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History from the tiles ot The
Mail' Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years 0-
10 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1952 (Tuesday)
A 100-acre fire, largest of
the 1952 fire season, started
near the Red Blanket Lumber
company mill near Prospect
yesterday afternoon; brought
under control today.
County grand Jury requests
Information concerning the
safety of the county bridge at
Rogue River.
20 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1942 (Wednesday)
Medford city council re
news pleas for additional gov
ernment funds to he used for
enlargement of city sewage
disposal plant.
From Arthur Terry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A ru
mor, shaped like an enemy
parachute, flew over the Al
bany Corvallis area Inst
Monday. Even If nimnr
mongor doesn't, rumor
should keep lis feet on the
ground."
30 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1932 (Friday)
Members of American Le
gion here start registering tor
national Legion convention in
Portland.
Medford all-star "killon
ball" team defeats Chiloquin,
1R to B; prepares to play
Crater Lake stars.
40 YEARS AGO
July 22, 1922 (Saturday)
Special invesigalnr leaves
Los Angeles for Medford to
study Ku Klux Klan activi
ties here at the request of
Oregon stale officials.
From the "Local and Per
sonal" column: "Jerry Je
rome, delegate from the lo
cal Elks lodge tn the annual
convention al Atlantic City,
N. J., will return next week."
SO YEARS AGO
July 22, 1912 (Monday)
Three-year-old girl found
alive and well after being
lost for 24 hours in Antelope
area.
Railroad gets temporary re
straining order to halt con
struction of brick building al
Eighth and Fir sts. when
freight cars knock bricks from
the walls.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is eacellent; five oi
sis is flood.
1. Who wrote "The Spv."
"The Pathfinder." and 'Hie
Drorslaycr?"
2. Adult mollis est clothes;
true or false
3 Is the Postmaster Gen
eral a member of thr Trcsi
dent's Cabinet
4 Is a drum major s head
dress called a heaver. shako,
or fez
5 Is the Tropic of Cancer
north, or south, ol the Equator-
Whnt Is a prawn"
7. Which is the plural, oa
sis or oases?
fi. A person who is a vic
tim of claustrophobia fears
what
fl. Is linoleum of animal,
vegetable, or mineral origin
10. Was the Communist
Manifesto originally written
In English. Ci e r m a n, or
French'
Answartt 1. James Fine
mora Cooper. 2. Falsa. 3. Yes.
4. Shako. 5. North. . A
shrimpllka crustacian. 7. Oa
ses. 8, Enclosed places. 9.
Vegetable. 10. German,
Brave Words On Berlin
The United States is there; the United Kingdom
and France are there; the pledge of NATO is there
and the people of Berlin are there. It is as secure, in
that sense, as the rest of us- for we cannot separata
Its safety from our own . . . We cannot and will not
permit the Communist to drive us out of Berlin,
either gradually or by force. John F. Kennedy on a
nationwide telecast of July 25, 1961.
The President's brave Berlin speech reads
somewhat oddly just a year after it was delivered.
It is as if we were looking at Rerlin through the
same glass as before, but as if the glass had been
subtly shifted.
A year ago the President was announcing a
big military buildup. Now the 156,000 reservists
are trickling homewards; all are expected to re
turn to civilian life by late September.
Little progress has been made on persuading
our allies to build up their commitments to the
NATO shield, although the end of the Algerian
war could provide more French troops for West
ern Europe.
THE President promised "to let every citizen
Iriit-Mir i'Unf cinnc Via nn r t at a iiif Vmnt Inlair t r
j rv 1 1 v v . nai ollJi7 iiv- van mist iiiiwwu
I protect his family in case of (atomic) attack."
;The result was 25 million civil defense booklets
issued more than six months later limited to
protection against fallout.
The booklets' only detailed description of ef
fects of a nuclear explosion have to do with a
hypothetical five-megaton burst at ground level.
This information would be of little help in coping
with a 57-megaton device.
