MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
( Theyll Do It Every Time"
Monday, February 17. 1958
By Jimmy Hatlo
White House Operation Depends On Efficiency of Many 'Little People'
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ly reads or hears of the peo
ple who make the presidency
work; the mechanics of any
hotel rooms, automobiles and
hand whiz who transcribes
go on the road without the
United Press Correspondent
Thomasville, " Ga. (IP)
Backstairs at the White
House:
The operation of the White
House, in an impersonal
sense, is a large and compli
cated piece of business. The
public hears for the most part
of the President, his press
secretary and various other
staff members whose duty it
is to stay before the electorate
in a posture of policy.
The public, however, rare
just about everything short
of the code machines which
move with a President where
ever he goes.
Joe's boss is a long-time
White House veteran, Dewey
E. Long who is chief of White
House transportation. Dewey
currently is recovering from
a winter illness and his as
sistant, Russell McMullin, is
running the shop.
the President's press confer
ences, when Eisenhower has
them. Jack's more work-a-day
chore is transcribing the
twice-a-day conferences of
press secretary James C. Hag
erty. Jack has the mind of a
mental savings bank. Not a
word goes through his ears
without being reflected in an
instant on .precise short-hand
notes.
presence of another unsung
hero,' Carroll S. Linkins of
Western Union who knows
more about executive com
municatjpns than Sherman
Adams.
"Link" has been the suf
fering boss of press commun
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administration
A presidential trip like the
current voyage to Thomas
ville shows the "little peo
ple" of the White House staff
to their best advantage.
The public never hears of
a man named Joe Giordano,
but he happens to be one of
the most important persons
involved in a movement of the
White House party. Joe is in
charge of all baggage, plus
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ications for presidents dating
back many years.x He hotly
denies that he dates. back to
McKinley, but he had a work
The public also never
almost never hears of Jack
Romagna. Jack is the short
ing relationship with the
White House under President
The White House could not
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Robbery Becomes Easiest
Case Police Tracked Down
By PETER HAYES
United Press Correspondent
San Francisco (IP The
"easiest case we ever had."
(That's how Capt. Anthony
Bolger of the Oakland Police
Department described the
$500 robbery of a branch of
the First Western Bank and
Trust Co. last November.
In that case, police quickly
traced Norman E. Holmes, 30,
through the demand note he
presented to the teller and
,'vleft behind. The note was pen
cilled on the back of the de
duction slip of his paycheck
from a construction firm. The
oversight will cost Holmes
three years in the clink.
A chain of recent bank rob
beries in the San Francisco
area, of which the Holmes
case is one sample, has serv
ed as a good example of "how
not' to rob a bank." ,
There's the escapade of
Louis M. Shadoan , 35, who
told his wife to wait in a tav
ern while he went to a Fair
field bank to "get some
money."
He escaped with SI, 100 and,
driving a fire-engine-red se
dan, picked up his wife and
headed for Sacramento at 80
miles an hour.
Runs Into Police
At a railway , intersection,
Shadoan's car. clipped anoth
er auto that of Suisun Po
lice Chief Wallace Woods.
Shadoan surrendered meek
ly. Then there was Norvell
T. Robinson, 24. Authorities
said he stole $1,680 from the
San Jose bank, where he was
employed.
Leaving a rear window op
'en, he returned to the bank
on a Sunday night and rifled
the night depository. He left
a wire coat hanger on the
ground outside the window
in hopes the FBI would think
someone fished the money out
from the outside.
But the FBI found the coat
hanger wasn't quite long
enough to reach the spot
where the money was. It had
to be an "inside" job.
In Oakland, two innocent
bystanders stumbled onto the
$28,182 robbery of a Bank of
America branch. The bandits
forced the two men into the
vault and they were still
there when the police" arriv
ed, soon after the robbers had
gone.
Who's Who? What!
"Come out with your
hands up. Come out or we'll
kill you," the police ordered.
The men came out, were
searched and handcuffed and
it was several hectic minutes
before they could convince
the police that they were not
the bandits.
Several recent holdup men
had obviously reinforced
their courage with a drink or
two.
One of these was Edward
Downey, 41, who hailed a
cab driver, James J. Bridge
and directed him to a San
I Francisco bank. He told
Bridge to wait while he went
inside to make a withdraw
al. The next Bridge knew,
Downey was diving into the
back of the cab shouting, "go,
go, go!" Two bank officials
were close behind.
"I didn't like this play,"
the cabbie explained later,
"so I turned off the key and
killed the motor and they
pulled him out of the cab.
All the time he was still yell
ing, 'go, go, go!' "
Ike's Luck Fades Out
Reporter Discovers
By LYLE C. WILSON .
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) What
hit the Eisenhower luck?
Where is it now?
That luck boosted an ob
scure infantry colonel to the
pinnacle of military fame. It
carried him to the presidency
of a great university and, fin
ally, to the White House.
Luck, fame and personal
charm which warmed the vot
ers made of Dwight D. Eisen
hower a formidable political
candidate in the pattern of
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The fame and personal
charm persist but the luck is
fading.
For four of his White House
years, the President enjoyed
an immunity from Democratic
criticism which was astonish
ing. Things did go wrdng from
time to time. The Democrats,
however, rarely tagged Eisen
hower as the man responsible
for governmental misplays.
He had proven ability to win
multi-thousands of Democratic
votes from whomsoever the
opposition might put up
against him.
Democratic leaders were
convinced that attacks direct
ly against the President
would backfire.
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Times have changed. There
is no immunity now against
criticism of Eisenhower. Re
publicans as well as Demo
crats fire at will when White
House policies displease them.
