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Code Names Used To Play Deadly Hide-and-Seek Game on Carrier own hillbilly band and a pool of 32 films, some new, some so old they couldn't . make the late, late, late show on American TV. But life is not a soft touch. The man say they sometimes Lave to wait an hour in the show line. Gambling and pin-up pho tos are forbidden. The ship rocks with the roar of jet launches, men are stacked five-deep in their compartments and because of the Forrestal's key role, there isn't much liberty ashore. Br LARRY COLLINS enemy plane with just one atom bomb to turn this beautiful S250 III., and his wingman, Lt. (j.g.) 4,000 men for peacetime patrol. es aboard. Five vending machin- rubber mattressed bunk with ts pump out 15,000 cups of soft his . own fluorescent reading drinks a day. light and individual air condi- Each man has a folding foam tioning control. The ship has its United Press Correspondent Aboard USS Forrestal (U FO They use code names like "Mickey Mouse" and "Donald Duck" aboard this aircraft carrier to play a deadly game of hide-and-seek with supersonic jet fighters. Even in practice the game is dangerous. The sky is big but it shrinks fast in the inky Medi terranean night for two jets hur tling toward each other at 700 miles an hour. Yet the game must be played night and day. Bomber intercep tion is the one skill these pilots sharpen and sharpen and sharp en. They must be 100 per cent right, tonight and on the night if it ever comes when they might play for real. For it would take just one John Mulchay, of Jacksonville, Fla. When a blue pinhead -"bip" showed on a radar screen deep These men consume six tons of food a day in numbers like this 840 pies for one meal, 2.000 pounds of potatoes a meal, million, 59.560-ton ship into ra dioactive scrap. Sneak 'Attack' I watched one of those games I below ecks, Pratt and Mulchay 2o.000 cups of coffee a day. of chase flown by three pilots of VF14, the Navy's sto 'ed "top hat" squadron, now dancing above the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean in F3H McDon nell Demon all-weather jets. Lt. (j.g.) Ed Feeks, New York City, was "it." He headed his Demon on an outbound vector 200 miles east, looping back to ward the ship near the island of Cyprus, trying to sneak back in for an "attack." In the suqadron ready room, Mae Wests fastened, helmets at their side and chatting in the infra-red light, sat Squadron leader John Pratt, of Vhitehall, scrambled for their planes. Twin Pilots and deckside officers ride to work from below decks steam catapults threw them in to the sky at 160 miles an hour. "Roger Mickey Mouse 13," Mulchay said to Pratt. "Eye hold you pigeons three two zero 50 miles to Donald Duck on my gadget." Splash One Demon It was seven minutes from the sighting of the "enemy" on the radarscope when Pratt called out in triumph," Splash one De mon." Such maneuvers are the busi ness of the Forrestal, a floating city equipped not only for the threat of action but to house on escalators. Getting around tne mues of passageways is worse than finding your way out of the Pentagon. Fortunately there are cutaway maps. . On deck standing on the bow of the ship, a crewman working on the stern is barely visible to mom you The ship's dentists turn out 30 sets of false teeth a week and fill more cavities than for a town of 10,000. More than a million cartons of cigarettes and a million candy bars a year pass YES. HERE'S THE through the three post exchang ELl 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1957 8 Pages GOLD HILL Health Unit Holds Picnic BY MRS. CLYDE KELL Gold Hill Mrs. W. S. Dick enson was host to the annual potluck picnic luncheon of the Gold Hill Health unit at noon Tuesday, May 7, at her home on the Sardine Creek rd. The hostess had arranged white clothed tables on the lawn at which 30 women and four children were seated. The event is considered by members of the unit to be one of the outstanding social affairs of the local unit each year. Twenty-five of the women at tending were members of the unit. Five women guests in cluded Mrs. Larry Tweedy, who is the executive secretary of the Jackson County Public Health association, Mrs. Bob Gray, Mrs. Nora Wait, Mrs. Mary Suther land, and Mrs. Grover T. Mul key, who became a member of the . unit during the business meeting that followed. . Mrs. E. Knapp presided at the business session. She was ' re elected president for next year. Mrs. Ted Schoeneman was elect ed vice president. Mrs. Roy Cam eron will remain secretary-treasurer. Several years ago the members voted tc have M r s. ' Cameron remain in this office as long as she wishes. Those on the nominating committee were Mrs. Melvin Burnett, Mrs. Al fred Bailey, and Mrs. Clyde Kell A report was given by the sunshine chairman, Mrs. George r3brman. Corsages were made and presented by Mrs. Dorman to Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. Cameron, and the retiring vice president, Mrs. Loyd Dusenberry, before the meeting. ' Mrs. Donald Dickenson was chosen to represent the Gold Hill Health unit at the annual state ftalth association m e e ting in ortland May 20, 21, and 22. It was announced that the Wo- Sign's Society of the Community tJethodist church will hold a cooked food sale at Gail's Mark et. Saturday. May 11. Mrs. Cameron presented the annual reDort of the various cash donations made during the vear which were to the Sparrow Memorial, Child Guidance, Teachers Party. Christmas Seals. March of Dimes, Easter -Srals. Cancer Fund, and a siz- ahiP contribution to the Com m,,n;rv Methodist church. She also named the projects of the unit during the past year, which inriurlpH mailing Child Guidance letters, Christmas Seals, and Cancer letters to nearly 500 res- iHpnrps of the community: tne rummage sale which was held in the Fehl Building