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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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