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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1960)
oiise Democrats Seek Support for RQedicaD Care Program Washington (UPD Liberal House Democrats sought sup port today for a compromise program of medical care for the aged after the administra tion came out against a broad er labor-backed plan. The liberals aimed at gain ing enough votes in the House ways and means committee to tie some version of the medi cal aid plan to an administra tion measure which would provide new or increased So cial Security benefits for 1,175,000 persons. Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming told the commit tee Wednesday the adminis tration opposed a labor-supported proposal to expand So cial Security benefits to in clude medical care. He said the administration had no counter proposal at present but was "exploring" an alternative. Some Democrats believed chances were good that Con gress might pass a medical care program despite the ad ministration stand. Kitzhaber Defends School Report in Face of Criticism Portland - (UPD - Dr. Albert Kitzhaber today defended his report on Portland schools in the face of criticism by three officials of the State Educa tion department. The criticism was leveled Wednesday by B. L. Simmons, director of curriculum and publications; John Conway, director of secondary educa tion, and Willard Bear, assis tant superintendent. Recent Experience Lacking They said the $592,000 Ford ' Foundation - financed report was prepared by college teach ers and that none as far as they knew had recent train ing or teaching experience at the secondary level. Kitzhaber declared the of ficials had "picked on a few -peripheral matters and wound up with praise for the bulk of the report." ' He said some of the criti cism centered on a split among school leaders about goals of education. Some, he said, seek to '"teach life adjustment" and others believe the first goal of schooling is to "liquidate human ignorance." The report sought to exam ine courses which would pre pare students for college study. The three officials made their report to the state board of education. They said the Kitzhaber re port was "replete with recom mendations that do not seem consistent with the philosophy and objectives suggested for Oregon schools." Frowns on Separation Dr. Kitzhaber said 2o per cent of the consultants for the report had taught in high schools. The criticism took issue with proposed separation of college - bound students from those not planning to continue their education at the college level. Kitzhaber replied that consultants believed the stu dents should not be separated. He said the idea was to han dle the students by subjects. "If the student is unusually capable in math and only average in English, he will be put in a fast math class and an ordinary English class," he said. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF ONE OF THOSE fast-talking insurance salesmen called up a wealthy prospect and gave his spiel for 10 minutes traight probably the first time he ever had gotten that far . uninterrupted. Suddenly, however, there came from the other end of the ; phone a series of blood- -curdling shrieks and hisses -followed by a r butler's apologetic voice. - "Begging your pardon, ! sir," said the butler, "but .- very time I'm not look- ing, the chimpanzee an- i - swers the phone" A company of big gama j ' hunters had had a hard day in the African jungle, and :' j all but one, nicknamed ' "Tireless" by his companions, was content to relax in camp with a gin and tonic. Not "Tireless," however. He decided that a good '- walk before dinner was in order. ' Six hours after dinner, everybody was rolling out the sleeping bags when the group noted that "Tireless" hadn't returned. "Hm-m-m," mused one of the more tender-hearted hunters, "I . wonder what's eating him now?" 1960. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Featurei Syndicate These Democrats thought presidential campaign and Vice President Richard M. that the "Democratic Congress Nixon would endorse federal should take the initiative be- aid to help the elderly pay cause of the issue's voter ap- their medical bills , in his peal.- MedfordIISTribune Regional Edition Page 2A Blue Chips Pace Sharp Stock Rally In Early Trading Offer congressional news: Gas: House investigators hinted they might summon a member of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "brain trust" to testify on behind-the-scenes contacts with federal power commission members in a gas rate case. Sources said a House subcom mittee has several investiga tors checking the role of lob byist lawyer Thomas G. Cor coran in an FPC decision last Oct. 31 involving rates for gas to be piped from Canada by the Midwestern Gas Trans mission Co. Farm: Organized labor ap peared strongly behind a Democratic-backed farm bill based on marketing controls. The AFL-CIO told the House agriculture committee in a statement that it was "enthu siastic" about the bill spon sored' by about 21 House Democrats. The bill would al low farm commodity commit tees to draft new stabilization programs for surplus crops. New York -(UPD- The stock market rallied sharply in the early trading today paced by blue chip industrials and leading electronic, steel and metal shares. American Motors reported that Rambler sales rose sharp ly in mid-March and the stock gained nearly a point. Ford added a half on expec tations of record truck pro duction in the first quarter. Chrysler added more than a point and General Motors a small fraction. Electric Storage Battery fell 2 points in the initial trading after a run-up of more than 8 Wednesday. The com pany said there was nothing to account for the stock's strength in the previous session. