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o Training Plan Will Be Tested Starting April 1 by Guard Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant general of the Oregon National Guard, has notified company commanders of local National Guard units that the U. S. department of defense and th department of Ihe Army have revoked a regulation that would make six months active duty mandatory for new Guardsmen. 51st Year Medford United Prtsi Kill Leased Wire Price 10c Tribune United Press full Leased Wire Museum Has 1,433 Visitors in Feb. Jacksonville Attendance at the Jacksonville museum during February totaled 1.433 visitors compared to 1,367 in February, 1956, according to the museum's monthly report. Total attendance at the mu neum from Julv 10. 1950, to Feb. 23, 1957, is 240,713. Guests from 24 states and Alaska and Canada visited the museum last month. Also at tending the museum were groups of Cub Scouts and Bluebirds from Oak Grove and Medford, students from St. Mary's acad emy, 2 eighth grade students from Canyonvlle, 09 students from ruitdale and a night his tory class irom Medford. Gifts received by the museum In February included a copper saw, donated by John R. Bilder back of Ashland. A Victor talk ing machine, donor unknown, was left on the museum's door tep during the month. Ben R. Bones, Grants Pass, presented a shirt worn by a Sioux Indian, Chief Spotted Tail. It is trimmed with beads, split porcupine quills and scalps. A bow, arrows in quiver, tobacco pipe of pipestone and tobacco pouch are included, the report said. Bones also contributed a copy of Robert Burns, 1832. A beaded buckskin hunting bag which was taken from an Indian at the battle of Pine Ridge Agency when "Sitting Bull." the Sioux chief was killed, has been presented by George Vincent, Grants Fiss. The regulation was to have gone into effect April 1 making active duty mandatory for those from 17 to 18'. 2 enlisting after that date. In place of the six months ac tive duty program, Rilea said, the National Guard will test an 11-week training plan for those enlisting before Jan. 1, 1938. Those between 17 and 18',i en listing before that date who take the 11 weeks active duty course will be permitted to expend the remainder of their military obli gation in the National Guard, the adjutant said. Serv Three Years Youths between 17 and 18'4 voluntarily performing six months active duty will only be required to serve three years in active participation with the Guard, according to Riled. At the end of that period, he said, they may be transferred to the standby reserve for the re maining 4li years of their total eight year military obligation. Beginning Jan. 1, 1958, Rilea pointed out all men, between 17 and 18Vj enlisting in the Na tional Guard will be required to take six months active duty and the 11-week training course will be discontinued. Men between 18'-i and 25 en listing in the National Guard will be required to take six months active duty to be fol lowed by 5i years of active par ticipation in the National Guard. Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1957 8 Pages Neuberger Sees Need for Another Look at Timber Sales Policies Because of Reports Preparations for 4-H Follies Are Discussed Preparations for the third an nual 4-H Friendship Follies, to be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Medford High school auditorium, were dis cussed Wednesday night at a meeting of the Jackson County 4-H club council. Approximately 15 clubs throughout the county will par ticipate in the 'program. Pro ceeds will go tcthe Internation al Farm Youth Exchange pro gram. Variations and imitations of popular television programs will be among features of the program. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) believes the Senate Interior Committee should take 'i another inves tigative look at timber sale policies of the Bureau of Land Manage ment because the BLM re cently "twist ed" the con . . . i A. RobL Smim lenis oi me Graves report in an effort "to cover up revenue losses from O&C forests in Oregon." Neuberger was referring to a press release issued by BLM last month at the time the forestry report prepared independently by Prof. Paul F. Graves was first made public. Graves' main rec ommendation in his report to BLM was that marketing areas be abolished. BLM's press release on the re port made no mention of Graves' recommendation but claimed that the report showed that BLM timber sales on O&C lands "av eraged $9 per thousand board feet more than prices paid for other federal timber" in pie same area. "The agency's self-serving in terpretation of Graves' report was an erroneous and mislead ing statement designed to lull Oregonians into believing that all was well with management of O&C assets," declared Neu berger. Compariions Difficult "Actually, Prof. Graves spe cifically noted that price com parisons between BLM and For est Service sales 'are extremely difficult and have not been at tempted by either federal agen- cy because of extreme