MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1962
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Nation's Military Forces Directed From Secret Pentagon 'War Room'
Editor'! not - Hallway
around lha world tht Com
munists overrun t Vietnamast
command post. In Cuba. Cas
tro shakes his fist at Guan
tanamo. Red reinforcements
appear in East Berlin. U. S.
military commanders in Wash
ington must know about such
incidents instantly and be able
to flash appropriate orders to
U. S. forces in the area. The
following dispatch describes
an elaborate series of "war
rooms" set up for the task.
tation when they scooped up
blinking telephones expecting
to receive messages from dis
! lant command posts.
ii st-ems mat rresiaem rven
nedy. in his dashes around the
rountry, has been checking
tl.e "hot lines" which keep
the far-flung armed forces in
instant communication with
Washington.
And in doing so he has
stirred curiosity about the se-
cret-most areas of the Pen-
By CHARLES W. CORDDRY
Washington Jl'Pli- "This is
the President. Whom am I
talking to?"
Two officers, minding se
cret "War Rooms" in the
Pentagon, lately have been
astonished to hear that salu-
Editorial Attacks
Meredith's Arrest
Kosciusko, Miss. - IUPII - A
front page editorial in the
Kosciusko Chronicle Thursday
charged that the traffic viola
tion arrest of Negro James
Meredith was "unjust and un
fair." "It is our firm belief that
had it been any person other
than James Meredith, he
would not have been picked
up," editor Billy McMillan
said in the weekly newspaper.
Meredith was fined S10 for
failing to yield the right-of-way
last week end while he
was visiting his parents here.
Most white persons and
many Negroes disagree with
"what he (Meredith) did to
create the Ole Miss tragedy."
the editorial said. "But this is
not the point here. The point
is that Kosciusko must not be
pushed into this useless and
tragic violence that has sur
rounded other aspects of the
Meredith case."
Eisenhower Heads
Freedoms Group
Valley Forge. Pa. - IUPII -Former
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower became chairman
of the board of Freedoms
Foundation Thursday at a
meeting at the organization's
national headquarters.
Eisenhower said the founda
tion "is one of the noblest
efforts to which any American
can dedicate himself and I
deem it an honor and a privi
lege to join the members of
the foundation in furthering
this work and in enlisting in
creasing numbers of citizens
so to dedicate themselves."
The meeting was held at
the foundation's new head
quarters building here. The
Freedoms Foundation is a
nonprotit, nonpolitical, non
sectarian organization which
annually honors indivduals,
schools and organizations for
outstanding work in behalf of
freedom and the American
way of life.
tagon from which the high
command directs the nation's
military forces.
Fool - proof command and
control from Washington, par
ticularly of the nuclear forces,
has been a top priority con
cern to Kennedy. He had a
chance to see how some of the
system works during two re
cent high-speed visits to mili
tary installations.
Gold Phone Rings
Picture, for example. Lt.
Col. Fred R. Peck Jr. when he
picked up the flashing phone
in the Pentagon's National
Military Command Center on
Dec. 7 and heard Kennedy's
voice coming through the gold
telephone in the underground
Strategic Air Command con
trol center at Offutt Air Force
Base, Omaha, Neb.
This is one "hot line" that
gets an instant answer. It is
the one over which presi
dential orders to use nuclear
forces probably travel.
Then there was Lt. Col.
Jack W. Morris, manning the
Army's Pentagon "War
Room." On Nov. 26 the light
blinked, indicating a call from
Homestead Air Force Base
near Miami, Fla., where a
joint Army and Air Force
headquarters was set up for
the Cuba crisis.
"Thank you, I was just
checking," Kennedy told
Morris after the officer iden
tified himself and his station.
The Navy keeps tabs on its
fleets from a guarded area
called "Flag Plot," and the
Air Force is in continuous;
contact with its forces through j
its "Command Post." j
Ties Together
All these service "Wart
Rooms" are tied into the Na-1
tional Military C 0 m m and
Center, largest, most elabor-j
ate and most secret layout in j
the Pentagon. This is where :
the Joint Chiefs of Staff would
assemble to direct global op-'
erations in an emergency. If
the emergency turned into
nuclear war, the high com
mand would move to dupli
cate underground facilities
outside the capital area.
