Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 10, 1963, Image 8

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., March 10, 1963, Image 8

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1963)

Prev Page of 53 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.8 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 53 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1863 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Brainchild of FDR's New Deal May Be Resurrected by JFK Bv ROBERT BUCKHORN I I fraincH nersnnnpl ralhcr lhani i i By ROBERT BUCKHORN United Preii International Washington -(UPD- I Prcsl dent Kennedy has his way, brainchild of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal will be resurrected, given a new name, and put to work again, It is the depression - born Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program that took more than 2 million young Americans off the unemploy ment rolls in the 1930's and put them to work conserving the nation s natural resources, Kennedy has asked Con gress for a CCC but in a new dress. He calls it a Youtn ton- servation Corps (YCC) but the objective would be about tnc same The birth certificate for the CCC was Roosevelt's execu tive order 6101. The date was April 5, 1933. The nation was at an economic standstill. Fao tories and farms were idle, Banks were going broke and closing, 13 million persons were jobless and millions more were in dire economic straits. Two-Pronged Weapon Roosevelt, inaugurated with the historic declaration that "there was nothing to fear but fear itself," said he saw the CCC as a two-pronged weapon against the depres sion. It would, he said, "save a generation of upright and eager men . . . and restore our threatened national re sources." In 1063, Kennedy's argu- ment is much the same. In a sDecial message to Congress, he said many thousands of young men and women are among the nation's 5 million unemployed. "Unemployment among young workers today is two and one-half times the nation al average," he said. He added that out-of-school youth be- ret p. &&&& S'iMS-J 1 AJ& w PLANT TREES A group of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youths are shown in this 1939 picture planting vari ous kinds of trees in plowed furrows of flat lands. Presi dent Kennedy's proposed Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) would be similar to the CCC operation. (UPI) tween 16 and 21 make up only 7 per cent of the labor force but 18 per cent of the unem ployed. In addition to this, he said, is the growing juve nil delinquency rate-doubled in the last decade. Roosevelt had his critics, and Kennedy has his. Oppon ents of the old CCC said the program amounted to putting the unemployed in the Army under the guise of a conser vation corps. Others were not so subtle. They said the CCC was nothing more than a con centration camp for the un employed. Today the YCC is being criticized on grounds it is too big a remedy for too small a problem. In a report on a sim ilar bill last year, conserva tive Sens, Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), John G. Tower (R Tex.), and Winston L. Prouty (R-Vt.) said the unemployment situation among youth does not warrant as big a program as the President proposed. They said the armed forces were the obvious places for unemployed youths in need of training that would give them useful civilian skills. They conceded that conserving the national resources was a ne cessity but said it could be done more effectively by ap propriating more money for trained personnel rather than using youths drawn mostly from industrial areas. Leading Kennedy's Drive Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) is leading the Pres ident's drive for the corps. In the first bill submitted to the senate this year, he outlined the type of program the White House wants. It calls for 15,' 000 candidates the first year and no more than 60,000 at any one time during the next four years. Under the CCC, the first quota was 25,000 men but in its nearly 10 years of life it trained 2,600,000 youths. The age requirements for both are the same-16 to 21, but YCC candidates would do better in the pay department. Recruits would get $60 a month. Veterans of the CCC got $30. Key Differences' One of the key differences between the two programs is in organization. Under CCC, the Army played a role. It has no place in the YCC. Humph rey's bill calls for the YCC to be set up within the labor de partment with a director ap pointed by the President. The CCC had a director but it also had an advisory coun cil consisting of a representa tive each from the labor, war, interior and agriculture de partments. It was the old war depart ment's role that drew most criticism. It appointed reserve officers to run the camps. It paid the youths and dressed them in army-issue khaki. This led opponents of the CCC to term it more military than civilian. The labor department ac tually recruited the men and the labor and agriculture de partment supplied the work projects. The first CCC camp was Mexicans in Growing Numbers Seeking Visas to United States t twc di mu jay jiiiTib United Prei International Mexico City-tUPD - Outside the U.S. consulate on this city's broad Paseo de la Re forma, throngs of straw-hatted, shirt-sleeved, sun-tanned farmhands