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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1960)
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Earl had retired a year ago after a distinguished career as an educator at San Jose State college in California, then was asked to go to Brazil as a member of the ICA organiza tion (International Cooperation administration set up under the four-point program for underdeveloped nations). After visiting the ship the next day and luncheon with us at the Commodore's mess, the Campbells practically turn ed their attractive apartment over to us as a headquarters, and graciously became our guides. Artist Beaumont, Capt. John Cadwalader, Comdr. Joe Morgan and I drove with them through the beautiful hotel and apartment-lined Copacabana beach area, then up a narrow winding road to lofty Corcovado (Hunchback moun tain), a jagged peak rising 2,300 feet in the clouds above the sapphire waters of the harbor below. Here is the famous statute of Christ the Redeemer, and here Adlai Stevenson and his party, on their Latin American trip, arrived at the same time to view the fabulous parorama below. At close hand we saw groups of small shanties clinging to the sleep hillsides in the very heart of this great and prosperous city. These were "favelas," which in Portuguese means "little villages," which housed the poor. In a heavy rainstorm, not infrequent in this semi-tropical country, the shacks often tumble down the slopes leaving the squatters homeless. Television in Rio de Janeiro I compares with TV in the Uni ted States several years ago. The three channels in the city use old U.S. films freely, and the experience of seeing Rin Tin Tin with a Portuguese sound track is astonishing. Here again we found South American motorists in a fran tic hurry, and pedestrians are urged to beware. In Rio de Janerio if you are hit by a car you are the one who is sued. As in Buenos Aires, drivers dash here and there with prac tically no lights on after dark. No where could we find out why. The usual Brazilian in Rio, armed with umbrella, de pends upon an old-fashioned "bonge" or "lotacao" (street car or bus) to get around the town. Little Cable Car After visiting . Corcovado and enjoying cocktails and dinner at the Campbells', we rode the little cable car to the top of famous Sugar Loaf late in the evening. The beautiful city and bay lay below in the soft moonlight and a million twinkling lights. The trip to Sugar Loaf is an adventure that can never be forgotten! The next day Arthur Beau mont, Lt. Comdr. Bill Kann heiser, Lt. John Savage and I joined the Campbells in a tour of the zoo and visit to the palace of Don Pedro II, last king of Argentina. The effort of many nations to capture markets and friend ship in South America is ap parent in many places. Throughout downtown R i o are billboards and signs ad vertising the "Moscow Cir cus," so we drove out past the great race track and, in an auditorium adjoining, we could hear the crowds ap plauding the Soviet entertain ers. The "Moscow Circus," in which clowns perform with out conventional make-up, is a fine show, we understand, and playing to capacity crowds. Just around the corner from the "Moscow Circus" was a Japanese trade fair go ing full blast. With Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek's mo ADVERTISIMENT FOR FEDERAL BUILDING SITE Thf GENERAL SERVICES AH MINISTRATION solicits pro pnsals for the salf nr donation to the I'nltrd statu of a sit for Post Office Bulldln. at Mrdford. Orpaon. It ii requested that proposals hp submitted on GSA Form 122fi. site Proposal, to thp General Services Administration al the address helow prior to close of business at 4:30 P.M.. PST, May 27, 1960. SITE LOCATION Within the rea bounded by Oakdale Street on the west, V Fifth Street on the North. Fir Street on the East and W. Ninth Street on the South, or frontini on the perimeter thereof. SITE SPECIFICATIONS Site must have an ap)xlmate land area of 66,000 iq. ft. with minimum dimensions 01 iin Submittal of proposals offering parents smaller than Bperl- Ned for the lite but lo which tn nrnriiire a site of the required size Is enrmiraeed. Notlre Is Riven that, as the require, any or all proposals sites nlher than those offered my h' considered and a aite tfee' Government acquired. Cfiir.of GSA Form 1226. Site friwal, and Instructions ernitf) (b submission of proposals hy be obtained from rt erniil; W' submission of proposals W-tV ne outlined from nfflec oPthe Building; Superintendent, Post Office Building, ie mm. Oregon. Additional m lit Initructiom may be GENER& SERVICES ADMINISTRATION public Buildings Service ) Acquisition, Disposal luAJtlon ' rVederal OfljO, BuiMInalJ OMteattle 4. vvWilnjW PHONE ML'tual 2-..T00. Ext .10 dernistic new national capital soon to open at Brasilia, hand some public buildings now housing various federal de partments in Rio de Janeiro will be devoted to Brazil's new state of Guanabara. We watched some smartly uni formed Brazilian soldiers be gin their long march to Bra silia as part of the dedication ceremonies. Driving along Rio de Jan eiro's beautiful waterfront, we saw where the big U.S. Navy DC-6 crashed into the waters near Sugar Loaf in February. Our first knowl edge of tha tragedy came by wireless message of