THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1963
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Accelerated Works Program Projects Total S22 Million
ar- w Maw . 3. . ...!., onn nno.000 to help finance
these additional projects, a
number of which are located
in southwest Oregon.
Washington - More than $2
million has already been allo
cated for projects in Oregon's
Fourth district through the
Accelerated Public Works pro
gram which was signed into
law by President Kennedy
last September, according to
Congressman Robert B. Dun
can (D-Ore.).
The Accelerated Public
Works program was created
in part to help ease unem
ployment in depressed areas
by providing immediate use
ful work for the unemployed
and under-employed, Duncan
added.
The most recent projects
approved for the Fourth dis
trict involve sewage treat
ment plants: one at Cave
Junction for a sewage treat
ment plant and interceptor
sewer, with the Federal gov
ernment providing $16,730 of
the total cost of $33,461; and
the other in the North Rose
burg Sanitary district for ex
pansion of a sewage treatment
plant, with the Federal gov
ernment providing $140,500
of the total $281,000 required
for the work.
To date, projects in the
Fourth district have been ap
proved, for Josephine, Coos,
Douglas, Linn and Curry
counties. Areas in all of these
counties have been classified
by the Federal Government's
Area Redevelopment admin
istration as Having high rates
of unemployment.
Duncan also noted that
some of the most recent allot
ments included more than $1
million in road-building jobs
on public lands in Western Or
egon to speed the salvage of
millions of board feet of valu
able timber downed by the
heavy storm of October, 1962
"These projec ts have done
more than provide much-needed
employment in those areas
with a high rate of unemploy
ment," Duncan said. "They
have initiated and expedited
state, local and Federal public
works projects of lasting val
ue to the district."
In addition to allocations al-
G. fAennen Williams On Visit To Congo
Leopoldville, The Congo -
OJPH-G. Mennen Williams, U.S.
assistant secretary of state for
African affairs, began a four
day visit to the Congo today.
The visit was Williams'
fourth since the Congo be
came independent in 1961.
He arrived Wednesday night
from Nigeria on a tour of
African countries.
readv made, at least one proj
ect now pending would add
$15,000 for forest work in
Douglas county.
Duncan also noted that doz
ens of other projects are "in
the pipeline" at local or re
gional levels, and others are :
pending in Washington be- j
ing processed by the various i
agencies which are participat-:
ing in the Accelerated Public i
Works program. A few have j
been deferred until more
funds are made available by i
Congress.
At the present time, plans
are being made on Capitol
Hill to push for early action
on a new appropriation of i
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ADMIRES DECORATIONS-Prcsident Ken
nedy admires the decorations on the uni
form of Earl Mountbatten, chief of the
British Defense Staff, during a White House
meeting. Mountbatten arrived for confer
ences at the Pentagon and with the Presi
dent. At left is Gen. Maxwell Taylor, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (UPI)
The Inside Story
Revival of Theodore Roosevelt's
Directive Blamed for Hiking Binge
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By DICK WEST
Washington -(UPD- As every
one in the entire, every-loving
ambulatory world must know
by now, America is on a hik
ing binge. Xne
way things
are going,
hiking will
become the
biggest fad
since flagpole
I sitting. Some
f JK I PePle appar-
i atVi I entIv are Just
haV j., aaal now discover-
west Ing that they
have feet. It all started, of
course, with President Ken
nedy's revival of an old Theo
dore Roosevelt directive fix
ing a three-day, 30-mile hike
as a fitness test for military
officers.
Would you like to hear the
true, inside story of what was
hchind the original directive?
Very well. Just stay right
there In your easy chair and
1 will give you the scoop.
Roosevelt was never exact
ly a 98-pound weakling, but
he did have what mi slit be
described as a "Charles Atlas
complex.
As a youth, according lo
his autobiography, he was
"rather sickly and awk
ward" and "quite unable to
hold my own when thrown
into contact with other boys
of rougher antecedents."
If Alias, the famous body
builder, had been in business
at the time, young Teddy
probably would have enroll
ed in his correspondence
course in muscle develop
ment. But he lived in the primi
tive era before Atlas invented
"dynamic tension," so he was
forced lo create a physical
culture program of his own.
For several years, Roose
velt went in big for wrestling.
While governor of New York,
lie billed the stale for a wres
tling mat, but the expense was
disallowed by Ihe comptrol
ler, who took the position that
it was not a "proper guberna
torial amusement."
Roosevelt next took up
boxing, but abandoned it
after a poke in the eye rup
tured some blood vessels.
He was by then getting pret
ty old, so he turned to less
strenuous exerciso - ju-jil-su.
It was his high regard for
what he called "the vigor of
life" that prompted him to
Issue the hiking directive. The
armed forces were dismayed
by the order and did all they
could to circumvent it.
But Roosevelt himself said
It was "a test which many a
healthy middle-aged woman
would be able to meet."
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To prove his point, he often
went on hikes with an ath
letic group known as the
"tennis cabinet." When they
came to a river, they didn't
bother with bridges. They
swam across.
"If we swam the Potomac,
we usually took off our
clothes," Roosevelt recalled.
On one occasion the French
ambassador joined the hike
and as they were about to
swim the river someone no
ticed that he was still wearing
his gloves.
7. think I will leave them
on, said the proper but oth
erwise naked envoy, "We
might meet ladies."
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VOICES OPTIMISM - Negotintior James B. Donovan, shown
addressing the Washington, D.C., Bar Association, said he was
very optimistic" all of the Americans being held in Cuba
would be released soon. Donovan, who helped negotiate with
Fidel Castro for release of the Cubun invasiun prisoners, said
he would return to Havana within a few weeks to continue
talks on release ot the Americans. (UPI)
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