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|Symington Says ° He Won’t Run For President In 56 OKLAHOMA CITY # — Mis- souri's Sen. Stuart Symington yes- terday ruled himself out as a pos-| |sible Democratic nominee for \president in 1956 but joined many) lof his fellow Democrats in de-| mouncing the administration’s ag- rieultural policies. } “My sole interest,” he said, “is; in being a good senator. My politi-| cal ambition is to be the best senator possible for the people} of Missouri.” He spoke last night at a Jef- jferson-Jackson Day dinner for {state Demoerats. “In this period of critical) drought,” he declared, “the Amer-} ican cattleman and dairyman is not being given anything—and he jis not asking to be given any- ‘thin; B- ur farmers are asking to buy} feed at prices which make it pos-| sible for them to hold their cat- tle through the winter.” Symington said the administra- tion went back on a pledge by Secretary of Defense Wilson that! Tvesday, October 27, 1953 THE SEY WEST CITIZEQ Leeds To Appear At Legion Meet Special entertainment will be) provided at the regular meeting of jArthur Sawyer Post No. 28, Am-| | jerican Legion, on Wednesday eve- ning, Post Commander Bethel P. Johnson announced today. Hank, Leeds, local astrologer, will enter- tain during the meeting. Command-| er Johnson stated that the mem- bers of the Auxiliary Unit 28 and also, the wives of the Legionnaires’ jare extended an invitation to at tend. A group of new members will be obligated during a ceremony to be! conducted by the Key West Guard! ‘of Honor. RABID FOX KILLED HATTIESBURG, Miss. — A fox was tracked down and killed mear Hattiesburg after it “‘took a running start and jumped three feet high” to bite a woman. Mrs, Lua Carnes was bitten savagely yesterday on the arm. She was treated with rabies vac- cine. r incident in the It was rabid fox that has start- EXIQUIO VIDAL Key Wester Is Top Soldier At Camp Pickett . jpiloting crash-landed at nearby ino combat planes would be elim- inated by a cut in Air Force ap-| Private Exiquio Vidal, son of Mr. ~ propriations. jand Mrs, Fermin Vidal of 926 Tru- Many senators told him, he said, man Avenue, Key West, Florida, they voted for the appropriation! was named Battalion Soldier of the’ cut because of Such assurances. \Week at the Medical Replacement on backs to the camera are shown paying City.Manager Victor, while they were playing. Upon having boys expressed their desire to pay for are now the proud possessors of a ° See’y Defends Eisenhower's Press Policy He added: “The people have had enough ‘of*such deception,” and said there would be a “reckoning” when ‘Congress convenes next year. They Needed Him PHOENIX, Ariz. w\—Evangelist William Freeman was convinced here of the need for his religious services. Before he could get his tent up, burglars stole his cloth- ‘ing, gasoline and tools. knowledge acquired the previous Training Center, Camp Pickett, Va. on October 22. Private Vidal was picked from 1000 men on the basis of his per- sonal appearance, soldierly con- duct, and medical and military week. At the MRTC, the Army’s only |basic training center for medical |soldiers, he is learning the funda- |mentals of medical support of field troops and care of hospital pa- ed intensive hunts. Five of 30 fox- es killed have been found to have Cage § Repeat Escape TOPEKA, Kan. ® — Escaping from plane crashes is to be old stuff for Capt. John E. Roche, Washington, D. C. St i frst of LONG DISTANCE OPERATOR me { tell you how I received this rabies. ‘in high school, he participated in| varsity basketball and football. He was employed as a laborer for th Monroe County School system. tients. , By. DOUGLAS B. CORNELL pe the bight amas ata - WASHING’ — President more accurately y oeaoeets eonee secretary says/did in the past administration.” he thinks Washington reporters are Key West, ‘You will soon go to the polls to vote for the men whom YOU think w'! BEST SERVE you and ad- ser the affairs of YOUR CITY} she next TWO YEARS, “ill vote for a MAYOR and| » €'ty Commissioners on Tues- . November 3rd. entered the race for election ‘ {> t19 office of MAYOR, not as an|% ambitious politician seeking pres- tite or power but simply as a good citizen and business man, 4 |pected within two weeks. CHARLES R. ROBERTS ly familiar with all city operations, to meet its problems, and’ sincerely interested in the welfare progress of our home town. My long and honorable record as your former City Finance Director; you of my creel gee me to capably consider and upon the many problems of local government; the ques- mance, planning, health, a and recreation, all) of which are ultimately translated fnto social policy and administra- a I believe that the tasks confront- fog us in municipal government accomplished and el SHARLES R, ROBERTS. City Finance Director— rears of Faithful Public Ser- (Pd. Pol. Adv.) Racial Problem On that James C. Hagerty, the secretary, swords fon a television program last night) with Raymond P. Brandt, chief) They differed, too, over whether ithe administration fears and dis- “leaked” word to several news- men ahead of time that