Army Planning
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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.
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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.
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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
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By LEROY POPE i excellent livings by persuad
New York - WPII-Amerlcans ling fellow citizens they are
need to learn the difference
between the "new" and the
'good," a New York econo
mist warned today.
Prof. Robert Lekachman of
Barnard college warned that
if we don't learn the differ
ence, wasteful "planned ob
solescence" rn our' durable
consumer goods production
will sap the strength of our
economy and society and let
the Communists overtake us.
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.
Wtlniday, April I J, 160 A MAIL TRIBUNI, Madford, Oa.
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MANN
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