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Back Stairs: By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI While House Reporter Augusta, Ga (UPD-Backstairs at the White House: Know what President Eisen hower is called over the ground-to-air communications system of the White House? "The Prominent." That's code, see. When the President's plane, the Columbine III, is ap proaching a landing field away from Washington, per sonnel of the Army Signal Corps aboard the aircraft and on the ground are in com munication via portable short wave radios which are about the size of portable typewrit ers. This system permits the ex change of last-minute details between the air-borne party and the advance group on the ground. It also frees the plane crew from having to transmit this type of information when they have their hands full bringing the Columbine in for a landing. Easily Followed The other day here in Au gusta, airport spectators could follow this drama of the air waves quite easily. Onc of the signal corps sets, some times manned by agents of the secret service, was perch ed atop a parked car and the nearby crowd could hear the monotone interchange with the plane. "Angel, this is Spicy," squawked the loudspeaker. "Angel" is the Columbine and "Spicy" was the ground net. The radio traffic dealt at some length with the last-minute addition of an Army gen eral to the welcoming party which would greet Eisenhow er after landing. "The general has just land ed here by military aircraft and will be in the party greet ing the Prominent," said one voice on the radio. "Thank you," said another voice, obviously speaking from "Angel," and adding, "we'll pass this work back to Prom inent immealtely." Crowd Amused Which amused the daylights out of the airport crowd They'd come to the airport to see President Eisenhower land and learned that behind the scenes, he's not referred to as the President, but simply as plan old "The Prominent." Freedom of information note: The President's Augusta National Golf Club simply will not disclose publicly the pre cise number of paid admis sions to the annual Masters Championship tournament. 'As a point of reference, the paid attendance at major league baseball parks is an nounced before the game is over. Reasons for Policy .. Cliff Roberts, moving spirit of the Augusta National along NEW HOLLAND DAY You'll want to be in on every event on our special New Holland Day program! Be sure to come in and see the great new Super Hayliner and the rest of the exciting new 1959 line of New Holland grassland farming machinery dur ing this special observance. We'll show you all the new features of these pace-setting machines and tell you what they can do for YOU. SEE THE LATEST In Grassland Machinery Movies HEAR THE LATEST News About Grasslands ENJOY Friendly Company Prizes, Fun DEMONSTRATION Wednesday, April 15 8:00 p.m. at Medford Store Thursday, April! 6 8:00 p.m. at Grants Pass Store Valley Equipment Co. So. Pacific Highway, Medford, Ph. SP 2-6223 Highway 199, Grants Pass, Ph. GR 6-5841 Name Calling with Bobby Jones, has several reasons for this policy. He says newspaper estimates of the crowds "are invariably high. He and Jones think this adds to the crowd-pulling of the tournament. And Roberts insists that the annual tournament could well use some additional paying guests, even though the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Red China discloses that ah-ti-communist Chinese are fighting beside Tibetan rebels and admits that revolt is still seething in the Himalayan kingdom. Peiping radio claims that the uprising has been crushed in the area of Lhasa, the Tib etan capital, and says Red troops are "now proceeding successfully to put down the armed rebellion in other places." HOW? By shooting down the Tib etan rebels who want only to live their open lives in their own way. It's Hungary all over again. NOBODY can make me be lieve such a system will succeed forever. Communism is so foul that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. THAT'S enough about com munism. Let's turn to a pleasanter subject that is closer home. WITH 13 weeks behind it and another two or three weeks to go, Democratic lead ership in the Oregon legisla ture thinks it may be within sight of its goal. That goal, it is announced, is to balance the budget with NO NEW TAXES or, at worst, with only a small in crease. The joint ways and means committee, Salem dispatches tell us, may announce in an other week a budget close to 300 million dollars. At that figure, the house taxation committee might