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ROTC QUEEN Sandra Newbrough, 19, sophomore from
Highland Park, 111., is the 1961 Air Force ROTC queen at
Southern Illinois University. Miss Newbrough was selected
by ballot of the 2,200 men in the detachment. The queen will
preside over all AFROTC functions for the coming year.
(UPI Telephoto)
OF SMITH & MEN
Bv Jack Smith
I960 Tlmei-Mlrror Syndicate
I've read somewhere that
people are reading more than
ever. I myself have been read
ing so much, trying to keep
up, that I can never remember
where it was I read a partic
ular thing.
Consequently, I'm always
popping up in conversation
with a fact I can't readily
document. People don't be
lieve me.
"I was reading," I'll say,
for example, "that the 21st
year of marriage is the most
critical for Englishwomen."
"Where'd you read that?"
I am asked. -
"In the paper," I say. "No.
Not the paper. I believe It was
Newsweek. No. The London
Economist? Collier's? Play
boy? The Complete Short Sto
ries of Somerset Maugham?"
This thin performance, of
course, Is met with skepticism
if not pity.
The larger my supply of
information, the harder it is
to match any one item with
its source in the mass of ma
terial I've scanned.
Lately I've been snipping
things out of the papers and
magazines and keeping them
in a drawer. This way, when
ever I find occasion to slip
some tidbit of learning into
Fight Shaping Over
Financing Benefits
Washington - (UPD - A fight
appears to be shaping up in
Congress today over who
would have to pay for Presi
dent Kennedy's proposal to
extend the duration of jobless
benefits.
Many lawmakers seemed to
take it for granted that Con
gress would provide the extra
unemployment compensation.
The big question was wheth
er it would be financed by
higher taxes on employers
throughout the country, as
Kennedy proposed, or wheth
er the cost would be imposed
only on employers in states
which decide to provide the
extended benefits.
Strong support for Ken
nedy's proposal was antici
pated from lawmakers from
states such as Michigan and
Pennsylvania which have
been hard hit by unemploy
ment. Rut It was runnine into op-
nnciilnn from conservative
lawmakers who feared that
the federal tax proposed by
Kennedy would lead ultimate
ly to what organized laDor
wants - "federalization" o f
the unemployment compensa
tion program.
a conversation, I can back
it up!
I was grateful for this new
plan just the other evening
at the Daltons'. Somehow the
dinner t a l,k got around to
courtship techniques among
the warm-blooded vertebrates.
'Observation of the chukar
partridge," I said, "has shown
that the female often spurns
the aggressive male, prefer
ring to share her life with
more the refined-type bird."
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"Were'd you hear that?"
Dalton said. He happens to
be a classic example of the
rough-hewn, overtly aggres
sive male.
"It's the sort of thing one
hears," I said. "I read it."
'IWhere'd you read it?" he
said. He knew of my usual
trouble and fancied he had me
in a trap.
'I read it in my drawer,"
I said. "I mean I read it some
where that I cut out. With
scissors. It's in my drawer."
His eyes glazed over with
doubt. My wife rushed to my
aid.
'You read it out loud to
me the other night," she said.
"Remember? Only you don't
have it right. It was the other
way. It said the female part
ridge .was the aggressive sex.
It was in the Ladies Home
Journal."
"Don't be naive," I said.
"It couldn't be the female
that's more aggressive. That's
only among the higher pri
mates, where females have
control of the money."
"All the same," she said,
"it was in the Journal. Or
else The New Yorker."
"Speaking of birds," Dalton
said, "guess what the only
bird is who can climb down
a tree head first."
"The bronze grackle?" I
guessed.
"Wrong," said Dalton. "The
white-breasted nuthatch."
"Where'd you read that?"
I asked. I thought he was mak
ing it up.
"I didn't read it anywhere,"
he said. "I saw one do it once
in Wisconsin."
That's Dalt's trouble. He al
ways falls back on personal
experience. He doesn t under
stand the academic mind.
I still haven't found the
clipping about the partridges,
Maybe I didn't cut it out at
all. Maybe it was on TV.
I don't think The New York
er would have an item like
that unless it had a typograph
ical error that made it humorous.
Maybe it was in U. S. News
and World Report.
State Legislature
Gives Approval
To Several Bills
Salem (UPD Measures ap
proved Tuesday:
By the Senate
SB17 - Highway Interim
Committee; relating to motor
carriers.
. SB18 - Highway Interim
Committee; relating to motor
carriers.
SB19 - Highway Interim
Committee; relating to motor
carrier permits.
SB20 - Highway Interim
Committee; relating to motor
carriers.
SB129 - Elections Division;
relating to return sheets.
SJR9 - Sen. Mahoney; di
recting welfare commission
to take advantage of federal
food surplus program.
HB2004 - Ways and Means;
Oregon museum of science
and industry budget.
HJR5 - Rep. Hunt and Sen.
Lewis; constitutional amend
ment relating to the state
militia.
By the House
HB2016 - Ways and Means;
state soil conservation com
mittee budget.
