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Back Stairs: By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI Whit House Reporter Washington - (UPD - Back stairs at the White House: Many people remarked last week about the youthful, ef fervescent appearance of Mrs. Eisenhower when she went out for the first time since her long siege with a cold and a succession of sort throats. She turned up at two rather large social affairs in a gay, bantering mood and looked quite unlike one who had been ill recently. The reason behind this appearance seem ed to be that while she was fighting her cold, she "got a complete rest for about three weeks. If the President wants to Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE THE VICE-PRESIDENCY, Washington - There are few better routes to becoming president, say, of an insurance company than by first becom ing its vice-president. But one of the best possible ways of killing off an aspi rant for President of the rj" United States .j! IS LVJ 1dm iviiha- i ly of him for 1 the Vice-Pres- t: idencv. Seri- r' ous candidates for the top place, must snrinK itora all such pro- nncale a frnm "whS the kiss of death. In business, if you don't want a man for the very highest job, you see to it that he doesn't reach the second-highest. But in politics, you often try to stop him for : the top job precisely by say ing how good he would be for the second job. This is what is happening to the present front-runner for the 1960 Democratic Presiden tial nomination. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. And the still-hesitant challen ger of Vice-President Richard Nixon for the GOP nomina tion. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, is coming in for the same treatment. ROCKEFELLER, who day by day is looking more savvy as a politician, has al ready spurned this dubious sort of affection at every op portunity. There is no doubt he means it. There is only the smallest doubt that he will continue to mean it. After all, the governorship of vast New York is historically a great springboard to the Presidency. And if Nixon and not Rocke feller should be nominated for President next year and Nixon should lose the election, the biggest man left in the GOP by any measure would then be Nelson Rockefeller, pro vided he had not been with Nixon on the defeated ticket. So Rockefeller, of all poli ticians, can most afford to wait. Kennedy's people, too, have just made strong fresh dis claimers of any willingness on his part to take second place. This, too, is no doubt meant to a point. But the situation here is far different from that of Rockefeller. And it would Medford Shopping Center GRAND Wry A f9 ? I renzES GALORE! JENNINGS PIERCE k Master PRIZES 3 grand ranzB FOR ADULTS 1 960 WeitinShous TV - Otarian "Lirtener" Hearing Glasses CHILDREN 26" English Racer Bike DRAWING SATURDAY, NOV, 7. 3:00 P.M. Nothing to Buy Not Necessary to Be Present te Win COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. Medford Shopping Center Phone SP 2-9990 Casual Shopping with Convenient Parking Mamie Out in Gay Mood get a complete rest, the Navy stands ready and willing to help. The Navy would like to entice the President aboard a cruiser for a leisurely voy age In southern waters off the lower east coast of Florida. There are still a few hun dred veteran residents of the nation's capital who are stick lers about a form of social courtesy which is disappear ing noticeably with each pass ing year. This is the custom of leaving visiting cards at the White House. The 1959 "Social List of Washington" still reports quite primly, "It is considered proper that all officials make a courtesy call once a year upon the President and his be completely unrealistic to suppose that Kennedy would under no conceivable circum stances accept the Vice-Presidency. , . THE Senate is historically a very poor launching pad for Presidential rockets. If for no other reason, this is so because a Senator must make a lot of enemies all over the country by voting week by week on hot national and international issues. A gov ernor can usually limit his enemy -making to his own state. Moreover, Kennedy has in vested so much of his hopes in his early-starting thrust for the Presidency that the Vice Presidency might appeal in certain eventualities - always provided he respected the top nominee. To leave next year's Demo cratic convention with no nomination at all would be for him an incomparably harder thing than for Rocke feller. For Kennedy could then only return sad and chastened to that place of a hundred prima donnas, the Senate. A governor would still be the only frog, big or little, in his own pond. .,. TK ASPIRE to the Presi dency from the forum of the Senate always- costs a member something, not least the lively envy of his col leagues. To aspire and fail is worse yet. For in that case a man must patientlv Dick ud not simply from where he left off but actually from a con siderable distance back of where he left off. Thus, a confident estimate of the present odds is this: They are perhaps 20 to 1 against Nelson Rockefeller's winding up as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. They are at least even on Ken nedy's doing so for the Demo cratic Vice-Presidential nom ination if two assumptions are accepted: that he himself doesn't get the Presidential nomination, and that whoever does will not be unacceptable to him. Neither of these assump tions is too improbable. Therefore, ' at conservative reckoning there is an excel lent chance that when all the shouting