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Second. the Nation must be in
formed. Weeks Of slow recu-
peration lay ahead for the
stricken President. should he
survive the critical stage.
DR.. Snyder went back to the
Presidents room. Slowly and
in great detail, he told the Pres
ident exactly what they believed
had happened inside his heart,
The President was not surprised
I'VE want to take you to Fitz-
simons," concluded DR.. Snyder
"All right" said Ike, managing
a grin. Lets CO."
Murray Snyder and three girls
of the White House staff wert
preparing to eat what they be-
lieved would be leisurely lunch
in the Famous Chef, a restaurant
on Colfax avenue.
Mr.. Snyder had taken the rou-
tine precaution Of calling the
White House switchboard tt
leave the Famous Chef number
Mrs. Agnes Flannery. head
waitress, called him to the tele-
phone. It was DR.. Snyder.
Announcement Made
Murray" said the, physician
IT think you d better announce
that the President has had q
mild anterior coronary throm-
bosis. We are taking him to
Fitzsimons
At the Summer White House
Offices, Mr.. Snyder . called the
press room at the Brown Palace
Hotel, more than 5 miles away
Then, he called his boss. White
House Press Secretary James C
Hagerty, who was mentioning at
his home in Washington, D. c.
The 46-year-old Mr.. Hagerty
had just entered his house from
Ia round of golf. Tersely. Mr..
Snyder told him the news.
"Jim," he said, II intend to
play this straight and give the
fellows everything as fast as we
can get it,"
Right" said Mr.. Hagerty
Give it to them absolutely
straight. I'll catch a plane out
as soon as ! can"
Mr.. Snyder asked Mr.. Hagerty
to telephone Vice President
Richard Nixon. Mr.. Hagerty
agreed that Mr.. Nixon should
know the awful truth before the
news became public.
President at Hospital
BY this time, 2::30 pm. MIST,
the President of the United
States was pulling up in a seven
passenger White House Lincoln
at the back entrance of Fitz-
simons Hospital.
The movement of the Presi-
dent had begun a half hour
earlier. First the doctors decided
that he should not be carried
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"a sudden change in his patients
blood pressure.
Knowing the President would
be fully awake soon, DR.. Snyder
went to the phone and called
Col. Byron Z. Pollock. chief OF
cardiology service at the Fitz-
simons Army Hospital on the
eastern outskirts of Denver
Briefly he outlined his belief that
the President had suffered a
heart attack. asked DR.. Pollock
to come to the Doud home with
an electrocardiograph. which
traces heart impulses. The time
was 1915 pm.
BY 1890 pm, the President
was fully awake. The pain had
subsidized. but he felt limp and
weak. DR.. Snyder kept him
quiet on the bed. A few minutes
later. DR.. Pollock and Maj. Gen.
Martin E. Griffin. commanding
general of FitzSimons Army Hos
pital, arrived at the Doud home
in DR.. Pollock's car. The PreSi-
dent still had not been informed
of his probable condition.
The physicians agreed 1t was
not a severe attack. but In doubt
as to the exact degree. they de-
cided the first announcement
should say mild" Later. they
were to change to moderate"
Nation to Be Informed
DR.. Snyder's initial move after
the cardiogram was to phone
Maj, Gen. Silas B. Hays, the
Army Surgeon General. IN
Washington and ask that Col.
Thomas w. Mattingly, top mill
tary heart specialist at Walter
Reed Hospital be sent to Denver
at once. Col. Mattingly had
Ike's heart records back to l946,
a vital medical ingredient for
exact diagnosis. The call was
made at pm. Denver time.
In consultation, the physicians
agreed on two items: First, the
President must be told and
taken at once to Fitzsimons
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tout In a stretcher and placed IN
an ambulance. There were rea-
sons
The staircase In the Doud
home was one Of those narrow.
steep old-fashioned stairways
with small landing in the mid
die. A stretcher could not ne
gotiate the turn without being
hoisted to a high slant. The
President would have to be tied
in to prevent his slipping of.
In addition. lifting the Presi-
dent on and of the stretcher
would disturb his heart more
than being assisted IN a half
walk. Finally, a political con-
sideration: Carrying the Presi-
dent in stretcher would give
the impression that he was
practically dead. might panic
/ the country. In consultation. the
