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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, December 12, 1954 Utah Senator Asks Investigation Into Army Depot Waste Washington U.R) Sen. Wal lace F. Bennett (R-Utah) asked the Federal Housing Administra tion Saturday to look into re ported waste in military housing at the Army's Deseret Chemical Depot. Bennett wrote to FHA . Com missioner Norman Mason, call ing his attention to a General Accounting Office report on 'waste and alleged misuse of funds at the Tooele, Utah, base. Bennett said the GAO reported that unnecessary housing had been built for military personnel at the post. He asked Mason if this , was typical of what was happening elsewhere. High Cost Told Bennett said 26 housing units . were built at a cost of $272,000 at Tooele, and that no more than six have been rented at one tune The Senator said GAO report ed "apparent attempts to force employees into occupancy" of the units "in order to make what appears to have been an im provident project into a paying one." The General Accounting Office also asserted that a former Army Colonel misused $170,000 to build a golf course, start a riding stable, and remodel an officer's club at the isolated Deseret post, The CAO, in a report to Rep. William A. Dawson (R-Utah) identified the ex-officer as Col. Patrick F. Powers, former com manding officer of the Deseret Chemical Depot near Tooele, Utah. Misuse Claimed The report said that between 1947 and 1950, Powers spent at least $60,000 in Army funds on a seven hole golf course, $100, 000 for riding stables and horses "for the pleasure of the officer personnel" and $20,000 to re model the officers club. Court - Martial charges were preferred against him, the GAO eaid, but he was declared phy sically unfit and retired from service. Dawson and Senator Bennett asked for a GAO investigation after hearing that accusations of waste had been made against Powers by Marion F. Jackson, former deputy comtroller at the depot. '' '.M f. t , f i I ' ' " i-f-V" j I . fi V, V'-7 ' ' ;.''; : ,c f s 3Zp ) EQ-' I VJ?"H.rfS Ik- z immw ? Jhu it glllrffTiBttlhillroiil'Mmwwtitrt n I " ' f Tii nr nil m iniwi,nHiiiill Coos Judge Named To Succeed Lytle On Counties Group Judge James Harrison of Coos county Saturday was elected chairman of the southwest dis trict of the Association of .Ore gon Counties. He succeeds Com missioner Robert Lytle of Jack son county. Members of the courts of Jose phine, Douglas, Coos, Curry and Jackson counties, in the district, and of Klamath county attended along with county engineers. State legislators from Jackson, Josephine and Douglas also were present as was Judge F. L. Phipps of Wasco county, execu tive secretary of the state asso ciation. Judge Rodney Keating of Jackson county stated that the group went over resolutions passed at the state meeting and held a general discussion of county problems. He said discus sion "pretty well" substantiated what was accomplished at the state session. Keating said that legislators were invited in order that they might become acquainted with county problems and with each other. Phil Lowry, state senator e!ectr and A. E. Littrell, state representative-elect, were among those present. GETTING READY FOR SANTA Santa Claus will have to be a high climber to hang packages on this Christmas tree. It is a balsam from Michigan and workmen scamper about scaffolding decorating on the Ellipse behind the White House. It will be lighted by President Eisenhower on Dec. 17. Sinatra Declares Slur Caused Fight Hollywood (U.R) Frank Sinatra said Saturday he knock ed a press agent "on his fanny .with a left hook" because he called singing star Judy Gar land "a broad." Press Agent James Byron's version of the short scrap out side a Sunset Strip night club Thursday was that the ' skinny crooner started it, declaring he hated "cops and newspaper men." Byron said he merely was trying to find out the name of the girl with BoD Neal, in the Sinatra party, for a gossip col- Small Boy Hates Christmas; In Fact It Makes Him Sick Santa Fe, NJM. U.R) Ten-year-old Scott Garrison went into seclusion Saturday to escape the "dreadful effects of Christmas." It makes him sick. Scqtt, a red-haired fifth grader, hates Christmas candy. '. He's allergic to evergreen. Saint Nick makes him violently ill. Al most everything connected with Christmas sends him to bed in pain. . - Right now his mother is nursing him back to health