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Ricjhlo'Time
Medlord and Jackson Countv
JJCai. T.ibuna 10 20. 30 40
and 50 vearj ago.
10 YEARS AGO
F.h. 8. 1951 (Thursday)
Forty -one Boy Scouts re
ceived 100 merit badges at a
court of honor held to ac
knowledge Boy Scout week in
the junior high school here
last night.
The Ashland city council is
considering a plan to add
fluorine gas to the water sup
ply there.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 8. 1941 (Saturday)
Rubinoff, the foremost vio
linist of these times, will be in
Medford Feb. 12, and will pre
sent two concerts.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Ash
land was visited by a high
wind Wednesday evening that
travelled 20 miles slower than
its outstanding speed idiots. A
blustery wind blustered here."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 8, 1 93 1 (Sunday)
The city is observing Boy
Scout week this week.
There is a hint that Gover
nor Meier may veto the Rogue
River fish bill which prohibits
commercial fishing in the
Rogue.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 8. 1921 (Tuesday )
The dozen or so local China
men in this area are observing
the Chinese new year.
Butte Falls is the first rural
community to gain its quota
for the European relief fund.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 8. 1911 (Wednesday)
Represen t a t i v e s of the
Rogue River Fish Protective
association argued in Salem
yesterday against a proposed
bill to reopen the Rogue river
to commercial fishing.
The Medford city council
Inst night voted to set aside
$2,000 for library purposes in
the city.
1
Nine or ten correct n superior
flvcn or eight ll excellent; five Of
t:i li good.
1. In tennis, what is the
term for no score?
2. Name the parents
John the Baptist.
of
3. Is a pintail a deer, wild
duck, or western saddle horse?
4. About whose life did
Plato write in "Apology" on
the future life?
5. Upon what two articles
of food and drink were the
Greek gods supposed to have
lived?
6. What is the customary
fuel of rural Ireland?
7. What type of naval ves
sel is an E boat?
8. Is an armadillo n biped
or a quadruped?
9. What river flows for
1,765 miles through Alaska?
10. Name the Postmaster
General of the United States.
Answers: 1. Love. 2. Elisa
beth and Zachary. 3. Wild
duck. 4. Socrates. 5. Nectar
and ambrosia. 8. Peat. 7
Motor torpedo boat. 8. Quad
ruped. 9. Yukon. 10. J. Ed
ward Day.
QUOTE IS RIGHT
Detroit-IUNI-Convlcted Pat
rick Henry Daniels, 28, told
Judge W. McKay SklllmRn he
knew what the man he was
named after was famous for.
"Give me liberty or give me
death," Daniels quoted the
original Patrick Henry.
"That's right," Judge Skill
man said, " but I can give you
neither." He sentenced Dan
iels to two to four years in
prison.
k .
Emigrant Dam
We have a great deal of respect and admira
tion for E. M. Tucker, whose invention of the
Sno-Cat has brought fame to Medford.
But we think that in voicing publicly his
private fears about the safety of Emigrant dam,
without adequate engineering background, train
ing or experience, and without giving any notice
to documented, detailed reassurance from quali
fied experts, he has done a grave disservice to
this community.
Since he has done so, however, perhaps it
would be just as well to reassure those living m
the valley that highly competent, qualified and
experienced engineers have drawn the plans for
tne dam, followed it through the construction
period, and have pronounced it completely safe
against any possible hazard.
'
flR. TUCKER has cited such disasters as the
x Texas Tower and Vanport.
There is no similarity whatsoever.
And Mr. Tucker has
rrom the Bureau of Reclamation which answered
his questions and fears in
Life is, of course, full of uncertainties. One
literally takes his life in
ventures on to the highway, or into the anianes.
But still more people die
else.
If there is one thing
other, it is that bmigrant dam is as safe and
secure as human ingenuity, skill and experience
can make it. KA.
"Why
Under the title, "Yes, but Why Not?" an
editorial writer on the Salem Capital Journal gets
in a few free-swinging blows at a number of
matters of topical interest.
Taking a deep drag off his dream-pipe, he
asks :
"Why not make it a misdemeanor to ride in an
auto without wearing a safety belt? . . . Why not give
state police all criminal law enforcement duties outside
incorporated cities? . . . Why not do away with the
remaining constables in Oregon and give their duties
to the sheriffs? . . . And . . . why not move over into
: archaic courts . . . why not shift over entirely to
district courts? .... In fact, why not simplify the
structure which is the foundation for so many of
our outmoded offices? Why not combine about half
our counties? . . . Why not?" .
