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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1960)
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop if K 4 M DEAF MINK. PLUS KENNEDY Wausau, Wise. What may be called the new sights seen along the road are often the " best rewards of the report er's trade. You come here to Wau sau, to test the climate in the swing dis trict of Wis c o n s i n ' s make or - jdskph Ai.snp Dreas jjeinu- cratic presidential primary. - You learn that the climate fa vors Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. But you also learn about deaf white mink. The mink story came from ' Leroy Jonas Jr., the pleasant, shrewd young chairman of Rib Mountain, which is one of the more considerable townships of Marathon coun ty. Jonas, himself a Repub lican, also offered a remark ably positive forecast that his Rib Mountain would choose Kennedy rather than Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minne sota in the Democratic pri mary. But the mink story, for .reasons to be explained, de serves to be told first. The Jonas family, then, "got into mink by accident," . as Leroy Jonas put it. The -accident in question tragic- -ally all but blinded Leroy Jonas' younger brother. To give the boy an occupation "and a hobby, the father t bought him a few mink. It .was an odd but imaginative present, so well chosen that the handicapped brother's " hnhhv soon became the whole family's business. To day, the Jonases not only have a highly successful mink ranch; they also own an even more successful small factory that produces equip ment for other mink ran- ' chers. IN this success story, the only unhappy chapter be pan when the Jonases first tried breeding white mink. Horribly enough, the mink strain that produces the most . delicately white skins is also deaf-mute from over-breed-. ing. For the Jonasers, these monstrous but luxurious ani . mals obstinately refused to . multiply their kind; and so the Jonas ranch now mass produces a commoner but .healthier strain of white. "Is that just common white mink, or is Mrs. Jones' new ..coat made of deafmutes?" . This splendidly macabre ques . tion for the status-seekers was only one of the by-products of a long day's political re porting. Another by-product was the surprising informa tion that Marathon county, Wisconsin, produces much of the world supply of ginseng, an astringent root much val ued by the Chinese as a res torative of male vigor. - I record these facts, I must add, with a perfectly serious purpose. They illustrate the marvelous diversity, unex pectedness and richness of this country of ours. -which political reporters joyfully re discover in each election year. Pazans of gratitude for the glorious un-boringness of the United States are not easy !o fit into a political report; and this recurring gratitude as therefore been repressed Wake up rarin'to go hitherto. But it came alto gether irrepressible when this reporter and his brother, Stewart, spent a day with Leroy Jonas, the mink ran cher, Frank Volhard, the gin seng grower, and the other farmers and businessmen who compose the Board of Mara thon county. THE County Board meeting brought together all the elected leaders of all the vil lages and towns in Marathon, the key county in Wisconsin's key Seventh Congressional District. Of these 70 or so men, we managed to talk at some length with 23. The 23 men questioned in turn rep resented every kind of com munity from industrial work ers' ward of Wausau City, to a tiny dairy farming village. All knew their communities intimately, and their commu nities added up to a complete cross-section of the country as a whole. In all cases, we asked these men to forget their own preferences. We requested a coldly impartial forecast, off- the-record if that was pre ferred, of each community's probable choice in the Demo cratic primary. The results, as already suggested, were strongly favorable to Senator Kennedy. He was the predict ed winner in 15 communities, including almost all the more populous places like indus trial Mosinee and Rib Moun tain, which is a residential suburb as well as a mink- metropolis. Elderon Village, a potato- growing center, was "just too evenly divided between Ken nedy and Humphrey to allow even a guess either way, Senator Humphrey, was the predicted winner in only sev en communities, all but one of which were country vil lages. On this evidence, Sen ator Humphrey has some hard work to do in Marathon county. Another experience of ours on this same day in dicates that Senator Hum phrey's work in Marathon County has not as yet begun - TN - brief, we chanced to meet the chairman of the Marathon County Committee-for-Kennedy, an able young lawyer, Robert Dean. Chair man Dean has had his 26-man group fully organized and on the job for some weeks. Seek ing a comparison, we then telephoned the Humphrey headquarters in Milwaukee, to locate the Marathon coun ty chairman for Humphrey. At first, no one seemed able to think of a name. Finally, a union leader, Hal J. .Ver hoven was somewhat tenta- Crime Conference Explores Cause, Nature, Extent Salem - (UPD - The cause, na ture and extent of crime and what to do about it was ex plored Tuesday at the first state - wide conference on crime prevention. One - hundred or more judges, lawmen, district at torneys, educators, lay and re ligious leaders and others gathered for the one-day ses sion. It was called by the Oregon Department of Justice. