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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1959)
Boeing Accused of Trying to 'Influence Washington (DPD Congres sional investigators today ac cused Boeing Airplane com pany, Seattle, of trying to "in fluence'' the public and Con gress in the Bomarc-Nike mis sile controversy. Spokesmen for the big de fense firm countered that "this Is a free country" and they intended "to cover every MAIL TRIBUNE, M4for4, Or. Thursday, August 6, 19S9 Try and -By BENNETT CERF- DID YOU EVER stop to wonder what makes the tires of an automobile squeal when you turn a corner, or start or stop suddenly? It isn't only excessive speed that causes the squeal, insists A. E. Kimberly, chief . engineer of an automobile ' make A Other contributing factors are tread design of the tires, under inflation, your car's front end suspen sion system, wheel align ment, and the type of road surface on which you may be driving. The basic source of squeal, concludes Kim berly, is side slip. When the tire -"slips" sideways over road surfaces, however lit tle, the noise is similar to ' that caused by rubbing two inflated balloons together. Overhead in the lounge of a swanky country club:. "She doesn't believe in marrying for money just divorcing for it" .-.. Sign on a. columnist's desk: "The worst indigestion comes from having to eat your own words. 1359, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Balladier Charms Group With Variety of Songs Ashland-A gentleman min strel, with yellow necktie and ' golden voice, .has come to town. He is Richard Dyer-Bennet, whose first appearance yes terday afternoon charmed a small but enthusiastic audi- enec at the Varsity theater here. - He was to sing again at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Varsity, with a final appear ance scheduled tomorrow. The world-famous trouba- dor's songs span the spectrum of feeling. Some are gay, otn eri sad. Some whimsical, oth ers lusty. Many are shaped by irony. "All tell us of people, and remind us of ourselves. Poetry More Vivid ' XI I 1 1 4iAm poetry all the more vivid for its directness and seeming simplicity. Take . these lines from "The Streets of Laredo," the familiar lament of a dying cowboy which he sang yester day: "Put bunches of roses all over my coffin, Roses to soften the clods as they fall." Or in a lighter vein, this line from an upstate New York lumberjack's song: r "When I'm in the money the Devil's in me." Binet plans to present a different program each day. His songs are in three groups: those from the British Isles, those from Europe and those from America The European songs he either sings in Eng lish or paraphrases in English before singing in another tongue. ' Skillful Accompaniment Bennet stands out from the distended ranks of contempo rary folk singers both by his voice, finely tempered by years of discipline and devel opment, and by his equally skillful guitar accompani ment. He sings with precision and remarkable clarity. One catch es every word and nuance of the song. Yet, his singing is far from austere except as the occa sion demands it. In the sea clyntey "Haul Away Joe," his voice yesterday shaped the notes in crescents- like the wings of gliding gulls. And in his delightful encbre beginning, "Little pigs lie in the best of straw," he oinked, grunted and whistled in the best tradition of barnyard bal ladry. x x uiii nis optfiii&u guitar, fashioned two years ago by a young Puerto Rican craftsman in New York City, Bennet summons not only resonant chords and delicate filigree but such striking effects as church bells, in "No, John, No," and the cavalier rhythms in "The British Light Dra goons.' Bids Opened for The Dalies Dam Work Portland (UPD Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp, Portland, was low of two bidders at $13,351 for constructing fenc ing and gates and installing screening on designated hand rails and gates at The Dalles dam, the Portland District Corps of Engineers said to day. The government estimate was $13,092. The work, must be completed by Sept. 18. Public, Congress place we can cover when we have a story to tell." The exchange came during hearings by a House armed services subcommittee inves tigating possible influence peddling by retired .military officers on defense contracts. Subcommittee members ob jected especially to a full-page n e w s p a p e r advertisement which appeared here May 27 at the height of a congression al fight over the merits of the Stop Me Guitar Solos He also introduced his Eu ropean songs yesterday with two guitar solos. , Bennet said after his ap pearance yesterday that he is considering a tour of the So viet Union in the next year or two. He is managed by Sol Hurok, the remarkable ' im presario who has contributed so much already to U. S.-Sovi-et cultural exchange through such presentations in this country as the Russian Moi seyev and Bolshoi ballet com panies. Certainly Richard Dyer Bennet's appearance in. Ash land, in conjunction with the Oregon Shakespearean Festi val, provides us with an ex- cetpional opportunity .