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MtUt'OKD MAIL IHlBUNt.. MLDr'OHD. ORLGPN Idaho Power May Seek Rate Increase Boise - (ITD - A spokesman for Idaho Power Co. said Fri day the firm will "give con sideration" to applying for a rate increase in the territory It services in Eastern Oregon. This week the company was granted an increase of 7'i per cent in its residential and bus iness rates by the Idaho Pub lic Utilities commission. The increase is expected to go into affect in about 30 days when the company completes its new rate schedules and has them approved by the com mission. After the Idaho rate boost becomes final, "we will give cation in Oregon." the spokes- Cation in Oregon, 'the spokes man said. Idaho Power serves most of Malheur county and portions of Harney and Baker counties -yi Eastern Oregon. MONDAY. DECEMBEH 17. 1962 CIVIL' WM l . - ' 4 , I Grant Meets With Disaster Cheerful Choice 9199 SIZES 14Vi-24V5 Greet the day in a pleat pretty casual that's young and gay in check, plaid or print. Sew it now for now to spring. Printed Pattern 9199: Half sizes li'i, 16'2, la'i, 20I2, 22' 2. 24V2. Size 16'2 requires 4-' i yards 43-inch fabric. THIRTY - FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mail. Send to Mari an Martin, Medford Mail Trib une, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME AD DRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. FIRST TTK; EVER! Glam orous movie star's wardrobe plus 110 exciting styles to sew in our new Fall-Winter Pattern Catalog. Send 35c. By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent Ulysses S. Grant started out in the late fall of 1862 on his first venture to capture Vicks burg, Miss., one of two strong points the Confederates still held on the Mississippi river. He failed. With about 30,000 Union troops Maj. Gen. Grant left Jackson, Tenn., 70 miles northeast of Temphis, in early November, following the Mis sippi Central railroad south. By Dec. 29 Grant has reach ed Oxford, Miss., 45 miles deep in the state, with his main forces. His advance forces were well south. On the way down he had established a base of supplies at Holly Springs, Miss., about half way along the railroad. It was on Dec. 20 that disaster struck Grant in the form of Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn and his 3,500 Confeder ate cavalrymen. First news that all might not be well at Holly Springs reached Grant at Oxford early in the morning of Dec. 20 from Col. Robert M. Murphy of the Eighth Wisconsin command ing at the supply base, which was 30 miles away. Riding Hard A contraband (escaped slave) had told him, he re ported to Grant, that Van Dorn was only 14 miles away and riding hard. "My force is only a hand ful," Murphy ended his report. Grant had little reason to put any faith in Murphy, who had failed to remove or de stroy supplies at Iuka, Miss., the previous summer. Mur phy was due to be fired then but Grant saved him. "Inex perienced," Grant concluded. Murphy had several scatter ed regiments of Infantry at his disposal. Several companies of cavalry were camped in Holly Spring itself as well as six companies of infantry. All told, Murphy had 1,500 men. But the infantry camp was not notified of the danger, nor was the cavalry, bivouaced at the fair grounds. Van Dorn's troopers hit the town hell-for-leather and soon captured the infantry camp. The cavalry put up a fight and cut its way out of town. The Confederate cavalry rounded up about 1,000 pris oners, who were paroled, and then set fire to the great ware houses full of supplies, first taking all they could carry. Supplies - valued at $400. 000 by Grant and $1,500,000 by Van Dorn - went up in smoke. "My fate is most mortify ing," Murphy wrote that eve ning. "I have wished a hun dred times today that I had been killed. I have done all in my power - in truth my force was inadequate." Major Disagrees May. John J. Mudd of the cavalry which fought its way V ft 1 ' 4 -i i ft B 3 CENTER CUT Just The Lean Cuts From The Middle STEAKS GRANT FAILS In late fall of 1862, U. S. Grant began his first venture to capture Vicksburg, Miss., but failed. Start ing from northeast of Memphis, Grant reached Oxford, Miss., by Dec. 20, 1862. On the way down, he had establish ed a base of supplies at Holly Springs. On Dec. 20 disaster struck in the form of Confederate Gen. Earl Van Dorn and his cavalrymen. They hit Holly Springs, captured the town, captured about 1.000 prisoners, then set fire to the supplies after taking all they could carry. Grant was to then to per fect the system of living off the land, but despite the fact that his supplies were holding out. Van Dorn's attack forced him to withdraw