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Capital AJournal AN INOiPINOINr NEWSPAPER ISTAILISHED IN llll Bernard Mainwering (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher 1953-1957 E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cushman, Managing Editor George Putnam, Editor Emeritus Pwblithtrf every vantfig except Sunday by the Capital Jeurnel Ce., Mfl. Jennie I. Mainwarinfl Full leaied Wire Service of The Atioclaled Preia end The United Preii. The Aiaociated Preii is exclusively entitled to the ute for publication of all newl dispatches credited to it or olherwiie credited In thit paper end alio newt published therein, SUSSCMPTION RATES y Carrier, Monthly, SI. SO; Sis Menlhi, St 00; One Year, SH OO, ly Mall In Oregon! Monthly, $1.30; Sli Mentha, SoJO; One Year $11.00. ly Mall Outside Oregem Monthly, SI. 50; Si Mentha, S'.OO; One Year, $11.00 JAMES MARLOW Farm Formulas Fail Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson In his recently published letter to Senator Allen J. .Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, reviews the Agricultural situation '. and the failure of the nation's agriculture to work satisfactorily and the reasons why it ., does not and cannot work are listed as fol - lows: '.' 1. Controls are not effective in reducing over sell agricultural production, despite the severe re . strictions they impose on farmers' freedom to " produce and market. 2. Agricultural products are likely to continue to be abundant. Under such conditions they can- - not be successfully priced as if they were scarce. 3. The present legal formulas governing acreage allotments and price supports are proving obsolete. Benson asserted that "A technological ex- plosion is occurring on American farms. Pro duction per farm worker has doubled in the last 15 years. This creates a new dimension in farm policy and makes it virtually impossi ble to curtail agricultural output with the type of controls acceptable in our society." The secretary reviewed in detail the reasons why each of the three listed points, made and tried out at an annual cost to taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dol lars. Last year, despite acreage allotments, marketing quotas for all basic crops and the soil bank and a severe drought in the South west overall farm production reached an all time record. Shortcomings of control for basic crops have led to the biggest and most expensive operations in farm history, the surplus dis-i- posal and the soil bank. Yet the Tanners repeatedly have voted for marketing quotas. Farm products cannot be successively priced as if they were in action. We are in the midst of great scientific changes and can produce abundantly and meet our future needs and no acceptable production controls can check the abundant flow. We cannot build markets by pricing ourselves out of them. Hence our legal formulas for acreages allotment and price supports are proving obsolete. .1 Mote study will be required to know changes thai, pre necc.sary and the decision must be m?dc by Congress. More produc tion formulas are necessary. Some of the present provisions are workable, but there are over 200 farm products for which farm supports are authorized, but the 190 commod ities, for support not authorized have given less trouble than those covered. Benson concludes: .-' "Of . any proposed solution, I ask these ques tions: Will It work? Is it good for farmers? I have no doctrinaire solution for agricultural prob lems. My comments regarding governing legis lation stem from the fact that these programs are not working." Why not cancel all supports and let na ture's law of supply ,ind demand in a free market, again rule farm markets? G. P. The only way to remove the curse would be for the Supreme Court to confirm the opinion of Attorney General Robert Y. Thorn ton that the bill is unconstitutional. But there isn't time to get a case before the court and get a decision before the Eugene elections. The Attorney General holds that it is unconstitutional to levy a lower city tax on a part or parts of a city than on the rest of the city. There is a difference of opinion about this among lawyers. The bill is in the interests of good local government and good city development. That it is so recognized is evidenced by the fact that it is high on the favored list of the' League of Oregon Cities and that it had 50 aye votes in the House and only four against it, with six members excused. The bill is one of the measures for orderly fringe development. By tax adjustment it makes annexation to a city easier and more desirable, but it does not force annexation. That remains with the will of the people as it always has. By a schedule of tax differentials