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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1957)
Egypt Accuses U. S. of Plotting Against Syria Price 10 Cents 52nd Year By UNITED PRESS Cairo newspapers hailed th Tribune day as "Hero's Day" and re ported that President Gamal Abdel Nasser would speak oa the occasion. MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire Egypt observed the first anni versary of the Israeli invasion Tuesday by accusing the United States of plotting against Syria. United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1957 Pages 1 to 6 SS v JUMBO CAMERA This Recording Optical Tracking In strument (ROTI) was developed for the Air Research and Development Command here to obtain flight data of early flight characteristics of missiles. The moon is in easy reach of its range and a photograph of the moon was taken during recent tests at Melbourne Beach, Fla. 1947 FORD V-3 FORDOR A Dandy Work Car $95 LEA MOTORS 5th at Bartlett Phone SP 2-6185 00 Public Image of Charles Porter is Tribute To Work of Former Eugeneans in Washington A. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington As Rep Charles O. Porter (D.-Ore.) makes his way up and down the big fourth congressional district, speech- making and hand shaking in c o m m uni ties as far north as Al ls a n y and as far south as the California line, he peri odically makes an imp ortant Robt Smith announcement of a hitherto unknown develop ment in Washington, D.C. He may have been having a series of tea-time or coffee-hour visits with voters in western Oregon about local problems, but simultaneously he will be able to announce, as he did re cently, that the Federal Com munications, commission has de cided to open Eugene's TV chan nel 9 to commercial use. Or that the Army Engineers, at the high est level in Washington, had just increased funds for stepped up construction of Hills Creek dam. If this ability to electrify the electorate with enlightening elo cution contributes to the forma tion of a public image oi Char lie Porter as an "on the ball" congressman, it is perhaps a tribute of no small significance to the work of two Eugenians here in the nation's capital. Key Persons on Staff They are Jack Billings and .... msm Open Monday Night Until WHO-00 has the biggest and best selection of HALLOWE'EN VALUES? WHO-OO is featuring be witching bargains in top quality Preparing, Serv ing and; Party Needs? WHO-OO? Why ACME HARDWARE your PARTYTIME HEADQUARTERS of course! We've everything for HALLOWE'EN GHOSTpitality . f . and everything's priced to SAVE YOU PLENTY! Check your Party Needs now . . . then come fill them all at ACME today! This electric corn popper it both ef f i c i e n I and beautiful in de tig n. Polished finish with plas tic fittings. 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PASTRY BLENDER Universal COFFEE MAKER 526.95 Jattty 7ft4tt&& At Lowest Prices niVs.ll II HVsr Miss Barbara Burke, who left successful positions in Eugene to come to Washington after Por ter was elected to Congress al most a year ago. Billings, as ad ministrative assistant, and Miss Burke, as personal secretary, are the key persons in Porter's eight- member congressional staff. Billings was new director for KUGN with regular morning and evening news broadcasts. After being graduated from the University of Oregon in jour nalism, where he was editor of the Emerald as a sophomore (as was Sen. Richard L. Neuberger) Billings taught journalism for a year at the university before en tering radio. Today, as he describes his re sponsibility under Porter, Bill ings is a combination office manager and personal assistant to the congressman. "I run the office almost en tirely," explained Billings. "Charlie doesn't have time for that." By this he meant he sees that what Porter directs his staff to undertake is carried out, wheth er it involves lining up appoint ments for Porter with govern ment officials or visiting con stituents, mimeographing of a speech scheduled for delivery that afternoon on the House floor, or getting action on stymied local problems. Most Sought Skill Getting action in the maze of Washington bureaucracy, where red tape is often much longer than local patience, is the most sought skill needed by any con gressman and his staff. A major in the Marine Corps reserves, Billings served in World War II and the Korean war. m a sense he had good ex perience for his current job with Porter because he served as an adjutant to commanding offi cers. Last month he served 19 days active duty with the fleet on maneuvers in the Atlantic. Barbara Burke had a public stenographic business in Eugene, which frequently got-fjome work from the law firm of Porter and Skelton. She sold her business to come to Washington last year. Although a registered Demo crat and active in the League of Women Voters, she had never done party work or helped in Porter's campaign for office. '"This isnot a patronage job," she will have you know. Nor is working for a congress man loaded with glamor as some folks seem to think, said Bar bara. Eats Lunch al Desk "It's a lot of hard work. I try to get to the office by 8 o'clock every morning. If I don't Char lie gets in first and goes through the mail. I try to beat him be cause when he's through with the mail it looks like a mouse has been at it. "I usually eat lunch at my desk and it's 6 or 7 before I get away at night," she added. . Is Charlie Porter a slave driver? "He doesn't drive the staff," replied Miss Burke. "He just givees us so much work that we have to work long hours. He has lots of ideas and we carry them out. But he's never unreason able." Throughout government, from what she has seen, people seem to work hard in Washington. As she put it: "Contrary to what people around the country seem to think, people here work harder than anywhere else. We don't know what a coffee hour is." "But it's fun and exciting," agreed Barbara. She has found some new friends through friends at home, such as Mrs. Mary Alice Baldinger, sister-in-law of Prof. Wallace S. Balding er, history of art professor at the University of Oregon. This business of calling the congressman "Charlie" hasn't changed, she explains, because he's just like "an old shoe." "To me he's still just Charlie Porter in the law office down the street." Congressmen are allowed to employ up to eight staff mem bers unless they represent a dis trict with a population of more than 500,000: Then they can have niise. But in any event, Daily's U-Drive ' Medford Airport they must stick within a total payroll budget which Congress itself sets. Base payroll for the smaller districts is $17,500 and for the larger $20,000. The maximum any one employee can receive is $7,000 base pay. But, when the various cost-of-living allow ances added since the war have been computed this comes to $12,131.47 per year. A $5,000 base salary works out to $9, 128.92. Porter has employed eight staff members, two in Eugene. They are Keith Skelton, his for mer law partner who acts as Porter's local representative on a part-time basis on a monthly salary of $150; and Miss Virginia Wysong, who handles filing in the local office, also part-time. During, the recess of Congress, Porter moved one of his key workers, Miss Laura Olson of Roseburg, to the Eugene office. When Congress is in session, Miss Olson, formerly a reporter for the Roseburg News-Review, specializes in researching prob-1 lems that constituents may pre sent or gathering background facts for Porter on specific is sues. In addition to these Oregon ians, Porter hired two experi enced Capitol Hill staff mem bers, Miss Vineta Clair, who pre viously worked for Delegate Farrington of Hawaii, and Mrs. Lou Ann Rowe, who wTas with Sen. Wayne- Morse and for a time divided her work between Porter and Oregon's other fresh man, Rep. Al Ullman, whose of fice is just across the hall in the Old House office building. The eighth member is a law stu dent from Portland, Mike Walsh, who works part-time while attending law school here. Look at these values . . . WILD SPREE ENDS State Police Lt. A. B. Nogo searches Montana State Prison escapee Willard Brown, 23, after his capture near Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. The convict went on a two day spree after escaping prison and held several kidnap victims whom he later released. 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