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SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, April 18, 1953 Hoover Commission Sees Need for More Efficient Federal Supply System Faolure To Send (Greetings To Bandung Conference Termed 'Sheer StupdDfy' Bandung, Indonesia (U.R) Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D N.Y.) charged today the U. S. ad ministration was guilty of "sheer stupidity" in rejecting his sug gestion that President Eisen hower send greetings to the Asian-African conference here. The Negro congressman, here as an unofficial observer and newspaper reporter, said the American omission "was all the more obvious after the Moscow Radio broadcast greetings to the conference today." He said "I think this is a colos sal error and sheer stupidity and further indicates that we have no Far Eastern policy and do not understand what is happening here at all." A Presidential Cable He exhibited a cable he said he had just received through the U. S. embassy from assistant Secretary of State Thurston B. Morton. The cable read: "I have been asked to ack nowledge your telegram of April 6 to President Eisenhower in which you suggested. that he ad dress a message of goodwill to the Asian-African conference. "While most grateful for the suggestion we do not believe the relationship of this government to the Bandung Conference would warrant such a message froln the President." Powell said the State Depart ment had opposed his attendance at the Bandung Conference and "tried to buy me off." He said "the deal was that if I stayed away from Bandung they would send me on one or two paid red carpet missions anywhere I wanted to go." When he refused, Powell said, Morton told him "very well, but do us a favor and stay away from the American Embassy. "I finally managed to see American Ambassador Hugh Cumming this morning and he told me- "the State Department decided we should stay away from you so that nobody could say we were trying to influence the conference." The congressman said "this conference has put us right on the spot. Asia and Africa are riding on whether we want to come along or not. If we abstain from voting on colonial questions in the United Nations any more our entire relationship in Asia and Africa is in danger." County Students Take' Speech Test Honors Two Ashland high school and two Crater high school students were named winners in a speech tournament April 17 at Corval lis. From Ashland were Richard Lamb who took two of the places with first in extempore and impromptu speaking, and Janet Saltus, who received first place in poetry reading. The Crater students are Nathan Douthit, first in serious reading, and Verity Day, third in humor ous reading. Thirty-seven schools entered 161 contests in the tournament which was held for two days at the Oregon State college campus. Paul X. Knoll, OSC professor of speech, directed the tourney. About 122,000,000 ball-point pens were produced in 1953. i FOR HAWAII Pan American stewardess Helen Vavoudes rides truck loaded with Salk polio vaccine to be loaded aboard her plane at San Francisco International Airport. The shipment is destined for the Public Health Service in Honolulu. Northwest To Stick To Standard Time Portland (U.R) Oregon and Washington will be out of step next Sunday at midnight when the rest of the nation goes on daylight saving time. The North west will stick to Standard Time. Portland television sta tions and some air lines plan to conform to the rest of the nation while bus lines and trains will side with the Pacific Northwest There were 9,666,000 persons working on U.S. larms in Switch to the gas-saving oil "RPM 10-30 Special" Get rid of the "wrecking crew" in dirty oil gasoline that dilutes oil . . . water that tends to form sludge . . . soot, carbon particles, road dirt, bits of metal. No filter stops all these engine-wreckers. Why take chances with your car? Change oil regularly. ..and get these 8 advantages with "RPM 10-30 Special": Save up to 1 gallon of gasoline in every 8 Oil consumption savings up to 33 compared with light grade oils Quiets noisy, sticky hydraulic valve lifters Resists1 carbon formation to in crease power and performance . Insures quick starts Lubrication protection that holds engine wear to the minimum Covers car manufacturers' rec ommendations One oil for all purposes covers SAE grades 10W, 20W, 30; for all seasons, all climates We take better care of your car STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Taxpayers Could Be Saved Billions, Report Indicates Washington (U.R) The Hoo ver Commission told Congress today that the taxpayers would be saved billions of dollars if the government operated a more efficient supply system. , The commission, set up to de vise more efficient ways