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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE esoyirels loardl at Irrigation (Proposed! 1" Tuesday, February 13, 1955 lateriR fittdiiieys :::Cbndemii: . ', i Benson Unlikely To Take Reappointment To Agriculture Post Washington OJ.R) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has made it clear he doesn't like his job. Benson strongly indicated at a news conference late yester day that he could not be per suaded to serve another term in the Cabinet post even if Presi dent Eisenhower is elected to a second term next year. "I didn't seek this position," Benson said, "and I will be very happy when I am relieved of it." Benson quickly added, how ever, that he "certainly hopes" that President Eisenhower will run for reelection in 1956. Benson had revealed earlier that he had to -be persuaded by Mr. Einsenhower to remain in the Cabinet post even for the duration of his present appoint- Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R)-r-Jack Benny celebrated another 39th birth- 5pw vpcfoi-dav but next year, he promised, he'll be 40. x For 11 years, Benny has been 39 on his radio and TV shows, a run ning gag that has turned the veteran corh- edian's' age into a national , Aline Mosby . institution. Actually Benny was 61 on Val entine's Day. In 1956 he will reluctantly add another year to the only age he'll admit on his program. "I considered becoming 40 this year, - but, my birthday was too far away from my show. Next year it will be closer so we can make a national event out . of it" said Benny, a smart show man even when it comes to birth - days. ' No Work After 43 , - "By the time I'm 43 on my show I won't be able to work," he smiled. . Benny was sitting in Roman , off 's, an upholstered eatery where you often can see celeb rities plowing into $6 lunches. But even in Hollywood the fancy restaurants have home town touches. Between courses Benny exchanged notes, dispatched by a patient headwaiter, with a diner on the other side of the room, Humphrey Bogart. I thought Bogie's notes were funnier. But, then, Benny is the first to admit he surrounds him self with the best of TV-radio writers. "People say I could just stand on the stage and be funny," said Benny. "I've been in the busi ness a long time. . I know better. You have to have material. And it must have a fairly believable premise." The age gag, believable be cause Benny doesn't look his years was introduced into his DEEP- -PENETRATING SUDS find their way to ' every fibre and float out even hidden dirt you didn't - know was there! featured at iPi A 'pri ' s : , i . mm Vi- fusSSk v .... Relief Would Pleas ment. "I. made only a two-year com mitment,'' Benson said, f'l had it out with the President "and I'm still on. the team.? , , Benson also told reporters yesterday that he ; is making "no deliberate efforts" to put more Republicans in his depart ment's top policy-making jobs. Leaders Displeased Republican leaders are re ported to be disgruntled because 43 of 76 top Agriculture Depart ment policy jobs are filled with Truman holdovers, Asked if he planned to ap point any GOP leaders to pol icy level jobs still- not filled, Eenson replied: "We are anxious to have people sympathetic to the administration in policy making jobs. But we don't think anything should be done along this line in a drastic manner. By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent show in 1943. Benny then was supposed to 36. ; The : following year he became 37 but five years ago stopped at 39, and has vigor ously resisted turning 40 ever since. The joke is so well known now that when Arthur Godfrey re cently asked a TV; contestant his age, the -audience howled when the man answered, "thirty nine." Even Benny's show busi ness colleagues are mesmerized by the gag. v ; , .; Staying Young "You should see some of the movie scripts I get," said Benny. "I'd had to be 39 to play them. Recently I was offered the role of .a baseball pitcher! And they wanted me to do 'Seven Year Itch on the stage. They don't think I get any older. ' "This may be because radio and TV are like a comic strip. You hear the same voice, see the same face. Entertainers don't grow or sound older to people." Benny has a simple formula for keeping his youthful looks: Diet, and stay in show business. "In this business you keep looking young," said Benny, who has the relaxed, healthy air of a big 'success (he is No. 1 on radio and in TV's top ten). "You work all the time and are always around young people. Why, when I walk on the stage I feel as I did when I walked on 30 years ago," he said, and sauntered off" to go to a golf course. Five of Nine McLaren Escapees Captured t , Salem (U.R) State police said ' today they had captured five of nine youths who escaped late yesterday from' MacLaren school for boys at Woodbnurn. Officers said .the escape was discovered almost as soon as it happened. The youths appar ently picked a lock to gain entry to the. third floor of their dor mitory wh,ere they took e fire escape to the ground. . PARADE CLE At! ; ...clean - . .through and through!'