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Voters' League To Hold Picnic At Thomas Home A picnic luncheon will be held by Medford League of Women Voters Thursday, May 24, at 11 a.m., at the home of Mrs. Irving S. Thomas, Pioneer road. This will be the last regular meeting of the league's morning study unit for the season. The program will consist of the presentation and discussion of the year's programmed activi ties. The national program is of fering a study of federal loyalty and security measures, and a study of the conservation of wa ter resources. The state item will continue the study of the revision of the state constitution. This year this item will include a thorough study of home rule for counties and optional forms of county government, a study of legisla tion implementing the manage rial form of county government (Art. VI, Sec. 9-a, Oregon Con stitution) and a consideration of the report of the interim com mittee on local government cre ated by SJR 31. Also to be discussed will be the possibility of doing a study of a work farm for Jackson county jail prisoners, since the local item adopted at the an nual meeting comes under the state league study of county government. 1 All interested in good govern ment or interested in finding out more about any of the subjects that the league studies, are in vited to this picnic. For reser vations or information call Mrs. Irving Thomas, 3-5889 or Mrs Robert Hiatt, 3-3118. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are Common wealths instead of states. 'German Miracle' Changing Once Ruined Country Into One off Sound Foundation Editor's note: This is the first of a series of three dispatches on the as tonishing comeback of Germany. The author has covered Germany for the I'P since the days when he was sta tioned in the Berlin bureau before World War II. By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Correspondent Bonn, Germany U.R) They call it the "German miracle" and certainly it has to be seen to be believed. I saw Germany lying in utter ruin at the end of World War II. Its cities were ashes, its great bridges broken, its railroads obliterated, its great Ruhr fac tories skeletons, its shipyards blown apart, its people beaten, starving, homeless, hopeless. An American general said at that time it would take Germany 100 years to recover. He was wrong by 10 times. It took just one decade. Here is one fact: Industrial production in Western Germany today is twice what it was in 1938 the year that Hitler was! goes to Washington for talks bending every sinew in prepara-1 with President Eisenhower. And tion for the' greatest war in the world s history. The path that West Germany takes from now on will, be the most important single factor in whether we are to have another war. Army Foundations Built ine toundations of a new German army are being built Early next month 80-year-old Chancellor .Konrad Adenauer Back Stairs: Preparations for Dinner By MERRIMAN SMITH UnitedPress White House Writer Washington !U.R Back stairs at the White House: What happens when the Presi dent of the United States goes out of the White House for dinner? Several days before the actual date, agents of the United States Secret Service arrive at the hotel where the dinner is to be held. They get a blueprint of the hotel and track every foot Mr. Eisenhower may follow on the day of the occasion. If hotel personnel has changed substantially since the President last visited the place, names of the new help are furnished to the Secret Service several days in advance. The Secret Service turns the new names into a large govern ment identification pool and within a matter of minutes, the men who protect the life of the President know the background of the men who will serve him his banquet food. WOMEN'S SWUM CLASSES at the Y. M. C. A. Beginning TONIGHT May 22 On Tuesdays and Thursdays BEGINNERS' CLASS ADVANCED CLASS .7:30 P.M. -8:30 P.M. REGISTER NOW AT THE Y.M.C.A. OR PHONE 2-6295 " Someone started a story last week end that the Presdient goes to dinner only when a special White House chef precedes him Not true. If' the Secret Service ever be came so worried about the Pres ident's safety that a special chef was indicated, they probably would not let the President enter the hotel. Recurrent . stories about White House food tasters, special chefs, eagle-eyed special waiters are interesting, but mythical. When the President attends a banquet at, say, the Statler Hotel here or the Sheraton Park, the managers, wanting to have the best possible service, usually stick one of their best waiter captains behind him. This is not a security measure, but an ef fort by fhe hotel involved to give the President the best' service possible. The Secret . Service has a rather, detailed, working record of the hotel help in Washington In advance of the late President Ex-President Truman Visits Salerno Beach Naples, Italy (U.R) Harry S. Truman cast a practiced eye today at the Salerno beachhead where American troops fought one of the bloodiest battles of tne becond World war. The former U. S. president told reporters he also wanted, to visit the other wartime invasion site of Paestum, 22 miles south east of Salerno, and the ancient Roman ruins at Pompeii. Naples city officials gave him a warm- welcome earlier today by giving him the Italian version of "key to the city." Mr. and Mrs. Truman, his sec retary, Eugene Bailey, and for mer U. Si Ambassador to Canada Stanley ' Woodward and Mrs. Woodward arrived here Monday from several days of sightseeing. The Trumans will 'return to Rame early in the week and then visit the north of Italy. Roosevelt's appearance' at one local hotel, the agents ofj the Secret Service saw to it 'that nearly 50 persons on the hotel payroll were let off for the night, at least. Why did the Secret Servicel sack these men and women?. The bulk of : them had