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MEOFORO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19. IS63 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The big news? IT S A WOMAN. lyHO is she? Her name is Valentina Tereshkova. Her age is 26. In the best communist tradi tion, she is a former factory worker. Her favorite sport was parachute jumping. That qualified her for cosmonaut training. When it occurred to the by no means dumb Russians that it would be a fabulous pub licity stunt to send a woman into orbit, her choice was a natural. WHAT is she like? ' ' She has dimples. She wore lipstick into space. She has a small spit curl as well as a yen for adventure. She is aware that at this particu lar moment in history she has a bigger audience than Liz Taylor. She smiles frequently and waves greetings to her watchers. She's a BLONDE. WHAT do the women In her " vast audience think of her? Oregon's Senator Maurine Neuberger thinks Russia's or biting of a woman in space amounts to "a kind of a show . . ." She says she thinks it will excite world opinion, but adds: "Just for the sake of putting a woman in space I wouldn't urge it right now. I don't think we should try to emulate the Russians right away." She adds that "the venture will have a favorable effect on President Kennedy's space budget requests. We have a lot of people who can't stand to see the Russians get ahead of us." (So, maybe, they'll be willing to spend money more freely.) AT Cape Canaveral, the MEN joked about her ex ploit, with variations on the usual wheezes about women drivers. (As a matter of fact, women are GOOD drivers. Few of them, for example, are at the wheels of the cars that do the wrong things and thus get a lot of people need lessly killed.) IN Frankfurt, Germany, seamstress Emma Groth, age 62, says: "Valentina has shown that women can do anything a man can do. She has proved that we women also have the stuff that courage is made of." How about our Annie Oak ley, in "Annie, Get Your Gun?" Her war cry, aimed at Frank Butler, was: "Any thing he can do, I can do better!" Do you reckon that's the way Valentina Tereshkova feels about it? If so, Russian women are coming to the front in a hurry. INTERESTING question: What's Valentina really like? Helen of Troy "the face that launched a thousand ships?" The Amazons who burned off their right breasts in order to be better able to aim a bow? I THINK she's maybe a part of this newer world of ours . . . the business world ... in which women are indispensable. Ask any business tycoon or just the boss of any mod ern, fairly big business office. He'll tell you that business in these days just couldn't be run without women. . Maybe this fantastic world of outer space that intrigues us so greatly that we're spending ourselves poor to find out about it can't be run without women. TB Patients Moved To Salem by Auto Portland-fllPD-The first half dozen tuberculosis patients to be transferred from the Tu berculosis hospital here to the one in Salem were taken there in two private cars to day., A hospital spokesman said about 30 other patients would be transferred by July 1. The recent legislature turn ed over administration of the Salem TB hospital to the Uni versity of Oregon Medical School, which handled the TB facility here. The local TB facility will be closed. The medical school an nounced Tuesday that Dr. Robert D. Michel, on the TB hospital staff here for six years, would be chief medi cal officer at the Salem hospital. - -nan wn l " PROPOSED FOR ZONING The Jackson county planning commission set boundaries . (within shaded line) Monday for an area southeast of Ashland for recommendation to the county court for interim zoning. The commission received petitions from resi dents in the area earlier this month re questing zoning, but definite boundaries could not be established until all petitions had been studied. Later, part of the resi dents voiced their opposition to the pro posed zoning ordinance and requested that their land not be included in the area to be zoned. Two districts are included In the proposed o r d i n a n c e farm and farm-residential. Thieves Steal 40 'Infectious' Fowl Lisbon, Portugal - IUPD -Thieves thought they had found a feast of fowl when they broke into a building here Tuesday night. They stole 40 chickens. But the chickens are highly infec tious, police warned - they were taken from a laboratory of the Portuguese Cancer In stitute. EXTENDS DEADLINE Cairo-(UPIl-The Iraqi gov ernment has extended the deadline on its surrender ulti matum to Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, the semi-official Middle East News Agcny (MENA) said today. MEN A, quoting Baghdad Radio, said the deadline next Tuesday had been extended to June 30 "for those rebels who were not informed of the surrender order." W ... ir,Vi '-JST' SS Carib Islands Provide Tourist Haven in Summer For the "Budget-Hound" BROADLOOM LUXURY THAT'S LONG ON VALUE! (Jlouleaii This beautiful broad loom carpet features plushy, hi-cut wool pile, traced with a gently flowing effect, 17 fashion fresh, skein-dyed colors, permanent moth-proofing okaraShiifj Sfe how lied -down loop trace a tuntle pattern through thi luK-iou.ly dfrp ooi pile. 