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By BILL JENKINS
Back in Fort Sheridan the com
manding officer has put out a call
for volunteers. His plea was posted
on the bulletin board at the post
and read "We are. asking that
somewhere between starting and
quitting time, and without infring
ing too much on the time usually
devoted to lunch period, coffee
breaks, rest periods, story telling,
ticket selling, vacation planning,
cigaret smoking, the rehashing of
yesterday's TV programs, and
clean up time, that each employe,
military and civilian, endeavor to
,find some time that can be set
aside and known as the 'work
break.' "
I wonder if the appeal did him
any good?
Whether you know it or not we
are in another of the 500 or so
annual "weeks." This one, run
ning from Nov. 18 through the
25th, is National Long Underwear
Week.
Whether you sympathize with
this particular piece of wearing
apparel or not the industry comes
stoutly to its defense with the
statement that more longies are
being made now than ever before.
Where granpappy used to sew
himself in 'em for the winter they
are now worn primarily for such
avocations as hunting, fishing,
watching football games (for those
rugged souls who desert the TV
set for the real thing), ice fish
ing, ice skating, skiing and other
cold weather occupations.
All we need around here to
tpark the sales a bit is tome cold
weather. Seems to me like we
don't get winters like we used to
any more. The weather ain't as
cold, the snow ain't as deep, and
by golly it isn't even as white as
it used to be.
But, maybe we'll have need for
(he old long Johns someday.
Over in Roseburg a fellow by
the name of C. H. Doty owns a
white porcupine. A true albino and
thought to be the only one m cap
tivity. Unlike other albinos,
Blondie can see and hear. Most of
them are born deaf and blind.
Doty is dickering around trying
to set his unusual pet on televi-
sion and is also planning a tour of
colleges.
A post card in the mail from
'William Sullivan of Los Anseles
with the suggestion that instead of
Handing out fines for serious traf
fic offenses the offender's car be
impounded for a short period.
I can't think of anything that
would cause a greater wail of mis
ery to go up than this. Unless, of
course, it would be taking the tele
vison set away from the average
viewer.
It would be a courageous judge,
indeed, who would dara impose
such a sentence.
court to be processed like any oth
er adult case.
This is the system that the Ju
venile Department utilizes in han
dling the cases of juveniles in
volved in traffic offenses.
It would appear that the burden
of investigation and recommenda
tion for juvenile traffic offenses
lies heavily upon both the juvenile
office and the judge. Lilting traf
fic offenses from the juvenile offi
cer's realm would leave him much
freer to concentrate on the more
serious juvenile offenders, and
would also serve to lighten the al
ready heavy work load of the cir
cuit judge who is the juvenile
judge, too.
It is clear, however, that neither
the juvenile officer nor the judge
can do other than they are doing
now if they are to stay within the
confines of the law.
The law appears to be quite spe
cific as regards juveniles, and
does not make exception for traf
fic offenses. Judge Holman freely
admitted that the practice in his
county of sending juvenile traffic
offenders through regular chan
nels is illegal under present law.
However, I for one, feel that the
time may now be here when the
law in regard to juveniles should
be corrected or amended as re
gards the handling of traffic of
fenses.
In regard to other juvenile prob
lems, the procedure should remain
as it is. This is in the best inter
ests of both the community and
the youngster concerned.
Punishment
By FLOYD L. WYNNE
How Is a juvenile traffic offend
er punished?
. Last week, I discussed the ques
tion of whether or not juvenile
traffic offenders should come with
in the jurisdiction of the regular
traffic courts.
In the juvenile hearing, held by
a Legislative Interim Committee,
it was pointed out that many
areas of the state, including Clack
amas County where Circuit Judge
Ralph Holman presides, handles
juvenile trallic cases through reg
ular court.
It is only fair since I criticized
the handling of juvenile traffic of
fenders that I clarify what proce
dure is used in handling these
cases. '
Juvenile Officer Francis Math
ews explained the other day that
sentences of license suspension as
well as time in the local juvenile
home are types of assessments
that the juvenile judge can administer.
He also showed me a point sys
tem by which the offense of a
youngster is evaluated. The point
system automatically requires a
suspension of driving license for
0 days .whenever that youngster
is penalized seven points.
The points are assessed in this
manner:
Seven poliits for any one of the
following olfenst's: gross reckless
ness or negligence, driving under
the Influence of intoxicants or hit
and run driving.
