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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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iday association, the voice of
experience and authority, has
spoken. 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.
Heavy rains in recent days
have loosened the earth and
the sliding had not stopped.
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