is over, Kennedy will be somewhere on the Democratic ticket. (Copyright 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. comes to MEDFORD You havt known Columbian Optical Co. for years, but hav you known that we have one of the finest hearing aid staffs in the State of Oregon. OPENING 1960 of Ceremonies -fc Drawings Twice Daily SSESftr; & Binoculars for adults Boiler Skates for children accompanied by adult. family." These courtesy calls usually consist of leaving cards at the northwest gate of the White House. The courtesy call is a dying custom, however. Literally thousands of visiting cards were left at the White House annually before World War IL but only a few hundred a year now. Some people don't bother to leave cards at the gate. They mail 'em. Until fairly late in the Franklin D. Roosevelt admin istration, the White House custom was to invite to the larger receptions or afternoon teas virtually all Washington residents who made their proper "card" calls. , But this had to be dropped because the number of card callers got too large. Most of the cards left at the White House today are delivered to the front gate by chauffeurs. Etiquette suggests that personal cards be left at the White House within three days after attending a lunch eon or dinner. The Washington social di rectory clings to eras of form ality after they pass. The 1959 edition says, for example, "It is to be remembered that when attending an evening function at the White House, only formal attire is correct. A tuxedo or dinner gown should never be worn." This is true of state dinners and major receptions, but there are evenings when the Eisenhowers entertain in "black tie", the accepted des ignation for what the social directory calls "tuxedo or din ner gowns." In fact, when the President has a stag dinner he writes his guests in advance to say he'll be wearing black tie, but the guests should feel free to come in business suits if they so desire. And occasionally, some of them do. Regardless of what the President may say in his invi tations, it is better not to take him seriously. A guest who shows up in a busines suit when the President is in black tie cannot help but feel some what uncomfortable. Local Man Gels Suspended Term H. Clifford Troop, 3390 Pot ter st., Medford, received a suspended sentence in district court Friday after pleading guilty to writing a check with insufficient funds in bank. Dstrict Judge Roy Bashaw suspended the sentence pro viding Troop make restitution by Saturday and pay the court costs of $5 by Monday. The case of Ben Alfonso, route 1, box 118, Rogue River, was continued Friday in dis trict court to Nov. 4 on non support charges to allow him to obtain an attorney. He is charged with failure to sup port two girls, 13 and 15 years old. Nagoya, Japan "(UPD - Ten thousand homes were flooded today after the Shinka wa river spilled through em bankments weakened by last September's Typhoon Vera. More than 1,250 residents were evacuated. The typhoon killed 4,000 persons and left 1,500,000 homeless. rvrr WESTINGHOUSE TV BIG HAT. SMALL BOY-Sporting a ten-gallon hat in five gallon size, Clay Irba, 2, shines up his cowboy boots at Idle wild airport in New York before taking off on a jet flight to St. Louis. The tyke was headed home to Keller, Texas, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Irby, after a visit to New York. (UPI Telephoto) FTC Ups Campaign Against Dishonest Commercials on TV Washington - (UPD - The Fed eral Trade Commission has sharply intensified its crack down on dishonest television commercials. At the same time, it called upon the broadcasting indus try to clamp down on bad taste ads that violate no law but "exaggerate, irritate and nauseate." Chairman Earl W. Kintner said the stepped-up drive against false and misleading commercials was - an out growth of public concern over disclosures of rigging on a number of TV quiz shows. Many Complaints Kintner said the FTC had received "many" complaints from the public about certain TV advertising practices "as the result of disclosures in connection with rigged quiz shows." While Kintner emphasized the public's concern over these disclosures, an industry publication, the magazine "Broadcasting," said the quiz scandal has "had little effect on the public's enjoyment and opinion of TV." The magazine published re sults of a nationwide poll con ducted for it by the research firm of Sindlinger & Co., which it said showed: -That while 84.4 per cent of Americans over the age of 12 knew about the quiz inves tigation, only 10.2 per cent of this group said it had af fected their enjoyment of tele vision, and only 18.9 per cent said it had affected their at titude toward the medium. Still Entertainment -That the public has not given up on quiz shows as entertainment because 57.4 per cent of those surveyed said they wanted to see them back on the air. Kintner said the FTC would step up its drive against de ceptive TV commercials by doubling its monitoring staff, by making continuous rather than selective checks on all network commercials and by speeding investigations on n on - network advertising throughout the nation. He said the FTC also would demand all TV network com mercials for special scrutiny during the pre-Christmas Nov. 15-Dec. 15 period.- Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF BUGS BAER, famous humorist, was presented with a silver cup by a charitable organization, and the speaker who made the presentation pulled out all the stops. Baer con vulsed the audience by . beginning his acceptance speech -with "I'm not half as great as the chairman says I am but I'm a whole lot better than he's actually thinking!' . A very tough hombre swaggered into a crowded ealoorii and ' hollored, "Is there a rat here named Dinovin?" Nobody an swered. Again he hollered even louder this time ''Is there a skunk here name Dinovin?" This time a. pale, skinny shrimp stepped forward and announced, 'Tm Dinovin." The tough hombre picked him up, socked him in the jaw, knocked out a tooth or two, flung him acros the bar, and walked out . . . "When the shrimp recovered, he cackled, "Boy, did I fool that big bum! I ain't Dinovin." - Sign in the window of an enterprising Syracuse optometrist: "If you drive an automobile, get an. eye" test. See what you're missing'" 1353, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kiss features Stadia!, Kintner said the FTC was ready to "strike fast and hard" at "illegal huckstering by the irresponsible few." He said the agency already has - been attacking objection able commercials with 53 in vestigations currently under way. Since July, 1958, he said. 18 complaints and 11 desist orders have been issued. Responsibility of Industry Kintner said that just as it is the commission's man date to act against illegal advertising practices, "so must it be the responsibility of the broadcasting industry to clamp down on advertising ex cesses that dance on the edges of the law." He said he referred to "a principal theme of the pub lic's complaints to the com mission about radio and XV the fact that too many com mercials exaggerate, irritate and nauseate." . He said that bad taste "can not be confined to the prod ucts so advertised" but "rubs off on the media that permit it." Policing bad-taste ads is beyond the FTC's authority, he said. Railroad Workers 1 Set Mass Meeting Chicago -UPD- A mass meet ing of railroad workers here Thursday night will answer a "propaganda and advertis ing campaign" of the nation's railroads, the Railroad Labor Executives Association said Monday. . Thousands of workers were expected to attend the meet ing, the association said, to hear talks by George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. The association said the rally would launch a labor cdunterattack against rail in dustry charges of feather bedding and its campaign to seek changes in railroad work rules. An inexpensive attachment for any radio sounds an audi ble warning if . radioactive fallout reaches a dangerous level. fAR 6A March 'Surprised' Quiz Show Rigged Shreveport, La. - (UPD - Hal March, quizmaster on the de funct 864,000 Question, de nied any knowledge of the program being "rigged." He said charges to that effect were "a surprise to me." March said Monday that the producers of his show were "men of great integrity." His comments were prompt ed by statements from the Rev. Charles Jackson of Tulla homa, Tenn.,' who told a con gressional investigating com mittee that both the "864,000 Question" and the "864,000 Challenge" were rigged. Jack son was a contestant on both shows. "I was never involved in the production of the show," March said, "but I don't think it was rigged."' He said that he might be called on soon to appear before the investigators. Nixon Arrives In Los Angeles Los Angeles-flJPD-Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon ar rived in Los Angeles Monday night for a five-day visit bill ed as a rest and reunion sojourn. - He and his wife, Patricia, immediately traveled to near by Arcadia after landing and attended the first reunion of the "Committee of 100" which 14 years ago selected Nixon as a congressional candidate. Nixon admitted at an air port press conference that "anything I do these days" has political significance. But he- said ,his trip was under taken mostly for relaxation. OPPOSES METER MAIDS Montgomery, Ala.-(UPD - Po lice and Fire Commissioner L. B. Sullivan received an un signed plea Monday that he abandon plans to hire women as meter maids. "We are harassed and nag ged enough at home without having women cops harass and nag us in. the downtown area," said the postcard. It was signed "A Friend." U.N. BARS OPEN United Nations, N.Y.-(DPD-The . only public bars . open during voting hours on this election day in New York were at the United Nations. The U.N. is an extraterritorial enclave in which national and state laws do not apply. . ALL-WW 6-PASSENGER COUNTRY SEDAN What a year to go Ford! Why not own the latest version of the world's most wanted wagon? Or perhaps you d like the new, beautifully propor tioned Galaxie below ... an economy-minded Fairlane ... or a big-talue Fairlane 500. Maybe you'd like the brand-new Starliner at right or a sleek new Sunliner convertible. ALL-NEW GALAXTE TOWN VICTORIA Tbf fabuUas TanioVbirc, the world's most wonted cor is tnttr .lliun svftf. Every detorl soys it s the slrtmote luxury car. Performance is perfection. Don't wait another second to see the car all America's been waiting for! The New-size Ford, the Falcon, lives np to your dreams of low price. ..ease of upkeep. ..and handling ease. Made in America by American Labor. And it's lovely to look at! FOR THI Shag-bark Hickory Tree Fighting Losing Battle Any sensible person be moans the fact that a species of wildlife is passing from the earthly scene into the lim bo of things that once exist ed. Total oblivion is a sad thing.. Many of us fail to real ize that the "point of no re turn" can be or already is be ing rapidly arrived at by many other things aside from birds, mammals and reptiles. Some things we once consid ered