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10 MAIL TRIB.UNC, Mcdferd, Wfcf MA w ft RETIRING FROM POSTS tiradlev ereet successors wno win neaa uenerai viuuura, . i 1 T From left: Curtice, Frederic G. Donner, new board chairman; Bradley, and John F. Gordon, new president. General Motors has compulsory retirement program at age 65. Who Will Flag? Armed Services Favored Washington -4JPD- Alaska is about to become the 49th state, but what about the flag? No one has decided official ly how to go about putting a 49th star in Old Glory. The decision has been de layed even though the Alaska statehood bill cleared Con gress last June 30 and there never was any doubt about outcome of special referen dum in the territory Alaska voters overwhelm in g 1 y approved statehood Tuesday. All that is" needed is a proclamation by Presi dent Eisenhower to make the northern territory the 49th state of the union. The new flag however won't be unfurled until July 4, 1959. Several suggestions have been advanced for adding 'the 49th star. Some historians said Congress should appoint a commission to redesign the flag. Others maintained this is a presidential prerogative. The armed services insist that because of their senti mental interest in the flag they should do the re-arranging- . " .. History Favors Military The final decision on how to make room for the extra star probably will be a joint effort. History would give the military the edge. A bill introduced by Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) late : in the last session was meant to clarify the law and pro cedure relating to the design and dimensions of the United States flag. But it died in the Senate after',receiving House approval. The confusion over who should get the ball rolling arises from the fact that there is no federal statute which fixes the proportionage di mensions of the flag, includ ing the size and arrangement of the stars. The House Judiciary com mittee, which has been dig ging into the subject, said that in the past these matters have been regulated by custom. And a pretty fluctuating cus tom at that. Taft Approves , For example, when Arizona and New Mexico were admit ted in 1912, a joint board of Army and Navy officers recommended a plan for re shuffling the stars and Presi dent William Howard Taft, by executive order, approved. But when Oklahoma was admitted in 1907, the Navy simply wrote the War Depart ment, suggesting that-a group of officers recommend a de sign. After the two depart ments approved a design, the other agencies adopted it. 11 La13 U lMy U lnJ W& c .... first! . - assgsaggo. T5tAS EDISON'S FIRST UVENTOM WAS H I Of losV STB, ELECTRICAL VOTE SECOROCR HE SOBAdTTEB L fin310' I TO CONGRESS. ftHAZKJfCTEDf ; . ' I SE?S E BONOS NOT ONLY fW 3 'l ITHSN AHEAD FCR T t EJJCATTCM OF WOR CMLDRSJ CQ REACH MATUR!. WW4l4W)tt U.S.SAYIH6S Oregon, Thursday, August 28, 1958 as president and chairman, Harlow P. Curtice and Albert Add 49th Prior to 1907 the military services arranged the stars without executive order or legislation. Generally speak ing they followed the basic flag law of . 1818 which re quires the addition of stars on Steel Hour Show Fritters Away Format of Good Fun With Foolish By WILLIAM EWALD ' UPI Correspondent - New York-fljPD-Views and reviews: ; "Be My Guest." a comedy undraped on the CBS-TV "U.S. Steel Hour" Wednesday night, laid down the lines of an engag ing situation an ex-urban-i t e crushed under the as sault of some loutish week end visitors. But it fritter ed away its William Ewald premiserand its promise in a foolish whiligig that was all motion and little fun. A firie cast was thrown to the lines Elliott Nugent, Larry Blyden, Augusta Dab ney, Joanna Moore. Ray mond Walburn, whom you've probably seen in a million old TV movies, had a bit part. So did Happy Felton, a fellow whose face used to be familiar to a quaint and defunct in stitution called the Brooklyn Dodgers. . One footnote on "U.S. Steel Hour"-Jdfnria Moore wore a frock with, one of the new empire hjpp. waist lines. A pox on it," too. It made Miss Moore, a girl with a nifty figure, look like a kangaroo. The Channel Swim: CBS TV will repeat "The Defend er, a two-parter that was done on "Studio One" with