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PAGE! HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, November f, 1961 CROMLEY IN WASHINGTON is4i Russ Lea 'n Space The office of the United States presi dency, being the most powerful on earth, in evitably works a special magic on those who i' hold it. i When its full weight descended on Harry Truman in April, 1945, he said to a group of . newsmen: "Boys, pray for me." '' Eight years later, at the end of his regime, he would more likely have suggested that ; jthey pray for his opponents. !; During much of his White House career, -former President Eisenhower was pictured J)& chafing under the burdens of office and ger to gain the retirement of Gettysburg. Now that he has it, he is said to be bored jSiith it, and is hitting the road often to rip ;3ito President Kennedy. Most observers whatever their view of Eisenhower's criticisms sense in them the ring of conviction. And it seems fair to sug- gest that this is born at least in part from the 'natural feeling of an ex-president that he jt knows the White House job. i Historians frequently point out that presi dents commonly want a second term because they believe their "work is unfinished." Some scholars have noted that even be fore the time of Franklin Roosevelt an oc casional White House occupant toyed with the ! third term idea. (Oregon Statesman, Salem) ; Money worries broke out almost by the :time members of the 1961 Legislative Assem bly reached their homes. Now they are piling I up high enough to frighten them against corn ling back. The State Public Welfare, trying to '.live within a budget, narrowed the flow in the money pipe last summer. Later, under pressure from Multnomah County, they opened the tap. Now they profess to see their money gone before the end of tho biennium and propose another "review" of spending. State institutions of higher learning are jcaught with their enrollments up and their budgets sagging. They will need an addition ;al ?2.7 million so it was announced last week. ;But there's only a million left in the emergen cy board's reserve which must serve all de : mands for general fund money. We are great budget-balancers here in : Oregon but this time requirements were un He's a quiet, almost shy man I with brown hair a man who I spends a lot of time studying his ! lingers, and adjusting his horn Trimmed glasses but Mark Wilson ' plays to audiences of twelve and thirteen million persons every week. He's a magician and, more than that, the most analytical ma gician since Thurston. Mr. Wilson is 32 and, not too '. long ago, was a cheerleader at I Southern Methodist University. To ! day, he stars on a CBS show on I Saturday mornings called "The I Magic Land of Allakiiznm." The J argument against the use of a magician on television is that, once he runs through his li nks, he's dead. ; Mark Wdson assured CBS ho ; coidd go on forever and never run out of new tricks, new illusions. He has been on three years now, and he has a huge audience which has never caught him repeating. Mr. Wilson has a house on St. Ives Drive in Hollywood and, in it, new magical devices are in vented and polished every week. The house once belonged to Bor i U Karloff. This, Mrs. Wilson thinks, gives the place an aura. ' She assists her husband in his ' act and finds time to help their 'little boy, Mike, with his homc i work. Wilson spends his evenings I working out new illusions, and he I is fond of reminding friends that .' no one teaches magic. '. There is no school for II. J very ! magician is self taught. They .' start with small tricks, as Mark '. Wilson did when he was 8. His ; father took him to tee a magi cian najned Tommy Martin. The shy youngster became so fnscin- ated that the father bought him a book of magic ti iika to keep him j quiet. At Die ago of 13, lie knew a A Hazard Of The State Budget Ills JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . World Of The Magician Holds Constant Change lot of simple tricks. His hands were becoming practiced and clev er. He got a part-time job at Douglas' Magic Land in Dallas, performing tricks and selling books of magic. As he progressed, Mark Wilson learned that a'l ma gic tricks (nil into seven basic rat. egorics: (II Vanishing act; (21 Magical appearance; (3) Transpo sition, when an object moves mysteriously from one place to another; (41 Exchange, when one object is changed to another; (51 Levitalion, when a solid is made to float; I6 Penetration, in which an object, like a pencil, is made to pierce another, like a board; (7) Changes in size, shape or col or. There arc at least 10,000 ways of performing the seven tricks. All of Uiem arc performed by mis direction. The magician diverts the attention of his audience by elaborate movements of the hand, by monologue, by having