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Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10 Cents Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1957 Pages 1-6 Lawyer, Company (Give Bog His Bay By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent ' New York (IP) Let us con sider today a famous U. S. sen ator whose footsteps could put him in the doghouse, a four-billion-dollar corporation which built one better doghouse and stopped, and a little girl on Long Island whose dog is now better housed. It is altogether fitting and pro per that we do this because next week Is National Dog Week, and it was exactly four score and seven years ago that the senator delivered his famous courtroom euology of one dog in particu lar and dogdom in general and left the world a proverb: "A man's best friend is his dogV' It was a stormy evening in September, 1870, when the late Sen. George Graham Vest, a short, stumpy man with prematurely-graying temples, quick blue eyes and a brilliant speak ing delivery, stepped before a jury in the Warrenburg, Mo., courthouse and began uttering the words that have been re printed millions of times: "Gentlemen of the jury: the best friend a man has in the world may turn against him . . . a man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and sickness ..." Client Won Case After about 500 words in that vein, ending with a word por trait of the noble dog lying faith fully on his master's grave, Vest sat down. The judge , blew his nose noisily. The moist-eyed jury took only a few minutes to award $50 damages to Vest's client, whose dog,. Old Drum, had been killed. Now the citizens of Warrens- burg are raising funds to build a monument to Old Drum. If you ask me, it :s time for the dogs of the world to do some thing about erecting a monument to George Graham Vest Senator Vest was a citizen of my home town, Boonville, Mo., and around there they like to recall his quick wit. Once in arguing a murder trial which hinged on whether a man could be recognized by the sound of his footsteps, he told the jury: "Gentlemen, every night when I step onto the wooden walk to my house, my wife can tell with out looking who it is. And some times," he added after a weighty pause, "she can even tell where I've been." Builds Steel Doghouse The dog's stature has been growing steadily since Senator Vest's build-up until today one collie has the power to move the vast U. S. Steel Corp., the outfit known as "Big Steel.' His name is Brucie. ,He lives in Elmont, N.Y., with his mis tress, Florence Fischerman, 12. Several months ago, Florence wrote to Clifford F. Hood, Big Steel's president, asking wheth er they built stainless steel dog houses, since Brucie's old wood en one was termite-ridden. Hood thought: "Humm." He set an engineering task force ,to figur ing whether U. S. Steel should get into doghouses steel ones as a product, They built a stainless steel pilot model, shiny and wood lined. They hemmed and hawed . .: : ' : It 0 -tssr i CONFERRING ON SYRIAN CRISIS are Jordan's King Hussein, left, and Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Men deres. The king flew to Istanbul for talks on tense Middle East with Turks and II. S. diplomats. - (International) Wage Rise Blamed For Inflation Boost Washington W The Na tional Association of Manufac turers said Saturday rising wages and higher taxes, not greedy businessmen, are to blame for inflation. "The conclusion is inescapable that the current inflationary trend is due to the rising costs of labor and the continuing heavy tax burden, not to the 'greed of manufacturers for ex horbitant profits, as some peo ple claim," the NAM said in an especially prepared booklet. It recommended government economy to permit taxation "fair and square," and a return to "equality" in wage bargain ing to permit "economically sound" settlements as the solu tion to the problem. The 10-page booklet gave the association's analysis of "wages, prices, profits and inflation." "Profit margins on sales have suffered, just as the American consumer has suffered, from the power of monopolistic unions to exact "wage gains unrelated to productivity," it said. To back that up, it said gov ernment statistics showed that hourly wages increased more than twice as fast as hourly out put between 1948 and 1956. STUDY ARMS REQUEST Washington (U The United States is studying a request for arms aid for Tunisia, officals said Friday. France has given some arms to Tunisia's small military forces, but it is report ed urgently seeking more weap ons, especially for the infantry. MetKord Cleaners NOW UNDER MANAGEMENT OF HALE and (CATHERINE WHEELER Offering A Complete Cleaning Service Free Pickup and Delivery MbbbbM ISSSSBliSSSSSSSiSS HBBM SHMHHI Ph. SP 2-6500 O 34 No. Holly over it and finally reported the high cost and limited market didn't justify commercial pro duction. Hood decided to pre sent the one test model to Brucie but didn't tell Florence. The other day it came. Flor ence was so surprised she cried. Brucie moved righf in. Now he's the only dog in the world with a home that is also a bomb shelter. Storm Roars Seaward Aimed Toward Ships Miami (W Hurricane Carrie-aimed its 110-mile-an-hour winds toward the North Atlan tic shipping lanes Saturday with practically no chance of blow ing onto any land areas. The eight-day-old storm, which at one time had winds as high as 160 miles an hour, roared northward over the open sea at about eight miles per hour al most parallel to the United States coastline. Reports early Saturday, lo cated the center of the hurricane about 1,800 miles due . east , of Vero Beach, Fla. Security Regulations Asked For Airlines Washington OP) Govern ment officials are preparing new anti-sabotage and anti - subver sion rules affecting the nation's airlines, the United Press has learned. Responsible sources said the Justice Department has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to draw up specific recommenda tions for tightening security in the commercial aviation field. The CAB already has sched uled . conferences with airline representatives and officials of other groups that might be affected. The commission called for se curity screening of all airline employees, with special employ ment standards establshed for crew members on international flights. There are more than 122,000 workers in civil . air transport, including pilots, stewardesses, dispatchers, me teorologists, mechanics, office employes and field workers. Worcester, Mass. (W After devoting more than 1,000 hours to the painting of an 8xl2-foot mural, students Judith Ander son and Joanna Sayre presented the finished work to Classical High school. Portland (OT Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Saturday called for American trade with Com munist China when he spoke be fore theXity Club of Portland of which he is a member. t RADIANT GLASS HEAT "The Sunshine Heat" For Free Estimate PHONE SP K 2-9854 CLEAN . SAFE -. MODERN 619 E. 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