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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1963)
THURSDAY. AUGUST I, UN Defense Thinking About Another Military Pay Hike rience commanding troops were enthusiastic about the pay hike but did not look for it to be a cure-all for service men with financial problems. There is a "sizable block," in the service just as in civ ilian life who don't know how to manage their financial af ro!.. 1 1 ,f i r (.(l.-ii.i Grange News Washington - (UPD - With a SI. 2 billion military pay raise about to win congressional ap proval, the Defense Depart ment already is thinking of asking for a further boost early next year, it was learn ed today. Assistant Defense Secretary Norman S. Paul said the pend ing pay bill will not "solve all the problems," such as "moonlighting" by service men who get off duty jobs to make ends meet, "and ex treme cases where enlisted men have turned to relief. But it is going to help," he said. Paul, Pentagon manpower ..chief, told United Press Inter ' national that conferences al Greenhorn Grange Plans for several coming events were made by Green horn Grange at a meeting re cently in the Grange hall. Initiation in the first and fourth degrees ready had started with Army, Navy and Air Force person nel officers on whether to seek a raise again next year. "I cannot yet tell you whether, or how much," he said. But he was sure Defense Secretary Robert S. McNa mara would back a new re quest as early as next Jan uary if the pending boost leaves "disparities" in mili tary pay. 'Splended Step Vice Adm. William R. Smed berg III, chief of Naval personnel who revealed last winter that some sailors in New York City were entitled to state relief, told UPI the $1.2 billion hike was a "splen did first step" In getting some equity between civil service and military service pay. "But we must not under any circumstances let Con gress feel that it has settled the pay problem," Smedberg said. He said the military have a long way to go to catch up with the raises given civil servants in the last five years. Although unknown num bers of enlisted men have turned to one form of relief or another to piece-out their incomes "moonlighting" is far more widespread. And it is not confined to military men. Many officers of the mid dle ranks with recent expe- ferred Sept. 14. There was considerable dis cussion on Booster Night and Amateur Night which will be held Oct. 26. Plans were also made for the Grange's fair booth. In other business at the meeting, conducted by Master Lou Coles, it was announced by Greenhorn Grange Insur ance Agent Ray Wheeler that Ralph Booth of southern Cali fornia was appointed State Grange insurance agent in the office made vacant by the death of Frank McFarl. ' Lou Coles reported on the youth conference held recent ly in Tulelake. om ,;..h irmv ! second degrees has been sched- ficer. The problem is "one of I ulcd AuS- 10 a"d lhe thiri nd human nature, not the wage structure." This officer told of personal experience with young sol diers talked into buying cars, furniture, television sets and washing machines, all on the installment plan. In over their heads, they turned naturally to their service emergency re lief organization for loans or grants. SUMMER DEATHS New York - flJPU - Summer is the most deadly time of year in terms of accidental deaths. The accident death toll, according to Metropoli tan Life Insurance company, runs to 25,000 in the June to August period in the Uni ted States. That figures out to 270 fatal accidents a day. MtlDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. 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Bottles Plus Deposit Kitchen Charm 75" Roll Hi t PAPER PLATES Purity 9" White 100-COUNT PACKAGE r MEDFORD-Westgate Center I ' V MEDFORD-13th and Central I U - ASH LAN D-Gateway Shop. Center I 1 1 y I it n m aTMif Wa Th Ri9ht t Limit I l f Wf ylr i I W Prices Effective thru Sunday, August 11 THE CHUTE FAILED With a dejected look, Pfc Tom Gled hill of the 101st Infantry Division sits on an unopened para chute which was supposed to have floated the jeep safely to the ground in an equipment paradrop as part of Swift Strike III near Greenville, S.C. Something went wrong and Gled hill's traveling companion Is no longer operational just a maze of tangled steel. (UPI) Sealed Capsules May Save Lives of Pilots By JOHN POWER United Press International El Centro, Calif.