Medford mail tribune., May 22, 1960, Image 48

WITHOUT ORTHO-ORO
WITH OATMO-6RO
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V' 3 weeks that's all it took! Plant on right was watered only.
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WITH OKTHO-ORO
WITHOUT OflTHO-ORO
I teaspoon of ORTHO-GRO per gallon of water for 6
weeks that's all it took! Plant on right was watered only.
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Flemming holds press conferences regularly and answers questions with a no-nonsense directness.
Crusader in a Hot Spot
(Continued)
fertile by candling on the 18th day. There
are legitimate uses for rotten eggs, as in
leather tanning, but in recent years sharp
sters have made a racket of buying them,
removing the shells, adding chemicals to
kill the odor, and freezing the mixture for
sale in cans to bakeries and restaurants.
Probably three million dozen rotten eggs
were fed to the unsuspecting public last
year. HEW's Food and Drug Administration
set U.S. marshals on the egg-leggers' trail,
and smashed the racket.
The Flemming way of thinking requires
that the taxpayer must be kept informed.
He holds a press conference every two
weeks, answering questions and introducing
the men who make the news in his offices.
Critics have called Flemming puritanical.
He does not use tobacco, liquor, coffee,
or tea. His suits are always dark, his shirts
always white. He says he is too busy for
bridge, fishing, or golf. He makes so many
trips that Mrs. Flemming keeps a suitcase
packed and awaiting his call. Last autumn,
they took a week's vacation in Atlantic
City. During it, he dashed up to New York
to make a speech, rushed down to Wash
ington to attend a cabinet meeting, and
issued statements to the press on cran
berries and chickens. Back on the job,
he was called a headline hunter.
He doesn't even look the part. Lean and
over six feet tall, he's like the boy down
the block whose face is all ears and nose.
He has learned to cover much of his once
painful shyness. His voice is quite soft in
the office very often he forgets himself and
says "sir" to a departmental underling
but on a speaker's platform it resounds like
great breakers on a beach.
He is an old-fashioned family man. Of
his four children, three are at home,
a girl and two boys. In a town famous for
broken dinner dates and unhappy help
mates, he usually manages to get home
for the family meal. "If he's late, we wait
for him," Mrs. Flemming says.
Each workday, he kisses her good-bye,
dons his pinched-peak, gray-felt hat, and
steps into his car. The pressure begins the
minute he enters his office. But he seems
to thrive on it. Says Mrs. Flemming: "I
think all his life was a preparation for this
sort of thing. He has the amazing power to
detach himself from a crisis and look at it
from the outside. After he's made a deci
sion, despite slings and arrows, he's at
peace with himself."
A reporter once asked, "Do you ever feel
the pressures yourself?"
She replied, "I'd have to be dead and
buried not to feel them."
Flemming has neither a personal fortune
nor a political following, unusual among
Eisenhower appointees. What he does have
is. ability to govern much while seeming
to govern little, to get along with Congress,
and to make his decisions stick. Close ob
servers say he may be the first of a new
breed of Washington officials who, though
they could make more money in industry,
remain in Government because of their
concern for their fellow citizens.
"My primary concern," Flemming himself
says, "is to face up to the human needs
which confront each of us and to do some
thing about those needs."
And that's the point about Flemming
he's not afraid to do what has to be done.
Family Weekly. May 22. 1960