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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune fcu'olished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-J9 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager I. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HAKRY CHIPMAN Telegraoh Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports fcditor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An InrVnendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. DiUy and Sunday One year $12.00 T-it n4 CnHov Cy mnntha 6.50 unu nuu uujiudj Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear tj.ou. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eazle Point Jaclwonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shaijv Cove. Rogue River. Talent andson motor routes: , Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday One month IM Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AH Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU up Linumi-1 Advertising WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Eeatti. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAl ASSOCIATION frHJMiM.'.iJ.'.l.M.a NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and MCa years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 194S (It wa3 Tuesday) 0. J. C. Penney company pur chases Groceteria building on North Central ave. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The fafr sex greeted the New Year in their formal gwns, cut lo and behold, and displaying expanses of feminine backbone. The skirts just missed the floor, caus ing many a -pair of nylons to blush unseen. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1936 (Ii was Wednesday) HeavyS1 rains in Rogue valley area usher in New Year. "The Informer" is voted best motion picture of 1935' 80 YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 1926 (It was Friday) Construction of new state normal school at Ashland will start Feb. 1, J. A. Churchill, state school superintendent, an nounces. Twg men seized south of Ash land for operating moonshine still. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1916 8 (It was Saturday) Local residentswelcome "dry" New Year by sipping whatever was available at end of "wet year. From Local and Personal col umn: C. W. Davis has filed his nomination as a candidate for the city council from the third ward. Mr. Davis is a clerk in the store of Warner, Wortman and Gore. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lb 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Repewt 1. In the 1956 session of Con gress the Democrats control the Senate, not the House; or the House, not the Senate; or both; or neither? 2. More Buick or Plymouth cars were produced in 1955? 3. Gov. Harriman of N.Y. says he'll run in many, several or no 1956 presidential preferential primaries? 4. Farms and ranches account for more than half the total land area of the U.S.; right or wrong? 5. The comic book industry dollar sales in the last three years fell sharply, stayed about the same, or rose sharply? 6. Krishna Menon represents Nationalist China. Egypt, Can ada, India, or Israel in the United Nations? i 7. More Americans work for federal, state and .local govern ments, or at farming? The Answers; 1. Both. 2. More Buicks. 3. None. 4. Right. 5. Fell sharply. 6 In dia. 7. More for governments. Man Doesn't Know When To Quit; In Jail Birmingham, Ala. (U.P.) George B. Stewart, 26, was in jail Saturday because he didn't know when to quit. Stewart robbed the local West ern Union office of $131 one night, police said, and then re turned the next night to take another S3.837. The second trip was his mistake because some one got his license number and police arrested him. MAIL TRIBUNE Quo "Mr. Anonymous" has returned. And he calls ex-Governor Stevenson "just another egg-head." All of which seems like old times and removes all doubt if there has ever been any that the presiden tial campaign of 1956 has started, .-j ..... "IXTTIAT interested us most in this offering, how ever, was the comment on an editorial in this column a week or two ago, explaining to "newcom ers" that the term "independent" on- the mast-head of this paper meant exactly what it said. "Mr. Anonymous" calls that a 'lot of apple sauce.' "Everyone in Southern Oregon," he adds, "knows that the Mail Tribune will support the Dem ocratic ticket next year as it did in 1952, regardless." Moreover if we were -"honest" we would replace that "independent With Democratic" though he might allow us to include the qualification "independent" if it would make us feel any better. That is very generous of our unidentified corre spondent, but as he is 100 wrong as usual, the Mail Tribune masthead will remain as it has beenfor close to half a century. So that concludes that particular argument. Now as to the facts . . pVERYONE in Southern Oregon DOES NOT know the Mail Tribune will support the Democratic ticket next year, for we don't know ourselves. "We grant the probability. But if Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, fine gen tleman and excellent Democratic senate leader that he is on a platform of power, should be the Democratic candidate the Mail Tribune certainly would not support him. . And if by chance Chief Justice Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court should head the Republican tick et, on a platform of public power over private power where the former is indicated and development of tidelands oil for the benefit of the people and pub lic education rather than a -there is equal lack of doubt that the Mail Tribune would then support the Republican ticket. . . 117E grant such eventualities are unlikely. But " stranger or at least as strange things have happened in polities in the past. For example : Who would ever have thought the Democratic party would nominate for President an unknown, long-haired, table-thumping congressman from rural Nebraska for its on a free-silver ticket, over half a century ago.' Or shortly thereafter who would have believed that President Theodore Roosevelt would desert the Republican party, form a new party, and do every thing in his power to defeat and humiliate his long time friend, and his own selection as his successor, one William Howard Taft? . . DOLITICS not only makes strange bed-fellows. Pol- itics makes strange and weird tape recording on the tablets of national history. The Mail Tribune is no more committed to sup port the Democratic ticket next year, than it was com mitted four years ago at this time to support the Re publican ticket, though all the evidence available pointed that way. ' Attendance at the two party conventions changed the political views of the Mail Tribune in 1952. That may happen again in 1956? Or it may not. "Mr. Anonymous," or anyone else interested in speculating on such momentous decisions must there fore await the event. R.W.R. What's Wrong With Johnson? Anticipating an inquiry from "Mr. Anonymous" (or some of his friends) as to what the Mail Tribune has against Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas we herewith explain, that we have nothing against him as an individual, a Senator, or an effective majority leader in the Upper House of the congress. But we would oppose him as a leader of the Dem ocratic party and as President of the United States, because we don't believe in what he believes in. That's all. JWfR JOHNSON believes in "state rights" as many A 1 other Southerners do. He believes in the doc trine of nullification as espoused by Calhoun prior to the Civil War, as many other Southerners and many Texans apparently do. Also, according to what we believe reliable infor mation, the Senior Senator from Texas advocated the Tidelands Oil measure, which handed over billions of dollars rightly belonging to all the people of the United States, to three or four states and eventu ally to three or four large oil combines. We believe that this action was contrary to the public welfare clause of the Constitution and involved a great injustice to the American people and espe cially to the cause of federal aid to education. ..... ETNALLY there is the natural gas bill which would, if passed, free the natural gas, companies from air federal control, and allow the private gas com panies to profit enormously at the expense of the gas consumers. Senator Johnson is one of the leaders in the effort to put this "give away" over. CO for these fairly definite reasons we would not be in favor of the Texas Senator as candidate and spokesman of the Democratic party, and if the Dem ocratic convention should decide otherwise, we would look elsewhere for a candidate or a party we could conscientiously support, R.W.R., Sunday, January 1, 1958 Vadis private power over public few private oil companies presidential nominee and Matter of Fact iy THE DULLES-SHARETT TALKS Washington There has been a remarkable amount of false optimism about the foreign sit uation generally, but no where has the optim ism been more false than a bout the situ ation in the Middle East. There have been strong hints, for ex ample, that an agreed settle ment between Israel and the Arab states is Stewart Alsop now in sight. Miracles do hap pen, of course. But the real story of the negotiations be tween Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Israeli For eign Minister M o s h e Sharett suggests just how miraculous an agreed settlement would be. The talks began at the second Geneva conference and contin ued in Washington. From the very beginning, there was hardly a happy meet ing of minds. In the climac tic conversa tion at Wash ington, Dulles told Sharett that the United States was pre pared to con s i d e r