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Action Books Close on Federal Employee After Long Service
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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
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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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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
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