Ralph Bellamy-its kinescope will be dropped into the slots currently held by "Leave It to Beaver"" and "Johnson's Wax Theater" on Sept. 24 and Oct. 1. One of the players in "'The Defender" is Steve Mc Queen, who'll star in CBS- TV's new fall Western, "Want ed Dead or Alive." Maureen O'Hara's Tarafilm Productions will co-produce with CBS-TV an anthology series, "Woman in The Case, for the 1959-60 season - Miss O'Hara will host and star in some of Tjhe filmed ' shows. Willy Ley, the rocket expert, will be one of the contestants on the opener of NBC-TV's OOO nine days from immortality Samuel p langiets 'astopome was launched frcm a hotsesoat nine pans before the wright brothers flew their plane at kitty hawk. it fahjed. had it succeepeo (as it EVENTUALLY OIO) PRCS LANSLEY WOULD HAVE ACHIEVED FAME AS THE FIRST . MAM TO FLY A HEAVIER, THAN -- AIR MACHINE.' HEW TO MATWtlTX 6in"-IF VDU'RE PIANN1N5 RETIREMENT FOR. ItXSSS.F-RgWEMSER THEY BCiPS-iCM PROMISE Of A ffic FUTURE! wwiu& igcau tuipuiauuu, X- 31 3 T1 T71 Star to U.S. the 4th of July following' the admissin of new states. - Scholars on the subject say that is the only definite part of the whole rthing: Alaska's star, will have tobe added by next July 4. Whirligig "3rains and Brawn" on Sept. 13. . . The kick off show of CBS TV's "December Bride" on Oct. 2 will star Edgar Bergen and his wife, Frances. ABC TV is mulling over the possi bility of bringing back "Beat The Clock" as a daytime en try. NBC-TV, will repeatr"The Pied Piper"i--on Sept. 16. Tahoe Vacationer Robbed and Tied; May Lose Hands Stateline, Nev. - (UPD - An all-points bulletin has been issued for two young men who robbed a 79-year-old Cali fornia vacationer and tied him to a tree to die in a remote area near this Lake Tahoe community.' The victim, Charles E. Weid enman, Sacramento, was found by a camper who heard his feeble cries about 15 hours after the robbery. Weidenman was tied so tight that doctors feared he may lose both hands as a result of gangrene. Robbed of $35 Weidenman told authorities two men, in their early 20s, robbed him of $35 and bound him to the tree late Tuesday afternoon. He said they drove a 1958 blue and white station wagon and one commented, "We'll be in Salt Lake City before you're found." v The victim was found early Wednesday by a hiker, C. C. Hecker, in a section .so remote that Douglas County Deputy Sheriff George Hunt' said Weidenman was found Vonly because it was God's will." Circulation Cut Off Doctors said Weidenman's wrists were bound so tight that his circulation was cut off. His ordeal was intensified by the fact that he recently had undergone surgery in Sac ramento. The deputy expressed fears that the car the two men were driving may have been stolen. "I'm afraid the bodies of the owners may be found in the mountains somewhere be tween here and Sacramento," Hunt said. "Those guys are vicious." Morrison Bridge Reminder Blasted Portland-(UPD -One of the last reminders of the old Mor rison street i'bridge here, a lone steel-encased concrete pier, was blasted o rubble this morning! Only the wood en structure that protected the turntable pier remains. General Construction Co., contractor for the removal of the span, said the wooden framework will also be re moved within a few days. A dynamite charge placed in the lone column failed to detonate Wednesday morn ing when blasts crumbled a nearby pier and the "turntable pier. MOVIE COUPLE TO WED Hollywood - (LTD - Actor Ty Hardin, 28, and actress Andra Martin, 23, who recently post poned their marriage plans on the advice -of their agents, plan to be married Saturday at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley. Paris-(UPD-Georges Lecomte, 91, novelist, historian and art critic, died in his home here Wednesday night. " " ""' ' Hammarskjold To Seek Tone-Down Of Broadcasts Amman, Jordan - (UPD -United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold will make "practical arrange ments" during his Middle East visit to try to get Arab radio stations to tone down their inflamatory broadcasts, a U.N. spokesman said today. Hammarskjold began his conferences by talking for an hour with Premier Samir Rifai and then conferring with King Hussein for two hours