find it possi ble to recommend that Ore gon's income tax rates stay where they are. LET'S put it this way: Oregon must either spend less or earn more. To earn more, Oregon must bring m new industries m or der to have more to tax more new plants to pay prop erty tax. more new corDora- tions to pay corporation in come tax, more new employ ees to pay taxes on their in comes and property taxes on their homes. There must be YOU'RE INVITED Don't Miss It! via Radio crowds last week were the highest ever, Roberts, who is board chairman of the club, says the Augusta national has parking space for 10,000 cars, yet last week when the re porters estimated the crowds at between 40,000 and 50,000 th parking field was by no means full. - Maybe somebody walked. more to tax, in order to spread the load. If Oregon permits its tax es to get TOO HIGH, it will scare off the new industries Oregon needs. That's about the long and the short of it. T ET'S get still closer home. Let's get down to our own mythical State of Jef ferson. Here' in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California, we started off with gold. From gold, we went to cat tle. From cattle, we went to saw timber. We must take another step. From saw timber and saw mills, we must go to FIBER and fiber industries. Our saw timber was expendable. When it was cut out, the mills mov ed on. That was a TEMPOR ARY economy. When we look ed at our economy in those days, we shivered in our boots and wondered WHAT OF THE FUTURE. FIBER isn't exhaustible. It's a CROP. It can go on and on forever. It is a PERMANENT in dustry. Oregon Man Fails Overboard at Sea Washington-(UPD-An Oregon man has been reported miss ing at sea by the Navy De partment. The Navy said David R. Lauro, 23, fell over board from the submarine Sea Devil about 100 miles west of Midway before dawn Sat urday and disappeared. The submarine was en route from Japan to Pearl Harbor. Lauro was a former star lineman for the Beaverton football team. HAILS HOUSING SPURT Washington-OJPD-Labor Sec retary James P. Mitchell has hailed as "good news" a gov ernment report showing that non-farm housing starts shot up to 295,000 units in the first three months of 1959. The figure tops a record set in 1955. HEAT SETS RECORD Paris-(UPD-Officials said to day that Paris had its hottest April 13 Monday in 80 years. The thermometer rose to 77 degrees. Week's Sewing Buy! if irr'firvit Slimming as a diet! The simple lines, graceful gored skirt are so-o flattering to the larger figure. For breezy days, add smart, scalloped bolero. Tomorrow's pattern: Misses' separates. Printed Pattern 9058: Wom en's Sizes 36,-38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. Size 36 dress takes 4V yards 35-inch fabric; jacket ! 1?8 yards. . Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send Fifty Cents (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUM BER. . . ' r5, 9058 A SIZES 36-43 'Do-It-Yourself Method Set For Upcoming National Census By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)- The Bureau of Census has worked out a "do-it-yourself" method of taking the upcoming na tional census, but it will still need over 1700 employ ees in Oregon to superv i s e and enu m e r ate the count ing of every- a. Robt smith thing from heads to TV sets. This time each household will receive by mail an advance census questionnaire to be filled in in anticipation of the arrival of the census taker. Even though some citizens may ne glect to do it themselves, Cen sus Bureau officials have tested the idea and believe it will be practical. Ideally, the Census taker would simply check over the questionnaire when she calls on each household to see that all questions are answered, then take the questionnaire with her. Average 20 Minutes In 1950, census takers spent an average of 20 minutes at each household. Under this new approach, they expect to cut this time materially. More time will be required later in transferring information from the questionnaires into the enumeration books which are sent on to Census headquar ters for tabulation. Census officials estimated they will need 1600 census takers, or enumerators, to handle this job in the state of Oregon. They will be paid on a piece work basis, earning possibly $12 to $13 for an 8 - hour day. Many will be housewives who want to earn some pin money. The enumerators will be under crew leaders who will earn $350 a month and work for two months. An estimated 100 crew leaders will be need ed in Oregon. Political Plums Four state supervisors and an undetermined number of assistant