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Newspaper Page TextJungle Warfare School To Sharpen Fighting Prowess Of Soldiers in Australia Sydney (U.R) A new jungle warfare school set up in tropical Queensland will sharpen the fighting prowess of any Austra lian soldiers likely to be sent to Malaya. Athough Prime Minister Rob ert G. Menzie made no definite committments about Australian forces for Malaya, such a move is strongly tipped by authorita tive sources in Canberra. How ever, they point out it would have to wait until Menzie con fers with his Cabinet on his re turn from Washington and Otta wa late in March. Defense authorities feel that jungle training will be invalu able, whether Australian forces be required in Malaya or any other tropical battlefield. The army's jungle training center is located at Canungra, 48 miles southwest of Brisbane. Lt. Col. George Warfe, chief instruc tor at the center, conducts a rig id training designed to form a nucleus of tough, "jungle-wise" lighters. That includes how to cope with snakes, beetles, spiders, leeches, typhoid: how to be com fortable in steaming heat, roar ing rivers, torrential rains; how - to camouflage and how to es cape a jungle ambush. Fast Pace Warfe, popularly known as "Jungle George," recently re- montgomeryN 1 WARD 1 117 S. CENTRAL PHONE 2-6241 X vn in turned from four months in Ma laya. He admitted that Commun- j ist guerillas terrorizing the jungle there a re "astounding" fighters. But whether Australian troops would be used in this in ternal struggle or to help guard against external attack only, is a question that Warfe declined to answer. Regardless of the decision which would be a matter of high policy the army's training program at Canungra moves along at a back-breaking pace. "Sneaker courses" sections of thick jungle undergrowth are set with mechanical traps. Some of these even simulate an enemy, complete with guns, leaping from behind innocent looking trees. Soldiers who tra verse this course learn, to stalk the enemy stealthily, and to shoot first and fast when he attacks out of nowhere. Warfe is quick to emphasize that "the ambush in Malaya to day is one of the most danger ous and damaging forms of guer illa attack on the British. The Communists hide out in high spots overlooking a road, then, when a truck comes past, they soak it with machine-gun fire." New Ration Tested To familiarize Australians with this danger, Canungra has an "anti-ambush trainer," a gorge 500 feet high, with a stony washboard road running through the bottom. Day after day Australian troops w en d their way along the road, prac ticing Warfe's jungle - tried methods for escaping the am bush. One rule that Warfe stresses is that troops should never trav el in a completely tarpaulined truck. He says the sides should be left open so troops may escape from the opposite side to the ambush. A fiendish obstacle course apt ly titled "Hell's Pathway" is un der construction down on the banks of the Coomera river. There the soldiers pit themselves against water jumps, rope lad ders, barbed wire entanglements, low wire mazes, a "revetted bear pit," a "monkey walk" on hori zontal ladders, and "wobble boards." The men practice jump ing, complete with full pack, into the river from a 30-foot tower. Further preparation for jungle fighting conditions includes tests of a new ration-pack designed to last a fighting soldier for 24 hours. Australian scientists plan ned the food pack for feeding large groups particularly in trop ical country- Doctors also check fatigue, hunger, and energy tests in relation to the new food ration. IS Mjyfo hstalll I v (3115 3E& (13$ SCORING SURPRISE victory. Bill Woolsey of Honolulu cracks AAU record with 2:08.2 time in 200-meter freestyle event at Los Angeles. Woolsey beats defending champ Ford Konnoalso of Hawaii, by substantial margin. (International) On The Side By E. V. Durling Wednesday. July 27. 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Rumor Factories Boi as 'M-Day' Nears In Britain; Margaret May Select Mate (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) Before she can become a bride an Italian girl must have a dowry. The man of her choice will not marry her otherwise. The minimum dowry is the equivalent of S280. Doesn't seem much here but in Italy that's im portant money. If the girl's par ents haven't the money to give her. she has to go out and earn it. That's why many Italian girls are working in factories in Eng land. To get enough money for a dowry. Call this to the atten tion of your wife so she will know what a lucky girl she was to get you in matrimonial har ness without having to have a dowry. Changing Name Some of the changes made from real names to professional names by film stars are quite interesting. For example, the real name of Kirk Douglas is Issur Danielovich, Mario Lanza was originally known as Alfred Arnold Cocoza. Ray Milland was Reginald Truscott-Jones. Wil liam Holden was William Beedie. As for John Wayne, his real name is Marion Morrison. Jane Wyman was Sarah Fulkcs, Terry Moore was Helen Koford and Susan Hayward was Edythe Mar rener. As I have previously ad vised, if you don't like the name your parents wished on you, change it. Might help your ca reer. This applies to business as well as the entertainment world. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Where was Joe's barroom which was the background of the classic poem titled "The Face on the As We Live By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. Children Need Responsibility Many youngsters think it is "the thing to do" to dislike work and to complain about any duties or responsibilities they are ex pected to carry out. As they grow older they feel sorry for themselves when they must work to earn a living or to run a home. Q. "I am a middle-aged man who grow up in the days when peoplo look it for granted that on works in life and does not expect to have erery thing handed to him on a silver platter. T h younger generation, as I see it in my teenage c h i 1- Dt. Herlock dren and in the young people who come to work at my office, feel that working is almost like slavery. They do as little as they can, always with one eye on the clock. What is responsible for this attitude, and how can it be changed?" (A) Early childhood training is, fundamentally, responsible for the anti-work attitude so pre valent today. Because homes run more or less on the push-button system, children are given few er duties and responsibilities than they were when you were a boy. Then, too, there is the preval ent belief that childhood should be a happy, carefree time, so the child can enjoy life before he must settle down to the burdens of adulthood. Many parents overdo this and make the child Experienced Pear Packers Wanted for This Season APPLY IN PERSON Southern Oregon Sales Inc. Corner Stewart Ave. and So. 99 Medford feel abused if he is asked to do anything but play. Correcting an attitude is cer tainly not easy when it has per sisted from early childhood. It is hard to convince a person who has been used to having no real responsibilities that it can be fun to work and that the pleas ures of successful achievement are greater than the pleasures of frittering away one's time in play. The sooner a child is given duties and responsibilities, the easier it is for him to get the idea that life is not one con tinuous round of play. Even more important, he must learn to get satisfaction from his achieve ments. This he will get only when he is praised or in some way rewarded for them. This is where far too many parents fall short. As a result they help create the "anti-work" attitude. (Copyright 1955. General Features Corp.) Moral Conduct of Wacs To Be Queried Ft. Jackson, S.C. (U.R) Military authorities disclosed to day they were investigating charges of "questionable moral conduct" among members of the Women's Army Corps detach ment at Fort Jackson. Lt. Col. M. N. Squires, public information officer, said the in vestigation was started "as a result of reports received from center members of the WAC de tachment," but has not reached a point calling for positive ac tion against any individual. The investigation involves "a small group within the detach ment," Squires said. He said that to protect the innocent the in- Barroom Floor"? My brother-in-law savs it was in Denver. A. Place you refer to was on Union Square, New York City . . . Q. What man managed two world heavyweight boxing champions and also won the Pulitzer prize as a play producer? A. William A. Brady, who managed James J. Corbett and James J. Jeffries and won the Pulitzer prize in 1929 with the play "Street Scene," written by Elmer Rice. Among the Married In what country can be found the world's most broad minded husbands? I have always thought it was the United States. I am beginning to suspect it is Great Britain. In evidence, I offer the following happening. As a bonus for exceptional efficiency, a Lon don firm decided to make a gift of an all-expense week end trip to Paris for ten of its typists. Eight of these typists are mar ried. Their husbands were not included in the invitation. How ever, none protested as to his wife taking the trip. So the eight young matrons flew off to Paris. The trip included visits to the gayer night spots. For this, the young women were pro vided with handsome male 'es corts. How about it sir? If your wife went on a week end trip to Paris alone such as the aforementioned, would you worry? Where to Eat If you know where in Manhat tan to find a restaurant where the food is exceptional, the ser vice excellent and the price right, ask some native of New York who can be classed as a young oldtimer. Among the top favorite eating places of fellows who really know New York are Dinty Moore's, Luchow's, Cav anaugh's, Rosoff's and Lindy's. For seafood they go to Sweet's, far downtown, and occasionally cross the bridge to Gage & Toll ner's in Brooklyn. By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Correspondent London U.R) The day Prin cess Margaret is free to an nounce her marital'intentions, if any is Aug. 21, her 25th birth day. The West End of London is beginning to boil with gossip as "M-day" approaches. Life will become a good deal duller when and if the little prin cess does choose a mate. The rumor factories will practically go out of business and her friends and alleged friends will have to find another subject of conversation. On a swing around the plush night club belt these are the stories I heard: Polo Player Rumored A titled young man who used to