Wednesday night after a state banquet in the King's hilltop Raghadan Palace over looking the city. Broadcasts Heard ' ' While they talked ihe flow of virulent anti-Hussein prop aganda poured into Jordan from a clandestine transmitter in a neighboring city. The Syrian based "Radio Free Jor dan" called Hussein's regime "a treacherous clique which has paved the way for the forces of imperialism." Cairo Radio ceased" its in flammatory broadcasts calling for the overthrow of the pro Western, 23-year-old King, but the Cairo press began attack ing neighboring Sudan, de claring a dispute over the Nile waters threatened Egypt's very subsistence. U.N. officials said Ham marskjold would ' stay here until Saturday, then fly to Ge neva to attend the Interna tional Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Later he will visit U.A.R. President Gamal Adbel Nasser and then go to Beirut and Baghdad. Newsmen Barred Hammarskj old's arrival in Amman, was marred by. the strong arm tactics adopted by William Ranallo, his personal bodyguard, toward corres pondents attempting to cover the ceremony. One newsman was roughly pushed aside. Photographers seeking to take p i c t u r es of Hammarskjold found their way barred by Ranallo. ' ' Even stronger tactics were used against the press when the secretary general arrived in Beirut. There Lebanese po lice under U.N. orders used tommyguns to menace news men covering Hammarsj old's arrival. Madame Chiang Feels Nationals Will Regain Land Los Angeles - (UPD -Madam Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of Free China, predicts the Chi nese Communists will fall and the Nationalists will regain the mainland in her lifetime. The attractive wife of Presi dent Chiang Kai-shek, here for a speech to delegates attend ing the American Bar As sociation convention, promised Wednesday in a press confer ence that the Nationalists would fight back if attacked. Seeds Will Blossom Madam Chiang .said the "seeds of evil" are planted in Communist China, and will blossom. "The people there want us," she said. "The explosion will be internal because of the dis satisfaction among the peo ple." Just last month, she said, more than 60,000 partisans went underground in a sparse ly settled province on the mainland. She said that the goal of the Communists' current at tacks on the Quemoys off the mainland was known only to the Red leaders. Part of Program "It seems, however," she offered, "to be just a part of their program of always fo menting trouble, and when world opinion, which is against them, becomes too hot, they detract attention from one situation by making trouble in another part of the world." One of the reasons for the Quemoy campaign might be to see if the United States really "means business, the first lady said. . "I believe," she said, "a clear-cut, strong statement on the part of the United States that any attack on our ter ritory violates our mutual se curity would do more good than anything else to keep the peace."- - Springfield Fires Being Investigated Springfield, Ore. -(UPD-An Oregon state police arson in vestigator has .been. called in to help probe a'rash of recent fires here, Fire Chief Harry Krieger. said. ' Krieger said there have been at least six unexplained fires in recent weeks in Springfield, including the re cent costly blaze that destroy ed the Nalley's Potato Chip factory ahdwarehouse. " sal h a ssp yspx 1 ' O-s feZ f BOMBARDING QUEfaOl.lor fourth "consecutive day . : -a rn.: 't . . . . ... - vuuiiuiuubi, uiiuid steps up aiiacKs on .Nationalist outposts off coast. Nationalists reported routing two" Red flotillas trying to invade Tungting, 17 miles south of Quemoy. U. S. Seventh Fleet in Formosa Strait has been placed on alert. Arabs Rounded Up Paris - (UPD - Police seeking the murders of four patrol men killed in Monday's terror attacks rounded up more than 2,000 Arabs in raids 'through out the , Paris area ! before dawn today. Suspects: dragged from their beds in the ' "Little Algeria" slums of northeastern Paris were.; herded into the vast Sports Palace-the "Madison Square Garden" of Paris. .Teams of interrogators When friends drop in, when you and your family want thirst-quenching' .re freshment . . . you're, always