McKAY TO LEAVE INTERIOR POST
TO SEEK MORSE S SENATE SEAT
Falling Thermometer
Raises Exam Grades
BOSTON, l/P—The' thermome
ter’s falling mercury made the
marks rise for some 300 men and
women who took Massachusetts
Bar exams last December.
Chairman Walter Powers an
nounced Friday 10 percent would
be added to candidate scores be
cause the classrooms were so
chilly they had to keep on over
coats while taking the tests.
He blamed a faulty heating sys
tem and falling temperatures for
the unusual upgrading.
Facts Urged in
Campaign Falk of
Federal Workers
WASHINGTON^--Philip Young,
chairman of the Civil Service
Commission, Saturday appealed to
both Republican and Democratic
leaders to “stick to the facts”
when talking about federal em
ployes.
Young cautioned that “unin
formed charges sometimes made
against federal employes as a
class during the heat of political
campaigns can do great disservice
to the nation by impairing pres
tige and morale of the federal
work force.”
The civil service chief cited
what he said were “improvements
of recent years in the govern
ment’s personnel program.” Some
of the improvements he listed:
1. A new appointment system
which he said “reopened the gate
way to true careers in govern
ment.”
2. Extension of civil service to
overseas jobs on a worldwide
basis.
3. An incentive awards program
which Young said created a new
partnership between federal man
agement and employes.
Bulganin Says
Peace Toasts W ere
Result of Martinis
MOSCOW —Premier Bulgan
in says the olive branch of peace
emerged from a martini cocktail
when he and President Eisen
hower swapped friendship toasts
at the Geneva summit conference.
“President Eisenhower opened
the martini road in Geneva,” said
Bulganin last night at a reception
the Danish Embassy gave for vis
iting Premier Hans C. Hansen.
“We sometimes drank with him
to friendship and peace in the
world.
"We drank martinis during in
tervals,” Bulganin reminisced.
“We cannot forget those moments
and we hope that it will always
be like that.”
After one friendship toast, Han
sen tossed his glass over his shoul
der to break it against the wall in
the traditional manner. The gob
let missed the wall and hit the
London Daily Worker correspon
dent on the shoxilder.
Bulganin’s aim was better. His
glass shattered against the wall.
WARNING TO DOG OWNER.S
If within 72 hours all dogs run
ning at large are not chained and
kept that way, they will be de
stroyed as they are starting to run
in packs.
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» By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, l£V—Secretary
ot the Interior McKay announced
Friday he will leave the Cabinet
post about June 1 to seek the U.S.
Senate seat for Oregon now held
by Sen. Morse. Morse, elected as
a Republican, is seeking re-elec
tion as a Democrat.
The former governor of Color
ado, Dan Thornton, was reported
to be under White House consid
eration to replace McKay.
Thornton, one of Eisenhower’s
preconvention supporters in 1952,
was said to be only one of several
westerners being discussed after
McKay was reported to have been
personally nudged into the Oregon
race by the President.
Thornton has been a strong
supporter and a frequent golfing
companion of the President, and
there were indications that he had
something of an inside track for
the post.
Thornton's Opposition
However, he has opposition from
some Republicans who didn’t rel
ish his refusal to run for the Sen
ate from his home state in 1954.
Sen. Allott 1R-C0I0), then lieuten
ant governor, made a successful
race after Thornton bowed out
to return to private business.
Along with others whose names
didn’t immediately come to the
surface. Asst. Secretary of the In
terior Wesley A. D’Ewart was be
ing mentioned as a possibility.
Like McKay, D’Ewart, a former
Montana congressman, has been
under fire from Democrats, but
not to the same extent as McKay.
Ike's Influence Seen
McKay bowed out of what most
Republicans regarded as the rela
tive security of a Cabinet post,
good for four more years, to enter
a Senate campaign where the out
come is uncertain.
Informed GOP officials here
credited Eisenhower personally
with swaying McKay’s unexpect
ed decision to enter the lists
against Morse, although McKay
said in Salem, Ore., Friday that
Eisenhower had not asked him
to run.
For a GOP Senate
Some Republicans said the se
quence of events disclosed the
President’s intense interest in re
gaining control of the Senate for
the Republicans. A one-vote GOP
gain in the new Senate could
change that control, with the help
of a tie-breaking vote by the
vice president.
Other Republicans felt that the
President’s action would remove
from the national campaign - and
restrict to one state a member of
the Cabinet who has been one of
the principal targets for Demo
cratic criticism.
Trumans Hoping for
Summer Tour of Europe
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., (A—It
may be that former President
Harry Truman may join the ranks
of Americans touring Europe this
summer.
“We are still in the talking
stage on the whole thing,” said
Truman Friday night, confirming
that he and Mrs. Truman might
go abroad in May. “I look for
ward to making such a trip and I
sincerely hope that it will be pos
sible for us to go.”
Booze Is Better Than
Drug for Cerebral Palsy
Victims, Say Pediatricians
DETROIT, OP)—Booze is better
than a drug for many cerebral
palsy victims, a Chicago pediatri
cian told the Michigan State Med
ical Society Friday night.
“We have found that alcohol is
the safest and best of tranquiliz
ers,” to reduce the patient’s anxi
ety under emotional tension, said
Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein, professor
of pediatrics at Cook County Hos
pital postgraduate school.
Student Expelled
For Segregationist
Riots at University
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., 0*1—One
student was expelled, four others
suspended and a score more less
severely punished by the Univer
sity of Alabama today for taking
part in rioting which drove Negro
co-ed Autherine Lucy from the
campus on Feb. 6.
Leonard Wilson, 20-year-old
sophomore from Selma, Ala., was
called from class and expelled.
His was the only name announced
in the disciplinary action by the
university’s board of trustees.
Three other students, the trus
tees announced, have withdrawn
from school during the investiga
tion and will not be allowed to
return unless they arc able to
clear themselves of charges made
against them.
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Sec. McKay Defends Administration
Policies in Department of Interior
WASHINGTON, M—Secretary'1
of the Interior McKay contended
today that “giveawey” charges
voiced by some critics of his de
partment are part of a political
move to “slander” the Eisenhower
Administration.
McKay said an impartial re
view would show that the admin
istration has made “the most sig
nificant advances in sound re
source conservation and develop
ment ... in many years.”
The secretary’s statements were
made in a 2,000-word letter pub
lished in today’s editions of the
Washington Post and Times Her
ald. He had written the newspa
per in reply to a recent letter it
had written the newspaper in
reply to a recent letter it had
published from Seymour E. Har
ris, a Harvard University eco
nomics professor.
Harris had written administra
tion officials “seem determined to
give . . away” the nation’s natural
resources.
“I suggest to Dr. Harris and a
great many others,” McKay wrote,,
“that they are being misled by the
‘big doubt’ technique- developed
by the enemies of the Eisenhower I
Administration for lack of valid
issued in this 1956 election year.”
McKay’s letter was not dated
i
but it was published one day after
he announced he’ll seek the Re
publican nomination for the U.S.
Senate seat now held by Sen.
Morse (D-Ore>.
The letter cited several admin
istration actions and policies that
have been targets for what Mc
Kay termed false “giveaway”
charges. Included were its posi
tion on tidelands oil legislation
and power development and In
terior Department operation of
national parks and wildlife sanc
tuaries.
McKay said tidelands develop
ment promises to put several bil
lion dollars in the federal treasury
while the partnership power pol
icy “is moving steadily to put kil
owatts on the line through the co
operative efforts of the federal
government and local groups.”
He said the national park sys
tem is larger and more efficiently
administered than ever and the
program for protecting wildlife
have expanded and strengthened.
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