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.
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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
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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. Come in and get on
If you were disappointed ... a new supply will arrive soon.
...,d on all we
cwima'aTlimllaite...
...Melvin L. Steinbach, 837 Shafer south of Medford,
winner of our first prize awarded during our Open
House Saturday. Mr. Steinbach chose the Hi-Fi tet in
stead of the Television set.
. . We also congratulate Mrs. David W. Kreer, 530 Clover
Lane west of Medford, who received the second award,
a transistor radio.
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