back toward Holly Springs. His venture had been thwarted. This map, from the U.S. Department of Interior, shows Grant's movement into Mississippi and Van Dorn's attack on Holly Springs. (UPI) LIKE 1961 Rambler Classic V-8 Custom, 4-dr. Sedan. Pretty 2 tone, automatic, R&H, P. Brakes and Steering, 14,000 actual miles. PRICED TO SELL $1999 L'SfH ICA DAMDICD hbH lHITIUIibl Fifth and Bartlett NEW! Phone 772-6185 7 out, disagreed. "I cannot doubt but that the place could have been success fully defended by even half the forces here had suitable precautions been taken and the infantry been, concentra ted, their officers in camp with them and prepared to fight." Grant called the surrender "most reprehensible." Capture of Holly Springs taught Grant a lesson he would use later and one which William . Tecumseh Sherman would perfect - living off the country. After sending cavalry after Van Dorn, "my next order. Grant wrote, "was to dispatch all the wagons we had, under proper escort, to collect and bring in all supplies for forage and food from a region of fif teen miles east and west of the road from our front back to Grand Junction, leaving two months supplies for the families of those whose stores were taken. "I was amazed at the quan tity of supplies the country af forded. It showed we could have subsisted off the country for two months instead of two weeks without going beyond the limits designated . . . Our loss of supplies was great at Holly Spring, but it was more than compensated for by those taken from the country . . . "The news of the capture of Holly Springs and the destruc tion of our supplies caused much rejoicing among the peo ple remaining at Oxford. They came with broad smiles on their faces, indicating intense joy. to ask what I was going to do now without anything for my soldiers to eat. I told them I was not disturbed; that I already had troops and wagons to collect all the food and forage they could find . . . Countenances . soon changed, Give historic -the bourbon mow people jvcfci 1 to any olhcr is is the season when the best comes forth. That's why more people use Old Crow for gifts and parties than any other bourbon. $495 a oifKRwi jf and so did the enquiry. The next was "what are we to do?" "My response was that we had endeavored to feed our selves from our own northern resources while visiting them; but their friends in gray had been uncivil enough to destroy what we had brought along, an dit could not be expected that men, with arms in their hands, would starve in the midst of plenty . . ." Meets Tough Colonel Van Dorn swept north after the Holly Springs adventure and struck at David Mills at the Tennessee-Mississippi line. There he ran into another colonel - a tough one this time - William H. Morgan of Ohio. Morgan had part of the 241 h Indiana Cavalry and 50 troop ers of the Fifth Ohio - 250 men. Warned by Grant that Van Dorn was loose, Morgan forti fied a sawmill with railroad ties and cotton bales and dug trenches to command a bridge. Van Dorn rode in about noon and her cheering men attacked. Morgan's men rolled them back with rifle fire. They tried again with more men and failed. The third time the story was the same. Van Dorn gave up after that and sent in a flag of truce asking if Morgan was ready to surrender. He said no and the Confederates rode on. Although the local supplies were holding out well. Grant was out of touch with the other commanders In his de-1 partment and he withdrew his army to Holly Springs. His overland try for Vicks burg a failure, he also had other problems. Grant knew that an expedi tion was being fitted out in Memphis to go down the Mis sippi river and strike Vicks burg from the north by the way of the Yazoo river. Maj. Gen. John A. McCler nand, a political general from Illinois, had been authorized to raise an army to campaign against Vicksburg. McCler nand understood that he was to command this army. Much of this new force already was In Memphis. Sherman was or ganizing it and getting ready to start downriver. McClernand had tarried in Springfield, 111., to get mar ried. The question in Grant's mind was - would McCler nand reach Memphis and start the river campaign be fore Sherman, his inferior in rank, could get his troops going south? It seemed obvious that Grant should be on the scene and in command rather than run a chance of McClernand taking one of his armies on an independent campaign. Grant did not make It in time. Neither did McClernand. But Sherman did if V MILD CHEDDAR CHEESE M OC fV Taste Delight Ml 1 "p : Sandwich Size SCOTTS PURE PAK Any Size Piece lb. r7 BOLOGNA GROUND BEEF - 3 snoo LBS. 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