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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-
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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."
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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. ,
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