The civil defense program the administra
tion asked for started like a house afire. Congress
on Aug. 10 voted the full $407.6 million requested
for a start on a national fallout shelter program.
This was in addition to $86.55 million already
approved. A medical and food stockpiling pro
gram also was authorized.
DUT it soon become apparent that the President
had stimulated what was rapidly become a
runaway civil defense program. So the adminis
tion began dragging its feet, and without prod
ding from Downtown, the Congress soon follow
ed suit.
President Kennedy this year asked Congress
for $695 million in new civil defense funds, and
Secretary of Defense McNamara on Feb. 8 sent
to Congress a draft bill for a shelter program
that would cost $450 million in the next fiscal
year. The House Government Operations Com
mittee completed hearings on the measure June
12.
The Berlin situation became more urgent last
year with the erection, Aug. 13, of what West
Berliners call the schandmauer the shame wall
between East and West Rerlin.
Then on Oct. 26 American troops and tanks
drew to within a few hundred yards of Soviet
troops and tanks at the Brandenburg Gate in a,
showdown that lasted for several days. Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's personal
representative in Berlin, subsequently disclosed
that the American troop movement was "delib
erately designed to bring a Soviet confrontation."
fV LATE Berlin tension is rebuilding. The
Communists on July 3, behind a screen of
smoke and tear gas, began building a wall be
tween West Rerlin and East Germany.
Meanwhile, the words on Rerlin remain brave,
though the spirit of "sacrifice" the President
sought to invoke last July 25 seems to have dis
sipated. The President told Soviet Ambassador Ana
toly F. Dobrynin on July 17 that withdrawal of
Western forces from Rerlin was f lately "non
negotiable" and that the latest Soviet proposals
were "totally unacceptable." E.R.R,
Communist Kaffcc-K latch
With a little luck, the student kaffee-klatsch
the Communists are putting on in Helsinki could
backfire again.
The last of these world youth "festivals," put
on in Vienna three years ago, may have represent
ed on balance a Red plus, but it was hardlv the
I whole-hearted peace - through - joy success its
i sponsors had hoped for.
j Reasoning, perhaps, that the awe-struck Aus
trian government could be counted on to forestall
any untoward incidents, the Communists allow
ed the youth schmoos to be held for the first time
this side of the Iron Curtain.
jLJKLSIN'Kl apparently was chosen for its elose
, ness to Russia. Also, because of new rail and
'air lines, delegates can be brought from India,
i Asia, and Southeast Asia without being exposed
to decadent (but comfortable) non-Communist
countries. The Indonesian group, for example,
s will go by ship to Red China, then by train
through that country and Russia.
THE bulk of the U.S. delegation is being fur-
nished by the U.S. Festival Committee, which
is understood to have the blessing of the spon
! jors.
i But just as three year? ago, "dissidents" are
making the trip under the auspices of the Inde
pendent Service for Information, with head
quarters in New York.
This outfit, and others at Sanfntd and Yale,
have been informing delegates of the Communist
: nature of the festival and coaching them on ways
of presenting the Western point of view at Hel
sinki. Their activities have caused the U.S. State
Department, which up until Vienna had lifour-
, aged U.S. student from paitifivjt iflg in these
I world conclaves, slightly to unbend. -F..R.R. ,
Matter of Fact
lei New York Herald
ABOUT THE PHALANX
OF MARSHALS
Washington-Nikita S. Khru
shchev has just claimed an
anti-missile missile which" hits
a flv in outer space." Be
tween this
claim and the
fortunate ab
sence of a mis
sile gap, there
is a curious
link which is
perhaps worth
o x p 1 o r ing.
One must be
gin at the be
ginning, with
Defense Ministry,
which Marshal Malinovsky
has presided over since the
fall of Marshal Zhukov. It is
the precise opposite of the
Pentagon of Robert McNa
mara, in the sense that there
is no sign of civilian control
of any part of this huge mili
tary machine, except in the
political department.
