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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
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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. .
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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
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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."
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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."
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"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
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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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convinced that if trouble started
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senator, or lick 'em?", , .
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