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o $3rd Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune frul.SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 MISSILE FRIGATE The U. S. Navy's first guided-missfle frigate Is shown being launched in Quincy, Mass. The (J. S. S. Farragut, a 5000-ton vessel, was christened by Mrs. Harry D. Felt, wife of the present Vice-chief of Naval Operations. Adm. Felt will soon become Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Pacific Fleet. Eye on Construction as Leading Indicator of Economy Stressed By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York (LTD Not too many years ago, only the rich played the stock market, owned homes in Newp o r t and Miami, and ate the best food. Now every body's doing it. "When I cook two chick e n s," writes Elmer Walzer l"e i a u y 10 the TV cooking expert, "why is it tht the one I put on ice often turns sour?" "You don't let it cool off enough before you put it into the refrigerator," the TV ex pert replies. That's an ex ample of two chickens in every pot. And here is a statement by James O. Wright, vice presi dent of Ford Motor Co.: "We find that about half of the buyers -of small cars own another car." And there Unidentified Jefs Seen Oyer Syria Cairo - (UPD Damascus Radio reported two unidenti fied jet planes fler over the Syrian border from Lebanon Thursday and were fired on by Syrian antiaircraft guns. It said one of the planes crashed in flaanes. U. a. Navy planes have been flying continuous patrols along the Lebanese frontier with Syria. There was no of ficial confirmation of the Damascus report. The Damascus Radio report, monitored here, said the planes crossed the border from Lebanon and Syrian guns opened up. It said that when one of the planes veered to escape, it hit the second jet which crashed in flames. State production taxes on oil in 1957 raid 152 million dollars; on " gas, 41 million dollars. .. " Army General Staff School Has Fantastic Scholastic Record Editor's note: This is the second of two articles about the little known U.S. Army Command and General Staff college at Fort Leav enworth, Kan. In Thursday's article Jere Cox wrote that the college, which trains leaders for war, is not a place for cut-ups and hijinks but a school where its students are ma tore and are serious about their work. By JERE COX United Press International Fort Leavenworth, Kan. (UPD Maj. Gen. Lionel C. Mc Garr, commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College here, has a sign over his desk "Results rep resent leadership; alibis and excuses failure." He leads by setting an ex ample. , When McGarr took over two years ago at Fort Leaven worthy an educational - pom- Children's Department GYM SETS With Slide Regular $flf95 Regular $44.00 29! PLAY POOLS Rigid Tubular Frame 6'x6' 6x4'. 1395 Hundreds of Toy Items Wagons, Horses, Tricycles, etc. You'll Be Surprised at the Variety! 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Biggest Problem The biggest problem of this army school, which takes ex perienced officers and then teaches them to be better, is keeping up to date in this nuclear age. "We are constant ly planning five, 10 and 15 years ahead," McGarr said. ..-The. scholastic record at Leavenworth is fantastic. Only five of the more than 600 students flunked the course last year and only four xne year toetore. But we shouldn't have any failures considering the type of men we have here," x McGarr said. "But you have to figure the human angles such as sickness and family trouble." In an attempt to skirt the latter problem, Fort Leaven worth, a city in itself, has a recreation program "quite honestly designed to keep the kids out of daddy's hair." It's traditional at each graduation that wives also get a degree in PHT, "Putting Hubby Through." Suicide Attempts Gone In the 1930's the command school was a two-year course and there was a record of sui cides or attempted suicides when officers failed to quali fy for the second year. But there has been none in the memory of the recent faculty members. "The only pressure on a man is that he places him self," a staff member explains. "Our examinations are not to find out how much he knows, but to give him a chance to make a decision." McGarr said: "We teach the men to think objectively and to be military problem solvers. We have found that 50 officers may come up with 50 different ways and 48 will be successful. The 262 faculty and staff members at Fort Leavenworth come from every field. The college has a high priority on personnel and can take al most any man it wants. Dur ing the year, the faculty looks over the class for potential in structors and places a "PI" on a man's record so he can be called back later if needed. As an instructor says, there is no "average day in the life of a student." But, basically, he works a five-day, 50-hour week, six hours in the class room and four in study. Classes of 50 Men Each He attends one three-hour class in the morning and another in the afternoon. The classes are broken into 50 men each with work groups of 12 to 14 men. A high per centage of their learning comes not out of a textbook, but from what they teach each other. Great changes have come over Fort Leavenworth since Col Henry Leavenworth founded it in 1827 to protect the westward travelers on the Santa Fe and Oregon trail. The cavalry horse is gone. are some who own two big cars. Here's that old one com ing true: Two cars in every garage. Dun's Review devotes much space in its current issue