The senior leadership of the
Defense Ministry is still main
ly composed of a phalanx
of marshals and generals who
led the Soviet armies in the
last war; for the Soviets
seem to have no rules about
the retirement of senior mili
tary officers. The scientists
are mere appendages. Men in
uniform also occupy every
key post In the ministry, from
Mnlinovsky's post downwards.
T Y ITS very nature, this or
J ganization of the Soviet
defense effort means two
things. First of all, especially
because of the continuing pre
dominance of older military
officers, it must mean a high
degree of conservatism in So
viet defense planning. In par
ticular, any attack on any
well dug-in military vested in
terest must always meet with
the kind of conservative mil
itary opposition that protect
ed the Polish cavalry, for in
stance, until the Polish horse
men met Hitler's tanks in
1939.
In addition, the scientists,
being mere appendages, must
be quite powerless to argue
with the marshals. Even the
civilian bosses of Ihe Soviet
Union, including Khrushchev
himself, must (ind argument
with the marshals inordinate
ly difficult.
s
OBVIOUSLY K h r ushchev
" can Impose simple budget
ceilings and manpower ceil
ings, as he has done, thereby
Incurring the marshals' open
resentment. But no civilian
can ever argue with the lead
ers of any military caste about
the more complex choices
presented hv an evnlvinp mil.
itary technology, unless all '
the papers defining these
choices also pass over the
desk of the civilian In ques
tion. F.ven then, as American
experience shows, the civil
ian's role is fur from easy.
Consider, then Khrushchev
and the marshals Jointly con
fronting the choice they had
to make when they success
fully tested their prototype
Intercontinental ballistic mis-!
silc in t9 ST. Their "decision-1
making process" ins the so-i
rinlngtsts now call ill must 1
have been influenced hv three
main factors
IIRST. there was budget
1 celling, for Khrushchev
was then trying In hold down
defense outlays. But tn view
of the very nature of Ihe So
virt defense apparatus, pay
ing for ICBMs by borrowing
from the ground forces' bud
get or the navy budget ran
hardly have been considered.
Second, enormous outlays
on another kind of missile,
the Soviet surfaee - lo - air
missile, were alreadv planned
bv the Soviet
Command, one
Air Defense
of the most
is. i 4$$?
f-j( mr f
L,, " f -
rtltop
the Soviet
powerful of sit Soviet mlli- can ' estahhshment." ti-e nen
lary veiled interests In add! rral reposiiorv of nionry.
tion. s medium - range of- brains and p.iwer
fensive ballistic missile, much
cheaper than ICBMs and c ; For 20 vears the Amen,-,
pahle of threatening all of
Western Furope. was atarly
In production. I
By Joseph Alsep
Trlhune Svndlrate
Third, the youngest child
in any military family the
new weapon that may com
pete for appropriations with
established weapons Is al
ways regarded with extreme
hostility by all military or
ganizations. In this connec
tion, one need only recall the
bitter opposition of most of
the U.S. Air Staff to the Von
Neumann report, which be
latedly made possible the
U.S. ICBM program. The So
viets' prototype ICBM must
have aroused much the same
emotions as the Von Neu
mann report.
rjtHE decision that was
-t reached plainly reflected
all these pressures. The So
viet ICBM. probably lacking
any powerful vested interest
to promote it in the Soviet
Pentagon, was not in the end
put into expensive quantity
production. Thus the missile
gap, although foretold by
President Eisenhower's own
Defense Secretary, Neil McEl
roy, did not materialize aft
er all; and the course of his
tory was quite probably
changed thereby.
As a compromise, great
numbers of medium range
missiles were built to threat
en Europe. Meanwhile, that
powerful vested interest, the
Soviet Air Defense Command,
was also authorized to spend
five or even ten times the
funds needed to create a mis
sile gap. In order to strew
the whole Russian land with
many thousands of surface-to-air
missiles at the very mo
ment when the U.S. was get
ting ready to phase out air
planes for ICBMs.
