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8 D THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, CRE. Back Stairs: Embarrassing Situation Bv MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter Washington - IUPI) - Back stairs at the White House: A mildly 'embarrassing situ ation has developed at the White House with the arrival of a bill for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Jan. 17 farewell television address to the nation. It certainly is not the busi ness of President Kennedy's administration which has its own pre-inaugural bills to worry about, but last week the Tcleprompter Corp. of New York submitted a bill to the White House for $412.23 covering "services rendered" for the telecast of the former President. : The bill itemizes such en tries as cabs, tips, meals and transportation, for the men who operated the tclepromp ter, an electronic device which unreels a speech text at a position Just above the TV camera lenses. The corporation made no charge for. use. of its equip ment; just expenses of the operating crew. In addition to the charges; George Kassl matis, New York manager of Telcprompter, enclosed for the Kennedy administration a pic ture of the Eisenhower broad cast and an advertising news letter proudly proclaiming "Tcleprompter" lends "inti mate' appearance to Ike's TV farewell." All of which poses a curious situation for the current oc cupants of the White House. To whom do they send the bill? It is doubtful that it probably will be referred to the local office of the former President. It is doubtful that office has funds to pay the expense because the expense was incurred while Eisenhow er was in office. Federal funds for retired Presidents are ap propriated for office expenses after they leave the White House. Thus, if the bill is paid, the money might have to come from Eisenhower's personal funds. . ' A somewhat unreconstruct ed member of the White House press party checked in for the first time at the Red Fox tavern, the small inn at Middleburg, Va, where the Kennedys have leased an estate. The traveler gazed in awe at an ante-bellum four posted bed with its high, white and lacy canopy and in quired, "Who sleeps in the crazy upper?" . Sunday dinner business at the picturesque and ancient Red Fox was zoomed upward with sightseeing motorists from Washington and nearby towns . driving through the hunt country of Virginia in the hope of glimpsing the Kennedy family. Not much chance, however, because Glen Ora, the Kennedy estate, is off the main highways and reachable only by a narrow dirt road that turns into a deadly car trap with the snow, rain and mud of winter. Homer Gruenther, a promi nent Republican, administra tive assistant and congression al liaison man in the Eisen hower administration, has been kept on at the White House by the Kennedy admin istration. Gruenther, an affable, smil ing man and brother of Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, head of the American Red Cross, cur rently is acting as sort of a host and While House tour director with headquarters in the East Wing of the execu tive establishment. , . . , Someone aparently tried to light a fire recently in Presi dent Kennedy's office fire place without checking first to see whether the flue was open. The other day a visitor noticed the neatly laid logs in the fire place and spotted on one log a primy written note, "Damper is closed -do not light fire until damper is open."' t . 'i1 " - i t, ''ni 1 ' . ' .NfeAii im i " " "". " -. ' PATIO K t HZZI 2 8' - 6" j' , . UVINO ROOM T V I 4 ft- Ill BATH ! . ... M o t I - L.tRi I KITCHEN ' I I 16x8 ' . ' , i i, iMHmiBfr Wgi i 572 SQUARE FEETxJ Ranch and Modern Homes By HIAWATHA ESTES, AIBD The "second" home, much like the second car, is fast becoming an established ,fact of American family life. Whether for lakeside or mountains, desert, winter sports or beach, this new type of holiday home is ideal for vacations, long week ends or for simply getting away from it nil. This "second" home could well develop into a family do-it-yourself project. If so, the cost of construction could be reduced nearly 50 per cent, Some may be Interested In building this design for use as . a year-round retirement home. Others might be inter ested in renting the house during part of the year ana using It, themselves during the "off-season" and in this way, pay for the house in a few years. Instead of designing a home with a small living room and bedroom, we have combined these two rooms into one large all-purpose room. Sofas that easily convert into beds could , be used in furnishing this room. A wtde fireplace is on one wall of :the "all- liiirnnuo' rnnm nnH will nHn. quately heat the home. For HOLIDAY OBSERVED Allanta-fliPD-Vlsitors to the British Consulate here Wed nesday found the door locked and this typewritten notice pasted on the glass: "This con sulate will be closed on Feb. 22 in observance of George Vashington's birthday." heating during cold spells when there is no such fire, n wall heater has been speci fied. These efficient and in expensive healers are . very different from the models used just a few years ago and much more handsome, A bar is provided next to the kitchen cabinets which face the living room. In ad dillon, there Is a good-sized nook in the kitchen. Note that the size of the kitchen is much larger than is usually found in a home