16-(Sec II) Statesman, Salem, Ore-, Thurs., Jane 21. '56
Harry Truman
Given Degre
At Oxford U.
By EDDY GTLMORS
OXFORD. England If) Harry
,8. Truman, who was toe poor to
go to college, Wednesday received
an honorary degree Irom oxford.
one of the world's most distin
guished universities.
Tear tilled the eyes of the for-
Bier U. S. President when Lord
Halifax, chancellor of the Univer-
eitv. conferred the degree of doc
tor of civil tawt with this eulogy:
Truest of allies, direct in your
speed) and ia your writings, and
ever a pattern of simple cour
Truman smiled, choked op, and
then ouici.hr whipped out a hand
kerchief and blew hi nose.
"Never, never in my We he
whispered to a reporter, "did I
ever think I'd be a Yank at Ox
lord." ..--..
Baiiaess Reverses
He had explained to correspond
ents that bis father's business re
verses had prevented hint from
going to the university after a boy
hood ea a Missouri farm.
Asked by a reporter how many
honorary degrees be una received
Truman replied:
"My God, I must have a couple
of dozen. But this Is really a, big
one."
Broad mHe
The auditorium of Oxford's an
cient Sheldonian Theater rang
with applause as the degree was
conferred. It swelled la volume as
Trumai faced M crimson robed
professors ia the packed auditor'
him and flashed a broad smile.
"I've attended a lot of . these
convocations," said an old profes
sor after the bouse became quiet.
"1 doa't remember when there
was aver so much applause. Mr.
Truman It very popular In this
country." t
Mrs, Truman, sitting : several
rows behind her husband also
wiped the tears out of her eyes.
But the ceremony wasn't all ser-
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' Iteand, at Langhter -
The public orator, Thomas R.
Higham, speaking in Latin, roused
a round of loud laughter when he
referred to Truman's sensational
election to the presidency in 1948
when publie opinion polls pre
dicted hit defeat. - - -
Referring to Thomas E. Dewey,
Truman's Republican opponent,
the orator said Virgil may help In
de r-ib!ng his pli"ht. , .
"The (eers saw not your defeat.
poor rtV.
"Vain prayers, vain promises
vain Gallup pott."
Truman, who had been shown
It English translation, shook with
laughter.
Mechanical Nose, Death
Ray Eyed by Inventors
By AITHL'R EDSON i prose, the odor measuring de-
AP Newsfeature Writer I vice.
WASHINGTON ( What this ! "Odors abosrd military sir-
country needs is someone who craft, the report says, 'present
will invent a good mechanical ; very real problems.
nose, or a substitute for wolver
ine fur, or a handy little death
ray machine that would work
xzzzzxt! at 500 yards.
In the old days the saying
went: build a better mousetrap,
and the world will beat a path to
your door evea though you live
in a house in the woods.
That may have worked once,
Some smells are so bad they
may effect the operators of the
plane. Yet in attempting to de
odorize, one could destroy odors
on which the lives of everyone
depend. Leaking gasoline, for in
stance, or burning electrical in
sulation. Anywsy, military officials think
it's time we had a mechanical
hut today's world is so complex i sniffer to report what's smelling
the noor inventor mav not evea and how much.
know what needs inventing. ! It's odd that with all those gsd
So the National Inventors
Council, in the Department of
Commerce, has prepared a handy
little list of thiogs badly needed,
especially in national defense.
ProbJeni No. SS5
Take Problem No. 593, the me
chanical nose. Or if you prefer
the more sombre government
HOT ROD REALLY "GONER'
SUDBURY. Ont. f - Police
stooped a hot rod and told the
16-year-old driver to tike it to (he
station. There they found,
lacked: Tail lights, muffler, gas
tank cap, windshield wiper, engine
hood, door handles, a workable
horn and an engine that would
start when expected. Banishing the
heap,' they summed up:"lt't real
gone."
Tito Help in
gets that now infest a military
plane the human nose is still the
world's finest sniffer.
Wolverine Far
Problem No. 533 deals with
wolverine fur. "Fun, other than
center skunk strips or synthetics,
are generally unacceptable as s
ruffing material for cold weather
garments becsuse of poor frost
removal properties -
Wolverine fur seeminsly does
fine, but s'nre the wolverne suo
nly is limited, s substitute is
mrdrd.
