THURSDAY.
Pickin'. Pears
VFW Post 5288 and S'.'xil
iary, ol Mt. Shasta, Calif., had
the honor of opening the fall
festivity with a dance revue
furnished by eight girls from
the Daryle School of Dance,
Yreka, Sunday afternoon.
A repertoir of 23 numbers
was executed with grace and
rhythm by the group of Susi
Q's: Nicki Evans, Mary Bio
sotti, Jul! Haraden, Chereen
Ferber, Carleen Declerk and
Charlene Cordes.
Carol and Glena, instruct'
ors, appeared before the clos
ing number to do a rendition
of Shadrack. The party left
immediately after the per
formance to make the long
trip back to California.
Interest was divided Sun
day between the stage show
and the Eagle Point Desert
Pegasus "Horse-arama" held
at the Memorial Stadium en
trance. This was the sixth
semi-annual performance held
at White City by the 4-H club
riders juniors, seniors and
adults. There were 32 in all
irom Rogue River to Hilt.
Trophies were awarded to
the high point riders In each
age group.
The jewelry trophy award
ed each winner In horseman.
ship was donated by Elmer
Johnson, domiciliary hobby
shop member. Alyce Kram
bcal, novice: Regina Kram.
beal, junior; and Laura Mae
Noble, senior, were winners
In horsemanship.
A special event for children
under nine years of age fea
turcd the program. In add!
tion to horsemanship, the pro
gram included figure eight
stake, scurry, musical chairs
and a Texas barrel.
The judge was Vic Stewart.
The scats set up for member
spectators were tilled.
The fall schedule of theatre
attractions presented by the
volunteer Services is begin
ning to take shape. During the
summer months, the theater
Is dark with movies the main
feature.
One exception was the Tal
ent Show In mid-August spon
sored by the American Legion
auxiliary, department of Ore
gon. The members showed
rare stage presence in this ac
tivity which Recreation Chief
Bethel plans to continue dur
ing the fall and winter
months.
The season gets under way
with a VFW dance Monday
evening, Sept. 17. T,he regular
schedule of VFW auxiliary
dances is set for the first and
third Mondays of each month.
DAV theater programs are
scheduled lor Friday, Sept.
28. and Nov. 23.
The American Legion auxil
iary will resume the musical
quiz program which precedes
the afternoon show of movies.
The recreation department
will conduct this program,
which is held twice a month
Instead of weekly as before.
A Red Cross Travel Talk
has been set for the second
Monday afternoon with the
Muzzioll accordionists at
night. Three variety shows
have been scheduled by the
F.Iks, the Red Cross and I he
VFW auxiliary for Wednesday
nights.
The October program,
which is tentative, includes
the opening show of the local
VFW Post Oct. 12. The WW 1
auxiliary and Barracks also
plan an occasional variety
show. WW I auxiliary dnncrs
are listed for fifth Mondays, i
The usual Halloween carnival
is being arranged. ;
Frances Zundci, VAVS rep
resentative and hospital chair
man of the Ladies auxiliary,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, de
partment of Oregon, is work
ing out details of activities of
her group through Christmas.
This includes sponsorship of
the October birthday pnrtv.
The VFW auxillnry will furn
ish Thanksgiving menus this
year.
It was necessary to cancel
the planned trip to Oregon
Caves, scheduled for the last
of this month, but the open
ing barbecue picnic at the
domiciliary which the auxil
iary held In June was a huge
success. Other trips were spon
sored, she said.
Among the workers at the
domiciliary is one who has
been on the job since the he
ginning and Is almost indis
pensable. He is Frank Rich
ardson. Frank is often seen hurry
ing down the hall with his
tools responding to a call to
repair a broken piece of
equipment. He Is listed as a
machinist and welder, but he
Is the "Handy Andy" as a me
chanic, and he always comes
up smiling.
Richardson has a little shop
In the engineering section and
there he was found after
Labor Day, bright and early,
fixing a dismembered wheel
chair. He is always busy and
with all the new gadgets and
complicated units to tend,
when they don't run, he has
his hands full.
There is a compensating
factor, however, as he recalls,
when the old cast-off machin
ery was In operation and the
frequency of break-downs was
greater than it is today with
all new equipment.
Frank calls Meddird his
home. "That's where I enlist
ed In the Army," he says. He
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applied for a job at Camp
White when the VA took
possession an dslarted in the
boiler room. He soon was
shifted to his present position
and is a important wheel in
the machinery that keeps the
station running smoothly.