'WHERE you buy just as important as WHAT you buy." 220 NORTH BARTLETT Next to Grayhound-Phona 773-4D94 , USE OUR CONVENIENT PARKING IOT T Timber Industry Demands Use of Foreign Vessels Washington (I'PO Pacific Northwest lumbermen re newed demands Tuesday to be allowed to use foreign ships to carry lumber to U.S. East Coast ports. A group headed by Joseph McCracken, executive vice president of the Western For est Industries Association. Portland, Ore., opened a campaign to get congression al support for amendment of the Jones Act. The lumbermen said the act, which limits intercoastal trade to U.S. vessels, has put them at a serious disadvan tage in competing with Ca nadian lumber producers. By using foreign ships, they said, Canadians can ship lumber cheaper from British Columbia to U.S. ports. McCracken, who termed the act a "reverse tariff," said it. in effect, gave the Canadian lumber industry "guaranteed subsidy." Dafenia Said Raason The Jones Act was passed originally to guarantee main tenance of a U.S. merchant fleet for defense purposes, he said., McCracken said the Imme diate objective of the group was extension of a one-year exemption the lumber Indus try got last year to allow use of foreign vessels to ship lum ber to Puerto Rico. "The Puerto Rican exemp tion only scratches the sur face," McCracken said, add ing that the Jones Act had made It possible for Canada to take over S00 million board feet of the U.S. mar ket on the East Coast since 1980. "There used to be as many as 140 ships in the Inter coastal lumber trade," he said. "Now there are 18." "There used to be some 30 lumber mills in Portland ure., aiono. wow mere are three. Stanley Bishopric of the Dant and Russell Lumber that if the cost of shipping lumber from U.S. West Coast I Pn PfirttnnH Inlri npwmin By FREDERICK M. WINSHIP porlll could be rcduccd to the Summer vacations In the Caribbean, once considered in tolerably torrid at that sea son, are becoming more and more popular as American va cationists discover that the weather can be wonderful. Cooling trade winds provide natural air conditioning for many of the Carib islands. The north coast of Jamaica is particularly fortunate in this respect. The 40-mile strip of Jamai ca coast from Runaway Bay to Port Maria, loosely called the Ocho Rios area, is a sum mering spot par excellence until the rains come in lute September. Between April 1H and Dec. IS rates at most ho tels, guest houses and rental cottages are d jwn about 30 40 per cent. Combine this sav ing with the new 33 per cent reduction in British West In dian Airways fares from Mi ami to Jamaica, and you've got a real travel bargain. Ocho Rios, with 17 hotels, four guest houses and 70 cot tages, is less crowded than the perennially popular Mon tcgo Bay area. Its vegetation is lusher, its beaches more spectacular and the pace is definitely slower. Tills is no place for the swig-and-swing crowd, although there are sev eral glorified modernistic ho tels that attempt to simulate the excitements of Miami Beach, Other medium size hotels emphasize family pleasures such as generous internation al cuisine with emphasis on spicy Jamaican dishes and ex otic fruits; sports. Including swimming, sailing, water ski ing, skin diving and tennis; and occasional divcrtiscmcnts by Jamaican entertainers who specialize in calypso, limbo, I stilt and crab dancing. The sea and its denizens are always the greatest attrac tion. The coral reefs off Ocho Rios are exceptionally beauti ful and glass-bottom boating is a major pastime. The many rivers in the Ocho Rios area provide freshwater fishing for mountain mullet, tarpon, snook and drummer in addi tion to the sea's complement of kingfish, wahoo, bonito and dolphin. The Jasmine-scented land has its attractions, too. By rental car you can take in the picturesque village of Ocho Itioj; Dunn's Rivers falls, a stairstep cascade that tumbles directly Into the sea; the un derground Green grotto; Fern gully, a jungle of ferns in a prehistoric river gorge; and further afield - Port Antonio with its exciting downriver raft ride through foaming rap Ids. Everywhere the 1 a n d tcspe is dominated by but tressed cottonwoods, palms, polished breadfruits, bamboo groves, and red-blooming tu lip trees. t Nebraska Rolls Out Red Carpet For Tourists A 5 By DONALD R. PIEPER Unittd Prtit International Omaha, Ncb.