on Ivy St. jn Medford; The Health unit is represented at the Rogue Basin Flood Control meetings by Mrs. Harry Quinn, or Mrs. Schoene man, who was appointed as the alternate delegate. A report of the preschool clinic for those entering Patrick school this fall was given by Mrs. D e 1 o s Walker and Mrs. Clyde Kell. They reported mail ing 32 letters to parents of the children. Twenty three children were examined by Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer, at the clinic April 24. He was as sisted by the Gold Hill school nurse. Miss Elizabeth McGal laird and Miss Vanderwalker of the health department. Ladies of the unit helping at the clinic were Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Kell and airs. Melvin Burnett. A discussion was held on the talk by Dr. Brock Chisholm at the recent Child Guidance meet ing in Medford. Those attending the meeting from local Health unit were Mrs. Paul Molloy, Mrs. Arthur Boye, Mrs. Charles Bell, Mrs. Ted Schoeneman, and Miss Elizabeth McGallaird. The next meeting of the Gold Hill Health unit will be in Sept tember. No meetings are held during the months of June, July and August. Rebekahs from Amethyst lodge, who attended the Friend ship night at Olive Rebekah Lodge in Medford, Monday, May 6, were Mrs. Paul Thompson, Mrs. Norman Gail, Mrs. Lester Thompson, Mrs. Clarence Pars ley, Mrs. Cecil Johnson, Mrs. John Novak, who lives in Med ford, and Medford, and Mrs. Hannah Routh. The next meeting will be held in the'lOOF hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 15. Miss Helen Hood of Fifth ave. Gold Hill, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Al Setness and daughter. Laurel, of Central Point to Mont eray, Calif., where they spent a recent weekend. At Fort O r d they visited the Setness's son, Divid, and Divid Byres. Mrs. Jessie Hayes is remoldel ing the home she bought recent ly on Second ave. Mrs. Hayes spent two weeks visiting in Chico, Calif, at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hayes. residents of Rogue River, where he was a dentist. Mrs. Bowlin spent the weekend of May 4 and 5 at the home of the Dickensons. Several residents of the com munity attended graveside serv ices May 7, for Glenn Eddings, who died in a hospital in Eugene last week. Masonic services were held at Eugene Monday and the graveside services at Rock Point cemetary Tuesday. He is a form er resident of Gold Hill. His home had been in Oak ridge, Ore., for a number of years, where he was an engineer until his retirement several years ago. He js survived by his wife and one brother, Floyd (Dotts) Eddings of Oakridge. They were the sons of Nort Ed dings, who drove stage coach through southern Oregon several years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Mace Freeland and J. G. Kofahl spent May 7 fishing at Willow lake. Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Molloy and sons, David and Donnie, May 5 were his sister Miss Gertrude Molloy and Miss Alena Makinen of Medford. Miss Molloy plans to leave Friday, May 10, by plane for New York, where she will spend two days before leav- Plans Completed for Junior Dairy Show Plans have been completed for an all-breeds junior dairy show to be held at Gold Hill, Satur day, May 18,- the Rogue River Jersey Cattle club has announc- i I ed. A new feature of the show this ' year will be the crowning of a Jersey queen to reign over all Jersey events in Jackson and I Josephine counties, and to rep- resent the Rogue valley as Jer sey princess at the Oregon state fair. A classification tour is planned by the club for early June. Peter B. Drouin, spoke on life on the Isle of Jersey at the club's May 3 meeting. Drouin, former-j ly of Jersey, has been a resident of Grants Pass about one year. High cow honors for the month of April went to Eagle Volunteer ' Jewel, owned by J. E. Parsons. ing for Rome, where she will at tend the International conference at Rome. Miss Molloy is a mem-. ber of the registered nurses as sociation in Medford. She will be gone about five weeks. Mrs. . Harold Elickson is in Eugene this week on business. The Elicksons operate the Elick son's Lime Distributing co. START NOW JjP Save HI (PfoK Dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Bailey Tuesday evening were Mrs. Jes sie Hayes and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baker of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Joe .Hope of Med ford are parents of a son born May 5. He weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces. The maternal grandpar ents are Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lance of First ave.N Mrs. Hope is the former Ruth Lance. The couple have another son, Lance. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Walker are remodeling the El Rogue Cafe since resuming manage ment three weeks ago. Mrs. Ruby Quakenbush and her sister, Mrs. A. A. Walker, are operating the cafe. Mrs. Mary Sutherland, Mrs. Nora Wait of Sardine creek, and Mrs. Millie Walker of Fourth st. were dinner guests on Sunday, . May 5, at the home of Mrs. Walk- i er's brother-in-law and sister, I Mr. and Mrs. Walter Yorden in, j Grants Pass. ' ' Mr. and Mrs.C. E. Fenstrom of Bushnell, Neb., left recently for their home after a month's visit at the home of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Don ald Dickenson, on Pacific High way 99, North. The Fenstroms also visited another son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Bowlin and family at Brook ings. The Bowlins were former "TU ft 1 S ' m Mom ivillUove) her very own kodak camera KODAK DuoIEDE LUXE FLASH OUTFIT Kodak's finest most complete snapshot outfit The Duaflex IV Camera has a hard-coated, focusing Kodar 17 8 lens; big, brilliant "preview" finder; double-exposure pre venter; brightness selector. 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