WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15. 1962
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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 years ago.
10 "years ago
Aug. 15, 19S2 (Friday)
A cast of about 130 persona
will take part in the second
annual Medtord Water pag
eant at Hawthorne park.
Professional Helen Dett
weiler set to perform in a
golf exhibition and conduct
a clinic at Rogue Valley
Country club.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15, 1942 (Saturday)
L e a g u e-leadlng Medford
Craters conclude season with
3-1 victory over Klamath
Falls to make their season's
record 19 wins, five losses.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column:
"School will be opened Sept.
14. Kids and their Maws will
be brave and bear with Spar
tan fortitude the fortnight
, delay from last year, In the
spirit of wartime sacrifice."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15, 1932 (Monday)
Jne A. Thomas, 222 South
Holly St., is nominated by the
Oregon Socialist party as a
Socialist candidate for the
U. S. Senate.
Mcdford's economy plan
works as a $17,000 saving re
sults from salary cuts and re
duced supply purchases.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 15, 1922 (Tuesday)
Jackson county Republi
cans meet to discuss forth
coming election; they stress
harmony, urge voters to vote
straight Republican ticket.
Hon. Dudley G. Woolen,
former Texas Congressman
and now a Seattle lawyer
will speak in Medford on the
anti-private school measure.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 15. 1912 (Thursday)
Westville Honor camp No.
1 on the Crater Lake high
way is temporarily a b a n
doned because the prisoners'
conduct is so good they are
all paroled.
Butte Falls woman forced
to chop fire wood to sell after
being deserted by her hus
band, who leaves with all her
money.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is eicellent; five or
six is flood.
1. The Gunter's Chain, ori
ginated in England, was used
for what purposc7
2. Was Cnpernicus an opera
singer, astronomer, or army
general?
3. Does the United States
or Colombia own the Panama
Canal Zone?
4. Is the highest grade of
paper made from woodpulp,
rags, or sugar cane?
5. In which month does
Spring begin in the South
temperate rone?
6. Was Jackson. Johnson,
or Lincoln nicknamed "Old
Hickory"?
7. Noah Webster wrote a
dictionary; did he die in
1743, 1843, or 1943.
8. Steel is an alloy of iron
and what?
9. Which stale has the
greatest hydroelectric power
potential?
10. Name the oldest of the
following cities; Santa Fc,
Plymouth, Jamestown, New
York. St. Augustine.
Answers: 1. Surreying. 2.
Astronomer. 3. Neither. (Pa
nama). 4. Rags. 5. September.
6. Jackson. 7. 1843. 8. Carbon.
9. Washington. 10. St. Au-gustine.
Fifty Years Wed
In a long career, Charles A. Sprague has
earned many nonors. Most people would agree he
Is Oregon's most distinguished citizen former
governor, outstanding editor and publisher, a
member of many boards, commissions and com
mittees dedicated to the improvement of the
common weal, devoted conservationist, sage ad
visor and counsellor to generations of newsmen,
politicians and public servants truly an "elder
statesman."
This week he earned a new distinction, one
which he shares with Mrs. Sprague. They cele
brated their 50th wedding anniversary.
In his column, "It Seems To Me," in the
Oregon Statesman, Mr. Sprague reminisces about
their wedding trip to Mt. Rainier, and about their
early life together.'
H
ERE are a few paragraphs:
Married life has Us problems at the slart and
along the way. Here was one: Mchitable wanted to
make some salad dressing In those days the house
wife made her own; now she buys it readimixed in a
bottle. I was enlisted to turn the beater. The only
trouble was the ingredients didn't emulsify. Finally I
quit disgusted and have stayed out of the kitchen
ever since, except for an occasional turn with the
drying towel at the dishwashing routine . . .
We were married six years before we had a car.
How did we get about? On foot, or by train, or, in
cities, by streetcar. Nowadays a chap gets a car before
he gets a bride in fact it's an important bit of equip
ment for his courting.
. . . Looking back, the years are seen with lights
and shadows mixed; but thanks to the loyalty of kin
folk and co-workers and of many friends. Mehitable
and I agree, as the Psalmist wrote, "our lines are
fallen in pleasant places."
Perhaps we will be permitted to add our con
gratulations to those of others, and wish for Mr.
and Mrs. Sprague "many happy returns." E.A.
Hatch
The Hatch Act of 1939 was designed to pre
vent overt political activity on the part of Fed
eral employees. In general, it is designed to be a
reasonable restrictive force to keep the civil serv
ice from involvement in politics, as it so often
was in the early days of the nation.
