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Newspaper Page TextrOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, Much 20, 1953 MEDTOfiD.TEIBUNI "Everybody in southern Oregon Head The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertiiing Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON, Sundav Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy lOe. Daly and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three moi 3 50 Daily and Sunday One month 125 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aihland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor route: Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Carrier and Dealer 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coiuty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Office in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAL ASSOdhATIlON 7 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 20, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Three Medford High school basketball players, including Darrell Riggs, Jerry Ross, and Bob Watson, named to second all-state basketball team. , From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spring is due tomorrow officially. She will likely come in like a cu cumber, and be as cool as one is supposed to be. 20 YEARS AGO March 20, 1935 Qt was Wednesday) Three to eight inches of snow blankets Rogue valley; no dam age to fruit reported. Jackson County Vocational club for youths organized in Medford. 30 YEARS AGO March 20, 1925 Frank Runtz pays fine of $15 and costs for going 35 miles an hour in Medford. . County court studies plans for expansion of courthouse in Jacksonville. 40 YEARS AGO March 20, 1915 (It was Saturday) Sprague Riegel, Gold Hill, spends day in Medford on busi-Bess. Members of Gold Hill band enjoy "general jollification and banquet" tendered them by F. L. Eddings and Clyde Detherage. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of lh 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Gaza, new threat to peace, is in southeast Asia, Latin Amer ica, Formosa Strait, northwest Africa, or along the eastern Mediterranean? 2. The portrait on a $10 bill is of Washington, Jefferson, Lin coln, Hamilton or Coolidge? 3. Under the present re ciprocal law, the President can abolish altogether the duty on an import; right or wrong? 4. For 50 years before the end of World War II Formosa belonged to China, Japan, Great Britain, France, or Russia? 5. Several Americans be sides Bobby Jones have won the British open golf championship; right or wrong? 6. About 5,000, many more or many less than 5,000 bills were introduced in this Congress during its first two months? 7. Which of these U. S. lakes is largest: Champlain, Great Salt Lake, Okeechobee, Ponchartrain, Tahoe? The Answers: 1. Along' the eastern Mediterranean. 2. Hani' ilton. 3. Wrong. 4. To Japan. 5. Right. 6. Many more than 5,000. 7. Great Salt Lake. Contract Signed for Centennial Survey Portland (U.R) Chairman James A. Mount of the governor'! centennial committee said Satur day contract has been signed with Stanford Research Institute to make the first phase of an eco nomic survey for a 1959 Oregon Centennial. A finance committee has been carrying on a campaign through out the state to raise $30,000 for a three-phase survey. Cloves are hand-picked, the top branches being reached by long poles or from ladder. i "IfF.D.R. Were Alice Today" Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt from far-off Europe says that if her husband were alive today the Yalta papers would never have been made public. We usually agree with Mrs. Roosevelt in her judgment on such matters, but can't in this instance If Franklin Delano Roosevelt were alive todaV is safe to say he would NOT be President, and he would, one presumes, still be a Democrat. So what could he do about it? THE release of these papers was plainly a Republi can move, and as Senator Capehart, Republican irom Indiana, remarked, promises to be a live issue in the 19o6 campaign. It was n issue in the last presidential campaign and as becretary Dulles declared, the argument prom lses to go on and on, through the ages." TF FORMER President Roosevelt were alive today however, there undoubtedly would be an answer to Messrs. Capehart and Dulles, as well as to those who claim President Roosevelt sold Chiang Kai-shek down the river and handed China over to the com munists. And it would be an effective one, with, we have no doubt, plenty of documentary evidence to sustain it, and emotional fervor to drive it m. MOT that even F.D.R. could deny that Stalin out guessed and out-maneuvered him at that meeting m the. Crimea. Nor that the U.S. Intelligence service was bad, and the judgment of both the U.S. military advisers, and those of England, proved faulty. But he could have shown, that he did under the circumstances what he believed at the time, to be best for the