MEDi'ORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDKOKU. OREGON
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1963
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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-
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like point just fine for probing
in the soft mud. The nostrils
are located near the base of the
bill, very close to the head,
ideally suited so that breathing
can go on while the bill is feeling
around under water or mud in
search of small fish or aquatic
insects. While feeding, the stilts
chatter endlessly.
Most of the stilts nest in north
ern states, returning to the
southern states for the winter.
They arrive there in November
and remain until the following
April. The nest is made of
grasses and both mama and
papa stilt help in incubating the
eggs and later caring for the
young. The babies, as would be
expected, turn out to be mostly
legs. 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.
BRIIKiK PLAYERS INJURED
DUNDEE, Scotland (UPI)
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were hurt Tuesday when the
ceiling fell in on them while
they were playing in the Dun
dee Unionist Association bridge
club rooms.
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the prizes Tuesday as grand
champions were named at the
Pacific International Livestock
Exposition.
The grand champion steer
was shown by Wolfe Hereford
Ranch of Wallowa, and t h e
reserve champion by Mary Cho-
lick, Portland, a 4-11 club mem
ber. Her animal was an annus
The grand champion barrow
in the show was a Hampshire
shown by Joe and Rose Wilhelm
of Brooks. Reserve champion
was a Yorkshire entered b y
Earl Simantcl of Cornelius.
Karen and Kcndra Lane o f
Clements, Calif., showed t h e
grand champion lamb. The re'
serve championship went to an
animal shown by Mollis McDon
ald of The Dalles, a member
of the Future Farmers of
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nlo Adani, 25, who hates noise,
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