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Messenger-Inquirer from Owensboro, Kentucky • 16

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Owensboro, Kentucky
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i President's Newport naval has -E- Owmbom Kr Mnoc Inquire Sun July 17, 1960 Vm-aVn. W-W-V. "vtifV Herfer To Discuss Problems With Ike At Newport Tuesday office is not yet in final form. Hagerty said the possible discussion of the downed plane hinges on whether the U. N.

Security Council has acted on the matter by then. The Soviet Union claims the San Francisco, Baghdad-By-The-Bay, Has Lived Many Turbulent Lives In Its Slightly More Than 100 Years NEWPORT, R. I. (AP)-Presi-1 American RB47 was over Soviet dent Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter will con fer on world problems at the presidential vacation headquarters next Tuesday.

i James C. Hagerty, the Presi -t Editor's Not Almost everything firmly convinced they are living'' that can be said about San Fran-jin the greatest (and most viewti-j Cisco has been said before, but; dty on earth rarelv as well as it is here ly static city as cities co (dis-! an admirer of long Herb Caen is a columnist lor the an occasional earth-; San Francisco Chronicle and quake: has never spilled, author of "Only in San Fran-( over its original boundaries, and Cisco," to be published by Double- yet its fame and acclaim have day in October. The story is the' steadily through the dec-first in a senes of eight on great a(jps cities of the world. I For all its occasional fogs 3 territory. The United States said the plane was at least 30 miles off Soviet frontiers and charged the U.S.S.R.

with "lawless action" and "reckless threats" in connection with the plane. Announcement of the scheduled meeting came at a news conference at which the White House also announced allocation of In federal funds for disaster relief in Texas and Oklahoma. dent's press secretary, said Friday the conference may include a discussion of the shooting down by the Soviet Union of an American reconnaissance plane July 1. Hagerty added that the agenda of business to be discussed at the 1 J1 Qs I vv u4 1 f'- A By HERB CAEN San Francisco Chronic) columnist winds, a warm city. For all its proud traditions and backgrounds, a friendly city.

For all its hills I and twisting byways, a city that's! S.r, A4 SAX FRANCISCO (AP) Pen- a perpetual joy to stroll nanta fluttering atop the minaret to behold, to be held by a city peaks of the downtown sky- y0U can almost cup in your hands scrapers, the flickering red eyes and admire as your own personal of the bay bridge lighting the jewel For though you may leave! night sky over black waters, the San Francisco, it never leaves never-ending tinkle of the Belt you. and those who are caught Line's toy railroad as it bustles its spell are trapped forever, about the Embarcadero, a ship's San Francisco: history and horn moaning at 4 a.m. and the memories dog your footsteps disembodied lights of an Orient- wherever you go, wherever you bound freighter moving out into turn. the stream, pigeons perching on Yhen the fog rolls in, silent your shoulder in Union Square, and timeless, the past becomes a sunset dying 1 glorious death present and all the yesterdays: in the far Pacific, Its lavish return, restless as the tides. Once THE FOG ROLLS IN-The Golden Gate Bridge, a recent San Francisco landmark, is en-! gulfed by the ageless, tameless fog.

This is the time when San Francisco's "past becomes pres- during the Civil War but com- AP Nswsfeatures Photo same speed they attained when they were invented in 1873." Some landmarks tumble, "yet the cable cars still inch along at exactly 9 m.p.h., the sp.asnes 01 goia turning even again the bay is bridgeless and THE pAST )s ALL AROUND grim Alcatrai into an enchanted alive with ferries, darting about1 Franrisco changes, but that glows for a moment and hke waterbugs. A square-rigger never (rom itseU. then lice .1 1 AP Newsfeatures Photo ent and all the yesterdays return, restless as the tides." This photograph by Anna-Jean Cole was third-prize winner in U. S. Camera's annual photo contest.

and earthquake, through the long turbulent years from gold rush to golden age, the hills have marched as always towards the stars and the San Franciscan has lived his dream on the shores of the eternal bay. And thus it will always be in this best of all possible cities, this Baghdad-by-the-Bay, this San Francisco. in the Spanish-American. A city with Italian marHets in Chinatown, Chinese chefs in French restau jwi Julius lucm-'suciuiy inrougn me This is San Francisco. This is gate, all canvas a-crackle, and the Baghdad-by-the-Bay.

old semaphore on Telegraph Hill San Francisco: Pearl of the signals her arrival. The water- rants, socialites whose forebears i orA KifTfrrct Pacific, queen city of the West, front is a forest of masts, the! Mecca of mariners, treasure of busiest, the beeriest, the brawl-: the trade winds, sanctuary of the waterfront this side of Port screaming sea-gull, port of call for hail the world and beloved The long-gone years how easy, landmark for all the world. it is to summon them back. Youj A young dry as cities go-and waJk through old Portsmouth hotel named for a saint and a tallest hotel named for a pirate. A tiny, crowded city containing one of the largest parks in the world and a sprawling Presidio that can only be considered curio in the atomic age.

