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g SUNDAY, UPRIL 12. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OHEGOW Action Books Close on Federal Employee After Long Service 2 I I. . UULJUti i:. f - . .-.zmtettt te. AIRPORT REVETMENTS This i the type nf revetment C. Warnock 1 the Medford airport in July, 1942. built by CCC enrollees under the supervision of Robert The action books for Rob ert C. Warnock, 8 federal em ployee with the Medford dis trict nf the bureau of land management, were closed last week after long service with the federal government. He began hi first service with the Doughboys of World War I. This part of his career lasted two years. Next, Warnock Joined the federal service by working for the U.S. forest service, where he remained more than eight years. He joined the bureau of land management in June, 1938, and worked 24 years continuously for the BLM. Many things highlighted Warnock's career while in government service, and his most spectacular accomplish ments happened while he was working for the BLM. When he started to work for the bureau in 1938, he began as camp superintendent in the CCC program. Early in World War II, Flemming To Testify Before Stockpiling Group Washington - (E.R.R.)- Ar thur S. Flemming, president of the University of Oregon and former high official in the Eisenhower administra tion, is scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services stockpiling subcom mittee Wednesday, April 25. The Symington subcommit tee wants to question Dr. Flemming, director of Defense Mobilization in the Eisenhow er administration, about wind falls of more than $5 million that went to copper compa nies instead of to taxpayers. These came about in two ways. The federal government had negotiated long term con tracts to buy copper ore at 30 cents a pound. In 1955 the market price of copper rose 4 cents to 9 cents above the price lhat producers could get from the government. Eventually it went as high as 46 cents. Directives From Flemming Under directives from Flemming, mining companies were allowed to run out on these contracts, temporarily or totally. The higher prices on the open market netted the companies $2.99:1,302, General Services Administra tion people have told the sub committee. If the government had bought at the contract price and sold on the open market, forbearing stockpiling for the time being, that mon ey could have been realized for the taxpayers. Then International Nickel company offered to cancel its contract and give the govern ment any money it received in the open market over the contract price. It wanted to do this in order to supply its regular customers. The re quest was turned down, at a loss to the government of a possible $2,114,133, according to GSA estimate. The stockpiling mess, like the highway scandals in Mas sachusetts, should supply plen ty of political ammunition for Republicans and Democrats alike. Stockpiles were started in 1939. The program was under the guidance of two Democratic and one Republi can administrations before the Kennedy administration look office. Needs Calculated Originally estimates nf needs were calculated on the basis of a five-year war. In 1058, a review of the program, led to a decision in the light nf realistically the nuclear to stnek materials rather than five They'll Do It Every Time . By Jimmy Hatlo icasust, the pole vaultec. uses mis Pole like a ma&g wano- DOES SOARlNo MIRACLES WITH IT But A LITTLE TMIN6 LIKE CARRYING AN UMBRELLA THAT ME CAN'T SEEM TO GET THE HANO OF AT ALL-- revolution, for three years. The Kennedy administra tion is relatively in the clear on over-buying, according to Sen. Stuart Symington ID Mo.), who heads the Senate subcommittee conducting the current investigation. He said at a hearing March 28 that only $3.7 million in new contracts had been let since Jan. 20, 1961. Except for purchase of two items in short supply, this money went to upgrade materials already in inventory. The stockpiling mess broke like a star shell over Presi dent Kennedy's press confer ence of Feb. 2. President Astonished "I was astonished," the President said, "to find that the total stockpile now amounts to some $7.7 billion (higher estimates are now in circulation) worth of materi als, an amount that exceeds the CCC's total inventory of farm products, and of more importance, an amount that exceeds our emergency re quirements as presently de termined by nearly $3.4 bil lion." While later saying that he was making no inferences of wrongdoing, the President called the overbuying "a questionable burden on pub- funds, and in addition a potential source