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IMljKMMV, NOVtilVlBfcH XI, 1WU MUUFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON arner Still Regrets leaving By CARLTON WILSON ' United Press International UVALDE, Tex. (UPI) -For-mer Vice President John Nance Garner, who will be 95 years old on Nov. 22, tells visitors to his small white frame house that he regrets taking the job. Gamer refers to bis giving up his post as speaker of the House in 1932 to become the running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "the worst dam fool mistake I ever made." "I left the second most Im portant job to become a waiting boy to the President in case happened," ' Garner to a anything said in an interview. "The vice resident doesn't amount hill of beans." A visitor soon learns why the bushy-browed old man was nick named "Cactus Jack" during 30 years as a congressman from south Texas. Garner still has some of the old fire, he was known for in politics. Garner gets his way, from the time he wakes up around 5 a.m. until he turns one of two television sets off at' night.: He has two sets, so he can watch two baseball games his fa- " - ' , ' n h t i M "Aj iii in V efcim a i i vorite programs at the same time. Son Tully Garner lives next door to the one -story bouse where the former - vice presi dent stays. In front is the two story brick . mansion Garner gave to the city of Uvalde In 1948. After the death of bis wife,' Ettie, that year the old man decided the house was too big for him to live in alone. Uvalde citizens turned the borne into the Garner Museum. A maid cooks and cleans house for the former vice, presi dent, and an elderly male comes over at night to be with Garner. In a sample of his hu morous outlook, Garner likes to joke that he Is the "only 90-year-old man with a 79-year-old babysitter." V Many visitors ytop by Gar ner's house, and they find him in the best mood after a late afternoon nap.- Women are es pecially welcome. Garner sel dom lets one get away without kissing her. ' They may sit and chat with the still spry Garner in straight- backed metal lawn chairs n the yard, or be invited in to a small living room' with red-flowered wallpaper, adorned with photo graphs and political memen toes.. r . - Observed Quietly . Birthdavs are usually obser ved quietly, and there may be a few special guests with a cake tomorrow. - A big' party was held five years ago, however, as 3.000 well wishers included Vice President Lyndon B. John son,: former President Harry S Truman and the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, a long-time col league of Garner in the U. S. House of Representatives. During: his 46 years in puouc life, Garner developed a repu tation as the noker-playingest, whisky-drlnkingest man ever to hold the nation's second highest office. The salty congressman was an adept politician, but no longer likes to talk about those years that ended in 1941 when Garner left the vice presidency for Texas with a vow never to cross the Potomac River again. .-"My, life 'in Washington is past tense,"' he said. "That comes under the statute of limi tations." " .!-.;... GARNER 9S FRIDAY Former Vice President John Nance Garner will be 95 years old Friday, Nov. 22. This photo shows him celebrating his 93rd birthday in 1961 and with President Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1939. (UPI). ,r r. (.-,- -w r " Short Courses Are Planned at College CORVALLIS - Three short courses have been announced . for early 1964, by the Oregon : State University School of For- estry as a service to the forest industry of uie Noruiwest. The eighth annual Variable Plot Cruising short course will be held Jan. 29 to 31. It is for practicing foresters who are interested in learning about variable plot, or wedge prism cruising. This new technique has helped to reduce the cost of determining the volume of tim ber, i The third Oregon Logging Safety Institute is scheduled Feb. 7. and 8. Planned cooper atively with the Timber Opera tors Council Inc., industrial ac cident agencies and Industrial forestry firms, the . Institute Is designed to provide practical solutions for accident preven tion in small and large size log Sing operations. The 14th annual aerial photo short course will be Marctt 23 to 27. Designed for field forest ers and engineers who use aerial nhotoaraohs in their work, the: course will cover the use of aerial photos in time and money saving situations. Registration will be announc ed by the OSU School of Forest ry approximately one month be fore eacn scheduled course. Ad ditional information may be ob tained by writing the OSU School of Forestry, Corvallis. It takes a darn good marinade to give meat gourmet flavor and juicy tenderness in just 15 minutes This is a darn good marinade .took for Adolph's Instant Meat Marinade hi tht meat section o( your market As he talked, Garner drum med the fingers of his right hand on a brown wooden dining table near his green metal chair. Edges of bis fingernails are worn ruler - straight from the habit. On top of the table is a green eye shade Garner wears at times. . He usually dresses in khakis but puts on a coat and tie once in a while. The citizens of Uvalde, a town 75 miles west of San Antonio with a popula tion of 10,370, are used to seeing Garner riding around town in an old truck driven by 74-year- old Lucas Zamoro, his friend and bandy man. 1 ! Garner lives modestly but is a wealthy man. In the last two years he has given more than $1 million of his fortune to Southwest Texas Junior College at Uvalde, a school of about 600 students. "I'm 'for education," he said, recalling that in the 1890's he had been superintendent of Uvalde County public schools. "I don't want these kids around here to have to suck on the hind tit when it comes to getting a good education." ; Congress For vice Presidency . Garner was also Uvalde coun ty judge in 1895, winning an election in which he was criti cized for playing poker. One of the most vehement critics was a neighboring ranch woman, Miss Marietta Rheiner. She had a change of heart about Garner after the election, and they were married. Their only child, Tully, now 65, is a Uvalde binker. "Cactus Jack" moved from county judge to the state legislature and then to Washington as a Congresssman in 1903. ' He was elected speaker in 1091 on1 Aurina hla firnt WMlc pounded four gavels to splin ters, darner ngurea in we an balloting for the Democratic oresidential nomination, but threw in with Roosevelt and became vice president. ; Split With Roosevelt Roosevelt and Garner split over the third term issue in 1940, and "Cactus Jack" got out of public life. He came home to TavDt in niiltAP Arnlifift the. house, feed the chickens, hunt deer, care tor pecan trees ana read. Doctors advised him a 1 few years ago to give up cigars and whisky. Gamer switched from Bourbon to grapefruit juice, but kept on, smoking. His favorite pastime is puffing on a strong Mexican cigar. ; He will offer a drink to visit ors, with an invitation to "strike a blow for liberty." And if they are from Texas, Garner will ask if a visitor was born in the state.' -, t' ', , "Native Texans stand a little higher than the rest," he re marked. ! " ' ' Garner himself was a native son of the Lone Star State, "born in a mud-chinked log cabin near the town of Detroit in Red River County on Nov. 22, 1868. His par ents, John and Sarah ; Guest Garner, were of Scotch .Irish descent. Schools were far srway, and much of Garner's education was self-taught. That explains bis gifts to the junior college. . Reflecting on bis political campaigns, Garner said: "The only promise I -ever made was to say: 'Boys, IU1 do the best I can.' If you are honest and intelligent, that is the only platform you need to have." OCEAN FRESH (RABMEAT $189 LB. "MEDFORD'S FINEST MEATS SINCE 1940 II We Feature Only U.S. Inspected Fancy No. 1 Turkeys-Chickens Ducks--Geese--Capons j and Cornish Hens. ALL AD PRICES EFFECTIVE THROUGH TIIAIIKSGIVIIIG FANCY TURKEYS- "SWIFT'S PREMIUM" "SWIFT'S PREMIUM" "SWIFT'S PREMIUM" ' "SWIFT'S PREMIUM" BUTTERBALL BUTTERBALL. . . BUTTERBALL BUTTERBALL . HEMS TOMS HEMS TOMS FRESH FROZEN . 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