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Guardsmen Remark that Pressure Not As Strong at Camp in 1957 By PFC. ELLIOTT CARLSON Mail Tribune Staff Writer "Back in the old Army rank came hard. Not like now. A pri vate first class was in charge of a platoon that a master sergeant now leads. There was just one master sergeant in the entire company. Things have changed." On the troop train to Ft. Lewis, Wash., where the two-week Na tional Guard summer camp was scheduled, Medford Guardsmen heard Sam Bailey, one of four master sergeants in Headquar ters company and a World War II veteran, tell what the ,-old Army" was like. Once arrived, about 17 hours after boarding the Southern Pa cific pullman, the military phil osophizing and r e m e m b ering long goodbyes at Medford's new NG armory came to an end. Un loading of the train at Ft. Lewis took about twice as long as it did last Saturday, when Guards men returned. Orientation Ceremonies Sunday Guard units, including Headquarters company and Com pany A, 1st battalion, 186th in fantry regiment, of the 41st "Sun et division, attended Guard camp orientation ceremonies con ducted by Col. Robert L. Irving regimental commander. Here they were told by a regular Army chaplain their presence at the camp was tantamount to "serving notice on certain coun tries In the world that America's youth had not forgotten patriot ism Early Monday morning the first training started at Ft. Lewis. The weather was unusually sum mery for the '"base-by-the-bay,' ordinarily disturbed by wind and rain. Many contrasts can be made between the camp just completed and last year's. Guardsmen re marked there was not the usual pressure. Though there were al ways last minute changes, regu lations were not changed on how clothes should hang on the racks on how bunks should be situated formations were not called "every five minutes" whenever the first sergeant. Bob Messer, wanted to make a statement. Troops were not asked to recite the general orders or chain of command. Prepare for Inspection Guardsmen prepared for an inspection each day but they were inspected only a few times. There was not the usual empha sis on the military cliche, "Stand ard Operating Procedure," which normally guides the actions of the soldier. Among other changes was the absence of the booming voice of MSgt. Darold Garman, whose "OK! Now fall out of those sacks you men! Chop! Chop!" had be come an institution. This year younger non-commissioned offi cers were given an opportunity to develop leadership potential by being in charge of certain tents. Reville was at 6 a.m., breakfast at 6:30 a.m. and the work day began about 7 a.m. and ended about 4:30 p.m. During the first week classes were held for individual sections. The pioneer and ammunitions platoon practiced making and detonating TNT charges. The radio, wire and message sections had "on-the-job" training and the intelligence section attended lectures on map reading and later followed compass courses over unfamiliar and rugged terrain. The one day discipline and ap pearance was especially empha sized was Saturday, June 22, during the Governor's Day pa rade, when the top brass re viewed the troops. The Guards men wore white shoe laces, blue scarfs and shiny helmet liners for the occasion. All morning they prepared for the afternoon pa rade. Second Week The second week was intended to be a period where tactical com bat training reviewed in the classroom the first week would be put to practical application in the field. The week was high lighted by a one-night, two-day bivouac, held in a wooded area about 14 miles from the tent city. One of the most constructive phases of the "active duty" pe riod was held for the troops during the afternoon. A class, conducted by Maj. George Ben nett, explained the importance of the individual soldier in combat situation. Here, members of the battalion office staff and intelligence section personnel il lustrated how small flares of light, such as a cigarette, could give away the position of a soldier and thus a platoon or company. Another phase of the class demonstrated how voices and other sounds become magnified at night and can reveal troop movements. Field firing at va rious ranges pointed out how sounds could be diffused and one type of weapon mistaken for another. Purpose of a bivouac, accord ing to Capt. S. J. Fagone, Head quarters company commander, is to reassemble a realistic combat situation where the enemy may be near. This year, however, a more relaxed program was main tained and there was not the usual blackout of voices, radios and lights. Nevertheless, at night recruits were stationed at various posts along a hypothetical "front line" where they were ordered to chal lenge anyone attempting to pene trate that line. Rain During Bivouac It was also during the bivouac when it rained. Because of the previous sunny days few Guards men, including the officers, erect ed tents. In the morning after the down pour Lieut. Levi Monroe, rolled over and told a drenched pri vate, "A guy has to be crazy to like living this way." All other days, and perhaps even on the bivouac. Guardsmen generally agreed Headquarters company cooks had made excel lent meals, in both quantity and quality. Missed by troops this year was the usual program held late in the second-week where they are addressed by the battalion com mander, Lt. Col. Donald H. Burke. In previous years the pro gram helped to make meaning ful the training period and ex plain to troops the necessity of discipline. Last year it was ex plained by Capt. Tom Engles