Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1960)
TV Senate Hears Showdown on Medical Care fo r " r . . " ; . I - ,j v tfJ t I SONG WHITER DIES Oscar Hammerstcin II, lyricist, writer and producer, died early today of cancer at his farm home near Doylestown, Pa. He was 65. Hammerstein (right), a member of one of Broadway's most famous families, created with composer UPI Drama Editor Tells of Rodgers-Hammerstein Success Starting With 'Oklahoma!' Editor's Note: Jack Gaver has been covering Broadway for UPI for three decades. He knew Oscar Hammerstein II well. In the following story, the UPI critic tells how Ham merstein and Richard Rodg ers became partners through a quirk of fate. By JACK GRAVER UPI Drama Editor New York-IUPD - The last Richard Rodgers-Oscar Ham merstein musical play has been written. Hammerstein, lyricist-poet, really and librettist extra ordinary, and a true gentle man of the theater above all, died early this morning at his country home in Doylestown, Pa., aged 65, a victim of can cer. 'The vastly successful cur rent "The Sound of Music," starring M.ary Martin, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater was the unwitting stage valedic tory of the famous pair. It was while, this show was in preparation a year ago that Hammerstein underwent ab dominal surgory, causing him to be inactive during part pf Its rehearsing and tryout per iod. Guided Show Business Composer Rodgcrs and Hammerstein not only were the most successful collabora tors from the financial stand point show business has ever known, but they guided the musical show into an entirely new channel with the nine stage works they turned out in 17 years, beginning with the record-breaking "Okla homa!" in 1943. But it is a fact that Ham merstein, as too few realize today, had been a major force in the musical theater since 1923 when he had first hit as collaborator with Otto Har bach on the lyrics and llberet to of "Wildflower." And he would be an immortal of the American stage had he done nothing but write the "book" and lyrics for one attraction "Show Boat," the finest and best-loved of all American musicals. . Chapels Serve Qonger-tMoms FUNERAL DIRECTORS WEST MAIN AT SIXTH ll'l .Member Netionel Selected Morticians by lnvHationSfjj The composer of that one, the late Jerome Kern, died late in 1945 as he and Ham merstein were preparing for rehearsals of the second Broadway revival of the show, which was first done in 1927. "Married" by Happenstance The "marriage" of Rodgcrs and Hammerstein was the re sult of happerstance and con venience. Starting in the the ater almost at the same time as Hammerstein, Rodgcrs had made musical show history of his own along with the late Larry Hart as his lyric-writing partner. "Rodgers and Hart" was a show business equivalent of "ham and eggs." Rodgcrs and Hammerstcin knew each other and regard ed each other's work highly, but they were not close. Then Hart became critically ill in 1942 about the time the The ater Guild asked Rodgers to write the score for a musical Report Praises Political Planks i On Delinquency Washington (CQ) Po litical platform planks calling for greater efforts against juvenile delinquency were heavily underscored recently by a Senate subcommittee re port on increase in youth crimes. The report was issued by the Senate Juvenile Delin quency Subcommittee after a year of study and hearings. It showed: Juvenile crime has been in creasing steadily for 10 con secutive years. Referrals to juvenile courts for delinquency increased 175 per cent during the 10 years from 1948 to 1958. "This fig ure is all the more staggering when we realize that the juve nile population increased by only 35 per cent during that period," the Subcommittee said. Richard Rodgcrs (left) some of the most successful musicals in theater history. They began with "Oklahoma!" in 1943 and kept right on going with "South Pacific," "The King and I" and, most recently, "The Sound of Music." (UPI Telephoto) -rion of the lale Lynn Riggs' play, "Green Grow the Rodgcrs was anxious to do the show, but Hart couldn't work on it. The composer glady agreed to Hammerstein when the Guild suggested him. The result was ''Oklaho ma!" and 2,248 consecutive performances, still a Broad' way record for musicals. There has been no time since ils 1943 premier that it hasn't been playing somewhere in the world. There followed, in order, "Carousel," "Allegro," "South Pacific," "The King and I," "Me and Juliet," "Pipe Dream," "F 1 o w e r Drum Song," and "The Sound of Music." All but three were extravagantly successful. The pair became their own pro "Carousel," "Allegro," "South Pacific." The referrals In 1958 In volved 600,000 children an nually (many in trouble more than once) between the ages of 10 and 17. If the trend continued, over a million chil dren would appear in court in 1965 and over 1.4 million in 1970. Crimes ranged from traffic violations to auto theft (300, 000 auto theft offenses a year, mostly by teenagers seeking joyrides) to gang wars, use of narcotics, sex offenses and violence. Causes of Delinquency The Subcommittee said the increase in delinquency re sulted from a stcpup in popul ation mobility, the migration to cities of rural families not familiar with city life, wider use of the automobile and a general loosening of the fam ily structure. Problems