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O o o o O O O FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1361 Kennedy's Men Hew Secretary of Defense Demands Performance From His Staff Robert McNamara Tough-Minded Business Man By Unittd Press International Robert Strange McNamara, new defense secretary in the Kennedy administration, is an intellectual "whii kid" who Is also a tough-minded busi ness man. McNamara, 44, Ford Motor Co. president before he was tapped by Kennedy to main tain a military establishment "second to none" has little time for levity or horseplay. He demands-and gets-performance from those who work for him. The new Pentaon chief is an intense, scholarly man who takes a serious attitude toward everything he does. "Very few people know him well," a friend said of him Just before he was named to the cabinet post by Ken nedy. "He isn't much for socializing and feels his pri vate life is just that-private." His insistence on privacy was borne out when reporters questioned him about whether he voted for Kennedy. He answered tartly: "My vote is my own affair." A Registered Republican It was known, however, that McNamara registred Republican-supported Kennedy during the campaign. McNamara has never been a narrow political partisan. In 19S8, he was one of the largest financial backers of Sen. Philip A. Hart, a Dem ocrat who unseated Republi can Charles Potter who was considered one of the strong est favorites of the auto indus try which included McNa mara's Ford Motor Co. A little over a year later, McNamara was leader of a group trying to convince American Motors Corp. Pres ident George Romney to op pose Sen. Patrick V. McNa mara, D.-Mich., no kin, who Is a strong favorite of organ zed labor. McNamara is a lean six footer. He is. a Presbyterian and a strong family man. He consulted not only his wife, Margaret, but also his children, Margaret, 19, Kathy, 16, and Robert Craig, 10, be- ROBERT McNAMARA No Time for Play fore accepting his nomina tion. McNamara was born in San Francisco, Calif., July 9, 1916, and attended public schools at Piedmont, Calif. Evidence of his intellectual prowess showed itself when he was elected Phi Beta Kappa in his sophomore year at the University of California. At the age of 20, he was graduated from California. Two years later he took a master's degree in business administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. After graduating from Har vard, McNamara joined the accounting firm' of Price, Wa terhouse and Co. in California. A year later he was back at Harvard as an assistant pro fessor of business administra tion. Through work for the War Department as a civilian con sultant while at Harvard, he entered the Army Air Corps in 1945 as a lieutenant colo nel, serving as a consultant on management practices. He later was tapped by Ford along with nine other Air Corps officers to form a management specialists group known as the "whiz kids." The mild - looking McNa mara started as manager of Ford's planning and financial analysis offices. He moved up rapidly and climaxed his rise last November, only a month before he was picked by Ken nedy, by being named presi dent of the nation's second largest automobile company. The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of a Judce, a psychia trist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each article Is a summary of an actual case history. The Council reports on prob lems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. (Copyrliht 1861 General Features Corp.) Rhoda B. - I like to stay up late and wake up late the next day. Jeffrey B. - No matter how I try, I'm sleepy by 9 p.m. So we don't go out together much. e e e Rhoda B, - Jeff and I are married three years and we have a problem a couple can't have an inkling of before marriage. We're never sleepy at the same time. When Jeff was courting me he must have taken afternoon naps or something, because we did get to theater and he did stay awake. I didn't know that his normal bedtime was 9 p.m. And I never thought of telling him mine was mid night, and usually after! To make things worse, he's wide-awake and bright-eyed at 6 a.m., rarin' to go for a full-course breakfast, while I'm just settling down to the serious phase of my night's sleep. At dinner time, how ever, I've hit my stride. I'm full of pep and try to make up for morning "desertion." What can we do to move our sleep waves into the same time flow? e e Jeffrey B. - The only good part of our problem is Rhoda can tell me how all the TV plays I sleep through turn out. Otherwise, the situation is awkward to say the least. I don't know what it is to have breakfast with my wife on a week day. Rhoda tried at first, but it was like sitting opposite a sleep-walking zombie. She yawned, drooped and poured orange juice over the cereal. But she's so delightful in the evening that we agreed to a fair exchange. I'd make my own breakfast while she slept, and she'd be chipper and scin tillating at dinner, while I sagged. On the social side, she usu ally goes to evening events alone and tells me about them next day. If we go together, she handles the conversation for us both because she knows (and we hope no one else does) that with my eyes wide open, I can be fast asleep. The Council - If the treas