a pretty assistant make an appearance from the w nigs, by pulling a sleeve up. by putting a hand into a jack et pocket. Wilson found that it was not rnough to know the tricks. He had to educate his hands until he mastered dexterity, liming and misdirection. Kven this was not enough. He had to learn to act. so that his shy personality be came pleasing, so that lie could entertain as well as deceive. When he w& ready, Mark Wil son went to CHS and sold the show himself. The television exec utives surveyed the field ol magic and found thai almost all of tho great magicians art dead or re tired: Dante, Thurston, Houdini. Keller are gone. Cardini performs occasionally. Blackstnne i re tired. CBS decided lo try Wilson's ma Job Kennedy was annoyed at a strong speech Eisenhower delivered in Chicago. He is said to be further irritated by a repeat performance in New York. He feels that Ike's knowledge of the "inside" should act as a curb rather than a spur to criticism. The record of history indicates this is too much to expect. The ex-president, whoever he is, thinks himself uniquely qualified to judge the acts of his successor. Moreover, if his party looks to him for leadership, as Republicans do to Eisenhower, he will be more encouraged to speak out. One responsible Republican puts it this way: "The notion that Eisenhower should muffle his criticism strikes me as nonsense. He is our star. He is still a commanding fig ure in the nation. Why should his voice, above all, be silenced?" Obviously Eisenhower does not intend to fall silent. Obviously, too, Kennedy is going to have to live with his assaults as one of the facts of presidential life. When it comes his turn to retire, he'll probably be chopping at his successor in the same way. derestimated. One reason is the time lag be tween time for preparing budgets and spend ing appropriations. Work on a new budget starts in midsummer before the Legislature meets. It is reviewed by the budget director in the fall, then the total budget is presented to the Legislature. But the spending is to cover the biennium from the ensuing July 1st to June 30th of the second year. In view of the three-year spread the wonder is that budgeting succeeds as well as it has. One answer to the current dilemma is to call a special session of the Legislature. This would open a Pandora's box of troubles with daylight saving time one of them. For the longer term perhaps Oregon should consider . holding annual sessions of the Legislative As sembly. While sessions are often regarded as a cross to be born (as seldom as possible), the business of government is becoming so big and so important that it's hard to take care of it at biennial sessions. gic on a short option. In the past three years, his audience has grown bigger and bigger. A few weeks ago, Wilson made a live elephant disappear on stage. 11 was the first time that trick had been attempted since Houdini did it on tlic stage of the Hippodrome in New York in 1921. Among his steady props, Mark has Basil the Baffling Bunny; Har riet the Harmonious Hamster, and Doris, the Daring Dove. She's temperamental and has five stand ins. Wilson was in New York a week or more ago and he stopped in at my house for lunch. We talked magic because I'm a fan, not a magician. While he spoke. Wilson per formed little tricks for the Stone girls Karen and Kathleen. His fingers massaged a small brown hall and it disappeared. Still talk ing, he plucked it from behind their cars and their blue eyes hugged out and their mouths flew open. Later, he produced four small colored pencils and showed the girls a trick. He would hold his hands behind his hack, he said, and if the girls would give him one of the pencils, he would tell them which one it was. He did. and the trick was done several tunes. They asked how it was done, and he showed them. The pencil is placed in his hands behind his hack. He presses the point of it against his thumbnail. Then, still holding the pencil behind his hack, he brings the marked hand up before his eyes and pretends to think. He looks at the mark on the thumbnail and names the col or. The little girls arc now Uic so cial lions at their school. Any body like lo buy a gross of col ored pencils? . . . I On By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-Cabinet officers in Japan on the nebulous assignment of promoting better economic relations between the United States and that country had a tough week of briefings for their journey. Few definite engagements were lined up for them. Most of the time, Secretaries Rusk, Udall, Freeman, Goldberg and Hodges will be strictly on their own in conferring with their Japanese counterparts. (Agriculture Secre tary Orville Freeman, now on an European-Asian tour, joins the group in Japan.) A great many of the briefings, therefore, were