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Newspaper Page TextMEDF0R0v5STRlBUHB "Everyone in Southern Orefon Reads The Mall Tribune'; ffibTisherJ Daily except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO S3 North fir St.. Ph SP-1 ROBERT W R'OHL, Editor HERB GREY Advei tiilnn Mnnaier GERALD T LATHAM Bus Met ERIC W ALLEN IR. Mns Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Tele. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women a Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation MT ' An Independent Newspaper Entered as .econd class matter at Medford Oregon under Act 01 March 3. 10"o SUBSCRIPTION RATES lly Mall - In Advance Copy 10c Dally -nd Sunday-1 rnr S15 00 Dally and Sunday; mos on Dallv and Sunday 3 mos z Sunday Only-One year M SO Bv Carrier In Advance Mcdford "AsMand" Central Point B. e Point Jacksonville Gold HI" Phoenix Shady Cove. Bonne Rlv er Talent and on motor roulei Dv and Sunday 1 vear IIBJO Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo 150 Carrier and Dealira-copy 10c All Tem Cash In Adyanc" "n"lclal Paper'iif City nf Atrdfnrd Official Paper of Jachsnn County ' United" Press International Full Leased Wire fj P 1 Telephoto Newsplcttires MF-MBEHOr AlfrjlT B'jnMtf 0JIRCULATIONS AlverlTOne Renreentlve: WEST HOLIDAV CO. INC Of fices In New York Chicago Be trolt San Francisco Loi Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Louis At. la"ta Vancouver B C 0 NEWSPAPER m',u,UIM V"ASSOCIAT EDS ATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL kSIXTIlJlN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hislory (rom the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 17. 1951 (Saturday) The Phoenix Pirales roared from behind to overtake Pow ers 50 to 44 last night in Salem and win the state class B high school basketball championship. Two boxcars loaded with nears1 were derailed and fell against a loading dock yester day at Bear Creek orchards; damage was minor. 20 YEARS AGO March' 17, 1941 (Monday) Placer mine equipment has been installed on a ranch near Rogue River. From Arthur.. Perry's. "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "March weathor produced a sample of II. f....wl fi.il Innnu. VfiiitPI'. day. It's too early for mer chants to displace coonskin caps with straw hat dis plays."" ' 30 YEARS AGO March 17. 1931 (Tuesday) Roseburg is celebrating an unofficial announcement that it is to be the site of a $2 mil lion national soldiers' home. Nine cars have been seized by state and federal agents in Jackson county since the first of the year for Illegal trans portation of liquor. 40 YEARS AGO March 17, 1921 (Thursday) The Chamber of Commerce is urging the city to purchase 19 acres of land in the down town area for auto camp and park purposes; the land is now owned by the Pacific and Eastern railway. Slate Sen. C. M. Thomas has charged (lint the Californ ia Oregon Power company has "vicious influence on state legislation." 50 YEARS AGO March 17. 1911 (Friday) Work is expected to start soon on a new Rogue River Electric company power plant at Prospect. Medford police yesterday raided a hoboes camp near Bear creek, destroyed their huts and ran them out of town. What's Your I.Q.? Hint or ten corrtct li luptrior; acvon or tight U txcilltnt; ttvt sr tix it good. 1. Who wrote "The Pil grims Progress ? 2. What is the Eighth Com mandment? ;t. Name Hie firsl woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. 4. In which New England slate was Calvin Coolidge born? 5. In which city was the Declaration of Independence signed? ti. Are eels born in salt or fresh water? 7. What name is given to the study of the motions of heavenly bodies and their supposed influence on terres trial events and human af fairs? 8. Brsidc the white rats and mice, what other rodent is commonly used in labora tory work? I). Mosquitoes have a total of four, six, or eight legs? 10. How many Justices are (here on the United Stales Supreme Court? Answers! 1. John Bunyan, 2. "Thou shall nol bear falsa witness against thy neighbor." 3. Amelja Earhart. 4, Ver m on t.'. Philadelphia, 8. Fresh water. 7. Astrology. 8. Guinea pigs. I. Six. 10. tliaav X FRIDAY. MARCH 17. 1961 Tax Incentive The Kennedy administration, which has al ready told business that it seeks 'a tull-lleclgea alliance" in the President's speech before the National Industrial Conference Board, Feb. 13 appears to be ready to demonstrate to business its conviction that business and government are "natural allies." The first form of tax relief, which may well be outlined in the first Kennedy budget message, is expected to provide an incen tive to business to expand. Both Kennedy and Nixon in the 1960 cam paign advocated more liberal depreciation allow ances for business, so that plant expansion and modernization would be stimulated. President Eisenhower in his final budget message on Jan. 16 urged Congress to allow businessmen to depre ciate plant and equipment more rapidly as a spur to new investment. THE method of supplying this sort of inventive x most frequently broached in business circles is faster or higher depreciation wnte-ons lor plant and machinery. Tax savings thus allowed are funds