Basic rule violation (speeding)
two points plus one point addition
al for every 10 miles per, hour
over uie limn.
Three points are levied for such
violations as failure to stop at
sign or light, failure to signal, im
proper turn, failure to yield right
of way, failure to dim lights, and
following too closely. Any moving
traffic violation other than these
will still be fined three points.
All mechanical violations will be
assessed two points. These include
defective lights, horn, brakes, muf
flers and others.
One point penalties are levied
for such violations as excessive
horn blowing, double parking, fail
ure to display registration or no
vehicle license.
Money fines or jail sentences are
not levied although in exceptional
cases the offender might be con
fined to the local juvenile home
for a period.
In extreme case where there
may have been serious results
such as hitting a pedestrian or
others, the youth may be sent by
the juvenile judg into district!
Good Humor
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK () "Nobody is
safe," said Victor Borge. "But
there is no life except happiness
Understanding of life can be
achieved only by being happy.
It is a pleasure to meet off-stage
this pleasant Dane, who milks
money, music and laughter from
the piano, because in his home
he retains his professional atmos
phere of good humor.
But on the other hand when he
barks with a smile the girls in
his joint in the Plaza Hotel (his
wife and his . secretary) bounce,
too. Pronto and smiling.
This is the possible dream of
every American man to be the
boss, have the girls realize it, and
enjoy it. They have to have fun
out of it, too.
Borge is an unusual man with
great talent. He is a highly con
scious craftsman. His use of
piano humor is mannered, adroit,
warm, often repetitive, but highly
effective.
He is in some ways the most
successful humorist alive. One of
his basic arts is to resist the im
pulse to bore an audience. He
changes his act little, but he
spaces his audience.
It is said that he received $100.-
000 for his first television show.
It is also said that he will receive
$200,000 or more for a show next
Feb. 19 on CBS. It may be that
he is worth more.
Borge came to this country as a
poor immigrant with three things
between him and starvation his
inability to speak English, his
ability to disturb a piano, and
his sense of humor.
Today he faces the world with
the same charming defects, plus
a wife and five children. He now
runs a 450-acre farm in Connecti
cut and has become one of the
nation's largest distributors of
Rock Cornish hens.
This is now a nullion-dollar-
a-year business with him, and the
yearend season is presently at its
height, but he says:
"I started with the Cadillac of
the fowl business and now it is
as common as the bicycle.
"I love my farm. But the cost
of living is such that you have to
make it worthwhile. You cannot
just have land. You must do some
thing with the land."
Although the margin of success
ful operation is notoriously short
in the poultry field, Borge, who
has earnings from the show world
to plow into it, is optimistic that
his efforts to popularize the Rock
Cornish hen will yield him more
than a mound of feathers. This is
a plump-breasted bird designed to
sell at 89 to 99 cents a pound,
His attitude toward lite is as
dry and wry in person as it is on
the platform before the piano and
the public. The way he talks about
it, however, allows the possibility
that it is more personal and per
haps less professional. He has the
gift of making you feel you are
adventuring mm.
- He says about this world:
"It is so small. . .so big. . .you
cannot live long enough in it to do
the things you want to. (He was
sneaking about Invitations to per
form in South Africa, Australia.)
"It's so nice to be independent
. . .to come and go as you
please. . .to an extent that is.
"I don't believe in fatalism. But
I do believe in cause and effect.
"You have the universe of you.
Rut inside you are five million dif
ferent dynamos, each of whom
can limit your life or extend it.
"A walk across the street can
change your life. Every .second
can change vour life.
"But I do believe In goals. I
don't believe anything is just blind
accident.
"People's lives would be more
interesting if they would just real
ize how they can change from
moment to moment.
"There is no such thing as an
uninteresting life. . .unless you
get overwhelmed by problems and
feel neglected by a higher power.
"There is no such thing as bad
weather or a bad thing. What I
don t like, my neighbor may.
"There are people I see in the
street I make big rings around,
but. Happiness comes, as the
weather does, in waves not in
streams.
"I am a very happy man."
Production II ace
By GEORGE J. MARDER
(United Press)
Can Russia equal or out-produce
the United States in the
near future?
Not in Sputnicks alone , ,
but in everything that, counts In
a national economy?
That's a pretty important ques
tion. And Communist boss Khru
schev raised it in his red revo
lution anniversary speech in Moscow.
Khruschev said the big goal of
the Soviet now was to do just
that . . . match and then top
United States production.
