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Hatfield's Trip To Gridiron Dinner Puts Him in Limelight r It i L Robt Smith By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune t Washington Correspo ndent Washington - l:t might seem a bit strange to the average citizea to cross the continent rH to attend a tt, dinner, as Vf;C3ov.-M ark last week ; end, but not if one under stands the great game of I politics. I Hatfield came here as guest of Roscoe Drummond, the syndicated collumnist, for the annual dinner of the Gridiorn club, wiich is the inner club to end : all inner clubs in the newspaper world here. Of the hundreds of journalists in this ( city, its membership is limU;d to 50- The list of 500 j guests at this annual feed reads like a political who's who- Every top politician and till those who have higher aspirations and a friend in the club usu ally turn up. Hatfield wasn't the only transcontinental din ner guest. Gov. Pat Brown of California was one of the speakers. j No one would beliwe that it hadn't occurred to l.lessers. Hatfield and Brown tKiat they might be among the possible candidates on their parties' respective national tickets next year. Since all the Democratic presidential pros pects come from east of the Mississippi, Brown might make the vice presidential spot to give the Democrats the geographic spread that a convention usually seeks in selected candidates. Eastern Running Mate Hatfield probably stands no chance of being tapped for vice president next year by the GOP convention if Rich ard Nixon of California gets the presidential nomination Geographic necessity would dictate an eastern runining mate. Conversely, if Nelson Rockefeller of New York gets the presidential nod, the con vention might look as far west as Oregon for a vice presidential candidate. In a word, the Gridiron din ner is a good Washington event for an out-of-town poli tician to attend. It's an opior tunity to see and, mainly, be seen by the high and mighty. It's like an assembly of ligSht ning rods, each wonder ing whether he will be the lucky one to be struck from above. To make good use of his extra time here, Hatfield spent nearly an hour chatting with President Eisenhower, had lunch with Interior Sec retary Fred A. Seaton, spent another hour with the three members of the Oregon con gressional delegation who were in town. Reps. Walter Norblad, Al Ullman and Ed ith Green. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger returned to have breakfast with Hatfield Sun day. Rep. Charles O. Porter had just left for Europe and Sen. Wayne Morse was speechmaking in St. Louis. Slate Paid Costs These conferences on state issues helped justify the state paying for the governor's trip to Washington. Travis Cross, his press secretary, accom panied Hatfield,, but his ex penses were, not paid by the state, he said. Main reason the Gridiron club journalists pull in the big shots is to kid them with satirical sketches and com- BURMA ENVOY DIES Washington - flJPD - J. Klahr Huddle, 67, first U. S. am bassador to Burma, died at his home here Tuesday. News About Servicemen NEW STATION Technical Sgt. Harvey J Jacobson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jacobson. ,1508 Terrace dr., Medford, recently com pleted an 8-week-course in turbo-propellers at Caldwell, N.J. The Air Force man and his wife and son visited in Med ford last week end enroute to his new duty station at Travis Air Force base, Calif STATIONED IN N.Y. Technical Sgts. Robert S. and Raymond S. Helm, twin son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Helm, 460 North Seventh st., Central Point, are both as signed to the directorate of flight test at the Rome air development center, Griffiss Air Force Base, N.Y. Both men are maintenance supervisors on the Center's B-57 light bombers. The brothers enlisted in the Army in April 1948 and with the exception of one month when they were in the same state but different cities, have shared the same assignments and promotions. mentary reminiscent of Will Rogers. President Paul Woot on of the New Orleans Time Picayune summed it like this: "In these outer spacious times we live in an atmo sphere of change. In Virginia, the Byrds had gone to roost and massive is in the cold, cold ground. Dave Beck gets five years in jail. He hopes for a parole after four years. For once he hesitates to take the fifth. "In the complex of change, confusion is apparent in poli tical ranks, everyone seems to be avoiding something. Rockefeller is avoiding Nix on. Nixon is avoiding anoth er goodwill trip to Venezuela Khrushchev is avoiding any more American presidential candidates. Gov. Williams wants out of Reuther's pock et. "Senator Symington is avoiding too close links with Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy is avoiding the South. Ike can't wait to get out. Dick can't wait to get in. And Kennedy can't wait - period." Hatfield concedes that he can't wait either. On these out-of-town trips, he can't wait to get back to Salem to relieve Democratic State Sen Walter Pearson of the title of acting governor in his ab sence from Oregon. French Police Club Rioting Communists Le Havre, France -UP&- Riot police used tear gas and clubs Tuesday night to beat off Com munist longshoremen and steelworkers who tried to pre vent installation of Socialist Mayor Robert Monguillon. At least four policemen were injured in the first major street demonstration by the Communists resulting from last Sunday's nation wide mu nicipal elections. The Communists were fur ious ' because the channel port's new city council used a one-vote margin over the Communists to oust Red May or Rene Cance, who was elect ed in 1956. Control of Le Havre, France's fourth larg est port, had been a major symbol of prestige for the party. The . Reds were especially angry