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2 R MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1900 AV , - U t v-JssS I -SSiASfe 1 GENERAL VIEW OF CONVENTION This unusual gen- eral view of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles was made by UPI staff photographer Harry Leder with a Nikon "Fish-eye" camera. The camera is equipped Candidate Gains itical Backing By Helping Sick Los Angeles - IUPD - "You'd be surprised how much nurs ing you can do when you're campaigning." So says an attractive 41-year-old Illinois nurse who's campaigning for Congress. She is Dorothy O'Brien, a Democrat, who is trying to unseat Noah Mason, a Repub lican veteran of 24 years, representing Illionis' 15th dis trict. On her appointed rounds, Miss O'Brien found she could win support by helping the elling. Helped Moiher-To-Be She had a chance to prac tice her profession when she knocked on a farm door and found an elderly woman, alone and suffering from a gall bladder attack. Another time, candidate O'Brien rang a doorbell and was told by a child that her mother was about .to have a baby. She helped get her to a hospital. This is Miss O'Brien's sec ond try for a trip to Congress. She was defeated in 1958 by 5,000 votes. She's been cam paigning ever since with con siderable optimism, although he' district is heavily GOP. Feminine, with smiling eyes and a quick Irish wit, Miss O'Brien is a brunette of me dium height. She is attending the nation al convention as an Illinois delegate and has been assign ed to the platform committee. She cased her potential con stitutents before coming to Los Angeles and found that they are chiefly concerned about two issues - the farm problem and civil rights. Kennedy Backer She makes no bones about her backing of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) for the . residential nomination. Her home is near De Kalf and her district stretches around Chicago from the Wis consin line to the Indiana line, taking in six counties. Her opponent kills her with klndess. Miss O'Brien, he says, "is a nice lady." She retaliates by telling potential voters Congressman Mason is a "nice old man, but this Is I860." Court Records ASHLAND MUNICIPAL COURT Ann McClaskv. failure to heed traffic light, no operator'! license, ariving wun oniy .earner permit, 125. William H. Burk, expired regis tration, a. Stewart A. Eldman, expired rtg titration $5. George M, Lee, expired regis tra 41 nn. Sfi. Robert K. Gregory, failure to heed atop sign. fS. Ronald J. Mnurer, failure to heed stop sign, $5. Herbert C. Bell, violation basic rule, 2u. Wayne J. Picket, failure to heed traffic llffht. 5. Eugene R, Wright, violation baste rule. tis. Arthur A. Everett, failure to need stop sign, . Charles E. Rousse, expired reg Intrntfcin. IS. Jack E. Reed, icenhower Apart ment, East Main it., unaer inuu nce of Intoxicating beverages while in a public place, pleaded guilty, 940 line, iive-aay suspended jail sentence. IT'S FASCINATION Chicago (UPD - Mrs. Flor ence L. Jantas, 33, found parked tn an alley- In the po lice car she had taken for a drive an hour before, told of ficers: "I've always been fascinat ed by police cars Auto Industry Finds Doesn t Care If HumpChanqed Detroit - IUPD - The auto in dustry has suddenly decided the motorist isn't too interest ed in getting rid of the bulge bisecting a car's floor from front to back. This decision represents a major reversal of an informal understanding among the auto engineers in 1958 to do every thing possible to eliminate the "tunnel and hump" on a car's floor to make "real six- seat automobiles instead of comfortable four-seaters." About a year ago, auto en- Hatfield Orders First Field Trip Salem - (UPD - The first of a series of top-level state field trips - to Douglas county -has been ordered by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Five state department heads and a personal representative of the governor will meet with city and county officials July 18 In the Douglas county courthouse. The public has been invited beginning at 4 p.m. to consult with the group on any problem, Hatfield said. The teams are being sent to various parts of the state for two reasons: "To familiar- i state agency personnel with the thinking and prob lems of citizens who may not find it possible to go to Salem, and to investigate ways of im proving government. Hatfield said he wants state officials