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FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1363
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
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TheyTl Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo
The formidable poupsome 6ets
up at 6 a.m. in order to avoi0
the crowds--
nobodvw cm take J
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so who chases twem alu cve?
the course? the creenskeeper
who's everywhere they go
That's a Joke, Son
West Traces History of Snowshoe
Sale Snafu by Army Back in 1958
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By DICK WEST
Uniiid Press International
Washington - (1)PU - This old
cattleman had an uncanny
knack of estimating the size
of a herd, and
when gome'
one asked him
how he did it,
he said:
"There's
nothing to it.
I Just count
the legs and
divide by
four."
wcit T h a t 'i a
joke, son, but I'm thinking
that the Army might have
done well to have used a sim
ilar system a few years ago
when it was ordering snow
shoes for the troops.
Somehow or other, It
wound up with 4,090 more
anowshocs than it needed, a
siluutlon that might have
been avoided by counting the
heads and multiplying by
two. i
At any rate, on a spring
day in 1D38 the Quartermast
er depot at Jcffcrsonvlllc,
lnd., advertised the 2,043
pairs ot surplus snowshocs
for sale,
Bnowthoes In May
The documents 1 have avail
able do not make clear ul
why the Army decided that
the month of May was a prop
itious time for selling snow
shocs. There is no gain saying,
however, that few things art
more surplus than snowshocs
in May.
Anyone who has ever
apent lime In the Army can
visualize for himself how the
sale came about. In the men
tal picture I get, a supply
sergeant discovers the extra
snowshocs under a pile of
mosquito netting.
Anyone who has spent
lime in the Army also can
readily understand how the
sale of the snowshocs could
wind up in a big snafu.
What happened was that
Outlet Stores, Inc., of Denver,
Colo., put in a bid to buy the
snowshocs at $8.11 per pair.
lis oner was the highest sub-
milled for 1,443 pairs. But
when the bids were opened,
the Army sold 1,345 pairs to
the Outlet Stores Co. of St.
Paul, Minn., for $3.68 per
pair.
Administrative Error
When Outlet of Colorado
Inquires as to why the Army
had accepted the smaller bid
of Outlet of Minnesota, it was
found that an "administra
tive error" had been made.
The Army attempted to re
trieve the snowshocs, but by
that time most of them hud
already been resold to some
one else.
Leonard Joseph, president
of the company, said he had
made arrangements to sell the
snowshocs he bid on for
$14.79 a pair. He claimed the
Army had done him out of
$12,644.41.
But when Ihe matter was
bucked to the U. S. comp
troller general, It was ruled
that the government was not
responsible for Joseph's theo
retical loss.
Congress now has before it
a bill to pay Joseph $1,000
for his lime and trouble as
rewards the snowshoe snafu
Regardless of how it comes
out. I will credit him with
commendable determination.
Someone less resolute would
simply have gone out and
buried himself In a snow
drift.
Operation Termed
Success on Twins
Pittsburgh -fUPII-Rose Mary
Tcmnshcnko and her twin sis
ter Ruth Ann turned their
backs on each other Thurs
day, much to the delight of
their parents.
The girls were born Siamese
twins 14 days ago, Joined at
the chest and abdomen.
1 They were transferred from
Allegheny Valley hospital at
Taronlum, Pa., to Children's
Hospital here, Wednesday, IB
surgeons separated the girls
In a four-hour operation and
later the chief resident doctor
said they should grow up to
lead normal lives.
Rose Mury and Ruth Ann
are the daughters of John
and Theresa Tcmoshcnko of
Tarcntum RD3. The couple
has three other children, two
year old twin boys and a four-year-old
girl.
Rose Mury and Ruth Ann
were delivered by Dr. A. M.
Fclchko of New Kenslnglun,
Pa., and weighed a total ot
11 pounds, 2 ounces at birth.
Dr. Fclchko also delivered
set of Siamese twins four
years ago.
Normal Lives
Dr. William B. Klcseweltcr
chief surgeon at Children's
and a memher of the operiu
Ing teams which separated the
girls, said he had "every ex
pectation that they will lead
normal lives."
