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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune. 10, 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 6. 1946
(It was Thursday)
Medford Lions" club members
selected C. W. Leonard president
for the coming year.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Everybody
is supposed to be dressed up in
a cowpuncher outfit, and call his
horse "the critter."
10 YEARS AGO
Jun. 6. 193S
(It was Saturday)
The reorganized Crater club
will hold its first institutional
dinner meeting for members and
wives Monday.
Frank P. Farrell. Medford city
ttornev. elected president of
Southern Oregon Bar association
at annual dinner meeting.
0 YEARS AGO
Jun. 8. 192S
(It was Sunday)
The Red Cross swimming and
life saving course opens with
about 100 people taking part.
Yesterday the Copco Forum
staged its annual picnic at the
Elks picnic grounds.
40 YEARS AGO
Jun 6, 1916
(It was Tuesday)
Tomorrow evening the Hotel
Barnura will introduce Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Sutton of San Fran
cisco in the latest dances and
Parisian novelty steps.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Fred Root left today for
a visit to California.
Remembrance of Things Past
Most of the time, the writings of our "community
correspondents," who report the news from a baker's
dozen areas within the Mail Tribune's circulation ter
ritory, deal with things of chief interest to residents of
the communities involved.
They report visits, and PTA meetings, and Grange
meetings, cooked food sales, parties, and the comings
and goings of their friends and neighbors.
Occasionally, however, our correspondents are
moved to write things which are not, strictly speaking,
"news."
IT IS A problem for those who edit their copy to
know what to do about such offerings. If they are
well-written, and interesting, and topical, they usually
are'printed. If they lack these qualities, and perhaps
have a more personal approacn tnan is aeemea prop
er, they are black-penciled usually with reluctance,
Once in a while, however, we run across some-
thin? a correspondent has written which fits into no
easily determined category, yet is of sufficient merit
to justify printing, bucn a one came across our aebit
last week from the pen of Mrs. H. H. Chapman, who
writes for the .Mail Tribune from HornbrooK.
RS. Chapman, in a reflective mood, had read in
Mrs. Helga Mitchell's Applegate-Jacksonvine
column a auerv as to whether the "idealized" view 01
farm life quiet, contemplative, unhurried ever
really existed.
Mrs. Chapman answered as follows :.
Yes, dear friend, those "pastoral scenes" did exist. They
existed in the days before the advent of our many time
saving and labor-saving devices; in the pre-ulcer days when
people took time to "live" when making and cultivating
of friendship was a much-desired part of life in the days
when "civic betterment" and "rural improvement" were
accomplished, and juvenile problems held at a minimum,
not by the frantic mad dash from club meeting to club
meeting, but by the simple and soul-satisfying expedient
of each family taking it upon themselves to develop their
place into the best one in the community, and raise their
children to be the "best kids in town."
This was considered a God-given privilege not lust a
"cross to be borne" and was done according to the dictates
of their own good judgment, and an occasional trip to the
wood-shed, and other methods advocated by the teachings
In the Good Book.
How well we remember some of the lessons thus taught
by our Grandfather. Grandfather never threatened to
"whop" us for our wrong-doings. Transgress once, and
Grandfather "whopped" first, and explained later. That
kind of "child psychology" we understood.
How's Business? Election Year
Dispute Growing Over Question
M
But the peace and quiet of the country were not over
looked. They were given to be enjoyed, and enjoy them
we did. We were taken each year, along with our brother,
from the city where we were born and raised, to our
Grandfather's farm in western Nebraska, there to spend
three glorious months each summer. One of our most poig
nant memories is of the evenings spent on the front porch,
the creaking of Grandfather's rocking chair mingled with
the chirp of a cricket, and now and then the "burp" of the
giant hop-toad that was our regular visitor.
We listened to the drone of the grown-ups' conversation:
How much we learned of life those evenings no TV, then,
to watch. And Oh! the delicious thrill of anticipation when
we heard Grandfather rise from his chair and head for the
well there to draw up the luscious ripe watermelon that
had hung there in a gunnysack all day to cool. There, in
the cool of the grass, face buried from ear to ear and juice
dripping from chin to bare toes, we would inhale the rich,
delicious sweetness. Has anything ever tasted so good since?
e m m
If we sound a bit nostalgic well, we are. That item
sent us off in a day-dream of reminiscence, and we can say "
with the poet, "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my
childhood when fond recollection presents them to view . . ."
