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Tho Oregon Statesmen, Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 20, 1956
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Two of II persons from foreign lands wbo were guests In Salem over the weekend chat with
Mrs. Gerald H. Perry, (rear), chairman of a program arranged in honor of the group by S-
lent chapter of the Association for World Travel Exchange. In front is Jacqueline Lavernhe,
Algeria. At left IS Dr. U. N.
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An editorial in the . Medford
Mail -Tribune, initialed . A.
(Eric Allen, Jr., managing ed
itor), discusses the functioning
of county government in Oregon
under the 'heading, "County
Anachronism. Noting the sue
resa of professional managers in
cities, Allen asks if they would
not be good for counties. He cites
tho fact that while a county may
go to a manager plan on vote of
tho people, none, in Oregon has
done so; and only two, Clackamas
and Lane, have put the question
to the people.
1O0 coumy, wrnra si urn, is a
creature of the state, chiefly ad
minstrative in character (aside
from its judicial arm). Author
ity is well diffused, with 10 elect,
ed officials. The county, in con
trast with the cities, has little or
no legislative power. The powers
of the county court are limited
Allen terms it "an unwieldy
body unsuited to administration."
He adds this indictment of the
present system;
''Sine the system wh let up
Dearly a century ago, it does not
reflect the growth of the cilies,
the piling up of "fringe" prob
lems, the present rapid means of
communication and transportation.
It larks flexibility and the power
to deal with urvnt problems in a
forthright manner.
"Rates of pay for both elected
and appointed nfficials have been
below comparable rates jn other
fields, thus lending too often to
attract, not top-flight personnel,
but those who look on their .lobs
as sinecures. Time after time, a
county election race has been, to
the voter, a choice of tha less poor
ef two randidates. rather than an
enthusiastic endorsement of one
good man over another."
Finally, Alien raises questions:
Should the county have a single,
trained executive? Do we really
need 10 elected officials? Should
counties be given "home rule"
like cities? Would it not bring
benefit
(Cenllnued Editorial Page 41
Burglars Haiti
Couple Involved
In Vice Probe
PORTLAND UB Two Portland
residents who figured in the recent
grand jury investigation told
p o 1 1 e Saturday night that
burglars entered their apartment
and stole valuable furs and jewel
ry. "
The burglary was reported by
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Clark.
Sunday night police quoted the
darks as saying the stolen articles
were insured for f 10,000 but valued
t twice that amount.
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Diana Dors Dunked
During House Party
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. (AP) - lively Diana Dors, l.er
husband, Dennis Hamilton, and two other mm wore dunked
in the pool and a photographer was slugged in a brawling
windup Sunday night of Diana's hotisewarming party.-
The photographer, Stuart Sawyer, was taken from the
estate in a police ambulance.'
Silver Creek
Falls Crash
Injures Six
lateaaaaa News Service
STAYTON Three persons were
hospitalized and three others
treated Sunday afternoon following
a two-car collision on Silver Creek
Falls road about two miles north
of Sublimity.
Charles Dunn, McKinney, Tex.,
operator of one of the cars; his
wife, Helen; and Virginia Forrest,
21, were unconscious when taken
to Santiam Memorial hospital.
They revived later in the day,
hospital attendants said.
Dunn received extensive abra
sions and lacerations. His wife suf
fered from shock. Virginia Forrest
received a head laceration. All
remained at the hospital Sunday
night.
Rodney Dunn, 18, and Rickey
Dunn, 2, were relcsaed after treat
ment for bruises. James Strang,
3355 Fairhaven, Salem, Ore;, oper
ator of the other vehicle, was
treated for a laceration on his
right arm and released.
Police said the accident occurred
about 4:20 p.m. The Dunn family
has been working in the Stayton
area.
Fire Destroys
Turner Brush
Statesman News Service
Tl'RNKR 'A grasi fire which
burned across 50 acres on the
Dewey Davis place west of here
Saturday evening, flared up again
Sunday and destroyed about 45
acres of brush, small trees and
grass on the Robert Schacfcr farm,
Salem Route 4.
Turner volunteer firemen fought
the blaze for about two hours Sun
day afternoon before it was con
trolled. Saturday two Turner fire
trucks and about a dozen men
stopped the fire after it burned
through approximately 50 acres of
Chewing Fescue stubble and slash.