Major Installation
Possible at Baker
Portland - IBPIl - The office
of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.)
said Wednesday there was a
possibility of a "major federal
installation" at Baker, Ore.,
that would involve in excess
of $20 million in construction
costs.
Bill Berg, Morse's adminis
trative assistant, said nature
of the project could not be
disclosed at this time. But he
said when completed it would
be permanent in nature and
would involve "substantial"
employment.
Berg said Morse has been
working on the project for
some time.
He indicated it would be
10 days or two woeks before
formal announcement would
be forthcoming.
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country" is Wong Let Poy,
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Cleveland as she docked In Snn Francisco. The Immigration
Service discovered recently that Poy, a crewman with the
line since 1038, had obtained U. S. citizenship by fraudulent
means. He has now been refused permission to work aboard
the ship or to debark at any U. S. port or in Hong Kong
where his wife lives. (UPI)
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Capitol Cover-Ups Topic of Book by Washington Writer
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
Washington (Special) As
the federal bureaucracy
grows, under cither party, it
will become
'''t V , i n creasing 1 y
? i important for
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know what is
going on in
side the Gov
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it will become
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Smith socrecy prac
tices to hide maladminis
tration. This is the sound message
of a hard-hitting new book,
"Washington Covcr-Up." by
Clark R. Mollenhoff, Wash
ington correspondent for the
Dcs Moines Register and
Tribune.
In recent years, Mollenhoff
has become a crusader for
freedom of information
public affairs. Recognized as
the ablest investigative re
porter in Washington (he is
a Pulitzer Prize winner in
this field), Mollenhoff docu
mcnts brilliantly how the
Washington cove r-up has
been managed under presi
dents of both parties.
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is that there is an inherent
compulsion on the part of the
executive branch to hide its
mistakes, even from duly con
stituted congressional investi
gating committees and a
watchdog agency, the U. S.
General Accounting Office,
sometimes in patent violation
of law.
On the premise that such
secrecy fosters corruption,
favoritism and mismanage
ment at the very least, and
threatens arbitrary, possibly
dictatorial, government, Mol
lenhoff calls for more vigi
lance and criminal penalties
against cover-up practi
tioners. Off To Wobbly Start
Citing chapter and verse,
the author reports how stall
ing hampered the investiga
tion of tax fixing in the Tru
man administration; and he
believes the Kennedy admin
istration has got off to a
"wobbly start" in denying
Congress full information on
who was censoring the
speeches of military leaders.
But Mollenhoff indicts the
E 1 8 e n hower administration
with drawing down the heav
iest "secrecy curtain" in his
tory. It began during the Army
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1034, President Eisenhower
signed a letter refusing per
mission to a Senate commit
tee to question certain gov
ernment officials about con
ferences they had held on
what to do about Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy's assaults.
This claim of "executive
privilege" by Eisenhower be
came the precedent for some
19 government departments
and agencies to refuse to re
veal their Internal workings
to Congress and the Comp
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blanket refusal had been used
by Presidents Harding and
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Truman, Congress never
would have been able to dis
cover the Teapot Dome oil
scandal under Harding or the
tax fraud cases under Tru
man. System Threatened
"This doctrine of an 'inher
ent right' of persons in the
executive departments to re
fuse testimony or documents
threatened our whole system
of government," contends the
author of Eisenhower's May
17 letter.
"By claiming a right to
withhold all information on
opinions, conclusions, recom
mendations, or suggestions,
this doctrine could allow the
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short, the seeds of dictator
ship." Mollenhoff singles out for
special blame former Attor
ney General William P. Rog
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against government cover-ups
when Truman was in office
but who did a complete flip
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Mollenhoff notes that no
president has ever been cor
rupted and no holder of that
exalted office is likely to be,
but secrecy breeds wrong
doing at lower lev Is where
it is often hidden from the
president himself because the
government is too immense for
him to keep watch over in
this detail.
Said Excellent Reporting
"Washington Cove r-Up",
with its crisp, pull-no-punches
style, is excellent, enterpris
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should be "must" reading for
every good citizen who needs
to understand that no matter
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how popular or well-inten-:
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must not be allowed by pub-'
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secrecy.
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as a risky invitation to
snoopy fault-finders in Con
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