to avoid a malady he describes as ' Capitolitis. The Roseburg panel is made up of Warne Nunn, executive assistant to the governor; Emily P. Logan, Industrial Accident Commissioner; State Tax Commission Chairman Charles H. Mack; Employ ment Director D. H. Cameron; State Highway Engineer Ad ministrative Assistant Victor D. Wolfe, and J. N. Peet, sec retary of the Oregon Board of Control. Handyr man Jacks Available in Area An all-purpose Jack called the "Handman Jack" has gone on sale in several Rogue val ley stores for the first time this week. Although new to Medford and vicinity this type of jack has been sold in other parts of the country for the past SO years. Buck Davidson, Klamath Falls, has been named West Coast sales manager for the product, which is manufac tured in Bloomficld, Ind. Davidson is known locally as an ex-wrestler. Davidson has pointed out that the jack can lift, pull, push and winch and has a three-ton capacity. During the six years that the jack has been offered in the Klamath Basin area some 5,000 of them have been sold there, Davidson said the jack is used by the Oregon stale game commission and is used by Tucker Sno-Cats on Ant arctic expeditions' The Jack is often used by sportsmen and comes in sizes of 42 and 48 inches. with an extremely wide angle lens which has a field of view of 180 degrees both vertically and horizontally. There are only three such cameras in existence, (UPI Telephoto) gineers were still predicting the next big "wrinkle" they would iron out of a car would be the one which forced cen ter passengers in the front and rear seats to sit with their knees pointed at the roof.' Work on eliminating the hump and tunnel, which cov er the section of the trans mission extending into the passenger compartment and the drive shaft extension to the rear axle, was feverish. Engine in Rear Most often talked about were an engine in the rear, front wheel drive, a transaxle and a flexible driveshaft. The engineers acted like dedicated men on a mission of relieving the motorist of a horrible bur den. Their work was just reach ing the point where many of these innovations were being prepared for incorporation on new model cars in the next few years. It was this work that led to the decision to put the en gine in the rear on GM's Cor vair. And it was the Corvair that first started the com panies wondering if the motor ist really wanted a flat floor. Motorist Doesn't Care Now a few of the engineers, at least, are convinced the motorist doesn't care particu larly whether the floor is flat. And some are wondering if at least a few motorists don't actually prefer the hump and tunnel. Market research specialists for one company reported "the hump and tunnel are not important or significant fac tors in a motorist's choice of a car." Chassis engineers for the same company reported they were no longer putting much effort into work aimed at re ducing or eliminating the hump and tunnel. Engineers from another company said they felt uni tized bodies would provide all the reduction in tunnel and hump size that the motorists would demand. The official policy of one company was that "reduction of the hump is still important and work will continue" but individual engineers from the same company said they felt there was less urgency than there was a year ago. Knowledge Too Late For many of the auto makers, this new intelligence comes too late, however. Be cause they have to plan their Hamilton Funds owns an interest in over 80 American corporations, selected for income and growth possibilities. Monthly or lump sum investment plans. HAMILTON FUNDS 3900 t, O. Bex 5061 Dtnver 17, Colorado Pleoit tend tree proipectwbooklet describing Hamilton Fundi. Cffy Motorist cars three years in advance. many of the companies al ready have scheduled innova tions aimed at reducing or eliminating the floor bulge In models scheduled to appear in the next few years. Several companies, for ex ample, are on the verge on bringing out transaxle, which would eliminate the need for a hump in the front scat floor which now covers the pro trusion of the transmission into the passenger compart ment. Others are ready to introduce flexible or multi joint drive shafts so the power shaft can be bent underneath the passenger compartment. Engineers say other com ponents of cars designed for the next few years have been built around these innovations and it would be