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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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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New York Italian dressmaker Micol Fontana on what she
will do if Margaret Truman does not like her wedding dress:
"I will kill myself."
Chicago Adiai E. Stevenson on the Illinois primary:
"The primary in Illinois means a great deal to me. It is the
most important referendum in which I shall participate."
New York Sen. Estes Kefauver on the acid hurling attack
against labor columnist Victor Riesel:
"Let nobody be mistaken. This is one of the most diabolical
plots hatched by the worst gangster elements in our society."
Aboard the S.S. Constitution, at Sea John Kelly on his daugh
ter actress Grace Kelley being upset about his telling of a father
and daughter conversation:
"I only told her what any father would say."
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Storrs, Conn. (U.R) Wil
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his way through the University
of Connecticut as a bridge toll
collector says: "My marks are
better than ever. I have all
night to study, and after 1 a.m.
the traffic is so light that I can
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