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MONDAY. AUGUST IS. 1960 8 B. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Theyll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo THEy ALL TELL THE OLD MAN THE SUMMER-PLACE IS FOR HIM TO RELAX IN- THEIR OLD X , " V,Z' I -rue esilKJUPD .ONLV SUN 7 KHAVEaN S ( HUSBANDS ARE W THESE GUYS GET l lrJrr&j f 'ByE. OUST ABOUT ON AT THE SEASHORE Ilkl THE CITV 1 POULTICE Ht KlAS I innwun int y voItonIht sITpYno C WOCM EAT OUT WHEN I BUNI.H Oh- olaiyi W7r-m , S : THE mW MxMmf nf COMMUTING HUBBIES 111 llSl Jlllsi B I atweeacm Soviet Union's Spy Campaign Doesn't Stop in Path of Love Berlin - IUPI) - "Conditions are deplorable there. The spy campaign has made most peo ple afraid of Americans." The speaker was a slim, bru nette teacher from Los An geles, Betty Jean Kofferts. Her voice was quiet but filled with horror and aimer at the way she had been treat ed as a spy in Soviet Union, just because a young Russian student fell in love with her. Betty Jean went to the So viet Union filled with good will and anxious to believe the best about a nation that has produced great works of art and science. .She emerged disillusioned after being shadowed for 10 days by Soviet police, having her telephone tapped and a Russian boy friend threatened. She herself was labeled a "Pentagon spy." The story she told to a re porter here fitted another piece into a massive espion age scare campaign in the Soviet Union leading up to the trial of U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers which starts next Wednesday. Miss Kofferts said it all started when the student in Leningrad dated her, "They picked him up, took him to police headquarters and Interrogated him for three hours," she said. "They warn ed him against seeing mc again. They told him I was a , Pentagon spy. " 'Look at that camera she carries,' they told him. 'She will take a photo of you and back in the Pentagon they will superimpose a Russian uniform on you, put you next to President Eisenhower or some general and say you de fected to the west.' " The student ignored the po lice warning and saw Betty Jean again. "I don't care what happens to me," he told her. "I love you." They walked in a Lenin grad park and along the Political Parties Differ on Ways for Growth of Economy . ... . . ... . , . ...til, onnuphi RprioUS By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor New York - (UPD - The two political parties are in agree ment that vigorous economic growth is a must, but they differ in their ideas on how to accomplish It. The Repub licans say the mainspring of this growth lies in the pri- Henry Bechtold vate sector of the economy. "The only effec- TERROR IN RUSSIA Betty Jean Koferts, above, a Los Angeles school teacher, said that she spent 10 days of terror shadowed by Soviet secret police because a Russian fell in love with her. (UPI Telephoto) waterfront. Plainclothes po licemen trailed them. "He was so brave he gave me confidence loo and I didn't realize at first what danger we were in," she said. "But now I have night mares about it ... I felt com plete terror, for the first time in my life." The tall school teacher said this is the type of thing the Russians have to put up with all the time. ' "I am no flag waver, but I am telling this story for two reasons," she said. "First to warn any young woman, or any woman for that matter, against traveling in Russia un escorted. And because I know there arc other people who share the view I used to hold that such things cannot hap pen In a country that has the Bolshoi Ballet and puts Sput niks in orbit." Even so, she said, the young student and his friends were pro-American. "They dressed like Ameri cans, collected American pic lure postcards and records," she said. "One even wore a small pin in his lapel with the American flag on it." In Los Angeles, Miss Kof ferts' father, Ben, said it was "quite a shock" to learn his daughter had been shadowed in Russia. He said she had not complained of any unpleasant experiences in her letters home. 1 "A The man who found Adolf Eichmnnn answers these provocative questions... Why didn't Israel go through Argentine channels to get Eichmnnn? How did the NO. 1 NAZI BUTCHER hide for three years under the noses of his hunters? How did his background of Hebrew and Yiddish study help him kill six million Jews? ' Be sure to road . . ."How We Hunted Down the NO. 1 NAZT BUTCHER". . . by Leo Heiman, an article of wide scope that every American should read. PLUS THESE OTHER ARTICLES OF CURRENT INTEREST... J "The Last Inning" by Stan Musial "Miss Somebody from Florida" by Ozzie Sweet "They're the Sweethearts of the Olympics" by Peer Oppenheimer "In Step with Taste..." Cookbook Section Junior Treasure Chest Quips and Quotes In the August 21st Issue of TVeelcly Medford Mail Tribune Family WooJcly J7 Pentagon Shows Childish Trust With Contracts Washington -WPD- The Pen tagon shows a childish trust when writing contracts for defense suppliers, in the opinion of Sen. Paul H. Doug las (D-IU.). A study of Government Ac counting Office spot