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next August? If so, you'd betterfamily attending the GOP Na
get your hotel reservations nowtional Convention which opens
' or you may wind up sleepinghere Aug. 20.
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BIG JOB AHEAD CBS television executives from New
York pay a visit to San. Francisco's famed Cow Palace to
check-plans for television coverage of the i956 Republican
convention. Left to right are Sig Mickelson, vice president
for news and public affairs, Nye Wilson, Cow Palace gen
eral manager, Elmer Lower, CBS director of special proj
ects, and Paul Levitan, production chief for the convention.
They are in San Francisco to arrange for camera posi
tions and installation of more than $10 million in electronic
equipment to beam the convention across North America.
The Blue Ox League . . . '
A hundred years ago "Sacra
mento" was yet ringing, as -a
golden bell to young men of ad
venture around the globe. There
was gold to be prospected all the
way to the Sierra-Nevadas, and
as far north as Gold Hill and the
Blue Mountains in Oregon.
The historic word, 'Sacra
mento,'? today means lumber
sales to a sizable segment of the
fir and pine industries of Ore
gon and to not a few mills in
Washington.
Nowadays the valleys of the
Sacramento and the San Joaquin
are centers of the ceaselessly
growing building boom of the
Golden State mighty markets
for rail lumber shipments from
the northern" lands of Paul Bun
yan and his Big Blue Ox.
This fact has been -graphically
dramatized by a group of Sacra
mento wholesale lumbermen un
der the title of "The Blue Ox
League." The 15 firms have com
mitted themselves to a code of
business conduct that fits in
handsomely with the principles
and practices of West Coast lum
ber manufacturing. In fact, the
"Blue Ox Code" of the Sacra
mento wholesale lumber distrib
utors is a fine one to adapt to
any line of American private
enterprise.
A Code of the Hills ...
Let me say that I commonly
try to practice what I preach.
I've already drafted an adapta
tion of the "Blue Ox Code" to
the business of concocting and
distributing big timber tales
about Paul Bunyan who never
in all this world found a tree
tall and strong enough for him
to lean on without its falling
over.
My code of the timber tales is
offered to my old friend, C. D.
LeMaster, Sacramento laird of
Hob-Hoo and editor of "Western
Building Review," who has
made a fine featuure out of the
"Blue Ox Code" of the whole
sale lumbermen in his, February
issue. ' ; .
Their principles are stated in
six paragraphs, each preceded
by one letter from the name
"Blue Ox." They deal with tech
nical lumber trade practices. My
adaptation is not so technical.
The Bunyaneers ...
Any man who packs a card
of membership in the "Tall Tim
ber Bunyaneers" must sign up
on the following statement of
belief and trade practices:
B . . . that truth is stranger
than fiction any day in the week;
U . . . that Paul Bunyan was a
giant . of the timber country,
.heart, soul and hide, and noth
ing else;
N . . . that the tall tale teller
who can't or won't stick to the
Unusual Aurora Seen
In Alaskan Skies
Fairbanks, Alaska U.R)
An Aurora Borealis of the type
seen only four times in the past
40 years stretched across the
northern sky here early Satur
day, University of Alaska geo
physicists reported.
Dr. C. T. Elvey said the nor
thern lights which flashed at
12:15 a.m. (Alaska time) con
tained a pure red arc. Such a
phenomonen is so unusual, he
said, that Norwegian geophysic
ist Karl Stromer has received
only four reports of the arc in
.40 years of research.
MAIL TRIBUNE
tut
dia STEVENS 3EH
above prime and fundamental
truth and fact should be made to
go climb a tree; .
. Y . . . that the unethical Si
wash of bunkhouse or campfire
yarn-spinning who tries to tell
how Paul ' Bunyan dug a mine
or drilled for oil ought to be
tied down and given a flat-top
haircut with dull sheep shears;
A . that tales about the old
time Paul Bunyan, who . repre
sented the pioneering lumber in
dustry, should show him not just
as a logger but a land-clearer for
farmers.,
" N . . . that tales about the new
Paul Bunyan of the lumber
woods must , be tagged with the
truth - that the modern' lumber
man prevents forest fires, grows
new tree crops amid the stumps
of the old. ;. - - -
I know this code calls foi much
working over. Suggestions from
Sacramento and elsewhere will
be welcomed. '
Five File Intentions
In State Politics
- Salem U.R) Ward H.
Cook, Portland, filed Friday af
ternoon for the Democratic nom
ination for state senator from
the 12th district (Multnomah
county).
