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rastsc Shakeup of Armed Forces Eleeommended by Rockefeller Fund Monday, January 6, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Pvew York (TP) A panel of noted Americans called to day for a drastic shakeup of the armed forces and expendi ture of an additional S3 bil lion annually for defenses to keep the Soviet bloc from getting the upper hand by 1960. In a 25.000-word report issued on the eve of the opening of Congress, a Rocke feller Brothers Fund panel warned the nation that "it appears the United States is rapidly losing its lead over the U.S.S.R. in the military race." 'Unless present trends are reversed, the world balance of power will shift in favor of the Soviet bloc," the report said. "If that should happen, we are not likely to be given another chance to remedy our failings." Report Took 18 Months The report, which took 30 experts 18 months to pre pare, recommended a sweep- Blemish Displayed By Movie Actress Madrid (IP) Film star Ava Gardner displayed a slight blemish on her right cheek and said reports she was "disfigured" in a recent bullfight accident were a "bunch of lies." She said she had instruct ed her lawyers to demand re traction from columnists who wrote "that sort of thing." She left Saturday for a visit to London and plans to go to Rome "about the 10th." The beautiful actress also denied reports she had need ed an operation to repair damage done to her face in Quick Action Urged On Naval Program San Francisco OPt Rear Adm. Elton W. Grenfell, commander of the Navy's Pa cific submarines, called Sun day for quick action on the Navy's proposed program for construction of subs capable of launching the Polaris mis sile from undersea. "We need the Folaris and need it soon," Grenfell told a news conference. "It will give us much more of an at tack role." Grenfell said a submarine equipped with the Polaris will be the "little brother of the task force, taking atomic warfare to the enemy." At present, Grenfell said, the Navy has only one under seacraft, the Tunny, which can fire missiles. The Tunny carries two of the Big Regu lus I missiles which have a range of 500 miles. The Polaris has a range of 1500 miles and a nuclear warhead. Car Skids on Ice; Portlander Killed Hillsboro, Ore. (IP) Fred erick L. Dethoff, Portland, was killed Sunday night when a car skidded on an icy spot on Highway 8 near Glen wood and went into a ditch. Marion H. Short, 34, Port land, was hospitalized for ob servation. Sheriff's deputies said they were not able to determine immediately which of the two men was driving. a Spanish bullfight ring and pointed to the small blemish as proof. The small dark spot on her cheek "will be gone shortly," she said. "I've consulted two of the world's best plastic surgeons and they both said it would be healed without a trace by early February." "Nothing Serious" During an interview with United Press, Miss Gardner sat on a red camel saddle in front of a dancing fire. She wore a yellow satin dress, buckled shoes of the same color, a pearl and emerald necklace and earrings and ring to match. She patted her dark, swept back hair and said: "It is a blood clot that has to be absorbed into the body. Here feel it. It's nothing se rious." What is serious she said, are the reports of "scars and disfigurement." , "That sort of thing can be very dangerous to my career. Its all a bunch of lies. It's not nice." miss traraner tucked a tipped cigarette with a gold lighter, then added: "I'm off to Rome on Jan. 10 to begin preliminary work on a new picture. We begin shooting on March first. Long before then the spot will be gone." The accident happened 10 weeks ago. Saw Two Doctors "Four days afterwards I went to London. The whole side of my face, throat and down to the chest was bruised. I bundled up and covered it with a scarf," she said, as she pantomined tie ing a scarf over her face. "I went to Sir Archibald Maclndoe, a famous plastic surgeon. He told me it was a hematoma and I couldn't ex pect anything for three months. He recommened mas sage and heat. But, he told me, it would be healed after three months. "In early December I was in New York and went to see another plastic surgeon, Dr. Marco Converse I think that's his first name who told me exactly the same thing." ing corrective program in cluding the following: 1. Elevation of the chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to principal military ad viser to the secretary of de fense and the President. 2. Reorgnaization of the chiefs of staff on a unified basis to serve only as advisers to the chairman. The various service chiefs would devote themselves primarily to re cruiting, training-and supply. 