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Medford and Jackson County
Historv trom the files ol The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 0 and
0 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. S. 1946
(It was Monday)
Water will be cut off at mid
night for several hours tonight
on the East side between Keene
way drive and Windsor ave.,
Robert Duff, water superintend
ent, announces.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: There is a
rumor some old fashioned moon
shiner is at large. Imbibers re
port it is not immediately fatal.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 5, 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Dnfimism Drevails among
Rogue valley orchardists as great
er resistance was shown to Cali
fornia cannery overtures than
in any recent year.
City council approves paving
of East Ninth st. from Cottage
st. to Portland ave.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. S. 1926
(It was Thursday)
The president's coordination
committee will hold a hearing
at Diamond lake this evening,
after spending the day there.
City purchases the Richert
residential property on West
Main st.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. S, 1926
(It was Saturday)
A party of 1 00 timber cruisers
and comnass men leave for the
hills east of Ahland to beein
the task of surveying and classi
fying O and C land grant.
Arrangements for editorial ex
cursion to Crater like tomorrow
morning completed.
YYM's )hn Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955 Fdttnrlxl Research
Report
1. The U.S. has or hasn't rat
ified the anti-genocide treaty
that has been ratified by most
states in U.N.?
2. In- the Bible Noah's three
sons Vere Shem, Ham, and (a)
Enos. (b) Methuselah, (c) Jap-
heth. (d) Moses, or (e) Absalom?
3. Family name of Queen
Elizabeth II of Great Britain is
Windsor. Hanover. Tudor. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
Edinburgh, or
Bowes-Lyon?
4. First President to live in
the White House was Washing
ton, John Adams, Jefferson,
Madison or Monroe?
5. The state with the north
ernmost point is Maine, Ver
mont, New Hampshire, Michi
gan. Minnesota or Washington?
6. The Roman Catholic col
lege of cardinals contains more
cardinal bishops, cardinal
priests, or cardinal deacons?
7. St. Cecelia is the patron
saint of history, dancing, poetry,
music, painting, sculpture or
travel?
The answers: 1. U.S. hasn't
ratified. 2. Japheth. 3. Wind
sor. 4. John Adams. 5. Minne
sota. 6. Cardinal priests. 7.
Music
MILLION-MILE ADVICE
Hartford, Conn. iB.R) Cited
for driving one million miles
without scratching a fender, taxi
driver Irving Weiner advised:
"Just take your time but not
too much time. Be cautious and
you'll be all right."
MAIL TRIBUNE
It Isn't
In our national sport there is a time-honored say
ing that goes like this: "It's never over until the last
man is out.
We think some such slogan might well be adopted
in another national sport,
Most of the wise boys
for Adlai Stevenson at Chicago, as well as Eisenhower
and Nixon at San Francisco.
LJAVING attended many party conventions both
Democratic and Republican, we would not quar
rel with the GOP prediction, for there is no doubt
about the presidential nominee nor any doubt that he
can and will name his running mate. Thirdly, as
of today there is no REASONABLE doubt as to the
man he will name (although why he wants him is be
yond this department's understanding). So that's that.
TT IS DIFFERENT with
A like "smoke-filled rooms" and star chamber decis
ions on a strictly business basis they like a fight.
And while as of today, it is hard to see how the
party candidate of four years ago can be beaten, it is
just as hard to see him winning without a real fight.
And there cannot be much of a fight if Adlai is to
be put over on the first or
ster chorus is saying he will.
At any rate we wouldn't advise anyone specula
tively inclined, to mortgage the old homestead and put
it all, on the Democratic candidate who lost the elec
tion in 1952. He is by far the best qualified man for
the job, and as the situation now stands, he will only
need about 100 votes to get
ballot.
But four years ago Estes Kefauver had almost as
sweet a lead when the convention opened, while Gov
ernor Stevenson was not even an "inactive" candidate,
but see how that turned out?
,
So as far as this department is concerned, we stick
to our original contention
near the Golden Gate will be about as exciting as a
meeting of the Board of Directors of US Steel, as far
as elements of political surprise, suspense and real
conflict are concerned, but the Democratic gathering
at Chicago will, as usual, be something very differ
ent. R. W. R.
