MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
FRIDAY. JANUARY 11. 1963
Local Musicians
To Play in Salem
Gov. Mark O. Hatfield's
pre-election promisj to a
Medford musical group has
come through, and Ralph
Eltel's Combo will be playing
at the Governor's Inaugura
tion Monday, Jan. 14, Ettel
reported here today.
Ettel, tenor banjo player,
said he had been assurrd by
Travis Cross, administrative
assistant to the governor, this
morning that the inauguration
would go on as scheduled in
spite of political squabbles
rioted Thursday.
Playing with Ettel in a 10
minute "Special" at 7:3" p.m.,
will be Mrs. Eve Prentice
Webster, accordionist; Ted
Jennings and Ron Bartlett on
the saxophones. The group
also will play background
music at the inauguration,
Ettel said.
The invitation was given
the Medford musicians at a
pre-election breakfast spon
sored at the Roxy Ann Grange
here by the Republican Worn'
en. The Combo entertained
at the breakfast and the gov
ernor and Mrs. Hatfield both
voiced their appreciation of
the program. The governor
remarked that morning
"We're' going to have you at
the inauguration next January."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
One hundred years ago Gov
ernor Leland Stanford of the
youthful state of California (it
was admitted to the Union
in 1850, and was then jusv
entering its teens as a state)
stood on the banks of the
Sacramento river and with a
silver shovel broke ground
for what was to become the
United States of America's
first transcontinental rail
road. Six years later, at Promon
tory Point, in Utah, Governor
Stanford drove the golden
spike that fastened down the
last rail that linked the Cen
tral Pacific to the Union Pa
cific and thus made it possible
for railroad trains to travel
on one .track from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific.
Tuesday Governor Edmund
Brown, using the same silver
shovel, and standing at the
same spot on the bank of the
Sacramento, re-enacted the
century-old ground-breaking
ceremony.
TTmmmmmmmm.
One rather Imagines
that no one present at that
ceremony a century ago would
have been able to imagine that
100 years later the then-infant
state of California would be
the biggest state of the Union,
with a population exceeding
17 millions.
Dennis the Menace
lit
Nor -I
think -
Could anyone then imagine
that a century hence railroads
would be regarded as so slow
that they would be used al
most exclusively for the trans
port of freight. Or that a Call
fornian, a century hence,
would be able to climb into
his own carriage, step on the
starter, and in somewhere be
tween four and five days, if
he drove early and late and
pushed down hard on the
throttle, be in New York.
0R
v That a Cahfornian, 100
years from then, could step
aboard a jet liner after an
early breakfast and eat a late
dinner in London, or - com
ing the other way and racing
the sun - that he could have
an early lunch in London or
Paris and a reasonably early
dinner in San Francisco.
NOR -
11 For that matter -
Could anyone standing
there on the Sacramento's
banks a century ago to watch
the turning of that first shov
elful of earth marking the
beginning of the western end
of the then new and fantastic
transcontinental imagine
that a century hence we
would be designing space
vehicles to carry earthlings
to the moon - and taxing the
people to pay for them.
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It's a Lime ewss thins this tone. Ano if
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF-
RIVALRY BETWEEN those two fine old Ivy League col
leges, Yale and Princeton, now extends far beyond the
confines of the football gridiron. Just how far I discovered
when I journeyed up to
an d VWans "Yes
lecture at Yale recently.
The very next night Old
Eli's debating team was
scheduled to meet Prince
ton head-on. I've never
discovered who won. But
"Yale emerged victorious
in two previous debates
with, the same Princeton
team by defending the
affirmative in "Resolved:
That a College Education
Is Wasted on the Amer
ican Female" and "Re
solved: That Harvard
Should Confer An Hon
orary Degree on BrigitteBardot!"
An author who had submitted a 900-page novel to Editor
Hiram Haydn at Atheneum explained, "Often I walked alone lata
at night to the very end of a Hudson River pier to collect my
thoughts."
"Wonderful," nodded Haydn thoughtfully, 'tut I wonder If
you went far enough."