. Vbt 1 4""" Zl 1 - 1 f Most Witnesses Tell Opposition To House Bill 25 By BILL FORCE United Press Correspondent 1 Salem U.P.) Irrigation attor neys from the four corners of Oregon joined forces here yes terday to condemn, a proposed state water resources board with such broad powers "it could turn this capitol building into a fish hatchery if it wanted to." The House Commerce and Utilities Committee heard three hours of testimony from more than a dozen witnesses, most of them in opposition to House bill 25, the measures that would set up a board empowered to coor dinate state water policies and with powers of absolute control over water uses in Oregon. The proposed legislation was the result of nearly two years of interim . study by the State Water Resources Committee. A companion bill would set up a statewide ground water code. . Some witnesses favored the bill as the most effective solution of what was termed an impend ing crisis in water supplies in the state. Favorable witnesses were from the State Fish and Game Commissions and the Ore gon Farm Bureau Federation. But objections came from George Brewster, representing central Oregon irrigation dis tricts, and from Robert Lytle, representing Vale and Warm Springs irrigation districts. They were particularly critical of what they called a "dangerous' clause in the bill giving the pro posed board the right to con demn . property ' by eminent do main, even property now set aside for public use. Lytle said such , a board : "could turn this capitol building into a fish hatch ery if it wanted "to;" They asserted that the bill also contained an unconstitutional delegation of legislative author ity to an administrative board And Lytle said the proposed right of the board to control impounded waters after they were released into a natural stream was "either very danger ous or a nullity." ' . No Appeal Right Lytle also questioned whether a part-time board, serving with out pay, could do the job the bill set out for it. He predicted that if it were established, it would be back in the Legislature in 1957 asking for a full-time, salaried board and a much larger appropriation. ' -VRoland. Boles, attorney for the Isaak ' Walton League, said the bill failed ; to provide for : the right of appeal from board deci sions, thus giving it what he said was unconstitutional, judi cial functions. ' ; . ,. Could Remedy Weaknesses Frank McCulloch, member of the interim committee which drafted' the - controversial bill conceded ihat it may have con stitutional weaknesses ; but he declared they could be" remedied without weakening the board's Dowers to contend with the state's water problems. t .He -emphasized that Oregon's population could be expected to reach three million in 20 years but that there would be no more water to, serve them. Already, he said, so much water had been appropriated out of the Willam ette that if all the users took the water, they were entitled to at the same time, there would be no water .running under, the bridges in 'Portland. . Said Found in East Chicago (U.R) A geologist has revealed that several' uran ium deposits . have been found in eastern states. " -:. X Thomas N. Walthier yesterday told the opening session of the annual meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metal lurgical Engineers that "about two dozen uranium occurrences of some significance . are known." Of these, he said, 10 are; in New : Jersey, six in Pennsyl vania,' five in New York and others in Florida." ! Walthier, a former geologist for the Atomic Energy Commis sion, said the AEC and the;U. S. Geogolical Survey have undertaken a systematic explo ration in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. David E. Lilienthal, former; AEC chairman, will address the conference,., attended by some.! 2500 persons, . tomorrow. : j California Woman lnuredf flown Home ? Mrs. Sophie, Johnson, 72, An tioch, Calif, was flown to her home city by a Mercy Flights air. ambulance plane today, v -She suffered multiple 'frac tures to her leg on Sunday, and was treated at Community hos pital before being taken to the airport for the flight home. She was the 326th patient to be car ried by the non-profit air- am bulance corporation. GOING IT ALONE H. R. Searing (above), president of Consolidated isdison uo., inc., told a joint congressional atomic energy committee in Washington that his company will build an atomic power plant without financial help from the government. The committee, praising Searing's initiative, commented that no other witness has been will ing to push ahead with plant construction without govern ment assistance. Washington U Vetoes er Seattle U.R) Dr. Henry Schmitz, president of the Uni versity of Washington, -hag ve toed the proposed hiring of Dr, H. