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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
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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. "Sowing and
reaping" was the slogan, and
at the lime the real signific-
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overlooked; no one thought it
might have a deeper meaning.
"Beautiful," the planters
said as they looked out across
the vast plains, unobstructed
by plant or grass clump. Then
the sowing of the seed and
the rich earth brought forth
the grain. Year after year,
bountiful crops were harvest
ed. The golden flood of grain
and money inundated men's
minds. Beautiful, bountiful;
money and more money. 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. ;
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House Interior committee will
hold a hearing Jan. 16 to re
view progress on the saline
water research p r o g r a m.
Chairman Wayne N. Aspinall
(D-COo.) said Friday the com
mittee wants to determine
.o what progress has been made
before w.insidermg proposa.Wl
to expand til program.
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