supervisors will man age the census in Oregon. Su pervisors will earn $500 a month and be needed for five months. Assistants will earn S400 a month for three months. These salaried jobs are con sidered patronage jobs by the Census Bureau, so local Re publican party leaders will have the political plum of STATEMENT ... stock a complete Ine of ings guaranteed mer oot a bring you Uw pnees because unnecessary over,. . k ar0una, fanciest, but if. clean. Come , folks, and actually see what ope-ted store can offer you. Sincerely, j BED DAVENOS & i II MATCHING CHAIR $9999 Jl 9x12 Wool & BRAIDED $ OVALS IMPORTS handing out these jobs. Starting in about October in Oregon, the Census Bureau will need two supervisors, 26 crew leaders and 390 enumer ators to take the agricultural census. The supervisors for the population census will start organizing in December and January, training crew leaders and enumerators in February and March and begin actual census taking next April 1. With this number of work ers, Census officials expect to complete the door - to - door work in two weeks. Enumera tors will tabulate, on the av erage, 1100 persons. By May a preliminary field count of the total national population, expected to be around 180 million, will be complete Cost of taking the census, required by the Constitution every 10 years, is expected to run to $110 million for the 1960 tabulation. On Special Night One night of the enumera tors' census taking will be special. That will be the night design ated throughout the country for them to get a nose count of transients everyone who is footloose or on the move, whether he is staying in 'a hotel or a hobo jungle. This sometimes takes creative effort, as in Chicago in 1950 when a census super visor passed the word that free coffee and doughnuts would be served to all hobos who showed up at a central counting point. Census offi cials estimate there are a cou ple million "men of the road" throughout the country. . The large enumeration books will all be microfilmed, j the film will be sent here to Census headquarters and run through special electronic ma- Labor Party in Oregon Suggested Portland -(UPD-A suggestion that a Labor party be formed was made Monday night at the meeting of the Multnomah County Central Labor Coun cil. William Dickson of Molders Local 139 charged that nei ther the Republican nor the Democratic party had given labor anything. He said that in 25 years half the number of persons now employed would not be needed because of mechanization of industry. Delegates applauded the proposal but took no action on it. Mire BILL SAAduim Owner Viscdse SAVE BIG I Bum Proof 11 N 2-PC. BED SETS II $9995 JM Entrances on both 808 chines which will record in formation on magnetic tape to be fed into Univac ma chines. Four Univacs will do what 10,000 tabulation work ers once did in making the final tally. Cross-Stitch Roses Be first with the newest - slim .modern panels add color and charm to hall, door, any room. - Long - stem single roses in cross - stitch. Use narrow frames; hang them next to each other. Pattern 7287; transfer of two 8 x 21-incb sprays; color chart; key. Send Thirty - five cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st -class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P. O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. Our new 1959 Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue has many lovely designs to order; crocheting, knitting embroid ery, quilts, dolls, weaving. A special gift, in the catalog to keep a child happily, occupied - a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. ig t&. Starting April 15, 9 A.M. Prices slashed to the bone RED HOT VALUES BRAND NAMES If and Ends l ll Merchandise 1 ft CLOSE OUT ti PRICES jff Our Store Is Small - But So's S. Riverside and DUKE HEADS COLLEGE London -(CPU Onppn TCHya-l beth's husband, the duke of Edinburgh, will act as presi dent of the College of Aero nautical and Automobile En gineering in Chelsea for one year starting Nov. 2, it was announced today. 7rM KNp Compare Old Quaker's premium K ' quality and modest prices with other i 'SjPffe- '! fine b'ourbon-you'll quickly see why "- v, it has created such a sensation among nRftHifffi3 alert bourbon buyers. Old Quaker has ! nouRBON N ' proved . . . conclusively ... t LHSJ y jl that you don't have ti be -rTfl rich to enjoy rich whiskey! ' Vr ' ". -rr iiOk Code No. 145B liill B1 iiiiiiiinW Mump code No-l45C mmmmmi wmmv 1 IT MUST BE GOOD. ..OVER 12,500,000 CASES HAVE BEEN SOLD! 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