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S outhern Oregon M iner, Thursday, Jan u ary 3, 1946 SERVICE BUREAU FINDING MEN FOR FEDERAL JOBS WASHINGTON.—Few people real Bx P aul M al lon j b * H H H H C S \ I I I K : I b is tk ro u fb special atrun/irm rnl will, the U ashinalon Hureiiu of U estern N ews paper I nion al Itiin hyo Street, N. Il ., H ashinglon, II. (.'., i.t alile In brina readers ib is w eekly colum n on p rob lem s of the ■ e tn an anti sen iceman ami bis fam ily. Questions may be ml dressed Io the a b o ie Uurran unti then w ill be answered in u subsequent col umn. No replies ran be made diesa i bs mail, but unit in ibe colum n w bicb will ap/H-ur in ibis newspaper reaularly. ize it but President Truman spends R « le « M d bv W estern N ew apnner Unlua. a lot of time these days trying to ADAMANT ATTITUDE WILL persuade people to take important GIVE US MORE POWER federal appointments. WASHINGTON - Sec. of State An illustration was the tussle he had with a~.‘ute 40-year-old Wilson Byrnes goes to Moscow! He says Wyatt, m ajo’ of Louisville. Ky., just the Iranian government will make the trek also. So both Mohammed appointed federal housing czar. N e w V e t e r a n s ' H o s p ita ls Wyatt was first offered just about and the mountain go to Moscow. The senate, as all knowing individ every job in the book. Postmaster Gen. Omar N. Bradley has an General Hannegan tried to get him uals here, is worried. Realising this. before his depart nounced authorization and approval to serve on the important civil aero ure, the state sec by the President of 28 new veterans nautics board, also to accept the job retary took both administration hospitals. At 12 of Jim McGranery wants to resign as the senators and these, a school of medicine is ad assistant to the attorney general, the press Into his jacent to the new hospital. one of the key spots in the justice The new hospitals authorized are confidence in off- department. the-record meet Birmingham. 500 beds; Little Rock. The civil aeronautics board job 500 beds; Tallahassee. Fla., 200 ings. really tempted Wyatt, and he asked The attitude of beds; Saginaw. Mich.. 200 beds; Tu for a few days to think it over. Next the worried sena pelo, Miss.. 200 beds; St. Louis. Mo.. day he got a phone call. tors and individ 500 beds; Southern Missouri, 1.000 TRUMAN PLEADS. beds; Poplar Bluff, Mo., 200 beds; uals is this: ''This is the President calling, T h e T ru m a n - Grand Island, Neb., 200 beds; Met DREAMBOAT CREW HOLDS R EU N IO N . . . The crew and four observers si the Dreamboat, which shattered Sec. Byrnes said a voice at the other end of the Byrnes fo re ig n ropolitan New York, 1,000 beds; all transcontinental speed records, pose in front of their army B-29 at LaGuardia Field, New York. Streaking phone. policy has been Syracuse. N. Y.. 1,000 beds; Dur through the skies at speeds better than 500 miles per hour, the trip was completed In 5 hours, 27 minutes “ Mr. President. I've been think working well, by comparison with ham. N. C . 500 beds; Charlotte. N. and 39 seconds. At left (cigar In mouth) Is Col. Clarence S. Irvine, pilot, shaking hands with Lt. Col. O. R. ing.” Wyatt said, "and I'm afraid the appeasement policy of the C.. 500 beds; Toledo, Ohio, 1.000 Stanley, co-pilot. In center, rear. Is Capt. Ruth Bailsman, only woman on the flight. beds; Kalamath Falls. Ore., 200 I ’m going to have to turn down that Rooeevelt administration, designed civil aeronautics job?* to goad the Russians to ever great beds; Philadelphia. Pa.. 1.000 beds; Altoona. Pa.. 200 beds; Erie. Pa.. “ That's swell.” replied the Presi er war against the Nazis. 200 beds; Harrisburg. Pa.. 200 beds; dent. " I have a more important Job We have not established much Chattanooga, Tenn.. 500 beds; Bon for you. Please come back here except our position In China. We ham, Texas, 50 beds; Houston. Tex riglg away.” have lost In Iran. The Russians as. 1.000 beds; Salt Lake City. 500 are in the process of conquer Next day, Wyatt appeared at the beds; Spokane. Wash.. 200 beds; ing that country. White House, where Truman told Madison. Wis., 500 beds and Beck But at least we have not lost him about the tough job of co ley. W. Va.. 200 beds. abjectly. We have won and lost, ordinating housing. Queationa a n d A n aw era by defending our position, the ”1 consider this housing situation Q —Are requirements for dis Roosevelt Atlantic charter, the most important problem con charge in the seabees the same against make-believe freedom. fronting the country today,” ex We ceased our losing because we as in the navy? And can a seabee plained the President. “If we don't had an adamant attitude, for what be eligible for state-side duty be solve this one, we'll really be In we believed was right. Does Mr. fore he has achieved enough dis trouble in a year and a half.” Byrnes' trip to Moscow mean we charge points? Mrs. W C. G.. Diggs “But, Mr. President,” said Wyatt. Va. have abandoned that attitude? “I ’m afraid I can't afford a federal A.