LIONS INVADE SAN FRANCISCO Some 17,000 persons crowded Into San Fran
cisco's Cow Palace as 13,000 Lions International delegates settled down to convention
business. Here, the crowd listens to Brig. Gen. Carlos Romulo, the Philippine ambas
sador to the (J. S., call on the Soviet Union to admit foreign observers to its next nu
clear bomb tests. Over 40,000 Lions swept in San Francisco to take part in the convention.
Universe Cooperates
As Geophysical Year
Officially Begins
Washington 'V If your ra
dio acts up today or your tele
vision set in Hartford, Conn
picks up a San Diego. Calif
program, don't worry. It's just
the universe celebrating th?
birth of IGY.
It may be a headache to you
But the scientists think it's won
derful.
IGY is the abbreviation for
International Geophysical Year
which officially began at 4 p.m
(PST) Sunday.
During the year which ac
tually will run until Dec. 31,
1,858 some 10.000 scientists at
more than 2,000 stations around
the world will undertake the
greatest study of the earth and
its atmosphere ever conducted.
Creating From Ik
President Eisenhower issued a
special statement wishing IGY
scientists of all nations "God-
Nickerson Vows
To Continue Fight
For Army Missiles
Huntsville, Ala. M Col.
John C. Nickerson, stripped of
his top secret security clearances
vowed Monday he will continue
his fight for Army missiles
through "official" channels and
someday regain his status as a
rocket expert.
Nickerson, convicted of leak
ing top secret missile data, drew
a year's suspension of rank, a
$1,500 fine and a stern repri
mand in addition to losing the
right to work on Army top sec
ret developments..
However, the square-jawed
colonel said he will work to
regain top secret security clear
ance so he again can work with
Army missiles. "I'll get it back"
he said.
Claaranc Ratcindad
Although it was not generally
known during the trial, the
Army had rescinded Nickerson's
top secret clearance last Jan .1
at the start of an investigation
of leaks in classified missile in
formation. While Nickerson pleaded guil
ty to charges of revealing cer
tain classified information in
letters protesting assignment of
intermediate missiles to the Air
Force, the court martial punish
ment was considered "just for
the record." He could have re
ceived 30 years at hard labor
and dismissal from the service.
The rocket expert said he ex
pects to be sent overseas soon.
but promised that he would con
tinue his battle to keep the
Army in the field of develop
ing intermediate missiles.
"I will speak my opinion
whenever I can. But there is no
freedom of speech in the mili
tary service like there is in civ
ilian life, and there should not
be," he said.
speed and good luck" in their
18 month endeavors.
The disturbances which might
be caused in your radio and tele
vision sets results from a, huge
flare-up in the sun. The solar
eruption one of the greatest
ever set off violent electrical
storms Sunday and today in the
magnetic field stretching out
10,000 miles from the earth.
A. H. Shapley, vice chairman
of the National Academy of
Sciences, said the storms also
caused a blackout of shortwave
radio communications in manv
parts of the world Sunday and
today. He said the communica
tions difficulties were easing
and should be over by Tuesday
Planes. Ships Alerted
Aircraft and ships at sea de
pend on radio navigation and
communications were alerted to
take precautionary measures, he
said.
Although Shapley regretted
the communications trouble, he
also was pleased that it came
at this time. The flareup occur
red two days ago but the effects
reached the earth Sunday.
Shapley said "The universe it
self cooperated in heralding the
beginning" of the Geophysical
Year.
The solar eruption; which is
big enough to envelop the eartn,
was first detected by Russian
scientists in Moscow and flashed
to IGY communications centers
all over the world, including
the IGY warning agency, in Virginia.
Lake Being Dragged
For Body of Man
Spokane, Wash. tPi Sheriff's
deputies resumed their search
Monday at Long Lake, 13 miles
north of here, for the body of
one of four persons who drown
ed Sunday afternoon when their
boat flipped over.
The bodies of Everett McKim
mey and his wife. Emily, about
60, of Osburn. Ida., and their
4-year-old granddaughter, Rose
mary McKimmey, were recover
ed. Deputies searched until dark
Sunday night and resumed the
search again today for the body
of Rosemary's father, Robert
McKimmey, 40, of Wallace,
Idaho.
Owner and operator of the 16
foot aluminum runabout boat,
Leo F. McKimmey, 43. Spokane,
survived and was in a Spokane
hospital this morning.
NEVER TOO OLD
New York W Margaret
Fisher and her older sister, Ann.
put up a battle Sunday when
two robbers invaded their home.
The robbers were able to sub
due the sisters and fled with
$800 in cash and jewelry. Mar
garet is 82, and her sister, 92.
Three American presidents
died on July 4. They were John
Adams, Thomas Jefferson and
James Monroe.
Is That So?