checks of the contracts showed that in an astonishing number of instances the military accept ed without investigation the manufacturer's estimates of costs, Douglas said. The senator collected 52 GAO reports on audits of de fense contracts for supplies ranging from screws to fire- control radar. All were of the "negotiated" variety, awarded for an agreed-upon sum or guaranteeing to meet the manufacturer's expenses plus a specified fee in payment for the work. Some provided that the manufacturer would be given an "incentive payment," a percentage of savings ac complished by fulfilling his contract at less than the "tar get cost." Sub-Contracts Let In many, the military con tracted with a firm which then let sub-contracts for part of the work. In none was there competi tive bidding. Douglas believes that the lack of competitive bidding is costing the government at least $2-$3 billion a year unnecessary over - payments. The GAO reports are proof that the military should be required to call for bids when ever possible, he said. Douglas cited a contract the Air Force signed with Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Wash., lor spare parts lor B32 air planes. The contract, accord ing to the GAO report, con tained estimated sub-contract costs which were higher than prices established earlier by Boeing with its sub-contractors. Boeing did not tell the Air Force this, the report said, and the Air Force did not secure the information. 'As a result," GAO said, . . target costs for these spare parts were excessive by about $5 million." High Prices Negotiated In a contract with General Motors Corp., A-C Spark Plug uivision, Milwaukee, W i s.. GAO found "unreasonably high prices were negotiated." 'ihe report said the Air Force "awarded the contract on a fixed price basis without requiring the contractor to furnish detailed support for the estimated costs included In the prices proposed by the contractor." The audit produced a $750.. 000 refund, it was said. In an Air Force contract, GAO said, McDonnell set esti mated sub-contract costs at a figure higher than the maxi mum prices the firm had es tablished with Its subcontrac tors before the target price negotiations with the military. GAO figured this boosted the target costs by about $5.1 million, and set the incentive payments for the contractor at approximately $1.5 million. tive way to accelerate eco nomic growth is to increase . . . initiative and investment, productivity and efficiency," their platform says. The Democrats have set a 5 per cent annual growth rate as imperative, but they say it should reflect massive federal spending and other federal in tervention in the economy. Election Will Tell The November elections will tell us which growth pat tern we can expeot to follow the next four or eight years, but meanwhile the Tax Foun dation offers its solution to stimulate economic growth - tax reduction and tax reform. The foundation notes that the big test over the next decade will be to create more GOV. MELNER LOSES Trenton - (UPD - Gov. Robert B. Meyner's political influ ence did him no good at all last week end. Meyner entered the New Jersey senior men's tennis tournament at the New Jersey Players club in Kear ney,, N.J.. In the first round Saturday, he was matched against joe Cundari, a fel low Democrat and town engi neer of Harrison. Meyner lost in straight sets, 9-7, 6-2. than 13 million new iobs for our rapidly rising population. Since industry invests about $13,000 per worker, it adds, the economic growth involves the provision and investment of nearly $200 billion of new private capital. The only possible source for this huge sum, according to foundation chairman Roswell Magill, is savings from income received after taxes. "If taxes are too high, there can't be much money saved; new jobs can't be created." But, he states, economic growth can be stimulated by tax system that leaves pri- . :n..inn with enougn savings and encouragement to promote vigorous private en terprise. Income Tax Blamed The biggest trouble - maker today, Magill asserts, is the income tax - individual and corporate. "When individual rates take up to 90 cents of an extra dollar of income there is not much encouragement to save money for investment in new enterprises that will create jobs." The corporate income tax, which now takes up to 52 cents of every dollar of a comDanv's profit, "is another sprious obstacle to pusiness growth," Magill says. He adds that when the new Congress convenes next Janu ary, tax . reduction and tax reform should be high on the list of priorities "if we really intend to remove the obstacles to creation of 13 million new jobs in the next 10 years." There can be little argu ment about the need for eco. nomic growth; the big ques tion is whether that growth should be government's chief responsibility or whether it should be left, as in the past, to our private economic system. II l wpl . ... .u,eet can'- LuscloU"? ( k of U JUMBO VALUE ' for $1 00 PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU . 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