The People Should Rule
It is true that the railroads for many years have been
plagued by the problem of losses on passenger service that
must be made up out of freight profits. But they have had
much friendly help in trying to reach a solution through ef
forts of such organizations as the Federation for Railway
Progress and the National Association of Railroad and Util
ities Commissions. The deficits, though still large, have been
reduced through such measures as the use of more modern,
lightweight equipment and a greater emphasis on short haul
patronage. There is every reason to believe much more could
be done in this direction.
If the railroad officials themselves are pessimistic about
the probable results of such methods, however, there is not
much reason for the rest of us to keep looking on the bright
side. One can hardly expect a competitive business to flour
ish when even the boss lacks faith in its future.
The above is help from an Unexpected source,
namely the Portland Oregonian.
The comment was also called forth by the state
ment of President Donald J. Russell of the Southern
Pacific predicting that in 20 years there will be no
passenger service, only freight.
As indicated by the Oregonian the solution of the
passenger traffic problem by rail does not lie in the
railroad heads quitting but in improving and reducing
the costs of the service.
JJOWEVER, it is doubtful if the comments of the
powerful and conservative Oregonian has any
more effect upon the even more powerful and more
conservative SP, than the comments of the smaller
newspapers of the state, have had.
The basic trouble is that while the people of the
country have in theory some control over the railroads
via such controlling bodies as the Interstate Com
merce Commission and the various state public utility
commissions, in reality they have none or very little.
And we fear they won't have until these con
trolling bodies are made up of individuals not under
obligation to the politicians for their jobs but to the
people. R. W. R.
Democrats and Civil Rights
Democratic leaders, striving to avoid a convention
fight that could split the party, are reported agreeing
on a civil rights platform plank that will use the
language of the 1952 "moderate" platform. But one
of the oddest pre-convention problems in political his
tory remains to be solved : Will the Democratic plat
form language specifically refer to the school integra
tion decree handed down by a Supreme Court of
which the chief justice is a Republican?
It was a strong civil rights stand that caused the
Dixiecrat revolt in 1948. And even though a relatively
weak plank was adopted in 1952, the three Southern
state governors most active in the convention fight on
civil rights eventually came out for Gen. Eisenhower.
And the GOP earned Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and
Virginia.
DEP. WILLIAM L. Dawson (D-HL), one of the
three Negro members of the House, all Democrats,
on July 29 predicted that the convention would adopt
a "reasonable" civil rigtts plank. "Reasonable men
ought to be able to work out their differences," said
Dawson, "and I think the platform committee will be
composed of reasonable men.' A northern Democrat,
Rep. John W. McCormack, will serve again as chair
man of the committee.
But even as Dawson was speaking, Gov. George
Bell Timmerman of South Carolina was calling for a
meeting of representatives from 10 southern states in
Atlanta August 2 '"to organize our southern unity."
Sunday. August S, 1958
Over Yet
namely politics.
are saying "it's a 'shoo-in'
the Democrats. They don't
second ballot, as the dope-
the brass ring on the first
that the GOP gathering
Today and
By Walter
REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS
Rather suddenly, so far as the
public is concerned. Republican
prospects have taken a turn, and
I T I less clear and
less Drignt.
The cause of
this turn is a
spreading un
easiness about
the rate of the
President's re
covery. It is
plain enough
Walter Ltppmmnn now that this
is the cause of what would other
wise have been an absurd thing
for a practical politician like Mr.
Stassen to do. It alone explains
his having waited until it was so
late in the day. For it was about
the middle of July that doubt
arose about the official prognos
is, on which Chairman Hall and
Mr. Hagerty have been acting.
Quite evidenUy, the less satis
factory the rate and character
of the President's recovery, the
more serious a liability is Mr.
Nixon. For virtually every press
and public opinion has shown
that there are a majority who
would not vote to elect Nixon to
be President of the United
States. If, during the campaign,
Mr. Eisenhower is ailing, if he
does not look and feel and act
more fit than he does now, the
outcome in November will be
very much in doubt.
fTHIS, we may be sure, is why
-1 Mr. Stassen has not been ob
literated for challenging the
plan, of which Mr. Hall was the
manager, to renominate the Eisenhower-Nixon
ticket by accla
mation. There are powerful elements
in the Republican party, veteran
sponsors of Eisenhower, who
have never liked Nixon. There
can be,little doubt that they real
ize, the President's health being
what it is, that they are running
a double risk the risk of losing
the election and the risk of end
ing up with a President who be
longs to the Old Guard.