The Schaefer family said Sunday
that flames burned most of a 37
acre field of grass and about 15
acres of brush, and small trees plus
some fencing.
Firemen said the fir apparently
started when sparks jumped a fire
break on the Davis farm during a
stubble burning operation,
Timely' Quosl ion
Kariis Rest for;
Morgiie Palient
MELBOURNE, Australia (A
Mrs. Heila Baulch, 45. was pro
nounced dead on arrival at a
hospital Sunday from injuries suf
fered in a fail while she was
waiting for a streetcar.
A policeman was about to wheel
her into the freezing chamber of
the mngue when he saw her eyes
flicker and cheek muscles twitch.
Shp sat up and asked: "Am
dead?"
Assured that she was not, Mrs
Baulch was. returned to the ho.
pita!--- She rested about an hour
and a half, (ben went homo, jjli
onniairsirian i'"Hfi
His injuries were not immedi
ately determined
Miss Dors, complaining of
sore back, was' put to bed but lat
er her physician. Dr. Stanley Inv
merman, directed that she be tak-1
en to at. jonna nospuai in sama
Monica for X-rays.
Witnesses at the lavish party and
Miss Dors herself claimed that
Sawyer, or someone, pushed the
quartet into the water.
My husband, naturally, was a
bit more than irate," she said. "He
chased the photographer-around
and took a poke at him."
S150.9O0 Estate
The party was given as a house
warming. Miss Dors said she and
Hamilton bought the estate for
$150,000 last Wednesday.
Several hundred turned out, in
cluding such personalities as Zsa
Z.sa Gabor, Howard Keel, Doris
Day, Eddie Fisher and his wife,
Debbie Reynolds.
Miss Dors and her husband and
her agent, Louis Schurr, and her
dress designer, Howard Shoup,
were in the doused quartet. -
"We were standing by the pool
and some man, I presume the UP
photographer, came back of us and
pushed us into the pool," Miss Dors
said. ' .
N Swimmer
'I had a feeling something like
this might happen but it wasn't
funny to us, I assure you, Mr.
Schurr can't swim. Someone called
the police. I told them exactly
what I m telling you..
Sawyer, ,12, a seven-year veteran
at United Press, said later at his
home: "I hurt in several places
but I haven't seen a doctor." He
said his fare and ribs hurt.
Sawyer declined details, saying
he was just covering a routine as
signment when the ruckus started
Today's Statesman
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Radio-TV 6
Sports 8-9
Star Caitr 7
Valley Newt 9
Wirephoto Pago 6
'Big 3' Determined To Give
Suez Plan to Egypt's Boss
By ARTHl'R GAVSHOV
LONDON The Western
Big Three Is determined to pre
sent its Sum Canal operation plan
to Kgypt's President Nasser with
or without Soviet ,and Indian ap
proval, it was reported ' authori
tatively Sunday night. ;,
The eiflalum - eontwnnce seek-1
ing. a way out of the Suez crisis
was recessed Sunday but there
was a flurry of backstage man
euvering. When the meeting re
convenes Monday, it will hear
India's V, K. Krishna Menon, who
has been seeking a compromise.
Rut reliable informants said the
United States, Britain and France
will insist their plan be laid he
fore Nas.ser along with other
views expressed here.
Thev Mid if Nasser sreepts the
West's Wan for international eon-!
'nl.tn lni i nl ocn nl inn il fnn '
l'trol. negotiations can be Carried
out by i tram appointed by the !
conference, Informants said there
would be fin "take it or leave it
ultimatum." however. . The West
willing to negotiate with gypt.
OregonGOP
Backing Ike,
Nixon Ticket
c . By DICK EIMERS
SAN' FRANCISCO (AP) -Oregon's
18-man delegation fo
the Republican National Con
vention moved Into the 1956
convention citv Sunday, bold
ing an unusual position among
the many delegations.
Outcome of last May's primary
election automatically bound the
delegation to vote lor the nomi
nation of President Eisenhower
and Vice President Nixon to make
the 1956 GOP ticket.
Gov. Elmo Smith, chairman of
the delegation, said Sunday the
delegation is firmly behind the
combination "personally as well
as politically."
The governor-said he knows of
not one Oregon deUgata,ho-i$n'i
strongly behind both Nixon and
Eisenhower.