HR2023 - Ways and Means;
Oregon state board of aero
nautics budget.
HB2035 - Ways and Means;
chiropodists examining board
budget.
HB2051 - Ways and Means;
board of pilot commissioners
budget;
HB1139 - Rep. Rogers: ap
portionment of certain money
to new school districts.
HB1174 - Rep. Elliott and
others; relating to banks and
to results of Saturday closing.
HB1197 - Oregon Cattle
men's association and Western
Oregon Livestock association;
relating to livestock.
SJM3 - Sen. Hopkins and
others; asking federal investi
gation of an import quota for
fine fescue seed.
Boshears Named
Young GOP Head
Medford Young Republicans
elected Gary Boshears as
chairman to succeed outgoing
chairman Ann Bishop at a re
cent meeting.
Other officers elected in
clude Douglas Philips, vice
chairman; Marilyn Hamlin
secretary; Bob Wilcox, treas
urer, and Ann Bishop, board
of directors. .
Before leaving office, Mrs,
Bishop read a letter received
from Richard Nixon. "We
shall never forget the devoted
and selfless effort of those
who worked so hard for our
cause during the campaign,"
Nixon said.
"I have been encouraged
by the fact that in the great
amount of mail I have receiv
ed since the election, I have
very little evidence of dis
couragement or defeat ism
among those who supported us
in the campaign," Nixon continued.
'I sense a renewed deter
mination to continue the fight
for the principles for which
we stand," Nixon concluded.
The meeting was attended
by 21 people. Discussions in
cluded possible fund raising
events and how club mem
bership could be increased. A
suggestion that the club have
informative programs on gen
eral interest topics was made.
Members were urged to at
tend a five-state Young Re
publicans meeting in Eugene
March 3, 4 and 5.
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European Auto Industry Feels
Pinch in U.S. Small Car Field
London- (UPD -"Things defi
nitely are not what they used
to be, old boy."
That comment, from a Brit
ish executive, accurately
spells out how European auto
makers-particulorly the Brit
ish and the French-view the
American market now that
Detroit has invaded the small
car field once dominated by
foreign manufacturers.
Some European car export
ers privately admit that the
U.S. compacts have, surpris
ingly, developed into much
stronger competition than was
originally believed likely
here.
Even so, those who have
suffered a heavy sales drop
in the latter half of 1960 still
don't pin the blame wholly
on compacts.
They point also to the
downturn in the U.S. econ
omy and the one-million
American auto stockpile from
last year.
Working Part Time
Today the British auto in
dustry, spearhead of the na
tion's dollar earners is work
ing at only about 40 per cent
of capacity and the bulk of
its labor force is working part
time.
Sports cars are still expect
ed to maintain a strong de
mand in America. The Rootes
group is pinning its sales
hopes on the new Sunbeam
Alpine and Jaguar is even
anticipating an increased out
put. Board of Trade statistics
show total exports of British
autos to the United States in
dipped from 208,108 in
1959 to 131,805 last year.
While official figures are
still awaited from Paris,
French auto industry sources
said they, too, fell far short
of their U.S. sales expectations
in 1960.
France's target for car ex
ports to America last year
was 225,000 units. But only
90,000 autos were reported
sold in the United States.
Volkswagen Confident
For example, the state-owned
Renault concern shipped
110,196 units to America in
1959 and had hoped to in
crease its total to 150,000 In
Pacific Northwest
Stumpage Prices
Revised Downward
Portland-Forest Service ap
praised stumpage prices in the
Pacific Northwest have again
been revised downward, ac
cording to W. H. Lund, assist
ant regional forester in
charge of timber manage
ment. Other reductions in ap
praised prices for short-term
salvage sales were made in
September and November of
1960.
The current price reduc
tion, the third since the mar
ket high of September 1959,
was effective Jan. 27 west of
the Cascades and applies to
new sales of live saw timber.
In the pine region, east of the
Cascades, lower appraised
prices became effective Feb.
1. This' reduction in the pine
region also applies to sales of
live timber and is the fourth
price reduction during the
year 1960-61 for that area.
Diminished Receipts
"The continued low level of
the lumber and plywood mar
kets, which has contributed
to the downward revision in
stumpage prices," Lund said,
"also caused diminished na
tional forest timber receipts
during -I960. Value of the
1960 timber harvest was $73
million contrasted to an $86
million value in 1959.
'We are hopeful," Lund
continued, "that 1961 will
prove to be a good year for
the wood products industry.
A healthy wood products in
dustry is highly important to
the economy of Oregon and
Washington. Any decrease in
timber revenues from the na
tional forests is reflected in
county revenues for sctjool
ana road funds." counties in
Ashland's Leading Funeral Director Since 1935
Swiss Citizens
Accused of Spying
Bern, Switzerland -(UPD-The
Swiss government has an
nounced the arrest of two
Swiss citizens on charges of
spying on Switzerland and
"foreign powers for an or
ganization operating from
Communist East Germany.
