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Newspaper Page Text.......... .1.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1032 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OKEGON New Joint Chiefs Chairman Holds More Mellowed View Editor'! Note: Gen. Max well D, Taylor, former Army Chief of Staff, wrote a highly controversial book three years ago when he retired. He advocated dras tic high command changes which alarmed Air Force. Navy and Marine brass. President Kennedy has now chosen Taylor, his special military adviser, as chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What this portends is defined by a UPI military affairs expert in the fol lowing exclusive dispatch. By CHARLES W. CORDDRY United Press International Washington-lurii-Gcn. Max well D. Taylor, flashy, con troversial chairman-designate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has backed away from or soft ened some of the drastic de fense overhaul proposals he once put forth so urgently, according to informed admin istration circles. Specifically, the debonair soldier-statesman whom President Kennedy is return ing to the Pentagon after a three-year absence, is no longer so sure the United States should have a single, supreme military chief of staff to replace the present command system. Nor, these sources say, is he likely to still want to up end and rebuild the land, sea and air forces in an extreme new mold or to cut back the size of the strategic nuclear forces. The fact is, UPI was told, the four-star Army para trooper and Presidential ad viser whimsically wishes he could rewrite the testy, if militarily solid, book he penned after retiring as Army Chief of Staff in 1950. Courage Unquestioned But Taylor's most vitriolic detractors have never ques tioned his courage and con viction. He may have mel lowed or softened some of his defense viewpoints. But he can be counted on to preside firmly over the joint chiefs Americas top military plan ning body which comprises the chairmen and the chiefs ot the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. On a death-defying mission through enemy lines in Italy in World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in his memoirs, Taylor took on greater risks than any other of Eisenhower's agents and discharged his "weighty re sponsibilities . . . with uner ring judgment." But as President, Eisen hower thought less well of Taylor's judgment. II was a lime when the nation's stra tegy was to put main reliance on air-atomic power and to shrink the size of the Army. Taylor never won any of the big arguments. He wrote later that he had an unusual gift for being wrong or was steamrollered in the Joint Chiefs after the "best tradi tions of Tammany hall." The steamroller was Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs. But for all their "heated dialogues.'' Taylor wrote, "I always had a grudging admiration for his singleness of purpose and his undeniable effectiveness" in pushing Eisenhower adminis tration defense measures through Congress. Now Taylor is to sit at the head of the Joint Chiefs table. The Army is bigger, even if not as big as Taylor would wish. And the Pcnta gon wails with curiosity and anxiety lo see how he han dies the job and to learn whether he and the equally strong-willed and confident defense secretary, Robert S. McNamara, will mesh clash on basic issues. The way was cleared for Taylor's return when Gen. Lauris Norstad decided to re tire after six years as su preme allied commander In Europe. Norstad Retires Norstad. described by Bri tain's Field Marshall Mont gomery as the "most brilliant officer alive today," will give way to Gen. Lyman L. Lem nllzer who. at 63. will be the only American officer on ac tive duty who was born in the nineteehth century. Highly respected as a solid soldier and diplomat, Lem nitzer will vacate the post Taylor takes over. The reali ties of Soviet military power and the facts of life in Europe are such that it may be pre dicted NATO will pursue es sentially the same strategy as under Norstad. Norstad is an airman. But he yielded to no one in in sistence on strong ground forces along the Iron curtain, and he armed them with both conventional and nuclear weapons. At present he is dis tressed by the slow reaction to his requests for mobile bal listic missiles to modernize his command. Of utmost Importance but not so much noticed in the military reshuffle, was the naming of a new Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Earle G. Whee ler, 54, who now is Norstad's deputy commander for U.S. forces in Europe. Wheeler will succeed Gen. George H. Decker. There have been published reports that Kennedy did not cotton lo Decker. But in fairness to the General, it must be noted he is past the normal retire ment age of 60 and will have completed a two-year term as Army Chief when the big changeover takes place next month. Wheeler's selection, admin istration