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Two Flags Mark Place for
Korea Soldiers To Find Aid
By SGT. JOHN CLAYTOrT
45th Dir. Combat Correspondent
Distributed bj United Press
With''45th Infantry Division
Korea OJ.K In a narrow draw
between two snow-covered Ko
rean hills are posted, side by
aide in front of a tent, two flags
with crosses on them.
One is a blue flag with a white
cross, the other a white flag with
a red cross.
To the American infantryman,
whose well-being is a day-to-day
gamble, they symbolize two of
his supports the chaplain and
the medics.
"Our jobs are almost as much
alike as our flags," said Chaplain
Walter A. Hargraves of the 180th
Infantry Regiment, 45th "Thun
derbird" Division.
"We both work with soldiers
in trouble, they, work on the
body, I work on the soul." '
The medics agree with the
chaplain in general, but they go
him one better.
Chaplain Praised
"Chaplain Hargraves Is the
best aidman in the aid station,"
said Sfc Gerard Baldwin of Detroit.
Sgt. John A. Haslan, another
medic from Fremont, Nebr., said
the chaplain was always there
when they set up forward medi
cal stations to give aid-station
treatment to wounded during a
battle.
"He helped us in one way by
. cheering the men up while we
' patched them up, gave them plas
ma or whatever was necessary
before they were transported
back to a hospital," Haslan said.
"He also helped us a lot with
actual treatment in splinting
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and bandaging. He used to be
a medic himself.
Hargraves had been studying
for the ministry when he went
into the Navy during the last
war. For two years, he served as
a . Navy corpsman seagoing
equivalent to the Army s medic.
When he returned to civilian
life, he started right back to
school and received his doctor of
divinity degree from Phillips
university in Enid, Okla.
Called Into Service
He took over as minister of
the First Christian Church in
Wewoka, Okla., but had only
been there nine months when he
was called into service again
with the activated Oklahoma
National Guard division.
Both on duty and off, the
chaplain and the medics are
great friends. Hargraves and 1st
Lt. Warren Garfield, a medical
service corpsman, are both from
Wewoka.
They are always swapping
favors. Several times, when the
medics ran short of litter jeeps,
they used the chaplain's jeep.
When the chaplain needs help
on anything, he has a dozen vol
unteers from the medics.
Still, the medic's greatest ad
miration for the chaplain is the
way he has of calming down pa
tients when the medics are trying
to treat them. .
Cpl. Bob Tedder of Marion,
told how they had a patient one
day who had been hit in the
throat by shrapnel."
The medics asked the patient
if it hurt, and the soldier said
"Skhoshee," a Japanese word
meaning "litle bit," which is in
the Far East soldiers' everyday
vocabulary.
Hargraves pounced on the cue
and began kidding him about his
use of Japanese: "What'U your
mother think when she asks you
if you want any butter and you
say skhoshee V
In a few minutes, despite his
pain, the injured soldier was try
ing to laugh.
Champion Driver
Kiwanis Speaker
John Castner, Portland, who
won the truck and trailer cham
pionship in the national truck
roadeo in 1949, 1950 and 1951,
addessed members of the Kl
wanis club yesterday at their
luncheon meeting at Rogue Val
ley Country club.
He told some of the. history
of the roadeo, described the dif
ficult tests that drivers went
through in state and national
eliminations and mentioned the
tremendous pressure drivers un
dergo in the contests.
Castner, who has been with
Pierce Freight lines for 14 years,
is now a safety and public re
lations officer of the firm.
Seattle (U.PJ Samuel Bill,
68, suffered fatal injuries when
he fell off the back of a flat-bed
truck here Wednesday.
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Around Hollywood
I. AUKI MOSSY
Us trim Ciiinsiiit
Hollywood (U.R) Fifteen
years ago, a short, blond fellow
was a common laborer at War
ner's studio. He
went back to
work at that
film factory
Thursday
only this time
he drove
through the
front gate as a
movie star.
Back in 1938
he punched
Aline Mosby time clock at
Warners' and collected $42.50
a week for swinging a hammer,
Now the studio rolled out the
red carpet and a fabulous 10-
year contract at nearly $300,'
000 a picture for him.
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Ceramics To Show
Saving of Camel
Perugia. Italy 0J.R) King
Farouk of Egypt has commis
sioned a ceramic expert to exe
cute 12 plates depicting an epi
sode when the Egyptian mon
arch saved a ?amcl from the
slaughter house.
Prof. Alfredo Santarelli, one
of the oldest ceramic experts
here, according to the Italian
news-agency ANSA, has been
commissioned by Farouk for 12
designed plates picturing his
clemency to the camel.
ANSA said, this is the incident
to be depicted:
"Some time ago, at Mairo,
there was a poor, decrepit cam
el which had to be led to the
slaughter house by his owner
and while going to his ultimate
destiny, pulled at his ropes, not
knowing that he was passing be
fore the Egyptian Palace. . .
He freed himself from the ropes
that held him and with a mighty
pull of his legs entered the gates
of the royal residence.
"The owner was not able to
recapture him and it happened
that the guard was not able to
stop the four-legged creature
from entering and becoming a
guest of the royal household.
