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Snuady. June 10. 1956
Parties Decline Comment on Political Impact of Ike's Illness
Expected to Put
New Muscle Into
Campaign Issues
Br LYLE C. WILSON
Unitad Prct Correspondent
Washington 'U.R; President
Eisenhower's illness will put
new muscle into campaign issues
which Demo
crats believe
are basic in
their effort to
defeat him this
year.
No. 1 is the
charge that the
R e p u blicans
are seeking to
elect a part
time president
a man physically unequal to
the demands of that office. -
No. 2 is the fact that Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
sure will be Mr. Eisenhower's
ninning mate and would succeed
him if he failed to complete a
second term.
Whether those issues could be
as effective as many Democrats
hope and believe is debatable.
There is not much doubt, how
ever, that any physical difficul
ties, permanent 'or temporary,
would serve during this presi
dential campaign to remind
voters that Mr. Eisenhower did
suffer last September a serious
heart seizure.
Depends On Recovery
The stumbling fall of stock
quotations and the wild rumors
such as swept Washington Fri
day do not mean much. The
basic political importance of Mr.
Eisenhower's illness depends
now on how soon and success
fully he recovers. . It depends,
also, on the manner in which he
stands up to the pressure of the
campaign and the presidential
office between now and next
November.
the controlling decisions of his
varied career last winter when
he appeared before the nation
by television on Feb. 29 to an
nounce that he was fit and
ready to run again.
. A halting recovery from his
present illness or a series of such
attacks could pose to him again
a decision of the utmost personal
and political significance.
Said As Much
Persons who know the Presi
dent best believe he would stand
aside if he felt unequal to his
responsibilities. He has firmly
said as much. Such talk is
enough to make Republican par
ty strategists arise screaming In
their beds at night. It could
happen, although the nature of
Mr. Eisenhower's illness as so
far disclosed falls far short of
any threat of serious disability
or protracted convalescence.
There is, however, the vital
statistic of the President's age.
He will be 66 by election day.
The President himself has re
marked that no man elected at
that age has completed a second
term.
The thought that Mr. Eisen
hower might step aside, however
remote that possibility may be.
naturally chills Republican par
ty leaders. They almost never
have had it so good as since last
Feb. 29 when the President said
he could run again. All of that
could-change in the wink of an
eye, and they know it.
Hitchcock Named as
Smith's Alternate
Salem U.B Gov. Elmo
Smith has named Phil Hitchcock
of Portland to be his alternate as
delegate to the Republican Na
tional convention in San Fran
cisco in August.
Hitchcock tried unsuccessfully
to gain the Republican nomina
tion for the U. S. Senate over
former Interior Secretary Doug
las McKay in the May primaries.
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PRESIDENT
Series of Digestive
Disorders Suffered
Date Back to Service
. By JAMES BARR
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington (U.R) President
suffered a series of digestive
disorders dating back to his
service in the Philippines in the
1930 s.
He suffered a severe attack
of dysentery at that time. Dur
ing the next two decades he had
several more gastrointestinal at
tacks. One of the worst hit him in
March, 1949. It was his only
serious illness from the end of
World War II until his heart
attack last Sept. 24.
Mr. Eisenhower suffered the
1949 attack while engaged in
long consultations with top
Pentagon officials in Washing
ton. He was on leave as presi
dent of Columbia University.
Caused from Food
Dr. Howard McC. Snyder, the
Presidenfs physician, recalls
Deadly Poison Helps
Ike Through Surgery
Washington (U.R) Curare, a
deadly poison with which some
South American savages tip their
darts, helped President Eisen
hower through his emergency
operation early today.
To put the President to sleep
before the operation, his doctors
gave him among other things a
mixture of oxygen and ether,
"induced by sodium pentatRol
intravenously and augmented
by Curare."
It was explained that curare,
though lethal in sizeable
amounts, acts in small quan
tities as a "muscle relaxant."' It
has been used in medicine for
several years.
Summer Band Classes
Scheduled at Talent
Talent Carl Loveland, re
tired director of music in San
Luis Obispo, Calif., city schools
for the past 12 years, will be
in charge of the Talent summer
school band classes to begin
June 18 in the Talent school
band building.
Classes in beginning, inter
mediate and advanced band will
be offered during the morning
hours. Loveland will give in
struction for flute, clarinet, sax
ophone, cornet, trumpet, French
horn, trombone, baritone horn,
susaphone. drums and other
band instruments.
Loveland's San Lus Obispo
High school band is the first
ever to be invited to participate
in the Shrine All Star East
West Football game in San Fran
cisco. It has been the featured
band there for the past 18 years.
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that the President suffered the
attack, medically called gastro
enteritis, after eating highly
spiced Mexican food at a friend's
house. ,
Mr. Eisenhower spent three
weeks convalescing at Key West,
Fla., and Augusta, Ga.
