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89th Year, No. 13
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Eugene, Oregon, Thursday, January 13, 1955
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Eisenhower Asks
Extension of Draft,
Army Pay Boosts
WASHINGTON UP) President Eisenhower Thursday
asked Congress to extend' the draft law four years, grant
pay increases to "career" servicemen and create a powerful
military reserve to deal with any "aggressor so criminally
unwise as to attempt an atomic attack."
The President set out the administration's military man
power program in two special messages to the lawmakers,
saying the measures he proposed would give this country
the "proper military posture" for the first time in peace
time. On pay, he proposed increases only for men willing to
serve longer than a minimum time, saying it is necessary
I to maintain "the experienced
Populi
larVote
May
Decide
Tax Program
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
Of The Associated Press
.'SALEM I Possibilitv that
the Oregon Leslature's tax pro
gram would be referred to the
people at a special election next
spring loomed large Thursday,
after presiding officers of both
houses took a dim view of Gov.
'Paul Patterson's tax recommen
dations. Senate President Elmo Smith
and House Speaker Edward A.
Geary flatly opposed the gover
nor's plan to raise $30,000,000 in
the next biennium by removing
the federal lax deduction in fig
uring state income taxes.
FEAR PROPERTY TAX
They also said they fear the
effect of levying a state property
tax to raise another $30,000,000.
Smith and Geary added that
they didn't know if these or dif
ferent proposals would be passed
by the Legislature.
But they agreed it is likely
that whatever taxes the Legisla
ture votes will be referred to
rthe people at a special election
to be held soon after the Legis
lature adjourns.
If the people then reject new
taxes, the Legislature would
come back into special session to
make appropriations, chiefly
those for schools and public wel
fare. To finance the $219,000,000
budget, the state needs about
$63,000,800 more revenue.
Geary and Smith believe thai
If the people continue getting
the services" they want, they'll
have to vote the money to fi
nance them.
'IMMORAL TAX'
As to the governor's proposal
to deny the federal income tax
deduction, Geary said:
"It would be an immoral tax.
It would be a tax on a tax. In
creasing income tax rates would
he a more honest way of doing
it."
Smith agreed, saying it should
be done only as a last resort.
Geary and Smith said they feai
that a state property tax would
make it hard to - collect local
school taxes. The state would
get first claim on its share of
the property taxes, regardless of
whether enough would be left to
finance local activities.
Geary said a state property tax
might cause a "taxpayers re
volt," and that it probably
would increase the rate of tax
delinquencies.
Jets Take Off
From Trucks
BALTIMORE iff) The Air Force
doesn't need long runways any
more toget its fighter jets into
, the air. It can launch them from
a 39-foot platform mounted on a
truck.
The Air Force announced
Thursday it had' launched F84
Thunderjets from what it calls
"zero length" launching plat
forms during tests at Edwards
Air Force Base, Calif.
The tests, conducted' by the Air
Research and Development Com
mand and uienn L. Marun, usedthan 20 per cent of them havc'able him to decide disposition
!rinuP,!r;herMrtibcen Uken back ,0 Prisn- I onfcssed or rnvicU:6 crim
empIoed to launch the Martin unst nf ihp 20 npr rpnt have mal.
Matador, a pilotless missile.
A "booster bottle" filled with
propellant is attached to an F84
and the pUne raised into launch
ing position on the platform by
mobile cranes.
The plane's turbojet engines are
raced at full speed, then the pro
pellant in the "booster bottle"
goes into action, giving the plane
. t til that ..-.H. U nff
.wif.lv it is airborne almost in -
Iianuy.
The "booster bottle" Is dropped
once the propellant is exhausted:
Martin test pilot Bob Turner
says the strain of the takeoff is
lhft IHat ti-hirh nitntc norm.
ally experience during catapult
takeoffs sucW as those used on
hips?. '
hard core of a modern fight
ing torce."
Calling for a "selective" rise,
Eisenhower said there should he
no increase for officers in the
first three years of their service
and none in the first two years
for enlisted men.
This would mean no pay raise
for two-year draftees or for
young reserve officers putting in
only their obligated time.