freed for few plant or replacement of machines. . But the President and his advisers have been flirting with another means a "tax credit" for some proportion of capital ploughed back into equipment. Prof. Stanley secretary ol the Treasury, force on taxation which Jan. 9 which is supposed to have outlined the new plan. IT WOULD work this way: a corporation would be allowed a tax credit equivalent to a percent age of the amount by which its investment in new plant and equipment exceeded its current depre ciation deduction. This the final tax and not, as is the case with ordinary depreciation, a deduction from taxable income. A company with a $2 million investment in plant and equipment which it was depreciating at a rate of $200,000 a year might be encouraged to double its investment in a single year. It then could credit a percentage of the sum of $1.8 mil lion (excess of the additional $2 million invest ment over the $200,000 depreciation deduction) against its tax bill for that year. This treatment would spur expansion in in vestment rather than replacement of existing plant and equipment. The plan is highly flexible; depending on how much or how little the govern ment wants to enlarge investment, the percentage of the credit can be raised or lowered or even removed. ' THE credit plan has its critics. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that some tax men claim it would be a poor substitute for more lib eral depreciation treatment because it leaves open the question of where the investment money is coming from : " (They) believe . . . the tax credits would discriminate in favor of established busi ness with plenty of cash or- strong borrowing power." And labor opposes both plans as discriminat ing in favor of business and against the indi vidual. New plant to labor means automation, and to labor that is a word which gels dirtier every day. Instead of depreciation liberalization, the AFL-CIO favors a general cut in the indi vidual income tax to stimulate consumption. E.R.R. Deportation for Costello? It was 10 years ago Tuesday, March 21, that mobster Frank Costello appeared before Sen. Estes Kefauver's (D-Tenn.) Crime Investigating committee in New York City. Asked if he had ever done anything good for his country, Cos tello snapped: "I paid my taxes." Even this turned out to be an exaggeration, for a jury later found him guilty of evading $28,000 in federal income taxes. Costello pres ently is serving the final months of a five-year term in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. After a long legal fight by the government, Costello's citizenship was revoked in 1959. The government claimed the underworld figure, who was brought to the United States from Sicily when he was one year old, willfully misrepre sented his occupation in hearings before a natur alization examiner in 1925 when he listed him self as a real estate operator. His real occupation, the government claimed, was bootlegging. THE Supreme Court by a 6-2 decision upheld the order stripping Costello of his American citizenship, and opened the way for actual de portation proceedings. Judging by past experience, however, father time not the courts may be Costello's greatest enemy, lie is 70 years old. Deportation proceed ings can take several years if a canny criminal takes advantage of all his legal tints, ami some by a succession of court appeals have been able to stall off compliance with deportation orders for years. Consider, for example, the case of Carlos Marcello, identified before the Senate Rackets committee as a kingpin in gambling rackets in and around New Orleans. He was ordered out of the United States as a convicted dope ped dler in 1958. His case has been before the U.S. District Court six times, the Court of Appeals three times, and the Supreme Court three times. When a final deportation order was obtained in 1959, Marcello petitioned the Tribunal of Rome to reject him as a deportee on the ground he was not a native Italian (he was born in Tunisia). The petition the Rome Court for two For Business S. Surry, now assistant headed a Kennedy task submitted a report on would be a credit against has been pending be fare years. Marcello is still in Dennis the Menace ' I JUSrVADE SOME SWISS CHESg OUTA youR American cheese Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or intial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. About Moving To the Editor: I would like to add my opinion to moving part of Front St., up on Main St. Do they who are making this move think they are get ting away from the influence of Front St.? I think not. Look at the position of the Esquire theater, right across the street is a pool hall and card games, around both corn ers on Riverside are two dis pensers of alcohol. The theater is only a jump into Hawthorn park, and our children and grandchildren are too close to those who will only have to buy candy, and walk across the bridge to the kiddies. 