Dr. Snyder recommended aft
er the 1949 attack that Mr.
Eisenhower give up smoking.
Mr. Eisenhower, who had been
smoking two packs of cigarets
a day, agreed.
He made two public appear
ances April 16, 1953, while suf
fering from a digestige upset.
He addressed an American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors
lunch in Washington. Then he
flew to Salisbury. N. C. to at
tend the 200th anniversary of
Rowan County.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty disclosed
afterwards: "The President has
been suffering from a slight
attack of food poisoning all day."
The President recovered
quickly. He played golf three
days later.
Intestinal Flu
The President went to bed
with a case of intestinal flu in
October that year. It kept him
there most of a weekend.
That was the" last time he suf
fered a digestive disorder until
Friday's attack of ileitis. How
ever, his heart attack., was first
called a digestive upset by the
White House.
Other than Mr. Eisenhower's
heart attack and the series of
digestive disorders, his medical
history is relatively clear.
His tonsils and appendix were
removed years ago. He had his
quota of child's diseases: mea
sles, mumps, whooping cough.
He injured his knee while
playing football at West Point.
That left him with a so-called
"trick knee" that rarely both
ers him.
He has had a few recurring
bouts with bursitis in his left
shoulder.
And as Dr. Snyder puts it
several "cases of sniffles."
Bandon Girl Killed
When Hit by Car
Bandon vU.R) Three-year-old
Peggy Lee Lamb of Bandon
was fatally injured Friday after
noon when she was struck by an
automobile as she was crossing
Highay 101 to join an older
brother and sister.
The child, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse V. Lamb, was taken
to Mast hospital at Myrtle Point
where she died.
Driver of the car, Brooks Wag
goner, 19, of Port Orford, was
not cited.
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President Has Said
He Would Withdraw
If Health Not Good
By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R Presi
dent Eisenhower has said, re-
peotedly and forcefully, that he
will withdraw as a candidate for
reelection if he ever decides
that his health is not up to an
other four years in the White
House.
Complying with the dictates
of propriety, leaders of both par
ties declined public comment on
the probable political impact of
Mr. Eisenhower's new illness.
Privately, Republicans and Dem
ocrats agreed that it has at least
revived doubts about whether
Mr. Eisenhower will head the
GOP ticket again this fall.
These doubts, which were
widespread before Mr. Eisen
hower's Feb. 29 announcement
that he was willing to run for
reelection, had previously been
almost completely dispelled by
the President s vigorous activity
and apparent strong recovery
from his heart attack last Sept.
24.
Inescapable Issue
Democrats saw Mr. Eisenhow
er's illness as underscoring what
many of them have been say
ing since his second term an
nouncement. These Democrats
have contended that any presi
dential illness, however trivial.
or serious, would serve to make
his health an inescapable cam
paign issue and provide a re
minder that he was a heart at
tack victim last fall.
While most congressional
comments were limited to ex
pressions of regret and hope for
a speedy recovery. Sen. Richard
L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), added:
"The main consideration
ought to be the President's
health and longevity and not
politics. I don't think the Presi
dent should run again if he is
jeopardizing his health."
If Mr. Eisenhower should re
consider his second term decis
ion and decide against running,
Vice-President Richard Nixon
would become a heaw favorite
to win the presidential nomin
ation. But heavy resistance to
his nomination could be expect
ed, and the Republicans would
First Lady Keeps
iqil at Ike's Side
Washington U.R) Mamie Ei
senhower kept an anxious virgil
Saturday at her husbands bed
side. Friends said she was "calm
but concerned."
The First Lady spent the long
summer night in a plain hospital
room only a few feet from the
President's three-room suite on
the. top floor of Walter Reed
Hospital.
Mr. Eisenhower's only son,
maj. John Eisenhower, ac
companied Mrs. Eisenhower to
the hospital and spent the eve
ning. Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the
President's brother, also hurried
to his side.
Ben Anderson Buys
Central Point Market
Central Point-" Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Anderson, Jacksonville,
have purchased the Economy
market in Central Point, from
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Clocksin.
For the present the Andersons
will continue to live in Jack
sonville and though plans for
the Clocksins are indefinite they
plan to remain in Central Point.
The new owners took over the
business June 4.
Anderson has lived in ,Jack
sonville for about nine years
and until about a year ago he
operated Ben's Food market
there. He formerly was asso
ciated with the grocery business
in Ashland.
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face a bruising party battle like
that already being fought in the
Democratic camp.
News Conference Remarks
Mr. Eisenhower has been most
emphatic in his statements that
he will withdraw from the pres
idential race if his health falt
ers. At a news conference on Mar.
7, a week after his second term
announcement, he was asked to
comment on Democratic charg
es that he planned to be a "part
time" president.
He replied vigorously that
"there is going to be no neglect
of the duties of the presidency
. . . when I feel I can't carry
them on, I won't be there."