physicians had agreed that the
attack had not been severe
one.
Placed in Wheel Chair
Under a back portico Of the
hospital, the President was
placed in a wheel chair and
rolled to an elevator.
In the outside world at this
moment, pandemonium wa S
about to erupt.
hurry Snyder had called the
Doud home again. A Secret
Service man told him the Pres
ident had been taken to Fitz-
simons by the doctors. Newsmen
Swarmed into Mr.. Snyder's Office
as he hung up. 1t was 1882 p.m.;;
Denver time.
THE President" he announced
slowly. has just had a mild
anterior-let's cut out the word
anterior President has just
had a mild coronary thrombosis.
He has just been driven out to
Fitzsimons General Hospital.
He was taken to the hospital in
his own car and walked from
the house to the car"
Twenty newsmen bolted from
the room.
About 20 minutes before the
news became public. Vice Presi-
dent Nixon, holding the office
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that Is additionally only
heartbeat from the presidency
got the word from Secretary
IHagerty.
Mr.. Nixon was in his white
brick Spring Valley home in
Northwest Washington. He had
just returned from the wedding
of one of his girl Office assistants
Dick" said Mr.. Hagerty. "I've
got some bad news. I've just
had a call from Murray Snyder
in Denver. The President has
had a coronary."
"Oh, my God" said Mr.. Nixon
Mr.. Nixon walked back to
the living. room and slumped
into the easy chair. In times
of awesome stress. no man can
sort out later the thoughts that
race through his mind. He sat
silent for about 10 minutes.
Then, he telephoned his closest
Washington friend, Deputy At
torney General William p. Rog-
ers. an intimate Of the 1852
Nixon campaign for Vice Pres
ident.
When Mr.. Rogers arrived by
taxi, the two men went into the
den and talked for an hour
Suddenly, Mr.. Nixon remembered
he hadn't told his wife.
Adams Not Told
The official White House fam
lily, with the President on vaca-
'tion. was scattered. The man
closest to President Eisenhower
on official business went "a hours
without hearing of the partial
failure Of the Presidents heart.
Sherman Adams, assistant to
the President and his intimate
political counselor, was vacation
ing In Scotland with Col. A. j.
Goodpaster, White House staff
secretary, and their wives.
It was midnight in Scotland
when a cable arrived for
Adams at a hotel in Oban on
the Firth Of Lorne. The night
clerk decided not to awaken the
sleeping couples. Later, how
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President nothing about his con-
Idition at this time. Yet he
|sensed that Ike knew pretty well
what had happened without be-
ing told.
He sat at the bedside and
watched.
Mamie Eisenhower tried to
sleep, but didn't make too good
"a job of it. In midmorning. DR..
Snyder told her what he sus-
Ipected about the Presidents true
condition. He broke the news to
her gradually. gave her every
hope that the President would
recover, Nothing could be GER
tain, he added. until an electro
cardiogram could be taken of the
hearts action when the Presi-
dent woke UP.
At the Lowry Air Base shortly
before 7 am. on that fateful
morning of September "a. AS
|sistant Press Secretary Murray
Snyder went in to breakfast at
the officers club. He noted that
the Secret Service men there ap-
Ipeared IN no hurry to leave for
their morning escort Of the Pres
ident. He asked James j. Row.
ley. chief of the White House
detail, what was up.
THE President isn't feeling
well, Murray" said Mr.. Rowley.
DIR. Snyder says he won't be
over for appointments this morn
ing"
Press Aide Calls
Murray Snyder called DR..
Snyder at the Doud home. but
the line was busy. Finally. at
about 7:45 am, he got the doc
tor on the special Secret Service
phone in the garage. DR.. Snyder
that the President had
a digestive disturbance, but 1t
was not serious.
A few moments later. an un-
worried Murray Snyder an
nounced the digestive upset to
reporters.
At the Doud home. DR.. Snyder
took the blood pressure of the
sleeping President at intervals.
At II am. the President began
to wake from his first drugged
sleep. From II to 1890. he had
fits Of doing and wakefulness.
At about noon, DR.. Snyder noted
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artery in the front wall of his
heart. A blood famine immedi-
ately seized the area of the
heart. The mighty muscle tele-