6.7 PER CENT BOOST
The President said the aggre
gate increase he proposed would
hike the present service payroll
by about 6.7 per cent for salary
and allowances.
At present the government is
paying out about lO'b billion dol
lars for those purposes. On that
basis, the added cost would be
about 705 million dollars a year.
Eisenhower devoted one mes
sage of 1,800 words to the pay
question and a second of 2.000
words to his request for contin
uation of the draft law and es
tablishment of an improved re
serve program.
He said extension of the selec
tive service law, due to expire
June 30, "is necessary because
experience demonstrates that ac-i
tive armed forces of the size we
must maintain cannot be raised
by voluntary enlistments alone."
He said too an effective re
serve program to provide a pool
of trained fighting men is neces
sary because:
RESERVE PLAN
"We cannot possibly keep
armed and In uniform the total
forces that might ultimately be
required in an all-out war. The
inescapable burdens would en
danger the liberties and the eco
nomic system we are determined
to defend."
Major parts of the proposed re
serve program had been disclosed
late last year by the Pentagon.
The chief feature is a plan for six
monlhs' training each year of
about 100.000 young men who
would go directly into the reserve.
In asking a "selective" pay
raise for military men, Eisen
hower said the problem is to
keep trained men in the service.
He said only 11.6 per cent of
Army pe: sonnel reenlisted in 1954
compared with a rate of 41.2 per
cent in 1949.
He added:
"Since 1949, there has been one
increase in pay which, along with
increases in allowances, amount
ed to an aggregate advance in
compensation of 5.7 per cent.
Military pay, nevertheless, has
fallen behind that of industry. In
addition, supplementary pay prac
tices, health, security and retire
ment benefits and bonus systems
are now widespread throughout
industry, and this fact tends io
neutralize such advantage as the
military services had in these
fields.
"While the high turnover in mil
itary personnel is costly in dol
lars, even more costly is the loss
of experience and operational ef
ficiency which results from it.
"We are losing too many men
trained in leadership and techni
cal skills the experienced hard
core of a modern fighting force."
To correct the situation, the
President recommended:
1. An increase in compensation
IKE ASKS DRAFT
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4 OUT OF 5 LIVE
Parole System Termed Successful
Oregon has paroled someicourts. This is done at the re -
10.000 felons since 1939 and less auest of th'e judge and is to en-
gone back for technical reasons
violations of the parole con
ditions rather than for crimes.
H. M. Randall, director for the
State Board of Parole and Pro
bation, gave these figures in a
talk Wednesday to the Eugene
Lions Club. He said that "If we
ran straiphfpn nut fifl npr rpnt
r tv. t i.i.v .... ...Jnassibilities of readjustment
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l0 pa! nd probatl0n h"
ibeen proved.
proved.
He said his department has a
staff of 20 men who supervise
between 1,800 and 1,625 released
felons. Two of these men. Ken
Hunt and Don Lovell. are sta -
, uonra
One function-ii to make pre-
'scntenc investigations for the!
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(AP Wlrephoto)
WILLIAM TELL ON SKATES If this trick skater fails to slice the potato, he'll slice
a bean. Potato on head, Kathy Warren of Brighton, England, sits quiet as a mouse
while the flashing blades slice the spud in two and leave Kathy intact. The unseen
skater is Desmond Scott, 22-year-old Sydney, Australia, trickster who says it took him
10 years to perfect, the stunt. It's a feature of the ice pantomime "Humpty Dumpty"
' at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Commission Seeks
To End Latin War
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica Wl A
five-nation commission arrived in
a U.S. Air Force plane from
Panama Thursday to conduct an
on-the-spot investigation of
spreading warfare in Costa Rica.
A short time later the Army
command announced the capture
of Carlos Lara Hine and said he
was one of the "rebel leaders"
who started the uprising at Villa
Quesada that set off the warfare
on Tuesday.
FIERCE FIGHTING
The announcement said he was
captured uninjured in fierce
fighting Wednesday at Rio Peje,
a town near Villa Quesada. The
announcement gave no details on
Lara's background. It added that
large supplies of ammunition, in
cluding seven Browning machine-
guns and many Mauser rifles,
were seized from retreating rebei
forces.
