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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. JULY 30, 1962 TVTTjWAk W3S w mm bob v i wwua & i Federal Troops Quit Peninsula -RICHMOND CAMPAIGN ENDED On Aug. 3, 18fi2, Gen. Halleck sent ihe word to Gen. Mc Clcllan: "... it is determined to withdraw your Army frcrn the Peninsula . . ." Mc Clellan asked that the order by rescinded, but this was not to be. The peninsular cam paign, which he started on March 17, was ended. The Army of the Potomac had fought nine major battles from Yorktown lo Mal vern Hill and inflicted more than 27,000 causaltics on the Confederates. Despite this, they were tetreating. They had moved up the peninsula to the doors of Richmond, but the doors had never opened. The long march back down the peninsula was now over. The map shows McClellan and his army's route up and down the Tidewater Peninsula. (UP1) By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent General Halleck scnl the bad news to Genera! McClel lan at 7.45 pm. Avig. 3, 18ti2. could hold his army where it from the Peninsula.) was as a constant menace to i From Fredericksburg Burn- ! sidp'j outer (County) that the force called out of a court martial I The spies said only Pope's at Fredericksburg, if it be j ,0 Bf' the news from spiel vanguard had arrived at Cul I Pope's, would in all probabil- !hat Pope was concentrating j peper. If Jackson moved fast lily follow. But if it be Burn- ( "'l.? r"y JL.PTr' .V" i "ht "suppress " Pope a about 35 miles SOlllhuPst nf I.pp hart HirrtnH and Pooe in vour front I M..r......, .u r- u-. i ;. Richmond; he could advance , side could move in any one is strong enough ,o resist .ZA cnd . ,..V.d " the nd.A r'"8 against the Confederate capi- of three directions - west to Little Mac" - Maj. Gen. tal by two routes, one direct- j join Pope, south toward Rich ly along the north bank of the 1 mono and MCLiellan or south James or he could cross the ! west to cut the Virginia Con river and hit Richmond via J tral railroad, Jackson's corn Petersburg at the backdoor; j munications with Lee. or his army could be pulled Dilemma Revealed back to campaign from the ! Lee revealed his dilemma north with Pope. ' in a letter to Jackson dated Lee. who had pulled down ; August 7. his army before Richmond to j "At preterit it seems to me," I a bo ii t 56,000 men by sending j Lee wrote lo his lieutenant, ! first Stonewall Jackson's com- i "too hazardous to diminish ! manri and later A. P. Hill's ; the forces here (on the Penin- George Bnnton McClellan got the telegram from ' Old Brains'' Maj. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck, commander of all the Union armies - early the next day. The key sentences of the message read: "It is determined to with draw your army from the Peninsula to Aquia Creek. You will take immediate measures to effect this, cov- division to watch Pope, was cring the movement the best : caught between the two fires of McL-lcIlan and Pope. But Lee did glimpse a sin gle ray of hope in the report of Capt. John S. Mosby, a Confederate officer who bad been captured, taken to Fort Monroe and then exchanged. Mosby reported that the Union corps of Maj. Gen. Am brose Burnside had been sent from the Peninsula to Aquia Creek with Fredericks burg. Va., on the Rappahan nock river its ultimate destin ation. (This mighl he. Lee reason ed the first move of a retreat Kneephobia Developed West Lauds Designers' Decision To Bring Hemline of Skirts Down By DICK WEST I their knees will begin staring Washington - IL'PII - Accord-1 at me and will continue to do Ing to recent dispatches from s0 or lne rest 0f the evening. I can turn my head, or IMA Paris, the czars of the fashion fwjt' ?iti world have ""M decreed a re- f? turn to some- . Jk what 1 0 w e r '-i' hemlines this i fj fall. To this I x - A -H sa.v "p raise V& the Lord and wwwVti Pass the Moth- 1 U ii h h n rrls " Under pres. west e n t condi tions, it seems to be constitu tionally impossible for a seat ed woman to keep her knees covered, assuming that her knees are located in the usual place. Most ostcogenists agree that the usual place for a knee is somewhere between the thigh and the shinbnne. I am one male, and 1 II wa ger there are millions of oth ers, who is exceedingly tired of having female knees stare at me everywhere I go. Some women seem lo get the impression that 1 am star ing at their knees. This is not true. Their knees are staring t me, II is a hard thing to ex plain, particularly lo your wife, but I would swear to il in court. Knees do not need eyes in order to stare at you. They fix you with a blank stare, which is the worst kind. Suppose, for example, that I am at a cocktail party and 1 hat several women are seated about the room. Even before 1 finish my first drink, avert my. eyes, but it does no It is like trying to refrain from eating salted peanuts when there is a bowl of them at your elbow. I have spent so much time trying to overlook kneecaps good. I know that the knees ; that it is beginning to get on are sun mere, sieaany star- my nerves. I have developed ing up at me. U sorl 0f kneephobia. It's get- This sort of thing makes a j ting so I can't even bear the person extremely uncomfort- sight of my own knees. able. II is almost impossible to ignore knees. There is a compulsion to stare back at them. If a lady accidentally ex poses her knees, a gentle man naturally will look the other way. But when there is a room full of knees