TT WAS. If you think about
it. a very curious choice
to make, though a choice di
rectly reflecting the curious
organization of the Soviet De
fense Ministry. As for Khru
shchev's new rocket that can
"hit a fly In space." all ob
solescent military vested in
terests always try tn find new
weapons that will justify
their continued existence,
power, and grandeur. This
new rocket is that weapon for
the powerful Soviet Air De
fense Command. It is. there
fore, so to say, Ihe end of
the story.
The trouble is. however,
that antl - missile missiles
will be more useful than the
American Pentagon has be
lieved until recently. The
blind operation of military
vested interests does not al
ways produce the wrong an
swers, unhappily.
Advice: An Alliance
By ERIC SEV AREID
Since we enjoy in litis spending and the happy hec
space what President Ken-; tic sellers' market of a world
nedy at Philadelphia called
if-"""" ! t h e ullimr
yA 2 K.xury of g
L - v ltr, vice we m
' aM. J ...m ,,,v,
""""""J the ullimate'bad - things ol life
giv-1
ad
niav
i4
sr arrln
for the mis-dcveloprd people
of the United States
We won't call it a five-year
plan because that carries over
tones of fur hats, communal
kitchens and massed choirs
singing official odes to the be
loved bulldozer.
It will have to be an alli
ance of federal, state snd lo
cal gn ernintti :s. uniers.t:cs.
foundations and ah oilier ma-
Jor sectors ol tn.it snr.iw:ins
entity now railed the Amen-
people hsve been
btithelv and hredle
'.
for- .
'n. idew stfv nd harkw srd
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmonn
lei New York Herald Tribune Svndtcata
CONGRESS AND THE
PRESIDENT
The defeat of medical care,
which has come as the climax
of a series of defeats, is bound
to cause the
Pre sident to
reappraise his
f Jtv f I relations with
IV'WeSl Congress.
mz 4. A What can he
ITs-'s .it.JStt and what
he in
duce Congress
to do? If we
study the rec
Lippmann ord, the an
swer is, I think, that in the
kind of Congress we now
have it is not possible to get
reform and innovation just
because they appear to be de
sirable and in the public in
terest. They will be blocked,
chewed up In committee, or
rejected by majorities which
are easily swayed by an or
ganized opposition.
IHE fatal weakness of re -
form and innovation
that there is nn compulsion
behind them. They may be
very desirable, but they are
not absolutely necessary.
Even if the country would be
better off with them, it can
rock along without them.
On the other hand, this
same Congress has followed
the President in the field of
defense and foreign policy.
There has been no trouble
about the enlarged appropri
ations for the armed forces.
The Congress has voled for
the radical trade expansion
bill. With only a few eccen
tric quirks it has voted for the
foreign aid bill. Why? Be
cause Presidential leadership
in defense and foreign policy
has an almost irresistible com
pulsion behind it. The coun
try must be armed. The un
derdeveloped countries can
not be surrendered to chaos.
The United States cannot be
left without the means to ne
gotiate with the great new
power of the European Com
mon Market.
rpHIS bears directly on the
- decision which the Presi
dent must soon make about
tax reduction on the one hand
and on the other tax reform
to close loopholes. In view of
the stagnant condition of the
economy and the prospect of
recession, tax reduction has
become a necessity. The facts
of the situation, not some
thing dreamed up within the
Administration, are pushing
for a quick and very substan
tial tax cut. It is not merely
something which would he
desirable and pleasant. Tax
reduction is something which
we must have if we are to
avoid very serious consequen
ces not only to business and
employment and to our stand
ard of life but also to our po
sition in the world.
Tax reform to close up the
loopholes and reduce the in
equities is in principle highly
desirable. But look at what a
hash Sen. Byrd's committee is
making of the current tax re
form bill. The fact is that no
matter how desirable the key
committees, those of Rep.
Mills and Sen. Byrd, will al
most certainly take a year to
agree on any kind of lax re
form bill. They are under no
compulsion to hurry. But tax
reduction cannot wail a year.
