Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 16, 1963, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDi'ORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKOKU. OREGON WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1963 1W DICK WEST Noting National Newspaper Week WASHINGTON (UPI) - Na tional Newspaper Week is cur rently in progress and I should like to urge everyone to cele- ' brate accordingly. ' Possibly there are some ; Americans who do not know how to celebrate newspaper week accordingly. Well, each to his own lights, but when people ask me what : they can do to help make news paper week a success I always tell them "take a newapaper- man to lunch." " Newspaper week customarily 'brings forth many statements on the vital role that a free press plays in a democratic so ciety. And every word of this is true. There is, however, another - aspect that I think deserves at tention. I refer to the fact that the newspaper business can on occasion be a lot of fun. Recalls Incident : As my contribution to news paper week I should like to re count what happened one day when the telephone rang in the city room of a newspaper where I once worked more or less for laughs. The call was from a lady who reported that she kept hearing thumping noises under her house. What kind of noises? Thump ing noises. Thump, thump, thump, under the floor. Why didn't she report this to the police? She did. Several times. But they claimed they couldn't hear any kind of noise, thumping or otherwise. ' The reporter who took the call went out and interviewed the lady. Then he came back and wrote a story suggesting that maybe there was an alli gator under her house. The noise could be its tail thumping against the floor, he theorized. Next day the rival paper, which resented being scooped, sent one of its own reporters to interview the lady. He came back and wrote a story attack ing the alligator theory. The pro - alligator reporter promptly picked up the gaunt let. After lengthy negotiations, he persuaded a zoo keeper to lend him an alligator, which he photographed in front of the lady's house. Then he wrote a story hint ing that the alligator had crawled out from under the house and had been turned over to the zoo for safe keep ing. That was strange, gleefully noted the anti-alligator report er. There was only one alli gator in the zoo previously. And now, after ostensibly re ceiving a new one, the zoo still had only one alligator. Undismayed, the pro-alligator 'Development Group Set at White City WHITE CITY - The White City Development committee, : composed of residents of the C. C. Hoover and Sons housing project, has been formed to supervise growth of the com munity, according to Melvin (Bud) Hoover. The committee held its second meeting Monday night to dis cuss its plans for enforcing the area restrictions and for keep ing the development clean and orderly, Hoover said. Since the area is composed of 2 to 10-acre tracts some re subdividing has started, he noted. The new committee will work with the Jackson county planning commission on resub division regulations. Each committee member is responsible for a half-mile area. Hoover explained. Members of the 16-member committee are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hansen, Antelope rd.. co-chairmen; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Konopasek, secretaries; Mr. and Mrs. Burl Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Garth Ross, Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lehman. The Hoover development cov ers 6.500 acres and includes 330 to 400 homes built or under con struction. All except 1.000 acres formerly was part of the old Camp White military reserva tion. The housing project was started in 1954 by the Hoover family. It does not include the Cascade Village area. Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M W ATKINS WilMif Met TrMtuao)) SyBefkate. 1M1) reporter came up with a sim ple explanation. The original al ligator, he wrote, was a cannibal. The real giraffe of the bird world must be the"black-nccked stilt," a dainty little creature with ridiculously long, slender legs; actually more legs and neck than bird. Even if you had never heard the name, at first sight you would just natur ally say, "look at the pretty little bird on stilts." Nature must have anticipated that the mud was going to be pretty deep when the plans were drawn up for this marshland resident. A man with legs in proportion to those of this wad ing bird would stand nearly 30 feet in his bare feet. Just what nature's idea was is not clear. It would seem that nature would have found it eas ier to have incorporated the bird in a different environment or ordained that it walk where the water was shallow. That way, a great amount of leg could have been saved. But Mother Nature went all out and raised this bird up in the air as if it really was walking on stilts. Chatters Endlessly The black-necked stilt patrols the marshlands and bogs, stepp ing lightly with its pipe-cleaner sized legs. The body of an adult stilt is black and white; the back being black and the neck and forepart of the head white. The legs are pink and the eye balls are a bright, blood red. The bill, like the legs, is long and very slender with a needle- (f i tt sto it) uitBiPl (PH I LCO) clearance! A" REDUCED 1 Console Hardwoods II lCADn ftC II Vivid Vision, Cool II Reg. $895.00 Reg. $695.00 II UIWEHIf U-UI 1 1 Chassis-Reg $289.95 II $55o88 48888 LOW, LOW 19888 ia down II nniAFCI II is down I V Sw 1 1 I I I J I I I I I IX X I I X X I I X IX PHIICO Al IX PHIICO J X PHIICO XI IX PHIICO XI If 23" LO-BOY II II i . i I If mnii vi i II II nrn v I I II II II ir I v II V IV II II IV III CONSOLE TV II " " III ' ' II II ' HI III .... II H II II II .,.,..,...,-, H II Reg. $349 95 II II Reg. $159.95 II Reg. $199.95 II II Reg. $199.9:. 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They have no end of trouble the first couple of weeks trying to get their ungainly legs under them or in any position that will make walking possible. Even the parents scold and chatter, acting as if they didn't expect junior would ever suc ceed, but he does. At the end of a few weeks the young stilt strides along on what, to him, must seem like "seven league boots." A stilt sitting on a nest is al most pathetic. It would be piti ful if it were not for the fact the bird probably does not suffer any discomfort, but it certainly looks like it had painfully folded its long legs in an awkward bend and was suffering in silent agony. Regardless of how hard it tries, the bird never quite suc ceeds in getting the entire length of the legs completely covered. The knees stick out be hind, looking like a couple of stubby fishpoles that the bird is trying to sit between. Watch as carefully as you want but you will never see a stilt in water as deep as its legs would allow. They are careful to wade in shallows, just about up to wnere tneir knees seem to be. Maybe the extra length is saved so that, if an unseen hole is in the mud, there will be leg room. The stilt can't swim and they know it. Thev never trv and always, wherever they are going, they sure "walk a long way above the ground." Gen. Park Certain Of Korea Election SEOUL, Korea (UPI)-Mili- I tary junta chairman Park Chung Hcc, the peppery little ex-general who can be expected to irritate the United Slates on small matters but agree with it on Dasic policies, appeared certain of election today as ; South Korean president. Park, 46, led former Presi dent Posun Yun in unofficial , returns by 4,471,300 votes to i 4,379,084. This represented all i but about a million of the 10, 857,062 votes cast. The close fight put up by the j 66-year-old Yun meant that Park's apparent victory gives : him no mandate to do what he I pleases for the next four years. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- TVTOVELIST P. G. Wodehouse once owned a bulldog named L ' Sammy who loved everybody so much that he happily followed anybody who beckoned him. The first time he didn't come back to Wodehouse's Long Island home, the man who found him was given a ten dollar reward by the grateful Mr. W. The news stirred the business in stincts of local teen-agers. They would come to the Wodehouse gate, call, "Here, Sammy !" and after them old Sara would waddle. An hour later they would bring him back -and cash in. Event ually, however, the bot tom dropped out of this lucrative market. When the reward dropped to a measly quarter, old Sam was left to his own devices. The resident manager of a sedata Philadelphia hotel was hor rified to discover that a suite had been given for a long week-end to a coupla who had registered as "W. E. R. Kotmaa and wife, K.rfrom, Connecticut." V QUOTABLE: "Speech may sometimes da harm; but so may silence, and a worse harm at that. No offered insult ever caused m deep a wound as a tenderness expected and withheld; and no spoken indiscretion was ever so bitterly regretted as the words one did not speak." Jan Struther. O 1963, by Bennett Cert, Distributed by Klsc Features Syndicate Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Csyritlir. Mall Sr4iM., Inc. A 5 Westinghouse Meets Bargainers PITTSBURGH (UPI) - Bar gainers for three unions meet with Westinghouse r,lectnc Corp. negotiators today at 10 a.m. EDT in an attempt to reach contract agreements. Contract talks began on a day-to-day basis Tuesday for two of the unions, the 36,000 membcr International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) and the 6,000-member United Elec trical Workers (UE). Both were free to strike at midnight Mon day. The contract covering the 12,000 - member International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers runs to Oct. 31. Bargaining sessions Tuesday between the company and the unions ended at 6 p.m. No sig nificant progress was reported. WHAT THE TAX BILI, MEANS TO YOU-VIII (Eighth in a series of 10 colunis) Two important tax breaks connected with life insurance would be substantially cut down by the 1963 tax bill as passed by tne House. First, here is what would happen to the type of ordinary life insurance coverage which taxpayers across the country have bought or are considering buying under such names as "minimum deposit, "linanced or "bank loan" insurance. The key sales appeal of this insurance has been that the buyer could get much higher coverage for his money than through a regular insurance purchase. This is possible because under the "financed" and similar purchase plans, the insured borrows the cash to cover his premium costs cither from the insurance company or a bank. The policy is collateral for the loan. The only money he actually pays out of his pocket is the interest on the loan and he gets part of that back by deducting the interest on his income tax return. The way this has worked out is that the higher an insured person's tax bracket is, the more tax he saves with his interest deduction and the less comes out of his own pocket to pay for the insurance which is being bought with borrowed money The Treasury has disliked this plan for years and it finally persuaded the House to add a provision to the 196'.l tax bill which would end the practice, bcncrally speaking the bill would bar an interest deduction for loans used to buy or carry life Insurance under a plan which content plates systematic borrowing or the Increasing cash sur render value of the policy. Certain excentions would allow the interest to remain deducti ble for instance, if the interest didn't exceed $100 a year or if the do lev was taken out in connection with a trade or business but the objective is clearly to knock out the tax deduction which makes the clan a money saving way of buying more insurance for less money. And this change would apply to insurance con tracts bought after Aug. 6, 1963. What should vou do in anticipation ot this change: me ue- search Institute of America suggests that if you have been think ing about buvine minimum deposit or "financed or bank loan" life insurance, hold off on your purchase, if possible, until it becomes clear whether this provision will become law. Other wise, if you buy now on the basis of being able to deduct your interest payments, you may wind up witn tne insurance out without the right to deduct the interest next year. The second life insurance tax break which would be cut DacK by the House-passed bill involves group life insurance. As of to- aav. tins insurance tniiuya tuiiiuii'ie iu.t cauiiiuuuii. muuuiia ui employees are covered by group life insurance for which their employers pay, but under present rules the employer's payment of the premiums is not counted as income to tne employees. The 1963 tax bill would limit this lax advantage to 5:10.0(10 of groun life insurance coverage for each employee. Premi ums paid by an employer for coverage over $30,000 for an employee would be considered taxable income to that em ployee. Most employees wouldn't he affected by this change, because most of the millions covered by group life insurance aren't given that much protection. But there are plenty of key executives and plenty of owncr cmnlovces who Bet more than $30,000 group life insurance cov erage. If you are among these, the premiums paid by your em ployer for your coverage over $30,000 would become taxable in come to you as ot next year. What can you do in anticipation of this change if the 1963 bill becomes law? Outside of cutting back to $30,000 of coverage or making a charity the beneficiary of your coverage over $30,000, there is nothing you can do to avoid or reduce the added tax cost. Next: Income averaging tax break. 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