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o o o o o o o o G2 G 0 Government Sells Submerged Land In Atlantic Ocean Washington OJ.R) The Gen eral Services Administration has jsold a non-existent lighthouse lo cated on land found to be sub- cjnerged in the Atlantic Ocean. The story starts back in 1710 fwhen Edward Tynte, then gover nor general, admiral, and com mander in chief of the provinces of North and South Carolina, gave 65 acres of land to a Wil liam Kussel. O The land was known as Thom as Island and at the time was located in the middle of Charles ton, S. C. harbor. In 1854 the government bought 6.95 acres of the land on which to build a lighthouse. In 1938 the government de- cided to find out what real prop q erty it owned that it no longer needed. It decided it no longer needed the lighthouse or the 6.95 acres probably because no one could find them. Geodedic and coastal survey charts for 1858 show the light house site to be about one-fourth mile inland from the shoreline. Charts for 1870 showed a slight ly changed position, but still in land. By 1936 charts showed that two-thirds of a mile of shoreline gjhad disappeared and that the lighthouse, i, it existed, would be about 340 yards out in the ocean. The coast guard said, even allowing for certain chart correc- 'tions, the lighthouse site still would be in the ocean. But General Service is respon sible for disposing 3of unneeded government property, and no property listed as owned by the government . can be abandoned 'without specific authority from 'Congress. So, the Atlanta, Ga., GSA of fice advertised the 6.95 acres for sal with the warning-that it Was submerged land. GSA re ceived one bid offering $30. The bid was accepted. YJm offer a varied assortment of GIFTS for Mother and the NEW BABY We have dozens of new and unusual baby planters and a lomplete stock of cut flowers and small dish garden plants and large blooming plants. See our window. Wt Send Baby Flow er GIFTS-BY-WIRE anywhere. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We take, pride in every flower order Phone 3-1733 Flowers Gifts 26 SOUTH CENTRAL PICKET RUSS TOURISTS More than two dozen former Ukrainians picket in front of a Chicago office building as members of the Russian farm delegation visiting the United States hold a press conference and buffet supper in the buSding. On The Side (Distributed by King Before dinine for ' the first time at a restaurant you should ask to meet the chef. If he is thin and sad in appearance that it not a good sign. The food served will probably not be out standing. However, if the chef is fat and jolly looking proceed to your table and order with confidence. The food will prob ably , be superbly prepared. That's what M. Fernand Point claimed. Monsieur Point was the maestro of the celebrated Pyramids Restaurant in Viennc, France. He has been rated as the greatest modern chef. He was six feet, five and weighed 335. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What is your authority for the claim that locale of the poem "The Face on the Floor" was a bar room on Union Square, New York City? A. Hugh d'Arcy the New York actor who wrote the poem, said so. . . . Q. You can end an argument at our houss by telling who is the world s richest man. My husband says it is the Aga Khan. I say it is the Nizam of Hyderabad, and my sister-in-law claims it is a Texan named Hunt. A. World's richest man is Sheik Abdullah of Kuwait. His income from oil I wells averages 53,000,000 a week.' Please Note A dry shaver that requires no water, no soap, no blades and no electricity: Am asked if I report ed there was such a gadget. I did It is a British invention. Uses a rotary cutting head. However, while I know there is such an implement I don't know what kind of a shave it produces. Have never tried it. I like to shave with plenty of water, soap and a sharp blade. Never a Bride Are men afraid of physically powerful woman? Joan Rhodes is beginning to think so. Joan, rated the world's strongest wom an, is a smart looker with a well streamlined figure. She was once a dress model. None of the men Joan hoped would propose to her did. Miss Rhodes can break steel nails with her finger nails, lift a 360-pound barbell and also lift a table with five men standing on it. She can toss a 200-pound man across a room. By E. V. Durling Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Maybe this last named accorrv plishment is what makes men afraid of Joan. No man wants to worry about a wife who may lose her temper occasionally and start tossing him about the living room. Passing By Henry King, hard working Hollywoodian, has been in the film industry over 40 years and never out of a job. Began as heart throb type actor in a serial titled, "Neal of the Navy." Be came a director at the time those handling that job used maga phones and wore puttees. Mr. King's latest film is titled, "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing." It's going to be some struggle to get that all up on a theater mar quee. If it isn't the longest film title in movie history, what is? Secretaries Am asked what an executive's secretary can hope to receive as a weekly wage in a business