In addition to Lara, "many"
other rebels were captured, in
cluding two seriously wounded.
A nervous airport guard gave
6 trigger nappy welcome to a
Lowell District
Chief Named
Ralph L. Worst!!, Oakridge,
Thursday was appointed ranger
of the Lowell Ranger District of
Willamette National Forest. Su
pervisor Robert Aufdcrheide
made the announcement.
Worstell replaces Fred J. Briem
who is retiring this weekend.
Headquarters of the district is at
Lowell.
The new ranger recently has
been timber management aide of
the Rigdon district at Oakridge.
He began with the United States
Forest Service in the Fremont
National Forest in 1948. He re
ceived his forestry degree from
Oregon State College in 1949, and,
after graduation, worked in the
Cascadia ranger district as dis
trict clerk.
In 1950, he transferred to the
Lowell district and worked in
limber management. He held the
rank of captain with the U.S.
Army in Europe from 1941 to
1947. He is married, has two sons,
and is 34 years, old.
Aufderheide also announed
that Alvin L. Sorseth has been
selected to replace S. T. Moore
as ranger of the Detroit Ranger
District. He has, been a usf!
employe since 1938 and recently
has been ranger of the Drewsey
district in the Malheur National
Forest. Moore last month was
annninlnH tn hpaHmia rtPrS DOSi-
tion on the Rogue River forest at;
Medford.
UP TO TERMS
men. snouiu tne cuimum uc,
,i i u l.
placed on probation by the; is -responsible to the penal au
judge, men like Hunt and Lovell, thorities, and still has their help.
"helD this nerson over the rough !f a man is held until his sen-
spots," Randall said.
If the man goes to prison and
serves his minimum time, Witless COSTLY
parole and probation men advise
the parole board on the man's
PAROLEE HELPED
ik. -.mi. i.
when narole is cranted to a
nrisoncr. the supervisor keeps an
eye on him, helping him get a
job, advising him, and making!
We he doesn't violate the oro-
!viiinn nf ih n,ml.
Ther are two main reasons for,
a parole .system Randall ex-
plained.
U.S. Air Force transport plane
that arrived in advance of the
commission from the Organiza
tion of American states (OAS).
Arrival of the commission in
another U.S.- Air Force plane
from Panama a short time later
was without incident. But a sin
gle shot was fired at the trans
port by a guard apparently still
nervous over Wednesday's air at
tack on San Jose by a single
plane. The U.S. plane was a con
siderable distance away and the
shot was aimed low, so no dam
age was done.
The commission was named by
the OAS to conduct an on-the-
spot survey of the tense situation
that, has developed between Cos
ta Rica and Nicaragua. One of
the points still to. be established
definitely is the origin of the op
position forces.
Costa Rica charges that the
warfare was instigated and has
the active participation of exiles
and others from Nicaragua. But
the Nicaraguan government, de
nying this, said it was a rebel
lion inside the country aimed at
the overthrow of President Jose
Figueres.
The U.S. State Department an
nounced it was cooperating by
ordering American planes to the
battle area to make "pacific ob
servation" flights requested by
OAS in the hope such flights
would halt air raids on Costa
Rican towns.
Luis Quintilla of Mexico, chair
man of the cqmmission, said it
would get down to work immedi
ately after calling on President
Figueres. U.S. Ambassador Rob
ert F. Woodward was among dip
lomats at the airport who
greeted the commission.
Across the border, Nicaraguan
President Anastasio Somoza con
tinued to deny the Costa Rican
accusations, classing the fighting
in Costa Rica as a "civil war."
He said he had ordered all rebels
crossing his borders disarmed
and all Costa Ricans in the coun
try rounded up for questioning.
DUEL PROPOSED
At a news conference in Man
agua, Somoza also challenged Fi
gueres tn meet him at the border
and settle their longtime feud
with a duel between the two of
them. "Somoza must be mad," a
source close to the Costa Rican
President commented in San
Jose.