Not that we would go back to the drudgery of the "good
old days." but that we might recapture the luxury of the
calm, unhurried pace of living that made that "idyllic
dream" thus portrayed not a fallacy but a reality.
Washington (CQ) Wash
ington politicians and bureau
crats are working themselves
into an election year lather over
that familiar Main Street ques
tion "How's, business?"
There's not too much disagree
ment over the general health of
the economy. It's good. But
about the state of small busi
ness there is disagreement.
Chairman Wright Patman (D-
Texas) of the House Small Busi
ness Committee says, 'The it-
uation is bad and, under this
Administration, it's going to get
worse. The big get bigger ana
the small go out of business.
Wendell B. Barnes, the Ad
ministration's small business ex
pert, counters: "Anyone who
takes the view there is a crisis
that is desrierate is not going to
convince his listeners among tne
small business audience. We've
been in a boom economy and
small business has shared the
prosperity."
Boom or Gloom?
Boom or gloom? In part the
disagreement can be laid to nor
mal pre-election partisanship
In part, it's because the men in
Washington just don t know.
There are about four million
small businesses, in this country;
more than nine-tenths of all U.S.
firms fit into this loosely-defined
category. There is no standard
yardstick for measuring their
growth or decline.
The number of businesses has
been increasing more slowly in
the past three years than in the
previous six. In 1954, m fact.
there was a net loss of 15,700
firms; In 1955, a gain of 28,300
These are estimates, of course.
Today there's one business for
every 39 residents; over the past
quarter-century, the average has
been one for every 41 persons.
The rate of business failures
has risen from 14 per 10,000
firms in 1947 to 42 per 10,000
firms last year. So far in 1956.
the rate is 45 per 100,000. For
the whole 20th century, the av
erage rate has been 70 per 10,
000. These are based on a pri
vate firm's study of about two-
thirds of the nation s businesses.
Shalcv Figures
When it comes to sales ana
Mrnines. the litrures are even
shakier.
There are facts on manufac
turing corporations; but only 3
nf inn businesses are in this
cateeorv.
Small manufacturers unose
with assets under $1 million)
have seen their total net sales
decline each year since 1947,
SBA's Loan Record
In Oregon Listed
Washington (CQ) From
Its beginning in mid -1953
through last March 31, the
Small Business Administra
tion approved 39 business
loans to Oregon firms. The
gross value of the loans was
$2,009,0001 and SBA's share
came to $1,890,000. The rest
was put up by local banks.
In the same period, SBA de
clined applications for 84 bus
iness loans with a value of
$5,438,000 in Oregon. -
The government agency also
helps businessmen and house
holders who lose property in
floods, tornadoes or other nat
ural disasters. Forty-sevenadis-aster
loans have been approved
in Oregon, bringing $266,000
worth of assistance. SBA has
declined six applications for
$29,000 disaster relief.
(Copyright 1956, Congresional
Quarterly)
ran out of loan funds April 11
and discontinued all but its
emergency activities until last
week, when Congress voted an
extra $20 million for use through
June 30.
SBA operates under an order
from Congress that "all loans
made shall be of such sound
value or so secured as reason
ably to assure repayment."
Barnes says "delinquencies and
losses have been held to a low
British Royal Family Gets
Adv.ce, Criticism; Habit
Of Chicling Royalty Ancient
rm..a. 2IP. ?r4Z M level . . . $500,000 ... and prob
XT ,oS.V My considerably less.'
more m ajjuo man iui
share of the market declined ana
earnings after taxes were higher
in 1955 than in 1954.
Similarly, in defense contracts
small business dollar contracts
increased from 1954 to 1955, but
its slice of the total defense con
tract Die diminished.
There's plenty of room tor
oninion in interpreting inesc
figures. The Senate Small Busi
ness Committee, under Demo
cratic control, says in its 1956
annual report: "There is an
ominous significance in an eco
nomic atmosphere which makes
it possible for the nation s mam
moth corporations to reap rec
ord profits while the general run
of small enterprises are worse
off than they were three years
ago."
