MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NHfE
Air Force Defends Teaching Technique at Nevada 'Brainwashing' School
Thursday, September 8, 19SS
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Vets Hour Program
Series To Resume
Friday at Camp
The fall and winter series of
Veterans Hour Variety Show
and Radio Quiz will re-open Fri
day at 7:30 p.m. in the VA do
miciliary center theater, Camp
White.
The program is sponsored by
the American Legion posts of
District 13 in co-operation with
. merchants of the district, and
is now in its fourth year.
The first month's shows will
be under the direction of the
hospital committee of Myers
Holland Post 129, Central Point.
Miss Karen Britton, accordionist
and vocalist. Miss Charters,
Ven-year-old singer. Miss Shar
on Roberts, accompanist, and a
dance revue from the Colleen
Hope studios will feature the
programs.
Music for the show will be
provided by the six piece Camp
White orchestra, under the
leadership of Jimmy Rae.
The radio quiz, to be broad
cast by KYJC, will again be
emceed by quizmaster Jerry
Giffard.
Unit 129, ladies' auxiliary,
will serve coffee and doughnuts
after the program. The public
is invited.
Farmers Save Greatly
In Reduced Hay Rates
Chicago (U.R) Farmers and
ranchers in drought - stricken
areas were saved almost $2,
225,000 through reduced freight
rates on hay for five months last
winter, according to the West
ern Traffic Association.
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railroads cut the rates on emer
gency hay last Oct. 1 and held
the reduced charges in effect un
til Feb. 15 for farmers in 13
states. The association said 222,
921 tons of hay was shipped in
15,338 cars under the special
rates.
Missouri farmers used 5,380
carloads of the emergency hay
for a total saving of $622,594.
Texas ranchers were second
3,590 cars for a $580,115 saving,
and Oklahoma was third with
5,352 cars and a saving of $497,
150, according to association
statistics.
PLEAD INNOCENT Half-brothers J. W. Milam (left) and
Roy Bryant sit in Greenwood, Miss., court where they
face trial on charges of the kidnap-slaying of Emmett Till,
14-year-old Chicago Negro. The boy is supposed to have
"wolf-whistled" at Bryant's wife. Both admitted taking
Till from the home of his uncle near Greenwood but said
they released him unharmed when Mrs. Bryant said he
was not the boy who insulted her. The boy's body was
found weighted down in nearby river.
' It is estimated that the Uni
ted States' population will reach
215,000,000 by 1975.
New Guaranteed Pay
Given By Government
Chicago (U.R)-; Local govern
ment workers in at least three
localities now get something re
sembling a guaranteed annual
wage, according to the Civil
Service Assembly.
The plans are "in effect for
hourly workers in Dearborn,
Mich., Lincoln Park, Mich., and
Milwaukee County, Wis.
Each hourly worker is assured
that his pay check will be the
same every two weeks even if
seasonal lulls or bad weather
forces him intp idleness for sev
eral days.
Time off the job is made up
during the peak seasons of work
Thus, the plan also saves the
local government overtime pay
ments.
All 500 hourly workers of
Dearborn come under the stable
pay plan. The Lincoln Park plan
affects employes of the public1
works, sewer and park depart
ments. Uniform pay checks are
guaranteed for park employees
in Milwaukee County.
Man Given $50 Fine;
His Neighbor's Dog
Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) Being a
friend to "man's best friend" cost
a dog-laver $50.
John Piotrowski appeared in
city court to face charges of al
lowing his dog to run unmuzzled.
Piotrowski told the judge the dog
had belonged to neighbors who
fed the homeless hound a few
times, and after that Piotrowski
moved away. But his daughter
said he couldn't chase it away.
The dog liked the Piotrowskis,
but didn't take kindly to Police
man Frank A. Priore. The ani
may bit Priore and tore his uni
form. After listening to the tale of
woe, the judge found Piotrowski
guilty. But he said he'd dismiss
the charge of Piotrowski paid the
officer $50 for uniform repair
and medical expenses. The dog-
lover anted up.
