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Medford Tribune Pages 1 to 6 MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1958 No. 139 Legion Not Ready To Trade Present (Defense Force for Push Sutton Type (Th. American Legion hat a lot of important business to attend to at its 40th national eonventon, which opened in Chicago Mondav. In the following dispatch, written for United Press International. Le gion Commander John S. Gleason Jr, tells what vital matters will be discussed and what action is likely to be taken.) By JOHN S. GLEASON JR. American Legion National Commander (Written for United Press International) Chicago - (LTD - Legionnaire veterans of three "convention al" wars recognize the de structive power and satellite speed of the thermonuclear missile age. But they aren't ready to trade in America's present de fense force for a push-button model not yet. Legionnaires will launch repeated demands from the platform at their 40th nation al convention opening here Monday (Sept. 1) for exten sion of Selective Service, maintenance of a strong and unified armed force, strength ening of the National Guard and organized reserve and ' A INFERNO-Smoke and flame boil skyward after gaso line tank truck and an unloaded flat bed truck collided in Schellville, Calif., killing both drivers. It took firemen three hours to extinguish the blaze. Hay Barn Fire Now Under Control A fire in , a barn full of hay a mile south of the Klam ath junction on old Highway 99 was controlled. Saturday night by the state department of forestry. Three crews were sent to the fire which was reported at 3:30 p.m., a - spokesman said. Three pumpers were working to bring the fire un der control Saturday afternoon. The only Gaelic college in the Western Hemisphere is in St. Ann's, Nova Scotia. improvement of civil defense. There will be strong con vention support also for ac celeration and expansion of research and development in push-button warfare, particu larly in missiles and rockets. The 3,055 delegates to the convention will consider about 700 resolutions passed on by state Legion conven tions and other subordinate groups. I am confident that those which are approved will chart a course which all Americans might well follow. The convention certainly will take cognizance of the current crisis in the Middle East and the course we should follow in the future. Approves Action As national commander, I expressed approval and sup port of President Eisenhow er's forthright action in send ing American troops to Leba non. This was an emergency situation calling for complete national unity. I also confidently antici pate that the convention will continue the American Le gion's 39-year fight against Communism and that we will again voice solid opposition to U.S. recognition of Red China or its admission to the United Nations. Even though Red China may have become strong enough to upset Russian boss Khrushchev's plans for a sum mit cpnference, it is still a gangster nation and will be so branded by the American Legion until it throws off the yoke of Communism. As a long-time proponent of practical unity in the defense establishment, the American Legion gave its full support to the President's proposals for reorganization of the De partment of Defense. How ever, we recognize that unity is not created by law, and we can expect further sup port from our convention for a Defense Department ade quately organized to meet its life-or-death missions. Objected to Cuts .During' the "past year, Ifhe Legion objected most vigor ously to proposed cuts in the strength of the Army Reserve and the National Guard. Al though we found ready sup port for this position from Congress, we still read that the proposed reduction in re- ! Thanks to ' jMM. njT " SanitonelK n. Dry Cleaning! Mlifc ( I The Refresher ' ( J Course for vS I litrJfj fTi "Professional Care If 3ggfr for Wh .d We,," few 601 E. Main St. Free Parking Rio.hr at the Door Ph. SP 2-9169 serve components is still very much alive. Only the delegates by their majority vote may set Legion policies for the coming year, but I feel safe in predicting that from the convention will come a very strong statement favoring an adequate Nation al Guard and organized re serve. Another major issue before the convention is veterans' rehabilitation, and recent hearings "before the . House Veterans Affair Committee will undobtedly focus the- at tention of Legionnaires on the Veterans Administration hos pital program. The American Legion has long maintained that the Budget Bureau has autocrati cally delayed construction of needed hospital facilities vot ed by Congress, that it has by its own regulations cut back the number of beds available, and has denied lati tude in the use of these beds by sick and disabled veterans. We can expect vigorous support from the convention for the VA hospital program, with adequate financing, and a return to VA medical per sonnel of the authority to make medical decisions. At this point we are not sure how much of an .issue will be developed relating' to pensions for World War I vet erans based upon age alone. The American Legion has in the past opposed general pen sions, although we have main tained that in the rise in the cost of living and the advanc ing age of World War I vet erans more than justify some liberalization in the present pension program for eligible World War I veterans. , On the other hand, I think we can anticipate a renewal of our recommendation that the same benefits be extended to widows and orphans of World War II and Korean vet erans as were previously ex tended the survivors of World War I servicemen. Young Publisher ' Seeks Expansion Cleveland-OIPB - Publisher Allen Meyers, 12, has launch ed a campaign to boost the circulation of his Myers Monthly News to suburban Parma. The paper now reach es 12 families-all relatives. Allen, a seventh-grader in the Parama Schaaf Junior Hight School, started his pub lishing career after he re ceived a small rotary printing press for Christmas two years ago. The young publisher, who also is the paper's reporter, printer, proofreader and edi tor, believes that "ideas make a good newspaper." His recent ideas on how to increase circulation include a contest to name the paper, requests for written answers to questions such . as "What can we do to improve , the paper?," and poetry written by the publisher. The monthly, which sells for 25 cents a year, also in cludes features on literature, music, sports, radio and tele vision. All advertisements sell for a flat rate of 10 cents. Allen now has a newer and larger press and is flirting with the idea of a two-color paper to stimulate circulatin. Clawing Cai May Have Deficiency Burlington, Vt.