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Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL New York Jack Parr, after calling rival TV personality , Ed Sullivan 'a liar" on his television program and inviting Sullivan to sue for libel: , "This it the bravest thing I have ever done." London Labor member of Parliament Emrys Hughes, expressing concern in Parliament for the safety of the foreign gecretary, Lord Hume, on a recent hunting expedition In Nepal: "Are you aware that the foreign secretary was attacked by a tigress and might have been eaten if he had not been protected by 326 elephants and 500 men?" Miami Beach, Fla.-Floyd Patterson, after retaining the world heavyweight championship with a sixth-round knock out of Ingemar Johansson: , "I think I could have done better." Washington President Kennedy, speaking on the need to eliminate proverty and hunger in Latin America: "To fail to act would be a reproach to the spirit of our civilization and a monumental failure for our free society." Man Arraigned, Youth Held Lawrence Lelano Isgrigg, 24, of 286V4 North Second st., Ashland, was arraigned in cir cuit court Monday afternoon on a charge of larceny in a dwelling. Judge James M. Main serv ed as arraigning magistrate since District Judge L. L. Sawyer is on vacation. Isgrigg waived the right to a prelim inary hearing and attorney and was bound over to the garnd jury. Bail was set at $1,500 and he was lodged in the court jail. Isgrigg and a 16-year-old Ashland youth were arrested Saturday by sheriff's deputies and charged with burglariz ing a house-trailer on Tolman creek rd. Friday. Owner of the trailer is Ar lan Raymond Ragsdale, route 1, box 202, Eagle Point. The trailer was at a forest road construction site. Taken were a hunting box, portable ra dio, hunting horn, camera light meter and two cameras. All of the items were recov ered by deputies. Sheriff's officers are inves tigating the burglary of the Wholesale Chemical company, 736 Mason Way, Sunday, in which an open safe containing $15,000 in invoices was taken. Thieves broke in the front door to get at the safe, depu ties said. . The youth was turned over to county juvenile authorities. Plumbers' Strike Ends at Portland Portland - (UPD - A strike of some 1,500 plumbers and steamfitters here ended today after one day. Federal Mediator Elmer Williams announced a tempo rary settlement was reached early today after a long nego tiating session between the unions and contractors. He said the men would re turn to work with a vote scheduled on terms of the set tlement. One source said the settlement involved an 8-cent hourly wage hike now and a 10-cent hourly increase to the pension fund Sept. 1. 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Salem - fUPI) - Sens. Alfred Corbett and Thomas R. Ma honey, both Portland Demo crats, have served notice they are candidates for president of the Oregon Senate in 1963. CENTENNIAL Lite Insurance Company An OraoMi Insurance Corporation The Company Is offering to bona fide residents of the State of Oregon 1,000,000 shares of Its common capital stock at s price of $2.50 per share. All shares of the common capital stock of Cen tennial Life Insurance Company are equal In every way to every other share, including voting, dividend rights, and price. AM shares when fully paid shall be non-assessable and each share thall have one vote. Centennial Life Insurance Company is actively engaged in the sale of life insurance in the State of Oregon pur suant to a Certificate of Authority as issued by the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon. This Company was founded on the belief that most of Oregon's premium dollars go to out-of-state Insurance companies, largely to be invested elsewhere. A strong, aggressive Oregon company, adequately financed and properly managed, can keep many of these dollars at home thereby making a contribution to the econ omic well being of our great Slate. ' Too are invited to ask for a tree Prospectus which describee the Company and this ottering In detail CENTENNIAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. Execurtva Building, Portland 4, Oreoon Gentlemen Please sand me a copy of the Centennial I endarttand I am under no obligation. "Cut out and get out" is the new rule for Oregon legis lators; cut out consideration of minor matters and get out some bills and go home in six more weeks. Senate President Harry Boi vin (D-Klamath Falls) has set April 20 as the goal for ad journment of the 51st Legis lative Assembly. Can House Speaker Robert B. Duncan (D-Medford) meet this challenge? Will some sig nificant legislation fall by the wayside under an arbitrarily speeded-up schedule? If it comes to a race between which house can get through faster, the Senate, with fewer members and tighter control, is bound to come out ahead. By ordering his committee chairmen to table (lay aside and take no action upon) many House bills as they arrive on the Senate side, Boivin can ex ercise great control over .what legislation will finally pass both houses in the next six weeks. Duncan has similar powers but is handicapped in the race by a more unwieldy House and nearly twice as many House bills. Thus Boivin and Duncan will have to get to gether and reach some agree ment as to priority legislation. This columnist's earlier pre diction that there won't be any major changes in Ore gon's tax structure still stands. Likewise, the governor's pro gram for government reorgan ization won't get far beyond a beginning; too many of the governor's own appointees and Republican party mem bers are testifying against his plans. Of the more than 1,400 bills introduced so far, less than a third have been acted upon. Only 70 have gone to the governor for his signature. Hundreds of bills appear doomed to die in committee. The final accomplishments of this session will probably fall far short of any high expecta tions. When compromise is a hard necessity, no one will go home very happy. Nobody, in fact, seemed elated about anything by the end of the ninth week. That's why a statement to the Legislature by the newly appointed state superintend ent of public instruction, Dr. Leon Minear, came as an in spiring clarion call for new directions and leadership for Oregon education. Minear, appointed by Gov. Hatfield after the retirement of Dr. Rex Putnam, should put new heart into the law makers and school officials who took such a beating at the hands of a loud and obstreper ous minority group in a pub lic hearing on school reor ganization. It must be discouraging, at limes, to sincere and honest legislators and educators when their professional ability, per sonal integrity, and even their Life Insurance Co. prospectus. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, By Marguerite W. Wright loyalty to the United States of America is questioned. That is what happened when the Serve Our State or ganization packed a Senate education committee hearing in support of a bill to repeal the school reorganization act. Legislative leader of this "aginner" group is Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles). Oue of their chief targets is the State Department of Education. The S.O.S., listing itself as "non-profit, non-partisan, non-political layman's legisla tive organization." is an inter esting example of the sort of citizen's pressure group that occasionally springs up. A thorough study of its origins, connections, membership, re ligious factions involved, and tactics would be a good politi cal science thesis topic. State president of this two- year-old organization is a Sil verton bean grower, Harvey Gehring, who seems to be sincerely convinced that he is patriotically helping to pre serve American democracy against the onslaughts of so cialism and communism. S.O.S. has some 700 mem bers throughout the state. They pay state dues of $9 per year plus their local chapter dues, or about $10 per year. With an estimated $7,000 an nual budget, this group is well able to finance printed litera ture, newspaper advertising, other means to get its message across to the public. Their main message seems to be an attempt to communi cate fear: they are afraid that parents and taxpayers will lose local control of schools, and they are afraid that "pro fessional education groups are attempting to instill central ized, socialized, or nationaliz ed principles or theories in our school system." Their appeal is to the unin formed, the under-educated, the under-privileged, and the insecure. The techniques oX mob psychology are the tools with which leaders of such or ganizations often manipulate the membership. Emotion - charged as they were, leaders of the S.O.S. group realized that It was possible to carry things too far in trying to influence leg islation. When Son. Jean Lewis (D-Portland) Issued a subpoena for the alleged au thor of a letter to legisla tors calling for repeal of school reorganization and charging that the chancellor of the Oregon State System of Higher Education is subvert ing the loyally of our stu dents, some S.O.S. leaders im mediately responded that this action was an attempt to make S.O.S. people "look like a bunch of crack-pots." The author of that letter has not been located to date, and attempts to find him have been postponed at the behest of Sens. Musa and Boivin, who want action taken on school legislation before any time-consuming investigation of this libelous hale-literature is launched. Sen. Monroe Swcelland, chairman of the Senate edu cation committee, was himself the victim of a libelous hate literature campaign before the last election. There has been a spate of ultra-conservative material sent to Oregon law makers this session, condemn ing various respected Ameri can citizens, and it is a healthy thing for the public to know the sort of vicious attacks to which public servants are sub jected sometimes. In the wake of such un savory goings on, the state ment of Dr. Minear was like a fresh ocean breeze blowing away the slink of pulp-mill