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1 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OHEGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 23. 1962 25-Year Service Told by Senior Master Sergeant By GORDON EVANS United Press International Eielson Air Force Base Alaska -IUPD- Senior M. Sgl. William J. Cleary is only 38 years old, but if he felt like it he could retire right now with 25 years of military serv ice behind him. Twenty-five years? That's right. Cleary, non-commissioned officer in charge of the Eielson Air Force base secur ity and law enforcement sec tion, was only 13 years old when he enlisted in the Six teenth U.S. Cavalry at Ft. Brown, Texas, back in 1937. To get past the recruiters then, Cleary had stuffed him self on bananas and water to hit the 100-pound minimum weight and stood on his tip toes to make the 5 feet 5 inch es limit. It wasn't until 12 years lat er, after cavalry duty on the Mexican border and partici pating in World War II com bat in Europe, that Cleary re vealed the truth to slightly incredulous Air Force offi cials. The occasion was Cleary's decision to switch from the Army to the Air Force when the latter became a separate service. Though not condoning 13-year-old enlistees, the Air Force took Cleary's combat and service record into consid eration and allowed him to continue his career with a clean slate. Youngest of Rank He now lays claim to the distinction of being the young est senior master sergeant in fTie Air Force with the most time in service. Cleary said his first duty in the cavalry was as a bugler and he vividly recalls the rou tine of horseback drill every morning followed by fatigue details and weapons training in the afternoon. Nine months of the year were spent on maneuvers. For all this, he drew $18.75 monthly pay and 10 cents a day clothing allowance as a private. "One redeeming feature of my youth," Cleary recalls with a smile, "was that I could go to the movies in town wearing civilian clothes and buy a child's ticket while my buddies had to pay the serv iceman's special price of 25 cents." Cleary's assignments in the service since his bugling days have run the gamut from blacksmith to clerk, interpret er, motorcycle mechanic, mess sergeant, investigator and re cruiter. High point of his career, as far as Cleary is concerned, came during his tour of duty as an Air Force recruiter at Chattanooga, Tenn., from 1951 to 1955. During one 30-day pe riod, he set an Air Force re cruiting record by signing up 88 men. A native of Brownsville, Tex., Cleary plans to retire from the Air Force at the end of another five-year hitch. Then he hopes to settle down at San Antonio, Tex., with his wife, Martha, and their four children. White Wine Aids Diabetes Victims Santa Barbara IIW - Dry white wine is a beneficial ad dition to the restricted diet of diabetics, Dr. Salvatore P. Lucia of the University of California's school of medi cine told the annual conven tion of the American Society of Enologists here. "Diabetes is a disease in which wine can be of great help to the clinician," Lucia, who is on the staff of the uni versity's San Francisco medi cal center, said. "The effect of wine on dia betes has been studied since the early years of this cen tury. "Of course, before the dis covery of insulin, clinicians had to rely on an accurate knowledge of the foods and beverages which would be safe and permissible in the diet of the diabetic patient. Investigations "Many investigations were carried out using a variety of foods and beverages and it was found that not only could wine, particularly a dry wine, be included in the diabetic diet, but it actually seemed to exert n definitely beneficial pharmacologic ef fect in that more complete assimilation of carbohydrates occurred which, in turn, brought about a decrease in glycosuria and ketone body excretion. "it u-as therefore concluded that it was not onlv safe but ! .j,.qnnmii to include a I moderate amount of white wine in the rieid diet of the diabetic patient." A mature rubber trrc yields 11 pounds of latex a year. Copper mines arc being w'rked in northwest Africa A 5 PIGGLY WIGGLY '".IK. If you're a budget-vise shopper, you'll Armour Star gly this week end . . . low. low prices All 0 6Cf FUkS . Mb. package 59C plus the added saving of 5 t H GREEN r a STAMPS. 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