3. Reorganization of all operational military forces land, sea and air into unified commands, with high er officers serving under the title of "officers of the arm ed forces of the United States." Streamline Command 4. Streamlining of lines of command with the secretary of defense holding direct au thority over all research, de velopment and procurement. 5. An immediate increase of S3 billion a year in the de fense budget through 1965. Nelson A. Rockefeller is chairman of the private foundation which provided funds for the study, and Dr. Henry A. Kissinger of the Harvard Center for Interna tional Affairs was director of the project. Panel members included former Atomic Energy Com missioner Gordon Dean, nu clear physicist Edward Tell er, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, former Health Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby, publisher Henry R. Luce and Charles M. Spof ford, former U.S. deputy to NATO. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Forbidding as Antarctica i species of plants being identi- may be today with not one single tree, there was the time that this giant continent now covered with ice was green with pine forests and jungles of tree fern. Today the explorer may find a few lichens, mosses and grars, the former being scaly, papar-like plants that cling to rocks even on the mountains bordering the South Polar Plateau which may well be the coldest spot on earth. A temperature of 100 below zero has been recorded. To date, over a hundred kinds of lichen have been identified, more than 50 types of moss, and one or two species of coarse grass. A pitiful few as contrasted to the rich flora of the Arctic. But it was not always thus. The first clue that Antarctica was not always buried under an ice sheet in some places two miles thick was the discovery in the summer of 1892-93 of what seemed to be part of a fossil pine on nearby Seymour Island. Six teen years later, extensive seams of low-grade coal were found. And later from these seams were found fossil leaves and twigs. The bigger leaves resembled beeches in shape and venation but in size they were a little smaller than the British beech. Later the date of this coal deposit was identified as hav ing been laid down during the Carbonifereous and Per mian periods. These finds were backed up with others of a more recent period no less than 61 9 v lfc i Get more of the wonderful things you want... the Insured Savings and Loan way! The big things yoa want may not come In a box. Like a new house, a car, the children's education. And especially, peace of mind. Bat it's far easier to get them the Insured Savings and Loan way. 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Yet, the imprints of leaves and hemlock - type pine branches in its stones paint for the imaginative interpre ter a vivid picture of the rain forests which once thrived over all which is now the Antarctica mainland, forests dense with fig trees, laurel, beech, sequoia and aurucaria an evergreen which still grows in Brazil, Chile and the South Seas. Marked Seasons The tree rings in the petri fied logs indicate a climate with marked seasons of heat and cold. Quite likely forests ' may have covered all of Antarctica because petrified logs up to 18 inches through have been found close to the South Pole and identified as flourishing in a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. What animals may have trodden these jungles of Ant-artica? So far, -no remains have been found of true land ani mals, states Walter Sullivan in Quest for a Continent (McGraw-Hill, N.Y.) and he sug gests that because of the con tinent's isolation being sep arated from its nearest neigh bor, South America, by 600 miles that there may never have been four-footed crea tures there. To bear Sullivan out, New Zealand has no native land mammals. Of birds, five kinds of pre historic penguins have been discovered. One of these was a giant bird perhaps as tall as a man. Some scientists have suggested that these might have been the survivors of bird species who roamed the forests without fear , of rival or enemy and gradually became flightless. But yet, there are strong indications that Antarctica was not always isolated one of the most striking features of the petrified forests of Pal mer Peninsula is their simi larity to those still growing in New Zealand, Australia and lower South America. This would seem to indicate earl ier land connections or chains of islands. And to continue the specu Iationr either Antarctica was the starting point of these forests or the bridge for them between South America and Australia. But this we do know: low grade coal has been discov ered in every sector of the great Antarctic . mountain range, positive evidence that immense coal fields may cap the entire polar area. Copyright, 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the i Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be consid ered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. 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