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REPRESENTING OREGON at the national convention of
the Future Homemakers of America in Chicago June 30
to July 6 will be the two Roseburg High School pupils
above. They are Gaye Thompson, left, and Dixie Wooton.
The 'national organization which stresses homemaking
studies in the high school, holds a convention every third
year. Every state is allowed a certain number of representa
tives. Oregon was allowed 26 from the approximately 4,000
in the state. Local organizations and the Roseburg FHA
chapter are working to raise funds to help finance the trip
for the. two girls. The FHA is holding a rummage sale for
the purpose at the Roseburg Women's Clubhouse today.
(Wilson Studio)
Democratic Party Dinner,
Eisenhower's Talk Spotlight
Nations Political Picture
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Most of the top Democrats were
in Washington today for a party
rally and a $100-a-plate dinner, but
Sen. Estes Kefauver kept pushing
along the campaign trail into Ore
gon. President Eisenhower was billed
to deliver a major speech on for
eign policy tonight at a dinner of
the American Society o Newspa
per Editors. His 1952 Democratic
opponent, Adlai Stevenson, was
featured speaker af an ASNE
luncheon during the day.
Stevenson, who wants to head
the Democratic ticket again this
year, had a chance, too, to get
in a little campaigning in the Dis-
Kefauver Arrives
From California
For Portland Talk
PORTLAND I Sen. Estes
Kefauver. predicting victory for
himself in California, arrived here
parlv Saturday for an intensive
19 hour of -campaigning in Port
land. Fresh from a campaign trip In
California, where the presidential
nrimarv will ba held June 5, the
Tennessee senator said he be
lieved Adlai Stevenson still held
a slight edge over him for the
Democrat nomination in that
state.
"But we are coming up there
every day. Things are looking
much better now, and mjr peopie
are doing a lot of work. I feel
sura we will win that election
he said on arrival at the airport,
where 40 of his Oregon supporters
met him.
It was 4:30 a. m. when the plane
from Los Angeles landed here,
and Kefauver said he hopes to be
through soon with night flying. He
said campaign schedules calling
for night flights were too stren
uous. He managed a few hours of rest
before plunging into a day that
called for 11 meetings with Demo
cratic, business, farm, labor and
other groups, climaxed by a ban
quet speech at night before ' the
Oregon convention of Young Dem
ocrats. In Oregon he is campaigning
for write-in votes, seeking the
state's IS delegates to the Demo
cratic national convention. Sup
porters of Stevenson also are wa
ging a write-in campaign. Dele
gates will be bound by the out
come. Stevenson is expected to
visit Oregon later. The state's pri
mary will be held May 18.
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Except for the farm Situation
which produced the political mon
strosity known as the farm bill
I suppose there is no graver issue
in the Eastern and Southern parts
of our country today than racial
segregation.
It doesn't mean much to us out
in the West, but east of the Mis
sissippi River and south of the
.Mason and Dixon line it has ex
plosive possibilities because it is
an EMOTIONAL issue.
Economic issues can smoulder
along, giving off smoke and a cer
tain amount of heat but not reach
ing the crisis stage. But emotional
issues are apt to explode.
This bit of preaching is inspired
by an incident on this train a few
hours ago. A colored man and his
wife were sitting back in the club
car. They were well dressed taste-
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The Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and Sun
day. Few widely scattered show
ers er thunder showers this even
ing. Cooler Sunday.
Highest temp, last 2 hours 90
Lowest temp, last 24 hours 48
Highest temp, any April .. .. 96
Lowest temp, any April 25
Precip last 24 hours
Precip. from April I .441
Precip. from Sept. 1 45.59
Excess from Sept. 1 19.12
Sunset tonight, 7:02 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 5:21 a.m.
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trict of Columbia where a pro-Stevenson
delegate slate is opposing a
pro-Kefauver roster in a May 1 pri
mary. The District ww nave six
votes at the Democratic conven
tion. The monev - shv Democrats hope
to raise $250,000 from their dinner
tonight at the capital s National
Guard Armorv. The dinner is be
ing held in memory of the late
President Woodrow Wilson.