condol ence from the Argentine ice breaker, General San Martin, while we were rushing to her assistance. After touring along Avenida Atlantica on Copa cabana Leme, and other interesting sights in this remarkably beautiful city, we dined at a new restaurant overlooking the waterfront, the climax of a delightful day. Temperature seldom reach es a high point on the ther mometer in Brazil, but hu midity plays an important role in the climate. It is high, particularly along the coast -78 per cent here in Rio de Janeiro and not to comfort able for the Glacier's crew, fresh from the Antarctic ice packs. Relief Mission So, when word came that our ship was ordered on a relief mission off the equator where a severe Brazilian flood had taken a heavy toll, those of us who were not attached to. the Glacier were anxious to secure transportation on a military plane heading for "The States" on March 28. Tempting as a visit to San Juan, Puerto Rico, was, we knew the trip would be a long one and arrival time at Boston highly uncertain. Captain McDonald and the Task Force 43 staff would take this plane home. Bob Miller, Robin Leech, Grant Power, Arthur Beaumont and I hoped to have official ap proval for the flight. The $64 question was - would final n. ny sua i. adjoining T,irys may be added Interests of the Government may rerelved may he rejeried, that In response to this advertisement deemed more advantageous to information as wmk at proposal obtained by conUctffig the Ds word arrive before the Gla cier lifted anchor in Rio har bor? Robert Starr and Ray Bur ler planned to slay with the ship. Robert Cushman Mur phy had already left the ship at Buenos Aires to meet his wife in Chile; Phil Smith had also taken a new jet from Buenos Aires for Washington, D C. Chostn Repreientativo Since 1922 the U.S. Naval Mission to Brazil had been sn effective advisory agency. Able Rear Admiral John Quinn, chief of the Mission, is a well-chosen representa tive for the U.S. in this high ly important post. Right now Argentina is seeking to re cover the economic and politi cal influence which it lost during the 10-year dictator ship of Juan Peron. Brazil is seeking to retain the leadership it took from Argentina and the contest is getting hot. In December, Brazil negotiated a trade agreement with Russia. This nation's stake in the Latin American drama is apparent. At an informal gathering at the Admiral's office in the big U.S. Naval Mission build ing. Admiral Quinn empha sized the fact that North America's staunchest friend in South America is Brazil. Later he was a delightful host at a cocktail and luncheon gathering at Rio de Janeiro's plush Mesbla - Sky Terrace. Bird Cage A corner section of this lofty and beautiful restaurant was the bar in a cage-like enclosure called the "gaiola" (bird cage). Lt. Carter Ma thies, one of the gracious Navy group, informed me aside that here young Brazil ians with enough cruzerios in their pockets entertained their mistresses, an old Latin cus tom, no doubt. Later in the day, Loraine Campbell, Pam, Lieut. Comdr. Bill Kannheiser and I visited H. Stern's fabulous gem store at Avenida Rio Branco, then grove ' furiously with the Campbell's chauffeur at the wheel, to the suburbs of Rio where a famous little Portu guese wood - carver had his shop. The following morning. jtist one-half hour before the Gla cier sailed on her flood relief mission, word came that our flight home on a Military Air Transport had been-approved through the energetic efforts and influence of Admiral Quinn. Suffers Knee Injury Regretfully we left Arthur Beaumont on the ship. He had suffered a knee injury, and the Glacier's doctor, Lt. John Dalco, kept him on board for treatment. At 3 p.m. that afternoon, the big Super Constellation swept down the runway, circled the beautiful city, and headed for Trinidad. We were glad to be on board! After refueling that night at the little island off the coast of Venezuela, and a few Planters Punches at the tiny Bel Aire hotel, we resumed our flight to the big Naval Air Base at Charleston, S.C. After Grant Power and I re ceived first aid in the Swamp Fox Room of Jack Tar's Fran cis Marion hotel in Charles ton, I enjoyed the luxury of a full size bed for the first time since I visited the Warner hotel at Christchurch, New Zealand. There was just time, before my plane left for the Pacific coast the next day, to take a Gray Line yacht, flying the Confederate flag, to historic old Ft. Sumpter. How different the calm waters of Charleston Haibor seemed after the heavy seas off Antarctica. Here pirate ships once found haven and British men-of-war were driv en back in America's colorful past. Here, at this old fort, the first shot was fired in the War Between the States! Arrive In San Francisco That day, through the magic of a great DC-B jet plane, I arrived at my favor- ! ite city - San Francisco - Just before midnight and hurried across the bay and through the Oakland tunnel on a sen timental journey to Walnut Creek and a brief family re union. Then came the pleas ant drive up "99" to the sun shine and pear blossoms of the Rogue River valley. Like a kaleidoscope, the places I had visited during the past few weeks on a trip longer than around the world passed in my mind as I drove homeward. Thgre were ro mantic places such as Waiki- ki, the shores of Fiji's Viti Lavu and the Cashmere HillsJl961 to secure and broaden i , - rr 1 J T-Mii.. I .1. 