supply ing Israel with at least part of Joseph Alsop the $50,000,000 worth of arms Israel has requested, but on cer tain conditions. For example, Dulles said, Is rael would have to make cer tain concesions including minor territorial concessions, in return for Arab recognition and agreed peace in the area. Sharett furi ously replied that apparently Dulles wanted to destroy Israel. Israel would fight to the last man, he said rather than cede an inch of land won from the Arabs, except on an even ex change basis. Dulles asured Sharett that he had no desire whatsoever to destroy Israel. But, he said in effect, peace in the area' was in the interests of both Israel and the United States, and conces sions on both sides would be needed to obtain a settlement. Thereafter a somewhat calmer tone prevailed. . . . TT WAS finally agreed that - Israel would submit its own version of a peace plan, while the Administration would give "sympathetic consideration" to to Israel's arms request. Mean while, it was mutually and spe cifically agreed, Israel would do everything possible to avoid further incidents. This conversation was almost immediately followed by Is rael's retaliatory raid on Syria, in which more than 40 Syrians Jn The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Numerous additional arrests in Argentina are announced by the Argentine provisional mili tary government which reports that ten persons have been seized in what is called a new sub versive plot. At the same time, it anounces that 125 person described as "rumor mongers and trouble makers" have been rounded up and confined in an out of the way place in southern Argen tina. VVHAT'S happening down " there? It's hard to say. There is too much censorship. When censor ship comes into the picture the truth gets badly blurred. What ever IS happening is taking quite a lot of time and involves a lot of struggle. We'll have to wait and see whether patriotism and love of country or ITCH FOR POWER lies at the root of the Argentine troubles. SPEAKING of censorship In Brazil, where a similar mystery play is being enacted, the newspapers lave to send every page of every issue to the military censors before printing it. So we have no clear idea of what is going on in Brazil. May be a real effort is being made to get better government for the people of Brazil. Maybe it's another struggle for power. YlfHAT'S happening in our own ' country? It is announced in Washing ing this morning that a con gressional investigation into GOVERNMENT SECRECY is to be continued by a committee headed by Congressman John Moss of California. Moss has asked the interior and welfare departments, the federal reserve system and the securities and exchange com mission why they have been holding back non-defense infor mation by labelling it confi dential. Two years ago, President Eisenhower issued an order lim iting the use of the confidential classification generally to de fense information. - IS. 1 Joe and Stewart AIsop were killed. The raid, which was hailed in Israel as a signal victory, enraged the entire Arab world. It also, apparently, en raged Foreign Minister Sharett since it had been ordered with out his knowledge by Israeli Prime Minister David - Ben-Gu-rion, the leader of the bitterly nationalist "Activist" group in Israel. Sharett angrily cabled Ben Gurion that the raid had ruined his chances of getting arms from the United States, to balance the arms the Soviet Union is sending Eygpt. At least tempor arily, Sharett's forecast has proved to be accurate. ... THE SYRIAN raid has had an other effect. It has greatly strengthened the hand of those Administration policy advisers who have maintained from the start that no arms should be sent to Israel except on strin gent conditions. Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, they argue, is the first Arab leader politically strong enough to make an agreed settlement with Israel. But Nasser cannot possibly make a settlement un less the Israeli are willing to make serious concessions as re gards the territorial and ref ugee problem concessions which the Israeli have hereto fore furiously and flatly refused to make. According to this view, arms should be sent to Israel only if the basis of an agreed settle ment is first achieved. Other wise, the Arabs, who control the economically vital oil in the strategically vital area1 of the Middle East, will be convinced once and for all that they have no where to turn but to the Communist bloc. This, it is ar gued, would predictably lead to the loss of the whole Middle East. ... rpHE COUNTER argument is, -- of course, that this country has no alternative but to re establish the balance of power in the Middle East, which was upset by the Egypian-Soviet arms deal. The issue, which has exposive .domestic political im plications, is being angrily de bated in the highest Adminis tration circles. 