as the "subordination of the will of every man in it for the good of the company to which he is attached." Burke was unable to resched ule the program this year be cause of an engagement he had with Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Wei- gand, retiring assistant division commander, Oregon. Thursday a parade was held in his honor by Oregon Guard units. Recreation Period Earlier' Thursday a recreation period was held where Company A of Medford won the softball title of the 186th infantry regi ment and took third place in competition for the division title. Company commanders of. an first battalion units including Fagone and Capt. Bert Riebe Company A commander, said troop morale in their respective units had reached a new peak this year. Morale and spirit of the troops was made clear to observers at the armory last Saturday, who watched Headquarters company march from the train to the armory singing to a traditional army melody, "Straighten your hats and straighten your tie, Headquarters company is passing by." Langley Files Five Motions on Indictments Portland W Former District Attorney William Langley Tues day moved to attack grand jury indictments against him by fil ing five motions here with te Multnomah county clerk. If granted, the motions would serve to remove the charges against him. Langley was re moved from office after a neglect of duty conviction. Wednesday. July 3, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUTTZ FIVE On The Side By E. V. Durling (Distributed by King Features Sysdicata, Inc.) Police Hope Wyoming Tragedy Will Serve As Holiday Warning Rock Springs, Wyo. W Police bared the grisly details today of the death of eight per sons in Wyoming's worst acci dent in hope that motorists who read this will be careful on the nation's . highways during the Fourth of July week end. Monday night's accident occur red exactly 1.3 miles west of Rock Springs at a point on U.S. Highway 30 where there is room for six automobiles to travel abreast. -The.two automobiles col lided head-on. Newlyweds Killed Five soldiers from Fort Lewis, Wash., were killed and another was badly injured. A newly-married couple from Green River. Wyo., and another woman died in the other car. A woman in that car was also injured. Highway Patrolman H. N. Lankford said the convertible carrying the soldiers was head ing east and the other car was traveling west when they collid ed on the shoulder outside the westbound lane. "They were both moving at a terrific rate of speed," Lank- to open your favingi account with us... -AND THERE'S NO BETTER TIME THAN RIGHT NOW I OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US TODAY Investments Made by the 10th of the Month Receive Dividends as of the 1st Current Dividend 3Vi o ' Per Annum FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Association of Medford 29 North Ivy Street R. F. Kyle, President ford said. He said the speed ometer on the soldiers' car was stuck at 78. Patrol Sgt. A. D. Reese said: "The five soldiers who were killed were thrown into a heap about 30 feet from the car . . . stacked on top of the seat of their convertible. The impact must have been terrific." Two 15-year-old Rock Springs girls saw the accident. They said the soldiers attempted to pass their car and crashed into the one carrying the Green River people. "The car was right alongside and then suddenly they seemed to explode," the girls told pa trolmen. "We saw bodies flying all over." The patrolmen refused to iden tify the girls, saying they "are still very emotionally upset from what they saw." Lankford said the accident ap parently happened when the "soldiers' car and the Green River car saw each other and both headed for the shoulder of the road to avoid a crash and turned right into each other." Temporary Track Bypasses Wreck On S. P. Main Line San Miguel, Calif. (IP) Re pair crews built a temporary track today to bypass a section of the Southern Pacific main line torn up by a spectacular wreck between a freight train and a mobile crane. Four men were hurt in the accident, which took place about 1 p.m. Tuesday at a crossing in front of historic Mission San Miguel. The scene was slightly north of the halfway mark be tween San Francisco and Los Angeles. The crash touched off a fire that consumed the two locomo tives and 200 yards of ties. It also burned into several gon dola cars and part of a nearby cafe. Fourteen cars loaded with su gar beets were derailed. One of them hurtled into Roy's Truck Stop cafe. The owner, who was sleeping in the rear of the buil ding, narrowly escaped death as the flaming car crashed into his room. Transient Killed It was the second train ac cident in California Tuesday. A transient riding the rods was killed when 14 cars of a 90-J car Western Pacific freight train were derailed in Feather river canyon. The dead man was identified as Marcus Lee Rog ers, 50, Stockton, Calif. Injured in the SP wreck were George F. Cain, 51, Paso Robles, operator of the crane, in serious condition; Colson B. Stapp, 57, San Luis Obispo, an SP section hand, in fair conditioa with burns; and Paul C. Jones, oper ator of the restaurant, treated for shock. The accident happened when a truck driven by Millard Sousa towed the crane across the tracks. The northbound train, with two locomotives and 54 cars, struck the crane with ter rific force. Sousa was pinned under the wreckage, but man aged to escape unharmed. Kilo Plane Crash Claims Two Lives Hilo, Hawaii 1P Two men were killed Tuesday when their Army L19 observation plane crashed in the mountains