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
Maj. Gen. Walter J. Muller
who saw to it that a minimum of
one million gallons of gasoline
and oil at all times accompanied
General George Patton's mecha
nized army's sweep through
France and Germany in World
War II, told me recently: "Ar
mored divisions are good to de
liver a massive blow but, un
fortunately, specialized situa-
ations almost always arise when
mechanized wheeled equipment
cannot operate, when soldiers
must take to foot and depend
upon pack animals to get their
fighting equipment up front, of
ten through mud or snow and in
mountainous terrain."
Such specialized situations
arose on many fronts in World
War II. In Italy our army was
torcea to requisition everv
mule and donkey in sight and
hollered for more.
In the Philippines, Gen. Jon
athan M. Wainwright used both
mules and horses to stem the
Japanese advance while he made
his successful retreat down the
Bataan peninsula taking a heavy
toll of Japanese.
"And what's more, if we have
another far-flung war fought in
difficult terrain," predicted Gen.
Muller, "these same four-footed
jeeps may be called up again to
serve our fighting forces and
save lives. Particularly mules."
Although an "armored specia
list" Gen. Muller knows that
mules have proved themselves
in previous wars.
Good Company
Also, he's in good company.
Gen. George Washington was
among the first military officers
in America to experiment with
the mules and sound found that
the mule is ideal for peak pur
poses and much more rugged
than the horse In addition, it can
withstand more hardship and
work longer hours on less food,
is more sure-footed and cautious,
and when necessary will subsist
on far meaner fare.
More than 30,000 mules serv
ed with the American Expedi
tionary Force in World War I
with around 5,000 killed. In spite
of streamli ned, eight-healed
transport trucks, tanks, and
jeeps of the second world war,
almost 10,000 mules served the
U.S. overseas.
Mules have what it takes. In
today's warfare where scream
ing shells, rattling gunfire, chat
tering anti-aircraft fire, screech
ing dive bombers and thunder
ing jets terrorize horses and
drive them crazy, the imperturb
able mule keeps plugging along
with is 250-pound pack as obliv
ious of danger as he is of a
young recruit's highpitched com
mands.
Man has bred the mule a
cross between a male donkey
and a female horse whose pro
geny is almost always sterile
since prehistoric times. (A cross
between a male horse and a fe
male donkey is a hinny.)
Since Biblical times when the
early kings of Israel rode mules
into battle, they have served
man well in combat. For that
matter, they pulled chariots long
before horses were brought into
the Near East but I ask you.
July 8
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IPC Counsel Charges
'Smear Campaign'
Washington (in An Idaho
Power Co. spokesman complain
ed Monday that his firm was the
victim of an "outrageous smear
campaign" in the investigation
of fast tax write-off certificates
issued it for construction of two
Hells Canyon "dams.
R. P. Parry, company coun
sel, said Idaho Power officials
considered the "case closed"
when they cancelled their re
quest and returned the certifi
cates to the Office of Defense
Mobilization.
Parry told the House irriga
tion and reclamation subcommit
tee that because of the "smear
campaign," rejecting the rapid
amortization privileges was "the
only thing we could do."
would that look good in movies?
(Copyright. 1957, by
Eugene Burns)
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
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your many friendly letters.
Please address your letter to: Is
That So! co Medford Mail Trib
une, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif.
No Inflationary
Threat Seen in
Steel Price Hike
Washington OPi Administra
tion economists do not see a seri
ous inflationary threat in the
steel price hike though they
wish it had not occurred, it has
been learned authoritatively.
Their chief worry over the
S6-a-ton increase put into effect
today by U.S. Steel Corp. and
other producers is whether it
will, by suggesting a general
price rise, discourage consumer
buying generally. In other
words, if the public thinks prices
everywhere are going up it may
cut down on purchases of many
things.
The economists do not think
the steel rise will have this ef
fect, nor do they believe it will
have a "particularly serious"
consequence in pushing a whole
range of other prices upward.
This viewpoint was obtained
by the United Press from reli
able sources as Treasury Secre
tary George M. Humphrey went
before the Senate Finance Com
mittee for possible public ques
tioning about tlie steel hike.
Sen. Albert M. Gore (D-Tejin.)
has said he will question Hum
phrey on the steel price rise.
Prior to the announced increase
Humphrey told the committee
last week only that he hoped
the industry would consider the
long-range effects of a rise. The
secretary has been reported
slated for the chairmanship of
National Steel Corp. when he
leaves the government this
summer.
Tuesday. July J, 1957
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Real Estate Owned 4,039.13
Investments and Securities 192,000.00
Cash on Hand and in Banks 146,692.01
Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment, less depreciation 8,280.95
Total Assets '. $3,378,064.47
LIABILITIES
Members' Share Accounts $3,058,487.08
Loans in Process 75,908.91
Other Liabilities .....I ; 1,027.43
Specific Reserves ' 300.00
General Reserves $225,781.26
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