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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.")
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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
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