V;
Is it proper
to
call for Gordon's
by name
in English Pubs?
It's not i matter of being proper. It'i
unnecessary. For when most EnRlishmen
ask for gin, they expect to get Cordon's.
After all, its distinctive dryness and deli
cate flavour have been part
of English life for 194 years.
Americans, however, have
been enjoying Cordon's
for a somewhat shorter
span of time. So it Is
wisc(and propcr)to spe
cify Cordon's by name.
Your first sip of a
Cordon's martini will
tell you why it's the big
gest selling gin over here
as well as in England
and the rest of the world.
'One twin (Rose Mary) Is
excellent and the other (Ruth
Ann) is satisfactory," he said.
Klesewcller said the girls
would go through a critical
period In the next three to
five days but added:
"If everything goes perfect
ly, they could be home in a
couple of weeks."
Mrs. Tcmoshcnko told re
porters she was 31 years old
'but I feel like 17."
She was asked to describe
the girls and said, "They're
beautiful."
Shared Liver
Kicscwcttcr said the girls
had interlocked rib cages and
shared one liver. It was
divided with each twin re
ceiving an equal portion. He
snld the girls were given com
plete blood transfusions dur
ing the operation, two pints
each.
They were token Into the
operating room at 8 a. m. EDT
and for the next two hours the
doctors went through a "dry
run." Actual surgery began
at 10 a. m. and was completed
shortly after noon.
The American Medical As
sociation said there had been
12 successful separations be
tween 1030 and lfl.1t) of twins
Joined similarly to Rose Mary
and Ruth Ann. According to
AMA records, the most com
mon successful separation oc
curs in this type of Junction.
The AMA library said there
are about 330 recorded cases
of Siamese births.
Your Money's
Worth
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, lac.
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Tax Deduction Bill
Introduced in Senate
Washington - IlTD -Sen.
George A. Smathcrs (DFla.)
Wednesday introduced legis
lation to allow federal tax
reductions for political con
tributions. One provision would per
mit small contributors to sub
tract up to $10 on an indi
vidual return and $20 on a
Joint return. A second pro
vision would allow large
contributors to deduct up to
$300.
A JOYOUS 'SIXTY-FIVE PLUS'
One late evening in September 1958, Clarence B. Ran.
dall. retired chairman of Inland Steel and then President
Eisenhower's special assistant on foreign economic policy,
was resting "supremely content with life" on a bench in
Lisbon. Portugal, when without warning he felt the dis
tress of nausea. He walked hurriedly to his hotel room,
went to bed, and for three hours suffered a violent stomach
upset. Despite the great pain, he diagnosed his illness as
"an ordinary tourist's stomachache," did not call for an
American Embassy physician. The next day he flew to
Paris for a series of high-level conferences, then on to
London to meet his wife, then back to Washington to at
tend urgent meetings, fulfill speaking engagements, etc.
It wasn't until two weeks later that he went for a
physical exam during which he had a routine cardiogram.
Instead fo catching a plane to Chicago, he was taken on a
stretcher to Walter Reed hospital. That "stomach upset" in
Lisbon had been a massive coronary thrombosis.
"How could you, of all people, be so ignorant, dare to
diagnose you own illness?" I asked the alert, trim, in-
soirincly alive 72-year-old Randall when we met in New
York City the other day.
His keen, blue-gray eyes twinkled at me. "All my
friends keep asking me that." he said, and he proceeded
with a catalogue of his "sins." He had given up ihe
periodic medical exams on which he had scrupulously
insisted during his active business years. He had become
30 pounds overweight. Although his symptoms In Lisbon
screamed of thrombosis, he had never learned the telltale
signs of a coronary occlusion, had not asked his doctor or
permitted his friends who had had heart attacks to tell
him their experiences.
Now Randall as corrected his sins, is eager to pass on to
all who will listen what his coronary taught him and in his
new book, "Sixty-Five Plus, The Joy and Challenge of the
Years of Retirement" (Atlantic Little, Brown), he remarks
"Only a man committed to folly will hereafter approach the
senior years of his life with as little understanding of coro
nary disease as I possessed."
