SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Side of War Not Told in Communiques
Seen in South Korean Railroad Station
By Robert C. Mllltr
United Press Correspondent
A South Korean Railroad Sta
tion, July 5 U.R Take a walk
through this Korean railroad
station for a look at war that
is never mentioned in the com
muniques:
The wounded, dripping blood;
refugees with their hungry,
squalling babies; rifle troops
standing sternly at attention for
a pre-departure inspection.
There are prisoners here, too
miserable wretches Sitting
squat-legged and with bowed
heads. Their life expectancy is
not great.
Wounded Quiet
The wounded are strangely
quiet as they lie and squat in
straw-littered boxcars waiting
for someone to move them to
the hospital. For some, however,
the pain of unattended wounds
16-Year-0ld Success
On Town's Only Paper
Glasgow, Va.-(U.R) Roy Car
ter Martin, 16, is the owner, edit
or, publisher, distributor, illus
trator and reporter for Glas
gow's only paper.
In his spare time he also
serves as advertising solicitor
and circulation chief.
Martin's paper is put out on
a duplicator, but It's still Glas
gow's one and only and makes
money.
He likes to draw and always
had a flair for writing. Glasgow
merchants pay 30 cents a page
for ads in his paper. Rates are
10 cents weekly and he has
built up a circulation of about
BO regular subscribers.
The paper isn't restricted to
just the immediate neighbor
hood. Folks who move away
write back and ask Roy to keep
sending their copies to them.
Butte Falls
Butte Falls, July 5 Among
the many visitors enjoying a
picnic at the Butte Falls hatch
ery last week-end were Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard Adams and chil
dren, Miss Louise Greer, Mrs.
Jeanette Greer, of Portland. Mr.
and Mrs. Ellsworth Greer and
daughter of Medford, and. Mrs.
Jim Arnold of Butte Falls. Mrs.
Jeanette Greer and Louise are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. Greer
in Medford.
The Vacation Bible school held
a picnic Thursday at the hatch
cry. Over 70 children, their
teachers and some mothers at
tended. Butte Falls Garden club met
Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Fred Klncaid. Corsage
making was the project with
women from Medford giving the
demonstration.
Mrs. C. Forbes of Missouri, Is
here visiting her son, Jim, who
works for the forest service.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rodgers
and girls left Friday to spend
the holidays on the coast.
Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Smith and
Darin, and Mr. and Mrs. John
Smith and granddaughter. De
lores, were In Roseburg last
week-end visiting relatives. On
their way home they were In
volved in a car accident but not
seriously hurt.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gray
have relumed to Butte Falls to
make their home.
The Roland Mallpry family,
who lived In one of Medco's
cabins have moved to Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray McComb
are spending the holidays In
Booneville, Cal., visiting their
daughter and husband, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Harris, and other rela
tives. '
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cupello
and children loft Saturday for
Waldport to visit Mrs. Capello's
father.
Recent visitors at the home of j
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kincald were
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dunn of Ban-1
nlng. Cal.
Lloyd Tungale, Leslie and
Wayne Casey spent last week
end at Blue Canyon fishing, i
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rorigrrs
and Johnny are spending the j
holidays in Springfield w i t h j
Jack's brother. Cecil and fam-',
lly.
Sam Hughes was taken lo a
Medford hospital by ambulance
June 28.
Daircll Stephenson has been
unable to work the past week
because of blood poisoning in
his leg.
Mcdco shut down Friday night
for two weeks so employees can
enjoy a vacation.
New York UR Dame Myra
Hess, whose American tour was
Interrupted last season by ill
ness, will be back in this coun
try late in October to complete '
the engagement. The pianist has
recovered fully and has been ac
tive lately ill concert work in
England.
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Oorrert child
doaajtn no
need for rut
land the broiling hot July sun
is too much and they roll
their open-mouthed heads back
and forth in chanting moans of
agony.
A corpsman explains in halt
ing English just how they were
hit: This one in the leg with
a shell splinter, this one through
the belly with a bullet and the
one in the corner with a gre
nade. Some of the wounded watch
with quiet dignity as the Amer
icans scribble notes. Others
watch with pleading eyes.
Probably Germ-Laden
Some hobble on bare feet to
the car door and helped out
side to urinate. Drinking water
is passed around from a common
can. It is hot and probably germ
laden but it is wet and to fever
ed lips it is nectar.