were intensified, the Subcommittee said, by the "tradition-bound, ineffici ent, uncordinated and uni maginative" approach of state and local agencies to delin quents; by local communities' reluctance to foot the bills for really effective anti-delinquency programs (one large city, for example, started youth workers at a salary of $65 a week); and by resulting shortages of trained person nel, particularly social work ers. More and bettor-trained personnel were among the most urgent needs, the Sub committee said. Of particular importance was psychological training for public school teachers so they could spot potential delinquents at the point where they were most amenable to treatment at the very beginning of their care ers as delinquents. The Sub committee said coordinated community planning, bringing In a variety of local agencies to deal with the delinquent child at all points at which he was troubled, was essen tial. Federal Action ' The Subcommittee cited ' several possible approaches to federal action aeainst delin quency, all embodied in vari ous bills referred to It: strict er regulations of distribution of various drugs (barbiturates and amphetamines) not cov ered by anti-narcotics laws; establishment by the surgeon general of a posl-hospltal tr atmcnt program for drug addicts; federal regulation of Democrats Face Threat of Veto By Eisenhower Washington 4UPD The Sen ate reached the showdown stage today on the potent election-year issue of medical care for the aged with Democrats facing the threat of a presi dential veto. Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R N.Y.), author of the Republi can plan, said before the vot ing that President Eisenhower would veto the Democratic proposal, backed by presiden tial candidate John F. Ken nedy, to pay medical benefits under the Social Security pro gram. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presi dential nominee, endorsed the Javits' measure, a somewhat broader bill than the original administration proposals. President To Air Views Eisenhower was expected to spell out his views on the issue in more detail at his weekly breakfast conference with Republican congressional leaders. The Senate was called into session at 10 a.m. (e.d.t.) for its third day of debate on the medical care proposals. A ses sion that ran until almost 10 p.m. Monday night unani. mously agreed on a timetable that could resolve the issue today. First proposal to be voted on was Javits' plan of federal and state grants to provide funds for preventive medical care as well as treatment for serious illnesses. Persons over 65 should seek help on a vol untary basis. The plan would cost the federal government $400 million and the states $450 million annually. Javiti Defeat Expected The Javits' bill, backed by Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming as well as Nixon, appeared headed for defeat. Next on the agenda was the Social Security approach in troduced by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, (D-N.M.), Kennedy and other Democrats. This plan would extend hospitaliz ation benefits to persons over 68 on the Social Security rolls. It would be financed by a hike in payroll taxes. An extremely close vote was expected on the Anderson version. Both, the Javits and Ander son bills were offered as ad ditions to a plan approved by the Senate Finance Commit tee to increase federal grants to states which agreed to help old folks not on relief but too poor to pay their medical bills. Voters May Decide On School Support Salem - IUPU - Oregon voters will probably have a chance to decide the key part of a drastically revised state school support program which is currently being prepared by the legislative interim com mittee on education. At its meetings here Mon day the committee favored .submitting a con stitutional amendment to the people in 1962 which would authorize a uniform property tax levy throughout the state for the "foundation" educational pro gram. child-adoption and baby-sale rackets; stricter regulations against obscene and porno graphic materials; and fed eral grants for the training of youth workers and the de velopment of general anti delinquency techniques and programs. Of these proposals only one appeared to have any chance of passage in the post-convention session of Congress start ing Aug. 8. That was a bill (S 964) sponsored by Senate Labor Committee Chairman Lister Hill (D-Ala.) and Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.), It authorized $5 million a year for five years in grants to the states, local communities and private non profit agencies for personnel training and de velopment of anti-delinquency projects. The Senate passed the bi'l in January and a cor responding House bill (HB 12108 was reported by the House Education and Labor Committee in May. (Copyright 1960. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) ANY MAIL FROM BARKER'S? Medford.