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SIXTEEN MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July 9. 195S Democratic Convention To Have Largest On-Spot News Coverage Chicago (U.R) The Demo cratic national convention next month will have the "largest on the spot concentrated news cov erage of any event in the world since the beginning of time." This is the way J. Leonard Reinsch, in charge of conven tion arrangement, sums up the preparations being made by the nation's news media. Reinsch, assistant to Demo cratic national chairman Paul Butler, said he expects almost 4.000 personnel from newspa pers, magazines, radio and tele vision to be on hand for the con vention, which begins Aug. 13. f & A 1: WHO, ME? Kay Douglas, 18, of Greenwich Village, New York City, registers proper surprise at being named Miss New York State. The red-haired beauty will represent her state in the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif. 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Seats Limited Reinsch said seats for visitors at the convention will be limited because the number of delegates this year will be almost double that of the 1952 convention. In 1952 there were 1,632 dele gates and 1,632 alternates. This year, under the half-vote plan, there will be an maximum of 2,744 delegates and 1,896 alter nates. This means that the en tire main floor, which four years ago seated both delegates and al ternates, will be filled with dele gates only. In the mazzanine, 1.900 seats will be reserved for alternates. But there should be no short age of hotel rooms, although some VIPs may not get the suites they desire. The Chicago Con vention Bureau said 11,825 of the Chicago area's 35,000 transi ent hotel rooms have been set aside for the convention trade. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co. estimates that there will be a 10 to 30 per cent increase in this year compared with the 1952 convention. Company spokesmen said the amphitheatre will require an es timated 32 switchboards, 4,000 telephones, more than 100 phone booths, 160 private lines, hun dreds of special lines and 1,330 installed for various headquar ters in downtown hotels. The company said 54 micro wave "dishes" for television will be installed, including 28 atop the amphitheatre, 10 on the Con rad Hilton hotel and the remain der on other large buildings. At the convention site the com pany will install a message cen ter staffed by 80 operators, train ed to handle all incoming calls for delegates. A feature of the center will be a large screen on which will be posted by means of a special pro jector the names of those for whom there are massages, the latest weather reports, baseball scores and the like. There also will be a TV lounge where delegates can watch tele vised convention proceedings be tween telephone calls. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood (U.R) Will Bing Crosby become the Hollywood bridegroom of 1956? His girl friend of two years reportedly m " has taken an- 4. other step that 3T' could make & - ,v..- f her his hrirfp. but the croon ers pals insist there's "still nothing defin ite." Hollyw o o d observers who Aline Mosby think the 52- year-old Crosby will wed 22-year-old Kathryn Grant gained another point last week when word got out arount she had been converted to his religion, Catholicism. Kathy curiously refuses to either confirm or deny the re port. She merely says, "I never have made a statement about it and I don't intend to." But her acquaintances say she told them she has completed her Catholic studies and "she start ed them after she began to go out with Bing." Steady Company The world's most famous pop ular singer and the little bru nette from Texas have been keeping steady company for more than two years. Although Bing has dated actress Mona Freeman, Kathy has been his only steady companion since his wife, Dixie, died in 1952. . Kathy visited Bing often at his Palm Springs home during the winter. She has been hostess at his home when he entertained friends, including a wedding par ty of his pal, producer Bill Mur- row and his bride. But other friends of the pair are equally sure Crosby never will marry the girl who is 30 years his junior. "Bing is just lonely and not in terested in looking elsewhere for a companion," one friend says. "I don't think he'll ever marry again. Ambitious Actress "And why shouldn't Kathy give him all of her time? She's young with plenty of years ahead of her to look for a husband. Right now she's an ambitious girl planning on an acting career." Any wedding could not be soon, as the pair will be separat ed the rest of the summer. Cros by, Murrow and possibly Phil Harris leave July 21 to hunt and fish in Canada and Idaho. Kathy says that she. Mrs. Murrow and Alice Faye Harris are talking about driving through Mexico while their men are up north. Crosby does not plan to return here until September unless an elopement changes those plans. The actress insists, "I have no plans now for marriage." The wild boar has been ex terminated in Eagland for more than three centuries but still may be found in some of the dense forests of coontinental Europe. Why wash this precious cotton dress at home? the Sanitone Cotton Clinic is the safe. .Jar better way mm JU It is almost impossible to recap T ture the exquisite daintiness of sheer summer cottons at home. But, no matter! In addition to giving os these delicate cotton fabrics, science has also provided a way to keep their original loveliness indefinitely. It's the Sanitone Cotton Clinic with Styh'Set Finish originated in the same fife . ' ' .. k v-if A research laboratories which gave us famous Sanitone Dry Cleaning. 