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14A MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Oregon, Sunday, August 17, 1958 Diary -Jf Bird WatcherU Friday, August 8 San Clemente, Calif. This was the start of our vacation trip. As usual it took quite a while to get packed up and squared away, but we got started at about 11 o'clock. "We soon found out this was noon California time. We had packed a lunch and ate it be side the Klamath river a short distance over the border. The most conspicuous birds there were tree swallows flying oyer the water. This is near the place where I saw the first swal lows of the year on February 22. By about 6 o'clock we were just north of Willows and my boy had one of his dreams fulfilled in that we stopped at a motel with a swimming pool. He and his mother went swimming while I looked around for some birds. I found a new one, too, a Florida gallinule. It looks a lot like a coot with a bright orange bill. It was on a pond or sluggish stream that was right beside the highway.' Saturday. August 9 Today we drove, through the central valley of Califor nia, across the hot foothills and into Yosemite National Park. I unwisely took a short cut, state highway 120, to the park. The road was interesting, but so winding and up-and-down-ish that I think I lost time instead of saving it We had a cabin reserved at White Wolf Lodge in the park. It was at 8,000 ft. elevation, which we thought would make it cool. We found it was a quiet, pleasant place with only a small number of people. Sunday, August 10 In the morning we. got in our first real birding in the park. .We looked around near our camp and found three new birds for our year list, one of which would be new for my life list if I kept one. This was a pine grosbeak. We had a fine view of a female or immature. Being such it was not so colorful, but still 'a real find. We also found quite a number of Williamson's sapsuckers. The males are black and white, somewhat resembling our acorn wood' peckers. The females look altogether different, have small stripes crossways on their backs. I had looked for them vainly this year in the mountains around home. The third new one was a little Townsend's warbler up in the needles of a pine tree. At the middle of the afternoon we drove down to Yosemite valley to see some of the scenery for which the park is famous. It has reason to be. The great granite cliffs, domes and waterfalls are really stupendous. It bothered us, though, to be in such traffic congestion and such throngs of people. People who camp down there don't get away from the madding crowd. They are right m it. Near Camp Curry in an old orchard we found three different kinds of woodpeckers. One was a white headed. For years I have been looking for them in the yellow pine timber of our county and also on trips to Klamath Falls. We went to church at Camp 14 and at the close obtained a fine view of the fire-ball from Glacier Point. Oregon Delegation Favorably Impressed With Ike's Speech Monday, August 11 The white-headed woodpecker brought our year list to 200. Number 201 came today. It was a white-throated swift. I saw a single one flying when we stopped at a view point on our way up to Glacier Point. Strangely enough on the way back I also saw a single one at the same place. If it was the same bird it could have gone a long distance in the mean-time because this, swift is reputed to be the fastest flyer in North America. They fascinated me very much when I first saw them in Montana, but I hadn't seen one for years. I don't think anybody could exaggerate the magnificence of the yiew from Glacier Point. It would be satisfying to look long and often at that incomparable panorma, but we came away after all too brief a stay. We refreshed our selves with a swim in the Merced river as we came back through the valley. Then we were glad to come back to our quiet cabin and to see the deer grazing in the mountain meadow among the many wildflowers. My wife worked on a list of the flowers she has identified in the park and it came to about 35. . Tuesday. August 12 This morning my boy and I took a horseback ride to Lukens lake. It was a pretty trip to a pretty little mountain lake. Best of all, on the way I obtained a fine view of a male pine grosbeak, all big and rosy. Our new bird for today was also of reddish hue, a red crossbill. A man from Texas who had recently travelled in Ore gon saw our license plate and said, "Why did you ever leave that state?" He, too, was rather oppressed by the dense crowds in the Yosemite valley. T.M. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Oregon's con gressional delegation, on the whole, was as favorably im pressed with President Eisen hower's United Nations ad dress as it was unfavorably disposed toward his dispatch of troops to Lebanon. All six members had some words of praise for Eisenhow er's proposals for dealing with the Near East crisis through economic development pro grams and UN police forces, although some expressed some misgivings about the practicality of the ideas. Sen. Wayne Morse (D), who himself said he has been most critical of the administration's policies in this critical area, took the lead in praising the president's speech. Sen. Rich ard . L. Neuberger did like wise. When Eisenhower order ed Marines into Lebanon, the senators were split, Neuber ger for and Morse against. Enunciated Program "I wish to say that I am proud to be an American," Morse told his colleagues fol lowing the president's UN ap pearance. "In that speech, I think the president enunciat ed a program of action which, if we succeed in implement ing it, will stand to the ever lasting credit of our foreign policy." Morse said it was now up to the administration and the UJN to implement the pro posals. "If the UN will give that support to at least the ideal ism set forth in the president's speech, I believe it will be possible for us to recoup what I consider to be lost ground because of the course of conduct, in the case of Lebanon and other areas of the Middle East, which we have followed up until the time of the speech. I hope the president will not delay longer in making a complete withdrawal of our troops from Lebanon. I think