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A SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Aucruit 23, 1958 If "l w : rrr- s, .. -51 i I i It.'- --v"S'Sb vvf-? ' is S V. Vv na ( Trti sir." --" - , Ma 7 A ,r-.-: . if? -&.- KNIGHTS GREET IKE President Eisenhower makes a short arrival speech after his plane lands at San Francisco Interna tional airport. Among those on hand to greet the President were California's Governor Goodwin Knight and Mrs. Knight (center). Behind Governor Knight (left) is Harold Stassen. The brim of Mrs. Eisenhower's hat is just barely visible over Ike's right shoulder. A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On This and That Br HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Preu Fltur Writer Harman Nichols was cleaning Washington (U.R) It was Victoria Geany speaking: "What's the difference," she said, "if I have a dust cap on? Also what is the matter if my slip is showing. I'm house clean ing." Mrs. Geany, who is lovely even with a slip showing, or helping to one of the most famous man sions in the world. That would be Blair House, where the lady is hostess to the great and near- great from all over presidents, kings, queens, prime ministers and the like. Mrs. G. has met them all. She has one of the most fab ulous collections of autographs in the world. In 30 years of do ing business with Blair House she also has collected a fabul ous array of autographed pic tures Haille Salassie, the "Lion of Judah;" Winston Churchill; the Duke of Windsor; and Chi ang Kai-shek. Busy Day But today she was feather dusting and seeing that rugs were sent out to be cleaned. The house was built in 1826 and has not been changed much since, except that the furniture has to be prettied up once in a while and sometimes repaired. When a king or a princess or another dignitary comes in from a foreign land, Mrs. Geany is ready to bed 'em down and fur nish the kind of grub that fits their fancy. Shortly after the Harry Tru mans came to the White House across the street, the creaky old floors gave way under the weight of Margaret's grand pi ano and one leg stuck through the ceiling of the suite below. A remodeling job was indi cated and the family from In dependence, Mo., moved into Blair House. Harry had his room. Bess had hers, and Margaret had private quarters. Own Quarters .. That was when Mrs. Geany fixed herself a little apartment in the cellar. It isva cosy little nest, eauipped with kitchen. shower, etc. After the Trumans moved back, some redecorating was done in the basement and Mrs Geany is proud to say that for a while she slept in the pea rar Truman once used. "The Trumans were most cor dial. They always were nice to me," she sajd. "I had met them many times at parties here at Blair House before Mr. Truman became President, so we were not exactly strangers." And, she hastened to add, the Eisenhowers were gracious, too. "They were guests here when he was a general." Supervisors Vote To Hike Hospital Rates Yreka, Calif. Siskiyou coun ty supervisors voted to raise the rates at the county hospital in a meeting held Tuesday. County hnenital ennerintendent Robert McKean asked for an increase for room rates ranging from $2 to $3. Dailv ward rates were in creased from $11 to $14; private rates from S15 to 17: and for indigents a boost from Sll to S14 per day to become effective Sept. 1. McKean said at the meeting that room rates at the hospital had not been raised in live years and that a raise was necessary due to increases in salaries. Hogs will arrive at markets in much better condition during hot weather if the truck is covered. f fussiest cats . iv love new SfXT FRISKIES ...BECAUSE IT'S MADE EXCLUSIVELY OF THE COSTLJER. TABLE-QUALITY FISH THAT CATS PREFER Ordinary cat foods are made of whatever fish is most plentiful. Friskies always pays a premium to bring your cat the fish it prefers at no extra cost to you. m lln Hi ALL AtONE BY THE TELEPHONE Harold Stassen pre sents this moody picture as he makes a telephone call in a public phone booth in San Francisco. Stassen is leader of the movement to "Dump Nixon" as the vice presidential nominee. Cost of Living Continues Higher San Francisco U.R) The cost of living continued its up ward trend during July in the major cities on the Pacific Coast, reaching new highs in Los Angeles and Portland, ac cording to the U.S. Department of Labor. In Los Angeles, the retail price level climbed to an all time peak of 118.1, 0.6 per cent higher than the month before and 1.9 per cent above July a year ago. The price level has been rising slowly but steadily since last February. Retail prices in Portland reached a new high of 118.6, 1.9 per cent above that for April, 1956, when the index was last priced, and 3.4 per cent above that for July of last year. San Francisco food prices, which have been on the increase since last February, rose by 0.7 per cent to '115. 3 the highest since June, 1954, when" it also was 115.3. TJie all-time peak was 117.0 in April, 1952. Seattle housewives also paid more lor identical lood pur chases last July than at any time since September, 1952. At 115.0, the index of food prices in July was 1.2 per cent above that for June and 1.4 per cent above that for July a year ago. Amnesty Offered Eoka Underground Nicosia, Cyprus U.R) Brit ish planes dropped leaflets offer ing amnesty to members o"f the EOKA anti-British underground today, but there were no imme diate takers. While the planes showered leaflets on forest and mountain underground hideouts, army trucks toured villages and cities throughout this troubled Medi terranean island to tell the rebels of Sir John Harding's offer of peace. Harding Wednesday gave the Greek Cypriot extremists the choice of going to Greece or re maining on Cyprus with the pos sibility of being brought to trial. But he said underground