-IIIPD-A jet pilot of the future, in a spot of trouble, may find himself floating down to terra firma in a sealed capsule equipped with everything "except a size 10 blonde." That's the way a spokesman for the Joint Parachute Test facility summed up one of the experiments being conducted Family Food Costs Listed In Bulletin Corvallis - A retired cou ple living alone can expect to spend anywhere from $12 to $19 a week on food according to information given in a new Oregon State university ex tension bulletin. The couple that eats more meat, eggs, fruit and vege tables will pay a little more Ulan couples that depend more on potatoes, baked goods, cereals and dry beans. Oregon families who want to compare their food costs with those of other western families will find an easy-to-ligure chart in the bulletin "Your Weekly Food Bill." Written by Mrs. Zelma Reigle Ncugart, it's available from county extension offices and the OSU bulletin clerk. Food costs vary greatly from family to family for several reasons, says the specialist. These include: Age of children. Teenagers cat a third to a half more food during their rapid growth years than adults. Food habits. Food costs go up if you eat meat 10 times a week instead of seven, eat steaks and roasts instead of hamburger, stew, casseroles, or other meat extender dish es, or if you buy canned or bottled beverages. Frequent use of fully pre pared items such as TV din ners, prepared sauces, dress ings and cereals and fancy packaged foods. Pel foods. A big dog often cats as much as a member of the family, reminds Mrs. Neu gart. Use of oul-of-scason foods. These foods are likely to be more expensive and lower in quality than in-scason foods. Non-food items - cigarettes, cleaning supplies, health and beauty aids, ctc.-often bought at the grocery stores, snouid not be counted in the food cost figures. Grueiiing Urges Soviet Vessel Curb Washington - Urfl - Sen. Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska) Wednesday carried to Presi dent Kennedy his appeal for warships to bar Soviet fish ing vessels from Alaskan wa ters. Gruening, in a telegram to Kennedy, said Russian fish ing vessels - including whal ers - were actually lasier than Coast Guard and Navy vessels now in Alaska. He said Soviet vessels were "repeatedly invading" the ter ritorial limits to take fish and that protests to the State De partment by Alaska Gov. William Egan "seem to be un availing. "It is not enough to report these incidents and make dip lomatic protests," Gruening said. "These violators should be arrested and brought to trial, and this cannot be done with the inadequate Naval and Coast Guard equipment now available." by a dedicated group of serv ice and civilian personnel in the Southern California des ert, 120 miles east of San Diego. Under the code name "Proj ect Cesar," the experiment deals with a new "envelope" tneory of saving pilots from disabled military jet aircraft. ine new theory, still in the early experimental stages, calls for the cockpit to be severed from the remainder of the aircraft by a series of rocket firings triggered by the pilot. The cockpit, which is auto matically resealed, then floats down by parachute to land or sea complete with food, water and radio beacon. Engineers and technicians at the test center believe that the new theory will save countless numbers of lives be cause the pilot will remain in the same environmental condition during the descent and subsequent landing. Dominated by a whirl tow er, several hundred feet high, the facility is manned by per sonnel of the U. S. Navy Para chute facility and the USAF 6511th Test group (Parachute). All the experiments belnir conducted here are designed with one idea in mind, to save the most valuable commoditv in military air operations - the pilot. Focal point for several of the tests is the whirl tower designed and built to provide an economical method of test ing large numbers of para chutes. With present procedures. chutes can be tested as rapidly as one every 20 minutes. More Tests Since many new parachute designs require more than 200 tests before live jumps are initiated, the whirl tower method saves considerable time and money as compared to aircraft drop tests. The coming of the space age has also left its mark at this desert base near the Sal ton sea and seven miles west of the agriculturally rich city of El Centro. Recovery systems for many missiles, drones, escape cap sules and satellites are being tested here to insure that these items are recovered suc cessfully under actual conditions. CAR. BUFFALO COLLIDE Kankakee, 111. - (UPD - Law rence Hitz reported that his new $3,600 convertible auto mobile was demolished Wed nesday In a collision with a buffalo. The animal, a refu gee from a wild game farm, had to be destroyed. Hitz told police that he did not see the buffalo charge from a fog - shrouded ditch. A ve hicle following Hitz struck his car after the buffalo Impact. -o LOT ,ll-- 9" B
