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4 A- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8. 1962 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Rcarta ThMaiITrlbune published Dully except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Firt.. Ph. 772-6141 " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HKFB GREY AdverlUlns Manaier GKRALD 1 LATHAM. Bui. Mr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'a Editor DALEERlCKSONCIrculltlon Msr An Independent Newipaper Entered aa aecond class matter at Medtnrd. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year J15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 8.00 Dailv and Sundfly 3 mot. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, AhlKnd. Central Point. Eirli Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year 18.n0 Datlv and Sunday I mo. 1..10 Carrici and Dealers Copy 10c All JTerms Cash lnAdvance Of'flclfpier of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U P I Telephoto Newspicturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or UIKUU1.A i luiva Trl,.rtlainiy rtrnrrsentatlve NELSON ROBERTS Si ASSOCI ATES, Olflces In New York, Chi. ratio Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland, Denver NEWSPAPER ISHERS CIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Innrrcnis Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1952 (Friday) Chamber of commerce pe titions Civil Aeronautics board for permission to inter vene in the application of three airlines for service be tween Medford and Klamath Falls. John Day, Medford rancher, was recently elected to mem bership in The Explorers club of New York, N.Y., an organ ization of world-wide explor ers whose major aim is to encourage scientific restarcn. 20 YEARS-AGO Aug. 8. 1942 (Saturday) LI. Col. William E. Cald well, the son-in-law of Mr. and Mis. H. E. Conger, is an nounced as the inventor of a gas emergency breathing tube for use when gas masks are unavailable. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In formed London military cir cles are again busy with their predictions and deductions. One of the main troubles with informed London military cir cles is a tendency to be for from it." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 8, 1932 (Monday) Holly theater offers five cent matinee for children un der 12. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 8. 1922 (Tuesday) A strike breaker working for Southern Pacific railroad brings charges of carrying concealed weapons against three striking workmen who be said threatened him with pistols. The county court and state Iiighway officials Inspect the Ml. Ashland road to deter mine if it needs repair work. so yearsTgo Aug. 8. 1912 (Thursday) Madame Gadski, famed op eratic soprano, schedules an October concert In Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina Of ten correct is superior; seven or eight il excellent; live or lis li good. 1. Was the Him settlement in Oregon, a trading post, es tablished by the Missouri Fur Co., or John Jacob Astor? 2. Which of the following is rot a chemical element: arsen ic, bismuth, strychnine? 3 Was the prophet Jere miah, Daniel, or Amos lower ed In the miry pit? 4. President F. D. Roose velt had three cluse unofficial advisers, two ol them were Judge nosoman, and Harry Hopkins; name the third. 5. What is the name of Hit accurate lime keeping device carried on ships for use in navigation? B. Name the slates lhal border on Lake Erie. 7. What sentence was pass ed upon Japanese General Yamashila by the military court that tried him? 8. In which city is the 'Treaty Elm" under which William Penn negotiated treaty with the Indians? 9 Whose is the possessive of who. Is It correct to use who's in the same sense'' 10. Who was the first Presi dent to be inaugurated in Washington, D C? Answers: 1. A it or. 2. Strychnine. 3, Jeremiah. 4. Bernard Baruch. 5. Chronometer. 6. Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York. Michigan. 7. Death by hanging. 8. Philadelphia 9. No. Il l s contraction for who It. 10. Jefferson. VTASSO Twelve Hours to Life Up in Coos Bay the other day a man beat his 12-year-old stepdaughter. He was arrested about midnight. The girl died about 1 :30 a.m. At 11 :30 a.m. he was taken before a justice of the peace and formally charged with first degree murder. He waived a preliminary hearing, waived the right to a grand jury hearing, and was held for circuit court. T-In m.'qc tolrnn tn tho pnnnHr cpat in fnnllillp. AAV , I I J L J 1 , V. VUU1IVJ ... .J J onrl tnlrl nffipprs hp wnntprl tn nlpad CTliltV. But Oregon law prohibits a gree murder, so tne district attorney reaucea trie cnarge to second degree. THE CIRCUIT judge appointed an attorney to represent the man, but he refused to talk with him. He entered a plea of guilty, and at 1:30 p.m. he was sentenced to life in the penitentiary aoout 13 'a nours alter ne was urst arrested, and 