- Edition Prices Move Up; Gains Wide-Ranged New York - (UPI) - Stock prices moved up sharply this morning with a wide range of gains in virtually all major groups. Trading expanded on the upside today after concentrat ed interest in a few pivotals Monday enabled the indus- Helicopt ers Rescue Badly Hurt Woman Eagle, Colo-IUPll-A Missouri woman, critically injured and paralyzed in the crash of a light plane Sunday afternoon, was rescued by helicopters early today from rugged mountain country near here. Her husband, Dr. Ellis Lynn Shults, St. Joseph, had sum moned help Monday. He and two other men on the plane were injured less seriously. An Air Force helicopter from Lowry Air Force base in Denver airlifted Mrs. Shutts, 24, off a rainy plateau and took her to Eagle, where she was transferred to a C47. The Air Force transport plane landed at Denver short ly after 8 a.m. and a waiting ambulance took her to Colo rado General hospital. Rain and low clouds had threatened to delay the res cue, but Federal Aviation agency officials said that the weather cleared up suddenly and the rescuers decided to go ahead. Hoffa Tries To Block Reelection Wasliington-tUPII-Teamsters' President James R. Hoffa said today he has personally con tributed $1,000 in an effort to block re-election of Rep. Phil M. Landrum (D-Ga.) co-author of the 1959 labor control law. The truck union leader also disclosed that Rep. Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich., the other co author, has been marked for opposition by Michigan Team sters. Hoffa told United Press In ternational that the union is supporting Quill Sammon, Landrum's opponent in Geor gia's Sept. 14 Democratic pri mary election. Asked if he had contributed anything, he replied: "You can bet on that . . . $1,000." In addition, he said, inter national vice presidents of the union and business agents of four locals in Landrum's con gressional district are volun tarily donating to Sammon's campaign fund. Kennedy To Woo Ladies at 'Tea' Washington - IUPD - Sen. John F. Kennedy plans to take his version of the Boston Tea Party to the nation during his presidential campaign. The Democratic president ial candidate had outstanding success in his home state of Massachusetts in previous po litical campaigns by giving tea and coffee receptions for women voters. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, wife of Kennedy's running mate, and Kennedy's sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert Kennedy, scheduled a news conference today to discuss a pilot series of "coffee klatchcs" for wom en voters. Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline, does not plan to take part in the series of receptions. She is expecting the couple's sec ond child this fall. Kennedy's election to the Senate in 1952 was atrributed partly to the success of state wide tea and coffee parties given by his mother and sis ters in Massachusetts. Washington - 01PD - The National Aeronautics and Space administration shot an Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket 118 miles into space today from Wallops Island, Va., to measure radiation intensity from the earth. JTribune Page? trial average to close above the 630.00 line for the first time since July 15. Oils moved up strongly with Superior soaring 34 points, Richfield another 2V4, Sskelly about IV and a half or more for Jersey and Cali fornia Standard and Texaco. Motors and steels exhibited mostly fractional gains. DOW-JONES New York-IUPll-Dow Jones final stock averages Mon day: 30 industrials 630.71, up 1.44 20 railroad 139.42, off 0.31; 15 utilities 95.83, up 0.30, and 65 stocks 209.29, up 0.34. Sales Mon day were about 2.76 million shares compared with 2.57 million shares Friday. Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am. American Can American Mtrs A t 4 I Anaconda Copper Armco Steel - Bendlx Av. . Bethlehem Steel - Boeing Air Caterpillar Corp- Chrysler Corp. -Continental Can Curtisa Wright Dow Chemical Du Pont Eastman Kodak Firestone General Electric General Foods General Motors Georgia Pacific - Greyhound Gulf Oil Homcstake Mining I.B.M Int. Paper John Man - Kaiser Ind Kennecott Aircraft Lockheed Aircraft Montgomery Ward - -Nat'l Biscuit New York Central - Pac. G 4 El Penncv. J. C. Penn RR Radio Corporation Scars Shell Oil Socony Mobil Oil Southern Co. - - Southern Pacific -- Standard California Standard Indiana Standard N. J Sun Mines Texas Co Texas Pac Land Trust Transamerlca - Union Carbide Union Pacific United Aircraft U. A. L U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel Voungstown S & T 13 a IBli ... 23 Ti I2, ... 51 ... AS ... 67 !i ... 44 'i ... 25',', ... 42',; ... 37 ... 211. 84 197, 125 ... 35i ...125'.', ... 45'i 523, ... 23", 24 'b ... 42 "2 .539 U 97i 57?. .. 9, 81 " -17',. ... 35 ",, 64 Ij .. 20 67 :, .. 41 .. 12?'. ... 82 571, .. 36 .. 38 .. 49', .. 20'., .. 443, .. 39 ij .. 41, .. 63. .. 791, .. 1ST, .. 27 ..US', .. 27 .. 46 .. 3 Hi .. 52 .. 