Monday Caueuf"
The delegation's first official act
will be a caucus at J a.m. Mon
day. They will caucus to assure
themselves their affairs are in
order and that they are in accord
before moving to the convention
hall for the opening session at 11
a.m.
Gov. Smith told the Associated
Press Sunday night the caucus
Monday will take up the question
of bow the delegation would vote
individually or as a unit in case
either of the candidates to whom
it is committed withdraws or is
out of the running.
The governor said he bad no
comment on convention reports
that President Eisenhower would
submit a list of men acceptable
for nomination as vice president.
Delegate Gordon Orput, Port'
land, called" the Oregon delcga
lion's position a desirable one.
."Knowing that we must support
candidates chosen for us by the
Oregon voters." Orput Mid. ."we
are without tension appearing in
other delegations. There is no
bickering among us and we are
free to work with convention offi
cials without spending large
amounts of time in caucus.
Oa Committee
Those in the delegation working
on platforms or convention admin
istration committees are:
Mark Hatfield, Salem, subcom
mittee on natural resources; Sec
retary of State Earl T. Newbry,
committee on rules, and St a t e
Sen. Howard C. Bclton, Canby
committee on credentials.
At Monday afternoon s session,
U.S. Senate candidate Douglas
McKay will introduce the keynote
speaker. Gov. Arthur h. Langne
of Washington. Mrs. McKay will
talk earlier at a breakfast meet
ing for women.
Showers Lute
But Still Due I
Thundershowers are again fore
cast for the Salem area today.
The showers forecast for Sunday
failed to appear but some stormy
weather was reported in southern
Oregon areas.
McNary Field weather station
said skies will be partly cloudy
today and Tuesday with sume
chance of mountain thundershowers
reaching the Salem area during to
day. High temperature both days is
expected to run about 87, the low
tonight SS. High Sunday was 86.
Northern coastal areas will prob
ably be cloudy or foggy with par
tial afternoon clearing through to
day. Predicted high today is 62,
the low tonight about 5..
If he rejects It, the problem
will go hack to individual govern
ments jn a continued crisis at
mosphere, the informants said.
Kgyptian spokesmen , in London
have said and Nasser has been
quoted as saying the West's plan
will be rejected by Egypt because
it provide, foreign management of
Canal operations. '
The Western attitude' became
clear' ' Sunday night after other
delegations at the conference had
spent the day studying the West
ern plan.' It was circulated to all
delegations Saturday by U.S. Sec
retary of State Dulles.
Since there appears little hope
th s Russians will go along with
Western views, it is likely three
flilterent proposals will go to Nas.
ser Western, Russian and Indian.
ll i.lk- U'-.l tk..t ir V
ser accepts its proposal, he will
ii im- f, n in w in,ii ii ,.n--
have made - his- nationalization
coup stick at little cost anrt enn
sidershle future gain, and his sta-
ture in the Arab world will beas-jto the limit of his availability dur
sured,. 'ing the campaign ahead, -
Six King-Size Gavels to Hold GOP Delegates in Order
SAN FRANCISCO Rep. Joe Martin, who'll preside over the
Republican convention at Its permanent chairman, waves
six king-size gavels made of Vermont maple which he'll use
Burning Plane
Alarm .Brings
Quick Response
Causing almost as much neigh
borhood excitement as the Bight
f a burling plaae descending
toward the area Saturday night
was a Charles aveaue resident
whose wife taw the Navy bomb
er before it crashed la "South
Salem.
When she shrieked convincing
ly, "Get out of the house
there's a burning airplane falling
on us," he obeyed instantly.
He jumped from the bathtub
and ran info the yard clad only
la a thia layer ol soap. "He was
carrying a towel but he wasn't
wearing it," one of the neighbors
who ran from tbjclr booses at the
same time laughed.
- (Story also on Page I.)
Oil Bubbles
From Laun
In California
HOLLYWOOD - Oil bubbled
up in the front lawn of. a luxurious
Hollywood home Sunday aad
threatened to create a traffic
problem.
Folice said the area ot line
homes apparently was built over
an old oil field and a cap on an
abandoned well had rusted out.
The oil oozed' down the lawn.
onto the sidewalk and threatened
to spill out into the street.
