Sudden Death of George VI Brought
Change in the Life of Prince Philip
Editor' note: Britain's Quern Eliz
abeth and Prince Philip visit the Unit
ed States this month. This is the
second of five dispatches about the
man In the royal family.
By ROBERT MUSEL
United Press Correspondent
London W Unlike most
fairy tale romances, the story of
Elizabeth and Philip really be
gins with their marriage cere
mony of crimson and gold as the
young couple knelt on the spot
where British kings had been
crowned for 800 years.
As they lert. the great abbey,
Prince Philip could have, in the
ordinary course of events, been
sure of some 20 years of his be
loved sailoring and family life
mixed with a certain amount of
public duties. '
The sudden death of George
IV five years later changed that
irrevocably. The princess he took
in Kenya in Feb. 1952, at the
start of a commwealth tour, re
turned to a mourning Britain as
Queen.
Even as the body of the King
lay in state in Westminster Hall,
Philip knevo that his carefree
life at sea was over. Although he
resisted it as long as he could,
he eventually accepted the in
did was to toss down the gaunt
let of battle to the defenders of
the barnacle encrusted traditions
of running royal households.
This is a war of many and con
tinuing skirmishes. The old
guard dies, but it never surrend
ers. Breaks up Racket
Philip broke up the free meal
racket. He discovered that all
sorts of people had the right to
eat in the royal palaces on the
Queen's bounty. There were five
dining rooms going in Bucking
ham Palace alone. Top servants
had lesser servants to wait on
them and lesser servants had
minor servants.
Buckingham Palace has hun
dreds of rooms, miles of corri
dors. Messages used to be taken
around by hand. Philip put in
an intercom among other such
outlandish innovations as effec
tive central heating. European
princes, who used to dread invi
tations to the frosty manse, were
agreeably surprised to find it
moderately comfortable.
Philip spared few in his de
termination to set the royal
household on a business like
basis. He mechanized the 20,000
acre royal farm at Sandringham
ordered Balmoral to peddle all
surplus game after shooting par
ties. He directed Windsor Castle,
to send its flowers and fruit to
Convent Garden.
He damaged one juicy little
racket to the chagrin of many
blue-blooded dowagers. Some of
these ladies used to charge as
much as 1,000 pounds (52,800) to
arrange presentation at court.
The brief introduction and curt
sy to the Queen was once the
ulitimate in launching a debut
ante. It means much less now.
In all this Philip had two
main objects. He was a naturally
tidy mind as a man whose naval
commands were notably ship
shape. And he wanted to fore
stall any ccriticism of the way
the Crown manages its affairs.
Lord Altrincham's recent at
tack on the Queen's advisors
pulled the stopper on a small
flood of antagonism to certain
aspects of royal life which al
ways simmers just beneath the
polite surface of Britain.
Aim At Philip
There are a number of snipers
at the Crown but most of these,
not daring to attack the soverign
footwork and anticipation have
kept criticisms against him to a
minimum, even though, as foreign-born,
he is so vulnerable.
Socialist newspapers called
him a "royal meddler" .when he
spoke in favor of conscription. A
church magazine expressed
"pained regret" that he plays
polo on Sunday, o A columnist
claimed that the royal yacht,
Brittania, was built at a cost of
S6 million to please Philip.
Another promptly pointed out it
was planned even before Philip
became engaged.
Another paper griped about
the new $112,000 royal railroad
dining car, although it replaces
one 50 years old. Another writer
pointed out that Philip, who was
once "improverished," now has
all the playthings of the rich
yachts, polo ponies, fast cars, air
planes. The Daily Mail, for the de
fense, commented that "Phillip
by his individual' mixture of
charm, tact, discretion, dignity
and informality, is succeeding in
a situation which demands all
these abilities to the full."
v
Next:Philip is far more con'
evitable. ' I acre royal farm at Sandringham directly, aim their shafts at those cerned about attacks on the
And among the first things he so it could sell its produce. He closer to her. Phillip's nimble I Queen.