mem bers would be prosecuted only for crimes of violence. The amnesty offer was the government's answer to last week's cease fire order by the EOKA, paving the way for peaceful negotiations on the fu ture of Cyprus. SHANTY IN RACE Detroit (U.R) Shanty, the speedy West Coast powerboat, will represent the United States against the Canadian challenger, Miss Superest, in the Harms worth Trophy race Saturday on the Detroit River. CAA Announces Locations of First Installations for Safer Airways Washington U.R) The Civil 1 estimated, with the first long Aeronautics' Administration to day announced the locations of the first new installations in its long range program to make the airways safer. The three-year program will cost $245 million. About $75 million is earmarked for the first year. CAA Administrator Charles J. Lowen said the program the first year calls for 73 new long ranee radar stations capable of picking up approaching aircraft 75 to 100 miles away. They cost from $750,000 to $1.9 million each. The long range program also calls for 82 very high frequen cy, all-directional radio ranges, at $36,000 each; nev control towers at 17 airports each with $90,000 worth of equipment; ad ditional air to ground radio communications facilities at 34 airports, and automatic weather broadcasting equipment at $4,500 each at 16 airports. The new program also calls for a new air route traffic con trol center at Phoenix. Of the 26 CAA traffic control centers, 24 will get additional personnel and equipment to handle certain flight route details to free con trollers to concentrate on flights in their immediate area. About half of this year's funds are committed with this list. The balance will be allocated later. In about eight months the first pieces of equipment will be delivered to cities, officials range radar units expected about a year. Locations of the long range radar installations include: 'Los Angeles, Oakland. Phoe nix. Salt Lake City, Seattle and Spokane. Airports to get airport traffic control towers include: ' Salem, Ore., and Stockton, Calif. Among sites where high in tensity approach lights will be installed are: Burbank, Calif., and Spokane. Very high frequency omnidi rectional radio ranges: Blackwells Corner, Calif., Lakeview, Ore., McCall, Idaho, Newhall, Calif., Coxcomb, Calif., Boise, Ida. El Creek. Wash., Elgin, Wash., Ethel, Wash.. Farallon Islands, Calif., Fern Prairie, Wash., Gil roy, Calif., Rock Springs, Ariz., San Bernardino, Calif., Show Low, Ariz., Warm Springs, Nev. Additional air-ground com munications channels for air port traffic control will be pro vided at: Burbank, Calif., Long Beach, Calif. New staff and equipment to relieve controllers is scheduled for: Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Oakland, and Seattle. Equipment for automatic weather broadcasting will be installed at locations including Old Crime Pursues And Fines Violator Buffalo, N. Y. OJ.Rl It wa a sad day for Howard F. Todd ot Marion, Ind., when he drove hli truck across a double line on highway in nearby Blasdell. When Todd appeared before Police Justice Leonard H. Busch for the minor violation, it jogged Busch's memory. He remem bered fining Todd $100 four years ago for failing to have hll tractor trailer marked with weight figures. Todd paid by check, the check came back marked "account clos ed." and the fine never was paid. Busch made sure this time. Todd was allowed to go on hll way, but only after shelling out a total of $105 in cash, including a five-dollar fine for the viola tion that brought him before Busch for the second time. Chicago Stockyards 1 Damaged by Flames Chicago (U.R) Chicago's stockyards conducted "business as usual" today amid the smoul dering ruins of a wind-swept blaze that consumed six buil dings, damaged two others and brought out 500 firemen. i The fire raged out of control for five hours Wednesday night less than four blocks from the International Amphitheatre, site ; of the recent Democratic Nation al Convention. "It was the city's worst blaze this year and the stockyards' biggest in 22 years." Fire Chief Albert Peterson said. j Six partly demolished buil-' ings, abandoned for a year and owned by Amour and Co., form- j ed the heart of the fire. Their rotted timbers and cluttered de-' bris fed wind-blown flames to heights of at least 10 stories. I SALE BE SURE TO ATTEND THE 4-H CLUB- F.F.A. LIVESTOCK AUCTION AT THE FAIRGROUNDS FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. You Do the Buying We Do All the Rest We Pick Up Slaughter Deliver Cutting and Wrapping Can Be Arranged Medford City Est. No. I Inspected USDA Graded Medford Meat Co. Just Telephone 2-6229 v 5 Can you find the "guarantee" in this picture? You buy a refrigerator only two or three times in your lifetime. Yet you don't hesitate to buy one without getting so much as a look at the intricate "works" that makes it run. How do you dare make such an important purchase without having an expert check it over for you? What makes you so sure you're getting your money's worth when you say, "I'll take that one"? The answer's obvious. You look for the brand name on the refrigerator your "guarantee." You've learned to follow this first rule of safe and sound buying: A good brand is your best guarantee Ko matter what kind of product you want to buy, you know a good brand won't let you down You know the maker stands back of it guar antees it. And so, when you buy a good brand you know you're right. Read this newspaper to find out which are the good brands (and the stores that sell them.) The more good brands you know, the surer you are about all your shopping. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Noa-Profit Educational Foundation 37 West 57th Street, New York 19, N York O 333yCEEEl! From the mtttrs of Iht West s Leading Dog Food Medford Mail Tribune