1 hope the parents and fam ilies of children will lake this seriously, There are those who are needy, and should have a place to stay, but not on Main St., and In the vicinity of where children come to play in safety. I am sure there are other sites more in line with the needs of this place for unfor tunates who should not be turned away. I was pleased to see the way the Salvation Army solv ed this problem, in a most inconspicuous place where little offense would result. I have one of the protest peti tions in my shop, and I hope you parents will avail your self of the opportunity to sign your protest of this move. This may be rumor, but it is said this is to be a pur chase for a permanent loca tion. Where is Mcdford's Civic Pride? There are criminals who flee through the state, and hide in such places, parole violators, and you name it. Let just one of these people. who will be put close to temptation, atlack some child, then ask yourself, did I voice my protest? And if any one takes offense at my views so be it. I have many customers who feel will back me. and I have no fear of lost business over my stand on this Issue. I love the little kiddies of Medford, and all the rest thai come to play in our park, I also am proud of Medford, and have some pride in the city I serve Wilbur L. Gardner Medford, Ore. Express Thanks To the Editors: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Miller and family of Applcgale wish to extend their thanks to one and all who donated clolhing, dishes, groceries, money, work and a temporary home after the dis aster of losing their home by fire. Andy Miller Route 1, Bos 40 Applcgale, Ore. Thanks Organisations To the Editor: Many thanks to the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson county, the Salvation Army and (o all the good people who gave of their time and talent as well as do nations to help make the Red Cross benefit minstrel show a success. Edna Gai Sawyer Route 2. Rox 55D Jacksonville, Ore. Relates A Yarn To the Editor: When motor ing or riding in a train, one sometimes in spring notices a carpet of California poppies bordering the road. Thereby hangs a yarn: In covered wagon days the floors of California valleys showed miles of poppy bloom, soon to be replaced by wheat growing. In writer's boyhood one covered wagon pioneer told of arrival to whrrr was had the first glimpse of' Sac ramento valley. On the hurl- Nearer, miles upon miles of poppy gold. Their "prairie schooners" Their "prairie schooners' " oxen had staggered across weeks of alki-stinging Nevada desert. Glimpsing through green forest on the West Si erran flank above the blue-and-gold, this 49er said the re lief from redskins, cholera, starvation, tension was so great, some of their parly broke defwn and cried. Some years before Pan ama - Pacific's 1915 Expo sition, some of us determined railroad rights-of-way should be bright with California pop pies. Poppyseed packets were opened systematically out of railroad car windows by train travellers. Eschschollzia is so perfectly adjusted to the Cali fornia environment, it has per sisted along the railroad these 35 years. Now, however, on some righls-of-way the alien star thistle is displacing our na tive poppy. This weed is such a problem on one of writer's ranches there was levied a special star-thistle tax. There no longer is hope for elimina tion. One now just aims at the best possible control, C. M. Goethe 3731 Tea st., Sacramento, Calif. Pay for Trading Stamps? To the Editor: Do we pay anything for trading stamps? As pointed out in this column, the cost is not always passed on In higher prices. But as a local businessman (not a grocer), let me point out that thousands of dollars are being drained off from our local economy every month by this so-called "bonus.'' In stead of remaining here to circulate and generate local business, huge sums are ex tracted from us to be siphoned away from Oregon and lis strained economy. Trading stamps are a para site which contribute nothing to sales. They are neither cre ative nor effective; they are simply compulsory in the sense that a businessman can not afford to be without them as long as his competitor of fers them. He thereby fore feits 3 per cent of his gross to a gimmick which does nothing to sell his product. In fact it doesn't even carry his name. In 12 years, this merchan dising device cost mv business $30,000, literally 'skimming the cream off my profit. Pres ently, it costs S300 a month, an amount which could have been turned into more sub stantial paychecks, to be spent locally. Or if this $300 were invested In local radio, tele vision and newspaper adver tising, the benefits would be spread around the Medford area. Considering the larger merchants, such as those op erating supermarkets, who are each paying thousands of dol lars a month Just to keep up wilh this custom, our total loss of money to the giant slam p companies becomes enormous. The stale of our local econ omy affects the pocketbook of almost everyone. Medford res idenls who care about it should write to state repre sentatives Robert Duncan and John Dellenliack. and state senator Lyndel Newbry at the Oregon State Legislature. Sa lem, and urge support of the trading stamp bill. Medford Businessman (Name on File) A Long Winter To the Editor: It's all too obvious the long winter is having the effect of making all of us into "Gloomy Gus" correspondents. How