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In the Day's News MEDFOnP MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk about automo biles today. Why automobiles at this particular moment: Well, as this is written, about mid-afternoon of Saturday, the traf fic fatality figures for the Me morial Day holiday week end are beginning to trickle in over the wires. The total at this hour is 314. California, as usual, leads the procession with 38 deaths. jew York is next with 28. California leads all the states in automobile registrations, with a total of 7,229,000 cars. New York is next, with a total of 4,782,000 registered cars. It is logical to assume where there are more cars there will be more fatal accidents. fFHIS is a changing world. It is just possible that the automobile has changed it as much as anything else. So let's take a look at how the auto mobile got started. SO far as known, the first self-propelled road vehicle was a steam tractor built by a French artillery captain named Nicholas Joseph Cug not. It managed a speed of THREE miles per hour. It was used to drag artillery into po sition. That was back in 1769 194 years ago. The British went on from there. On Christmas Eve, 1801, Richard Trevethick mounted a steam engine on a carriage and drove it on a highway near Camborne, Eng land. By 1830, the English were operating a number of steam carriages capable of traveling at 10 mph, going up and down hills, and carrying as many as 14 passengers. In the years that followed, steam coaches became com mon in England. Unfortun ately for their progress, Eng lish rural residents objected violently to the fire-spouting monsters. The horse-drawn stagecoaches also hated them. at a speed of three or four mph down town. Find a hitch ing post. Do their shopping. Then drive home. Unhitch the horse. Put him in the barn. Unharness him. Feed him. WHAT a rigmarole, just to " get downtown! It's little wonder that the automobile changed the world. It's true that it has its dangers, when improperly handled. But vs just COULDN'T get along without it. CO- - In the 1860's, England passed what are known as the Red Flag laws. These Red Flag laws required that each motor carriage be preceded in the daytime by a man carry ing a red flag, and during the night by a man carrying a lantern. These laws, not repealed un til 1896, slowed-down auto mobile development. THESE ancient cars were propelled by STEAM en gines, which were awkv.urd and bunglesom when used for highway traffic. Then, in 1862, a brilliant Frenchman named Alphonse Beau de Rochas worked out on paper the principle of the internal combustion engine. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler, a German, built a one-cylinder internal combustion engine, put it in a carriage and DROVE IT DOWN THE ROAD. That did it. The internal combustion en gine made possible both the automobile and the airplane. TT is generally believed that the first American car was built by Charles Duryea, as sisted by his brother Frank lin, in 1893. It was a small one-seater, with the engine underneath and connected with the rear wheels by a bicycle chain. From there on. the Ameri cans took over. Henry Ford, with his Mode! T, brought the price of cars down within reach of the average preson. THAT changed the world. Why? Well, consider this: If your grandparents - or your great - grandparents, de pending on how old you are -lived more than a mile or so from downtown, here's what they had to do: Go out in the barn. Curry the horse. Harness the horse. Hitch him to the buggy. Drive PP&L Directors Promote Region At Bay Area Event Advantages favoring the lo cation of new manufacturing plants in communities served by Pacific Power and Light company were outlined to in dustrial and financial leaders of the west at group meetings Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco. PP&L President Don R. Mc Clung reported the sessions provided an opportunity for the power company to inform officials of important national corporations of the availabili ty of raw materials, skilled labor, good transportation to markets and the tax econom ics of Pacific Power's service areas. "The company's industrial development and area pro gram on behalf of the commu nities it serves is a continuous effort and these meetings help spread the gospel about Pa cific Powerland," McClung added. Serve on Boards "The financial and indus trial leaders serve on the boards of directors of many corporations and it is worth while having them know Pa cific Power is prepared to assist their companies - on a confidential basis - to find favorable locations in our service areas for their future plants," he explained. The PP&L official said the members of the board of di rectors of the power company, most of whom are business leaders in cities served by PP&L, also were present to boost their home towns. The directors were in San Fran cisco Tuesday for a regular quarterly meeting of PP&L's board. On Thursday, M c C 1 u n g said, the officers of the com pany will speak to the Society of Financial Analysts in Los Angeles and present a similar program to business and in dustrial leaders of southern