sources say, signi fies Presidential interest in heading the services with men who will be available for major international mili tary assignments after their tours as service chiefs. In the past, chief of staff of a serv ice has been the pinnacle. Wheeler May Follow If he performs as his admir ers expect, Wheeler looks like a shoo-in for, say, Lem nitzer's post. Lemnitzer is not likely to be supreme com mander for more than a year or two. The other service chiefs Kennedy has named likewise are of on age that could make them available for new as signments later. They are Gen. Curtis E. LeMay of the air force and Adm. George W. Anderson of the Navy, who is considered a front rank contender for the chair manship when Taylor leaves, probably after two years. The military shakcup is taken here to imply still more centralization of control of the three military depart ments and the forces in the field under McNamara and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. McNamara and Taylor have some major differences on the size of the army and on the need for the Nike Zeus anti-missile, for example. But they appear to agree firmly on the inevitability of more and more central control in the missile and coming space age. "A secretary of defense needs a strong chairman to direct the work of the chiefs, to keep their noses to the grindstone, and to extract from them timely advice and recommendations," Taylor wrote in his book, "The Un certain Trumpet." From Taylor, the betting is, that is what McNamara will get. But only time will tell what controversies lie ahead as he deals with Navy and Air Force chiefs. Their views on strategy are empha tic and often at odds with the views of the new chairmen. Book By Valley Author Reviewed In New York Times Threat of Rail Walkout Averted MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON A novel by a southern Ore gon author, "The Roaring Road" by Gene Olson, 780 Oxyoke rd., Grants Pass, has received favorable mention in the book section of the New York Times. The novel, published by Dodd, Mead in May, was writ ten for teen-age readers, but has also been selling as an adult book. Sports car racing provides the background for the story. Fremont-Smith wrote in his review: "For many youngsters (old sters too) motor sports hold an obsessive fascination. Physical courage, a perfect matching of man and machine and a zest for power and speed are its more intriguing elements. Of four novels . . . only one is really successful in evoking the excitement of racing. This is because only one succeeds in making the characters as important as the machinery. Memorable Novel "Teen-age readers would, I suspect, find Gene Olson's 'The Roaring Road' a memora ble novel no matter what its subject. It is the story of Dave's apprenticeship as a rookie driver on an eccentric millionaire's team of Ameri can racing sports cars. But it is also the story of Dave's growing up, a process that here involves not merely the usual homilies, but an aware ness of and tolerance for the individuality of other people. Mr. Olson writes with grace, knowledge and rare humor and the result is a fine, honest ' novel . . ." "The Roaring Road" is Ol son's eleventh published nov el. The author and his wife have lived in the Grants Pass area for two years. A new Olson novel, "The Red, Red Roadster," dealing with a spinster's venture into the sports car world, will be pub lished by Macrae Smith next month. PIGGLY WIGGLY EXPERIMENT WORKS - Sitting in their pumpkin patch are, from left. Barry Lairivrnian, Richard Weinstein and Bar ry's brother, Howard. They saved pumpkin seeds from last Halloween and planted them at the Lnirierman home in Uni versity City, Mo., as an experiment. The experiment seems In be a success. (UPI) Caroline Watches Fireworks Show Ravello, Italy - IUPII - Little Caroline Kennedy had a bird's eye view of one of Italy s most colorful tourist attrac tions Wednesday night from her mother's 900-year-old rent ed villa. Caroline, 4, watched from the terrace of the Villa San- gro as the Mediterranean vil lage of Maiorl, 1,000 feet be low, celebrated the religious Feast of the Assumption by filling Hie skies with a cas cade of multi-colored fireworks. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, giving her daughter a first look at the old world during two-week vacation on the Anialti coast, look a moon light cruise aboard an 82-fool yacht owned by friends. Earlier, she wandered over (he ruins of Paestrum, a 2, 500- year -old Greek settlement with some of the best-preserv ed classical Greek monuments in existence. Mrs. Kennedy spent the afternoon and evening cruis ing aboard the luxury yacht with her close friends, the Agnelli family, Italian auto mobile tycoons. The American First Lady also scheduled a "must" visit to Pompeii, the ancient city near Naples buried in 79 A.D. when Ml. Vesuvius erupted. In 25 of the 34 stales which levy income taxes, the tax payers are permitted to de duct llieir federal Income tax payments in computing what they owe for the state levies. Construction of an ordinary railway box car requires about 2,000 man hours of work, not including the labor needed lo produce and process the various raw materials. iH jl j &ottosi CandX w f l Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 11 BjCTI If Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. II White Satin H i V 5 3SC J "" i m it Plea Z'tf'l Krusteai J Chicago -(UPI)- A three-man panel of U.S. Appeals Court judges has averted any im mediate threat of a nation wide railroad strike. The jurists Wednesday re fused to set aside a temporary injunction blocking 180 rail roads from imposing "anti featherbedding" work rules which would have eventually eliminated the jobs of nearly a third of the nation's train ..crewmen. The new work rules had been scheduled to take effect today. Five on-train unions, representing 210,000 engin eers, firemen, switchmen, con ductors, trainmen and engine- men, had threatened to strike if the rules were imposed. The temporary restraining order blocking introduction of the rules was granted the five unions last Friday by federal Judge Joseph Sam Perry. He had refused a per manent injunction against the work rules but allowed the temporary injunction to give the unions time for an appeal. The railroads asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to set aside Perry's order, con tending he lacked jurisdiction. After an hour-long hearing, U.S. circuit judges Latham Castle, Roger Kiley and Elmer J. Schnackenberg conferred Cork oak trees can grow in 23 of the southern states, it has been estimated and thou sands of seedlings have been planted since 1939. They will yield cork in about 40 years. A human stomach, fully dis tended, is about the size of a football. When completely empty it sometimes shrinks to the size of a finger. THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1962 Of the 400,000 or more wives who become widows each year, 11,000 are under 25 years of age and about 47,000 are under age 35. for 20 minutes and then read their hand-written decision denying the railroads' petition for dismissal. Fear Sustains Practice of Medical Quackery in US. Bv HARRY FrnrJTTK1M r ... C 7 "jjl j jj "J By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International Washington-WPII-Every year the American people arc frightened into spending SI bililon for things that give them no pleasure, cannot pos sibly help them and could harm them. The Federal Food and Drug administration keeps warning them, but fear and shyness apparently are so deeply root ed in about 10 million Amer icans that a never-ending stream of money keeps pour ing Into the coffers of the quacks and the charlatans. Fear Caused It can be fear of almost any thing. The fear of a man who knows he has an inoperable, incurable cancer but doesn't want to believe what his doe tor tells him. The fear of a teen-aged girl who is frantic because she does not have a large bustline and buys worthless massage cream in an attempt to achieve one. The fear of an overweight housewife who knows in her heart that she is never going to stop overeating and seeks a short cut to glamor with diet pills that may actually be injurious. The fear of a mid dle-aged to be a Casanova until he dies but is too embarrassed lo discuss his current symptoms with a physician. Doctors like to say that th medical quack is a member of the second oldest profession. He has existed throughout re corded history, but he never has been so dangerous as he is today. At the turn of the century the worst thing a quack could do was to sell his patient a strange-tasting liquid that immediately made him feel better because it contained a high content of alcohol. But the age of elec- man who wants to tricity and the atom has brought forth some crackpot ideas that are dangerous, inspectors Test The Food and Drug admin istration has 637 inspectors scattered through the United States and 725 scientists who spend all their time testing things the American public PIGGLW WIGGLY For dependable standards of quality, and consistent satisfaction with your food purchases, you always do better PIGGLY WIGGLY! Nabisco Snowflake Limit Crackers Fresh and Crisp 2 Pk9. 49 Miracle Whip Salad Dressing 39 1 Qt. please QUART JAR Kraft Del Cheese 3 American, Pimento, Swiss, 35c each; Reg. 39c Grandma's Cookies 2 69 Fiesta Ice Cream Orange Juice AAJB Coffee Lemonade Pancake Mix Fisher's Biscuit Mix 29c each Chicken sr Turkey-Noodls m nuijo, islands and a number g A A A A. ifyA Pf VV. S SATURDAY JJ CmmiW', P VV 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lynden's Dinners 4"" S1.00 25c each . . , Lynden's Chicken Raviolas 4,Tn;"89c For automatic washers C-20 Detergent ;.;:. 