in view, there is no other way lo look. That is why I welcome the news from Paris. Down with the hemlines, couturicres, and please do'n't stop at an inch or two! It seems to me that the logi cal place for hemlines is about halfway down the tibia. If they were dropped any lower than that, I might get a complex about ankles. The Medkal Roundup by Mrrllcln Mf dlclne ' P iff' Two years . . . maybe three . . that's a lot to lift out of a hoy's life and plunk down thousands of miles from Main Street. Especially when he's just 21 . , . maybe away from home for the first time. He's doing guard duty to keen you safe and cozy on ynur front porch. But a visits a tnnph tempo for youth. They need the USO ... to hfin relax . to lighten the tedium and tension of poten tial conflict. Today, 2,750,000 young Americans are running the h?jard of homesickness. USO hnrss them the vital warmth they need . . . spiritual lift . . . atmosolie-e of home. A USO nearby takes the strangeness out of strange places, so no Gl will ever wonder even for a minute . . . "'Does Anybody Know I'm Here?" F.jppet fh, UO tlirnirth Lifted Fjrd or your Comrpumry Oe?t Help for ih Blind Many blind people will find great help in a Puhlic Affairs pamphlet No. 295 "Blindness - Ability, not Disability" by Maxine Wood. The Public Affairs people are at 22 East 38th St., New York IB. N.Y. As Miss Wood says, there are thousands Aivam of blind men and women who work .side by side with the sighted, partly or largely because they got help when they lost their sight. They got inspiration and training, and Irarncd to do work that would he paid for. Today many blind men are supporting a family, just as they used to do. It is estimated that there are 350.0110 blind people in this country, over 50 per cent of whom are fi5 years or old er. About 29.000 people lose their sight each year. The common definilion of blindness in this country is a visual acuity of 20 200 or less in the better rye. with correcting glasses. What this means is that a man is legally blind if he can identify at on ly 20 feet a person who. with r.mrrlltll Consultant In Mavo cltntr Kmerltua Professor nf Mayo clinic (Register and Trthunt Syndicate. 1162) around them, and then good hcar'ng becomes of great im portance. When a person goes blind, he is likely to react emotion ally much as he has always reacted before. If he always enjoyed being dependent on people, then he is likely lo be come more dependent after he is blind, but if he former ly liked to be independent and to earn his own living, then that is what he tries to do after he goes blind. There are a number of sys temic diseases which can cause hlindness, such as dia betes. In cases of diabetes, blindness can be due either to inilirv to the seeinp nirm. brane nf the hack of the eve, ! also of defeating the North- (retina) or it can be due to a "frosting"' of the lens - called a cataract, or it can lie due to arteriosclerosis Three per cent of the blind people in the United States Uist their sight through indus trial acridrnis. many of which could have been avoided by the wearing of goggles in shops People should know that t h e American Foundation you can, ' McClellan reacted charac teristically in a telegram of 600 words. The order "has caused me the greatest pain 1 ever ex perienced." McClellan wired, "for I am convinced that the order to withdraw this Army (of the Potomac) to Aquia Creek (on the Potomac below Washington) will prove disas trous to our cause. 1 fear il will be a fatal blow ..." Pointing out that his army i lay within 25 miles of Rich- j mond, "the heart of the rebel- j lion," McClellan continued: ' "Here is the true defense of Washington; it is here, on the banks of the James, that the fate of the Union should be decided. ' 1 entreat that this order may be rescinded." Forces Divided Halleck. acting on orders from President Lincoln, re plied first by telegram and then by leller. "I must take things as 1 find them," he wrote. "I find the forces divided, and I wish (o reunite them ..." "The order will not be re scinded and you will be ex pected to execute it with all possible promptness." McClellan obeyed the or der - as fast as possible, he. said; as slowly as possible, his enemies said. That ended the Peninsular campaign on which McClel lan had set out on March 17 with high hopes of capturing Richmond. Bclween May 1 and July 1. the 100,000-man Army of (he Potomac had lought nine ma jor battles from Yorktown to Malvern Hill. It had inflicted 27.038 battle casualties on Ihe Confederates and it had suf fered 23,119 battle casualties of its own. Despite that, Ihe Army of the Potomac was re treating, its mission of break ing the back of the southern rebellion unaccomplished. Opportunity Missed McClellan had missed the first of two golden opportun ities he would have to win the Civil War in the Easl. He suspected that even his posi tion as commander of the 'Vrmy of the Potomac was in danger, as indeed it was. His political enemies in Washing ton were pressuring Lincoln to remove him. He also feared he would lose his army, and that it would he sent piece meal to reinforce Maj. Gen. John Pope's new Army of Vir ginia. McClellan wrote prophetic ally to his W'ifc; "They are committing a fa tal error in withdrawing me from here, and the future will show it. I think the result of their machination will be (hat Pope will be badly thrashed wlhin ten days, and they will be very glad to turn over the redemption of