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
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fied, including 13 kinds of
cone-bearing trees. Because
of the abundance of fossils
found, one peak was named
Mount Flora although it is
today a barren lump of rock.
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.
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Orofino, Idaho (IP) Two Port
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killed Saturday night six
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