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But not even a jus tice of the peace was on deck, let alone a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Present was a long-time log ging camp blacksmith who made rhymes that the Eastern poetry markets welcomed. I had recent ly found, to my own everlasting amazement, that Paul Bunyan tales were literary trade goods of real value. And there was the best bard of all, Mr. P. P. Bliss. The Record Cut Mr. Bliss' masterpiece was a cluster of verses composed to cel ebrate the Americanization of a leading lumber center of the Oregon Coast by exclusion of the town's foreign-born wage earners. The crowning Bliss stan za went thisaway: "Now our mothers and wives can go And get theirselves a seat In our motion picture show Without setting next to a Greek.'' I took occasion to ask Poet Bliss just what it was that he had against Greeks, in particu lar. He said, nothin' in particular not any more than I've got against a Hunyocker. It's ust that I had to have a rhyme in there. And "Greek" was the nearest I could come to a rhyme with "seat." It's what they call 'poetic license'," the poet ex plained. So then I knew. The meaning of "poetic license" had always been dim in my mind before that evening of the Writers' Confer ence. But Poet P. P. Bliss made it mighty clear to me. Had it not been for the Conference, most likely I'd have never learned that meaning. I've been strong for writers' conferences as a medium of education ever since. Ink-Slained Veterans Now in 1956 the woods are full of old-timers at the "writ ing game." There is one breed that is distinct from other writ ers, even as poets have ever been. This tribe, is made up of the "Outdoor Writers of Amer ica" the name of an actual writing organization. The Su preme Court Justice who is to speak at the Seattle conference is really one of the group, if not a dues-payingmember. He is the outhor of the best-selling "Men and Mountains," and his name is William O. Douglas. His voice will be heard as a writer's voice at the big dinner on Fri day. July 27. The outdoor writers will make a start of their own, bright and Giveaway Charges Denied by Seaton Washington (U.R) Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton Sun day rejected Democratic charges that the Eisenhower administra tion has given away some of the nation's resources to private in dustry. "If we've given anything away," he said, "... it certainly was not intentional. The "give away" charges have been leveled particularly against Douglas McKay, who Seaton re placed as interior secretary, for policies involving the nation's power, mineral and timber re sources. McKay resigned to seek the Senate seat of Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) Morse Urges Probe Of Wilson Contracts Washington (U.R) Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) Sun day urged Congress to "thor oughly investigate" contracts signed by defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. He said he "would certainly cast reflection" upon Wilson's qualifications to handle this Cab inet post "free from conflict of interest." Morse, interviewed on a tele vision program "Reporters' Roundup," "knowing that as secretary of defense he would rign hundreds of millions of dol lars worth of contracts with General Motors." "I think," he added, "that the contracts signed by Wilson since he has been secretary of defense should be thoroughly investi gated by the Congress." Norway had 204 newspapers in 1955 of which 95 were dailies. early on that Friday, going on a tour to the White River Tree Farm of the Weyerhaeuser Tim ber Company and the Silver Creek Camp of Snoqualmie Na tional Forest, with chow and bus supplied by the West Coast Lum bermen's Association. Then, the "workshops." Study and discussion sections on juve nile writing, non-fiction books, novels, articles, outdoor writing, poetry, playwriting, short stories, lunch, dinner and a Sunday pro gram. Copy of a program and information sheet will be mailed on request to this newspaper. Oregon, Washington and British Columbia are joined in the pro gram. So it's international. Hope to see you there! Nixon, Pakistan President Confer Karachi, Pakistan (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon con ferred today with President Is kander Mirza of Pakistan during a brief stopover on the home ward leg of his whirlwind good will tour of America's allies in Asia and the Far East. Nixon's next scheduled stop is Ankara, Turkey. The vice president said he had a "very concentrated discussion" with Mirza, during his stopover in Karachi. He said the talks centered on economic aids and military ties between Pakistan and the United States. Nixon said that he would relay to President Eisenhower and the National Security Council the views of Pakistani leaders on the recent developments in Mos cow. Nixon spent about four hours in Karachi. 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