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XiaHT MEDrORD OHEGOIT) Ike's Signing of Senator George Proves He's No Political Amateur By LYLE C. WILSON United Preif Correspondent Washington CU.R) Dwight David Eisenhower can pick up His card any time now in the aneient and honorable or der of political operators. The profes sional soldier who became an amateur poli tician is no am ateur now. His latest maneu Lyio c. WiUoo ver came right out of the Roosevelt-Truman book of tricks, a fat volume. He's signed Democratic Chair man Walter F. George of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee for the Eisenhower team. At least, the retiring senator has indicated he will take the job, and it seems now that the senator will be in uniform when the presidential campaign be gins. If so, the planned Demo cratic attack on Eisenhower for eign policy will be hampered in some areas. Eyes and Ears George's activities will be as the President's eyes and ears in the sphere of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. United States defenses and what Presi dent Eisenhower has or has not done about them rank high among the issues which Demo crats are raising. Former President Truman made a similar play for protec tion when he borrowed John I Foster Dulles from the Repub lican brain trust as a top-level foreign policy adviser. FDR per Probe Launched In Ship Explosion Alameda, Calif. (U.R) An Investigation was launched today to determine the cause of an ex plosion and flash fire that kill ed one worker and injured seven others aboard a tanker in dry dock at Todd Shipyards. Todd officials said gas fumes In the forward pumpwell of the General Petroleum tanker Syos set may have been ignited from a spark, possibly caused by the dropping of a metal took or the scuffing of a nail in a workman's shoe. Leon Evans, 46, Oakland, was killed when the explosion blew him out of the well and slammed him against a warping winch. Some of the injured men were tossed about 15 feet into the air by the force of the blast. The explosion occurred short ly after 11 a.m. yesterday and was felt and heard over a large part of Alameda and Oakland. f ok J MARKET 1202 North Riverside f kOPEN EVERY J NIGHT TIL $ MIDNIGHT GAEVKRT IS THE GREAT TRADITION OF AMERICAN WHISKEY, CALVEKI DISTILLERS CO.. X. Y. C. BLENDED WHISKEY . 85.8 PEG OF . 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS MAIL TRIBTTOB formed the political trick of the generation, however, in 1940. He brought two notable Repub licans into his cabinet in June of that year the late Frank Knox as secretary of Navy and the late Henry L. Stimson as sec retary of war. Shortly after defeating Repub lican presidential candidate Wen dell L. Willkie the following No vember, Mr. Roosevelt kidnaped him, too, and sent him roving around the world. There was a strong Republican flavor, at least, to the wartime Roosevelt administration. That was a sub stantial factor in Republican dif ficulties in the 1944 election in which former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York made his first White House try. Has Great Prestige - George's prestige in and out of his party is as. great as that of any of the men borrowed by Mr. Truman or Mr. Roosevelt. He's the senator of longest serv ice, his party's principal spokes man on foreign affairs. It is not A Nichol's. Worth of . . . Comment On By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Monroeville, Pa. (U.R) It looked like a drinking fountain, for sure I turned it on and got a gush of wa ter in both eyes. Dr. Rob ert B. Mears, director of the new applied research labor atory for Unit- ed r-States Steel, explain ed that the HarmsD Nichols g u s n e r was part oi the safety program. The eye-wash deal was locat ed outside of a section where dangerous acid was being used in the experimental lab. In case a man, by accident, gets a dash of acid in his eyes, water is said to be the best flush. And where there is that danger, water, is always handy. . In the same corridor, there are showers that come out of the ceilings, right in the aisle. In case a worker gets acid on his work-clothes there also are "fire blankets" cut loose from the walls by a handle device, in case flames have to be put out in a hurry. This sort of business of pre venting accidents goes on all the time at the . multi-million dollar research center. It is a wooded 142-acre hilltop tract, which looks more like a college campus than a place where great minds of the steel industry test things for strength of fiber and aimed at leading mere man toward a more comfortable life. Safety Carried Home "We like to tell people," Dr. Mears said, "that our workers carry their safety learning home. And also we are proud of our many safety awards as are oth er steel companies- "We know, and there are sta tistics to prove it, that the steel workers are three times as safe at work as they are at home." Dr. Mears gave some for in stances, as far as USS is con cerned. ' Our people," he said, "see ' s&t ill Nothing finer . in ; American taste. i Thursday, May 10. 