escort Princess Margaret be fore his marriage (to someone else) is passing the word that millionaire Billy Wallace, polo playing stepson of American writer Herbert Agar, is the lucky man. I had duly noted this tip when a friend well-versed in the , thought processes of the nobility pointed out that this titled young man had never discussed the princess' affairs before and might have a motive in naming Wallace. The motive: To hide the real choice. The Margaret Set, as the younger social crowd used to be called, is divided on whether Billy is the boy. Some think he may be. At least, he sees the princess more than any other eligible male does. However, says the negative camp, if she TROOP FUND APPROVED Bonn, Germany (U.R) The security and budget committees of the West Germany Bundestag (lower house) Tuesday night ap proved an $11,233,333 appropro priation for the first cadres of the new German armed forces. vestigation "is being conducted with the utmost care and discre tion." Squires declined to elaborate on the nature of the charges. 9 m I 3 m as pa! ASK ABOVT A PF VACATION LOAN 3 jbi See your vacatioiHnhidod ft maaifer 22 rr...let lw ktio yea take your use. 2 ,"" PPlyiI tht nooty yea Mtd. PF Meant nonty ...vacatKM money, tool J Ji 111 f I anntem or rtanc 5 LUJDAriEir 2 IMMicrniJii" 2 IHVWallUIHIi 51 3 Frank Wilkinson, Manager 3 PHONE 3-3989 16 S. Control Medford LOGS TOOTEED Ponderoia Pine, Sugar Pine. Douglas Fir. White Fir and Cedar for Deiivery to the JACKSON CREEK LUMBER COMPANY MILL AT JACKSONVILLE Accurate Grade Accurate Scale Top Prices -CONTACT- Southern Oregon Planing Mill Beall Lane Phone 2-5251 Those With Indian Blood May Apply for Benefits Portland Don C. Foster, Port land area office director of the bureau of Indian affairs, called for persons of Indian blood and who are lineal descendants of cer tain Oregon tribes to file their application for participation in the Western Oregon judgment fund. The tribes are the Molel or Molallas, Umpqua, Calapooia, Tillamook, Coquille, Tootooto ney or Chetco. Aoplications not filed by Aug. 30 for each person living on Aug. 30, 1954, will not be accepted or considered by the government. Persons feeling they are de scendants by blood of one of the tribes who have not filed appli cations, should immediately con tact Clyde Busey, administrative officer. Box 1335, Newport, Ore., Foster said. wants to marry Billy why is she waiting? There are no obstacles to that match. Peier Said Convinced Was the young nobleman try ing to throw me off the Peter Townsend trail? The 41-year-old group captain, now air attache at Brussels, has told close friends (according to another story) that he will marry the princess in the late summer of 1956. A society girl said "don't use my name but my boy friend knows Peter well, spent some time with him recently. He says Peter is convinced he and Mar garet will marry." But is the princess convinced? A member of the court inner circle refused to be drawn into the speculation, while sipping a '"Trinity" (gin and the two ver mouths) at Siegi's Club, but he pointed out: "She can always remain a spinster, you know. There have Siamese Twin Girls Die After Operation Berlin U.P.) A pair of 11-month-old Siamese twin girls died today soon after a West Berlin surgeon operated in an attempt to separate them, West Berlin City Health office an nounced. The parents of the girls had brought them here from the East zone of Germany in hopes that Western science could accomp lish what the Soviet Zone doc tors refused even to attempt but the operation failed. The twins were 11-month-old Margit and Christel who were joined from the chest to the na vel. Hospital authorities did not disclose the names of the par ents, explaining they were en titled to privacy. ALMOST GET BEER Los Angeles (U.R) The police commission quickly can celled Tuesday its order for "2,000 pounds of beer" for city jail inmates. The commission said the order was a typograph ical error and should have read "beef" instead of "beer." JIFFY PUMP SERVICE Universal Pump Sales Motor Repair and Exchange Wells Tested, Cleaned & Drilled Casings Perforated Pump Rentals A Pump for Every Purpose! 1311 N. Riverside, Home Ph. 2-5039 Ph. 3-5510 been spinsters in the Royal Fam ily before." If Margaret announces her in tention to marry Townsend or any other "ineligible" man on M-day, she must wait a year be fore the ceremony can take place. In that interim period only an act of Parliament can stop her, Townsend is "in eligible" because as a divorced man he canont be approved by Queen Elizabeth, head of the Church of England. TRADE We will trad trucks or truck equipment for real estate, tractors, shovels, eats or what have you. General Truck Sales, Inc. Formerly Lilenquist Motor Co. 2948 N. Pacific Hwy. Ph. 2-5207 WM Believe it or not ... we have hens in our store producing eggs with green and red yolks. We do it by adding dye to the feed just to show you that what your hens eat does make a difference in their eggs. Come in and see these surprising eggs any time. Our regular Purina Laying Chows, of course, make only eggs with nice yellow yolks and lots of 'em. A test will quickly show you the top egg production Purina makes. The "FARM STORE" Cor. 10th & So. 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