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Backstairs: Plan Revealed for Dinner By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI Whit. House Reporter Washington (DPD Back stairs at the White House: President Eisenhower's re cently revealed plan of hav ing reporters in for dinner and permitting them to pub- lisn nis views on crucial issues of the day is a jour nals uc innovation at the White. House. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman had more social contacts with the news crops of Washington than Eisenhower, but the em- pnasis, here is on the word "social." ' Nof in modern memory has a president invited all of the full-time White House report ers to dinner and deliberately neia lorth on a number of subjects in the knowledge that much of what he said would be relayed to the public. Roosevelt, during his early days in office, had a few re porters to Sunday night sup pers spasmodically, but these were not news-producing ses sions. They were valuable, however, to the reporters in sensing the chief executive's mood. Truman Played Poker During his earlier years in the. White House, Truman played poker with some of the reporters he knew per sonally, or invited them to occasional social affairs at the White House. Here again, they were social and not news producing contacts, but still valuable. . The Roosevelt and Truman semi-social relations with the reporters who covered them seemed to diminish in fre quency toward the end of their terms. Thus, it is some what surprising that the cur rent President does something io improve his relations with $he press and radio and tele Vision during the last 18 months of his term. I On the surface, his explana tion last week was the first lhat the dining table briefing essentially was an experi ment. He also made the point nas ne warned to snow a tourtesy" to the men who cover him regularly and ac company him wherever he goes. ! Another recent example of this "courtesy" was inclusion jof three reporters in a garden party he gave at his Gettys burg farm for members of the ;White House staff. It was the (first time reporters were in- .vited to join other guests in a tour of virtually all of his home except the upstairs bed; rooms. In a way, this was a more radical departure from his us ual reserve than, last Mon day's White House dinner. The Gettysburg house has been Eisenhower's fortress against prying eyes. He must have been more than a little reassured when the three re porters, invited strictly as guests, did not leap into print with a foot by foot word-tour of his home. A President sometimes gets annoyed at reporters for pry ing, or seeming to pry, into areas he regards as purely personal. On occasion, it be comes necessary for someone close to a chief executive to tot up the many, times that newsmen e x p e rienced in White House coverage respect the confidences and the hu man nature of the President. Satellite Launching Planned in August Washington-OT-The United States plans to launch a Pad dlewheel satellite from Cape Canaveral, Fla., about Aug. 7 to test feasibility of using solar power to operate radio equipment aboard space probes to be fired later at the planet Venus. Reliable sources said today that if the Paddlewheel shot is successful that National Aeronautics and Space admin istration, also plans: -To launch a 375 pound payload toward the moon in early October with the hope that it will go into a lunar orbit. -To fire a deep space probe in November into a trajectory Medford Man to Appear on Panel Victor Milnes, 15 North Groveland avenue, president of the Oregon Oil Jobbers as sociation and vice president and general manager of West ern Oil company, Portland and Medford, has been select ed to appear on the panel of speakers for the Intermoun- tain yu jooDer s convenxioa in Payette Lakes, Idaho, next month. - Milnes, who also operates ten Regal - Fortune Service stations in Oregon, will at tend a meeting of Pacific Coast Oil company officials prior to the convention. Mrs. Milnes, will accompany her husband on the trip, returning to Medford Aug. 24. Optometrists Return from 2-Day Seminar Dr. Richard Nelson and Dr. pill Thompson, Medford op tometrists, returned recently Jrom . Forest Grove . where Ihey attended a three-day ieminar on. clinical and ex- f erimental optometry.. The seminar, held at the pacific University College of IDptometry, was highlighted ty lectures and group discus sions on recent developments n vision care. . The annual-educational ses sion is designed to allow op tometrists the Northwest to .give their patients the benefit-of the latest concepts in' Vision care. 15,000 Attend Air Show in Hillsboro Hillsboro, Ore. - (UPD - A crowd estimated at 15,000 at tended the fifth annual Port land Junior Chamber of Com merce air show here Sunday, highlighted by a flight of F104C Starfighters which flew the route of the Old Oregon Trail in slightly more than two hours. The jet flight .was com manded by Lt. Col. Delynn Anderson. The three jets cov ered the 1,800 air mile dis tance . in two hours and 10 minutes. They could have flown faster, Col. Anderson said. , The air show attracted scores of planes, some dating back to near the .beginning of power flight. . ; p J All the Insurance you need for your family In ONE convenient Pay-By-The-MonthPlan Ask us about The Travelers new i. Pay-By-The-Month Premium Budget , Plan for your family. m which would take it to the vicinity of Venus if the planet were in a favorable position. Actually, Venus won't be in shooting distance of the earth again until 1961. Follows Report