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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.
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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
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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
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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. "
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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."
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