eight years ago.
Williams is now a third
year student at the southern
branch of the University of
Nevada in Las Vegas. One of
the courses he took last semes
ter was philosophy with
another young man named
Richard Keachie, who boasted
of his connections with the
"rackets" in Las Vegas.
Discussed Finch
Williams told the jury that
Carole last May came back
to live with him, his father
and his grandmother in Las
Vegas for a few weeks.
Williams said Carole dis
cussed Finch on many oc
casions. She asked him, Williams
said, if he knew anything
about criminals reputed to
frequent Las Vegas. Williams
said he told her about Kea
chie and that they talked to
him about it.
Keachie led them, Williams
said, to John Cody, now in
custody in Los Angeles on
transfer from a Minnesota
prison where he is serving
time on a bad check convic
tion. Keachie is free on $2,500
bail on Mann Act charges of
bringing prostitutes to Las
Vegas.
Met in Restaurant
Carole and Williams, the
student testified, first had a
ANGRY VIEWER
Lincoln, Neb. (UPD Gary
Lee Townsend, 8, got angry
at the hombres in a western
movie on television. He blast
ed a 2V2 inch hole in the TV
screen with his father's shot
gun. His small sister and a
baby sitter were unharmed in
the shooting.
MOTHERLY-TYPE THIEF
Montgomery, Ala - (UPD -Police
said today a "motherly
type" thief swipe two dozen
diapers from a backyard wash
line here.
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It all began Sunday when
Milo Harris, the corporation's
general manager, was en route
from Seattle back to Idanha,
about 65 relies east of the
meeting with Cody in a Las
Vegas restaurant. Williams
said after Cody left the res
taurant, he and Carole talked
about what kind of man he
might be.
"There was a conversation
as to whether he might be a
murderer or a thief a pretty
rugged individual. She asked
if I thought he had been in
volved in anything such as
murder or actions like that."
Williams' testimony was in
terupted there by the end of
the day's trial session. Kea
chie and Cody were scheduled
to follow him.
HORNBROOK
SOC Student
By KATHERINE CHAPMAN
Hornbrook-Robert De Voe,
a grandson-in-law of Frank
H. Ward, Hornbrook, was re
c e n 1 1 y nominated by the
Southern Oregon college fac
ulty to receive a Woodrow
Wilson foundation scholar
ship. De Voe is a senior in
adult education at SOC.
De Voe's wife is the former
Donna McCullough, daughter
of Mrs. Jackie Vogel, Ash
land. Mr. and Mrs. De Voe
frequently visit her grandfa
ther here, as well as other
relatives in Hilts.
Nine-year-old Gary Rue is
again a patient in Sacred
Heart hospital, Medford, and
was scheduled to undergo
brain surgery Monday. His
sister Nadine, 17, was a sur
gery patient there last week.
She is convalescing here at
the home of her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Clarence
Gosney.
Gary, who was visiting his
grandparents, was taken ill
suddenly and taken to Sis
kiyou General hospital, Yre
ka, then transferred to Med
ford. He returned home Jan.
5 after a few days' treatment
but later had to be hospital
ized again.
Gary's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Rue, and his sis
ters, Nadine, Linda and Rose,
moved from Hornbroow to
Seiad valley several months
ago.
Mrs. Mary Shinar, 87, suf
fered a, relapse at her home
Jan. 14 and was returned by
ambulance to Ashland Gener
al hospital. She was a patient
there for several days the
first of the year, but came
home and was being cared for
by her daughter. Mrs. Emma
Kinney, Olene, Ore.
Also on the sick list the
past two weeks was Mrs.
Minnie Bloomingcamp. She
has been at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. M. F. Cavin,
for about a week, but was
expecting to be well enough
to return home by Thursday
evening.
Mrs. L. C. Walsh enter
tained the Sewing club at her
home Jan. 12. Since the club
does not meet during Decem
ber, the December birthdays
of Mrs. Lawrence Breceda
and Mrs. L. E. Jeter were ob
served. Others attending
were Mrs. S. D. Haworth,
Mrs. Ed Smith and Mrs. Har
ry Chapman. It was the first
meeting of the club this year.
Another first meeting of the
year was that of the Henley
Bridge club Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. Henley Claw
son. First prize was won by
Mrs. Ed Smith, and second
by Mrs. Bertha Bradley. Also
playing were Mrs. Ivon How
a r d, Mrs. Grace Quigley,
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state capital, with the repaired
screw in a pickup truck.
