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rotraTCTic MraroRD (oregonj mail tribune Wednesday, Oetober 19, 1955 Disastrous Floods May Prompt Some Form of Federal Insurance Eastern Q 1 xr.,r.i,l Dear Cheryl, -. -. What a thoughtful and sweet little girl 'you Are! I can't tell you how torched the President wti when I read him your letter d told him that you had cnt your very own Bible to help him get better. : - The President ha been feeling stronger '' every day, so much o that 1 am confident of hi speedy and complete recovery. So I am returning your beloved Bible to you, with the greatest appreciation from both Of UaV PRATING FOB PRESIDENT'S RECOVERY, Cheryl Gardiner, 7, Albany, N. Y., sends him Bible which is returned with an appreciative letter from Mamie Eisenhower. (International) Truman's Memoirs Says Byrnes Assumed Too Much Initiative Washington (U.R) Former such . unprecedented freedom of President Truman, in' the third installment of his memoirs, said today that former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes took it upon himself to move the for eign policy of the United States in- a direction with which the President could not agree. ; Byrnes, Mr. Truman said, kept him "in the dark" about the 1945 Moscow conference and was, in effect, "assuming the re sponsibilities of the President." Byrnes attempted to negotiate with the Russians on his own initiative and came to think "his judgment was better than the President's," Mr. Truman said.' The former secretary of state said in Columbia, S.C., that he would have no comment on the former President's criticism at this time. He said he may later comment on the critical 1 days about which Mr. Truman had written and Byrnes' role as sec retary. . ' ..- .-:'.-. ." : ;. . Freedom of Action In the latest installment of his memoirs published in Life Magazine, Mr. Truman discussed details of the behind the scenes clashes which led to the resigna tion from his first cabinet of Byrnes, Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes. The memoirs are also being published in the New York Times, and. in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Mr. Truman 'said his troubles with Byrnes stemmed from the fact that President Roosevelt had given the South Carolinian action during the war years that Byrnes came to "believe that he could have a completely free hand within his own sphere of duty. In fact, he came to think that his judgment was better than the President's. Wallace and Icke "A secretary of state should never have the illusion that he is President of . the United States," Mr. Truman added. Plane Break-Up Blamed for Crash North Hollywood, Calif. flJ.R) Millionaire Joel Thome's plane may have disintegrated in the air before it crashed into an apartment house in a tragedy that took his own and three oth er lives,. ' Civil Aeronautics ad ministration - investigators said today. . , v . .-" Thome's single-engined Beech- craft Bonanza smashed into the six-unit apartment building Mon day night. The crash and explosion-fire which followed killed Thome, an 18-year-old bride of two months and an eight-week- old baby who had just been bap tized. Seven persons attending a christening party for the baby were -injured critically. One of the injured, seven-year-old John Marchica died last night at North Hollywood hospital. The Minnesota Medical associ ation says there are 800,000 deaf people in the United States and about one person in 10 gets hard of hearing during his lifetime. Mr. Truman eventually re placed Byrnes with Gen. George C. Marshall. The former President's state ments in his memoirs "about the departure of Wallace and Ickes from his cabinet contained little that was not publicized at the time. Mr. Truman asked for Wal lace's resignation on Sept. 20, 1946, after a series of differences arising from Wallace's highly publicized Sept. 16 speech in Madison Square Garden in which Wallace attacked the na tion's foreign policy and urged a softer policy toward the So viets which he said he was doing with President Truman's ap proval. Mr. Truman accepted Ickes resignation during the Senate furor over his naming of Cal ifornia oil man Ed Pauley as undersecretary of the Navy in January, 1946. Gold Hill Couple Involved in Mishap Klamath Falls Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Caldwell, Gold Hill, and their nephew, Earl Leroy White, 9, escaped serious in juries Sunday when their pickup truck and house trailer over turned in a ditch. The accident happened on on Highway 97 about 45 miles north of Klamath Falls. Mrs. Caldwell, 62, was