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o Today's Japanese Soldiers Reportedly Weak in Spirit Tokyo (U.R) The new Japa nese soldier, stripped of World War II"s fanatical emperor wor ship, is training like an Ameri can GI, but some Japanese offi cers fear his fighting spirit may be weak. They point out that Japan's present distrust of a military (tablishment is affecting the mo- rale of the nation's new defense (force. Japan, although constitution (filly barred from maintaining an armed force, reorganized its police-type security forces into a lf-defense army, navy and air force- last year with American blessing and arms. The "self defense" tag, plus Widespread Japanese opposition to war and rearmament, is un dermining troop morale, officers 0$ y. "Our men don't think they're fteal soldiers," said Col. Ichiro IXtoi, commander of Nerima In fantry Camp on the outskirts of Tokyo. i Anti-war Feeling "If Japan is to have a real rmy, it must go all the way and jot try to dodge around the con stitution by calling it a watered- kwn defense force." But the "no war" clause in Ja Jan's post-war constitution, writ '4en under strong Allied occupa "ton influence, is politically pop ular, particularly among women Olid students. Many Japanese believe their ftation can avoid entanglement in an East-West war by remain ing militarily weak. They feel Vith an armed force Japan is al "inost certain to become involved in another war which would de stroy the nation. Japan's modest ground, sea And air defense force is being en larged from 150,000 to 180,000 'teen this year with more than $100, 000,000 in U.S. defense aid. The new Japanese soldier ears American-style uniforms iUnd boots and carries U.S. wea $os. He has dropped the Prussian Joosestep and marches like an American soldier. He even sleeps In U.S. Army steel cots, with (IHankets tucked in the Gl-way, rhtead of on the straw-matted platforms of the old army. "We have taken the outside (ffthe U. S. Army," Colonel Itoi said, "but we don't have the in side morale." -Net Like Old Days Most of the Japanese enlisted en are too young to have ser ved in the Imperial Army and JVavy which fought more than a (Slecade ago, shouting ."Banzai" i&the Emperor. But many of their officers ser ved in the wartime army, which (trained by kicks and slaps and taught that capture was a dis grace and that bailing out of a crippled warplane was a coward (Jy act. A former private in the war time Imperial Army visited itamp Nerima and said he was amazed" at the freedom allow ed Japanese soldiers today. "We had nothing like this in the old days," he said. In the all - volunteer defense 'force, a man or officer can re sign at any time. "Non-coms are strictly forbid den to strike a soldier," Colonel Itoi said. "If they do, they are punished." Instead of eating leftovers af ter serving non - commissioned officers, recruits and privates now mess separtely from their seniors. All eat the same fare. Like American GI's, the new Japanese soldier is allowed to turn up his nose at the mess hall and eat in the post exchange, modeled after the TJ. S. Army PX. Many Cities Charge For Industrial Waste Chicago U.R) More than 255 U.S. cities of over 5,000 population make industries pay for discharging industrial waste material into municipal'sewers, according to a recent report of the American Public Works As sociation. Most of the cities base the charge on how much water an industry uses. But 41 have flat charges and 32 base their charge on both quantity and waste dis charged and the kind of quality of the waste. Cities questioned considered dairy wastes and those from meat packing as rendering the most objectionable discharged in their sewer systems.. Listed in descending order as less objectionable were wastes from metals and metal plating, food processing, canneries, oils and oil products, chemicals, poul try, textiles, garages and gas sta tions, dye and dry cleaning, breweries, laundries, tanneries, paper, tobacco, paint, glass, pho tographic laboratories and restaurants. Metallurgy Technique Aids Plant Experts East Lansing, Mich. , (U.R) Michigan State College horticul ture experts are using metal lurgy techniques to check the plant food diets of fruit trees. "Dr. H. B. Tukey, head of MSC's horticulture department, said leaves of trees are photo graphed in a giant machine the spectrograph ' which is used in metallurgy and indus trial work. The photographs actually show the amount of certain plant foods in the leaves to see whether the tree takes up the fertility avail able jn the soil, Tukey said. ; The program, still in the ex perimental stages, is directed by MSC's Dr. A. I. Kenworthy, who tests tree leaves for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and other plant foods. - Kenworthy , scores the results on a nutrient - element balance chart, which looks like' an ordi nary bulls-eye, and returns the chart to the fruit growers with a letter suggesting changes in the fertilizer program. At present, the service is available only to commercial growers. There are 10 national cemeter ies in the national park system of the United States. Title Insurance Aids Against Land Losses Chicago 0J.R) Property own ers can protect their investments with title insurance, according to N. G. Krausz, assistant pro fessor of agriculture law at the University of Illinois. Title to real estate is never perfect, Krausz said, it can only be good or "merchantable." This is because land acquires new owners, mortgagees, ten ants, trustee, heirs and other parties who have varous legal interests, he explained. Even if all links in the chain of title are available in court house records, Krausz said, there is still a slight possibility cf im perfection in the title. Title insurance does not im prove. But it does protect the owner from financial loss if another party should establish a valid claim against the land. Property owners often get a single premium policy that re mains in .effect until title to the property is transferred to anoth er, Krausz added. Man Tires of Milking; Sells Holstein Herd Portland (U.R) Fred Zahlen, 60-year-old Portland area dairy man who said he was tired of milking cows, today announced the sale of his 65 head of hol steins to the partnership of Frank Windust and Art Blanc of Corbett. Zahler has operated the Hills dale Dairy at Raleigh Hills, which produces milk for the Portland area, since 1917. The American Federation of Musicians was founded October 19, 1893. DAILY WEATHER REPORT DATE. August 1. 