SIX MXDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tutiday, January 8, 1957
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AIR FORCE "STRONG MAN" New polar mobility for the U. S, Air Force is seen
when Lockheed "Ski-130" Hercules propjet goes into operation. This artist's concep
tion shows the Hercules modified to accept unique 4400-pound knee-action skis, which
can be alternated with tandem landing wheels. The new Air Force "strong man" is
expected to have payload near 20 tons whether using paved runways or improvised
Arctic ice and snow runways.
Ticket Sales Lagging for Ike's
Second Term Inauguration Party
Washington (U.R With less
than two weeks left to prepare
for President Eisenhower's second-term
swearing in, the inau
gural committee today wrestled
with a variety of problems, in
cluding: ' Road-testing" an elephant.
Too many Uncle Sams.
Not enough ticket sales.
Lagging ticket sales especi
ally concerned the inaugural
committee. A spokesman said to
day ticket booths will be opened
soon in downtown Washington
department stores and in five
American Automobile Associa
tion offices in an effort to boost
business.
The committee also sent out
' a request to local businessmen
to "keep prices at normal lev
els" during the three-day cele
bration beginning Jan. 20 so
visitors will leave town with ' a
complete feeling of friendli
ness." Program Unveiled
The official inaugural souvenir
program was unveiled Monday.
It boasts on its front cover por
traits by artists Norman Rock
well, of President Eisenhower
and Vice President Richard M.
Nixon. On the.back is the Presi
dent's 1953 inaugural prayer.
Both covers are "highly suitable
for framing."
The souvenir program is loose
leaf notebook size and priced
at SI (10 cents additional for
mailing). It carries the full
schedule of inaugural events,
biographies of President and
Police Experts Check
Handwriting in Hunt
For New York Bomber
New York (U.R) Police hand
writing experts today studied
several Westchester auto license
applications on which the writ
ing resembled that of Manhat
tan "mad bomber" whose
homemade explosives have in
jured 15 persons and touched off
a nationwide bomb scare epi
demic. Can't Narrow Search
The applications, culled from
175.000 examined since last
weCk.- were turned over to the
New York police laboratory. Of
ficials emphasized, however, that
none of the specimens was dis
tinctive enough to narrow the
search to one person.
The search for the bomber cen
tered on suburban Westchester
on the basis of seven letters he
has written bearing White Plains
postmarks in which he used a
plumber's term peculiar to the
county.
By week's end. New York de
tectives and Westchester authori
ties hope to have checked out
more than 350.000 license appli
cations against the bomber's
handwriting. Also being checked
are thousands of Westchester
court and legal records.
Poiice officials reported that
the deranged bomber indicated
he may be ready to declare a
truce in his 16-year war during
which he has planted at least 32
pipe bombs in public places
in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Twenty-two of the devices have
exploded, but there have been no
fatalities.
Indication in Letter
An indication that the mad
bomber might be prepared to
call a truce was contained in a
letter written by him to the New
York Journal-American. Police
declined however, to disclose
the contents of the letter, which
was written in response to a per
sonal notice the paper addressed
to the "Mad Bomber."
The paper is trying to make
further contact with the bomber
through another public notice.
While House Winter
Social Season Due
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower
will open the White House win
ter social season tins month with
a diplomatic reception.
The formal social season is the
first scheduled at the White
House in more than a year be
cause of the President's heart at
tack. The season will open on the
night of Jan. 24 with a reception
for chiefs of mission and high
ranking members of the diplo
matic corps.
Southwide Meeting
Called in Atlanta
On Bus Integration
Atlanta (U.R Negro leaders
of bus integration drives in three
key cities have called a south
wide meeting in Atlanta this
week to spur their movement
and to discuss the problem of
racial violence.
The two-day meeting starting
Jan. 10 was announced by the
Revs. M. L. King of Montgom
ery, Ala.: C. K. Steele of Talla
hassee, Fla., and F. L. Shuttles
worth of Birmingham, Ala.
They invited leaders of other
drives to end bus segregation
and from other "troubled areas"
of the south. They will discuss
how to spur their campaign and
"violence Sirected. toward the
Negro communities."
Drivers Responsible
The Tallahassee City Commis
sion Monday hurriedly adopted
an ordinance giving bus drivers
the responsibility of assigning
bus seats so as to "distribute the
weight of passengers" and to
"preserve good order.'?
The ordinance did not mention
bus segregation, which Negroes
in Tallahassee have tried to end
by mass flouting of a local seat
ing law.
The buses remained idle by an
emergency order issued by Gov.
Leroy Collins after an outbreak
of violence. An aide said Collins,
who will be inaugurated today
for another term, has no inten
tion of lifting the order soon.