He boasted that within 15 years,
Russia would top the present
volume of production in the Unit
ed States.
Such an accomplishment, while
sensational, would be more
meaningful for Russians, who have
little, than to Americans who
could do without a lot they now
have. -
For it s obvious that in those 15
years, the United States would
not be standing still. And at the
end of the decade and a half,
it still would be ahead. Khruschev
conceded that in his major policy
talk. .
But how far ahead? That's the
more important question. For Khru
schev based Soviet expectations
on catching up and passing the
United States solely on the prem
ise that Russia is now growing
faster than the United Mates.
And that this greater rate of
growth ultimately would build
Russia up to American size and
then dwarf us.
Is that true? Is Russia grow
ing faster than the United States?
Unquestionably, the answer is
yes. But there are a number of
explanations which can be offered.
One . . . Russia had more room
to grow; only a generation or
two ago she practically was a
feudal state; the United States
also had some sensational spurts
which compare favorably with So
viet strides; two . . . much of
Russia's growth was to recoup
from war devastation and great
leaps in production were to be
expected.
There arc many other explana
tions. But the fact does remain
that Russia is growing faster than
the United States, overall, although
the gap between the two nations
is still widening.
Those are the conclusions of a
study made for Congress by the
Pogo
Library of Congress ... a study
of Soviet economic growth and
comparing it with the United
Mates.
The study, based on the only
reliable figures available to it
. . and admittedly they were not
the best . . , found that in 1955,
Soviet industry produced about
one-third of the quantity of goods
turned out in the United States.
Both industrial efforts were
growing. The Soviet industrial
growth in the short-range present
was figured at about double the
rate in the United States. .
The study found no grounds for
complacency . . . either in the
level of the industrial output or
the rate of growth.
For example, it found that the
figure showing Russia's industrial
output only one-third of the Unit
ed States was very misleading if
used as a comparison, industrial
strength.
For a much greater part of
American industry was producing
goods for consumers . . . radios,
shoes, clothes, furs and washing
machines ... for you and me.
While Russia was devoting a
greater part of her effort to heavy
or producer goods industry . . .
those are the big machines which
can support a military effort and
also which can build new indus
tries which later can turn out
consumer goods.
Not only was Russia doing with
out consumer goods to build up
heavy industry, but she was do
ing without many of the industrial
services built into our economy.
The study found that the Soviet
higher 'rate of growth ultimately
could begin to close the gap be
tween the two countries but that
this was hardly to be expected
"in the near future" unless the
American economy suffered either
"stagnation or collapse."
Students Hold Demonstration Against Campus Dancing Ban
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. WV-i
Students at Wake Forest College
jitterbugged on the campus plaza
and burned in effigy the retiring
president of the Baptist State Con
vention after the convention ruled
out campus dancing.
About 500 or 600 students, most
ly male, participated in the dem
onstration last night at the Bap
tist-supported school.
Hi-fi re:ord players blasted at
full volume as the laughing and
cheering crowd of students danced
and shouted such slogans as
Down with the Baptists,
Student leaders said about 25
per cent of the student body joined
in the protest against the Baptist
state Convention action in Raleigh
The convention overwhelmingly
vetoed campus dancing and ap
parently ended a lengthy contro
versy on the topic. School trustees
previously had voted to allow
dancing.
The students, most of whom
wore dark glasses or obscured
their faces with handkerchiefs,
climaxed the hour long demonstra
lion by burning an effigy labeled
"Dr. J. C. Canipe." Canipe re
tired as president of the Baptist
State Convention after speaking
against lifting the ban imposed by
tne convention in 1937.
College policemen took two stu
dents, unidentified, in custody for
lighting firecrackers.
The convention's action affect
ed seven Baptist colleges in the
state. The vote followed a request
by trustees of Wake Forest Col
lege and Meredith College ifor
women) at Raleigh that they al
lowed to regulate all forms of rec
reation on their campuses.
Dr. Canipe told the convention
yesterday: "We must decide who
has the authority to decide major
policies in our Baptist lite, our in
stitutions or our convention."
He also said: "Shall the children
rule the parents, the parents the
trustees, the trustees the admin
istration, and the administration
the convention? Or shall the con
vention be the final authority in
all matters as most Baptists be
lieve it is?"
W. II. Wetherspoon, a member
of the Meredith board, said 93 per
cent of his school's student body
had obtained written permission
from their parents to attend
dances off the campus.
