Life on
of Kock
Quemoy Island-fflPD-Twelve
Americans lead a strange and
arduous life within hailing
distance of the Chinese Com
munist shore.
They are members of the
U.S. Military Assistance and
Advisory Group stationed on
tliis beleagured scrap of rock,
2.000 yards from lied China
Their tour of duty is consider
ed so tough that they are re
assigned atter four months.
The only exception to this
rule is , the commander who
currently is Army Col. Fran
cis M. Clark, 4!), a burly carrot-top
from West Lafayette,
Ind.
Col. Clark is assigned to
Quemoy for a year while his
wife and four children (three
of them attending Purdue
University, the colonel's old
school) arc back in the United
States.
"Frankly, I don't think
four months is enough for a
man to learn everything
here," says the colonel. "He
just gets dug in and he has to
leave."
Hard Work
Besides Col. Clark, the
MAAG detachment comprises
a lieutenant colonel, two ma
jors and eight non-commissioned
officers.
During his time on Que
moy, the MAAG man works
hard. He rises early and is out
late six days a week.
"Our job is just what the
name says," said the colonel.
"We advise and assist, but we
don't do any actfial training."
At this time, for example,
the group is helping the Na
tionalist troops run a newly
installed ammunition renova
tion line.
All military equipment on
Quemoy is stored in the now
famous underground tunnels,
blasted out of rock for de
fensive purposes. This creates
a dampness problem.
"Moisture makes ammuni
tion deteriorate and In the
past it was aent back to Tai
wan for renovation. MAAG
recommended that the reno
vation be done here," said
Col. Clark.
Saves Tim, Money
"Now we are breaking it
down and remaking it right
on the island. It saves us time
and money because we don't
have to ship it."
The MAAG's daily task
comprises nosing into every
part of the activities of the
estimated 60,000 Nationalist
troops (the number has never
been officially revealed) on
Quemoy and making sugges
tions for improvements in
training and methods.
Are the Chinese reluctant
to take advice from the
MAAG?
"No. We never have any
difficulty at all. If we come
up with something we think
might be done we always get
a hearing and it's usually
adopted," said Col. Clark.
When the Americans' work
is done at the end of the day,
they go back to a large, airy
building set on a pleasant
grassy hillock. Like every
other point on Quemoy, this
is in range of Communist
guns.
Shelling No Worry
But shelling doesn't seem
to the MAAG, any more than
it does anyone else on Que
moy. There has been no
serious bombardment for
more than a year and no high
explosive from the mainland
since May.
After dinner usually
American food flown in week
ly from Taiwan, but some
times Chinese dishes - the
U.S. contingent has a distinct
ly limited choice of recrea
tion. The nightly highlight is a
statewide movie to which
Chinese friends are often in
vited. Otherwise the men
read or perhaps get up a game
of volleyball.
There are no bars on Que
moy, which has only a few,
relatively primitive, villages.
There are also very few girls.
In the words of Col Clark,
social life at night for the 12
Americans on Quemoy
"screeches to a grinding halt."
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New Delhi - (Ml - Twenty
five Indians riding on top a
railway car Sunday were
killed when the train passed
under a low bridge girder,
railway authorities reported
today. The accident occurred
in northern India.
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Year in
This is a success story in
the best tradition of Horatio
Alger.
But this is a true story and
most of the 50 years involved
were in Medford.
It concerns a young man
named Michael Beck, who left
his homeland, Germany, In
1910 at the age of 16 ar
rived nearly penniless in
k Observes 50th
Business
ec
akery
America and set forth to make
his fortune.
Within two years he had
worked his way across Amer
ica and in mid-1012, he found
himself in Tucoma, Wash.
There he washed dishes and
was apprenticed to a bakery.
This apprenticeship was a
three year plan, too slow for
this ambitious man, so on
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Nov. 12,1912, he bought out
the Model bakery where he
worked. The purchase includ
ed one horse and a delivery
wagon.
Little did he realize at that
time, when just turning 18,
lie was beginning a long ca
reer as a baker.
He often reminisces about
his first loaf of bread. He sold
it for 3'i cents. Grocers at
that time sold bread at six
loaves for 25 cents.
Anniversary Today
Beck, his family and Beck's
Bakery, are celebrating a
50th anniversary in the bak
ing business today. Thirty-six
of these 50 years have been
spent in southern Oregon.
Bakeries Broker
In modern business par
lance, Mike Beck could be
called a broker in bakeries,
particularly in his early
years in Washington. He
bought and sold many
bakeries between 1912 and
1928, in Tacoma, Bellingham,
Chchalis and Coos Bay, Ore.
Arriving in Medford In
192, the Becks bought the
old Peerless bakery and be
gan the operation he still op
erates today.
