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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. '
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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.