aimed at teach ing the secretaries how to comport themselves so they would not unin tentionally insult their hosts by violating Japanese customs. They were warned to take off their shoes before entering homes, restaurants and theaters. Then they were cautioned about com munity nude bathing. Should they wish to indulge in this pastime, they were advised to wash before they entered the pool, since soap is definitely tabu in a Japanese bath. The final straw came when the' secretaries were told that recent ly their hosts had expanded the Japanese custom of drinking sake warm to include such American beverages as Scotch. "Forewarned is forearmed." sighed one aide "1 just hope their coffee is good." What with golf fading out with the last administration and touch football becoming too rough and time-consuming, tennis has becom the No. 1 sport for many Wash ington bigwigs. The great revival of interest is 'due primarily to the fact that it's possible to reel off a set inside an hour. Thus, busy executives can duck out lo the courts during lunch hours and in the evenings. Tennis buffs around town in Melodic Moods ACROSS 1 Stnnced instrument 5 Musical measure A Musical group 12 Medley 5 Uncovered A Slate 7 Knock 8 Sewed loosely 9 Singing voice 10 Christmas carot 1 1 Greek commune IS Actress Gardner 19 Animal doctor i roll l 14 Tropical plant 15 faithful is Corded fabric 17 Stalk IS Civ 20 Rohbed 21 Spread lo dry 2-' Pedal operator 23 Musical 20 offspring tpl.) 22 Ttv 2.1 Created 24 Toemi 25 diplomacy 26 Musical passages 27 Oriental roler 28 I'nusual 29 Hurried compoaition 26 Gives a musical selection 30 Hebrew roonlfa St Quarrel .12 Than .1.1 Month lahl .14 Transmitted ' .IS Blai 36 landed properties J Tired .10 Rodent 40 Pamag 41 Flislit o( steps 44 Changes the title 4fl Nimhuf 49 Narrow bed 50 Blood M W ar sod 52 Employ 53 Girl a nicknama M Spice SS Through u6 loirs DflWM 1 Grasp 8 Nautical term 3 Iranian money 4 Hon courteous Washington Notebook Cabinet Officers Briefed Customs Of Japan clude Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, key presidential adviser Mc George Bundy, Undersecretary of the Navy Paul Fay, and Senators Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., Joseph Clark, D-Pa.; and Claiborne Pell, D-R.I. These all agree that tennis is a prime conditioner, and that a lunchtime game or two gets a person in top shape for an after noon of work. The recent announcement that Air Force general officers would be required to leave their desks for four hours of physical exer cise a week was greeted with de rision by the tennis set. Snorted Senator Pell: "I wish someone would pay me to play tennis for four hours a week." One of Agriculture Secretary Or ville Freeman's favorite kicko'ffs to a speech is the line, "We all have a job to do here tonight. My job is to give a speech, and your job is to listen. I hope I get done with my job before you get done with yours." Slate Department strategists would like lo set up a guest house outside London to use for week end entertaining of neutral diplo mats they'd like to win over. The Chinese, they say, do this type of weekend entertaining here and there around the world with telling effect. But the diplomats have about given up on the idea. Says one discouragingly, "Even if we did gel an O.K., you know who would be occupying the guest house weekends visiting U.S congress men." Janet Jagan. who recently vis ited Washington with her husband, the self-styled Marxist and pre mier of British Guiana, was un til recently a Cabinet officer in her husband's administration. On one occasion, when ques tioned by the British, she denied vehemently that she was a Com- Anawer to Previous Puizlo SI Measures .14 Asterisk .15 Hunted foed .17 Melodic .IS forbid 40 Tempo 41 Fake 42 Old Irish castle 4.1 Templeum 44 Flower 45 Stvle 4 Ireland 47 Watches 49 Mug I IP A LJT E NjTl ge DS ta p BTa" nTTlJ i c e.s i w if id jfr"nr "rv dam oInW g le e mF x o A W B m c VT K B A w C A N vlo N sWT TA & I a P l RjE Ol -, c o nT t IMTJBNQpl o x A D E 1 U L N A Q g E T I J EJ N E S S R E" g N!eg elPlET) ItIoIt I p 3 14 Pi I Is II 10 111 re n r 1 f! re rj srprp Hp?1 ;! p. 29 DEL H DF if r i rf j 1 br 41 ii ki i !r it a ST ar 51 52 53 i munist. When asked what then did she do for a living, she calm ly replied that she was the British Guiana correspondent of the Lon don Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper. Civil Defense men are careful lo point out that when they put fallout shelters in schools they provide emergency sanitary facili ties for ooth boys and girls. They add that these are separate and distinct facilities: one for girls, and one for boys. They note that a great many parents are deeply concerned about this problem. U.S. politicians always seem lo have a sharp eye out for new ways