A Nichofs Worth of
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Ptf wtw Writr
Washington U.P. What's
nw in Washington:
The Smithsonian Institution
has received a
I p'C collection of
the adminis
tration of Pres
ident James K.
Polk. It came
fromthe Polk
Memorial As
soc i a tion of
Nash v i 1 1 e,
Tenn. Among
the items are
white lace fan
by Mrs. Polk
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used
owned and
and a pair of eye-glasses with
pewter frames once worn by the
tjllth President of the United
States.
The Pentagon is happy to re
port that at the Presidio in San
Francisco it has a Wac on the
payroll who is a great-grandma.
She is Sgt. lChoebe Rumley of
Comers, Mont., who is still under
60. The sergeant was a grand
mother when she was only 37.
The time came this week to go
through the desk of the late
Clark Griffith, owner of the
f 7ashington Senators. The like
able old fellow who died re
cent collected souvenirs.
Among the things he left be
hind was a rabbit's foot attached
to a tiny gold chain. It contained
a St. Christopher's medal. Mrs.
John Doud, mother-in-law of
President Eisenhower, had given
i t to him.
The Association of American
Railroads reports that its car
riers this year are expected to
deliver more than 53,000,000
bags of packages, letters and
greeting cards between Dec. 1
and Christmas Day. Nearly 1,
500,000,000 pieces of mail will
move by rail.
Mrs. Victoria Geaney, who
supervises the nation's official
guest house forQ visiting cele
brities, Blair House, never gets
a breather Since the President
of Guatemala left, she has been
housecleaning, painting and see
ing that the drapes and other
- trappings are in order. Some im
portant people from Portugal are
on the way.
The National Grange would
have us know that the recent in
stallation of glass partitions in
many monkey cages at zoos is
for protection of the monkeys,
not people. According to the best
information the Grange has, peo
ple are blowing tuberculosis
germs at the monkeys.
Wednesday, November 30, 1953'
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
evporf Group Argues For Decision Reversal On Yaqoirta Project
When Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles was about to fly to
Canada for a little relief from
the case of state, his plane was
delayed for a time. Then Mrs.
Dulles accompanied by her black
poodle arrived at the airport in
a private Emousine. Mrs. D. hur
ried to the waiting aircraft
carrying a mysterious looking
leather box shaped like a violin
case. It contained Dulles' hunt
ing gun. Dulles hopes to bag a
few ducks at his retreat at Duck
Island on Lake Ontario.
Washington U.R) A dele
gation from the Newport, Ore.,
area argued yesterday for a re
versal of Army Engineers' de
cisions against building a "deep
draft" channel at Yaquina Har
bor on the Oregon coast.
They told the Army Rivers
and Harbors Board that division
and district engineers had rec
ommended unfavorably on the
project because of insufficient
information on the traffic it
would attract.
Additional Tons
Retired Lt. Gen. Lewis Pick,
former chief of engineers and
now vice-president of the board
of Georgia Pacific Plywood Co.,
said facts had been gathered to
show the new channel would
carry an additional 840,000 tons
of cargo a year, at savings of
$1,103,000 to shippers.
Maj. Gen. Charles G. Holle,
Army board chairman, said fur
ther consideration would be giv
en to the earlier unfavorable re
ports, probably at a further
meeting here.
Pick said a subsidiary of
Georgia Pacific is building a new
plywood plant at Toledo, Ore.,
on Yaquina Bay, and also ex
pects in two or three years to
start shipments of Alaskan pulp
for "blending" with pulp from
a Toledo plant. He also argued
that the port is the closest one
to "the great agricultural area"
of Oregon's Willamette valley.
Added Shipments
John W. Hill, Port of Toledo
attorney, and other Toledo and
Newport witnesses, said a deep-
SP&S Engineers Take Slrike Vote
Chicago flJ.R) Locomotive
engineers on the Spokane, Port
land and Seattle Railroad have
voted to strike, the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers said in
an announcement received here
yesterday.
Grand Chief Engineer Guy L.
Brown said no date for a walkout
has been set, but that the en
gineers' patience was "running
thin." Talks with the railroad on
working conditions began Aug.
29, he said, and the 225 engineers
threaten to walk out if no agree
ment is reached "in the very near
future."
The railroad, a subsidiary of
the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railroads, operates be
tween Portland and Spokane,
and to Eugene and Bend, Ore.
er channel would make possible
added shipments of poles and
pilings, wood chips, chemicals
and oil products, as" well as lum
ber. The present channel has a 26
foot depth over the ocean bar,
and 20 feet inside the bay. Dis
trict Engineers considered sev
eral alternate depths but discard
ed eacti as not being justified
economically. They did recom
mend extension of the turning
basin.
Timber Not Considered
A statement submitted for
Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), said
the district decision failed to
take into account the increase
being allowed in timber cuts in
national forests and Interior De
partment forest lands.
The project was called "the
key to unlocking vast develop
ment" in a statement submitted
by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger,
(D-Ore.).
In separate action, the board
confirmed unfavorable reports
on a proposed improvement of
Chetco Cove breakwater and
dredging of the harbor to a 30
foot depth. The report said the
improvement "is not justified at
this time."
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Slrike End Voled
New Castle, l?id. (U.R) CIO
United Auto Workers at the Per
fect Circle Corp. foundry voted
by a narrow margin yesterday
to end their bloody four-month
strike which brought National
Guard troops and tanks to this
city twice in seven weeks.
The vote was 86 to 72. It came
on a secret ballot.
There was no indication im
mediately when the strikers
would go back to their jobs.
Emil Mazey, UAW interna
tional secretary, told newsmen
after the meeting, which was
called to ratify a two-year -agreement
reached in Chicago Mon
day, that the union would "do all
we can to put-the community
back together again."
He referred to violence and;
bloodshed which occurred since
the strike started last July 25
and brought a declaration of
martial law after an Oct. 5 gun
battle between strikers and non-
strikers who kept the foundry
operating during the walkout.
Civil Service Exams
Announced for Engineer
Examinations for career-con
ditional appointment of engi
neering draftsman to serve with
the navy department at-Kodiak
and Adak, Alaska, have been an
nounced by the federal civil
service commission.
Salary ranges from $3,670 to
t 4,525 annually .j, and applicants
jmus't be at least 18 years old.
Additional information may be
obtained from the post office c?
the bSkrd of civil service exam
iners, headquarters, 13th naval
district, Seattle, Wash.
Orville C. Pitts, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Pitts, 1162 Count st,
Mgdford, is scheduled to com
plete recruit training at trt? Ma
rine Corps recruit depot at San
Diego, Calif. Upon completion,
Pitts wnl assigned to Camp
Pendleton, Calif., for additional
training.
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