Narrow the Gap
Barnes, the Republican Ad
ministration's spokesman, sees
it this way: "Small businesses
are worse off than they were in
1947. 1948 or the Korean war
period, but in better shape than
they were in 1952 or 1953. There
is still a large gap between big
and litle firms but our hope is
we can narrow the gap and con
tinue the upward trend.
Barnes is the $17,500-a-year
head of the Small Business Ad
ministration, and 800-man agen
cy created by Congress in 1953 ministration record,
to "aid, counsel, assist and pro- perhaps the November elec
tect .' . . the interests of small tion returns will finally tell how
business." SBA succeeded the Majn street thinks small busi-
Small Defense Plants Adminis- ness ls doing.
There is dispute about the way
SBA has interpreted the Con
gressional directive. The agen
cy s last report said it applies
the most liberal interpretation
of these policies and require
ments possible, consistent with
sound credit . principles." But
the Senate Small Business Com
mittee in January said that
while SBA was to protect the
interests of the public in assess
ing the loan applications, it was
also expected to be courageous
enough to make loans which pri
vate institutions had declined."
Not Partisan
Barnes says SBA's loan pol
icies are not a partisan ques
tion. Both parties would say:
Don't compete with banks; don't
subsidize inferior management;
don't bail a lender out of a poor
private loan."
But Rep. Patman calls SBA
an absolute disgrace," -says
Congress should abolish it "and
put up an agency that will help
small business.
Democrats are making plans
to carry the issue to the public.
with a small business advisory
committee headed by Patman
and Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-
Ala.) spearheading the cam
paign. On the Republican side,
Barnes says he will be available
for speeches defending the Ad-
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Queen Elizabeth H and mem
bers of her family are getting a
lot of 'critcism and free advice
from Britons
these days.
A c cusations
of extrava
gance, idleness
and over
d u 1 g e nee in
n e w s p apers,
weekly maga
zines and even
in Parliament.
In private cir-
high life, the
tration and the scandal-plagued
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion.
Barnes is a 46-year-old Okla
homa Republican who got his
start in the business world re
possessing cars for his father's
finance agency. An attorney
specializing in government con
tract negotiations, he ran two
small businesses himself before
beginning his Washington ca
reer as SBA's general counsel
in 1953. He became SBA admin:
istrator in 1954.
SBA makes loans to bust-
(Copyright 1956,
Congressional Quarterly)
Ch&rles McC&nn
cles in British
Duke of Edinburgh, the queen s
husband, is being criticized also
because he is not idle enough.
The campaign of criticism has
been going on for " several
months. There have been simi
lar campaigns, at intervals, for
hundreds of years.
This one may be expected to
peter out when the critics get
tired, or when they themselves
are made the targets of criticism.
The Labor party newspaper
organ, the Daily rieraia, ana
Labor members of Parliament
have been leaders in the cam
paign. But much of the criticism
of the Duke ol tainDurgn nas
come from court circles.
Duke's Plans Hit
Last March columnists m the
the maintenance of royal aig-
nity?
The latest outbreaK came irom
Labor members of Parliament
who complained that the 20-
year-old Duke of Kent, the
queen's cousin, was indulging in
wild parties.
Started in 1952
Criticism of the Duke of Edin
burgh started in court circle
soon after Elizabeth became
queen in 1952 and they moved
into Buckingham Palace.
The duke, born a Greek
prince in a family where money
was none too plentiful, was ap
palled at the expense of main
taining the royal household.
He found that there were too
many royal servants, that hun
dreds of members of Britain i
leading families were free-loading
at the queen's expense in
houses and apartments allotted
them in various royal palaces.
As the queen's husband, he start
ed chopping down, and the peo
ple on whom he chopped got
pretty bitter.
There is official criticism of
the duke also because he insists
on putting ideas into his
speeches instead of confining
himself to platitudes.
This is the same thing that
happened to the last husband of
reigning queen Prince Al
bert, consort of Queen Victoria.
His interest in public affairs,
and his great influence over
Victoria, won him a host of bit
ter enemies in high British cir-
Dailv Herald and the Sunday
ExDress which is nigmy con-
eoY-trntUra criticized the duke
for suggesting plans of national cles. It was only long after his
umnl that would COSI oeain uiai ins mieiiis miu nis
monev.
The Daily Herald said also
that the $5,874,000 royal yacht
Britannia was built to please
the duke. Actually it had been
nlanned vears before he mar
ried Elizabeth.
