In the Day's News
By FRANK
From our Johnson Island
testing ground, we fired a
hydrogen bomb some 200
miles up Into the sky and ex
ploded It. It lighted up the
whole South Pacific area for
as much as six minutes. Its
explosive power was some
where in the neighborhood
of a million tons of TNT
which is an explosive of vast
ly greater magnitude than we
ordinary people are able to
imagine.
It must have been quite a
fire cracker. It apparently
ripped a hole in the iono
sphere which is a layer a
little more than 100 miles up
that is something like the
layer that is formed when
you press two soap bubbles
together.
ABOUT all ordinary non
scientific people know
about the ionosphere is that
without it broadcasting sta
tions could send only about
as far as 25 to 75 miles. At
that point, without the iono
sphere, the earth's curvature
would cause the waves to trav
el out into space and get
lost.
Radio waves of wave
lengths in or near the ordi
nary broadcasting spectrum
bounce back from the iono
sphere and therefore carry
their message over a consid
erable part of the earth's sur
face. COMFORTING note:
Ripping a hole in the
Ionosphere with our million
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tons of TNT apparently up
set nothing.
At any rate, we can still
hear our radios.
CO much for that.
The next day we fired
another object up into space.
It is harmless. It isn't de
signed to explode. It is anoth
er satellite to go into orbit
around the earth. It is very
small, weighing only about
170 pounds.
Its job is to BOUNCE
BACK television and high-frequency
radio signals, which
follow the line of sight and
go off the horizon and get
lost. That's why TV pro
grams can't be seen "live"
all over the earth.
This new satellite is de
signed to make that possible
so that when come the
Olympic Games in Tokyo we
can see them direct.
ANOTHER interesting
point:
This shot is costing the
taxpayers nothing.
American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. (AT&T in the
stock market reports) built
Telstar, as the little satellite
is named, at a cost of about a
million dollars and then
forked over 2.7 million dol
lars to the National Aeronau
tics and Space Administra
tion to pay for having it fired
up into space and put into
orbit around the earth.
It's a private enterprise
job.
WHAT will come of it?
Well, the scientists tell
us that from Telstar could
come in time a series of 30
to 50 satellites, circling the
globe at an altitude of about
6,000 miles and providing the
first worldwide system of ra
dio and television communi
cations. How soon?
It might come as soon as
1964 or 1965.
age cfyi
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
CLEM ALBRIGHT wins the medal for this month's biggesi
whopper about hunting dogs. "My retriever stopped
dead in his tracks one morning and pointed. I didn't see a
sign of quail just an old
man napping in the
shade. I woke the fellow
and asked, Notice any
quail around here? 'Not
a one,' answered the old
man, 'but I've just been
dreaming about a
couple.' "
A man who believes in
logic i H. Allen Smith. "It
Is a known fact," says he,
"that most major hurri
cane along the Atlantic
coast occur in August and
September. The solution is
therefore simple. Do away with August and September."
e
Authors on authors:
"I don't understand how two men can write a book together.
To me that's like three people getting together to have a baby."
Evelyn Waugh.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."
Samuel Johnson.
"An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those
who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations."
Montesquieu.
A New York girl was mighty impressed by a tour of a big
furniture factory. "Now," she proposed, "show me when they
make such beautiful furniture out of those crinkly little walnuts."
O 1962, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Feature! Syndicate
Four Men Appear
Four men appppeared in
Jackson County circuit court
Wednesday afternoon before
Judge James M. Main.
Imposition of sentence was
suspended for five years for
both Harry Charles Eng
strand, 23, of 428 Hamilton
st., and Frederick Michael
Wooldndge, 21, of 15 Stewart
ave.
Engstrand was charged
with writing a check with in
sufficient funds in bank to
cover the same in full. Wool
dridge was charged with ob
taining property by false pre
tenses. Both were placed on proba
tion and ordered to make restitution.
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Stop Me
In Circuit Court
Harvey LeRoy Sherman,
29, and Frank Sherman, 27,
brothers from Coos Bay, were
arraigned on charges of bur
glary in a dwelling. They are
specifically charged with en
tering the home of Donald
Eugene Dungey on Castle
creek in the Union Creek
area.
The brothers were arrested
by state police in connection
with the entering of five
cabins in the area. Police have
recovered some $715 in stolen
property.
A. E. Piazza was appointed
attorney for Harvey Sherman
and James A. Redden for
Frank Sherman. They are be
ing held in the county jail on
$1,500 bail each.
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Tax Commission
Collections Up
For Fiscal Year
Salem - (UPU - The Oregon
Tax Commission said Thurs
day it collected $112.8 million
in the fiscal year which ended
June 30, an increase of $6.5
million, or 6.1 per cent, over
the previous year.
This was less than half of
the expected percentage gain
given to the 1961 legislature.
That percentage was 13.8 for
the first half of the biennium,
or first fiscal year.
Instead of $112.8 million,
first year collections were ex
pected to be about $120 mil
lion. Of the eight taxes the com
mission administers, five
of them exceeded collections
last year - personal income,
corporation excise, electronic
cooperative, private car com
pany, and rural telephone ex
change. Recipts from the other
three declined - corporation
income, amusement device
and forest products.
Major Source
The commission's major
source is the personal income
tax. Receipts totaled $90.4
million, a pickup of $6 mil
lion, or 7.1 per cent, over last
year.
The breakdown In collec
tions for the 1961-62 fiscal
year, compared to the prev
ious year's collections, in pa
renthesis:
Personal income tax - $90,-
474,795 ($84,472,667).
Corporation excise - $21,
284,480 ($20,737,430).
