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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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