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I 2 r V I' 1 Ike Gets Laugh from Congress Ik r i By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent , Washington President Eis enhower isn't noted for being a witty performer, but he drew a good fjrnh Soiid laugh , f ro m the heavy major- j ity of Demo crats last week during his State-of-the - Union message when h e observed A- Robe smith wryiy mat no other President had ever worked for so many years with a Congress controlled by the opposition party. There was an element of tribute in this laughter, for only a politician can appreci ate the tough job of working under such a handicap. The handicap has been mutual for the Republicans, the han dicap of not controlling Con gress; for the Democrats, the handicap of not controlling the White House along with Congress. But once the laughter had died down, the Democrats went back to their offices and composed ringing phrases with which to beat the Presi dent over the head and shoul ders. In the Oregon delegation, it was the lady member who came up with the most biting criticism - "a masterful com bination of Roosevelt-Truman phrases and McKinley-Eisen-hower meanings." said Rep. Edith Green of Portland. Action, But No Money "This message, like others we have had at the beginning of each Congress, was com posed of equal parts of plati tudes with which no one could possibly take issue, and ree ommendations that we take immediate action in a variety of fields followed immediately by the advice that we not spend any money doing it," added Mrs. Green. She criticized lack of men tion of ways to close tax loop holes, his opposition to fed eral funds for school construc tion, lack of indorsement of the Civil Rights Commission plan for federal voting regis trars in Southern states. 'Rep. Walter Norblad. Ore gon's only Republican in Con gress, was alone in praising the speech without qualifica tion as "outstanding'' in its balanced discussion of world and domestic affairs. Norblad Impressed "I was very much impress ed and in thorough accord with his viewpoint that our prospering, industrial West ern allies should assist in sharing our burden of eco nomic assistance to underde veloped countries of the word," said Norbad. "We have too long been carrying the load when others whom we have heretofore helped should be partners in this un-dertaking-they can well af ford it." Sen. Richard L. Neuberger called it "one of the best" Eisenhower has ever deliv ered, but he found fault with the President's renunciation of federal funds for school aid. Wall Street Chatter New York-(UPD-The tenden cy is always to expect a con tinuation of what has been-a bull market to go up, a bear market to go down and a sty mied market to stay in a rut, notes Arthur Weisenberger & Co. But the obvious should al ways be suspect, the firm cau tions. "Patience and prudence are two of the more reward ing virtues of the successful long-term investor . . ." The investor who does the right thing at the right time, who is successful in buying in low markets and selling in high markets is always in the minority, because it is the selling of the majority that makes a market low and the buying of the majority that registers the high, the firm points out. Spear & Staff would main tain a fairly well-invested po sition in strong stocks but would exercise for the time being a moderate degree of caution regarding the highly volatile situations. Prentice Hall says it's time for most stock prices to take a breather while earnings and dividends catch up. "At this juncture, the downside risk seems notably larger than the upside potential. The reality of tighter money is now fully a match for the threat of more inflation." "Without adequate educa tion how can we cope with Russian threats in the field of science and research?" Neu berger asked- .On the farm problem, he said the president "diagnosed the disease, but where is his remedy?" Neu berger indorsed the idea of balancing the budget but said "we must have the political courage necessary to meet our national needs." Punchlines Flubbed Rep. Charles O. Porter found the whole address "a tired performance" because it lacked the "ring of emphasis and conviction." He thought Eisenhower's reading of the speech revealed an unfamil iarity with many phrases, with the result that he "flubbed his punchlines." "He talks about mortgag ing our future," observed Por ter, "but what about educa tion? Our children are going to have a future that is mort gaged if they don't have ade quate education." Rep. Al Ullman called the speech "good on foreign po ky, acceptable on civil rights, hedged on our defense and space effort and completely inadequate on such critical domestic problems as infla tion and tight money, agricul