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i o Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Tl TRS. SMITH just loved spiritualists, and usually dragged 111 her young daughter Rosie in with her when she spotted a new one. On the boardwalk of Atlantic City she dis covered a spiritualist who rashly accepted Rosie's challenge, "I wanna talk to my Uncle Harold." A light flashed, a gong sounded, and a sepulchral voice announced, "Hello, Rosie, I'm your Uncle Harold." "Uncle Harold," cried Rosie. "What are you do ing up in heaven? You ain't dead yet!" Morey Amsterdam tells about a daring vaudevilllan - who made a living by div ing from the top of 'the Empire State building into a plate of chicken soup. One dive just about ended his career. A careless assistant left a matzoth ball in the soup I Sign outside a brand-new Chinese-American eatery: "We chou cur own suey." v D 1961. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feture Syndlctt Nominations Are Made for Officers George B. Robards was nominated for commander of White City Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a meeting at the Veterans Administra tion domiciliary, White City, last Week. Robards is a former city clerk of Alexandria, Minn., and a former employee of the U.S. Army's Corps of En gineers in Oregon. Other nominations included John C. Walker, senior vice commander, and Jim Gillan, junior vice commander. Eu gene Barnett was nominated for chaplain, a post he now holds. The meeting also welcomed VFW District 7, department of Oregon, Comdr. George Connell, Gold Hill. He was accompanied by District In spector Glen Hutchinson, Rogue River. Refreshments served by the Ashland auxiliary included home made cakes and coffee. Mrs. Edna Laffcrty, chairman of the auxiliary's hospital committee, was assisted by Mrs. Ida Crosslin, Mrs. Eve lyn Pcabody and Mrs. Velma Conklin. Entertainment for the meet ing, provided by the auxil iary, VFW, Ashland, includ ed a guitar trio headed up by Jim Conklin, commander of VFW Post, Ashland, and Mr. 2 Days 3SEI3IE j I and Mrs. Duke Prothiet, Ash land. The March meeting of the While City veterans will elect officers for the coming year. Installation of officers will follow in April with stale VFW officials attending. Local Dog Owner Takes Top Honors Top honors at the dog show sponsored by the Chintimini Kennel club in Corvallis re cently went to Alpha Gay Dusky Dinah, a Shetland sheepdog, owned by Margret E. Jones, Medford, it was re ported last week. "Dinah" was selected as the best female in her breed and received her first major points toward a championship, Mrs. Jones said. Other dog owners from the Medford area who had en tries in the Corvallis show and a show in Roseburg the day before include Mrs. Leon ard Nelson, Mrs. George Stacey and May Brown. Mrs. Nelson entered her collie, Kay-Nels Keller, CD.: Mrs. Stacey a collie, Har- brook's Rob Roy; and May Brown, a Shetland sheepdog Alpha Tobin O'Tad, CD. Only! MONDAY AND TUESDAY! 'Mm MEDFORD Join Now, Go Later Plan Listed by Corps A join now, go later pro gram has been started by the U. S. Marine Corps, the local recruiting office has an nounced. Under the program men be tween 17 and 28 years of age may enlist now and return home to complete their educa tion or employment. About 120 days from the enlistment date, a recruit is called to ac tive duty or he may go on any date within that period. Additional information about the program may be obtained by calling SPring 2-9128 or visiting the Marine Corps re cruiter in the Medford post office building. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: President Kennedy warned Russia against any attempt to ntervene unilaterally (meaning intervention by Rus sia alone) in the Congo. He said it was the duty of the United States AND OTHER UNITED NATIONS MEM BERS to oppose any such in tervention. The President, opening his Wednesday news conference with a statement on the Congo crisis, did not specifically name Russia, but said he was seriously concerned at what "appears to be a threat of uni lateral intervention." The President also de plored any attempt to "de stroy" the United Nations again an evident reference to Russia's demand Tuesday for withdrawal of United Na tions forces from the Congo and for ouster of Dag Ham marskjold as U. N. secretary general." N EFFECT, President Ken nedy seemed to be saying to Premier Khrushchev: "Keep your hands off the Congo. It will be the duly of the United States as a United Nations member to oppose any attempt (on your part) at (military) intervention there. OFFICIALS in Washington " exDlain that President Kennedy is relying on small nation defense of the U.N. to preserve the Congo operation and help to discourage Khru shchev from trying to force