ures of a day could be served Jackson County Federal brings more convenient business hours to its customers. Saturday Closing Will Begin Jan. 21, 1961 i"; New Hours 'rt Monday Thru Thursday r-jV 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Friday f3 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. : Closed Saturdays ik JCF JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. Your Family Center for Savings and Home Loans Home Office 2 E. Main, Medford Ashland Branch 337 East Main, Ashland on a platter, here's a couple like Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat who could lick it clean. Rhoda is right in lamenting the fact that this discrepancy in sleep needs can't be discov ered until after the honey moon. It just adds another hurdle to the list every couple must surmount. But we doubt that knowing about it would stop people, in harmony other wise, from marrying each other. It's a scientific truth that there are two distinct types: the a.m. personality and the p.m. personality. It's all tied up with basal metabolism and the endrocine system. I n simpler terms, we're all like furnaces and some blaze sooner and die down faster than others. Having satisfied himself that Rhoda was the girl for him, Jeff couldn't be expected to get her under the moon light, with soft violins playing in the distance, and ask: "Are you an a.m. personality?" So they must now figure out a "gray zone" for sleep needs as opposite as black and white. They've already accepted the breakfast-dinner realities. The arrival of children will necessitate a rappochement of schedules for both Rhoda and Jeffrey. She may need a cold shower to make it by 7 a.m. and he may need a setting-up drill to push his day to 10 p.m. and be her pal. It's not an impossible diver gence. When necessity de mands, they'll synchronize on sleep, with or witnout pep pills and naps. And when they are free to let nature take its course, they may find them selves changing from "hours apart" to only minutes. Holpoint Dealer in Business 28 Years The Williams Appliance company, which opened in Medford in December, is run by a man who has spent 26 years in the appliance bus! ness. O. M. (Bill) Williams, now the exclusive dealer for Hot point appliances in southern Oregon, spent five years with Hotpoint as the company's sales manager for the state of Oregon. Prior to that he was with Crosley - Bendix appli ances in Portland. Williams had the former American Laundry company building at 132 South Central ave., remodeled and moved in on Dec. 8. Williams had al ready opened a similar store in Grants Pass in November. Williams said he plans to open still more stores in the south ern Oregon area. Former Student Admits Shooting California Pair Berkeley, Calif. -rtlPD- A dis hevelled former student was arrested Thursday and con fessed he burst into an office at the University of Califor nia Wednesday, shot and kill ed a graduate student and wounded a professor because God told me to do it. Campus police Identified the man as John Harrison Farmer, 34, Oakland, Calif., who graduated from the uni versity in 1959 with a mas ter's degree in journalism. They said he admitted fir ing the charge from a sawed- off 12-gauge shotgun which killed Steven Mann Thomas, 29, Ukiah, Calif. Shot in Back Thomas was struck in the back by the blast and died later in the emergency ward at Herrick hospital. A second blast ripped away part of the jaw of English Prof. Thomas F. Parkinson, 40. He was in fair condition at Peralta hospital. Farmer, found wandering along remote Fish Ranch road near the Contra Costa-Alameda county line, admitted to Officer A,. W. Perrin he had fired the fatal shot. Against Communists Perrin said Farmer, who had spent the night alongside the road, told him "I guess I'm the guy you are looking for." But asked why he picked out Thomas and Parkinson he would only say "I don't like Communists." When picked up, Farmer was carrying a 30 caliber rifle under his arm and leading a dog on a leash. He led Perrin a short dis tance to where he had thrown the shotgun in a ditch beside the road. OF SMITH & MEN Bv Jack Smith te 1960 Tlmes-Mlrror Syndicate With the Kennedy's playing touch football on the White House lawn, the game may be come the new national pas time. If so, I hope the Depart ment of Interior, or whoever is responsible, puts out a com pact, simple rule book. I happen to have a set of rules for a modified form of the game called Touchdown. It baffles me completely, al though it was invented as a recreation for small girls. There are too many rules for everything these days. Even a game as clean and beautiful to the eye as base ball is a monument of gib berish when seen through a rule book. I doubt that most great play ers ever bother to master the rules, anyway. They have a built-in affinity for games. They play by instinct. Girls, however, don't have this native muscle knowledge. They seem to get more sport out of breaking the rules than in being faithful to them. One of the most awesome phenomena in human conflict, apart from the battlefield it self, is two teams of little girls in argument over a breach of regulations on the playground. Their shrill debate chills the heart. They jump up and down in fury, ponytails flying. They stamp their feet, make their faces