treated for minor injuries at Klamath Falls hospital and released, according to the Klamath Falls' Herald and News. v. In Medford Service Station History! g -1 J O V o u Jackpotf! itlfff UW Adults FREE WE TONITE! Register Children 5 to 12 n yrs. Every Week IE! FORR OCT. 28 Only One More Week to Get FREE TICKETS NO NEED TO BUY TO TRY FOR A. WINNER : It's Fun to Buy Gas at Ms On the Point," South Central & Riverside Free Ford tickets from Southern Oregon Fortune Stations, Central Mkt., McLains, Crater Lake Motors and Bell Motors President Assures Governors That Bills Considered Washington U.R) New Eng land's second disastrous flood in three months is likely to spur Congress to its first serious con sideration of some form of fed eral flood insurance. President Eisenhower assured New England governors by let ter from Denver Tuseday that the administration will make specific legislative suggestions next month. The Senate Banking Commit tee, with Sen. Herbert H. Leh man (D-N.Y.) as acting chair man, will begin a series of hear ings on the problem here next month, and later will move its hearings to flood and hurricane stricken Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and perhaps North Carolina and Massachusetts. To Submit Program It is to these hearings that Mr. Eisenhower said the administra tion, which has been studying the problem, will submit some program for insuring citizens against flood damage, a field sel dom adequately covered by pri vate insurance policies. No legislation is now pending, but Lehman and several other senators have announced that they will sponsor some sort of insurance program. Generally, their bills are still in the draft ing stage. ' Lehman's proposal is expected to cover not only flood damage, but the risks of future wars, in cluding atomic bombs, and simi lar disasters too big for private companies to handle. As now contemplated, it would involve some direct government insur ance and some reinsurance in which the government would add its backing to that of pri vate companies. Other Legislation Planned Other, members of Congress, particularly from flooded states, have announced they also will sponsor insurance legislation. Massachusetts'- Sens. Leverett Saltonstall (R) and John F. Ken nedy (D) jointly announced they would introduce a bill. - Sen. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.) also promised legislation. So did various House members. President Eisenhbwer did not disclose the nature of the ad ministration ' proposal. But he gave a possible tipoff last year when he proposed a government reinsurance plan for health in surance, in which the Treasury would guarantee ", private com panies against excessive loss. The question of flood insur ance has been before Congress in the past, but got short shift. Former President Truman asked for a federal flood insurance plan in 1952 in the wake of de vastating Missouri Valley floods. But the 82nd Congress, then in its closing days, was plainly hostile. The House Banking Committee gave the idea a 90 minute hearing and dropped it. Minds May Be Changed Oh that occasion, the north eastern states had no recent memory of floods in their own back yards. Now nature may have changed their lawmakers' minds. Mr. Eisenhower also assured the New England governors that the administration is determined to help their area get more phy sical protection against floods. He promised full federal consid eration of their detailed requests for emergency relief funds and of . large additional sums for planning nad construction of flood control projects and a hur ricane survey. Margaret Truman Heads Daily Radio Program New York (U.R) Margaret Truman will become a full time radio performer Nov. 7, the Na tional Broadcasting Company announced yesterday. , Miss Truman, who just re turned from a tour of Europe, will be mistress of ceremonies on a new five day a week day time program "Week-day." The show will follow the general lines of NBC radio's "Monitor," program . which features news, music and interviews. ' Adm. Pride Commander Of Pacific Air Force ; Washington (U.R) The Navy announced today that Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride, commander of the Seventh fleet in r the Far East,, . will become . commander of the Pacific Fleet Air Force. -; Pride will succeed Vice Adm. Harold M. Martin, who retires next February.