Coal Vessel's
Cargo Burns
PORTLAND Iff) A smoldering
coal fire deep in the freighter
Orizaba flared up late Saturday
night with rumbles which shook
the ship and jarred loose hatch
covers.
Early Sunday the freighter was
towed from a pier and anchored
in the Willamette River near Swan
Island, where a fireboat flooded
the burning No. 2 hold. The blaze
was under control at mid-day,
Before the flareup workmen had
been unloading the hot coal at the
pier." A floating crane took over
the job Sunday afternoon, dipping
out the undamaged coal and trans
ferring It to a barge. '
The Orizaba sailed from Port
land last Monday with a cargo of
coal for Korea. Two days later, at
sea, the coal in No.. 2 hold started
burning and the vessel returned
to port . '
jTli levrs Take AH -
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But kitchen SinK
ALBUQUERQUE 11 Thieves
lelt the kitchen sink in a home
owned by Mrs. William O'Sullivan,
but not much else.
Police reported someone stole all
the inside doors, furniture, hot
water tank, cast iron porch rail
ings, a $1,700 heating unit and
built-in bathtub.
AIH.AI HM.ISTS TRl MAN
LIBKHTYVILLE,' III."' - Ad
lai Strenson's campaign director
said Sunday night that Harry S.
Truman's services will be utilized
'n
Carpet Unrolled for
Young Rocket Expert
TinVTSVIT.T.E' Ala. I KV - A caw Ic-eved teen-aeer. wno
dreams of the day of space
honr visit at Redstone Arsenal,
niii-r snac-p. -
Rciected In an attempt to
yomiR Jimmy Blackmon of Charlotte, N.C.. responded to an
omciai Army invitation to iook
over thia rocket city, home of
America'! guided missile center.
The 17-year-old youngster flew
here in a light five-passenger Ar.
my plane accompanied by his fa
ther.. J. B. Blackmon.
At the airport to greet the young
rocket space man were Bill ua
vis, secretary of the Huntsville
chapter of the American Rocket
Society. Tne two groups were oi-
ficial hosts for the evening.
Mountain Observatory
Blackmon and his father were
whisked first off to a mountain
top observatory, pride of the as
tronomical society. Next were
movies on space travel and guid
ed missiles.
Brig. Gen. H. N. Toftoy, com
mander of the arsenal, will inter
view young Blackmon Monday.
The general invited him here and
has already offered him an ar
senal job after he finishes col
lege.
The North Carolina visitor will
also meet Werner Von Braun, one
of the world's foremost rocket sci
entists, before leaving Monday af
ternoon. Rocket 'Too Hot
A senior at Phillips Academy
at Andover. Mass., young Black
mon attracted the Army's atten
tion last week when the Civil Aer
onautics Authority, denied his re
quest to fire his six-foot rocket
at Charlotte. He sent it to Red
stone, but rocket experts decided
it. was "too hot to handle" that
it might explode.
But rejecting his rocket; the
Army invited Jimmy to visit Red
stone. Gov. Smith Finds
Urgent Telephone
Call Takes TinjCj
SAN FRANCISCO i - Even
governors have trouble get' ing
their way at national political con
ventions. Gov. Klmo Smith of Oregon,
staying at a downtown hotel
crowded with delegates, said he
had a telephone ca.ll to make in
a hurry.
"I told the operator 1 was the
governor of Oregon and that my
telephone call was urgent," he
said "A 'half-hour later I hung up
in despair."
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NORT1IWFST l.rAr.l'C '
At Salem l-S. Tn-Cll 0-3
At Iwnton 2-4, Kuncn 11-fr
At Spokana 3, Yakima
PACIFIC COAJI I.RAOI1I
At Sarramrn'o 4-0. PortlaM 1-1
At NollywfHKl 4-S, Srattla -
At Sun Din S-.1, Los Anal 4-7
At San Francisco fi-S, Vancouver
4-S
nation i, i.rr;i'R
Al Nr . York ritUlwrjh S-S -
Al riuliirtflpiiia 2. Brooklyn J
At Onrinnntt I, Milwaukee 3 ,
At SI I-ouu S-l, C hic0 0-3
AMmirAN l.r.AGI'K
At rtliratn 1-4. D-'roit, J-t
At rivl,nii S-J. Km city I-l
At Bal'tmor- .1, Naw Ynrk J
Al Bo ton HO, WaabiDltov, J-U
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trying to keep the delegates la order. The convention gets
underway Monday In San Francisco's famous Cow Palace.