for the government to operate, made the statement in a report entitled "Surplus Property." It said the government had. Over-supplied itself with many items, some of which are enough for 128 years. Complicated its bookeeping. Some items were found with 37 different stock numbers. Disposed of surplus stocks at too low prices. If the commission's sugges tions are followed, the report promised, the return would help eliminate the annual budgetary deficit. Urges Modern Techniques The commission, headed by former President Herbert Hoo ver, urged modern techniques in "purging" government ware houses by selling the surplus merchandise to private industry. It said at present the govern ment receives from 5 to 7 per cent of the original cost of the merchandise. Often "valuable" items are sold in mixed lots, the report said, with "little re gard for their possible commer cial use. If only one per cent more were received on each item, the 12- man commission said, it would yield an extra $20,000,000 year ly. "In view of the serious short age of school and civilian hos pital facilities, as well as equip ment for them," the commission reported, "it is a prudent in vestment of public funds to transfer to the states such excess equipment and supplies as can relieve this shortage." The com mission urged only that admin istration of the donation pro gram be improved. Single Federal Catalogue To overcome the difficulty of multiple identificaf;on of mer chandise, it recommended a single federal catalogue to iden tify the property. From fiscal 1950 to 1954, the report said, military agencies spent $107,000,000 for supplies, euipment, capital goods, real property and construction. And, during fiscal 1955 the Defense Department will spend $23,900,000,000 and civilian agencies $3,400,000,000. "With proper inventory con trol and more realistic stock levels," its said, "from 10 to 25 billion dollars of supplies now in government warehouses could be eliminated." Phoenix Scouts Aid Community Club Phoenix Senior Girl and Boy Scouts of the city are- now selling memberships of the Phoe nix Community club and Youth Center, Club Secretary Betty M. James has announced. The membership plan was ap proved last month by club rep resentatives. Scouts are making door to door contacts. Student membership fee is less than the amount for adults. A special meeting of the com munity club and youth center will be held on Thursday, April 21, at 8 p.m. Representatives or their alternates from other com munity organizations are asked to be present. L 1 SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER Easy to Operate Clean and Dustiest Low Rental Rates We handle everythiftj yea need for fleer refinnhinfl I Butte Escapees Returned To Jail Portland (U.R) All seven convicts who cut their way to freedom Saturday from the Rocky Butte county jail are back in confinement today. At least four of them face burglary charges resulting from their day of freedom. State police and Multnomah county deputy sheriffs rounded j up the seven in a manhunt yes terday. Two were caught under neath a bed in Portland and two were found cowering in a Portland garage. Scores of deputy sheriffs and county police reserves caught j one in open country ana tne remaining two were picked up on slate highways. The men cut their way out of jail shower room Saturday after persuading trusty Chester Conk lin to steal an acetyline torch and tanks from a nearby prison quarry. Conklin hid in the hills all day Friday and moved the heavy equipment to the prison window Friday night. Sheriff Terry Schrunk identi fied the escape leaders as Len C. Thompson, 18, William Pat rick, 24, and Lloyd Earl Eddy, 17. Other escapees included Er nest D. Trujillo, 23, Victor V. Hanna, 28, Walter M. Chamber lin, 23, and Edward Aldridge, 18. The latter four face burglary charges for breaking into the home of Clint Butler here for clothes and food. Oppenheimer To Discuss Eugene (U.R) Controversial physicist Dr. J. Robert Oppen heimer will tackle a non-political subject at the , University of Oregon tomorrow when he dis cusses "The Sub-Nuclear Zoo; The Constitution of Matter." The renowned physicist who during the war headed the Los Constitution of Matter -Alamos laboratory in which the atom bomb was perfected, will be in Portland at a later date. The State of Iowa processed more than two billion pounds of dressed meat during 1954,. leading the nation. Dead tin for Sunday CI Mined 4C at noon Saturdays "Johnnie Signs" Anything o Trucks o Windows o Walls . o Banners o Hi way Signs Show Cards WANT FAST SERVICE? Call Johnnie Phone 2-7448 or 214 East 4th SPECIALISTS IN HOMEWARES CENTRAL POINT . MEDFORD . About 35,000 Americans visit ed Ireland the summer of 1954. 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