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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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