Stevenson is attending. So is
Gov. Averell Harriman of New
York, still "not an active candi
date" for the presidential nomina
tion. But neither will speak. That
job falls to House Speaker Sam
Rayburn of Texas and Sen. Alben
Barkley of Kentucky, who was vice
president under former President
Truman.
Truman, by the way. will be ab
sent. His daughter, Margaret, is
being married today at the family
church in indepenaence, jno.
Kefauver planned a speech to
night in Portland, Ore., on t h
farm nroblem which figures as one
of the leading issues in the 1956
political battles. Neither Kefauver
nor Stevenson has been entered in
the Oregon primary May 18. How
ever, supporters of both are bet
ting on write - in vote campaigns
(Oregon will have IS convention
votes.)
Speaking before college audi
ences in California Friday, Kefau
ver said the Eisenhower adminis
tration has "no faith in peace and
no hope of achieving :t in its
time." The Tennessee senator said
that if he becomes President he
intends to "reinstitute not just
bipartisan foreign policy but a non
partisan foreign policy.
At the Democratic party meet
ing in Washington, members
the national committee living
Oregon, Florida and California ex
pressed the opinion that Stevenson
ana Jietauver are running a b o u
even in primaries in those states
Change Reported
In State Police
Personnel changes in th state
police office in Roseburg have
been announced by Sgt. Robert J
Keete.
infective May 1. two new na-
trolmen will join the force. Both
are transferred from other state
police departments, Sgt. Keefe
said. They are William J. Bennett
Medford, and John H. Pardon, Mc
JMinnvuie.
Sgt. Keefe also announced the
resignation of officer Charles
Hollis. Hollis, 30, is tendering his
resignation lor juay 1.
He will join the sales force of
United r ruit & Produce, Portland
Hollis is married and has two
children. He will move his family
to Eugene. The officer has been
with the state police for one year,
SIX CHILDREN BURNED
WASHINGTON tfl Six chi
dren died in an oil-fed fire that
swept through a two-story row
house in southwest Washington
r riaay.
rour of the victims were chi
dren of Mrs. Dorothy Parker, 26,
ieKro.
Mrs. Parker's sister, Mrs. Mary
P. Saunders, 24, lost two of her
four children.
Margaret Truman's Rites
Today Biggest Social Event
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.
Harry S. Truman's daughter Mar
garet, as happy a young woman as
ever lost her heart to a man, gets
married today.
The blonde-haired girl who grew
to young womanhood in the White
House and Clifton Daniel Jr., the
handsome foreign correspondent
who wooed and won her in a whirl
wind romance, exchange vows in
little Trinity Episcopal Church.
After a brief reception in the big.
white-framed Truman home at 219
. Delaware St., they will fly off to
Nassau for a honeymoon of t w o
, weeks
And her father, the former Pres
ident, can relax from the ordeal
that every father of a bride can
understand.
"I am happy because Margaret
u happy," he laid, "the more I
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Accusations Juried Dn Vice 1
Langley Says
Charges False,
Hits At City
PORTLAND UFi More accu
sations flew Saturday i n a
controversy touched off by a
newspaper's charge that it had
uncovered a conspiracy to try to
control politics and vice in Port
land. District Atty. William Lanelev
accused the present city adminis
tration of lax law enforcement and
asserted that someone apparently
had put an illegal wire tap on his
telephone.
He said statements being attrib
uted to him "apparently have
been lifted out of text, edited.'
He called upon the public to
withhold judgment until comple
tion of a grand jury investigation
he has called.
The investigation, which Lang-
ley iriea to get under way J- riday,
was set over at least until Monday
after Langley had subpenaed
three stall writers for The Ore-
gonian, the newspaper that is
making the vice charges in
copyrighted series of articles.
The newspaper s attorney asked
circuit judge to quash the sub-
penas. asserting that the district
attorney could not "impartially
conduct" the investigation.
Judge Frank Lonergan took
action that will not allow the sub-
penas to become effective until
Monday afternoon.
