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Page 10 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 19, 1963 Chipping away at the core Breaking into the hard core of the coun- unemployment is beyond doubt the toughest domestic dilemma outside the racial field. The two problems are. of course, not unrelated, since a good portion of the chronically unemployed in some distressed areas are unskilled or low-skilled Negro workers. How can the employables among the hard core be salvaged? Obviously, countless numbers might be "soaked up" if the general level of the economy rose greatly. To achieve this is the stated aim of President Kennedy's tax cut plan.

But if there is no tremendous economic up- thrust with or without a ta.x cut then more and more stress will have to be put on other methods of salvage. The various ai-ea redevelopment and general manpower retaining programs are the present chief reliance. Nationally, and as seen in such critical "distress" ai-eas as are found in parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, some quite respectable figures can be mustered to the point that many unemployed individuals have been or are being retrained and a fair share of these are finding jobs. How much hope one sees in this depends partly on whether he wishes to emphasize the psychological benefit of "some progress" or to stress the long, long road still to be traveled. The biggest drawback appeai-s to be that automation is moving along at so rapid a pace even by conservative estimates that old jobs are disappearing as fast or faster than new ones can be created.

In its general aspect the problem is not unlike that India confronts as it tries to raise its people's living standards at the same time it is being engulfed in a rising population tide. There is another difficulty. In many places, the retraining effort has had a certain looseness to it. Not always has it been clear that men retrained in particular fields would find jobs waiting in those fields. And this even though honest effort has been made to gauge the needs of business and industry.

seems requu-ed, but up to now has been managed only spottily, is a very close communication between business and the re- ti-aining program. The retrainers need to be told by business managers that they will hire specific numbers of men trained in a specific aiTay of skills. Then, with considerable saving in energy, and personal hopes, unemployed workers can be fitted for work they know beyond question will be waiting for them. Right now, through the co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce and state-local government officials, Philadelphia is engaged in just such a manpower project If it works as well as it should Pittsbm-gh and other Pennsylvania cities may be getting the same tiling. The results of such carefully pinpointed efforts to match jobs and men may not be massive, at least at the outset.

But the attainment could be very real and veiy solid. In an age when "solutions" to the unem- plojTnent problem seem so wispy and illuso- ly, solid gains even though small must be welcomed by us all. Polysaturated polysyllable Here's j-et another word that will be seen more and more within tlie few years: "Biodegradable." It means, litei-ally, capable of being degraded or absorbed by living things. More specifically, the word describes the new detergents being prepared for the market which will be more palatable to the micro-organisms that thrive in and dispose of civilization's W'aste products. Foam from detergents that pile up the suds is not the most serious of the nation's water pollution problems, but it's one of the most conspicious.

In some localities, water di-awn from the faucet sometimes has a head on it. Non-biodegi-adable detergents were recently banned in West Gennany and Dade County, and legislation is pending elsewhere. The new detergents, due as soon as industry can accomplish the multimillion dollar changeover, will foi-estall the need for such legislation. Housewives will be pleased to know that some of the new detergents have tested better than the old in washing power. The Newsreel Just the other day we heai-d of a fellow who visited the Berlin Wall even though he isn't a candidate for president.

Television will never improve until it gets over the rerun habit We saw this Vala- chi testimony the first time at the Kefauver hearings. An HoUwood wife says her husband disturbed her by playing croquet loudly late at night Many a husband will be quick to point out that at least he has never done that A Frenchwoman's will leaves to the first earthman who makes contact with a readent of any other planet, with the tion of only thing we can figure out is that she may have known somebody from Mars and didn't think we ought to have anything more to do with them. With a Grain Of Salt By Frank and Bill Meerc "What, pray asked the bearded young man, 'is a tallyho? "I thought that 'taUyho' is what you were supposed to yell when you saw a fox. "But I see by the Diamond Jubilee program that we arc going to have tallyho rides during the celebration week." We can assure you. young man.

that we are not going to have a fox hunt here during early November although a gentleman named Whitney, who lived at Lugonia and Nevada, is said to have ridden to the hounds in days of yore. What the Jubilee managers are talking about is a tallyho coach a long, four-wheeled carriage, drawn by four horses and having three or four scats. In tourist days they served the same purpose in Rcdlands as a sightseeing bus does in a national park in the modern day. When the excursion trains stopped in Rcdlands, the tourists would climb into waiting tallyhocs to be driven over Smiley Heights. The carriage usually had a top.

