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INDICTED FOR BOMBING Jewish Temple in Atlanta, four of these five men must face
charges. Held in the Fulton County, Ga., jail are (left to right) George Bright, Wallace
H. Allen, Luther King Corley (who was freed on a writ of habeas corpus), Kenneth
Chester Griffin and Robert A. Bowling. Richard Bowling is sought as member of gang.
Hard Core of Facilities
Girls for Women's Army Corps
Editor' note: Remember the
TVAC, the firl In the "Hobby hat"
who joined the army in a patriotic
fervor daring World War II? She
has now become a professional
oldler, trained in almost every
military ikiil jhort of actual com
bat. This first of two dispatches on
the program and problems of the
Women's Armv Corps tells how
WACs are turned out at Mt. Me
Clellan, Ala.
" By WILLIAM TUCKER
' . UPI Correspondent
,! Ft. McClellan, Ala. - fUPD -Sixteen
years have passed
since American women went
to war with a swirl of their
page-boy bobs and a faint
flush of hysteria. In that time,
the Army has developed a
hard core of facilities to train
the girls behind the gunners
for the next emergency.
" The Women's Army Corps
does not pack a numerical
punch. Limited by law to be
tween 9,000 and 10,000 in
'peacetime two per cent of
the standing army it is not
quite filling even that quota.
; But here in a rolling valley
surrounded by forested hills,
.the WACs have at last found
;a permanent training estab
lishment. They have a rough
nd ready training routine to
match what you'd find in any
man's army camp.
But because tbe WAC
draws its strength entirely
from volunteers and wom
en at that special induce
ments are built into the pro
gram to keep enlistments up.
Secondary Enlistment
A high school graduate can
get a sound secondary educa
tion at the WAC training cen
ter here. Every basic trainee
gets more than $200 worth
of clothes. Not just uniforms
but fitted garments with an
eye to fashion as well as a
military cut. The girls get a
$43 allowance to pick out
their own dress shoes and
underthings.
One of the hottest topics
of discussion here is where
the hemline will fall in the
next directive from the penta
gon. The WACs keep in style
but for parade purposes the
hemline must be a uniform
distance from the ground.
Officer training is available
to all who advance normally
during basic and advanced
courses. But the corps admits
frankly that every girl is a
big and costly risk over the
long haul. In the army like
everywhere else, more women
get married and have babies
than stick it out for a career.
A typical example of the
kind of girl joining up for
McLEOD
Club Members Attend Tea
By CAROLINE L. HARDING
McLeod - Mrs. Vic Chap
man held an informal tea at
her home on Crater Lake
highway near Prospect Thurs
day atfernoon, Oct. 16, honor
ing the State Lions Auxiliary
President Mrs. Vern Conway
of Portland and District Di
rector Mhs. Frank Christian
of Talent. '
: Mrs. Conway was the prin
cipal speaker and told about
the Blind school in Salem
which is a project of the Aux
iliary. " Ladies present were Mrs.
Jru .Tospnheson. Mrs. Steve
Larson, Mrs. George Hub
bard, Mrs. Wally DinKens,
Mrs. Syd Morse, Mrs. Pat
Krell, Mrs. Ralph Goode, Mrs.
Carleene Maxwell, and Mrs.
Lewis Clevenberg, all . of
Classes Available
At Medford YMCA
- Skin diving instruction is
still available for interested
persons, 'according to Herb
Partridge, youth director at
the Young Men's Christian as
sociation here.
.The class meets on Tues
days and Thursdays at 6:15
p.m.
The course includes basic
; Instruction on use of fins,
mask and snorkel. An aqua
;iung, is also available for
student use. Those students
who qualify in use of the aqua
lung will be asked to serve on
the- Jackson County Under
water Rescue Squad, Part
ridge said.
-. All classes are held in the
YMCA swimming pool. Par
ticipants do not need their
own equipment but can use
the equipment available at
the YMCA.
Firemen Seek
Flash Fire Cause
Montgomery. Ala.-OD-Fire-men
sought today to learn
the cause of a flash fire which
broke out in a private hospi
tal" Monday and burned to
death an elderly woman who
cutched her bed in fear as
flames consumed her.
fMrs. Pearl Williams, 72,
was the only fatality. Fifteen
other patients at the hospital
were led, screaming and cry
ing with fear, to safety. The
patients ranged in age from
50 to their mid-70s.
Prospect; 7rs. Harry Hard:
ing of McLeod, Mrs. Lowel
Ash and Mrs. Lee Resler of
Union Creek and the hostess,
Mrs. Vic Chapman. The Lions
Joint meeting will be an an
nual turkey dinner at Beckies
Cafe at Union Creek Wednes
day, Oct. 22 at 7:30 pjn.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gilbert
of Earl, Wis., are guests of
their daughter, Mrs. Helen
Wood.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Nelson
had a baby girl bom to them
Saturday, Oct. 10. She has
been named Helen Evelyn
and is a granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Axtell
of Folding Hills ranch.