through Soviet demands and threats. He is said to be hope ful that a serious East-West conflict over the Congo (with its resulting dangers of war) can be averted. Open SP mm MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Matter of Fact THE KENNEDY TEMPO Washington-The difference in tempo between the hus tling Kennedy administra tion and the Viang uid, all uongr ess is fSjV: c a u s i n g de m served com- n ?! mcnt. Events, T3W such as a i to, na tional crisis arising from Aisop the grim Con go problem, may yet wake up the Congress and spur it into action on all fronts. But as of now, this difference is an important political fact. As an interesting sidelight, India's Nehru has made the statement that if the United Nations operation in the Con go becomes effective, he will send Indian combat troops there. That is quie a departure from Nehru's long-established policy of neutrality. WHAT will come of it? " Time will tell. Much will depend on how other Western nations and the so called "neutral" nations re spond to Mr. Kennedy's bold challenge. rkNE thing is certain the v' Congo is a mess. Why? There are many answers. Perhaps the answer closest to the truth is that in this stra tegic mid-African region many nations (if they can be called that) were turned loose from their former colonial masters with very, little (if any) preparation for inde pendence, self-government and liberty to do as they please. All the news that has come from the Congo seems to back up that conclusion. The native tribes that have been turned loose more or less on their own have had no training in the responsibilities of self-government. In some of them can nibalism is still practiced. In much of the area, the popula tion is very little removed from raw savagery. 1M1AT brings up an inlercst- ing point. Of the great colonial em pire s, only the British seem to have done even a fair job of preparation of the people of their colonies for the diffi cult job of self-government. -at i-1 ma v i mfrm GflM asses 501 EAST JACKSON Monday It Friday 'Til 9 p.m. 3 - 6661 FREE PARKING By Joseph Alsop Interesting enough, the fact was foreseen and allowed for by President Kennedy, who is both intuitive and highly pragmatic. He well knew that the mood of the Congress would be the mood of the country, which listened to his warnings and Vice President Nixon's smooth reassurances and then divided almost ex actly equally. He knew fur ther that the mood of the Congress would only change when the country's mood had changed. Long before he took the oath of office, therefore, he abandoned the classic Presi dential strategy of the first hundred days-the strategy of trying to get as many big things done as possible in the early, honeymoon period in the White House. He adopted instead a longer-range strat egy without any real pre cedent in the annals of the active American Presidents. AS A RESULT, 1961 is be ing treated as the year of the legislative washing list. The rather numerous meas ures to which Kennedy has long been committed, such as medical care for the aged and aid to education, are to be got through Congress if possible. The way has largely been cleared for them by the recapture of the House Rules Committee. If they pass this session in fairly satisfactorv form, the session will be con sidered a success. But the year of the washlne list will not be considered a success unless something else is aiso acmevea. Beeinmne with bis inaugural address. the new President has been urging all the gigantic educa tional powers of his office to alter the mood of the coun try. That, really, is the pri mary aim this year. If the national mood is changed as Kennedy hopes, me ioi congressional ses sion will be remembered for the big, innovating measures sponsored by the new Admin istration. rpHE existence of this Inlcr- - esting strategy may be de duced from several siens, among which the status of tax reform as probably the most striking. To begin with, Pres ident Kennedy's intention to undertake a radical reform of the tax system is clearly re vealed by the appointments he has made in this policy area. The new Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Morti mer Caplin, the nominee for the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of tax matters, Stanley Surrey, and the chairman of the Presi dents Council of Economic Advisers, Waller Heller, are all men known for their ad vocacy of radical tax reform. All three of these men, to gether with the able chair man of Ihe house -ways and means committee, Rep. Wil bur Mills, have repeatedly made the same points about the tax system. These may be summarized as follows: First, the existing schedule of income tax rates is wholly unrealistic, because of Ihe simultaneous existence of an immense