inexhaustible are also on the list. One of these, already nearly gone from the Ameri can scene, is a tree that must recall many pleasant memor ies for a great number of Americans. This grand old tree that seems to be fighting a losing battle against progress is the old shag-bark hickory. At one time this tree was plentiful in an area , comprising over a million square miles. Today its territory as well as its numbers has declined to the point where another few years could mark its final extinc tion. 120 Feet High The shark-barg, largest of the true hickories with the gray shaggy bark, often at tains a height of 120 feet. It bears profusely, white flat tened and angular nuts, each contained in a thick fleshy husk, that separates into sev eral sections when it dries. The wood of the tree, tough, s t r on g - and, exceedingly springy, was much used as handles for tools that had to withstand great pressures. Bows made from hickory were capable of throwing an arrow great distances. . During the summers the nuts formed. Squirrels and small boys, and boys not so small, watched the hickory trees with envious eyes. All were waiting for the early frosts of fall to loosen the nuts from the top -most branches, when they rattled down hitting one limb after another until they at last came to rest on the leaf-strewn ground. Then the race began. Squirrel and ' man competed with one another for the har vest of nuts. The weather helped . man the most. ' The frost loosened the nuts and Immediate Delivery on New 1960 Fords --mmhw Calar Town Sane ssegaaeuiii ' " ' STARLWE . . - ' - 1 V tummmmmml"'"''''"'" J (fanw Country Salai ' DEAL OF YOUR LIFE (RATER LAKE MOTORS Main and Fir Streets Medford Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins the wind shook them com pletely loose. If the wind didn't cooperate, throwing a stick would loosen the high hanging fruit. Delicious Flavor The farm boy and the city family who came to the coun try to gather the hickory nuts from the shag-bark, dreamed of the delicious flavor of hickory-nut cake or the tasty ker nels when the winter wind was cold outside. And winter followed closely on the heels of the falling hickory nuts. The squirrels looked forward to winter food. They stored the harvest behind loose pieces of bark or in some nearby crevice. The small boy was wise to the way of the squirrel too. He searched tt. rough bark and creyice, finding the store and taking the nuts for himself. - By the time the cold winds of winter whistled through the bare branches, the last nut had disappeared; another fall had come, another winter approached. That small boy, grown now to adulthood, can not help but regret the pass ing of the shag-bark hickory. His children will probably never experience the thrill that came every fall when the shag-bark hickory-nuts were rattling from the tall tree with the gray shaggy bark. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) MISSILE SITE READIED Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD -Launching facilities for one of the nation's newest ballis tic missiles, . the 700-mile range Pershing, will be com pleted, here within the next few weeks. The two-stage Pershing is a solid-fuel rocket.. John R. Watson, M.D. Announces the Opening of Off ices at Suite 4, Medical Dental Building 832 East Main Street, Medford Practice Limited to Obstetrics and Gynecology Office "Phone SPring 2-4464 After Hours, SPring 2-7740 NOW WE FORD DEALERS HAVE CARS OF EVERY SIZE. EVERY PRICE RANGE . . . FROM ANY POINT OF VIEW-FR0M EVERY POINT OF VALUE THE FINEST F0R0S OF A LIFETIME From any point of view yon've never seen ears so new. Our 60 Fords represent the most complete and wonderful change a year has ever brought. Beneath that beauty you'll find new people-room new" comfort new visibility and a wide choice of superior power, in Ford's finest tradition. Come see f-1 for yourself. ALL-REV MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1959 " Unemployment Hearing Conducted Portland-flJPD-Sen. Pat Mc Namara (D-Mich.) conducted a one-day hearing into the Oregon . unemployment situa tion today in the chambers of U.S. District Judge Gus Solo mon. Monday night McNamara predicted that proponents of the new labor law, which he described as "too harsh in some respects," will seek more legislation to restrict la bor at the next Congress. McNamara came to Oregon at the request of Oregon Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard Neuberger as a "close person al friend" and praised Morse, saying Morse is "pro people . . . and when he is pro peo ple, he is pro labor." The Michigan senator is a former official of the Steam fitters Union. Onion Growers to Consider Label ' A new label being consid ered by the Rogue Valley Onion Growers will be ap proved during a growers meeting at 8 o'clock Tuesday night in the county agent's office, according to Don Berry, county extension agent. Growers also will discuss grades and standards of onions to be marketed under the new label. Marketing conditions will be reviewed. BOTTLED UP FEELINGS San. Francisco-(UPD James Ralph Shaw, 51, was released Monday ' when understanding authorities dropped charges that he attempted to hold up a bank. The authorities de cided Shaw was too drunk to realize what he was doing Friday when he entered a Bank of America branchy and hammered on the teller's counter with a wine bottle. Here's your .'Ford Dealer's line-up for '60 FartaH Cfce Sane fwfftfj Tow SodM fatam 900 CM Sa PuiauM Comny sodu FORD FALCON r.o.A,r. 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