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United States Builds Powerful Streamlined War Unit in Europe Heidelberg, Germany W The United States has virtually completed building its new army in Europe, streamlined and highly mobile for modern atomic warfare, Gen. Henry L. Hodes disclosed today. A headquarters spokesman said the atomic age army will have a "killing power potential almost beyond calculation." Drastic Revamping Since last June, quietly and without fanfare. Hodcs has car ried out the most drastic re vamping ever undergone by the 200,000-man U.S. force that guards the Iron Curtain border in Europe. Its combat spearhead is the 165,000-man U.S. 7th Army. The job consisted of the reor ganization of five "convention al" divisions into so-called "pen tomic" divisions flexible, high ly mobile units capable of oper ating independently on vast, fluid atomic battlefields. Hodes, commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe, told the United Press in an exclusive in terview at his headquarters here that conversion of the 11th Air borne, the 8th and 10th Infan try and the 2nd Armored divi sions already is completed. The 3rd Armored division will be converted in the near future. Lost No Capabilities "The result," Hodes said, "is a new army, a different army. It has lost none of its combat capa bilities . . . the infantry divisions have been pared from 17,000 to 13,700 and the airborne division from 17,000 to 11,400. "But there has been no appre ciable cut in 7th Army's overall strength, because most of the troops pulled out . . . are rrpved into supporting units to handle the new atomic weapons we now have." Hodes said the army packs an atomic punch "that defies description." Arizona Declares Asian Flu Epidemic; California Hard Hit By UNITED PRESS Arizona has become the sec ond state hit by a flu epidemic, and mounting numbers of flu cases were reported today in all sections of the nation. Arizona Health Commissioner C. G. Salsbury said late Tuesday that the flu rate in the state has "reached epidemic proportions." Elementary and high schools at Clifton, Ariz., were ordered closed due to the outbreak, and at Flagstaff, school absenteeism reached about 15 per cent. The Arizona cases, like those in most other parts of the na tion, have not definitely been identified as Asian flu. Tests are underway to determine the flu strain responsible for the out break. Utah Attendance Skids Earlier this week, Acting Di-. rector Joseph P. Kesler of the Antibiotic Sprays May Aid Leaf Spot Control Geneva, N. Y. (IP) Antibiotic sprays may prove to be an im-1 portant advance in leaf spot con-! trol on cherries in view of ex perimental evidence obtained here at Cornell University's New York State Experiment Station. I n f ormation about the new spray materials and the effective ness of other fungicides current ly used by cherry growers was reported by Dr. Michael Szkol nik, plant disease specialist at the station. Dr. Szkolnik pointed out that probably the outstanding ad vance in research on cherry leaf spot control "is the discovery. . . that certain derivatives of acti dione, an antibiotic, can control leaf spot systematically." "This means." he said, "that when some of these materials are sprayed on cherry trees, they are absorbed by the leaves and carried forward to new growth which they protect against leaf spot infection from within." Dr. Szkolnik said perfection of these materials may result in necessity for only half the five or six sprays performed in cur rent spray programs. The plant disease specialist re vealed that cherry leaf spot, when allowed to recur year after year, reduces productivity of trees because premature leaf dropping stemming from the dis ease prevents the trees from pro ducing the food reserves needed for tree growth and fruit pro-dution. Utah State Health department r?ported a flu epidemic in his state. School attendance had dropped as much as 50 per cent in parts of Utah. The U.S. Public Health serv ice in Washington urged manu facturers of Asian flu vaccine to distribute their supplies under priority recommendations from state and local officials. The first major flu outbreak was reported in the populous Chicago area with about 1.000 suburban Oak Park-River For est high school students and 480 students at Proviso High school were stricken with the ailment. At Norman, Okla., Coach Bud Wilkinson and two of his Uni verstiy of Oklahoma football players were stricken. Wilkin son was treated at home and the players were admitted to the university infirmary. An outbreak of colds and in fluenza presumably the Asian variety kept thousands of school children at home in Cali fornia. State health authorities de clined to call the outbreak an epidemic. They said that most cases have been mild. Ventura Hard Hit One of the worst outbreaks was in Ventura county, where 1,600 school children in Santa Paula. and Ventura were absent because of the flu. The disease struck 134 of 140 students at Santa Paula elemen tary school, as well as Principal Clarence Needom. In Contra Costa county, east of San Francisco, 720 of the 1,522 students at Pleasant Hill High school were absent. At Mt. Diablo High, 877 of 2,500 stu dents were out, while at Pacifica High, 180 of 600 students were at home. Santa Catalina, an exclusive girls' school in Monterey, closed when 60 of its 142 students were stricken. The flu also struck at high schools in the area, causing a 10 per cent absentee rate. Absenteeism in Santa Clara county schools reached 23 per cent from colds and influenza type ailments. Other outbreaks of flue and respiratory illnesses were re ported in San Bernardino, San Diego and Kings county. Disrespect for Law Starts With Parking Chicago (i? Disrespect for law enforcement often begins with abuse of the parking privi lege, according to Leslie J. Sor enson, a city traffic engineer. "Violation of parking regula tions is taken more lightly by the public than any other law violation on the books," Soren son told a convention of