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Harry Truman Memoirs Seek to Correct Misinformation on His Early Life Editor's note: The following dis patch is based on the second install ment of former President Truman's memoirs published in Life Magazine. " Washington OJ.PJ Ex-President Truman in the second in stallment of his memoirs today sought to correct "misinforma tion" about his early political life, including the idea that he was the product of. a corrupt Missouri machine. Unfolding for Life Magazine the story of his rocky road to the White House, the former Chief Executive told of an abstacle thrown in his already lumpy political path in 1940 by the late President Roosevelt. Mr, Truman said r.u.R. encourag ed" one of his chief political foes in Missouri when the Mis souri senator was trying to win the Democratic renomination Mr. Truman recited the story without recrimination and told how he successfully overcame the difficulty posed by Mr, Roosevelt by campaigning in be half of New Deal policies. Later, In 1944, he and F. D. R. were running mates. The former President acknow, ledged that the Kansas City Pen- dergast machine got him his start in politics, but said he was an independent agent thereaft er. He also acknowledged that the conviction of the late "Boss Tom" Pendergast was a politi cal liability, but said it did not bother him personally because he felt he possessed at: "unblem ished record." Details of Childhood The second installment of the Truman memoirs supplied lengthy details of his childhood, bis World War I service and his subsequent failure in the haber dashery business, a failure which he attributed to economic condi tions brought on by the Harding administration. Mr. Truman said F.D.R.'s at tempt to curb his political future came early in 1940 when he de cided to seek a second term in the Senate. He said Mr. Roosevelt offered "in a round-about way" - to put him on the Interstate Commerce Commission, but he turned it down and said he would fight for renomination even if he re ceived only one vote "The President really "was en couraging Lloyd C. Stark, my op ponent," said Mr. Truman who won the election. . When Mr. Truman first en tered the Senate in 1935, he was nearly 51, but he said he felt "as timid as a country boy arriv ing on the campus of a great uni versity for his first year." His first term in the Senate Medford Sprague To Receive Lovejoy Fellowship " Waterville, Me. U.R) Ore gon editor and former governor Charles A. Sprague has been se lected as Colby college Lovejoy fellow for 1955, the school has announced. Sprague, editor and published of the Oregon Statesman of Sa lem, Ore., will address a Colby convocation Oct. 6 and receive an honorary doctorate of laws. Sprague was Republican Gover nor of Oregon from 1934 to 1943. I The Lovejoy fellowship, warded annually, was estab lished in memory of Elijah Par ish Lovejoy, 1826 Colby gradu ate whur-was IcffleS tjjra iwotrin Alton, 111., for his editorial cru ade against slavery. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire SECTION TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1955 Pages 1-6 LOVER of outdoors is Joanne Copeland, San Mateo, theme girl of annual Grand National Livestock Exposition at San Francisco Cow palace, Oct. 28 Nov. 6. (International) Oregon Reappraisal Program Outlined Salem (U.R) Oregon's re appraisal program was outlined by Tax Commissioner Samuel B. Stewart at a sectional meet ing of the fourth annual confer ence of the Western States assoc iation of Tax Administrators in the capitol here yesterday. Oregon Tax Commissioner Ray Smith presided over another panel discussion on attaining un iformity of policies and proced ures in the apportionment of in come between states. The income section toured the income tax division of the Oregon State Tax commission this afternoon. Wives of the delegates toured to the Oregon coast today, with luncheon at the Dorchester house.. The three-day conference will conclude tomorrow with election of officers. - Back Stairs: Ike Cooperative Patient By WARREN DUFFEE United Press Correspondent Denver (U.R) Backstairs at the temporary White House: President Eisenhower is a co operative patient during his hos pitalization because of a heart attack, although the close con finement undoubtedly will be come more chaffing as the days wear on and he begins to feel better. The Chief Executive picked up noticeably in spirits when he was allowed to eat substantial food on the third day of his hos pitalization. The meals are not heavy and the portions are modest. But the President usually eats ev erything the Fitzsimons Army hospital dietitian gives him. Although lie probably; would like more, the President hasn't complained. Khrushchev Sends Message to President Denver (U.R) Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev has sent President Eisenhower a message of "distress" at the lat ter's illness and wished him a speedy recovery "with all my heart," the temporary White House has disclosed. ' Khrushchev's message was one of scores from officials of many foreign countries made public as the President continued to pro gress in his fight to overcome the damage of a coronary throm bosis suffered early Saturday.' Many of the messages had been made public earlier at vari ous points," including greetings from Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet President Klementi Voroshilov. Salem (U.R) Lyle Parker, nurseryman with the Washing ton State Forestry Department, has been named assistant nur sery superinteridenfrat the-Ore-gon ' Forest Nursery near Cor valfis. , Make your home repairs NOW before the cold weather sets in and keep your repair costs DOWN by filling ALL your needs at ACME'S low-as-possible prices! 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The makeshift press room is in a converted hallway, with big windows which normally al low plenty of light. , But the overburdened power system picked a grey, . gloomy day to break down. Newsmen were almost literal ly in the dark for 15 minutes, while Air Force electricians lo cated the overloaded circuit and replaced fuses. gave him the happiest days of his life." He found most of his Senate colleagues to be ' "some of the finest men I have ever known." Without naming them, he said there were "only two senators with whom I would rather not associate and whose word I did not trust." Although beset by bad eyesight at an early age, knowing that he could not go to college because his father could not' afford .it, Mr. Truman remembered a de cidedly happy boyhood. From the time he entered grade school, he worked hard to learn and to please his teachers. By the time he was 14 he had read "all the books" in the Inde pendence Library ' and gone through the Bible three times. 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