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Monday, February 7, 19S3
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CALLING AT WHITE HOUSE, national officers of Future Farmers of America are met by Pres
ident Eisenhower. From left: Philip Brouillette, secretary, Richford, Va.; W. Jay Wright, pacific
vice president, Alamo, Nev.; Robert H. Futrelle, southern vice president, Mt. Olive, , N. C;
President Eisenhower; William D. Gunter, president, Live Oak, Fla.; Lowell Gisselbeck, cen
tral vice president, Watertown, S. D., and Charles W. Anken, North Atlantic vice president,
Holland Patent, N. Y. All lads are injtheir teens. (International Soundphoto)
Sfump Says Fleet
Will Defend Selves
Hollywood (U.R) Adm. Fe
lix B. Stump, commander of
(the Pacific fleet, says the Navy
.will consider it an outright as
sault if the Communists ap
proach the Seventh Fleet with
hostile intent during the evacu
ation of the Tachens. '
"We don't have to get killed
before we defend ourselves,"
Stump said last night in a tele
phone conversation from 'his
headquarters in Hawaii to ven
triloquist Edgar Bergen on the
latter's radio show.
Stump said in the telephoned
interview it was impossible to
' predict whether. the, evacuation
would result in; a ; war "since
a,we are not dealing with a dem
ocratic nation where the will
of the people makes public pol
icy." Bob Crosby Stricken
With Lobar Pneumon
Hollywood "(U.R) ' Band
leader Bob Crosby, brother of
ailing crooner Bmg Crosby, . to
day was reported much improv
ed but still in serious condition
with lobar pneumonia at St.
Vincent's hospital.
The 39-year-old television star
was stricken late Friday night
and rushed to the hospital with
a temperature of 104 degrees.
His physician said he would
have to remain in bed for a
week or 10 days.
His famed brother, Bing, is in
St. John's hospital in nearby
Santa Monica recovering from
' successful kidney operation.
The bandleader, who appears
on the CBS daytime , "Bob
Crosby Show," will be replaced
temporarily by singer Jack
Smith.
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jm STEVENS:
Apology to Pine . . .
Last June a column of mine
told that the Lewis and Clark
Expedition came down the
Clearwater, the Snake and the
Columbia in pirogues of West-!
em red cedar. My authority was
Donald Culross Peattie, famed
naturalist, historian and novel
ist, who quotes the expedition's
various journals as his authori
ties in his 751-page book, tlA
Natural History of Western
Trees." f 7: : ? ' ...... . - !
I heard from several readers,
all . of them - harping .on -. the
theme, "It just ain't so." Some
credited cottonwood as the ma
terial of. the Lewis and Clark
river boats that bore the explor
ers to the Pacific. Two men
stated that the wood was white
pine.
Then E. C. Rettig, assistant
general of Potlatch Forests, Inc.,
who knows the Clearwater
country as well as he knows the
back of his hand, gave me good
reasons for his conviction that
Ponderosa pine "yellow pine"
in the old days was the species
of Western tree from which the
Lewis and Clark men produced
their boats, using broadax and
fire. '
Now I have from him a copy
of a report made to the National
Park ', Service by the Orofino
Commercial Club, from a study
of all phases of the expedition's
operations on the Clearwater.
The letter is dated May 4, 1931.
It states, as plain matter-of-fact,
that the "canoes" were made
from "yellow pine." . .
The Peattie Story . . .
. Naturalist "-Peattie, a cedar
enthusiast, bases his account on
references in the . journals of
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Captains Lewis and Clark to the
"arbor-vitaes" they found on
the trail from Wieppe Prairie
down to the Clearwater. They
noted that the species was "very
common and grows to a great
size being from two to six feet
in diameter." This in Clark's
journal for Sept. 20, 1805. Next
day Clark wrote that "the arbor
vitae increase in size and quanti
ty as w.e advance," as quoted
by Dr. Peattie.
The naturalist narrates that
on the -25th William Clark,
with the Nez Perce Chief,
Twisted Hair, set out to find a
promising grove of. this new
great tree. Near the present town
of Orofino, Ida., he located his
boat timber, and here the party
felled the trees whose stumps
were still pointed out as. late as
1900 . .". And on the morning of
Oct." 7 (1805) the fateful and
illustrious band set out upon
the last stage of the outward
journey,- downstream to the Pa
cific,. borne in the great boles
of the Giant Canoe Cedar, which
lumbermen today call the West
ern red cedar."
In the Orofino area, Forester
Rettig asserts, the Western red
cedar and the Idaho white pine
are no part of the forest, while
tall Ponderosa pines, with clean,
clear boles large and long
enough for giant pirogues were
abundant" on the Clearwater's
banks.