Mrs. Eisenhower and Vice Presi- j
dent and Mrs. Nixon, and a his
tory of past inaugural events.
32 Governors Accept
Meantime, it was announced
that 32 state governors have ac
cepted invitations to the inau
gural. Seven governors have
"respectfully declined," chiefly
because of "pressing business"
in state capitals. Nine haven't
R.S.V.P.'d yet. .
New Jersey's - Gov. Robert
Meyner said he will be unable
to attend because of his forth
coming marriage to Helen Ste
venson, a distant relative of un
successful Democratic presiden
tial candidate Adlai- Stevenson.
Those with less romantic reasons
were the governors 'of Pennsyl
vania. New York, Mississippi,
Washington, New Mexico, and
Kansas.
Needing no invitations were
the 2,000 Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts and Campfire Girls sign
ed up for duty as parade ushers;
messengers; ticket collectors;
aides at first aid stations; and
car door openers for dignitaries
arriving at inaugural balls.
Miss Burma Tested
From parade committee chair
man Edward R. Carr came a rul
ing that "Miss Burma," the semi
official Republican elephant,
must be "road-tested" to be sure
she can maintain the 120-pace
per minute rate of march he
will okay her entry in the inau
gural parade.
Confident owner Jack Mills
of Mills Brothers Circus, plan
ning to test "Miss Burma" at
the circus' Cleveland, O., winter
headquarters, got a polite no
thanks" when he invited Carr
to join Burma in a "walkathon.
Shooting Threatened
Carr also is working out diffi
culties with the 40 members of
the Buffalo, N.Y. Uncle Sams
club who have threatened to
march in the parade "if we have
to shoot our way." Carr hopes
to forestall any shooting.. But
since he's promised to cut the
parade length, he can't see how
more than a half-dozen of the
tall-hat marchers can partici
pate.
While Carr struggles with pa
rade problems, the metropolitan
police have arranged to bring
in 100 out-of-town plainclothes
men (from 700 applications for
the S30 a day plus expenses as
signment) to help local experts
protect inaugural crowds from
pickpockets.
Early Hearings on
Irrigation Loan
Bills Promised
Washington (U.R) Early
hearings in both the House and
Senate were promised today on
bills designed to get under way
a federal loan program for small,
local irrigation projects.
The SI 00 million program was
authorized in a bill passed by the
last Congress, but President Eis
enhower in signing the measure
said no loans would be made
until what he considered a defect
was corrected.
The President objected to a
provision allowing the House
and Senate Interior Committees
to disapprove loans under the
program negotiated by the sec
retary of the interior.
Bills Meet Objection
Chairman Clair Engle (D-Calif)
of the House committee and Sen.
Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) in
troduced legislation Monday they
said would meet the objection.
They said early action would be
taken by both committees.
Watkins' bell, while not giv
ing the committees veto power,
would endorse a 60-day waiting
period on loan contracts while
the committees "studied" them.
Engle's bill would give the
committee power to held up ap
propriations for the loans, in
stead of veto power over the
contracts themselves.
Under the program, local pub
lic agencies can obtain interest
free loans on irrigation projects
costing S10 million or less. In
terest-bearing loans would be al
lowed for other facilities in con
nection with water projects.
4-H Club News
Antelope Cooking Club
The Antelope 4-H Cooking
club was called to order by
Charlotte Bush, vice president,
at the Geren home at Eagle
Point on Jan. 5, 1957.
Mrs. Bohnert, the club leader,
gave us our assignments and ex
tra books.
When Saturday's meeting was
adjourned the first year girls
fixed trimmings for our soup
which our second year girls pre
pared. , .
The next meeting will be at j was no cause for alarm. Some
the Mallproy home Jan. 19, 1957.1 one apparently carted off the
Donna Geren, 1 lions from the Killearn Gardens.
Keporter Both are made, of stone.
Union Oil Lists
Price Increases
San Francisco (U.R) Union
Oil Company of California has
announced price increases of 20
cents a barrel for heavy residual
fuel oil and 15 cents per barrel
for light residual fuel oil.
The price increases become ef
fective on Friday.
Roy Linden, vice president in
charge of marketing, said there
has been a "continuing shortage"
of these commodities on the Pa
cific Coast for some time.
"These price increases are in
tended to bring the supply of
residual fuel oils more nearly in
balance with the demand," he
said.
Job Application
Seen Murder Clue
Webster. Tex. (U.R) Sheriff's
officers said today they believed
Mrs. Anna Louise Marsten, 39
whose partlv undressed body
was found in some bushes off a
farm road, was murdered by a
man who answered her adver
tisement for a housekeeping job
Officers said the man likely
lured her and her four-year-old
son. Ronnie,' to the lonely road
on the preteXjt of giving her.
job.