19SS likely that George will be ad versely critical of the President, who was quick to offer a hand when time combined with the ambitions of a younger man back home convinced George he prob ably could rot be reelected. Getting George on the team was good politics from any an gle. The President's batting av erage in the political league has been steadily improving. Take the farm issue. - Congressional Democrats- may or may not have played for a veto on the - farm bill. There is no doubt, however, that Democratic - leaders . were convinced that Mr. Eisenhower" veto would hit the Republicans hard in the Midwest. ; - This week's presidential pri mary returns from Indiaaa do not appear to support that con-, viction. On the contrary, there is some evidence that Democratic farm subsidy strategy has back fired. In his third year of office, Mr. Eisenhower is showing that he . understands the political game. This and That movies on safety in the shop. Al so on safety on the highways to and from work." If a man learns how to use a sturdy ladder in the shop" to keep him from breaking a bone, it is the belief that of the steel high command that he will carry it home in the form of a lecture to his little woman. The well-trained-, worker buys his wife a ladder? sq that she wont'' risk life and limf mount ing a wobbly chair to get a can of cocoa off the top shelf. Other Things Other things, too, like turning off the jet on a stove before turning your back on it for any length of time. Dr. Mears also pointed to the fact that one of the most painful, but generally unserious casual ties around a plant of any kind is the handling of "paper. "A paper cut," he said, "can be annoying. But it can be pre vented. We teach our secretaries to wet a finger before handling bond paper like we use for im portant correspondence. A cut of that kind could put one of our young ladies on the 'siclc list.' She has very little excuse, if she follows our rules." 1 The steel folks would like- us to know that most of the safety devices like the eye-wash,- the showers and the blankets seldom are used. T' V Prevention of accidents is ped dled like the gospel. . "-'s Youth Injured Slightly ... In Bike, Auto Mishap Andrew Ray , Boyle, 11, 422 South Riverside ave., suffered minor bruises Tuesday when the bicycle he was riding collided with a car operated by Ernest Ingatius Flakus, 612 South J St., at the rear of an alley at 437 South Central ave., according to Medford police.' Boyle s injuries were not seri ous and he walked home witn his mother, police said. No cita tions were issued. Iowa Claims First In Chicken Production Des Moines (U.R) Iowa, for many years the nation's top corn state, now claims to be first in chicken production. The Iowa Development Com mission reported today that Iowa farmers produced 29,650,000 chickens during 1955, nearly. 8 per cent of all the chickens in the United States. ' . ' " Russia Warned On Aggression Bomv Germany (U.R) Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther warned .Russia today that .aggression against any member of the At lantic;' Pact would be met in a single shattering, stroke by the tactical atomic weapons of the West. ."Our strategy, is based inti mately .on. atomic, weapons to deter any active aggression," .the supreme allied commander in Europe told a press confer ence here. -"Those tactical atomic weap ons would definitely be used to .repulse such; an' aggression' by the Soviets ii.it ever came about i-. . "Thosel-weapons will be de livered in the event of an ag gression with a single stroke by air power, by guided missiles, by rockets and by artillery. All of these means of deliver ing atomic warheads are known to be already in position on the West's front line in Germany. Gruenther refused to. say wheth er thjsgpact has any actual atomic weapons in this country. . The1 general warned Western Europe not to be deluded by Russia's current "campaign of smiles" into believeing that vi gilance and unity are any less necessary than they were when the pact was formed seven years ago. Israel Intercepts British Aircraft Jerusalem,' (Israeli Sector) U.R) Israeli fighter aircraft forced a British passenger plane to land at Lydda Airport today. The ,British plane later was allowed to leave after Israeli officials questioned - its crew. Col. Nehemia Brosh, the Is raeli military spokesman, said the British plane had violated Israeli airspace. Brosh said the plane flew, over Sodom, Beersheba, Kir Am Ash kelon . and Tel ; Aviv all within Israel. An Israeli sEghter; plane inter cepted 41e British '-aircraft off Caesaria '-.'arid called , several times for the plane tq identify itself, hersaidt -...' : After no replies were received from the- British -plane, the spokesman said, the Israeli fight- err gave the-sign to the passeng er aircraft to land. -'' It "set' down at Lydda Airport near Tel Aviv and after the crew was questioned the uilot was granted- permission to leave. Full details of the incident were not available immediately. Doctors, Lawyers Hold Joint Meeting The first annual joint meeting of the Jackson County Medical society and the Jackson County Bar association was held -Wednesday night at the Rogue Val ley . Country club. Eighty-four members of ..the. two professions attended. ' ' ) Piarifojrj-establishment of a joint committee of members of the two; societies were formu lated arid : a -physician-lawyer golf tournament was proposed to precede the . next meeting. Dr-Alvin .Roberts,' Central Point;jpresident of the medical society presided. Paul' Haviland, president of the bar association, spoke on ' "Principles Governing Certain -.Physician-Lawyer Rela tionships," which was discussed by a panel of members of both groups. Otto Frohnmayer " was moderator. Panelists were Wil liam McAllister, Dr. June Byers, Edward Q. Kelly, Dr. M. L. Vorheis, Dr. Ralph Thompsen, Haviland, Dr. Ralph Hibbs, War ren Lesseg and Robert Dickey. -'- wfWf " ti. Adv. McKay for Senator Comnittee. U (MM PbiHiee, Clilif a SSI Churchill Sees Russia Eventually In Spirit of NATO Aachen, Germany OJ.R) Winston Churchill said today if the Kremlin's down-with-Stalin movement is sincere he sees no reason why Russia cannot ev entual!. "join in the spirit" - of the Atlantic pact. .