Fighting flared at half a dozen
points Wednesday and planes
strafed nine towns including me
capital. Unofficial estimates
placed the rebel force at 400
men.
As a result of the air attacks,
Figueres suspended civil rights.
Airline flights nut of San Jose
were canceled and planes bound
I for the capital were diverted.
. The first is to "get the man
back into society, to make him
iuseful instead of just a drone."
- Parole allow, the man to be put
I . , , ,
hart wt n nf n n f n e nt mil
tence is up, he goes out on his
own.
The second reason is cost to
tne taxpayer, nanaausaiaucosu,
S13 a monin io supervise a man
on oarole. and $90 to keen him
in the orison. When he is on
narole he is working and support
ing his family. When he is in
prison, the state usually has to
frrd the wife and kids.
And Rinnan prnlainrH "If u-r
didn't have m nam I avstem. we
IG ITaicill, u
have to builoy twoiw prison Justiby me Tillamook Ltjamner
billing
the size of tlv
IhJ one we now have."
W.T.Grant
Store Slated
At 9th, Olive
A-' San Francisco architect
Thursday announced plans for
construction of a new . W. T.
Grant Co. store near Broadway
and Olive St. in downtown Eu
gene. The architect, John S. Bollcs,
said construction of the new
building will start "in about
three or four weeks after we get
some zoning matters cleared.
Bollcs has a request before the
Eugene City Council for a waiver
of alley setback and loading
dock requircmepts. It may take
about a- month before final ac
tion is. completed by the coun-
Bollcs predicted that the new
building would be completed and
in use in about six months.
The Grant Co. is a large retail
"chain" firm operating through
out the United States. Headquar
ters is in New York.
. The firm specializes in depart
ment store merchandise.
There will be a basement and
two stories in the building to be
located next to the new Bon
Marche. The second level will
contain Grant Co. offices.
The store will face Broadway,
extending from the alley between
Olive and Charnelton St. about
106 feet to the cast. The build
ing will extend to the alley be
tween 8th Ave. and Broadway.
Bolles did not reveal the cost
of the new building. He said,
however, taat Hup and Rhodes
San Francisco contractors, will
do the major construction work.
Nationalists
Bomb Islands
TAIPEH, Formosa Ufi The
vest pocket war quickened Thurs
day with new Nationalist bombing
raids on Red islands, dog fights
north of Formosa and a reported
sea battle between guerrillas and
Communist junks.
There also were rumors from
Chinese correspondents that U.S.
destroyers which guard Formosa
from invasion had been sucked
into the conflict but these were
officially discounted.
The Air Force said four-engine
bombers touched off big fires in
raids on Itenao and Toumen Is
lands, IS and 13 miles, respec
tively, north of the Invasion
threatened Tachcns, 200 miles
north of Formosa.
Later in the day, Nationalist
propeller planes in undisclosed
number engaged in a brief aerial
skirmish with Red fighter-bombers
northeast of the Tachens. No
damage was reported on either
side.
The defense ministry said sea
borne lutionalist guerrillas be
fore dawn engaged a convoy of
Communist supply junks near the
Tachens and captured 12 enemy
craft and 114 crewmen after
fierce fighting.
Published reports' that a U. S.
destroyer fired on Chinese Com
munist planes Tuesday 80 miles
south of the Tachens were dis
counted by Capt. Albert Kil mar
tin, U.S. embassy naval attache.
Kilmartin said he had not been
infnrmrrt nf thp inrirtpnt and ual
positive the story, which came?. carried no insurance.
from Chinese Nationalist corres-
; pendents, was without foundation
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PORTLAND A plea of guil
tv was entered Thursday bv
- i Clyde L. (Tim) Metcalf of Eu
gene to a charge he failed to file Democratic leaders iilvisfd
an income lax return. jRcp. Edith (irccn,. Portland,
The 14-vear-old publicist was, Wednesday of the appointment.
Urnitpri nf withholding hit rMurn
dim 19S1 when he was emoloved
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Commerce.
