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J THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Towers Caters to Kings, Presidents Bv GERALD S. SNYDER United Press International New York (UPD During the routine working . day of a hotel in midtown Manhattan, a casual call came into the switchboard. "Is the king in?" a man asked. "Which king do you want?" was the answer. "We have two." In the small, private world of elegant suites called the Waldorf Towers, comprising the 21st to 42nd floors of the Waldorf-Astoria, it is not too unusual to have two kings around. Recently, one king (of Laos) and one prince (of Belgium) stopped by and a full-blood rajah, maharaja, prime min ister or plain millionaire may drop in at any moment. The glamorous, exclusive and expensive apartment ho tel is the permanent home of, among others, former Presi dent Herbert Hoover, General and Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Cole Porter. It is also the place where Nikita Sergeyevlch Khrush chev got stuck in the elevator and where a Pakistani camel driver named Bashir Ahmad stayed while in town. I Ever since the Waldorf opened its doors in 1931 every president of the United States has spent some time in the towers. The four bedroom, four- bathroom presidential suite numbered 3SA and decorated with murals of scenic Ameri ca, is now unoccupied. Price to those Interested: $200 day.' It once boasted a rocking chair but President Kennedy has never slept over night, preferring the Carlyle hotel instead. "We'd love to have him here," said the tall, silver haired Towers manager, Bui' ganan-born Fioravanti Dell Agnese, who speaks six lan guages, "Mr. Dell," as he is known by almost everyone, prefers to say little about present or past tenants who have occupied some of the 118 high -rent ($12,000 to $40,000 a year) suites. He remembered French President Charles de Gaulle as "very simple, not fussy.1 "The more important a per son is, the easier he is to take care of, he said Of course, Dcll'Agncse ad mitted, many important poo pie simply don t have to both er. Evidenced by a slave once f PRINCE AT WALDORF Fioravanti Dell 'Aanesp (loin. manager of the Waldorf stands aside to let Prince Philip of .ungiana enter nn suite at tne Towers. "The more Important a person is," he says, "the easier he is to care for." (UPI) Negroes Step Up Civil Rights Drive In Mississippi City Greenwood, Mlss.-(UPII-More Negro leaders arrived today vowing to step up the civil rights campaign in this tense Mississippi delta town which has resulted in a scries of vi olent racial incidents. City authorities in this city of 20,000, which is the head quarters of the segregationist (white) citizens councils, said they would make "every rea sonable effort to prevent these Negro racial agitators from provoking race riots." There were reports the po lice department, which broke up a march on the Leflore County Courthouse here Wed ncsday and arrested 1 1 Negro ringleaders, was getting po lice reinforcements from near by communities. Shootings Plague Town Greenwood has been planned with a series of shoot ings and burnings which Ne gro leaders claim were repris als for their efforts in urging Negroes to vole. A Negro spokesman told a mass meeting Wednesday night that James Farmer of New York, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) would be here for an address tonight, lie said the Rev. Martin Lu ther King Jr. and former Negro baseball star Jackie Robinson would soon be here. "We're going to have a real revival and before we leave," said the spokesman, James Bevel of the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference, we plan to change the politi cal structure of this city." More than 100 Negroes held a campaign meeting Wednes day morning, then marched on city hall to ask for police pro tection. Turned away by May or C. E. Sampson and other of ficials, most of them re grouped several blocks away and began marching toward the county courthouse. Crowd Turned Back But police met i,icm in a business district two blocks from the courthouse. Using a police dog, officers dispersed the crowd and arrested 11 Negro leaders on charges of disturbing the peace. The 11, who were singing and praying as they wen. to Jail, had not made bond this morning and were still in custody. Only one of them lives here. Another registration cam paign meeting was scheduled for today. A spokesman said there were plans for several Negroes to try to register at the court house following the meeting, but he said no or ganized march was planned. Cook Disenchanted With Cat Measure Salem - rt'PH - Disenchant ment with the "cat" bill