1 I of beautiful New Zealand. In contrast came the forbidding ice packs of Antarctica, fol lowed by gay and glamorous South American cities anOthis polar pilgrima doubTy picturesque Trinidad. There was another cherished mem - .Highlight of FAMOUS STRIP One of the most famous strips of sand in the world is Copacabana beach at Rio de Janeiro, metropolis of Brazil. Here great hotels and apartment houses line the colorful Avenida Altantica, jyt Jltll Vs J n is r'm ': 3 Kip tr i mi? l5 MH MISSION CHIEF Rear Admiral John Quinn, USN, is chief of the U. S. Naval Mission to Brazil with headquarters at Rio de Janeiro. When the Japanese capitulated in August 1945, Admiral Quinn was with the Pacific Fleet as operations and training officer on the staff of Commander Amphibious Group Three. He is a former commander of the heavy cruiser, USS Rochester. (Official Navy Photo) Coal Officials Ask Lower Quotas For Residual Oil Washington - (UPI) - Officials of the national coal policy conference have called on the Interior department to reduce import quotas for residual oil. They said a recent increase in the import levels was based on figures "subject to manipu lation to suit the immediate interests of the oil companies." The views of the coal in dustry were presented to Capt. M. V. Carson, oil import administrator, in a letter sign ed bv George H. Lowe, con ference chairman, and Joseph E. Moody, president. They said the oil import program could be made "more ory of this fabulous journey friendships that I hope will endure. Looking back, it had, In deed, been a fabulous trip. We had completed an his toric voyage to an unexplored land. Least Known Sea We had sailed Into the Ice locked Bellingshausen sea, the least known sea in the world. We had landed and planted the American flag upon the Eights coast of Antarctica and Thurston Island, areas never before seen by man except from the air! This expedition under the command of Capt. Edwin Mc Donald had briefly drawn the cloak of n(ystery from a land about which Vw had little geographical and scientific knowledge. Now the U.S. Navy and the National Science Foundation are plan- ning further explorations in the beach-head. The success of the Belling shausen sift venture plus iwo dramatic sea resciuM mrae. thrilling - one I will nev 1 forget. the two-mile boulevard skirting this portion of beautiful Guanabara Bay. Famous Sugar Loaf mountain is nearby, one of Rio's great attractions. (Pan American World Airways Photo) effective" if quotas were granted on a three month period - rather than the pres ent six month system - and called for a "complete re vision" of the present method of surveying existing stocks of oil. The conference officials said the operation of the pro gram since its start in 1959 "is not adequate to protect the vital interests of domestic oil and coal, or guard the national security." Import quotas presently per mit the entry of 490,934 bar rels of residual oil per day, they said. The original level was 337,708 barrels a day. They said the shift to a quarterly allocation pattern would be the "first and es- Y0nqj6oue aLits light! 1 '0 Lj-j lift1' Blending the past with the present... ifc' wW q to create the smooth Scotch of toJflyOgJjp 11 ; i L VZZ7.t JU.. -...Mi. ,,V,,rn M .l.mlt t inir 0 1 IHPQlim I J I op 4SI .1 mi Nixon Would Welcome 'Rocky' As Running Mate Washington - WNI - Vice President Richard M. Nixon would welcome Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York as his lflfiO running mate, but docs not want Republican leaders to pressure Rockefel ler to take the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket. Nixon. It was stated reliably Tuesday, thinks the next vice president should be a willing teammate prepared to assume even larger duties than those filled now by Nixon. In short, he would not want a reluctant running mate, In any event, Nixon intends to wait and see what the situ ation is at nomination time at the GOP National Conven tion in Chicago starting July 25. Rockefeller fits the qualifi cations Nixon thinks a vice president should possess - but so do other Republicans, he believes. Nixon, recognizing the va garies of politics, knows much could happen between now and the convention to alter the vice presidential outlook. Rockefeller last December announced he would not seek the GOP presidential nomina tion and said he would not accept the vice presidential nomination. But he has since senlial step in tightening the administration of the pro gram." They quoted an interior de partment news release which said "irregular marketing pal terns of a few major import ers" had been the major fac tor in the latest increase in import levels. "Translated, that simply means that several of the large companies engagou-l in importation of residual oil recklessly and irresponsibly proceeded to dispose of prac tically their entire allotment in the first two or three months of the six months' al location period," the officials declared. , This created a situation, they said, in which adminis tration officials were forced to bow to the demands for a supplementary quota. '! ; 4'. , AJ.J Q , n Pages 1 8 MEDFORDLWrRIBUNE MEDFORD, Back Stairs: By