Least of all do the politicians
fear to challenge the Presi
dent in the field where his
judgment at first generally
was accepted as both correct
and final. That is in the mili
tary field of national defense.
In that area Eisenhower's
prestige dimmed as the first
Communist Sputnik soared.
Neither has the President's
magic in foreign affairs sur
vived the rough tests of time
He promised to end the blood
shed in Korea and he did with
an uneasy truce. In the larger
and equally explosive area of
foreign relations, the Eisen
hower Administration is sty
mied as were others before
it. It can only be said that
there is no shooting war, but
none can say for how long.
In Bad Fix
Comes now another off-year
congressional election.
The Republican party un
der -the leadership of a gen
eral turned politician is in a
worse fix than the good guys
in a TV western before the
U.S. Cavalary comes tootling
over the hill.
The business boom which
Eisenhower inherited is be
ginning to bust. Unemploy
ment is back in the news from
which it had vanished as the
United States maneuvered
into war and full employment
under FDR.
The fat cats of business and
industry who were whooping
it up for Ike and free enter
prise back there in 1952 have
had time to forget that their
favorite did release them
from the regimentation and
controls which an elected
Democrat probably would
have kept on.
War, said General Sher
man, is hell, and General Ei
senhower might echo that
about politics.
It is midway in the Presi
dent's second term. The last
two years promise to be the
hardest.
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Judge Rules
Harrisburg, 111. API Mud
dy will remain wet, a judge
has ruled indirectly.
Circuit Judge Clarence E.
Wright rejected a petition
brought by four men who
sought to dissolve the village
of Muddy, the only "wet"
spot in Saline county.
The judge ruled that Her
man Kesner, Charles Disney,
Ralph Reeder and Don Ar
thur Keedy, who sought to
file dissolution proceedings
on the grounds that the vil
lage boundaries are not con
tiguous, did not have suffi
cient legal interest to do so.
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ern California British Motor
Corp. dealers have been told
they can expect a record sales
year in 1958. -
Specials from Leon's and Leon's Tots-To Teens
OF ALL FALL AND WINTER MERCHANDISE IN BOTH STORES . . . AND FOR THIS FINAL WEEK STOCKS HAVE BEEN REDUCED AGAIN TO
THE VERY LOWEST PRICES OF THE SEASON . . . HUNDREDS OF ITEMS ARE ON SALE AT L E S S THAN COST . . . SELECTIONS ARE
NATURALLY LIMITED AT THIS TIME OF YEAR BUT PRICES ARE CORRESPONDINGLY LOWER.. . . YOU HAVE WEEKS AHEAD TO WEAR
THEM BUT THEY MUST BE CLEARED FROM STOCK . . . IT'S A GREAT STORE WIDE CLEARANCE IN BOTH STORES ... ALL SALES FINAL!
Children's Clothes
"COATS"
Some of the best coat values you have ever
seen in girls' wool coats ... all are reduced
for the last time ... buy now and save . . .
4" io 14"
'Formal Sandals'
99
Silver . . . gold and
some plastic combina
tions. Buy now for
your party needs.
"Shenanigans"
Genuine alliga
tors and lizards
... a real buy
at . . .
10"
SHOES
Hundreds of high quality shoes have been reduced
again to clear . . . sizes are broken in most styles
but the majority of sizes are available in some
type of shoe ...
"Blouses"
Mostly cottons . . . knits
and wool jerseys ...
many less than Vi price.
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GIRLS' SKIRTS
All skirts are on sale . . . from sizes 3 to sub
teens . . . selections and savings are very good
2" to 5"
PEDAL PUSHERS
Ideal for playwear . . plain sailcloth and color
ful prints . . . mostly 7 to 14 and subteen . .
1
99
and
2
"SWEATERS
AND BLOUSES"
Final markdowns on louses and sweaters . . .
everyone from our nationally known brands '. . .
1"to3
99
Girls' Robes
All robes reduced again for this
final sale ...
099
a up
Boys' Slax . . . . 2.99
Cord Crawlers . 1.49
Boys' Shirts . . . 1.49
T Shirts ....... 99c
Hats and Caps . . 1.49
"Children's Shoes"
Sizes are now limited in these groups but almost
every pair have been put into even lower groups
for this final week ...
I49 to 3
99
Leon's
(105 E. Main)
TOTS -TO -TEENS
'Capri Pants'
Very nice selection of
the most 'popular styles
and colors ...
99
Values to
9.98
Values to'
14.98
Robes
99
3
99
Values to
19.95
Beautiful robes . .
mostly quilts but light
weight and wearable
all year ...
up
99
Car Coats'
A limited number left
but very good styles and
real savings . . .
8
99
DRESSES
'Bouffants"
Regular 6.95 to 8.95
values ... just a few
go at . . .
"Sweaters"
One of the best selec
tions and biggest sav
ings on the sale . . .
everyone from our fam
ous name brands . . .
and priced at only . .
Final closeouts on dresses . . . included are even a
few spring cottons . . some reduced to only one
third of their original price . .
3
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99
99
Values to
12.95
Values to
24.95
Pajamas"
99
r - 6
99
Values to
34.95
Flannel and knit pa--
jamas ... still a good ,
selection left at only
,99
!
Skirts"
Cotton knits . . . wools
... plaids and others
... all priced to clear.
Panties1
Regular 49c rayon briefs
. . . plain or fancy ...
whites and colors ...
2"6
99
Odds and
Ends!
One big table full of all
kinds of things ... shoes
. bags . . . gloves . . blouses
bras . . . slips . . . gown . .
pajamas . . . many ust one lett
. . shop this table for dollar
surprises ...
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