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2 C THURSDAY. MAY 11. 1111 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Steuart Mall, Interior Washington OT Stewart Lm Udall. the "young cur- mudgeon" of the Kennedy ad ministration, has at least four notable accomplishments to his credit since he took office secretary of the Interior Rarvins in what Is normally a rather obscure post, the 41- year old ex-congressman from Arizona has reaped more newsoaner headlines than any other member of the Ken. nedv cabinet. He has demonstrated an un usual ability to draw howls of rage from Republicans --ana sometimes from his fellow Democrats in Congress He has shocked this blase enniUl by saying out loud what is widely believed but seldom acknowledged that "there are times when you have to be ruthless in poli- tli finally , along the way, he has attracted public attention to the urgent and often-neglected problem of conserving America's natural resource!, particularly its disappearing wilderness areas. The Washington judgment oa Udall Is that he is likely to be the most controversial secretary of interior since the Into Harold L. Ickes. the self- styled "old curmudgeon" of the Franklin D. Roosevelt cabinet. ' Like Ickes, Udall seems to consider it a dull week when he does not get himself ln- ; volved in at least one great : roaring row. Battles for' Votes Republican toes first felt the heavy tread of his foot during the House battle over enlargement of the rules com mittee. Udall helped to swing enough votes to give the ad' ministration its narrow vie- tory in that battle- He did so by reminding joumera ana western congressmen that he could impede their future ac cess to the pork barrel of pub lic works projects u iney voted the wrong way, : House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck emitted a loud outcry against this horny-handed intervention. "Halleck styles himself gut-fighter,'' Udall comment ed scornfully. "But he doesn't like it when somebody cue Dlays the game to the hilt." ; Last month, when the na tion was trying to assess blame for the Cuban invasion debacle, Udall took occasion to mention that the invasion elan was "prepared in the Bttvlsui administration' under President Eisenhower's direction. He said the Ken nedy administration "carried cut" plan it had inherited. Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen arose in wrath and demanded that President Kennedy "disci Sitae" Udall for this remark, dill, said Dirksen, seems to regard himself as "secretary of exterior as well as the in terior." Even the Senate's Democratic leader, Hike Mansfield, tut-tutted Udall for trying to find a "scape goat" tor the Cuban enbar- rassment. . Wouldn't Shift Blame The white House issued Statement in which- It said that Kennedy took the full responsibility for-the incident and told other officials not to try to shift the blame oa any, one else. Hardly had the dust setUed from that flap when Udall gain found himself on the front pages in . connection with a letter Written by Jack K. Evans, an oil industry rep resentative here, soliciting oil lobbyists to buy $100-a-plate tickets to a May 37 Democra tic fund-raising dinner honor ing Kennedy s birthday, Evans said in his letter that Udall, "who happens to be a friend of long-standing," had asked him to put the bite en his fellow oilmen "as a personal favor to him.' . Udall told a news confer ence he was "appalled and flabbergasted" when he saw a copy of Evans' letter, and bad Immediately asked that it be withdrawn. "I categorical ly deny that I asked Evans to solicit the oil and gas indus try," the secertary said. At times, the 41-year-old Udall appears to be conscious ly emulating the "old cur mudgeon." Ickes once created a national sensation by Invit ing Negro soprano Marian Anderson to sing from the ateps of the Lincoln Memorial after she hsd been barred from giving a concert In the DAR's Constitution H a 1 Udall has stirred up a similar storm by serving notice on the Washington Redskins pro football team that it will have to hire some Negro players if It expects to use the new sta dium being built on govern ment land here, lies Cavernous Office Ickes' truculent spirit per vades the very room in which Udall works. The Interior De partment building was erect ad while Ickes wss feuding with Postmaster General James A. Farley. Ickes gave the architects explicit orders to mnke his office bigger than Farley's. As a result, every secretary of Interior since1 Ickes has worked, in a mam moth, paneled room which is almost as big as a basket ball court. Udall submitted, more or less restively, to an interview in this cavernous chamber. He is chronically late for ap pointments, and In an effort to keep up with his schedule, he sometimes tries to carry on conversatioins with visi tors while sneaking in a few quick glances