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FRIDAY. MARCH 17. 1961 A DAY WITH KENNEDY MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. Foreign Aid Budget Approved During Meeting; rs. Kennedy Evades Reporters at Office Door (Continued from Pane 1) 10:03 - Kennedy walked into the Cabinet room for a meeting with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Budget Director Bell, Under secretary of State George Ball and others. At this meeting the foreign aid budget was approved in final form and Ball said goodbye before leav ing on a mission to London and Paris 10:20 - Mrs. Kennedy, cover-girl chic in a pale lime suit anct matching pillbox hat with wind-blown tassel, ar rived at the door of the Presi dent's office with Caroline, spotted reporters and fled into another office. 10:25 - The President re turned to his office from the Cabinet room, called a cheery "Hi, Frank, how are you" to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who had come to ride to an Ital ian ceremony at the State De partment with him. Roosevelt is eastern distributor for the Fiat, an Italian-made car. With him was the grandson of Giu seppe Garibaldi, the famed Italian patriot. Gulped Orange Juice Kennedy gulped down a glass of orange juice, then walked to the porch outside his office and called, "Let's go, Jackie" to his wife who was standing a few feet away. The President headed down the walk to his wailing lim ousine. At the State Department, the President made a brief speech in praise of Italy and her contribution to American culture. 11:40 - Kennedy returned to the White House, let Mrs. Kennedy off at the south driveway entrance and con tinued on to his office. He had removed the small plaster bandage from the cut at the Italian ceremonies and the cut seemed to be increasingly red. 1 1 :46 - Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex.), chairman, and Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.), vice chairman, of the Congression al Economic Committee, ar rived to discuss steps to com bat the recession. They noted his formal morning attire and Kennedy boomed, "Oh, this is the way I dress every day." He liked this joke so much he used it on several other vis itors until he changed clothes during lunch. 12:10 - West Virginia's two Democratic senators, Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd, entered to discuss federal fuel policies on coal versus resid ual oil. Meeting Interrupted 12:17 - Mrs. Evelyn Lin coln, his secretary, interrupt ed the meeting with a written message. She went back in aaain at 12:20. at 12:21 (the President wanted a copy of a letter), at 12:28 and at 12:40. ! 12:55 - Ncwsrccl and still; photographers were called in j to make pictures of the two ! West Virginians with Kenne-j dy. The senators left immcdi- j alcly thereafter. 1:02 - Kennedy headed for. the house and lunch. As he walked, he read from a mem- j orandum that disturbed him. One of his staff cited the feel- iivj "by some" that informa tion on what .the government j is doing is not as free today as it was in the days of the Roosevelt New Deal. Kennedy thought quite differently. 1:06-At the elevator again. He told his physician. Dr. Janet G. Travel, whose office is iust across the hall, that he'd see her later. A hand some gray-haired woman, she smiled and nodded knowingly. The President said he planned to have lunch and read in his study. 2:58 The President return ed to his office, sporting a new and much more substantial bandacc over his eye. He ex plained. "I had to be stitched up a bit." He said a Navy doctor, a captain named Con nolly, took five stitches. There was some swelline over the eve. but the President said he fell fine. He also had changed from his diplomatic clothes into a single-breasted Oxford gray business suit. Eastland Arrives 3:00-Scn. James O. East land (D-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commit tee, arrived with great gravi ty and entered the President's office slowly. 3:30 - Eastland left, even sterner looking than before. 3:43-Kennedy went out into the rose garrfen to observe the 49th anniversary of the Girl Scouts by accenting a doll for Caroline and flowers for his wife from Sonia Algren. 17. Silver Spring. Md.. and Ellen Hooton, 15. Chevy Chiisc. Md. He told the airls in behalf of Caroline, "I'll look forward to her becoming a Girl Scout." 3:47-From the rose garden, Kennedy moved to the Cabi net Room for a highly secret conference dealing with na tional security and a matter which he later described as being urgent. A similar meet ing was held the dav before and not announced. Willi the President were Rusk (his sec ond trip of the day). Vice President Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNa mara, McGcorge Bundy, spe cial assistant to the President for national security matters, and others. 5:20-The President return ed to his office with McNa mara and Johnson. The Presi dent seemed to be growing fresher as the day lengthened. At a conference around a fire place. Kennedy. Johnson and McNamara put their final seal of approval on the defense budget. A message will go to Congress in the next week or 10 days. Jovial Social Hour 5:37-The President walked over to the executive mansion for the "coffee hour" with the 55 House members in the din ing room. The social hour was moder ately jovial. The President moved around, shaking hands and chatting. There was cof fee served at one end of the room, but more of the con gressmen favored highballs served- from passing trays. There were small sandwiches and cakes, too. 6:25-The party, all men ex cept for Rep. Edith Green (D Ore.) buraed with excitement. Why? The President darted out into the hallway and brought - in Mrs. Kennedy, stunning in a pale pink sheath with bare arms. Rep. William H. Ayrcs (R Ohio) had joined with Rep Silvio O. Conte (R-Mass.) in bringing a rather large, red tricycle to the White House for Caroline and they had wheeled it into the dining room. Spiritedly, Ayres jump ed aboard and took a whizzing ride out into the cetner hall way past the entrances to the Red and Blue rooms. Posed for Pictures 6:27-Mrs. Kennedy having departed, the President went into the Blue Room and posed for a series of pictures with various state delegations. At one point. House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck found himself in the picture lineup with Kennedy. No one seemed to mention the prominent bandage over the President's eye. With most of the photographs out of the way, he walked into the cen ter foyer to bid his guests adieu. 