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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1950)
yin the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The scene is sunny Florida. The speaker is Brigadier Gen eral Wallace Graham, President Truman's personal physician. The stage setting is provided by several dozen correspondents, pads open and pencils poised. GRAHAM: I'm bothered about the president and his weight. It's only 175, but it ought to be a lot less. CORRESPONDENTS: You mean the president is developing a pod? GRAHAM: Well, he used to brag that he could get into his World War I uniform. I dare him to now. (Business of correspondents writing frantically In their note books). GRAHAM: Harry Truman is the healthiest president the country ever had, but that isn't enough. He has more burdens and needs more strength. It's these cooks. They fry everything in butter. More corn bread and mustard greens, and less breaded pork chops, fried in bacon grease that's what Harry needs. CORRESPONDENTS: Is that all, sir? GRAHAM: Well, you might add that a broiled steak and a lew vegetables, boiled, not fried in butter, wouldn't hurt him any. (Business of correspondents dashing frantically for the near est telephone.) YOU understand, I presume, what it's all about. Harry isn't much of a fisher man, and it has been a basic tenet of the American political faith that nobody but a fisher-1 man can be re-elected president. In Harry's case, they're having to scratch around for a substi tute. His WEIGHT looks like it might be it. Everybody in lush and abundant America is wor ried about his (or HER) weight. We all worry about extra pounds. HARRY WORRIES ABOUT EXTRA POUNDS. So, you see, a bond is estab lished between the president and us common people. Without a bond between the chief execu tive and us heavy-voting com mon folk, the jib would be up PERSONALLY, I'm not so sure that Harry needs all this worried - about - his - weight stuff. In his give-'cm-hell tour around the country in the fall of 1948, he displayed a talent for getting close to us common people and then he was still let ting it be known that he could get into his old uniform without pulling in his tummy too much. If his ideas about national fi nance were as sound as his in stinct for getting votes, I think I'd be throwing up my hat for him myself. You just can't help liking the little guy. j ' News of4-H CLUBS " Gold Hill 4-H club met at the ; Estremado home March 15, with j 20 members and eight parents i attending. Club Leader Norman Gail was unable to be there, be- ing still confined to his home I from the effects of his recent ac ; cident. Dick Biles, club presi dent, was also absent, and the 'i meeting was in charge of George i Christensen, vice-president, and J Jerry Esgew, assistant leader. .' Club projects for the coming year include 14 sheep, five dairy, one poultry, eight beef and 12 Pig- " Next meeting will be at the 1 Eskcw home on April 12. 1 fljGK CM'ONTM Borate lodiVi outtuiMfint fJliillf ...cib'i bt for rfectientii and ftonomy. I'm Boraan off er an area to to bt made completely lr of all t utron; It to toK to mott type of wttdi and $nim, jet mar b handled (mlr without riik to humani or to It lock for (t h non-poitenwt, mWHrriitt to frrrou mrtati and mtm-tmbttkt. Vw4 dW 8M4M PMoV' iYW., rl'-lw JiivM&yMii, OIAKU It " T - .toT htm tail la I1IMAU iMi Imni ft M r"t ! Ml'- . . . tat- ttMi " - - (! I aH rH la m4 MtlH . OUKU K I Nt-i lSt.f Nt a' ' a ,.t, nt 4 BOMSCU i frinsUr manful pecked to tan- and la mndard 100 pound nslttall paptr bagt. Ii taiilr applied br band MWing or ipeeedinf mochant All? ith tnj of maitr tpfr tuiliM. No iptttaj t loth in i or triat oqvicwant to rtqwrad... you II Ukt th BORASCU rootfOl omkoal . . . oroar t aodar. 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