It is rot clear whether they
have backed Mr. Stassen, or
whether he has raised a flag to
which they are rallying. But in
any event, Mr. Stassen is no
longer playing a lone hand, and
on his main point, that Nixon
should not be taken for granted,
he has now carried the President
and Mr. Hall with him.
TtlR. HAGERTY won the confi
dence and admiration of the
press and the public for his
handling of the publicity after
the President's heart attack. Tin
has not been equally successful
since thej'resident's second ill
ness in June. For he has led the
country to expect that by this
time the President would be ful
ly recovered, as good if not bet
ter than before. The excesslvplv
optimistic prognosis of June was
an unwise gamble with fate and
with the nature of things.
It would have been far hptfor
as things have turned out, if the
country had been told that ileitis
is a serious disease, that the op
eration was a serious one, and
that the President would nppH
time for his convalscence. Then
it would not have been necessary I
to subject the President to a press 1
Timmerman said that he seriously doubted that the
party could write a plank that both the South and the
nation would accept.
Timmerman was the prime mover behind a similar
Atlanta conference in mid-July. But the" statement that
came out of that meeting, July 14, made by state
Democratic chairmen, urged northern and southern
Democrats to work in "party unity" to remove "the in
ept Republican administration . . . from the White
House." The chairmen asserted: "We do not favor
any bolts, walkouts, or third parties."
Defeat of the relatively mild administration civil
rights bill at this session can be laid at the doors of
senators from southern states. But timing was involv
ed, too, and also an agreement cutting across party
lines to get on witn adjournment. JKepublican leader
William F. Knowland (Calif.) was auite candid on
that point. Addressing Sen. Herbert H.- Lehman (D
N.Y.) on July 25, he said :
This is no time, in the last few days of the session, to pro
ceed with something which, from a practical point of view,
the Senator knows as well as anyone knows cannot be ac
complished. It is only "kidding" minority groups and the
American people to go through a lot of idle gestures.
In any event, the Democrats will have at least a
small fight on their hands in Chicago. A group of 55
Negro Democratic leaders from 17 states on July 21
accepted in principle recommendations to be put to
the platform draftera. The most important of these
called for denial of federal aid to states enforcing
school segregation. Also, George Meany, AFL-CIO
head, will appear before both party platform groups
with labors recommendations, sure to have some bear
ing on civil rights.
Gov. Frank G. Clement
convention keynoter, was
because he can cover the
a way that will not be offensive to any segment of the
population," in the words of National Chairman Paul
M. Butler. But it was the same Clement who told a
press conference recently: "Not a single school has
been desegregated in Tennessee, with the exception
of those in Oak Ridge, located on federal property."
E.R.R.
Tomorrow
Lippmann
agent's stunt, like taking him to
Panama and compelling him to
show how much weariness and
boredom he can endure.
The uneasiness about the Pres
ident which Mr. Stassen has ar
ticulated and dramatized, would
be no greater and might in the
long run be less if Mr. Hagerty
had dealt with the ileitis as he
did with the coronary thrombos
is that is to say, by giving the
press access to the President's
doctors instead of imposing an
embargo. For the secrecy has
served only to aggravate the dis
appointment because it is taking
the President longer than was
promised to regain his health.
I should add that I do not
think Mr. Hagerty Imposed the
embargo in order to mislead the
country. I have no doubt that he
was entirely convinced by the
President's doctors that the first
prognosis could be relied upon,
and that he felt a public debate
among doctors would be an un
seemly thing, would be dispirit
ing to the patient and very un
settling to the American people.
THE Republican prospects,
which have become darker
than they appeared to be at the
beginning of July, would surely
be greatly improved if Nixon
were replaced by Herter. In fact,
if they go on with tlixon, the Re
publican leaders will be placing
a bet that by September or early
October, the President will be so
well recovered that his health
will not be an issue. With Herter,
they would be reinsuring them
selves against what might be
come a big secession of Eisen
hower Republicans.