RING TREASURE
Carthage, S.D. (U.R) Mrs. R
M. Brown dug up a gold ring
while working m her garden
The ring hard been lost 25 years
ago by a neighbor, the late Mrs,
Pat Finley.
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at home,
at work or
while at play
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a bit of quick energy for a
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1955. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
Classes Designed ,
To Prepare Airmen
For Red Capture
Washington U.R) The Air
Force today defended its "brain
washing" school designed to pre
pare airmen for the terror and
brutal treatment of Communist
prison camps in case of capture
during war.
The Air Force's support of the
controversial "classes" on Red
prison treatment was disclosed
as Col. Burton E. McKenzie,
head of the school in the desert
outside of Reno, was called here.
Answers Newsmen
McKenzie was questioned to
find out if the techniques em
ployed were "too realistic."
After a session with Pentagon
officials, McKenzie answered
questions of newsmen.
Earlier, he conferred with Lt.
Gen. Emmett O'Donnell Jr..
deputy chief of staff for per
sonnel. It was learned the gen
eral complimented McKenzie on
the school.
An Air Force spokesman said
no changes were planned in the
training.
McKenzie was- called to Wash
ington yesterday after News
week magazine published a hair-
raising account of training at
the school.
The magazine said officers and
men at the school are subjected
to conditions which rival those
at Communist prisons in Korea
It told, among other things, of
36-hour interrogation, sessions,
forcing men to stand in holes
shoulder-deep in water and sub
jecting trainees to a steel "'sweat
box and a tight "coffin' which
imprisons them flat on its gravel
bottom.
Commandant Summoned
The Air Force summoned Col
Burton E. McKenzie, command'
ant of the school, to the Penta-
gon to explain whether the train
ing course Is ' too realistic or
the magazine article is "too
strong." -
Newsweek later said its ac
count had been cleared by the
Pentagon.
But Newsweek said none of
the 29,000 men who have gone
through the school have pro
tested. All, it was" said, have
agreed that the training is neces
sary because war "has lost its
last touches of humanity."
Other branches of the armed
services have set up similar
schools as a result of Commu
nist treatment of prisoners of
war in Korea and President Ei
senhower's stiff new "code of
conduct" for U. S. servicemen.
Newsweek told of one "young
and frail" lieutenant at the Air
Force school who "collapsed on
the ground and cried" when he
was let out of a little wooden
shack after hours of interroga
tion punctuated by a series of
electric shocks.
Practice Survival
After introductory courses,
the magazine said, students are
turned loose in the Sierra Ne
vada mountains to practice sur
vival on two and one-half days'
rations. They are ordered to
evade "capture." Those who do
not are taken on a "death
march."
Newsweek said that even the
lectures which open the courses
are "not for restless stomachs."
"Sample advice for life after
capture: maggots contain valu
able proteins and should not be
removed from food, rats should
be eaten ('the meat is as good
as you'll get'), but their heads
contain poison and must be dis
carded; dysentery can be treated
by burning a bone (including
one from a human corpse) and
consuming the ashes for their
calcium content.
Niagara's Last Ferry
Passes into History
Buffalo. N.Y. U.R) The last
ferry boat to ply the waters of
the Niagara river finally has
passed into history.
The Orleans, built around the
turn of the century and in use
between Buffalo and Ft. Erie,
Ont. for more than 50 years,
went out of service five years
ago. When the big river ice jam
this past winter crashed the craft
against the old Grand Island-Bedell
House,, it sounded her death
knell.
Clarence (Paddy) Fix, the an
cient vessel's last master, de
cided she should be cut up for
scrap. -
The Orleans, which had a ca
pacity of 360 passengers and 15
automobiles, went out of service
with the changing times. The
International Peace Bridge,
built while the ferry business
was prospering, finally took
away so much trade she no
longer could be run profitably.
