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I B S IA MedfordTribune SECTION E MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963 PAGES 1 to 8 Four Executions in Foundation Offers Medford Student in Japan Finds 'Big Brother Complex' California Chamber Scheduled on May 3 THREE RECORDS Margaret Revell, 25, of Detroit, Mich., emerges from the water after setting three records by swim ming the Straits of Messina from Sicily to the Italian main land and back, braving cold, currents, stomach ache and the danger of sharks. She is the first person to swim the Straits both ways and the first American to swim the Straits cither way. Her swim also was the longest ever made in the Straits. (UPI) San Qucntin. Calif. - ilW -California's gas chamber is scheduled May 3 to take the lives of four convicted mur derers in one day. It will be the largest execu tion since the olive-green- oc tagonal room was installed in 1938. In the meantime, more than 200 men and women have died in it. The quadruple execution date is a coincidence. The same date was selected inde pendently by judges in dif ferent counties. The hour, however, is chosen by Warden Fred R. Dickson. He has directed that two men will go to the cham ber, which has two seats, in the morning and two in the afternoon. But this schedule could be disrupted if some court grants any of the prisoners a stay of execution pending a further appeal. Once before a quadruple execution was planned by co incidence, but a last-minute stay reduced the number. One of the prisoners, Charles Golston, 21, a win dow washer, was convicted of raping and strangling Mrs. Dora Cutting, T$. in Los An geles Aug. 28. 1961 The other three defendants were found guilty of partici pating in the gang killing of Leslie Simpson, owner of the South Seas bar in Anaheim, Calif., March 7, 1959. They are Joseph Rosoto, 39, and John Vlahovich, 31, both commercial fishermen, and Donald Franklin, 34, a boilermaker. Simpson was shot to death at 3 a.m., shortly after the closing of his bar, and his wife. Fern, was seriously wounded in both arms. The state contended that Simpson was killed to elimi nate him as a witness in a forthcoming trial of Rosoto for armed robbery of the South Seas two years before. Rosoto was acquitted of the robbery charge, but convicted of murder. The scheduled quadruple execution comes as the Cali fornia Legislature is engaged in another bitter, biennial de bate over a moratorium on capital punishment. The lawmakers, who reject ed such a moratorium three years ago in a dramatic spe cial session shortly before the execution of Caryl Chessman, are rather closely divided on the question. But political observers pre dicted that the legislature would once again turn down the moratorium idea - - in spite of support for it by Gov. Edmund G. Brown. Ford Bound Over To Grand Jury on Charge Llewellyn B. Ford, former operator of the Medford Bookkeeping Service, appear ed in Jackson rounty district court Tuesday on charges of embezzlement by an agent. He was bound over to the grand jury. Ford is charged with taking $13,000 from firms for whom he worked while keeping their books. He waived right to a preliminary hearing. APPLE FAVORITES Springfield, Bt -iliPTi- The three leading varieties of apples now being produced in Illinois are "J o n a t h a n," "Golden Delicious" and "De licious," with "Jonathan" leading in popularity, a report by the U.S. department of ag riculture and the Illinois Crop Reporting service said. Scholarships for Students of Area The Jackson county chap- t ter of the National Founda I tion is offering scholarships from $100 to S500 for profes i clonal study in nursing, oc cupational therapy, physical therapy, medical social work and medicine. Mrs. Martha D o n o h u e, chapter scholarship chairman, has advised high schools of the county of the availability of the scholarships and inter ested students should consult their high school scholarship chairman. The March of Dimes health career awards are designed to help students begin their first year of educational prepara tion in one of the five fields. Eligible To Apply High school seniors gradu ating this year are eligible to apply for a scholarship in nursing, occupational therapy or physical therapy. Medical social work appli cants must be' currently en rolled as college sophomores in a regionally accredited college. For an award to study medicine an applicant must be a final year undergradu ate In a regionally accredited college and accepted for ad mission in the fall to the first year class of an AMA-ap-proved medical school in the United