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
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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
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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.
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'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
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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
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