All the indications are that if
tax reduction to rcflale the
economy is put off until next
year the trouble will be so
serious that much more dras
tic measures will be needed.
rpHE moral, it seems to me,
is that the President
should not wait anv longer
I before calling upon Congress
on the swelling tide of war
I starved for Ihe good
and
Ihe party is over. Now :
conies the hangover and we'
focus our bloodshot eves to !
as w ell hiMir- discover that: W e have at
t a t e to the least twice as many farms as 1
limit and pro. we need, with chronic ln.se
pose what 's curlty for most farmers and 1
shocking- a malignant tumor in the fed
ly obvious - 'eral budget; we have too
a n Alliance ; many airlines, which are now
for Progress ' facing bankruptcy after hav-
ing helped bankrupt the rail- !
roads, the form of passenger
transit of which we now have
desperate need; we have de-,
veloped. without plan or pur-!
pose, the monstrous social !
sprawl called the mcgalopo-;
lis. which is neither city nor
country and is governed bv 1
i up to a hundred overlapping
units of government, which is
to say that the communities
are not governed at all but
merely administered, we hae
allowed millions of our poor
est, most unskilled people to
drift from the south and ron-
tcentratc. out of the te) for
human cotnnay.ionshtp. in t!'eta
Hsjr'.o( t.e)coiinlr e
ar) 's .'?
r b
to move against the oncoming
recession in the hope of get
ting tax reform next year. In
the kind of Congress he is
dealing with the prospects of
his getting a good tax reform
bill next year are very poor.
In any event, whether Con
gress is or is not now capable
of writing a good tax bill, it
is certainly Incapable of writ
ing any tax bill quickly. Tax
reform, like medical care, aid
to education, a farm bill, is
In the category of those things
which are desirable but not
indispensable. To act now and
adequately against recession
is in the category of the In
dispensable. see
TF THE decision Is taken to
is of the utmost importance
that it be an adequate tax
cut. It will be worse than Use
less In nmnncB a rarinr-t inn
;whieh i an .malt ih. it win
not do the job. That will
merely discredit the medi
cine without preventing the
disease. If Dr. Salk says that
a child should have three po
lio shots, it is a foolish moth
er who thinks that one polio
shot will do. In the present
state of the U.S. economy tax
reduction will not reflate and
revivify unless it is big
enough to close the gap - the
gap between what the econ
omy can produce and what
individuals and business firms
and public authority are
able and willing to buy.
Among economists today
the conservative estimate is
that the cut should be at least
$10 billion. There are some,
who should be heard, who
think that the right amount
would even be $15 billion
The $10 billion reduction
could be had by reducing per
sonal and corporate income
taxes by four percentage
points. (On personal income
each percentage point is two
billion; on corporate income
tax each percentage point is
half a billion.)
yHY a reduction of $10 bil
" lion? Speaking very
broadly, and with due regard
for the refinements of the pro
fessional economists, it is
reasonable for the layman tn
assume that under present
circumstances for each dollar
released by tax reduction the
effect on spending for con
sumption, inventory, and fix
ed capital is multiplied about
two-and-a-half times. The S10
billion reduction would thus
have the multiplied effect on
demand for goods of S25 bil
lion. The gap today be'.ween
capacity and actual produc
tion is about $30 billion. That
is why a $10 billion tax re
duction would be just barely
adequate.
To make no tax reduction
now will mean, according to
present indications, that toe
gap due to unused plant and
unemployment will be $60
billion next year, say twice as
big as it is today. If so, the
budgetary deficit will almost
certainly be greater at the
bottom of the recession tha i
was the record Eisenhower
deficit of 1958.
On the other hand, if we
art promptly to prevent the
decline, il is certain that some
of the revenue lost by tax re
duction will he recaptured
from the rise in incomes and
profits. There will be a fair
chance that by the middle of
19B3 the deficit afler a $10
billion tax reduction would
not be greater than Eisenhow
er's deficit without tax reduc
tion. This, we should realize,
would not mean much. But
it would look better. But
what really matters is to pre
vent the oncoming recession.
for Progress in U.S.
alarmingly and jobs for the
young are not to be found.