allied cause, and particularly for his own country, namely: get Russia into the war against Japan as SOON AS POSSIBLE, and thus hasten vie tory and the saving of a vast number of American lives, and uncounted treasure. AS ONE reviews the past there is little doubt our 1o4- TAC1 flTtl StStll rfc.1a-amlTT417T V O TTA 4 AM4 iaic i icoiuciib vuuxu ciuuuciiti v nave xcviv cu auu. redrawn the picture, and even less doubt, that the decision he then made, if it had been presented to the American people at THAT time, would have been overwhelmingly upheld. For there was no atom bomb then. There was no hope even in the highest political and military circles, that Germany would surrender in 90 days or Japan only a short time thereafter. The concensus was the war would go on probably for several months in Germany, and without Russian aid at a minimum for a year and a half in Japan. These papers show practically no one in high authority at that meeting believed otherwise. In fact having no crystal ball handy how could any fair minded person have expected President Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill or anyone else to have foreseen the future and acted in accordance with facts not then known? It is easy now to see what mistakes were made serious ones in view of what happened subse quently. But it is always so easy to be wise after the event, just as hindsight is always so much better and easier than foresight The latter incidentally is about all that Senator Capehart, and others on the partisan firmg-line are proving by their claims that the former President was guilty of "a dangerous and unpardonable error." The implication is, because of that error, the Demo crats should be beaten at the next election. Well they may be. As far as this department is concerned we would place the odds at about two-to-one that President Eisenhower will again be the Re publican candidate, and if so, will in all probability win. But not because of Yalta. Not because of the mixture of old facts and new gossip, released without President Eisenhower's "ok" or knowledge, by his state department, at this par ticular time. When the American people go to the polls next year we don t believe they are going to mark their ballots because of something that happened ten years ago, and good or bad, can't be altered now. They are going to vote for what has happened and hasn't hap pened during the past four years, and the Capeharts who are so jubilant over these Yalta disclosures, as sure-fire political ammunition for next year are, we fear, going to be very much disappointed. llHILE in these papers nothing of great importance " has been revealed, that was not known at least in well informed circles before there are many stray items that will be eagerly seized upon by those interested more in facts than in politics, particularly by the contemporary historians. There is the Alger Hiss case for example. Fre quently it has been charged that Hiss was one of the conspirators responsible for the great Stalin victory at Yalta the negro m the red woodpile as it were. These papers indicate that aside from taking notes (in long hand moreover) Hiss had no more to do with shaping final policy than a score of other official stenographers. His one departure from this line was to outline before presentation the argument against Soviet Russia and its demands for three votes in the UN! R.W.R. Portland Youth Killed In Car-Truck Accident Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Clif ford A. Clark, 17, Portland, was killed early Saturday in a car truck collision flVi miles north of here on Highway 99, the state patrol reported. . Officer Jack Todd, who in vestigated, said Clark was north hound when his car swerved into the path of a Consolidated Freightways truck driven by Ly man Munger, 47, Portland. He said Clark, who was alone, ap parently was killed instantly. Munger was taken to Good Sa maritan hospital in Portland with a fractured kneecap and chest injuries. His condition was described as "satisfactory." Matter of Fact Joseph Alaof ATOMIC WAR FOR QUEMOY? Hong Kong Take the grave weakness of the American armed forces on this s;de of the Pacific, ifnSEfiKET? Blend in what seems to be the American policy in the Formosa crisis. Add the formidable array of Chi nese Commu nist military power. Then bake at crisis heat. What you get from this repellent recipe is the clear possibility, almost verging on the likelihood, that the United States will end by having to fight an atomic war for For mosa's offshore islands. That is not the Eisenhower ad ministration's intention, of course. The intention is to make a cease fire deal, or to teach the Communists to mind their man ners in a "limited" fight. But the Administration's intention has less and less relation, to the real drift of events. It can be safely predicted that the Chinese Communists will not formally assent to a cease fire. In