at correspon dence or reports lying on his desk. Udall Is. not given to small talk or levity, especially when he is in a hurry, which, apparently, he nearly always is. He may break ino a hearty guffaw over a political Joke, but his fsce is usually fixed In a fairly grim expression He has dark, crew-cut hair, a hawk nose, and the athletic build B feet 11 inches, 180 pounds) of a prizefighter. But If you steer him onto his favorite subject the out doorshe begins to sound more like a poet. He grew up in the wide open spaces of Arizona, and he has retained an almost mystical passion for nature In its unspoiled state Concerned Over Resources His greatest concern is that Americans will do too little, too late, to preserve their fast-dwindling heritage of ma jestic streams and forests. '.'This Is the most urgent problem in the whole field of natural resources, ne sam with .-conviction. "The glory of America has always been its green face ... its spsclous- ness. The whole character of the American people has been shaped by living on a virgin continent where men could test themselves against the wilderness. ' "But our lsnd is changing before our eyes. The bull dozers are eating away the last remaining wild areas In the East, and even in the Bank Officials Review Plans for New Structure Ashland - Plans for a mod ern new First National Bank of Oregon building in Ashland were discussed : Tuesday by Richard - Isaacs, Ashland branch manager, and Howard Pierce, assistant manager. In describing preliminary plans at the Ashland Chamber of Commerce meeting, Isaacs said the building will be lo cated on the corner of Main and Pioneer sts. An architect's drawing Indicated the two lev el building will be construct ed of wood, glass and stone along modern lines. It will be 100 feet long and 60 feet wide, Isaacs said. According to Pierce, the building will offer convenient and easy banking service. He said it should be an asset for the community. Express Regrets Both men expressed regrets that the building wouldn't In corporate Elizabethan or Tu dor styling. Isaacs said a num ber of letters had been sent to bank officials asking that the new structure be designed along these lines adding at mosphere to the Shakespeare an festival. , "It was a good Idea but It just isn't practical," Isaacs said. He explained that Tudor styling Isn't functional for modern banking. The new bank will be lo cated at the site of the old Ashland hotel, Isaacs said the hotel should be completely razed in three weeks. Isaacs said he couldn't fore see hiring of additional bank personnel In the immediate future. No specific plans have been made for the bulletins the bank currently occupies at 74 East Main it., he said. Duncan Names Four To Emergency Board Salem - (VM - House Speak- eh Robert B. Duncan has nam ed five representatives to the state emergency board. They are Reps. Clarence Barton (D-Coquille); Ben Evick ID-Madras); Leon S. Davis (R-HIUsboro), and F. F. Montgomery (R-Eugene), So far Senate President Harry Bolvln has appointed himself, Sen, Daniel Thlel (D- Astoria); Sen. E. D. Potts ID- Grants Pass), and Sen, Robert White (R-Salem) to the board. S-W Floor Covering liftd In Blue Book S-W Floor Covering shop, 709 South Riverside ave., Is listed in the new Blue Book directory published by For mica corporation, Cincinnati. The local shop fabricates and sells laminated plastic appli cations for residential use. Formica's book is a custom ers nationwide directory of laminate dealer fabricators, listed by state, city, address and telephone number. West rspid population growth is exerting , pressure on the open spaces. Udall considers it disgrace ful that only 92,000 acres of land were added to the na tional park system under Presidents Truman and Eisen hower. He wants President Kennedy to go into the his tory books as the greatest conservationist since Wood row - Wilson, who added 6.8 million acres to the park sys tem. He is particularly anxi ous to acquire more park- lands in the East, where most of the nations people live. The vast majority of present parks are in the . West, far from centers of population. Presses for Action As a starter, he is pressing for congressional action on long-stalled legislation to pre serve three of the 8 or 10 U.S. shorelines which have not yet been. taken over by commercial resort developes. The proposed "national sea shores" are located at Cape Cod, Mass., Padre Island, Secretary, Das Unusual Ability To Irk Foes Tex., and Oregon Dunes, Ore. Another project dear to his heart is development of the Dataware river basin to cre ate a vast man-made lake In the Catsklll Mountains, with in two hours' driving time of New York and Philadelphia. "We have got to move fast," on these projects, he said earnestly. "It will never get . any - cheaper. In many areas, land prices are dou bling every 10 