The answer, of course, is that change in a
government by consent of the governed moves
exceedingly slowly ; there is always resistance to
change ; there are always
interest m the status quo.
And, sometimes, though not always, the status
quo happens to be a better way of doing things
than the chances nroioosed.'
So, while some of our
as though they might be
Ave have now, it will be a
before all of them are placed in effect. E.A.
Just
As to seat belts, yes,
tisically that car drivers
safety belts are far safer
Jiut just try to legislate it!
People would be far better off if thev didn't
drink or smoke, too, but
to attempts to legislate these things.
People, oddly enough, otten pay more atten
tion to laws which are for the protection of the
other fellow than laws which are for their own
protection, presumably on the theory that "It can't
happen to me." E.A.
Police Enforcement
The state police force
outfit, and getting better.
score is excellent. And,
is friction between a local state police detachment
and the local sheriff's office, to the detriment
ot law enforcement.
We have long thought
lapping and duplication of effort in this field,
even when the two get along as well as they do
in dacKson county.
But seriously propose a law to wipe out the
sheriff's law enforcement duties, and listen to
the howl that would go up. It would come from
sheriff's, their deputies, the deputies' wives and
children, their friends, and those who just plain
line mings tne way tney are.
CTILL, it should be talked about.
The best way for such
well be on a county - by -
graciuai coming ot home rule.
But it would mean giving up one more symbol
of local autonomy from the county to the state,
Olli-l f -tr tn f-... C 1 J? . ! i lilt
mm wcic io a Buuug teeung or resistance to tnis.
As a matter of fact, the one best hope of ob
taining well-thought-out home rule charters in the
various counties is that
ernment snouici oe Kept as close to home as
possible. E.A.
There is logic in the idea of abolishing the
anachronistic position of constable, and to end
the justice court in favor of the district court.
But the consolidation of counties, while it
might make for some tax savings and administra
tive einciency, is long way off. There just isn't
enough demand or real need for such a reform
to overcome the inertia which confronts such
ideas. E.A.
i 1
chosen to ignore replies
detail.
his hands each time he
in bed than anywhere
that is as certain as any
Not?"
those who have a vested
friend's reforms sound
improvement on what
long, Jong time, if ever,
Try!
!
it has been shown sta-
and passengers wearing:
than those who don't.
look what's happened
in Oregon is a trood
Their law enforcement
m too many cases, there
there is a certain over
a change to come might
county basis, with the
very feeling that gov
Dennis the Menace
'BO.' IT SURE TAKES WATER A
BATHTUB.' I BET THAT rVNCOW'S
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She Thanks Medco
To the Editor: I feel I would
like to' attempt to point out
that there really is another
side to the Medco logging
truck private road story, and
perhaps help some people to
feel less fearful of it. If any
one in the valley has reason to
feel deep concern about log
ging trucks, it is my husband
and myself, because it was a
logging truck which caused us
to lose our little girl in an ac
cident on Highway 62.
As I see it, there are four
alternatives: Shut Medco
down, keep using the train,
use logging trucks on High
way 62, or use the private log
ging truck road.
Of course, nobody wants
Medco to shut down. Every
one of us profits from the ac
tivities of this corporation,
either directly or indirectly.
I don't see how we can in
sist that Medco use a logging
train and allow other com
panies to use trucks. If Medco
feels that it is desirable to
abandon the train, it seems to
me it is entirely their affair,
lust so they do it with the ut
most . consideration for the
public welfare.
If we are to choose between
a private trucking road as pro
posed by Medco and their
trucks using the public high
way, my husband and I feel
strongly that a private road is
infinitely safer, more desir
able and will have far less of
a nuisance value. We do NOT
need any more logging trucks
on Highway 62. If these trucks j
are kept on a private road,
they will affect regular high
way traffic only at relatively
infrequent intersections. But
when they are on the regular
highway, they are a hazard
every step of the way.
I feel that Medco is doing us
all a public service by refus
ing to add another logging
truck to the public highway
and I for one want to thauk
them from the bottom of my
heart. A big company like
Medco keeps its trucks prop
erly equipped at all times
with mufflers in working or
der and other nuisance-reducing
and safety-insuring fea
turcs.