INCONSIDERATE
Spokane, Wash. U.R) Safe
crackers were disappointed in
the $75 loot obtained from -their
efforts at an office here. They
left a note reading "you cheap
skates! . It wasn't worth the
Three Men Held
On Local Charges
Richard Ray Smith, who lists
his home address as Medford,
is being held in Denver, Colo.,
in connection with the theft ot
a car from Skinner's Garaee
used car lot, 225 East Ninth St.,
on July 28, acording to city
police.
Smith reportedly has admit
ted the theft of six cars in Ore
gon, including the one taken
from Skinner's Garaae. The Air
Force has charged him with
Deing awul, city police said.
City officers ereditpri the
Jackson county sheriff's office
with doing "an excellent job" in
investigating the case.
Two other men are being held
by authorities in other states in
connection with local cases. Al
bert C. Hanson, wanted here in
connection with a bad check
case, is in custody at Bpzeman,
Mont. Claude Ferguson, a tran
sient, is being held at Reno, also
in connection with a local bad
check case.
More than 27,000,000 cords
of pulpwood are transported to
the mills in the United States
every year.
Weeds Cut Nebraska Income by $5,000,000
Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Weeds
will cut income of Nebraska
farmers this year about $5,000,
000 through lower production,
according to a noxious weed
expert.
The expert, Dwight Lambert,
head of the state division of
noxious weeds, said there are
about 450,000 acres of the hard-to-kill
pests in Nebraska.
Lambert said two farms side
by ' side upon which the same
crops are grown, can show as
much as a third or more differ
ence in yield, if weeds are
treated.
Eager Firemen Need
State DA's Rulings
East Greenbush, N. Y. (U.R)
Three volunteer firemen in this
Rensselaer County village had
to get a ruling from the state's
attorney general to fight fires.
Robert Turner, Jack Breen and
Norman Frybach were 17-year-old
high school seniors when the
school board asked Atty. Gen.
Jacob K. Jarvis to rule if the
school could release pupils to
fight fires. Javitts said this could
be done in the case of students
above the compulsory school at
tendance age of 16.
The three volunteer firemen
didn't answer every alarm. They
went only when a blaze was se
rious enough for the fire chief to
call the school and ask to have
them excused from class.
Glad Father Discovers
How to Satisfy Child '
Milwaukee (U.PJ Carl A.
Smaida thinks he has come up
with a boon to harassed fathers.
His daughter, Susanne, almost
three, took a fancy to a book
called "Chester the Pony." She
asked for it to be read over and
over, as children will with fav
orite stories..
Mrs. Smaida was surprised
when she came home recently
and heard her husband reading
the story, then stepped into the
kitchen and found him reading a
newspaper.
Smaida had put the story on
a tape recorder, and a flip of
the . switch did the story-telling
job for him whenever Susanne
desired to hear it.
Dead line Sunday Classified U at
noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 orevlous day
Malheur Health
Officer Appointed)
Nyssa (U.R) Dr. Grant B.
Hughes was appointed Malheur
county public health offfter yes
terday by the County Court, re
placing Dr. A. L. Maiding, who
recently resigned.
The court also appointed Edna
Blaylock, of Nys, public health
nurse, succeeding Edna Farris,
also resigned. q
County Judge G. Y. Chester
said the two Appointees would
form the nucleus of a new
county health department. Still
to be named was a county sani
tarian to replace Ray Ruff.
The three former county offi
cials resigned as a result of a
controversy with the court. .
LOSES HER CLOTHES
Portzio, France (U.R) Mrs.
Georgette Guilbert, 37, said she
decided to commit suicide Wed
nesday night She walked to the
beaclt) undressed completely and
waded slowly into the sea. She
said she changed her mind, how
ever, because the water was too
cold and returned to the beach
only to find her clothes gone.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 orevidasday.
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