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14 A Sub Fleet Range Extended by New Polaris Missile Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(UP!I-The Navy's missile-tiring sub marine fleet will take a ma jor step forward next month with the maiden flight of a Polaris missile capable of hitting harder and ranging 1,000 miles farther than ever before. The added range is expect ed to put all of Russia within striking distance of American Polaris-armed submarines. Current versions of the Polaris are capable of hurl ing their warheads up to 1, 725 miles when fired from a submerged submarine. The new model, known as the A3 Polaris, will have a maximum range of 2,800 miles. Host of Improvements The A3 Polaris is the ulti mate goal toward which we've been working," said a spokes man for the Polaris project. He Indicated it would include a host of improvements over its predecessors, the Al and A2 models. It is expected to have room for a bigger nuclear warhead, though the defense depart ment has kept the exact de tails unaer close security wraps. The first ol Ihe new 2.-800-mile Polaris will be fired from a fixed launching pad and the Navy has set next month as the target dute for Ihe launch. Then the A3 will go through a complete land and sea testing program before being put on combat- ready submarines sometime I late in 1963. j TUESDAY. JUNE 12, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON y Lift J; i u--1 iQb " WA l. if l pn tanl'Sir'f ?v 4 TO -$. FOREST OF LEGS - Explorer Glenn MacLean, 8, of Jack sonville, I'ls., found himself in a bit of trouble when he lost himself in this foresl of legs belonging to contestants in the Miss Tall Atlanta Pageant last week. The girls. practicing for the June 16 pageant, were in a huddle when Glenn began exploring. When the girls closed up, Glenn decided it was time to get out and with the help of a few tears he made it. (UPI) Auto Industry May Set All Time Sales Record in 1962 Bulk of Mail To Oregon Congressional Delegation Opposes King-Anderson Bill By YVONNE FRANKLIN Vashington Bureau Washington (Special) The pi.io nf the public is being carefully taken as the letters on medical care for t h e aged pour in I o Oregon's c o ngrcssional offices, but Ihe offices dis agree on just what 11 indi cates. There is, however, Fr.nkim no quarrel over the fact that the volume has increased since President Kennedy's and the AMA tele vision broadcasts, and that it is the issue on which they re ceive the most mail. All agree that the bulk of it is against the King-Anderson bill which provides hospital and other services, but no doctors' foes. Rep. Edwin R. Durno's of fice reports the mail running 10 to I against; both Reps. Al Ullman and Walter Nor blad were about 5 to 1, and iRep. Edith Green's mail was 2 to 1 against. Ullman's office called some of the mail egaiiut the King- Anderson bill "Inspired." Their stisnicinn was nrnusprt The tentative dale i belore Kennedy's broadcast when mail began to arrive in noticeable clumps. A special check with a cily directory indicated that the writers were wives of doctors, nurs es, secretaries, technicians all of whom did not mention their medical connection. There wps "even one doctor who didn't sign his M.D." ac cording to a secretary. However Ullman's secro- Linde Elected at Civil Rights Meet Salem - IIIPII - Hans Linde of Eugene, assistant law profes sor at the University of Ore gon, was elected vice chair man of Oregon's Advisory Commission on Civil Rights at a meeting here Sunday. Mrs. Mercedes Diez, Port land, was named secretary. The chairman, designated ear lier by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, is Eric W. Allen Jr., managing editor of the Medford Mail Tribune. The meeting, first since the advisory committee was re constituted by the commis sion, was devoted mostly to orientation of the new mem bers in their duties, and dis cussion of their responsibili ties. The next meeting, when the committee plans to out line its program for the com ing two years, will be held In Portland is July 7. MANAGED NAMED Bend - UIPH - Glenn Cush man, general manager of the Bend Bulletin, has been nam ed president and general man ager of the News Publishing Center, Inc., Salt Lake City, Robert W. Chandler, editor and publisher of the Bulletin, said today. (9 PITTSBURGH SPECIAL SALES EVENT 1 3 SUMMER VALUE FESTIVAL -" I lilllMMiTii)lYliai''ll WALLPAPER JiL ur oni noil yTP-J ) O tPd AT nieuiAt rA iVv'al MICI... Oil A SKONO S feSfe lfl QlJl ovit f 'Winiu I -j Rll loo 'i-oor y IrlkU PATTIRNS "'!" f 1 CUII1MIIIS PITTSBURGH FENCE, SHAKE, SHINGLE SPSCAL: CHOICE OF COLORS tary went on to say that since the AMA and Kennedy broad cast, the mail, although may be not inspired, was filled with the known AMA argu ments against medicare under social security. On the other hand, Robert Parkman, Durno's administra tive assistant, said: "In all my memory I have never seen such spontaneous mail!" Parkman has worked on Capitol Hill since 1925 and said he had seen some "stim ulated" mail in his time. 