If we are going to have a
lumber industry, we are just
going to have, to resign our
selves to the fact that the logs
are going to have to be trans
ported somehow or other, and
no matter where it, is done, it
will of course inconvenience
someone. The only thing to
consider is to reduce the in
convenience to the minimum.
Marie Ottoscn,
109 Geneva St.,
Medford.
High Climber v
To the Editor: Now Char
ley, don't you go to "mister
ing" me. We've waggled our
old heads together too many
times over problems and
perils of the day. You know
full well it's not my way to
square off in wordy waste of
high-cost space and printer's
Ink. But, you must be re
minded, both of us have work
ed the full ten hours and at
the same number of cents per
hour. But it bought us the
same whercwithall then that
the high wage buys today.
And what of that other re
ward, Charley? The big ob
jective? The sum total of all
our efforts: happiness? Seems
like we had it a bit easier.
with less tension, than now.
Happiness: that which many
a millionaire and union men
are vainly seeking.
But my interest in your
letter is that natural artistry
you employ in word phrasing.
So remindful of Ben Hur
Lampman of the Oregonian,
master artist. "Like stringing
beads in happy pattern," he
once told me. Yet, like Ben.
you are pretty much self-
schooled, uninhibited by
sheepskin quest
You, n frail state-of-Miiner
IONS TIME TO FREEZE W THE
BEEN OPEN A WO HOUR '
bear lhe name -nd address of
necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact ine
lad seeking health on the sea,
shipping out on the Glengarry
Castle, or one of the Irish
Castle Line, as cabin boy
Soon monkey - shinnin'
shrouds, spar, foot-and-brace
ropes, hand-hauling to sailor
man chanty on stren-spanker,
t'galiant. and bow-sprit bal
looning kite and on up to first-
mate status.
Restless - footed found you
here, a husky six - foot - two
west-coast logger, taking vital
part in lifting the skid - road
logging to the high-lead and
skyline way. The steel-climbers
were then in use but the
spur wan dangerously short
for the deep creased Doug fir
bark. So you, Charley Burrill,
stood on your five inch wide
five foot plus long spring
board and axed in the notches
for the steel-heeled spring
board, kneeling on that
skimpy strip of wood to reach
the one below to the notch up
above, on up, 40 feet, 50, 100
feet to set your ring of
powder, light the fuse from a
match handy on each ear, then
hot-rope down to hit the
ground running from the fall
ing top of the spar-pole, i .
All this we tried to promote
to radio and TV for a change.
But a top official finally and
firmly told me such reminis
cences send their listening-
line into nose-dives. Sorry,
such Is the way it is. Be seeing
you. ' x
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200E
Central Point, Ore.
Thx. Shemale
To the Editor:
"Is it a male, or shemale?"
Asked the small boy, of
the bird.
In staid old days of long ago
That seemed a curious
word.
But, as I watch the ladies
flit
In fashions weird and
late,
I wonder if that "shemale"
term
Is inappropriate.
Jack Finel
3710 Hilsingcr rd.,
Medford.
Tribute
To the Editor: In tribute to
Miss Charolctte Daily, de
ceased, staff member of the
Jaekscn County Farm Home,
a group of her colleagues in
nursing and other departmen
tal personnel, accompanied by
Mrs. W. H. Hoffman, co-superintendent
of the domiciliary,
observed funeral services, 1
o'clock, Monday afternoon, at
the Hillcrest Memorial Chap
el, in observance of her pass
ing and to express ... in medi
tation . . . Uieir individual
thoughts-of one so highly es
teemed. A wreath of flowers and
foliage, carefully arranged,
dedicated to her memory and
placed at her bier by the en
tire staff of some 23 Mcsdamos
who, by their attendance, con
veyed in prayer the condo
lence from patients, all of
whom will remember the
many kind and attentive serv
ices rendered to them in their
moments of need.
E. Cozad Howard
Jackson County
Farm Home
Phoenix. Ore.
Square Dancing
To the Editor: We want to
go on record agreeing whole
heartily with the letter in
Sunday's paper, referring to
the square dance jamboree at
Ashland college.
We attended as square
dancers, and agree a good
time was had by all, meeting
square dancers from all parts
of Oregon, and other states
as well.
We would like to see more
families, from teenagers to
grandparents, enjoying square
dancing. We are looking for
ward to the day our children
will
participate,
keeping
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
Violence,
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newi Analyst
Cali, Colombia - 0IPB - The
headline in the Cali news
paper said: "Armed Band As-
s a s s i n a tes
Twelve."
