THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1963
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Thanksgiving Will
Mark End of Era in
Two Vermont Towns
By CARL COBB
United Press International
GRANBY. Vt. (UPD-Thanl
giving marks the end of candle
light, Kerosene lamps ana wuuu
stoves for two tiny hamlets deep
in the northern Vermont woods.
This town and neighboring
Victory, situated about 50 miles
Oil ith nf thn Canadian border,
were to get electricity on that
date, uie iasi iwu ui u,
9W tnwns to move into the
"modern" era.
Power lines were strung
across miles of rugged terrain
under conditions described with
typical Vermont taciturnity
"difficult."
Tthough the Nov. 27 deadline
was set tentatively, Harold L.
Durdn. president of Central
Vermont Public Service Corp.,
said; "That's what we're shoot
ing for. We're going as fast as
we can. ,,
Total Cost
He estimated total cost of
brinelnc in electricity at $127,-
000 for which the approximate
ly 90 townspeople wiu pay 3
cents per kilowatt hour com
pared with 2.5 cents charged in
residential areas of towns or
cities.
It would be cheap at any
price. Most of the residents
wrestle with their own power
plants or wood and coal-burning
stoves and furnaces during the
hard winter.
"Our light plants cost about
$800 and they only last a few
years," Mrs. Rodney Noble of
Granby explained. "And we're
always having to go out In the
cold to fix it In the morning or
at night."
"A little supper" was planned
to celebrate the first night of
electric light,
1 Annual Festival
The annual Victory-Granby
"Holiday to the Hills" fall fes
tival, originally started to dem
onstrate the powerless plight of
the communities, was to be ded
icated to the Northeastern Ver
mont Development Association
and to press, radio and televi
sion for their help.
The towns had a total treas
ury of 67 cents when they first
began their fight for electricity
In 1958.
Gov. Philip H. Hoff , also cred
ited with helping, expected to
attend the ceremonies.
Grange News
Residents weren't quite sure
what electricity would do for the
remote area aside from making
life more comfortable.
However, Melvin Henderson
planned to build a tourist home
and Mrs. Vera Bishop was go
ing to begin selling lots with log
cabins for tourists.
Most of the townspeople work
at lumbering or on small farms.
Neither town has a store and
the only school is the Granby
Elementary School.
Former Attorney
Is Found Guilty
PORTLAND (UPI) -Former
Multnomah County Deputy Dist.
Atty. James Collins was found
guilty Wednesday of unlawfully
entering a motor vehicle with
intent to steal.
A Circuit Court jury returned
the verdict and Judge Herbert
M. Schwab ordered a pre-sentence
investigation. Defense at
torney George Haslett said the
verdict would be appealed.
Collins, 44. of Lake Oswego,
was a deputy district attorney
from 1951 to 1953. He resigned
from the Oregon State Bar to
January, 1963.
10-Year-Old Boy Reflects Tragedy Of Family Deaths
By WILLIAM CLAYTON
United Press International
MONT BELVIEU, Tex. (UPI)
Last Labor Day, Troy Odom
was a traffic statistic. Today
he is a towheaded youngster
with a face full of freckles that
almost conceal the scars.
Troy is a shy 10-year-old and
his pensive face reflects the
tragedy that is listed to the
record books as "worst traffic
wreck in America, Labor Day,
1963."
Ten persons died in that two
car collision at Dayton, a small
town 40 miles east of Houston
and only a few miles north of
Troy's hometown of Mont Bel-vieu.
The wreck killed six mem'
bers of the Odom family, in
cluding Troy's parents, his
brother and sister and an aunt
and uncle. Four persons died
in the other car.
Troy was badly torn. His jaw
was shattered. His face was
cut. There was fear of brain
damage.
Troy came out of it the man
of the family. He had to make
a man's decision and then try
to erase from his memory the
tragedy.
He had two sets of grand
parents. He had to choose one
to live with. He decided to live
with his paternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Odom Sr.
They live in Mont Belvieu. His
maternal grandparents live
away from the town he grew
up in.
Returns To School
Troy went back to school. He
adjusted well.
