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THURSDAY. AUGUST IS. 1963
MEDFORD MAIL 1JRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
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Stockton, Kan. -WD- The
citizens of this dusty western
. Kansas town are having the
jitters over a seven - letter
word that many of them didn't
even know the meaning of
' until they looked it up.
The word is "atheism."
r For years Stockton lived
contentedly in a regular cycle
' of spring plowing, the gritty
and sweltering days of har
vest, and the sweep of winter
winds.
But this summer, as towns
people meet after Sunday
church or step into the drug
store to escape the blazing
' heat, the talk isn't of familiar
things-rain, or the lack of it,
and the wheat harvest.
It's about atheism and the
. actions of their own Farmer
Brown.
The word atheism comes
clumsily to the lips of the
citizens of this strongly re
ligious community.
"Six out of ten people here
couldn't have told you what
. atheism is," said Mayor L. B.
Waller.
Firmer Brown Helps
. Stockton's anxiety began
, last month when Carl R
Brown, 77-year-old former
Rooks county legislator and
retired farmer, offered 160
acres of his land to an
atheist colony.
Brown, who lives alone in
a rundown, cluttered house
two miles south of here, be-
. came interested in the cause
of Mrs. Madalyn Murray, the
: Baltimore, Md., housewife who
carried her protest against re
quired Bible reading in public
. schools to the U. S. Supreme
- Court and won.
He offered two 80 acre
tracts on the Solomon river
to Other Americans, Inc., an
atheist organization founded
. by Mrs. Murray.
Msr. Murray says she has
- $100,000 in pledges toward
building the atheist colony,
including a university, infor
mation center, radio station,
printing press and home for
the aged.
She wrote Mayor Waller
asking for police protection
when she visits the site here
this week end with her mother
and two sons. Waller, noting
the small size of the town and
Its peaceful history, turned
down the request.
., "We are inclined to believe
your presence here will go
unnoticed," Waller wrote
Mrs. Murray.
Deed Ready
Brown said the deed nn
one of the 80-acre tracts
ready to turn over to her
when she comes."
Brown's action jolted (lie
community. Church attend'
. ance, which ministers say
usually dips 25 per cent with
the summer heat and vaca
tions, shot up 23 per cent.
Petitions asking Brown to
. change his mind about the
land offer began to circulate.
"I haven't heard of any
body in the community who
has a friendly feeling toward
the atheist center," said the
Rev. Clifford Hauxwell of
the Christian church.
"Most of the people are al
most sick at their stomachs
at the very thought of It,"
aid Mrs. Lee Phelps, a house
wife.. Brown, an enthusiastic ad
vocate of nudist camps, has jams his house and a small
made four trips to Europe adjoining building,
where he attended interna- Many townspeople linked
tional nudist gatherings and atheism and Communism in
has a 5.000-book library that their first reaction, Hauxwell
Forestry Projects
Are Authorized in
Public Works Plan
Congressman Robert B.
Duncan (D-Ore.) has an
nounced he has received
word from the Department of
the Interior that $887,000 in
new forestry conserv a 1 1 o n
projects have been approved
under the Accelerated Public
Works Program for Oregon's
Fourth district.
The projects will not only
create jobs for many chronic
ally-unemployed workers, but
will improve facilities for
campers and hikers and con
serve the nation s timber and
water resources, Duncan said.
Oregon is one of 24 states
which will benefit from the
work to be done on public
lands, national parks, nation
al monuments, wildlife refu
ges and Indian reservations.
Fourth district projects in
clude a $166,000 bureau of
land management forestry job
to begin late in August in
Josephine county. It will
create 120 man-months of em
ployment and the work will
Portland Attorney
Chairman of Board
Chicago - lUPIt - Portland
attorney James C. Dezendorf
was elected chairman of the
board of directors of the
American Judicature Society
here Wednesday at the
groups golden anniversary
meeting. '
The society, with a mem
bership of some 20,000 attor
neys, judges and laymen, is
devoted to promoting efficient
administration of justice.
Cordovan leather is made
from the hides of horses.
Include reduction of tree
hazards, seed collection on
2,800 acres, and the. construc
tion and improvement of pro
tection and sanitation facili
ties along the Rogue River
Trail.
Another Project
Another Josephine county
project is the construction of
the Calice forest access road
to be undertaken by the
bureau of land management
In October. This $200,000
project will provide an esti
mated 130 man-months of em
ployment in the county.
In Coos county, a $95,000
multipurpose forest improve
ment project will be started
by the bureau of land man
agement in late August. The
work includes 150 acres of
reforestation, .150 acres of
site improvement, 1,300 acres
of snag-felling, slash disposal
along 80 miles of roadway,
and construction of 20 miles
of control fence to protect
forest seedlings, pro viding
108 man-months of employ
ment. Another Coos county job is
a $137,000 project which will
provide 96 man-months of la
bor and is to be invested in
construction of the Elk Creek
Forest access road. The bu
reau of land management ex
pects to start the road in October.
In Douglas county, a multi
purpose forest improvement
project, valued al $289,000,
is scheduled for late in
August. BLM will fell tree
snags, improve sites, reforest,
clear away downed timber,
and build protection and
sanitation facilities at Wolf
Creek and Little River. This
nine-month project will create
372 man-months of work.
NOT UP TO PAR
Wimbledon, England - flJPO -;
Baker Thomas Walters was
lined $28 (10 pounds) Wednes
day lor selling bread that
was not up to standard. A
woman testified she ate a
slice of Walters' bread and
found glass thermometer in
it. .
