Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 08, 1961, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Texto o 8 O O 0 o O O MLDFofSb MAIL T&ftjNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 14 A SUNDAY. JANUARY 8. 1961 eW I '.I I. ":( Pkard Enters Plea Of Innocent in Court Roy Picard, o Picard's of Medford Jewelers, 129 South Central ave., entered a plea of innocent in municipal court Friday morning to a charge of failure to file registration, and a trial date was set for Jan. 27. Picard is accused by the city of Medford of selling elec trical equipment without a permit. He and his attorney, Robert Dames, also made an unofficial request for a jury trial this morning. Jury trials In municipal court are optional. Self-Employed Farmers May Get Social Benefits Some self-employed farm ers may be entitled to use an optional method for comput ing their net farm earnings for social security credit, Ed ward B. Jncobson, manager of the Medford social security of fice, has reminded farm oper ators. He pointed out that: (1) If the gross income from agricul tural self-employment Is not more than $1,800, the net farm earnings may be cither " s. rzzzzTzzvrzrrz ttzzzztt: r zzizzri I'Nfcii1 mill tFrfi I fTrt 1 1 i n pOOMATEQ . . . adds space to every home Now-make your rooms look bigcer with Roomatet Custom Room Plan furniture by famous Baumritter. Add wonderful new beauty, tots of Door area, and worlds of storage space, in bedroom, living, dining and family room. P See Roomates at . 'fP 3 I f 220 N. Bartlett 1 1 V Next to Greyhound 'j iMssass&sm t izn ll:zl.!.z Telephone SP 3-4394 the actual net or 23 of the farm gross income. (2) If the gross farm income Is more than $1,800, and the net farm earnings are less than $1,200, either the actual net or $1,200 may be reported. If the gross farm income is more than $1,800, and the net farm earnings are $1,200 or more, the actual amount of net earnings must be reported. Ui of Option The use of the option will enable farmers with gross in come as low as $600 to obtain social security protection for themselves in their old age, or, if they become disabled, and for their survivors In case of death, Jacobson said. However, regardless of the method of reporting, there must be net earnings of at least $400 (from farming alone, or In combination with other sell-employment earn ings) to get social security credit for the year. Some farm owners who re ceive cash, rent, or crop shares from tenant farmers can get social security credit for such income. If the farm landlord, under his agreement with his tenant, materially participates In the production or management of production of the farm crops raised on his land, this income may be creditable for social security purposes and subject to the social security tax. Additional information may be obtained from the Medford social security office at 1005 East Main si. The Week in California Hotel Fire Claims 1 9 Lives; State Legislature Convenes DEBATES PRAISED Washington - IUPI) - Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D Wash.), a sponsor of the law permitting last fall's Kennedy Nixon TV debates, has offered a bill which would allow simi lar telecasts in future cam paigns. Magnuson praised the debates conducted last fall and linked them, in a short Senate statement Friday with the Electoral college count which formally gave the presi dency to John F. Kennedy. By United Press International A liny fire in the room of a drink-fuddled tenant, at first believed extinguished, sudden ly mushroomed into a flaming killer early Friday in one of the worst hotel disasters In San Francisco history. At least 19 persons were killed and 38 injured when flames billowed through the five-floor Thomas hotel in pre dawn darkness. Many of the 135 tenants, mostly elderly pensioners, saved their lives by leaping into firemen's nets or onlo stacks of mattresses while flames spurted from every floor and shot 150 feet In the air. Earlier in the week, the 1961 session of the state legis lature opened in Sacramento. 10-Point Chapter Gov. Edmund G. Brown urged the legislature the next day to enact a 10-point chap ter in his Democratic admin istration's program for "re sponsible liberalism.'" The governor, starting the last half of his four-year term. urged action in the field of narcotics, education, water, social welfare and elections And he offered a token tax reduction by proposing to ex empt prescription drugs from sales taxes. But he did not offer specific bills on two of the most con troversial Issues in the ses sion-capital punishments and a minimum wage for farm workers. Elsewhere, there were these developments: . Block: Fred Block was freed after spending almost nine years in Jail in Wood land for refusing to pay his former wife $750 alimony and child support. He vowed that "not even a plump, respect able widow with money in the bank" could lure him Into another marriage. Block, 67 could have paid the money but refused. "She doesn't de serve it," he said. Yolo Su- Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (Refilster and Tribune syndicate, 1961) , There are about 138,000 clergy-men in the U.S. 