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Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Chicago President Eisenhower's message to the Republican
National committee meeting to draft plans for the 1956 GOP nomi
nating convention:
"I shall do everything in my power next year to help you re
port the record accurately and fully tt the country."
Tokyo Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemiisu in a
policy statement at the opening session of the Diet:
"Let me say that Japan has maintained and will continue to
maintain close contact with jhe United States and will cooperate
n all problems of mutual concern."
Buenos Aires Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz on his return to Ar
gentina tootake back his confiscated newspaper La Prensa:
"I am returning to this country to meet my friends, relatives
and countrymen after an exile of four years brought on by the
terrible dictatorship of ex-President Juan D. Peron."
Los Angeles Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D.-Tex.) in a plea to both
parties to be "big enough" to maintain a bipartisan foreign policy:
"I have faith in the ability of America to maintain a common
front against danger. There will be strains and stresses that im
peril our unity. But the people have wisdom and the people have
strength and together we -will remain united in our determination
to preserve our freedoms."
St. Louis T. Lamar Caudle, head of the Justice department
tax division until he was fired in 1951 after his indictment Thurs
day on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government:
.?.. "Why -am I used as a scapegoat and offerd to public sacrifice?
I've done nothing wrong. I've done only good."
Jackson. Miss. Sen. James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.) on urging
the South to take the offensive to maintain racial segregation:
"We in the South cannot stay longer on the defensive. We must
take the offensive. We must carry the message to every section of
he United States."
Friday. December 2, 1955 A Nich0J5 VVorffl of . . .
Comment On This and That
5-Year Probation
On Kidnap Attempt
Portland (U.R) Jesse W.
Moore, 64-year-old Portland ma
chinist who attempted to stage
a kidnaping for ransom to fi
nance his marriage, yesterday
was placed on five year proba
tion by Circuit Judge William
3VI. Dickson.
Moore has been held in jail
for about five months since his
arrest for the attempted kidnap
ing June 6 of one of the six-year-old
twin sons of Mrs. Lillian
Weinstein. He pleaded guilty.
Mrs. Weinstein and her hus
band, Jack, pleaded with the
court to impose a prison sen
tence. They said their 10-year-old
daughter was still suffering
from shock of the kidnap at
tempt when Mrs. Weinstein
fought with the intruder in her
sons' bedroom and a neighbor
fired a shot at Moore as he fled.
The judge warned Moore to
stay away from the woman he
had intended to wed with the
ransom money.
BURNS TO DEATH
Astoria U.R) Victor W.
Piekkola, 51, of Westport, burn
ed to death early yesterday when
fire destroyed his small bunga
low. Neighbors said the small
dwelling burned so fast they
were unable to do anything.
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Elderly Woman
Missing Near Bandon
Bandon (U.R) Search parties
today hunted an elderly woman
missing in dense brush south of
here since last Sunday evening.
Bandon police identified the
woman as Mrs. Lily Downey, 74.
She was believed to be from
"somewhere in the East," and
had come to Oregon to visit
relatives.
Police said the woman got off
a bus from Portland Sunday, and
started out to walk to the home
of a relative who lived south of
town. She was last seen walking
along Bill's Creek road.
While the ground party was
being formed, a Coos County
Aero Squadron? plane took off
from the- field at North Bend,
and planned to circle the area
"as long as weather permits."
SOME HANDLE!
Manchester, N.H. (U.R)
When George Leo Albert
Thomas Yvon Adams gets big
enough to play cops and robbers,
there's no doubt about which
side he'll be on." The baby was
named after four policemen who
assisted at his unexpected birth.
The fifth name comes from a
grandfather. '
Prompt Vaccine Use
Urged in Malheur
. Nyssa (U.RXU.R) Oregon . state
health officials today recom
mended the prompt use of Salk
vaccine to extend polio immun
ity of Malheur county residents.
Dr. Grant B. Hughes, county
health officer, said protection
against paralytic polio provided
area residents by emergency
gamma globulin shots during the
recent polio epidemic would end
in a few days.
Dr. Hughes urged local resi
dents to contact physicians to
arrange for Salk vaccine, and
recommended that all children
up to 15 years, and all pregnant
women, participate.
More than 40 persons, most
of them in the- Nyssa area, were
stricken with polio before the
emergency gamma globulin clin
ic finally halted the disease.
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Prwt Fohir Wrir
Harman Nicbol
Washington (U.R) This is a
piece about a man who was nick
named the "Red Fox of Kinder-
h o o k," t h e
"Am e r i c a n
Talle y r a n d"
and the "Lit
tle Magician."
It's a good
quiz question.
Who was he?
' Well, he was
the eighth
President o f
the United
States (1837-
1841). And Monday next, Dec. 5,
is the 1 am anniversary oi nis
birth. He was born in Kinder
hook, N.-Y., in 1872. His name
Martin Van Buren.
Historians describe "Little
Van" as small, dapper and ele
gant in his manner and dress. He
was picked by his predecessor,
Andrew Jackson. And they were
opposites. Jackson was the fly-off-the-handle
type. Van Buren
was mild of manner, a fancy-dan
when it came to clothes and our
first leader who was not bom a
British subject.