Seattle gamblers were involved
ia the attempt to move into Port-
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Robert F. Bainbridge
Killed When Logging
Truck Crashes Bank
Robert F. Bainbridge, 26, of
Elkton, became Douglas Coun
ty's eighth traffic fatality Friday
afternoon whan a blowout appar
ently threw th loaded logging
truck he was driving out of con
trol. The accident occurred at about
2:10 p.m. Bainbridge was driv
ing the truck down a logging
road to Highway 38 about two
miles west of Elkton. At he near
ed the intersection, the tire ap
parently blew out and the
truck careened into the bank on
the opposite side of the highway
from the point where the road in
tercepts the highway. Death
came as a result of the injuries
received in the impact, accord
ing to Coroner L. L. Powers.
Bainbridge is survived by his
wife and three children, all of
Elkton.
Stale police who investigated
said it was apparently the left
front tire that blew out. The truck
plowed into a 3Mi foot bank hurl
ing the three 18-foot short loss
over ine caD, smashing it, accord
ing to police.
Bainbridge was still alive when
a man, Clinton Lewey, who lived
nearny came running to the scene,
Bainbridge died about five min
utcs after Lewey arrived. Deputy
Coroner Lucien Imboden of Drain
said death resulted from loss of
blood, internal injuries and shock
Imboden pronounced him dead
wnen ne arrived at the scene.
Temperature Hits 90
Friday; Rain Forecast
Yesterdays temperature reach
ed a new high for the year, top
ping that of Thursday by I de
grees. But It was still below th
all time high of H for the month
of April.
The U. S. Weather Bureau re
ported 90 degrees yesterday, but
forecast a few widely scattered
showers or thunder sheweri for
tonight.
see of Margaret's young man the
Dtuer i line mm.
Daniel, 43, assistant to the for
eign editor of the New York
Times, and the 32-year-old radio-
i v actress-singer pursued t n e 1
arm-in-arm course about Independ
enoe while Truman's neighbors
looked on approvingly but with
minimum of hubbub.
Wedding day dawned with ore
maritial events moving like clock
work on the quiet and simple pat
tern upon which mother, father and
daughter agreed. -
It was at Trinity Episcopal
Church that Truman, a life - long
Baptist, was married to Bess Wal
lace 37 years ago.
Margaret, when she goes down
the aisle with her father, will car
ry a prayer book given her by
grandmother Wallace when she was
confirmed In 1940.
ROSEBURG,
Second Annual
Explorer Scouts
Rendezvous Here
Contests and activities were con
tinuing today in the second annual
Oregon Trail Council Explorer Ren
dezvous being held this year at
Riverside School in Roseburg. .
All competitive skills activities
were taking place on the River
side School playgrounds and in the
building, according to Robert
Curtis, chairman of the Rendez
vous committee. The council-wide
Rendezvous is being hosted by
the Douglas Fir District which
takes in much of Douglas Coun
ty. Explorers began arriving for the
Rendezvous Friday night at 7. Reg
istration took place between 7 and
8 p.m. m
Activities started early this
morning with reveille at 6:30. Com
petition started at 8:30 on River
side field.
The competitive events include
archery, plug casting, rope work
two-man crosscut sawing, moskeet,
log rouing, oDstacie running.
Explorer units entered teams of
four boys who stay together through
the entire competition. The high
est team and individual score to
tal for all events determines ' the
top awards for th Rendezvous.
The two new events this year
are log-rolling and obstacle run
ning. The log-rolling event was
taking place in a nearby millpond.
tacn team selects one man to par
ticipate. He dons a life jacket and
tennis shoes and takes part in a
spiasny elimination.
The obstacle course is scored on
total time the four-man teams take
following a aeries of obstacles.
Both eating and sleeping ware
being done in the school. Sleeping
quarters i riaay nignt were the
school gym.
Harbor Plywood
Offers Low Bid
For Timber Tract
Harbor Plywood Corp. of Riddle
was successful bidder for a tract
of 2,400,000 board feet of Umpqua
roresi umoer in a sale at Rose
burg Friday.