set up in the election proposal, agreed on between, the city administration and the district pro posed for annexation, the annexed district pays city taxes at a ratio of the highest city tax rate paid the same year by the other property in the city. The purpose of the bill is to make the city tax of the annexed district conform to what it is getting in city services sewers, drainage, water extensions, etc., and relieve the people from paying a full city rate and waiting years for the serv ices. The ratio may vary from fiscal year to fiscal year over a period of 10 years or less, as agreed upon, depending on services re ceived. The proposal might provide even that a ratio, agreed upon, for example, for the first two years to pay for a certain proj ect, could be reduced in the third year. When the time arrives that the district is paying the full tax it is intended that it shall be re ceiving all the regular city services. The differentials begin with the first fiscal year after the annexation takes effect. 'w"--BesBav RAY TVCKV.R Willamette River Days Salem's Willamette River Days celebration Jwas launched a year ago. This year it will lie staged and pageanted again as a public 'enterprise, bigger, more inclusive, and fully 'on its way, an annual event as originally planned. All that is needed now to make it an event distinctly Salem's own, yet drawing partici pants from throughout the northwest, is1 the cooperation of local people and organiza tions. This it had in effective measure a year ago, and added interest being shown this year indicates more individuals, clubs, lodges and other groups that are willing to help. The idea has taken hold. It must be remembered that River Days has no financial backing other than ticket sales and public contributions. To meet early epenscs it is necessary that about half of an approximately $12,000 budget be raised by advance ticket sales. So if it is just as convenient for the purchaser to get his ticket ahead of time instead of waiting for the show to open, it will be good public spirit to do so. No proScssional promoters get any money from the event. Profits will be used for the benefit of Salem and its people the devel opment and improvement of the new Albert Wallace Park on the west banks of the Wil lamette, which Is the central spot of activity for the celebration and a "natural" for the purpose. Half of the tood concession prof its will go to the Boy Scouts. The celebration, though a five-day event, July 3 through 7, is well-programmed and there is no threat of a "drag'' in the events. Included are queen coronation hall, parados, children's day at Hush Park, street dancing, fireworks, and the boat racing and other water events on the river that mainly give the celebration its name. Salem at last has a show that can enter tain its people at home through the July Fourth season. r vi 1 I UaL-l Bad Break for Eugene Senate Bill 97, which passed the House Wednesday and is now with the Governor, providing that annexation proposals to he voted on by the people of a district may con tain city tax differentials in their favor for as long as 10 years, comes at a bad time for the City of Eugene. Assuming, of course, that Governor Holmes approves the bill. Eugene has two important annexation elec tions coming up on the same day this month, which, if annexation is voted, would boost that city's population to nearly 60.000 and clinch its claimed position as Oregon's second city in size. It is the most important annex ation election ever called in the state. The proposals have been set up for some time. .They contain no schedules of differentials and it is too late now to do anything about it. It the Legislature had passed the bill early In Itff session it would have reacted in Em Jene's favor. Now the opposition to the m relations, already strong, will doubtless m crease. Democrats Move Farther to Left WASHINGTON Neither Republican nor Democratic conservatives will derive any comfort from the Truman-Stevenson-Butlcr faction's politico-economic platform as recent ly framed at their Washington conference. What has previously been a harmless Dem ocratic get-together was upset completely by this radical and unexpected pronuoncement. It virtually echoed the set of principles previ ously adopted by the Party's radical auxil iary Americans for Democratic Action. The Fair Deal-New Deal program fore shadows an intraparty battle that should match the feud flaring between the Eisenhower-Nixon and the Know land -Bridges wings of the; GOP. The nominal Democrat ic leaders, in effect, read im portant Southerners out of the national organization, in cluding such distinguished men as Senators Byrd of Vir ginia, Htisscll ot ueorgia, Mc- nAV tucker