Igraphed its dismay in the sensa-
ton human beings call pain.
DR.. Snyder broke an ampule
of amyl nitrite and asked the
President to sniff it. AS the
President did so. DR.. Snyder pre-
pared a hypodermic of papa
VERNE, which he injected to
Idilate the arteries in the heart.
He then inserted a hypoder-
mic needle under the skin of the
Presidents chest and gave him
an injection of morphine to ease
the pain and shock.
A few moments later, he gave
him a shot of heparin in the
muscle of the arm. Heparin tends
to increase blood liquidity and
prevent CLOTHING.
AwesOme Dilemma Faced
This finished, DR.. Snyder real
lied he faced a dilemma with
awesome implications. He was
the only person in the world who
knew that the heart of the Pres
ident had been impaired. That
the heart had been damaged, he
was 100 per cent certain. The
exact area Of the damage he did
not know.
It was the dead of night in
IDenver--only a little after 6 am.
in the Nations Capital. Should
he arouse a sleeping Nation.
spread the alarm around the
globe? II he did not. he would
be subject to intense criticism.
There was even the chance the
President might die. with only
Gen Snyder in lonely vigil.
But if he told the truth as he
then believed it. the resulting ex-
Icitement in the Doud household
might harm the President. It
might even kill him. In addition.
Mrs. Eisenhower had suffered
from valyular heart disease for
many years. There was no way
of predicting what the results of
such a shock might be upon her.
Thirdly. Mrs. Doud. Mamie's TT
mother. was lowering
about. her soul wrung with anxi-
ETY. What harm might befall
her?
News Withheld
DR.. Snyder made a swift and
obvious decision. He gave Ma
mic and her mother no clue that
something far more serious than
indigestion had befallen the
President. Also. he told the
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another part OF the mouse Cnat
had been her family home for
years.
It was just 20 days before the
Presidents 65th birthday.
In the first STRINGS Of wake
fulness on his bed. the President
felt uncomfortable in his stomach
and chest. He experienced
sickish sensation. He got out Of
bed. fuInbled for the light and
turned it on then padded about
the room in the irritated fashion
of those who don't feel right in
the night.
Mamie Investigates
Awakened by the sounds in the
Presidents room. Mrs. Eisen-
hover threw on a robe and came
In to find out what was wrong.
II don't feei so good" said the
President. ut must be some
more Of that indigestion from
yesterday"
Mamie Eisenhower, as she
had done on several occasions
during similar nighttime presi-
dental bouts with indigestion,
went to the bathroom medicine
cabinet and got some milk Of
magnesia.
Like a good nurse, she made
the President down it with a
water chaser.
He lay down on the bed and
the First Lady went back to her
bedroom.
Pain IntenSifies
A few minutes later, at about
2:45 am. the President felt a
peculiarly full and demanding
pain. as though a stream of
molten metal had gushed across
his chest. It flowed through his
chest with brutal intensity.
Perspiration oozed from his
pores. In similar cases. men have
clutched the bed and cried aloud.
The President called to Mamie,
told her he had some kind of
pain.
Il guess you'd better call How
ard Snyder" he said.
Mrs. Eisenhower went to the
second-floor telephone, which
has a direct line to the Denver
Summer White House switch
board at nearby Lowry Air Force
base. Connected with Maj. Gen.
Howard Snyder in bachelor Of
f1cers' quarters, she asked the
Presidents physician to hurry
over.
One glance at the President
after exchanging greetings with
Mrs. Eisenhower, and DR.. Snyder
realized that his patient was
very sick.
Within 3 minutes of entering
the room. Dr. Snyder realized
he was witnessing what no other
medical man in history had OBJ
served-acute coronory throm-
boSis in the body Of a President
Of the United States.
Unknown to the President, q
clot Of blood had jammed an
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STORY OF A HEART ATTACK
When q President Said !,
I Don't Feel So Good
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Shortly before 230 am September a. 1855 the President
Of States Dwight David Eisenhower awoke in
bedroom Of ehoom house at $50 Lafayette
street, Denver. Colo
Eisenhower mothern-law. Mrs John S. Doud slept in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-25

