The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 11, 1953, Page 10

Page-10 THE-KEY WEST CITIZEN NOW--IF I CAN HOLD THEM OFF LONG ENOUGH TO GET INSIDE MY ROCKET- Thursday, June 11, 1953 MADE IT! THERE'S ENOUGH FUEL LEFT FOR A TAKE-OFF? THEIR LITTLE WEAPONS CAN'T STOP THIS BIG ‘THE STRATO-MEN HURRIEDLY BRING OUT THEIR BIG ARTILLERY! THEY DON'T WANTHIM TO ESCAPE. RED SUODENLY SHIFTS HIS ATTACH TO THE HEAD..HE STAGGERS BEN WITH A POWER= FUL RIGHT TO THE JAW.» BEN’S IN ever gad WOLNWHd 3HL NVISIDVW JHL ANVYAGNVW 1 GIX OOSID 7 i] N > z= * cal ™ Behind-The-Scenes Glimpse . . . President’s Aides Have Full-Time Tasks By SIGRID ARNE AP.Newsfeatures Writer =| WASHINGTON w—Five minutes ()| before noon senators pour from the Capitol elevator that brings them to the Senate floor. Talk hums as another lawmaking day starts. Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons whisks around a corner, his lively dark eyes scanning the crowd. A senator bellow greets him: “Jerry, where’ve you been? Been trying to get you.” Persons and the jovial senator now, heads a four - man White House team that keeps congres- sional leaders abreast of what President Eisenhower is thinking and doing and keeps his boss filled in on how Congress feels. Persons and the jovial enator edge into a corner to talk. Three other senators join the group. One remarks, “But, Jerry, I’ve been told otherwise. Have you any figures?” Persons hauls three sheets of paper from his pocket and the group pores over them. The Senate opening bell rings unheeded. “That's different,” says one man, “Can I borrow these? I’m speaking this afternoon.” This scene is repeated dozens of times a day as “Jerry” Persons (nobody knows where that “Jerry” came from) and his team talk, talk, talk with congressmen. The three others on his team are: Homer H. Gruenther, brother of Gen. Alfred Gruenther, who has just been named chief of the North Atlantic treaty armed forces. Gruenther specializes on talks with senators. “I see four each day,” he says, “and just chat.” Bryce N. Harlow, who specializes. on the House, Gerald D. Morgan, a lawyer who is expert at drafting legislation. Persons’ job, frankly, is a form of lobbying. Other presidents have ©) had aides who saw congressional leaders on special bills, or experts who worked on one phase of policy, = a tm | like foreign affairs. z This is the first time the White House has had a regular staff which visits Congress day in and | day out to talk across the board =} on congressional problems. Tall, graying Gruenhter de scribes the job: “We--the team--stay with every step of a new law sponsored by the White House. The first draft is often turned out in our office, by Morgan. We take it to Congress to see how the leaders feel. We don’t concentrate on Republicans. We see Democrats, too. “Often we run into men who want changes here and there. We | take them back to the White House to be ironed out.” Doesn't all this talk about a bill being written mean news of it Jeaks before it is presented? 4 M‘Why sure,” he said. “What's : $wrong with that? It gives everyone avehance to think about it. The ?4giaetion gives President Eisenhow- , am opportunity to know how ‘people feel. We are not in the There have been times in the past when even leaders of the g surprise business.” & 2 @jmajority party in Congress have $2} been left out of White House plan- “There is no sign that Person is swapping favors,"’ says one man. “Sure, sometimes a patronage re- quest comes up. Persons can take that back to the White House and I suppose it helps, but it doesn’t necessarily nail the job.” Gruenther worked for former. Sen. Edward R. Burke (R-Neb from 1933 to 1940. He took time out to campaign for Wendell Will- Rep. Volie Denies Calling Florida Senate ‘A Racket’ SANFORD w—Rep. Volie Wil liams, Sanford, has denied calling the state Senate “a racket.” an Associated Press account of a civic club talk here Monday. Tuesday: | tions. One of them concerned the Sam Davis episode. “During my discussion of that matter I did state that the prac- ice of referring legislative bills to committees having absolutely nothing to do with the subject mat ter of the bill wzs ‘the darndest | racket you ever saw." “I stand by that statement “I know now what Sam Davis/ was talking about when he stated j me excitement created by his talk j to the Tampa realtors really con | cerned only a short observation be made in passing and like Sam, i! have the marked proclivity of i ing able to get myself in encagh i ible without the uninvited belp an over-ager reporter.” | Board of Realtors the Senate was jtun by a clique of six men. Davis {sald a reporter had played up s minor reference be made iz pass ing. He telegraphed regrets to Gow ‘MeCarty and the Senate. . He was quoted to that effect in| Williams said in a statement | they'd “I spoke to the Rotary Club for | } 20. minutes and yielded to ques-| | Davis resigned as state bever-; ge director last week amid « Sen- | te uproar after telling the Tampa | kie and then worked for the late Sen. Kenneth S, Wherry (R-Neb). He had known Eisenhower for several years and was asked: to join the campaign train to taki charge of correspondence and vis- itors. Jerry Persons, boss of the team, is thin, wiry, 56 and happy. He sees from four to 50 persons a day, and if he’s in his office his phone calls average 50 to 75 a day. He never seems ruffled. From Capitol policeman to cabinet mem ber, faces light up when he’s mentioned. His brother Gordon, governor of Alabama, stayed with Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Persons began as an Army en- gineer, fought in World War I, served at many Army posts, “By World War II Jerry knew practically everyone in Washing- ton,” says Col. Paul T. Carroll, White House military liaison officer “So Gen. Marshall (Gen. George C. Marshall, wartime chief of staff) asked him to pilot all the military bills through Congress. He did all through World War II and then retired.” Harlow worked with Persons at the Pentagon through World War IL. Short, slight, fair and only 36, he has a young family of three, two girls and a boy. Harlow has worked on Capitol Hill