Old No. 450 sounds ss it it
came straight from Buck Rogers.
The Idea is "to develop equip
ment of usesble site eapable of
producing destructive or death
rsys effective at 500 yards with
out excessive power input."
The trouble is that "tremend-
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD. CaHf.-Dorothf Aia WHter. and ber broiaer, George Leon, It, were amang vie-
I Urns ( giant airliner's plunge Into eceae aft tuil of New Jersey early Wednesday. They were only chil
dren ef Mr. aad Mrs. George Witter, iverts nonywsoa, ana were ea rouie 10 larariK, irnrmrn,
acle. (AP Wlrepboto)
Author Admits
Being Drunk
On British TV
LONDON UR - Irish playwright
Brendan Behan cheerfully admit
ted Wednesday that, aa millions
of viewers suspected, be really
had a load an the other night on
the TV.
I had a bottle of whisky-good
Irish whisky inside me before I
went to the studios," said the
rumpled, 225-pound former menv
ber of Ireland's terrorist Repub
lican army.
"They kept me locked in the
place from i o'clock until I went
on the air at It o'clock, and 1 had
a few drops of Scotch to while
away the time.
"So when we got in front of the
cameras I made an exhibition of
myself."
Makes CeafessWa
Behan (pronounced Bean, as in
lima bean i made his unabashed
confession to reporters who found
him treating a hangover with
pints of beer in his London flat.
His television appearance for
the British Broadcasting Corp.
Monday night was an interview
by Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of
the humor magazine Punch.
The interview was supposed to
consist of questions and answers
about a play. The Juare Fellow,
which has scored a hit in London
and projected 33-year-old Behan
into fame.
Protests Ladged
Muggeridge asked the questions,
but Behan's answers were indis
tinct to the point of incoherence.
At one point he nearly slid from
his chair to the floor. Hundreds of
listeners who called the BBC to
protest were told by a spokesman:
"Mr. Behan was nervous."
"Nervous?" snickered Behan.
"Not a bit of it. You can put me
down as a ham actor if you like,
but I wasn't nervous. I was drunk.
Please let it be known that I
am sorry sorry for the people
in the show, sorry for the BBC,
sorry for the viewers."
And Behan, who served eight
years in British prisons for his Re
publican army activities, con
cluded the interview with:
'We Irish have always said
about the English that, they have
short memories. I hope that's still
true for me."
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Eugene Couple
lLeave for Korea
To Adopt Youth
EUGENE m A Eugene couple
left here Wednesday for San Fran
cisco to greet a 19-year-old Korean
youth they aay they intend to
adopt.
The couple, Mr. and Mrs. George
P. Blinkhorn, said the youth. Pak
Sang Wong, became acquainted
with their son,-Jim, while he was
serving with the Air Force in
Korea. The Korean youth, who is
called Joe by his American
friends, was a houseboy for U.S.
forces in Korea.
Mrs. Blinkhorn said Joe's par
ents were killed in the Korean
War. He is coming to America on
a permanent visa, and hopes to
enter the University of Oregon as
a pre-medical student. Jim, who
expects to be out of the service
in two months, will attend the
university with Joe
The Blinkhorns have two other
children, one married. Blinkhorn
is a realtor here. -
Joe is scheduled to arrive Friday
at San Francisco aboard the
Pacific Bear.
ous amounts of power would be said, "I don't know why they
required using present tech- had to invent the hydrogen
niques. So a completely new Domo. ine aiom Dimo was g""u
approach is indicated.
May Be Fretful
This lack of a death riy ma
chine may fret the military, but
most civilians probably can abide
their time. Like the lady who
enough for me."
Well, the list shows the scope
of operations in this braVe new
world.
There are demands for equip
ment that will stand up under
arctic temperature?, anil ma
terials that won't collapse in blaz-,
ins heat.
But nowhere on the long list
is there any demand for someone
to build himself a better mouse
trap. Temporarily at least, that
iroblem seems to have been
icked.
Rehearsals to Start for
Shakespeare Festival
ASHLAND .1" - Rehearsals for
the annual Shakespearean Festival
start Thursday after an all-night
casting session. Auditions began
Monday.
The festival opens Aug. t snd
runs through Sept. 1.