But even with Herter, there is
no longer any certainty, as most
of us have assumed there was,
about the outcome in November.
More than a year will have pass
ed since the President was first
stricken, and if he' is still conval
escent, the paramount question
will almost certainly be how and
by whom the powers of the Pres
idency are going to be exercised
for the next four years.
Mr. Eisenhower's enormous
personal popularity, which is re
flected in the Gallup polls, can
not be separated from a belief
that personally he wiU and can
carry on. A very considerable
number of voters will be looking
for signs not so much about his
life expectancy, which .they will
take for granted, but about his
strength and his energy to carry
on.
A REALISTIC appraisal of the
political prospects must take
into account also the probability
that the Democrats seem likely
to prove formidable. If, as is
now so probable, they unite be
hind Stevenson, they will have a
record in Congress and a candi
date which fits the situation.
They will not have much of an
issue as against Eisenhower. But
there is no issue against Eisen
hower that could be raised effec
tively in the campaign. The issue
is about Eisenhower's ability to
carry on.
The Democrats will be offer
ing an alternative for the Eisen
hower Republicans and the Eis
enhower Democrats to go to if
they become too uneasy.
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From Senator Neuberger
To the Editor: In a letter to
your newspaper of July 29 Mr.
Henry Kane, "research director"
of the Republican Party, makes
the claim that "Senator Neu
berger's silence on the part deal
ing with his opinion of Senator
Morse is a good example of the
book's accuracy."
If I were to reply to every
falsehood circulated by the Re
publican Party concerning Sen
ator Morse and myself, I would
have to forego all other activi
ties and to invent a week of at
least 14 days.
In the expensive "book" pre
pared by the Republican Party
to victimize Senator Morse, a
whole series of quotations from
earlier articles of mine have
been lifted in an effort to em
phasize differences between
Senator Morse and myself. My
favorable comments on Senator
Morse's record, in those articles,
are of course completely over
looked. It is true there were some
differences politically between
Senator Morse and me when he
was trying his best to be both a
liberal and a loyal Republican,
and when I was pursuing my ac
tivities as a Democrat. What Is
so dreadful about that?
As the editor of the Mail
Tribune has emphasized so co
gently in his editorial of July 29
the best and most reliable test
is my present high estimate of
Senator Morse and it is high.
indeed after a year and a half
of close association with him in
the United States Senate.
But suppose we let the record
stand of my earlier disagree
ments with Senator Morse on
certain policies. History, after
all, cannot be cut in two, even
with a pair of Republican scis
sors.
In 1950 Phil Hitchcock, the
junior version of Douglas Mc
Kay, had this to say of Wayne
Morse:
"It Is my opinion that
, Wayne Morse has given the
best explanation of a sound
program that has been given
by any public figure in Amer
ican life. Maybe this stamps
me as a 'maverick.' but I be
lieve sincerely that the Re
publican Party must look in
this direction or disintegrate,"
Today, Hitchcock is traveling
all over Oregon, denouncing and
abusing Senator Morse. Evi
dently the Republican State
Committee believes it is perfect
ly fine for Hitchcock to reverse
his earlier high opinion of Sena
tor Morse, but that it is repre
hensible for Neuberger to make
any change in his stand! This
affords some insight into the
curious reasoning processes of
those who are spending so much
time and money to try to defeat
Oregon's distinguished senior
member of the United States
Senate.
Richard L. Neuberger,
United States Senate.
"Great Respect for the Dollar"
To the Editor: Do you remem
ber what remark the great Mc
Kay made wheu he was running
for Governor of Oregon, and
again when he was expecting
to receive the appointment to
the place of Sec. of Int. in the
Cabinet of the President of the
United States?
Well, I do, and here It is: "I
have great respect for a dollar",
and, again he said: "I have a
high regard for the dollar".
Remember, now? WeU, a lot
of us remember.
Personally, I should like to
know axactly what was behind
such remarks. To whom were
such remarks directed?
What was the idea, anyway?
Was there any call for such ut
terances?
He was already known for his
parsimonious treatment of his
employees. He could not have
been directing such statements
to them.
If not, then to whom?
Do you suppose it possible that
he knew the Big Money men
would gather, a certain con
clusion from them? Or was he
just 'shooting in the dark?' I
don't know. Who does?