with fringe around the edge, but could also be open to the sky. During Surrey Days in 1948 a big yellow tallyho would cUp- pty clop up and down State street, people hopping on and off as the spirit moved them. They had a lot of fun and we bet you will have too, come the Jubilee week. Dorothy Brenan, who has been so active in the tours of old houses, and in getting material for the Facts articles on old houses, tells us that quite a few people seem to believe that the city once owned Smiley Heights. This is a strange misconception because the remarkable aspect about Canyon Crest Park was that it was opened to the public, as if it were a public park, by its private owners.

This was the purest type of altruism on the part of the Smiley family and if you miss that point well, you've just never got the word about our patron saints. It is true that when the Depression came along, hitting the Smiley family along with everyone else in the United States, the owners found it no longer possible to hold a continuous open house in Canyon Crest park. There was much talk of city acquisition of Smiley Heights which had long been a great tourist attraction, but in those days the municipality was suffering hard times. The proposition didn't have a ghost of a chance. Rcdlands, however, yearned to attract tourists and a group of citizens attempted to do something about it.

They thought that a hotel on the heights would be a drawing card and that the Burragc Slansion, overlooking west Crescent avenue, might be adaptable to that purpose. The Monte Vista sj-ndicate was formed with A. Gregory as the head. The idea was that those who subscribed did so to help the community economically not for investment pur- ix)ses. Those were tough times and it did not prove feasible to develop the Burragc property, now the home of the Society of Missionary Catechists.

About 20 years later Aruthur Gregory, Jr. subdivided the knoll just cast of the Burragc Mansion, giving the name "Monte Vista" to both the tract and to one of the streets in it. Let that street name stand for a noble dream a dream of putting the diamonds back in the tiara that Rcdlands wore in her days of glory. WE DEFENDANT (jUILTYOF HIS MIMD.OVERTH£Y£AR5,OMA COUPLE OF ISSUES 1 Kennedy reaching for the center By Doris Fleeson ITS AVERY SERIOUS CRIME. Redlands Yesterdays TELEVISION FIVE YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 90, lowest 58.

New press box at University of Redlands Stadium officially dedicated to the late Facts writer Cecil Arthur who covered UR sporting events for some 37 years. Bulldogs put victory stamp on the occasion by beating Pcpperdine with touchdown in final three minutes for 12-6 win. Police department report to Traffic commission shows that the commission's effort to decrease accident hazard at various intersections through tree and shrub removals has met with considerable success. Coach Ted Duccy opens RHS basketball season with first practice session. TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 70, lowest 43.

University of Redlands officials expect to welcome back more than 800 alumni for Homecoming events on campus this weekend. Marvin Dudley, graduate of Redlands high and University of Southern California, admitted to practice in California as a Certified Public Accountant. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 67, lowest 54. Planning Consultant Charles W. Eliot submits report which predicts a 1970 population of 30.000 in Rcdlands and also predicts that any Highway 99 freeway will go through central Redlands rather than via San Timoteo canyon.

Lorcn Vaughn named new principal of Lugonia school. He is currently with Arizona state department of education. New medical dental building being constructed on Vine street for Dr. C. T.

Halburg. One Minute Pulpit Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold a land that stretches far. Isaiah 33:17. If God hath made this world so fair Where sin and death abound. How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found.