near Mauna Kea volcano. i One of the victims was Capt. Pl V Pointer Jr.. 31. the pilot. He was the father of six chil dren. He made his home in Bremerton, Wash., and formerly lived in San Diego. The Army withheld the name of the other victim, a passenger in the plane. He was pulled from the burning wreckage and was rushed to Hilo Memorial hos pital, but was dead on arrival there. An Army spokesman said the single - engined plane stalled shortly after taking off. It nosed over and plunged 200 feet into a bed of lava rock. Both victims were attached to 2oth Division at Scholield Barracks. YOUTH DROWNS Florence Of) Charles R. Massengale, 14, Springfield, drowned while swimming in the Siuslaw river Tuesday. The body was recovered. Watermelons Used To Control Flames Taipeh, Formosa TO Civic officials praised Taipeh firemen today for quick thinking. Hampered by a water short age at a warehouse fire, the re sourceful fire fighters thiew hundreds of nearby watermelons into the flames to bring the fire under control. God and thth Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike re quited God is forgotten and the Doctor sngnted. John Owen Can your vife stand on her head? If so, for how long? How about you? Experts on appear ance improvement maintain that standing on the head is one of the most effective of all beauty exercises. That it brings the blood to the head, stirs the cir culation and aids in the achieve ment of a permanent schoolgirl complexion. Now, sir, why should you stand on your head? You don't want to be beautiful Well, it is claimed that so doing stimulates thought. That when a man in a creative activity can not think of any new ideas it will help if he goes to the corner and stands on his head. I have known several fellows who did this and they were men who gave birth to many brilliant ideas. Of course, I can use ideas in my business. Especially when assigned to do seven columns a week. I tried standing on my head once and nearly broke my neck. However, I may try again. A little thought stimulation might not only aid me in my regular activity but might im prove my handicapping. I had three losing tickets at Mon mouth Park in one week. Asking Queries from clients. Q. You say Mel Ott. who made his bow with the New York Giants when 16 years old, was the youngest player to ever appear in a major league game. Joe Nuxhall played with the Cin cinnati Reds when he was 15. A. You're right. But Joe only played part of one game at that age. Ott played 35 games and had a batting average of .383. Nevertheless, you win the stogie. Name your brand. Do you pre fer Pittsburgh, West Virginia or Connecticut stogies? Q. What was the name of the play in v.'hich John Barrymore did a song and dance? A. It was titled A Stubborn Cinderella." That was the only musical show Ear- rymore ever appeared in. He was 27 years old at the time. Daughters Daughters are. of course, more expensive to rear than sons. However, some fathers are now petting a break in the matter of the cost of rearing a female. Some daughters, who are work ing girls, are paying most of the expenses of their weddings. It is said the working girl bride contributes an average of SI. 000 to her wedding expenses. She willingly pays this to have an outstanding wedding. Her con tribution takes care of the re ception, photos, flowers and linens. Horses And Women A Brooklynite says his wife's measurements are 38-26-36. Her height is five feet, six, her weight 133 pounds. "How does she shape for a Mrs. America candi date?" he asks. The lady ap pears a likely candidate insofar as measurements are concerned. To be well streamlined a wom an's waistline measurement should be from nine to eleven inches less than that of the bust. The hip measurement should not be two inches more than the bust. As for weight, that de pends on figure frame which is classed as slight, medium or large. For a woman five feet. six in height this ranges from 132 pounds to 140 pounds. Or, so claim the experts on "Mrs. America" material. Suggestion Brooklyn has only one muni cipal golf course for its nearly three million inhabitants. In habitants. Instead of using the taxpayers money to build a ball park for the Dodgers, it should be used to construct a couple of public golf courses. Incidentally, these golf courses should be so constructed as to be practical for day and night golf. Passing By Noel Coward, actor, playwright and night spot entertainer. Now a resident of Bermuda. By es tablishing - such residence Cow ard avoids paying United King dom income tax. What this tax could amount to is shown by the fact that Coward was- paid S28.000 a week for a Las Vegas night club appearance. Besides. he is still writing plays. Al though a Bermuda resident, Coward could stay in London for a period up to six months and still not have to pay United Kingdom income tax. Asides Baltimorean suggests the term "housewife" be replaced by "home executive." I cannot go along with that suggestion. "Home executive" sounds too affected . . . Discussing "occupa tional surnames" such as Car penter. Baker. Painter, I com merited I had never heard of anybody named Plumber. Am informed there was a resident of Brooklyn, Ind., named Asbury Plumber. WHY, HELLO THERE' Dutton, Mich. 1W Mrs. Morris Handloten caught a man climbing through her kitchen window. He said he came to fix her husband's car. The stranger left after stammering through his explanation and wiping his fingerprints from surfaces he touched. Kent county sheriff's officers are searching. 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