this city where the best in formation on Communist China is available, every competent authority, American, British and Chinese, also agrees that Peking means to attack the offshore islands this spring. Therefore, unless the National Security Council again reverses Ameri can policy, a fight for the off shore islands involving Ameri can .forces is now in the cards. In such a fight, the air battle will be crucial. A powerful Com munist force is now massed for the air battle in the great Chinese airbase complex in Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces, as already de scribed in this space. Have we, then, any assurance of beating this powerful Communist air force without using the absolute weapons? An unhappy "no" is the only possible answer to this key ques tion. No one can give any other answer, who knows the hard facts of our weakness. Our only prospective allies, the Chinese Nationalists, have one unready group of F-86 fight ers and one obsolete group of F-84s to match the very great Communist strength in jet air craft. All the rest of the smaU Nationalist air force is composed of rotary engined types. THE U. S. Far Eastern air force Vin trnnp Rflfl rtlsnac lace nn its roster today than on the grim day when the Korean war began. Furthermore, it has no bombers whatever except for one group of B-36s on Guam. As they have been exclusively trained with atomic weapons, the B-36s can not hit a fair sized county with conventional bombs. Finally, there is the Seventh Fleet, with its total strength of six carriers and no replacements in sight. On the Seventh Fleet will fall must fall almost the By Joseph Alsop whole burden of the air offen sive. Refuelled Air Force fight ers may be used as bombers. But the main job of sweeping the enemy airfields, which is the only way to win the air, battle, wiU have to be done by naval air. That is the realistic situation. The Navy's leaders in the Paci fic are strongly committed to the view that we must fight for the offshore islands. They do not want to discourage a bold policy. They profess to be able to do the job the situation im poses on them. But history says it is a very risky business, to send in a car rier force against a strong land based air force. In the present case, the risk is all the greater because the Communists are ready to use their Ilyushin-28 jet bombers, which are almost as fast as our carrier-borne fight ers. Maybe the optimism of the admirals will be justified by the events. But common prudence demands preparedness for a dif ferent outcome. . This assessment of the situa tion is the real explanation of the recent, sensational Tokyo story reporting that high Ameri can authorities expected atomic war in a matter of weeks. The authorities in question were un doubtedly located in the Air Force. The American air leaders in the Far East are no doubt some what prejudiced by the fact that they have virtually nothing to fight a war with, except atomic weapons. Airmen everywhere are also inclined to expect land based air to win a contest with carrier aviation. The Air Force viewpoint must be discounted for these reasons. VET however much you dis count the Air Force view point, it is still more closely in accord with the facts than the admirals' viewpoint. We simp- ly have not got the forces avail able in the Far East to be even reasonably sure of winning fight for the offshore islands with conventional weapons. The forces needed to give us a rea sonable margin were sacrificed long ago, to the budget and the tax structure. ' But if we enter the fight for the offshore islands, we must win at all costs. For if Ameri- can forces are engaged and de feated, all Asia will regard the defeat as decisive proof of su- perior Communist power. And the sequel will then be total catastrophe throughout Asia. Hence it is not hard to fore see what can too easily happen If the fight for the islands goes against us, as it may well do there will be only one sure way to win. Whatever may be the Administrations present inten tions, the use of the atomic weapons can tnus Decome un avoidable. And so our own weak ness can end by plunging us into an atomic war for Quemoy and the Matsus. (Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Of the 4,000 or so species of land-based mammals, the small est is the pigmy shrew six of these tiny mouse-like creatures weight but an ounce and the largest is the African elephant weighing several tons. Quite a contrast! But a much wider gap separates the pigmies and giants of the insect world which num bers some million species. Considering bulk alone, the honor of being the largest of living insects is shared by two: the African beetle and the ele phant beetle of South America. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the U. S state department's decision to make public the record of Yalta is still rattling the rafters in Washington and London. In Washington, at least, it is pro viding the politicians with splendid opportunity to get themselves into the headlines. They are making the most of it. JJOW about it all? Let's put it this way: Hindsight is MUCH clearer than foresight. know NOW that Yalta was terrible mistake. But suppose that WE (mean ing you and me) had been mak ing THEN the decisions that FDR and Churchill were mak ing. Nothing is easier than criticising AFTERWARD what somebody else has already done. Nothing is harder than making decisions upon which the fate of all mankind rests at the critical moment when the iron is white hot and has to be ham mered into shape before it is too late. At the moment when the Yalta decisions were being made, you and I might not have done any better if we had been doing it. THINK the record of Yalta should have been published. LONG AGO. It should have been agreed before the Yalta conference assembled that as soon as the war was over and the immediate military value of the Yalta decisions was past the full record would be made pub lic so that all the people might know what went on there and why. I think the whole story of Pearl Harbor should be told of ficially, from the records, clear ly and without reservations. In the light of history, I have to agree that there are times when few men upon whose shoul ders vast responsibility rests must make decisions and carry them out without waiting to ex plain exactly what they did, and why. But if men know that what they do will be published for the later scrutiny of all mankind, they will - be more careful of what they do. . - ... i cjo- Let's not quarrel with the publishing of the record. The timing of it was badly botched We can all agree as to that. It should have been published as a matter of course, as soon as the war was over and the Yalta pro ceedings no longer had import ant military value. " It wasn't done then. It has been done now. It's better now than never. CJO let's accept it now, for J what it is worth and let it go at that. Two of the three big men of Yalta are dead. We still have great respect for the one whi survives. The Yalta water has long since flowed under the bridge. We can't pump it back and make it flow under the bridge again So let's not use the belated disclosure of the Yalta record as raw material for the making of big political medicine. What has happened has happened. Let's not drag the names of dead men in the dirt to enable present-day politicians to make headlines for themselves. yiCE-PRESIDENT NEXON sets a good example for all of us. He - says in Chicago that he doesn't think there was any de liberate attempt to seU out to the Communists at Yalta. Con cessions were made there, he says, because the leaders of the free world simply didn't know then what the Communist ani mal was like. That is a wise and tolerant at titude toward the whole affair. Jobs Going Begging In Portland Orea Portland (U.R) The Portland employment office Saturday said spring fever has hit the area's business weeks ahead of time, and jobs, instead of workers, are going begging. H. Klausen, assistant manager of the state employment office here, said the city was being "raided" . by other areas notably Alaska and Washington points for skilled personnel, several weeks ahead of the nor mal spring upsurge. The only shortage was of laborers jobs. Klausen said that expected good weather would open up opportunities in this field. The latter measures more than four and one-half inches from tip of forward-projecting horn to extremity of abdomen. Of course, one shouldn't overlook the male Hercules beetle, also from South America, the latter measures more than four and one-half inches but the huge pointed prong springing from its thorax makes up almost half of its length. Among the scale-winged in sectsnot so bulky the largest known is the Atlas moth of In dia, some trophies measuring 12 inches from, tip to tip of extend ed forewings. But imposing as this may be, they are nearly equalled by the great owl moth which is not uncommon in many parts of South America. Butterflies come smaller yet the bird-winged butterflies of New Guinea and the adjacent is lands are the largest and insofar as the males are concerned, sure ly the handsomest with their glossy green or orange or gold colors. The russet and brown fe males, however, are larger, ex ceeding their mates in wing ex panse by an inch or more. Truly Magnificent Although not quite as large as these beauties, many of the tropical American morpho but terflies are truly magnificent in both dimensions and coloring varying in shades of lovely iridescent azure shot through with palest purple. Among , the bulkiest insects living, one must reckon with the giant waterbugs,' gluttonous kill ers of fish, frogs, newts and oth er insects killing them by hold ing on with strong forelegs, driv ing in the deadly beak, and suck ing until the victim's last drop of blood has been