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[Page 1] US ON A BUS 4 Children Floor Night Clerk (Charles G. Griffo, news editor of The Star, is on a 6,000-mile trip on a Greyhound bus through the South and Southwest with four of his six children while Mrs. G. remains at home with the other two. Here is his fourth dispatch.) By CHARLES G. GRIFFO El Paso, Tex.-The kindly night clerk with the Mississippi drawl at the Hilton pride as a Texas commodity. "How old are the children?" the clerk asked. I TOLD him of Martha 14, and Mary Elizabeth 6, the girls, and Chuck, 9, and Greg, 4½, the boys. "I'm 40," I say, making conversation. "I'm sorry Mr. Griffo, but the best we can do is a sample room" says the clerk "we can move you in the morning to a room with television. We'll have to use rollaway beds." *"I'll take it," says I.' THE DEAL was made and the bellman loaded up the 7 pieces of luggage, while I carried portable radio, two cameras, a typewriter and the kids took care of the jackets and thermos jug. The room was a huge affair on the third floor, just Turn to Page 16, Column 5 sleepy, were beginning to stir. Needless to say this was the condition I was trying to avert. DADDY WASN'T too tired. The bus driver had done all the work from San Antonio on in. It was daddy's idea to change the schedule, causing us to arrive at such an early hour at El Paso. But what could a man do for entertainment, accompanied by four children at 2 a.m. at El Paso or any other city? THE HOTEL LOBBY was still crowded in the Hilton, however, because a convention of chiropractors was about to begin. And to coin a pun, the join* was jumping with chiropractors. So much so that it seems as if the profession might rank well with state CA Hotel was somewhat flabbergasted, a condition which Mr. Hilton says no clerk should ever be in. But he soon recovered! "You mean, youawl has four children with you Mr. Griffo?" he asked. "Do you have Griffo reservations?" I EXPLAINED that the reservations were for the following night. And here it was 1:30 the morning before The Southwestern moon was casting a halo over the rocky land of this international border Sunland city, as the Chamber of Commerce puts it and the kids, although 75.

[Page 2] 4 Children 4 Children Floor Clerk Concluded From Page 1 off the linen rooms. It was equipped with a large bed, four large tables, four iron pipe garment racks, a large desk for the use of salesmen, two lamps and a telephone. WITHIN SHORT order, evidencing the emergency training of Hilton management, it had two comfortable rollaway beds and we went to sleep. The children had to stay in the room -for a while the next morning while I wrote one of these articles. When I returned, the management tried to move us out of the sample room. The kids vetoed the idea. Playing school with the salesman's tables and trying to chin themselves on the. pipe racks was more fun at the time than television. A TOUR OF El Paso interested the children. The bustling community is the home of three military estab- "bottled up" his resolution. He demanded of Senator J. W. Fulbright (D.-Ark.), the banking committee chairman, why the resolution has not been sent to the Senate floor. Capehart declared that the Eisenhower administration has done a good job of fighting back inflation, which he said is the gravest danger the nation faces today. "I CONGRATULATE them upon it," Capehart said of the administration's fight against inflation. The Indiana senator said lishments, Fort Bliss, headquarters for guided missile, rocket and 'anti-craft research. Biggs Air Force Base, a bomber base, and William Beaumont Army Hospital. We took a bus tour around the city taking in the industries such as the world's largest copper refinery, the world's tallest smokestack, that on a smelter, and got a gander at a replica of the original Fort Bliss. MOST INTERESTING to the children, however, were many residents of Mexican extraction. That was why we planned our trip across the border to Juarez as a half-day's adventure the next day before boarding a bus for New Mexico and then Phoenix, Arizona. "DO WE HAVE to take a boat to Mexico?" asked Chuck, before he went to sleep. "No, a streetcar," said daddy, nonchalantly. "A streetcar? that the so - called "hard money" program has been pictured as something "sinister" although it is not at all. He said the tightening of money and credit was nothing more than a means of checking inflation. Senator Frank Lausche' (D.-O.) said not control but "self -discipline" is the answer to inflation and that Congress should lead the way in setting examples of self-discipline in money matters.