12 hours after an assault became a murder. The case went through all the prescribed legal steps, and the rights not accorded to him were rights he declined. The Capital Journal in Salem wonders: ". . . We wonder whether 12 hours between crime and sentencing is not carrying the principles of swift Justice to too great an extreme. In Oregon you aren't even allowed to get married in such a short time." yHERE appears little the girl, and that she died. , But questions remain unresolved. Was it first degree murder? Or was it second degree? Or, perhaps, even manslaughter? Or is there a possi bility that he actually was innocent of any of these, by reason 01 insanity or some otner iactor of which we do not know, and now cannot know? None of these possibilities were explored. The Capital Journal adds: "We wonder if maybe the obligations of the courts do not extend beyond the basic defenses provided by law. "The courts have a moral obligation, we believe, to cause a man charged with a crime to give It a good, long thought before throwing away the rest of his life, whether he has it coming or not." Twelve hours is too short a time to come to a rlpr'isinn ahntif. a man's mil If.. PVPn if. in t.hfi confusion and rush, he get it over with. L.A. Unknown World of Ra For thousands of years men have talked about, and feared, the "unknown worlds." They propitiated their gods, feared the fairies and de mons and trolls, and whispered about things that go bump in the night. There are still unknown worlds unknown, that is, unless one is equipped with sensitive and sophisticated instruments. Minute particles (or energy) go shooting through our bodies every moment of the day and night. Radio waves carry messages. Radia tion bombards the world. None of this can be seen or heard or felt or tasted or smelled. Man's senses are too limited. DUT THESE phenomena do exist. A delightful paragraph describing one such appears in the current issue of the Bee-Hive, publication of United Aircraft. First it describes a pleasant spring day, then adds: "Yet unseen, a severe storm crackled across the United States, and the world. Its lightning shafts were a silent rush of magnetism, which played huge tricks on man's electrical paraphernalia. Power lines surged with wild currents set up by the strange tempest, and thousands of fuses blew. Teletypwriters left off In the middle of important messages and began typing un intelligible phrases. Short-wave radio transmissions blanked out. Compass needles, blown by the magnetic gusts, swung from their true bearings. And where dark ness fell on the high latitudes, the skies were intense ly bright with long, luminous streamers of green and pink that pulsed and shifted like wind swept curtains. These were the auroras, or polar lights, the effect of the storm's thick flurry of high-speed cosmic particles smashing into atoms The source of this storm invisible to the eye except through some secondary manifestations such as the auroras borealis or australis was the sun. IN ADDITION to these invisible and silent bolts of energy, the sun sends us two forms of en ergy which'are tangible light and heat. 'Without these and in just the right meas ure the world as we know it would cease to exist. They not only provide an environment in which mankind caii live; they also are the ulti mate source of virtually all the usable energy with which we operate our civilization. It is hardly any wonder that, back in the days when superstitious mankind whispered about the "unknown worlds," he also had great reverence for the groat sun, source of light and heat and energy" and also, oddly enough, the source of most of today's "unseen worlds" of radiation and magnetism. We no longer worship Ra, the sun god. but he still merits our respectful attention. E.A. Too Quickly Television Commentator Terrence O'Flaherty writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about two famous suicides who received television billing this week Vincent Van C.ogh ami Marilyn Monroe. Van Gogh was quoted as writing his brother: "They will (ell you that I have painted too fast. You may reply that they have looked too quickly . , ," O'Flaherty adds: "They may tell you lhal she lived loo fast; you may , reply that perhaps Ihev have looked loo quickly . .'' E.A. guilty plea to first de doubt that the man beat admits it and wants "to in the upper atmosphere." "Ya Gotta' Expect A Losing Season Once In Awhile" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Public Be Damned To the Editor: While the drug thalidomide is still in the news, I would like to quote what Dr. William Brady has to say about our food and drug act: "The betrayal of the. public by the federal government was shamefully manifest in the food and drugs act of 1906, which our congress comique fixed up exactly as the big nostrum interests or dered. The present version of the law is in effect a greater betrayal of public