Only the
day before, at
a roundta b 1 e
briefing for
visiting Amer
ican newsmen
an official had
remarked:
"Once Co
lombia's sec
ond export next to coffee was
violence."
Although driven deep into
the mountains now, violence
by murderous small bands still
is a Droblem.
Colombians blame only
themselves for these bands of
murderous men who swoop
down on small villages or
lonely vehicles and seldom
leave their victims alive to
tell of the attack.
The violence occurs mostly
in the coffee-growing districts
and officials lay it to Colom
bia's massive health and edu
cation problem as well as to
the writer, although under
closer family relationship.
One important thing most
families must consider is the
family budget. We find square
dancing very inexpensive,
compared to other family en
tertainment. We would like to see the
young and old alike enjoying
this wholesome family enter
tainment. Bea and Willis Morrison,
White City; and Betty and
Elbert Hefley, Dot and
Duane Lemon, Jean and
Jim Martinson, all Eagle
Point, Ore.
The Lost Is Foundll
To the Editor: Please
straighten out something of an
empty error, will you?
Last year you publisned a
drawing of the proposed Med
ford Motel with the west line
shown as Oakdale ave. Re
cently you outlined the start
of construction, and again
placed the west line on Oak-
dale, thus wiping out four bus
inesses located on Mr. Huson's
property.
Pruett's Lunch, Boyer &
Holmes, Gatter's Insurance
and Lady Medford Beauty Sa
lon vanished without a trace!
Perhaps our neighbors were
not embarrassed, but Lady
Medford has had to go back
into the "Lost and Found to
reassure our clientele that,
while lost by thev M-T, we
have been found, right at 32
North Oakdale, along with our
good neighbors!
You have done us a great
disservice, sir, and right on
the front page!
Lady Medford Beauty
Salon,
32 North Oakdale ave.
Medford.
Stamp for Robert Burns
To the Editor: The follow
ing verses, together with a
Burns 'stamp,' were sent to
the American P o s t m a ster
General, and due to this, the
United States Postal depart
ment has added the name of
Robert Burns to its list of
candidates who are to be con
sidered for inclusion in their
stamp issue 'Champions of
Liberty.'
The British Empire wadna
prent
A stamp tae to be his mon
ument; It didna rate' him worth a
cent
Or farthin' bit;
Although his poems repre
sent The best o' it!
But noo TU tell ye o' a
plan
Tae circumvent this foolish
ban
An' thwart "the best-laid
schemes o' man"
Tae skelp our doups;
I'll sen' his portrait owre
the lan'
On envelopes!
Postscript to the American
Postmaster General:
Since Burns was Poet o' the
free
An' loved the Land o'
Liberty
Americans should heed my
plea
An' prent a stamp
Tae honour him, for surely
he
Was Freedom's champ!
Wallace G. Kerr
105 Scollard St..
Toronto 5, Ontario,
Canada
P S. Upon receipt of a self-
addressed and stamped en
velope. I will affix a 'Burns
Stamp.' which I have had
printed, and send it on its
way. Admirers of Burns are
enthusiastic about the stamp.
A Scottish friend would wel
come a gift of a letter mailed
with such a stamp.
Crime Investigation
To the Editor: The other
day our phone rang. Just for
few!
Poverty Still Plague Colombia
it. ...iaanronrl use was I of numerous eastminti
land reform. No other industry
in Colombia is as much a
family affair as the raising of
coffee.
Profit Vanishes
A family may live for two
or three generations on a sin
gle plot but the profit van
ishes as it is subdivided
among the sons. Finally,
seven to ten persons may take
an improverlshed living from
as little as seven acres. These
are the families hit the hard
est by falling coffee prices.
Today, their income is less
than ?1 per day and debts
continue to mount.
The younger sons, illiterate
and incapable of holding an
other job, may turn to the
roving gangs, most of whose
members are under 20 years
of age.
A further complication is
alcoholism. The liquor indus
try is a state monopoly here
Wilson Speculates on Kennedy
Program
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - IUPD - Putting
two and two together you get
some idea of what President
Kennedy has
in mind re
garding taxa
tion. For exam
ple, the Dem
ocratic p 1 a t
form said:
"We will
close the loop
holes in the
Wilson luA i o w a ujr
which certain privileged
groups legally escape their
fair share of taxation."