'Sow and Reap' was- Slogan, But Nature Had Last Word The people were pretty proud of the powerful earth- moving machines; the bull dozers, the power-plows that broke up the soil, ripped out the native vegetation, toppled the trees and the bushes. "Clear the land" was the cry, "break up the topsoil; pulver ize the earth, plant the crops; reap the harvest. 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From the good earth sprang the grain and from the grain came the money. Man was in con trol. Nature was bent to his will, Thirsty Land Then came a time when no rain fell from the cloudless sky. The land became thirsty. The earth cracked; the topsoil turned to dust. Winds came, picked up the dry soil, scoop ed it up and carried it aloft. More winds, more dust; great black clouds of gritty smudge dimmed the sun. Automobiles, hundreds of miles away turn ed on their headlights; cities lighted the street lights at noon-time. People covered their faces with cloth to keep out the gritty air and stared up at the murky sky as earth particles settled over the land like a black omen of doom. Ships far out on the ocean swept the dust from many western states from their decks; at limes the duslcloud was so dense it interfered with a ship's navigation. Billions of tons of topsoil, from several western states billowed up and was swept away by the winds; the restless winds ac tually carried acres of soil away forever. The great dust storms of the 30s were devast ing the land. Progress Reversed "Progress" had reversed It self and come back and slap ped mankind right in the face. For years the very wonderful land-moving machinery had been tearing away the vegeta tion that held the land to gether. Man, who stupidly be lieved himself bigger than Na ture, had abused his heritage. The land struck back; no more submissive, it exacted a ter rible loll; it rebelled In bit ter retaliation. Millions and millions of dol lars were lost; hundreds of families were starved out; the "dust-bowl" had become some thing very real and very ter rible; everything the people owned was blown away by the restless winds. Tufts of grass, weeds, bush es, trees all help to hold the earth together; destroy them and the land itself will blow away. All this and more hap pened only a few short years ago, and already many peo ple are stupidly repeating the same old mistake; they would dismiss that nightmare of dust and drought as a bad dream, but is was very real it hap pened, and it can again. Nature is lubmistive only to t .i'rrtain point; and she ALWAYS win. in the end; somcthln4 to do probably with "rotping the whirlwind." perior Court Judge C. C. Mc Donald ordered Block releas ed. "As long as the money for the support of the child is no longer necessary, it is ridicul ous to keep this man in jail," the judge said. Dennis: Dennis Crosby must pay $100 a week for support of a 3-year-old daughter born out of wedlock to a Holly wood divorcee, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Clarke F. Stephens ruled. Stephens also directed the 26-year-old son of crooner Bing Crosby to pay attorney's fees of $7,500 for Mrs. Marilyn Miller Scott, with whom young Crosby ad mitted having intimate rela tions. A jury, by a 9-3 vote, held that Dennis was the fath er of Mrs. Scott's daughter, Denise Michele, born Nov. 24, 1957. Fire: A mother and four children were killed when an explosion set off a fire which swept through the home of a Richmond restaurateur. The blaze critically burned a male visitor in the home. Five other persons escaped as firemen battled the flames, which caused serious injuries to two fire department captains. The victims were Mrs. Marie Ma- lone, 42, and her three chil dren, La Donna, 13, Danny, 6, and Darrell, 4, and a visit ing child, Debra Linder, 4, of Nice in Lake county. Finch: The prosecution dis closed it will fly Swedish ex change student Marie Anne Lidholm to Los Angeles so she can repeat her role as a key witness in the third trial of Dr. R. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff. The third trial got under way, with jury se lection expected to take two weeks or longer.' Miss Lid holm had served as maid for the 43-year-old surgeon at the time Barbara Jean Finch was shot on the lawn of their West Covina home. Citizen: Actress Anna Maria Alberghetti applied for United 1 States citizenship after 11 years of movie and night club ; work in this country. The Italian beauty first came to ' Hollywood at the age of 13. ; Teen Sheath I SIZES 9082 ' J 10-16 The smartest girls in the teen set love a dress with a saucy sailor-collar natty tie that points to a handspan waist. Choose thrifty cotton for a month and more of sun days. Printed Pattern 9082: Teen Sizes 10. 12, 14. 16. Size 12 takes 3'i yards 35-inch fabric. Send T h 1 r t y-f i v cents (coins) for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune. Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N.Y. Print plainly NAME. 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