Bock Stairs: Problems for Kennedy
By MERHIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
Washington-U!PI)-Baek stairs
at the White House:
A proud Virginian and Mid
dleburg neighbor of President
Kennedy threatens to put up
a large sign on the edge of his
property saying, '-you're now
leaving the Old Dominion and
crossing the New Frontier."
Harry Albacker, a Pitts
burgh, Pa., entertainer who
bills himself as "the only dead
magician alive," is adding to
the pet problem at the White
- House.
Albacker for some time has
used in his show a white rab
bit named Zsa Zsa. The bun
ny, however, has grown a bit
too large for high silk hats
and her owner is shipping the
animal to three-year-old Car
oline Kennedy for Easter.
Albacker says the rabbit
has been traines 10 play a
top trumpet, which is more
than can be said for the sal
amander recently presented to
the President by his seven-year-old
nephew Robert Ken
nedy Jr.
Young Bobby delivered the
salamander to the President
about 10 days ago in a glass
jar which now repose empty
in the office of the President's
secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Lin
coln. The salamander has been
given warmer and more com
fortable quarters in the White
House florist shop.
With the advent of any new
national administration, it re
quired much Investigative ef
fort and varying amounts of
time to extend security clear
ance for new appointees per
mitting them to have access to
classified government docu
ments. The current jam of security
clearance means that the
green light still has not
flashed for several sub-cabinet
Kennedy appointees. The re
sult is that these job-holders
are somewhat frustrated in
the conduct of their assign
ments, being unable to see
some of the vital papers of
government which are readily
available to security-cleared
associates working in the
same department or agency.
For years, the Secret Serv
ice insisted that White House
automobile tags should not be
distinctive or so unusual that
lliey could be spotted easily
by the general public. This
policy, however, seems to
have been abandoned. The
President's tag number in the
District of Columbia is JK-100
and the first 25 licenses in the
JK series are assigned to
ranking members of the
White House staff.
If you s e e anything over
JK-12H, toe car probably be
longs to a member of the gen
eral public who was assigned
the number as a matter of
routine distribution.
The President lias the en
thusiastic approval of his phy
sician, Dr. Janet G. Travell,
in his preference for rocking
chairs. The Chief Executive
has a ladder-backed rocker in
front of the fireplace in his
White House office. Frequent
ly he suggests to callers that
they sit on couches beside the
fireplace and he takes the
rocker while they conduct
their conference.
Doctor Travell would like
to see many other American
executives with rocking chairs
in their offices. She thinks
that while the exercise pro
vided by a rocker is mild, it
is vastly preferable to the ultra-soft,
so-called executive
chairs used by many men con
fined to long hours in offices.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961
IN LEGAL BATTLE Mrs. Dolores Hope, right, wife of
comedian Bob Hope, accompanied by Mrs. Josephine Wayne,
is snown as sue appeared in Los Angeies Federal Court in
the legal battle over Hope's life story. The Internal Revenue
Service claims the Hopes should pay taxes on money raised
by the Bob and Dolores Hope Foundation, which was set
up to aid crippled children and which the film couple con
tend is a charitable organization and tax exempt. Hope gave
the rights of his life story to the foundation, which sold it
to a national magazine for 5100,000. (UPI Telephoto)
The Family Council
Editor's Note: The Famllj council consists of Judsc, a psychia
trist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each article
Is a summary ol an aclual case history The Council reports on prob
lems that have been dealt wtlh by responsible aeencles and counselors.
(Copyright 1961 General Features Corp.)
Mimi B, - He's careful how
he talks to his associates, but
not his wife.
Raphael B.-She's too touchy
and too fussy about manners
at home.
Mimi B. - I run a big house
and take care of our three
children, all with no help.
When Rate gets home, the din
ner is cooked and the place is
tidy. Yet, if he happens to
find me resting on the couch,
he'll say, "Pretty soft!" and
wonder what I did all day.
Hasn't he any eyes? Any
imagination? Does he think
anything, even a pin, moves
from here to there without me
moving it? But he never asks,
"How did things go?
He wants tons of solicitude,
consideration and sympathy
for the hard day he puts in,
but if I crave some of the
same he acts as if I've been
on a rest-cure! "What's hard
about that?" is all the com
fort 1 gel.
Actually I know he gets a
few coffee-breaks at the of
fice, and plenty of yarn-swapping
around the water cooler.
I'm sure he's the essence of
politeness to anyone who
pleads fatigue or strain. But
at home he acts like a boor
and insist upon being handled
with kid gloves.
No, I want him a gentleman
at home, kid gloves and all.
Raphael B.-How can Mimi,
home all day and her own
boss, compare her condition
with mine at the end of a
day's work? She doesn't have
the pressure of an office-manager
asking her to hurry up
with last week's reports and
get out this week's reports
within 24 hours.
She can lie down any time
she wants to, watch TV, or es
cape with a bridge game while
the kids are at school.
Not me. Those coffee-breaks
and yak-sessions are straight
out of Mimi's imagination.
Sometimes 1 don't even let up
for lunch, but have it sent in.
I think I'm showing her
enough consideration by leav
ing her free and quiet all day.
with no criticism of how she
keeps the house or what she
does with lier ume. nm un
less I keep thanking and com
plimenting her, she feels I'm
a brute.
Mimi should go easy with
me, and stop making unneces
sary demands.
The Council: - To settle this
debate as to who deserves
more consideration, a magic
wand is needed. Then Mimi
wouid go to the office for a
week, and Raphael would run
the lnuc, mmd the kids, and
welcome her home. They'd
probably return to their re
spective "salt-mines," each
thinking the other a hero who
should be lionized, not criti
cized, every 24 hours.
But Mimi, being a member
of the traditionally less-assured,
more dependent sex.
may need more ego-boosting
and morale-lifting than Raph
ael. The truth is, Rate, an in
vestment of a query, "How do
you feel, dear?" or "What's on
your mind?" would yield a
bull market of coddling for
you, from a wife who merely
wants evidence that you think
of her and her job, too. Any
sign Rate can get across to
Mimi that he knows she's only
human, too, will probably en
title him to his own Gripes
Unlimited.
Also, he errs in comparing
his end-of-day with hers. Sup
pertime is still middlc-of-the-day
for Mimi.
With each male aware of
the other's need lo let off
steam. Mimi will be able to
take Rate's snappishness and
also feel free to yip back a
little and act natural. She
doesn't really want the sur
face politeness Rate reserves
for outsiders. '
All she asks is that he oc
casionally inquire about her
day, and then listen to the an
swer, the way she commiser
ates with his.
Quakes Caused by
Movement of Fault i
Washington (Science Serv
ice) Horizontal movement j
along the San Andreas fault !
north of San Francisco has
probably not exceeded one I
and one-half miles during the
last six million years, Dr.
Charles G. Higgins of the1
University of California in
Davis, Calif., reports. ,
The movement of the San
Andreas fault is responsible
for many of the devastating
California earthquakes. Pre
vious higher estimates of
movement since middle Plio
cene time were based on stu-
dies along the fault scar south
of San Francisco, which does
! not necessarily hold true for
i areas north of the city, Hig
I gins reported.
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