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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1958)
2nd SECTION Rockefeller Added To Weekly Allowance With Shoe Shine Job (Editor'! note: Following Is the second of three articles on the life of Nelson Rockefeller, who recent ly was elected coventor of New York. By JACK V. FOX UPI Correspondent New York -fl-TB- Nelson A Rockefeller found out early in life he was going to have to make his own way. He got a 25-cent weekly allowance as a boy, supple mented it by shining the fam ily's shoes and kept books which were inspected closely by his father and grandfather, America's first billionaire. Nelson is n o w governor elect of New York at age 50. He scored a stunning victory over Averell W. Harriman despite warnings from friends that it was foolish to try. "They told me a Rocke feller couldn't hope to' be either nominated or elected, he says. "So I said to myself: Well, let's find out.' I believe the American people judge people by what they are, re gardless of where they come from." Rockefeller overcame the handicap of being a multi millionaire in politics mainly by exposing one of the warm est and most engaging per sonalities on the political scene. . None Were Spoiled His family saw to it that Nelson and his four brothers and one sister didn't become spoiled. "I was totally unconcious of being a rich boy," he says. "When we lived on the es tate at Tarrytown, my brother Laurance and I had the shoe shine concession for the house We got a nickle a shine. "We also had gardens to take care of and we'd sell vegetables to the family. We also had some rabbits and we sold them to the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Research." Nelson's grandfather also paid him for catching flies 10 cents per hundred. He was the closest to Laur ance. They thought their names stuffy and called each other Dick and Bill. Laurance is still Bill to the family. - Nelson went to a "progres sive" school in New York. When it came time for college, he chose Dartmouth as more democratic than other Ivy League schools favored by young men of his class. Taught Sunday School In college he favored sweat shirts and tennis shoes in at tire. He ran out of money and recouped by working in the cafeteria. He taught Sun day school for little girls for four years. He ran for president of the junior class and was beaten by a dark horse. A week after graduation, he married Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadelphia, a girl with whom he had sailed and swam at the summer resort of Bar Harbor, Me. His fath er's wedding gift was a hon Driving yourself DEPEND ON GREYHOUND9 TO GET YOU THERE SAFELY Aivin rM win Any weather Is safe driving weather when you're on a Greyhound. Expert drivers take the wheel while you take it easy . . . read, rest, chat, catch up on soma paper work. Many, many express schedules via super highways. Best of all, you arrive in the heart of town ... on time! ITS SUCH A COMFORT TO MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, eymoon trip around "the world. But he came back to one of the toughest jobs imaginable. In mid-depression his father had stubbornly gone ahead with building the gigantic MEETING newsmen in Hol lywood, Kathy Crosby, wife of Bing Crosby, tells of auto crash in which she suffered cut chin needing 15 stitches. Talent Tourney Set By D. A. V. Tickets for the eighth an nual Talent Tournament spon sored by Jackson County chapter, Disabled American Veterans are now on sale at Gary's Cafe and Fountain, Sixth and Ivy sts., Veterans club, 42 North Frant st., and Dick and Dot's, North Bart- lett st., according to Pat Gra ham, department commander. The tournament this year is open to all amateur acts of young people under 18 years of age. For competing purposes the event will be di vided into two categories, those who have won in pre vious years and those who are non-winners. Prizes will be awarded in each category in such type of talent act, such as vocal, instrumental, danc ing, and best act under 10 years of age. The winners in each classification will com pete for the grand prize. Persons interested in enter ing the contest should con tact Graham, 174 Jeannett street, SPring 2-4192. Plead Guilty To Contributing Charge Donald Martin Fiedler and Barbara Fiedler, both 35, of Grand hotel, Medford, pleaded guilty to charges of contrib uting to the delinquency of a minor in circuit court Friday afternoon before Judge Ed ward C. Kelly. They were ordered to the state hospital for 30 days prior to sentencing by the court. The couple were arrested by state and city police Nov. 12. L I is a strain in the rain! Tin i it i rlOilii I Hill. TAKE THE BUS... AND LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US! Following the tun? Ask about wide choice of Greyhound winter vacations to the South. Tribune NOVEMBER 18, 1958 Rockefeller Center and the 23-year-old Nelson was given the task of getting tenants. He plunged into it with typical energy, got himself involved in lawsuits when he bought up leases of companies in other buildings and per suaded them to move. H e brought Rockefeller Center up from a loss of $4 million a year to an annual profit of $20 million. In 1935, as a director of Creole Petroleum Co., he went to South America on a trip that shaped the course of his life. Nelson is simpatico with Latins and he was dis tressed by their terrible liv ing conditions. He took a course in Spanish at Berlitz and returned two years later with a program of development and self - help which now is famous through out the South American con tinent. At outbreak of World War II, he was dismayed at the inroads Hitler was making there. He drew up a list of 1,800 Latin American firms trading with Germany. It came to the attention of Har ry Hopkins and then of Presi dent Roosevelt who named Rockefeller to head a depart ment to combat Nazi influence there. Subsequently Nelson served under Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. He helped draft the Point Four program. "Un der Eisenhower he helped set up the' new Health, Educa tion and Welfare Department and later became an aide in the State Department, work ing among other things on Eisenhower's "open skies" in spection plan. Father of Five Nelson and Mrs. Rockefel ler have five children and four grandchildren. Their old est son, Rodman, 26, and daughter, Ann, 24, have mar ried and moved away. Steven, 22, enters the Army shortly. Only the twins, Mary and Michael, 20, are left at home. Rockefeller does not smoke and drinks only wine. He is about 5 feet, 10 inches, and getting chunky. To. keep his waistline down he does setting up exercises every morning and walks the half mile from the apartment to Rockefeller Center. Right now he and his wife are basking in the sun on their Venezuelan farm, get ting ready to tackle a job which some people think may lead Nelson Rockefeller to the White House. Tomorrow: The Rockefel lers work as a team and here' the scoreboard. WANTED: LANGUAGES Washington - (UPD - Seventy five per cent of American scientists know at least one foreign language, but only two per cent know any Rus sian, Chinese or Japanese, the National Science Foundation has reported. acaaa SAN DIEGO 7 daily departures, 1 thru express. $15.25 one way, $27.45 round trip, plus tax. VANCOUVER, B. C. 8 daily departures, 4 thru ex presses. $13.90 one way, $25.05 round trip, plus tax. Pages 1 to 6 SIGN TRADE PACT Moscow-flJPD-Russia and In dia have signed a second five year trade agreement that will exchange Soviet machin ery and metals for Indian ag ricultural products, the Soviet Tass news agency said today. 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