(AP Wlrephoto). ,
travel, arrived Sunday for a 24-
which is doing its best to coa
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fire his basement-made roclet,
School Bus,
Car Collide;
Woman Hurt
McMtNNVILLE l A Dayton
woman was injured early Sunday
when a school bus and an auto
mobile collided on Highway WW
two miles west of Lafayette.
The bus was carrying members
of the McMinville High School
band returning from the all-star
football game in Portland Satur
day night. None of the band mem
bers was injured.
Mrs. Mae Helvy, a passenger
in the . automobile, was hospital
ized here. She suffered a head in
jury and fractures. Two other
persons in the car. Identified as
William Mercer, 51, and Carl
Hagen, 71, both of Dayton, es
caped with minor injuries.
Tydings Quits
Senate Race
HAVRE DE GRACE. Md. W -
Millard E. Tydings Sunday with
drew as Maryland's Democratic
candidate for the U.S. Senate,
saying his health made it "im
possible fur me In conduct Vig
orous campaign."
The 66-year-old former Senator
made hit withdrawal announce
ment in a letter to T. Barton Har
rington, chairman of the Demo
cratic state central committee.
Tydings was stricken with a se
vere case of shingles, a disease
which affects the nerve endings,
shortly after his nomination in
the May 7 primary.
He. was first confined to his
home near here, Ihen spent 46
days in Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore, and is presently re
cuperating at home.
Tydings had served 24 years in
the U.S. Senate prior to his de
feat in 19'o by Republican John
Marshall Butler, who is running
for the office again this year.
Successor to Late
Justice Due Soon
A successor to fill out the un
expired term of tho lata Supremo
Court Justice Karl C. I-atourettc
is expected to be named soon by
(inv. Klmo Smith. Justice I.atour
ette died Saturday at a Portland
hospital after a lengthy illness.
There i a possibility that (iov.
Smith may-make known his deci
sion nn a successor before his re
turn from the Itrpuhlican National
Convention, which he is attending
this week In San Francisco.
Justice Latourettc's term would
have run through December tU
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Phone Union
Prepares for
Strike Today
PORTLAND (1 Telephone In
stallers in the Pacific Northwest
were planning strike strategy Sun
day night in a national dispute
with the Western Electric Co.
Local union members were pre
pared to set up picket lines early
Monday, depending on word from
negotiators in New York.
D. G. Ward of Portland, presi
dent of the North-Pacific local of
the Communications Workeri of
America, was unable to aay def
initely Sunday night whether there
would be any picketing in the
Northwest.
"We have people on the road
now distributing signs for picket
lines," be said.
The pickets were to start march
ing at ( a.m. Monday "unless we
hear to the contrary early in the
morning. Ward said. He added
that selected job locations in the
Northwest were to be picketed.
but declined to identify any of
them.
A strike could affect the tele
phone system if -other telephone
workers refused to cross the pick
et lines. The CWA local Includes
some 700 employee in the North
west, Ward said, but picketing
"could affect as many as tS.QOQ
workers in the region.
Frank A. Dressier. Oregon vice
president of Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Co., said Sunday night
that PT1T has no direct part In
the negotiations and that its em
ployes are covered by contracts
currently in force.
'If picketing should occur.'
Dresslar said, "we will take steps
to assure that communications are
not interrupted.
Sandy Lumber
Mill Burns
SANDY, Ore. U A lumber
mill ,was destroyed by fire early
Sunday, causing an estimated
quarter of a million dollars dam
age. , . '
Kiremen from Randy and Boring
battled tho flames for four hours
at the Walter K. Koch Lumber
Co. mill. Koch, tho owner, said a
night watchman discovered the
blazo and called tho fire depart
ment. Only 4he planing, mill was
left standing.
While it is too late for filing
for the position, the likelihood is
that whoever is selected as suc
cessor and possibly others will
campaign as write-in candidates
for the new term in the November
election, '
Such an occurrence happened in
i.o.'pO upon the 'death Ol Justice
Harry Belt in August of 19.V). Jus
tice Harold Warner, appointed to
serve out the term, won election
In, the position on write-in votes.