was voiced Wednesday by Sen. Vernon Cook (D -Gresham). The bill has been referred to Cook's Senate Military Affairs committee. Cook said "a total of one hour will be allotted to this bill , . . this is about three quarters of an hour more than the bill deserves." The bill Introduced by Rep. John Dellcnback (R Medford) would authorize counties to establish domestic cat control programs under supervision of a cat control commission. The measured parsed the Houm 32 to 28. Epithet Results In Death for Boy New York - ll'PU - A casual encounter, a muttered epithet and an angry shove added up to deatli on Wednesday for Frank Rodregucz, 9. Rodrequez' a.irailant told police he and his friend were walking on a Brooklyn pier when lliry met Rodriguez whom neither had ever seen before. According to the slory told to authorities Rodregucz ut tcred an obscene name. Angri ly. his attacker shoved Rodre gucz and the latter fell into the East river. His body was recovered la tcr in the day. The name of the attacker was not released. The police said he was 8 years old. Iodized salt is a must In chick rations for the preven tion of goiter. seen sleeping outsiae a sul tan's bedroom. Or an entour age of six - two ladies-ln-wail-ing, a dresser', a valet, a page and a footman, arriving to help Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip up to their suite. Private Entrance Located on SOth street, just off Park Avenue, the Towers has its own private entrance, lobby, elevators and special corridor connecting it with the Waldorf. It was in one of these ele vators that in 1959, while here for the opening of the United Nations, that Premier Khrushchev became stalled. Mr. Dell was the hero of the day. He stood on a stool and boosted himself to floor level to give a hand to his Russian passenger. The Premier, Mr. Dell re called, was bemused at the collapse of a "capitalistic ele vator." He had been a miner, he said, and was accustomed to things mechanical occasion ally going wrong. Under Mr. Dell's smooth management, very few things ever go wrong. As a Towers' brochure proudly puts it: "Though oth er things in the world may change, the Towers remains forever the same." Flu Outbreak Still Possible On West Coast By United Press International A chance of an outbreak of Asian flu on the West Coast is still possible, the U.S. Com municable Disease Center warned today, but the epi demic that felled thousands elsewhere in the nation has waned. A spokesman for the center la Atlanta, Ga., said the epi demic definitely had passed its crest in the eastern and midwestern states. "We are watching the West Coast," he said. "There have been isolated cases in Cali fornia but no evidence there will be an epidemic in that state." About 200 of the 4,000 eld erly patients in a state hos pital in San Joaquin county were stricken with an uniden tified respiratory ailment. In Northern California, 11 cases of influenza were reported, but the patients were sepa rated as much as 200 to 300 miles. Los Angeles epidemiologist B. A. Kogan said chances were better than 50 per cent an outbreak of Asian flu would occur in about two weeks. He said, however, there has been no undue out break of respiratory ailments so far and an escape from a siege was still possible. Washington officials con firmed the fourth case of Asian flu in the state Wednes day and studied blood speci mens that could be flu. School absenteeism was reported slightly above average by the respiratory ailment. Asian flu also was con firmed in Arizona. Idaho showed a big in crease last week in the flu. The number of reported pa tients jumped from 123 the previous week to 633. How ever, the Idaho Department of Health has not isolated the Asian strain yet. In Iowa, an outbreak of flu reached epidemic proportions In the capital city . of Dei Moines. The outbreak first ap peared about two weeks ago, City -county Health Director James F. Speers said, and was expected to last another two or three weeks. Speers said the outbreak has not been definitely typed as Asian flu but said it un doubtedly was since "it would be kind of egotistic to expect we have something different here when every other city has been having Asian flu." The hardest hit areas ear lier this year were in south western Ohio, Alabama and Baltimore, where it was be lieved the first case occurred in a military camp early in January. Plywood Group , : Discusses Market : Portland -flJPB - Members of the Douglas Fir Plywood as sociation convened Wednes day to hear the trade group's plans for capturing a larger share of the building mate rials market. 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