The company bid $69,190 for the
tract appraised at $55,870. The
tract included 1,800,000 feet of
Douglas fir appraised at $27.10,
200,000 board feet of pine apprais
ed at $27.75 and 400,000 feet of
white fir and other snecies annrais-
ed at $3.85.
Harbor paid $34.50 for the Dnuir
las fir and the appraised prices
for the other species.
ine two other bidders on the 99
acre tract 30 miles east of Tiller
were Umpqua Plywood Corp. of
Myrtle Creek and Roseburg Lum
ber Co. of DiUard.
The next Umnaua Forest Sale ia
scheduled May 11.
HELICOPTER INSPECTION
PORTLAND W Col. Jackson
Graham, the Portland district
Army Engineer, Friday went on
a helicopter inspection trip to ob
serve emergency dike repair proj
ects along the Columbia River.
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EPSILON SIGMA ALPHA sorority rr"-hi" from all chapters in the stote are in Roseburg
today to attend the 10th annual ESA stati convention. Mrs, I. J. Bean, left, and Mrs.
Gerry Moore, right, greeted Mrs. Jesse McAdoo, center, international president of the
sorority, Friday. Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Beon or co-chairmen of the meetings. Over 200
women registered for the sessions which wjll conclude with o breakfast Sunday morning.
Following a luncheon this noon, business sessions ond a formal banquet and dance will be
held, (Paul Jenkins) j, j
OREGON SATURDAY, APRIL
Stevenson Asks
U.S. To Call Off
Atomic Tests
WASHINGTON Wl Adlai TS.
Stevenson Saturday proposed that
the United States take the initia
tive m disarmament by calling off
the Pacific H-bomb test sched
uled next month.
He asserted that the Eisenhow
er Administration has "lost the
moral initiative" in foreign policy
and the "marginal superiority
over Russia" in armaments.
The 1952 Democratic presidential
nominee, campaigning again to
become his party's standard bear
er, told the American Society of
Newspaper Editors that under
President Eisenhower, U. S. policy
is "rigid, unimaginative and fails
to take advantage of new oppor
tunities." He said it is "fantastic" that
"we have so mismanaged our
selves of late that we must now
try to prove we love peace as
much as the Russians and are
concerned with the problems of
economic development and na
tional independence as they are."
To counter what he said is a
growing feeling in the world that
the United States is not interested
in peace, Stevenson urged that
serious consideration be .given
to stopping further tests of the
hydrogen bomb.
in making tne proposal, wnicn
was similar to a suggestion by
Atomic Energy Commissioner
Thomas E. Murray, Stevenson
said he was not going to be "in
ti undated" in his views by the
fact that the Russians have pro
tested against the scheduled tests.
Planning Croup
Seeks Another
Technician Here
The Douglas County Planning
Commission is seeking another
planning technician to replace
James Coleman,' who has signified
he will not return to the office
here, according to Chairman O. J.
Fett Jr.
Coleman, who has been on leave
to the University of Oregon, has in
dicated he will go into landscape
architecture rather than return
here as a planning technician.
J. Haslett Bell, consultant to the
commission, is attempting to find
a replacement for Coleman. Two
other technicians, Frank Johnson
and Keith Chalterton, are now
employed in the office.
The next meeting of the planning
commission will be Thursday at 8
p.m. at the planning office in the
courthouse, Fett said.
THIEF SCARED AWAY
The attempted theft of hubcaps
from a car parked on Oak Avenue
early today was averted Dy a ho
tel employe who scared a "young
man" from the car.
Roseburg police said Leo H.
Dell, Glide, an employe of the
Hotel Umpqua, scared the would
be thief away from the car, which
officers said is owned by Orville
C. MUtenbcrgcr, Springfield.
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SIDNEY MOON
, . , resigns from boord
Sid Moon Resigns
District 4 Budget
Committee Position
When the committee meets Wed
nesday to start revision of the
nuscuuig auuuui uimiki uuufici,
the first act will be the election of
a new chairman. I
Sidney Moon Jr., chairman of
the committee, last night submit
ted his resignation.
His withdrawal, he said, was not
influenced by the result of the elec
tion in which the resubmitted budg
et was beaten Thursday. Unforseen
circumstances beyond his control.
he reported, made it impossible for
him to devote further time to the
work of the committee.
