The General and the First Lady Will
Trade the White House for Their Farm
By Joy Miller
Associated Press Womey’s Editor
NEW YORK UP) — “The Gen
eral and I feel like children just
released from school,” wrote the
First Lady shortly before her hus
band stepped out of office to re
tire to their country home.
That was 164 years ago, the
President’s wife was Martha
Washington.
But you can almost hear
Mamie Eisenhower saying it, as
she and the General prepare to
leave Washington for their 500
acre farm at Gettysburg, Pa.
It’s the first home they’ve ever
owned, and Mrs. Eisenhower
probably is eager to trade the
responsibilities that go with run
ning the 107-room White House
for the joys of puttering around
her own house. “I’ve been su
premely happy as a housewife,”
she has said—and she wants to
be one again.
She will be something more
than that however, from a his
toric viewpoint. At 64 Mamie Ei
senhower will be the youngest
of four living former First Ladies,
sharing the distinction with Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Harry Tru
man.
Elaborate Attire
The oldest is Edith Bolling Balt
Wilson, now 88, who still lives in
Washington in the 26-room house
her husband bought in 1921 when
he left the White House. He died
there three years later.
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A large woman who likes some
what elaborate clothes, Mrs. Wil
son comes out of seclusion rarely
these days except for ceremonial
occasions.
A Dynamo
The next oldest former First
Lady maintains a schedule that
would exhaust a woman half her
age. At 76, Eleanor Roosevelt is
still a dynamo of activity.
She travels extensively, makes
innumerable speeches, writes a
daily newspaper column and
monthly magazine feature, lec
tures on international relations,
appears on radio and television,
answers a steady stream of mail
with meticulous care and works
hard for her favorite causes, par
ticularly the American Associa
tion for the United Nations and
the Democratic Party.
She spends her summers mostly
at the family home in Hyde Park,
N. Y., and her winters in a New
York apartment. Sometimes she
makes disparaging remarks about
her memory, but she never for
gets a birthday or anniversary of
her large family of children,
grandchildren, great-grandchil
dren.
Family-Minded
Also family-minded is Bess
Truman, now living quietly with
the former President in their ramb
ling home in Independence, Mo.
She runs the household, shops,
plays bridge with her friends. Oc
casionally they come to New York
to visit their daughter Margaret,
her husband Clifton Daniel, and
their two young sons.
Now 75, Mrs. Truman has
avoided publicity perhaps more
than any other First Lay in re
cent years. She once said that
good health and a well developed
sense of humor are the greatest
assets for a President’s wife.
Other First Ladies undoubtedly
concur.
The good old days: In 1834 Del
monico’s, later a world-renowned
restaurant, printed the first known
bill of fare in this country. . . .
Sample items: Cup of coffee, one
cent; soup, two cents; beef stew,
four cents; ham and eggs or
roast chicken, a dime — and a
full meal 12 cents! (You could
have dinner for two—and leave
the grateful waiter a penny tip—
for what it now costs to check
your hat.)
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The Gold Question
Why Store li in
Foreign Conn tries?
By Sam Dawson
Associated Press Business News Analyst
NEW YORK (i'P) — The average
American, who hasn’t held any
gold coins or gold certificates
since 1934, may be surprised to ,
learn some of his neighbors do j
own gold—and just been told to
get rid of it.
Where did they get it? Where
do they keep it? And why do
they want it instead of dollars
they could spend at home?
Until President Eisenhower
ordered them to stop buying and
owning it abroad, they could
legally buy gold bars in Canada,
on the London free market, in
Zurich, Switzerland, or in West
Germany, France, The Nether
lands and other European coun
tries where buying and holding
gold is regulated but not forbid
den as it has been in the United
States since 1934.
More often than not Americans
paid more for their gold than the
official U. S. price of $35 an
ounce.
The Americans who bought gold
had to keep it outside the United
States because of our laws res
tricting most buying and owning
of gold to use in industry and
the arts. Americans could leave
their gold with the Canadian
banks that sold it to them, or in
the care of European banks or
gold brokers. In the case of the
Swiss banks, their accounts could
have the added secrecy of being
known only by a number, rather
than by the holder’s name.