79 c Granulated Borene Soap Z":e69c For better home permanent! Get-Set Lotion ,":t;S1.50 For cleaner hair Woodbury Shampoo E"ry59c For fast relief Alka-Seltzer 59 c Reg. 53c Listerine Toothpaste 2 59 c FLAMES EXTINGUISHED Tlie famed ti.i,.,. r,- ... n. Padua Hills theater near Clan-mow. Calif . Two homes and' two cabins in "the area is flamed by fni(!ei. of charred brush after were damaged hv the fire which burned firemen had beat back flames periling the l.ooo acre?. (UTI) Powdered MCP Pectin For Jam & Jelly 1 8c ea. 3-Oz. Pkgs. ''" " ' '''' ' tlu.U.JU.U lin""-HU- - .11 JU.Ui w.mw as you spend with S&H GREEN STAMPS in trouble if it makes a mis take by hauling the wrong I person into court. The classic I storv nf nnarkprv inuilune i ' sailor who sent a letter to the British Royal Medical so ciety. He said he had fallen from the top of a mast and broken his leg. He immediate' ly applied tar and oaKum to uses. They not only are inter- it and within three days was Stewart at King Stroets OPEN OAIIY UNTIl 9 s P Pi p PIGGLY WIGGLY m BBSS PI Boneless, fn) ? rfc JL .-cBfc H Roiled iseelr iMoasiE .S&bAW U S.D.A. Choice boneless f J 03 chuck roasts for outdoor. A 1 I A C &Sm0mA barbecuing or indoor ' J I W'iS A 7 rotisserie or oven cooking. L I 1 - -IW G IgBf ,y- .:. Lean, tender and waste. V V tW PJ free roasts ... and they're I V A frSBi 'W S V!7 uxe Slice ' P-ed for saving this I , EM I endatPigg,yWigg.y I I ' f PW ' """""""l "li""-"" U.S. Choice 7-Bone Cuts iKtpK Ground Chuck ' Beef Pot Roast - 49 S DAA C I Round Bone Chuck $200 I flic Swiss Steak 69 S TLM 8 I ffl Boneless L5iiJ! ! I t Beef Cubes 79 W -..w - - 0UVI1 VIIVVIW rwuiNU f yjr 0 jr 8-Inch Ny Pzn 6-oz. a nn Bradlev rar MiDlt.-eid-ISeuch B tins . 1 w- - , Q7c rrozen nes i Inst ani V" 62c r 89c 4. tin U 0 App,c Boysenbe"y Pcach Cherfy j J Picts wee, Frozen Lo.onade 3 29' U ) 8 T 00 W Piggly Wiggly Fresher Produce y I ( ii LARGE, CRISP, SOLID HEADS Jj S frW LETTUCE pf 3 heads 25 ZW7M SWEET VINE RIPE " ! Vf1 MELONS tLi! u.5c Z, c M TREE RIPENED LOCAL GROWN yOT "Cr QT 36gO 7 PEACHES haven ib 9c f AEJMSn w LARGE SWEET THOMPSON tf U l 1 l Em tv A SEEDLESS GRAPES 2,b, 29o AAii V & U.S. NO. 1, IDAHO RUSSET II Mft B W ll wf POTATOES 10 a. zt 49c " P i .a-TTrrnrfflw Bread & Butter 11 If f I 5 ililiii jl k II (Ale, I Limit 6 Tins Please i I; I wm mm MA "V"V H -I.1.-I,. n i I Id . . "VI UU Xs fjT . '. .r- -J u i . mm - a. r- jar h I mm II tfl "Sw mH .mW Tr f esled in what the product contains but they want to know what the label says. There is an incredible total of 300,000 common trade items used in the household which contain hazardous sub stances. Thousands of chil dren, unable to read the la bels, are victims yearly and the administration insists that there be something on the package to warn parents. It is a ticklish business and the Food and Drug adminis tration can get the federal government head over heels Demand on Rise For Filipino Cigar Products By DON C BECKER United Press International Manila - IUPII - Philippine cigars are heading for a come back in theMucrative Ameri can market now that Cuba has dropped from the picture. Before World War II, Ma nila cigars were considered among the finest produced anywhere. Hundreds of thou sands of Americans swore by them. The Manila cigar, in retrospect, seemed part of the era. In 1939, the Philippines ex ported 196 million cigars to the United Slates. Some of them sold for as high as $1 each. The war virtually wiped out the industry and recovery has been slow. Exports Down Last year, the Philippines exported only 11,324,697 ci gars to the United States. In come from the cigar exports totaled under $300,000. The Philippine Tobacco board is out to change the situation. It has announced a program aimed at increasins not only the quantity but also tne quality of Philippine cigars. By doing this the Philippine tobacco Industry hopes to fill the quota of 170 million duty free cigars the Philippines will be allowed to ship to the United States under terms of a trade act. The Philippine Tobacco board says demand for Fili pino cigars has increased five fold since the United Stales placed an embargo on the im portation of Cuban tobacco. But despite the ready mark et the Philippine Tobacco board outlines numerous prob lems being faced in this coun try. Program Planned The program as released by the board includes: Renewed emphasis on quality production by train ing and assisting tobacco farmers. Intensification of research and increased production of better seeds for free distri bution to farmers. Extension of more credit lo farmers and elimination of "unscrupulous" middlemen. Immediate construction of two cigar rolling factories and production of machine rolled cigars to fill even par tially the 170 million cigar quota. Active participation in trade fairs and exhibitions abroad lo restore the pres, tlge of Philippine tobacco on the world market. warning as wen as ever, a statement that was received with much skepticism in med ical circles. But before the so ciety denounced the man as a faker it asked for more de tails. Turned out