welfare. "The commission enforcing the regulations, with tongue in cheek, squanders many thousands of govern ment money in prosecuting, prac tically persecuting, some ob scure person or firm for a trivial or technical offense in labelling, secures a nominal 'conviction' and a fine of $50 or a perfunctory admonish ment from the court, and everything goes on as before. But the food and drug di vision just doesn I see the glaring defiance of Ihe letter and spirit of the law and its own specific regulations in the naming, labeling and the vicious claims made by the sense dulling drugs which are so freely sold to the unwary public under names shrewdly calculated to deceive and mis lead. I refer particularly to coaltar derivatives, a n 1 1 1 n derivatives, drugs of the acc-tanilide-phcnacetive-antipyrin class. These drugs, incorpor ated In scores of nostrums sold without even decent re strictions by the government, are destructive to health and frequently a contributing or even the direct cause of death. yet the federal foods and drugs bureau finds no fault with this big business. "The coaltar derivatives mentioned are present in countless nostrums purport ing to be remedies for head ache, neuralgia, neuritis, 'colds', grip, that tired feel ing, worry, sleeplessness, strain, or what have you." And he says more if there was space for il. This is the way our government functions in all branches, just for the vested interests. The public be damned. Ray Prichard 414 South First st. Central Point, Ore. Incredible To the Editor: The incredi ble, new, "soft - on Commu nism" blue print for Ameri can foreign policy drawn up by Ihe Slate department of ficial, Walt w. Rostow, and now in the hands of President Kennedy, has thrown our al lies around the world into an almost frantic cold sweat of fear, according to reports of our foreign diplomats. Newspapers in Japan are deeply concerned over the document which, it seems, calls for appeasement of the Soviet Union and Red China, because Prof. Rostow and his planning committee believe these two sets of internationil gangsters are mellowing in their aggressiveness; or will mellow In time. The West Germans and the French are also frightened: and are particularly upset :ind angry over the news leak that the Rostow plan calls for U. S. recognition of East Germany, which of course would mean Ihe sell-out of West Germany. Yet the American people slumber on. Even the responsible, loyal men in our Senate, headed by Senators Dirksen and Syming ton are frightened and angry at the arrogance of Ihe Ken nedy administration in with holding the details of this master plan from the Senate Foreign Relations committee, which Is supposed to mold our foreign policy. For when they recently pinned Prof. Rostow MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON down in a closed session he- fore the committee as to the details of the plan's contents, he claimed executive privi lege," even as our smaller fry of internal enemies hide be hind the 5th Amendment. Yet the American people sleep on. When cornered by news men, President Kennedy -just as he defended William Wieland, State department employee who helped bring Castro to power - defended Prof. Rostow, saying that he is only "acting under instruc tions, and "acting very re sponsibly." Acting under WHOSE in- slructions? And just where does our President fit into the picture? This clear danger sig nal coming right out of the White House should have rung like a bell across our land bringing the heads of the American people up out of the fog of brain wash and treacherous propaganda now inundating them. But it didn't. They slumber on. It is now an open secret that our State de partment is helping the Krem lin take over the rest of the world. But the American peo ple just slumber on. L. C. Powell 316 S. E. Eighth st. Grants Pass, Ore. O - Encouragement To the Editor: The attached encouraging letter tells its own story. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Dear Mr. Frisch: This will acknowledge your recent let ter in which you point to the increase in the population of the City of Medford and the consequent increase in the number of veterans which might be able to support the establishment of medical fa cilities at While City. The case for such facilities is made stronger, as you point out, since emergency and serious cases must be rushed to the Portland-Vancouver area where (here is already a waiting list which may mean delays in admit tance or hasly discharges from the hospitals. Since you know of my ef forts lo obtain establishment of such medical facilities at White City since 1 954, I do not have to recite the history of my efforts. My most re cent inquiry to the Veterans Administration on this sub ject resulted in the enclosed ropy of report from Chief Medical Director William S. Middleton. Dr. Middlelon in dicates that t h e combined waiting list of the Portland Vancouver