Mrs. Carl Scott recently re
turned from California, where
she was the guest of her
brother, Frank Cartwright.
In Los Angeles she visited
her brother-in-law and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman
Scott.
Jimmey Richardson is now
visiting in Holland and on his
way to the Brussels fair. He
is the grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Richardson.
- Mrs. Richard L. Barker
and daughter, Lynda, are
visiting her husband's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Barber, on Rogue river. Mrs.
Barber is living at Gold
Beach during her husband's
absence. Lieutenant Richard
Barber is now in Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Moorehead, who have spent
the summer visiting in the
east coast, are now visiting
relatives in San Francisco.
Mrs. George Hubbard re
turned to her home in Pros
pect recently after visiting
her parents in Los Angeles.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lewis
of Sacramento, Calif., spent
a week end recently with
Mrs. Lewis' sister, Mrs. Dor
othy Tockstein, on Butte
Creek berrv farm.
Fred Kindschi has returned
after a business trip to Idaho.
Mr. and Mrs. Lennis Smith
and family have moved to
Sweet Home, Ore. Their son
Larry will stay here as he is
a senior at Eagle Point High
school.
Mr. and Mrs. Meech and
family of Rogue Elk have
bought a house trailer and
moved to Sweet Home with
their family.
WAC training here is Jeanne
Pfister, a strikingly pretty
ash blonde from Madison.
Wis.
Minimum Age
Jeanne is 18, the minimum
age for enlistment. She is a
graduate of Central High
School in Madison.
Jeanne, now about to com
plete her eight weeks of basic
training, signed up for a vari
ety of reasons.
"I come from somewhat of
a military family," she said.
"My father is a retired ma
jor, My brother is a PFC in
Turkey.
"To me, the WAC offered
opportunity for more educa
tion and travel. Then too, I
looked around for a little
when I finished high school
and found that jobs were not
too easy to get
"A number of other girls
in my platoon also joined
the army because they could
not find the jobs they wanted.
It gives us something in com
mon and we work together
better as a result."
Jeanne wants to study radio
control work, photography or
medical specialist courses
when she finishes her basic.
When her three years are up,
she intends to study psycholo
gy at the University of Wis
consin. - -
What then? Back to the
WAC for an officeer career
or will she put her learning
to work on civilian life?
"Well, I don't just know,"
she said. "After all, I might
get married."
No Time for Wedding
Only unmarried girls may
enlist in the WAC. They can
get married at any time after
enlistment (a basic trainee
has no time for a wedding)
but once they get in a family
way they are honorably dis
charged
Divorcees are eligible, pro
vided they have no depend
ent children.
Any girl with a juvenile
delinauency or other record
is automatically disqualified
but a girl with a "past" is not
ruled out if investigation
shows her to be thoroughly
rehabilitated.
All prospects are supposed
to be thoroughly screened at
the recruiting level. They
have to have references from
their home community and
each is interviewed by both
a male and a WAC officer
before taking the oath
If any poorly adjusted girls
do get into the corps, they
are usually eliminated by the
second week of training when
officers determine how they
are taking to the strict regi
men.
Iniensiv Court
In basic training, the WACs
go through an intensive 352-
hour course that Includes
military indoctrination, how
to survive in front line areas,
first aid and sanitation. A
girl soldier can never tell
when she might have to grab
a gun in an emergency, so
they have weapons familiari
zation courses, too.
The chief advanced courses
are in clerical and stenograph
ic skills to fill the vast de
mand for WACs in adminis
trative work throughout the
army complex.
Heavy emphasis is placed
on officer training, in two
categories.
Women with a college ei-
ucation, between 21 and 27,
can apply for direct commis
sions a s second lieutenants
and undergo the 20-week
WAC officer basic course.
Those between 28 and 33 with
college degrees can apply for
first lieutenant's bars. All
sign up for two years of active
duty.
Girls who are already
WACs between 21 and 28 can
attend the Officer Candidate
school at the center after
passing entrance examina
tions and interviews.
(Next: WAC Morale - And
Morals.)
(uomiiciisi
Impact of
Editor's note: Following Is the
second of three dispatches by Ray
mond Lahr, United Press Interna
tional political writer, concerning
the election year controversy over
state rignt-to-worK laws, rne dis
patch deals with how such laws
have worked in states which have
them.
g Appraisals Given on
Slight-to-WorEi Legislation
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Washington-(EPD-Labor and
industry spokesmen and some
state officials have conflicting
appraisals of the impact of
right-to-work laws in the 13
states where they are in
force.