at the two Socialist councilmen who joined the anti-Communist majority to give Monguillon a 19-18 vie tory. Communist tracts called Monguillon a "traitor to his class." irl Scouts Central Point Scouts As their community serv ice project for the year, Sen ior Girl Scouts of Troop 75 have repainted and varnished the Central Point Girl Scout room. The troop also enjoyed a slumber party at the Bruce Stuart home on Beall lane, cooking their dinner and breakfast over a campfire, and sleeping in the hay barn. They also attended the Crater High-Ashland game. Seven girls and two adults successfully completed the standard first aid course re cently given in the Phoenix school. The Senior girls also are planning a ' semi-formal dinner at which time some of the girls will be capped, and some will receive their Senior pins. The troop leader is Mrs. George Ray, and they meet the first and third Thurs days of each month in the Scout Room at Central Point school. Troop 90, sixth grade girls, are working on several profi ciency badges. These include outdoor cook, drawing and painting, and cooking. Those girls completing the cooking badge recently held a slumber party at the Stuart residence and showed . their skills by preparing their dinner that evening. They also visited the Jacksonville Museum. Their leader is Mrs. Bruce Stusrt. The fifth grade girls of Troop, 119 made tray favors and, with a troop from Lin coln school in Medford, pre sented them to the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital. They have also gone roller skating in Ashland with some of the Medford troops. The troop also visited the Living ston home to see some twin and triplet baby lambs being fed on baby bottles. The troop is now working on a play which members hope to present to the PTA in the near future. The leader of Troop 119 is Mrs. Leon Evans. The fourth grade Brownies under the leadership of Mrs. George Ray have been work ing on fly-up requirements and the May Festival dances and songs. They gave a valen tine social for their mothers and -entertained with a pro gram. Troop 67 meets on Mon day afternoon in the Girl Scout room. Troop 82, third grade Brownies, are working on May Festival activities, this is a newly organized troop, and meets at the home of the leader, Mrs. DeBerry, on Tuesday afternoons. Footlighters Have Good Audience at First Performance A 19-inch rainfall was re corded within 15 hours on the Indian ocean's Seychelles island. For a change, Fotolighters had a good audience for an opening night. For some rea son or the other, local theater fan's seem to shun opening nights, but when the curtain rose on "The Tender Trap" last night at the Footlighters' theater at the Fairgrounds, the house was three-quarters filled. The audience enjoyed the periormance, too. Max Shul mah is known for his zesty wit and the play which he and Robert Paul Smith wrote together is a laugh-getter. At times last night the uproar from the audience drowned cut the next lew lines from the stage. "The Tender Trap" might be called a domestic comedy. The plot is all about young and good-looking New York females with a yen to get married, and "how one at length "traps" an eligible bachelor whe has been hav ing great fun playing the field. Seductive looking women run in and out of his apart ment at all times, there is much light-hearted love-making, and a lot of fast talk, particularly from the bache lor's friend, happily married but a little fed up at the mo ment wich his kids with tween the second and third acts each evening of the play's runs. Playgoers enjoy this interlude, and last eve ning's talk brought out the fact that the large opening MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, March 18, 1959 3 night audience was due part ly to the efforts of Lions club members who took over part of the task of ticket-selling. "The Tender Trap" will be given nightly tnrough Satur day; curtain time is 8:30 pjn. -O.S. Contest Winners Listed by Store Mrs. Virginia Wait, 220 Vancouver ave., Medford, won first prize in a recent mer chandise contest sponsored by Acme Hardware, Tony Manno, owner of the store, has an nounced. Other winners were Mrs. Elva Adams, route 2, box 48A, Jacksonville, second; Mrs. Ken F. MacDonald, 1917 Ore gon ave., Medford, third; Mrs. Fred Milledge, 3712 South Pa cific highway, Medford, fourth; and David W. Big ham, 25 Bigham rd., Central Point, fifth. Manno said there were more than 5,000 entries in the contest, which was conducted in connection with the store's recent anniversary celebration. braces on their teeth and a wife who wants wall-to-wall corpeting in every room, in cluding the Oath. At one pont the husband remarks morosely that his wife is "the typical American housewife a monster." Picks Women Director Frank Buchter picked the women for the cast with an eye for pulchri tude as well as acting abil ity. Shirley Tucker plays Poppie Matson, who insists on cleaning the bachelor's apartment; Shirlie Butterfield is Jessica Collins, "the real neat tomato" who convenient ly lives upstairs and whose charms include a honeyed southern accent; Shirley Bu dreau is Sylvia Crewes, a "real lady," and Audrey Reiss is Julie Gillis, "the girl with the 55-year plan." Charley Reader, the bach- elor, is played by Charles Tucker and his married friend, Joe .McCall, is por trayed by Robbie Robbins. Attacks Role .Tucker, who tends to over act, attacks this role with such enthusiasm that at one point the audience feared the davenport on which he threw himself would fall apart from the force. Robbins turns in a smooth, relaxed performance as the husband. This actor's supporting roles have been well done; perhaps Director Frank Buchter could turn up a play in which Robbins would have an opportunity to do the lead. 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