to construction which it calls the "pace setter for prosperity." It quotes Nathaniel H. Rogg, economist for the National As sociation of Home Builders on the two-house family: Big Market Possible "Many families in the up per miacue income group, with increased leisure, as well as increased income, could very well be in the market for a seasonal home. "In the last decade, these seasonal homes have account ed for about 50,000 units yearly. There is good reason to suspect that with the right type of product this market can, in the next ten years, easily double in importance." The Department of Labor in its monthly Labor Review says: "A significant growth in the number of two - house families could develop, given favorable economic condi tions." Dun's Review suggests keeping an eye on construc tion as a leading indicator of the health of the economy. Here is another second that comes up today a second income. A Second, Income The most practical way for the person of average means to develop a meaningful "sec ond income," is probably through investing in good quality common stocks on a dollar-averaging basis, says A. Rhett Du Pont, senior partner of the firm. "Although there is no guar antee that common stocks will continue to increase in value," says Du Pont, "there is general agreement that over the long pull our econ omy is one of growth and ex pansion. "With this understanding, assume that you start with a common stock investment of $5,000 and that you add to it at the rate of $1,000 a year. Within ten years the fund you had built might well be producing for you an income of $100 a month or more. "Within 20 years it might produce perhaps $250 a month." t The firm notes in its study that 15 years of dollar-aver aging has been long enough to offset the most unfavorable timing encountered on the New York Stock Exchange in the last 40 years, including the depression of the 1930s. By proper selection of the stocks best suited for an in dividual investor's objectives, it is pointed out, a program can provide immediate in come, or long-range growth potentials, or whatever com bination of these may be found desirable. Slafe Employees Discuss Wage Study Grants Pass The wage differential study and a schol arship fund-raising program were discussed at a meeting of the Southwest Oregon chapter, Oregon State Em ployees association, at the Grants Pass headquarters of the state forestry department Wednesday. Letters were read from oth er fire protection agencies telling of their policies in giv ing employees time off instead of paying overtime. Answers have yet to be received from all agencies contacted. Plans were made to conduct a survey of hours worked dur ing August and September by state forestry employees in the Southwest Oregon state fire protection district. In formation gathered by the survey will be used with oth er data in presenting the wage differential proposal to the general council of the OSEA in November. Acting on a request ' from the state headquarters of OSEA, jthe chapter decided to hold an old-fashioned pie so cial sometime this fall to raise funds for scholarships for children of OSEA members: Committee reports and re freshments completed the evening's program. Two Fined for Not Putting Out Campfire Ashland Vern W. Con ley and Ray V. Conley, both of Ashland, pleaded guilty in justice court here this week to leaving an unattended campfire in the Beaver Dam area of Rogue River National forest. Justice Lee Wilmeth fined each of them $25 and costs, and told them good house keeping in the woods includ ed extinguishing the camp-fire. Iran - is believed to hold one-third of the world's pet roleum reserves as well as vast undeveloped mineral wealth. Problem Drivers Slated for Study Salem (UPD Oregon's "problem drivers" will come under the study of a graduate student in psychology this summer, Motor Vehicle De partment James F. Johnson has announced. The department has em ployed David Karmer, 26, who is working fortius doc torate at the University of Chicago, to try to learn more about why drivers act and react the way they do in traf fic. This is the first time ' the Oregon driver improvement program has had the services of a psychologist. A number of other states employ them full time. Fifty per cent of eggs In tif United States come from If states' Windshields Tell your insurance agent Selby's will instaU your wind shield while you rest in a comfortable waiting room. Cokes are on the house. Phone SP 3-3613 GLASS CO. 303 North Bartlerr SELBY North America has 60 per cent of all the world's tele phones. Europe has 30 per cent and the remaining 10 per cent serve the rest of the world. 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All problems, questions and answers now have an atomic keynote. But one thing re mains traditional - turning out superior leaders. Perhaps the greatest tribute to the U.S. Army Command and General Staff school came in World War II when virtual ly all of the senior officers of the Army were graduates of Fort Leavenworth. One of them had graduated No. 1 from the school in 1926. His name was Dwight D. Eisenhower. BUHACH Best For Insect Pests Ants, Roaches, Bedbugs or Mosquitoes around the house Fleas on cat or dog Lice on plants or birds. :?ol, BUHACH Soft lasy To Use konomkal Word M EST Food-Keeper! NO MORE DEFROSTING.. .EVER! LLLU FMGIDAIRE Frost -Proo f Tliere's never any Frost to Defrost!" Yes, you read that exactly right ends frost before frost ever forms. 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