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Army Planning Turbine-Powered er Washlngton-OJPD-The Army has announced plani to de velop a turbine-powered heli copter for target spotting and reconnaissance as a part of a new long-range aviation pro gram for the mid-1960s. The helicopter, which the Army hopes to test in 1963. will replace three current air craft tha Cessna L-19 obser vation airplane and the Bell H-13 and Hiller H-23 Recon naissance helicopters. The new program also calls for eventual developnunt of front-line aircraft and high v apeed surveillance planes to penetrate enemy lines. Approved by General The program was worked out by a board of 10 generals and approved late last month by Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Army chief of staff. The Army has been expand ing its own specialized type of aviation ever since the Air Force split off and became a separate service in 1947. The army now has about 5,000 helicopters and airplanes. The new helicopter, the Army said, will cruise at 126 miles an hour, stay aloft at least three hours and carry a 400-pound payload in addi tion to the pilot and fuel. It will be powered by a tur bine engine like those which drive turbo - prop airplanes. The Army hopes to begin pro duction in 1964 or 1965. Within Budget The helicopter apparently can be developed within the Army's $100 million to $150 million yearly research and development budget but in creased production money presumably would be neces sary to put the new long-range avlation.program into effect. Tha Army postponed devel opment of its desired new transport and surveillance planes, deciding to concentrate now on the electronic equip ment that such planes will carry and on advances in aero nautics. For example, studies of the feasibility of planes that take off and land vertical ly or from very short run waya will be pressed. Marilyn Monroe Alternate Delegate Roxbury, Conn. - IUPD - The Mh District Congressional Democratic Convention may - be the most glamorous in the state's history - as a matter of fact, in any state's history. The Town Committee Tues day night named Marilyn Monroe as an alternate dele , gate. She is a registered Democrat, wife of Arthur Miller, and lives here. Ralph Jaeger, a member of the Town Committee, was credited with nominating Miss Monroe, saying "Wouldn't it be nice if Mari lyn could be a delegate to the convention?" Jaeger, one of the two dele gates, said he intended to be at the convention in Torring ton in June. If the committee chairman, Elmer Worthing ton, also attends, -Miss Mon roe will have to stay home. mm 1 '.X - -V O If Americans Must Learn Between New and Good, Economist Says MARILYN BACK Buddy Adler, head of production of 20th Century-Fox Studios in Hollywood, welcomes back Marilyn Monroe as the actress reported back to work in a movie fol lowing the end of the 33-day-old actors' strike. IUPI Telephoto) Fred Jones Says He Isn't Caretaker at Historic Residence Jacksonville-Fred S. Jones, often referred to as the "care taker" of Jacksonville's his toric Britt house, said Mon day he does not hold that posi tion, has never held it and has never sought it. .. He had a few other gripes, too. Jones, who moved into the house, now doomed to de struction after two major fires, back in January, 1957, said he was not hired by the owner, Southern Oregon col lege, to be a caretaker and never received a salary for performing a caretaker's du ties. The college paid him about $250 a year, he said, but he never saw the money and wasn't supposed to. The mon ey was used for taxes so that Jones could be covered by the State Industrial Accident commission. Paid ior Plumbing Jones said he paid for all the wiring and plumbing in the home out of his own pocket. The college, he said, "wouldn't even buy gas for the lawnmower." His original intent, he said, was to buy the Britt property and restore the home as well as finances would permit. Al though the Jacksonville city council and the college agreed last week that the house should be torn down by June 1 because it is a safety, hazard, Jones said he still would like to purchase the property. (Negotiations are now un der way between Jackson county and SOC, which may lead to an exchange of prop erty, with the county acquir ing the Britt lands for a coun ty park, the college acquiring the site for a summer camp in the Howard Prairie area. Status of the negotiations has not been reported recently.) Live in Trailar At present he and his wife, a registered nurse at Rogue Valley hospital, are living in a small trailer on the prop erty. This, Jones and SOC Business Manager Don Lewis learned last week, is in viola tion of some law-but Jones isn't sure what the law is. Jones displayed a letter dat ed April 5 which he said he mailed to SOC President Dr. Elmo Stevenson. The letter cited the numerous difficul ties, charges and counter charges which have arisen around the old house since Jones began living there. Gen erally, it related Jones' "side of the story," but he said he would prefer that no quota tions be taken from the letter. Jones' primary complaint, he said, concerns Mrs. Dwight Houghton, secretary of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites foun dation. Cites Attitude He said he would have been glad to have dealt coopera tively with the foundation and Mrs. Houghton right from the start but that her attitude prevented him from doing so. (Mrs. Houghton has long sought preservation, and more recently, restoration, of the Britt house. In this she is sup ported by some members of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation, while others be lieve that the house is too far gone to warrant restoration.) Last fall Mrs. Houghton and one or two other persons visited the office of Jackson County District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder. At that time, Reeder said yesterday, "there were a number of mat ters brought to my attention" regarding Jones and the Britt property. The sheriff's office began an investigation at his re quest, Reeder said, and, based on the findings of that inves tigation, he "concluded that criminal charges against any one would not be appropri ate." Jones said that incident, as UNITED JETS EAST AND SOU. 