Gov. Earl Warren of California would be- comé chief justice. The two appeared on the Du bea Network’s panel, “‘The Big sue.” contended that because Brandt of the administration's attitude, its |ho relations with the press have rsened. “In the Roosevelt administra- tion,” he said, “we had politicians and college professors and those who studied government. Now, the bulk of the top men and women are business people, or military, and they have ihe idea that they can put a fait accompli (action already taken) before the people and thereby stop discussion.” Hagerty said in reply be be- lieves the administration is honest- ly trying to see that Washington mewspapermen get the news. He cited as a matter ot “considerable| importance” to them a new infor- mation order he said my be ex-; First proposed last April, Hag- erty said, the order will deny to 29 federal agencies the right to jput secrecy stamps on documents. and limit the right in 16 other) departments to the agency heads. The order is designed to replace jone former President Truman is- sued in 1951 which, in effect, told) civilian agencies to apply military} rules of security to information) which might help potential ene- Hagerty agreed with William Lawrence of the New York Times! will. LAWRENCE, Kan. —A wooden | cross was burned yesterday in front of a University of Kansas| Negro fraternity house where al sanitation,| White student plans to be initiated.|when the violator admits his error The student, Roger Lee You-! ;|Lawrence Spivak remarked that that the White House news con-| If ice at a temperature of ex- ference has become an important |2¢tly 32 degrees Fahrenheit is put institution of government, of value |into water of the same tempera- to the administration as well as/ture the ice will not melt nor will The 19-year-old soldier entered ithe Army in August of this year.| In 1952, he graduated from Key West High School and then attend- the press. But he cid not answer |the water freeze. directly a question why Eisen- hower has! “'so few press, confer- ences.” The presidential secretary said there have been 17, and'that comes ito about two’a midrith when al- lowance is made for. the. Presi- dent’s Colorado vacation. Panelist the late President Franklin D, Roosevelt had some 80 conferences in his first year in the White House. Hagerty countered with more figures. He said Roosevelt news conferences averaged 15 minutes, Truman conferences 17, while Ei- senhower’s have averaged half an ur. Longer conferences, he said, al- low more people to ask questions and leetl to a greater exchange of information. Hagerty said he couldn’t dis- agree more when Brandt said he thought one of the troubles of the present administration is “that they seem to be afraid of news- Papermen, they don’t trust them, and they don’t realize the posi- tion of the newspaper in the na- tional life.” At one point Brandt took the Position there is ‘nothing wrong witha leak” and conceded he had benefited from them himself. Spivak asked Brandt about his objection to the Brownell leak on Warren—whether it was based on the fact that it went to pro-Eisen- hower papers. “They were pro-Eisenhower Papers and it looked to me as though it ‘was a payoff of their support for Eisenhower,” Brandt replied. “Now wait a minute,” Hagerty cut in. “Wait a minute ... That last statement, Pete, is just not true.” Hagerty said he himself always} has disapproved of playing favor-} ‘ites with the press and always | Admits Error | OKLAHOMA CITY ® — Traffic} Judge James Demopolos says it isn’t often that an offender will praise the officer who gave him a ticket, and it is even more rare and offers to pay double the fine. | mans, 20, Kansas City, Kan.,| pledged the Alpha Phi Alpha fra- ternity late last year and moved into house this fall. Dr. A. M. Ewing, City University that. Demopolo: ting pulling an ‘absent-minded | ,we don’t want to make any false,ings were dropped, pointing out it i-licle said that its correspondent| The fraternity’s house manager, professor” act and drove through | Nathan Warder, said the members'a red light while daydreaming. | did not consider the incident a/ He said the professor offered to! joke, “‘but since we're uncertain|pay double the fins, about $20, to as to exactly why it was done|the cancer society if the proceed-| accusations.” | Newsman Banned In Iran) LONDON (®—The News Chron-| |was his first offense. Demopolos, always interested in a “two to one deal,” okayed the proposal. Deputy Embarrassed jin the Iranian capital of Tehran, David Walker, had been ordered} BISBEE, Ariz. (?—It deer hunt- jout of the country. lers were breaking the law, Deputy The London paper said Walker|Sheriff Bennett Moson knew he reported he was given no specific| would find them reason, but he said he had been| Both eyes-peeled for violations, questioned severai times by the/he drove onto a sume preserve. ‘Ministry of Interior about his| Suddenly a four-point buck dart- stories. jed across the road. Moson tried) ecstioniag jto swerve, ‘but there wasn’t time) exceptional 'before the collision. 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