Rt. F Tunnel Likely
Project for Summer
By MARVIN TIMS
Of The Register-Guard
The State Highway Commission
probably will call for bids this
summer for construction of a
1,400-foot tunnel between Maple-
ton and Richardson to make the
long-proposed Rt. F project to the
coast a reality.
The Lane County Board of Com
missioners announced Wednes
day that the state may have plans
and specifications completed in
the next 60 to 90 days. A con
tract can be let whenever federal
funds become available. These
funds are expected to be available
sometime in July or August.
The tunnel would eliminate a
500-foot hurdle that has blocked
the feasibility of extending Rt.
F. The hurdle is a steep ridge
which rises between Mapleton
and Richardson astride the pro
posed arterial.
TEST BORINGS
Commissioner Ralph Petersen
said test borings made by the
state indicate that rock forma
tion in the proposed tunnel area
may be sufficiently hard to per-!
mit construction without lining
the tunnel.
Petersen said Lane County aft
er July 1 will have $428,000 in
county-statc-fcdcral funds to fi
nance the tunnel project. "It ap
pears now the tunnel can be dug
for less than this. If this is the
case, there is no question nut
what the job can be let this sum
mer and completed sometime
next year," the commissioner
said.
COSTS REDUCED
Petersen - said if the tunnel
must be lined, this work would
Two Resign
At Oakland
After Dispute
OAKLAND, Ore. W) A dispute
between the city school supenn
tendent and the' grade school
principal led Wednesday night to
the loss of jobs for both men.
At a public meeting, attended
by 200 persons, the school board
accepted resignations, effective
at the end of the school year,
from Supt. James Cummings
and Principal J. Clyde Akey.
The dispute came into the
open a week ago when Cum
mings charged Akcy with inef
ficiency and demanded his resig
nation, but the board refused to
accept it.
The board told Cummings that
Akcy a resignation would be ac
cepted only if Cummings also re
signed. Board members added
they would prefer both men to
stay. Cummings said that was
impossible: one or both would
have to go.
At Wednesday night's meeting,
there were speeches from the
floor in behalf of each man. Sen
timent appeared evenly divided.
Board Chairman Leo Sparks
then announced that to avoid a
split in the community, the
board had decided to accept
resignations from both men.
Curtin House
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IJUOl 111 M.
CURTIN A fire of unknown
origin destroyed the small home
and personal effects of the Ted
Lyman family here Wednesday.
No one was injured.
Lyman was at work and Mrs.
Lyman was outside the house,
where she was joined by her 4-
ycar-old son, just before the fire
broke out.
The structure burned so swiftly
and gave off so much heat the
neighbors were unable to do more
than play a hose over the walls
of an adjacent house, the resi
dence of Mrs. Lyman's mother,
Mrs. Violet G. Clark. The heat
melted some of the asphalt siding
of the Clark house but it did not
catch fire,
A hrother of Mrs. Lyman, Merle;
Clark, managed to break a win-'last July in the status of the proj
dow and let out a cat and dogjret. At that time it was explained
trapped in the house
Lyman, who is a rachet setter
for the R & R Lumber Co. at
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I Woman Lawmaker
iHpU Cnmmittpe Job
un-wrenoi.
- got her wish a place on the
House Education and Labor Com-
- mittee.
She had renuested it because of
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her long experience as 1 teacher
orana as a supporter nj improycu
educational facilities.'
cost an estimated $300,000. Even
this expenditure can be financed,
he said, by postponing the lining
a year and utilizing that year's
federal funds.
In county-state-federal projects,
the county contributes 20 per
cent of the project, the state 20
per cent and the federal govern
ment 60 per cent.
Lane became eligible for $214,-
000 last July 1, but let this allo
cation "ride" and will be able to
add $214,000 to it July 1 of this
year, making $428,000 available
for the tunnel project. Of this
sum. Lane County only has to con
tribute $85,600 or 20 per cent.
Earlier estimates of tunnel
construction costs have run
high as 1 million dollars but
Petersen said Wednesday the
slate has been able to make sev
eral revisions which will help
trim costs.