Last week the New Statesman
and Nation, a leading weekly
magazine, asked petulantly
public spirits were recognized.
Jobless Counting'
System Changed
Washington (U.R) The gov
ernment is changing its system
whether royal parties at Buck- of counting employment and un-
ineham Palace, the display inci
dental to the annual Ascot horse
race meeting and "incessant
scurryings between country
hnuses reallv are necessary to
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At the hour this is written,
there is a minimum of BIG news
on the wires.
For that, thank fortune.
The big news is so often bad
news.
employment for the second time
in three years. But the govern
ment expects this time to avert
the explosion of criticism caused
by the last change.
The earlier switcli made as
the country neared the bottom
of the 1953-54 business slump
.-no , 1 tnr4 in rnnrtin rnncirira-
. -j -I...JJ ml c o -
ri-iHAi reminas me aDIy more unemployment than
E.A.
"Super Citizens?
What's the Answer?
1. American Tel. & Tel., Ford
Motor Co., Standard Oil (N.J.),
or N.Y. Central R.R. held its
1956 annual stockholder's meet
ing in a tent?
2. Russia is or isn't the same
geographically as the Soviet
Union?
3. Total estimated U.S. popu
lation on April 1 was between
155 million and 160 million,
between 160 million and 165
million, or over 165 million?
4. The initials TNT stands for
a chemical compound, a new
nuclear bomb, or a government
agency?
5. Single women outnumber
single men in (a) 1. (b) 5, (c) 16,
or (d) 20 states of the Union?
6. Former President Truman
favors or opposes establishment
of U.S. diplomatic relations
with the Vatican?
7. More Americans travel
overseas by air than by ship;
right or wrong?
The Answers: 1. Ford. 2.
Isn'tr It's one of the states mak
ing up the Soviet Union. 3. 167.
440,000 pop. 4. Chemical com
pound (trinitrotoluene or trini
trotoluol, a high explosive.) 5.
One (Massachusetts). 6. Favors.
7. Right (70 by air, according
to Pan America's president).
Cong
ressional
Quiz
(CopTUM. I9S
Congressional Quarurlr)
Q -Can you name the biggest
dollar value import the U.S.
buys? .
A Coffee. By far the biggest
Import, valued at $1,337,000,000
in 1955.
Q Which is greater the
value of goods which the U.S.
(a) imports or (b) exports?
A (b) Exports. In 1955, ex
ports totalled $15.5 billion: im
ports, $11.4 billion, for a favor
able balance of $4.1 billion.
On this page last Sunday, an article by Congress
ional Quarterly service told how the Bradley commis
sion's report on veterans pensions has stirred the
wrath of the major veterans organizations.
The report was prepared by a Presidential com
mission, headed by the "GI's General," Omar Brad
ley, which suggested an overhauling and reexamina
tion of the pension set-up, and its possible coordina
tion with social security, more benefits for veterans
disabled during their service career, less benefits to
non-disabled veterans, and the philosophy that mili
tary service is "an obligation of citizenship and should
not be considered inherently a basis for future gov
ernment benefits."
IT WAS the last of these points that has done most
to raise the ire of the American Legion, the Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, and the Amvets or, it would
probably be more correct to say, their leaders. -
Bob Ingalls of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, him
self a veteran and a member of two organizations,
asks: "How do the leaders of these organizations
know how the individual members feel about these
proposals? . . , The policies are seemingly made at top
level and then the individual posts around tne country
are asked to pass resolutions in support of the policy
and the leaders position. This procedure is wrong . ,
POR ourselves, we go along with the idea that a man
disabled in the military service of his nation is
deserving of the best possible care by that nation. But
we've never been able to figure out just why those
with disabilities which have no connection with their
service are entitled to preferential treatment, or why
a few months or years of service entitle anyone to a
pension.
Present laws have come about largely through
pressure from the veterans groups, and many of them
are good and necessary, giving protection to those
needing and deserving it. uut attempts to mane veter
ans "super citizens" are something eke again.
Perhaps a majority of the veterans agree, for of
the 22 million veterans in the nation, only a tiny min
ority belong to any one of the veterans organizations.
