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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Drummond Reports (Welter Lippntan It in Europe. Roscoo Drummond reports from Washington in kit abimc.) It) 1962 New York Htrild Tribuno Inc. SHELTERS AND YOU Washington - Suppose it were possible for the U.S. to bury safely in the ocean, aboard nuclear submarines, all our missile bases? Then we wouldn't need to spend billions for devices to protect missile installs t i o n s and trying to develop an anti missile missile, would we? What do you think the pub . lie reaction would be if, then, the President and Congress de cided not to bother to protect the continental United States from nuclear attack on the theory that, since we could strike back, we could "win" without defending ourselves? Quite a few people would think the President ought to be impeached and a new Con gress elected. PHIS isn't going to happen. But something like it is In danger of happening. There Is now a movement afoot in Congress - and gain ing some support - to slash to ribbons the Administration's prudent, practical, and prom ising start toward a meaning ful shelter program. The deep - cut proposals, which now threaten the sug gested $700 million civil de fense appropriation, and which would nearly immobilize the good beginning that is being made, can rest only on one of two premises: either that it is not worthwhile to try to shield the American people from a nuclear attack or, worse still, that, if all lives cannot be saved, why bother to save 40 to 50 million lives? No one questions that we want the nation to survive. But the nation is not sky scrapers or factories or farms; it is people. Only if people survive, will the nation sur vive, should the worst come Should the worst be left to chance? I can't believe that is the wish of the Congress or the will of the country. A government whi-;h does not set out to save every life it can in case of war has lost touch with humanity - and with reality. TS A public shelter program capable of saving a mini mum of 45 million lives prac tical and attainable? The President believes it is. The Secretary of Defense believes it is. The Joint Chiefs of Staff believe it is. . Speaking for both the ci vilian and military opinion in the Defense Department, Deputy Secretary R 0 s w e 1 1 Gilpatric has said: "We have come to the very deliberate and carefully con sidered conclusion that in a nuclear war a nationwide sys tem of fallout shelter space ca'h save enough lives to more than justify the amount of ef fort, sacrifice, and of disloca tion that is involved. Fallout shelter space is clearly worth while in every part of the United States, in large cities as well as smaller towns and rural areas." THE new head of the civil defense program, Assistant Secretary of Defense Steuart Pittman, is a calm, competent administrator who is not dis posed to push the panic but ton. A shelter program is no boondoggle to him. It is your life and your child's life that concern him. One of his first tasks has been to make a nationwide survey to identify potential public shelters already avail able. The survey is not yet complete, but it already shows that more than 200,000 build ings and othes structures throughout the country will meet the standards set for community and group shelters - that is, hold 50 or more per sons and reduce radiation in side to one-hundredth of that outside. Everything thus far points to the validity of the original estimate that effec tive shelter spaces for 50 mil lion people can be found in existing buildings, stocked with food and protected from fall-out. Public interest in the shel ter program may fluctuate with the ebb and flow of the cold war. But the wisdom and humane Tightness of a sound shelter program does not come from a single crisis or disappear with an easing of tensions. I doubt if the American peo ple would forgive a Congress which neglects to prepare them for the worst on the guess that the worst might not come. Park Inspection Tour To End Here Six meetings and inspec tions of 24 state parks on the Oregon coast and southwest Oregon will be conducted May 8 through 10 by the Ore gon State Parks and Recrea tion advisory committee. The tour will begin in Portland and travel west by chartered bus to the coast, then go south to the California border. The tour will end in Medford. Advisory board committee members are Loran Stewart, Eugene, chairman; Alfred D. Collier, Klamath Falls; Don G. McGregor, Grants Pass; Charles H. Reynolds, La Grande; George M. Hender son, Portland, and Lestle J. Sparks, Salem. They will be accompanied by state high way department representatives. Cross-Stitch Roses Oregon Professor Elected To Group Eugene - Dr. Virgil Carl Boekelheide, professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, Hugh L. Dryden, home secn-'try of the academy, has announced. The academy is a private corporation electing its own members from among the leading scientists in the Unit ed States. It was established by act of Congress for the fur therance of science and to ad vis the federal government upon request in scientific and technical matters. Dr. Boekelheide came to the University of Oregon last year from the University of Rochester, N. Y. He was Guggenheim fellow in Swit zerland in 1953-54. For several years Dr. Boe kelheide has been studying calabash curare alkaloids and their relationship to neuro muscular transmissions. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At 2 a.m., local time, Sun day morning, residents in all or parts of 26 states and the District of Columbia set their clocks ahead an hour - order to gain extra daylight for evening fun. Eighteen of the 26 went whole hog - meaning fast time all over. They include California, Connecticut, Dela ware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ne vada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl vania, Rhode island, Ver mont. Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Parts of eight states will provide the ultimate in con fusion, with both daylight and standard time prevailing. These states include Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon and West Virginia. Bring new elegance to your bedroom use natural colors or two shades of color. Cover your bed with roses in 6-to-inch cross-stitch. Easy to do, fabulous in effect! Pat tern 7412: transfer 12 rose motifs; quilting design. Thirty-five cents (coins) for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks, Needlecraft Dept., P. O. Box 163 Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. NEVER -BEFORE VALUE! 200 designs to knit, crochet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt in our 1962 Needlecraft Cat alog. Beautiful Bulkies in a complete fashion section plus bedspreads, toys, linens, af ghans, slipcovers, plus two free patterns. Send 25 cents now. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan rvlb FOR ALL YOUR INSURANCE NEEDS, SELECT A CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT. F. R. Brtnnan, C.I.A. QUALIFIED Thert art Two Qualified Insurance Agents at MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency PHONE SP 3-7343 27 North Holly Street HOW did this fast time idea get started? Benjamin Franklin is be lieved to have thought of it first. He is said to have re marked to his wife one day: "Debby, I wish the good Lord had seen fit to make each day just twice as long as it is. Per haps then I could really ac compli' h something." He s ed his personal prob lem by getting up every morning at daylight and working until he was through with whatever he had started. rpHIS problem of when to A start the day is an old one. The Babylonians began their day at sunrise. The ancient Jews began the day at sunset. The Egyptians and the Ro mans were the first to begin the day at midnight. 11HE PROBLEM of what to do wAh daylight arises oi(t of the fact that the length of daylight varies during the year in all parts of the world because the earth tips first one pole toward the sun and then the other while it trav els on its orbit. While the North Pole is tip ped toward the sun, it is dark continuously at the South Pole and the North Pole is always daylight. Then the North Pole tips away from the sun and is dark, while the South Pole has constant day light. These periods last six months each. This kind of day is called a SOLAR day. Astronomers have another kind of day called SIDEREAL day. It is based on the period of the earth's rotation as measured by the fixed stars. DUT Li You may say What about the mess that results when the clocks in your town or your neighbor hood say one kind of time and the clocks in a neighbor ing town or neighborhood say another time? Isn't that a crying shame? Well, it is, of course. But, daylight or no daylight time, that mess exists already. Sup pose you live over along the Idaho-Oregon line. In that I event, it may be high noon : by your kitchen clock and an hour later by the kitchen clock in your neighbor's house a block away. And so on at the bound aries of the TIME ZONES all the way across the country. That arises out of the Stand ard Time System that was adopted in this country on Nov. 18, 1883. When it comes to keeping the clocks all telling the same story at the same time, and your favorite nationwide ra dio and TV programs arriving at the same hour everywhere with no intervening monkey business in the way of taping, you just can't win. A MESS? Sure it's a mess. If we're going to have this daylight time business, we ought to have it all over the country. But remember this: If this were Russia, the Big Man at the top would say DO THIS! We'd then do - or else! Here in the U.S.A. fat least, so far) we can kick up a dis turbance about it, and every body can have his say. Name Speakers For Conference Salem Nationally known educators and a former juve nile court judge will be key speakers at a statewide con ference on exceptional chil dren May 4 and 5 in Eugene, according to Dr. Leon P. Minear, state superintendent of public instruction. Highlights of the confer ence, which will be held at the Eugene hotel, include dis cussions on programs for emo tionally disturbed children, new issues in special educa tion, the high-school drop-out problem and its implications for special education, and teaching as a profession. Judge Mary Conway Koh Ier, associated with the San Francisco juvenile court for several years, is author of "We Waste A Million Kids A Year," a series of three ar ticles recently published in the "Saturday Evening Post." Judge Kohler will speak on high-school drop-outs at the conference. Dr. Frances Mullen, who will discuss "Agency-School Cooperation in A Program for Emotionally Disturbed Chil dren," is director of special education for the Chicago pub lic schools. Dr. Paul Voelker, director of special education in the De troit public schools in Michi gan, will consider "New Is sues In Special Education.' Minear will open the con ference and present the Wini fred Hathaway award to the outstanding teacher of the par tially -lighted. TUESDAY, MAY I, 1962 Washington Report By William S. Whit (c) United Featura Syndicate Swift to Sew -r 9365 2-8 injur 7-r-O -i-IT Extra-easy! Whip ud this fun-dress and panty set in an afternoon. Eyelet adds a sugar-frosted touch tiny puff sleeves are optional. Printed Pattern 9365: Chil dren's Sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. Size 6 dress takes 2-Vs yards 35-inch; H yard contrast. FIFTY CENTS in coins for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mail. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pat tern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT'S SHOW Washington-The politicians in both parties are walking with almost comical soft-foot- f?$gJgk edness to stay j strictly out of we new airi ness u n c e r tainties which have followed President K e n n e d y's veto of big steel's Tecent effort to raise Whit. its prices. Rarely have Democrats and Republicans alike in congress been so busy in trying to look elsewhere. Speaking general ly, they want no part of the responsibility, either altogeth er to support or altogether to condemn what has now clear ly ' become the President's deep involvement in the basic economic affairs of this coun try. This is not because any large part of congress, in either party, thought the Pres dent acted wrongly in forcing big steel to abandon its lift in prices. Any secret poll un doubtedly would establish that most of congress, regard less of party, thought he acted rightly here. IHIS congressional view was widely held in private, notwithstanding some public Republican huffing and puff ing against the President's methods, for two reasons: 1. Big steel's proposed price advance followed successful efforts by Kennedy to keep down excessive labor demands on steel. 2. Nobody wanted to see a new wage-price spiral, which practically every politician, again regardless of party, be lived would have been the sure consequence of a steel price rise. (Certainly nobody wanted to see it in a congres sional election year.) Congress is leery over the whole affair now largely be- Yreka Landmark Is Converted to Park Yreka-An historical land mark at Yreka, Calif., Thomp son's Dry Diggins, is being converted to Discovery park, it has been announced. The once barren plot of ground will be planted with lawns, trees and will include a play area for children. Var ious civic grouos and the Cali fornia National Guard spread top soil over the plot April 14 and 15. "It was an all-out effort of many people." according to Chairman Bob Ground, of the Junior Chamber of Com merce park committee. The Jaycces furnished man power. Other help came from the Cily of Yreka and the Yreka unit of the National Guard and Contractor Rob Silva do nated equipment. Work on the park will con tinue through the soring. Completion is expected late this summer. According to historical rec ords, Thompson s Dry Diggins, was the original gold discov ery site in Siskiyou county. It was so named when gold sources were depleted and water became unavailable on the site. cause it sees the strong proba bility that the President's ac tion in steel may force him into a series of White House interventions, of one degree or another, into other "national-interest" labor and manage ment disputes. t'ENNEDYS reasoning in the steel episode was that big steel could not be allowed to raise its prices in so bed rock a "national-interest" in dustry because of the peculiar was the peculiar circumstance was the peculiar circumstance that labor had been prodded to go easy on wage demands and had in fact done so. Now, it does not follow in any event that he will think it necessary to intervene sn drastically and so dramatical ly again; very probably, he will not. What does follow, however, is that to some far lesser extent he sinmlv mav have to do so and possibly More than once. Already, for illustration the nation's railroads have served notice that in current negotiations with half a mil lion employees they expect the President to call on the unions to forgo either waee increases or larger frince ben efits. What the President dirt in steel, the railroads have said, he should be expected to do to avoid inflation "when there is a threat in other areas" meaning in the rail road industry. nPHIS sort of thing shakes the politicians to the core. They don't know what, If any thing, the President will ac tually do in the railroad dis pute. But they do know that whatever he does or does not not do will have inevitable repercussions, as will what he does or does not do in any subsequent case. In short, they have strong reasons to hope to be counted out of the whole thing. For when the President entered the affair in steel, he commit ted himself, at that very mo ment, to a new policy. This amounted to declaring that in vital national-interest indus trial collisions he proposed to assert a public interest as high er tnan that of either labor or capital. He did this, however, on his own power and his own responsibility. Congress, hav ing neither his power nor his responsibility, would like to leave it at that. The word there is this: "This, friend, is all the President's show, not ours." REVIVAL! REV. R. E. BAKER, Speaker Pastor From Sitka, Alaska Reese Creek Community Church 1 Milt Off Crater lake Hiway on Butt Falls Rd. May 1st Thru May 6th 7:45 P.M. Nightly Tfliairolks! All ol hi. here at First Federal, era grateful to Hie people ef Southern Oregon end Northern California for joining ue lest Saturday for our Open Home and firit showing of our attractive new home in Medford. Your attendance was more than twice the number we anticipated, so if you did not receive a complimentery ball point pen it was because the Initial supply of 1,500 was soon exhausted. 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