their affairs lo me." All this moving of Union troops disturbed Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, com mander of the Army of North ern Virginia and charged with Ihe responsibility of not nnlv defending Richmond but sula), until something more is ascertained. I therefore cannot promise to send you the reinforcements 1 intended and slill desire. As the expec tation of reinforcements may delay your operations and otherwise embarrass you ai.d prevent your making an ad vantageous movement you had better not calculate on them. If I can send them I will. If 1 cannot and you think it proper and advantageous act without them. Being on the spol you must determine what force to operate against. "1 agree with you in believ ing if you advance into Fau- you, it might operate injur iously on your rear, also to the railroad, your communica tions, etc. "If you were strong enough to bear down all opposition in your front the force at Fred ericksburg might be neglect ed, for it would be sure to fall if that in your front was suppressed. It was to save you the abundance of hard fight ing that I ventured to suggest for your consideration not to attack t h e enemy's strong points, but to turn his posi tiono at Warrenton, etc., so as to draw him out of them. I would rather you should have easy fighting and heavy vic tories. Decision Aiked "I must now leave the mat ter to your reflection and good judgement. Make up your mind what is best to be done under all circumstances which surround us and let me hear the result at which you arrive." Before Lee's letter had nr rived, Jackson already had made up his mind. He was VJ. "Pa? MS. I.' ',.LV .v..v-r i- V t, .W-JK- "" ! M4 wnen you neea prompt CmSh lor new ClOThES or any other worthwhile need stop in. Or call first and we'll have the money waiting for you. CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phone: 482-2431, Ashland Life insurance available on all 'cons at low group rates 2S22 TO 150022 r land circulalinc librarv of pamphlets and books relating ! tn blindness. Its address is 15 i West 16th St.. New York 11. normal vision, he should roc- ; y. There are records for the opnize at 200 feet. Or. his blind which can he nhivrd on fied of vision is so rcMriclrd that he can see only a small area at a time. There are a numnr of special seeing devices for peo ple who are close to blind ness. Some of them are like little telescopes. In 1958. Ihe Federal Government aw.jr'ind grants to six organizations for optical aid clinscs to help peo- pie with low visual acuity. No Sixth Sens Miss Wood said that it is j not true that the blind have 'a sixth sense or that they have an unusually acute hear ' ing. or that they can tell cnl , or by touch. It is true that the ; blind person (Oin Ret much in formation through touch that he used to cet through vision, i He learns ft lot by listening to 1 things which a man with good year. Over 4.000 blind per sons are employed in special shops, making objects which then sro sold. Once, while in Los Angeles, I went through a four-sturv factory-hmlritne in which there were several hundred blind people Some were using power sewing machines. , and a few were making ern armies in the r-asi wnrr evrr they were. McClellan's army on the .Tames posed three threats: he OSU Selected for Earthquake Network r'nivallis HTIi - Oregon Slale University said today it has been selected to become for the Blind has a reference ! pnrt of a world-wide network of earthquake .ecording .sta tions. James II. Jensen. OSU pres ident, said $20.01)0 worth of new scismographic criuipmen' has been installed a) the uni versMy Orcein Slate will he nnr nf four stations on the pacific Const of the United Slates and one nf 125 slations m the world, Jensen said. The Advancer! Research Protecls Agencv of ih T- any machine which has a speed of M 1 .1 rpm. In 103fi Congress passed an ; ae( which authorized blind , persons to operate small vend- j ing stands on Federal proper ly, like Post Offices and Cus- j torn Houses. Each nf these op- erators earns about S.'USO a ! partment of Defence provided the funds for the new equip ment. some blind people with month'y grants Wp a! knnw thai gnnd eye sight is a hlcsMng. and wp should do cvrryihing possible to protect our v is ion If you would like the booklet, " How bronrns and baskets Some To Safe guard Youi Vision,' were using typewriters Dr Howard A, Husk, a re habiiitaior. said a while ago vision does not notice. In or- that the greatest problem to- der to get by. the blind have risy in helping the blind 's to to keep rarefnU track of get more teachers trained 'everything that ii going on, The Governmrnt helps by Dr. Alvarez, send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envelope with vour rcqut io Dr WhIut C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT. Th" Register and Tn bunp SyndO'e, Box P57, T)r , Moines 4, low. CLOSED JULY 31st for PRICING SALE STARTS AUG. 19 A.M. BRING YCUR PICKUP AND STOCK UP! Ofi EVERYTHING .GOES! 1UST BE SOLD 0 Y SEPT. 15 50 DISCOUNT ON USED GOODS 25 DISCOUNT ON NEW GOODS I wish to take this opportunity to thank my many Medford friends and customers for their kind help and patronage during my 42 years in business at this same location . . . and invite you to take advantage of these BIG DISCOUNTS on $5,000 worth of stock which MUST be sold by September 15, as I am now going out of business. Sincerely, Geo. B. 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