following an accidental brush with a Christmas tree at school. It was his first contact with Christmas, 1954. Almost Inevitable His mother, Mrs. Cecil Garrison, said it was almost inevitable. "We always take him out of school when they start having trees because we don't want the other children to miss that joy on ac count of Scott," she said. "This year we were too late." Scott was four years old before doctors finally learned the reason for his deathly illness every Christmas season. Since then his father, an instructor of instrumental music, and. his mother have carefully planned each Christmas, hoping to. keep Scott well. Long, Lonely Period Generally the whole Garrison family goes into hibernation during the holidays. For Scott it's a long, lonely period. And even with precautions Scott almost always bumps into Christmas somewhere. He's avoided Christmas enough i to stay well only twice. It's the smell of mothballs that makes Scott sick when he gets anywhere near anyone with a Santa Claus suit. The sight of Christmas candy makes him deathly ilL The same with ever green. Doesn'i Complain . 1 But Scott accepts his plight philosophically and has not com plained even though he probably will spend Christmas Day again this year in bed. "I don't mind it much, except that I always have to miss school right before Christmas," he said. Scott can look forward to a few months of normal living when the Yuletide season passes. But when Easter approaches he has to go back Into hiberna tion again. ' - It's the Easter eggs they make him violently ill. ' Harsher Non-Support Terms To Get Study Portland (U.R) Legisla tion to provide harsher penalties including prison terms for fathers who refuse to support their children may be introduced in Oregon's 1955 Legislature. State Sen. Carl - Francis of Dayton said Saturday he is con sidering such legislation. "I have been for some time greatly con cerned about the social prob lems occasioned by the neglect and refusal of fathers to support their children, particularly in instances where there has been a divorce and the mother com pelled to seek assistance from public, welfare," he said. ' . Francis said he has legisla tion in the rough draft stage which he is submitting to var ious agencies for comment. He said it could make the crime of causing child dependancy a felony, thus making imprison ment in the state penitentiary possible. umnist. Sinatra said he and Neal had attended a party for Singer Sam my Davis Jr., and that when they left they asked Miss Gar land to accompany them to a night club since her husband, Sid Luft, was in the east. - Frank said at that point Byron called Neal over and asked him "who the broad was with me." RENT A New PIANO or ORGAN On A Rental-Sales Plan You may rent a new Baldwin or Wurlitzer Piano or a Hammond Chord or Spinet Organ for as long as six months and have the rental apply on the purchase of the instrument if you so desire. PURUCKER PIANO HOUSE RELEASED Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ward, 86, who was found Friday by sheriff's deputies at her home at 1728 South Peach st., suffering from a cut arm and loss of blood, was released from Community hospital that morning soon after being treated. Mrs. Ward told the deputies that she mailed a letter Thursday which read, "Please send coroner or someone to 1728 S. Peach," then slashed her arm. The letter was received at the sheriff's office and sheriff Howard Gault, dispatched two deputies to the address. New UMT Proposal Given Improved Chance To Pass Washington (U.R) -Congressional military experts gave the administration's new watered down Universal Military Tram ing plan a better chance for pas sage Saturday after a leading opponent relaxed his opposition. Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo.), outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Commit tee and leader of a House bloc that killed an earlier UMT pro posal in 1952, termed the new plan "the best thing I've seen" and added he might support it. Voluntary at Start Key to the new version UMT, as outlined for Short Friday by Assistant Defense Secretary Car ter Burgess, is that it would be voluntary at least at the start. The draft, for two years of ac tual military duty, would be continued. But young men not yet tapped by their draft boards could 1 volunteer instead for six months by training, to be fol lowed by a long period in the active reserves. Seek Powerful Reserve A