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New VA Administrator
Has Banking, Military,
Veterans Background
White City - Information
concerning John S. Gleason
Jr., recently appointed head
of the Veterans Alminlstrar
lion by President John F.
Kennedy, has been received
here.
Gleason, who has a back
ground of banking, military
service and veterans affairs,
will be the chief of the 172,-000-person
agency, including
all activities in this area.
At 45, Gleason is the sixth
Veterans Administration chief
since the agency was estab
lished by law in 1930, and
the youngest man to hold the
title.
The agency has annual ex
penditures of about $5 bil
lion and must administer laws
applying to eligible benefi
ciaries and their dependents.
Glcason's r e s p onsibilities
will include administration of
the GI insurance program for
more than 6 million veterans,
operation of the largest medi
cal program in the United
Stales, conduct of the GI
Air Traffic Up
During December
Air traffic vas up and pas
senger traffic was down at
Medford's municipal airport
during December, compared
to the same month a year ago,
according to Airport Manager
Gil Gutjahr's monthly report.
A total of 3,008 planes, in
cluding 526 commercial air
liners, landed at or took off
from the airport last month.
During December, 1959, a to
tal of 2,520 flights were re
corded at the airport.
The airport recorded 2,949
passengers last month, com
pared to 4,136 in November,
1960, and 3,256 in December,
1959.
Mail handled at the airport
was up, but both air freight
and air express was down
compared to a year ago. Mail
totaled 30,622 pounds last
month, compared to 26,334
pounds a year ago; freight
totaled 11,132 pounds last
month, compared to 12,047 a
year ago; and express totaled
3,046 last month, compared
to 3,213 a year ago.
The airport took in revenue
of $3,349 last month, includ
ing S328 in landing fees.
loan program which has given
home loans to more than 5
million veterans, a GI bill
educational program which
has trained some 10 million
veterans, and administration
of a compensation and pen
sion program providing pay
ments lor more than 4 million
veterans.
Notre Dame Graduate
The new VA administrator
is a Notre Dame graduate
with post-graduate study at
Harvard university school of
business administration and
the University of Wisconsin
school of banking.
He rose from Army private
to lieutenant colonel during
World War II and is a veteran
of compaigns in New Guinea,
the Marshall islands and the
Philippines.
Decorations include the sil
ver star, soldier's medal, le
gion of merit, bronze star
with two oak leaf clusters
and the Philippines Legion of
Honor. He is a major general
and commanding officer of
the 85th infantry division,
U. S. Army Reserve.
Gleason was elected nation
al commander of the Ameri
can Legion in 1957. He is a
member of the Illinois Vet
erans commission, member of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and the American Veterans
of World War II.
He is vice president of the
First National Bank of Chi
cago and president of the Chi
cago Helicopter Airways.
Zl Small Worldi
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkirts
(Btimtl ssd Trlbun Syndicate,
1SS1)
Recalls Ihs 'Back Forty'
With Fondnesi
It may very well not have
been, but the so-called "back
forty" always seemed to be
more plentifully supplied with
wild creatures of various
kinds than any other area on
the farm.
Just the name, "back forty"
conjured up in young minds
as well as older ones the
vision of a very isolated place
where it was easily possible
to find more game during the
hunting season, as well as
more interesting things dur
ing the long days of summer.
There was, of course, a
reasonable explanation for the
abundance of wildlife in the
"back forty"; Us actual isola
tion instilled a feeling of
security and safety in all the
little creatures that inhabited
it.
This particular "back forty"
was bordered on three sides
by woods. In the tall trees,
near the meadow edge, sentry
crows watched the entire
area, ever alert to give an
Magnuson'sWife
Seeks Divorce
Seattle - (UP!) - The wife of
Rep. Don Magnuson SD-Wash.)
has filed suit for divorce on
grounds of cruelty.
Mrs. June Magnuson asked
for custody of the couple's
three children, ages 7 through
14, and $125 a month for the
support of each. She also
asked for S350 monthly for
her own support and that she
be awarded the family's home
here. She suggested that
Magnuson be awarded their
other home in Washington
D.C.
Magnuson and his wife were
married in 1944. He serves
Washington's Seventh Con
gressional district.
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COLLEGE of LAW
XVILiAMETTE UNIVERSITY
'Third Degree Methods'
Invalidate Admission of
Evidence
Police officers suspected
Oswald of illegal possession of
narcotics. When the officers
approached Oswald, he hur
riedly swallowed two capsules
of morphine in an attempt to
destroy evidence of his crime.
However, the police took
him to a local hospital where,
against Oswald's will, forced
a stomach pump tube into his
mouth, causing him to eject
the two morphine capsules.
The capsules were used as the
chief evidence in obtaining a
conviction of Oswald, who ap
pealed to the United States
Supreme Court.