hospitals is 137. which he states is not out-of-line with the overall waiting list throughout the VA sys tem. He also points to the dif ficulty he believes would be encountered in securing and retaining qualified medical personnel at White City. A close examination of this re port will disclose that the combined waiting list is more than double what it was dur ing 1953. In view of this sharp in crease and the experiences related in letters such bs yours. I intend to pursue this matter further with the Vet- erans Administration in order S to determine whether this j increased backlog with its ' proportionate attendant con- ditions provides a somewhat different basis for considera iatinn of medical facilities at j White City. i As soon as I have further news of importance on this i mailer, I shall get in touch ! with you again. In the meantime, I send kindest regards. Wayne Morse United States Srnaior Washington, D C. Debate Over Economy Produces Prescriptions, But Tax Cut Need Seen By RAYMOND LAHR United Press International Washington-lUPli - The eco nomic debate asked by Presi dent Kennedy in his Yale speech two months ago is go ing on but it is not easily heard. Congress read the speech and showed no incliation to take a new look at govern ment budget-making despite the President's complaint that there was too much mythol ogy in federal bookkeeping. Former president Eisenhower led Republican critics who offered scornful replies. The real debate is being carried on by economists but usually in unpublicized speeches or articles which may turn up later in the fine print in the appendix of the Congressional Record. Arthur F. Burns and Ray mond J. Saulnier, who both served as chairman of the President's Council of Eco nomic Advisers during the Ei senhower administration, are the authors of speeches al ready in the Congressional Record. Leon H. Keyserling, who held the same job in the Truman administration, put his thoughts in print in the New York Times maga zine last Sunday. Kennedy's own council gets a hearing be fore the House-Senate Eco nomic Committee this week. Prescriptions Far Apart As could be expected, the Burns-Saulnicr and Keyser ling prescriptions are far apart. The doctors are treat- Josephine Utility District Feasible Salem -IUPD- The state engi neer has ruled that a proposed people's utility district in Jo sephine county would be fea sible under certain conditions. His action opens the possi bility for a vote on the PUD this fall if sponsors of the measure are able to get 5 per cent of the voters in the area to sign petitions before Aug. 28. Preliminary petitions for the district were sponsored by the Josephine County Public Power association' which is headed by William I. David son, of Applegate. The proposed district would take in all of Josephine coun ty except the sparsely popu lated western fringe, The report of the state en gineer said that if the district is able to acquire the present distribution system at not more than 5'j times the an nual revenue, assuming the annual revenue is equal to that of 1961, and if it is able to obtain service bonds with an effective rate of 5 per cent or less the project would be economically feasible. The area is presently being served by the Copco division of Pacific Power and Light Co. Scientists Plan Meeting at OSU Corvallis - HOT - More than 4,000 biological scientists are expected at Oregon State uni versity Aug. 26-31 for joint meetings of the American In stitute of Biological Sciences and the Pacific division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Thirty-seven scientific groups will meet concurrent ly during the week. More than 2.100 research papers will be presented during the meetings. Kevnote speaker is to be Nobel Prize winner Dr. Mel vin Calvin of California. He will speak on possibilities of life on other planets. Eleanor Roosevelt Has Virus Attack New York - lUPH Mrs. Elea nor Roosevelt, 77. was report ed recovering from a virus at tack and will attend the dedi cation of the Franklin D. Roo sevelt Memorial Bridge be- Uween Lcuocc, Maine ana I Campobello Island next Mon 'day. A spokesman for the former i first lady said Tuesday that "she had a virus and she let il ro. It meant that her recovery .