effluent. Dr. Minear indicated that under his leadership the State Department of Education would "slick its neck out and step forward within and with out the ranks of professional educators to help slay the giants of Ignorance, tradition, folklore, prejudice, dogma and vested interests that persist in blocking educational pro gress." He emphasized his support of local control - "turning over more responsibility to school districts" - and for "in creased quality in education generally and for more ef ficient use of tax dollars." He urged "pruning out useless and dead wood throughout the state so far as standards, pro cedures and staff use are con cerned." His altitude and his proriisc should reassure the fearful and end any further talk of outright repeal of school re organization. (There is wide spread agreement among leg islators that the school reor ganization act will be amend ed to meet specific criticism of parLi that have not worked out well in some areas.) Meanwhile, there is this thought to give Dr. Minear MEDFORD, ORE. Good Stewardesses Hard to Find To Keep, Survey of Top Airlines Washington - (UPD - A good airline stewardess still is hard to find and hard to keep. A United Press Internation- al survey of leading airlines revealed that the stewardess turnover rate remains one of their chief employment prob lems. The majority reported that while the rate is no worse than in the past, it's no better, either. The survey was prompted by a mildly startling an nouncement by Continental Airlines. Continental said 20 per cent of its hostesses (some airlines prefer this term to stewardesses) hired this year will be foreigners "because there just aren't enough quali fied American girls to go around." This was not the case with all airlines but most have in dicated some concern over the turnover problem. Trans World Airlines, for example, is letting some of its hostesses who married pilots retain their jobs. TWA for some time also has had British girls fly ing its transcontinental jet trips. Eastern Air Lines recently announced it would hire di vorced girls and widows pro vided they had no children. And even some airlines who say there Is no particular re cruitment problem indicate they may follow Eastern's ex ample. Although there are no veri fied statistics, there has been some speculation that many stewardesses quit because they don't like the increased workload of the jets. Several small local service carriers. for example, report they're getting numerous applications from stewardesses now em ployed by larger airlines. "Apparently," one feeder line official commented, "these girls like the idea of a more informal airline, the smaller planes and shorter flights." The UPI survey, which cov ered seven leading airlines, revealed this overall picture: Delta Has no trouble ob taining qualified American girls Is not hiring married, divorced or widowed girls al though it did recall, because of a temporary shortage last fall, 10 ex-stewardesses mar ried to Delta pilots. Turnover is normal, Eastern Turnover is con stant but no more acute than in past , . . same girls are leaving because they don like working on the new jets but the most frequent reason still is marriage. "We ve lick ed the jet problem," said one Eastern official, "but not cu- pid." Eastern's new policy of hiring divorcees and widows was prompted by "a more liberal attitude toward such girls rather than a serious shortage." Turnover averages about three per cent monthly. Pan American World Air ways Has always hired many foreign girls because it requires its stewardesses to speak at least one foreign Students Place in Speech Competition Corvallis Herschel L. Mack, box 168, Gold Hill, and Miss Alice A. Thompson, route 1, box 546, Central Point, have won recognition in regional college speech competition. Mack won third place In the men's public-address di vision, and Miss Thompson won third place In the wom en's public-address division of the annual Llnfield College Invitational Speech tourna ment. Thirty-four schools had speakers entered in the tourn ament. Mack Is a sophomore in humanities and social sciences at Oregon Slate University and Miss Thompson is a fresh man in science. pause: How many members of S.O.S. and other such or ganizations are themselves products of the Oregon public school syatem? That this small but loud minority group could stir up the amount of trouble it has for teachers and school of ficials all over Oregon, shows there is much public misun derstanding of what Oregon educators are trying to do. The open hostility to educa tors demonstrated at the hear ing in Salem is in itself an indictment of past failures of the State Department of Edu cation. Obviously, Oregon schools in the past have not done a coasistcntly good enough Job of educating children. Obviously, the Slate Depart menl of Education In the past has not been able to commu nicate effectively enough with Oregon parents and taxpayers. Somewhere, the lines of com munication have broken down and slate