FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday. April 16, 1956
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BOARDING ROYAL, YACHT in Monaco Harbor, Grace Kelly receives tender pat on cheek
as welcome from Prince Rainier, whom she is to wed April 18-19. (International Soundphoto)
Citizen Wants Explanation of Reasons
Behind Busted Bucks of U.S. Prosperity
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By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribun. Correspondent
Washington "The reputation
of the American dollar i at
stake," wrote the citizen to Sec
retary of the Treasury George
M. Humphrey,
demanding an
explanation.
"Is the Re
publican dollar
sound or isn't
it?" he asked
point blank of
Ivy Baker
Priest, treasur
er of the Unit
ed States.
This inquiring taxpaying citi
zen had not been among those
who thought the country was
enjoying false prosperity under
President Eisenhower's admin
istration. He thought it looked
like the Democrats were holler
ing down the wrong rain barrel
in trying to challenge the Re
publican Drosoerity of whicn
their political foes were boast
ing. Then came the turning point.
He was standing in front of a
news stand near the National
Press building just a few blocks
from where they print the na
tion's money supply. He was pre
paring to buy the best bargain
in the country today a five
cent newspaper.
Dollar Parts
Like any good cashier who is
forking over money, he snapped
his dollar bill a time or two to
see that it was singular and not
plural when pow! The buck L
parted clean across the middle
just east of George Washington's
nose and just west of George
Humphrey's signature.
True, this bill had been some
time en route from the Bureau
Printing and Engraving, have
the street to that point in front
of the news dealer. But it was
a long way from the federal in
cinerator.
This wage earner was clearly
shocked to see his dollar appar
ently as sound as the Republi
cans claim split in two ap
parently breaking under the
stresses and strains of which the
Democrats are always warning
Dear Ivy, he wrote to the boss
lady in charge of printing new
money, "Here is your end of
what looked like a good, sound
Republican dollar. I am sending
the Secretary of the Treasury
his end. Here's hoping you two
can get together for a solid ex
planation of this fiscal tragedy.
New Material?
"You haven't been cutting
corners down at the Bureau of
Priting and Engraving, have
you? I hear the Democrats used
to use silk thread paper for the
money they printed back in New
Deal days. Have you come up
with some new synthetic mate
rial to cut printing costs and
help Mr. Humphrey balance the
budget?
"If that's the reason my buck
couldn't stand the pace of this
dizzy economy, doesn't it look
a bit penny . wise and dollar
foolish?"
To Humphrey, he told the
same sad tale and said if this
continues to happen "how do
you expect the average Ameri
can with a few busted bucks in
his pocket to believe you when
you talk about the virtues of
today's prosperity?"
The citizen is awaiting the
explanation of the fiscal heads
of the government.
Solution to Problem
A California biologist has re
ported findings to the Smithso
nian Institution here that may
enrich the poor Arctic Eskimo
and provide a solution to the
world's over - population prob
lem.
Prof. G. E. MacGinitie, Arctic
biologist, says a rise in Eskimo
birth rate is due to their eating
less muktuk and more of white
man's foods rich in vitamins
A and C.
Muktuk is the Eskimo's No. 1
delicacy. It is whale skin with
about an inch of underlying
blubber. It is frozen, cut into
small pieces and eaten raw.
If the biologist is right that
Eskimo papas have been pass
ing out cigars more frequently
since switching from muktuk to
eggs and cheese, it's only a mat
ter of time before an .Alaskan
promoter turns the professor's
equation around and markets
muktuk the world around.
Coast Guard Hunts
For Pair at Sea
Eureka, Calif. (U.R) The
Coast Guard renewed its search
today for a 40-foot boat which
disappeared Thursday with two
men aboard.
On the boat, the Toiler, were
K. A. Curtis Jr., 20, of Eureka,
and Louis Piper, 26, of Crescent
City. The boat left Crescent City
for Eureka and was scheduled
to complete the 150-mile trip
Friday afternoon.
The cutter Balsam from Eu
reka and a four -engine coast
guard plane from San Francisco
searched yesterday and Saturday
without results. Sheriff's officers
checked the rocky California
coast line in Humboldt and Del
Norte counties but found no
trace of the boat.
The vessel was bought last
week in Crescent City by Cur
tis' father, a former Washington
state fisherman.