- ' ' . ' , ' Adm. Stuart 1 H. ; : Ingersoll, deputy ommander. in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, will relieve Pride as commander of the Sev enth Fleet Holyoke, Mass. rttJ.R) Former welterweight boxing champion Johnny Saxton lined up a train ing schedule today sure of a title fight at Boston Garden with the winner of the Nov. 30 bout be tween champ Carmen Basilio and Tony DeMarco. Wall Street New York (U.R) Oil shares featured another rise on the stock market today. ' For industrials it was the fourth gain in six sessions, for rails and utilities it was the fifth in a half dozen. Gains in the oils ranged . to nearly three points in Standard oil of New Jersey. Wide advan ces also were noted in Texas Co., Standard of California, Roy al Dutch, Phillips Petroleum and Gulf Oil., DePont generated strength, late in the day and rose two points. Other chemicals were strong with it. Dow-Jones Averages Dow-Jones final averages: 30 industrials 453.09 up 4.51, 20 rails 149.83 up 0.82, 15 utilities 61.75 off 0.11, 65 stocks 160.72 up 1.09. Sales today were about 1,760, 000 shares compared with 1,550, 000 yesterday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T , 17714 Anaconda . . 643i ChEysler .-. 95 V Curtiss Wright 24V4 General Electric 48 V4 General Motors 134 Montgomery Ward 89 V4 Penn R R 25 Penney J C 94 Radio .... 448 Southern Co '. 19 Southern Pacific 55 S Oil of Calif 85 Texas Gulf Sulphur .... 37 Transamerica ... Tri-Continental United Aircraft U S Rubber U S Steel ..;.. Youngstown 40V2 24 3578 44 54V8 .... 94V4 Portland Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle 400. Com mercial heifers $15.50-17; utility dairy type heifers around $10-11.50: canner cutter cows mostly $7-8, few $8.50: utility cows mostly $10-11: around 755 lb. stock cows $9.50; light cutter utility bulls $11-13; good stock steers $16-17. . Calves 50. Good-choice $17-19; indi vidual high choice $20; Rood-choice above . 350 lb. calves $16.50-18: cull calves and vealers down to $7 and below. Hogs 400. U.S. No. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. $16.50-17; No. 3 lots $16: some down to $15.50; around 350-450 IK sows $13-14. Sheep 500. Choice with some prime lambs $18.50-18.75; choice No. 2 pelt lambs up to $18; good-choice feeder lambs mostly $14-15, some higher; cull-choice ewes S2-4. Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade A A large. 59-60: A large, 53-56c; AA medium, 47-49c: A me dium, 4-7-48c: small, ,36-38c; cartons, l-3c additional. - Butter To- retailers: AA grade prints 66c lb.: cartons, 67c; A prints 66e: cartons. 67c; B prints, 64c. Cheese To retailers: A rade Ched dar. Oregon singles, 401,il45'ic: 5-lb. loaves. 462-49',ic Processed Ameri can cheese. 5-lb. loaf. 39.i-41c lb. Idaho Power Said Ready To Build Dams Boise (U.R) Idaho Power Company President T. E. Roach said today his company was leady and financially - able to proceed with its plans to build three dams on the. Snake river in Hells Canyon. . ; - Roach made the remark in one of two statements released last night in which he "defended his firm against remarks made in Washington, D. C, and Port land, Ore., both of which he felt were critical to his company. In the second statement, Roach said references to power shortages in Idaho made during a House reclamation subcommit tee hearing in Washington "ob viously referred to power gen erated by the Bureau of Recla mation." ' But it was a statement made Monday in Portland by" Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post, that drew most of the power company presi dents ire. Hoyt said he doubted if the dams would ever be built be cause he didn't think the "proper guarantees" were written into the Federal Power Commission permit authorizing the projects. Portland Produce Farm Market Early Spitzenberg apple arrivals were being quoted around $2.35-2.50 a loose-packed box today; Anjou pears from Hood River brought up to $5. . J First Klamath basin Husset spuds, U.S. No. 2, were 65 cents for 50 pounds. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality, f.o.b. Portland): Fryers, 2Vs to 4 lbs., 22c; at farm, 21c; roasters 26c lb.; light hens, 17-18c; heavy hens, all wts.. 19-20c; old roosters.- ll-14c. t Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers. New York style, 36 37c lb.; whole drawn, 41-45c lb.; cut up, 47-50c lb.: hens, light' type. New York style, 27-29c;. cut-ups. 39-46c; hens, heavy type. N.Y. style, 28-31c; whole drawn. 40-44c. Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. farm, N.Y. dressed, 37-38C lb.; A grade -toms, 30-3 lc; live weight basis toms. 29c; A grade hens, 35",ic; A grade young- hens ready to cook, 55c; N. Y.- dressed.-48-49c lb.; fryer- turkeys.. 4-8 lbs.,- 56c;. cut-up toms, 46-50c. - .. .' 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