The mill cannot operate
without the screw, a lathe
knife unit which controls
depth of log cuts for veneer.
Bounces Out
Somewhere along the way
the screw bounced out of the
truck, but it was not for some
time before Harris checked
the load and found it missing.
He backtracked on State
Highway 22 but couldn't find
it. State police were called in
but they couldn't find it ei
ther. At 7:10 a.m. Monday the
plant was shut down as emer
gency plans were being made
to get another screw. Then a
call came from Elmer Ruble,
Salem.
Ruble had spotted the screw
along the highway, apparent
ly only minutes after it fell
off Harris' truck. He put it in
his car and went skiing, fig
uring he would find the own
er later.
He phoned Monday morn
ing after hearing pleas on the
radio for its return.
Green Veneer Corporation
got its screw and Ruble got a
$25 reward.
Nominated
Mrs. Dwain Hamner, Mrs.
Lester Nye, and Mrs. Fred
Mills. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Ham
mer, and Mrs. Mills
guest players.
were
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Faz
zell were overnight guests
Tuesday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. William Wiley. The
Fazzells were enroute home
to their wheat ranch at Mab
ton, Wash., after a trip to
San Francisco, Los Angeles,
and Las Vegas. 1
The Women's Society of the
Hornbrook Methodist church
met Jan. 14, with Mrs. Harry
Chapman as hostess at her
home. Icy roads and illness
kept the attendance at a min
imum with only seven mem
bers being present. Mrs. Matt
Johnson attended as a guest,
and members attending were
Mrs. Henley Clawson, presi
dent; Mrs. Ardon Burns,
treasurer; Mrs. Ivon Howard,
Mrs. Ernest Adams, Mrs.
Bertha Bradley, and Mrs. Ida
Sloan. It was voted to have
the annual Valentine Silver
Tea Feb. 11 at the church.
The next meeting of the group
will be held Jan. 28, at a
place to be announced later.
At that time, the members
will give a "Parcel Post" bri
dal shower for Mrs. Ron Ad
ams, San Diego, the former
Barbara Burns.
Mr. and Mrs. James Kun
kle returned last week from
Oxnard, Calif., where they
had spent the past three
weeks visiting Mrs. Kunkle's
parents.
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College Student
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By FRANCES RING
Prospect -Miss Darlene
Nye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Waldo Nye, returned Sunday
to Northwest Nazarene col
lege in Nampa, Idaho where
she will finish her senior
year. She also will be teach
ing algebra and geometry at
Marsing (Idaho) High school.
Mr. and Mrs. William But
ler and family. Union Creek,
left Jan. 9 for Ketchikan,
Alaska, where he has been
transferred. Butler had been
timber sales officer for the
forest service at Union Creek
since last spring when he was
transferred here from Cali
fornia. George Brown was taken
to Rogue Valley hospital Mon
day to be treated for a serious
lung congestion.
Miss Mary Lou Neville has
returned to Juneau, Alaska
after spending three weeks
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Neville. She said she
appreciated the Oregon sun
shine and visited many
friends. Her work in Alaska
is in the office of the state
educational department and
quite different than here, as
many schools are in remote
places and are supervised
through correspondence.
Kermit Neville has return
ed to Logan, Utah, after a
vacation here. He is taking a
forestry course at the uni
versity there.
Clarence Neville has re
turned to Hood River where
he is teaching arts and crafts.
Bud Gillespie, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Gillespie, spent
10 days at home recently.
Since returning to Pendleton
Air base, near San Diego,
Calif., he has been advanced
in rate.
Mrs. Ray Gillespie's father,
W. O. Spendlove, was return
ed to Morgan, Utah after
spending a month with the
Gillespies recently.
Dee Hedgpeth is confined to
his home with a heavy case
of flu.
Mrs. Boyd Powers is in the
Osteopathic hospital in Med
ford with a serious case of
flu.
Mr. and Mrs. Benny Scriven
and family have moved from
their home on Red Blanket
rd. to Brookings, where they
will help to start a new Sun
day school.
TO HOLD TV HEARINGS
Washington- (UPD - The Sen
ate communications subcom
mittee announced it will open
hearings Feb. 2 on. the alloca
tion of televisions channels,
with members of the Federal
Communications c o mmission
as the first witnesses.
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Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1960 "
Moscow - (CPD - The official
Soviet news agency Tass re
ported the arrival in Moscow
Monday of American Negro
singer Paul Robeson and his
wife. The Robesons came here
on the invitation of the Soviet
Peace committee-, Tass said.
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