But we had no idea just how stringent the
restrictions are until we had a minor collision
with the Hatch Act recently, resulting from a
mistake made by some overzealous bureaucrat.
Among our extra-curricular activities is mem
bership on the local advisory board to the O & C
lands administration of the Bureau of Land Man
agement. Recently we received notice that, as
such, we would have to fill out, sign, swear to, and
have notarized Civil Service Standard Form 61.
TTHIS form, among other things, prohibits the
individual signing it from holding any office
or position under state, territorial, county or mu
nicipal governments.
More to the point, it forbids him from "writ
ing for publication or publishing any letter or
article, signed or unsigned, soliciting votes in
favor or against any political party or candidate."
As a working newspaperman and editorial
writer, it was obvious we could not sign any such
document, and we protested it vigorously, offer
ing our immediate resignation from the board
should the requirement stand.
AS IT turned out, the form had been sent to
"board members by mistake.
But it was an eye-opener to us as to the limita
tions put on federal employees in the way of
political activity. They are permitted to vote,
and to express political opinions so long as they
do not take any active part in political manage
ment or in political campaigns.
But virtually all other forms of political ac
tivity are prohibted serving on committees, cir
culating petitions, working at the polls, distribut
ing campaign literature, even transporting voters
on election day.
Some limitation is necessary, but it seems to
us that this law is unduly restrictive. E.A.
Eliminate August
What should be done about August?
Some suggest that it should be eliminated, on
the theory that very few good things and a lot of
bad things happen during the month.
Russell Baker, writing in the New York Times,
points out:
"... August deranges (lie brain. 11 is In August
that dogs go mud, Scots see the Loch Ness monster,
adolescents compete to sec how many times they can
toss an lee cube before it melts . . .
"July is a high holiday of the spirit. It starts vvit).
fireworks. It is a season for catching lightning blips
and playing pinochle. But by August the crab grass is
in charge and the Japanese beetle is m the roes. In
July a subway is merely hot; In August it is a furnace.
In July the air is merely humid; in August it is a
steam that bastes the brain . . ."
THE answer, it is suggested, is to take a tip
from the French, shut up shop completely,
and everyone go to the seashore.
There is a certain Gallic logic in this sugges
tion, and it does have its appeal. But August is
not a dead loss certainlv not in our part of the
world.
If there is crab grass, there is also fishing. If
it is the season of the Loch Xess monster, it is
also the season for Shakespeare. And if dogs
and adolescents go slightly mad in August, at
least we can be consoled that the election cam
paigns won't reallv get under wav until after
Labor Day.
And beside, it is in this mid-August week
when the first authentic tang of Autumn can be
detected in the early-morning air. E.A.
Act
" I Hear Two More Made It To Outer Space"
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God Gave Us Minds
To the Editor: Mr. Howard's
letter to the editor, M.T. 10.02,
accuses Mr. Allen of advocat
ing the direct killing of the
Finkbine baby.
Mrs. Finkbine has certainly
contributed her part in giving
birth to four normal children.
If we know a seed is bad
in planting our flowers or gar
den, we discard it.
At this stage of pregnancy
I see no difference, and be
side eliminating all the heart
break of bearing a deformed
child.
Life at its best presents
many problems for us fortun
ate enough to possess all our
faculties. The deformed are
ridiculed as children by other
children and sometimes ignor
ant adults.
Work is hard to find for the
normal man many times. What
about the deformed?
People are always confusing
God's will in so many things.
God gave us a mind of our
own to use, and I get tired of
people saying everything that
happens to them or others is
God's will.
if I run out in the road,
though I see a car coming, and
it hits me, that was my own
carelessness and not God's
will.
People are always confusing
their carelessness with what
God's will is.
God is certainly more inter
ested with what concerns us
spiritually than materially.
Mrs. Delbert Casey,
Route 1, Box 358,
Central Point, Ore.
Escape Punishment
To the Editor: Counterfeit
drugs, vicious racket in phony
pills, is swindling honest deal
ers and druggists and endan
gering the lives of the victims
who use the fake pills. It is a
racket that threatens the lives
of every man, woman and
child in the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
The evidence to prove a case
against the perpetrators of
that dastardly crime is so in
direct that it is almost impos
sible to punish the guilty par
ties. The traffic in spurious nos
trums has flourished unex
posed and with very little if
any control. The drug bootleg
gers are encouraged by the
record of arrests, prosecu
tions and punishment. In re
cent times there have been
two of what might be called
major prosecutions, one in
volved Seymorc Blau and
l.udwig Spandau, both New
Yorkers. They were accused
of trafficking in counterfeit
Miitnwn and Equanil tablets.