In his second news confer
ence, Kennedy said:
We will suggest to Con
gress a source of revenue with
every program for new spend
ing." The AFL-CIO research de-
partment is out now with its
Washington Report-
By WILLIAM
THE "COMER"
Washington - Every cabinet
eventually develops a "strong
man." who by some seemingly
ine v 1 1 a b 1 e
process be
comes the big,
clear voice
next to that
of the Presi
dent himself.
The Ken
nedy cabinet
is already
turn ing up
such a mus
White
cular figure, very early in the
game though it is.
Much less than a month in
office, Robert S. McNamara,
the new secretary ot defense,
is not only comfortably astride
the vast Pentagon. He is also
-by that word-of-mouth report
which informs the Washing
ton world outside the cabinet
room - being identified as
"the comer in the Kennedy
outfit."
He is the first of the new
cabinet to take a public step
of the first magnitude. This
is his urgent plan to build up
our troop air transport so that
by July - rather than four
years later - jet troop carriers
will be available to hujl our
infantry upon any brush-fire
war anywhere.
BUT previously he had taken
important private steps,
too, which established in a
matter of day two points other
defense secretaries had not al
ways been able to establish in
years. One was that the civil
authority - McNamara's - was
to be unarguably final at the
Pentagon. The other was that
the general and admirals were
to stop disagreeing in public
with the high policies laid
down by their constitutional
superiors, the civil authority.
And McNamara in a cabinet
meeting is described as "some
thing to see." One source puts
it this way: "You watch that
young fellow (44) only a little
while and you no longer won
der how he got to be presi
dent of the Ford Motor com
pany." An unimpressive figure, his
gold-rimmed glasses glitter
ing, his hair slicked back in
the fashion of 30 years ago,
he looks rather like a small
town insurance agent. But he
stirs an impression, indeed,
by the quality of the pleasant
ly firm, cool decisions he
makes for the President's ap
proval and for the somewhat
amazed attention of his cabi
net colleagues.
HIS power of concise ex
pression is described - by
people who know something
about expression-as unmatch
ed in a cabinet which, after
a joke I picked up the re
ceiver and I said, "One man
crime investigation headquar
ters," and lo and behold, who
do you think was on the other
end of the line?
None other than the "one
woman crime investigating
committee," Mrs. Ann Todd.
Leo J. Townscnd
Route 1, Box 620
Eagle Point, Ore.
i
and its widespread use was
encouraged by tne govern
ment, a situation which now
is being reversed.
Contributing also to Colom
bian violence was the political
war which raged at its peak
for five years between con
servatives and liberals begin
ning In 1948. A fast gun be
came the order of the day.
It began with the assassination
of a Colombian labor leader
on April 9, 1948, in disturb
ances in which Fidel Castro
is supposed to have had a
hand. "
With political warfare large
ly eliminated, the problems
of health and illiteracy re
main. 1
In Colombia it is estimated
that 60 out of every 100 chil
dren will die before they
reach the age of ten years.
Death may come from small
pox, tuberculosis or any one
For Added
own estimate of how much
new revenue the 'lreasury
would obtain by means of tax
reform to eliminate loopholes.
Big Labor estimates the ad
ditional revenue at $18 bil
lion. These loopholes, Big La
bor contends, are, in fact,
special privileges.
Oil Allowance Rapped
Organized labor wants tax
reform in the rate areas where
business, industry and capital
are most acutely interested.
Big Labor takes dead aim on
the oil industry's 27V4 per
cent tax depletion allowance,
and lower allowances enjoyed
by other extractive industries.
The AFL-CIO News tags ex
cessive depletion allowances
to the oil and mining indus
tries the most flagrant among
all revenue law special priv
ileges. It is significant, how
ever, that Big Labor does not
propose outright repeal of the
S. WHITE
all, has ,some other pretty
articulate men.
The least "political" and
far the least - known of the
cabinet when he came into it,
he is rapidly becoming the
best known of all. Already,
his unpartisan, undoctrinaire
attitude is serving him well,
at the Capitol as in the ad
ministration. As secretary of defense, he
must deal in Congress with
the two least-partisan commit
tees it has, those on military
affairs. And, as it happens,
both these committees are
headed by conservative Demo
crats who will not be happy
with , every aspect of Mr.
Kennedy's New Frontier but
are still very happy that an
old frontier, national defense,
is in the hands of McNamara's
band.
