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.
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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.
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