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Rabbitt Loaned by Navy To Care for President's White House Putting Green Washington (CQ) The Navy has loaned President Eisenhower a five foot 11 inch Rabbitt to advise him on his White House golf green. And this Rabbitt's nickname is also Ike. The full name of this Dr. Paul Dudley White of the golf green is Alton E. Rabbitt of Bethesda, Md , a grass expert. He was hired by the Navy's Bureau of Aero nautics in 1942 to combat erosion on its airfields. But his bak ground led to an added duty one which the President's need for recreation has emphasized: making sure the White House golf green stays healthy. About once a month Mr. Rab bitt leaves his desk in the Navy Munitions Building on Constitu tion ave. to check up on his patient: 2,800 square feet of grass in back of the White House. He probs it for bugs, fungus and examines its texture for "put tability." Special Brushes But Rabbitt just prescribes the medicine. The actual treat ment is performed by the White House groundskeepers. They even have special brushes and lawn mowers for manicuring their world-famous green. "It's a fine green," Rabbitt said. "Outside of a few brown patches, the only headache has been the squirrels." The squirrels have found the frequently water ed green easy diggings and have tried to turn it into acorn store room. But passing of winter has cut down on their trips. The green was finished in June, 1954. The United States Golf Association paid for the installation and Pennsylvania State University, headed by the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, cultured the grass seed. According to Rabbitt, the Uni versity selected a creeping bent grass from greens at the Lu Lu Temple County Club near Phila delphia. The selection was then painstakingly crossed, murtured and tested at the University from 1935 to 1953. One of the first places the final product called Penn-lu was planted was on the greens at the Aronimink Coun try Club, also near Philadelphia. The USGA took enough of it from Aronimink to make the President's green, rolled the sod up like a rug and transported It to the White House. The green has one hole which is changed periodically to distribute the wear. 1 1 i & r : iUHu aooui jcuyaia In all his trips to the White House, Rabbitt has never seen President Eisenhower putting on the green. "I met him once at the Congressional Country Club, though," Rabbitt said. He asked me about zoysia, a hardy grass sometimes called a wonder grass native of Manchuria which is being tried out on lawns and golf courses in the United States." Actually, President Eisenhow er and his green doctor have more in common to talk about than grass. Both love golf Mr. Rabbitt so much so he quit school for a while to try to break into the pro ranks. Also, both were nicknamed Ike in their early years and' both were out standing in sports at college. President Eisenhower was tag ged Ike by his schoolmates the same monicker given to his brothers but it stuck with the President and Rabbitt got his nickname from his four-year-old sister, Eva, who found Ike easier on the tongue than Alton, ' Ail-American Lacrosse Player At West Point, Mr. Eisenhower played football and baseball while Rabbitt was an All Amer ican lacrosse player in 1936 at the University of Maryland. And how did their paths final ly cross? The Navy asked Rab bitt to spend a few moments a month advising on the golf green after it found in his personnel file: bachelor of science degree from Maryland in agriculture; grass research program of the United States Golf Association, 1936-38; National Capital Parks Service where he specialized in grass growing and care, 1938-42. So he was a natural for the golf green mission. His name, of course, comple ments his background. The de liberate, congenial Rabbit says punsters make the most of the name, but, he adds laughingly "They've got to admit a rabbit should know something about grass." (Coypright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) FOR QUICK REPLACEMENT OF CRACKED SAFETY GLASS CM 3-3S13 5LASSCB 303 North Bartlett Insurance claims promptly serviced S . 7; ( I tf CURRENT ISSUES President Eisenhower gestures em phatically during his news conference as he tells re porters that it is problematical whether the farm bill in its present shape would be of any help to the fanner. He also said he would not order any American troops into action in the Middle East or anywhere else without con gressional approval. Quotes From the New; By UNITED PRESS Washington President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a statement on U.S. policy in the Middle East: "The United States, in accordance with its responsibilities un der the charter of the United Nations, will observe its commit ments within constitutional means to oppose any aggression in the area." Ashland, G. Pass Youths Appraised For Scholarships Evanston, 111. (u.R) More than 4300 high school seniors will receive certificates of merit and about 520 others are being appraised as scholarship win ners, the National Merit Scholar ship 'corporation announced to day. An exhaustive search was made to find the nation's top high school students, the NMSC said. Last year 60,000 seniors were nominated by high school principals as outstanding stud ents. Screening and testing whittled the number down. A preliminary test reduced the number of stud ents to 5,000 who took the final test, the NMSC said. Top Students A committee selected the top students from each state, pro-rated on the basis of population, by using final scores and informa tion supplied by the high schools. The NMSC estimated that the students selected