Montgomery BE SATURDAY EVENING '64 Highlights in the Capitol World of Sports and Answers "Hey, Fidel, what xay we shave off these beards and joiit up with Cinder Gallant Police Out for Sports and Sports (c) Of Cochise 13-FIying Doctor and AVcn Award Dinner Leave it to Beaver Olympics SUvers Street Beat Hunt Barry 7-Have Gun Travel 11-Checkmate Gleason Gun Benedict Music Time 2-Phil Silvers Bishop Wclk (c) Lewis Smoot 10: Forum (c) 2-Ncws ll-Bill Bailey (c) 13-News SUNDAY DAYTIME Three hour 9.30— the Nation Program "63 is the Ufa Kids only Latino Hour of the Press for Today West in the Home Buyers' Guide Trials '63 Roberts Angeles Report Zone FootbaU Security in Action for You Others See Us 5Ian in Washington of Calvary of a Lifetime (c) IS-Cal's Corral Art on Art (c) Races Report (c) Workshop Ambassador (c) Patrol Scoreboard Invitational Golf Tournament Huddle Conference 11-College Football Headlines SUNDAY EVENING Spectacular Kingdom (c) the Sun Hour College Bowl (c) Man Century of Fame (c) Parade 9-Top Cat 13-Rod Rocket (c) Ed S-Lassie of Books Favorite Martian 4-Disney's World (C) McFheeters Comiptors Sullivan Hammer and Trial Il-Gallant 13-Ski Show Garland (C) Lucky Success is Written 11-Phil Silvers 13-Dan Smoot Reporter Camera Show of Strings For Sale or Alive 13-Bitter End My Line? End News Reports Squad 2, 4-News. Sports (O Museum of Americanism 2-Movie Moments in Music Teletips TOP SHOW: 9:00, Chan. 2. The Defenders. "The The Prestons, accepting an apparently simple eviction case, encounter an ambitious, corrupt judge.

7:30 Chan. 4. The Lieutenant. "To Take up Lt. Rice is assigned to an air base and discovers that he has a par- alj-zing fear of flying.

8:30 Chan. 2. Phil Silvers Show. Harry Grafton promotes a turtle race, taking huge bets on the outcome, when the boss catches on. 8:30 Chan.

7. Lawrence Walk and his Champagne 5Iu- sic-Makers. NOSTALGIC BUY S.UISBURY, N. Y. (UPI) Richard Jliller had fond memories of the old one-room Paper Slill District school near this central New York hamlet.

Miller, at 80 one of the oldest residents in the district, recently purchased the building, its pot-bellied stove and an acre of land for S1.200 at an auction. Sliller served for many years as a trustee of the school which closed five years ago. WASHLVGTON The off- year elections are a favorite form of Delphic oracle in national politics. Though they are waged on state and local issues, they are widely seized upon as omens of both ins and outs. This year Rcpubhcan outs are looking to widely scattered returns to prove that there is a white revolt against President Kennedy on the race issues outside the South as well as in it.

That issue is admittedly present in two contests often discussed: the Philadelphia mayoralty and the Kentucky governorship. Militant Philadelphia Negroes complain that Democratic -Mayor James H. J. Tate has not gone far enough to meet their demands for equal opportunitj-. In suburban areas some white voters complain that he has gone too far.

one quarter of the city's registered voters are Negroes. In Kentucky. Republicans are trying out the Goldwater states' rights approach. Their principal weapon is an anti-discrimination order signed by Gov. Bert T.

Combs, a Democrat who cannot succeed himself and is backing his former personnel administrator. The Rcpubhcan Louisville city administration issued a similar order and Negro voters there are to be suitably grateful. In Western Kentucky, where the Combs order is unpopular, all Democrats, including President Kennedy, are accused of "rule by executive decree." At this stage Kennedy strategy is to admit that a large gray area prevails in civil rights and to claim that the President need not fear occupying it. The President's advisers argue that emotional anti nedy sentiment among is confined to relatively few rank-and-file leaders. Similarly, they suggest that white emotion sufficient to lead to real reprisal in the Prfsidential clectioti limited.

The next step in this reasoning is to say that the President will be sharing the gray area of and compromise with a great many His aides point to polls showing that a large percentage of voters arc committed to a better deal for Negroes while doubting both the Goldwater states' rights approach and the militancy demanded by some Negroes, raises the question ol whether enough 1963 races are involved outside the South to furnish a reasonable clue to 1964 on the race issue. It does not really seem that there are, and it appears that a great array of upset Republican victories which is not expected would he necessary to provide the desired clue. Loss of the Philadelphia City Hall would be a blow to a President, whatever its cause. He will need the city to carry that big state of Pennsylvania, and its can help or hurt him. In 1960 he lost Kentucky, and he naturally would prefer to have its electoral machinery in the hands of Democrats.