With the swelling number
of the unskilled at one end
and the spread of automation
at the other, wc are now con
fronted with what looks very
much like the certainty of
permanent unemployment for
several million Americans,
this side of a vast public
works program - hut that, of
course, would mean planning
and planning is a dirty word
for the eight months of the
year Congress sits.
Those who enjoy the lux
ury of offering free advice al.
so enjoy the luxury of ask
ing unanswerable questions. I
and so some of us raise the
plaintive query as to why
America insists on a compre
hensive national development
plan in those countries reci-'
pient of our aid. while refus
ing e n to consider a rede
velopment plan for the head
quarters country on whose or
der and well-being the recipi
ent ra ions depend.
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geea fa) j ta eetge 4.
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POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
John E. Benneth in his col
umn "Timberline" asks the
question:
"Should a timber faller sing
out a warning when making
the last cut through a tree
when he is working alone?"
Safety experts say yes,
Benneth noted.
And Al Minato. forester
for Trail Creek Lumber com
pany near Medford, illus
trates why.
A contract faller for Tim
ber Products company, work
ing alone, Minato relates, ne
glanced around before starting
a cut into a tree and was
startled to see two Campfire
Girls approaching him through
the brush. Apparently attract
ed by the sound of his saw in
the previous cut, they had
come to sell him a box of
Campfire Girl cookies.
Newspapers hare been
mailed for years news re
leases and allied material
from the country's major in
dustries and companies.
Such was the case of one
"Ben Mills." a fictitious
.name perhaps, but one for
our purpose to illustrate
what can happen.
The company had mailed
news relases and allied ma
terial to Mr. Mills on an
average of four limes a
month at an average total
cost (including postage) of
$1.83. This is a yearly cost
of $12.96. Not a great cost,
considering everything.
B u t apparently every
thing wasn't considered. Mr.
Mills had been dead for six
years.
It cost the company a to
tal of $131.76 to Inform one
who had little interest in
wordly things.
a
Some days things just don't
go right at all.
A voune mother decided to
take her two children fishing
in one of the lakes in this : The American Medical as
area. j sociation - which, for obvious
In her hasle. she locked the j
keys of the car in the trunk
But that wasn't too had. She
left the ignition switch in the
"on" position, so she could go
anyway.
En route home, however,
the car had a flat tire (that
sort of thing always happens,
you know, at the most inop
portune time), so the trunk
had to be jimmied open any
way. Her husband never let. her
forget the little incident ei
ther; that is. until a few days
later when he received a traf
fic citation.
Sometimes things jurt don't
seem to go right.
Visitors in the valley have
been many, and one of our
staff members had some re-cently-two
boys and their
parents.
The staff member and his
wife also have two boys.
And the little boys loved to
play with the big boys. But
occasionally, one of the lit
tle boys wanted to talk to
the big boys' father, who
was paged thusly:
"Where's those big boys,
man?"
Hairpins are known for
their versatility.
Sometimes women also are
known for their versatility.
This is the slory of one of the
latter.
Not long ago, an air condi
tioner at the courthouse kept
blowing warmer and warmer
air. A male employee, with an
electrical engineering degree,
vowed he would correct the
situation after an expert
glance. But he didn't. He
couldn't find the answer.
Well, one of the women em
ployees of the same office,
went outside. She found the in-
istaller forgot to remove a
submitted an over-all, long
range plan tn rationale the
morass of our transportation
facilities. Rather, they threw
it up for grabs and nobody
grabbed. Senator Claiborne
Pell has proposed a multi
state pooling of power and re
sources to make railroading
work in the stifled and glm-
ted northeastern stales. The '
hard-headed Committee for
Economic Development hps
come forward with a scheme
for the "massive readjust- 1
ment" of agriculture, which 1
would mean, over a five-year !
period, the elimination of two
and a half million separate '
farm units.