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The professor's Idea is hard ly new-It goes back to Thor- stein Vcblen's "Conspicuous Waste" theory of half a cen tury ago and to the "ending is better than mending" slogan of Aldous Huxley's stunning 1832 novel "Brivi New World," laid in the distant fu ture. Professor Lekachman says one of the worst parts of mak ing a national habit of buying things just because they're new is that it makes technol ogical progress our master in stead of our servant. And, he says, planned obsolescence doesn't always work out the way the auto designer and the Madison Avenue hucksters hope It will-as witness "the tailfin recession" that accom panied the debacle of the 1958 auto models. 'Planned obsolescence in creases business hazards. Professor Lekachman told United Press International, "because it attaches big risks to consumer wants that aren't really pressing." It is quite natural, he said, for Americans to have a great er faith in innovation that peoples of other lands because innovation has done so much more in this land to make life better than it has been per mitted to accomplish in other countries. But, he insisted it is time we learned to discrim inate in innovation and stop 'yearning after tinsel gods." Trained Persuasion' In an article in New York university's economic affairs magazine "Challenge," Pro fessor Lekachman said "too many of the best trained and most talented members of our advanced society earn their really discontented with the serviceable commodities they already possess." That idea would be assailed j as heresy on Madison Avenue and in some manufacturing and merchandising circles. United Press International asked Professor Lekachman how he would advise a manu facturer faced with the dilem ma of planning obsolescence or having no market for his product next year. "I can't advise the manu facturer," he conceded, "but Morrison Gets BLM Cash Award Leland D. Morrison, forest er of the Medford district of-i fice of the bureau of land management, was presented a cash award of $25, together with letter of commendation irom James I. Doyle, area administrator, by Ross A. Youngblood, district manager of the Medford district office. The award granted by the Area I Incentive Award com mittee for a suggestion that "Flo-Master" -"pen be used for marking effective areas and numbers on aerial photos. The incentive awards pro gram, established several years ago. is to encouraging government employees to par ticipate in the task of improv ing the efficiency and econo my of government operations. Morrison started his forest ry career with the bureau as student trainee in the Med ford district office in 1955. In the past few years he has served in several forestry positions in the Salem and Eu gene district offices. He ob tained his bachelor's degree in forestry at Oregon state col lege, and he also attended Par sons college in tairtieid, Iowa. Eisenhower Skips Morning Golf Round Augusta, Ga.-UPD-President Eisenhower skipped his morn' ing round of golf today to study a batch of official pa perse flown from Washington to the vacation White House at the Augusta National Golf club. 5 The President planned to spend the afternoon on the golf course after a morning work session with Brig Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, the White House staff secretary. TRIBUTE TO FDR London - IUPD - Moscow Radio has paid tribute to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died 15 years ago today. President Roose velt's "name is mentioned by the Soviet people with'affec- tion and respect," a broadcast monitored here said Monday. well as "several" others, caused considerable bad pub licity and that hi is consider ing legal action. Lost Everything Speaking of the most re cent of the two fires, which occurred last month, Jones said it would "take $10,000 to replace what we lost. He said he lost all the tools for his cabinet-making shop, and that he and his wife lost vir tually all their clothing and furniture. "All we had left," he add ed, "were the clothes on our back." Jones said he still would like to buy the Britt property "If satisfactory arrangements can be made." This, he said, depends on what Dr. Steven son replies to his letter. What wiU he do If ht Is unable to buy it? "I just don't know," he answered. FEARLESS DINERS Westport, Conn. -UPD-When a fire broke out Monday night on the root of the fashionable Red Barn Restaurant the 30 customers enjoying their din ner refused to leave. "The fire's not bothering us," they told firemen and nonchalant ly continued eating. we do need to allocate a vast ly larger proportion of our re sources, including our best brains, away from making and (selling consumer goods into j the professions - especially teaching-and services which can make our world better to J live in." Greater Proportion Professor Lekachman point ed out the Communists do al locate a vastly greater propor tion than we of their resourc es and brain power to basic research, basic production and teaching and other pro fessions. They do this partly from necessity, but mainly from doctrine, he said. And this program is working for them. Asked if he thought Ameri cans were going to have to face an early domestic strug gle on this issue. Professor Le kachman said-"Yes, I think the agitation for the Forand Bill to provide government medical insurance for the eld erly shows the start of a pop ular trend to demand more emphasis on services and less on goods." He said some shift in em phasis would come about vol untarily but that popular de mand would grow for the use of the federal tax power to speed the shift away from cur rent overproduction of con sumer goods into education and other basic services. "I don't discount the possi bility," he said, "that a wise expansion of education and other basics eventually would expand the demand tor con sumer goods much faster than our present cult of novelty and high pressure selling of goods with a planned obsolescence." Local Woman Hurt In One-Car Accident Barbara Sylvia Lane Oakes, 24, of 153 North Oakdale ave., Medford, sustained a neck sprain and cuts Monday after neon in a one-car accident on Barnett rd.. between Ellen dale dr.. and Hillsdale st. Medford police said she ap parently lost control of the vehicle she was operating aft er she had passed another car on Barnett rd. She was taken to the Rogue Valley hospital by the Medford Ambulance service. 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