the best evidence he can give to the rest of the world of our determination to carry out the ideals set forth in his speech will be to withdraw those troops, and to withdraw them now," Morse said. Responsibility on UN He said this would place the responsibility for main taining peace clearly on the UN. Rep. Walter Norblad (R), who had backed the use of troops, "opplosed complete withdrawal of them now. He said token withdrawals would be alright. ' "I think we should wait until the UN troops are put in," Congressman Norblad said. "I'm all for the presi dent's call for a - UN police force." I thought the speech was very good," added Norblad. It offered a good plan for possible peace in the Middle East." i Sen. Neuberger, the only other Oregon lawmaker who backed the troop landing at Beirut, ., declared Approve Proposal "I particularly approve of the president's proposal for a highly mobile UN police force to maintain peace in the troubled Middle East. This is a constructive suggestion which should serve to show that the United States has no dominant or aggressive inten tions in this area or anywhere else in the world. I hope the presidents proposal can be implemented by action as soon as possible." Congress worn an Edith Green thought it was the best speech the president ever gave, although "it contained nothing new or startling. However, if it can be carried out we will be much better off than we have been under the Eisenhower doctrine, which offered nothing con structive. At least there are some constructive proposals in this." "It was a good speech," Rep. Charles O. Porter said, "but how practical are those points he raised? The points don't present a program but a hope. It raises a lot of hopes. I just hope there won't be a big letdown." More Suggestions Porter said he wished there War Hero to Fight Federal Demand Oakland, Calif. (UPD A war hero who fought the Jap anese as a guerrilla in the Philippines said today he will fight a government demand for $545 the cost of his transportation home. "I don't want to appear bel ligerent," said John F. Line han, 61, "I just know the charge is not morally justi fied, I'm going to fight this thing through." The government has order ed Linehan to pay up or to face a lawsuit. The amount represents the cost of trans porting home from Australia, where he was taken after a sub marine evacuated him from the Philippines. U.S. Attorney Robert Sch nacke said in San Francisco that Linehan signed a promis sory note and that officials in Washington have ordered him to take legal action, if neces sary, to collect it. Linehan earns $4,300 a year as a civil service worker at the Oakland Army Termi nal. He commutes on week ends to be with- his family in Santa Rosa, Calif. He said payment of the claim "will be an awful hard ship." Linehan . contracted ben beri, acute enteritis and ma laria during his guerrilla days. In October, 1944, a U.S. Navy submarine evacuated him to Australia. While there he gave the U.S.' Army much information which he said was valuable in planning the reinvasion of the Philippines. Leaders Press to Adjournment Soon Washington (UPD Con gressional leaders, pressing to ward adjournment by the middle of next week, today re1 vived a housing bill and 'ar ranged an 11th hour House vote on legislation to pump up the mining industry. " They scuttled a controversial TV A bill. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the Senate would take up later today the bill to boost security benefits and taxes. The House stepped up the adjournment pace by passing a compromise bill overhauling the income tax laws and giv ing small business 260 million dollars in tax relief. The meas ure was sent to the Senate for final congressional action. Speaker Sam Rayburn said housing legislation, in a form not yet determined, will be called up in the House Mon day fqr an up-or-down vote with no amendments allowed. Tiffany's Undaunted In Face of Theft New York (UPD Tiffany's remained undaunted today in the face of a brazen theft of gems from its display win dows. There were reports the Fifth Avenue ultra-fashionable jewelry shop would henceforth use imitation gems in its sidewalk windows in view of Sunday's burglary, in which thieves smashed open two display windows and hauled off jewels valued at $171,500. But Tiffany's was not to be daunted. 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I had hoped there would have been a little more of a positive program and a recognition of the problem of nationalism in the Middle East. I thought it was a little wishful." So7 Conservationist Cited for Performance Cave Junction Lloyd Burnett, technician of the Illi nois Valley Soil, Conservation district, has been cited for his above average work and out standing performance in the woodland conservation phase of the soil conservation pro gram. The management improve ment and awards committee of the department of agricul ture awarded Burnett $150 in cash for his above average work and a certificate of mer it in recognition of his out standing performance in this phase of his work. BLM Employee Leaves For Washington Duty John A," Carnegie, opera tions forester for the bureau of land management here, left with his family last week end for a two-month special assignment in Washington, D. C. Ross A. Youngblood, man ager of the Medford district, said Carnegie's duties were not known at present. He said Carnegie was expected to rer turn about Oct. 1. Five File for Cify Posts in Eagle Point Eagle Point . Five resi dents have announced they will seek election as mayor and councilmen for Eagle Point in the November elec tion. Lenn Hickman, Jack For tin, Jack Grow and Ernest Gregg have filed for election for councilmen, and Ed Put man has filed for election as mayor. Mayor Ray Trisham announced Friday he would not seek reelection. Councilmen whose terms expire Jan. 1 are David Kahl, Jack Olsen and Willard Cave. Kahl recently was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Louis Clave, who was unable to attend council meetings and resigned. Councilmen will be elected for four-year terms, and the mayor's term is two years. Three councilmen are elected every two years. 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