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Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 New University of Oregon President Has Reputation for Courage, Vigor DAIRY. PRINCESS Miss Bonnie Sue Houghtaling, 1961 American Dairy Princess, of Swan, Iowa, is shown above as she sampled a whipped cream and pear salad and a glass of milk, all southern Oregon products, at a Rotary club luncheon at Rogue Valley Country club last week. "Pouring" is Richard Westerberg, manager of southern Oregon milk producers organ ization. Miss Houghtaling was selected from a field of 30,000 girls who entered the 6th annual contest sponsored by the American Dairy association, and is currently on tour of the United States. Record Amount of Tourist1 Gold Expected To Flow to Britain London - - The bad news for Washington today is that a record amount of' tourist gold is expected to flow from . America into Britain this year. 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The conclusion is that President Kennedy's campaign to protect the dol lar by reversing the flow of tourist traffic across the At lantic may succeed in the long run, but not, in 1961. Busts Polished The metal busts of Shake speare are being polished at Governing Costs Rising Faster Than Living Costs New York-IUPD-The cost of governing is- rising even fas-, ter than the cost of living. Tax Foundation, Inc., a private tax study group, has reported that federal, state and local government spend ing more than doubled be tween 1950 and 1960. Ten years ago, government al spending totaled $70,334 billion. Last year, the figure was $153 billion. And in fis cal 1961, it will be almost $161 billion, the foundation said in its 11th biennial pub lication "Facts and Figures on Government Finance, 1960 61." The federal government laid out 63 per cent of the total, Tax Foundation said. Will Dwarf Figures "If legislators give in to current pressures for huge spending increases at all lev els of government, the result ing tax and expenditure totals will dwarf even the startling figures in this book," said Robert W. French, Tax Found ation president. The book, which covers tax rates, revenues, expenditures and debt at all levels of gov ernment, also said that total tax receipts in 1960 reached a new high of $127 billion. Gross debt at all govern mental levels at the end of fiscal 1960 $356 billion was $75 billion higher than 10 years before. Tax Foundation said total government spending amo t ed to nearly 30 per cent of the gross national product, which it said reached $500 billion a year in the first half of 1960 for the first time in history. Free Breakfast To Benefit Dental Clinic A free breakfast will be served on Saturday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Safeway store , at 699 East Jackson St., in the Medford Shopping center. Donations, however, will be accepted and the money will be turned over to the Medford Kiwanis club-sponsored coun- tywide dental clinic. Merchandise for the menu will be donated by various food firms and Kiwanians pro vide the labor. Kiwaman Paul Mitchell is chairman. The menu will include grapefruit juice, hot cakes with syrup, sausage, and cof fee. Tickets will be on sale also for the annual Kiwanis Ka pers production, "Off the Hook." The show is now be ing rehearsed and will be pre sented on March 8, 9, 10 and 11 at the senior high auditori um. Proceeds from this pro duction will go to Kiwanis philanthropies, largely the dental clinic. expression, a Stratford - Upon-Avon; hotels are checking their hot water systems; chefs are practicing how to cook the roast beef rare; and the word is being passed that a man wearing a ten-gallon hat is not invari ably from Texas because he may be from Oklahoma. Experience has taught the British that of all tourists the Americans are the most ac tive and ask the most ques tions. The terrors of rain. foe. brusseLs sprouts, traffic mov ing on the wrong side of the street or how much to tip when the bill Is two pounds, six, three and a ha-penny cannot stay them from their appointed rounds. The Travel and Holidays association, an official organ ization supported by the gov ernment, is willing - to lay money on the line that 1961 will be a record tourist year. It .has done so by increasing the number of tourist guides who are listed in the official register and are entitled to wear badges. After a period of training 32 candidates were allowed to take the final examination. Sixteen passed, and there now are 384 regis tered guides - 249 men and 135 women. Elementary Facts Scorned It is a stiff examination, scorning such elementary facts as what time do they change, the guard at Buck ingham palace and why, in the middle of a block, does the Strand suddenly become Fleet Street? Some typical questions: Who was Christopher Jones? (Captain of the Mayflower). Who was the British spy hanged by order of George Washington and where is his grave? (Major John Andre. Westminster Abbey). Where can catacombs be seen in London? (Higate cemetery). In whose tomb is Queen Elizabeth I buried? (Queen Mary I). What connection has the Bishopgate institute with flannel petticoats for poor old women? (It was partly built with surplus funds from a 1481 bequest to provide flannel petticoats for p o o t old women). . Where is Pocahontas Jur ied? (St. George's Church of Unity, Gravesend). What is the connection be tween Benjamin Franklin and the Lady Chapel at St. Bar tholomew the Great? (He once worked in a printing I shop there). Approximately how many diamonds' are there in the im perial state crown? (Three thousand). The British are ready any time you are. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - The new president of the Univer sity of Oregon, Arthur S. Flemming, is an administra tive dynamo with a repu tation for courage, vigor and persist ence. "L e t's get things off dead center" is a favorite ccordine to nnv of his former associates dur ing Flemming's service in the cabinet as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. He was a cabinet officer who habitually arrived at his office a half hour before his staff and left an hour or two alter they had all gone home, usually between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening. Satur day was just another hard working day to him. He would call a staff member off the golf course on Saturday afternoon to tell him to be at a Saturday eve ning staff meeting," recalled one of Flemming's associates a nit ruefully. Regarded as Old Pro Flemming is regarded as an old pro in public life, for ho served in various lesser gov ernment positions before reaching the cabinet under President Eisenhower. He is regarded, also, as reasonably non-partisan, having served under Democratic as well as Republican administrations. Before his recent govern ment service, Dr. Flemming served for a decade as presi dent of Ohio Wesleyan, a Methodist college, at Dela ware, Ohio. He was the first layman