A Description
The research team of John and
Alice Durant in their Pictorial
History of American Presidents
picked up an item which de
scribed the "Red Fox" as he
looked in 1828 while down on
the kneeling stone at church one
Sunday: "He wore an elegant
snuff-colored coat with a velvet
collar; his cravat was orange
with modest lace tips; his vest
was of a pearl hue; his trousers
were of white duck; his long
furred hat with a broad brim
was of a Quaker color."
When the eighth President was
aboard, Washington had grown
up a little from the muddy
streets of its early days. It had
a population of 40,000, but pigs
and chickens still roamed the
streets without challenge. The
area was swampy and cursed
with malaria. Sewers were open.
Slaves still could be bought on
the auction block.
Charles Dickens at the time
was moved to write that the na
tion's capital was pretty much of
a mess. "Avenues began at noth
ing, and led nowhere," he said.
Southern Belle
When Van Buren came to
Washington he already had been
a widower for 18 years. He
moved into the White House in
1837 with his four sons. Soon,
his son Maj. Abraham Van Bu
ren, a West Point graduate,
walked down the middle aisle
with a cute little Southern .doll
named Angelica Singleton. She
probably was, the Durants say,
"the most beautiful hostess the
White House ever has known."
But the mistress of the big
house on Pennsylvania ave.
didn't make much of a hit "with
the triple-petticoated old ladies
around town. She and Abraham
had a honeymoon in Europe and
when the couple returned, the
whisper among the local 400 was
that Angelica wore airs.
Worse than that, the young
lady always wore three plumes
in her locks and when guests
came she poked out a dainty
hand while sitting in an armchair
on a platform. Goodness!
And even more shocking, per
haps, she was the first White
House hostess to sport a hooped
skirt.
Into Local Jaycees
Eight members were initiated
into the Medford Junior Cham
ber of Commerce this week at
the Jackson hotel. C. G. Ex
strom, national director from
Ashland, conducted ceremonies
with Don Hagedorn, district six
vice-president from Roseburg,
and J. D. Pierce of Medford as
sisting. ;
New members are John Gus
tafson, Leonard Howe, Glen Jen
nings, Gene Piazza, Morris Van
derwilt, Neal Wadley, Art Bos
tock and Ray Bostwick.
Hagedorn talked on work of
the state Jaycee organization and
Exstrom reported on national
Jaycee projects and the nation
al convention in Atlanta, Ga.,
Also attending the meeting
was Robert Dye, president of the
Ashland Jaycees.
A film of the Oregon State
California football game will be
shown at the next meeting of
the Jaycees.
N. Y.-Pverto Rico Waqe
Equality Suggested
ban Juan, Puerto kico iu.kj
-Gov. Averell Harriman of
New York has suggested an
'equitable relationship" be estab
lished between the wages of
workers here and in New York
state, a visiting congressman re
ported Thursday.
Rep. Herbert Zelenko (D
N.Y.), amember of a House
committee which will hold hear
ings here on Puerto Rican mini
mum wages, put a letter from
Harriman into the record.
Harriman said that his state's
economy is not greatly affected
by competition with Puerto Rico
but there are a few industries in
New York in which "the lower
wages in Puerto Rico may have
some unfavorable effects."
New Britain, Conn. (U.R)
Mrs. Omer Guilmette complain
ed to police that someone drove
an automobile into her 400
pound deer and broke it in sev
eral pieces. The deer was a metal
statue on her lawn.
Oregonians Will Share
Insurance Dividends K
About 5,000 Oregon poldy
holders in the Phoenix' Mutual
Life Insurance company of Hart
ford, Conn., will share the
1956 dividend increase, which
amounts to about $500,000, Wil
liam Salade, local representative,
has announced.
The new dividend scale will,
reduce family and business pro-'
tection costs, Salade said.
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HOT AND COLD
Winneconne, Wis. (U.R) The
mercury was hovering at 99 but
a water pipe froze in a restau
rant here. Mrs. Juanite Kleiber,
operator of the restaurant, said
a coil used to keep carbonated
water chilled froze a near-by tap
water pipe so solidly that hot
cloths had to be applied to thaw
it out.
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Abnormal Weather
Noted at Portland
Portland (U.R) A list of
new records were set in Portland
by abnormal weather conditions
last month.
The weather bureau said the
Nov. 15 low of 13 degrees at the
airport was the lowest tempera
ture recorded that early in the
fall. It was the second lowest
reading in November in the 84-year-old
operation of the weather
office.
Another ' mark tied during
November was recording of six
straight days of sub-freezing tem
peratures. The November snowfall of 6.4
inches was the greatest for No
vember since 1875, and the third
greatest on record. And the 8.87
inches of precipitation during
November brought the 1955 total
to 33.55 inches, which is .74 in
ches above normal.
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Court Records
POLICE COURT
Edward Lee Howell, failure to stop
at a red light. So.
Robert Merrei Carr, excessive noise
(tires). S10.
DISTRICT COURT
Kenneth H. Patterson, no signal de
vice, S10 bail forfeited.
Jack N. Wooldridge, failure to stop
at stop sign, $25 bail forfeited.
George A. Graves, no tail light, $6.
Jack B. Patterson, overload. $10.
CIRCUIT COURT
Louise Hale vs. Jay Hale, complaint
for annulment.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Carl B. Johnson. 55, and Eunice K.
Johnson. 43, both Roseburg.
One-sixth of all patents grant
ed by the U. S. Patent Office
have been for automotive inventions.
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