-HTO-Nebraska is embarking on a brave pro gram to swell its tourist dol lar take on the theory thai there's a pot of gold hiding in its prairies. But it's having trouble con vincing tourists Nebraska even exists. The promotion program must begin by assuring Ne braskans they have some thing capable of luring tour ists into their state. And it will require an almost total reversal of the "image" of Nebraska in the rest of the country. To get a clue to how far Nebraska would have to go to get into tourism's big leagues. United Press Inter national asked tourist agen cies in New York, Chicago and Omaha if tourists ever asked about trips into the Cornhusker state. The answer boiled down to no." Vilot Portaro of All Sea sons Travel in New York had a blunt reply: 'Nebraska? A complete zero. The only time Omaha comes up is when a business man is en route there for something or other. And that usually means business is bad; his not mine." Not Popular It was the same in Chicago, where one travel counselor placed Nebraska among what he called "the few states without overwhelming popularity." This type of uncnthusiastic response stirs enthusiasm In John Kclley, Gov. Frank B. Morrison's administrative as sistant assigned to state pro motion. "It is apparent," Kelley said, "that a great effort must be made to inform people that Nebraska exists." But he is certain the elbow grease would be well in vested. "A total effort to reawaken state pride." he said, "will de velop a power and force for the benefit of Nebraska that will be felt throughout the state, the nation and the world." Others take a more con servative approach. Matt Japp, executive direc tor of special projects for the Omaha Chamber of Com merce, has tourism develop ment as one of his duties. . . "Let's not expect the best results in the world," he said, "but let's not just do noth ing." He said Nebraska "would be remiss" if it doesn't try to improve its tourist appeal. Japp and Dick Good, man ager of the Grand Island, Ncbr., Chamber of Commerce, feel Nebraska's efforts should be concentrated on slowing down the thousands of tour ists who flock through the state each summer on their way somewhere else. The Omaha and Grand Island chambers hope to way lay these travelers at infor mation booths and arm them with brochures plugging lo cal attractions. Using a de vice they call "self-guided tours," they hope to usher the tourists to historical sites and examples ot the local economy. In Omaha, for instance, such a tour would include stops at Boys Town, the head quarters of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, Jos lyn Art Museum, and th world's largest livestock mar ket and meat packing center. Outstate, which is rich in cowboy and Indian lore, many historic sites are being restored. The most ambitious effort t attract tourists for mora than a pause is the $10 mil lion Devils Nest development in Northeast Nebraska on the shore ot Lewis and Clark lake. The promoters are planning a circular-shaped skyscraper hotel with facilities capable of handling national conven tions. A complete layout of recreational facilities - every thing from golf to water sports - is included in the plans. Shaving Time Takes Two Months of Life New York - IUPII - The aver age man may spend two months of his life mowing al most half a billion whiskers from his face, according to Remington shaving research ers. What's more, they say, American males spend S mil lion man hours daily to have a square mile of face. Canadian figure ot $22 per thousand board feel it would result in lower lumber prices on the East Coast. Summer Boat Sale FINEST BOATS IN TOWN JOHNSTON STORES Medford Shopping Center , ' ' 4 . ' ' ' , . j t, " - '' - i 1 t " ' !-.. ' ' h t ' ' ' ' - - t -. , ,.. ..)..'.. -"' . .. '-) ; OT i' VISITORS WELCOMB .A ( ii ii r I r. ii ?-v What is this little town famous for? Water! Naturally perfect bracing valrr (or making Olympia Beer. Cold, consistently pure water flowing from deep artesian wells. That's why the Olympia people started their brewery in Tumwatcr, some 60 miles south of Seattle, in 18. That's why they're still there and only there.. So you and your friends can enjoy this huhl, wonderfully rcfrohinn beer that never changes In excellence or flavor. 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