park ing meter distributors. "The breakdown of enforce ment which begins with such minor offenses as pfcrking too often leads to more serious traf fic violations which in turn cause fatal mishaps on streets and highways. The pipe organ, in approxi mately its present form, dates back to the third century before Christ. Firs! Dakota Bighorn Lamb Sighted in Herd Grassy Butte, N. D. UP) The first bighorn lamb to be born in North Dakota -in half a cen tury has been sighted in a herd of the big game animals roam ing on a 200-acre tract near here. The bighorn sheep, number ing 18 head, where imported from British Columbia last fall and turned loose in the North Dakota Badlands near the site where the last bighorn was killed after rangers at the Theodore Officials of the North Dakota Game and Fish commission spot ted the lamb this spring shortly after rangers at the Hheodore Roosevelt National Park to the south buffalo herd released in the park last year. Rangers believe two buffalo calves have been added to the herd of 29 buffalo. The terrain in which the buffalo has been wintering is so rough, however, the park officials cannot get close enough to the herd to make an accurate count. ! mi- ... ? . : . 4 j&r- 1 FORGET ANYTHING? Happy Beverly West, 14, surrounds herself with her luggage as she sails aboard the SS President Cleveland from San Francisco. She won a contest sponsored by the Propellor Club of Amer ica with her story about the U. S. Merchant Marine. Her prize was a luxury trip aboard the giant liner. " Meat Inspection Under Way in State Salem OP) Full-time meat in spection is under way this week in 10 plants in the Linn-Benton area and the Northwest coastal district, the State Agriculture Department said today. Compulsory inspection will take place in seven slaughter houses and processing plants in Linn county and one each in Benton, Lincoln and Tillamook couties. The new meat inspection pro gram already has been set up in southern Oregon and in Lane and Douglas counties. Department officials antici pate that the Salem area will be the next to be inspected. FDR PORTRAIT GIVEN Moscow (IPi Alexander Ger asimov, once Josef Stalin's favor ite artist, Tuesday, presented Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt with a portrait he painted of her late husband during the Teheran con ference in 1943. Mrs. Roosevelt said she would exhibit the pic ture at the Roosevelt Museum at Hyde Park, N. Y. Marines Go Ashore In Simulation of Atomic Bombing Thracian Peninsula, Western Turkey HP) Seven thousand U.S. Marines swarmed ashore by assault craft and helicopter to day behind a simulated atomic bombing so "clean" the troops were on the beach 30 minutes after the explosion. The landing dramatized how far the U.S. had progressed in developing atomic weapons with minimum fallout for tactical situations. The assault exercise, which did not involve live atomic fire power, was supported by a 96 ship U.S. naval task force, the mightiest seen in the Eastern Mediterranean since World War II. Three Task Groups It took place over a 30O-square-mile section of beach on Saros Bay, just seven miles from the ill-fated British landing at Gallipoli ordered by Winston Churchill in World War I. The British suffered a crushing de feat but the operation fathered modern amphibious landings. More than 4,000 Marines split into three battalion task groups and supported by 3.000 more Marines started their assault shortly after dawn, one battal ion attacking in 40 helicopters. Marine and U.S. 6th Fleet guns and planes softened up the beach in advance of today's landing with simulated atomic artillery and bombs. Beachhead Secured Just 30 minutes after the end of the pounding, the first Marine battalion stormed ashore in land ing craft to secure the beach head. Shortly afterward, like a flock of giant crows rising from a meadow, the helicopters soared from ship decks in the Aegean Sea. They hopped over the beachhead lines and dropped an other Marine battalion 18 miles inland to cut enemy communi cations. Then a third battalion, bring ing vehicles and heavier artil lery, landed on the beachhead. It drove inland to hook up with the airborne troops. Wednesday, September 25. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE CAN END HERE Iowa City, Iowa HP Ceme tery caretaker C. F. Parrott com plained about a different kind of spirits that are weighing his spirits down. Parrott said the Oakland Cemetery has become the final resting place of beer cans and whisky bottles discard ed after revelries by University of Iowa students and local businessmen. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Little Reck, Ark. Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, commander of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower, on how he plans to insure integration of Central High school: "I have ordered the troops ... to take all steps necessary to enforce compliance with this court order." United Nations, N.Y. British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd, on Soviet arms for Syria: "I hope the Soviet Union will . . . perceive the dangers in their policies of increasing tension and that some idea of what is really happening will percolate through to the Syrian people." New York AFL-CIO President George Meany, on whether he's made up his mind whether his old enemy Jimmy Hoffa would make an acceptable Teamsters Union president: "You bet your life I have'" Detroit George Romney, president of American Motors Co., on his own plan to cut the cost of new automobiles: "My suggestion starts with a reduction in present labor costs." Chicago Adlai E. Stevenson, on President Eisenhower's call ing of federal troops to restore order in Little Rock, Ark.: ". . . The President had no choice. We have suffered a national disaster and I hope the President will now mobilize the nation's conscience as he has mobilized its arms." Now See . . . Sonotone EYE GLASS HEARING AID Sonotone of Medford C. R. 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