right in serving Coca-Cola! The good taste of Coke, the sparkling lift of Coke have made it the favorite of the world ... enjoyed over 58 million times each day. Such popularity must be deserved. So get ready for holiday hospitality . , . bring home the Coke today! BotHed under outhority of The In Killer Search questioned the suspected Arabs and examined their pa pers. It was not certain immediately- whether any signifi cant information was uncov ered by the raids. The most recent incident of underground violence occur red in Rouen, where an Arab set fire to -a gasoline storage tank Wednesday night. The saboteur was shot dead and the spread of the flames was checked -quickly. Coco - Cola Company by; COCA - Manned Space Platform May Be Reality Soon Amsterdam - (UPD - An American "astronaut" said to day the United States may be ready to test the world's first manned space platform within the next five years. Darrell Romick, of Akron, Ohio,- told the International Astronaufical Congress inten sive research already has pro duced tetnative solutions to some of the problems involved in launching such a platform. Romick said the proposed platform would be a three stage rocket carrying eight men three each in the first and' third stages and two in the second. Each stage would be a "spaceship" capable of re turning to earth, with delta wings enabling it to maneuver in the. atmosphere. ,. The duties of the crewmen have been figured out in some detail, he said, and special chairs with pushbuttons in the arms are being designed so they can operate the rocket even under the vast strain of takeoff. ... Another American space engineer . said a "special TV satellite' could make it pos sible for half the world to see a "live" telecast of the in auguration of the next U.S. president. . Robert- Haviland, Philadel- N-7 v uMJ COLA BOTTLING CO. of Amputation To Help Jersey City, N. J.-4UPD-A 13 year-old girl agreed Wednes day to have both her legs am putated in order to walk for the first time in her life. Doctors said artificial legs are needed for young Karleen Queeney, who is paralyzed from the knees down. Karleen was born with a spinal abnormality. A correc tive operation when she was a month old left her legs per manently paralyzed. American Tourist Beaten in Italy Venice, Italy-(UPD-Police to day investigated charges of assault against two British sailors accused of beating and severely injuring an Ameri can tourist Monday night. American Henry Bunkerly, 50, of New York, was report ed still in a coma as a result of head injuries. Police said Bunkerly's relatives reported a $1,600 sapphire and dia mond ring which he wore had disappeared following the beating. phia, said it would take about two years to get a TV relay into orbit if someone were willing to foot the bill. Romick heads the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's astronautics department and Haviland is a member of Gen eral Electric's missile and space staff. It had to be great to get where it is-enjoy over the Labor Day weekend ! KING family SIGN OF GOOD TASTE MEDFORD Young Girl To Walk "I think 1 11 be able to walk, dance and ride a horse with new legs," the girl said in agreeing to the amputation. The operation is scheduled for next month in Philadel phia at Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children. Since she was five and a half months old, Karleen has been in a plaster cast or in braces. Without artificial legs, she would have to spend the rest of her life in a wheel chair, the doctors said. Dirty Necks May Be Sign of Health London-(UPD-A doctor spoke up today for boys who don't wash their necks. Editor Dr. Harvey Flack said in the magazine "Family Doctor" that a dirty ring around Junior's neck could well be the brand of good health. The doctor said a protec tive layer of grease around the skin is vital for health and should not be disturbed too often by parentaL orders to wash behind the ears. "Boys seem to - know this profound dermatological truth by instinct," he said. - "Abnormally clean small boys always fill me with the greatest foreboding," he said. "Healthy small boys and even larger boys attract dirt. Girls don't do so to nearly the same extent. Nobody knows why." f