ture, education, old age se curity and resource develop ment." "On two critical issues, ag riculture and the money squeeze, the President clearly indicated that the Republican position is a continuation of the same disastrous policies of tighter money, higher in terest rates, and the further scuttling of the farm pro gram." Sen. Wayne Morse volun teered no comment on the big speech, only offered a word of praise for Eisenhower's plan to visit South America next month, which Morse said will symbolize teamwork in the western hemisphere. ' 0 TOMMY'S WORLD IS ALL UPSIDE DOWN... Or maybe it's just the world that looks that way . . . the world that forgets that polio is still a terrifyingcripplec. Tommy Davey was stricken with paralytic polio vihea he was 14 months old. That was over four years ago. Anns, legs, chest muscles, all paralyzed. His earliest memory is the iron lung and the world seen through a mirror. What he sees is the white, hushed, institutional world of the hospital. But here he seems to be looking at you at me at all of us. He seems to be reminding us that polio is a costly crippler stall. Tommy is one of 50,000 polio patients receiving March of Dimes aid. Your help in the past literally kept him alive. Your help also enabled scientists to develop weapons against polio, like the Salk vaccine and advanced rehabilitation techniques. Your contribution to the NEW March of Dimes in 1960 offers new hope to polio victims. For sufferers like Tommy your help can make the world right side up again. DRINKER ROBS MOTHER New York - (UPD - Police said John Cornell, 24, sipped a few beers in a bar Sunday, then grabbed a butcher knife and forced the barmaid to hand over $128. The barmaid was his mother, Mrs. Cath erine Cornell. Hitler Youth Lives on Under Name of 'Youth Movement' Bonn - (UPD - The Hitler Youth may have changed its name, but it still lives on. Today, it is known as the "National German Youth Movement." It is composed of seven of Germany's 1 argest Fascist youth groups. Its textbook is Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Mem bers dress in Hitler Youth- type gray or brown shirts. black breeches, Sam Browne belts and carry hunting knives. Despite the change of name, the youth movement has ex actly the same ideals and aims as did the Hitler Youth. One of the movement's prin ciples is, "our greatest honor is loyalty to our Fatherland which extends from the river Meuse which runs through France, Belgium and Holland to the river Memel in Lithu ania." This is the territory glori fied in the forbidden first stanza of Germany's national anthem, "Deutschland Ueber Alles." Membership Questioned The Bonn government has recognized the youth move ment for what it is. The gov ernment, however, claims there are only 2,300 members in the nation's 15 to 18 Fascist youth movements. Police and security officials maintain this number is near er 30,000. The seven largest organi zations merged June 17, in a meeting of their leaders in a tavern in the Taunus Hills near Frankfurt. One of the principles sworn to at that meeting was: "The Allied powers of the last world war who destroyed the German Reich cannot be considered as friendly pow ers, but foreign forces whose aims are in direct opposition to the interests of the German people." The youth movement lead ers all have either Nazi or Communist records. Former War Criminal One of them, Alfred Zitz- mann, was convicted by an American military court for melt that cold-all-over feeling with STANDARD HEATING OILS a bomb plot on one of the Nuernberg war crimes trials. During the war, he was a high-ranking S.S. member. Another, Guenther Hessler, 37, was a leading Hitler Youth member and an S.S. guard. Raoul Nahrath, 55, heads the "Viking Youth" section of the movement. He was a former functionary in the Nazi party and today is close lv connected with the radical right German Reich Party, the party the Bonn govern ment is considering banning. Reds Step In The Communists are also making good use of 'the Fas cist youth groups. A few years ago, the East German Com munist party sent Hans Schultz, one of its leading functionaries, to head the West German "National Youth Society." The society is another affiliate of the Na tional German Youth Move ment. Movement meetings are highlighted by the singing of Nazi songs. The movement also issues newssheets which contain violent anti-Semitic articles. Most of the movement mem bers are comparitively young between 17 and 20 years old but some of the "youths" are in their thirties. Police believe the Fascist youth groups may be behind many of Germany's recent anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi outrages. BRIDGE BUILDER DIES Newport News, Va.