Every Congressman mult
know in his heart that all
these things must be done if
America in the immediate fu-
ture is not to become a dizzy-
ing Disneyland of clamor,
crowding, waste and. for mil
lions, sheer wretchedness.
The President was wrong
at Philadelphia The ultima'e
luxury is not to offer free
advice. It is to possess ve
facts and the pow er and in do
nothing with either.
lO strinuted 19S1. hy The
fl"' s9-'ne ca. lnr)
plate which covered the duct
through which cool air waj
drawn. She also found the re
frigerating unit had not been
attached.
It wasn't long until it was
working fine, but we suspect
the electrical engineer was
somewhat taken aback by the
simple ingenuity of the op
posite sex.
Last week, by the way.
was National Domestic Rab
bit week,
This is National Farm
Safety Week.
'Nough said.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
President Kennedy's pro
gram of health care for the
aged (Medicare) goes down in
the senate by a vote of 52 NO
to 48 YES. It was killed by
the votes of 31 Republican
senators and 21 Dpmocratio
senators.
President Kennedy immedi
ately issued a statement, calf,
ing the senate vote a "most
serious defeat for every
American family."
TT ISN'T, of course. Any
American family can start
saving up for medical car
if and when needed. Many ex
cellent plans are available.
' This Medicare program waj
not to be pie fro mthe sky or
manna from heaven. Its cost
was to he added to the cost of
other social security and in
cluded in the social security
taxes that are withheld from
the paychecks of workers. So
cial security doesn't come for
free, as you know if you get
a paycheck. It is taken out of
your check before the check
! is handed over to you.
reasons, was opposed to the;
Medicare plan - says in Chi
cago that its defeat is in the
public interest. The AMA
adds: "It would have been in
equitable to force wage-earners
to pay substantially high
er payroll taxes to provide)
health care for millions who
are able to take care ot them
selves." PRESIDENT Kennedy urg
ed voters to register their
protest at the polls and "re
turn in November a congress
that will SUPPORT a pro
gram like medical care for
the aged." He added that a
new bill will be introduced
in the congress in January.
By that, of course, he
means that he is going to car
ry his fight to the country,
urging the defeat of members
of congress who are opposed
to his medical care program
and the election of senators
and representatives who fa
vor it.
That is a much better way
to handle the important sub
ject of medical care for the)
aged than jamming it through
the present congress. It will
give the public time for ser
ious and careful consideration
of a proposal of such impor
tance. TilA.IOR White rockets hie
X15 rorket plane tn an
altitude of 300,000 feet. - or
57.8 miles - which is higher
than any winged aircraft was
ever taken before. II wasn't
a speed test. His plane was
clocked at "only" 3784 miles,
and he has made 4159 mph in
other tests. It is ALTITUDE
he is seeking.
That prompts a question;
What is the BIG objectiv.
of the X15:
The real objective is lo lake
a winged and powered plan,
beyond t h e earth's atmos
phere and then BRING IT
BACK AGAIN. If we are to
travel nut into spare, we must
learn how to GET BACK
AGAIN.
A
T HIS news conference af-
ground, he volunteered some
information on a puzzling In
cident. He said he saw a paper-like
object tumbling through
tnare mttiirlo Ih Y1S b.
mitted that he didn't have the
faintest idea what it was. H.
said: "As I went over the top,
I saw a couple of particles go
bv the plane They were)
'small, flaky objects Then t
I saw another object that look-
j ed like a piece of paper about
, the size of my hand."
:TTMMmmm.
D'ya reckon some space
! litterbugs are loose up there?
' Maybe the next time h.
S UP he d better keep a
sharp eye out for beer cans.
PULP PIPELINE
Bangor. Me-IFP-A seven
mile pipeline recently com
pleted at cost of $2 5 million
moves sulphite pulp from th.
pulping mill to the panermak
ing plant of Great Northern
Prfpcr company in northern
Vyr) The roo-(f),ny had tr
build a suspension hridse over
snsjl rri&- to O pport t'ts)
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