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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?
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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