stand patiently waiting their turn. "Operation Visa" is in lull Formerly only seasonal, the lines now are uuiBe ----- in an unprecedented exodus to trie univKu The 13 American consulates In Mexico, consiliums . . . . i ..iniccmnd no- Sams Dlggesi vi- .. ,u ..mrlH are haV- eranon hi , --- ing difficulty keeping abreast of the 5,000 Visa applications every niuui Now On Waiting List Already, there arc some 125,000 Mexicans on the wail ing list, estimates Consul-Gen-cral Torrance G. Laonhardy hCLaonhardy attributes much of the mushrooming demand for visas to the big drop in work contracts offered Mex ican "Braceros" (laborers) on agricultural projects and farms In southwestern and western United Slates. The farmers want to go back and setlie permanently, Laonhardy explained. Once an immigrant visa is Issued, then all a Mexican has to do is enter the United States within four months, keep working and register with immigration authorities every January as an alien. In the "meantime, he can apply for naturalization as a citizen. Poor Living Conditions Most observers feel one of the m.i factors for the ex odus Is poor living conditions amonR large numbers of peas ant families In this country. In recent months, dissatis faction with farm conditions became clear when "squat ters" moved right onto nomc farm lands after wailing for years to get their own tracts unocr agrarian reiuun vnuv.- IMC (;vivii ntiii in pounced it will eliminate all e esiairs Dciorc me cm President Adnfo Lopez cos' six-year term on Dec. 1, 19t4. But agitation became Inten sified recently with formation of a new peasant confedera tion as a challenge to the long established, government-dominated national peasants con federation. No matter what the situa tion now, officials iiere say, Mexico prooaniy always win lead the world in "Operation Visa." o Is a non-quotn ' explained Laon- 'Thcre is no actual sions. The la i s of Maleos' "Mexi country,' hardy narciy. - mere is no actual limitation on Mexicans getting MEXICANS WORKING Itinerant Mexican enlly as they harvest a tomato crop. (UPI) workers are shown In this picture taken rec- visas to the U.S. the only limitation that could ever arise is Jus! how fast it Is physically possible fur consu lar officers to investigate ap plications." Once Hie basic require ments arc fulfilled, Laon hardy said, a consular officer processes and issues a visa within two and one-half hours. Laonhardy said the present rising waiting list makes it highly improbable new appli cants will be called for inter views or vi.sa action "for a year or more. But the de mand is bound to continue to rise, he suid. Every tune we issue one visa, we calculate that means three more. Once a Mexican is working and settled in the United States, he naturally wants his family or some re latives to join him." NO NEED TO WEAR A TRUSS Thst Bindf, Cuct, Gouges, Slips nd Does Not Hold If you must nr Trail for Rupiurr, don't mm iliij. A Post Csrd, wilh nme nd ddrms, will (tel you l-Rlit:. tnd without obligation, the complete, modcrnittd Rice Plan of Re ducible Rupture Control. Now in daily use by thousands who say they never dreamed possible such secure, dependable and comfortable rupture protection. Safely blocks rupture open ing, presents escape, without need for bulky, cumbersome Trusses, tormenting springs or harsh gouging pad pressure. Regardless of how long ruptured, sue occupation, or trusses you have worn, TRY THIS, and send vour Post Card today to V S. Rice, Inc., Ailntm, N Y. Dept. 7glP Crater Student Is Finalist in Search Michael R. Guss, senior at l Crater High school, is one of i the 13 finalists in the Oregon State Talenl Search, accord ing to Raymond E. Barrett, director of education at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, which sponsors the state competition. diss's research involved an investigation of the factors relative to the rate of fatigue In muscles. The 13 finalists will present their work orally before judges at OMS1 as part of the Science Youth Congress pro gram May 3-5. Winners will be Invited to the Science Award Banquet May i!5 to share n scholarships, summer research jobs and bonds, along with winners of the Northwest Science Fair and Future Scientists of America competitions. University To Offer Evening Seminar The University of Oregon will offer an evening semi nar in Cases and Concepts in Educational A d m inistration in Medford spring term through Oregon's general ex tension division. The course. Ed 507, will be offered for three hours of credit. Classes will meet in Medtord High school hruin. mug April 3. The session will oe on Wednesday night from 7 to 9 45 p in Fees are at the rate of $12 50 per credit hour. Courses arc generally open to anyone About BOO evening classes are being offered spring term throughout Oregon by the colleges and universities in the stale system of higher education. The classes are ad ministered by continuation centers of the general exten sion division. Additional information on the course to be offered in MeriforH is avaihthlp rmm Charles Ivic, head of the Ash-' land Continuation center at j Southern Oregon college. Surplus Property from State Now in Siskiyou Yreka-Sen. Randolph Col lier said an estimated $1,253, 236.37 worth of surplus prop erty, supplies, equipment, and training has been allocated to