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New Superweapons Will Enable
US To Carry Fight To Aggressor
Heidelberg, Germany (U.R)
New atomfc superweapons will
gsnable theU.S. Army to "carry
the fight to the Russian," and
"make " any aggressor think
twicebefore attacking," it Eur
opean' commander in chief said
today. t . '
, ', Gen. William M. Hoge, com
mander i of 250,000 American
troopsL guarding the Iron curtain
frontier Un Europe, said the new
280-milflmeter "Atomic cannon,"
the, "Hopes. John" rocket and
: other" Sunday punch weapons
now ioLh'e hands of his forces
.would vniake Europe defensible
further eastwards than earlier
thought possible. '
In anjexclusive United Press
interview at U. S.. Army head
quarters, for,, Europe, Hoge add
ed that the addition of 12 West
Germanrdivisions under the Par
is arms 'treaties would put the
free natidJhsTin a much better
position to defend Europe east
of the Rhine. ,
Soviets Have Men ,
Hoge 'warned, however, that
the Soviet bloc with its esti
mated 225 front line divisions
still has the preponderance of
force and the advantage of initiative.-,
'We'will never be the aggres
sors," the -grey haired four star
general said. "The enemy, there
fore would always have the jump
on us and we must assume he
would make penetration at the I
outset. But the possession of the
weapons is a tremendous psycho
logical boost.
"For the first time now our
people are taking a forward look
instead of merely thinking in
terms of withdrawal. We can
carry the fight to the enemy
and anyone contemplating ag
gression would have to think
Man Presents Free
Movies for Children
Canlon, O. ' U.R) Finley L.
Dietz put on free outdoor mo
vies here during the past sum
mer for children.
Dietz put a theater-size screen
up oh the side of a garage at his
construction company and rent
ed films, from downtown distrib
utors for $15 a night or $30 a
week. He put up wooden
benches and opened his yard to
all the kids who wanted to come
in.
The contractor opened the sea
son shortly after school let out,
and neighbors helped put on a
party for the 500 youngsters
who came the first night. .
"I think bringing movies to
the children here helped to keep
them off. the streets," Dietz .said.
"Once or twice neighbors com
plained about the noise to the
police, but the police felt I am
doing a community service and
cooperatea wnn me
twice before attacking.
Hoge, a slow speaking native
of Boonville, Mo., retires from
the Army at the end . of the
month. The general, now 61, will
be succeeded by Lt. Gen. Anth
ony C. McAuliff e, now 7th Army
commander.
Veteran Fighter
He commanded assault engi
neers who captured Omana
beachhead in Normandy on June
6, 1944, and headed an armored
combat team that seized intact
the vital Remagen bridge over
the Rhine river the following
March. He also commanded the
U.S. Ninth Corps in Korea.
New "muscle" added to the
six divisions under Hpge's com
mand how include five'batallions
of 280 millimeter cannon which
can fire atomic , or ordinary
shells a distance of 20 miles
and the newly arrived "Honest
John" freeght rocket.
. Hoge said there was "every
reason" Jo believe the Soviets
also are experimenting along
the same super-weapon lines as
the United States.
"We have every reason to be
lieve they have such weapons
and we have reports that they
are developing them along the
same lines," he said.
Hoge would not go into detail
on this or on any line east of
the Rhine river which the West
might now be in a position to
defend. -
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Charlie Hamman, director of
area research for Stanford Re-,
search Institute, tells the ; Ore
gon Guild of Building Craftsmen
at a meeting in Portland that
the Pacific Northwest is the
land of the future. -
Its population now, he said,
is about 5,000,000.
By 1975, it will be nearly 8,
000,000. . :
HE TOLD his hearers that un
developed resources make it
inevitable that the Pacific
Northwest area will increase in
population. . -'
He added:
"This trend will be stepped up
by the gradually warming cli
mate in the Northwest. This
land up here will be the land of
the future AS TEMPERA
TURES GET HIGHER AND
THE RAINFALL DECREASES."
THAT brings up an interesting,
theory that is coming to be
accepted by weather scientists.
The theory is that the tropics
are moving slowly northward. .
It is supported by evidence
that the seas are rising as the
polar ice cap melts, that birds
and animals hitherto confined
to the more southerly latitudes
are moving northward. Oppos
sums, for example, are being
encountered as far north as up
per Michigan. .
This change has been going
on GRADUALLY for a couple
of centuries or more, but is now
progressing at an ACCELERAT
ED pace. Each year, according
to the now widely held theory,
this' northward movement of
warmer and drier weather pro
ceeds farther than it formerly
proceeded in a couple of decades.
HERE is a MOST interesting
facet of the theory:
As the warmer - and drier
weather moves northward, the
dry belt to the south of us will
GET DRIER STILL.
People will follow the water
northward. .