The other person also waa a write-
lis candidate.
Party Chiefs
Scoff at Plan
To Dump VP
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
SA FRANCISCO fAP) -
Republican politico streamed
into town Sunday bent on bat
tmng back Harold E. Mas
son's lonely bid to sidetrack
Vic President Nixon at th
GOP national convention Which
open Monday.
Stassen's campaign to substitute
Gov. Christian A. Herter of Mas
sachusetts as the 19M running
mater for President Eisenhower
was sagging sadly.
Top COP leaders nave scoffed
it all along. Sunday the run ot
mine delegates reaching the Cold',
en Gate were saying, toe, the
Stassen drive is dead.
One measure of it futility waa
the fact that Stassen Is a Minne
sota boy a former governor-
but couldn't muster' anything like
solid support from the Minnesota
delegation.- .
No Disagreement
So a convention which is going
to nominate Eisenhower with no
disagreement r all apparently
will MminaU Ulna ait .
as little when it gets around te
the actual balloting in midweek.
All but Ignoring Stassen ef
forts, delegates arrived in gay and .
rollicking mood, cockily confident
of another sweeping victory for
the party ticket they must go
through the motion of picking.
iney nave mat peace and proe
perity theme going for them,
(long with Eisenhower's ' own
treat oooularitv. neaiiut the Dem
ocratic team ef Adlai E. Steven
son and Sea. Estes Kefauver.
So delegation caucuses were
mainly Just for show and getting
acquainted no real, burning Is
sues on which to take a stand.
And delegates had plenty of time
to see the sights ef beautiful, coo-
(Stories else oa pages Z, 4
and 12. Picture page ).
mopolitan San Francisco, ride the
picturesque little cable cars, soak
up win-like air, and rush through
a whirl of social event,
SIIU Pitching
But Stassen still waa In there
pitching against Nixon, still say
ing he had a fifty-fifty chance ef
ditching the Vice President.
There is some talk now of get
ting other name in nomination-
maybe Herter, maybe Cor. Th
odor R. McKcldia of Maryland,
maybe former Gor. Dan Thorn
ton of Colorado.
Rut In anil fif avhaf StlaauM
keeps eaylng, the Vice Presiden
tial nomination la all but wrapped
up and delivered.
Mat) lor Mssa
Meantime a mob ef young Re
publicans from Pennsylvania and
San Francisco took over the lobby
of the convention headquarter ho
tel, the Fairmont, and cut loose
with banners, serpentine, confetti,
a fast-beat band and yell ef "we '
want Nixon." A lad In straw hat
and 'coon skin coat went into an
exhubemnt Charleston.
Some Nw Englanders, particu
larly in Massachusetts, would sort
of like to do something for Gor. '
Herter as a matter of local and
iriuiim IUC UU, IMTJ SITU h Ti
ll sure of having a chance.
Herter is toting around a letter,
ready for delivery, which will ask
withdrawal of his name it it is .
placed in nomination.
Dewey N Candidate
Former Co?. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York brushed aside any
idea that he would accept a nom
ination for Vice President, In
reply to a question on a TV
show, he ssid he couldn't imagine
himself doing it tinder any cir
cumstances.
The White House said Sunday
President Eisenhower will arrive
at the convention on Tuesday a
day earlier than he had planned
in order to "visit with many of
his friends who are , delegates."
Visit Delegates
Press secretary Jame C. Hag-
erty announced this at an unusual
Sunday news conference.
Hagerty said Eisenhower had
pushed up the timetable because
n( a "personal desire. . . to have
sn opportunity to visit with many
of his friends who are delegates"
to the party convention opening
Monday.
Eisenhower' decision will give
hit -riiu ia ahtain a tnira
complete first hand sampling of
delegates' views regarding the
GOP Vice Presidential situation.
But ahortly alter Hagerty' new
conference Sunday a key admin
istration official said tha change
in the Eisenhower travel time
tabla was "in no way related" te
that situation.
By changing his plans, Elsen
hower will arrive In San Tran
Cisco well In advance of the nnm
inatins: session at which the party
also will choose a Vice Fresiden
tisl candidate. He was originally
scheduled to reach the West Coast
Weinjesdaj eyenini. '