variety of tax-shelters. These are so numerous that incomes in the highest bracket, supposedly liable to 91 per cent taxation, are in fact paying only 48 per cent. Second, the existence of these tax shelters is in turn deforming the whole Amer ican economy, because the in vestment policies of both cor porations and individuals are so largely influence by the search for tax shelters. This deformation inhibits eco nomic growth. THIRD, if all the lax shelters were eliminated at a stroke, the income-tax-yield would be increased by a third or more. The increase in yield will still reach about 20 per cent, even after retention of socially desirable tax-shelter ing features like the income tax credits for donations to charity and for interest pay-1 ments on private house-mortgages up to a reasonable sum. Therefore it is possible to destroy most of the tax-shel ters, including such sacro-1 sanct ones as the oil-depletion allowance and the tax ex emption for state and munici pal bonds; to offer in rcturrn a 20 per cent across-the-board cut in everyone's income tax i rate; and to maintain rev-j enues at the present level. ! The kind of lobbyists' hor-j nets' nest that this will stir up, if it is attempted, can be loo easily imagined. But if the President presents the tax reform as an omnibus bill, on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, Ihe dilemma of the Congress will be painful in deed. Either the howls of the: tax-sheltered will have to be ignored or the broad tax-pay- i ing masses will have to be denied substantially 1 o w e r I rates. ! Something of this sort is; very likely to be attempted, i If many such attempts are i made, the 1982 Congressional session will be far from som nolent. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. The first world's (air to be held in the United States was . In Njw York in 1853. 1 SGD Speaker Listed By Local Elks Club Dr. Kenneth II. Baker, vice president in charge of re search and market develop ment for the California-Oregon television company, will be the featured speaker at the 13th annual Student Gov ernment Day banquet at Hed rick Junior High school, Thursday, Feb. 23. The banquet, starting at 8 p.m., is the climax of Student Government Day which is sponsored by the Medford Elks lodge for high school students studying local gov ernment. Dr. Baker received his doc torate in general and social psychology from Ohio State university in 1934. During his career he has been assistant or associate professor at Northwestern university, Ohio State university and the Uni versity of Minnesota. Title of Address The title of his address Thursday night is: "Some Do and Some Don't." The schedule for Student Government Day Thursday begins at 8 a.m., when stu dents holding city and county offices will register and at tend swearing-in ceremonies. 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Tbose elected to serve from Phoenix High school are Sheriff Gerald Sloper; Con stable James Tompkins; County Assessor Barbara Gysin; and County Surveyor Karen Mocabce. Appointive offices selected by a committee of teachers are Tax Deputy Sheriff Gene Holt; Assistant Juvenile Of ficer Frances Kievet; County Agent Ernie Bolz, Water master Bill Oldham; Superin tendent of 4H Boys Mike Consbruck; and Supervisor of Nursing Virginia Johnson John Kuchlcr, American Problems and German instruc tor, acted as adviser for the election. Kuchlcr appointed election committee members which consisted of Barbara Gysin, chairman; Karen Mo cabce, James Tompkins and Gene Holt. A regular polling place was designated to comply with election standards. Posters and campaign speeches wore presented during election week. Student officers are sched uled to take the oath of of fice in the court house audi torium, and then fill their SHAMPOO .69 HUDNUT," .69 1 -1 .SILVER limvmMM,WMiMUilihWigsaS SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1961 spective offices. I A banquet will be held at Hedrick junior High for stu dents and their parents, Feb-1 A Volkswagen, obviously. It's easy to spot o VW. It's the one that keeps moving through the snow. A VW will go up icy hills when other cars won't go at all. The engine is in back, where it gives the rear wheels much better traction. And because the VW engine is cooled with air, not water, there's no need for anti-freeze. No chance of the block cracking. (No boiling over in summer.) No draining. No flushing. No rust. You can park a VW outdoors in sub-zero weather and it's ready to roll as soon as you turn Ihe key. If there isn't any ice and snow around when you try a VW, don't think you can't judge Ihe car's extraordinary abilities. Just come in and take a VW for a run. Through some sand or mud. 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