Siskiyou county through the state disaster office pro gram, including 1061-62 con tributions of $183,317.97 in surplus property. Collier pointed out the sur plus property was received at a cost of $11,452.60 to the local communities, and value of the surplus property was computed on the basis of original purchase price by the federal government. An additional $345,432.84 in disaster relief has been re ceived by Siskiyou county as grants under Public Law 875. Collier pointed out the $1.2 million received by Siskiyou county was a portion of a 42 Measles Cases Reported in CP Central Point with 42 cases of measles had the largest number of communicable dis eases in Jackson county last week, Dr. A. Erwin Merkel, director of the public health department, reported. Medford had 11 cases nf measles, Gold Hill 5 and Sams Valley 2. Central Point also had more cases of mumus than tho nth. er communities with a total oi lb. ihcre were two cases reported in Gold Hill and one in Ashland. Influenza hit Shady Cove harder than other county dis tricts. There were 16 cases re ported by Shady Cove, 15 by Medford, 11 by Ashland, and 6 at Central Point. total of $63.2 million dis tributed in the entire state. Collier said state owned or controlled disaster equipment assigned to Siskiyou county includes 75 radiation detec tion instruments, one radio logical trailer, four emergency hospitals with a 500 patient capacity each; four first aid stations equipped to provide emergency care for 600 casu alties each; two fire pumpers, fully equipped and capable of pumping 1,000 gallons per minute. opened in Virginia's George Washington National forest 10 days after Roosevelt signed his executive order. But when the CCC was finally phased out in 1942, camps had been set up in every state. On the basis of its work record, the youth of the CCC did a monumental job. In Mis sissippi alone they planted 2 million trees. They built 38, 550 bridges throughout the nation. They spent 6,450,403 man-days fighting fires, built 80 airfields and strung 88,883 miles of telephone wire. In an estimate made to the House Appropriations commit tee in 1942, CCC officials put the value of work on public lands alone at $1.75 billion. Proud of CCC Roosevelt was proud of the CCC. "All you have to do is to look at the boys themselves to see that the camps are a success," he said. Kennedy hopes for as much. He termed the Youth Corp bill "a measure of first priority." An early vote on the meas ure is expected in Congress. Humphrey predicts it will be approved. But it still faces the same strong opposition that killed similar bills in both the 86th and 87th Congress-es. Advertisement Arthritis, Rheumatism Vital Facts Explained FREE DESCRIPTIVE BOOK As a public service to all read ers of this paper, a new 36-pag highly illustrated book on Arthri tis and Rheumatism will be mailed ABSOLUTELY FREE to all who write for it. No agent will call. This FREE BOOK fully ex plains the causes, ill-effects and danger in neglect of these painful and crippling conditions. It also describes a successfully proven method of treatment without drugs or surgery which has been applied in many thousands of cases. This book is yours WITHOUT COST or obligation. It may be th means of saving years of untold misery. Don't delay. Send for your FREE BOOK today. Address Th Ball Clinic . . . Dept. 3-2609 MC 1, Excelsior Springs, Mo. TWO BANDS! A DUO AND A TRIO ON THE SAME BAND STAND The Fabulous "Checkmates' - Bringing Las Vegas To Medford! an unusual group with a terrific background who hava appeared on the Arthur Godfrey Show, been featured with luch personalitici as Jonah Jones, Dorothy Donnegan, Clyde Mc Coy and the Ventures. Their swinging vocals and instrumentals are superb. There's not enough space here to give their fabulous back ground. SEE THEM FOR YOURSELF MONDAY, MARCH IT vour evenina more eninvahlo -'&. $ The Candle Room ym M i i ..... . . . .. 'ri , urrors rooas cooKea over open Tira , PJjlff ... mi ino room wnere you ear mfSffffw NO COVER CHARGE-JUST ENJOY YOURSELF The Only Expense it the Price of Your Favorite Beverage HOTEL FAIRWAY 52-Gal. Electric WATER HEATER Save $15 PAY ONLY With Cal-Ore League Bonus t'O MONEY DOWN n Fully aufomelic controls, (iber glass insulation and rustproof, glass-lined tank. . tea I 1 v7if) Jltl) You're sure of satisfaction . . . from retailers who feature known brands arti atw.,'4 i lb fin: t ii: " i .i si.- ' Retailers know you're sure of Mtis faction with known brands because you'll get the quality you expect. Brand Karnes are built on your con fidence. You and your neighbors dictate the standards a Brand Name product must meet to consistently deliver the value and service you want. A respected Brand Name is a manu facturer's most valuable asset and he pares no effort to protect it by constant ly testing and bettering his product. A Brand Name is the maker's guarantee of satisfaction doubly endorsed by the retailer who sells it. For dependable quality and consistent satisfaction you will do better with the brands you know; get to know those you see advertised in this newspaper. To get the most for your money buy by Brand Name and be sure! CONFIDENCE BRAND NAMES A Brand Name is a maker's reputation BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION, INC., til FIFTH AVENUK, NEW YOllK IK, N Y.