Corporation income - $181,
441 ($192,853).
Amusement device - $174,
609 ($181,545).
Electric cooperatives-$147,.
195 ($139,994).
A & B forest lands - $485,
433 ($484,427).
Class C forest lands - $15,
033 ($35,020).
Class D forest lands-$7,861
(None).
Private car company - $19
281 ($19,199).
Rural telephone exchange-
$80,130 ($75,035).
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Washington Report
By William
(c) United Featura Syndicate
FITS RELATIONSHIP
Washington - "Crisis" is a
much - abused word, but
"crisis" is the right word all
the same for
what, in a
deep sense,
this country
faces in the
developing re
lationship be
tween the fed
e r a 1 govern
ment and the
physicians of
America. A s
the Senate moves toward de
cisive votes on the administra
tion's plan for medical care
for the aged based on com
pulsory social security tax
ation, one thing is morally
certain. That is that not in
many years has there been so
great a need for a wise and
temperate and resolutely re
sponsible congressional
course.
It must neither deny reason
able help to the old and hon
estly needy nor yet go so far
as to drive the doctors of this
nation into something ap
proaching civil disobedience
to the government of the
United Slates.
IiO SUGGEST that civil dis-
obedience might in some
circumstances actually be the
result is to sound melodrama
tic in a country so long rccus
tomed to seeing bitter po
litical arguments end at last
in some rough accommodation
between the parties.
We l?nd to think that only
excitable foreigners unfami
liar with the traditions of free
and orderly government go in
for this sort of thing. France,
Latin America, the Balkans,
perhaps yes; not, surely, the
United States of America.
But the old, easy certainty
Is here no longer In this time
of great and sweeping change.
For now, in a neighboring and
quite similar and sensible
University Plans
Commencement
During Summer
Eugene - This year the Uni
versity of Oregon will have
a commencement at the end
of the summer sessions to con
fer degrees on those who have
completed requirements for
graduation during the sum
mer, President Arthur S
Flemming has announced.
The new summer com
mencement will make It pos
sible for ir.ose who have met
graduation requirements to
receive their degrees without
waiting almost a year until
June, 1963, commencement.
It also will help keep the
June commencement to a
manageable size. Last June
the graduating class totaled
2,034, the largest in the Uni
versity's history.
The summer commence
ment will be Saturday, Aug.,
11, at 9 a.m., standard time,
in the outdoor auditorium east
of the music building. The
exercises will be similar to
those in June, with proces
sional, reading of candidates'
names, and direct participa
tion by ad'fiirs of doctoral
candidates.
All available faculty mem
bers will march in the proccs-1
sional, and some will serve
as marshals.
For the summer commence
ment, no diplomas will be
prepared beforehand, and fi
nal checking will be done aft
er Aug. 11. Students may re
quest Certificates of Comple
tion to be sent Immediately
after final clearence and be
fore diplomas are mailed.
Degree applications for
Aug. 11 will not be accepted
after July 31. If the degree
is not cleared for Aug. 11, a
new application will be re
quired for the June, 1963, ;
commencement.
Arkansas Project
Sent To Senate 1
Washington - (UPU - The
Senate Interior Committee to
day sent the $170 million Fry- f
Ingpan Arkansas Heciamauon ,
Project to the Senate floor
without change from the
House-passed version.
The measure was approved
this year by the House for
the first time despite repeal
ed tries during the past de
cade. H would take water
from west of the Rocky Moun
tains to the drier eastern side
in Colorado.
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Salem - ITU - The second
biggest electric utility In Ore
gon, Portland General Elec
tric Co., ha applied to the
state for exclusive service in
parts of seven Western Ore
gon counties.
The counties are Multno
mah, Marlon, Clackama,
Polk, Yamhill, Washington,
wait
S. White
country, Canada, Ihe whole
province of Saskatchewan is
torn by a doctors' strike
against the government's com
pulsory medical care plan. If
it can happen in nearby Can
ada, so close to us in so many
ways, no man can longer
wholly exclude the p o s s i -bility
that il can happen here.
(In substance, it is happening
in Austria, too; but then that
is Austria.)
UOR the plain truth is thai
this is no ordinary politico-economic
issue. The issue
here is noiiung less than a
bilter and fundamental con
test on philosophic concepts
between the President of the
United States and the power
ful organization of American
physicians, the American
Medical association.
This is no mere bread-and-butter
and dollars -and - cents
dispute. Justifiably or not,
the organized doctors of this
country see themselves as
under attack as a learned pro
fession accustomed to total in
dependence and almost as sus
picious of lay opinion of mat
ters even touching their pro
fession as they arc on lay
opinion of their diagnoses. j
Whether they are right or
wrong is almost incidental
and, in practical fact, almost
irrelevant. Even if they are j
wholly wrong, they cannot be i
treated as bus drivers or
postal clerks. This is not be-:
cause they are better than j
bus drivers or postal clerks, or j
are more equal, so to speak, i
under the law. It is simply I
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because no medical care sys
tem of whatever kind - and
no matter how many votes
it marshals in Congress - will
ever work so long as they re
main mortally opposed to it.
CJOME degree of their con-
sent simply must be a pre-1
condition to any plan having
the slighest chance for suc
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some politician to arise in
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middle way in that art of com
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good politics.
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It was done in 1948 by a man
named Robert A. Taft amid
all the nationally dangerous
labor -management struggles
that followed the war. Sen
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and skill - though admittedly
on a somewhat less sensitive
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and reason and the national
interest prevailed, in the Taft
Hartley labor act. Was it
sound? Well, 14 years later
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