In addition to service on the
school budget board for the past
few years, Moon is a member of
the Roseburg vity council.
Army Sergeant's
Trailer House
Burns On Road
An army 'sergeant, traveling to
Fort Lewis, Wash., with his fam
ily, Friday brought his car to a
halt on Highway 99 north of Oak
land' to examine the smoking left
rear tire of his 35-foot trailer
house.
Even as M. Sgt. June Howard
Swaby requested help from Billy
Mohr Towing to change the tire,
it burst into flame. State police re
ported the fire spread rapidly, de
stroying the trailer house and con
tents. Mohr told officers the sergeant
had explained his need for help in
changing the tire, then as he was
hanging up, said "Now my trailer
house is on fire." The blaze slowed
flow of traffic. The trailer was
parked on the highway, officers
said. i
Sgt. Swaby told officers he had
insurance on the mobile home "if
it was parked." No one seemed to
know if the insurance covered
parking on a highway. The blaze
occurred about five miles north of
Oakland at mile post 178.
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PRICE 5c
Probe
Soviet Leaders
Breakinq Down
British Coolness
LONDON tfl Soviet Commu
nist party boss Nikita Khrushehev
and Soviet Premier Bulganin ap
peared Saturday to be . breaking
through Britain's cold recention to
their visit with a forceful "lct's-be-friends"
offensive.
Khrushchev, who has been mak
ing all the more important Soviet
pronouncements so far on the tour.
has obviously impressed Britons
with arguments that an arms race
in a superscientific age must lead
to disaster. He took this theme
in a speech that had the tone of
a sermon last night in Greenwich
at a Royal Naval College dinner
honoring the visitors.
The two Soviet leaders and their
party left this morning for another
day full of rush and bustle, i'iieir
schedule was so tight it seemed to
preclude any of the baby-kissing
tactics employed by former Soviet
Premier Malenkov a few weeks
ago in captivating British crowds,
British government officials seem
ed intent on preventing a repeti
tion ot mat.
They headed first for the atomic
energy research establishment at
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Southern Pacific
Passenger Train
Hearing Tuesday
State Sen. Paul E. Geddes,
of the complainants "in 'a
one
suit
against the Southern Pacific Co,
has again asked groups interested
in me status ot ran passenger serv
ice to southern Oregon to apnea
at a public hearing in Roseburg
Tuesday morning.
The Public Utilities Commission
hearing is to gather opinion and
fact from Southern Oregon resi
dents regarding the suit.
Gcddcs and State Sens. Gen
Brown of Grants Pass and Philip
Lowry of Medford filed suit when
the SP suspended the rail service
last summer.
Site of the hearing will be the
hearing room of the Douglas Coun
ly court in the courthouse. T w
days later, a second hearing will
be held in Medford.
decides said there apparently
will be little evidence given at the
hearing unless more persons or
groups show up than are Indicated
at present.
only ine city ot Koseourg. tne
Roseburg Chamber of Commerce
and a veterans' organization have
signified they will have represent
atives, Geddes said "so far as I
know."
The hearing will be only to re
ceive testimony from the public.
Witnesses may testify as to the de
sirability or undcsirability of the
company s re-establishing passen
ger service.
There will be a delegation of
Southern Pacific officers here,
but none will testify.
Members of the delegation will
be: R. M, Gilmore, San Francisco,
assistant vice president in the
system's passenger - public rela
tions department; Bernal S. Quayle,
Portland, passenger traffic public
relations manager; L. R. Smith,
Portland division superintendent;
Leith Abbott, Portland, public re
lations; and Frank McColloch,
Portland, and O. Young, San Fran
cisco, railroad attorneys.