Clcllan of Arkansas and Ellcnder of Lou isiana. It was considered significant that neither Speaker Sam Rayburn nor Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson attended the meet ing of National Chairman Paul M. Butler's Advisory Committee. And 26 of the 91 mem bers of the Democratic National Commit tee, by formal vote, declared that the Butler group was not entitled to speak or resolve for the Party between national conventions. That has been the Rayburn-Johnson con tention. LOST VOTING ELEMENTS The Truman - Stevenson document was pitched to win back all the voting clement which kept the Democrats in power for 20 years the farmers, labor, small business, racial minorities, "little people" In general. H was distinctly anti-business and anti-corporation. It condemned the Administration for weakening the Western Alliance by opposing the Anglo-French-Israel attack on Egypt. Re sides indirectly urging greatly increased for eign aid, it seemed to criticize Secretary Dulles (or refusing to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Yet it also assailed his "rebuke" to Israel. ONLY PASSING NOTICE The statement gave only I passing notice to the Byrd-Husscll-Ellcndcr efforts to reduce the $71.8 billion budget, although it urged tax relief for low income groups. Indeed, in proposing greater assistance to "little fel lows" everywhere, as well as expanded school and home building programs, it envisaged an era of even heavier spending. It specifically hit at Senator McClellan and his Southern colleagues for their sponsor ship of a "right to work" amendment. The A. D.A. damned the Arkansas Senator with faint praise by upbraiding him for his tender treatment of lobbyists caught in the investiga tion of the natural gas lobby. A Smile or Tiro Irving was awakened from a sound sleep by his wife saying, "Close the window, it's cold outside." Annoyed. Irving staggered out t bed. slammed the window shut, -rawVetl WH tela toe ! dxmiri jt te v-tftv "Y H ot Vflrtt M9?V411i.if tixmt t CwiWUi GOP, Demos Have Moved Much Closer WASHINGTON WI -It was far from their purpose, but the Dem ocrats' complaints against the Eisenhower administration show how close the Democrats and fie publicans have grown together since President Eisenhower took office. For most of 20 years the Repub licans had beefed about the Demo crats' social pro gram. "Creeping socialism" was the phrase they used to frighten iAMr.a mari.ow 'Jie voters. But Eisenhower and his party, once in power, took them over wholesale. The Republicans under Elsen hower not only took over, but ex panded, the Democrats foreign policy of economic aid, military assistance, and alliances that ring nussia. THREE COMPLAINTS The Democratic party's 24-man advisory council including for mer President Truman and would- be President Adlai Stevenson met here over the weekend and drew up three main complainls about the way Eisenhower is handling things. They didn t like his tight money policy. They didn't like the way he runs foreign affairs. And they were against laws that forbid the union shop. No complaint that the adminis tration was antilabor. No com plaint about the administration's efforts in social legislation. No complaint against the administra tion s stand on civil rights They completely avoided civil righls. It would have been embar rassing to do otherwise. It is Ei senhower who asked Congress to approve civil rights legislation to protect Negroes' voting rights. It's Southern Democrats who are try ing to block it. LEFT PLENTY UNSAID Spice Makes It Tastier HAL BOYLE Religious Breaks Take Over In Place of Coffee Breaks DAVID LAWRENCE not blame him. But, while con demning such legislation, they lacked the courage to blame their fellow Democrats from the South who sponsored it. DAY-TO-DAY CONDUCT Their complaint against Eisen hower's foreign policy found no Inult with his basic programs it was the Democrats who thought of them first but his "day to day conduct" of foreign policy. These complaints are the same Ika n,mnn-9to marla in Ilia lOg .iM.. ,hk it;. ,,.. . I normal era. Yet that under thn han'rllinc of fnrpion ! in the f I S C a 1 LAWRKNCE policy bv Eisenhower and Secre- year ending June 30. 