'I read most all of the let ters and kept looking for some evidence of some organ ization behind it. It doesn't exist." he said. Readng through Durno's file back to the middle of May bears this out. Some, to be sure, bristled with pithy slogans of "down the road to socialism" "doctor-patient re lationship destroyed". But the majority whether hand written, typewritten, a spidery aging scrawl or a firm and bold stroke had a common quality of deep and thought ful concern over the prob lems of meeting medical ex penses In old age. Here arc quotes from a few: " . . . . inadequacies in the (King-Anderson) bill. In our Immediate family my wife's three grandparents would not be covered. Her mother would be, but needs no financial as sistance. My mother would be but she is a Christian Scien tist and is not interested in lice medical care." Some Confusion Some wrote in confusion (and some confesed it) over what the legislation covers. A 72-yenr-old woman would "rather pay for doctors out of my pension rather than lose my personal freedom of choice." " .... It has been noted in the past that once a program such as 111 is is instituted it be comes a permanent feature and in fact grows witli time to encompass much more than was the stated intention at the beginning. Those who fa vor this bill scoff al the warn ings of the danger of social ized medicine mainly because we have enjoyed the benefits of a system free of controls, and they somehow believe that control by a third party does not alter the foundation of a patient-doctor relation ship, whereas it has been by experience that it does and not for the better." Durno answers his mail by stating that he opposes the President's measure. Stacks of Letters Ullman's office gets stacks of out-of-state letters, which are not answered, because he is on the Ways and Means Committee, r'or lack of a single vote the committer is holding the King - Anderson bill and Ullman says anything might happen in this session of Congress. Ullman's mail is so heavy that he must resort to a mim eograph letter on the medi care bill. He gives everyone who writes the same letter which states his position in favor of the bill and outlines some of its features. Many of the same people are writing all the legislators in opposition to the bill. Many elderly people wrote in support who had had in surance policies cancelled without warning or because of an illness. One older lady who wrote Mrs. Green said "insurance agents who call hang up quick when I ask if they would cover a person with high blood pressure and asthma." One 67-year-old man who had had extensive cancer sur gery at Vancouver Veterans Hospital wrote a long letter to Mrs. Green that "Eisen hower had no finer treatment than I had at Vancouver, ex cept that he didn't have to humiliate himself by pleading poverty to get it." This man was concerned for the other oldsters who wouldn't get the medical care he got and he supported the King-Anderson bill. Minister Not Covered But a doctor who wrote a long letter asked if it were not true that "we did not have to disclose assets to get an FHA loan." A minister in his 80s who lives with his wife on a small pension said they were not covered under social security and he won dered how they would make it if taxes were increased. An aged lawyed wrote at age 78 his insurance was abruptly cancelled and that after he complained to the AMA the insurance company blandly said that his age had nothing to do with it. He stat ed that he was a Republican and he supported the King Anderson bill. A spokesman for a commit tee which had studied the var ious proposals wrote that the insurance companies which now offered uncanccllnblc in surance had premiums which were too high for most older people to pay. Mrs. Green's letters in re ply varied. In some cases she attempted to persuade her writers to favor the adminis tration's bill by enclosing a copy ot a speech by Portland doctor Morton Goodman sup porting the bill. Rep. Norblad, who is a keen checker of the public pulse, indicated that he is Introduc ing medicare Icgislaton. At the time of the interview he had not had a bill prepared and preferred not to discuss what it might contain. He was miffed at statements made in his district which he said did not give a true picture of his views on medical care (or the aged. "It has been said that I am opposed to any program for our elderly," he said. "This is not the fact at all. I recog nize the need. But the ques tion is how to solve the prob lem." He mentioned a few of the drawbacks of the administra tion's bill. "King-Anderson would cov er just one-quarter of all the cost of an illness for a person over 65," he said. "Another objection is that it leaves three or four million out who are not under social security. I think they are just as en titled to coverage as anyone else." Working on Legislation "I feel definitely that we have to work out a good pro gram, and I am working on one right now which is more comprehensive," he indicated, saying that, his legislation should be ready in a week or so. When asked if he thought the charges of socialism were justifiod in criticism of King Anderson, Norblad said he thought the charges were "very much over-emphasized. There may be a certain fac tor, but I can't think it is par ticularly material. 