Showdown Said Hearing Before FPC on Case
Of Pleasant Valley-Mountain Sheep Darns
By A. ROBERT SMITH .Pleasant Valley site than the government assistance for flood i for fear it would give the high
Mail Tribune Correspondent one the utilities have in mind control costs. Why, then, don't Hells Canyon backers another
Washington The showdown nas ust about expired from po- they ask the FPC to give them a opening to make unfavorable
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Root Smith
Washington The showdown
is nearing in the Pleasant Valley-
Mountain Sheep dam before the
Federal Power
Commission in
a manner that
has virtually
foreclosed any
con sideration
of the merits
of a high
Pleasant Val
ley dam as
proposed by
Interior Secre
tary Fred A. Seaton.
The issue has been sharply
drawn between the two-dam
plan of Pacific Northwest Pow
er Co. and a high Nez Perce
dam, which as the support of the
public power groups and the
FPC staff. The FPC's presiding
examiner, who heard all the ar
guments of both sides, has rec
ommended that the company get
its license.
It is difficult to find anyone
in Washington, whatever his
views on this controversial case,
who doesn't think the five com
missioners will approve the pri
vate utility plan just as they
approved Idaho Power Com
pany's scheme for development
of the Hells Canyon stretch of
the Snake just upriver from the
scene of the current case.
No White House Backing
Secretary Seaton's plan for
substituting a higher dam at the
one the utilities have in mind
has just about expired from po
litical malnutrition. He couldn't
get the White House to back his
plan; he couldn't get the Budget
Bureau to approve a request for
funds to have the Bureau of Re
clamation make core drillings at
the site in order to complete his
study of the high dam; and he
couldn't get Congress to let him
use funds previously earmarked
for other projects.
Nevertheless, the high Pleas
ant Valley project has drawn
widespread newspaper backing
in the Pacific Northwest be
cause, in combination with the
Mountain Sheep dam down
stream and Idaho Power's Ax
bow and Brownlee dams up
stream, it would provide the
amount of storage for flood con
trol which the Corps of Engi
neers thinks is desirable.
Private Discussions
There are reports here that
the utilities involved have had
some private discussions looking
toward the possibility of an
agreement whereby Pacific
Northwest Power would build
the high Pleasant Valley project
and Idaho Power would give up
the right it now has to the little
Hells Canyon dam, which would
be flooded out by high Pleasant
Valley.
The utilities have done suffi
cient engineering planning for a
high dam to be confident it
would be economically feasible
as a private dam without any
. iff awte - ' .
SAFE, IN MOTHER'S ARMS Sobbing hysterically, Mrs.
Ed Crary hugs her 8-year-old son Lee, who was found
safe three days after having been kidnaped from his home
at Edmonds, ,Wash., near Seattle. A 20-year-old riveter,
George Collins Jr. of Everett, Wash., was booked in the
kidnaping. Collins, who had asked $10,000 ransom, signed
a 12-page statement admitting the story told by young
Crary.
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license for a high dam rather
than the lower one they have
proposed?
Reportedly the reason for this
seemingly curious approach is
that to revise their application
at the FPC at this point would
allow the whole case to be re
opened to further, probably
lengthy, testimony which would
delay the FPC's decision. But
after the FPC grants a license to
the utility for the lower dam
and that it is an assumption the
utilities are willing to make
they could ask to revise the
terms of their license to allow
building the higher dam..
Another Opening
Nor does Idaho Power want
to talk publicly about giving up
its little Hells Canyon site, thus
reducing its scheme to two dams,
comparisons between the com
pany plan and the output of the
high Hells Canyon project. That
could be the springboard for get
ting the Hells Canyon bill onto
the floor of the House next win
ter from the Interior Committee
where it has been bottled up
The utilities are so close to
gaining complete control of the
middle Snake and its fine dam
sites that they don't want it to
misfire at this late stage. But
some of their executives are wise
enough to recognize their vic
tory would be far greater in
terms of public support if they
were to voluntarily build high
Pleasant Valley and thereby
weaken the public power argu
ment that the utilities aren't in
terested in full comprehensive
development but only in profits.
Predictions for 1979
Fail To Reveal Way
To Judge Wall Street
ill 1'' f n
Elmer Waizer
By ELMER C. WALZER
United Press Financial Editor
New York (IP) In the cement
floor under a plush rug of E. E.