19.i3-six lary of Stale Dulles this country j months after President Eisenhower has lost the confidence and re-; look over from the Truman admini spect of the Allies and therefore stration the federal budget was weakened American alliances. : $74.2' billion. Tka -min-il rrilir-ivriH hit hanrll. ' ing of Britain. France. Israel and hgypt and the Middle East m general. Hut when the Democratic coun- Even the Democratic council's statement against a ban on the union shop was self-conscious and, apparently, embarrassing, not so much by what it said as by what it left unsaid. It s the Southern Democrats Last Year's Budget Hardly Different From Current Total, But Reaction Has Changed WASHINGTON It's curious what a difference only 16 months makes in the public attitude toward the very same Issue the budget problem. Who, for instance, except a hand ful in Congress, protested in Jan- iianj IOU ti.kan PraciHont Ficnn. howcr submitted his estimates for , authorized by previous Congresses. who proposed outlawing the union the fiscal year ending June 30. COMPARE PAST YEARS shop as a device for killing the l!.ir? Vet that budget is hardly any civil riahls bill. different from the one he has pro-' . ulsL ,My " " " """r V u." " ' " " " " Since it wasn't Eisenhower who nosed for the fiscal year ending ?""" .'." """ " "' " -""" .,..,.,i i; ,.;., cv, iic i ,n ,no ...ki-u nuogei-maKing is io compare me seat: lotion, me council members could attack ment," aa it was then called, had been going on since 1854. The fact is that there was a re versal noted in January 1956 of the previous trend and a resumption of "spending." It was due largely to the critical situation abroad and to growth of the programs already to farm aid, veterans benefits, higher interest rates and programs enacted by Congress in the last four years, VETS BENEFITS RISE When the non-defense expendi tures are separated into categories, it is found that, compared to 1957 fiscal year, veterans benefits are up S176.000.000. Who in Congress The best way to obtain an under- will do battle with the veterans or- NEW YORK MB Businessman Peter Volid has found a new way to boost office morale with "re ligious breaks." For six months now 100 em ployes in his Chicago headquar ters have interrupted their usual chores for a half-hour each Mon day to hold interlaith religious discussions. "This hasn't made any saints of us, I'm sure." said Volid. pres ident of the King Horn Premium Stamp Co., one of the nation's largest trading stamp firms. "But I can tell the difference in morale already. Wee doing better work, the atmosphere is more cheerful, and the caste sys tem you find In many offices has been broken down. BENEFIT TO OTHERS 'I think any business office would benefit by trying our broth erhood hour plan." The plan is very simple. At 2:30 each Monday work halts, the employes gather in a conference room. They spend their usual 15. minute "coffee break" plus 15 minutes of company time discuss ing religion. The discussions are led by a Protestant clergyman, a Roman Catholic Priest, or a Rabbi they rotate from week to week, explain their faith, answer questions. ATTEND VOLUNTARILY "Sometimes the discussions last nearly an hour; and we have to break them up," said Volid. gen ially. "Participation Is entirely voluntary, but now everyone in the office attends. As a matter of fact, neighbors and waitresses from a nearby restaurant have started dropping in, as well as visiting salesmen, and our conference room is get ting crowded. The clergy's response has been very enthusiastic. A nomber of clergymen from other faiths, in- i eluding a Japanese Shinto priest, I have asked to appear." AT WORLD LEVEL Volid, who is Jewish, married to a Roman Catholic ana nas brother-in-law who is a pnesi, db lievcs that misunderstanding and ignorance lie behind much of the prejudice among people at the office as well as the world level. "You can't have a successful business operation if there is in ternal conflict," he said. "Petti ness; lack of cooperation and hala inevitably lead to buck-passing and irresponsibility. "But you don't have these things in an office if everyone under stands the other's problems and m. .u.v nf life Then employes go out of their way to help each other. CONVERTS DOUBTFUL Has the office brotherhood hour program made any converts? "Frankly, I don't know, but I J-..U. it oi,4 Vnliri '.'Rut that UUUUl ll, boiu . w i wasnj our purpose. We haven t gone in for any Danner waving, crusading, or religious ballyhoo. "Our purpose wasn't to maka money either. It was simply to 1.A np amnlnvoc IrnnW Bach other better, to feel better toward each other. "They do now. The office work a. Ann't art He If thev were, su perior to the warehouse help, but more as ll mey were an mem bers of the same family. "Prwturttivitv has increased, but the main -benefit is that the. work rinure mnr frpelv because tha employes feel more comfortabla together than tney aio oeiore. "Aftpr -all. one's narticular re ligion is often an accident of birth. The employes realize now that while all creeds have their Aitloranpac vat iinHarlvinb tharn all is the same basic doctrine of mutual help expressed by tha golden rule. "if you put an extra V In God." Volid concluded, smiling, "it spells good." . BEN MAXWELL