1 Meanwhile, all is in abeyance, and this country has no real Middle Eastern policy at aU. Add the heavy Communist infiltra tion in Syria and other Arab countries and the bold bid by Egypt and Saudi-Arabia to take over Jordan's powerfull Arab Legion, heretofore controlled by Britain. It is then hard to see much reason for optimism about what has been happening in the Middle East. In point of fact, the highest State Department authorities are now privately admitting that the betting is even on a Middle East war breaking out within four months. (C) 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc. News WHO IS Congressman Moss? He represents the third con gressional district of California, composed of Colusa, Glenn, Sac ramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties. He is a Democrat. The fact that he is- a Democrat doesn't prejudice me against him in any way. Some of the best men I know are Democrats, Some of the ablest men in our congress are Democrats. And I feel strongly that sec recy other than secrecy relat ing to national defense must be driven out of our government. "OUT You must have noticed that during Republican administra tions most congressional inves tigations are headed by Dem ocrats and during Democratic administrations most of the in vestigating committees are head ed by Republicans. Thanks to our fabulous com munications system newspap ers, radio, television, etc. con gressional investigations open up wonderful possibilities for the party OUT OF. POWER to make it appear that the party IN POWER is composed of crooks and thimbleriggers. One can't help fearing that this situation provides tempta tions that will become too strong to be resisted. HERE'S one thing I'm sure is happening in our country: THE FEDERAL GOVERN MENT IN WASHINGTON IS GETTING TOO BIG FOR MERE MORTAL MEN TO HANDLE. How shall we cut it down to size? The only way I can think of is to BRING MORE GOVERN MENT BACK TO OUR STATE HOUSES, OUR COURT HOUS ES AND OUR CITY HALLS. Driver Stops For Siren; Robbed of $40 Gaffney, S. C (U.R) Bakery truck driver Ralph Bettis com plained to police about a bandit who is even more unfair than most bandits. Bettis said he heard a siren and stopped, thinking a police car was behind him. The occu pant of the other car, certainly no policeman, robbed him of 40. ' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Che name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use 01 a Den name or initial for publication is Dermis lible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. 1S56 Forecast To the Editor: According to ancient planetary observations and yearly cycles for the new solar year beginning March 21, the Spring will be dry, cold and disagreeable with a warm sum mer foUowing a mild winter. This also will be a leap year and is divisible by four. Easter Sunday is April first. 'The year will be ruled by the planet Mer cury, an intellectual symbol. By coincidence 1956 will be a na tional election year, too. As a result the best men or women best fitted for each respective position should win out. The coming year will see many scientific discoveries. Only one total eclipse of the moon, November 18, will be visible in the United States. The summer is due for thunder and rain storms, also a good season for some kinds of fruits. Also a yea to be cautious of all kinds of ac cidents. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford, Ore. Consideration To the Editor: December 25th is the day on which Christians celebrate the birth of Christ. At this time we are imbued with the spirit of giving and are more cordial to our friends, neighbors and relatives. It is also a holiday on which we murder our fellowmen in great numbers on our highways, this year in greater numbers than ever before. We spend many thousands of dollars annually to provide our selves with the finest law en forcement agencies and then figure ways and means to have persons appointed or elected who will exempt us from obed ience of the law by "fixing" charges made against us. We spend great sums of money to get more powerful cars. Sup posedly this extra power will furnish the surge of sudden speed to avert an accident, but in practically all instances slight pressure on the brake pedal will prevent a mishap more safely and with less adverse nervous reaction to all concerned. It is believed that if each of us will show the same considera tion to others that we feel is due ourselves that our daily life will be more pleasant and our highways less the murder traps they now are. Our law enforcement agencies try to make our lives more pleasant and safe. We can be more considerate of the rights of all others and we must insist that our courts stop dispensing cut rate penalties and adjust themselves to modern conditions. When we do this we will enjoy