are in the top one-half of one per cent of the seniors in 10,338 high schools across the nation. All of the 4,300 certificate winners are deserving of schol arships, the NMSC said, and all would get them if the money was available. A list of the tal ented students is being sent to colleges, universities and other scholarship granting agencies. More than one million dollars in scholarships was announced as available by the NMSC last October when the first test was given. Another million dollars was added to the amount by 16 corporations that joined the mer it scholarship program, the NMSC said. Four Year Grant Scholarship winners will get four years of college. The amounts of individual awards will be determined by the needs of the student, the NMSC said. The scholarships will have an average value of $6,000 to stud ent and college. Schools attend ed by merit scholars will re ceive grants equal to the stud ents' tuition, provided the two are not more than $1500 a year. The NMSC said the grants to colleges are to make sure the schools do not lose money in ed ucating scholarship winners. Names of the winners will be announced about May 1. Oregon students included: Jerry Miller and Peter Windt, Ashland; William Burroughs, Thomas H. Denny, Jr., and Ed gar Stout, Grants Pass. The land known as Iraq was once called Mesopotamia. ' Tuesday. April 10, 1S5S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TIVB Income Taxes Likened To Camel Which Got Nose Under Arab Tent By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) There's an old story about a camel which got its nose under his Arab mas- ter's tent, probably to keep his nose warm. Anyway, the camel kept easing in until all of him was inside the tent and the Arab master was Lyie c vviIsod outside. There wasn't enough room for both of them. Maybe that's the way it will be with the in come tax, which is not a work of the devil, as many suppose about this time of year. The income tax was the work of two presidents and two con gresses, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. President Taft and a Republi can Congress started the ICth Amendment to the Constitution on its way in 1909. Not Faintest Idea President Wilson and a Demo cratic Congress imposed the first individual income tax in 1913. There could not have been one among the state and national legislators who voted for the 16th Amendment who had the faintest idea what the graduated individual income tax would become. President Eisen- Bank Customer Tries Hard To Obtain Loan Bicknell, Ind. (U.R) Wil lard Holt Jr. couldn't get any mony from the Citizens State Bank Monday no matter how hard he tried. First he asked for a loan. When he was refused, he pro duced an icepick and forced bank President Byron W. Don aldson to fill a sack with $6,000. When the banker put up a fight. Holt dropped the money and fled lo his home where he was soon arrested. Idaho Youth Wins American Legion Contest Portland (U.R) Austin Berg in, 17-year-old Shoshone, Ida., student, last night was declared winner of the American Legion's regional oratorical finals here. He won out over David Curry, Portland; Lura Peek, Seward, Alaska, and Paul Ulrich, Butte, Mont. Bergin will go on to com pete in the sectional finals at Carson City, Nev., this Thursday. hower plans to tap individual in come taxpayers for about $35, 000,000 in the next fiscal year, 'There was an understanding all around when the 16th Amendment was adopted that it never would be much of a tax. And that was the way it started, a tap on the wrist. Under the first income tax act, a married person with two dependents and a net income of $3,000 paid no tax at all. Exempt. On a net in come of $5000 he paid two tenths of one per cent. That came to $10. A $10,000-a-year husband with two dependents paid six tenths of one per ,cent under the 1913 act $60. If this person had a net income of $5,000,000 a year, the government , told him to come across with 6.8 per cent of it, less than $350,000. The $5, 000,000 man now would pay more than $4,000,000. The World War I 1917 Rev enue Act tapped a married man with two dependents and $2,500 net income for $2. His tax went to $6 under the 1918 wartime Revenue Act but dropped to $4 before he was exempted alto gether by the Revenue Act of 1921. It was not until 1941 that the $2,500 net family man had to pay income taxes again. His bill then was $12. Paid 6.3 Per Cent The $3,000-a-year family man under the 1945 World War II tax bill paid at the rate of 6.3 per cent. That is just about the rate at which the $5,000,000 man paid in 1913. The $5,000 man with two dependends who paid $10 in 1913 had to pay $156 in 1918. It was down to $104 the next year, then to- $68, and in the 1928 Revenue Act this ltian's payment dropped to $8 and then to $3. The record will show that the Democratic Party usually has raised income taxes and that the Republicans have sought to lower them. The big bulge be gan in 1932, during the last of the Hoover administration, but taxes dropped back briefly un der FDR. In 1941 they started to zoom and they still are up there after considerable climbing. Price of Live Hogs Jumps 40 Per Cent Chicago (U.R) The American Meat Institute said today the price of live hogs jumped an av erage of 40 per cent during tha last three months. The price per hundredweight last week was $15.25, while the price during a comparable week last month was $12.01, the AMI said. The average price was $10.87, or about 40 per cent lower, during the week ending Jan. 7. Hog prices last week were the highest in any week since the average of $15.35 of last Oct. 15, the AMI said. 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