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MIDFORB MAIL TWBUNE, MEDFOrTB, ffWL SUNDAY, JULY 81, 1000 Local MavcaS Unit Rated Among Top do U. 1 inn 1 v ' , Wtt lniM i&jjl RECRUIT CLASS Ensign Robert Semon Is shown above instructing Navy recruits in the Navy rating and advancement system during a seaman recruit class at the Med ford Electronics division of the U.S. Naval Reserve training center in the Federal building. Being instructed are (left to right) recruits Kent Johnson, Dennis Kight and James Evanson. They are thtree of the 22 recruits in the class which is taught the basic Naval recruit training course. The Medford unit was commended last week by the 13th Naval District headquarters in Seattle as having produced the best recruit ing results of any of the 27 electronics divi sions in the district during the past five months. During this time the unit has re cruited 17 new men and added 18 returning Navy veterans to its ranks. This brings the total unit strength to seven officers and 78 men compared to the district average of five officers and 40 men. W TT aH v. Tfer FIST s 4 a PERFECT SCORE Lt. Loren L. Sawyer, unit training officer and Radioman First Class Robert Churchill are shown above looking at the first perfect score ever made on an application for enlistment at the local unit. The score was made by Robert T. Wil liams, who enlisted with the Medford unit with four other men July 25. Churchill is a reservist on active duty. He Is from Butte, Mont., and has administered the local unit for more than two years. The unit has the largest number of personnel of any elec tronics division in the 13th Naval district, which covers the Pacific Northwest and parts of Montana, but Churchill emphasizes that there is always room for more. Cause of Fire Said Controversial Jacksonville - A small fire on South Third st. here Fri day afternoon was extinguish ed by volunteer firemen and rain, but the exact cause re mains controversial, accord ing to Bette Hoskins, Mail Tribune correspondent. At the height of the thun derstorm, a large pine tree snapped in half and knocked a power line down which at the same tim-s caused a small fire in a grassy area near the edge of a forest. The heavy rain limited the fire until vol unteer firemen from Jackson ville could be summoned. Many residents say the wind caused the tree to fall on the electric power lines, while others attribute it to lightening. California - Oregon Power company officials said Satur day they received a report nboul 5:15 Friday afternoon that lightening had hit a tree and broken either a limb or the top of the tree, which then fell on a 2,400-volt power line. COPCO spokesmen also rioted that the report said a house was on fire. Trouble shooters found no house on iiro. ' Power service was reported ly out in the area for about an hour, Local electrical personnel report that power outage re sulting from the storm was little compared to the Wednes day night storm. Only scatter ed "transformer-fuse outages" were reported, mostly In Jacksonville, Central Point, Ashland, and surrounding teas, ' Former Grants Pass Mayor Dies Grants Pass-flJPD-Morris M Milbank, former mayor of Grants Pass, died at the Josephine General hospital here Saturday, as a result of a heart attack. He was 60. Milbank had entefed the hospital Wednesday after suf fering a heart attack. He was mayor of this south ern Oregon city from 1948 to 1952. Milbank, president and principal owner of the Rogue River Box Factory, Inc., also was a former president of the Oregon League of Cities. He is survived by his wid ow, Margaret, W., a son and two daughters. 4-H NEWS Westside Hayburners The Westside Hayburners 4-H Horse club held their reg ular meeting at the home of Martha Humphrey, July 26, at 10 am. The member's record books were checked by our Junior leader, Penny Sampert, and our president, Linda Smith. The different horsemanship tests were taken by the dif ferent horse club members. ' Discussed was the Desert Pegasus Horse show to be held at Dunn's at 1 o'clock this afternoon. It will be open to all 4-H horse club mem bers. The next meeting will be held at the home of Roxy Terry, Aug. 8, at 10 a.m. The club members are to bring a sack lunch. The meeting was adjourn ed and refreshments served, Bonnie Cheney, Reporter Milk Producers End Conference Ashland - William Canapa Reno, Nev., was chosen pres ident at the