His grandmother said, "He
missed too much of this semes
ter to get a report card, so
when they came out his teach
er just wrote us a note, 'He is
doing real good.'
"He dreaded to go back, you
know. But after a while, he
even started getting anxious for
the school bus to come every
morning."
Troy's grandparents live a
few miles out of town, and Troy
has had to meet new neighbor
hood friends.
"There are some boys just
across the fence," his grand
mother said. "Troy jumps over
every time he gets a chance
and plays with them."
"We took him trick-or-treat-Ing
on Halloween," she said.
"His mother was so good to
him that way, and I am trying
very hard."
Life has other delights for
Troy.
The Dayton mortician gave
him a heifer calf that his
grandparents keep in a pen be
hind their rural home. Troy
looks in on the calf often and
helps his grandfather feed it.
Remembers Accident
Does he still think about the
wreck?
"He can talk about it now
and it does not bother him too
much," Mrs. Odom said. "But
he can still remember all the
details, and when we go over
that road he knows just where
it was and can tell you every
thing, Once he woke up at night
and called, 'Mother,' and we
think he must have been
dreaming.
"We go by the cemetery
sometimes. The first time, we
let him to go up to the graves
alone. He went around and
looked at all of them and came
back and was crying. But he
dried his tears and said to his
grandfather, "Thank you, Paw
paw, lor bringing me.' "
Troy must go through even
more grownup ordeals before
he can once again be just a
uuie ooy in a mtie lexas town.
There are more treatments
to come, to make sure he suf
fered no lasting physical or
meniai damage. Doctors must
see whether nlastin snroarv ie
needed to erase the scar tissue
mat underlines one eyebrow
and tuffs at one side nf hie
chin. Troy must experience '.ne
legal lecnnicauties of insurance
matters still to be cleared up.
Search Continues
For Missing Pilot
SPOKANE (UPI)-Search ef
forts continued today for some
trace of 1st Lt. Robert Boucher,
25, Spokane, whose F89J jet
fighter crashed in North-central
Washington near the Canadian
border one week ago.
About 40 men took part in a
ground search Wednesday and
40 planes were involved in an
aerial search. An Air Force in
vestigation team reported it
found no evidence that Boucher
went down with his plane.
Boucher's radar observer, 1st
Lt. Rollin Deschane, 27, Spo
kane, was rescued uninjured
irmay.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
Poland's Thousand Years Are Reflected In People's Jokes
Bv RICHARn romoAin t,.ij ... . ...
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1M3 '
Bv RICHARD RROWAi n
United Press International
A current joke in Communist
ruled Poland tells of the cus
tomer who entered a cafe and
asked for a cup of tea.
"Chinese or Russian?" the
waiter asks.
Customer: "I don't want to
get involved in politics. Give
me a cup of cocoa."
The joke concerns the current
ideological split between Mos
cow and Peking. But more than
that it also mirrors Poland's
thousand years of mostly tragic
history.
In the year 966 Prince Miesz
ko introduced Christianity to
Poland and formed the first
territorial Poland. For the next
700 years, Poland rode a bumpy
path to European greatness,
repelling hordes of invading
Mongols and Tartars and earn
ing the name, "The Wall
against the Pagans."
The Roman Catholic religion
early won a firm allegiance
among the Polish people that
still holds, with 96 of every 100
Poles members of the Roman
Church despite the Communist
government.
Depressed Economically
Between the two world wars,
the nation began slowly moving
toward industrialization. But it
was a time of economic depres
sion and then autocratic repres
sion. And to the West rose Nazi
Germany. To the east lay Josef
Stalin's Russia.
The two giants fell on Poland
in September, 1939.
About 320,000 Polish soldiers
perished in the short, bloody
blitzkrieg that began when the
German battleship Schleswig-
STURDY RUBBER
NEW YORK (UPI) - Gener
al Electric has developed a new
type of rubber capable of with
standing flames hot enough to
burn holes in steel. The new
rubber, produced as a liquid, al
ready has been used to seal the
Mercury space craft which car
ried U.S. astronauts into space.
Holstein opened fire against the
small Gdansk fort that housed
185 troops and not a piece of
artillery.
