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TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. Dec. 31. 1945 WAC Aides Find General Eisenhower As Man With Even Temper, Efficient New York (U.R) The I stood her boss "rather more pro- women around Gen. Dwight D. foundly than did many of his Eisenhower during the days be fore and after D-Day had a lot to do with smoothing the path of one of history's most burden ed men They varied In type from the highly efficient State of Maine girl, Capt. Mattle Pinette of the Wacs, to the dark-haired, convent-reared Irish girl, Kay Summersby, who was his No. 1 chauffeur. Kenneth S. Davis tells about them In his biography of Eisen hower, "Soldier of Democracy," which has Just been published. He intimates that these women had a better insight into the Eisenhower personality than some of the high-ranking male officers who were his immediate subordinates. Never Losos Temper Capt. Pinette, for instance, disagrees with those who hold that General Ike was "easy" to work for. She arrived in Algiers with the first contingent of Wacs to reach North Africa In Janu ary, .1943. Davis says she under- high-ranking subordinates" and in Copt. Pinette's opinion the general was exacting rather than eas, a man who hated ineffi ciency even though he never lost his temper with a subordinate But even Capt. Pinette says he was "fun to work for. She was most Impressed by Eisenhowers phenomenal mem ory. Once he dictated to her a 300-word statement for a news reel appearance, then delivered It verbatim to the cameras with out once referring to his copy. Another time, during a "leisure hour" discussion of poetry, she heard him recite the greater part of Gray's Elegy In support of his contention that It was "the most perfect poem ever written. The informality of the Elsen hower entourage may have given the impression that he was "easy." Sgt. Margaret Chick of Toledo, O , remembers her first meeting. She was called into the anteroom and, when she hesitated at the threshhold of WANT, 2 AUTO MECHANICS 1 Dua to expansion we can use TWO FIRST CLASS Chevrolet Mechanics and one lubrication man. These men MUST be experienced and FIRST CLASS. NONE OTHER NEED APPLY We Do Not Need Any Helpers or Apprentices See JERRY WHITLOCK, Service Mgr. ROGUE RIVER CHEVROLET 9th & Bartlett the general's office, was told by an aide: "Come on In. He won't bite you." Eisenhower laughed and Sgt Chick remained as one of his two stenographers. Driver Became Secretary Kay Summersby, who had driven an ambulance through the worst of the Lindon blitz as a member of the Motor Trans port Corps, was assigned Eisen hower when he was only a major general. She took with a smile the bragging of chauffeurs who drove for lieutenant gen erals. ' But he's such a nice major general, Kay said. Events were to prove how right she was. Kay went with him to North Africa. An Amer ican officer with whom she was deeply in love was killed and, to keep her from brooding, Kay was assigned between driving ch.;res to the task of answering Eisenhower's voluminous corres pondence. Probably with no other general would It have been possible to give such a task, usually the assignment of a highly adept secretary, to a chauffeur. But Kay Summers by became adept at framing re plies for Eisenhower's signature, using the distinctive Eisenhower idiom so well that none could tell it from what he dictated himself. Though the general In sisted on reading every letter before signing it, he seldom had to send one back for revision. TO QUARTERS HERE Talent Sawmill Plans Continued Winter Operation Talent, Dec. 31 With an ade quate supply of logs continuing to roll in. Talent Saw Mill I n c., contemplates operating throughout the winter, George L. Zickefoose, plant superin tendent says. The mill is sawing about 40, 000 feet per day and employing 30 men, Zickefoose states. Ap proximately one carload of lum ber per days Is being shipped to a California market. Practically ho lumber is sold locally. Logs are being brought in from the Trail area. Before the war, Florida was a strong competitor of Cuba in the cigar and cigarette field, with the state's volume running irore than $39,817,637 yearly. The Project Planning Office of the Bureau of Reclamation will be moved January 2, from present quarters in the Post Of fice to the Carpenters Union building, 123V4 W. Main Street. upstairs