The two were collecting
"intelligence on rocket pro
duction and electronic equip
ment used to observe Swiss
air space", a government
spokesman said.
The spokesman refused to
reveal the Identity of the two
Swiss or give details of the
time of their arrest. There
was speculation that today's
arrests might be connected
with last month's arrests of
three alleged Czech spies.
CP Student Named
To SOC Position
Ashland-Neil Green, a jun
ior from Central Point, has
been elected second student
body president at Southern
Oregon college. In addition to
being active in athletics, he is
also the president of the Britt
Board, which manages the stu
dent center.
Marjorie Pittam, North
Bend, who is active on the
rally squad and in other stu
dent organizations, was elect
ed freshman class secretary.
iThe position of senior class
treasurer was filled by Dave
Stratton of Butte Falls.
1960. But instead it was able
to market only 60,000, accord
ing to figures available here.
In Germany the picture was
different. Volkswagen, as us
ual, exuded confidence. A
spokesman said the advent of
American compacts had not
affected their U.S. sales.
In 1960, he said, exports
to America were 180,000 units
as .against 150,000 the pre
vious year. "In 1961 we hope
to reach the 200,000 mark,"
he added. .
From Rome statistics show
ed Italian exports to Amer
ica slumped from 48,194 in
1959 to only 16,253 last year.
But i n d u st r y spokesmen
could not define how much
of the loss was due directly
to the U.S. "compacts.
The Swedish Volvo com
pany's U.S. sales were clip
ped in half-from 15,000 in
1959 to 7,000 last year-bit
sales wore reported increas
ing again as the year-end re
ports were tallied.
Education Program
Offered Brokers
The first class in the certifi
cate program offered real
estate brokers and salesmen
will be held at Hedrick Junior
high school Tuesday, Feb. 14,
beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Lecturer will be Robert
Beardsley, Roseburg, secre
tary of the Douglas County
Title company. His topic will
be "Care in Transfers of In
terests in Real Property." He
will be assisted by William J.
Peek, president of the South
ern Oregon Title company.
The certificate education
program is conducted without
charge by the Oregon real
estate department and the
school of business administra
tion, University of Oregon. A
recent orientation class at
both Medford and Ashland
provided registration for the
16-subject course for Jackson
county brokers and salesmen.
William Frohnmayer, Med
ford, who represents the spon
sors, said the certificate pro
gram is attracting nationwide
attention among license law
officials.
Screams Said Heard
At Cascade Locks
Revive Martin Hunt
Portland - (UPD - A report
that screams were heard at
Cascade Locks the evening the
Ken Martin family of Port
land vanished Dec. 7, 1958,
has revived Interest in the
disappearance.
Martin, his wife, and three
daughters vanished while on
an outing to gather Christmas
greens. Bodies of two of the
daughters, Virginia and Su
san, were found later in the
Columbia river.
Writer Heard Screami
The Oregon Journal said it
got a letter Tuesday from a
Camas, Wash., resident who
was parked with a companion
at Cascade Locks that evening.
The letter said they saw a
car proceed under railroad
tracks leading to the old river
locks. Moments later, the writ
er said, they heard screams,
went to investigate and found
nothing. After learning of the
Martin family's disappear
ance, they reported it to au
thorities. Sheriff Rupert Gillmouthe
of Hood River county said the
locks had been checked with
divers and metal detectors
without finding the Martin
car. But he said he felt there
was a possibility the car went
into the water at that point.
Deep Pools Searched
The Journal also said search
of deep pools just west of
The Dalles at a point where
car tracks Indicated a vehicle
might have gone into the riv
er had been initiated by it and
Commercial Divers Inc. a
week ago. It said the search
would be continued until it
was definite the Martin car
was not there.
NO VETO POWER
Governors of North Caro
lina exercise no veto power.
which there are national for
est lands receive 25 per cent
of the receipts from forest re
sources. "We feel," Lund said,
"a responsibility to both in
dustry and the participating
Washington and Oregon coun
ties to see that national forest
timber is offered at its fair
market value.
Follow Price Trend
'Forest Service appraised
stumpage prices follow the
trend of lumber and plywood
prices, but do not fluctuate
as widely," Lund pointed out.
'Purchasers often buy timber
for cutting over a two or three
year period. Bid prices offer
ed for timber usually antici
pate the market at the time of
expected harvest rather than
of today." Lund said "This
frequently results in bid
prices substantially higher
tnan the minimums establish
ed by the Forest Service. The
3,800,000,000 board feet sold
in the! Pacific Northwest in
1960 was purchased at 122
per cent of appraised prices."
EXHIBIT OF PAINTINGS
Ashland - B. Stephen Bay-
less, Southern Oregon college
assistant professor of art and
well known Oregon artist, will
have on exhibit a number of
his paintings and drawings in
the Klamath Falls Art Center
gallery Feb. 11 to 25. Miss
Marion Ady, chairman of the
Southern Oregon college art
department, has announced
The exhibit will be mostly
abstract and semi-abstract art.
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