-E.W. Celler Says House Will Approve His Civil - Rights Bill Washington - (CPU - Chair man Emanuel Celler (D-N. Y.) predicted today that the House would approve his House Judiciary Committee's five-point "moderate" civil rights bill this year. He made no forecast about the Senate Backers of the measure feared that there, might not be time to push the bill through both the House and Senate before Congress ad journs, probably within a month. A key factor in the race with time is the House Rules committee, which must give its nod before the House can consider the legislation. The committee is headed by Rep. Howard K. Smith (D-Va.), a civil rights foe, and is dom inated by conservatives. Celller promised to use a parliamentary maneuver to try to pry the measures out of the rules committee if the group blocked the bill. - Other congressional news: Spending: The House ap proved a compromise spend ing bill providing $2,683,029,- 000 for the nation s atomic energy programs in the cur rent fiscal year. The bill, which now goes to the Sen ate, contains $35,686,000 less than President .Eisenhower requested. Aged: A labor spokesman told a Senate labor subcom mittee that if the social se curity program is not liber alized, the Kremlin will be able to make propaganda gains from "deprivation and want" suffered by many old people in this country. Rich ard T. Leonard, aii assistant to President Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers, urged approval of a bill to include hospitall, surgical and nursing coverage under the Social Security Act. " RickOTer: Vice Adm. Hy man G. Rickover reports to the Senate-House Atomic Committee on Russian nuc lear projects he saw during his tour of the Soviet Union with Vice President M. Nixon. Rickover, who devel oped the atomic submarine. will give the appraisal of two air defense missiles. ", The ad was, given security clearance by the defense de partment. Deliberate Effort Chairman F. Edward- He bert (D-La.) called the ad "ap parently a deliberate effort by Boeing to sell Bomarc." Boeing officials, including Senior Vice President Well wool E. Beall, Personnel Di rector Fred G.. Huleen and Public Relations Chief Harold H. Mansfield,' insisted it was not that at all. Mansfield said the adver tisement, part of a planned series, was published to offset a "concerted campaign of mis information" about the Bo marc. But he readily conceded it was designed to encourage fair consideration for the Boe ing-manufactured rocket. "It was to provide informa tion we felt .was needed so that the military decision would be based on knowledge rather than on- bias," he said Mansfield said the ad was cleared with the defense de partment but only on its "se curity" aspects. ' - Rep. Leon H. Gavin (R-Pa.) said he believed it was pub lished "to influence the peo ple and members of Congress" on the missile controversy. Mansfield said he couldn't see why Gavin was "waving the ad around in front of the committee" when Nike came out with a similar ad in the same newspaper-the Washing ton Post and Times Herald- only a week before. Cites Erroneous Information Beall told the subcommittee that many of the most impor tant defense decisions are not made by the military. "They are made in the Congress of the United States," he said. To that end, Mansfield add ed, Boeing wanted to make sure the public and Congress had the "proper information." He said even congressmen were publicizing "erroneous" facts about the Bomarc. Nam ed specifically was Rep. Wil liam E. Minshall (R-Ohio). Mansfield said Minshall made a public statement that a Momarc defense set-up would cost "1,000 times as much as Nike." "The truth is." Mansfield said, "Bomarc provides twice the defense for half the money. He said pressure on behalf of the Nike became so intense it became essential for Boeing to place the ads. Most of the troube, he said, came from "partisans on be half of the Army." Russian nuclear energy prog ress behind closed doors. Contracts: A House armed services subcommittee ques tioned Boeing Airplane com pany officials on whether they tried improperly to in fluence Congress and the Defense Department' to buy their Bomarc, anti-aircraft missile. Rep. Leon .B. Gavin (R-Pa.), a subcommittee mem ber, has charged that the company overstepped the bound of propriety in urging government acceptance of" the Air Force weapon. Highways: The House Pub lic Works Committee met in private to decide what to 'do about a Ways & Means Com mittee plan to float a one billion dollar bond issue and stretch out construction to meet the financial crisis fac ing the interstate superhigh way system. Some members felt the public works group should draft a counter-proposal for a less drastic con struction slow-down and a hike in the federal gasoline tax of. possiblly one cent a gallon. Shady Cove Blaze Burns Chicken Shed Shady Cove-Prompt action by fire fighters Wednesday afternoon controlled a fire in a chicken house -and imple ment shed at Oregon Trails ranch on Highway 62 about eight miles from Trail on the Rogue river. .' , Flames which destroyed the chicken house and partially damaged the sher were extin guished by state department of forestry crews before thev could spread to a large barn near the highway. 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