MERr.IMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington HTli Back stairs at the White House: Jack Rumagna for almost 20 years has been the shorthand specialist of the White House, transcribing the press confer ences of three Presidents and in general, doing a job that has earned the laudatory amazement of reporters and White House officials. On each Wednesday that President Eisenhower holds a news conference, Jack is the man who can be seen on tele vision sitting al the corner of the President's desk, notebook sp,cad out only a foot or two from the Chief Executive and his shorthand pen fairly fly ing over the pages. In the nearly eight years of taking the President's press conferences, Romagna has ac quired a curious record. Eisen hower has never spoken to him, not even by so much as a hello. Contrary to popular belief, Eisenhower does not sig.i Army, Navy or Air Force com missions except as a favor to special friends. When the Ei Hope Dwindles For Missing Boat Coos Bay -IIIPII- Hope waned Tuesday for a 32-ft. boat miss ing since Sunday on a trip from here to Winchester Bay. Two men were believed aboard. A plane and Coast Guard crash boats hunted the coastal area in poor visibility today. Skipper of the boat was I Robert Nelson, North Bend. Nelson's wife said she be lieved only two men were on the boat. Earlier it was be lieved three men were aboard. Winchester Bay is about 20 miles north of here. appeared available for the top spot on the ticket, if a draft movement should develop. He has not yet endorsed Nixon for the nomination. Nixon is convinced that ex tremism on the civil rights issue will not pay off In the 1960 presidential campaign. He believes that "moral persuasion" from the next President will do more to re solve racial tension than ad ditional federal legislation. Sources close lo Nixon said today this Is the essence of his current thinking on the civil rights question. AT YOUR OLDS Cjn J) ii in. k mat ii safity $$$ Homeward OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY A, 1960 Shorthand Specialist senhower admunslra'ion took office, the staff looked up an old ruling daling buck to the I days of President Hoover and decided to cut down the Presi dent's pnper work as much as possible. There was a rumor recently that the While House had ac quired a machine thai en abled the President to sign his name simultaneously on 16 different documents. But White House officials react in dignantly when asked about the story, maintaining that Ei- U.S. Chamber Honors Five as Great Americans Washington - (Urn - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has presented "great living Amer ican" awards to five men, in cluding former President Her bert Hoover. The chamber, holding its 48th annual meeting here, also honored: Bernard Baruch, New York City financier, for his "sage and helpful" counsel as a gov ernment adviser in World J Wars I and II. Judge Leonard Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for his efforts "to maintain and strengthen the judicial process as a human process . . . and for his tremendous ability to render legal opinion with absolute objectivity and poetic clarity." I Clarence B. Randall, ad viser to President Eisenhower on foreign economic policy and former chairman of the board. Inland Steel Co., for his "long application to the principle that employee rela tions are first of all human relations" and for his contri butions to community service and education. Carl Sandburg, poet, biog rapher of Lincoln and novel 1st, for his "significant and lasting contribution" to Amer ican literature. Hoover was cited for "his statesmanship not only while serving as President . . . but, ever since as a private citizen, for his devotion to the con cept of government as the ; servant, not the master of the I people, for his fruitful effort I in reorganizing the executive I branch of the government to I make it more efficient." YOU'LL DO BETTER... yf)i May . , . becai. yoa ajrf asnas ear M ct . . . tea Ohk ta aanethM. feu rl you'n ever tried! VVtj tmt... mef; kit fMat tolck when you m over to OlcUl - chic . . tjft reqfim ccwil Section B senhower does not resort lo such a labor-saving device, Nevertheless, a man who should know says there is a 16-sJgnaturcs-at-once machine in the neighborhood and the understanding is that it is for Eisenhower. The day seldom passes dur ing the currently fine spring weather that pickets d i s plcased about everything from capital punishment to Fidel Castro parade slowly back and forth in front of the White House. Each time the pickets ap pear, this requires an extra de tail from the metropolitan po lice force to be sure that the protestors keep moving and that pedestrian traffic is not clogged on the White House sidewalks. Lately, the police have been wondering among themselves about tlie justice of laws gov erning picketing in the Dist rict of Columbia. A commu nist front organization can picket the White House free ly, and with police protection, but no one is allowed to march peaceably in front of the Rus san Embassy. In fact, the law bans picketing of any foreign embassy. cunaay, May b Send your "mother" . . best to , sand Mother's Day Cards Swem's 217 t. Main - Medford teyour ( ith a 'to OIM -. DEALER'S ! 0 o o ; SID p JO GO i O w 1 rs O rs O f