The Orofino letter of -1931
tells a convincing . story from
both the journals of the expedi
tion and local sources. It tells
that Chief Twisted Hair, a most
wise and trustworthy native
American, guided the Lewis and
Clark party to an island in the
Clearwater a mile above the site
of Orofino. The Indians had fish
wiers there, with stores of Toots,
for food in abundance. The spot
was named "China Island" in
the 1870s.
Next day Sept. 25 Clark
and Twisted Hair set forth . to
find boat timber. They "were
looking for pine trees," says
the Orofino letter. Some five
miles down from today's town
the two came to heavily forested
flats on ' the south side of the
Clearwater. "On the lower flat,
Clark found most of the yellow
pines suitable for the canoes
they wished to make," the letter
states.
And here , the expedition
camped, with the Indians doing
the harder part of the work of
boat making, while the white
men recuperated from the rigors
of the long, laborious drag over
the Continental Divide.
On Oct. 7 the expedition em
barked in the new boats that
were to bear them to the Pacific
and back to Canoe Camp again
in 1806. Pine boats, by theholy
old mackinaw! . .
Plan Designed To
Speed President's
National Program
Washington (U.R) The Re
serve Officers association today
urged rapid establishment of. a
ready reserve of 1,000,000 combat-equipped
minute men to help
enemy attack.
The citizen defenders would
be trained for mobilization with
in a minimum of 30 minutes for
aviation units to a maximum of
30 days for army troops. It
would be organized fully by Jan.
1, 1956.
Sen. Strom Thurmond, presi
dent of the ROA, unveiled the
plan at a news conference Sun
day. He emphasized it is de
signed to speed up President
Eisenhower's national reserve
program rather than to substi
tute for it.
Standby Reserves
Mr. Eisenhower's program
forsees a ready reserve force of
2,950,000 men and a 2,000,000
man standby reserve. Both
would be composed of volun
teers, if possible, or of draf
tees, if necessary. Target date
is 1959.
Association officials said this
is "too long to wait."
In addition to the 1,000,000
minute men, the ROA plan en
visions a support. force of 500,
000 men and a "mobilization re
serve" of 1,500,000 who would
be available for active duty
"only upon congressional decla
ration of need."
The ROA program was made
public only two days before the
Senate Armed Services Com
mittee operts hearings on mili
tary manpower. The hearings,
beginning on Tuesday, will in
clude- the administration s re
serve program, which already is
running into congressional ob
jections, in addition to other
armed forces personnel prob
lems.
Program Under Attack
The President's program came
under heavy attack Sunday
from the National Council
against Conscription.
The council said in a 36-page
booklet that "America will dif
fer from Russia in name only"
if Congress approves Mr. Eisen
hower's plan. It declared that
"freedom from military servi
tude is as much a part of the
American way of life as freedom
of speech and religion."
Under the ROA plan, pres
ent night school. type training
would be ended for the ready
reserve. Instead reserves would
spend one week end a month at
training establishments. 1
Harriman in Good Position for
Democratic Nomination in 1956
- By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) In what
you might call "the pre-winter
book on next year s Democratic
rrpcif?"t.'"al candidates, the New
York entry is
more and more
touted- a fa
vorite. Gov.Averell
Harriman o f
NewYork
often is so re
garded despite
some of the
blistering
handicapine
Lyle C Wilson which is cer
tain to hurt, his pace. The word
from Albany is that the first
Democratic governor of the state
following Thomas E. Dewey's
long Republican reign is aware
of his opportunity.
Harriman, likewise, is work
ing to improve it. It was no mere
chance that he named Tammany
fW."lir
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Railroad Crewmen
Hurt in Collision
' Portland (U.R) Two railroad
crewmen were injured last night
when a diesel engine smashed
into four empty tank cars being
pushed by a switch engine here.
Frank Reiner, 57, pilot of the
diesel, and D. E. Phillips, 25,'
both of Portland, were taken to
Good Samaritan Hospital. They
were not seriously hurt."
The .crash occurred as the
diesel engine was undergoing a
power test before taking out the
Klamath, Southern Pacific pas
senger train.
A Portland General Electric
power pole was sheared off by
the crash, but power lines .were
unbroken. - ,
boss Carmine DeSapio as his
secretary of state. DeSapio is
maneuvering to do for Harri
man next year what James A.
Farley did in 1932 for Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Cleaned Out Tammany,
DeSapio came along after long
years of uninspired leadership,
to clean' up the Hall consider
ably, buck young Franklin D
Roosevelt Jr., out of the 1954
gubernatorial nomination, and
put Harriman up there in Albany
where the young man had want
ed to go.