-as a little slower. But her (ever has gone down and she is feeling much better." No Action Taken on Satellite Measure Seattle The three-day Western Democratic Confer- enee saw no action on a rcso - lution asking "delay'' on en. actment of President Ken nedy's satellite communica tions bill, opposed by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Orc.) and others Morse had criticized the bill at a Sunday speech. Atty. Gen Robert Kennedy spoke in favor of it Thursday. Ing the same patient but one set orders him to stay in bed and the other prescribes brisk exercises. All advocate tax reforms but" ... I wculd think that to those pragmatists who re gard budgetary deficits as a more or less guaranteed for mula for producing a brisk recovery, the present cycle must be a nightmare," says Saulnier. Keyserling wants "a large and immediate tax reduction" mostly in low and middle in come brackets and "a large and immediate increase in fed eral spending." He says his formula would mean a federal deficit of $6.5 to $7 billion but would put the economy at the $600 billion a year level. Uneasy Peace in Laos, While Casualties ' By NEIL SHEEHAN . United Press International Saigon - IUPD - While an un easy peace has settled over Laos, a war that claims a thousand lives a week rages on in South Viet Nam. People here are now asking themselves whether the settle ment in Laos-however uncertain-will make the struggle against the Communists in South Viet Nam any easier. Many are sure it will be harder. . They are convinced that the Communists can now turn their full attention from Laos to South Viet Nam. As one American military Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. BORES "I have the only solution," said a colleague at lunch, "let's lock the two office bores together in a room for 24 hours, and have them talk each other to death." Certain aspects of the con versational bore hold a mor bid fascination for me. In common with most people, I have a pervasive fear of bor ing others, and a secret sus picion that I Go so far more often than I know. But the conversational bore is utterly devoid of this nat ural trepidation. He is su premely convinced that what ever he says is of surpassing Interest to his captive audi ence no matted how slowly, how redundantly, and how repetitiously he says it. Another feature about the bore that fascinates me is his sublime unawareness of the emotional radiations in the room. I fancy that I can tell in a moment if someone . is busy, wants to work, it preoccupied, or is simply uninterested in what I have to say and I immediately fold my verbal tent and si lently steal away. The bore, however, is cursed with nervous sys tem that cannot receive im pulses from others. He just hat no idea that the victim it praying lo be left alone or palpitating to get away. His emotional vliion is opaque. He it alio, tadly enough, curied with the lingular dis ease known at "non-terminal facilities." He doet not know when to stop. He gett wound up and keept going, long after he hat told you more than you care to know on any tubject. He it like the compoter who gett into a melody and cannot get out again, or the novelist who begins a book and can not write himself out of the plot. The art of the period is the first and greatest art in writ ing, and it should be so also in talking. Say it and stop. It sounds so simple but the bore is somehow afraid to stop, so he adds another move ment, another chapter . . . and then trails off unhappily . . . for he doesn't know how to say goodby either. It is sheer optimism to be lieve that the two office bores would "talk themselves to death." For a bore never lis tens; he is only marking time, with a blank mind, until you stop and he can begin again. Conversation, to the bore, is not a tennis game where the ball is popped from one player to another, but rather a bowl ing match played on separate alleys. We can be rude to the ob noxious bore, but mankind has 1 found no way to handle the ! sweet bore, the harmless, pa thetic, lonesome bore. H i s worst offense is that after awhile he stirs thoughts of homicide in one's heart, and then makes one feel guilty for these thoughts. For Ihe most distresing bo.e of all is the one we cannot bring ourselves to dislike. far enough below capacity to avoid inflation. With industry operating at less than capacity, Keyserling sees no need for further busi ness tax concessions on top of the new depreciation sched ules and the administration tax bill now in Congress. See More Problems To Saulnier and Burns, Keyserling represents a school of thought with a program which would mean inflation ary pressure and more trouble in dealing with the balance of payments problem. Keyser ling denies both counts. Burns says personal income taxes in middle and upper brackets are too high to en courage incentive and that corporate tax rates are too Mount in Viet Nam man put it, "The whole north ern part of South Viet Nam is now outflanked along a 170 mile border flanked along a 170-mile border of jungle and mountains. The Viet Cong can run back and forth across that border any time they want to. And we won't be able to do anything about it." With the end of the fighting in Laos, officials fear that North Viet Nam will gradual ly shift its estimated 10 bat talions there-10,000 men-into fighting in South Viet Nam. The shift, in fact, has al ready begun. U.S. observers say 2,500 to 3,000 already have crossed over. These officials confirm, de spite denials from Washing ton, that there has been a marked increase in the infil In the Day's News By FRANK What was Monday's news? For