The detoiled account Of the erueiol
hours Of President Eisenhower's heort
attoek is from copyrighted article
in Look mosozine. This condensed
version was distributed BY the Asso-
eioted Press with the permission Of the
copyright owner.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29
MANY ATTEND
LIONS DANCE
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29
ANOTHER PROCESSING UNIT
Tide Water Starts Construction
OF Unit At Delaware City

'I1Qe water SldIlS AOiiotiu uSeioii
OF Unit At Delaware City
Construction has started on
foundations for another process
ing unit, catalytic desulfurizer,
at the site of Tide Water Associ-
ated Oil Company's Delaware Fly
ing "A Refinery near Delaware
City. The unit, of Universal Oil
Products Company design, will re-
move sulfur and nitrogen COM
pounds from partially finished
blending stocks. After this inter-
mediate step, the resultant pro-
ducts are fed to other units for
processing into finished fuels
More than 5000 men supervised
by c. F. Braun & Co., general
engineering contractor, continue
work on six major processing
units, auxiliary facilities, tankage
and utilities at the site. The $780,
000-barrel-per-day plant, which
will have the largest initial capac.
ity of any refinery ever built, is
expected to start operations late
in 1856.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29

dCICdSS VI COlll III a|SioWo1C Wa
continue next year. The rate may
be slowed down to some extent by
the low price and smaller yields
received this year and by the pos
sibility of more rigid controls over
inter-tilled and price-supported
crops. Corn and soybeans offer
the farmer the opportunity of pro-
ducing cash crop on acreage
not otherwise needed to support
the farming program. Time and
labor requirements are relatively
low and some farmers use the
crops to supplement income from
other farm enterprises or income
from off-farm employment.
Soybeans: In spite of sub
stantial decline in price of soy
beans in 1855, soybean acreage is
likely to continue its rapid growth
in 1856. The exceptionally good
yield this year has more than off,
set the price drop making soy
beans a fairly attractive cash
crop. 1t is most unlikely that
yields next year will be as large
as those of 1855. On the other
hand, prices received by farmers
for soybeans are expected to be
even below the 1855 harvest sea-
son level. AS a cash crop, soy
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29

be used during the informal hour
starting at nine o'clock, which
preceded the dancing. The presi-
dents table was set at the en-
trance and here Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Shortt presided and well
coined Lions and guests. The COM
mittee for the dance included Rob-
ert Dunning and Stanley Middle
ton, co-chairmen, Walter Gibe,
Frank Ryan, and Col. Rafael
Kerr. They were assisted by the
following Lions: Vance Cole, Har-
ry Shortt, Wells Campbell, Clar-
ence Blendt, and Charles V. Will
liams.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29
TaylOr's Bridge

The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service will meet Friday
night with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
lin Wheeler. Those on the re-
freshment committee are Mrs.
Wheeler, Mrs. Charles Dukes and
Mrs. Lee David.
Friendly Neighbors Home Dem
onstration Club will meet Tues
day, January Bird at 1890 am.
at the home of Mrs. Lee David.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Steller
and son spent Christmas with
Mrs. Elmer Shahan and family in
Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Shockley
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29

holidays her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Perry, Of Preston, Md.
Mrs. Marie Stauffer and daugh-
ter, Miss Elsie Fritz, of Whining
ton, spent the holidays with her
sister and husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
willard Barcus.
Mrs. May Bowen, Miss Amanda
Bowen and Mr.. Howard Clark of
wilmington, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Lafferty and family of Milford
and Mr.. Jack Lafferty of Lancas-
ter, Pa, were guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. j. Lafferty on Monday.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29
Leipsic

Mr.. and Mrs. George Clothier
spent the Christmas holidays with
her brother in Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jones and
family spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradford Dawkins at Chesa-
peake City and on Monday they
and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard t.
Jones, Sr. visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard T. Jones, Jr.
DIR. and Mrs. Clarence Rawley
of Crisfield, Md. entertained VIII
liam Rawley on Christmas Day.
Mrs. Maggie Parker left on
Monday to stay for while with
her sister, Mrs. Emma Haggerty,
in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wilson,
Jr. entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Wilson, Sr. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Pratt on Christmas
Day. On Monday Mr.. ana Mrs
Wilson, Sr. visited Mr.. and Mrs
George Wright at Smyrna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Voshell
had Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Voshell
Mr.. and Mrs. William Voshell
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene McNatt and
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Voshell on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton Webbei
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. William
Pearson of Kenton, Mr.. and Mrs
Roland Pearson of Dover on Mon
day Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Stauf'
fer and family and Mr., and Mrs
John Sinclair called on the Web
bers Monday evening.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29

entertained over the Christmas
holidays Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton FL
lott and daughter of Goldsboro,
Md, Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore
and daughter, Miss Rachel Shock
ley, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Wheel
er and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry S.
Valley of Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Steller and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee w. David spent
Christmas Day with Mr.. and Mrs.
William r. Alfree, Sr., near Mid
dletown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson A. David
spent Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs.
William Reynolds and family,
near Odessa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas c. Rowan
were dinner guests Christmas with
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Powell ir
Warwick, Md.
Mrs. william Francis and sons
and Mrs. Leland Sinex were
Christmas guests with Mrs. AL
fred Gohl and family in Atlantis
City, N. ].
Miss Doris Dukes of the Uni
versity of Delaware is spending
the Christmas holidays with he
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles 2
Dukes.
Mr.. Dan Brown of Akein, N. c
and Mr.. Charles Downs, Jr. spen
the Christmas holidays with MI
and Mrs. Ralph Weis and family
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29
CHILDREN
RECEIVE TOYS
Continued from Page onei
Continued from Page onel