concluding of the Western States Milk confer ence held in Ashland Satur day. Canapa replaces Richard Westerberg of Ashland who had been president since the conferences were started five years ago. Other new officers include Andrew Anderson of Albu querque, N.M., vice president, and Merrett Nash of Seattle, Wash. One of the topics of dis cussion at the three day con ference was the use of pesti cides. The group also agreed that the trend seems to be toward a more uniform standard of operation in the different western producer organiza tions. The Oregon Milk Pro ducers code of operation seems to be the favorite meth od of unifying producers. Thirty-five delegates from 10 western states attended the conference. Big Wind Destroys School Framework Prineville - IUPD - A violent wind of cyclone intensity flat tened the completed frame work of the $443,000 Crook county Junior high school here Friday night. All but the south wall of the construction project was blown to the ground. County School Superintend ent Cecil Sly said no damage estimate could be Immediate ly given but did say that com pletion of the building would be delayed at least a month. Reserve Division Top Contender For National Award By GREG NOKES Mall Tribune Staff Writer Medford's Naval Reserve Electronics division never sees a ship or even water in the course or its regular train ing, but it Is rated as one of the top electronics divisions in the U. S. One might think that being landlocked would depress a Navy unit. And it might de press some, but not Med ford's - they are lending con tenders for both their dis trict and national perform ance trophies. An electronics unit Is con sidered to be at full strength when it has 59 reservists. Medford's unit has 85. In fact, it was the only Naval Reserve unit of any kind in the 13th Naval district to be at full strength Inst year. Consider Second Unili Because of the unit's size, consideration is being given to the formation of a second electronics unit here which would bring the local reserv ists classification up to Battalion. This month marks the 10th anniversary of the unit's es tablishment in Medford. The establishment of a second unit here would be a fitting commemoration of this anni versary. Judging from the units present size and performance, it is hard to believe that just two years ago its perform ance was rated so poor that the district headquarters in Seattle recommended an ex tensive reorganization. The reorganization was ef fected and Naval Reserve Lt. R. A. Schuchard was made commanding officer. Rises to Second Place Under Lieutenant Schu- chard's command the unit rose, in just one year to place second in district competi tion. It was bested by anoth er landlocked group in Great Falls, Mont. Radioman First Class Rob ert D. Churchill, the regular Navy man assigned to admin ister the unit, expresses com plete confidence that the unit will walk away with the dis trict competition this year and even place well toward the top in national competition. Headquarters for the local unit is in the Federal build ing on North Riverside ave. However, the Navy just re cently appropriated $60,000 for a new Medford Naval Re serve center. Radicman Churchill says that the new reserve center is evidence that the Navy re gards Medford's unit as a growing and permanent unit. He said construction should start sometime during the present fiscal year. Unit's Performance The district trophy for which Medford's unit is com peting with the 27 other elec tronic units in the northwest, Is awarded on the basis of a unit's performance in five basic categories. These are p e r s onnel, administration, training, organization and leadership and over-all per formance. If the Medford group should win district competi tion, then it will compete with other districts for the nation al title. If it qualifies for na tion competition it will be honored with a national , inspection. National inspection means that some of the top brass from Naval reserve headquar ters in Omaha, Neb., .will come to Medford to make a unit Inspection for compari son purposes with other dis trict winners. Of the 85 men in the unit, 30 are non-rated, w h i ch means seamen or seamen ap prentices, seven are officers and the rest are In between. The non-rated men are serv ing out their military obliga tion, Churchill said, and the rest are career reservists. There are seven oificcrs in the