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic physicist, as a Walker-Ames lec turer in physics at the univer sity, it was reported today.1 ; The university s physics de partment had recommended the hiring of Dr. Oppenheimer, whose . security clearance was withdrawn by President Eisen hower. ,'" Dr. Schmitz : said "bringing him here at this time would not be in . the best interests of the University." and your old range (Q) ill95 "J.. LOOK AT THCZ2 LUXURY FEATURES... PICTO-HEAT J SWITCHES - TeU at glance which unit is on, at what heat; : intensity and- whether inner or - outer element is in use. !:-"'v' "ROCKET SURFACE UNITS -Qivee in stant response to heat settings for faster cooking . . . 7-heat settings from hottest ; high to gentle simmer.. : . -.; :. AUTOMATIC OVEN CONTROL ttarti, . times and stops oven operation. Lets you cook complete meals while you're away from noma . . . till you return. Be Modern -Cook We'll Open Your Account in a Minute Diplomatic Break With Russia Would Cost U.S. Valuable Listening Post Solon Claims Washington (U.R) Sen. Charles E. Potter, back from a visit ;' to Red-run East Berlin, thinks breaking diplomatic re lations with Russia would cost this United States a valuable source of military , intelligence.. The 38-year-old Michigan Re publican also: said in an exclu sive United Press interview that the atomic-armed forces of the free world could defeat a Rus sian attack in. Europe and Russia knows it. Potter said the United States maintains a 14-manY military mission in the West zone. With- the security conscious ness of the Communists causing normal' sources of information to be bottled up, Potter ; said, "Our mission provides an ex cellent means of intelligence." Good Listening Post , "It is of . more value to us than their mission . is to them, for a democracy: can't maintain such secrecy as a tyranny can "We can get 50 per " cent of our intelligence on East Ger many from that military mis sion." ' r-----': "Senator, 1 do you think the United States should break re lations with' Russia?"was asked "No, I don't," said Potter, "for the very reasons I'm citing." 1 "That; listening 1 post in Pots dam .even though it's re stricted does provide intelli gence. While the Soviet embassy here is probably their - intelli gence headquarters in the Unit ed States, as" a" democracy we can't maintain the same secrecy as a dictatorship; Most of the information they get would be available to them anyhow, even if they didn't have an embassy here." .t'-- ';V;': He's Legless Veteran ; Potter, a legless Infantry veteran : of World War II who wears in his gray flannel lapel a tiny emblem ; of the Silver fioi? yoissc oM i?aimge ? oi? i?euj?flGei?atfoE? on these llWntt$A'E1&Q I . f r No Money J r- ' i .r, 7 Down ' C Jceeps 'em - Oechkally ttdt ZObZaCZlSrXI ; 1 rrri nri An 'ffFMnir Star decoration, won for" valor under fire, leaned back in his Ashland Dairyman Named President By State Milkmen Richard -Westerberg, Ashland dairyman . and manager of the Jackson County Milk Producers league, was elected president of the Oregon Milk producers at a meeting in Eugene last week.' Other officers include , J. W. Adamson, Troutdale, vice-presi dent, and A. L. Hawn, : Eugene, secretary-t r e a s u r e,r. Lester Adams, of the Applegate. valley, who moved to Portland last fall to assume duties as manager of the OMP, ,was retained' in the post and will move his office to Eugene.: ' . ., 13 Directors Arthur Ireland, retiring pres ident and now a member, of the legislature, heads a new -OMP finance committee. The 13 direc tors of the organization repre sent some 1,600 Grade: A milk shippers in .Qreaon. ' ; Among those attending the meeting ' were - Fred Richards, president of the Southern Ore gon Milk Producers; Carl Hoover, Medford; Ed Gerhing, Eagle Point, and . Jennings Pierce, Medford. , :.. The organization plans to act as ; a unified group in speaking for milk producers throughout the state, rather than have dairy industry representatives speak for individual groups. Plans for an extensive advertising t pro gram were discussed. t Lung - cancer deaths- in the United States increased to 27, 000 in 1953, compared with only 3,900 in 1930. 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