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Medford United Pr Full Leaned Wire TRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1954 Pages 1-6 Navy Faced With Shortage of (Officers; Reenlieiits imp Washington CU.R) The Navy Is faced with a manpower crisis Both its regular officer and en listed ranks are falling below the "hard core" level considered necessary for efficient operation of the fleet. College-trained officers, edu cated at Navy expense, are turn ing their backs on naval careers. Re-enlistment rates have skidded to new lows, raising a possibility the Navy will have to resort to the draft. Officials attribute the situa tion to the lack of attractiveness, in terms of pay and other factors, of the present day military career. The same problem is being ex Holiday Treat from the sunny Gulf of Mexico home waters of nature's best tasting shrimp '?s?w IPDeaffe CANNED SHRIMP FRESH from-the-sea FLAVOR PEELING NO -WASTE May be served just as they come from the can. De licious in salads, cocktails, soups, as party appetizers A 5-oz. can equals 1 lb. whole, raw shrimp. perienced in varying degrees by the other services, and that is why the administration plans to ask the new congress for a mili tary pay increase and other "fringe benefits" such as medi cal care for dependents. The Navy estimates it needs a "hard core" of about 24,000 per manent career line officers for efficient, effective operation' of Air Transport Seen As Way To Improve Backward Regions Washington (U.R) Juan T. Trippe, who built the world's most far-flung airline, has urged that the west use air transport to spark development of back ward areas and win their sup port in the cold war economic battle. " f The Pan American World Air ways president outlined giant strides made by military and commercial aviation in a speech at a Washington Arrow Club dinner celebrating the 51st an niversary of powered flight. War Danger Reduced American atomic striking pow er 'has reduced the danger of a shooting war, Trippe said, but the "cold war will grow more and more intense, largely fought on economic battlegrounds." By private capital investments, aid in developing local air trans portation systems and extension of its global air links, Trippe said, the United States can win friends among those now sitting on the fence in Asia, Africa, Middle East and parts of Latin America. . - He addressed some 2000 con gressmen, government officials, military and aviation leaders at the annual dinner climaxing trib utes to Orville and Wilbur Wright who ushered in the air age with their first four powered flights at Kitty Hawk, N. C, Dec. 17, 1903. ..... ..v ' BAIN ON THE ROOF Chicago (U.R) The biggest roof in town is being made leak- proof in' a strange way. About 31,000 tons of mud have been dumped on it, and 14,000 tons of black dirt will go over that. Then grass, trees and hrubs will be planted. The roof is that of the Grand Park Underground Garage, 1200 feet long and 350 feet wide at its widest point., a 500,000-man navy. As of Oct. 1, it had 21,460 permanent line officers, including 2,243 officers whose permanent grade is war rant officer. The Navy figures that to main tain an effective force, 50 to 60 per cent of its enlisted strength must be- career personnel. To maintain such a base, at least 25 per cent of those completing their first enlistments and 75 per cent of those career person nel completing a second subse quent hitch must re-enlist. Re-Enlistments Down But in recent imonths only 48 per cent of the career personnel were "shipping over" in contrast to 90 per cent a year ago. Less than three per cent of those completing their first enlistments were re-enlisting. The over-all navy re-enlistment rate plummeted from 46 per cent in October, 1953", to seven per cent in October, 1954. To the Navy, which faces loss of 60 per cent of its enlisted personnel in the next two years, this repre sents an economic a well as personnel loss since many of the sailors leaving are technicians and specialists trained at great expense. To offset this the Navy has upped its enlistment quotas, and now, for the first time in years, finds the quotas not being met. Quotas for September and Oc tober were 12,500 new recruits, but the Navy fell 1,700 short in September and 4,000 short in October. ' Avoids Use of Draft The Navy is striving to avoid recourse to the draft, claiming it could not survive as a first class fighting service if it had to rely on two-year draftees. But an indication that it may be forced in that direction was the disclosure that under the admin istration's new reserve program the Navy annually would take 30,000 men for a two-year period and then put them in the re serve. On the officer side, perhaps the biggest disappointment has been the failure of many college NROTC graduates, trained at Navy . expense under the post war Holloway plan, to turn regu lar after the required three years of duty. Out of the 1951 class of NROTC graduates, only 200 out of the class of 1,400 or 14.3 per cent requested retention in the regular Navy. This falls far below the goal of the Navy, which had expected that 40 per cent of the Holloway plan grad uates would remain in the regu lar service. IK HJL --r MfM I V REDUCED TO ONLY TWO BIG BAGS IN ONE STURDY BOX! THE v UNVERIFIED reports received in Vienna are that Joseph Car dinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, imprisoned by Com munist government since 1949, has been freed. (International) Congressional Leaders See Hard Work for Ike To Get Approval of Manpower Plan Washington (U.R) Con gressional leaders are agreed that President Eisenhow er will have to exert his full influence with the new congress to win approval of his new mil itary manpower proposals. Congressmen who specialize on military problems - divided sharply on merits of the admin istration plan. It calls for sup plementing the draft with what nearly everyone except the De fense Department concedes in a modified Universal Military Training program. One Democratic senator whose views on military matters are widely respected in the House, said he believes the plan would be "most difficult, if not im possible" either to enact or ad minister. Two Support Plan But Sens. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.), and John C. Stennis CD Miss.), members of the Senate Armed Services committee, said it seems to be a good proposal and will be enacted if President Eisenhower puts on an all-out personal drive. The plan, tmtlined Friday by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and ,Assistant .Secretary Carter L. Burgess, would permit a cut in active armed forces of 468,000 men in the-next four years. ' It is aimed at building up a 5,000,000-man reserve force and would require nearly every ; physically fit youth to see some sort of military service, -v Dislike UMT Name ' Wilson and Burgess fought qhy of the term "Universal Military Training" in describing the pro-, gram since Congress has repeat edly rejected outright . UMT. Burgess insisted the new plan differs from UMT since youths can volunteer for the six months basic training, plus reserve ser vice. Under previous plans, draft boards would have decided which men were drafted and which went into UMT. But the new program was generally viewed as modified UMT and congressmen made it plain the issue will be fought on that basis. NO FRENCH HERE ; Dubois, 111. 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