Quotes From the News
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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. Pay
scale has been $4.18 an hour.
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Corbett and Thomas R. Ma
honey, both Portland Demo
crats, have served notice they
are candidates for president of
the Oregon Senate in 1963.
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thall have one vote. Centennial Life Insurance Company is actively
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suant to a Certificate of Authority as issued by the Insurance
Commissioner of the State of Oregon.
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to be invested elsewhere. A strong, aggressive Oregon company,
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"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
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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