Other filings were:
Wayne R. Giesy, Monroe Re
publican, for representative
from the 11th district (Benton
county).
S. H. Burleiglj, La Grande,
for judge of the Circuit ' Court,
10th judicial district.
Eddie Ahrens, Turner Repub
lican, for representative from
the 12th district (Marion coun
ty). . ;.-
Jack R. Quinby, Portland Re
publican, for state- senator from
the 12th district (Multnomah
county).
HANGING TOO GOOD For
the meanest robbers who way
laid 10-year-old Gerard De
schenes in the dark at Mon
treal and robbed him of hard
earned $17. Gerard, being
comforted by bis mother,
helps support his needy fam
ily by delivering groceries.
Besides the baby there are
two other small children in
the family.
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Monday, February 27, 1956
ing hotel arrangements for the
expected 30,000 to 40,000 GOP
visitors and newsmen said there
would be no problem.
The hotel situation will be
a bit tight, of course, but no
body feels it will be necessary
to lodge delegates in Pullman
cars or aboard ships in the bay
as some pessimists predicted
when San Francisco was chosen
as the convention site.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt, had
headquarters aboard the battle
ship New York when the Demo
crats held their convention here
in 1920, but he was assistant
secretary of the Navy then.)
Harold M. Strong, secretary
of San Francisco's convention
and visitor's bureau, said be
tween. 9,000 and 10,000 rooms
already have been contracted
for in more than 150 hotels.
Allotment Problem
He foresaw no trouble lining
up the few remaining rooms
needed for the 10,000 total guar
anteed by the city when it made
its successful bid for the conven
tion last year. .
. "The only difficulty will be
over the allotment of rooms,"
Strong said. "Convention head
quarters will be at the Fairmont
and Mark Hopkins Hotels on
Nob Hill, and everyone is going
to want to stay at one or the
other."
That's not Strong's problem,
however. It belongs to Ted
Dalton of Radford, Va., chair
man of the convention's housing
committee.
Actually, the hotels lose money
on a big convention such as the
GOP jamboree, Strong said.
During a normal tourist sea
son they are 99 per cent full. But
when they contract to have a
block of rooms ready at a cer
tain time it means that many
rooms stay empty for several
days before the deadline " be
cause the management can't ac
cept any long-term guests. Nor
can it force paying guests : to.
leave against their will.
And when the convention ends,
the hotel ' is " suddenly left with
a flock of empty rooms which
take several days to fill up again.
It will be more profitable for
the huge Cow Palace . where
the convention meetings will be
held. The state-owned building
will cost the. Republicans $1,000'
a day for rent alone. The man
agement also has reserved all
food and drink concessions (no
liquor). -Rebelled
at Name
The Cow Palace built by the
WPA in the late 1930's, is note
worthy for both its name and
size. '
Jts name is a controversial
topic in newspaper letters-to-the-editor
columns. Some San Fran
ciscans think it undignified. It
was coined many years ago by
a brevity-minded ' reporter who
rebelled at writing' "The Grand
National Livestock Exposition
Building of the No. 1-A District
Agricultural Association."
As for size, the management
says the huge Quonset-like struc
ture could lose Madison Square
Garden inside. Hard-top auto
races were run there last year,
marking the first time they, had
been held indoors anywhere. '
About 17,000 seats will be
available for the convention and
therein lies a big headache for
the management. Apparently all
tickets for the individual" ses
sions will go to the various dele:
gations for re-distribution. ;. .
The Cow Palace, which, in
cidentally, is a few feet outside
the south city limits, is situated
in Visitation Valley in the path
of cool ocean breezes. The
climate factor found favor with
President Eisenhower and other
GOP veterans who sweltered at
the Chicago convention four
years ago.
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Storm Toll Reaches
873 In West Europe
London (U.R) Western
Europe' Saturday counted at
least 873 persons dead in its
worst winter of the century and
weathermen-predicted more cold
and snow for the weather-beaten
continent.
There has been virtually no
break in the cold since a Siber
ian icy front swept over Eur
ope 25 days , ago. Weathermen
said the cold is likely to hold
over most of the continent for
another 10 days.
Authorities were openly con
cerned over the prolonged siege
of snow, ice and sleet. The cold
wave, in addition to its tragic
toll of dead, has wreaked heavy
damage to crops and depleted
food an'd fuel stocks.
In hard-hit France, the gov
ernment imposed "emergency
measures tb prevent food short
ages from sending prices sky
rocketing. Stores in London applied vol
untary rationing on potatoes and
green vegetables.