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-TCPD-Dow-Jones final slock averages: 30 in-, duslrials 622.06, up 3.S7; 20 railroads 145.34, up 0.79: 15 utilities 88.33, up 0.57, and 65 slocks 205.77, up 1.28. Sales Wednesday were about 3.020,000 shares com pared with 2,490,000 shares Tuesday. Wednesday's prices on selected stocks: Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am. American Can Texas Gulf Sulfur .. 16 Texas Pac Land Trust 173 Transamerica M 27 Trans World Air 14? Tri-Continental 35 Union Carbide 134 Union Pacific 28 United Aircraft 36 9 U. S. Hubber , 53 T United Air Lines 27 , U. S. Steel 83', Youngstown S & T 116 51 91 40 V 23,i 88 'i American Motors AT&T Anaconda Copper 52 V Armco Steel 62 3,i Bendix Aviation 67 3 Bethlehem Steel 463,i Boeing Air 25 ,i Caterpillar Corp. 29 3. Chrysler Corp. 52 4 Continental Can 423i Crown Zellerbacn 44 Curtiss Wright 21 Dow Chemical 90Ys Du Pont 226 "4 Firestone , Z0sa General Electric 90 Vi General Foods 101 Vi General Motors 451s Georgia Pacific 48 Graham Paige 21, 4 Greyhound . 2 Hi Gulf Oil 311s Homestake Mining . . 44 Idaho Power 47 Vi Int. Paper 114 Johns Manville 52 Vi Katy 5 Kennecott Copper 78 Lockheed Aircraft 25 Montana Power 24 V2 Montgomery Ward . 46 TTat'I Biscuit 50 New York Central 23 Pac Gas & Elec 64 Vi Penney's. J. C. 115 Penn RR 137i Radio Corporation 68 Richfield Oil 73 Safeway 38 Sears 50 Shell Oil 37 Vi Socony Mobil Oil 38 Southern Co . 42 Vi Southern Pacific 20 Vi Standard California 44 Vi Standard Indiana 41 Vi Standard N. J. 45 Vi Sun Mines 6 Texas Co. 77 Surgery Snips Spring in Ear Miami, Fla. (Science Serv ice) Persons, with bat wing like or cupped ears can now have beautiful and normal ears by undergoing a simple surgical procedure that snips the "springs" in the ear shell, a reconstruction surgeon re ported here today. The "springs" are actually sections of cartilage in the ear's shell. There are four such distinct springs, Dr. Louis Joel Feit reported at a meet ing of the American Otorhinc logic Society for Plastic Surg ery here. He said his studies of the physiology and mechanical ac tion of the ear have shown that there are three springs with "leaflet" action like the leaf spring in an automobile, all in the outer shell, and with a torque action ike a coiled wire, directed into the ear. Two of the leaflet springs run up and down the ear, the oth er runs horizontally. The surgeon's method is to break one or more of these springs surgically, depending upon the deformity. He em phasized that the result is not only an ear in the .correct po sition but a beautiful ear with all the natural "landmarks" or folds. In the past, ears were merely pinned back surgical ly, so they would not be seen. Police Waiting to Quest ionTrucker In Triple Slayings Sprague Carter Taken To Hospital Portland (UPD - Sprague Carter, Oregon selective serv ice director, was in Provi dence hospital today for treat ment of a cardiac condition diagnosed in a routine physi cal examination. The Island of Angelsey, known for its base metal de posits, is 21 miles long and 19 miles wide, near the coast of Wales. Starved Rock State Park, IU.-(UPD-Police waited today for an Iowa truck driver to awaken from a nine -day drugged sleep so they can question him about the sex murders of three women in this park. The trucker was found in a stupor in a Rock Falls, 111., hospital the day after three Chicago-area society matrons were trapped, beaten, to death and raped 50 miles away in a scenic dead-end canyon here. Slill Asleep Authorities said the 39-year-old man, a psychotic, in duced the conma by swallow ing a packet of barbiturates. He has not awakened through his transfer from the hotel to Device Locks Stove Controls Washington -(Science Service)- A newly invented safety device for kitchen stoves locks the operating controls so that little children cannot turn them on. The safety system earned patent No. 2,926,656 for Pres ley E. Hale of Ypsilanti, Mich., and works like this: A light beam from a lamp mounted on the wall opposite the range shines on a photo electric element located on the rear top surface of the range. The light beam im pinging on this element causes a photoelectric relay to open its contacts. Several solenoids are thus deenergized causing coiled springs to lock the valve-operating rods of the stove against operation by a child.' If the light beam is inter rupted, however, the photo sensitive element receives no light and the relay contacts close. This energizes the sole noids, . resulting in release of the valve-operating rods. The light beam from the opposite " wall is inclined at such at high angle that only the upper part of the body of an adult can intercept it. A child, even when standing di rectly in front of the stove, will not be tall eiough to in tercept the beam. a Sterling, 111., hospital, then to the Veteran's Admistration hospital at Iowa City, Iowa. State police chief William Morris said the trucker re sembled the description of a man seen with Mrs. Frances Murphy, 47, Mrs. Lillian Oet ting, 50, and Mrs. Mable Lindquist, 50, shortly before they were murdered and left lying side by side in a cave in a St. Louis Canyon. Iowa City psychiatrists placed the man in a maximum security mental ward and re fused Morris' request that Il linois state police be allowed to question him immediately. Description Fits Morris said the truck driver was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed 150 to 160 pounds and had blond hair. - The description also fit that of a husky, blond young peep ing torn reported in nearby Utica, 111. The drugged trucker was the only fresh lead in a day that saw the murder probe slow to a crawl. Several prom ising former leads were writ ten off as bum steers. Weather Research Claimed Ignored New York-(Science Service) -The U.S. is ignoring weather research because of "apathy," asserts Adm. Luis de Florez, a former assistant chief of Na val Research. He said he thinks weather research is of greater immediate importance than landing a man on the moon. 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