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rwo-aEOPoRD (Oregon) mail tribune Thursday. DiMtnbr 1, College President Recalls Impression Left by Seeing Abe Lincoln in Cof im H. D. QUIGG United Presi CorrespondtBt (, New York OJ.R) The gentle man with the blue eyes, the stand-up collar, the cigar at pert tilt between two fingers, sat bolt upright at this rolltop desk and remembered 'way back in 1365. He remembered -a man in a coffin. "I can see that face yet," he said. "Gaunt . . . homely . .-. but there was something in his face that was really spiritual, even fo death. It has stayed with me all my life-4is face the spirit ual part of it. O O "To see such an ugly face, and to have it give you an impres sion that was something beyond human, was . . . well, was a counterpoise," said the blue eved gentleman. In this, the in spiration was intensified. It was bevond human. It has lasted with me all my lifetime. It, was probably the most spiritual thing in my life." The man in "the coffin was Abraham Lincoln. The gentleman doing the re membering, at the desk where he presides every day as head o,a. college, was Dr. Maurice J. L?Wi. Tomorrow, Dr. Lewi will whiz past a minor milestone. He will be 93 yeafj old. That would seem to calFiof' something of a celebration" "Celebration? No sir. I don't want any more," said Dr. Lewi. "They used to give me parties. Now, I've eschewed all that. If I live to be a hundred, then they can give me a banquet." j There's little doubt around the New York College of Podia try, which Dr. Lewi, an M.D., founded in 1912 and of which he's president and 'director of instruction, that the banquet will be given. He smokes eight cigars a day, eats "everything," Chas scotch-and-soda before dinner, dry chablis with the meal, puts in five days a week on the job, writesn historical-medical trea tises, (makes speches, plays poker ,:and whist maybe three times a week at the New York BridgesWhist Club (which he founded in 1906), attends meet ings of the Albany Society of New York (which he founded in 1893). .0 He was 8 when he saw Lin coln's body lying in state in the capitol in Albany, N. Y. He went twice through the long double line to see the face in the coffin. "People were sobbing, their handkerchiefs were out, and you could hear their voices, filled with tears, as they walked up the steep hill." "I've seen practically every President since then," he said. "And I knew many of them per sonally. I knew Garfield, Cleve land intimately, Harrison, Teddy Roosevelt he mentions me in his autobiography and the lat ter Roosevelt. Dr. Lewi was a medical wit ness at the execution of Presi dent McKinley's assassin and at tended the post mortem exami nation. q'Thi one of 14 children, all of whom, with the exception of two, lived into their 70s and 80s. My baby sister is alive at 87. My baby brother is 85, and he's known to his companions," said the doctor, huffing out a chuckle of -cigar smoke, "as Lewi the 14th." . 18th Mistrial Motion Filed in Pong Trial Portland U.P.) The attor ney for Sherry Fong yesterday made his 18th motion for a mis trial as the retrial of the Port land woman accused of first de gree murder went into its 12th day. O Irvin Goodman said his latest motion was based on "continu ous prejudicial misconduct on the part of the prosecution." The motion followed a xross-examin ation question in which Deputy District Attorney Howard Lon- ergan asked a defense witness about Mrs. Fong and narcotics. Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dob- son refused to consider the mo tion today, stating that we ve had two failures through errors . . . I'm doing my level best this time to see that the trial is completed and that this case goes to the jury." Mrs. Fong and her husband are accused of the slaying of 16- year-old Diane Hank. Merrifield, Morgan In Political Preview Salem (U.R) Ao preview of the coming political cam paigns was given ; Willamette university students yesterday when State Sen. John C. F. Mer rifield of Portland Republican, and Howard Morgan of M o n mouth, chairman of the State Democratic Central committee, debated which party should con trol the 1957 Oregon Legisla ture. Sen. Merrifield said the fact that Oregon is first in secondary education in the nation; first in hourly wages paid to workers; had the finest state institutions, civil service, retirement plan and highway program should be sufficient proof of the Republi can control of the last several legislative sessions. Morgan quoted newspaper disappointment in the 1955 Leg islature for "lack of leadership" and blamed Republican Gov. Paul L. Patterson. He accused Republicans of shunning .-exper ienced Democratic leadership because of partisanship, citing failure to name Sen. Robert D. Holmes of Gearhart to the chair manship of the Senate Education Committee which he had headed in the 1953 session. Chicaeo (U.R) A 204-pound Hampshire owned by McGuire Hampshire Farm, Wisner, Nebr., has been chosen grand champion barrow of the International Live stock Exposition. McMinnville (U.R) The 14th annual Pacific Coast Turkey Ex hibit will open here Dec. 6 for a four-day run. Harriman Criticisms Declared Dangerous Chicago U.R) National Republican Chairman Leonard Hall said yesterday that Demo crat Averell Harriman's criti cisms of the administration for eign policy are "-dangerous." Hill, here for a meeting of the GOP National Committee, told a news conference that Gov. Harri man's statements are "in my op inion, a disservice to his party." The New York governor, a possible" Democratic presidential candidate has been outspoken among Democrats in criticising the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy record. Hall saidiecfeels the time ele ment in President Eisenhower's decision on whether to run again is "not important." He said it would be all right if the decision were not made,-until late Febru ary or early March. . . DOUBLE JEOPARDY Anderson, Ind. (U.R) Aster Bedweli, hurt when a log rolled downhill and struck him in a freak accident, was treated for shock and additional injuries when the ambulance rushing him to the hospital collided with a car. Ike Hopes Chiang Changes Decision United Nations. N.Y. 4U.R) President Eisenhower still hopes that Generalissimo -Chiang Cai shek will withdraw his theat to veto U.N. membership for Outer Mongolia, both for Nationalist China s own sake and for the United Nations, American sources said yesterday. pfie President was said to have informed the Nationalists that their own position in the United Nations will be shaken badly if they persist in their present determination. A veto n Outer Mongolia also could scuttle the entire package plan to admit 18 addi tional members to the world body. President Eisenhower has made two appeals to Chiang to change his position. The first was said to have been turned down. No reply to the second has been received. (See Story on Page 9) NOTHING'S SAFE Washington. Ind. (U.R) Ap parently even an empty safe isn't safe any more. A huge safe containing 82,500 was stolen from a local grocery store and later found empty along the rail road track. 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