extracted. Although large waterbugs can be found in the U. S. and Can ada, the true giants are found in Brazil, Guiana, and Trinidad where they come up to five inches head to tail, with a wing expanse of almost seven inches, exceeding thereby the dimen sions of some bats. When sheer length is concern ed, the most drawn-out insects are the "walking sticks." Some attain a length of nearly a foot from head to tail and if out stretched legs are included, the measurement is even greater. A remarkable prickly species from Australia is not only long and bulky but dangerous besides be cause of its kick the spurs of its hindlegs may be driven into the flesh and cause a nastv wound. Now, for the other end of the scale. As for the pigmies again there are two competing for honors. One is a ladybird beetle. It barely measures 1 1000th of an inch in length small enough to creep through the eye of an ordinary sewing needle. Some Vastly Larger In bygone ages, some insects may have been smaller but this we know: some were vastly larger. For example a draeonflv belonging to the coal age has been found which measures two feet from tip to tip of its expand ed wings. This compares with a present-day wingspread of six inches a tropic South Amer ican species. However, another curiosity exists in Panama. It has a 10-inch long bodv but! its wing span does not exceed four. The peculiar way in which in sects take in air, quite likely limits their size. They have no pumping" respiratory system. like, mammals to furnish oxy gen to all parts of the body. Air drifts into its body through tiny openings and circulates slowly by slight body expanding and contractings. With such a breath ing system, any part of an in sects body that was much more than a quarter of an inch or so from the nearest air intake would suffer from a lack of oxygen. Doubtless this explains why large, rapidly - flying insects such as dragonflies have long narrow bodies by this means alone their tissues are kept close to the surface. (Copyright 1955, by Eugene Burnt) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wild- POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A note and clipping from a Los Angeles newspaper, sent by Phil Sharp, former United Air lines manager here and now UAL manager at San Diego, give further details of the troubles which have beset the former Medford resident, Ray Gilliland, since his marriage last May to Mrs. Elsinore Machris, 74 year old oil millionairess. Gilliland, who managed the fabulous Fur, Fish and Game farm near Prospect during his Medford stay, was sued for di vorce last week. His bride of less than a year claimed he married her for her money, of which she has some $15,000,000. Last Janu ary she filed a "friendly suit for $350,000 against Gilliland for loans which she said she had made to "him since their mar riage. The action was dropped a few days later, however, and they denied separation rumors at that time. In the Forest Log. publica tion of the state board of for estry, a recent story talks about "miximum patrol as sessments." Do they mean minimum (an n for an x) or maximum (an a for an i)? Perhaps the assess ment really were mixed up in which case miximum may be just the word for it. Staff member, tongue in cheek, comes up with the follow ing, for no particular good reason; Merci bo coo Has lost her shoe And My! does she deplore it. Leave it alone And it'll come home Wagging its tongue before it. (He should have known better, too.) Sign seen pasted in the win dow of a car parked on a downtown Medford street: "Don't Louse Up the Works ThimkI David Holmes Jr., prominent southern Oregon orchardist, was speaking before the city council Thursday evening, and when he sat down he was questioned by Mayor Earl Miller. "Did you say your name was Holmes David Holmes?" Ma yor Miller asked. "Yes," Holmes replied. "I just can't believe it," Mayor Miller said. "In 1936 you were one of my Boy Scouts." It couldn't happen but it did. In last Sunday's paper wat a picture with a group of people. The caption listed them left to right in cor rect order according to the original picture. But in the engraving 'they were in re verse order. (What had hap pened wat that the negative of the print was backward when rephotographed on the zinc plate.) Never saw it be forehope never to see it again. Another Oregon editor re signed his job the other day, and in commenting on it editorially he had this to say, which is a good description of the way many newspapermen feel: We suppose to many people, the place where they work is merely that. It's some place they go each day to make money. But to newspapermen the place where they work and the work they do is quite a bit more. A newspaper all phases of it, from the typesetting machine to the clattering teletype some how becomes almost a living thing. Each day's issue is a new personality. Its front page will scream or it will whisper. Some