An undercover agenl bought
50.000 phony tablets, which
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
IEDKRAL income tax officials have gotten used to tossing
out sonu1 mighty f..rfetched deduction claims by ingen
ious taxpayers. The head of the Brooklyn bureau admits,
however, that one de
linquent came up with
an explanation that hit a
new high for sheer, un
adulterated call. This
chap had been caught
red-handed, claiming an
exemption for supporting
his mother who had
been dead a mere matter
of ten years! His expla
nation ( given with a
catch in his voice):
"Mother's still alive in
mv heart'"
A.Ki to y,vr rtlr
rem movie heive
Pamelov iteh: Ko, k
lieken; K.-.i tlutton
On the ,l:..trT -m,i
Judy Holli.lliv .III'!
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and hri.
I!,
pay. pons K.ippelhorT,
C l'AJ, l HootKtt Cfflt. tiltributtJ l Kmg i'caluiea Sjoduaie
MEDFORD MAIL
were shipped by bus to New
Orleans. They were given a
suspended sentence of six
months and a $200 fine. Rath
er an inadequate sentence for
the magnitude of the crime.
The other case was the raid
on American Scalia, a Chicago
drug dealer, whose home and
truck were found stocked
with fake drugs. Illinois has a
law which allows the poscsser
of illegal drugs to go free if
he destroys them in the pres
ence of the inspector. Rather a
light penalty as compared to
a sentence for deliberate hom
icide. The enormous profits, esti
mated at more than $50,000,
000, with the lack of punish
ment, encourages the bootleg
gers to indulge in the illicit
traffic of fake drugs.
Dr. Frances Oldham Kel-
sey, who barred the use of the
dangerous and deforming thal-
ldomine drug in the U.S.A.,
deserves the commendation
and gratitude of the entire
country for her forthright ac
tion for the protection of
thousands of mothers and un
born babies.
As long as the punishment
is light, and in many cases
non existent, the traffic in
fake drugs will flourish, also
as long as the people are used
as guinea pigs to test phoney
drugs.
It is rather strange that the
law provides a punishment of
three to five years for forging
a check, where the almighty
dollar is involved, while those
drug fakers out for greedy
profits at the expense of hu
man disabilities and deaths es
cape punishment.
Ed Black,
2573 Camp Joy rd.
Grants Pass, Ore.
How Does He Know?
To the Editor: In regard to
H. R. Bulman's letter in the
Monday MMT.
Just what, sir, do you have
to base your denunciation of
nudist camps on? I believe
you called them "cesspools of
iniquity and shame." How do
you know that they are such?
Have you ever been in a
nudist camp? I doubt it. If
you had you could never tell
such outright lies about nudist
camps. Sonic of our best citi
zens belong to such organiza
tions, they seem to find noth
ing iniquitous about them. I
have lived for several years
near one of these camps, and
never have 1 witnessed any
thing shameful going on.
It seems to me that you arc
out to criticize and tear down
anything that doesn't lie In
your sphere of approval.
J. E. Stauffer,
P. O. Box 72,
Trail. Ore.
honest -to-civilness names of cur
i - - Kuk Poug'.ns is really Issur
v FiUitetaM: Tab Hunter: Arthur
A.nvn riiwatt: Hill Hol.len: William Hredlt.
s-lu-liev Winters is leaily Slutlev Sehnft;
Tuvim; lvd I'hausse. Tula Kmklea. Doris
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Britain Finding Difficulty Over
To Federate Aden With Small Kingdoms
By PETER KNOX
United Press International
London - HTD -Britain is
facing trouble in the Middle
East over plans to federate
the fortress colony of Aden
with a group of tiny and im
poverished Arab kingdoms.
Aden, a bustling port for
ships going through the Suez
Canal, is a key British base.
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann Is on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
WHY THE ALLIANCE
FALTERS
Salvador, Brazil When
the United States entered
World War I and World War
II, the question everybody
asked was not whether we
were going to win but when.
Now the United States has
entered another kind of war;
the theater of struggle is the
Western hemisphere. The
question everybody's asking
today is not when we are go
ing to win - but whether.