of excessive and unconscionable profits." Storage costs for stockpiled materials last year exceeded $11 million. When it is con sidered that in addition to ma terials normally considered strategic, the hoard includes feathers, opium, whale oil, and castor oil, the over-buying begins to appear ridiculous as well as mismanaged. Hilary Order Is Being Reactivated ' Harry E. Barron, a mem ber of the Veterans Adminis tration Domiciliary, White City, is in the process nf re activating the Military Order of the Purple Heart to form a Rogue Valley chapter. Barron said he has several veterans signed up for the Incal chapter, and more than 70 have indicated an interest in the organization. Holders of purple heart medals and Congressional Medal of Honor winners are eligible for membership in the group, Barrnn said. An auxiliary for the unit also is being formed, he said. Anyone-- interested in the organization may contact Bar ron by addressing inquiries to the Military Order nf the Pur pie Heart, post office box 715, White City. 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Jobbers Mcloren Oil Co. Valley Futl Co. Weitern Oil A Burner C. : , r.-.f. ROBERT C. WARNOCK Retires from Service Warnock was transferred to the O and C administration, now bureau of land manage ment, general land office CCC camp at Williams, Ore. The Williams CCC camp was joined by two other CCC camp organizations and the combined forces transferred to the Roxy Ann CCC camp east of Medford. CCC enrollees from the camps, under the supervisinn and direction of Warnock, performed the only war emergency construction ac tivity by the CCC's during World War II. Of the more than 1.500 camps that were finally estab lished in the United States, only three of these, under the general direction and super vision of Warnock, performed any World War II emergency I work. The job that Warnock su pervised was the construction of underground revetments, in which Army fighter planes were hidden at the Medford airport ready for action. Rem nants of these revetments still can be seen at the airport. Following the closing of this job, when the CCC camps were disbanded, Warnock took on the camp supcrinten dency of the only BLM Con scientious Objector camp, lo cated at the former general land office old CCC camp at Elkton, Ore. Warnock successfully steer ed this camp activity through the war, work centering most ly in building a timber access road into the old Smith riv er burn in western Douglas county and the planting of millions of fir and pine seed- Candidates Night Set in Gold Hill Gold Hill - Candidates for county and state offices have been invited to speak at a candidates night at the Gold Hill Grange hall Wednesday, April 25. It will start at 8 p.m. in the hall on Sixth ave. The public is invited to at tend the event, a community service affair co-sponsored by the Gold Hill and Sams Val ley Granges. Each candidate will be al lotted three minutes to speak. H. S. Deuel Jr., will intro duce Republican candidates, while Ralph A. James will in troduce Democrats. Refresh ments will be served. lings in the Tillamook burn and other BLM lands in west ern Oregon. Following the end of this activity, Warnock was trans ferred to the Medford dis trict and was put in charge of the district blister rust con trol program, the only such program the BLM has in oper ation in its organization. Up until his retirement, War nock continued with the blis ter rust control activity. Best known of Warnock's successes in the blister rust control program was the achievement he made in sugar pine cone pollination. The ob jective of this pollination was to obtain a true blister rust resistant pine seed. In 1961, through Warnock's efforts. 21 artificially pollinizcd sugar pine cones reached maturity and were harvested. Subse quently the seeds were thrash er, or harvested, from the enne. This strain of blister rust resistant seeds was planted in a forest nursery last fall. The seedlings from the nursery will be used in further re search when the seedlings art planted in the field. A retirement party for Mr. and Mrs. Warnock was held at the Rogue Valley Country club a few days be fore his retirement. X HARRY E. HAWK Republican Candidate for COUNTY JUDGE Decisive Progressive PH. Pol. Adv. bv Hjrry Hawk 1 163 Bellview Ave., Ashland , "Mobilheat" "America's Largest Selling Heating Oil" Medford Fuel Go. Courl t Mc Andrewi Tel. SP 2-21 11 MONTGOMERY WARD 117 SOUTH CENTRAL SP 3-7301 Open Monday Nite 'til 9 ONE RUG PRICE ALE! Big room sizes from 9 'x 15' to 12 x 18' for just one low price! mAv 1ST0 NO MONEY DOWN when you "Charge It" at Wards