Later in the same news con
ference he reiterated that "un
less I felt absolutely up to the
performance of the duties of the
president, the second that I did
not, I would no longer be . . .
available for the job."
He added, however, that he
dUln't mean he would bow out
"if I get a week's case of the
flu or something else."
Ileitis Described
As Seldom Fatal by
Medical Specialist
By JOHN M. COURIC
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Ileitis,
the ailment which sent Presi
dent Eisenhower to the operat
ing table, is a "relatively uncom
mon" intestinal disorder, an em
inent medical specialist said
Saturday.
He said it "is rarely, if ever,
fatal in itself. Its treatment
sometimes requires surgery, as
in Mr. Eisenhower's case.
The specialist, who asked that
he remain anonymous, asked
that surgery becomes necessary
in conditions when Ileitis, in
flammation of the lower small
intestine, causes constriction or
blocking of the intestinal tract.
This is what happened in the
President s case.
The ailment can be treated in
three ways, according to its sev
erity: Three Treatments
1. Let the body repair itself
by giving the small intestine a
rest. This can be done by feed
ing the patient through the
veins. At the same time the phys
ician tries to soothe the affect
ed area with medicines.
2. Insert a rubber" tube down
through the nose or mouth into
the intestinal tract to remove
stomach gases and liquids which
can cause pain. This also helps
the body repair itself.
3. Use major surgery to re
move the blocked section of the
small intestine and then sew
the healthy parts back together.
It is not known early today
whether this was the nature of
the operation performed on the
President.
"Man can spare several feet
of his intestine without being
disabled permanently," the spec
ialist said.
Millworker Fatally
Injured Near Detroit
Salem lU.R) A 56-year-old
Sweet Home millworker died
here Friday from injuries suf
fered in an automobile accident
near Detroit May 10.
The victim, Frank H. Scott,
had rolled his car over on High
way 22 while driving alone. He
was taken to Santiam Memorial
hospital with head and internal
injuries and later transferred to
a Salem hospital.
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Disposal Plan for
Waste Submitted
To Sanitary Group
Portland (U.R) A plan to
dispose of waste that would be
given off by a proposed $17 mil
lion Kraft paper and paper
board mill at Toledo was pre
sented to the State Sanitary Au
thority here Friday by Georgia-'
Pacific Corp.
The firm, one of the world's
largest lumber operators, said it
planned to spend $360,000 on a
waste disposal system at the
Lincoln county installation and
$750,000 on a water system to
Yaquina river at Toledo.
The authority said the plans
must be first submitted to "all
interested parties," in the Toledo-Newport
area, including the
oyster industry at Yaquina bay
and the State Fish and Game
Commissions.
W. J. Sheldon, resident man
ager of Georgia Pacific, said the
company proposed to carry the
strong wastes from the mill by
pipeline to McLean's Point near
Newport at the mouth of Yaq
uina bay. Diluted wastes would
be dumped into the river at To
ledo. The Sanitary Authority, in
other action, ordered the resi
dents of Broadmoor and Brent
wood parks in southwest Port
land to end a health hazard
there within 90 days.
Members halted arguments
over who was responsible for
sewage disposal in the residen
tial area and said the hazard of
overflowing sewers would have
to be corrected, regardless of
ownership of the system.
Judge Named for 10th
All-Arabian Horse Show
Salem . Professor Byron H.
Good of Michigan State univer
sity has been announced as judge
for Oregon's 10th annual All-
Arabian Horse show at the state
fair grounds in Salem June 23
and 24, according to Ward W.
Wells, show manager.
Entries for the show close at
midnight June 10 and must be
postmarked before that date. En
tries should be sent to Wells at
box 463, Oswego. Special show
reception committee has sched
uled an exhibitor's dinner at 6:30
p.m., June 22, the evening before
the show. Reservations should
be made through Mrs. Alice
Skei, route 1, box 606, Beaver-
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SOC Starts
A school health workshop, de
signed primarily for elementary
and high school instructors, will
get under way Monday morning
at Southern Oregon college.
The workshop, under direc
tion of Miss Dorothy Huskey,
Jackson county public health ed
ucator, will continue until June
22.
Monday's sessions will include
introductory classes, film pre
views, planning and organiza
tion. Tuesday morning will fea
ture a film strip, teacher obser
vation and discussion of the
teacher's role in school health.
A sanitation field trip with Orie
Moore and Robert Hart, sani
tarians, is scheduled for the
afternoon.
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impressed than anyone else with
the axiom "crime does not pay."
He told police who arrested him
Friday that when he returned to
the spot where he had hidden
his share of the loot from a rob
bery, he- found somebody had
stolen it.
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the Rotary club luncheon. He
will be guest of Mark Goldy,
local realtor. Elieson also will
speak at a dinner meeting of I
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program and discussions are
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Program for the final week of
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health education board, all of the
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