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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
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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.