Evening star., 1953-10-10
By Joseph A. Fox

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So WedneSday-and he's got a
travel and talking schedule lined
up within the next 10 days that
will put to test his occasional
boast of being "a tough old bird"
The President will get over the
route covering hundreds of miles
by plane, train and car; make at
least two major speeches and an
undetermined number Of lesser
ones; take part in several cere-
monies of one sort or another
and sit down at meals-business
and social-ranging from break
fast to dinner.
This is the timetable:
Tuesday-LeaveS the White
House at / pm. for the 128-mile
drive to Hershey, Pa. where the
Pennsylvania G. %. P. is stag
ing a $100-per-plate Eisenhower
birthday dinner" to raise cam
paign funds. Flies back to the
Capital at 10:30 pm.
Leaves Next Night.
Wednesday - Works at the
White House then leaves over
the B. and o. at 1890 pm. for
Defiance, Ohio.
Thursday-Arrive at Defiance
at 1880 am. and goes to De-
f1ance College for some "re-
marks" at the cornerstone laying
at the Anthony Wayne Library
of American Study. Then con-
tinues on to Toledo and takes a
plane at 2:15 pm. for Kansas
City. Arrives at Kansas City
Municipal Airport at S pm.
(EST) and goes to the Muehle-
bach Hatel-the old Truman
stamping ground-where he will
be Quartered until Saturday
morning. At 9 pm. in Munich
pal Auditorium delivers a major
speech to the Future Farmers Of
America.
Friday - Breakfasts at 7:3O
am. with Governors from some
if not all-of the 13 States hit
by the drought, along with
Agriculture Secretary Benson
and Val Peterson, Civil Defense
Administrator. The meeting is
to discuss further plans for deal
ing with the drought emergency.
If the weather is good, Gen. Eli
Senhower then will take off for
the Salina Air Force base in mid
morning and proceed by car
from Salina to his old home in
Abilene, for look at the opera
tions of the Abilene Foundation,
which is establishing an Eisen-
hover Museum there. After
luncheon with the trustees, Gen.
Eisenhower will go back to Kan
SaS City.
Meets Producers Groups.
He will round out Friday by
attending a dinner to meet rep
resentativeS of the Future Farm
ers of America, the American
Royal Livestock and Horse Show
and the American Hereford AS
sociation; will see the opening of
the show and attend the dedica-
ton of the Hereford associa-
tion's new home.
Saturday-Flies from Kansas
City at 6 am. for New Orleans,
where he arrives three hours
later. He takes part in the Sesqui-
centennial observance of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
reviews a parade, speaks at noon,
and at 2 pm. (EST) flies to Har-
llngen, .TeX-a one and one
half hour trip-then drives 40
miles to the ranch home of Gov.
Allan Shivers of Texas, near
Mission, to spend the week end.
Sunday-Loafs around the
.Shivers ranch-maybe.
Monday-Leaves at 1915
(EST for the 6O-mile drive to
Falcon Dam, the joint venture
of the American and Mexican
governments on the Rio Grande,
some 80 miles below Laredo.
Reaches the dam site in about
an hour and a half, meets Secre-
tary of State Dulles and other
officials and then crosses the
river to the little Mexican town
of Guerrero, to be greeted by the
President of Mexico, Adolfo Ruiz
Confines. Views a colorful fiesta
there, then recrosses the river
to Falcon Village, a new Ameri.
can town at the dam project
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