-(UPD-Grover Cleveland Denny, 67, who supervised the building of the foundation for the world's longest suspension bridge, the Mackinac bridge in Michigan, died Saturday. Kennedy Loses Boyish Look; Barber Silent MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1960 3 Medford Records Driest Year on Record in 1959 The year 1959 was Med- ford's driest year on record, Bob Church, U.S. weather bu reau meteorologist, told the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce roundtable lunch eon at the Jackson hotel Monday. Only 10.42 inches of preci pitation were recorded in the calendar year by the weather station at the city airport. This goes under the previous record low of 11.46 inches set in 1949. The wettest year on record was 1956, when 34.66 were recorded, Church said. Rec ords go back to 1911. According to weather bu reau records, the 1959 total is 7.73 inches less than the normal yearly precipitation figure of 18.15. Wettest Month February was the wettest month in 1959 with 2.78 inches of rain, and July was the driest month when not even a trace was recorded. Church led an impromptu question and answer discus sion on weather. He substi tuted as speaker at the round- table for Kenneth C. Kerr, who was originally scheduled to speak on a new kind of reclining dental chair cushion that his company manufac tures in Medford. Church also discounted the possibility that atomic blasts have much effect on weather. Relation to Blasts In response to a question wondering if the recent atom ic blasts had anything to do with the unstable weather conditions that have prevail ed in the U.S. the past few years. Church said that the weather bureau has found nothing to indicate that atom ic blasts have anything more than a purely local effect on weather. An atomic blast tends to create a low pressure area in the immediate area of the blast, he said, but this is rapidly filled in by the sur rounding pressure so that any effect is merely temporary. In the same connection, he said that there have been no atomic blasts for some time now and the weather has re mained unsettled. 4-H NEWS Whix Kids Phoenix The sixth meet ins of the Phoenix Whiz Knits was held Jan. 6 at the home of the leader, Mrs. Groves. Diane Bolz served the re freshments. Most of the girls are halfway or finished with one of their projects in knit ting this year. The club had 12 members present for the meeting, the most that have attended any meeting so far. A new mem ber is Judy Hemingway. The - next meeting will be Jan. 20, when Mural Baker will serve refreshments, it will also be at the Groves residence. ; Linda Cox, Reporter. TRADE-IN CLEARANCE Warm-up quicker because: Standard Heating Oils (1) burn cleaner (2) put out more useable heat (3) keep your furnace working at top efficiency. Added bonus: Your House warmer's helpful tips can stop heat-waste and save money. Call him today. Get the Kwm-all-over feeling! ' FABER FUEL CO. Medford SP 2-4449 VALLEY FUEL CO. Medford SP 3-1576 STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Washington (UPD There is a crop of contenders, for the Democratic presidential nomination. But this is the inside story about one con tender's crop of hair. Sen. John F. Kennedy, who hopes to win the nomination and go on to victory at the polls in November, already has scored at another kind of pole the barber's. Story Cut Short It's a long story cut short, a hair-raising yarn that may be denied as shear nonsense. . There has been a definite change in Kennedy's appear ance in recent weeks. Observ ers noted that no longer does the 42-year-old senator have one of his old trademarks - a shock of hair jutting over his forehead with a somewhat wild mop fluttering on top. Kennedy's shock of hair is gone. It's now combed back and looks somewhat thinner. Older Appearance Insiders said that the de cision to change the Kennedy hair-do was to give the sen ator a more mature, older The decision was not made at a rapid clip. Some sources said it was a top policy de cision by Kennedy's political generals. at a "summit" con ference. The change in appearance is noticeable to nearly all who saw Kennedy "before" and "after." But Kennedy's aides refused to admit there has been a change. Headquarters Mum His campaign headquarters press aide, Pierre Salinger, said "I haven't noticed a thing." He added, "this is not a policy question." The one man who knows most about the secret clip isn't talking. He's Kennedy's barber, who said, "I'm for bidden to give out any infor mation on that." We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central ! 0ur Gold Taf machine are can- t I fully checked, oiled and id- t justed... in good opertUni eon- f dltlon . . . exchaitpabU at fill ? iwthat trice wlthli to dan. 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