The military command cen
ter is a cluster of four large
rooms deep in the Pentagon
area occupied by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and their inter
service staff. Special creden
tials are required to enter the
area. An additional pass is
necessary to get through the
center's massive oak doors
which are manned by armed
guards and equipped with
television scanners so that
those inside can see who is
entering. The doors have com
bination locks.
Room Sound Proof
The center's main chamber
'Kissing' Mistletoe of Christmas Time
Is Only One of Several Kinds of Plant
SET NUCLEAR BLAST
Washington-iUPIi-The Soviet
Union set off another nuclear
device Thursday in the atmos
phere at its Arctic test site.
The U.S. Atomic Energy Com
mission said the blast was
lowyield, the equivalent of
Icfs than 20.000 tons of TNT.
School District
Approves Spanking
Woodside, Calif. llipil -Trustees
of the Portola Valley
School District have approved
spanking with a "light broad
paddle" as a disciplinary
measure for some students.
However, the decision,
scheduled for ratification at
the school board's next regu
lar meeting, set forth certain
limitations to the means and
extent of corporal punish
ment. The trustees said the spank
ings must be administered by
the principal in the presence
of a "certified witness," and
only after permission is ob
tained from the parents.
By DONALD P. GRAHAM
U.S. Forest Service
This is the season for put
ting up boughs, holly, and
maybe just a sprig of mistle
toe for that romantic touch.
Mistletoe has been a plant
credited with mystic powers
since the Middle Ages and has
found its way into religious
rites, mythology, healing arts,
and superstitions throughout
the world. Reasons for the
legends, symbolism, and mag
ic that have surrounded it are
difficult to explain.
The "kissing" mistletoe or
American Leafy Mistletoe of
Christmas holiday fame is
only one of several forms of
this parasitic plant. It does
little damage to trees, but
another form, the dwarf
mistletoes, attack western
conifers including species
popular as Christmas trees.
Attractive Green Leaves
American leafy mistletoe
and dwarfmistletoe are easy
to tell apart. The leafy "kiss
ing" variety has attractive
green leaves and conspicuous
white berries. 11 grows on
hardwood trees mostly in the
southern half of the United
States but occurs in the Wil
lamette valley and southwest
ern Oregon.
Dwarfmistletoe has no
leaves and its greenish-brown
fruits, about the size of a
grain of wheat, are hard to
I see. The plant which is a
i series of segmented shoots is
! attached to the tree branch.
! Shoots are usually less than
1 six inches long. An unskilled
j observer could mistake them
! for a part of the tree itself,
t When a dwarfmistletoe ber
ry ripens, it explodes and the
tiny seed is launched much
like a missile, traveling as far
as 60 feet. If the seed lands
on a suitable host tree it will
germinate the following
spring and send a root - like
structure into the tender bark
and start a new infection. In
this way, dwarfmistletoe
spreads from tree to tree until
sometimes a whole forest
stand becomes diseased.
Destroys In Slow Way
Dwarfmistletoe destroys in
a slow insidious way and sel
dom attracts popular atten
tion. Young trees, if heavily
infected, will often die in a
few years as more and more
plants are produced to siphon
off food and energy. A larger
tree will live longer, but will
eventually succumb.
The parasite may first weak
en and deform the tree so
badly that it becomes easy
prey for insects and other
diseases. Growth rate drops
off sharply.
Most obvious way to spot
dwarfmistletoe infection is
presence of the plants or
witches -brooms on the tree.
Witches'-brooms are clusters
of misshapen twigs and dis
torted branches caused by
parasitic action of the dwarf
mistletoe. Tree branches may
swell into odd shapes, and
swollen cankers appear on the
trunk. As the brooms, swell
ings, and plants sap a tree's
vigor, the upper crown may
die several years in advance
of the entire tree.
Important Problem
Some foresters believe thai
mortality and loss of tree
growth caused by dwarfmis
tletoe is the most important
problem in forest disease con
trol. When the inventory of
the dwarf mistletoe situation
is completed foresters believe
losses in the West will ap
proach 1.000,000,000 board
feet of live sawtimber each
year. This is about 20 per
cent of the total timber that
was cut from '.he national for
ests of Oregon and Washing
ton in 19S2.
Several kinds of dwarf
mistletoe thrive in forests of
the Pacific Northwest Region.
The pondcrosa pine, lodge
pole pine, Douglas-fir, and
western larch dwarfmisllctoes
are common in eastern Ore
gon and eastern Washington.