you. the editors, sleep at night after reading all the bitterness and complaints pressed in recent letters amazes me. SswttaMeJ. W MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE Portugal Tells United Nations To Keep Hands Off Territories By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Portugal has told the Uni ted Nations pointedly to mind its own business so far as P o r t u gal's rich African territories are concerned. Specifically, the question concerned the P o r t u guese West African t e r ritory of Angola, an immense area half a million square miles with a coastline stretching 1,000 miles south ward from the mouth of the Congo. The Portuguese position was reminiscent of that taken by President Charles de Gaulle when he warned the U.N. to keep its nose out of French Algerian affajrs. The differ ence is that De Gaulle current ly is negotiating for Algerian independence while such a thought does nol even cross rJ Newiom of nearlv Today & Tomorrow By Walter SOMETHING MISSING In the President's address and message dealing with Latin American affairs, we have the out line of a new a p proaeh to the whole complex ques tion of foreign aid. The es sential dif ference be tween the old and the new Lippmann a p proach is this: the old approach, first formulated in the Marshall Plan, was based on the idea that the critical need was for eign capital. President Tru man's Point Four program supplemented this idea with a proposal to give underdevel oped countries technical aid. The Kennedy administra tion's view, which owes much to Prof. Galbraith, is that for eign capital alone will no longer do what is wanted. If a country is to be helped and the money is not to be wasted, the country must have enough education, there must be enough social justice, there must be some administrative competence, and there must be a sense of what develop ment means. Not every coun try which needs aid can meet these conditions. In the Kennedy administra tion's policy countries must firsl be persuaded and helped lo meet the conditions before considerable capital loans and investment can be used effec tively. A country like Laos docs not, for example, meet the necessary conditions. Countries like India and Bra zil do meet them. T OOKING back over the his " lory of foreign aid we can now see that the first coun tries which received aid were the most advanced countries in the world. Britain, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, were the very opposite of "underdeveloped" countries. They had the edu cation, the administrative ex perience, and the like. What they lacked in order to re cover from the war was the foreign exchange to buy es sential imports to feed their people and lo reconstruct their industries. But when the policy of for eign aid was applied to truly u n d e r d c vcloped countries with an illiterate copulation and a feudal or tribal social order, the results have been very disappointing. A great amount of the disillusionment in Congress and among our people stems from hearing about the waste of money in countries which are not ad vanced enough to use it effec tively. There is little doubl, I be lieve, that the Congress and the people will approve the continuation of foreign aid when the new approach has been fully and patiently cx- me to make what I feel is a drastic, but enlightening sug gestion. Why nol let's have a couple of weeks beginning with Easter set aside as "We Are Thankful Week." "Appre ciation Week." or more ac curate. "We Are Sorry Week." for all our suspicious thoughts expressed in your columns. Things, and people, just : can't be that bad. I would suggest the editors "shelve" or "wastobasket" any and all Gloomy Gus mail through those two weeks, and print only those in which ap preciation, happiness, thank fulness (and we have so very much to be thankful for) is expressed, so that Easter week may be a fresh and new be ginning of a lift of our morale and spirit lo a full awareness of the new life on Easter morn 2.000 years ago. Mary Williams. 357 Orr Dr.. SniiJti Touts, GktA Portuguese minds as regards Angola. A Portuguese official stated it succinctly in Lisbon re cently. A visiting newsman remark ed to him: "Well, at least Portugal can say it was the first into Africa and the last one out." The official replied: "You can say more than that. You can say Portugal was first in Africa and never got out." Portugal has ruled Angola for 500 years and considers il a "non-self governing" terri tory which is part of metro politan Portugal. It is one of the richest of all African territories, producing diamonds, a large range of agricultural products includ ing coffee and tobacco, and possessing important minerals such as gold, oil, manganese, copper and iron. Portuguese anger over pos sible U.N. interference in An gola arose from a resolution submitted to the Security Council by Liberia, Ceylon Lippmann plainedr That cannot, of course, be done in one speech and one message. rpHERE is, however, some - thing missing, so it seems to me, in the presentation of the new policy. What is miss ing is an effective answer to those who, when they are con fronted with proposals to con