Soldiers9 Health
'Colonel's Concern
WASHINGTON JP CoL Nell Wicklitfe, whose parents wanted
her to study music when the was a girl back in West Union, S. C,
today heads up one of the youngest and most unique ..corps in the na
tion's military organization. She is chief of the Women's Medical Spe
cialist Corps, made up of dietitians, physical therapists and occupa
tional therapists,
There are some 600 of us, all
members of the Armors medical
team, devoted to the same single
mission of safeguarding the health
and well-being of the American
soldier." she told me. "But we
need to grow. We're seeking some
40 per cent more recruits."
Col. Wickliffe says members ot
her corps are serving in all over
seas theaters, including Europe,
the Far East, the Caribbean and
Hawaii. "Our dietitians in the Far
East are meeting the dietary re-
1 quirements of a polyglot army
composed of men and women from
20 nations who have joined Ameri
can forces under the U. N. flag,
she said. "In Germany our physi
cal therapists are doing an out
standing job in getting disabled
troops back on the job in record
time. Our occupational therapists,
wherever they are serving, are ac
tively participating in a rehabili
tation program . . . for orthopedic
patients and those suffering from
other disorders . . . which we be
lieve is unsurpassed."
Col. Wickliffe, a slender and at
tractive brunette, was made chief
of the corps a year ago after serv
ing as chief dietitian of the Japan
Logistical Command and dietetic
consultant for the Far East Com
mand. She received a Legion of
Merit citation for her work in re
vamping hospital food service in
this area.
An authority on military diet
planning, she had been with the
Army's specialist program since
1929 long before there was a Spe
cialist Corps. She completed her
dietetic intemeship at Walter Reed
Hospital, served as staff dietitian
until 1930 and came back six years
later as chief dietitian. She got
started on her career in 1921 when
as a freshman at Winthrop College
at Rock Hill, S. O, she decided to
major in home economics instead
of music.
"Like many Southern girls, I'd
been shooed out of the kitchen, so
I didn t know much about do
mestic science first hand," she
said. "But when I looked over the
field for something I wanted to do,
I decided home economics was the
coming thing."
CoL Wickliffe is a talented host
ess and loves to travel. She says
she's always shopping for things
tt add charm and color to her
home. She picked up a porcelain
vase in the Russian Zone of Ger
many, an old brass candle wanner
in Amsterdam, a marquisite watch
in Switzerland and hats and gloves
in Paris.
RADAR TO CATCH SMUGGLER
SINGAPORE (P Small craft
engaged in smuggling goods and
illegal immigrants into Singapore
may in the future have to pierce
a radar screen ringing the island.
The government is considering es
tablishing a radar, station atop a
hill overlooking Singapore harbor.
the newspaper Sunday Standard
reoorted recently. The station
would be in contact with police
patrol craft by radio.
School Bus Drivers Meet for Instructions
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check early in the week, met Satarday for the annual safety instruction period sponsored by the state.
Paul Warren of the state education department conducted the program. Among the Salem bus drivers
are these, pictured at the bos shop near Salem High School: (Left to right) first row John Turner.
BUiH itMhrlrht. winimm Lee. Guv Weeks. Robert Goff. Jack Hande; second row James MeHxle,
Dean Moore. Del Githens, Ronald Coffey, Hugh Nelson. James Gay, Lores Kaatan, David Folndexter.
Drivers from Keizer. Stayton and Aumsville also attended
Stock Market
Gains Stren
gth
NEW YORK (JP) - After strug
gling through a week of minor
barriers, the stock market mus
tered renewed strength and closed
at a new 1952 high.
Most of the rough going arose
from psychological factors in
volving the question of whether
the market had gone too high too
fast and was due for a little rest.
Such a pause before the start of
the traditional year - end rally
would not be unexpected. j
News developments, and there
weren't very many, were mostly
on the bullish side. Included was
a prediction by the staff of j the
House-Senate committee on the
economic report that prosperity
would continue even when defense
spending tapers off.
The Associated Press average of
60 stocks gained 90 cents on the
week with most of the gain ac
counted for by the railroads. The
average closed at $1100, the high
est level since June 4, 1930. On
that date it stood at $116.60.
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AP Staffs Race to Scene of
World's Worse Air tragedy
(Story also on page one.)
SEATTLE m The Associated
Press . and member newspaper
photographers and Wirephoto op
erators raced from three cities by
helicopter and automobiles to get
a picture story of the vorst plane
crash in aviation history .t
They battled icy mountain passes.
snow and icing conditions in the
air to reach Larson Air Force Base,
where a C-124 crashed and killed
84 military personnel.
4 Their problem not only was to
get the pictures but to get them
out to the rest of the world from
the Air Base -hich lies midway
between Washington's i two largest
cities. f
From Spokane, the Daily- Chron
icle sent photographers and report
ers by automobile over icy roads
the 125 miles to Moses Lake on the
edge of the big Air Base.
From Seattle, 175 miles and a
snow-covered mountain pass away.
The sscviated Press and Seattle
Times sent photographers, report
ers and Wirephoto operators.
They carried a portable Wire
photo transmitter.
From Yakima, 100 miles to the
south, the Republic started Photo
grapher Dean Spuler by light plana
but icing conditions were such tha
plane could not fly high enough to
clear the mountains.
Spuler switched to a helicopter
which could hedgehop under tha
ice-forming weather.
Converging on Moses Lake, tha
Chronicle photographers took their
pictures and rushed them to tha
Moses Lake telephone ' office to
await the portable transmitter.
SEEK ISRAEL RF-ENTRT
BOMBAY (JP) - Fifty-eight of
the 128 Indian Jews who returned
from Israel last August charging
racial discrimination have peti
tioned Prime Minister David Ben.
Gurion for permission to resettle
In Israel.
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