"Informed of the fact. King
Farouk ordered that the camel
should not finish his life so
miserably (in a slaughter house)
and should die a natural death
and that when his hour arrived
he would have a royal stall."
National Guard Units
Set Federal Inspection
National Guard officers here
announced today that a federal
inspection of troops of the two
Medford units will be conducted
on April 8 and 9.
Company A. 1st battalion, will
undergo inspection the night of
the 8th, and Headquarters com
pany will have inspection the
following night.
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But Alan Ladd shrugged that
being a movie star, senior grade.
wasn't much different than cart
ing scenery around the lot.
"I've been around this busi
ness most of my life." be said,
"acting is a Job, too."
Ladd wangled hU job as a
laborer, or "grip," because he
was broke.
"I owned hamburger stand
in North Hollywood." he said.
"But business wasn't too good.
It was during the depression.
"One day a man asked me if
I wanted to be a grip. I got a
pair of overalls, a saw and a
hammer and reported to the
studio at five in morning. My
mother took over the hamburger
stand.
"I did a lot of odd Jobs around
the studio. A grip does every
thing everybody else doesn't
want to do. You have to be a
plumber, a carpenter and an
electrician. I worked there two
years."
Acting Bug BUts
Then the acting bug bit the
future idol of the popcorn set
He "starved for five years
while he went to acting school
and did bits in 80 minor movies.
Finally ex-actress Sue Carol,
who'd turned agent, signed him
as a client. She got him his big
breaks and married him. too.
Now they live in a sumptuous
mansion with two children,
three dogs and a raft of servants.
After 11 years at Paramount.
Ladd moved to Warners. Now
they have him rehearsing for
his part in "the Iron Mistress."
"I helped build this sound
stage," said Ladd as he walked
into stage 7.
CAA'sllew Aerial
Highways in NY
Said How Finished
A new system of "aerial high
ways throughout the pacuic
northwest, which has Medford
as its southern terminus, went
into full operation this week.
It was completed with the.
commissioning April 1 of the.
Portland very high frequency
radio range station located near
Manor. Wartu. as the 38th VHF
omnidirectional range station in!
the system. The Medford station ,
is on top of Upper Table Rock, ,
and was completed two years :
fa- j
The airway route markers. '
constructed and operated by the
Civil Aeronautics administra
tion, generally follow the routes
previously provided by the four
course low frequency radio
ranges, and are a segment of the
nation's federal airways system.
The new air navigational aids
make it possible for pilots to use
more of the airspace along the
routes, according to the CAA. as
well as providing more accurate
position data and static-free sig
nals. The five northwest routes now
completed are Bcllingham-Med-ford;
Seattle Minneapolis; Se-attle-Pendleton;
Portland-Boise-Salt
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Carries On Business
York. Neb. U. Dr. B. O.
Callahan, a chiropractor who
didn't let blindness ruin his ca
reer, says that "when working
on patients I forget that I can
not see."
Four years ago, Callahan lost
his sight. After a month in a
hospital he returned to his of
fice. "It is a godsend that I chose
the profession I did." he said.
"My loss of sight has cost r..
only the natural beauties of life.
My hearing is better and I can
often feel the presence of some
one in my waiting room as I
enter."
Callahan reports for work
daily with his wife and his
chauffeur.
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thing John L. Andrews and his
wif. Lroie. never had to wor
ry about is
having a lack
of matches
around the
house.
John L. and
Louise likely
are the world
champion col
lectors of
match pads
and boxes.
They have
more than 300,000 books
of matches in their collection.
All will give you a light Most
collectors pluck the matches
from the paper books before
they put them in the collections,
but not the Andrews. They can
hardly get into their apartment
near Boiling Air Force base
because of the match boxes.
Andrews is a former top-kick
with the Air Force and now is
property clerk of air installa
tions at Boiling.
Interested 25 Years Ago
About 25 years ago, he be
came interested in collecting
match boxes. You should see
his bureau drawers. Nothing but
match boxes. The collection is
spilled over into the basement
of the apartment and into cabi
nets, and what not, but every
thing is catalogued.
Andrews has done some re-1
search and read some books and :
has concluded that at least '
2,000,000 people collect match ,
books. !
He and his wife finally con
cluded that if big folks liked
collecting match books, maybe
kids would, too. So they branch
ed out" into boys club work.
They started working with
The idea caught on, and as a
result today 38 other commu
nities in the United States have
kids collecting match pads. And
the adult leaders teach the kids
not to set barns and houses
afire.
"It gives the kids something
to study," Andy said. "They
get a picture of various places
by the pictures on the pads. They
learn something about geography."
Summer European Tour
Planned by Professor
Corvallis A 76-day summer
tour of Italy, France, Switzer
land, Austria, Germany, Bel
gium, Holland and England is
being organized here by Dr.
f-Idouard Bourbousson, associate
professor of modern languages
at Oregon State college. He es
corted similar trips two years
ago. -
The tour will leave June 19
from New York, and return
September 2.
An announcement from Dr.
Bourbousson said that the trip
will be considerably cheaper
than an individual tour would
be, but that first class accomoda
tions and meals would be in
cluded in a modest unit price.
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Take first cost. If you put the price tag
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