"That's just where the rub
Credit Plan
By SAM DAWSON
' NEW YORK UV-Changing home
budget habits are pushing charge
account and installment buying
into old strongholds of cash and
carry.
Early next year J. C. Penney
will test credit sales' in a few of
its 1.700 stores which have been
strictly cash and carry since its
founding in 1902.
W. T. Grant is putting an in
stallment credit plan into 86 new
stores this year, bringing its en
tire chain of 699 into the plan. It
tested the idea on a pilot basis
in Atlanta, Ga., in 1946, and grad
ually extended it to other stores
and regions.
Versions of installment paying
for. merchandise also have been
spreading among many depart
ment stores.
Credit buying has increased ev
erywhere since the war. Young
persons in particular budget their
income to lit installment pay
ments. Rising prices and mer
chandise upgrading have put
many purcnases out of the reach
of the old cash and carry custom
er. The trend to larger families
also spurs use of credit for mass
outfitting and for buying big ticket
items.
So the cash and carry chains
appealing to lower budget groups
have found the department store
cnarge account systems an in
creasing competition.
Officials of Grant's say their
credit plan has been used by more
than a million customers. Last
year 33'i million dollars worth of
merchandise, or 8.8 per cent of
total sales, were charged.
Penney s hasn t decided . yet
which type of credit plan to use
or where Uie tests will be made.
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By UNITED PRESS
PLAINFIELD, Wis. Adeline
Watkins, on her 20-year romance
with horror murderer Ed Gein.
confessed "butcher" of two worn-
'T B"UP u-p riinispH Atari-
murder w hnrt aver hart ahiMi
Eddie told me about how the mur
derer did wrong, what mistakes he
had made. I thought it was interesting."
WASHTVfiTnV A Ft -Tin Pr.-
ident Gem-re Mpanv in railing
upon the administration to act now
to prevent "widespread trouble for
the American economy:
"We can't wait for an economic
bust. The basic unresolved ques
tion of matching America's con
suming ability with her productive
ability must be met."
T.ns Avr.n v An-.,.., t
Wirin, who was issued a passport
by the State Department to enter
Red China and North Korea to in
terview witnesses in the Powell se
dition case: '
"As fur a T Lhav I'm th r,.i
living American to be granted a
passport to Red China."
WOODBURY. Ky. Mrs. Franlt
Neighbors, resident of this south
western Kentucky town cut off by
flood waters:
'Luckily this Is the first dav of
the hunting season, and as long
as tne raooits noia out we ll be
in line shape.
CHICAGO Secretary of Stat
Dulles, on the nossibilitv of an ai.
tack on NATO forces in Europe:
ui course certain kinds of at
tack call for counter-attack. If
American troops were In the area
the field commander would re.
Ispond immediately."
comes," he said. This means that
"in a majority of instances" the
girls are attending dances in ho
tels "without guidance or super
vision," he added.
Five ministers argued against
dancing, saying a moral issue was
involved.
The convention then reaffirmed
action taken in 1937 which con
demned dancing as demoralizing
and tending toward immorality.
Trustees of Wake Forest and
Meredith had held the dancing
matter under abeyance pending
action by the convention.
They'll Do It Every Time
- By Jimmy Hatlo
MoHiy, WHEN HE'S COLLECTING
FOR THE V4RIOUS OFFICE POOLS,
IS AS WELCOME AS BERI-BERI -
The winder W4s just picked
A MINUTE AGO NOW WHO IS
SEEKING OUT WHOM? YOU GUESSED IT
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NOW? OH-FOOT61LL AAUD BE DONE TnXjiCL A TICKET FOR
AD FOR SPUTNIK
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP)-Some-one
here apparently expects the
Soviet earth satellite to land in
his back yard. The following no
tice, complete with a box number,
appeared in the classified section
of the Memphis Commercial Ap
peal: "Available soon. One slight
ly used Sputnik. Fully equipped
with radio, temperature control
and all extras. Weighs only 184
pounds. Bright aluminum finish.
Live a little. Be the first in your
neighborhood to launch one of
these handy little prestige builders."
FOOT FACTS
BOWLING" GREN, Ohio UI -After
a year-long study of walking
habits, Dr. Willard C. Myser and
Dr. James G. Haub of Ohio State
University's zoology and entomol
ogy department reported to an
Ohio Academy of Science meeting
here: Males walk faster than fe
males by taking longer strides: to
walk faster, . people take longer
rather than faster steps; people
walk faster when the temperature
is lower
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