more of the blessings of freedom which are guaranteed us by our Constitution. Dan F. Krotz II, Chairman for Community Service Steelhead Post, VFW Shady Cove, Ore. Editorial Comment BIRD COUNT In the Christmas bird census taken down at Medford 50 spe cies of birds were noted. This score isn't as large as on the other side of the Cascades where the 1954 check showed 118 spe cies. Klamath seems to be more on the bird flyway than the west side of the mountains. The most distinguished bird observ ed at Medford was a bald eagle. For the first time starlings were observed 159 of them, which shows how fast they are spread ing through Western Oregon. No bird census was taken in Salem, so far as we are informed, so we clo not know what the species total for this part of the state is. This would be an interesting and worthy project for local birdlovers to take up. We do know, however, that starlings already have taken up their resi dence here. Oregon Statesman, Salem Aliens Should Report Addresses This Month All aliens in the United States must report their addresses to the immigration and naturaliza tion service each January, under provisions of the 1952 Immigra tion and Nationality act. Address report cards are now available at all post offices. In order to comply, the alien must fill out a card and, hand it to a post office or immigration clerk. No Alien should mail his own card. Car Stalls; Police Take Driver To Jail Chicago (U.P.) Levi Johnson, 22, decided to help himself to a parked car that didn't belong to him and was doing pretty well until it stalled, but that was where his troubles began. He flagged down another car and asked for a push. The car he flagged down contained two policemen from the stolen auto detail who took Johnson straight to jaiL t (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Bert Kissenger, as the old year waned, wrote the Potluck editor about a 1923 mail order circular he found while rummaging around in an old trunk. Among the special bargains listed were an electric grill stove for $4.69; a four-heat iron, $4.95; import ed .22 caliber rifle for $5.65; light poultry fencing, 55 cents a rod; an electric toaster for $1.48. . . It's sort of fun to compare these prices with the ones charged for similar items now. But don't forget that take-home pay has gone up as much or more in those 32 years. ... "How long can you keep a ham after it's cooked?" a lady telephoned the county agents office lo inquire last week. The secretary who answered the telephone got all ready with her regular spiel about caring for meat, and sts id out, "Even if it gets a little green with meld, you can . . ." She was interrupted by the caller: "Maybe I'd better ex plain. We're making ham sand wiches for a tea, and I want to know if they'll keep from 9 to 4." The bouquet of pussy willows which a newsroom distaff mem ber brought to the office before Christmas served double duty last week. It was a reminder that spring cannot be too far off and it was also the newsroom Christmas tree. Another newsroom worker placed little glass tree o'rnaments on the branches of the pussy willow, and someone else hung red and white striped candy canes on it. We think it is probably one of the few "Christmas trees" in town that is beginning to sprout, A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On By HARMAN United Pnt Washington U.R) A lot of folks have as a hobby collecting rag dolls, bean bags and old Bull Durham Backs. But others go into. real money stuff I like rare j china, tails 1 from the bull ! ring and well, model trains. I Glenn Park- 1 er, executive vice president Harmon Nichols of Milwau kee's Kalm bach Publishing Co., knows quite a bit about the market in minia ture trains. According to him, some are just toys, but a lot of them are not to be played with unless you know a roundhouse from a caboose. Some run into big money and a kid just can't fiddle with them out of his allowance of paper peddling scratch. Can Spend Heavily For example, a man with a mind to could spend as much as $200 or $300 or even more for a build-it-yourself engine of his own specifications. He'd also have to spend a few weeks in the basement putting the dang thing together. Glenn put it this way: "You can go to a dime store and buy a trolley type toy train. That would cost you whatever you wanted to pay, something like a dollar for the tin job on up. Or you could go whole hog." , What if the kids'never get a chance to play with it. It's a man's toy, the kids can run around and play with their teddy bears and dolls for a lot less money. If you think the folks who go in for building miniatures are in a minority, you should look at the tab sheet. There are some 20,000,000 of them and they spend something like $150,000, 000 a year on their hobbies. An Average Guy Glenn says the railroad model fan is pretty much