The reason this question is
so fateful is that failure of the
Alliance for Progress - this
massive common effort to res
cue Latin America from econ
omic stagnation - would cer
tainly bring on a wave of mili
tary dictatorships, and mili
tary dictatorship is Itself the
seedbed for Communism.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Ine.
FACTS OF DEATH
The real problem for a par
ent today is not how to tell
a child about "the facts of
life," but how to explain he
facts of death
not the way
in which we
are born, but
the ways in
which we die.
When a child
wants to know
a h ft ,1 t war
Jw h a t does a
r a , a n
flams that is hon
est, clear and meaningful?
How can we avoid either de
ception on the one hand, or a
distressing confession of our
immaturity on the other?
Children are far from fools.
They know we have fought
two major wars in our cen
tury. They knew that our for
mer enemies, Germany, Italy
and Japan, are now our
"friends." And that we have
helped them rebuild their na
tions after defeat.
When children fight, they
are separated by their par-
n t s or by other adults.
When adults fight, they are
seized by the police and
brought lo court. There is
a rule of law and order,
of reason and decency, in
our daily domestic lives.
And lhey cannot under
stand why nations must
fight, why men must die by
the millions every quarter
century, in quarrels that
seem meaningless a few
years later. Ten years from
now if we survive
will we be allies with Rus
sia, offering her money and
help against some other
"enemy"?
These are not naive ques
tions thai children ask; they
are basic questions. We are
the ones who are naive
wo who speak blithely
about the next war, even
though none of us could
say what we would go to
war with Russia about.
Children are immensely
practical and clear-sighted;
they cut straight through
all adult cant. Why can't
the world have a police
force lo prevent wars? Why
must nations be sovereign
powers unto themselves?
Why do we condemn pri
vate killing and support
public killing?
It is easy, too easy, to tell
them that the Russian leaders
are wicked men and want to
dominate the world. The Ger
man leaders were w-cked men
and wanted to dominate the
world; but it was the people
who suffered, people on both
sides, as they always do.
There has always boon a
tyrant somewhere in the,
world; there has always been
a war against him: he has ,
been conquered: and a few j
years later, another tyrant has
arisen elsewhere, and t h e ,
tragic pattern repeats itself.
W ars lead to nothing but oth-
er wars, and always have.
But we are now at the end
of the cycle. The next war
could easily exterminate man
kind. Children today feel this,
if they do not know it. And
they feel that we have let
them down, that the adult
world lias not solved the prob
lem of living tocether only
of dying together. How do we
explain those facts of death
to young idealists who are
quickly turning into cynics?
Nearly 10.000 troops are held
there on the ready for action
anywhere in the touchy Mid
east. Britain would like to see
Aden federated with the
neighboring emirates to in
sure the colony remains safe
ly British.
The emirates, or little king
doms, stand in the arid hinter
land separating Aden from
For six days here in Salva
dor at a conference on econ
omic tensions, I have had the
opportunity to hear, question,
and exchange information
with more than 70 economists,
political leaders, professors,
and industrialists from every
Latin American country ex
cept Cuba.
HOW does the Alliance look
a year after it was signed
at Punta del Este?
I base my report on both
Latin American and North
American judgments. It is a
very mixed picture with dark
and ominous hues. There is no
unanimous opinion. It ranges
from hope to hopelessness.
The technicians, mostly the
economists, know that accel
erated economic growth is
possible and believe it can be
achieved.
The non-specialized intellec
tuals from the universities are
cautiously hopeful but very
uncertain.
Many of the Latin Amer
ican politicians are deep in
pessimism. Some are already
convinced that economic prog
ress will be so slow that ex
treme nationalism and mili
tary dictatorship, already evi
dent in Peru, Argentina, and
Brazil, will engulf most of the
continent.
AFTER one year of expe
rience, what are the short
comings of the Alliance which
aims at infusing new develop
ment capital into Latin Amer
ican economies and simultan
eously promoting needed so
cial reforms? The dominant
views of those willing to
speak with candor - views I
believe Washington and
friends of the Alliance in La
tin America ought to ponder
responsibility-are 1-ese:
1 - The Alliance has pro
vided the plan for economic
development without yet pro
viding the machinery, either
in Washington or in Latin
American nations themselves,
for carrying it out. In a word,
we have a sound strategy for
an economic war against stag
nation and poverty but the
troops are not in place any
where. 2 - While the Alliance is
rightly focused on a long
range ten-year concept to
build the structure of an ex
panding economy, it is not
yet realized adequately how
essential it is now at the very
beginning to invest apprecia
bly in major visible socially
useful projects such as
schools, housing, and health
services before mass frustra
tion overruns the whole ef
fort. Most of the technicians in
Washington tend to shun
these projects, seeing them as
the later fruit of economic
growth. But because of the
long delays in providing basic
social improvements for most
of the population, they are
now an absolutely necessary
pre-condition of successful
development.