Cement Strike
Negotiation Halts
SPOKANE - No further ne
gotiations have been scheduled in
the in-day strike of the Lehigh
Purl land t'rment fn. at Mctaline
Falls. Wash , Federal Mediator
Louis Ziman said Wednesday.
Members, of the United Cement,
Lime and Gypsum Workers Union
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pan; oner oi an in crm nouriy
wage boost.
Northwestern
Reclamation
Projects Gain
WASHINGTON - Senate and
! House conferees Wednesday
reached agreement on a number
of Items in the giant public works
reclamation appropriations bill, in
an attempt to reconcile differ
ences between what the two
houses have authorized.
The agreements were reported
by Sen. Warren Magnuson 'D
Wash i and Rep. Don Magnuson
D Wash i, who said these Pa
cific Northwest projects won ap
proval: RECLAMATION
Columbia Basin project, $13,
8.V).000; Roza power plant, Yaki
ma project, tl.720.000, Kennewick
division, Yakima project, $1,288,
Oofl; Chief Joseph Dam project,
reclamation division. $1,500,000.
Also, the amendment sponsored
by Sen. Magnuson for construc
tion of a large siphon to serve
the Wahluke Slope section of the
Columbia Basin project.
Harbor projects included Colum
bia River, improving channel at
river's mouth, $1,370,000, for start
of $S,M1,000 project.
Power Projects
The Dalles Dam. $42,457,000;
Chief. Joseph Dam. $fl. 500.000. Ire
Harbor I.ock and Dam. $8 000 000;
Kagle (iorge project 'King Coun
tyi, $uofl.ooo. McNary Lock and
Dam $2.828 000: John Day Lock
and Dam, planning funds. $1,200,
000 The sum of $17,000 was agreed
upon for planning funds for
$ i3.000 project for new levees on
the Lower Columbia River in the
Washmigal area.
MOSCOW Ut - Defense Minis
ter Georgia Zhukov assured Yu
goslav President Tito Wednesday
the Soviet Union would fight
"shoulder to shoulder with Com
munist Yugoslavia in any future
war. ' x"
Marshall Zhukov, wartime' as
sociate of President Eisenhower,
made the statement after Tito and
the Russians formally ended their
bitter feud by signing agreements
pledging cooperation both on gov
ernment and party levels.
The communiques, closing a
three weeks visit by Tito, ex
pressed striking similarity of So
viet and ' Yugoslav outlook on ma
jor worU issues and nailed down
the principle of "equality" in
dealings between the two Commu
, nist states who fell apart in 1941.
ever Stalin's attempt to dominate
the Yugoslavs.
High Decoration
Zhukov's surprise statement
bout cooperation In a future war
came In response to remarks by
Tito in awarding the World War
II Soviet hero, Yugoslavia's high
est decoration, the Order of Free
dom, for his command of Soviet
forces which led "to the libera
tion of Yugoslavia from the Fas
cist invadors,"
"I am convinced," said Zhu
kov, "the people of the Soviet
Union and Yugoslavia will march
hand in hand for peace and so
cialism. We will do all we can
to assure peace in the world, but
if war is imposed on us, we will
be together shoulder to shoulder
as in the last war to fight for
the well being of mankind.
The Zhukov remark may have
been spontaneous and a surprise
even to Tito, who only Monday
- had told foreign correspondents he
had reached no military agree
ments with the'U. S. S. R.
CeaUgaed V. I. AM
(In Washington. U. S. State De-
partmcnt officials said despite
Tito's increased collaboration with
Moscow, it appeared to be in
American interest to continue
economic and some military as
sistance to Yugoslavia.
(These sources said the Zhukov
statement might have been part
of a Soviet effort to embarass
Tito with regard to his links with
the West, adding Tito hardly
could have been expected at the
' moment to burst out with a pro
test that Zhukov had gone too
far.l
The brief ceremony for signing
the communiques was attended by
ton leaders of the soviet govern
, ment. Including First Deputy Pre
mier V. M. Molotov, who stepped
down as foreign minister on the
eve of Tito s amval.
ARMSTRONG TO TALK
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rnn date narks superintendent
fill tnoak Thursday afternoon at
ceremonies which will open the
new observatory on the norm eno
ef the bay bridge. It It (tatt
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