variabil ity in such controlling factors as stumpage appraisal unit value factors, conversion ratios, timber accessibility and quality, species distribution and values, timber sale contract requirements, road development costs, methods of payment, timing of sales, and basic differences in scaled vs. Worthy Passport Rejection Seen Washington (U.P.) The State Department is expected to turn down the request of William Worthy, Baltimore newsman who travelled to Red China, for a renewal of his passport has been learned. Informants also said the State Department already has turned down another application by Philip Potter, Far Eastern corre spondent for the Baltimore Sun, for permission to travel to Red China. Worthy, a reporter for the Baltimore Afro American, was one of the three Americans who defied a State Department ban against going to Communist China. The others were Edmund Stevens and Phillip Harrington of Look magazine. Upon his return from Red China Worthy refused to give up his passport as requested by the State Department. About 10 days ago he sent the passport to the department and formally applied for a renewal. The pass por expired Monday. Officially, the State Depart ment says it has not made a final decision on Worthy's ap plication. But moves being made definitely point to a rejection. o o Tjx!-- I Coding Deliven, ' I T"' "d''" I ll jjWL- . Z. l ""Tax9i) ,dd,"'no(. 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ROAOMASrEil See Your.Autliorlzed Buick Sealer 1 trys miff . PCl mm eea en' lump sum sales methods used. . Fred A. Seaton to determine Neuberger noted that in its 1 why BLM "twisted the objective press release on tne Uraves re port, BLM claimed that it "re futes published statements to the effect that marketing procedures for O&C timber might have cost the 18 O&C counties potential revenues." "The facts," Neuberger point ed out, "are exactly the oppo site. Here is what Prof. Graves' study actually said: 'These fig ures means that in the absence of reasonably good competition on sales of BLM timber both the taxpayers at large and especial ly those within the local counties have lost substantial potential income from the harvest of their timber resources. . . . By re stricting competition below even three bidders per BLM sale, the marketing areas may have been responsible for the O&C coun ties losing about S1.5 million per year in direct revenue which would have been used locally to offset real estate tax levies on the local citizens.' " Neuberger, who is a member of the Senate Interior Commit tee, called on Interior Secretary report of an independent foresty consultant into an attack on oth er federal forest management agencies and attempted to cover up revenue losses from the O&C forests in Oregon." "This is further evidence of the need for reviving committee hearings on federal timber sales policies," Neuberger said. fnsuronce Firm Joins Polio Vaccine Campaign In cooperation with a pro gram by the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis to have everyone under age 40 in oculated against polio, the Equi table Life Assurance Society of America has announced such a plan for its agents. According to Jerry Gastineau, district agent for the company here, Equitable has expanded a group insurance program cover ing its managers and agents and their dependents to pay costs of receiving the vaccine. The company announcement strongly urged those eligible to take advantage of the offer in an effort to eradicate polio. Portland kU.P.) L. G. Nich ols. 75, president of Multnomah College in Portland at the time that it was known as the Ore gon Institute of Technology, has died in Cincinnati. Conciliation Service Enters Plumber Tiff Corvallis U.R) The ' Federal Conciliation Service has entered a dispute which has idled some 100 union plumbers in 27 shops in eight western Oregon towns since late last week. E. L. Forsyth, a management spokesman, said today that the work stoppage still continued but declined to reveal the stage of negotiations. He said that it had been agreed by union and management that no more state ments would be made by either side except through the federal conciliator. When the dispute is settled, he said, it will be announced, prob ably in a joint statement by both sides. Affected are union plumbers in Corvallis, Salem, McMinn ville, Dallas, Albany, Lebanon, Newport and Toledo. Nixon Arranges Visit With Dr. Schweitzer Washington (U.R) Vice Presi- j dent Richard M. Nixon has ar ranged a brief visit with Dr. Albert Schweitzer at the Nobel peace prize winner's hospital in Lambarcne, French Equatorial Africa. Addition of the Schweitzer visit to his African schedule forced Nixon to cut his stop at Entebee, Uganda, from 26 to five hours. Washington U.R) Presi- i dent Eisenhower has endorsed 'l the idea of modernizing the i White House to provide badly I needed additional office space. OPE You Are Cordially Invited to Attend R HOUSE at Our New Location 1105 COURT ST. 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