A city1 with a housing shortage, a per-! ennial parking crisis and a high cost of living that nobody complains about: any San Franciscan KEEP BUYING BONDS! yet it has lived a thousand turbu-. Square, once the heart of the lent lives in slightly more than 'city, and it comes to life again: a hundred years, and wears its Robert Louis Stevenson drowsing patina of age as grandly and on bench in the thin sun, roist-i authentically as any European erinS seamen heading for the' capital. A small city as cities go nearby saloons and gambling slightly under 45 square miles houses, the mandarins from Can-are! yet its 890,000 citizens are ton and the fur-clad Russians HOUSE NEED PAINTING? DON'T WASTE YOUR Let Us Show You ALSAR ALUMINUM SIDING With Longer-Lasting Fire-Welded BAKED ENAMEL PAINT! "TJewT convenient! i on handle wB will agree that it's eminently worth every nickel of it. Beloved city: It changes, and yet it never really grows away from itself. Now the sports cars roar through the Broadway Tun- pfmx i LIKE THREE HOUSES L'i i 1 UA Klrt to ii'.

Iltl, ctiiU JCI urc l-auir Lni9 oiii inch along overhead at exactly 9 m.p.h., the same speed they at-1 tained when they were invented in 1873. "Decentralization!" is the cry of the day, but the pulsing heart of the financial district is AN "EASY TO LIVE IN" HOME AP Newsfeatures Photo Gate (top, right) it welcomes the world. cup in your hands and admire as your own personal jewel. Through its narrow, Golden BAGHDAD-BY-THE-BAY San Francisco Baghdad-by-the-bay "a city you can almost 1 No Down Payment 60 Mos. To Pay Advance Aluminum Co.

Th "circutotinfl" floor plon simplifies bouse- keeping. A kitchen oleove provides extra din- 1 ing space. There ore more closets, more stor- oge space. I still at Montgomery and California, exactly where it was a hun from the north staring arross the centuries at each other. dred years ago.

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There's no work, no worry ond you sove hundreds cf dollors every year. Gianninis leave their indelible squid and the dried seahorses fes toon the windows of Chinatown. No, nothing ever changes in San Francisco-and that la the city's strength and glory. Through fires AN "EASY TO BUY" HOME buildiEog No money down and S64 a month ond you're the proud owner of specious, comfortable. 3 bedroom National Home.

You get more built- in livabiliry for less money than in any other type cf home. J- 01nl(oeirin)DZDInlg) mark everywhere. On Nob Hill, the mansions of the bonanza kings rear up in all their hideous glory, and Huntington, Stanford. Hopkins and Fair are awesome names to conjure with. In a dimly lit Chinatovyi alley, the stage is s.till set for dramas that were played ages ago: knives Dash In shadowy doorways and Little Pete, king of the tongmen.

hitches up his steel vest and walks to sudden death in a barber chair. And, ia the near distance (when the wind is just right and your imagination Dies free and far), you can hear the soft sobbing of a slave girl, homesick in her tiny cubicle. The old town, with its cobbled streets and its flickering gas lamps (and the kids whooping "Limpy limpy lamplighter, when the lights come on at night, then the fleas begin to and the garbage horses struggling up the (rune. Yyvy ivm cis. imiiii inn iiiiiniKi 0 0 0 "Owemboro't Fastest Crowing Subdivision" 1 Bloek East of oH W.it 4tk $.

PHONE MU 4.3508 Til AP Newsfeatures Photo yesterday. When the crab season opens, the fishing fleet is blessed, and when it returns with its catch, there is dancing in the street FLAVOR OF YESTERDAY The spicy, salt air lends flavor to the crabs sold in the open stalls of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf today just as it did One-stop service for every item needed in building, repairing or remodeling. Fast service Free delivery. Come Out and Visit LET US GIVE YOU A FREE ESTIMATE on new roof. No Obligation.

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