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.
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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-
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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-
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stood the winter's 40-below-zero
temperatures and the
summer's 90-plus.
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.
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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.
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aerialist who wanted com
plete freedom of action and
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