Bock Stairs: Owls at the White House
By MERRIMAN SMITH
United Press While House
Writer
Newport, R.I. IP Back
stairs at the -vacation White
House:
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
got away from Washington just
in time. The owls were begin
ning to close in on the White
House.
A few days before the first
family flew to Newport, several
white owls commenced nightly
raids on birds and small ani
mals in the vicinity of the exec
utive mansion.
The owls seemed to be based
in the eaves of the old State De
partment building and emerged
only at dusk, usually about 8
o'clock.
Their presence has one good
aspect. Favorite target for the
owls seems to be the company
of black starlings that meet in
the late afternoon and early
evening in the trees bordering
the White House grounds and
along convenient perches pro
vided by the many nooks and
crannies of the old state buildings.
The city fathers of Newport
would be well advised not to
push their civic pride so much
that they attempt to pin down
the President on how he likes
New England lobster. He likes
it; it doesn't like him.
A couple of years ago in
Maine, Sen. Margaret Chase
Smith arranged an elaborate
lobster and clam supper for the
President and his touring party.
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But Maj. Gen. Howard McC.
Snyder, the White House physi
cian, found out about the menu
and forwarded a tactful sugges
tion that the President would
prefer steak. Most shellfish pro
duce undesired reaction in Ei
senhower. The Maine lobster feast that
turned into a steak fry for the
President came to mind a few
days ago when the White House
began to receive numerous res
taurant menus and letters from
Rhode Island culinary experts,
forecasting how much the Presi
dent -would enjoy their lobster.
The President's announced in
tention to fly back to Washing
ton occasionally for important
conferences may be due in part
to a desire to avoid engulfing his
vacation set-up with business
visitors.
Even Cabinet members have
a weakness about showing up at
presidential vacation headquar
ters at times when their business
really isn't of world-shaking im
portance. As long as it is known that
Eisenhower will be back in
Washington periodically, at least
for several hours each visit, it
will cut down on the necessity
of members of the government
flocking to Newport.
One of Press Secretary Jim
Hagerty's most pressing head
aches these days is how to ar
range press and picture coverage
of the October visit of Queen
Elizabeth II of Great Britain
without having mob scenes that
might prove wearing on the
dainty monarch.
There will be times during the
royal visit when coverage will
have to be . reduced to a virtual
pool-reporter basis because the
Queen will be on display in
areas so small that unlimited
numbers of reporters and pho
tographers would be out of the
question.
Sales and Earnings
May Rise or Hold
During Second Half
Syrian Speakers
Denounce America
Damascus, Spria (IP) Speak
ers screamed anti-American in
vective to a cheering crowd of
1,500 Wednesday night in the
first public demonstration per
mitted since the U. S. was ac
cused of "plotting" against
Syria.
Police broke up an attempt by
the demonstrators to stage an
anti-American parade through
the city.
The raucous, 75-m I n u t e
demonstration was held in Dam
ascus' Kurdish quarter, whose
people elected the only avowed
Communist member of Syria's
Parliament. The pro-Communist
organ Al Nur was the only pub
lication in Damascus that report
ed plans for the demonstration.
The narrow, mud-walled
streets of the quarter were festo
oned for the occasion with ban
ners denouncing "American im
perialist conspiracies" and urg
ing support of Syria's Soviet
equipped army.
Youth Pedals 2,500,
Miles To College
Grand Rapids, Mich. (IP)
Bernie Oordt, 17, Lynden, Wash.,
was ready to begin his studies
today at Calvin College after
pedaling 2,500 miles across 10
states to enroll as a freshman.
The well-tanned youth said he
made the trip "to see the coun
try more leisurely."
He left his farm home near
Lynden July 31 -and spent 26
days on the road. He did not
pedal on Sundays.
Oordt's trip took him across
highways in Washington, Idaho,
Montana, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
The blond cyclist said the en
tire trip cost him only $40, in
cluding payments for the repair
of two blowouts and a front
wheel bearing.
Bernie has a brother, Mart,
who enrolled as a sophomore at
Calvin. Mart came by car.
Jet Plane Blamed
For Portland Noise
Portland OP). An F-102
jet was blamed Wednesday for
the explosive noise over Port
land Tuesday.
In a prepared statement from
McChorcT Field,. Wash., the pub
lic information officer said that
the noise was caused from the
plane passing through the sound
barrier, presumably at a lower
altitude than regulations spe
cify. Pilots are subject to disciplin
ary action for violating Air
Force regulations, the public in
formation officer said.
Air Force regulations specify
that planes should not pass
through the sound barrier over
land at an altitude below 30,000
feet.
Steps were being taken to see
that the incident does, not occur
again, officials said.