- The 81-year-old former Prime Minister, here to be honored for his own aid to European unity, said the West's best hope of ach ieving' it lies in the pact's grand alliance of the European powers, linked with Canada and the United States." Russians Must Have Part ' ' He added that, although the United States has so far taken the lead in cementing the his torically divided nations of Eur ope, Russia also "must have her part" in a real unification of the continent. Churchill, told a blue ribbon audience that Europe's problems can be solved more easily by united East-West action than "by rival blocks confronting each other with suspicion and hostil ity." The British veterans' unoffic ial proposal amounted to an en dorsement of the Russian idea, rejected by the West at Geneva, that East and West should , seek means of joining 'forces before they deal with the reunification of Germany. Must Avoid Violence. ' "We must avoid violence," the victorious leader of World War II told the Germans on his first visit to Germany since the end of the war. "The only unity there might' be then is a unity of ashes and death." . The 8i-year-old former Prime Minister came to this 12,000-year-old metropolis, first Ger man city taken by the Allies, to receive a $1190 award for his efforts to promote a "United States of Europe.; Truman Praises Averell Harriman New York (U.R) - Former President Truman praised New York's Gov. Averell Harriman last night as a wise and skillful practitioner of foreign policy and a one-man package, of the qualities which have made Am erica great. Mr. Truman, an avowed "neu tral" made no mention of the race for the Democratic presi- denital nomination in which Har riman 'is an . "inactive" candi date.. But in presenting to Har riman the 1956 award, of the Four Freedoms Foundation he gave an- implicit 100 per cent endorsement to Harriman s qual ifications for the job. ' Harriman has .been .' "right about the Russians since at least 1945, Mr.. Truman said, and "lie is not taken in today, as so many of our leaders seem to be, by the smile on the face of the Kremlin." ' Local FTA Members Plan Ditlard Trip Eight members of the Med ford High school chapter of the Future Teachers association will attend an FTA regional meet ing in Dillard at Douglas Coun ty High school Saturday, May 12. Clair Gurwell is advisor for the local group. , . - , Those making the trip include Sharon Wymore, Sandra Buxton, who ' will be' discussion ' leader for a sub-group, :Walter Hum phrey, Melva Gebhard, who will be recorder for a discussion group, Lois Myers, Sharon Zum walt, Pat Calloway and Carolyn Carr. - ' ' . ' A panel discussion on "What Is a Teacher" will be followed by sub-group- discussion on topics considered . by the panel. Officers for region two, wmcn comprises southwestern Oregon, will be elected for the coming year. The students and advisor will make the trip in a car furnished by Courtesy Chevrolet. Deed line Sunday Claulfled ss at noon Saturday: 10 ajn Monday for Monday: other days UO orevioun day He YOU WANT Staff (&&fi37Tg3? Doug McKay know Oregon problems, H 26 years is a public servant have shown him to be a man of action . . . a man who digs in and gets things done. - 74,978,353 Bibles Distributed by Society New York OJ.R) The Amer ican Bible Society announced to day it had distributed 14,918,353 Bibles in the United States and abroad in 1955. : The society, holding its 104th annual meeting, said it has dis tributed a total of 466,231,012 Bibles ' since it gave away its first volume in 1816. Officers Cleared In Marine Deaths Washington (U.R) The com mandant of the Marine Corps to day absolved officers at the boot training camp at Parris Island, S.C., of any blame in the drown ing of six Marines on a disci plinary night march last month. Gen. Randolph : McCall Pate, corps commandant, cleared the officers in' a' letter to Rep. Wal ter Norblad (R-Ore.). Norblad recently suggested that the Ma rines had gone too easy on the, officers in "meting out punish ment; for the tragedy. "All those connected with the matter were doing everything that might be expected of them, taking' into account the - time and place in question," Pate said in ' defense ' of the Parris Island officers. Pate announced last week that SSgt. Matthew C. McKeon would - be court " martialed on four charges, including involun tary manslaughter, for leading the recruits, to their deaths on the night of April 8. He said a Marine Court of Inquery had found that McKeon had . been "under the influence" of vodka at the time. 92 Cases of Polio Reported Last Week Washington (U.R) The Public Health Service said today that 92 cases of polio were re ported in -the nation last week, That compares with 149 cases during the comparable -week last year and a five-year average of 109. Cases reported so far this year now total 1463 