since he was 21. He came here as secretary to former Rep. Wesley E. Disney (D-Okla). After Army duty, Harlow headed for home and the family text - book publishing business in Okla- homa City. In 1947 the military unXication bill was passed. Persons phoned “Come on up and help.” Harlow became secretary of the new House Armed Services Com- mittee. He had agreed to come for a “short time,” stayed until 1952. After election Persons called again: “Come and help on this White House job.” Gerald Morgan, slim and dynam- ic like his boss, is 44, with thick gray hair and deep gray eyes. He’s the expert on drafting laws, That takes a great deal of research and a great deal of running back and forth to the Capitol to see how congressional leaders react. Born in New York, Morgan graduated from Fyinceton in 1930 and from Harvard Law School in 1933, In 1935 he began drafting laws on the staff of the House legislative council. In 1946 he left to enter private practice. His White House job meant a big cut in income. planets Break With Tradition ROANOKE, Va. — Voters of Roanoke have elected a woman to the City Council for the first time in history, Mrs. Mary C. Pickett, a 45-year- old grandmother, received 4,454 votes—1,500 more than her closest competitor—to lead the field in a race for two seats on the Council yesterday, TO KISS, Chapter 3 fe be found his shirt and put it 4 on and buttoned it wrong the first time and had to unbutton and button it again. The knot in his tie refused to give. He worked on it until he was as wet with sweat as he had been in the bath- room and finally slipped it ove his head and let it hang at a crazy angle, hoping his coat wou! cover it. His suit coat was’ dry but hi topcoat was still sodden with rain He put them on, picked up hb hat from the floor, where it he~ lain since the hood had slugge: him, and started out the door be- Boks he realized that he was bare- loot, He found his socks and shoes and put them on. They were still wet. Out in the hall, he closed his door and leaned against it, trying to breathe normally, look- ing at the elevator bank. A man and a woman in evening clothes were waiting for an elevator. Mandell wanted to wait until gone up or down couldn't He to get out of hotel. The woman arched an eyebrow at the man as he joined them. Mandell pretended not to see it. So the woman knew he was drunk. | So what? She shpuld see what was in his bathroom. In the eje- vator, he took up as little space as he could and was careful to remove his hat. The crowd in the lobby had thinned with the break in the weather. He stepped azide to al- low the afraid to walk through the lobby to the street The elevator girl was colored and pretty. She touched his arm and said, “Mr. Mandell“ His muscles tensed to the ot Mendel) canal te head and ed et the girl over his shoulder. “Yeah?” She smiled and held out a small black book. “My husband's a great admirer of yours He's seen every one of your fights in Chi- cags. And when I told him you were checked im st the hotel. he asked me to ask Fou if you would cave sign Big autograph book * Would you, pleam, Mr. Mange?” ‘ and |s! the Union Contract Helps Employes CHICAGO (#—A radio and phono- graph. manufacturing company has signed a union contract providing that employes after 10 years of service will get a year’s vacation with pay or double pay for time worked during the year. Paul M. Davidson, president of Hedeo Mfg. Co., said the contract signed Tuesday with the AFL Electrical Workery Union was made in the hopes of reducing employe turnover and attracting new employes. The firm has 155 employes, mostly women. Davidson said few of the em- Ployes have been on the job more than two years. The contract also provides for one-half week’s vacation for work- ers employed up to one year; one week for up to two years” service, and two weeks for service between two years afd 10 years. The full year’s vacation or double pay is to be granted every 10th year, The job of “plain citizen” keeps Truman busy. i Crossword Puzzle ACROSS t Male _ a Frequen' ly 8. Take one’s anes ing $2. Fenei sw “4. Past 5. Rodent 27. Body of men 38, Fastens 40. Intended 43, More dis- able 47. Rel ee oEEeee? i Mandell reached automatically for his pen. “Yeah. Sure. I'll be glad to. He scribbled his name in the > over a scrawled “Best wishes.” “Thank you so much,” the girl said. eg pind — his nees givin wi 520, each » ay mile ing The stew even lon hen he realised that s thin fosed counter was wa’ with interest. A lum; Mandell’s throat trouble swallowi needed to tell him. thin-faced man house Popes to the door. It more attention doubted that felt as if he were incline th: if the Then he was out on Randolph Street. sucking in lungeful of cold air. The hotel night doorman, # former fighter, recognized him and insisted on shaking hands “This is swell. I'm to see you, 3 told me were stopping wit! a His con- cern was genuine. “How's it going, fellow?” 4 “Fine,” Mandell lied. “Just fine.” ¥ “TE see you walked out A group walked by their wake At jot the room. He was hotel Then he remembered the walter the last of for the pint. All j some allver, He icrowd and teened window of a Sarist's ihow crazy could a mag get? University Fires Department Head RENO. (#—The University of Nevada regents Tuesday fired a department head for what one regent called “‘a deliberate attempt - undermine the university presi- lent.” Dr. Frank Richardson, $5,100-a- year chairman of. the biology de- partment and a faculty member of 12 years, called his ‘dismissal “aq mockery of justice.” Richardson was ac specific. ally of trying. to defeat Dr. Minard W. Stout’s new policy of the university to any Nevade hick school graduate, without any schol- astic requirement. or entrance exam. oo came here Jast fall from e University of Minnesota, where he was a professor of education, Chief charge against : Richard- son at a recent hearing by ‘the Tegents was that he circulated a magazine article by history profes- sor Arthur E. Restor. of the Uni- versity of Illinois which opposed easy university admissions, such a Stout just had wou here. 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