—Yes. point ratings in the sea- job. I want to go back home and ATOMIC BOMB MAY BE bees are the same as in other USED AS APPEASEMENT practice law. I need the money." branches of the navy and they can Frankly, the senators think It be assigned for duty anywhere in “I know you want to go back to may. They think generally appease continental U. S. at any time. your law practice,” Truman said ment of Britain (with money) is io Q-—How many points are re “I know you want to make some be followed by appeasement of Rus quired for a dischargee from the money. But I don't like being Presi sia (with atom bombs, concessions, coast guard? Also does a man dent either. However, I feel I have eye-blinking regarding Iran, China the coast guard get points when he to do it, so I ’m doing it." and similar pretensions that conquest gets married? A reader, Coleridge of Europe and Asia by Russia is Neb. Then, staring at Wyatt sharp unthinkable). ly, be said, "How can I do a A.—As of December 11, 1945, en The mere fact that Mr. Byrnes listed men in the coast guard are good job if fellows like you goes to Moscow with atom bomb in required to have 40 points to be aren't willing to come up here hand reminds them of Chamberlain come eligible for discharge. To ob and help me?” at Munich. That also meant “peace tain the dependency points, he must This made a deep impression on in our time.” Remember? have been married on or before Wyatt. Next day he called at the Their understanding Is re August 15, 1945, and must have White House for five minutes. Walk inforced by two facts which I made a financial allotment to his TH E B R EEZE WA8 COLD BUT TH E WELCOME WARM . . . Arriving in New York In lime to be discharged ing into the executive office, he said, wife. think have been unpublished, for Christmas, these overseas veterans receive a mighty welcome at the dock. Left to right: Pfc. Steve “M r. President, I've come in to sur certainly have not been men Q.—My grandson was drowned in Saluga, Morgantown, W. Va.; CpI. Gerald Thee. Dover, Minn.; Pfc. Joe J. Krupar. Cleveland; Pfc. Forrest render.” tioned prominently: Germany after serving over two B road , Reading, Pa.; 8gt. William McAuliffe, Scranton, Pa.; Pvt. Frank Del Brocco, Baltimore, Md.; 8/8gt. Ordinarily it is the work of a cabi (1) M r. Byrnes dropped his years in the army. His insurance Steve Wilbanks, Corinth, Miss., and Sgt. M . D. Spradlind. Miami, Okla. net officer to tender a man a job. adviser Jimmy Dunn for the was made out to me. as his parents But now Truman finds he has to are dead and I raised him from the Moscow trip (Dunn had been phone men personally and beg them day he was born. However, after charged by Moscow enthusiasts to work for the government. The sending in his insurance papers, the as being Fascist, Catholic and other day, Truman who resents government wrote they didn't give otherwise unsympathetic with criticism of his numerous Missouri it to grandmothers. Is there any Moscow causes), and (2) M r. appointments, told one visitor: thing I can do or anyone I could Byrnes is taking In Dunn’s place write to so I can get it? Mrs. C. E “ People complain about all Freeman Mathews, a butterfly H., Hinsdale, 111. these Jackson county (Kansas City) diplomat, who has skipped A.—The veterans administration appointments. But whenever I try around the world in his assign informs us that legally, grandpar to appoint someone else, they are ments, yet never got the repu ents are not included in the range too busy making money. At least tation of being against Russian of kinship to whom insurance is pay the Jackson county boys are willing interests. to take the jobs.” M r. Byrnes is also taking John able, but in your case suggest that Carter Vincent, head of the far you legally establish your local NOTE—Actually mast tap fed eastern division, which Pat Hurley parental, or that you have acted as eral appointees can get Joba said was sabotaging American for parent to this boy and contact your paying twice as much autslde , eign policy (the Democrats sure nearest regional veteran adminis the government. Wyatt received stopped Hurley, didn't they. Senator tration office. Your local selective only SS.Ht a year as mayor of service board. Red Cross, or other Connally?) Laulaville, could be making $59,- In answer and apology to this line service organization can aid you 999 a year practicing law. of thought, Mr. Byrnes’ people ex with your case. Q-—My boy has been in the South IK E ’S FIRST SENATE SESSION. plain a crisis of the United Nations Pacific IS months. He is on Titian Gen. Dwight Eisenhower went organization is now at hand, due Island, U. S. Naval base hospital over big at his first meeting as chief to Russian lack of co-operation. If No. 19, Navy No. 3247. When will of staff with members of the senate UNO is to be saved, Mr. Byrnes he be home on a furlough?—Mrs. m ilitary affairs committee. It was must save It at Moscow, they say. T. H. G., Vernonia, Oregon. Unless Molotov shows up at the an off-the-record affair, for whicn A.