3 - The Alliance for Prog
ress hasn't yet begun to win
active allegiance, genuine
support, of the masses of the
Latin American people. The
Alliance has not been made
credible to them and thus far
has created no means of doing
so. It is smeared by the Com
munist left and resisted by the
ultra-conservative right and
millions of under-privileged
are understandably cynical
because they have listened to
empty promises so long.
rVHlS is why Roberto Cam-
pos, Brazilian Ambassa
dor to the United States,
speaking for himself, says the
Alliance cannot succeed until
! it instills in the masses of La
tin America "a personal in-
volvement" as well as "a na-
tional commitment."
This is why Lincoln Gor
don, the economist-diplomat
who is United States Ambas-i
sador to Brazil av thai on
less the Alliance can create a
"political mystique'' and idon-
tify itself with the loyalties of
the great majority of the poo-
pie, the precondition for sue -
cess is absent.
Nothing remotely adequate
to development of this nor-
sonal involvement, this politi-
cal mystique, behind the Al -
liance is being done today.
There is yet no mechanism for
doing it. nothing like the Mon
net Action Committee for a
I nited States of Europe,
which gives such drive to the
European Common Market.
It is almost too late but not
quite. It is never too late to
win a war - even an economic
war - if we view winnine it
j with enough urgency.
Yemen, an Arab state. Yemen
has long claimed both the
emirates and Aden' as its
own.
Britain enjoys limited pro
tectorate powers over the emi
rates and hands out sibsidies
to them. They need both the
protection and money for
survival.
Aden, although only 75
square miles in area, has a
population o' over 200,000.
Because of the business
brought to it by the port and
the base it is prosperous and
progressive.
Unfortunately for the Brit
ish, the growth of prosperity
and progress has coincided
with a corresponding growth
of Arab nationalism, bring
ing demands for greater poli
tical autonomy.
The nationalists are fright
ened that a wedding between
Aden and the still feudal emi
rates will block their chances
of winning any sort. of con
stitutional advance. Above
all. it will block the hopes
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
By GASTON COBLENTZ
(Joseph Alsop it on vaca
tion. During his absence,
his column will be written
by reporters expert in na
tional and international af
fairs.) LOOKING FOR THE
FORMULA
Paris With a good deal
of publicity. President Ken
nedy has been dispatching his
economists abroad to probe
the recent wonders of the Eu
ropean economy. The logic of
it is that the Europeans are
supposed to have uncovered
the elusive secret of everlast
ing economic growth. If the
Kennedy economists could be
let in on the formula, they
could bring it back and apply
it to the United States.
The vexatious news is that
this operation has been under
taken precisely at a time when
the European secret seems to
be a little less worth having.
The Europeans are starting
to be plagued by some of the
same ailments that have been
troubling the U. S. It is ques
tionable whether they have all
the answers, either.
In West Germany, the diz
zying boom is grinding lo a
halt in a vortex of wage infla
tion, shrinking profit margins,
and a dismal stock market
debacle. In France, which
seems to be the pet object of
the Kennedy research ven
ture, a relentless inflation in
many domestic branches is
progressively wiping out the
advantages of a fairly recent
devaluation of the franc. In
Italy, despite its admirable
monetary orthodoxy for more
than a decade, wage inflation
is threatening to undermine
the structure. And in Britain,
Selwyn Lloyd's classically
cautious policies may be
scrapped in favor of a refla
lionist experiment which
could annihilate the recent
stabilization of the pound
sterling.
TESIDES the irony of fish--
ing in these muddied wa
ters, there is another greater
irony in the search by t h e
Kennedy economists. For Eu
rope's current inflationary
headaches with ominous
signs that a deflationary back
lash may be on the way are
in part the fulfillment of a
wishful prayer that has been
nurtured in official Washing
ton since the latter days of
the Eisenhower administra
tion. The prayer has been that
the Europeans would soon fol
low in American footsteps and
imbibe their dose of inflation,
too. The result would be to
make their massive exporis
less competitive on world
markets. This and other re
lated mechanisms would, the
prayer went, diminish their
huge European payments sur
pluses and take the heat off
the declining gold reserves
of the United States.
