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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.
Spokesmen for the DFPA,
its members and builders em
phasized the market poten
ital for factory-finished ply
wood. ,
William Hunt, vice presi
dent of Georgia Pacific Corp;,
told the manufacturers that
builders must have materials
that do not require mainte
nance. - ;
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