Why Store Gold?
Why did they want gold? They
couldn’t bring it home. It cost
them storage charges, while their
dollars would have brought them
interest if lent or profits if put
in successful business enter
prises. ■*
Some probably bought gold in
the belief that the official price
would go up eventually and they
would make a profit. Repeated
denials by U. S. authorities that
the price would be changed didn’t
budge some gold holders from
this belief.
Many with business, operations
overseas found gold handy during
the frequent currency crisis in
other lands in the postwar years.
The metal was more stable and
always acceptable. And often the
local currencies fluctuated widely
in relation to the U. S. dollar
and sometimes couldn’t be ex
changed for it at all.
In recent months gold buying
has been spurred by the repeated
rumors that the steady loss of
gold by the U. S. Treasury in the
last three years might weaken
the dollar’s status and thus could
lead to raising the official price.
The loss of gold had come about
because for three years the
American government and citi
zens have been sending more dol
lars abroad than they’ve been
getting back. Foreign countries
with surplus dollars have turned
some of them into gold at the
U. S. Treasury.
The Treasury, backed by most
banking officials here and abroad,
denies the dollar is in any dan
ger or that devaluation through
raising the price of gold is like
ly or necessary, or desirable.
The presidential order forbid
ding U. S. citizens to own gold
abroad is a step to help halt the
outflow of gold. It coincides with
uncertainty as to how much
spending the new Congress may
authorize, and whether a big de
ficit could lower further the pur
chasing power of the dollar, and
make devaluation a possibility,
even if an improbability.
j MRS. ULLOA VISITS HERE
A visitor in town this week is
j Mrs. Ferdinand D. Ulloa, from
Wales. Mr. Ulloa is with the U. S.
Naval Field Station at Wales and
I has been there since 1959.
Legislative Council To'd
State Employes Entitled
To Salary Increase
JUNEAU OF — The Legislative
Council was told Thursday that
state employes need an immedi
ate 17Vfe per cent salary increase
to hold even in wages with their
counterparts in the federal gov
ernment.
Leonard Evans, representing the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employes,
said the union realizes the state
is “in bad shape financially, but
state employes haven’t had a
salary adjustment since 1953.”
Evans also said the union was
seeking employment security cov
erage for state employes, time
and a half for overtime work and
a “true Civil Service Commission.”
On employment security cover
age, Evans said the union favored
ihe Federal Plan, where the gov
ernment reimburses its agencies
for actual employment security
benefits paid to former employes.
Under that plan, the state and
its employes would not contribute
to the Employment Security
Fund. The money to pay for the
■benefits would be tax moneys
which would come directly from
the state’s general fund.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
No. 60-48-P
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
ERNEST G. BALL, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
William Hoogendorn of Nome, Alaska,
has been duly appointed Administrator
of the Estate of Ernest G. Ball, deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate shall present them, in proper
legal form, with vouchers attached, to
the said Administrator at Nome, Alas
ka. within a period of six (61 months
from the date of this notice.
DATED this 5th day of January, 1961.
WILLIAM HOOGENDORN.
Administrator
| Virgil D. Vochoska,
I Attorney for Administrator.
Publish Jan. 6, 13, 20. 27. 1961.
Lee Johnson Director of
Tourism Division Resigns
JUNEAU U’t — .State Commmis
sioner A. H. Romick Thursday
announced the resignation of Lee
A. Johnson as director of the
State Division of Tourism and
Economic Development.
Morris Ford, public informa
tion officer for the Division of
Highways at Anchorage, was
named to succeed Johnson, who
set no actual date for his resig
nation.
Johnson, whose work as director
of the State’s Tourist Promotion
Program came under severe fire
during a meeting of Tourist In
dustry leaders here last Novem
ber, said he would remain in his
office long enough to familiarize
Ford with programs now being
carried out by the division.
The post director of the State
Division of Tourism and Econo
mic Development pays an annual
salary of $10,800.
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