Disclosure of these plans followed a report in London that U. S. scientists are at Britain's big Jodrell Bank ra dio station for an attempt to put a rocket in orbit around the moon "between Aug. 1 and 10." This report is wrong, it was learned. The Americans are at Jodrell Bank to help track the Paddlewheel satellite. Other major tracking stations for this shot are at Cape Canaver al, Hawaii, and Singapore, with Goldstone in California and the Millstone Hill station in New Hampshire assisting. . NASA had planned to launch the Paddlewheel in an advance of a Venus probe scheduled for last month when the bright planet was in a favorable position. Tech nical difficulties forced post ponement of the Venus shot until 1961, and the Paddle- wheel experiment also was held up. Gets Rescheduled The Paddlewheel satellite. so-caiiea because it carries solar vanes which give it somewhat the appearance of a paddlewheel, has now been rescheduled for Aug. 7. The Paddlewheel satellite will be launched into the flat test orbit yet attempted. If all goes well it will extend about 20,000 miles from the earth at its farthest reach and will come within 150 miles at its closest approach. The satellite will be launch ed by a three-stage rocket con sisting of an Air Force Thor booster with second and third stages developed from the Navy Vanguard rocket. The satellite's elongated or bit will enable it to make re peated samplings of the so- called Van Allen radiation belts around the earth and provide new data on their in tensity and extent. - Salvage Team Finds Sunken Treasure Miami, Fla.-IJPD-A six-man salvage team, flushed with Saturday's success, scoured the ocean bottom off the Flor ida Keys today for more Spanish relics and treasure. The group, operating near Tavernier, Saturday brought up 18 tons of relics from a Spanish galleon sunk in 1733. A chest of gold coins, kegs of silver bars, 2,000 rusty cannon balls and other items were included in the find. Tim Watkins, the expedi tion's, leader would not es timate the value of the find but said it was "certainly one of the more significant" treas ure discoveries of the last de cade. Watkins said he has mark ed about 40 other wrecks in the area for. examination. "Regardless of what others will tell you," Watkins said, nhere is no secret . about treasure hunting. You simply have to .know the ocean bot tom and know how to mark wrecks when you find them." For Details See..., WWilUitpeui, lnsurantill AGEMT vmivts toir f DOli STATU0S. HISUnOR Professional Insurance Protection 220 South Central Medford PHONE SP 2-2677 1 representing THE TRAVELERS, Hartford, Connecticut Service Station Man Once Figure of Sea Barre, Mass.-flJPD-To see him now, manning the pumps at his filling station you'd never think that Basil D. Izzi was once the central figure in a saga of the sea. It happened in 1942, early in World War II, when Izzi, then a 19-year-old sailor, was set adrift along with . four shipmates on a nine-by-eight-foot raft after their boat was torpedoed in the South At lantic. - Izzi was one of three to sur vive the ordeal of 83 days aboard the raft, with only the fish' and birds they could catch for food and only rain water for drink. BACK ON JOB Washington- (DPD -President Eisenhower returned to the White House by helicopter to day after spending a restful weekend with his wife at their Gettysburg, Pa., farm. The world's largest fruit packing shed is located in Pla cerviile, Calif. - . Talent School Staff Completed for Term Talent - Talent public schools will open Sept. 8, ac cording to R. B. Parr, super intendent. Since the approval of con tracts of Don Moore, athletic coach, and Richard Ganna way, instrumental and chorus instructor, the teaching staff has been completed for the coming school year, Parr said. Staff members for the ele mentary grades include Gene Farthing, principal; Richard Thorpe, Virginia Schopf, George Zickefoose, Bill Mearns, George Quinowski, Ruth Dews, Esther Newcomb, Cecile Fifield, Ida Bowman. Annette Fellers, Genevieve Holdridge, Nellie Young, Mary Ann Conger, Richard Reum, Yvonne Mearns and Doris Corry- High school staff includes E. A. Vickel, principal; Ruby Messenger, Mildred Parr, Don Moore, John Kuchler, George Nelson, Mildred Hart and Patrick Lynch.. Some snakes have . been known to live without vfood from one to two years by ab sorbing the fat of their own bodies. College Graduates To Continue Study McMinnville - Continuing i ates have completed graduatel desire for more education be yond the bachelor degree and increasing opportunities for graduate work are emphasiz ed again this year ajt Linfield college ' here where 30 per cent of the June graduating class plans more formal study this fall. Thirty new Linfield gradu- school plans for September, a survey shows. Two others have postponed graduate work briefly and at least 12 have received scholarships, assistantships or fellowships. Record show that a large percentage of Linfield -graduate enroll in graduate schools soon after receiving MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, July 27, 1959 3 their bachelor degrees. In 1958, 24 per cent of that class sought additional education. This class included a Rhodes scholar. A radar antenna 1,000 feet in diameter is Dlanned for completion by early 1961 when Venus will be nearest to the earth. n t? . wmtm mm o no mm Dig bargains! Giant savings! tShop early for best selections! SHOP IN COOL COMFORT TONIGHT TIL 9 viii I - " - .I-, -i i "1; f only 5 down convenient terms Regularly 139.95 . . . 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