News From an Earlier Day Judging by the furor which has swept the country, the people have been led to be lieve that the 71.8-billion bud get for the com ing fiscal year is a record for "peacetime" as if the "cold war, with its . mill. tary expense, con st i tu t e s a i rm. ' i ma compare record for the fiscal year 1953 and what now is being proposed for the fiscal year 1958. How did it happen, for instance, that the total budget was $74.2 bil lion In 1953 and now it is proposed to spend less namely $71.8 billion for 1958? The only way to get an answer is to examine the expendi tures for national security and the total of all the other operations. In 1953 the government spent $52.5 billion for national security and proposes to spend for the same In social welfare which includes pension and retirement programs, public assistance, health projects, and the like there's an increase of $506,000,000 as compared with 1957. Few men in Congress will vote for repeal of these growing items.. The bill for agriculture is up $264,000,000, as compared with the previous year. Who in Congress will vote to turn down farm aids? HIGHER INTEREST RATES Take interest on the public debt,' items next year $45.8 billion. That's for example. It's up $100,000,000 a saving due largely to the ending over 1957 because of higher in terest rales. As lor tne expenses oi the general government, they ac tually are down by $419,000,000 in of the Korean war, FOREIGN AID LESS GO RACK A YEAR cil complained ahout the adminis tration's light money policy, it was getting on highly debatable ground which, for a lot of people, will not he convincing. The council s big emphasis was on the money policy, which Is a pretty good illustration of how much the differences between the two parties has narrowed down. In years past they could differ much broader domestic grounds than that. Appointed AG? Going back to the atmosphere that prevailed in January 1956, one can reread the newspapares of that month and find therein lots of com mendation for the president's How does this compare, then, 1 1958 as compared to 1957. with the fiscal year 1957 which ends When percentages are applied, it this June? The national security , will be discovered that 36.2 per total was $43.3 billion for 1957, and cent of next year's budget is for now it is up to $45.8 billion for 1958. j non-defense items, as compared Foreign aid and military assistance ! with 37.1 per cent the previous for 1958 are less than for 1957. The year a decrease. Yet theer was international situation has required i no such hullabaloo in January 1956 more money for planes and guided j when the budget for the current missiles. The Russians arc re-; year was submitted and later ap ported gaining in air power. Con-; proved in advance of the Presi raanonitinn .i . l ih,. u gross itself added $960,000,000 more I dential and Congressional elections recognition at that time that the ? . . . . ., ' (l!.,r M.,.k me Eisenhower administration had 'or 'rP anc lflst tnan the of November 1956. May 10, 195 Both state and community offic ials had joined in dedication of a new unit for Salem General hos pital named to honor the lafe Dr. Willis B. Morse. History of the hospital had been relat ed by Milton L . Myers whose interest in the institu tion. had been continuous for more than 50 years. (Dr. Morse, for more than 50 ben maxwell years a physician and surgeon at Salem, was born at McMinnville in 1866. He established his practice at Salem in 1891 andNlied here July 20, 1944 at the age of 78. He was among the more respected physicians in the state and assist ed in founding Salem General hos pital. Fire on this day three years ago had swept through Al's Shop ping Center at Dallas causing Al Corte, owner, a loss estimated as $100,000. Wallace P. Carson, prominent Salem attorney, had been appoint ed circuit judge to succeed tha late Judge Rex Kimmell who had died May 1, 1954 from a lung ail ment. . . More than a fourth of Oregon's anticipated strawberry crop for 1954 had been ruined by heavy April frosts according to the fed eral crop reporting agency. MERR1MAN SMITH Blasting Near Camp David May Be for Bomb Shelter WASHINGTON (UP) - Back stairs at the White House: Recently there has been heavy dynamite blast done a good job of trimming the budget. In fact, when that same budget, submitted to Congress in, January 1956, was started on the long process o preparation, which covers 18 months, a re cession or economic "readjust- President had requested Looking at the non-defense total for 1953, we find $21.7 billion. Then, in 1956, it went up to $25.5 billion and for next year it is estimated by the President at $26 billion. The increase from 1953 is directly due DR. WILLIAM BRADY