The body was found Monday
by a Negro chauffeur, who saw
the bov wandering along the
road crying. The boy told Binety
Cobb, .the chauffeur. "He hit
mommy."
Officers said Mrs. Marsten's
jugular vein had been cut. Her
dress had been pulled up to her
waist and her underclothing lay-
on the ground near her head.
Sheriff's Lt. Vernon Harris of
Houston said tests indicated Mrs.
Marsten Jiad not been raped, al
though there was evidence she
mav have been molested.
Education Board
Names Press Aide
Portland (U.R) Wallace E.
Johnson, former news bureau as
sistant at Oregon State College,
has been named as press repre
sentative for the State Board of
Higher Education.
Chancellor John R. Richards
said Johnson will handle the
press duties formerly performed
by Travis Cross who recently ac
cepted a position as adminis
trative assistant to Secretary of
State Mark Hatfield.
Johnson formerly worked for
the United Press in Portland and
was an associate editor of Crow's
Pacific Coast Lumber Digest be
fore going to OSC last year.
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Governor's Assistant
Joins Staff of Bank
Portland ;U.R) Edwin H.
Armstrong, who was executive
assistant to three Oregon gov
ernors, will join the Salem
branch of the First National
Bank of Portland on January
21, C. B. Stephenson, president
of the bank, said today.
Armstrong will serve in Mar
ion county as a business devel
opment representative for the
bank.
Armstrong served as execu
tive assistant to Govs. Douglas
McKay, Paul Patterson and
Elmo Smith.
TARGET FOR TONIGHT
Jersey City, N.J. (U.R) A
bit of variety proved quite dam
aging to Charles Burns' automo
bile Monday. Burns told police
his car, while parked in front of
his home, was struck by an auto
at 2 a.m., a taxi at 5:00 a.m., and
a truck at 6:10 a.m.
Around Hollywood
Hollywood 'U.R) Bing Cros
by, looking cheerful and a little
thinner, is back at work in the
movies but
the famous
voice that
made him rich
is temporarily
on the shelf.
For the first
time in his
gold- plated
career, the
world's most
Aline Mosby durable croon
er is turning serious for a picture
in which he won't sing a note.
Even in "The Country Girl."
Bing sang as well as turning in
some serious emoting that won
him an Oscar nomination.
But in "Man on Fire" Crosby
w ill be strictly an actor because.
"It's a powerful story about the
problem of broken homes and
children raised under such cir
cumstances." Singing Not Needed
"Any time I sing in a story,
you lose the character I'm trying
to portray. I become Bing Cros
by, the crooner. I never did want
to sing in 'Little Boy Lost.' I
thought the picture would have
been better without song," he
said.
''I've always wanted to act in
a picture without song." he ad
ded, "but I've never been offer
ed one."
Crosby had to play stor'y
scout. A year ago he saw a tele
vision drama he liked. He told
MGM he wanted to star in it.
The crooner even went to New
York with producer Sol Siegel
to select unknowns for the movie
because, "They make a damatic
story more believable."
Wrote Dialogue
Crosby paused in our inter-
By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
view to get ready for a scene.
In his dressing room he emoted
his lines while looking in the
mirror to get the effect. Then he
wrote the dialogue on a piece
of paper to fix the words in his
mind.
After the scene, Bing reflected
on his new status as a foot-loose
performer. No longer under con
tract to Paramount, he's able to
pick Ms Jobs at various sracrlos.
Crosby's CBS radio show has
folded because. "We couldn't get
a sponsor." His Decca recorcting
contract also has ended.
But Crosby hasn't given up
singing for keeps.
"After this picture I would
like to go into a musical," he
said. "That's what I've been try
ing to do the last 15 years, vary
ing my work and never getting
the same pitch twice."
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Tallahassee. Fla. (U.R) Po
lice and the State Park Service
were on the lookout today for
two 30-pound lions. But there
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front styling (center), in the massive grace of Jet-Flo Lumpers.
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FAR BIGGER IN EVERY IMPORTANT DIMENSION This year Mercury
has grown bigger in every important dimension. Far more
move-around comfort. For example, there's more headroom, -more
leg room, more shoulder room, more hip room.
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price just above small cars
Never before has'so much bigness and luxury cost so
little. For this is the biggest Mercury you've ever seen.
And although Mercury has moved up to a new size
class, it has stayed in the same popular price class.
It represents the biggest size increaseand the biggest
value increase in the industry.
And Mercury introduces features you can't buy
at any price in other cars.
Mercury's new Dream-Car Design is Mercury's alone.
It is sleek, daring, clean-cut makes other cars look
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And you can get features like Keyboard Control
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