years." Udell's department is pos sibly the least understood in the government, psrtly be cause its name interior means nothing to the average citizen. It might more accu rately be described as the de partment of natural re sources. Its major functions include managing about 800 million acres of land, mostly In the West, which are still in the public domain; providing irri gation for nearly 8 million acres of reclaimed land, also in the West; building and op erating hydroelectric systems which now generate 6 million kilowatts of power; fostering the economic health of min eral extractionindustries, In cluding such chronic invalids as coal, lead and zinc; promot ing mine safety; protecting fish and surveys; operating s railroad in Alaska; and look ing out for the welfare of 400,000 American Indians and Eskimos who are wards of the federal government. Champions Indian Interests Nearly one-fourth of the nation's Indans live within the Arizona congressional district which Udall formerly represented, and he is a mili tant champion of their inter ests. He thinks it is a national scandal that the living stand ards on many Indan reserva tions are as low as those of any underdeveloped nation in Asia or Africa, and that it is past time for. the United States to launch a sort of domestic Point Four program for economic development of Indian reservations. - Udall's forebears were rug ged Mormon pioneers who settled in Arizona before the Civil War. He was born Jan 31, 1920, in "St. Johns, Ariz., a town founded by his grandfather. There are almost as many Udalls as Indians in Arizona, and most of them are prom inent in the business and po litical life of the state. His father was Levi S. Udall, chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. Washington Is getting an other Udall-Stewart's brother Morris, who won the Arizona election recently to replace the interior secretary in the House. ' When the United States en tered World War II, he signed up for bombardier training in the Air Force, but washed out of cadet school, and became an enlisted gunner. As a tech nical sergeant, he made SO missions over Western Europe In B24 Liberators. Played College Basketball After the war, he went to the University of Arizona, where he played guard on a basketball team -which was good enough to make the Na tional Invitational . Tourna ment In Madison Square Gar den. He still likes basketball. During a recent mine inspec tion tour of West Virginia, he spotted a group of kids playing basketball on a crude home-made court. He ordered his driver to stop, leaped out of the car, and sank three baskets in a row. He graduated from the uni versity in 1948 with a law degree and a wife, a blonde coed named Ermalee Webb, w' om he married during his senior year. After a few years of private law practice with a family firm, he was elected to Congress in 1954. ' He was known1 in Congress as an able member of the "western liberal bloc." He served on the House Interior Committee, where he got a thorough grounding in the problems of the department he now heads, and also on the labor committee, where he had the opportunity of work ing closely with Senator John F. Kennedy on passage of a moderate union reform bill. His relationship with Ken nedy was cemented during the 1960 campaign for the Democratic presidential nom ination, when Udall swung to Kennedy the 17 Arizona con vention votes which were sup posed to be in Lydon B, John son's bag. Enjoys New Power Udall , clearly enjoys the power and responsibility of his new job, but he does not seem to be greatly interested in the status symbols and per sonal perquisites of cabinet office. His private life has undergone little change since his days as a member of Con gress, and he still is more at home driving his own station wagon than sitting in the back seat of a chauffer - driven limousine. He lives with his wife slv children, two dogs and a bad ly outnumbered cat In a mod est house in suburban Vir ginia. The whole family is' outdoors minded. Udall sorrfa-i times packs the entire me. nagerie, including dogs and cat, into the family station wagon for a drive across tha continent to the open space of Arizona. After a recent visit to Cap itol Hill to testify on a pencfc Ing park bill, Udall strode down a corridor, his ; righj haYid clutching the yellow memo pad on which he jot down ideas and ttjings-to-do as they occur to him, and'a pack of harried Interior De partment underlings at his heels. He looked like a young man in a hurry, and the spew tacle caused an old Washing ton hand to muse aloud: ,' "That fellow is either going to make a mark for himself or get a bloody nose." ? He might, like honest Har old Ickes, do both. ; r ; BEST BUYS THIS WEEK ON TOP QUALITY FOODS TEMPTING FRESH solid hd mm PRODUCE CHERRY TOMATOES m Bskt. 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