This has been an almost
freely enunciated policy in
Washington. A suspicion ex
ists that American labor rep-
resentatives were prompted
into encouraging wae.e boost
i demands by some of tiie Euro
! pean trade unions. The over
all policy has come to be
known as one of ' exporting
inflation'' to one's European
i allies. Misery loves company.
' ' '
a "ther tricky game.!
Almost every one of the!
European nations involved dc-j
' pends on a far-flung export j
trade to fuel its national econ- i
om.v- In Germany, for in-!
slance, some kev industries
' do up to half of their business
' abroad. Take that business
I away, or reduce it sharply. :
a"1 'he result is a boriv blow
to the stability of the German
economy, with all the grim
social corv-eouences that could
flow from it.
However. Mr. Kennedy's
economists, in their search
for the European secret, ap
pear to have been concentrat
ing their attention, above all.
on France, despite the dubious ,
Plan
of the extremists for eventual:
independence, and a possible
break from the common
wealth into the Arab camp.
Not all the 25 emirates sur
rounding Aden have agreed
to come into federation, but
11 have decided on it and two
more are considering joining.
The federators have a popu
lation of 450,000, which
means they outnumber tha
people of Aden colony two-to-one.
Representatives of the col
ony and the emirates have
been meeting in London re
cently to plan implementation
of the federation.
Officials carefully avoided
calling the talks n constitu
tional conference but this did
not allay the fears of tha
anti-federationists in Aden.
The Aden Trades Union
Congress called a strike on
the day the talks opened, as
a gesture of defiance. Tha
congress is reported to be
backed by Arab nationalists
in Cairo.
By Joseph Aliop
Tribune Syndicate
features of the present French
economy. The evident reason
is that France has a national
economic "plan." It repre
sents the kind of state-plan
ning approach that appeals to
progressive economists.
But before trying to trans
plant it to the U. S. it would
be well to wait a little longer
and see whether it really
works.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Russia's ex-lumberjack, Ma
jor Nikolayev, now has a
companion - Lieutenant Col
onel Popovich, who was ap
parently sent out to keep him
company and prevent him
from getting cabin fever.
Colonel Popovich is reported
to be an ex-sheep herder.
As this is written, the two
of them are reported to be
sailing along out there in tha
wild yonders of Lace, in
sight of each other, and chat
ting back and forth over tha
intcr-com.
They had their dinners,
Moscow reports. After dinner,
the news tickers say, they
rested for an hour, and per
haps took a nap. The general
drift of their news to tha
home folks appears t- be in
the pattern of the time-honored
postcard cliche:
"Having wonderful time;
wish you were here."
WHAT are they talking
about?
They are reported to be
discussing the feasibility ot
coordinating the flights of
two or more space ships in
order to set up a flying plat
form from which another
ship could be launched with
a crew to pilot it to the moon.
Down here on earth, that
seems like a crazy idea. Out
there in space, riding along
more or less side by side, it
may look a lot simpler.
TlfEANWHILE -
"l What's the big news
down here on terra firma?
VELL -"
At the
moment. Sena
tor Kefauver says in Wash
ington that he thinks tha
plans of the wicked opposi
tion to shut off the filibuster
against President Kennedy's
Tclstar ownership bill (which
calls for private Investment)
will fail and that the Telstar
enterprise will be government-owned.
QH, YES.
There's other big news.
Sharing the front page of
one of our greatest Western
newspapers the other morn
ing with the news of the Rus
sian cosmonauts was a home
front story about the efforts
of an American reformer to
require zoo animals to wear
breech-clouts.
The shameful way in which
these zoo animals are per
mitted to expose themselves,
he says, is a national scandal,
and something ought to bo
done about it. He adds that
his decency society has pres
ently some 38,000 members,
and is growing like a weed.
Its really quite newsy
these days.
Caroline Anxious
To Get To Beach
Ravello, Italy - (I'PD - Caro
line Kennedy, 4, anxious to
go to the beach to play with
her friends, tried to hurry her
mother down to the sea today.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy,
starting the second week of
her Italian vacation, attended
mass in the village church
since today was the Feast of
the Assumption, a Roman
Catholic holy day.
She returned on foot to the
villa where she is staying
with her sister. Princess Lee
Kadziwill, to find Carolina
sitting in the car and ready
to go.