over the Chamber of Commerce. Need for more space to accommodate increased forc es of the Bureau of Reclama tion made larger quarters im perative, according to F. C. Hart, engineer in charge. The return to duty of Crater Lake National Park employees who have been serving in the armed forces also made it neces sary for the Park Service to re occupy the office space which they had made available to the Reclamation Bureau under war time conditions, Hart said. Mr. Hart also stated that the Bureau of Reclamation forces will push field surveys this spring on the Irrigation pro jects in the Rogue River Basin which have been under study for some time, and it is expected the comprehensive report cov ering development possibilities in the entire basin will be sub mitted to the Washington of fice In the near future. Upon approval by the commissioner of reclamation, the report will be submitted to the Interior De partment's water resource com mittee, the quadripartite com mittee composed of representa tives of the Army's Corps of Engineers, the Department of Agriculture, the Fish and Wild life Service and the Reclama tion Bureau, and to the govar nor of Oregon. Local interests will also have an opportunity to state their cases at a public hearing. Necessary changes in the report will then be made be fore submission to the President and the congress, Engineer Hart asserted. New Telescope May Throw Light On Mystery Of Stars SAIPAN OFFICER S JOBS We hope the New Year will bring you the many things you have been waiting for. We are on the thresh old of a new era an ago of won dorful things designed for better living. And we of this organization, In wishing you the brightest New Year ever, want to lay that we have pledged ounelvet to do our part In making this a happy, fruitful year for all. We welcome an opportunity to thank you for that measure of good will and confidence we enjoy from you. The Employees and Management. I - Jorgensen's Dairy Products 506 West 6th Phone 2309 Honolulu. Dec. 31 (U.R) Officers outnumber enlisted men in the ninth troop carrier squad ron on Snlpan and the brass is doing "KP" and policing the area while privates and non- coms continue their military duties, it was disclosed today. T5 Dickie Moore, former child film star and now a corres pondent for the army newspaper Stars and Stripes, reported that demobilization has cut the squad ron's strength from 99 officers and 250 enlisted men to 93 offi cers and 73 men. Capt. Jack Smith, company commander, said the majority of the enlisted men are qualified technicians and must continue their regular Jobs. "There's no particular beefing by the officers," Smith said, "but morale is not exactly good." RETURNEE PULLS San Francisco, Dec. 31 (U.R) The transportation jam holding thousands of servicemen on the west coast didn't daunt one new arrival, the army disclosed to day. Leaving his "hotel ship" on an all-day and all-night pass, the soldier left the following note to his acting commanding offi cer aboard the ship: "So long, for a while, captain. I'll be at Fort Bliss, Tex., await ing discharge, when you arrive there." The army said the soldier's unprecedented technical status of "AW'OL en route to discharge station" is something for the Texas post command to iron out MATE RESTRAINED Dallas, Tex., Dec. 31 (U.R) J. D. Wrathcr, Jr., oilman and former marine corps officer, to day was under restraining orders forbidding him from "injuring, molesting or communicating with" his wife, daughter of Sen. W. Lee (Pappy) ODaniel, D.. Tex., and their two children. The San Francisco Public Library has a collection of more than 4000 photographs of early days, many dating back to 1830 ief At Last For Your Cough CreomuWon relieves promptly be cause it (toes right to the seat of the trouble to help loown and expel Kvrm laden phleirm, and aid nature to eocUie and heal raw, tender, In i flamed bronchial mucous mem . brones. Tell your dni'TKist to sell you ; a bottle of Creoimilskm with the un derstanding von must like the way It quldtly allays the rouslt or you art to have vour monev bvtt. CREOMULSION i for CoukIij, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Washington, (U.R) War-interrupted work has been resumed on the 200-inch telescope at Mt. Palomar, and astronomers hope that new explorations in space may throw light In the next few years on such vast myster ies as 1. Whether