Smith Addresses '
Ontario Chamber
Ontario (U.R) ' Gov. Elmo
Smith, addressing the Ontario
Chamber of Commerce at a noon
luncheon Saturday said he was
well aware of the battle that
was ahead of him as he seeks
the Republican nomination to
succeed himself in the May 18
primary.
Smith, making stops at several
eastern Oregon cities, said that
until May of this year he will
be primarily interested in get
ting acquainted with the people
of Oregon, particularly those
living in the western part of the
state. ,. '. .
The governor, who publishes
two eastern Oregon weeklies,
already is quite well known in
the eastern part of the state. He
was a comparative unknown fig
ure in the more densely populat
ed western section, though, un
til his recent sudden succession
to the - state's chief executive
post upon the death of Gov.
Paul Patterson. -
Ministers Pledge
Support of Boycott
UMontgomery, Ala. ."(U.R).
Ministers of four large . popula
tion .centers pledged their sup
port Saturday to a nationwide
"deliverance day" sitdown on
March 28 to protest the prosecu
tion of Negro leaders of a bus
boycott here.
, ' The demonstration suggested
by Rep. Adam Clayton Powell,
Negro congressman from New
Y o r k, gathered momentum
across the country.
In this Alabama capital, . thou
sands of Negroes' completed the
11th week of their . boycott
against the" segregated city bus
system undaunted by the arrest
of 90 of their leaders.
Communists Submit
Allied Troop List
Panmunjom, , Korea (U.R)
The Communists handed a long
list of names to the United Na
tions Military Command Satur-
da as their explanation" of what
happened to 2,698 Allied troops
still listed as missing.; ";-
The list was 22 short of the
U.N. list, which : includes 450
Americans, 2,224 South Koreans
and 46 men from p other U.N
nations v which fought in . the
three-year Korean war.
Berlin, Germany -(U.R) The
Russians Saturday -rejected a
Western Allied protest against
the formation of a? workers mil
itia in East Berlin." '
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Ignore Rude People
At Social Gatherings
Rudeness reflects only on the"
person who is rude, hot. on the
people to whom he is rude.
(Q) "When I
attend a meet
ing or some
social engage
ment, and peo
ple are talk
. ing, I am com
pletely left
out of the con-
versation.
If I try to talk
to them, .they
pay no aftenlion to me, as if I
weren't there. Sometimes, I
have the feeling they are talking
about me or telling about some'
thing I can't understand. Other
limes, I feel as if I weren't want
ed and go home and try to for
get being with them again,
like to go places once in a while
without the feeling that I am not
wanted there. What is the mat
ter with me that people . treat
me this way?" i M.L.W.
" (A) Do all people you come
in contact with treat -you this
way or does it happen only oc
casionally? That is important
for you to answer because it
will determine whether you or
the other people are to blame.
. If everyone ' treats, you this
way, it suggests your methods
of approach antagonize them. Do
you literally "butt into" other
people's ,. conversations k without
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waiting for them to ask you to
join them? When , you see . two
or more people talking together,
you should not join them unless
they make" it clear they want
you to. They may be talking
about something rather personal
and would not want someone
else to be there. . -.
Should Be Courteous
If , on the other hand, this
experience happens only 4 oc
casionally, then you may safely
conclude the other people are
being rude. Even if they were
talking about, something person;
al when you joined them, they
should have been courteous
enough to switch the conversa
tion to something you could join
m.
When people are rude, espe
cially at social gatherings when
everyone is expected to be on
friendly terms and polite . to
everyone else there, then those
who are rude should be ignored.
It reflects on them, showing that
they have neither good manners
nor the right feelings about their
social obligations. Under such
conditions, ignore them in. the
future and devote your time to
people who are more , courteous
and gracious in their behavior.
Algiers, Algeria (U.R)
French forces disclosed Saturday
they killed 27 terrorists inV an
attack on a strong rebel band
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Nationalist; Reds
Accuse Each Other
Tokyo (U.R) Nationalist
and Communist China accused
each other Saturday of shelling
civilian areas in their, latest ar
tillery duel around the offshore
islands. ; ;
- A Radio Peiping broadcast
monitored here said the Nation
alists on Quemoy Island plast
ered civilian areas of the Com
munist . mainland ; islands - of
Amoy and Tateng with : 190-
shells. It said civilian homes
were destroyed and one person
was wounded.
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Russians Adopt Style
Of American Farming
: Moscow (U.R The historic
20th Communist party congress
which changed the course of
Soviet thinking ended at the
great Kremlin palace Saturday
in song and cheers forLeniriism.
Stalin's name was not mentioned.
Last announced official acts
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