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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 3, 195B Norblad Goes To Florida To Take Part in Spring Baseball Training By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Congressman Walter forblad'g recent sprint around the state of Oregon in his abortive quest of the gov ernship wasn't completely in vain after all. His colleagues in Congress now figure he must certainly be one of the more physically fit lawmakers so they enlisted him as a member of the GOP baseball squad. So Norblad left Friday for Daytona Beach, Fla., to round out his spring training with his more portly colleagues during the Easter congressional recess. Oregon now must look to Nor blad to do honor to the state in the annual charity contest be tween the Elephants and Donkeys which will be played here in Washington in a few weeks. Sam Feels Age The past two years, Congress man Sam Coon has been the star from Oregon. He was the catcher for the Republican Elephants. But this year, Sam said, he began to feel his age. "I could get down in posi tion," said the 53-year-old ex cattleman and Sunday sand lot ballplayer from Baker, "but I couldn't get back up." Most Capitol Hill oldtimers will tell you that the annual junket to Florida is the main reason for Congress taking a week's recess in the spring. The Daytona Beach Chamber of Com merce picks up the tab for the trip for the congressmen and their families. Everyone seems to gain by the venture. The ballplaying poli ticians get a chance to swat a few foul balls without getting beat over the head for it by their opposition; underprivileged kids of the nation's capital get to go to summer camp on the gate receipts; and Washington fans get to see a game, the only one of its kind anywhere, that has the principle virtue of mak ing whatever the Washington Senators do look good by com parison, even in last place in the American league. Morse Loses Glasses Senator Wayne Morse was treating everything and every one at arm's length this past week. He explained that the joke was on him because he had lost his eye glasses last week-end while pitching hay on his near by Maryland farm. Wearing an old pair of specs that pre-dated his bi-focal days, the senator looked like he was playing a trombone every time he picked up a document and pushed it back and forth, closer and farther away from him. trying to get the proper eye range. Dana McBarron, a lumber buyer from Rogue River, came to Washington a few days ago for the first time in his life to testify before a congressional committee on the freight car shortage that plagues his in dustry's mills. "I've never been in this city before and obviously never have appeared before so distinguished a group as this," McBarron told the senators. Senator Scheeppel of Kansas, hardly cracking a smile, boom ed forth: "Well, youd better look us over because you are helping pay for this." If you think Maurine Neu berger, Sam Coon and Wayne Morse never would be caught agreeing on a single issue, they proved you wrong this past week. They proved that they agree that cake baking is the greatest, particrulary the baking of the nation's queen of the kitchen, Mrs. Henry Jorgenson, the Port land housewife who won $25,000 not long ago in national compe tition with a filbert-filled num ber she called "Ring-a-ling." Mrs. Jorgenson had lunch with Mrs. Neubeger, Coon and Morse all the other members of the Oregon delegation were out of town, or they would have come too. And not a word of dissent was heard from either party's members when the baking whiz said: "Oregon filberts were the key to my success." Back Stairs: Wilson Shocks Traveler By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press While House Writer Washington iU.RI Backstairs at the White House: A local traveler long familiar with the sight of Washington officials moving about in special automobiles and government air craft was somewhat shccked one day last week by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. Wilson, who has a large fleet of federal aircraft at his dis posal, was standing quietly in a line before the Eastern Air Lines ticket counter at Washing ton National Airport. An airline official couldn't believe his eyes at first. But then he quickly asked Wilson if he could be of assistance. No, said the secretary quite calmly. He was waiting for a friend and together they were making a quick trip down to New Orleans. 1 they probably wince when they I House is believed to have origin- From the start of the Eisen hower administration, there has been a feeling at the White House, at least, against using government facilities for person al travel for anybody but the President. While many top Washington officials still ride in federally owned and operated limousines, pass Serman Adams The assistant to the President certainly ranks as high as any cabinet member, but since the administration has been in of fice he has driven himself to and from work. The egg rolling yesterday on the south grounds of the W'hite Roseburg Youths Test Chemistry Knowledge Roseburg U.R) Roseburg police agreed today that some times studying at home can be dangerous for teenagers espe cially if the course is chemistry. A pair of 14-year-old lads, freshman chemistry students at Roseburg high school, Saturday night took their chemistry sets to an isolated spot of the Mt. Nebo residential area of the city. They found that, when com pounded in the right propor tions, potassium chloride and magnesium make a terrific ex plosion. Police settled by relating the regulations of the city fire works ordinance to the two youths. ated many centuries ago at East er time in Wales. In the early days of the Easter custom in Wales, however, the people did not roll eggs. They rolled them selves down the nearest and smoothest hillside. The gentle slopes on the south ' lawn of the White House did j not offer much opportunity for j truly active body rolling, but' there are a few down hill areas ! where the kids could spill them-: selves if the crowd is spaced to ; permit falling down. j Mr. Eisenhower's first rear ', platform speech of 1956 came last week when his train stop-; ped at Clifton iorge, va., en route back to Washington from his White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., conference with the Presi dent of Mexico and Canada's Prime Minister. The President, chatting in formally with a group of about 50 people, didn't get into politics but he did talk about his golf. He seemed more -pleased by his game at White Sulphur than any golf he has shot since his ill ness last year. He was proudest of his birdie three on the 380-yard fourth hole the day before he left. DIDN'T READ IT Neubiberg, Germany (U.R) Airman 1st Class John DeHope paid a fine at a hospital here because he forgot to return a book. The title was "Three Weeks to a Better Memory." HEADS FOR WASHINGTON Tokyo (U.R) Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, commander - in - chief of U.N. forces and U.S. Far East command, left Tokyo today for consultations in Washington. Edmund E. Hass Resident Manager IT!) TXT h -ZZ-b-J JlACIFIC rNORTHWEST CoMPANl . Sine 1913 HOTEL MEDFORD LOBBY Phone 2-8379 Consult With Mr. Hass on INVESTMENT and RETIREMENT Programs Using the Securities of . . . Utilities Banks Insurance Industrial and Investment Company Shares. Incomes of 3 to 6 Can Be Obtained. 'Other offices in Portland, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Aber deen, Bellingham, Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla Walla. To Buy or Sell - Use Tribune Classified Ads A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Washington (U.R) And there stood the nude lady, howling her blonde head off in the aisle of the pullman car. There was, she cried, a mouse, in her compartment. The conduc tor looked into the matter while the port- A'VJ er supplied a Harnuo Nichols towel to COVer embarrassment. Sure enough a mouse was aboard. This sort of thing happened to the same lady so many times on so many railroads that the. rail road police got tired of paying the blonde a nuisance fee. Turn ed out it was a racket and the "lady" carried her own mouse in a shoe box. According to my friend H. S. Dewhurst, who used to be with the protection section of the rail road police working with the American Association of Rail- Communist Organ Condemns Stalin For First Time Moscow W.R) The most au thoritative organ of the Com munist party's Central commit tee condemned Josef Stalin by name for the first time today. Kommunist, the party's theo retical and political journal, de nounced the former Soviet Pre mier for usurping the supreme and absolute leadership. It followed an article in the party newspaper Pravda last week which accused Stalin of immodesty, falsification of his tory and attributing to himself achievements of the country and the army. The Kommunist editorial did not refer to Stalin's personal traits as did Pravda, but it men tioned his name three times in connection with the develop ment of the cult of the person ality. Considerable Harm '"Trie cult of the personality practiced by Stalin caused con siderable harm to party work," Kommunist said. '"By ignoring party principles of collective leadership Stalin brought about violation of internal party de mocracy, dimunition of the ac tivity of Communists, lowering of initiative and impeded criti cism and self-criticism." The Kommunist article said the 20th party Congress "carried out its work under the slogan of 'Leninist unity' and the fur ther rallying of the party around its general staff, the Centra its general staff, the Central committee, under the banner of complete and undivided trust in its tried leadership." roads, this sort of thing goes on all of the times. H. S. (nickname Steve) doesn't recommend the performance. The gumshoes of the railroads are on their toes. "Sooner or later," is the way Steve put it across a table load ed with club sandwiches and iced tea, "We catch 'em." 60.000 Arrests Yearly Steve knows whereof he speaks on account of he once authored a book called "the rail road police." It was very reveal ing. Tbout 60,000 folks are arrest ed by railroad police each year for law violations. They run a gamut from felonies to mis misdemeanors. And if you have a mind to violate the rules con sider this: The police of the rails hold an exceptional record of getting convictions in 98 per cent of the cases tried. The files of the rail police show some interesting cases. Like the missing depot clock out in a Chicago suburb. A short time later it showed up back on the wall where it be longed. Turned out a commuter was worried about the lousy time the clock was keeping and had takn it home to adjust it. It works fine now. The gumshoes of the rails have to be all over. In the freight yards, where vandalism occurs. Like the four-year-old cherub who admitted he had watched the handlers of the switches un til he finally managed to to wit ness a wonderful train, wreck. The Suitcase Trick "That sounds fantistic," said Steve, "but it really happened." According to the rail police, there are a lot of tricks the confidence folks pull. Like a lady trveler comes into a term inal and has a large bag, a purse full of lady gear and another small grip she wants to lug with her. She, of course; is having a devil of a time handling every thing. Up comes this "nice man." He offers to help and before the lady knows it she has everything locked up and the crook hands her a key. Of course it doesn't fit. And of course she never sees him again. Most of the time, though, the railroad police are around to prevent that' sort of thing. They have sharp eyes as well as gum on their shoes. Salem (U.R) Funeral ser vices will be held here at 2 p.m. Wednesday for 'William Herman Wirtz, 71, deputy state corporation commissioner, who died Saturday. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport 0 ' i v)' f) J l " LaYaway ff I ' DRESSES TO 1 JJl U CH ft V i j f OmVIlVllJlli I felony, Many More Every one bread new! mmmmmmmmM Glowing Solid Color Broadcloths! Butcher Weave Rayons! Chromspun-acetate-Nylon Seersuckers! Pongee Prints! Printed Embossed Cottons! 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