1 just think I there are better approaches to it." He said he thought the Kerr-Mills legislation, now in effect, which adds federal money to state welfare pro grams tor medical care, was "one way to handle the prob lem, but apparently it is not working out satisfactorily, judging from the number of people who have taken ad vantage of it." He said he felt there must be "something to it" when people object to the "pauper's oath" under Kerr-Mills, and this must be a reason why more aren't responding to it. FAIR ATTENDANCE Seattle-IUPII-World's Fair at tendance passed the 2 million mark Sunday as 49,655 paid admissions went through the turnstiles to increase to 2, 027,050 the total for the first 51 days operation. Detroit (UPD - The auto in dustry may yet set an all time sales record in 1962. The official guidepost will be the number of new car registrations - cars sold and actually licensed this year. Those figures are compiled by R. L. Polk & Co. in Detroit. The present record was set in 1955 when 7.169,908 new cars were registered. Slightly Below Industry leaders have been estimating 1962 new car vol ume at 6.5 to 7 million, or slightly below 1955. But Polk said that registra. tions this year are continuing to run at a record rate. "Not once have the accumulated totals been below the compar able periods in 1955," the firm said. Registrations figures are always more '.than a month behind actual sales because the figures are obtained from state offices around -.he coun iry. rne latest tabulation is for the month of April. : Hiqost April Polk said April registrations were 640,49 cars-best since May, 1960, and the second highest April on record. The April, I960, total of 647,287 cars holds the record. "The April surge lifted the Producer of Film Epic Declines Cut Rome -(UPI)- Producer. Wal ter Wanger said Monday he has refused to take a cut in salary to ease skyrocketing costs of the $30 million film of "Cleopatra," starring Eliza beth Taylor and Richard Bur ton.' He said the matter is in "the hands of my attorney." But he said he has not been fired "unless there is some new development that I know nothing about." Wanger, who also has a "substantial percentage" of the trouble-plagued film, said he refused to take the salary cut "because I'm not a 20th Century - Fox executive. I'm here with my own company." Most of the film's trouble has centered around its star, Miss Taylor, and her health. An illness that almost cost her life last year forced nearly a one-year postponement in be ginning the film and cost 2Uth Century-Fox several mil lion dollars. State Board Okays Building Flans Eugene -WPIl- Preliminary plans for several buildings were approved by the State Board of Higher Education Monday. The board, meeting as a committee' of the whole, also took up proposals for a $42 million building program rec ommended for presentation to the legislature. Buildings would go up be tween 1963 and 1965. Business Professor Gefs Highest Award Eugene UPIi The Univer sity of Oregon has presented its hignest award fot teaching excellence to Dr. David A. Baerncopf, assis'.a-i professor of business stall-tics in the school of business 'idministra lion. ( Tut SI. 000 I. sled Award for 'teaching E.cellencc was a", cunced Sund a! Ine Uni versity's 85th coi.ii" enccment rxjruscs. ixcmiNt rot OUTDOOR UWTUi, tUlTIC IIDINO. ROONNO. itc. 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Incorporated of Medford 311 N. BARTLETT Phone: 773-7404 ST. year-to-date total to 2,218,569 . Industry would have new cars registered and also ; record. registered, but this repre sented a much better 31.3 per cent share, since the overall market was smaller. Of all the automotive divl sions, Chevrolet is .the pace setter by a wide margin. On June 5, Chevrolet produced its one-millionth car of calen- established a. new jecord for The compact car's share of idar 1962, a mark not reached in i vol until Aug. - Through the first week in June, Chevrolet has produced 1,033,764 cars. This repre- ims loupitrowrf penoa," foik ! the markct is dropping aa'dV !.,'. H I cording to Ihe figures. The January-April total tills ; A total oi 610,173 compacts year is about'2 Dcr cent ahead u,-pri rrffictpreri in the four of the old record in 1955. If months, 27.2 per cent of the sents 31.9 per cent of the in the pace noias about the same j market. 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