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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1900
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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