to keep political fences in repair. Evidently they can pick up a hint almost anywhere. Witness Sen. Albert Gore, D Tenn., just back from a four-week African tour with Democratic Sen ators Philip Hart of Michigan and Maurine Neubergcr of Oregon: - "We heard in one of the coun tries we visited that the smartest politician in the area had a habit of starting rumors at the well, where everybody gathered. "The rumors soon were all over the country, with results not unfa vorable to him." Gore paused a moment, smiled, and added: "I think maybe I'll try it some time." Hep. Robert Giaimo, D-Conn., tells of a rather unusual phone call his office in New Haven re cently received. A female voice inquired if the congressman was available for the weekend. Giaimo's secretary asked the usual question about the purpose of the request, and was mildly shocked to get the answer: "I need a baby sitter for the week end." The voice went on to say that a recent newsletter from Giaimo had said that he was always will ing to be of service to his constitu ents. After further explaining that her 2-ycar-old son had just eaten the tobacco from six cigarettes, the woman added. "And now's the time 1 need him the most, just to get away from the kids for a weekend." A very important figure in the Pentagon is rumored lo have solved the problem of handling the tricky letters he receives. When he gets a request for an answer on some touchy subject or an outlandish request for an im possible amount of information, he sends back the original letter with the postscript: Dear Joe: Got this letter the other day obviously written by some nut who uses your name. Thought you'd like to know. So far. the system is reported to have worked perfectly. In the wake of the recent re mark by a Red Chinese general that Red China would never abide by any treaty banning atomic tests, one government official got a laugh by cracking: "Well, at least here's one thing on which the Chinese Reds and Gen. Charles de Gaulle agree." By RAY CROMLEY Washington CurrrspnDdeat Newspauei Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAI Sev eral things nave come to light that explain hv the United States is lagging in span despite superi or over-all U.S. science and tech nology. These 11 S. mistakes and omis sions explain why Russia will probably get to the moon first, even though the $2 billion the U.S. -has spent on space is considerably more than the Russians have poured in, and though the $20 bil lion to $40 billion U.S. moon pro gram is considerably more am bitious than the Soviet plan. First: 'twit are strong indica tions the Russian.- are ahead on key basic instrumentation. There is reason to believe the Reds can measure high temperatures more acruraie.v. I'hev can meas ure great hiiits more precisely. They can measure extremely heavy weights niort closely. They can measure some electromagnet ic waves more finely. The ability to measure is cru cial. The measuring of high thrust is a prime prerequisite to building super-high-thrust space rocket engines quickly and effici ently. The ability to measure high temperatures is a prerequisite to developing superior metals for rockets and space ships. The ability to measure electro magnetic waves is crucial in de 'veloping better space communi cations. Second: The Russians have shown a greater willingness to standardize in all aspects of their space work. This standardization results in more reliability, less cost. It means that any particular space project can be accomplished more quickly. The United States has more or less tailor-made every job. The U.S. tends to build a separate vehicle for almost every space payload. We thus have too many varieties of stabilization systems for satellites, too many different types of power supplies for our satellites and space vehicles. We THE DOCTOR Return Patient By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. . Quite aside from its devastat ing effects on the patient, severe mental illness places grave re sponsibilities on members of the immediate family. It also raises continuing problems whose solu tions often raise additional prob lems, sometimes of increasing per plexity. Here's an illustration. Consider the plight of '.he family that has struggled with the problem of hos pitalization of a dear one. They have finally agreed it's best for all concerned for the patient to be "put away." No sooner has the unfortunate person entered ar institution than he begs lo be taken home. The food is no good. The bed is too hard or too soft. There's friction with other patients. Attendants are inattentive. The doctor is always in a hurry. And then, on Hit emotional side, there are pleas such as missing the parents or the children, the old homestead, familiar faces, one's own things and so on. Eventually the day comes