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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON flirish UoU ut ir.ee dti Csnrpeft ,fdif THURSDAY. JUNE 27. I Ml SEEK KENNEDY LOOK The family re- tant relatives of U.S. President John F. semblance may not be too obvious, but Mrs. Kennedy. A visit to his ancestral home here Mary Ryan and most of her neighobrs in is expected to be one of the highlights of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, are dis- the chief executive's tour of Ireland. (UPI) By DONAL O'HIGGINS United Presi International Dublin -WTO- They're rollin' out the green carpet all over this Emerald Isle for the ex pected visit of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a return ing son of Erin whose great grandfather set sail for the New World more ' than- 100 years ago. In the-little river-port com munity of New Ross, in Coun ty Wexford, a special platform has been erected to ceremo niously welcome the President near the old cobblestone quay side where young Patrick Kennedy left in the mid-I9th century.' New Ross, which will play host to the President during his planned stay June 26-29, is the most important town in the country today. But here in Dublin, in Cork, in Galway and in tiny villages through out the country, the bunting is going up ("Dead Mile Faille" it says in Gaelic - "100,000 Welcomes") for what may be the warmest reception ever given a visiting head of state. "It is going to be the great est reception in living mem ory," said Andy Minihan, chief organizer of the New Ross welcome. Just about four miles from that ancient town lies the small cluster of houses known as Dunganstown where Mrs. Mary Ryan, a third cousin of the American president, is the proud keeper of the ancestral Kennedy birthplace. It was from a tiny, red painted little dwelling with a galvanized red roof (where once there was a thatched cov ering) that young Patrick Kennedy set out for the immi grant ship. It was there Presi dent Kennedy's forebears lived at the time the great po tato famine decimated the Irish and drove them in tens of thousands to find a' new life in the United States. Mrs. Ryan loves to chat about her famous kinsman, whom she has met twice al ready, but she said she is not planning anything special for her next meeting. "He knows what we are like and how we live and, somehow, I think he would be disappointed to find things all fussed up when he gets here," she said. President Kennedy is as Irish as all get out and people are, indeed, getting "fussed up" over him however. But, despite some still-live hopes, he doesn't plan to kiss the Blarney Stone. In fact, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who went to Ireland last month to make trip arrangements, said the President would not go to Blarney Castle, home of the famous stone. The Chief Ex ecutive's back condition and the acrobatics involved in kissing the stone would keep the President from trying it. echoed to the marching feet of bowmen, archers and Oliver C r o m well's soldiers. The most famous landmark is the defiant statue of the "croppy boy" with right hand aloft, trailing the Irish flag, which commemorates the bloody battle of 1798 in which New Ross, the military key to the whole province of Mun- ster, was nearly 'destroyed by fire. But today there is a new atmosphere in the town. The ancient landmarks, traditions and symbols of a freedom hard-won and dearly-held, are I tourists. Busts of the President happy to share pride of place are on sale everywhere, with the Stars and Stripes, About half mile down the emblem of the adopted land twisting road from Dungans of the town's most illustrious j town, is a two-story house family. where James Kennedy and In the shops, in the hotels his wife live with their four and in private homes one I children - Anna,' Patrick, finds the American tl a g Peggy and Kitty. 1 proudly on show and treated with the same honor afforded the Irish tricolor. And with the new aware ness of its kinship with the United States, has come a new prosperity to the town in the form of thousands of eager James is Mary's brother and shares with her the honor of being the closest Irish rcla tives of the President. Ken nedy, when he visited Ireland as a U.S. Senator, succeded in locating James and his family for a chat. Edward Keane, a genealo gist who is an official of the national library in Dublin, has been tracing the Kennedy family tree from official par ish records, tombstones and other documents. "The Kennedys of the Presl dent's stock have been in the Dunganstown (Wexford) area for more than 200 years - 100 years before Patrick moved out and 100 years since," he said. "Patrick's family had 2T acres of good arable land in 1824 and two adjoining Ken- D 5 jCeoDonedv nedy farms had a total acre age of 80 acres. "In the famine days it was the landless men and the la borers who either died from hunger or wera forced to emigrate. The Kennedy fam ily certainly could not be in cluded in those classes. They were fairly substantial, strong farmers." Vandenberg AFBTCalif. -01PD - The Air Force launched a satellite, presumably of the Discoverer scries, Wednesday from this Pacific missile range base. PRIZE FILM PREMIERED New York - JPU - The prize winning Russian film "My Name Is Ivan" had its premiere here Wednesday night before an audience of 40 UN ambassadors and stars of stage and screen. , lie who would kiss the stone must climb to the top of the old castle and lie flat on his back, grasp two up right iron bars and let a sturdy local boy hold onto his ankles. Then he inches his body through an opening above which rests the stone. Next, his eyes facing the sky, the nape of his neck pro jecting toward the trees be low, he must trust to the firm pair of Irish hands to haul him to safety by the ankles. Is it worth it? The Irish poets think so. One wrote: "There is a stone that whoever kisses Oh. he never misses to grow eloquent, Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber Or become a member of Par liament." Quipped one Dublincr: The eloquence that the legendary stone is said to bequeath "would help solve some of his (the President's) 1964 election problems." Perched atop a steep hill overlooking the River Barrow and lying some 90 miles south east of Dublin, New Ross boasts a proud tradition of Irish fighting lore. With its population of just under 5,000, the outward appearance ol the town was changed little in the years since President Kennedy's great grandfather lived there. Many of the streets once FITTS CSSot& Poultry 131 West Main FRESH HALIBUT Sliced 59 lb. SALMON Silver Whole Fish 591 SWORDFISH STEAKS 89 SALMON By the Piece 69t California LOBSTER Cooked-Cleaned Split 1-1'ilb. Each $ 1.89 Phone 773-8497 HALIBUT CHEEKS Fresh 89 lb. RED SNAPPER FILLET 39c lb. Columbia River STURGEON IT 98.b. LING COD Fr..h-By Crf the Piece Jimr lb. FRESH FISH COLORED STEW HENS 29 Cut Up GIBLETS From Fresh local Fryers 39 lb. FRESH RANCH EGGS GRADE AA Small-Med. 2 Doz. 59c NOSE BITER FINED London -JUPU George Sand ford, window cleaner, was fined $14 Tuesday for biting; the nose of Alfred Nosworthy, who had pushed past him in a bus line. 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