8234 New Nuclear Ship May Have Missiles Washington-IUPD - Construc tion of the first U.S. nuclear- powered cruiser is 18 months behind schedule. But the Navy may covert its embarrassment into a solid gain by using the delay to arm the ship with Polaris missiles. It was learned today that the atomic cruiser Long Beach, once scheduled to join the fleet at the end of this year, is now slated to be com missioned in June, 1962. The estimated cost of the ship, heavily armed with anti-aircraft and anti-submarine mis siles, has increased from $250 million to $300 million. A proposal is now under consideration in the Pentagon to delay completion of the ship somewhat longer and add 16 Polaris missiles to its arm ament. If this is approved, the Long Beach would become the first surface ship equipped to hurl long-range ballistic mis siles at strategic enemy targets. Summer CLEAM-UP Aim - Nationally famous brands - COLOGNES SOAPS - POWDERS STATIONERY SWIMMING SUPPLIES Drastically 50 and See These Bargains at . . . Medford Pharmacy 101 North Central, Corner 6th Ph. SP 2-6253 Open Week Days: 8:30 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. E. B. MacNaughton, Longtime Oregon Banker, Educator, Civic Leader Dies Portland -(UPI)- E. B. Mac Naughton, longtime banker, educator and civic leader died at 7 a.m. today at St. Vincent Hospital here at the age of 79. MacNaughton was president of the First National Bank of Portland for 15 years and was chairman of the board of the institution, now known as the First National Bank of Ore gon at the time of his death. He was president of Reed college for four years and president of the Oregonian Publishing Co. for several years. MacNaughton was ac tive in many civic, state, re ligious and national affairs and was formerly head of the Blue Cross in Oregon. MacNaughton came to Port land in 1903 from Cambridge, Mass., where he was born Oct. 22, 1880. Survivors include his widow, two sons, Boyd and Malcolm, both of Honolulu, and a daughter, Mrs. Stuart Kerr of Portland. Leading Civic Role For more than half a cen tury he played a leading civ ic role in Portland, in Oregon and in the nation. His father died when he was three years old, so he got an early start in the business world to help support the family. As a youngster, he delivered pa pers in the Harvard college yard, counting as his cus tomers the homes of the Long fellows, Lowells and other celebrities. MacNaughton helped work his way through Boston Tech, now Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his bachelor of science degree in 1902. He liked the looks of Portland, and got his first job with Edgar M. Lazarus, architect, helping to draw some of the plans for the Lew is and Clark fair buildings. In 1906 he went into the construction business in part nership with E. F. Lawrence Montana Chilled By Winter Preview United Press Iniernational A vigorous cold front car ried a winter preview mixture of snow and rain into Montana early today, dropping tem peratures 40 degrees at some points. The front swept southeast ward across the state and set off thunderstorms and winds up to 50 miles an hour in Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. By comparison, the weather picture was placid elsewhere around the country. Fog lay over much of the Northeast during the night. South Atlantic coast states, Florida and the Gulf area had scattered showers, measuring up to 1.43 inches during six hours at Gainesville in north ern Florida and 1.16 inches at Greensboro, N.C. From the Rockies west ward, temperatures were gen erally in the 40's and 50's ex cept for higher readings in the southwest. SOUTHERN FLAVOR Washington - (UPD - Vice President Richard M. Nixon's presidential campaign forces have given a true southern touch to his appearance in At lanta, Ga., Friday. They nam ed Jefferson Davis as chair man of special arrangements for the rally. Reduced MORE! and H. E. Raymond. He was in the construction business by himself for a time, and in 1918 became a partner with Robert H. Strong in property management, a partnership that developed into the Strong-MacNaughton Trust Co. Interest in 1st National Bank He acquired an interest in the First National Bank of Portland in 1928 and was made vice president in 1932 serving in that capacity until 1947 when he was named chairman of the board. In 1947 he became presi dent of the Oregonian Pub lishing Co. and continued in that office until the paper was FOR BOYS NOTHING WEARS mmmm'1. See your Buster Brown dealer today, and let him show you the newest idea in soles. We've actually tested these soles on some of the hardest playing boys in the Check thata amazing features: cushioned wolk ( durable slip resistant lightweight flexible oil resistant heal and cold resistant Buster Brown Shoe Store 117 South Central Fluhrer Building Here's a fast-growing sport without limits of enjoy ment. Next weekend Family Weekly describe new vays to get the most fun and safety out of your boat. "Arthur Godfrey's lesson In life" by Herbert Kamm "Can You Trust Your Cops?" by Joseph N. Bell "My Mother Saved My life" by Cfiorlei Trofter "Dining Alfresco". . . . Cookbook Section Quips and Quotes Junior Treasure Chest "I Was Just Thinking ..." by Patty Johnson READ THEM All IN Family Weelcly MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE sold to the Newhouse chain. From August, 1948, until September, 1952, MacNaugh ton served as president of ' Reed college, observing when he took that office: "I'm only here to hold Reed college to- ' gether and to keep it educa tionally solvent until an edu cator is picked out as new president." His first wife, mother of their three children, Boyd, Malcolm and Mrs. Stuart Kerr, died in 1942. In Decem ber, 1944, he married Mrs. Richard F. Scholz, widow of a Reed college professor and dean of women and faculty member at Reed for many years' LIKE SOLES (Y.u'H r..li. If ImntWtstthr, from III trlll'CfVM fMHtfll H "try country and found that Vylyt outwears both leather and rubber. 1 to 3 ..$8.99 3Vi to 6 $9 99 Family Weekly r August 28th Issue: NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE OF i