Millions of Poles perished in
the wartime occupation,, in the
Jewish uprising in Warsaw in
1943 and in the general War
saw rebellion the following year
when Red army legions stay
ed a few miles away while the
Nazis smashed the Polish re
sistance. After the Nazis left, Poland
lay shattered, its cities in ruin
and its hungry people vic
tims of Nazi Governor Hans
Frank who said Poles needed
to be educated only to the point
of "being able to count to 100
and to obey Germans" lay
in nea army nanus.
By Western standards wages
are low in Poland, and many
workers are frozen in their jobs.
A worker can be fired for be
ing 10 minutes late to work, or
if he works too slowly. The av
erage non-industrial man earns
MAN'S PLACE
NEW YORK (UPI) - Women
still have their place in the
kitchen, but have lost their spot
in the garden, according to a
Union Fork & Hoe Co. survey.
It indicated that to the past
five years men have taken over
the family garden in 55 per
cent of the 30 million gardening
homes.
1,632 zlotys a month ($67). A
worker in heavy industry earns
more than twice that and a coal
miner more than three times or
close to $200.
Employers do better. The
manager of a state-owned fac
tory can earn about $500 a
month, but a shopgirl may
make as little as $50 a month.
The more one aids production,
the higher one's salary.
But rents are cheap. Apart
ments in Warsaw cost only
about a dollar or two a room
and $6 a month to the new
apartment buildings going up in
the capital. There are not enough
new apartment houses and
many families wait for space.
; 7
f J Y 33ICK WEST
yWfl Snags Seen in
Party Hot Line
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
task force on NATO unity of
the subcommittee on special
projects of the House Republi
can Policy Committee has just
issued its first report. .
Opinions may differ as to the
most significant portion, but I
was captivated by the task for
ces proposal concerning the
Phoenix Grange
Phoenix Grange members
learned at the recent meeting
that Mrs. Christine Plnsmore
won 100 pounds of sugar for her
pears in the canning contest.
The Grange also won $5 from
the Amalgamated Sugar Com
pany. The meeting was opened by
Master Lloyd Whiteside with the
officers seating drill.
Officers elected for the en
suing year are: Charles John
Son, master' VJarran 1 ntt
overseer; Fred Meadows, lec
turer; Walter Gillette, steward;
Mervin Hixson, assistant stew
ard; Mrs. Raymond Cyr, chap
lain; Leo Thomas, treasurer;
Mrs. Robert MenHrtua
tary; Raymond Cyr, gatekeeper;
Mrs. Charles Johnson, Ceres;
Mrs. Leo Thomas, Pomona;
Mrs. Sol Cox, Flora; Mrs. Mer
vin Hixson, lady assistant stew
ard; and Lloyd Whiteside, Olin
Poe and Sol Cox, executive com
mitteemen. Pomona Grange Is sponsoring
an officers fnstnlloli nn Bjirvltt
at Central Point Grange at 1
p.m. Dec. 8, starting with a pot
luck dinner. Turkey will be fur
nished. Salads, vegetables and
dessert should be taken.
Several Phoenix members
were among other Jackson
County Grangers who attended
uie nauonai vonvenuon in Fort
land.
Hixson suggested contacting
an auctioneer to learn proper
time, fnr most- nrnfltakla hut
sales. Charles Hockersmlth said
uie price of wheat has gone up
since the sales to Russia.
Charles Johnson stnterf that
due to a large apple crop In
Washington that is affecting
markets pears may have to
be held until after the first of
the year. Mrs. Thomas said
that bulbs could be planted now
and told how to prepare other
plants ior winter.
The legislative report by Mcl
vin Lattie was that less snenrt
ing will be far more helpful
man a saics tax.
Mrs. Bert Slancliff was elect
ed to represent Phneniv Onnro
at a Rogue Valley Memorial
nospitai meeting.
During the meeting Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford Jones received the
third and fourth degree work
By Whiteside. '
Waller LeRov. Master of Gold
Hen EmnlrA ftranffe Clrann Vnl
ley, Calif., was escorted to the
master's station.