and the first alum nus of that school to serve as the president. A former associate said he is dedicated to three things -education, church work and government service. Because he is so active as a Methodist layman, one official said: "We thought Sunday would be safe. That's one day we wouldn't have to work. But I recall one Saturday when we didn't finish the problem we were working on, he finally dismissed us and said, 'Let's meet here Sunday at 8 o'clock.' It turned out to be Sunday, night, not Sunday morning." Flemming has no. time for what others regard as suitable hobbies, say golf or fishing. "We usually say the Meth odist church is his hobby," said his wife. Dr. Flemming grew up In a strong Methodist family in Kingston, N.Y., where his father was a lawyer and judge. He neither smokes nor drinks, but he is not "biue nosed" about drinking, as one associate put it. He avoid ed the Washington cocktail party circuit; he can't stand to make small talk; and if he felt obliged to put in an ap pearance at a social function, he might leave shortly after arriving. One associate said articles about Dr. Flemming usually mention that he never swears. That is putting it a bit too strongly. Flemming likes and values good give - and - take sessions with his subordin ates, thrashing out problems, debating differences. When he presents his point of view, his emotions give his presen tation a forceful character. "When he gets pretty work ed up, I've heard him blurt out with 'Gosh,' and he has even been known to have ut tered 'Dam' on rare occas ions," said one official. Those who worked closely with him praised his eager ness to get candid advice - and his ability to take it when they gave it to him. "Some of the hottest dis cussions I've ever experienc ed in government took place in Flemming's office," one veteran official said. "He was never sitting aloof while others debated. He was in the middle of it." Flemming has a faculty for making his associates feel free to express their views with confidence that he val ues what they say, whether they agree with him or not. "Sometimes these discus sions would get acrimonious, emotions would rise, but I never saw him lose his tern- Businesses Would Get Tax Credits In New Package Washington-lUPll-The admin istration is pulling together a tax package which if enact ed would give business more than $1 billion in tax credits, to encourage investment in new production facilities. To recover revenues that would be lost under the pro posal, the Treasury Is giving strong consideration to asking that Congress knock out the present special allowances for income from stock dividends, No Relief Schedule No general program of tax reform or relief Is scheduled for this year by President Kennedy. Officials feel the legislative calendar is too crowded. Accordingly, the White House plans to ask only for what it considers "must" tax legislation. Kennedy already has put stimulation of invest ment in this category,. Administration tax experts lean toward giving business credits for investment rather than allowing more generous tax deductions for . deprecia tion. They said the credit method was more likely to generate extra investment. The amount of tax savings would depend on how much businessmen take advantage of the plan and what limit, if any, the government puts' on it. Treasury tax experts think chances are good it would be worth more than $1 billion a year to industry. per or get angry at another person, he explained. He was regarded as cour ageous because .. he didn't shrink from tough decisions that he knew would not be popular and might be politi cally risky. After one confer ence with Flemming about a very sticky problem in which his subordinates thought he took a courageous decision, a lady of high station in the department left the room say ing quietly .. to ' a colleague: "You know, I just love that man." Public Warning The 1959 cranberry deci sion was one of those tough ones. When the Food and Drug administration, one of the five major agencies under his department, discovered many cranberries were on the market which had been spray ed by a chemical which wasn't thought to be safe, Flemming made a . public warning which provoked na tionwide repercussions that went all the way to the White House and to cabinet meet ings. Although the Secretary of Agriculture was taking the side of the cranberry grow ers, Flemming stuck to his guns. " . 'A series of things like that made him a hero to the people in his department, said one of his admirers. Flemming believes that if you stick at a problem, you can find a way to solve it, at least partially. He is recep tive to new ideas and gener ates new ideas himself. He is practical-minded in trying to implement ideals. When con fronted with a stone wall of opposition, he is stimulated to find ways of climbing over it. When he has made a de cision, he sleeps well and docsn t worry whether it was the right decision. He is al ways willing, to back up and reconsider if it doesn't turn out as well as expected. Dr. Flemming and his wife are both former college pro fessors, both in the field of political science. They both taught at American Univer sity here in Washington years ago. It was then that they met. Mrs. Flemming also served as registrar at Amer ican University, also a Meth odist college. Mrs. Flemming said her husband thoroughly enjoys campus life and feels quite at home in a university atmos phere. The Flemmings have five children, but only the twin boys, both high school sen iors, remain at home. Two girls are married and the third boy is at Ohio State University. Of all the fields he had to cope with in the cabinet, edu cation was the one he felt c 1 o s e si to. His associates thought of him as academic minded but not scholarly, in the sense that he indulged in deep research. "He's got a lot of gray mat ter, and nothing is too com plex for him," said one asso ciate. "He is one of the fast est readers I've ever seen. He can glance at a page and grasp its meaning." When he was appointed to the cabinet 2'i years ago, he received a cool reception In , the Inner circles of the career service at the department be- ; cause they thought he would have to prove that he was up to the job. Arthur Flemmina assured the doubting Thomas es and gained the lasting re. spect of those he leaves be hind him in Washington as ho prepares for his next adven ture at the University of Oregon. (Nexti Dr. Flemming is an advocate of programs to de velop creative power of students.) Ecola Park Damag Worries Officials Cannon Beach, Ore. - (UPD -State park officials expressed growing concern today over damage to Ecola State park north of here because of rain caused slides. Mark Astrup, state park su perintendent, said all possible would be done to keep the park open. Slides have damaged the Indian Beach road, trails, the parking area and the picnic area. 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