THE COUHT HELD: Con
viction reversed. Under the
14th Amendment to the Unit
ed States Constitution no man
may be deprived of his liberty
without due process of law,
nor may he be compelled to
testify against himself. Pump
ing out a man's stomach, it
was argued, is just like mak
ing him testify against him
self. Such third degree meth
ods shock the conscience and
are unconstitutional.
alarm If an intruder entered
the woodland or the meadow.
Squirrels Scamper
A rail fence zigzagged along
the south and east sides. Along
its crooked length red squir
rels scampered; in the zigs
and zags, nested a wide va
riety of birds. Chipmunks
lived beneath the gnarled
lower rails. Field mice scam
pered through the weeds,
climbed the wild-grape vines,
and sometimes ventured up
on some of the higher rails.
They, like the red and fox
squirrels, worked the fence
row hard during the fall for
several nut trees spread their
branches half over the fence.
After a frost hickory nuts
fell, hit the top rail and
bounded into the "back forty."
To the wild creatures that
lived there, the rail fence was
not a barrier; it was a welt
traveled highway.
The farm boy visited the
"back forty" often. In the late
afternoon he whistled his way
down the lane and entered the
area. The cows that spent the
long summer days in the
"back forty" always were re
luctant to leave without some
urging by the farm boy; so
usually he had to herd them
toward the barn.
Cows Interfered
There were times when go
ing after the cows interfered
with boyish activities; -at such
times he hurried, paying no
attention to the whistle of the
quail in the hedgerow, not
noticing the cottontail rabbit
scampering for the bramble
thicket.
As he looks back on it from
adulthood he regrets that he
ever hurried, that he ever
wished he didn't have to drive
the cows up from the "back
forty."
At the time he failed to no
tice that there must have been
deep and tolerant under
standing between the cattle
that spent their days there and
the wild things that lived
their lives in that isolated
"back forty."
He remembers now that
when a foreign presence enter
ed the area, the wild things
flew, ran, scampered or crawl
ed away to their own particu
lar hiding place; that the cows
regained their standing post
tions, not ready but half-will
ing to file slowly home, leav
ing the back forty to all the
many and varied creatures of
the wild.
This column of general leg
al principles is presented by
the Williametie University
College of Law. It is not to
be taken as legal advice.
Slight changes in facts may
change the outcome of a case.
Cross-Stifch Charm
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Estimated 5,000
Attend Opening0
Of Oregon Bank
A "conservative estimate"
of some 3,000 persons re
sponded to a recent invitation
to the Hague Valley State
bank's Open House party held
Friday at both branches.
Clarence Young, bank presi
dent, also announced that 41
persons received the "lucky
keys" maiied out to local resi
dents earlier, and over $750
in cash was scooped out of
the "treasurer chest" contain
ing some $2,000.
The party celebrated the
bank's merger with The Ore
gon Bank, Portland, Bank of
ficials say that there is to be
no change ot personnel local
ly, and ail checks and savings
passbooks in circulation will
continue to be valid. Chief
advantage of the merger, ac
cording to officials is io pro
vide a "complete trust serv
ice" for the bank's cutomcrs.
Founded In 1887
The Oregon Bank was
founded in 1887 as the Port
land Trust, and is now the old
est trust service west of the
Rocky mountains, Young not
ed. Honored guesls at the Fri
day party, and designated as
official hosts and hostesses,
were persons born m 1887, the
same year that the Portland
firm was established.
Attending the event from
Portland were The Oregon
Bank's officers including
Charles F, Adams, president;
S, E. Gjerde, vice president;
Lome L, Miller, vice presi
dent and trust officer; Henry
Ide and Fred Thorscn, assist
ant cashiers and Henry Pil
lock, trust officer; John You
cii, a director; Loran Richey,
cashier; and Veri Wells, audi
tor.
Veteran Newsman Dies After Illness
Portland - "IW - Tom E, j an extended illness.
Shea, 81, veteran Oregon! Shea was bora in Astoria
newspaperman and one-time and graduated from Ms. An-
merged wtth the Portland Tel
I egraisi.
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Refreshments were catered (" nuipi .-. iie imtkmi new.
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Astorian 'm 1910, Later
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Damaged by Fire
Portland - fllPB - A pre-dawn
four alarm fire Sunday heav
ily damaged the Clarke Pub
lishing company plant near
downtown Portland,
Two firemen suffered minor
injuries. Fire investigators
said the blaze apparently
started near the center of the
building. It's cause was not
known.
The firm publishes 13 week
ly "shopper" nevspapers in
addition to special advertising
sections for various firms.
Leslie F. Clarke, owner,
said other printing firms had
been lined up to help meet his
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time being.
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Our painter friend here appreciates the name fritndly welcome -at
U, S. National-whether he's in overalls or a business suit, He han
found that everyone-from the tellers to the officers-is interested
in him a an individual. And if he has a Pfjecial banking problem,
an everyone dfs occasionally, he known it will be given
prompt, personalized attention.
He enjoys our many convenHwe, Mich as drive-In teller servics and
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