the project, announces that S103.-
10 was received through the con-
tributions of citizens in contain
ers left in stores, and also in the
red kettle suspended at Four
Corners. Mr.. Bradley again wish
es to thank every individual, bus
mess firm, and organization who
worked to make the project so
great a success.
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29
CheswOId

Mr.. Lawrence Cooper of Seattle,
Washington, has been recent
guest of Mrs. Lille Cooper and
other relatives. Mr.. Cooper left on
Monday for Boston, Mass, where
he will visit his cousin, Carl Coop
er, from there he few to Omoha,
Neb. to spend Christmas with his
sister, Miss Harriet Cooper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge Masten
spent Christmas Day with Mr.. and
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29

Mrs. Elwood Sipple of Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. ]. Lafferty
spent Christmas Day with their
son and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
mond Lafferty of Camden.
Mrs. Gus Miller and daughter,
Mary Jane, spent Monday with
relatives near Laurel.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bamberger,
Jr. and family of Dover spent
Christmas Day with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bamberger, Sr.
The Rev. and Mrs. c. H. Squires
and family entertained over the
Smyrna times., 1955-12-29

beans hold position similar to
that of corn as explained in the
preceding paragraph.
Papago Indian news., 1955-11-01
SELLS CLIEIC NEIS

Medical officer of the
improved
in
the give Knox
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building, Sells, November 10, 1855.
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N o r 7 C e:
Evening star., 1955-04-20
Second Trial
Starts in Staying
Of viceFighter

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 20
(Pl.-The second murder trial
resulting from the killing Of
crime fighter A. L. Patterson
finally is under way despite wit
ness trouble and the illness of
a Juror.
Attorneys spent more than four
hours checking up on the where
abouts of witnesses before an
nouncing late yesterday that
they were ready for the trial of
Arch Ferrell, ousted Phenix City
prosecuting attorney.
Mrs. Agnes Patterson, the
frail. gray-haired widow of the
slain anti-vice crusader, was
called as the first prosecution
witness today to recount the
last day of her husbands life.
Ferrell. 38-year-old former
State commander of the Ameri-
can Legion, is the second de-
fendant called into court for
the murder last June 18 that
brought an unprecedented house
cleaning in vice-ridden Phenix
City.
Albert Fuller, one-time chief
deputy sheriff who rose to power
with FerTell during the years
when racketeers dominated the
infested river town, was
convicted of first-degree murder
last month and given life i'm
prisonment.
Also under indictment for the
Staying of the crippled former
State Senator who had won the
Democratic nomination for at
torney general of Alabama is 81
Garrett, the States chief legal
officer at that time.
Mr. Patterson would have sue
ceeded Mr.. Garrett as attorney
general, and the outgoing State
Official vigorously opposed his
nomination.
Evening star., 1955-04-20
Budget Set
ByLeoder

HARRISBURG, Pa, April 20
fP.-Gov. George M. Leader yes
terday proposed a 20,067, 900
tax package, including classi-
fled income tax, to the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature and said he is
ready to lay his political future
ION the block" to support it.
The 17-point program to i'm
pose leVies on individuals, in
dustry and motorists accompa-
MED the commemorative all-time
high budget of $l.843, ,583 ,666 for
the 1955-57 biennium, an in
crease of 1902 ,028, ,946 over the
1953-55 total.
The Democratic Governor,
elected last year in a political
upset, termed the administration
tax program "a day of reckon
ing" for legislative commitments
made in previous years without
financing them.
The Governor recommended
repeal of a group of levies on
business amounting to $8,Ol3 900,
which would bring the net tax
incressesto S620.067, 900.
Gov. Leader recommended an
increase of one cent a gallon to
six cents in the gasoline tax to
raise $50 million. increases in
automobile license fees from $40
to SIS to produce $29 million and
a truck license fee boost to yield
an additional $18 million.
The proposed income tax, with
five classif1cations of earned and
unearned income. each having a
different rate. was estimated to
yield $411 million.