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About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1949)
Roseburg Yet Treasures War Medal , : if " V... s Off HOLDS HICHEST MEDAL Frank C. High, 74, Melrose route, box 338B, Roseburg, Is shown wearing the nation's highest military honor, the congressional Medal of Honor, which he won May 16, 1899 near San Isidro, Philippine Islands. (Picture by Photo Labi. A little more than 50 years ago near a place called San Isidro in the Philippine Islands, Frank C. High,, private, company G, second Oregon Infantry Volunteers, displayed "gallantry and in trepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty." For this he received the highest military award this country can give the congressional Medal of Honor. The official Department of Army citation reads, "With 21 other scouts, (he) charged across a burning bridge, under heavy fire, and completely routed 600 of the enemy who were entrenched in a strongly fortified position." Though he escaped with no in juries, in this battle, he did find a couple of holes in his shirt when he had "time to do some in specting." This was during the Philippine insurrection, which lasted from 1899 to 1913. Today, Frank High, resident of Roseburg, recounts this battle and claims there were "others a lot tougher." Modestly, he explains that the two bullet scars on his face were picked up at a later date, when things really got "rough." High's little five-pointed medal, bedecked with light blue ribbon and 13 white stars, is one of 70 awarded during the 14-year con flict, called by the Army, the "Philippine Insurrection." Offi cially, the war with Spain was ended in December, 1898. There have been 2,116 such medals awarded in the history of the United States, 1200 of these Many Types Of Sex Offenses Against Children Noted; 15 States Hit Back ' By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON UP) Rape and murder are the extreme and most violent forms of sex offenses against children. They've made headlines lately. But sexual offenses against chil dren also take other forms, less violent. There are more of them. What causes a man to commit any kind of sex offense against a child? I asked a couple of Washington psychiatrists. They said there are a number of causes. Here are some: 1. ' Feeble-mlndedness. A man of 40 may have the mind of a child. 2. Senility. An old man's brain may have deteriorated so that he's in his second childhood. 3. Disease of the brain. Syph ilis, for example. Disease de stroyed that part of the brain which previously kept a man from such an offense. 4. Bad early family and social training. It may have left a man socially immature so that he nev er fitted into grown-up society. 5. Or, for one reason or an other, he has become a sadist who can find emotional comfort only in inflicting suffering or death upon a child. Can such a man be cured by medical or psychiatric treat ment? Some can, some can't. Al most nothing can be done for the feeble-minded (No. 1) or the old and senile (No. 2). If the man with brain syphilis (No. 3) isn't too far gone, the disease can be stopped and in time he may resume a normal life. Some of those in No. 4 and 5 may be cured by psychiatry, some not. These doctors think the defi nitely incurable ones should be put away for life In a hospital or, If they've committed a crime, in jail. Why? Because, if let loose, they're a menace. Custody Recommended And they think the curable ones should be kept in custody for treatment until the doctors feel it's safe to let them loose again. All sex offenders against chil dren, these doctors think, should be given medical care as soon as first detected to get them out of circulation until they can be cur ed or, If Incurable, permanently isolated, Does a person progress (or ret rogress) from one stage of sexual offense against a child to anoth er until finally he rapes or kills? Some do, some don't. An exhi bitionist, for example, may never go beyond that stage although he needs medical treatment and should be isolated until cured, if that's possible. Some may start with exhibition ism and go on to rape and mur der. Others may start with rape and murder. 15 States Acted Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have recently act ed more or less to crack down on sexual abnormals. But what they've done or plan to do varies widely:from hospital treatment to stiffer jail sentences. There seems to be no agree ment among the 48 states on how to handle sexual offenders Jackson County Raises Fund For Air Ambulance MEDFORD, Dec. 15 (.t5) Jack son county H going to buy itself an air ambulance. The residents yesterday passed their goal of $3,000 in contribu tions, to buy a two-engined Cess na plane for use in "mercy flights." The plane will furnish ambu lance service on a doctor's cer tificate. The cost will be about $12 an hour. Volunteers will do the piloting and the mechanical work. The air ambulance is the brain child of George Milligan, CAA control tower operator, and chairman of the non-profit Mercy Flights, Inc. Most of the donations toward buying the plane were small; many of them were given by school pupils. against children. Rep. Chelf, Kentucky Democrat, wants a sex ual offense against a child made a federal crime, with psychiatric treatment for those not sentenc ed to death. Fearing publicity, some par ents don't report to police a sex ual offense against their child. This leaves the offender free to approach, attack or maybe kill some other child. The psychiatrists and J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, think sex offenses against children would be cut down if police were called in on every case. This would help, no doubt. But at this point in America';-, social development there are many instances where sex offend ers against children are arrested and then released with hardlv more than a brief detention, if any. , during the Civil war. During World War II, 292 were awarded and, like in earlier wars, many were given posthumously. Roseburg's medal winner be lieves he is one of two living re cipients in the State of Oregon. He is 74 years old. Along with other Medal of Honor winners in United States history. High, and the citation he received, is listed in the book. "The Medal of HonorV' published by the Department of Army in 1948. President Harry S. Truman, In the Foreward to the book, states ". . . May the courage and hero ism of which this Medal is a sym bol always remind us of our debt to these men, and clearly point to the personal responsibility which every American has today to share in the work of helping to build a healthy and peaceful world." Accompanying the book, when it was sent to Mr. High, is a personally signed letter from Omar N. Bradley, expressing the nation's gratitude to him for great service to his country. CtAST MINUTI IMOPt' OUlOlJl Spend less and give more at Penney's! 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Not just kids, either. There's a laugh In some of them Thur., Dec. 15, 1949 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 11 for Goldman. Seven-year-old Harry from the Bronx wants a shrunken mum my's head for Christmas. Thinks it might help him when he be comes a magician. He promises "1 won't bring It to school." And Nancy over In Brooklyn loves horses. She asked for a fe male gelding "all black." But only male horses are gelded. Charlie wrote out his own Christmas list, then added: "Grampy wants a bottle of whisky." Laughs? sure, but tears, too. The kids from Germany, France and England who write to Santa at New York, ask for chocolate or food. In their world, for a long time, toys have had a low priority. Louis, a Manhattan seven-year- old, knows Santa "can do any thing." So he wrote: "Please bring me my mother. She went out and left three of us with my father. He Is going to Cut us In a home and my baby rother is sick. I like toys but I like my mother best ." 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