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. .
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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."
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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
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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.
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