the universe is "exploding," as some scientists believe it may be, and 2. Whether space is infinite or whtther, as Prof. Albert Einstein thinks, It is finite and curved. Man already has explored the universe within the limits re presented by the heart of the atom lately unlocked over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and by huge galaxies of stars whirl ing as far out in space as pres ent astronomical instruments have been able to probe. With the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson. Palomar's near neighbor in Southern Califor nia, astronomers have penetrat- ea space to a distance of per- nan i,uoo,000.000 light-years. With the 200-inch reflector. they hope to extend their ex plorations by another 1.000. 000,- uui, iiem-years with what re sults they are scarcely able to predict. Beyond Imaqination These are distances beyond human capacity to imagine ex cept as numerical expressions A light-year Is the distance light, moving at 186.000 miles a 'pcond. will travel in 365 davs The sun. radiating atomic energy 93.000.000 miles away. Is about elsht lieht-mimites from earth. Our nearest steller neighbor, the star Proxima. Cen-tat'-i. Is 4'A lisht years away. V''th the Mt. Wilson telescope astronomers have nhotograohed millions of remote galaxies. each containing multiplied bil lions of stars comparable to our sun. Thus far they have found no thinning out of these galaxies which, on the average, are scat tered at a distance apart of about 1 500,000 light-years. A telesconlc anerture twice the size of Mt. Wilson's, as Mt. Palomar's will be, not only should enable man to peer twice as far into space but, astrono mers say, should reveal eight times as many galaxies if they continue to be evenly distribut ed at such distances. Universe Expands The theory that the universe is expanding at explosive speed arose from spectroscopic exam ination of nebular light which indicated that the far galaxies are receding at velocities up to 26,000 miles a second. Einstein arrived mathemati cally at his theory of a finite' space. He believes space may be at once unlimited and finite. If that sounds like nonsense, think of the earth's surface you can ramble endlessly upon it without ever coming to an end, yet the earth's surface is finite and is unlimited onlv be cause it bends back on itself. Einstein believes that space, too, bends back on itself, and that the motion of all bodies in the sky Is explained by the cos mic necessity they are under to accommodate their paths to this curvature. Many of Einstein's other theories were subsequently veri- ried by direct observation. Perhaps the Mt. Palomar giant will have something to say about this one. TO PLAN J Washineton. Dee. SI HIP) Ten hieh-rankine armv and nnvv officers have been assigned the task of determining the future role of the atomic bomb as a war weapon and directing ioint ban ning for the 1946 bomb tests on ships, It was learned today. The joint board already has been created and is serving in an advisory capacity to Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the army's atomic bomb director. While the board is charged by the army and navy with overall atomic bomb planning, its im mediate problem concerns de tails of next year's tests on the effect the bomb will have on naval ships and submarines. In view of the many problems involved, navy officers believe that the atomic bombing of the ships and submarines will not take place before the middle of next summer at the earliest. The army and navy jointly announc ed Dec. 10 that planning was "under way." missioned Dec. 27 and only a navy weather observation sta tion remains there, it announced today. Closing Ume for Sunday Too o Classify 4:00 Saturday afterrC!. . w Please remember. Park View Convalescent Home 153 Granite St. Ashland Ore Registered Nurse in Charge Equipment for bed patients. ATOLL ABANDONED ' Pearl Harbor, Dec. 31 (U.R) ! Ulithi Atoll, once the large i secret repair and supply base! for the Pacific fleet, was decom-1 Wood and Coal Combination HEATERS Ycaapr's Alliance 31 N. Bartlett wjjr Happy flew Yesr! v The bells that have rung in this year of promise 1946 are only an echo of what we wish for you. May your year be filled with much joy, happi ness and may all your wishes come true. Happy New Year everyone! 'ft I M'A j i GLENN H. i UTZ J Mft. MEN'S WEAR ' 8 ' Mew Ye m a u APPY