It seems to be rather a queer
thing to make such a remark
under such circumstances.
It arouses suspicions in my
mind that it was for possible
future use. Such seemingly little
things have happened before,
with good financial returns to
the man who made such 'hints',
if we may call them that.
In view of later happenings
it just could have been intended
to produce such an event, or
events.
Was there "any personal in
ducements for issuing exploita
tion permits on game and fish
preserves?
Or for the 'freeing of the In
dians' with the present removal
to their natural resources, to
the great profit of the ones who
obtained them?
Or for the Issuances of licenses
to put in certain dams on our
rivers to the exclusion of our
Federal Government and loss in
power and money, and benefit
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Last week, when a staff
member answered one of the
office telephones, the voice of
a young girl gave him a news
story about a recent trip made
by two local people, using the
first names (both female) and
the last name, which was the
same for both.
The staff member thought
how nice that two youngsters
would take a trip, assuming
that the person calling was
one of the two, so he inquired
as to their ages.
The party calling, after
some conversation in the
background, said one of the
two on the trip was more than
40 years old.
Mrs. Phil Brainerd and Mrs.
Guy Phetteplace are neighbors,
and both are active in various
doings around town.
' RecenUy, Mrs. Brainerd was
hostess at her home for a hospi
tal benefit coffee, and Mrs.
Phetteplace, being a gardener,
helped the former with her
to our dollars?
Especially when highly com
petent engineers testifed to the
much greater value of the higher
dams.
Is there anyone of average
intelligence who can deny that
Federally built dams soon pay
for themselves and are then
owned by the people? Well, let
me tell you they are so owned
and the Federal Treasury does
not lose one single dime.
Let us mull that over in our
thick heads and maybe we can
see why Morse and Neuberger
are so determined to get us the
dams and all other things for
us and not for a lot of money
bags who never turn a single
shovel of dirt.
Me for Morse and Neuberger.
A. L. Unger
634 Pennsylvania ave.
Thanks Blood Donors
To the Editor: August 8, the
Red Cross Bloodmobile will
again be in Medford.
I wish I might go and repay
the Red Cross some of the 39
pints I have received since May
16. However, you who are in
good health ,can help balance
my account by donating.
To the 22 persons, most of
whom I do not even know, who
gave blood in my behalf on
June 13 I am deeply grateful.
Frank C. Thompson,
Talent, Oregon.
Hells Canyon Dam
To the Editor. Again the forces
of evil, greed, prevailed in the
Hells Canyon dam deal. WHY?
In every age unselfish, public
spirited, farsighted people have
worked to perpetuate natural re
sources for best use and future
generations. Socrates did.
In every age a few grab more
than they need or can use, and
exploit it for personal selfish
use. The rockbound shores and
desert sands of time and this
earth are strewn with wreckage
and dust of God-given bounteous
natural resources, and human.
bones.
January 15. 1779, George
Washington wrote to Patrick
Henry, urging him to come
forth and help save the Colo
nies from the persistent, per
tinacious selfish special inter
ests." The Colonists fought off
another tyrant that insisted on
taxation without representa
tion." But slavetraders, robber
barons, looters of the public do
main, politics thwarted every
effort to stop wholesale thievery
of America's natural resources.
Promoters of four Western Rail
roads, grabbed areas of Ameri
ca's rich lands equal to Ohio, In
diana, niinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan. Fifteen railroads ap
propriated 112 million acres,
nearly twice the area of Oregon.
Greed brought on the Civil War.
"President Lincoln tried to buy
the Negro slaves to set them free,
but special interest big profits
prevented. President Lincoln
pleaded for "justice to all, mal
ice toward none." But politicos
and carpetbaggers p r e v a i led.
Congressman Ignatius Donnelly
warned the Congress, "unbridled
greed of big business and its
corruptive influence on politi
cians is driving the masses to not
even vote, and seek relief, in
communism."
Noting the greed and destruc
tion, Gifford Pinchot dedicat
ed his life to conservation and
perpetuation of America's na
tural resources for the people.
President Teddy Roosevelt,
alarmed at the terrible waste by
private exploiters, warned of the
timber famine already started
and set aside a few million acres
as National Reserves, for the
people. But greed for immediate
profits and waste continued de
struction of forests, soil, water,
wildlife, etc.