E.A.
rpHERE is plenty of litUe news
A The New York Post says
nesses, directly or in cooperation today that Actress Grace Kelly,
with banks, when private financ- now Princess Grace of Monaco,
ine is unavailable. It loans expects a baby next January,
money at low interest to victims post Columnist Earl Wilson
of natural disasters. It helps writes that this was cabled to
small businessmen get govern- him as a fact not a rumor by
ment contracts and scarce ma- a source be says is close to the
terials, advises them on techni- prince and the royal palace in
cal and financial problems. Monaco.
Manv Loans
To date it has aDDroved more VJU sa x ,. pernaps
than $47 million in disaster "That's noooays Dusiness
Irani anil S13S million in busi- but hers and Raniers.
it s a J-iUT vi t.urijr, o nua-
INESS. If Prince Ranier, of the
ancient House of Grimaldi, does
not produce an heir the Princi
pality of Monaco will revert to
France and the MONAGASQUES
WILL HAVE TO PAY TAXES.
-a. Down on Kearney the
man's wear street in once-rugged
San Francisco, where two-fisted
males attired in red flannel
shirts and trousers tucked into
hieh boots and wearing full
beards one ganged up and lynch
ed a lot of fancy-dressing gam
blers and such I recently saw
in a clothing store window a
dummv all dressed up m a mar
oon tuxedo with white pants and
a shirt WITH RUFFLES ALL
OVER THE BOSOM AND AT
THE CUFFS!
ness loans. Demand for its serv
ices has increased so much it
Congressional Debate
On Arms Aid Continue
(Editor's note: The administra
tion's bill containing approprlaUons
for military assistance In foreign
aid, cut sharply before passage by
the House, Is due for floor debate
in the Senate today.)
I
Washington, D.C. Eisenhow
er administration strategy ap
pears to look to the Senate for
restoration of cuts made by the
House Foreign Affairs commit
tee in its estimates of new money
needed for foreign aid. The
House committee carved $1,109,
000,000 from the $4,900,000,000
requested by the administration.
An "open rule" for the bill was
granted by the House Rules
committee, leaving tne way
open for restoration of the cut
or for further slashes when it
is taken up on the floor.
The Foreign Alfairs commii-
tee snipped $1 billion from the
$3 billion request for military
aid. In a formal report filed
May 26, the committee said that
arms shipments now assignea xo
Europe should be sent elsewhere
until NATO allies clarity ine
defense policies they intend to
follow.
The committee Dut a ceiling of
$400 million on military aid for
Europe, as against the adminis
tration reauest for $760 million
Chairman James P. Richards
(D-S.C.) said that cut was moti
vated bv "reDorts of slow prog
ress in German rearmament"
and "French apathy in defense,
also by "French diversion of
North AUantic Treaty Organi
zation forces" to North Africa,
and a trend in Great Britain to
ward a slacking off of the de
fense effort.
So now comes NATO com
mander Gen. Alfred M. Gruen
ther to argue the administra
tion's case for European mili
tary aid. He testifies before a
Senate committee, but his ap
pearance is timed with an eye to
influencing the House.
General Gruenther is accus
tomed to the role of "Big Gun'
in pleading NATO's cause be
fore congressional committees-
On June 9, 1955 he told the
House committee considering
last year's foreign aid program.
We must continue the course
that we have set. To do other
wise would be to forfeit the ad
vantages we now have apd
which are bringing about great
gains.
Power Strengthened
He reported that since the In
stitution of NATO in 1951, Al
lied military power in Europe
A CLOTHING specialist at the
University of Massachusetts
(supported by the taxpayers)
notes this morning that "sport
shirts are becoming increasingly
Dopular with the man of the
house."
Aren't these experts wonder
ful?
If she hadn't told us, we'd
never have known it.
AND
XX A A.V.iif-v Parlr 1Mr .Tfr.
had been strengtened by the ad- they've just staged a Board
walk competition to name Mr.
Fashion of 1956. The winner Is
Al Smith of Sea Bright, NJ, six
feet one and a half in his stock
ing feet and aged 24. He won
out over a field of 63 men of all
ages.
He wore a lightweight suit in
slate blue, white open-weave
shirt, black and gray striped tie,
cordovan shoes and a navy blue
straw hat.
He must have looked right
pretty.
dition of more than 6,000 mod
ern fighting planes and between
90 and 100 ground divisions.
