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Air Force Academy Cadets To Do Without Traditions Awhile By DAVID J. OSTREICHER TJPI Correspondent Colorado Springs, Colo.-TCPD -Cadets on the lavish new campus of the Air Force Acad emy near Colorado Springs will have to do without tradi tions for a while-until they have time to build some up. They'll also have to get along without an airfield until that's built too. It's one of the things that are missing from this 18,000 acre installation that someday will be as closely associated with the Air Force in the pub lic mind as West Point is with the Army and Annapolis with the Navy. Someday, in fact, the Air Academy will even have an airfield. But it will be quite a few years. Congress refused to appropriate the 15 million dollars needed to build one in 1957 and the Air Force did not repeat its request for the funds this year. And once the appropriation "The Slightly higher . out of town un less two or more constructed at same time. DELUXE POOLS for next year's swimming. Partial pay ment this fall, balance when pool is completed in the spring. NORTHWEST SWIMMING POOL CO. 1822'2 W. Main - Medford Phone SP 3-4340 or SP 3-5664 is approved, the airfield will take two years to construct. Until then, the cadets will have to travel by bus from the academy to Lowry Air Force Base near Denver-70 miles-for their flight train ing, a total of 171 hours over four years. Since July 1, 1955, the academy has been temporarily located at Lowry. Construc tion of the permanent acade my, a 133-million-dollar proj ect, was started in 1954. It is now 85 per cent complete. Not Completed The cadet wing of 1,160 young men has moved into this 85 per cent-living quar ters, classrooms and an ad ministration building. A gymnasium, a social cen ter, a theater and a museum aren't completed yet, but should be by the middle of next year. The lack of traditions is less of a problem than is the lack of an airfield. SWIMMING POOLS low cost BEST for LESS" 15'x30' reinforced Gunite con structed ... AVa" tile ot water level white silica permanent interior fniish - - steps at shallow end - - built-in skimmer and filter. 2700 o As Cadet Lt. Col. Eugene C. Vosika, 22, a first classman (senior) and group command er of the summer training pro gram for fourth classmen (freshman), put it: "What are traditions any way?" Next June, his class will become the first to be gradu ated with bachelor of engi neering degrees and regular Air Force commissions as sec ond lieutenants. In its three years at Lowry, j the academy has broken away from many of the procedures followed by Army and Navy. Brig. Gen. Henry R. Sulli van Jr., commandant of ca dets, explained that the West Point-Annapolis custom of re quiring cadets and midship men to memorize seemingly inane definitions is out at the Air Force Academy. Instead, Air Academy fledg lings must memorize such functional Air Force terms as "thrust," "airspeed," and "trajectory" and be able to reel them off at the beck and call of upper classmen. West Point Graduate Sullivan, 43, took over as commandant Aug. 1. His last assignment was commander of a SAC bombardment wing at Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico. A graduate of West Point of 1939, he is a combat veteran of World War II who served in the China-Burma-India the ater. Be-ribboned Col. Benjamin R. Cassiday Jr., with 3,300 hours of flying time on his log, is deputy commandant of cadets. Both' officers agreed that the academy's rigorous "hon or code" is the backbone of the institution. "We have taken the best from honor codes in use at both West Point and Annapo lis and other colleges and uni versities and deleted the worst," Sullivan said. The code states: "We will not lie, cheat or steal and will not tolerate anyone among us who lies, cheats or steals." Sullivan declared: "We have placed the code entirely in the hands of the cadets. They both enforce and admin istrate it." The academy has provided fuel for a raging congression al controversy. Charges Made Charges of waste and ex travagance and sharp criti cism of the academy's archi tecture has come from con gressmen on both sides of the political aisle. One member of the House, One of the most important jobs we have at Southern Pacific is keeping our fleet of 2,000 diesel locomotives operating at peak effi ciency. Recently we equipped two locomotives for standing tests with "hot" or radioactive piston rings. Geiger tubes count the particles of metal worn off the rings. As a result, we're now getting information in 6 to 8 hours that ordinary tests could give us only after 1 to 2 years. These tests, -conducted jointly with Standard Oil Company of California, tell us the effects of different fuels, lubricants and improved engine parts on engine operation and wear. Here is another example of how S. P makes use of the latest developments in science to provide better, more dependable transportation a com plete, modern service that we'd like to have you try. The 8-state Golden Empire served by Southern Pacific is one of the fastest-growing and most productive areas in the U. S. It is our job to match this vitality with dynamic, resourceful transportation service. Southern Pacific serving the Golden Empire with TRAINS TRUCKS PIGGYBACK PIPEUNES Youth Ordered Freed in Quiz On Parent's Death New York-DPD-A children's court judge ordered Monday that eight-year-old Melvin Fean Nimer be released from custody as a material witness in the slaying of his parents. Justice Charles E. Rams- gate said the court had no power to legally detain the boy, "unless the district at torney would file a petition charging him with some de linquent act." The boy's attorney, Harris Steinberg, said he might take young Melvin to Utah, but that he would return him to New York at the request of District Attorney John M. Braisted Jr. "If at any time he wants him for a legal pur pose." No Badgering "But we will not bring him to Mr. Braisted's office if he questions and badgers him," Steinberg said.. Steinberg