The soldiers' clothes and uni
forms have become parchment
from days of body sweat and
mud and, lately, blood. Most
of the blood is clotted and old
but occasionally it oozes through
padded cotton bandages like
those on the head of the wound
ed man irrthe corner, where it
drips from his stove-in head.
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He sits staring ahead, appar
ently unaware and uncaring
what is happening. Some of the
wounded lean out of the door
for half-ripe tomatoes offered
by a vendor to go with their
dry rations. Sweat is every
where. Some comes from the
bake-oven heat. Some from the
pain of throbbing wounds.
Sneers On Faces
In contrast to the pitiful spec
tacle of the wounded is a group
of South Korean soldiers loll
ing at dress parade on the train
platform while waiting for a
train to take them to the front.
The wounded watch them.
Many with sneers on their faces,
the knowing contempt which the
great fraternity of wounded al
ways has held for the healthy.
On a far platform home guards
hover over a group of squat
ling prisoners lined up in rows
with bowed heads like Moslems
at prayer. Loops of heavy twine
link their wrists and they sit
motionless, not daring to raise
their close-cropped heads.
Their thirst, cramped condi
tion and discomfort is of no con
cern to anyone, for they are the
enemy.
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What ran I give my darling
today,
I really don't know and what
ran I say?
My heart U full of love ao deep
At davtlme and even when I'm
afcleep.
For twenty-five yeara we lived
and fought
God gave lll blessing and as one
we thought.
May many years we still be
together
With not too much rain but
sunny weather.
"Schaui."
(Above is one of those "comes
from the heart" poems which
must not be judged so much as
to poetic quality as by the spirit
in which it is written. The au
thor is none other than Lauriti
Melchoir who has dedicated it:
"To my darling wife 'Kelinchen'
on our twenty-fifth wedding an
niversary. May 26, 1950." The
poem is signed "Schalzi" as that
is what Mrs. Melchoir calls her
husband.)
St. John Nixon of Epsom
Downs, England, has been driv
ing the same automobile for
fifty-one years. It is a Wolseley
car manufactured in 1899. Mr.
Nixon recently made an 879
mile trip in this car. He did so
to prove that "British manufac
turers make things to last." That
they are far in advance of any
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you happen to know of anybody
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factured car made before 1899?
If so, maybe we could persuade
the owner to make a thousand
mile trip with it and show the
British we make things that last,
too.
Those Bachelors
Am informed by an authority
on present day Alaska that in
stead of there being only 11,000
bachelors in that territory there
are 70,000. He adds: "The aver
age Alaskan's income is 67 per
cent higher than that of the aver
age United States male resident.
The cost of living in Alaska is
only 20 per cent higher than in
the States. So any bachelorette
who marries an Alaskan will cer
tainly riot be harassed by finan
cial difficulties."
Music Hall Queen
Who popularized the follbwing
songs: "What Shall We Do With
Our Daughters?" "Rosie May,"
"Following in Father's Foot
steps," "Jolly Good Luck to the
Girl Who Loves a Soldier,"
"Algy" and "The Pet of Rotten
Row"? Of course, it was none
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Among the Married
, Did your wife take any special
exercises when expectant? The
British Princess Elizabeth, ex
pecting her secorid child, is re
ported taking a set of special ex
ercises devised by her gynecolo
gist. The princess agrees with
her gynecologist who advocates
activity right up to time of a
child's birth.
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Brady weighed nearly- 300
pounds. Right? A. Wrong. Bra
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He died at the age of 61, rot be
cause of the quantity of food he
ate but what he ate. Had he ad
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have beefi good for twenty more
years. Incidentally, did you
know that "Diamond Jim" pro
posed marriage to Lillian Rus
sell and offered her one million
in cash as a dowry? Lillian re
jected Jim's proposal gently, say
ing: "I fear marriage would spoil
our friendship."
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some years ago. Fine college. But
located in too lonely a spot for
me.
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kangaroo rats measuring up
wards of 15 inches over all. to
the dwarf six-inch variety. They
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St. James, N. Y., July S (U.R)
Mrs. Stanford White, widow of
the noted architect who was shot
to death by the late Harry K.
Thaw in 1906 in a rivalry over
showgirl Evelyn Nesbit, died at
her home here yesterday at the
age of 88. Miss Nesbit is the
only surviving principal in the
famous murder case.
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