In 1960 however. Combs won going away and it didn't help Kennedy. Here the President is reaching for the center, confident that a Goldwater Presidential nomination and off-year victories won under the Goldwater banner can be turned to Kennedy account. (Copyright. 1963, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ASSIGNMENT; West Denver press club oldest in the nation Editor's Note: Nell Morgan is on vacation.

This column has been excerpted from i current book, "Westward Tilt." Denver claims the oldest active press club in continuous existence in the nation; among its past presidents are Damon Runyon. Gene Fowler and Westbrook Pegler. On its walls are photographs of every president since McKin- Icy, and with the exception of Harry Truman, each has been presented personally to the club. There have been only three club stewards in more than SO years: Chinese who served for 47 years until his death in 1927; a Jew who served until his death in 1946, and Jimmy Fillia, a Greek, who has been at it since. A club legend is that the Chinese steward staked Damon Runyon to S250 for his professional assault on New York City.

In a city with such press traditions, it is not surprising that there is joumalistic.controversy. As the Denver Post sees it, its Rocky Jlountain Empire extends from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Missouri River to the Sierra Nevada. Under Palmer the Post has thrived. Its opposition in Denver is the Scripps-Howard tabloid, the Rocky Mountain News. But the News' barbs at the Post are mere slivers compared to the javelins heaved by Gene Ccrvi, the son of an immigrant coal miner, in his small- circulation Denver weekly, Cervi's Journal.

A sort of Western Harry Golden. is only a harassing gadfly to the elephantine Post, but he has helped to maintain an expectant unrest in the Denver press world that is in the tradition of the city. Hoyt and the Post have done big things for Denver; i has shrieked in anguish at some of them, and chidcd the Post and the News alike when he judges them guilty of opportunism which is usually. Hoyt is no ordinary newspaper publisher. He calls himself editor, and he works in his shirtsleeves behind an open door adjacent to his newsroom.

He is that splendid anachronism: A highly literate publisher, and a scrapper. I first came to Denver in me," he said, "the mother of a well-known Denver doctor met me and my wife at a cocktail party. She wanted to know where we had come from. We told her. She was quite rude and said, 'We don't want new- people in "I said, 'Well, when did you come to She said, years and I asked, 'Well, weren't you new She said, 'Well, but that she hadn't thought of that as being germane.

By Neil Ulorgan "These are the real old-timers here, but you don't find this attitude much among businessmen, because the djuamism of this new Denver has taken hold of them and they are part of it now. The friction between old and new is receding; the outsiders have been the magnetos, the catalysts, the gadflies." Hoyt regards the old Denver as similar in insularity to Portland. "I once told the Portland Chamber of Commerce that Portland was a great city and was going to grow; that the people who were in charge 20 years ago weren't interested in growth, and that somebody else was going to come in and take over. "It's been that way in Denver to a large extent: a lot of outside money and all kinds of people have come here with newr ideas and an eagerness and drive that have revived the city." In Denver, as in most inland cities, many of the newcomers are from the West Coast. JIany of them have hurdled the inland cities in their first move from the East, South, or Midwest, and later retreated to Denver.

"This region holds much of what America really means," Hoyt told me "Here in the Rocky Mountain Empire may exist America's happiest blending of old with new, of sturdy tradition with modem convenience, of outdoor vigor with atomic-age cosmopolitanism. "One of the things we've carried on long fights for at the Post is the proper development of reclamation: Power, water everything. When I was in the Office of War Information in Washington in 1943 I took on those congressmen who didn't believe in the West, who thought that development of these big dams was sheer waste. Hell, those dams have been one of the reasons we've been able to pay so much income tax." The relative aggressiveness of the Post has not endeared Hoyt to all of Denver. He told me, "Frankly, when I finished my first five-year contract in Denver in 1951 there was a good deal of wishful thinking that I would leave.

"When I first talked to Chamber of Commerce I Mayor Ben Stapleton, who believed in a certain kind of Denver, made a pretty good crack. When I came here, we started a campaign to change the street signs. They were incredibly bad: you couldn't read them. "As I got up to talk, he said that those street signs were good enough for Hoyt to get into town by, and they'll be good enough for him to leave by, too. "But we took on everything we could find that would help the city.

There was a cocoon of insulation, and nobody gave a damn. We've changed that.".