unit, five lieutenants, one lieutenant Junior grade and one ensign. Primary Jurisdiction Primary Jurisdiction of me unit is in Jackson county al though lt draws reservists from as far away as Yrena. Meetings are held two nights a week on Monday ana wea- nesday, The unit Is authorized io train four specialties for per sonnel. They are radioman, radarman, electronics techni cian and signalmant Non-rated seamen are In structed in basic naval re cruit training courses until they qualify for a rating and one of the four specialties. The rated reservists are in structed in the four special ties. Instruction is dona by re- i uiwim ii mi' in iii'wi'Bi'i wtii ii i ei.eeiii n : Veveae)eUeriiWIi i ,,, - lit in , U f 4 RADAR PROBLEM Three of the nine ra dnrmcn in the Medford Electronics Division of the U.S. Navy Reserve are shown above attempting to plot a radar problem during the course of instruction at the local unit's training center In the Federal building on North Riverside ave. From left to right they are Thomas Mcrrimnn, radarman third class; Robert C. Johnson, radarman first class and Instructor; and Harry J. Gibson, rndurnian third class from Ruston, La., who is on temporary duty with the local unit. In the comer of the plotting tnblo can be soon a black oval which represents a ship. The problem is to guide this ship through the hypothetical sea without running Into anything or getting attacked by the enemy. Three types of radar problems aro studied by llio group submarine, aircraft and sur face radar problems. V' , hi RADIO DRILL Shown above receiving messages on the two way radio circuit at the Medford unit's Naval reserve train ing quarters are (front) Ron Miller, radioman seaman, arid John Laferrlere (rear) radicman third class. The unit has a radio frequency that operates for four nights each week. This circuit is hooked into 13th Naval district headquarters in Seattle so the unit is always in constant contact with all other units In the district. The two men above are In the act of receiving messages from the district headquarters. Laferrlere was recently given a medal for 10 years duty in the Navy. serve officers or petty officers. Reserve Majors Elect to Retire Major Glen V. Allen, 951 South Stage rd., and Mujor Chester W. Sllllman, 62 Wln cma Way, Medford, have elected to transfer lo the re tired reserve, according to un announcement by the com manding general of the Army corps, Seattle. The transfer was made un der the provisions of the Re serve Officer Personnel act which became effective In July. It states that all reserve officers with 28 years of of ficer service, up to tho grade of lieutenant colonel, or 30 years of officer service and five years in grade, whichever Is greater, for colonels, with certain age requirements, will rctlro from the ready reserve. HOAXERS GOOFED Tujunga, Calif. - Two teen age boys were arrested here for placing 15 telephone calls warning that a bomb had been hidden In the auditorium of Mt. Gleaion Junior High school. The warnings caused no fright among students and teachers. There Is no audi torium at the recently built school. Quotes From the News By United Prett international OneUlii, N.Y. Stale Trooper Citnl. Harold J. Mulli'i', fol lowing thu arrest of iloaf-nnilo Karl Lcahoy on cliargi'S of killing his I wo young sons: "The boy (Leahey) lold ui he wi under lot ot lenilon at home. You can Imagine how It would be lor him no! lo be able lo hear or talk lo anyone," West Los Aiigelvs -tlHiik nicisongor Lawrence liohlilim, 10, who loslslod two bamllls and saw oiiii bystuwter klllrcl and (hive wounded when they Iflocl to help him: "It was all my fault. I wi ol"fl D ,,,r0 "nd 1 got somebody killed and all thou people hurl. I should have given them the dammed money." Denver A White Ilmi.se upokesmiin, after bride Hetty Steed won President Klsenhnwer's sympathy when she wept because her alininn husband was restricted to base: "Her huiband will be oil bue tonight," Windsor, Out. Gordon Dickinson, 14, who with his two sisters hud boon kept prisoner 11 years by llielr mother, from a hospital bed: "I hop'e they don't make ui go beck home, I don't know why Mummy kepi me In all Die lime. I guen she didn't like me," State AFL-CIO Conclave To Hear 15 Resolutions On Portland Paper Strike Pendleton - HIPD - Fifteen of the fill resolutions to ba Intro duced at (lie 5th annua! con vention of the Oregon AFL CIO