States. Students al ready possessing baccalaure ate degrees or already en rolled in medical school are not eligible. Credentials of applicants will be reviewed on a compe titive basis by a selection committee headed by Mrs. Donohue. Basis for selection are scholastic achievement, personal qualifications, pro fessional promise and finan cial need. (Editor'! nott: Following is the first in a itriei of dispatches from Fred Lor ish, ion of Dr. and Mrs. Fred C. Lorish, 830 Minne sota ire.. Medford, who is spending a year in Japan at Xeio university, institute of international relations, Tokyo. Young Lorish is studying the Japanese language, philosophy and religion. In this first dis patch h discusses the "Big Brother Complex.") REWARD... YOURSELF WITH A USED CAR FROM DEAN & TAYLOR PONTIAC DURING OUR . . . TRADE FOR ANYTHING SALE' EXAMPLE . . . Rattle Snake Skin good for $1.00 Trade-in, a hand lawn mower . . . $6.19, 1925 Star Magneto worth $7.50 for trade-in, and that's the way it works. Push it, haul it, lead it to Dean & Taylor and trade it in on one of the many Used Cars now on sale at "Wide-Track Town" OPEN TONIGHT TILL 9:00 WANTED I DEAN & TAYLOR I JJ WIDE-TRACK I "TRADE FOR ANYTHING SALE" I f &!X$' THURSDAY-FRIDAY SATURDAY j .ftys 2177 SO. PACIFIC HWY. 99 I By FRED LORISH In the single week I have been in Japan, I have become increasingly aware of a very unusual "phenomenon" - and an unfortunate one at that -among the Japanese that I, for lack of a better term, call the "Big Brother complex." This complex was brought to my attention while attend- j ing an advanced English con versation course at the United I Nations Association of Japan. ' The class was taught by a for eign exchange student from India who had opened the dis cussion of the class to any subject, but particularly to the topic of contemporary India. One Japanese gentleman, an importer -exporter, men tioned that he had spent four days in Calcutta, India, a few years back, and was very "im pressed" with the city's wretchedness. He particular ly noted I he people - their substandard housing and clothing, their lack of shoes, Iheir odor, etc. This gentle man, though he did not ex press it directly, conveyed the feeling thai he believed the Japanese, on the basis of his brief observations, to be "su perior" to the Indians. He had spent but four days in India, and considered that this was sufficient to pass Judgement, ignoring the fact that Calcutta is not only In dia's largest city, overrun by Indian refugees from East Pakistan, but also is known to be one of the world's most wretched cities, and thus s not representative of the na tion as a whole. Hot Only Basis There is no doubt lhat Japan is materially "super ior" to India. Bat material wealth cannot be the only basis for a judgment on a na tion's superiority. India has a cultural heritage far "su perior" to that of Japan, and it is from this heritage that Japan gained her Buddhism and other cultural aspects of her tradition. But the Japanese seem to be ignoring the cultural aspects and considering only the ma terial ones. It is in this that one finds the "Big Brother complex." Japan looks to the U.S. as her "materialistic leader." She looks on America as the leader of the Free World - a position gained in part through power politics. This power, however, can not be exercised without wealth, as Japan is well aware having faced this problem in the Russo - Japanese War and World War II. And so, Japan desires a greater part of this wealth. She thus looks to the West for guidance, ignoring, part, her own traditional methods of guidance. Traveled To U.S. Many Japanese have trav elled in the U.S. and have seen the squalor of the South, the tenements of our large cities, to name a few of our eyesores." The unfortunate thing fs that these are ignored, almost as if they didn't exist. These travelers see only the displays of wealth that abound every where in a materialistic so ciety such as ours. They fall to see lhat the American way of life" Is fallible; they are oblivious to the imperfections of our sys tem. In short, they fail to see that tne problems we face are the same problems they will face if they continue to foster this "Big Brother complex." To the American, Japan is a nation becoming Western ized - if she is, how truly un fortunate. I, for one, can only hope lhat Japan, rather than fostering her "Big Brother complex" with its manifold problems and fallible ele ments, wilt look to her past to find her future. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER C.pyrlhr, Hall SreAcate, Inc. MULTI-COLOR CURRENCY IB SHELVED When Congress cuts the link between silver and our paper currency and our $1 silver certificates are then switch ed to gold-backed Federal Reserve notes, the $1 bill in your pocket will be significantly redesigned for the first time since 1935. Its color, though, will remain the familiar green and so will the color of the $5, the $10, the $20, all the other denomination bills in use in the United Stales. The drive to print the various denominations of U.S. currency In different colors, which was put into high gear early in the Kennedy Administration by his first U. S. Treasurer, Elizabeth Rude Smith, has run into such power ful opposition from within the administration itself that the issue can be considered shelved. Henry J. Holtzciaw, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and James J. Rowley, chief of the Secret Ser vice that rides herd on counterfeiters, are flatly against the mint making our $5 bill a btueback, or our $10 a redback or our $20 bill a yellowback, elc. When a Congressional commitlee held hearings on currency changes last month, even the new U.S. Treasurer, Kalhryn E. Oranahan, backed away from the proposal by saying that different colored bills would he "very confusing." So, the proposal is shelved for now, but it was Intriguing, it still is, and it will not stay on the shelf. Ours U the only leading country In the world which does not distinguish between denomination! of ill cur rency 'either by the tiie of the precious piece of piper, the color or both. Canada varies the appearance of its different denominations of bills primarily by color. Britain does it both by the lise and appearance of the denominations Other countries do it hy a combination. If our currency denominations were in different colors, it would make counting and handling of money much easier, faster and more convenient. It would slash the chance of error in identifying the denomination of a bill. (Who among you has not lost money by mistaking a $5 or a $10 for a $1 and not realizing your mistake until after you had left the scene of payment?) When Mrs. Smith assumed office, multi-color currency was the major innovation she urged and she submitted an exhaustive report to Treasury Secretary Dillon explaining all aspects of the change. For a while it seemed highly probable that the White House would pu4h the move and Congress eventually would approve. But then the opposition came alive. Almost from the start, cynics tossed out nicknames "funny money," "Kennedy money"- and Treasury officials shuddered at what other nicknames might be invented. Then came Holtsclaw'i verdict. At he put it to me in an interview, "Multi-color currency would confuse the general public. It would be dangerous, for ii would encourage counterfeiting. Today, our currency is the most counterfeit-proof in the world becauie its design is so simple and unchanging." With the Bureau of Engravini! and Printing and the Se cret Service saying this sort of thing out loud, (here's no doubt that multicolor currency is back in the pigeonhole. Holtzciaw goes along, of course, with redesigning the I $1 bill when Congress permits the Treasury to shift the $1 stiver certificate to a gold-backed Federal Reserve note in I order to free the Treasury's shrinking hoard of silver for use ! in minting coins - dimes, quarters, half-dollars. As I rc- ported yesterday, in anticipation of Congressional approval, Treasury artists and engravers already have hand-tooled I four models of the new $1 bill for Dillon's consideration. But Holtzciaw is a staunch opponent of radical change In currency. As one illustration, it often has been proposed ! thai the Mint produce special notes embossed in Braille to protect the blind. Says Holtzciaw: "These Braille nolcs could easily be I I used to deceive the blind. We believe a blind man is much ; j better off relying on the goodwill of those around him." j That's the way Holtzciaw feels about most proposals. "Sim-: pie and unchanging" is his mono for our currency. If your great-grandfather came hack and went to the supermarket with you today, he'd not rcrognie your dollar bills in terms of thetr buying power. But he d Immediately , recognize their appearance HUBBARD BROS. INC. MEDFORD 79th Anniversary LAST CALL!! THIS IS IT FOLKS PRICES HAVE BEEN SLASHED TO THE BONE! LAST! DAY Friday-Saturday mums GLOVES limit 2 Pair GAMP HATCHET Mb. t7C Now FLASHLIGHT BATTERIES 9c TRANSISTOR BATTERIES 479c Aluminum Lawn Edging 4"x40' 4"x20 New 95c Now 75c MERCURY SWITCH $!Z69 SHEARS ?22 Challenge $af25 NOW Garden Rake 99' 14-Tin NOW... 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