of this square footage. It offers all the latest labor-saving devices and built- lns. The dressing room has ample wardrobe space plus a dressing table and a wide linen closet. The bath features an enclosed tub with shower over. The striking rustic exterior features a stone wall and planter plus wood siding and roofing, if preferred, rock roofing could be substituted when building near 'the ocean or desert. Complete working drawlngd for this plan ran be lnirehasetl fur ST. 50 for the first set and S5 for each additional set, when ordered at the same lime. This plan will be available at these prices until April 4, 1981. iMease allow two weeks for delivery. If the above home does not en tirely meet with yonr approval, a new home plan book, Itanrh mid Modern Homes, may be pur rhascd for S2. Send all orders fur either plans or books to: lllawntba Rates, P.O. Box 404-T, Northrldpte, Calif. Search Conducted for Millionaire Bootblack New York-IIIPII-A nationwide search Is on for an almost extinct symbol of Ihe American dream the bootblack who became a millionaire. Irving J, Bottner, who started his career as a shoe shine boy and Is now president of Esquire Shoe Care Products dcicded to give a dinner honoring other successful men who started in the same way. He could not find a single one. The National Association of Manufacturers, the Ynun Presidents Organization and the Horatio Alger Awards' Or ganization an were unable to think of anyone except Bottner. Bottner is now writing to 1,000 presidents of large com panies to ask them If they ever shincd shoes for a living. u nicy iinvc, iney win receive a reward-a shoe shine box gives em that REPORTS FAILURES Vicnna-HPII - Hungarian Fi nance Minister Rczsoe Nycrs announced Wednesday that the nation failed to reach its farm productive quotas last year. He also announced a deficit in foreign trade in call ing for a 12 per cent budget increase for the current year. Pats Fall From Tree Kills Portland Boy Portland-dJPB - A 9-year-old Portland boy was killed in a fall from a tree late Wednes day. The boy,' Daniel Johnson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Em ery Johnson, fell from a tree near his home in- southwest Portland.' Young Johnson, a fourth grade student at Meriwether Lewis school, was dead on ar rival at Providence Hospital. There were no witnesses to the accident. The ' Multnomah ' County Sheriff's office said the boy apparently climbed into the tree on a stepladder. The near est ' branch on the tree, a Douglas Fir, was 17 feet but it was not known how far he fell. - -' . -' . , His parents, both cerebral palsy victims and confined to wheelchairs, operate a small grocery store. Daniel was their only child. , Moscow-IUPo - Soviet Union Wednesday observed the 80th birthday of veteran American Communist leader William Z. Foster, now in Moscow under going medical treatment. Central Africa Federation Calls Out Reservist Force Salisbury, Southern Rho desia - IUPD - The Central Af rican Federation Is on a vir tual war footing to guard against possible violence over a white leader's rejection of proposals to increase the voting power of blacks in Northern Rhodesia. An estimated 3,000 re servists were ordered to active duty in Southern Rhodesia, adding to troops already mobi lized in Northern Rhodesia. The two Rhodesias and Nyasa land form the federation, a British territory. Reservists Called Out Sir Roy Welensky, the white federal prime minister, called out the reservists after reject ing Britain's proposals for a new, Northern Rhodesian con stitution. He said the pro posals would give . effective control to African extremists. There were fears that wide spread African unrest over the con stitutional question would erupt into violence in mineral-rich Northern Rho desia, which borders the turb ulent Congo. White and black extremists have exchanged threats during the past week. Blacks outnumber whites in Northern Rhodesia about 2.2 million to 70,000. African na tionalist . leaders oppose the proposals b e c a use blacks would be denied their demand for a fixed majority in the local Parliament. Grave Crisis The situation created 1 a grave crisis for the British government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Opposition Laborites demanded more votes for blacks, while some of Macmillan's conservative colleagues insisted the pro posals give them too much power. - v The reservists called to duty included four battalions of the Royal Rhodesian Regi ment plus several support and supply units. The plan outlined by British Colonial Secretary Iain Mac- kidnev 'n meat liver 'n meat 4 chicken meaty mix chopped fish Leod would increase the num ber of Africans in Northern Rhodesia's Parliament from 22 to 45 and would extend voting privileges to 80,000 blacks instead of the present 10,000. Voting franchise would be based on property holding, income and level of education. Welensky said that would give the conduct of elections from responsible to irresponsi ble voters. Servicemen Airman Second Class Wayne A. Zimmers is spending a fur lough in Medford with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Zimmers, 524 Fairmount st. Zimmers spent the past 45 weeks attending electronics school ' in Biloxi, Miss, A graduate of Medford High school in-1957, he will be sta tioned at Mather field, Sacra mento, Calif. 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