Eisenhowers Give Presents to 700 on
Staff as Fourth Grandchild Is Born
WASHINGTON, UK—President
and Mrs. Eisenhower, newly four
time grandparents, handed out
Christmas presents to about 700
White House employes at a recep
tion Thursday.
A seven-pound, two-ounce girl
was born Wednesday to Mrs. Bar
bara Eisenhower. The nation’s
First Family now includes three
granddaughters and a grandson,
all children of the major and his
wife.
Arrival of the new granddaugh
ter at Walter Reed Army Hospital
dispelled uncertainty over some
details of the White House plans
for Christmas, but still undecided
was the President’s post-Christ
mas travel schedule.
President Eisenhower’s Christ
mas gift to White House employes
was a copy of. one of his own
paintings of his favorite fishing
spot in Colorado.
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The President and Mrs. Eisen
hower greeted the staff members
—White House clerks, secretaries,
secret service operatives and uni
formed White House police.
The painting, regarded as one
of the best the President has done,
is a winter scene of St. Louis
Creek, which flows through Byers
Peak Ranch, owned by his close
friend Axsel Nielsen of Fraser,
Colorado.
The new Eisenhower grandchild
has been named Mary Jean. This
news was relayed to reporters by
Mrs. Eisenhower as she and the
President left the hospital after a
visit to the new arrival and her
mother.
Onassis Must Pay
$7 Million in Fines
For Ship Purchases
WASHINGTON, (JV-For about
$7 million in penalties, fines and
other charges, Aristotle Socrates
Onassis has settled government
claims growing out of his pur
chase of surplus ships.
The companies the Greek-born
shipping magnate now controls
were allowed to keep the 23 ships
involved on condition thaU a ma
jority of the stock in the firms be
transferred to American citizens
within four and a half months.
Onassis himself may keep a mi
nority interest.
The settlement announced by
the Justice Department Wednes
day differed in that respect from
one reached four months ago with
Onassis’ brother-in-law, Stavros
Miarchos. Eleven of the 19 vessels
Miarchos and his companies
bought were kept by the U.S. gov
ernment.
Both men are aliens. They and
their companies were charged
with conspiring to defraud the
United States in buying the sur
plus ships in violation of a law
restricting the sale of such ships
to American citizens.
Six companies which Onassis
controls pleaded guilty to the
charges Wednesday and were
fined a total of $160,000. Similar
charges against Onassis personally
and other individuals associated
with him were dropped by the
government.
Mrs. Conrad Yenney, whose
home is now in Walla Walla,
Wash., has been hospitalized but
is now recuperating at home.
Eisenhower Declares Parts
Of Alaska Disaster Areas
For 3rd Year in Row
J U N E A U—Gov. Heintzleman
was advised Thursday from Wash
ington that in response to his re
quest to President Eisenhower on
Dec. 8 the President has declared
certain portions of Alaska a dis
aster area.
This is the third successive year
the President has designated parts
of Alaska a disaster area.
The request for the declaration
resulted from the poor fishing of
last season along many sections of
the Alaska coast.
Gov. Heintzleman was advised
that as a result of the new declar
ation $25,000 will be made avail
able by the Federal Civil Defense
Administration. Stocks of surplus
food will also be available for dis
tribution to the needy.
Radio-Controlled Plane
Designed to Survey
War Fronts With Photos
VAN NUYS, Calif., [S)—A tiny,
radio-controlled photo plane to fly
out and return to give frontline
commanders aerial survey photos
of enemy positions has been de
veloped by a subsidiary firm' of
Northrop Aircraft, Inc.
The 12-foot drone is controlled
from the ground by radio waves
and has a top speed of 227 miles
an hour. Cameras mounted on the
drone also are operated by radio.
The entire device is equipped with
a parachute system to permit re
covery intact.
Radioplane Co. said it designed
the plane for short-range recon
naissance, but a higher speed and
longer range can be provided.
Frank Jones, who taught school
here several years ago and who
has been'teaching in Central Am
erica, is now a principal in Fair
banks’ main school. His wife was
public health nurse here.
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Eisenhower Wires
Adlai Stevenson
On Son’s Accident
GOSHEN, Ind., (tf—John Fell
Stevenson, 19-year-old son of
presidential candidate Adlai Ste
venson, was taken to Passavant
Hospital in Chicago yesterday for
treatment of injuries suffered in
a highway crash which killed two
of his Harvard University class
mates.
The young pre-law sophomore
was reported in “satisfactory”
condition. His worst injury was a
shattered right kneecap.
Dr. James Stack, a bone special
ist who accompanied the boy’s
father from Chicago, said there
probably would be no permanent
disability although the kneecap
might have to be replaced.
In Chicago, Stevenson’s office
made public the following tele
gram from the President:
“Distressed to read on the ticker
that your son John has been seri
ously injured. I send you my most
prayerful hopes that he will soon
recover. Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
Adlai Stevenson, who flew here
from Chicago after the crash on a
railroad overpass on U.S. 20 Wed
nesday, issued a statement saying:
“I am heartbroken about the
deaths of these boys whom I have
known and loved so long and who
had meant so much in the life and
growth of my own son. My heart
goes out to their families.”
Killed in the crash were Wil
liam Stanley North III, 19, Lake
Forest, 111., also a Harvard sopho
more, and William C. Eoyden Jr.,
19, Chicago, a junior at Harvard.
Stevenson was driving, and they
were riding in the front seat with
him when the car crashed head on
into a truck which was trying to
pass another truck.
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Shop will be closed all day Christ
mas Day, and the Polaris Resiau
rant will close on New Year's Day.
In Ireland an old custom was
that Christmas candles could be
snuffed only by- a girl named
Mary.
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through the Christmas
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