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said response to the conference was "greater than expected." He said he hopes the discussions and exchange of information can be a con tinuing thing. Increased Effort Asked. Keynoting the conference, Circuit Judge Virgil Langtry of Multnomah county called for increased effort for work in family problems. A great number of criminals, he said, develop from a distressed home life. Among causes of crime in Oregon mentioned were break - down of families and lack of religious and citizen ship training among young people. It was also felt that the courts do not deal severe ly enough with first offenders. Executive Director Of Churches Resigns Portland -(UPD Dr. Mark Talney Tuesday offered his resignation as executive di rector of the Oregon Council of Churches. The resignation is effective May 31. Dr. Talney will become Pacific Northwest Associate Secretary of the American Bible Society July 1. He has been with the church council for seven years. ' ' tively indicated. But when we got in touch at last with Hal Verhoven, he told us: "Sure I'm for Humphrey, but nobody ever told me I was county chairman of any thing." At this stage, in short, one would be inclined to prophesy a Kennedy victory in Wiscon sin, without any qualification, if it were not for one bother some point. Wisconsin's make- ARCH N. BOOTH To Be in Salem Chamber Official To Be at Session Arch N. Booth, Washing ton, D.C., e x e c u tive vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, will be in Salem March 1 in one of a series of meetings throughout the country in which national chamber of ficials discuss proposed legis lation of interest to local businessmen. Don McNeil, manager of the local chamber, said reser vations to and from Salem are being handled by the Medford Chamber of Commerce office, and local businessmen and chamber members are encour aged to attend. Booth is a member of a national chamber team tour ing the country to discuss legislative matters of interest to businessmen, who are ex pected to participate in the program. The Salem meeting starts at 9:30 a.m., and concludes at 3:30 p.m., McNeil said. Booth is in general charge of all the chamber's projects, activities and operations in Washington, D.C., and in the field. Truck Loaded With Eggs Hit by Train Salem -(UPD A truck loaded -with eggs collided with a freight train at a Southern Pacific railroad crossing near Aurora Tuesday. The truck was demolished but driver Daniel H. Weis- or-break primary will only be gram of Salem escaped ser won on the stump, and the ious injury. Eggs were splat contestants are just now be- tered along the tracks for a ginning to take the stump. distance. (c) 1960, New York Herald The truck was owned by Tribune Inc. Oregon Egg Producers. Jobless Compensation Claims Dip To 30,200 .- Salem (UPD The Oregon Employment Department said today that despite heavy rains in western Oregon, unemploy ment compensation claims dropped to 30,200 last week, 1,382 less than the week be fore. ' The Department said many workers, mostly loggers, were forced out of work because of high water or poor road conditions. ECLIPSE TIME Berkeley The maximum duration of a total eclipse of the sun in the Tventieth century is 7.3 aninutes. ' Thousands Believed Given in Payola Washington -(UPD A House investigator said today it is evident that record companies have shelled out "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to disc jockeys and others to get songs broadcast. Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif .) told United Press Internation al that would be "a conserva tive, a restrained estimate." Moss is a member of a House subcommittee which al ready has uncovered side pay ments of more than $70,000 in the Cleveland and Boston areas alone. The subcommittee was call ed behind closed doors today to consider a plea from one of the men responsible for the side payments that he be allowed to testify in secret. Three Judges To Seek Reelection Salem -(UPD- Three judges filed for reelection Tuesday. They are Circuit Judges Malcolm W. Wilkinson of The Dalles and P. K. Hammond of Oswego, and Multnomah District Court Judge John Mears, Portland. Also filing for reelection was Lincoln County District Attorney - A. R. McMullen, Body of Worker Found in Millpond Tygh Valley-WPD-The body of Edward Franklin Stephans, 62, of Portland, was found in a mill pond here Tuesday. Wasco county ithorities speculated that Stephans fell into the pond sometime after 4 p.m. Monday and drowned. Stephans was found after he didn't show up for work at the mill and the mill fore man found his empty lunch box and work gloves in the cab of the log unloading boom he operated. SIZE COMPARED Portugal is about the same area as Indiana. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1960 BLOCKED BALLOTS Mobile, Ala.-(UPD-Would-be voters who arrived at a poll ing station Tuesday to cast ballots on 19 constitutional amendments found the sta tion locked tight. The offi cial who was supposed to open up had overslept and didn't get there with the key until three hours later. 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