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e o o o o O O MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. MAY ll.?962 A 3 Thornton Endorsed By Polk Committee Monmouth-rtJPt-Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton has been endorsed for governor by the Democratic Central Commit tee of Polk county. The vote was by secret ballot. Other committee choices in cluded Sen. Wayne Morse D-' Ore.) for reelection, Blaine Whipple for Congress in the first district, and State Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nil sen for reelection. X HARRY E. HAWK Republican Candidate for COUNTY JUDGE Decisive Progressiva Pd. Pol. Adv. by Harry Hawk 11 63 Bellview Ave., Ashland Amsterdam Cab Driver? Learn Judo forQ Defense Amsterdam OIUPII- I had to type this one-handed because I wouldn't take iw cab driv er's word for it that he learned judo. Not only my driver, but hundreds of other Amsterdam carries are learning the time honored art of self defense. They learn, among other things, how to put a hand out of action with a swift blow against a tiny bone in the wrist. That's what happened to me. The judo training for cab drivers here came about after a series of alarmingly brutal attacks by apparent custom ers. On one night recently, a cabbie took a passenger to a lonely stretch of road. Sud denly, the man flicked a piece of plastic cord around the driver's neck and strangled ! him. Attacks on cabbies here have been frequent. Police statistics show that since World War II fatal or near- fatal attacks have averaged five a year. One driver, Cor Wilson, was confronted recently by an ex tremely unruly passenger. It took four armed policemen and two medical squad war dens to subdue the mam who turned out to be a dangerous( psycopath. Wilson contacted judo ex pert Rinus Brecht and the two discussed what could be done to make cab drivers safe from nighttime attackers. Wilson and Brecht on sever al occasions drove to a seclud ed spot and practiced de fenses against various attacks to which a cab driver is vul nerable. The experiment looked promising. Brecht then built a home trainer which was a carefully copied cab interior. He showed it to police and to operators of the agency controlling all of Amsterdam's taxis. They were convinced that judo lessons, using Brecht's training device, would be a useful safeguard. Within a few days, 300 cab bies enrolled i n Brecht's school for a 10-lesson course MOTHER2!E3a: Few things that you can do will make Mother feel so much like "Queen for a Day" as to bring her and the family here for dinner. SPECIAL DINNER tn Our Coffee Shop and . CROWN ROOM Background Music for Your Dining Pleasure Your Favorite Beverage DINE IN COMFORT-TERRACE r60M $095 tm Buffet Style Mother's Day Dinner. Featuring: Prime Rib, Virginia Baked Ham, or Roast Turkey, . plus lots of salad and all the trimmings. ALL FOR ONLY MARK ANTONY HOTEL Ashland, Oregon 482-1 721 for a feef $1.30. Brecht starts his course iy sitting in the front seat of nis trainer and inviting the cabmen-students to attempt an at tack in any manrftr they choose. They are impressed quickly with the value of judo training. Amsterdam's cab drivers have found judo skill is a comfcirting companion when a latvnight passenger asks to be taken to a lonely address. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Had Syndicate, Inc. HOPE GONE FOR BALANCED BUDGET There's no longer hope even among the most optimistic that the Federal budget will be balanced in the year to begin July 1, less than eight weeks from now. It will be in the red by billions of dollars and the only question now is by how many billions. Maybe the deficit will be in the $5 billion range, as both the respected Senate-House Internal Revenue Taxation Com mittee and Senator Harry Byrd, the Virginia Democrat who heads the powerful Senate Finance Committee, recently estimated. Perhaps it will be in the $7 billion range, as a just-completed analysis by the House Republican Policy Com mittee forecasts. Or the red ink could come to a whopping $10 billion - a figure being whispered tn as well as out of Washington. Whatever the precise deficit figure when the books are closed on the 1963 fiscal year, the pivotal point is that the budget is fast sinking into the red - and President Kennedy's January prediction of a hairline surplus of a half-billion dollars already is in the ashcan. This coming year's deficit will mark the third In three fiscal years of the Kennedy Adminittration, the 11th in the past 17 years of both Democratic and Republican Ad ministrations, the 27th in the past 33 years of our history. In all the years since President Hoover, our budget will have been in balance a scant six times. It will reflect primarily the fact that