purple and belabor each other with horrid epithets. In the face of this storm, the bedeviled schoolmarm umpire is a pitiful figure of futility, piping her whistle, clapping her hands and im ploring, "Girls! Girls! Remem ber we are little ladies!" One might as well com mand a herd of stampeding longhorns to quit milling about and form up in ranks and files. Maybe Touchdown will change all this. It's said to have much of the excitement of speedball, soccer and foot ball, without the ruffianism Medford Man Pleads Guilty in Court Albert W. Tucker, 1205 East Main st., Medford, plead' ed guilty in district court early Thursday to charges of issuing a check without suffi cient funds. He was sentenced by Judge L. L. Sawyer to 90 days in the countv jail. The rules are a marvelous Tucker was charged with compendium. I've been over The second charge lists the issuing a oaa cnecK lor $3U tnem two times, Din an imiaeam oi anuuier uuugmei, Tn A 1 ........ 1- tin th-a t.., A nnnln 1 unil. 1. luic ui 13 liiafc .lid. ai c inu ' itnsvui " JURIST DIES Miami UPU Oscar Caplan, 64, retired Chicago jurist and author of many law texts, died Thursday. ARCHITECT DIES Bath, Maine-IUPD-Archibald M. Main, 90, dean of Ameri can naval architects, died Wednesday. teams of seven girls each and they rotate. l'he game is started with a soccer ball and 14 rotating girls on a field of 60 x 40 yards. From there on, as best I can make it out, the game is the most intricate razzle dazzle since the days of Pop Warner. The rule book has 22 mime ographed pages, including an introduction, Index, 22 basic rules, 115 sections, 126 sub sections, numerous sub-subsections and nine diagrams. One of the fascinating rules is No. 9. This covers fouls, violations and penalties. Un der Section 1 (Fouls) there are 24 subsections. Girls may foul each other by blocking, boxing up, charg ing, holding, illegal tagging, o b s t r u cting, overguardlng, pushing, running interference, threatening the eyes, tripping and delaying the game, to name a few. The authors of Touchdown seem to have anticipated the gamut of female tactics and aggressions. If Touchdown could discourage such destruc tive traits in childhood, it would serve the nation well. As complicated as Touch down may seem, it is ob served in the introduction that girls can learn it quickly and play it amicably without a referee. Nevertheless, the rules recommend not only a referee but also an umpire, a linesman, two timekeepers and two scorekeepers. It's enough to make Abner Doubleday rotate in his grave. Mrs. Garrett To Be Arraigned Tuesday Portland tUPD The district attorney's office indicated to day Mrs. Constance Garrett, 32, probably would be ar raigned next Tuesday on a second charge of first degree murder. She was indicted Tuesday, one day after she was ordered acquitted by a judge In her trial for the death of her daughter Gaye, 5 months, in a fire at her home last October. A ON APPLIANCES AT HAL "K" We have several RCA Whirlpool appli ances that are priced at real savings to you. Coogan Faces Narcotics Charge Los Angeles (UPD Jackie Coogan, 46, who gained fame as a child star In the silent movie "The Kid," faces ar raignment next Thursday on a misdemeanor narcotics charge. Coogan surrendered in court Thursday after having been free on a writ following i his Jan. 7 arrest. He was per- j mitted to go free on $2,500 bail pending his arraignment. Also arrested with Coogan in his Malibu home was for more exotic dancer Nona Carver, 40, who faces a pre-! liminary hearing Feb. 9 on a J similar charge. Sheriff's nar- cotics agents said they re covered enough marijuana in i Coogan's apartment to make 200 cigarettes. Eisenhower To Get Annual Pension Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower leaves office to day with a $25,000 annual pension, a $50,000 yearly ex pense account and free mail ing privileges. But he will have to pay taxes on his pension, Congress may give him back his five-star general rank. A move Is under way to restore the rank, without the usual $20,000 pension, in view of the allowances he gets as ex-Prcsldent. VICTIM'S FUNERAL SET Bakersfield, Calif. - (UPD - Funeral services were to be held today In Shafter, Calif., for Rose Marie Riddle, 6, the j blonde girl who was kidnaped land slain last week. Kern County District Attorney Kit 1 Nelson said he would ask the death penalty for Richard Ar I len Lindsey and possibly the j same fbr Lindsey's pf cgnant I wife In the slaylnggif tha lit- tit girl. O PRE-MARKET n""iQrirar3 tVi 9 tstfWl M E. 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Main SP 2-2456 two million Americans helped bake this bread Yes, the (lour lo bake tht bread to feed these Greek orphans wat pari of 4 million CARE packages stnl across ihe world by 2 million Americans who con tributed to last year's Food Crusade. This year, won't you join in sharing our abundance? Every $1 sends a big package of powdered milk, flour, other foods. Every package bears your name and address a personal, merciful gift of friendship to hungry peo ple, straight from your heart lo Iheirsl SEND YOUR DOLLARS TO JOIN THE FOOD CRUSADE CARE 660 First Ave., New York 16, N.Y. or your nearest CARE office. l,J p' Here is $ , , .for the Food Crusade. Name . Address Courtesy of Medford Mail Tribune 2 O o