that he had broken his leg and had resum ed walking in three days, but what he had neglected to say was that it was a wooden leg. Technically he had told the truth and could have collect ed handsomely with a libel suit if he had been de nounced. Durables in Quackery But mainly the Food and Drug administration keeps turning up the same things under different namts. The three most durable items of quackery are: -Sea water. A large section of the public is convinced that it contains minerals not avail able in a normal diet. With the possible exception of io dine, all foods contain as many minerals as sea water. But some people still pay as much as $20 a gallon for sea water. -Honey. It is marketed un der many names and all sorts of miracles are claimed for it. It is excellent food but worth less as a drug. Royal icily. This one has been kicking around since the middle ages. It Is a substance secreted by bees and is fed to chosen larvae to produce the queen bees which produce a tremendous number of eggs and grow to be much larger than ordinary bees. The rea soning seems to be that if the jelly is good for bees it must be good for human beings. The Food and Drug adminis tration says the chemical properties of royal jeljy are similar to evaporated cow's milk, but thousands of per sons have been spending mil lions of dollars over the years to buy food, drugs and cos metics containing royal Jelly. Musical Cancer Cure The age of electricity pro duced "cancer cure by music",, an invention for which the inventor was fined and jailed. It consisted of the playback portion of a tape recorder which sent music through wires to the site of the trouble thereby causing the cancer to disintegrate, according to the inventor. The tune chosen to destroy the cancer was "smoke gets in your eyes." The Food and Drug admin istration has just won a vic tory in the United States Su preme Court over a machine called "The Micro -Dyna-meter" and now is in the midst of a campaign to seize them all over the country. They were manufactured by the Ellis Research Labora tories. Inc., of Chicago, sold for $875 each and about 5,000 of them apparently have been distributed. The old-time med icine man made some free swinging claims for his mer chandise, but the miero-dyna-metcr people matched him every step of the way. They said their machine could diag nose the following: Cancer, colitis, sinusitis, tooth infection, recuperative ability, abscess, tuberculosis, inflamed colon, infected, gall bladder, anemia, arthritis, cerebral tumors, epilepsy, heart trouble, low blood pres sure, insanity, kidney disor der, optic neuritis, rheuma tism, low basal metabolism, ptomaine poisoning, nephritis, arteriosclerosis, Menier's dis ease, hidden disease (that alone would cover almost everything), chronic appen dix, tonsil abscess, drug addic- tion, ulcers, bladder infection, post nasal catarrh, acute and chronic toxemia, infantile paralysis. The machine consisted of an elaborate box to which two metal plates were attached. The plates were applied to various parts of the body and the measurement of the elec trical current supposedly in dicated the nature of the ail ment. The decisive evidence introduced by the federal gov ernment was testimony about placing the plates on cadavers. There was no difference in the readings given off from a cadaver and a live person. Beef Assessment Considered Legal Salcm-On what may prove to be only the first round of court action, the 10-cent col lections for support of the Oregon Beef Council have been declared constitutional. The decision was handed down by Judge Jeff Dorroh Jr., of the Malheur Circuit court at Vale In a friendly suit to collect Beef Council contributions from John Stringer, a rancher. The mat ter was tried on briefs. The suit was brought bv the state department of agri culture which Is required by the Beef Council law to col lect the dime on each animal brand inspected. The depart ment turns the dimes to the Beef Council which uses the money to promote the beef In dustry. Dimes arc refunded by the council to cattlemen who request the refund with in a stipulated time. In early August, dcpait mcnt officials at Salem had received no information on whether the Malheur judge's decision will be appealed to the Supreme court. Prices Effective Aug. 16, 17, 18, and Sundav 19th, limit Rights Resarvad One-eighth of R ton of coal Is required to manufacture a barrel of gasoline. i mi CAVE-IN KILLS ONE - One man died and one was rescued when a sewer ditch caved in on them in Portland's urban re ncwal area. The scene shows firemen digging and shoring up walls during the rescue operation, (UPI) ) ' ' J a i ' ' ' Hv-, I t HAPPY TWINS - Not so long ago Patricia and Prudence Lowe, thown In the arms of their mother, Mrs. Franklin Lowe, In San Francisco, were Siamese twins. They are now simply happy twins, in "fine shape" after surgical (cperaj. tion at San Francisco Children's Hospital. (UPI)