Naval effectiveness had multi
plied "several times."
In 1953, just after taking over
from Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
as NATO supreme commander,
Gruenther flew to Washington
to testify before the House Ap
propriations Committee on tor-
eign aid. The new commander
warned that if aid were cut
sharoly the Allies might "lose
confidence in us."
In 1952, as chief of staff to
NATO, Gruenther delivered to
the Senate and. House commit
tees the plea of his Supreme
Commander, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower. He said a sharp cut
in foreign aid would mean
"serious disadvantage for the
United States." Eisenhower
backed him up with a cable to
the Senate Foreign Relations
committee. There was "no accep
table alternative" to the Mutual
Security program, he wrote. Se
curity and peace would "become
more expensive if it is unneces
sarily postponed, dragged out,
and delayed."
Ike had been the Truman ad
ministration's "Big Gun" . the
year before. He told Senators
under the old counting method.
Democrats charged the adminis
tration with juggling figures.
Findings for May, using both
the current survey method and
the new revised method, are
scheduled for publication side
by side within the next few days.
Employment in April was al
most 64,000,000 and unemploy
ment was slightly below 2,600,
000 according to the old system.
The new system will be based
on a sampling ot ao.uuu House
holds in 330 areas of the coun
try. The current method coven
21,000 households in 230 areas,
all of which will still be in
cluded in the new count. The
T ET'S change the subject.
Our state department
makes public this morning the
r.,ii nf tho aruMwh in wmcn
Kruschev a few months ago tore pre-1954 figures were also based
v,irfn rf.H Stalin, accus- on Zl.uuu nousenoias, dui in
ing him of intolerance, brutality only 68 areas.
and the abuse of power.
He adds that just before ne
died Stalin was planning a mur
derous new purge of his asso
ciates.
HPHAT raises
an
question:
Did Stalin fall, or
PUSHED?
Interesting
WAS HE
T ET'S close on a cheerful note:
J A meeting of American
Presidents is slated for June 25
and 26 in Panama, the capital
citv of the Republic of Panama.
The dispatch adds that if Presi
dent Eisenhower plans to gou
with President Ricardo Arias of
Panama he'd better sharpen up
for in his latest game Arias
scored seven birdies to wind up
with a five-under-par 67 on his
Lower Embargo on
Red China Urged
Tokyo (U.R) Trade Minister
Tanzan Ishibashi said today Ja
pan should lower its embargo
against Communist China as
Great Britain is doing.
"I would like to relax the
embargo to the same degrees as
on exports to Russia," he said.
Japan, like Britain, must try 10
increase its traae wnn com
munist China."
The West's embargo against
Communist China includes more
items than does the embargo
against Russia.
Britain recently grantea lis
home course.
There are times when I can t colonial governments discretion-
help feeling that if we of the ary authority to export to Com
Western Hemisphere would pal munist China all goods which
around more with each other RUssia can buy on Western mar-
and pay less attention to tne neu- kets.
raising that is going on an over Many Japanese feel Japan is
the rest of the world we'd come
out better in the long ran,
The Library of Congress was
twice destroyed by fire, the
first time in 1814 and again in
1851.
being unfairly handicapped Dy
restrictions on trade with its
nearest neighbor. Red China,
while Western countries sell the
same goods to their nearest com
munist countries Russia ana
the eastern European satellites.
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a Christian during the marrying season:
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dogs, the mailman and taxpayers:
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a letter carrier.
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ing for a soldier-constituent in Korea who complained his pillow
case had not been laundered in four monins:
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visiting ms neaaquaners m xne t h iUQWCaseg or a whole regiment. But 1'U wasn nis.
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I were a woman of the world.
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Association for the Advancement of Colored People, on the Mont
gomery, Ala., federal court desegregation ruling on buses:
"We hone that this ruling foreshadows the early end of segre-
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in the Atlantic defense budget
would be "a sure way of getting
half the results for twice the
cost." Later he sent a special
appeal to Senate-House confer
ees on the foreign aid bill that
resulted in restoration of a cut
and Senate had voted in
economic aidfor Europe.
OLD STUFF R, F. Covert,
87, showed up at the polls
in San Francisco for the Cali
fornia primary carrying this
Grover Cleveland button.
Covert first voted in Cleve
. land's second term and has
voted for 11 Presidents since
then.