good as our econ omy's performance is in 1962, it simply isn't good enough to produce the corporation and individual income taxes to cover the government's scheduled spending. Profits are way up, yes - but not up enough to reach the $56.5 billion initial ly projected. Individual incomes are way up too - but not up enough to offset the short fall in corporation earnings. Moreover, with apprehension growing that unless our econ my is given an additional push, we may be facing another recession during the 1963 fiscal year, pressure is building for new spending programs. No one in the Administration is yet saying this out loud but Kennedy came near it when in his Chamber of Commerce speech the other day, he assured the nation's businessmen that he is trying "to bring our budget as closely as possible to balance." That's more than a hint. It will mean that our national debt' will soar past the $300 billion mark and Congress will have to raise the ceilings above the $300 billion now authorized. It will have no tolerable alternative. It will mean that the government will be borrowing heavily and pouring far more money into the economy than it is taking out in the form of taxes. In itself, this will be a spur to business. It also will mean that we could have a tough, natty Job on our hands of convincing our foreign creditors that our dollar's integrity is unimpaired. On deposit in our country are billions of dollars in claims against our gold hoard accumulated by foreigners through recent years. These creditors have hailed Kennedy's determination to balance the budget, have shown their confidence by keeping their balances here. Should another big deficit piled on top of i the deficit with which we're ending fiscal 1962 shake this confidence, we could be in a bad spot. This question of foreign confidence in our dollar's sta bility is one of the truly dangerous aspects of the emerging budget deficit. Getting back to the deficit itself, though, while it s prob ably no consolation to Kennedy, the record of his predecessor, President Eisenhower was no better at tms stage, jiisen hower chalked up three deficits in his first three years achieved only three surpluses in his entire eight years and had the dubious distinction of rolling up the biggest peace time deficit in our history to date in the year before he left office - $12.4 billion. Former President Truman s record was hardly a fiscal conservative's delight either - three surpluses in his entire tenure. Deficits have been a reality of Federal budget life through this whole generation. They still are. Personnel Officer For Bonnevftle Namtd o Portland- (UTD -Roy F. Re noud, Portland, has been named chief personnel ficer effeeffve May 16 of the Bon neville Power Administration. BPA Administrator Charles Luce announced today. FORTUNE FOR TULIP Washington -d'PP- Fame and fortune await the first grow er of a black tulip. Fancier of the flower have searched eagerly for a jet-colored tulip since the 17th Century, ac cording to. the National Geo graphic Society, which said a Dutch tulip grower has of fered $100,000, plus royalty. for a single bulb of a truly black tulip. Growers have succeeded in developing varieties that ap pear black at a distance, but on closer inspection are seen to be a very dark shade of maroon. Posthumous Award o Gifen Oregon Man Salem-IUPD-Ingvald S. John-, son, who drowned on ti'e( Oregon coast last July 16, while trying to save two men,, has been given an Interior Department national valor! award posthumously. It was given to his widow, the for- j mer Doreen Evans of Long Island, N.Y. The award was issued to Johnson, who was a civil en gineer with the Bureau of Reclamation here, by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. The citation and medal were pre sented by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Johnson, 49, was at the beach at Delake with his fam ily. He saw two swimmers in trouble in the surf and lunged in to save them. Although Johnson drowned before e rescue, another man then paddled into the ocean on an air mattress and brought the two swimmers to shore. QMSLEKS GOING GRMT! Year after year, Chrysler has continued to chalk up big sales gains. Current reports pouring in from all over the country signal the biggest switch to Chrysler in years. Model sales, October 1 through April 20, 1962, show a solid, certain 37 increase over the same period last year! A ringing vote of confidence for outstanding Chrysler value! Value that's protected because all Chryslers are full-sue. There are no "Jr. Editions" to jeopardize your resale value. See your dealer. Test-drive a Chrysler. Chrysler's got it great! Newport, 300 or New Yorker. Mom SALES' OCT. 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