—You do not give sufficient in the senators went across the Poto January 7 meeting of the assembly formation concerning your son’a mac to Eisenhower’s office in the in London, it will mean Russia has time in service to venture an an turned thumbs down on the Roose Pentagon building for luncheon. swer. You should give his age and Sitting over coffee and French velt formula for world peace. complete service record. brandy which he had just brought REGULAR M E E T IN G 8 OF Q —Does the period a serviceman back, Eisenhower spoke frankly FOREIG N MINISTERS enlists for mean anything or not? The meeting has been advertised Our son became 18 years of age about Soviet Russia and other mat ters. including co-operation with as a routine assemblage of the for last January 29. He enlisted in congress in running the army. Dis eign ministers, as promised by the navy for the duration of-the war TANK AIDS POLIO F IG H T . . . Hospitals now have use of one of sci JO U R N EY’S END! . . . Tonya cussing his experiences as the chief Stalin to Roosevelt and Churchill at and six months after, now he has ence’s most modern devices for treating victims of Infantile paralysis—* Jones, Honolulu poetess, attempted U. S. representative on the Allied Yalta. My Inside Information is been sent to Japan and that surely Hubbard tank. The tank is a huge T-shaped affair as shown in this pic- to cross the Pacific alone In a 30- control commission in Germany he that Mr. Byrnes went to his office does not look as if he is to be re ture. It Is fitted with • harness and headrest which permits the patient foot ketch. Four hundred miles out on a recent Sunday and began read leased soon. I am particularly con to lie in It, relaxed, and receive muscle re-education treatment. Filled from Honolulu a storm disabled the declared: ing the Yalta agreements. They say cerned because he has another year with warm water, it encourages muscular relaxation. T /4 Leo Schllt- craft and she was picked up 30 day, “ I f the American people had he found the agreements calling for in high school. Some boys in his gen, Engadlne, Mich., In tank at Vaughan hospital, Maywood, III. later. a chance to study the Russians meetings of the foreign ministers class who entered service last at close range, and vice versa, every three months. (They also year are back in school now. How I am certain there would be a called for independence of Iran.) can that be for one and not for fine mutual understanding and These meetings had not been held all? Isn't the war over since respect between the two peo August? Mother, Sunbury, Pa. The publicity men may claim ples. I rubbed elbows with M ar A.—You are right; it does not look that the San Francisco confer shal Zhukov and others and as though your son will be home ence came In April (against have a high regard for them. soon. The war is not over, and will Yalta’s January) and Potsdam We enjoyed splendid co-opera not be over until so declared by the came in July, and London in tion. I was always able to get President or congress. No peace September — but these were not along with them. treaty has been signed. Only the meetings of the foreign ministers “ What most people don’t real surrender of Japan and Germany as prescribed. The only one ize Is that the Russians are a has been concluded. Unless he is which was what was prescribed good deal like ns. They enjoy released on points before, your son was the London gathering in life like we Americans, are full is eligible for service for six months September, and It broke up in of fun and have a fine sense of after formal declaration of end of complete failure, due to Russian humor.” the war is made. opposition. The general said he held no fears Q-—Will a veteran who draws the M r. Byrnes thought, my depart about future amicable relations be $20 a week until he draws ten weeks mental Informants tell me: tween our own country and Soviet ever get a bonus? If a veteran How about another foreign minis Russia. There will have to be some who is 100 per cent disabled should give-and-take in our relations, he ters' meeting? He got Russian con get a light job would it cut his pen said, but eventually things will sent first (he needed it after the sion down? Mrs. M. K., Carrolton. work out well. straight Moscow rebuff of his Iran Ga. Regarding his own relations with ian note requesting early Russian A.—Benefits received under the withdraw al of troops from Ira n ). congress, Eisenhower declared: G.I. bill of rights will be deducted “ This is a people’s arm y and I In the face of the President, M r. from any future bonus received by B LUE BABY RECOVERING . . . Michael Schirmer, live, who used to be intend to run it like one, along dem Byrnes asserted the White House the veteran. This does not apply, so weak that he couldn’t walk, Is now full of play. Here he poses with his had confused the distinction between however, to disability payments. If mother, Mrs. Jessie Schirmer, beside a photograph of his daddy, CWO ocratic lines and in close accord H E ENJOYS P IP E . . . This two- w ith congress. I am especially anx- colossal Big Threes (Trum an, A tt a 100 per cent disabled veteran Is Joseph E . Schirmer. who served in the Pacific. Little Michael was the year-old child, member of a family lee and Stalin) and ordinary Big able to hold a light job. It will not 28th blue baby to have the famous Blalock operation at Johns Hopkins ioue to get along with the m ilita ry Threes (Molotov, Bovin Most of the operations have proven successful of gypsies from Pomcranis, enjoy, cut hi» pension, sine* it dam not * L hospital. Baltimore. affairs committees of both houses.” * pipeful. The pipe belongs to his Dr. Blaloek ha» reported SO par oent i B j i u es). | ter his disability rating.