too costly to drop the innovations at this time. So the auto industry is now in the position of offering the motorists some innovations for which there is no particu lar demand - at least if the analysis of the current con sumer desires is correct. Three Appear in Circuit Court Howard R. Brooks, 35, of 1213 West Ninth St., Medford, was placed on probation for five years and ordered to make restitution when he ap peared in Jackson County cir cuit court yesterday. Brooks had pleaded guilty to charges of larceny by em bezzlement while employed by Cascade Wood Products, Inc., White City. He was charged with taking $14,256.48. He was indicted by the grand jury Feb. 16, arraigned on district attorney's informa tion March 4 and pleaded guilty May 9 when a pre-sentence investigation and report was ordered- The case of Willard St. Arnold, 47, Central Point, charged with immoral acts, was continued until he could consult with his attorney further. Bobby Vernon Wright, 18, Medford, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary not in a dwelling, and the case was continued for a pre-sentence report. Wright, who gave his last address as the Grand hotel, was charged with breaking into a Medford church July 31, 1059. Sfolt Edith Green, Davidson Figure in Kennedy's Possible Cabinet Choices By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correipondent Los Angeles - Three north westerners figured In Demo cratic convention speculation Tuesday as the onrush of the Kennedy bandwagon turned attention to who will bo the Oregon Delegation Discusses Ways To Attract Attention By YVONNE FRANKLIN Los Angeles - (Special) The Oregon delegation to the Democratic National Conven tion was getting so little at tention that one delegate has suggested they parade In brcechclouts to "put Oregon on the. map." While Con gresswoman Edith Green, delegation chair man, laughingly expressed reservations about his bare proposal, she went along as Mike McKcrnan of Milwau kie was promptly elected chairman of a "fun commit tee." He repeatedly maintain ed during the delegation's first caucus that "things were too dead" and Oregoninns deserv ed to be noticed more. "After all, we've been Ken nedy supporters all along. We need to do something to put Oregon on the map," said the hefty delegate with a boyish crewcut and a determination to whoop it up. Banners Available Mrs. Green suggested indi vidual delegates follow their own inclination as to attention-getting. She assured those who wanted more hoopla that there would be plenty of Ken nedy banners and signs avail able at convention hall at the proper time. Because the Oregon dele gates are bound to vote for Sen. John F. Kennedy on at least two ballots because he won the Oregon primary, they are not being wooed by the various presidential aspirants. At Monday's caucus no candi dates showed up, not even an expected Kennedy aide. In contrast, the smaller Alaska delcgatlon-as yet un committed and willing to be wooed-got two candidates in the flesh. Sens. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson each made separate visits to the Alaskans within an hour and made im pressioned pleas, each in his own fashion, for their support. To show his love for Ore- mM0 More than 100 United Press International men will be covering the conventions for you. YOU KNOW THEIR WORK. There are big by-liners Lyle C.Wilson, Raymond Lahr, Merriman Smith, William Theis, Frank Bleazer, Dick West; award-winning photographers Frank Cancellare, Andrew Lopez, Stan Tretick, Harry Leder, Bill Sauro, Ed Fitzgerald. You will get the facts, and you will get the drama, color, and humor Follow their coverage on the front pages of... MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE nominee's running mute und his potential cabinet mem bers. Rop. Edith Green of Port lund tmd C. G I raid Davidson, Oregon's national committee man, wore both being men- goniun delegates, however, Kennedy sent each a Incite paperweight which enclosed a tiny PT boat, reminding them of Kennedy's hero role during the wur. They also received a tie clasp and pin, a brochure giving Kennedy's biography, and a badge with Ills picture. Mrs. Green, in a slip of the tongue that suggested her joy at the speed of the Kennedy bandwagon, said that the sen ator had sent each of the del egates a little "momentum." A rumpled and red-eyed Jebby Davidson, national com mitteeman, passed