Now, to repeat, he is "not
a politician." But in one of
the central political skills, the
handling of men, he may be
more of a politician than he
looks. ' For one of his first
acts was to relieve an embar
rassment of the chairmen of
these two powerful Congres
sional committees, Sen. Rich
ard Russell and Rep. Carl
Vinson, both of Georgia.
TT HAD been incorrectly re
A ported that Russell and Vin
son, both highly reserved and
highly correct old - school
southern gentlemen, had been
"pressuring" President Ken
nedy to appoint the Georgia
governor, Ernest Vandivcr, to
a Pentagon post. McNamara
picked up his hat, went to the
Capitol, and told Russell and
Vinson he would be glad pub
licly to affirm that this was
untrue.
They declined his offer,
with thanks. But the fact he
made it didn't exactly do him
any harm anywhere in Con
gress. (Copyright. 1961. by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Try and Stop Me
; By BENNETT CERF
TTOW OLD, inquires Cleveland's Bill Feather, is the story
,a Passenger in the crowded washroom of a Pullman
car who picked up a toothbrush and began brushing. An
indignant fellow-passenger,
suspenders danelini
yanked the brush away
and hollered, "Confound
it, that's mine!" "Sorry,"
apologized the appropria
tor. "I thought it be
longed to the railroad."
Well, it's pretty old,
Bill, but it's still funny!
An inebriated gentleman
found his way into a bar
with three entrances. He
staggered into the first door
and the bartender refused
to serve him. He left in .
thTsaT. MeV,r m'mber Confronted once more by
Iv Z b" bartend. drunk asked indignantly,
Say. do you own every Moon in this town?"
C 1961. by B,nrt, cerf. Distributed b,- Kin Fw.ure. Syndlc.t.
of numerous gastrointestinal
ailments brought on by poor
sanitation.
More than half of Colom
bia's population is illiterate.
In education and health, as in
its industrialization program.
Colombia is a nation in a
hurry. ' .
Twenty per cent of Colom
bia's public income now is
being set aside for schools.
Special emphasis is being laid
on vocational training and
upon local conditions.
Physicians are being train
ed with special knowledge of
the communities they will
serve.
With United States help and
advice new roads are being
built to open up rich new
land. The Rockefeller Founda
tion and other groups are aid
ing the education program. Co
lombians are grateful for this
help. They hope to have more.
Revenues
entire depletion allowance but
only that portion of the al
lowance deemed to be exces
sive. "The effect of these special
exclusions and deductions,"
says the current AFL-CIO
News, "both as to individual
and corporate taxes, is to
treat income differently ac
cording to its source. That is,
income from wages is taxed
at one rate, income from divi
dends at another and income
from oil wells at still another.
"The special treatment for
capital gains, the special tax
credit for dividend income,
the continuing existence of
tax-exempt interest are but a
few examples," the depart
ment of research said In ciling
tax situations Big Labor de
sires changed.
Platform Promises
These tax objectives of or
ganized labor fall generally
within the pattern of the Dem
ocratic platform to which the
Kennedy . administration is
committed without any quali
fications whatever. The lan
guage may vary but the mean
ing and intent are the same.
Where labor demands repeal
of excessive depletion allow
ances, the platform promises
repeal of allowances which
are inequitable. Neither is a
proposal for outright repeal.
In short, labor and the Ken
nedy administration dcfintelv
seek or are committed to re
duce depletion allowances but
not necessarily to repeal them
This somewhat fine distinc
tion was not much emphasized
when the party platform was
presented to the Democratic
Convention last July. Some
left wing elements of the
Democratic Party may be ex
pected to resist any interpre
tation of the platform to limit
the pledge to mere reduction
of depletion allowance repeal.
This may lead to a consid
erable hassle within the Dem
ocratic Party when the time
comes if it, ever does to
make good on that part of the
Democratic platform. Ameri
cans for Democratic Action,
tr- example, would be expect
ed to protest.
Either way, business, indus
try and capital stand to pay
the tab.
National Committee
For Arts Proposed
Washington -IUPII- Rep. Car
roll D. Keams (R-Pa.) has pro
posed a National Committee
for the Arts with Mrs. Jacque
line Kennedy and former
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower as honorary co-chair
men.
Kearns made public Tues
day a letter to the new First
Lady asking if she would be
willing to be honorary head of
a bipartisan committee to
work for cultural legislation.
Kearns said he was confi
dent the committee could be
organized quickly if she
agreed to serve. He said gov
ernors, civic and cultural lead
ers in all states would be glad
to join.
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