once, there's no doubt about it. It's the sleeping pills death of Marilyn Monroe. ryHAT morning's San Fran--1- cisco Chronicle devotes 62 '2 per cent of its front page to the story. In addition, it carries two full pages of pictures and text on the in side. Even more impressive everything considered - is the fact that the somewhat more staid Portland Oregonian ap portions 52 per cent of its front page to it and tops one inside page with what is left over. ' ANOTHER comparison: The Chronicle uses TWO lines of 120 point type (about an inch and a half high) to headline its front page han dling of this big news event. The Oregonian is more con servative, it uses only ONE line of 72 point type (an inch high) for its front page stream er. WHAT was in the rest of the front pages of these two leading metropolitan newspapers of ihe Pacific coast? Again there is agreement in the news and its values. Both use the Finkbines to Sweden story. Both use the Reds Resume Nuclear Testing story. The Chronicle adds a tale about the American Bar association convention that is meeting in San Francisco which is obviously a big story down on the Bay. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- MILLIONAIRE Inventor Philip K. Saunders has written the story of his unusual Ufe in "Dr. Panto Fogo," a nickname he acquired one day when his trousers caught nre wniie ne was taking a nap aboard a slow train in Brazil. A few of Mr. Saunders' passing comments bear repeti tion: (1) Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten. (2) French food is not really good food. It is mediocre food cunningly cooked and disguised with sauces. (3) Africans never talk about sex because there are no sex taboos of any kind and therefore noth ing about sex calls for any comment except the expression of approval. "You've got lo straighten out my husband," said a wife to a' Tark Avenue psychiatrist. "He thinks he's a Jet plane." "Bring him here Thursday at 2," suggested the psychiatrist. "That time is impossible." said the wife. -Hes got to appear in court that afternoon for flying low over Klatbush." ; In Dallas, Lon Tinkle haa discovered a merchant who is par ticularly optimistic about the current business picture. He is an old scissors grinder, and he told Tinkle happily, I'm having my biggest season. I never saw things so dull.'' In Worcester a bookseller received a letter for an aggrieved customer which pointed out. ' Four weeks ago I sent vou a check for a dictionary with no is no maex. ' C 1963. by Btnmtt Cert. Dutr.bu'.jd. liy Kins 1'eaturet Syndicate Varying high to leave business firms enough money to invest in needed new equipment. Saulnier says economic growth depends on a higher rate of investment and that a squeeze on corporate profits has curtailed Investment. He says the administration's guidelines aimed at keeping wage raises in line with in creases In productivity should be revised to provide "a catch up in profits." The labor movement likes the Keyserling approach. Bus inessmen like to hear what Burns and Saulnier are say ing. The amateur in eco nomics can only wonder who has the best prescription for a prosperous - and growing economy. tration of Viet Cong guerillas across the border into South Viet Nam's central highlands since the truce. Many observers here doubt as does Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman that the new Laotian govern ment can keep its Geneva pledge that foreign troops will not be allowed on its soil. As the Thai minister said, the Communist troops in Laos ' "may change their uniforms, but the men and the weapons will remain." The only difference be tween the Viet Cong and reg. ular North Vietnamese units, officials say, is that the rank and file of the guerrillas are recruited in the south and trained either there or in Laos. JENKINS The Oregonian fills the rest of its front page with a couple of shorties in the news one about a boy who finds a wal let containing upwards of $500 and returns it to the owner, and another about a Beaver ton man who was drowned in the Willamette river. LET'S do some supposing. Suppose JFK, at his next news conference, should say to the reporters: "I'm OFF the New Fron tier. I don't think it will work. FROM HERE ON OUT, I'M A CONSERVATIVE." That would be big political and eco nomic news. It might change the whole future of our na tion. Questions: What would the Chronicle have done with that story? What would the Oregonian have done? How much space would they have used? What kind of headlines would they have put on it? IN CONCLUSION. Just what IS news? Webster defines it thus: "A report of a recent event; tid ings. MATTER OF INTEREST TO NEWSPAPER READ ERS." WELL . . . On the evidence of two of America's leading metro politan newspapers, there can be little doubt that at this moment in history the untime ly death of Marilyn Monroe was NEWS ... big news. Stop Me index. All I have received to date