office in Manhattan. That de pends on how important the ex ecutive is. Salaries of girl Fri days for top flight executives in New York City run from $80 to $100 a week. Stenographers com mand from $60 to $75. Typists $55 to $60. Those outer office queens technically known as "re ceptionists" get from $50 to $60 a week. Something New Considerate male inventors continue to originate gadgets that make life much simpler for women. As for example, a gadget designed to make it easy to take tight tops off containers. Also a frying pan that never has to be washed. After it is used once this frying pan is thrown away. Then there is a window washer that enables the user to wash the out side of the window from inside the house. Also recently invented is "a pocket siren." With this a woman molested by a prowler can send out piercing mechani cal screams for help. DEPOT CONCERTS Ottumwa, la. (U.R) Don Watters, a local school teacher, bought an electric organ but found he didn't have room for it in his living quarters. He per suaded the management of a bus depot to house it. Whenever Wat ters wants to play he goes to the depot and entertains the waiting passengers. T Q 0 G 06! ' " The Best ttfay to Go! " 0.70 G o "w SHOES FOR I BOYS AND GIRLS F Chances are your children are on the go most of the time. They need long wearing and good -fitting shoes. They need Pre -Tested Poll -Parrots! Top -grade materials from heel to toe, plus our careful fitting, make Poll- Parrots a real shoe value. Many rate Styles and colors from which to choose. TOTS-TO-TEENS 105 EAST MAIN Taking of Vitamins Not Always Necessary New York (U.R) The ques tion of taking vitamins is a con troversial subject. Some doctors and laymen say we need them, others say we don't. Now a medical journal M.D. says sometimes we do and sometimes we don't. On the authority of its pub lisher, Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, the medical journal makes the statement that "the average American diet contains enough of the. essential vitamins and minerals to keep older children and younger adults in good health." But, the journal says, there are three danger periods in the course of life when vitamins may be necessary . . . "infancy, old age, and during situations of stress." Columbia Basin Land Drawings Scheduled Mesa, Wash. (U.R) The Bu reau of Reclamation will hold the last 1955 Columbia Basin land drawing here tomorrow night. The drawing will give pur chase priorities for 89 units in Block 19 near Mesa. The farm units range from 60 to 139 acres in size and will sell for from $1400 to $8,000. The units involved in the drawing are the first to be sold in the Mesa area. Irrigation water will be available on the units next year. Reclamation officials said they will have three Columbia Basin, land drawings in 1956. Wednesday. August 17, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Legislation Receives Test In Conference Committees Washington tion follows a tortuous path through both houses of Congress, but one of its toughest tests come in a joint Senate-House meeting called a conference com mittee. Conference committees have the job of resolving all differ ences in new bills passed by the two houses and are sometimes called, "the Third House of Con gress." Senate and House ver sions of a bill must be identical before they are offered for the President's signature. An example of the sometimes wide difference of opinion brought into a conference com mittee is the case of the tax bill passed this year. The adminis tration's original . proposal was to extend corporation and ex cise tax rates, due to expire April 1, for another year at the same level. But the House tacked on a general $20 tax cut for all taxpayers. The Senate knocked out the tax cut provision. A conference committee was then set up to iron out the difference between the two bills. After token oppo sition by backers of the House version, the committee adopted the Senate bill. Rules Numerous Rules under which conference committees operate are numer ous. They fill 16 pages in the Senate Manual and 14 pages in the House Manual. Commit tee members are appointed for the Senate by the Vice-President, after Senate authorization, and for the House by the Speak er. Generally, these include the senior majority and minority members of the Senate and House committees handling the legislation. When both bodies have passed a bill in different forms, either may call a conference. If the other decides to hold out for its amendments, a committee is set up. The number of members from each house need not nec essarily be the same. Each body has only one vote and majority opinion on each side determines how it is cast. The chairman usually is the senior senator of the majority party serving on the committee. Forbidden The conferences are forbid den to eliminate or change parts of the legislation agreed on by both houses or to include new material not approved by either house. An entirely new bill can be written by the conference if one house has struck out all the other's version and substi tuted its own as an overall amendment. Everything in the legislation is then in disagree ment and subject to revision