-ttJPD-Bfrkind to your cat when it howls at the moon from the backyard fence or claws the living room furniture. It may have vita min E deficiency. ' This soothing advice come from Dr. James Wadsworth, animal pathologist at the Uni versity , of Vermont's exten sion service here. "Most folks," he said, "don't understand cats. Cats have many health problems." He cited vitamin E defici ency, anemia, internal para sites, skin troubles, ear mange, fleas, and fatal distemper as examples. "The behavior of a cat and dog differs as much as -night from day," he said. "Dogs are obedient and can be easily trained. On the other hand, cats will not obey orders or perform tricks to please their masters. "A cat," he continued, "looks out only for itself. You must take advantage of the cat's selfish desires in order to train it." 3a cDowell iminutive Styled and cjesigned for The Debs! Sold only at Parker Woods' Leon's it W )h DOGGING ,IN SPACE, the Russian radio reported rocketing two dogs 280 miles above H ine earcn, saieiy Dnnging mem DacK. in a previous test, "Modnitza," (arrow) stands beside a rocket in which she took a Russian fired flight. The container took Modnitza 212 kilometers, earlier reports from Soviets said. London received Moscow story. Hotel Keys Get Wide Circulation Chicago-IUPD-Old hotel keys don't fade away. They come back from all points of the globe. Chicago's La Salle Ho tel recently got back a room key along with its complex history from T. E. Almdale. Almdale mailed the key from his hometown-Spenard, Alas ka. Almdale explained that he had been in Anchorage visit ing friends whose baby was playing with a cigar box full of keys. One of them was the La Salle key. The Anchorage friends told im, Almdale said, that a man had found the key at Point Barrow, Alaska's northern most point. They said they had meant to return it but never got around to it. But the s La Salle-usually eager to get back keys-didn't care about this one. The lock it fitted had not been in use for 20 years. "That's hotel life," said Manager Marion Odmark. "All keyed up." There are 40 mountain peaks . in the Great Smoky mountains more than one mile high. Sixteen peaks ex ceed 6,000 feet in elevation. The giraffe, tallest of all mammals, is a native of North Africa. Official Challenges Liberal Education Chicago -4DPD- The president , of the Illinois Institute of Technology says a liberal arts education must include "an understanding of science and technology" to be truly liberal today. John T. Rattaliata chal lenged the adequacy of lib eral education under prevail ing technological conditions in a report to IIT trustees. "Modern liberal education can exclude science no long er," Rettaliata said. "In the past most of science's research efforts were of a pure or fundamental nature, primar ily of interest to the labora tory or classroom, but today the situation has changed to the extent that practically all research is of.- the applied type, which means it has a current effect on society." He said that the liberal arts student should unaer- stand science as the engineer must have more understand ing of social problems. "If it is important for the The Peace river in north ern British Columbia and Al berta is believed to have been reached by Peter Pond be tween 1779 and 1781. Porcupine, mining town in northern Ontario, began with the discovery of gold in the area in 1909. engineer to understand eco nomics, and the implications of history and the arts," he said, "certainly it is equally important that students pur suing a liberal education un derstand some of the prob lems and results of science and technology and the facts of the nation's industrial growth." High Tribule Paid To Smoky Bear : Washington -fflPD- Under- secretary of Agriculture True D. Morse recently paid high tribute to Smoky Bear, tha star performer In a federal state forest fire prevention program. "With his ranger's hat and shovel and dungarees," Morse said, "Smoky has become the nation's most effective fire prevention symbol." ; School children from Maine to California, he said, have come to be Smoky's staunch est advocates. The real Smoky Bear has been living in the National Zoological Park here for the last seven years. He arrived from New Mexico where a game warden found him as a cub clinging with burned paws to a charred tree. Morse said Smoky since hai become an international sym bol of forest fire prevention. Canada and Mexico use Smoky in their campaigns against fires and his story has been translated into several Euro pean languages. A total of 49 Norwegian sealing ships went on the seal hunt northeast of Greenland early in 1958. , Burma provides rubies, sap phires and jade of the finest quality. Edmund E. Hass Vice-President Ecific Northwest Compani 4 rnvuimmt04t rlpv 1 Swce 113 SUITE 303, FLUHRER BLDO. PHONE SP 3-7319 5 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE ) Consult With Mr. Hass on Investment and Retirement Programs Using the Securities of . . . Utilities Bank Insurance Industrial Investment ' Company Shares. 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