Handicapping Harriman is a
background of wealth, corporate
connections, an ineffective plat
form presence and a lack of
much experience in the rough
and tumble of political campaign
ing. And there is another handi
cap. Harriman was the 1954
Democratic - presidential choice
of the young turks of the party,
FDR Jr., his brother, James, the
late ex-Sen. (Soapy) Williams of
Michigan,- and others. And it
was they in Harriman's behalf
who tried in the Democratic Na
tional Convention that year to
toss out of the hall the dele
gates of Virginia, Louisiana and
South Carolina.
Never Will Forgive
They couldn't do it, but they
tried, and there are southern
Democrats who will never for
give them or Harriman for that,
Tagging Harriman as a winter
book favorite is in deference to
the mighty political prestige of
the state oi which he is gov
ernor and' in recognition of the
fact that he probably would be
be an all-out new deal-fair deal
candidate. The Democrats prob
ably will want such a nan. He
was the only 1954 aspirant who
ran 100 per cent -on the platform,
record and personal perform
ance of Harry S. Truman. Mr.
Truman, however, rejected Har
riman as a likely loser that year.
This time it could be different.
None of the foregoing elimin
ates ' Adlai E. Stevenson i from
next year's political picture. He
was the, 1952 Democratic nom
inee and still has a strong hold
on the party. : But if Stevenson
wants next year's nomination,
he will have to fight for it. And
he is not in as good a position
as are Harriman and numerous
other office holders to make a
good fight.
An" air pollution, expert esti
mates that industrial : plants
waste up to $800,000,000 worth
of -fuel annually because "bf in
efficient burning methods.
Freighter Aground
Near Sand Island
Grays Harbor, Wash. (U.R)
The Freighter Ocean Lotte was
still aground 'near Sand Island
here today, after attempts to
free the heavily loaded vessel
failed yesterday.
. The ship ran around yester
day morning while en route to
Aberdeen. Two . tugs from ' the
Hubble Towing company of
Aberdeen were unable to free
her yesterday afternoon.
The tug Salvage Chief, out
of Astoria, reached the stricken
ship late last night and at
tempted to pull her free at high
tide, but also failed.
The Coast Guard said the Sal
vage phief would make another
attempt at noon today. The ves
sel carrying a general " cargo,
was reported in no danger.
The Ocean Lotte left Portland
early Saturday with her cargo.
Pendleton Hereford
Sale Set Feb. 16-17
Pendleton, Ore. (U.R) Fifty
six bulls and thirteen . females
will be offered for sale by twenty-nine
breeders of purebred
herefords in Oregon and Wash
ington at the Oregon Hereford
Association's annual sale here
Feb. 16-17. ,
Following the judging and
sale, Walter A. Holt of Portland,
general manager of the Pacific
International Livestock exposi
tion, will conduct a breeder's
school. .
- WHEN COLDS MAKE HIM CRY-
Wkt D0S MORE
T3flfHBJ0R OH C5IEST !
cose, throat and large bron
chial tubes. Congestion starts
breaking up. Coughing eases. .
Soon he enjoys warming re
lief that lasts for hours.
So when colds strike, use
the best-known home remedy
to relieve such suffering
VicksVapoRub..
,.ftub on Relief . . , "I
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When a cold makes your child
miserable, he needs a medica
tion that does more than just
work on his chest. He needs
Vicks VapoRub because it
acts two ways at once :
.: i. VapoRub relieves muscular
" soreness and tightness, stimu
lates chest surfaces.
2. At the same time, VapoRubt
. special medicated vapors also
. bring relief w?th every breath. .
You can't see these vapors,'
but your child can feel them'
.as thejtravel deep intojhe.
MICKS
V VapoRub.
ROCK REMOVED
Johnston, R. I. (U.R) Ice Age
glaciers left a 350-ton rock on
Newtaconkanut Hill. , The bit
rock sat on the brow of the hill
for 40,000 years. Then persons
living in the shadow of . the hill
became worried. The rock was
broken up and carted away.
REAL COOL
Memphis, Term. (U.R) Lab-
bin Turbeville visited friends
who really have cold cash. She
said that when the husband
asked for stamps, his wife told
him to look in the usual place..
He went to the refrigerator and
took a box that contained cash,
stamps and valuable papers.
Brazil Cuts Export
Prices on Coffee
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (U.R)
The government yesterday re
duced the minimum export price
of coffee from 67 to 55 cents a
pound. '. '
Coffee : circles said the cut
may soon be reflected in retail
prices in the United States.
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