6:40-He went to the second floor by elevator alone to join Mrs. Kennedy, former Secre tary of State Dean Acheson and an uncle of the First Lady. Prince and Princess Radziwell also were there. The princess is Mrs. Ken nedy's sister, Lee. 7:23 - Kennedy emerged from the elevator on the ground floor, heading back for the office. 7:25-Back at his desk, he called to Mrs. Lincoln through her open office door to get Rusk on the telephone. There was a quick conversation about the plans for the forth coming visit of President Ha bib Bourguiba of Tunisia. Kennedy autographed a color picture for Eastland and then tackled another bunch of pho tos. He also signed a lot of mail, standing at the desk and bending over to affix his sig nature which can be decipher ed only by close friends and blood relatives. Dictated Letters 7:35 - Kennedy's business suit seemed as well pressed as it did when he donned it at lunch time. Finishing for the moment with papers on his desk, he went into his secre tary's office and began dic tating letters. He stood beside her desk and whipped through several letters rapidly. 7:41-Back into his own of fice to look over the latest edi tions of Washington afternoon newspapers. 7:43-Ducked into a small private office, originally in tended as a resting room for Eisenhower, closed the door and made a super-private tele phone call. 7:46 - He emerged from his inner sanctum and said. "I guess we're about through." He walked by the glowing globe to the couches in front of the fireplace. He reviewed the day quickly. All in all, he said, an easier day than most. Removed Carnation As he talked informally, he suddenly remembered that he still was wearing the green carnation loft over from the congressional reception. Si lently, he jerked it out of the button hole and threw it over on his desk. 7:55-He told his press asso ciation shadows goodnight, ex plaining that after dinner he planned to read a few reports and hit the hay by 11 o'clock or shortly thereafter. He open ed his porch door into the brisk night air, but Mrs. Lin coln called to him. Would he take one more call? With no complaint, he walked back to his desk quickly over the thick green carpet, picked up the telephone. 7:56 - He started "home" again, swinging down the walkway between the steamy windows of the While House swimming pool and nodding goodnight to a policeman. T Develops New Membership Plan The membership committee of the YMCA has developed a new plan for group member ship called the "Firm Plan." The plan allows Firm man agement to arrange a monthly payroll deduction for those who voluntarily wish mem bership in the YMCA. It also allows firms to help out on their employees benefits. This Strategy of payment for membership is one which corresponds with the payment plan most people use in buy ing many other services by the month. This plan enrolls individuals and families as members of the Y with full privileges in all of the ongoing programs and firms who desire to par ticipate. Medford firms enrolled in the plan are the A. L. Nash Sand and Gravel and the Nash Ford Tractor, both enrolling 100 per cent of their employ ees. Further information may be had by contacting Bob Jones, general secretary of the Med ford YMCA. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Among the anti-recession measures that are being con sidered by the congress is a bill to provide help for chron ically depressed areas. It would authorize 300 million (approximately a third of a billion) dollars in loan funds to aid in bringing job-creating industries to communities that for one reason or another have LOST the industries upon which in the pasl they have depended for their sup port. The bill provides thai the major proportion of the mon ey would be provided by treasury BORROWING, ra ther than by direct appropri ations, added to the budget and raised by taxation. Which is to say: It would be added to what is already ON THE CUFF. IN other words: By our INFLATIONARY programs, including the wage price spiral, we have been pricing ourselves out of world markets. And Al the same time We have been contributing foreign aid in sums running into the billions to make available Cor foreigners, among other things, new and modern industrial plants with which to compete with us. Installation of Water Main Starts M. C. Liningcr and Sons company started work Wed nesday on installation of a six-inch water main on North Riverside ave., from Ohio si. to Crater Lake highway. City Water Superintendent Robert Lee said the project should take about two weeks to complete. Liningcr and Sons submitted a low bid of S7.186 on the project. rpHAT brings up a stalcmenl made recently by Sam Dawson, an Associated Press business news analyst. He says: "Among our depressed areas, one particular type is perhaps MORE RESENTFUL of its fate than the others. That is the community where a chief industry has been hurt by LOSING ITS MARKETS TO FOREIGN IMPORTS. 11 resents both the economic toll in jobs and incomes but also what it believes to be the in justice of its plight. 'Some companies that have been badly hurt by foreign competition even charge that their foreign competitors are now using new and modern plants made possible bv past MONETARY AID FROM U.S. TAXPAYERS. Other compa nies complain of the compe tion from lower paid foreign labor. TT doesn't seem lo make sense, does it? It is little wonder lhal com munities whose principal pay roll industries have been bad ly hurl by foreign competi tors (whose production costs are lower than ours) are com plaining about the injustice of it all. QUESTION: What shall we do about it? Shall we subsidize these communities-will! BORROW ED money that will be added to our already staggering debt, with its interest burden that presently amounts lo about nine billion dollars a year? Or shall we go lo the ROOT of the trouble and take intel ligent slops to reduce our high production costs which are being reflected in prices so high that they are begin ning to shut us out of a lot of foreign markets and in ad dition are enabling foreigners to undersell us increasingly in OUR OWN markets? These are questions lhal de serve a lot of careful study by our VOTERS, as well as I by our lawmakers. Pear Blossom Festival time is coming again ENTER YOUR CHOICE for KING and QUEEN NOW! 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