by the conference. All sessions of a conference committee are closed and no U.R) Legisla-, records of the proceedings are Kept. A report oi xne worts is made on a prescribed form, in dicating changes agreed to and rejected. Written Statement The House, since 1880, has required that every report . be accompanied by a written state ment explaining the effect of the changes made by the con ference. This is the only writ ten record of a conference be cause the Senate has no such rule. Oral statements " are made by Senate conference members when the report is presented. Reports must be accepted, re jected or recommitted in their entirety. If either or both of the houses reject a report, a new conference is usually set up. In the House, conference com mittee members can be discharg ed if they do not bring in a re port within 20 days after their appointment. In the closing days of a session, this time is short ened to '36 hours. The conference's off-the-rec-ord type of meeting has been criticized as being an easy mark for high-pressure lobbyists. Opinion-on Capitol Hill, however, is that the method works well. Seattle Police Hunt ank Holdup Man Seattle U.R) Seattle police and FBI agents are engaged in a manhunt for the holdup man who robbed the Times Square branch of the Seattle Trust and Savings bank of $3300 yester day. First reports of the robbery said the man had an accomplice, but Richard D. Auerbach, special agent in charge of the Seattle FBI office, said it's possible that only the one man was involved. He said descriptions of the "two" .men indicate that the same man may have been seen from several spots in the bank. .Yesterday's robbery was the third holdup at the bank since Jan. 27, 1953. The robber entered the bank yesterday afternoon and thrust a note through a teller's winodw, demanding money. He took the cash which was handed him and then fled on foot. The holdup man has been de scribed as blond and blue-eyed, about 26 years old. RESPECTS TO T. R. Oyster Bay, N. Y. (U.R) Sagamore Hill, the Long Island home of the late President Theo dore Roosevelt, has been visited by more than 175,000 people since it was dedicated June 14, 1953 by President Eisenhower as a national shrine. Visitors have represented every state and many foreign countries, ac cording to the Theodore Roose velt Association. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That y HARMAN W. NICHOLS United PtMt fttmw Writw Washington (U.R) What's new in Washington: The help at Vice President Richard M. isn't taking much of a breather while the boss and his bride and kids are visit ing the folks in La Habra, Calif. The lovely Doro thy Cox, -who ought to be in California making pictures, and the equally lovely Miss Nelson, are up to their pretty ears an swering correspondence that should have been answered shortly after the last election. The work has piled that high. 13 Harman Nichols A few unscrupulous people in town apparently are taking ad vantage of the congestion caused by the transit strike. Thumbers complain that a few drivers in private cars accept hitch-hikers and then try to charge them cab rates when they deliver them to the door. A few, according to the police, have been turned in to the hack .inspector. The Pentagon tells of a com plaint from some Army GIs in the 34th 'Infantry Regiment of the Seventh Division in Korea. The boys were barely seated to see a movie when they were informed the show would not go on. It was announced that some clown had stolen the film. The movie which never was shown was called "The Looters." Sir Roger Makins, the British ambassador, went to Chicago to make a speech at the Governor's Conference. He told this one. He said he made a point to travel the United States and had been in most of the states. He said he would like folks to know that not all diplomats tried as hard to learn the territory. One British diplomatic official, he said, serv ed in the United States without setting foot on the mainland. "He had an office on Manhattan Island, lived on Staten Island and spent his holidays on Long Island," Sir Roger said. The National Geographic So ciety wants us to know that air planes are becoming noisier. New jet engines with powerful afterburners generate 150 deci bels, a "fury of sound equiva lent to 1V4 billion people all talking at once. A' horrible thought, all by itself. The Department of Agriculture thinks that home canners ought to stick to the old methods when it comes to canning tomatoes. To mato juice is fine in the freeze department, the USDA says. But take a whole tomato and put it' in the freezer and it is apt to become "soft and leaky and like ly will fall apart when it is thawed." The department quotes recent tests at the Michigan Ex periment Station, which knows its tomatoes. A CHANGE Campton, N. H. (U.R) Sixty- . five town voters decided this year to replace a 50-year-old wooden water pipe with some thing more modern. It will cost $20,000 to change over. PIANO StRVICI PIANO TUNING REPAIRING - KEY IVORIES RECOVERED Qualified Member American Society of Piano Tochniciana WALTER OLSON Phone Res. 3-3833 or Bus. 2-5702 (Puruckers) DR. 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