Observes Robert Nathan In his spritely volume, "The Married
Man":
"Whoever or whatever was responsible for the extermina
tion of the woolly mammoth, the rose, and the mastodon (Being
dissatisfied andor derisive) You can be sure that when Man
is finally made to disappear from this earth It will be faster
done And more decisive."
C l-3. by Bennett Cert. DUlrlbuted by King Features Syndicate
TlfORE fantastic figures:
In the census year of
1860, the population of the
United States was 31,443,321.
The population of New York,
at that time, was 3.880,773 -about
half the present popu
lation of Los Angeles and its
far-flung suburbs. California's
population in 1880 was 379.
994. Incidentally, at that time,
the population of Oregon was
52,465.
Now -
The combined population of
New York and California is
somewhere in the neighbor
hood of 35,000,000-more thar
the population of the entire
United States a century ago.
Slightly scary thought:
What will things be like a
century HENCE?
Trading Stamps
Buy School Bus
A new 54-passenger school
bus for the Rogue River
academy made its initial run
yesterday afternoon.
The bus, driven to Medford
this week from the bus com'
pany in Lima, Ohio, was pur
chased by the valley Seventh-
day Adventists f. 4,000
books of trading stamps.
The project was started In
December, 1961, by the four
area Adventists churches-Ash-
land, Medford, Eagle Point
and Valley View.
The local academy, with an
enrollment of 173 students,
uses two school busses. Plans
are under way to start saving
trading stamps for a second
bus.
The academy had originally
planned to purchase a 37
passenger bus, according to
Forrest W. Bigger, who flew
to Ohio and drove the bus
back. But when a last minute
dceision was made to buy the
larger one, the company al
lowed them to obtain the bus
now and pay the balance of
800 books of trading stamps
later.
One family. It was noted,
gathered 347 books, some be
ing sent from as far east as
Ohio.
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Barton Has Plan
To Speed Measures
Salem - rtlPD - A plan to
speed action on noncontro
vcrsial bills has been suggest
ed by House Speaker-designate
Clarence Barton (D-Co-quillc).
A study showed in the last
legislature more than half the
measures approved in the
House passed unanimously.
Under Barton's plan, non
controversial bills would be
listed on a consent calendar.
Otherwise, the calendar
would be voted on in ils en
tirety at one time.
Aim of the procedure is to
eliminate lengthy exp 1 a n a-
tions of noncontroversial bills
Reed College Head
Appointed To Board
Portland -lUTO- Dr. Richard
Sullivan, president of Reed
College, has been appointed
to the executive board of the
College Retirement Equities
Fund.
The CREF is a nationwide
retirement plan for college
teachers and staffs and the
staffs of other educational and
scientific institutions and organizations.
Operations of Pacifica Group Hearing Subject
Washington JUPD- The Sen-I
ale Internal Security subcom
mittee began closed hearings
Thursday into the operations
of the Pacifica foundation,
which operates listener-supported
radio stations in Cali
fornia and New York.
Acting Subcommittee Chair
man Thomas J. Dodd (D
Conn.), issued a statement say
ing the committee would seek
to determine whether Com
munists had infiltrated the
chain of stations.
The American Jewish Con-
Gas street lights are still
used in 33 U.S. cities.
grcss said the "obvious pur
pose" of the hearing was to
intimidate the network's pres
entation of a "wide variety
of viewpoints -including some
which the Senate subcommit
tee apparently docs not like."
The Jewish group register
ed its protests in a letter to
Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson. It urged Johnson to
have the hearing cancelled.
Professor Subpoenaed
Among persons subpoenaed
to appear before the commit
tee was Dr. Peter H. Odegard,
former president of Reed col
lege in Oregon and now a pro
fessor of political science at
the University of California.
Odegard said he answered
all the committee's questions
but declined to say what they
were.
Asked whether he was dis
turbed by the inquiry, Ode
gard said "Goodness no." His
attorney, Joseph Raul, said
"I've been in some hot ones
but this was milk and water."
