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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, February 23, IS55
Back Stairs: Capital Shorthand Wizard
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Back
stairs at the White House:
Jack Romagna is the short
hand wizard who transcribes
news conferences for President
Eisenhower and Press Secre
tary James C. Hagerty, a chore
Romagna has performed at the
White House since the Roose
. velt administration.
Shorthand is not Romagna's
only talent, however. He is an
expert amateur portrait pho
tographer. Also, a proficient
builder of model autos, rail
roads and boats.
He unveiled his latest creation
a few days ago a radio-controlled
robot boat which darted
successfully along the reflecting
pool on the Washington Mall.
Jack stands on the bank, fiddles
with the controls and makes his
robot craft maneuver in perfect
control until the batteries of
the apparatus run down.
Then Romagna has to wade
into the pool to retrieve his boat.
The recent talk about evaluat
ing target cities in event of
enemy bomb attack or to escape
the deadly radioactive fallout
following an atomic or' hydro
gen bomb explosion raises an
interesting question at the White
House what would a President
do?
The authorities certainly must
have some plans for the quick
movement of the President, his
family and key staff members
and quite naturally, they're not
talking about it.
But it seems logical that in
time of attack or radioactive
fallout, the roads leading from
Washington would be so clogged
that it would be difficult to
move a President with any
speed unless he got a head
start on the public.
The military might leapfrog
the President out of a crowded
traffic area during an evacu
ation by putting him in a heli
copter and whirling to safety
or at least, the open road or a
safer airfield than the fields
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LATEST choice for monumen
tal task of forming French cab
inet is ex-Premier Edgar Faure,
Radical-Socialist (International)
close to Washington.
A helicopter could land easily
on the south lawn of the White
House.
If a President were to receive
only short notice of impending
attack, he'd naturally use the
stout and spacious White House
bomb shelter. But if there was
possibility of "attack and still
time to get the President out of
Washington, he'd probably be
moved, and fast.
Fall out possibilities as an
nounced by the Atomic Energy
Commission last week in event
of an actual attack on Washing
toncould cover the Eisenhow
er farm in Gettysburg, Camp
David and even the "under
ground pentagon," not far from
Camp David in the danger area.
Coals to Newcastle depart
ment: The current issue of the
White House news photographer
includes a half-page picture of
the cameraman assigned to cov
ering the President. The pho
tographer? Mr. Eisenhower, him
self. He shot the picture of the
men recently at Gettysburg and
gave one of the photographers
a print.
Marty Snyder, the President's
former mess sergeant . and re
cent unsuccessful congressional
aspirant in New York, was in
town recently, promoting his
fresh, frozen boneless turkey
which he says will be a big seller
this Easter.
School Children Get
Better Look at Stars
North Canton, O. U.R) A
Goodyear Aircraft Corp. engi
neeh has built a portable plane
tarium designed to give school
children a better look at the
stars.
Richard H. Emmons, an ama
teur astronomer and former Kent
State University astronomy in
structor, said he is planning to
take his miniature planetarium
on a tour of Ohio.
It recently completed its pub
lic debut at Canton Art Institute
before some 1,500 persons.
Emmons built the device,
which includes a 16-foot fabric
sky, in his spare time. He says
it is easily set up and knocked
down.
The audience sits under the
canopy and listens to a tape re
cording of Emmons' description
of what they see. He points out
familiar constellations, . star by
star, with an arrow of red light.
UAL Authorized To Quit
Service at The Dalles
Washington U.R) The Civil
Aeronautics board has author
ized United Air Lines to discon
tinue its service to The Dalles,
Ore., on March 25.
The discontinuance was rec
ommended a few weeks ago by
CAB Examiner Thomas L.
Wreenn.
There were no objections to
his recommendations, so it auto
matically became official today.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day.
Chamber's Directors
Approve Sales Tax
Principle for State
The board of directors of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce yesterday went on
record as approving the princi
ple of a state sales tax.
It did so in approving with
out dissent a report of the legis
lative committee, which earlier
this week unanimously voted
approval of the sales, tax prin
ciple, as long as food and other
necessities are exempted.
Frank Van Dyke, chairman of
the legislative committee, had
explained that his group, in tak
ing the action, recommended no
particular form of the sales tax,
other than providing exemp
tions, but did believe that
"everybody enjoying the bene
fits of government should con
tribute directly to that govern
ment's support."
Will Sponsor Meeting
Earlier, the board voted to
sponsor a public meeting on the
general problem of taxation, not
to support any particular type,
but to bring to the public's at
tention the seriousness of the
problem now facing the state.
Details will be worked out by a
committee headed by Ray Johnson.
The chamber board also
voted to give authority to Cham
ber President John Pletsch to
take what steps he thinks best
toward working out a program
to solve the increasingly hazard-J
ous sewage and sanitation prob
lem of the fringe area around
Medford.
Danger Cited
Since all Jackson county resi
dents are threatened by the dan
ger of unsanitary conditions,
board members pointed out that
the chamber would seem to be
a logical organization to assume
a position of leadership in work
ing toward a solution.
Pletsch appinted a committee
to study proposed routes for the
freeway to be built through or
near Medford, and to report
back to the board on their find
ings. Board members expressed
the hope that arguments on both
sides of the question will be
examined and presented.
In other action, the board
authorized Manager Don Mc
Neil, as a member of the board
of governors of the Western
Institute, an organization for the
advanced training of chamber
managers, to attend a meeting
in San Francisco to set up an
agenda for this summer's meet
ing of the institute; voted to pur
chase a film, "It's Your Busi
ness," on chamber work and its
value, and tabled temporarily a
proposal to join the Portland
Better Business bureau, so that
the chamber would receive its
bulletins.
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