powerful reserve, compris ing men who have had some training but no real military duty, has been the aim of all UMT proposals. Under earlier plans, including the one the House rejected in March, 1952, the training would have been ex-pulsory. Short, as well as many mem bers who professed to favor UMT, have objected that a com pulsory UMT plan could not operate at the same time as the draft. The volunteer feature of the new program is designed to meet that objection. Testimony Heard on Controversial Pact Washington U.R) An en gineer was called to a meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission Saturday to testify about how the cost of the con troversial Dixon-Yates - project was estimated. The engineer, an employee of Ebasco Services, Inc., was sum moned as the SEC moved into the fifth day of its speeded-up hearings on plans for financing the Dixon-Yates project. The project is a $107,000,000 power plant which the Dixon- Yates power combine wants to build at West Memphis, Ark., for furnishing electricity to the Atomic Energy Commission. The power would be fed into the government - owned Tennessee Valley Authority and would free an equal amount of TVA power now going to the AEC's installa tion at Paducah, Ky. New Japanese Official Well Known on Coast Tokyo U.R) Frank Takieo Matsumoto, who was educated in Fresno, Calif., and is well known on the Pacific Coast, has been appointed as a deputy cabi net secretary in the new Hato- yama government. Matsumoto was formerly vice foreign minister in the Ashida cabinet. He was born in Hiro shima and holds a degree from Harvard University. (See Story on Page 1) CARRIER IN PORT ' San Francisco (U.R) The aircraft carrier USS Hornet was due in San Francisco Bay Sat urday ending a 'round-the-world cruise that has taken the huge ship throughout Southern Eu rope and to various ports in the Far East (SOME DM AKIIo) SHE SC3BO JTTo) ADDED WIDTH LENGTH STRENGTH COMFORT '7 ! AADE IY THE WORLD'S LARGEST MAKER OF 4-WHEEl- DRIVE VEHICLES WHITS MOTOES, INC Tetetfe 1, Okie ' Stevens Kaiser-Willys, Inc. 505 North' Central Medford, Ore. o V5 C&HT " S3 0 5 tK. lit! TAKING LAST LOOK, Mrs. Maureen DeBaggis (between two priests), throws rose on caskets of her five children who perished when fire destroyed their Franklin, Mass., home. Twenty school, children served as pallbearers at last rites. (International) End of Emergency Would Cut Costs Washington U.R) Veterans Administrator Harvey V. Higley has predicted that veterans bene fits soon will be put back on a peacetime footing saving the taxpayers $40,000,000 a month. He predicted Friday night President Eisenhower or Con gress soon will declare an end to the Korean emergency, fixing a date "after which all who en ter military service will be dis charged as peacetime veterans." The VA chief, addressing the 10th anniversary dinner of Am vets, an organization of World War II and" Korean veterans, asked for the Amvets' "full sup port and the full support of all responsible veterans organiza tions" in ending wartime veter ans' benefits. Higley said every man" enter ing the service today will be classed as a "war veteran" on his discharge even though the Korean conflict has been over for more than a year. This will be true, he noted, up to the day the Korean emergency is de clared ended. WOMAN HURT Portland (U.R) Mrs. Marie Pierson, 69, Newberg, suffered a leg fracture when struck by a car here Friday. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Outdoor Toilets Banned at Talent' Talent The city council at Talent last week made it unlaw ful to 'keep or build an outdoor toilet within the city limits. , An ordinance was adopted re quiring residents to connect to the city's sewer or provide a septic tank for sewer purposes, according to City Recorder Nona McAbee. , - Owners of outdoor toilets at the present time have been given 15 days m which to make ar rangements with the city eon cerning removal of the out houses, she added. " In other business, the council, adopted an ordinance prohibit ing the driving or herding of cat tle through the city, decided not to put in curbs and gutters on Main st. at present, and accepted the low bid on a new police car by the Busch Motor company, Ashland. -, WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair Sun day , except considerable high cloudiness northern part and oc casional light rain Sunday Eu reka northward. 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