In a statement prepared for
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the inquiry might deslro, the
foundation's three non-profit
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London (UPD Mrs. Jessie
Self, 70. jumped 20 feet from
a window Thursday night,
bounced off a shed roof, fell
into a garden, got up, climbed
a wall and then called fire
men to put out a blaze in her
house. She was treated for
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By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc.
WHERE ARE GAS PRICES HEADING?
As a consumer of gasoline, you have had a better break
on prices in recent months than in many years-partlcularly
li you live in one of the hundreds of areas where price wars
have been raging. What causes gasoline price wars? Where
are gas prices like to head in 1963?
Here, from Albert L. Nickerson, chairman of the board
of Socony Mobil Oil Co., are answers to these and other
questions about gasoline prices of interest to every car
ariver.
Porteri In spite of recent price wars, haven't gas prices
been rising during the past few years?
Nickerson: No. Gasoline prices actually have been trend
ing down, but this has been more than counteracted bv in
creasing taxes. Exclusive of taxes, gas prices at the pump
loaay are oniy aDoui 3 per cent Higher than in 1051, but
taxes are up over 50 per cent. Taxes now average more than
10 cents a gallon-a third of the price, a customer pays.
Porter: What lies behind falling prices and the price wars?
Nickerson: We have always had a lot of competition in
this business. All of the oil companies are very ambitious,
and in recent years they have been moving Into new areas,
reaching for new markets. This has greatly stiffened the
traditional competition in those markets.
As a result, prices in the last year have been very de
pressed. We thought 1061 prices were low-they were cer
tainly below our expeclations-bul prices in July of 1982
were a cent below 1961 levels. They have recovered a bit
since the bottom in August, the peak driving season, but
in the fall prices traditionally go down because the com
panies are running a lot of crude for heating oil and they
sell off the excess gasoline produced as a by-product, thus
depressing the gasoline market.
Also basic to the price picture is a general excess supply
In the industry of both crude oil and refining capacity. We
run at around 82 to 85 per cent of capacity.
Porter: What is the role of private brands in Drice cut
ting?
Nickerson: The private brands, which sell under the super
market type of philosophy - big volume, low profits, mini
mum service, no frills-have been taking a bigger share of
the market each year. There are no national figures, but
in some markets, such as St. Louis and Kansas City, they
do about half of the business. In Detroit it is more like 20
per cent, and in the Northeastern States it isn't that high.
Porter: How do private brands compare on prices?
Nickerson: Private brands sell for a cent or more a gallon
less than the nationally advertised brands, and some com
panies have brought out so-called sub-regular grades of gaso
line to compete with them.
Mobil believes that there is no more technical need for
a sub-regular grade of gas today than there was for a super
premium gas yesterday. Nor would such a move help our
profit factor. We do not sell to private branders either. In
stead, we rely on a flexible refinery schedule, on better
marketing Information and on storage facilities to prevent
ourselves from developing unmanageable surpluses.
Porter: Since prices have been no unfavorable to you,
how come profits have held up so well?
Nickerson: The domestic oil companies have hecn hav
ing a harder time than the international companies. While
prices abroad have also been under serious competitive pres
sure, they have not dropped so sharply.
Porter: What lies ahead for oil companies in the U. S.?
Nickersom Other industries have learned to live with
over-capacity and we may have to learn to live with it too.
The government import quota program, which allows com
anies to import oil on a formula related to their refinery
runs, tends to encourage overproduction.
Assuming we arc not able to get the prices we consider
fair - and I fervently believe a price Increase Is needed and
Justified in 1983 - we may have to cut back on some features,
such as elaborate service stations. Even the most aggressive
competitors will not continue unprofitable operations In
definitely. However, as you gain efficiency, you ran begin to make
money on lower prices. We're trying to Innovalc-we now
have a repair center in Camden, N.J., where your car under
goes 60 electronic tests to determine exactly what's wrong
with It. And we are adding such Items as vending machines
to help boost gas station income in the face of declining
revenues from such services as lubrication.
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