compared to 1599 in 1955. There were 51 paralytic cases last week compared to 74 for the same week last year. So far there- have been 803 paralytic cases this year compared' to 703 for the same period in 1955. Authorities said, ' however, that it is still too . early . to at tach any significance to any of the figures in terms of probable incidence this year. 4-Year-0ld Boy Saves Little Sister's Life ,- Worcester, Mass. (U.R) four- year-old boy , saved his -: little sister's life yesterday by putting his hand down-. her throat and removing an atomizer cap that had lodged there. Susan Lande, 19- month - old, swallowed the cap of a hair spray atomizer yesterday. Her frightened mother tried to pull it out but her fingers were too big to get down the tiny throat. As the . child began turning blue, the mother tried to tele phone for help.' Hearing cries, four - year - old John Lande , walked -in. . . While - his mother talked . on the phone, John put his small hand in his sister's mouth, push ed . his finger down her throat. and pulled out the cap. ..'; Then he went out again to play. Portland Grocery Clerks Schedule Negotiations Portland (U.R) Represent atives of employees and grocers in Portland were scheduled to meet - again "this afternoon ' with a federal mediator in an attempt to head off the threatened walk out- of' grocery clerks tomor row. The clerks are asking a pay in crease , of $7,50 a week and a health and - welfare program to cost. $2.50 a week. An. offer of $2.40' a week increase for jour neymen clerks made, by the em ployers has -. been ' turned down by the union. . will do the job DONE Doug McKay has the confidence and trust of the people in Wash ington, D.C. They listen to him . . . they know they can believe him ... and hell be working for! YOU instead of building a politi cal future for himself. Vote Doug McKay as your U.S. Senator; .. NMltnd S. Oneoa Around Hollywood Editor's note: Aline Mosby is on vacation. Guest columnist Bob Hope discusses his brand of humor. By BOB HOPE - Written for the United Press Hollywood OJ.R) People continually ask me w;hat is meant by a sense of humor. If you'll forgive my being' ser ious a moment, it's the knack of sitting back and be ing amused at the foibles of your fellow- man. But it can't be bitter. The Aline Mosby hpsr hn loving, tolerant and understand ing. And it s ramdlv beeomine all but essential for sane living in our complex world. I ve been in Darts of the wnrlri where it'd be daneerous to laueh at a certain situation. Peonle basically are the same every where, but customs vary. I've ob served one big difference be tween American and British brands of humor. The English study people and point up their shortcomings by observation. I luce to lampoon people. Humor involves a lot more than detached amusement at the troubles of others. It is the abil ity to laugh at yourself that counts. But go easy if vou start to use it to poke fun at others. n s no trick to get laughs by be ing cruel .Good-natured spoofing is a different matter. I've always been partial to top ical humor. Everyone gets a kick out of jckes about current events and people in the news. People laugh even harder about things that are going on in the world about them. Recently I addressed the USO heads in Los Angeles. The pa pers were full of news about Grace. Kelly and her entourage sailing for Monaco. Taking a leaf from the headlines I quip ped: "there hasn't. been a major troop movement in some years just Grace Kelly's." They also like being told "Har ry Truman isn't losing a daugh en Feldman & Olson kssssssssssssssssssssss-f!l'' V Easy Terms -No wonder experienced cooks and new noma owners are going all oat for this newest RCA Estate range! It has Balanced Heat Oven and a Bar-B-Kewer Meat . Oven. Built-in Grid-All which converts to a giant unit. Electric clock for automatic cooking. RCA Estate quality. Hal Krueger and AI Thompson VjJ I I Jt I fl Jl if U. mm II "'II L 237 E. MAIN Service From Our Own We Carry Our By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent ter he's gaining a Democrat, and that "Clifton Daniel must really be in love with Margaret. After all, he knows that her fa ther .is out of work." Appreciative audiences are fine. I hope I never run into any other kind. And let's face it. During my vaudeville days I ran into some tough ones. Of the best, nothing can better the service man - - audience, although the crowds I recently played to at the London Palladium ran a close second. It's the audience enthusiasm that's so contagious. Humor as a business is tough, hard work. But once you've earn ed genuine applause, you'll never be content until you can keep 'em chuckling. UP VETERAN DIES Glenwood Springs, Colo. (U.R) Samuel H. Pew, veteran business representative for United Press, died Wednesday.' Washington (U.R) Living ston T. Merchant, former assist ant secretary of state, was sworn in .yesterday as the new U.S. ambassador to Canada. Have You Ever Seen A BANANA TREE With Real Bananas! SEE the Mother Tree of the Ba nana Plant, flourishing on Senator Harris Ellsworth's desk. MAY 13th Potted Plants " Tropical Plants for Planters Corsages Bouquets Also ... Bedding Plants for the . Gardening Mother We Give S&H Green Stamps Rogue Valley GREENHOUSE 625 Franquetta Ave. ' Phone 2-9384 for your Old Range! New dish! UssWork! 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