People MUST HAVE WATER.
watershed of the Columbia
river. That may not be a pre
cise geographical fact, but it is
an economic fact. - - . ;
That brings into the picture
our own mythical State of Jef
ferson. This mythical State of
Jefferson includes the water
sheds of the Umpqua, the Rogue
and the Klamath rivers.
These watersheds constitute
an economic unit. v .
Tuesday, January II,. 1955,
MEDFORD. (OREGON) MAIL. TRIBUNE fTVE
Back Stairs: Cafe View of Ike's Homo
By MERRIMAN SMITH from a prepared text, seems to
I 'HAT prompts a thought. .
; As weather ; scientists . 'f con
tend - . ' . 'V ; ...
Warmer and drier weather is
moving ' northward at a ; pace
that in. the -past has been slow
but is now much faster it will
reach ' us first.. As the already
dry:areas to the. south of us get
drier still THERE WILL BE IN
CREASING ' COMPETITION
FOR OUR WATER. : s - : Z-
In the future, water will be
MOVED from areas that are
not using their water to the full
est possible extent to areas that
want it and WILL use it to the
fullest possible extent. '
HHHIS thought in conclusion:"
A: We of the mythical State of
Jefferson, . which includes the
watersheds of the Umpqua,, the
Rogue and the Klamath, better
begin NOW to put our water to
COMPLETE use. Complete use
of water includes agriculture
(irrigation), industry, power and
recreation. : '
. We have great resources'
land, water, mineral, : FD3ER,
unsurpassed recreational areas.
Water will be needed for the
development of ALL . of them.
Without water, our , other re
sources will be valueless.
TT'S HIGH time NOW to be-
gin to protect our water.' -"
The way to protect our water
is to put it to COMPLETE use.
X QUESTION is in order here.
Just what is the Pacific
Northwest?
PRACTICALLY speaking, the
A Pacific Northwest is the
TICKET SEEKERS
St Louis (U.R) Police in
suburban Kirkwood were dumb
founded when three persons
within 10 minutes reported their
own cars parked in nonpar king
zones and asked for traffic tick
ets. Later, officers learned , a
scavengerhunt was in progress.
One of the required items was a
parking ticket.
Dead line for Sunday Classified Is
bi noon Saturday
United Press White House Writer
Washington U.R) Back
stair at the White House: - -
It was bound to happen sooner
or later.
A woman and her small son
were motoring through Gettys
burg the other , day and stopped
at a roadside inn for lunch. It
was a pleasant inn, with a broad
picture window overlooking the
famous battlefield and the roll
ing Pennsylvania countryside. r
The waitress took their order
and the manager came to their
table. .
"Down there is the President's
house," he said. "Take a look."
Apparently, part of the estab
lishment's regular service. "
This will be more of a prob
lem when the Eisenhower "fam
ily moves into their farmhouse
this spring.
Just imagine, trying to have
a picnic in the backyard, know
ing that out on the highway in
a number of taverns contented
tourists are following every
hot dog through telescopes.
The President probably will
have to plant a new row of trees
around his house, not as a wind
break but as a tourist blind.
Former President Truman
once tried to have a family pic
nic in the small backyard of his
home at Independence, Mo.
About the time Mrs. Truman
was passing the potato salad,
the Secret Service discovered a
man in a tree across the street,
watching intently through field
glasses.
The man "came down under
the persuasion of the agents.
" When Mr. Eisenhower deliver
ed his State of the Union mes
sage last Thursday before a joint
session of Congress, his speak
ing" lectern did not seem to be as
high as usual.
On television, he seemed to
be looking down more than he
normally does when reading a
speech, and the angle gave his
glasses an unusually thick look
on TV screens.
Robert Montgomery, the
White House adviser on tele
vision, usually elevates the read
ing stand to a point where the
President, when he is working
be speaking more directly into
the cameras than he ., was last
week.
Mr. Eisenhower took 57 min
utes to deliver his message. The
White House had established
originally that it would run
only 45 minutes. - ;
The third man, and usually
unidentified, in most White
House swearing-in ceremonies
is Frank Sanderson, the admin
istrative officer of the White
House whose duties include ad
ministering oaths. V : r : .5 i
Sanderson is tall, graying,
and most dignified fellow. But
he apparently knows an econ
omy igovernrnent trend when
he sees one. . : -
The White House recently has
been redecorating a big confer
ence room, the former cabinet
room. . Sanderson was observed
the other day, down on his digni
fied hands and knees, ripping
out carpet tacks with a screw
driver.
HOME-MADE
Wichita, Kan. (U.R) The
peach cobbler Mrs. Ruth Sulli
van baked on her 90th birthday,
was her production from start
to finish. She had planted peach
pits years ago, tended the grow
ing tree, picked the fruit, canned
it and then used a jar of the
peaches for the birthday baking
project"
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