Weed Killer Suspected
In Death Of Toddler
EUGENE Wl Authorities are
awaiting a pathologist's report to
determine the cause of a toddler's
death, but weed killer is suspect
ed, Coroner Fred Bucll said Fri
day.. Jinny Thrapp, 23-month-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dexel
Thrapp, Eugene, died about two
hours after arrival at a hospital!
here Wednesday night. Buell said
her father told of the girl becom-
w?cd." in arose" garden. "
The father said he found the
child near a can of weed killer he
was using. Buell said the chemical
was a type which contains ar
senic. Strike At Macy's Store
ded With Agreement
F.W YORK Wl - Macy's depart
Iment
ment stores and representatives of
i 8.000 striking employes reached a
95-56
contract agreement early today,
after a 29-hour mediation session. I
A union spokesman said a mem-1
bership meeting was not expected
until tomorrow and that picketing
would continue today.
The settlement of the 11-day-old
walkout was announced by Thom
as L. Norton, dean of the New
York University School of Com
merce, chairman of the mayor's
cituens committee.
Arrested Trio
Confess Part,
Says Sheriff
Lorontzen, Taylor,
Choate Held In Bail
After Quick Arrests
Only 13W hours after a Friday
morning stickup at the Airport
inn, iin jvs Stephens St., in Rose
burg. Sheriff Ira ('. RvrH nri tu
deputies had cracked the case.
ny o:vju r riaay night, three sus
pects had been arrested. Byrd re
ported today that all three had ad-
mmea meir parts in the holdup.
Raymond Lee Lorentzen ?n I a.
roy Kirk Taylor, 16, both of whom
vc at uia rai-UiC iaoins on iNortn
east Stephens Street, and Charles
Choate, 27, of 1563 SE Short St.,
were in the Douglas County jail
all charged with robbery while
armed with a dangerous weapon.
Bail of $5,000 was set on each
of them by Sutherlin Justice of
Peace Ward Watson. District court
in Roseburg is not open on Satur
days.
Sheriff Byrd and deputies Larry
Wright and Carl Smith went to
work on the case immediately aft
er George Dahl, owner of the Air
port inn, reported he had been rob
bed at 12:50 Friday morning. They
worked without letup until the
three men were arrested and had
admitted their parts in the crime.
Dahl told officers two men had
come into the tavern - restaurant
just before 1 a.m. Friday. The
first, apparently Lorentzen went
in alone ancf ordered a beer. Short
ly after, the second, Taylor, came
in and asked where the restroont
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GILES FRENCH, Mora Publish
er ond ex-state representative,
will speak Monday noon at the
Hotel Umpqua on re-apportionment
of the state legis
lative districts. He is the spon
sor of the so-called "federal
plan." The talk will be before
the Roseburg Chambar of
Commerce.
Douglas McKay
Coming Thursday
Douglas McKay, the ex-Oregon
governor and former secretary of
interior, will include Roseburg in .
his first stump of the state next
week in an effort to win the Re
publican nomination for Sen.
Wayne L. Morse's congressional
Job.
McKay will be in the city Thurs
day noon. The place of his ap
pearance nasn t Deen set.
He said he will attack Morse s
Senate record in his sweep through
the state.
McKay will start his stumping
campaign in the Willamette Val
ley, moving into southern Oregon
Thursday. Besides Roseburg, he
win be at North Bend, Grants
Pass, Medford, Ashland and Klam
ath Falls during the week.
This Sunday, he will be a guest
of the McKcnzie Chamber of Com
merce at the annual White Water
Boat Parade on the McKcnzie
River in Lane County.
Former Recorder
Returns To Job
A former city recorder at Riddle
is back in the job today.
It was announced that the City
Council had appointed E. E. Hart to
take over the job he had held once
before. He was also a former city
treasurer.
Hart will also serve as muni
cipal judge. Mrs. E. R. Alexander
has been named to take the job
as clerk in the city offices.
Hart succeeds Robert L. Newton,
resigned this week te take .
posuiun lu uiu uuica ul iu-iuy
Redy-Mix, according to correspond
ent Erma Best.
Another new appointment an
nounced by Mayor Gid Aspey was
that of Otto Griffith as city treas
urer. Griffith resigned from the
City Council to take the job. This
leaves a vacancy on the council.
Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reizenstein
Y '1
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One fancies that th touch-and-go
activity of John Faster
Dulles may have been the In
spiration for the push button
driving gadgets, on the new
automobiles. '