tinue and probably to increase the American contribution to foreign aid, will say: Why should we do this? Why should we take upon ourselves as much as, let us say, two-thirds of the burden of helping the non-Communist countries? I think there is an answer lo these questions. But I do not think that the convincing answer is lo say to our peo ple: If you don t pay up, Khrushchev will get you, Castro will get you. If foreign aid is to be effective, it must be a long commitment over many years. It cannot be made to work by keeping Con gress and the taxpayers in a state of hysteria and fear. HPHE principle of the true X answer is lo be found in President Kennedy's inaugural address: "To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required -not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their voles, but be cause it is right." We shall help them, said the President, to help them selves for as long a period as may be needed because it is right. Why should the President not translate this noble prin ciple inlo concrete form? There is an idea, often pro posed in recent years, one that all soi ls of people have writ ten about. Each nation should impose upon itself the obliga tion to help other people by contributing lo foreign aid a fixed amount - say 1 per cent - of its gross national product. I believe it would be a great moment in the history of our time if the United States pub licly acknowledged such an obligation. The actual contribution called for if the obligation were accepted is substantially no greater than we are now contributing as foreign aid. But. of course, it would grow as we grow richer. The great value of acknowl edging such a principle is that it would establish foreign aid on the moral principle that all nations have an obligation lo the international community. There are other reasons fM' giving foreign aid - stra'" gical. political, and economic. But it would be salutary and it would be exhilarating to establish the moral obligation as the overriding reason. -THE A ci iple would normalize the procedure of raising t h e money and it would not be necessary every spring lo beat the tom-toms and decide how much we are afraid of Khru shchev. It would permit a long term commitment. II would wipe out the invidious and politically demoralizing dis tinction between those who give and those who receive. For if the principle were generally adopted, if by our action we could set an ex ample which would be follow ed, every nation would con tribute something to the in ternational community. Even the poorer nations could af ford to contribute something say about 50 cents lo a dollar per capita They would feel belter, they would like them selves and us belter if they did (c) 1961 New York Herald Xiihune) Inc. and the United Arab Republic. The resolution, wilh the en thusiastic endorse m e n t of black Africans, demanded re forms to safeguard the rights of the inhabitants of Angola where a native population of nearly 4 5 million is matched bv a European population of only 120.000. Africans charge thai the situ ation threatens another Congo, and they cite recent riots in which 41 persons died West Believes That Barnum's Theorem Should Be By DICK WEST Washington -IUPII- The pos tulation by P. T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute has long been accepted, par t i c u larly in places like Las Vegas, as one of the eternal veri ties. Lately, how ever, I have been wondcr i n E whether theorem is still valid. After all, people have become much more knowl edgeable and sophisticated in the past decade or two. If someone took a new gulli bility census, I believe it Washington Report By William S. White THE KENNEDY PLAN Washington - Like the old Marshal Plan for Europe, the Kennedy plan for Latin Amer- l c a has a tough and pro foundly realis tic anti-Communist politi cal motive be hind the gen erous econom ic aid it offers this h e in i sphere. What Presi White dent Kennedy really intends to do is to hall Communism in Latin America just as the Marshall Plan largely halted il in Western Europe in the period immediately after the war. This is lo be done by mak ing Communism politically as well as economically unprofit able. If all goes well Com munism or pro - Communism will become unprofitable even among those of our hemi sphere neighbors who are, at this moment, far from "good" neighbors and very far from pro-capitalist democracy. This is no ribbon-wrapped package of Christmas in the springtime for the Latinos. This is no social worker's scheme for "a quart of milk for every Hottentot." This is, at bottom, a hard-headed plan for an economic revival of Latin America under "strings" that are very real, indeed. UOR in political terms the very core of the Kennedy plan is this: it is simply not going to be possible for any Latin-American nation lo ob tain any real benefits unless it join in truth and loyalty into a far larger pattern of collective strength and col lective western style security for this hemisphere. Any Latin-American presi dent who excludes his country from aid by his unwillingness to go along with this security pattern will surely have a good deal of explaining to do to