records- of minor crimes. But crimes involv ing violence. Like cutting a hus band's neck. The Secret Serv ice does not. like the idea of do mestic knife slingers being in close proximity to the President. Air No Longer Pure In Larger US Cities Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) The air in larger American cities is no longer pure, research chemist J. Cyril Romanovsky said Mon day. ' ' - p Romanovsky, , a chemist with the Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District, ad dressed the opening session of the Air Pollution Control Asso ciation's annual meeting. "In Los Angeles," he said, "the impurities have reached concentrations which are objec tionable and potentially danger ous." , Romanovsky said toxic mate rials are present in the air of all larger cities and warned they could reach a "dangerous level" if allowed to increase. "Other materials less clearly defined may well be responsible for the growing incidence of lung cancer in heavily populated centers," he added.. Romanovsky said Los Angeles is experimenting with an auto matic air monitoring system. Los Angeles : (U.R) Kaiser Steel Corp-, has - announced a $113 million expansion program which 'will boost steel produc tion at its Fontana; Calif., mill 'by 40 per cent." the man representing a country beaten to its knees 11 years ago will be talking from strength with the man so instrumental in that defeat. Last week I went to Cologne. It was my first visit since May, 1945. 1 remember then watching a small, gray-haired 1 woman climb out of the rubble of a base ment in the shadow of the Cologne Cathedral. On a wooden beam she tacked a piece of paper. "It read: "This cellar is in habited. Keep out." Now on the same spot stands an eight-story building of black marble, headquarters of a big banking house. All arcund are other buildings of the box-like architecture which thp Germans call "American." : West Germany has built more than 3,000,000 new homes since 1949.- Construction this year is expected to reach an all-time rec ord rate of 550,000. That com pares, for example, with 1,220, 400 houses built in the United States in 1934 but America has more than three times the popu lation. ' Victors Challenged - Germany is challenging the victors of 1945' in every- market place of the "world. Exports', in 1950 were' $2,000,000,000. Last year they topped $6,000,000,000. . The small, - beetle - shaped Volkswagen is ousting British and other European small ' cars from markets around the globe. Volkswagen turned out its mil lionth car last summer and pro duction now is rattling along at 350,000 a year. . . . West Germany has now. topped Britain in steel production and ranks only behind the United States and Russia. Her shipyards are working full blast . again. Last year they turned out 320 ships and 890, 000 : tons nearly one half for export.' ' - How has this miracle ' been achieved? '. Partly by some $3,000,000,- 000 of Marshall Plan aid poured by the United States into this country after 1947 Partly by the currency reform of 1948 which made the v deutschemark one of Europe's "hardest" mon ies. Mostly by the simple' hard work of the German people. Tomorrow: Germany s . re surgence as a key world power in diplomacy. . Tuesday, May 22. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE -THREX United States hens , are pro. ducing 184- eggs per hen per year, compared to 122 eggs per hen in 1935. YOU HAVE V WITH A f L. i inn P And why not? The lucky ; lady who owns A HOME FOOD FREEZER . has a supermarket in her " kitchen ... she does her daily marketing at home... What's more... A HOME FOOD FREEZER takes hours off meal preparation time. You can serve a 7-course dinner A H0M FOOD FREEZER... PAYS FOR ITSELF IN 134 YEARS1 Savings en Meats, 1 year Savings an Vegetables, 1 yaar Savings an Fruits, 1 yaar . . 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Presi dent Eisenhower's proposal for an "open sky" inspection "and mutually advantageous methods to control, the overhanging nu clear threat," Stassen-added. The Russian promises" "can not "be fully appraised until; re ductions are actually carried out," Stassen . said, but the plan "clearly indicates a por'-re of vigilant but hopeful waieing." REGISTRAR RETAINS JOB Baton Rouge, La.MU.R) Mrs. Winnice Clement, who .aroused the ire of Louisiana's -white citizens councils when she flunk ed two dozen white voters by enforcing state laws aimed at limiting the Negro vote, has been told to stay on the job.; The new state Board of Registration ruled Monday, that she can remain as Webster Parish county registrar although she had been fired by the old board under the admin istration of Gov. Robert Kennon. LEWIS MAPS SCHEDULE . - Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) Co median Jerry Lewis undergoing tests for a possible heart ail ment, worked a limited schedule today at his film studio. Dr. Marvin Levy said Lewis would remain under surveillance and would receive a daily cardio gram. The , comedian had pre viously been found to have a heart murmur. Moscow U.R) United States Ambassador Charles Bphlen has informed Soviet leaders they must recognize the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization as "a fact of life." - t . . f MARKET 1 7 1202 North Riverside j 1 OPEN EVERY J i NIGHT TIL M Jv MIDNIGHT Jfi Portland Man Dies Under Fallen Tree Portland (U.R) Ed Dewey, 34, Portland, was crushed to death yesterday when a tree he was topping broke in two and pinned him beneath it. Witnesses said that Dewey was cutting off the top 30 feet of the 80-foot tree when, the rotted trunk of the tree gave way, toppling to the ground with Dewey pinned beneath it. The accident occurred in Oswego, at the site where a new church is being constructed. More than 200 agricultural crops are produced commercial ly in California. It'. 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