said he would give the district attorney an opportunity to make a formal charge against the Nimer boy, who, authorities said, admit ted, killing his parents, but later recanted and returned to his original version that the crime was committed by a masked prowler. Steinberg said he would welcome a for mal hearing at which testi mony would be taken from "sworn witness." COUNCILOR DIES Brussels (UPD Argentine Embassy councilor Abelardo Gonzales, 47, died Monday of a heart attack. Rep. Jamie . Whitten (D-Miss.) last month called the academy buildings "a shrine to the loose fiscal procedures of the Air Force." Another, Rep. Errett P. Scrivner (R-Kan.), denounced the academy as "a monument to extravagance." As for the architecture, de scribed as "timeless" by its designers - Skidmore, Owings and Merrill-one congressman has said that the academy's aluminum - spired and glass chapel either looks like "a museum of modern art or a skating rink." Rep. Whitten called it "a rectangular accordion stretch ed out on the floor." . In their own defense, the architects said the buildings are designed to blend in with the spectacular beauty of the Rocky Mountain foothills in the distance. The atom tests fuels for S. P. Is That So? Like their cousins of the mainland, saltwater raccoons are gradually staging a come back after the trying days of the coonskin coat craze of the 1920s. In case you haven't heard of the saltwater raccoons, they are the ones that live on the low mangrove-ringed is lands from Yucatan, in Mexi co, around through the Flori da Keys to the Bahamas. They are considerably smal ler than those of the conti nent, and the reason isn't due to lack of food. There is plen ty of it. These diminutive rac coons subsist on fish, crabs, mollusks and an occasional rodent which also likes sea food. They also get a fair amount of vegetable - matter among the mangroves, and at certain seasons fruit is avail able on their islands. Fresh water, however, is very much of a problem, and though the raccoons don't seem to mind its scarcity, that is quite possibly the 'reason for their smaller size. In most cases, the only water availa ble is from rain. Support for this as the rea son is found in the raccoons of the islands of the Tres Ma rias, a Mexican penal colony 100 miles out in the Pacific. They have plenty of fresh wa ter, are high and well wood ed, and their raccoons are just about the same size as those of Mexico. No Natural Enemies Thanks to the saltwater raccoon's coat being lighter and of poorer quality, he wasn't hunted very much be fore the days of ' the Stutz Bearcat era. Because of that, plus his having no natural enemies of any account, his numbers were heavy. So much so that when the de mand arose, trappers took as high as 800 pelts a season. As to how saltwater rac- Little Heart Surgery Patient Going Home Portland (UPD - Marta Van Cleave, 7, Portland, who un derwent heart surgery before newspaper and television cameras Sept. 3, was to be released from the University of Oregon Medical school hos uital Monday. The little girl's heart was stopped for nearly six min utes during the operation. She will complete her recov ery at heir home. Court Records DISTRICT COURT James T. Caldwell, no operator's license, $10. Fred S. Edwards, larceny by bailee. $30. P. R. Chamberlain, failure to leu snags, $55. T. J. Oakes, overheight. $10. Audrey Goodnough. wrong way on one way street. $7.50. Jesse Warren Johnson, no oper ator's license, $10. Jack N. Woolridge, passing with insufficient clearance, $15. Floyd C. Evernden Jr., overload, $35. Ralph W Wier, no license in Dossession. $10. Patricia A. Crofoot, failure to stop, $10. Carl W. Stone, failure to stop, $10. Walter R. Kurz. overload. $80. George B. Rutherford, failure to stop and yield right of way, $10. Chester W. Bennett, overload, $65. Dwight L. Edwards, overweight, $15. Clauncey Robert Beck, over height, $10. Judge Taft Florey, failure to stop, $10. Jack Herbert Candliss, following too close, $15. , George Cummings Holberton, fol lowing too close, $5. Jack Lee Hariris, shooting from public highway, $30. Barbara Sylvia Lane Oakes, in adequate muffler, $15. John M. Bauer, no clearance lights, $10. Charles H. Johnson, no operator's license, $10. Gay Maurice Anderson Jr., park ing in restricted zone, $5. CIRCUIT COURT Elvarence Reedy vs. Eugene Douglas Reedy, divorce complaint. Sheila Ann Hornsby vs. Lewis G. Hornsby, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE Roger Dee Beagley, Homedale, Idaho, and Eileen Rossi ter, Grants Pass. Claus Clay Charley, Little Butte Star route box 160, Eagle Point, and Nellie Aldine Culp, Fairfax, Calif. WEATHER WATCHED Washington -UPD- Drivers and owners of five giant, un limited class hydroplanes carefully watched Washing ton's drizzly weather today, anxious to run the last and deciding heat to determine the winner of the 27th Presi dent's Cup regatta. The final heat of the $30,000 cup was to have been run Sunday. But high winds and rain churned up the normally-placid Poto mac river and made it too dangerous to run the boats which go more than a 100 miles an hour. 9-9 3-6 Vlfi? We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central By OLGA BURNS coons got that way, it is high ly unlikely that they made it to all their islands by swim ming. Good as they are in the water, many of the islands are much too far off shore for that. The probability is that they were taken there by man. Raccoons make excellent pets, a fact well known to the In dians. And since many of the islands on which the raccoons live have no other mammals except rats, their ancestors were probably brought there by seafaring Indians of pre Columbian times. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the 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 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft bind ing. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sor ry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. 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