Now American Indian lands.
National forests. Parks, federal
grazing lands, waterpower sites,
all are threatened by timber
men, stockmen and waterpower
tycoons.
Is it any won-Jer the all-power
ful special interests bulldoggedly
hang onto politicians who favor
what private interests want, and
use every possibly way to defeat
candidates who work for the peo
ple's interests?
John Gribble
139 Kenwood Ave.,
.. .. Medford, Oregon 1
flowers outside. Mrs. ' Phette
place, of course, was dressed in
Tier gardening clothes.
The day of the party, Mrs.
Brainerd saw a woman, dressed
up and wearing dark glasses,
approaching across the lawn.
She turned to a neighbor and
inquired as to who the woman
was, and the neighbor replied'
that she didn't know.
Mrs. Brainerd approached tha
woman in her best hostess man
ner, greeted the woman,' and
said: "I'm Mrs. Brainerd. I'm
so glad you came . . ." and con
tinued. That is, until the woman look
ed astounded, and said some
thing to the effect of "Oh, for
gosh sakes."
Mrs. Brainerd then realized
she had not recognized her gar
dening neighbor, Mrs. Phette
place. Each summer, the county '
sheriff issues an ordar to a
"congregation" of hobos to
extinguish fires and make use
of "free rail tickets" to more
from a make-shift camp along
the Southern Pacific tracks
in the McAndrews rd. vicin
ity. The order is issued because
previously some camp fires
have been potentially danger-,
ous in the dry area.
Asked if they offer any re
sistance, the sheriff said they
don't "they just look hurt
and start on their way."
A candidate for political of
fice, in the valley last week,
brought with him a film presen
tation, which was considerably
delayed because of technical dif
ficulties with the projector.
Well-meaning aid from sev
eral supporters only got the
candidate more entangled in
film.
At length, the politician quip
ped, "I'm beginning to wonder
if a trip to Hollywood might be
more enlightening to me than a
trip to Washington."
A deputy sheriff has to be
both strong and agile because
there's no telling what emer
gencies may confront him.
Not too long ago, for ex
ample, one the deputies on
night encountered two dogs,
which answered his "go 'way
.... go 'way" with throaty
growls and began to lick their
chops.
Deciding discretion was the
better part of valor, the deputy
dashed from the scene, cleared
a six-foot picket fence, and
took refuge with a fellow dep
uty waiting in the nearby car.
The fellow deputy was im
pressed with his partner's ath
letic prowess, especially since
the dogs never budged from
tha spot where he left, and
since one of the dogs was a toy
terrier.
.
Patrons at the Shakespearen
Festival in Ashland this week
brought various sorts of gar
ments to keep warm and dry.
Opening night, a staff mem
ber and her daughter attended
the play, and although dressed
to keep warm, were not dressed
for keeping dry. A couple sitting
behind them, representing the
Ashland paper, however, were
prepared, somewhat, for the pre
play rain. They had a plastic
table cloth.
Seeing our reviewer without
proper protecton, they produced
a pocket knife, cut the table
cloth in half, and loaned half of
it to. our staff member.
Several people attending the
plays have a good idea the
use of sleeping bags, but not for
the purpose for which they are
intended, though.
At a recent Medford council
meeting, action was taken on
a request submitted by some
local businessmen, who ap
peared at several previous
gatherings. Showing their ap
preciation for tha council ac
tion, .they asked that if there
was anything they could do
for the council "feel free to
call on us."
The acting chairman of the
council said there was some
thing they could do: "Visit us
sometime, just for the visit."
Congressional
Quiz
- (Copyright. 15
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Standing for re-election at
the age of 78 is a man who has
represented his state continu
ously in Congress since its ad
mission to the union, first in the
House andf since 1926, in the
Senate. He is chairman of the
powerful Appropriations Com
mittee. Can you name the man
and the state?
- A Carl Hayden of Arizona,
a Democrat.
Q The dean of the Senate,
who has served continuously
since 1922, will not stand for
re-election but will take a newly-created
government post. Can
you name the man, his state and
the post he will take?
A Walter F. George of
Georgia, a Democrat, who will
serve as President Eisenhow
er's personal Ambassador to
the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.