Eisenhower in Good Spirits and With Morale High
After 2-Hr., 53'Min. Ileitis Operation Saturday Morning
By MARVIN ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UFt—President
Eisenhower is recovering “most
satisfactorily” from his emergency
abdominal operation, and White
House Press Secretary James Hag
erty said he expects no interrup
tioij in the duties of the presi
dency.
The 65-year-old President went
under emergency survery at 2:59
a.m. Saturday.
The four-man team of sur
geons finished the operation one
hour and 53 minutes later.
At about 10:30 Saturday morn
ing Hagerty reported that the
President’s “spirits were good and
his morale was high.”
The President’s doctors re
moved what they called a non
cancerous intestinal obstruction
that was “due to ileitis.”
All reports have emphasized the
President’s heart is not involved
in the new illness. This has been
significant in view of the coronary
thromposis which Eisenhower suf
fered last Sept. 24.
Each report on the President’s
startling and sudden illness was
watched closely for clues to his
political future. Whether he might
change his mind about seeking a
second term remained to be seen.
Eisenhower has insisted up to
now that he feels able to serve.
He has promised to let the nation
know “instantly” if there was a
change in his belief. ||
Hagerty said there is no change
in plans "at this point’’ for the
President to attend the Confer
ence of American Presidents at
Panama City on June 26 or his
meeting with Prime Minister Neh
ru of India on July 7.
But the tiring secretary replied
“I don’t know” when asked if
there would be any change in
plans fog the President’s sched
uled meeting with Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer of Germany
next Wednesday.
Asked whether any plans have
been made to turn the President’s
work load over to other officials,
Hagerty said the next bills from
Congress which will require his
action do not fall due until mid
night, June 15.
A reporter persisted: Did this
mean there would be no interup
tion in the official duties of the
presidency?
“I don’t anticipate any.”
That would be in line with the
way business was handled last fall
while Eisenhower was hospital
ized after his heart attack.
Vice President Nixon, Presiden
tial Assistant Sherman Adams
and Cabinet members at that time
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took over chores they could per
form legally, and matters requir
ing the President’s own participa
tion were put off until he could
handle them. Within six days after
his heart attack he had begun to
sign some official papers requir
ing his name.
Hagerty said Mrs. Eisenhower
—awake since shortly after mid
night Friday morning, when she
summoned medical help for the
President’s “stomach upset and
headache”—had gone to sleep at
about 5:45 a.m. Saturday after
reassuring words from the sur
geons.
The President’s brother, Dr.
Milton Eisenhower, and the Presi
dent’s son, Maj. John Eisenhower,
also remained in the presidential
unit in the Army hospital all night.
Mrs. Eisenhower “stood up won
derfully” during the tense hours*”
Hagerty said.
Talking to reporters earlier,
Hagerty quoted the President’s at
tending physieians as saying “his
spirits are good and his morale is
high.” He said the President was
“conscious of pain” and that the
doctors expect this will be so for
“the next several days.”
Hagerty told reporters then that
Eisenhower had awakened three
or four times during the morning
after the operation and spoken tc
Maj. Arthur Cohen. Cohen is a
general surgeon attached to the
staff of Walter Reed General Ar
my Hospital.
Cohen said on one occasion Eis
enhower smiled at him and said:
“What a ^bellyache!”
The President’s doctors said this
remark and his general attitude
indicated a very satisfactory con
dition.
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Southeastern Russians
Have Way to ‘Catch
Tigers With Bare Hands’
LONDON, (#1—'Moscow radio said
Saturday tiger hunters in Russia’s
far eastern, regions catch them
with their bare hands.
“That’s the honest to goodness
truth,” said a broadcaster in
English.
The broadcaster said Comrade
Pistoyev, president of a geograph
ical society in Khabarovsk, had
caught two tigers in 1939 with his
bare hands.
The most popular drink in the
chilly far eastern regions of Kha
brrovsk is a fiery concc tion
called “spereet.” It’s about twice
as strong as vodka, Russia’s na
tional firewater, and has been
known to cause its consumers to
see tigers, elephants and sea ser
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Party of Six Will Try
To Scale Mt. McKinley
By Untried Route
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merly of Trail, is one of a party of
six men attempting to scale 20,
'300-foot Mt. McKinley , in Alaska,
North America’s highest moun
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Leon Blumer’s party will try a
new untried route up Pioneer
Ridge to the 19,500 south peak be
fore crossing to the main summit.
Two Seattle men, Peter Schoen
ing and Don Claunch, are also in
the party. Schoening was with the
United States expedition to K-2
in the Himalayas in 1953 and
Claunch climbed a new route up
British Columbia’s Mt. Robson
last year.
Actual assault on the peak is
not expected for about two weeks.
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