times the stories of life and the living will all combine into something that skips gaily through the consciousness of the reader and sometimes it seems the paper slogs through swamps of sorrow and crime. Each man who works on a newspaper has occasion to be ashamed of her black heart be cause it shows to the world how imperfect people can be. And, of course, there are many, many times when a newspaperman wUl be proud. Whether it's pride, joy, shame or dejection which shows its face on the newstands each day, those of us who lpve news papers never cease ' to think about them and specifically about the paper to which we belong. No Army BosDoyalfy Found in Peress Case Washington (U.R) SenJ Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.) said Sat urday a week's hearings have showed no "motives of disloyal ty" among army officers han dling the case, of former Maj. Irving Peress but "they bungled all the way along." Ervin, a member of the Senate investigating subcommittee, said the mixup surrounding the mili tary career of the New York den tst was "one of the best illustra tions of how you can pass the buck in the army. Abysmal Bungling Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) said the way Peress was called to active duty, promoted and honorably discharged all after refusing to f ill out a loyalty form "shows an abysmal amount of red tape and bungling." but., Munnt told newsmen, 'Til be surprised if it ever de velops that there was any Com munist overlord who planned this." Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R- Wis.) charged last year that "a secret master in the Pentagon" was responsible for the Peress case. He demanded courtsmartial for all concerned. Mundt, who presided over the Army-McCarthy hearings last spring, also said the renewed in vestigation so far has failed to Communications - Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stance the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Tribune Help Appreciated To the Editor: In the recent religious census your newspaper contributed generous space to advertise both the census and to seek community cooperation. On behalf of the Medford Minis terial Association I express our sincere thanks to you. You were not only generous; your intelli gent advice helped a great deal to make the census a success. Without your gift it would not have been possible for us to get necessary information into the homes of our community. We are grateful for your competent and willing service. The Rev. Kenneth F. Korby Chairman Religious Census Committee support McCarthy's charge that a meeting of high administration officials Jan. 21, 1954, was a "conspiracy" to block McCar thy's investigation of Peress. Adams To Testify He said that if Army Coun selor John G. Adams, slated to be a witness Thursday, testifies the Peress case was not discussed at the meeting, there will be no need to question him a"bout what did go on there. Adams testified last year that the meeting discussed some of the Army's other troubles with McCarthy, but he did not men tion the Peress case. Since then he has been quoted as saying he did not hear of Peress until three days later. Air National Guard Called To Bring Off Lieutenant's Wedding Houston, Tex. (U.PJ First Lt. Orla M. Patterson, Hoquian, Wash., was married last night but they had to call but the Air National Guard to bring off the event. Cupid got a jet-propelled as sist on the deal but it still wasn't soon eonugh to meet an 8 p.m. deadline and the bride, 20-year-old Jere Diana Remschel, was left waiting at the altar for two hours. That was while Lt. Patterson, sweating out the clock, was high in the air in a Texas Air Nation al Guard jet, streaking from Charleston, S.C.; where he found himself stranded and his best man, Second Lt. Fred Jennings, were on a routine flisht to Charleston and would have re turned to Ellington Air Force base here in plenty of time, but the plane develiped engine trou ble and was grounded in Charleston. The officer called his bride-to- be to explain' the plight. Then Air Force officials here got busy and Capt. John M. Hewitt, ope rations officer for the National Guard unit, offered to pick up Patterson at Charleston. Two Air Force Men Killed in Crash Enid, Okla. (U.R) Two Air Force officers were killed late iriday when a B26 bomber crashed on a farm and exploded. Names of the two victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Air Force investieators from Vance Air Force Base here Satur day studied the scene of the wreckage on a farm 60 miles northwest of here. life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding.-eEach week new ques tions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly , letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! The 67-mile long State-owned co Medford Mail Tribune,' Box Belt Line Railroad serves the 575, Sausalito, Calif. " PorTof San Francisco. "