Bulgarian Premier
Chermenkov Resigns
London (U.R) Sofia radio
said today the national assembly
met today to consider the resig
nation of Communist Bulgaria's
Premier Vulko Chermenkov.
The premier was criticized
publicly last week for "bowing
to the cult of the individual"
the sin of Stalin.
Sofia radio, broadcasting a
home service news program, said
the assembly met today to con
sider an application " by Cher
menkov to be "released from
his duties."
The announcement of Cher
menkov's resignation came in a
deadpan listing of the agenda for
the national assembly.
It listed item two as:
"Examination of the applica
tion of the chairman of the coun
cil of ministers for release from
his duties."
Chermenkov came to power
in 1953 during the Stalin era.
Bulgarian newspapers last
week began criticizing the pre
mier for "errors" akin to those
that led to the posthumous
smearing of the late Soviet dic
tator, Josef Stalin.
Baseball Experts Even
On Television Quiz
New York (U.R) Two eld
erly baseball experts battled it
out on even terms last night on
the $64,000 challenger television
program.
Mrs. Myrt Power, 72, New
York, winner of $32,000 on "The
$64,000 Question," and Walter
Dunnett, 77, of Parsippany, N.J.,
both gave correct answers to
questions on two successive no
hit games pitched by Johnny
Vandermeer of the Cincinnati
Reds. The draw moves them to
the $16,000 level next week.
Two other contestants chal
lenger Floyd Yeomans,, of War
trace, Tenn., and champion
Steven Frohlich, of Princeton,
N.J., passed the $4,000 mark
by naming the five men who
drew up the Declaration of Independence.
Britain and Europe
Face Potato Famine
London flJ.R) Britain and
Europe are facing a potato fam
ine. It won't be as bad as the Irish
potato famine a century ago.J
which loosed a stream of Irish
immigrants to the United States.
But it's bad enough to worry
governments. And housewives
are indignant over the high
price of spuds, which keeps in
creasing as supplies decrease.
The experts blame last year's
hot and rainless summer, which
reduced potato yields up to 50
per cent.
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In MedforcTs Schools
HEDRICK JUNIOR HIGH
Basketball, wrestling, band
and orchestra awards were pre
sented at an awards assembly
at Hedrick Junior High -school
last week.
Letters for the three basket
ball squads were presented by
their respective coaches, Robert
Work, seventh grade; Bernie
Averill, eighth grade; and Bar
ney Riggs, ninth. The ninth
grade team presented Coach
Riggs with an autographed bas
ketball. Wrestling awards were pre
sented by Coach Karl Kahle;
band by Director Ward Smith;
and orchestra, Director John
Drysdale.
Paul Moore was awarded the
David Dunn Memorial trophy
as the most inspirational bas-
ketbal player of the year.
The history trophy was pre
sented to the junior high school
by Mrs. J. Q. O'Albini and Mrs.
George Carter, regent of the! lo
cal chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution.
The assembly was closed with
the school song.
PAVEMENT POSIES
Portland, Ore. U.R) The
City Council is considering a
proposal to. beautify the business
district. The Portland Retail
Tradev Bureau has offered to
underwrite a $20,000 project to
hang flower pots filled with
roses and trailing vines on down
town lamp posts. The city's park
department has indorsed the
idea.
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First Airborne
Glider Pickup Made
Escondido, Calif .(U.R) T h e
first known airborne glider pick
up in history has been made
here to prove that an engine
less craft can be picked up in
flight by a plane's tow rope.
Don C. Stevens, glider trick
champion and holder of the
world's glider loop record of
118 consecutive loops, and
Charles Webber, a Pomona,
Calif., electronics engineer, made
the history making test pickup
Saturday.
Webber, flying a Super-Cub
light plane, towed Stevens' glid
er to 3,500 feet, where the glider
was cut free from the plane's
tow rope. The plane circled into
position above the glider's nose
and Stevens reached up with his
hand and grabbed hold of a ring
at the end of the tow rope.
The glider was re-towed for
more than a mile before Stevens
let go of the tow rope. The test
was made to perfect a special
tow hook that would enable glid
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ritory out of present glider
range.
Chicagc (U.R) Henry Waw
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four years and bought a new
Lincoln automobile. He paid for
the car with 227,500 pennies,
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