Astorlan Budget The report of the Multnomah County grand Jury, as it deals with the attorney general's work. provides new argument for those who have argued that the attorney general should ne an appointive officer named by the governor. and responsible to mm. It the attorney general was ap pointive, we would have had no difficulty such as attended Gov. Klnio Smith's trcluctance to name Robert Thornton to - take charge of the Multnomah County investi gations last year after the Port land Orcgonian first made its charges public. We would not have Ih present situation in which Gov. Bolt Holmes says he doesn't think Ion from Ihc investigation. ,n1"-v' "', The attorney general properly , ls" i,kos ,1,C5C should be the legal adviser and 'just for her gen ehiet prosecutor, answerable to ( oral well being, and under the direction ol the : Relieve me, Dr. head of that branch, the governor. Brady, 1 am Actually he Is an lnaenenfleni oi-iverv gratctui. ifc, ueiai answernmc in mi- pruim-. Bm not airaia Conflict between him and the gov-; anv more. I ernor can and does weaken the ef- e several '0 lllll-IHY (i I lie t-M-luiitr uiaillli. ....ll.. .i.iit. nri This is particularly true it, as s(,((om ,he case, the attorney general is rum- . , dr hraiiv sell a politically ambitious indivul- P'- 1 "" ... . . rtnin. Ufll one question to ask: Am 1 doing In California, where the attor- right to take all pf these medi- ney general has for years been cines every day . . . 7 tlix.A.) elective, as in Oregon, we have y ors-E MEDICINE had situnlions where the attorney) ceneral and nvernnr have been What medicines? You mention bitter rUals, heading rival politi-lonlv one medicine nitroglycerin. Heart Sufferers Show Too Much Awe of Nitroglycerin Little Lesson 26 is The Calcium Shortage. I am more than ever convinced that a high calcium diet arrests or, if taken in time, even reverses CVD cardiovascu lar degeneration converting it to regeneration. RECOMMEND 10DIN The Iodin Ration pamphlet is available on request if you re- Send Mall to Dr. Brady, 265 El Camino South, Beverly Hills, California. For years I have had what a heart specialist, diagnosed as angina pectoris (writes an Ohio man) and it got so bad that I was afraid to walk just a short distance. Always relied on nitro glycerin pills. I began doing the belly-breath- pay the freight provide stamped ing exercise, taking iodin ration, jsolf-adressod envelope. I recom calciwafcrs and B-Nutron every 'mend a suitable daily intake of iodin in one form or another for every man, woman or child. This lis not medicine, but merely one of the elements essential for good nutrician and health. It is par ticularly important that one with CVD get his or her iodin every day. And please remember that, this is FOOD, not medicine. This is my advice to the poor - fan f.-T 1 Bluff Called Omaha World Herald Smarting .after his appearance before the McClclIan Committee. Dave Beck said to reporters that if he had told how he spent Team sters Union funds he might "blow the lid right off the Senate." Said Beck: "If I started talking about contributions, a lot of fine people down there might be in a tight spot. I don't want to embarrass them, no matter how much unfavorable publi city 1 get." This obvious threat did not go unchallenged. Chairman McClel lan called Beck's bluff by summon ing him to appear again on May 16. If Beck can blow the roof off the Senate. Senator McClellan said, "he will be given ample opportun ity to do so." In union affairs, threats may have served Mr. Beck very well. But he obviously made a mistake when he tried to intimidate Senator McClellan. Grim Crime Facts Astorlan Budget Americans can take no comfort at all from the FBI's latest report on major crimes in this country. They were up 13.3 per cent in 195 over 1955. and altogether have soared four times as fast as the ay UP soul who takes seriously the population since 1950. cruel suggestion that a daily dose i There always seem to be those of digitalis is necessary to keep who stoutly resist the idea that his heart going: . i crime in America is truly on the Taper off over a period of increase. They like to suggest that several weeks, it you're afraid to,1" nation's huge population boost quit abruptlv, in this fashion- at'Mls f"r everything. The facts . . : .:. ,;4, ,a r indicate otherwise. digitalis, take your dose in a The 2. 