California. Future PP&L fi nancing plans also were re viewed. "More of our stockholders reside in California than any other stale, and we anticipate a substantial amount of our future capital needs will con tinue to be provided by in vestors in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas," Mc- Clung said. Man Treated After One Car Accident Vernon Richard Wynkoop, 48, of 1176 Vi Court St., Med ford, was treated at Rogue Valley hospital for facial cuts Sunday night following a one car accident on the Old Stage rd. near Gold Hill. State police said the car rolled over once, landing on its wheels. TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 1st 3 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- PAPA SMEDKINS, under the urgings of his wife, re luctantly postponed his ot game to give his young son the customary introductory lecture on the birds and the bees. At the end of his talk, both father and son were obviously impatient. "At least," concluded Papa Smedkins, "I guess you now understand why our cat is about to have kittens." "Thanks to you, pop," said Junior, "I do. She must have gotten stung by a bee." Young Johnson, whose father had been hanged as a horse thief, decided, way back in 1900, to apply for life insurance. The appli cation blank, comparatively simple though it was in those days, presented a problem. The cause of his mother's death was easy: double pneumonia. How could he explain, however, the sudden demise of his old man" Johnson was equal to the occasion. He wrote: "My father was taking part in a heavily attended public function when the platform gave way." Irvin Cobb once was called upon to admire a hideous and or nate wedding gift somebody had bestowed upon a neighbor's daughter. "Very handsome," grunted Cobb. "Very expensive, I'm sure. But, for the love of heaven, don't let them make any more of them!" O 1963, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate State Education Board To Hear Recommendations On Physical Education Recommendations for u:.- proving the physical educa tion program in Oregon schools, sponsored by a com mittee from the Oregon Asso ciation of School Administra tors, will be presented to the State Board of Education at the June meeting in Salem Wednesday. The committee, appointed by Ray Hunsaker, president of the administrator's associ ation, at the request of Dr. Leon P. Minear, state superin tendent of public instruction, has made six recommenda tions. The first would require all students to participate in a daily program of physical edu cation throughout each of the 12 years of public school edu cation. This recommendation is an outgrowth of the fact-finding report released in 1961 show ing a significant drop in the level of physical fitness in Oregon. The study was made by the Oregon State Boird of Health, the Oregon State Sys tem of Higher Education and the Oregon State Department of Education. Status of Congressional Bills ARRAIGNMENT MOVED Portland - ll'PIi - Arraign ment of seven men who were indicted on mail fraud charg cs last week in connection with land sales promotion in Harney county has been mov ed from June 7 to June 13. Washington - IUPU - Status of major legislation: Income Taxes - President Kennedy has proposed tax-re-duction-ahd-revision bill that would provide net cut of $10.3 billion in individual and cor porate taxes over three years. House - Ways and Means com mittee is voting item-by-item on administration program. Senate - awaiting House ac tion. Military Pay - Administra tion asked $1.2 billion annual pay and benefit boost for all servicemen, reservists and re tirees. House passed modi fied version to cost $15 mil lion less and providing no in crease for 832,000 draftees and enlistees in their first two years of service. House included controversial $30.5 million "recomputation" fea ture for those retired before 1958. Senate - Hearings ex pected this month. Fallout Shelters - President Kennedy wants authority to make federal contributions to ward construction of civil de fense fallout shelters in schools, hospitals and other non-profit institutions. House - Armed Services subcommit tee hearings under way. Sen ate - nothing scheduled. Foreign Aid - Administra tion asking $4.5 billion. House -Foreign Affairs committee hearings under way. Senate -nothing scheduled yet. Health Insurance - Presi dent wants hospitalization program for persons 65 and older financed through social security. House - ways and Means committee may hold hearings this summer. Senate awaiting House action. Mental Health - Adminis tration wants long-range, $717 million program for commun ity mental health centers; re search on and treatment of mental rctard!ation. House - Commerce subcommittee hear ings completed. Senate - ap prved with revisions. Medical Schools - Adminis tration asked long range con struction aid for medical dental schools, loans to stu dents. House - passed three year program that would cost $236 million. Senate - no hear ings yet. College Construction - Ken nedy originally asked for fed eral funds to build classrooms and laboratories as part of larger $5.3 billion school bill; agreed later to separate