Infected Douglas-fir stands oc
cur in southwestern Oregon.
Tito Concludes
Visit To Russia
Moscow -- IUPII - Yugoslav
President Tito ended his So
viet "vacation" today and
headed home, apparently with
Premier Nikita Khrushchev's
promise of more Soviet aid
and political cooperation.
Tito and Khrushchev part
ed Thursday at the train sta
tion in Kiev, where they had
gone together Tuesday night
after finishing their talks in
Moscow.
Tito was expected to leave
the Soviet Union and cross
into Czechoslovakia some time
today on his way to Belgrade.
It was not known if Khru
shchev would return to Mos
cow or go to his Black Sea
vacation home.
In speeches just before
Tito's train left, Khrushchev
underscored his determination
to go ahead with his tighten
ing of Soviet - Yugoslav ties,
despite Communist Chinese
opposition.
is a sound - proof conference
room with a large brown, oval
table around which red leath
er chairs are placed for the
Joint chiefs and their princi
pal deputies. At each chair is
communications equip m e n t
with which chiefs can get into
touch immediately with ele
ments of the armed forces any
where in the world.
The chiefs can have for the
asking a complete, detailed
picture of the immediate scene
in West Berlin, data from the
far northern ballistic missile
early warning system, and the
earth satellite tracking net.
the disposition of Soviet
equipment in Cuba, or any
other military information
they want. They can confer,
individually or in any com
bination, with global com
manders from Viet Nam to the
Iron Curtain.
Going off this green-carpeted
conference room through a
plate glass wall is a communi
cations room with banks of
equipment linking the center
with other Pentagon "War
Rooms" and with all major
military commands. At tha
chiefs' disposal is a communi
cations system that costs
about $1 billion a year to operate.
Appreciable losses occur in
stands of hemlock and true
firs.
Currently, the best method
of control is clearing out the
infected trees during harvest
operations or stand improve
ment work. Research to find
better methods of control is
being done by private firms
and by government agencies.
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YEAR END CLEARANCE
PONTIACS
62 PONTIAC Tempest LeMans. Less than 4,000 miles, company
car with bucket seats. Radio, Heater and Automatic Transmis
sion. New Car Guarantee.
62 PONTIAC Bonneville Convertible Power steering, power
brakes, electric windows, local owner.
62 PONTIAC Catalina Convertible Power steering, power brakes,
automatic transmission, local owner and low mileage.
62 PONTIAC Catalina Coupe Beautiful black finish with power
steering, power brakes and factory air conditioner, local owner.
62 PONTIAC Catalina Sedan-Only 7,000 miles, power steering,
power brakes, electric eye, also a local car.
62 PONTIAC Hardtops. We have 3 of these, a Green one, a Blue
one and a White one, all fully equipped. Take your pick of
one of these outstanding buys.
62 PONTIAC Tempest Station Wagon. This is a company car with
less than 4,000 miles, and backed with a new car warranty.
61 PONTIAC Tempest 4 Door Sedan (2) Standard transmission.
Radio and Heater.
61 PONTIAC Station Wagons (2) Power steering, power brakes,
with full tone radio and full blast heater.
61 PONTIAC Bonneville Sports Coupe Power steering, power
brakes, electric seat. A real steal!
61 PONTIAC Convertible (2) Full power. One is Black, the other
is White. Take your pick.
61 PONTIAC Tempest Station Wagon Standard transmission,
Radio and Heater, and priced to fit your budget.
60 PONTIAC Ventura Sport Coupe Power steering, power brakes,
Black paint with maroon interior. Man, what a beauty.
59 PONTIAC Convertibles. We have 4 of these. One Blue and two
white. This is the original wide track Pontiac, one of the best
cars on the car market.
59 PONTIAC Station Wagon Local car, low mileage, power
steering, power brakes and going for a special clearance price.
LARGE SELECTION OF 53 to 56 PONTIACS
All Good Transportation and in the Low Price Range
"ELEPHANTS ON A USED CAR LOT?"