1955 Sunset tonight 7:30 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:06 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair with little change in temperature through Wednesday. Low tonight 56; high Wednesday 95. Western Oregon: . Fair through Wednesday except morning cloudiness along coast. Little change ih tempera ture. Low tonight 48-58; nigh Wednes day 90 in south interior; 75-85 north interior; 65-75 along coast. Northern California: Fair tonight and Wednesday, but jncearsing coastal log tonight. Scattered afternoon thun derstorms in southern Sierras. Little change in temperature. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 74; normal. Record high this date 104 in 1939. Record low this date 46 in 1937. PRECIPITATION: none. ' Total this month, none; normal. Total since Sept. 1, 8.89 inches 9.07 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 23, highest this a.m. 82. - CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 73 50 Crater Lake ..... 71 46 Grants Pass 93 52 Klamath Falls 86 50 MEDFORD - 90 59 Portland 76 54 Seattle 70 52 Spokane 82 53 Yakima y. 8 6 48 Eureka ..: 59 53 Red Bluff 104 72 Sacramento 101 63 San Francisco 72 53 Los Angeles 72 62 Phoenix 98 79 Denver 92 65 75 74 82 75 .03 Chicago 94 Miami 89 New York 90 Washington, D.C 92 FIVE DAY FORECASTS Western Oregon: Temperatures about normal, lowering to below nor mal by week end. Maximums generally in 80s; minimums in 50s. A few show ers toward end of week. Northern California: No appreciable precipitation. Coastal fog. Tempera ture above normal in interior and near normal elsewhere. i is i i n I if 51 V V Dollar Day SPECIAL! 1 'Pfrf X V o OPEN WEDNESDAY NIGHT UNTIL 9 P.M. Reg. $7.95 and $8.95 ONLY PRICE GOOD WED. ONLY! Choose from . . . Sandler Loafers Monies Westports T Some Patterns Broken Sizes BURELSON'S The House of Finer Shoes Fido's Habits Become Community Headache Chicago (U.R) Fido's bone burying and barking can become a community headache accord ing to the American Municipal Association. The association has collected reports on several methods cities use to control the canine prob lem. In Seattle, Wash., the King County Humane society has six light trucks cruising the city for strays. About a dozen college boys are hired to look for loose dogs. In addition, police prowl cars take dog complaints as part of their routine. Seattle and King County contract with the society to license dogs, handle com plaints and maintain a pound, in return for which the society re tains 80 per ment of the license fees. A survey by the League of Wisconsin Municipalities showed that 14 to 24 Wisconsin cities of more than 10,000 population im pose $5 forfeitures on dog-owners who allow their pets to run loose. The American Municipal As- FIRST COG R. R. Pinkham Notch, N.H. (U.H) The Mt. Washington Cog Rail way built in 1869 was the first of its kind in the world. It set the pattern for subsequent mountain-climbing railways that were built in Europe. ' sociation said the forfeiture method is favored over the older method of catching the dog and fining the owner because all the officials ha'e to do is identify the dog to collect the forfeiture. The owner, not the city, must retrive his pet at the risk ei further forfeitures if he fails to do so. 'Urban' Milwaukee Has Flourishing 4-H Milwaukee (U.R) This may come as a surprise, but the 4-H club is flourishing in some ao called urban areas. Acording to E. C. Parminter, 4-H club agent, 793 boys and girls in Milwaukee County have signed up for 1955, making the enrollment the highest in 17 years. The girls in 4-H work, who out-number the boya, 489 to 304, choose projects such as clothing, foods and nutrition toward which to direct their interests. The boys seem to find garden ing their most popular project, followed by wood-working, elec tricity, poultry, rabbits and home improvements. The city of Milwaukee and other parts of the country boast a total of 27 4-H clubs. Members of the tlub are between the ages ol 10 and. 21., " . Tuesday, August 2, 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE University Plans ERI Addition to Campus Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.P.J The University of Michigan's En gineering Research " Institute, which handles research problems for outside agencies, has an an aeronautical research build nounced plans for construction of ing. The ERI is headed by Richard Folsom. He said the 4-year-old organization has for years fun neled research problems from in dustry, government and other groups to faculty members as well as to its own staff of tech nicians. The contracts from out side agencies amount to better than $8,000,000 a year, he said. The ERI, which has dozens of laboratories scattered about the campus here has done research on beach erosion, made harbor studies, and is doing work for the government connected with national defense against aerial attack. - Folsom said that with "some ERI funds from outside con tracts" the new aeronautics en gineering research building will be constructed. 'It will include a high-speed wind tunnel, an air craft propulsion laboratory and a pumping station. Construction is expected to be gin this summer. Josephine County Road Bids Being Requested Portland (U.R) Bids are be ing called for the grading of 5.7 miles of road in Josephine coun ty, according to F. E. Andrews, division engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads. The road is to be constructed along Taylor creek and will con nect with the Grants Pass-Galice highway about 16 miles north west of Grants Pass. BUS RECORD Chicago (U.R) The Chicago Transit Authority claims the world records for the largest sin gle charter bus service. 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