Union leaders frequently
condemn the laws as a brake
on union growth and wage in
creases or as a threat to stable
labor-management relations.
Industry leaders and some
state officials credit them with
helping attract new industry
and with forcing union of
ficials to follow the dictate of
rank-and-file members.
In this connections, support
ers of such laws have quoted
some union leaders as saying
that too much union security
can cause union officials to be
come inattentive to the views
of their members.
Prohibit Union Shop
Right-to-work laws, an elec
tion issue in 10 states this
year, prohibit union shop and
other labor - management
agreements which require
workers to belong to unions
to hold their jobs. Voters in
these states have been bom
barded with arguments pro
and con.
In Iowa, Ed Storey, director
of the State Development
Commission, says the state's
right-to-work law often fig
ures in negotiations about the
location of new industry.
"It is brought up more often
by owners of small businesses
who feel unions tend to make
their own operating costs
somewhat higher," he said.
"They feel they can't compete
with companies who don't
have unions. The question of
right-to-work isn't too import
ant because Iowa doesn't try
to sell on the basis of cheap
labor.
"The larger companies tend
to want unions in their plants
because of the stability of op
eration."
Protects Laborers
"Most of our people like
it," says Harry Linn, head
of the Iowa Manufacturers'
Association. "I have also
heard off the record that la
borers like it. The law pro
tects them because union lead
ers have to serve them to keep
them as union members.".
But Iowa AFL-CIO Presi
dent Ray Mills says the law
"puts the unions which need
protection the most out of
business." He referred spec
ifically to unions of restaur
ant workers and retail clerks
He said average weekly wages
in Iowa were $3 below the
nationalal average.
In Indiana, Gov. Harold W,
Handley, who let the right-to-work
bill become law without
his signature last year, and
Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker
credit the law with being pri
marily responsible for 10 new
companies locating monthly in
that state.
Dallas Sells, AFL-CIO presi
dent in Indiana, says a law
governing relation should im
prove such relations but that
the righti-to-work law "ap
pears to divide rather than
unify." He says labor will be
at the door of the Indiana
legislature in January to press
for repeal.
Gordon Preble, president of
the Nebraska Federation of
Labor, says he believes the
Nebraska law "has made
strong unions stronger and
weak unions weaker, even to
the extent that some of the
weaker ones are going out of
business."
Continue To Grow
Donald E. Devries, director
of the Associated Industries
of Nebraska, says the state
has enjoyed good labor rela
tions under the law and that
unions have continued to
grow.
In one of its publications
last month, AFL-CIO listed
Nebraska, along with Arkans
as, Iowa and North Carolina,
as a state where it said "eco
nomic progress slowed down"
after enactment of a right-to-
work law.
In Georgia, State Labor
Commissioner Ben T. Huiet
says his offices has had no
complaints from labor or man
agement and that the Georgia
law is "functioning smoothly.'
Harold B. Body, Virginia
AFL-CIO president, says it
can be shown that Virginia
wage levels are lower because
of its right-to-work law. He
says the fight for enactment
of the law was led by "non
union shops paying low
wages."
Chris H. Whiteman, indus
trial director of the Virginia
Chamber of Commerce, says
the Virginia law has been
"among the major considera
tions" influencing companies
which have built new plants
in that state.
The AFL-CIO contends the
major factors in locating new
plants are not right-to-work
laws but availability of mar
kets, the cost and supply of
raw materials and the supply
of labor with necessary skills.
Coercion Prevented
In Utah, the authors of the
law enacted in 1955 say it
has prevented unions from
"organizing from the top by
coercion" in 40 cases and that
it serves as continuing deter
rent against the start of any
such action.
Bakers of right-to-work
laws sometimes contend that
the laws are a weapon against
corrupt union leaders because
they allow an escape from the
union for members disgusted
with racketeering officers. To
this argument, the AFL-CIO
replies:
"The question of eliminat
ing corruption is not a ques
tion of union security but of
MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdferJ, Oregon, Tuesday, October 11, 19S8 3A
establishing necessary legisla
tion of a police nature to al
low presecution of wrong
doers." Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell, an opponent of
the laws despite the neutrality
of the Eisenhower administra
tion, recently cited a Tennes
see case developed in the Sen
ate investigation of labor rack
eteering as evidence that a
right-to-work law does not
prevent corruption.
Supporters of the laws
argue, however, that it is sig
nificant that, among the many
cases which got attention in
the Senate inquiry, the Ten
nessee case was the only one
involving unions in a state
with a right-to-work law.
Tomorrow: How labor is
faring in iti right for repeal.
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