"Every used car on our lot is a white elephant during our MAMMOTH YEAR
END CLEARANCE. We must sell as many as possible before the end of Decem
ber, so for the next few days you can buy the car you want at a price you can't
afford to pass up. We have a car priced for every pocketbook and every bud
get. If you're not sure which car fits your needs just grab one of our salesman
and tell him how much you want to pay or how much you want the monthly
payments to run and he will come up with a car for you. We don't want thit
many cars to pay inventory tax on so we will pass the savings on to you . . . but
don't wait too long we won't make this deal after the first of the year."
CHEVROLETS
58 CHEVROLET Station Wagon - Green and White tu-lone. Auto
matic transmission. Radio & Heater.
55 CHEVROLET Station Wagon 4 Door V-8 - Power steering, pow
er brakes, just overhauled in our shop.
55 CHEVROLET Nomad - This is the deluxe in the Chevy line.
Would be ideal for the do-it-yourself customizer.
54 CHEVROLET Suburban 9 passenger, 3 Seat 2 Door Newly
overhauled engine, heavy duty wheels and tires, and 4-speed
transmission. A good on or off the road car.
FORDS
CHEVROLETS
62 CHEVROLET Impala 4 Door Hardtop Power steering, power
brakes. A real sharp unit.
61 CHEVROLET Impala Station Wagon Power steering, power
brakes, and Tan in color.
61 CHEVROLET Impala Coupe This one's so nice we have it on
our showroom floor.
60 CHEVROLET Impala Convertible All white with power steer
ing, power brakes. A real dream.
59 CHEVROLET Bel Air Hardtop - Lots of good miles left in this
one. Has Radio & Heater.
59 CHEVROLET Station Wagon i Door with hot heater and cool
music. V-8.
59 T-BIRD Local car with low mileage in real sharp condition
and priced to move if you act now.
58 FORD 4 Door Sedan Standard transmission, Radio & Heater.
57 FORD Ranchero New short block, automatic transmission.
Make a fine in town delivery truck or for customizing.
57 FORD Fairlane "500" Coupe 2 Door Hardtop with power steer
ing, power brakes. A real wheel.
56 LINCOLN CAPRI Man this is a luxury car with power steer
ing, power brakes, electric seat adjustment and electric win
dows plus . . . factory Air Conditioner.
54 FORD 9 Passenger Station Wagon and a 53 FORD 2 Door Ranch
Wagon Lots of good miles left in both of these and priced
to go during our clearance.
COMMERCIALS
56 CHEVROLET Ton Pickup with 3 speed transmission.
53 CHEVROLET 'j Ton Pickup with 4 speed transmission.
48 GMC ' j Ton Pickup with 4 speed transmission, custom cab, it
even has a radio and heater.
47 DIAMOND "T" Cab & Chassis 2-Ton. You build the bed to suit
your needs, good farm rig.
MISCELLANEOUS
58 VW Micro Bus Hold the whole family, including the dog
and cat.
56 CADILLAC Coupe DeVille full power.
55 PLYMOUTH Station Wagon V-8 Automatic and power steer
ing and power brakes, no less!
56 PLYMOUTH 4 Door Sedan - Automatic, Radio & Heater.
55 BUICK Century 4 Door Hardtop - Full power.
55 BUICK 2 Door Sedan Automatic, Radio and Heater, New Tiret
and a real buy at $399.
60 RENAULT Caravelle Convertible, rebuilt engine.
60 RENAULT Dauphine
59 RENAULT Dauphine 4 Door Sedan
58 RENAULT.. Dauphine We have 3 of these. They would all make
a good second car for the wife or teenager. 30-35 miles per gal.
59 PLYMOUTH 9 Passenger Station Wagon Radio, heater, power
steering, power brakes and a rebuilt engine.
SPECIALS
61 OLDSMOBILE 2 Door Hardtop - Local car and only 37,000
miles. Leatherette interior, a real jewel in above average con
dition. Average retail Kelly Book at $2760, Special year end
clearance price this week only $2460.
57 OLDSMOBILE Convertible Snappy black with power steer
ing, power brakes and new short block. A Christmas Special
at $899.
51 WILLYS 4 W, D. Pickup - Fresh off the farm, it looks rough
but in good condition. Once in a lifetime price of $169.
HONDA "50" A real white elephant, we don't know how we
wound up with this but its in good condition and its for sale
and at a low $149.50
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2177 So. Pacific Hwy. 99
LOTS OF '51 AND
'52 CHEVROLETS TO
BUY AT CLEARANCE
PRICES.
PHONE
773-7421
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