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.
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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
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year, compared to 122 eggs per
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Stassen Sees Cause
For Cautious Optimism
.. Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R)
Harold E. , Stassen, President
Eisenhower's adviser on disarma
ment, . said Monday night that
Russia's . disarmament promises
should be backed up by "effec
tive controls and verifying
methods."
. Stassen, Minnesota's former j
governor, : said the Soviet an- j
nouncement offers ground for
"cautious optimism." , - i
But "whatever the reason be-!
hind this actions, it would be j
even more welcome if the Soviet
leadership would agree to effec
tive control and verifying meth
ods,", he added.
These should, include . 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 . .
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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.
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