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J rOTJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, July 7, 1955 New Air Force Academy To Start Next Week at Lowry Air Base Denver (U.PJ The U.S. Air Force Academy goes into busi ness next week with a first year class of 301 cadets who will study and live for the next cou- academy, a 17,000-acre tract of pie of years at the Lowry Air rolling ranchland at the foot of Force Base here. the Rockies just north of Colo- The permanent site for the rado Springs, should be com pleted in 1957. The official opening ceremony Monday will mark eight years of intensive planning, research The United States National Bank Dpo2r fcMMfOHO OF PORTLAND RESOURCES Cask on Hand and Due from Banks $142,879,889.99 United State Government Bonds 285,633,388.35 Municipal and Other Bonds 73,029,706.62 Loans and Discounts Net 287,301,100.67 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 1,080,000.00 Bank Premises (Including Branches) ... . 8,780,637.55 Customers' Liability on Acceptances . 79,388.78 Interest Earned 2,864,497.87 Other Resources.. . 1,096,700.28 .'' $80245,310.11 LIABILITIES Capital. $ 18,000,000.00 Surplus.... 18,000,000.00 Undivided Profits.. 19,167,601.83 55,167,601.83 Reserves for Interest, Taxes, ate. 2760,1 54.1 9 Acceptances ' 79,388.78 Dividends Declared.... 585,000.00 Depo.it 739,959,356.03 Interest Collected Not Earned... 4,051,019.46 Other Liabilities. . f 142789.82 $802745,310.11 Ibis SrataaHot Includes 61 Bmoehes k Oregon Maotf Offiet: Portland Oregon MEDFORD BRANCH DIRECT BRANCH OF THI UNITID STATES NATIONAL BANK Of PORTLAND 4 ANOIEGON BANK SERVING OREGON and organization and the culmi- natio of the dreams of military airmen going back to the early 1920s. Main speakers will be Secre tary of Air Harold Talbot, Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, U.S. Air Force chief of staff. There also will be brethren from West Point and Annapolis, founded respectively in 1802 and 1845. A corps of 50 cadets from the military academy and 35 midshipmen will march for the newly sworn air cadets. Began in Earnest The drive for an academy of the air to turn out top flight military aviation men of the future began in earnest in 1947 f him when the Air Force won its "in dependence" from the Army. First studies were by a com mittee headed by Dr. Robert Stearns, Colorado University president, and Gen. DwightD. Eisenhower, then head of Colum bia University. Their report ultimately led to a congressional authorization of $126,000,000 to establish the aca demy President i s enhower signed the law on April 1, 1954, and brought out of retirement one of his classmates at West Point, 66-year-old Gen. Harmon, to take over as first superin tendent . In the .meantime, plans had gone ahead steadily to work out a curriculum. It was devised over a period of five years by faculty head Brig. Gen. Don Zim merman. The courses were chosen and reviewed by profes ors from Columbia and Stanford Universities and the Massachu setts Institute of Technology. Gen. Zimmerman said the cadets will spend most of their time in "the areas of social humanities and scientific stu dies." There will be more em phasis on English courses than at West Point or Annapolis. The students will spend the regular four years, spread over eight 17 week semesters and 2799 hours of classes. They will receive bachelor of science degrees. . Aerial Training In addition they will master a course in airmanship which will lead to a rating of aerial navi gator. But they will receive only 25 hours of light plane pilot train ing. The skills of flying today's supersonic jets is something they will learn after graduation from the academy. That was one of the disputes when arguments were hot and heavy over the permanent site of the academy. Critics of Colo rado Springs, nestled right against the towering mountains, said it was no place to teach fly ing. It took some time to get over the Doint they would not be flying there. There were .also arguments Syramertiii(So0oil ; I ' Jorgensen's FIESTA ICE CREAM is the perfect, year - 'round, around-the-clock treat for parties, deserts, or in-between meal snacks ... smooth, creamy, and delicious, with wholesome NUTRIMIX added, FIESTA ICE CREAM is perfection in itself. . . . wonderful when served with any Sunday topping ... Jorgen sen's FIESTA ICE CREAM adds flavor to pies and cakes, too ... Just the thing for creamy milk shakes, tempting sodas ... For delicious, wholesome eating for the whole family, buy plenty of ' flavor-packed FIESTA ICE CREAM . .