officials and pro fessional educators have for gotten how to talk to people in language the public can understand. Dr. Minear, In his statement to legislators, showed his awareness of these problems as well as hlj hopefulness of solving them. language. Pan Am's turnover is about what It has been the average stewardess flies from one and a half to two and a half years. American No Increase in turnover although Ameri can, too, admits it will now hire certain widows and di vorcees. No indication that jets are a factor in turnover; "The work is harder but many girls prefer them because they're more glamorous." Hires Foreigners TWA Insists there is no lack of qualified American girls but "we do hire foreign ers because this is an interna tional airline and we like to maintain an international fla vor." Turnover is about 38 monthly out of 1,400 hostess- Prefers single girls but would take childless widows and divorcees. Jets have not affected the turnover. Braniff Does not regard situation as critical. "Getting them is no worse a problem than it was several years ago." No trouble obtaining a vast number of applicants but it has to reject a majority be cause of high standards. No increase in turnover percen tage. Not hiring married, di vorced or widowed girls. Has had a small number of for eign stewardesses for its La tin America routes. United Turnover rate Rciiicmbci This little hcart-pounding ceremony look place back in 1931. Maybe you're old enough to remember a similar scene in your living room thirty years ago. In those days, it wasn't surprising that a Long Distance call was upsetting. To a lot of folks, a Long Distance call at any hour usually conjured up a vision of fire, flood or family disaster. With the exception of Christmas and birthday calls, the ominous words "This is Long Distance" set their imagination to saying: "It's Brother he's smashed up his motorcycle." "It's Cousin Clara she's married that saxophone player." "It's Uncle Gus he's entered a marathon dance contest!" And so on. We're exaggerating, of course, but let's face it Long Distance telephone habits were quite different then. Happily, though, all this is changed. Today, the words "This is Long Distance" no longer mean bad news. People call Long Distance as often as they write a letter. It is just a convenient and more personal way to keep in touch. They call their family even when it mi7 someone's birthday. about the same as in past years but recruitment is tougher for two reasons United needs more steward esses plus the fact that the life is a "bit less glamorous than it used to be and quali fied girls seem harder to find." United isn't hiring any tgrowiQg U1DR "jl5 is AL wlieiif long lusiiallv iiiesmf bnil news? (Today folks call long distance just for the pleasure of it) LONO DISTANCE RATES ARE LOW Itere art some examples: Hood River to Bend 65 The Dalles to Corvallis 70( Portland to Medlord 90 Eugene to Pendleton 90( Klamath Falls to Astoria $1.00 Statinn-to-statinn rates far the first S minutes, after ft Pt ami till day Sun day. Add I0: World War II Federal txcise Taxstill in effect. TUESDAY, MARCH and Hard Reveals married, widowed or divorced girls but officials are thinking about taking on a few in the latter category if they meet standards. Standards High The standards certainly are high for all U. S. airlines. But if the carriers had the same PORTLAND -SEATTLE F-27 Prop-jets $53.60 plus tax Call SPrlng 2-7269 or your travel agent. west can st riruties Why, you can even arrange family conference calls and talk with as many as ten people who might bo scattered all over the country. It's just a low-cost way to have a family gab-fest-and you don't have to tidy up the house afterwards. And people who receive Long Distance calls aren't upset nowadays cither. They're usually happy that you cared enough to call. Most important, today's. Long Distance rates are downright low. (For example, you can call station-to-stalion between Portland and Seattle it night and on Sunday for only 50 plus tax.) If you haven't tackled Long Distance lately, you'll be delighted at how easy it is. It takes an average of 66 1PACIFIC TELEPHONE NORTHWEST mm or tut mm to wioc uu 14, 1961 prerequsites they did 25 years ago, they'd be lucky to Mrs one new stewardess a month. In 1931 Eastern required a stewardess applicant to be a registered nurse, between 21 and 25, and armed with a letter o f introduction from some prominent aeronautical or political personality just to get an interview for a job. But the 1961 requirements still are stiff. The average air line accepts only one out of every 25 applicants for stew ardess training. Trwitjnj li. mis wr-am0' seconds to reach anywhere in tha United Stales. And in cities with the added advantage of Direct Distance Dialing, it's even faster. Slop staring at your telephone. It's patiently awaiting your steady hand and firm, clear voice. Pick up the receiver and call someone Long Distance right now -just for ths pleasure of it. You'll be glad you did. mrw
