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Wednesday' March 30, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVE1C Tlfex e ' f - IMl SI" I II . IBi i LEAVE FOR RENO Eight members of the Medford squad ron of the Civil Air Patrol flew to Reno, Nev., last week end for the western regional CAP conference. They are shown above as they boarded an Air Force C-47 plane for Reno. Standing in foreground, left to right, are Senior Member Duard Conway, Warrant Officer Donald Wilson, Senior Mem ber Ellis Caps, and WO "Victor David. Standing in the door of the plane are Senior Members Richard Randall and Johnny Weber, and below them are First Lt. Betty Miller and Capt. , Marella Luschen. Captain Luschen is commanding officer of the CAP squadron here. Senior Members of Medford CAP Group Af Reno Conclave By lt Ll- ELMER LAUSCHEN CAP Information Officer Senior members of the Med ford squadron of the Civil Air Patrol . Senior members arrived in Reno, Nev., for the western regional conference Saturday. Planes in which other CAP mem bers had arrived, 47 military planes and 20 private planes, were on Hubbard field as they arrived, in addition to a num ber that had landed at Stead Air Force base. Registration of 760 CAP mem bers from the five western states, Alaska and Hawaii made the conference interesting and educational for all who attended. Largest To Attend The Medford group was the largest to attend from any squadron in the state. Capt. Mar ella Luschen attended the wing and squadron .commanders meet ing; 1st. Lt. Bette Miller the wing, group and squadron wo men's activities meeting; WO "Donald Wilson the senior and radet operations meeting; WO Victor David the personnel meet jyg; Senior Member Johnny "Weber the communications meet ing; SM Richard Randall the senior and cadet training meet ing; SM Duard Conway the pub lic information meeting; and SM . Ellis Capps the materiel meeting. All meetings and general as semblies were conducted by the general' staff from Washington, D.C. Gen. Lucas Beau, USAF, rational CAP commander, was unable to attend and was repre sented by Col. Draper F. Henry, USAF deputy commander of Civil Air patrol, who was the principal speaker. General Beau's welcome to the group was recorded and played. Plans Grounded In keeping . with CAP safety regulations the planes were grounded in Reno and were un able to leave Sunday afternoon due to fog and ice conditions, although commercial airlines were operating. The plane carry ing the Medford group returned Bitter Ex-Sailor Denied Marriage Right to Japanese San Francisco (U.R) An embittered ex-sailor whose na tive state, Georgia, told him he would not be allowed to live there with a Japanese wife said today he might not get married at all. Earnest E. Jones, 23, said he hadn't made up his mind defi nitely whether to marry the girl he met in Japan but he added, "It looks pretty futile right now." Jones, who spent two years with the Navy in Japan, said he had hoped to bring the girl to the U.S. next year and settle In Georgia. But the attorney gen eral's office informed him last week that under Georgia law the marriage would be consider ed void in: that state no matter where the ceremony was per formed. Georgia "Home' "Georgia is my home," Jones said. "I was born and reared there and I've never lived any place else except for the four years I was in the Navy. I want ed to get married and settle down there, but I guess that's impossible." Georgia Attorney General Eu gene Cook said in an unofficial ruling that the state's miscegena tion statutes make it unlawful for a white person to marry any one except a white person. Cook said the law also applies to couples moving to Georgia after marriage in another state. Jones, who was discharged from the Navy last September, has been working temporarily here as a warehouseman for a meat company. He lives with his mother, Mrs. Clara Pholer. to the airport here at 10:45 a.m. Monday. Other CAP members on the C-47 included representa tives from Eugene, Springfield, Florence, North Bend and Klam ath Falls. There were 20 CAP members aboard besides the pilot, co-pilot and engineer. with a checking account at this bank MEDFORD BRANCH Amid Weight off Faces Ik k Fat raspMsiMity ef ul iecisioiis By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The awful weight of personal respon sibility burdens President Eisen hower today as he warily ap proaches two of the most mom entous decision of his life. Shall the United States defend against Communists the tiny is lands of Quemoy and Matsu just off the China coast? , Shall the President adopt the personal diplomacy method of Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam in a new meeting of the heads of state? Only Mr. Eisenhower can make those decisions for the United States. And he must ac cept the praise or the blame. The pressure at home and abroad for him to make them is growing hourly. Not since President Tru man ordered the first hostile A armed forces to Korea, has the bomb drop, and, later, sent U.S. world's welfare depended so heavily upon the judgment of an individual. Must Act Alone It is responsibility for decis ions such as these that make the White House a lonely place for the man in the front office. However, much as his aides may help and his loved ones comfort him, the time comes when the President of the United States must make up his mind, alone unless he has a God. FDR took a fighting mad na tion into World War II on the morrow of Pearl Harbor. Mr. Truman's A-bomb decision was reached in cloistered calm. The public did not suspect there was such a weapon. Intervention in Korea was decided on snap judgement which quickly won public support at home and abroad. Mr. Eisenhower is having no such luck. His own party in Congress is loudly and angrily divided on what to do in Asia, and when to do it. It is obvious now that if the United States defends the close in islands against Red Chinese attack, it must do so on its own. The British and French, nor even the Canadians, want none of that. Politically alert Democrats in Congress are beginning to tag the Republicans as a "war party" because important leaders want Asia action now or soon. And, finally, the President's New OK Tire Firm Opens in Medford Harvey Brandau and Walt Kingman today announced the opening of the OK Rubber Weld ers and OK Auto Float Tire Sales at 144 South Central ave., at the corner of Ninth st., one block south of the Jackson hotel. The company will deal in new OK Auto Float tires, and re capped and used tires. US Royal tires also will be available. Brandau is well known in the valley from his association with the weather research program, and Kingman for the past two years has been associated with the OK Rubber Welders store here. Previous to that he was in the oil filter distributing busi ness. A grand opening of the new business is planned for the near future. Soldier Honeymooning With Armless Sweetheart Santa Monica, Calif. i(U.R) Pfc. Jack Brown, 19, Taft, Calif., hooneymooned today with his childhood sweetheart, Mary Car olyn Simon, 20, a pretty blonde f who has been without arms since she was born. Mary, who plays the marimba and has appeared on several ra dio and television programs, amazed clerks before the cere mony yesterday when she ex pertly signed the marriage li cense with her right foot. be reluctant go. But the Reds must make a real grab for them to bring the United States in. The President will not coun ter a feint, for what he does about those, islands could well bring on World War III. own military advisers do not Eisenhower would agree, perhaps not among them-. to let the islands selves, certainly not with the President. Mid-April Attack? Admiral Robert B. Carney, chief of naval operations and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a private gathering last week that the Red Chinese attack on Matsu might come in mid-April the attack on Que moy a month later. And, beyond what was published, Carney is reported to have outlined a plan in certain circumstances for an all-out retaliatory aerial pasting of the China mainland followed by a land invasion and the establishment of a military gov ernment under anti-Communist auspices in the coastal areas. Carney's was hair raising stuff. Three days elapsed and it became known that President Eisenhower did not agree with his admiral; that the over-all in telligence available to the Unit ed States contradicted Carney; that the admiral had given to the world and the American people an erroneous impression not only of the imminence of war in the East but of the extent to which he represented adminis tration judgment. Time Will Tell Perhaps Carney was all wrong. Time will tell. Mr. Eisenhower will believe the all-out attack is coming when U. S. Intelligence reports the Red Chinese have stock piled the necessary materiel and have created airfields where none exist now. The foregoing means: Mr. Eisenhower is not going to say now or soon that the United States will or will not de fend Quemoy and Matsu. If the Red Chinese make merely a nibbling attack, the U. S. will stay out. If they start to play for keeps the odds are 100 to 1 that Mr. Eisenhower.1 will give the word to fight. 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