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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Registered Nurse in Charge
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Pearl Harbor, Dec. 31 (U.R) !
Ulithi Atoll, once the large i
secret repair and supply base!
for the Pacific fleet, was decom-1
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wjjr Happy flew Yesr!
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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!
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M'A j
i GLENN H. i
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