when the person is released, either as a result of these heartrending pleas or because, thanks to treat ment, there has been sufficient improvement to try a cautious return to the world beyond insti tutional walls. What happens then is the sub ject of a highly informative pam phlet called "Mental Aftercare" obtainable at a cost ot 25 cents from the Public Affairs Commit tee, a nonprofit organization lo cated at 22 East 38 Street, New York 16. N Y. Here are some of the conclu sions reached in this study: "Families that may have agitat- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Why was the scarlet carna tion selected as Ohio's state flow rr? A The strain was developed at Alliance. Ohio, and it was the fav orite flower of President McKin Icy. a native Ohioan. Q How Ions have rgjj been associated with f aster? A Primitive religions portrayed the ccs as a symbol of resurrec tion, fertility and of spring. Earlv Christians ditmtied the egg as a symbol of the risen Christ. have too many different varietiei of telemetering systems. Tailor-making complicated elec tronic space gadgetry means cre ating new venations, each with a series ot Dugs thai must be ironed out before tne project can go ahead. The cut in reliability as a result ot this variety is tremen dous. The U.S has only 50 per cent success in getting its space vehicles into orbit. Third: The United States tries to squeeze the last ounce of per formance nut ol every space com ponent. This means increased complexity and a lurlhei lowering of reliability Tins constant refin ing is very expensive.. If the U S. had spent more time and ellorl 'P making larger rockets and ws' time on refining the size of components, we would have done aeltcr in other words, our space sci entists have spent too much of their time on minor reiinements instead of looking for radical new approaches. Fourth: The Russians are ap parently pouring more time and effort than the U.S. into some key areas of basic space research. They are, for example, putting a great deal of effort into celestial mechanics. The development of U.S. rockets and space vehicles has been held back by a lack of basic research. Builders have often had to go be yond present-day U.S. scientilic knowledge by guess and by rule of thumb. This has usually re sulted in minor improvements at great cost. With more basic research, the U.S. could leapfrog ahead at much less expense and in much less time, over the long run. As one space scientist puts it, "No matter how many billions you spend you can only in crease the speed of a race horse by a small amount in terms of miles per hour. Whereas if you invent an automobile you can mul tiply that speed up to a point. "And if you invent an airplane, or a rocket, you immediately jump into a whole new realm of speed. It's much cheaper to make these big jumps by new routes." SAYS Of Mental Difficult" ed for years to get a patient re leased from a mental hospital may prove utterly inept In coping with the patient when he does return home and have been known to call for his rehospitalization at the slightest alarm. "Studies of returned patients and their families show that, al though families try, they are oft en anxious. They watch the pa tient suspiciously, dreading the on set of symptoms of recurring ill ness. "It is significant that patients who live alone and without undue family pressures often improve more rapidly and go back to work faster than those who return to their families." In another column I'll tell you what's being done to improve mental aftercare For a copy of Di. Hyman's leaf let "Understanding Mental Illness" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Herald and News, Box 489. Dept. B. Radio City Station, New York 19, N.Y. Almanac By United Press International Today is Monday. Nov. 6, the 310th day of the year with 55 more to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Mercury and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today are under the sign of Scorpio. Polish pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski was born on this day in 1860. On this day in history: In I860. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United Slates. In 189, the first forma! inter collegiate football game was played at New Brunswick. N J., between the teams of Princeton and Rutgers. In 1899. the curtain went up for the first time in New York City on Sherlock Holmes, starring Wil liam Gillette. In 1953. the altornev general of the United Slates Herbert Brown cll Jr.. charsed that former Presi dent Harry Truman promoted the late Harry Dexter White to head of the Internationa! Monetary rund with full knowledge that he was a "Russian spy." A thought for today: Former President Abraham Lincoln said "There is no grievance that is an object of redress by mob law."
