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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1962)
Season Soon To Bring Halt To Southeast Asia Military Activity Ediior'i note: UPI For eign Newt Analyst Phil Newsom. who his corered the mwi on tilt of tht lven continents, ii on tht scene in Thailand to report on the crisis in Southeast Asia. In the following dis patch he describes the American military buildup In Thailand. nists an impressive demon' swiftly northward should Washington and military authorities decide emergency tion to help Thailand defend James Richardson, who con stratifn of its ability to de liver troops, backed by the enormous fire power sj the Air Force and their own new weapons, to any area in this part of the world. A tiny restaurant on Bang kok's dockside hardly had time to realize a new-found prosperity before U.S. Ma rines had come and gone, their equipment unloaded and their new campsite establish ed seven miles east of the im portant junction town of Udorn. Ready To More Udorn is 35 miles south of the Laotian administrative capital of Vientiane on the Mekong river. It probably is no accident that She Marines are in a position to drive its borders, although the only MEDFORDsJiiTRIBUNE ferred Wednesday with Bang kok officials regarding the final disposition of his men. The idea that Ihe United States is planning a long haul I operation in Thailand is sug gestC'i by the presence of an unusual number of officers of general rank for the size of the present 5,000-man force. This has been taken as a combat so far has been with elephants competing with the action is required. The reinforced battle group of the 27th Infantry of the 25th Army Division is sta tiitned temporarily just south of korat, about 150 miles northeast of Bangkok, near important rail and road junc tions. The Marines are backed by their own fighter bombers and helicopters and a squad ron of FlOOs from the 13th Air Force's base at Clark Field in the Philippines. These support planes are stationed at Ta Khli, the super -secret air base built for Thailand's air force. These forces are clear evi dence of the American tnten- First -Battle Group for water supplies, and the only casual ty a Marine bitten by a cobra. The forceful United States SECTION B MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY 25. 1062 PAGES 1 fb 14 action, which is drawing in sending token forces. Others Philip the Korean War, is taking considerable satisfaction in having landed ahead of the Marines. "We welcome the Marines," said Col. William E. McKcan in a crack hardly designed to soothe traditional rivalry be tween the two services. The American forces in Thailand are under Ihe com mand of pistol - toting Gen. creasing fire from Chinese, may come from the North Vietnamese and North Korean propaganda outlets. pines and Britain. By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst . Bangkok, Thailand - (UMI -Heavy monsoon clouds are piling up over Bangkok's canals and temples, and soon drenching rains will halt most major military action through out Southeast Asia for the next three months. But meanwhile, the United States has given the Commu- The Army's 27th Infantry, the famous Wolfhound outfit which distinguished itself in has been joined by Australia hint that other forces may be assigned here in the future. nd New Zealand who are They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo lb HEAR THE TV INTERVIEWER YOUtJ TWMK MOLtlNA MOPP AND HER ! NEW MOVIE WERE ALL-TIME GREATS-- ......tklilA CATUAT iiir IOC AT DGDQ-lDMAhlf.E CHEESE"WUICH ALL THE CRITICS , HAILASowi owe i WELLAN ALL-TIME OaCAR- OcTTek Ir fcvcK IHUKI. WAS ONE" 1HEN VOL) SEE WHAT THE CRITICS HAVE TO V-CHEH-HEHTWAT A DIFFERENTIAL 11 ...... T -" t-r-U V HEH-" y a st ikw. II III . WAS i J SOMETHING S3 7 lSrJ 4$ i8V J tWANDATIPOFTHE lb V3 V J-J AL8EPT MARTIN,' SfJ Products of Custom Dick and Billie Sol Are Nothing Unusual in Names for Texans ' By DICK WEST Washington-(UPll-A number of my colleagues, who lack the advantage of having been born in Texas, have come to rnc for clarification of the Billie Sol Es tcs case. It is not so much that they are confused b y the complexi ties of his grain storage and cotton acreage opera tions. Anyone west in Washington can find more complex things than that to be confused by. What puzzles them is how Estes came to get a name like Billie Sol. Some have suggested that his affairs would never have attrated so much public at tention if he had been christ ened Mortimer, or Outer Bridge, or something of that sort. Such an assumption implies that Billie Sol is an unusual rme, which, of course, it isn't. At least, not in Texas. 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It takes cognizance of the fact that if you name a boy Robert, Alan, Joseph, Thomas, James, Samuel, Albert, Ern est, Philip, Henry, Kenneth, Edward, Benjamin, Michael or Stephen, he will likely be called something else. So why not just name him Bob, Al. Joe, Tom, Jim, Sam, Ernie, Phil, Hank, Ken, Ed, Ben, Mike or Steve and be done with it? Since the woods already are full of Bobs, Toms, Jims, etc., some parents take the next logical step and give their sons double names to aid in identification. My own parents decided a single name would suffice, but I grew up with an assort ment of Bobby Toms, Billy Bobs, Jimmy Joes, Sam Jacks j and Tommy Rays. As for Billie Sol, if I am not mistaken he is the neph ew and namesake of a doc tor whose first name was Sol. The only drawback to this system of nomenclature is that if you ever move to some less enlightened area, you're in trouble. I have spent a goodly pari of my adult life explaining to credit offices and tax investi gators that my name isn't my nickname. But they still seem to think that I am trying to pull a fast one. My other difficulty is with people who arbitrarily change my name to what they think it ought to be. This has re quired a lot of straightening out over the years. Texans who have these sim plified names will find that life is much easier if they (1) stay in Texas and (2) stay out of the fertilizer business. Northwest Power Infertie Opposed Washington -0OT- A Penn sylvania private power com pany official today urged Con gress not to approve construe tion of a federal powerline connecting the Pacific North west and California. Charles E. Oakes. chairman of Pennsylvania Power &. Light Co.. appeared before a Senate Appropriations sub committee to urge it to cut i a $500,000 budget request by the Bonneville Power Admin istration for preliminary en gineering of an extra-high voltage intertie. 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