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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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