of an average guy. Average-wise he is 33 years old, he owns his own home, and Oregonians Urged To Use Polio Vaccine Oregonians were urged Fri day to take advantage of their supply of the new polio vaccine by Dr. G. A. Dierdorff, Med ford, president of the Oregon Osteopathic association. The Oregon state board of health warned that unless all eligible Oregonians participated in the inoculations, the "sur plus" stock of the vaccine might be transferred elsewhere. "If an ultra-cautious attitude continues," Dr. Dierdorff com mented, "Oregon may face a shortage next summer when the polio scare starts and parents are 1 trying to secure quick im munization for their children." He pointed out that children immunized now should reach the peak of greatest protection dur ing next summer's polio season. Any child through 14 years of age and pregnant women are eligible to obtain shots. It is estimated there are 510,000 elig ible persons in Oregon. however. Green leaves are grow ing out, and seem to be getting longer from one morning to the next. Maybe, if it keeps grow ing, we'll find a real brush-patch in the office one day as we step off the elevator. Here's one we swiped from Herb Caen's column, "Bagh-dad-by-the-Bay." in the SF Examiner earlier this week: Leonard Anderson of Med ford, boss of Mercantile Ac ceptance Co. in Oregon, came to town for a conference, went into the Bohemian Garage's powder room, somehow man aged to get his finger caught in a hole in the door and was stuck fast for thirty min utes while the attendants (and his pal. Jack Cole) struggled to get him free. It took that long on acct. the rescuers spent the first fifteen minutes laffing fit i'kill. What I mean is, Anderson coulda killed 'em. Before we close, the members of the news staff of the Mail Tribune wish to extend to all our readers our wishes for the happiest possible New Year. To the correspondents for Granges, churches, 4-H clubs, organiza tions and groups of every kind; to the people who bring in the "local" items; to the faithful ladies who give us the hospital news; to our "country" corres pondents; to those who have complaints and those who bring praise, to "Potluck" contribu tions thanks, and good luck. Signed (alphabetically) Earl H. Adams, Eric Allen Jr., Mrs. Frances Bulkin, Harry Chipman, Richard Jewett, Mrs. Evelyn Ousterhout, Allen Reed and Mrs. Olive Starcher. This and That W. NICHOLS Fular Wir he has wife and kids and makes around $6,222 a year. The in come lets him out of the high deal on buying super duper en gines, toy beep-beeps and the like, but he settles for the less , expensive stuff. Here's some other incidental intelligence gleaned from Glenn's statistics: About half of the model layouts are in a base ment; 16.8 per cent in a man's room with a lockin', slammin' door, and 12 per cent in the ga rage where mama and the young'ns fear to tread. Oddly enough, only 7.7 per cent are in the attic. It sounds like a great hobby if a man has the dough to back up his ambitions. Me, I like trains, and I think I'll get aboard one in a few minutes. At least, it's cheaper to ride one than to in vest in a miniature. Labor Analysis Lists Many 'Wrong' Votes According to an analyis of Oregon state legislature voting records released by the state Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Jackson county's senator and two representatives voted "wrong" on a majority of mea sures tested. Senators were tested on 17 measures, representatives on 19. Measures used in arriving at an appraisal of legislators' vot ing action included five involv ing workmen's compensation; five dealing with taxation and one which called for more than a 30 per cent voter turn-out in order to obtain approval of bond ing measures proposed by school districts. Senator Philip Lowry, Jack son county, is listed as voting "wrong" on nine measures and . "right" on seven. Representative Al Littrel voted "wrong" on 13 measures and "right" on only five.' Representative E. H. Mann voted "wrong" on 12 measures and "right" on six, according to the Federation of labor an alysis. ROTC Graduates May Go Into Army Reserve More than half the 4,100 reserve officer training corps graduates going on active duty during the next six months will be released to the ready reserve after training, according to the Oregon military district. ROTC graduates on orders to report during January and Feb ruary will have their orders amended unless they volunteer or are selected for a two-year tour of duty. Others, due to re port later, will receive orders to report for six months active duty for training unless accept ed for the longer period. The move will make about 2,300 men available to ready reserve units for assignment as platoon leaders or similiar jobs during the last six months this year. The men will complete an eight year obligation in the Army reserve.