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Soil Conservation Committee to Meet Salem - (UPD - The Oregon Soil Conservation committee will meet here Friday, Jan. 15 to discuss a number of topics including measures to be con sidered for the 1961 Legisla ture. The committee is expected to hire an administrative as sistant, as authorized by the 1959 Legislature and act on a petition by land owners of Umatilla county for expansion of the South Umatilla Soil Conservation district. Space Yarn Versatile Chemstrand ny lon yarns now have air-spaces or bulk built in to give fabrics greater luxury and dimension. MEDFORD Tribune Affable Senator Ken Listen That Aspirati nedy Tells All Who ons Are Presidential By YVONNE FRANKLIN SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington - Was Senator John F. Kennedy's formal launching of his presidential campaign a quivering mo ment of history, or just an other exercise in futility? The trim candidate in the non-Ivy league blue pin stripe knew his craft may capsize of the rocky shoals of the re- IMP ST Immediate Delivery! For Sawdust Burners PHONE SP 3-6297 McGINTY FUEL COMPANY liglous Issue, but he exuded confidence that his bold voy age would succeed. He told any who doubted that his intentions were pure ly presidential. He patiently repeated to reporters who nitpicked his sentences, that he would not accept the vice presidential nomination. Should the more glittering prize elude him, he will stay in the Senate. "All a vice president does is preside over the Senate, and keep a watchful eye on the President's health," he grinned lugubriously, taking a subtle swipe at Vice Presi dent Nixon. Warning lo Leaders While it wasn't evident to this reporter, James Reston of the New York Times said Kennedy's adamant stand on the vice presidency was a waning to Democratic party leaders that they weren't go ing to use him. In other words, they can't have it both ways: refuse him the presi dential nomination because he is a Catholic, yet give him the vice presidential nomina tion to woo Catholic votes. The huge senate caucus room was a mass of elbow pushing humanity. There wasn't enough seats for the 140 reporters; many were forced to stand around the marble-walled edges of the room amidst the Corinthian columns. The candidate stood in the center, facing the full battery of four network TV cameras. The uninvited pub lic and a sizeable cheering section . of Kennedy admirers took seats at the rear. The most beautiful spec tator sat in the second row, her demeanor quiet but in tense. She watched the hand home candidate with rapt concentration, her lips some times parted in a gentle smile. She was elegant in a black wool sheath, whose se verity was softened by a Christmas red coat. The syn dicated columnist, Joe Alsop, engaged her in conversation. As the gathering broke up, a blustery citizen strode up to her and asked who she was. He received a smile as she softly told him she was "Mrs. John Kennedy." "Oh, er well, uh, good luck," he said, backing off onto -my toe. Pictures of Mrs. Kennedy The ubiquitous table-jumping photographers then hus tled Mrs. Kennedy to the front of the room for pictures with the candidate. "Just one more . . . put your arm around her . . . come on now, smile." The Kennedys were composed and cooperative under this prodding. As one shaggy reporter said admir ingly, "She'll be responsible for many a vote, man." When most of the press and public had departed, Ken nedy lounged against a press table, his leathery brown face wreathed in smiles, and swapped easy banter with lingering members of the press. He is affable, candid and extremely articulate. One newsman joshed him about giving up a Caribbean vacation to endure the tough presidential grind. When an other quipped "This man doesn't play golf, he reads books," Kennedy readily con ceded that he relished his sunny vacation. "You can read a lot of books lying on the sands of Jamaica," he said. Books Not Revealed He wouldn't be tricked into revealing his reading prefer ence when someone asked him whether the books he read on the beach were paper back westerns. But many a newsman knows his. proclivi ty for serious reading, having caught him in airport waiting rooms, perusing the Foreign Affairs Quarterly .and other erudite publications. Whether this was an his toric or futile start, no one could know, but the candidate and the crowd joined in laughter when a reporter con cluded the event with a puck ish "Thank you, Mr. Presi dent," the traditional phrase for ending a presidential news conference. Salem (UPD Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill has granted an increase of $11,600 in gross revenue to Central Heating company, Eugene. OUTDOOR BOWLING ALLEY-Despite chill weather, a bowler makes his mark on this granite bowling alley just outside Barre, Vt. The Barre Granite Association says this lane has withstood temperatures ranging from 40 degrees below zero to 90 degrees above. -(UPI Telephoto) Only Bowling Alley Made of Granite Used in Vermont Barre, Vt. (UPD High in the Green Mountains of Ver mont is the nation's only granite bowling alley - and it's outdoors, too. The use of granite flooring is an experiment, mce than two years old, dramatically demonstrating the granite in dustry's intention of keeping its stone-age product abreast of rocket-age developments. The two highly polished pieces of granite have with- SPECIAL 2 for i SALE W CULTURED H 1 Qjjl fPg NAT,ONW,DE VALUE MONTH I ffl Shop Wards for terrific January Values! Save now on the biggest buys in town! BIG CLEARANCE ON WEARING APPAREL m v a v - Special! 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Officials of the Barre Gran ite Association here in what is generally considered the "Granite Capital of the World" say that the trueness and smoothness of the alley shows that the industry is aware of the part it can play in the Space Age. Can Be Polished Flat For example, only infinitesi mal tolerances are permitted in the flat surfaces used in making templates for rocket construction. And association general manager Milton Lyn- des says granite can be pol ished flat "to be made level within 120-millionth of an inch." Barre granite, acknowledg ed by industry sources and geologists to be of superior quality for hardness, resist ance to staining and fineness of grain, is being bought by many firms involved in the manufacture of jet planes and rockets. On the other hand, a minia ture rocket motor attached to a steel shaft is being used to "jet-pierce" quarry rocks at twice the speed of sound. This widens the choice of quarry sites and the workable varie ties of dimension stone since no rock in nature can with stand the power of this "jet." The device also cuts time and labor costs, important to an industry that's 135 years old. , , Quarrying first began in the Barre area about 1824 and since then some 10,000,000 tons have been taken out of the ground. Of the stone quar ried, 85 per cent has not-been used. This portion is called grout, material unsuitable for monuments plus rejects be cause of flaws and shape. Employs 2500 Persons The five quarries in oper ation today produce more granite than the 72 in exist ence just before the start of the 1900s. Sales were expect ed to exceed $20,000,000 in 1959. The Barre granite industry has an annual payroll of more than $10,000,000 and employs about 2,500 persons. Cutters receive a basic hourly rate of $2.35, quarriers $2.03 and lumpers or common laborers $1.98ii. Monuments still constitute about 80 per cent of the total business. But curbing, steps, building panels and markers made out of granite are being used at an increasing rate. Vermont's Capitol was built of granite in 1838 and was the first major building in the na tion to be so constructed. 117 S. Central - SP 3-7301 Open 9:30 to 5:30-Mondays Till 9 Free Parking Hunter Wanted Ducks, Got Fish ' Council Bluffs la. - C. G. Wilkins swears he went duck hunting and came up with a fish. Wilkins said he was in a blind on a sand bar in the Missouri river and shot at a mallard just as it was light ing among his decoys. He rowed out to collect the duck and heard a splash ing among the decoys. "And there was a three pound catfish flopping around that had been hit with one of the pellets," he said. "I picked him up, too." His son, ' 10-year-old Tom my, vouched for the story. Origin of Leotards The name leotard comes from Jules Leotard, French aerialist who wanted com plete freedom of action and designed the first form-fitting costume. 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