out dele gate badges und Identifica tion with apologies to the group for the lark of extra seats for their friends. Many Oregonlans who had come to Los Angeles anticipating lit tle trouble in getting seats were left waiting at the gatu, and a few of the delegates were needling Davidson about lack of seats. Mrs. Green got him a round of applause for Oregon's ex cellent seating arrangements in the hall, and for getting their hotel accommodations moved from Pasadena - miles away-to the Mayfuir close to convention headquarters. f f eT Per SheM from I 1 I le Ordinary Income JT f Pofobl. July 29, N60, lo I f 1 holders of Series H-C7 ond I I Series H-DA Shores of record I I I I I noon, MST, June 30, I960. I I J HAMILTON MANOIMINt I CORPORATION I S. J. ICf. JR., Aul. Oirf. Mgr. I f P.O. So. 1443, M.dlord. Of.oon, l W SP,B 2.8489 V Honed as possible cabinet members If tho next President Is John F. Kennedy. Mrs. Green's tiuino Is usual ly mentioned for the position of secretary of health, educa tion and welfare. This rings sumo bells because tho first poison to hold this offlco when It was created In Elsen hower's flr.it term was a wom an, Ovctn Culp Hobby of Houston, Tex,, publisher of the Houston Post. Mrs. Green's specialty In Congress Is legislation In the general field lot welfare and educa tion, Davidson Mentioned Jebby Davidson Is mention ed as a passible secretary of the Interior. President Eisen hower Initially picked an Orcgnnliin for this post, Doug las McKay, then governor of Oregon, Davidson lias boon working overtlmo for this ap pointment. He has organized In recent years a western con ference on resources which brought forth a Democratic program last winter covering the wide runge of resource affairs. He has built up a net work of favorable contacts In the party In his four years us national committeeman but chiefly as a spokesman for the growing western states In resource matters. Sen. Henry M. Jackson Is being mentioned as a vice presidential prospect. H I supporters have lined up much backing In the western states, and there has been no visible opposition to him. It Kennedy should have a west ern running mate, Jackson would be the most likely prospect. Jackson's chances seem to be fading, however, due to at tention being given to a man from the midwest. At first there was much talk of Sen. Hubert Humphrey for tho ap peal ho has i to farmers, red hot liberals and minority groups where Kennedy might bo weak. Symington Figure Now Sen. Stuart Symington figures In speculation as Ken nedy's mate. Thoro may be some connection between the fact thut the civil rights plunk Is tougher than usual on the South - a factor which may appeal to minorities and lib erals. Symington's appearnnco on the ticket might serve to placate southern Democrats who linvo a way of trusting him, despite his consistent voting record In behalf of civil rights and other llborul causes. Another factor In tho pos sible choico of tho midwest ei'n running mate was the out come of tho North Dakota senatorial race which a Demo crat, Quentln Durdlck, won. This may suggest to Demo crats that there is farmer un rest which they may readily exploit with a ticket thut sSBS f"i flflS i 1 DARRELL MILLER CO, See Your local Authorlied would have any spuclul up peul to midwest vuluis who noriiiully go Hepulilleiin, So. Jackson, the westerner, may bo excluded for these Impor tant political considerations. Not Politically Feasible As for tlm Cabinet posts, two Oregonlans In tho Cabinet would not bo pollllcully feasible-mid utiy choice between Mrs. Green und Davidson, for Kennedy, could hardly go to Davidson, unless Mrs. Green approved It. For It wus Mrs. Green, not Davidson, who stuck her nock out for Kennedy a year ago when his chances seemed shaky. It was Mrs. Green who headed his successful cam paign which upset Sen. Wuyne Morse In the Oregon primary and gave Kennedy his seventh straight primary victory, nil of which paved the way to his nomination. Thoro Is talk here that Gov. G. Monnen Williams of Mich igan wants to ho seorotury of health, education and welfare. He Is nn outgoing governor who several weeks ago threw Ills big delegation to Kennedy at a crucial time. So he would hiivo a stout claim on some consideration when cabinet picking time comes, and In the end none of these northwest eriirrs may be part of the next Administration. , 415 S. RIVERSIDE Oldsmobile Quality Dealer