500.000 major crimes com- ipoonlul or two of B nutron ""''. P?5mve k.. . nw U'Aatr it" UliU "'KKCT DlggCT cal cliques and jockeying lor pow-:ln the CVD book (Little Lesson. b'T wek ' on. drop o(ishare of our people are indulging er and advanlace. One can ima- 2). i sus(1t that one with pec- th. But k ,. R nutron 1 Tk. .,'"S' T unhapp,r! gine how the quality ol govern- ,ri, nolor snould uk. , (-w the Mme opUmal level in- Pr f the stor of cotirse. is that ment fared under such an arrange- n ,v(..rin tlh,. tvtTy day. "afjnUcl " '" youths under 18 ptayed a very ment. It could happen easily here. h . . . h sw. of . . heavy role in the total picture. iio.K.r.rir. nmn sufferers "iinoui promising or guaren- m 1936 the number ol persons in ?mi . .J !r,hl ,eein W'thing, I merely say ; this age category rose only 3 per from heart and artery troubles. th,ti jn most in5tancas. vjctims c.nl jn citi , in hj Congressmen returnee) to Wash-1 L""on 21 ' ,,ow 10 R'he. of the digitalis obsession who group rose 17.3 per cent. Nearly 4 iaotea mirt wifermve! (hm var1'" 0 '" 'ini 'nslruc,in use this taperingoff method be- per cent of arrests for major IV their vmieas we ctrrV ! "r breathing. When you tin to feel so good after a few crimes in cities were of youngsters TM ktcauar te.v talel ta v ed to use your bellow i w0.kj (hat they toss) the remain-: under 18. tnettniify ' 4aA H wakVv'" ' 'rw inflations der of the digitalis into the ash! The figures are hardly something las ab.li i.a l- USUX HWWU) "'" WJrd " manyran nd sail on happily without to be laughed off with the com- ajffte or pain. 'the crutch. I ment that "boys will be boys." O THOSE WHO AORKK ing in the area near Camp David, the presi dential hideaway in the Catoctin Mount ains of western M a r y land. Some of the residents of the irea have been asking each m. smith other whether the government might be building some bomb shelters near the camp which President Eisenhower still uses oc casionally for meetings of large groups, although his Gettysburg. Pa., farm is only about 20 miles away. Another local theory is that the government may be putting in some small dams on the streams running through the federally owned Catoctin recreational area to help improve the fishing. FISHING POOR THERE? Some of the President's staff, including Wilton B. Uerryl Per sons, deputy assistant to the Pres ident, and Karl Chesney, admin istrative assistant, have been fish ing in the Catoctin Mountain area recently, but not up near Camp David itself where the fishing generally is poor. From now until about the end of June is the best time to do any sort of fishing in the Thurmont, Md.-Gettysburg area, particularly in the hilly sections, because when ' hot weather comes, the streams lower a bit and the water becomes so bright that the fish, mostly trout, remain hidden in the 1 shadows. ! Another factor causes a rela tively sudden fall-off in trout fish ' ing in the President's neck of the' woods. With warm weather, the flies begin to hatch, and the fish, with such an ample supply of ' natural ood on hand, become ; finicky about going for artificial flies and other lures. GETTYSBURG IN NEWS Gettysburg should be in the big news this weekend when the Pres ident's house guest will be Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, deputy commander of NATO forces in Europe and a World War II comrade-in-arms of the chief executive. Montgomery and Eisenhower are old friends and probably will devote their weekend to old soldier bull sessions and a tour of the famous Civil War battlefield which Eisenhower promised the famous British general some years ago. Gettysburg is a delightful place this time of year, but even her, most loyal citizens admit that the historic town can get frightfully hot in July and August, even into September. i GROAN AT RUMOR This is why some members of Ihc White House staff groan at a rumor, possibly started as a gag that instead of going to Colorado for his late summer vacation, Eisenhower will spend most of his time on his Pennsylvania larm where the house is delightfully air-conditioned. Denver and the Colorado area in general looked like a sure bet (or the Eisenhower vacation a few weeks ago. but not so sure now i because several of the President's Colorado friends have not been able to get the slightest cue from him. When they ask him to come to Colorado again this summer, ha smiles and says what a swell place It is, but thus far has not tipped his hand on a vacation locale. If Congress should remain in session much beyond early August the President of course will have to stay here or in Gettysburg untjj House and Senate decide to quit for the year. Nov. 27, 1947 Mrs. P. b. wrote . . . "This little note is only telling you from the bottom of my heart how very much I appreciate your every consideration and minute detail for D's funeral and burial. Everything was as he wished and he would have been pleased." The above taken from our file of unsolicited letter!. HOWElt-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME Smith-Corona ELECTRIC PORTABLE ROEN TTWWRITER EXCH. 456 Court