Evening star. [volume], July 06, 1955, Page ** A-21, Image 21

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Bill Asks U. S. Purchase 1
Os Presidential Papers
By tbs Auoctitcd Ptw
The House wants to vest in
the Federal Government owner
ship of all the official papers of
the Nation's Presidents. The
documents are now scattered
over the country, and nobody
knows where a lot of them are.
The idea behind the legisla
tion, approved by the House on
a voice vote yesterday, is to
make sure that Americans will be
able to examine these historical
prizes whenever they wish.
Would Buy Papers
Under a bill sponsored prin
cipally by Representative Mc-
Cormick. Democrat, of Mas
sachusetts the General Services
Administration would buy up all
the presidential collections,
wherever they are, and the mas
sive cataloguing job would be
done by the National Archives.
The measure also has a cold
war aspect. The House Govern
ment Operations Committee,
which reported the bill to the
Father Watches
As Train Kills 6
ALLENS GROVE, Wis., July 6
M*).—A 35-year-old woman and
five of her children were killed
yesterday, as her husband
watched in horror, when a speed
ing passenger train hit an auto
mobile at a country crossing.
Five other persons in the car
were injured critically, four of
them her children.
The dead were: Mrs. Harriet
Smith of Beloit, and her chil
dren, Larry, 16: Keith. 6: Jacque
line, 4: Debbie, 1, and “Skippy,”
3 months old.
Injured were: Betty Lou
Smith, 9; Leland, 12; Susie, 7,
and Cheryl, 2, all children of Mrs.
Smith and Miss Beatrice Smith,
21, her sister-in-law. They are in
Lakeland Hospital in nearby
Elkhorn.
Tire accident was witnessed by
Mrs. Smith’s husband, B. Eddie
Smith, 38, Beloit, from the porch
of the farm home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Smith, about
275 feet from the crossing.
The elder Smiths had just left
on a vacation trip to Northern
Wisconsin. Their daughter. Miss
Beatrice Smith, who remained at
home, planned to drive in to Al
lens Grove, a Walworth County
village 15 miles northeast of Ba
loit in Southern Wisconsin, to get
some groceries. Her sister-in
law and the nine children ac
companied her in the car.
Britisher Heads
WEU Assembly
STRASBOURG, France, July
6 UP). —John Maclay of Britain
was elected president, of the
Western European UnioflriWEU)
assembly by acclamation yester
day.
The WEU, an alliance of seven
nations, provides the framework
for West Germany’s participa
tion in the common defense of
Western Europe.
Its assembly is meeting here
this week for the first time. The
member nations are Britain.
France. West Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Belgium and Lux
embourg.
Mr. Maclay, 49-year-old Con
servative, was the only candi
date for the presidency. He
served for a time in the Winston
Churchill government as min
ister of transport and civil avia
tion.
Hygiene Speaker
Howard B. Bishop, an interna
tionally known chemical engin
eer, will speak on "The Common
Addictives and Their Influence
on American Life” before a con
vention meeting of the American
Natural Hygiene Society at 8
o’clock tonight in the Shoreham
Hotel West Ballroom.
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e Dr. Wayne C. Grover, archivist
j >of the United States, turned up
| these interesting notes during
| consideration of the legislation.”
Harding Papers Destroyed
No one knows much of any
thing about the White House
' correspondence of President
® Harding. Before her death. Har
-1 ding’s widow collected and de
_’ stroyed most of it. Some papers.
[ of all the other Presidents can]
- be located.
In the early days pf the coun
-1 try, before the advent of the
■ typewriter and the ghost writer,
, Presidents didn’t collect many
s papers The Library of Congress
: estimates it has 95 per cent of
President Washington’s papers—
sum total, 35,000.
i The papers of President;
Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde
Park, N. Y., number four or five
million.
It is estimated the papers of;
President Truman will run
around 3& million.
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