bills. House - Education committee approved $1.6 bilion in grants and loans for colleges. Senate - Hearings under way on om nibus school bill. Schools and Libraries-President wants aid continued for "impacted areas" and librar ies. House - Education com mittee approved in separate bills, with amendmen's for bidding use of funds for seg regated facilities. Senate -Hearings under way on omni bus school bill. Civil Rights-President ask ing speedup in voting suits, more rotection of Negro vot ing rights, extension of life of civil rights commission. House - Judiciary committee hear ings under way, Senate-Hearings under way on extension of commission. Cotton -Admin istration backed subsidy plan would provide cheaper cotton for U.S. textile mills; includes lower support prices for large scale growers and potential relaxation of planting restric tions. House - Agriculture committee approved. Senate -hearings completed. Mass Transit-Kennedy pro posed $500 million in sub sidies to improve city rail, Measures Passed At Monday Session Salem 0JPU The legislature approved the following meas ures Monday: HB1522 - Allows SIAC to revise workmen's compensa tion rates. HB1865 - Corrects tax bill error. HB2015-Transfers TB hos pital to medical school. HB2043 - Higher education budget. HB1063-Statutory salaries. HB2084 - Salaries for col lege teachers and state em ployees. HJR42 - Interim tax com mittee. Signed by the governor: SB7 - Conciliation services. SB95-Taxation. SB119 - Ad valorem taxa tion. SB195 - Amending uniform principal and income act. SB263 - Investment by guardian. SB307 - Bond coverage for auctioneers. SB334 - Escrow agents. Rifle Discharges, Injuring Local Boy Ronald William Munro, 15, of 70 Fair Oaks dr., Mcdford was hit in the right hand by a .22 caliber rifle slug late Sat urday afternoon while target shooting on Roxy Anne. The rifle was fired by Henry Mullcr, 829 Minnesota ave. The bullet glanced off a tin can and hit the other youth. Munro was treated by a private physician. bus and subway services. House - Banking committee approved bill, awaiting Rules committee clearance. Senate approved $375 million program. Wilderness-President wants to establish a national pro gram to preserve public lands in their natural state. Senate Passed, with provision cov ering 8 million acres Imme diately and possibly up to 35 million acres eventually. House - No committee hear ings set. Youth Employment - Ken nedy asking new $100 million youth conservation corps for outdoor work in forests and parks; home town youth corps for local civic projects. House - Education committee has approved, awaiting Rules committee clearance. Senate -passed. Domestic Peace Corps - President asking for new or ganization of 1,000 to 5,000 skilled volunteers to carry out work in this country slml lar to peace corps projects aboard. $5 million first year cost. House - Education and Labor subcommittee hearings Under way. Senate hearings under way. Action Completed Draft-Kennedy asked four- year extension of selective service and doctor draft. Con gress approved; bill signed into law. Feed Grains - Kennedy wants to continue the pro gram of paying farmers to hold down surplus corn and other feed grain production. Congress approved two-year extension. Bill signed into law. National Debt - To permit overnmcnt to borrow money it needs to keep paying its bills, congress agreed to boost legal limit on national debt to $307 billion through June 30 and to $309 billion during July and August. Bill signed into law. Previous tem porary limit was $305 billion; further legislation will be needed to prevent ceiling from dropping to $285 billion Sept. 1. Silver - To combat shortage of silver for coins, administra tion asked authority to re place existing silver-backed $1 bills with gold-backed $1 bills. Congress approved; bill awaiting President's signa ture. Women Workers - Administration-backed bill would re quire equal pay for women workers who do the same work as male employees; new rule would apply to Jobs cov ered by minimum wage-hour law Congress approved, bill awaiting President s signa ture. Eight Reasons A 5 The fitness level of colU'iie freshmen was compared with that of 1955. the last year of the four-year physical educa tion requirement in high schools. This report prompted a more complete study by she Association of School Admin istrators. Serving on the com mittee were six administra tors, including Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, Medford. Districts Unable to Comply The recommendations pro vide for consideration of dis tricts which find It impossible to comply immediately with the proposed standard of a four-year requirement, if the r e c o mmendation is adopted by the State Board of Educa tion. Schools falling in tins category will, however, be asked to approach the require ment as closely as possible. The committee also asKS that the State Department of Education make a study of the feasibility and desirability of establishing health educa tion as a separate subject nri'n in regard to instruction, sched uling and credit. During 1967-68, the com mittee recommends that the department review the prog ress made