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T" " V!? 7"- t .
said. Brown denies the re
lation. Denies Communism
"Emotionalism should not
play any part in studying
any subject, including relig
ion and atheism," Brown
said.
"It is unfair to link atheism
with Communism, for atheism
condemns Communism as be
ing dictatorial, with a disre
gard for human rights."
Hauxwell said "what we
fear the most is the influence
on our public schools."
The minister said if the
atheists move into the com
munity and send their child
ren to public schools, the
baccalaureate services, pray
ers that open PTA meetings
and other religious obser
vances in the schools would
be endangered.
Most of the citizens con
sider Brown to be community
minded. "Carl Brown has probably
given more to charity than
anyone I know," said Don
Peebles, who heads a project
to build a nursing home to
which Brown is said to have
made the largest pledge,
$1,000.
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But Brown's standing in
the community has been going
downhill.
He gave the city $2,500 in
stocks, the interest of which
is. used to hold an annual
swimming meet for children
of the community. Mayor
Waller said the stocks prob
ably will be returned.
"I don't think the child
ren should be taught that he
is a great man," Waller said.
Brown shrugs off the fer
menting opposition in the
community. "I'm not mad at
them," he said. "It (atheism)
is what I believe in."
He said he will politely
turn down petitions asking
him to change his mind. He
already has answered one
bearing 42 signatures.
"I have come to the con
clusion that all religions are
man-made," Brown wrote the
petitioners on a battered type
writer in his kitchen, which
also serves as a study.
A Pipedreaim
Many Stockton residents,
including Mayor Waller, con
sider the atheist colony "a
pipedream" and have taken
a hopeful wait-and-see- atti
tude. "Many don't think it will
come to be," Waller said.
"Have you seen what they
(the atheists) plan to do? It
will take much more than the
$100,000 they have. Why a
sewer system out there could
cost that much.
"When Mrs. Murray comes
out she may change her mind
about the land. I've heard
that she's painted a very
rosy picture of the site back
East. It's poor land - very
sandy - with poor improve
ments and a poor house."
The core of this commun
ity's uneasiness was express
ed by Waller.
"We might be getting peo
ple in here who aren't . ac
cepted in any other town,"
he said. He said most of the
letters he has received from
other parts of the nation in
support of the atheist center
were poorly written and rid
dled with bad grammar.
"They all sound like nuts,"
Waller said. "Just who is
coming out?"
DEED IS READY Retired farmer Carl R. Brown, 77, seated
at the typewriter in his kitchen-study, says the deed on one
of the 80-acre tracts is ready for the atheist organization. He
is contemplating turning over 180 acres to Other Americans,
Inc. (UP1)
Oregon Pharmacists
Have More Earnings
Than U.S. Average
SECOND GLANCE Glamour and gasoline combine to make
passersby take a second glnnce at this service slnUnn in
Roseville, Calif. Manager Richard Rakes was caught in a
rush hour struggle and the gas hose had to be propped up
while he serviced the car. He utilized a mannequin, bcinR
used in front of his station to advertise a sale, to help him
complete the task. (UP1)
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Corvallis - Oregon pharmn
cists have almost 13 per cent
more earning power than the
national average and the net
worth of Oregon pharmacies
averages almost $38,000, some
$4,000 above the national av
erage, according to a recent
study made by Oregon State
university pharmacy graduate
student Charles R. Harrison.
At the same time. Harri
son's study shows that Ore
gon pharmacists owned more
of their business than the na
tion's average pharmacy
owner. Jhe national average
is 61.7 per cent and Oregon's
is 68.2 per cent.
The study was conducted
among selected Oregon phar
macy owners in an attempt to
find what extent and by what
methods Oregon pharmacy
owners plan and control their
financial operations.
To Find Effect
In addition, the survey was
aimed at finding what effects
the sales volume, form of
ownership, and type of store
have upon financial manage
ment by pharmacy owners.
The study also wanted to de
termine the amount of aca
demic " background prepara
tion of pharmacy owners and
their opinions as to how well
this educational training pre
pared them for a role of bui-M-ness
manager.
The study was made by
personal interview and ques
tionnaire. Fifty per cent of
j tlie pharmacies studies were
ownen oy one pnarmacisi.
i The other half were divided
between partnerships and
corporations.
The survey found that pre
scription sales accounted for
an average of 42.6 per cent
of total net sales in Oregon
pharmacies. Prescription sales
averaged just over $53,000,
approximately 7.3 per cent
above the national average.
Overall average gain in total
net sales was 3.8 per cent over
the previous year although
one third of selected Oregon
pharmacies suffered a loss in
total sales volume.
Harrison also found that
neighborhood pharmacies had
a low percentage of prescrip
tion sales and a high per cent
of non-prescription s a le s.
Downtown pharmacies had a
higher per cent of prescrip
tion sales when compared to
neighborhood pharmacies.
Less Expensive
Prescription and clinic
pharmacies were less expen
sive to operate and more
profitable than the medium
sales volume pharmacies. Sal
ary and wage expenses were
highest in the latter pharma
cies while rent was highest In
the former pharmacies.
Another point of interest
found by Harrison was that
92 per cent of the pharmacies
granted credit to their custo
mers on a regular basis.
The study also revealed
that Oregon pharmacists tend
ed to be passive in the finan
cial management of their
stores. Every pharmacy own
er interviewed in the study
believed he did not have suf
ficient business training in
college. Pharmacy finance, ac
counting, insurance and sell
ing were courses most fre
quently mentioned by the
owners as being most needed.
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