After a brilliant career as a businessman, Randall
"retired" at 65 and promptly began an even more brilliant
career as a public servant. He worked for President Eiscn
hower on various assignments throughout Eisenhower's
administration. When President Kennedy took over the
White House, he took over Randall too, and Randall is con
tinuing to make Important policy contributions to the
country.
In between he writes books and magazine articles,
makes speeches, travels with his beloved, equally alert
wife Emily, is a thoroughly delightful individual. For all
businessmen facing retirement, Randall has advice. I think
these four points are the most significant:
(1) Start when you're between 40 and 50 to prepare for
retirement at 65. If you wait until you arc at retirement
age to cultivate other activities, to establish habits for serious
reading and to plan "The mental void that will set in can
be so dismal that not even alcohol will give it light."
(2) Also when you are still young, develop civic inter
ests which will absorb and sustain you later. Be a volun
teer work not only because you should take on social re
sponsibilities but also because this sort of work can be a
most effective antidote to boredom in retirement. "The
man who has never learned to have a significant part in
the responsibilities of the community around him before
he is 65, is doomed."
(3) Enter lustily into discussing the Issues of the day.
Businessmen who are Inarticulate and play It safe while they
are working "cannot begin at 65 to establish lines of com
munication with the public."
(4) Face squarely the fact that your senior years will
bring health problems, get competent help and learn to live
with them.
If you scoff thai Randall has unusual assets, I will retort
that I know men of equal advantages who are wretchedly
rotting away because they are idle and bored and that his
advice can be applied at almost any level of income or in
telligence. In his book, Randall mentions the "youthening of the eld
erly." "We like that," he said as he jauntily waved farewell
before taking off for Boston lo make another commencement
speech, get his 16th honorary degree and gather material for
his next book.
California Legislature Nears End
Sacramento - IUPD - Rushing
a mandatory adjournment less
than 48 hours away, tiie 10H3
legislature Thursday rushed
scores of bills toward ihe desk
of Gov. Edmund G. Rrown.
Bui most of the big prob
lems remained unsolved.
Minority Republicans
adopted a statement charging
the legislature was adjourn
ing in "an atmosphere of
chaos" and said the Demo
crats had adopted a session
long policy of "never doing
anything today that could be
put off until tomorrow."
In the frantic final hours
before adjournment at mid
night tonight the lawmakers
must act on somp of the key
bills proposed by the gov
ernor. Topping the list was the
state's $3.2 billion budget for
Ihe year beginning July l.
tied up in a Senate-Assembly
six-man conference commit
tee. As it cleared the Senate
June 12. the budget totaled
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Dennis the Menace
Hope Visits Rose
City to Plug Book
Portland - HTD - Comedian
Bob Hope paid to visit to Port
land Wednesday to plug his
new book, "I Owe Russia
$1,200."
An estimated 4,000 persons
were on hand at two stores.
He said he would return here
late in August to take part in
a benefit golf game for the
Oregon Association for Re
tarded Children.
Air Force Squadron
Leaves for Boise
Portland - OI - Oregon's
oum iroop carrier squad-1
ron of the Air Force Reserve
took off Wednesday for Boisa
to participate in simulated
combat maneuvers over Idaho.
The flight of 11 CI 19 Fly
ing Boxcars was led by Squad
ron Commander Lt. Col. Leon
ard Ranton and by Col. Ver
non Acker, commander of the)
939th Troop Carrier Group.
MV 003 64iT ALLTHS OTHER "HE AWSTA hW A HMD STW.
COSSJDENNr3!
Plans Told for New State Fair Building
Salem - d'PD - Preliminary-
plans for a new home science
and art building for the Ore
gon Slate Fair will be sub
mitted to the Fair Commission
Friday at its meeting here.
Howard Maple, State Fair
manager, said the 16,000
square foot building is expect
ed to cost about $100,000. It
is hoped to have the new
structure completed in time
for the 1965 fair, Maple said.
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