Anchorage, Alaska TO The
ashes of Lorenz Peter Freuchen,
72, well known Arctic explorer
who died here Monday, will be
dropped next week over Thule,
Greenland, the land he called
"The End of the World."
Br ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York (IP) A sampling
of opinion of business execu
tives reveals that a majority ex
pects sales and earnings for the
second haif to rise or hold
steady.
This was brought out in a sur
vey made by Sidney B. Lurie,
research expert for Josephthal
& Co., of 125 companies.
Of these 63 per cent looked
for higher sales and 57 per cent
for higher earnings in the sec
ond half. Ten per cent looked
for lower sales and 27 per cent
thought sales would be un
changed. Twenty six per cent
looked for lower profits and 17
per cent held that the profit
figure would be unchanged.
Profit Margins
Second half capital expendi
tures centered on reductions
with 47 per cent looking for that
trend while 24 per cent said
they would be higher and 29
per cent unchanged.
Of the group, 59 per cent
said they were more concerned
with profit margins in relation
tc the first six months while 10
per cent were less concerned
and 31 per cent reported no
change.
Lurie said best comparisons
apparently will be recorded by
the container, department store,
Engineers Due
Increase in Wages
Chicago (IP) The Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen
and Engineers Wednesday night
announced the signing of a sup
plemental agreemet with the
nation's railroads providing for
wage boosts for engineers.
B. L. Gilbert, international
president of the brotherhood,
said the new pact supplements a
three-year contract signed with
the carriers last Noverber.
The previous contact included
a $2.12 across the board in
crease and a cost of living clause
under which five-day employees
received $2.40.
Under the supplemental pact,
an increase of 50 cent per day
was made retroactive to Nov. 1,
1956.
The settlement also gives an
additional 49 cents per day to en
gineers in yard service on a
five-day week over the life of the
life of the contract, Gilbert said.
Yard engineers on a six or
seven day week will receive 31
cents per day additional, though
freight engineers 38 cents per
100 miles and passenger engine
ers 6 cents per 100 miles, he said.
United Nations, N.Y. TO
Three postage stamp designers
have accepted an mvitation to
design United Nations stamps to
be issued in 1958, the U.N. postal
administration announced today.
They are Minoru Hisano, of Ja
pan; S. L. Hartz, of the Netherr
lands, and Renato Ferrini, of Italy.
drug, electrical equipment, of
fice equipment, petroleum, tele
vision and tobacco industries.
He finds the steel industry
seemingly less concerned about
profit margins than many other
businesses. And if the chemical
and oil industries are a criterion,
the coming slow down in capital
spending will not be drastic.
He was surprised to find a
number of building companies
expecting to do relatively well
in the second half, which, he
says, points up a possible area
of stabilization in 1958.
Conclusions
From his survey, Lurie draws
the following conclusions:
"Although business will be
better in the fall, aggregate
fourth quarter output will be
below the artificially high like
1956 quarter.
"The misgivings with respect
to the outlook relate more to
this winter and next spring than
today. This is when the next dis
illusionment can occur - if con
sumer buying falters, if the
debits accelerate.
"The possibility of a new, im
portant upturn centers around
the second half of 1958. By then,
defense spending will be in
creasing, road building will be
gaining momentum, there is a
possibility of tax relief, and our
credit policy may be changed."
About the market he looks
for a "flat" period in which the
outlook is reappraised and hew
evidence awaited. Selectivity is
king, Lurie concludes.
Thursday, September 5, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Population Basis
For Flu Vaccine
Washington - TO The six
manufacturers of Asian flu vac
cine have agreed to distribute
vaccine supplies to the states on
a population basis.
The Public Health Service an
nounced Wednesday night the
manufacturers accepted the dis
tribution plan proposed several
weeks ago by Surgeon General
Leroy E. Burney.
The service also endorsed a
proposal by state health officers
to have states and communities
create advisory committees to
draw up priority plans for in
oculations. Dr. W. Palmer Dearing, act
ing head of the Health Service,
said the PHS allocation system
is "the most equitable way of
distributing the vaccine geogra
phically." "Any one part of the nation
is as vulnerable as another to a
possible i n f luenza epidemic,"
Dearing said. The plan could be
dropped when vaccine supplies
begin to catch up with demand,
he added.
Shipments will be made ac
cording to each state's percent
age of the total population. Thus
New York would get 9.5 per
cent of the vaccine as compared
to .2 per cent for Delaware. Nev
ada, Vermont and Wyoming.
Las Vegas, Nev. TO Atomic
Energy Commission scientists to
day face the task of crowding at
least five more nuclear blasts
into the 1957 test schedule be
fore the end of the summer
Sept. 21.
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