in sccondnry schools of the state to bring the health and physical educa tion program up to recom mended standards. President's Recommendation The committee points out that President Kennedy has strongly recommended adop tion of a 12-year public school program of health and physi cal education. Three standards will be brought before the board for approval and adoption and two of these are in the field of health, The board "1 be asked to require each school in the state to appoint a staff mem ber to serve as the coordina tor of the school health pro- grain. The qualification of school nurses will be reviewed and the joint staff committee will recommend that the nurses meet the minimum qualifications of a public health nurse as prescribed In the Oregon Merit System Council Classification plan. Another standard to be con sidered by the board at the meeting applies to double- shifting in the schools. Only under extreme necessity will permission to operate hull-day sessions be granted if the pro posed recommendations a r adopted. Personnel Changes A number of personnel changes will be considered by the board Wednesday. Two long - time employees, Henry W. Sorick and Dr. John S Conway, are leaving the De partment of Education this summer. Sorick, director of certifi cation, is retiring after being with the department since 1947. Dr. Conway is resigning Aug. 9 to become an associate professor of education at Southern Oregon college, Ash land. He is supervisor of sec ondary education and has worked as a specialist on junior high schools and is chairman of the state com mittee for the Regional School Accrediting association. Political Stint Found as One Way To Get Started on Nightclub Career By DICK WEST Washington - 5fH - People with talent are always asking how they can break into show business. Veil It's really quite simple. If you are a girl, you can marry a pro ducer. If you are rich, you can buy your self a theater. Or you can join the New Frontier and become deputy assistant to the secretary of the treasury. The third method was the nne used by r';hard E. Mc Cormack, who recently re signed from the Treasury De partment to make his debut as a nightclub singer. I wouldn't recommend his system for everyone, however. You might make a mistake and wind up as a cabinet member instead. Although he had taken piano lessons and done a little vocalizing with school orches- Excise, Corporate Tax Extension Seen Washington-JPU-The House Ways and Means committee today was expected to pass a one-year extension of federal tax rates on corporation prof- airline tickets, liquor, au tomobiles, cigarettes and tele phone calls. The committee met in a closed session to consider President Kennedy's request to continue the higher excise and corporate taxes passed during the Korean War. unless congress approves the extension, these taxes will be lowered on July 1. Origi- nally levied as "temporary" taxes, they have been extend cd without fail every year and pparently will be approved again this year. These temporary taxes yield more than $4 billion a year in revenue, including nearly $2.4 billion from cor porations and almost $1.8 bil lion from the excise lax. Kennedy wants the liquor and other excise taxes kept at present levels. His tax re duction and revision program Includes a reduction of cor porate taxes, but the cuts would come over a period of years. tras, McCormack didn't really get started on the road to a show business career until he was a student at Stonehill col lege in Massachusetts. That was when he be came active in President Kennedy's first campaign for the Senate. A baritone can't make it from campaigns to cabarets in . one easy leap, however. Mc-: Cormack's next step up the j ladder was to join the staff of Sen. Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), as a legislative assistant. I Being associated with a 1 senator is good training for show business, but McCor-1 mack still needed more polish, j So, during the 1960 presi-1 dential race, he joined the Kennedy campaign as travel ing "advance man." His work in that capacity led to his next assignment as director of transportation for the Inauguration ceremonies. This was the break he had been waiting for. An engineer for a record company heard McCormack sing ai an informal social gathering and s u g gested that he start crooning pro fessionally. But McCormack hesitated for eight reasons, all children. Only after he had joined the Treasury Department and had a couple of television ap pearances to his credit did he feel secure enough to burn his bureaucratic bridges. As deputy assistant to the secretary, he help- i handle congressional relations. One of his congressional rcla t i o n s was Speaker John McCor mack (D Mass.), a distant cousin. McCormack Is now per forming nightly at a local supper club. He also has a record album coming out soon, so it appears that this phase of his career is well launched. I do. however, want to offer a word of caution to anyone who might want to follow the McCormack example of get ting into show biz via politics. Make certain you pick a win ning candidate. 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