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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 ;
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