While owning and operating
the bakery in Medford, Beck
was still active as a broker
in bakeries. At various limes
since 1020 he has owned, op
erated and sold bakeries in
Klamath Falls, Grants Pass,
Bend, Lakeview, Redding,
Calif.; Boise, Idaho; Tacoma,
Wash., and Coos Bay.
Today he concerns himself
only Willi Klamath Falls,
Boise, and the Medford oper
ation, the latter being man
aged by his son Alfred Beck,
who is a one-third owner.
Today his bakery operates
45 trucks daily in 1926 he
started with two.
Emil Sabol Named
Union Creek Ranger
Emit M. Sabol recently as
sumed charge of the Union
Creek district, Rogue River
National forest, replacing Asa
D. "Bud" Twombly, according
to C. E. Brown, forest super
visor. Sabol is a graduate of Mich
igan State university school of
forestry in 1950. He worked
several seasons for the Forest
service in the Lake stales and
Rocky Mountain areas before
receiving his initial appoint
ment in 1952 on the Deschutes
National forest, Bend. He was
transferred to the Willamette
National forest at McKenzie
bridge in 1955 and promoted
in 1958 to assistant ranger on
the Salt Creek and Rigdon
districts where he remained
until his transfer to the
Rogue River forest in Sep
tember of this year.
Sabol served as a pilot in
the U.S. Air Force from Feb
ruary, 1942, to December,
1945. He was stationed in Eng
land and attained the rank of
first lieutenant.
Sabol and his wife, Dorene,
have three children, David, 5;
Jan Renee, 3, and Patricia
Ann, one month.
Brown Invites JFK
For Winter Vacation
Sacramento (UP1I Gov. Ed
mund G. Brown has invited
President Kennedy to Califor
nia for a winter vacation.
The President told Brown
he would "take it under consideration."
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Tokyo - ItPI) - The Vietnamese Communist rebels today
claimed to have shot down or damaged 11 American aircraft
in South Viet Nam in the month ending Nov. S.
EAST GERMANS ESCAPE FROM LABOR CAMP
Berlin - IITII - Two East German youths escaped from a
Communist labor camp for "political unreliables" and swam
acroti border waters to freedom. West Berlin police said
today.
CZECH BORDER GUARD FLEES TO WEST
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Saturday, forcing his patrol partner to cross the border with
him lo avoid being shot or captured, Austrian police re
ported Sunday.
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of becoming a full member of the European Common Market
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Washington - WD - The
women o America are on the
ripe
They are, according to Dr.
Philip M. Hauser, "playing
an nsccdant role in the na
lion's economic lile."
Why? Whatever Its effect
on the male ego, the answer
appears to be that brains are
more in demand these days
than brawn.
Hauser, head of the depart
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versitv of Chicago, is chair
man of the technical advisory
committee for the 190 census.
Information now becoming
available from analysis of the
census will, according to
Hauser, "make a significant
impact on every government
al, political, financial, indus
trial, mercantile, labor, edu
cational, religious, civic, and
welfare organization across
the country."
Family Income Advance
Hauser summarized this in
formation in r recent "scien
tific American" article. The
latest census, he said, chows
that "the educational attain
ment of the average Ameri
can has continued to rise,
that less than half of Ihe labor
force is now engaged in the
production of physical goods,
and that the median real fam
ily income has advanced by
nearly 50 per cent in Ihe dec
ade from H150 to l'ltUl."
"The results indicate." he
said, "that the economic life
of the country is now much
less dependent on musele pow
er and much more dependent
on professional, technical and
clerical skills.
"This shift in emphasis
from brawn to brain, dexter
ity and education har opened
the ranks of the labor force
to women. Men arc slill en
Ragrd primarily in the pro
duction of goods, nut many
are retiring at HIS.
"Their places in the labor
force, statistically, arc being
taken by women engaged in
white-collar and service function--."
Hauler said "the education
fimncs. perhaps more than
any other set of data, char
acterize the changing Ameri
tan way of life" Children are
starting lo school at an cal
ler age and young people are I
slaying in school "longer than
ever before.''
For the whole nation the
figure for "median school
years completed" was 10.6 in
1940. The average adult
American 25 years old had
completed only 8.6 years of
schooling.
More College Graduate!
"If the present trend con
tinues," Hauser reported, "the
average American will have
achieved high school educa
tion by 1970. College gradu
ates accounted for 7.7 per
cent of the adult population
in 1960. up nearly 25 per cent
from 1950."
Hauser said that, allowing
for the effects of inflation,
"real family income rose by
48 per cent" between 1950
and 1960. He said "Alaska
leads Ihe Union with a med
ian family Income of $7,305"
and "Mississippi trails at
$2.aa4."
The 1960 figures show
great disparities in education
al attainments. Jobs, and In
come among different regions
and between the urban and
small town and rural popu
lations, Hauser said.
And "evidence of the rela
tively disadvantageous posi
tion of the nonwhitc (princi
pally Negro) minority of the
population recurs in every
table."
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