the home folks. He will indeed be shooting Santa Claus - except that in this case Sanla will be a muscular old boy carrying nnre in his bag than toys for 'he kiddies. True, thn President's out line i ' his policy to Latin A,- -iCa diplomats put a good : -al more emphasis on what we intend to give the Latins than on what wc intend to ask of them. But this was the traditional rhetorical polite ness, the frosting on the real cake below. VO nation will receive help n unless "il lives up lo the principles of self - help and domestic reform." This is the bluntest requirement ever put on any American aid pro cram. And. parenthetically, it may well foreshadow a tougher line toward all other recipients of American aid under the old and familiar programs. But what is far more sig nificant is the nature of the pmicai strings - more bluntly they might be called strong ropes - which will at tach to Kennedy aid. These strings will lead In the end to one place and one alone, the organization of American states. No nation can rcallv get anywhere under this aid plan without operating under the OAS. v The OAS. in consequence, is bound to be greatly strength aiitd. And th OAS it lb west Barnum's in the capital city of Luanda as proof that Portugal uses police force to keep the ter ritory under colonial yoke. The Portuguese counter charge that the riots and at tacks on Portuguese "colonial ism" are Communist-inspired. As with past efforts to in ject the United Nations in:o the Algerian question, t ! e present attack on Porttigi" 3 policies in Angola pose" a delicate problem for the i ted States. It could nol up port colonialism, and yet Portugal is a NATO ally sup plying the United States with an important base in the Azores. Changed would show that the sucker birth rate has changed a lot since Barnum's time. I doubt that suckers are born at a one-a-minute clip any longer. Nowadays, the rate probably is closer to five per minute. The need for updating Bar num became apparent to me as I was reading a report is sued by the Food and Drug Administration on some of its recent cases. People 'Wiser' The report tended lo sup port by contention that people have become too wise to fall for the "gold brick" hoax and other tricks of the old fash ioned confidence man. What people do now is pay S3. 75 a gallon for sea water in the belief that it will cure serious illnesses and other wise act as a "fountain ot youth." According lo the Food and Drug Administration, an Ohio promoter bottled 93 gallons of ocean water near Belmar, N. J., and offered it for sale as a "chemical smorgasbord." Literature used as promo tional material promised that "by taking a little sea water per day we can thus offer our body glands a 'chemical smorgasbord'." "Figuratively," il said, "the pancreas, liver and spleen, bone marrow, thyroid, adre nals and other organs can march around this chemical smorgasbord helping them selves lo whatever they re quire lo produce the manu factured secretions that guard our health." Scared Off The mere thought of my liver and spleen marching around inside my body would have been enough lo deter me from buying any of the stuff. But the sea water impre sario presumably would have done a brisk business had not the food and drug agents step ped in and booked him on a false labeling charge. The agents likewise cracked down on a vitamin product that was billed as a treatment for arthritis, high blood pres sure, goiter and various other ailments. Among other ingre dients, it contained alfalfa, water cress, parsley wheat germ, mint leaves, beets, buckwheat, yeast, prunes, and oyster and egg shells. Other products seized by the agents included some air fillers touted as relieving heart trouble, asthma, hay fever and shortness of breath. The tact that some people believe such claims does not prove that Barnum was right. It only proves that Barnum didn't know how right he was. sole instrumentality through which the United Slates can really get at the most danger ous example of Communist intrusion in this hemisphere, Castroism in Cuba. fPHE Kennedy administration A - no less than the Eisen hower administration before it - knows it dare not act alone against Castro, short of some assault on our Naval base in Cuba. A howl about "Yankee imperialism" would go up from the Rio Grande to the bottom tip ot South Amer ica. Fidel Castro himsely clearly gathers what the Kennedy plan means. Within hours of its announcement, he was scrcaminc in angry pain in Havana. The White House and State Department were not made exactly unhappy. For every assault he makes on the plan will help it in Conqress. just as the Soviet Union's violent denunciations, plus its invasion of Czechoslo vakia, nut the then new Mar shall Plan over the top in Congress a decade and more ago. (Copyright. 1961, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Measure To Limit I Fowl Hunting Killed Salem - ilTI' - The House Fish and Game committee Wednesday killed a bill to prohibit shooting at migratory waterfowl from, or over, corn fields. The measure. HB1545. by Rep. William F. Gwinn (R-Al-bany would have limited wa terfowl hunting to public shooting grounds or certain waterway.