Length of the proposed tunnel
has been reduced from 1,770 to
1,400 feet by changing the ap
proach grade from 5 to 6Vt per
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WINS "DIAPER DERBY" Lt. Norman (Moose) Dona-,
hoe jubilantly tosses his 17-month-old adopted Greek
daughter, Roni Marie, into the air Thursday shortly after
arrival in Patuxent, Md., on a five-day, 13,000-mile hitch-'
hiking flight from Athens, Greece, to the United States.
Donahoe, who left Athens with only 48 disposable
diapers for his young daughter, was able to pick up 48
more during a stop in Morocco to tide him over until ho
reached the U. S. They plan to leave for New York later
in the day for a reunion with Donahoe's wife.
Funds for New
Route Not Set
State Highway Department en
gineers apparently were in the
dark Thursday as to just how
much federal money would be
available when construction of a
new Highway 09 from Albany to
Eugene starts sometime in the
future.
W. C. Williams, first assistant
highway engineer for the state,
declared Thursday morning that
stories claiming the stato will re
ceive federal money amounting
to B9 per cent of the cost of the j
project are "completely unau
thorized."
He said such information hasanUS m IXCnO
never been released fmm the de
partment's offices in Salem, and hf.NO -BN. Secretary Dan'
so far as he knows nothing defi-
nile has been decided.
Williams explained that federal
aid for the highway Improve
ment which would bring a new
road east ot the present Highway
09 depends on President Eisen
hower's hudget request for high
way funds. Williams added that
there is no way of knowing at
this point just how much the
state will finally get.
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j lit; a.iM.Maiii i-MKiiirrt ai.iu itaiu
there has been little change since
that construction of the new sec
tion of ' Highway 99 would be
started i
st ruction
1057.
n the next 5 year ron l(annaIo said doubted that
program, beginninginlHan9iarskjold would report to the
Williams concluded that the
highway commission has never
given final approval to any plans,
and that preliminary surveys arc
just now underway for the route
,hat wn,d b , ,
existing
j(i . .
Eugene
and Albany.
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jDOmuer v-rdilies
NAPLES, Italy iftA U.S. Navy
i two -st:ine bomber crashed into
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naierno n an uir.-j;
I aboard parachuted safety,
cent, the commissioner explained.
Tunnel construction will also in
clude an improved approach at
each end.
A boost to the Rt. F project
came last September when the
Bureau of Public Roads approved
the extension ot Rt. F as a fed
eral secondary highway from
Walton to Mapleton, a distance
of 19.3 miles. Since the proposed
tunnel was located in this stretch,
federal funds could then be spent
on tunnel construction.
Commissioner Kenneth Nielsen
said Wednesday that Rt.. F is
now on the federal secondary
network from Eugene to Maple
ton. Future improvement on this
stretch, he said,- can be partially
financed with federal funds.
The tunnel will lessen the driv
ing distance between Eugene and
Florence from 81 to about 56
miles. But the . county commis
sioners pointed out Wednesday
one of the most important ad-
RT. F TUNNEL
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iU.N. Leader
;T l T"l
Hammarskjold arrived Thursday
I from his mission to free 11 Amer-
lean airmen in Ken cnina ana
stayed in bed during a brief
plane refueling stop here.
The big silver super Constella
tion landed at 5:14 a.m. and left
for New York about two hour
later. His personal aide, William
Rannalo, told newsmen:
"You're out of luck, boys he's
staying in bed. He's very tired."
Hammarskjold persistently has
refused any comment on his talks
with thou lal, Red China's
premier and forcit minister, on
the fate nf the 11 Amicans and
nthpr 11 nrisnnprs.
U.N. Thursdny. His plane is due
at New Yoite.it 8 p.m. EST.
U.N. Press Officer Wilder Foote
said Hammarskjold planned to
confer with T'.-nry Cabot Lodge,
U.S. amhasndor to the U.N., inv
mediately after his arrival.
Japs to Man Radar
KUSIIinO, Japan V-The ad
vance party of a Japanese radar
unit arrived Thursday to take
over duties from U.S. troops on
northeast tip of Hokkaido
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