here Aug. 1-8 deal with the Portland newspaper strike, according to the re search and education depart ment of tho Oregon AFL CIO. A copy of the resolutions to be Introduced Indicates sup port of convicted dynamiter Levi McDonald, resolutions to obtain legislative support to end "strike-breaking" and a proposal to officially recog nize Portland as "City of Scabs." Resolutions No. 1 Is "united action to win newspaper strike." The second resolution is handed the weight of parlia mentary amcnltlos - election ot officers and dbtrict board members. Resolution 50, to be Intro duced by the Oregon Stale Council of Carpenters asks for mass support of "enact ment by the state legislature of a law ... to prevent the importation of strike-break ers. A resolution to be Intro duced by the Portland Web Pressmen union admonishes union members to refer to Portland as "City of Scabs" and to address all malls, fol lowing the name and street address to "Portland, 'City of Scnbs,' Oregon." Another resolution to be Introduced by Pressmen asks support for Levi McDonald, convicted in Multnomah and Clackamas counties for hiring the bombing of newspaper trucks. The union n.iks the con vention to enlist the aid and support of the American labor movement and let It be known "thai we will not desert our own In the faco of persecution and prosecution Instigated by the enemies of organized labor." Investigation of the news paper strike by the state legis lature: request Gov. Mark Hatfield to use Ills authority to settle the strike; cuin-el newspaper subscriptions; out law professional strikebreak ing and 1'ondcmuullon of strike insurance, arc Included In other resolutions. Two resolutions to Ims pro-, posed refer to McDonald; seven refer to strikebreakers. Cyclist Injured In Collision Here Jon Kent Wood, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cleveland Wood, received luc erntlnns on his chin, multiple contusions and a slmplo frac ture of his right leg after col- lldlnr; with a car while rid-' Ing his bicycle In front of his home Friday. Driver of the car was Gor don Edward Reeves, 54 Long Island dr., Eugene. Young Wood was taken lo the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital following tho accident. Operates Radio Circuit The group operates its own radio circuit for four nights each week. This circuit Is hooked into the 13th Naval district's circuit at Seattle, so the unit is always in constant Contact with all other units in the district. During the summer each reservist must serve two weeks active duty. The local reservists do not spend their active duty as a unit, but each man is assigned to a specific station or ship. Churchill points out tUat although the unit is a more than full strength, there is always room for more. This will be especially, so, if the Navy decides to establish a second electronics unit here. Landlocked or not. Medford can be proud that its little Navy Is one of the best or eanized. best trained, and best manned of all the coun try's reserve Naval units. . Resolution Asks Labor Law Repeal Pendlcton-(UPD-A resolution seeking repeal of the Landum Griffin labor reform bill was scheduled for Introduction by the Southwestern Oregon Cen tral Labor Trades council at the 5th annual convention of the Oregon AFL-CIO which opens here Monday. , The bill, passed by the last session of Congress, is term ed "restrictive class legisla tion" by tho union. The measure Is "highly det rimental to the rights of lab or ,. , and threatens the very existence of many Unions," the resolution contends, The resolution asks for the "outright repeal of the Lan- drum-Griffin bill and that a new law be enacted which will protect tha ' legitimate rights of labor." REAL COOL "Like Dig this PARK & SHOP cats-It's tha coolest thing in town. Park on a convenient lot Shop the nearby member merchant and no drags like meter plugging. No hurry No worry. Just lick a stamp Hand the man your ticket. It's Dreamsville man Like way outl" MAN i ij uu i u i Z ZZZZ ZZ Trta. -I MAIN ST. 1 I 1 1"' ' Inl U "5? I ' "Carry on Homer, I said To which he replied 'When I bought my last turtle-neck sweater, I figure I saved enough to earn my grub By PARKING FREE WHILE ON MY SPREE!; It's amaxo-7 big lots-Each handy to cool Downtown Merchants pad. Like, when the temp is over C-This Daddy'O beats the heat with Park A Shop. 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