-. You can't buy better ANYWHERE! Jorgensen's FIESTA ICE CREAM comes in colorful cartons . . . Just the right sin to fit snugly Into your refrigerator. Keep lets of H on hand for every occasion. At Yoyo IFcovoiritee (FotmrottaiiDD or Oiroceirs that water sutrolies were not adequate and that Colorado Springs was too cold and the air too thin for the cadets. The Chamber of Commerce had scarcely refuted these objec tions when criticisms began of the architectural designs for the buildings unveiled in scale mod els by the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Talbott and other Air Force officials ap proved them in general. Factory for Birdmen But one critic said the aca demy would look like a "mam moth drugstore on stilts." Frank Lloyd Wright, who lost out on the bidding, said it looked to like a "factory for bird- men' ..The accordion snapea chapel drew blasts from clergy men and Colorado Gov. Edwin C. Johnson termed it "an insult to religion." Talbott wearily replied that there would be charges and mod ifications before construction be gan. The new superintendent has been flying since 1917 and saw aerial service in both wars. He also has a long record as an in structor. Now Gen. Harmon undertakes the tremendous task of getting a third military acade my on a par with Annapolis and West Point. - As at the other academies, congressmen will nominate can didates. For the first six years the Air Force is okaying 10 nominations instead of the usual two. That will produce more than 5000 applications each year from which a class of somewhat more than 300 per year will be chosen. The academy, already has plans for a big athletic program including 15 separate sports. The football team, necessarily a freshman one this year, has for mer San Francisco Forty Niner Coach Lawrence "Buck" Shaw and an eight-game schedule for this fall. World War I Vet Finally Gets Medals Portland U.R) A World War One veteran who was told in 1923. he had. been awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart for combat action, finally received his medals yesterday. Frank Lechleidner, . 72, said the medals arrived by air mail from Washington, D.C "I guess they sent them by air to make up for lost time," he said. Leichneider said he wrote every 10 years or so 'because he didn't want to appear impatient." Copper Producer Strike Declared Not Red Inspired Denver (U.R) The strike of 30,000 members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union against copper, lead and zinc producers in Western states is not the work of Communists, a mine-mill spokesman said last night, . ; Bernard Stern, research dir ector for the embattled union, and mine-mill public, relations director Rod Holmgren spoke op a program broadcast by Denver radio station KIMN and carried by 10 other' Colorado stations. Union Expelled Six years ago the CIO expell ed the mine-mill union, charg ing that it was infiltrated by Communists. Since then one mine-mill official has been con victed of falsely swearing to the National Labor Relations board that he was not a Red, a former official is awaiting trial on a similar charge, and several mine mill' officials have been summon ed before a Denver grand jury for questioning ; about a secret matttei. Holmgren said last night that he could not determine whether there were still Communists in the mine-mill membership of 60,000 plus in this country. But he denied that the union was Communist-dominated. Members Not Questioned The independent union, which has been fighting raids by CIO unions in Western states recently does not question its members "on matters of race, religion or politics, and therefore does not attempt to decide the political affiliation or theories of its members," Holmgren said. Negotiations between the mine and mill union and Kennecott Copper, American Smelting, and Refining and Phelps-Dodge. three of the "big four" copper producers, were broken off Tues day. A strike against their plants have been in progress since last Friday, idling about half the mine-mill membership. Stern admitted that the un ion's demand for 20 cents an hour in pay increases and other benefits was more than the CIO had obtained in recent automo-! bile and steel industry settle-1 ments. But he said the union had i amassed figures to definitely show that the Conner industrv could easily afford". the 20-cent hourly boost, . . President Nominates Two for Promotions - Washington -0J.R) President Eisenhower has nominated Maj, Gen. George W. Read Jr., to the rank of lieutenant general while serving in his new post as commanding general of Allied land forces in Southeast Europe. Read was named to succeed Lt Gen. Paul W. Kendall who is retiring. Mr. Eisenhower also nomin ated Rear Adm. ' Maurice E. Curts for promotion to vice ad miral while serving as deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet. He re places Rear Adm. Herbert G. Hopwod who is being reassigned, e MM' r Reprint from San Francisco Examiner,' July 1st, 195S Gigaret Ads To Papers LOS ANGELES. June SO. (AP) Cigarette Manufacturer O. Parker McComas, president of Philip Morris. Inc., says his company is shifting much of its advertising from radio and tele vision to newspapers this year and next He told newsmen yesterday that his firm believes more peo- Sle read newspapers than listen radio or watch TV. "Consequently, this year wo ' will more than double oar newspaper advertising; and I feel certain the results will show our thinking was cor rect" he said. EVERYONE In SOUTHERN OREGON READS THE nn
