Wednesday' March 30, 19SS
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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.
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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. That will mean
at least tactical or relatively
small A-bombs.
All things considered, Mr.
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