Hutton & Company's newest
branch office
lies a time
capsule full of
predictions of
what things
will be in
1979.
That's the
year the Hut
ton firm will
be 75 years
old. The cap
sule will be opened then to see
how close predictions match ac
tual events.
The firm permitted the press
to take a peek at the predictions.
They portrayed a faster world
airplanes at 1,000 miles an hour,
autos you put on the highway
and let go by themselver under
electronic control, mechanical
typewriters which write as you
dictate, faster communications,
new metals, and so on.
But nothing was said about lit
tle men who apparently aren't
going to be much smarter but a
lot softer than they are today.
Three cars in every garage
aren't going to harden up one's
muscles.
It looks as if little man will
get just as many ulcers as he
does today trying to predict the
stock market.
Edward T. McCormick, presi
dent of the American Stock Ex
change in his capsule prediction,
looks for spectacular rises in
many securities helped by devel
opments in use of solar energy,
travel in outer space, and atoms.
But. he warns, even then securi
ties investment will be selective
li'--3 today.
'"Many well known companies
will fall by th wayside," he
REVISED ESTIMATE
Fort Dodee, Iowa 5? Der
mot Patrick IMoran, charged
with drunken begging, offered
to get out of town in 25 minutes.
Then, after the judge pointed
out Moran had been arrested
for begging at the home of the
police matron, theacecused man
offered to leave town in 20 min
utes. The judge took him up on
it.
INDIA CUTS IMPORTS
New Delhi, India OP The In
dian government has announced
drastic cutbacks on imports in
line with a nationwide economy
drive.
says, "while others, some not yet
born, will be market leaders.
"Overall we should be experi
encing a period of prosperity in
1979."
Ruddick C. Lawrence, vice
president of the New York Ex
change, projects figures on the
number of stockholders. He
looks for between 15 million
and 20 million of them when the
capsule is opened.
No matter what happens to lit
tle men, it's apparently a sure
thing that in the next 20 years,
more brains or no, more ulcers
or no, there are sure to be more
and greater facilities to do al
most anything but predict what
stocks to buy, when to buy them,
and when to sell them.
,And no one predicts we'll. be
living in a tax free world.
Court Records
MUNICIPAL COURT
Jerry H. Watkins, violation of basic
rulp,. $10.
James Paul ' Teets, excessive noise
$10.
Lewis Lislie Peabody, violation of
oasic rule. iu.
A. G. Edwards, violation of basic
rule. $10.
Otha Daniel Turner, violation of
basic rule, $10. .
Clarence Glenn Winningham, ex
cessive noise, $10.
Mary Carol Rector, violation f
basic rule. $10.
Leon Michael Forbes, violation of
basic rule, S10.
John Wesley Caulkins, violation of
basic rule. $10.
Peter Melvin Jacobson, violation of
basic rule, $10.
David John Bergman, excessive
noise, iu.
David Rath, disobeyed stOD sien. $5
Steven Carlos Morris, violation of
basic rule, S10.
Ronald Gwann VanHorn, violation
of basic rule. So.
Kenneth Russell Arrell, failure to
maintain proper lookout, $7.50.
Tuesday, October 1, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
DISTRICT COURT
David Lewellyn Caffield, overload,
S4S.50
Raymond Rex Note, overwidth. $15
Robert Alexander Doyle, overlength
io, oau lorteuea.
Henry Rudolph Byers, drunk on
public Highway. $30.
Eileen Barbara Ragsdalc, failure to
aim lients. sio.
I. J. Andreatta, failure to fall trvags.
$30.
John Edward Nuich, violation basic
rule. $13.
Thomas H. Swope Jr., overheight,
$15.
Bernard Lloyd Myers, overload, $41,
bail forfeited.
Orvall Ray Mollett, improper turn
at intersection. $15.
Joe A. Prudente, overlength, $15;
overheight, $15; overwidth, $15.
Jennings Daniel Miracle, leaking
and sifting load, $15.
Robert. Evert Belcher, overwidth.
$15.
Stuart Lee Holland, overload, $24'.
Billy -Joe Jenkins, overload, $113,
bail torfeited.
William Dody Littlefield, overheight
$15.
Wesley Earl Cookson, failure to
operate on right side of highway.
$5.
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