Following the meeting re-
ments were served by the Frank
Fens and the Harry Hamiltons
BARRED
OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI)-The
state liquor control board pro
hibits using the words bar,
barroom and saloon" in adver
tisements for alcoholic beverag
es or places what wch bovar-
agta a
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"hot line" between Washington
and Moscow. '
The "hot line," as you know, '
was set up recently to provide
instantaneous communication
between the two capitals and
thus lessen the danger of war
starting accidentally.
If, for instance, the United
States lost control of a missile,
which then headed toward Rus
sia, President Kennedy could
get Premier Khrushchev on the
line and say "oops, sorry" be
fore it landed. And vice versa.
Can Monitor
Well, sir, the task force fears
that this arrangement may
arouse suspicions among our
NATO Allies. It has recom
mended that the entire mem
bership of NATO be "cut-in"' on
the line so that they can moni
tor any conversations.
In other words, the task force
wants to change the "hot line"
to a "party line." It may have
a point there, but I have some
doubts that the plan would
work.
If my memory of the way
party lines operate is trustwor
thy, such a set-up could lead to
a situation something like this:
"Hello, is this area code 202
628-1414?
"Speaking."
"Jack, this is Nicky. Some- '
thing terrible just happened.
One of our missiles accidental
ly flew off the launching pad
and ... "
"Hello. General De Gaulle
here. Who's calling please?
"Charlie, get off the line. I'm
tawing to Jack. I've got an urgent.
"Oh, good. I've been wantina
to talk to Jack myself. Jack.
your position on the chicken
war is . . .
"Charlie, for the love of Len
in get off the line. There has
been a missile malfunction and
Price of Poultry
"What has that got to do with
the price of poultry?"
"It could destroy every home
in . . .
Home? Yes. this is Prime
Minister Home only we pro
nounce lt "Hume here in Brit
ain."
"You won't be able to pro
nounce anything if you don't
hang up and let me ... "
"If you didn't want to speak
to me why did you ring?"
"Nobodv Is rineinu vnn. T was
just trying to talk to Jack about
chickens and ..."
"This is Jack, fellows. Hold
the line a minute while I go to
the window. I just heard a loud
noise outside."
Stanford Professor
hddmses Meeting
PORTr.Aiurwrrpn a
w I n utau-
ford Univflrslfv nmMw,
J f.wt.uin. oa.U
Wednesday more people are be
ginning to realize that it is bet
ter to have one competent
school teacher for a large class
than several nnnr fpnrhnm lnoi
for the sake of keeping classes
smau,
Robert N. Bush, who also is
chairman nf lh Nnlinnal pli
cation's Assocation's Commis
sion on Teache: Education and
Standards, made the statement
as several educators spoke out
for hiohei accrnriltatinn olon.
dards at the annual meeting of
uie uouncu ot Lniei state school
Officers here.
"Less and less will invnna
who wishes be able to wan
der in and out of teaching," he
sam, remarking that many forc
es are working toward stronger
teacher certification methods.
He called for more coopera
tion among universities, state
boards of education, professional
education associations and legal
groups.
Dr. Roy Lieuallen, chancellor
of the Oregon State System of
Higher Education, said all rio-
partments in a university
should have a voice in teacher
education standards.
"For example, the mathema
tics department shmilrl have
strong voice in the reqlrements
ior a siuaent preparing to teach
In that field."
He said more strirt arrraMita.
tion standards would do much
to assure the output of capable
teachers.
(C) COPrWGHT 163 AftWAY STORES, INCORPOftATtD
Meany Re-Elected to
Fifth Term to Post
NEW YORK (UPI) - George
Meany, who started his labor
movement career as a plumber,
Wednesday was re-elected to his
fifth term as president of the
AFL-CIO.
Meany, who receives a salarv
of $45,000 in the post, will serve
as president until the next bi
ennial convention of the federa
ilou in 1965.
DOGGY FARMS
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI)-Four
out of every five American
farms have dogs and 82 per
cent of them are large dogs,
according to a survey by Nu
trena dog food here. The sur
vey also showed that 33 per
cent of the farms have more
than one dog, 2 per cent more
han four.
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